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Romantic Cape Town hotel in Claremont, near Newlands Stadium
Located in Claremont, this spa hotel is within 1 mi (2 km) of Cavendish Square and Newlands Stadium. Newlands Brewery and Newlands Cricket Ground are also within 15 minutes.
Hotel Features
Along with a full-service spa, this hotel has an indoor pool and an outdoor pool. Free WiFi in public areas and free self parking are also provided. Additionally, a health club, a bar/lounge, and a poolside bar are onsite.
Room Amenities
All 207 rooms offer free WiFi, 24-hour room service, and satellite TV. Minibars, coffee makers, and free newspapers are among the other amenities available to guests.
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Hotel Amenities
In addition to a full-service spa, Vineyard Hotel features an indoor pool and an outdoor pool. The hotel offers a coffee shop/café. Guests can unwind with a drink at one of the hotel's bars, which include a poolside bar and a bar/lounge. High-speed wireless Internet access is complimentary.
Business-related amenities at this 4-star property consist of a business center and a meeting room. This romantic hotel also offers a health club, a rooftop terrace, and gift shops/newsstands. For a surcharge, the property provides a roundtrip airport shuttle (available 24 hours), a beach shuttle, and an area shuttle. Onsite self parking is complimentary.
Vineyard Hotel has designated areas for smoking.
- 24-hour front desk
- Airport transportation (surcharge)
- Safe-deposit box at front desk
- Babysitting or childcare
- Elevator/lift
- Number of floors - 3
- Bar/lounge
- Business center
- Coffee shop or café
- Dry cleaning/laundry service
- Fireplace in lobby
- Full-service spa
- Beach shuttle (surcharge)
- Gift shops or newsstand
- Health club
- Free Wi-Fi
- One meeting room
- Rooftop terrace
- Luggage storage
- Designated smoking areas
- Area shuttle (surcharge)
- Total number of rooms - 207
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- Laundry facilities
- Spa treatment room(s)
- Poolside bar
- Porter/bellhop
- Year Built 1799
- Free self parking
- Shopping on site
- Supervised childcare/activities
- Indoor pool
- Outdoor pool
- Use of nearby fitness center (discount)
- Wedding services
Family Friendly Amenities
- Outdoor pool
- Indoor pool
- Free Wi-Fi
- Laundry facilities
- Babysitting or childcare
Available in all rooms: Free Wi-Fi
Available in some public areas: Free Wi-Fi
Room Amenities
- Air conditioning
- Minibar
- Coffee/tea maker
- Daily housekeeping
- Turndown service
- Designer toiletries
- Bathrobes
- Hair dryer
- In-room safe
- Desk
- Iron/ironing board (on request)
- Satellite TV service
- Cribs/infant beds available
- Free Wi-Fi
- In-room massage available
- Climate control
- Complimentary newspaper
- Room service (24 hours)
Nearby Things to Do
An indoor pool and an outdoor pool are on site. Other recreational amenities include a health club.
The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or nearby; fees may apply.
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- Rock climbing nearby
Spa Services
The onsite spa has massage/treatment rooms. Services include massages and facials. The spa is equipped with a mud bath. A variety of treatment therapies are provided, including aromatherapy and Ayurvedic.
- Aromatherapy treatments
- Ayurvedic treatments
- Mud bath in spa
- Massages
- Facial treatments
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Check-out time is 11 AM
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Natalie Mosco of Bristol, Pa., passed away peacefully on March 3, 2014 at St Mary's Hospital in Langhorne surrounded by her loving family. She was 83.
She was a lifelong resident of Bristol Borough and an employee of the former Delaware Valley Medical Center in Bucks County.
She was a devoted and caring wife, mother and grandmother who loved cooking for her family. She also enjoyed traveling to visit her daughter in Alabama and Denver to visit her three great grandchildren and was a devoted parishioner of St. Ann Church.
She is preceded in death by her husband, Anthony; her son, Anthony 'Heavy' Mosco; a brother, Louis Mari; and sister, Loretta Pascoe. She will be greatly missed by her daughters, Chris Ginsburg (Rick) of Alabama, and Linda Petolillo (Donnie) of Bristol Borough; her adoring grandchildren, Joseph (Kristen), Jodi (Kenny), Jordan (Delphine), John, and Jena; and her great grandchildren, Anthony, Alex, and Max. She is also survived by her sister, Rita Daniels (Melvin); sister-in-law, Virginia Mari; and many cousins, nieces, nephews and good friends.
Relatives and friends are invited to call from 7 to 9 p.m. on Friday evening and 8:30 to 9:30 a.m. on Saturday at Galzerano Funeral Home, 430 Radcliffe St., Bristol Borough. Funeral Mass will be celebrated at 10 a.m. at St. Ann Church. Interment will follow in Resurrection Cemetery.
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Syed Soharwardy, president of the Islamic Supreme Council of Canada, speaks at the South Fletcher's Sportsplex in Brampton, Ontario, April 4, 2006.
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CALGARY -- Local Muslim leaders have denounced another imam's insistence intolerance facing their Canadian community is similar to that felt by Jews in 1930s Nazi Germany.
Earlier this week, imam Syed Soharwardy said anti-Islam sentiment in Canada, bolstered by a new federal policy banning niqabs or burkas at citizeship ceremonies, smacked of the Jewish experience in pre-Second World War Germany.
But senior imam Jamal Hammoud said while he disagrees with Ottawa's new policy, he doesn't share Soharwardy's historical comparison.
"I don't see the similarities, I don't look at it this way," Hammoud said.
"The veil issue is a big concern to the Muslim community but we shouldn't compare it to other issues ... to the Holocaust."
He said Soharwardy, president of the Islamic Supreme Council of Canada, speaks for few of Calgary's 100,000 Muslims and doubts his comments will reflect badly on them.
"This guy doesn't represent the community at large, people should understand this point," said Hammoud of the Muslim Council of Calgary.
But his fellow imam, Fayez Tilly, said Soharwardy's words have unwittingly caused a backlash against other Muslims.
"Obviously it has ... the reaction of most people whether Muslim or of other faiths is that his comments aren't warranted," Tilly said.
"We have to be very careful when we draw analogies, especially when it's a sensitive issue."
Soharwardy said his comments went well beyond the citizenship ceremony debate and into what he calls a rising tide of intolerance towards Muslims.
Hammoud said he hasn't seen that phenomenon recently.
And another Muslim, Rehan Farooq who's resided in Calgary since August, sent an e-mail to Soharwardy's organization expressing disgust with comments.
"Millions of Canadians are turned off to Islam because of people like him, who are showing no political tact and just speak whatever they want," wrote Farooq, 33.
