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Over his years in the Bay Area, real estate investor Jason Buzi has left a legacy of offbeat entrepreneurship and eccentric philanthropy.
He created a smartphone case that can light your cigarette. He angered Palo Alto residents with his house-flipping practices. And he created mayhem in Manhattan a few years ago when he tried showering strangers with cold hard cash.
This week, in a story that gets more bizarre by the day, Buzi emerged in another curious role: He's reportedly behind a sensational scheme to hide money around California cities, then tweet out hints for his treasure-hunting followers, now numbering nearly 500,000.
A few weeks back, word started spreading about a tweeter by the name of @HiddenCash who was secreting stacks of bills around San Francisco, San Jose and other cities, then tweet-teasing his followers with hints like this one for the Los Angeles neighborhood of Hollenbeck: "4 by palms, 2 by ivy, 2 in bushes, 1 by (not in!) trash. 9 total. Thank u LA! We'll be back!"
After the mysterious donor had given away untold thousands of dollars, while encouraging treasure-finders to "pay it forward" and use the money to do something nice for someone else, the @HiddenCash wall of secrecy took a huge hit from "Inside Edition" host Jim Moret.
It was classic reality TV: Moret gets on the phone with a guy claiming to be the do-gooder behind @HiddenCash. He asks him if he's Jason Buzi. The mystery man says no. Moret tells the audience: "Listening closely to his voice and comparing it to the voice of Jason Buzi, which we found on a real estate podcast, they sure do sound the same."
And the horse was out of the gate.
"I got hold of Buzi and asked him if he was the guy behind @HiddenCash and he said he was and that he regretted talking to 'Inside Edition,'" said Jennifer Maerz, managing producer for San Francisco-based online publisher The Bold Italic.
"He said he has five people working with him on this and that the others want to remain anonymous. These are all really rich people, he told me. I asked him if he has a budget or an end date for this money giveaway, and he said no, that as long as people were having fun with it he'll keep it going."
Buzi did not respond to several emails and calls Friday. And as word spread that Buzi was apparently the cash-heavy mastermind, so did tales of his past activities around Silicon Valley. For starters, Maerz said, "he told me he's made millions in real estate in recent years." That wouldn't surprise folks in Palo Alto and Los Altos who've watched Buzi flip homes in ways that rub many of them the wrong way.
"I've received many of his fliers on my doorstep in Los Altos and he basically makes it look like he's part of this nice lovely family and they want to move into our neighborhood and he could make it really easy for us to sell our house to him, off-market and with no real estate transaction fees," said David Blockus, a real estate agent with Coldwell Banker.
"Basically, he's trying to get properties without exposing the transaction to the market," Blockus said. "He's buying them off-market at a discount, then either flipping them or whatever. And while it's not illegal, as far as I know, it's my personal belief that he may be targeting people who don't know what the market is and don't understand their home's true value."
In a posting on a website for his cigarette-lighting smartphone case, Lightercase, Buzi is described as having "been an entrepreneur for his entire life. As a real estate investor and developer, he has participated in renovating and constructing new homes in the San Francisco Bay Area. Other pursuits have included wholesaling diamonds in his early 20s and trading currencies. Jason also loves teaching and spent a year teaching English in Taiwan."
The posting talks about Buzi's volunteer work building libraries in Ghana and schools in Bulgaria.
That same volunteer spirit is reflected in Buzi's LinkedIn profile, which says, "In addition to real estate investing, Jason Buzi tries to be involved in the community and give back to those less fortunate. He has volunteered in East Palo Alto as a mentor and is an active donor to the East Palo Alto Kids Foundation. He is currently working with refugee families through the International Rescue Committee."
As details continue to emerge about the man who says he's behind @HiddenCash, one thing seems certain: The latest campaign will continue. On Friday afternoon, @HiddenCash tweeted: "Stay tuned for details of our San Francisco event this weekend!"
Contact Patrick May at 408-920-5689; follow him at Twitter.com/patmaymerc.


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STOCKTON – A 52-year-old man driving near Marseille Way and Don Avenue told police 10 men on foot blocked his vehicle around 8:50 p.m. Sunday.
He got out and fought with one of the men, who showed him a handgun and shot him in the left ankle, according to Stockton Police. He drove home and was treated for a non-life-threatening injury.
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OAKLAND -- An "unidentifiable mass" in a sewer line was to blame for a flood of sewage in the A's clubhouse, the umpires' dressing room and the visiting team's clubhouse on Sunday, officials said Wednesday.
"All the work is being done and we fully expect everything to be in order for the game next Tuesday," said Dave Rinetti, the A's vice president of stadium operations. "They found some kind of unidentifiable mass in the system that they cleared."
The A's play a home game against the Cincinnati Reds at 7 p.m. Tuesday.
Rinetti said the sewage and water that oozed into the showers of the three locker rooms and overflowed onto hallway carpets was an inconvenience for both teams and the umpires.
The A's and Seattle Mariners had to leave their clubhouses and shower in the Raiders' locker room, which is located one level above the baseball clubhouses, after the game. The baseball clubhouses are on the lowest level of the stadium.
A's equipment manager Steve Vucinich said on Sunday that he'd never seen such an extreme sewage event in his 46 years working at the stadium, which opened in 1968.
A's spokesman Bob Rose added that "there have been all kinds" of lesser plumbing problems documented in the past. He said the carpets in the clubhouses are being replaced while the A's are on a seven-game road trip, which started Monday in Texas.
"Bottom line is it happened, we addressed it, it's an old facility and we're doing the best we can," Rose said. "It's just too bad it happened."
Officials with Anschutz Entertainment Group, the company that manages the facility for the Joint Powers Authority formed by the city of Oakland and Alameda County, did not return phone calls Wednesday on the sewage problem.
