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- PIER Joins GSA Schedule - immixGroup
- BELLINGHAM, Wash. -- PIER Systems is pleased to announce that it has joined immixGroup's GSA IT Schedule 70 under Contract # GS-35F-0330J. With GSA approval, PIER is providing access to federal and state agencies to procure its industry-leading technology to get the right information, to the right people, right...
- Research articles 2008-09-17
- Tide turns for English pier as cash-strapped Britons stay home
- BRIGHTON, England AFP — With colourful arcades, dizzing rides and rich-smelling food stalls, the English pier has long been a key part of a British seaside holiday -- but this summer could be its busiest for years. Piers like those in Weston-Super-Mare -- which largely burnt down Monday --...
- Research articles 2008-07-28
- Inferno guts historic Brithsh pier
- WESTON-SUPER-MARE AFP — An inferno laid waste Monday to the historic pier at Weston-super-Mare on the northern Somerset coast, dealing a further hammer blow to the seaside town's economy. About 30 firefighters were called in to fight the massive blaze, which broke out at around 6:45 am on the...
- Research articles 2008-07-28
- Canine unit helps wardens catch poachers, mussels
- A hound dog named Cooper swiveled his head and furiously sniffed a boat in search of a new California public enemy: the quagga mussel. "Come on, boy," called out his handler, Roxanne Bowers, a state fish and game warden. The 62-pound, 2-year-old German shorthair...
- Research articles 2008-03-13
- Patrolling pooch pounces on poachers
- A hound dog named Cooper swiveled his head and furiously sniffed a boat in search of a new California public enemy: the quagga mussel. "Come on, boy," called out his handler, Roxanne Bowers, a state fish and game warden. The 62-pound, 2-year-old German shorthair...
- Research articles 2008-03-04
- Bubba Gump Shrimp Co. Undertakes a Process to Raise Capital
- SAN CLEMENTE, Calif. -- Bubba Gump Shrimp Co., an operator of high-volume seafood restaurants in the U.S. and select international markets, today announced that the Board of Directors has retained Cowen & Company, LLC, to raise equity capital for accelerated unit expansion. According to Scott Barnett, president and CEO, "Bubba...
- Research articles 2007-01-08
- Off-balance-sheet financing & operating leases: impact on lessee financial ratios
- A seemingly tiny change in lease terms can have a dramatic effect on a lease's classification and its resulting financial ratios. This article follows up on a 1991 study and shows the effects of "constructive capitalization" of operating leases. Firms have increasingly used operating leases as a source of off-balance-sheet...
- Research articles 2006-12-01
- PCA's Tenth Biennial Bridge Awards
- The Portland Cement Association PCA has named 10 winners in its Tenth Biennial Bridge Awards Competition. The awards recognize excellence in design and construction of concrete bridges. Roads and Bridges magazine was a co-sponsor of this year's competition, and the winners were recognized at ACI's Fall Convention in Denver, CO....
- Research articles 2006-12-01
- Fumo: 'I'm not afraid' of DoDo
- State Sen. Vincent Fumo was fuming yesterday about testimony by Eli Karetny, a defendant now on the witness stand in Common Pleas Court testifying about the May 18, 2000, collapse of Pier 34. Karetny's account of a 1996 meeting between Fumo and Dorrance "DoDo" Hamilton, one of Forbes' 400's richest...
- Research articles 2006-10-30
- Harlem experiencing a restaurant renaissance
- New York -- With abandoned warehouses scattered throughout and the Riverside Drive viaduct suspended above, a multiblock area along 12th Avenue here in West Harlem hardly seems like the home of a trendy new restaurant row. Nevertheless, restaurateurs are hoping that ongoing development plans will help turn this Upper...
- Research articles 2006-09-18
- Chase Announces Credit Card Alliance With Pier 1 Imports; Chase to issue private label credit cards on behalf of Pier 1
- WILMINGTON, Del. -- JPMorgan Chase (NYSE:JPM) announced today a strategic alliance with Pier 1 Imports, Inc. to enhance Pier 1's credit card operations. As part of the alliance, Chase will purchase for cash nearly one million active private label credit card accounts with outstandings of approximately $140 million. The transaction...