"Does he realize what his stupid actions are doing to our community?"
Soharwardy is the founder of the group Muslims Against Terrorism and has, in the past, reached out to other religious communities, including local Jewish leaders.


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Arrow Cargo files for bankruptcy protection and will be liquidated
Arrow Cargo (3rd) Boeing 757-225 (F) N688GX (msn 22688) JFK (Ken Petersen) (files for bankruptcy, will liquidate), originally uploaded by Airliners Gallery.
Arrow Cargo (3rd) (Miami) filed for bankruptcy protection yesterday (June 30) and its assets will be liquidated.
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Copyright Photo: Ken Petersen. Ex-Eastern Airlines Boeing 757-225 (F) N688GX (msn 22688) taxies at New York (JFK) in better times.
Arrow Cargo ceases all operations
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Arrow Cargo (3rd) (Miami) operated its last cargo flight last night. There are no flights scheduled for today and the fleet is sitting at Miami. This version of Arrow commenced operations on May 9, 2002.
The company issued the following press release:
Arrow Air Holdings Corp. ("Arrow") today (June 30) announced the company will cease scheduled service operations, effective immediately. Arrow issued the following
"Like many companies in our industry, Arrow Air has experienced significant operating losses as a result of increasing operating costs and declining revenues. The decision to wind down the company's schedule service operations was a difficult one. This decision
was not made lightly, and was a last resort after the company exhaustively searched for other options including financing or a sale of the business. Arrow is now focused on helping to smooth the transition for the company's hard working, dedicated employees
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Copyright Photo: Bruce Drum. Arrow Cargo operated a mixed fleet of McDonnell Douglas DC-10s and new Boeing 757-200 freighters. DC-10-30F N526MD (msn 46998) taxies at the MIA base.
Arrow Cargo may be forced to shut down
Arrow Cargo (3rd) (Miami) may be forced to shut down according to this published report in the South Florida Business Journal.
The company has notified the state of Florida that it may be forced to cease all operations and lay off all of its 473 employees at its MIA headquarters. Employees were notified of the possibility on April 9.
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Arrow Cargo wet leases 2 World MD-11Fs
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A resolution declaring two structures in Malvern as unfit and unsafe was presented to the Malvern City Council Monday night.
The properties called "unsafe, unsanitary and unfit for human habitation" were 1528 East Mill Street and 1625 Harper Street.
The fate of the properties could be decided at the full Malvern City Council meeting Monday, July 8 at 7 p.m. The meetings are held in the Malvern City Hall in the courthouse.
It's easy to kickoff the July 4th holiday early this year at Oaklawn's Spa Blast presented by Coco Beverage Inc. Oaklawn is opening its infield today, July 3 at 5:30 p.m. for the event featuring a concert by country music icon Lee Greenwood and fireworks display.
Spa Blast will include a Kids Zone with inflatable rides, concessions, misting tent and live music earlier in the evening by up and coming local country group Downday.
Guests are encouraged to park in the North Lot for easier access to the infield. Lawn chairs and blankets are welcome. No coolers will be allowed.Â
Mrs. Susana Hunter Bryant, age 96, of Malvern departed this life on Monday, July 1, 2013.


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Publication date: 19990100
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Follow the progress of a little girl and her father as they purchase "a garden," and board the bus to carry it home. The pansies, tulips, daffodils, geraniums, and daisies are lovingly planted in a window box, and the candles on the cake are lighted--just as Mom walks in the door to find her daughter, her husband, and her birthday surprise.
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Payment Terms
-Payment can be made by personal check or credit card
-A Non-refundable $300 deposit is required to hold a place for each applicant
After Registration
An information packet will be mailed to you as confirmation of registration. Included in the packet will be required health forms which must be completed prior to camp start, as well as a checklist of items to bring to camp.
Check-In will take place on the first day of the session from 12:00-1:00 pm at Reid Hall (dorm is air conditioned). Lunch will not be served on the first day of camp. All campers should arrived dressed and ready to play.
Check-Out will occur at 12:00 pm, the final day of the session at Reid Hall. Parents are encouraged to attend the final session (beginning at 11:30 am). Check out will take place immediately following the closing ceremony.
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All campers are required to comply with the SC camp rules which are established to ensure personal safety, hygiene, and property damage prevention. Rules and expectations are discussed during the start of camp and are posted inside the dormitory. Any camper found to be disruptive and unwilling to follow behavior guidelines will be sent home without a refund.
The weekly tuition for overnight campers is $575; day campers $395. A non-refundable deposit of $300 holds a place for each applicant, and the balance of the camp fee must be paid in full by June 1, 2014.
Tennis camp is open to any and all entrants, but is limited by age of camper and number attendees. Campers ages 12 to 18 may register on a first-come basis until maximum capacity of 30 campers is reached. Please register early to ensure enrollment.
This camp is specifically designed for junior high and high school players seeking to improve their tennis knowledge and skill in order to:
- earn a place on their school tennis team
- improve performance on their school team
- improve performance in tournament events.
Day Campers:
After the first day, day campers should plan to arrive at the tennis courts by 8:45 AM daily, and picked up at 5:15 PM.
Lunch is provided to day campers
Randy Rowley
Entering into his fifth year as assistant coach for the Army men's tennis team, Coach Rowley brings a vast coaching experience and knowledge to Southwestern College's summer tennis camp. Coach Rowley began his coaching career as an assistant coach at his alma mater, Southwestern College, where he is a 2010 inductee into the athletic hall of fame.
Coach Rowley has coached at several Division I universities including the University of Kansas, Southwestern Louisiana University, the University of Louisiana at Monroe, Texas Tech, and the University of Southern Mississippi. He has led his teams to two NCAA appearances and numbers of year-end national rankings.
Coach Rowley has traveled and coached on the WTA tour, ITF men's and women's tour, the US Open, and the Australian Open. He has spent numerous years coaching and traveling with nationally and world-ranked junior players in the United States and Europe.
Jason Speegle (Sessions 1 & 2)
Jason Speegle is currently in his third season as the Head Men's and Women's Tennis Coach at Southwestern College. He served as the assistant coach during most of the 2011-2012 season and was named interim coach of the Builders in April of 2012.
Speegle played tennis for the Southwestern College Moundbuilders from 1996-1999 earning second team All-KCAC and KCAC Scholar Athlete honors during the 1998-1999 season. After six years of mission work in the Dominican Republic, Speegle and his family returned to Southwestern in 2008 when he became the director of Green Team Southwestern.
Speegle grew up in Liberal, Kansas playing basketball, baseball and golf and played on the tennis and golf teams during his time at Southwestern. Upon returning to Winfield, Speegle has coached tennis and T-ball during the summers and has assisted with tennis camps at Southwestern and Army.
