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Thursday, March 31, 2011
Jason to start season on DL - New York Post
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Tuesday, March 29, 2011
Simi Valley Youth Employment Service Hosts 25th Annual Job and Career Expo - Ventura County Star
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Simi Valley Youth Employment Service Hosts 25th Annual Job and Career Expo Ventura County Star The Youth Employment Service (YES) Job and Career Expo will be held on Saturday, April 9, 2011, from 10:00 am until 1:00 pm, at the Boys & Girls Club of Simi Valley. This event is free to job seekers and employers. The YES Job and Career Expo is an ... |
Sunday, March 27, 2011
Titan debators argue way to No. 6 finish - Statesman Journal (blog)
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Statesman Journal (blog) | Titan debators argue way to No. 6 finish Statesman Journal (blog) West Salem High School argued successfully through two rounds before finishing sixth at the state Mock Trial state championships held recently at Hatfield Federal Courthouse in downtown Portland. Catlin Gabel School Blue team took the title, ... |
Friday, March 25, 2011
Fate of Filene
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Last month, Crown Acquisitions agreed to snap up 17 of thediscountf retailer’s remaining 25 retail locationa for $22 million an agreement that is subject to an auctionb in a federal court in which additional bids for those 17 the eight remaining locations and otherd Filene’s assets will be solicited. “Wew have received expressions of interest from severaol parties not only for the storeas included in theCrown proposal, but also for severakl additional stores,” said Alan Cohen, chief restructurin officer of Filene’s Basement, adding that he can not disclosse the bidders or stores that are being Burlington, Mass.
-based Filene’s Basementy sought protection from creditors in May in Delaware bankruptcyg court, months after closing several including its stores in Tysones Corner and Arundel Mills Mall. The auction starts at 9 a.m. in New and any sale will be subject to couryt approval at a hearing to be heldin Wilmington, Del. June 10. “Fot now, it is business as usuao in all Filene’s Basement locations,” he which explains why a puzzled Filene’s employeew in Rockville knew nothing about itspotentialo closing. The auction was moved last minutee to New York at the request ofseveral bidders.
Columbus, Ohio-based (NYSE: RVI) sold the iconicc chain this year to FB IIAcquisitiomn Corp., a new entity owne by , a liquidation and turnaround firm baserd in Agoura Hills, Calif. It still operates one store in Atlant at 3535Peachtree Road.
Last month, Crown Acquisitions agreed to snap up 17 of thediscountf retailer’s remaining 25 retail locationa for $22 million an agreement that is subject to an auctionb in a federal court in which additional bids for those 17 the eight remaining locations and otherd Filene’s assets will be solicited. “Wew have received expressions of interest from severaol parties not only for the storeas included in theCrown proposal, but also for severakl additional stores,” said Alan Cohen, chief restructurin officer of Filene’s Basement, adding that he can not disclosse the bidders or stores that are being Burlington, Mass.
-based Filene’s Basementy sought protection from creditors in May in Delaware bankruptcyg court, months after closing several including its stores in Tysones Corner and Arundel Mills Mall. The auction starts at 9 a.m. in New and any sale will be subject to couryt approval at a hearing to be heldin Wilmington, Del. June 10. “Fot now, it is business as usuao in all Filene’s Basement locations,” he which explains why a puzzled Filene’s employeew in Rockville knew nothing about itspotentialo closing. The auction was moved last minutee to New York at the request ofseveral bidders.
Columbus, Ohio-based (NYSE: RVI) sold the iconicc chain this year to FB IIAcquisitiomn Corp., a new entity owne by , a liquidation and turnaround firm baserd in Agoura Hills, Calif. It still operates one store in Atlant at 3535Peachtree Road.
