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Company continues to build a large F&B platform with Series C funding.
SHANGHAI, Nov. 9, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- YPX Cayman Holdings Co., Ltd. (http://www.ypxfood.com) announced today the closing of its third round of fundraising of US $ 11.5 million, which bring the total financing raised in the last two months to US $18 million. LionRock Capital served as the lead investor for the latest financing round, with follow-on investments from Qiming Venture Partners, and Ignition Capital. YPX has also recently received additional equity funding from Mitsui Global Ventures, Hotung Venture, and renowned entrepreneurs such as former DBS Bank and Singapore Airlines Chairman Mr. Koh Boon Hwee and Nasdaq-listed 51Job.com founders Mr. Norman Lui and Mr. Michael Feng Yunlei. In addition, YPX also secured a US $ 2.5 million venture debt financing from Western Technology Investment, a Silicon Valley based firm that financed Facebook and Google in their very early days. With this fresh funding, YPX Cayman will quickly open more stores within the Eastern and Northern parts of China; keeping close to its strategy of building a large fast casual food and beverage (F&B) chain platform.
YPX built its first store in Dec 2010, and ever since then, the Company has been growing rapidly. During this time, YPX has also invested heavily in its operational infrastructure, IT systems and human resources in order to achieve a sustainable and healthy growth. By end of 2012 YPX will have 30 Cloud 9 stores in Shanghai, Hangzhou, Nanjing, Changzhou, Hefei, Beijing and Tianjin. Key factors in being able to achieve this growth are due to YPX's simplicity in execution, scientific approach to menu engineering, and high quality of employee training. Over the next 2 years, YPX aims to open at least another 90 stores throughout China, and become one of the fastest growing quick service restaurant brands in China.
"With this new round of funding, YPX is now poised to take on a larger territory in China. Our goal is to open in territories that we never could have gotten into earlier. With the internal economy still growing and consumers are gravitating towards more value-for-money food fare, we want to take advantage of current tail wind. As we grow, we have to strengthen our infrastructure such as IT, Training, Product Development and hiring of more talents. No chain store business can grow profitably without a solid infrastructure and a good pool of talents. Ultimately, our objective is to provide good value food that is fresh, safe and tasty at a very affordable price proposition. There should be No Bad Meal each time you eat in Cloud 9. And that in turn will build a sustainable business that eventually will provide great returns to our investors and employees. Our focus is on our staff members. Each one is a family member and will be treated as such. We want to be known to be an employer of choice in China, one that provides the best salaries and benefits and also the best environment. In YPX, we award stock options to our employees, our staff members come first. Only then can they take very good care of our valued customers," said YPX Cayman Founder and Chief Executive Officer Chris Tay.
Mr. Daniel Tseung, Managing Director of LionRock Capital, said: "LionRock Capital is pleased to lead this latest round of financing for YPX. LionRock is impressed not only by YPX's rapid growth, but also by the company's talented senior management team, who each have over 20 years of experience in the Greater China food & beverage industry. With its excellent quality but highly affordable food offerings and increasing popularity with Chinese consumers, YPX is well-positioned to establish itself as a leader in the rapidly-growing Chinese F&B industry. Combined with financial support, LionRock Capital will also provide YPX with access to its extensive network of leading entrepreneurs who will assist in further accelerating YPX's strong rapid growth."
Mr. Hans Tung, Managing Partner of Qiming Venture Partners Beijing office and Vice Chairman of YPX Cayman, said: "We are the first investor who backed Chris and co-developed the concept of YPX from Day 1 and have invested in every round since. We believe in Chris and his team to build a "platform company" in a traditional restaurant business. I think YPX has a chance to accomplish something special and one that is disruptive in the F&B world, just as my other investments in Xiaomi has done for smartphone and VANCL for fashion apparel. Chris is an extraordinary entrepreneur and has recruited and built an incredible team."
John Zagula, MD of Ignition says, "With so much of China's future growth being led by consumers, we consider ourselves very privileged to invest in a team with the leadership, experience and operating philosophy needed to meet the growing demands of such consumers in their category. And we are doubly privileged to have been able to invest alongside such prestigious and strategically value-added investors."
Mr. Koh Boon Hwee, an angel investor from Singapore, and over the course of his career led many public and private companies, says: "China's domestic economy is transforming rapidly, and my investment in YPX Cayman gives me a ringside seat in witnessing the rise of domestic consumption in this huge country. I am confident that YPX Cayman will build out its network of restaurants with this new round of funding."
David Tso, Vice President of Hotung, says: "Hotung invested in YPX since 2011 and have made a follow-on investment this year as a vote of confidence. As China's QSR (quick service restaurant) / FCR (fast casual restaurant) market is huge, YPX will enjoy an amazing growth potential via its proven model for profitability and scalability in the years to come. We are very impressed by YPX's professional management system. And combined with a very experienced international and transparent management team, YPX has achieved all these in just 2 years; sort of a record. Looking forward, we are confident that YPX will catch up with its peers and become the market leader in the China QSR/FCR market."
Mr. Shunsuke Masaki, Head of Consumer Investment, Mitsui Global Investment, added: "By seeing rapid change of urban lifestyle in China, I am confident that the demand on high quality retail services will keep growing in the future. YPX's management team has already proved its ability to address such demand by delivering a number of innovations. This can't be done without its operational acumen and tireless efforts."
Maurice Werdegar, Managing Director of Western Technology Investment, says: "We are excited to be working with YPX. The team's proven ability to create value in the F&B market gave us confidence in the YPX concept and we look forward to helping them grow into a successful company."
About YPX Cayman Holdings Co., Ltd.
Founded in Shanghai in 2010, YPX Cayman focuses on the management of casual (F&B) chain in China. CLOUD 9, the company's first brand, mainly focuses on the Taiwanese casual F&B and snacks segment. The brand now has more than 30 stores in Shanghai, Beijing, Tianjin, Hangzhou, Nanjing, Changzhou, Hefei etc., and continues to open new stores in China. The company's management team, with a combined of over 80 years of experience in the F&B chain management, continuously improves their standard and management level, valuing quality as their first goal. The company aims to establish a large platform in the casual F&B chain in China.
About LionRock Capital
LionRock Capital provides strategic, financial, and corporate governance support for growth stage companies in Greater China. LionRock is supported by some of the world's most successful entrepreneurs and family organizations, who also serve as valuable resources for LionRock's investee companies and investment partners.
LionRock seeks to build active, value-added, long-term relationships with company management teams and investors. LionRock's Managing Directors & Senior Advisors are internationally recognized leaders in business, investment, and corporate governance. LionRock's team of seasoned Asian professionals have a demonstrated track record of successfully helping management teams build & develop their businesses in Greater China and beyond."
