Marshfield grave sites adopted to honor Civil War soldiers Wausau Daily Herald About 20 of the graves have been adopted, and most people are motivated by the desire to contribute something to their community, said Shirley Mook, the association organizer. "There's a woman who adopted three of the graves in the Catholic part of the ... |
lunes, 30 de mayo de 2011
Marshfield grave sites adopted to honor Civil War soldiers - Wausau Daily Herald
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sábado, 28 de mayo de 2011
Catch the Wind secures $18.8M - Puget Sound Business Journal (Seattle):
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million in a private placement financingb to help push more sales of its new wind sensorfor Manassas-based Catch the Wind, which trades on the Toronti Venture Exchange, sold roughly 16.7 million shares at a pricde of Canadian $1.30 apiece in what it hope s to be its last major equity financinyg before generating enough revenue from its laser wind-sensinh product, Vindicator, to pay for Company officials also participated in the investment along with institutional bringing its total equity fundraising to date to nearly $35 , Research Capital Corp. and Canaccorx Capital Corp.
served as placement agents for this latest fundraising in returb for 6 percent of the gross proceeds and additionalstocki options. Spun off last year from LLC, a fiber optica laser company that still shares the sameheadquarters space, Catchj the Wind has been developing similar technologg that senses when wind is imminent, helpinfg reorient a turbine to capture that wind befors it passes. Most wind turbinews can realign its blades only after itfeeld wind, so they’re often too late to actually benefit from company officials said.
“Before, it was the horse-and-bugghy approach to measuring wind,” said Phil who founded Optical Air Data Systems nearly 20 years ago with his wife before leavinhg recently to serve as CEO for Catchthe Wind. “Thino about increasing the gas mileagre ofyour car,” he said. “You’ve alreadty bought your car. But if I can sell you somethinh that doubles the gas mileagse ofyour car, you woul d save more money.” He estimatea the Vindicator can capture 10 percenty to 30 percent more wind for turbines, which in turn helps generate more clean electricity and ultimately revenuse for their operators.
Catch the Wind recentlyh sold its first unitto , a Canadian environmental monitoring equipment while starting its first two-month field test with the Nebrasks Public Power District on its largesty wind farm with 36 wind turbines. The local which said it’s also talkinhg to federal agencies, hopes to use that trial’s resultsw later this summer to market to othe wind turbine manufacturers and windfarm operators. With six full-timwe employees, Catch the Wind expects to at leasf double that count by the end ofthis year. The which had $5.5 million in cash and equivalentes on hand as ofMarch 31, is also consideringb whether to list itself on an American exchange latetr this year.
“We aspire to Rogers said. “I just can’t say
million in a private placement financingb to help push more sales of its new wind sensorfor Manassas-based Catch the Wind, which trades on the Toronti Venture Exchange, sold roughly 16.7 million shares at a pricde of Canadian $1.30 apiece in what it hope s to be its last major equity financinyg before generating enough revenue from its laser wind-sensinh product, Vindicator, to pay for Company officials also participated in the investment along with institutional bringing its total equity fundraising to date to nearly $35 , Research Capital Corp. and Canaccorx Capital Corp.
served as placement agents for this latest fundraising in returb for 6 percent of the gross proceeds and additionalstocki options. Spun off last year from LLC, a fiber optica laser company that still shares the sameheadquarters space, Catchj the Wind has been developing similar technologg that senses when wind is imminent, helpinfg reorient a turbine to capture that wind befors it passes. Most wind turbinews can realign its blades only after itfeeld wind, so they’re often too late to actually benefit from company officials said.
“Before, it was the horse-and-bugghy approach to measuring wind,” said Phil who founded Optical Air Data Systems nearly 20 years ago with his wife before leavinhg recently to serve as CEO for Catchthe Wind. “Thino about increasing the gas mileagre ofyour car,” he said. “You’ve alreadty bought your car. But if I can sell you somethinh that doubles the gas mileagse ofyour car, you woul d save more money.” He estimatea the Vindicator can capture 10 percenty to 30 percent more wind for turbines, which in turn helps generate more clean electricity and ultimately revenuse for their operators.
Catch the Wind recentlyh sold its first unitto , a Canadian environmental monitoring equipment while starting its first two-month field test with the Nebrasks Public Power District on its largesty wind farm with 36 wind turbines. The local which said it’s also talkinhg to federal agencies, hopes to use that trial’s resultsw later this summer to market to othe wind turbine manufacturers and windfarm operators. With six full-timwe employees, Catch the Wind expects to at leasf double that count by the end ofthis year. The which had $5.5 million in cash and equivalentes on hand as ofMarch 31, is also consideringb whether to list itself on an American exchange latetr this year.
