| Snow snarls North Texas roads more on its way
The National Weather Service issued a winter storm warning for North Texas Thursday, particularly for areas along and north of Interstate 20. The winter storm warning is in effect until 6 a.m. Friday. "Theres another shot of cold air coming with a powerful upper-level trough right over North Texas," said Jennifer Dunn, meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Fort Worth. The conditions should persist through Friday morning, Dunn said. With Fridays daytime high temperature topping out around 40 degrees, those areas that received the heaviest snowfall should see the snow stick around through the day. It could reach the mid-40s in portions of the Metroplex. Cloud cover should clear out Friday afternoon and evening, leading to a freezing Friday night in the mid-20s.
NORM: IRS probe of clubs has some on edge
Jay Mohr, above, and Nikki Cox, below, are among the celebrities who have seen Bette Midler's show at The Colosseum.
Bette Midler, shown Wednesday following her premiere performance in "The Showgirl Must Go On" at Caesars Palace, isn't being shown on The Colosseum's LED screen, audience members complain.
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Advanced Technology Academy buys Davenport University buildings
One of Dearborn's charter schools will be moving to a new location beginning in the fall. Officials from Advanced Technology Academy (ATA) announced last week that they will be purchasing the 15-acre Davenport University site as well as the administration building. Davenport University, which is leaving Dearborn for a new campus in Livonia, is located on Oakman Boulevard at Miller in the city's east end, just south of Michigan Avenue. "This turn-key facility acquisition allows the Academy to significantly upgrade its educational offerings including the Ford Partnership for Advanced Studies (PAS) program," said Dr. Richard Schneider, president of the ATA board. Advanced Technology Academy is the only school in the nation to fully implement the Ford PAS program as the cornerstone of its high school curriculum.
Ralph Kiner - 1955 :
Colavito did return to the Tribe in 1965, but his best seasons were behind him and on July 29, 1967 the Indians once again traded "The Rock", this time to the Chicago White Sox. November 29, 1971 - Tribe Swaps FlameThrower for SpitBaller: For about a five year period that began in the mid-sixties "Sudden" Sam McDowell was truly the most dominant strike-out pitcher in the American League and reached the 20 win mark for the only time in his career in 1970. But, his numbers declined during the 1971 season and that winter the Indians shipped him to San Francisco for veteran starter Gaylord Perry and light hitting shortstop Frank Duffy. Perry's first season in the American League was a big success as he posted a 24-16 record and a 1.92 ERA with the 5th place Indians. He was named the 1972 American League Cy Young award winner.
Carter ‘picks’ spots well
But Wisconsin free safety Shane Carter, who initially stopped short of Mathews, expecting a better pass, leaped backward and made a spectacular one-handed grab. It was a play that usually isn't known to be part of a defensive player's repertoire. More like a wide receiver, Carter was able to keep the ball alive with his hand-eye coordination and hold on for the early forced turnover. The pick set up the game's first touchdown and an early Wisconsin 7-0 lead, one the Badgers would never relinquish. "I don't know how he caught that," UW cornerback Jack Ikegwuonu said of Carter's pick following the Michigan game. "Shane's a ballhawk, he's always around the ball, and I'm not surprised that he made that catch. He's got great hands." Fitting, since that's the position the younger brother of former Minnesota Viking and future Hall of Fame receiver Chris Carter wanted to play.
It doesn't help that he sleeps with his dog, Sidi, and lets her ...
@36: Nope, he is descended from European peasant stock. You know, the one ethnicity on the frig'n planet who never managed to go anywhere without spreading either disease, pestilence, famine or war on the indigenous civilizations they interacted with. Even if said civilization was the sole reason they were able to survive in the new environment. So horrendous is their moral core, that they never even managed to break away from this pattern of behavior, even amongst other "white" groups, why do you think that is? You know, viruses display a similar behavior on all forms of life, either eukaryotic or prokaryotic. Very strange, very strange indeed, perhaps some sort of generalized mental illness that permeates the very essence of their genetic core, thus allowing us to see the manifestation we have today.
MySpace founder targets YouTube generation
One of the founders of MySpace is aiming to take on YouTube with the launch of LiveVideo.com. Brad Greenspan's latest creation is billed as an "advanced on-demand interactive broadcasting platform providing instant global reach and messaging to any user with a webcam". Users can create and broadcast live content alone, or in conjunction with friends, colleagues or newly acquainted users, with LiveVideo.com's LiveShow platform. LiveShow boasts interactive features such as LiveTextChat, LiveCoHost and LivePolls to encourage social interaction with a real-time community. The platform also allows advanced video users to broadcast on their channel with multiple cameras to create broadcast-quality shows. "Move over MySpace, YouTube and other similar sites," the company said in a statement.
The Problem Is Patent Quality, Not 'Trolls'
A site called Prepaid Reviews reports that four US wireless carriers have been hit with a patent lawsuit from a company called Intellect Wireless. Prepaid Reviews writes that "If Intellect Wireless was a firm that bought patents with the implicit intent of lawsuit, I could talk about the need to reform patent law. But if these are original inventions by Henderson, he has a case." I think this fundamentally misconceives the nature of the "patent troll" problem. The fundamental problem is about patent quality, not about motivations or business strategy of the people abusing the system. Advocates of patent reform like to focus on classic patent trolling firms whose only business is lawsuits because the extortionate nature of the transaction is most obvious in those cases. But if an otherwise-legitimate company gets an overly broad or obvious patent and proceeds to sue everyone in sight, that's still a problem, even if the firm really was the first person to develop a product fitting the description of the patent.
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Forging A Merger -- Or Not
More than two weeks after the Chinalco news broke, markets are still obsessing about the Chinese connection. The latest to weigh in on this subject is Stratfor, which provides strategic intelligence on global business, economic, security and geopolitical affairs. The U.S. intelligence firm says Chinalco would consider bidding for a majority stake in Rio Tinto if another company attempted a takeover. Stratfor claims it has spoken with a source 'close to the Australian government' who says Chinalco will block any competing bid. "Beijing appears set on blocking an attempt by the world's largest mining company, Australia's BHP Billiton, to swallow up Rio Tinto, a move that would create a mining goliath worth nearly $350 billion," Stratfor said in a briefing. "Considering that domestic energy security tops the Chinese government's agenda, it is a given that Beijing is looking to carve out a niche in the world's key resource sectors using state-owned energy companies." It's unclear exactly how much of a stake the Chinalco-Alcoa consortium would be willing to buy and at what price though the highest stake rumored until now has been up to 20 percent.
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