About Qiming Venture Partners
With offices in Shanghai, Beijing and Hong Kong as well as the Seattle, Qiming Venture Partners manages funds exceeding US$1 billion and is dedicated to investing in the high-growth promising enterprises in China. The company invested and successfully nurtured these companies to IPO: Jiayuan, ChinaCache, Taomee, Tiger Medical and Leo Pharmaceutical. It has investments also in category leaders like VANCL, Xiaomi Mobile, eHi Car Rental, Forgame, Jiayuan, PPS TV, Dianping, Mougujie, AllTech Medical, Gan & Lee Pharmaceutical, and Arrail Dental.
About Ignition Capital
Ignition Capital is the growth equity arm of a $2.5 billion global fund group which provides emerging industry leaders the investment and operations support to help them reach their long-term potential, in the technology, communications, consumer and healthcare sectors. Over the last 12 years, we've been honored to work with a broad array of companies that have become market leaders in technology, telecommunications, consumer services and healthcare. We have seen our companies deal with difficult economic situations, grow dramatically and either become public companies or get sold to larger market leaders.
About Mitsui Global Investment
Mitsui Global Investment, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Mitsui, focuses on investing in high growth enterprises worldwide. Headquartered in Tokyo, the company has set up offices in Beijing, Shanghai, Silicon Valley and New York and has built a network covering Japan, the US and China. With its global network and resources, Mitsui Global Investment helps its portfolios expand in overseas markets by providing them with strong cross-sector, cross-border support. Mitsui Global Investment's investments in China include iSoftStone, Prudent Energy and Ftuan.
About Hotung Venture Capital
Hotung Investment Holdings Ltd, a venture capital firm with operations in Taiwan, the US and China, was incorporated in March 1997 and has been listed on the Main Board of SGX-ST since August 1997. It is the first and only Taiwan venture capital firm listed on the Singapore Exchange.
About Mr. Koh Boon Hwee
Koh Boon Hwee, DUBC, holds a first class honours degree in mechanical engineering from the Imperial College of Science and Technology, University of London, and an MBA (Distinction) from the Harvard Business School. He is also an alumnus of St Andrew's School.Koh was appointed Chairman of the Singapore Telecom Group in 1986 and then joined the Singapore Airlines board in March 2001.Among other board appointments, Koh served as Chairman of the SIA Engineering Company; a Director of Agilent TechnologiesInc, [Four Soft Ltd] and Norelco UMS Holdings Limited; Executive Director of Media Ring Limited and Tech Group Asia Limited. He serves on the boards of several private companies, including Temasek Holdings (Private) Limited as a Director; AAC Acoustic Technologies Holdings Ltd and Infiniti Solutions Private Limited. He is also a Council Member of the Singapore Business Federation.
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by Kyle Scott | Posted June 08, 2012
Now that Governor Scott Walker has won the recall election, Wisconsin is pushing through the education reforms that were part of his 2010 legislative agenda. Like most education reform initiatives, Wisconsin's contains some form of merit-based teacher pay and a voucher system. Indiana has proposed similar reforms, and Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal and New Jersey Governor Chris Christie have made national headlines with education reform plans that in some ways resemble Wisconsin's.
The proposals are pushed by Republicans who tout them as free-market solutions to the education problem in their respective states. But what they don't say, or perhaps don't see, about their proposals may make the system worse than the one we have.
Teachers object to having their pay tied to student performance. But this is what happens all across the private sector. If a manager's employees are not doing what the company demands, the manager will be replaced. Likewise, if a high school coach's team doesn't win enough games, the coach will be replaced. Teachers must be held accountable if their students are not learning, and be rewarded if they are. It is time they were held to the same standard as everyone else.
The practical problem isn't whether teachers should be assessed, but how they should be assessed. Yet that means there's still a problem.
Standardized tests are the primary measure by which we judge a student's level of achievement, and changing our measure of achievement must be among the first reforms enacted. Standardized testing prohibits experiential learning and diminishes the value of differentiated instruction. As an educator, I have found that certain topics are more attractive to students than other subjects, and those topics change from year to year and class to class. For instance, in 2001 my ninth-grade world history class we dedicated significantly more time to world religions, particularly Islam, than had originally been planned — because of what happened on 9/11. Had there been a standardized history exam I would never have been able to capitalize on the students' interest, and we all would have missed out on a teachable moment.
So whatever measure states use to evaluate teachers must not limit their flexibility or autonomy. This goal is doubly difficult to achieve, however, when government enters the picture, even in the form of a school voucher system.
Supporters of school choice ground their argument in free-market principles. Opponents object that tax dollars will be siphoned away from already cash-strapped schools. The reply is: "If you want the money, you must earn it." Where there is a monopoly, providers become inefficient and weak. Where there is competition, we see innovation and greater progress. A school voucher program works to break the monopoly to allow free market mechanisms to enter the education system. Ironically, however, it is the government that is seeking to instill this aspect of the free market.
We should be wary of that. If the government begins, indirectly, to fund private schools through vouchers, the schools will not have to be as competitive when trying to secure funding either from student tuition or from donors.
Any time government takes action there are unintended consequences, and there are at least two educational consequences that we can see looming on the horizon already. The first is an undermining of free market principles. The second is the opportunity for government to regulate private schools, with vouchers being construed as funded mandates. If private schools begin to depend on indirect government funding, then the government can gain leverage over what these schools teach and how they teach it.
There is no easy solution to our education problems. Problems with education have been documented for more than two millennia. No reform or policy will be the final solution, for education is a process, and improving it should be seen in the same way. Which is why, in the end, we should advocate reforms that promote the greatest amount of flexibility and accountability.
Kyle Scott, Ph.D., teaches political science at the University of Houston and is an elected member of the Board of Trustees for the Lone Star College System. Kyle's most recent book is Federalist Papers: A Reader's Guide. His commentary on current events has appeared in Forbes, Reuters.com, the Christian Science Monitor, Foxnews.com, the Huffington Post, and dozens of local outlets. He can be contacted at email@example.com.
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Although there is much to be commended in your brief article on education reform, I must take exception to the comparison you made between teacher evaluation and manager evaluation. Even though a manager's job evaluation and retention are often dependent upon his underlings' performance, it must be remembered those employees are paid to follow the manager's instruction and can be fired or demoted if they fail to do so. On the other hand, a teacher's students are coerced to attend class and the teacher cannot expel them for poor academic performance. Yes, in a sense, they can be demoted with a failing grade, or even held back from advancing to the next grade, if they fail to master a teacher's instruction. This, however, does not have the same detrimental effect on a child as job loss or demotion has on an adult worker. In other words, a manager has a great deal more leverage over his employees' job performance than a teacher has over his students' academic performance. Yes, there needs to be a relatively objective evaluation method for teachers, but standardized testing lacks validity as such a measure. It may assess a student's mastery of skills and content, but that is NOT a direct reflection of the quality of a teacher's instruction in the classroom.
Thu, 2012-06-21 13:20
Unfortunately, most conservatives and even some Libertarians are afraid to speak publicly about ending State run education. Yes, the poor will pay less for education, just as they pay less for clothing, transportation, housing, travel, and just about every other aspect of life. That's what poor is all about: affording less with fewer resources.
