2010年6月11日星期五
Buffett Lunch
set in 2008 when hedge-fund manag Zhao Danyang of Hong Kong paid $2.11 million. The chanc to have lunch with the celebr billionair investor drew nine bidder and 77 bids,That s about 24 percent higher than the previou record. accord to EBai Inc. The onlin auction start June 6 and end at 10:30 p.m. New York time yesterday.
accord to Denis Lamott,Th win bidder wish to remain anonymous. a spokeswoman for the auction beneficiary, the Glide Foundat in San Francisco.
the 79-year-old investor who is chairman and chief execut offic of Berkshir Hathawai Inc.,Buffett. ha rais about $8.56 million with the auction to help the Glide Foundation, which serv meal to the needy. A group led by Courtenai Wolf of Salida Capit won last year with a bid of $1.68 million.
Motorola and Research
the BlackBerri maker,The handset maker Motorola and Research In Motion said Fridai that thei had settl a patent complaint over mobil technolog that Motorola brought to the Internat Trade Commiss thi year. The compani said Research In Motion. would give Motorola an upfront payment, plu continu royalties, for the us of it mobil technology. Thei did not disclos financi terms. The compani said the deal includ an agreement to cross-licens variou patent relat to industri wireless standard and wireless e-mail messaging.
2010年5月10日星期一
Happy Birthday Pill!
the pill ha start wear a new hat: Commercial Inflatable For Sale that of lifestyl choice. Not onli can pregnanc be avoid and cramp releg to a distant memory,But recently. menstruat itself is in jeopardy. Re-brand the pill as menstrual suppress mean it' far easier to advertis than straight up birth control and pharmaceut compani ar make the argument, in TV commercials, online, and in print, that period should be a thing of the past. Why worri about a ruin yoga class, an interrupt weekend away, why suffer from PMS and perimenopaus symptoms, why subject yourself to "anger, irritability, feel anxious, headaches, muscl aches, chang in appetite" symptom of PMDD, which Yaz claim their pill can help erad if you can avoid them?
but wa illeg as per the Comstock Act of 1873. It wasn't until the 1930 that doctor were allow to distribut inform and contracept across state lines. And when the pill first went on sale,It' almost imposs to comprehend that less than 100 year ago send inform about birth control through the mail wa consid not onli illicit and obscene. it wa illeg to practic birth control in some part of the country. It took a Suprem Court decis in 1965 to strike that down. The Court had to take a stand again, in 1972, when thei declar unmarri women were entitl to purchas contraceptives.
That wasn't all that long ago.
birth control pill ar so much more than just birth control. From the beginning,Today. in fact, befor thei were offici sold for pregnanc prevention, doctor prescrib them for menstrual management, to minim debilit cramps, to staunch overwhelm flow. And the pill is still often prescrib for that. I start take them at 16, after spend four dai a month wrap around a hot water bottle, pain rip through my abdomen. Long befor sex wa even a nascent thought, I start on my first pill pack and spent the next 10 year not suffer as I had been. So, thank you pill. You kept my cramp from take over my life.
Happy Mother's Day!
move out of CaliforniaSandra' Cheap Colorful Jumper Bouncers announc she' go to rais babi Loui as a singl mother in New Orleans..
and ye thi should have been done befor Mother' Day,A quick "Happi Mother' Day" to the great actress Sandra Bullock. but there' no time like the present.
Sandra Bullock ha been through a lot thi 2010 - from the high of an Oscar win for her role in The Blind Side to the low of the veri public problem with her marriag - and deserv to enjoi and be fete for her new statu of "Mom."
Sandra Bullock adopt a love babi boi Loui Brado Bullock,For those of you live under a rock. now three-months-old, and after a process that start four year ago with her husband Jess James.
Sandra Bullock and Jess Jame ar no longer a couple,Now. they'r divorcing. Jess Jame wa expos as cheat on Bullock with four and perhap as mani as five women. Both have agre to dissolv their marriage.
2010年5月9日星期日
Lebanon claims latest title in 'Hummus War'
The war Inflatable Bounce ha plai out publicli for year with two side outdo each other for the titl of world' best or world' largest hummu dish.
about 300 Lebanes chef in the villag of al-Fanar -- about 8 km 5 mile east of Beirut -- lai claim to the latter titl with a dish that weigh 11.5 tons. That' 23,On Saturday.042 pound or 10,452 kg.
The achiev more than doubl the previou record -- set in Januari in the Arab-Isra villag of Abu Gosh.
Th Januari dish weigh in at more than 4 ton -- the same as four averag famili cars.
Loc media said a Guin Book of World Record repres certifi the result Saturday.
2 ton of tahini,Th Lebanes chef us 8 ton of boil hummus. 2 ton of lemon juic and 154 lb 70 kg of oliv oil for their dish, local media said.
a region delicacy,Hummus. made of chickpeas, sesam past and garlic, among other ingredients, is love equal by Arabs, Jew and Christian live in the Middl East.
in spite of their share appreciation,Yet. the origin of the dish is a sourc of heat debat with the Lebanes claim ownership and Israeli deni that thei have exclus right to the name.
Lebanon ha been seek approv from the European Union to regist hummu as a nation dish.
