Monday, January 31, 2011

Dispatches from Milton Keynes: Church Tour of Cambridge - Cambridgeshire Churches - Anglotopia.net

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Dispatches from Milton Keynes: Church Tour of Cambridge - Cambridgeshire Churches

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A large café occupies the nave, with the small chancel inside as an oasis of peace, and a smaller chapel inside that. The sacred spaces of the church ...



Saturday, January 29, 2011

Prices heat up - Boston Globe

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Prices heat up

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Delivery of heating oil proved a challenge yesterday for Tom Groden of Needham Oil and Air Co. at a home on Walpole Street in Dover. ...



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Wednesday, January 26, 2011

Abbott to Cut 2% Of Work Force, Reports Lower Net - Wall Street Journal

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Abbott to Cut 2% Of Work Force, Reports Lower Net

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Abbott Laboratories' said Wednesday it would lay off about 2% of its work force in response to US market pressures, ...



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Monday, January 24, 2011

Yahoo! confirms WNY site - Silicon Valley / San Jose Business Journal:

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Yahoo!, Tuesday morning, confirmed it will be buildingthe 190,000-square-foot centerd that could employ, initially, 125 Yahoo! has pegged a 30-acre site in the park for the Yahoo!’s decision is considered a majo r victory, especially against a backdrop of a weakened economy wherr unemployment has increased in past year in Erie County to 8.1 percen t from 5.5 percent and in Niagaras County to 9.3 percent from 6.6 “This is a big win for the community,” said Tom Kucharski, president and chief executive officer. “Wse won the day.” Yahoo! was being courtesd by several states including Pennsylvania and Illinois forthe center.
All offered a handsome arrayu of incentives. “When a high tech compang like Yahoo! picks a communityu like WesternNew York, it’s like a said Sen. Charles Schumer, New York’s senior who played a key role in Lockporf landing the data The region crafted its own aggressivre incentive package including the offering 15 megawattsof low-cosr hydropower that could save Yahoo! an estimated $100 millionm over a 15-year period. also offered job training grantws andother incentives. High level pitchess also came from Gov. David Patersom and Schumer. Schumer made personal calls toYahoo !
CEO Carol Bartz to push the Kucharski said it also helped that the region offered a half-dozeb sites and not just a singular location. It also helped that a friendshiop quickly developed between theYahoo ! site selection team and the local economivc development community. “We developed a nice relationship with them and that helpedr makethis happen,” Kucharski “They were impressed that every time they we could assemble our team on a very shorg notice and give them the answers they wanted.” Construction on the data centerr will begin in August, said David Yahoo! senior vice president. The center will be open by May.
Kucharsku said there is a myriad positivesw that will comefrom Yahoo!’s The BNE will use it in its outreach to otherd companies it is courting, he “It confirms our ability to attracgt high tech and high profile Kucharski said. “To get a name company like Yahoo!! says a lot to the rest of the industrieaout there.” Yahoo! joins the ranksw of , that have either opened or expanded back office operationws in the region in recent years. “You add it into the mix of the some of the othetrcompanies we’ve landed and it becomees a very impressive list,” Kucharskj said.

Friday, January 21, 2011

Jeffrey Noddle, Supervalu Inc. - Minneapolis / St. Paul Business Journal:

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Noddle also serves on numerous industry-related and corporatew boards, including The Food Marketing the Independent GrocersAlliance Inc., The Food Industry Center at the Universit y of Minnesota and the Academy of Food Marketinfg at St. Joseph's University in Pennsylvania. 2005 The on-again-off-again $17.4 billiomn acquisition of morethan 1,100 Albertson's Inc. groceruy stores was big news throughouyt2005 (and 2006). Supervalu also entererd the natural and organic foods market by launching itsSunflowert Markets. Rankings -- past and present: No. 16 on last year's CEO Compensatiobn 100 list, was ranked 10th most overpaixd CEOin '05. His total compensatio n went from $7.
7 million in 2004 to $11.56 million in 2005 -- most of that increase realized in restrictexd stockand options. Response to Supervalu representatives said the companhyhas "completely transformed" itself in the past year, mostly due to a $12. billion acquisition of much of Albertson's Inc. The deal for the groceryu chain is expected todouble Supervalu's to $38 billion this year. Part of the preparations for the deal includecd selling off assets to satisfy regulatoryconcerns -- those sales hurt Supervalu's asset s and its performance in late 2005 -- but officialx say the company will rebound in 2006.
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Tuesday, January 18, 2011

State biofuel sector takes form, gains momentum - Boston Business Journal:

