| Waukee rings in Chinese New Year
The Waukee High School gym was transformed Saturday as an estimated 1,500 people rang in the Chinese New Year with food, entertainment and art displays.
Confetti substituted for the fireworks traditionally used to celebrate in China.
"In China, people usually spend seven days on vacation with good food and family, so here it's just miniscule" by comparison, said Swallow Yan, executive director of the Chinese Association of Iowa. .
Justin Timberlake Smacks Into A Car; Missy, Busta Have 'A Ball': Super ...
More than 93 million people watched last year's Super Bowl, and with this year's contest only a few days away, will it be the game itself or the ads that get viewers talking the most? "People who aren't even sports fans watch the Super Bowl, just to watch the commercials," Derek Jeter, shortstop for the New York Yankees, said in a press video hyping the ads. With that in mind, 26 brands have gone all out this year to provide star-packed ads involving celebs like Jeter, Justin Timberlake, Madonna, Shakira, Missy Elliott, Busta Rhymes and LL Cool J. The stars are making appearances via their images and/or music, most of them for Pepsi. "PepsiCo is the second-biggest advertiser in the Super Bowl this year," after Anheuser-Busch, USA Today advertising reporter Theresa Howard said.
CIO Jury: Is there a boardroom IT credibility gap?
Mark Foulsham, head of IT at online insurance firm esure, said the credibility gap is closing. "However non-IT executives continue to become more IT literate without a reciprocal advancement of businesses acumen from IT professionals." Of those who disagreed with the assertion that CIOs are not as important as they think they are, Bill Gibbons, CIO at Abbey, said execution and IT leadership are at the heart of any good business. "IT leadership must also promote innovation and demonstrate capability in developing partnerships with external suppliers and the cost effective management of the IT supply chain. If all these things are both delivered and clearly demonstrated then both the IT leadership role and the value of IT will be recognised as both strategic and important," he said.
Why area fans love Brett Favre
Gary Wrobel of La Crosse admits he has a Packers shrine in his home. Even better, he has season tickets and he will be at Sunday's game. But he figures it will be hard to top last weekend's game."That was just like being in a snow globe. It was warm. I didn't even wear gloves. The excitement was about 10 times more than a regular game."Wrobel came by his season tickets honestly he waited."We put our names (on the list) in 1962. We were on the waiting list until 1990. They sent a letter to me," he said.Wrobel posed for a photo with Favre in 1992. He has an autographed Favre jersey and even met Favre's mom, Bonita, at a tailgate party in 1995.Though Wrobel will give away tickets to loved ones for preseason games, at this time of year he's the one sitting in the stadium at Lambeau Field."I'm 67 years old.
McCain: One of Us!
I don't understand why FEMA bought trailers in the first place that were dangerous,'' said Henry Alexander, 60, who has been living in a trailer since February 2006. 1) Hmm. Isn't the issue why anyone is building trailers in the first place that are dangerous? This doesn't seem like a FEMA scandal. It seems like a trailer-industry scandal. Most victims of poisonous trailers are probably a) not Katrina victims and b) actually paying good money for their carcinogenic trailers. 2) Is FEMA using the formaldehyde issue as a prod to move people out of the trailers--something it's apparently been trying to do for a while, perhaps to avoid creating a permanent class of free-trailer dwellers? In other words, maybe FEMA wants this scandal (and the press is obligingly giving it to them).
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New Latah Bistro Classes
Join Heather Black-DuPree, owner of Latah Bistro, for the Tastes of Tuscany cooking classes every Sunday from 12 to 3 p.m. The classes feature recipes from Siena, Italy where Black-Dupree recently took classes herself. "Heather's style incorporated a passion for food with stories, trivia and traditional cooking knowledge," the Duprees said in a news release. Future classes will include Latah Bistro Chef David Blaine and other chefs from the restaurant. The restaurant is closed so students use the kitchen and dining room for the private classes. When they arrive they'll meet other students, put on an apron and then start cooking. Recipes will be provided along with wine to sip and appetizers. At the end of the night, the group sits down to the three-course meal they made that night.
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