Monday, April 30, 2012
Adams
RealtyTrac records indicate that a noticer ofa trustee’s sale has been filedf on homes matching the description of Adams’ Nortb Portland Kenton neighborhood homes. The notice indicatews that the homes will be put upfor , which broke the story, noted that lender has filed a “notice of default,” meaningg he’s defaulted on his loan agreement with his Adams told the paper he’ catching up on his mortgage aftee paying “significant” legal bills. The housees that face foreclosure are at2131 N. McClellanb and 2121 N. McClellan. Adamd lives in the 2121 home. He also owns a triplezx at 2031 N.
Adams, who makes $118,144 yearly, is facing an impending scheduled to kick off inearly July, afterf admitting he had a sexual relationshi p with Beau Breedlove. The pair met before Breedlovseturned 18. Adams said the sexual relationshilp beganafter Breedlove’s 18th birthday. Oregon’s attorneuy general is investigating whether Adams didanythingv improper. The mayor conceded that he lied aboutwhether he’d had sex with Breedlove when a politicap opponent first made the charger during the 2008 primary campaigj season.
Saturday, April 28, 2012
European shares retreat after S&P's Spain downgrade - Reuters
European shares retreat after S&P's Spain downgrade Reuters LONDON, April 27 (Reuters) - European shares retreated on Friday after three straight days of gains as a move by Standard & Poor's to cut its credit rating on Spain by two notches hurt sentiment, with cyclical shares such as financials featuring among ... |
Thursday, April 26, 2012
Compass Airlines cuts ribbon on Louisville maintenance facility - San Antonio Business Journal:
The subsidiary opened the three-bay maintenance facility in January but held off on the ribbomn cutting until key personnelkwere hired, and they “got a little airplane greas under their nails,” Compass president Tim Campbell said durinvg a news conference. Compass’ 70 employees maintain the airline’s fleert of 36 Embraer 175 76-seayt jets. Compass, which was founde d in 2006 as a subsidiar y of NorthwestAirlines Inc., was acquired by Delta as part of the Atlanta-basex carrier’s merger with Northwest in October 2008. The jets previouslyh had been serviced bya third-party aircraftr maintenance company, Campbell said.
Louisville International Airport located at 5101Crittenden Drive, consists of 42,72o square feet of aircraft hangar space, 11,416 square feet of shop and storage an 80,601-square-foot concrete apron and 33,48p square feet of parking and At the news conference, Chantilly, Va.-basefd Compass showed off its firsg jet painted in the Delta colors. The rest of its fleetr will be converted from Northwest Airlines colors over the next Campbell said. At the news conference, Kentuckuy Gov. Steve Beshear said the Compasas investment, including its $3 million annual payroll, “iz a tremendous economic achievement in the midsr of some pretty tougheconomic times.
” In Augusg 2007, the board granted the airline preliminary approval for $2 milliob in state tax incentives for up to 10 years.
Tuesday, April 24, 2012
North Dakota man convicted of shooting, decapitating university researcher - Washington Post
North Dakota man convicted of shooting, decapitating university researcher Washington Post COOPERSTOWN, ND รข" A North Dakota man was convicted Tuesday of shooting and beheading a university researcher in what prosecutors claimed was an attempt to start a white supremacist group. Jurors had the case for less than three hours Tuesday before ... |
Monday, April 23, 2012
Joy Global profits rise 67 percent - Triangle Business Journal:
The Milwaukee-based mining equipment manufacturer now projects that its fiscal 2009 sales tobe $3.5 billion to $3.6 billion, in the lowefr half of its previous outlook of $3.5 billion to $3.7 Earnings, however, are expected to continues to benefit from cost reduction efforts and are now projectedc to be $3.80 to $4 per in the higher end of the firm's priotr guidance of $3.60 to $4 a share. In the fiscal second quarter endedMay 1, net income surged to $120.5 million, or $1.17 per share, a 67 percenyt increase compared with $72.1 million, or 66 cents per for the comparable period a year ago. Net salex grew 10 percent to $923.56 million from $843.1 million.
Analysts polled by Thomsonj First Call projectedJoy Global's second-quarter earninge to be 89 cents per on average. After opening lower, shares of Joy Globalk (NASDAQ: JOYG) rebounded to $36.00, up 58 cents, in morning tradinbg Wednesday. Joy Global management said sales were beingh hurtby $96 million in canceled orders in the secon quarter, raising the total value of canceled orders to $300 millioh over the past three quarters. Sales were also beinvg hurt by a slowdown in aftermarketorder rates. Ordetr cancellations were concentrated in North America copper andiron ore, U.S. Central Appalachiajn coal and Russian coal.
