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The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act gave a break to formefr employees of companies with 20 or more employeeas by providing a subsidy that cuts the cost ofCOBRzA health-care coverage by 65 percent. Illinoi is extending the same break to workersz laid off fromsmaller companies. The bill signed by Quinnn provides a 65 percent health insurance payment subsidh to those who worked for companieds with fewer than20 employees. The bill givews employees of small businesses who lost their jobsafter Sept.
1, 2008, and who declinee COBRA because of its high a second chance to enter the Underthis plan, those former workers can continure their health insurance coverage and receive a 65 percentf premium reduction. The law also provides up to an additionall three months of coverage for manyformer Sen. Susan Garrett, and Rep. Karen May, D-Highwood, sponsored the
Thursday, December 30, 2010
Monday, December 27, 2010
Japanese EconMin Kaieda watching FX moves closely - ForexLive
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Saturday, December 25, 2010
Andreessen, Horowitz venture fund may be good news, if you're in the right ZIP code - Los Angeles Business from bizjournals:
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Netscape founder Marc Andreessen and his longtimewbusiness partner, Ben Horowitz, are forming a new VC firm with a focusw on Silicon Valley tech Andreessen writes that the firm will back companies with strong technica l founders who want to be the CEOs of the companied they’re founding. He wouldn’t rule out companies outside Silicon but, “We do not thinkm it is an accident that is inMountaij View, Facebook is in Palo Alto, and Twitter is in San We also think that venture capitalp is a high touch activity that lends itself to geographic proximity, and our only officee will be in Silicon Valley,” Andreessebn writes on his .
The new firm comes at a time when some are saying the industry needzto shrink, not grow. But Andreessenb and Horowitz found $300 million from mostly institutional investors for theirfirst fund. The firm, Andreesen-Horowitz, will investf aggressively in seed-stage startups in the hundred of thusandsof dollars, but will also invest in later stage fundinh rounds for promising growth companies. Consumer internet, cloud computing for mobile softwareand services, and software-poweref consumer electronics are among the areas that will draw investmente from the new fund. “Across all of thesw categories, we are completely unafraid of all of the newbusinesws models,” Andreessen writes.
“We believe that many vibranr new forms of information technology are expressingg themselves into markets in entirelynew ways.” And Andreessehn was equally emphatic about where his firm wouldn’t be . "Wes are almost certainly not an appropriate investodr for any of thefollowing domains: 'green,' energy, transportation, life sciences drug design, medical devices), nanotech, movie productio companies, consumer retail, electric cars, rocket space elevators.
We do not have the firstg clue about any ofthese Andreessen-Horowitz will have the capacitu to invest anywhere from $50,000 to $50 million in new He said that at least initiallg he and Horowitz would be the only two general partners in the company, and they would be selective about the portfolio companies whose boards they join – generally limitintg that level of involvement to firms in which Andreessen-Horowitz have a $5 million or more Andreessen believes his and Horowitz’s records as entrepreneurs will make them ideaol venture capitalists.
“We have built companies, from scratch, to high scales -- thousands of employees and hundrede of millions of dollars ofannual revenue. In short, we have done it ourselves. And we are buildinvg our firm to be the firm we wouldr want to work with asentrepreneurs ourselves,” Andreessen writes. Andreessen foundedf the pioneering web browsercompany , whichg was later sold to . Since then, he and Horowitxz launched , a tech service provider sold toin 2007. Netscapwe and Opsware sold for acombined $11.7y billion.
The two have been active investorsz in the tech spacesince They’ve angel invested in 45 tech startupw in the last five years, and Andreesse n serves as chairman of Ning, and on the boards of Faceboo and eBay. Word that the pair would be forminhg their own venture capital firm was brokenh on the Charlie Rose showin February. But detaila came on Monday. The pair had initiallyg planned onraising $250 milliojn for the fund, but investod interest prompted them to boost the BusinessWeek . The news magazine reports that Reid founder of social networkingsite LinkedIn, is among the investors in the which raised most of its money from institutiona l investors.
Andreessen-Horowitz launches at a tough time for the ventureecapital industry, one in whichj some are saying the industry needs to not grow. Venture capital, like the rest of the financiap industry, has been hit hard by the economic Venture firms make money when theird portfolio companiesgo public, or are sold to larged companies. But the IPO market has been anemi inrecent months, making profitable exits more difficult to find. A recent argues that the industry needs to trim down toregaih effectiveness. "The venture industry needs to shrinkk its way to becomint an economic forceonce again," said Robert E. vice president of Research and Policy at theKauffman Foundation.
“T provide competitive returns, we expecf venture investing will be cut in half in coming years. At the same time, lowering valuations and improving overalk exit multiples should help resuscitatethe industry.” The Kauffmann study finds that despite such high-profilr success stories as Google and , ventured firms have relatively little to do with most new Only about 16 percent of the 900 companies on the Inc. 500 list of fastesg growing companiesfrom 1997-2007 had venture backing.
Netscape founder Marc Andreessen and his longtimewbusiness partner, Ben Horowitz, are forming a new VC firm with a focusw on Silicon Valley tech Andreessen writes that the firm will back companies with strong technica l founders who want to be the CEOs of the companied they’re founding. He wouldn’t rule out companies outside Silicon but, “We do not thinkm it is an accident that is inMountaij View, Facebook is in Palo Alto, and Twitter is in San We also think that venture capitalp is a high touch activity that lends itself to geographic proximity, and our only officee will be in Silicon Valley,” Andreessebn writes on his .
The new firm comes at a time when some are saying the industry needzto shrink, not grow. But Andreessenb and Horowitz found $300 million from mostly institutional investors for theirfirst fund. The firm, Andreesen-Horowitz, will investf aggressively in seed-stage startups in the hundred of thusandsof dollars, but will also invest in later stage fundinh rounds for promising growth companies. Consumer internet, cloud computing for mobile softwareand services, and software-poweref consumer electronics are among the areas that will draw investmente from the new fund. “Across all of thesw categories, we are completely unafraid of all of the newbusinesws models,” Andreessen writes.
“We believe that many vibranr new forms of information technology are expressingg themselves into markets in entirelynew ways.” And Andreessehn was equally emphatic about where his firm wouldn’t be . "Wes are almost certainly not an appropriate investodr for any of thefollowing domains: 'green,' energy, transportation, life sciences drug design, medical devices), nanotech, movie productio companies, consumer retail, electric cars, rocket space elevators.
We do not have the firstg clue about any ofthese Andreessen-Horowitz will have the capacitu to invest anywhere from $50,000 to $50 million in new He said that at least initiallg he and Horowitz would be the only two general partners in the company, and they would be selective about the portfolio companies whose boards they join – generally limitintg that level of involvement to firms in which Andreessen-Horowitz have a $5 million or more Andreessen believes his and Horowitz’s records as entrepreneurs will make them ideaol venture capitalists.
“We have built companies, from scratch, to high scales -- thousands of employees and hundrede of millions of dollars ofannual revenue. In short, we have done it ourselves. And we are buildinvg our firm to be the firm we wouldr want to work with asentrepreneurs ourselves,” Andreessen writes. Andreessen foundedf the pioneering web browsercompany , whichg was later sold to . Since then, he and Horowitxz launched , a tech service provider sold toin 2007. Netscapwe and Opsware sold for acombined $11.7y billion.
The two have been active investorsz in the tech spacesince They’ve angel invested in 45 tech startupw in the last five years, and Andreesse n serves as chairman of Ning, and on the boards of Faceboo and eBay. Word that the pair would be forminhg their own venture capital firm was brokenh on the Charlie Rose showin February. But detaila came on Monday. The pair had initiallyg planned onraising $250 milliojn for the fund, but investod interest prompted them to boost the BusinessWeek . The news magazine reports that Reid founder of social networkingsite LinkedIn, is among the investors in the which raised most of its money from institutiona l investors.
Andreessen-Horowitz launches at a tough time for the ventureecapital industry, one in whichj some are saying the industry needs to not grow. Venture capital, like the rest of the financiap industry, has been hit hard by the economic Venture firms make money when theird portfolio companiesgo public, or are sold to larged companies. But the IPO market has been anemi inrecent months, making profitable exits more difficult to find. A recent argues that the industry needs to trim down toregaih effectiveness. "The venture industry needs to shrinkk its way to becomint an economic forceonce again," said Robert E. vice president of Research and Policy at theKauffman Foundation.
“T provide competitive returns, we expecf venture investing will be cut in half in coming years. At the same time, lowering valuations and improving overalk exit multiples should help resuscitatethe industry.” The Kauffmann study finds that despite such high-profilr success stories as Google and , ventured firms have relatively little to do with most new Only about 16 percent of the 900 companies on the Inc. 500 list of fastesg growing companiesfrom 1997-2007 had venture backing.
Wednesday, December 22, 2010
Sirius Goes Standard In MINI, BMW Motorcycles - Twice
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Monday, December 20, 2010
HVCC moves 2 programs to Rensselaer Tech Park - St. Louis Business Journal:
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The Troy college recently signeda 10-year leasr with 400 Jordan Road LLC. The school will pay approximately $605,0090 a year to lease 36,557 square feet of space. Hudsom Valley’s popular paramedic program will occupyg about half of the new The school also will move its respiratory care programm and a that trainsz employees forarea businesses, accordin to Stephen Cowan, director of the college’ws physical plant. The remainder of the leasec space willhouse ’xs Next Step office, a communications worke training program coordinated by the college.
Thosr departments all currently are locatedr inHudson Valley’s 90,000-square-foot Hy Rosenblum Administration a 1940s era building that Cowan said needds major renovations. “It’s a tireed old building. We are looking at total renovationxor demolition,” he said. But the college decided to lease space from the through 400 Jorda Road LLC for 10 years whiled the college decides whether it shoulxd overhaul or tear down the Hy Rosenblum building. The college continues to but because of the economy it does not have the money to renovate the current buildingright now, Cowanh said.
Hudson Valley is planning to hire a consultingg firm this summer to help officialsa decide the most cost effective way to deal with theRosenblukm building. helped Hudson Valley negotiated the The college plans to have the four programs and departmentse moved into the new space in North Greenbush befor e the start of classeson Aug. 31. The buildinhg previously had been used as office space forVerizomn workers, Cowan said.
The Troy college recently signeda 10-year leasr with 400 Jordan Road LLC. The school will pay approximately $605,0090 a year to lease 36,557 square feet of space. Hudsom Valley’s popular paramedic program will occupyg about half of the new The school also will move its respiratory care programm and a that trainsz employees forarea businesses, accordin to Stephen Cowan, director of the college’ws physical plant. The remainder of the leasec space willhouse ’xs Next Step office, a communications worke training program coordinated by the college.
Thosr departments all currently are locatedr inHudson Valley’s 90,000-square-foot Hy Rosenblum Administration a 1940s era building that Cowan said needds major renovations. “It’s a tireed old building. We are looking at total renovationxor demolition,” he said. But the college decided to lease space from the through 400 Jorda Road LLC for 10 years whiled the college decides whether it shoulxd overhaul or tear down the Hy Rosenblum building. The college continues to but because of the economy it does not have the money to renovate the current buildingright now, Cowanh said.
Hudson Valley is planning to hire a consultingg firm this summer to help officialsa decide the most cost effective way to deal with theRosenblukm building. helped Hudson Valley negotiated the The college plans to have the four programs and departmentse moved into the new space in North Greenbush befor e the start of classeson Aug. 31. The buildinhg previously had been used as office space forVerizomn workers, Cowan said.
Friday, December 17, 2010
Balsillie could face $100 million relocation fee for Phoenix Coyotes - Washington Business Journal:
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That would be on top of his offetrof $213 million for the financiall y troubled hockey team to Coyotes owner Jerry Moyes. U.S. Bankruptchy Court Judge Redfield Baum is hearinv arguments Tuesday on whether the Coyotesd can move to Canada as part of theitr Chapter 11bankruptcy reorganization. Baum is not expectedf to rule on thematter Tuesday, but focusexd on rights and some kind of relocation fee to reimbursre the league for its lost expansion team opportunithy in Hamilton should the Coyotez move there. The $100 milliomn figure was cited incourt documents.
NHL Commissioner Gary Bettmajn declined to comment outside the downtown Phoenix bankruptcy court onthe $100 million or what a relocation fee might entail. The NHL and othefr pro sports leagues are fightinbg the Coyotes move saying it could prompt other teams to file bankruptcyy in an attempt to move toothef markets. Baum, however, notec that moves by the Baltimorwe Colts, San Diego Clippers and others have not hada long-terj detrimental impact on pro sports. NHL representatives said Tuesdag that the league will continue to fund the Coyotez through next season ifneed be, and its priority is an ownershilp group that would keep the team in Arizona.
If that’as not possible, then bidders looking to move the team coulebe considered, officials said. Balsillie contends that NHL hockey is not financially viable in the Phoenisx market and is pushing for his offef to be approved by the end of The Coyotes have lost morethan $300 million sincr moving to the Phoenix market in 1996 from The court hearing was slated to continur Tuesday afternoon including arguments against the Coyotes move from the city of which owns Jobing.com Arena where the hockey team plays.
That would be on top of his offetrof $213 million for the financiall y troubled hockey team to Coyotes owner Jerry Moyes. U.S. Bankruptchy Court Judge Redfield Baum is hearinv arguments Tuesday on whether the Coyotesd can move to Canada as part of theitr Chapter 11bankruptcy reorganization. Baum is not expectedf to rule on thematter Tuesday, but focusexd on rights and some kind of relocation fee to reimbursre the league for its lost expansion team opportunithy in Hamilton should the Coyotez move there. The $100 milliomn figure was cited incourt documents.
NHL Commissioner Gary Bettmajn declined to comment outside the downtown Phoenix bankruptcy court onthe $100 million or what a relocation fee might entail. The NHL and othefr pro sports leagues are fightinbg the Coyotes move saying it could prompt other teams to file bankruptcyy in an attempt to move toothef markets. Baum, however, notec that moves by the Baltimorwe Colts, San Diego Clippers and others have not hada long-terj detrimental impact on pro sports. NHL representatives said Tuesdag that the league will continue to fund the Coyotez through next season ifneed be, and its priority is an ownershilp group that would keep the team in Arizona.
If that’as not possible, then bidders looking to move the team coulebe considered, officials said. Balsillie contends that NHL hockey is not financially viable in the Phoenisx market and is pushing for his offef to be approved by the end of The Coyotes have lost morethan $300 million sincr moving to the Phoenix market in 1996 from The court hearing was slated to continur Tuesday afternoon including arguments against the Coyotes move from the city of which owns Jobing.com Arena where the hockey team plays.
Wednesday, December 15, 2010
It's official: 15 General Motors dealers in Colorado to lose franchises - Kansas City Business Journal:
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It was the first definitive statement of exactly how many GM dealers in the state were informed thay will lose their franchis e agreementsin 2010. The Colorado Automobils Dealers Association previously had estimated the numberd at 13 to 15 based on reportfrom dealers. GM still is not releasingh the names ofthe 1,323w dealers it plans to drop nationwide, including the 15 in The information came in a list released by the Houswe Energy and Commerce Committee's Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, base on information provided by GM.
Executives of GM and which plans to shed 14Colorado dealers, testifiec before Congress about their dealer plans GM's car lines include Chevrolet, Buick, GMC, Cadillac, Saab, Saturn and Hummer. It has some 6,000 dealerships nationwide. Letters sent in mid-May to GM dealerss the company plannedto drop, a copy of which was obtainedc by the Denver Business Journal, said the automaketr reviewed each of its dealers' salexs volume, profitability, capitalization, location and facilitied along with other "markert patterns." .
"Based on our review and current and foreseeablee market conditions andyour dealership's historical performance, we do not see that GM can have a productivd business relationship with [name of over the long term," said the letter, dated May 14. About 92 of Colorado'a 264 auto dealerships sell one or more GM said Tim Jackson of the state autodealersz group. Additional dealers may lose theirfranchisese later, GM has said.
It was the first definitive statement of exactly how many GM dealers in the state were informed thay will lose their franchis e agreementsin 2010. The Colorado Automobils Dealers Association previously had estimated the numberd at 13 to 15 based on reportfrom dealers. GM still is not releasingh the names ofthe 1,323w dealers it plans to drop nationwide, including the 15 in The information came in a list released by the Houswe Energy and Commerce Committee's Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, base on information provided by GM.
Executives of GM and which plans to shed 14Colorado dealers, testifiec before Congress about their dealer plans GM's car lines include Chevrolet, Buick, GMC, Cadillac, Saab, Saturn and Hummer. It has some 6,000 dealerships nationwide. Letters sent in mid-May to GM dealerss the company plannedto drop, a copy of which was obtainedc by the Denver Business Journal, said the automaketr reviewed each of its dealers' salexs volume, profitability, capitalization, location and facilitied along with other "markert patterns." .
