| Renters near UA in tight spot
About a dozen boarders in two rental homes are caught between the proverbial rock and a hard place as the University of Akron buys homes to clear the way for a new stadium and student housing. Many say they do not have the money for a security deposit and first month's rent for new lodging. So they must stay where they are until UA gives them a promised moving allowance of $1,500 each. Yet UA won't turn over the money until the sales close. So the boarders — adults all — may end up on the streets just days before Christmas. ''It gets more confusing by the minute,'' said Jim Watkins, 45, who does siding and roofing work. ''We don't know anything and don't have any answers.'' UA is purchasing many properties on a 12-acre footprint southeast of campus to make way for a $32.5 million residence hall and a stadium which has a price tag that has risen from $55 million to $61.5 million because additional options have been added.
Mother Earth Mother Board
Over the course of two months, photographer Alex Tehrani and I hit six countries and four continents trying to get a grip on this longest, fastest, mother of all wires. I took a GPS receiver with me so that I could have at least a general idea of where the hell we were. It gave me the above reading in front of a Chinese temple around the corner from the Shangri-La Hotel in Penang, Malaysia, which was only one of 100 peculiar spots around the globe where I suddenly pulled up short and asked myself, "What the hell am I doing here?" You might well ask yourself the same question before diving into an article as long as this one. The answer is that we all depend heavily on wires, but we hardly ever think about them. Before learning about FLAG, I knew that data packets could get from America to Asia or the Middle East, but I had no idea how.
Wine-import company offers Italian brand
KleeNagel Ltd., a Spring Township wine-import firm known for bringing Castle of Dracula Marsecco to the United States has imported a Prosecco — a light, semi-sparkling Italian white wine. Prosecco and Marsecco are bottled by Ottomar Rudolphe Vlad Dracula Prince Kretzulesco, the modern-day royal descendant of the infamous Romanian ruler Vlad Tzepes — on whom Bram Stoker's novel, “Dracula," is based. The wines are available at The Sheraton Berkshire, Wyomissing, and Bube's Brewery, Mount Joy, Lebanon County; and soon will be available at G Lounge, a new nightclub in Philadelphia. Orders also are available through the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board's special liquor order program by completing an order form in any State Store. l l l Penske Truck Leasing, Green Hills, opened a 12,000-square-foot facility that offers commercial and consumer truck rental services, truck leasing and contract maintenance in Lubbock, Texas.
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