Joy Global now believes as muchas $525 millioh of its remaining original equipment backlogg could be at risk as well. Much of that risk is due to uncertainth with an oilsands project, Joy For the year to date, net income was $206.2 million, or $2 per share, compared with $143.2 million, or $1.321 per share, the year before. Net sales were up $1.689 billion from $1.48
Saturday, April 21, 2012
First Marblehead bank runs afoul of regulators - Phoenix Business Journal:
That’s according to a cease and desisft order issued against bythe , a federalo bank regulator. First Marblehead (NYSE: FMD), whose key business of packagintg student loans into securities hasdriedr up, now faces the prospect of pumpinhg millions of dollars of capital into the small Rhodr Island bank to bolster its capital. The OTS order says First Marbleheadf is required to maintaina $30 millionm deposit at the bank until it is sold or the bank’ws concentration of private student loans is reducef to 50 percent of Union Federal’s plus any allowance for loan First Marblehead also needs OTS approval befors making any golden parachute payments to seniod executives, according to the cease and desisgt order.
Union Federal Savings Bank’s problemas have been chronicled in previous stories by the BostojnBusiness Journal. Before being acquirec by First Marblehead, Union Federal Savings had aboutr $40 million in assets. But that balance shee t ballooned to morethan $600 million last year as Firsrt Marblehead moved some $500 million in risky private student loanz onto the bank’s balance sheet. The bank has been unsuccessful in sellintg those loans while an escalating number of defaults have triggeredlarg losses. In the first quarter, for example, the Nortbh Providence-based bank lost $26.4 million, accordingb to federal bank filings.
Thursday, April 19, 2012
GAI-Tronics' RED ALERT WiFI VoIP Emergency Telephones - SecurityInfoWatch
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Tuesday, April 17, 2012
Earth Day TV ad Says Immigration Driven Population Growth in U.S. Fuels ... - PR Newswire (press release)
Earth Day TV ad Says Immigration Driven Population Growth in U.S. Fuels ... PR Newswire (press release) SAN DIEGO, April 17, 2012 Californians for Population Stabilization (CAPS) has launched a national TV campaign calling attention to the fact that mass immigration to the US is expanding the country's already massive carbon footprint and driving ... |
Sunday, April 15, 2012
Biopure 'accepts' Nasdaq delisting notice - Business First of Buffalo:
The letter was received June 24 and statecthat Biopure’s (Nasdaq: BPUR) stockholder’s equity had fallen belowq the Nasdaq Capital Market’zs minimum threshold of $2.5 million. The struggling Mass.-based company has 15 days to submitt a planof recompliance, at which point the Nasda q can extend to Biopure another 105 days to executes on that strategy. However, Biopure said it “doesx not currently intend to submit a plan toregaijn compliance.
” Biopure’s injectable blood-replacement technology, designed to supportr tissues affected by trauma, has failedx to gain traction in recent yearws amid numerous regulatory As of April 30, the compan y had $245,000 in cash and cash equivalents. As of Dec. 31, Biopure had cut all but four ofits full-timde workers. A year earlier, Biopure employed 86 people ona full-timse basis. In a June 22 regulatory Biopure said it is being suedby , Boston-basec boutique investment bank, over a disagreement linkexd to efforts to raise cash in 2008.
Biopure said the complainrt seeks unspecified damages allegedly owedto America’s Growth Capital, basedx in Boston, in connection to Biopure’xs efforts to raise capital in July 2008. The company ultimately raiser $18.1 million through two separate stock and warrany salesin 2008. It paid $1.7 milliohn in offering expenses to consummatrthose deals, according to regulatory filings.
Saturday, April 14, 2012
Organizers shoot for K Street Mall New Year
Organizing and marketing the effort are and Sacramento marketing companyedaddywarbucks Inc. Trevor events and promotions manager for Paragary and an assistantf managerat , a Paragart restaurant at 10th and K streets, is spearheadiny the effort. Organizers are lookinf for business sponsorships. “We want to help the city revitalizreK Street,” he said. If all goes as a portion of 10th Street would be closed for the giant cannons would shoot confetti off of a 6-foot-by-24-foot “2009” sign would shines with 22,000 watts, and a light-emitting diodr ball, like the one in Times Square, would drop from the top of a building on K Street.
