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- Jake Gyllenhaal is going back to school - Entertainment and Showbiz!
- North Memorial, Fairview open Maple Grove Hospital - Minneapolis-St Paul Business Journal
- Emerging economic philosophy - Global Nation
- Brown changes bowl philosophy - ESPN.com
- Kerr Talks About His GM Philosophy - Hoops World
| Jake Gyllenhaal is going back to school - Entertainment and Showbiz! Posted: 04 Jan 2010 08:57 AM PST No, the producers of "Prince of Persia" are not asking Jake a college degree before they release the movie, nor he has got inspired with "Main Hoon Naa", but still he is going back to studies. The "Donnie Darko" star is actually a drop out from Columbia University. Now he is planning to take a break from his wonderful Hollywood career, and wants to be a Grad first. The Oscar nominated star for best supporting actor for his role in "The Brokeback Mountain" is the son of director Stephen Gyllenhaal and screenwriter Naomi Foner. So it is pretty obvious that he got exposed to the limelight of Hollywood at an early the age of 10. His first Hollywood assignment was in the 1991 comedy film "City Slickers", as Billy Crystal's son. After that his parents were not happy with his early acting career, so they tried to forbade him from acting, but it didn't last for long, and he again surfaced in "A Dangerous Woman (1993)", "Bop Gun(1994)" episode of "Homicide: Life on the Street" and in "Homegrown(1998)".The first major movie in his life was "October Sky". Though he was studying Eastern religions and philosophy in the Columbia University, but due to the lucrative offers from the film industry, he dropped out, and then we saw a few fine movies of all time. Few of them are "Zodiac", "Brokeback Mountain", & the highly complex & critically acclaimed "Donnie Darko". Now, everyone is waiting for his next, which is "Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time". Though his decision of taking a break might hurt a few hearts, but still we will wish good luck to this fine actor, and wait for his comeback. Related posts:
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| North Memorial, Fairview open Maple Grove Hospital - Minneapolis-St Paul Business Journal Posted: 30 Dec 2009 08:49 AM PST Maple Grove Hospital, the first Twin Cities' hospital to open in a decade, officially started seeing patients on Wednesday. The $138.9 million, 225,000 square-foot hospital is located just east of I-94 at Maple Grove Parkway. It opened Wednesday with 30 patient rooms — all private — and a staff of 200. The hospital — 75 percent owned by Robbinsdale-based North Memorial Health Care and 25 percent owned by Minneapolis-based Fairview Health Services — will very much be a community hospital for the fast-growing suburb of Maple Grove, concentrating on such bread-and-butter health care needs as delivering babies and emergency room services. The hospital expects to deliver about 1,200 babies by the end of 2010. And it expects 11,000 people will visit the Emergency Care Center during the first year. Andy Cochrane, the hospital's CEO, said the experience of the patients is the facility's focus. "Our physicians, nurses and staff have adopted a philosophy of care that ensures our patients are treated as individuals who deserve exceptional care that is tailored to their needs," Cochrane said. Minnesota has a moratorium on new hospital construction that requires the state Legislature to approve any exemption. That means a hospital opening is a rare occurrence in the state. The last hospital to open around the Twin Cities was Woodwinds Health Campus in Woodbury in 2000. Maple Grove Hospital is opening small for now. But it's owners are leaving room for growth. The hospital is able to triple its patient rooms to 90 when patient volumes increase. The hospital is designed to accommodate 300 patient rooms in the future with additional construction. The hospital also expects to double its number of staff to 400 by the end of 2010. About 8,500 people have applied for jobs there. Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. |
| Emerging economic philosophy - Global Nation Posted: 04 Jan 2010 11:20 AM PST FOR THOSE who were asking why they didn't see my article that was to come out last Friday, January 1, it came out Thursday, December 31, instead. Just like the malls, parks, resorts and even motels during the holiday season, the business section of the newspaper didn't have enough space that Friday. Also, just minutes before the stroke of midnight on Thursday, December 31, we had a brown out in the neighborhood. I didn't realize that my Internet connection wasn't still restored until Saturday morning when I tried to use it. I reported the matter but was told that no similar complaint from my area had been received. Therefore, their cable line should be working. I was assured that service would be back even if the diagnostic measures I was told to follow didn't work. Anyway, a service crew was to come by to check on the problem. My connection was first restored at about 7:30 in the evening of Saturday, January 2 or some 44 hours and 30 minutes later after the brownout. But service continued to fail intermittently even after the visit of the crew at 9:15 a.m. on Sunday, January 3. I believe this is a problem that the poor public must be given some form of relief by the relevant government regulating agency. A general billing system similar to power consumption should be studied – no pay to service undelivered, like no pay to power not used. Bullish 2010 At any rate, as I said in my column in the last issue, I strongly feel that we may still have a profitable stock market year in 2010 despite expressed forecasts of an unclear solid economic recovery. Take for example the market's performance in 2009. As we all know, the world's stock markets largely looked up to the state and direction of the US economy. Despite mixed reports that doubted its real progress all year long, 2009 still proved to be a good year for the stock market. The Philippine Stock Exchange index or PSEi – composed of 32 selected stocks – that serves as the local market's main performance indicator delivered, on the average, a trading return equivalent to about 80 percent. This happened as the PSEi stocks tracked Wall Street whose performance was driven by investors' reactions on the basis of a "better-than-expected" statistics but still below a healthy US economy. Together with the ongoing recovery of the US economy and the expected beneficial impact of a presidential election, I am confident that our market will stay bullish in 2010. For those who doubt this outlook because they still subscribe to the view of economic conservatives who believe in "market absolutism – the belief that the free market, unbridled and left to its own natural