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Akshaya ties up with Disney India for Disney inspired homes in Chennai

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Source: chennaionline.com --- Tuesday, August 27, 2013
Akshaya, India?s most awarded real estate developer is pleased to announce its newest association with Disney India, to create Disney-inspired homes ...

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Editorial: Ford gets a lesson in Chicago muscle

Chicago Tribune editorial board writer Greg Burns discusses how politics in Chicago has gotten in the way of progress once again. (Posted on: Aug. 27, 2013)

If you wonder why this jobs-hungry city has a reputation as a hard place to do business, read on. Looks to us like developers of a big Ford dealership planned for the North Side got tutored in Chicago-style political muscle.

It's a familiar story in a city and state where elected officials, in the words of Illinois Chamber of Commerce chief Doug Whitley, treat potential investments as opportunities for "threat, coercion, a union squeeze, a minority holdup, a double-dip, a no-show job, a kickback and a sweetheart deal."

The proposed $57 million Fox Motors project got off to a promising start. The city Plan Commission unanimously approved it in June. Chicago Ald. Scott Waguespack had done extensive groundwork for the development, which would create dozens of temporary and permanent jobs in his 32nd Ward, contribute millions of dollars in tax revenue to City Hall and replace an obsolete building with an attractive new showcase. Then Waguespack and the Fox folks ran into an unexpected roadblock.

Contrary to the usual practices of the City Council, another alderman held up the project. Daniel Solis of the Southwest Side's 25th Ward says he wanted to send a message that Ford Motor Co. needs to do more to recruit car dealers of Hispanic heritage. Solis was using his power as chair of the council's Zoning Committee to block the 32nd Ward project.

Turns out that Solis' political organization had received at least $6,800 in contributions from a Chicago-area Hispanic businessman who, Solis knew, wanted to get into the car business. The donor, Jose Diaz, also had contributed smaller amounts to other members of the council's Hispanic Caucus.

On Wednesday, Solis' committee is scheduled to reconsider the dealership's application. This time, the project appears likely to be approved.

What changed? Nothing to do with zoning:

?Mayor Rahm Emanuel heard about Fox Motors' travails in late July and stepped in to break the impasse. A story by Crain's Chicago Business columnist Greg Hinz about the politically imposed delay attracted public attention, including the scorn of Illinois Chamber President Whitley.

?Fox negotiated an extension of its Aug. 1 deadline to go forward with the development at 2501 N. Elston Ave. It also hired the law firm of Gery Chico, a Hispanic politician with City Council connections, to address the concerns of aldermen about the planned development and Ford's commitment to minorities.

?The giant automaker reached out to Diaz, the Hispanic Caucus' donor. Ford says it has invited Diaz to apply for a program that provides up to $750,000 in matching financing and introduced him to dealers who might be interested in selling out to him if he can raise the necessary capital. Diaz declined to comment.

So the stage is set for a happy ending, Chicago-style.

Did Solis block the Ford dealership to benefit his donor? "That's not what happened at all," Solis tells us. "I'm not advocating for any particular individual to get a dealership. Our concern was Ford and its lack of (minority) representation."

Ford and the nation's other major car companies have struggled to expand their network of minority-owned dealerships. At the end of 2012, only 5.1 percent of 3,286 U.S. Ford dealerships were owned by minorities, down from 5.2 percent the previous year. The major automakers cut back on dealerships during the Great Recession, shutting down weak operations. They've focused on strengthening existing dealerships rather than starting new ones. The Michigan-based Fox Ford bought a defunct dealership at 2401 S. Michigan Ave., where it plans to operate until it moves to the new North Side location.

Solis and other aldermen raise a good point, but it isn't the point in this saga: Investors seeking to spend $57 million to create trade and jobs and tax revenue in Chicago have nothing to do with Ford's national policies for minority engagement.

Blocking the deal sent a message all right, but not the one Solis says he intended. Instead, Solis and his colleagues on the Hispanic Caucus have reinforced the prevailing view that Chicago's elected officials put their political interests above the economic welfare of this city. They sent the message that if you want to do business in Chicago, you'll do it their way or no way.

Businesspeople who want to bring jobs to Chicago despite its history of public corruption should be welcomed, not thwarted.

It's past time for the City Council to get out of the way and encourage this deal.

Source: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/ct-edit-cardealer-jm-20130827,0,4643946.story?track=rss

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Doctors Live Stream Operation with Google Glass

It seems that novel uses of Google Glass pop up every day, but that's to be expected for such a revolutionary device. Even with only a few thousand Glass units in the wild, people are doing all sorts of things that Google didn't even think of when it came up with the idea.

