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The pilot was conscious and mobile. He is being evacuated byhelicopter. The cause of the crash is unknown at this time and isbeing investigated.

The Flat Bush Fire was reported this morning at 10:25 a.m. onBureau ofLand Management land. It likely started last night fromlightning.

Two engine crews and two air tankers were working the fire. Theseveral-acre fire was increasing in activity at the time of thecrash but was not immediately threatening any structures.

Fire crews from northwestern Colorado have been working more than30 lightning-started fires since Sunday. Most are small fires lessthan anacre.

Crews are working four large fires:The 27,000-acre Mayberry Fire 32miles northwest of Craig is 50 percentcontained.

A heavy air tanker and two single engine air tankers supported the77 firefighters working this fire. Full containment is currentlyexpected on Thursday, and the fire is not expected to grow larger.

It burned in sagebrush and tall grass on a mix of Bureau of LandManagement and private lands. The one home and the 30 natural gaswells in the area have not been damaged. This fire started Sunday.

NEW DELHI --

General Motors Corp. will sign an initial agreement Thursday to build an engineand transmission plant for passenger vehicles in India, a seniorexecutive at its local unit said.

The plant will be set up at Talegaon, near Pune city, in thewestern state of Maharashtra, he said.

"We will be signing a memorandum of understanding with theMaharashtra government," said Ankush Arora, vice president incharge of marketing, sales and service at General Motors India Pvt.Ltd.

Mr. Arora declined to give details about the investment in the newengine plant and its capacity.

The plant will be built at the same location where GM hasestablished its second car factory in India. That factory isscheduled to start operations next week.

The Detroit auto maker has invested more than 14 billion rupees($320 million) to construct the Talegaon car plant. It will have aninitial capacity of 140,000 vehicles a year, which will expand GMIndia's annual capacity to 225,000 vehicles.

GM, which began its operations in India in 1996, currently makessix cars and sport-utility vehicles of the Chevrolet range,including the Spark minicar and the Optra sedan, at a85,000-unit-a-year factory in the western state of Gujarat. It alsoimports and markets the Captiva sport-utility vehicle. The automaker also has a technical center, including a design studio, inIndia's technology hub of Bangalore.

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With the start of the new school year, Oakland’s Ask.com has upgraded its

Ask Kids search engine, the company said Wednesday.

The Oakland company said the search service is part of its strategyto use its search technology for specialized search sites such as , a search engine for the black community launched in April.

Ask Kids offers such features as a customizable home page, easyhomework help, study tools, and games.

Web sites in the service’s core search index are selected byan editorial team as child-appropriate, offering a safe searchenvironment for children.

Ask.com is a wholly owned subsidiary of IAC/InterActiveCorp, which last week completed a breakup into five publicly tradedcompanies, with IAC retaining its Internet properties includingAsk.com and Match.com.

A growing number of home sellers are dealing with the Valleyhousing market's harsh reality by taking their business intovirtual reality.

Purveyors of Internet-driven real-estate auctions say their customers operate in a parallel universe where the quick and thededicated are rewarded with great deals on foreclosed or unwantedhomes.

"We create a sense of urgency in a marketplace where there reallyis no urgency at all," said John McCann, president ofScottsdale-based National Real Estate Auction Corp.

McCann's company is just one of several home-auction firmsoperating in the Valley. National recently held an auction for 227properties in the Phoenix metro area, which he said was the mostever included in a single U.S. auction.

Home auctions, which usually include both Web-based and livebidding, appeal to sellers who've failed to find a buyer thetraditional way, McCann said.

"Where we really thrive is in a market where there's a glut ofhomes for sale," he said.

According to the National Auctioneers Association, gross annualrevenue from residential real-estate auctions grew nearly 47percent from 2003 to 2007.

While automobile auctions still dominated the industry in 2007,selling $87.8 billion worth of cars and trucks, the fastest-growingsector was real-estate auctions, generating roughly $58.5 billionin sales.

Boston's Logan International Airport was one of the hardest hit inthe country yesterday afternoon by an outage in the computer systemthat the Federal Aviation Administration uses to alert air trafficcontrollers about the paths of flights nationwide.

The FAA estimates there were possibly hundreds of flight delaysyesterday, but does not expect any flights to be affected today.This marks at least the second time the system has shut down thissummer: In June, a problem with the system also led to some flightdelays and cancellations.

Logan was initially among the most affected during yesterday'ssystem failure, along with airports in New York, Atlanta, andChicago. The FAA did not say how many delays there were at Logan,but said it might be able to provide more details today.

"The airports that were most hard-hit were in the Northeast," FAAspokeswoman Diane Spitaliere said during a conference call. "Thatis one of the things we are looking at: why some airports [had]more delays than others."