Thursday, March 24, 2011
Queenstown council questions findings into fatal jet crash - New Zealand Herald
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Tuesday, March 22, 2011
Sales of previously owned homes dip 9.6 percent | Philadelphia Inquirer | 2011 ... - Philadelphia Inquirer
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Sunday, March 20, 2011
Georgia landscapers eye rebound from Southeast drought - Baltimore Business Journal:
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But owners of lawn and gardehn businesses say the return of normal rainfallp will not mean a return tothe water-wasting days of the when homeowners didn’t think twice about turnint on their sprinklers during the heat of the day. They say both economicd and environmental awareness point tonew habits. “We’rwe never going to go back to the way we weredoingb business,” said Mary Kay Woodworth, executive director of the . “We know how to be officially declared the drought over onJune 10, endingy water restrictions that had been in effect in 55 North Georgis counties since September 2007 and returning the region to rules allowing watering on an odd-evebn basis.
Landscapers felt the worsrt impact of the drought restrictions duringy theearly months. Figures compilesd at that time by economists at The University of which won’t be updated until this fall, showed lossees region-wide of $3.2 billion and 35,0090 jobs. The pressure on lawn and garden businesses eased a bit in Marcn 2008 when the General responding to an outcry fromthe industry, passed legislationj allowing many North Georgi water systems to seek waiveras from the state for more lenient wateringf rules.
Still, persistent dry weather coupled with the psychological effect of the restrictions on homeowners kept demand for landscapingb products andservices low, said Peter Speck, head of operationzs at SolTerra Landscape of Sandy Springs. He said his compan y is down to just 13 employeesw after losing about half ofits sales. “Certain portionz of the businessjust disappeared,” Speck said. “Peopl were afraid to spend any money on Speck said another factor dampening enthusiasm for lawn and gardenj projects has beenthe recession, whichh lingers on even as the rainsz are back.
“People in the past were going to lines of credig on their houses or dippingg intosavings [to finance landscaping],” he said. everyone’s saying, ‘Let’s wait and see what will ” Companies that laid off workerz as sales plummeted have had to find ways to maintain productivity withsmaller staffs. “Ww can actually deliver the same throughput with a substantiallty lowerlabor force,” said Ken president and co-owner of in Cartersville, whichn is down to 21 employees from a high of 30 in 2006.
Davic Price, co-owner of in Chamblee, said his company focuses on “hardscape” projects during the building walkways, patios or decks to surround the plants and grasse that could be installed once therainsw returned. “We weathered the drought by repositioninvour company’s business,” he said. But metrk Atlanta homeowners aren’t likely to view the end of the droughg as carte blanche to open up their watee faucetswith abandon. For one thing, wate rates have gone up since the drought began threreyears ago. The city of Atlanta has led the way, raisinfg rates by 27.
5 percent last summer in part to offset a loss of revenu ethe , incurred when customers cut back on wateer use during the drought. Bryan spokesman for the , which represents water utilitiea acrossthe state, said many other systems have increasex rates by double Beyond the economic disadvantages of wastinyg water is a heightened public awareness of the importancse of conservation. Carol Couch, director of the state EnvironmentalProtectiohn Division, noted in liftingg the watering restrictions that Georgians reducedx their water use during the drought beyond what could have been achieveds through mandates alone.
Conservation peaked in May 2008 witha water-use reductioh of 30 percent compared with May of the previous she said.
But owners of lawn and gardehn businesses say the return of normal rainfallp will not mean a return tothe water-wasting days of the when homeowners didn’t think twice about turnint on their sprinklers during the heat of the day. They say both economicd and environmental awareness point tonew habits. “We’rwe never going to go back to the way we weredoingb business,” said Mary Kay Woodworth, executive director of the . “We know how to be officially declared the drought over onJune 10, endingy water restrictions that had been in effect in 55 North Georgis counties since September 2007 and returning the region to rules allowing watering on an odd-evebn basis.
Landscapers felt the worsrt impact of the drought restrictions duringy theearly months. Figures compilesd at that time by economists at The University of which won’t be updated until this fall, showed lossees region-wide of $3.2 billion and 35,0090 jobs. The pressure on lawn and garden businesses eased a bit in Marcn 2008 when the General responding to an outcry fromthe industry, passed legislationj allowing many North Georgi water systems to seek waiveras from the state for more lenient wateringf rules.
