| EnergySolutions Stops Bidding on $10 Billion UK Contract
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- Salt Lake City-based EnergySolutions is no longer bidding for a five-year, $10 billion contract to run nuclear sites in the United Kingdom. Philip Strawbridge, EnergySolutions International group president, says the company needs to focus on its other U.K. business. The company is already bidding to manage the U.K.'s national repository of low-level radioactive waste and pursuing the decommissioning of U.K. reactor sites. Strawbridge says the company shouldn't lead all three efforts, but the decision doesn't diminish the company's global efforts. ------ Information from: Salt Lake Tribune www.sltrib.com (Copyright 2007 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.) .voteWin { font-size: 12px; position: absolute; z-index: 99; border-top: 1px solid #bbb; border-left: 1px solid #bbb; border-right: 1px solid #bbb; top: 17px; width: 117px; } .red { color: #000; display: block; background: url(/resources/comments/graphics/sel_n_off.gif); border-bottom: 1px solid #e1e1e1; padding-left: 25px; padding-top: 2px; width: 92px; height: 18px; } .red:hover { color: #fff; background: url(/resources/comments/graphics/sel_n_on.gif); } .green { color: #000; display: block; background: url(/resources/comments/graphics/sel_y_off.gif); border-bottom: 1px solid #e1e1e1; padding-left: 25px; padding-top: 2px; width: 92px; height: 18px; } .green:hover { color: #fff; background: url(/resources/comments/graphics/sel_y_on.gif); } .loginWin { font-size: 12px; position: absolute; z-index: 99; top: 17px; left: 0px; width: 119px; height: 53px; background: url(/resources/comments/graphics/loginBox_1.gif); } .loginWinb { font-size: 12px; position: absolute; z-index: 99; top: 17px; left: 0px; width: 119px; height: 53px; background: url(/resources/comments/graphics/loginBox_2.gif); } .loginWin a { display: block; width: 119px; height: 53px; } .loginWinb a { display: block; width: 119px; height: 53px; } .loginWin a:hover { } .loginWinb a:hover { } .firstcomment { color: #444; background: url(/resources/comments/firstComment.gif) no-repeat top left; padding-top: 40px; padding-left: 60px; } .adminmsg { border: 2px solid #369; background-color: #95C2EF; color: #369; padding: 2px; font-weight: bold; font-size: 12px; } .votehistory { border: 1px solid #e5e5c4; width: 100px; text-align: left; background-color: #ffe; top: 18px; left: -6px; z-index: 99; } .avatar { width: 30px; height: 30px; border: 1px solid #ddd; margin: 1px 6px 4px -2px; float: left; } .collapsespan { float: right; color: #900; font-size: 11px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 1px; } .reportab { float: right; font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; color: #bbb; margin: 1px 6px 0px 0px; font-family: tahoma; } .reportab a { color: #bbb; } .reportab a:hover { color: #911; text-decoration: underline; } .signature { margin-top: 5px; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; color: #999; } .
Kovels' List of Top Antiques Searches Reflect Current Events
Kovels has released the Top 20 list of antiques and collectibles for March based on results of hundreds of thousands of searches on its website. The top three searches - Pottery, Glass and Furniture - rarely change and are always the major areas of interest because they are useful antiques or collectibles found in every home. But the other items reflect a special interest often influenced by current news or auctions. For example, the recent ruling against selling war medals has created a problem for dealers and a change in prices of World War II souvenirs so it moved to number 10. The auctions of several large toy collections created extra publicity and interest in toy prices, and Toys made it into the 7th position. The entire top 20 list follows: Pottery and porcelain Glass Furniture Jewelry Bottles Metals Toys Prints, pictures, paintings, paper Royal Doulton World War II Stoves Coca-Cola Advertising Alabaster Silver plate Lighters Folk art Occupied Japan Weapons Music Kovels.com offers the Web's largest free price guide for antiques and collectibles.
Mixed Forecast for Online Auctions
(Multichannel News) _ As eBay's Internet-based TV ad-auction venture hit massive turbulence, another from Google pulled onto the runway. The Cabletelevision Advertising Bureau last week abruptly pulled out of eBay's online marketplace for buying advertising slots on cable networks, dealing a critical blow to the project before it got off the ground. The CAB's about-face came just days after Google announced a deal with EchoStar Communications to sell a portion of the ad inventory on Dish Network's 125 national channels in an auction format. After several members of the consortium did a "deep dive" on eBay's Media Marketplace exchange for the past month, CAB CEO Sean Cunningham said, they concluded that the system would not provide the capabilities CAB needed. Snapshot: TV Ad Revenues Cable saw ad sales increase in the fourth quarter: .
Packer takes on WIN in bidding for NBN
THE owner of NBN Television last night confirmed that James Packer's PBL Media had made an offer for the regional broadcaster, putting the media mogul in line for yet another bidding war with Bruce Gordon's WIN Corporation. SP Telemedia, which trades as Soul, said in a statement lodged after the market had closed that it had received a non-binding proposal from PBL Media to buy for an unspecified price the company's media assets, which include NBN Television and outside broadcasting and production operations. "The board of Soul has entered into a period of exclusivity with PBL Media to allow it to conduct due diligence," the company said. "During this period both parties will negotiate mutually acceptable documentation." Media executives believe NBN could fetch between $150 million and $170 million.
Good fun, good causes
Would you like to enjoy a fun-filled event and help support a good cause at the same time? Here are some happenings around town this week that fill the bill. 1TURTLE CREEK CHORALE FLIGHT 413 This event benefits the award-winning men's community chorus. The travel-themed gala features music by Beatlegras, dancing, food, cocktails and silent and live auctions. Tonight at 7:30. Frontiers of Flight Museum, 6911 Lemmon Ave., at Dallas Love Field. $50 to $125. 214-526-3214, ext. 102. www.turtlecreek.org. 2CAMPER SCAMPER A 5K race and 1-mile fun run and walk raise funds to send kids with special medical needs to Camp John Marc in Meridian. There will be prizes for race winners, breakfast from On the Border and activities for children, including a Kidfish tank and a rock-climbing wall. Saturday at Reverchon Park, 3410 Maple Ave.
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