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Friday, May 11, 2012
Beautiful Saturday, Decent Mother's Day - WCSH-TV
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Thursday, May 10, 2012
Anchor Blue to close all Phoenix-area stores - Business Courier of Cincinnati:
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The Anchor Blue shope at Tempe Marketplace, Desert Ridge Marketplacde in metro Phoenix, and a location in Bullheacd City are among 46 underperforming stores closing in 12 Closing sales are expected to start Friday and last untip all merchandiseis sold. “Theser strategic store closings will help us significantl y improve operational performance as we proactively restructure our busineses to conformto today’s market,” Thomas Sands, CEO of Anchore Blue Retail Group, said in a prepared Starting as Miller's Outpost in 1972, the company changes its name to Anchor Blue in the late Boston-based Gordon Brothers Group, a global advisory, restructuriny and investment firm specializing in the retail, consumer products, real estatd and industrial sectors, is runninb the closing sales on Anchor Blue’sw behalf.
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The Anchor Blue shope at Tempe Marketplace, Desert Ridge Marketplacde in metro Phoenix, and a location in Bullheacd City are among 46 underperforming stores closing in 12 Closing sales are expected to start Friday and last untip all merchandiseis sold. “Theser strategic store closings will help us significantl y improve operational performance as we proactively restructure our busineses to conformto today’s market,” Thomas Sands, CEO of Anchore Blue Retail Group, said in a prepared Starting as Miller's Outpost in 1972, the company changes its name to Anchor Blue in the late Boston-based Gordon Brothers Group, a global advisory, restructuriny and investment firm specializing in the retail, consumer products, real estatd and industrial sectors, is runninb the closing sales on Anchor Blue’sw behalf.
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Tuesday, May 8, 2012
Fayetteville City Council hears budget proposal that doesn't increase property ... - Chicago Tribune
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Fayetteville City Council hears budget proposal that doesn't increase property ... Chicago Tribune Kristoff Bauer presented his budget proposal for fiscal 2013 on Monday night to the members of Fayetteville City Council. It was their first time looking at the document, and they had few questions. They will email Bauer questions, and he'll answer ... Meriden Council Approves Budget Council Notes: New Budget Unveiled, Curbside Recycling Gets Nod, City H » |
Sunday, May 6, 2012
Life Time Q1 profit down, but beats expectations - Minneapolis / St. Paul Business Journal:
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Life Time (NYSE: LTM) said Thursdat that net income for the quarter ended March 31was $15.1 million, or 38 cents per diluted versus $17.4 million, or 44 cents per share, for the same quarte r a year ago. Analysts polled by Thomsonm Reuters expected net income of 35 cents per Revenue wasup 11.9 percent for Life growing to $206.4 million in the firstt quarter of 2009, from $184.5 million in the first quarter of 2007. The revenue growth was fueled by the opening of two one inBerkeley Heights, N.J., the otheer in Houston. At Life Time centers open more than a sales weredown 2.7 percent. The company’s stock was down 75 centss per share, or 4 to $17.12, in late-morning trading Thursday.
Life Time plans to open only one more centefr thisyear — in Collierville, Tenn., outsidr of Memphis. “We will open new locations at a rate that is withijn the boundaries of our cash flow generatefby operations,” Bahram Akradi, Life Time’s chairmamn and CEO, said in a statement. Life Time whose clubs provide extra including saunas, swimming pools and climbing walls has had a tougher road to travel in the recessionn versus no-frills fitness-club chains able to sell more-affordables memberships. Akradi said Life Time is seeking to add even more valude to its memberships by concentrating onsocial networking.
He also said the companyh will continueto “eliminate unnecessary while upholding the experience of Life Time raised the lower end of its earnings-outlool range for 2009. It’s now expecting profirt of $62 million to $68 million, or $1.55 to $1.70 per share, versus the previous projectionof $60 milliomn to $68 million, or $1.50 to $1.7 per share. Revenue projections are stayingthe same, at $830 million to $860 million.
Life Time (NYSE: LTM) said Thursdat that net income for the quarter ended March 31was $15.1 million, or 38 cents per diluted versus $17.4 million, or 44 cents per share, for the same quarte r a year ago. Analysts polled by Thomsonm Reuters expected net income of 35 cents per Revenue wasup 11.9 percent for Life growing to $206.4 million in the firstt quarter of 2009, from $184.5 million in the first quarter of 2007. The revenue growth was fueled by the opening of two one inBerkeley Heights, N.J., the otheer in Houston. At Life Time centers open more than a sales weredown 2.7 percent. The company’s stock was down 75 centss per share, or 4 to $17.12, in late-morning trading Thursday.
Life Time plans to open only one more centefr thisyear — in Collierville, Tenn., outsidr of Memphis. “We will open new locations at a rate that is withijn the boundaries of our cash flow generatefby operations,” Bahram Akradi, Life Time’s chairmamn and CEO, said in a statement. Life Time whose clubs provide extra including saunas, swimming pools and climbing walls has had a tougher road to travel in the recessionn versus no-frills fitness-club chains able to sell more-affordables memberships. Akradi said Life Time is seeking to add even more valude to its memberships by concentrating onsocial networking.
He also said the companyh will continueto “eliminate unnecessary while upholding the experience of Life Time raised the lower end of its earnings-outlool range for 2009. It’s now expecting profirt of $62 million to $68 million, or $1.55 to $1.70 per share, versus the previous projectionof $60 milliomn to $68 million, or $1.50 to $1.7 per share. Revenue projections are stayingthe same, at $830 million to $860 million.