"I love to help students succeed, on the court, in the classroom and beyond," says Speegle. "My role at Southwestern is to help students earn their degrees and prepare them to be successful, responsible young men and women. I have a passion for Christ, family and service and I try to share those values with the students with whom I interact."
Speegle graduated from Southwestern as valedictorian earning a Bachelors of Arts degree in Physics with a minor in Business Administration in May 1999. He continued his education at Southwestern and received his Masters of Science in Leadership in December of 2008.
Speegle resides in Winfield with his wife Amanda, sons Edwin and Isaac, and daughter Maggie.
Feel free to contact Coach Speegle at (toll free) 1-800-846-1543 ext. 6311, (direct line) 620-229-6311, (fax) 620-229-6124, or e-mail at email@example.com.
Richard Southern
Rich Southern assumed the role of Assistant Tennis Coach at Southwestern College prior to the 2013-14 season. and is originally from Andrews, Texas. He came to Southwestern from the University of the Southwest in Hobbs, N.M. where he played tennis all four years.
In his time as a Mustang Southern was 2nd in all time wins in the school's history and he was the named as the team captain his Junior and Senior year. Southern graduated from the University of the Southwest with a Bachelor's degree in Business Administration and is furthering his education here at Southwestern College where he is working towards his masters.


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You are invited to hear Christine McDonald, motivational speaker, activist, sex trafficking survivor, consultant, author of the book, Cry Purple, at St. Timothy's Episcopal Church, Creve Coeur, on Tuesday, February 11 at 7pm. This is event is free and open to the public. Sponsored by St. Timothy's Kiva Plus Ministry*. Ms. McDonald will sell and sign copies of her book--$20.
*St. Timothy's Kiva Plus Ministry gives microloans through Kiva.org, donates to non-profits such as Worldwide Fistula Foundation and Heifer. We also have relationships with local organizations like Magdalene House, St. Louis.
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instead of Easter? It was for me here today. WOO HOO as Token says. Just took delivery of my "big box" of perennials from Bluestone. WOW! They look terrific. Eleven different kinds, some multiples. I placed them outside in a shady spot and watered according to directions. They'll go in next week (I hope).
Plus, PLUS, are you all ready? My new camera and a host of accessories were delivered at the same time! I was weak-in-the-knees and almost went down in front of the UPS man. It was all I could do to even sign the electronic receipt. So...I'm opening boxes and listening to tunes on Pandora. Now feeling randy, I've decided to make Puttanesca and listen to the call of the Italian sirens to finish off the evening. Oh, and a little vino, too. I should do this every month. Prof |
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Sounds like you are all set for a good weekend. Good luck w/your plants. Hope to see pictures soon. Bonnie |
- Posted by retiredprof 7 - Northern DE (My Page) on Fri, Apr 10, 09 at 18:34
PV: Yes, Bluestone was my first time. But then I have "first times" every three years. :-) The plants really are fantastic--larger than expected, clearly labeled, and in great condition. Very impressed with the packaging and obvious care to make sure they arrived in good condition. As for the camera: As I'm sure you've figured out, I'm a world traveler-- hiking through the Galapagos, the rainforests of Costa Rica, the Italian villages during summer. There was no doubt I needed a major piece of equipment to respond to every photo opp. I went with a Panasonic Lumix TZ-5 because of the Leica zoom lens (I'm a Leica fan from way back). I can now capture the mating habits of dust mites in low light. Now all I have to do is figure out how to use the damn thing, make them "National Geographic" quality and upload them to some site so I can share. Seems like a little overkill to catch pics of tomatoes in second leaf, but we'll have some fun! Prof PS: FYI, I've never been out of the country. I've lived in Delaware for ten years and never been to the beach! |
Dang, "I'm a world traveler-- hiking through the Galapagos, the rainforests of Costa Rica, the Italian villages during summer", thought I might want to be included on that excel list. Course, you'd have to wait cause my DH is a great guy and in excellent health. (wink) |
- Posted by mayberrygardener z5a, Broomfield, CO (My Page) on Fri, Apr 10, 09 at 23:31
So, I'm a little confused, prof; why in the WORLD would anyone ever want to photograph dust mites doin' the nasturtium--and why would you want to set mood lighting for them!?! Glad to hear that all your goodies came in--you'll have a great couple of days getting it all figured out. For the record, who needs to go to the beach when ya' got a garden to tend! |
Looks like you made a good choice on the camera, Prof. I'm partial to Carl Zeiss lenses myself, but that may well be because I really like Sony cameras. Good luck with it - we'll be watching for some fabuloso pics! PV |
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StageWorks of Cleveland hit the ground running in February and immediately made connections with other community organizations to help advise and guide.
In March the group held its first public forum meetings to get the word out. Since then, the first fundraising gala was, which enjoyed a great turnout from the community. Plans are under way for a second gala.
In little less than a year the group is getting ready to present its second. The show being prepared is "Alibis" by Peter Kennedy.
The play is a Murder Mystery with a comedic twist. Those familiar with the 1980s movie "Clue" or the board game by the same name will recognize a resemblance in story line and characters. This play involves a crazy butler, a detective wannabe and many other twists and turns.
"Alibis" is a show that will leave the audience wondering "whodunit" with a few laughs. The show is directed by Michael Myers, who said this show has been one of his favorites since starring as Sandy Lynxe back in middle school.
StageWorks will present "Alibis" at Cleveland State Community College in the George R. Johnson Cultural Heritage Building. The first weekend of shows will be Feb. 8 and 9 at 8 p.m. with matinee performances at 3 p.m. on Feb. 9, 10 and 16.
Tickets are $15 for adults, $10 for students with a valid ID and for groups of 10 or more, $10 for each person.
Tickets are available from the StageWorks website: www.stageworkscleveland.weebly.com (where you can also find out more about the group); or at the door.
A "Buy-One-Get-One-Half" special will be Feb. 14 and 15 — two adult tickets for $22 or two student tickets for $15. Shows will start at 8 p.m.
The cast, crew and director have been working hard to get the show together and are eager to present it to the Cleveland community. Stageworks members say "Thank you" to everyone for their support.


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He originally came to us when my brother found him outside of our house. Apollo walked right up to him and licked his hand, just like a dog would do. My brother immediately fell in love with him and brought him inside. We got him tested for FELV/FIV, neutered, vaccinated, dewormed, and welcomed him into our home.
He quickly adjusted to indoor life with our other dogs and cats. He followed people around and licked their face and talked constantly. He's has a personality that is a mix between a dog and a small child. He's very entertaining and loves to play.
He's not an exceptionally cuddly cat. He will sleep in your lap, but if you try to cuddle with him, he will just start licking you like crazy.