" said Fadi Abboud,"What we have been try to do is just what the Greek have done with feta cheese. presid of The Associat of Lebanes Industrialists, in January.
the European Commiss gave Greec a "protect design of origin" right to the name "feta,In 2002." for the white sheep and goat' milk chees made there. Similar chees from outsid the countri must us term like "Greek-styl cheese".
A bboud maintain that Israeli compani ar depriv Lebanes compani of huge potenti earn by export hummu made us tradit Lebanes recipes.
2010年5月7日星期五
Inflatables oversight by city draws fire
pass in 2005,Own of sever inflat ride compani sai the citi ordinance. is rare enforced, that ride inspect aren't verified, and that citi offici routin ignor report about peopl who oper ride without proper licens or inspections.
though thei couldn't cite numbersC offici sai thei have respond to complaint about unlicens inflat in past years..
Wichita' superintend of central inspection,Kurt Schroeder. said citi attornei and inspector ar review the ordin and enforc procedur and plan to present their find to the citi manager.
But sever industri expert sai seriou injuri or death mai be prevent by stricter regul and oversight.
and nobodi has,"I'v been feel like a lone voic in the wilder try to get peopl to take thi seriously." said Jai Jones, owner of Kid Fun USA in Wichita. Sinc 2004, Jone says, he ha push for tougher regul of inflat amusements.
and it' like nobodi care until now,"Ther were a whole lot of peopl oper under the radar." he said. "Now, unfortunately, we'v got a dead child."
inspectioLicense.n
near Kellogg and Tyler,Five-year-old Matthew Branham di March 22 after fall from an inflat at Pure Entertainment. and hit hi head on a concret floor.
sai it ride were not properli inspected. Citi document show that the rides,Ten dai after the accid Wichita polic revok the facility' license. own by Duan Zogleman, were inspect in earli 2009 by Zogleman' son, Jesse, who wa not certifi as requir by the citi ordinance.
certifi inspector and deem safeTh busi is appeal the cease-and-desist order and will remain open dure the appeal process. Duan Zogleman said hi ride have sinc been inspect by an independent..
Mark Schoenhofer,Zogleman' attorney. said there is "absolut no link between the inspect or lack of inspect and the unfortun death of thi child."
however,Others. sai the tragedi illustr that inflat bouncer an entertain stapl of festivals, birthdai parties, church carniv and school fun night can be dangerous, even deadly. And the industri is larg unregulated.
2010年4月27日星期二
Suspect Is Arraigned in Killing of Yale Researcher
said Lt. Geoffrei Morgan, Inflatable Water Game We re fairli satisfi that thi wa an act direct by Mr. Wang exclus by himself toward Dr. Toor. a public inform offic for the Branford Polic Department. We have no indic from ani eyewit that there wa anyon at all work in concert aid Mr. Wang in thi assault.
Conn.,A doctor who had been fire two year ago from a Brooklyn hospit after a confront with a supervisor wa arraign Tuesdai on charg that he had murder that same supervisor in Branford. on Mondai morning.
Lishan Wang,The suspect. 44, shot Dr. Vajind Pal Toor, 34, five time Mondai morn in the park lot of Dr. Toor s condominium complex, the assist Unite State attornei Devant Joiner said at the arraign at New Haven Superior Court.
an unemploi father of three who had been live in Marietta,Dr. Wang. Ga., had track down Dr. Toor with the aid of Googl maps. Evidenc suggest that Dr. Toor might not have been the onli intend victim. Accord to the polic report, offic found in Dr. Wang s car two printout of inform about doctor who were also in hi resid program when he wa dismissed, along with 1,000 round of ammunition, three handguns, a hammer, a knife and a pictur of Dr. Toor.
Dr. Wang wa led in to the court by Unite State marshals. He wore a navi blazer over a white jumpsuit; hi head wa bow and ankl shackled. Tuesdai afternoon.
who is a Chines nation from Beijing,Dr. Wang. stood with a Mandarin interpret and two public defenders. He wa charg with murder and illeg possess and discharg of weapons, but did not enter a plea. Judg Roland Fasano of the New Haven Superior Court set bail at $2 million and set a hear for Mai 11.
Parneeta Sidhu,Polic found shell case at the crime scene that match at least on of the gun thei had recov in the suspect s maroon minivan. Mr. Toor s wife. who is pregnant, had rush out to Dr. Toor upon hear the shots; the suspect also fire at her but missed, the polic said. The couple, accord to new reports, had a 3-year-old child.
a postdoctor fellow in infecti diseas at Yale-New Haven Hospital,Dr. Toor. had previous been the chief resid for the Depart of Medicin at Kingsbrook Jewish Medic Center in East Flatbush, Brooklyn.
claim that he wa termin in Mai 2008 becaus of hi Chines nation and that sever doctor who were Indian had mistreat him and other Chines residents. Dr. Wang had file a wrong termin lawsuit last Juli against the medic center.
specif after Dr. Toor had chastis Dr. Wang for not answer repeat page on day. That led to a confront in which Dr. Toor inform hospit offici Dr. Wang had threaten him. The suit singl out Dr. Toor.
