Sumatra relief effort increased Oct 6, 2009
US Pacific Command has flown two C-17 military transport aircraft to Padang, with material for a field hospital that will treat as many as 400 people a day, he said. The USS Denver, an amphibious response vessel with helicopters that will fly to the hardest-hit rural areas, is due to arrive in Padang on Thursday. (BBC News -- Asia-Pacific)
Aid pours into quake-hit Indonesia Oct 6, 2009
US Pacific Command, PACOM, has flown two C-17 military transport aircraft to Padang, with material for a field hospital that will treat as many as 400 people a day, Kelly said. The United States is also dispatching a seven-person mobile field surgical team with specialists in general surgery, orthopaedic surgery, anaesthesiology and emergency medicine. (Yahoo! Asia News)
38 years ago, B-52 crash claimed nine lives near former Big Rock Point Oct 4, 2009
"What s happening? There is a huge explosion in the sky north of our house. You wouldn t believe it, said Mrs. Phil Martin and daughter Nita, 15, to Petoskey News-Review reporters at the time. The Martins were among the first to report an explosion over Lake Michigan, after Nita called for her mom s attention after seeing something go past the north window of their home on Cherry Street. - Advertisement - Afterward, a huge, bright fireball appeared and dropped behind the trees and hill. The... (Gaylord Herald Times, MI)
Homeless camps probably dont justify any harsh actions Oct 4, 2009
The Forest Service is increasing fees for people who own cabins on Forest Service lands by as much as 400 percent. An average $1,500 fee at Lake of the Woods would climb to more than $6,000. (Klamath Falls Herald & News, OR)
Milwaukee's pitch for airline jobs Oct 2, 2009
State and local government officials are putting together an incentive package aimed at attracting as many as 400 airline-related jobs to the Milwaukee area. which bought Oak Creek-based earlier this year, likely will decide by the end of November where to locate the jobs, with Milwaukee competing with Denver and Indianapolis. (Milwaukee Business Journal, WI)
Military To Get Mandatory Swine Flu Shots Sep 30, 2009
Air Force Gen. Gene Renuart also told The Associated Press that as many as 400 troops are ready to go to five regional headquarters around the country to assist federal health and emergency management officials if needed as the flu season heats up. The Pentagon has bought 2. (Click2Houston, TX)
Why Californians are paying even more for gas Sep 25, 2009
Thursday, September 24, 2009. (09-23) 20:25 PDT -- Californians usually pay more for gasoline than do other Americans. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Why gas costs more here Sep 24, 2009
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Duststorm notes Sep 24, 2009
When the Martian poles are exposed to sunlight at the start of summer, frozen CO2 sublimes creating enormous winds that sweep off the poles as fast as 400 km/h ... When the Martian poles are exposed to sunlight at the start of summer, frozen CO2 sublimes creating enormous winds that sweep off the poles as fast as 400 km/h. (Harper's Magazine)
Cemex May Offer Discount as Zambrano Competes With Rossi, PDG Share Sales Sep 21, 2009
The company also plans to sell bonds that are required to be converted to as many as 400 million outstanding Mexican , according to a prospectus filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Sept. 8. Cemex plans to exchange the bonds, which wont be converted to shares for at least a year, for existing peso bonds. (Bloomberg -- Latin America)
Casio Exilim EX-H10 Point-and-Shoot Camera Sep 19, 2009
Manual ISO settings go up to 1600 (the camera also has a High Sensitivity Best Shot mode to jack the ISO up even higher), but noise started showing up in test shots at ISO levels as low as 400. High-ISO shots came out very bright, but splotchy. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Technology)
Afghanistan's 'civilian surge' fizzles Sep 15, 2009
But ultimately the corps could deploy as many as 400 civilians at any one time, he says. Funding for the initiative came too late for the program to play a significant role in the current deployment of civilians to Afghanistan, Herbst says, but he expects the corps can help "institutionalize" the use of civilians in wartime and raise the US's chance for success overseas in modern warfare. (Christian Science Monitor -- USA)
