“"Greatest" College football player of all time - CBS Sports” plus 4 more |
- "Greatest" College football player of all time - CBS Sports
- CNN Launches ImageSource - Broadcasting Cable
- Omaha makes flight-delays list - Omaha World-Herald
- Tacoma's Proctor District losing another business - Tacoma News Tribune
- Little-known Herta Mueller wins 2009 Nobel literature prize - Honolulu Advertiser
| "Greatest" College football player of all time - CBS Sports Posted: 08 Oct 2009 08:14 AM PDT "It wasn't a spread option attack, they knew who was getting the ball and just could not stop him" You just described Tim Tebow. How many 3rd and 3s has Tim Tebow converted rushing the football, even his freshman year? How many TDs has he scored within the 5 yard line? Everybody knows he is going to run it, but they can't stop it. I think there is not a college team in the country that wouldn't want the ball in his hands during crunch time. Ad to the fact that he is an above average passer (73 career TDs, above 64% completion percentage) - he is a true dual threat the likes that no one has ever seen. |
| CNN Launches ImageSource - Broadcasting Cable Posted: 08 Oct 2009 08:14 AM PDT On-demand video licensing service gives access to network's video archiveBy David Tanklefsky -- Broadcasting & Cable, 10/8/2009 10:53:25 AMRelated: Stock Firms Profit From Cost EfficienciesCNN has launched ImageSource, an on-demand service for video licensing, that will allow film, TV, advertising and corporate producers to access more than half a million items from the network's archives. "CNN ImageSource is in the unique position to now offer an easy-to-use web site for producers to research video on their own schedule and customize and download screener material to their desktop," said David Sheehan, VP for CNN ImageSource licensing and content sales, in a statement announcing the launch Oct. 8. ImageSource contains material from more than 650 U.S. news affiliates that CNN represents, as well as the network's owned footage. The site features news content, science and technology, business, travel, entertainment, sports and CNN's iReport user-generated content.
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| Omaha makes flight-delays list - Omaha World-Herald Posted: 08 Oct 2009 07:45 AM PDT Omaha is in the top 40 in a new study, but not in a good way. The Omaha metropolitan area ranked as the 38th worst for flight delays out of the country's 100 largest metro areas, according to a report on air traffic. But the report's authors say flight delays are mostly beyond the control of medium-size cities such as Omaha. Delays have grown across the country and tend to be concentrated in the largest metropolitan areas. That's bad news for airports such as Eppley Airfield, which are fed by hub airports in major cities. Although the recession has cut down on some air traffic congestion, the congestion will worsen as the economy recovers and travel increases again, according to the report released today by the Brookings Institution, a Washington, D.C.-based research organization. Researchers found that nationally, the number of flights landing at least two hours late has more than doubled in the past 20 years. In Omaha, they found, the average delay for late-arriving flights was about 51 minutes. Areas such as Chicago and Atlanta have some of the worst delays, which affects how often flights are on time in Omaha. Those two cities are among the top 10 for flights coming from and going to Omaha. The report said 78.6 percent of flights arrived on time in Omaha in the 12-month period that ended last June. Des Moines ranked 27th, with 77.7 percent of its flights arriving on time, while Kansas City was 59th, with an 80.8 percent on-time rate. The New York-northern New Jersey metro area had the worst performance for arriving flights, with just 66 percent landing on time. Medium-size airports that connect to larger metro areas and busy airline hubs have only so much control over flight performance, the report's authors said. "You're really at the mercy of the dense, congested operations from the large metropolitan areas," co-author Robert Puentes said. Steve Coufal, executive director of the Omaha Airport Authority, said on-time performance is influenced heavily by the weather and operations at the hubs. "The delays here are not caused by local conditions," Coufal said. On-time performance varies month-to-month, he said, and just 1 percentage point can cause a city to rise or fall several spots in the rankings. Coufal said Eppley Airfield has a reputation among airlines as a place where passengers