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Manufacturing sector shows encouraging signs - Houston Business Journal:

2012-03-02T04:00:00.001-08:00

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ISM’s index of national factory activity rosefrom 40.1 in Apri to 42.8 in May. That’s the highestg reading since September, and the fiftu straight monthly rise. Any reading beloa 50 signals contraction in the while readings above 50indicate growth. More encouraging than the overall reading wasthe “New part of the index, which reached 51.1 in May. May was the firs month the New Orders Index has moveds above50 percent, following 17 consecutive months of contraction.
Growth in that part of the index indicates the likelihood of more activityh in the manufacturing sector in the coming Accordingto ISM, five of the 18 manufacturing industriew reported growth in May: nonmetallic minerao products; plastics and rubber machinery; food, beverage and tobacco and printing and related supporf activities.

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2012-02-29T01:34:00.001-08:00

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Jared Goralnick, president of Baltimore’s , said he doesn’rt think they’re relevant anymore. At not in the traditional form — everyone lined up around a with one person talkint at the rest and sporadically gettinf a little feedback from the Eyesglazing over. BlackBerriex clicking. Time disappearing, never to be seen again. Instead, Goralniclk said he limits the attendance of meetings to only those peopledirectly involved. And he uses technology — thinlk videoconferencing, only more high-tech and Web 2.0 to make them faster and cheaper.
Many local businesspeople acknowledge that meetings are still an importanr part ofdoing business, and face-to-face interactions are best for buildinvg relationships with employees and clients. But they are also findiny ways to best usetheid resources, including their time and theie people, more efficiently and effectively during the economicd downturn. And that involvews changing up thestandard meeting. “Meetingsa cost money — you’re shutting your company down,” said Alex president of Velaro, a Columbia company that sells subscriptions to live chat technologuy often used incustomer service.
“But if you don’y have meetings, it’ll also cost your company money.” Meetings take time, but their intent — to mustedr focus among employees, or to create or massage a salerelationship — is ultimately to either save money or make Executives at some of the nation’s largesf companies said communication is key in boosting business, accordinfg to a November survey by California-based human resources consulting firm . About half said communicationh is the best way to boost moraleamonfg employees, and a third said that a lack of communicatiom is most detrimental to employees.
But Goralnick said he thinkz sometimes communication, in meetings at least, can be “People who are there are relevany for five minutes of anhourlongb meeting,” he said. SET, which designs automatex documents and systems for companiews usingMicrosoft Office, has staff meetings abougt once a month instead of forcing employeews to sit through more frequent but unimportant meetings. “Thered must be something importantif we’re havinf a meeting,” Goralnick On the other hand, many companied try to bring in as many relevang people as possible to a key planningb meeting to avoid later said Carole Lyle Shaw, president of , a Columbis management consulting firm.
Other companies said they try to shakde up meetings by changingy their structure or Stefan Muirhead, president of Ignition72, a Baltimorde Web design firm, holds meetings in comfortable chairs around coffee tables, all facing a giany computer screen and a wall-sizec whiteboard. Muirhead said the non-boardroom setting frees employeezs tospeak up, and the monitor and whiteboar d are vital in communication with one anothef about design projects. When far-flung employees or clienta are involved, companies are also findint ways to cut down on the cost and effort involved but still include everyone theyneed to.
Muirhead’x company charges clients hourly, so if he has to travelo to the Washington, D.C., for example, that’s an extra two or three houresin cost. So he uses services like , a videoconferencinh service, or Skype, an online voice and video phone, when only a shor meeting is in order. It’s an even biggert savings, of course, with international clients. At Velaro, Bloom said he also minimizesx wasted time by sharing information and doinvg housekeeping that would otherwise take place in meetingsvia e-mail or other technology.
And when he does use thingz likeconference calls, he encourages employeee to avoid using the mute buttojn so they can be doingb other things; instead, he hopes they stay engagexd to make the call more productive. Shaw said many companiews are simply condensing their meetings what was oncea weeklong, out-of-town retreaty is now only a day or two long. “Clients are much more focused on makinfg sure that the time spent away is very relevant and that the conversationss and activities are all focused onthe business, its and solving real problems,” Shaw said.

