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Protests greet shoppers at Wal-Marts nationwide

Written By Unknown on Sabtu, 24 November 2012 | 23.54

PORTLAND, Ore. — Wal-Mart workers and supporters marched in protest at a number of stores nationwide Thursday and Friday, blasting the wages, benefits and treatment of employees of the world's largest retailer.

The efforts seemed to do little to keep shoppers away, though — Wal-Mart said it was its best Black Friday ever.

In Paramount, Calif., authorities arrested a small group of protesters Friday outside a Wal-Mart. Elizabeth Brennan of Warehouse Workers United said nine people, including three Wal-Mart employees, were arrested shortly after 12 noon for blocking the street outside the store in Paramount. At one point, however, more than 1,000 people blocked traffic outside the store, Sheriff's Capt. Mike Parker told KNBC-TV.

In Lakewood, Colo., shoppers hesitated as they passed dozens of protesters outside a Wal-Mart but entered without incident. Some protesters held signs playing off of the retailing giant's corporate slogan, "Live better," accusing the company of corporate greed and underpaying its workers.

"This is the way you get a fair shake. You've got to fight for it. You've always had to," said protester Charlie May, of the Industrial Workers of the World labor organization.

A union-backed group called OUR Walmart has said that it is holding an estimated 1,000 protests in 46 states. The exact number is unclear. Wal-Mart Stores Inc. has refuted that estimate, saying the figure is grossly exaggerated and that the protests involved few of its own employees.

A number of demonstrations and walk-outs occurred last week at stores but were scheduled to culminate on one of the year's busiest shopping days. The size and impact of the protests varied greatly by site. OUR Walmart, made up of current and former Wal-Mart employees, was formed in 2010 to press the company for better working conditions. Wal-Mart has criticized the group for relying largely on other unions and non-employees to make up the ranks protesting outside its stores.

The retailer also filed an unfair labor practice charge with the National Labor Relations Board last week against the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union. The company said that the demonstrations organized by OUR Walmart threatened to disrupt its business and intimidate customers and associates.

Wal-Mart estimated that fewer than 50 associates participated in Thursday and Friday's protests nationwide. Company spokesman Dan Fogleman said that the number of associates who missed their shifts during the two days of events is 60 percent lower than last year.

"It was proven last night - and again today - that the OUR Walmart group doesn't speak for the 1.3 million Walmart associates," the company said in a statement.

The union group estimated that "hundreds" of employees participated nationwide.

Victoria Martinez, 29, marched in front of the store in Paramount on Black Friday. The Wal-Mart photo department employee worked her shift on Thanksgiving but skipped work on Friday to "speak out". She said the company shows a lack of respect for employees, noting that she faced retaliation by local managers after speaking out about problems during an open discussion sponsored by the head office.

"I believe that when I started at this company, it was great," said Martinez, who's worked for Wal-Mart for seven years. "They've taken away everything that is great. "

Wal-Mart for many years has faced intense scrutiny over its wage and benefit policies and treatment of its workers. Fogleman says that the company provides some of the best jobs in the retail industry and that its wages and benefits typically meet or exceed those of competitors. The retailer maintains that it has many long-term employees and that its turnover rate is below the industry average.

The company, based in Bentonville, Ark., operates 10,400 stores in 27 countries.

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Mark Thompson testifies at London probe into BBC

LONDON — New York Times [NYT] Co. CEO Mark Thompson has testified before a committee in London investigating a scandal at his former employer, the BBC, a Times spokesman said Friday.

Thompson gave testimony Friday to the inquiry, which is looking into the BBC's decision to shelve an investigation into child sex abuse allegations against late presenter Jimmy Savile, the Times' senior vice president of corporate communications Robert Christie said.

Christie said he could not discuss the contents of Thompson's testimony, only saying that Thompson, 55, was expected to return to New York by Monday.

The inquiry is probing why and how the BBC ended a planned sex abuse investigation into Savile, a popular children's TV presenter and DJ who died last year at age 84.

Thompson, who was director general of the BBC until his resignation earlier this year, faces questions about the broadcaster's handling of the Savile allegations because the decision to drop the investigation took place while he was in charge of the company.

Nick Pollard, who chairs the inquiry, said Friday the committee had looked at thousands of documents and has so far conducted 12 interviews, with more planned. He said the large amount of evidence meant that the committee would need another month to finish its report.

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Brisk shopping, but no madness in Hub today

Foot traffic was steady, but not crazy, this morning at the Shops at Prudential Center, making the holiday seem no different than a typical shopping day.

Terri Lee, 40, a teacher from Back Bay, who was shopping there, said she avoided big box stores on Black Friday.

"I don't really like the crowds and the chaos," she said.

Lee added she will spend "about the same" amount of money this year compared to last year, for seven people, with one big-ticket item being an exercise bike for her boyfriend.