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Definition of generalize in English:
(also generalise)
1 [no object] Make a general or broad statement by inferring from specific cases: it is not easy to generalize about the poor
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- What is unacceptable, to say the least, is to generalize about the uses and customs of nearly half a billion people who cover close to one sixth of the Earth's surface.
- However, it is not easy to generalize about the ethnographic research process in such a way as to provide definitive recommendations about research practice.
- On the other hand, I'll admit that the few I've seen have actually been quite good, and hard to generalize about.
2 [with object] Make (something) more widespread or widely applicable: attempts to generalize an elite education
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- Our current efforts are directed at improving these tools for E. coli, making them widely available, and generalizing them to other microorganisms.
- Several factors suggest caution before widely generalizing our findings.
- One of the most important branches of mathematics is the study of objects known as manifolds, which result from generalizing these ideas to three or more dimensions.
2.1 (as adjective generalized) Medicine (Of a disease) affecting much or all of the body: generalized myalgia
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- This can potentially lead to septicemia, a generalized infection affecting many systems of the body.
- However, in two cases of segmental disease, genetic transmission of the generalized disease has been reported.
- There is a generalized infection with involvement of the liver, spleen, bone marrow, and lymph glands.
- Example sentences
- Thus, we search for others with whom we can share our experience with the hope of achieving some greater generalizability - and larger markets.
- Although lack of generalizability is often cited as the major shortcoming of randomization tests, other limitations have also been discussed.
- The generalizability of the findings would also have been improved with a larger and more representative sample of mothers and children.
generalizable adjective
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- If he is wrong (or if his findings are not generalizable to more recent years, as more recent data hints), collecting and analyzing additional data is the way to refute him.
- And since my research was much more generalizable and carefully controlled than anything that went before it, one would think that my paper would be an essential reference in any further discussion of the topic.
- Yet they do not raise objections to studies that are even less rigorous or generalizable on such issues as the impact of divorce on children.
generalizer noun
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- Despair is one of the great subjects of art, of course, but not in the hands of a relentless generalizer selling platitudes about 'the human condition.'
- Humans, being master generalizers, do not easily empathize with dogs and fail to take cautionary measures.
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Toyota renews assault on big pickup market with refreshed Tundra
Toyota Motor Corp. is making a fresh assault on the full-sized pickup market with a redesigned 2014 Tundra unveiled Thursday at the Chicago Auto Show.
The 2014 model, mechanically very similar to the outgoing Tundra, has undergone significant sheet metal and interior changes. And a new version called the 1794 Edition will give Tundra two luxury variations, including a reworked Platinum model that now costs more than $48,000 with options.
The new pickup will continue to be available in three cab configurations and with either two- or four-wheel-drive systems. But trim levels have been expanded to five, and include the base-model SR work truck; SR5; Limited; and top-end Platinum and 1794 Edition trucks.
Platinum is the high-end "urban" Tundra, while the 1794 Edition is a premium rural-use truck, Toyota officials say. The 1794 name refers to the founding year of the San Antonio ranch where Toyota established its Texas pickup plant.
In a nod to the pickup's American roots, the 2014 Tundra remains a U.S.-developed model, with engineering performed in Michigan and exterior and interior design handled in California.
All three engine choices – a 4.0-liter V-6, 4.6-liter V-8, and 5.7-liter V-8 – are carryovers, even down to their horsepower and torque numbers. The V-6 continues with a five-speed automatic, while both V-8s still have a six-speed automatic.
The curb weight is expected to remain the same and Toyota officials said today they do not expect fuel economy ratings to change, perhaps putting the revised Tundra at a disadvantage against Detroit's newest, more fuel-efficient models.
The steering system was modified for improved straight-line stability, to reduce driver fatigue from a too-busy ride.
The exterior design gives the Tundra more visual oomph, with corners squared-off, rather than rounded or smoothed. The fascia is more block-like. The word "Tundra" is stamped prominently into the tailgate. The front and rear bumpers are now three pieces, rather than one, to make the cost of replacing those parts cheaper.
Inside, Toyota designers concentrated on ergonomics, such as easing the reach to the audio and climate controls by 2.6 inches. The seats have been redesigned. Air flow from the vents has been increased. The console has multiple storage areas. Cabin noise was reduced with more sound-deadening materials.
Standard features will include Bluetooth connectivity, a backup camera, eight airbags, LED headlamps and automatic climate control.
"Tundra's new exterior design and all-new interior were inspired by customer feedback requesting a more chiseled exterior and refined interior with improved driver ergonomics, and easy-to-use technology, giving customers more of what they want, in addition to what they need," Bill Fay, Toyota Division general manager, said in a statement.
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Most people do their spring cleaning in the spring. But as the Maine air already hints of fall, I find myself rushing the arrival of winter so I can free my favorite woolens from their summer storage.
They were washed before I put them away in the spring, but I like to re-wash my woolens a second time in the fall to perk up the fibers and keep moth larvae at bay.
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- Jul 5:
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- BART to resume service, no deal reached with union
- Jul 4:
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- Jul 3:
- BART strike talks stretch toward holiday
- BART strike hits Day 3 as overnight negotiations yield no deal; talks to resume this afternoon
- Negotiations ongoing, but BART strike likely to continue Wednesday
- Jul 2:
- BART strike talks resume as attention turns to Fourth of July travel
- Data Center: Current and projected average BART wages
- Director says his team must hold the line in BART negotiations
- BART strike: San Francisco garages raising rates over parking crunch
- With no BART, 4th of July plans shift
- BART strike: What can be done to get trains running?
