| THE WEEK IN PICTURES
Malkoff has permission from Ikea to live in the store until Sunday, while his own New York City apartment is fumigated. Jan. 7: Family and friends arrive for a church service for Carlos Sousa Jr. at Five Wounds Portuguese National Church in San Jose, Calif. Sousa died Christmas Day after a 350-pound Siberian tiger broke out of the big-cat enclosure, also injuring Sousa's two friends. Jan. 7: Burkes, left, and Derrick Millirons look at the damage from an arson fire at the Woodland Baptist Church in Ladonia, Ala. Two men who authorities said dabbled in satanism have been arrested in connection with a recent rash of arson and vandalism at rural churches. Jan. 8: An Indian army soldier performs stunts as members display the traditional Indian martial art of �Malkhamb� during a Know Your Army exhibition in Rajkot, 141 miles west of Ahmadabad, India.
Former tech burnout finds future in granola
Laura Slama is not the granola type, or so she thought. After all, the Ahwatukee businesswoman is not a tie-dyed, sandal-wearing tree hugger. But since founding Laura's Gourmet Granola in 2004, she has embraced her reputation as "Granola Girl" and is branching out across America with it. Since Slama began working with a regional distributor this year and nabbed a contract with Central Market, an upscale grocer with eight Texas locations, her orders have multiplied. .
Spectacle and Flash 'Hats!' director says show balances substance ...
We don't just share it in our careers, but in our bodies and all of that stuff," Coulter says. "You have to embrace it and have a good time with it or it's going to be a drag." "It's just so refreshing, because in my life it's either lounge gigs or look-alike shows," says Corrie Sachs, who spent much of her Las Vegas career as a Reba McEntire impersonator. "To actually be in a play here in Las Vegas is a miracle. I'm thrilled to be able to do something different." The cast ranges in age from 49 to 71 and lives out the lesson taught to Maryanne, the show's protagonist, who is on the verge of 50 and not thrilled about the passage. "You can still do everything you do. It's not left up to the younger people to do it," Coulter says. "Of course, I'm not saying we're not sore.
Does size still matter?
Anyone can set up a blog in mere minutes and have their say online – in text, images and video. They can podcast and videocast. They can syndicate their thoughts and ideas in an RSS feed, making their comments visible to the entire world." Business objectivesSo measurement metrics must be determined by business objectives: Who do we want to reach? What media do they use? Where do they live? What do we want them to do? How important is competitive positioning? What do we want to compare at the end of the initiative? How will we find out if our editorial coverage made a difference? Did we get our key messages out to our target audience? Whatever method we use to measure media, we start by collecting clips. In South Africa the most-used clipping agencies are Newsclip and Monitoring SA. Both offer media statistical and content-driven media tracking across all media types, including print, broadcast and online.As PR practitioners we need to get more specific about what we want and need from clipping agencies.
Hip-Hop Rumors: Dave Chappelle Sonned? Bobby Brown & Th...
No matter who becomes President, this election year is sure to bring change in Washington. Both parties are presenting candidates who want to learn from the mistakes of the Bush years and regain America's standing throughout the world. Today, the Hip-Hop community represents an ever expanding range of backgrounds, ethnicities and experiences, so we have a responsibility to combine our vast resources to correct what may be the biggest tragedy of the last several years: the resurgence of the Vocoder. To be fair, the worst offenders actually use variations on the device like the Sonovox and Autotuner, but all of them are children of this mighty beast. Once an innocent vocal effect to help sing a song of love between a boy and his computer, the Vocoder family has since become a studio trick to cover up the fact that many of today's Pop singers can't actually sing (like, at all).
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