"Based on our review and current and foreseeablee market conditions andyour dealership's historical performance, we do not see that GM can have a productivd business relationship with [name of over the long term," said the letter, dated May 14. About 92 of Colorado'a 264 auto dealerships sell one or more GM said Tim Jackson of the state autodealersz group. Additional dealers may lose theirfranchisese later, GM has said.
Sunday, December 12, 2010
Bantam finds strength in low numbers - Austin Business Journal:
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In the next room, a technician assemblexs a customized network-management device with the logo onthe box, while his colleague puts together another one that Wi-Fi service providee custom-configured for one of its customers. "We'red busting out at the seams here," Mike Chaddock, president and CEO of Bantak Electronics Inc., says as he surveys the company'zs manufacturing floor and warehouse, which has recentlgy doubled in sizeto 30,000 square feet. The which employs about 50 at its plang on McHale Court off ofBurnet Road, expectws to continue to grow and is on the hunt for a new place that will triple its current footprintf by October 2008, Chaddock says.
Bantam, founderd in the late 1960s as , for many yearas had focused on repairing computers and It also made its own line of personall computers and servers under the XCELON brancd name and ran a retail store sellingcomputer parts. The companty still manufactures the XCELO N gear and has kept the partsstore going. But its growtg of late has come from its new focus providing custom-manufacturing services to technology The company has found its niche providing so-calleds "high-mix, low-volume," manufacturing services for companiew that need a range of different productss built in small numbers, says Chaddock, who took over Bantamm about two years ago after heading Austin-based semiconductor startuo and working for many years as a managedr at This year, Bantamk is on pace to ring up roughly $20 million in sales, up from $15 million in 2004, Chaddockk says.
Bantam's ideal customef is one that makes software but not the hardwarer needed to makeit work, Chaddock says. It landed just such a customerlast year, when data-storage outfit of Austij shifted its focus to software development and outsourcerd its manufacturing to Bantam. Increasingly, U.S.-based technologyh companies that outsource production are turnint to contract manufacturers in Asia and othee overseas markets where labor costs are saysSteven Froehlich, an analyst at in That trend is likelt to continue. But at the same time, demand is expected to continur forsmaller U.S. outfits, such as that stand ready to turn out smaller runs ofproducta quickly, Froehlich says.
"There will always be a place for this nichw where a companycan say, 'I need 1,000 of I need it done righf and I need it in three weeks,'" he "That's how long it takes a boat to sail from The higher level of intimacyh that smaller, U.S.-based manufacturers can have with theirt customers also makes them appeal to certain type of technology companies -- particularly those that are baserd nearby, Froehlich says. That's one reasom Crossroads selected Bantam, Crossroads CEO Rob Sims says. "Thart way, you can influences the manufacturer more effectively and manage changes he says. "And if it makeas sense to do the work within our then Ithink that's the righy approach.
"
In the next room, a technician assemblexs a customized network-management device with the logo onthe box, while his colleague puts together another one that Wi-Fi service providee custom-configured for one of its customers. "We'red busting out at the seams here," Mike Chaddock, president and CEO of Bantak Electronics Inc., says as he surveys the company'zs manufacturing floor and warehouse, which has recentlgy doubled in sizeto 30,000 square feet. The which employs about 50 at its plang on McHale Court off ofBurnet Road, expectws to continue to grow and is on the hunt for a new place that will triple its current footprintf by October 2008, Chaddock says.
Bantam, founderd in the late 1960s as , for many yearas had focused on repairing computers and It also made its own line of personall computers and servers under the XCELON brancd name and ran a retail store sellingcomputer parts. The companty still manufactures the XCELO N gear and has kept the partsstore going. But its growtg of late has come from its new focus providing custom-manufacturing services to technology The company has found its niche providing so-calleds "high-mix, low-volume," manufacturing services for companiew that need a range of different productss built in small numbers, says Chaddock, who took over Bantamm about two years ago after heading Austin-based semiconductor startuo and working for many years as a managedr at This year, Bantamk is on pace to ring up roughly $20 million in sales, up from $15 million in 2004, Chaddockk says.
Bantam's ideal customef is one that makes software but not the hardwarer needed to makeit work, Chaddock says. It landed just such a customerlast year, when data-storage outfit of Austij shifted its focus to software development and outsourcerd its manufacturing to Bantam. Increasingly, U.S.-based technologyh companies that outsource production are turnint to contract manufacturers in Asia and othee overseas markets where labor costs are saysSteven Froehlich, an analyst at in That trend is likelt to continue. But at the same time, demand is expected to continur forsmaller U.S. outfits, such as that stand ready to turn out smaller runs ofproducta quickly, Froehlich says.
"There will always be a place for this nichw where a companycan say, 'I need 1,000 of I need it done righf and I need it in three weeks,'" he "That's how long it takes a boat to sail from The higher level of intimacyh that smaller, U.S.-based manufacturers can have with theirt customers also makes them appeal to certain type of technology companies -- particularly those that are baserd nearby, Froehlich says. That's one reasom Crossroads selected Bantam, Crossroads CEO Rob Sims says. "Thart way, you can influences the manufacturer more effectively and manage changes he says. "And if it makeas sense to do the work within our then Ithink that's the righy approach.
"
Friday, December 10, 2010
The story behind the study on abandoned homes - Chicago Tribune
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The story behind the study on abandoned homes Chicago Tribune In blighted neighborhoods in Chicago and elsewhere, community groups frequently blame mortgage lenders and loan servicers for abandoning large numbers of ... |
Tuesday, December 7, 2010
Google Books Now Available for iPhone - Touch Reviews (blog)
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Sunday, December 5, 2010
Magazines' ad pages up - New York Post
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New York Post | Magazines' ad pages up New York Post The glossy monthly magazines have posted a 4 percent gain in ad pages for 2010, but it's the weekly magazine, People, which will end up wearing the ad page ... |
Thursday, December 2, 2010
Benefica beats Beira Mar 3-1 in Portuguese league - SI.com
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Benefica beats Beira Mar 3-1 in Portuguese league SI.com Also, Braga beat Nacional 2-0 and Rio Ave won 1-0 at Naval. With the victory, Braga moved to within three points of sixth-place Nacional. ... |
Tuesday, November 30, 2010
Sac State receives $211K for 'green jobs' training - Silicon Valley / San Jose Business Journal:
http://gingerprintblog.com/2008/06/james-island.html
The college has received $210,950 in stimulus moneyt to provide classroom training for green jobs inthe high-growthj industry of facilities management, a news release said The money comes from almost $5 million in federap Recovery Act funds allocated by the throughj the Sacramento Employment and Trainingt Agency. The College of Continuing Education is one of 19 area organizationsz receivingthe funds. The college’ws training program will start inthe fall.
It will help workere from facility management and theconstruction industry, whichg are sectors that have lost many jobs in the deep Those eligible for the progra include adults who are interestefd in or have some experience in construction management, operations and maintenance, custodial services, landscaping, the environment, contrac t management and waste management, the release said. “Theswe funds will allow us to develop anddeliver much-needed training for an industruy sector in our communith that has been extremely hard hit by the budget downturn,” Alices Tom, dean of the Collegd of Continuing Education, said in the release.
“Sustainable facilitiesx management has been designated asa high-growtyh job area by the Bureau of Labor so this training will have both immediate and long-termn usability.” “The training will prepare workers for high-wage jobs with careere advancement opportunities,” Tonii Ramirez, senior program coordinatot with the College of Continuinbg Education, said in the release. “It meets the college’sa goal of helping adults update their skills and move aheae intheir careers. “Thd program will offer a comprehensivde review of the skillx requiredof today’s facility Ramirez said.
“It will teach the importance of incorporatinfg sustainability in all steps of facility including the LEED (Leadershi in Energy and Environmental Design) certificatiob process, which rates projects based on theirr environmental awareness in design and • $257,795 to study an advancef technique for sampling hydrocarbon emissionds from certain kinds of vegetation. The grant will fund research by one graduat student and oneundergraduate student. $17,664 to supplement an earliedr non-stimulus award of $198,000 to study sugar-basesd molecules that potentially could be used to fightf viral diseases suchas HIV, which can lead to AIDS.
The supplementy will fund work by two undergraduatde students and one high school studentthis summer. $74,760 from the federal Noyc e Teaching Fellowship Program to provided planning funds for a collaboration by the College of Naturall Sciences and Mathematics and the College of Education to creatre training programs for math andscience
The college has received $210,950 in stimulus moneyt to provide classroom training for green jobs inthe high-growthj industry of facilities management, a news release said The money comes from almost $5 million in federap Recovery Act funds allocated by the throughj the Sacramento Employment and Trainingt Agency. The College of Continuing Education is one of 19 area organizationsz receivingthe funds. The college’ws training program will start inthe fall.
It will help workere from facility management and theconstruction industry, whichg are sectors that have lost many jobs in the deep Those eligible for the progra include adults who are interestefd in or have some experience in construction management, operations and maintenance, custodial services, landscaping, the environment, contrac t management and waste management, the release said. “Theswe funds will allow us to develop anddeliver much-needed training for an industruy sector in our communith that has been extremely hard hit by the budget downturn,” Alices Tom, dean of the Collegd of Continuing Education, said in the release.
“Sustainable facilitiesx management has been designated asa high-growtyh job area by the Bureau of Labor so this training will have both immediate and long-termn usability.” “The training will prepare workers for high-wage jobs with careere advancement opportunities,” Tonii Ramirez, senior program coordinatot with the College of Continuinbg Education, said in the release. “It meets the college’sa goal of helping adults update their skills and move aheae intheir careers. “Thd program will offer a comprehensivde review of the skillx requiredof today’s facility Ramirez said.
“It will teach the importance of incorporatinfg sustainability in all steps of facility including the LEED (Leadershi in Energy and Environmental Design) certificatiob process, which rates projects based on theirr environmental awareness in design and • $257,795 to study an advancef technique for sampling hydrocarbon emissionds from certain kinds of vegetation. The grant will fund research by one graduat student and oneundergraduate student. $17,664 to supplement an earliedr non-stimulus award of $198,000 to study sugar-basesd molecules that potentially could be used to fightf viral diseases suchas HIV, which can lead to AIDS.
The supplementy will fund work by two undergraduatde students and one high school studentthis summer. $74,760 from the federal Noyc e Teaching Fellowship Program to provided planning funds for a collaboration by the College of Naturall Sciences and Mathematics and the College of Education to creatre training programs for math andscience
Saturday, November 27, 2010
Carl Icahn Reveals Nominees for Lionsgate Board - Hollywood Reporter
http://mideastmonitor.org/gambill/050216.htm
Carl Icahn Reveals Nominees for Lionsgate Board Hollywood Reporter As his proxy fight with Lionsgate comes to a climax, Carl Icahn has unveiled five rebel board nominees for Lionsgate Entertainment¹s upcoming shareholders ... Carl Icahn Unveils His Lionsgate Board |
Thursday, November 25, 2010
Tribute concert for Heath Jackson - WTVM
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Tribute concert for Heath Jackson WTVM Jackson's mother, Angi Idel, says with God's help she will sing one of their favorite songs as well. Idel believes her son would be happy the show is going ... |
Thursday, November 18, 2010
Marc Andreessen starts $300M VC fund - Dallas Business Journal:
http://johnmcmullen.com/wjddiet.html
billion. While the actual news that Andreessen-Horowitz was beingt formed was broken in February on the Charlis RoseTV show, details and the officialp launch came on Monday. On his blog, Andreessenh wrote: "Between the two of us, Ben and I have startedc threecompanies directly, createdc many new products and services, run operating businesses at high levelsw of scale, angel invested in 45 tech startupa in the last five years, and servedx on a broad cross-section of company boards with some of the best entrepreneura and investors in the industry.
Througjh all this, we have workedf closely together for15 years, and we coulrd not be more excited to extend our partnershio into venture capital. The new firm will investg anywherefrom $50,000 to $50 million, Andreesseb wrote, in consumer Internet, business Internet (cloud computing, "softward as a service"), mobile software and services, software-powere d consumer electronics, infrastructure and applications networking, storage, databases, and othert back-end systems. Most of the money will be investesd in startups inSilicon Valley, following in the VC tradition of wanting to be withimn a few minutes of the headquarters of the companiez they invest in.
“We do not think it is an accident that Google is inMountainj View, Facebook is in Palo and Twitter is in San Francisco. We also thinko that venture capital is a high touch activity that lend itself togeographic proximity, and our only office will be in Siliconb Valley,” Andreessen wrote on his blog. He was also clear abou what it won't invest in: "Wse are almost certainly not an appropriat e investor for any of thefollowinvg domains: 'clean,' 'green,' energy, transportation, life sciences (biotech, drug design, medical nanotech, movie production companies, consumer retail, electri cars, rocket ships, space elevators.
We do not have the firsy clue about any of these Andreessen said he will continu e as chairman of a social networking software companyhe , as well as remain on the boarde at and (NASDAQ:EBAY). Horowitz is vice president and generapl manager of business technology optimization for softwareat .
billion. While the actual news that Andreessen-Horowitz was beingt formed was broken in February on the Charlis RoseTV show, details and the officialp launch came on Monday. On his blog, Andreessenh wrote: "Between the two of us, Ben and I have startedc threecompanies directly, createdc many new products and services, run operating businesses at high levelsw of scale, angel invested in 45 tech startupa in the last five years, and servedx on a broad cross-section of company boards with some of the best entrepreneura and investors in the industry.
Througjh all this, we have workedf closely together for15 years, and we coulrd not be more excited to extend our partnershio into venture capital. The new firm will investg anywherefrom $50,000 to $50 million, Andreesseb wrote, in consumer Internet, business Internet (cloud computing, "softward as a service"), mobile software and services, software-powere d consumer electronics, infrastructure and applications networking, storage, databases, and othert back-end systems. Most of the money will be investesd in startups inSilicon Valley, following in the VC tradition of wanting to be withimn a few minutes of the headquarters of the companiez they invest in.
“We do not think it is an accident that Google is inMountainj View, Facebook is in Palo and Twitter is in San Francisco. We also thinko that venture capital is a high touch activity that lend itself togeographic proximity, and our only office will be in Siliconb Valley,” Andreessen wrote on his blog. He was also clear abou what it won't invest in: "Wse are almost certainly not an appropriat e investor for any of thefollowinvg domains: 'clean,' 'green,' energy, transportation, life sciences (biotech, drug design, medical nanotech, movie production companies, consumer retail, electri cars, rocket ships, space elevators.
We do not have the firsy clue about any of these Andreessen said he will continu e as chairman of a social networking software companyhe , as well as remain on the boarde at and (NASDAQ:EBAY). Horowitz is vice president and generapl manager of business technology optimization for softwareat .
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
Study: More CEOs say good works boost recruiting - Portland Business Journal:
http://www.fuzzysplace.com/article/Real-Estate-Industry-Owes-Zillow-Debt-Of-Thanks.html
This marks a shift in corporatde philanthropy since the Roundtable released itsin 2000, which notedd that corporate responsibility was beginning to evolvw from community impact to bottom line impact. The most recent report showsw thatthe evolution, indeed, has taken place. Boston struggles to maintai n its college grads as they move intothe workforce, and the Roundd Table report underscores that philanthropy is a factor makin g some local companies more attractive to youngefr workers.
The Roundtable issued the report in collaboration with the University of Massachusetts Boston Emerging Leaders A team from the Emerging Leaders Programm started working on the report last summer, interviewing 20 Massachusetts companies about thei corporate social responsibility activitiexs -- predominantly large companes and representing a cross-section of industries. “Historicallyy CEOs would engage in philanthropy because it was the righr thingto do. They wanted to be good corporate said J.D. Chesloff, deputyy director of the MassachusettsBusiness “Now there’s a good businessd case to incorporating it into theit business plan.
There’s a bottom line impacrt to it, in addition to being good for all the other community reasons.” Based on the findings from the 20 companieas included in the research, the reporrt suggests five ways companiees can build a culturd of social responsibility: • Create a clear link to the company’s mission and securde endorsement at the executive level. Engage employees at all levelsas decision-makers in relation to corporatee social responsibility targets and • Leverage employees’ skills to make positive contributione to the community. Provide opportunities for employees to develop new skills.
“A lot of it is around a company beinf authentic about wanting to do something in the communituy and listening to what the employees are intereste in doing and connecting it to the valuesd ofthe company,” said Ellen Remmer, CEO of The , a nonprofift that promotes strategic philanthropy and advises donors.
This marks a shift in corporatde philanthropy since the Roundtable released itsin 2000, which notedd that corporate responsibility was beginning to evolvw from community impact to bottom line impact. The most recent report showsw thatthe evolution, indeed, has taken place. Boston struggles to maintai n its college grads as they move intothe workforce, and the Roundd Table report underscores that philanthropy is a factor makin g some local companies more attractive to youngefr workers.
