| Ted Reynolds: City doing great, but let’s keep working
Washington Community and Recreation Center has begun. Construction will soon begin on the remodeling of our civic center and the construction of a new exhibits hall. A downtown building has been purchased for use as a performing arts center. Renovation of this building has already begun. I am proud of the fact that while planning and building these projects we have also been able to use some of our wealth to implement the two back-to-back largest property tax rate cuts in the history of our city. Tuesday, our city council will meet to develop a consensus on a number of very important issues. At the top of the list is to develop a long-range plan for the use of our energy royalty money. All of us on the council want to develop a plan that will give us and our successors the best use of this money for the good of our citizens.
Willy Northpole and the Phoenix hip-hop scene explode
At first glance, this car is just a pile of rust and junked parts. The roof has been torn off, the seats ripped out. There's no steering wheel. But inside the tiny two-stroke engine bay of this East-German communist-era relic is a shiny new American-made V8. With the flip of a switch, the car comes to life, expanding to the size of an El Camino. Another switch gets the car jumping on both front- and rear-wheel hydraulics. The mechanic can talk all day about engines and drive shafts, brake-light switches and "servicing the shifter" just like any auto man worth the grease under his fingernails. Except this Dickies-clad figure is not a guy or a real mechanic. She's Liz Cohen, a photographer, who has decided to build a car and call it art. She's turning a Trabant, an East German car popular before the Berlin Wall fell, into a hybrid lowrider that transforms into a Chevy El Camino.
Wolves offer hockey experience for women
The Wolves, whose charitable work and fan-friendly efforts make it one of the most popular franchises in the city, are offering a behind-the-scenes hockey experience for women. It's the second annual Hockey For Her,'' sponsored by Rush North Shore Medical Center and proceeds benefit the Ovarian Cancer Research Fund and various Chicagoland charities. The event, held at the Hoffman Estates Park District Community Center and Ice Arena, is for women 18 and older. For $50, women can get a sneak peek at the Wolves' state-of-the-art practice facility, get strength-and-conditioning advice from assistant coach Wendell Young, talk strategy with head coach John Anderson as well as several Wolves players. Participants also will take home gift bags, enjoy refreshments courtesy of Ginos East in Rolling Meadows and Pepsi, and have the chance to bid on items including lunch with players, spa visits and special game packages at a silent auction throughout the evening.
McDonald's mice 'becoming human'
One of the most popular is that a switch to a high quality diet allowed our ancestors to fuel larger brains (the "expensive tissue hypothesis)". "This suggestion sounds very reasonable. But we had yet no direct evidence that human and chimp diets differed in their molecular effects. "This we find in our study - with respect to liver - and also that diet-induced differences in mice overlap with differences between humans and chimps. .
NewHomesSection.com Finds Niche in New Home Marketing
NewHomesSection.com is a brand new website where homebuyers and Real Estate Professionals can find information about Arizona new home builders. The website displays Arizona new home builder ads in the same fashion as your local paper, but the new home ads are always available, and each ad clicks-through to the home builders website. NewHomesSection.com has received a great reaction from homebuyers, real estate professionals, and home builders. .
China tops India again
For some years now, many Indians have taken solace from the idea that China may be ahead in manufacturing, but can't compare to India when it comes to R&D. Or, as Sunil Jain writes in India's Business Standard, “Tradition has it that while China is the factory of the world, India is going to be the laboratory of the world." But, Jain adds, a top science body in India, the Scientific Advisory Council, last week caused jitters among Indians after assessing a recent U.S. military report comparing the research output of scientists in China, India and other developing countries. Not only was India behind China in number of papers published, Jain notes, but far more Chinese research papers are landing in top Western journals. More worrisome still for the Indians – and encouraging for the Chinese – is the likelihood that the trend is going to continue: Jain writes that the World Bank's “Knowledge Index," a ranking that looks at a country's scientific fundamentals including Internet and PC usage, patents, and IT adoption by local companies, also skews heavily toward China.
Bidding farewell to Ferguson
He finally got the axe Tuesday, with venerable hockey executive Cliff Fletcher replacing him on an interim basis. (Fletcher is another former assistant GM of the Blues, although his stint was about 900 years ago.) Reacting to great expectations in Toronto, Ferguson abandoned his roots in player development and acquired one washed-up veteran after another. "The vision Ferguson aspired to the vision he talked about when he took on the challenge of running the Leafs on Aug. 29, 2003 never materialized," Toronto Sun columnist Steve Simmons wrote. "If his plan was to build through the draft, to re-stock the Leafs farm system, to build an organization from bottom up, he waffled on that almost from the beginning." Joe Nieuwendyk, Brian Leetch and Ron Francis came through the turnstile.
Category: Amazon
Between the Lines Latest Post | Last 10 Posts | Archives Anyone doubt Amazon is serious about music downloads now? Posted in: Web Technology Hollywood on Demand Apple Amazon DRM Amazon announced Sunday that it plans an international rollout of its DRM-free MP3 music download service in a move that sets up a global scrap with Apple's iTunes service. Is Amazon's service an iTunes killer yet? Not really. But there's no doubt about Amazon's intentions. I've downloaded more than a few DRM-free tunes from Amazon in recent weeks–most because I got a warning about burning more than seven CDs for a 5 year old's birthday party (there was two songs purchased on iTunes). Without that little warning I probably wouldn't have tried Amazon's service.
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