| . |  Facebook`s IPO SputtersFacebook shares struggled to stay above their $38 IPO price, as Wall Street bankers stepped in to prevent the newly minted stock from ending its first day with an embarrassing loss.
- Amazon poised to get a cut of California sales taxes
 Eager to host Amazon warehouses and receive a cut of the tax on sales to customers statewide, two California cities are offering Amazon most of the tax money they stand to gain.PATTERSON, Calif. —Amazon.com Inc.for years has fought government efforts to tax e-commerce. Now it`s poised to pocket millions of dollars in sales taxes paid by California customers.
 Virginia Dale rest area on Highway 287 re-opens for season on May 21 The Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) will open the Virginia Dale Rest Area for the summer on Monday, May 21. The rest area is located on US 287 at mile marker 383, approximately two miles south of the Colorado/Wyoming border. Closed since September of last year, the rest area generally opens by Memorial Day. Thanks [...]
- Students experiment with aerodynamics in model rocket competition
 There was an air of excitement and anticipation as 38 teams gathered Friday afternoon on the Moffat County High School practice football field for a rocket launch competition.
Dozens more joined their classmates for the seventh-period contest, taking seats on the north hill to watch the action.
But, the MCHS science department’s spring Science Olympic event, “Rockin' Rockets,” got off to a slow start.
Kylee Gorringe was the first student on the launch pad.
- BKD names new CEO
 Accounting firm BKD has named its Regional Managing Partner Ted Dickman as its next CEO, effective June 1. Dickman succeeds CEO Neal Spencer, who announced in February he would step down. Dickman will be in charge of nearly 2,000 employees. He has spent the last four years as regional managing partner of BKD’s East Region, [...]
| . | - Status update: Facebook`s Zuckerberg gets married
 (Reuters) - Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg wed longtime girlfriend Priscilla Chan on Saturday, announcing the nuptials through a status update on the social networking site. The 28-year-old billionaire`s wedding took place a day after Facebook`s initial public offering on the Nasdaq stock exchange on Friday. More than 280,000 people "liked" Zuckerberg`s status change, which was accompanied by a photo of the smiling couple in wedding attire in a small, verdant outdoor setting with a string of lights behind them. In the photo, the famously casual Zuckerberg is wearing a dark blue suit and tie, a departure from his trademark "hoodie," while Chan has on a sleeveless white dress with lace overlay. Both are smiling for the camera. Zuckerberg, whose shares are worth nearly $20 billion and who retains voting control of Facebook, marked the debut of his company`s stock at Facebook`s Silicon Valley campus on Friday, symbolically ringing the opening bell for stock trading. The IPO did not go as well as the social networking company had hoped, with shares closing just above the offering price of $38 a share after trading glitches and a last-minute, 25 percent increase in the number of shares being sold. More than 576 million shares changed hands, setting a trading volume record for U.S. market debuts. Facebook posted $3.7 billion in revenue in 2011 and $1 billion in profit. The site boasts 900 million global users. Facebook`s emergence as a cultural phenomenon was depicted in the fictionalized 2010 film "The Social Network." Zuckerberg, Time magazine`s Person of the Year in 2010, started Facebook in his Harvard University dorm room eight years ago, before dropping out of the Ivy League school. Chan just graduated from medical school at the University of California, San Francisco. The couple met while at Harvard. Neither Zuckerberg nor Chan commented further about their marriage on their Facebook pages. The couple adopted a Hungarian sheepdog named Beast a year ago, and live together in Palo Alto, California. (Reporting by Mary Slosson; Editing by Cynthia Johnston and Doina Chiacu)
 China Approves Google Motorola Mobility Merger symbolset writes "CNET is reporting that China has approved Google`s acquisition of Motorola Mobility. Previously approved by regulatory authorities in the U.S. and Europe, China was the last holdout. The deal will now reportedly close `within days.`" I wonder what conditions Google may have faced from the regulators, and whether they include any exceptions to the "don`t be evil" guideline.
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
- A Q & A with the new Estes Park Town Administrator
 Frank Lancaster, the new Estes Park Town Administrator, will report to work on Monday. The former, long-time Larimer County Manager talked recently with freelance reporter David Persons about his new job, his decision to leave the county, and what he expects to be his priorities and challenges.
- Estes Park safety expo barbecue presses on despite rain
 Police officer Rick Life checks the condtion of the hamburgers and hotdogs on the grill outside Barn W at the Fairgrounds at Stanely Park Saturday during the annual safety expo. Rain confined most of the activities to inside the barn.
- Elizabeth Grace ContrerasElizabeth Grace Contreras
Jordan Blain Contreras and Carlos Contreras announced the birth of their daughter Elizabeth Grace Contreras.
| . | - Police, protesters clash in Loop
 Chicago Police and NATO protesters clashed repeatedly in a series of pushing and shoving confrontations Saturday night in the Loop following a day of cat-and-mouse marches that tested the physical and mental stamina of both sides.
- Snake-handling loses in court
In 1947, the State Supreme Court ruled against the practice of snake handling in North Carolina, in an appeal brought by Durham preacher Colonel Hartman Bunn.
Bunn, whose given name was Colonel, was described as a “big, sturdily built man whose snake rituals at Durham’s Zion Tabernacle attracted police as well as spectators.”
Bunn, and a church elder, Benjamin R. Massey, were convicted in Durham Superior Court ... of handling their snakes in defiance of a Durham ordinance. The lower court ruled that snake handling endangered public safety and fined the two $50 each and cost. ...
A ban on snake handling, Bunn held, amounts to a violation of the Constitutional guarantee of religious freedom.
He claimed also that snake handling has been practiced for 40 years in North Carolina without harm to anyone yet.
“On the evenings of 1 and 8 November, 1947,” the court related in its opinion, “several policemen of the City of Durham visited the Zion Tabernacle Church, situated within the corporate limits, and on each occasion found there a large gathering of men, women and children, engaged in religious services.
“During the services they saw the defendant, C. H. Bunn, while standing in the pulpit, take into his hands a poisonous snake of the copperhead or highland moccasin variety and hold it within view of the congregation. No one was harmed by the snakes on either occasion.”
But when the snakes were tested later, the court noted, two healthy rats, which were placed with them in a cage, were struck and died almost immediately. ...
Chief Justice (Walter P.) Stacy wrote that the case rested on “a very simple question: which is superior, the public safety or the defendants’ religious practice?”
The court found despite Bunn’s apt argument, that the case was simply a question of snakes or people. The people won. – The News & Observer 1/8/1949
- School apologizes, seizes yearbooks
 Administrators at a Dallas-area high school confiscated school yearbooks for describing students’ disabilities and listing some as “mentally retarded” in a section meant to honor classmates with special needs, MyFoxDFW reported. The station said parents and students at Mesquite High School complained about the language used in the section, which read, “Some of the disabilities the students in the Special Education Program have are being blind, deaf or non-verbal … (students’ names) are both blind and deaf, as well as mentally retarded.” Additionally, the school did not have required parental permission to print photographs of students in that section. “We earnestly regret the term ‘mentally retarded’ was included… and offer [...]
- Google gets China OK for Motorola deal
 Authorities in China have approved Google Inc.'s bid to buy phone maker Motorola Mobility, clearing the way for the $12.5 billion deal to close early next week.
- Estes Park loses bid for ski project fundingEstes Park`s 50-million ski hill project won`t receive funding this year from the state of Colorado, the state Economic Development Commission decided Friday. The commission instead chose Aurora`s Gaylord Project to receive 81.4 million in the next three decades under the Regional Tourism Act. Commissioners also selected...
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