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Melinda Gates goes public
The Gateses' latest mission, which developed out of a trip Melinda took to Kenya two years ago, is to recreate for Africa a green revolution similar to the program that increased crop yields in Latin America and Asia beginning in the 1940s. In 2006 the Gates Foundation formed a $150 million alliance with the Rockefeller Foundation. "Melinda is a total-systems thinker," says Rockefeller president Judith Rodin. "She and Bill dive into issues. They care deeply, deeply, deeply about making a difference, but they don't get starry-eyed. They demand impact." The impact comes from the combination of Melinda's holistic vision and Bill's brainpower. Bono, the rock star-humanitarian who is both a friend of the Gateses and a grantee (through his One antipoverty campaign), calls their relationship "symbiotic." Noting Bill's fierceness, Bono says, "Sometimes I call him Kill Bill.
What's Propelling Korea's Growth
Investors in South Korea's two best-known blue chips have scant reason for cheer these days. The leading icon of Korean corporate success, Samsung Electronics, appears headed for a third straight year of falling profits as a result of the crash in memory-chip prices. And growth at Hyundai Motor Co. has stalled as Korea's surging currency has erased most of the automaker's cost advantage vis-à-vis its Japanese rivals. Time to bail out of the Korean stock market? Investors don't seem to think so. The Seoul exchange's benchmark KOSPI index has surged 34% so far this year despite the U.S. credit crunch. The chief attraction: Korea's steel mills, shipbuilders, petrochemical operations, and other smokestack industries. Shares of petrochemical producer LG Chem Ltd. and steelmaker Posco have more than doubled.
Does Citizen Journalism Need Standards?
This past December he touched off a very lively polemical discussion on various blog venues about the role citizen journalism plays in our society and its emerging yet to him questionable status.
In an op-ed piece that appeared on the Web site of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution newspaper[1], Hazinski called for a set of standards or guidelines to be applied to citizen reporting. He has also suggested that a kind of regulatory body be established to keep citizen journalism online in line in order to abide by a certain "code of ethics."
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Samsung BD-P1400 is cheapest Blu-ray Disc player yet
Camaro, outside of your usual bias in favor of HD DVD that statement at best is a wishful stretch that only demonstrates your lack of knowledge of HD.1080I is an interlaced signal that equals out to only 520 lines scanned across your HDTV at a time. 720P is exactly that: 720 lines scanned on the screen at a time. 1080P is twice the resolution of 1080I. 520 vs 1080 lines of resolution. No "chip" can double (or create) the data displayed on a screen. The difference IS quite noticeable on any reputable HDTV. Unless of course you're using a $99.99 player and displaying it on a "HD"TV thats 5 years or older. .
Ducks Hold on to Beat Blackhawks 2-1
His backup, Patrick Lalime, is 6-1-0 with a 2.01 goals-against average in seven career starts against Anaheim _ the most recent coming in October 2005 with St. Louis. Notes:@ The Ducks have not allowed a third-period goal in their last nine home games, and no more than one in any of their 21 games at Honda Center this season. ... The fastest goal in Ducks history came on March 9, 1997, when Paul Kariya beat Colorado goalie Patrick Roy just 8 seconds after the opening faceoff. The Ducks managed only one other shot in that first period and settled for a 2-2 tie. ... The record for the fastest goal scored by a Blackhawks opponent from the start of a game was 9 seconds, set by Montreal's Henri Richard on Nov. 28, 1965, at Chicago, and equaled by Steve Atkinson on Feb. 24, 1972, at Buffalo.
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