| Make your minivan a mobile multitasking marvel | | Posted Monday, January 29, 2007 3:05:41 PM by Blog57 Team | | Picture this in one Honda minivan: four baseball caps, two soccer balls, a hairbrush, a three-hole punch, vitamins, a headset, a PDA, a laptop, an atlas of the United States, a box of granola bars, three folding chairs, two backpacks filled with sports gear, eight water bottles, two magazines, enough paper to fill a small filing cabinet, about 50 CDs, dozens of books and writing implements, and -- depending on the day -- two sons, one husband and two 80-pound Labrador retrievers. .... | |
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| | | Infiniti G35 Sports Sedan and Cadillac Escalade Named "2007 Urban ... | | Posted Wednesday, January 17, 2007 1:14:32 PM by Blog57 Team | | The redesigned Cadillac Escalade earns top SUV honors, propelling it back to the top as the SUV to make a statement of style, comfort, performance and luxury. According to Automotive Rhythms' Editor-in-Chief Brian Armstead, "The Escalade represents the pinnacle of General Motors' excellent large SUV range. We could have easily awarded this year's prize to cousins Chevy Tahoe or GMC Yukon, but the Escalade represents all that the "urban elite" aspire to: An interior that soothes, comforts and protects, the ability to travel to golf courses and nightclubs in style, and a road presence that commands respect and conquers any weather." The Escalade, inspired by African-American Lead Designer Ed Welburn, features a 403-horsepower V8, available 22-inch wheels from the factory, XM Satellite Radio, OnStar telematics and seven layers of chrome plating on exterior trim.... | |
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| | | Charger's star also rising off the field | | Posted Tuesday, January 02, 2007 3:04:14 PM by Blog57 Team | | LaDainian Tomlinson's sensational season has catapulted the San Diego Chargers running back into the stratosphere of sports stardom, with a recent survey putting him among the ranks of professional basketball all-star Allen Iverson, college football coaching legend Joe Paterno and teen golfing wonder Michelle Wie. Tomlinson's surging fame on the field, where he set a pair of league records this year and led the Chargers to a division championship, is playing out off the field as well. .... | |
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| | | IU business grads establish fantasy sports for celebrities | | Posted Friday, December 01, 2006 1:07:42 PM by Blog57 Team | | IU graduate Lisa Conmy found she was spending as much time tracking celebrities as her husband was tracking his fantasy sports teams and decided to do something about it. She got fellow Kelley School of Business graduate Trina Henney on board and created a Web site for a celebrity fantasy league in which fantasy owners pick celebrities and compete in a league of their own. The site, girlsintheknowinc.com launched Sept. 1 and has already been successful, garnering 1,000 members. Each team owner becomes a talent agent with an 18-person agency comprised of three male and female movie stars, TV stars and singers. An entry fee of $20 gets players a 10-week session in a private agency with friends or a public one with randomly assigned groups. In the agency, players compete to put together a stable of the hottest celebrities to earn more points than all members of the network.... | |
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| | | We're all seeing red as the fashion industry embraces the AIDS epidemic in Africa | | Posted Sunday, November 12, 2006 11:09:28 PM by Blog57 Team | | There is nothing like a celebrity stepping forward as a do-gooder to bring out the skeptics. (Google: Madonna and Malawi.) After all, it can be difficult to separate a publicity stunt from a heartfelt desire to help alleviate suffering. The fashion industry and its stars are especially suspect. That's because theirs is a business that places so much emphasis on image. There is a tendency to believe all things are in service to the fantasy. The current most-favored cause of the fashion industry is the AIDS epidemic in Africa. It is the focus of both (Product) Red and the "I Am African" campaign. Neither has been spared from cynicism. Both may simply be guilty of pragmatism. (Product) Red was launched in the United States this fall. The project, headed by Bobby Shriver and U2 lead singer Bono, benefited from an Oprah Winfrey juggernaut.... | |