Retail Brokers Inc. principals face lawsuits related to investments Sep 10, 2009
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Day 3 of pilots' strike: Jet cancels 198 flights, deadlock continues Sep 10, 2009
A spokesperson of the airlines said it has cancelled 163 domestic and 35 international flights as 400 of its over 1000 pilots did not report for duty. Capt Sam Thomas, Joint General Secretary of National Aviators Guild, which is spearheading the agitation, claimed that overall 500 pilots have reported sick. (India Times, India)
Alzheimer's fundraiser set for Oct. 17 Sep 8, 2009
This year's Athens Memory Walk is set for 9 a.m. Oct. 17 at Southeast Clarke Park on Lexington Road, and Hobe says as many as 400 walkers are expected to be part of the day, which in addition to fundraising opportunities will include the recognition of sponsors, teams and families participating. Hobe, who serves as the Athens' organization's "minister of propaganda" for the Memory Walk, says the funds raised at the local event are critical, and while some of the revenue goes to the national... (Athens Banner-Herald)
Florida Blood Services expands nationally through partnerships Sep 8, 2009
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250 Frontier jobs may fly away Sep 5, 2009
In all, Republic may move as many as 400 Frontier jobs to Milwaukee or Indianapolis, including another 150 employees from a customer service center in Las Cruces, N.M., the Journal Sentinel reported. It's also possible that the Las Cruces jobs could come to Denver. (Denver Business Journal, CO)
Running Hot and Cold (Part II) Sep 5, 2009
The Latest Information on 112 Downtown Projects. by Richard Guzmn, Jon Regardie, Anna Scott and Ryan Vaillancourt. (Los Angeles Downtown News, CA)
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Can Bone Marrow Be Quickly Revived After Destruction By Leukemia Treatment? Faster Recovery From Life-threatening Blood Cell Shortages Sep 4, 2009
Thanks to stem cells, humans develop from one cell into a complex being with as many as 400 cell types. As the fetus develops, successive generations of stem cells specialize (differentiate), with each round becoming more specific until they become the end-stage functional cells of the body. (Science Daily)
Housing market hurts Rio Nuevo Aug 30, 2009
09:10 PM MST on Sunday, August 12, 2007. By Rob O'Dell / Arizona Daily Star. (FOX 11, AZ)
Marion riot forces football game to move Aug 27, 2009
The groups then moved to downtown Marion, where the number of people swelled to as many as 400. Law enforcement agencies across west Alabama sent personnel to assist local police and had the crowd under control within a couple of hours. (WSJA.com, AL)
SRNL, automakers to develop high-performance wireless sensors networks Aug 26, 2009
Public release date: 25-Aug-2009. Contact: Angeline French. (EurekAlert! -- Business News)
Hummingbirds: The ultimate international traveler Aug 25, 2009
We have done as few as 200 and as many as 400, Williamson said. It just depends. (Sierra Vista Herald, AZ)
Hawaii at 50: A look back Aug 22, 2009
Contact us: 1-808-245-3681. Latest Updated: Friday, August 21, 2009. (Lihue Garden Island, HA)
Morton looks at budget issues Aug 22, 2009
IT director Steve Kelsch said that because county auditor Paul Trauger is retiring in March 2011, the county needs to re-examine its AS-400 computer system before he leaves office. The system oversees tax rolls, financial data for the city and county, imaging and deeds recording. (Bismarck Tribune, ND)
Morgan Stanley plans hiring spree: source Aug 21, 2009
NEW YORK (Reuters) Morgan Stanley (MS.N) is planning to hire as many as 400 traders and salespeople, a hiring spree that comes as the firm tries to dig its way out of three straight quarters of losses. About half have already been hired to work across sales and trading, a source familiar with the plan said. (Yahoo News -- Press Releases)
Stren Series fishing tournament coming to Fort Madison Aug 20, 2009
As many as 400 pros and co-anglers will be competing in the third Central Division tournament of the season for top awards of 65,000 and 35,000, respectively. Anglers will take off from Captain Kirk's Marina located at 902 Fourth St. in Fort Madison, Iowa, at 6:30 each morning. (Carthage (Hancock County) Journal Pilot, IL)
