| Enterprise teams with VeraSun for E85 rental car branch
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. - Enterprise Rent-A-Car and VeraSun Energy Corp. have announced that a Sioux Falls rental car branch will rent vehicles that run on a blend of 85 percent ethanol and 15 percent gasoline. St. Louis-based Enterprise has launched similar branches in Washington, Cincinnati and other parts of the country. The Taylor family of companies, which includes Enterprise, National Car Rental and Alamo Rent A Car, rents some 73,000 flexible fuel cars and trucks which can run on E85 or standard unleaded gasoline. Brookings-based VeraSun is one of the nation's top ethanol producers. The companies are holding an inaugural fueling of the new fleet on Monday. .
Fancier fabrics making a comeback in cars
The trend toward accessible luxury has been well-documented in recent years. Brands like Coach and Louis Vuitton have become household names, and mainstream stores like Target have recruited famous designers to provide signature products at affordable prices. So it's not surprising that coddled consumers have also sought luxury in their cars — even those from plain-jane mainstream brands. Maybe we are running low on cowhide or maybe people are just looking for something different, but fabric is making a comeback inside cars, and their designers are returning to high-quality materials that are so nice some customers may actually prefer them. These fabrics are appearing in adventuresome color combinations that spice up previously predictably dull cabins, and there is an emerging array of synthetic materials that look and feel convincingly like leather and suede that can be combined with the new fabrics for an exciting multi-material appearance.
Struever to unveil massive expansion at Tide Point
Baltimore developer Struever Bros. Eccles & Rouse Inc. has proposed an extensive expansion of its successful Tide Point business park in Locust Point that includes nearly 200,000 square feet of office space, a parking garage and several new residential buildings, according to city documents and sources familiar with the project. Struever Bros. representatives are scheduled to present their plans Thursday afternoon to the city's Urban Design and Architectural Review Panel. The developer has been working behind the scenes with a task force of the Locust Point Civic Association, a neighborhood group whose endorsement would help Struever Bros. gain approval from the city's planning commission and City Council. The neighbors and developer last met Feb. 19 in a closed-door session at Tide Point to refine the project.
Gas customers taking a gamble with fixed rate program
Some of their representatives may have knocked on your door recently. They do offer a legitimate program to lock customers in at a fixed rate. But I spoke with one person who signed up for it thinking it would save her money, and she says that's not what happened. With her husband just home from Iraq, Kacey Fiekman couldn't wait to move into her new home this past July. "We were really excited about moving here, and everything went pretty smooth all in all," Fiekman told WSBT News. That's until someone came knocking on her front door. That someone was a representative from U.S. Energy Savings asking to see her NIPSCO bill. "She said, 'Well we just want to make sure our name is on there to make sure that you're set in this price,'" said Fiekman.
German advertisers fish for customers with 'retrospeak'
Most German children these days would hardly use the term "klaro," a rather outdated slang expression that was very popular in the 1970s and '80s. Other buzzwords from that era were "cool" and "geil" (randy is its first definition, but it took on a secondary meaning of great, fantastic, terrific). Sometimes German advertisers resurrect words like this, employing "retrospeak" to attract attention, remarked Peter Schlobinski, a professor of Germanic linguistics at the University of Hanover. The "klaro" commercial has two target groups. "The small child using the expression addresses children and youths, and the expression itself is directed at parents and grandparents," said Franco Rota, a professor of marketing communications at Stuttgart Media University. People over 50 years of age "were young in the '70s and used this lingo themselves," he explained.
Abandoned properties costly to city
It begins to weaken the housing market," she said.However, solving the problem requires resources and gaining state input and aid is a goal of the study."It is not a cheap thing to do," Garber said."Communities are struggling to find the resources. This is to assist Rebuild Ohio in putting a policy agenda before the state. This is how the state could help these communities. Hopefully, there could be a change in state law or policy or redirection to focus on helping vacant and abandoned policy."The tragedy hung over Sunday church services throughout the region, from the university's home in DeKalb on Chicago's western exurban edge, to Elk Grove Village, where the gunman grew up, to blue-collar Cicero bordering Chicago.Investigators still haven't determined what set off 27-year-old shooter Steven Kazmierczak, who opened fire during a science lecture with a shotgun and pistols, then committed suicide.Kazmierczak grew up northwest of Chicago, in Elk Grove Village, and played saxophone in the school band.
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Minor worry: Indians’ Josh Barfield won’t be happy at Triple-A ...
ESPN will televise the game, while WTAM 1100-AM provides delayed radio coverage (8 p.m.). Contact Chris Assenheimer at 329-7136 or cassenheimer@chroniclet.com. INDIANS (3-4-1) 11, ASTROS (3-6) 5 Turning point After scoring once off Houston starter Woody Williams in the opening inning, Cleveland jumped on the veteran right-hander for four more in the third — two coming on a double from Ben Francisco and two more on a single from Josh Barfield — to open up a 5-0 lead. Hits A day after being held to one hit, the Indians amassed 19 against the Astros — seven through the first three innings — with eight of the extra-base variety. - C.C. Sabathia's second exhibition start was much better than his first, with the left-hander tossing three perfect innings and striking out three.
Task force traces gun used in fatal armored-car case
The gun that was used to kill two armored-car guards in an aborted Oct. 4 holdup has been traced to two employees at an airport car rental agency, Philadelphia District Attorney Lynne M. Abraham announced yesterday. Abraham said an investigation by the Gun Violence Task Force showed that two men, Jason Lighty, 26, of the 6200 block of Catharine Street, and Eric Benson, 25, of the 1500 bock of Ellsworth Street, had possession of the gun that was used in the robbery attempt that resulted in the deaths of Loomis guards William Widmaier, 65, and Joseph Alullo, 55. Lighty and Benson have been charged with violating illegal firearms transfer laws as well as conspiracy. The task force was still investigating how the 9mm handgun wound up in the possession of Mustafa Ali, the man accused of killing Widmaier and Alullo.
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