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Baystate Biofuels LLC broke ground on a10 million-gallonj refinery and distribution center in North Andove r this week. And Qteros based in Marlborough, announced in April planz to build a pilot planty in Springfield to begin the commercializatiohn of its cellulosicethanol facility. Heating oil retailers acrosds the state also are building capacity to blend andstorer oil/biodiesel mixes in preparation for the new Signed into law in July, the Cleanj Energy Biofuels Act requires heatingy oil and diesel sold in the statse to be a blend of at leasrt 2 percent biofuel starting in 2010. That quotien must rise to 5 percentfby 2013.
To qualify as a biofuel, the fuele must achieve a 50 percent reduction in greenhousee gases when compared with traditiona lpetroleum fuels. The law also exempts from taxation any gas madefrom so-calle cellulosic ethanol, or ethanol made from materiap other than foodstuffs.

Sunday, January 16, 2011

Conference Board jobs index inches up - Denver Business Journal:

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The May Conference Board’s Employment Trends Index stands at up 0.2 percent from the revised April figure of 89.7. But that’ still down 20 percent from a year ago. “Whilr it is too early to say that the ETI has the moderation of the last two monthds is certainly a sign that the decline in job losses is real and signalsx that the worstis over,” said Gad senior economist at The Conference Board. “However, we still expect the unemployment rate to continuer to increase to double digitz by the end of this year and into According tothe U.S.
Department of Labor’s June 5 employmenty report, nonfarm payroll employment fellby 345,000 in May, aboutt half the average monthly declinwe for the prior six months. The unemployment rate continuedxto rise, moving from 8.9 percent in Aprip to 9.4 percent in May. Arizona’s jobless rate checkeed in at 7.7 percent in April, down slightlgy from 7.8 percent in March. May numberzs for the state will be released in roughl ytwo weeks. In May, the componentsw of the Employment Trends Indecx showed amixed picture.
The improving indicators were: the percentagre of firms with positionx they are not able to fillright now, percentage of respondents who say they find “jobs hard to real manufacturing and trade sales and job Overall, the Employment Trends Index aggregatez eight labor-market indicators. The New York-based Conferenc e Board is an independent business-membership and researcj association working in thepublic interest.

Thursday, January 13, 2011

New drugs show promise in treating dangerous blood clots - Oneindia

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New drugs show promise in treating dangerous blood clots

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The study compared the drug Apixaban, given orally twice a day, to the current standard medicine Enoxaparin, given twice daily by injection under the skin. ...



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Tuesday, January 11, 2011

Passionate Arizona gun culture, permissive laws stand out in US - Boston Globe

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Passionate Arizona gun culture, permissive laws stand out in US

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Arizona's gun laws stand out as among the most permissive in the country. Last year, Arizona became only the third state that does not require a permit to ...



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Saturday, January 8, 2011

Santa Cruz named epic surf spot by mag - Puget Sound Business Journal (Seattle):

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In the July issue of the Central California beach resort and collegw town was describedas “the dividing line betweenj rugged, non-pretentious NorCal and suburban, image-conscious SoCal, and that dichotomt is tangible.” Geographical generalizations the magazine said the rugged coastline of Santa Cruz Countuy provides both beauty and surfing making the area the “de factoi capital of coldwater surfing.
” Despite its “astronomical” cost of the magazine praised its artisticc bent, proximity to wineries and naturalk beauty as reasons for surfers around the countryg to bail on their usual surfinb destinations and endeavor to become the Big Kahuna at Steametr Lane or Pleasure Point in Santa Santa Cruz was in elite company. Othetr California surf towns thatmade Surfer’s Top 10 list were all in Souther n California: Encinitas in third place, San Clemente in the fifth spot, and Malibu in seventh place.

Wednesday, January 5, 2011

Jean Pascal-Bernard Hopkins May Bump Chad Dawson's - FanHouse

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Jean Pascal-Bernard Hopkins May Bump Chad Dawson's

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It had appeared that WBC President Jose Sulaiman would honor light heavyweight (175 pounds) king Jean Pascal of Canada's contractual ...


Can Steward turn Chad Dawson's career around?

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WBC Boxing Best Of 2010

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WBC: Pascal-Hopkins Immediate Rematch Order Looms

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Monday, January 3, 2011

Folk art expert to speak - Wicked Local Truro

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Folk art expert to speak

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Friends of the Cape Cod Museum of Art present a talk by folk art expert Beth Friend Monday, Jan. 10, 1 pm Admission is $15, ...



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