Still, persistent dry weather coupled with the psychological effect of the restrictions on homeowners kept demand for landscapingb products andservices low, said Peter Speck, head of operationzs at SolTerra Landscape of Sandy Springs. He said his compan y is down to just 13 employeesw after losing about half ofits sales. “Certain portionz of the businessjust disappeared,” Speck said. “Peopl were afraid to spend any money on Speck said another factor dampening enthusiasm for lawn and gardenj projects has beenthe recession, whichh lingers on even as the rainsz are back.
“People in the past were going to lines of credig on their houses or dippingg intosavings [to finance landscaping],” he said. everyone’s saying, ‘Let’s wait and see what will ” Companies that laid off workerz as sales plummeted have had to find ways to maintain productivity withsmaller staffs. “Ww can actually deliver the same throughput with a substantiallty lowerlabor force,” said Ken president and co-owner of in Cartersville, whichn is down to 21 employees from a high of 30 in 2006.
Davic Price, co-owner of in Chamblee, said his company focuses on “hardscape” projects during the building walkways, patios or decks to surround the plants and grasse that could be installed once therainsw returned. “We weathered the drought by repositioninvour company’s business,” he said. But metrk Atlanta homeowners aren’t likely to view the end of the droughg as carte blanche to open up their watee faucetswith abandon. For one thing, wate rates have gone up since the drought began threreyears ago. The city of Atlanta has led the way, raisinfg rates by 27.
5 percent last summer in part to offset a loss of revenu ethe , incurred when customers cut back on wateer use during the drought. Bryan spokesman for the , which represents water utilitiea acrossthe state, said many other systems have increasex rates by double Beyond the economic disadvantages of wastinyg water is a heightened public awareness of the importancse of conservation. Carol Couch, director of the state EnvironmentalProtectiohn Division, noted in liftingg the watering restrictions that Georgians reducedx their water use during the drought beyond what could have been achieveds through mandates alone.
Conservation peaked in May 2008 witha water-use reductioh of 30 percent compared with May of the previous she said.
Thursday, March 17, 2011
NetStandard wins Kansas business award - Kansas City Business Journal:
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The Kansas City, Kan., which provides information technology outsourcing also is one of five finalists forthe Governor’zs Award of Excellence, to be presented Thursdayu at in Overland Park, CEO Jeff Melcherr said in an interview Tuesday. The company is the only local finalist for that The awards go to a Kansas business that “best upholds the state’s ideals of leadership, service and economivc contributions,” according to a NetStandards release. The Business Excellence Award ispresented regionally. Melcher and compangy President Walt Lane founded NetStandardin 1996. It also offerxs data center services and hosted business software for smaloland mid-sized businesses.
The company’s recurring revenure is up 60 percent from last and it has hiref about 15 employees this for a total ofroughly 60, Melcheer said. NetStandard also drawsx revenue into Kansas fromother states, he The company is active in the supporting organizations that include the , , , , and , the releases said.
The Kansas City, Kan., which provides information technology outsourcing also is one of five finalists forthe Governor’zs Award of Excellence, to be presented Thursdayu at in Overland Park, CEO Jeff Melcherr said in an interview Tuesday. The company is the only local finalist for that The awards go to a Kansas business that “best upholds the state’s ideals of leadership, service and economivc contributions,” according to a NetStandards release. The Business Excellence Award ispresented regionally. Melcher and compangy President Walt Lane founded NetStandardin 1996. It also offerxs data center services and hosted business software for smaloland mid-sized businesses.
The company’s recurring revenure is up 60 percent from last and it has hiref about 15 employees this for a total ofroughly 60, Melcheer said. NetStandard also drawsx revenue into Kansas fromother states, he The company is active in the supporting organizations that include the , , , , and , the releases said.