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| | | Poll: Ford Models Rank Above Toyota and Mercedes Hit Rock Bottom | | Posted Saturday, November 11, 2006 3:24:56 AM by Blog57 Team | | Consumer Reports' latest Annual Car Reliability Survey shows some domestic models have become as reliable as their Japanese competitors, and that as a group, family and small cars have the best predicted reliability. However Asian models continue to be the most reliable overall. Three of Ford Motor Company's newest models scored among the top players, with the Ford Fusion and Mercury Milan sedans scoring slightly better than the Honda Accord V6 and Toyota Camry V6. The Lincoln Zephyr also did well, scoring second in predicted reliability to the Lexus ES350, the leader in the upscale cars category. In addition, the Buick Lucerne and Cadillac DTS-both first-year models-scored above average in the large cars category, with the Lucerne scoring higher than the Toyota Avalon. However, the new Dodge Charger scored below average and the Dodge Magnum dropped to below average in predicted reliability.... | |
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| | | Women find creativity, comfort in knitting circle | | Posted Thursday, November 09, 2006 11:19:51 AM by Blog57 Team | | On the front of her sweater vest, Lanora Graves sports the cryptic phrase "k-1." "It's for 'knit one,' as in 'knit one, purl one,' " she explains. When she turns around, the letters on the back make the message that much clearer: "Knitters Rock." This ain't your momma's knitting circle, says Graves, 40. She's one of the founders of Knit In Public, a group that meets several times a month at local restaurants, bars and coffee shops. The women spread their gear over several tables at an east-side burrito shop, piling balls of yarn and partially completed projects next to their food and bottles of Dos Equis. About half of the knitters are Wichita natives; the others are recent arrivals. As she unpacks a pair of baby booties, stay-at-home mom Allison Gessner, 36, explains that when she moved from Austin, Texas, last year, she had trouble establishing a social circle.... | |
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| | | Google Jumps Offline In Newspaper Ad Test | | Posted Tuesday, November 07, 2006 7:04:29 PM by Blog57 Team | | The Web's No. 1 search service launched a test of new program on Monday that will let advertisers place bids for ads in the 60 biggest U.S. newspapers. The program, Google Print Ads, will give newspapers access to advertisers -- and advertisers access to a new source of customers, says the program's director, Tom Phillips. "This is a great opportunity for all involved," he said. "We think we can bring a new value to newspapers and we have an asset in our hundreds of thousands of advertisers." The service, which will be made available to Google's (NASDAQ:GOOG - News) top 100 advertisers, is another recent example of Google scrambling to expand in other areas of advertising, including radio and video ads. Partnering with newspapers is another piece of the ad mosaic, says Danny Sullivan, editor of SearchEngineWatch.com, an online industry newsletter.... | |
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| | | What I'm reading | Dave Shoji | | Posted Monday, November 06, 2006 3:13:27 AM by Blog57 Team | | What are you reading? I usually pick up a book at the airport before we go on the road, if it looks interesting or catches my eye. But I guess I can say that I've read every John Grisham novel, and I can't wait until the next one. Mainly though I read magazines. I read Sports Illustrated and a lot of golf magazines, also adventure and travel magazines, Men's Journal, National Geographic that type of publication. Is it the unpredictable part, the twist, in Grisham's novels that most grabs your interest? There are a lot of authors that you could read and try to outthink try to psyche the ending out and figure out who the bad guy is. Usually you can't do that with Grisham. I imagine that as a coach you often try to outthink your opponents.... | |
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| | | Dressing Up in the Latest Fashionable Cause? | | Posted Saturday, November 04, 2006 11:28:30 AM by Blog57 Team | | There is nothing like a celebrity stepping forward as a do-gooder to bring out the skeptics. (Google: Madonna and Malawi.) After all, it can be difficult to separate a publicity stunt from a heartfelt desire to help alleviate suffering. The fashion industry and its stars are especially suspect. That's because theirs is a business that places so much emphasis on image. There is a tendency to believe all things are in service to the fantasy. .... | |
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