Google announced on Monday morning that it will acquire Motorola Mobility for $12.5 billion — a 63% premium on what the smartphone maker’s shares closed at on Friday.
The acquisition, Google said in a a statement, “will enable Google to supercharge the Android ecosystem.” The company will continue to be run as a separate business.
Buying a hardware company is an unusual move for Google.
More to come…
Breaking News Update: The painting has been found. In Encino, at a church.
A briefing was held at Marina Del Rey Sheriff station.
Rembrandt van Rijn’s drawing “The Judgment” dates to about 1655. The 11-by-6-inch art work is valued at more than $250,000.
The small pen-and-ink drawing, valued at more than $250,000, was taken from the Ritz-Carlton Marina del Rey during an exhibit Saturday night. Los Angeles County sheriff’s investigators said a man working with accomplices is believed responsible.
One was stolen at the Marina Del Rey Ritz Carlton.
Sheriff’s Department investigators suspect the thief had accomplices. (www.linearisinstitute.org / August 15, 2011)
81 Rembrandt documents paintings have been stolen in the past 100 years.
There are about 700 surviving drawings that experts agree to be Rembrandt’s work
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2011 AltCar Expo Event Registration
AltCar Expo 2011 Sept 30- Oct 1, 2011 Santa Monica 6th Annual
Thank you for registering to attend the 6th Annual AltCar Expo to be held Friday, September 30th & Saturday, October 1st from 10:00 am – 5:00 pm at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium.
Santa Monica Civic Auditorium
1855 Main Street
Santa Monica, CA 90401-3209
310-458-8551For program scheduling and expo updates please visit our website at:
There is no charge to attend the Expo other than the $9 parking fee if you choose to use the Civic parking lot. We encourage you to pre-register to allow fast entry into the Expo and AltCar programming.
We do not share your information with anyone. You will receive a confirmation upon submission.
- AltCar Exhibit Hall provides one of the most extensive presentations of Alternative technology vehicles and transportation, infrastructure, renewable energies, energy efficiency and urban planning found worldwide. FREE ADMISSION
- AltCar Ride & Drive Area offers a rare hands-on experience with all technologies. FREE ADMISSION
- Focus on Fleets Conference supplies the Fleet Industry with the cutting edge information on funding, alternative vehicle technology and availability, infrastructure and more. PRE-REGISTRATION REQUIRED
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Venue
Santa Monica Civic Auditorium
1855 Main Street
Santa Monica, CA 90401-3209
310-458-8551
www.santamonicacivic.org
Parking is $9.00
Dropbox Valued at $6 Billion, YES. – Is DotCom 2.0 Bubble Building?
Congratulations to the founders of DropBox the must be all smiles all the way to the bank. Drew Houston and Arash Ferdowsi.
Dropbox was founded in 2007 by Drew Houston and Arash Ferdowsi. Frustrated by working from multiple computers, Drew was inspired to create a service that would let people access their files.
Dropbox
760 Market St #1150
San Francisco, CA 94102
Always have your stuff when you need it with @Dropbox. 2GB account is free!
Seeds from Seeds of Change, Botanical Interests, Renee’s Garden, J. L. Hudson Seedsman, and Baker Creek Seeds.
Baker Creek is a very cool business and I love supporting them. https://rareseeds.com/
Seed potatoes and seed garlic from Irish Eyes. https://www.irisheyesgardenseeds.com/
Tend to order later than I should, when it comes to rare stuff I buy them from whoever still has them in stock.
www.horizonherbs.com rare and unique herbal stuff, but also food/medicine and food plants. fantastic folks.
Seed Savers Exchange (https://seedsavers.org/).
You can buy seeds from the Home Farm catalog on the website. Or, if you’re fascination with heirlooms runs really deep, you can join Seed Savers Exchange to have access to the Yearbook, a 500+ page catalog in which listed members share their oftentimes extremely rare varieties. When you order from the yearbook, you order directly from the grower of the variety. As a listed member (sell through the yearbook), and have had a lot of fun sharing some unusual varieties with people throughout the world.
Also, favorite plants have come from seeds/garlic ordered through the yearbook. the yearbook also has scionwood listings–there are at least 250 apple varieties available.
Update: As of Monday AM, 5 deaths and 40 injuries reported.
The stage at the Indiana State Fair collapsed due to heavy winds from a storm system moving into the area. Dozens reported injured.
Sugarland Concert Indiana State Fair
– Bluesfest stage collapse
BevMo Wine Special $6.99 – 2009 Beringer Founder’s Estate Pinot Noir
Beringer Pinot Noir Founders’ Estate ’09 (750 ML)
Regular Price: $7.99 ClubBev: $6.99
“Every day I drive past an AT&T billboard that says, “We cover 97% of the US”. It doesn’t say what they cover it with. My guess would be bullshit. I should take a picture and send it to the FCC and tell them they already claim to cover 97%.”
For the last several months I have been printing and a streak is appearing on the print out. It appeared to be the yellow toner that was not making it on the paper. So you could see the voice of yellow on a 4 color image.
Today I decided to try and figure out what was going on. I looked online for the best way to take apart the various components of the printer related to the fusion and toner and paper path. I started by opening the cover where the toner cartridges are located and replaced two that have been low for sometime, I had ordered them a while back and replaced them, cyan and yellow. So all cartridges 50% or more.
I removed the right side cover then removed the waster toner bottle, then the imaging unit and began to pull up the separate color assemblies and discovered this piece of plastic inside, what in the world is this?
On the mold it reads at least what I can read:
>ABS<
C.1
and there is nothing else. This piece of plastic was preventing the yellow toner from getting to the roller to print on the paper.
How could this piece break off inside the printer? What type of workmanship is used to construct a printer that would end up with a broken piece of plastic inside of a roller?
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