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Marietta College Director of Athletics Larry Hiser announced the hiring of Andrew Waddle as the Pioneers' head football coach Wednesday.
"We are excited and honored to welcome Andy to the Marietta College family and community," Hiser said. "We were drawn to his impressive record of success as both a defensive and recruiting coordinator."
Waddle becomes the 29th coach in the program's 117-year history. The Pioneers played their 1,000th football game this past fall when they traveled to Baldwin Wallace in the eighth week of the season.
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"Along with quickly understanding our campus community, Andy did an outstanding job of demonstrating his football knowledge and vision for our program," Hiser said.
With 10 years of collegiate coaching experience at three different institutions, Waddle brings a wealth of knowledge and a resume of success to the Pioneer program.
"I'm excited about what's going on at Marietta College," Waddle said. "The commitment the College and Mr. Hiser have shown the football program with things like Don Drumm Stadium and the weight room is what attracted me to Marietta. It will help us recruit quality student-athletes to an already strong curriculum. I am thrilled they chose me to lead Marietta football into a new era."
Waddle comes to Marietta after spending the last eight seasons at Wittenberg University. He joined the Tiger staff in 2005 as the defensive secondary coach and was promoted to defensive coordinator a year later.
Wittenberg won four North Coast Athletic Conference championships and made four NCAA playoff appearances in the seven seasons Waddle ran the defense. This past fall, the Tigers came from behind to defeat Heidelberg University in the first round of the NCAA playoffs.
Waddle's 2009 Wittenberg defense led all divisions of the NCAA in total defense and scoring defense. The Tigers allowed opponents just 189.9 yards and 8.85 points per game as Wittenberg tied the school record for wins with 12.
Waddle began his coaching career in 2003 at Mansfield University (Pa.) as the defensive backs coach. The NCAA Division II Mountaineers went 8-3, a six-game improvement over the previous season, and recorded the first winning season in nearly 30 years.
In 2004, Waddle moved to Division III Maryville College (Tenn.) where he coached the defensive secondary. The Scots improved dramatically winning as many games in 2004 as they had in the previous three seasons combined. Defensively, Maryville made a 17-point and 140-yard per game improvement.
An All-NCAC defensive back, Waddle played for two North Coast Athletic Conference championship teams and made three NCAA playoff appearances at Wittenberg. He spent two seasons at the University of Findlay prior to transferring to Wittenberg. Waddle was red-shirted during the Oilers' 1997 NAIA national championship season and was a starter the following year.
Waddle received a Bachelor's of Arts Degree in Sociology from Wittenberg University in 2003. He is currently pursuing a Master's Degree in Health and Wellness from Liberty University.
A native of Enon, Ohio, Waddle and his wife Kerry Jean are involved with the Be The Match Bone Marrow Registry and have raised nearly $20,000 while registering 1,000 potential bone marrow donors.

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News 12 at 6 o'clock / Monday, Oct. 8, 2012
HARLEM, Ga. -- Talk about the surprise of a lifetime. One local military family was reunited during a surprise homecoming at the University of South Carolina football game this weekend.
Video of the surprise is going viral with more than 115,000 views and counting.
Sgt. 1st Class Scott Faile had been planning the big surprise for the last three months, and on Saturday, he brought Williams-Brice Stadium in Columbia to tears.
Tammy Faile and her two children knew they were the military family of the game. Her husband had been stationed in Korea for the last year.
"We were going to have VIP seats, an escort into the game, gifts and prizes and they were going to do a presentation during the pregame," she said.
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"Turn your attention please to the video board for this special message," said the announcer in the stadium.
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"I was upset because he was done talking and we weren't going to be able to see him anymore," said Tammy, talking about when the taped message was over.
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27.04.2012 - Zeltia Group has received €19m from its partner Johnson & Johnson. Progress with the cancer drug Yondelis triggered the milestone payment.
Madrid – Zeltia's oncology subsidiary PharmaMar S.A. has received a second €19m milestone payment from Yondelis (trabectedin) ex-Europe partner Janssen, a Johnson & Johnson company. This follows the December 2011 receipt of €19m paid on agreement of a new US development plan. In late December 2011, PharmaMar reached the agreement with J&J subsidiary Janssen to push forward the development of Yondelis (trabectedin) in the US, with studies using the anti-tumour drug for the treatment of recurrent ovarian cancer and L-sarcoma.
Under the terms of the agreement, PharmaMar received a first €19m milestone payment at the end of 2011. On top of the actual €19m payment further €60m of milestones may fall due in 2013/2015, in addition to the economics agreed at the time of the original license. The PharmaMar mother company is approaching additional key pipeline catalysts, with an interim analysis of the ADMYRE study of Aplidin in relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma expected soon. An interim analysis of the Phase II PM01183 trial in resistant ovarian cancer and results of a Phase II study of Nypta (tideglusib) in Alzheimer's disease, are both due at the end of the year. Yondelis is already marketed for the treatment of advanced soft tissue sarcoma and ovarian cancer in Europe, Russia and South Korea. Yondelis sales growth to €80m (+12%) in 2011 was hampered by supply issues with Doxil, with which it is administered in ovarian cancer. However Yolendis sales declined in Q1/2012 compared to the first quarter in 2011.http://www.european-biotechnology-news.com/news/news/2012-02/spanish-zeltia-bags-eur19m-milestone-payment.html


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15.01.2009 | Tennis
Roger got in a good workout as he won the semifinal of the AAMI Classic today, holding off Spain's Fernando Verdasco 6-3, 3-6, 7-6 (5) at the Australian Open tune-up event.
"I'll play enough tennis this week, it's better to be on the match court," said our champ. "The second set wasn't the best of levels, he was struggling with the sun and I couldn't capitalise." After advancing on opening day in 57 minutes against Carlos Moya, Roger said that going three sets was fine.
He will await the winner of Friday's Promotion round match at the eight-man Australian Open tune-up, which will see his Davis Cup teammate Stan Wawrinka face Chile's Fernando Gonzalez.
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what a volley again. amazing Roger's play is too heavy again, win of the 1st set is very near!!!
what a fh again damn!!!
yes he did very many unreal shots already now, beautiful ones!!!!
What a beautiful play Roger !!!!
now it's good thanks God!!!