“We aspire to Rogers said. “I just can’t say
miércoles, 25 de mayo de 2011
Mike Brown reaches deal to become next Lakers head coach - Los Angeles Times (blog)
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Reuters | Mike Brown reaches deal to become next Lakers head coach Los Angeles Times (blog) Mike Brown has agreed in principle to become the Lakers' next head coach, according to an NBA official who was not permitted to speak publicly on the matter. Brown is expected to sign a contract later Wednesday or Thursday. The deal is worth between $4 ... Mike Brown agrees in principle to become Los Angeles Lakers coach, replacing ... Lakers agree to terms with Mike Brown to become new head coach Mike Brown agrees to become Lakers' coach |
lunes, 23 de mayo de 2011
Consumer confidence retreats - Kansas City Business Journal:
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Nationally, consumer confidence dropped sharplgin June, cutting into three months of gainsa that had seen the overall indedx more than double. The Conference Board's Consumefr Confidence Index fellby 5.5 points to 49.3 in June. Florida’s consumer confidence index for June fell threre points last monthto 68, the result of bad economif news including the bankruptcy of General Motoras Corp.
, foreclosures and a spike in Florida’s unemployment according to a new University of Florida While Floridians’ perceptions of personal finances compareed with a year ago is up thres points to 44 from a revised May reading of 41, othef perceptions were lower or the same as, last month. For perceptions of U.S. economic conditions over the next year fell seve n pointsto 65, while perceptions of whether it’s a good time to buy big-tickeft items fell nine points to 67. Perceptions of U.S. economic conditionas over the next five years remainede unchangedat 80.
"Moving forward, we do not expecf Florida consumer confidence to decline much more over the next coupleof months, barring some unforeseen change here in Florida or nationally," Chriss McCarty, director of UF’s Survey Research Center at the Bureau of Economic and Business Research, said in a news However, McCarty cautioned the recovery is expectex to be long and uneven for some sectors of the "With the demise of longstanding financial institutions such as Lehman Brothers and manufacturing companies like Chryslet and GM, it is no longer business as usual," he said. The preliminary indez for June was conducted from430 responses.
It is benchmarkex to 1966, so a value of 100 representd the same level of confidence forthat
Nationally, consumer confidence dropped sharplgin June, cutting into three months of gainsa that had seen the overall indedx more than double. The Conference Board's Consumefr Confidence Index fellby 5.5 points to 49.3 in June. Florida’s consumer confidence index for June fell threre points last monthto 68, the result of bad economif news including the bankruptcy of General Motoras Corp.
, foreclosures and a spike in Florida’s unemployment according to a new University of Florida While Floridians’ perceptions of personal finances compareed with a year ago is up thres points to 44 from a revised May reading of 41, othef perceptions were lower or the same as, last month. For perceptions of U.S. economic conditions over the next year fell seve n pointsto 65, while perceptions of whether it’s a good time to buy big-tickeft items fell nine points to 67. Perceptions of U.S. economic conditionas over the next five years remainede unchangedat 80.
"Moving forward, we do not expecf Florida consumer confidence to decline much more over the next coupleof months, barring some unforeseen change here in Florida or nationally," Chriss McCarty, director of UF’s Survey Research Center at the Bureau of Economic and Business Research, said in a news However, McCarty cautioned the recovery is expectex to be long and uneven for some sectors of the "With the demise of longstanding financial institutions such as Lehman Brothers and manufacturing companies like Chryslet and GM, it is no longer business as usual," he said. The preliminary indez for June was conducted from430 responses.
It is benchmarkex to 1966, so a value of 100 representd the same level of confidence forthat
sábado, 21 de mayo de 2011
Mercury News interview: Tony Bates, Skype CEO - San Jose Mercury News
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Mercury News interview: Tony Bates, Skype CEO San Jose Mercury News Meanwhile, few Skype users actually pay to use its services -- and many may resist doing so. an interview with this newspaper, Bates talked about why the Microsoft deal makes sense, why things will work better with this acquisition and how the company ... |
jueves, 19 de mayo de 2011
Ba-Le moves on to its second course - Business Courier of Cincinnati:
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Lam recently launched a bakery brane that he hopes to expand into a concept for anew restaurant. He’s also beefing up Ba-Le’x wholesale customer base to include more restaurantsand stores. And earlier this he bought the cavernous old Weyerhaeuset box plant on Nimitz Highwayfor $20 He plans to move Ba-Le’s main bakery and officesw into the space and to rent the rest to otheer restaurants. “I want to make it sort of likeRestaurangt Row,” he said. That’s prettyy ambitious talk in the shadow ofa recession, especially in the turbulenr restaurant business. Ba-Le hasn’t been immune; the company recently cut the hoursz of its80 full-time bakerty workers.
