| Hillbilly Hotdogs auction raises funds for autism
LESAGE -- The annual Autism Awareness walk, run and bicycle event at Ritter Park isn't for a couple of weeks, but who wants to think about all that exertion without a few Snuffy dogs and a Stacy's Flu-Shot under the belt?
On Sunday afternoon, the sixth annual Autism Awareness Event, which kicks off at 8:30 a.m. Saturday, April 28, at Ritter Park, got its usual pre-walk boost by the always-fun auction at the original Hillbilly Hotdogs on W.Va. 2 in Lesage. Under gun-metal gray skies spitting rain, folks gathered for the auction by auctioneer Larry Adkins, and for refreshments by Hillbilly Hotdogs and Cakes by June, both of which donated all of their profits. .
Dubai Islamic Bank denies bidding for Egypt's NBD
(MENAFN - The Peninsula) Dubai Islamic Bank, the third-largest Gulf Arab Islamic lender by market value, denied yesterday a report it was bidding to acquire Egypt's National Bank for Development (NBD).
UAE daily Al Bayan reported Dubai Islamic was among three bidders for the bank. Others were Saudi Arabia's National Commercial Bank and a UAE-Gulf consortium, the paper said, quoting unnamed Egyptian banking sources. "The news is totally untrue," a Dubai Islamic Bank official, who asked not to be named, said, adding the bank was in no way involved in any such deal.
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KKR Confirms It Dropped Out of Group Bidding for Sainsbury
April 5 (Bloomberg) -- Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. dropped out of the group that's considering a bid for J Sainsbury Plc, leaving its three partners to pursue the takeover plan. KKR withdrew from the planned bid for the third-largest U.K. supermarket chain after talks with other members of the group, it said today in an e-mailed statement. CVC Capital Partners Ltd., Blackstone Group LP and Texas Pacific Group make up the rest of the group, which must decide on a bid by April 13. New York-based KKR dropped out of the group because of its involvement in a takeover offer for U.K. retailer Alliance Boots Plc, two people with knowledge of the deal said. The action won't jeopardize the planned bid, according to the people, who declined to be identified as details aren't public.
Capitalism and breast milk
Just as I'm wrapping up my day, I decided to take a quick look at some stories getting a lot of hits. A story that posted recently on azcentral.com about mommies selling breast milk online to men is getting quite the curiosity readers. Stories about breast milk auctions have circulated since 2005, and lactation groups are quick to advise against buying it. This has nothing to do with auctions, but when I was looking on the Web for info on breast milk sales, I came across an article about one Los Angeles-area company, Prolacta Bioscience. The company found a way to commercialize breast milk for the benefit of critically-ill and premature infants in the neonatal intensive care. What do you think? .
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