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The announcement was made last night at Spice restaurant on North Street, where several key players in the laptop initiative gathered for the good news. Steering committee co-chairman Michael Supranowicz said the BWLI recently surpassed $1 million in private contributions, a mark that was crucial in making the three-year initiative solvent. "This shows that what we have going here is a community effort," Supranowicz said. Launched in January 2006, the initiative has supplied 2,305 Apple iBooks to teachers and students in sixth, seventh and eighth grades at Silvio O. Conte Middle School in North Adams and at the Reid, Herberg and St. Mark's middle schools in Pittsfield. The $5.3 million program is being used as a pilot program by the state, with funding generated from both state and private capital.
A New Apple Indicator: Steve's Airplane Bills??
Morgan Stanley's Kathryn Huberty has a theory about Apple stock. It's a buy. But wait until you see one of her reasons: Steve Jobs is flying around in his private Gulfstream V jet (tail number N2N) on Apple business a little more than usual. She reports in a research note noticed by Barron's today that Apple reimbursed Jobs $550,000 for expenses related to the jet during the most recent quarter. That's a lot for a single quarter. Apple's 10K for the 2007 fiscal year reports that during that year, Apple reimbursed jobs for $776,000 in plane expenses. In 2006 it was $202,000. In 2005 it was $1.1 million, or about $275,000 per quarter. That suggest that Jobs is spending more time in the air on company time than is typical. To Huberty that indicates that he's doing deals, suggesting that more big announcements are coming.
Spanish police arrest 14 in anti-terror raids: interior minister
Spanish police have smashed a suspected Islamist terror cell, arresting 14 people and recovering bomb-making equipment in overnight raids in Barcelona, the interior minister said on Saturday. "During our searches, we found various materials which could be explosives or be used to make explosives," Interior Minister Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba told a press conference in Madrid. Those arrested included 12 Pakistanis and two Indians, he said. Four timing devices as well as computer equipment which was still being examined were also recovered. He said that the group could be characterised as "radical Islamist", was "highly organised" and was preparing to carry out an attack in the north-eastern Spanish city. The operation, which saw five homes raided by police, was carried out on the basis of information gathered by Spain's domestic and foreign intelligence agencies.
Consider these quotes about BP's trustworthiness
Quoting from Columbia Journalism Review, March/April 2007, on BP's Texas City refinery explosion in which 15 were killed and 170 injured on March 23, 2005:"That particular unit had a long history of fires and explosions going back more than a decade, including a fire less than 24 hours before the blast. The unit was restarted anyway.""BP leads the nation in refinery fatalities since 1995, with 10 times as many deaths as recorded at ExxonMobil.""Government documents concerning the plant's operational procedures and safety record that were once easily accessed had vanished into the Homeland Security labyrinth. Again and again, reporters hit brick walls trying to find what had been considered basic public information a few short years ago.""It took a small army of journalists to smoke out all this skulduggery.""A 300-page report from an independent panel investigating BP -- and run by former Secretary of State James Baker -- criticized a 'run until it breaks' mentality.""...
Our Troops Must Leave Iraq
As for the Courics, Williams, whatever is on ABC and the dregs from cable. Go to hell you spineless worms. You're worthless. Yes, indeed, bring the troops home, and send them to D.C. –to evict these bastards. (since voting won't do it anymore) .
Necrology 2007
Cooper 87 Billy Lue Kitchen 79 June Doreen Phillips 77 Dixie Jean Pogue 67 Jan. 19 Rachel Hunter Dickey 12 Esther J. Eubanks 87 Ovie Lee Alice Gibson 85 Dr. Henry C. Hink Jr. 89 Ethel Beatrice Jackson 89 Samuel J. Stafford 86 Jan. 20 Kathy Jane Copeland 55 Johnny Curtis III 57 Viva E. Dilbeck 91 Marlene Kay Mustain 65 Jan. 21 Harold F. Anderson 91 George Albert Ballard 67 Frances N. Souder 95 Barbara Stuthers 62 Cornelia Wallace 91 Jan. 22 Elery Louis Feltis 76 Clendon Jean Holcomb 78 Rose Lee Hushelpeck 46 Fredric Norman Morse 64 Lorrayne Peterson 83 Judy Kay West NA Jessy Darrell Whitlow 76 Jan. 23 Carl Chester Craig 61 Sharon Rankin 49 Robert F. ' Bud'Simmons 76 W. Glen Stromath 79 Jan. 24 Milton Irvin Dillard 87 Scharolot W. Prentice 65 Wanda Lee'Mom'Robinson 64 Montie J. Sievers 59 Arthur James'Art'Stacy 57 Jan.
About 200 meet to discuss DeKalb schools
The capacity situation is dire, said four DeKalb High School seniors who attended the meeting and sat quietly near the front of the theater."At certain choke points in the hallways, movement literally stops," 17-year-old Adam Pourahmadi said. "You have to wait in line just to walk to class."His friend Kevin Smith discussed the need for referendum money to provide for students after him."I know I'm graduating and I'm not going to be here," he said. "But I think it's important that we get the space. I don't want to just pass on the problems to students coming in."The four representatives on stage patiently fielded questions Monday from many residents in opposition to the referendum."One thing we want to ensure with this referendum is that we don't have a single question unanswered," Barnes said.
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