| Food Prices Straining U.S. Aid
The Bush administration's 2008 USAID budget request calls for $1.2 billion in food aid with a supplemental $350 million to cover assistance in Darfur and critical situations in southern Africa, Kenya and other hot spots. USAID officials said the administration, facing a tight budget year, was not planning to request funds to cover the projected $200 million shortfall from the price increases. USAID purchases grains in the same domestic commodities market as the U.S. companies that serve up Wonder bread or Big Macs, meaning they pay the same high market rates. As a result, officials said, the program cuts are necessary. "At this point, this is the administration's request," Borns said yesterday. Aid groups said they would press USAID and the Bush administration to pursue more funds from Congress to cover the shortfall.
Mattoon native 'focused on engaging people' in Iraq
Someone has to comment on an upbeat story an turn it ugly. Way to go "Question". Just read a column for once and save the political diatribe for someone who gives a damn waht you think and quit bringing everyone down. Lastly, Mike Scott, thanks you are a true hero. " .
Vuze to Comcast: It's not a fair race when you own the track
In a conference call, Vuze's general counsel Jay Monahan drew the starkest analogy. What Comcast is really doing, he said, wasn't at all comparable to limiting the number of cars that enter a highway. Instead, it was more like a horse race where the cable company owns one of the horses and the racetrack itself. By slowing down the horse of a competitor like Vuze, even for a few seconds, Comcast makes it harder for that horse to compete. "Which horse would you bet on in a race like that?" asked Monahan. Vuze offers its own video content distributed through P2P technology, and it sees services like Comcast's own video-on-demand offerings as a direct competitor. But smaller, independent publishers also value P2P technology because it allows them to "compete with the big boys" by offering high-quality video files in a way that would not be possible if a nonprofit had to pay directly for all the download bandwidth.
Tulowitzki already hitting his stride
TUCSON — Put Troy Tulowitzki in a batting cage and he's just another player. Put him in a game against live pitching, with the crowd roaring, and he morphs into Tulo. Witness his solo homer in the first inning of the Rockies' 7-3 victory over the White Sox on Wednesday. In his first at-bat of the Cactus League season, on the third pitch he saw from White Sox lefty John Danks, Tulowitzki crushed a solo homer over the left-field wall at Tucson Electric Park. "I came into today worried," Tulo- witzki said. "All the times I've faced pitchers in camp so far I was terrible. That's just not my thing. I need the game-like situation and the competitiveness and the fans. That's what I feed off. Me and those fake games, I don't handle that very well." "That's what he's supposed to do," Todd Helton said with a wry smile.
Denzler: Caught off guard by a proud moment
It has been my finding that no matter how trying some parental decisions and moments may be, witnessing a smile on a child's face on Christmas morning, being given a hug, a firm handshake by a young adult as they leave for college or simply being told goodnight before another day comes to an end are great rewards. With that in mind I wish to pass along a quote from Ecclesiastes: "Generations come and go but it makes no difference. The sun rises and sets and hurries around to rise again. The wind blows south and north, here and there. Twisting back and forth, getting nowhere. The rivers run into the sea but the sea is never full, and the water returns again to the rivers and flows again to the seas ... Everything is unutterably weary and tiresome. No matter how much we see, we are never satisfied; no matter how much we hear, we are not content, so I saw that there is nothing better for men than that they should be happy in their work.
Pro-Life Activists Arrested at Cypress College for 3rd Time
CYPRESS, Calif., Feb. 22 /Christian Newswire/ -- On February 21, 2008, Cypress College in California once again unlawfully arrested pro-life activists for being outside the school's "free speech zone." From the time of their arrival on campus, members of the pro-life group Survivors of the Abortion Holocaust quietly held signs, distributed literature and dialogued with students about abortion, but because they refused to be confined to an area, they were arrested for failing to leave private property not open to the general public (trespassing). "How educated police officers and college administration can claim that a public school is private property is beyond me. Then they make a mockery of free speech by providing inadequate 'zones' in which they allow First Amendment rights to occur." says Kortney Blythe, Director of Campus Life Tours (CLT) for Survivors.
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