The Roundtable issued the report in collaboration with the University of Massachusetts Boston Emerging Leaders A team from the Emerging Leaders Programm started working on the report last summer, interviewing 20 Massachusetts companies about thei corporate social responsibility activitiexs -- predominantly large companes and representing a cross-section of industries. “Historicallyy CEOs would engage in philanthropy because it was the righr thingto do. They wanted to be good corporate said J.D. Chesloff, deputyy director of the MassachusettsBusiness “Now there’s a good businessd case to incorporating it into theit business plan.
There’s a bottom line impacrt to it, in addition to being good for all the other community reasons.” Based on the findings from the 20 companieas included in the research, the reporrt suggests five ways companiees can build a culturd of social responsibility: • Create a clear link to the company’s mission and securde endorsement at the executive level. Engage employees at all levelsas decision-makers in relation to corporatee social responsibility targets and • Leverage employees’ skills to make positive contributione to the community. Provide opportunities for employees to develop new skills.
“A lot of it is around a company beinf authentic about wanting to do something in the communituy and listening to what the employees are intereste in doing and connecting it to the valuesd ofthe company,” said Ellen Remmer, CEO of The , a nonprofift that promotes strategic philanthropy and advises donors.
Monday, November 15, 2010
Traffic Alert: Road changes begin Monday in SMU area - Dallas Morning News (blog)
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Traffic Alert: Road changes begin Monday in SMU area Dallas Morning News (blog) The George W. Bush presidential library groundbreaking ceremony is Tuesday, but people who live near SMU should be on the lookout for road changes beginning ... |
Sunday, November 14, 2010
Funeral industry gears up for boomers
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The projects the annual number of deaths in the Unitedf States will risefrom 2.6 million next year to 3 milliom in 2024 — and 4 milliom in 2043. “We hear the tidal wave is saidChris Meyer, owner of in Carmichael. “We’ve knowmn the (baby boomer trend) has been coming for some time, so the industrg has been gearing up for that to saidBob Rosson, a Mississippi funeral home operator and an executiver board member of the . “We’ll be able to handlde it.” But the industry first has to survive the currenrdeath trough. The number of deaths in the United Statee declinedby 0.
9 percent from 2005 to 2006, in part because of a mild flu season, according to the . Healtb care advances have led to record-high life expectancieds and lower annual death ratex for a rangeof diseases, including heart disease and diabetes. “We have actuallyg felt a lightercase load,” Meyer said. “Ik think some of the bigger funeral homes have felt a precipitous drop off.” Baby boomersd might live longer than their parents, but soonerf or later they’ve got to go. Those who want traditionapl burials should prepare forrisintg prices.
The median cost of a funeralo in the United Stateswas $6,196 in according to a National Funeral Directors Association surve y released last year. That price, whicyh includes a $2,255 metal casket, was 11 percenrt higher than inthe association’se survey in 2004. With the inclusionn of a concrete vault, which many cemeteriez require, the price risew to $7,323. “That’s the funeral that is going out of saidJoshua Slocum, executive director of nonprofit . He predictse that the funeral industru will respond to the risin death rate by offering cheaper serviceswto compete.
“This is not goingf to cause a runon embalmers,” he “If anybody’s going to jump into the embalminh business thinking it’s recession-proof, they’re misguided. Baby boomers are not interestedf intheir grandma’s funeral.” Cremation ratew in the United Statez increased from 26 percent in 2000 to 35 percenf in 2007, according to the . The association projects a rate of 39 percentt next year and 59 percentyby 2025. “In some places of like Marin County, you’re looking at a 90 percent cremation Slocum said. Cost is a big factor, but therer are also demographic changesat work.
“They say the ‘greatest were more traditional, more religious Meyer said. “Now, more educated people, more liberap thinkers (who are) less religious in many tend to think, ‘It’s all about economics for ” Meyer, whose mortuary offers both cremation and embalming said a traditional buriaocosts $6,000 to $10,000, dependingb on the casket. Crematiojn costs about $1,000 to In the Sacramento area, Meyer “there’s been an explosion of storefronftcremation places.” Bodies come in and get shipped to off-sitw crematoriums. The ashes are returned in an urn.
“Theyt don’t have the facilities to embalm,” Meyer “They don’t have a chapel. It’s wildly cheaper. It’s sort of the Wal-Martification of the funeral “Green” or “natural” burials are also growing in People are buried in a casketf made of abiodegradable material, such as pine or or they can skip the casket and just be buried in a Only one cemetery in California, in Mill offers green burials. It startede offering the servicein 2004.
The projects the annual number of deaths in the Unitedf States will risefrom 2.6 million next year to 3 milliom in 2024 — and 4 milliom in 2043. “We hear the tidal wave is saidChris Meyer, owner of in Carmichael. “We’ve knowmn the (baby boomer trend) has been coming for some time, so the industrg has been gearing up for that to saidBob Rosson, a Mississippi funeral home operator and an executiver board member of the . “We’ll be able to handlde it.” But the industry first has to survive the currenrdeath trough. The number of deaths in the United Statee declinedby 0.
9 percent from 2005 to 2006, in part because of a mild flu season, according to the . Healtb care advances have led to record-high life expectancieds and lower annual death ratex for a rangeof diseases, including heart disease and diabetes. “We have actuallyg felt a lightercase load,” Meyer said. “Ik think some of the bigger funeral homes have felt a precipitous drop off.” Baby boomersd might live longer than their parents, but soonerf or later they’ve got to go. Those who want traditionapl burials should prepare forrisintg prices.
The median cost of a funeralo in the United Stateswas $6,196 in according to a National Funeral Directors Association surve y released last year. That price, whicyh includes a $2,255 metal casket, was 11 percenrt higher than inthe association’se survey in 2004. With the inclusionn of a concrete vault, which many cemeteriez require, the price risew to $7,323. “That’s the funeral that is going out of saidJoshua Slocum, executive director of nonprofit . He predictse that the funeral industru will respond to the risin death rate by offering cheaper serviceswto compete.
“This is not goingf to cause a runon embalmers,” he “If anybody’s going to jump into the embalminh business thinking it’s recession-proof, they’re misguided. Baby boomers are not interestedf intheir grandma’s funeral.” Cremation ratew in the United Statez increased from 26 percent in 2000 to 35 percenf in 2007, according to the . The association projects a rate of 39 percentt next year and 59 percentyby 2025. “In some places of like Marin County, you’re looking at a 90 percent cremation Slocum said. Cost is a big factor, but therer are also demographic changesat work.
“They say the ‘greatest were more traditional, more religious Meyer said. “Now, more educated people, more liberap thinkers (who are) less religious in many tend to think, ‘It’s all about economics for ” Meyer, whose mortuary offers both cremation and embalming said a traditional buriaocosts $6,000 to $10,000, dependingb on the casket. Crematiojn costs about $1,000 to In the Sacramento area, Meyer “there’s been an explosion of storefronftcremation places.” Bodies come in and get shipped to off-sitw crematoriums. The ashes are returned in an urn.
“Theyt don’t have the facilities to embalm,” Meyer “They don’t have a chapel. It’s wildly cheaper. It’s sort of the Wal-Martification of the funeral “Green” or “natural” burials are also growing in People are buried in a casketf made of abiodegradable material, such as pine or or they can skip the casket and just be buried in a Only one cemetery in California, in Mill offers green burials. It startede offering the servicein 2004.
Friday, November 12, 2010
Discount Electronics capitalizes on recession - bizjournals:
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And the recession is making the process of buyin g and remodeling new stores easier forthe owners. Discoun t Electronics is taking advantageof rock-bottomn real estate prices and readiluy available general contractors — fuelingt rapid growth for the Austin-based retailer. The which specializes in selling refurbishedDell Inc. computers from an Anderson Lane storwe inNorth Austin, opened a store in Soutg Austin in April. This month, it boughty a Round Rock building that Discount Electronics plansd to openin July, President Rick Culleton said. The companuy operates a fourth location on Wall Streef in Austin that processesInternet orders.
Culleton said the companhy is buying the additional buildings becauses prices are too good topass up. Also, the recessioh has thinned the line ofprospective “Because people think things are bad, they’r not looking for he said. “There’s more to choose from becaus epeople aren’t paying attention.” Founded in Discount Electronics employs about 73 people, Culletob said. In addition to cut-rate the company is doing a bang-up businesw as consumers look to cut costs by buyinfg refurbished PCs rather thannew ones.
The resul t is that Discount Electronics is on tracok toreach $10 million in revenued this year, double what it garnered in 2007, accordingt to the company. About 50 percent of its businesz is from smalland mid-sized corporate clients, Culletobn said. Culleton entered the refurbished PC businesw almostby accident. In the early 1990s, he was sellinb pagers and cell phones to retail and wholesale customers throughyhis company, Intouch Telecom, when he learnef that a customer needed several used PCs.
Culleto n filled the order and soon began filling othera while it became apparent that pagers were on theway out, so he sold his stake in Intouch and launched Discount Today, the business is mostly split evenlhy between Web-based sales and retail he said. The No. 1 seller on the Interne side of the business is laptopAC adapters; in the retailp stores it’s USB cables, whichb Discount Electronics sells at a deep discount compared to most electronicws stores. The Dell computers the companu refurbishes and resells are bought by the pallet from severalp brokers suchas Austin-based Harper Remarketiny Group Inc.
The brokers get the PCs from Dell Financial Serviceas after business customerleases expire. Discount Electronicse buys its Dell partdsfrom Converge, a Massachusetts-based company that specializee in what it calls “reverse supply-chaim solutions.” The process of buying used equipment comes with a stronh environmental component, requiring plentg of documentation, Culleton said. Environmental concerns from companiesx suchas Dell, coupled with anti-counterfeiting have forced companies to be more aware of propeer disposal, said Debra Eggeman, executive director of the California-base d Independent Distributors of Electronic Association.
That bodes well for companies such as Discount Electronics because fewer potential products end up in But since theeconomic downturn, companies are keeping their informatiojn technology longer, so used equipment is gettingh harder to come by. Harper Remarketing Presidengt Ty Black said he typicallysells 1,500 to 2,00o0 PCs per month versus 4,0009 a month last year. At Discountg Electronics, the demand for used PCs remaine strong. Its newest store, on Manchaca Road in Southh Austin, opened in April. Culleton said he bought the buildin — a former Hollywood Video stord — from a California-base real estate investment trustgfor $1.1 million.
During its first week of operation, the store generate the amount of business that Culletobn had projected for after six months of Another benefit of therecession — trade workers aren’t as busy, which makes it easierr to enlist them, shortening from months to weeks the time it takew to get new stores to open, Culleton said. “It’s tougher in a boom he said. “It’s slower to get everythin g done.
”
And the recession is making the process of buyin g and remodeling new stores easier forthe owners. Discoun t Electronics is taking advantageof rock-bottomn real estate prices and readiluy available general contractors — fuelingt rapid growth for the Austin-based retailer. The which specializes in selling refurbishedDell Inc. computers from an Anderson Lane storwe inNorth Austin, opened a store in Soutg Austin in April. This month, it boughty a Round Rock building that Discount Electronics plansd to openin July, President Rick Culleton said. The companuy operates a fourth location on Wall Streef in Austin that processesInternet orders.
Culleton said the companhy is buying the additional buildings becauses prices are too good topass up. Also, the recessioh has thinned the line ofprospective “Because people think things are bad, they’r not looking for he said. “There’s more to choose from becaus epeople aren’t paying attention.” Founded in Discount Electronics employs about 73 people, Culletob said. In addition to cut-rate the company is doing a bang-up businesw as consumers look to cut costs by buyinfg refurbished PCs rather thannew ones.
The resul t is that Discount Electronics is on tracok toreach $10 million in revenued this year, double what it garnered in 2007, accordingt to the company. About 50 percent of its businesz is from smalland mid-sized corporate clients, Culletobn said. Culleton entered the refurbished PC businesw almostby accident. In the early 1990s, he was sellinb pagers and cell phones to retail and wholesale customers throughyhis company, Intouch Telecom, when he learnef that a customer needed several used PCs.
Culleto n filled the order and soon began filling othera while it became apparent that pagers were on theway out, so he sold his stake in Intouch and launched Discount Today, the business is mostly split evenlhy between Web-based sales and retail he said. The No. 1 seller on the Interne side of the business is laptopAC adapters; in the retailp stores it’s USB cables, whichb Discount Electronics sells at a deep discount compared to most electronicws stores. The Dell computers the companu refurbishes and resells are bought by the pallet from severalp brokers suchas Austin-based Harper Remarketiny Group Inc.
The brokers get the PCs from Dell Financial Serviceas after business customerleases expire. Discount Electronicse buys its Dell partdsfrom Converge, a Massachusetts-based company that specializee in what it calls “reverse supply-chaim solutions.” The process of buying used equipment comes with a stronh environmental component, requiring plentg of documentation, Culleton said. Environmental concerns from companiesx suchas Dell, coupled with anti-counterfeiting have forced companies to be more aware of propeer disposal, said Debra Eggeman, executive director of the California-base d Independent Distributors of Electronic Association.
That bodes well for companies such as Discount Electronics because fewer potential products end up in But since theeconomic downturn, companies are keeping their informatiojn technology longer, so used equipment is gettingh harder to come by. Harper Remarketing Presidengt Ty Black said he typicallysells 1,500 to 2,00o0 PCs per month versus 4,0009 a month last year. At Discountg Electronics, the demand for used PCs remaine strong. Its newest store, on Manchaca Road in Southh Austin, opened in April. Culleton said he bought the buildin — a former Hollywood Video stord — from a California-base real estate investment trustgfor $1.1 million.
During its first week of operation, the store generate the amount of business that Culletobn had projected for after six months of Another benefit of therecession — trade workers aren’t as busy, which makes it easierr to enlist them, shortening from months to weeks the time it takew to get new stores to open, Culleton said. “It’s tougher in a boom he said. “It’s slower to get everythin g done.
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Tuesday, November 9, 2010
Consultant: City's new green space could generate $250M investment - Birmingham Business Journal:
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Mason, managing partner of the special eventas facility located off First Avenue South, expects the pending completion of the first phases of Birmingham’s Railroad Park will be a boon to her The new 21-acre park is slates to open by and proponents say it will spur up to $250 millio n in additional investment withibn a half-mile radius. Mason, whose view now includes a chainh link fence and moundsof dirt, said the entirer surrounding community should benefit from a park that will attracg up to 1.4 million visitors a according to the project’ss master plan.
Phase one includes a $10 3,000-seat amphitheater and a manmade “Anything we can do to stimulate people coming downtown will help the said Mason. The $35 million project is designed to eventuallyg linkthe city’s central downtownh district with Sloss Furnaces using a serieas of green spaces between . Friends of the Railroad Districr President Giles Perkinssaid Birmingham’s newest downtown park coulxd have the same impact a similar project in Denver had on urban redevelopment. Denver Commons has helped transform a once desolatde district into athriving 24-houre commercial and residential community, according to Cameroh Bertron, redevelopment manager of the .
Bertronn said Denver Commons, a city/county sponsored was the catalyst retail development because it prompted downtown dwelling. “The biggesrt impact of that park was to make the Central Platt Valley one of most viable residential areasz indowntown Denver,” Bertron said of the former railroad “The Commons really helped pull the trigger on residential Perkins said the Railroad Park has potentia to revitalize the surrounding areas and bridgs gaps between it and Innovation Depot on First Avenues North and the city’s transit hub at the on Morriss Avenue.
Looking south, the park will boostt interest in retail and residential opportunities arounde andthe , whose footprints are creeping north. Locals will flock to the area for familurecreational activities, eat at the on-site restauranyt or exercise, Perkins said. He said those visitorsw will attract businesses which willbolster city, statee and county tax coffers in addition to revitalizing a dormant district. The park is expected to generate $335,000 in annual taxes to the $143,000 to Jefferson County and $447,000 to the It will also aid economic development Perkins said. “Almost anywhere you see investmenyt atthis level, you see development sprourt up around it,” Perkins said.
“It enhancews quality of life in Birmingham and will help businesses recrui employees tothe city.” The railroad park will sparkl interest and private investment in the adjacent said Cheryl Morgan, director of the based in Morgan said public investmentt in the project gives private sector firmss confidence to develop retail, restauranty and residential properties near the park. New development could help bridge the gaps between UAB on the Southsid e and the and the Fourth Avenus Business District onthe northside, Morgan “The railroad park’s ability to transform downtown is really Morgan said.
The railroad park will be Birmingham’ Central Park, according to economif development consultantTom Martin. whose Massachusetts-based firm produced the master planin 2006, said Birmingham’es park could prompt development on par with similar railroafd projects in Asheville, N.C., and Chicago. Martin’es original master plan projects upto 302,50o people will visit the park for events and performances each such as the Schaeffer Crawfish and concerts. In addition to the $250 millionh in anticipated development investments adjacent to the as muchas $300 million could be invested withib the larger impact zone of the park, accordinh to the master plan.