Ny Eyes Ubs Tax Cache Aug 20, 2009
The Internal Revenue Service's plan to force as many as 5,000 Americans to pay back taxes on assets they hid from Uncle Sam in Swiss bank accounts will likely provide the city and state with as much as 400 million in much-needed cash. Once the IRS settles up with those UBS customers believed to have parked around 18 billion in assets overseas to avoid the taxman, the agency is expected to share that information with local governments, enabling them to also collect what they're owed. (New York Post -- Business)
Habitat needs donations, families for houses Aug 20, 2009
Although the monthly payment may be as little as 400 or 500, a lot of people don t qualify, she said. People on unemployment, disability, Social Security or retirement generally make too little to qualify. (Lebanon Express, OR)
StarTek plans Costa Rica call center Aug 18, 2009
The Denver-based company (NYSE: SRT) will open a call center in the America Free Trade Zone Center in Heredia, Costa Rica, with as many as 400 employees in early 2010. Once the new center opens, StarTek will have 20 centers where it manages other companies customer relations and technical help calls. (Denver Business Journal, CO)
Chinese steelworkers' protest halts plant takeover Aug 17, 2009
As many as 400 workers surrounded the Linzhou company's offices Tuesday and prevented Dong Zhangyin, an official from the local branch of the State-Owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission, from leaving, the Linzhou city government said in a notice on its Web site Saturday. Xinhua said the demonstration involved as many as 3,000 people when it started. (Muscatine Journal, IO)
* MORAKOT: THE AFTERMATH: Friends, families hold rituals for Morakot victims Aug 16, 2009
As many as 400 residents of Xiaolin village are believed to have been buried alive under mud as deep as 15m last Sunday. The villagers had asked the army to stop digging for the victims because they want the dead to be left in peace and their mud--covered village turned into a memorial park. (Taipei Times, Taiwan)
Indian wonder herb can treat male infertility Aug 15, 2009
"We have got encouraging results and observations while offering the treatment to as many as 400 infertile men in a phased manner with the seed extract of Mucuna for at least six months," Abbas Mahdi, a senior faculty member at CSMMU and a member of the research team said. After the treatment the researchers noticed remarkable improvement in the factors responsible for fertility. (India Times, India)
Bank on inflation Aug 14, 2009
This time, because it involves a commodity, I figure that it has the added benefit that slimy insiders/bullion banks can now do all kinds of slimy arbitrage tricks by buying government gold at a (theoretically) falling market price as 400 tons a year come barreling into the market to swamp demand with a deluge of supply, as well as leasing government gold at almost zero percent rates, maybe somehow running it through some exchange traded funds that are shorted for some reason that I don't... (Asia Times Online)
Golden Rule's Lawrenceville center soon to reopn Aug 14, 2009
Since the fire, Golden Rule has opened an expanded customer care center in Vincennes on Willow Street that is expected to eventually employ as many as 400 workers. The 24,000-square-foot facility is state-of-the-art, and customers nationwide will be able to call and get help with any product-related issues they might have. (Vincennes Sun Commercial, IN)
Miss Ireland upstages lady in red Aug 14, 2009
Taiwanese relief workers struggled to rescue 1,900 villagers still stranded today nearly a week after a devastating typhoon, and disaster officials said as many as 400 people may have been buried in mudslides in the worst-hit village. Inside Asia. (Yahoo News -- Beauty Pageants)
Click to read:More than 500 Feared Dead in Taiwan Aug 14, 2009
Taiwan's Disaster Relief Center estimated Friday that as many as 400 people were buried at Shiao Lin. Many of those rescued say they can never return to their villages because there is nothing left to return to. (CBS News)
Nadels Home Front Homes in receivership Aug 11, 2009
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Praying for a breakthrough Aug 9, 2009
