| Middle-class autoworkers cling to way of life amid benefit cuts
Just two weeks after his 18th birthday, Randy Horter started his first factory job, helping make clutches and air conditioning systems at an auto parts plant. Since then, the 49-year-old Chrysler line worker has cobbled together a career working at various manufacturing plants and made a nice, middle-class life with his wife, Candace, who works at the same Chrysler plant in Belvidere, Ill. The couple earns about $75,000 a year, unless one or the other is laid off. They own two used cars and their home. Between them, they raised five children, now grown, and were hoping to start preparing for retirement. .
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Between the Lines Latest Post | Last 10 Posts | Archives Six Apart adds activity streams to its blog platform Posted in: General Web Technology Social networking Blogging In the new age of open social networks, Six Apart is doing its part to create a hub that embraces the world of feeds outside its own servers. The company is shipping Action Streams, a free plug-in for Movable Type 4.1 that lets users aggregate, control, and share their Web activities from 75 applications, such as FaceBook, Twitter and Vox. Six Apart prides itself on giving its users more control over their profile, such as showing or hiding individual actions,, that other services (remember Facebook Beacon). "We are starting a new wave of open technology with a Facebook style news feed," Anil Dash, vice president at Six Apart told me.
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New energy bill calls for 35 MPG CAFE, increased ethanol production ...
The 'do instead' can be anything other than 'a slight polishing of the status quo' which is all this energy bill is. Sure, some pork is sent to corn farmers. And there is a small smear of lip service for 'alternative energy' research. Uh huh. But big changes are needed for a big change in results. And this energy bill contains no big changes.At its heart, this energy bill is about doing the same old things, continuing to burn hydrocarbons without any serious improvements in fuel economy or emissions control.In short, it is the very definition of insanity. .
Antigenics Reports Fourth Quarter and Year-End 2007 Financial Results
For the three months ended December 31, 2007, the company incurred a net loss attributable to common stockholders of $7.7 million, or $0.16 per share, basic and diluted, compared with a net loss attributable to common stockholders of $11.7 million, or $0.26 per share, basic and diluted, for the same period in 2006. For the year ended December 31, 2007, Antigenics incurred a net loss attributable to common stockholders of $37.6 million, or $0.81 per share, basic and diluted, compared with a net loss attributable to common stockholders of $52.7 million, or $1.15 per share, basic and diluted, for the same period in 2006. The company's net cash burn (cash used in operating activities plus capital expenditures, debt repayments and dividend payments) for the year ended December 31, 2007 was $27.5 million, which represented a reduction of approximately 45% from the net cash burn of $50.1 million for the year ended December 31, 2006.
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