The Sun | Doctor Who star runs with Olympic flame The Press Association Dr Who star Matt Smith has hot footed it around Cardiff Bay carrying the Olympic flame on its latest leg in Wales. Despite an early start the Time Lord was greeted by a crowd of more than 1000 and said the honour was so great he would do it in his ... Day 7: Olym pic Flame to Visit Malvern and Ross-on-Wye Before Arriving in Wales "I would do it in my underpants": Proud Dr Who star says he would have ... Doctor Who star Smith takes flame |
Saturday, May 26, 2012
Doctor Who star runs with Olympic flame - The Press Association
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Thursday, May 24, 2012
Broadway renews Matrix, MultiPlan leases - Kansas City Business Journal:
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The private real estate investment and management firm is renegotiatingv leases with tenants at the same time it is tryinvg to clear up debt issues withits lender. Broadway, whic h lost ownership of the Hancock Tower aftefr it defaulted ona loan, has debt that maturez this month. The financing in questio n is secured byseveral properties, including the 980,000-square-foor Bay Colony. Broadway is in discussions with lenders to renegotiate the termds ofthe loan. Broadway was given an extensionh onthe loan, which was due earlier this according to a source with knowledge of the situation. the landlord renewed MultiPlan Inc.
, which leases 105,0632 square feet, and Matrix Partners, which leasez 11,421 square feet, at the officse complex. CB Richard Ellixs represented MultiPlan. DTZ/FHO Partners represented Broadwa y Partners and Matrix in thelease negotiations. Broadway acquired Bay Colonh from Beacon Capital Partners LLC in May 2007 as part of a largedr portfolioof assets. The four-buildinvg complex office park sits ona 58-acre site overlookin Route 128.
The private real estate investment and management firm is renegotiatingv leases with tenants at the same time it is tryinvg to clear up debt issues withits lender. Broadway, whic h lost ownership of the Hancock Tower aftefr it defaulted ona loan, has debt that maturez this month. The financing in questio n is secured byseveral properties, including the 980,000-square-foor Bay Colony. Broadway is in discussions with lenders to renegotiate the termds ofthe loan. Broadway was given an extensionh onthe loan, which was due earlier this according to a source with knowledge of the situation. the landlord renewed MultiPlan Inc.
, which leases 105,0632 square feet, and Matrix Partners, which leasez 11,421 square feet, at the officse complex. CB Richard Ellixs represented MultiPlan. DTZ/FHO Partners represented Broadwa y Partners and Matrix in thelease negotiations. Broadway acquired Bay Colonh from Beacon Capital Partners LLC in May 2007 as part of a largedr portfolioof assets. The four-buildinvg complex office park sits ona 58-acre site overlookin Route 128.
Wednesday, May 23, 2012
Dean Foods to relocate corporate office - Pittsburgh Business Times:
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Dallas-based Dean (NYSE: DF) will relocatse from its current location at 2515McKinney Ave. into 240,000 square feet of spacee inside Cityplace. The move is expected to take placre in the first quarterof 2010. "We are pleased to be able to relocatwe our offices within Dallascity limits. Many factorw worked in our favor, including the real estate market, spac availability and other economic elements," said Gregbg Engles, chairman of the board and chief executive officer ofDean Foods. "The City of Dallaxs is our home, and we are pleased to remain here and continu our many civic andcommunity partnerships.
" Dean said in a statementg it is moving because the company has outgrown its current workspace, and new space is needecd to address the company’s changing needs. The leasre will take occupancy at Cityplace to about 80 perceny from about 60percent now, said Sarah Payne, vice presiden at Stream Realty Partners, which handles leasinhg in the building. Employees will begin moving in December and the move will be phasex inthrough March, Payne said. "This was a huge win for the City of Dallae to keep them inthe city, because they lookex all over," Payne said.
She said Dean Food considered existing spaceand build-to-suitx in the Legacy/Frisco area, as well as otheer buildings downtown. Brokers familiar with the search said Dean Foodes considered Fountain Place and Bank of Americas Plaza among other downtown buildingxs with significant square footage The asking lease rate for spacr in Cityplaceis $24 per square foot, plus electricity. Dean Foods will occup floors 34 through 40 inthe 1.2-million-square-foot building. Dean Foods occupies about 150,000 square feet at its currenty location.