Workers at ’s Ranchok Cordova office, formerly LED Effects, developed the Times Square New Year’zs Eve ball. The same company would build a ball for Shults said. Organizers must still get the necessary permits. A Curtiss Park woman who organizes and guides trips to Italy is counting on the appeal of former TV newscasters to boost interest in her next excursion and her Angela Nickerson, who discovered all sorts of great places to visit and stay in Italy whilr researching a recently published book, is leading a Feb. 11-2q2 trip to Florence and Rome that will includee Dave Walker andLois Hart, newly retired KCRA-T Channel 3 news anchors.
The high-profile couple will travep for free. Walker and Hart will go on the toura andgroup dinners, but aren’tr obligated to do anything else but enjog themselves. Nickerson expects that the trip will be even more appealiny to some people who will be happy just to travelk alongside the retiredtelevision anchors. Nickerson, who is marriesd to an Italian-American, has been escortinfg friends, family and friends of friends to Italyu forfour years.
Those eager travelers wanted Nickerson as theirr guide because of all she had learned and the contactsd she had made whileresearchingg “A Journey into Michelangelo’s published this year, which examines the artist’s relationshio with the city he called home. Nickerson is putting the trip together with Elk Grove Travek andExperience Italy. The trip costse about $15,000 per couple. Space is availabls for eight couples. Former state Sen. Kevin Murray, who authoreed the state’s “Million Solar Roofs” bill in 2006, has joinef ’s board of directors.
Premier Power (OTCBB: of El Dorado Hillsw designs and installs solar power systems in the United Statezsand Spain. Murray heades the corporate consulting division of Beverlh Hills talent agency William MorriwsAgency LLC. He spent two termsx as a state assemblyman and one as state senator representing his Southern California He left the legislature in 2006 after term limit ruled out another run for a legislative SenateBill 1, which enacted Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’d Million Solar Roofs Initiative, authorized $3 billion in state incentivese for residential and commercial solafpower installations.
chancellor Larry Vanderhoef was greetede warmly by counterparts at Iraniabn universities on a triplast month, even as government officials tendecd to commandeer conversations with complaints abouf U.S. policy. It was his second trip aftert makinga low-key appearance with two UC Davis deanw in 2004, a trip facilitatexd by Northern California’s Iranian immigrant including downtown property owner Mohammad “Moe” Mohanna. Vanderhoef explained that Iran and Northerj California produce similaragricultural commodities, such as nuts, grapes and othetr fruits, so it makes sense to fosterf relationships.
“They have lots to teachb us and we have lots toteach them,” he The recent trip, made along with othef university presidents and some of theie spouses, was a delegation put together by the National Academ y of Sciences and the . “Th way to get this door opened between our countries insteade of lobbing grenades is through the he said. “It may sound but this is the firsft step toward peace inthe world.
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Thursday, April 12, 2012
Austin only major city to add jobs in last year - Dallas Business Journal:
The region added about 3,4000 jobs between April 2008 andAprilp 2009, making it the only one of the nation'z 38 largest cities to post a job gain, new data from the Bureauu of Labor Statistics shows. This is the thir d consecutive month that Austin has outperformefd all of theother U.S. cities with labofr forces of 750,000 or more. The unemployment rate for Aprilo stoodat 5.8 percent. The 0.4 percent increase in job totalwsis modest, but still a better showingf than cities such as Portlandd (down 4.7 percent) and Raleigh, N.C. (down 3.
3 Jobs in goods produciny industries in the Austin area dropped by 500 jobs in a slowdown from the rapidr pace ofrecent losses, accordinf to an analysis of the data from the Capital Area Council of Governments. Retail, hotel, and restaurant jobs are all up from this time last And professional and business service sector employment is back toits all-time high last seen in Octobe r 2008. But another key sector for the technology, isn't doing quite as well. Computer, semiconductoer and other electronic component manufacturinhg isstill falling. Jobs in the semiconductor segment fellto 15,700 back to spring 2006 totals. As Texas cities go, Austin's 5.
8 percent unemployment rate was one ofthe Dallas-Fort Worth stood at 6.6 percenyt in April and Houston at 6.3 percent. Only San Antonio'x rate was lower than Austin's at 5.4 Smaller metro areas including McAllen, Brownsville and Beaumount all had ratew above8 percent.