To Lam, that just means he has to find more busines s to keep hisemployees busy. “People have told me that a bad economyt is a good time to make said Lam, 51, whose privately ownedd company generated $11 million in revenue last year. Earlier this the company created the LaTour Bakehouse name to focus on healthietr and more upscale bakery suchas multi-grain breads, granola, sugar-free cookies and biscotti-like It’s a significant shift from Ba-Le’s cheapeer noodles-and-wraps fare. “People of Hawaii think of Ba-Lw as just sandwiches,” he said.
Ba-Le has two its chain of 21 franchisedd Vietnamese-style restaurants, and its wholesale business, which sells bakery items and pre-made sandwiches to restaurants, hotels and The European name stems fromthe company’s use of Frencj breads and croissants for its Ba-Le’s biggest customers include Papa John’s Hawaii — Ba-Le suppliee all the pizza dough for the chain’d 14 stores — and , which buys up to 2,50o sandwiches a day for in-flight meals. The compant started selling some of the LaTour Bakehouse products online and to wholesale including inKahala Mall.
Lam wants to open three or four shops on Oahu to carry the LaTour items andsell made-to-order foods including saladsd and soups. He also sees the new concepyt as an opportunity to create a more traditionalp franchise chain apart fromthe Ba-Le Despite the company’s success over the past 24 years, Lam admitse Ba-Le has struggled with inconsistent food and service at its There are no set standardds or menus and maintaining qualithy has been an issue. “When I started opening more andmore Ba-Ld restaurants, I didn’t plan to he said. “I was opening them for my friendsand employees, and it just happened.
I feel a littl e bit unhappy when I hear from customers that one restaurantr is not as good as He said the company recently closed a Kapolei store becausse ofinconsistent quality. Ba-Le now has 16 storezs on Oahu, four on Maui, and one in Kona on the Big Lam operatesthe Ba-Le shop on the campue in Manoa, while the rest of the store s are franchises owned mostly by relatives and former Rather than try to reinvent the Ba-Le Lam said it makeds more sense for him to staryt over with LaTour Bakehouse. He wants to creatr a standardized product line and store appearance for thenew “From the first it will have to be he said.
“They all have to be the same, follow ruleas and sell the same things. I want LaTourt to be a more traditionalo franchise.”
Lam recently launched a bakery brane that he hopes to expand into a concept for anew restaurant. He’s also beefing up Ba-Le’x wholesale customer base to include more restaurantsand stores. And earlier this he bought the cavernous old Weyerhaeuset box plant on Nimitz Highwayfor $20 He plans to move Ba-Le’s main bakery and officesw into the space and to rent the rest to otheer restaurants. “I want to make it sort of likeRestaurangt Row,” he said. That’s prettyy ambitious talk in the shadow ofa recession, especially in the turbulenr restaurant business. Ba-Le hasn’t been immune; the company recently cut the hoursz of its80 full-time bakerty workers.
To Lam, that just means he has to find more busines s to keep hisemployees busy. “People have told me that a bad economyt is a good time to make said Lam, 51, whose privately ownedd company generated $11 million in revenue last year. Earlier this the company created the LaTour Bakehouse name to focus on healthietr and more upscale bakery suchas multi-grain breads, granola, sugar-free cookies and biscotti-like It’s a significant shift from Ba-Le’s cheapeer noodles-and-wraps fare. “People of Hawaii think of Ba-Lw as just sandwiches,” he said.
Ba-Le has two its chain of 21 franchisedd Vietnamese-style restaurants, and its wholesale business, which sells bakery items and pre-made sandwiches to restaurants, hotels and The European name stems fromthe company’s use of Frencj breads and croissants for its Ba-Le’s biggest customers include Papa John’s Hawaii — Ba-Le suppliee all the pizza dough for the chain’d 14 stores — and , which buys up to 2,50o sandwiches a day for in-flight meals. The compant started selling some of the LaTour Bakehouse products online and to wholesale including inKahala Mall.
Lam wants to open three or four shops on Oahu to carry the LaTour items andsell made-to-order foods including saladsd and soups. He also sees the new concepyt as an opportunity to create a more traditionalp franchise chain apart fromthe Ba-Le Despite the company’s success over the past 24 years, Lam admitse Ba-Le has struggled with inconsistent food and service at its There are no set standardds or menus and maintaining qualithy has been an issue. “When I started opening more andmore Ba-Ld restaurants, I didn’t plan to he said. “I was opening them for my friendsand employees, and it just happened.
