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7:15 PM — The Jamaican Parliament is set to review the country's Sexual Offences Act – which stipulates penalties against same-sex sexual activity.
Catholic diocese slams Bologna for recognising overseas same-sex marriages 8
4:30 PM — Bologna's Catholic Diocese has denounced the city's formal recognition of same-sex marriages conducted abroad.
Tom Daley 'loves Scotland' and thinks we are 'better together' 22
2:14 PM — Olympic Diver Tom Daley has renewed his support against Scottish independence by saying that he loves Great Britain.
WHO: Russia's anti-gay laws hamper fight against HIV 4
1:12 PM — Russia's "repressive drug and homosexuality laws" hamper its fight against HIV, the World Health Organisation has warned.
Anti-gay marriage Tory MP tables bill for straight civil partnerships 41
12:02 PM — A former children's minister who was accused of trying to "wreck" the government's same-sex marriage law has tabled a bill for heterosexual civil partnerships.
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Owen Jones rules out standing as an MP in Nick Clegg's seat 44
6:10 PM — Gay author and campaigner Owen Jones says he has no intention of standing as a Labour parliamentary candidate in Nick Clegg's seat.
Police tell men using Brighton cruising spot to '#zipitup' 22
5:23 PM — Sussex Police have increased patrols at a popular cruising spot in Brighton.
Scottish Greens: UK treatment of LGBT asylum seekers is 'brutal and inhumane' 14
4:26 PM — The co-convenor of the Scottish Green Party, Patrick Harvie, says successive governments at Westminster have failed to protect the rights of LGBT asylum seekers.
Arsenal boss: Football trailing behind rest of society in tackling homophobia 7
3:26 PM — Arsene Wenger concedes there is plenty of hard work to do if homophobia is to be reduced in football.
Remembering Mark Bingham and all those lost and affected by 9/11 24
1:54 PM — The US is remembering the victims of the 9/11 attacks in a series of memorials marking the 13th anniversary.
Report: 38 men are sexually assaulted each day in the US military – wrong to assume perpetrators are gay 28
12:27 PM — Figures show 38 men are sexually assaulted every single day in the US military – and it's a myth to assume most of the perpetrators are gay – a leading clinician says.
Northern Ireland: Top judge blasts ministers over lifetime gay blood ban row 5
10:49 AM — Northern Ireland's first and deputy first ministers have clashed in a row over a court judgement about the province's lifetime ban on gay men giving blood.
10th September 2014
Scottish leaders outline position on LGBT equality ahead of independence vote 7
6:35 PM — The leaders of the main political parties in Scotland have outlined their party's commitments to advancing LGBT rights ahead of next week's historic vote.
Scottish Labour leader: Independence would diminish equality in Scotland 9
5:25 PM — "Equality will not be top of the agenda for many years if we vote for independence," Scottish Labour leader Johann Lamont has warned.
Alex Salmond: Tories will scrap Human Rights Act and damage Scottish equality 35
3:39 PM — SNP First Minister Alex Salmond says Scotland's gains on LGBT rights would be at risk under a future Tory government without independence.
9th September 2014
Human Rights Campaign condemn Gambia over new anti-gay law 14
6:56 PM — The Human Rights Campaign has criticised Gambia over a bill to make "aggravated homosexuality" punishable by life imprisonment.
National Secular Society concerned as anti-gay marriage registrar reinstated 43
6:07 PM — The National Secular Society has expressed concern at a decision to reinstate a Christian registrar who was previously dismissed after refusing to conduct same-sex weddings.
Justice Minister: Tory plans on Europe could threaten rights of LGBT asylum seekers 11
5:30 PM — Lib Dem Justice Minister Simon Hughes says the government has made progress in the way it approaches the issue of LGBT asylum, but this could be undermined by Tory plans on Europe.
Leading teaching unions demand statutory PSHE 3
5:01 PM — Three major teaching unions – NUT, ATL and NAHT – have announced their support for statutory Personal, Social, Health and Economic (PSHE) Education.
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Tottenham manager Andre Villa-Boas has taunted Arsenal by saying that his Spurs side have sent The Gunners' season spinning into a "spiral of doom".
