HOG WILD PIT BAR-BQ.
The News Review:
- HOG WILD PIT BAR-BQ.
- For Soriano, It’s About Home Base
- War for talent in Indian IT goes on.
- Terrorist Attacks in India; New York City on Alert; Changes in Status…
- ‘Standard’ channels not upto scratch.
- Three Olympics, the Hard Way
HOG WILD PIT BAR-BQ.
Free with registration – Wichita Eagle – AccessMyLibrary.com – Jul 11, 2006
11–Chain builds success on consistency Most Wichitans with a TV or radio are familiar with the jingle: Hog Wild Pit Bar-B-Q, Hog Wild, get some for you. But don’t be late, we close at 8. And though the jingle has played a part in the success of Hutchinson’s home-grown barbecue chain, founder Gary Poulton says there’s a lot more that goes into being one of the top barbecue joints in.
For Soriano, It’s About Home Base
Washington Post – Jul 11, 2006
“I’m not even thinking about coming to the majors, to America. When I go to Japan, I think about playing in Japan for all my career. “He had grown comfortable. Stability, for all of a few seconds. Japanese DepartureLast week, Soriano strode into the home clubhouse at RFK Stadium, designer shades over his eyes, designer bag over his shoulder, designer loafers on his feet. His smile was broad, as usual, and he bumped fists with a clubhouse attendant. He called out to Nick Johnson, his friend from his minor league days with the Yankees.
War for talent in Indian IT goes on.
Free with registration – UPI Hi-Tech – AccessMyLibrary.com – Jul 11, 2006
–> COPYRIGHT 2006 United Press International Byline: INDRAJIT BASU CALCUTTA, India, July 11 (UPI) — The increasing global IT spending and the trend towards outsourcing may have triggered ambitious expansion plans of big local as well as multinational IT companies in India, but their enormous hiring plans are also making it harder for smaller Indian IT companies to retain employees, fueling a full-fledged war for talent. Although big local IT companies like Infosys Technologies and Tata Consultancy Services say that life is still the usual for them, smaller and mid-sized IT services companies claim that in their quest for talent, the IT biggies have started using the smaller home-grown tech firms as hunting grounds for new employees, which is impacting the future stability of many. “The hiring plans of companies like IBM and even the.
Terrorist Attacks in India; New York City on Alert; Changes in Status…
Free with registration – America's Intelligence Wire – AccessMyLibrary.com – Jul 11, 2006
So far close to 150 people have been confirmed dead and somewhere between 250 and 400 injured. BLITZER: This seemed to be a sophisticated attack Alex. Has anyone claimed responsibility, yet? PERRY: Nobody said they carried it out but all fingers point at a sort of loose Jihadi alliance between Pakistan based militant groups, particularly one called the Lascoratoyba (ph) that sits in Kashmir and also has carried out a number of bombings for many years across India, and home-grown Muslim radicals in India. India has the world’s second largest Muslim population of 150 million and there is a group in particular called Simi (ph) which is a radical student group that have worked in collusion with the LET for a number of years. In fact, Bombay once before, in 2003, had nine bombing in all in which they killed nearly 60 people. BLITZER: But Alex it seems like the motus operandi in this particular series of attacks, very similar to what happened in London last year, the simultaneity of the attacks and in Madrid the year before. Is there a sense in India right now that these could be al Qaeda copycats or sympathizers? PERRY: Well, India for years has been saying look, we are victims of this same terror, too, and the international community has largely discounted that, and has seen it more as a local conflict between India and Pakistan.
‘Standard’ channels not upto scratch.
Free with registration – Europe Intelligence Wire – AccessMyLibrary.com – Jul 11, 2006
‘Standard’ channels not upto scratch. | Europe Intelligence Wire (July, 2006).
Three Olympics, the Hard Way
Washington Post – Jul 11, 2006
She grew accustomed to kindhearted people who believed in her, and generosity that awed her. And there was this, too: When she succeeded, particularly over the last seven years, she earned decent money. She could bring home a $5,000 check from any given race, enough to pay off her credit cards, stash cash in the bank and keep her sanity. Winners in modern pentathlon take home a few hundred dollars at most. Because of her age, expectations and the solitude of this journey, which began in January 2005, the last 19 months have been more difficult, she said, than training for the 1996 Atlanta Olympics — where she won a gold medal swimming the third leg of the 800-meter relay as a Georgia graduate with a full-time job and seemingly faint hopes of making the team. They have been harder than switching to triathlon a year before the 2000 Sydney Olympics, where she finished sixth, after competing in her first triathlon on a lark. Harder, she says, than surviving a year in which she was stalked by a man — now serving a five-year prison term for the crime — who threatened her and left her obscene messages leading up to the 2004 Athens Games, where she finished 23rd after suffering leg cramps… Not one, she said, was willing to take her on as a client, and one told her flatly over the phone she was “not marketable” and “I couldn’t get you a penny. ” Devastated by the full-throttle rejection, she also was becoming desperate for income streams. Before moving to Colorado Springs, her monthly bill for coaching alone had grown to $1,500. Unlike when she was training only for one sport, working full-time was no longer feasible — at least, not if she hoped to put herself in Olympic contention in 2008. Speedo, which had sponsored her since her swimming days, orally agreed to another contract, but a deal she hoped would be quickly executed stalled for months. Deals with Amino Vital, a maker of dietary supplements, and Rudy Project sunglasses helped defray costs, but she needed more. To put her mind at ease, Taormina put her house up for sale and moved to Colorado Springs, where she was welcomed at the training center, which provides qualified athletes with room, board and access to state-of-the-art facilities.