"I'm pretty generous every year," she said. "I like to shop. I like to give gifts. That's a present for me too when people open my gift and like it, which they do. I have savings. I have all that stuff, but it's important to kind of live in the moment and enjoy now."

Lee said she preferred shopping in Back Bay because stores had the same deals as big box ones, but less traffic.

"Black Friday really doesn't happen in Back Bay. That's the beauty of living in Back Bay. People in the suburban areas tend to go to the big box stores; some of those places that are here and run the sales and promotions don't have the crowds," she said. "A lot of people in this neighborhood go away for the holidays so they're out of town so they're probably in Wrentham right now. My turkey was here, my shopping was here. We kind of discovered that last year when we were walking down Newbury Street — there were all the same sales and there were much less crowds. We like the flow and the zen of the Back Bay."

Alex Cone, 31, an educational software seller from Brookline, said in the past he's gone to Best Buy and other big box stores on Black Friday, but chose not to do that this year.

"In the past I've gone to Best Buy and some of the other big box stores, but I saw 50 percent off at Express and I decided to do that this year," he said. "I'm going to keep shopping. I looked specifically for a couple of things for myself and a couple of friends and I'm going to continue shopping."

Cone, who's shopping for himself, family members and a couple of friends, added he hopes not to spend more money this year than last year.

"I keep an eye on my money, but we'll see at the end of the day how much I pay," he said.

David and Catherine George of the United Kingdom were in town shopping for the holidays. They will do their shopping today at Urban Outfitters in Faneuil Hall, Saks Fifth Avenue, Banana Republic, American Eagle, Jos. A. Bank and Lord & Taylor.

The Georges were last in town to do shopping four years ago and the experience "seemed slightly more frenetic" back then, David George said.

"It's very quiet. There's not many people about, which is nice," he said, adding "American Eagle has done well today" from his family buying items there.

The Georges also said discounts in America prevail over those in the United Kingdom.

"American Eagle was 40 percent off. None of the stores at home will do that," Catherine George said.

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The Ticker

Manufacturing in Mass. redux

Secretary of Housing and Economic Development Greg Bialecki will join Lt. Gov. Tim Murray to address the first-year accomplishments of the Advanced Manufacturing Collaborative, as well as new goals moving forward on Tuesday.

Dow tops 13,000

The Dow Jones industrial average gained 172.79 points, or 1.4 percent, to close at 13,009.68, the first time since Election Day the Dow has closed above 13,000. The stock market rose sharply as shoppers braved the annual post-Thanksgiving rush, while traders were encouraged by positive economic news from Germany and China.

Buildings bought

Private real estate investment firm Divco-West, which has offices in San Francisco and Boston, has purchased four office buildings, totaling 373,000 square feet, in Boston's Fort Port Channel area. The converted warehouse buildings previously owned by Boston Wharf Co. were acquired for DivcoWest Fund III, an $870 million fund raised last year. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

TODAY

L Small Business Administration chief Karen Mills attends a "Small Business Saturday" event and tree-lighting ceremony at Adams Park in Roslindale.

L Needham Bank has named Paul M. Totino of Dedham as executive vice president of commercial lending and finance.

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Built for entertaining, just blocks from BU

This gracious, renovated Colonial in the Cottage Farm area of Brookline near Boston University is made for grand-scale entertaining, with its large reception hall off of which is a series of elegant connected rooms and a showpiece grand staircase.

Built in 1890, the seven-bedroom house at 131 Carlton St. has 6,305 square feet of space and is filled with restored woodwork and paneled wainscoting, large windows and glass doors out to patios.

The beige stucco exterior has white trim and black shutters, hip and gable roofs, dormers and a colonnaded front entrance. The 11,000-square-foot lot has a large yard enclosed by a metal fence, screened by bushes and containing many old trees as well as a brick driveway.

The home, which has a renovated kitchen, bathrooms and master bedroom suite and original hardwood floors, is on the market for $2,795,000. The current owners also added new lighting, re-carpeted the hallways and stairways and repainted the entire interior.

You enter into a large reception hall with a grand staircase, a restored wood beam ceiling and coat closets on either side. To the left is a library with lots of windows, built-ins and a fireplace. Adjacent is a sunken mahogany-paneled study/office.

To the right is a large living room with two walls of windows, a fireplace and glass doors out to a bluestone-floored side porch. Off the living room is a track-lit sunroom with brick flooring.

To the left of the sunroom, and accessible from the reception hall through French doors, is a large formal dining room with a large built-in hutch and fireplace. There are glass doors from this room out to a bluestone patio.

The house's renovated kitchen can be entered through a butler's pantry redone in 2007 with new cabinets and built-in hutch, granite counters and a wine cooler.

The large eat-in, recessed-lit kitchen, also done over in 2007, has granite counters, a green-concrete island breakfast bar with pendant lights, and high-end appliances including Thermador wall ovens. There's a sunny eat-in area with a fireplace and window seats as well as glass doors leading out to the patio.

