| Montana ranchers seeking beef for food banks
The foundation, which began the program in January, asks only that the cattle donated be healthy and clean.The foundation is asking its members or any other ranchers to donate cattle, with a goal of 100 cattle for the program this year. So far, it has received 18 cattle that have been processed, with 20 more in the works, McDonald told Montana's Lee Newspapers in Monday's editions.If 100 cattle are donated and processed, that will yield 80,000 pounds of hamburger, which is wrapped in one-pound packages for distribution at food banks and Indian reservations around the state, McDonald said.The foundation is also seeking financial donations to help pay the $350-a-head cost of processing cattle. It's received $5,000 worth of pledges but no money yet. McDonald said he and some other ranchers have been personally absorbing the costs so far, but they can't afford to keep it up.
aVinci Premieres myMovieProducer at PMA Convention
"myMovieProducer is a revolutionary solution designed for today's digital photo consumer," stated Chett Paulsen, president and CEO at Sequoia. "The needs of the digital camera user are changing. Users want the spontaneity and immediacy that myMovieProducer provides. Our affordable, easy to use product generates results that rival professional productions that typically cost hundreds of dollars to produce. A typical myMovieProducer DVD can be completed in mere minutes." myMovieProducer's patent-pending technology offers a user friendly experience that requires no complicated software, artistic skills or training to produce a professional quality DVD movie production. Users purchase the theme or style they want and after loading myMovieProducer's application on a personal computer, they simply: During 2008, myMovieProducer plans to offer a wide variety of specialized themes, including "Travel Destinations," "Wedding," "Baby Boy," "Baby Girl," "Sports Highlights," "Achievement," "The Polar Express Christmas," and two special music video themes set to licensed popular music: "On Stage" featuring "We're All In This Together" from the "High School Musical" soundtrack and "In Concert" featuring "Best of Both Worlds" from the "Hannah Montana" soundtrack.
Through the Wire Martin's Witness Mismanagement
Bitter Smith, a Republican, has been active in politics outside her job representing the cable industry, having served as a Scottsdale city councilwoman. She also ran for Congress in 2000. "We don't need any more rehashed talking points from Washington, D.C. " we need action points," Bitter Smith said in the statement announcing her exploration. "The challenges facing the 5th District require action, and leadership." There are already five Republican contenders in the district race, local reports say, so Bitter Smith would have her work cut out for her. But in an election year where candidates are touting their ability to bring people together, she can cite one such accomplishment: in her tenure, the Arizona and New Mexico cable associations merged.
Obama Photo Worth 1000 Keywords? Or Less?
An Obama picture is worth a thousand words. You know which one. Obama photo. Somalia. Turban. Kenya. African dress. Keywords in search engine wargames played by presidential candidates. The clear message: He's a Muslim. The subtext: He's not like us. No question the whole sordid incident will be condemned. The Clinton campaign is sinking like the Titanic and willing to take anyone without a life raft with it. Women and children? First. They're the ones looking at Hillary as a role model. In the Beginning Was the Keyword During tonight's debate in Cleveland, Ohio, Barack Obama will have Hillary Clinton backed into a corner. No doubt she'll be on best behavior. No cynical, sarcastic mocking of Obama's message of unity. No playing the audience for laughs with her imitation of Obama's audacity of hope, deriding it as the "heavens opening up" and "choirs of angels" descending from above.
The sad, sorry State of the Union
He will be exposed as a total fool who had no more ability to lead America but had the background to be elected. I think America will be better off after this man leaves office and many will no longer buy into the cakes and ale of his or anyone's promises. We might even learn how to question our candidates under the laws within the Constitution. .
Busy air traffic controllers keep eyes on skies
It happened too quickly to stop but slowly enough for onlookers to watch. Two Cessna planes collided in mid-flight while approaching Corona (Calif.) Municipal Airport on Jan. 20 as dozens of observers watched helplessly. Within a matter of seconds, five people were dead, including one on the ground. It’s a terrifying thought — your plane crashing into another in mid-flight — but last month’s mid-air collision in Corona makes clear the real possibilities of such accidents occuring. In fact, there has been an average of 30 mid-air collisions each year in the U.S. since 1978, resulting in an average of 75 deaths per year, according to Defense Safety Oversight Council’s Web site, www.seeandavoid.org. According to the site, there are more than 450 near mid-air collisions reported each year.
Vaccine makers guess wrong
Muskegon County is having a banner flu season, with 10 times more confirmed cases this year than in 2007. Nine weeks into the flu season, Muskegon County had 407 confirmed cases of influenza. The county had 48 cases all of last year and 42 in 2006, according to county health department data. Flu season typically ends in late March. Local and national health officials have blamed the spike in flu cases on ineffective vaccines. This year's vaccines didn't match well with two of three strains of influenza, said Dr. Douglas Hoch, medical director for the county health department. "This year kind of reminds me of the 1980s and early '90s, before we really got the public going on flu shots," Hoch said. "We're having sort of an old-fashioned flu season." Influenza is a contagious respiratory illness caused by several strains of the influenza virus.
Coming Soon: SR to Release E-mail Exchanges ... (Not so fast...)
The rest of the messages only refer to attachments. Those attachments are explicit, so we can't publish them. We've also gone through each message to blur e-mail addresses for privacy reasons. So, if we don't publish any of the explicit images, and we refuse to blur, crop or otherwise alter them, all we're left with is a bunch of forwarded messages that say things like "take a look at this!" We decided that did not advance the story in any significant way. Ken Sands, online publisher .
|
