| Election brief: PKR eyes 14 Pahang seats
KUANTAN: Parti Keadilan Rakyat will contest in four parliamentary seats and 10 state constituencies. Kuantan PKR chief Fuziah Salleh said she was confident about the number of seats to contest.
We have yet to name a few more seats as the party is still looking for suitable candidates.
Fuziah contested in the 1999 and 2004 elections and lost in both.
BN holds all the 14 parliamentary seats and 41 of the 42 state seats in Pahang.
Lim Yong wont contest
KUALA KLAWANG: Negri Sembilan MCA vice-chairman Datuk Lim Yong @ Lim Chen said yesterday it was time to give way to new faces after holding the Chennah state assembly seat in Jelebu for three terms.
The Jelebu MCA division chief has informed party president Datuk Seri Ong Ka Ting of his intention.
Prasad Group film & TV academy
Prasad Group, Asia's largest provider of post-production services, has announced the launch of L.V.Prasad Film & TV Academy in Chennai being set up at a cost of over Rs 5 crore. The academy, which is named after the group's founder, .L V.Prasad, has been taken up in the golden jubilee year (50th year) of the Prasad Group to produce professionally trained film-makers and TV producers with a global perspective. Located on the sprawling Prasad Studios campus in Chennai, the L V Prasad Film & TV Academy offers a two-year, full-time, postgraduate diploma programme in film and television in the four different streams of direction, cinematography, sound recording and editing. .
Recognition flaps continue for Abenaki Email this page Print this page
Francis Sokoki Band of Missisquoi Abenaki, received an e-mail Feb. 19 from Indian Arts and Crafts Board Program Support Specialist Ken Van Wey, explaining the labeling requirements of the Indian Arts and Crafts Act and telling Larocque to stop advertising his work as an Abenaki product.
The board, which is part of the Interior Department, administers the act. The act is a truth-in-marketing law designed to prevent the marketing of art and craft products as ''Indian'' made when they are not made by Indians as defined by the IACA, Van Wey wrote. The board found Larocque's work at the St. Francis Sokoki Band of Abenaki Web site.
''While the IACB has been in communication with the state of Vermont regarding the state recognition of Indian Tribes, and understands that the state of Vermont may be recognizing some groups as Tribes in the near future, you should refrain from selling your work as Indian, Native American, or as the product of a particular Indian Tribe until your group is officially recognized as an Indian Tribe by the state of Vermont or the federal government,'' Van Wey wrote, disregarding Interiors' final determination last July declining to recognize the St.
Adobe outlines its Leopard compatibility
Products that will require updates for full Leopard compatibility include Adobe Acrobat 8 Professional and the company's professional video applications, including Adobe Premiere Pro CS3, After Effects CS3 Professional, Encore CS3 and Soundbooth CS3. Adobe said it expects to publish free Leopard compatibility updates for the video applications in December 2007 and for Acrobat 8 Professional and Adobe Reader 8 in January 2008. .
Palm Treo 650 Review - Connectivity / Conclusion
As one of the better connected devices on the market, users can choose their most convenient method to transfer data to the Treo 650; Bluetooth, infrared, or data cable. Being Bluetooth 1.1 Class 2, the Treo 650 can pair and synchronize with other devices within a 10 meter radius. Although somewhat restrictive, it is limited to reduce the chances of interference between its peripheral devices and those belonging to other people nearby. Needless to say, synchronization is a breeze with Palm's HotSync software. At the touch of a button, emails, calendars, contacts, and programs are synchronized with a desktop and ready to go.
Conclusion
What made the Treo 600 popular has been kept, while small drawbacks have been improved upon.
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