Behind the kitchen is a recently added a half bath with glass mosaic tile.

The showpiece newly carpeted grand staircase features a multilevel landing with a set of bay windows and window seats. Up a few steps there's a laundry room with a full-size washer and dryer and a sink.

There are three bedrooms off a carpeted hallway, including a master suite with a large hardwood-floored bedroom with a seating area and a fireplace. The redone en-suite master bathroom with white Carrara marble floors and walls has a walk-in shower, double marble-topped vanities and a whirlpool tub. A large, redone carpeted master closet features walls of built-in wardrobes and storage areas.

The second and third bedrooms also have hardwood floors and roomy closets and are served by a full bath with white ceramic tile floors and a white subway-tiled tub and shower.

There are four additional bedrooms on the third floor, all with original hardwood floors and closets, along with another white-ceramic tile full bathroom.

There's an additional 450 square feet of space in the partially finished basement, a second laundry room and a full bathroom.

The home is conveniently located about two blocks over the Mass Pike to Boston University's main campus and nor far from the BU Bridge to Cambridge.

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Pay limits tore at TARP bailout

The executive pay limits that came with the bank bailouts of the 2008-2009 financial crisis may have had the unintended benefit of reducing the bailouts' scope, a new study has found.

A report in the Journal of Banking, Finance and Accounting finds that the pay provisions discouraged some banks from participating in the Troubled Asset Relief Program, which ultimately paid out $400 billion of the $700 billion the government budgeted to shore up the U.S. financial system.

"We do know that some high-profile bankers complained that the pay restrictions were onerous. (But) our study suggests that TARP may have been better designed than bankers would have you believe," said Mary Ellen Carter, a Boston College professor of accounting and one of the study's authors. "The restrictions gave financial incentives for bank executives to think carefully about participating and, if they did participate, to get out from underneath the program as quickly as possible."

The researchers studied 263 publicly traded banks that were approved for TARP and found that 35 rejected the funds and that this decision was related to higher levels of CEO pay. However, these banks fared just as well as banks that took TARP money.

So the pay restrictions may have deterred banks that didn't really need the money from taking it, Carter said.

Banks that did take TARP funds saw higher executive turnover than their peers, she said, but the performance of those banks also didn't suffer.

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Revved up over Jaguar XJ

The 2013 Jaguar XJ with a 3-liter, V6 engine was a tough sell — at first.

My initial reaction was that the smaller engine would diminish the prestige of the luxury sedan that I'd always known to have an abundance of brawn under the hood.

However, when I laid eyes on the elegant sedan painted up in "British Racing" green with a bold mesh chrome grille, my reaction was anything but dissatisfaction.

While the XJ's exterior dazzles, the interior takes luxury to another level. Well-appointed leather with conspicuous stitching adorned the interior surfaces. Dark walnut wood paneling contrasted the cashew-colored seats.

Our test model included an optional $1,400 comfort package with a front-seat massage feature that is truly a "you gotta check this out" feature. The massage function has three levels of intensity. In addition, the front seats electronically adjust in 12 different ways. Both the front and rear seats were heated and ventilated as part of an optional four-zone climate control system.

The XJ's supercharged V6 engine produces 340 horsepower and is mated to an eight-speed automatic transmission. The combination gives the luxury sedan the performance personality of a V8 with the benefit of respectable gas mileage. The XJ's EPA gas mileage rating is 18 city/28 highway. But for those who can't live without the extra two cylinders, the XJ has three other V8 engine options ranging in horsepower from 385 to 510.

The XJ also has an idle-reducing feature that shuts the engine down when the sedan comes to a stop and restarts in less time than it takes the driver's foot to move from the brake pedal to the accelerator. The default feature, which is showing up on many other manufacturers' 2013 models, increases fuel efficiency in urban driving situations. Drivers unaware of the feature might be fooled into thinking their new car just stalled out. Although I eventually got used to the feature, it's easy to override.

Our test XJ had three driving modes: normal, dynamic and winter. The normal mode delivers a comfortable and leisurely character. Switching to dynamic mode and shifting through the eight speeds using the steering wheel transformed the sedan's character to aggressive and responsive. Regardless of mode or conditions, the sedan was smooth in braking and in handling and felt like a much smaller car as the XJ held its line through corners.

I found it easy to get wrapped up and even a little overwhelmed by the luxury features packed into the 2013 XJ. What intrigued me most about the XJ was what Jaguar was able to accomplish with its six-cylinder engine: a powerful, yet reasonably fuel-efficient luxury sedan.

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Addicted to Black Friday

Despite economic worries and Thursday night openings in neighboring states, consumers rewarded Massachusetts retailers and malls for opening earlier than ever yesterday, showing that Black Friday shopping has become as much of a tradition as turkey on Thanksgiving.

