[lit-ideas] Re: All the News that's Fit to Report (was "a distant jargoning" possibly)
- From: David Ritchie <ritchierd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2011 09:54:30 -0700
1349 FOOTBALL: Fulham have entered the race to sign Freiburg's Senegal striker
Papiss Demba Cisse, BBC Sport understands.
The following people died: Karl "Kip" Pinkley, Naoma Whistler Lee, Helen Elaine
Mariman, Dean Pollard. Dean was the son of Russ and LaDonna Pollard and
sibling of Steve, Dale and Debbie. Dean is survived by his wife Deena, (nee
Falkenstein).
Weather: A ridge of high pressure is now sending all rain to Canada. Oregon
has finally reached temperature parity with much of the rest of the country.
Foreign: Rebels in Libya, having broken out from Brega, and reached Ras Lanuf,
now want to establish a "toehold in Zintan."
Technology: Google is promising "Street View images" of the Amazon rain forest.
File under "one example equals a trend": Many Oregon startup companies have
left the state. One, called "BankSimple," has decided to stay. Headline,
"Oregon Startups Starting to Stay Put."
File under "outcomes assessment": seventeen Oregon state legislators are going
on a two-week trade mission to Fujian province in China. Representative Dennis
Richardson, R-Central Point, says that because this group of people are going
to link up with a second, separate delegation which will be led by the
governor, the two groups should "make an impact" on "the Chinese authorities."
David Ritchie,
Portland, Oregon
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