Tesla CEO Elon Musk announced Thursday evening that he would buy the defunct NUMMI auto manufacturing plant in Fremont and build cars there with Toyota.

Gov. Schwarzenegger said Toyota is investing $50 million in Tesla and the partnership will produce 1,000 new jobs in the short term. Tesla CEO Elon Musk said over the long-term he thinks the partnership will create 10,000 jobs.
Read more: Tesla to buy NUMMI plant, build cars with Toyota - San Francisco Business Times

See the full Business Times article at: http://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/stories/2010/05/17/daily65.html

Great news for many people out of work. 4700 jobs were lost when the plant was closed earlier this year. Will they rehire previous employees?

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Or can I? The famous U.N. study on whether cell phones cause cancer has
determined it is inconclusive. It hasn't been long enough, some people have
been found to have cancer on the side of their brain where they hold their
phones, so what's there to conclude? Be safe and use blue tooth devices
when you can (or when they work!).

Here is the study. You decide.

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Just ran across this, and it's too much! I'm sure we all know someone who could
benefit from this:  http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/36877680/ns/health-behavior/

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Join TJ Martin and Jeffrey Fontana residents at a rally to save the 140 trees PG&E plans on
cutting down beginning this June.

The rally will take place on Saturday, May 22nd at 11am onthe corner of Golden Oak Way and
Costello Drive.

http://groups.google.com/group/tj-martin-jeffrey-fontana-parks?hl=en

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Not too difficult to guess where this was..

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