Hu Holds Web Chat With Citizens
21 June 2008, 07:07 No comments
China’s President Hu Jintao talked to Internet-users on Friday via a news portal, the first time that he has gone online to chat. Mr. Hu was speaking through a forum of people.com.cn, the news portal of the People’s Daily.
Since the time the forum told its members of Mr. Hu’s visit, about 300 questions have been [...]
Dads Seek Work-Life Balance
16 June 2008, 17:05 No comments
As Father’s Day approaches, a new online poll indicates that many Canadian dads feel that work is keeping them from living up to family commitments.
Some of the stress likely comes from working dads wanting to play a more active role in their children’s lives than their dads played in theirs.
“Your kids grow up fast,” Stewart [...]
Cowells Pop Idol To Play Glastonbury
15 May 2008, 17:05 No comments
We knew there was something missing from the Glastonbury lineup this year, we just failed to realise that it was X Factor, Pop Idol and Britain’s Got Talent’s Simon Cowell we were hankering after. According to the Star, Cowell has “revealed his own secret pop idol” in Shakin’ Stevens, who will perform at the festival [...]
Former CNN anchor does the Possible
22 April 2008, 21:09 No comments
NEW YORK %26mdash; In a competitive and youth-obsessed business, most everyone gets The Call sometime. For ex-CNN daytime anchor Daryn Kagan, it came in January 2006.She was brought into an office and told that CNN would not renew her contract when it expired at the end of the year. Kagan was lucky in one sense [...]
Body in river was Marie Davis police
18 April 2008, 19:07 No comments
The officer heading the inquiry, Detective Senior Sergeant Virginia Le Bas, this afternoon saidthatearly indications were that thebody was that of the missing Papanui High School student.
Le Bas said thata formal identification was still to be made, and that process was continuing.
Davis, 15, was last seen at her Bishopdale home on April 5.
Police still want [...]
Movie review Nim
7 April 2008, 04:04 No comments
Nim (Abigail Breslin) lives a regular Nim’s Family Robinson life on her own deserted isle in “Nim’s Island,” the reasonably delightful new kids’ fantasy film based on Wendy Orr’s novel. She swings among the trees, spends her days with her pals - a sea lion, a pelican and a lizard - and her nights with [...]
Go do it Yonder Mountain String Band
7 April 2008, 04:04 No comments
“Yooonder!” You hear that random cry more and more at summer festivals. In the past decade, Yonder Mountain String Band has grown into one of the major players on the jam-band circuit. “We’re not your grandfather’s bluegrass band or even your father’s bluegrass band,” bassist Ben Kaufmann has told the Statesman. “We’re kind of original [...]
Pulse is a heartpounding whitewater ride
7 April 2008, 04:04 No comments
The trailer for “Pulse,” a new kayaking film screening on Wednesday, April 9, at Inland Surf Company (4100 W. State St., Boise), opens with Tao Berman - sitting in a kayak, paddle in hand - jumping out of a helicopter into torrential rapids in upstate Michigan.Heart-pounding, indeed.The latest film from “Twitch” series producer Eric Link, [...]
Movie review Nim
7 April 2008, 04:04 No comments
Nim (Abigail Breslin) lives a regular Nim’s Family Robinson life on her own deserted isle in “Nim’s Island,” the reasonably delightful new kids’ fantasy film based on Wendy Orr’s novel. She swings among the trees, spends her days with her pals - a sea lion, a pelican and a lizard - and her nights with [...]
Go do it Yonder Mountain String Band
7 April 2008, 04:04 No comments
“Yooonder!” You hear that random cry more and more at summer festivals. In the past decade, Yonder Mountain String Band has grown into one of the major players on the jam-band circuit. “We’re not your grandfather’s bluegrass band or even your father’s bluegrass band,” bassist Ben Kaufmann has told the Statesman. “We’re kind of original [...]
