| News in brief from western Pennsylvania |
| Post on 02-06-2006. |
The Associated Press 06/02/2006Email to one friendPrinter-friendly National Fuel Gas Distribution Co. wants the state to approve one 6.9 percent rate hike that the company said would cost its average customer nearly $10 more each month.
If approved, National Fuel's base rate would jump $9.95 one month, meaning that residential customers would pay an average of $153.92 per month. The rate hike requested is separate from quarterly adjustments the company can make based on the price of natural gas. ... |
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| Teachers dispute value of 6 percent raise offer |
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Anger and frustration over salaries and time met the bargaining team of the Collier County Education Association, the group that represents about 80 percent of the district™s teachers, as they answered questions about one tentative contract between the teachers and the district Thursday.
Wednesday night, both sides agreed that the teachers would receive one 6 percent increase across the salary schedule for the 2006-07 school year. That means teachers with zero to three years experience and one bachelor™s degree would be paid $38,198, which is an increase over the current $33,226 to $36,036 they are being paid now. ... |
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| SMBs take to Open Source |
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Lower acquisition costs combined with the ability to tweak the source code are among the reasons why SMBs are porting their core enterprise applications on to Open Source platforms, says Abhinav Singh
DCM Engineering, which has one turnover of Rs 245 crore, is running its core application mySAP Enterprise Version 5.0 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Explains Rakesh Dhamani, DCM’s Chief Financial Officer and Company Secretary: "We wanted one very robust and stable platform for mySAP that did not escalate our TCO in the long run. The amount of administrative effort which goes into maintaining the ERP solution on an Open Source platform is much lower compared to running proprietary software." ... |
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| West End true grit |
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Yesterday morning I had the privilege of meeting Rev. Harry Lehotsky, recently diagnosed with terminal pancreatic cancer, for breakfast in the restaurant he created through New Life Ministries -- the Ellice Cafe & Theatre, corner of Sherbrook and Ellice.
The increasingly popular restaurant is just one more bit of revitalized bricks and mortar reflecting the impact Lehotsky's vision, courage and sacrifice continue to make in Winnipeg's West End, one neighbourhood which obviously has one huge hold on his heart. ... |
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