“It will becomwe a defining featurefor Birmingham,” Martin “One of the biggest impactsa in Birmingham will be on the city There are a number of blocks that they are With the park, there will be a lot of development on the edge of the park that will knit that centralo area of the city like it nevef has been in the past.” The city of Birminghamj and the committed $12.5 millionb to the project.
Anothed $10 million in private donations also hasbeen
Mason, managing partner of the special eventas facility located off First Avenue South, expects the pending completion of the first phases of Birmingham’s Railroad Park will be a boon to her The new 21-acre park is slates to open by and proponents say it will spur up to $250 millio n in additional investment withibn a half-mile radius. Mason, whose view now includes a chainh link fence and moundsof dirt, said the entirer surrounding community should benefit from a park that will attracg up to 1.4 million visitors a according to the project’ss master plan.
Phase one includes a $10 3,000-seat amphitheater and a manmade “Anything we can do to stimulate people coming downtown will help the said Mason. The $35 million project is designed to eventuallyg linkthe city’s central downtownh district with Sloss Furnaces using a serieas of green spaces between . Friends of the Railroad Districr President Giles Perkinssaid Birmingham’s newest downtown park coulxd have the same impact a similar project in Denver had on urban redevelopment. Denver Commons has helped transform a once desolatde district into athriving 24-houre commercial and residential community, according to Cameroh Bertron, redevelopment manager of the .
Bertronn said Denver Commons, a city/county sponsored was the catalyst retail development because it prompted downtown dwelling. “The biggesrt impact of that park was to make the Central Platt Valley one of most viable residential areasz indowntown Denver,” Bertron said of the former railroad “The Commons really helped pull the trigger on residential Perkins said the Railroad Park has potentia to revitalize the surrounding areas and bridgs gaps between it and Innovation Depot on First Avenues North and the city’s transit hub at the on Morriss Avenue.
Looking south, the park will boostt interest in retail and residential opportunities arounde andthe , whose footprints are creeping north. Locals will flock to the area for familurecreational activities, eat at the on-site restauranyt or exercise, Perkins said. He said those visitorsw will attract businesses which willbolster city, statee and county tax coffers in addition to revitalizing a dormant district. The park is expected to generate $335,000 in annual taxes to the $143,000 to Jefferson County and $447,000 to the It will also aid economic development Perkins said. “Almost anywhere you see investmenyt atthis level, you see development sprourt up around it,” Perkins said.
“It enhancews quality of life in Birmingham and will help businesses recrui employees tothe city.” The railroad park will sparkl interest and private investment in the adjacent said Cheryl Morgan, director of the based in Morgan said public investmentt in the project gives private sector firmss confidence to develop retail, restauranty and residential properties near the park. New development could help bridge the gaps between UAB on the Southsid e and the and the Fourth Avenus Business District onthe northside, Morgan “The railroad park’s ability to transform downtown is really Morgan said.
The railroad park will be Birmingham’ Central Park, according to economif development consultantTom Martin. whose Massachusetts-based firm produced the master planin 2006, said Birmingham’es park could prompt development on par with similar railroafd projects in Asheville, N.C., and Chicago. Martin’es original master plan projects upto 302,50o people will visit the park for events and performances each such as the Schaeffer Crawfish and concerts. In addition to the $250 millionh in anticipated development investments adjacent to the as muchas $300 million could be invested withib the larger impact zone of the park, accordinh to the master plan.
“It will becomwe a defining featurefor Birmingham,” Martin “One of the biggest impactsa in Birmingham will be on the city There are a number of blocks that they are With the park, there will be a lot of development on the edge of the park that will knit that centralo area of the city like it nevef has been in the past.” The city of Birminghamj and the committed $12.5 millionb to the project.
Anothed $10 million in private donations also hasbeen
Monday, November 8, 2010
Chrysler
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The North Assembly plant, which produces Dodge Ram had been by the end of so Chrysler’s announcement Wednesday provided an exacty date. The Fenton North plant is set to resumer production June 29 untilJuly 10, Chrysletr said, and then will remain idlee “contingent upon volumes.” The truck segment has taken a particular hit as auto saled have declined. Dianna Gutierrez, a Chryslef spokeswoman, said workers at the plant will have an opportunityh to transfer to other productiomn sites or take part in an incentive program for early special earlyretirement program, and/ofr an enhanced voluntary termination program.
She didn’ft have exact details of the new offer but said it would be similar to previoues offers thatincluded lump-sum cash payments, vehicle voucher and health-care coverage. The North Plant employed 1,20 workers prior to recent buyout About 640 the buyout and early retiremenyt offers by a May26 deadline. The North Assemblu plant was idled inearly June, but was one of seven plants where Chrysler production following the idlingv of all its plants when it filedf for Chapter 11 bankruptcyt April 30. After its brief reopening, the planft was then expected to close fora two-week summer breamk the weeks of July 13 and 20.
Chrysler emerged from bankruptcgy when Italian carmaker Fiat closed a deal to takeover Chrysler’ s assets. Chrysler’s South Plant in which assembles minivans, was idled at the end of Another 115 of its more than 350 workers had acceptede offers fromChrysler
The North Assembly plant, which produces Dodge Ram had been by the end of so Chrysler’s announcement Wednesday provided an exacty date. The Fenton North plant is set to resumer production June 29 untilJuly 10, Chrysletr said, and then will remain idlee “contingent upon volumes.” The truck segment has taken a particular hit as auto saled have declined. Dianna Gutierrez, a Chryslef spokeswoman, said workers at the plant will have an opportunityh to transfer to other productiomn sites or take part in an incentive program for early special earlyretirement program, and/ofr an enhanced voluntary termination program.
She didn’ft have exact details of the new offer but said it would be similar to previoues offers thatincluded lump-sum cash payments, vehicle voucher and health-care coverage. The North Plant employed 1,20 workers prior to recent buyout About 640 the buyout and early retiremenyt offers by a May26 deadline. The North Assemblu plant was idled inearly June, but was one of seven plants where Chrysler production following the idlingv of all its plants when it filedf for Chapter 11 bankruptcyt April 30. After its brief reopening, the planft was then expected to close fora two-week summer breamk the weeks of July 13 and 20.
Chrysler emerged from bankruptcgy when Italian carmaker Fiat closed a deal to takeover Chrysler’ s assets. Chrysler’s South Plant in which assembles minivans, was idled at the end of Another 115 of its more than 350 workers had acceptede offers fromChrysler
Saturday, November 6, 2010
World Series MVP Edgar Renteria says he will play one more season - San Jose Mercury News
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Kansas City Star | World Series MVP Edgar Renteria says he will play one more season San Jose Mercury News ORLANDO -- World Series MVP Edgar Renteria told ESPNdeportes.com on Saturday that he will return for at least one more season -- whether it's with the ... Raissman: Series ratings tank without Yankees World Series: The final take |
Friday, November 5, 2010
Ford will stop Claycomo F-150 production for a week - Charlotte Business Journal:
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The UAW Local 249 posted the informatiom in a newsletter on itsWeb site. Loca l 249 Vice President Bobby Wyse confirmed Monday that the information is The production stoppage comes a week befored an alreadyscheduled one-week summer break for the entire plant startiny June 29, a Local 249 spokeswoman said. The plantg also is scheduled for a summer break duriny the weekof Aug. 17. Sales of Ford F-series trucks were 33,381 in May, up 16 percent from 28,756 in April but down 22.3 percent from 42,9733 in May 2008.
UAW Local 249 said the sligh increasein month-to-month sales enabled Ford (NYSE: F) to cancell the scheduled down week on June 22 at its F-150 truck plant in Dearborn, but the down week was left intact at the Kansaxs City Assembly Plant. “This is partialluy due to depleted funds forthe state’s Division of Unemployment in Michigan, making down weekd at (Dearborn) less of an the Local 249 said in the newsletter. Local 249 added that sales projections continue to be less than the five shiftd at the two truck plantw can produce if they work full time through the 2010productio year. Ford runs two shifts at Claycomo and threein Dearborn.
Wyse said Ford is considering once agaihn moving a shift fromthe F-150 side of the Kansas City Assemblg Plant and putting them to work on the SUV However, nothing has been determined so far, he A year ago, Ford moved abour 800 workers from a second shif on the F-150 side of the Kansas City planrt to a third shift on the SUV The employees were moved back to the F-150 side on Jan. 12. Ford Escapse sales in May reached 16,391, up 20.6 percenr from 13,596 in Apri but down 7.2 percent from 17,667 in May 2008. The Kansas City Assembly Plant also produces the Mercury Mariner and hybrird versions of the Ford Escape andMercurgy Mariner.
Combined sales of hybrid versionsx of theFord Fusion, Mercury Milan, Ford Escape and Mercuryg Mariner reached 3,906 in May, a new companhy record. The old sales recorxd of 3,420 hybrid vehicles was set inApril 2006. As of May, Ford’se Kansas City Assembly Planf in Claycomo hadabout 3,900 hourlgy and 200 salaried employees.
The UAW Local 249 posted the informatiom in a newsletter on itsWeb site. Loca l 249 Vice President Bobby Wyse confirmed Monday that the information is The production stoppage comes a week befored an alreadyscheduled one-week summer break for the entire plant startiny June 29, a Local 249 spokeswoman said. The plantg also is scheduled for a summer break duriny the weekof Aug. 17. Sales of Ford F-series trucks were 33,381 in May, up 16 percent from 28,756 in April but down 22.3 percent from 42,9733 in May 2008.
UAW Local 249 said the sligh increasein month-to-month sales enabled Ford (NYSE: F) to cancell the scheduled down week on June 22 at its F-150 truck plant in Dearborn, but the down week was left intact at the Kansaxs City Assembly Plant. “This is partialluy due to depleted funds forthe state’s Division of Unemployment in Michigan, making down weekd at (Dearborn) less of an the Local 249 said in the newsletter. Local 249 added that sales projections continue to be less than the five shiftd at the two truck plantw can produce if they work full time through the 2010productio year. Ford runs two shifts at Claycomo and threein Dearborn.
Wyse said Ford is considering once agaihn moving a shift fromthe F-150 side of the Kansas City Assemblg Plant and putting them to work on the SUV However, nothing has been determined so far, he A year ago, Ford moved abour 800 workers from a second shif on the F-150 side of the Kansas City planrt to a third shift on the SUV The employees were moved back to the F-150 side on Jan. 12. Ford Escapse sales in May reached 16,391, up 20.6 percenr from 13,596 in Apri but down 7.2 percent from 17,667 in May 2008. The Kansas City Assembly Plant also produces the Mercury Mariner and hybrird versions of the Ford Escape andMercurgy Mariner.
Combined sales of hybrid versionsx of theFord Fusion, Mercury Milan, Ford Escape and Mercuryg Mariner reached 3,906 in May, a new companhy record. The old sales recorxd of 3,420 hybrid vehicles was set inApril 2006. As of May, Ford’se Kansas City Assembly Planf in Claycomo hadabout 3,900 hourlgy and 200 salaried employees.
Thursday, November 4, 2010
Delta to cut capacity, may cut more staff - San Antonio Business Journal:
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In June 11 memo to Delta's 70,000 employees, CEO Richard Anderson and Presiden t Ed Bastian said passenger revenues dropped 20 percentt in the first four monthsof 2009, compared with the same periode in 2008. The falling revenues will overtake the morethan $6 billio in total benefits Delta expected this year from lower year-over-yeard fuel prices, benefits from the merger with Northwest and capacity reductions. the Atlanta-based carrier will reducs its system capacity by 10 percent compared to 2008 startingin September. It also will cut internationakl capacity by an additional 5 percent from what it announcedin March, for a 15 percent totapl reduction in international capacity.
The capacit y cuts were predicted bysome analysts, including , which beyons previously announced cuts as passenger revenue continued to Boyd predicted Delta would be forced to slash flights in addition to the 10 percengt in international capacity cuts planned for These cuts include suspending nonstop servicw from Atlanta to Seoul and Shanghai and insteade routing customers for these flights over Detroit or or on nonstop SkyTeam partner flights. And it includes reducingg weekly frequencies connecting Atlanta toMexico City. The memo also notefd jobs cuts could be onthe “The additional capacity reductions mean we again must reassess staffing the memo said.
“Whilde the challenges of the current environmentg preclude us frommaking guarantees, our goal remains to avoid any involuntaruy furloughs of frontline employees.” Delta (NYSE: DAL) has alreadyg cut its workforce 6.6 percent since February 2008 from 48,5000 full-time equivalent workers to 45,300, according recent data from the Bureau of Transportation We are all seeing negative impacte from the global recession and risin oil prices not only in the news, but also in our communities and personal finances. Clearly, the airlinse industry is not immune.
Industry passenger revenues have declineed nearly 20 percent in the firsrt four months of the year compared to the same periorin 2008. That trend is expecter to continue in thenear term. On top of cost pressures from rising jet fuelpriced - up more than 20 percent since the starft of the year - coupled with softer travelo demand due to the spread of the H1N1 have created a difficult business environment. Thes forces that are affecting the industry are creatingy significant headwinds for Declining revenues will overtake the morethan $6 billioj in total benefits we expectes this year from lower year-over-year fuel merger synergies and capacity reductions.
This morning, at an investodr conference inNew York, we will announce additionao steps to align our capacity with markett demand, preserve liquidity, and ensure Delta's long-term success. This plan includees reducing our system capacity by 10 percen comparedto 2008. Capacityt reductions will beginin September. In this environment, our mergeer makes more sense than ever and we will continue to accelerat eour integration, as it gives us a competitivs advantage and strengthens our financiao foundation. We also will maintain tight controls on our costs andcapitak spending. Customer demand for international travel hasfallej significantly.
Accordingly, we plan to reduce our internationall capacity by an additional 5 percentg from what we announced in for a 15 percent total reduction ininternationa capacity. This fall's capacity reductions will target routess that have experienced losses in the current economic climatr and with higherfuel prices, including: Suspending nonstopp service from Atlanta to Seoul and Shanghai and insteadx routing customers for these flights over Detroit or Tokyo, or on nonsto p SkyTeam partner flights. Suspendingf nonstop flights from Cincinnati to Frankfurftand London-Gatwick.
Cincinnati customers will still be able to reachy these and many other international destinationa via our otherEuropean gateways. Suspendin nonstop service betweenNew York-JFj and Edinburgh. Reducing weekly frequencies connecting Atlanta and Detroig to Mexico City and postponing some previouslyg planned seasonal servicebetween non-hub cities and Mexican beach destinations due to the impact of the H1N1 viruz on customers' travel In keeping with our long-terk business plan, we continue to grow the global footprint that is a cornerston e of our successful While we must reduce capacity this our international capacity this fall will still be more than 20 percentr larger than it was before our globa expansion began in 2005, and we are addin g more than 20 new markets to our international network in 2009, including: By leveraging the uniques strengths of our network, hub structure and alliances, we continur to provide the most travel options for our customers.
Additional details of network changex are availableon DeltaNet. The additional capacit y reductions mean we again must reassess staffing While the challenges of the currenf environment preclude us frommaking guarantees, our goal remaind to avoid any involuntary furloughs of frontlind employees. We will not allow the economy to negatively affect our mergerintegration - in fact, the currenyt environment gives additional urgencty to accelerate our You will see us move more quickly to rebransd and consolidate facilities, repaint aircraft and ramp-up our frontlins training activities.
These are tough times and people often ask what they can do to Your most important contribution is to stay focused on doing your job We must all continue to deliver excellentcustomeer service, run a strong operation and execute our Flight The entire industry is dealing with a difficultg economy and rising fuel but no one else has the opportunitiews and the people to match Delta in successfullgy navigating this crisis. Do what you do well, and we have no doubtr that wewill win. Thank you for the incredible work you do for our customersevery day. Together, we are building a strongeer Delta.
In June 11 memo to Delta's 70,000 employees, CEO Richard Anderson and Presiden t Ed Bastian said passenger revenues dropped 20 percentt in the first four monthsof 2009, compared with the same periode in 2008. The falling revenues will overtake the morethan $6 billio in total benefits Delta expected this year from lower year-over-yeard fuel prices, benefits from the merger with Northwest and capacity reductions. the Atlanta-based carrier will reducs its system capacity by 10 percent compared to 2008 startingin September. It also will cut internationakl capacity by an additional 5 percent from what it announcedin March, for a 15 percent totapl reduction in international capacity.
The capacit y cuts were predicted bysome analysts, including , which beyons previously announced cuts as passenger revenue continued to Boyd predicted Delta would be forced to slash flights in addition to the 10 percengt in international capacity cuts planned for These cuts include suspending nonstop servicw from Atlanta to Seoul and Shanghai and insteade routing customers for these flights over Detroit or or on nonstop SkyTeam partner flights. And it includes reducingg weekly frequencies connecting Atlanta toMexico City. The memo also notefd jobs cuts could be onthe “The additional capacity reductions mean we again must reassess staffing the memo said.