My brother is moving out soon and is not able to take Apollo with him. I feel that he needs a home where he can get more individual attention, as right now he's living in the downstairs part of our house due to lack of room.
I would estimate him at around 5 years old. He is completely up to date on medical care. He would be totally fine with other dogs, cats, and children. He's fully litter box trained.
The picture doesn't do him justice, as it washes him out. He is white with flame points on his nose, ears and tail. He has beautiful blue eyes. I'm sure he has some kind of siamese in him, which is probably what makes him so vocal.
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Highland Mommies fave Stroller Strides exempt from Denver park-permit rules -- for now
Several years ago, the powerful Highlands Mommies put a stop to a policy that would have required private workout groups to pay for permits to operate in Denver parks. But after receiving complaints about the proliferation of such groups, Parks and Rec decided to consider the policy again. It was adopted in May -- though there's currently a moratorium on enforcing it for groups that use the walking paths, such as Mommies-favorite Stroller Strides.Stroller Strides
That's because there is no permit that suits the needs of mobile groups like Stroller Strides, in which moms power-walk with their babies and do strength training exercises along the way. The current permits are designed to let groups or individuals rent a particular part of the park, such as a field for soccer practice.
"We put a moratorium on requiring a permit for commercial activity while we sit down to think about what the policy should look like," says Jeff Green, spokesman for the city's Parks and Recreation Department. "We want to make it so they can operate in the parks and do so within the rules and regulations." Green says the department expects to host stakeholder meetings to discuss a proposed permit and fee structure in early 2013.
A city ordinance that's been on the books for decades (and is on view below) says its unlawful to sell any goods or services in the parks "without legal authorization." But park rangers can't enforce city ordinances; they enforce Parks and Rec Rules and Regulations -- and until May 11, there wasn't a rule that coincided with the city ordinance.
Sarah Johnson owns the Stroller Strides Highlands franchise. She first heard about the new rule (which is also on view below) in October, when she got an e-mail from a park ranger informing her of it and suggesting she contact the permit office. "There was a week and a half when they kicked everybody out of all the parks," Johnson says. "Then people started raising H-E-double-hockey-sticks."Stroller Strides
By the time Parks and Rec staffers realized they didn't have a permit for mobile groups and put in place the enforcement moratorium, Johnson's group was getting ready to head inside for the winter anyway. Currently, the group gathers at the Clare Gardens gymnasium. But Johnson hopes to begin hosting outdoor classes again on April 1. If Denver hasn't come up with a policy that works for her by then, she says she may take her group to Edgewater.
"Their parks and rec department has already embraced us with open arms and said, 'We'd love to have you,'" she says. "They are offering it to us for free."
Denver will likely charge a fee and, Green says, the fee may vary from park to park; permits for busier parks, such as Wash Park, may cost more. The dates and times that private workout groups can operate in certain parks may also be limited -- or prohibited entirely -- depending on how much the park is used, he says.
But Green says the department also understands that the fee structure has to be affordable for groups that may only charge their customers $5 or $10 a class. "We need to find out how they operate and figure out something that works," he says.
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Today Detroit – Tomorrow, Every City in America
May 5, 2011 by TMO · Leave a Comment
By Rania Khalek
If Milton Friedman, father of the free market, were alive today, I imagine he would be jumping with joy at the prospect of the abandonment of public education for private, for-profit charter schools.
Back in 2005, following the devastation of hurricane Katrina, Friedman wrote an article in the Wall Street Journal where he said "This is a tragedy. It is also an opportunity to radically reform the educational system." Soon after, Friedmonites rushed into New Orleans for the chance to implement what Friedman had long envisioned. With the help of the Bush administration, they dissolved the public school system and in its place built a network of publicly funded charters run, not by educators, but by private entities that made their own rules.
At the time, New Orleans residents alerted the rest of the country, that what was happening to their city was only the beginning and it wouldn't be long before it spread to our neighborhoods. In 2006, Bill Quigley, a local lawyer and activist warned:
We know that what is happening in New Orleans is just a more concentrated, more graphic version of what is going on all over our country. Every city in our country has some serious similarities to New Orleans. Every city has some abandoned neighborhoods. Every city in our country has abandoned some public education, public housing, public healthcare, and criminal justice. Those who do not support public education, healthcare, and housing will continue to turn all of our country into the Lower Ninth Ward unless we stop them. Why do we allow this?
If only we had listened. Soon after New Orleans came the drastic transformation of the Chicago school system by Obama's Labor Secretary Arne Duncan, New York City schools by Mayor Bloomberg, and Washington DC schools by Michelle Rhee. Which brings us to Detroit.
Following the passage of Michigan Republican Gov. Rick Snyder's "Financial Martial Law," Emergency Financial Manager (EFM) of Detroit Public Schools (DPS) Robert Bobb is closing 8 schools and selling 45 to charter companies. DPS is currently preparing a charter school board through training sessions provided by the National Charter Schools Institute, which had more than 70 charter operators and entrepreneurs in attendance just this month. In addition, DPS has hired the National Association of Charter School Authorizers (NACSA) to review applications. NACSA's president, Greg Richmond, worked with charter schools set up in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, and claims "The system opened up to the people of New Orleans in a way it hadn't before…Now there are dozens of opportunities to get involved."
In sharp contrast to the lingering unemployment that plagues Detroit, the auctioning off of Detroit's schools is taking place with breathtaking speed. Gov. Snyder is on a mission to reinvent public education. He is calling for more measurements of student and teacher performance, while at the same time proposing deregulation and more teacher autonomy. He says "We have to put much more emphasis on proficiency, on growth, on measurements and results than we have had in the past" and "Michigan's public schools need to more rigorously measure students' academic growth, but with fewer state rules to make that happen."
Detroit residents have already started protesting. Just last week, eight students, along with their children and some faculty members of the Catherine Ferguson Academy of Detroit, began a sit-in at the end of the school day in protest of EFM Robert Bobb's announcement to close the school. About a dozen or so were arrested by Detroit police for refusing to leave. The school is specifically designed for pregnant and teen parents and their children, and has a 90% graduation rate and 100% college and higher education acceptance upon graduation.
Gov. Snyder recently said his focus is a holistic approach to education from pre-natal to life-long learning. He says early childhood education is important and should involve "a public and private partnership." If shutting down an award-winning school and arresting, rather than listening to the students he claims to care so much about, is his idea of a holistic approach, then Detroit is in for a treat.
