Question-and-Answer SessionOperator Thank you. The question-and-answer session will be conducted electronically. [Operators Instructions]. We will take now our first question from Tim [inaudible]. Please go ahead. Unidentified Analyst Hey, guys. This is Tim [inaudible] in Dublin. My first question is in relation to the stock...
Merlin D. Thacker 1939 ~ 2008 Our beloved family member,Merlin Don Thacker, died December 28, 2008 at age 69. He was born March 22, 1939 in Colville, Washington, to Claude and Hilda Fullmer Thacker, the sixth...
Today's game: at Minnesota FACEOFF: 3 p.m., Excel Energy Center, St. Paul, Minn. -- TV/RADIO: No TV; 98.5-FM -- HEAD TO HEAD: Sharks LW Ryane Clowe got the Gordie Howe Hat Trick -- a goal, an assist and...
Kevin B. MacLeod, an electrician and owner of KPS Contracting and KPS Solar, is a green graduate. But don't look for a green degree in his office. His environmental education has been varied, including a one-week class at Farmingdale State College, courses offered by solar manufacturers off Long Island and...
Ned Bowen President Chris Donovan Associates Bowen runs this Shirley-based home remodeling company that last year began installing photovoltaic panels. While working in the residential remodeling business for more than 30 years, Bowen began doing energy conservation and green building. Although...
While many people winced when the price of gas hit $4 in July, the big news for metal recyclers was that copper hit $4 a pound. Other metals also rocketed during the first six months of 2008. Aluminum hit $3,100 a metric ton and steel topped $300 a gross ton,...
Today's game: at Dallas FACEOFF: 6 p.m. at American Airlines Center -- TV/RADIO: CSNBA; 98.5-FM -- HEAD TO HEAD: The Sharks won both games played to this point, a 2-1 squeaker at HP Pavilion on Nov. 8 and...
Warehouse Project Closing Party Thur Dubfire Deep Dish serves up tough house, Claude Von Stroke right showcases his wonky, bleepy house, and Riton presents his throbbing take on new wave, prog rock and punk funk. Warehouse Project, Manchester Subculture Wed Sophisticated...
While chain store pharmacies crop up on corners throughout Long Island, independently owned pharmacies are quietly closing at a rate of about two per month. A whopping 160 pharmacies closed statewide this year, leaving areas, such as Albany, without any independently owned stores. Twenty-seven closed on Long...
Stony Brook University Hospital Historians may look back on 2008 as a year when the health of the economy emerged as a pivotal issue. But health care itself also remained a major concern nationwide and on Long Island. Legislators disagreed about solutions, but the consensus was that...
NEW FILMS FRIDAY I'VE LOVED YOU FOR SO LONG — ** 1/2 — We're just not that enthralled by this French import's "mystery." But the cast bails the film out, especially its star, Kristin Scott Thomas. French with subtitles, running time: 115 minutes, PG-13 (profanity, vulgarity, slurs,...
MONTREAL, Dec. 18 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- CN (TSX: CNR) will issue its fourth-quarter and year-end 2008 financial and operating results on Jan. 22, 2009, shortly after 4 p.m. Eastern time ET. CN's senior officers will review the results and the railway's outlook in a conference call/webcast that afternoon starting...
For thousands of Long Islanders, home ownership signified the achievement of the American dream. Levittown earned the title of the nation's first suburb, with its cookie-cutter, single-family homes built on small lots. Lately, area communities are building a different version of the dream as Long Island begins...
Lawrence Feldman, a real estate attorney and partner at Uniondale law firm Farrell Fritz, isn't afraid of a fight. With Long Island's history of not-in-my-backyard reactions to many proposals, he expects community resistance to large projects. But lately, Feldman is finding a shift in attitude toward projects, such as Glen...
A sprawling industrial town stands where 'Les Coquelicots' once grew. John Lichfield returns to the scenes that inspired Monet - and finds a country rediscovering its past In 1871, a rebellious young French painter returned from exile in London and set up home in the ancient,...
Additional 18.75 Per Cent Interest of Offshore Gryphon Marin License Area CALGARY, Canada, December 12 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Addax Petroleum Corporation ("Addax Petroleum" or the "Corporation") (TSX:AXC and LSE:AXC), today announced that it has acquired an additional 18.75 per cent interest in the Gryphon Marin license area bringing...
Additional 18.75 per cent interest of offshore Gryphon Marin license area CALGARY, Dec. 12 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Addax Petroleum Corporation ("Addax Petroleum" or the "Corporation") (TSX:AXC and LSE:AXC), today announced that it has acquired an additional 18.75 per cent interest in the Gryphon Marin license area bringing its...
When Congress approved a $700 billion bailout for troubled banks, many people wondered when their own personal bailout might come. Your bailout - or part of it - might already be here. After the initial bank bailout bill ran into bitter opposition, about 300 provisions, often related to taxes, were...
PARIS -- At the end of its 14th edition, held from 19 to 21 November in Cannes, MAPIC, the International Market for Retail Real Estate welcomed 9,550 participants from 65 countries, confirming the event's status as the world's preferred international rendezvous for retail real estate professionals. Claude Dion,...
The Supima Association had a problem with its cotton. The Phoenix- based trade group suspected certain scofflaws of mixing in inferior threads with the premium Supima cotton, which, when pure, is 50 percent stronger than the regular fluffy white stuff. The answer was in the cotton's genes....