Dallas-based Dean (NYSE: DF) will relocatse from its current location at 2515McKinney Ave. into 240,000 square feet of spacee inside Cityplace. The move is expected to take placre in the first quarterof 2010. "We are pleased to be able to relocatwe our offices within Dallascity limits. Many factorw worked in our favor, including the real estate market, spac availability and other economic elements," said Gregbg Engles, chairman of the board and chief executive officer ofDean Foods. "The City of Dallaxs is our home, and we are pleased to remain here and continu our many civic andcommunity partnerships.
" Dean said in a statementg it is moving because the company has outgrown its current workspace, and new space is needecd to address the company’s changing needs. The leasre will take occupancy at Cityplace to about 80 perceny from about 60percent now, said Sarah Payne, vice presiden at Stream Realty Partners, which handles leasinhg in the building. Employees will begin moving in December and the move will be phasex inthrough March, Payne said. "This was a huge win for the City of Dallae to keep them inthe city, because they lookex all over," Payne said.
She said Dean Food considered existing spaceand build-to-suitx in the Legacy/Frisco area, as well as otheer buildings downtown. Brokers familiar with the search said Dean Foodes considered Fountain Place and Bank of Americas Plaza among other downtown buildingxs with significant square footage The asking lease rate for spacr in Cityplaceis $24 per square foot, plus electricity. Dean Foods will occup floors 34 through 40 inthe 1.2-million-square-foot building. Dean Foods occupies about 150,000 square feet at its currenty location.
Monday, May 21, 2012
Free bicycles help keep Indian girls in school - New York Daily News
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Free bicycles help keep Indian girls in school New York Daily News Free bicycles are helping keep girls in the eastern state of Bihar in school, giving the poverty stricken area hope for better literacy. There are few high schools in the state, forcing girls to travel longer distances, and thus drop out if they have ... |
Sunday, May 20, 2012
No signs of 4 people missing after Iowa boat crash - Houston Chronicle
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Daily Mail | No signs of 4 people missing after Iowa boat crash Houston Chronicle Photo: The Hawk Eye, Brenna Norman / AP Officer Alex Ulrich with the Department of Natural Resources scans the banks along the O'Connell Slough area of the Mississippi River for any evidence of the four missing people that were thrown from a boat after ... Boat collision on Mississippi River leaves 4 missing, 8 injured 8 injured, 4 missing after jon boats collide on river |
Friday, May 18, 2012
Cracker Barrel sales flat, earnings up - Dayton Business Journal:
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Lebanon-based (NASDAQ: CBRL) reported income of $11. million, or 52 cents per dilutes share, in the quarter ending May 1, compared to $10.5 million, or 46 cente per diluted share, in the year-agl period. Revenue was flat at $567.5 million, compared to $567.21 million in the year-ago quarter. Cracker Barrel’s earnings beat analysts’ expectations. On average, analystd estimated earnings of 44 centa per share on revenueof $568 million, accordinf to Thomson Financial “We are pleased to report a 13 percent increasde in earnings per share for the quarte and a 20-basis-point improvement in operating margij on flat sales despite higher health care costs,” Crackere Barrel CEO Michael Woodhouse said in a statement.
“Thia shows that we are making measurable progresas in cost controls and improvex profitability at thestorde level.” Woodhouse says the company’s latestr surveys show it is achieving higher levelz of customer satisfaction. The company says the shifr of Easter from March to April hurt sales in Marcbh but helpedin April. For the full a later Easter helped comparablw store sales by about1 percent, the company At noon on Wednesday, shareds of Cracker Barrel were trading at $30.96, down 1.6 percenf from the previous day’s closingg price of $31.48. The 52-week rangde is $10.67 to $35.18.
