Byline: Bruce Spence Jan. 11--Stakeholders of a half-dozen real estate listing services that now cover the Central Valley and most of the Bay Area down to Monterey have agreed to consolidate into a single listing service. Brokers and agents say a common database for a large Northern California
Source: The Record (Stockton, California) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News)
Posted: 2006-01-13
WASHINGTON, DC - This week U.S. Senators Bill Frist (R-TN) and Lamar Alexander (R-TN) celebrated the awarding of a $1.8 million grant to the Southwest Tennessee Community College (STCC) from the U.S. Department of Labor by Labor Secretary Elaine Chao. The money was given to the institution as part
In these dark winter weeks, how many of us allow the mind to transport us to lighter and warmer climes? Well, these daydreams can quickly become reality by getting a qualification to teach English as a foreign language (EFL). You could be on your way to the sun before the daffodils are out. The
Source: The Independent (London, England)
Posted: 2006-01-13
Jan 11, 2006 (The Sydney Morning Herald - ABIX via COMTEX) -- Kraft Foods is moving part of its biscuit manufacturing operation to China. In early 2006 the company informed workers at its Broadmeadows, Melbourne, plant that the factory would be shut. A total of 151 workers at the plant that was
Source: Australasian Business Intelligence
Posted: 2006-01-13
Byline: Jennifer Bowles Dec. 26--Aging computers and old TVs, with their interior bodies teeming with toxics, have become one of the fastest-growing categories of trash in the nation as consumers try to keep pace with new and trendy technologies. But, according to a report released this month by
Source: The Press-Enterprise (Riverside, California) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News)
Posted: 2006-01-13
Precious. Wonderful. Unforgettable. Those were words Celene Yap, a native of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, uses to describe her one-year exchange program at the University of Minnesota during the 2004-2005 academic year. Yap, a third-year pharmacy student in the Science University of Malaysia, spent the
Decision time for evacuees Some are staying, while others are moving on Byline: BRIAN FEAGANS Edition: Home Section: Gwinnett News As Terrell Johnson watched his children playing in the parking lot of a Norcross hotel last week, he grappled with the question facing hundreds of hurricane evacuees in
Source: The Atlanta Journal and Constitution
Posted: 2006-01-13
The supervisors of 14 successfully employed individuals with autism were interviewed using a semistructured interview procedure, supplemented by worksite observations, to examine their supervisory practices and their perceptions of employees with autism. Supervisors evaluated their employees with
Source: Focus on Autism and Other Developmental Disabilities
Posted: 2006-01-13
Byline: Darla Martin Tucker May 30--Kaiser to open new offices, hire workers Kaiser Permanente in Oakland will open a portion of its new Ontario medical offices in July and is hiring staff, officials said. Three floors of the four-story, $55 million outpatient Ontario Vineyard Medical Offices will
Source: The Business Press (San Bernardino, California) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News)
Posted: 2006-01-13
Byline: Rachel Baruch Yackley If you want a career in health care, there are plenty of occupations to choose from in which, because of the need, you are certain to find a job if you have the education and the training. Sometimes it can be hard to see the forest for the trees, or in this case, to
Source: Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL)
Posted: 2006-01-13
Byline: Duncan Hughes Jan 11, 2006 (The Australian Financial Review - ABIX via COMTEX) -- Global food manufacturing group Kraft will close one of its Melbourne factories and it reviewing the operations of all of its remaining Australian facilities. The decision further adds to the decline
Source: Australasian Business Intelligence
Posted: 2006-01-13
In 1961, with the ink still fresh on their pharmacy degrees, Nathan Lipsyc and Jerry Zlotnik opened their first pharmacy together. Today, after 43 years and, at one time, 32 stores, the two men have closed the book on their Medic Drug business with the sale of eight stores to Walgreens. Lipsyc and
Byline: Chris Serres; Staff Writer When Josh Lemm bought a small pharmacy in Chanhassen two years ago, he figured he would pass it on to his three children one day. But that was before CVS Corp. opened a much larger store last summer three miles away. CVS offered $25 gift cards to people who
Source: Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
Posted: 2006-01-13
Sen. Ralph G. Recto yesterday said debates on possible amendments to the Constitution should start with proposed provisions that would create wealth and jobs rather than on dreary political matters in order to draw support to a House of Representatives initiated campaign to alter the 19-year-old
Byline: By Guy Basnett and Ross Smith A city council regeneration chief last night announced he was stepping down to join a consultation firm which is involved in a major city building contract. Greg Stone, executive member for regeneration on Newcastle City Council, said he was resigning to take
Source: The Journal (Newcastle, England)
Posted: 2006-01-13
Byline: EDITED BY TRICIA PHILIPS ITS opening date is uncertain, but the new National Stadium at Wembley is already gearing up to recruit staff for its launch. The stadium (right), is registering interest now for a range of jobs including Safety and Disabled Supporter Stewards, Hosts and Hostesses,
Source: The Mirror (London, England)
Posted: 2006-01-13
Fed: Govt should help keep jobs in Australia: Labor BRISBANE, Jan 12 AAP - The federal government has been accused by Labor of allowing too many jobs to go offshore after Kraft Foods announced it is closing a Melbourne plant, making 151 workers redundant. The food giant blamed manufacturing costs
Source: AAP General News (Australia)
Posted: 2006-01-13
Byline: Helen Logan Hundreds of jobseekers are beating a path to a pounds 30m import centre being built on Teesside. Last year supermarket giant Asda signed a landmark deal to develop the facility at Teesport. This will generate 300 jobs with a second phase planned which will create a further 150
Need a job? Go online (HL) Byline: Prasanna Raman Edition: Computimes; 2* FADING slowly from the horizon is the sending of paper resumes and cover letters, because online job applications are fast moving into the mainstream. Check out any advertisement in print today and you will likely see the
THE number of jobs available in the retail trade is set to drop this year, it was predicted yesterday. A FAS survey found vacancies fell to 16 per cent last month.
Source: The Mirror (London, England)
Posted: 2006-01-13
Byline: By ANDREW FORGRAVE Rural Affairs Editor A BIOGAS plant generating electricty from the remains of slaughtered animals will help secure agricultural production on Anglesey. Anglesey Biogas, a company set up by the Bodorgan Estate, plans to establish the pounds 4.25m processing facility on its
Source: Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
Posted: 2006-01-13
Byline: Sandy Mckenzie Appealforvolunteers UP to 100 jobs could be lost in a Teesside council, it was confirmed today. Letters have gone out to more than 3,000 staff - excluding school-based staff - at Redcar and Cleveland Council asking for volunteers for a register of workers willing to consider
Byline: Kathy Mellott Jan. 11--BEDFORD -- After three years of inactivity, the JLG Industries plant in Bedford Township is reopening. Plans are to have at least some of the 260 new jobs filled as early as March, with the plant in full production by June, officials said today. The renovations,
Source: The Tribune-Democrat (Johnstown, Pennsylvania) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News)
Posted: 2006-01-13
Byline: Staff Reports DANVILLE, Va. -- Televista will add 250 jobs by the end of the year as the customer service center expands after being here for less than a year. The company will add the employees as part of a $1.1 million upgrade in technology at the Virginia facility. The added jobs will
Source: The News & Record (Piedmont Triad, NC)
Posted: 2006-01-13