US ups web terror monitoring
The News Review:
- US ups web terror monitoring
- The Hartford Courant, Conn., Dan Haar column.
- Fannie May sets flagship store.
- ‘I felt for my mother and Sir’
- Brazil tells foreigners Amazon “not for sale”
- Foreign purchases if indigenous arms unavailable: Army
US ups web terror monitoring
Australian IT – Oct 17, 2006
They never have to necessarily go to the training camp or speak with anybody else and that diffusion of a combination of hatred and technical skills in things like bomb-making is a dangerous combination," Mr Chertoff said. "Those are the kind of terrorists that we may not be able to detect with spies and satellites. " Mr Chertoff pointed to the July 7, 2005 attacks on London’s transit system, which killed 56 people, as an example a home-grown threat. To help gather intelligence on possible home-grown attackers, Mr Chertoff said Homeland Security would deploy 20 field agents this fiscal year into "intelligence fusion centres," where they would work with local police agencies. By the end of the next fiscal year, he said the department aims to increase that to 35 staff. module-content –>.
The Hartford Courant, Conn., Dan Haar column.
Free with registration – Hartford Courant – AccessMyLibrary.com – Oct 17, 2006
3 billion buyout by two private equity firms announced at the start of the day. Hard to imagine why the champagne wasn’t flowing among the company’s 400 local employees. Open Solutions, a home-grown provider of banking software that had sales of $14 million in 1999, hands out stock options to all employees. At $38 a share, the deal by The Carlyle Group and Providence Equity Partners represents a premium of 25 percent from Friday’s close, which itself was near an all-time high. That’s all the more impressive, considering that Open Solutions has been a volatile stock. One year ago this week it traded at $19. 23, just over half the offer.
Fannie May sets flagship store.
Free with registration – Chicago Tribune – AccessMyLibrary.com – Oct 17, 2006
–> COPYRIGHT 2006 Chicago Tribune Byline: John Schmeltzer Oct. 17–Two years since being shut down in bankruptcy proceedings Fannie May candies are expanding their reach and will soon be sold in a new flagship store in downtown Chicago. The newest owners of the home-grown candy company, plucked out of bankruptcy in 2004, are creating a 3,400-square-foot flagship store at the corner of Michigan Avenue and Wacker Drive, replacing the 800-square-foot store there. “We want people to look in this store and to say: ‘Wow!” said Alan Petrik, chief operating officer, Fannie May Confections Inc. , bought in April by 1-800-Flowers. “We came up with a.
‘I felt for my mother and Sir’
Telegraph.co.uk – Oct 18, 2006
“A lemon shoved up the insides is key, and my mum always gets the bit of fat that you find by the cavity and puts that on top,” says Tom, a chatty young man whose passion for food you would never devine from his figure. He has just produced an entertaining odyssey, The Year of Eating Dangerously. For many of his 31 years, he has had to endure snide remarks about “the Rottweiler” – as the late Princess of Wales called his mother, her rival. In the popular imagination, he and his younger sister, Laura (who runs a London gallery), have been cast as innocent victims in the War of the Waleses, children whose lives were ruined by what he calls the “fame or infamy” attached to their surname. Tom tells a different story.
Brazil tells foreigners Amazon “not for sale”
Reuters AlertNet – Oct 17, 2006
0 article header end –>. Vice President Al Gore to support a home-grown rainforest-protection plan. Gore, who has become a prominent green campaigner since leaving office, is in Brazil to promote the Portuguese-language version of his new book on climate change, "An Inconvenient Truth". "The former vice president will study the proposal and may become a supporter," Environment Minister Marina Silva said in a statement after meeting Gore in Sao Paulo.
Foreign purchases if indigenous arms unavailable: Army
Times of India – Oct 17, 2006
“When time frames are crossed, we have to look
outside,” Gen. Singh said at a press conference here at the conclusion of
the biennial Army Commanders’ conference.