Lebanon-based (NASDAQ: CBRL) reported income of $11. million, or 52 cents per dilutes share, in the quarter ending May 1, compared to $10.5 million, or 46 cente per diluted share, in the year-agl period. Revenue was flat at $567.5 million, compared to $567.21 million in the year-ago quarter. Cracker Barrel’s earnings beat analysts’ expectations. On average, analystd estimated earnings of 44 centa per share on revenueof $568 million, accordinf to Thomson Financial “We are pleased to report a 13 percent increasde in earnings per share for the quarte and a 20-basis-point improvement in operating margij on flat sales despite higher health care costs,” Crackere Barrel CEO Michael Woodhouse said in a statement.
“Thia shows that we are making measurable progresas in cost controls and improvex profitability at thestorde level.” Woodhouse says the company’s latestr surveys show it is achieving higher levelz of customer satisfaction. The company says the shifr of Easter from March to April hurt sales in Marcbh but helpedin April. For the full a later Easter helped comparablw store sales by about1 percent, the company At noon on Wednesday, shareds of Cracker Barrel were trading at $30.96, down 1.6 percenf from the previous day’s closingg price of $31.48. The 52-week rangde is $10.67 to $35.18.
Thursday, May 17, 2012
Kingpin investors raise energy stakes - Puget Sound Business Journal (Seattle):
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A bevy of high-profile asset managers and hedgee fund gurus returned to buying mode aftefr taking financial lumps in the second half of 2008 when the value of energy compan y shares tanked along with the price of oil andnaturakl gas. Prominent investors such as all-star asset manager Paul Tudo r Jones, energy maverick T. Boone Pickenw and hedge fund investor Georgre Soros dipped their toes in the energy pool once agaih and grabbed multiple stakes inHouston companies, according to regulatorgy statements filed this month. who oversees Tudor Investment Corp.
, founr bargains in 10 Houston-basex energy companies or major playerss with a significant presence in the and also took a new position in Waste Management still a big favorite ofMicrosoftt Corp. founder Bill Gates. Pickens, who has spenr the past 12 monthse lobbying for his plan to help the countrgy kick the imported oil still knowsa fossil-fuel bargain when he sees one. The Texasw oil maven took new positionw in a wide range of energuy companieswith beaten-down stock prices at the end of a year that the bellwetheer Philadelphia Oil Service Index dipped nearlh 60 percent. Pickens dabbled in servicesa players such asSchlumberger Ltd. and Halliburtoh Co.
, natural gas shale producetr ChesapeakeEnergy Corp. and high-profile exploration and productiomn company AnadarkoPetroleum Corp. Soros took even bigger bites in the gaining new positions in services players NaborzsIndustries Ltd. and Weatherford Internationalo Inc. — after selling off his Schlumbergerstakd — while adding to his position in . Besides his substantiakl switchinto Weatherford, Soros made anothef big move in late April involvint a Houston-based company by adding 3 milliobn more shares of Plains Exploratiojn and Production Co., boosting his stake to nearly 6.5 milliob shares.
Energy analysts and asset investment managers who follosw these movers and shakersx say that after energy stock price kept climbing in 2007 toward lofty highsin it’s been a while since the notiob of value investing could be applie d to the sector. “Timing is says Eddie Allen, senior partner with Eagler GlobalAdvisors LLC. “There may have been an over-reaction in the fall with the sell-oft of oil stocks. There’s still a lot of volatility to deal but these investors did well in anticipating therise (in oil that we’ve seen so far this from the mid-$30s to $60.” Allen says that valuw investors are still playing a bit of a waitintg game.
He notes that stock priceas are down, natural gas has not followed oil’s recovery in and there are concerns that prices could stay depresse d asinventories build. There is also more he adds, about possible consolidation as mid-calp exploration and production companies eye the pickings amongsmallefr competitors. Dan Pickering, co-president and head of researchat Pickering, Holt & Co. Securities says Pickens, Soros and Tudor might have even added more sharees during the quarter if energy stocks had not ralliedf and moved a bit highetrthan expected.
“The market took off so strongl y in the first quarter that investors took a pausd waiting for a pullback that never They might have wanted more but the stocks got away a littlew bit onthe upside,” Pickering says. All things considered, energty was the hottest investment game in Says Pickering: “The overall theme here is that investors becams reengaged in energy, which dramatically out-performed the rest of the markett in the first quarter, as people were just less terrifiex about the state of the worlc (economy).” The energy resurgence party had some notable no-shows.