Matthew Brelis, a spokesman for the Massachusetts Port Authority,which runs Logan, said the airport asked its concessionairesyesterday to stay open longer, but referred all other questions tothe FAA.

Stocks finished mostly higher, as banks and lenders such as LehmanBrothers Holdings recouped some of their recent losses, and as Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac continued their rebound, even withanother round of uninspiring housing and economic reports.

Sales of new homes rose 2.4% in July, but prices continued toslide, according to the Commerce Department. The S&P/Case-Shillerhome-price index told a similar story, hitting record lows in Juneand echoing an existing-home-sales report from Monday. In areflection of how intractable the housing problem has become, theFederal Reserve downgraded its outlook for the economy at its Aug....

Analysts say the medical home model can provide effective patient-centered care, but its effectiveness depends on the mannerof its implementation.

Integrated Health Care

A medical home system, also known as a Provider Service Network(PSN), integrates several different aspects of care provided toMedicaid beneficiaries. Such a system "incorporates the use ofhealth information technology and quality measures to create asafe, patient-centered, quality-driven, sustainable health caresystem for Medicaid recipients and low-income uninsured citizens,"according to a DHH release.

The agency says PSNs improve quality of care by creating apatient-focused atmosphere that encourages preventive health care,chronic disease management, and coordination of health careservices.

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Tata chemicals

RESEARCH: GOLDMAN SACHS

RATING: BUY

CMP: Rs 311

Goldman sachs initiates a uy" recommendation on TataChemicals with a target price of Rs 435, implying 29% potentialupside. With its soda ash assets spread across geographies servingkey consumption regions and an improving regulatory environment inthe fertiliser industry, the market has not yet fully factored inTata Chemicals" earnings capability.

Goldman Sachs expects 49% EBITDA CAGR over FY08-FY 10E, on the backof earnings accretion from its US soda ash facility and improvingmargins in the soda ash and fertiliser segments. Tata Chemicals istrading at 4.9x FY10E EV/EBITDA, against its historical tradingband of 6-8 x forward EV/EBITDA .

The company"s key catalysts include: 1) Q2 FY09 results, whichshould provide insight into Tata Chemicals" soda ash realisationsacross geographies ; 2) Sustained strength in global urea anddi-ammonium phosphate (DAP) prices that lead to improvement infertiliser margins; and 3) Potential greenfield expansion plans inthe urea segment.

Goldman Sachs" values Tata Chemicals" core business usingEV/EBITDA methodology and the investments in its group companies at25% holding company discount to market value. Goldman Sachs valuesthe fertiliser/soda ash/other chemical segments at 6x/5.5x/6x FY10EEV/EBITDA, respectively. The 12-month target price of Rs 435implies FY10E EV/EBITDA of 6x.

TOKYO, Aug 25 (Reuters) - Japan's Mitsui Chemicals Inc (4183.T:  said on Monday it would invest 1.5 billion yen ($13.6 million) tobuild a demonstration plant to turn carbon dioxide (CO2) intomethanol for petrochemical production and reduction of CO2emissions.

At the envisaged plant, about 150-160 tonnes of CO2 emitted fromits plant in Osaka, western Japan, will be combined with hydrogento produce about 100 tonnes of methanol a year.

It will be the world's first such plant, a company spokesman said.

The manufactured methanol will then be converted to petrochemicalproducts such as ethylene and propylene and aromatics such asbenzene, the spokesman added.

The company will start construction of the plant inside the firm'sOsaka facility in October 2008, with the plant scheduled to becompleted in February 2009.

The Tokyo-based firm aims to complete development of the technologyby March 2010. ($1=110.11 Yen) (Reporting by Osamu Tsukimori;Editing by Chris Gallagher)

Two Lyondell Chemical Company affiliates have agreed to pay $6.5million to resolve an investigation into their handling ofsmog-causing pollutants, the Texas attorney general announcedMonday.

The settlement involving seven chemical plants along the Gulf Coastcomes nearly two years after Attorney General Greg Abbott sued theoperators for thousands of violations of state and federal lawsmeant to protect air quality.

A state inquiry found that the plants, which are owned byHouston-based Lyondell and operated under the names of Equistar andMillennium, had released large quantities of harmful chemicals foryears without remedy.

Abbott said the settlement should send "a strong message" tocompanies that "it's better for their bottom line to comply" withenvironmental laws.

Gayden Cooper, a Lyondell spokeswoman, said the company issatisfied with the agreement and has spent millions of dollars tofix most of the problems mentioned in the lawsuit. The company, forexample, has invested in infrared cameras to detect leaks, aprocedure not yet required by federal or state regulators, shesaid.