Shanta Driver, National Chairperson of By Any Means Necessary (BAMN), in an interview with Voice of Detroit at the sit-in, said it best:
The massive school closures that have been carried out in DPS since 2004 have led to the depopulation of Detroit and to the deepening financial crisis of the district. Public schools are being closed to make way for charters and are part of the national attack on public education. Today Detroit – tomorrow, every city in America. The parents and students of Catherine Ferguson are fighting to maintain the right of every student in our nation to a free, quality public education. Every supporter of public education should do everything possible to support their fight and make sure they succeed.
Driver is warning us, as did the people of New Orleans in 2006. This corporately funded education reform movement that praises standardised tests, non-union teachers, and private management as the solution to the budget woes of Detroit's education system is a threat to us all.
Rania Khalek is a young, progressive activist with a passionate dedication to social justice. Check out her blog Missing Pieces or follow her on twitter @Rania_ak. You can contact her at email@example.com.
Pres. Obama's Economic Policies
February 4, 2010 by TMO · Leave a Comment
By Michael Hudson
Reality had to raise its ugly head. Barack Obama was elected with overwhelming approval to inaugurate an era of change. And at his November 25 press conference, he said that his decisive victory gave him a mandate to change the direction in which America is moving. But his recent economic and foreign policy appointments make it clear that when he chose "change" as his campaign slogan, he was NOT referring to the financial, insurance and real estate (FIRE) sectors, nor to foreign policy. These are where the vested interests concentrate their wealth and power. And change already has been accelerating here. Unfortunately, its direction has been for the top 1% of America's population to raise their share of in the returns to wealth from 37% ten years ago to 57% five years ago and an estimated nearly 70% today.
The change that Mr. Obama is talking about is largely marginal to this wealth, not touching its economic substance – or its direction. No doubt he will bring about a welcome change in race relations, environmental regulations, and a more civil rule of law. And he probably will give wage earners an income-tax break (thereby enabling them to keep on paying their bank debts, incidentally). As for the rich, they prefer not to earn income in the first place. Taxes need to be paid on income, so they take their returns in the form of capital gains. And simply avoiding losses is the order of the day in the present meltdown.
Where losses cannot be avoided, the government will bail out the rich on their financial investments, but not wage earners on their debts. On that Friday night last October when Mr. Obama and Mr. McCain held their final debate, Mr. Obama was fully on board with the bailouts. And this week's appointment of the "Yeltsin" team who sponsored Russia's privatization giveaways in the mid-1990s Larry Summers and his protégés from the Clinton's notorious Robert Rubin regime shows that he knows his place when it comes to the proper relationship between a political candidate and his major backers. It is to protect the vested interests first of all, while focusing voters' attention on policies whose main appeal is their ability to distract attention from the fact that no real change is being made at the economic core and its power relationships.
This is not what most people hoped for. But their hopes were so strong that it was easier to indulge in happy dreams and put one's faith in a prince than to look at the systemic problems that need to be restructured in order for real change to occur. Individuals do not determine who owes what to whom, who is employed by whom or what laws govern their work and investment. Institutional economic and political structures are the key. And somehow the focus has been on the politics of personalities, not on the economic forces at work.
This is as true abroad as it is in the United States. Two weeks ago I was at an economic meeting on "financialization" in Germany. Most of the attendees with whom I spoke expressed the hope – indeed, almost a smug conviction – that Obama would be like Gorbachev in Russia: a man who saw the need for deep structural change but chose to bide his time, seeming to "play the game" with the protective coloration of going along, but then introducing a revolutionary reform program once in office.
Instead, after resembling President Carter by running a brilliant presidential primary campaign to win the nomination (will a similarly disappointing administration be about to come?), Obama is looking more like Boris Yeltsin – a political umbrella for the kleptocrats to whom the public domain and decades of public wealth were given with no quid pro quo.
Obama's ties with the Yeltsin administration are as direct as could be. He has appointed as his economic advisors the same anti-labor, pro-financial team that brought the kleptocrats to power in Russia in the mid-1990s. His advisor Robert Rubin has managed to put his protégés in key Obama administration posts: Larry Summers, who as head of the World Bank forced privatization at give-away prices to kleptocrats; Geithner of the New York Fed; and a monetarist economist from Berkeley, as right-wing a university as Chicago. These are the protective guard-dogs of America's vested interests.
If you are a billionaire, your first concern is simply to preserve your wealth, to avoid having to take a loss in the value of your financial claims on the economy – claims for repayment of loans and investment, as well as interest and dividends, and enough capital gains to compensate for the price inflation that erodes the spending power of more lowly income-earners.
This year has changed the typical fate of financial wealth in the face of bursting financial bubbles. Traditionally, business booms culminate in a wave of bankruptcies that wipe out bad debts–and the savings that have been invested on the 'asset' side of the balance sheet. This year has changed all that. The bad debts are being kept on the books–but transferred from the banks to the federal government, mainly the Federal Reserve and Treasury. The bank bailouts have aimed not so much to protect the banks themselves, but to enable them to pay off on the bad bets they made vis-à-vis the nation's hedge funds and other institutional investors in the derivatives market.
To participate in a hedge fund, one needs to prove that one can afford to lose their money and not be much the worse off for it in terms of actual living conditions. So the $306 billion in federal guarantees of the junk mortgage packages sold by Citibank, and the $135 billion bailout of the insurance contracts written by A.I.G. to protect swap contracts from loss, could have been avoided without much impact on the "real" economy.
In fact, writing down these financial claims ON the economy would have paved the way for writing down its debt burden. If the subprime and other mortgage debts had been permitted to decline to the neighborhood of 22 cents on a dollar they were trading for, this would have made it possible to write down debts to match the price at which mortgage holders had bought these loans for. But the financial overhead of American wealth "saved" in the form of creditor claims on indebted homeowners, industrial companies and junk-insurance companies such as A.I.G. has been protected against erosion by this year's federal bailout program.
Bloomberg has added up these programs and finds that they $7.7 trillion dollars – nearly half an entire year's GDP. By acting to support the market for bad-mortgage loans (but not for real estate itself), the seemingly endless series of Paulson bailouts seeks to be to keep today's debt overhead intact rather than writing it down. Service charges on this indebtedness will divert peoples' income from consumption to paying creditors. It will help financial investors, not labor or industry. It will keep the cost of living and doing business high, preventing the U.S. economy from working its way out of debt by becoming competitive once again.
With all these trillions of dollars of bailing out the wealthy, one might easily forget to ask what is being left out. For one thing, the government's Pension Benefit Guarantee Corp, whose $25 billion deficit is not bailed out. This year, underfunded corporate pension plans are supposed to "catch up" to full funding so as to protect the PBGC, in accordance with a law passed by Congress two years ago. If underfunded plans don't meet the scheduled 92% coverage for this year, they have to bring their set-asides fully up to the 100% funding level. The stock market plunge has dashed their hopes to do this. The result will be to force many industrial companies into a financial bind.