Stephen L. Goff | McDonough Holland & Allen - San Francisco Business Times:

2012-02-26T22:51:00.001-08:00

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“My grandfather was a justice ofthe , and my fathef was an attorney, so it’s alway been pretty much the law for said Goff, a shareholder with . “I have greayt respect for both of and wanted to grow up to be just like Goff — an AV-rated attorney, the highest honof by — handles contract and quasi-contract disputes betweejn health care providers and payers, and develops contractsd and operational strategies. He has collected more than $140 million in awards and settlements.
Goff has defended healtyh care providers and healthu plansin high-profile, high-stakes litigation and “I specialize in business specifically in the area of health care,” he “My biggest client is Goff enjoys litigation, especially for healtj care clients. “I like litigation because I enjoh fightingfor people, for their he said. “I try to make sure the legaol system works for the peopleI There’s a lot of public polic associated with health care, and that makes it very interesting. I reall y believe that by representing doctorsand hospitals, I’m also representingv the people of the community.
Goff is an adamant defendere of hisclients — and those withoutf health care insurance. “Health care legal issues have becomre incredibly complex inrecent years, often because of issues involving people with no It’s a challenge to make sure that my cliente are able to charge for servicesx they have provided,” he said. “If I could changre anything, it would be to take the profit motive out of healtbcare insurance. Many of the complications that exist might not be theree ifpeople weren’t trying to profit from other people’as health problems.” Goff is also a fierce competitof in another court.
“Several yeard ago the team I played with made it to thenationalo finals, in Boston, of the said Goff, who play at least five times a week at the near Howe But he never considered pursuing a careed in tennis. “I’m not that When Goff wants to escape the stress of the job and hepractices yoga. “I don’tf formally meditate,” he said “I do quiet things around the I especially liketo

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2012-02-24T20:00:00.001-08:00

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Monell's files Chapter 11 bankruptcy - Nashville Business Journal:

2012-02-22T17:34:00.001-08:00

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The beloved "meat n’ restaurant came to an impasse with its bank negotiating a refinancer of itsmain property, which is worth more than its Monell’s attorney Ernest Williams says. “Monell’s obligationj to its principalcreditor matured. The bankrupty is to allo w Monell breathing space to obtain replacement loansz or to reorganize througha bankruptcy-court confirmecd plan of reorganization,” says of . He added that Monell’s is solvent, paying its debts as they come due, and operationsa would not change duringthe negotiation.
“If should be able to continue to delivee the same quality restaurant and catering service it has come to be known he says. The Nashville institution is baseds in Germantown in an house on Sixth Avenuer owned by president Michael JohnAbraham King, and also leasesa a restaurant space in Franklin, with a catering arm on 31st

DAS manager at center of probe over COBRA checks - Los Angeles Business from bizjournals:

2012-02-20T14:17:00.001-08:00

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The Office of the State Inspector in a report released outlined an investigation intothe department, specifically the operationj that administers the Consolidated Omnibues Budget Reconciliation Act, or program. That piece of 1986 federa l legislation allows unemployed workers to buy healtn insurance coverage for up to18 months. David Holbrook, chief of the COBRA division sincwelast year, is the targert of the state’s effort to fire him afted investigators said hundreds of COBRA payment checksx went missing under his watch. Investigators foundf more than500 checks, about 200 more than originallyg thought, valued at about $214,000 in a credenzsa in Holbrook’s office on April 10.
Holbrook, 45, by that time was on paid administrativr leave and no longer had anofficwe key. He denied any knowledge of the checksz or how they got intohis office. Accordinbg to the report, it was unclear if he was purposefully holdingthe checks. The department said Tuesday therewas “no indicationj that premium funds were misappropriated.” A key factof behind the missing checks, the probe found, was a “dual accountinfg process” that was employed because the department opteed not to switch its COBRA records to a new Ohio Administrativw Knowledge System, or aimed at improving operations.
That decision, combined with the retirementr ofthe division’s former chief, triggerec what the report called a “disaster” in The probe also found Holbrook, who once worked in the stat Department of Natural Resources and Department of Youth had a record of inappropriate conduct in stat jobs that was described as a “patterj of dishonest behavior.” At the Administrative Services he earned a base annual wage of $92,955.
The department in a statement Tuesday said it has put in places stronger controls onCOBRA processing, specifically switchinfg to OAKS, and workedd with those affected by the misplaced The state probe had recommended changes to COBRAw processing operations along with an audit. The Departmenf of Administrative Services also indicatecd disciplinary actions might notbe over. “We are reviewing the Inspector General’s report and determining the appropriate course of actio n for otheremployees involved,” Directod Hugh Quill said.
Investigators also looked into anonymouss tips thatHolbrook didn’t follow time reporting policiees and refused to pay employeesa for denied vacation time they were permittesd to cash in. The inspector’s officse found some instances of wrongdoing or omissioneon Holbrook’s part and that of the department at large, recommending that the vacation policy itself be

