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Our lastest review is for the Calphalon Contemporary NonStick Roaster Set.
With Thanksgiving fast approaching we thought that this was the perfect piece of cookware to review.
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TRUCKEE, Calif. — Below are select incidents from the Truckee Police Department's press log for July 30-Aug. 6, along with previously unreported incidents.
July 30
• Truckee Police Department responded to a Tahoe Donner residence after a 4-year old child fell from second story window on Alder Creek Road. The incident was accidental and was documented as an informational report.
• An unknown person broke into victim's home on Manchester Drive and subsequently stole two rifles, a laptop computer, a pickup truck and several other misc items.
• A female entered a local restaurant with her two-year-old daughter, and according to staff appeared to be intoxicated. The female left shortly after arriving, but left her child unattended. The female was eventually located by restaurant staff and she returned in the restaurant, where she was contacted by law enforcement and arrested.
• A suspect contacted her parents and made several threats to kill them and then kill herself. The parents thought the threats were credible and feared for their safety and they moved to a safe location. It was determined that the suspect is in the Bay Area. A track flier was sent to all involved agencies. The investigation led to the arrest of the subject in Brentwood, Calif.
• An unknown person entered into an unlocked vehicle and stole several items. The petty theft occurred on Wolfgang Road.
• Officers took a report of unauthorized entry into residence on South Shore Drive. There is no suspect information at this time.
• Officers took a report of single vehicle accident on Brockway Road. The driver backed his truck over yield sign, causing hazmat spill.
July 31
• A citizen turned in a police flashlight he found.
• A reporting party reported threats made by her grandson's father. The threats were third party threats and they were not made directly to the reporting party. The reporting party wanted documentation of the threats to be used during the process of obtaining a restraining order.
August 1
• Police officer was dispatched to Pine Avenue regarding two heavily intoxicated subjects "wrestling" in the emergency room lobby. One of the two subjects was booked for drunk in public and disorderly conduct.
• Officers responded to a report of possible underage drinking. The driver of a vehicle leaving the area was stopped for vehicle code violations and subsequently cited and released for driver under 21 with BAC greater than 0.05 percent. A passenger of the vehicle was also cited for being in possession of an open container of alcohol.
• A reporting party called Truckee Police to report an unresponsive white male slumped behind the steering wheel of a parked car. Upon contact, motorist was determined to be the operator of the vehicle and showed signs of intoxication. The driver was medically cleared by on-scene paramedics and subsequently arrested for DUI. The driver was transported to Nevada County Sheriff's Office and booked without further incident.
• Officers were dispatched to Estates Drive for an attempt burglary. Further investigation led officers to believe the damage was vandalism and not an attempted burglary. The reporting party requested a informational report for insurance purposes.
• An unknown person cut a padlock and stole an air compressor from a trailer parked on Ski Slope Way.
• An unknown person stole a power washer and several other pieces of equipment on Hillside Drive.
August 3
• A female was contacted after engaging a verbal argument with an adult male on Lausanne Way. A records check revealed the female had an outstanding misdemeanor warrant for her arrest. The adult female was cited and released.
August 4
• Officers reported domestic dispute in a public parking lot on Deerfield Drive.
August 5
• Officers stopped a vehicle for several vehicle violations. The driver was arrested for DUI.
• Officers were dispatched to a female subject screaming in an apartment on Edmunds Drive. The female subject came out of the apartment and it determined she was intoxicated and arrested for being drunk in public.


text: I got a Samsung Galaxy Note in March and I love it. This is the only time I've said this about a phone (ummm phablet). Anyone else feel this way? I've written approximately 40 pages of a new novel on here and previously another 40 pages and a previous novel at 150 pages were written on a netbook and my current experience with the phone is way better. Granted there are some drawbacks. For instance I'll have to edit on a desktop but that was true of the netbook too. Also this very website isn't very phone friendly. Posting here might result in poor grammar because I can't scroll left or right when "inside" this "box" Anyway, I'd love to hear about other experiences in regards to writing on alternative devices. I'll also recommend the apps I currently use for writing and would like to hear about others: Polaris office (with my stylus and handwriting recognition) Mindjet (For planning out my series) Pocket (because I do tonnes of research and wikipedia has a max number of saved pages while pocket does not)


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Step Out to the Sand, Beach Rd., Gulf View
|Per night
|$200 - $450
|Per week
|$1,200 - $2,200
Stay On Siesta Management
Property Rates
|Apr 20 2016
|Sep 03 2016
|3 Nights
|Sep 04 2016
|Dec 13 2016
|3 Nights
|Dec 14 2016
|May 01 2017
|1 Week
|Check In: 4 p.m. Check Out: 10 a.m.
|Lodging tax: 12.%
|Deposits: 50%
|Payment Options: Cashier's Check, Discover, Mastercard, Money Order, Personal Check, Visa
|Other Fees: 5% Processing, $175 cleaning
Reviews for this vacation townhouse rental in Siesta Key, Florida
Susan Justice
Atlanta, GA
Great vacation!!
April 19, 2013
We were so pleased with our condo! Super kid friendly! We loved walking across the street to eat or shop. It was a wonderful vacation!
Charlotte Weider
August 7, 2012
Excellent in all aspects, great customer service, parking, etc. We did have sugar ant infestation though but everything else was perfect. Thanks, we will stay with you again.
K ko
Minneapolis, MN. USA
Not as advertised
April 14, 2012
This property was suboptimal, our family of 4 adults cancelled the reservations and left within 15 minutes of checking in. The photos are not of this property. Rental was a one story slab, row of simular facing yet more of the same slab row units with a tiny screened area immediately next to more units, zero privacy. Bedroom was small, it was all bed, no other space. The one small closet next to the head of the bed, only had a 10 inch clearance to access it. No drawers provided. Air conditioner low unit touches the bed next to the foot end, and it was very noisy running. Guess that works for some who drink a lot...before bed or take sleeping pills. Bathroom could have been a closet. It was about 10 feet long and about 3 ft narrow. The main room and kitchen, all in one, had no floor space once the queen pull out couch was opened. Unit doesn t give you any space for suitcases. Pools were small perhaps 11 ft. X 12 foot. With a fence immediately around the water and a small 6ft. X 5 ft. raised deck space with four chairs at one end of the pool to sit by it. Resort could not accomodate pool need if all guests were using the 3 pools because of their size. Commercial garbage receptacles are on every corner surrounding the rental units, not at all attractive, and guessing very endlessly noisy on collection day. The outside common area is very small for the number of units and guests it was intended for and just one household type grill serving for all. Bars and restaurants are across the street. Noisy area. Beach is close....but look at what you are paying for. The beach is free, stay somewhere you can be comfortable in.
Pilar Abarca
South Florida
Relaxed family vacation
August 19, 2011
I have visited several beaches in the Gulf Coast but this trip was the most enjoyable. The location of the property was excellent allowing us to enjoy the beach at any time of the day along with other amenities they offer. No need to carry chairs or boogie boards to the beach. The apartment was nicely decorated with a full equipped kitchen, just like the pictures in the website. The bedrooms were comfortable. The apartment manager was very friendly. The only thing I would recommend to the owner is to replace the mattress of the sofa bed in the living room. Overall, we had a great time. We look forward to go back.
Ricardo Franco
Ft.Lauderdale, FL USA
August 16, 2011
Lora and Mark Veldhuizen
Sioux Falls, SD
April 27, 2011
Very clean and very functional place to stay. We also really enjoyed the location with easy access to the beach and pool and a handy 7-11 close by. We would love to go back next week if we could!
Alex T
Miami, FL
Just what the doctor ordered...
September 22, 2010
I had originally planned to vacation out of state but I had to change plans at the last minute. Luckily, I found this condo and it was great. It's very spacious, well kept and right on the world famous Siesta Key Beach. John was great to deal with and truly knows the meaning of customer service. I wouldn't hesitate to recommend this property and I plan on coming back soon. Thanks for a great week!
This is the most beautiful beach in the world! Your amazing condo made this trip perfect. Thank you!!
-John from Michigan