And elsewhere across the country — without the Bay State's blue laws to keep the holiday sacrosanct — crowds rushing the stores on Thanksgiving is becoming as common as gridiron tilts for millions, said the National Retail Federation, which expects holiday sales to climb 4.1 percent to $586 billion this year.

"I had no intention of buying a TV, but when I saw the deal it was too good to pass up," said Steve Abellard of Quincy, strapping a 60-inch Vizio to the top of his car early yesterday morning, along with his brother, who also purchased a TV.

Black Friday got off to a busy start at the Wrentham Village Premium Outlets, where a traditional 12:01 a.m. opening, which overcame a challenge by town police this year, had traffic backed up for miles as usual. The trend was self-gifting, with many standing in lines for hours to buy a coveted item for themselves.

"This year the discounts are better than last year," said Ravish Jain, 28, a software engineer from Rhode Island who was shopping for a PlayStation 3 at the Sony store and was among the first in line.

Black Friday shopping is a family tradition for Jeanne Dennis and her daughter — and it started in the womb. Dennis had a Nov. 29 due date for the now 31-year-old Heather Braccialarghe. "That was Thanksgiving weekend, and I was at Filene's Basement," she said. "Fortunately, she was two weeks late."

The two were among the throngs mid-morning yesterday at the Burlington Mall, which had lines at every entrance for its first-ever 12:30 a.m. opening. They were on their fourth stop, after a 5 a.m. start from Mashpee to shop at Braintree's South Shore Plaza, and Kohl's and Crate & Barrel in Burlington.

But Carlos Rodrigues opted to return home after arriving at midnight at Target in Dorchester's South Bay Center, where the line snaked around the corner.

"It was too crazy," he said, after returning in the afternoon. "I gave up quickly. Any deals the first people in line are going to get — not everybody."

Walmart boasted of its best Black Friday ever and downplayed demonstrations and planned employee walkouts at its stores in support of a campaign led by a United Food and Commercial Workers International Union-tied group.

"We are aware of a few dozen protests at our stores," spokesman David Tovar said yesterday. "The number of associates that have missed their scheduled shift today is more than 60 percent less than ... last year."

But groups of two to 30 demonstrated at all 48 Walmarts in Massachusetts yesterday, said Russ Davis of Massachusetts Jobs with Justice. "It's preposterous," he said of Walmart's response.

At Walmart in Quincy, throngs of shoppers jammed the aisles just after the 1 a.m. opening and carts were filled with big-ticket items.

Foot traffic was a bit more muted in downtown Boston later in the morning.

West Roxbury's Gina Huber and Patrick McDonough started shopping at 7:30 a.m., visiting Copley Place and the Shops at Prudential Center. Given the sluggish economy, they didn't plan to go overboard on big-ticket items this year.

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Western Mass. country store turned into co-op

CUMMINGTON — A popular country store and gathering place in western Massachusetts has been bought by its loyal customers and turned into a cooperative.

The Old Creamery Grocery in Cummington has been bought by 550 member-owners for $1.3 million. They include locals as well as people from as far away as California who own homes in the area.

Board of directors' President Kimberly Longey tells The Berkshire Eagle the price tag includes the property, the inventory, and a renovation and expansion project.

The co-op plans to expand existing store space by 20 percent, improve the parking area and grounds, and add an outdoor dining area and ice cream window.

The Old Creamery will remain open during renovations. All 26 employees will stay on.

The Creamery opened in 1886 as a dairy farmer's processing plant.

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Greek protesters march against mining projects

THESSALONIKI, Greece — About 3,000 protesters have marched in the northern Greek city in protest against what they claim are environment-threatening gold mining projects.

Riot police barred the protesters' intended route to the Canadian Consulate on Saturday, but no incidents were reported.

Canadian company Eldorado Gold Corp. is involved in four gold mining projects, all in northern Greece. Three of them are at the planning stage. The fourth, and biggest, in the Halkidiki peninsula, had been pursued a decade ago by another Canadian company, TVX, but was cancelled.

Opponents of the projects include owners of houses rented to tourists, environmentalists and leftist activists opposed to any foreign investment. Local communities have been bitterly divided, with many residents hoping to benefit from the more than 1,000 jobs that the investors say would be created.

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Government sues eBay over noncompetition agreement

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WASHINGTON — The Justice Department alleged Friday that Meg Whitman, the former CEO of eBay Inc., was intimately involved in making an anticompetitive agreement that prohibited eBay and Intuit Inc. from hiring each other's employees.

In a federal lawsuit, the government said Whitman and Scott Cook, Intuit's founder and executive committee chair, were involved in forming, monitoring and enforcing the anticompetitive agreement. California Attorney General Kamala Harris filed a separate lawsuit under state law, which she said contains stronger protections against anticompetitive practices than federal law.

Cook was a member of eBay's board of directors at the same time he was making complaints about eBay's recruiting of Intuit employees.