AVB saw his side move seven points clear of their fierce rivals after
victory in the North London derby
on Sunday afternoon.
First-half goals in the space of two minutes from Gareth Bale - his 20th of an outstanding campaign - and Aaron Lennon just before the break proved enough to hold off the Gunners, who had started the game well and rallied after Per Mertesacker's header on 51 minutes, but failed to find an equaliser.
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Spurs moved back above Chelsea up into third place in the Premier League, and crucially opened up that seven-point gap on Arsenal - who now look in real danger of failing to qualify for Europe's premier club competition for the first time in 16 seasons.
While not getting carried away, Villas-Boas believes it will have a huge psychological impact on the Gunners.
This was the Gunners' third defeat in four games and AVB crowed: "They are now in a negative spiral in terms of results — it will be extremely difficult for them to get out of it."
Tottenham's victory puts them back in the box seat for Champions League qualification with 10 games to go and they also have the prospect of finishing above the Gunners in the league for the first time since 1995.
AVB said: "This win is obviously very important for what it means. But nothing is finished yet and we still have to fight hard.
"We play Liverpool in the league next and that can be another big weekend for us as we to try to profit from another important fixture.
"There is still so much to go. This time last year Arsenal made the difference of seven points and we know how it finished.
"Now the motivation is the difference. We are extremely confident, they are on a low and for them to jump back will be very difficult."
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Last King of the Sports Page
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Book DescriptionPart crusader, part comedian, Jim Murray was a once-in-a-generation literary talent who just happened to ply his trade on newsprint, right near the box scores and race results. During his lifetime, Murray rose through the ranks of journalism, from hard-bitten 1940s crime reporter, to national Hollywood correspondent, to the top sports columnist in the United States. In "Last King of the Sports Page: The Life and Career of Jim Murray," Ted Geltner chronicles Jim Murray's experiences with twentieth-century American sports, culture, and journalism. At the peak of his influence, Murray was published in more than 200 newspapers. From 1961 to 1998, Murray penned more than 10,000 columns from his home base at the "Los Angeles Times." His offbeat humor and unique insight made his column a must-read for millions of sports fans. He was named Sportswriter of the Year an astounding fourteen times, and his legacy was cemented when he became one of only four writers to receive the prestigious Pulitzer Prize for coverage of sports. Geltner now gives readers a first look at Murray's personal archives and dozens of fresh interviews with sports and journalism personalities, including Arnold Palmer, Mario Andretti, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Yogi Berra, Frank Deford, Rick Reilly, Dan Jenkins, Roy Firestone, and many more. Throughout his life, Murray chronicled seminal events and figures in American culture and history, and this biography details his encounters with major figures such as William Randolph Hearst, Henry Luce, Marilyn Monroe, Marlon Brando, John Wayne, Mickey Mantle, Muhammad Ali, and Tiger Woods. Charming and affecting moments in Murray's career illustrate the sportswriter's knack for being in on the big story. Richard Nixon, running for vice president on the Eisenhower ticket in 1952, revealed to Murray the contents of the "Checkers" speech so it could make the "Time" magazine press deadline. Media mogul Henry Luce handpicked Murray to lead a team that would develop "Sports Illustrated" for Time/Life in 1953, and when terrorists stormed the Olympic village at the 1972 Munich games, Murray was one of the first journalists to report from the scene. The words of sports journalist Roy Firestone emphasize the influence and importance of Jim Murray on journalism today: "I'll say without question, I think Jim Murray was every bit as important of a sports writer--forget sport writer--every bit as important a writer to newspapers, as Mark Twain was to literature." Readers will be entertained and awed by the stories, interviews, and papers of Jim Murray in "Last King of the Sports Page."
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Classification: Autobiography: general , Media, information & communication industries , Media studies
Format: Hardback (235mm x 184mm x 25mm)
Pages: 296
Imprint: University of Missouri Press
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Publish Date: 15-Jun-2012
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NEW YORK (AP) — Another Starbucks soon may pop up around the corner, with the world's biggest coffee company planning to add at least 1,500 cafes in the U.S. over the next five years.
