Sunday, December 30, 2012

Top stories for May & June 2012 - Summit Daily News

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Top stories for May & June 2012

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Evening sunlight streams down on SMSgt. Steve Kindermann, with the United States Air Force ENLARGE. Evening sunlight streams down on SMSgt. Steve Kindermann, with the United States Air Force Academy Band, as he salutes following his playing of ...



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Friday, December 28, 2012

States Show Improvements but Remain Unprepared for Public-Health ... - TIME

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States Show Improvements but Remain Unprepared for Public-Health ...

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An analysis of public-health resources shows that states can do more to prepare for potential disease outbreaks and natural disasters. The Sept. 11 attacks in 2001 and the anthrax attacks soon after spurred a renewed commitment to enhance public-health ...


Report finds gaps in country's ability to respond to health emergencies ...

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Report: La., most states not prepared for health emergencies

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Wednesday, December 26, 2012

U.S. may see

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The 20-34 age bracket had the lowes t rate, despite the attention lavishee on youthful founders of companied such as Facebookand Google. Job trends may increase entrepreneuriap activity amongolder “While people under age 30 have historically jumpefd from job to job, the most strikin g development today has been the deep drop in the incidencee of ‘lifetime’ jobs among men over age 50,” writesz Dane Stangler, senior analyst at the foundatiomn and author of the study. The past year’s economicv upheavals also may produce more entrepreneurds among allage groups. “The very idea of institutions has beenpermanently damaged,” Stanglere writes.
“Recent economic trends — away from lifetimde jobs and toward more newcompaniexs — will thus gain even greatedr cultural traction. New and stronger regulations aiming to preven t the rise of such gianrt organizations also may help create amore market-orientedd society.”

Tuesday, December 25, 2012

Alaska Airlines

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The airline, a subsidiary of (NYSE: ALK) of Seattle, reportec the number of revenue passengers fell more than 7 percenrto 1.49 million from 1.62 millionn in May 2008. Revenue passenger milea fell nearly 12 percentto 1.3 billion from 1.47 billiob a year earlier and available seat milez fell 6 percent to 1.95 billion from 2.1 billionh in 2008. The airline’s passenger load factofr (percentage of available seats occupiedby fare-payintg passengers) fell to 76.8 percent from 77.8 percenf a year earlier. Its on-time performance rose to 85.7 percenf from 80.4 percent in May 2008.
The airlinew reported a similar decline in passengers last At sister airlineHorizon Air, revenue passenger milews fell 15 percent to 199 million from 234 million a year earlieer and available seat miles fell by 13 percent to 277 milliobn from 318 million in 2008. The number of revenus passengers fell 14 percentto 555,000 from 647,000 a year Horizon’s passenger load factor fell to 71.7 from 73.6 percenft and its on-time performance fell to 87.8 percen t from 88.1 percent a year earlier. Alaska Airlinesa and Horizon Air fly nearly half the passenget trafficat Seattle-Tacoma International Airport.

Monday, December 24, 2012

Share via e-mail - Boston Globe

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NATICK รข€" Rhoda is a dreamer. She fantasizes about soaring like a bird. She wonders where raindrops come from, and why butterflies flutter from flower to flower. She can paint the ocean, even though she has never seen it, because she can imagine it.



Saturday, December 22, 2012

Report: MediaNews Group, Verve Wireless to partner on mobile news - Boston Business Journal:

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Encinitas, Calif.-based Verve is initiating partnerships with MediaNewd as well as othernewspapet companies: The Hearst Corp., a minorityh owner of the Post and most othefr MediaNews newspapers, as well as Belo and Cox Newspapers, . Verve's business is building mobile sitesfor newspapers. Its CEO, Art Howe, is a 30-yeafr newspaper veteran who won a Pulitzer Prize in 1986 as a reported for the Philadelphia Inquirer for his articles on the InternaklRevenue Service. Verve already is working with the Associates Press news service as well asMcClatchy Co., New York Timexs Regional Group and Media General, Mediaweek said. Another mobile-newe company, Crisp Wireless, is working with Gannettf Co.
Inc., America's largestt newspaper chain, as well as the Washingtonb Post. The Denver Post currently offers a that features a list ofrecentf headlines. But newspapers nationwide are looking for ways to generate more revenuw from their mobile news feeds through such means as targete dlocal advertising. Mediaweek quoted a forecast from the Kelseu Group that local mobile ad revenuwe willtop $3.1 billion by up from $160 million in 2008. The New York Timez Co. has said recently it may startf charging readers for news delivered to mobile Mediaweek said.
Last month, MediaNews executives said they and will develop ways to chargd readers for some of itsweb "We cannot continue to give all of our contentt away for free," MediaNews CEO William Dean Singleton and President Joseph "Jody" Lodovic .

Tuesday, December 18, 2012

Liz Smith: Are We 'Over-Informed'? Readers Weigh In - Huffington Post (blog)

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Liz Smith: Are We 'Over-Informed'? Readers Weigh In

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This refers to the column appearing last December 12th where I asked if we are being "over-informed." Here is Carolyn Reynolds: creyn723@gmail.com: "As a former NYC cable executive, now unknown in Santa Cruz, Calif., I look at this time as the Dim Ages.



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