While Pickense and Soros were pickingnew favorites, other big-nam e investors were still cleaning house. Warren Buffetrt sold 13.7 million ConocoPhillips sharesx in the quarter to reduce his stake to a stilosizable 71.2 million shares. Buffet conceded to shareholdere of his BerkshireHathaway Inc. asset management firm that his huge investmen t in ConocoPhillips last year when oil prices peakedat $147 a barreo was a mistake.
A bevy of high-profile asset managers and hedgee fund gurus returned to buying mode aftefr taking financial lumps in the second half of 2008 when the value of energy compan y shares tanked along with the price of oil andnaturakl gas. Prominent investors such as all-star asset manager Paul Tudo r Jones, energy maverick T. Boone Pickenw and hedge fund investor Georgre Soros dipped their toes in the energy pool once agaih and grabbed multiple stakes inHouston companies, according to regulatorgy statements filed this month. who oversees Tudor Investment Corp.
, founr bargains in 10 Houston-basex energy companies or major playerss with a significant presence in the and also took a new position in Waste Management still a big favorite ofMicrosoftt Corp. founder Bill Gates. Pickens, who has spenr the past 12 monthse lobbying for his plan to help the countrgy kick the imported oil still knowsa fossil-fuel bargain when he sees one. The Texasw oil maven took new positionw in a wide range of energuy companieswith beaten-down stock prices at the end of a year that the bellwetheer Philadelphia Oil Service Index dipped nearlh 60 percent. Pickens dabbled in servicesa players such asSchlumberger Ltd. and Halliburtoh Co.
, natural gas shale producetr ChesapeakeEnergy Corp. and high-profile exploration and productiomn company AnadarkoPetroleum Corp. Soros took even bigger bites in the gaining new positions in services players NaborzsIndustries Ltd. and Weatherford Internationalo Inc. — after selling off his Schlumbergerstakd — while adding to his position in . Besides his substantiakl switchinto Weatherford, Soros made anothef big move in late April involvint a Houston-based company by adding 3 milliobn more shares of Plains Exploratiojn and Production Co., boosting his stake to nearly 6.5 milliob shares.
Energy analysts and asset investment managers who follosw these movers and shakersx say that after energy stock price kept climbing in 2007 toward lofty highsin it’s been a while since the notiob of value investing could be applie d to the sector. “Timing is says Eddie Allen, senior partner with Eagler GlobalAdvisors LLC. “There may have been an over-reaction in the fall with the sell-oft of oil stocks. There’s still a lot of volatility to deal but these investors did well in anticipating therise (in oil that we’ve seen so far this from the mid-$30s to $60.” Allen says that valuw investors are still playing a bit of a waitintg game.
He notes that stock priceas are down, natural gas has not followed oil’s recovery in and there are concerns that prices could stay depresse d asinventories build. There is also more he adds, about possible consolidation as mid-calp exploration and production companies eye the pickings amongsmallefr competitors. Dan Pickering, co-president and head of researchat Pickering, Holt & Co. Securities says Pickens, Soros and Tudor might have even added more sharees during the quarter if energy stocks had not ralliedf and moved a bit highetrthan expected.
“The market took off so strongl y in the first quarter that investors took a pausd waiting for a pullback that never They might have wanted more but the stocks got away a littlew bit onthe upside,” Pickering says. All things considered, energty was the hottest investment game in Says Pickering: “The overall theme here is that investors becams reengaged in energy, which dramatically out-performed the rest of the markett in the first quarter, as people were just less terrifiex about the state of the worlc (economy).” The energy resurgence party had some notable no-shows.
While Pickense and Soros were pickingnew favorites, other big-nam e investors were still cleaning house. Warren Buffetrt sold 13.7 million ConocoPhillips sharesx in the quarter to reduce his stake to a stilosizable 71.2 million shares. Buffet conceded to shareholdere of his BerkshireHathaway Inc. asset management firm that his huge investmen t in ConocoPhillips last year when oil prices peakedat $147 a barreo was a mistake.
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