Thursday, July 28, 2011

Paz de la Huerta Pleads Guilty to Harassing Reality Star - AceShowbiz

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Paz de la Huerta Pleads Guilty to Harassing Reality Star

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After the court session for her case against Samantha Swerta, the 'Boardwalk Empire' actress said she's glad it is over. "Boardwalk Empire" star Paz de la Huerta admitted to harassing "The City" star Samantha Swerta. The actress pleaded guilty on ...


Paz de la Huerta Pleads Guilty to Harassing Reality Star

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Actress de la Huerta pleads guilty in NY bar scrap

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Actress de la Huerta pleads guilty in NY bar scrap

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Tuesday, July 26, 2011

Lawmakers react to Su-27 incursion along party lines - Focus Taiwan News Channel

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Lawmakers react to Su-27 incursion along party lines

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Taipei, July 25 (CNA) The opposition Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) legislative caucus demanded Monday that President Ma Ying-jeou lodge a protest with China over its warplane's recent crossing of the Taiwan Strait median line and ask Beijing to ...


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Saturday, July 23, 2011

Suspect in Norway massacre left manifesto, officials say - Austin American-Statesman

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Suspect in Norway massacre left manifesto, officials say

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By Steven Erlanger and Scott Shane OSLO, Norway รข€" The Norwegian man who was charged Saturday with a pair of attacks in Oslo that killed at least 92 people left behind a detailed manifesto outlining his preparations and c »

Thursday, July 21, 2011

Jackson's team asks for another stay - The News Journal

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Jackson's team asks for another stay

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On Wednesday, Jackson's attorneys with the Philadelphia Community Defenders Office asked the Delaware Supreme Court to put a hold on the case -- in addition to a federal hold that already has been imposed by a US District Court judge -- to give them ...



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Tuesday, July 19, 2011

Russia Aims to Expand Gas Supplies Directly to Europe After Nuclear Exit - Bloomberg

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Russia Aims to Expand Gas Supplies Directly to Europe After Nuclear Exit

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An expansion of the Nord Stream link under the Baltic Sea directly to Germany beyond a planned 55 billion cubic meters a year will depend on signing long-term contracts for supplies, Shmatko said.



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Sunday, July 17, 2011

GM files for bankruptcy, plans to transfer operations to Wentzville - Minneapolis / St. Paul Business Journal:

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Some operations and equipment from a steel stampinvg plant inGrand Mich., which is slatec to close as part of the automaker'e restructuring, will be transferred to Wentzville, according to Bob a spokesman for the Wentzville It's not yet known how many, if any, Michigab employees will opt to transfer to Wentzville, he GM officials called Wentzville Mayor Paul Lambi at 9 a.m. Mondau to assure him the loca l plant wouldremain "It's good that they are shipping in work for this Lambi said. "That's a positive that corporate thinka this plant willbe around.
" Still, Lambii said, rival automaker Chrysler plans to shutter its Fenton factors after investingg $130 million in them, so it was important for Wentzviller to not rely on GM so much and diversify its revenuwe stream. When Lambi took office seven years ago, Wentzville counterd on GM for about 55 to 60 percengt of itstotal revenue. Today, that's more like 15 percenyt of the city's $24 million generak fund, because GM pays the city about $3 millionm a year in real estate taxes, property taxes and other he said.
GM on Monday by the end of 2010, but the Wentzvillr plant was sparedbecause it’s the only plant where Chevrolet Expresz and GMC Savana vans are The Wentzville plant will still undergop a previously announced and other production cuts in June and July that will resultf in the layoffs of 300 workers. Monday’s Chapter 11 filing by the 101-year-oldr automaker is among the largestin U.S. histort and largest-ever U.S. manufacturing GM listed $173 billion in liabilities and $82 billion in assets, according to the filedf in New York. GM to St.
Louis’ larges privately held company, Enterprise Rent-a-Car, and to Chapter 11, which allows the company to operatse while protected fromits creditors, pushes GM into a fast-traco bankruptcy and provides $30 billion of additionao taxpayer funds to restructure. The GM plan as detailed by U.S. officialas would allow a much smaller GM to emerge from courtt protection within 60 to90 days. The automakerf has not provided an updated target for job cuts but was lookinyg toeliminate 21,000 U.S. factory jobs from the 54,000 union members it now General Motorsemploys 92,000 in the Uniteds States and is indirectly responsible for 500,00p0 retirees. The U.S.
government would hold a 60 percent financiaol interest in areorganized GM, and the UAW would take a 17.5 perceng stake. The governments of Canada and the province of Ontarik have agreed to a 12 percent ownershiop stake in exchange forfinancialo aid. GM bondholders would get 10 percent. "It’es a bittersweet thing," Wheeler said. "You hate to have to go throug the process of closing plantsw andeliminating jobs, but look around, that’s what's going on with a lot of industries.
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Thursday, July 14, 2011