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oratory 1
noun (plural oratories)
1A small chapel, especially for private worship.
Example sentences
- At the same time, the Filippine Order was spreading its wings, and oratories were set up in many cities in Roman Catholic countries.
- The oratories tended to have permanent officers under the direction of the rector of the local baptismal church.
- There are the remains of a number of oratories and some stone monuments that may be pre-Christian.
Oratoriannoun& adjective
- sense 2.Example sentences
- The Oratorians have maintained Gregorian chant, polyphony, Latin, the whole nine yards, and it is usually packed for a Sunday high mass.
- One of my favorite short rules is the one John Henry Newman provided in 1856 for his fellow Oratorians in Birmingham.
- Privat de Molières studied at Oratorian schools in Aix, Marseilles, Arles and Angers.
Middle English: from Anglo-Norman French oratorie, from ecclesiastical Latin oratorium, based on Latin orare 'pray, speak'; sense 2 is from Congregation of the Fathers of the Oratory.
Words that rhyme with oratoryexploratory, laboratory
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noun[mass noun]
1The art or practice of formal speaking in public: the gift of persuasive oratory
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- 'By any standards public oratory is appalling', claimed Donald Horne in The Lucky Country.
- There are various different schools of public oratory.
- Fred Turner was a gifted speaker, attracted to books and public oratory.
rhetoric, eloquence, grandiloquence, magniloquence, public speaking, speech-making, declamation, way with words, the gift of the gab, fluency
1.1Eloquent or rhetorical language: learned discussions degenerated into pompous oratory
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- Crowds delighted in speeches filled with double talk ridiculing the pompous, bombastic oratory that characterized familiar memorial rituals.
- Although identified as a fierce partisan, he received high marks from members of both political parties for his hard work, reasonableness, and eloquent oratory.
- Each of these bands was headed by both a war leader and a civil leader, the former chosen because of his reputation as a warrior, and the later chosen because of his eloquent oratory.
Early 16th century: from Latin oratoria, feminine (used as a noun) of oratorius 'relating to an orator'.
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NWU News
June 26, 2013
A fourth Nebraska Wesleyan University student has won a Fulbright Scholarship. Megan Meyerson of Lincoln will spend the next year in Brazil where she will teach English.
June 24, 2013
In this year of Nebraska Wesleyan University's 125th anniversary, we had much to celebrate.
June 23, 2013
A Nebraska Wesleyan University English professor has won a Fulbright Scholarship to teach in Hong Kong next year.
June 18, 2013
Nebraska Wesleyan University sophomore Cole Gebhardt was raised on a farm near Aurora, Neb., and plans to one day own a self-sustained farm of his own.
June 13, 2013
First-year student Leah Loostrom grew up on a farm near Gothenburg where she has fond childhood memories of playing with sticks.
June 6, 2013
Longtime Lincoln East High School swimming and diving coach Greg Fleming will lead Nebraska Wesleyan University's new swimming program.
May 27, 2013
Are you signed up for the Wesleyan Alert System?
May 24, 2013
This spring when millions were watching their national tournament brackets succeed or fail, a group of Nebraska Wesleyan University students were evaluating their own brackets.
May 23, 2013
Tim Brawner is spending his summer experiencing something that many up-and-coming artists dream of doing.
May 21, 2013
Dr. Fred Ohles, President of Nebraska Wesleyan University, awarded degrees to approximately 500 undergraduate and graduate students during Nebraska Wesleyan University's 124th annual...
May 21, 2013
A first-year biology student has been selected as a Fulbright summer institute participant.
May 21, 2013
Three years ago a group of Nebraska Wesleyan University students traveled to Guatemala where they helped the organization Constru Casa build a house for an impoverished family.
May 13, 2013
Students in Garry Duncan's biology classes are expected to come to class with their reading assignments and questions already completed.
May 13, 2013
Nebraska Wesleyan University history professor Meghan Winchell has been awarded the White Award for Internationalization.
May 13, 2013
Sarah Kelen, associate professor of English, has been awarded the NWU Scholar Award.
May 7, 2013
Three thousand five hundred sixty thumbtacks.
May 6, 2013
A third Nebraska Wesleyan University student has won a Fulbright Scholarship.
May 3, 2013
The Honorable John M. Gerrard will deliver the address at Nebraska Wesleyan University's 124th commencement on Saturday, May 18.
May 3, 2013
Two years ago Nebraska Wesleyan University junior Eric Jackson traveled to Estonia with the men's basketball team.
April 29, 2013
Four years ago this month Caty Reed sat at her high school graduation and listened to a speaker tell her and her fellow classmates that they could change the world.
April 28, 2013
Nebraska Wesleyan University senior Paul Snyder has dreamed of living and working in Japan ever since he was an eighth-grader in Scottsbluff.
April 23, 2013
The artistic talents of Nebraska Wesleyan University's senior art majors will be on display for the Senior Art Exhibition.
April 19, 2013
Former President Bill Clinton launched the Clinton Global Initiative University with the next generation of innovative problem solvers in mind — problem solvers like NWU students Chelsea...
April 18, 2013
Eight months. That's all it took for Nebraska Wesleyan students, faculty, staff, alumni and friends of the university to give 12,500 hours of service to communities across the world....
April 18, 2013
Two Nebraska Wesleyan University seniors have been awarded Fulbright scholarships to teach in Taiwan next year.
April 18, 2013
A Nebraska Wesleyan University education and special education major has won a Fulbright Scholarship to teach in Taiwan next year.
April 18, 2013
Malea Powell, the national chair of the Conference on College Composition & Communication and a professor at Michigan State University, will discuss American Indian rhetorics at Nebraska...
April 16, 2013
A Georgetown University history professor who says the country's most momentous labor dispute has altered the course of American labor relations will speak at Nebraska Wesleyan University on...
April 15, 2013
Earth Day Activities to Include Outdoor Activities, Tree Planting, Keynote by Citizen Engagement Specialist
Nebraska's Wesleyan's Environmental Action student organization is planning a day full of activities in celebration of Earth Day.
April 10, 2013
The new academic year began with a goal: $40,000.
April 10, 2013
New Documentary on Ioway Tribe Features Retired NWU History Professor Ron Naugle; Screening on April 24
Nebraska Wesleyan University will host a screening on Wednesday, April 24 of the new critically-acclaimed documentaries Lost Nation: The Ioway 2 & 3.
April 5, 2013
It wasn't your typical spring break trip. No flip-flops, sunglasses, and sunscreen were packed in these students' bags. Instead, they opted for facemasks, safety glasses, and heavy-duty...
April 2, 2013
An organizational communication expert delivered this year's Lambda Pi Eta Communication Lecture on April 11.
April 1, 2013
Nebraska Wesleyan University has hired Dr. Nancy Biggs, Associate Superintendent for Human Resources at Lincoln Public Schools, to lead its Education Department, beginning August 1.
March 28, 2013
Nebraska Wesleyan University senior Morgan Shea and four of her classmates spent part of their spring semester going to prison.
March 27, 2013
Nebraska Wesleyan junior Hannah Husmann has been on a mission to save lives since her freshman year of high school, when a classmate died of cancer.
March 19, 2013
The musical talents of two Nebraska Wesleyan University students are featured in a new NET Television documentary, "Devil Clouds: Tornadoes Strike Nebraska."
March 15, 2013
Nebraska Wesleyan University's Touch of Class Jazz Choir spent its spring break performing concerts in Iowa and Missouri.
March 13, 2013
Hilary Krantz spent much of the past year researching and applying for internships to help satisfy the requirements for her accounting degree.
March 11, 2013
From Broadway to Chinatown to Harlem and the nation's capital, Nebraska Wesleyan students and faculty are foregoing rest and relaxation for special opportunities to learn and serve during...
March 6, 2013
Many hospitals have what you might call a dirty little secret. An estimated 1.7 million of their patients acquire infections while in their care each year. Those infections are connected to nearly...
March 6, 2013
A Nebraska Wesleyan University junior will spend his summer in China studying Mandarin thanks to the U.S. Department of State's Critical Language Scholarship.
March 6, 2013
After NWU parents Paul and Shelley Freeman lost their son, Cameron Freeman, to a drunk driver in November 2010, they felt all of the pain and emotions you'd expect.
March 5, 2013
Last year's graduating class included two students from Juarez, Mexico, a city plagued by drug-related violence that borders El Paso, Texas.
March 5, 2013
Two years ago Lindsey Jones received a prestigious Goldwater Scholarship to help enhance her knowledge and experience in science.
March 4, 2013
Cody Eiler — a business administration major and Academic All-American in football — spent some time recently perfecting his pitch.
March 1, 2013
A new Elder Gallery photography exhibit displays the innocence, experiences, and curiosities of childhood.
February 27, 2013
A surgeon and musician who researches the way musical creativity works in the brain will deliver a lecture at Nebraska Wesleyan University on Thursday, March 7.
February 27, 2013
Nebraska Wesleyan University's fifth annual Bowls for Backpacks was another success, raising over $9,000 for the Food Bank of Lincoln.
February 22, 2013
10,087: That's how many hours Nebraska Wesleyan University students, faculty, staff, alumni, and friends have collectively given in community service since August.


