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Thursday, February 5, 2009

02/05/09 The Raw Greenwich News Feed (Updated)

Greenwich Roundup Spans The Globe To Bring You The Latest News About Greenwich .....
Greenwich Congressman Jim Himes will be in Norwalk this week to celebrate President Barack Obama's approval of the children's federal health insurance bill.

Buffett cancels annual event with biographer .....

Warren Buffett peeved over The Snowball?
Pundit Review
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) -- Billionaire Warren Buffett worked closely with Alice Schroeder during the five years that she researched his life story, but the author says her relationship with the investor has cooled since the book's release last fall.

And Schroeder says Buffett told her last month that he would no longer attend a dinner she's hosted since 1998 on the eve of Berkshire Hathaway Inc.'s annual meeting in Omaha each spring.

"We've had very little contact since the book has been published. A few e-mails, and that's it," Schroeder said Wednesday in an interview from her home in Greenwich, Conn ......

The Bernie Madoff Client List Is Made Public
Time
... clarification on allowing his employees to file individually. It is known that feeder funds such as Fairfield Greenwich, Ascot Partners, and Chais Investments, which are listed in the court document, had thousands of individual investors who placed ...

This Weekend
The Wilton Bulletin
... The 92nd Bendheim Member Juried Exhibition will open Thursday, Feb. 5, in the Bendheim Art Gallery at 299 Greenwich Avenue, Greenwich. A reception with the artists will take place Friday, Feb. 6, from 6 to 9 p.m. and the show, which has been ...

Nymex Gas Rises After Report of Larger-Than-Normal U.S. Inventory Decline
Bloomberg
... next week. a oeIt has been unbelievably cold in the Midwest,a said Tom Orr , research director at Weeden & Co. in Greenwich, Connecticut. a oeI dona t see a catalyst to take gas much higher.a Natural gas for March delivery rose 5.7 cents, or 1.2 ...

Will M'soft make its own smart phone?
EETimes
... that Microsoft is planning to launch a smartphone," wrote Rob Sandserson and Mark McKechnie of Broadpoint AmTech (Greenwich, Conn.). Not so fast, said Rick Doherty, principal of market watcher Envisioneering (Seaford, NY). "We expect a Windows ...

Grieving a child should not be an individual burden
Darien News-Review
... may feel lost, angry, guilty and deeply sad over the loss. Family Centers, with locations in Darien, Stamford and Greenwich, is the nonprofit umbrella organization for specific programs that aim to help these families and allow them an outlet for ...

Downturn sucks the luster off Valentine's Day....

Flash Is Out For Wealthy On Valentine's Day
The Post Chronicle
... parent Richemont posted a 12 percent drop in sales in the fourth quarter of 2008. In the hedge fund epicenter of Greenwich, Connecticut, buyers are looking at traditional white diamonds that are easier to match with clothes, said John Green, chief ...

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Family Fun: Dinosaurs, Big Red Dog And Disney
Hartford Courant
... examining the process through which artists reconstruct the world of dinosaurs. The museum is at 1 Museum Drive in Greenwich. Admission is $7 for adults, $6 for seniors and students. Members and children under 5 are free. For hours and a list of ...

ANALYSIS: A bitter pill for the public, but...
Times Online
... Many of the proposed bonuses wouldn't even go to British bankers. Many of GBM's workers are based in Greenwich, Connecticut, and financial centres around the globe. The bonus culture is seriously tarnished. It was the nature of bonuses - ...

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Saturday, November 17, 2007

11/12/07 - Greenwich News Wire

Gains pay dividends for Trumbull school
Connecticut Post
... The awards were from the Lone Pine Foundation, which is funded by the Lone Pine Capital investment company of Greenwich. Booth Hill was one of five finalist schools to be recognized, and a brief breakfast ceremony took place in the school library ...


CDO Dominoes Are Falling
Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis
... is getting worse and worse," said Neal Neilinger, co-founder and managing director of NSM Capital Management in Greenwich, Connecticut. "It's all risk aversion, and the trend is for people to buy T-bills." Simba Funding Corp. and Mane Funding Corp., ...


Workers OK FiberMark deal
Customer Interaction Solutions
... reaching a three-year contract. They are also represented by the United Steelworkers Union. FiberMark, owned by Greenwich, Conn. investment firm Silver Point Capital, makes commercial paper products like vacuum bags, paper for wallpaper and CD ...


Eze Castle launches London office
Boston Business Journal
... $1 billion in assets under management. The company has other offices in New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Greenwich, Conn. Use of, registration on, this site constitutes acceptance of our User Agreement . Please read our Privacy Policy ...


Social networking site launched to help investors
InvestmentNews
... website is creating a Facebook-type social networking site to help investors check up on their financial advisers. Greenwich, Conn.-based Exchange Networks LLC launched its website on Nov. 1, based on the idea that those with $5 million to $50 ...


Dowling College School of Aviation Incorporates PASSUR Software into Its Curriculum
ThomasNet
Release date: October 24, 2007 Dowling College School of Aviation Incorporates PASSUR Software into Its Curriculum National Aviation Technology Center Enhanced With PASSUR GREENWICH, Conn., Oct.


Education calendar
Norwalk Advocate
Nov. 12 Veteran's Day observed: Greenwich Public Schools, Westchester/Fairfield Hebrew Academy closed.


Two Schools garner awards for literary magazines
Norwalk Advocate
Greenwich Academy's literary and arts magazine 'Daedalus 2007' and Convent of the Sacred Heart's world languages literary magazine, 'Voices,' each earned Gold Medalist recognition from the Columbia Scholastic ...


Eze Castle Integration Launches London Operations
Business Wire
... Service. Eze Castle Integration is headquartered in Boston and has offices in New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Greenwich, CT, Minneapolis and London.


Reatil Detail. Michael Kors Quietly Opens Store in Soho. Second City Style Fashion Blog
Second City Style
... to markets such as White Plains, N.Y., Los Angeles, Atlantic City and Boca Raton, Fla. The next three will open in Greenwich, Conn., Scottsdale, Ariz., and Troy, Mich. The 3,400-square-foot SoHo unit was designed by New York-based Michael Neumann ...
Business Digest: The News in Brief
North Bay Business Journal
Home decor retailer Restoration Hardware Inc. signed a $267 million merger agreement with Chairman, President and CEO Gary Friedman, institutional shareholders and Greenwich, Conn.-based private-equity firm ...


Lobstermen fight for floats
Stamford Advocate
Greenwich's three commercial lobstermen want to demonstrate to state environmental officials that their floats in the Mianus River don't damage shellfish and marine life, even when the structures come to rest ...


A needless addition to the state's debt
Stamford Advocate
... this summer, after the new fiscal year commenced. To cover costs in the interim, municipalities like Stamford, Greenwich and Norwalk had to arrange temporary financing to pay construction bills. In some cases, that involved borrowing; in others, ...

Battle rages over sending children to school on Veterans Day
Stamford Advocate
... whether schools should be open on Nov. 11, Veterans Day. This year, schools in Stamford, Norwalk, Darien and Greenwich remain closed. But schools in New Canaan, Westport, Weston and Wilton are open. Stamford school officials tried to open ...


Convention Calendar
Salt Lake Tribune
... October. IPOs planned Initial public offerings planned for the coming week, as provided by Renaissance Capital, Greenwich, Conn., (www.ipohome.com) and SEC filings, include: * Chimera Investment Corp. - New York, 33.3 million shares, priced at $15 ...

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