The plan, which would boost the number of Starbucks cafes in the country by about 13 percent, was announced at the company's investor day in New York on Wednesday. Taking into account Canada and South America, the company plans to add a total of 3,000 new cafes in its broader Americas region.
Worldwide, the company says it will have more than 20,000 cafes by 2014, up from its current count of about 18,000. Much of that growth will come from China, which the company says will surpass Canada as its second-biggest market.
Although Starbucks has been intensifying its growth overseas and building its packaged-goods business back at home, the majority of its revenue still comes from its more than 11,100 cafes in the United States.
In an interview ahead of its investor day, CEO Howard Schultz said the U.S. expansion plans are based "on the current strength of our business"
Just a few months ago, the company had predicted it would open just 1,000 new cafes in the country during the next five years.
The upbeat expansion plans mark a turnaround from Starbucks' struggles during the recession. After hitting a rough patch, the company brought back Mr. Schultz as CEO in 2008 and embarked on a massive restructuring effort that included closing 10 percent of its U.S. stores.
Cliff Burrows, who heads Starbucks' domestic business, said the problem wasn't that Starbucks was oversaturated, but that the company hadn't been careful about its store openings. In the years leading up to the downturn, the company was opening more than 1,000 stores a year. That led to cafes in locations where signs or traffic might not be optimal, he said.
Mr. Burrows said Starbucks has gotten more sophisticated, and he noted that the cafes opened in recent years are among the company's best performers.
Sales at new cafes are averaging about $1 million a year, for example, above the company's target of $900,000. It costs about $450,000 to build a new cafe.
Since Starbucks already has a broad footprint, the company's expansion is intended to "deepen" its presence with additional stores in markets across the country, said Troy Alstead, Starbucks' chief financial officer. That means establishing stores — including drive-thrus and smaller cafes — in more convenient locations for customers. And even as it expands, Starbucks said it expects to maintain growth at cafes open at least a year. The figure, a key metric of health, has ranged between 7 percent and 8 percent globally in the past three years.
The continued U.S. sales growth will be fueled by the new products, such as Evolution premium juices and Via single-serve coffee packets. Looking forward, Starbucks is also looking to improve its food menu and is testing a new menu of baked goods from La Boulange, a small San Francisco-based chain it acquired earlier this year. The new croissants, loaf cakes and other items will spread to about 2,500 cafes next year and go national sometime in 2014, Mr. Burrows said. The company says only about a third of customers currently buy food with their drinks.
In a test aimed at building sales in the evening hours, the company also started serving beer and wine at about a dozen locations earlier this year, with food such as chicken skewers and dates wrapped in bacon.
And most recently, Starbucks announced plans to acquire Teavana, a chain that has 300 locations in shopping malls. When the announcement was made last month, Mr. Schultz said the company would "do for tea what it did for coffee."
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Twelve-year-old Artemis Fowl is a millionaire, a genius-and, above all, a criminal mastermind. But even Artemis doesn't know what he's taken on when he kidnaps a fairy, Captain Holly Short of the LEPrecon Unit. These aren't the fairies of bedtime stories; these fairies are armed and dangerous.
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About the AuthorEoin Colfer is the New York Times bestselling author of the Artemis Fowl series and the sixth installment in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series, as well as "Plugged", his first crime novel for adults, published by Overlook, and shortlisted for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize.


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PHILADELPHIA, PA-A Summerdale who posed as a chiropractor and a physical therapist and treated patients as part of an elaborate health-care fraud scheme was sentenced to six years in federal prison.
Tahib Smith Ali, 35, is to surrender to the Bureau of Prisons as soon as he gets a report date, U.S. District Judge Mitchell Goldberg said.
The judge also ordered Ali to make restitution of $287,972, which includes co-pays that Ali allegedly charged to 86 patients.
Ali, who was not licensed and had no medical training, purchased the Oasis Holistic Healing Village, on 17th Street near Spruce, in December 2008 from Dr. Paul Bodhise, a licensed chiropractor who was retiring and moving to California.