***Brian, CHANNELSURFING work again
i mean the broadcast.
my bradcast is deadly.
hello Tuluta and every fans out there!!! i can't wait to see him and the interview was also great!! very new one.
Hello*** Brian, how nice to be with you again (another night with Roger and his beautiful tennis).
Hi to you ALL, dear Rogerholics ...
"Come on ..." Roger
Hi to you ALL, dear Rogerholics ...
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Miley Cyrus and Liam Hemsworth may not be getting hitched after all.
Us Weekly reported the "wedding is off," citing a "rough patch" brought on by stress from Cyrus' recent focus on her upcoming album.
"Liam and Miley are done," an insider reportedly said, adding the Australian actor is suffering from a case of cold feet because of Cyrus' new commitment to work.
"Miley put her career on hold to spend all her time with Liam," said a source. "Now that she is back recording her fourth album, he's not happy. She says she's already over it."
Cyrus, 20, was supposedly dancing to Beyoncé's "Single Ladies" during a recent birthday party for Victoria Justice.
How awful. Because everyone knows that when women dance to that song, it means they want to break up with someone.
Let's not forget that Hemsworth, 23, was photographed leaving a Feb. 24 Oscars bash with January Jones, after the pair was seen getting cozy inside the party.
How awful. Because everyone knows that when a men leave a party with January Jones, it means they want to break up with someone.
Cyrus and Hemsworth have been together for three years. "They still love each other and hope to make it work," says the Us source.
Cyrus took to Twitter on Wednesday. "I am so sick of LA. And sick of the lies that come with it," she wrote. "I didn't call off my wedding. Taking a break from social media. #draining."
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Academy Athlete of the Year 2006
As you know Roger won the award of the United States Sports Academy Athlete of the Year in 2005. He was presented the medal on center court at the NASDAQ 100 Open in Miami in March this year.
Well, Roger will again appear on the ballot for the Academy Athlete of the Year presented by USATODAY.com and MSNBC.com. The vote begins today and runs until December 25.
The Academy Athlete of the Year ballot is the culmination of the Academy's yearlong Athlete of the Month program, which recognizes the accomplishments of men and women in any sport around the globe. The Academy's Athlete of the Month is selected by an international voting committee comprised of former athletes, media, sports organizations and governing bodies.
Next to Roger, the 2006 male ballot includes South Korean speed skater Hyun-Soo Ahn, Ethiopian runner Kenenisa Bekele, Italian soccer star Fabio Cannavaro, American NASCAR champion Jimmie Johnson, American golfer Phil Mickelson, American swimming star Michael Phelps, Major League Baseball All Star Albert Pujols, Heisman Trophy candidate Troy Smith, American basketball player Dwyane Wade, American golfer Tiger Woods and American football player Vince Young.
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Source: Leicester City, Reading eyeing New York Red Bulls' Kemar LawrenceKristian Dyer at FC Yahoo 9 mths ago
It might be one-and-done for Kemar Lawrence in Major League Soccer.
Premier League side Leicester City and Reading of the second-division Championship have scouted the New York Red Bulls left back extensively this past summer and fall, and both English clubs could make offers for the 23-year-old Jamaican international within the next 10 days, a league source told Yahoo Sports.
Lawrence reportedly drew interest from Newcastle United of the Premier League after shining for Jamaica at last summer's Copa America and Gold Cup. His defending against Argentina's Lionel Messi in the Copa America drew rave reviews.
Lawrence was equally as good for the Red Bulls during his first season in MLS. Starting all 23 of his games, he recorded one goal and four assists and played a big part in in the success of the Red Bulls, who won the Supporters' Shield with the league's highest regular-season point total and lost a dramatic Eastern Conference Championship series with Columbus Crew.
NFL Draft: Division III Adham Talaat doesn't let hearing impairment stop him
MARTINSVILLE, N.J. – On the surface, Adham Talaat is a typical Division III player trying to pursue his NFL dreams.
Talaat is a 6-6, 292-pound defensive end who is generating some serious buzz from scouts. The interest is well-founded after a senior season in which the defensive end registered 46 tackles and five sacks despite facing double- and triple-teams from offensive linemen. Teams are intrigued by his size and strength and the rawness of his game, despite the fact that he has never heard the crowd cheer after one of his tackles.
As a toddler, Talaat was diagnosed with profound to severe hearing loss and fitted for hearing aids after his grandmother noticed one day that he wasn't responsive to her calls. He attended and played at Gallaudet University, the only college in the world dedicated to deaf and hard of hearing students.
Talaat is an unusual case among NFL draft prospects, but that hasn't stopped him before.
At a young age he recognized that he was the only student in class or his school who wore hearing aids but he never felt out of place. He was a very good student and he enjoyed playing sports even with the hearing aids always present in his ears.
Bears guard Matt Slauson overcomes stuttering issue, with the help of football
Before he was the starting left guard of the Chicago Bears, Matt Slauson was an overweight kid in elementary school, which "made for an obvious target." There was also something else that made him an obvious target for bullies, something that would make him run home from school crying.
He stuttered.
He was always aware of his stuttering, even from an early age. Slauson was picked on and bullied growing up – "everyone knows that kids are ruthless" – and as a large kid with a speech impediment he said bullies seemed to naturally find him. There were times he'd come home in tears to his mother's arms, asking her, "Why am I fat? Why am I dumb?"
One autumn day in fifth grade, he walked by one of the town fields in Sweet Home, Ore. when he was stopped by the head coach of the local team. He was asked by the coach if, based solely on his size, if he'd be willing to play football. The thought instantly appealed to him.
"The bullying stopped pretty quick after I started playing football. It made everything right, it made everything OK. The kids who were picking on me, they became my teammates. Then they became my friends."
In the NFL, Slauson isn't alone.
NFL hopeful Rashid Williams gives up job, lives out of a van to train for shot at pros
At a time when most draft prospects are trading up their cars, NFL hopeful Rashid Williams recently traded in his luxury sedan for a minivan. He's heard the jokes and the zingers from the other players training at TEST Parisi Football Academy in Martinsville, N.J., including that he drives a "soccer mom mobile." But his minivan is more than a set of wheels to take him to his combine training every day.
He also lives in it. Williams is homeless by choice.
