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  • Teenage Indian hacker gets paid by US organization for dropping off college

    An Indian immigrant is set to become the most accomplished hacker in US as he is being paid for dropping college studies and engaging himself in Silicon Valley's entrepreneurial environment. Diwank Singh Tomer, 19 has enrolled himself with the Facebook's first investor and the co-founder and former CEO of PayPal, Peter Thiel, who is paying 100,000 dollars to 20 teenagers to launch a business of ...

  • Oakland Effect Police say Melrose and 50th is latest crime hot spot

    Month on month, crime is up in our hot spot. With one murder, seven robberies, one shooting and seven residential burglaries, every category saw an increase since the last Neighborhood Crime Prevention Council for police District 27 met. And my particular block, it turns out, was the worst spot in the neighborhood."Melrose and 50th is one of the hot spots this month," said our local ...

  • Shirakawas decisive vote in ambulance deal prompts Santa Clara County scrutiny

    In December 2009, Santa Clara County Supervisor George Shirakawa Jr. flew into the San Diego airport, rented a Grand Marquis and headed to a marina Marriott for a five-day taxpayer-funded trip. With the county's vital ambulance contract soon up for bid, Shirakawa and his chief of staff, Eddie Garcia, asserted that they were conducting a tour of the "WestMed" ambulance service, ...

  • Super Bowl vote 49ers Bay Area prepare for NFLs decision Tuesday

    On Tuesday, 32 of the country's richest and most powerful people will file into a 15th-floor executive boardroom overlooking Boston Harbor. They'll lock the door behind them and take their seats in high-backed leather chairs around a large mahogany table for exactly one hour and 15 minutes.At 10:30 a.m. PDT, the NFL team owners each will write just two words -- "San ...

  • Community Corner Bay Area Nonprofit Encourages A Smart Summer

    SAN FRANCISCO (KCBS) – As Bay Area families gear up for summer activities, one local organization says it’s important to avoid summer learning loss, or ';brain drain.'; ';Basically kids will forget,'; Ed Caballero is Executive Director and Co-founder of Edventure More, a nonprofit enrichment organization that includes summer camps for kids pre-K through 8th grade ...


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Movie Review

Paper Moon [DVD]

Paper Moon [DVD]

Tatum ONeal was nine years old and had never acted in her life when she played one of the lead roles in Peter Bogdanovichs Paper Moon opposite her father, then superstar Ryan ONeal, and became the (still) youngest person to ever win an Oscar. Some have seen her victory as a sentimental fluke, but watching Paper Moon, its impossible to deny the power and subtlety of her performance a ... ...

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  • Fremont is US new manufacturing hub thanks to Silicon Valley

    In a busy factory, machinists move sheets of aluminum roll in the back door to be molded, stamped, twisted and notched into high-tech electric cars that sell for more than $60,000 each.Down the road in another plant, crews slice solar cells, place them under glass sheets and create panels that ship by the boxful to Europe. Elsewhere in this town, industrial workshops and laboratories buzz with ...

  • Sharks Top Kings 2-1 Logan Couture Overtime Goal Gives San Jose First Win In Series

    Dan Boyle #22, Patrick Marleau #12 and Logan Couture #39 of the San Jose Sharks celebrate with teammates after Boyle scored a goal against the Los Angeles Kings in the first period in Game Three of the Western Conference Semifinals during the 2013 NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs at HP Pavilion on May 18, 2013 in San Jose, ...

  • Chavez Scores As Earthquakes Draw With Rapids 1-1

    SANTA CLARA, Calif. (AP) Marvin Chavez scored his first goal of the season to help the San Jose Earthquakes pull out a 1-1 tie against the Colorado Rapids on Saturday ...

  • Bay Area firms idea to lift underwater homeowners to positive equity loses steam

    A year ago, with the real estate market still in a deep slump, a San Francisco firm caught the attention of officials in California and elsewhere with its novel idea of using eminent domain to seize underwater mortgages in order to reduce the amount that borrowers owe.Now, with home prices rising again and facing fierce opposition from the financial industry, Mortgage Resolution Partners has ...

  • $590 million Powerball jackpot 1 winning ticket sold in Florida

    A Powerball Lottery ticket is dispensed from a machine in Oklahoma City, Friday, May 17, 2013. Powerball officials say the jackpot has climbed to an estimated $600 million, making it the largest prize in the game's history and the world's second largest lottery prize.(AP Photo/Sue ...

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