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Darden Restaurants elects new board member
Orlando Sentinel (Fla.) | 21 days 7 hours 51 minutes ago
Orlando-based Darden Restaurants has elected Victoria D. Harker, executive vice president and chief financial officer of The AES Corporation , to its board of directors effective today.

Pull the plug on Ares
Orlando Sentinel (Fla.) | 21 days 10 hours 8 minutes ago
W ednesday's launch of the test vehicle for NASA's Ares I rocket was an impressive sight. More than 30 stories high, the thin white rocket shot off the launch pad like an arrow piercing the sky above Kennedy Space Center .

Weekly business accounts
Times (London), The | 24 days 6 hours 6 minutes ago
John Hargreaves, Graham Love, meteorite scare, Adam Posen, Sir Richard Branson, McDonald’s, Saatchi & Saatchi

Cornell Experts Say Hospitality Expertise Is Needed for Senior Living Communities
Hospitality Net | 12 days 14 hours 4 minutes ago
The key to success in operating senior living communities is creating a relationship with residents. So say John Rijos, co-president and COO of Brookdale Senior Living, and Dan Madsen, president and CEO of Leisure Care. Rijos and Madsen were among the participants in the first Senior Living Roundtable, held in October 2009 at the Cornell School of Hotel Administration. Chaired by Associate Professor David Sherwyn, the roundtable is one of a series developed by Cornell's Center for Hospitalit...

Tool makers say merger means better profit margins ahead as housing recovery takes hold
Orlando Sentinel (Fla.) | 20 days 15 hours 48 minutes ago
CHICAGO (AP) — Tool makers Stanley Works and Black & Decker Corp. are betting that together they can wring out more profit and better position themselves for a housing market recovery than they could apart.

Replacing For Rent Signs With Art
New York Times, The | 42 days 9 hours 10 minutes ago
At the end of a dark passageway at the Port Authority Bus Terminal, almost 50 artworks have suddenly parked in a bright, spare gallery. On a grim stretch of the Flatbush Avenue Extension in Brooklyn, pastel portraits and interactive sculptures are squeezed between a McDonald’s and an Applebee’s. In the window of a former dentist’s office in Downtown Jamaica, a clutch of faceless mannequins cradle various forms of road kill.

Luring Artists to Lend Life to Empty Storefronts
New York Times, The | 41 days 23 hours 57 minutes ago
At the end of a dark passageway at the Port Authority Bus Terminal, almost 50 artworks have suddenly parked in a bright, spare gallery. On a grim stretch of the Flatbush Avenue Extension in Brooklyn, pastel portraits and interactive sculptures are squeezed between a McDonald’s and an Applebee’s. In the window of a former dentist’s office in downtown Jamaica, Queens, a clutch of faceless mannequins cradle various forms of roadkill.

On North Concord, it's desolation row
Indianapolis Star, The | 15 days 12 hours 23 minutes ago
Citywide, 1 in 11 houses is empty -- and homeowners are paying the price

On North Concord, it's desolation row: Citywide, 1 in 11 houses is empty -- and homeowners are paying the price
Builder Online | 14 days 11 hours 8 minutes ago
By Jeff Swiatek and Mark Nichols, The Indianapolis Star Nov.

Replacing For Rent Signs With Art, to Keep Empty Spaces Full
New York Times, The | 42 days 11 hours 23 minutes ago
At the end of a dark passageway at the Port Authority Bus Terminal, almost 50 artworks have suddenly parked in a bright, spare gallery. On a grim stretch of the Flatbush Avenue Extension in Brooklyn, pastel portraits and interactive sculptures are squeezed between a McDonald’s and an Applebee’s. In the window of a former dentist’s office in Downtown Jamaica, a clutch of faceless mannequins cradle various forms of road kill.

Replacing For Rent Signs With Art, to Keep Empty Spaces Full
New York Times, The | 42 days 10 hours 13 minutes ago
At the end of a dark passageway at the Port Authority Bus Terminal, almost 50 artworks have suddenly parked in a bright, spare gallery. On a grim stretch of the Flatbush Avenue Extension in Brooklyn, pastel portraits and interactive sculptures are squeezed between a McDonald’s and an Applebee’s. In the window of a former dentist’s office in Downtown Jamaica, a clutch of faceless mannequins cradle various forms of road kill.

After a Brutal Year, Marketers Regroup to Share War Stories and Ideas
New York Times, The | 17 days 22 hours 2 minutes ago
A YEAR ago, 1,200 executives in marketing, advertising and the media attended an annual conference that by coincidence took place a month after the financial crisis began. Together, they stared into the abyss, wondering what conditions would be when or if they met again.

Corporate Diary
Financial Times (free content) | 36 days 2 hours 18 minutes ago
TODAY Earnings Aluminum Corporation Of China FY -Rmb0

TransLink heading for financial crisis, provincial report says
Globe and Mail (Toronto), The | 17 days 2 hours 15 minutes ago
Metro Vancouver's public transit body hampered by too many competing interests, fuzzy lines of authority

E-Commerce News: Software: Microsoft Turns on a Dime to Beat Back Google Apps
TechNewsWorld | 20 days 7 hours 57 minutes ago
Exchange Online as a standalone app is now available for US$5 per month instead of $10, while the Business Productivity Online Suite, which bundles online versions of Exchange, SharePoint, Office Communications and Office Live Meeting, is now $10 per user per month instead of $15, said Microsoft Business Division President Stephen Elop.