For most NFL draft prospects, sacrifices are to be expected as they ready for the combine and their individual Pro Days; for Williams, his ambition has taken him so far as to empty his life savings to train for the NFL draft. This decision now means that he lives out of his van to pursue this goal.
He is far from your typical athlete readying for a shot at an NFL payday.
He ran track at Division II Holy Family in Philadelphia and never played college football. Then after college, he went through a series of jobs before he enrolled at Penn State to get his MBA. He's smart with a good sense of humor and a tremendous belief in himself, very much an All-American type.
When he smiles, so does everyone else in the room.
Joe Namath believes Johnny Manziel will be an NFL success
Johnny Football has a fan in Broadway Joe.
The comparisons between Texas A&M quarterback Johnny Manziel and Hall of Fame quarterback Joe Namath of the New York Jets are only natural. Both were supreme talents in college and offered respective franchises a potential game-changer under center. And both grabbed attention off the field for a love of life, very often after hours. That's part of the concern for talent evaluators when they look at Manziel, whose partying and poor choices have grabbed headlines for all the wrong reasons.
In the eyes of Namath, the concerns about Manziel's lifestyle are unfounded. Namath was certainly known for his off-the-field escapades, including dating a string of models and Hollywood starlets as well as frequenting all the hot spots in New York. So while he has had the experiences with the off-the-field side of the game, he doesn't see any red flags with Manziel's character concerns.
"This is an era where things get blown out of proportion. He isn't doing anything that other players his age – older or younger – aren't doing," Namath told Yahoo Sports.
Defensive rookie of the year Sheldon Richardson never gave up on NFL dreams
There were times growing up that Sheldon Richardson remembers being told to forget about his dream of playing in the NFL, but that never made much sense to him.
In middle school, he remembers when the school would host "Career Day" and different adults would filter into his classroom and tell them about their vocations. There would be doctors and lawyers and architects – but never a professional athlete. When the question "What do you want to be when you grow up?" was invariably asked by the presenter, Richardson's hand would shoot up.
He'd blurt out, "I want to be a professional football player." He remembers other students were always encouraged when they gave their dream jobs. But there was Richardson, almost always discouraged from his ambition.
Now dreams are a reality for Richardson.
In his rookie year, he had 77 tackles and 3.5 sacks along with a forced fumble, numbers that made him the NFL's defensive rookie of the year. There were also two touchdown runs when he was part of the Jets short-yardage package late in the season.
He wanted to play in the NFL since he was little and didn't have any other dreams, no backup plans.
Giants safety Cooper Taylor renting his New York-area apartment during Super Bowl week
The New York Giants won't be getting a Super Bowl bonus, but one member of the team will be capitalizing on the big game being in town. Rookie safety Cooper Taylor is subletting his apartment to capitalize on the Super Bowl being just a short jaunt away in East Rutherford, N.J.
In a story that ran in Friday's New York Post, Cooper detailed his desire to get out of the city for what will be a cramped and crowded build-up to the first ever Super Bowl in the New York area. He shares his apartment with his girlfriend Susan Carlson, a real estate agent.
Not surprisingly, Carlson saw the demand of the Super Bowl and the surge in hotel prices in the New York City area (some motels are charging more than $1,000 a night) as something the couple could capitalize on. She told Yahoo Sports the rationale behind the decision.
Fire Rex Ryan? That might be difficult after the job the New York Jets coach has done
FLORHAM PARK, N.J. – Rumors of Rex Ryan's demise might be a bit premature.
If you believe the reports, Ryan is on his last legs as coach of the Jets, ending a five-year stint that started with the franchise's first back-to-back appearances in the AFC championship game and ended with three straight seasons without the playoffs. Ryan, the gregarious and often unfiltered head coach, has found the success from his first two years with the Jets to be fleeting, but this year's 7-8 record has exceeded every expectation.
This was a team picked to be among the bottom three in the league by nearly every major media outlet. They were given three wins by most of these outlets as well, and that was with veteran quarterback Mark Sanchez under center.
But with Sanchez hurt in preseason and a raw rookie in Geno Smith starting at quarterback this year, the Jets somehow won seven games with one to go. They did it with a defense that lost six starters from the year before and an offense down four prominent players from last year, not including Sanchez.
He also should have the backing of owner Woody Johnson and his right hand man, Ira Akselrad, maybe just for financial reasons.
When Ed Reed is asked about his play this season, he questions media's knowledge of game
FLORHAM PARK, N.J. – In the face of criticism that his addition to the New York Jets secondary has been anything but the savior the team needed, future Hall of Fame safety Ed Reed took exception with the New York media on Friday and questioned its understanding of football.
During his only availability of the week, Reed spent the first half of his comments lashing out at the media for a lack of understanding of the game and for what he saw as unfair criticism of his play. The 37-year old has at times shown his age and a lack of mobility on the field, which played a role in his ouster from Houston. Now with the Jets, his play has been marked by missed tackles and bad mistakes.
So Reed bristled when the first question directed to him on Friday was about his play.
"This is football man. We in this locker room have been playing football for a long time. Nobody is perfect out here on the football field. You guys job is to critique, be critics," Reed said. "That's what you do. That's why you ask the controversial questions, try to make it controversial and then trash people in the media. I could care less about that. Missed tackles happen. Nobody is perfect."
Josh Gordon rebounds from suspension to become one of NFL's best receivers
The numbers for Cleveland Browns wide receiver Josh Gordon this season have been sensational. The league's leader with 1,467 receiving yards, Gordon has scored a touchdown in five straight games. He is arguably the best receiver in the NFL over the last half of the season.
It has been an amazing 2013 for a player who started the season on suspension.
A positive drug test cost him the first two games of this year with a league-mandated suspension. Another positive test and he would be suspended for a full year. There were rumors during the season that the Browns were trying to trade Gordon.
Gordon explained that the positive test that cost him a two-game suspension was for codeine in some cough medicine he took during the offseason. That explanation drew some rolled eyes from fans and certainly the media.
But he is answering every question on the field. There are no more eyes rolling when his name is brought up.
"Definitely from the point I got back, I definitely decided to try to make as big of an impact as I could for the team, for the offense and being the biggest playmaker possible for this team," Gordon said.


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Mac RSS with style. A very simple and elegant RSS Newsreader without all the bloat of other Mac RSS newsreaders.