Ali told Goldberg that he tried to recruit a chiropractor from Delaware but he couldn't get licensed here.
"I should have stopped then, but I wanted to make the business work," he said. "I was afraid of failure."
After the business began to slow and patients stopped coming, Ali started submitting claims for chiropractic treatments to Independence Blue Cross and other insurers using Bodhise's name and medical provider number.
"It was the dumbest thing I ever did," said Ali, who pleaded guilty in June to health-care fraud and aggravated identity theft.
Between January 2009 and April 2010, prosecutors said, Ali submitted bogus claims for $1.4 million and actually received payments of more than $280,000 from IBC and other insurers.
Defense attorney Christopher Hall said Ali was a "good man, a caring man" who had "started with good intentions" but "whose judgment was clouded by a desire to run a business."
Assistant U.S. Attorney Mary Beth Leahy painted a far darker portrait of Ali, who allegedly wore scrubs and white lab coats when he met with and examined patients.
She said Ali's "deceit had no bounds" and he had acted "without concern for [patients'] dignity, privacy and health."
The prosecutor said Ali had even performed muscle-stretching on a 10-year-old girl with cerebral palsy who was wheelchair-bound and unable to speak.
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QUESTION:I have a small yard with a pool that I would like to tropically landscape. It faces west (lots of direct sun) and there is about a 3 foot parameter between the fence and the coping. Currently I have 4 windmill palms (lost my mexican palm last year due to all the snow). I would like to fill it with plants to surround the pool and give it a more (filled in) jungle type look. I have had my pool for 10 years and continually have to replant things. Also, I have a Bradford Pear Tree in a small grassy area next to my house and I can't seem to get grass to grow there. I have tried St. Augustine & Bermuda and it never takes off. I do have two dogs who use that area as well .. not sure if that's the problem. Any advice/help you could give me would be greatly appreciated! I can supply pictures of the yard if that will help.
Maybe you just can't get there from here. We have to be honest with you, we may not be able to help you very much. The Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center is dedicated to the growth, propagation and protection of plants native not only to North America but to the areas in which those plants grow natively. There are very few "tropical" plants that are native to North America and those are mostly confined to Southern California, South Florida and perhaps the very southern tip of Texas. Most so-called tropicals are hardy in USDA Hardiness Zones 10 to 11. Collin County, on the north central edge of Texas, is in Zone 7b, which can produce temperatures down to zero, as you no doubt know. So, in a way, you found the answer to your own problem, that you had to replant your pool area continually.
This Floridata article on Trachycarpus fortunei, Windmill Palm, will give you some more information on it, including that it is native to Southeast Asia, and prefers part shade and rich soil. Another Floridata article on Washingtonia robusta says it is native to northern Mexico and naturalized in Florida and California. Both of the palms are referred to as "cold-hardy" palms, but Florida cold is probably not the same as Texas cold. The article on Mexican palm also says it is not suitable for small residential gardens, as it gets very big and has those hanging fronds down the trunk that are a fire hazard and a nice place for things like rats to hide.
We would suggest that you stop fighting nature, and let Texas look like Texas. If you go to our Recommended Species section and click on North Central Texas on the map, you will get a list of 105 plants that are native to your area and well adapted to your temperatures, rainfall and soils by millennia of experience.
On to your other questions about the Bradford Pear and the problems with grass under the tree and under the dogs' feet. For openers, none of the three - tree, St. Augustine nor bermudagrass - are native to North America, and bermudagrass has become one of the most invasive weeds in the South. From Dave's Garden, you might want to read this article on Pyrus calleryana: Bradford Pear, To Plant or Not to Plant?
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Garden Row Salad
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Place carrots in blender; cover with cold water.
Cover container; blend till coarsely chopped.
Drain well.
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Place tomatoes atop cucumber.
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Put the lobster bisque in a bowl with 3 (2) tablespoons of water.
Cover and defrost in the microwave oven for 5 minutes on HIGH.
Stir the bisque, cover and leave for 5 minutes until completely defrosted.
Put the cognac in a cup and sprinkle the gelatin (gelatine) over.
