Sunday, May 11, 2008
mothers' day- know your future
Mothers According To Zodiac Signs
public speaking
clipped from avialblah.blogspot.com
To speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks. - Ben Jonson
It is better to keep one's mouth shut and be thought a fool than to open it and resolve all doubt. - Abraham Lincoln
HK poilce woes
clipped from http://www.thestandard.com.hk/news_detail.asp?pp_cat=30&art_id=65659&sid=18851151&con_type=3The ruling by David Thomas in Kowloon City Magistrates Court is expected to add to the woes of traffic police trying to crack down on red-light jumpers or speed hogs.
self-torture slow poison on sale
clipped from http://www.theage.com.au/news/health/long-road-to-health-for-quitters/2008/05/09/1210131247886.html
Smoking gun ... it can take up to 30 years before an ex-smoker's risk of lung cancer matches that of a lifelong non-smoker.
Photo: Tamara Voninski
Women who stop smoking can enjoy major health benefits within five years, but it can take decades to correct respiratory damage and lower their risk of lung cancer, researchers reported on Tuesday.
Growing lean?
Proof of the pudding: health campaigns don't work
By Jeremy Sammut
Public health experts routinely advise governments that the best way to address the long-term challenges facing the health system is to 'invest' more taxpayers' money in public health education and promotion policies. The latest version of this advice is that governments should invest more money in 'preventive' primary care to control the prevalence and contain the cost of 'lifestyle disease'.
home woes to town woes
Vallejo one of few cities to use Chapter 9
Sunday, May 11, 2008
By declaring bankruptcy, Vallejo has thrust itself into the national spotlight as a test case for thousands of floundering cities desperate to unload their extravagant public employee contracts.
Beware of ID theft
clipped from http://www.mercurynews.com/crime/ci_9216246Police get break in ID theft case
capital seekers: note
clipped from http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_9209576?nclick_check=1Venture capital firms adjusting to a soft economy
Mercury News
He calls himself "a recovering venture capitalist," but Thomas Pennell sounds like he might be backsliding. The fast-talking New Yorker had come to Silicon Valley last week for the venture industry's biggest annual confab - and he was heartened by an on-stage conversation featuring two Sand Hill Road superstars.
