| Time for socialising the real way!
My love for Myspace and Facebook lasted a couple of weeks. It was great hooking up with old friends and complete strangers, with people you had forgotten or you thought had died but were still alive. It was nice to share pictures, stories, experiences and what have you. Now that everything has been shared with everybody — well almost — it's probably time to get back to socialising the real way.
There is a view that social networking fatigue could set in soon as surfers get tired of trying to balance their real and cyber lives. Building an online identity over and over again is not always the easiest thing to do but a lot of people do get sucked into it, if only to stay at par with peers. Hey, how many networking sites are you on? All, dude. You can find me on Orkut, Facebook, Myspace, Rhyze, even Bigadda! Hell, do I care?
A lot of us do and that's the reason social networking sites have boomed in recent years, zipping into the netherworld with millions joining the bandwagon in a rush to find out more about others, start communities and eventually get bombarded by inane messages that people send just to remain part of a group.
Schwan sells bakery to Flowers
Schwan sells Georgia bakery [Mpls./St. Paul] Flowers Foods to spend $52M on new bakery [Atlanta] Flowers Foods Q3 profit remains about $22 million [Atlanta] Sutherland brings expertise to table [Mpls./St. Paul] Schwan's plans Tucker facility closure [Atlanta] .
China's Digital TV Industry with Its Own Intellectual Property Rights ...
With the official enforcement of digital TV terrestrial broadcasting standards of China, digital TV related companies will improve their competitiveness and influences in the fierce market competition, and the industry structure will be optimized then. Trans-regional trans-industry acquisitions and mergers will lay a sound foundation for the continuous development of the enterprises in the digital TV industry where the expansion of digital TV users is focused. Network operators will keep growing at a fast rate in the next few years since they are in the monopoly in some regions of China and have the closest relationship with digital TV users. Considering China's digital TV industry is in the primary stage of development, the report expounds investment prospects of the companies in four aspects including the influences of national policies, digital TV business progression of companies, profitability and growing momentum of companies, and development strategies of companies.
CentricCRM Reinvents Itself as Concursive
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Broward Health loses CEO to Louisiana
Broward Health President and Chief Executive Officer Alan Levine is leaving to serve as secretary of the Department of Health and Hospitals for Louisiana. Broward Health's board of commissioners said it will begin an immediate search a replacement. It named Chief Financial Officer Frank Nask interim president/CEO. This is not Levine's first foray into public service. He served as deputy chief of staff, health policy adviser and secretary of health care administration for Gov. Jeb Bush before leading Broward Health. "We need to do everything possible to make sure every one of our citizens has the opportunity to receive affordable quality health care. It won't be easy, and the challenges facing us are large," Louisiana Gov.-elect Bobby Jindal said in a news release.
A dragon in winter
Tsien made a request to travel to Communist China to visit his elderly parents (whom he had previously visited in 1947 with US government approval). This made a government official uneasy, prompting him to suggest that Tsien's request be denied. While this was being considered, the FBI discovered a list of people who had attended a social gathering that they suspected was a meeting of "Professional Unit 122 of the Pasadena Communist Party." It was a time where Senator Joseph McCarthy and others were claiming that any association with communists was essentially the equivalent of being a communist. By all accounts Tsien was stunned by the allegations and vigorously denied them. He had never demonstrated any real interest in politics at all. By this time he was highly regarded, especially on the Caltech campus, and his shyness had long faded, replaced by arrogance.
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