Daily News Update http://puov.com Wed, 08 Sep 2010 06:33:06 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Fashion’s Night Out 2010 http://puov.com/fashions-night-out-2010/981/ http://puov.com/fashions-night-out-2010/981/#comments Wed, 08 Sep 2010 06:33:06 +0000 Amanda Stevens http://puov.com/?p=981 Fashions Night Out 2010It’s that time of year again and we’re all getting super-excited about one of the biggest nights of the fashion year. Vogue’s Fashion Night Out is set to hit London and New York and raise loads of money for charity. Fashions Night Out at the Forum Shops at Caesars Palace, New York on Friday, September 10th.

Recognized worldwide as one of the finest luxury shopping streets in the world, The Forum Shops at
Caesars is participating in this years Fashions Night Out festivities. Established in 2009, Fashions Night Out is a global celebration of fashion, shopping and excitement.

There’s an open bar, music by DJ Harley Viera-Newton and amazing sports and fashion items up for auction: For example, you could be the proud owner of a Sport’s Illustrated swimsuit issue signed by the SI girls or a Soccer Ball signed by the entire Milan AC team.

The event has really moved up to another level with a slick website for each country taking part and great social media presence but the only concern is that maybe the event has got too big too fast. Fashion’s Night Out will be aired on CBS on Wednesday 15th September in the US.

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Actor Glenn Shadix Died At 58 http://puov.com/actor-glenn-shadix-died-at-58/978/ http://puov.com/actor-glenn-shadix-died-at-58/978/#comments Wed, 08 Sep 2010 05:02:55 +0000 Gwen Matheson http://puov.com/?p=978 Actor Glenn Shadix Died At 58Actor Glenn Shadix, best known for his role as Otho the interior decorator in Tim Burton’s “Beetlejuice”, died after falling at his home in Birmingham, Alabama on Tuesday morning (September 7).

“He was having mobility problems, and he was in a wheelchair,” Susan Gagne, Shadix’s sister, revealed. “It looks like he fell and hit his head in the kitchen, and that’s the cause of death.”

Personal manager Juliet Green told The Associated Press that Shadix had returned to his home state after many years living in Los Angeles.

Shadix has had roles in some more Tim Burton movies. He was the voice of Halloween Town in the animation classic “The Nightmare Before Christmas”, and was also orangutan Senator Saod in the remake of Planet of the Apes.

official biography says Shadix was born in Bessemer, a suburb of Birmingham, and participated in local theater productions as a youth.

His website also describes him as a photographer and gay rights activist; he spoke publicly about undergoing so-called ex-gay therapy as a teenager.

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Mark Hurd Sued by HP, Worth $6 billion to Oracle? http://puov.com/mark-hurd-sued-by-hp-worth-6-billion-to-oracle/973/ http://puov.com/mark-hurd-sued-by-hp-worth-6-billion-to-oracle/973/#comments Tue, 07 Sep 2010 19:16:08 +0000 James Rubin http://puov.com/?p=973 Mark Hurd SuedHewlett-Packard Co. sued former Chief Executive Officer Mark Hurd a day after he was named co-president of rival Oracle Corp., according to people familiar with the matter. The suit was filed in Superior Court of California in Santa Clara, according to the people familiar with the matter. The contents of the suit weren’t clear but a person familiar with the suit said it centered around a confidentiality provision in Mr. Hurd’s exit agreement from HP.
Oracle, the world’s third-largest software maker, announced Hurd’s hiring on Monday, a month after he resigned from HP over expense account irregularities related to a female contractor. Shares of HP fell 0.6 percent to $40.10 on the New York Stock Exchange. Shares of Oracle rose 5.5 percent to $24.18.
As he begins a new job at Oracle Corp., Mark Hurd will join a technology giant known for fierce competition, and for typically not letting scandals, including those sexual in nature, distract it from trying to beat up on rivals.

The provision at the center of the suit is part of Mr. Hurd’s severance package from H-P, which could be worth more than $35 million depending on H-P’s stock price. Under the provision Mr. Hurd agreed to a 24-month confidentiality agreement, which prevents him from disclosing sensitive information related to H-P. The agreement doesn’t contain a noncompete clause.

Hurd’s arrival might be a sign that Oracle is not done shopping yet. Stuart Williams, director of software research with Technology Business Research in Hampton, N.H., said that he would not be surprised if Oracle soon looked to buy a storage company.
“This clearly signals Oracle wanted someone with demonstrated experience in transforming hardware businesses,” he said. “Hurd brings with him a lot of investor goodwill from his performance at HP. He has closed several large acquisitions, and that speaks volumes about where Oracle might be going in the future.”
Ajay Kasargod, who follows Oracle for brokerage Morgan Keegan & Co., said in a research note that Hurd’s move to Oracle “strengthens the company’s ability to focus on the growth of [its] systems business, primarily servers and storage, that it acquired as part of the Sun Microsystems acquisition” in January.
“In the end, who better to help build the Sun business than Mark Hurd, who prior to Oracle ran the largest hardware technology company in the market,” Kasargod said.

