Pre-Christmas Economic News Lacks Cheer

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Pre-Christmas Economic News Not So
Cheery

Pre-Christmas Economic News Not So
Cheery 12/24/2003 01:23 PM
Reuters via Wired News Dec 24 2003 12:32PM ET

Glimmer of Christmas Cheer in Encircled
Bethlehem

Glimmer of Christmas Cheer in Encircled
Bethlehem 12/24/2003 04:55 PM
Reuters via Wired News Dec 24 2003 3:43PM ET

Merry Christmas virus spoils online
cheer

Merry Christmas virus spoils online
cheer 12/26/2004 07:28 AM
Khaleejtimes.com - Sun Dec 26, 04:22 am GMT

looks at recent domestic economic news

looks at recent domestic economic news 10/31/2003 04:04 PM
Are gray skies clearing up? .. Daniel Drezner

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Stocks Are Lower on Economic Report News
(AP)

Stocks Are Lower on Economic Report News
(AP) 06/16/2004 10:14 AM
AP - Stocks wobbled lower Wednesday as investors considered a pair of economic reports that suggested continued strength in the recovery.

Stocks Mixed on Dearth of Economic News
(AP)

Stocks Mixed on Dearth of Economic News
(AP) 06/21/2004 09:07 AM
AP - Stocks were mixed in early trading Monday amid a dearth of economic or earnings news to guide the market.

ABC 7 News - Cheney: Economic Stats Miss
EBay Sales

ABC 7 News - Cheney: Economic Stats Miss
EBay Sales 09/10/2004 10:18 PM
From Big Time:

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Asian Stocks Open Higher on Good
Economic, Business News (Dow Jones)

Asian Stocks Open Higher on Good
Economic, Business News (Dow Jones) 02/18/2004 01:04 AM
Dow Jones - Asian-Pacific shares continued their winning ways early Wednesday, advancing in step with U.S. equities on upbeat regional economic news and Cingular Wireless's $41 billion agreement to buy AT&T Wireless Services.

Misc. weekend news (Christmas Edition)

Misc. weekend news (Christmas Edition) 12/25/2004 11:40 PM
TechSpot Dec 26 2004 1:49AM GMT

Site News: PHPDeveloper.org Christmas
Fund

Site News: PHPDeveloper.org Christmas
Fund 12/03/2002 09:44 AM

Paper Prints Only Good News in Christmas
Issue (Reuters)

Paper Prints Only Good News in Christmas
Issue (Reuters) 12/24/2004 01:13 PM
Reuters - Dropping its daily diet of stories on crime, corruption and evil wrongdoing, Germany's top-selling Bild newspaper printed only good news in its Christmas issue Friday.

NY1 News: Yahoo! Sets Up Christmas Tree
With Internet Receiver

NY1 News: Yahoo! Sets Up Christmas Tree
With Internet Receiver 12/02/2003 01:53 AM

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Stocks mixed on economic news, J&J
deal Alaska's North Slope proposes
pipeline United pilots endorse

Stocks mixed on economic news, J&J
deal Alaska's North Slope proposes
pipeline United pilots endorse 12/22/2004 01:30 AM
Seattletimes.nwsource.com - Fri Dec 17, 11:26 am GMT

BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Music | Gary
Jules tops Christmas charts

BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Music | Gary
Jules tops Christmas charts 12/22/2003 05:31 AM
something which is actually quite good from a year old film .. Mad World is the UK's Christmas Number One .. BBC: Gary Jules tops Christmas charts .. been beaten

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Foreign Exchange Trader, Andrew Spanton,
Joins Economic Contrarian, Mike Norman,
on The Economic Contrarian on
VoiceAmerica Business Internet Talk
Radio

Foreign Exchange Trader, Andrew Spanton,
Joins Economic Contrarian, Mike Norman,
on The Economic Contrarian on
VoiceAmerica Business Internet Talk
Radio 02/01/2005 09:57 PM
Discusses the extensive growth of the Forex Trading Market. [PRWEB Jan 26, 2005]

Energy Merchant Corporation Chief
Economist, Ed Silliere, Joins Economic
Contrarian, Mike Norman, on The Economic
Contrarian on VoiceAmerica Business
Internet Talk Radio

Energy Merchant Corporation Chief
Economist, Ed Silliere, Joins Economic
Contrarian, Mike Norman, on The Economic
Contrarian on VoiceAmerica Business
Internet Talk Radio 12/29/2004 03:34 AM
Discusses oil and gas prices on wintertime energy consumption habits. [PRWEB Dec 29, 2004]

passing up an opportunity to go home for
Christmas, so that his colleague could
spend Christmas with his wife and child

passing up an opportunity to go home for
Christmas, so that his colleague could
spend Christmas with his wife and child 12/21/2003 08:35 AM
offers to stay there .. Home News Tribune .. feel good story

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"One Cheer for Kerry "

"One Cheer for Kerry " 04/17/2004 08:48 AM

Little Cheer for SCO Shareholders

Little Cheer for SCO Shareholders 06/11/2004 02:02 AM
Business Week Jun 11 2004 6:05AM GMT

Quaker football cheer

Quaker football cheer 06/02/2004 02:38 AM
This short-short story about a Quaker football game has the second-greatest religious football cheer in literature (the best is Philip Roth's "Ikey Mikey Shem and Ham, We're the boys who eat no ham, Go Yid!"):

Fight, fight, inner light, Kill, quakers, kill!
Knock 'em down, beat 'em senseless,
Do it till we reach consensus!