Tuesday, March 15, 2011
Tourism Association inducts three into Hall of Fame - New Mexico Business Weekly:
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Established in 1997, the Hall of Fame includeas people such asConrad Hilton, Erni Blake, Ben Abruzzo and Tony Hillerman. Drew who died in May is a posthumous inductee. He owned the Red River Ski Areasincse 1984. Judycki was a long-time skieer who worked for the ski patrolo in Sipapu and as an instructor at Red RivefSki Area. He was also director of the ski schoolk at AngelFire Resort. As owner of Red River, Judycki hostedf local schools’ ski programs and supportes the Red River Juniodr Racing Team and the Ski He was also a longtime member of Ski New Mexicop and served as presidentseveralo times. He helped develop the Ski New Mexicoslogabn “Ski the Winter Sun.
” Judycki was also actives with the and the . He also served as town councilor from 1974to 1978. The seconxd inductee was Cathy Gonzales, vice president of conventions and touriskm forthe . She has headed that division for nearly 30 yearsa and has developed extensive contracts with national companies and Hispanic executives. Gonzales has reached out to partners around the worldr and secured hundreds of events for the state that have made a significanteconomic impact, according to She developed a stronfg core of volunteers to assis with convention logistics, which has been influentia l in bringing conventions back to She serves on the board of the , is a member of the and is an affiliatr member of the .
The third inductese is Al Lucero, who is the chairman of the and ownetrof Maria’s Santa Fe restaurant. Lucerl had a 30-year career in broadcasting, starting at Universitgy of New Mexico and eventually taking himto Arizona. He came back to Santa Fe in 1983 and served as president of Channel 2 untilo selling the stationin 1985. He and his wife purchased Maria’ s New Mexican Kitchen and he also becamd an expert on tequilaand margaritas. Lucero has published thres books, “The Real Margarita Book,” “The Great Margaritq Book” and “The Great Margarita Book Secone Edition.
” He helped start the Santa Fe Wine and Chiled Fiesta to help fill hotel rooms outsides the summer high season and has worked to establish the city as aculinarty destination. Lucero has also servedf as chairman of the board ofthe , the and El Ranchpo de las Golondrinas livinhg museum and is past president of .
Established in 1997, the Hall of Fame includeas people such asConrad Hilton, Erni Blake, Ben Abruzzo and Tony Hillerman. Drew who died in May is a posthumous inductee. He owned the Red River Ski Areasincse 1984. Judycki was a long-time skieer who worked for the ski patrolo in Sipapu and as an instructor at Red RivefSki Area. He was also director of the ski schoolk at AngelFire Resort. As owner of Red River, Judycki hostedf local schools’ ski programs and supportes the Red River Juniodr Racing Team and the Ski He was also a longtime member of Ski New Mexicop and served as presidentseveralo times. He helped develop the Ski New Mexicoslogabn “Ski the Winter Sun.
” Judycki was also actives with the and the . He also served as town councilor from 1974to 1978. The seconxd inductee was Cathy Gonzales, vice president of conventions and touriskm forthe . She has headed that division for nearly 30 yearsa and has developed extensive contracts with national companies and Hispanic executives. Gonzales has reached out to partners around the worldr and secured hundreds of events for the state that have made a significanteconomic impact, according to She developed a stronfg core of volunteers to assis with convention logistics, which has been influentia l in bringing conventions back to She serves on the board of the , is a member of the and is an affiliatr member of the .
The third inductese is Al Lucero, who is the chairman of the and ownetrof Maria’s Santa Fe restaurant. Lucerl had a 30-year career in broadcasting, starting at Universitgy of New Mexico and eventually taking himto Arizona. He came back to Santa Fe in 1983 and served as president of Channel 2 untilo selling the stationin 1985. He and his wife purchased Maria’ s New Mexican Kitchen and he also becamd an expert on tequilaand margaritas. Lucero has published thres books, “The Real Margarita Book,” “The Great Margaritq Book” and “The Great Margarita Book Secone Edition.
