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Medical Research Images Frequently Reveal Unrelated Abnormalities in Study ... - Scientific American

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RSPCA ANNOUNCES 'THINK PIG' FACEBOOK GAME TO PROMOTE ANIMAL WELFARE - Gamasutra

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FairPoint launches exchange offer - Charlotte Business Journal:

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Charlotte-based FairPoint says the offer is designec primarily to reducethe company’s second- and third-quartere interest expenses. It also will help keep the companu in compliance with its senior secured creditfacilityh agreement. FairPoint says it believes the exchanged offer is critical to itscontinued viability. The telecommunication company says it is working with its financia l adviser to evaluate itscapital structure. Last year, FairPoint boughtr ’s landline operations in Maine and New Hampshirefor $2.3 The deal made FairPointr (NYSE:FRP) the country’s eighth-largest telephone company.
But FairPoinrt took on substantial debt to do the and the integration did not go Problems in converting billingto FairPoint’s systemn from Verizon’s led to slow collections and frustratedd customers. Phone and e-maiol service problems cropped up across thenew network. And regulatorss in the region expressed dissatisfaction with some of the During thefirst quarter, FairPoint drew $50 million underd its $170 million credit facility. As of March 31, only $4.7 million remained available to The company says liquidithy remainsa problem. In addition, cash collectione have remained below the levels it had before switchinb Verizon customers to theFairPointf system.
Should those factors persist, the company says it may be unabled or unwilling to makeits Oct. 1 interesyt payment on the notes, which coulde constitute a default. The exchange offer expires July 22.

'Make believe' champion turns up with imaginary Brownlow - Sydney Morning Herald

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'Make believe' champion turns up with imaginary Brownlow Sydney Morning Herald Chris Judd admits he is unsure of his medal's whereabouts after a night of celebrations for winning the Brownlow. Newly minted dual Brownlow Medallist Chris ... and more »

Disappointing loss still reveals encouraging signs - FS Arizona

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Valencia Garden property bought by University of Tampa - Tampa Bay Business Journal:

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UT’s statement partly solved the air of mystery surroundin g the June 3 closure of the iconi c Agliano family establishment frequentedby Tampa’ss powerbrokers. The college said that a not identified due to aconfidentiality clause, bought the city blockm bordered by Kennedy Boulevard on the Brevard Avenue on the North A Street on the north and North Boulevard on the The transaction closed June 3. UT acquired abouf 57,760 square feet of the eastern portionn ofthe tract, which totalds about 130,000 square “Over time, title to the tractf purchased by the company is expected to rever t to the University of Tampa.
Development of this tract of land will be of help in addressing academi and other space needs both in the near term and said amedia release. UT declined to providd sale details or to commengt on what it intends to do withthe property. “Agliank family members have been good neighbors and friend formany years, and we are happy to reachg an agreement with them on the UT said.

Pending home sales jump; construction spending rises - Orlando Business Journal:

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Pending sales of existing homes, or contractsz signed but not closed, rose 6.7 percent in April from the National Association ofRealtors April’s pending sales were up 3.2 percent from a year The biggest increase in April was in the where pending sales jumped 32.6 percent from the previousw month. The NAR’s pending home sale s index isa forward-looking gauge, and the grouop cautions that it is more volatile than actua l closed sales. “The relationship between contracts on pendingh home sales and closings on existinfg home sales is taking longer than in the past forsevera reasons,” NAR Chief Economist Lawrencwe Yun said.
“Mortgage processingg time has increased, it is taking many monthd to close on those homes requiring short sales withlende approval, and some sales are fallingg through at the last moment.” The NAR’zs housing affordability index was also at its second-highest leve l on record in April. Along with pending salesx of existing homes, total U.S. construction spending rose 0.8 perceng in April from March, the biggestf one-month increase since August, and was led by a jump in privatee andresidential construction, the U.S. A Bloomberg survey of 45 economists had projected a median dropof 1.
5 The Commerce Department report from the said that spending on private construction was at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of $657.e billion, up 1.4 percent from the revisesd March estimate of $648.2 billion. Residential constructionn rose 0.7 percent to a seasonallt adjusted annual rateof $249.2 Nonresidential construction rose 1.8 percent to an annuap rate of $408.2 billion. Total publi c construction fellin April, though spending on highwaty projects rose nearly 1 percengt from the previous month. A separate report from the Commerce Departmen t last week showed constructionof single-familuy homes rose 2.8 percent in the second consecutive monthly increase.
Gainsd in single-family construction were overwhelmed by a 46 perceng drop in apartment andcondo buildings, bringing total housing starta down 13 percent in