Do not stir, leave the gelatin (gelatine) to dissolve in the cognac for 2 minutes, then put the cup into the microwave oven for 1 minute on LOW.
Fold the cognac and gelatin (gelatine) mixture carefully into the lobster bisque.
Chill in the refrigerator.
When the soup is completely cold, whip the cream until just firm.
Gently fold into the soup.
Add the lemon juice.
Pour the mixture into a fluted mold (mould) and chill in the refrigerator for 12 hours.
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Spring arrived early for the memory folks, and the fair weather could last into the summer. Fall could be a tougher story.
Makers of memory chips Micron Technology MU -0.3184713375796178% Micron Technology Inc. U.S.: Nasdaq USD18.78 -0.06 -0.3184713375796178% /Date(1435784401033-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 24800375 AFTER HOURS USD18.78 % Volume (Delayed 15m) : 226748 P/E Ratio 6.26 Market Cap 20376214500.9674 Dividend Yield N/A Rev. per Employee 553257 More quote details and news » (ticker: MU) and SanDisk SNDK -3.10889728615596% SanDisk Corp. U.S.: Nasdaq USD56.41 -1.81 -3.10889728615596% /Date(1435784400114-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 7376947 AFTER HOURS USD56.49 0.08 0.14181882644921112% Volume (Delayed 15m) : 268447 P/E Ratio 17.303680981595093 Market Cap 12105044803.3679 Dividend Yield 2.127282396738167% Rev. per Employee 741490 More quote details and news » (SNDK), and hard-disk drive vendors Seagate Technology STX 0.14736842105263157% Seagate Technology PLC U.S.: Nasdaq USD47.57 0.07 0.14736842105263157% /Date(1435784400091-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 5102544 AFTER HOURS USD47.6 0.03 0.06306495690561278% Volume (Delayed 15m) : 33058 P/E Ratio 8.287456445993032 Market Cap 15075644454.9561 Dividend Yield 4.54067689720412% Rev. per Employee 270864 More quote details and news » (STX) and Western Digital WDC 1.3006885998469777% Western Digital Corp. U.S.: Nasdaq USD79.44 1.02 1.3006885998469777% /Date(1435784400265-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 3660312 AFTER HOURS USD79.49 0.05 0.06294058408862034% Volume (Delayed 15m) : 40432 P/E Ratio 12.12824427480916 Market Cap 18108118818.2153 Dividend Yield 2.5176233635448138% Rev. per Employee 178799 More quote details and news » (WDC) have enjoyed very good returns this year and, with the exception of Micron, a healthy 12-month performance as well.
Micron, however, is the top performer so far this year, rising a whopping 48%, followed by SanDisk, up 27%. Western and Seagate managed respectable 18% and 16% returns. All are well ahead of the Standard and Poor's 500's 9.4% rise.
What's interesting is that the all four are alighting in unison even though their technologies—chips versus disks—are often positioned as being rivals in the storage world. The spate of good fortune probably has a lot to do with how these four parties have seen their industries become more "rational" in the last two years.
Amidst a slumping PC market, all four are benefiting from their own tight supplies, as well as new opportunities such as mobile phones and data centers "in the cloud," if you will.
Micron is expected to close on an acquisition of competitor Elpida Memory, which is in bankruptcy. That deal not only removes a player from the PC-oriented DRAM market, but is expected to boost Micron's involvement in memory chips for mobile devices.
As my colleague Alex Eule astutely noted in these pages last month ("Faster, Smaller, and More Energy Efficient," Feb. 2), SanDisk is benefiting both from being designed into Apple's iPhone (with the introduction of the iPhone 5 last fall), and also from a scenario in which manufacturers of flash memory are not building capacity in their factories as rapidly as they did in years past.
Prices for NAND flash are up 35% this year, and two weeks ago, that category of chips had its best week of the year in terms of pricing strength, according to a note put out Friday by RBC Capital Markets' Doug Freedman.
As Freedman explains it, "Industry supply is expected to be far more rational than years past," as the costs of making chips are rising, and to remain profitable, manufacturers have to try to keep prices of NAND high.