Conference Board: 43% of Internet users now in social networks - The Business Journal of Milwaukee:

2012-02-18T11:17:00.001-08:00

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Of Web users, 43 percent use a social networking up from 27 percentlast year, the nonprofit globaol research group said. in its quarterly Consumef Internet Barometer. The most populae site is Facebook, used by 78 perceny of social network followed byMySpace (42 percent), LinkedIn (17 and (10 percent). The survey tracks about 10,000 Internet-equipperd households nationwide. It said seniorsw age 55 and older are quicklh increasing their use of social up from 6 percent last year to 19 percenrthis year. Women are more likely than men touse social-network site (48 percent versus 38 percent).
The majorityh of users log on at home, The Conferencew Board said, with a quarter logginvg on at work, and 10 percent connecting throughtheirr phone. More than half say they log on at least oncea day. "Onlinr social networks are more than just a fad among theyoungerd generation," Lynn Franco, directof of The Conference Board Consumer Research said in a statement Tuesday. "They'vew become an integral part of our personal andprofessional They’re an effective way to keep in toucg with people, connect with friends and and network with colleagues. "Social mediaq will also transform marketing as weknow it.
They’rwe powerful communication tools, and are becominhg an essential part of successful marketing strategies." The survey said Facebook is equally popular among men and women, while womenn are more likely than men (47 percent versusz 35 percent) to use MySpace and more men than womenj (21 percent versus 15 use LinkedIn. Users of the micro-blogging site Twittert say their top reasonsfor "tweeting" are to connecty with friends (42 percent), update their statuzs (29 percent), look for news (26 and for work-related reasons (22

Thorp calls U.Va. business model

2012-02-16T09:00:00.001-08:00

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In recent years, several large public research universities facing steadily decliningstate appropriations, notably the and Virginias Tech, have traded some state dollars for the ability to manags their operations and the freedom to set their tuition While the deal has given the Virgini a schools a more reliable but smaller – stream of statee funding, it also has resulted in higher tuitions and greatet reliance on donations to fund And that’s not a situation North Carolina officialzs are particularly interested in. “I think it’sa a very risky model,” says Holden chancellor of the .
“There are statexs that have tried this and have really struggledbecausd they’ve gotten to the point where the students are paying (amounts as high as) privatr university tuition, and that forces them to compete in a whole differentr way in the marketplace.”

Human Capital: People on the move, June 5 - Minneapolis / St. Paul Business Journal:

2012-02-14T05:51:00.001-08:00

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, a Boston-based technology company serving students, educators and employers, added Ted Fischer as executived vice presidentof sales, partnerships and strategix initiatives. Fischer was previously a partnerat . Sun Life Financial names Deschenes senioe VP and GM of its annuities divisiobnThe U.S. division of , based in Wellesley, named Stephen Deschene s senior vice president and general manager of itsannuitiesx division. Deschenes joins Sun Life from , wheres he served as senior vice president and chie f marketing officer for the retiremenrtincome group.
Furman Gregory LLC adds Deptula as partnetr Furman GregoryLLC , a Boston-based corporate law firm now known as Furman Gregory Deptula, added George Deptula as a Deptula most recently practiced at Vena, Riley, Deptula LLP, and continuea his practice in trial and appellate cases, legal services, and mediatiomn and ADR. William A. Berry & Son promoteds Corcoran as project designerWilliam A. Berry Son Inc. , a Danvers-based construction management firm, promoted Josier Corcoran to project director. She has served as a project managerd at the firm for the pastnine years.
Nixon Peabody's Milder elected chairmamn of ; Braich named to firm's IP team Forrest Milder , a partner in the Bostob office of Nixon PeabodyLLP , was electer chairman of the American Bar Associatiom ’s Forum on Affordable Housiny and Community Development for the 2009-2010 In other firm news, Nixon Peabody addex Ravinderjit “Ravi” Braich to its intellectual property departmenty in the Boston officre as a patent specialist.

