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Smart growth: Toyota dealer fetes 100 years with new facility
Smart Motors will celebrate its 100th anniversary in style. The dealership, which was founded in 1908 in Waukesha and moved here four years later, is set to open its new 100,000 square-foot facility next Monday. Smart's booming sales have made it the No. 9 selling Toyota dealer -- No. 1 in hybrids -- among 114 in the automaker's Chicago Region, which includes Wisconsin, Illinois, Minnesota, Michigan and Indiana. And that success is reflected in the new two-story facility, which will be the largest in the region and which follows an industry trend of pampering customers. Amenities include big-screen TVs, Wi-Fi service, an electronic fireplace, a snack area, an aquarium, and two play areas for children. "We're raising the bar," President and CEO J.R. Smart said in a recent interview.
Syria to Be at Summit to Begin Monday
The Bush administration was able to declare a clean sweep when Syria, the last Arab world holdout, said Sunday it would attend this week's high-stakes Mideast peace conference. Top negotiators awaited a meeting with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to finalize details. The White House reacted to Syria's last-minute announcement by trying to keep the focus on the broad list of participants. "We welcome the attendance of so many countries from the region and around the world," said Gordon Johndroe, spokesman for President Bush's National Security Council. "This large number signals broad support for Israeli-Palestinian peace efforts." .
Appscan 6.0
AppScan 6.0 is the second official release of the product since Watchfire acquired the technology when it bought Sanctum. The previous release was mainly a rebranding, and AppScan 6.0 is the first version of the product on which Watchfire has truly put its stamp. .
What if the 'Surge' Works?
Should Bush's surge happen to succeed, angry voters aren't very likely to run around punishing politicians who voiced doubts (especially since most voters harbored those same doubts). Voters just won't be riled up the way they'll be if the surge fails. They'll base their vote on other issues (e.g., health care, taxes). Isn't the rational course for a self-protective Senator, then, to err on the side of pessimism and vote as if the surge had a lower chance of success than you actually think it does (or than you would think it does if you actually analyzed it fully)? ... **--Update: Anti-surgers could always "huff, snort, nit-pick" about the inevitable "messy details," suggests Victor Davis Hanson--though I imagine that would be easier for previously antiwar Dems than previously prowar GOPs.
Hawai'i basks in glow of victory
For the 2007 Western Athletic Conference football champions, the Aloha State is in a state of aloha. Hawai'i defensive tackle Michael Lafaele said he received well wishes from friends and family members. Linebacker Solomon Elimimian said he was congratulated while shopping at Wal-Mart. "My phone's been going off," said quarterback Colt Brennan, noting his cell stopped accepting messages. Brennan said he received text messages from across the country. Several came from Boston. More from Chicago, where a former Colorado teammate watched Friday's telecast of UH's 39-27 victory over Boise State. "He said the game was on every single TV in the bar, and the place was going nuts cheering for us," Brennan said. "That was really awesome." Brennan acknowledged the wide-reaching importance of the Warriors' first outright Western Athletic Conference football title.
New Phishing System Takes Advantage of JPEG Bug
The DLL, now infecting Windows Explorer, contacts a different system on the same provider network as maybeyes.biz and downloads from it an XML-based template file. This file describes the phishing spam message to be sent from the infected system and the e-mail addresses to which it should be sent. Analysis on the DLL is not complete. .
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