For example, Glass has been used to live stream an operation to an audience. Since Google Glass can easily be used for a Hangout, this wasn't an issue to set up.

In this case, Glass was simply an educational tool and operations are regularly recorded and even live streamed for medical students, researchers and so on.

But it's obvious that Glass could be useful to doctors in more ways, for example, making it easy for them to access a patient's records, an X-ray scan, or lookup information, while keeping their hands free.

Source: http://news.softpedia.com/news/Doctors-Live-Stream-Operation-with-Google-Glass-378902.shtml

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Third annual Mary Magdalene Church Rummage Sale

The third annual rummage sale at Mary Magdalene Church will be held on September 6th and 7th.

The sale includes collectables, housewares, furniture, toys, ski equipment and more!

The sale will be held rain or shine.

Friday hours:
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Saturday hours:
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Video: Obama, Clinton Speak at March on Washington Anniversary Event

With tens of thousands of slightly damp, yet hopeful people looking on, President Barack Obama stood where Martin Luther King Jr. had on the Lincoln Memorial fifty years ago to mark the anniversary of the March on Washington.

Obama began his speech by quoting the Declaration of Independence.

In 1963, almost 200 years after those words were set to paper, a full century after a great war was fought and emancipation proclaimed, that promise, those truths remained unmet. And so they came by the thousands, from every corner of our country -- men and women, young and old, blacks who longed for freedom and whites who could no longer accept freedom for themselves while witnessing the subjugation of others. Across the land, congregations sent them off with food and with prayer. In the middle of the night, entire blocks of Harlem came out to wish them well.
With the few dollars they scrimped from their labor, some bought tickets and boarded buses, even if they couldn't always sit where they wanted to sit. Those with less money hitchhiked, or walked. They were seamstresses, and steelworkers, and students, and teachers, maids and pullman porters. They shared simple meals and bunked together on floors.

And then, on a hot summer day, they assembled here, in our nation's capital, under the shadow of the great emancipator, to offer testimony of injustice, to petition their government for redress and to awaken America's long-slumbering conscience.

We rightly and best remember Dr. King's soaring oratory that day, how he gave mighty voice to the quiet hopes of millions, how he offered a salvation path for oppressed and oppressors alike. His words belong to the ages, possessing a power and prophecy unmatched in our time.

But we would do well to recall that day itself also belonged to those ordinary people whose names never appeared in the history books, never got on TV.

The president also mentioned Anacostia, the Ward 8 neighborhood, in his speech.

And with that courage, we can stand together for good jobs and just wages. With that courage, we can stand together for the right to health care in the richest nation on earth for every person. With that courage, we can stand together for the right of every child, from the corners of Anacostia to the hills of Appalachia, to get an education that stirs the mind and captures the spirit and prepares them for the world that awaits them. (Applause.) With that courage, we can feed the hungry and house the homeless and transform bleak wastelands of poverty into fields of commerce and promise.

Former President Bill Clinton said, "The choice remains as it was on that distant summer day 50 years ago: cooperate and thrive or fight with each other and fall behind."

Former President Jimmy Carter used the refrain "I think we know how Dr. King would have reacted" to describe unfair many situations, including the lack of voting rights for residents of D.C.

This pleased many D.C. politicians.

Rep. John Lewis, the only surviving speaker from the original March, said the country still has "a great distance to go."

Media mogul Oprah Winfrey told the crowd, "As we, the people, continue to honor the dream of a man and a movement, we can be inspired, and we too can be courageous by continuing to walk in the footsteps in the path that he forged."

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Grand Theft Auto 5 Microsoft Store pre-orders receive $20 coupon

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Those who pre-order Grand Theft Auto 5 for the Xbox 360 via the Microsoft Store will receive a coupon for 1,600 Microsoft Points (approximately $20 in value), according to an entry for the game on the store's site.

Rockstar's open-world game is available to pre-order from the store for $59.99 and includes free shipping. Coupon codes will be sent to consumers email addresses and points will be added to accounts as local currency when redeemed through the Xbox 360.?The offer is valid until Sept. 16.

Earlier this week,?Microsoft officially terminated Microsoft Points through an Xbox 360 software update in the U.S., that converted the points scheme into real money.?A Microsoft representative told Polygon at the time that the official release of the 2013 Xbox Live Update will be a gradual deployment across all 41 Xbox Live-enabled markets.

GTA 5 launches on PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 on Sept. 17.

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