Green Township OKs Mercy hospital plan - Triangle Business Journal:

2012-02-12T02:17:00.001-08:00

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The plan passed 3-0. “We’re very pleaseed to get to this stage and excited to take the next saidPete Gemmer, spokesman for “We realize there is still a lot of work to do and we look forwardf to continuing to work with the residents and the townshipo leaders to develop a hospital everyone can be proudr of.” The project will now be submittesd to the Hamilton County Regional Commission for consideration, probably next month, Gemmeer said. The planned hospital and parking areads would cover about 40 acres and sit near toInterstate 74. The to cost $200 million, could open in early 2014. The propose d site is 60 acres.
Mercyu has said it will closee itstwo West-Side hospitals: Mercy Hospital Western Hills and Mercyy Hospital Mount Airy. The new hospital, with 200 to 250 will be a replacement for Some residents in the area had expressed concerns abouty increased traffic as a result ofthe hospital, whose main access road would be from Norty Bend Road, at roughly the midwa y point between Kleeman and Boomer. Gemmer said a traffi c impact study through the HamiltonCounty Engineer’s Officse is nearly complete.

Review panel upholds disbarment recommendation - U-T San Diego

2012-02-09T22:34:00.001-08:00

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First tenants at Grandview Yard unveiled - Birmingham Business Journal:

2012-02-07T19:00:00.001-08:00

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Plans filed with the city July 7 show developefr Nationwide RealtyInvestors Ltd. wants to buildd the first $40 million worth of projectw as it continues planning forthe $500 million to $600 million redevelopmen t on 90 acres in the suburb’d industrial core. The city’s planningb commission will consider the HyattyPlace hotel, Urban Active fitness cente and a planned Jason’s Deli in the office building as conditional The preliminary and final development plan must go through the commission as well as Grandview Heights City Dublin-based M&A Architects, the designer of the three-story office building, plans to occupy at leasft 20,000 square feet on the top floor.
The plana mark the first projects presented to the city for approval since Nationwide Realty first began acquiring the former Big BearStorex Co. distribution complex and surroundingv properties inMay 2006. In conjunctio n with the real estate projects, Grandview Heightw City Council at its July 6 meeting heard a firstt reading of a development agreement betweenh the city andNationwide Realty. The resolutio n outlines how the city will payfor $78 milliomn in road improvements and utilities inside Grandviewq Yard and another $41 million in off-site public improvements.
Other legislation in supportf of the development agreement is expected to be introduced as earlhy as a special July 13counciol meeting. Construction on the three buildingss and the first phase of road and utility projectzs could begin as early aslate August. The hotel and fitness cented should open in fall said Nationwide Realty PresidentBrian Ellis. “We shoulc be pretty well positioned to get the project he said. The city’s mayor welcomed the sign of progrese despite the tougheconomic environment. “Getting something out of the Mayor RayDeGraw “will attract attention and more people.
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Food manufacturers cook up recipe for growth - Dayton Business Journal:

2012-02-05T14:51:00.001-08:00

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Pizza consumption has grown 3 percent to 6 percent each saidBill Mackin, president of MaMa To meet demand, the frozen pizza maker has doubled employment in the past year to about 330 MaMa Rosa’s is one of many local food manufacturers. And unlikr other manufacturing sectors, such as the automobile the food manufacturing outlook remains The food industry has ahealthy long-term outlook, accordinf to an report from June 2008.
The bureayu only forecasts a 500 jobdeclin — less than 1 percent statewide from 2004 through 2014, as employment gains in slaughteringb and bakery balance losses in dairy and Ohio’s estimate mirrors the federal government’s, whichg expects overall wage and salary employment in food manufacturing to experience little or no change untio 2016, according to a industry Presently, there are more than a dozen food makers in the Dayton area, according to Dayton-based shifted its Indiana kettlw chip operations to Dayton in late 2007. The company, whichj employs about 240 people, saw revenue increase to $50.56 million in 2007, up from $45 millionm in 2006.
sales last year were about the sameas $50 million, and the company is projecting a $4 milliobn bump to $54 million for 2009. the company had to make some changes to keep its bottommline healthy. Last year, Mike-sell’s initiated a salary freeze to keep costs down and is now leasintg its vehicles instead of buying As far as cuttingvemployees goes, David Ray, chie executive officer, said the company has actuallh hired a few people in the last couplre years. Nationally, food manufacturers experienced steady sales growth from 1997to 2006.
From 2000 to annual food spending per personh increased 18 percent fromabout $5,160 to During that time, several food companiea boosted Dayton-area operations, mainly in Clark County. grew its Springfields facilityby 65,000 square feet in late — a division of Dallas-based — boughf a 69,000-square-foot warehouse in 2003, Pizza box , bought a 79,000-square-foot industriapl facility in 2005 and addex more than 100,000 square feet between 2002 and 2008. But more spaced does not necessarily meanmore jobs, and company officials could not be reachedf to provide workforce data.
Nationally, despited operational growth, food manufacturing employment droppedd during the 1997 to2006 period, from 1.5 millionj workers in 1997, to 1.47 million. This could be from increaseed automation throughtechnological investments, whic h continues to rise, according to the . Despitd recent expansions locally, Ohio’s food manufacturing segmen t took arecent hit, bucking the conventionap wisdom that food-related markets are recession

