| Wake Forest's Ghee has a secret weapon
Brandon Ghee makes a video copy each Sunday of the Wake Forest game he played in the previous day, sends it through the mail or via his parents to his older brother Patrick, and waits for the phone to ring. “It usually doesn’t take long,’’ said Ghee, a graduate of Jack Britt High School. “Sometimes he gets back to me that Sunday night.’’ Patrick Ghee always offers a quick critique of his brother’s performance during those calls. Patrick does so from a perspective of experience. He was Wake Forest’s starting safety the last two seasons and participated in training camp with the NFL’s Seattle Seahawks over the summer. “He tells me if I’m not hustling or gives me tips on backpedaling,’’ Brandon Ghee said.
Party Politics Republican
CBS 60 Minutes to run Siegelman story on Sunday. On Sunday, CBS's 60 Minutes will air its long-awaited report on Alabama's incarcerated former governor Don Siegelman, reportedly one of its "best pieces of domestic expos journalism." Justice Department prosecutors opposed the Siegelman investigation, in which Bush administration political operatives - including Karl Rove - allegedly interfered. Must see TV. Wednesday, February 20: Rightwing Previews Its Anti-Obama Attacks: "Shady Chicago Socialist' RNC's 'swift boat' list for Obama attack: The first [slide] called for pointing out what the GOP views as a seeming incongruity between Obama and the mantle of commander in chief. The second point harkened back to Obama's days in the Illinois state Senate, noting how his "pattern of voting 'present' offers many openings to question his candidacy." The third offered hope to the GOP faithful that "we can..." Monday, October 1: Christian Conservatives Consider Third-Party Effort Alarmed at the chance that the Republican party might pick Rudolph Giuliani as its presidential nominee despite his support for abortion rights, a coalition of influential Christian conservatives is threatening to back a third-party candidate in an attempt to stop him.
Oregon State's success inspires others
SEATTLE—The sun was shining on the Washington campus on a recent January morning. "It looks like baseball weather," Huskies baseball coach Ken Knutson observed through his office window, ignoring the fact that frost still decorated Seattle lawns on this particular morning. Despite the unusually cold winter gripping the Puget Sound region this winter, Knutson put on a brave face, saying his team will head outside when practice started the following week. "We'll start February 1st and we'll be outside," he said. "We have turf. It'll just be cold, and you've got to deal with that." Across the Evergreen State in Pullman, where snow was hammering the region, Washington State's players were going to need more than an extra layer or two of clothing if they wanted to practice outdoors. Just days before the calendar flipped from January to February, a snowplow would have been more useful than a rake at Bailey-Brayton Field.
Video Furnace Adds Techex to European Distributor Network
LIBERTYVILLE, Ill. --(Business Wire)-- Video Furnace (www.videofurnace.com), a leading provider of enterprise-class IP video solutions, today signed an agreement with Techex (www.techex.co.uk), Europe's largest distributor of video transmission technology, to resell Video Furnace System 4 throughout Europe, effectively increasing market coverage by at least 33 percent.
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June 2006
Ante up the cost of three or four kids and the sum gives new meaning to the term: mid life crisis. There is no relief in sight for the next generation. With the outlay of a college education expected to increase at five percent a year, the average annual cost of a private college in 15 years is pegged at $51,664. Factor five percent a year to the already nose bleed cost of sending a child to Harvard, MIT, Boston College or Boston University, and you’re bracing for an annual expense of $90,000 by 2017. "(Higher) education is at a crisis point, the result of uncontrolled cost increases over the past 20 years that have greatly exceeded the rate of inflation or annual consumer price indexes," the Houston Chronicle observes in an editorial. "Tuition forces parents to pull all-nighters, too," adds Paul Daugherty in the Cincinnati Enquirer.
Bode Miller: Downhill hellraiser
The world's most controversial skier lies on the bed of his luxury motorhome, a scantily clad girl on each side, and a smile on his face. Waiting for breakfast, his personal chef pours him a hard liquor aperitif. He downs it in one. The tumbler carries the inscription: "I hope you're as hot when I'm sober." Welcome to the world of Bode Miller. Except all is not as it seems. Bode – it rhymes with roadie – is a 30-year-old American, a 6ft 2in natural athlete with movie-star appeal and a bad-boy reputation. He is involved in one of the closest-run denouements to a season his sport has seen. And, despite the scene with the groupies and the booze, he is more serious about his job than ever. Over the next month, the 41-race World Cup season (in five disciplines at 20 resorts between October and March) will reach its climax.
