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Googles next moonshot High-altitude wind startup Makani
super fantastic story , Bloomberg Businessweek today reported that Google X, Google's lab for wild and crazy inventions such as Google Glass (wearable computer glasses) and Google's self-driving car, is also buying Makani Power. Makani makes high-altitude wind power generating devices that use unmanned, ultralight planes tethered much like a kite to a tall base to capture wind energy ...
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Restaurant roundup creole creations grass-fed butter more ramen
This week's Bay Area restaurant scene saw more action in Berkeley, where a creole joint leaves little to be desired and a new coffee joint shows how local is really done. In the South Bay, Patxi's Pizza goes above and beyond its service requirements with a three-wheeled pick-up service for patrons. Here's this week's restaurant ...
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Bay Areas best-selling food and drinks
Hungry? Thirsty? Check out some of the top-selling products of local Bay Area food producers. Check out this week's top 25 list of the Largest Food and Beverage Manufacturers in the Bay Area, which can be found in this week's print edition of the San Francisco Business Times. Companies revealed some of their bestselling products. Our slideshow at right shows a few of the ...
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Phil Matier Santa Clara In Shadow Of San Francisco’s Super Bowl Spotlight
SAN FRANCISCO (KCBS) -- This week’s vote by the NFL to play Super Bowl L at the new Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara in 2016 – and name San Francisco as official host city – will create an interesting dynamic between SF and the South Bay. Former Mayor Willie Brown thinks that the symbol of the Super Bowl really is San Francisco--not necessarily the stadium where the game is ...
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Calif. officials Health insurance cheaper than expected
California officials say the rates offered by insurers for their state-operated health insurance market are lower than they expected. But many people will still be paying higher premiums next year as Covered California kicks in than they are now, the Los Angeles Times reported. The benefits insurers will be required to supply are also going up. "These rates are way below the worst-case ...
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Hollywood talent agencies selling to create capital
Studios often mimic each other's projects in development, releasing similar concepts within the same year. The top talent agencies imitate each other as well by emulating the business strategies of their competitors. United Talent Agency has cozied up to top Wall Street banker Ken Moelis to judge investment offers for a minority stake in the company, according to the Hollywood ...
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Correction Western Water Grants story
SALT LAKE CITY -; In a story May 22 about the U.S. Interior Department awarding more than $20 million in grants for water conservation projects, The Associated Press, relying on information provided by the federal agency, reported erroneously that the North Yuba Water District in California had received one of the ...
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Fernley man to prison for seeking sex with kids
RENO, Nev. -; A 44-year-old Fernley man has been sentenced to more than 22 years in federal prison for soliciting children for sex over the ...
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US Park Police to end furloughs next week
National Park Service Director Jonathan B. Jarvis says the furloughs will end on June 3, after just three days off, because the agency has found other ways to offset automatic budget cuts imposed by ...
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Shuttle is major draw at California Science Center
The Los Angeles museum, where the retired shuttle is on permanent display, had 180,769 visitors in July 2012, before the shuttle arrived. This July, museum officials expect 230,916 ...
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Mountain vinters hit downtown Santa Cruz June 9 to lure beach visitors
The Roots That Rock Santa Cruz Mountains Vinters' Festival will feature on-site wine tastings June 1-2 and June 8-9, as well as a downtown Santa Cruz festival on June 9. The Santa Cruz Mountains Vinters' Festival has been around for more than two decades, but this spring the event will have a new centerpiece: a downtown street festival featuring food trucks, art and, of course, lots of ...
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Summer getaway specials in Paso Robles California
Paso Robles , centrally located midway between Los Angeles and San Francisco, is an idyllic retreat with countless activities ideal for families, a romantic escape or a fun getaway with good friends. Sip on Rhne varietals, amazing Cabernets and spicy Zinfandels in California's fastest growing wine region, tee off at one of the state's finest golf courses, dine on farm fresh cuisine and ...
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Jeff Hannemans memorial celebration at the Hollywood Palladium
Yesterday afternoon on May 23, 2013, family, friends and fans gathered inside the Hollywood Palladium to pay their respects and celebrate the life of one of the worlds greatest riff artists, the guitarist ...
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UFO Over Historic Barn Photo Captures Mysterious Object in California Skies
A woman has claimed to have seen a UFO over a historic barn in Santee, Calif., on May 7. A woman has claimed to have seen a UFO over a historic barn in Santee, Calif., on May 7, according to reports.Ellen Henry, a member of the Santee Historical Society (SHS) located in San Diego County, has photographed what appears to be an object in the sky above Santee earlier this month. According to ABC ...