- Contra Costa Times editorial: Overlap of AC Transit, BART contract expirations leaves East Bay vulnerable
- With BART on strike, A's encourage fans to carpool to games against Cubs
- BART strike: Labor talks set to resume after 36-hour break since shutdown
- Jul 1:
- BART strike leaves commuters weary, wiser for Day 2
- BART strike costing Bay Area economy more than $73 million a day
- Herhold: Time and geography will shape the BART strike
- BART strike a moneymaker for ride-sharing services and taxi apps
- The Great BART Strike Race of 2013: A recap
- BART strike: Commute chaos rages on as strike begins with no end in sight
- Bart Strike Raw Video: What commuters have to say about transit strike
- Jerry Brown's office asks that BART talks continue
- Jun 30:
- Bay Area commuters scramble for alternatives on Day 1 of BART strike
- BART strike: With a day left, labor talks fail again Saturday but pay proposal doubled
- Roadshow: Getting ready for BART-ageddon
- Jun 29:
- BART's top-level employees' vacation bank tops 69 years of unused time off
- BART strike: Guide to getting around the Bay Area during shutdown
- Jun 28:
- BART riders worry strike could make travel miserable
What are striking BART workers thinking?
They're already the top-paid transit system employees in the region and among the best in the nation. They also have free pensions, health care coverage for their entire family for just $92 a month and the same sweet medical insurance deal when they retire after just five years on the job.
They work only 37½ hours a week. They can call in sick during the workweek and then volunteer for overtime shifts on their days off. The rules exacerbate out-of-control overtime that added in 2012 an average 19 percent to base pay for station agents and 33 percent for train operators.
Meanwhile, BART faces a $142 million operating shortfall over the next 10 years. It already owes a $636 million debt for employees' pension and retiree health care benefits. Aging train cars and the train control system must be replaced. And BART faces billions of dollars of deferred maintenance and repairs.
There is no extra money. Indeed, future tax increase requests are planned. Every dollar that BART raises salaries must come from somewhere, either more taxes, fare increases or more debt that will be pushed onto future generations.
It's against this backdrop that workers demanded 23 percent salary increases over the next four years. Their thinking remains completely divorced from reality.
They complain that they have gone without raises for several years. So have many Bay Area workers, including those who pay their salaries. More important, that argument ignores that BART employees are still among the best-compensated for the jobs they perform.
It's time for them to get real. And it's time for local labor-backed politicians to butt out.
We've seen this movie before. We know how well things work out when legislators and members of Congress stick their noses in where they don't belong. Their pressure led to the unaffordable deals that helped get us into this mess. Neither the BART board nor the area can afford to allow that to happen again.
As for commuters, we feel your pain. We understand your frustration. We are out there with you trying to navigate the clogged streets and highways in this sweltering heat. We know exactly how difficult this is.
We ask you to be patient, to recognize that it's a matter of pay now or pay more later. If BART directors fail to rein in costs -- in other words, if they cave -- you will face higher fares and taxes while service deteriorates.
Until Monday, it had been 16 years since the last BART strike. Given the unreasonable labor demands, this one was inevitable. The alternative was a financial train wreck that could dramatically impact the system for decades to come.


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The staff at Barton Memorial Hospital is determined to B-Fit. -
The new employee wellness program, known as B-Fit, prepared and encouraged 97 employees to swallow their fitness fears and participate in the Lake Tahoe Marathon events this weekend.
A little encouragement is just what Barton employee Jackie Durham needed. Durham wanted to get in shape, but with a full-time job and kids two kids she didn't know where to start.
"Too many women and mothers who work, and have a home to take care of, forget about themselves. I think I fell into that same pattern," Durham said. "I forgot about myself."
The first steps down the road of fitness were intimidating, especially in front of co-workers, but the Barton wellness programs made it doable. The wellness program offered free training, healthy cooking classes and race registration. It was all a nice incentive to get started, but Durham said it was the support that kept her going through the months.
"We all just push each other," Durham said. "I guess you don't see it sometimes as the individual, but when someone else who doesn't know you sees it, it makes a difference."
To others, 27 pounds lost and 6.2 miles yet to run may not seem like much. For Durham, it's something she never dreamed she could do. Before this year, she did not run and a 10K may as well have been a marathon.
The Lake Tahoe Marathon was the starting goal, but it has opened of fitness floodgate. Durham's calendar is packed with races for the rest of the year and she's got a new mindset to match her fitter frame.
"I'm not really worried about the person on the side of me anymore who is skinnier or heavier or slower or faster," Durham said. "It's your personal goal. Whether it's 6.2 or its 10 miles, you just have to keep pushing yourself."
In addition to the 97 runners, Barton medical staff will be out offering support to runners throughout the weekend. There will be 10 nurses and six physicians, including two orthopedic fellows, out this weekend, volunteering their time to racers who need it.
"Depending on the weather we treat patients for dehydration, nausea, blister care, skinned knees, asthma and in one case - water intoxication, because one patient was not getting any electrolytes," race medical director Ruth Orozco said in e-mail.
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"If you've never seen Tahoe at 6 a.m. in the morning," Durham said, "it's the most incredible place you've ever seen."


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Definition of entropy in English:
1 Physics A thermodynamic quantity representing the unavailability of a system's thermal energy for conversion into mechanical work, often interpreted as the degree of disorder or randomness in the system. (Symbol: S)
Example sentences
- Despite the large increase in enthalpy and entropy, the free energy difference between the closed and open conformations is relatively small.
- The enthalpy, entropy, and free energy changes in the opening reaction of each basepair are determined from the temperature dependence of the exchange rates.
- In Chapter 3 we discussed how the thermodynamic arrow of entropy increase is a reflection of the relative probabilities of various states.
2Lack of order or predictability; gradual decline into disorder: a marketplace where entropy reigns supreme
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- He was unable to arrest the gradual entropy that had set in.
- People have a natural tendency to rebel against entropy to return order to their environments.