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The WaxVac commercial captivated Marcy Kauffman so much, she emailed Does It Work."I wanted to wait for the WacVac," Marcy said.After waiting a few weeks for some serious wax build-up in her sons' ears, Marcy is ready to see if the WaxVac is truly a safe and effective way to suck wax out of ears.We bought two online for nearly $31. That includes shipping and handling and priority processing.Marcy begins the testing."Well, I know it's getting some wax. Oh yeah. I think it's sucking it out," Marcy said.Marcy uses a Q-Tip for the rest of the wax. She believes the WaxVac pulled the wax down Cooper's ear canal."I like how it brought more out. Because I won't go digging deep for it of course," Marcy said.But there's no build-up where we would expect to see it, inside the WaxVac cap.Next, Marcy gives Carter's ears a try."I was kind of hoping it would have vacuumed it all out and called it good," Marcy said.Does it Work?"I guess no. I wanted it to work," Marcy said.But before we end this test with a gooey mess, we let Marcy finish cleaning her sons' ears. And we want to try more claims from the commercial. Can the WaxVac really pick-up water and dirt? During our testing, it did.Returning to Marcy's test now… where after spending several minutes on two sets of ears, Marcy takes a look at the cap again."There's wax in there for sure," Marcy said.But she still has to use a Q-Tip to get the wax out.Back to the question... does it work?"I think it works if you take the time," Marcy said.We reached-out to the company behind the WaxVac. We wanted to know why it didn't suction the wax out of the boys' ears. A spokesperson sent us this response: "The WaxVac is designed to remove moisture, loose wax particles and dirt from the ear. For hardened or impacted wax, then it's recommended that you use ear wax softening drops in conjunction with the Wax Vac."I also checked with a doctor to see what he had to say about this way of cleaning your ears. The WesleyCare Family Medicine doctor said he wasn't sure about the efficiency of the WaxVac. However, he had a few tips for cleaning-out your ears. Q-Tips/cotton swabs should not be used at all to clean wax out of the ear. There are products you can buy to help with wax removal, like Debrox. Ear drops should not be used more than four to five days in a row. Mineral oil can also be effective. The WaxVac: Does it Work?
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The A's are not for sale—that's what lead man Lew Wolff has said repeatedly in public and what principal owner John Fisher has told to at least one interested potential buyer recently.
The recently interested party, according to multiple sources: Warriors co-owner Joe Lacob, who has reached out to see if Fisher might want to sell the A's at some point soon.
I've heard that MLB has monitored this situation and was aware of Lacob's interest—and Fisher's non-interest in selling.
There are signs that Lacob could be thinking about trying to build a new stadium for the A's on the Howard Terminal site, though obviously that scenario is based on many other moving parts (and that general interest was first reported by the East Bay Express back in December, and here's a December blog-post in which I asked Lacob specifically about his thoughts on the Howard Terminal site).
But Fisher has given no indication that he's looking to sell.
Therefore, Lacob's interest in the A's is now very much on the back-burner, the sources say.
Still... Lacob is hardly the only big-money operator with proven sports credentials to check in with Fisher about the A's in the last year or so.
There is some sense that the A's stadium frustrations will probably lead Fisher to at least explore the possibility of selling the team, which means there are potential buyers jockeying in the background in case Fisher suddenly changes his mind.
And most of these interested parties, I'm told, would be interested in keeping the A's as the first and best option—if a stadium deal can be struck.
The point is many potential owner-types believe the A's could be available soon and that they are an under-valued asset given their profitability, baseball's booming economy, and the possibility of a giant revenue take-off if a new stadium can be built.
Of course, Fisher and Wolff probably have many of these same thoughts, which would naturally lead them to be very careful about any thoughts of selling control of this franchise.
For instance, every MLB team's digital media rights are worth a substantial amount—more than $20 million annually, maybe upwards of $40M annually pretty soon, I've heard—and that's before you start counting national and local broadcast revenue, ticket revenue, and all the rest.
What would the A's sale price be right now, theoretically? I've heard it starts at $500-plus million and could go much higher than that... and this is with zero line on a new stadium and no clarity on what the next CBA might provide as far as revenue-sharing.
If the proposed buyers thought they had a line on a new stadium... well... the number could get very, very high.
One person I respect says $700 million is the realistic number, and again, that might be exceeded swiftly if there is a bidding process.
Does Joe Lacob have that kind of buying power? As I always say: He outmaneuvered Larry Ellison for the Warriors when Ellison really wanted to buy the Warriors, so I never put anything beyond a guy who can do that.
Again, here's what Lacob sent to me via email back in December when I asked specifically about his interest in the Howard Terminal site:
"I am and have been very familiar with this site and I think it has interesting potential as a site for a new baseball stadium.
"I believe that MLB might hold a similar view; I can't speak for them.
"If I were the city of Oakland, I would be excited by the prospect of development of that site and the potentially revolutionary impact on the city of Oakland. Look at what the Giants ballpark did to stimulate development and positive change in the south of Market area of SF.
"With that said, we are completely focused on Piers 30-32 for our new arena."
Read Tim Kawakami's Talking Points blog at blogs.mercurynews.com/kawakami. Contact him at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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DeliciWeb enables you to export, in one click, the entire content of your Book, Games, Movie, and/or Music collections (from Delicious Library) to the web. I have tried another tool like this one in the past, but it wasn't as simple to install and the HTML wasn't as "clean" as I liked it, so here is DeliciWeb.
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Anyone know where I can get this version?? The developer discontinued it and all I can find online is version 1.2.
I'd love to get this!! Let me know [bencharity AT gmail DOT com]
A new version (1.2) is out & mirrored at both Version Tracker & MacUpdate. However, it does not appear to be listed at the developer's site.
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I've tried every exporter for Delicious Library that I could find, and this is the best. The html it creates is very nice looking and includes all the info for the movie from the Library software. You can choose three quality settings for the covers.....I find the lowest looks pretty bad, but the highest creates large images. The medium setting works very well. My library of around 300 movies takes up about 20 megs.
It also allows you to sort the movies alphabetically in the output. This leads to my biggest gripe with the program.....there is no option to ignore certain words. Unfortunately this leads to all the movies that begin with "The" being lumped together in the list. Having many Spanish movies, I also run into this problem with El/La/Los/Las titles. One option is to remove "The," "A", and other articles, but it'd be nice if this was a built-in option, even if just for English articles (would it be difficult to allow user input of words to ignore though? I'm no programmer, so I certainly couldn't do it). Other than that it works well, quickly, is easy to use, and looks great.


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OAKLAND -- How's this for enthusiasm? Presented with the ambitious plan to transform the Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum complex into a sports and entertainment center, Alameda County Supervisor Nate Miley asked if the city wanted to buy out the county's stake and do the project itself.
Other supervisors were equally wary about the city-driven Coliseum City vision during a joint meeting with City Council members Monday.
Supervisor Richard Valle made clear he opposed any public subsidy to keep Oakland's three professional sports teams in the East Bay, while Supervisor Keith Carson zeroed in on the fact that the city and county still owe more than $200 million from renovations to the o.Co Coliseum and Oracle Arena two decades ago.
"We don't generate enough revenue to cover our existing debt," Carson said. "That is because we did not ask enough questions (before the renovations) and did not have the factual data to back it up."
Future city-county discussions are planned for the project, and Assistant City Administrator Fred Blackwell said Oakland didn't have the resources to buy out the county's stake.
None of the politicians assembled Monday oppose the Coliseum City concept, which calls for private investors to pour billions of dollars into more than 100 acres in East Oakland owned by the city and county.
The development would raze the Coliseum and redevelop it and many of the surrounding parking lots into hotels, sports bars, shops, condos and a new stadium for the Raiders. It could also include a baseball stadium if the Oakland A's would consider staying in town.
The vision got a shot in the arm recently when Colony Capital, LLC, the world's third largest privately held real estate firm, joined the city's development team and started conversations with the Raiders about a new football stadium.
But Monday's meeting between council members and county supervisors revealed deep-seated skepticism about Colony's sincerity in pulling off the project and lingering doubts about whether a private entity could make money building sports facilities in Oakland when taxpayers took a bath on the last big sports project.
According to Alameda County Auditor Patrick O'Connell, city and county taxpayers are on the hook for $113 million in debt on the Coliseum and $90 million in debt on the arena incurred to renovate the buildings in the 1990s. Taxpayers fork over $20 million a year paying down the debt and running the facilities for Oakland's three teams.
The annual cost is slated to rise by a couple hundred thousand dollars next year under tentative lease extensions that would lower overall rent payments from the teams, O'Connell said.
Coliseum City is designed to make the Coliseum complex profitable by turning it into a destination where fans would go to games and spend their money at adjacent shops, bars and restaurants.
The existing Coliseum complex with nothing but sports facilities and parking lots, "is currently designed to make as little money as it is possible to make," Councilwoman Rebecca Kaplan said.
But questions also remain over whether Oakland has the right mix of teams to make the project feasible. The A's and Golden State Warriors play lots of home games to draw consumers, but neither team is interested in the project.
The Raiders are interested, but they play fewer games and their initial stadium concept called for a smallish open-air football stadium that wouldn't be able to host many other events. It also came with a $300 million funding shortfall.
Concerns about Coliseum City's profitability led the original development firm Forest City Enterprises to bow out of the project, said Gregory Hunter, deputy director of Oakland's Office of Neighborhood Investment.
Colony's interest in the project has eased some fears, but Miley questioned why the firm, which manages more than $30 billion in assets, hadn't yet put any money into the project to show their commitment. "That frustrates me very much," he said.
After the meeting, Councilman Larry Reid, whose district includes the Coliseum complex, said he understood everyone's concerns and that he couldn't be optimistic about the project until he sits down with Colony later this month.
"If anyone can make this deal happen it's Colony, but I want to make sure they are unequivocally on board," he said. "At some point we come to a point where either this is real or we lose our sports teams."
Contact Matthew Artz at 510-208-6435


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BERKELEY -- Richard Solomon knows he may have gotten away with a moving screen when he freed up Justin Cobbs for his game-winning shot that beat then-No. 1 and undefeated Arizona.
"Just a little jump in there," Solomon said of the screen that allowed Cobbs to escape the defense of Nick Johnson. "Personally, I thought they were going to call a moving screen ... I thought they were going to call something."
A replay shows that Solomon moved to his right slightly and never was entirely set.
"I watched it a few times," Solomon said. "I loved the screen. The screen got him a little bit open and his man switched off."
From there, Cobbs dribbled toward 7-footer Kaleb Tarczewski, made a hard step-back move to his left and released his fall-away shot with 0.9 seconds left that gave Cal a 60-58 victory Saturday night -- its first ever over a No. 1 team on its home floor.
Solomon acknowledged it was a play that might have drawn a whistle earlier in the game.
"Just because it was the end of the game," he said, "you'd hate for that to be the final call."
Said Cobbs, "Richard gets the assist for the night."
With the score tied, Cobbs still needed to make the shot over the outstretched hands of a big man in good position.
"It was contested, but those are sometimes the easier shots to make when you know you have to shoot it," Cobbs said. "There's no consequence if you make or miss. We weren't going to lose. We were going into overtime.
"My confidence has been high for a while now. In those moments, I always want the ball in my hands. I was just blessed and fortunate the ball went in."
Cobbs said he gave no thought to passing the ball on the final play.
Solomon endorsed that decision. "He has to shoot that ball."