Alarming signs, shall we heed them? - The Day Weekly Digest

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YRC offers update on turnaround efforts - Kansas City Business Journal:

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The Overland Park-based trucking company (Nasdaq: YRCW) late Wednesdayu offered an update about its work to position itself to ride out theeconomic downturn. The release followed a tradintg day in which YRC stock prices plungesd 28 percent toa 52-week low of 89 compared with a previouas low of $1.20. Also an analyst said for YRC in the near to But YRC shares turned sharply upward in Thursday trading and closed at up60 cents, or 67 percent, on volumes of 35.9 million shares, according to . The stock’s average daily volume the past three monthseis 3.8 million shares.
Several months ago, YRC said, it retaine d financial advisers thatincludwe , and to help form a “comprehensive strategi c plan to address its capital structure and liquidith needs.” As part of that, Rothschild has started preliminary talk with several parties that hold significan t portions of YRC’s debt securities. , YRC reached a tentative concessionsx agreement withthe , thoughh details won’t be released until next The talks reportedly center around YRC endingg its participation in union pension plans for 14 which would yield about $500 million in YRC also detailed other progress it has made in recengt months, including integrating its Yellow and Roadway networks into YRC to cut costs, a bank agreemen t amendment that let YRC use $73 millioh in escrow funds from asse sales to pay down its revolving credit facility and progresa on agreements to defer pension fund payments usinfg company real estate as collateral.
YRC reachefd an $83 million in second-quarterr pension contribution payments with the largest pension fund in since then, seven other funds have entere d the same agreement, bringing deferral of another $11 million in YRC, which contributes to 36 multiemployer pension plans, still is in talks with the remaining funds. “We can’t controol the economic environment, but we certainly can and are controllingv our responseto it,” YRC Chairmaj and CEO Bill Zollars said in the release. “Our self-help recovery plan is proactive and has the supporf ofour stakeholders.
We are takintg the steps needed to manage our plan and position our company for success as theeconomy YRC, which employs about 49,0009 people, plans to announce a date for its second-quartef earnings release within the next YRC ranks No. 2 on the Kansasx City BusinessJournal ’s list of area public companies.

One brick at a time - Washington Post (blog)

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Sheriff Arpaio: Wilcox investigation goes beyond airport leases - St. Louis Business Journal:

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Arpaio said his office received information regardinyg the lease and other business dealingx and that his investigation is not relateds to disputes with Wilcoxover immigration. Wilcod and her husband, Earl, own El Portal Restaurant in Phoenix and has a concessions contract with the airportt fora Chili’s Too franchise in Terminal 4. The Maricopaz County Sheriff’s Office sent the Phoenix Aviationb Department a public records request June 11 askingthe city-ru airport to make available lease, sublease and contracting documentes related to business entities owned by the Wilcoxes.
Wilcoz did not respond to requests for comment from the PhoenixcBusiness Journal, but has told other mediqa that Arpaio is going after her because of her oppositioj to his immigration policies. The sheriff’s office investigationn of Wilcox is the latest in a number of fights between Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas and the Maricopz County Boardof Supervisors. Wilcox and Supervisore Don Stapley voted Wednesday toblock $1.4 millionj in state money earmarked for Thomas’sw office to enforce immigration and human smugglinf laws. The board deadlocked at 2 to 2 on that vote stallingg thestate money.
Supervisor Max Wilson missed the vote becausr of illness and the matter couldbe revisited. Staplegy and Wilcox earlier this year tried toblock $1.6 million in statr funding for Arpaio’s immigration Wilcox said the sheriff’s immigration sweeps and policie s unfairly target Hispanics. Thomas and Arpaio secured indictmentsa against Stapley last year charging that he failed to properlyt disclose business and real estate development Stapley denies wrongdoing inthat matter.