- Patrick's final resting place wasn't quite as romantic as she'd envisioned it, but after a day in this town where entropy seemed to reign unchecked, she was unsurprised.
deterioration, degeneration, crumbling, decline, degradation, decomposition, breaking down, collapse;
disorder, chaos
3(In information theory) a logarithmic measure of the rate of transfer of information in a particular message or language.
Example sentences
- These functions range from simple bookkeeping tasks to serious number-crunching algorithms such as deconvolution, maximum entropy, Fourier transforms and more.
- But no serious scientist would expect that such a thing were possible, for the simple reason that it would be a violation of the fundamental principles of entropy / information theory.
- Information, entropy, and computation become metaphors for us at a much broader level.
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- In keeping with the general entropic tendency of the universe, all my futile efforts at gathering and retaining, my naïve tendency toward nest-egging, fly directly in the face of the entire universe itself!
- The other problem with paranoia is that it tends to become exhausting being so cynical and suspicious and any entropic system needs a continuous input of energy to continue working rather than excessive expenditures.
- By tending towards the whole, it is possible to conceptualize the equalizing of difference in a fully entropic global communication system.
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- The decondensation is entropically driven due to the higher number of ligand binding sites in decondensed DNA in comparison with the condensed molecules.
- Furthermore, as the DNA unbinds entropically at extensions before the overstretching transition, these calculations predict that the plateau will not be seen in the force-extension curves for a dodecamer, as is indeed the case.
- The extent to which the DNA binding of a given protein will be enthalpically or entropically driven is a function of solution conditions, such as temperature, salt concentration, pH, etc.
Mid 19th century: from en-2 'inside' + Greek tropē 'transformation'.
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When the show began, Friesen smoked a joint, then found himself musing about Cohen's talented back-up singers - who they were and what their lives were like.
Later, he called it "the most expensive joint I'd ever smoked," as he bank-rolled filmmaker Morgan Neville's documentary that is one of the opening-night films at this year's Sundance Film Festival.
Sadly, Frieson died last month on Dec. 13. "Gil was an amazing guy," Neville said in a phone interview. "He was a real gentleman in the music industry. He was the ampersand in A & M music."
But amid all of the mourning, there's a lighter note. "He knew that the film had gotten into Sundance, and he was thrilled," said Neville, who was at Sundance in 2011 with "Troubadours," a documentary about the nascent singer-songwriter movement in Southern California in the early 1970s. "His wife, family and friends are coming."
Shining a spotlight on undiscovered musicians was an integral part of Friesen's work, so it's appropriate that his final labor of love was a film that feted back-up singers, the most under-appreciated musicians in the industry.
"[Friesen] came on all the shoots," said Neville, also a producer of HBO and The Rolling Stones' "Crossfire Hurricane," to be released on DVD this month, and Cameron Crowe's brilliant "Pearl Jam Twenty" retrospective. "We talked every day.
Bette Midler, Sting, Bruce Springsteen, Mick Jagger, Stevie Wonder and Sheryl Crow were interviewed for the film, but the focus remains on the back-up singers. Neville said some of the singers were happy to sit down and talk with him, but didn't want to be shot on camera.
"That doesn't happen in our culture," said Neville, still amazed at the restraint in a reality TV culture where everyone, it seems, wants to be a star.
But those who did talk included:
Merry Clayton, who sang on Carole King's "Tapestry" and Lynryd Skynyrd's "Sweet Home Alabama," and is most famous for being featured prominently in The Rolling Stones' frightening powerhouse "Gimme Shelter."
Lisa Fischer, who currently tours with The Rolling Stones, and has sung with Sting and Chris Botti.
Judith Hill, who was booked to back-up Michael Jackson on his "This Is It" concert series at London's O2 Arena before Jackson's death. She ended up performing as a lead vocalist in Michael Jackson's memorial service, with an estimated 1 billion people watching her sing "Heal the World."
And Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Darlene Love, who before an acclaimed solo career was a member of the Blossoms, who sang on dozens of Top 40 tracks in the 1960s and was an important brick in creating Phil Spector's famous Wall of Sound production style.
"[Spector] always did things to stop my momentum," said Love, 71, in a phone interview, who was so important to Spector that he threatened her livelihood if she ever left his studio.
Love said she is approached all the time by various people to have her participate in film projects. She usually responded, "Oh, this is cute. Where is this going?" before politely declining.
She had the same blasé reaction when she was approached by "Twenty Feet From Stardom" until Dick Donner (director of "Superman: The Movie" and the "Lethal Weapon" franchise, in which Love portrayed Danny Glover's wife) and Lou Adler (record producer, manager, director, owner of the famous Roxy Theatre, who often sits with Jack Nicholson during Lakers games) convinced her to take a meeting with Friesen. That's when she realized that this would be an important project for an important man, and decided to sit for interviews.
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Labor Commissioner Jeanne Paquette says Maine's seasonally adjusted unemployment rate was 7.3 percent in January, little changed from December's 7.2 percent rate.
Using figures from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Paquette says an estimated 51,700 Mainers were without jobs during the month. That's down 600 from a year ago, when joblessness stood at 7.4 percent.
The U.S. unemployment rate in January was estimated at 7.9 percent, while the rate in New England was 7.1 percent.
Officials say the not-seasonally-adjusted rates for Maine's counties ranged from 6.4 percent in Cumberland County to 13.2 percent in Washington.
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- May 23:
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- May 20:
- Apple's Tim Cook in hot seat as reports detail Apple's tax avoidance
- Apple avoids billion in U.S. taxes through affiliates, Senate inquiry finds
- May 16:
- Apple CEO Tim Cook to seek 'dramatic' corporate tax overhaul in congressional testimony
A Senate inquiry into Apple's (AAPL) tax strategies that culminated in Apple CEO Tim Cook's appearance at a congressional hearing Tuesday has uncovered some questionable practices that raised the ire of certain senators. But it's unlikely to have any significant implications for the company or even for the tax code, tax law experts said.
