| Brisbane blogger spreads school smut
SHE'S bitchy, biting, sarcastic and spiteful and she has taken cyber bullying to new heights with a website that is terrorising students at Brisbane's elite private schools. She is Gossip Girl Brisbane and her MySpace blog, created this month, already has attracted 470 users keen to use the site to denounce their peers with salacious details about their sexual orientation, drug problems, love lives and health woes. Forget scribbling gossip on the back of the toilet door at school, it's now out there for millions of web users to view. Gossip Girl does not name the girls she says are pregnant or the teens she says have had sex. She uses initials to indicate the person she is talking about. The blog, which is updated daily, mirrors the Fox 8 program Gossip Girl, in which the identity of Gossip Girl remains a secret and everyone relies on her website for the latest scoop.
Iron Mountain, Inc. Q4 2007 Earnings Call Transcript
On the back of that you will notice we recently announced a joint relationship with Hewlett Packard for additional businesses. This is the case now mirroring our medical space and expertise with additional partner with HP and it goes like this. HP has some tremendous technology in that space that is use to back up create the disaster recovery copy and take off side and ArchivesOne actually get a 2 for 1 value proposition for hospital, and drain down or reduce their own site storage cost dramatically. For their medical images archives, for the layman that means, CAT scans, MRIs and so forth. It is probably the fastest growing segment of additional data in the world. If your cost over 20 that and probably email. So there is a huge market opportunity, we are partner with HP, both and not just using their technology but it's a partnership in which we and at the HP sales force will excel into this platform and we are the service providers.
Crackdown on 'upskirting' and 'downblousing'
ELEANOR HALL: A national crackdown on voyeuristic photos and their publication is one of the issues being tackled at the meeting in Melbourne today of Australia's Attorneys-General.
The nation's top law makers are considering how to deal with the problem of "upskirting" and "downblousing", in which mobile phone cameras and pen cameras are used to photograph unsuspecting women.
Outlawing the publication of photos, which don't have the subject's consent, is also being considered.
In Melbourne, Samantha Donovan reports.
SAMANTHA DONOVAN: Victorian Attorney-General Rob Hulls is urging the states and Commonwealth to come up with a national approach to these problems.
ROB HULLS: The practice of what's known as "up skirting", where people can use mobile phone cameras or pen cameras to take photos under people's clothing without their knowledge, and for inappropriate purposes.
Music you will love
Some exciting stuff on the music front. The B-52s album "Funplex" just landed over my transom and I have to say, I'm feeling it. But I'm sort of prejudiced; I've always liked them. I will never forget that party I was at in Manhattan at the Hammerstein Ballroom -- who can remember what it was exactly? -- when the kind sponsors pumped everyone full off free drinks for like two hours and then, surprise...opened the curtains to reveal the B-52s, who put on this incredible, mind-blowing performance complete with stilt walkers and people in inflatable costumes. It was amaaaazing. Anyway the album is cool…rock oriented with touches of electro and punk. Also, Natasha Bedingfield came out today. (Her album, that is. She did not announce that she is a lesbian.) I was dying to hear the track she did with Norfolk alum Danja (#13) because I was in the studio in LA when they made it. It's called "Not Givin' Up." Watching them collaborate was so cool...for the first 40 minutes.
War of the Worlds Redux
While the show contained several disclaimers that its contents were fictional, the first came right the beginning of the 55-minute broadcast and the second wasn't aired until 40 minutes later.Watching news coverage of last week's Cartoon Network marketing stunt that put Boston on high alert, I was reminded of the Welles' broadcast. It is clear in hindsight that the reactions to both were overblown and more than a bit comical. But it is equally clear in hindsight, at least to this observer, that the geopolitical backdrop for each provided ample justification for the reactions that followed.Only a month before the Welles' broadcast, England and France relented under pressure from Adolf Hitler and allowed Germay to seize the Sudetenland from Czechoslovakia. By then, Germany had already annexed the Rhineland in violation of the Treaty of Versailles and manipulated an Anschluss unification with Austria, land of Hitler's birth.By the time Hitler was demanding the Sudetenland, Western leaders had grown distrustful of the German leader.
Heat's Riley to leave team to scout lottery picks
The buck stops with me when we won the championship, it stops with me when I have the worst team in the league," he said.
Considering Kansas State forward Michael Beasley and Memphis point guard Derrick Rose stand at the top of the lottery board, the Big 12 tournament in Kansas City, which runs March 13-16, and the Conference USA tournament in Memphis, March 12-15, figure to be on Riley's wish list.
"If I can scoot off and see some of these guys, that's what I'm going to do," he said, declining to name the prospects he would scout because of league rules regarding underclassmen.
Guard Dwyane Wade, the team's most recent lottery pick, said he respected the move.
"No question," he said. "It's no secret we're going to have a lot of balls in the lottery this summer.
TheStar.com | Travel | Holiday movie wins rave reviews (from the ...
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Keeping your heart healthy at every age
As a certified EMS worker, Jeff Schaffer knows a lot about the heart. Based in Baltimore, Maryland, Schaffer travels with emergency crews from three states. He teaches CPR, gives lectures on heart health, and talks to school kids about firefighting and ambulance work. His father died from a heart attack at 61. So you would think when he began to have chest pains while teaching a CPR class, 15 years ago, Schaffer would have gone to the doctor. But he didn't. He ignored his own advice. Despite his vomiting and nausea, Schaffer admits, he was in denial. "I just blew it off and said it couldn't happen to me." Schaffer finally went to the ER, but not until after having symptoms for two days. At 39, Schaffer was indeed having a heart attack. His doctors said he was lucky to be alive. The ironic part of this story is even though Schaffer knew all the symptoms of a cardiac event he never thought about his own heart.
Pentagon Aide's Invitations Contradicted U.S. Policy
At the urging of a subordinate, Deputy Secretary of Defense Gordon England scheduled at least two meetings with foreign emissaries in direct contradiction of U.S. policy at the time. The meetings date back to 2005. They involved a Lebanese ambassador considered a proxy for the Syrian government and a leading member of Syria's Muslim Brotherhood. U.S. policy at the time was not to engage in talks with either man, because they represent groups with whom the United States was not to communicate. The meetings were organized by England's special assistant for international affairs, Hesham Islam. An invitation to Muslim Brotherhood official Husam al-Dairi was canceled in late 2005 after a senior State Department official heard about it and insisted it not take place.
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