It's the same problem we face with healthcare. We need to allow the poor to buy second or even third world healthcare. But the politicians and the medical establishment will have none of it. They want to give everyone a Cadillac, not a Chevy or an old beat up Ford for Gawd's sake.
With education we should immediately begin charging tuition at all public schools, increasing the amount yearly and reducing taxes as we go. Soon, all schools would be privatized. The good teachers would command the highest tuitions and new competition would develop for each socioeconomic group. It's freedom; it's messy! Get on with it and don't come up with plans that evade the real issues.
Tue, 2012-06-12 03:27
Jon Harrison
I wouldn't worry too much about violating free market principles in the public schools if in return we could get better educated students. But I think the decline is US public education is probably irreversible.
Voucher programs and charter schools are helpful; they put pressure on the public system to produce results. I couldn't agree with you more about the downside of standardized testing, but how do we measure basic skills without it? Standardized testing was instituted nationwide because public schools were graduating kids who couldn't read or write and were sorely lacking math and science skills. Something had to be done to establish standards and measure performance, and in a mass public system that meant some form of standardized testing.
When I was growing up the US public school system was among the best in the world. Recently I've had a child go through five years of public school (I've home-schooled her the last two years). In addition I spent a couple of years in a sixth-grade classroom as a volunteer writing coach. In my view the system simply does not perform as well as it once did. Why is that?
I place considerable blame on the home. The widespread breakdown of family structures since the 1960s has taken a toll on the educational process, which to be successful must have a home as well as a school component. Add to that the explosion of electronic media, which has unquestionably played a part in dumbing-down our children. Kids today spend far too much time passively watching something on TV or online or else interacting at a relatively low mental level with video games and social websites. In the old days much of the time now wasted on this stuff was used for reading or real conversation.
Teaching is no longer a vocation but a job. And not a very well-paying a job, either. In general the best and brightest do not go into teaching (there are exceptions, of course). Perhaps they never did, but it seems to me that teachers were brighter in my day. Combine this with the terrible effects of 1) unionizing teachers and 2) federalizing education and you have, I think, the recipe for the disaster American public education has become. I believe it's no coincidence that test scores went into decline just as unionization and federal intervention entered American public education.
On a brighter note, I would venture to say that the smartest kids are just as intelligent if not more so than in the past. These kids are the products of strong families that value education for its own sake, and most of them attend decent public or private schools. It's the second and third tiers of students that have fallen off dramatically in knowledge and achievement, and I don't think there's a heckuva lot that public policy of any ideological stripe can do to change that. We are in a period of decline and education is no exception.
Sat, 2012-06-09 18:39
May I suggest that all taxes/Government funding to support education be eliminated. Keep the funding between the parents and the school; the consumer and the service provider. This is the only way that true market forces can work however, this opens another debate on affordability.
Sat, 2012-06-09 18:30
If you had corresponding cuts in all the taxes the poor and middle class already pay for this education, it would be easily affordable.
Of course you'll never have a politician give up that much power, however.
Wed, 2012-06-13 22:30
Jon Harrison
I agree in theory JMGj, but in fact you would find that a high percentage of families outside middle-class areas would be unable or, in some cases, unwilling to pay. "Eliminating public education as we know it" is an incredibly tempting line, but in practice it would result in a further drop in education levels, with a concomitant rise in unemployment, welfare costs, and crime.
Sun, 2012-06-10 07:03
Mark Uzick
Mr. Harrison,
I will paraphrase your comment so: "Oh heavens, what would we ever do without the state to tell us how to think and what to do?"
The elitist, authoritarian mentality that you display is precisely why Americans find themselves in this dilemma of their own making. Your response is further evidence that failure, like war, is the health of the state.
I'd rather see even the most misguided and uneducated parents have responsibility for their children's education than the intellectually and spiritually stultifying indoctrination camps masquerading as "public schools".
Fri, 2012-06-15 08:15
Jon Harrison
Don't accept your paraphrase, but that's okay. I wish I could simply agree that even the most misguided and uneducated parents ought to have complete responsibility for their children's education. Unfortunately, that would lead to more welfare, more crime -- i.e., more state intervention and probably even more money spent by taxpayers.
I know it feels good to speak out as you have here. But unfortunately life is more complicated than you'd like it to be.
Sun, 2012-06-17 22:16
Mark Uzick
I'll correct that for you:
"I wish I could simply agree that[ ]the[ ]misguided and uneducated [pubic school indoctrinators should have control over children's education.] Unfortunately, that would lead to more welfare, more crime -- i.e., more state intervention and probably even more money spent by taxpayers."
But I guess that's the real goal - isn't it? For the state, failure is its own reward.
Thu, 2012-06-28 06:44
Don Crawford
State mandated standardized tests control the curriculum, which you feel is bad because it won't allow you the freedom to choose what topics you as the teacher think might be best to cover in any given year. I feel those tests are bad because they omit important topics that are important to teach such as decoding skills, math facts and spelling while overemphasizing topics that aren't teachable such as the ability to solve unusual math problems, make inferences in literature, and write interesting stories.
Holding teachers accountable for the amount their students learn is not fair until you take into account the intellectual capacity of the students they have. Otherwise the teachers of bright students get all the kudos, while teachers of students with below average academic abilities are condemned, both of them unfairly.
Parents are well able to evaluate the quality of schools and would evaluate on many more measures of quality than just the scores on state mandated standardized tests. Giving vouchers to parents for the median cost of education and letting all schools become private institutions is the best way to allow freedom to prevail in education. Ideally parents would pay for education themselves (and tuition tax credits should be available) but the public would not accept the fact that some people wouldn't pay for their children to get an education. So tax credits and vouchers are as far we can go toward freedom--but that would be enough to revolutionize education.
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEJune 8, 2011
Part of continuing effort to protect Americans' health by increasing access to chemical information
WASHINGTON – In order to provide the public has as much information as possible about the health and the environmental impacts of chemicals, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has made public the identities of more than 150 chemicals contained in 104 health and safety studies that had been claimed confidential by industry. Today's announcement is another in a series of unprecedented actions that EPA is taking to provide the public with greater access to information on the chemicals that are manufactured and used in the United States.
For these 104 studies, the chemical identity will no longer be redacted, or kept from view. The chemicals involved are used in dispersant formulations and consumer products such as air fresheners, non-stick and stain resistant materials, fire resistant materials, nonylphenol compounds, perfluorinated compounds, and lead.
"This action to disclose the identity of more than 150 chemicals is an important step in EPA's commitment to give the American people access to critical information about chemicals that their children and families may be exposed to," said Steve Owens, assistant administrator for EPA's Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention. "A health and safety study with the chemical name kept secret is completely useless to the public."
In 2010, EPA challenged industry to voluntarily declassify unwarranted claims of confidential business information (CBI). The agency also issued new guidance outlining plans to deny confidentiality claims for chemical identity in health and safety studies under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA). Based on this guidance, EPA notified a number of companies in February 2011 that the agency had determined that their CBI claim was not eligible for confidential treatment under TSCA and that EPA intended to make the information public.
