Lining up the perfect shot (San Antonio Express-News)
The Cayman bed from Restoration Hardware is $2,375 in king size ? the best size for feeling like a little kid in bed. Colin McAllister and Justin Ryan, wildly popular cheeky whiz kids of British home decor, are taking the big leap. Crossing the pond. Coming to Canada.Where to scrimp, Where to splurge (Canada.com)
The 2007 World Series of Poker is on the doorstep, with all eyes naturally turning towards Las Vegas – and how a player can still get in on the action. One of the best ways: A $25,000 WSOP freeroll at PokerStars.com, where two PokerListings players can still score $12,500 packages to the biggest game in town.PokerListings Player Next to Catch WSOP Lightning in $25,000 PokerStars.com Freeroll (PRWeb via Yahoo! News)
BALI, Indonesia — Hindus on this lush, tranquil island say life is like the sea: There are low tides and high tides. It’s difficult to know what ebb John Felderhof is experiencing.Geologist at core of Bre-X lives high life at swank resort (Canada.com)
Edwards Hits Iowa Airwaves (Washington Post)
Medicaid Firm Under Scrutiny For Its Reinsurance Arm In The Cayman Islands Attorney General Richard Blumenthal and other state officials are trying to figure out whether one of the state’s four Medicaid managed care organizations is reporting all of its profits, which the state relies on for setting the firm’s payment rates.State Reviewing WellCare (Hartford Courant)
The new money guysEMI: 10 BIG changes (p2pnet.net)
Renowned for their unrivaled bonus packages and freerolls, PokerListings.com is getting their players in with the best of it again – this time with progressive, new school poker room, GNUF.com. On the slate: an extra $30,000 in World Series of Poker freerolls and, until June 3, only PL players can access a sign-up bonus ten times the standard.GNUF is Enough: PokerListings.com Rings Bell for New School with $30K in Freerolls (PRWeb via Yahoo! News)
The highlights from our bloggers: Rev Shark, Cody Willard, Steve Smith and Tony Crescenzi.RealMoney’s Best of Blogs (TheStreet.com)
Following a week’s worth of ads in Washington, D.C., former Sen. John Edwards (D-N.C.) is set to launch ads in Iowa today (view one of the ads on our new video blog, Channel ‘08). The ads are a near carbon…Edwards Hits Iowa Airwaves (Washington Post)
Greenlight Re IPO seeks to raise $195M (Business Insurance)
In 2005, Florida embarked upon a grand experiment placing Medicaid recipients into HMOs or Provider Service Networks. The results may save the state treasury considerable money, but the impact on patients has at times been catastrophic. The impact on doctors has been equally disastrous.Changes mean less care, more profits (Sun-Sentinel)
Man surprises himself by winning a national singles title in 9-ball.Lining up the perfect shot (San Antonio Express-News)
Paradise found (Times Online)
BALI, Indonesia — Hindus on this lush, tranquil island say life is like the sea: There are low tides and high tides. It’s difficult to know what ebb John Felderhof is experiencing.Geologist at core of Bre-X lives high life at swank resort (Canada.com)
Indian markets doing reasonably well but Indians still looking for new ways to make money.Foreign funds want Indian investors (IBN via Yahoo! India News)
Another bullet dodged. For the Caribbean, that’s two in the past eight months. First, hurricanes avoided the region in the fall of 2006, producing great sighs of relief from islands that were hard hit by 2005’s destructive storms.The newest Caribbean hot spots (The Record)
The Nation in Brief (Business Today Egypt)
A West Chester Twp. man was among three people killed Friday afternoon when two small planes collided over suburban Cincinnati, raining debris onto roads and backyards but missing those on the ground as rush hour approached, federal investigators said.FAA: 3 dead in plane collision (Dayton Daily News)
t the aquarium, we were expected to feed sharks while snorkeling. The thought of that scared me just a little bit after hearing all of those shark attack stories, especially me, a surfer. But later on I found out that we fed the sharks through a hole in plexiglass. It was fun, a little creepy with all the other fish swimming around with you. A stingray ended up swooping up and grabbing a fish …CARIBBEAN/BAHAMAS: Family vacations (Miami Herald)
Higher Music Royalties Create Static on the Net (RedNova)
