| Demand for pictures turns amateurs into paparazzi / Many chase celebrities, ignore rules
On a slim-pickings afternoon at the Ivy on Robertson Boulevard last week, a small cluster of paparazzi gathered in front of the restaurant to photograph Phoebe Price. As the little-known actress posed on the sidewalk as if it were the red carpet, the group behind the cameras made for a more interesting picture - it included several photographers from photo agencies, a moonlighting Spanish-speaking cook and a tourist from Northern California who stood front and center snapping away with a one-use camera from Walgreens. Not long after Price had left, another shift of agency photographers and amateurs were trolling the street, including a couple of teenage boys and Claudia Leverett, 32, a college student. She had recently turned occasional paparazzo after a chance encounter last July with Dustin Hoffman, who was leaving the Ivy as Kimberly Stewart entered.
John O'Connell on home testing kits
Hepatitis, diabetes, cholesterol, chlamydia ... Go into any chemist today and there are shelves laden with home-testing kits. But are they a useful first-line tool for the well-worried, or a dangerous waste of time and money? Self-confessed hypochondriac John O'Connell puts his finger on the line
Sunday November 25, 2007
The Observer
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eMazzanti Technologies Selected By Microsoft as a Windows Server 2008 Rapid Deployment Partner
The Microsoft Windows Server Rapid Deployment Program (RDP) assists customers that are committed to deploying the new Windows Server operating system ahead of the rest of the business community and in synch with the official product launch. Microsoft provides these selected customers with deployment assistance through selected partners, such as eMazzanti Technologies, which include services, training, and ongoing technical support for a specific time period. There will be approximately 50 Partners and just 100 Companies nationwide participating in this program. In this program eMazzanti Technologies will receive assistance in building a migration plan for its customers' servers, testing applications, and early access to code. More importantly, this program places eMazzanti at the forefront of new technologies like virtualization and network access Protection.
Tax cuts - but anger over broken pledges
JOHN Swinney used the SNP's first budget yesterday to make a determined pitch for middle Scotland - unveiling populist, tax-cutting measures designed to win over householders and small businesses. In a budget that effectively buried the image of the SNP as a left-wing, tax-and-spend party, the finance secretary rewarded council-tax payers and private firms. .
Real Estate Roundup: Weston donates Stevens building
Joseph E. Weston has donated the Stevens Building to a charitable organization established through the Oregon Community Foundation. It is the second time Weston, a Portland real estate investor and philanthropist, has donated commercial property to the OCF Joseph E. Weston Public Foundation in the past six months. He previously donated the Commonwealth Building to the foundation, which then sold it to Unico Properties LLC. The Commonwealth transaction raised millions to support causes championed by the foundation. Weston has previously conveyed 94 properties to the foundation. The foundation said it has no immediate plans to sell the Stevens Building and will use income produced through rents to support its charitable activities. The 12-story Stevens Building, 812 S.W.
Uganda: Where to Put Your Money
Many readers have often times asked me to write about business and investment opportunities in Uganda. There are two reasons why I have often found this question curious. First is that to a great extent success in most businesses and investments depends on information - the person who gets and reacts to information early has a higher chance of winning. Information that is shared in a newspaper is public and attracts more people to any business or investment opportunity. .
Couple who lost home in floods, anxious for answers
RUSHFORD As Karen Wilkemeyer reflects on all that her family lost in the August floods, it's the simple things she misses most. The star that always topped the family's Christmas tree. The handmade ornament she made as a first-grader. And then there are the baby pictures taken of her four children at the hospital. "Their first pictures ever, and they're gone," she says. She doesn't mention the family's obvious losses -- their two-story house and day-care business. Although it's been more than three months since floodwaters ravaged her hometown, Wilkemeyer still is struggling to process what happened. "I don't think it's really hit me," she says. "I cry when I think about it. But I still feel like I'm in this foggy daze and not really understanding." In one night, everything Tim and Karen Wilkemeyer had worked for was gone.
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