AP - LaMarcus Aldridge scored 26 points, Brandon Roy had 25 points and 11 assists, and the Portland Trail Blazers beat the Utah Jazz 125-104 on Tuesday night.
Archive for March, 2009
Blazers rout Jazz 125-104 in key Northwest matchup (AP)
Tuesday, March 31st, 2009Obama’s thinking on GM and Chrysler unchanged: official (Reuters)
Tuesday, March 31st, 2009
Reuters - President Barack Obama's thinking on the crisis facing General Motors Corp has not changed since Monday, a senior administration official told Reuters on Tuesday.
G20 leaders in London for pre-summit talks (AFP)
Tuesday, March 31st, 2009
AFP - World leaders including US President Barack Obama are set to gather in London on Wednesday for final talks on the eve of a G20 summit dogged by divisions on how to tackle the economic crisis.
Richard Chamberlain celebrates his 75th on stage (AP)
Tuesday, March 31st, 2009
AP - More than 3,000 theatergoers have helped actor Richard Chamberlain ring in his 75th birthday.
IMF sees world economy shrinking up to 1 percent in 2009 (Reuters)
Tuesday, March 31st, 2009
Reuters - The International Monetary Fund sees the world economy contracting by between 0.5 and 1 percent in 2009, Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn said in an interview published on Wednesday.
Suspected U.S. drone fires missile in Pakistan, 12 dead (Reuters)
Tuesday, March 31st, 2009
Reuters - A pilotless U.S. drone aircraft fired a missile in northwest Pakistan on Wednesday, killing 12 people, a security official and residents said.
NKorea threatens to down US spy planes (AFP)
Tuesday, March 31st, 2009
AFP - North Korea threatened Wednesday to shoot down any US spy planes violating its airspace to monitor an imminent rocket launch, as a think-tank cautioned that any international over-reaction to the event could spark a war.
“Hair” flows in dynamic Broadway staging (Reuters)
Tuesday, March 31st, 2009
Reuters - Any doubts that the revival of "Hair" that appeared last year in Central Park would lose something in the rarefied indoor confines of a Broadway theater can be put to rest. If anything, the production has even more of a visceral impact at the Al Hirschfeld, where its youthful ensemble puts out so much blazing energy it's no wonder that half the audience feels compelled to join them onstage for the joyous bacchanalian finale.
Lead generation success ushers in lower quality
Tuesday, March 31st, 2009
DM CONFIDENTIAL — The problem old as time in the performance marketing sector, one that shows itself much more clearly and painfully in the world of online lead generation: the challenge to produce high quality with high volume.
Ask almost any advertiser who has at least a modicum of experience in online advertising, and growing volume while maintaining quality will rank high among their challenges and frustrations. The unfortunate truth is that after a certain point, quality starts to degrade. What exactly is quality, though?
The reason that we use lead generation as an example is that quality is easy to explain. [...]
Latest Hollywood script deals (Reuters)
Tuesday, March 31st, 2009
Reuters - Screenwriter Liz Garcia ("The Necklace") has been hired to adapt the first book in the series "The Au Pairs," written by Melissa de la Cruz, for Warner Bros.