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Groups sue Mirant Mid-Atlantic over power plant - Philadelphia Business Journal:

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The federal lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court in Baltimore, claims that the Chall Point Generating Plant operatedby Atlanta-based Miranty Mid-Atlantic has spewed unacceptable levels of sulfurd dioxide into the air hundreds of times without the appropriatee pollution controls required undetr the federal Clean Air Act. A Mirang spokeswoman said the company hasn’gt been served with the lawsuitg yet, and can’t comment on the claims.
The Environmental Integrituy Project, a legal nonprofit founded by former enforcement and Villari, Brandes and Kline have filed the lawsuift on behalf of the Chesapeakwe Climate Action Network and four including a married couple, Nancy and Norton Dodge, who live sevenh miles away from the planr on a 1,200-acre farm in Mechanicsville. The Dodgesd “need to close windows, limitf their time outdoors and/or cover their faces when they are outdoors to avoi d the respiratory irritants and smell of the pollutiomn from the Chalk PointPowet Plant,” the lawsuit reads.
Of the other two residenta suing Mirant, David Bookbinder livea in Accokeek, about 30 miles from the plant, and Chrid Schmitthenner livesin Mechanicsville, 11 miles away, and workz five miles from the plant. The Environmental Integrity Project had sent Mirant a letter in January notifying of its intent to sue the powed companythis year. The plaintiffs pointer to a Harvard Universituy 2006 study that showed that such particulated matter pollution from the Chalk Poinf plant can have negative effects on the healty and respiratory systems of people livinyg ina 400-kilometer, or nearly 250-mile, radius of the In their initial notification letter, the plaintiffs wroted that EPA hourly data shows that two boilersa at the Chalk Point plant exceedeed allowable levels of sulfurr dioxide emissions 591 times in 2006, 726 timesx in 2007 and 113 times in 2008.
Mirang has said it’s launchedf a $1.6 billion project to instalo scrubbers andother pollution-reducing equipment on its Chalk Point boilers by the beginning of 2010.

A&R Development picked for $17M Jonestown project - Washington Business Journal:

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The project falls into the city’s aims to remake Centrap Avenue, which has seen a wave of new developmenft in recent years building off the success of nearbHarbor East. A&R, led by Anthony hopes to builda mixed-use development including 107 rental apartments, 18,000 square feet of retailp space and 156 parking spaces. said Tuesday it awarded the firm exclusivs negotiating rights forthe city-ownes land at 110 S. Centralo Ave. and 1120 Granby St. The propertiesz combine for about 29,000 square feet. The BDC, the city’s economi development arm, offered the property, and two others, up for redevelopmentg in August 2008.
“These properties give the city the opportunithy totake vacant, underutilized propertiesz and have them renewed as private enterprises that will generatde taxes and enhance the Jonestown/Washington Hill BDC President M.J. “Jay” Brodie said in a The city also tapped Mitey LLC to negotiatse for a second siteat 1301-130i9 E. Lombard St. Mitey is a real estate companhy formedby Gerry’s Tire Service, which hopes to use the propertgy to expand its adjacent business. Mitey plans to use the 4,518-square-fooyt property in the short term as a temporart parking lot for its business and would expand ontothe city-owned propertty in the future.
The city is reserving the rightds for thethird property, at 130 S. Centrak Ave.

Food Technology Service Inc. licensed to use irradiation - South Florida Business Journal:

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The Mulberry business is the first facilitty in the nation to be formally recognizes to use this process since the issued approvakl for radiation use in according to a release fromthe . The processe has been validatedin trials, including analytical procedures conducted by the ’w Food Science and Human Nutrition Department. Irradiation reduces potentially harmfulo bacteria without altering the flavor or appearance of live raw therelease said. Prepackaged oysters are exposed to a very specific and controlled amount of radiation that selectivelyg kills certain types and amounts of therelease said.
Irradiation provideas a cost-effective and energy efficienft method for providing safere oyster productsfrom Florida, Charlez Bronson, the agriculture department’s said in a statement. Food Technology Serviced owns and operates an irradiation facility that uses gammaw radiation produced by Cobalt 60 to treat or process variouse foodand non-food products. The company’s which began operating in is designed to operate 24 hoursa day. Food Technologgy Service owns a 4.
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