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LEASE Continued from page 1A She said the facility had the proper cabling and wiring the department needed, which would save money and installation time. Stone said the state had computer equipment set aside for Tehama County and had agreed to pay expedition fees with AT&T to install every- thing, but was not sure of an exact move-in date. extended two times, for three years each, with an annual rate increase based on California's Consumer Price Index. The lease can be Twitter unveils new way for advertisers to deliver their marketing pitches to the people who are most likely to buy their products and ser- vices. targeting tool for advertisers SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Twitter is offering a new After it was founded in San Francisco in 2006, Twitter initially focused on making its free service as useful as possible to lure more people into sharing their thoughts and moments of their lives in blurbs limited to 140 char- acters. Having established itself as one of the world's most important communications tools, Twitter has spent the past two years courting advertisers to prove it can also be a successful business. Twitter hasn't disclosed how well it has been doing because it remains a privately held business. But the research firm eMarketer estimates Twitter will generate about $260 million this year. That's well below other advertising-dependent Internet companies such as Google Inc., Yahoo Inc. and Facebook Inc. Google's revenue this year is expected to approach $50 billion, while Yahoo and Facebook are expected to bring in about $5 billion apiece. Like Twitter is doing now, Google, Yahoo and Face- book all collect data about their users' interests in an effort to show them ads catering to their interests and prefer- ences. tweets'' to be tied to specific accounts that may have fol- lowers likely to have an interest in the subject of a mar- keting message. The effort to sell more ads is part of Twitter's ongoing bid to capitalize on the popularity of its short-messaging service. The targeting tool introduced Thursday allows ads to be sorted into different categories of interest. Once an ad has been tagged under a specific topic, such as ''dogs'' or ''animation,'' it could crop up among the tweets of users whose activity has indicated an interest in those topics. Twitter also is allowing the ads known as ''promoted WALL Continued from page 1A Cohen was born in 1962 and, while he was too young to serve, several of his friends had brothers who did, he said. "It's overwhelming," Cohen said of the wall in Washington D.C. "This is the same thing. Each one is an American. It allows you to realize so many people were killed and this doesn't take into account those who were injured. I'm very glad they have it here. Hope- fully people will come out and appreciate what it stands for." Lassen View Elemen- tary and Sacramento River Discovery Charter School were among the groups that filled the lawn behind the office building at the fairground. "We're here to honor our vets who fought in the war," said Christian Chavez, a senior at SRDCS. "It's a once in a lifetime thing to see that BILL Continued from page 1A fund. He said lawmakers need to wait to act on that fund until auditors and the attorney general complete their investiga- tions of the parks depart- ment. The delay in distribut- ing the off-road money drew complaints from Republicans. Friday, August 31, 2012 – Daily News 7A Daily News photo by Julie Zeeb A Boeing C-17 Globemaster III does a flyover Thursday morning at opening ceremonies for the traveling Vietnam Wall at the Tehama District Fairground. they're real people. It's a life lesson." The wall is free to the public and will be open 24/7 until sunset Monday. The 250-foot half-scale Sen. Anthony Cannel- la, R-Ceres, supported the bill but said the $20 million should be refunded to cities and counties that raised money to keep their local parks open, rather than used to match their contributions. The bill is not specif- ic on how the $20 mil- lion will be spent, other than to match $20 mil- lion in local funds to help pay for park opera- police say they arrested a woman who fatally shot her dog and fired multiple shots outside her home in the middle of the night. Redding police say woman fatally shot dog REDDING (AP) — Redding Thursday. Police say she turned herself in after they surrounded her house. The Record Searchlight reports that 50-year-old Victoria Taggart was found armed and screaming in her backyard early Sgt. Pete Brindley says Taggart admitted to shooting her dog, which was discovered in a bedroom. Brindley says she fired 13 rounds outside, several of which struck her home. replica cost $6,000 to bring to Red Bluff. It was paid for by the American Legion and Tehama Coun- ty Veterans. ——— tions. The bill separately includes $10 million in bond money to pay for capital improvements at the parks, things like replacing and repairing restrooms and fee kiosks. The bill also expands and strengthens a state parks commission that will oversee the troubled parks department. ''We've all been cha- grined and horrified'' by the parks scandal, said Julie Zeeb can be reached at 527-2153, extension 115 or jzeeb@redbluffdailynews. com. Follow her on Twitter @DN_Zeeb. Sen. Noreen Evans, D- Santa Rosa. She said strengthening the com- mission ''is going to provide the absolutely necessary citizens over- sight that we need.'' The bill is one of sev- eral seeking to improve accounting not only in the parks department but of more than 500 special funds scattered through- out the state budget. Police say Taggart made unfounded claims that an intruder broke into her home. Authorities are investigating whether or not she was on drugs. Taggart is being held in Shasta County Jail on suspicion of negli- gent discharge of a firearm and felony animal cruelty. FRESNO (AP) — More than 90 cabins in Yosemite National Park were closed several days after the site was found to be at the center of a mouse- borne virus that has been blamed for the deaths of two people, officials said Thursday. Park officials said the Yosemite shuts cabins at center of rodent probe The illness begins as double-walled design of the 91 cabins that were closed Tuesday made it easy for mice to nest between the walls. The dis- ease is carried in the feces, urine and saliva of deer mice and other rodents. Over the past three weeks, two people have died of hantavirus pul- monary syndrome after staying in one of the so- called ''Signature'' cabins of curry village. Another person is confirmed ill and one more likely