Thursday, March 31, 2011

'Displaced persons to be rehabilitated' - Times of India

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'Displaced persons to be rehabilitated'

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PORVORIM: Revenue minister Jose Philip D'Souza on Thursday assured the Goa legislative assembly that he would soon move a note to rehabilitate the inhabitants of the 66 houses that were demolished at Khariawada in Vasco on Thursday morning following a ...



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Wednesday, March 30, 2011

Justin Koschitzke in frame to return for St Kilda against Richmond - Herald Sun

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Justin Koschitzke in frame to return for St Kilda against Richmond

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Justin Koschitzke runs with tape on his lower leg as the Saints warm up today. Picture: Michael Dodge Source: Herald Sun ST KILDA is set to rush Justin Koschitzke into its side to boost its attack against Richmond on Friday night. ...



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Monday, March 28, 2011

ESPN: S. Fla. sports teams rank low - Business First of Columbus:

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, which will be gettingb a new 37,000 seat, $640 million stadium, ranked 77th out of all 122 professiona l sports teamsin America. The Miami Heat was rankee 55th, the was ranked 61st and the was rankes90th overall. How efficientlh the team has converted money from their fans into victories on the courtor ice. How loyal the franchise’sw ownership and management has been to core playerws andthe community. The price of parking and concessions. The quality of the team’se stadium and promotions. The strength of on-field leadership and coaching. The numberd of championships won or likely to be won durinbgthe fan’s lifetime.
How much effort players put in to the game and how likablde they are off the And how openthe players, coaches and management are to the fans. The new stadium may do somethingg to appease fans who ranked the Marlins 120th when it came to overallostadium experience. When it comes to honestyt and loyalty to the community and its the Marlins scored 111 outof 122, followed by the Pantherz with 100, according to the report. The Heat providesd the least bang for the buckranking 110.

Saturday, March 26, 2011

Personal income fell 0.5 percent in Q1 - Atlanta Business Chronicle:

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percent in the first quarter of 2009 on mountinfjob losses, falling interest rates and reduced corporate dividend The released regional income data Thursday showing declineds in 37 states. Georgiza ranked 17th in personal income, up 0.5 percenr to $327 billion in the first quarter, compared with $325.32 billion a year ago. Declines were offset by inflation, which reducef the cost of livingby 0.3 percent in the firsty quarter of the year. The BEA, a divisiojn of the U.S. Department of Commerce, said private sector earningzs fell in all 50 states by an averagrof 1.4 percent nationally. Finance, manufacturing and constructiobn were the major reasons for private secto rincome declines.
Health care and government bothpostes increases. Federal civilian and military employees received average pay raiseaof 3.9 percent in 2009, which helped to propel two government-dependent states to positive incoms growth: Hawaii (up 0.8 percent) and Virginia (up 0.3 Alaska had the largest decrease, with personaol income falling by 3.2 percent because a special distribution of $2,000 from the state’s permanen t fund won’t be repeated. North Missouri, Iowa and Midwest suffered because of falling farmcommodityu prices.

Thursday, March 24, 2011

Huff Post Review: Sucker Punch (2011) - Genuinely feminist, it's a deeper ... - Huffington Post (blog)

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Huff Post Review: Sucker Punch (2011) - Genuinely feminist, it's a deeper ...

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But the action sequences are often astonishing and genuinely engrossing. There is much to admire and discuss in this bitterly sad and angrily feminist mini-epic. You just have to look beyond the surface level and past the razzle-dazzle. ...


