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Ruth Rice sits in her library at her home in Greeley on Tuesday with one of her word-puzzle books. Rice was a teacher at Fort Lupton Middle School for 21 years, teaching mostly English and Social Studies. She has published 80 word-puzzle books in her lifetime. Her first puzzle was about Egypt in the shape of a pyramid, for one of her classes. Other teachers liked it so much she decided to publish her first book in 1966.
BRET HARTMAN / bhartman@greeleytribune.com
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Cheap and easy fix to Raiders' woes
But you know how the anonymity of the Web world works; that stuff easily could be a Broncos-Chiefs conspiracy to bring down one of the great sports owners of our time, and our parents', grandparents' and, eventually, our grandchildren's. Al will be around forever, unmoved by age, reason or power of attorney. So why not have him where he really belongs? We all know he could do better than Kiffin, who seems to think that being an NFL head coach means having real authority. The nerve of the guy. If Davis, as the Raiders insist, isn't trying to force out Kiffin, he should be. The owner can't let another season go by without asserting himself. If Davis had been the coach in 2007, Randy Moss would have been reaching for the Oakland skies, instead of soaring to the Super Bowl with the Patriots.
Hardware AMD Resurrects K8 Architecture for 2008 Roadmap
Things at AMD may have gone from bad to worse with the lackluster Phenom launch in late November. Not only did Phenom fail to appeal to professional reviewers, but the company ended up removing one third of its CPU lineup just after the big day. Last week AMD CEO Hector Ruiz vowed that the company would stop hemorrhaging cash and return to profitability soon. "That is our number one goal right now," Ruiz said in a conference in Bangalore. Making a profit at AMD apparently means refocusing on its older K8 architecture. The company will introduce eleven 65nm K8 processors over the next two quarters. By comparison: AMD launched two quad-core K10 Phenom processors in November with three more scheduled over the next two quarters. Two tri-core Phenom processors will follow in March 2008.
COMMENT: Creative minority —Salman Tarik Kureshi
This is where the political parties should have come in: to provide the dynamic link between this genuinely creative minority and the people in general. But they have not. They remain mired in sterile slogans, outmoded methods and tried-and-disproved solutions
Change, concluded the great historian Arnold Toynbee, is never brought about by the majority, but by a creative minority. This is another way of saying that the majority, the people or awam, are an inertial mass, a silent majority that is silent precisely because it has little to say. The people, in this view, are passive actors on the historical stage who require someone dynamic to appear and drive them into action, whether constructive or destructive. Shakespeare understood this well and, in his Julius Caesar, we witness the otherwise apathetic people of Rome stirred to countervailing political emotions, first by Caesar himself, then Brutus and then, climactically, by Antony, when Judgement...(is) fled to brutish beasts and men have lost their reason.
The PokerNews Interview: T6 Poker's Torben Hubertz
Among the newest online poker sites to make its presence known is T6 Poker. Under the leadership of its founder, Torben Hubertz, T6 Poker has quickly jumped from the gate, offering a specialized lineup of games catering to a young, aggressive player base. PokerNews sat down with Hubertz for a founder's-eye peek into one of the freshest poker sites on the Web: PokerNews: Let's start with you. Tell us a little about your background. Torben Hubertz: I am 31 years old. I worked several years in the insurance industry as an insurance advisor. I have always been an entrepreneur. I have several businesses within the IT sector - development, security, .
Don't like car names? 2BAD
Last November, Mark Fields, Ford Motor Co.'s executive vice president, took the stage at the L.A. Auto Show. He was there, he told the standing-room-only audience, "to show you our new flagship sedan, the Lincoln MKX."
Oops. Fields quickly corrected himself because he wasn't introducing the MKX, a luxury sport utility vehicle, but the MKS, a luxury sedan that will come out this summer. The gaffe wasn't surprising, considering that Lincoln also produces the MKZ, has a concept car called the MKR and is set to debut the MKT, another concept car, in Detroit this month.
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Fenwick sale sets stage for condo conversion
A local investment group has closed on a Johns Island apartment complex, allowing them to complete the first condo conversion the Charleston area has seen in a while. The Grove at Fenwick Hall Plantation sold to St. Andrews Garden Investors in December for $9 million. The complex, which is located off River Road, recorded its first closings earlier this month. The transaction shows that the investment group is still confident in the local real estate market despite slowing home sales, said developer Jamie Kerr. "We closed on the deal because we still feel like real estate around here is good," he said. After at least eight months of marketing, the group has about 20 of the 80 total units either under contract or sold, he added. Most condos are priced at about $144,000.
Technology: TriAccess, Calix in the middle of ‘triple-play’ battle
Two North Bay telecom equipment companies are supplying radio-frequency components for the latest electronic communications systems for both cable and telecommunications companies.
TriAccess Technologies makes tiny radio frequency amplifiers that amplify the video signal delivered to the home or plant by fiber-optic cable.
The Santa Rosa-based company has just released a new product that can be used either in the home or neighborhood hub to speed video traffic for cable companies.
In 2008, a significant portion of our revenues will come from cable companies, said TriAccess President and Chief Technology Officer Chris Day. The company is positioned to serve both the telecom and cable industries as they battle to be the main provider of the triple play: voice, video and data.
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