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Minnesota Valley Council in partnership with the Salvation Army is working to raise awareness of local needs in our county for the coming winter months. They are seeing an increase in needs due to loss of jobs and higher costs for electricity and heating. Because Watonwan county is one of the poorest counties in the state, that need is only going to be greater and the main concern lies with families who have children.
Watonwan County is a small county, but that doesn't mean that the need isn't great. Jobs are scarce and costs are relatively high. Salvation Army crisis funds can help any family that lives in Watonwan County.
To raise money to help with this situation the Salvation Army has begun their bell ringing campaign. There are more kettles available.
All funds raised through this campaign remain for use only in Watonwan County. The funds are used to help in various ways to help families in hard times and are for emergency use.
If you are interested in helping you can help man the kettles. If you are willing to do this call First Presbyterian at 507-375-3432 so that you can schedule a time and place. Another way to help is by putting money in the kettles, every little bit helps. If you or your organization would like to make a donation by check please put Watonwan County Salvation Army on your check and send it to:
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Working together amazing things can be accomplished and many people who are in need can be helped. Please call Mary at 507-375-3432 to find out more information and to volunteer your services.
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Brett Donelson has brought to town the newest non-profit "The Cycle Effect," which held its inaugural fundraiser recently at the Westin Riverfront Resort and Spa. "The Cycle Effect" is designed to empower girls through mountain bike training and competition, and mentoring and education. Health and fitness, encouragement and positive role-modeling all come into play with The Cycle Effect. And speaking of play, there was a lot of that going on at "Foos and Brews" to support The Cycle Effect.
"We have foosball, ping pong, ladder ball, DJ's and dancing and a general good vibe feel," Donelson said.
It was refreshing to see people being active while they socialized and learned about the new non-profit. Event manager Erika Ghent has known Donelson for a long time, as he was her coach at Ski Club Vail back in the day.
"I had one of my best years when he was my coach," Ghent said, remembering his advice, "Erika, ski as fast as you can." Her sister, Christa echoed her words, "He was one of my favorite coaches at Ski Club Vail."
Now Donelson cannot say enough great things about Ghent's organizational skills and event planning prowess.
"Someone had better utilize her in a big way because she is super talented and such an asset," Donelson said. After sustaining numerous ski race injuries, Christa Ghent has turned her attention to road bike racing, which, though a departure from the family ski
WIth The Cycle Effect, Donelson uses his expertise in coaching and inspiring young athletes to push themselves in mind, body and spirit, and he is looking forward to a successful program that has many years of great things to come. Look for them out on the trails this biking season.
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The U.S. Supreme Court affirmed Monday a lower court ruling allowing Mississippi lawmakers to run in their current districts this year. The justices rejected an appeal from the Mississippi NAACP.
The Mississippi Legislature did not pass a redistricting plan
this year. The 122 Mississippi House districts and 52 Senate
districts are updated after every census to reflect population
changes and to uphold the constitutional principle of one person, one vote.
When redistricting failed, the state chapter of the National
Association for the Advancement of Colored People sued. But a three-judge federal panel said the state either had to immediately redraw the lines or let lawmakers run in their current districts in 2011.
"This means our Mississippi Constitution controls the election of our Representatives," said Secretary of State Delbert Hosemann. "The Supreme Court has affirmed what I have long contended, we should follow the State Constitution and protect our state's right to redistrict our legislature without federal intervention. The Constitution had a very good day."


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SNOWMASS VILLAGE - Aspen will enjoy the USA Pro Challenge spotlight for the third straight year this summer, but Snowmass Village will be in the limelight like never before as the host resort for the athletes and their entourages.
As a host community, Aspen/Snowmass is once again expected to provide as many as 750 hotel accommodations to the athletes, their entourages and others associated with the pro bicycling race - some 1,000 people in all - but instead of staying in Aspen, this year the contingent will be grouped in Snowmass Village. Meals will be provided there, as well.
The team trailers, which were parked in Aspen last year and proved a popular attraction with spectators who wandered around inspecting the bicycles used by the racers and gathered outside trailer doors in hopes of collecting autographs from the sport's biggest stars, also will be in Snowmass Village. They'll be parked in the upper lots at Snowmass this year.
Aspen and Snowmass will host the first stage of this year's third running of the USA Pro Challenge, a weeklong event that takes pro riders around Colorado. The opening leg, on Aug. 19, will be a circuit race that has the 120 participating riders making laps on a loop between Aspen and Snowmass Village. Aug. 20's Stage 2 will start in Aspen and travel to Breckenridge.
Choosing a route that Pitkin County officials find acceptable, however, has proven challenging so far. Various alternatives are under consideration after commissioners were cool to the initial proposal last month. Organizers will be back before commissioners on March 12, and Nancy Leslie, special events coordinator for the city of Aspen, on Feb. 26 urged members of the Aspen Chamber Resort Association board of directors to attend the meeting if they want to show support. A special-event permit from the county is at stake.
"Right now, we're looking at a lot of different options," Leslie said, declining to reveal any specifics.
Making Snowmass Village the headquarters for this year's local stop by the bike race is a coup for that community, but Aspen will benefit, as well, according to Bill Tomcich, president of local reservations agency Stay Aspen Snowmass.
With normal business, Aspen accomodations will be about 80 percent full for the weekend preceding the race. The remaining rooms will sell out, he predicted. Aspen won't lose business to Snowmass because Snowmass will be full, Tomcich said.
Snowmass Village will provide the 750 rooms required by the race on the night of Aug. 18 and 565 rooms on the night of Aug. 19. Lodging properties will be reimbursed for housekeeping costs by the local organizing committee for those "comp nights," but on the nights leading up to Aug. 18, when many of the rooms in Snowmass will also be booked by individuals associated with the race, the average price will be $110 per bedroom, Tomcich said.
"When you add it all up, it's a quarter-million dollars for Snowmass Village,"
he said.
In all, less than 40 percent of Snowmass' overall lodging base will be devoted to the race contingent, Tomcich said, and the value of hosting the racers and their entourages, even with compensation only for housekeeping on two nights, was not lost on the Snowmass lodging community.
"It was one of the easiest pitches I've ever made," Tomcich said.
In 2011, the inaugural year of the bike race, Aspen hosted the Pro Challenge contingent on the last Tuesday in August. Without the event, it would have been the single quietest night of that summer season in Aspen in terms of lodging occupancy, according to Tomcich.
"That Tuesday night went from the quietest night of the summer to one of the top 10 busiest nights for the city of Aspen," he told the ACRA board. A sellout on a summer weeknight, though a share of the rooms were devoted to the race at little or no cost, was unprecedented but for the Fourth of July, he said.
The bike race has been a boon to some sectors of the local economy, while some retailers have pointed out that they see a drop, not a spike, in sales when the Pro Challenge comes to town.
Leslie told the ACRA board she welcomes ideas to make it a win-win
for everyone.
"What do we do to help drive business into your stores?" she asked the chamber board. "Anything we can do to help you, we want to do because this has to be a success for us all."
Several chamber directors said the exposure the bike race brings to Aspen and Snowmass is priceless. It is televised worldwide and 340,000 hours of bike race footage was viewed by spectators on their computers last year, Leslie reported.
"To me, that's the picture we need to keep in mind, not what happens here in those two days," said builder John Olson, a board member.
"Anytime you can get Aspen on TV, it's a good thing," agreed Donnie Lee, general manager of The Gant and chairman of the ACRA board.


