| No Cheer for Cheerleaders in China
China's 1.3 billion people are crazy about sports, but not cheerleaders. Those women who have taken to the all-American phenomenon hope that plans for cheerleaders at the Olympics will bring some glamour to their work. "I don't know if it's because of Chinese people's personalities or maybe because basketball culture isn't so ingrained that they're still scared to let loose," cheerleader Li Qi said a few days after the weeknight women's basketball game, without a whiff of bitterness. "We're used to it. That's just how it is." The Olympics are a huge celebration of national pride, and organizers are encouraging ordinary Chinese to play a role. Along with more than a million volunteer applicants and retirees learning English to communicate with foreign visitors, cheerleaders also are eager to leave a mark.
Caucus: Still entering data
Marty Neilson, chair of the Boulder County Republican Party, said Thursday that she didn't have accurate records of turnout for past caucuses handy, but said she was very confident that the county GOP set a record in 2008."It was excellent - the energy was high and there were so many people getting involved," said Neilson. "Even though many of them didn't understand the process, and some would like it changed, I think it got them excited about becoming involved in the party and in the process."Anecdotal testimony after local Democratic and Republican caucuses has suggested that some people would have preferred a Presidential primary to a caucus. Crowds were incredibly large at some locations - about 19,000 Democrats and 3,500 Republicans caucused in Boulder County alone - and some witnesses have suggested that a certain number of people attended for the Presidential preference poll and left afterwards.
McCain: One of Us!
A cool-headed outsider perspective suggests that at least one more anti-Pinch tidbit or scandal will be required for the Class B shareholders to end their family nightmare. Or at least start a new chapter. ...[Conflict: Auletta's wife is my agent too!] 6:00 P.M. Stenchblog Update: I still find mystery-stench stories disturbing, even when the stench is sweet. Someone (a mindermast!) could be trying out a delivery mechanism. That's why it's not all that reassuring when, as on Thursday, "nothing dangerous" is found in the air. ... 9:57 P.M. Guilt-Trip, Incoming! I'm highly skeptical that a movie about gay cowhands, however good, will find a large mainstream audience. I'll go see it, but I don't want to go see it. (Why? Sexual orientation really is in the genes. Sorry.) When the film's national box office fails to live up to its hype and to the record attendance at a few early screenings, prepare to be subjected to a tedious round of guilt-tripping and chin-scratching by Frank Rich and every metropolitan daily entertainment writer who yearns to write about What the Movies Say About America Today.
How a Flattening World Impacts Hoteliers
The hospitality industry's greatest task may be, not using technology to add value to the guest experience, increase revenue and cut costs for owners, but learning to adapt to and leverage change to reshape the industry. (PRWEB) July 18, 2006 -- The recent Hospitality Industry Technology Exposition and Conference (HITEC) in Minneapolis focused hospitality's attention on using technology to add value to the guest experience and to increase revenue while cutting costs for owners. These are familiar goals. They are also very specific to the hospitality industry. A wider view is less obvious but equally vital, and could benefit our industry. Today, society in general is like a bubble floating in a sea of unprecedented cultural, technological and economic change. "How these forces of change are affecting hospitality is impossible to tell right now.
NOPD's Sixth District working five armed robbery cases
NOPD's Sixth District, which polices parts the Garden District, Irish Channel, Central City and Broadmoor, released the following information on five armed robberies this week. In three of the cases, detectives arrested suspects or issued warrants for their arrest. 1700 block of First Street: The victim was robbed at gunpoint while in front of his rental property. An investigation by Sixth District detectives revealed identified Isaia Porter, of 2014 Third Street, as a suspect and obtained a warrant for his arrest. St. Charles Ave. and Second Street: Two men approached a woman sitting in her car and robbed her. A description of the suspects was broadcast and responding officers located two individuals fitting that description. The victim identified them as the robbers and both were placed under arrest for armed robbery.
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Really vrooming ahead
A BRISBANE online car hire company has lived up to its name. VroomVroomVroom has motored into the spotlight as Australia's fastest-growing online travel company. Headed up by twenty-something brothers Richard and David Eastes - who bought into the business in 2005 at just 26 and 21 respectively - VroomVroomVroom is one of 11 Queensland companies in the 2007 Deloitte Technology Fast 50. With a staff of just six, the company has grown its revenue 242 per cent in three years and spread its wings with offices in the UK and the US. In so doing, it has mown down Victoria's Webjet to become the speediest mover in the online travel space. Perversely, it is by not trying to grow too fast that VroomVroomVroom has managed to grow so fast, says general manager Richard Eastes.
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