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It's about location!... This charming town home has a living area of 1,641 Sq. Ft. It's located in South McAllen is off 2nd Street and Houston, close to Shopping Malls, Grocery Stores, Hospitals and McAllen International Airport. Amenities in this gated subdivision are swimming pool and gym.
A federal judge has thrown out the SEC's insider trading suit against Dallas Mavericks owner (and digital entrepreneur) Mark Cuban, according to the AP.
Cuban was accused of dumping Mamma.com stock after learning about an impending stock offering in 2004.
No word from Mark on his blog or Twitter account yet.
U.S. District Judge Sidney A. Fitzwater granted Cuban's motion Friday. Fitzwater gave the Securities and Exchange Commission 30 days to file an amended complaint.
The SEC alleged Cuban was involved in insider trading when he sold shares in an Internet search engine company, Mamma.com Inc., after receiving confidential information about a private offering in 2004.
The SEC said Cuban avoided a loss of $750,000 by selling his 600,000 shares, which represented a 6.3 percent stake in the company.
Cuban's lawyers argued that the NBA team owner wasn't legally an "insider."
Grouplove celebrated the release of their much-anticipated sophomore LP Spreading Rumours with a sold-out show at The Troubadour in Los Angeles last night (September 17). It was a happy homecoming for the globe-trotting five-piece. Their rollicking, sun-kissed tunes were lapped up by the adoring crowd and the band ceme...
It’s always a gamble to focus on new material as opposed to the tried and tested hits but Grouplove dove fearlessly into their new album and the crowd was more than happy to go along for the journey — singing along to each and every song. They kicked off the night with Spreading Rumours opener “I’m With You”. It’s the ...
The song clearly struck a chord with fans and it wasn’t long before people began to chant along with Christian Zucconi and imitate Hannah Hooper‘s wicked hairography. “Borderlines And Aliens” was equally well-received with its whirring guitars and infectious hand claps, while Never Trust A Happy Song favorite “Lovely C...
“School Boy” and “Shark Attack” followed and proved that the new album is jam-packed with jangly guitar-laced alt-pop hits. (Choosing the next single will be difficult — the band is spoilt for choice). Hannah introduced next song “Hippy Hill” by describing Grouplove as a cross between hippies and gangsters, which seems...
“Naked Kids” and “Spun” were enjoyable throwbacks to their earlier material — particularly the latter, which found guitarist Andrew Wessen taking over vocal duties. Next up was new jam “What I Know”. It made a huge impression with its big hooks and killer harmonies. That lo-fi pop gem positions the band as the second c...
Breakthrough hit “Tongue Tied” was a reminder of how much the band has developed over the past two years. The song still sounds great but Grouplove is all grown up now — as guitar-heavy rock anthem “Bitin’ The Bullet” showed. Fan favorite “Slow” closed the high-energy set before the tight-knit fivesome returned for a h...
Were you there? Let us know what you thought of the show in the comments.
Can The Local Food Movement Scale Up?
The local food movement in America is gaining steam. The question is whether can it attract sufficient capital from the private sector to build large, profitable businesses. Without that, it’s just a fad.
Energy and agriculture have more in common than you might think. Food and fossil fuels prices are rising at the same time as land and water are becoming increasingly scarce commodities–and both energy and agricultural production processes are harming human health and the environment. At the same time, both industries s...
And then there is the inextricable link between energy and agriculture. The food industry in the U.S is one of the largest and most wasteful consumers of energy. Various studies estimate that the food industry consumes around 10% of the nation’s energy with only about 20% of it used in the actual production of food. Th...
For all of these reasons and others, the local food movement in America is gaining steam. Families, restaurants and schools are purchasing more of their food from farmer’s markets. Community, school, and backyard gardens are springing up all over. And in places where land is scarce–large, densely populated urban areas–...
The question we must ask is, “Will this scale?” For anything to scale, it must solve a real problem, be cost-effective and replicable, and have the right systems in place to support it. To do that, it must attract sufficient capital from the private sector to encourage entrepreneurs to build large, profitable businesse...