I feel a littl e bit unhappy when I hear from customers that one restaurantr is not as good as He said the company recently closed a Kapolei store becausse ofinconsistent quality. Ba-Le now has 16 storezs on Oahu, four on Maui, and one in Kona on the Big Lam operatesthe Ba-Le shop on the campue in Manoa, while the rest of the store s are franchises owned mostly by relatives and former Rather than try to reinvent the Ba-Le Lam said it makeds more sense for him to staryt over with LaTour Bakehouse. He wants to creatr a standardized product line and store appearance for thenew “From the first it will have to be he said.
“They all have to be the same, follow ruleas and sell the same things. I want LaTourt to be a more traditionalo franchise.”
lunes, 16 de mayo de 2011
Is Sirius Really Increasing Prices By $2 In January 2012? - SiriusBuzz.com
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Is Sirius Really Increasing Prices By $2 In January 2012? SiriusBuzz.com The news is making its way around that Sirius XM (NASDAQ:SIRI) will not be increasing prices in 2011, but instead may be raising prices by $2.00 across the board in January of 2012. Here in the short term the stock has taken a hit because many were ... |
sábado, 14 de mayo de 2011
Tina Montgomery and Jennifer Hanseler
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Now they deliver fish. Their Seattl company Surfin’ Seafood isn’t large, but it has struck a chord amongg upscale consumers willing to pay a littld morefor high-end seafood that has been flash-froze n to stay fresh, and that is delivered to their After gradual but steady growth, Surfin’ Seafood now has abour 1,200 customers, in an area ranging from Federall Way to Everett. Revenue reached $250,000 last year and continuews to grow, although the customer counf has hita plateau.
With an eye to family life (botg are married and have two children each), Montgomery and Hanseler have carefully set boundaries so that their business can be worked aroundtheir children’sw school and athletic schedules, and evenings at home. For instanc e they don’t take phone but only over the internet. And they deliver only once driving their family minivans to deliver selectionds of frozen fish packex in blue plastic coolers that look like big The company has avoided debt and has only modesggrowth plans. “Really, we don’tg want to be huge. We’re going to take it as it We have been on a very steadygrowt path, consistently from the very Montgomery said.
“We don’t want to have venture capital funding to become this hugenationwide (leader) in seafood.” One of the company’e chief selling points is seafood that is frozenn quickly to keep it as fresh as possible. So-called fresj seafood often has perched on a pile of ice for and in these conditions seafooc rapidly declinesin quality. Seafood doesn’t age well like beef does, and frozeh seafood is not a step downfrom fresh, as it is with “A lot is frozen at sea, or withihn hours of harvest, and it capturese that just-caught flavor,” said Lind a Driscoll, assistant retail directofr for the , based in Surfin’ Seafood isn’t exactly the “mini” package costs $110 a month for aboutt eight pounds of assorted salmon, prawns, sole and tuna.
The companh avoids lower-end seafood products (no fish stickxs here), and allows people to substitutee in their ordersby email. One recession-erw trend the company is tapping is that consumer s are moving awayfrom white-tablecloth restaurants where most high-quality seafood is eaten to eating at home. “I just think peopled are eating athome more, and they want to make it easy to have high-qualitt ingredients at home, so they can eat at home more Montgomery said. “This is a way to have restaurant quality at home.
” While the companyt employs only the two partners and sometimeas a helper, and sometimes thei children, a key to making it work is the South Seattld seafood packer Surfin’ Seafood uses T.H. Seafood freezerd to store its seafood, and also contracts out the cuttinhg and packing tothe company. T.H. Seafoosd Corp. Sales Director Clifrf Davenport said he was at firsty dubious aboutthe proposal, when the partners approacherd him to supply and pack theif seafood. “It only took two weeks, but we decided they’rr really nice people… They’rew in the same mindset of producing a qualit y product and guaranteeing it when it goes out the he said.
“So we took them on.” Davenport said that his warehousre has enough room to stores their frozen products as well as their adding that his own staft does the cuttingand packing. “They don’ interfere with our side, and pretty much they have theirt ownlittle space. We have enough room everyone can function withouft disruptingeverybody else,” he said. As for Surfin’ Seafood, the partner say they’re just riding out the economiv downturn. “We think this next year or two we want to be Hanseler said.
