| Will's Web Watch: Tuning in to YouTube
About six months ago an email landed in my inbox from a friend with a link to a video clip. The URL pointed to YouTube.com. I'd not heard of it before then and thought nothing of it, given it seemed just one of many websites out there hosting video clips. But now just half a year later there can't be many people on the internet - or the planet - who aren't familiar with YouTube. The site was officially launched in December 2005 by Steve Chen and Chad Hurley having started it initially in mid-2005 as a means to share videos between friends. YouTube was intended to do for video what Flickr had done for photography and to provide the web 2.0 generation with a place to post and view user-generated content. Since then things have sky-rocketed. In July the site served more than one hundred million videos in a single day.
In eyes of L.A., to err is a fine
On a recent morning while Glenn Geraghty was away, the security alarm at his Watts home went off. When Los Angeles police officers arrived, a neighbor with a key to the house offered a sheepish apology: Geraghty's dog, Checkers, had pawed open the gate on his cage and tripped the alarm's motion sensors.
The police left, only to be summoned back hours later when the dog got free a second time. That should have been the end of it. A city law grants only two false alarms every 12 months. Any more than that and police aren't required to respond unless someone at the scene verifies that the alarm is real.
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Voters pass school expansion referendums in Unit 5
The kids at Washington, Lincoln, Oakland, Stevenson, Irving, . walked to school , atleast 90% . Now a large portion of kids are bused to unit 5 schools. Buses cost money !! . Build some new schools in a neighborhood where 90 percent of the kids could walk to school and if it is not diverse enough too bad. Try having a school board of members that make 30,000- 40,000 a year instead of 100,000 a year plus. These average income folks might have some fresh ideas on how to stretch a dollar because they have to everyday. Is there any problem unit 5 can solve without throwing money and consultants at it??? When they listed administrators in the paper this past year they left out about 1.5 million dollars a year of administrators and their salaries out of the paper. Each High school has 6 administrators.
What makes an award-winning hotel?
Bekhit who is regional vice president of the Four Seasons and has been the general manager of the Four Seasons Istanbul enjoys relating incidents like this involving his staff. He has often only found out about them later. Asked in an interview with the Turkish Daily News what he believed makes a hotel successful, Bekhit replied, so far we've been blessed with great employees because our selection is very important. Human resources has an incredible role to play in selecting the right sources. Human resources collects the people and then they go through at least four interviews. So when we accept someone as an employee, we feel that he or she will be successful within the family. 99 percent will stay with us and we are sure that he or she will do what we tell them to. That's when you start from the beginning.
Recipient E-mail
There are lots of ways that people try and show who the best is at a variety of topics. You've got the old standby, who can drink the most beer. Then there is who can land the best looking guy/girl, and you can always resort back to who makes more money as a way to prove who's better. In the world of computers and overclocking the way you prove you are better than the rest is with synthetic benchmark scores. Depending on what site you read for your hardware reviews synthetic scores for video cards and computer systems are either a great way to tell how a video card performs or a fat waste of time. Personally I don't care how you measure the performance of a video card in a review, so long as you do it the same way each time so I can get an idea of the parts relative performance.
Brydon wins gold in World Cup Super G
The native of Fernie B.C., captured a women's Super-G ski event to register the first World Cup victory of her seven-year career. "It's hard to put it into words," she said afterwards during a conference call. "I've put my whole life in the ski world towards this goal and to achieve it is almost beyond words. "That's what every athlete strives for and when you reach goals or achieve goals such as this it really gives meaning to all the tough times and the adversity that you have to go through. I think those adversities make you stronger and make you appreciate your successes more." .
Guess which driver's facing 21 years in prison — the drunk , rich ...
The Sheriff's Office's CYA report to the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors on the Honduran project. 12:58PM 03/01/08 KTAR's Darrell Ankarlo kisses Sheriff Joe Arpaio's can again (sigh), on the Honduran escapade. 10:55AM 02/29/08 Clubhouse Music presents Diplo and friends 06:11AM 03/03/08 Axis Radius presents Battle of Rock Band 03:03AM 03/02/08 Get ready for West of Western 03:40PM 02/29/08 Lyte Lounge gives tapas a healthful spin 10:36AM 02/28/08 .
Scavenging for Superdelegates
As we went to bed last night, the juicy New York Times headline "Black Leader, a Clinton Ally, Tilts to Obama" tucked us in. The story explained the soon-to-be defection of Georgia Rep. John Lewis from Hillary Clinton's camp to Barack Obama's. Lewis is a superdelegate and a civil rights leader whose district voted overwhelmingly for Barack Obama in Georgia's Super Tuesday primary. If he officially defected, his change of heart was thought to be a bellwhether for all of Clinton's superdelegates whose districts voted for Obama. The Times reported that Lewis "said Thursday night that he planned to cast his vote as a superdelegate for Senator Barack Obama in hopes of preventing a fight at the Democratic convention," but that Lewis was still weighing whether to officially endorse Obama. But after changing his mind on Clinton, he may be changing his mind on Obama.
Trotwood vs. Cincinnati Moeller
FAIRBORN — With the Barack Obama rally at the Nutter Center expected to draw between 10,000 and 12,000 people, Fairborn police expect routes near the event to be snarled with traffic. Doors were to open at the Nutter Center at 4 p.m. today, Feb. 25, and police "strongly encouraged" Obama-seekers to be there by that time if they wanted to get in. Get there after 4 p.m., and you probably won't be able to park. .
Disney to recruit interns at UNLV
Though these jobs may not seem like typical internship work, Bolivar said that it is the “Disney difference" that makes it worthwhile. “It doesn't matter what you did there, it matters that you were there," Bolivar said. Wellington works at the gift shops at the All Star Resorts and agrees that the experience in polishing her communication skills and learning to better serve customers is what sets the internship apart from the rest. To motivate interns, positions are even given different names to help workers remember that they are there to entertain. Employees are called cast members, customers are called guests, uniforms are refereed to as costumes and when at work interns are on-stage. During the internship, students live in apartments with anywhere from three to five roommates.
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