The health and safety studies include some declassified by the agency and other voluntary declassifications by companies in response to EPA's challenge. EPA is committed to posting new declassified materials under TSCA on the agency website on a regular basis.
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Date: Sep 26, 2018 | Time: 2:00 pm
Oklahoma! Presented by Stages at the Robert G. Reim Theatre. Performance dates are September 7th through October 7th. See website for more information and to purchase tickets.
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The Robert G. Reim Theatre is located in the Kirkwood Community Center. It is a 380 seat performance theater that is the mainstage for the STAGES Performing Arts Academy and for the Kirkwood Theatre Guild, as well as for other performances and events. It is available for private or corporate meetings.
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This might be the last post until Monday, but only if we leave this afternoon. If we decide to leave tomorrow morning, you'll get one more. Feel free to read that, this, or any other post aloud at the dinner table in place of grace. Have fun explaining to your relatives what sharrows are.
Today was not a pleasant morning. It was a Washington morning, when somehow the humidity hovered between 75 and 85% and I couldn't quite tell whether it had just rained, was about to rain or was actually raining right then. It was also warmer than I expected and my outfit of jeans and a long-sleeve shirt seemed overmuch for the occasion.
There were other bicyclists out, but not too many. A dad and his kid riding along East Capitol, a superbiker getting turned around and lost in the Capitol grounds, a guy on a CaBi that I had previously ridden in front of and then behind after he shoaled me along 15th, which he did again today, in spite of my best efforts to avoid this. While I'm given up (ha!) complaining too much about this epiphenomenon in the rise of urban cycling, I guess I still just don't understand it. He seemed miffed when I passed him again on 15th, but them's the breaks, buck-o.
My feet kept slipping off my pedals today. I wasn't wearing my biking shoes and the wet pedals proved rather difficult to keep under me. Hijinks. I must've looked like an ass, especially toward the beginning of the ride when every third downstroke resulted in one of my legs jerking in an awkward and unexpected way. Comedy gold.
Sometimes a Cross Fire (the car, not that awesome marble shooting game or the less awesome erstwhile CNN program) crosses the path of a Cross Check (in spite of my cross glaring at the totally unaware driver) and I narrowly avoided a collision as he completed his left turn across the 15th street cycletrack. I braked pretty hard and my back wheel wobbled as I came to a skidding near stop. Fun times. I don't think that there's a level of signage or number of bollards that can these kinds of events less likely. I think this is just what happens when you tack bike infrastructure onto already existing roads.
That sweaty helmet feeling is the worst.Worst.
So, in conclusion, Happy Turkey (Türkiye?) Day! I give thanks for (and to) everyone who regularly or irregularly reads this blogular content. Have a great weekend.


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The conversation deepened as the rain started outside; we talked about Sydney's picture halls and theatres, and settled on Rita's favourite, the Prince Edward theatre. She told us story after story of movies watched, ice creams eaten, what she wore, but couldn't recall which street it had been on, so we promised to find out when we got home.
The next day I caught up with Christine Yeats from State Records NSW and we got talking about underutilised archives in the collection and what should she pull out but "Archives in Brief 36 - Theatres and public halls". Strange how different streams collide! This collection offers some wonderful insights into the history of the stage and silver screen in Sydney, including registers of licences, inspections carried out by the Board of Fire Commissioners, seating plans and more.
It truly is amazing what your archives hold. The State Records NSW reading rooms are located at:
[1] Western Sydney Records Centre. 143 O'Connell Street, Kingswood
[2] Sydney Records Centre. 2 Globe Street, The Rocks, Sydney
How do I use the reading rooms? Find out at State Records NSW online or ask directly on 02 9673 1788. Happy reading and see you at the movies! Oh, and we found out that the Prince Edward was located between Castlereagh and Elizabeth Streets in the CBD!
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Fort Sam's Fiesta 'ready, resilient'
The budget sequester took the fireworks out of Joint Base San Antonio-Fort Sam Houston's Fiesta celebration Sunday night, but that did nothing to dampen the event's festive spirit.
Hundreds of soldiers, families and friends converged on the post's historic Quadrangle late in the afternoon, many of them civilians wearing rows of shiny Fiesta medals.
The 323rd Army Band performed patriotic tunes as Fort Sam made the best of its most strained fiscal year in memory, and the crowd was treated to the U.S. Army Soldier Show, a troupe of 22 GIs who put on a musical called "Ready and Resilient" — a fitting theme for Fiesta 2013.
"We didn't have the carnival, we weren't going to have the fireworks, we weren't going to have a large extravaganza of food and drink, but it was all about being together," said Lt. Gen. William Caldwell IV, commander of U.S. Army North.
The Army, Air Force, Navy, Coast Guard and Marines will contribute to Fiesta celebrations throughout the week, despite the spending cutbacks imposed on federal activities thanks to sequestration.
Larry Benson Sr., Rey Feo LXV, mingled with a crowd that drifted toward Caldwell, Gen. Edward Rice Jr., head of the Air Force's training command, and many other troops .
"To tell you we've noticed it, not really, except for a couple of things, obviously, the fireworks and the flyovers at Randolph," Benson, 67, of Shavano Park said.
Joint Base San Antonio, which oversees Fort Sam and two other installations here, opted to scratch the fireworks show and carnival because of overtime costs for civil service workers.
"Relative to Fiesta, I can tell you that civilian overtime is virtually nonexistent," said Brent Boller, spokesman for Joint Base San Antonio. " That limitation had little impact on Raymond Torres, a civil service worker at Fort Sam who took in Sunday's program.
"It's still got a great, festive feel to it," Torres, 49, of San Antonio. "That's what Fiesta's all about."
The sequester has changed the way the armed services are putting on Fiesta events. The Air Force Band of the West's "Fiesta in Blue" performance was cut to one show and moved from a school district theater to a smaller venue at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland. It will start at 7 p.m. Wednesday in the Bob Hope Theater.
But military bands will still play in the Battle of Flowers, Flambeau and River parades, U.S. Army North spokesman Don Manuszewski said, and 10 military ambassadors from the services are attending Fiesta events.
In addition, Caldwell will be part of Monday's pilgrimage from Municipal Auditorium to the Alamo and will make a short speech. As the senior officer, he represents the military at Fiesta events and will be on hand for Monday evening'sRiver Parade, as well as Friday's Battle of Flowers Parade and the Flambeau Parade on Saturday night.
"We don't ever want to lose that connection to San Antonio," Caldwell said, when asked if the military will continue to be involved in Fiesta as defense budgets shrink. "The Army's been here for over 150 years. We have to want to sustain that relationship with the people of San Antonio."
Benson, this year's Rey Feo, said Fiesta and the troops are symbiotic "in a very good way." The military, he said, "is such a big part of San Antonio, and I think everybody enjoys it, they're so helpful with everything. So I think if they didn't (participate), we'd all be a lot sadder."