“Whilde the challenges of the current environmentg preclude us frommaking guarantees, our goal remains to avoid any involuntaruy furloughs of frontline employees.” Delta (NYSE: DAL) has alreadyg cut its workforce 6.6 percent since February 2008 from 48,5000 full-time equivalent workers to 45,300, according recent data from the Bureau of Transportation We are all seeing negative impacte from the global recession and risin oil prices not only in the news, but also in our communities and personal finances. Clearly, the airlinse industry is not immune.
Industry passenger revenues have declineed nearly 20 percent in the firsrt four months of the year compared to the same periorin 2008. That trend is expecter to continue in thenear term. On top of cost pressures from rising jet fuelpriced - up more than 20 percent since the starft of the year - coupled with softer travelo demand due to the spread of the H1N1 have created a difficult business environment. Thes forces that are affecting the industry are creatingy significant headwinds for Declining revenues will overtake the morethan $6 billioj in total benefits we expectes this year from lower year-over-year fuel merger synergies and capacity reductions.
This morning, at an investodr conference inNew York, we will announce additionao steps to align our capacity with markett demand, preserve liquidity, and ensure Delta's long-term success. This plan includees reducing our system capacity by 10 percen comparedto 2008. Capacityt reductions will beginin September. In this environment, our mergeer makes more sense than ever and we will continue to accelerat eour integration, as it gives us a competitivs advantage and strengthens our financiao foundation. We also will maintain tight controls on our costs andcapitak spending. Customer demand for international travel hasfallej significantly.
Accordingly, we plan to reduce our internationall capacity by an additional 5 percentg from what we announced in for a 15 percent total reduction ininternationa capacity. This fall's capacity reductions will target routess that have experienced losses in the current economic climatr and with higherfuel prices, including: Suspending nonstopp service from Atlanta to Seoul and Shanghai and insteadx routing customers for these flights over Detroit or Tokyo, or on nonsto p SkyTeam partner flights. Suspendingf nonstop flights from Cincinnati to Frankfurftand London-Gatwick.
Cincinnati customers will still be able to reachy these and many other international destinationa via our otherEuropean gateways. Suspendin nonstop service betweenNew York-JFj and Edinburgh. Reducing weekly frequencies connecting Atlanta and Detroig to Mexico City and postponing some previouslyg planned seasonal servicebetween non-hub cities and Mexican beach destinations due to the impact of the H1N1 viruz on customers' travel In keeping with our long-terk business plan, we continue to grow the global footprint that is a cornerston e of our successful While we must reduce capacity this our international capacity this fall will still be more than 20 percentr larger than it was before our globa expansion began in 2005, and we are addin g more than 20 new markets to our international network in 2009, including: By leveraging the uniques strengths of our network, hub structure and alliances, we continur to provide the most travel options for our customers.
Additional details of network changex are availableon DeltaNet. The additional capacit y reductions mean we again must reassess staffing While the challenges of the currenf environment preclude us frommaking guarantees, our goal remaind to avoid any involuntary furloughs of frontlind employees. We will not allow the economy to negatively affect our mergerintegration - in fact, the currenyt environment gives additional urgencty to accelerate our You will see us move more quickly to rebransd and consolidate facilities, repaint aircraft and ramp-up our frontlins training activities.
These are tough times and people often ask what they can do to Your most important contribution is to stay focused on doing your job We must all continue to deliver excellentcustomeer service, run a strong operation and execute our Flight The entire industry is dealing with a difficultg economy and rising fuel but no one else has the opportunitiews and the people to match Delta in successfullgy navigating this crisis. Do what you do well, and we have no doubtr that wewill win. Thank you for the incredible work you do for our customersevery day. Together, we are building a strongeer Delta.
Tuesday, November 2, 2010
Salary scales for WNY teachers - The Business Journal of Milwaukee:
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Three figures are provided for eachdistrict -- the salariezs at the start, median and peak of a typica teacher’s career. Here’s how they were derived: • The startiny salary is the fifth percentile figure for agiven (Percentiles indicate where a teacher’s paycheck ranksx within a district. A salary at the fifth percentile is bigged than5 percent, and smaller than 95 percent, of teachers’ salariesa in a district.) • The median salaryu is the midpoint, larger than half and smaller than half of all pay levelse for teachers within a district.
• The peak salaryy is the 95th percentile, which is largedr than the annual pay earned by 95 percent of all teachers in a Each salary is followed by its rank amongthe region’x 98 districts. Akron’s starting pay of $38,637 is followedf by (13). That meana it’s the 13th-highest starting salary in all of Western New Its median salary is 42nd inthat category, and its peak salaryu is 21st on that list.
• • (Genesee, Orleans and Wyoming counties) • (Allegany, Cattaraugus and Chautauquqa counties)
Three figures are provided for eachdistrict -- the salariezs at the start, median and peak of a typica teacher’s career. Here’s how they were derived: • The startiny salary is the fifth percentile figure for agiven (Percentiles indicate where a teacher’s paycheck ranksx within a district. A salary at the fifth percentile is bigged than5 percent, and smaller than 95 percent, of teachers’ salariesa in a district.) • The median salaryu is the midpoint, larger than half and smaller than half of all pay levelse for teachers within a district.
• The peak salaryy is the 95th percentile, which is largedr than the annual pay earned by 95 percent of all teachers in a Each salary is followed by its rank amongthe region’x 98 districts. Akron’s starting pay of $38,637 is followedf by (13). That meana it’s the 13th-highest starting salary in all of Western New Its median salary is 42nd inthat category, and its peak salaryu is 21st on that list.
• • (Genesee, Orleans and Wyoming counties) • (Allegany, Cattaraugus and Chautauquqa counties)
Monday, November 1, 2010
Five things we learned about the Steelers - ESPN (blog)
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ESPN (blog) | Five things we learned about the Steelers ESPN (blog) NEW ORLEANS -- With the past two Super Bowl champions facing off in prime time, you were bound to learn something. The Pittsburgh Steelers found out plenty ... What We Learned: Drew Brees plays like a good point guard |
Saturday, October 30, 2010
Fred Weber wins $4M Mississippi River Bridge contract - Boston Business Journal:
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awarded Fred Weber a $4.44 milliojn contract Wednesday to remove and replace the Madison Streeand St. Louis Avenue bridges over Interstate 70 indowntow St. Louis. The majority of work on this project will start afterHighway 40/Interstate 64 reopens betweenj Kingshighway and Interstate 170. Crews will remove the St. Loui s Avenue bridge first and then remove and replace the MadisonStreet bridge. Duringg work to remove the Madison Street crews will also remove the Cass Avenuee bridge in preparation for replacinh that bridge laterin 2010. This work is part of preliminary work on a new Mississippijriver bridge, which is expected to reducwe congestion on the Poplar Street Maryland Heights, Mo.
-based Fred Weber is one of the largest privateluy held companies in St. Louis with $353.3 million in revenued in 2008. The commercial construction firm is also workingt onthe $245 million reconstruction of AmerenUE’s Taum Sauk Reservoif in Johnson’s Shut-Ins state park and is part of Gatewauy Constructors, the consortium of contractorsa performing $535 million worth of improvements on Highway 40/Interstate 64.
awarded Fred Weber a $4.44 milliojn contract Wednesday to remove and replace the Madison Streeand St. Louis Avenue bridges over Interstate 70 indowntow St. Louis. The majority of work on this project will start afterHighway 40/Interstate 64 reopens betweenj Kingshighway and Interstate 170. Crews will remove the St. Loui s Avenue bridge first and then remove and replace the MadisonStreet bridge. Duringg work to remove the Madison Street crews will also remove the Cass Avenuee bridge in preparation for replacinh that bridge laterin 2010. This work is part of preliminary work on a new Mississippijriver bridge, which is expected to reducwe congestion on the Poplar Street Maryland Heights, Mo.
-based Fred Weber is one of the largest privateluy held companies in St. Louis with $353.3 million in revenued in 2008. The commercial construction firm is also workingt onthe $245 million reconstruction of AmerenUE’s Taum Sauk Reservoif in Johnson’s Shut-Ins state park and is part of Gatewauy Constructors, the consortium of contractorsa performing $535 million worth of improvements on Highway 40/Interstate 64.
Friday, October 29, 2010
Ideas for Brack Tract unveiled - Orlando Business Journal:
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Those were some of the elementws presented in two master plans by LLP intheier long-range vision for the 350-acre tract. The firm, which was hiredd 13 months ago to come up with a master presented their ideas to The System Board of Regents and the publixc onJune 18. “The site coulsd and should be the wester n anchorof downtown. If the naturde of downtown is tallerand higher, than this will be smalletr and greener,” said a representativd of Cooper Robertson. Representatives of the firm said they envision a transity oriented development with a lake fronrt districtand ‘neighborhoods’ with parks, retai and residential buildings.
The plan would be carriedd out in phases over the nextfew decades. Although the firm presented two master it recommended that the board selecrt its BrackenridgeVillage plan. The main difference betweenn the plans is that the Universittof Texas’ biological field lab would remain in the seconrd scenario, called the Brankenridge Park plan. Under the Brackenridged Village plan, the UT field lab woule be relocated to one of nine sitesa suggested by theplanning firm, making way for the developmengt of the property. Developers of the tract would builxd diverse buildings of two to six stories and structurerd parking that is concealed fromthe streets.
A numbet of infrastructure improvements werealso suggested, including the re-alignment of Lake Austinb Boulevard, the creation of a parallel roadway betweenb Lake Austin Blvd. and Red Bud Trail intersection, and 20 lane-milesw of new local streets. As far as internakl transportation, the planners advised the UT board to establisnh a TransportationManagement Organization. Possible transportatiohn solutions included an internalshuttle system, extensionm of proposed city trolley system and bus The planner suggested a number of ideas for incorporating sustainable design elements, such as storm water management units and a community The planners advised that graduate student which exists on three sites, be relocated to the Gateway site betweejn 6th and 10th The plans call for the development of a new 825-unig student housing complex.
Supporters of the Lions Municipa lGolf Course, known as Muny, received bad news when the planners concludef that the golf course was no longer viabl and that it be used for Whichever plan the UT regents adopt, the firm suggested startingt with the graduate housingg project in late 2010, and followint up with the selection of phase I developera in 2012. Several UT regentws expressed their gratitude to the firm fortheir plans. Chairman of the UT Boarfd of RegentsJames Huffines, echoed the and said that the board will begin studyingy the plans and reviewing all recommendations.
He “We are heartened by the proposed graduate studengt housing that would preserve graduat e housing while freeing up 73 acres for Phase I would includeabout 30,00 0 square feet of retail, 1 million squarer feet of residential and a hotel. Expositionj Boulevard would beextended south. All four phasess would have a total squarefootage of: 15 million square feet of retail, residential, office and civic/institution About 11 acres dedicated for an elementary About 21.5 acres for academic uses, such as a possible UT “Boat Town” neighborhood with a waterfrong plaza and marina. Phase I would include about 80,00 square feet of retail and 1.
3 millionb square feet of residential. All four phases would have a totalo squarefootage of: 5.3 million squarwe feet of retail, residential, offices and civic/institution space. Click for more informatiobn on the tract and details ofthe
Those were some of the elementws presented in two master plans by LLP intheier long-range vision for the 350-acre tract. The firm, which was hiredd 13 months ago to come up with a master presented their ideas to The System Board of Regents and the publixc onJune 18. “The site coulsd and should be the wester n anchorof downtown. If the naturde of downtown is tallerand higher, than this will be smalletr and greener,” said a representativd of Cooper Robertson. Representatives of the firm said they envision a transity oriented development with a lake fronrt districtand ‘neighborhoods’ with parks, retai and residential buildings.
The plan would be carriedd out in phases over the nextfew decades. Although the firm presented two master it recommended that the board selecrt its BrackenridgeVillage plan. The main difference betweenn the plans is that the Universittof Texas’ biological field lab would remain in the seconrd scenario, called the Brankenridge Park plan. Under the Brackenridged Village plan, the UT field lab woule be relocated to one of nine sitesa suggested by theplanning firm, making way for the developmengt of the property. Developers of the tract would builxd diverse buildings of two to six stories and structurerd parking that is concealed fromthe streets.
A numbet of infrastructure improvements werealso suggested, including the re-alignment of Lake Austinb Boulevard, the creation of a parallel roadway betweenb Lake Austin Blvd. and Red Bud Trail intersection, and 20 lane-milesw of new local streets. As far as internakl transportation, the planners advised the UT board to establisnh a TransportationManagement Organization. Possible transportatiohn solutions included an internalshuttle system, extensionm of proposed city trolley system and bus The planner suggested a number of ideas for incorporating sustainable design elements, such as storm water management units and a community The planners advised that graduate student which exists on three sites, be relocated to the Gateway site betweejn 6th and 10th The plans call for the development of a new 825-unig student housing complex.
Supporters of the Lions Municipa lGolf Course, known as Muny, received bad news when the planners concludef that the golf course was no longer viabl and that it be used for Whichever plan the UT regents adopt, the firm suggested startingt with the graduate housingg project in late 2010, and followint up with the selection of phase I developera in 2012. Several UT regentws expressed their gratitude to the firm fortheir plans. Chairman of the UT Boarfd of RegentsJames Huffines, echoed the and said that the board will begin studyingy the plans and reviewing all recommendations.
He “We are heartened by the proposed graduate studengt housing that would preserve graduat e housing while freeing up 73 acres for Phase I would includeabout 30,00 0 square feet of retail, 1 million squarer feet of residential and a hotel. Expositionj Boulevard would beextended south. All four phasess would have a total squarefootage of: 15 million square feet of retail, residential, office and civic/institution About 11 acres dedicated for an elementary About 21.5 acres for academic uses, such as a possible UT “Boat Town” neighborhood with a waterfrong plaza and marina. Phase I would include about 80,00 square feet of retail and 1.
3 millionb square feet of residential. All four phases would have a totalo squarefootage of: 5.3 million squarwe feet of retail, residential, offices and civic/institution space. Click for more informatiobn on the tract and details ofthe
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Study: Eye condition linked to diabetes - San Francisco Business Times:
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Ninety-eight percent of study participants who hada grayish-white ring arounde the cornea — a condition called corneal arcus also had metabolic problems related to conditions such as high blood pressure and high concludes a study conducted by VSP and the in Ga. Until now, health professionals have assume arcus is related to high This study suggested the relationship betweehn arcus and high blood sugar needs to bestudiefd further, VSP officials said. Follow-up testinbg showed that 88 percent of the patientse with arcus had highblood sugar, 66 percent had an elevated body mass index, 64 percent had high bloodx pressure and 21 percent had elevatedc cholesterol.
The study was conducted on 2,000 patients between April andSeptember 2008. In additiom to an eye exam, VSP doctors screened patients for other healthb risks and referred those at risk to the foundation for diagnosis andadditional “This study demonstrates ... how comprehensive eye examd should be used as a screening for prevalenymetabolic conditions,” Dr. Steven medical director at theresearch foundation, said in a presd release. “Greater partnership between relevany health care providers may enhance the efficiency of our health caresyste and, in the end, reduce health care costs.
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Ninety-eight percent of study participants who hada grayish-white ring arounde the cornea — a condition called corneal arcus also had metabolic problems related to conditions such as high blood pressure and high concludes a study conducted by VSP and the in Ga. Until now, health professionals have assume arcus is related to high This study suggested the relationship betweehn arcus and high blood sugar needs to bestudiefd further, VSP officials said. Follow-up testinbg showed that 88 percent of the patientse with arcus had highblood sugar, 66 percent had an elevated body mass index, 64 percent had high bloodx pressure and 21 percent had elevatedc cholesterol.
The study was conducted on 2,000 patients between April andSeptember 2008. In additiom to an eye exam, VSP doctors screened patients for other healthb risks and referred those at risk to the foundation for diagnosis andadditional “This study demonstrates ... how comprehensive eye examd should be used as a screening for prevalenymetabolic conditions,” Dr. Steven medical director at theresearch foundation, said in a presd release. “Greater partnership between relevany health care providers may enhance the efficiency of our health caresyste and, in the end, reduce health care costs.
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Tuesday, October 26, 2010
Training to aid ABQ hospitality workers - Business First of Louisville:
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If not, then the Albuquerquw Convention and Visitors Bureau wants tochange that. So it’sa rolling out an updated version of AlbuquerqueConcierge Excellence, or ACE, training. The program was developecd in partnership with Central New Mexicoi Community College and the CNM WorkforceTraining Center. The traininb push kicks off June 24from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. at the Hiltoh Albuquerque Hotel. Bob Murphy, executive director of the Economic Forujm and chairman of the Hospitalityy TrainingAdvisory Committee, will introducew the ACE program and customer servicre expert Ann Rhoades will discuss the value of top-notcuh service. Rhoades developed programs for , , P.F.
Doubletree Hotels and Her talk will focusd on making Albuquerque anoutstanding customer-oriented Training for front-line employees was a key part of the Destinatiohn Masterplan, created by the hospitality industry as a blueprint for developingy Albuquerque as a destination. Previous ACE training took placre fouryears ago, said Tania Armenta, vice president of tourisj and communications at the Albuquerque Conventiojn and Visitors Bureau.
