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Free To Be... You and Me -- Forty Years Later Huffington Post (blog) Forty years ago this month, a group of my friends and I released "Free to Be... You and Me," a children's record created to expel the gender and racial stereotypes of the era, while rewriting all those pat "happily ever afters" that dominated the fairy ...

49ers detail Santa Clara stadium plan - San Francisco Business Times:

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Tim Cahill, national design director for ofKansas City, Mo., led a 45-minute presentation of the $937 million project proposed to be built on the overflowe parking lot of California's Great America amusemenft park. City and team however, must get the approval of the city's voters next sprinf before they can proceed withthe 68,500-seaty stadium, which they would like to have readu in time for the 2014 season. The stadiumk could be expanded with upto 75,00 0 seats for events like the Supefr Bowl or international soccer matches, but reduceds to 32,000 for more intimate concerts, Cahilkl said.
Using photovoltaic solatr panels and a sea of landscaping on the rooftop ofthe stadium's west-side privatr corporate suites structure — along with programws stressing water conservation and use of recycled materials HNTB officials hope the structure will become one of the firs sports facilities in the natiomn to achieve LEED, or Leadership in Energyu and Environmental Design, certification from the U.S. Greejn Building Council.
However, they noted, there are still no specificf guidelines for LEED certification instadium construction, so they are usingb existing standards for office Cahill also advocated that the stadium authoritg established to operate the facility should compiles a capital reserve fund to pay for updatingh the stadium's technology every five to seven years to keep it on the cutting edge. He also praisedx its open, airy design that will stress public plazaas to be used by fans during gamezs andentertainment events, but also by people living, working and visiting in the area durinv the week.
They would afford views of the surroundingh area from insidethe stadium, Cahill said, providinv a "connection to the community." Cahil l also said the stadium would have about 110,000 square feet of spacew that could be used in cooperatio n with the nearby to stage a variety of corporatew meeting and events. City Council members were not schedulecd to take any actionon stadium-relaterd issues Tuesday night.

P&G moving Iams headquarters to Mason - Washington Business Journal:

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Kris Parlett, spokesman for Procter and Gamble (NYSE: PG) Pet Care, whicu includes Iams and Eukanuba, said the company and its 240 employeew would be moving in October to the Masojnbusiness park, where other personal healtnh care divisions of P&f and more than 2,000 employees are “It will make it easier to collaboratde and increase productivity,” Parlett Nobody will be laid of as a result of the company’sa current headquarters On Poe Avenue Instead, all 240 employees will be offeres there same positions in Mason. P&G acquirerd Iams in 1999.
Since sales of its Iams and Eukanuba brandws have morethan doubled, according to the “Our home address is changingg but not our commitment to improving the well-being of all dogs and said Dan Rajczak, vice presideng of P&G’s pet care business in Nortg America, in a statement released “If anything, this will help us do an even bettee job of connecting with our colleagues in healtb care to bring greay innovation to pet care.” A companuy spokesperson confirmed that 250 employees at the Iams-Eukanubza manufacturing and R&D complex in Preblee County will not be part of the move.
The news of the move came as a surprisee to Vandalia officials who said they had been workinvg vigilantly behind the scenes to keepIams “When P&G purchased we knew at that poinft this was a possibility some said Rich Hopkins, director of communications for the city. “Bur we are surprised today that the announcementrwas made.” Hopkins said Iams was one of the top employer s in Vandalia, though he could not say how much income was generatedd by the company. The city will have a presss conference at3 p.m. Thursday to further discuss the implications ofthe move.
Meanwhile, the community is stillo pursuingtwo projects, including an $81 million distributiojn center, which would bring 700 jobs and New-Yorik based aerospace company that could bring 130 “This is bad news for any Hopkins said. “We have two projectx in the pipeline now that could bring up to 900 employeeas tothe city, so it’s not all gloom and doom

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Iridium earnings fall 42%; revenue up - Denver Business Journal:

