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Tesla uses stock note sale to repay government
DETROIT -- Electric car maker Tesla Motors says it has repaid a loan from the U.S. government nine years early.The company says it wired a $451.8 million payment to the government on Wednesday to retire a loan it received from the Department of Energy.The agency loaned Tesla $465 million in 2010 to make advanced-technology vehicles. The company used money from a $968 million sale of stock ...
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Gap board member Robert Fisher got most negative votes in annual election
Robert Fisher, Gap Clothing seller Gap Inc. held its annual meeting Tuesday, and when the votes were counted, all 10 of its board members had been comfortably re-elected, nine of them by more than 400 million votes each. But one director, Robert Fisher, who was once CEO of Gap, was elected by a much smaller margin. Robert Fisher, 58, son of Gap (NYSE: GPS) founders Doris and Donald Fisher, got ...
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Port of Long Beach Adopts Power Supply Policy
Port of Long Beach energy policy that will guide efforts for a more sustainable supply of power as demand increases.The energy policy declares that the port will implement measures to boost efficiency, conservation, resiliency and renewable energy in collaboration with port tenants, utilities, other city departments, industry stakeholders, labor unions, the Port of Los Angeles and others. It was ...
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Sensation USA coming to Miami San Francisco New York and Las Vegas
Sensation is currently inviting fans to become official club members in order to gain access to pre-sale tickets and exclusive updates. To become a club ...
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Into gaming Silicon Valley now has a masters degree for that
Fan of computer games? The University of California, Santa Cruz, is set to offer a master's degree in games and playable media at its Silicon Valley Extension campus in Santa Clara. Attention parents who insist video games are a waste of time: your kid could be getting a masters degree for knowing the ins and outs of that technology. The University of California, Santa Cruz, this week ...
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Tourist didnt die saving woman at Hawaii falls
HALEIWA, Hawaii (AP) -- Police say a California tourist who drowned at a Hawaii waterfall wasn't trying to save a woman, as was previously ...
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Liberal Democrat wins Los Angeles mayors race
1 of 2. Los Angeles mayoral candidate Eric Garcetti gestures while speaking during an election night party at the Hollywood Palladium in Hollywood, California, May 21, ...
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Yoga Lawsuit Schools Accused of Spreading Gospel
Instructor Jennifer Nicole Brown demonstrates the poses she teaches in the Encinitas schools as part of its yoga program. Opponents are suing the district to end the instruction of yoga as part of the schools' physical education ...
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Summer festivals 2013 Your guide to Bay Area fairs and outdoor fun
If it's summer, it must be time for fairs and festivals. As usual, there are myriad events to choose from, ranging from the really big shows (San Jose Jazz Festival, Outside Lands in San Francisco, Art and Soul in Oakland) to the major art and wine festivals to the street fairs that let you sample the food and ambience of neighborhoods around the Bay.Please be sure to clip and save this ...
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Bay Areas best restaurant kids meals
At a time when even school cafeterias serve adobo and sushi, it's surprising that so many restaurants still resort to chicken fingers and macaroni and cheese for their youngest clientele.Kids crave selection. Most of them like trying new foods. Meanwhile, their parents, who keep an eye on selection, nutrition and culinary diversity, look to the kids menu for appropriate portions at the ...
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Complaints filed against 4 colleges over rapes
NEW YORK (AP) - Women's-rights attorney Gloria Allred says federal complaints have been filed against four U.S. colleges over how the colleges handle rape ...
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Community Bank of the Bay sued by its former CEO Brian Garrett
Brian Garrett for wrongful termination. In a suit filed in Alameda County Superior Court on April 19, Garrett alleges that he was terminated without cause, citing age discrimination, disability discrimination, retaliation for opposing sexual harassment and negligence. Garrett, a prominent Bay Area bank executive, said in the suit he was ousted as CEO at Community Bank of the Bay on or about ...
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Tesla pays back DOE loan with proceeds from follow-on
Tesla Motors said today it paid back the $451.8 million Department of Energy loan -- wiring the money today. Just last week, Tesla raised about $1 billion in debt and equity, with the intention of paying off the loan. The early payoff lets Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA) avoid future interest payments on the outstanding loan balance, not to mention any more negative criticism that the company is feeding ...
