| Growing gadget market keeps battery store busy
When Keith Hrasky decided to go into franchising, he looked at a few different concepts: Frozen yogurt, a bread company and one-hour photos. But 10 years ago, there seemed to be a frozen yogurt joint on every corner and he didn't want to wake up in the middle of the night to bake bread. So he and his wife, Kassandra, decided on batteries. Little did they know what a huge growth area they were about to enter. That was 10 years ago and his Albuquerque location of Batteries Plus has ridden the national wave of technological gadgetry that has swept the consumer markets over the past decade. Hrasky's store, part of a national company serving a $22-billion market, now carries oodles of cell phone batteries, as well as batteries for everything from cars and motorcycles to wheelchairs, laptops, camcorders and portable DVD players.
PTS, Inc. Files Form 8K Disclosing Subsidiary’s Contract with QSR ...
The Client's name cannot be disclosed due to the confidentiality clause in the agreement. Under the terms of the Consulting Agreement, effective January 11, 2007, DAC will provide services to the Client including (i) comprehensive and accurate accessibility compliance survey consulting services for selected restaurant locations; (ii) consulting and advising Client as an expert witness; (iii) report DAC's facts, conclusions and findings to Client; (iv) inspection services; and (v) a license to use the DAC Software in accordance with the terms and conditions of the software license agreement(s) which will include database relation services. In consideration of DAC's services performed, the Client will pay fees in excess of $5,000,000 (five million dollars). In addition, PTS, Inc.
School nurse shortage a concern for some
CASPER - One day last school year, Korbyn Edmondson's father picked him up from kindergarten at Park Elementary School in Casper and within 35 minutes, Korbyn was admitted to the hospital.He stayed there three days as doctors stabilized his chronic lung condition.His mother, Conney Edmondson, believes Korbyn could have avoided a hospital visit if someone at the school had notified her earlier in the day about him getting sick."His oxygen level had dropped real low and he didn't feel well," Edmondson said. "But there was no nurse there to evaluate the situation." .
Was the UCLA Tasering a Civil Rights Violation? New Lawsuit Says Yes
Mostafa Tabatabainejad, the UCLA student whom campus police struck with a Taser two months ago, filed a federal lawsuit against UCLA and university police yesterday claiming his civil rights had been abused, the Daily Bruin reports. Police struck Tabatabainejad repeatedly with a Taser gun when he failed to produce identification in a campus library and then did not leave the library promptly when asked. A cellphone video of the incident surfaced on the Internet shortly after, sparking a campus protest. The lawsuit also claims that the attack on Tabatabainejad, who has a bipolar disorder, violated the Americans With Disabilities Act. But the lawsuit's main goal, the student's attorney told the L.A. Times, is "to change the way UCLA police behave and treat people on campus, their discipline and their training." Earlier: UCLA Taser Cop Was Once Officer of the Year--and Once Shot a Homeless Man UCLA Students to Protest Tasers Today .
All Systems are go
When Systems Unlimited moved to its new building on the east side of Iowa City, providing individualized service came down to synchronizing the clocks. Employment Systems, a division of Systems Unlimited that aids people with disabilities in jobs, training and day programming, made sure all the clocks were synchronized and got an atomic clock to ensure the correct time. The need for accuracy is important because Employment Systems' staff members write down exactly how much time a person spends with an activity -- watching a movie, doing their job shredding paper or playing balloon volleyball for exercise -- in order to receive the appropriate amount from each of its 13 different funding streams, said Dion Williams, director of Employment Systems & Information Technology.
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