Wise said by next week he could have as many as 400 or 500 signatures. He and others have many questions about the case: Questions they say went unanswered in the trial, and some of which have become even more intriguing since new information regarding the case has come to the surface. (Lake Wales News, FL)
New land lease plan will raise rates Aug 5, 2009
Lincoln County School District 16th Section Land Manager Stan Long told the county school board Monday that payment methods for residential and farm residential leases were to be converted from a per-acre rate to 5 percent of the land's appraised value - a transition he said would cause some leases to increase as much as 400 percent. Those holding farm residential leases will be allowed to convert those leases to agricultural leases in order to avoid the coming increase, he said, though the... (Brookhaven Daily Leader, MS)
Google turns to billboard advertising Aug 4, 2009
Local Search Site Search. THIS STORY HAS BEEN FORMATTED FOR EASY PRINTING. (Boston Globe)
Coastal areas not best for 'Golden Delicious' Aug 3, 2009
A: 'Golden Delicious' is not one of the best apple varieties to grow near the coast, as it performs best with winters that provide 600-700 hours between 32 and 45 degrees; near the coast, it may get as few as 400. The symptoms of lack of winter chill include leafing out late, not blooming at all or sporadically over a long period, and excessive dropping of small fruits. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Wash. emergency center gets pre-Olympics trial run Jul 27, 2009
But in the past three years, estimates of how much traffic the Winter Games will generate in Washington state have dropped dramatically, from early guesses of 2,000 cars a day, roughly the equivalent of a busy summer day, to as few as 400, according to studies by the Whatcom Council of Governments. "Even when we thought we were looking at an additional 2,000 cars a day, the Olympics traffic volume didn't seem like something that would overwhelm the resources in place," said Hugh Conroy, a... (Longview Daily News, WA)
Sarah Palin and Alaska's Leadership Jul 27, 2009
The Governor Leaves Her Office in July. On July 26, 2009 Sarah Palin stepped down as governor of Alaska. (Suite101.com)
Calif. Gives Glum Look at States' Future Jul 23, 2009
On Tuesday, John Cottrell learned the figure may be as low as 400 and concentrated on less dependent seniors, "those who need medication reminders, light cleaning and cooking," he said. "I'm not even worried so much about today, but tomorrow. What happens then?" Cottrell asked. (CBS News -- US)
World's Poor Promise $7.9 Billion in Mobile Money for Vodafone, MTN Group Jul 21, 2009
M-PESA charges customers as much as 400 Kenyan shillings ($5. 20) to transfer up to 35,000 shillings, according to its Web site. (Bloomberg)
Insurance mandate: What will health reform do? Jul 19, 2009
The income cutoff for subsidy eligibility could be as high as 400 percent of the federal poverty level ( 88,200 for a family of four, or 43,300 for a single person) or as low as 300 percent ( 66,150 for four/ 32,500 for a single). The amount of any subsidy is yet to be worked out, but the main proposal is a sliding scale that sets a maximum amount of your income you're expected to pay for insurance and care. (Montana Standard, MT)
Column: So, what will health care reform actually do? Jul 19, 2009
The income cutoff for subsidy eligibility could be as high as 400 percent of the federal poverty level ( 88,200 for a family of four, or 43,300 for a single person) or as low as. 300 percent ( 66,150 for four/ 32,500 for a single). (Missoulian, MT)
Winds of change Jul 14, 2009
County man plans to harness green power. By Kerry Whipple BeanPublisher. (Brewton Standard, AL)
Loyola Hosts Third-Annual Strength & Conditioning/Athletic Development Conference Jul 11, 2009
BALTIMORE - Loyola College in Maryland will welcome as many as 400 high school and college strength and conditioning coaches, athletic trainers, physical therapists, personal trainers and fitness enthusiasts for a two-day conference on Friday and Saturday, July 17-18. The Strength and Conditioning/Athletic Development Conference, sponsored by Polar Electro, has been developed by Robert Taylor, head strength and conditioning coach for the Loyola Greyhounds. (Loyolagreyhounds.com)
Netbooks Seen Helping Google Take On Windows Jul 11, 2009
PC makers are eagerly greeting a Windows alternative, yet Google's arrogance and lack of execution will ultimately hamper the Chrome OS.. Select a newsletter and click Join to sign up. (SmallBusinessComputing)