On the auto front, the Bush Administration has brought pressure to force the big three Detroit companies into bankruptcy as a way to annul their defined-benefit pension plans – with no plans at all bail out money owed to labor by restoring the PBGC to solvency. State and local pension plans are almost entirely unfunded, and are at even more risk as their tax revenues plunge and property tax payments are stopped on housing and commercial buildings that have foreclosed.
And speaking of state and local finances, what role is local government to play in Mr. Obama's promise to rebuild infrastructure, headed by transportation? Given their strapped position, one is hearing a surge of Wall Street plans to spend enormous sums. Whereas Obama's economic team made fortunes for Russian kleptocrats by giving them public-sector assets already in place, their American counterparts are going to have to get rich by actually building new projects. In such cases the benefits are as large as the total amount of money being spent – but not in the way that most people understand at first glance. Construction contracts for new public transport systems, bridges and roads and urban or rural modernization may be entirely honest and provided at a fair cost. But it is a byproduct of such investment that it creates an amount that is of equal or often even greater magnitude in the form of rent-of-location – that is, vast windfall gains for well-located real estate.
This is where Mr. Obama's Chicago political experience comes in so handy. It is in fact a game tailor-made for his team. Hundreds of millions of dollars were made in gentrifying Chicago's notorious but conveniently centrally located public housing for low-income families. The developments sponsored by Mr. Obama's mentors, the Pritzker family, the University of Chicago and assorted real estate reverends opened up vast new land sites, with public support to boot. (The house where I grew up in Hyde Park-Kenwood, a block or so from Mr. Obama's house, was torn down along with the rest of the entire block as part of Mayor Daley's urban renewal program in the late 1950s – after the University's block busters had run down the neighborhood, then panicked the whites into selling to the blacks at extortionate price markups and mortgage rate premiums, then tearing down the houses into which the blacks had moved. It's an old real estate game that one learns quickly in Chicago politics.) As Thorstein Veblen noted, any American city's politics is best understood by viewing it as a real estate development.
The gains from providing better transport infrastructure typically are so large that transportation investment could be self-financing by taxing these property gains recapturing the added rental value in the form of property windfall taxes. Londons tube extension to Canary Wharf, for example, cost the city £8 billion but increased real estate values along the route by some £13 billion. The city could have financed the entire project by issuing bonds that would have been repaid out of taxes levied on the windfall gains created by this public expenditure.
Likewise in New York City, the transport authority has just announced that subway and bus fares will be jacked up (adding no less than $10 to the monthly commute card) and services cut back sharply. Mayor Bloomberg has just stopped work on the 2nd Avenue subway, its completion will add at least as much to upper East Side property values as the subway costs itself. The city thus could finance its construction not by issuing bonds to be paid off by city and state taxpayers in combination with user fees paid as fares. Taxpayers wouldn't have to pay, and riders could enjoy subsidized fares simply by taxing the real estate owners.
But I see no prospect of this being done. Real estate is still the name of the game, because it remains the largest asset category in every economy today just as much as under feudalism. The difference from feudalism is that whereas landlords received the rental value of their lands in centuries past, today's property owners acquire ownership not by military conquest (the Norman invasion of 1066 in England's case) but by borrowing from the banks. To a mortgage banker, a commercial developer or real estate company is a prime customer, the bulwark of bank balance sheets. It is hard to imagine a new American infrastructure program not turning into a new well of real estate gains for the FIRE sector. Real estate owners on favorably situated sites will sell out to buyers-on-credit, creating a vast new and profitable loan market for banks. The debt spiral will continue upward.
The fact that state and local budgets are too burdened to afford infrastructure spending themselves will lead to it being privatized from the outset. Probably London's notorious public-private partnerships (a Labour Party refinement more Thatcherite than even Margaret Thatcher herself could have got away with) probably will become the basic model. Users will pay higher fees rather than enjoying the subsidized or free access typical in public infrastructure spending during the Progressive Era. The main purpose of public enterprise back then was to keep prices down for basic services, thus lowering the cost of living and doing business in America. But today, infrastructure spending will be just one more item adding to America's debt overhead to make its economy even less competitive with foreign ones than it is.
The moral is, next time a candidate promises change, ask him to say just what changes he has in mind. During the Presidential debates, only Dennis Kucinich came out and said each specific law that he had put before Congress to implement each change he promised. But most of the public didn't want to know the details – they simply liked hearing the word "change."
Here are some purely fiscal and financial changes that a future presidential candidate might propose – changes that I don't expect to be hearing any more about during the next four years. Just to get the discussion going, why shouldn't these merely marginal changes within the existing system be implemented right now by a presidential candidate who is still bragging about his "mandate for change":
* Regarding fiscal policy, re-introduce the estate tax, along with (at the very least) the Clinton era's progressive-tax schedule.
* Tax capital gains at the same rate as wages and profits, rather than at half the rate; and make these taxes be paid at the point of sale of real estate or other assets, not deferred ad infinitum if the gains simply are invested in yet more wealth.
* Require a cost-benefit analysis of any publicly backed infrastructure spending so as to recapture all "external economies" (such as windfall real estate price gains) as the first line of financing such investment.
* Tax corporate borrowing that is used merely to pay stock dividends or buy back one's own stock at least at 50%.
* Close the practice of offshore tax avoidance, and bring criminal cases against accounting firms abetting this practice.
* Only let a building be depreciated once, not repeatedly as a tax writeoff.
* Refocus state and local taxation on the property tax, remembering that whatever the tax collector relinquishes is simply "freed" to be paid to the banks as interest.
* In the sphere of bad-debt banking, when a government agency takes over a bank or company that has negative net worth, the stockholders must be wiped out as their stock has lost all market value. Bondholders must stand in line behind the government in case of insolvency.
* Write down mortgage debts to the ability of property owners to pay and/or the present market value. Banks that have made loans to these borrowers must take responsibility for their decision that the owners could afford to pay. Even better, apply New York State's existing Fraudulent Conveyance law, and simply annul loans that are beyond the ability of debtors to pay.
None of this involves real structural change. It is simply more economically efficient under existing laws and practices – something like actually enforcing environmental law, anti-fraud and anti-crime laws, and the original intent of our tax legislation. It is a small step back toward the Progressive Era a century ago – the era that set America on the path of prosperity that made the 20th century the American century.