Required OS: 10.6
Tags: rss , newsreader , atom , feedreader , feed
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My old laptop doesn't have the extended screen space of some of the newer macbooks, so I love how Newsfire makes things work with a two-pane design, instead of three panes like Vienna, NetNewsWire, etc. I got used to the keyboard control and now I can't go back.
I own this app but I still prefer Safari, go figure.
I really want to use this app, it's really attractive.
but I can't use just the keyboard to parse through feeds, and why is there no sorting by date --- or even meta info in the post-detail view? I'm going back to shrook, which is free and much better for me at the moment.
I'd like the ability to view password-protected blogs, but otherwise I like it a lot.
Yeah, I bought it, and let me say, I can't live without it now.
YES, yes, worth every penny...!
Not sure if it's worth the $18. I have my debit card ready, but I'm not sure.
Echoing shadowhound, I would use NewsFire if it had Bloglines support similar to NetNewsWire. (I use Blogines is because I have a PC at work.)
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Definición de haul en inglés:
1 [with object] (Of a person) pull or drag with effort or force: he hauled his bike out of the shed [no object, with adverbial]: she hauled on the reins
Más ejemplos en oraciones
- By the end of this cycle I wind up with bins the Terminator would have trouble dragging down the driveway, but I dutifully haul them out in front of the wall and up onto the curb.
- We all hauled the bikes to the top of Mud Hill, mounted up, and raced for the bottom, the first past the tree being the winner.
- Upstairs in the offices above the injecting room, Nurse Andy hauls a suitcase out of the cupboard, heaves it onto the table, and opens it up.
drag, pull, tug, heave, lug, hump, draw, tow
informal yank
1.1 (haul oneself) Propel or pull oneself with difficulty: he hauled himself along the cliff face
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- He hauled himself back aboard and pulled the javelin out of the riverbed, allowing the vessel to float free again.
- One man hauls himself along on a three-wheeled skateboard, propelling himself with his one leg as his opposite hand uses a flat, iron contraption as a cane.
- I've found it much more difficult to haul myself out of bed in the morning.
1.2 informal Force (someone) to appear for reprimand or trial: they will be hauled into court next week
Más ejemplos en oraciones
- The pensioner was hauled before York Crown Court after he struck concert chairman Peter Suter in the face as tempers flared at Burton Lane Working Men's Club in York.
- He began his 18 months sentence for dangerous driving after he was eventually hauled before the courts again.
- He was hauled before a court next morning which he claims was a shambles.
2 [with object] (Of a vehicle) pull (an attached trailer or load) behind it: the train was hauling a cargo of liquid chemicals
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- My first streetcar trip had one other close call, a sport-utility vehicle hauling a trailer that made a U-turn right in front of us.
- Police reported that the truck hauling two trailers - with a length measuring 22m - was travelling from Umtata when the driver was believed to have lost control.
- A truck hauling two trailers - with a total length measuring 22 metres - was travelling from Umtata when the driver is believed to have lost control.
2.1Transport in a truck or cart: Bennie hauls trash in North Philadelphia
Más ejemplos en oraciones
- Carnegie needs at least five dump trucks to haul trash to the Imperial landfill.
- As the construction of the huge vessel approached completion, transport firms hauled the mountains of food to the site.
- They are usually used to haul heavy loads or carry cargoes.
transport, convey, carry, ship, ferry, move
3 [no object] (Especially of a sailing ship) make an abrupt change of course.
Oraciones de ejemplo
- The waters of the Nile slipped beneath the hull and the boat hauled for the western shore.
- The ship hauled away from the dock and proceeded to Mare Island, California, in accordance with the orders of the Commander-in-Chief, Pacific Squadron.
- As the ship hauled out into the stream, her bow was swung by the tide downward, and her helm was put to the starboard.
1A quantity of something that was stolen or is possessed illegally: they escaped with a haul of antiques
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- Officers were also criticised for not fully recording details of the weight or quantity of drug hauls or why they thought suspects possessed it.
- Thieves stole a huge haul of guitars and other instruments worth up to £6,000 from a Westcliff music store.
- GARDAÍ have seized more than €200,000 worth of illegal drugs in two hauls in counties Clare and Meath.
booty, loot, plunder;
spoils, stolen goods, ill-gotten gains
informal swag, boodle
1.1The number of points, medals, or titles won by a person or team in a sporting event or over a period.
Oraciones de ejemplo
- The medal haul was completed by Naomi Boynton, 11, also in the 200m butterfly.
- It would be easy to be triumphant about Manchester as the medal haul headed towards the 30-point mark last night.
- Brailsford said 'two or three medals' would be a satisfactory haul in Athens.
1.2All the products purchased by someone during a particular episode of shopping: my husband looked over my haul and announced that I was a shopaholic included in her beauty haul were a lot of facial masks
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- Who among us hasn't come back from a shopping excursion, looked over the just-purchased haul, and wondered, What was I thinking?
- This, plus a couple dresses, was my haul for the morning.
- Recently I popped by Burlington to see what they had in store for the season and today I wanted to share my haul with all of you!
1.3A number of fish caught.
Oraciones de ejemplo
- These were huge fishing craft capable of picking up a thousand tonnes of fish in a single haul.
- Prawn vessels continued to catch fairly large hauls of prawns.
- But Mormon use of advanced methods to net large hauls of fish for pickling and shipment elsewhere had impoverished the Utes and made them resentful and ready for war.
2A distance to be traversed: the thirty-mile haul to Tallahassee See also long haul, short haul.
Más ejemplos en oraciones
- It was a long distance haul, not like a sprint, which is what we will be doing when we compete with our dogs in the Savoie Alps in January.
- What we have to do, is improve the railroads, to take the pressure off the air transport system, so short-haul, inter-city hauls, should be done by rail, not by air.
- Afterwards he loses his sight and from that day is plagued with hallucinations seeded with guilt and shame, the unspoken sense that his condition is a judgment, and his career a long, redemptive haul.
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haul off
- informal Leave; depart.Oraciones de ejemplo
- Rather than hurrying to finish my last doodle, I carefully pack it away in my bag and, along with the rest of my gear, haul off to my locker.
- 1.1Withdraw a little in preparation for some action: he hauled off and smacked the kidMás ejemplos en oraciones
- Suddenly without warning, he hauls off and smacks her across the face.