In 1999, when I was an MBA student, I came up with a solution for selling solar power to businesses at or below the going rate for electricity. My idea was to form a company and raise money from big investors to cover the upfront costs of buying photovoltaic solar panels for commercial customers’ rooftops. The company ...
I wrote a business plan, but it was the height of the dotcom era and no one was interested in financing a company that did not have a sock puppet for a mascot. It wasn’t until 2003 that I actually got SunEdison off the ground. It was not easy because we had to overcome the qualms of conservative investors and, in many ...
Retailers purchasing food grown on their premises completely disrupts the complicated and expensive food industry supply chain. It reduces transportation costs to almost zero–offsetting the higher upfront costs of greenhouse farming over conventional methods–and increases margins because the produce has a longer shelf ...
Only time will tell if this new model catch on with enough U.S. supermarket chains to make a difference in our nation’s food supply. But what is clear now is that no silver bullet exists for America’s energy and food production issues. Just as solar rooftop systems meet some but not all of our energy needs, rooftop gar...
ATLANTA — A 20-year-old maintenance worker who this week pleaded guilty to molesting and killing a 7-year-old girl was found dead of an apparent suicide in his prison cell Thursday, according to the Georgia Department of Corrections.
Ryan Brunn was found unresponsive at 4:15 p.m. at the state prison in Jackson, spokeswoman Kristen Stancil said. Brunn was taken to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 5:37 p.m., she said in an email. She gave no other details about how he died.
Georgia Bureau of Investigation agents were investigating, said agency spokesman John Bankhead. An autopsy will likely be done Friday at the agency’s medical examiner’s office in Decatur, he said.
Brunn pleaded guilty on Tuesday to Jorelys Rivera’s Dec. 2 killing at a north Georgia apartment complex where she lived and he had worked for about a month.
The girl was reported missing after she left the complex’s playground to retrieve sodas at her apartment for her friends. Brunn described in detail to the court how he lured the girl into a vacant apartment and sexually assaulted her. He said he was afraid she would tell her parents so he “cut her.” When she didn’t die...
Then he put her body in a garbage bag and dumped it in a trash compactor at the complex where it was found.
After his guilty plea, a judge immediately sentenced him to life in prison without parole. Brunn also apologized to the girl’s family members, who sobbed in the front row of the courtroom when he graphically described how he killed her.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported that the girl’s mother expressed relief Thursday.
The news of Brunn’s death came the same day that Canton officials announced that its police Chief Jeff Lance had resigned after a scathing report found he took a “laid back” approach to the search for Rivera.
Brunn’s defense attorney, David Cannon, did not immediately return calls seeking comment. Cherokee County District Attorney Garry Moss also did not immediately return calls.
Lance stepped down after the 17-page review revealed his department of about 50 officers violated several of its own policies and made many mistakes in the search for Rivera, said city manager Scott Wood.
A call to Lance for comment was not immediately returned.
Local officers arriving to search for Rivera failed to activate their dash-board cameras to record the scene, failed to immediately determine if any sexual predators lived or worked nearby, and didn’t report her case to a national registry until almost a day after she went missing, the report said.
The report said Lance didn’t arrive at the apartment complex in the town of about 23,000 until around 10:15 a.m. the next morning — about 17 hours after the child was last seen. When he did arrive, it said he was talking to several other officers about the “Georgia game” and eventually turned the TV to a football game.
“Personnel present at the scene frequently characterized the chief’s level of concern as ‘laid back,'” the report said.
Lance failed to launch a separate criminal investigation or heed advice to process Rivera’s home as a crime scene, the report said.
Other problems with the investigation surfaced earlier. A Cherokee County deputy who failed to immediately report seeing drops of blood in an apartment during the search for the girl was earlier ordered to undergo additional training. That was not included in the latest report.
Wood, the city manager, said the review should answer questions that were raised about the department’s policies and procedures.
