| The Bourne Ultimatum Voted 2007 Film Of The Year
Oscar-winning sequel The Bourne Ultimatum has been voted film of the year in a British nationwide poll. The Matt Damon follow-up beat out competition from movies including Best Picture Academy Award winner No Country For Old Men to win the People's Choice section of the Richard Attenborough Film Awards. Several thousand people selected their film of 2007 from a shortlist of 30 movies and then submitted their votes via 25 regional British media outlets. .
Kristin Day column: 'Day Trippin'
At the start of my sophomore year at ECU, I announced to my family I was dropping my standing as a pre-law student and studying journalism. It's a big jump from the law to the press, but that's not what seemed to bother my mother. She couldn't understand why I chose newspapers over television. .
GStreamer plugin release brings better cross-platform support
A new version of the GStreamer plugin modules was released yesterday after eight months of intensive development. One of the most significant features in this release is support for using native Quicktime and DirectShow codecs on Mac OS X and Windows, a feature that will make GStreamer an ideal framework for developing cross-platform multimedia applications. GStreamer is an open source multimedia framework that facilitates playback and editing of audio and video content. The GStreamer framework is used in a wide variety of popular applications such as Second Life, the Banshee audio player, the Jokosher non-linear audio editor, and the Pitvi video editor. GStreamer provides a versatile pipeline system that allows applications to string together multimedia operations and also has an advanced plugin system that makes it easy to extend.
CinemaElectric to Present at Merriman Curhan Ford & Co.'s Annual IP ...
SHERMAN OAKS, Calif. --(Business Wire)-- CinemaElectric (Pink Sheets:CINM), a world leader in "made for mobile" programming , today announced that Adam Levin, Chief Executive Officer, will present at the 2nd Annual Merriman Curhan Ford & Co. IP Video Conference today at 10:30am This event will be held at the St. Regis Hotel in San Francisco, 125 Third Street.
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Show me the money and the perks
Not surprisingly, that shortage is pushing up wages. The latest EMA National Salary and Wage Survey showed that it wasn't just the bosses who got the big pay rises over the year to August. Although managing directors of companies with 50 to 199 staff did very well for themselves with average pay rises of 9.5% for the year, they were eclipsed by shop assistants, who achieved average pay rises of 9.9%. Other jobs which provided pay rises well above the average 4.5%, were registered electricians (9.2%), registered nurses (9.1%), diesel mechanics (8.4%) and general clerks (6.3%). However, that may be just the tip of the iceberg. A survey of pay and conditions by remuneration consultants DSD Consulting showed that companies were having to do much more than just increase pay to attract and retain staff.
US elections 2004
For supporters of John Kerry, who have seen allegations about the Democratic candidate's military record sap his campaign, it must have seemed like a case of just deserts.
The president, George Bush, was last week looking vulnerable on the same grounds after CBS's flagship current affairs show, 60 Minutes, broadcast a report claiming he had been suspended from pilot duties for failing to meet the required standards. It was also claimed that a commanding officer had been put under pressure to "sugar coat" Mr Bush's performance reviews.
But while CBS stands by its story, allegations have now surfaced that 60 Minutes based a large part of the report on forged documents.
Although what one man - even a presidential candidate - did more than 30 years ago can seem rather trivial, the US election is being fought between a self-declared "war president" and a man who, in stump speeches, claims he would defend his country as president in the way he had defended it as a young man.
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