Greenlight Capital Re, Ltd. , a specialty property and casualty reinsurer based in the Cayman Islands, today announced that its initial public offering of 10,250,000 Class A Ordinary Shares priced at $19.00 per share.Greenlight Capital Re, Ltd. Prices Initial Public Offering (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
ACM Managed Dollar Income Fund, Inc. today released its monthly portfolio update as of March 31, 2007.ACM Managed Dollar Income Fund Releases Monthly Portfolio Update (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
AllianceBernstein Income Fund, Inc. today released its monthly portfolio update as of March 31, 2007.AllianceBernstein Income Fund Releases Monthly Portfolio Update (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
Shanda Interactive Entertainment Limited , or Shanda, a leading interactive entertainment media company in China, today announced its unaudited financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2007.Shanda Reports First Quarter 2007 Results (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
By Mike Musgrove, Washington Post Staff Writer This weekend, Live 365 chief executive Mark Lam is gearing up for his second trip to Washington in a month.Higher Music Royalties Create Static on the Net (RedNova)
The great Cayman Islands getaway (MSNBC)
News Channel 5 reporter Robert Goulston and photojournalist Jarod Rogers went on an underwater journey where healing begins for injured servicemen and women of the 101st Airborne Division.Wounded Soldiers Turn To Scuba Diving For Therapy (News Channel 5 Nashville)
It?s finally here ? the week I?ve been waiting for. I have left behind e-mails and meetings and returned to the real reason I work for a dive magazine ? the water.The great Cayman Islands getaway (MSNBC)
AllianceBernstein Global High Income Fund Releases Monthly Portfolio Update (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
The new money guysEMI: 10 BIG changes (p2pnet.net)
AllianceBernstein Global High Income Fund, Inc. today released its monthly portfolio update as of March 31, 2007.AllianceBernstein Global High Income Fund Releases Monthly Portfolio Update (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
By Mike Musgrove, Washington Post Staff Writer This weekend, Live 365 chief executive Mark Lam is gearing up for his second trip to Washington in a month.Higher Music Royalties Create Static on the Net (RedNova)
Convention calendar (The Salt Lake Tribune)
If his passport had arrived in time, Vikings quarterback Tarvaris Jackson would have spent last weekend in the Cayman Islands, participating in the NFL quarterback challenge, but he’s not complaining.Vikings vets confident in young QB (Pioneer Press)
Kevin Ham leans forward, sits up tall, closes his eyes, and begins to type — into the air. He’s seated along the rear wall of a packed ballroom in Las Vegas’s Venetian Hotel. Up front, an auctioneer is running through a list of Internet domain names, building excitement the same way he might if vintage cars were on the block.The man who owns the Internet (CNN Money)
By Pandolfi, John M ABSTRACT- A new species of the Montastraea “annularis” species complex is herein described from Pleistocene coral reefs of the Caribbean Sea. The species, Montastraea nancyi n. sp., had a broad geographic distribution at mainly insular sites 125 Ka.A New, Extinct Pleistocene Reef Coral From the Montastraea “Annularis” Species Complex (RedNova)
It took EMI Group seven years to finally reach a buyout deal, but it took only 24 hours for another bidder to emerge. At around 12:30 p.m. yesterday – exactly 24 hours after EMI agreed to be acquired by Terra Firma Capital Partners for 265 pence…EMI BIDFEST (New York Post)
It is the conversation that all of us dread: Talking to our parents about whether they have begun to make plans for what they would want done with their estate in the event of death or disability.Huntington Bank Introduces the ‘Porch Swing Conversation’ Guide to Help Adults Talk with Their Parents about Estate … (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
Sign on for Family Fun! (The Journal News)
A list of recent real estate construction rates and sales rates.Real estate news in brief: Construction rates, sales rates (Naples Daily News)
Our take on the month’s business news. So urces at Etisalat, Egypt?s third mobile license holder, denied last month having requested to indefinitely postpone the launch of Egypt?s third mobile network ?as certain unnamed weekly papers had mentioned,? the financial weekly Al-Mal has reported.The Nation in Brief (Business Today Egypt)
