The Tiburon Fire Protection District is holding an Open House for the community at the Tiburon Fire Station on Saturday, October 10, from 10am-2pm. Station tours, games for kids, a fire safety house and a barbecue lunch are some of the activities.

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Tiburon Fire Protection District

What’s especially important to me is my family life, and that includes being close to my father, a co-author of my book, who studied under Dr. Arthur Leonard Schawlow at Stanford University. Dr. Schawlow invented the laser and won the Nobel Prize. Back in the 60s during the height of the Vietnam War, Dr. Schawlow wrote a letter to the United States government confirming that my father would be of more service to this country as a physicist than as a soldier. Perhaps I owe my life to one of the world’s greatest entrepreneurs and I certainly intend to spend the rest of my life trying to become one.

In the wake of a disastrous quarter, distressed start-ups often restructure existing sales contracts in order to make-up revenue shortfalls. Converting term to perpetual licenses or soliciting customer pre-pays make for desperate tricks to hit forecasts. Customers should always be concerned with these machinations. We should all be concerned when these tactics are embraced by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.

From NY TIMES: Banks to Prepay Assessments to Rescue F.D.I.C. WASHINGTON — Acknowledging that they had greatly underestimated the problems plaguing the nation’s banks, federal officials on Tuesday proposed a $45 billion plan financed by the industry to rescue the ailing insurance fund that protects bank depositors.

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OCTOBER LUNCHEON for the Tiburon Peninsula Chamber of Commerce
Dr. Roger Freed
“A Trek to Everest”
Read the whole story in “The Beacon Newsletter” October 2009
Thu Oct 8 11:30am-1pm
Sam’s Anchor Cafe
27 Main St., Tiburon, CA  MAP
$20 members/$25 non-members
RSVP: 415-435-5633
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Tiburon Peninsula Chamber of Commerce

An exhibit titled “Our Town – 30 Years of Ark Images” by longtime Ark photographer, Diane Smith, will be in the upstairs Community Room of Tiburon Town Hall from Monday, September 28, through Friday, November 27, with an artist’s reception Wednesday, October 7, from 6 to 8 p.m.

Event taken from “The Beacon Newsletter” October 2009, a publication of The Tiburon Peninsula Chamber of Commerce.
www.tiburonchamber.org | http://ci.tiburon.ca.us | www.thearknewspaper.com

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Part of Richardson Bay waters will be closed to all boat traffic and other water activities beginning Thursday through March 31.
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Blues on the Bay for Autism, a fundraiser for the Ryder Foundation, which supports families with children who have autism, will be from 2 to 6 p.
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I’m vocal about Facebook and Twitter missing the liquidity window http://tinyurl.com/ku29u2 and critics anonymously post about hindsight bias. I served as CEO of a technology company that was successfully sold to Oracle in 7/07 http://www.oracle.com/bharosa/index.html right as the recession began. My original publisher of Strategic Entrepreneurism ™ pushed from 9/08 to 4/09 so I fired them, returned most of the advance and signed with Select Books, New York to crash the book by 9/08 one month before the stock market collapsed http://tinyurl.com/6zlby2 In 4/08, I predicted national unemployment would rise to 9% by 4/09 that turned out to be right http://tinyurl.com/y9p279b I led a financing in www.linksify.com (a kind of anti-Facebook and anti-Twitter) as Twitter growth slowed http://tinyurl.com/yc8ob9v

I let most things go but sign your name to posts about hindsight bias and let’s debate.

Al Angrisani, the former assistant Labor Department secretary under President Reagan, said he believes that Obama’s economic team, led by Larry Summers, has a blind spot for small business because no senior member of the team — dominated by academics and veterans of big business — has ever started and grown a business. “The Reagan administration had people who knew of small business,” he said.

From NYPOST: The unemployment rate for young Americans has exploded to 52.2 percent — a post-World War II high, according to the Labor Dept. — meaning millions of Americans are staring at the likelihood that their lifetime earning potential will be diminished and, combined with the predicted slow economic recovery, their transition into productive members of society could be put on hold for an extended period of time. And worse, without a clear economic recovery plan aimed at creating entry-level jobs, the odds of many of these young adults — aged 16 to 24, excluding students — getting a job and moving out of their parents’ houses are long. Young workers have been among the hardest hit during the current recession — in which a total of 9.5 million jobs have been lost.

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