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Autism in the News – Wednesday, 11.24.10
Poll rivals tick off on autism school (Australia)
Both major parties have pledged their support for a new school in Knox for children with autism. Deputy Premier Rob Hulls said a re-elected Labor government would proceed with the second stage of the prep to year 12 school in Ferntree Gully. Read more.
Kan. senator honored for autism work (Topeka, Kan.)
A state senator from northeast Kansas has been honored by Easter Seals for his work on autism legislation. Read more.
They call him 50 Tyson (St. Paul, Minn.)
Antonio Henderson-Davis stood on the sideline during the Edison High School homecoming game, his punishment for missing football practice. Read more.
Blow to Ellesmere Port mum's fight for justice for son (UK)
A mum has vowed to fight on to get compensation for her autistic son despite legal aid being withdrawn from a landmark court case. Terri McKay, of Summertrees Road, Ellesmere Port, claims a drug she took for epilepsy nine years ago has left her son Daniel with a catalogue of serious illnesses. Read more.
Autism coverage supporters push for Michigan law (Lansing, Mich.)
Supporters of expanded health care coverage for autism are pushing to get changes approved in Michigan by the end of the year. The Democratic-led Michigan House has voted to require offering better insurance coverage for behavioral therapies for autistic children. The Republican-led Senate hasn't voted on the legislation. Read more.
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Yahoo's New CIO Plans to Bring 'Tech Cred Back'
One of the early priorities for Mike Kail, the newly minted CIO and SVP of infrastructure at Yahoo Inc., is to streamline the company's data centers to help scale products and services more effectively. As the company works to boost its online video content and push its services to users across multiple devices, the quality of Yahoo's critical infrastructure will play an increasingly strategic role.
"I want to bring some of the tech cred back to Yahoo, which has probably been a bit stale over the past few years," Mr. Kail told CIO Journal in an interview. Over the next few months, the former vice president of IT operations at streaming video provider Netflix Inc. wants to escalate the timeline for data center infrastructure deployment, with a focus on deploying commodity hardware efficiently and at scale.
That means examining the economics of Yahoo's data center strategy, determining where and when it makes sense to co-locate globally, or to build and operate its own facilities. "Owning and operating our data centers is the centerpiece of our strategy at this point," and the plan is to consolidate and move away from co-leased or co-operated models, Mr. Kail said. He did not indicate any immediate expansion plans, but said Yahoo is continuously looking for places with strong talent pools, attractive options for renewable energy and tax incentives.
Yahoo is working to create a more modular build for its Yahoo Computing Coop architecture, a chicken coop-shaped facility that uses less energy and water than conventional data centers, and eliminates the need for expensive chillers. The new build would greatly increase efficiency and help the company figure out how to best stagger its capital expenditure, Mr. Kail said.
Over the last few years, the company has expanded key owned-and-operated data center facilities in cities including Lockport, NY; La Vista, Nebraska; and Dublin, Ireland.
"It comes down to deploying infrastructure that can handle the scale – compute and network-wise – for a bunch of mobile endpoints," Mr. Kail said. Regarding Yahoo's data centers, "I don't think there's any weakness, I just think we need even tighter planning."
More efficient data centers can bring cost savings and competitive differentiation that can be critical to a company's success. In 2013, General Motors Corp. announced it would launch its own $130 million data center, modeled largely off technological advances by Google Inc. and Facebook Inc. "If we are going to win, we must turn IT into a competitive advantage and not treat it as something that is just a utility," GM CIO Randy Mott said at the time.
CIO Journal reported in January that Facebook saved close to $1.2 billion over the last three years redesigning its data centers.
Mr. Kail will report directly to Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer. About a week and a half into the job, he has met with his teams around the world, which total about 1,000 employees and six direct reports. He says the size of the Yahoo gig is about 10 times what it was at Netflix.
Yahoo has been without a dedicated IT chief for the past year, after David Dibble stepped down in July 2013.
Ms. Mayer is looking to return the company to growth, focusing heavily on mobile and video, among other things, as ways to revive its core advertising business. In July, the company reported its fourth revenue decline in the last five periods. Mr. Kail said he would be involved with video, but did not say to what extent.
Yahoo also runs some of the world's largest clusters on Hadoop, an open source framework for processing and storing vast amounts of data, and the company's engineers participate actively in the Hadoop community. Derived from Google Inc. technology, its programming model and file system were co-created in 2005 by Doug Cutting, a former Yahoo programmer.


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kilgore trout wrote: 5. vegans, beware! being self righteous sneaks up on vegans almost as often as republican fundamentalist christians.
quasifoto wrote: shane, why is that? did you just not want to be categorized as righteous? and then grew to think who cares what people think? what made you change your thought? i only know one other vegan so i don't know all this righteous stuff. i feel like i'm always defending myself so hard who'd have time to be righteous?


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THIS is as good an indicator as any that America is waxing more liberal on gay rights than some people want to admit:
Former President George H.W. Bush and his wife Barbara were official witnesses Saturday at the Maine wedding of two old friends.
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Sustainability of rangeland production hinges on the stability of plant communities because changes in species composition, forage production, and forage quality fundamentally affect the animal community. The primary forces of change in rangelands are weather, grazing, alien plants, and fire. This project is designed to improve ecological sustainability and rangeland production by addressing opportunities for increased efficiency of livestock nutrient conversion, mechanisms affecting restoration success, and interacting effects of disturbances with weather and climate. We propose improved efficiency of nutrient conversion from dormant rangeland forages is among the most viable options for increasing animal production and minimizing effects on plant communities. We will address this proposition through a series of experiments evaluating plant and animal responses to dormant-season utilization and supplementation strategies. Rangeland restoration methods will be evaluated for direct weed control and mechanisms controlling successful establishment of desirable species. Water manipulations will be included in multiple experiments to determine weather and long-term climate effects because precipitation is the primary controlling factor for plant productivity and community composition. Experiments will be integrated across objectives to determine interacting effects of precipitation, grazing, weeds, and fire on soil and plant communities (production, species composition, diversity, propagation, survival) and cattle (weight gain, reproductive performance, diet quality, diet selection). Understanding the mechanisms that control rangeland stability and animal responses to alterations in plant communities will assist land managers and livestock producers in improving rangeland integrity and efficiency of livestock production. Results will also provide scientists greater understanding of the complex interacting forces on rangelands.


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I'm a sub 3 hour marathon runner (2:52) and I've had hard time finding training schedules for sub 3 hour marathoners. I used one from Cool Running last year for Boston which worked well but that's the only one I could find. Looking to peak out aorund 100/wk. I've only done three marathons so far so I still have much to learn. I do one long run a week (25-34 miles) and "try" to get in 2 solid speed workouts, usually only end up with one though.
Does anyone know of any links or have a schedule that they made up and followed?
Congratulations on your many successes. I am so happy to hear about your longer workouts because this is what I have maintained for years that the distance has to be achieved and even over-compensated in training to prepare for the endurance of competition. Honestly, you are probably your own best coach and can probably develop a routine better than the experts for your individual strenghts and goals. The same advice does not work for everyone, as you know by now, but looking at different opinions and experimenting with various training options might be helpful. For example, take a look at http://www.sub3hour.com/
Thank you for sharing and best of luck!
I agree with Jasko123. You know you better then anyone else. Build your own training plan. Make sure you write in down then just follow it like any you wound online.
I disagree with the more than your race plan but that is what makes it such a great race, look up the Hanson's training plans they are training Desi for the trails! They have several good plans, I use a coach who writes my plans for all my Fulls and Half's. I thing for sure is you learn from each cycle and race, Good Luck.
If you're going to make your own, you might look at the book "Advanced Marathoning" by Pete Pfitzinger. It has a lot of good training advice and sample plans at various peak mileages. The plans could be easily adapted to your needs and training style. There are also a number of online coaches if you're willing to pay to have a plan designed for you.
Thanks everyone. I appreciate all the advice. I'm going to check out "Advanced Marathoning" and try to adapt something from there. I do like doing the very long runs... You get used to them and now they're just long runs. They make me feel bullet proof on race day. Don't get me wrong, there is drawback. I find running high miles is a balancing act between success and injury. Last week for example, instead of taking it easy the day after a 30 mile run I did hill workouts. Tore up my hamstring a bit and had to take 3 days off. Lesson learned...
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More than 800 people from nearly 60 teams participated in the annual Relay for Life Saturday at Cerro Coso Community College.
This year's theme was "Make Cancer Extinct Like the Dinosaur."
Event Chair Flo Bombela said more than $111,800 was raised as of noon Sunday.
"Money is still coming in," she said.
Bombela said the local relay should reach its goal of $120,000.
"It was a beautiful turnout," she said. "There was a large amount of people. It was a great year."
The event began with the opening ceremony and the Survivors' Lap and Caregivers' Lap.
Mayor Ron Carter and Vice Mayor Jerry Taylor also presented a proclamation to Relay Chair Flo Bombela, and Carter addressed attendees.
"We appreciate everybody here," Carter said. "All of us have been touched by family or friends. You make a difference. We're just proud of our community. We have a caring, giving community."
Committee member Bill Brickey, whose wife is a 17-year cancer survivor, said the relay is about the battle people are fighting.
"It's remembering who we lost," he said. "This is one of the largest fundraising events for the American Cancer Society. Relay has always been more. It's the support, the remembrance, the caring we all have to go through. I don't know anybody who hasn't been impacted by cancer one way or another. Relay is part of our family."
He was also crowned Miss Relay 2012 for raising $534.25 during the pageant, in which men dressed as women and walked around the track for approximately two hours collecting donations. The pageant raised more than $1,100.
Brickey said his wife, Debby, was diagnosed with a melanoma in the right large toenail, and her mother, Jean Brown, is a 49-year survivor.
Debby's cancer inspired the team name Ole Nine Toes.
"We have eight survivors on our team," Debby said.
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Yahoo Settles on Its New Logo
Yahoo took the wrappers off of its new logo Wednesday night, picking a design that included thinner lettering with subtle three-dimensional shading. It was the first update to the logo in 18 years, and — fear not — the exclamation point is intact. The serifs, though, are gone.
The whole thing feels a little more industrious, a little more grown up, but retaining some spunk. CEO Marissa Mayer took to her favorite new publishing platform to deconstruct the decision making. As you would expect, the process involved rolled-up sleeves and weekend trench-diving and, of course, a dollop of self-anointed geekery.
We knew we wanted a logo that reflected Yahoo – whimsical, yet sophisticated. Modern and fresh, with a nod to our history. Having a human touch, personal. Proud.
Mayer said straight lines had no place in the new design, since "straight lines don't exist in the human form and are extremely rare in nature, so the human touch in the logo is that all the lines and forms all have at least a slight curve." Twitter rallied admirably to respond with as much humor and snark as you'd expect. (And angst and appreciation, yes.) Atlantic Wire rounds up some of the responses.
It's easy to shrug off branding as a navel-gazing exercise that doesn't matter. But brands are big business and they actually do matter to people. Or else this wouldn't have happened. Sure, though, focusing attention on a logo isn't the same as focusing attention on the viability of products like Yahoo Mail or Yahoo News. Point taken. Love it or hate it, if you spared an opinion or a tweet on the matter, that's a win for Yahoo. And people like talking about this stuff.
Here are two flavors of the design, which Yahoo posted on its own Tumblr.
Yahoo's "30 days" of soul-searching for a new logo are over. You can browse all of the candidates here. Some of them are awful, while a few reflect a glimmer of the current design. Even though Yahoo is over the finish line, others continued offering last-ditch options.
After many minutes, I too am ready to reveal my new Yahoo logo #MadeWithPaper pic.twitter.com/PYJZKLdPHD
— MG Siegler (@parislemon) September 5, 2013
(That's actually good stuff.)
Take a moment to digest the new logo and tell us what you think in the comments field. For Yahoo's logo, not MG's, that is. Or both. If you're nostalgic for the old logo — or you are having trouble remember exactly what it looked like, Kara Swisher at All Things D took a screengrab for old times sake. (She also has a funny take on the whole affair, so head on over.)