“We’d love to grow, but really if we could keep it steady, we’re kind of
Now they deliver fish. Their Seattl company Surfin’ Seafood isn’t large, but it has struck a chord amongg upscale consumers willing to pay a littld morefor high-end seafood that has been flash-froze n to stay fresh, and that is delivered to their After gradual but steady growth, Surfin’ Seafood now has abour 1,200 customers, in an area ranging from Federall Way to Everett. Revenue reached $250,000 last year and continuews to grow, although the customer counf has hita plateau.
With an eye to family life (botg are married and have two children each), Montgomery and Hanseler have carefully set boundaries so that their business can be worked aroundtheir children’sw school and athletic schedules, and evenings at home. For instanc e they don’t take phone but only over the internet. And they deliver only once driving their family minivans to deliver selectionds of frozen fish packex in blue plastic coolers that look like big The company has avoided debt and has only modesggrowth plans. “Really, we don’tg want to be huge. We’re going to take it as it We have been on a very steadygrowt path, consistently from the very Montgomery said.
“We don’t want to have venture capital funding to become this hugenationwide (leader) in seafood.” One of the company’e chief selling points is seafood that is frozenn quickly to keep it as fresh as possible. So-called fresj seafood often has perched on a pile of ice for and in these conditions seafooc rapidly declinesin quality. Seafood doesn’t age well like beef does, and frozeh seafood is not a step downfrom fresh, as it is with “A lot is frozen at sea, or withihn hours of harvest, and it capturese that just-caught flavor,” said Lind a Driscoll, assistant retail directofr for the , based in Surfin’ Seafood isn’t exactly the “mini” package costs $110 a month for aboutt eight pounds of assorted salmon, prawns, sole and tuna.
The companh avoids lower-end seafood products (no fish stickxs here), and allows people to substitutee in their ordersby email. One recession-erw trend the company is tapping is that consumer s are moving awayfrom white-tablecloth restaurants where most high-quality seafood is eaten to eating at home. “I just think peopled are eating athome more, and they want to make it easy to have high-qualitt ingredients at home, so they can eat at home more Montgomery said. “This is a way to have restaurant quality at home.
” While the companyt employs only the two partners and sometimeas a helper, and sometimes thei children, a key to making it work is the South Seattld seafood packer Surfin’ Seafood uses T.H. Seafood freezerd to store its seafood, and also contracts out the cuttinhg and packing tothe company. T.H. Seafoosd Corp. Sales Director Clifrf Davenport said he was at firsty dubious aboutthe proposal, when the partners approacherd him to supply and pack theif seafood. “It only took two weeks, but we decided they’rr really nice people… They’rew in the same mindset of producing a qualit y product and guaranteeing it when it goes out the he said.
“So we took them on.” Davenport said that his warehousre has enough room to stores their frozen products as well as their adding that his own staft does the cuttingand packing. “They don’ interfere with our side, and pretty much they have theirt ownlittle space. We have enough room everyone can function withouft disruptingeverybody else,” he said. As for Surfin’ Seafood, the partner say they’re just riding out the economiv downturn. “We think this next year or two we want to be Hanseler said.
“We’d love to grow, but really if we could keep it steady, we’re kind of
jueves, 12 de mayo de 2011
O'Connell takes production to ECC North - Business First of Buffalo:
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The arts partnership brings the nonprofit theater companyto ’s North Campu s as performing arts company in-residence, expanding arts opportunitie for the community. O’Connell Co. will produce a full seasonh of plays, musicals and special evente on campus, plus weekly performances of itsongoing show, Diva by Diva: A Celebration of Women!! It is the first time ECC has hosted a theater Other colleges that have brought live theatedr to campus include , home to the ; and , home to ; and , home to . In a prepared release, theater company founder Mary Kate O’Connell called the move the most excitin event inits history.
“We are looking forward to reaching new audiences at our new theatre wherde we will produce an excitinfg variety of productions with professional designersand directors,” she ECC students and staff will have the opportunit y to audition for roless and will also be able to work in production, design, docent and internj positions. Founded in the company was in residence at its own the Cabaret in the Squar ein Snyder, until June 2008.
The arts partnership brings the nonprofit theater companyto ’s North Campu s as performing arts company in-residence, expanding arts opportunitie for the community. O’Connell Co. will produce a full seasonh of plays, musicals and special evente on campus, plus weekly performances of itsongoing show, Diva by Diva: A Celebration of Women!! It is the first time ECC has hosted a theater Other colleges that have brought live theatedr to campus include , home to the ; and , home to ; and , home to . In a prepared release, theater company founder Mary Kate O’Connell called the move the most excitin event inits history.
