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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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Hollywood Sentinel New Issue Features Art Worlds Most Powerful Jeffrey Deitch
The new issue of The Hollywood Sentinel launched this weekend, featuring Bruce Edwin's exclusive interview with MOCA Director Jeffrey Deitch. MOCA, The Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, is headed by Mr. Deitch, who is considered by many to be the most powerful person in the world of art today. Known as a tough, yet brilliant dealer, Mr. Deitch helped raise the value of his ...
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Hotel group rates up 30 percent and meeting planners arent happy
As I reported last month , San Francisco's popularity is squeezing the city's limited room supply, giving hotels the upper hand when negotiating average daily room rates. While meeting planners expressed frustration that rates are slightly up, hotels argued that rates are still a bargain compared to other big cities such as New York or Las Vegas. But at a hotel industry panel meeting ...
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Top 5 Insurance Brokerages in the Bay Area
2012 Bay Area premium volume: $770,000,000 Bay Area agents: 64 Top Bay Area executive: Michael Korn, managing principal, SF office ...
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SuccessFactors founder Lars Dalgaard to leave SAP AG
Lars Dalgaard, founder of SuccessFactors Inc., will leave SAP AG to become an investor as part of an organizational overhaul, stepping down from the German software giant's executive board on June 1. Dalgaard was appointed to SAP's executive board in April 2012 following its $3.4 billion acquisition of SuccessFactors. He will continue to be an adviser to the Walldorf, Germany-based ...
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San Francisco man celebrating birthday shot in downtown Oakland robbery
OAKLAND -- A San Francisco man in downtown Oakland to celebrate his 29th birthday was shot early Friday during a robbery after leaving a nightclub, police said.The suspects did not take anything from the man but did rob a woman with him of her jacket, police said.The man, whose name was not released, was in critical but stable condition with a wound to the lower torso. He is expected to ...
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Dead harbor porpoise reported in Long Beach
Animals on the loose on LI, in NY A dead harbor porpoise was discovered early Friday on the sand near Lafayette Boulevard in Long Beach, officials said. A spokesman for The Riverhead Foundation for Marine Research and Preservation said the organization will attempt to recover the carcass and perform a necropsy -- to determine how the mammal died.A harbor porpoise is one of six species of ...
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How to lighten your backpack load while hiking and backpacking in Los Angeles
Los Angeles and the surrounding areas offer beautiful places to hike. The Sierra Mountains are unsurpassed in beauty and the deserts are uniquely breathtaking. But enjoying a hike or backpacking trip depends on how heavy your backpack weighs. Here are some ways to lighten your ...
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Californias health insurance exchange releases first real information
released information regarding which carriers will be participating in the individual plan offerings. Also shared were some rudimentary rates, with more information to ...
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Los Angeles Kings vs San Jose Sharks Live Stream Free Watch Online Stanley Cup Playoffs Game 5 Hockey
San Jose Sharks' Logan Couture (39) reacts after scoring the game-winning goal against Los Angeles Kings in the overtime period during Game 3 of their NHL Western Conference semifinal playoff hockey game in San Jose, California, May 18, 2013. Los Angeles Kings vs San Jose Sharks takes place in the Stanley Cup Playoffs Game 5 on Thursday night with the series all square at 2-2 and everything ...
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5.7-magnitude quake shakes Northern California no reports of injuries
GREENVILLE, Calif. -- A magnitude 5.7 earthquake was widely felt as it rattled Northern California on Thursday night, breaking dishes and shaking mirrors off walls. But authorities said there were no immediate reports of injury or serious damage.The temblor struck at 8:47 p.m. and was centred near Greenville, about 40 kilometres southwest of Susanville in far northeastern California, said Rafael ...
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SoCal schools ex-PTA head charged with theft
JURUPA VALLEY, Calif. (AP) -- The former president of a local Southern California PTA has been charged with grand theft for allegedly stealing $20,000 raised from children's candy bar ...
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Anchorman 2 Filming in San Diego
Park officials confirmed that Will Ferrell and co. are filming at the popular San Diego tourist destination. No area of the park is closed off, so the likelihood of you seeing some of the cast is very ...
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LAX gets a facelift
Los Angeles International Airport has decided to go under the knife again; the sixth busiest airport in the world is in the final stages of a multi-million dollar face lift of its international terminal, aimed at bringing the airport back up to world class standards in design and service and now there is talk of even further redevelopment for the domestic terminals as well.
LAX was once considered a pioneering facility in the early days of the jet age, the famous Theme Building, built to resemble a flying saucer that has just landed is testament to this period of advancement and modernism. The building features a circular restaurant below four concentric spider-like legs, in-keeping with the space-age theme of the building, this restaurant is called Encounters. Read more
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