| It’s official: Rockford lands Ireland flights
Twice-weekly flights between Rockford and Shannon, Ireland, will start June 26, according to Kenny Tours. The Maryland-based company signed a deal Thursday with North American Airlines to fly the route through Aug. 31, said Bob Nay, Kenny Tours' director of sales and marketing. The flights will be Thursdays and Sundays. Round-trip airfares start at $888, including taxes and airport fees. Six-night motor coach tours, including airfare and hotels, start at $1,489. Six-night bed-and-breakfast stays, including airfare and car rental, start at $1,489. The seasonal model is similar to Chicago Rockford International Airport's other international route, Apple Vacations' weekly flights to Cancun, Mexico, in the winter. But the Ireland flights will be on Boeing 757s with almost 200 seats, which would be the largest plane used on a regularly scheduled passenger route from Rockford.
Victoria Police step up public order blitz with New York model
THE police war on drunken louts polluting Melbourne's CBD has stepped up with a New York-style crime blitz to operate every weekend. Police command today unveiled their latest attack to curb assaults and unruly behaviour. This includes: A POLICE nerve centre to quickly dispatch officers to crime hot spots every weekend from tomorrow as trouble brews. A MOBILE command post truck carrying up to 50 officers and equipped with computers, plasma TVs and CCTV to be stationed at the corner of Swanston and Flinders streets on Saturday and Sunday nights. UNDERCOVER officers infiltrating venues to detect troublemakers and liquor law breaches. The move follows concern over a surge of assaults in the city and an explosion of 24-hour liquor licences allowing unfettered access to alcohol.
Top-growing US web categories in January 2008
As the presidential primaries kicked off, the politics category jumped 65% to 13.8 mln visitors as Americans went online for news coverage and opinions and to visit candidate Web sites. BarackObama.com led the category with 2.2 mln visitors, up 429% from December, followed by HillaryClinton.com with 1.1 mln visitors (up 202%). On the Republican side, MikeHuckabee.com attracted 937,000 visitors, up 96%, while JohnMcCain.com grew 261% to 596,000 visitors. The career category was led by CareerBuilder LLC with 24.8 mln visitors, followed by Yahoo! HotJobs with 17.4 mln visitors and Monster with 17.1 mln visitors. Concerns over a shaky real estate market, along with those resolving to move residences in 2008, precipitated a 28% gain to 42 mln visitors to the real estate category in January 2008.
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DOTC exec counters Arroyo on NBN 'flaws'
An official of the Department of Transportation and Communications (DOTC) on Monday said there are "no intrinsic flaws" in the national broadband network (NBN) deal amid allegations that the project was overpriced and full of irregularities.
Undersecretary Thompson Lantion contradicted words from President Arroyo who said over the weekend that she was told of flaws in the NBN project only on the eve of its signing last year.
On behalf of DOTC Secretary Leandro Mendoza, Lantion, who is also chairman of the Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board (LTFRB), said that the department made all the necessary steps in the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for the project.
Lantion, who was with Mendoza's office when the project was being negotiated, said that the NBN deal went through studies by the Department of Justice, Government Procurement Board and an international firm which helped in examining its comparative pricing.
The Tuesday DiScussion: MySpace or MyFarce?
Because the ways in which people perceive this farce are completely detached from the reality... Let's begin with a few well known and seemingly obvious facts which appear to be overlooked: Everyone Wants to Be Famous
The Reality TV fame, which fits with the average 30-second attention span, proves this. Having your own self-obsessed profile on the web and having more friends is the DIY equivalent of fame, with the debateably hawt t'n'a-midget, Tila Tequila (pictured) as the queen of internet celebrity, despite the fact, to my knowledge, she doesn't play stadiums or have a million selling album. She does however have atrocious music accessible as videos and her own clothing line?! However, inspired by Tila, it is nice to finally see Paris Hilton has figured out that with a songwriter she can turn her fame into a revenue stream.
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To keep track, the Sheriff's Office measures crime in a 1,000-foot circle around the park, part of which jumps Interstate 10 and includes McDuff Avenue. The No. 1 goal, reducing violent crime, is on the right track. There were 22 incidents in 2007 - about half the number in 2004 before PAL came to the neighborhood. At the same time, though, property crime has been on the rise - up about a third since 2004, despite an initial drop in 2005. The city committed resources, too, sweeping the area with code enforcement officers. So far, 100 homes have been condemned, and there's more than six times the number of active code cases today compared with 2004. Quality of life While the property crime numbers are troubling, Assistant Chief Bobby Deal, who runs PAL, said the priority has to be reducing violent crime.
Why Cisco Is a Buy
Back in November, 2007, the company warned that spending on its networking gear was slowing down and could hurt growth for this market. On Feb. 6, Cisco indicated the situation hadn't improved (BusinessWeek.com, 2/7/08), and lowered its sales outlook for the current quarter ending in April. In turn, the stock has dropped 14% this year, to $23.20. Despite the news, which caused a deep sell-off in many technology stocks, Ari Bensinger at Standard & Poor's Equity Research kept a buy recommendation on Cisco shares. "We believe investors need to look at the larger picture—the long-term growth drivers for the company," he says. Plus, the recent drop makes Cisco's stock attractive, Bensinger says. It's trading at 16 times estimated 2008 earnings—the low end of its historical valuation range.
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