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Nestled at the intersection of SoMa and The Mission, Rainbow grocery, San Francisco's largest worker-owned co-op, is a culinary resource every San Franciscan should know about. Providing the best and freshest locally grown and organic produce and a wide variety of organic pre-packaged products, Rainbow Grocery (or Rainbow, as I call it) caters to flavors from all over the world. I can find my favorite heat-and-serve Indian samosas, organic coconut milk, and Italian spiced olives, all under one roof.
More than a grocery store, Rainbow also houses a bakery and sections for bath and body, home, bar, tea, vitamins and supplements, books and gifts, and housewares.
Rainbow plays host to cooking classes, book signings, electronics recycling events, and more. Rainbow is also in the process of creating a Biodiesel filling station at their location, which they hope to have completed by early 2011.
Rainbow Grocery is located at:
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Tonight I created a light, Italian inspired dish perfect for a spring evening. It begins with a bed of fresh spinach topped with pasta, veggies, and two proteins. Much of the preparation lies in the dish's assembly, as the mushrooms, egg, and bacon need to be chopped and the garlic and pasta must be cooked (bacon should be pre-cooked.) Once ingredients are ready, all that remains is put together your salad.
Here's what you'll need:
2 cups fresh, washed spinach leaves
1 handful spaghetti noodles
2 crimini or white mushrooms
1 hardboiled egg
3 strips of bacon, baked or fried until crispy
3 whole cloves garlic
1 tsp. ground black pepper
3 tbsp. truffle oil
1 tbsp olive oil
To create the dish, you'll be working on several things simultaneously. First, boil a large pot of water in which to cook the spaghetti, and preheat your oven to 400 degrees. As the water boils, peel garlic cloves and place them on a small sheet of aluminum foil. Wrap the foil around the cloves to create a package. Before closing the package, lightly drizzle garlic cloves with olive oil and salt. Add pasta to boiling water and sealed package of garlic to hot oven. Slice the mushrooms in half lengthwise and then chop into pieces down the width. Crumble cooked bacon into bits, and dice hardboiled egg. When pasta and garlic cloves are tender (after about 15 minutes), remove garlic from the oven and drain pasta. Chop garlic cloves into bits.
To assemble the salad, make a bed of spinach leaves and cover with pasta. Then top with mushrooms, egg, bacon, and garlic. To finish, drizzle with truffle oil, olive oil, and fresh ground black pepper.
The dish is best served cold, accompanied by a chilled glass of white wine. I recommend a pinot grigio.
When I was growing up, my dad used to make me breakfast in the morning. We had all sorts of inventions: Hotdogs and Eggs, Fried Salami, Potato Chip Omelettes, and my favorite: Fried Matzo. This is a fairly simple recipe which my grandmother passed along to my father, who in turn taught me. It's supposedly an old Jewish standard, but I've never seen anyone else make it outside of our family. The recipe is similar to French Toast, except here, the matzo is first softened with hot water in order to be able to soak up the eggs. Here's what you'll need to make a large serving of this delicious and easy recipe:
-4 sheets Matzo
-2 eggs, scrambled
-1/2 cup hot water
-1 tbsp vegetable oil
-butter and jam for topping (I recommend blackberry, boysenberry, loganberry, or lingonberry jam for best results.)
To make:
-break your matzo sheets into bite sized pieces (should be about 2" x 1")
-place broken matzo into a bowl and pour hot water over matzo pieces, stirring to insure every piece soaks up some water
-pour scrambled egg over matzo and mix well
-heat a large, nonstick frying pan and add cooking oil
-pour matzo and egg mixture into pan, spreading out evenly
-cook over medium heat for about 2 minutes until bottom is cooked and beginning to crisp (but be careful not to burn!)
-flip and repeat process for the other side until every piece is thoroughly cooked
-remove from heat and serve lightly salted with jam and butter
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by Heather Pennington
(Serves 4+)
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I've yet to see a trailer for Capcom's Kinect-and-controller Steel Battalion: Heavy Armor that didn't impress me. I've even seen people play this game and it doesn't look dopey (it seems that you don't use the Kinect all that much.)
Today we've got two clips of the game's four-player, online co-op. It looks as good as the rest of the game, which will be out on the Xbox 360 in mid-June.


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Oakland is feeling its oats. Steel-cut oats, that is. Sprinkled atop a puree of onion soup ladled over smoked dates at the Michelin-starred Commis, this coarse grain is being transformed into something wonderful and different, much like the rough-hewn city itself.
Best known for its rowdy Raiders and crime-heavy headlines, Oakland has changed for the better in recent years. There are trendy shops and nightclubs, modern condos cheek-to-cheek with restored Art Deco gems and an influx of top chefs, lured by cheaper rents from San Francisco and Berkeley's gourmet ghettos.
Despite its large size (56 square miles, from the waterfront to the hills), Oakland and its neighborhoods are easily accessible, and some are just a mile or two apart. A car is best, but BART trains and city buses are convenient.
A culture boom
Uptown has great bones, with blocks of historic buildings (in varying states of repair) and striking architecture. Like many urban areas, it went from bustling in the 1920s to broken within a few decades.
Iconic structures such as the I. Magnin building dot the area, but it was the restoration of two grand dames that jump-started the neighborhood's resurgence as a night-life and arts magnet. The Fox Theater (www.thefoxoakland.com), a 1928 Moorish gem on Telegraph Avenue, and the Paramount Theatre (www.paramounttheatre.com), a Depression-era Art Deco beauty on Broadway, give heft to the Uptown culture boom. The Fox reopened in 2009 as an indie music venue after a multimillion-dollar renovation; the Paramount is home to the Oakland East Bay Symphony.
There's been a mini-population boom as well, sparked by former Mayor Jerry Brown's efforts to boost housing. Though the boom was stalled by the recession, hundreds of residents have moved into new condos and apartments.
New eateries followed. San Francisco's Ozumo (www.ozumo.com/oakland) opened an outpost; its sake bar was an immediate hit. Other standouts include Flora (www.floraoakland.com/flashsite), a classic bar and grill, and Picán (https://www.picanrestaurant.com), a charmer with Southern soul food and a serious selection of bourbon.
Chowing down
In Temescal, you come for the food and stay for the … food. This diverse neighborhood, filled with small homes, started to gentrify a decade ago with the opening of Doña Tomás (www.donatomas.com), an upscale Mexican restaurant. Today, there are many excellent eateries packed into a few short blocks.
Folks line up for Bakesale Betty's (www.bakesalebetty.com), then grab a seat at one of the ironing boards — no tables here — on the sidewalk to chow down on massive fried chicken sandwiches or luscious strawberry shortcakes. Owner Alison Barakat came to the States from Australia in 2000 and honed her skills at Berkeley's Chez Panisse.