Apple may face some heightened scrutiny from the Internal Revenue Service, but isn't likely to face legal actions as a result, the experts said. Likewise, the tax laws Apple exploited are unlikely to be reformed anytime soon because while there is wide agreement in Washington that the corporate tax code is broken, there's no agreement on how to fix it.
"Nothing will probably come of this other than maybe some legislative proposals," said Jay Weill, a partner with Sideman & Bancroft and formerly the longtime chief of the tax division in the U.S. attorney's office in San Francisco.
Indeed, even some of those critical of Apple's actions appeared to retreat after the hearing Tuesday. Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz, charged at the hearing that Apple's tax practices violated the spirit of the law and, in a statement Monday, called them "highly questionable." But later Tuesday, McCain spokesman Brian Rogers said the senator didn't want regulators to "punish" Apple. Instead, McCain wants to work on legislative fixes.
"We don't have evidence that Apple broke any laws," Rogers said. "It's the loopholes they've exploited in extreme and novel ways that need to be closed."
A report issued Monday by the Senate's Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations revealed that the bulk of Apple's profits are recorded by a pair of wholly owned Irish-based subsidiaries that pay few, if any, income taxes in any country thanks to the company's use of a raft of loopholes.
The subsidiaries, for example, aren't deemed to reside or generally owe tax anywhere in the world. And while some 95 percent of Apple's research-and-development efforts are done in the United States, it has assigned much of the value generated from those efforts to these Irish subsidiaries, effectively allowing Apple to shift profits overseas, the report charged.
In his appearance before the subcommittee, Cook defended Apple's actions, noting that Apple has had the same basic arrangement since 1980 and arguing that Apple designed the structure of its overseas operations for efficiency reasons, not tax avoidance.
"We pay all the taxes we owe, every single dollar," Cook said. "We not only comply with the laws, but we comply with the spirit of the laws."
But the company's practices and interpretations of tax law were clearly "aggressive," tax law experts said. Even if Apple followed the letter of the law, there's a question as to whether it followed the spirit of the law, said David Hasen, an associate professor of taxation at Santa Clara University's School of Law. Tax law generally doesn't allow companies to set up foreign subsidiaries for the sole purpose of avoiding taxes, as Apple appears to have done, he noted.
"When it comes to the attention of the IRS, I think it would raise a flag," said Hasen. "I suspect they will take a look at it because now a lot of information has come out."
But such an inquiry is very unlikely to lead to a formal case against Apple, the experts said. Apple's practices have almost certainly been vetted by some of the top law firms in the nation, and the company almost certainly would hire whole teams of lawyers to battle the IRS should it challenge Apple in any serious way, Weill said.
"The IRS is so understaffed ... as opposed to a company like Apple," he said. "It would make it tough for the IRS to audit or investigate" the company.
The hearing is the latest in a series of investigations into corporate tax practices that have examined several companies, including Starbucks, Microsoft and Hewlett-Packard (HPQ), noted Michael Kroll, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania School of Law. Those inquiries have highlighted a variety of loopholes that companies exploit to evade federal taxes.
But because the issues are complicated and the political parties are divided over how to address them, little is likely to be done, Kroll said.
"I don't see anything happening right away," he said.
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Hey Islanders!
So this season has come to an end and we are heading home for the holidays. Thanksgiving is up first! What are your special traditions?? We are spending thanksgiving with my in-laws in Kingsville, Texas. I am pretty excited since it will be a new tradition for my husband and I. Right now Coach Flanagan has us on a 10-day resting break. We start practice for track on Monday and we practice until finals then we run on our own.
This season was full of great memories! We had a lot more fun than what I expected with a whole new group this year. Our team gets along great and we love our coach (sometimes) just kidding. ALWAYS!!! We found out we are getting a lot of new Adidas equipment so life is good! Now it's time for me to say see you later! I'm very proud of everything all the Islanders had to offer this fall.
Volleyball had the best season they've had in a couple years … our men's cross country team did great and our women's team did okay but we want to be better and we are getting better every day! Now it's time to start a new year, season, and a new book to write down all of our great memories we make wearing our Islanders jerseys.
I am very proud of being an Islander and all of the student-athletes who work hard to be successful every day. I hope we have made you guys proud of us too! Inside an athlete there is also a student here at Texas A&M - Corpus Christi. Congratulations Islanders for finishing a great season!
Now it's time to eat a lot of turkey, mashed potatoes, gravy, green bean casserole, sweet potatoes, bread and everything for a whole week!!! Remember everything you've accomplished this fall and try to make it better next fall. I will be back to fill you guys in with cross country, but for now see ya later!
Happy Holidays Islanders Fans!
"Keep your Islander pride, and don't forget to stride," with yours truly!
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im really trying to enjoy it and i like it for everything it is except the difficulty, and its not even the difficulty so much its the backtracking and having to do a ton of shit over again from dieing
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Wow, have you seen the stock market? If this is the "doomsday scenario" our intimidator in chief is yapping about, bring it on, baby!
Day after day of record-setting all-time highs for the DOW.
Everyone seems to like the idea of cutting the increases (about 14 percent) in the federal budgets, even if it is only 2.3 percent. Everyone, except politicians.
As I recall, we all took a 2 percent hit this Jan. 1 via the payroll deduction. God forbid we mention the massive outlays and taxes we all will suffer with the Affordable Healthcare Act, the newest government oxymoron. My personal health insurance premiums have doubled for my family.
Obama would have you believe our teachers will be pink-slipped, our firemen and police will suffer from a "degraded level of services." One of the problems with his claims is that the last time I checked, these were state jobs funded through individual state budgets. Nice try, but there are still people that actually do pay attention.