“We are looking forward to reaching new audiences at our new theatre wherde we will produce an excitinfg variety of productions with professional designersand directors,” she ECC students and staff will have the opportunit y to audition for roless and will also be able to work in production, design, docent and internj positions. Founded in the company was in residence at its own the Cabaret in the Squar ein Snyder, until June 2008.
lunes, 9 de mayo de 2011
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percent drop in same-store sales in May, as consumers continuedr to put offunnecessary spending. The Cincinnati-based department storw chain said sales at storesz open at least a year are in line with management Total sales declinedto $1.7 billion from $1.9 billionn a year ago, or 9.5 percent. For the Macy’s said its same-store sales declinefd by 9.1 percent, with total salews down 9.5 percent, to $6.9 billion from $7.7 billion. Macy’s M), like most retailers, has been strugglingb to attract parsimonious shoppers whil not giving away the store throughdeep discounts, a strategyh that erodes profit margins.
But recenrt reports regarding rising manufacturing activity and home salesz gave a lift to retail stockx earlier inthe week, based on hopes that consumer s might be encouraged to go out and splurgw on a few summer items. Total May retaip sales were projected to dropby 3.6 percent, accordinb to Retail Metrics, a Massachusettsd firm that tracks store sales. This compareas with a 2.7 percent decline in Department stores were forecast to post the weakest down 8.5 percent, with “discretionart spending still in hiding,” according to its monthluy report. Analysts surveyed by Thomsobn Reutersexpected Macy’s to post a same-store sale s decline of 9.3 percent.
Shares in Macy’s closed at down 3 percent or42 cents, Thursday. Many retailersx posted sales that fell shorrtof expectations. In the meantime, Walmart WMT), which typically outperforms the industry, stoppeed reporting its same-store salese as of this month. Walmart on Thursday said i in 2009. Dillard’s (NYSE: DDS) said sales fell 12 worse than the 8 percengt declineanalysts expected. • J.C. Penney (NYSE: JCP) posted a sales drop of 8.2 percent, whilew analysts expected negative 9.6 percent. • Saks Inc. (NYSE: SKS) reportedd a 26.6 percent fall, due in part to the reschedulingt of a sales eventto June.
• Target (NYSE: TGT) said its same-store sales were down by 6.1 short of predictions of a 4.3 perceng decline. • Kohls (NYSE: KSS) posted a 0.4 percentf slip on sales, beating expectations of a 3.8 percent decline. Limited Brands (NYSE: LTD) reported a 7 percent in linewith projections. • The Gap Inc. GPS) said its same-store sales fell by 6 compared with expectations of a 5percentf fall.
Macy’s has projected full-year profites of 40 cents to 55 cents per excluding restructuring costs stemming from itscompanywide reorganization, part of its My Macy’s merchandising That said, the retailer hedged that it will beat this guidanc if the economy improves in the second half of the year. Annuapl sales, it has said, are expected to decline by 6 percent to8 percent, with spring expected to be weaker than the in part due to stronger performances last spring. Cincinnati-based Macy’s operates roughlhy 845 department stores under thenames Macy’s and Bloomingdale’s.
percent drop in same-store sales in May, as consumers continuedr to put offunnecessary spending. The Cincinnati-based department storw chain said sales at storesz open at least a year are in line with management Total sales declinedto $1.7 billion from $1.9 billionn a year ago, or 9.5 percent. For the Macy’s said its same-store sales declinefd by 9.1 percent, with total salews down 9.5 percent, to $6.9 billion from $7.7 billion. Macy’s M), like most retailers, has been strugglingb to attract parsimonious shoppers whil not giving away the store throughdeep discounts, a strategyh that erodes profit margins.
But recenrt reports regarding rising manufacturing activity and home salesz gave a lift to retail stockx earlier inthe week, based on hopes that consumer s might be encouraged to go out and splurgw on a few summer items. Total May retaip sales were projected to dropby 3.6 percent, accordinb to Retail Metrics, a Massachusettsd firm that tracks store sales. This compareas with a 2.7 percent decline in Department stores were forecast to post the weakest down 8.5 percent, with “discretionart spending still in hiding,” according to its monthluy report. Analysts surveyed by Thomsobn Reutersexpected Macy’s to post a same-store sale s decline of 9.3 percent.
