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JACK LONDON SQUARE: Office Condos **GREAT OPEN SPACE W/VIEWS** (oakland downtown)

283 4th Street: Allied Paper Building For Sale or Lease (Individual Commercial Condos) NOT LIVE/WORK Situated in Jack London Square, the three-story, newly renovated building is located next to the I-880/I-980 junction. Features include: * 4 Office Condominiums * Stylish lobby/mezzanine * Intercom entry system * Elevator * Public Parking lots with 2 blocks * BART and Ferry access available in the area Unit 1 - Retail or Office Space 7,312 Square foot, first floor unit with large mezzanine includes: * Street frontage with separate entrance * Considerable amount of build-outs/improvements * HVAC System * ADA compliant shower stalls in both Restrooms *On street and monthly lot parking available Unit 2 - Office Space 2,336 square foot, second floor unit includes: * High ceilings, large open space * Heating System * Large South facing windows allow natural light Please visit our website www.aegisrealty.com for more information

NY Times ' Bumiller uncritically repeated McCain camp suggestion that Palin pregnancy was disclosed "because of rumors ... on the Internet"

On the September 2 edition of MSNBC Live, New York Times Washington correspondent Elisabeth Bumiller contradicted her own paper's reporting by uncritically repeating the McCain campaign's suggestion that "because of the rumors that were on the Internet" concerning the 17-year-old pregnant daughter of Sen. John McCain's running mate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, the campaign "felt they had to get the story out" about the pregnancy. Bumiller said the McCain campaign "did not want to do it on the first day of the convention," adding that McCain "was completely off message." But Bumiller's assertion contradicts her colleague Adam Nagourney's reporting in the Times that the McCain campaign released the information about Palin's daughter's pregnancy, along with other unflattering information about the Palin family, on Labor Day because the media were focused on Hurricane Gustav and also because "the nation was busy with family and social activities." The Times quoted Tucker Eskew, a senior adviser to Palin, saying of the release of information about Palin on Labor Day: "We are going to flush the toilet." From the 1 p.m. ET hour of the September 2 edition of MSNBC Live: ANDREA MITCHELL (NBC News foreign affairs correspondent): Just yesterday, it was revealed that Palin's teen daughter, Bristol Palin, is pregnant. Then there was word that the state of Alaska had hired a private attorney for Palin to defend herself in the state ethics investigation; also that her husband had been arrested more than two decades ago on a drunken driving charge -- all of which was well known to the campaign during the vet. Elisabeth Bumiller, the Washington correspondent for The New York Times, she's written about all of this today. Elisabeth, how concerned do you think the campaign needs to be? They say they knew all of this, they went through it, and this is the person that John McCain wants with him on the ticket. Is it a lot of background noise? Is it a distraction? Does it actually help in firing up the base? BUMILLER: Well, I think it's safe to say they did not want this to happen on the first day of the Republican convention. There was a big distraction with Hurricane Gustav but they -- this was not what they had planned. They said that they were -- you know, because of the rumors that were on the Internet, that, you know, very -- what they called very vicious rumors, they felt they had to get the story out. But I can tell you they did not want to do it on the first day of the convention and certainly it's a distraction. He's completely -- was completely off message yesterday and it's spilling into today as well.

Vatican paper queries brain death

An editorial in the Vatican newspaper calls into question the concept of brain death, Frances Kennedy reports.

Road to Gold: Hamilton Sunstrand quest to achieve UTC's Ace Gold Status

by Steven Piazza, Hamilton Sunstrand (Winner Uptime Magazine PdM Program of Year Award Best Ultrasound Program for 2007) This paper will be presented at PdM-2008 - Predictive Maintenance Technology Conference and Expo The maintenance aspect of our jobs would be easy if we could have the advanced knowledge of machinery and equipment failures. By closely predicting the life cycle of parts and equipment it would be simple to schedule the repairs and the replacement of equipment and manufacturing systems. As we all know, accurate and timely scheduling team up to drive the effectiveness and efficiency of our maintenance resources. More? Read the rest of the story

Cornish Pirates 48 Newbury Blues 5

Pirates 48 Newbury Blues 5. On paper at least there is nothing to complain about after this opening day romp in the Camborne sunshine for the Pirates. Seven tries and little serious defensive work to contend with sent the decent sized crowd home happy.