Michael Hudson is a former Wall Street economist. A Distinguished Research Professor at University of Missouri, Kansas City (UMKC), he is the author of many books, including Super Imperialism: The Economic Strategy of American Empire (new ed., Pluto Press, 2002) He can be reached via his website, firstname.lastname@example.com
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July 2, 2009 by TMO · Leave a Comment
Top scientist receives grant to develop fast test to detect porcine fat
TALLAHASSEE, June 29, 2009– Y-H. Peggy Hsieh, of Florida State University, recently received a grant from Tanaka Kikinzoku Kogyo K. of Japan to develop a rapid method for the detection of porcine fat. The two-year grant provides $216,000 in research funds plus $40,000 in consulting fees.
Pork tissue is strictly prohibited in Halal diets for religious reasons. Reliable methods for the detection of any porcine tissue, including muscle and fat, are of paramount importance to the practicing Muslim and Jewish populations. Hsieh has previously developed a rapid pork immunoassay which can sensitively detect any pork muscle in food and feed mixtures regardless of their processing conditions. This pork-specific assay was commercialized in 2000 and has been widely used internationally. However, detection of pork fat remains challenging due to the physiochemical nature of the fat. Currently available methods such as DNA based Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) techniques, gas and liquid chromatography, and near-infrared spectroscopy, all require sophisticated instruments coupled with complex data analysis procedures for interpreting results. Rapid field tests of pork or any other fat are non-existent.
Hsieh will search for a porcine-specific and thermal-stable biomarker in the porcine fat tissue and develop a rapid method for the detection of the biomarker in raw and processed pork fat. It is anticipated that after two years, she will deliver the very first field assay which can identify even small amounts of pork fat in a wide range of raw and processed materials without using expensive instrumentation. This type of assay will greatly benefit billions of people who try to avoid pork in their diet. Tanaka has signed an optional licensing agreement with FSU in the hopes of commercializing Hsieh's end product upon completion of this project.
The Tanaka Kikinzoku Group is Japan's leading precious metals company with a history of over one hundred and twenty years. Although best known internationally for its high specification industrial products, the group is also producer and trader of a variety of bullion and platinum group metals, coins and bars. The group is also active environmentally, and is one of the world's largest recyclers of platinum group metals. Their newly established Medical Group, which is funding Hsieh's research, is focused on developing various products through the use of precious metals to improve human health.
Protestors at mosque presented with roses
BOSTON, MA–The mosque complex of the Islamic Society of Boston Cultural Center officially opened last Friday with more than 1800 worshippers in attendance. Mayor Thomas M. Menino, city councilors, and state lawmakers also attended the ceremony.
The mosque had faced a plethora of problems including financial woes and allegations that some of the speakers there had indulged in extreme rhetoric.
A handful of protestors stood across the street from the mosque holding placards led by a leading critic Charles Mosque. Local Muslims gave them white flowers as a gesture of peace. A few arguments ensued but the overall atmosphere was peaceful.
The Muslim leaders of the area hoped that the mosque will become a hub of interfaith programs.
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NEW YORK,NY–Mayor Michael Bloomberg says New York City's schools can't close for Muslim holidays.
The City Council is considering a nonbinding resolution on Tuesday asking the Education Department to observe Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha.
The city has the nation's largest school system. A 2008 study by Columbia University's Teachers College estimates at least 10 percent of its 1.1 million students are Muslim.
The resolution asks the Bloomberg administration to observe the holidays in schools and for the state to require it by amending education law.
The mayor says the city is so diverse schools can't observe every holiday.
LAPD appoints first Muslim chaplain
LOS ANGELES, CA–In a bid to improve relations with Muslims, the Los Angeles Police Department has appointed its first Muslim chaplain.
Pakistan-born Sheik Qazi Asad, 47, will become a reserve chaplain at the North Hollywood station, the Los Angeles Times reported Monday.
"We need to establish very good communication … where both parties are talking to each other," Asad told the Times. "This is just opening up the door."
Asad, a U.S. citizen, has spent a decade working to improve relations between police and Muslims in Los Angeles County.
The LAPD hopes he'll strengthen relations that have suffered since the department tried to map the city's Muslim population in 2007, the newspaper said. The department abandoned the plan after critics called it religious profiling.
Asad has served as a member of the sheriff's Executive Clergy Council, on which he worked to build trust between Muslims and police.


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And now it's time for your daily dose of Peyton Manning news. Just 22 days from the deadline for which the Colts owe Manning a $28 million non-guaranteed option, a report from Sports Illustrated claims that Manning actually underwent a fourth, until-now-unreported, surgical procedure on his neck in the past two years.
Until now, the belief was that No. 18 had only gone under the knife three times to address issues with bulging discs and/or a lack of cervical fusion in his neck.
But it gets worse. From SI's Don Banks:
"In addition, league sources say Manning's neck has potentially developed bone spurs just above the point where his latest fusion surgery took place in early September, and the Colts organization is under the belief that it is nearly inevitable Manning will at some point require further surgery, and possibly another fusion procedure, even if he does successfully return to the field in 2012."
Banks added that "the team is concerned that Manning's neck injuries have reached the chronic stage, and that there could be a genetic aspect to his condition." His brother Cooper had his football career upended as a teenager due to spinal stenosis.
I'm not a doctor (yet) but I'd have to believe that, based on the time it has taken Manning to regain his throwing ability following previous procedures, another operation — and another attempt at fusion in particular — would put his career in serious jeopardy.
Yesterday's report du jour that team owner Jim Irsay was opening the door for a potential Manning return further bolstered my belief that there's a sneaky chance Manning lands back in Indy in 2012. But this report from Banks only serves to bolster the even more likely chance that Manning simply never plays professional football again.


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By Jim Kerstetter Oracle CEO Lawrence J. Ellison is at it again. Just two months after the database giant finalized the $10.3 billion hostile acquisition of rival software maker PeopleSoft, Oracle (ORCL) on Mar. 8 announced a surprise bid for retail software maker Retek (RETK). The $9-per-share offer comes just eight days after German software giant SAP (SAP) said it planned to acquire Retek for $496 million.
Oracle's $525 million bid is 50 cents per share higher SAP's offer. Ellison makes no bones about his intentions to fend off SAP, saying Oracle intends to protect its market share in North America, where its business applications sales are strongest. "We evaluated SAP's bid to acquire Retek carefully -- and we decided that we were going to make a bid ourselves," he said in a conference call with analysts.
LENGTHY PREPARATION. Clearly, the fight between the world's two largest makers of run-the-business corporate software is getting a lot nastier. In January, just as Oracle was ending its 18-month pursuit of PeopleSoft, SAP acquired a small San Francisco consulting company called TomorrowNow, which specializes in poaching lucrative software-maintenance contracts from PeopleSoft. Now, SAP can use that little outfit's expertise to win those contracts away from PeopleSoft's new owner, Oracle. SAP declined comment on Mar. 8.