- Research articles 2006-08-30
- Monica Yant Kinney | Hey, big spender! Pizza at Tiffany's
- For more than a year, I've had a note to self in my Palm Pilot to "check on status of Tiffany @ A.C." Honestly, I kind of hoped the deal would die. If/when the famed jeweler's beautiful blue boxes started popping up in Atlantic City, I'd have to stop...
- Research articles 2006-06-27
- Pseudo-dynamic testing of unreinforced masonry building with flexible diaphragm and comparison with existing procedures.
- Abstract A full-scale one-story unreinforced brick masonry specimen having a wood diaphragm was subjected to earthquake excitations using pseudo-dynamic testing. The specimen was designed to better understand the flexible-floor/rigid-wall interaction, the impact of wall continuity at the building corners and the effect of...
- Research articles 2006-05-01
- Army Corps of Engineers
- Thousands of Christmas trees are getting a second life thanks to the Army Corps of Engineers, which is turning the stripped and discarded trees into reefs for freshwater fish, according to Reuters News Service. The Corps drills holes in the tree trunks and wires a few trees to a concrete...
- Research articles 2006-03-22
- Aviation Week & Space Technology Names Finmeccanica's Pier Francesco Guarguaglini Person of the Year.
- NEW YORK, January 3 /PRNewswire/ -- Aviation Week & Space Technology has named Finmeccanica Chairman and CEO Pier Francesco Guarguaglini Person of the Year in its January 2 issue. It is the first such honor in the magazine's 89-year history to recognize the...
- Research articles 2006-01-03
- Changes coming to building codes, but nothing certain, yet
- OCEAN SPRINGS - Donovan Scruggs, director of community development and planning for Ocean Springs, said it isn't likely that people are going to be required to build to a level where they wouldn't have received any damage from Hurricane Katrina. "You can't make people construct on 50-foot pilings," Scruggs...
- Research articles 2005-09-19
- Sidney Lanier Bridge: Brunswick, Georgia
- Traversing the Brunswick River, the new 2500-foot-long Sidney Lanier Bridge is the longest and tallest cable-stayed bridge in Georgia. T.Y. Lin International designed the concrete alternative, which replaces a 1956 lift-span bridge. Jointly funded by the United States Coast Guard and the Georgia Department of Transportation, the new bridge represents...
- Research articles 2005-09-01
- NEWS IN BRIEF.(Crittendon's Cool Cottons, Crit Rawlings)(Tiffany & Co.)(Weatherproof Garment Co., Sutton Creations)(Brief Article)
- Crittendon's Cool Cottons is the new name of Crit Rawlings' trouser company, which will add softly constructed jackets to its mix of Made-in-China pants for spring '06. The former Oxxford Clothes executive started the company last year and, after testing several cottons at a few specialty...
- Research articles 2005-06-13
- Tiffany to Open Store in Atlantic City, New Jersey
- NEW YORK -- Tiffany & Co. (NYSE: TIF) today announced plans to open a store in Atlantic City, New Jersey, in 2006. The approximately 3,000 gross-square-foot store will be situated in The Pier at Caesars, a new retail and entertainment center developed by Gordon Group Holdings, LLC, and located adjacent...
- Research articles 2005-06-01
- GETTING MOORE; PRESIDENT AND CEO JOE MOORE REFLECTS ON HIS 6-YEAR TENURE AS FFANY'S HEAD HONCHO AND PREVIEWS WHAT'S AHEAD FOR THE 25-YEAR-OLD ORGANIZATION.(Interview)
- Byline: Katie Abel Joe Moore has held top positions at several major fashion firms, including Charles Jourdan, Saks Fifth Avenue and Neiman Marcus. But it wasn't until he landed at FFANY in 1999 that he found the perfect opportunity. ...
- Research articles 2005-05-09
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