| Saying buy-buy to economic blues BY THE NUMBERS
Gas costs $3 a gallon, the real-estate and stock markets are struggling, and food prices have risen. But you'd never know it if you visited the Spotsylania Towne Centre yesterday. Consumers flocked to the mall and other Fredericksburg-area shopping centers, as Black Friday ushered in the start of the holiday shopping period. Because of where Thanksgiving fell this year, the pre-Christmas shopping period is the longest possible. But many people didn't waste any time checking off their holiday gift lists. "This place is packed," Stafford County resident Lori Kasey said as she lugged numerous shopping bags outside Macy's. She'd bought some Heelys shoes and another item that was a secret. Kasey said it took her 20 minutes to find a parking spot.
Early bird bags bargains at Boxing Day bonanza
IT WAS SHOPPING bags at dawn for Macclesfield bargain hunter Kelly Walmsley, who was the very first person through the Trafford Centre's doors for the Boxing Day sales. Shopaholic Kelly, 29, arrived just after 4am in the cold and dark at the Manchester retail outlet, 50 minutes before security guards opened up. She was number one of an estimated 130,000 people throughout the Bank Holiday to pile into the shopping mall, with 25,000 inside by the time all the shops had opened at 10am. Kelly said: “I've been coming every year since the centre opened and this year I've timed it perfectly. I'll take anything at all as long as it's a bargain." It would seem her 4am arrival – to get in line for the sale at Next and Next Kids which opened their doors at 7am – was worth it.
Experimental Procedure Allows Patients To Tolerate Mismatched Kidney ...
They developed an approach in which the organ recipient gets bone marrow along with the organ from the donor. The result is an immune system that combines elements of both the donor and recipient. Organ recipients first have a treatment designed to partially destroy their bone marrow along with an antibody that reduces the level of T cells the immune system component mainly involved in organ rejection. After patients get the transplanted kidney and bone marrow they spend about two weeks in a relatively sterile environment. This allows the bone marrow to regenerate and produce new immune cells that tolerate the donor organ. Results show all four of the successfully transplanted patients in the study still have normal kidney function from two to more than five years later.
Target breaks ground on first of 3 Isle stores
Target Corp. officially broke first ground in Hawai'i yesterday at Kapolei. It will break ground again today at its Salt Lake location, with both of those stores set to open in March 2009. And already the nation's No. 2 discount retailer is looking forward to opening a third Target outlet in Kona on the Big Island just four months later. Company officials said other stores would eventually follow in the state. They also said they've never gotten a more enthusiastic welcome. "We typically get great receptions wherever we go, but I can honestly say that no reception has topped what we've received here in Hawai'i," said Bryan Berg, regional senior vice president for Target, who is responsible for 482 Target outlets. The discount retailer, which sells everything from appliances and clothes to housewares and toys, is valued by shoppers for its quality.
Officials say Pennsauken woman was beaten at garage
Felicia Mikels, the teenage mother from Pennsauken who was killed last weekend, was savagely beaten at a garage where her uncle stored equipment for his cleaning business, prosecutors said yesterday. Mikels, 17, had been shopping at the Cherry Hill Mall before she was lured by text messages to a late-night meeting with that uncle, Christopher Mikels, and his buddy Douglas Mandichak. The new details of Felicia Mikels' slaying were presented at an arraignment yesterday in state Superior Court, in Camden County, where Mikels, 26, and Mandichak, 25, were charged with murder. Investigators continued to comb the Pennsauken Creek in Cinnaminson yesterday for Felicia Mikels' body. State troopers up to their shoulders in the frigid waters used axes to punch through the ice as police dogs sniffed for traces of the woman along the water's edge.
2008 NAB Cup Ticketing Information
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Bills in Olympia tied to menu labeling
A state Senate committee is scheduled to hear a trio of bills Thursday that could impact the number of Washington restaurants required to share nutrition information with customers, or delay the program's Aug. 1 start date. Last summer, King County's health board voted to require all chain eateries with 10 or more outlets nationwide to specify the amount of calories, carbohydrates, fats and sodium within each item that stays on the menu for 60 days. By Aug. 1, affected restaurants must list the information in menus or on the menu board. Many restaurants object to the requirement, calling it cumbersome and expensive. Health groups, including the American Heart Association, support it as a means of battling the obesity epidemic, since folks eat out more frequently.
Starting young
And while many adults are making resolutions such as losing weight or quitting smoking for the new year, students at local schools are also resolving to make changes in their lives in 2008. All of the students in Joan Crandell's fifth-grade class at Lafayette Elementary School in Eureka began implementing specific plans of action for their resolutions Tuesday. Before winter break began on Dec. 22, Crandell assigned each student to come up with at least one resolution for the new year and back it up with three reasons why they want to make the resolution. Students were then assigned to write three ways they planned to implement the change. Crandell, who plans the lesson almost every year, said the exercise not only teaches children to put their thoughts on paper, it empowers them to bring about change in their lives.
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