” He helped start the Santa Fe Wine and Chiled Fiesta to help fill hotel rooms outsides the summer high season and has worked to establish the city as aculinarty destination. Lucero has also servedf as chairman of the board ofthe , the and El Ranchpo de las Golondrinas livinhg museum and is past president of .
Saturday, March 12, 2011
Riverfront property contamination costs $19M - Jacksonville Business Journal:
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The property's owner, , declined to say whetheer it would develop or sell the property aftee containing the harmful pesticides and other potentially dangerous chemicals on the site adjacent tothe St. Johnsw River. It also isn't clead how long the containment which involves building clay walls underground anda bulkhead, will take, said Jordanm Garrard, Environmental Protection Agency remediao project manager. The targeted chemicals, which include found their way into the soil from fertilizer manufacturing and pesticide and herbicidr mixing businesses onthe property.
Such operationse began in the 1890s, exchanged handes several times and continued until whenthe property's owner, closed the facility. Tronox is a spin-ofgf company of Kerr-McGee. When introduced into the the chemicals can killsmall organisms, such as plankton and Because those organisms are the beginninh of the food chain, fish can also be If the proposed containment strategy is approved, desighn work will begin in late September and is expected take six to eightr months, Garrard said. The actual containment would take a year to a year and a half and coulds begin as soon asspring 2009.
The Jacksonvillee Port Authority is preparing its own remedial effortsa less than a mile north of the Tronox and lease part of the 20 acres oftargetex property. The property was formerly the home of an ArmoutFertilizer facility. The primaru concern is the high levelpof arsenic, which may leak into the groundwater, an independenyt environmental assessment suggests. The authority hasn't decider whether it will clean up or containmthe chemicals. A timetable for eithet has yet tobe set, nor does the authorit know how much it will cost to bring the propertyh up to environmental standards.
The property's owner, , declined to say whetheer it would develop or sell the property aftee containing the harmful pesticides and other potentially dangerous chemicals on the site adjacent tothe St. Johnsw River. It also isn't clead how long the containment which involves building clay walls underground anda bulkhead, will take, said Jordanm Garrard, Environmental Protection Agency remediao project manager. The targeted chemicals, which include found their way into the soil from fertilizer manufacturing and pesticide and herbicidr mixing businesses onthe property.
Such operationse began in the 1890s, exchanged handes several times and continued until whenthe property's owner, closed the facility. Tronox is a spin-ofgf company of Kerr-McGee. When introduced into the the chemicals can killsmall organisms, such as plankton and Because those organisms are the beginninh of the food chain, fish can also be If the proposed containment strategy is approved, desighn work will begin in late September and is expected take six to eightr months, Garrard said. The actual containment would take a year to a year and a half and coulds begin as soon asspring 2009.
The Jacksonvillee Port Authority is preparing its own remedial effortsa less than a mile north of the Tronox and lease part of the 20 acres oftargetex property. The property was formerly the home of an ArmoutFertilizer facility. The primaru concern is the high levelpof arsenic, which may leak into the groundwater, an independenyt environmental assessment suggests. The authority hasn't decider whether it will clean up or containmthe chemicals. A timetable for eithet has yet tobe set, nor does the authorit know how much it will cost to bring the propertyh up to environmental standards.
Thursday, March 10, 2011
Abandoned assets worth millions go unclaimed - bizjournals:
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“We cannot fathom how that happens, but a lot of timees customers move and they lose track oftheir money,” said vice president of Central Pacific’ s operations and administration department. “Sometimes, they may be elderl people, and if they are incapacitated their children may not know wherde theitems are.” Financial institutions and other holderds of abandoned property are required to report theirf findings annually, after five years of dormancy, to the statr ’s Unclaimed Property Program, whicb returns property to rightful owners for The most common typesx of property are savings and checking safety deposit box warrants, stocks, refunds and insurancw proceeds.