“Although sadly the family must still deal with the heartache and loss of this young child, from a legal perspective the matter has now been fully concluded,” he said in a statement.
Small meteors which crash into the moon are cause it to leak water buried just three inches (8cm) below the lunar surface, according to NASA scientists.
They suggest that the subsurface moisture that is being released has been retained since the Moon formed, or soon after.
The researchers estimate that meteorite impacts on the Moon cause the loss of as much as 200 tonnes (220 tons) of water per year.
The impacts hit soil which is dry 3 inches (8cm) deep underneath which is a layer with about 0.05 per cent water content which is spewed out on impact.
But a decade ago, trace amounts were found on the surface of the Moon, and not only in polar ice deposits as previously thought.
Researchers say the water originated on the moon due to a combination of solar wind and meteor tires bringing it to the barren surface.
However, the source and extent of these water traces have been debated.
When a speck of space debris strikes the moon it vaporises on impact, creating a shock wave that resonates through the lunar soil.
For a sufficiently large impactor, this shock wave can breach the soil's dry upper layer and release water molecules from a hydrated layer below.
Using an instrument on aboard NASA's Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE), planetary scientist Doctor Mehdi Benna said that it picked up 'high anomalously high and episodic amounts of water in the lunar atmosphere'.
'There was so much that the instrument on the spacecraft acted like a sponge, soaking up the water that was moving through the atmosphere,' said Dr Benna.
The LADEE detects these water molecules as they enter the lunar atmosphere, with peaks in the water signal correlating to known meteor showers on Earth.
The craft orbited the Moon from October 2013 to April 2014 and its detections coincided with 29 meteor streams.
Dr Benna and his team studied the amount of water released by meteor streams of different sizes.
They were then able to determine that the uppermost layer of lunar soil is dehydrated.
Below this, they calculate that water is uniformly present at concentrations up to about 0.05 per cent.
The team said that the discovery may lay the groundwork for future investigation into the origin and fate of water on the Moon and improve our understanding of the moon's geologic past and its continued evolution.
The full findings were published in Nature Geoscience.
WHAT OTHER EVIDENCE HAS BEEN FOUND FOR WATER ON THE MOON?
A number of researchers have made claims that water may be found on the moon, either above or below its surface or in its soil, by future visitors.
Such discovery could mean future lunar colonies could harvest water on the moon without having to bring it with them from Earth.
They could also convert it into hydrogen and oxygen for rocket fuel or oxygen to breathe, scientists claim.
In February 2018, a study found by the Space Science Institute in Boulder, Colorado water in the form of OH - a more reactive relative of H2O - all over the lunar surface.
In September 2017, experts created the first map of water and its building blocks trapped in the uppermost portion of the Moon's soil.
They claimed that water in this form is present nearly everywhere on the lunar surface.
A separate study that month, showed that the surface of the moon holds more water than we thought.
It suggests the interior of our natural satellite could hold a deep reservoir of water.
This finding bolsters the idea that the lunar mantle is surprisingly water-rich, which could make colonising it for future space exploration much easier.
If Carl Icahn's tax repatriation super PAC achieves its goal, it could mean a huge payday for Icahn himself.
Carl Icahn's tax repatriation super PAC might just help him get everything he's always wanted out of Apple (AAPL - Get Report) .
The billionaire activist investor announced plans on Wednesday to launch his own super PAC dedicated to corporate tax reform. Starting with an initial injection of $150 million of his own capital, the group will concentrate its efforts on overhauling the U.S. tax system to keep corporations from moving headquarters and...
"It would be hitting the mini-lottery," said Dan Ives, managing director of Virginia-based investment bank FBR Capital Markets.
Moody's Investor Service estimates that as of December 31, 2014, 89% of Apple's $178 billion cash stash -- or $158 billion -- is parked outside the U.S. Today, that number is estimated to be about $200 billion.