For Seagate and Western, the story has been told many times now how the hard-disk-drive industry has consolidated, reducing the risk of disastrous pricing battles.
That saner environment continues to delight Wall Street. A report a week ago from Richard Kugele of Needham made the point yet again: "It is hard not to be impressed with the management discipline currently being exhibited by the leaders of the drive industry." He continued: "Demand, particularly on the notebook side remains very weak, but the industry has responded swiftly by curtailing production and maintaining bare minimum inventory levels."
The product of that more-rational pricing environment for the drive makers is better shareholder returns. Seagate's 4.3% dividend is exemplary and well known at this point. Western is less scintillating, with a mere 2% dividend, but it is committed to paying out half its free cash flow in buyback and dividends. Writes Keith Bachman of BMO Capital Markets in a note to clients last week, Western can be expected to "consistently raise the dividend payout over the longer term."
Then again, the drive makers' stocks' ascendancy may signal that Wall Street finally takes seriously their ability to broaden beyond disk drives to flash-based drives, which are faster and higher in profitability. Western last week announced a $51 million investment in a start-up called Skyera, whose goal is to make the same relatively inexpensive flash memory used in consumer gadgets such as the iPod suitable for use in corporate storage systems.
WILL ALL THIS GOODWILL for memory makers last past the summer? It seems hard to imagine so, given how little good news is in store for the PC market, which still serves as a major source of demand for all four companies.
The buzz about the PC market remains almost universally negative: Pacific Crest's Michael McConnell two weeks ago wrote that his examination of the supply chain for notebook computers suggest sales were down in February by 18% from January's level, worse than the 13% decline he was modeling. The reasons are both sluggish interest in Microsoft's MSFT 0.6681766704416761% Microsoft Corp. U.S.: Nasdaq USD44.445 0.295 0.6681766704416761% /Date(1435784401109-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 27858153 AFTER HOURS USD44.44 -0.005 -0.01124985937675779% Volume (Delayed 15m) : 485754 P/E Ratio 18.441908713692946 Market Cap 358188962379.456 Dividend Yield 2.789965125435932% Rev. per Employee 737992 More quote details and news » (MSFT) Windows 8 operating system, and, more ominously, "increasing popularity of low-priced white tablets, specifically in China," by which he means the no-name brand machines the industry calls "white boxes."
Research firm IDC last week cut its estimate for this year's PC shipments to a drop of 1.3%, compared with its original forecast for a 2.8% increase. The firm cited a lack of touch-screen hardware to show off the best aspects of Windows 8.
At this point, the only companies trumpeting some magical resurgence of the PC market later this year are Microsoft and Intel INTC -0.7726450764425448% Intel Corp. U.S.: Nasdaq USD30.18 -0.235 -0.7726450764425448% /Date(1435784400581-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 26678239 AFTER HOURS USD30.2 0.02 0.06626905235255136% Volume (Delayed 15m) : 500681 P/E Ratio 12.788135593220339 Market Cap 144288764343.262 Dividend Yield 3.1809145129224654% Rev. per Employee 523777 More quote details and news » (INTC). Both say there will be a raft of compelling new computers with touch-screen interfaces and foldable, hybrid forms that do double duty as tablet computers.
But the consumer is not standing still. IDC suggests that in the breach, they are allocating their money to tablets and smartphones, which continue to present ever more enticing bells and whistles. (See Gadget of the Week for a review of Samsung's latest, the Galaxy S4.)
Seagate and Western are echoing Intel and Microsoft's hopeful tone. In an interview with Seagate CFO Pat O'Malley in late February, Morgan Stanley analyst Katy Huberty noted the company takes "new design wins" for its wares as evidence of "a calendar 2013 second-half PC demand uptick." But demand for components is not the same thing as actual user demand, and I suspect this is more wishful thinking on the part of the PC industry.
The trading data show Seagate has held up relatively well in the fall months in each of the last three years, while Western had a rough go of it in the latter part of 2010 and 2011 but beat the S&P 500 handily in the back half of last year. Micron has tended to be weak in the latter half of each of the last three years.
