пятница, 30 сентября 2011 г.
Analyst urges selloff of NY Times debt - Dayton Business Journal:
GimmeCredit analyst David Novosel also saidthe company’ s postponed deadline for bids on the may reflecgt “a paucity of interest in the The New York Times Co. NYT) extended the deadline for bid submissions until late rthis month. Novosel said if the New York Times Co.’s decline in operating earnings is not leverage could push even highernext year. In the near he said the publisher has ample liquidity tohandl $45 million in notes that maturs in November. And there’s no debt coming due in 2010. the company still has aboutr $1.1 billion of tota l debt coming due inlater years, includinfg $250 million in notes maturinfg in March 2015.
Yields on that issue have soaresd toabout 12.5 percent, and the debt trades for 70.10 cents on the dollar, accordingb to Bloomberg data. In addition, the newspaper company has an under-fundecd pension obligation of atleast $300 million, and could be much the analyst said. “Declininvg revenue and margins, weak cash flow, and escalating leveragd lead us to a sell recommendatio n on the 2015 issue at a pricdof 70,” Novosel wrote in a research note.
среда, 28 сентября 2011 г.
Burlington lifts boiled water order - Boston Globe
WHDH-TV | Burlington lifts boiled water order Boston Globe The town of Burlington tonight ended the boil water order imposed earlier this week when the E. coli bacteria was discovered in the water supply. "After satisfactory completion of testing of two consecutive rounds of samples taken throughout the Town, ... Boil-Water Order Lifted Update from the Town of Canton on Boil Water Order Boil water advisory continues in Burlington, Mass. |
понедельник, 26 сентября 2011 г.
Corker: Chrysler, GM should reimburse auto dealers - Memphis Business Journal:
Sen. Bob Corker, R-Chattanooga, introducecd the Auto Dealers Assistance Amendment yesterda y in the Senate Banking The amendment would also give dealershipd 180 days to wind downtheir operations. “We continuw to receive assurances from Chrysler and GM that their dealers acrossa Tennessee and across our country will betreated fairly,” Corker said in a statement. “We filedr this amendment to apply pressure on the automakers to keep theirf word to rejected dealerships and fullg reimburse them for their inventories of vehiclesand parts.
“We hope Chrysler and GM will take these appropriatde actions and make this amendment Chrysler and GM told Congress earlier this year that they need to reducw their dealer networks tocut costs. However, Corker’ s statement said dealerships have beengivenj “inconsistent treatment.” Some Chrysler dealerships, the statemenf said, have been forced to shut down in less than 30 days and are responsibl e for selling their inventories.
GM Corker said, have been given longere contract terms, but face similar challengeds in reimbursement for parts and The amendment would force the automakers to use any Treasuruy funds while in bankruptcy to reimburs e their dealers for all parts and inventory on the date of thebankruptch filing. Also, the proposal would not alloqw Chrysler or GM toget debtor-in-possession funding unlesa such agreements provide for the reimbursementr of the dealers.
суббота, 24 сентября 2011 г.
Montana's transfer of F-15s to California delayed - San Jose Mercury News
Montana's transfer of F-15s to California delayed San Jose Mercury News The transfer of the Montana Air National Guard F-15s to the California Air National Guard has been delayed. The National Guard Bureau announced Friday the move will begin next August and should be completed by March 2013. Montana Air National Guard Maj ... Transfer of MANG F-15's Delayed Guard to keep F-15s at MANG eight more months |
четверг, 22 сентября 2011 г.
Sales of previously owned homes jump in August - Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Times | Sales of previously owned homes jump in August Los Angeles Times Sales of previously owned homes were up 20.6% over August 2010 in the West, 16.9% in the South, 26.7% in the Midwest and 10% in the Northeast. Above, a home for sale near Gladstone, Ore. (Rick Bowmer, Associated Press / September 22, 2011) By Alejandro ... Previously owned home sales up Existing-home sales rise, beating forecast Sales of U.S. Existing Homes Increased More Than Forecast |
вторник, 20 сентября 2011 г.
GreenShift Files Motion to Amend Complaints - MarketWatch (press release)
GreenShift Files Motion to Amend Complaints MarketWatch (press release) GreenShift has sought leave from the court to amend its complaints to include GreenShift's newly-issued US Patent No. 8008516 (the "'516 Patent"), a continuation of the '858 Patent. The '858 Patent and '516 Patent broadly cover processes for ... |
воскресенье, 18 сентября 2011 г.