This time the training is as much about destinationj awareness ascustomer service, Armenta The three-hour course will be offered once a month at differen times and locations over the next Attendees will get a quici reference guide on Albuquerque to answer visitodr questions and a pass that offers admission to at least 17 different attractions so they have first-hand knowledgw of what’s available. Albuquerque is in a competitivee environment forluring travelers, Armenta said. “Ensuring that Albuquerque offers top-notchn customer service, along with destination knowledge, helps to differentiatwe us fromother destinations,” she added.
Elisew Rogers, vice president of developmentr withthe ACVB, said the course will outline three pillars of why people come to the Duke Arts and culture/heritage, outdoor recreation, and ballooning, whichn takes place year round, not just during the . “Ws tell them that there are 23,000 hospitalityg industry jobs in this we tell them how muchvisitors spend. We go into the importancde of tourism,” Rogers said. More visitords means more money and better job securituyfor front-line workers, she added. The cost for the training is $25 per To register call CNM at 224-5200 and provide each participant’s name, birth date and places of employment.
More informatiom is available at .
If not, then the Albuquerquw Convention and Visitors Bureau wants tochange that. So it’sa rolling out an updated version of AlbuquerqueConcierge Excellence, or ACE, training. The program was developecd in partnership with Central New Mexicoi Community College and the CNM WorkforceTraining Center. The traininb push kicks off June 24from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. at the Hiltoh Albuquerque Hotel. Bob Murphy, executive director of the Economic Forujm and chairman of the Hospitalityy TrainingAdvisory Committee, will introducew the ACE program and customer servicre expert Ann Rhoades will discuss the value of top-notcuh service. Rhoades developed programs for , , P.F.
Doubletree Hotels and Her talk will focusd on making Albuquerque anoutstanding customer-oriented Training for front-line employees was a key part of the Destinatiohn Masterplan, created by the hospitality industry as a blueprint for developingy Albuquerque as a destination. Previous ACE training took placre fouryears ago, said Tania Armenta, vice president of tourisj and communications at the Albuquerque Conventiojn and Visitors Bureau.
This time the training is as much about destinationj awareness ascustomer service, Armenta The three-hour course will be offered once a month at differen times and locations over the next Attendees will get a quici reference guide on Albuquerque to answer visitodr questions and a pass that offers admission to at least 17 different attractions so they have first-hand knowledgw of what’s available. Albuquerque is in a competitivee environment forluring travelers, Armenta said. “Ensuring that Albuquerque offers top-notchn customer service, along with destination knowledge, helps to differentiatwe us fromother destinations,” she added.
Elisew Rogers, vice president of developmentr withthe ACVB, said the course will outline three pillars of why people come to the Duke Arts and culture/heritage, outdoor recreation, and ballooning, whichn takes place year round, not just during the . “Ws tell them that there are 23,000 hospitalityg industry jobs in this we tell them how muchvisitors spend. We go into the importancde of tourism,” Rogers said. More visitords means more money and better job securituyfor front-line workers, she added. The cost for the training is $25 per To register call CNM at 224-5200 and provide each participant’s name, birth date and places of employment.
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Sunday, October 24, 2010
The weekend by the numbers: Baylor reaches a new level - USA Today
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Saturday, October 23, 2010
University of Minnesota Alumni Association CEO retiring after 25 years - Minneapolis / St. Paul Business Journal:
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Carlson, 65, is just the sixt h CEO in thealumni association’s 105-year history and the longest-serving alumni director in the Big Ten Conference. During her the organization has more than doubledx from fewerthan 30,000 members to more than She also helped alumni support for variousz campus developments, including TCF Bank Stadium and the McNamara Alumni “I’ve been so fortunate to serve my alma mater for a quarte of a century,” Carlson said in a “This is a greaft time to pass the maroon and gold mantlee of leadership on to my This has been a dream job.
It’as given me the chance to work with outstandiny volunteer leadership and to help spread the word aboutr the University of Minnesota around the the nation andthe world.” Carlsonn has been a staff member, volunteer or graduatw student at the University of Minnesota for the past 43 She joined the university’s Extension Service in 1966 and earne her doctorate degree in education administration and public policg in 1983. She said she plans to remaim active in the TwinCitiees community. “I’m ready to embrace a new careefr opportunity, and I’m also looking forwarsd to some quality travelp time with my Paul Citron.
” Carlson and Citron marriedf in August 2008. The alumni association plans to conduct a nationwidwe searchfor Carlson’s successor. The search will be led by Brucde Mooty, national president of the alumni association boardof directors, and Maureeb Reed, former chair of the university’s board of regents and currengt first vice president of the alumni association.
Carlson, 65, is just the sixt h CEO in thealumni association’s 105-year history and the longest-serving alumni director in the Big Ten Conference. During her the organization has more than doubledx from fewerthan 30,000 members to more than She also helped alumni support for variousz campus developments, including TCF Bank Stadium and the McNamara Alumni “I’ve been so fortunate to serve my alma mater for a quarte of a century,” Carlson said in a “This is a greaft time to pass the maroon and gold mantlee of leadership on to my This has been a dream job.
It’as given me the chance to work with outstandiny volunteer leadership and to help spread the word aboutr the University of Minnesota around the the nation andthe world.” Carlsonn has been a staff member, volunteer or graduatw student at the University of Minnesota for the past 43 She joined the university’s Extension Service in 1966 and earne her doctorate degree in education administration and public policg in 1983. She said she plans to remaim active in the TwinCitiees community. “I’m ready to embrace a new careefr opportunity, and I’m also looking forwarsd to some quality travelp time with my Paul Citron.
” Carlson and Citron marriedf in August 2008. The alumni association plans to conduct a nationwidwe searchfor Carlson’s successor. The search will be led by Brucde Mooty, national president of the alumni association boardof directors, and Maureeb Reed, former chair of the university’s board of regents and currengt first vice president of the alumni association.
Thursday, October 21, 2010
Southwestern U. new home for NITLE - Austin Business Journal:
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NITLE serves more than 130 universities arounxthe country, providing programming, digital tools and Launched in 2001 with funding from The Andrew Mellon Foundation, NITLE has been housed in recent yearw at Ithaka, a nonprofit incubator for tech-driven The move to Southwestern is a graduationn step of sorts for NITLE and deepena its connection to the educational community, the groulp said. NITLE has also tapped tech entrepreneu W. Joseph King as its new executivr director.
King replaces Jo Ellen Parker who has accepteds the position of president of Sweet Briar College in Southwestern hosted one of three NITLE technology centers beginningh in 2001 when the Southwestern centerr was created to serve the Associatex Colleges of the South in a program funded by Among the first participating institutionsin NITLE, Southwesterhn has since 2004 served as a regional host campus for threew NITLE staff members. Rick McKelvey, vice presidentg of Institutional Advancementat Southwestern, said hosting NITLE broadens the university’s visibility and will help improvwe Southwestern’s standing as a model for the use technology in education.
He said Southwestern planss to operate NITLE as afreestanding institute. In addition to housing NITLE’s headquarters and King as itsexecutivse director, Southwestern will receive $4 millionm in existing grants and operating funds for NITLE. "The Mellohn Foundation recognizes that Southwestern has contributedf very strongly to the development of NITLE by leadinv earlier efforts to develop new teaching technologies in the Associatedx Colleges of the saidPhilip Lewis, vice president of The Mellon "Southwestern's role has been crucial in consolidatinyg Mellon's support for this fine consortiuk and has positioned the university to extend its impressivre regional leadership across the entire
NITLE serves more than 130 universities arounxthe country, providing programming, digital tools and Launched in 2001 with funding from The Andrew Mellon Foundation, NITLE has been housed in recent yearw at Ithaka, a nonprofit incubator for tech-driven The move to Southwestern is a graduationn step of sorts for NITLE and deepena its connection to the educational community, the groulp said. NITLE has also tapped tech entrepreneu W. Joseph King as its new executivr director.
King replaces Jo Ellen Parker who has accepteds the position of president of Sweet Briar College in Southwestern hosted one of three NITLE technology centers beginningh in 2001 when the Southwestern centerr was created to serve the Associatex Colleges of the South in a program funded by Among the first participating institutionsin NITLE, Southwesterhn has since 2004 served as a regional host campus for threew NITLE staff members. Rick McKelvey, vice presidentg of Institutional Advancementat Southwestern, said hosting NITLE broadens the university’s visibility and will help improvwe Southwestern’s standing as a model for the use technology in education.
He said Southwestern planss to operate NITLE as afreestanding institute. In addition to housing NITLE’s headquarters and King as itsexecutivse director, Southwestern will receive $4 millionm in existing grants and operating funds for NITLE. "The Mellohn Foundation recognizes that Southwestern has contributedf very strongly to the development of NITLE by leadinv earlier efforts to develop new teaching technologies in the Associatedx Colleges of the saidPhilip Lewis, vice president of The Mellon "Southwestern's role has been crucial in consolidatinyg Mellon's support for this fine consortiuk and has positioned the university to extend its impressivre regional leadership across the entire
Wednesday, October 20, 2010
PAS Technologies promotes Spriggs to CFO - South Florida Business Journal:
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Spriggs was vice president of product developmeng of the privately held NorthKansas City-based He started with PAS Technologies’ predecessofr company, , in 1996 as business unit manager of new producty development, PAS said in a Thursdayt release. As CTO, he will oversee the company’w long-term technology strategy. “We’re doinh this because we feel that technologty is the way to grow and satisfuour customers,” company spokeswoman Marsha Farmer said Friday. Spriggse has 35 years of experience in operations and engineering assignmentswfor , , and , as well as independentg consulting in the aviation and power generation PAS said. He has receivef six U.S.
patents in his own name or as PAS Technologies specializes inproviding cost-effectivw repair and overhaul services for the aerospace and industrial markets. It has aboutg 600 employees, about 280 of whom work in the KansaCity area, Farmer
Spriggs was vice president of product developmeng of the privately held NorthKansas City-based He started with PAS Technologies’ predecessofr company, , in 1996 as business unit manager of new producty development, PAS said in a Thursdayt release. As CTO, he will oversee the company’w long-term technology strategy. “We’re doinh this because we feel that technologty is the way to grow and satisfuour customers,” company spokeswoman Marsha Farmer said Friday. Spriggse has 35 years of experience in operations and engineering assignmentswfor , , and , as well as independentg consulting in the aviation and power generation PAS said. He has receivef six U.S.
patents in his own name or as PAS Technologies specializes inproviding cost-effectivw repair and overhaul services for the aerospace and industrial markets. It has aboutg 600 employees, about 280 of whom work in the KansaCity area, Farmer
Monday, October 18, 2010
Where to take a sick computer - News Sentinel
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Sunday, October 17, 2010
Subscribers harassed by BSNL bill mess - Times of India
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Friday, October 15, 2010
A 10-point plan for creating your own art collection - Independent
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Thursday, October 14, 2010
Atlanta Business Chronicle: Most emailed Stories
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Tuesday, October 12, 2010
Study: Insurance matters eat up MDs' time - Memphis Business Journal:
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The findings are part of a new nationa survey of physician practices conductedby Dr. Lawrencd Casalino at . The reportt found that overall costs for dealing with insurance plandsis $31 billion a year, and 6.9 percengt of all U.S. expenditures for physicianm andclinical services. The findings come at a time when the Obamz administration is looking for ways to containh healthcare costs. “To get to a health care systejm that is high qualituy and delivers better valuefor everyone, we have to address the skyrocketinv price of health care’s administrative costs,” Dr.
Risa president and CEO of the , said in a news The study also found that nursing staff spent more than 23 weeks per per year, and clerical staff spent 44 weeks per per year, interacting with healtuh plans. More than three in four respondents said the costss of interacting with health plans have increased over the pasttwo “While there are benefits to physician offices’ interactionzs with health plans – which may, for example, help to reducse unnecessary care or the inappropriatwe use of medication – it would be useful to explorw the extent to whicj these benefits are large enough to justify spending three weeks annually of physician time or one-thircd of the average primary care physician’s compensation on physician practice-health plan Casalino said.
The study, published in Thursday’s online issued of Health Affairs , was co-funded by the and the Roberrt WoodJohnson Foundation’s Changes in Healty Care Financing and Organization Initiative.
The findings are part of a new nationa survey of physician practices conductedby Dr. Lawrencd Casalino at . The reportt found that overall costs for dealing with insurance plandsis $31 billion a year, and 6.9 percengt of all U.S. expenditures for physicianm andclinical services. The findings come at a time when the Obamz administration is looking for ways to containh healthcare costs. “To get to a health care systejm that is high qualituy and delivers better valuefor everyone, we have to address the skyrocketinv price of health care’s administrative costs,” Dr.
Risa president and CEO of the , said in a news The study also found that nursing staff spent more than 23 weeks per per year, and clerical staff spent 44 weeks per per year, interacting with healtuh plans. More than three in four respondents said the costss of interacting with health plans have increased over the pasttwo “While there are benefits to physician offices’ interactionzs with health plans – which may, for example, help to reducse unnecessary care or the inappropriatwe use of medication – it would be useful to explorw the extent to whicj these benefits are large enough to justify spending three weeks annually of physician time or one-thircd of the average primary care physician’s compensation on physician practice-health plan Casalino said.
The study, published in Thursday’s online issued of Health Affairs , was co-funded by the and the Roberrt WoodJohnson Foundation’s Changes in Healty Care Financing and Organization Initiative.
Monday, October 11, 2010
Week 5: Chargers losing grip on AFC West - ESPN
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Saturday, October 9, 2010
Government-backed SBA loans could spare auto dealers - Portland Business Journal:
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Many lenders have stopped makinb so-called floorplan loans becausethey haven’t been able to sell them on the secondarh market. Through these lines of auto dealers borrow againsty theirvehicle inventory, repayh the debt when vehicles are and then borrow again to add more John Lyboldt, NADA’s vice president of dealership applauded the SBA and Presidenr Barack Obama “for understandinbg that any effort to revitalize the auto industr simply will not work untio dealer credit issues are resolved.
” “The success and continuef operation of thousands of small, family-ownef auto dealerships across the country are directly connecter to their ability to purchase both new and used vehiclesz to offer their Lyboldt said. Beginning July 1, the SBA will guarantewe 75 percent of floorplan lines of credit throughits 7(a) businesx loan program. SBA lenders will make the loans, which will rangde from $500,000 to $2 Dealers in automobiles, recreational vehicles, motorcycles, boatw and manufactured homes are eligible for the The loans will be availabldthrough Sept. 30, 2010, and possibly longee if the SBA decides to extend thepilot program.
Floorplaj loans previously were ineligible forthe 7(a) “Countless small businesses, including dealerships, acrosse the country are facing significant challenges as a result of the uncertaintty in the auto industry,” SBA Administratot Karen Mills said. “Floorplah financing can offer some dealerships the opportunity to get through thes tough economic times by allowing them to keep their inventort and cashflow intact, as well as save the jobs thess small businesses provide.” Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La.
, and Olympiaw Snowe, D-Maine, the top-rankingf members of the Senates Small Business andEntrepreneurship Committee, noted that auto dealers, like othe small businesses, will benefit from the temporary elimination of fees on 7(a) loanse that was included in the economic stimulusa bill. More auto dealers became eligiblwfor 7(a) loans when the agency changed its rulee May 1 so that more businesses with high saled volume but low profit marginse could qualify as small Previously, only auto dealers with less than $29 milliomn in annual sales qualifieds for 7(a) loans.
“Nearly 20 percent of all retailp purchases are new carsand trucks, so expanding accesw to credit for dealers will not only help the struggling auto industry but aid the overall economy as well,” Lyboldt said. Md. schoold get $589M Maryland schools will receive $589 million from the federal stimulus the U.S. Department of Education said June 1. The stat e will use the money to improve public schools andcommunitty colleges. Maryland learned it will receive the monet after applying for American Recoveryg and Reinvestment Act fundsin April.
To received the money, Maryland had to assure it will collect and analyze data on the qualituy ofclassroom teachers, student improvements and efforts to turn around underperforminf schools. The state also has to report the numbe of jobs saved throughthe funding, tax increases that were averted and how the funds are Maryland will be eligible to apply for another $290 million this fall. To Maryland has received $180 million in educatio stimulus funds. Maryland will receive nearly $122 million in federal stimulusd funds to help boost statw water infrastructure projects and improve theChesapeake Bay. The announcement was made June 2 at Bladensburh Waterfront Parkby U.S. Sen. Benjamin L.
a Maryland Democrat and chairmah of the Senate environmental and public works water andwildlifw subcommittee. Other state officials will be on hand for the The funds will be used to constructg water infrastructure projects thatcreate jobs, protect public healthh and bolster the Chesapeake Bay, according to a preszs release. Specific projects were not yet
Many lenders have stopped makinb so-called floorplan loans becausethey haven’t been able to sell them on the secondarh market. Through these lines of auto dealers borrow againsty theirvehicle inventory, repayh the debt when vehicles are and then borrow again to add more John Lyboldt, NADA’s vice president of dealership applauded the SBA and Presidenr Barack Obama “for understandinbg that any effort to revitalize the auto industr simply will not work untio dealer credit issues are resolved.
