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The panel winds up giving the project less money for a shorter time than requested. Oil City Council got its collective dander up about a proposed grant resource center pegged for the Franklin Library at a work session Monday and voted to provide less money for a shorter time than what the center organizers had envisioned. "My concern was that Oil City was not brought in at the very beginning and we were informed pretty much after everything was decided," sniffed Mayor Sonja Hawkins. Her comments related to a request for $2,000 each year for five years to help fund the newly established Venango County Grant Resource Center. The group, which will be headquartered at the Franklin Library, aims to assist non-profit agencies and municipalities in applying for federal, state and charitable trust monies.
Nervous China sweats on Yao injury
This is like a lightning bolt," wrote a blogger on the popular Chinese-language portal sina.com. "We now all have to hope that he can be fully recovered before the Olympics."
Some were pessimistic that he would be match fit, even if his injury healed in time to lead the Chinese team.
"Even if he comes back, he'll have a month, at most, to get ready and that's not enough," wrote a web user on sohu.com, another Chinese portal.
Yao said in September that China's Olympic medal hopes looked dim unless the team shaped up and improved on poor form last year.
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Permits, Contractors Secured for Future IKEA Charlotte
CONSHOHOCKEN, Pa. - (Business Wire) IKEA, the world’s leading home furnishings retailer, today said key pre-construction milestones are progressing on schedule for its store opening Spring 2009 in Charlotte, NC. Until IKEA Charlotte opens in Spring 2009 as the 36th IKEA store in the United States, customers can shop at southeastern stores in Atlanta, GA; Orlando, FL (which opened November 2007); Sunrise, FL (which opened October 2007); Woodbridge, VA; or at www.IKEA-USA.com. IKEA has hired Bovis Lend Lease, Inc. of Charlotte as the construction management firm responsible for construction of the store's physical structure and surrounding site work. Crescent Retail, a division of Crescent Resources, LLC of Charlotte, is the master land developer responsible for grading, utilities, major road work, and other infrastructure.
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I really like Fred Thompson as a candidate, and at times he does well in debates. Tonight, for example, he ran rings around Huckabee on the legal ramifications of closing Gitmo and bringing the detainees here. But at other times Thompson seemed a bit lackluster. He still hasn't solved his "rambling" problem. Rudy Giuliani did well, as he almost always does, but didn't dominate as he occasionally does. I'd probably award him second place on the night. ADVANTAGE OBAMA By Paul Mirengoff There are a bunch of new poll results from New Hampshire, all of which were taken prior to yesterday's debates. On the Democratic side nearly every poll puts Obama ahead of Clinton. Moreover, a Rasmussen poll with a sample size of 1,200 (more than twice the size of any others) has Clinton trailing by 39-27.
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President Bush was meeting with the Fed chairman, Ben Bernanke, and the treasury secretary, Hank Paulson, Friday to discuss ways of boosting the economy. A breakdown of Friday's official U.S. data showed that during December, manufacturing industries shed 31,000 jobs and construction businesses cut another 49,000. There were 31,000 more government jobs created and 44,000 were added in education and health services, but retail industries cut more than 24,000 jobs. Weekly hours of work were unchanged at 33.8 in December but overtime hours dropped to 3.9 from 4.1 in November. Intellpuke: You can read this article by Guardian Unlimited staff writer Larry Elliott in context here: www.guardian.co.uk/business/2008/jan/04/economics.useconomy
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Giving back: THAW fund-raiser
THE CAUSE: THAW is a nonprofit agency that provides low-income people with emergency energy assistance and advocates for long-term solutions to energy issues. Charity Navigator, which evaluates the nation's largest charitable organizations, has given THAW its highest rating for three years in a row. THAW's Web site says 89% of its donations go directly to help needy people. THE TACTICS: Several fund-raising efforts took place this weekend, including: On Friday, Compuware Corp. employees took turns running and walking half-hour and hour-long shifts on four treadmills or riding a stationary bicycle in the company's wellness center. Also, employees from companies located in the Renaissance Center joined the first-ever RenCen YMCA Treadmill Challenge on Friday. And the fifth annual WWJ Newsradio 950 Winter Survival Radiothon for THAW was broadcast live from the Boll Family YMCA downtown from 5 a.m.
Do-it-yourself medical records put to the test
In the end they will pay some company to develop what the million dollar study concluded...........maybe. If there is a need, and there is money to be made, I guarantee the free market will find it and sell it. There are plenty of better ways to spend our money especially when we are facing cuts in programs people need and rely on. How can we create new programs if we can't even fund the ones we have because we're wasting it on stupid studies. .
Fears for US economy as stagflation risks grow
Fears that the United States faces a period of stagflation grew as a slug of fresh data suggested the economy continues to slow as the cost of living rises. The latest news and analysis of the UK and world economyUS consumer confidence slumped to its lowest level in five years as grim news on house prices added further to the woes of the construction sector. .
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