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Plan to Pool LTE Patents Takes Shape
Few fields are fraught with as much patent litigation as the mobile device market. Now 10 companies have agreed to try another approach, at least so far as one high-speed wireless technology is concerned.
Via Licensing, which spun out from Dolby Laboratories but is still owned by that San Francisco-based company, on Wednesday is announcing the formation of a pool of patents associated with the cellular technology LTE, which stands for long-term evolution. The companies have agreed to contribute LTE patents to the pool, Via says, so that they can be aggregated and licensed together rather than having the companies individually enforce their intellectual property.
The patent holders include three familiar U.S. names–AT&T Hewlett-Packard and Clearwire–the European carriers Telecom Italia and Telefonica, Japan's KDDI and NTT DoCoMo, South Korea's SK Telecom and the Chinese hardware maker ZTE, Via says. The tenth is DTVG Licensing, a subsidiary of DirecTV.
While most of the companies are prominent, the list does not include some of the players involved in recent high-profile lawsuits or widely identified with communications patents, such as Apple, Samsung Qualcomm Nokia, Ericsson Google and its new Motorola unit.
But Via says more may join in. "We really expect to see additional companies coming on in the very near term," says Roger Ross, the company's president.
Patent pools aren't a new idea. They have frequently emerged in cases where there are many companies that hold patents related to a particular business, making negotiating licenses from all of them complex and expensive.
One of the best known is MPEG LA, which was formed in the 1990s by a group of big electronics companies to license patents related to video compression and has later branched into other fields. Intel in 2008 announced a plan to pool patents related to WiMax, another wireless communications technology.
LTE attracted more interest than WiMax from most big wireless communications carriers and is becoming a built-in feature to boost the bandwidth of smartphones, such as Apple's new iPhone 5.
Ross says the patents being contributed by the 10 companies are "standard essential" patents, which means those deemed fundamental to make goods or service associated with technical standards defined by industry groups. Companies involved in standard-setting efforts are frequently required to license related patents on a "reasonable and non-discriminatory" basis, a phrase frequently shortened to the acronym RAND.
"One of the things that we do is give them a conduit to ensure that we are meeting their RAND obligations," Ross says.
Via is not disclosing the royalty rates it intends to charge yet. But it expects the rate to be considered reasonable by potential licensees, such as companies making smartphones.
Some veterans of the Silicon Valley patent scene aren't optimistic the new pool will have much of an impact in heading off litigation, in large part because of the absence of some of the biggest combatants and patent holders.
"It's hard to see how you amass most of the players such that the pool becomes interesting enough," says Yar Chaikovsky, a patent attorney with the firm McDermott Will & Emery. "I'm pessimistic in general."
John Amster, CEO of the San Francisco intellectual-property service RPX, has a similar perspective. "Historically patent pools have been a very efficient way of organizing the patent license requirements around emerging technologies," he says. "But only the ones in which all the key players participate at launch have been successful."
Ross, while expecting to land some other participants, acknowledges that some companies tend to go it alone on patent matters. "Some of them I expect to join and some I'd expect they won't," he says.


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Buffett's Berkshire Reaches $300 Billion Market Cap
Warren Buffett didn't grow Berkshire Hathaway's net worth faster than gains in the S&P 500 index over the last five years, but the gigantic conglomerate recently crossed another milestone: passing the $300 billion mark in market capitalization for the first time.
Shares of Berkshire have risen nearly 3% since the company reported record full-year earnings last weekend — $19.5 billion of net profit on $182 billion of revenue. Several "strong buy" ratings followed from analysts, who generally expect another big year for Berkshire in 2014 as housing and the economy continue to strengthen.
Berkshire's Class A shares were trading around $183,000 a share as of Friday morning, giving the Omaha, Neb.-based company a market value of $301.4 billion. The share price increase came on top of a very good year for all stocks; in 2013, the S&P 500 rose about 32%, including dividends. Berkshire shares, too, rose around 30% last year.
Berkshire is already among the top 10 largest U.S. companies by market capitalization, and in recent years, has made the top-five list often. At $300 billion, its position among America's most-valuable companies doesn't change much. On Friday afternoon, Apple topped the list with $475 billion; followed by Google with $409 billion, Exxon Mobil close on its heels with $405 billion; Microsoft at fourth place, and ahead of Berkshire, at $316 billion.
Despite the sharp rise in Berkshire shares, Mr. Buffett signaled clearly in his latest annual letter he thinks the stock is still cheap. The billionaire investor has said Berkshire will buy back stock if their price falls below 1.2 times book value per share, a measure of net worth. At the end of 2013, per-share book value stood at $134, 973, which means the stock is currently trading at 1.35 times book. Given how enthusiastic the market is about Berkshire, that number seems unlikely to budge downward anytime soon.


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Duke Energy's GoGreen Indiana Make a Contribution to the Solution
What is Green Power?
Green power is electricity produced from resources – like the sun, wind, water and more – that do not pollute our environment. This type of energy is harnessed all over the world and is key to our country's efforts to reduce its carbon footprint. But green power projects are more expensive than standard power generation, so we're helping the development by asking our communities for support.
Help develop more green power sources
Duke Energy's GoGreen Indiana program gives you the ability to support the development of green power sources throughout the state and the region. Here's how it works:
- Sign up for GoGreen Indiana either online or by calling 800.423.5401.
- Purchase a minimum of two 100-kilowatt-hour (kWh) blocks of green power for just $1.80 a month. Your 200-kWh commitment equates to about 20 percent of an average residential customer's electricity use and helps to avoid 4,800 pounds of carbon dioxide emissions each year.
- Once you sign up, the equivalent amount of certified, green power is delivered to the electric grid. These new renewable projects would not have happened without the support of your contributions. Your monthly commitment also supports renewable energy education in our state.
Make a difference today
As more Duke Energy customers commit to GoGreen Indiana, our collective positive impact on the environment grows. You can sign up for two or more 100-kWh blocks through the online form or by calling 800.423.5401. For additional information, please review our FAQs or contact us at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Monies paid to participate in the program go directly toward the purchase of renewable energy certificates and program administration.
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Since the GoGreen Indiana program launched in 2006, participants have supported 43 million kWh of green energy through Green-e©-certified wind power.


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TippmannParts.com is now offering a limited number of sponsorships through our web site. The sponsorship is open to any and all paintball teams, groups, or clubs that have their own website and are willing to promote TippmannParts.com on that site. Here's how it works.
The captain or group leader should go to TippmannParts.com http://www.tippmannparts.com/affiliate_info.asp and sign up as an affiliate. This will give you access to several banners and ad links that you can post on your web site. Publish them on your site with the links back to us and then email us your Team/Group Name, a logo if you have one, and a link back to your site. As an affiliate you normally would earn 5% of each purchase that is made by someone that came to TippmannParts.com by clicking on your ad on your site. As a Sponsored Group we'll increase that to 7%. We'll also promote your group as a Sponsored Group on our web site with your Group Name, Logo, and a link to your site. The more you and your group members post and promote the ads for our site, the more you can earn. You can post the ads on your site, your forum signatures, or even Facebook and MySpace. Remember: When ANYONE (including your members) make a purchase on our site after clicking on one of your links then your group earns 7%!!


