BBC Earth will take visitors behind the scenes of a natural history film shoot LAS VEGAS-BBC Earth, in collaboration with Global Experience Specialists, Inc. (GES), today announced they intend to create a new museum exhibition, BBC Earth Explorers. The exhibit will feature select content from BBC productions, which include the landmark series Blue Planet, Planet Earth and Life. “BBC Earth [...]
Did you know that President Obama’s new budget will spend an additional $27.2 billion for the benifit of HIV/AIDS patients in 2011? The CDC estimates14,110 AIDS deaths in 2007 in the USA. However, when each state was polled, the total was “only” 9,995. In either case, the grim reaper allocation is over $225,000 per death. Cardiovascular Disease kills 864,000 every [...]
PORT CANAVERAL, FL— December 20, 2010 – The Canaveral Port Authority today closed on a $42 million loan from PNC Financial Services Group to accelerate the development of a new cruise terminal and cargo facilities. The 3.14 percent interest rate loan has a term of 13 years and with the Port’s existing debt, will enable Port Canaveral to be debt [...]
Polar bears no longer on “thin ice”: researchers say polar bears could face brighter future PORTLAND, Ore. December 21, 2010. “When I first picked up the cub, she was biting my hand,” explains wildlife biologist Bruce Marcot. He was trying to calm the squirming cub while its sedated mother slept nearby. In the snowy spring of 2009, Portland-based Marcot traveled [...]
By: Neil Salerno – Hotel Marketing Coach December 2010 Electronic channels have changed hotel sales and marketing forever. Internet website marketing, social media, the Global Distribution System, and third-party aggregators have all presented new marketing opportunities to hotels around the world. In effect, the Internet has created the first affordable global marketplace for large and small hotels everywhere. For a [...]
I don’t know but the headline in the siline.com (Staten Island, New York) article reads as follows: Baby Jesus ousted from St. George Ferry Terminal STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — The Christ is out of Christmas at the St. George Ferry Terminal. In what Catholics see as political correctness run amok, the city Department of Transportation (DOT) has removed a Nativity [...]
God bless America and the U.S. Constitution! For with out it capitalism would have been wiped out before it was even born!! It is competition and that which it demands that spurs innovation, productivity and most important investment in ones self that makes most great and but a few failures. Kensei 12-10-2010
By Sean Whaley Nevada News Bureau CARSON CITY – The Nevada State Medical Association believes consumers should have access to clear and understandable information about the cost and coverage provided under health care insurance policies before they sign on the dotted line. Executive Director Larry Matheis said the association will pursue legislation next year to require companies offering health insurance [...]
NEW YORK -(Dow Jones)- Facebook Inc. founder and Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg addressed concerns about privacy during an interview airing on CBS’s “60 Minutes” program Sunday and said he made the right decision by not selling the company for $1 billion. Zuckerberg also revealed more details about a redesign of Facebook’s user-profile page–a change that was announced earlier Sunday in
President Obama on Sunday night paid tribute to Beatles singer Paul McCartney, talk-show icon Oprah Winfrey and acclaimed country music icon Merle Haggard, among others, as the newest honorees by the Kennedy Center. Speaking at a Kennedy Center Honors reception at the White House, Obama saluted McCartney, Winfrey and Haggard, along with three others, for their contributions to American arts. [...]