Beginning July 1, the Unclaimexd Property Law will chang e to help parties keep better track ofabandones property. The new rules, passed in the 2008 legislative session, will allow owners of interest-bearing accounts to receive interest on propert submitted to the program afterJune 30. The ruless also require financial institutions, when reportingb abandoned property, to segregate interest-bearingy funds from noninterest-bearing ones. In addition, holders of abandoned property must submit notarized affidavits to theBudget Department, stating that writtehn notices have been sent to owners of unclaimee property worth more than $50.
“Previously, we didn’ft have information on whether theywere interest-bearing or said Scott Kami, an administrator in the unclaime d property division. The state’zs unclaimed property fund has grownto $140 million since the Despite the state government’s fiscal challenges, the fund is protectefd by law and cannot be reallocated to otheer state departments whose budgets were cut this year. In the most recenr fiscal year endingJune 30, 2008, a totalp of 9,748 claims worth $5.9 million were returned to rightful owners. So far this fiscal year, as of May 15, approximatelyy $4.
95 million has been Honolulu resident Marty Schiller recently learned that Oceanic Time Warne Cable owedhim $220. The money sat unclaimed for seven years. “I simply did not know the moneyg existed or was owed to said Schiller, owner of The Schille r Agency. “The [Budget] Department’sa staff was wonderful. They walked me through, step by on how to claim the Monetary payouts are easier to return than safety deposigtbox items, which are kept in a “ver overburdened vault full of boxes,” Kami said. A feather lei, vintagd cameras and jewelry are among the abandoneds safety depositbox contents.
Once, a womah who “had personal challenges in her life,” waitedf a few years beforew claiming her silverware fromthe department. Another womanh recently retrieved a coin collection belonginhg to her late Thebudget department’s outreach team, comprisiny a half-dozen state employees, regularlyt appears at public venues to educate the public aboutr lost property. The public-private partnership is a major component ofthe program, say those Every November, banks and other accoun t holders give the state a list of which are then advertised in local newspapers in Marcn of the following year.
Accounts that aren’ft claimed by mid-April are notedd and sent to the state in Mayfor safekeeping. “sA lot of people, believe it or not, are foreignera who come to Hawaii to open an accountthinking they’ll have funds here,” said Scott Takahashi, vice president for the legal and custod y department at Bank of Hawaii. “And they forgegt about it.”
“We cannot fathom how that happens, but a lot of timees customers move and they lose track oftheir money,” said vice president of Central Pacific’ s operations and administration department. “Sometimes, they may be elderl people, and if they are incapacitated their children may not know wherde theitems are.” Financial institutions and other holderds of abandoned property are required to report theirf findings annually, after five years of dormancy, to the statr ’s Unclaimed Property Program, whicb returns property to rightful owners for The most common typesx of property are savings and checking safety deposit box warrants, stocks, refunds and insurancw proceeds.
Beginning July 1, the Unclaimexd Property Law will chang e to help parties keep better track ofabandones property. The new rules, passed in the 2008 legislative session, will allow owners of interest-bearing accounts to receive interest on propert submitted to the program afterJune 30. The ruless also require financial institutions, when reportingb abandoned property, to segregate interest-bearingy funds from noninterest-bearing ones. In addition, holders of abandoned property must submit notarized affidavits to theBudget Department, stating that writtehn notices have been sent to owners of unclaimee property worth more than $50.
“Previously, we didn’ft have information on whether theywere interest-bearing or said Scott Kami, an administrator in the unclaime d property division. The state’zs unclaimed property fund has grownto $140 million since the Despite the state government’s fiscal challenges, the fund is protectefd by law and cannot be reallocated to otheer state departments whose budgets were cut this year. In the most recenr fiscal year endingJune 30, 2008, a totalp of 9,748 claims worth $5.9 million were returned to rightful owners. So far this fiscal year, as of May 15, approximatelyy $4.
95 million has been Honolulu resident Marty Schiller recently learned that Oceanic Time Warne Cable owedhim $220. The money sat unclaimed for seven years. “I simply did not know the moneyg existed or was owed to said Schiller, owner of The Schille r Agency. “The [Budget] Department’sa staff was wonderful. They walked me through, step by on how to claim the Monetary payouts are easier to return than safety deposigtbox items, which are kept in a “ver overburdened vault full of boxes,” Kami said. A feather lei, vintagd cameras and jewelry are among the abandoneds safety depositbox contents.
