So the world turns
The News Review:
- So the world turns
- Is It Jigowatt r Gigawatt?
- Heard the one about the global credit crunch?
- Restaurant review: Michael Winner at Shelbourne and The Saddle Room
- Sporting News – Your expert source for MLB Baseball NFL Football…
- Foodies: Tickling tastebuds
- JD Rockefeller asks why the City is so depressed
So the world turns
Pakistan Dawn – Apr 13, 2008
By the end of that century his invention was being used to mass produce books in more than 2500 cities across Europe. The German Relation was published in Strasbourg an imperial free city in the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation. In 2005 the World Association of Newspapers accepted that the printing of Carolus’ pamphlet began in 1605 (not 1609) as had been previously understood. Print journalism in the mass-produced form by which it is characterised today has been with us for many centuries. In later times technology expanded the field and changed its forms: wireless telegraphy telephones radio and television satellite beaming and links-up changed not only the processes of news gathering but the manner in which it was disseminated… Millions of people across the globe now maintain blogspots are signed up to online discussion fora and regularly exchange articles and footage that fall within the realm of the news. Formal news organisations such as the BBC ask audiences to ‘Help us make the news’ by sending in eyewitness accounts viewpoints photographs and footage. Wikipedia allows us to contribute to an immediately accessible encyclopaedic database and even include entries that the editors of the Britannica may never have thought of the history of my hometown in the mountains of Pakistan for example of which I find ample information including some that is part of local legend on the online encyclopaedia. Lest there be fears of checks and balance Wikipedia uses a system of multiple scrutiny with each ‘editor’ keeping an eye on untold numbers of his colleagues. Few reporters perhaps have ever had to deal with so many and such nit-picking editors. Similarly there is YouTube where you can find anything from a video of a little-known spoof Star Trek song recorded over two decades ago to footage of policemen roughing up citizens on Islamabad’s Constitution Avenue. With sites such as these and relatively pedestrian equipment such as cellphone cameras and voice recorders web cams and the humble keyboard any citizen can change the world.
Is It Jigowatt r Gigawatt?
nytimes.com – Apr 13, 2008
The proper pronunciation is of course gigawatts and when Bob and I were doing research we talked to somebody who mispronounced it jigowatts. And we were actually completely unfamiliar with the term and we thought that was how it was supposed to be said. ” According to Wikipedia the official National Institute of Standards and Technology pronunciation is with a soft g. The Merriam-Webster dictionary lists two pronunciations: soft g first then followed by a hard g. It seems Doc Brown was right all along.
Heard the one about the global credit crunch?
Times nline – Apr 13, 2008
I later realised that was Teresa May. There’sWikipedia for you. Politics needs personalities which is why there is so much interest at themoment in Ken v Boris and Hillary v Barack. And crucially of course the loss of character in British politics over thepast few years has been offset by another phenomenon: celebrity culture. Here’s another problem: hasn’t the world of celebrity become such agrotesque parody of itself that satire is redundant? Is the public obsessionwith Pete Doherty Britney Spears and Amy Winehouse any more or less than a21st-century Bedlam where lunatics were paraded for public amusement?If that’s what we want wouldn’t it be cheaper just to stick them in thestocks and pelt them with vegetables?Behind all of this darker forces lurk. Not the ones the Queen mentioned (orwe can now safely say didn’t mention) to Paul Burrell but the forces ofglobalisation. The financial markets.
Restaurant review: Michael Winner at Shelbourne and The Saddle Room
Times nline – Apr 13, 2008
So are many other captains of industry. Being in charge of asmall restaurant with a few staff only makes you one of the powerful men incentral London if whoever writes this nonsense is desperate to get a goodtable. PS: Wikipedia the mine of internet misinformation says of me: “His love oflife away from London has led him to buy a house in the Lake District andYorkshire where he spends weekends. ” I’ve never owned a house anywhere butHolland Park. Although yesterday I was in the Lake District giving my witty one-manshow (recently booked into the xford Union) at a Michael Winner filmfestival in Keswick. Sorry you missed it.
Sporting News – Your expert source for MLB Baseball NFL Football…
SportingNews.com – Apr 13, 2008
Rick’s acutal quote was gathered from brainyquotes. The information for the bio was obtained from Wikipedia. As always thanks for coming by and reading your comments are welcomed and encouraged. Please don’t forget to check out my friends on the right they are all excellent. Until the next time “Keep your feet on the ground and reach for the stars. Reply to this entry | Back to LIFE IN THE FAST LANE document.
Foodies: Tickling tastebuds
Economic Times – Apr 13, 2008
Sometime back I tried to classify myself ?whether I was a gourmet a gourmand or just a guy who liked food. After a lot ofresearch I have come to the conclusion that I am a foodie. According to Wikipedia foodieis an informal term for a particular class of aficionado of food and drink. Theword was coined in 1984 by Paul Levy Ann Barr and Mat Sloan for their book Thefficial Foodie Handbook. Foodies differ from gourmets in that gourmets areepicures of refined taste whereas foodies are amateurs who simply love food forits own sake. Foodies differ from gourmands as a gourmand is a person given toexcess in the consumption of food and drink synonymous with “glutton” andfoodies are normally not given toexcesses. My love affair withfood goes way back to my formative years.
JD Rockefeller asks why the City is so depressed
Telegraph.co.uk – Apr 13, 2008
“He lived through the odd recession and he reckons the current batch of businessmen don’t know they’ve been born. Financial crises hardly get started these days before they fizzle out. ” A cursory look online at Wikipedia (this column’s idea of probing research) suggests that old JD has a point. The site reckons that no US recession since the 1930s has lasted longer than two years which barely seems to count. Rockefeller was born two years into the incompletely named Panic of 1837 which apparently actually lasted six years. But even after the world had negotiated its way through that tight spot it hardly shed its bent for trepidation. Hot on its heels were the Panic of 1857 (three years) and the Panic of 1873 (six years) – both of which were mere warm-ups for the main event of the 19th century: the Long Depression.
Written by admin on April 13th, 2008 with
no comments.
Read more articles on News.