The Hight Street retailer, which has a rich coastal heritage, will stock Oceanographic Magazine from launch. For every magazine sold, £2 will be donated to ocean conservation charities.
“Crew Clothing’s coastal heritage makes it the ideal High Street home for Oceanographic Magazine,” said Oceanographic editor Will Harrison. “We’re delighted to be associating ourselves with such a well-regarded brand, particularly one that has always maintained a close connection with the sea.
“With £2 from every sale in Crew stores donated to ocean conservation initiatives, Crew’s customers can feel good about their purchase – both for the donation they have made to the pursuit of improved ocean health and the great read that awaits them when they get home.”
The opportunity to collaborate with an exciting and ethically-focussed magazine was an opportunity Crew Clothing Company felt they couldn’t miss, according to Naomi Parry, Head of Marketing for the company.
“It’s exciting to be part of a project that’s aiming to reconnect people with our ocean, something that has always been important to us as a company,” she said. “The spotlight is on the ocean perhaps more than ever before and we’re delighted to be contributing to the fight by fundraising through our stores.”
Ocoee Health Care Center is committed to meeting the accessibility standards known as Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 AA. These have been adopted by W3C, the World Wide Web Consortium, as part of its Web Accessibility Initiative.
Orange County’s 11th Metrolink station could open in April, a few months after the facility was supposed to launch.
The price tag of the project, which began in December 2005, has risen to $10.7 million because of added features.
The plan includes bus-passenger facilities, 300 parking spaces, a passenger overpass with elevators, a platform on each side of the track and video surveillance.
More than 500 people daily are expected to use the station, which is at Lakenoll Drive and Dale Street. It will be the closest one to the Los Angeles County border.
Stephen Wagner is understandably nervous and excited as tournament director for the Mark Christopher Charity Classic.
The event on Oct.4-7 is the next stop on the Nationwide Tour after this week’s Boise Open, so Wagner is busy with preparations, including the construction of 40 sky boxes at Empire Lakes Golf Course in Rancho Cucamonga.
Not only is the tournament one of the few PGA Tour-run events in Southern California, Wagner wants it to look its best because the Golf Channel will begin its coverage at 6:30 p.m. for all four days, meaning it will follow the broadcast of the PGA Tour’s Valero Open and perhaps gain some carry-over viewers.
The event has grown incrementally since its inception in 2003. The purse has been raised to $520,000 from $475,000 last year, with the winner’s share $94,500 up from $81,000.
The Boise Open gained publicity when it invited 16-year-old pro Tadd Fujikawa to its event, but Wagner doesn’t know if he will do something similar with the two remaining sponsor exemptions.
If not, he hopes to have something unfold similar to last year when area product Kevin Na of Diamond Bar used the event as springboard back to the PGA Tour. Na won’t be back to defend his title because it conflicts with the Valero Open, and Wagner knows that’s the only drawback to the Nationwide circuit.
Guy Schmidt of Fullerton and Owen Hanson of Los Alamitos advanced at last Saturday’s district qualifier in Mesquite, Nev. Both had 424-yard drives at Palms Golf Club.
Phil Karmelich and Gary Miller of Anaheim qualified in the Super Senior Division and Bill Mammarella of Anaheim advanced in the Grand Champions Division.
The 16-player field for the Target World Challenge will be announced Monday. The Tiger Woods-hosted event is Dec.13-16 at Sherwood Country Club in Thousand Oaks.
•Rich Tolly of Laguna Hills won the SCGA Senior Amateur Championship on Tuesday. Tolly shot rounds of 74-73 at Hacienda Golf Club and won a four-man three-hole playoff.
California Gov. Jerry Brown speaks before signing AB 155, a bill that requires Amazon.com and other Internet retailers to collect sales taxes starting next year, at a news conference in San Francisco, Friday, Sept. 23, 2011.
Jerry Brown, California’s 73-year-old governor, has been showing signs lately of becoming a grumpy old man.
In comments to reporters, in speeches and in bill veto messages, Brown has complained about the quantity (too much) and quality (too little) of legislation reaching his desk, about the intransigence of Republicans on taxes and about the influence that anti-tax groups wield on those Republicans.
• The Legislature generated less than half as many bills this year as it routinely did during Brown’s first governorship three-plus decades ago.
• While many of today’s bills are merely half-baked notions, symbols and trivia, so were many of those during his first stint, including some he sponsored.
• Yes, Republicans are generally more conservative today than they were in the 1970s and thus more opposed to raising taxes, but the Democrats are also markedly more liberal and less willing to make permanent spending cuts or reduce the “wall of debt.”
• While those anti-tax zealots to whom Brown refers do have heavy influence on Republicans, their clout is no more paralytic than what public employee unions wield on Democrats, as Brown discovered when he tried to fashion a bipartisan budget deal.
• Brown would have known all of this if he had been paying attention to the Capitol’s evolution during his 28-year absence from the Governor’s Office, but apparently he wasn’t – too preoccupied with his Quixotic campaigns for president and being a left wing radio talk show host, one presumes.
Brown’s pitch to voters last year was that he could break the Capitol’s gridlock on the budget and other issues – most of which date from his previous governorship, incidentally – because he was an experienced politician who had been there and done that.
He implied that his predecessor, Arnold Schwarzenegger, failed to change the Capitol’s moribund ways because he was an inexperienced outsider and that electing Republican Meg Whitman would have been another adventure in impotent amateurism.
Brown, however, has been no more successful, at least so far, than Schwarzenegger, which provides more proof – as if we needed it – that changing the name on the governor’s suite doesn’t truly change anything.
We have a systemically dysfunctional state government. Until it is changed – radically – to align it with our 21st century reality, it will not and cannot deal effectively with California’s major issues.
Instead of whining, Brown should lead on empowering those we elect to make decisions and then, importantly, holding them accountable.
Schwarzenegger at least tried to make reforms. If Brown really wants a legacy for the history books, he would revive that crusade.