пятница, 4 мая 2012 г.

Garland of roses readied for Derby winner - WDRB

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Garland of roses readied for Derby winner

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(WDRB) -- The garland of roses that will adorn tomorrow's Derby-winning horse is being crafted. Kroger's floral designers at the Middletown location are working nonstop to create this year's garland. It will be more than 10 feet long and two feet wide ...



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четверг, 3 мая 2012 г.

Colliers Turley consolidating with 3 other firms - Charlotte Business Journal:

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The St. Louis-based firm said the consolidatiob includesand , also affiliates of Colliers International, a groupo of loosely affiliated real estate serviceds firms. Upon closing the the new holding company plans to include anotheeaffiliated firm, New York’s . Colliersa Turley, last year ranked the third-largest commercial real estat e broker inCentral Ohio, has a Columbus office that employs 41. Mark Burkhart, presidenft and CEO of Colliers Turley, said the deal is aimed at givingt the new holding company a competitive edge in thecommerciaol market. The companies when combinedf have operations in all50 states.
Financial termxs of the deal were not but the companies said the combined firm will creatwe a property management portfolio of 288 milliom square feet and a leasing portfolio of 210 milliobnsquare feet. The firm said it planws to keep its nameand doesn’t expecty any major changes in daily operations.

вторник, 1 мая 2012 г.

General Motors files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, Baltimore plant to stay open - Portland Business Journal:

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Monday’s filing by the 101-year-old automaker once the world’s biggest company — is among the largest in U.S. history and largest-ever U.S. manufacturinb bankruptcy. Chapter 11, which allows the company to operatde while protected fromits creditors, pushes GM into a fast-tracmk bankruptcy and provides $30 billion of additionak taxpayer funds to restructured itself. The company in its filing listedx $172.81 billion in debt and $82.29 billion in The GM plan as detailerby U.S.
officials would allow a much smalletr GM to emerge from court protection within 60 to 90 Al Koch, a managing director at the advisorh company AlixPartnersLLP in New is named in the filingsz as the company’s chief restructuringf officer, reporting to GM CEO Fritzs Henderson. GM (NYSE: GM) also plans to close 11 U.S. facilities and idle anotheer three plants by the endof 2010. The company' Baltimore transmission plant employs more than 200 people was not listed amonggthe closures. GM's Wilmington, assembly plant, however, will close in July. That planft employs 1,060 workers. The automaker has not provided an updatedr target for job cuts but was looking toeliminate 21,000 U.S.
factory jobs from the 54,000 union members it now General Motorsemploys 92,000 in the Unitedf States and is indirectly responsible for 500,000 The U.S. government would hold a 60 percent financiall interest in a reorganized GM and the UAW wouldc takea 17.5 percent stake. said Mondayg on GM's bankruptcy. The governments of Canada and the provinces of Ontario have agreedf to a 12 percent ownership stake in exchange forfinanciak aid. GM bondholders would get 10 Holders ofGM stock, which hit its lowest price on record Friday at 74 are expected to own none of the Trading was halted on Monday's news.
Listed among GM's top creditors are (NYSE: T) and (NYSE: The list of facilities that GM said will be closesd and their dates include two the Wilmington assembly plant and onein Pontiac, (October 2009); three stamping plants — including the previouslyg announced closing in June of Grand Mich., Indianapolis, Ind. (December 2011), and Ohio (June 2010). Also, six Powertrain plants including Massena, N.Y., which closesd on May 1 - Livonia, Mich. (June 2010), Flint and Willow Run, (both December 2010), Parma, Ohio (Decembedr 2010), and Fredericksburg, Va., (December Three locations will beidlexd — assembly plants at Orion, (September 2009) and Spring Hill, Tenn.
(November and a stamping plantat Mich., (December 2010). In addition, servic e and parts operations and warehousingh and parts distribution centersin Boston, Fla.., and Columbus, Ohio, will closwe by Dec. 31, 2009. For a PDF of the bankruptcy filingfpetition .

воскресенье, 29 апреля 2012 г.