- He growled and I didn't hesitate this time to just haul off and smack him.
haul out
- (Of a seal or similar marine mammal) come out of the water to spend time on land: seals haul out to bask in areas where they can see and smell approaching predatorsMás ejemplos en oraciones
- As the season progressed, seals gradually began to haul out on the ice surface where they could be counted during surveys.
- At Cap Blanc, almost all seals haul out in one of two caves with access only from the sea, which makes the collection of samples very difficult.
- Ducks frequently hauled out onto rocks to rest and preen, and we read as many tarsal bands as possible during each survey.
Mid 16th century (originally in the nautical sense 'trim sails for sailing closer to the wind'): variant of hale2.
Palabras que riman con haulall, appal (US appall), awl, Bacall, ball, bawl, befall, Bengal, brawl, call, caul, crawl, Donegal, drawl, drywall, enthral (US enthrall), fall, forestall, gall, Galle, Gaul, hall, maul, miaul, miscall, Montreal, Naipaul, Nepal, orle, pall, Paul, pawl, Saul, schorl, scrawl, seawall, Senegal, shawl, small, sprawl, squall, stall, stonewall, tall, thrall, trawl, wall, waul, wherewithal, withal, yawl
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Ever had an image that seemed impossible to open? Struggeled too many times with images without enough info for even the mighty Photoshop?
GraphicConverter X/Classic is kinda like vlc, only for converting images. Keep it in mind, when running into trouble....
Required OS: 10.5
Tags: imaging , graphic , editor
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Fantastic app! I started using it in 1993 and paid the shareware fee and have kept using it ever since. Opens most graphic formats and easily converts them to the format you need. Highest recommendation!
This is probably the closest thing to IrfanView for the Mac.
@norz Update: apparently iptc editing is lossless when done in the graphicconverter browser.
(Couldn't prove it with binary image comparison though (eg: saving both before and after images as png or tiff).)
Editing iptc tags isn't lossless: the jpg image get saved (and recompressed) as well, even if it hasn't been changed. :(
On windows, Irfanview does lossless iptc editing, but on Mac OS, I have yet to find such a tool.
I like using this. It's a must have in my book.
When Preview can't do it and P-Shop is the proverbial howitzer to kill a fly, GC will get the job done. This is a must in your photo/image editing toolbox.
GC is often compared to a Swiss army knife. I think that makes sense. It does nothing really well. The user interface is so confusing that you need to buy and download a pdf-tutorial to find your way. Some very simple tasks have awkward workflows. (Ever tried to save a losslessly cropped JPG?)
But then, like the famous Swiss army knife, it can do A LOT of things. Manipulate EXIF and IPTC data, losslessly change the resolution of a file, add borders to a picture, rename files, create icon previews for the finder, correct white balance, add text, sharpen, ...
The most useful feature is batch conversion of files. Batch commands are easy to define. Then select a few file in the image browser, click a button, and you'll have your images resized, sharpened, framed and saved with a given filesize. (Great for Flickr.)
In the Windows World you might compare it to ACDSee or PaintShop Pro. However GraphicConverter's feature set is quite unique. GC is neither an image editor nor an image database. It's an image "converter" with many additional bells and whistles, for very little money.
GC is also great as an addition to Photoshop. (If you can afford Photoshop, the few bucks for GC don't matter.) You'll find that many of these occasional tasks are faster in GC.
Absolutely wonderful app for what it is. It is not a Photoshop, but a great tool in itself.
The assistance provided by the developer was fantastic. Emails were responded to quickly. He even took the time to make a quick screencast with voice to explain how to do my particular batch conversion. Top notch!
I agree with marnen. Graphic converter is more a converter not editor. If you look at it just as an editor then yes its pretty crappy these days.
My only problem is that it still feels like an OS 9 app. It's one of the worst OS X apps usability wise in my opinion and the gui really needs an update.
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FILE- In this Nov. 18, 2012 file photo, Nicki Minaj arrives at the 40th Anniversary American Music Awards, in Los Angeles. Despite having a big year in music, Nicki Minaj didn't receive any Grammy nominations. The 30-year-old had one of last year's biggest hits with the multiplatinum dance-pop anthem "Starships." Her sophomore album, "Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded," has reached gold status and launched other hits on the rap and R&B charts. But Minaj was shunned out when the Grammys announced this year's nominees, though the animated performer earned three nominations last year, including best new artist and best rap album for her platinum debut, "Pink Friday." (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP, File)
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PHOENIX -- The Warriors' coaching staff is a well-tempered, patient bunch, but they're running short of patience with a team that was supposed to do such great things and suddenly is flirting with .500.
The Warriors lost for the third time in four games, this time 106-102 to a Phoenix Suns team they owned last year at US Airways Center, and dropped to 13-12 in the process after an 8-3 start.
The strain is starting to show. In a rare sight, assistant coach Pete Myers lashed out at the team long and loud during a third-quarter timeout with the Warriors trailing by nine. The tirade seemed to help raise the energy level, but not enough to pull out the game.
Coach Mark Jackson then took his turn after witnessing an all-too-familiar script for defeat -- the Warriors falling behind by double digits again, making a valiant rally that fell short, committing 20 turnovers, and suffering too many defensive breakdowns.
Jackson believes it's become a question of wanting it for his team and playing with a much greater sense of urgency.
"I'm finding that the guys in suits and ties want it more than the guys in uniform," he said tersely. "I don't see anybody in uniform with that same passion (as Myers). Enough is enough at some point. We're going to be fine, but we have to turn this thing around, it's as simple as that. We're watching the same movie every single night. It gets old."
"Yeah, it's a horror movie," center Andrew Bogut said. "We haven't had consistent effort for the last 10 games. You can't play 24-minute games and win."
Without question, the surprising Suns played with more purpose and grit than Golden State, and even though the Warriors rallied to get with one point in the final five minutes, Phoenix came up with two huge shots -- 3-pointers by Eric Bledsoe and Channing Frye -- for a 102-95 lead. Then the Suns got a clutch defensive stop by P.J. Tucker on Stephen Curry when the Warriors made one last run in the final minute and had a chance to tie or take the lead again
The Suns, led by Bledsoe's 24, Goran Dragic's 21 and Frye's 20, shot just 44.3 percent overall but were electric from beyond the arc — 13 for 27, with Frye making 5 of 7 and Dragic 4 of 4. The Warriors weren't bad from 3-point range, either, hitting 11 of 22 attempts. Golden State was right there at the finish if not the start, when it trailed by as many as 13 in the second quarter.