Editor to defy Sudan's paper ban

The editor of one of two banned Sudanese newspapers says he will continue to publish.

Two-Ply Trouble Brewing

I've gradually come to realize that there's something going on around my workplace. Something different. Unusual. Special. In the bathroom in the office, the janitors leave bags -- I said bags! -- full of unused, unopened toilet paper in the stall. Bags full. I'm not kidding. Seriously, look: So many squares to spare. Now, think about that for a second. Recall the offices in which you've worked, and reminisce over the modus operandi of the typical cleaning staff there. If they were anything like the jani-Nazis I've encountered in my previous jobs, then they were more than slightly stingy with the sanitary supplies. You might find a square, or even a pair. But squares to spare? Squares to tear and share? Pretty freaking rare. Not so in our bathroom, my friend. In addition to the generous two rolls deployed in the industrial paper holderator device, there's this bag of extra papery goodness hanging out in reserve. Just in case. My first thought is: Damn, these are some trusting janitors. And my second: Why the hell haven't we thrown those rolls all over the stupid furniture by now? I'm pretty sure this is why we can't have nice things. Ah, well. So, when I was in the rest room this afternoon, I took a quick look in the bag. First, I made sure the stall door was shut, and no one was around. You've got to dig pretty far into the bag to pull out a roll, and the last thing I want anyone to hear from my stall is rustling. (Okay, maybe not the 'last thing'. Let's not think about that too hard, eh?) Anyway, I managed to fish out a roll, and found another surprise. Evidently, we're not only getting quantity here, we're steeping gently in quality, too. Check out this pic: Oh, yeah. That's the good stuff. First, there's the New England charm. 'HARBOR' brand bathroom tissue, with that classy picture of the lighthouse. (Unless I'm seeing it wrong, and that's not actually a lighthouse. In which case I suspect it's a lot less classy than I'm giving it credit for. Moving right along.) More impressively, we learn from the label that this plucky parcel of paper is also 'Facial Quality'. And they just leave this stuff lying around in a bag. You can almost feel the swank dripping down the bathroom walls. It started me wondering about what constitutes 'facial quality' tissue, though. Even letting sleeping entendres lie -- and who expected that sort of restraint at this point? -- I have questions. Are there grades between 'regular' toilet tissue and our obviously superior 'facial quality' class? Are less fortunate souls issued tissue only rated for, say, arms and toes? Is my 'facial quality' paper appropriate for all of my above-the-neck wiping needs? Or for that matter, any of them? I didn't have time to answer these questions this afternoon. I was busy with my hand stuck in a plastic bag, snapping cell phone pictures in the bathroom stall. As you might imagine, I didn't tarry any longer than was absolutely necessary. That's not exactly a situation you want to explain to anyone who might walk in. (Plus, I can't decide whether it helps or hurts my case that I was alone in there. Seriously, I thought about it all evening. It's a toss-up at best.) At any rate, I'm betting a few rolls of that 'HARBOR'-y goodness would look mighty fine wrapped around the machines in the copy room, or strung between the legs of all the conference room chairs. Yeah, I'm pretty sure this is definitely why we can't have nice things. C'est la vie.

Report on the Thirteenth Off-Campus Library Services Conference

I recently had the privilege of visiting Salt Lake City, Utah for a library conference. It was the Off-Campus Library Services Conference. I had a great time and really enjoyed visiting Utah. In addition to attending many great sessions, I presented a paper on publishing for librarians. It is in the conference proceedings already and I also hope to get the paper up on the Central Michigan University Digital Repository soon. I also visited some attractions in Salt Lake City such as Temple Square.I enjoyed the conference and hope to go again next time this conference is held. Here are a few PowerPoint slides from some sessions held dealing with library instruction or information literacy:Using Online Tutorials to Reduce Uncertainty in Information Seeking BehaviorVisual Tutorials for Point- of-Need Instruction in Online CoursesHow It?s Done: Examining Distance Education Library Instruction and AssessmentCreation, Management, and Assessment of Library Screencasts: The Regis Libraries Animated Tutorials ProjectInformation Literacy Successes Compared: Online vs. Face to Face

Java SE 6 Performance White Paper

This overview of performance and scalability improvements in Java Platform, Standard Edition 6 (Java SE 6) provides benchmark results that demonstrate the impact of these improvements.

Financial advisors digitise docs to please FSA

Tidying the paper trail