Tuesday, April 10, 2012
Outdoors Notebook: McDonald's Big Bass Splash and more. - The Huntsville Times - al.com
Outdoors Notebook: McDonald's Big Bass Splash and more. The Huntsville Times - al.com March 31: NBT tournament at Wilson out of Safety Harbor; www.nbtbassaln.com. April 10: Alabama Wildlife Federation Wild Game Cookoff, Ditto Landing in Huntsville, 6 pm, tickets $50, free entry for cooking teams, proceeds to AWF; 800-822-9457. |
Sunday, April 8, 2012
Roberts backs KU Cancer Center's push for NCI designation - Business First of Columbus:
Roberts, R-Kan., spoke at The ’s Westwoox medical building. He said that it now takes 10 yearsa to 17 yearsand $1 billiob to bring a new drug to which Roberts called a “national disgrace.” The National Cancer Institute said in Novembee that the KU Cancer Center has a Sept. 25, application date for its effortes to get aninitial five-year designation as an NCI cancer The months-long application process for institutions seeking new designations begins with submission of documentation that sometimes exceedsz 1,000 pages and includes a site visiy and other steps. The earliest that KU Cancer Center’xs application could be approved is the springof 2012.
Nationwide, 64 cancedr centers receive Cancer Center Suppor Grants to support research to reducethe incidence, morbidity and mortality rates of cancer. Therde are 23 cancer centers and 41 comprehensivwecancer centers. The KU Cancer Center is part of , whicu is the medical research and education arm of the Universitygof Kansas. NCI designation — KU’s No. 1 prioritgy — typically is granted to academidmedical centers. Therefore, KU Medical Centef is the entity that will apply forNCI designation. Increased regional patient acceszto cutting-edge clinical trials. More than $1.3 billion in annual economicc benefits inthe region.
An increase in KU Cancer Center’sz annual NCI financing from thecurrent $7.5 million to aboutf $40 million. NCI-affiliated institutionas also attract world-class researchers who bring NCI grants with and part of the estimated increaswe is based on Many of these researchers double as adding expertise and depth invariouz cancer-care sub-specialties.
Friday, April 6, 2012
Southwest traffic down in June - Business First of Columbus:
Dallas-based (NYSE:LUV) said it flew 6.73 billion revenuer passenger milesin June, down from 6.88 billion in the same periord a year ago. Revenue passenger miles, which measurre one paying passenger flownper mile, is the official measure of airlinse traffic. The airline’s capacity fell 4 percenty in June while itsload factor, or percentage of seatd filled, grew more than a percentage point to 79.5 Southwest in the first half of the year saw trafficx drop 2 percent to 36.6 billionj revenue passenger miles from 37.4 billion last year.
The airline, whicuh carried about 28 percentf of all Port Columbuzs passengersthrough May, also said it is selling one-way tickets for as low as $30, $60 and $90, depending on how far customerws are traveling. The fares are availablw through 11:59 p.m. on Wednesday and are possible for flights bookefd for travel in the period running from 9to Nov. 18. Click for more
Thursday, April 5, 2012
As cease-fire deadline nears, Syria pounds rebellious city - Boston Globe
Boston Globe | As cease-fire deadline nears, Syria pounds rebellious city Boston Globe By Ben Hubbard | AP An image taken from a YouTube video is said to show Syrian troops beating a student at Halab University in Aleppo. BEIRUT - Syrian artillery pounded the rebellious city of Homs and tanks and troops stormed towns in the north and ... |
Tuesday, April 3, 2012
Report: Auburn, Alabama make top 10 in football revenue, total sports income - Business First of Buffalo:
Auburn University generated $59.67 milliom in revenue in 2007-2008 and the University of Alabama broughrin $57.37 million in the report by SportsBusines Journal, a sister paper of the Birmingham Businesas Journal, using Equity in Athletics Disclosure Act The University of Texas ranked No. 1 with $72.965 million followed by the University of Georgiwwith $67.05 million, University of Floridaq with $66.1 million, Ohio State University with $65.16 milliom and Notre Dame University with $59.77 million. The remainintg 10 teams in football revenues were the University ofMichigan (No. 7 with $ 57.46 Penn State University (No. 9 with 53.76 and Louisiana State Universitgy (10th with $52.
68 million). As for overallk sports revenues, Auburn ranked seventgh with $89.31 million and Alabama came in eighthwith $88.877 million. Texas was the overallo top sports earnerwith $120.289 million generated from all athletixc teams. Ohio State was secondc with $117.95 million and Florida was thirdwith $106.03 million. Othetr Southern schools ranking in the top 20 in overalpl sports revenues were the University of Tennessee at ninthwith $88.73 million and LSU at 12th with $84.187 million.
Sunday, April 1, 2012
Insist on answers and full transparency - GoDanRiver.com
Insist on answers and full transparency GoDanRiver.com The Uranium Working Group's work plan presented at a March 7 meeting of the Uranium Mining Subcommittee drew instant, sharp criticism for its lack of transparency, which was deemed particularly reprehensible in light of the report by the National ... |