Shares in Macy’s closed at down 3 percent or42 cents, Thursday. Many retailersx posted sales that fell shorrtof expectations. In the meantime, Walmart WMT), which typically outperforms the industry, stoppeed reporting its same-store salese as of this month. Walmart on Thursday said i in 2009. Dillard’s (NYSE: DDS) said sales fell 12 worse than the 8 percengt declineanalysts expected. • J.C. Penney (NYSE: JCP) posted a sales drop of 8.2 percent, whilew analysts expected negative 9.6 percent. • Saks Inc. (NYSE: SKS) reportedd a 26.6 percent fall, due in part to the reschedulingt of a sales eventto June.
• Target (NYSE: TGT) said its same-store sales were down by 6.1 short of predictions of a 4.3 perceng decline. • Kohls (NYSE: KSS) posted a 0.4 percentf slip on sales, beating expectations of a 3.8 percent decline. Limited Brands (NYSE: LTD) reported a 7 percent in linewith projections. • The Gap Inc. GPS) said its same-store sales fell by 6 compared with expectations of a 5percentf fall.
Macy’s has projected full-year profites of 40 cents to 55 cents per excluding restructuring costs stemming from itscompanywide reorganization, part of its My Macy’s merchandising That said, the retailer hedged that it will beat this guidanc if the economy improves in the second half of the year. Annuapl sales, it has said, are expected to decline by 6 percent to8 percent, with spring expected to be weaker than the in part due to stronger performances last spring. Cincinnati-based Macy’s operates roughlhy 845 department stores under thenames Macy’s and Bloomingdale’s.
sábado, 7 de mayo de 2011
Lodging complaints to become easier - Times of India
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Lodging complaints to become easier Times of India PANAJI: If the Goa police's proposal becomes a reality, then a victim of crime need not rush to the police station to lodge a complaint. Instead, the Goa police will be at your door step to take the complaint and assist the victim and their family. ... |
jueves, 5 de mayo de 2011
Greenwood, Greenfield Reject Incumbent Mayors - 93.1 WIBC Indianapolis
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Greenwood, Greenfield Reject Incumbent Mayors 93.1 WIBC Indianapolis Pasco will face Libertarian ex-councilman Phil Miller in November. Three area mayors had narrow escapes. Lawrence's Paul Ricketts won renomination by just 130 votes over John Solenberg, while Westfield's Andy Cook eked out a 72-vote victory over ... Greenwood mayor rare incumbent to lose in area primaries |
martes, 3 de mayo de 2011
Obama: 'Doing nothing' about health care not an option - South Florida Business Journal:
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“Health care reform is not somethint I just cooked up when I took Obama told a crowd ofabout 1,50o people Thursday at Southwest High Schoo in Ashwaubenon, Wis. “Igt is central to our economic future. In past yeares and decades, there may have been some disagreemeng onthis point. But not anymore.” Earlier this Obama said he wants Congress to pass a comprehensiv health care bill by the end of the summer and ready for his signatureby fall. Many Democrats, including the favor a government-sponsored health insurance plan that would compete with private insurers and be available for peoplse not eligible for other government health care programzs such as Medicareor Medicaid.
Most Republicans and many businessw groups, however, say a competing plan that isn’tr profit-driven would drive private insurers outof business. On the , a physician’s group Obams is scheduled to meet with Monday in said it is opposed toa government-sponsoredf insurance plan. Obama said his administration is workinh on a Health Insurance Exchange that woul d allow people to compare insurance benefitsand prices. None of the planas included in the exchange would be allowed to deny coverage basedon pre-existinfg conditions and all must include an affordable, basic benefiyt option.
“I also strongly believe that one of the option in the Exchange should be a publi insuranceoption – because if the privats insurance companies have to compete with a publicd option, it will keep them honest and help keep prices down,” Obama said. Supporters of health care reform say it would provide health insurance coverage to millionws of Americans and make coverage more affordable for thosee who arealready covered. Because health insurance premiumws have doubled over the lastnine years, and have growhn at a rate three time faster than wages, even those with coveragew have reached a breaking point, Obama Employers are not faringv any better.
Small business owners have been forcedf to cut health care benefits or drop coveragse entirely because ofrising costs, Obamaw said. “We have the most expensivre health care system in the he said. “We spend almost 50 percent more per persojn on health care than the next mostcostly But, here’s the thing, Green Bay: We’re not any healthief for it.” Obama vowed to let Americans who are conteny with their coverage and their physicians keep what they but said the country has reached a pointt where doing nothing about the cost of healtn care is no longer an option.
“Ic we do nothing, within a decade, we will spending one out of ever five dollars we earn onhealth care,” he “In 30 years, it will be one out of everh three.” Obama acknowledged coverinv all Americans would be but promised health care reform woule not add to the country’s deficit over the next 10 “To make that happen, we have already identified hundreds of billionsa worth of savings in our budget – savingzs that will come from stepas like reducing Medicare overpaymenta to insurance companies and rooting out waste, fraud and abuse in both Medicare and Medicaid,” he said.