forces, is the solution to every economic, social, and political problem" – and, therefore, the problem of the US is far from being solved, here's one expert view: The US is on its way to a new economic model while it also has the money with which its economic woes are to be solved. According to a book on the US presidency and the US economy that is to hit the bookstands, "the US has roughly $50-60 trillion in wealth and investment capital ... (It's) the richest nation and civilization the world has ever known. No nation has ever created and amassed more wealth in absolute terms than the United States ... [More than that, market absolutism] has been discredited as a philosophy every bit as much as the propaganda that flowed from the Politburo in the former Soviet Union. Like orthodox communism, market absolutism is dead. The era of the free market as metaphysical sovereign is over. The free market-created financial crisis has required, and will continue to require, collective action to create a more-stable, constructive, and just economic order." This is the emerging new economic model: A structure that will not squeeze market vigor in the face of increased government role supposedly to wean business practice from the old impact and consequences of unbridled greed and excess. Bottom line spin In other words, private business will be allowed to flourish. But government role will become more pronounced. The US has enough money to spur market activity in the world even though economic recovery will still be slow. But above all, as private business may be tempered by the new economic philosophy, it may not – hopefully – compromise the passion for success. Investing as a 'Waterkeeper' Making a difference like helping out the community while making profit in business has been known as "Corporate Social Responsibility" or referred simply now as CSR. If you believe this advocacy, join me as member of the Waterkeeper Alliance Philippines Program (WKPP). It's a global environmental movement to address issues affecting pollution and climate change. It was established in 1999 by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. whose vision is to protect and restore "the world's rivers, lakes and estuaries into fishable, swimmable and drinkable waterways." You may contact me at my e-mail address below. (You may reach the Market Rider at marketrider@inquirer.com.ph or densomera@yahoo.com) Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. |
| Brown changes bowl philosophy - ESPN.com Posted: 04 Jan 2010 10:01 AM PST NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. -- After back-to-back losses in the 1999 and 2000 seasons, Mack Brown knew he needed to make some changes in his bowl preparations.
The Longhorns were thrashed by Arkansas in the 2000 Cotton Bowl, 27-6. In the following season, Texas was shocked by a faster Oregon team that posted a 35-30 victory in the Holiday Bowl. In order to change his thinking, Brown sent his assistants to places like Florida State and Wisconsin which had success during that period in bowl games. The Texas coaches picked the brains of Bobby Bowden, Barry Alvarez and their respective staffs to find out what had worked for them to get ready for bowl games. "Both those teams had great runs [in bowl games]," Brown said. "We went to meet with them and asked what they were doing. We found out that they are really physical during their work here and let up a little once they got there." The change in attitude seems to have helped. The Longhorns have won seven of their last eight bowl games, including a three-game winning streak in BCS games and a two-game winning streak at the Rose Bowl. Brown has continued that strategy during its work in Austin as it prepared for Thursday's BCS National Championship Game against Alabama. "You really just have to go back and work on fundamentals," Brown said. "We've had very, very physical practices. They've all been ones [first-stringers] against ones. They knocked each other around. They had fun." And once the Longhorns arrived in California, Brown has moderated a little from how it prepared during the regular season. "We'll do a little less conditioning out here for one thing," Brown said. "We really conditioned every day pretty hard back in Austin. We'll hit some [early in the week], but we back on the hitting as it comes closer to game time to make sure that we are fresh. One of the things we have learned is that when you have all of the bowl activities, they are out and standing and on their feet all of the time. They are excited and you work them hard. If you're not careful, you have a tired football team by Thursday." Hitting so much before a bowl game is a calculated risk, but Brown believes his team is better prepared utilizing his current strategy. "Another coach called and asked how we hit so much and not worry about injuries," Brown said. "I told him that you worry about injuries every day. That's what you do. But you hope you get lucky because you cannot take this much time off and not hit and then expect to be physical during this ballgame. This will be a very physical ballgame." Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. |
| Kerr Talks About His GM Philosophy - Hoops World Posted: 04 Jan 2010 10:30 AM PST
Now, with Germany having been named a wild-card entry into the World Championships, (Chris) Kaman said he's ready to play in Turkey under one condition: Nowitzki, Dallas' star forward who carried the German flag in the Opening Ceremonies at the 2008 Olympics, must also commit. "If he plays, I'm going to play,'' Kaman said in an interview with FanHouse. "I think that if we have Dirk it will give us a chance of winning and advancing to the later rounds of the Championships ... I'll base my decision on what Dirk does ... I want to play, but I also want to win, and the chances are a lot better if Dirk plays.'' Nowitzki is undecided, and it could be a while before he makes up his mind whether to play. But perhaps Kaman can work him over if he's on hand when the Mavericks play host in February to the All-Star Game. It's a long shot, mainly due to the Clippers' less-than-stellar 14-18 record. But if Western Conference coaches seek to name a center for the All-Star team who actually starts at center, Kaman is the likely pick. But, if a real center is to be named, it would be hard to go wrong with Kaman. He's leading all NBA centers with a scoring average of 20.3 points while grabbing 9.2 rebounds a night. "Obviously, I would want (an All-Star berth),'' Kaman said. "I've got to just keep playing and, if the team comes up [an improved record], if I'm there, I'm there. If not, I'm not. I can't control it. I just have to keep playing hard.'' Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. |
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