"That's how good we are -- that we can not play with a sense of urgency for 48 minutes, turn it on when we want to, and still be in ballgames," Jackson said. "We're going to be awfully good when we get the fact that we have to do it all game long. But you come into a good team's gym, turn it over 20 times and pick and choose your spots, it ain't gonna cut it."
The frustrating thing for the Warriors is that the players seem to understand all this but can't get it translated onto the court.
"We know what we're capable of doing," Draymond Green said. "There aren't any idiots in this locker room, but why are we doing it? We know exactly what's going on, but we haven't fixed it yet, and until we fix it, there'll be many more days like this. If we fix it, we'll become the team we thought we would be and the team everybody else thought we would be. If not, hopefully we can be a .500 team."
Said Curry: "I think we have what it takes, I know we have what it takes, I know we're a good team. But you can't call yourself a good team with that record. The expectations are higher."
Curry had a fine game statistically -- 30 points, seven assists, six rebounds, three steals -- but also committed six of the 20 turnovers. He also thought the Myers third-quarter tirade was deserved.
"He was trying to get us fired up," Curry said. "We had not played well to that point, and I'm sure he got fed up with seeing the same movie over and over again. He was trying to find that spark that we needed."
Green had a different view of it.
"It's something we needed at that point but shouldn't need," he said.
For more on the Warriors, go to our blog at www.ibabuzz.com/warriors. Follow Carl Steward on Twitter at twitter.com/stewardsfolly.
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New Orleans (11-11) at Warriors (13-12), 7:30 p.m. CSNBA
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- 1992: Harry Potter and the Weasley family use Floo Powder to get to Diagon Alley. Harry mispronounces Diagon Alley and ends up at Borgin and Burkes a shop in Knockturn Alley. Later, Harry and the Weasley family go to Flourish and Blotts to attend Gilderoy Lockhart's book signing. Harry meets Lucius Malfoy for the first time. Lucius Malfoy sub-repticiously puts Tom Riddle's Diary in Ginny Weasley's cauldron. A fight breaks loose at the bookshop; Arthur Weasley and Lucius Malfoy start duelling and Malfoy ends up slammed against a bookshelf.


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Allmendinger to make season debut with Phoenix Racing
Published: Tuesday, February 26, 2013 at 11:27 p.m.
Last Modified: Tuesday, February 26, 2013 at 11:27 p.m.
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — A.J. Allmendinger will make his NASCAR season debut this Sunday at Phoenix International Raceway.
Allmendinger, who didn't have a ride for the season-opening Daytona 500, will drive for Spartanburg-based Phoenix Racing in the No. 51 Guy Roofing Chevrolet. It will be Allmendinger's fifth race with Phoenix Racing, which gave him a chance last year after NASCAR reinstated him following his suspension for failing a drug test.
"It's been a few months since I've been in a stock car," said Allmendinger. "I haven't been in one of the Gen-6 cars yet, so I think it will take a little time to get acclimated to it. Phoenix International Raceway is a great place for me to get back behind the wheel. I've always enjoyed the race track. It will definitely feel different, but I'll be ready to go."
Allmendinger has eight previous Cup starts at Phoenix, where he has two top-10 finishes. He's also won one pole and started on the front row three times.
"It definitely helps to go to a track that I enjoy already," he said. "Of all the tracks we go to, this is one of the most technical and challenging. It takes finesse and you have to hit your marks nearly perfect every time."
Allmendinger watched Phoenix Racing's run in the Daytona 500. Regan Smith drove the car Sunday to a seventh-place finish.
"I was really impressed with their run last week at Daytona," Allmendinger said. "It showed that they're putting together solid equipment and have a good feel for the new car. I think for the first 30 to 45 minutes I'll have to ease into it and get used to the new car, but after that, I'll be up to speed and ready to go."
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Nothing Christian about that letter
Published: Monday, August 5, 2013 at 10:47 p.m.
Last Modified: Monday, August 5, 2013 at 10:47 p.m.
The overt and blatant discrimination depicted in the letter to the editor published July 10 from Mr. Tommy Middleton, executive director of missions, Baptist Association of Greater Baton Rouge, was reprehensible.
The rights and family values of minorities are no less important to us than those of the majority.
Religion needs to remain a separate entity away from our civil rights.
Individuals who call themselves "Christian" yet cherry pick verses to use as a weapon against people unlike themselves are not very Christian at all.
On the contrary, this behavior is very harmful and sometimes unfortunately unbearable to our gay youth. Adolescence is hard enough to get through without vitriol spewed onto them.
The word "traditional" needs to be dropped as an adjective to our equal rights and family values.
The term "traditional" is not measurable; it is subjective to the interpreter and denotes that being different is wrong.
Discrimination veiled in religion is still discrimination.
If forcing my partner to pay gift taxes on our home upon my death somehow improves Mr. Middleton's marriage, perhaps he needs to revisit his marriage.
One-third of each of our salaries goes to the government as we must each file as a single male.
I believe that all Americans who pay taxes should be treated equally, and until then, we will continue to fight for our rights.
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TEHACHAPI — The Burroughs girls soccer team is continuing to improve.
The Burros lost 2-0 to Tehachapi Thursday, but Coach Kelly Blake said the team is starting to come together.
"It was a tough battle," Blake said. "I can't fault our players because they play extremely hard each time they step on the field. It is good to see their effort in each and every game."
The Burros gave up one goal with 2 minutes left in the first half and gave up an own-goal in the second half, but Blake said the defense did an outstanding job for most of the game.
"Juliette Wander and Leah Ostermann are both playing at a high level," Blake said. "With them in the back row, our team is starting to come together. They keep people in front of them and that's most important thing that you can do as a defender."
Goalie Sarah McDonald had nine saves as well to keep the Burros in the game.
On the offensive side of things, the Burros got five shots by five different players — Maria Sandoval, Emma Weber, Lorena Moreno, Joelle Steichen and Marissa Morales all fired shots at the Tehachapi goalkeeper but the Burros couldn't find the back of the net.
Blake said forward Brianna Malone was also in on a lot of the action, getting her teammates involved to get shots off.
