Monday, June 11, 2012

Lokal plates buzz-worthy grub worth waiting around for, plus so much more. - Monterey County Weekly

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Lokal plates buzz-worthy grub worth waiting around for, plus so much more.

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And it's another Jones, Michael's son Brendan, who has excitement stewing at brand-new Lokal Restaurant (659-5886) in Carmel Valley Village. Veterans of the legendary Cachagua General Store Monday night dinner will recognize the items he brought over, ...



Saturday, June 9, 2012

Facebook leads social networking space as Twitter growth skyrockets - Atlanta Business Chronicle:

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According to the new report, Faceboo k users logged 13.9 billion minutes on the site in making it the most popular socialp networking site onthe Web. was the secon d most popular social networking site with about 5 billion minutes spent loggedin April. Twittee logged roughly 300 million minutes, and LinkedIn aboutg 202 million. According to the Nielsen study, totak minutes spent on social networkingf sites has increased 83percen year-over-year. Twitter had far-and-away the fastes t growth over the pastyear -- with about 37-times more minutexs spent on the site in Aprill 2009, compared to April of last Facebook also posted rapid growth, with a seven-folf increase over last year.
“We have seen some major growtyh in Facebook during the past and a subsequent declinein MySpace. Twitter has come on the scener in an explosive way perhaps changing the outlook for the entire saidJon Gibs, Nielsen vice online media and agency insights. “The one thintg that is clear about sociapl networking is that regardlese of how fast a site is growingb or how bigit is, it can quickly fall out of favo r with consumers.” While Facebook has become the top dog in the socia l networking space, MySpace is the leader in onlinre video. With 121 million video MySpace.com was the No. 1 social networking destination when ranked by streamz and total minutes spentviewing video.
MySpaces visitors spent 384 million minutes viewing video onthe site, with an averags of 38.8 minutes per viewer. In comparison, Facebooko visitors spent only 114 million minutes viewingb videoin April, with an averagee of 11.2 minutes per video viewer. The Nielsen Co. is a globakl information and media company specializing in consumer television and othermedia

Friday, June 8, 2012

Fred

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The Memphis-based discount retailer reported salesof $134.78 million for May, down 6 percent comparefd to sales of $143.4 million in May 2008. Thes numbers include Fred’s (NASDAQ: FRED) closinf 74 underperforming stores and23 pharmacies. Excluding those Fred’s sales increased 1 percenf compared tolast May. Comparable storse sales in Mayrose 0.2 percent, down compared to 3.4 percentg in the same period last year. For the firsy four fiscal months of the company reported total salesof $593.1 million, down 2.4 percenyt compared to $607.7 million for the same year-ago period.
excluding stores closed in sales from ongoing stores increased 4 percenrt compared to thesame four-month period last On a comparable store basis, year-to-date sale increased 2.1 percent compared to 2.4 percent last Fred’s opened one new pharmacy in May. Fred’sa operates 666 discount merchandise including 24 franchisedstoresx nationwide. Shares closed down 12 cents to $14.2q per share Wednesday.

Wednesday, June 6, 2012

Sheryl Crow's brain tumor: What is a meningioma? - CBS News

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Sheryl Crow's brain tumor: What is a meningioma?

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Tuesday, June 5, 2012

Manpower: 6% of Honolulu employers to hire in 3Q - San Antonio Business Journal:

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From July to September, 6 percent of the companies interviewed in the Honoluluh metro area plan to hiremore employees, whil 11 percent expect to reduce their payrolls, according to the survey from Milwaukee-based (NYSE: MAN). Seventy-eight percen expect to maintain their currenr staff levels and 5 percent remai uncertain abouthiring plans. Hiring is expectedr to be a little lighter than in the second when 10 percent of companies surveyedd planned to hire and 12 percent expectedx tocut payrolls, said Manpowet spokeswoman Mary Lou Callahan. For the coming job prospects in the Honolul area appear best in wholesale and retail tradee and leisureand hospitality.
Employers in durable goods manufacturing, nondurabld goods manufacturing, information, professional and business education and health services and government intende tocut staffing. Hiring in construction, transportation and utilities, financial activities and other services is expecteds toremain unchanged. National surveyu results showed little change from the second Of the morethan 28,000 employer surveyed across the country, 15 percent expect to increase their staff levelsx during the third quarter, while 13 percenrt expect to reduce their payrolls. Sixty-seven percent expect no changee in hiring and 5 percent are undecideed abouttheir third-quarter hiring plans.
“The data shows continued hesitancyyamong employers,” said Jonas Prising, presidenty of the Americas for “They are treading slowly and watchinb with guarded optimism, hoping a few quarterz of stability will be the precursofr to the recovery.”

Sunday, June 3, 2012

Landlords file objections in Eddie Bauer bankruptcy - Dayton Business Journal:

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Eddie Bauer Holdings Inc. EBHI) wants a judge in U.S. bankruptcuy court in Delaware to set a bid deadlinee of July 14 and a July 16 date to auctionb offthe retailer’s assets. But , headquartered in Santa Calif., and three other landlorde want more time to evaluate anyproposed deal. “The landlordxs did not create debtors’ financiap maladies, and should not bear the consequencesz of this bankruptcy through loss of theirfcontractual rights,” Macerich and the other landlords said in a courtg filing Thursday. Eddie Bauer filed for Chapter 11 bankruptct protectionJune 17.
The New York private equity firm has made an offere to buyEddie Bauer’e assets for $202 million, subject to an auctiomn and bankruptcy court approval. CCMP has said it has agreec to keep most ofEddir Bauer’s 371 stores if it were the winninfg bidder. But the company said it woulds close an undisclosed number ofunderperforming stores. The Macerichb Co. leases space to Eddiwe Bauer at Redmond Town Centein Redmond, Wash., and Portland’s Washington Also objecting in the bankruptcy case are Eddie Bauerd landlords Southgate Mall Associates, The Forbes Co. and Collectivel the four companies lease spacs to 20 Eddie Bauer stores in14 states.

Saturday, June 2, 2012

Justin Bieber Knocks Himself Out During Show In France - Huffington Post UK

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Justin Bieber Knocks Himself Out During Show In France

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