Wal-Mart makes donation to county’s ‘Home Grown Teachers’…
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- Wal-Mart makes donation to county’s ‘Home Grown Teachers’…
- Astronauts bring space-grown bugs home
- Sporting News – Your expert source for MLB Baseball, NFL Football,…
- Nichols Guilty of Conspiracy, Manslaughter
- Areva says reactor order talks in China are advanced and are going…
- Russian soldier killed in attack
- Padres CEO talks finances, reluctantly
Wal-Mart makes donation to county’s ‘Home Grown Teachers’…
Naples Daily News – Naples Daily News (subscription) – Aug 23, 2007
Six local Wal-Mart stories are contributing the money to the program, which is designed to recruit local students to the teaching profession. Wal-Mart made the inaugural contribution of $10,000 last year to start the program. The “Home Grown Teachers” scholarship fund supports the Collier County Public Schools’ program to give would-be teachers incentives to teach locally. The program will begin through teaching academies at Immokalee and Golden Gate high schools. Some existing Collier County Public Schools support staff will also be given the chance to help serve the community through the program. The scholarship fund will provide students an opportunity to apply for a tuition scholarship at a Florida public university. For more information or to make a contribution, contact The Education Foundation of Collier County at (239) 643-4755.
Astronauts bring space-grown bugs home
Register – Aug 23, 2007
The crew of the space shuttle Endeavour has arrived back on Earth safe and sound, but not alone. The astronauts have brought a raging case of strep with them. Well, not so much a case, as sealed containers of space grown Streptococcus pneumoniae bacteria. The cargo is being shipped to the University of Texas’ microbiology and immunology department for analysis… Another sample was kept on Earth. Both sets of bacteria were exposed to exactly the same conditions, except for the microgravity, Niesel said, with the timings of changes to the bacteria’s environments synchronised to the minute. “Now we have two snapshots of the bacteria frozen in time, grown with the same parameters except the microgravity part, and we should be able to see the differences that result when the bacteria see this unique space environment.
Sporting News – Your expert source for MLB Baseball, NFL Football,…
SportingNews.com – Aug 23, 2007
Tenessee Titans – A juggernaut in the making, this will be a stair-step year on their way to real competitiveness in 2008. With the brilliant coaching and majestic Vince in their house – life is going to be very good on SUNDAYS for Volunteer Nation. Houston Texans – A disastrous draft decision and commitment to the likes of David Carr at the WORST possible moment as the home grown savior sat in the draft obscured the Defensive renaissance occurring on the field in 2006. This is a team getting stronger everywhere at the same time and better days await, although it will be difficult to imagine for many years HOW they can manage to improve more than the franchise that USED to call Houston HOME with the QB that USED to call HOUSTON home. Not Now – these teams are either BAD or YOUNG. Denver Broncos – A year for Cutler to learn and Shanahan to come to a crossroads. Not in San Diego’s class but benefiting from four games with the Raiders and Chiefs, they will be on the playoff hunt but not in the position of strength they were 2-3 years ago.
Nichols Guilty of Conspiracy, Manslaughter
Washington Post – Aug 23, 2007
Moments later the massive explosion virtually destroyed the building and forever shattered a nation’s confidence that terrorism is something that happens elsewhere. Within hours of the blast, the country focused its wrath on unknown international terrorists. But all too soon it became apparent that these terrorists were home grown. McVeigh was arrested less than 90 minutes after the blast 75 miles away during a routine traffic stop. He was the prime suspect almost immediately. Through the Nichols family address in Decker, Mich. , which McVeigh routinely used on forms and applications, the FBI zeroed in on Terry Nichols within two days of the bombing.
Areva says reactor order talks in China are advanced and are going…
Forbes – Aug 23, 2007
The discussions are continuing, they are ‘advanced’ and are ‘going well’, he told Thomson Financial News. An industry source told Xinhua Financial News today that China has decided to use home-grown CPR-1000 reactors at Yangjiang because negotiations between the China Guangdong Nuclear Power Corp and Areva are taking too long. Areva is demanding too high a price, which is also affecting the speed of negotiations, the source said. The Areva spokesman said that while the possibility of the EPRs being built at a different location is ‘not a minor matter’, the company is focusing on the sale of the reactors, rather than where they might be built. He could not predict when the ongoing talks might be completed, as there is a political aspect to the deal which is outside the company’s control. The spokesman refused to comment on whether Areva or EDF would be turnkey managers of the project, saying that the talks which are going well relate to an order for reactors.
Russian soldier killed in attack
BBC News – Aug 23, 2007
Earlier this month Moscow ordered 2,500 troops into Ingushetia to try to quell the growing violence there, after a spate of attacks. They include the assassination of the Ingush presidential guard, the killing of an ethnic Russian family and a rumoured assassination attempt on the president of the Ingush republic. At the moment it is unclear whether the attacks are home grown or are being carried out by rebel bands from the neighbouring republic of Chechnya. Since the early 1990s Russia has fought two extremely bloody wars against separatist rebels in Chechnya. On both occasions Ingushetia stayed on the sidelines but the end of the second Chechen war has not brought peace to the region. Across the north Caucasus violent attacks against police and soldiers are now a weekly occurrence.
Padres CEO talks finances, reluctantly
San Diego Union Tribune – Aug 23, 2007
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No ballclub spends enough to appease its fans, least of all one with a new ballpark and boutique pricing, but the Padres' perception problems run deeper than most in the baseball business. Those problems are compounded, to varying degrees, by a) the bonanza John Moores is believed to have reaped from his real estate holdings adjoining the ballpark; b) the distrust that developed from his Peregrine stock sales; c) a ballpark campaign that raised public expectations about the club's player payroll and d) a pattern of subtle roster changes rather than seismic shifts. When home-grown pitching ace Jake Peavy admitted skepticism about his long-term future with the Padres last weekend, citing Alderson's well-known aversion to long-term contracts, critical mass reached critical mess. Despite his misgivings, Alderson felt obliged to start talking about money. Like that of every other major league club, the Padres' payroll is primarily a function of revenues. Unlike every other other major league club, the Padres are committed to two long-term deals that dramatically restrict their spending power. One is a below-market local television package that runs through 2011 and remains unavailable to satellite subscribers.