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The Bethesda-based provider of satellite telephone services, which expectz to become publicly traded this summeer throughan acquisition, posted a 42 percent decline in net income in the first quarter endec March 31, to $9.7 million from $16.7 million a year ago. Th companty attributed the decline to costs related toits next-generationm satellite program. “Iridium continue d to grow, although the pace slowed given the currenteconomic climate,” said CEO Matt “In addition to the impact of phasing out equipmen amortization, we believe the economic climate is affecting equipment sales, as is the transitiojn of newly introduced products into the distribution channeo as our partners move existing inventoruy to make way for new product.
” Compant officials say either Bethesda-based Lockheed Martin or Thale s Alenia Space will be selected as the program’s lead contractof this summer. The program’sz new network of satellites called Iridium NEXT is expected to be deployedsin 2014. Iridium NEXT will providw higherdata speeds, greater bandwidtu and the potential to delive r new data services and applications to The company says its EBITDA, or earnings before taxes, depreciation and amortization, increased 4.9 percentg to $27.6 million in the first quarter, up from $26.3 million a year ago, though most analystw do not use that as a reliable financial measure. Iridium’a revenue rose 2 percent to $75.
8 million for the compared to $74.3 millionn for the first quarter 2008. The slightly higher revenue came from increased commercial services revenueof $36.8u million but was offset by a decline in subscriber equipmenty revenue to $20.5 million for the Iridium’s commercial markets include maritime, aviation and land mobile customers, which grew by 11.5 percent for the The company’s sales to government including the Department of Defense, grew 31 Despite a 31 percent increase in subscriber to 328,000, compared to 250,00p0 in the first quarter of a $2 million amortization of equipmentt related to prior year equipment sales, adde to the decline in subscriber equipment revenue.
The compang is planning to go public this but it is not takint the initial public offering It is acquiring a publicly tradedinvestmenft group, (NYX: GHQ), an affiliatde of Greenhill & Co. Iridium has retained Deutsche Bank as its financiao adviser forthe transaction.

First Niagara pays back TARP funds - Business First of Buffalo:

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The Pendleton-based company (NASDAQ: FNFG), the parent of First Niagara Bank, has redeemed all $184 million received from the preferred stock purchased by the under the Troublefd Asset ReliefProgram (TARP). During its seven-monty investment in First Niagara, the government earned more than $4.8 million in preferrede stock dividends, exclusive of any value it may realize related to the repurchase of the warrant byFirs Niagara, said a company In April, First Niagara raised $380.4 million in a follow-on stocl offering.
Those funds, coupled with anothert $115 million raised in October 2008, put the “compan y in a stronger capital position than that whic existed prior to the government investmenin November,” officials said. First Niagara management also reaffirmed its belief that itis “welo positioned to withstand extreme and unprecedented economix conditions, based on even more severw economic assumptions than those used by the in last month’sd Supervisory Capital Assessment Program, or streszs tests, of the nation’s largest banks.
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Immucor responds to FDA - Boston Business Journal:

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The Norcross-based company, which makes and suppliees blood-reagent systems to the bloord transfusion industry, said Monday it turnes in a formal 10 working day response tothe . The statement reiterates Immucor’as commitment make corrections to addressthe FDA's noted Immucor said. The FDA, in an administrative action basecd on an earlyJanuart inspection, to revoke Immucor’s biologicss license with respect to its Reagenyt Red Blood Cells and Anti-E (Monoclonal) Blood Grouping Reagenr product, the company said in a The FDA has not ordered the recalo of any of the company's products.
Immucor BLUD) said in June it spent more than $2 milliob during fiscal 2009 on improving quality systemas and it expects to spenf upto $4.5 million in fiscal 2010. The company todayu said it started a Product Surveillance and Improvement Departmenr to support its quality system The new department will monitoequality issues, whether identified through internal or external sources, and enact appropriate corrective actions. The compang will provide its detailed remediation plan and timelines in its 30 workintg day response to the FDA no latedthan Aug. 11.
"We take our regulatory responsibilitieasvery seriously,” said Gioacchino De Chirico, Immucoe president and CEO, in a statement. “We beganb our Quality Process Improvement Project in early 2009 to brinvg our quality system upto world-class We remain committed to completing this project as quickly as possible."

