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  • Golden Gate Petroleum to production test Louisiana oil well

    (MENAFN - ProactiveInvestors - Australia) Golden Gate Petroleum (ASX: GGP) will soon participate in production testing of the Hensarling-1 well in the Napoleonville Project, Louisiana. A workover rig is scheduled to arrive today to run the completion operation and commence production testing from the Cris R III sands, which has 49 feet of net oil pay.Another 31 feet of net pay was intersected in ...

  • McDonald Enjoys Mentorship Role

    Lawrence Okoye Mike Purcell.McDonald, a sixth-year veteran, has been with Tomsula his entire career in San Francisco. The 6-foot-3, 290-pound defensive tackle has a firm grasp of defensive line techniques and has been eager to share them with rookie teammates.Consider it to be "The Forty Niner Way.""We don't want to be seen as older guys who don't want to help the ...

  • Pandora Media loses $28.6 million in first quarter

    Pandora Media Inc. lost $28.6 million in the April quarter, pushing its accumulated deficit -- that's how much money it has lost or written off since it started -- to $168.1 million. The Oakland company (NYSE: P) lost $20.2 million a year ago in the first quarter. Sales rose to $125.5 million in the quarter, up from $80.8 million a year ago, with strong gains in both advertising sales and ...

  • Gap Inc.s same store sales up 2 percent in Q1

    Gap Inc. reported a 2 percent rise in same store sales in the first quarter ended May 4. Same store sales compare performance only at shops open a year or more, and so are considered an important retail metric, as they compensate for growth through opening new locations. A year ago in the first quarter, Gap (NYSE: GPS) had a 4 percent jump in same store sales. The 3,428-store San Francisco ...

  • Hundreds Of Nurses Walk Out At Two San Jose Hospitals

    SAN JOSE (KCBS) - A large group of registered nurses walked off the job Thursday morning at two hospitals in San Jose. Instead of changing IVs and administering medication, nurses at Good Samaritan Hospital and Regional Medical Center were walking the picket line in a dispute over wages, benefits, pension and staffing levels. The union represents 1,400 members of the California Nurses ...


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Movie Review

Night Train Murders (L’ultimo treno della notte) [Blu-Ray]

Night Train Murders (L’ultimo treno della notte) [Blu-Ray]

Note: This essay contains spoilers and reveals the films ending, so if you have not seen it already, proceed with caution. Throughout the 1970s and 80s the lower rung of the Italian film industry was a veritable factory in the low-budget horror rip-off trade, shamelessly ... ...

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  • San Franciscos Michael Crabtree tears Achilles but not expected to miss entire season

    SANTA CLARA, Calif. — Coach Jim Harbaugh confirmed that 49ers No. 1 wide receiver Michael Crabtree suffered a torn right Achilles tendon and that Crabtree underwent surgery Wednesday morning. Harbaugh also said that Crabtree is not expected to miss the entire 2013 season, though he declined to give a timetable for Crabtree's return. The injury happened Tuesday during a 7-on-7 drill ...

  • 49ers Extend Team Voice Ted Robinson

    preseason contest between the two teams, with Denver holding an 18-16 edge over San Francisco. During last year's preseason matchup in Denver, the 49ers defeated the Broncos 29-24.-This will mark Denver's first preseason trip to Candlestick Park since 2009 when the 49ers edged the Broncos ...

  • Chez Panisses grand reopening

    Robin MacSwain, left, and June Johnson, background, work on a new frame installed on the fire damaged Chez Panisse restaurant in Berkeley on Tuesday April 30, 2013. The restaurant has been closed since the March 8 fire. (Doug Oakley/Bay Area News Group) (Doug Oakley) its reservation phone line May 27 at 9 a.m., and online reservations can be made ...

  • Messaging app imo.im raises $13.3 million

    MSN , Steam, VKontakte and Yahoo. The service enables private and group chat, sharing of multimedia files and photos, voice and text messaging and searching of chat histories. The company claims more than 7 million mobile downloads, 750,000 unique daily visitors and delivery of an average of 50 million messages per ...

  • Kaiser goes for the gold LEED certification for all major projects

    "By adopting the LEED standard for all new major construction, we are demonstrating our commitment to green building strategies and to the total health of our communities," said Don Orndoff, Kaiser's senior vice president of National Facilities Services. Kaiser Permanente, the Oakland-based healthcare giant, plans to score LEED gold certification for all its new major projects ...

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