SanDisk, while the most expensive of the stocks, at 15 times forward earnings, also has the most interesting prospects in mobile phones, tablets, data centers, and the rest. The company has had decent back-half gains in each of the last three years, and it perhaps stands the best chance of holding up past June.
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Collegedale has done some wonderful things for its residents. The Greenway is a perfect example of money well spent on helping to give her residents the opportunity to improve their lives, at least from a health standpoint. Having taught at Wolftever Creek for a decade plus, I was fortunate to have opportunity to take my classes on walks from time to time. It provided a wonderful break from the four walls of the classroom and offered nature and science teachable moments. The Greenway continues to expand its walks making it almost the next best thing to the Riverwalk.
I decided to drive out to the Greenway yesterday with a friend, park and take a three mile hike. We parked at the Greenbriar facility which is not as congested as near the playground. I had not been there for a walk in quite some time. To my surprise, I observed from the distance what I thought was tennis courts; obviously newly constructed and I had not observed them in the past. Mind you, this was a beautiful cool cloudy day so I didn't understand why there weren't any players on the courts. I got quite excited as my husband and I are always looking for tennis courts closer by our residence.
As I approached the gate, the sign on the fence clearly pointed out that these courts were for Pickle Ball play only. I was quite surprised for two reasons; one, I had no idea what Pickle Ball was, and two, why in the world would the city spend that kind of money on courts that were nothing more than sized down or more correct, shrunken tennis courts? I would certainly like to know if I were a resident of Collegedale why sport Pickle Ball would trump the more popular sport of tennis.
Now with that being said, I will expect every Pickle Ball player to come lashing out of the woodwork in defense of this sport. I personally do not know of anyone who plays the sport. I would also hope that all of the tennis players in Collegedale will comment on this as well.
I did a Google search of Pickle Ball when I got home. It appears to be a sport that is similar to tennis only with a paddle larger than a table tennis paddle Collegedale also has paddle tennis tables inside for its residents to use free of charge.
I will continue to look for tournaments or individuals playing on these courts and would love to see a schedule for Pickle Ball tournaments, etc. For the meantime, I'm still in a pickle about the whole thing.
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I just read Mrs. Horn's letter to the editor about Collegedale's new Pickle Ball courts. First, I want to thank Mrs. Horn for her complements of our beautiful Green Way system, currently the city planners are working on plans to expand it. The Collegedale Tomorrow Foundation is working on plans for Collegedale Commons, which will be a farmers market, music venue, and conference room complex all near 4-Corners. So there are many things to be excited about here in Collegedale along with expanding Apison Pike, millions in new commercial investment, and the great news from VW at our western border.
To answer Mrs. Horn's questions about the Pickle Ball courts, lets start with Pickle Ball itself. It is an exceptional game for older folks to play, because it does not require the running and hard impacts of tennis, thus a great game if you are older. I have seen many families playing Pickle Ball too, its great to see grandparents and their grand-kids out playing together, with what I have seen I am thrilled that we have them.
So, now we are to the "money," it always comes down to the money doesn't it? Well, the city did spend money on some of the nicest Pickle Ball courts in the southeast, but alas, it was not taxpayer money - the city was given a donation. I thank providence every day that we have citizens in our city with a true vision for a better Collegedale, tomorrow.
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A piece of Washington, D.C., trolley history is back at the National Capital Trolley Museum in Silver Spring, almost a decade after a fire destroyed much of its collection.
In September 2003, four cars were lost in a fire at the museum, including a vintage 1899 snow sweeper that operated on trolley lines across the area. On March 20, the museum accepted delivery of a trolley car from the same line, after a trade with a museum in Iowa.
"I tell people it's a bit eerie to be at the new facility and see one of the cars that was lost at the old facility in the new space," said Wesley Paulson, the museum's director of development. The museum reopened in 2010 in a new building near its original Bonifant Road location. "It's a good feeling at the same time."
The fleet of street sweepers served the Capital Transit Company for 63 winters until the end of street car service in Washington, D.C., in 1962. Visitors can get a glance of the trolley during scheduled tours of Street Car Hall. The museum, at 1313 Bonifant Road, is open weekends from noon to 5 p.m.