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KIA Recalls 2010-2011 Souls and Sorentos http://puov.com/kia-recalls-2010-2011-souls-and-sorentos/970/ http://puov.com/kia-recalls-2010-2011-souls-and-sorentos/970/#comments Tue, 07 Sep 2010 09:16:24 +0000 Amanda Stevens http://puov.com/?p=970 KIA Recalls Souls and SorentosKia Canada announced a recall has been issued for the 2010 Soul and 2011 Sorento crossover vehicles due to defective wiring harnesses that could short and lead to a fire. Some harnesses supplied by Johnson Controls for lighting in 2010 model-year Soul cars and 2011 model-year Sorento SUVs were improperly soldered, leading to possible electrical shorts, Kia said in a letter to U.S. safety regulators on August 30.

Kia Soul and Kia Sorento models produced between Sep 7, 2009 and Jul 30, 2010 fall under the purview of the recall and it will affect more than 35,000 of their cars.

Owners of the affected Kia models will be notified to bring their cars to their local dealerships who will replace the wiring harnesses for the lighting systems free of charge.

Chung Sung-Eun, the co-CEO of South Korea’s Kia Motors has resigned to take responsibility for the mass vehicle recalls the carmaker is facing. No accidents or injuries related to the defective wiring have been reported so far.

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Djokovic Beats Fish at US Open http://puov.com/djokovic-beats-fish-at-us-open/967/ http://puov.com/djokovic-beats-fish-at-us-open/967/#comments Tue, 07 Sep 2010 07:03:00 +0000 William Wallace http://puov.com/?p=967 Djokovic Beats Fish at US OpenThird-seeded Novak Djokovic rolled into his sixth straight Grand Slam quarterfinal, by defeating US 19th seed Mardy Fish 6-3 6-4 6-1.

Djokovic, the 2008 Australian Open champ from Serbia, has reached at least the semifinals at Flushing Meadows the last three years.

Djokovic needed only 110 minutes to dispatch of Fish, whose normally big serve didn’t seem to do much damage to the swift Djokovic. Djokovic converted 6 of 8 break-point chances, steamrolling the listless American.

“I’m really happy with the way I played, definitely a lot of confidence,” Djokovic said. “It’s great to raise the level as we go on in the tournament.”

Djokovic was the 2007 US Open runner-up and lost in the semi-finals the past two years, all three defeats coming to 16-time Grand Slam winner Roger Federer, a potential semi-final opponent again this year.

Djokovic, the 2007 US Open runner-up, advances to the quarterfinals to play No. 17 Gael Monfils, whom he has defeated in all four of their career meetings.

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Push for common approach on Bank Levy http://puov.com/push-for-common-approach-on-bank-levy/964/ http://puov.com/push-for-common-approach-on-bank-levy/964/#comments Mon, 06 Sep 2010 20:32:07 +0000 James Rubin http://puov.com/?p=964 Bank LevyWays to protect taxpayers from bearing the cost of any future banking crisis will top the agenda at a meeting of European Union finance ministers on Tuesday. European Union finance ministers are set to discuss the possibility of introducing a levy on banks and whether a tax on financial transactions can deal with another banking crisis, as they gather Tuesday in an atmosphere more benign than when they last met in July.
EU countries paid out sums amounting to 16.5% of the bloc’s gross domestic product to prop up financial firms during the credit crunch, according to EU figures, sending government debt skyward. Governments are keen to ensure that banks and other financial institutions that caused the crisis contribute to the cost of these and any future bailouts.

Sanctions should be a normal consequence, a quasi automatic consequence if the rules are broken,” Economic and Monetary Affairs Commissioner Olli Rehn told reporters as he arrived for the meeting in Brussels.
“It’s a bit like a football game. It won’t work if the players start to argue and discuss the rules of the game with the referee every time they call a foul.”

Two kinds of financial taxes will dominate discussions by the EU’s 27 finance ministers at their monthly meeting, which will precede a meeting of 16 finance ministers from countries that use the euro. At center stage is a plan for an annual levy on banks and financial firms that could raise billions of euros to create a safety net for any future bank losses. Worries about the European economy and its ability to deal with large amounts of government debt have been eased by a run of better than expected economic data, progress by Greece in strengthening its bailed-out government finances and the results of stress tests on 91 of the EU’s banks.

A financial activity tax would make financial services more expensive and cut the size of the financial services sector, the paper says. Nevertheless, commission officials say they want to get a better sense of the policy goals that member states believe such taxes could advance – ranging from helping to bolster national budgets to damping excessive risk-taking. Any signs of EU disunity or discord could trigger another bout of investor unease. That could lead to market borrowing costs spiking again, which would government financial troubles even worse.
The issue is expected to be discussed further by finance ministers at an informal meeting later this month, and Brussels will then set out “policy orientations” ahead of a European Council meeting in October.

The ministers were also expected to discuss a request by nine EU countries for pension reform costs to be excluded from deficit and debt calculations to avoid penalizing countries that undertake reforms to put public finances on a sounder footing.
Euro zone sources said the proposal was not backed by some big EU countries, so pension reform costs were likely to be taken into account only indirectly when the executive European Commission assesses deficit and debt developments.