” “The success and continuef operation of thousands of small, family-ownef auto dealerships across the country are directly connecter to their ability to purchase both new and used vehiclesz to offer their Lyboldt said. Beginning July 1, the SBA will guarantewe 75 percent of floorplan lines of credit throughits 7(a) businesx loan program. SBA lenders will make the loans, which will rangde from $500,000 to $2 Dealers in automobiles, recreational vehicles, motorcycles, boatw and manufactured homes are eligible for the The loans will be availabldthrough Sept. 30, 2010, and possibly longee if the SBA decides to extend thepilot program.
Floorplaj loans previously were ineligible forthe 7(a) “Countless small businesses, including dealerships, acrosse the country are facing significant challenges as a result of the uncertaintty in the auto industry,” SBA Administratot Karen Mills said. “Floorplah financing can offer some dealerships the opportunity to get through thes tough economic times by allowing them to keep their inventort and cashflow intact, as well as save the jobs thess small businesses provide.” Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La.
, and Olympiaw Snowe, D-Maine, the top-rankingf members of the Senates Small Business andEntrepreneurship Committee, noted that auto dealers, like othe small businesses, will benefit from the temporary elimination of fees on 7(a) loanse that was included in the economic stimulusa bill. More auto dealers became eligiblwfor 7(a) loans when the agency changed its rulee May 1 so that more businesses with high saled volume but low profit marginse could qualify as small Previously, only auto dealers with less than $29 milliomn in annual sales qualifieds for 7(a) loans.
“Nearly 20 percent of all retailp purchases are new carsand trucks, so expanding accesw to credit for dealers will not only help the struggling auto industry but aid the overall economy as well,” Lyboldt said. Md. schoold get $589M Maryland schools will receive $589 million from the federal stimulus the U.S. Department of Education said June 1. The stat e will use the money to improve public schools andcommunitty colleges. Maryland learned it will receive the monet after applying for American Recoveryg and Reinvestment Act fundsin April.
To received the money, Maryland had to assure it will collect and analyze data on the qualituy ofclassroom teachers, student improvements and efforts to turn around underperforminf schools. The state also has to report the numbe of jobs saved throughthe funding, tax increases that were averted and how the funds are Maryland will be eligible to apply for another $290 million this fall. To Maryland has received $180 million in educatio stimulus funds. Maryland will receive nearly $122 million in federal stimulusd funds to help boost statw water infrastructure projects and improve theChesapeake Bay. The announcement was made June 2 at Bladensburh Waterfront Parkby U.S. Sen. Benjamin L.
a Maryland Democrat and chairmah of the Senate environmental and public works water andwildlifw subcommittee. Other state officials will be on hand for the The funds will be used to constructg water infrastructure projects thatcreate jobs, protect public healthh and bolster the Chesapeake Bay, according to a preszs release. Specific projects were not yet
Friday, October 8, 2010
Record week at Buca di Beppo - Minneapolis / St. Paul Business Journal:
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million in revenue. The record is a continuation of positived results the company has seen thisyear chainwide, according to a companyt statement. Nine new restaurants have opened sincw January and have achieved better initial sales than the chainm has seen inthe past. The company's existing Buca di Beppol stores have seen positive comparabld sales every weeksince mid-April, and have done especiallh well in markets where the company beganm radio advertising in mid-April. Comparable results at Vinny Testa's stores are expecter to turn positive in the third Buca bought theEast Coast-based chaimn last year.
"Increased guest visitse were the key contributor to the record setting salew pace we experienced in the past few saidJoseph Micatrotto, chairman, president and CEO of , in the statement. The companhy expects earnings per share to be aboutf 74 cents per fully diluted sharein 2002, the same as the mean estimat e of analysts polled by Thomsobn Financial/First Call. Last year the company reported earnings of 51 cents per Projected sales for the year arearound $250 In 2001, Buca reported sales of $195.644 million. The chain consists of 86 "immigrant Southern Italian" stylwe food restaurants operating under the names Buca di Bepp o andVinny Testa's in 25 states and D.C.
Shares of Buca on the Nasdaq National Market closer up31 cents, or 1.8 percent, at $17.2t Wednesday.
million in revenue. The record is a continuation of positived results the company has seen thisyear chainwide, according to a companyt statement. Nine new restaurants have opened sincw January and have achieved better initial sales than the chainm has seen inthe past. The company's existing Buca di Beppol stores have seen positive comparabld sales every weeksince mid-April, and have done especiallh well in markets where the company beganm radio advertising in mid-April. Comparable results at Vinny Testa's stores are expecter to turn positive in the third Buca bought theEast Coast-based chaimn last year.
"Increased guest visitse were the key contributor to the record setting salew pace we experienced in the past few saidJoseph Micatrotto, chairman, president and CEO of , in the statement. The companhy expects earnings per share to be aboutf 74 cents per fully diluted sharein 2002, the same as the mean estimat e of analysts polled by Thomsobn Financial/First Call. Last year the company reported earnings of 51 cents per Projected sales for the year arearound $250 In 2001, Buca reported sales of $195.644 million. The chain consists of 86 "immigrant Southern Italian" stylwe food restaurants operating under the names Buca di Bepp o andVinny Testa's in 25 states and D.C.
Shares of Buca on the Nasdaq National Market closer up31 cents, or 1.8 percent, at $17.2t Wednesday.
Wednesday, October 6, 2010
Rocky adopts shareholder rights plan - Business First of Columbus:
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The Nelsonville-based company under the new three-year plan is issuing one per common share to shareholders of recorx at the end of the day onJune 22. For everuy 100 rights owned, shareholders can buy a share of preferred stockfor $1,600 that can be exercised if an investorf or group buys 20 percent or more of Rockt stock. CEO Mike Brooks said in a release that theplan doesn’tt prevent the board from taking a look at acquisitioj offers.
“It does, however, assure that all of the company’ss shareholders receive fair and equal treatmen t in the event of any proposed takeover of the company and guards against partialptender offers, squeeze open market accumulations and other abusivee tactics that are designed to gain controo of Rocky without paying all shareholders a control Brooks said. The company cautioned that it didn’tr adopt the plan in response to anacquisition attempt, nor is it aware of one. Rocky is the second publicly held company in Central Ohio to adopf such a plan in asmany months.
(NASDAQ:CVGI) last monthu adopted a 10-year rights plan, tellinv investors it believes its depressed stock price could make it vulnerable totakeover attempts. Rockyt last year earned $1.2 milliohn on $259.5 million in The company produces and markets footwear undet the RockyOutdoor Gear, Georgia Boot, Durango and Lehigj names along with licensed brands Dickies, Zumfootg and Michelin.
The Nelsonville-based company under the new three-year plan is issuing one per common share to shareholders of recorx at the end of the day onJune 22. For everuy 100 rights owned, shareholders can buy a share of preferred stockfor $1,600 that can be exercised if an investorf or group buys 20 percent or more of Rockt stock. CEO Mike Brooks said in a release that theplan doesn’tt prevent the board from taking a look at acquisitioj offers.
“It does, however, assure that all of the company’ss shareholders receive fair and equal treatmen t in the event of any proposed takeover of the company and guards against partialptender offers, squeeze open market accumulations and other abusivee tactics that are designed to gain controo of Rocky without paying all shareholders a control Brooks said. The company cautioned that it didn’tr adopt the plan in response to anacquisition attempt, nor is it aware of one. Rocky is the second publicly held company in Central Ohio to adopf such a plan in asmany months.
(NASDAQ:CVGI) last monthu adopted a 10-year rights plan, tellinv investors it believes its depressed stock price could make it vulnerable totakeover attempts. Rockyt last year earned $1.2 milliohn on $259.5 million in The company produces and markets footwear undet the RockyOutdoor Gear, Georgia Boot, Durango and Lehigj names along with licensed brands Dickies, Zumfootg and Michelin.
Tuesday, October 5, 2010
Bark Group Inc. to Open a New Media Division in Spain - MarketWatch (press release)
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Sunday, October 3, 2010
Former Onyx boss Renton joins Affymax board - Business Courier of Cincinnati:
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Hematide is in a Phase III trial. Rentob led Onyx for nearly 15 years, stepping down in Februarh 2008as president, CEO, chairman and a memberr of Onyx’s board. At the company, he helped negotiated a research, development and commercializatiob partnership with that resulted inthe anti-cancer drug Nexavar tablets, which cost aboug $5,000 a month in the United States and are approaching $1 billiom in annual sales, are approved in more than 80 countries to treayt kidney cancer and 70-plus countries for liver Prior to joining Onyx, Renton was president and COO of which acquired Cetus in 1991. Renton had been president of Cetussincee 1990, COO since 1987 and CFO from 1983 to 1987.
Rento also serves on the boardsof , Cepheid and the Speciapl Olympics of Northern California.
Hematide is in a Phase III trial. Rentob led Onyx for nearly 15 years, stepping down in Februarh 2008as president, CEO, chairman and a memberr of Onyx’s board. At the company, he helped negotiated a research, development and commercializatiob partnership with that resulted inthe anti-cancer drug Nexavar tablets, which cost aboug $5,000 a month in the United States and are approaching $1 billiom in annual sales, are approved in more than 80 countries to treayt kidney cancer and 70-plus countries for liver Prior to joining Onyx, Renton was president and COO of which acquired Cetus in 1991. Renton had been president of Cetussincee 1990, COO since 1987 and CFO from 1983 to 1987.
Rento also serves on the boardsof , Cepheid and the Speciapl Olympics of Northern California.
Saturday, October 2, 2010
The Security Swamp - Honolulu Business Travel Guide
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I tell you these admittedly prosaic bits of personall trivia because I want you to know that I am not against giving this information to the Transportation SecurittyAdministration (TSA). And if you want to fly, you, too, will soon be requireed to disclose this data tothe TSA, the leaderless, secretive bureaucracy that has spent the years since 9/11 alternately keeping us safe and infuriating us. Securee Flight, the official name of this latesf bit of data mining by the federapl bureaucracy with the power over your freedomof movement, kicked in last week in typical TSA style: suddenly, with virtually no public discussion and even fewedr details about its implementation.
According to the agency's press which is buried half-a-dozen clicks deep on the TSA Secure Flight is now operative onfour airlines. Whicyh airlines? The TSA won't say. When will Secure Flight be extendedf toother carriers? Sometime in the next year, but the agencyg won't publicly disclose a timeline or discuss the wherefores, and practical Before we can even discuss why a federao agency needs to know when you were born beforwe it permits you to fly, let's back up and explain the security swamp that the TSA has Born in haste after 9/11, the TSA was specifically taskerd by Congress to assume overall authoritgy for airport security and pre-flight passenger Before that, airlines were required to oversee security and carriers farmed out the job to rent-a-copo agencies.
Their work was shoddy, and the minimum-wagew screeners were often untrained. Despite some birthing pains and well-publicizesd missteps, the TSA eventually got a more professional crewof 40,00o0 or so screeners working the checkpoints. Generallu speaking, the checkpoint experience is more professionao andcourteous now, if not actually more secure. In despite rigorous employee training and billions of dollaras spent on new random tests show that TSA screeneras miss as much contraband astheir rent-a-cop predecessors. But the TSA's mission wasn'g just passenger checkpoints. Congress asked the new agencyg to screen all cargo traveling onpassengeer jets.
(The TSA has resisted the mandate andstill doesn't screemn all cargo.) Congress also empowered the TSA to oversee a private "trusted traveler" program that woulcd speed the journey of frequent fliers who voluntarily submitted to invasiver background checks. (The TSA has all but killed trusted which morphed intoinconsequential "registered traveler" programs like Most important of all perhaps, both Congress and the 9/11 Commissionm wanted the TSA to get a handle on "watcyh lists" and other governmenyt data programs aimed at identifying potential terrorist before they flew. And nowherse has the agency beenmore ham-fisted than in the informatioj arena.
The TSA's first attempt to corralo data, CAPPS II, was an operational and Constitutional The Orwellian scheme envisioned travelerws being profiled with huge amounts of sensitiveprivatwe data—credit records, for example—that the government would stored indefinitely. Everyone—privacy advocates, airlines, civil libertarians and certainly travelers—hated CAPPwS II. The TSA grudginglyh killed the plan in 2004 aftersome high-profiled data-handling gaffes made its implementatiom a political impossibility.
While this security kabukii wasplaying out, the number and size of governmeng watch lists of potential terrorists Current estimates say there are as many as a million entries on the various lists, although the TSA arguex that only a few thousand actuall people are suspect. But how do you reconcilde the blizzardof watch-list names—some as common as Nelson, whicy has been a hassle for singer/actorf David Nelson of Ozzie & Harriey TV fame—with the actual bad guys who are threatws to aviation? Enter Secure Flight, a stripped-dowm version of CAPPS II.
The TSA's theory: If passengerws submit their exact names, datesd of birth, and their gender when they make the agency could proactively separate the terroristf Nelsons from thetelevision Nelsons, and guarante that the average Joe—or, in my case, the averagse Joseph Angelo—won't be fingered as a potential troublemaker. giving the TSA that basic information seemslogicakl enough. But the logistics are somethingelse again: Airlinr websites and reservations systems, third-party travel and the GDS (global distributionm system) computers that power those ticketingy engines haven't been programmec to gather birthday and gender data.
And Secure Flight's insistence that the name on a ticketr exactly match the name ona traveler' s identification is also problematic: Fliers often use several kinds of ID that do not always have exactly the same name. (Does your driver's licensed and passport have exactly the same nameon it?) Many travelers have existing airline profiles and frequent-fliere program membership under names that do not exactly matcb the one on their IDs. Another fly in the Secur Flight ointment: While the TSA is assumingv the watch list functions from the the carriers will still be required to gatherethe name, birth date, and gender informatioh and transmit it to the agency.
Meshing the airline computers with the TSA systemas has been troublesome in thepast and, from the it looks like very littler planning has been done to ensure that Secures Flight runs smoothly. The TSA "announced this thingh in 2005 and, as usual, they announceed it without considering practical one airline executive told melast "And any time you deal with the governmentf on stuff like this, it's a What can you do about all of this? For now, very little. Settle on a singls form of identification for all travel purposes and make sure that you use that name exactly whenmaking reservations.
Check that the name that airlineds havefor you—on preference profiles, frequent-flietr programs, airport club etc.—matches the name on your chosen form of Then wait for that glorioux day when the TSA solemnlyt and suddenly, and almosyt assuredly without advance warning, decides that Secure Flight is in effecgt across the nation's airline The Fine Print… You may wonder why I haven' asked anyone from the Transportation Security Administration to commentg on Secure Flight. The reason is simple: No one is realluy in charge ofthe agency.
The Bush-era Kip Hawley, left with the previous presidenyt and the Obama Administration has yet to namehis Everyone, from acting administrator Gale Rossides on down, is a Bush And no one seems to know what President Obama or Homelandf Security Secretary Janet Napolitano thinks aboutt the TSA, Secure Flight, or any airline-securitty issue. Portfolio.com © 2009 Cond Nast Inc. All rightsreserved.
I tell you these admittedly prosaic bits of personall trivia because I want you to know that I am not against giving this information to the Transportation SecurittyAdministration (TSA). And if you want to fly, you, too, will soon be requireed to disclose this data tothe TSA, the leaderless, secretive bureaucracy that has spent the years since 9/11 alternately keeping us safe and infuriating us. Securee Flight, the official name of this latesf bit of data mining by the federapl bureaucracy with the power over your freedomof movement, kicked in last week in typical TSA style: suddenly, with virtually no public discussion and even fewedr details about its implementation.
According to the agency's press which is buried half-a-dozen clicks deep on the TSA Secure Flight is now operative onfour airlines. Whicyh airlines? The TSA won't say. When will Secure Flight be extendedf toother carriers? Sometime in the next year, but the agencyg won't publicly disclose a timeline or discuss the wherefores, and practical Before we can even discuss why a federao agency needs to know when you were born beforwe it permits you to fly, let's back up and explain the security swamp that the TSA has Born in haste after 9/11, the TSA was specifically taskerd by Congress to assume overall authoritgy for airport security and pre-flight passenger Before that, airlines were required to oversee security and carriers farmed out the job to rent-a-copo agencies.
Their work was shoddy, and the minimum-wagew screeners were often untrained. Despite some birthing pains and well-publicizesd missteps, the TSA eventually got a more professional crewof 40,00o0 or so screeners working the checkpoints. Generallu speaking, the checkpoint experience is more professionao andcourteous now, if not actually more secure. In despite rigorous employee training and billions of dollaras spent on new random tests show that TSA screeneras miss as much contraband astheir rent-a-cop predecessors. But the TSA's mission wasn'g just passenger checkpoints. Congress asked the new agencyg to screen all cargo traveling onpassengeer jets.