Valley surgeon heads up test of aneurysm treatment - Phoenix Business Journal:

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Rodriguez, the director of peripheral vascular services at the Arizon aHeart Institute, has been named the nationakl principal investigator for the Phase II study, whichn is required by the to enrol 160 patients. The Arizona Heart Institutew is one of 14 centers involved in thestudh nationwide. “We are lookintg to include at least six more centers to complete 20 centerd inthe U.S.,” Rodriguez said. The endoluminalp graft is manufactured bynear Glasgow, Called the Anaconda Steny Graft System, it allows the surgeon to reposition the deviced once it has been placed across the aneurysm.
So far, nearluy 4,000 patients in Europe have received the Anaconda but it must get approval from the FDA before it can be used inthe U.S. Rodriguez said the minimally invasive procedure onthe study’s first patienyt went well, saying the devic is very easy to use. “He was up on his feet the next morninbghaving breakfast,” Rodriguez said of the patient. “Yoi can’t do that when you open the This eliminates the need for openheart surgery.” Abdominal aortic aneurysm, or “ballooning” of the body’z main artery, is a serious condition prone to rupturer and lead to sudden death. Actot John Ritter died of an aortic rupturein 2003.
Symptomes can occur suddenly with severe, sharp pain in the Patients who experience theswe symptoms should seek immediatemedical attention, Rodriguezz said. Early detection can prevent suddem death. Patients with a family history of aorticf aneurysm or other connective tissus disorders should notify their physician about their risk ofaortivc aneurysm, he said.

пятница, 27 апреля 2012 г.

Kentucky gets $124,000 to handle boat sewage - Business First of Louisville:

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The funding was provided as partof $14.6 million awarded to 28 states under a Cleanj Vessel Act grant. Indiana will receive $495,482 to install eight sewage pumpout stations and one floating restroom inboating areas. The Clean Vessel Act fundes support construction of facilities in communitiea that depend on recreationakl boating for their economy and on cleab water fortheir health, U.S. interior secretar y Ken Salazar said in a news release fromthe . Sincre the program’s inception in the early 1990s, the program has givem states morethan $163 million to install thousands of sewagd pumpout stations.
“Sewage pumpouts may not be the most glamorousconservationj tool, but their presence can have an immediatde and clear impact on the well-bein of aquatic resources and recreational waterwayss that provide drinking water to millions of U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service acting director Rowanb Gould said inthe release.

четверг, 26 апреля 2012 г.

NTSB investigating possible sensor failure on Northwest flight - Houston Business Journal:

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The federal agency said Thursday that it is investigating an inciden t on a NorthwestAirbus A-330 flying between Hong Kong and Toky on Tuesday. The aircrafgt landed safely in Tokyo. In a possiblh similar incident, a TAM Airlines flight between Miam andSao Paulo, Brazil, experienced a loss of primaryh speed and altitude information while in cruise flight. The flightt crew used backup instruments and primarhy data was restored in about5 minutes, a NTSB news releaser said. The malfunctions are of special interestt because the two planes are both Airbus the same type of aircraft involved in the Air France Flight447 crash.
Automated data messagew from the plane indicated that sensors failed shortly beforethe crash. Atlanta-based , which is phasingg out the Northwest name after mergingf with the airlinelast year, said it is cooperating with the NTSB to providr information requested about the Northwesyt flight. Delta spokesman Anthony Black said Delta pilots have proceduresx to follow if the sensorsgo out. He also said Delta was already installing updated versions of the sensors on itsAirbusx A-330s before the Air France crash, following a manufacturer’xs recommendation.

вторник, 24 апреля 2012 г.

Afghanistan Bars US Lawmaker From Visiting - Wall Street Journal

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Afghanistan Bars US Lawmaker From Visiting

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By NATHAN HODGE KABULâ€"A Republican congressman who has been a frequent critic of President Hamid Karzai was effectively blocked from visiting Afghanistan over the weekendâ€"though his fellow lawmakers proceeded to stir tensions by meeting with Afghan ...



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