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By IB Times Staff Reporter | February 18, 2011 9:46 AM EST Walt Disney Co. (DIS) hosted multiple business sessions on Thursday with Street analysts at the Disneyland complex in Anaheim, California and tackled a myriad of strategic issues facing both

Picher Oklahoma: Larry Roberts, the corners of his white Mercury Grand Marquis in the empty parking lot of the tiny cafe, G & J’s Gorillas Cage, and cruises in the space near the front door. red and white metal finishes restaurant faded and rusted, and the light-lined roadside sign has been dark for many years. Hand-painted posters in the windows advertising Burger Basket, corn dogs, and two or crook, “the last place in Picher! And yes, we’re open! ” When it closed in March, the gorilla cage was the only restaurant left in Picher, Oklahoma. Roberts is to make sure that the owners have cleared it for demolition. Roberts, Operations Manager of the Lead-Impacted Communities Relocation Assistance Trust, nearly 10 miles to the city of Miami. His job is to test contaminated buildings, Oklahoma is going to buy and carry. Retired state representative, he has a ruddy face and sports a plaid button-up. He rolled up his car window before he got into the city. “There’s still dust in the air,” he says in a relaxed Midwestern drawl. “And I would not drink water.” The ascent of the mercury, Roberts notification uprooted a mailbox, leaning against the cage of the gorilla and the pickup truck with a restaurant equipment. Up and down the street, windows are boarded up, empty, dark. Mounds of fine white sand called chat remnants of minerals from the mining machine over the city, 200 feet high. Roberts grabs his clipboard. “Let’s get this over with,” he says. Gorilla cage name for the mascot Picher-Cardin High School, was internal. Tables and chairs, all gone. In fact, there is not much of anything inside, except for going to the fridge. “We have no one left to sell food,” co-owner Gary Cox, 69, says Roberts, as he follows him around the room. Roberts tick a few notes on his clipboard, as Cox’s sister and business partner, Joyce, 75, shakes his head and tears. They both grew up here, “she says, and was never sick

Join the Gasparilla 2011 Pirate Festival happening at Downtown Tampa along Ashley Drive from Kennedy Blvd. to Cass Street on January 29, 2011 from 10 a.m. – 10 p.m. Flush with the wealth of beads, doubloons and other treasures – the Captain of Ye Mystic Krewe of Gasparilla and his band of marauding buccaneers celebrate

Singer/Songwriter GERRY RAFFERTY, former member of STEALERS WHEEL has died. The man behind such 70′s hits as “Baker Street” and “Right Down the Line” was

Swiss-banking giant UBS issued a 43-page publication of guidelines to employees that advises them on how to dress to impress when dealing with clients. According to a report in The Wall Street Journal this week, the move seeks to foster greater confidence in the bank and mend fractured relationships with consumers. Here is a summary

All four of the singing acts — Jerry Lawson & Talk of the Town, The Backbeats, Street Corner Symphony and Committed — will compete on Monday night’s live