can get off and on planes quickly, thus shortening turnaround time. "Flight crews and airlines know they can make up time at Eppley," Coufal said. Eppley passengers travel most between Omaha and Chicago. So flight delays at Chicago's O'Hare or Midway airports hit Omaha directly. "Chicago has some of the worst arrival and departure delays in the country," Puentes said. The study lumped commercial airports together by metro area, rather than looking at individual airports. Since the Omaha-Council Bluffs metro area has only one commercial airport, the figures are for Eppley flights. For the Chicago metro area, though, flight figures for O'Hare and Midway airports were combined. The report encourages the development of high-speed rail service to ease air traffic — especially as a replacement for airline routes of under 500 miles. Report co-author Adie Tomer said that even if Omaha weren't directly tied to Chicago by high-speed rail, connecting Chicago to other major Midwestern cities would lessen air traffic for the whole region. The federal stimulus package set aside $8 billion for high-speed rail service, and competition among cities and states for the money has been fierce. The State of Iowa has submitted several proposals, including rail lines envisioned between Chicago and Dubuque and between Chicago and Iowa City. Contact the writer: 444-1149, tom.shaw@owh.com
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| Tacoma's Proctor District losing another business - Tacoma News Tribune Posted: 08 Oct 2009 07:52 AM PDT It was time. Dont blame the recession and dont blame the continuing major street repairs in front of the store. I just figured it was time, said Rondi Boskovich on Wednesday morning, the day she began a Good Buy goodbye sale at Jasminka, the Proctor District clothing store she founded in 1983. The name of the store came from the name of a Croatian cousin of Boskovichs husband, and the idea for the store came from a love of fabric. Ive always been interested in natural-fabric clothing, Boskovich said. She earned a degree in clothing and textiles at Washington State University. I knew I always wanted to have my own business, she said. She finally decided to make that particular dream come true. She remembers the day. It was time. It hit me like a brick, she said. January 15, 1983. I put my head on the pillow and goy-yoy-yoing. I knew it was time. I started telling people so I wouldnt change my mind. She opened the store a few months later. This is who I am, she said, surrounded by cotton, silk, rayon and wool; by blouses, coats, dresses and scarves, and jewelry; by thousands of colors and many depths of texture; and by customers she has known for decades. Its not an easy decision to make. I knew I couldnt do it forever, she said. This week, everything in the store has been marked down 20 percent. I own the building, Boskovich said. Thats my retirement. She decided not to sell the business. If somebody bought it and failed, she knew shed feel bad. If somebody bought it and did better than she did, shed wonder what she did wrong. If somebodys going to open their own business, they have to open their own business, she said. This is who I am. Let the next owner open what they are. Pat Shuman of Tacoma has been a customer for at least 20 years. Theyre friendly, fun, she said. I was bummed. I have an overriding concern that were losing two womens clothing stores. Julie Schmidtke announced last month that she would be closing her store, Julia Ellen, after 15 years in the Proctor District. Julia Ellen and Jasminka set a tone for the neighborhood, said Shuman. Jasminka is elegant and relaxed, said a customer named Catherine. Warm, welcoming. Its like walking into an art museum. Hearing that, tears come to Boskovich. Its gratifying, she said. She and her husband, who is also retiring, will travel, she said. She will also putter. Ill do everything that I havent done, she said. Ive got a big yard. Ive got a big garden. She hopes to lease the building. She isnt sure who might be interested in starting a retail business. Youve got to be young and naive to open up a store, she said. If you knew too much, you wouldnt do it. By the way Rondi has sold the shirt off her back, twice, said six-year employee Blythe Oliver. Ill miss the people most, Boskovich said. The regular customers. The people who come in to visit. She expects to walk away by Thanksgiving. Again she cries. Sorry, she said. C.R. Roberts: 253-597-8535 |