"eBay's agreement with Intuit hurt employees by lowering the salaries and benefits they might have received and deprived them of better job opportunities at the other company," said acting Assistant Attorney General Joseph Wayland, who is in charge of the U.S. Justice Department's antitrust division. The division "has consistently taken the position that these kinds of agreements are per se (on their face) unlawful under antitrust laws."

The two companies compete directly for specialized computer engineers and scientists.

The federal lawsuit seeks to prevent eBay from enforcing the agreement and from making similar agreements with other companies.

According to the Justice Department complaint filed in federal court in San Jose, Calif., the agreement was in place from 2006 to 2009. Intuit is already subject to a settlement barring it from making such agreements.

The California lawsuit would allow the state to recover damages and ensure that the companies do not engage in such conduct in the future.

California's lawsuit lists Intuit as a co-conspirator.

"If California is going to continue to be the high-tech capital of the world, we can't allow anticompetitive conduct that prevents talent from going where it's put to its highest use," Harris said in a statement.

Whitman, eBay's former CEO, is now chief executive of Hewlett Packard Co. She ran unsuccessfully for governor of California as a Republican in 2010.

eBay's revenues in 2011 were $11.7 billion. Intuit's 2011 revenues were $3.85 billion.

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Hostess workers in, Bay State creamed

Nearly 300 Hostess Brands workers in Massachusetts stand to lose their jobs at 13 facilities in 10 communities after the confectionery maker of Twinkies and Ho Ho's sought permission from bankruptcy court to close its business and sell its assets.

The brand said it will promptly move to lay off most of its 18,500-member workforce and focus on selling its assets to the highest bidders in the wake of a union strike.

Pier 4 apartments break ground

Houston developer Hanover Co. broke ground on 100 Pier 4, a 21-story apartment building on South Boston's waterfront. The $195 million project, set to open in two years, will include 369 residential units as well as 10,800 square feet of ground-floor retail space, 258 underground parking spaces and a one-acre waterfront park.

MCCA seeks hotel proposals

The Massachusetts Convention Center Authority is seeking proposals for two hotels, totaling between 400 and 500 rooms, on nearly three of the 5.6 acres of land the organization recently purchased near the Boston Convention & Exhibition Center. Officials said the project is expected to create 175 permanent jobs.

Streetwise Media bought up

Boston Business Journal parent company American City Business Journals has acquired Boston-based digital media company Streetwise Media, which operates the Bostinno website.

Bandgap awarded $1M by Energy Dept.

The U.S. Department of Energy has awarded $1 million to Woburn-based Bandgap Engineering to speed up solar energy innovation from the lab to the marketplace. Bandgap uses nanowire technology to increase solar-cell efficiency, while also increasing power density and reducing energy costs, the department said.

L TD Bank has promoted Molly J. McLaren, left, to manager of the bank located at 693 Memorial Drive in Chicopee. McLaren, a member of the Chicopee Chamber of Commerce, joined TD Bank in 2011 as an assistant manager in Westfield.

L Real estate firm Peabody Properties Inc. has hired Doreen Donovan as vice president of administration and quality assurance. Donovan previously served as vice president of administration and compliance for Corcoran Jennison Management/CMJ Management Company.

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Focus Electric needs more range

The long and winding road to building a better electric car continues, though it is a very long road, indeed. Case in point is the Focus Electric, the first passenger vehicle from Ford to be powered solely by electricity.

It looks like a gas-powered Focus and rides like one, too. So far, so good.

Unfortunately, you won't be going very far. A full charge will only get you about 75 miles down the road (maybe a 100 miles if you drive gingerly). That's a real deal-breaker for most drivers. Who wants to worry about making it to work or getting home before the battery runs down?

Realistically, electric cars today are only for the well-heeled early adopters, who will use them as a secondary vehicle or simply don't need to drive long distances.

Having said that, I will say the Focus Electric is a step in the right direction. Not as futuristic-looking as the Nissan Leaf, it charges in half the time. It's a nice, sporty car with sweeping headlights and a stylish, Aston Martin-type grille.

A lithium-ion battery system powers the vehicle. The 107-kilowatt motor is only equivalent to a 140-horsepower engine, but since it's electric it produces 184 ft.-lbs. of torque, providing super-quick acceleration.

Handling is good, with tight cornering and responsive steering. It's a quiet car, inside and out.

The regenerative brakes are excellent and you can squeeze out a few extra miles by braking gently. One problem with using batteries to power your car is where to put them. Ford didn't do us any favors by sticking them in the trunk, severely limiting cargo space. The rear seats do fold down, though, when you want more room.

The Ford Electric offers push-button start, dual zone auto climate control, rear-view camera, blind spot mirrors and rain-sensing wipers. High quality sound comes from nine Sony speakers and the MyFord Touch system allows you to control your phone, music, navigation and temperature either by voice or touch. The system works well once you figure out the overly complicated design.

Showing Ford's eco-consciousness, the seats are made out of recycled materials and the cushions are made of bio-based foam derived from plant seed oils.