Link (Thanks, Danny!)

Tax Museum Tries to Cheer Up Israelis
(AP)

Tax Museum Tries to Cheer Up Israelis
(AP) 01/16/2004 01:05 PM
AP - At the Museum of Taxes, anecdotes about tithing in the Holy Land are meant to amuse Israelis buckling under some of the highest taxes in the world.

Bronx cheer for Cheney

Bronx cheer for Cheney 06/30/2004 09:50 AM

Holiday Cheer In The Cave

Holiday Cheer In The Cave 12/22/2003 05:21 PM
Stephen Hayford sent along this holiday cheer from his cave in Florida.

Sci-fi samurai lacks style

Sci-fi samurai lacks style 05/04/2004 07:51 AM
The slashfest Seven Samurai 20XX is a pale reflection of the classic film is it based on.

Microsoft lacks .Net for bCentral

Microsoft lacks .Net for bCentral 03/14/2003 03:58 AM

Your manager lacks vision

Your manager lacks vision 08/20/2002 10:53 PM
CNET Aug 20 2002 10:13PM ET

G5 Lacks The G-Whizz Factor

G5 Lacks The G-Whizz Factor 09/05/2004 06:13 PM
If it's an attractive home computer you're after, one that youc an be proud to have on display, snap up the remaining swivel-arm machines. By Adrian Weckler, Sunday Business Post (via MyAppleMenu)

Data jail lacks key

Data jail lacks key 05/24/2004 08:12 PM
ZDNet May 24 2004 11:40PM GMT

The angels cheer: "They killed Kenny!"

The angels cheer: "They killed Kenny!" 03/31/2005 05:36 PM
Only "South Park" could make fun of the Sony PSP and the Schiavo case in one flabbergasting episode. All hail bad taste!

Conservatives Cheer as Abercrombie Falls

Conservatives Cheer as Abercrombie Falls 12/12/2003 07:59 AM
Lloyd Grove's Lowdown .. New York Daily News .. long-term planning

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Tsunami Survivors Cheer U.S. Choppers

Tsunami Survivors Cheer U.S. Choppers 01/02/2005 06:33 AM
Reuters via Wired News Jan 2 2005 9:33AM GMT

happiness and cheer, families draw near

happiness and cheer, families draw near 12/19/2004 03:48 PM

According to The Man, I need to walk for about a week before I can start running again, so I've been dragging my lazy ass out of the house for the last few days, and reminding my muscles what it feels like to do more than move from the office to the living room and back. This hasn't been as difficult as I thought it would be, because I'm super motivated to get back into shape, and the weather in Los Angeles has been just amazing. Right now, it's 71 in my backyard, and it has been near 80 for almost a week. I have also taken the boredom out of walking by listening to America: The Audio Book by Jon Stewart and the writers from The Daily Show. It's awesome, and I highly reccommend it.

This morning, I added two miles to my walk, which took me past Nolan and Ryan's elementary school. The streets around the school were lined with cars, and I paused my iPod long enough to hear a chorous of children singing holiday tunes as I passed the auditorium. It reminded me of a blog entry I wrote a few years ago, which didn't make it into Just A Geek. The original is in the archives, but rather than cut-n-paste, I did a little . . . uh . . . cleaning up, because, well . . . uh . . . wow.

Hope new readers like it, and hope returning readers don't mind the reprint.

I am Jack's Holiday Program
Originally published on December 20, 2001, edited on December 15, 2004

I just got back from watching Nolan's holiday program at his school.

Nolan is in 5th grade this year, so it's the last elementary school holiday program I'll probably ever see, and when I realized that this morning, I felt immense regret for all the years I attended because I felt obligated to be there, rather than truly looking forward to the show.

For years, Anne and I would arrive at the school moments before the show began, and we'd end up standing in the back, with all of the other parents who overslept, or took too long for breakfast, or had to grab a quickie once the kids were at school. But this year, Anne got there nice and early, and grabbed us two seats with a great view of the stage.

Unfortunately, our great view was tainted a little bit by the horrible people who surrounded us. To my immediate right, I present the old woman who kept farting loudly throughout the entire show. I will not deny that there was more than a little amusement value in listening to them reverberate off the metal cafeteria chairs, but they weren't just the loud "hey, pull my finger" farts. They were the really horrible, lingering, "holy shit, man! Was that you?" ones. Behind us to the right, please enjoy the two little kids who did not stop talking the entire time, except when their mother told them that a good way to stay occupied would be to stand on the floor and bang on their chairs in time to the music. And finally, say hello to the kid immediately behind me, who had one of those little kid colds, and coughed and sneezed throughout the whole performance. I especially loved it when he sneezed all over the back of my neck.