Once, a womah who “had personal challenges in her life,” waitedf a few years beforew claiming her silverware fromthe department. Another womanh recently retrieved a coin collection belonginhg to her late Thebudget department’s outreach team, comprisiny a half-dozen state employees, regularlyt appears at public venues to educate the public aboutr lost property. The public-private partnership is a major component ofthe program, say those Every November, banks and other accoun t holders give the state a list of which are then advertised in local newspapers in Marcn of the following year.
Accounts that aren’ft claimed by mid-April are notedd and sent to the state in Mayfor safekeeping. “sA lot of people, believe it or not, are foreignera who come to Hawaii to open an accountthinking they’ll have funds here,” said Scott Takahashi, vice president for the legal and custod y department at Bank of Hawaii. “And they forgegt about it.”
Monday, March 7, 2011
Voting begins on King Soopers contract offer - Business Courier of Cincinnati:
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Voting on the five-yeadr offer by members of United Food and Commercial Workers Local 7 will continue through Union leaders are not making a recommendatio n to their members on thecontract offer, whicyh the union complains would cut pension benefits by an averagse of $100,000 -- a conclusion disputed by management. “It’s a good contract in a normal economy. It’ s a great contract in this economy,” King Sooperss spokeswoman Diane Mulligan saidlast week. She said roughlu 65 percent of workers woulc get raises underthe company’s proposal. King Soopers is a Colorado unitof Cincinnati-basee (NYSE: KR).
Colorado workers for two otherf grocerychains — Pleasanton, Calif.-based (NYSE: SWY) and Idaho-based (privately held) — continude to negotiate separate deals with their employers. If King Sooperes workers rejectthe chain’s latest they will continue working without a contracyt until an agreement is reached or a strike is called. Their contract expiref May 9.
Voting on the five-yeadr offer by members of United Food and Commercial Workers Local 7 will continue through Union leaders are not making a recommendatio n to their members on thecontract offer, whicyh the union complains would cut pension benefits by an averagse of $100,000 -- a conclusion disputed by management. “It’s a good contract in a normal economy. It’ s a great contract in this economy,” King Sooperss spokeswoman Diane Mulligan saidlast week. She said roughlu 65 percent of workers woulc get raises underthe company’s proposal. King Soopers is a Colorado unitof Cincinnati-basee (NYSE: KR).
Colorado workers for two otherf grocerychains — Pleasanton, Calif.-based (NYSE: SWY) and Idaho-based (privately held) — continude to negotiate separate deals with their employers. If King Sooperes workers rejectthe chain’s latest they will continue working without a contracyt until an agreement is reached or a strike is called. Their contract expiref May 9.
Saturday, March 5, 2011
It's time for moderation and peaceful coexistence among faiths - Winnipeg Free Press
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It's time for moderation and peaceful coexistence among faiths Winnipeg Free Press Tolerance, peaceful coexistence and mutual respect have been the hallmark of their relations. However, the recent heinous attack on the church of Alexandria on New Year's Day tainted the picture of Egypt in the eyes of many distant observers. ... |
Wednesday, March 2, 2011
Singer Aretha Franklin Says She's Lost 85 Pounds - ABC News
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USA Today | Singer Aretha Franklin Says She's Lost 85 Pounds ABC News 25, 2011 photo provided by "The Wendy Williams Show," Wendy Williams, right, poses with Aretha Franklin during an interview at the Townsend Hotel in Birmingham, Mich. (AP Photo/The Wendy Williams Show, Sarah Rice) NO SALES Aretha Franklin says she's ... Singer Aretha Franklin says she's lost 85 pounds Wendy Williams' Aretha Franklin interview will air today Wendy Williams lands Aretha Franklin interview; Singer drops 85 pounds |
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