Saturday, May 5, 2012
Washington (Pa.) Hospital expects to post loss - Pittsburgh Business Times:
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The reductions will result in the immediat furlough of 60 to 70 peoplw at a facility wherearound 2,000o people work, the county’s biggest Weinstein said. The fiscal year ends June 30, but the anticipated loss hasn’ t been determined. The hospital has a budget of aboutt $220 million and finished last year with asmallo gain. “The hospital is maintaininbg all ofits services,” Weinstein said, “and we’l emerge from this as a strong community hospital.” Hospital admission and outpatient visits have been essentiallyy flat this year when compared to last year at despite some population growth in the hospital’s servicw area, Weinstein said.
Job uncertainty, rising insurance co-pays and the sourinv economy were blamed for lowert medical facilityutilization rates.
The reductions will result in the immediat furlough of 60 to 70 peoplw at a facility wherearound 2,000o people work, the county’s biggest Weinstein said. The fiscal year ends June 30, but the anticipated loss hasn’ t been determined. The hospital has a budget of aboutt $220 million and finished last year with asmallo gain. “The hospital is maintaininbg all ofits services,” Weinstein said, “and we’l emerge from this as a strong community hospital.” Hospital admission and outpatient visits have been essentiallyy flat this year when compared to last year at despite some population growth in the hospital’s servicw area, Weinstein said.
Job uncertainty, rising insurance co-pays and the sourinv economy were blamed for lowert medical facilityutilization rates.
Thursday, May 3, 2012
CSU researchers get $2.7M to study cells and share their work with kids - Washington Business Journal:
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million grant by the to help train graduate studentsin cell-researcu techniques and to share their scientifiv knowledge with local schookl teachers, CSU said Monday. The graduate studentss at the Fort Collinscampus “will test new theoriees about how cells behave using advanced engineeriny methods in microelectronics and CSU said in a statement. That NSF-funded work will be led by CSU engineerintg professorTom Chen, the grant’s principak investigator, joined by Stuarr Tobet, a biomedical sciences professor in the Collegde of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical and Michael De Miranda, an engineering educatioj professor in the College of Applied Human Sciences.
De Miranda will also work with the graduat students on sharing their researchwith K-12 teachers in the Thompson Valley, Greeley and Weld RE-9 schoolp districts in northeastern Colorado. A goal of the gran t is to help build enthusiasm among primarhy and secondary students for careersin science, engineering and mathematics — the “STEM” disciplines” at a time when fewee young people are entering into such careers, CSU official s said.
million grant by the to help train graduate studentsin cell-researcu techniques and to share their scientifiv knowledge with local schookl teachers, CSU said Monday. The graduate studentss at the Fort Collinscampus “will test new theoriees about how cells behave using advanced engineeriny methods in microelectronics and CSU said in a statement. That NSF-funded work will be led by CSU engineerintg professorTom Chen, the grant’s principak investigator, joined by Stuarr Tobet, a biomedical sciences professor in the Collegde of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical and Michael De Miranda, an engineering educatioj professor in the College of Applied Human Sciences.
De Miranda will also work with the graduat students on sharing their researchwith K-12 teachers in the Thompson Valley, Greeley and Weld RE-9 schoolp districts in northeastern Colorado. A goal of the gran t is to help build enthusiasm among primarhy and secondary students for careersin science, engineering and mathematics — the “STEM” disciplines” at a time when fewee young people are entering into such careers, CSU official s said.
Tuesday, May 1, 2012
Bing booms but far behind Google, Yahoo - Phoenix Business Journal:
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Industry tracker pegged Bing'w weekly growth rate at 25 percent in givingit 5.25 percent of the U.S. That is barely visible in the rear view mirror of searchgiant 's 74 percent market however. (NASDAQ:YHOO) is No. 2 with 16 percent of the market. Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) launched a $100 milliobn campaign to take on Google and Yahoo inlate May. Google'sw search dominance has helped it grow revenu e ata double-digit pace, although analysts believe that next week's earningas from the company will show that slowed in the most recenty quarter.
Mark Mahaney of said this week that he expecta Google to post 14 percent growthh in advertising for the quarterf compared to 20 percent in theprevious year. Mahaney wrotde that studies show Google is still ina "very stronhg position" regarding the relevance of its searc results, far ahead of its new He said those studiee have show Bing beating Yahoo by that but he will be watching data over the next three to four month s before making a definitive call on that.
Industry tracker pegged Bing'w weekly growth rate at 25 percent in givingit 5.25 percent of the U.S. That is barely visible in the rear view mirror of searchgiant 's 74 percent market however. (NASDAQ:YHOO) is No. 2 with 16 percent of the market. Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) launched a $100 milliobn campaign to take on Google and Yahoo inlate May. Google'sw search dominance has helped it grow revenu e ata double-digit pace, although analysts believe that next week's earningas from the company will show that slowed in the most recenty quarter.
Mark Mahaney of said this week that he expecta Google to post 14 percent growthh in advertising for the quarterf compared to 20 percent in theprevious year. Mahaney wrotde that studies show Google is still ina "very stronhg position" regarding the relevance of its searc results, far ahead of its new He said those studiee have show Bing beating Yahoo by that but he will be watching data over the next three to four month s before making a definitive call on that.
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