Once the show got started, though, all the annoyances that surrounded us insignificantly faded into the background, as we focused our attention on the stage. All of the classes were great, and the kids were just adorable. The theme this year was Peace and Diversity, which is very funny, considering that I live in the most reactionary, demagogic Republican area in the freakin' world. (All of my neighbors had those offensive "Protect Marriage" signs last year, when the homophobes were trying to make it certain that marriage should only be between men and women. Because those marriages always succeed. And we have to keep the gays from soiling that sacred, unspoiled institution, right?) Sorry. mini-rant. I'm back now.

Nolan's class performed the Christmas carol "O, Tannenbaum," which meant that I spent the last five weeks helping Nolan learn three verses in German, so I could sing along. It was easy to pick out the other 5th grade parents, because they were singing too. Nolan was so adorable in his red sweater and Santa Claus hat, and he held his head high as he belted out, "O Tannenbaum, o Tannenbaum, wie treu sind deine Blätter!" He did all the same things on the stage that he did when we were learning the song: when he sang "Du grünst nicht nur zur Sommerzeit" he clenched his hands into tiny fists and looked at the ceiling. When he sang "Nein auch im Winter, wenn es schneit" he punctuated the three syllables in wenn es schneit with little punches in front of his chest.

I am certain that I, like all the other parents, was able to pick out and isolate my child's voice from the chorus, and I am equally certain, as were the other parents, that my child had the sweetest voice, and turned in the most adorable and memorable performance that has ever graced the cafetorium's stage. Or any cafetorium's stage, for that matter.

My absolute favorite moment was watching Nolan's subdued Joe Cocker as he sang,of course . . . but coming in a close second was when these kids read poems about winter. There were 4 kids up on the stage, all in their holiday finest, who each read a different winter-related poem. The first kid read "The Snowman" by Shel Silverstein, and I'm embarrassed to report that I can't recall what the middle two kids did. But the last kid, who looked an awful lot like Dewey from "Malcolm in the Middle", who wore a checkered shirt and non-matching clip-on tie (it was so damn cute, I couldn't stand it) recited, from memory, a poem by elementary school staple Jack Prelutsky, which was quite an impressive achievement, especially for a third grader. This kid did a great job, and when he was done, he proudly scanned the audience, clearly looking for his parents. When he found them, shrugged his shoulders as if to say, "Well, that's about as good as it gets", and picked his nose and ate it.

Nolan starts Middle School next year, and I realized this morning how much I'm going to miss not just these performances, but all the things that are part of elementary school: the macaroni art work, the turkey on Thanksgiving that's made from a little handprint on brown paper, the mobiles at Christmas that are made from sixteen inches of yarn, green construction paper cutouts that look like trees if you squint, and fifty pounds of glue.

I know that they'll both be in high school before I know it, and then they'll be off to college . . . but wherever my stepkids are, I'll always have these memories to keep me company each holiday season.

Happy Holidays, everyone. I hope you get to spend some time this season with people you love.

Cheer on Henman with your mobile
(Reuters)

Cheer on Henman with your mobile
(Reuters) 02/01/2005 09:23 PM
Reuters - Tennis fans could send messages to players via screens on court if plans by mobile phone maker Sony Ericsson come to fruition.

U.S. Lacks Records for Iraq Spending
(AP)

U.S. Lacks Records for Iraq Spending
(AP) 07/29/2004 05:12 PM
AP - U.S. civilian authorities in Baghdad failed to keep good track of nearly $1 billion in Iraqi money spent for reconstruction projects and can't produce records to show whether they got some services and products they paid for, anew audit concludes.

Desktop video lacks pioneers

Desktop video lacks pioneers 11/13/2003 04:16 AM
vnunet.com Nov 13 2003 3:23AM ET

Sci-fi samurai game lacks style

Sci-fi samurai game lacks style 04/30/2004 04:57 AM
BBC Apr 30 2004 8:58AM GMT

Linux lacks testing methodologies

Linux lacks testing methodologies 04/29/2004 03:01 PM
How can potential buyers judge the differences in performance among applications running on various Linux distributions? Linux kernel stability and reliability testing is quite sophisticated, thanks mainly to efforts such as the Linux Test Project, but measuring application performance on Linux is more difficult. The Open Source Development Labs is calling for application vendors to put their products to the test for scalability, security and clustering. In keeping with the open source approach, the lab is also calling on vendors to share their testing and results.

Macromedia Lacks Common Sense

Macromedia Lacks Common Sense 03/13/2003 10:21 AM
The new design of Macromedia's Web site has more fundamental problems than its incompatibility with Apple Computer's Safari browser. (CNET News.com via MyAppleMenu)

Your manager lacks vision--so what's the
problem?

Your manager lacks vision--so what's the
problem? 08/23/2002 11:12 PM
CNET Aug 23 2002 10:07PM ET
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