Judge orders forfeiture of Nadel car Jul 11, 2009
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Rockin’ on the Ridge deemed a success Jul 11, 2009
Daily American - Rockin on the Ridge deemed a success. The Somerset Inc. summer festival more than doubled and perhaps tripled attendance from previous years, according to the organization s executive director, Stephanie Williams. (Somerset Daily American, PA)
Sky Capital Hit Brits Jul 10, 2009
Investigators said Mandell's firm, Sky Capital, conned as many as 400 British retail investors out of a total of more than 110 million in a fraud that lasted eight years and led to this week's arrest of six top Sky Capital executives, including Mandell. Federal investigators swooped on the six men after a three-year probe into allegations of investment fraud and share-price manipulation on the London Stock Exchange that netted the accused wrongdoers some 140 million they then allegedly spent on... (New York Post -- Business)
> More CEOs look outside California to expand Jun 26, 2009
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Contraction changing Cadillac Jun 23, 2009
Shepherd, who is also the Kansas director of the , says it s his understanding that GM could trim its current level of U.S. Cadillac dealers from 1,422 to as few as 400. When you look at the number of dealers they have. (Wichita Business Journal, KS)
Obama looks to colleges for future spies Jun 21, 2009
One was a pilot program, first authorized in 2004, for as many as 400 students who took cryptologic training and agreed to work for the National Security Agency or another intelligence agency for each year they received financial assistance. That program will be replaced by the new one because cryptology is not as needed as it once was. (MSNBC -- Terrorism)
Gregoire orders more cuts in wake of new revenue report Jun 20, 2009
But Zarelli predicted that increasing demands on state services will soon drive the deficit to as much as 400 million, even if tax revenues stabilize. The combination of higher caseloads and lower tax revenues may force legislators to rework the budget in the fall, rather than letting the shortfall grow unchecked until the 2010 regular session, he said. (Longview Daily News, WA)
CSC program eases chill of job market Jun 19, 2009
It was as much as 400 per month. I signed up for this program two years ago. (Corvallis Gazette Times, OR)
Francoeur hopes work keeps paying off Jun 3, 2009
ATLANTA -- When Braves manager Bobby Cox gave him a day to rest during Sunday's series finale against the D-backs, Jeff Francoeur took advantage of the opportunity to take what he approximated as 400 swings in the batting cage. Then provided another chance to rest during the off-day that followed the Braves' seven-day road trip, Francoeur instead spent a portion of Monday attempting to regain the timing of his swing that had deserted him during a forgettable month of May. (MLB.com -- Atlanta Braves)
Affinity Equity Said to Plan to Purchase Stake in KKR's Oriental Brewery Jun 3, 2009
Affinity Said to Plan to Buy Stake in KKRs Brewery (Update1) - Bloomberg. Updated: New York, Jun 03 03:50 London, Jun 03 08:50 Tokyo, Jun 03 16:50. (Bloomberg -- Asia)
Elk inspect water line work May 24, 2009
Bob Kent, a Butte-Silver Bow construction foreman, said he counted as many as 400 elk on the game range at one point during the winter. "It didn't bother them at all," he said of the construction. (Montana Standard, MT)
GE seeks concessions for jobs May 23, 2009
The project would create as many as 400 new jobs, said Chris Poynter, deputy director of communications for Abramson s office. Also Thursday, the Kentucky Economic Development Finance Authority is set to consider a tax rebate of as much as $2. (Louisville Business First, KY)
Price increases for cabin permits on national forests strain fairnessAt Lake of the Woods, the average would rise 400 percent May 21, 2009
But cabin owners argue that proposed permit increases ranging as high as 400 percent are too high for the heavily restricted lands they get the use of ... The Forest Service has notified cabin owners that the prices of the permits are going to increase over a three-year period by as much as 400 percent starting in 2011. (Klamath Falls Herald & News, OR)