J.D. Power and Associates Reports: Sony Models Sweep Inaugural ...
WESTLAKE VILLAGE, Calif., Nov. 15 /PRNewswire/ -- The Sony DCR-DVD Series(1) and DCR-SR Series of camcorders rank highest in their respective segments, according to the J.D. Power and Associates 2007 Camcorder Usage and Satisfaction Study(SM) released today. The inaugural study measures customer satisfaction with standard definition analog or digital camcorders across two segments: standard definition ($399 or less); and premium standard definition ($400 or more). Within each segment, three factors are examined to determine overall camcorder performance: appearance and styling; operation; and performance and video quality. Sony products occupy the top two rank positions in the standard definition segment. The Sony DCR-DVD Series, which comes equipped with direct DVD burning capabilities, ranks highest with an index score of 744 points on a 1,000-point scale.
VT KnowledgeWorks helps companies succeed
Holly Heart is an official spokesrobot for Sister to Sister, a nonprofit organization dedicated to educating women about heart disease and encouraging them to change their behavior to prevent or minimize their cardiac risk factors. KnowledgeWorks member TORC Technologies, an applied research and technology company, conducted the engineering design and manufacturing of Holly Heart. Video: See what else goes on inside VTKnowledgeWorks. Giving support Located at the Virginia Tech Corporate Research Center, VT KnowledgeWorks provides its tenants with “a comprehensive mix of services carefully designed to reduce risk in a systematic manner by nurturing core business competencies within each member company, helping them maintain strategic focus, minimizing administrative overhead and supporting their executive leadership." The incubator offers its program along two tracks: one for businesses applying for SBIR or STTR funding and the other for companies on a commercial track.
the has-been
Republicans who think Thompson is coming to the GOP's rescue might look again: He may be jumping from one sinking ship to another. But those aren't the only risks Republicans run with Thompson. The real problem with choosing Fred Thompson to lead the GOP across the gender gap is more profound: Even Republican women don't seem to like him. In two recent polls, Thompson has a gender gap, all right, but in the wrong direction. He does OK with men, but is trailing badly with women. In last week's Los Angeles Times poll, he's running first among religious conservatives, a strong second among men, and a poor third – 20 points behind frontrunner Giuliani – among women. In a Zogby poll, Thompson did twice as well among men as among women. At only 6% among women, he was at the back of the pack, tied with Ron Paul.
Supply-Chain Council Selects IDS Scheer's ARIS Platform to Develop New ...
ORLANDO, Fla. --(Business Wire)-- IDS Scheer, the leading provider of Business Process Management (BPM), today announced at ARIS ProcessWorld 2008 Americas it has reached a three-year partnership agreement with the Supply-Chain Council (SCC). Under the agreement, IDS Scheer is providing its ARIS Platform for the SCC to develop and maintain its different reference models and release new versions of the Supply-Chain Operations Reference Model (SCOR), Customer-Chain Operations Reference Model (CCOR) and Design-Chain Operations Reference Model (DCOR) in a multi-user BPM repository.
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Ramon Vazquez's top five clubhouses to visit
Rangers infielder Ramon Vazquez has made his rounds in the major leagues, starting his career with Seattle before also playing for San Diego, Boston and Cleveland before landing with the Rangers last year. In his career, Vazquez has seen just about every clubhouse in the league. Here are his top five: 1. Seattle: "It's a big clubhouse that's comfortable. The food is great and the guys take care of you." 2. Milwaukee: "The clubhouse is huge and it's really comfortable. It also has good food." 3. Arizona: "Again, it's big. The cages are right next to the clubhouse." 4. Houston: "It's comfortable; the food is pretty decent. The cage is right next to the clubhouse so you don't have to run around." 5. St. Louis: "The new park has a nice clubhouse.
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