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Navel oranges other fruit coming on strong in California
TIM HEARDEN Capital PressSACRAMENTO -- Navel orange production in California's Central Valley has come on strong in the spring after a slow start, but growers don't expect to meet initial estimates.While a few shipping houses are already finished for the year, many others will be busy until late June or early July, said Paul Story, director of grower services for California Citrus ...
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California ranks near the bottom in new report on economic policies
Employees at Cardinal Labortories Inc., an Azusa manufacturer and distributor of pet care products, are shown here. California ranked fourth from the bottom in a report that evaluates states on the effectiveness of their current economic policies. (SGVN/Staff Photo by Eric Reed/HIGH) FILE PHOTO (Eric Reed/Staff Photographer) California's tax codes have wreaked havoc on the state's ...
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Best-selling local food and beverages
Hungry? Thirsty? Check out some of the top-selling products of local Bay Area food producers. Check out this week's top 25 list of the Largest Food and Beverage Manufacturers in the Bay Area, which can be found in this week's print edition of the San Francisco Business Times. Companies revealed some of their bestselling products. Our slideshow at right shows a few of the ...
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WordPresss Automattic sells $50 million in stock to Tiger Global
Tiger Global Management has bought $50 million worth of sharees in a secondary transaction from stockholders of Automattic, the San Francisco company behind the WordPress web site publishing platform. Automattic, which claims to power 18 percent of the world's Internet sites, is a 170 person company with staff spread across the globe that last year disclosed having $45 million in revenue. ...
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Publishers note Why you can read this weeks paper for free
Read this week's paper, available outside the paywall, here. Thanks for visiting our website. Id like to thank this weeks publication sponsor - Team San Jose - for helping make this weeks entire issue available on our website. This weeks issue includes an extensive look at impact of the Super Bowl coming to Silicon Valley, and Im very proud of the work our editorial staff did in putting this ...
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Correcting Dominican University of Californias 2011 Admissions Statistics
The school also misreported the same application count data to other data collectors, including the U.S. Department of Education, the College Board, Peterson's and The Princeton Review. Dominican University of California has provided U.S. News with new data it is reporting as correct. As a result, the number of applications for the fall 2011 entering class is now 2,357 versus the 3,093 as ...
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Lawsuit says defective lawnmower injures man
JACKSON, Miss. - A lawsuit in Mississippi says a man was seriously injured after he was attacked by yellow jackets, jumped off his riding lawnmower and was run over by the machine.Everardo Garfias says the cutoff switch should have disengaged the engine when he jumped off the Husqvarna lawnmower.Garfias says he was cutting grass for his lawn service on July 26 when the lawnmower ran over him, ...
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Orange County honors birthday of Harvey Milk
FULLERTON, Calif. -; Orange County has officially honored the birthday of the late Harvey Milk, California's first openly gay elected ...
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Damage reported from magnitude-5.7 quake in Calif.
GREENVILLE, Calif. -; A moderate earthquake centered in rural northeastern California and felt in two other states damaged some homes and ruptured a tank that supplies residential drinking water in the densely forested region, officials said ...
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Netflix looks to hook subscribers with Arrested
SAN FRANCISCO - Netflix is hoping this weekend's release of the resurrected TV series "Arrested Development" will draw more subscribers to its Internet video service.The award-winning show about the dysfunctional Bluth family returns Sunday, seven years after Fox cancelled the series. The revival coincides with Netflix's own resounding comeback from a customer backlash over ...
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Michael Douglas Hollywood studios didnt believe he could impersonate the outrageously camp Liberace in Behind the Candelabra. They were wrong
When the American film director Steven Soderbergh approached Hollywood studios in 2011, asking them for $5m to finance Behind the Candelabra, his film about Liberace and his five-year affair with Scott Thorson, he was startled by their reaction. They all turned him down flat. Although the cast featured two Oscar-winning actors, the film would, they said, appeal only to a gay ...
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Sacramento vulnerable to massive disaster
If a major earthquake were to occur tomorrow, Sacramento could potentially be devastated by massive flooding on-par with that seen in New Orleans during Katrina. The state’s major fresh water systems would be destroyed and 25 million would be without fresh water, while millions would lose their homes, but for all this, funding to upgrade the city’s levees is hard to come by.
When Hurricane Katrina barreled into US states along the Gulf Coast in 2005 it caused chaos and devastation in a part of the world considered among the most developed and stable. Read more
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