McCall Smith has many books brewing, just like bush tea
USA Today
... least a few hours a day, his cat Augustus Basil rubbing against his ankles, the shelves are packed floor to ceiling with books including his first children's title, The White Hippo, published when he was 28. The surface of his mammoth w...
Hippo CMS Uses Kapow Migration Module to Move Customers Over
CMSWire
Seems Hippo ( news , site ) has found a way to migrate customers onto their open source CMS platform quickly. They have partnered with Kapow Technologies, enabling them to use the migration module of the Kapow Web Data Server. Kapow Technol...
Rare zoo review begins Dec. 2
The Topeka Capital-Journal
Outside inspectors will begin their review of the heavily criticized Topeka Zoo on Dec. 2 in a rarely seen process the city hopes will lead the facility back to brighter days. read more
Thais hunt for missing hippo
Monsters and Critics
Bangkok - Thailand's Chiang Mai Night Safari has launched a search and rescue operation for a baby hippopotamus that went missing from the zoo's veterinary hospital last week, media reports said Sunday. The baby hippo was last seen in hospi...
For local 'freegans,' dumpsters yield bountiful harvest
Boston Globe
When I came back from my first big dumpster dive, I laid out all the food on my kitchen table and took a photo,” said Julia Golomb, a ... Talsma and their two roommates, who refer to themselves as the Hippo Commune, say they have become so ...
TV Q&A with David Inman
Boston Herald
Q: One of my favorite musicals is "Brigadoon." I am not a fan, however, of the Gene Kelly film version in which several of the original songs were left out to make...
He’s alive! Isn’t that amazing
Abbotsford News
Once, his kayak was T-boned and cut in two — by a grumpy hippo. And he’s been unarmed and face-to-fangs with a very large and very hostile African male lion. “Didn’t know I could run backward that fast,” he says. “Didn’t know anyone ...
Zimbabwe : Refer Cases to Specialists
AllAfrica.com
Harare — IT is now becoming clear that the parents of the teenage Ruwa boy suffering from temporal lobe epilepsy had rejected seeking competent medical help and instead destroyed the family, brought about their own deaths and almost destroy...
Zimbabwe's Leading Sunday Newspaper
The Zimbabwe Standard
Eating out: Bumi booms, again! Other than totally unspoilt bush setting, prolific game- and bird-spotting and fishing, the luxuriously appointed, totally re-furbished, recently re-opened Bumi Hills Safari Lodge, is unashamedly “into” food a...
Wilson wants a hippo for Xmas
Country Standard Time
Thursday, December 3, 2009 – Gretchen Wilson is getting in the holiday spirit, with help from a hippo. Written by John Rox and originally recorded by 10-year-old Gayla Peevey in 1953, Wilson recorded I Want A Hippopotamus For Christmas alon...
Local educator has signing for her new children's book
The Florida Times-Union
A local educator is now also a published author. Middleburg resident Rita S. Connell is the author of "One Gray Hippo," a book designed to help children learn about numbers, colors and rhyming words. The book was published nationally this m...
Altoona Deploys Citywide Wireless Network from Motorola to Help Better Protect the Public
PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance
The Enterprise Mobility Solutions business unit of Motorola, Inc. today announced that BIG Wireless, a member of Motorola's award-winning channel program and leader in design, deployment and maintenance of carrier-class, end-to-end, wireles...
Kenner arrangement with Lagniappe Industries raises questions
New Orleans Times-Picayune
Upon entering office as Kenner's new mayor in July 2006, Ed Muniz fielded a litany of complaints from employees about the city's health insurance provider. "The plan is a terrible plan," Muniz recalled thinking.
