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) E-mail software maker expands
Lyris Technologies found a unique path to expansion: the Berkeley software maker merged with a struggling shell company, J.L. Halsey Corp., seeing huge advantages for growth.For Lyris, the past two years have brought a transformation, with three acquisitions and employee count growing from about 35 to Halsey's current 175, with some 70 in Emeryville, now Lyris' headquarters.
For Halsey shareholders, the story has been more dramatic. Halsey was the successor of NovaCare Inc., a health services provider that sold its operations - and name - as it sank into debt in the late 1990s, after Medicare cuts hit its bottom line.
Halsey stock fell to 3 cents a share in 2002 and was at 30 cents when Halsey announced plans to buy Lyris for $30.7 million in 2005. More>>
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) Exide Technologies and Ballard Power Sign Agreement for Forklift Truck Power Solution
Vancouver, BC, October 10, 2007--(T-Net)--Ballard Power Systems (Toronto:BLD.TO)(NasdaqGM:BLDP) and Exide Technologies (NasdaqGM:XIDE), a global leader in stored electrical-energy solutions, announced they have signed an agreement to develop an on-board hybrid hydrogen fuel cell and lead-acid battery energy system for the forklift truck (or materials handling) market. Exide plans to meet all its hydrogen fuel cell needs in the forklift truck market over the next five years exclusively with Ballard fuel cells.
Ballard (www.ballard.com) is recognized as a world leader in the development, manufacture and sale of zero-emission hydrogen fuel cells. Ballard's work in the materials handling market has, to this point, been based on using the company's Mark9 SSL(TM) fuel cell stack as an alternative to lead-acid batteries. More>> - (
) Tax issues dot ballot
Taxpayers in seven Northwest Arkansas school districts will decide Tuesday on changes in their millage rates. In some cases, the proposed property-tax levies result from the consolidation of school districts. Following is a list of the school districts, by county, as well as the millage rate requested, the change from current rates and how the increased revenues would be used. A mill is one-tenth of a cent, and each mill would produce $ 1 of tax for each $ 1, 000 of assessed valuation.BENTON COUNTY Gentry, 3. 0-mill increase, from 40. 0 mills to 43. 0 mills, new dedicated maintenance and operations. Gravette, 2. 0-mill increase, from 35. 4 mills to 37. 4 mills, new maintenance and operations and new debt service. Pea Ridge, 2. 2-mill increase, from 42. 8 mills to 45 mills, new debt service. More>>
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) Gathering of Eagles
When Eagle Scouts from around the Hudson Valley Boy Scout Council gathered at West Point last week, they ranged in age from 16-year-old Adam Goldfrank Cariot of Cornwall to Ed Sambells of New Windsor, who is 91.Sambells won his Eagle award, denoting the Boy Scouts' highest rank, in 1933 and has been involved in Scouting ever since, right up to helping plan this year's second annual Eagle Scout Reunion and Hall of Fame Induction. Goldfrank Cariot represented all those teens in the council's five-county region who are attaining the rank this year. Between them were about 250 Eagles of all ages.
Last year's reunion, also at the West Point Club, was billed as an opportunity to reconnect, whereas this year's had an added dimension - honoring three Eagles who went on to achieve success in business and their community and maintained a lifelong devotion to Scouting. More>>
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) Take the Fast Track to A Secured Loan with DirectOnlineLoans.co.uk's new Website
With the broad range of lending options now available on the market finding the best secured loan has become a somewhat more complicated affair. It is good to know however that one company, Direct Online Loans, (www.directonlineloans.co.uk), has made the process a whole lot easier for borrowers with their newly re-vamped and very user friendly website being launched this week.London (PRWEB) October 19, 2007 -- With the broad range of lending options now available on the market finding the best secured loan has become a somewhat more complicated affair. It is good to know however that one company, Direct Online Loans, (www.directonlineloans.co.uk), has made the process a whole lot easier for borrowers with their newly re-vamped and very user friendly website being launched this week. More>>