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DIA trying to land more money-makers - Denver Business Journal:

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But on April 21, the manage r of aviation was more than happuy to cut the ribbon on theat DIA, the latesr in a line of higher-end concessionaires, which are almos t as crucial as a new airline to the facility’es success. At a time when the public is flying less and airportsz are getting less revenuefrom airlines, it’s crucial to increase non-airline revenue at DIA, Day The airport gets 40 percent of its income from sources other than airlines now; its she said, is to raise that figure to 50 percenf or more. Doing so won’t help just DIA. Airportss that don’t get a significant amount of non-airline revenue have to make up for it by charginf more tothe airlines.
Those airlines, in pass increased costs onto travelers at thatlocation and, suddenly, it’sw less attractive to fly out of there. “We want to keep pricee for airlines to operate out of DIA pretty reasonable andprettu low,” Day said. “Clearly this is whers we have to focus our Generating non-airline revenue is an idea that’ss risen in the past 20 years, said Robert northwest chapter president of the .
In the 1970d and ’80s, most airports had just a few newsstanda andquick eateries, and fees to the airlines were But as airports began competing to brinyg in low-cost carriers such as Southwest and AirTran, they realized they couldn’t charge exorbitant amounts and expect those carriers to servw their facility. Large U.S. airports now chargse airlines per-passenger costs that range anywherwefrom $2 to $18 per flight. DIA is in the middle with a chargeof $10.
59, whichj has dropped in the 14 years DIA has been Raising non-airline revenue would mean that cost and, subsequently, ticket fees — could come down even And to that end, Day and Patrick deputy manager of aviationm for revenue and business development, are hatchingh a few plans. Heck is preparing a merchandising as a number of leasexs for the roughly 140 merchants inthe airport’ss concourses will expire in the next three to four years. Ratherd than focus on generic coffee shopsand fast-foodx restaurants, DIA is lookingh to put in locally and nationally knowbn retailers that can generate more business.
That could range from the upscald Brookstone gadget store and Johnson and Murphy shoe storw to the array of locap restaurants around the country that now have airport Airport concessionaire HMS Host sought out Denveer ChopHouse because ofits “iconi brand.” It has had better-than-expected crowds in its firsyt few weeks of operation, said Stephen Douglas, company vice president of businesse development. “A lot of airports around the country, they want to brin that taste of their city to the he said. “You’re definitely driving revenuea forthe airport.” DIA and othere facilities make money from well-shopped concessionx because they get a cut of the profits.
In 2008, concessionss generated $250 million in salea at the airport; DIA realized $40 million of Heck said. Airport officials have laid out a plan fora 500-rooj hotel at DIA, modeled afteer similar lodging sites at hubs arouned the country. They’re also looking at adding a pet-care facilitty and expanding parking including possiblycreating terminal-bordering sites that motoristss can reserve the night before for a fee, Heck While bigger airports have led the way in many of thesre innovations, smaller airports are looking for new revenue as said Olislagers, executive director of .
His for example, has a golf course, baseball/softball academy and familyt fun center that a contractor runs on its At arecent “State of DIA Day told the crowd that attractinbg a new international carrier, a top was “tantamount to bringing in a new Fortune 500 But while such carriers, like their domesticf counterparts, are pulling back more than they are expanding their reachb right now, the idea of finding income from sourcew unthought of 25 years ago is becoming a top prioritg at DIA. “We’re very aggressive about Day said. “We’re going to explore it all. There’s no reaso n not to.
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Pappas puts new cash in Calif.'s Lead Therapeutics - Triangle Business Journal:

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Lead Therapeutics is developing drugs for cancer andinfectioue diseases. According to the SEC filing, the San Calif., company has raised $3 million so far in the Other investors include ProQuesg Investmentsof Princeton, N.J., and Mustang Ventures, a ventur capital firm based in Shanghai, China. Pappas Ventures participatedx in Lead’s Series A round, which raised $17 milliohn in November 2007. With that round, Pappas Managing Partner Arthur Pappasjoined Lead’s board of directors. Lead’s cancer drug would work in conjunction with chemotherapy andradiationj treatment, which both work by damaging the DNA of cancert cells.
The drug targets a proteinb that cancer cells can use to repair thedamaged DNA. The company expects to select a lead compoundin mid-2009 and begin clinicalo trials by mid-2010.

Loss, sales, shares fall at Toll Brothers - South Florida Business Journal:

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million, and has decided to discontinue givingearnings guidance. The Pa., company’s net loss was 52 cents a share, whicgh included pre-tax write-downs totaling $119.6 During the same period last year, Toll reported a $93.7 million, or 59 cent s a share, loss, which includede pre-tax write-downs totaling $288.1 Revenue for the quarter came inat $398. 3 million, a plunge of 51 The average analyst estimate forthis year’s fisca second quarter was a loss of 50 centxs per share and revenue of $395 million, according to Thomsoj Reuters. Toll shares were trading 6 percent loweer Wednesdayat $18.35.
Thoughg the housing market continues to bea challenge, Toll said it has experiencexd an uptick in activity and traffic at its communities. The companhy will not provide earninga guidance becauseof “the numerous uncertainties related to our said Joel H. Rassman, chieff financial officer.

Executive Beechcraft planes will use Garmin avionics - Wichita Business Journal:

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Executive Beechcraft, an aviation salesz and service company based atKansas City'sx Charles B. Wheeler Downtown Airport, can install Garmin's G1000 all-glass avionics panel on Beechcraf King Air C90seriese aircraft, Executive Beechcraft said in a release The upgrade costs $325,000. The nation's first retrofit installation of the panel was on an aircrafft owned and operated by Michael founder and CEO ofOverland Park-based software provider "This is the culminatiojn of a two-year Executive Beechcraft President Scott Tychsenm said in the release.
"We've workee closely with Garmin to bring the G100p to market for the KingAir C90, and we are very prouds of our partnership in making this remarkabls avionics system available to King Air ownerd and operators." The G1000 avionicw panel replaces older cockpit instruments, integratingv all primary flight, navigation, communication, terrain, traffic, weather and engin e instrumentation on high-definition LCDs. The panel is available as a factoryh item on some new planes but only as a retrofity on the King Air C90 therelease said. Executive Beechcrafgt will retrofit a second plane this week and has other s scheduled at its Kansas Cityand St.
Louis Executive Beechcraft was boughfby London-based BBA Aviation in Garmin International is a unit of Olathe-based GRMN).

HealthPartners reform plan: Be more like us - Minneapolis / St. Paul Business Journal:

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Minnesota has some of the lowest medicalp costs in the country and HealthPartners says its costsw are 8 percent lower than the state Its costs are 28 to 38 percenf below the national According to a HealthPartners analysisreleased Monday, the Medicare program for the elderly would cost $1.7 trillio n to $2.4 trillion less over the next decadd if the entire U.S. health care systems was like The Minnesota and Wisconsinb hospitals andclinics chain, which also runs medical and dentall insurance plans with 1.25 million members, creditedr the reduced costs to its use of electronic medicak records and redesigned processes to eliminate unnecessaryu tests and procedures.
HealthPartners makee sure the steps taken with patients are actions most backede bymedical research. That’s helped increase, for example, the numberr of HealthPartners patients getting proper diabetes and heart HealthPartners issued the analysis in respons to pledges by national health care interest groupsw and President Barack Obama tocut $2 trillion in healtj care expenses over the next decade. “Ifr the rest of the nation achieved even half of what we have achievedd through caresystem redesign, health care in America would be more effectivd and more affordable,” Dr. Brian Rank, HealthPartnerds Medical Group medical said in anews release.
“Wew can revolutionize care on anationall basis, by simply doing the things that are alreadhy proven to work.” HealthPartners isn’t the only Minnesotas health organization touting affordable and high-quality health Rochester-based Mayo Clinic has been lauded for providinvg high quality care, while also keeping costds down. The clinic creditd its success to policies that promote the needsof patients, versus financial concerns. Mayo has been that includes proposalds to improve information technology amonghealtn providers, and change Medicare payment models to rewar d innovation. Minnetonka-based UnitedHealth Group Inc.
has also been talkingv about ways the government could save moneyon Medicare. The healthy insurance giant that the federal government couldsave $540 billionb in Medicare costs over the next 10 yeare if it implemented some of the programsw UnitedHealth uses with its own plans. UnitedHealtgh said it has programs that promotd health and better coordinate preventing hospitalizations and other more costly health emergencies in thelong run. On Tuesday, UnitedHealthj is slated to release a new report on how technolog y and other process changes can savethe U.S. healtn care system billions of dollars.

Rose art is thorny for Trans-Siberian - Tampa Bay Business Journal:

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Smith and his company, Art Attac Studios of New Port Richey, brought a federao lawsuit June 1 againstthe , Paul O’Neill and Greg Hildebrand for use of “guitar rose” art on the group’sx promotional products. In 1996, Smith licensefd the artwork, a white guitar with a red to Savatage, the St. Petersburg heavy metal group that transformerinto Trans-Siberian Orchestra that same year. Smith has created otherf art forSavatage covers, according to his Web site garysmithartattack.com. Attorneyu Noel McDonell of saidTSO didn’t respond to a cease-and-desisgt letter in regard to the guitar art so the lawsuitf was filed seeking an injunction and damages.
It’s uncleae how much Smith seeks fromthe group. — Janet Leiserf HOSPITAL HEADACHE: is not immune to troublr in theconstruction industry. The hospital’es parent company, , is in discussion with a half-dozen subcontractors who said they weren’tr paid for their work on Tampa General’xs renovated at 2501 W. Kennedy Blvd. The which did the plumbing, electric and HVAC work, as well as installe windows, cabinets and security, said in separate courft filings they are owed morethan $263,000. The general , ran into financial difficulty and the contract was said hospital spokesmanJohn Dunn.
“We’re talking to the subs so they can get somethinyg outof this,” Dunn said. It’s a firsy for the hospital, Dunn said. — Margie Manning STEPPINGt DOWNIN STYLE: You’ve worked hard for your company for 20 helping it through tough times. Now, you’re near 50 and it’ss time to retire and spend time withyour That’s Paul Avery’s situation, and his employer, LLC, is easingf Avery, COO, into retirement with payments of nearly $1.7 millio n over the next 12 a filing with the said. He’sa also in line for a partial bonus for this and the company will pick up the cost of COBRz health care premiumsthough 2011.
His restrictex shares will vest faster, too. OSI has not named a new COO, it — Margie Manning

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James Bond's mostly good taste extends to his wardrobe - Washington Post

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James Bond's mostly good taste extends to his wardrobe Washington Post I did, at the time, enjoy the wardrobe, but I also developed a taste for the good food and wine Bond liked,” Moore says with a laugh. Moore's book “Bond on Bond” was published last month (Lyons Press), and it devotes a chapter to 007's dapper style. and more »

First IMA University focuses on economy, downtown development - Kansas City Business Journal:

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David Strohm says the United States likely will pull out of the recessioh later this year or in early 2010. When that happens, he says, the grossx domestic product might only grow 1to 1.5 compared to the 4 or 5 percen t from previous recessions. “For the time being, it looks like you want to be optimistixc and cautious at the same he says. Strohm was one of two featuresd speakersduring ’s 2009 economi update. Jeff Fluhr, president of the also spoke aboufthe city’s efforts to revitalize downtown. IMA has sponsored similar eventds in its other markets and wanted to bringy the programto Wichita, says Kurt IMA’s president and chief operationz officer.
“It’s our inteng to bring in speakers that we thino the Wichita community wouldsbenefit from,” Watson says. IMA plans to sponsort similar presentations throughout the Strohm says the recession already has lastef longer than the previous 10 economic downturnsz and pulling out ofit hasn’t been The federal government has spent billionse of dollars to stimulate the economy, but consumeres still are reluctant to spend, Strohm The GDP has dropped dramatically and businesses are stilp shedding jobs. Strohm predicts the national unemployment rate, whicu currently sits at 8.9 percent, to climbg above 10 percent before the recessionhis over.
The housing markeft has rebounded, but still is a ways off where one in eight mortgages are in Strohm says. California, Florida, Nevada and Arizonwa combine to account for 46 percent ofall U.S. However, pending home sales are up 6.7 percent for the third straight increase, whichy means people are showing more interest in buying homez because of favorable interest rate sand first-time home buyer tax “If we can get the housing issu e off the front page (of newspapers), then the economyh is going to generate some forward Strohm says. He says the stock marker has rebounded in recent but it would take 227 percent growth to get it back to itspreviouas high.
Despite all the negative, Strohm emphasizeed the economy has showed signs recently that the recessiohn may be nearingan end. Fluhr’s presentation, had a slightly different feel. He says he sees greag potential fordowntown development. Investing in he says, will help increase tourism and revenue opportunities in theWichita area.

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Lingle orders unpaid days off for workers - Pacific Business News (Honolulu):

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In an address broadcast from the State Lingle also said she would scale back free Medicaidd benefitsto low-income adults and said the state would delay paying some of its larger bills until July. The governor is also asking the Judiciary, the and the Office of Hawaiian Affair s to implement equivalent furlough days or restrictftheir budgets. Hawaii law does not allow ordering furloughs for the Departmengtof Education, the University of Hawaiij or the Hawaii Health Systemw Corporation, but Lingle said their spending will be restricted in an amountr equivalent to the three-days-per-month The furloughs, which start July 1, amount to abourt a 13.
8 percent pay cut, or aboutr $5,500 for a worke making $40,000 a year. As with layoffs, Lingle does not have to negotiate the furloughs with any of the unions representing state Lingle has saidshe doesn’t want to lay off workersz because of the disruptive effect of contract rules that wouldf enable senior workers to junior workers, even if they worked in different stater agencies. The furloughs will save $688 million. Linglwe said the savings are needed to closs a gapof $730 million between now and June 30, 2011, as forecasyt by the state’s Council on Revenuesd May 28. All told, Hawaii is expected to see tax revenuw fallby $2.
7 billion over the next two “If we do not implement the furloug plan, we would have to lay off up to 10,000 employees to realize an equivalent amount of savings,” Linglw said. The state has about 46,000 workers, includingb 21,000 employees of the Department of Lingle blamed the fiscapl shortfall on thelingeringg recession, rising unemployment, dropping visitor arrivals, a decline in privates building permits, a doubling of foreclosures, and recor bankruptcy levels. The state Legislature endesd its session last month by raising tax rate onhotel rooms, high-income earners, luxury home transactions and tobaccop to help meet the budget shortfall.
But Lingle, a Republicanm whose vetoes of those measures were overridden bymajorithy Democrats, said she would not ask for additionapl tax increases. She also rejected calla for legalizing gambling. However, Lingle noted that 70 percentt of state operating funds go to labodr costs and that the state had provided employede wage increase of between 16 and 29 percent over the past fouryearzs “when our economy was

Buccaneers inject life into trade deadline by dealing Aqib Talib to New England - Yahoo! Sports (blog)

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