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Mark Weber and Erin Heather knew they were cutting it close when they planned their wedding just nine days before the due date of their first child. But on Tuesday night, less than 24 hours before they were to be wed, they figured it was all going to work out just fine.
But their baby had other plans. When Heather woke up at 2:30 Wednesday - the morning of her wedding day - she realized things were not going to go as scheduled. Mark and Erin made it to the hospital and after speaking with nurses figured out they could pull off their wedding before their child was born, only it wouldn't be 4:30pm at Olbrich Gardens. Instead, it would be the Birth Suites at St. Mary's Hospital!
So within an hour the couple had a minister (in scrubs), best man (in scrubs), and witness (Heather's nurse) along with flowers and a cake. The ceremony began at 11:00am and by 11:20am the couple, who've been together for 11 years was husband and wife.
"We wanted to have the baby as a family and it's documented now that we are," says Erin.
At 9:09pm on Thursday, February 18th, Erin and Mark welcomed Ava Star Weber into the world. She's 8 pounds, 4 ounces and 20.5 inches long.
Mark and Erin have a full wedding planned for family and friends on October 23rd.
Here's a video of the couple speaking to reporters just moments after their wedding: http://www.twitvid.com/8C94B
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Hello, I am Becky Carlberg, gardening enthusiast from Southeast Oklahoma. I have degrees in Biology from Eastern Oklahoma State College and Oklahoma State University. Teaching, research work, and competing in art shows then followed. I earned my Master�s Degree in Plant Pathology from OSU and continued graduate work on a Doctorate of Botany at the University of Oklahoma.
With my family, we twice had an opportunity to live in Europe. We were in England for five years and then later in Germany for seven years. It was an excellent education for our sons. I returned to gardening, writing and art, became a Master Gardener, as well as an Oklahoma certified Master Naturalist. I am the gardener in charge of the Shawnee Japanese Peace Garden, a member of the Deep Fork Audubon Society, and now call my five acre Backyard Wildlife Habitat and Oklahoma Wildscape outside Shawnee home.
My name is Linda Workman Smith. The first step of my gardening journey began in the hills northwest of Van Buren, Arkansas, where my parents�both from farming families�raised seven children.
This is not to say that I�ve always had a love for gardening although over the years I�ve managed to keep my hands in the dirt. In 2000, my husband�s employment brought us to Shawnee where we settled on two acres west of town. Being unemployed for the first time in many years�and planning to stay that way�I started gardening on a small scale.
I have been a member of the Multi-County Master Gardener Association for several years and thoroughly enjoy being in the organization. I now have many flower beds and I�ve expanded my gardens to include lots of vegetable varieties, several fruit trees, strawberries, blackberries, raspberries and grapes. Every year I try to plant something different. I don�t grow a lot of any one thing, but a little bit of lots of things!
27 January 2013 Blog
"Gardening with the Experts" was held Saturday morning. The Shawnee News-Star had a picture of Linda Vater, one of the presenters, on the front page of the Sunday edition. A morning full of valuable information was dispensed, but I was not in attendance.
Saturday morning was also the bird count for Pontotoc Ridge, 2,900 acres of some of the most diverse ecosystems found in Oklahoma. From forests that fill in the bottomlands, ridges of exposed limestone, sink holes and caves, prairies and canyons, Pontotoc is a great place to walk about.
Every January a group of mad birders gather, usually in bone-chilling cold, to form groups and fan out over the large tract of land in Cross Timbers. Our group was composed of people from all walks of life, from retired and/or working ornithology professors, teachers, students, experienced and amateur bird lovers to even some photographers.
We met at the former headquarters building, now converted into a large garage. A new HQ building is slated to be built within the year, but a trailer now serves as headquarters. We slugged down some coffee and gathered up breakfast bars and water. Divided into separate teams, we armed ourselves with maps, bird lists, binoculars, and keen senses of sight and hearing… most of us anyway! My bird-spotter team consisted of an ornithology prof, a monk, a chemist and myself, today an amateur birder!
Our group quietly paced along the woods, recording the turkey gobblings, vulture fly-overs, cardinals, crows and other edgy birds. Plunging into the bottomland woods, we heard woodpeckers banging on trees or chirping, chickadees, and wrens. Our path surfaced to an exposed limestone outcropping with bushes full of sparrows. We carefully walked along the rocky rise until our path turned at the Osage Orange tree into a small patch of prairie, prime site for LeConte's sparrows. Back we traveled over small cacti, rocks, brush, small canyons and grasses to the headquarters, diligently counting and identifying birds along the way. We did find a few LBJs. What are LBJs? When a bird, usually a sparrow, can not be identified, it is labeled an LBJ, or Little Brown Joe. It's bird talk. Have you tried to identify all your sparrows?
We were the last group to arrive, about 4 hours later. Everyone was positioned at picnic tables in the large garage chowing down on hot tasty chili, crackers, cheese and cake. While we ate, a group of guys got out their lawn chairs and placed themselves into a half circle behind us. The only thing missing was a campfire in the middle. Tidbits of conversation floated our way. "Too old for this". "It's been a chilly morning". "Birds were spotty this year". Consider the youngest man in the circle was 67 years old, the oldest was 75. The American Tree Sparrow, cowbirds and starlings were seen for the first time. One group flushed a covey of quail. All ponds had dried up but one, but I do not think any waterbirds were sighted. A final posting will be issued in a few weeks, but I am interested to know if this deepening drought is affecting the bird populations. It certainly has affected the plant and animal populations.
From Pontotoc we went toward Sulphur. Over 20 black and turkey vultures, all hunkered down on the ground, watched us drive by at the Tishomingo Fish Hatchery. Two vultures had been hit along the road. We arrived at the Chickasaw National Recreation Area, one of the nation's smallest National parks and the fifth tract of land declared a national park by Teddy Roosevelt. Travertine Creek was not flowing. Things had come to a standstill. The springhead at Antelope Springs was dry, as was Buffalo Springs. Talking to the ranger at the Nature Center, he said the park had gone dry 21 times in recorded history. In the 1950's, it stayed dry for 3 ½ years. The past two years have experienced periods of no running creek….like right now.
They had Eagle Watches during January, one being this Saturday. While we counted all birds, others came to Sulphur to count eagles. They sighted 5. Bald eagles overwinter at the recreation area, but do not nest there.
All the way back to Shawnee we traveled in cloudy, but dry, conditions. Some mist, but nothing measurable. Most ponds are dry, the grasses are stunted, and I wonder what will happen to the peach crop this next year. Be careful in your water usage and remember your plants.


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Latin America Oracle Technology Network South Tour
By Dana Singleterry-Oracle on Aug 16, 2013
Thanks to all of you that participated in the Latin America Tour in Uruguay, Argentina & Brazil. Truly a pleasure to assist in the knowledge tranfer of information on ADF/JEE development with JDeveloper and Eclipse IDEs. As promised, you can download the session/workshop details from here.
- The Oracle Fusion Development Platform
- Building Reusable Business Services
- Creating Rich Internet Applications
- ADF Mobile: Developing for iOS and Android with ADF & Java
There were two labs used in the workshop and they are available here.
- Developing Rich Web Applications With Oracle ADF
- Developing Mobile Applications With Oracle ADF Mobile
Additional information you will find helpful is available here.
If you have additional questions, please use the forums found on both the JDeveloper and ADF Mobile Home Pages.