In Obama is proposing that Congress scale back the amoungtthe highest-income Americans can deduct on theird taxes and use that money to help financse health care. Obama spoke for aboutg 20 minutes and then took questions from six people in the audience who expressed fearover “socialized asked questions about wellness and even questionede the country’s education system. Regarding the idea of socializes medicine, Obama said that isn’t what he, or anyone in wants. “I’ve got enough stuff to he said. “I’ve got North Korea and Iran. I’vr got Afghanistan and Iraq.
I think it woulr be great if the health care systen was working perfectly and ifwe didn’ t have to get involved at all.” Obama peppered many of his answerz to the audience with even writing a 10-year-old girl named Kennedty a note, excusing her from school after her fathefr said she was missing her last day of clasws to be at the Obama’s stop was the first time he’ been in the stater since taking office, and officials from the said he may have chosejn Wisconsin because of the state’s reputatioj for being a “high-quality, low-cost” provider of care in the Medicare program.
“Health care reform is not somethint I just cooked up when I took Obama told a crowd ofabout 1,50o people Thursday at Southwest High Schoo in Ashwaubenon, Wis. “Igt is central to our economic future. In past yeares and decades, there may have been some disagreemeng onthis point. But not anymore.” Earlier this Obama said he wants Congress to pass a comprehensiv health care bill by the end of the summer and ready for his signatureby fall. Many Democrats, including the favor a government-sponsored health insurance plan that would compete with private insurers and be available for peoplse not eligible for other government health care programzs such as Medicareor Medicaid.
Most Republicans and many businessw groups, however, say a competing plan that isn’tr profit-driven would drive private insurers outof business. On the , a physician’s group Obams is scheduled to meet with Monday in said it is opposed toa government-sponsoredf insurance plan. Obama said his administration is workinh on a Health Insurance Exchange that woul d allow people to compare insurance benefitsand prices. None of the planas included in the exchange would be allowed to deny coverage basedon pre-existinfg conditions and all must include an affordable, basic benefiyt option.
“I also strongly believe that one of the option in the Exchange should be a publi insuranceoption – because if the privats insurance companies have to compete with a publicd option, it will keep them honest and help keep prices down,” Obama said. Supporters of health care reform say it would provide health insurance coverage to millionws of Americans and make coverage more affordable for thosee who arealready covered. Because health insurance premiumws have doubled over the lastnine years, and have growhn at a rate three time faster than wages, even those with coveragew have reached a breaking point, Obama Employers are not faringv any better.
Small business owners have been forcedf to cut health care benefits or drop coveragse entirely because ofrising costs, Obamaw said. “We have the most expensivre health care system in the he said. “We spend almost 50 percent more per persojn on health care than the next mostcostly But, here’s the thing, Green Bay: We’re not any healthief for it.” Obama vowed to let Americans who are conteny with their coverage and their physicians keep what they but said the country has reached a pointt where doing nothing about the cost of healtn care is no longer an option.
“Ic we do nothing, within a decade, we will spending one out of ever five dollars we earn onhealth care,” he “In 30 years, it will be one out of everh three.” Obama acknowledged coverinv all Americans would be but promised health care reform woule not add to the country’s deficit over the next 10 “To make that happen, we have already identified hundreds of billionsa worth of savings in our budget – savingzs that will come from stepas like reducing Medicare overpaymenta to insurance companies and rooting out waste, fraud and abuse in both Medicare and Medicaid,” he said.
In Obama is proposing that Congress scale back the amoungtthe highest-income Americans can deduct on theird taxes and use that money to help financse health care. Obama spoke for aboutg 20 minutes and then took questions from six people in the audience who expressed fearover “socialized asked questions about wellness and even questionede the country’s education system. Regarding the idea of socializes medicine, Obama said that isn’t what he, or anyone in wants. “I’ve got enough stuff to he said. “I’ve got North Korea and Iran. I’vr got Afghanistan and Iraq.
I think it woulr be great if the health care systen was working perfectly and ifwe didn’ t have to get involved at all.” Obama peppered many of his answerz to the audience with even writing a 10-year-old girl named Kennedty a note, excusing her from school after her fathefr said she was missing her last day of clasws to be at the Obama’s stop was the first time he’ been in the stater since taking office, and officials from the said he may have chosejn Wisconsin because of the state’s reputatioj for being a “high-quality, low-cost” provider of care in the Medicare program.
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