'Sucker Punch' Review: Zack Snyder's First Misfire

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Tuesday, March 22, 2011

Director election rule change could empower activist investors - bizjournals:

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The SEC approved the rule change, whicj was proposed by the New York Stock July 1. It contends the rule changse will help ensure that investorse with an economic interest in companies vote ontheir directors. “Ths most fundamental way in which shareholders can ensurd that directors remain accountabld to them is through the directofrelection process,” said SEC Chairman Mary Schapiro. The U.S. Chambetr of Commerce, however, said the decision will favor certain investorsover others.
“This new rule dramatically shifts additional voting power from individuao shareholders toactivist investors,” said Tom executive director for financial reporting at the chamber’s Center for Capitap Markets Competitiveness. Shareholder activists in recenyt years have tried to influence corporate affairsxthrough “withhold vote” campaigns, the Conferencer Board noted. The rule changre could make these campaigns more effective since uninstructed votes now will be countedas “no” votes in uncontestedc elections. In the past, brokers usually voteed their uninstructed sharesfor management-backed directors.
The boardf recommends companies regularly communicate with their largest institutional shareholders about theitr business strategy and encourage retail investors to vote indirectort elections. For more see www.sec.gov. The numberd of businesses without employeesgrew 4.5 percent to 21.7 million in according to the U.S. Census Bureau. Self-employedc individuals operating nonincorporated businesses accounted for most of thesrnonemployer businesses. More than 19 milliomn were sole proprietorships, 1.4 million were corporations and 1.2 milliohn were partnerships. These businesses may be small, but they rang up $992 billiomn in sales in 2007, a 2.2 percen t increase over 2006.
One-third of nonemployerd businesses — and more than 40 percent of total receipts — were in three economic real estate services; professional, technical and scientific services; and specialtgy trade contractors. Georgia led the U.S. in nonemployer businesa growth, followed by Alabama and North Amonglarge counties, Bronx, N.Y., and Philadelphia were tied for the highesy growth rate at 10.2 percent, followeed by Mecklenburg County, N.C.
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Monday, March 21, 2011

Greensboro Partnership picks up PTEN pieces - The Business Journal of the Greater Triad Area:

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Partnership President Pat Danahy is working with funding partneres includingthe , the and the to dedicate $2 millionn to its entrepreneurial initiative over five years, Danahy An agreement was close but was not yet final earliedr this week. The Partnership initiative will not go by the PTEN name but will includs all of its major including a statewidenanotechnology conference, an angepl investor networking event for entrepreneurs and a business plan The director of the initiative will be chambere President Rob Clapper. Chamber Vice Presidentt Kathy Elliot, long involved in smalpl business support, will help oversee the initiative alongv witha yet-to-be-hired additional stafff person.
“I think PTEN was extremelyu successful in doing what it wascharged with, and that was creatingh relationships and opportunities” for entrepreneurs startingv new businesses, Clapper said. “Itf we can continue with that and continud to have aregional approach, we’ll have more opportunitiew to create more jobs.” The top priorities for revivinv PTEN programs, Clapper said, are the nanotechnology and investort conferences. His goal is to hold both eventsz sometimethis year, but a definite timelin and structure for those and other programs is still in the works.
The businesw competition likely won’t be held this year; how much seed moneh will be awarded when the contest does resumse remains tobe determined. PTEN’s former programs will be licensed to the new and PTEN itself will remain a entity for tax purposes in case it can berevivesd someday, Clapper said. PTEN was formed in 2004 by the merger of two other the andthe . Organizers wanted to creatse a lead organization that couldspearhead startup-oriented programs throughouyt the Triad to avoid duplicated efforts. The organization was funded by privatew contributions fromAction Greensboro, the and the High Pointg Partners.
It used its budget to fund a popular busines plan competition and hold events targetedx to entrepreneursin sought-after industry clustersw such as nanotechnology and logistics. The businesses that made use of PTEN programahad above-average survival rates and many were successful at raisingh investment funding, but there were relatively few that grew quicklyu to employ a lot of people. Late last year, funders in Winston-Salejm and High Point said they woulr be unable to continue to support thegroup financially, and it shut down operationz Dec. 31. Danahy said Greensboro was prepared to continuefunding PTEN.
when its regional financiaol supportdried up, local supporters lookedd for ways to keep its function s going. Moving it from its conspicuously regional base at the to the Greensboro chamber will necessaril y shift itsfocus somewhat, but it will not becoms a strictly parochial organization. “We’re not collapsing it into a silo inGuilforrd County, but it won’t have the same totally regional structure as PTEN,” Danahy said. “There are many pieces of the entrepreneurshi arena that needto (be regional), so we’lp be reaching out and building on collaborations.
” For example, Clappef said, entrepreneurs from Winston-Salem, High Point and elsewhere will stilkl be invited to participate in future businesd plan competitions, and networkiny will still involve startups and investors from acros the region. But Greensboro-based resources such as Gatewayy University Research Park and the for Entrepreneurship businesse incubator will take moreactiv roles, and will also be positioned to benefitr from the support that new businesses see there. “We’rw going to continue to look at this as a regionap effort in thebig picture.
But it’s goingt to be housed and operatinh in the Partnership and in and part of our mission is to tell that Clapper said. “It will be a natural that as we tell that it willbenefit Greensboro.” Support for entrepreneurs exists in other parts of the Triad, too. Winston-Salemk Mayor Allen Joines could not be reached for commenfthis week, but he has said he wants supporr for startups to be a major part of the strategivc planning effort for the Winston-Salem Alliance.
Jim Melvin, president of the Bryajn Foundation, said even though his organizatiojn is basedin Greensboro, he still sees entrepreneuris m as a regional He wouldn’t mind, he said, if a Winston-Salem entrepreneurr were to win a business plan contest supporteed by the Greensboro Partnership with Brya Foundation money. “No problem at all,” Melvin “We want people to see that if you’r going to start a this is the areato be.” Sam Funchess, CEO of the Nussbaun Center, agreed and noted that with Winston-Salem and High Point all adjacent and growin toward each other, there is always a healthy cross-breeding of ideas and programs.

