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- Unified in angst over crematory
- HANDLING & STORAGE: LPG trucks provide the cleaner alternative…
- Bloomberg.com: Investment Tools
- American Superconductor Reports Second Quarter Fiscal 2007 Financial…
- Odor prompts schools to lock down

Unified in angst over crematory
St. Petersburg Times – Sep 30, 2006
"The cemetery people are so big and so powerful, they can afford to be in your face about this," said Stanley Gams, 57. Serenity Gardens is owned by SCI Funeral Services of Florida, a subsidiary of Houston's Service Corporation International, a company with a network of more than 1,400 funeral homes and cemeteries in North America. In fiscal year 2005, total revenues for the company exceeded $1. 7-billion, according to its Web site. Neighbors paint the company as unrelenting and insensitive, but Moss Feaster Serenity Gardens general manager Richard Chesler said his company always strives to be neighborly. "We are a community neighbor," Chesler said. "We always have been, and we will continue to do that no matter what they do… "We could easily sit down and have a block party. It's interesting the way adversity brings people together into a coalition. "Meanwhile, there are rumors that the cemetery is considering moving the crematory elsewhere on the property, farther away from homes. Gams said he heard that the project's attorney might be putting out feelers to see if there was support for such a move. Commissioner Gigi Arntzen said she also heard that moving the facility was a possibility. And Stanton said he "strongly advised" the cemetery to do so. But Chesler and Ed Armstrong, a lawyer who represents Serenity Gardens, said the company isn't planning to move the crematory.

HANDLING & STORAGE: LPG trucks provide the cleaner alternative…
Free with registration – What's New In Industry – AccessMyLibrary.com – Sep 30, 2006
Seeking a cleaner, quieter alternative to its diesel trucks, Palletline – a national pallet distribution network owned by its 60 road haulier members – has chosen for its Birmingham facility a fleet of LPG trucks supplied by Linde national network company Linde Creighton. Linde offered a solution to meet.

Bloomberg.com: Investment Tools
Bloomberg – Sep 30, 2006
Manufacture of major project itemsis progressing on schedule. The first consignment of the apron feederundercarriage assemblies is in transit to the mine whilst shipment ofagitators, gearboxes and motors is anticipated to commence in earlyDecember. Moving forward into 2008, the operation of the power plant with HFOwill effectively double the fuel storage capacity of the site. Thistogether with a build up of the fresh ore stock pile before the 2008wet season and onwards should assist in minimizing the adverse impactof future rainy seasons. Ore mined in the quarter ended September 30, 2007 totalled 503,475tonnes at an average grade of 1. Mining activities in the period were also disrupted by theheavy rainfall.

American Superconductor Reports Second Quarter Fiscal 2007 Financial…
Business Wire – Business Wire (press release) – Sep 30, 2006
05 per share, for the first six months of fiscal 2007 compared to $200,000 for the first six months of fiscal 2006. The company ended the second quarter of fiscal 2007 with no debt and $46. 1 million in cash, cash equivalents and short-term investments compared to $65. 7 million on March 31, 2006. The company affirmed that it expects to reduce its cash burn significantly in the second half of fiscal 2007 and that it remains on track to exit fiscal year 2007 with at least $38 million in cash, cash equivalents and short-term investments as previously forecast. The company expects to collect significant amounts of cash from customers, including $12 million from the U… 1 million in cash, cash equivalents and short-term investments compared to $65. 7 million on March 31, 2006. The company affirmed that it expects to reduce its cash burn significantly in the second half of fiscal 2007 and that it remains on track to exit fiscal year 2007 with at least $38 million in cash, cash equivalents and short-term investments as previously forecast. The company expects to collect significant amounts of cash from customers, including $12 million from the U. Navy, in the second half of fiscal 2007. The company booked $15.

Odor prompts schools to lock down
St. Petersburg Times – Sep 30, 2006
"It was just bad, nasty smelling, burn-your-eyes smell," she said. There was a fog, she said, "like a film in the air. "Local companies who store or transport anhydrous ammonia were just as puzzled. Anhydrous ammonia is combined with phosphate to make fertilizer. Kinder Morgan owns an anhydrous ammonia storage tank near the Port of Tampa but it sits more than 5 miles outside the zone of the suspicious odor, said Helen Wells, spokeswoman for Houston-based firm. The company didn't find anything wrong with the tank or its 200-mile Central Florida Pipeline, which moves gasoline, diesel and jet fuel from the Port of Tampa to Orlando International Airport. Officials at Tampa Pipeline Corp… "Local companies who store or transport anhydrous ammonia were just as puzzled. Anhydrous ammonia is combined with phosphate to make fertilizer. Kinder Morgan owns an anhydrous ammonia storage tank near the Port of Tampa but it sits more than 5 miles outside the zone of the suspicious odor, said Helen Wells, spokeswoman for Houston-based firm. The company didn't find anything wrong with the tank or its 200-mile Central Florida Pipeline, which moves gasoline, diesel and jet fuel from the Port of Tampa to Orlando International Airport. Officials at Tampa Pipeline Corp. were equally stumped. The company owns two pipelines that move ammonia from the Port of Tampa to fertilizer plants in Polk County.