by The Editors on September 9, 2008
For the first time in 13 year the American’s have won the girls’ junior U.S. Open Championships. And that’s all thanks to Carlsbadistan’s Coco Vandeweghe winning over Venezuela’s Gabriela Paz 7-6 (3), 6-1, according to the New York Times.
After a competitive first set, Vandeweghe took control almost immediately in the second, breaking Paz in her first service game to take a 2-0 lead. After holding serve, Paz then double-faulted to give Vandeweghe a second break and a 4-1 lead. Vandeweghe was never in danger from there and went on to break Paz a third time to win the match on a sizzling forehand winner down the line.
She’s the first to ever win it as a wildcard entrant and the word is Coco is just beginning to hit her tennis stride. Congrats, Coco.
[Link: New York Times and San Diego Union-Tribune]
by The Editors on September 9, 2008
Carlsbadistan’s satellite products company ViaSat Inc. has just signed a $50 million deal to “intall land-based ‘gateways’ to connect European broadband subscribers to the Internet via satellite.”
The contract was awarded by Skylogic, a subsidiary of Eutelsat Communications of Paris. ViaSat will install 10 broadband gateways in Europe linked to the KA-SAT satellite, which is scheduled to launch in the third quarter of 2010.. . . “This is the first network infrastructure award resulting from our transformational broadband initiative and leverages ground system economies of scale because it can be used for both high-capacity satellites — KA-SAT and ViaSat-1,” said Mark Dankberg, chairman and chief executive officer of ViaSat.
Yeah, what Mark said. We’re hoping someone got a nice fat bonus for this one.
[Link: San Diego Business Journal]
by The Editors on September 8, 2008
According to a story on Golfweek.com Carlsbadistan’s number one golf company Callaway is holding on to CEO George Fellows until at least 2011 thanks to an agreement made by the company’s board of directors.
Fellows, 65, joined Callaway in August 2005. Last year, the Carlsbad, Calif.-based equipment maker posted record net sales of $1.125 billion and fully diluted earnings of $0.81, an increase of 138 percent compared with the previous year.
Fellows will be making “not less that $925,000” and is up for a bonus that could equal that salary. That’s not a bad paycheck for working in God’s favorite city.
[Link: Golfweek]
by The Editors on September 6, 2008
Some of the world’s best up and coming surfers (Kelly Slater is there, but don’t tell him we told you) are at Carlsbadistan’s Ponto Beach right now as the Vans El Ponto Loco contest wraps up. It’s 12:50 PM, the sun is out and you still have time to get down to Ponto to check out the semi-finals and finals of the event. Or, stay in your cave and watch it all on the Internet.
(Photo: Encinitas’ Shey Yates “blasts one off the top”)
by The Editors on September 6, 2008
It’s getting to be a bit of old hat, but Carlsbadistan’s Legoland has won an Amusement Today’s Golden Ticket Award for Best Children’s Park for the fifth year in a row. Must be a lot of competition in that category.
It’s a great honor to be distinguished as the Best Children’s Park five years in a row,” said John Jakobsen, Managing Director Legoland Parks and General Manager of Legoland California Resort . “We are constantly striving to make Legoland California an incredible adventure for families with children 2 to 12 years old.”
Congrats, Legoland.
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by The Editors on September 5, 2008
Cleanup crews were still working on the shoulder of the north-bound lanes of Interstate 5 just north of La Costa Avenue this evening after a dump truck loaded with asphalt careened off the road this morning at 1 AM dropping 19 tons of asphalt onto the south bank of the Batiquitos Lagoon, according to a post on Sign On San Diego.
The spill had traffic backed up this morning all the way down to 5/805 split.
Robin Lewis, a California Department of Fish and Game scientist who specializes in spills, said crews dug as much of the hardened asphalt as they could from lagoon shore until the tide came up about 1 p.m. . . . “Right now it’s all under water,” Lewis said in mid-afternoon. He said the cleanup will resume about 7 p.m. and continue until the tide comes up again about midnight, but he hopes to finish the job this weekend.
[Link: Sign On San Diego]
by The Editors on September 5, 2008
It’s interesting to see how Carlsbad’s Army and Navy Academy promotes itself to the outside world. In a recent press release that went out on the wire recently they asked a rhetorical question: “Does your son need structure?” Well, apparently, they can give it.
The Army and Navy Academy in Carlsbad, California is a residential college preparatory school that uses a service academy model to teach leadership and character development for boys in grades 7-12. Students learn to take responsibility, adhere to a daily schedule, and develop good habits. Whether it is making their bed, studying for a test or practicing for a game, students understand that they will be accountable for their actions as well as supported as they confront challenges.
Yeah, kind of like the Army or the Navy, but for boys who are too young to enlist. For people who need a place to store problem children, The Army and Navy Academy is perfect, and after all it’s beachfront.
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by The Editors on September 4, 2008
Carlsbad’s electric motorcycle company Aptera isn’t just messing around with all that “C” round money. They’re aiming right for the top, especially with their new hire of Paul Wilbur as president and chief executive officer.
Wilbur is an automotive industry veteran who brings 26 years of extensive automotive experience, ranging from product planning and finance to marketing and product development for leading car companies such as Ford and Chrysler. Most recently, Wilbur was the president and CEO of Detroit-based American Specialty Cars, a tier-1 supplier of open air and convertible roof systems and Saleen, a leading manufacturer of high performance specialty cars and trucks.
But the big question being asked in automotive circles is what has happened to former CEO and founder Steve Fambro? According to the Up To Speed blog in the LA Times: “Fambro will become chief technical officer, since “it is a much better role for him to concentrate on vehicle development.”
Right. And Up To Speed points out that the same thing that happened to Tesla Motors‘ founder Martin Eberhard. He was moved to a position called “president of technology.” Then four months later he left the company entirely.
Hmm. . . .
[Link: Up To Speed]
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by The Editors on September 3, 2008
This evening at approximately 10 PM a vehicle plowed through the guard rail on the seawall at Carlsbad Boulevard and Chestnut ripping out approximately 50 feet of railing. Luckily, no pedestrians appear to have been hurt. The car was hauled away by a tow-truck. By 11 PM crews were out cleaning up the mess enough for people to walk and drive by.
by The Editors on September 3, 2008
Joe Berry, the chief information officer of US Airways is leaving the company this month to become the senior vice president and chief information officer at Applied Biomedical/Invitrogen according to a story in USA Today.
Beery is just one of three “longtime executives” who are leaving the Tempe-based airline. It’s probably not a bad time to get out of the airline industry and move to Carlsbad, actually. Welcome, Mr. Berry. We hope you’ll leave the US Air stock mojo back with the old company.
[Link: USA Today]
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