| 'Treasure' Finds More Box Office Fortune
Fortune-seeker Nicolas Cage, lonely guy Will Smith and a pack of talking chipmunks ended Hollywood's year on a happy note. Cage's "National Treasure: Book of Secrets" was the No. 1 movie for a second weekend with $35.6 million, followed by "Alvin and the Chipmunks" with $30 million and Smith's "I Am Legend" with $27.5 million, according to studio estimates Sunday. Those hits along with a solid crop of other holdovers and new movies that opened Christmas Day capped a year-end hot streak for Hollywood, whose business soared the last few weeks after a sluggish fall. .
Franchisee aims to score in business monitoring via the Web
Books and magazine articles about entrepreneurship, not to mention professors in business schools, hammer at the importance of having an exit strategy in place while building a business. Less emphasized is a corollary question, "What does an entrepreneur do after exiting a business?" For Paul Patrick, of Cranberry, the answer became, "Start another one." After Mr. Patrick, 46, sold his franchisee's stake in an outdoor lighting company last year, he wanted to build a different type of business, but wasn't sure what kind. But he had some clues. "I knew I didn't want to do retail, and I knew I didn't want to do fast food," he said. He also knew that he wanted a business that would serve other businesses, and that he wanted to make use of his technology background.
Amy Winehouse; and Gin-Addled Leer
But Johnny Borrell, Peaches Geldof, Amy Winehouse, Noel Fielding and the Primrose Hill set weren't the only drab spectacles that failed to ignite, as the coma-inducing "best of the Premier League" ( Sky Sports) encounter between Chelsea and Liverpool proved to be a predictably damp squib, throwing up one shot on target in 90 minutes - considerably fewer than the Fiver managed in four seconds late on Friday night after being talked into drinking tequila slammers. .
Reviving the J-School
You do need to understand your audience, your community and the business you are in. You do need to appreciate the role of independent media, grasp the explosion of communications vehicles and value the First Amendment rights of a free press. And you’d benefit enormously from a solid liberal arts underpinning as well as a defined area of expertise. That’s why we have journalism schools. Our role is to prepare better journalists, provide them the tools to enter the marketplace and meet the demands of the industry for ready-to-work graduates that probably can not be met by English majors. Isn’t that what universities do for aspiring doctors, lawyers, chemists, engineers, teachers, philosophers and even businessmen? By the way, Michigan may not have a j-school, but I’ve taught a course in its journalism program, so I’d like to think it does value what we do.
It's Valentine's Day and Cupid's arrows are flying at full force!
Video camera in hand, we got candid comments on whether they like or loathe the holiday, and whether chocolate is a better choice than flowers. We even got a few to share details about their first romantic encounters. Others named the restaurant they planned to patronize for a romantic dinner this evening. Candace Dolberry, 22, was among several people interviewed on WestConn's campus in Danbury. She said Valentine's Day is a time when "you can show someone how much you care for them a little extra. Even though you can show them every day, today's just an extra special day." Frances Ortiz, 19, said, "It's nice if you have someone to share it with." If .
Police Analyze Security Video In Solana Beach Rape Case
SOLANA BEACH, Calif. -- Police are analyzing surveillance video in hopes that a man who raped a 24-year-old jogger at gunpoint has been caught fleeing on camera. The woman reported that she was raped at gunpoint while jogging Thursday evening. View Images | Watch Video .
Who will be the Nation Builder of 2007?
Barlow has written many books to call attention to what is happening behind the scenes in government and has worked hard travelling the country to inform Canadians. The work of Ms. Barlow and the Council has helped to bring Canadians the information they need to stay safe, to keep our Canadian values and maintain our sovereignty in a political climate that would take all of that away in a very secretive heart beat. Posted 24/11/07 at 10:09 AM EST | Alert an Editor | Link to Comment .
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