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EDINBURG, Texas – The Texas A&M – Corpus Christi baseball team suffered a pair of non-conference setbacks on Tuesday, losing 11-1 and 11-9 against Texas – Pan American on the road.
The Islanders fall to 10-12 overall, while UTPA improves to 11-1 on the year. Starter Trevor Foss suffered the setback in game one to move to 0-3 on the year. In game two, Jake Dziubczynski got the start and also was tagged with the loss to move to 0-2 this season.
After a tough first game, the Islanders were looking for redemption in the nightcap.
Jeramie Marek led off the second game with a triple on the first pitch, and came home on a Drew Vest sacrifice fly to right for an early 1-0 lead.
The advantage was short lived however, with UTPA plating three runs in the bottom half to take the 3-1 lead.
The Islanders tied it up in the third inning with a pair of runs as Vest got things started this time. After an Eric Weiss walk, Kyle Danford singled on the infield to load the bases with no outs. Stafford Brantley followed by hitting into a double play, scoring Vest and moving Weiss to third with two outs in the inning. Omar Garcia came through with an RBI single to plate Weiss and make it 3-3.
The score remained the same until a bizarre scene during the bottom of the fourth inning. The Broncs had already scored to take a 4-3 lead, but on a play where left fielder Jordan Lee appeared to make the catch to end the inning, the umpire called no catch. Lee was jogging towards the dugout when the players were made aware of the call, and that delay allowed two runners to score on the play. UTPA would add one more to make it 7-3.
The Islanders scrapped back into it despite the setback, plating three runs in the next half-inning to make it a 7-6 game.
Danford opened the inning with a double, and Brantley followed with a single to the outfield to put runners on the corners. Garcia followed the pair with a double down the right field line to score Danford and put runners at second and third.
A Lee ground out would score Brantley and move Garcia to third. Brad Porras followed with a walk ahead of a Dan Sciantarelli sacrifice fly to the outfield to score Garcia and make it a one-run game.
UTPA added a run in the bottom of the sixth that made it 8-6, and another two runs in the seventh made it a 10-6 advantage.
In the top of the eighth, the Islanders pushed across three more runs to close the gap to one run.
After the first out of the inning, Marek doubled to right. The next batter lined out to put the Islanders in a tough spot with two outs. Marek ended up scoring when Weiss reached and advanced to second on an error. Danford followed with a hit-by-pitch and Brantley walked to load the bases.
After a second pitching change in the inning, this time with a 2-0 count to Garcia, the Islanders designated hitter laced a single to left that brought home Weiss and Danford to make it 10-9. Lee nearly gave the Islanders a lead with a ball hit to third, but the UTPA third baseman made a spectacular play to get to the ball and step on the bag for the force out to end the inning.
The Broncs would add an insurance run in the bottom half of the inning, but it would not be needed, as the Islanders were unable to get anything going in the ninth inning.
The first game of the day ended early, as UTPA took an 11-1 run-rule final in seven innings. The Islanders showed signs of life early on, tying the game up at 1-1 in the top of the second, but the Broncs would go on to score 10 more runs, culminating with two in the seventh to invoke the mercy rule.
Next up for the Islanders will be a three-game Southland Conference series against Central Arkansas on the road. It will be games three through five of their eight-game road trip they are started this Tuesday.
For all the latest on Islanders Baseball, like the team on Facebook (Islanders Baseball), follow them on Twitter (@CorpusBaseball) and visit www.GoIslanders.com.


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Whispering Pines Bed & Breakfast has partnered with Casablanca Restaurant to deliver dinner to our Bed & Breakfast. As our guest you can choose to eat at a table for-2 in the sun room overlooking Atwood Lake, on your private balcony or in a favorite spot outside. The menu is pretty complete from pizza to gyro's, crab cakes and a variety of Greek style entrees.
If you don't want to leave the comfort of Whispering Pines, this exclusive deal is for you.
I'll look forward to seeing you soon,
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A 30-year-old Moscow Mills man is in custody following an early Sunday morning fight in Hannibal.
According to police, they were called to the Ole Milts bar, in the 200 block of S. Main Street, at 1:19 a.m. Sunday on the report of a fight in progress. Upon their arrival they found a 52-year-old New London man suffering from injuries received during the altercation.
The injured man was transported to Hannibal Regional Hospital and later transferred to Blessing Hospital in Quincy, Ill.
The man taken into custody was taken to the Marion County Sheriff's Department on a 24-hour hold, pending issuance of warrants.
Police report the incident remains under investigation.
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A menubar app with a system-wide, user-configurable hotkey that allows simultaneous posting of a "mood" to iChat, Skype, Adium, Twitter, Jaiku, Tumblr and Facebook, or any combination of these services.
Keywords preceded by "@", "!" or "%" allow for special functions such as current weather, current iTunes track, current Time (+x minutes) and other functions to be inserted. URL's are automatically shortened using Metamark.
MoodBlast is built on a combination of Cocoa and Applescript, and can be navigated by keyboard commands alone, or used with a mouse and keyboard.
Required OS: not specified
Tags: twitter , jaiku , adium , ichat , facebook , tumblr
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I wish MoodBlast still worked for Twitter. Twitter back end changes seem to have disconnected MoodBlast. :(
Version 3.2.2 (just uploaded) fixes Adium 1.3 compatibility.
Doesn't work with the latest betas of Adium, as stated on the author's blog here
I forgot to update the comments, but Facebook support has been back in full force since version 2.49!
For reference, I tried to make the Facebook app today, only to find out you can't change the FBML on an app from a desktop client either. Facebook is going to suffocate itself. Any day now on the Pownce API, though, from the reports I'm hearing.
You make the app, I'll add it to MoodBlast ;).
Hmm, you could make a Facebook app for moods with an API :) or is that still illegal?
I might just try it, interested?
Honestly, I'd love to. Pownce has yet to come out with their promised API, and until they do, we all have to sit and dink around with that silly AIR client that can't even bounce a dock icon.
Officially requesting pownce to be added! :D


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a1 Cognitive Neurology and Alzheimer's Disease Center, Northwestern University (NU) Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois
a2 Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, NU Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois
a3 Department of Neurology, NU Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois
It is "normal" for old age to be associated with gradual decline in memory and brain mass. However, there are anecdotal reports of individuals who seem immune to age-related memory impairment, but these individuals have not been studied systematically. This study sought to establish that such cognitive SuperAgers exist and to determine if they were also resistant to age-related loss of cortical brain volume. SuperAgers were defined as individuals over age 80 with episodic memory performance at least as good as normative values for 50- to 65-year-olds. Cortical morphometry of the SuperAgers was compared to two cognitively normal cohorts: age-matched elderly and 50- to 65-year-olds. The SuperAgers' cerebral cortex was significantly thicker than their healthy age-matched peers and displayed no atrophy compared to the 50- to 65-year-old healthy group. Unexpectedly, a region of left anterior cingulate cortex was significantly thicker in the SuperAgers than in both elderly and middle-aged controls. Our findings identify cognitive and neuroanatomical features of a cohort that appears to resist average age-related changes of memory capacity and cortical volume. A better understanding of the underlying factors promoting this potential trajectory of unusually successful aging may provide insight for preventing age-related cognitive impairments or the more severe changes associated with Alzheimer's disease. (JINS, 2012, 18, 1–5)
(Received April 17 2012)
(Revised May 18 2012)
(Accepted May 21 2012)
c1 Correspondence and reprint requests to: Emily J. Rogalski, Northwestern University, Cognitive Neurology and Alzheimer's Disease Center (CNADC), 320 E. Superior Street, Searle Building 11th Floor, Chicago, IL 60611. E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com


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About the Book
For more than two decades, Mariana Pasternak and Martha Stewart were nearly inseparable. They first met over a garden gate in Westport, Connecticut—two suburban wives wedded to successful men but with grand aspirations of their own. Their friendship only deepened after their marriages ended in divorce. Drawn into a seductive world of privilege and adventure, Pasternak, who struggled as a working single mother, watched with admiration as Martha built an empire that would make her one of the richest women in America. The two women enjoyed amazing experiences, traveled the world together, and talked on a daily basis, sharing thoughts and feelings, plans and dreams. But as time passed, money, men, and the arrogance of wealth frayed the bonds of their friendship—until the final break came when Pasternak was called as a witness in the high-profile trial that ultimately brought about Stewart's conviction and prison sentence.
The Best of Friends: Martha and Me tells the story of an extraordinary friendship and its devastating aftermath with breathtaking candor. Every woman who has had a best female friend will see herself in this deeply personal memoir.
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- Imprint: Harper Perennial
- On Sale: 04/12/2011
- Trimsize: 5.313 in (w) x 8 in (h) x 0.937 in (d)
- Pages: 416
- List Price: 15.99 USD
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Tata Nano Bound for U.S., But Who Will Buy It?
Ratan Tata has a lot of things to his credit. He's a successful businessman, owns two luxurious car brands and has the coolest name in the auto business.
This is the man who managed to slip Jaguar and Land Rover under his Tata Motors umbrella while also building and selling the world's cheapest car, the Tata Nano.
Of course, the Nano hasn't exactly risen to the occasion as the spectacular new Jags and Rovers have. In fact, there have been more than a few cases of the 2-cylinder, 37-hp cars bursting into flames and burning up on the side of the road. That's not good for business—just ask Henrik Fisker (the guy with the second-coolest name in the biz).
So why, in his right mind, would Mr. Tata think the Nano could thrive in the United States?
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Gypsum's first tree lighting ceremony was a big success. The hot cocoa was piping, the cookies were sweet and the crafts were one-of-a-kind and very unique. From now on, the ceremony will be an annual event on the first Friday in December on the front lawn of the Gypsum Public Library.
This year, the event hosted more than 75 parents and children from Gypsum. Thank you to the parents and children who braved the cold and weathered the flurries to sing holiday carols with us as we lit the 2012 Memory Tree in front of the Gypsum Public Library. The Gypsum Public Library has a full calendar of events for children and adults. You can learn more about opportunities offered at the library by going to www.evld.org or calling 970-524-5080. Read. Learn. Grow. Gypsum Public Library.
The Gypsum Library and Town of Gypsum staff would like to wish you happy holidays, Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
I would like to thank the following people for their help: Gypsum Town Council and Town Manager's Office; Gypsum Public Works and Parks Department; Gypsum Public Library staff; Peggy Jensen; Lana Gallegos; and Kearstan Sanders.
Please take a moment to look at the wonderful pictures on the Town of Gypsum Facebook page.
Marie Sanders
Special Projects Coordinator