Similarly, a mixture of these emerging technologies that deliver greater location precision is a boon for other applications, including many that enterprises can leverage. In fact, some cross-carrier enterprise location information services are already available to offer a dynamic view of whats going on across geographies. Most US mobile operators, including ATamp;T, Verizon Wireless, Sprint [...]

Its no secret that Google is preparing an applications platform for its Google+ social network. Game developers say theyre looking forward to making games for the platform, which could launch within a matter of weeks. Google+ has gained tens of millions of users in the past four weeks and has become an attractive platform with [...]

#xD; #xD; If legislators needed a reminder that now is not the time to be playing games with the US economy, they received it today in the Commerce Departments latest report on growth. #xD; #xD; Two years after it hit bottom in mid-2009, the economy has yet to regain the losses it suffered in the [...]

The much-anticipated debut of Travis Pastrana in the Nationwide Series has been put on hold after the action sports superstar sustained a broken right foot and ankle during an X Games motorcycle event on Thursday night in Los Angeles. Pastrana crashed while attempting a double TP Roll maneuver on his motorcycle. During its broadcast of [...]

* Unique situation * Millions collectively spent on ads By Kim Dixon WASHINGTON, July 29 (Reuters) – As US lawmakers scramble to clinch a debt-ceiling deal before a Tuesday deadline, interest groups are blitzing the airwaves to sway members of Congress still sitting on the fence. From the pro-business Club For Growth to national labor [...]

In peril over the years from alarmists, two-a-day workouts were the place where NFL coaches in the past felt they had to draw a line in the sand. Or, in this torrid summer anyway, in the brown and withered grass. Without two-a-days, a manly game became soft and dissolute. New York Jets linebacker Bart Scott [...]

Jul 19, 2011  WASHINGTON (AP) — An Associated Press analysis finds that western states are feeling the greatest economic stress two years after the recession ended. The AP’s Economic Stress Index released today shows that Arizona, California and Nevada are still suffering. Job growth in the three states has been limited by depressed home prices [...]

Did you catch Charlie Manuels comments about the Giants pitching staff after the last game in Philadelphia? Pretty tacky stuff from a manager who usually plays it close to the vest. Theyre not in our heads, he told reporters. I dont think so. Really. I dont think so at all. I think we can get [...]

Natatorium serves many uses

July 30th, 2011

When one thinks about American culture, swimming and summer just go together. Each summer many children learn to swim at the Lake C. Oxford Natatorium. If these lessons keep even one child from drowning, then our communitys support to keep the natatorium open has been worthwhile. It is not only the children and their families [...]

Reports of coyotes in neighborhoods throughout Terrebonne have increased so much in the past year that the Terrebonne Parish Animal Shelter has begun contracting with a Baton Rouge nuisance trapper, said shelter Director Valerie Robinson. How much the shelter is paying the trapper wasnt immediately available. The department normally only responds to calls related to [...]