In the evening, the crowds head to Pizzaiolo (www.pizzaiolooakland.com) for another Chez Panisse graduate's pizzas and pastas. Charlie Hallowell is a masterful chef; an heirloom tomato antipasti with shell beans, herbs, bread crumbs and aioli was superb as was the marinara pizza, an offering with housemade sausage.
Barlata Tapas Bar (https://www.barlata.com) packs 'em in as well; its small plates are authentic and satisfying. Burma Superstar (www.burmasuperstar.com), another San Francisco favorite, is a block away, as is SR24 (www.sr24food.com), run by Josh Woodall (from S.F.'s South).
For serious shoppers
Rockridge, an affluent community of charming houses on leafy streets, is a wonderful place to shop.
Market Hall, on College and Keith avenues just steps from the BART station, anchors College Avenue, Rockridge's eclectic main drag. The French-style marketplace, with produce, meat and fish shops as well as a gourmet bakery and grocery selling items such as artisan cheeses and fresh pasta, is a delight.
College Avenue is filled with unique stores. Stop at Tootsies (www.tootsiesboutique.com), where you can get a pedicure as well as new pumps. Dip into Who's Your Betty? (https://stitchesforbitches.com) for custom purses. I was tempted by nearly everything in the shabby-chic Maison d'Etre (https://maisondetre.com).
After you've worn out your wallet, grab a local brew at Ben & Nick's, then head back to Market Hall for dinner at Oliveto (www.oliveto.com), a longtime favorite.
The 'working' street
Piedmont Avenue runs about 18 blocks before you exhaust its many pleasures — or before it exhausts you.
It is a "working" street where dry cleaners elbow boutiques; you can pop from one side of the street to the other as stores catch your eye. Piedmont Lane is great for antiques; Pimlico Place is a good bet for vintage jewelry. In the mood to play dress-up? Try Mercy Vintage Now (www.mercyvintage.com), which offers clothing and accessories from the 1920s to the 1980s.
The area has a brace of top-notch restaurants: the stalwart BayWolf (www.baywolf.com), which has dished up haute cuisine for more than two decades, and César Latino (www.barcesar.com/latino/index.html), an offshoot of a Berkeley tapas bar. Atop the list of new hot spots are Dopo (www.dopoadesso.com/dopo), a tiny Italian bistro serving artichoke soup and saffron spaghetti, and the sizzling Commis (www.commisrestaurant.com), where James Syhabout — named best chef of 2010 by San Francisco magazine — has picked up a Michelin star and a devoted following for his complex, imaginative dishes.
Make the finish line of your marathon stroll Fentons Creamery (www.fentonscreamery.com), an ice cream temple that's been around for ages. Try the Black & White, chocolate and vanilla ice cream with ribbons of marshmallow and fudge snaking through it.
At Oakland's heart
Lakeshore and Grand avenues, each filled with shops and restaurants, feed into each other as well as Lake Merritt, a striking oasis in the heart of the city.
Start the day by fueling up at Arizmendi (https://lakeshore.arizmendi.coop) on Lakeshore, a worker-owned cooperative bakery featuring pastries and artisan breads. Wander up the avenue to window-shop the cute boutiques; the Japanese kimonos and silk scarves at Rose Quartz are eye-catchers, the whimsical items at Urban Indigo (www.urbanindigo.com) are great for gifts.
Circle back around the Grand Lake Theater, a 1926 Art Deco movie house, and head up Grand Avenue. Gems are hidden among the old-line stores. Walden Pond Books(www.waldenpondbooks.com) features new, used and rare works, and with its nice mix of new and recycled children's items, Silver Moon is a must for moms.
Grand is a dining draw as well. Boot & Shoe Service (www.bootandshoeservice.com), an offshoot of Pizzaiolo, is as popular as its cousin. Camino (www.caminorestaurant.com) is helmed by yet another former Chez Panisse chef. Russell Moore's large, rustic eatery in a former warehouse is a hot ticket, with a small menu that changes nightly.
The best bet at the Lake Chalet Seafood Bar & Grill (www.thelakechalet.com) — it opened in 2009 in the renovated municipal boathouse — is to have a sunset cocktail outside on the dock overlooking Lake Merritt. The lake attracts joggers and picnickers to its park-lined perimeter; you need a child to get into Children's Fairyland, a storybook playground, and adults can indulge their own fantasies with a gondola ride on the lake.


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RICHMOND, Va. -- As soon as she read the news, Mary Helen Taft went straight from her computer to her closet, pulling out a gray jacket that, until that moment, she had thought was an elaborate costume.
When the story of an 80-year-old military tunic found among Superstorm Sandy debris at the Jersey Shore made national headlines, she knew the item she had picked up on consignment about 20 years ago was no longer just a run-of-the-mill coat stashed in the back of her closet.
After examining the worn-down label inside, Taft uncovered the jacket's own storied past.
"I really had no idea what the history behind the jacket was, or that it may be meaningful or valuable to somebody," said Taft, 63, who lives outside Zimmerman, Minn. "Suddenly there was a face and a history of service and a human connection that is very real and it made me see the jacket with new eyes.
"Isn't that what motivates us all - those heart-touching human connections and a sense of community?"
The alumni association for the U.S. Military Academy at West Point has researched a handful of inquiries from people seeking to put a face with their second-hand finds since the story last month about the discovery of a 1930s jacket belonging to the late warrior Chester B. deGavre. The AP reported on a New Jersey woman who found the jacket among Sandy debris, tracked down its owner with the help of the storied military academy and reunited the jacket with deGavre's 98-year-old widow on Virginia's Eastern Shore.
"Maybe they thought it was just a neat thing to have, but then it kind of got them thinking about the person behind the coat and who that person was," said Kim McDermott with the West Point Association of Graduates, who has searched alumni databases, yearbooks and memorial pages to help curious owners of the jackets, which have been used at the academy since 1816. "We're just wired for stories, as humans."
With its tails, intricate stitching, and slanted gold braids on the shoulders, the jacket hasn't changed much since it was first adopted and is still worn by cadets for formal occasions and in parades. The heavy coats, studded with brass buttons down the front and sleeves, have been issued to nearly 70,000 cadets over the years, so it's no wonder some have changed hands from their original owners.
When people buy antique china, they often wonder how many tables it's been on or what conversations took place around it. But with everyday apparel, "I don't think anyone really thinks much about it," said Adele Meyer, executive director of the Association of Resale Professionals, which represents more than 1,100 consignment and thrift stores.
"A military jacket - that's different. That has a history to it," Meyer said.
Taft has learned that the coat hanging in her closet for so many years belonged to Joseph Francis Albano, a 1971 graduate and football standout from New Jersey known as "the Jersey Streak."
After graduation, Albano was commissioned as a 2nd lieutenant in the Army and served five years of active duty at Fort Benning in Georgia; in Germany; and at West Point in the athletic department. Following years in the finance business, the 64-year-old now splits his time between Florida and Wyoming.
