Karen had been in the fireplace business for nearly 25 years, including more than 10 at the Victorian Fireplace Shop, but she felt like the business was not getting anywhere. Karen had sold more than ever, but there was no money in the bank. SCORE counselor Steve Shapiro, an accountant,...
Few retailers are looking at 2008 as a good year for growth, but there's one area where expansion efforts could pay off: online sales. The State of Retailing Online 2008: Marketing Report -- released last week at the Shop.org Online Marketing Workshop in Scottsdale, AZ -- predicts a 17 percent...
Retailers and manufacturers will soon be able to chart the effectiveness of in-store promotions the same way Nielsen rates TV shows, box-office results, and online ads. Using in-store cameras, infrared sensors, and human "counters," a project called P.R.I.S.M. (Pioneering Research for In-Store Metrics) will create the first global metric for...
I can tell a new state tax year has begun. The flat tax rules. I recently discovered this the hard way. With no change in income, the state flat-tax deduction from my pay is now $5 a paycheck more. Over a total of 26 paychecks, that will make $130 more...
MAMMA MIA! (PG, Phyllida Lloyd, 108mins) NATIONWIDE **** So, if you're being really picky, Pierce Brosnan is miscast, and some of the scenes look like they are there solely as a vehicle for Abba's wonderful music, but who cares? I defy you to find a more uplifting,...
The 2008 Evangelical Book of the Year isn't a book at all. For the first time in the awards' 30-year history, top honors go to an audio Bible: The Word of Promise, a 21-hour New Testament read by performers including Jim Caviezel as Jesus, the role he played...
LOS ANGELES -- Timothy F. Brick, chairman of the board of directors of the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, issues the following statement regarding the water legislation package advanced today by state Senate President Pro Tem Don Perata and Assembly Speaker Karen Bass: "With billions of dollars...
Grab an easy chair and a glass of iced tea, and pick up the beach read of the summer. This page-turner has it all: sex, cash, power, politics, motorcycles, sushi and a former Miss Rain Day with decidedly creative research skills, all set in multiple locations including the Sodom on...
GAZA CITY AFP — Former British premier Tony Blair, the Middle East peace quartet's envoy, will travel to the Gaza Strip for the first time on Tuesday to discuss humanitarian activities there, a UN official said. "Unless plans change, Tony Blair will come to Gaza tomorrow to see...
Molecular Products Background Augments Company's Product Focus REDMOND, Wash. -- Micronics, Inc., a leading developer of rapid, molecular diagnostics for near patient, point of care detection of infectious diseases, today announced that it has named Larry Hambleton as its Vice President of Sales and Marketing. "Larry...
She & Him Volume One DOMINO Zooey Deschanel is one of those Hollywood actresses who drifts in and out of one's consciousness - she plays Trillian in 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy' - but her musical debut is a record you won't forget in a hurry....
Karen Carpenter, get out of my head. Right now, I am aboard a polar expedition vessel just 10 degrees from the North Pole. I'm on top of the world, looking down on creation, and the only tune that's whizzing around my brain is The Carpenters' 1973 hit, "Top of the...
The Hold Steady: Stay Positive Rough Trade 10.99 The flesh is weak but the spirit is strong on the Hold Steady's fourth album. Stay Positive sounds like the title implies, but profoundly so, its E Street Band-ish exuberance anchored in built- to-last lyrics. As ever, Craig Finn...
In her final year as dean at the University of Maryland School of Law, Karen H. Rothenberg will also take on another role -- chair of the Maryland Stem Cell Research Commission. The commission announced Thursday that Rothenberg will serve as its second chair since its inception...
By Trista Freed THE CAPITAL-JOURNAL A recent survey for the city gives Topeka officials solid numbers and not just speculation to go on in making decisions, a project manager with the company that conducted the survey said Wednesday. Karen Falk, of...
By Trista Freed THE CAPITAL-JOURNAL A recent survey for the city gives Topeka officials solid numbers and not just speculation to go on in making decisions, a project manager with the company that conducted the survey said Wednesday. Karen Falk, of...
Remember the Khian Sea? The cargo ship, dubbed the Flying Dutchman of Debris, spent 14 months in the 1980s sailing the globe with 14,000 tons of Philadelphia's toxic incinerator dust in search of a landfill. Know what's like the Khian Sea? Philadelphia's proposed casinos. The big boxes of slots keep...
I wonder if people realize how they come across when they enter a business yakking on their cell phones. They proceed to the front counter where they hold up their index finger in the universal "wait" position. They are so important the people behind them must wait. They are completely...
BALTIMORE -- BioMarker Strategies, a Baltimore-based cancer diagnostics and medical device company, has named Karen Olson as its new Chief Executive Officer. Olson is the former president and CEO of Adhesives Research, a $115 million multinational specialty chemical and drug delivery company which was the first company to successfully develop...
