Thursday, December 29, 2011

Vortex shedding flowmeters - InTech

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Vortex shedding flowmeters

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The Coolpoint vortex shedding flowmeters offer Intrinsic Safety as an option. CoolPoint vortex shedding flowmeters are electronic instruments that measure and monitor water flows. Unlike mechanical switches, the vortex shedding meters have no moving ...



Tuesday, December 27, 2011

PRWT names new executives - Philadelphia Business Journal:

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The Philadelphia-based provider of business process outsourcing, which branche out Jan. 1 by acquiring an active pharmaceuticall ingredient plant fromMerck & Co., said Harols Epps had been appointed It is a new position in the company, a spokeswomanb said. Epps was formerly vice presidentf of supply chain for plastics manufacturer Quadranty Engineering PlasticsProducts Inc. of Reading, Pa. John Ellioy has been made president of the part of PRWT that includesz the former Merck facility incentral Pennsylvania. Ellioft spent 25 years with GlaxoSmithKline inpharmaceutical manufacturing, PRWT said.
PRWT says it is the first minority business enterprise in the United States to owna pharmaceutical-makingg facility. It said Monday it will invest $15 milliomn in the Riverside, Pa., site, which has an agreement to supply Merck for five years that is wortnhbetween $100 million and $200 million a The plant makes ingredients for antibiotics for humans and animalsd and has 400 according to PRWT, which has not disclosed the purchasr price.
PRWT also said Monday it "plans to invest in and grow itscore PRWT's core operations includde providing customer service for parking violations in Los Angeles and Philadelphiz and for E-ZPass in the Delawaree River Port Authority's jurisdiction.

Sunday, December 25, 2011

Feds close First National Bank of Anthony - Denver Business Journal:

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was closed by the on Friday night, and boughr virtually all of its assets. The OCC said in a release that it acted aftert finding that Bank ofAnthony “had experienced substantial dissipation of asset s and earnings due to unsafer and unsound practices.” The OCC said that the bank incurre d losses that depleted most of its capital and that ther was no reasonable expectation it couldd become adequately capitalized without federal assistance. Firs t National Bank of Anthony reporteda first-quarter return on asseta of -12.7 percent. The bank lost $5.1 million in the first The bank had sixbranch offices, including one in Overlans Park and one in that operated under the name of .
The branches all reopenedd Saturday under the SNB Bank of Kansasw name and are maintaining normaooffice hours. First National Bank of Anthonyu had assetsof $156. million and deposits of about $142.45 million on March 31. SNB Bank of Kansas paid abouf $712,500, or 0.5 percent of total to buy First National Bankof Anthony’x deposits, and SNB bought abouy $156.7 million of its assets. The retained the remaininbg assetsfor disposition. SNB Bank of Kansas is based in Hutchinson and has two branches therde and onein Wichita. It is a subsidiaruy of (Nasdaq: OKSB), a holding company baseds in Stillwater, Okla., with $2.9 billion in assets.
The FDIC and SNB Bank of Kansasw entered into a loss share agreement onabout $130.54 million of First National Bank of Anthony’s assets. The FDIC estimatedx that the cost to the insurance fund willbe $32.23 million. First National Bank of Anthony is the40th FDIC-insurex institution to fail this year and the secondx in Kansas; Paola-based failed on Marcgh 20.

Friday, December 23, 2011

Freeze Warning is in effect for the valley through early Friday - News10.net

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Freeze Warning is in effect for the valley through early Friday

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THURSDAY NIGHT: Calming winds and clear skies overnight will allow temperatures to drop into the mid to upper 20s! A Hard Freeze Warning is in effect from midnight until 9:00am Friday. Protect, plants, pets and pipes! Sierra lows drop below zero. ...



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Tuesday, December 20, 2011

Why are we subsidising ignorance, stupidity and hatred? - Sydney Morning Herald (blog)

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Why are we subsidising ignorance, stupidity and hatred?

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As long as they enjoy a free pass from the Act, however, we will continue to subsidise their ignorance, stupidity and hatred. They know it too. Or at least the smart ones do. That's why they moved so quickly to shut down debate on this most recent ...



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Sunday, December 18, 2011

Union extends deadline for new Safeway contract - San Francisco Business Times:

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The extension was announced late Thursday by the Unitedx Food and Commercial Workers UnionLocal No. 7, whicuh represents about 17,000 Denver-area grocery workers now negotiatingh new contractswith Safeway, Albertson’s and . It is the thirc extension in theSafeway talks, which began in early Safeway workers voted last month to call for a strike if but neither side has indicated that a strike is likely in the near Both Albertson’s and King Sooperas workers are operating without contracts righ t now. Negotiations center around the issuesof wages, pensiomn benefits and health-care plans.
Safeway and King Sooperz have offeredpension cuts, pay raises for just a portion of the workers and new preventativs health-care benefits, saying that with the rise of non-unionh grocery stores, some cutbacksx must be made. “I thinkj this [latest extension] gives us an opportunity to continue to negotiat and really be able to tackle the tough issues like wages and pension saidKris Staaf, Safeway’s Denver-are director of public The latest counter-proposal from Safeway workers calls for annual pay increasea of 75 cents per hour over the durationn of the five-year contract, according to UFCW spokeswoma n Laura Chapin.
It also seeks assurances that workerx can continue receiving pension benefitzs at age 50 rathere than having to wait untilage 62, that currentr health benefits are not decreased and that current health-care premiumz are not increased. Safeway has not made a new contracft proposal, Staaf said. Sherree Carlson, a 15-yeatr Safeway employee from Westminster, expressed frustratio n over the pace of negotiations in a news release put out bythe “We gave you a proposal a week ago, and you keep comin g back at us with the same Carlson said. “We need a fair deal and we need to keep the work and the workersw here inour community.
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Friday, December 16, 2011

Penn State's McQueary Says He Told of Sandusky 'Sexual Acts' - BusinessWeek

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Penn State's McQueary Says He Told of Sandusky 'Sexual Acts'

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