Ford has partnered with Best Buy to encourage you to purchase their 240-volt home charger ($1,500) that will give you a full charge in 3-4 hours. If you stick with your regular 120-volt AC outlet, you're looking at an 18-20 hour charging time. The charging port, located near the driver's side door, shows you its status with a pleasant blue-glowing ringlight that grows in diameter the longer you charge.

Getting America's drivers to embrace electric vehicles will be a long-term project, given their limited range. The Tesla Motor Co. makes a drool-worthy model that can go up to 300 miles on a single charge, but it costs upwards of $80,000. Until the infrastructure is in place, whereby you can simply go to your local station for a quick (minutes, not hours) charge, EVs will remain a tough sell.

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What happens if Twinkies really do go away?

Let's not panic. We all know that Twinkies, Ding Dongs, Wonder bread and the rest of Hostess Brands' oddly everlasting foods aren't going away any time soon, even if the food culture that created them is gasping its last.

Yes, Hostess is shutting down. And odds seem to favor the roughly century-old company disappearing from our corporate landscape. But before you rush out to stockpile a strategic Twinkie reserve, consider a few things. Namely, that Twinkies never die. You know full well that the snack cakes down at your corner 7-Eleven are going to outlive us all. Probably even after they've been consumed.

And then there's the acquisition-happy nature of the business world, an environment that increasingly prizes intellectual property above all. It's hard to imagine the fading away of brands as storied and valuable as Ho Hos, Ring Dings and Yodels. Within hours of announcing the closure Friday, the company already had put out word that Zingers, Fruit Pies and all the other brands were up for grabs.

Even if production really did stop, how long do you think it would take for some enterprising investor intoxicated by a cocktail of nostalgia and irony for the treats Mom used to pack in his G.I. Joe lunch box to find a way to roll out commemorative Twinkies? Special edition holiday Ho Hos? It's just the nature of our product-centered world. Brands don't die, even when perhaps they should.

But let's pretend for a moment they did. What would we lose if Twinkies fell off the culinary cliff?

Certainly few obesity-minded nutritionists would bemoan the loss. With some 500 million Twinkies produced a year, each packing 150 calories... Well, let's just leave it by saying that shaving 75 billion calories from the American diet sure could add up to a whole lot of skinny jeans.

Except that Twinkies aren't merely a snack cake, nor just junk food. They are iconic in ways that transcend how Americans typically fetishize food. But ultimately, they fell victim to the very fervor that created them.

Despite the many urban legends about the indestructability of Twinkies — Did you know they are made with the same chemical used in embalming? Or that they last 5, no 15, no 50 years? — and the many sadly true stories about the atrocious ingredients used to create them today, these treats once upon a time were the real deal.

They started out back in 1930, an era when people actually paid attention to seasonality in foods. James A. Dewar, who worked at Hostess predecessor Continental Baking Company in Schiller, Ill., wanted to find a way to use the bakery's shortbread pans year round. You see, the shortbread was filled with strawberries, but strawberries were only available for a few weeks a year.

So he used the oblong pans to bake spongecakes, which he then filled with banana cream. Bananas were a more regular crop.

Let's pause so you can wrap your mind around that for a moment. Twinkies once contained real fruit. Twinkies were created because of seasonality.

All went swimmingly until World War II hit and rationing meant — say it with me — Yes! We have no bananas. And so was born the vanilla cream Twinkie, which was vastly more popular anyway. Even then, there was a crafted element to these treats. The filling was added by hand using a foot pedal-powered pump. Pump too hard and the Twinkies exploded. These days you only see that when teenagers post YouTube videos of themselves microwaving them.

It was around this time that American food culture did an about face. It was an era when the industrialization and processing of cheap food wasn't just desired, it was glorified. Cans and chemicals could set you free. And they certainly set Twinkies free of the nuisance of a short shelf life. It's not formaldehyde that keeps these snack cakes feeling fresh, it's the lack of any dairy products in the so-called "cream."

"Something about it just absolutely grabbed the popular culture imagination," says Marion Nestle, a New York University professor of nutrition and food studies — and no fan of junk food. "It's the prototypical indestructible junk food. It was the sort of height to which American technological ingenuity could go to create a product that was almost entirely artificial, but gave the appearance of eclairs."

When Twinkies signed on as a sponsor of the "Howdy Doody" show during the 1950s, their cultural legacy was sealed. Taglines such as "The snacks with a snack in the middle" began etching themselves into generations of young minds and it was considered perfectly fine that Twinkie the Kid would lasso and drag children before stuffing his sugar bombs in their faces.

It was the snack cake heyday. Twinkies were being deep-fried at state fairs, doing cameos in movies like "Ghost Busters" and "Die Hard" and being pushed by Spider-Man in comic books. A pre-vegan President Bill Clinton even signed off on including Twinkies in the nation's millennium time capsule (the two-pack was later removed and consumed by his council overseeing such matters for fear mice would add themselves to the time capsule).