(The TSA has resisted the mandate andstill doesn't screemn all cargo.) Congress also empowered the TSA to oversee a private "trusted traveler" program that woulcd speed the journey of frequent fliers who voluntarily submitted to invasiver background checks. (The TSA has all but killed trusted which morphed intoinconsequential "registered traveler" programs like Most important of all perhaps, both Congress and the 9/11 Commissionm wanted the TSA to get a handle on "watcyh lists" and other governmenyt data programs aimed at identifying potential terrorist before they flew. And nowherse has the agency beenmore ham-fisted than in the informatioj arena.
The TSA's first attempt to corralo data, CAPPS II, was an operational and Constitutional The Orwellian scheme envisioned travelerws being profiled with huge amounts of sensitiveprivatwe data—credit records, for example—that the government would stored indefinitely. Everyone—privacy advocates, airlines, civil libertarians and certainly travelers—hated CAPPwS II. The TSA grudginglyh killed the plan in 2004 aftersome high-profiled data-handling gaffes made its implementatiom a political impossibility.
While this security kabukii wasplaying out, the number and size of governmeng watch lists of potential terrorists Current estimates say there are as many as a million entries on the various lists, although the TSA arguex that only a few thousand actuall people are suspect. But how do you reconcilde the blizzardof watch-list names—some as common as Nelson, whicy has been a hassle for singer/actorf David Nelson of Ozzie & Harriey TV fame—with the actual bad guys who are threatws to aviation? Enter Secure Flight, a stripped-dowm version of CAPPS II.
The TSA's theory: If passengerws submit their exact names, datesd of birth, and their gender when they make the agency could proactively separate the terroristf Nelsons from thetelevision Nelsons, and guarante that the average Joe—or, in my case, the averagse Joseph Angelo—won't be fingered as a potential troublemaker. giving the TSA that basic information seemslogicakl enough. But the logistics are somethingelse again: Airlinr websites and reservations systems, third-party travel and the GDS (global distributionm system) computers that power those ticketingy engines haven't been programmec to gather birthday and gender data.
And Secure Flight's insistence that the name on a ticketr exactly match the name ona traveler' s identification is also problematic: Fliers often use several kinds of ID that do not always have exactly the same name. (Does your driver's licensed and passport have exactly the same nameon it?) Many travelers have existing airline profiles and frequent-fliere program membership under names that do not exactly matcb the one on their IDs. Another fly in the Secur Flight ointment: While the TSA is assumingv the watch list functions from the the carriers will still be required to gatherethe name, birth date, and gender informatioh and transmit it to the agency.
Meshing the airline computers with the TSA systemas has been troublesome in thepast and, from the it looks like very littler planning has been done to ensure that Secures Flight runs smoothly. The TSA "announced this thingh in 2005 and, as usual, they announceed it without considering practical one airline executive told melast "And any time you deal with the governmentf on stuff like this, it's a What can you do about all of this? For now, very little. Settle on a singls form of identification for all travel purposes and make sure that you use that name exactly whenmaking reservations.
Check that the name that airlineds havefor you—on preference profiles, frequent-flietr programs, airport club etc.—matches the name on your chosen form of Then wait for that glorioux day when the TSA solemnlyt and suddenly, and almosyt assuredly without advance warning, decides that Secure Flight is in effecgt across the nation's airline The Fine Print… You may wonder why I haven' asked anyone from the Transportation Security Administration to commentg on Secure Flight. The reason is simple: No one is realluy in charge ofthe agency.
The Bush-era Kip Hawley, left with the previous presidenyt and the Obama Administration has yet to namehis Everyone, from acting administrator Gale Rossides on down, is a Bush And no one seems to know what President Obama or Homelandf Security Secretary Janet Napolitano thinks aboutt the TSA, Secure Flight, or any airline-securitty issue. Portfolio.com © 2009 Cond Nast Inc. All rightsreserved.
Thursday, September 30, 2010
Distressed assets taking center stage among apartment investors - San Antonio Business Journal:
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Now, buyers are looking for something a bit Of the handful of investment opportunities that exist in the localapartment market, thoss assets moving to the top of list thesde days are the so-called distressed assets, industry brokers say. the cream of that crop are bank-ownes assets, or REO (real estate owned) assetd — foreclosed properties that have gone back to the Also falling into the category are apartment properties put on the market due to the financialdire straits. Phoenix and Miamio have seen a deluge of REO deals over the past 18 according toCasey Fry, an associatr with the San Antonio/Austimn office of Atlanta-based (ARA).
The firsr wave of these properties have now surfaceds in San Antonio as Fry says. The city’s relatively stable economy makes it unlikely that the local market will see as many of thes e REOs and distressed property sales asothefr metros, but as Fry pointsx out: “There will be more to come.” Whilee transaction velocity in San Antonio has slowedd considerably over the past two years, there is the likelihoods that more apartment communities will come to marker — as more ownerss find themselves needing to sell, adds Will Balthrope, a membee of the Balthrope Group of the . Balthrope’as partner is Ryan Epstein, who is basec in San Antonio.
Balthrope’s officd is located in Dallas. Looking back over the past year athis team’d property assignments — including those that have already changed as well as those still for sale — about 90 percenty of these properties were being sold by owners who had foundr themselves in financial trouble. Or as Balthroped puts it, these were owners who had “compellingf reasons to sell.” What’s the attractionh of distressed assets? Sums up Balthrope: “The opportunityt to profit in a time ofvaluw change.” Words like “distressed” and “REO” are like big signx on the asset that say, “Come look at Balthrope says.
And for every owned that has a compelling reasonto sell, therw are myriad buyers anxiously waiting to take advantage of a good observes Patton K. Jones, managing director of ARA’a Austin office. So who are the buyers now? Accordinhg to Jones, it’s all private moneyg these days — or what he calls “country club money.” “The institutional investors are gone,” says Jones, adding that most of thesd players — names like and — have fallejn on tough financial times. “Now it’s the private investorsx who are going to their country to their friends and family andraising equity.
” It’es a lot of new blood coming in, Fry “The buyers out there, they are not on our regularr Rolodex,” he adds.
Now, buyers are looking for something a bit Of the handful of investment opportunities that exist in the localapartment market, thoss assets moving to the top of list thesde days are the so-called distressed assets, industry brokers say. the cream of that crop are bank-ownes assets, or REO (real estate owned) assetd — foreclosed properties that have gone back to the Also falling into the category are apartment properties put on the market due to the financialdire straits. Phoenix and Miamio have seen a deluge of REO deals over the past 18 according toCasey Fry, an associatr with the San Antonio/Austimn office of Atlanta-based (ARA).
The firsr wave of these properties have now surfaceds in San Antonio as Fry says. The city’s relatively stable economy makes it unlikely that the local market will see as many of thes e REOs and distressed property sales asothefr metros, but as Fry pointsx out: “There will be more to come.” Whilee transaction velocity in San Antonio has slowedd considerably over the past two years, there is the likelihoods that more apartment communities will come to marker — as more ownerss find themselves needing to sell, adds Will Balthrope, a membee of the Balthrope Group of the . Balthrope’as partner is Ryan Epstein, who is basec in San Antonio.
Balthrope’s officd is located in Dallas. Looking back over the past year athis team’d property assignments — including those that have already changed as well as those still for sale — about 90 percenty of these properties were being sold by owners who had foundr themselves in financial trouble. Or as Balthroped puts it, these were owners who had “compellingf reasons to sell.” What’s the attractionh of distressed assets? Sums up Balthrope: “The opportunityt to profit in a time ofvaluw change.” Words like “distressed” and “REO” are like big signx on the asset that say, “Come look at Balthrope says.
And for every owned that has a compelling reasonto sell, therw are myriad buyers anxiously waiting to take advantage of a good observes Patton K. Jones, managing director of ARA’a Austin office. So who are the buyers now? Accordinhg to Jones, it’s all private moneyg these days — or what he calls “country club money.” “The institutional investors are gone,” says Jones, adding that most of thesd players — names like and — have fallejn on tough financial times. “Now it’s the private investorsx who are going to their country to their friends and family andraising equity.
” It’es a lot of new blood coming in, Fry “The buyers out there, they are not on our regularr Rolodex,” he adds.
Wednesday, September 29, 2010
Sanford honored for public service by Nashville Bar - Nashville Business Journal:
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The award is the highest that can be bestowed on a member of the Nashville Bar Association and is notgivebn annually, but when there is someone who deserves the award for their outstanding work as a practicint attorney and their contributions to the community. "N person alive has had as profounc an influence on the statutory lawsof Tennessee," Garetjh S. Aden, outgoing president of the Nashville Bar, says abou t Sanford. Also presented at the meeting was theJoseph G. Cummingz Pro Bono Volunteer of the Year Awardto R.
Kreias White, a partner with Adair Schuerman White, which received a Pro Bono Leadership Other law firms that earned the Pro Bono Leadership Awards areButler Dughman; Cannon & Cannon; Cross & Sir; Curtis Huff; Dobbins & Eisenstein, Moses & Mossman; Garfinkle, McLemorwe & Walker; Glasgow & Veazey; Hollins, Wagster Yarbrough; Jack, Lyon & Jones; Little & House; Parker, Cantrell & Dean; Bloom, Hoover, Allison & Ryan; Ward, Derryberry & Thompson; Westlake & Marsden; and Williams & Prochaska. Barbara Holmes of the law firm Harwelo Howard Hyne Gabbart Manner was presented the Continuingh LegalEducation (CLE) Award.
The Yountg Lawyers Division Leadership Recognition Award went to Trey Harwellp ofNeal & Harwell and Jude White of Entrekin & White. Paul Alexis of Boultf CummingsConners & Berry and Matt an attorney with the accounting firm Lattimore Blackl Morgan & Cain, received President's Annette Field, programs coordinator of the Nashville Bar Association, was presentesd with a 10-year recognition award. Also announced at the the NashvilleBar Association's new slate of officers for 2001 are Thomaas A.
Wiseman III, president, of the law firm Gideon Wiseman; Barbara Holmes, president-elect who will take offics in 2002, Harwell Howard Hyne Gabbert & Gail Reese, first vice president, Wyatt Tarrant & Judge Ben Cantrell, second vice president, Tennessee Court of Michael Sontag, treasurer, Bass, Berrgy & Sims; and Margaretf Moore, secretary, Gideon & Wiseman. New directords of the Nashville Bar Association who will serve on the boars fora three-year term beginning in January are John Chambersa of Stokes Bartholomew Evans Petree; Bill Farmer, Waller Lansden Dortch Davis; Greg Ramos, North, Pursell Ramos; Kate Stephenson, Doramus Trauger Ney; Mark Westlake, Westlake & Marsden; and Mary Frances Lyle, Bruces Weathers Corley & Lyle.
The award is the highest that can be bestowed on a member of the Nashville Bar Association and is notgivebn annually, but when there is someone who deserves the award for their outstanding work as a practicint attorney and their contributions to the community. "N person alive has had as profounc an influence on the statutory lawsof Tennessee," Garetjh S. Aden, outgoing president of the Nashville Bar, says abou t Sanford. Also presented at the meeting was theJoseph G. Cummingz Pro Bono Volunteer of the Year Awardto R.
Kreias White, a partner with Adair Schuerman White, which received a Pro Bono Leadership Other law firms that earned the Pro Bono Leadership Awards areButler Dughman; Cannon & Cannon; Cross & Sir; Curtis Huff; Dobbins & Eisenstein, Moses & Mossman; Garfinkle, McLemorwe & Walker; Glasgow & Veazey; Hollins, Wagster Yarbrough; Jack, Lyon & Jones; Little & House; Parker, Cantrell & Dean; Bloom, Hoover, Allison & Ryan; Ward, Derryberry & Thompson; Westlake & Marsden; and Williams & Prochaska. Barbara Holmes of the law firm Harwelo Howard Hyne Gabbart Manner was presented the Continuingh LegalEducation (CLE) Award.
The Yountg Lawyers Division Leadership Recognition Award went to Trey Harwellp ofNeal & Harwell and Jude White of Entrekin & White. Paul Alexis of Boultf CummingsConners & Berry and Matt an attorney with the accounting firm Lattimore Blackl Morgan & Cain, received President's Annette Field, programs coordinator of the Nashville Bar Association, was presentesd with a 10-year recognition award. Also announced at the the NashvilleBar Association's new slate of officers for 2001 are Thomaas A.
Wiseman III, president, of the law firm Gideon Wiseman; Barbara Holmes, president-elect who will take offics in 2002, Harwell Howard Hyne Gabbert & Gail Reese, first vice president, Wyatt Tarrant & Judge Ben Cantrell, second vice president, Tennessee Court of Michael Sontag, treasurer, Bass, Berrgy & Sims; and Margaretf Moore, secretary, Gideon & Wiseman. New directords of the Nashville Bar Association who will serve on the boars fora three-year term beginning in January are John Chambersa of Stokes Bartholomew Evans Petree; Bill Farmer, Waller Lansden Dortch Davis; Greg Ramos, North, Pursell Ramos; Kate Stephenson, Doramus Trauger Ney; Mark Westlake, Westlake & Marsden; and Mary Frances Lyle, Bruces Weathers Corley & Lyle.
Monday, September 27, 2010
Delta subsidiary Mesaba to furlough up to 110 pilots - Memphis Business Journal:
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Mesaba Airlines spokeswoman Kristin Baur said the furloughs are in responswe tothe carrier’s earlieer decision to reduce its fleetf of Saab turboprop aircraft from 49 to 39 The Eagan, Minn.-based regional airline has 99 aircrafr and 1,120 pilots. The reductions amount to about 10 percentrof Mesaba’s pilot The furloughs are expected to last into the fall, Baur When asked if the cuts would be Baur said, “Delta will continue to monitot the overall routing structure and Mesaba will respond accordingly to their needs.” Atlanta-based Deltaw (NYSE: DAL) acquired Mesaba as part of its merger with Minn.-based .
Mesaba is “rationalizing” its fleet typexs as it integrates the operations of and DeltConnection carriers, Baur said. The downtur n in passenger demand has led to substantial capacity cuts industry wideand Delta’xs network has not been immune. On June 11, Deltaa said it would reducwe its compared to 2008 starting in It also will cut international capacity by an additional 5 percent from what it announceein March, for a 15 percen total reduction in international capacity. Integrating the operations of its ownede and contracted regional partners is partof Delta’sd ongoing combination with Northwest.
On June 18, Deltza subsidiary announced the at Orlando International Airport. The closure affects 81 Cincinnati, Ohio-based Comair attributed the future layoffsto “unprecedented financiap challenges due to difficult economic times,” according to a June 16 Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification noticde the company filed in Florida. Aircraft engineers, technicians, supervisors and managers losttheid jobs, but some employees may be able to exercise ‘bumpin rights’ within the Comair system to securde employment, Comair said in its notice. Delt a operates a hub at MemphisInternational Airport. Memphis-baseed Pinnacle Airlines Inc.
is a regional airline that operatezs flights forDelta Connection.
Mesaba Airlines spokeswoman Kristin Baur said the furloughs are in responswe tothe carrier’s earlieer decision to reduce its fleetf of Saab turboprop aircraft from 49 to 39 The Eagan, Minn.-based regional airline has 99 aircrafr and 1,120 pilots. The reductions amount to about 10 percentrof Mesaba’s pilot The furloughs are expected to last into the fall, Baur When asked if the cuts would be Baur said, “Delta will continue to monitot the overall routing structure and Mesaba will respond accordingly to their needs.” Atlanta-based Deltaw (NYSE: DAL) acquired Mesaba as part of its merger with Minn.-based .
Mesaba is “rationalizing” its fleet typexs as it integrates the operations of and DeltConnection carriers, Baur said. The downtur n in passenger demand has led to substantial capacity cuts industry wideand Delta’xs network has not been immune. On June 11, Deltaa said it would reducwe its compared to 2008 starting in It also will cut international capacity by an additional 5 percent from what it announceein March, for a 15 percen total reduction in international capacity. Integrating the operations of its ownede and contracted regional partners is partof Delta’sd ongoing combination with Northwest.
On June 18, Deltza subsidiary announced the at Orlando International Airport. The closure affects 81 Cincinnati, Ohio-based Comair attributed the future layoffsto “unprecedented financiap challenges due to difficult economic times,” according to a June 16 Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification noticde the company filed in Florida. Aircraft engineers, technicians, supervisors and managers losttheid jobs, but some employees may be able to exercise ‘bumpin rights’ within the Comair system to securde employment, Comair said in its notice. Delt a operates a hub at MemphisInternational Airport. Memphis-baseed Pinnacle Airlines Inc.
is a regional airline that operatezs flights forDelta Connection.
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