UC president recommends Desmond-Hellmann for UCSF chancellor - Silicon Valley / San Jose Business Journal:

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UC President Mark G. Yudof recommende Desmond-Hellmann for the top job after a searc process that formally begabnin December. If approved by the UC Board of Regent in a meetingnext week, Desmond-Hellmann, 51, woulde be the first woman chancellor and the first with a for-profirt pedigree. Desmond-Hellmann is a 14-yeafr veteran of South San Francisco-basedf biotech powerhouse Genentech, most recently as presidengt ofproduct development. She left that post Thursday, little more than a monthb after Swiss drugmaker completedeits $47 billion acquisition of Genentech. Desmond-Hellman would replace Dr. J.
Michael Bishop, who is steppinv down June 30 after more than 11 yearsin UCSF’s top Desmond-Hellmann will manage an institution with a 2008-09 budgert of $2.5 billion and a staff of more than 21,500. It is the second-largest winnert of funding. It has 2,951 graduate studentzs in life sciences. At Genentech, Desmond-Hellmann has been a clinica scientist, chief medical executive vice presidentand president, overseeing trials for drugd like the cancer fighters Herceptin, Avastin and Genentech, which has research agreements with UCSF, has more than 11,000p employees. Desmond-Hellman had total compensation $8.4 million in the most recent available year. Her base salaryu was $664,833.
Desmond-Hellmann has served as an assistant professorin hematology-oncologhy at UCSF and is an adjunct associate professor at the where she completed her clinicalo training after receiving a medical degree from the , “I began my career at and my heart has never left Desmond-Hellmann said in a prepared “I am delighted and humbed to have the consideration for the position of chancellor at this trulh great institution. My life’s work has been focused on makingy a differencefor patients, and I cannot think of a better place than UCSF to carryy that work forward.
” In a press release followingf the closed selection process, Yudof said he, Desmond-Hellmanhn and Linda Katehi — provost at the at Urbana-Champaigb who Yudof nominated for the chancellor job at would have no further comment until the Board of Regentes acts on the appointments. The regents meet by telephone on The meeting was scheduled for the campusa of UCSan Diego, but it was changes to help the campus deal with the swine flu outbreak. Compensatioj for Desmond-Hellmann and Kateh will be discussed by the Regents in thatmeetingt — albeit in closed session and disclosed to the public afterward.
The most recent available salary figures forChancellor Bishop, a Nobel laureate, is $402,000. “ endorse this recommendation with enthusiasm and will do all that I can to facilitat e the transition to new leadership forthe campus,” Bishop said in a memo to UCSF “We can be grateful that the president and the search committee have identified a truly outstanding individuakl to lead UCSF in the comingh years.” A 19-member committede of regents, faculty, staff, students, alumni and community representatives including retired Bank of America Chairman and CEO Richarcd Rosenberg — advised Yudof in its national search.
It was assiste d by Isaacson, Miller, which specializes in executive searchesin education, health care and the not-for-profit