Nokia Lumia 800 Review

There’s a whole lot riding on the Lumia 800. Nokia’s first Windows Phone and the handset that will usher in – so the company hopes – a new era of smartphone relevance and a turnaround in fortunes. Question is, will the Lumia 800 be Finnish enough for long-time followers as well as mainstream enough for [...]

Dying Sunday Herald revived to fight elections

The dying Sunday Herald newspaper appears to have been dragged out of the Intensive Care Unit to provide firepower for the Opposition People’s National Party (PNP) ahead of impending elections. After many weeks off the streets, the paper reappeared Sunday in a new slimmed-down tabloid format that seemed to acknowledge that it could not continue [...]

Hockey Set For Thanksgiving Road Trip

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Nov. 22, 2011 Army Hockey Game Notes WEST POINT, N.Y. – The Army hockey team will spend the Thanksgiving holiday in Moon Township, Pa., traveling to Robert Morris for a two-game series. Games on Friday and Saturday are scheduled for 7:05 p.m. at the Island Sports Center. The Black Knights will play at Robert Morris [...]

Nokia Lumia 800 Review (Video): Editor’s Choice.

Tweet Share Email Once a dominant player in the phone industry, through a series of mis-steps Nokia had ceded the U.S. smartphone market to Apple, various phone-makers who are using the Google Android operating system, and Research in Motion, which itself is struggling to keep pace in the competitive market. Nokia didn’t want to play [...]

Pike River Inquiry Third Phase – live updates day one

The Department of Labour came under intense scrutiny today as the third phase of the Pike River Royal Commission of Inquiry began in Greymouth. Evidence from former health and safety inspector Michael Firmin highlighted flaws in the Department of Labour’s policing of the mine’s health and safety compliance, through mine inspectors The inquiry showed despite [...]

Heated Falcons-Saints rivalry resumes Sunday

Print E-mail By Chris Vivlamore The Atlanta Journal-Constitution FLOWERY BRANCH – Pardon Mike Smith if he doesn’t repeat the chant made famous by Saints fans. The Falcons coach had heard the ‘Who Dat’ chorus before, but he first really heard it as a rookie head coach in 2008 when Saints fans let him know just [...]

Holmdel Invites Citizens to Volunteer for Advisory Councils and Boards

On Tuesday, January 3, the Holmdel Township Committee will hold its annual reorganization meeting. At that time, the 5-member Township Committee will welcome Committeeman Greg Buontempo, who is taking the chair vacated by Committeeman Rocco Pascucci. The governing body will elect one member from within the group to serve as mayor.  Also at the meeting, [...]

After returning from battle, troops fight for work

Hank McCaffery’s pitch is impossible to miss. He’s standing behind the first table at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Job Fair, greeting veterans. “With our program, VA for Vets, we’re going to help veterans get within the VA program. We’re going to help them develop their resumes. We’re going to have career coaches,” said McCaffrey. [...]

Time Banking: An Idea Whose Time Has Come?

Ten years ago, Susan Dentzler of NPR was retained by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to investigate whether time banking (a system that lets people swap time and skill instead of money) was “a concept whose time was coming—or merely a fringe idea.” Her response: “[T]ime dollars could be to long-term care what windmills and [...]

Bad Resumes: One Reason Recruiting Is So Broken

If there’s one matter on which job seekers and people involved in hiring can agree, it’s that the recruiting process is broken. Hiring managers, internal and external recruiters, and HR personnel complain that they can’t find the talent they need, despite being besieged with an avalanche of resumes every time they post an open position. [...]

Singha expects plants to resume in four months

Singha Corporation expects all of its flood-hit factories will resume operations in three or four months. The severe flooding has forced the group to close two beverage plants in Nakhon Pathom and Pathum Thani provinces and three factories that supply glass and plastic bottles. “This flood is the worst I have ever seen in my [...]

Resume Overload? Is There A Solution?

Come Recommended By Ryan Mack Many recruiters these days are inundated with resumes coming in for every job they post. And job candidates feel that they should apply for anything they can in this economy — so it is important to take measures to make sure that you choose the right resumes out of the [...]

Model Mogul: Banks’s Next Chapter

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WireImage/Getty Images Tyra Banks, the supermodel turned actress turned talk-show host turned Harvard student has added ‘author’ to her resume. Above, Ms. Banks promoting her book last month. There aren’t many personalities as good at multitasking as Tyra Banks. Her show, “America’s Next Top Model,” recently started its 17th cycle on the CW and she’s [...]

Talks resume between sugar company, workers

By DAVE KOLPACK FARGO, N.D. American Crystal Sugar Co. and its locked-out union workers headed back to the negotiating table Monday, but refused to talk about the results. A federal mediation service in Minneapolis said talks between the company and the union representing about 1,300 workers would resume, but didn’t disclose the place and time. [...]

Papandreou Seeks to Form Unity Government to Avert Default

November 05, 2011, 11:04 AM EDT By Marcus Bensasson and Maria Petrakis (Updates with markets in seventh, eighth paragraphs; banks in tenth. See EXT4 GO for debt crisis news.) Nov. 5 (Bloomberg) — Prime Minister George Papandreou is seeking to form a government of national unity that will enable Greece to convince international leaders to [...]

Rise in unemployment means little

CLAYTON – Unemployment increased statewide and in Johnston County in August, but the N.C. Employment Security Commission says no single factor played a significant role in the change. ESC spokesman Larry Parker said Johnston County’s jobless rate increase from 9.2 to 9.7 percent likely reflected a small shift caused by people moving around in the [...]

State asks for more info from landfill

Rocks larger than three inches in diameter may not be removed by hand from the final covering of a to-be-corrected overfilled area in the NABORS landfill. A public meeting is set for 1 p.m. today in the Baxter County Courthouse to discuss plans to develop a new area within the troubled landfill in northern Baxter [...]

Jagan aide tells taxman to back off

Hyderabad:  A letter that arrived at the Income Tax Towers two days ago left the officials red faced. Written by the vice-president of Jagati Publications Private Limited (JPPL), Vijay Sai Reddy, the letter wants the Commissioner of Income Tax (II) Fakir Mohan Mohanty to ‘recuse’ himself from the ongoing assessments of Jagati Publications Private Limited [...]