SWARTHMORE, Pa. – Widener’s Brittany Harvis scored the game-winning goal in the 105th minute of play as the visiting Pride dealt the Swarthmore College women’s soccer team (1-2) a heartbreaking 1-0 loss in double overtime on Tuesday evening from Clothier Field Stadium.
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Pride Outlast Garnet Women in Double-Overtime, 1-0
The News of the World scandal, back in the spotlight thanks to The New York Times Magazine, continues to grow. The Guardian reports that former Home Secretary Alan Johnson is now all but accusing Scotland Yard of lying to him about the extent of the News Corp. paper’s spying.
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Audit Notes: News Corp. Scandal, HSBC Hire, Dodd-Frank Repo
If you thought passing the health care overhaul was messy, wait until Republicans try to repeal it if they regain power this fall. It could come down to who blinks first, with some Republicans raising the prospect of a government shutdown. Even if Republicans succeed beyond any current predictions and …
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Health care fight likely to flare anew if GOP reclaims Congress
Physicist Sean Carroll, one of the people behind Cosmic Variance here at DISCOVER blogs, tweeted yesterday: “I think Stephen Hawking could say ‘ice cream is delicious’ and get massive media coverage.” He’s probably right. Last month the renowned physicists made the news by warning of the great threat of human extinction over the next couple centuries, but kindly softened the blow by saying that we’ll be fine if we can get through our growing pains and get off this planet. Back in April, the …
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Hawking Says God Not Needed to Kick-Start Big Bang; World Freaks Out | 80beats
Since it is the opinion of some that display names cannot exist because it will enable people to grief with display names, what are some other SL features people can grief with that have to be eliminated so we can be protected from the hordes of trolls just waiting to get us? I’ll start us off: Teleport requests
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What other features have to be eliminated to stop griefing?
Seriously, if you’re trying to find a market where people are spending money, MSNBC has some news you might want to consider here: Hot business idea: Help people be cheap The word is that if you promise to help people save money, they’ll flock to you. Here’s a man that’s doing just that. His program is called “I will teach you to be rich” but his main product is two fold… how to save money (book) and how to make money as a freelancer (a tad pricey!) Copyright
I will be at Wheatland Music Festival in Remus MI this weekend September 9th-12th! Come check out my newest jewelry! For a sneak peak, I have listed most of my new items in my online shop! Check em out!
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Wheatland Music Festival 2010 this Weekend!
The AP today lays out evidence that “politics, for all its focus on the gloomy economy, is a recession-proof industry,” in that “this year’s volatile election is bursting with money, setting fundraising and spending records in a high-stakes struggle for control of Congress amid looser but still fuzzy campaign finance rules.” Worth a read, particularly if you took…
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AP: Election 2010 is "Bursting With Money"
Fascinating story from the Times’s Marc Lacey on sham candidates running for the Green Party in Tempe, Arizona. Sham candidates, that is, signed up by a Republican candidate for the State Legislature to siphon off votes from the Democrats. Naturally, Lacey reports the expected outrage from the Dems: “It’s unbelievable.
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Sham Candidate Story Misses a Key Voice
If you want an interesting statistic, here is what the largest advertisers paid Google in June 2010 for ad clicks: AT&T wireless spent $8.08 million, as it was launching iPhone 4 at the time. Apollo Group, which is behind University of Phoenix, spent $6.67 million. Expedia spent $5.95 million
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Are Your Ad Dollars Being Scammed Away?
LANCASTER, Pa. – Senior Morgan Langley of the No. 15 Swarthmore College men’s soccer has been named the Centennial Conference Co-Offensive Player of the Week for the week ending September 7, the conference announced on Tuesday afternoon
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Langley Named Centennial Conference Co-Offensive Player of the Week
LANCASTER, Pa. – The Swarthmore College field hockey team took home both the Centennial Conference offensive and defensive player of the week awards, the Conference announced Monday. Senior forward Sophia Ferguson took the offensive honor, while sophomore defender Alison Ranshous claimed the defensive award.
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Ferguson, Ranshous Earn Centennial Conference Player of the Week Honors
The most fun I’ve ever had doing an interview was at this year’s TechEd when I got a chance to talk with Jen & Sean McCown, the famous Midnight DBAs . Jen and Sean are two amazing SQL Server experts who have a passion for teaching and a knack for making SQL fun
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Interview with the Midnight DBAs: Jen & Sean McCown
In yesterday’s New York Times, Eric Lipton described how some members of Congress are able to “run something akin to a permanent political campaign,” giving back to their communities through charities that they set up but that local companies and major corporations largely fund. How lawmakers, in other words, manage to do well by doing good (and how that…
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Congress and “Corporate-Financed Philanthropy”
According to a story in The Wall Street Journal , for women like Giovanna Coluccio who peddle novelty drinks in Manhattan bars like Turtle Bay, selling shots is a game and a science. Each interaction with a potential customer is an investment.
Here’s Faris al-Qaisi, a 47-year-old Iraqi cameraman for AP Television News, reflecting on “what it has been like to live through and record the war” in Iraq and on the declared end of the American combat mission there: For me, living in Saddam’s Iraq and in the Iraq under the U.S. occupation was equally hard, but I don’t want…
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Reflections of an Iraqi Journalist
Could you imagine being paid to start a business while working towards your MBA in college? That’s the idea behind the MBA Entrepreneur Fellow program in the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, College of Business Administration. “The Entrepreneur Fellow program offers what every entrepreneur hopes for — an opportunity to bring a business to life,” said Mohney
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Students Paid To Launch Businesses
According to Hacking Netflix , Redbox announced that a customer in Tampa rented Clash of the Titans and pushed them over the 1 billion rental mark. Redbox is celebrating with the “Thanks a Billion” contest with free rentals and a chance at prizes including 50 $500 gift cards, a home theater system or a trip to the People’s Choice Awards. Tidbits from the press release: Redbox is renting more than 9.5 million movies per week from 24,000 locations
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Redbox Hits 1 Billion
Do you have an exceptional performer on your team — a person who stands head and shoulders above everyone else? If you do, it can be a wonderful gift for a manager to have an employee whom you can count on to get the right results; who thinks about what else needs to be done without being told; who doesn’t need to be pushed or motivated; who is always asking to do more. Unfortunately many managers don’t know how to deal with such exceptional employees.
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Leverage Your Top Talent Before You Lose It
At 16, Lindsay Phillips came up with the idea for a flip-flop with interchangeable straps during art class. Today, her company — Lindsay Phillips — employs 35 full-time staffers and is projected to bring in $30 million in revenue this year, reports AOLSmallbusiness .
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SwitchFlops, The $30 Million School Project