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My first focus is going to be to get some kids in here and to redo the children's section," Mottola said. "Edmond is so full of wonderful things to do and we need to be one of those stops families know about. ... If you get kids in here, you'll get the grown-ups in here. And then you get the buy-in of the younger generation to want to keep it going."Edmond has more to offer than fine dining experiences, she said. "That's not the important things in life," she said.Mottola compares Edmond to Lexington, Mass., a city with a culturally rich heritage marked by its beginning of setting some cultural cornerstones. For example, Edmond has preserved the legacy of Oklahoma Territory's first school house."It's important for us to know that we have history, too, and it doesn't just stop at the (89er) Land Run," she said.
MSU basketball: Bobcats score recruiting coup
Why wait? That's the way Arizona high school basketball standout Tyler Miller sees it, and the result is a happy coaching staff at Montana State. Miller, a wiry 6-foot-6, 185-pound wing from Chandler, Ariz., who's ranked among the top five players in Arizona and top 200 in the nation in his class, recently became MSU's first oral commitment for the Class of 2009."Tyler wants to be a big fish in a small pond," explained Mark Nelson, one of Miller's coaches with the accomplished Arizona Premier all-star Amateur Athletic Union team.Miller was honorable mention all-state at Chandler's Basha High his freshman and sophomore years. He averaged 17.7 points a game as a sophomore and is listed among the top 30 small forwards in the country by Scout.com.Though Miller is merely entering his junior year, Nelson said Idaho State, Northern Arizona, Northern Colorado and Tulsa had already told him they planned to offer him a scholarship next month.
Forbes again names Google as best place to work in U.S.
Google Inc. is the best U.S. company to work for, according to a Fortune magazine survey. Mountain View's Google, owner of the world's most popular Internet search engine, was the top-ranked employer for the second straight year, beating Internet home lender Quicken Loans Inc. and Wegmans Food Markets Inc., a northeastern U.S. grocery chain, Fortune said Tuesday. The magazine surveyed employees at 406 companies. Edward Jones & Co., the brokerage firm, ranks fourth, followed by South San Francisco's Genentech Inc., the world's second-biggest biotechnology company, and Cisco Systems Inc. of San Jose, the largest maker of computer-networking equipment. Starbucks Corp., Qualcomm Inc., Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and Methodist Hospital System complete the top 10. Other Bay Area companies on the Fortune list are Network Appliance Inc.
The inside track on Jol's split from Spurs
Martin Jol's time with Tottenham may have come to an end on Thursday but the roots of this story stretch back to last year. The first problems came when he gave an interview in which he said Tottenham couldn't expect to be a big club like the top four. This did not go down well with the board. The Carling Cup semi-final against Arsenal followed in January of this year, in which Spurs let a 2-0 first-leg lead slip and that raised the feeling in the board that Jol did not get his tactics right. This was reinforced two months later in the FA Cup tie at Chelsea when Spurs led 3-1 before Berbatov came off for Mido. They lost the lead and were beaten in the subsequent replay at White Hart Lane. The feeling among the board was that Jol was good, but not good enough. They were very aware of the gap to the top four growing with every season that Tottenham missed out on the Champions League.
Frontline tackles Internet-driven generation gap
"Growing Up Online," the Frontline documentary that airs tonight, starts out sounding alarmist, as well as a few years late. "It's Friday night, and six friends are having a party," a voice-over intones ominously, as teenage boys settle down with their computers to play a first-person-shooter game. "Within minutes, they're locked in battle." The same gloomy tome is used to describe kids watching YouTube, a boy logging onto MySpace, a group of teens sending text messages. It's the sort of reaction adults probably had when kids first started playing video games, or talking on the phone. Indeed, "Growing Up Online" takes a parental view, yet it isn't terribly generous to the parents. Yes, many grown-ups are unaware of their children's online doings. But according to Frontline, adults are also barely capable of understanding all of this technology.
UK-Sport Summary
Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson has accused the American owners of Premier League rivals Liverpool of undermining their manager Rafael Benitez, newspapers reported on Thursday. Tom Hicks and George Gillet have angered fans of the five-times European champions by admitting they had sounded out Germany's 2006 World Cup coach Juergen Klinsmann for Benitez's job. New Scotland boss Burley reveals World Cup hopes Scotland presented George Burley as their new manager on Thursday and he immediately set himself the target of helping the team qualify for the 2010 World Cup finals. Burley, who won 11 caps for Scotland and was a member of the 1982 World Cup squad in Spain, agreed a deal until 2012 after quitting Championship (second division) side Southampton. Tsonga dazzles as Sharapova and Ivanovic win .
Handshake ‘disrespect by Boruc’
NACHO NOVO last night accused Artur Boruc of displaying a lack of respect to football after the Polish goalkeeper declined the offer of a handshake from Barry Ferguson, David Weir and Lee McCulloch at the final whistle of yesterday's Old Firm game. He is not the first nor will he be the last player to refuse to shake hands at the end of a meeting between the two Glasgow giants, but the episode - coupled with the nine-two scoreline in terms of names cautioned in referee Mike McCurry's notebook - only emphasised how Celtic had let Rangers knock them off their stride. To paraphrase Gordon Strachan afterwards, even he felt his team - and particularly his newer players - would have been best advised to spend less time getting mad, and more time getting even. .
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