Also, according to our fear-inducing master of Chicago-style bully politics, we will be eating uninspected (read "rotten") meat because the Department of Agriculture will have to "lay off inspectors"! What? Meanwhile, this very same Department of Agriculture will be spending for an all-expense-paid week in northern California, "sipping exceptional local wines," dining on "tasty dishes" prepared by "special guest chefs," to quote the brochure for the "26th annual Small Farm Conference." I don't know whether I am more outraged with the hypocrisy of this or the fact that this has gone on for 26 years now! Conference organizers promise the attendees will enjoy a "mouthwatering event" featuring "fine wines and exceptional microbrews" paired with "seasonally driven culinary delicacies." There will also be a field trip and a wine-tasting reception,"in addition to the above-mentioned banquets. Follow this up with the four-day, all-expense paid "Priester National Healthcare Conference for the USDA, where they will 'provide resource support for professionals and community leaders from the health-care industry,'" and also sneak in a few wine tastings here and there, too. Holy smokes, someone sign me up!
The most outrageous act by Obama was the suspension of White House tours, starting right at the busiest season, when school children are visiting Washington over spring break. Real nice. Oh, and by the way, these are self-guided tours! Batteries for those headsets must be pretty expensive, no? How about this: Why not cancel one of the multimillion dollar golf trips with Tiger Woods? Hit the driving range instead. That would most likely fund these tours for years.
Here's the honest lowdown, folks: Not only have these clowns managed badly, now they are ordering their department heads to badly manage. Inflict the maximum pain to our citizens, make 'em hurt. Make them realize we will not cut one red cent, not one penny.
Just like the little obnoxious fat kid who doesn't get picked for the neighborhood football teams, Obama is taking his ball and going home - to the home we pay for.
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The future is looking up for six snowy egrets that fell from their nests in Mountain View early last month.
Following a rescue and rehabilitation effort, the white wading birds were released near Charleston Slough on Wednesday.
"The six of them are foraging and displaying totally natural egret behaviors," said a visibly excited Stephanie Ellis, executive director of the nonprofit Santa Clara Valley Audubon Society.
The birds may owe their lives to the closure of a section of Shorebird Way in the heart of Google's sprawling campus. Traffic barricades were erected earlier this year to give snowy and great egrets that fall from nests in the area a better shot at being rescued and rehabilitated.
Five of the six egrets were picked up by the Silicon Valley Animal Control Authority and delivered to the Wildlife Center of Silicon Valley in Milpitas on June 5, said Jen Constantin, the center's director of outreach and education. The sixth was rescued on June 8.
"If they can forage, they will," she said about birds that end up on the ground, adding that their parents will not feed them. "But these guys were too young to take care of themselves."
At the center, the pre-fledgling egrets were fed a diet of previously frozen smelt, followed by live feeder fish.
A total of 15 egrets, including two of the great variety, have been rescued from Shorebird Way, according to Constantin. Two had to be euthanized because of injuries they suffered but seven remain at the center.
Egret nesting season begins in April, with males building nests out of sticks, according to Shani Kleinhaus, an environmental advocate with the Audubon Society. Females then lay small, blue eggs, which hatch in May. The young leave the nest between July and August.
The eggs do not hatch at the same time and older birds will often push younger birds from the nest, Ellis said.
"We think that's probably what we're seeing," she said. "Sometimes, the older birds, they're bickering in the nest and one will fall out. With the younger birds, it's probably fratricide."
Ellis said the road closure -- which was the result of the Audubon Society, Google and Mountain View working together -- has helped raise awareness about egrets. The colony on Shorebird Way is home to at least 24 great egret and 6 snowy egret nests. Another 14 nests remain to be classified.
City spokeswoman Shonda Ranson said there are no immediate plans to take down the barricades.
"There is no definite end point," she said. "And as long as the egrets are there, we're going to continue to protect them."
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As the effort to pressure colleges, cities and religious institutions to divest from fossil fuels gains traction, a small but growing number of individual investors are examining their retirement funds and portfolios with an eye toward eliminating their exposure to coal, oil and natural gas.
The "Go Fossil Free" movement, driven by growing concern over the impact of climate change, is the latest iteration of what's known as "socially responsible investing," in which individuals and institutions examine their portfolios for companies whose businesses offend their political or ethical views, whether it's gunmakers, tobacco companies or, in this case, businesses involved in the petroleum industry.
It's impossible to track with accuracy how many individual investors have joined the effort, or how much money has been moved out of fossil fuel companies due to privacy issues regarding individual portfolios. But financial advisers say they are hearing from more clients who are at least taking a deeper look at their investments.
"It's coming up a lot in conversation," said Will Lana, a senior vice president at Trillium Asset Management, a Boston-based firm that is the oldest independent investment adviser devoted exclusively to sustainable and responsible investing. Trillum manages $1.4 billion and does not invest in coal, oil or gas companies or utilities that generate most of their electricity from fossil fuels.
"Roughly one-fifth of our clients are fully divested from the fossil fuel sector," Lana said. "For certain investors, the approach makes a lot of sense."
The Go Fossil Free movement is largely being organized by author and environmentalist Bill McKibben and 350.org, the climate change organization he co-founded. The group has a "Personal Divestment Roadmap" on its website that urges individuals to find out how much they have invested in fossil fuel companies and to consider investing in a clean energy future. Tom Steyer, a billionaire active in California and national climate politics, is perhaps the wealthiest individual who has pledged to divest his personal fortune.
"I have directed my financial team to divest my holdings of fossil fuels ... in part because I am convinced it will outperform the market," says Steyer on 350.org's gofossilfree.org/mymoney website.
