TEMPE, Ariz. (AP) — The Arizona Cardinals, for decades the laughingstock of the NFL, find themselves in the running for the services of one of the games greatest quarterbacks. Peyton Manning spent nearly 6½ hours at the Arizona Cardinals headquarters and training facility yesterday in meetings designed to lure the superstar to the desert. The session followed a meeting of nearly six hours Manning had at the Broncos facility in Denver on Friday night. The two sessions were evidence that, [...]
Daily Archives: March 25, 2012
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DeFazio timber bill slights water quality, recreation, salmon
By Michael C. Blumm Rep. Peter DeFazio is a visionary concerning the nations crumbling infrastructure, especially its transportation system. And he is, for the most part, a dependable environmental steward. But his bill, co-sponsored with Congressmen Kurt Schrader and Greg Walden, that would authorize selective logging of western Oregon forests would be catastrophic for water quality, recreation and salmon strongholds. DeFazio told the Portland City Club on March 9 that his bill would prevent a number of Oregon counties from [...]
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Gates recreation to offer sign language for babies
The Gates Recreation and Parks Department will offer a sign language class for babies ages six months to 2 years old and an accompanying adult. Classes will run from 6:30 to 7 pm on Tuesdays, April 17 through May 15. Songs, books and other activities will be used to teach participants how to do simple American Sign Language. Certified instructor Linda Schmackpfeffer will lead the class. Registration is required and the class costs $45 per adult-child pair. Contact the Recreation [...]
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Dilip Sardesai: The renaissance man of Indian cricket
Cricketers love affairs have always been much talked about, but a most remarkable story has gone untold. It was the 1962 Caribbean tour, but Dilip Sardesais mind was in Baroda. Every single day, he sat to write a letter to a seventeen-year-old girl he had fallen in love with. In Baroda, Nandini Pant anxiously waited for his letter and wrote back to him. Since she was always scared that her parents would come to know, she convinced a clerk in [...]
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NetSocket Appoints Enterprise Communications Expert as Chief Technology …
PLANO, Texas, Mar 19, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) – NetSocket, the leading supplier of real-time cloud service assurance solutions, today announced that enterprise voice communications and IT networking expert Richard Platt has joined the company as chief technology officer and vice president of engineering. He will be responsible for establishing NetSocket’s technological vision and leading all aspects of the company’s technology development. Platt possesses more than 25 years’ experience developing communications and networking technologies for both startups and Fortune 100 companies. [...]