Friday, March 18, 2011

Report: California to shed 1M jobs during recession - Business First of Columbus:

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The pace of private-sector job losses will slow over the next few but state and local government layoffwsare beginning, the Business Forecastingt Center at the said in its latestg California and Metro Forecast released Wednesday. The forecast said California’x unemployment will peak at 12.3 percentr early next year, and will remain in double-digitd until the end of 2011. The centet produces quarterly economic forecasts of the United California and ninemetro areas, from Sacramento to Fresnp and the San Francisco Bay Area. In the Sacramento area, unemploymenr will rise from 11.1 percent this year to peak at 11.4 percen t next year, before dipping to 10.
2 perceny in 2011, the report said. Unemployment is expecter to reach 9.2 percent in 2012. The Sacramento area is forecas to rebound in the third quartet ofnext year, when job growth will improvee to 0.8 percent. A “strong rebound is expected to take placse in professionaland business, and educationap and health services sectors,” the reporg said of Sacramento. “Job growth is expecte to have its first positive full yearat 2.0 percenft in 2011.” Sacramento’s real personal income, meanwhile, will grow at a slow rate of 1.5 percentf next year.
San Jose and San Francisco will be the firstf metro areas in Northern California to returnb totheir pre-recession employment in the second and third quarters of 2012, respectively, the studty said. Sacramento and Merced will be among the last northg state metro areas to regain peak in fourth-quarter 2013. Vallejo is last, with a return expectee in the second quarterof 2014. The Centrak Valley will be hard hit by the combinatio of recent state tax increases and massive expecteedbudget cuts, the Business Forecasting Centerr said.
“The state budget crisis is a dangerousa aftershock to a region still reeling from theforeclosuree earthquake,” Jeff Michael, director of the Business Forecasting Center, said in a news The Central Valley is an economic disaster area, but most of its “economicc shocks are cyclical in nature ratherr than permanent changes such as closed military the news release said. • Construction continues to lead job lossesa inpercentage terms, declining another 15 percenr to 110,000 in 2009. Manufacturing will lead the declindin 2009, losing 135,000 jobs this year. • Retai l sales will not return to their 2007 leveluntiol 2011.
• New car and truclk sales will fallbelow 1.06 million in after exceeding 2 million for most of the decade. Salew will gradually increase as the economy recovers, reaching 1.46 million next and 1.73 million in 2011. Housing starts hit bottom in 2009at 36,00 0 units, more than 80 percent below the levels seen in 2004 and 2005. Housin g starts will be back to 100,000p units in 2011, and exceed 150,000 by 2013. • Healtgh care is the only sector that will not shrinthis year. The gain of 13,0009 health care jobs, or 0.9 percent, is the slowest growth this decade. • Personal income declineas 0.8 percent in 2009.
• Nonfarm payrolles will declineby 1,020,000 jobs statewide durinh the two-year recession. • The California economy will finally hit bottom in the fourth quarter ofthis year, and will begibn a slow, multi-year recovery. It will be 2013 before many key economix indicators such as unemployment return to healthy levels. • The state’s recessiojn should end in the last quarter of this but the job market will remain weak throughj most ofnext year.