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Fidelity shifts to Seaport

Fidelity Investments is moving its corporate headquarters to Summer Street on the edge of the Innovation District — a change that analysts say signals a major shift in the Financial District toward the Southie waterfront and reaffirms the financial giant's commitment to Boston.

"The hub of the financial services industry is clearly moving toward the water. Parking is easier, commuting is easier — both for Fidelity's employees and its clients — and they're right across the street from some of the biggest financial players in town," said Jim Lowell, editor-in-chief of the independent newsletter fidelityinvestor.com, referring to the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston and BlackRock. "I think we'll likely see the complete redefinition of the Financial District away from State Street."

Fidelity, led by founder and chairman Edward "Ned" Johnson, first acquired the 245 Summer St. property in 1999. After initially sharing space in the building with other businesses, the company began to increase its presence in the 14-story, 900,000-square-foot property, and about 2,900 of its employees are based there today. The 600 at its current headquarters and its other buildings on Devonshire and Congress streets will remain there until the company decides the future of that block, said Vincent Loporchio, a Fidelity spokesman.

"The new headquarters is in a prime real estate area that offers lots of options," Loporchio told the Herald. "We've long felt it was a terrific part of the city."

Fidelity was a pioneer in the Innovation District when there was little else there, he said, noting that its developments included the World Trade Center and the Seaport Hotel.

Since then, the area has attracted everything from the Institute for Contemporary Art to the high-end clothing store Louis Boston to the startup accelerator and competition MassChallenge — a string of coups that the head of The Boston Harbor Association credited largely to Mayor Thomas M. Menino,, who branded the area the Innovation District.

"He created the image that this is the place to be," said Vivien Li. "It's about innovation, creativity, edginess. To be in this area is to be in a very exciting part of the city."

Ultimately, Fidelity's move is also good news for Boston and the state, said John Bonnanzio, editor of Fidelity Monitor & Insight, an independent investment advisory newsletter.

"Psychologically, it's a shot in the arm and takes off the table any concern that the company would move elsewhere," Bonnanzio said.

In March 2011, Fidelity announced it would close its Marlboro campus and send most of those 1,100 jobs to its offices in Merrimack, N.H., and Smithfield, R.I. Last month, the company said it would build a $200 million data center in Nebraska.

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Nokia Lumia 920 brightest light for Windows phones

The masterfully botched launch of Windows 8 phones brought zero lines of eager consumers to wireless retailers across the nation.

But here we have Microsoft's last chance to show its smartphone gambit is for real. The Windows 8 platform has been refined and supercharged, with its capabilities fully showcased in the Nokia Lumia 920.

It is, to put it plainly, a beast. The first thing you'll notice is its heft. Nokia's big bet is that the technology packed into this 6.5-ounce, 5.13-inch frame will be worth the tradeoff in bulk. Near-field communication, wireless charging and all-day battery life are some of those features.

The buzz is that the Lumia 920 sports the best camera of any of the Windows phones, but I would go further to say it's among the best smartphone cameras on the market, with remarkable low-light capabilities and image stabilization.

Nokia's camera comes with an excellent suite of exclusive apps. Cinemagraph allows you to animate part of your picture, similar to a built-in Gif maker. Smart Shoot allows you to take a picture of something blocked by moving objects. For instance, if you're at the Louvre and hordes of tourists are walking by the Mona Lisa when you want to take a picture, Smart Shoot will take a series of photos and splice them together, erasing the people blocking your view.

A winning feature of Windows phones has been its people hub for integrating social information — tweets, status updates, photos — from your contacts into one stream. The new OS takes this a step further, allowing you to group your contacts into "rooms." It's similar to Google Plus circles, but with deep integration into Microsoft Apps and office features, so you can push out documents and hold chats.

With high-quality tablets and ultrabooks galore, the Windows ecosystem is improving. And at just $99 on-contract with AT&T, the Lumia 920 will not disappoint if you're OK with its size.

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Crowd-funding finds way to real estate financing

Crowd-funding has transformed the startup landscape, but can the insular world of real estate benefit from this model as well?

It's being tried in different forms, mostly centered on commercial real estate.

The Boston startup Collaperty, for instance, hopes to connect proven investors with real estate deals. But whether this is the future of property dealing or a dead-end dot-com fantasy is anyone's guess.

The ability for crowdfunding — or democratizing, crowd-sourced investment — was expanded by the federal Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act passed in the spring.

Even before that, sites such as Kickstarter and IndieGogo were replacing rich uncles everywhere.

Now, the real estate industry is an increasing focus.

Some sites operate like Fundrise, which allows investors in Washington, D.C., and Virginia to invest nominal sums of money in real estate projects. For instance, 175 investors contributed a total of $325,000 to fund an urban revitalization project in D.C. in exchange for 30 percent of the profits.

