This is a difficult subject to raise because John Chambers has been such a forceful and effective CEO of Cisco Systems. But the departure of his No. 2 executive and likely successor, Charlie Giancarlo, forces us to confront the inevitable: is it time for Chambers to move on? ...
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] I've often written the first firearm I ever shot was a top-break .22 pistol on my uncle's farm. However, as I have been thinking about it lately I have come to realize that's probably not true. Like many young boys growing up in the '30s, '40s,...
Plasma systemengineers from Plasma Etch, Inc. at SEMICON West announced Tuesday that the company has integrated ascroll oil-free vacuum pump into the console of its PE-100 benchtop surface-modificationsystem to replace the system's auxiliary oil-filled pump. The company's migration to the scroll oil-free pump is largely intended...
Developer Greg Banta's company began buying old buildings just north of downtown Oklahoma City in 2005. One of those was the city's first suburban shopping center. The Plaza Court was constructed in 1926 and 1927 at 1100 Classen Dr. on a triangle-shaped piece of...
TEC Program Highlights Access to Technology as a Basic Human Right ARLINGTON, Va. -- The Consumer Electronics Association CEA([R]) yesterday announced that Craig Barrett, chairman of Intel Corp., and John Chambers, chairman and CEO of Cisco, will speak at the 2009 International CES([R]) as a part of the...
CITY COUNCIL Hot topic: Councilman John Alcala's proposal to establish a water and wastewater utility rate refund program. Background: The program would provide eligible, lower-income Topekans refunds of the increase the city imposed May 1 in its minimum monthly rate for water and wastewater...
PROVO -- The Provo Rotary Club recently announced that it has installed well-known business leader John Petersen as president of the club for the upcoming year. Petersen has been an active member of Rotary Club for 13 years. "Rotary's agenda is service and that...
STI is now in the single action sixgun business! The Texican was first announced in the fall of 2006 and finally arrived in late fall 2007. The Texican is an all-American sixgun produced in Connecticut with the first run chambered in .45 Colt with a 5-1/2" barrel. Other barrel lengths...
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The .22 is our oldest cartridge, dating back to 1857 when the first cartridge firing revolver, the Smith & Wesson seven-shot, tip-up, Model #1 chambered in .22 Short was introduced. Over the past century and a half the .22 has also become our most popular cartridge....
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] In my early sixgunnin' years I religiously measured the groove diameter of sixgun barrels by tapping a pure lead slug down the barrel with a wooden dowel and then trying to measure the diameter of the bullet. Enlightenment came when I finally realized the barrel diameter...
Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) today announced a US$45 million (RMB 300M) three-year commitment to support reconstructionefforts in China's Sichuan Province, which was hit on May 12th by one ofthe most devastating earthquakes in China's history. Cisco made thiscommitment today during the signing of a memorandum of understanding MOUoverseen by Sichuan...
FOR all the renewed talk of a "conservative crack-up" these days, there are still some things conservatives can largely agree on. The big examples are pretty obvious: Markets are more efficient than government, collectivism is bad, Reagan was put on this earth to kick ass and chew gum (and he...
Ball Janik LLP has announced that attorneys Richard H. Allan, John J. Dunbar, Stephen T. Janik, James T. McDermott, Bradley S. Miller, Timothy M. Parks, Barbara W. Radler and Sarah J. Ryan were recognized by Chambers USA 2008, which recognizes law firms and attorneys for excellence in their field...
The state Senate had a scare yesterday when Sen. Vincent Fumo, one of the most powerful politicians in Pennsylvania, collapsed to the floor of the Senate chamber while speaking with several other lawmakers about 5 p.m. Fumo, 65, who had a heart attack March 2 at his home in...
Cisco Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CSCO) Day 3 Highlights / Key Facts Padmasree Warrior delivers first keynote as Cisco's Chief TechnologyOfficer Warrior and several senior executives conduct press briefings via CiscoTelePresence on the company's key initiatives and big bets with reportersfrom San Francisco, New York and Europe. More than...
Cisco Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CSCO) Day 2 Highlights / Key Facts Cisco CEO and Chairman of the Board John Chambers delivers keynote Cisco announced three new corporate and technology initiatives: 1. Green: Cisco states goal to reduce its global greenhouse gas GhGemissions 25 percent...
LAS VEGAS -- Kaplan Higher Education today announced that Heritage College is now known as Kaplan College. Today, the campus hosted a ceremony to celebrate its new name. Highlights included remarks from Rob Dillman, executive director of Kaplan College; Jeff Conlon, president of Kaplan Higher Education; Larry Singer,...
As part of an ongoing commitment toenvironmental responsibility, Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) today announced that ithas set a goal of reducing greenhouse gas GHG emissions from itsworldwide operations by 25 percent over the next four years, reaching itsgoal in absolute terms by 2012. The company will deploy a uniquemultiprong approach...
CBSO: A Sea Symphony tonight Simon Halsey right celebrates 25 years as the CBSO's chorus director by conducting Vaughan Williams's stirring symphony on sea poems by Walt Whitman, plus a rare performance of Holst's radiant chamber opera Savitri. With Janice Watson, Sarah Connolly, James Oxley...
OUTLOOK Downing Street has yet to forgive Mervyn King for upstaging a relatively positive message on the economy in the Queen's Speech with a warning on the same day that "the nice decade" of non- inflationary growth was over. So either the Prime Minister,...
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