| Digg sale to Microsoft or Google imminent: report
The website has been working with investment bank Allen & Co. on a sale for several months, but a deal is now imminent, according to the influential technology blog TechCrunch. Citing an unnamed source close to the deal, TechCrunch said there are four companies looking at Digg's books: two of them are large news and media companies, while Google and Microsoft are the other two. Digg is prepared to accept less than the $300 million US that Allen & Co. was seeking last year, with Google likely to bid up to $225 million, the report said. Microsoft would likely offer less than Google because part of Digg's revenue comes from an advertising deal the site signed with the software company last year. The two companies are expected to engage in a bidding war over the website, which ranks news stories according to how many votes they receive from visitors.
Local tennis: Naples Bay Resort hosting ASG Calcutta Pro-Am
The new Naples Bay Resort will be the site of the 2008 ASG Tennis Pro-Am Calcutta on March 6-9. Presented by Naples Bay Resort and Kraft Construction, this will be the eighth annual event. Organizer Carlos Perez says the fun will involve three days of community participation. Tennis professionals from around the world as well as top local professionals will be involved. Some of the familiar names are Jesse Witten, Johan Kriek, Diego Hipperdinger, Brenda Schultz, Henry Adjeiko, Alejandro Falla, Yaser Zattini, Nicolas Pereira, Blaine Willenborg, Pablo Arraya, Nicolas Boecker, Jitcham Zattini, Juan De Armas, Juan Carlos Bianchi and Naples' own JoAnne Russell. Top local pros committed are Ido Abougzir, Carlos Huerta, Itai Abougzir, Kevin Long, Tripper Carleton, Carlitos Perez, Warren Eber, Jorge Falla, Bog Badiu, Larry Turville, Sal Proccaci, Fernando Maynetto, Daga Sellers, Nestor Nunez, Alejandra Aguilar, Manuel Encalada, Seth Fogelman, Tyler Manring, Daniel Riess, Sarah Witten, Regner Azevedo, Fred Kangwa, Denny Rager, Alejandro Perez, Hernan Nunez, Troy Rush, Sean Spelberg, William Chela, Jose Costello, Bryan Twente, Humberto Costa, Scott Harrington, Amy Grossklag and Franco Mata.
What to do about gold stocks?
Gold stocks may have further to fall; updates on current stock selections. Below is an extract from a commentary originally posted at www.speculative-investor.com on 16th December 2007. What to do? In the 26th November Weekly Update, with the HUI at around 430, we wrote the following: "Our expectation is that the upward trends in gold and gold stocks will resume following the completion of a fairly normal correction, but at the same time we are constantly on the lookout for developments that could turn a normal correction into a large one. Unfortunately, prices tend to move so quickly in the markets these days that selling after evidence emerges that things have changed for the worse will often result in selling near a short-term bottom. This means that precautionary steps need to be taken when prices are relatively high.
Father-daughter cancer story sold in living rooms
It was her first book, and Kelly Corrigan knew no matter how engaging her writing, how intriguing the topic or how established her publisher, a book tour was out of the question. Old-style, multicity book tours draw crowds only to celebrity authors, she was told, and even then they don't sell many books because most attendees already have a copy. What's left - word of mouth? Precisely, says Corrigan, a Radnor native and the author of The Middle Place (Voice/Hyperion Books). Corrigan and her father were diagnosed with cancer at the same time - an unusual circumstance that highlighted the overlapping roles of parents and children. Corrigan knew she needed to distinguish her memoir from others out there about surviving cancer. So she extended her options by asking friends and acquaintances across the country to host book parties in their homes.
Could the Irish scupper the Lisbon Treaty?
While European politicians were most nervous about the prospect of a British referendum, an Irish “No" is not an impossibility. Of course, the Irish rejected the Nice treaty in 2001. The Irish government broadly blamed it on a lack of time spent campaigning and will not make the same mistake again. Although after the Nice “No" they were required to vote again, I am pretty sure that would be impossible in the current climate. So an Irish “No" would be a very serious business. It would surely kill off the treaty of Lisbon, as surely as the French and Dutch killed off the constitution. Which would leave the leaders of the EU is a very tricky position: would they really spend the next two years trying to tweak the text again so that it looked sufficiently different, to go through the whole process again? Rejection signs? Some are already suggesting the foundations for rejections are there.
Barack Obama - a John Kennedy for our times
It would probably not be in its interest to secure the election of Senator John McCain. Al-Qaeda may be unpredictable, but it would be a mistake for it to interfere in American politics, even if it had the capacity to do so. At the start of the primaries, when all eyes were on Iowa and New Hampshire, Senator Clinton was the frontrunner for the Democratic Party nomination. She had the organisation, she had the money, she had the name recognition, she had the professionalism; she even had Bill Clinton, even if he is something of an unguided missile. But those days are now long ago. Senator Clinton has fallen behind Senator Obama in almost all of these factors, except for Bill Clinton's support. Senator Obama has captured the public's imagination, and gone ahead in the polls, but he also has more money, a better organisation and valuable endorsements from all sectors of the Democratic spectrum.
Missionary food stories: Called — and served
Large corn or hominy, potatoes, carrots and a bit of grass (cut up like chives) is added. It is served as a soup, eaten with freshly baked bread and, of course, salsa. As a missionary I had a new "greenie" from South Jordan. We woke up that morning and went to our appointment, where patasca was being served. I gave him a taste from my bowl to see if he liked it. He said yes, so we asked for a bowl for him. After we left I asked him if he knew what he had just eaten. I told him what it was and that he shouldn't have any problem eating anything in the mission after that. Tyler Allan Bolivia Cochabamba Mission · · · · · There is a steep learning curve to understanding Mandarin Chinese. While serving my mission in Taipei, Taiwan, during my third month, my senior companion and I were visiting a man who shared a bowl of snacks with us.
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