It appears that Ellison is returning the favor. While SAP execs may be surprised by Ellison's latest move, it wouldn't have come as a shock to the folks in Retek's Minneapolis headquarters. Last September, Oracle and Retek talked of a merger, but nothing came of those discussions, Oracle President Charles Phillips said in the conference call. Retek executives couldn't be immediately reached for comment.
However, Oracle kept a "due diligence" team working for months on a Retek integration plan. Ellison said he has talked with Retek CEO Marty Leestma several times, including one call just hours before Oracle went public with its bid.
"We feel the deal is customer-friendly. We feel the deal is employee-friendly -- and a much better value" than SAP's offer, Ellison said. While they were talking with Retek, Oracle execs knew the Minnesota outfit was in discussions with another potential suitor, but they didn't know which one it was.
RETAIL SPECIALIST. So why didn't Oracle make an earlier offer? Ellison says once the deal for PeopleSoft looked like it was going to close, his execs focused their efforts on integrating it with Oracle, allowing SAP to swoop in and make its own offer for Retek. Oracle struck back over the last few days, quietly acquiring 10% of Retek's outstanding shares.
Now, Ellison wants the rest. Compared to PeopleSoft, which had more than $2 billion in annual sales, Retek represents a mere pittance. It has about 525 employees, and last year it boasted an $8.2 million profit on $174.2 million in sales.
While its software, which is used to manage inventory and merchandise at big retailers like Best Buy (BBY), has virtually no overlap with Oracle's existing product line, Ellison says it should be compatible from a technology point of view. Moreover, he said the deal is so comparatively small that it shouldn't prevent Oracle from making other big acquisitions over the next year.
CONFUSION? But Oracle watchers wonder if Ellison is putting too much on his plate. "There's still a lot to digest -- and a lot of questions about product, technology, direction," says Joshua Greenbaum, principal analyst at the tech researcher Enterprise Applications Consulting. "Adding Retek to the mix would potentially confuse customers and stretch Oracle's acquisitions team to the utmost."
It could also spark a bidding war. While SAP's bid represented a 42% premium on Retek's Feb. 25 closing price, Oracle's competitive offer should goose share prices even further. In after-hours trading immediately after the offer was announced, Retek shares jumped 16.9%, to $10.04.
Leave it to Ellison to light another fire under the otherwise quiet world of business software. Kerstetter is Technology editor at BusinessWeek Online


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Born in Lérida and educated in Barcelona, Enrique Granados left his native Spain to study in Paris in 1887. He returned to Spain and gave recitals, often with musicians of the calibre of Camille Saint-Saens. His most enduring work is probably his piano suite Goyescas, first performed in 1911. This he later adapted as an opera, working in material from other pieces of his. Although Catalan by birth, Granados was more attracted to the culture of Castillian Spain, and it is this which gives his work its nationalist flavour. This was in opposition to the approach of his friend Isaac Albéniz , a fellow Catalonian who embraced the culture of his own region.
Most of Granados' output is for voice or piano, influenced largely by Grieg and Schumann, whose lyrical styles blended well with the zarzuela Granados loved so dearly. Granados was also a keen writer and painter; he tragically lost his life in 1916 when aboard a ship torpedoed by a German submarine.


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How do growers grow more plants if they are grafting scions onto a root stock? To me it sounds like you have two trees growing. You cut a scion off one and graft it onto the other...you still have two trees. How do you get three trees? I'm totally confused. Seems like you have to cut a tree in half to get the root stock just to get a new tree...leaving you with the same amount of trees. |
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- Posted by ken_adrian z5 (My Page) on Thu, Mar 21, 13 at 18:29
lets talk pine... you find 100 pine cones ... gather the seed w/in .. and grow 2000 seedlings for say 3 years .... now you have understock ... now you find so really cool other pines.. variegated.. yellow.. mini's.. dwarfs.. etc.. and lets just say.. you kill a mature plant.. and take 100 pieces off of each cool one.. and hopefully end up with 80 of each ... and the best part.. the seedling understock are worth 3 bucks each.. but the grafted ones.. grown on a few years can fetch 30 to 100 dollars and up ... obviously.. its much more complicated.. but i think this ought to get you on your way ... you failure to understand .... is in thinking about what 'you' might need.. rather than thinking about how one would profit on VOLUME.. after all.. volume is the essence of propagation ... and profit ... good enough.. or you have more questions???? ken |
- Posted by landdesigner27 6 (My Page) on Thu, Mar 21, 13 at 19:35
Yes this is clear. Thanks Ken! Another propagation question....how does one create a new variety of plant. Let's say Huechera? Do you need expensive lab equipment? |
- Posted by ken_adrian z5 (My Page) on Fri, Mar 22, 13 at 7:58
again.. this is the stuff of doctoral studies.. and i am giving you the kindergarten level explanation ... you can research from here... now you are asking about mendel and genetics.. see link ... momma has a white flower.. daddy has a red flower.. your goal is a pink flower ... you cross momma to daddy.. many, many times.. and grow millions of plants.. to bloom size.. keeping meticulous records as to the crosses.. the genetics ... and when you find the pink flower.. or whatever trait you are aiming for.. with your records.. you can replicate the plant.. FOR A PROFIT ... in volume ... and beyond flower color.. you could do leaf color.. shape.. height.. etc ... next question???? ken |
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- Posted by landdesigner27 6 (My Page) on Fri, Mar 22, 13 at 8:58
How does one pull out the trait of say dark veins in a perennial leaf and insert that into another variety of the same perennial that has the flower color they like? Is there a part of the plant I can rub against the other? I just saw this done with tulips in a video. The guy rubbed stamen against the carpels (stigma?) and then planted, like you said, millions of bulbs. It sounds like what you are saying is that it's trial and error. Or are we able to pick traits we like and insert them? Maybe that's GMO territory? I should have paid more attention in bio. Lol. |
- Posted by ken_adrian z5 (My Page) on Fri, Mar 22, 13 at 18:28
once you perfect the flower.. you spend 10 more years adding leaf color ... you dont INSERT anything.. and i can not talk about gene splicing in this regard .... you need to bone up on genetics ... of which.. i can not give you the one paragraph answer.. but my link above about how to do it with peas was a beginning .... ken |
- Posted by landdesigner27 6 (My Page) on Sat, Mar 23, 13 at 9:08
Cool. I'm going through the link. Thanks Ken! If plants need water and air why is it that you can place a rose scion for example, in a jar of water and roots begin forming? |
- Posted by landdesigner27 6 (My Page) on Mon, Mar 25, 13 at 9:01
Roots need oxygen and water. If there are no roots, then you don't need oxygen to keep non existing roots alive. |
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