| Thrifty Car Sales Opens Eight Dealerships in Six States
TULSA, Okla., Nov. 26 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Thrifty Car Sales, a subsidiary of Dollar Thrifty Automotive Group, Inc. (NYSE: DTG) , is turning up the heat on expansions, recently adding eight locations to its national network of franchised used car dealerships. New dealerships are opening in markets that include Baxley, Ga.; Louisville, Ky.; Albuquerque, N.M.; Bixby and Pryor, Okla.; East Providence, R.I.; and Spokane, Wash. In Baxley, Ga., dealer Keven Carter opened a Thrifty Car Sales dealership at 755 W. Parker St. Carter has been in the automotive business for more than 10 years, most recently as Sales Manager at Woody Folsom Chevrolet. Steve Sternberg, a Thrifty Car Rental and Truck Rental franchisee for more than 32 years, has opened a dealership at 6507 Preston Highway in Louisville, Ky.
Renters near UA in tight spot
About a dozen boarders in two rental homes are caught between the proverbial rock and a hard place as the University of Akron buys homes to clear the way for a new stadium and student housing. Many say they do not have the money for a security deposit and first month's rent for new lodging. So they must stay where they are until UA gives them a promised moving allowance of $1,500 each. Yet UA won't turn over the money until the sales close. So the boarders — adults all — may end up on the streets just days before Christmas. ''It gets more confusing by the minute,'' said Jim Watkins, 45, who does siding and roofing work. ''We don't know anything and don't have any answers.'' UA is purchasing many properties on a 12-acre footprint southeast of campus to make way for a $32.5 million residence hall and a stadium which has a price tag that has risen from $55 million to $61.5 million because additional options have been added.
Oprah's Big Give sparks donations to kids program in Orlando
ABC, the Disney-owned broadcast network, gave $10,000 seed money to affiliate WFTV-Channel 9. WFTV announced Wednesday that donations were at $50,000 and growing.
"We had an idea, then the Oprah program and Channel 9 have come through to get it off the ground," Demings said. "We want to identify children that come from areas plagued by crime and turn them into superstars."
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Off-season Greece, from $570
When: Jan. 2, 16, 30, Feb. 13, 27, Mar. 12, 2008. There is an air-inclusive version of this package (see Getting There below for details) that is available for all of these dates except Jan. 2 and Mar. 12. The fine print: The starting rate is based on quadruple occupancy; add $228 per person for triple occupancy and $529 per person for double occupancy. There are no lodging taxes. Rental car taxes are included. If you book the air-inclusive package, which starts at $1,353 per person (based on quadruple occupancy), airport taxes and fees are included; fuel surcharges are about $50 per person. Read these guidelines before you book any Real Deal. .
Adult-to-child ration matters more
Jessica Blanchard's Monday article "Does class size make a difference?" focuses exclusively on class size rather than adult-to-child ratio. I've got three examples as a parent where this ratio matters more than the class size. My kids, now 10 and 15, had the good fortune to go to great schools in Israel, Sweden and Seattle's John Stanford International School. My daughter's Israeli K-1 class was large, 36 students, but had a lead teacher and full-time adult assistant who worked with small groups on reading, art projects and prepared tea for the class. My son's 3-4 class in Sweden had close to 50 students but, again, a lead teacher directed a full-time assistant and language, art and math specialists who were in class daily. Back here at JSIS, parents chip in to hire a full-time assistant for the immersive language teachers, including one for the 32 students in my son's fourth-grade Japanese class.
Blackberry outage endangers Valentine's Day
Could the timing have been any worse? Mere days before out annual celebration of all that is love, the anti-Cupids responsible for keeping Blackberry passions smoldering have done let the fire go out again. Last time this happened, back in April 2007, the results were disastrous, not only in terms of broken connections, but also busted relationships between men and women robbed of their communications lifelines. Here at Buzzblog, we chronicled the case of one such victim, Rafael Paz, in a post headlined: "BlackBerry owes this guy a girlfriend." It's just like in that series of AT&T/Cingular TV commercials where the gaps of silence created by dropped calls lead to terrible misunderstandings - only this case involves BlackBerry and real life. Just as the smoke is starting to clear from today's massive BlackBerry blackout, Rafael Paz, a loss control specialist for a car rental agency, writes to tell me that he has been "getting my e-mails about one to four hours late minimum since yesterday." And it hasn't just been loss control that has suffered, he adds: "This issue sucks.
Every School Every Thursday -- Johnston
First place, Becky Cooper, Johnston High.
Middle School Flight-Balsa wood gliders: First place, Matt Ruebbelke, Johnston Middle; second place, John Koopah, Summit Middle.
Technology Quiz Bowl-Middle School: First place, Johnston Middle, Keo Corak, Kofi Manteaw, Matt Ruebbelke; Technology Quiz Bowl-High School: Second place, Johnston, Mike Traxel, Cody Catron and Alex Stanbrough; third place, Johnston, Kate Dickey, Trevor Haden and Rachel Stanley.
Structural Engineering-Middle School: First place, Johnston Middle, Matt Ruebbelke and Kofi Manteaw; second place, Johnston Middle, Melinda Thomas and Vicki Lee Thomas.
Structural Engineering-High School: First place, Johnston, Becky Cooper and Linda Brown.
Middle School-Dragster Challenge: First place, Jordan Hansen, Summit Middle; second place, Jarid Ingrebrand, Summit Middle; third place, Zea Zhu, Summit Middle.
Replica guns seized from collector
I don't understand... Is possession of the replicas actually illegal, or did the police just decide it's not a good idea and take this mans property? There was no discussion of charging him, so I guessing it's the latter. How does anyone tolerate this? .
Hot Topic: Asus
The Taiwanese manufacturer's new multimedia laptops each boast 1TB of storage thanks to hard-drive designs from Hitachi. Startkey turns any Windows system into your PC Microsoft has confirmed that Startkey, which enables users to carry their personal Windows applications and settings on a flash drive, will be available later this year. Intel leaves OLPC after Classmate sale embargo Intel has pulled the plug on its involvement in the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project, saying OLPC founder Nick Negroponte expected the chip company to stop selling its Classmate PC while it was a part of the program. Gates waves goodbye to CES with speech and touch Bill Gates may be stepping away from full-time work later this year, but he still has a few things he wants to show off.
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