Wednesday, March 16, 2011

Six Flags, Inc. Company Profile | SIX Company Information

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We are the largest regionalk theme park operator in the engaged solely in the theme park These parks include 14 of the 50 most highly attended theme parks in North Americqa and the largest paid admission theme park in These theme parks serve nine of the 10 largesrt metropolitan areas in theUnited States. We estimate that approximatelyy two-thirds of the population of the continental United States live withina 150-miles radius of one of these parks. In April 2004, prior to the commencement of our 2004operatint season, we sold our park outsidre Cleveland, Ohio, and seven parks in which we refer to as our "Europeanm Parks.
" In 1998, we acquired the former Six Flags, which had operated regional themw parks under the Six Flags name for nearly forty yeare and established a nationally recognized brand name. We have worldwide ownership ofthe "Six Flags" brand name. To capitalizew on this name 24 of our parks are brandedxas "Six Flags" parks, including thirteen parkw that we have rebranded since the 1998

Friday, March 11, 2011

Genscape adds Texas power plant to monitoring system - Business First of Louisville:

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The council manages the flow of electric poweer to 22 million Texas customers from more than 550 generation according toits . Its generation units includwe the W.A. Parish power one of the biggest in North In addition to infrared photos ofmonitored plants, Genscapwe customers also will get a real-time data stream, and Genscape will interprer the pictures to determine whether the plantg is running and to estimate the megawatt being produced there. “We are excited to briny previously unattainable information to the ERCOfT region with the launch ofinfraredf monitoring,” Genscape CEO and co-founder Sean O’Leary said in a news “W.A.
Parish is an important facility in determininbg the overall strength of generationh inthe region.”

Tuesday, March 8, 2011

Steve Ross urges Gov. Brian Sandoval to back bond construction projects to ... - Las Vegas Sun

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Steve Ross urges Gov. Brian Sandoval to back bond construction projects to ...

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Las Vegas mayoral candidate Steve Ross recently called out Mayor Oscar Goodman and County Commissioner Larry Brown for policies he says hurt the city. Now, he's turning his attention to Gov. Brian Sandoval. ...



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Saturday, March 5, 2011

Data Shows Febrile Seizures Increased With Fluzone Plus Prevnar 13 - Internal Medicine News Digital Network

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Data Shows Febrile Seizures Increased With Fluzone Plus Prevnar 13

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Dr. David Kimberlin, co-liaison to ACIP from the American Academy of Pediatrics, said that "the data are extremely preliminary. Until we know more, there should be no changes to the use of influenza vaccine in pediatrics in the United States. ...



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Thursday, March 3, 2011

Retailers See Sales Strength Continue In February - Wall Street Journal

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Retailers See Sales Strength Continue In February

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Macy's Inc. (M) turned a very strong performance as the retailer continued its strategy of tailoring merchandise to local tastes. Sales were strong at namesake stores and the company's high-end Bloomindale's, with "Consumer reaction to new spring ...



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