Business and professional notes Post-Bulletin Tweet 9/4/2010 5:04:06 AM People's Cooperative Services announces changes Don Hillman has been named vice president of planning and support at People's Cooperative Services. Hillman has worked in member services at People's since 1988, most recently as director. âEuro¨Michelle Olson has been named...
New Members Named to SJU Board of Regents Insurance Newsnet COLLEGEVILLE, Minn., Sept. 3 -- The College of St. Benedict/St. John's University issued the following news release: Saint John's University recently named Br. Dennis Beach, OSB; Marilou Eldred; Thomas Nicol; William O'Connell; the Rev. Michael Patella, OSB; Jose Peris; and William Schubert to its...
Murray stays the course at US Open Al Jazeera Andy Murray battled Hurricane Earl and a Jamaican Dustin Brown to reach the third round of the US Open. The British fourth seed was expected to sweep past the unconventional Brown with little or no effort, and in the end he did so 7-5, 6-3, 6-0 on Friday. But he was left scratching his head at...
Court stops polls at Canada's oldest Sikh temple Deccan Herald Vancouver, Sep 4 (IANS): Saturday, September 04, 2010 --> The cancellation of elections to North America's oldest Sikh temple, the Ross Street Gurdwara, by a court this week has opened divisions between moderates and hardliners in the local Sikh community. Vancouver and its surrounding areas in...
San Francisco's plan for hosting America's Cup San Fransisco Chronicle 0 0 Images View Larger Images San Francisco's conjoined piers at the foot of Bryant Street are essentially a concrete slab on crumbling pilings fit for little more than a parking lot. But if city officials are successful in their plan to host the next America's Cup, the drab Piers 30-32 would be...
Fast start for Rory in Boston Sky Sports Zach Johnson and Jason Day share the lead after the opening day of the Deutsche Bank Championship, but Rory McIlroy sits just one shot off the early pacesetters. Johnson and Day both produced opening rounds of 64 to top the leaderboard in Boston on a day when the effects of Hurricane Earl produced a...
Venture capital firms clean up on 3Par deal San Fransisco Chronicle 0 0 Get Quote Symbol Lookup Patience paid off for the venture capitalists who backed Fremont data-storage supplier 3Par Inc. 3Par's earliest and biggest venture investors - San Mateo-based Worldview Technology Partners, and Menlo Ventures and Mayfield Fund, both of Menlo Park - reaped a combined $560 million windfall by holding onto shares acquired near the time of the company's initial public offering in 2007....
Mystery flyer urges Muni driver sickout San Fransisco Chronicle 0 0 Lacy Atkins / The Chronicle People walk past the North Beach Branch San Francisco Library, Thursday Sept. 10, 2009, in San Francisco, Calif. The library is slated for demolition, but some folks want it to become a landmark instead. Images View Larger Images A flyer is being circulated among Muni operators calling for them to participate in a sickout later this month. Unclear is how widely the flyer was...
Latest gulf oil-rig fire spurs calls to extend ban on deepwater drilling Denver Post Related ArticlesSep 3:Oil platform explodes in gulf; crew rescuedSep 2:Mariner Energy shares fall after platform blastOil platform catches fire in Gulf; workers OK WASHINGTON — What now for the gulf? News of another oil-rig fire this week in the Gulf of Mexico, so soon after the BP oil spill, has set off a wave of anxiety along the Gulf Coast and prompted calls for the government to extend its six-month ban on...
Name-brand: Furniture design by the famous Denver Post Esquire Home targets the chic guy. The chair (starting at $995) and matching sofa ($3,000) are called Whiskey Collins. The tartan ottoman ($995) is called the Gimlet. (Esquire Home) For many a fashionista, logo love equates to "Gotta have it." For whatever reason, sporting the initials or a signature on a pair of sunglasses, a handbag or a shirt feels good. But does that translate to furnishings for the home?...
Unemployment inched up in August Philadelphia Daily News By Jane M. Von Bergen Inquirer Staff Writer The nation's unemployment rate inched up to 9.6 percent in August as public and private employers, for the third straight month, laid off more people than they hired, the Department of Labor reported Friday. Temporary workers hired by the federal government for the 2010 Census continue to skew the statistics, being responsible for a few months of job growth in the spring,...
Chiefs re-sign safety Jarrad Page and cut seven others The Examiner The Kansas City Chiefs announced late Friday evening that holdout safety Jarrad Page had signed his restricted free agent tender contract and will report to the team soon. The team also revealed seven players cut from the squad to try and get down to the NFL-mandated roster size of 53 players. The team released: TE Leroy Banks, WR Rich Gunnell, G/C Lemuel Jeanpierre, T/G Ikechuku Ndukwe, CB Mike Richardson, LB John...