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Cortisol Levels In Hair Linked To Heart Attack Risk http://puov.com/cortisol-levels-in-hair-linked-to-heart-attack-risk/959/ http://puov.com/cortisol-levels-in-hair-linked-to-heart-attack-risk/959/#comments Mon, 06 Sep 2010 07:03:10 +0000 Sam Cooper http://puov.com/?p=959 Cortisol Levels In Hair Linked To Heart Attack RiskHuman hair shows chronic stresses — including job, marital and financial — play an important role in heart attacks, researchers in Canada say.

The hormone gets released in the bloodstream when you’re freaking out and seeps into your hair follicles. As the hair grows, it provides a timeline of your anxieties — and the toll they take on your heart.

Researchers collected hair samples of heart attack victims admitted to the Meir Medical Centre in Kfar-Saba, Israel and analyzed them for stress hormone levels.

They were able to identify those men under stress by simply measuring the level of cortisol in their hair samples.

Gideon Koren, a professor at the University of Western Ontario, took hair samples from 120 men and measured cortisol levels in the 1.2 inches of hair closest to the scalp. That’s about three months worth of growth.

“Stress is a serious part of modern life affecting many areas of health and life,” says Dr. Koren. “This study has implications for research and for practice, as stress can be managed with lifestyle changes and psychotherapy.”

The finding, published in the journal Stress, could pave the way for a noninvasive test that lets doctors know when a patient is suddenly a heart attack waiting to happen.

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American Troops Battle in Baghdad http://puov.com/american-troops-battle-in-baghdad/956/ http://puov.com/american-troops-battle-in-baghdad/956/#comments Mon, 06 Sep 2010 05:32:14 +0000 Jeremy Wright http://puov.com/?p=956 American Troops Battle in BaghdadAmerican soldiers reportedly were called in to help Iraqi forces repel an attack by insurgents on an army base in Baghdad, just five days after the much-ballyhooed official end of U.S. combat operations in the country. The fighting killed 12 people and wounded dozens.

The attack in the capital on Sunday turned into a 2 1/2-hour gun battle as soldiers tried to root out two men in explosive vests who had slipped into the old Ministry of Defense building where Iraqi soldiers and a small group of American soldiers are housed, Iraqi forces at the scene said.

The fighting came to an end after the two assailants who breached the compound ran out of bullets and detonated their explosives vests, the official said. He spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to reporters.

It was the first exchange of fire involving U.S. troops in Baghdad since the Aug. 31 deadline for formally ending the combat mission, and it showed that American troops remaining in the country are still being drawn into the fighting.

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A correlation between poverty and religiosity http://puov.com/a-correlation-between-poverty-and-religiosity/953/ http://puov.com/a-correlation-between-poverty-and-religiosity/953/#comments Sun, 05 Sep 2010 05:54:42 +0000 Daniel Rutherford http://puov.com/?p=953 A correlation between poverty and religiosityA Gallup poll out this week finds, among 100 nations surveyed, a very strong correlation between religiosity and poverty. Richer countries in general are less religious.

But that doesn’t hold true for the United States. Sixty-five percent of Americans say that religion is an important part of their daily lives. That is compared with just 30 percent of the French, 27 percent of the British and 24 percent of the Japanese.

In the world’s poorest countries – those with average per-capita incomes of $2,000 or less – the median proportion who say religion is important in their daily lives is 95 percent, reported Gallup on Tuesday. In contrast, the median for the richest countries – those with average per-capita incomes over $25,000 – is 47 percent.

Here’s the proportion of people in various countries who claim that religion is an important part of their daily lives:
Sweden: 17%
Denmark: 19%
Japan: 24%
UK: 27%
France: 30%
Germany: 40%
Canada: 42%
Spain: 49%
U.S. 65%
Italy 72%

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Floyd Mayweather Apologizes For Racist Video Rant Against Pacquiao http://puov.com/floyd-mayweather-apologizes-for-racist-video-rant-against-pacquiao/950/ http://puov.com/floyd-mayweather-apologizes-for-racist-video-rant-against-pacquiao/950/#comments Sun, 05 Sep 2010 04:43:56 +0000 Sam Cooper http://puov.com/?p=950 Floyd Mayweather Apologizes For Racist Video Rant Against PacquiaoAs many people expected him to, unbeaten Floyd Mayweather Jr. quickly came out on Friday and apologized for his racist comments made towards Manny Pacquiao on Ustream during a 10 minute video on the internet.

In the video, Mayweather, at times, refers to Pacquiao as “Poochiao,” saying that he will “cook that yellow chump,” that he will “kick the midget a**,” and “cook him up with some barbecued dog.”

He later claims that Pacquiao is stupid, saying he got paid $1 million to wear Reebok for three days and Pacquiao had to wear Nike much longer for “seven g’s.”

Mayweather’s apology will inevitably meet a mixed reaction. He already had plenty of boxing fans who didn’t care for him to begin with, and others may have been officially pushed over the edge by his absurd and offensive tirade against Pacquiao.

An apology is a good first step but Mayweather may need to make some kind of additional overture to show how sorry he is for his negative video.

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