| Little-known Herta Mueller wins 2009 Nobel literature prize - Honolulu Advertiser Posted: 08 Oct 2009 08:28 AM PDT STOCKHOLM Herta Mueller, a little-known Romanian-born author who was persecuted for her critical depictions of life behind the Iron Curtain, won the 2009 Nobel Prize in literature today in an award seen as a nod to the 20th anniversary of communism's collapse. The decision was expected to keep alive the controversy surrounding the academy's pattern of awarding the prize to European writers. Mueller, a member of Romania's ethnic German minority, was honored for work that "with the concentration of poetry and the frankness of prose, depicts the landscape of the dispossessed," the Swedish Academy said. "I am very surprised and still can not believe it," Mueller said in a statement released by her publisher in Germany, where she is widely renowned. "I can't say anything more at the moment." Peter Englund, the permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy, told The Associated Press this week that the secretive Swedish Academy had been too "eurocentric" in picking winners. His predecessor, Horace Engdahl, stirred up heated emotions across the Atlantic when he told the AP in 2008 that "Europe still is the center of the literary world" and the quality of U.S. writing was dragged down because authors were "too sensitive to trends in their own mass culture." After Mueller was announced, Englund told AP that "If you are European (it is) easier to relate to European literature. It's the result of psychological bias that we really try to be aware of. It's not the result of any program." Mueller, 56, made her debut in 1982 with a collection of short stories titled "Niederungen," or "Nadirs," depicting the harshness of life in a small, German-speaking village in Romania. It was promptly censored by the communist government. In 1984 an uncensored version was smuggled to Germany, where it was published and devoured by readers. That work was followed by "Oppressive Tango" in Romania but she was eventually prohibited from publishing inside her country for her criticism of dictator Nicolae Ceausescu's rule and its feared secret police, the Securitate. "The Romanian national press was very critical of these works while, outside of Romania, the German press received them very positively," the Academy said. Emilia Marta, a 55-year-old teacher who moved into the house in Romania's Transylvania Banat region where Mueller was born, said the author has yet to return. But the mayor of the 1,600-person village of Nichtidorf said she is welcome anytime and would be greeted with honors. "If she will accept this, of course," Ioan Mascovescu said. Mueller, whose father served in the Waffen SS during World War II and whose mother spent five years in a Soviet work camp, is the third European to win the prize in a row and the 10th German, joining Guenter Grass in 1999 and Heinrich Boell in 1972. Though Englund said the award was not timed to coincide with the 20th anniversary of the fall of communism, that's how it was perceived by many observers. "By giving the award to Herta Mueller, who grew up in a German-speaking minority in Romania, (the committee) has recognized an author who refuses to let the inhumane side of life under communism be forgotten," said Michael Krueger, head of Mueller's publisher Hanser Verlag. Mueller emigrated to Germany with her husband in 1987, two years before Ceausescu was toppled from power amid the widening communist collapse across eastern Europe. "This prize is the international recognition of the oppression of what happened in Romania and Eastern Europe," said Romanian actor Ion Caramitru, an anti-communist who rode atop a tank to the television station in Bucharest during the 1989 revolt and now heads the country's national theater. Most of Mueller's work is in German, but some works have been translated into English, French and Spanish, including "The Passport," "The Land of Green Plums," "Traveling on One Leg" and "The Appointment." Mueller's latest novel, "Atemschaukel," or "Swinging Breath" is up for this year's German Book Prize, which will be announced Monday. Mueller is the 12th woman to win the Nobel Prize in literature. Recent female winners include Austria's Elfriede Jelinek in 2004 and British writer Doris Lessing in 2007. It's the first time four women have won Nobel Prizes in the same year. U.S.-based researchers Elizabeth Blackburn and Carol Greider were among the medicine winners and the chemistry prize included Israel's Ada Yonath. The prize includes a $1.4 million prize and will be handed out Dec. 10 in the Swedish capital. On the Net:  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
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