Unefon. (Company News).(Unefon will end monetary dependence on TV Azteca S.A. de C.V.)(Brief Article)

Local mobile telecom provider Unefon will break away from local media giant TV Azteca by the end of the current year, bringing an end to three years of investor …

Members in the news.(membermilestones)(Brief article)

The June 26 Wall Street Journal asked Joe Kovar's opinion of Build America Bonds ... Subprime mortgages and accountants was the focus of a June 25 article in Capital Weekly that included comments from Dana Basney and Fiona Ma, and noted Ma's and Roger Niello's efforts to get SB 691 passed ... Fresno's morning news program on KSEE-TV June 24 interviewed Kendall Wheeler about student loan repayments ... Kenneth Macias' address to master's degree candidates was featured in the June 22 Sacramento Bee ... The June 22 San Fernando Valley Business Journal quoted Larry Haworth regarding the changes a single GAAP authority is bringing to accounting ... The June 19 San Francisco Business Times …

News in brief.(Capital Region)

Valentine's contest

A Valentine's Day verse contest, with a Caribbean cruise for two as prize, is being sponsored by the Old Country Buffet in Schenectady and its parent company, Buffets Inc. The restaurant will give away a free meal on Valentine's Day to couples married for 50 years or more from 11 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Contest entrants should write a short, original verse about love and submit it at http://www.buffet.com by Feb. 10.

School open house

The Ellis Hospital School of Nursing, 1482 Erie Blvd., in Schenectady, plans an open house from 6 to 8 p.m. Wednesday. The event is for high school juniors and adults seeking admission …

COMMUNITY COALITION, FLEET OFFICIALS TO MEET.(BUSINESS)

Byline: JULIE CARR SMYTH Business writer -

ALBANY Community development activists will descend upon Albany today to meet privately with officials of Fleet Financial Group Inc., in hopes of securing investment commitments for poor and minority neighborhoods before the bank merges with Shawmut National Corp.

The local coalition, called the Capital District Community Economic Development Network, will ask the bank for more than $44 million for targeted home mortgages, micro-business loans, job training and community projects.

Majeedah Azzaq, a Citizen Action of New York coordinator in Binghamton, said New York groups are hoping for as good a response from Fleet as Connecticut and Massachusetts received, even though they don't have the backing of any major political figure as the others did.

``We didn't choose to deal with (Gov. …

UC San Diego Physicists See Solar Electrons, Auroras Associated with Recent Geomagnetic Storms.

Byline: University of California, San Diego

LA JOLLA, Calif., Dec. 10 (AScribe Newswire) -- Using an orbiting camera designed to block the light from the sun and stars, an international team of solar physicists has been able for the first time to directly image clouds of electrons surrounding Earth that travel from the sun during periods of solar flare activity.

These electron clouds, a part of the solar atmosphere that extends millions of miles from the sun, cause geomagnetic storms that can disrupt communications satellites, expose high-flying aircraft to excess radiation and even damage ground-based power-generating facilities.

The images taken by …

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