Winston-Salem has been picked as one of the Top 20 places in the nation to ‘Start Over’. BusinessWeek ranked the Winston-Salem metropolitan statistical area at #7 among the nation's "top 20 best places to start over." The MSA consists of Davie, Forsyth, Stokes and Yadkin counties. Topping the list: Anchorage, Alaska
http://www.journalnow.com/content/2009/jun/24/city-is-no-7-in-best-places-to-start-over/news-local/
Officials with Methodist University Hospital Transplant Institute in Memphis, has confirmed that Steve Jobs, the CEO of Apple, did indeed receive a liver transplant. The 54 year old CEO is recovering and has an excellent prognosis. Back in January, Jobs announced that he would be taking a medical leave of absence from his work at Apple until the end of June.
United Guaranty, the troubled mortgage insurer based in Greensboro, is laying off 160 workers, most of them in North Carolina. The company declined to say how many of the job cuts would be at its headquarters on North Elm Street, where about 500 people work. United Guaranty is a subsidiary of AIG.
http://www.news-record.com/content/2009/06/23/article/united_guaranty_cutting_160_jobs
Officials at the financially strapped YWCA in Greensboro saying that they plan to sell their downtown building. They will lease a smaller space, cut staff and serve fewer children.
http://www.news-record.com/content/2009/06/23/article/ywca_to_sell_downtown_site_curtail_programs
A ‘Relief Fund’ has been set up for the survivors and the families who lost loved ones in Monday’s deadly Metro commuter train crash in DC. Nine people were killed in the collision.
It was the deadliest accident in the DC Metrorail's 33-year history.
The State Department is continuing to work on the release of two US journalists still in prison in North Korea. The two journalists were arrested near the North Korean-Chinese border on March 17th, while filming a documentary. Earlier this month, they were convicted of crossing illegally into North Korea and sentenced to 12 years in a labor camp
Do Tattoos increase the risk of skin cancer? As more Americans tattoo their bodies, some have wondered whether there may be a hidden risk -- other than the risk of regretting the tattoo later. Many inks are made with metals; blue, for example, contains cobalt and aluminum, and red may contain mercury sulfide. That, along with the fact that tattooing can be traumatizing to the skin, prompted suspicion that tattoos might lead to skin cancer.
BUT… Read more: http://www.journalnow.com/content/2009/jun/24/tattoos-do-not-lead-to-skin-cancer-several-studies/living/
Music: Phillips, Craig and Dean are excited about their 10th studio CD that will hit stores on August 4th. The project is titled "Fearless". The theme of the album, says Randy Phillips, is…”Fear less, hope more”. Their first single can be heard on WBFJ…titled "Revelation Song
To hear the story behind "Revelation Song" you can go to Video-dot-INO Records-dot-com and follow the links for Phillips, Craig and Dean. BTW: In their 18 years of ministry, Phillips, Craig, and Dean have topped the charts with 16 number one hits.
The Gospel Music Channel is kicking off season four of it’s American Idol-like program called ‘Gospel Dream’…tonight. The singing competition is open to solo artists between the ages of 16 and 40 performing all types of Christian and Gospel music.
Speaking of American Idol…one of the hosts will be former American Idol contestant Kimberly Locke. http://www.gospelmusicchannel.com/gospeldream09
Former Republican Presidential candidate Mike Huckabee speaking to participants at the Southern Baptist Convention’s annual gathering. Huckabee is himself a former Baptist pastor
You can keep up-to-date with the latest news updates from the SBC’s annual meeting on Twitter. The SBC is the largest Protestant denomination in North America. http://www.sbc.net/
http://www.sbcannualmeeting.net/sbc09/sbcam.asp?cat=home