has the virus that kills 36 percent of the people it infects. Mike Gauthier, Yosemite chief of staff, said the design allowed for rodent infestation. ''We just weren't aware that design would lead to it,'' he said. Yosemite to evaluate risk and make recommenda- tions to reduce the possibil- ity of transmission to peo- ple,'' added said Vicki Kramer, chief of the vector borne disease section of the health department. ''That included reducing the num- ber of mice, and excluding them from structures.'' This past spring the department gave Yosemite a cleanup plan, Kramer said, similarly outlining how to appropriately deal with mouse excrement. ''Yosemite, to their credit, has taken quite a few steps to address this,'' she said. ''But it's a wilder- ness area and these build- ings aren't going to be tight. It's impossible to get rid of the deer mice, so there is going to be some risk to being in a wilder- ness area.'' infestations and appropri- ate exclusion efforts, par- ticularly for buildings were people sleep, should be enhanced,'' it said. ''We worked with A report obtained earli- er in the day said the National Park Service was warned in 2010 that efforts should be stepped up to inspect for rodents in Yosemite and prevent them from entering areas where people sleep. The 2010 report issued by the California Depart- ment of Public Health was commissioned by the park service. ''Inspections for rodent Further details were not immediately available. The health department said it was preparing a statement. The report was commis- sioned after two park visi- tors fell ill after staying in Tuolumne Meadows, about 4,000 feet higher than Yosemite Valley. It said that 18 percent of mice trapped for testing at various locations around the park were positive for hantavirus. ''The identification of the second case ... under- scores the ongoing risk and You DO have a choice in the Red Bluff area. Caring & Compassionate Service Full traditional burial service or cremation Red Bluff Simple Cremations & Burial Service 722 Oak Street, Red Bluff, FD Lic. 1931 527-1732 need for dutiful adherence to a rodent exclusion and control program,'' the report said. Gauthier said he had not yet seen the report. health workers sent warn- ings to more people who visited Yosemite this sum- mer, saying they could have been exposed to the deadly rodent-borne dis- ease. They also handed out warnings to people enter- ing park gates. Officials sent emails and letters on Wednesday to another 1,000 people who stayed in tent cabins in Curry Village. That was in addition to 1,700 Curry Village guests who had previously been sent such warnings. Meanwhile, public The deer mice most prone to carrying han- tavirus pulmonary syn- drome can squeeze through holes just one- quarter-inch in diameter. The guests being The rustic tent cabins of historic Curry Village are a favorite among families looking to rough it in one of the nation's most majes- tic settings. Park employees remov- ing insulation have found mouse nests and droppings in some of the 91 so-called Signature cabins they had been attempting to shore up to make entry more dif- ficult. Flu shot bill lacks penalty for health workers don't get a flu shot wouldn't have to wear a mask under an amended bill that state lawmakers sent to the governor on Thursday. workers to get influenza vaccines so they don't infect patients. But the California Nurses Association opposed a provision requiring unvaccinated medical employees to wear surgical masks while seeing patients during flu sea- son. The initial bill was designed to encourage health care flu-like symptoms but can quickly affected the lungs. It can take up to six weeks to incubate. In 2011, half of the 24 U.S. hantavirus cases ended in death. But since 1993, when the virus first was identified, the average death rate is 36.39 percent, according to the Centers for Disease Control. Most of the nearly 600 cases reported since 1993 have been in New Mexico, Colorado, Washington, Arizona and California. Most often they are isolat- ed, so having this cluster of cases from a small area in Yosemite has perplexed public health officials. The federal government has two epidemiologists working in the park. They are trapping mice and rodents in an effort to determine how much of the population carries the virus and to see whether there are more mice in Yosemite Valley this year than in other years. warnings it was unclear whether authorities expanded the boundary of potential exposure or extended the dates. In issuing the new vision was stripped away by the Assembly earlier this week. It is not clear how the bill would be enforced with- out the mask requirement. The decision sparked finger-pointing between hospitals and the politically powerful nurses union. The Senate passed the amended SB1318 after the pro- SACRAMENTO (AP) — Health care workers who The California Hospital Association blamed the union for blocking the mask provision. Hospitals opposed the final bill mainly because the mask provision was removed. The union is lobbying for flu vaccine incentives to be col- lectively bargained. ''We think wearing masks is the right thing to do for the patients,'' hospital association spokeswoman Jan Emerson- Shea said after the vote. ''How do hospitals enforce this otherwise? ... We think the nurses' union is putting public health at risk by making that an issue for collective bar- gaining.'' Union spokesman Chuck Idelson said the association is neutral on the overall bill and supports its requirement that 90 percent of health care workers be vaccinated by 2015. ''We do encourage people to get vaccinations. We don't think it should be mandatory, we don't think it should be punitive,'' Idelson said. ''There are people who have spe- cific health care concerns about masks, about vaccina- tions.'' health officials to develop a policy that will let hospitals reach that 90 percent vaccination goal. The requirement would apply to about 4,500 California health care facilities. Dr. Charity Thoman, deputy health officer in Santa Bar- bara County, said in an email that only 63 percent of health care workers in California currently get the influenza vac- cine — despite the dangers demonstrated by the H1N1 pandemic in 2009. The measure on Gov. Jerry Brown's desk now requires Deer mice are distin- guished from solid-colored house mice by their white bellies and gray and brown bodies. warned stayed in Curry Village's tent cabins in June, July or August. So far all victims who have fallen ill stayed in the cab- ins in June. never to sweep or vacuum mouse droppings. 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