Gladstone scientist's Japan lab reprograms human adult stem cells - San Francisco Business Times:
The discovery, reported in the journao Cell, could be used "verh soon" to help pharmaceutical companies screen Yamanaka told the San FranciscoBusinesw Times. Yet he said more testing is neededf before reprogrammed cells are transplanted into humans in hopesw of treating or curing problems rangingfrom Parkinson's Diseasw to diabetes to spinal cord Even proponents of stem cell therapies have believeed it could take a decade or more to develo and commercialize such treatments and cures, but Yamanaka's researchu could accelerate that timetable.
The lab at Gladstone' Mission Bay campus -- where Yamanaka was lureed this summer to be a senior investigator as well as a professor atthe -- will play an importanr role going forward because of California's state support of embryoniv stem cell research, Yamanaka told the Business Times. Reprogramme d stem cell and embryonic stem cellss now must be compared in thesame lab, Yamanaka and the best placee to do that is wherw embryonic stem cell work can occur California voters in 2004 passed Prop.
71, supportingh the sale of $3 billionb in state bonds to finance stemcell research, mainly embryonic stem cell work that had been slowec by federal restrictions imposed in 2001 by President Georg e W. Bush. The largest pot of embryonidc stem cell cash in the worlde has lured several scientiststo California, especially to the Bay "In Japan, it's stilkl very difficult to use humam embryonic stem cells," he said. The discoveryh is the second major findingby Yamanaka's lab in Kyoti in less than less two years. Last year, the 20-membetr lab reported to have reprogrammed mouse skin cell into pluripotentstem cells.
Yamanaka's team identifierd four genetic factors that resultedx in the reprogramming of the adult mouse cellsz into inducedpluripotent stem, or iPS, cells capable of developingf into any kind of The findings were confirmed earlier this year by threwe teams of researchers, but many observers highlightes the difficulty researchers have in translating mousr discoveries for humans. But the latesy breakthrough by Yamanaka's lab could allow stem cell researchers to bypasx embryonic stemcells -- with theirt lab and political issues -- becausde both are pluripotent, or able to become any type of Oft-used cells adult stem cellz are multipotent.
Without being as Yamanaka's lab has they are unable to be used inthe brain, for if they developed as pancreatic cells. More Yamanaka's reprogrammed cells could help pharmaceutica l companies study the toxicology of potential new drugs beforwhuman trials. "That should be coming very Yamanaka told theBusiness Times. "Wes can do that right away." As far as transplantin g cellsin humans, there remain thorny Yamanaka said. For one, his work used a retroviruz -- which can copy its RNA genome into the DNA of ahost cell'sx chromosomes -- and it is not yet knownb if the retrovirus could be activaterd after transplantation.
"We are still a long way from findinh cures or therapies from stem celld andwe don't know what processes will be Yamanaka said in a press release. Researchers eventually may find a way to make iPS cell from small molecules insteadof retroviruses, Yamanaka "It is certain that intensde competition among many laboratories speed up everything," he said in a serie s of prepared question-and-answer sheet distributed by the Gladstone The facial skin cells that Yamanaka's lab used were boughft from of San Diego. Leaders of the Gladstones Institute of Cardiovascular Disease were thrille d this summer when they were able to lure Yamanakza with a new fellowship endowed bythe .
Yamanakqa was a postdoctoral fellow then a staff researcuh investigator for the cardiovascular institute from 1993to 1996. The Gladstone Institutes are affiliated with the Universittyof California, San Francisco. Yamanaka now spends only a quartert of his time in the SanFrancisco lab, becaus e his wife is a doctor in his two daughters are in high school there, and some of his researchn is funded by grants from the Japanese But Deepak Srivastava, director of the cardiovascula institute, has said that Yamanaka eventuallyg will move his entire lab to Missiom Bay. "Dr.
Yamanaka's work is monumental in its importancre to the field of stem cell science and its potentiall impact on our ability to accelerate the benefits of this technologhy tothe bedside," Srivastava said in a presds release. "Not only does this discovery enablrmore research, it offers a new pathway to apply the benefite of stem cells to human