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A worker paints the inside of a home built at the Karsten Homes plant in Sacramento. The plant, which turns out up to two houses a day, has 150 employees. Last year, nearly 8 percent of the 107,000 new single-family houses built in the state were produced in factories. A few hundred upscale "modular" homes are included in this total. Sacramento Bee/Bryan Patrick See additional images .
Lime's Gorton Trades Fast, Fights Suit, Seeks Car-Free Utopia
March 23 (Bloomberg) -- Step off the elevator into Lime Group's offices atop an 11-story brick building in New York's Chinatown into a crowd of more than 60 stone Buddhas and Asian lions, all handpicked by the company's founder, Mark Gorton. To the right, down a staircase, is a metal door that leads to Lime Brokerage LLC, which Gorton says trades stocks faster than any other company on Wall Street -- as many as 6,000 orders a second. At the end of a long hall is LimeWire LLC, maker of the world's most-popular Internet file-sharing software, with 50 million monthly users. The U.S. recording industry says the product is designed for infringing music copyrights -- an accusation Gorton denies -- and is suing for damages of at least $450 million. Gorton himself sits at a corner desk with a group of math geeks writing algorithms for Tower Research Capital LLC, Lime Group's in-house quantitative hedge fund, a firm with $117 million in assets.
Local officials: Local legend doesn't substitute for weather ...
Intriguing as they may be, local legends aren�t meant to be taken as weather forecasts or used as security blankets in time of severe weather.�That hatchet buried on the west side of town ... is not going to keep severe weather from hitting Tahlequah,� said Tahlequah-Cherokee County Emergency Management storm-spotter and Public Information Officer Scott Pettus. �People need to know what to do and where to go. It�s not a matter of if a tornado will hit Tahlequah, but when a tornado will hit Tahlequah.�Being alert and prepared is key to safety when severe weather events threaten the area, and taking cover immediately is imperative.�People need to understand [tornado sirens] are outdoor warning sirens,� said Pettus.EM Assistant Director Mike Underwood said the public has a general misconception about the warning sirens.�They are not designed to be something you hear sitting in your Lazy Boy with the TV up and all the windows shut,� said Underwood.
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