Given tax rates, it's no wonder it is in no hurry to repatriate funds: according to a WalletHub study, Apple enjoyed a 4.4% international tax rate overseas in 2014, compared to the 59.4% federal tax rate it estimates the company was subject to last year.
"There is so much excess cash out there," said Andrew Chang, director of corporate ratings at Standard & Poor's. "Frankly, if there weren't such friction on repatriation issues, the overall cash balance would be much, much smaller, and that excess cash would be going back to shareholders."
If international tax reform, such as the one-time 5.25% repatriation holiday that took place in 2004 or a more long-term reduced rate (Icahn mentions 5%-to-10%), were to happen, the implications for Apple -- and its shareholders -- would be huge.
"It would be a one-two punch, because there would be an actual event in terms of a buyback, a dividend situation, but then also the stock would start to get re-weighted," Ives said.
Say the United States implements a 10% tax rate on repatriated cash (the high end of Icahn's estimate). Assuming Apple has $200 billion abroad, that means it could bring back $180 billion. Now, if Apple decides, for example, to use just half of that amount -- $90 billion -- for a one-time dividend across its 5.7 billio...
There is good reason to believe Apple would use a big portion of the money to give back to shareholders as opposed to putting the funds toward its own development and growth.
"Companies' capex and R&D plans take years to develop, and that doesn't change overnight because someone allows you to bring cash back," said Chang. "You can't just switch on and off hiring decisions, factory expansion decisions, based on tax reform."
In an interview with CNBC's Scott Wapner on Wednesday, Icahn stopped short of saying explicitly that he thinks repatriating cash lead to more dividends and buybacks for shareholders, but the issue was clearly on his mind, as was Apple.
"Let's say the whole $2 trillion was done in a buyback or done in a dividend, that would still be great for our economy, because that money would be here in somebody's hands, that money doesn't go in a mattress, people don't burn it. They're in this country spending that money, and they own it, and they're not borrowin...
But Icahn and other Apple stockholders wouldn't just benefit from shareholder return programs triggered by cash repatriation, they would also likely see a boost in Apple's stock price as Wall Street begins to factor in the cash that, while kept overseas, it has been ignoring.
"Part of why [Icahn] is so over-the-top bullish is because of the cash component, which the street takes a huge discount to given that the cash is basically in jail right now overseas," Ives said. "The street would really have to start to give more credit to the $200 billion in cash that Apple has."
Ives estimates tax repatriation would likely lead to stock appreciation of 8%-to-10%. It would certainly get Apple's stock closer to the $240 target Icahn put on it back in May.
Icahn has been testing the waters in the political realm as of late. He was first thrust into the spotlight when in June Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump suggested he would tap his fellow billionaire as treasury secretary. Icahn first declined the offer but has since accepted and thrown his weight behin...
"Guys like me ... should be doing much more to get involved in the political arena," he told Wapner.
Representatives for Icahn and Apple did not return request for comment.
With the 2018 commencement season in full-swing, a quiet group of four students has received bachelor’s degrees.
These four are different because they achieved their four-year educational goal without leaving their families, work and homes in South Lake Tahoe. They completed their degrees on the campus of Lake Tahoe Community College.
The SNC@LTCC program is a part of Sierra Nevada College’s Project Eagle. Project Eagle has opened community college extension centers in Reno and South Lake Tahoe to offer students a seamless pathway to a four-year degree without the disruption that transferring to another institution can cause.
Geared toward working students who have ties to home and community, SNC@LTCC allows LTCC students to explore the expanded opportunity that a four-year degree brings, without the expense and disruption of leaving the South Shore.
A generous donation from Robert and Robin Holman along with a gift of support services from the KAP Group in Reno made it possible for Lindsay Lipp to complete her degree. She did so in just over three years from the LTCC campus.
A 12-year resident of South Lake Tahoe, Lipp, like so many, delayed her education for her two children and her work.
With her bachelor’s in hand, Lindsay has been accepted to the MBA program at the University of Nevada, Reno.
This article was provided by Sierra Nevada College Tahoe.

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