News of his jacket being found brought back a lot of fond memories for Albano of his time at the academy, which he said he admired for its rich history and tradition. Albano said he isn't sure how the jacket ever left his possession and invited Taft to contact him.
For 43-year-old Michael McCoy of Baltimore, finding the name of the owner of the jacket he picked up in the mid-1990s at a Pennsylvania antique store for $100 is only the beginning.
"It's an object that has meaning now," said McCoy, who has begun tracing the life of John Loren Goff, a 1920 graduate from New Jersey who was first assigned to the Army Coast Artillery Corps. Goff retired as a colonel from Fort Lewis, Wash., in 1953 after serving in World War II and as the base's inspector general. He died in 1985 at the age of 86.
"It was neat because it was a West Point jacket ... but now it's a West Point jacket that's owned by this gentleman who had this military career."
Two of the jackets are even appearing on stage in Connecticut for the Hartford City Ballet's inaugural performance of the holiday classic, "The Nutcracker."
Dartanion Reed, the ballet's artistic director, said he acquired the coats from another theater troupe that had shut down.
"I just thought they were a brilliant costume," Reed said. "We always say that people (in performing arts) add bells and whistles to things, but these actually have bells and whistles."
Now that Reed knows the jackets belonged to 1943 graduate Frank Williams Jones Jr. and 1937 grad Harry Francis Van Leuven, he plans to preserve them and use them more often.
"Historic preservation goes hand in hand with what we do in the performing arts every day," he said. "It's wonderful to learn where they come from."


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Docket Number:
09-AFC-07 (Application For Certification)
09-AFC-7C (Compliance Proceeding)
Project Status: Certification Expired - December 15, 2015
The California Energy Commission approved this project's Application for Certification on December 15, 2010. The Commission monitors the power plant's construction, operation and eventual decommissioning through a compliance proceeding.
Committee Overseeing Compliance Proceeding:
Karen Douglas, Commissioner, Presiding Member
David Hochschild, Commissioner, Associate Member
Hearing Officer: Kenneth Celli
Committee that oversaw Original Licensing Proceeding:
Robert B. Weisenmiller, Commissioner, Presiding Member
Karen Douglas, Commissioner, Associate Member
Hearing Officer: Raoul Renaud
WebEx Recordings
WebEx Recording of the April 8, 2014, Public Workshop on the Presiding Member's Proposed Decision for Cultural Resources for the Proposed Palen Solar Electric Generating System (Streaming video and audio) (Posted April 10, 2014.) For technical assistance, see WebEx playback help.
Key Dates
- 8/24/2009 - Application for Certification (AFC) filed
- 11/18/2009 - Commission accepts AFC as "data adequate."
- 3/18/2010 - Commission and BLM staff release Staff Analysis and Draft Environmental Impact Statement.
- 11/12/2010 - Committee releases Presiding Member's Proposed Decision.
- 12/15/2010 - Commission approves Application For Certification.
- 7/11/2012 - Commission approves Change of Ownership.
- 12/17/2012 - Petition to Amend CEC Decision - Change from parabolic trough to BrightSource's LPT solar power tower Technology.
- 6/28/2013 - Commission staff release Preliminary Staff Assessment (24.6 mb)
- 9/10/2013 - Commission staff release Final Staff Assessment - Part A
- 9/23/2013 - Commission staff release Final Staff Assessment - Part B
- 11/1/2013 - Commission staff release Final Staff Assessment - Part C
- 12/13/2013 - Committee releases Presiding Member's Proposed Decision.
- 9/12/2014 - Committee releases revised Presiding Member's Proposed Decision.
- 9/26/2014 - Applicant's Withdrawal of Petition to Amendmend.
- 9/29/2014 - Order Terminating Amendment Proceeding.
- 12/15/2015 - AFC Certification Expired
- 2/11/2016 - Order Denying Extension of Construction Deadline
On July 11, 2012, the California Energy Commission approved a petition from Palen Solar I, LLC to transfer the ownership of the Palen Solar Project, from Palen Solar I, LLC to Nalep Solar Project I, LLC, a wholly owned, indirect subsidiary of BrightSource Energy, Inc.
The developer of this project, propose to construct, own, and operate the Palen Solar Power Project. The Project is a concentrated solar thermal electric generating facility with two adjacent, independent, and identical solar plants of 250 megawatt (MW) nominal capacity each for a total capacity of 500 MW nominal.
The Project will utilize solar parabolic trough technology to generate electricity. With this technology, arrays of parabolic mirrors collect heat energy from the sun and refocus the radiation on a receiver tube located at the focal point of the parabola. A heat transfer fluid (HTF) is heated to high temperature (750 degrees Fahrenheit) as it circulates through the receiver tubes. The heated HTF is then piped through a series of heat exchangers where it releases its stored heat to generate high-pressure steam. The steam is then fed to a traditional steam turbine generator where electricity is produced.
The project site would be located approximately 10 miles east of Desert Center, along Interstate 10 approximately halfway between the cities of Indio and Blythe, in Riverside County, California. An application has been filed with BLM for a right-of-way (ROW) grant of approximately 5,200 acres.
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Swedish newspaper Sydsvenskan (via The Local) is reporting that over the weekend, a group of kids playing Call of Duty got a little more than they bargained for when they got all excited about the game.
When one of the teenagers was killed in a round, he jokingly fell to the ground and started screaming "HELP HELP HELP". Passers-by heard his screams, though, and thinking they were real called emergency services, who sent a police unit to the house.
Opening the front door to greet them, the kids were yelled at to put their hands on their heads, before the cops ordered them outside and had them lie down on the ground.
The kids were soon able to explain what had happened, though, after which they were allowed to go back inside and keep playing. Presumably a bit more sensibly this time.
Police raid flat to find war game-playing teens [The Local]


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Reacting to today's announcement of no federal water deliveries to California agriculture this year, Wenger blames politicians and policy-makers for failing to shield the state from drought.
Source: California Farm Bureau Federation
Today's announcement by the federal Central Valley Project that it will deliver no water to most of its farm customers highlights the lack of investment California has made in new water supplies, according to the president of the California Farm Bureau Federation.
CFBF President Paul Wenger said the state has failed to insulate itself from the effects of drought.
"As the saying goes, you reap what you sow, and our state and federal governments have failed miserably at providing the resources and infrastructure to adapt to changing climatic conditions," Wenger said.
"Make no mistake, our current water crisis is not caused by two years of below normal rainfall, followed by the record dry year we're having right now," Wenger said. "This crisis is the direct result of 20-plus years of inaction by politicians and policy-makers, who have failed to take the steps required to shield California from drought.
"We are living the future that we have predicted for at least the last two decades. Without the creation of additional water storage, California is unprepared for extended drought. Because of the increased demands from population growth and an inflexible commitment to the protection of endangered species and habitat, our water system has been drained of its flexibility to provide water in times of drought," he said.