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Red Cross Bay Area names new CEO
American Red Cross Bay Area Chapter. Cloutier will leave his position as program director for public policy, community health and civic engagement at the San Francisco Foundation, where he served for two years. Before that, he was a principal at Sellers Dorsey, a health care consulting company, and former CEO of the San Francisco AIDS Foundation. Cloutier has a bachelor's degree in ...
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Conway plans hackathon on guns mental health and school safety
Ron Conway is planning to host an invite-only hackathon next month in San Francisco that will focus on guns, mental health and school safety. The Highground Hackathon is scheduled for June 8th at 645 Harrison Street in the new offices of Twilio, a provider of telecommunications services like voice calling and text messaging that integrate with software programs. The event is sponsored ...
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5 reasons why the VA will move to Mission Bay — and why it probably wont
Mission Bay seems like such a simple move for the VA Medical Center and its productive research operations. But let's face it: This is a government agency in a city where it's tough to do much of anything construction-wise. Nothing is easy. As the VA in the coming weeks gets a closer look at a Bay Area Council Economics Institute study on where the medical center could move -- and ...
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The Damneds San Diego Pinch
The Damned . A San Diego resident for more than a decade, the drummer -- known professionally as Pinch -- has been a member of the pioneering English punk-rock group since ...
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Boy achieves family dream with geography bee win
The games paid off when Karthik, now 15, made the finals of the National Geographic Bee in 2011 and 2012. But it was 12-year-old Sathwik, of Plainville, Mass., who finished the job, calmly answering questions about obscure island chains, bodies of water, global trade and culture to win the 25th annual geography bee ...
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Garcetti elected LA mayor after promising jobs
Los Angeles Mayoral candidate Eric Garcetti arrives for an election night rally Tuesday, May 21, 2013 in the Hollywood area Los Angels. Garcetti defeated Controller Wendy Greuel to become next mayor of Los Angeles after a campaign in which he depicted his rival a pawn of powerful labor bosses. (AP Photo/Chris ...
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Details in Oakland teen slayings revealed
OAKLAND, Calif. -; A witness says the fatal shootings of two teenage girls on a street in Oakland last year was sparked by a dispute over a ...
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Snacking deputys crash costs Santa Clara Co. $5M
SAN JOSE, Calif. -; Santa Clara County is on the hook for a $5 million settlement in a crash involving a sheriff's deputy who allegedly took his eyes off the road while eating a McDonald's hamburger, a newspaper ...
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82 Years of the Arlington Theatre in Santa Barbara
and the name has been embedded in the history of Santa Barbara. Michael Redmon, Director of Research at the Santa Barbara Historical Museum, provides a look ...
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What makes Sacramento such a hot real estate market
Sacramento's residential real estate market is one of the hottest in the country thanks to low inventory, high demand and potential for appreciation. More than half of all homes that went on the market in Sacramento had a pending sale within two weeks in April. All the listed reasons low inventory, high demand, potential for appreciation make Sacramento not just one of the hottest, but ...
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HPs slumps deepens in 2Q as earnings fall 32 pct
SAN FRANCISCO -- Hewlett-Packard's slump is deepening as the world's largest personal computer maker scrambles to meet the growing demand for more versatile and less expensive mobile devices.A quarterly earnings report released Wednesday provided the evidence of Hewlett-Packard Co.'s deteriorating condition.The results included the seventh consecutive decline in HP's ...
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Cal State trustees appoint 5 campus presidents
The university's Board of Trustees announced Wednesday that it had approved a round of presidential appointments. Three of the positions were filled by administrators who have held the posts on an interim basis since last year, while two went to officials working at different campuses from the ones where they will hold the top ...
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California prison labor?
California has a famously large budget deficit, budget cuts are being made to a number of state programs and services, but what hasn’t been considered is the cost avoidance potential of the state’s over 40,000 minimum-security prisoner’s, many of whom are already saving the state money by providing labor in return for shorter sentences.
With California budget deficit expected to be somewhere between $12 billion or as high as $25 billion for 2010 alone, state legislators have been anxiously looking for ways to reduce state expenses, cutting budgets wherever possible, but already existing programs operated by the state may present an opportunity for cost-savings in the areas of construction, services and maintenance of buildings and amenities. Read more
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