The Burros move on to face Barstow at 4:30 p.m. Wednesday in Barstow. It will be the Burros' first Desert Sky League game of the year.
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The AG's office concluded that between January 2008 and September 2012, Benz dumped commercial and construction waste originating in Los Angeles County in Kern County landfills and falsifying its reports.
By falsifying records, Benz allegedly defrauded the county out of approximately $2 million. Kern County requires waste haulers to pay a fee for waste originating from out-of-county.
Ridgecrest Police Department spearheaded the investigation into Tehachapi-based Benz Sanitation.
With the nod from the state AG's office, RPD and other agencies conducted surveillance on Benz Sanitation-operated trucks to determine whether the company was diverting LA county waste to Kern County.
As part of the plea agreement, Benz had to pay $1.8 million to Kern County and $575,000 to the City of Ridgecrest, which reimburse legal fees incurred during a civil suit between Benz and the city.
Chief Strand was present at Wednesday's court hearing.
"Sgt. Justin Dampier did an excellent job of investigating," Strand said of the investigation. "It was very thorough."
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LIVERMORE -- Traffic near the Paragon Outlets mall remained heavy Monday, after a four-day opening weekend that broke sales records and drew hundreds of thousands of shoppers, mall officials said.
Preliminary numbers based on car counts indicated the mall attracted 350,000 visitors between Thursday and Sunday, said Dave Ackerman, Paragon's assistant general manager. Several merchants also broke opening-day sales records, he said.
"It exceeded our expectations," Ackerman said. "We were overwhelmed by the wonderful response. We knew people were ready in this market, and we were delighted by the turnout."
To handle the constant influx of vehicles, mall officials were forced to open two auxiliary parking lots, which remained in use and full Monday. Ackerman said mall security, police from Livermore and Pleasanton, and the California Highway Patrol "did the best they could" to keep everything flowing.
"We got people moving, and it went as smoothly as it could've gone given the numbers," he said.
With unconfirmed reports of 100,000 cars entering the parking lots during the weekend, Livermore police spokesman Dave Blake called the situation "chaotic," but consistent with estimates discussed in meetings with mall officials. Blake reported traffic had lessened, but remained heavy Monday, the last day planned for increased traffic enforcement.
Blake said police will have contingency plans in place for busy shopping days, such as Black Friday.
"As things go back to normal, the traffic problems should die down," Blake said. "We'll take the future on a case-by-case basis."
While some are hailing the mall's opening as an economic boom, the traffic snarls presented a mixed bag for local merchants. At the adjacent Tri-Valley Golf Center, business came to a near standstill over the weekend.
Employee Mark Garcia said staff had hoped for a trickle-down effect from mall shoppers, but instead, business dropped significantly, to about one-third that of the average weekend.
Several would-be customers reported being stalled in traffic for up to 45 minutes and changed their minds about coming in for lessons, Garcia said. Others struggled to get into the facility.
"The problem was the cops were directing traffic toward the mall and away from the driving range," Garcia said. "Customers had to yell at them to move the cones."
Garcia said he anticipates business will settle down for the driving range after the new year.
"Hopefully by then, people will have gotten over the urge to check it out," Garcia said. "After the newness wears off, I'm pretty sure it will go back to normal."
At the nearby Beeb's Sports Bar & Grill, a popular restaurant at the Las Positas Golf Course, weekend business was good, but getting staff to work on time was a challenge, said owner Jeanne Bieber.
"Sometimes it took them 45 minutes to get here," she said. "We were calling them and telling them to leave 30 minutes earlier than usual."
Ackerman said he doesn't expect the "huge volume" of shoppers the mall has experienced thus far to continue for the remainder of the week but that visitor counts would likely remain strong throughout the holiday shopping season.
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On March 3, 1913, 5,000 suffragists from across the country gathered in Washington, DC, to demand the right to vote. The elaborate parade, which marched from the U.S. Capitol to the Treasury Building, included nurses, college students, academics, and clergywomen united in the struggle for women's suffrage.
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DON'T MISS: "Fargo" -- This instantly addictive 10-part drama series captures the spirit of the beloved 1996 Coen brothers cult hit, but it presents an all-new "true crime" story with new characters. Among them is Lorne Malvo (Billy Bob Thornton), a mysterious and manipulative drifter who lures hapless small-town insurance salesman Lester Nygaard (Martin Freeman) down a dangerous path. Is the series filled with dark humor and surprising twists? Darn tootin' it is! 10 p.m. Tuesday, FX.
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SUNDAY: Conan O'Brien makes his debut as host of the 2014 MTV Movie Awards. The offbeat celebration of big-screen goodness includes non-Oscar-ready categories such as best fight and best kiss. Pass the Golden Popcorn. 9 p.m., MTV.
SUNDAY: Are you still mad for "Mad Men"? The acclaimed drama returns for the first half of its two-part final season, which has enigmatic ad executive Don Draper (Jon Hamm) spending a lot of time in sunny California. 10 p.m., AMC.
SUNDAY: "Years of Living Dangerously" is an ambitious four-part documentary that uses celebrity star power to call attention to the issue of climate change. Participants include Arnold Schwarzenegger, Matt Damon, Jessica Alba and Harrison Ford. 10 p.m., Showtime.
MONDAY: Trouble-prone actress Lindsay Lohan drops in for a guest spot on "2 Broke Girls." She plays an indecisive bride-to-be who hires Max and Caroline (Kat Dennings and Beth Behrs) to make her wedding cake. Can they decline? 8 p.m., CBS.
MONDAY: It's the midseason finale of "Dallas," and you just know there will be drama. Producers have promised plenty of red-hot action on various fronts in an episode fittingly titled, "Where There's Smoke." 9 p.m., TNT.
TUESDAY: "The Address" is a very different kind of documentary from Ken Burns. It follows students with learning disabilities who attempt to learn and recite Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address. Along the way, the film examines the effect and importance of those famous words. 9 p.m., PBS.
WEDNESDAY: "The Americans" continues its torrid second season with an episode that has Philip and Elizabeth (Matthew Rhys and Keri Russell) confronting painful truths in their respective missions. That doesn't sound so good. 10 p.m., FX.
THURSDAY: Say it isn't so: The season finale of "Scandal" is already upon us. It's Election Day -- hold on to your seats, because things could get explosive. 10 p.m., ABC.