Wenger pointed out that with both the state and federal water systems announcing "zero" allocations for their customers, the effects on the people and the economy of California will be severe, calling the cutbacks "just the tip of the iceberg of devastation" that will face farmers, ranchers and consumers throughout California.
"All people in California will suffer because of the state's inaction, but those in rural California will suffer worst of all. The extensive investments farmers and urban residents have made to increase water efficiency have not shielded us from this disaster—despite 20-plus years of assurances from environmental activists that all we needed to do was to conserve," Wenger said.
"The only good that will result from this crisis is if it opens the eyes of our elected leaders and leads to actions that recognize California needs to muster all the tools at its disposal," he said. "That includes water recycling, desalination, efficiency improvements and, yes, new reservoirs, to avoid more years of loss and damage to both our economy and our environment."
The California Farm Bureau Federation works to protect family farms and ranches on behalf of nearly 78,000 members statewide and as part of a nationwide network of more than 6.2 million Farm Bureau members.


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Mazda's 323 was the replacement for a small runabout the company dubbed the GLC, or Great Little Car. Today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe 323 is not just a real GLC, its turbo'd 4WD makes it a GTX, but will its price make it a POS?
So, today we have a 323, and yesterday we had a 328, which obviously must be five better. How many better? Five better. It should be because its price was nearly ten times higher. That still didn't seem too egregious for the 85% of you who voted it a Nice Price win despite headlights stuck in the I just received a rear admiral position.
At one point, Mazda thought they were in the position to spice up their mundane 323 series with a Red Bull-like jolt of Group A ralliness. The resultant GTX was made available in the US for only two years - '88 and '89 - but during that time it developed the kind of reputation that Joan Jett writes songs about.
This 1989 323 GTX is the rally homologation gnarly branch of the Mazda Familia árbol. The FIA established Group A for modified production cars in order to engender for privateer teams a cost-effective entry into racing series'. The requirement was that the racers needed to be based on an actual production model which was built in sufficient number (5,000) to exclude factory teams one-upping the competition. This resulted in cars like the Subie WRX, Mitsu Lancer Evo, and Lancia Delta Integrale (genuflection required for that last one), which back in the day embodied compromises for the street that made them more effective on the track. Today, WRC Group A rules have changed and the cars that run under them are no longer constrained by the need to be sold to the plebeian likes of you or I.
The 323 GTX never really made a name for itself in Group A, perhaps because, unlike Subaru and Mitsubishi, Mazda refused to go full racecar. The street versions of the contemporary WRX or Evo sported brakes and tires that lasted about three blocks and cost and arm, a leg, and three kidneys to replace. The GTX, on the other hand, was more cost effective as a streetable ride.
That's not to say that it didn't pack some of the right gear - there is a 132-bhp turbocharged and intercooled edition of the 1.6-litre B6 engine which would also find its way, in naturally aspirated form, under the hood of the MX5. Bolted to that OHC four is a five speed manual which sends power to all four wheels through driver-lockable front diff and transfer case. In comparison to the hot Imprezas and Evos of today, that power and lack of sophistication may seem unappealing, but when it was new, these cars were like Max freakin' Headroom.
This one appears to have time-warped to the present without suffering the typical indignities of its second tier status - lacking aftermarket wheels, bodywork or even once-was-witty bumper stickers. The seller says it has but 87,000 miles in its clock which make you wonder what's it's been up to these past 22 years. He does admit that one of the activities has been gathering some rust in its rear, but that it was just a passing dalliance, and overall the car looks to be swiss cheese-free. It does maintain its double spoiler hatch and rocker extensions, and the seller claims that it has some new parts but doesn't divulge what they might be. He also makes no claim of any mechanical issue or other detriment aside from expected wear and tear of age and typical use. If serious about purchasing this, or any, GTX, things to look out for are transfer case noise - that being an expensive and hard to come by part. Also, the prop shaft joints and rear halves are known to wear and be made of unobtainium today, so that would be a good reason to do the scapula scrape under the car and give a good shake to the round bits. Brakes also can be a repair nightmare on these as the front rotors sit behind the hubs requiring major dis-assembly should a warped disc need a-fixing.
But none of that is any reason to stay away from a GTX, although their original price being nearly twice that of a standard 323 meant that buyers used to do so in droves. In fact, this is one of only 1,243 cars ever sold in the U.S., a number that has obviously dwindled due to attrition and hard lives many of them led. As noted, this one seems to have escaped SCCA participation, and hence may not be all beat to hell.Because of that, its $2,900 price tag may seem like a hell of deal, making a potential buyer say what the hell. Of course, that price may be just the entry into what is the new owner's own personal hell as unforeseen problems pop up, and the lack of available parts makes finding replacements a hellish problem. With all that in mind, is $2,900 a great little price? Or, for that much should this GTX GTFO?
You decide!
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- 6 Beds
- 7 Full, 2 Half
- 10,250 +/- Sqft
Property TypeResidential – Single Family
SubdivisionMountain Star
Listing Date06/13/19
Year Built2000
AreaMountain Star
Lot Size4.24 Acres (184,694 SqFt)
Parking3 Car Garage, Surface
Property Description
Opportunity to own one of the finest mountain contemporary homes ever built in the Vail Valley. Located in a serene and private setting in this exclusive gated neighborhood adjacent to USFS, this property is an estate of its own offering phenomenal views of the distant mountains. Renowned architect, Robert Ziegelman, designed this residence to blend harmoniously with the natural landscape and provide superior living spaces in three separate pavilions all with exceptional quality and amazing design. Sold designer furnished.
56 Rosecrown - Video Tour
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56 Rosecrown - Floorplans
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Presented By
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- Meadow
- Mountains
- Ski Slopes
- South Facing
- Valley
- Woods
- Clubhouse
- Hiking/Pedestrian Trail
- Cable Available
- Deck
- Fireplace - Gas
- Hot Tub / Spa
- Jetted Bathtub
- Multi-Level
- Patio
- Steam
- Vaulted Ceilings
- Wired for Cable
- See Remarks
- Cable TV
- District Sewer
- District Water
- Electricity Avail.
- Natural Gas Avail.
- Phone Available
- Satellite
- Trash Pickup
- Forced Air
- Natural Gas
- Radiant
- Dryer
- Washer
Financial Information
Additional InformationDocuments
About Mountain Star
For buyers seeking exclusivity with a view, Mountain Star is a community with just 90 homesteads across 1,300 acres of rolling meadows, sage hills and forested glades. With a development philosophy that thoughtfully integrates these single-family homes with their beautiful, natural surroundings, Mountain Star's sense of place feels less like a gated development of homes and more like an escape within nature. Privacy and serenity are felt throughout the community, where cross-country trails for hiking and biking allow residents an abundance of places to explore. It's just minutes from Avon, Beaver Creek and Vail, yet it's one of the valley's best-kept secrets. Mountain Star is a place where understated opulence sits tucked into the trees and atop the hillside, where views of the Gore and Sawatch Mountain Ranges can erase the hustle and bustle in the valley below.
Area Market Data
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