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Greater Cincinnati integrated public relations and marketing firmEisen Management Group has been named agency of record (AOR) forthe northern Kentucky-based Maile Build, Remodel & Design. Thecompany is working with EMG to develop and implement a newcommunications program designed to showcase Maile’sexpertise, quality and reputation.

According to EMG president Rodger Roeser, one of the main aspectsof the campaign is to tell the story of Maile, a third generationfamily business.

“The level of talent and expertise on the Maile staff isincredible. Rich Maile (owner of Maile Build, Remodel & Design)told us that nearly 100% of their customers recommend them tofriends. That’s an unbelievable reputation,” saysRoeser. “After seeing how their company works, I understandwhy they get such high praise. Yes, their projects are breathtakingin every sense of the word. But it’s their effort to createlasting relationships—and even friendships—with thefamilies they serve that leaves an even deeper impression.”

Guiding Graphics offers services to help architects, engineers,contractors, planners, landscape architects and interior designersassess their graphic design needs and develop an internal graphicsteam. Guiding Graphics hires and trains graphic designers using theindustry terminology so that they can adapt and apply their designskills effectively, said Gammon.

"An exceptional graphic presentation is essential inportraying the quality of our firm, the client, the project, andthe opportunity," said Howard Kozloff, Director of Operationsat Hart Howerton, an international planning and design firm, forwhom Gammon established an internal graphic design department eightyears ago. "A large part of our business involves visualrepresentation to convey ideas to our clients. In some cases,clients are not accustomed to thinking visually," saidKozloff. "We need to overcome this so that our ideas are notlost in translation."

Having its own team of graphic designers has increased HartHowerton's business, client relations and profits. The firmregularly receives and fulfills additional client requests forgraphic design items such as logos and marketing books. An internalgraphic designer produces quality, powerful and consistentpresentations which continue to please clients and advance HartHowerton's respected image in the market place.

Decatur, AL, August 24, 2008 --(PR.com)-- Decatur, Alabama website design and marketing firm Red SageCommunications, Inc. has been named the “2008 Small BusinessStart-up of the Year” by the Women’s Business Center ofNorth Alabama. The prestigious honor was announced during the 2008Small Business Awards Celebration hosted by the Chamber of Commerceof Huntsville/Madison County on August 21.

The Small Business Start-up of the Year award recognizes businesseswho utilize “best practices”, such as creating viablebusiness and marketing plans, acquiring adequate capital, andtaking advantage of professional training and networkingopportunities. Red Sage Communications was chosen by theWomen’s Business Center of North Alabama as an example of asuccessful small business start-up that other small businessesshould emulate.

“I am honored to receive this award and am very grateful forthe resources and networking opportunities available through theWomen’s Business Center of North Alabama and the Chamber thathave helped Red Sage, and other small businesses, succeed,”said Ellen Didier, founder and president of Red SageCommunications. “I also appreciate the efforts and dedicationof my staff, as well as our customers who continue to allow us tobe a part of their success.”

Explainers, the first of four volumes that will collect the strip, covers itsfirst decade. Feiffer spent a few months nailing down the look hewanted (figures built out of disjointed, wobbly lines drawn withsharpened wooden dowels), but before long he had worked out hisfavorite gags: a couple doing a pas de deux of emotional abuse, arepresentative of what the cartoonist called the "RadicalMiddle" resolutely failing to take a stand, a yam-facedpolitician summarizing the government's position in a frenzy ofdoubletalk. The only two real regulars are Bernard Mergendeiler, anebbishy wannabe hipster who's slowly becoming a prototypical Manin a Gray Flannel Suit, and his acquaintance Huey, a callowmeathead whose boorish self-assurance makes him irresistible towomen.

A lot of Feiffer's topical humor has lost its sting, although it'sstill an amusing barometer of bohemian America's concerns in the'50s and '60s (it's particularly fun to see

John F. Kennedy satirized from the left). He's more enduringly witty when hechannels the voices of little kids caught in the baffling stream ofmodernity, and his swipes at the way women and men treat each other(which evolved into his "Carnal Knowledge" screenplay)are still scathing. In one strip, a man catalogues his date'sbeauty and wit while she winces at his touch and silently refuteshim, point by point. "I love

A Government-funded company claims that sending used plasticbottles and paper to China for recycling causes less damage to theenvironment than putting them into UK landfill sites.

 According to research by the Waste & Recycling Action Plan(WRAP), less CO2 is produced by sending waste products 10,000 milesto China than by burying them in landfill and making brand newitems.

 WRAP’s study was commissioned to assess the environmentalconsequences of exporting waste for recycling.

 In the last decade UK households have drastically increased theirrecycling rate, which is up to 30%, compared with 7% ten years ago.

 Recycling companies are now finding themselves with more wast