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Opportunistic PR Around Barry's HR Chase is Nauseating

With all the sleaze that's shrouding Barry's homerun legacy, it's truly apropos that San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsome is officially kowtowing.Excerpt from AP Story that ran recently:City Hall will be lit up with orange lights and keeping track of Barry Bonds' home runs starting Friday as the Giants slugger gets...

Tags: Barry Bonds, Human Resources, Travis Van, spin, public relations

Blog posts 2007-08-01

Where does embarrassing product hype come from?

It's well-understood how leery journalists are of hyperbole in new product publicity. So it's puzzling why many vendors continue to embarrass themselves via breathless product press releases where every other word ends in "-est" ... and the word "visionary" somehow makes it into the headline, the sub-head, the executive's...

Tags: technology, spin, public relations, product release, Travis Van, engineering team

Blog posts 2007-07-09

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Cowboy action shooting exploded into a full blown national experience in the 1990s and then-Power Custom was right there making products the pseudo cowboys with minimal gunsmithing talent could install in their sixguns. Fabulous products such as the free spin pawls, which allow the Ruger cylinder to move in two...

Articles 2009-01-01

Seven exercises you've never heard of: Put a fresh spin on your training - and achieve new muscle growth - with these seven ultra-novel lifts

IT'S BOUND TO HAPPEN. After training every bodypart once or twice a week or more over the course of many months, and subsequently many years, you're going to get a little bored with your basic exercises. Barbell and dumbbell presses, rows, squats and curls are great--and by all...

Articles 2008-12-01

Fine-tune your biceps in four weeks

OF ALL THE ADJECTIVES THAT DESCRIBE your biceps, neglected probably isn't one of them. Seriously, asking you to avoid training arms this week would be like asking the planet to stop spinning. As a group, bodybuilders typically give more attention to arms than any other body-part, save for chest. But...

Articles 2008-12-01

JUST JARED LAUNCHES "JUST JARED JR." FOR TWEENS & TEENS

Just Jared, one of the most popular celebrity bloggers online, has launched a spin-off site for the younger set called Just Jared Jr. (http://www.justjaredjr.com/). The site is a partnership between Just Jared and Buzznet Inc., the media company focused on building the Internet's largest and most dynamic pop culture community....

Articles 2008-12-01

Spin Cycle: Santa suits and snitches

Fluffing and folding the news Ho-ho-ho Of all places on the planet to experience a Santa shortage, we'd never have guessed it would be Germany, birthplace of the "tannenbaum," nutcrackers and all things ho-ho-ho. But the decidedly unjolly global economic crisis has Germans obsessed...

Articles 2008-11-26

WowWee's Diverse Product Line Awarded Top Honors from Multiple Organizations

Editors note: Four photos are includedwith this press release. Parents and gadget-lovers alike need not fret about making a list andchecking it twice this holiday season, for when it comes to function,design, durability, safety, and play value, the toy experts know best.With a diverse, award-winning line, WowWee , an...

Articles 2008-11-26

3 killed when plane crashes near Nashville

NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- A twin-engine plane was spinning as it fell from the sky and crashed Monday several miles from Nashville's major airport, killing a retail executive and the two others aboard the plane, witnesses and authorities said. The twin-engine Beech Baron propeller plane took off from...

Articles 2008-11-25

BEST OF THE REST

OPERA: LES CONTES DHOFFMANN (ROYAL OPERA HOUSE, LONDON) Rolando Villazon returns to the title role in the latest revival of John Schlesinger's cinematic production. Antonio Pappano conducts. (020-7304 4000) tonight TALKS: ALASTAIR...

Articles 2008-11-25

New Nintendo DS Bundles Put a Colorful Spin on 'Black Friday'

Limited-Edition Hardware Comes with Top-Selling Games REDMOND, Wash. -- The day after Thanksgiving might be known to holiday shoppers as "Black Friday," but this year Nintendo is rewarding eager consumers with two brilliant splashes of color. On Nov. 28, Nintendo will release a duo of limited-edition Nintendo DS([TM])...

Articles 2008-11-25

Free Thanksgiving dinner for thousands of hungry Oakland residents

OAKLAND -- Thousands of the poor and hungry citizens of Oakland found temporary reprieve Tuesday when the city put on its annual Thanksgiving dinner. Volunteers served more than 2,300 meals to those willing to wait in line outside the Oakland Marriott City Center at 1001 Broadway. ...

Articles 2008-11-25

Accidents & Incidents

Date: Oct 30, 2008 Carroll Township, PAAircraft Type: HUGHES 369D N606ASNarrative: A/c substantially damaged during forced landing. Purpose of flightwas to trim trees located adjacent to power transmission line easement. A/cperformed this task utilizing array of saw blades suspended below. When pilotadjacent of landing zone, noted vibration in a/c/. Scanned...

Articles 2008-11-24

Nexia Closes $2.15 Million Real Estate Sale

Nexia Holdings, Inc. (OTCBB: NXHD)announced that its subsidiary Wasatch Capital Corporation closed upon thesale of the Wallace/Bennett Buildings located at 59 West 100 South, SaltLake City, Utah. The total sales price was $2,150,000. Wasatch owedapproximately $1,145,000. CEO Richard Surber stated, "The sale of the historic property will providemuch needed...

Articles 2008-11-24

Children's writer visits

CHILDREN were delighted when their favourite author called into the Children's Bookshop in Lindley. Steve Cole, the author of the popular Astrosaurs series, stopped by to meet his young fans and sign copies of his latest book. The 37-year-old author of science fiction and children's novels...

Articles 2008-11-24

Dependence on government has crippled the U.S. auto industry

How can you not feel that emptiness in the pit of your stomach as you watch our financial markets spin downward? The broad stock market indexes are down well over 40 percent since the beginning of the year. Losses are somewhere in the neighborhood of $9 trillion. ...

Articles 2008-11-24

Astronauts fixing urine-to-water machine

HOUSTON -- Astronauts tinkered Sunday with a troublesome piece of equipment designed to help convert urine and sweat into drinkable water, which is vital to allowing the international space station crew to double to six. Station commander Michael Fincke and space shuttle Endeavour astronaut Donald Pettit changed...

Articles 2008-11-24

Commentary: Big 3 automakers spin wheels

Quick. How many people do you know who drive a Buick Lucerne? How about a Lincoln MKZ? Have you found yourself longing for a Pontiac Torrent? To be fair, all are fine American-made cars but none rival the popularity of makes such as the Mustang or Malibu....

Articles 2008-11-24

Pershing Square Capital Management Defers Discussion on Real Estate Structuring for Target Corporation Until After the Start of 2009

NEW YORK, Nov. 24 /PRNewswire/ -- Pershing Square Capital Management, L.P. announced today that it will defer discussions with Target Corporation on a potential real estate transaction until after the new year. On October 29, 2008, Pershing Square outlined a potential transaction in which Target would...

Articles 2008-11-24

Spin Cycle: Wikis and Tasers

Fluffing and folding the news Keine Wikipedia A Berlin politico was so enraged by the literary creativity of Wikipedia entries last week, he got a court to block the German version of the site. Seems someone embellished Bundestag member Lutz Heilmann's Wikipedia bio and...

Articles 2008-11-24