RICHARD F. DICKENS, 53; WAS AUTO MECHANIC.(CAPITAL REGION)

Richard F. "Butch" Dickens, 53, of Brookview Village, Greenfield Center, died Saturday in Glens Falls Hospital after a long illness.

Mr. Dickens was born in New York City. He had lived in the Finger Lakes Region of New York for several years before moving to Greenfield Center in 1976.

He was a auto mechanic for several area firms.

Mr. Dickens had served in the Air Force.

Survivors include his wife, Margaret Dickens; two daughters, Stephanie Dickens of Greenfield Center and Nancy Conroy of Trumansburg, Tompkins …

Case Study: Fashion network solves its sales system woes.(CRM Strategies)(Worth Global Style Network uses Salesforce.com customer relationship management system)

Byline: Carol Krol

Challenge: Worth Global Style Network is a New York-based service company that provides online research, trend analysis and news services for the fashion industry. The company, whose clients include retailers such as Target Corp. and designers such as Tommy Hilfiger, needed a cohesive sales system for its six salespeople and five account managers.

Employees in the small company devised their own process, often using isolated contact lists in Microsoft Outlook. The company president, Larry Nipon, knew he wanted a CRM system, but WGSN had neither the infrastructure nor the bandwidth to accommodate a complex installation.

Solution: …

Davis, White win world gold in ice dance

MOSCOW (AP) — Americans Meryl Davis and Charlie White won the ice dance in the world figure skating championships on Saturday, the first world gold for the U.S. in the discipline.

Canada's Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir, …

Trouble and strife in the royal family

Qeh Theatre: Ship and Castle Theatre Company present Lion InWinter This fascinating battle of wits between the ageing Henry IIand his wife Eleanor of Aquitaine, with their sons Richard, Geoffreyand John as pawns, affords wonderful acting opportunities all round.

As Henry II, Chris Parslow, who can be seen in November at theHippodrome in the very different role of Captain Von Trapp in BLOC'sproduction of Sound of Music, relished every moment of his fierceverbal exchanges with Christine West, a beautifully scheming Eleanor.

There was a nice hint of vulnerability in Vicky Hartland'sportrayal of Alais, sister to Gary Smith's youthful Philip, anemerging great King of …

AmerisourceBergen profits top expectations.(Business)(Financial report)

VALLEY FORGE, Pa. -- Income from continuing operations grew almost 4% on fiat revenue in the first quarter of fiscal 2009 at AmerisourceBergen Corp. But results beat Wall Street's expectations, and management reconfirmed its guidance for the year (see accompanying story).

The wholesaler's earnings from ongoing lines for the three months ended December 31 gained 3.8% to $112.5 million, or 73 cents per diluted share, from $108.9 million, or 65 cents per share, in the prior-year quarter. Including a $1.47 million loss from discontinued operations in the most recent quarter and income of $1.41 million in the preceding year, net income edged up 1.1% to $111.1 million, or …

ON THE CUTTING EDGE HIGH TECH LEADERS.(CAPITALAND RPT)

Alain KaloyerosAge: 44Titles: Professor of physics at the University at Albany Director of the Center for Advanced Thin Film Technology at UAlbanyEducation: License d'enseignement in physics from the American University of Beirut. Masters in physics from University of Miami. Doctorate in physics from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaigne.Quote: …

Thailand Leasing Firm Plans Three Billion Baht Bond Issue.

Byline: Nuntawun Polkuamdee

Jun. 7--Nava Leasing Plc plans to issue bonds worth three billion baht in the next year to raise funds for business expansion, according to managing director Pornchit Piyawattanametha.

The company expected strong revenue from its core leasing and hire-purchase businesses over the next year, he said.

In March the company issued bonds worth 1.2 billion baht, he said. Most of the proceeds from the new bond issue would be used for car leasing finance.

The company forecast car leasing would grow 10-15 percent this year and had already extended new leasing finance worth nearly 400 million baht since the beginning of …