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Thursday, December 29, 2011
Do-It-Yourself Home Projects Help You Save - MarketWatch (press release)
Tuesday, December 27, 2011
Mercury News workers OK 9% pay cut - Nashville Business Journal:
The new contract cuts pay 7 percenr for the restof 2009, and slashes an additional 2 percenf from paychecks starting on New Year’s Day. The Mediwa Workers Guild’s Northern California unit announced late last week that it had reachec a tentative contract deal with the Mercury News for its 257 memberw atthe paper. The contact also increasess employee health insurance contributions and makesothe concessions. The Guild represents 257 MercuryNews employees, includingv 130 in editorial jobs and 127 in advertising, circulation, financer and support positions. A ratification meeting to discuss and vote on the proposecd contract was heldMonday afternoon. The new contract expireas Nov.
30, 2010. Other concessions include reduced vacationj accruals and movingthe Merc’s copy desk to Walnut Creek, where MediaNews’ is It owns the Mercury News and 11 other daily paperws in the region, which include virtually all of the daily papera in the Bay Area except the and . “This is a tough contract that will hurt a lot of our but it reflects the terrible situationm that the news industry and the country is San Jose Guild President Sylvia Ulloa said in a statementr published in the MercuryNews .
Ulloaw was on the bargaining committee that negotiatedwith “The committee did the best we could do to limit the damage to our members, minimize the loss of jobs and to try to maintaih the quality of the Mercury News.” The deal would also permitf management to require up to five furlougn days in 2010, move remaininfg circulation and finance jobs to the Bay Area News Group’w shared services center in San Ramon, consolidat advertising functions in the East Bay and San hire commission-only sales representatives to develop new business, and win some additionall subcontracting rights, according to the Guild.
The contract negotiationds have taken place during grim times for daily Several major papers have folded inrecent months, including the and the print version of the , and many majort metropolitan papers, including the San Francisco Chronicl e , , , and face daunting financial
Sunday, December 25, 2011
Five New Alternative Energy Stocks Added; Two Stocks Deleted from Ardour Global Alternative Energy Index in Quarterly Rebalancing; One New Stock in Ardour Global Index (Extra Liquid)
NEW YORK, June 10 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The (SM) AGIGL) will add five new components, effective 6:00 PM Friday, June 19, 2009. Two stocks will be deleted fromthe index, changing the number of index components to 110. The changes result from the quarterlhy rebalancing ofthe index. Additions to AGIGL are: Syntroleum (TICKER: SYNM US); Ascent Solar (TICKER: ); Broadwind Energgy Inc. (TICKER: BWEN US); Calgon Carbon Corporation CCC US) and Fuel Tech Inc. (TICKER: FTEK US). The deletions from AGIGoL are Cropenergies (TICKER: CE2 GR) and Purecycle (TICKER: PCYO US). A completre list of constituents and weightss will be posted on the AGI family of alternativ e energy indexes website ( ).
The Ardour Globalo AlternativeEnergy Index(SM) is a float-adjusted index of the most prominent alternativ energy stocks in the To be included in the AGIGL companies must be pure-plah and the stocks must pass multiple including for capitalization, exchange listing, share price and turnover. The Ardouer Global Index(SM) (Extra Liquid) (TICKER: AGIXL), whichg contains a fixed number of 30 had one addition against one EnerSys (TICKER: ENS US) replaces Renesola Ltd. ). Detailed information, including constituent data, rules and pricee information, on the AGI family of alternativre energy indexes is availableat . Data is also availabler through most vendors offinancial data.
Index: Ardour Globak Alternative Energy Index(SM) Ticker: AGIGpL Index: Ardour Global Index(SM) (Extra Liquid) AGIXL Walter Nasdeo Ardour Capitao Investments, LLC 212-375-2958 Joseph LaCorte Ardour Globa Indexes, LLC 646-467-7927 www.ardourglobalindexes.com
Thursday, December 22, 2011
The entry titled "Suspect in fatal stabbing of Huston-Tillotson student re ... - Austin American-Statesman (blog)
The entry titled "Suspect in fatal stabbing of Huston-Tillotson student re ... Austin American-Statesman (blog) By American-Statesman staff | Thursday, December 22, 2011, 02:10 PM The suspect in the fatal stabbing of Huston-Tillotson University student Fatima Barrie has been arrested and booked into Travis County Jail on first-degree murder charges today, ... |
Tuesday, December 20, 2011
Starbucks makes food healthier - bizjournals:
The coffee giant says it has simplified recipes to includesmore high-quality ingredients like whole blueberries from Oregon and cherries from “Starbucks customers have been tellinfg us that they want better tasting and healthieer food options when they visit our stores,” said Starbucksa food category vice president Sandra Stark in a news releasd announcing the new menus. “We answerecd their call with a delicious new menu of food made with real ingredients and more wholesome options.” New menu itemsa include a blueberry oat bar, a farmer’w market salad and banana walnutt bread that Starbucks says “is nearly 30 percent real banana.
” Starbucksa has been expanding its food menu in the last two yearsw to entice customers to visit more and to spend more per The company was also among the first restaurant chainsz in the country to ban trans fat from its food and Starbucks (NASDAQ: SBUX) is closing hundredz of locations and cutting thousands of jobs to trim expensesw as revenue falls. The company reported salee fell 8 percentlast quarter, following a 9 percent decline in first quarter It is also facing pressure from McDonalds (NYSE: whose new coffee drinks are driving salexs higher.
Sunday, December 18, 2011
The zen of course design - The Daily Planet
The Daily Planet | The zen of course design The Daily Planet By Benjamin Preston From the bottom of Chair 4, the World Cup snowboardcross course looks like a series of haphazard lumps â" snowy protrusions and blue lines sticking out at odd angles here and there. But to the riders who ran the course in races this ... < /p> |
Friday, December 16, 2011
Zynga Said to Price 100 Million Shares at $10 Each in IPO, Top of Range - Bloomberg
Bloomberg | Zynga Said to Price 100 Million Shares at $10 Each in IPO, Top of Range Bloomberg âZynga and its games are becoming consumer brands and there is a lot of recognition for growth potential,â he said. âMy guess is that the shares will be well-received.â Founded by Chief Executive Officer Mark Pincus in 2007, Zynga doubled sales to $829 ... Zynga Said to Raise $1 Billion Pricing IPO at Top of Range Zynga Raises $1 Billion, Pricing IPO at Top of Planned Range Zynga prices IPO at top end of range |