These sites tap into hostility against Wall Street, the egalitarian sense that the Internet can open up opportunities previously reserved for tycoons. Also, the model tends to work well for high-risk, bordering on charitable projects.

Yet that is not the premise of locally grown Collaperty.

Rishi Palriwala, 28, wants his site to cater to proven investors. He's aiming to employ a system of vetting that will weed out the inexperienced.

An amateur real estate investor and corporate finance analyst by day, Palriwala envisions a site with many revenue streams: posting fees for sellers and sponsors who organize the deals, along with subscription fees for providing commercial real estate analytics and third-party escrow services.

"It's this whole idea of collaborating with qualified investors," he said. "Real estate's a pretty private investment vehicle. We're trying to add a little transparency to how that's done."

Commercial real estate is naturally collaborative, with most deals involving some type of joint venture and a variety of equity arrangements. Yet the commercial real estate establishment hasn't warmed to the idea of crowd-funding entering its sphere of influence.

David Begelfer, head of the commercial real estate association NAIOP, said the risks are too complex.

"There are so many elements involved in making this type of investment," he said. "There may be a place for it, but there also might be an element of risk and potential for loss that ultimately might lead to a crackdown on it."

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J.C. Penney CEO tries to change the way we shop

NEW YORK — J.C. Penney CEO Ron Johnson seems unfazed that the department store chain's mounting losses and sales declines have led to growing criticism of his plan to change the way we shop. Perhaps that's because this isn't the first time during Johnson's 30-year career that he's attempted what seemed impossible.

People predicted he'd fail at selling high-end housewares and designer dresses at discounter Target, but shoppers still flock there years later for cheap chic goods. Likewise, almost no one believed that the Apple stores he designed to sell the consumer electronics giant's gadgets would make money. Yet Apple's retail operations have become the most profitable in the industry.

At the time, both decisions seemed radical. Now, they each are viewed as strokes of genius.

But Johnson's latest gamble is shaping up to be his biggest. He's not only aiming to reverse the fortunes of Penney, a 110-year-old chain that has had sales declines in four of the past five years as it's struggled to adapt to changing consumer tastes and shopping habits. He's also attempting to do something no other retailer has before: reinvent the department store from the ground up.

Since leaving Apple to become Penney's CEO in November, Johnson has been overhauling everything from the retailer's pricing to its merchandise to its stores. He got rid of most sales. He's brought in hip brands. And he's replacing rows of clothing racks with small shops that make the stores feel like outdoor mini malls.

But since Penney started the changes, the chain has reported three consecutive quarters of big losses on steep sales declines. Its stock has lost more than half its value. Its credit rating is in junk status. And critics are beginning to doubt that Johnson has what it takes to make the chain cool.

"He's trying to start a retail revolution without an army of consumers behind him," says Burt Flickinger, III, president of a retail consultancy. "Penney will suffer dire financial and competitive circumstances as a result."

But Johnson, 53, a Midwest native who speaks about his vision for J.C. Penney Co. with boyish enthusiasm, is undeterred: "Lots of people think we're crazy. But that's what it takes to get ahead."

THE BEGINNINGS: 'NO MORE JUMPING THROUGH HOOPS'

Virtually no one questioned Johnson's savvy when it was announced in June 2011 that he was leaving his role as Apple Inc.'s senior vice president of retail to take over the top job at Penney, a chain that had gained a reputation in recent years of having un-hip, boring stores and merchandise. To the contrary there were lofty expectations for the man who had made Apple's stores hip places to shop and before that, pioneered Target Corp.'s successful "cheap chic" strategy.

Johnson, who says that his biggest inspirations in life are "sunrises" and "smiles," spent several months before becoming Penney's CEO traipsing across the globe to find ideas on how to transform the company. On the itinerary: meetings with executives at trendy retailers and designers such as Gap, J. Crew, Diane Von Furstenberg and Ralph Lauren.

During these trips, Johnson hatched an idea to make Penney stores appealing not only to its core of middle-income shoppers, but also to new groups of younger and higher-income customers. Johnson decided to focus on three areas: price, merchandise and the stores.

Johnson started as Penney's CEO in November 2011. In his first couple of months in the role, Johnson hired big-name executives that he trusted. Among them, Michael Francis, a top Target executive that he'd met while he worked there, was brought in as president to help redefine Penney's brand.

Johnson's boldest move came on Feb. 1 of this year when he rolled out new pricing in Penney's 1,100 stores. That's virtually unheard of in retail, where significant changes are typically tested in a few locations for several months before being rolled out nationally.

Johnson says that Penney didn't have several months to waste. Testing would've been "impossible," he says, because Penney needed quick results.

Johnson's plan was designed to wean customers off the markdowns they'd become accustomed to, but that eat into profits. He ditched the nearly 600 sales Penney offered throughout the year for a three-tiered strategy that permanently lowered prices on all items in the store by 40 percent, and offered monthlong sales on select items and periodic clearance events throughout the year.

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