| Bober planning new culture at Hollywood City Hall
This has been a divided community for too long,'' Bober said. ``We all want to have high-quality services and not be overtaxed. People will be safe and secure that City Hall is open and honest and not for sale to special interests.'' Bober's cries for change gained him supporters at the polls and helped him trounce entrenched incumbent Mara Giulianti, who leaves an undeniable mark on the city after 20 years of service. In many respects, Bober represents the new Hollywood that Giulianti tenaciously tried to create over her two decades in power. She pushed developments that would be attractive to young, working families and transformed the city from a sleepy community for retirees to a hot spot for young couples. People like Bober. Bober, 35, spends much of his free time with his two young children and is a frequent user of the park system Giulianti championed as an attraction for families.
Andy Oram Reports
All other content (originating from sites such as this one, the American Reporter) will receive poorer service. And if the phone companies can do it, cable companies (the other major providers of Internet service to end-users) could very well start doing it too. Those who hail the open Internet cringe at this initiative, which exploits the Internet to build and market private, premium content. But this is is by no means the first time companies have tried to bend technology to favor their services. In fact, it's an old story. As I'll show in this article, companies have been trying to position themselves at choke holds and manipulate the Internet since it became commercialized in the early 1990s. Such shenanigans are simply an exercise of market power. Up to now they have failed to change the essential nature of the Internet.
Too Cool for School?
That's why Times columnist and Dummy Mummy Janice Turner, in an article last week entitled 'Xbox is crack for kids', can gleefully write: "I refuse to buy [my children] portable gaming consoles, Xboxes, GameCubes, PS2s. These are Satan's Sudoku, crack cocaine of the brain. Even the crappiest cartoon or lamest soap teaches a child about character, plot, drama, humour, life. Playing videogames, children are mentally imprisoned, wired into their evil creators' brains." That's why "psychology specialist" (huh?) and author, Cooper Lawrence, can go on Fox News to spout misinformation and psycho-babble on the sexual content of Xbox 360 adventure Mass Effect (watch the full, mesmerising exchange here. Lawrence later confessed to the New York Times that she "misspoke" and, having actually seen the game, admitted "I've seen episodes of Lost that are more sexually explicit." That's why the Daily Telegraph can reheat a hatchet job on Rockstar's Bully (now back to its original title for the 360 and Wii SKUs, after Rockstar buckled first time around and renamed it Canis Canem Edit).
Jindal to pay $2,500 ethics fine
Your crime syndicate is going down. I heard his kids were taking the $100k and funneling it through their school lunch program. Arrest them and check their Sponge Bob lunchboxes immediately!!! We need the honesty and integrity of the Blanko's now! .
Flowboarding facility opens soon across from Kihei park
Extreme watersportsman and pro flowboarder Rush Randle samples the never-ending wave at Da Rush Maui, a new FlowRider attraction in Kihei. The "liquid playground" is expected to open this month. CHRISTIE WILSON | The Honolulu Advertiser .
Dalton column: Sledding when they closed the streets
When Whittier Street extended all the way to Bartlet Street, Andover kids would sled on the little slope in front of Memorial Auditorium. The slope was bigger when we were little. In the late 1940, the town would close off Whittier Street to make it safe for us. Sometimes it would forget to close the street and one day a kid hit the side of a slow moving car. He hit one of the tires and was only scared and not hurt very much. The town always closed the street after that. The setup of the area was different then. Besides the fact that Whittier Street was just a plain old street with no parking spaces, there was a semicircular driveway that went up from the street to the front of Memorial Auditorium and then curved down back to the street. The slope was within that semicircle formed by the driveway.
Tortoise Genes and Island Beings
It's a great highway," Caccone says. Whether carried along on her own or on a floating mat of vegetation, a single female laden with eggs could have founded the entire Galápagos population. Apart from their size and buoyancy, Galápagos tortoises can stay alive for 6 to 9 months without food or water, an evolutionary adaptation that became a curse when 17th- and 18th-century buccaneers and subsequent waves of whaling crews discovered that the reptiles would provide a plentiful and long-lasting source of meat. The logbooks of whaling ships record crew members often loading tortoises by the dozens into bilges and cargo holds, including up to 100 Pinta tortoises at a time. At least two species went extinct. And by the early 1900s, American and British researchers had retrieved only a handful of live tortoises on Pinta, all of which were killed by the collectors or died en route to distant museums.
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