So far, nine colleges, including San Francisco State and the Foothill-De Anza Community College District foundation, 22 cities, two counties (including San Francisco) and more than 20 religious institutions have pledged to "Go Fossil Free," with campaigns to force divestiture under way at an additional 300 college campuses across the country. And earlier this year, 17 private foundations that oversee nearly $2 billion in assets jointly announced an initiative to divest from the 200 largest fossil fuel companies and invest in the clean energy economy.
The obvious targets of the divestment movement are the major oil and gas producers, such as San Ramon-based Chevron and ExxonMobil. But some financial advisers say divesting from fossil fuel companies is easier said than done, and that it can be hard to know where to draw the line. For example, do you divest from oil, coal and natural gas, but still invest in the stocks of companies that make gas-burning automobiles?
"A lot of index funds have fossil fuels," said Kathy Kristof, a columnist for Kiplinger's Personal Finance magazine. "If you are really adamant about this, double the portion of your actively managed portfolio. You can make more of an impact by supporting the companies you like, like a company in cleantech, vs. pulling money out of the ones that you don't."
Other advisers warn that divesting from fossil fuel companies can reduce a portfolio's diversity, exposing it to more risk.
Tupper Hull, a spokesman for the Western States Petroleum Association, says the divestment effort is misguided because petroleum remains a needed source of energy.
"It seems incumbent on people who feel it's necessary to divest investments in petroleum energy companies to explain where they believe our energy will come from," said Hull. "Despite a great deal of exciting new technology development and alternative fuel development, petroleum energy is going to be a vital part of our energy portfolio for a very long time."
Raphael Sperry, 40, an architect and green building consultant who lives in San Francisco, became aware of the Go Fossil Free movement as an alumnus of Harvard, where students are calling on the university to divest its roughly $30 billion endowment.
"I wrote a letter to Harvard," said Sperry, who graduated in 1995 and wanted to lend an alumni voice to student efforts. "How can universities be investing in a business model that will destroy the world that they are training their students to manage?"
Last fall, Harvard President Drew Faust released a letter saying that the university's endowment is an economic resource, not a tool for social or political action, and that she does not believe that "university divestment from the fossil fuel industry is warranted or wise."
Sperry was disappointed. Then he began looking more closely at his own mutual funds and discovered he had holdings in Range Resources, a Texas-based oil and gas company.
"Range Resources does fracking. I was like, wow, that's in my portfolio?" said Sperry. "So I talked to my financial adviser about going fossil free, and we sold the shares."
Sperry's adviser is Justin Martello of Effective Assets, a small Berkeley firm that specializes in socially responsible investing. It began offering fossil fuel free portfolios last fall in response to the increased demand from clients.
"Most people have no idea what their mutual funds are actually invested in," said Martello. "If you have a mutual fund, there's a great chance that an oil or gas company is in there. It's part of having a diversified portfolio, and it's a big part of the market."
Until recently, it was hard to find fossil free financial funds. But that has begun to change.
A year ago, Green Century Capital Management in Boston, which has a Balanced Fund that is fully divested from fossil fuel companies, oversaw roughly $50 million in assets in the fund. Now it has grown to nearly $104 million. The fund saw a 24 percent return last year, driven in large part by a strong year for the stock market in general; the S&P 500 jumped 30 percent.
"You can invest fossil free and still see competitive returns," said Green Century's president, Leslie Samuelrich.
Contact Dana Hull at 408-920-2706. Follow her at Twitter.com/danahull.
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300 Additional college campuses across the country that have campaigns to force divestiture
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20+ Religious institutions have taken the pledge to go fossil free
17 Number of private foundations that oversee nearly $2 billion in assets with an initiative to divest from the 200 largest fossil fuel companies


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CORPUS CHRISTI – Every day during the Islanders men's basketball team's overseas tour in Italy, GoIslanders.com will bring you Postcards from Italy – a combination of photos from the day's activities and a brief recap on the events from members of the men's basketball team.
For our final installment, Zane Knowles takes a look back at the trip as a whole, and our photos are a selection of those taken by members of the team during their time.
The experience I got from going to Europe was unforgettable and one that will stick to me for a lifetime. People always talk about it but there is nothing like being there in person seeing everything with your own eyes. Even pictures can't give the in-person experience.
From the time we first got there it was like a whole different atmosphere. The trees we would see the entire time as we drove were green and beautiful along with the view of many mountains. The roads were smaller but the buildings were just amazing.
It made me wonder how man can make such beautiful buildings back then when technology was not nearly as good as it is today. Just the sculptures and details along with texture on the many historical buildings we saw were unbelievable. The cities were just beautiful overall.
Personally, the experience for me was an eye opener and exactly what I wanted it to be. I am now a senior and am looking forward to playing professional basketball after graduating, so I wanted an experience that will give me a great idea of what to expect if I ever went overseas to play professionally.
I now have a much better feel of what it's like to live over there. The food is different so that is something I will have to adjust to. I would have to learn how to communicate and speak the foreign language because English isn't very common. The people were also very nice.
We got to see the Colosseum, which was another highlight of the trip. The statue of David was the most amazing thing to me due to the fact of how detailed, smooth and massive it was. It was perfect from head to toe and stood tall up to the roof of the museum we were in.
Overall I think the trip was an awesome experience for the whole team. We had to face adversity with many things, like the fatigue from travel all day on tours, to the non-air conditioned gyms to getting our minds back focused on basketball again, which was the main reason for going there. It was a challenge for us that I think we did well against and only made us more bonded as a team.
Our team chemistry is great and is very strong which is great and something we never had before. I took many pictures, but like I said, pictures will never relive the experience of being on this trip in person. I am so thankful to for having that once in a lifetime opportunity.
