http://www.realworcester.com If it matters in Worcester, MA it's on Real Worcester. Wed, 07 Jan 2009 01:50:48 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Natick-based Boston Scientific Corp. has acquired Irish coronary stent company Labcoat Limited. http://www.realworcester.com/2009/01/06/bsx-buys-irish-stent-firm/ S2 Security Corp. of Framingham has been awarded a patent that covers the architecture of its entire product line. http://www.realworcester.com/2009/01/06/framingham-security-firm-granted-patent/ The YWCA of Central Massachusetts has been awarded a $343,905 grant from the state's Workforce Competitiveness Trust Fund. http://www.realworcester.com/2009/01/06/ywca-lands-343k-state-grant/ The Associated Industries of Massachusetts' Business Confidence Index hit an all-time low in December. http://www.realworcester.com/2009/01/06/new-low-for-state-business-confidence/ Falling prices and demand pushed shipments from American factories down 5.3 percent to $393.8 billion in November, according to the U.S. Department of Commerce. http://www.realworcester.com/2009/01/06/factory-orders-shipments-drop-in-november/ 7:17: Hey there, happy new year, and glad you could join us for another edition of Worcester City Council Liveblog. We don’t have video embed working tonight, but if you’d like to watch a streaming feed of the meeting in Windows Media Player, click here. Looks like we’re ... http://www.realworcester.com/2009/01/06/city-council-liveblognot-video/ The City Government Channels streaming video is live. We’re having some issues embedding video on this WordPress hosted site, but Mike Benedetti has done yeoman’s work over on Worcester Activist getting everything up and running while dissecting how this stream is working. The goal is, within the next two weeks, to have ... http://www.realworcester.com/2009/01/06/city-council-video/ News today that Ron Asheton, guitarist for The Stooges passed away of a heart attack. The band that started it all back in the late 60's early 70's, and Ron Asheton became a guitar hero to everyone who desired to pay loud , raw rock n roll. The Worm Bros ... http://www.realworcester.com/2009/01/06/ron-asheton-rip/ The Worcester Center for Crafts is "pausing" operations, effective today. Programming is delayed, and the Gallery Store closed. Artists are being told they can no longer use their studio spaces. Worcester Center for Crafts "paused" http://www.realworcester.com/2009/01/06/pause-for-worcester-center-for-crafts/ Hopefully, when there are number of wind turbines occupying the land formerly known as the Worcester Regional Airport, we won't see helicopters flying overhead in this manner to fix them.That's an Eurocopter EC135, which is being used by Bond Air Services to do windmill farm maintenance in the United Kingdom. ... http://www.realworcester.com/2009/01/06/wind-turbines-how-theyre-fixed-off-shore/