FRIDAY: On "Kitchen Nightmares," cranky chef Gordon Ramsay visits the Old Neighborhood Restaurant in Arvada, Colo. Of course, major changes are needed. 8 p.m., Fox.
SATURDAY: What happens in the Clone Club stays in the Clone Club, so we're not about to spoil the Season 2 opener of "Orphan Black" for you. Just know that it's all pretty intense and that Tatiana Maslany is as awesome as usual. We are so in. 9 p.m., BBC America.
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- Apr 17:
- San Jose airport's elite corporate jet facility approved by City Council
- Apr 15:
- Controversy over San Jose's proposed elite corporate jet center
- Mercury News editorial: Approve Signature plan for San Jose Mineta airport
- Apr 9:
- Airport curfew delays decision on jet facility
- Feb 21:
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- Google's plan to park jets at San Jose airport is challenged by competitor
SAN JOSE -- The San Jose City Council on Tuesday is poised to bolster the city's cash-strapped airport by approving an $82 million facility for private and corporate jets, including the growing fleet owned by Google's co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin now parked up at Moffett Field.
But the city's top choice of Signature Flight Support and its primary tenant Blue City Holdings, a company that manages aircraft for Page, Brin and Google's executive chairman Eric Schmidt, hit a snag recently when the chief competitor to develop the west side of the airport appealed the city staff's recommendation so the council will first consider Atlantic Aviation's case before taking a vote on the project.
Atlantic was disqualified because it didn't fulfill the requirements of the bidding process.
Mayor Chuck Reed has called Atlantic's appeal a delay tactic. Reed said that when the bid parameters were published for aviation development on the 29-acre site, Atlantic did not return to the city with "a proposal to do development. They just want to hold onto the lands," he said, thereby avoiding any competition with another fixed-base operator.
"They chose not to respond to that and just assert their position that we do nothing," said Reed.
In documents filed with the city on Monday, aviation experts hired by Atlantic allege that the airport's proposed west side development will "introduce significant concerns relative to safe airfield operations."
In an email to this newspaper, Atlantic CEO Louis Pepper also reiterated the possible negative impact the development would have on his company.
"Atlantic Aviation has serious concerns about the airport's intention to move forward with new development before addressing all safety and planning issues that impact airport operations," Pepper said. "We've asked the airport to address these issues for over two years. Atlantic is still faced with the possibility of losing close to 50 percent of our ramp space, crippling our business. ... We support Google coming to the airport, we simply believe these safety and planning issues must be resolved first."
Aviation Director Bill Sherry adamantly denied allegations of safety problems.
"Safety of the flying public is our number one priority," said Sherry, who backs Signature's proposal. "We never ever do anything that would compromise that -- and I take that very seriously."
Like Reed, Sherry pointed out that Atlantic's appeal will be decided by the City Council based on documents provided by Atlantic to the city -- which the city attorney's office also has deemed to be an inadequate response by Atlantic. The company said it offered the airport up to $295 million over 25 years to ensure the airport's vacant land was put to its highest and best use.
In an April 4 letter to the mayor and City Council, City Attorney Rick Doyle and senior deputy city attorney Kevin Fisher wrote that Atlantic failed to respond to nine items that were "material provisions" of the bid, including a proposal bond; financial references; a financial pro forma; a management plan; a rent proposal; property, sales and use tax proposals; and the city's required labor peace-employee work environment form.
"The city cannot waive Atlantic's errors, because accepting a proposal with such material omissions would result in Atlantic gaining a competitive advantage over the proposer that complied with all of the ... submittal requirements," said the memo.
Signature proposes seven airplane hangars, five of which would house the Google fleet and two others that would accommodate private jets used by other members of Silicon Valley's corporate elite.
But Atlantic, which has invested $60 million since 2007 to expand and upgrade its operations, has said that it already has the capacity to meet current demand for corporate and private pilots.
The Signature deal would provide at least $3 million annually in rent and other fees to the city-owned airport. The new facility would include 270,000 square feet of building space on the west side of the airport grounds. Sherry has estimated the project would create 150 to 200 airport and regional construction jobs, 36 permanent jobs and as many as 370 other jobs.
Ken Ambrose of Blue City Holdings is hoping the council will endorse the Signature proposal and allow his company to break ground this summer because Google's executives' lease at Moffett Field runs out by next summer.
"That would be a best-case scenario," he said, adding that officials at NASA, the federal agency that controls Hangar One, which Google executives had offered to pay $33 million to renovate in exchange for the right to use, have never responded.
"We didn't jump, we were pushed," said Ambrose of their plight to relocate to another airport facility.
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Plans have changed for my Thanksgiving, so I will be in town this year. Who's up for playing some dg this coming Saturday? I will try to come up with some CTP's as well.
It will be Carroll Marty/ISU this year.
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SANFORD, Fla. (AP) -- The attorney for the Florida man accused of fatally shooting Trayvon Martin says he won't need the two weeks a judge has set aside for an immunity hearing under the state's controversial self defense law.
Mark O'Mara told Judge Debra Nelson during a hearing Tuesday that she could free up the final two weeks in April which had been set aside for George Zimmerman's immunity hearing.
O'Mara previously stated that heáhopes to roll the "stand your ground" hearing into Zimmerman's second-degree murder trial, scheduled for June. He says that remains his desire. The judge has said she's open to that.
Zimmerman says he shot the 17-year-old in self defense after they got into a fight in February 2012. He has pleaded not guilty.


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A man and a girl were pulled from the earthquake rubble in Amatrice, Italy on Wednesday. Dozens are known dead in the strong earthquake that hit central Italy early Wednesday. (Aug. 24)
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Facebook launched Safety Check as a way to help users following a natural disaster.
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Italy's civil protection agency says at least 37 people have died in the magnitude 6 quake that struck central Italy. Crews are looking through the rubble of collapsed buildings for survivors and victims. (Aug. 24)
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Speaking at a private fundraiser for Hillary Clinton, Cher slams her rival Donald Trump. (Aug. 24)
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The Republican nominee hammers his rival on claims that she held special meetings with top donors of the Clinton Foundation. ABC's Arlette Saenz reports.
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Oscar winner Jennifer Lawrence tops the list at No. 1 for the second year in a row!
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