-Zane Knowles
A new component of Postcards from Italy is Coach Wilson's rating of the gelato from various places throughout the country. This came after Maury Hanks, the leader of our trip, told Coach about the quality of the gelato in the town of Bellagio.
In the end, Maury's prediction came true, with Bellagio scoring the highest rating. But aside from one wayward day in Milan, the quality of the gelato was pretty strong throughout the tour.
Day 1 – Milan – 8
Day 1 – Varese (Buosi Gelato) – 8
Day 2 – Varese (Varese center) – 6
Day 3 – Varese center (Blueberry/Raspberry) – 7
Day 4 – Bellagio – 9
Day 5 – Florence – 7
Day 6 – Florence – 7
Day 7 – Rome – 5
Day 8 – Rome – 8
Day 9 – Rome – 8


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Paintball is a sport that is a lot of fun, but it can also come equipped with substantial risk of injury. While the safety gear that is used to play paintball is generally sufficient for protection, it cannot always 100 percent effective. Players can suffer injuries that range from mild to very severe, but the vast majority of players will remain relatively safe providing they wear the right gear and take safety precautions. Here is a look at some of the most common paintball injuries that players incur.
Scrapes and Cuts
While people think that the most common paintball injuries result from getting hit by fast-flying paintballs; scrapes and cuts are more likely to occur. Players can easily scrape, bruise and cut themselves when they are in the midst of heavy paintball action. They may jump behind a barrier for safety or dive out of the way, forcefully brushing against an object with enough impact to leave a mark. Players can help to prevent these types of injuries by wearing ample safety padding and being careful about how they maneuver through the paintball course.
Knee and Ankle Injuries
Just like all other types of action sports, a very common type of injury in paintball is twisting a knee or ankle. Players frequently make sharp turns while they are engaging in a paintball battle. These types of sudden movements can certainly lead to injuries if players are not careful. It is best to warm up and get a good stretch in before playing to help prevent these kinds of injuries. Wearing supportive footwear, ankle braces and knee braces can also help in prevention.
Paintballs are fired out of the muzzles of paintball guns at around 300 feet per second. When the balls hit unprotected skin at this speed, they are highly likely to leave a nasty bruise. This is why it is so important for players to wear the right safety garments. Even with high quality paintball armor on, there will always be little gaps where paintballs have a chance to impact the skin. Luckily, these injuries are not serious even though they may be a bit sensitive to the touch and even gruesome to look at.
Head and Eye Injuries
Although these are the least common types of injuries that occur to paintball players, they need to be discussed due to the seriousness of their damage. A paintball that hits a player's eye could be so severe it could potentially lead to the loss of the eye. Players must always wear high-quality safety goggles to prevent such a scenario. Also, players should never shoot at each other inside of a distance of 10 feet to help thwart any accidents.
Head injuries can be even more dangerous. Players who fall and bang their head while playing could experience concussions, brain hemorrhaging and even death. It is crucial that players always wear quality safety helmets to constantly keep their heads protected during paintball matches.
As long as players are always diligent about wearing the right safety equipment and playing safely, they can keep their paintball injuries to a minimum.


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The itinerary starts in the picturesque harbor of Santa Margherita and runs along terraces and colored villas to reach the hamlet of Nozarego, destination, in past times, of many pilgrims to visit its Sanctuary.
From Nozarego the path passes through chestnut woods and olive cultivations till the "Mill of Gassetta", ancient structure with original millstones, recently restored and resting point of the Park of Portofino, where you can taste local products from the area.
After lunch it is possible to go down to the suggestive bay of Paraggi, along a steep path through the Valley of Mills, known since centuries ago because of its 35 mills grinding olives, chestnut and grain for all the surrounding territory.
Effettive walking time: 3.5 Hours
Difference in level: 250m up and 250m down
Difficulty: medium-low


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They just announced on the broadcast that Hamilton stole 3 bases (so far) tonight to get to 146 stolen bases on the season. He got the record!!
They just announced on the broadcast that Hamilton stole 3 bases (so far) tonight to get to 146 stolen bases on the season. He got the record!!
The one constant through all the years, Ray, has been baseball. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It has been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt and erased again. But baseball has marked the time. -- Terrance Mann (Field of Dreams)
Very cool. Glad he's part of our club.
Congrats Billy
"Since I've been with the Reds in 1989, we've never had a farm system this loaded," Bowden said. "If we were the New York Yankees and had unlimited dollars, we could have traded for Colon, (Jeff) Weaver, Rolen, (Cliff) Floyd, (Kenny) Rogers and Finley and gotten them all -- and still held onto our top five prospects. That's an amazing statement."
140+ years of Professional baseball....and our guy breaks the record.
On August 21st.
Baseball is like church. Many attend, few understand
Keep in mind he is going to lead two separate leagues in one year in bases stolen. That can't happen too often .
Wahoos should have hired Lou Piniella to heave second base after the record was broken.
The Reds have the fastest runner (Hamilton) and fastest pitcher (Chapman).
Not that there's anything wrong with that.
"I can't take this homerism anymore." - 10xWSChamps, August 11, 2010. A Cardinals fan having a problem with all the homerism on Redszone. Classic.
"Man do I miss the days where were didn't need a calculator and an encyclopedia of baseball metrics to enjoy a baseball game ... - MikeS21" - 8/2/12 game thread
Can't wait to watch him in a reds uniform for a very long time.what position does he play?
I can spell,I just can't type!!
From the Pensacola Blue Wahoos Web site:
And from the Pensacola News Journal:
Finally, ESPiN:
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From the NY Times' Bats baseball blog comes this piece on stolen bases in the majors these days and an examination of Hamilton in that different game.
In the same way that a baseball season never really begins, it never really ends either. - Lonnie Wheeler, "Bleachers, A Summer in Wrigley Field"
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