Seeking new paths to success - Minneapolis / St. Paul Business Journal:

2012-02-03T07:34:00.001-08:00

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A marketing firm has decided it’se time to market itself. A chemica manufacturer sees potential in environmentallyfriendlg products. A fitness club chain that’s alreadyu doing well still sees a chancr to perform even better by forging partnershipas withhealth insurers. And an area bank is findinf that the financial crisis has created a new playing fiels inits industry. Maybe it’s all but the economic downturn appears to be spurrinfgsome innovation. Dyvig, Driver, Devine Inc. Fred at marketing firm Dyvig, Driver, Devine Inc., has been telling clientsx for months that a recessioh is a time to spendr moreon advertising, not less.
Now Driver and his Megan Devine and Maureen are putting their money where theirmouthu is. The firm, which does business as d.tripo marketing group, has spen t $7,000 to market itself to prospectivwe clients. “If you’re a marketingh company, you sometimes forget to market yourself,” Driver “You’re so focused on doing what your customersw need that you forget to follow your own And we try not to fall intothat trap.” The Minneapolis-basedx firm stepped up newspaper advertising (including in this and launched a direct-mail campaign to abouf 1,000 Twin Cities-area businesses.
“We did get responsesd from boththe [ad] and the mailing, and we’rwe following up on those right now. So marketing works! Imaginew that,” Driver said. So far this year, revenue is down compared to wherd it was ayear before, but Drive r has noticed that the difference is less in receny months. Even as business Driver sees the firm needing to make astrategiv choice. Much of dtrio’s business involves direct-mail and e-mail but more clients are expressinyg interest in onlinesocial media. Drivefr and his partners are debating whether they should hire socialo media experts or partner with another firm that already has experience inthe area.
“We will be more integrated. We will be more The question ishow far.” Sales at Delano-based Seacole-CRC are stilpl down compared to where they were a year ago, but CEO Greggf Elliott has noticed the gap narrowing over the past There’s been an uptickm in some business sectors. One area has been strong for Seacole-CRC: environmentallh friendly products, especially industrial cleaning, automobile maintenancs and railroad maintenance products that areless toxic. “We’v e been working on those productsfor years, but recently it seema there’s been a real need in the marketplace for Elliott said.
“We go in and show our sales literaturer to some of the customersand they’re very anxious to know aboug it and very anxious to try Elliott thinks the increased interesgt in such products may be the resulg of manufacturers taking a second look at their processes and finding that there are more environmentall friendly chemicals that also save them mone y in the long run. “They’re less hazardous to the They don’t have to maybe do as much wast treatment. You have less exposure to employees inthe Overall, there’s a lower cost of usintg these products.
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Bannister project has new goals; developer drives for more city aid, big tenant - St. Louis Business Journal:

2012-02-01T03:34:00.001-08:00

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Now, the developers are focused on two new persuading the city to sweeten its financial and landing as an office tenant either a Fortune 500 firm or a locallhy based company with morethan 6,000 In approving the tax credits, the conditionesd approval of $8.75 million of the financin on ’s ability to sign the big-name office tenant and startt construction on at least 200,000 square feet for the compan by Dec. 31, 2013. Given that Thres Trails Redevelopment’s principals include Neal Patterson and Cliff the top two officialsof 7,600-employee Cerner Corp., that hurdlre may be the easier one to clear.
The city sweetenefr might be the more challenging said CouncilmanRuss Johnson, a member of the council’s financw committee. Johnson was among city officials approache d recently by Three Trailws representatives exploring the possibility of the city issuing and at leasty partly backingabout $100 millio n in bonds for the project. “I said ‘no,’” Johnso n said. “We’ll lose our credit rating if we take on any more This is not thefederal government.” In December 2007, the approved $230 million of localk tax increment financing for the Banniste Mall redevelopment project.
Hopes for furtherd city support dimmed earlierthis month, when the city learneds that its backing of $300 million in TIF bonds for the slow-startingy Kansas City Power & Light District would require taxpayers to cover a $4 million first-year revenu e shortfall. But Three Trailas Redevelopment, a partnership that includee andowner , hasn’t given up on courting the city. “Whaft we’re saying to the city right now is, ‘Cam we sit down and discuss some ways that the city coulx help us achieve financing quicker than we could on our own due to the statre of thenational economy?’” Lane4 President Owen Buckley said.
“That doesn’t have to includes 100 percent backing of the Buckley said the Wizards are the main reasonj Three Trails has asked the city to help keep theredevelopment project, known as , moving at a fast The Missouri Development Finance Board conditioneds an additional $6.25 million in tax credita on completion of a new 18,500-seat publiclyu owned soccer stadium at The Trails and a 23-yeadr lease with the Wizards by the end of 2011. But greatedr reasons for haste are the annual operatinh losses the team is sustaining at itstemporar home, CommunityAmerica Ballpark, because of seating and sponsorshipl limitations, Buckley said.
“They are all over us to keep thingzs moving,” Buckley said of OnGoaol LLC. In 2006, sold the Wizardxs to OnGoal, which met the late Lamar Hunt’s preferencse for a Kansas City buyer with plans for anew soccer-specific stadium. OnGoal — which includes executives from and — initially focused on a site in Overlanf Park. But after voters there rejected a sales tax measurse to support a youth soccef complex anchored by theWizards stadium, the focuzs shifted to the Bannister Mall site. The shuttered mall site is acros Bannister Roadfrom Cerner’s new 750,000-square-foof Innovation Campus on the formet Marion Laboratories campus.
Neither Buckley nor Cernef officials would confirm that the NortgKansas City-based health care technology firm is among potential office tenants Threee Trails has been wooing. Roberf Miserez, executive director of the Missourk DevelopmentFinance Board, did. “Cerner is one of the companiee they have been in discussions Miserez said. “But the developers have been in discussions withothert companies, as well.” Miserez said the agency conditioned part of the project’sd tax credits on an office anchor of Cerner’x ilk “because we want a creditworthy companh that is going to provide very good, high-payinf jobs.” The agency conditioned an additional $8.
75t million in credits on the start of construction of at leasf 200,000 more square feet of offic e space by the end of 2016. The which developers hope to completee in10 years, ultimately will include a 1.6 million-square-foor office campus, the $130 milliomn stadium, 12 tournament-quality soccer fields, 1.1 million square feet of retail and 250 hotell rooms, Buckley said. It’s an ambitious project for such perilouseeconomic times, he but fortunately it has several things going for it. For the project will have closeto $300 million in locall and state incentives in place when the signzs off on $28.5 million in state TIF.
That is on track to happen before year’s end, Buckley said.

Hawaii ranks 15th in U.S. for foreclosures, sees nearly 400% spike in May - Silicon Valley / San Jose Business Journal:

2012-01-29T23:17:00.001-08:00

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Foreclosures were up 397.5 percent for the montgh compared with May and wereup 19.3 percent over April 2009, accordintg to the latest report from RealtyTrac issued Wednesday. Hawaii rankee 15th in the nation for foreclosuresin May, up from 23rd in Hawaii had 816 foreclosure filings in May. Therew were 684 foreclosure filings in Aprill and 164 foreclosures inMay 2008. Hawaioi had a foreclosure rate of one filingb for every 621 according to the latest survey bythe California-basexd real estate research firm. Nevada again had the highest foreclosurew rate inthe country, with one filing for every 64 California had the second highest rate for the month, follower by Florida.
California had the highestr number of foreclosures at Vermontranked 50th, with just six foreclosures at a rate of one filingv for every 51,906 Nationally, there were 321,480 foreclosure filingzs for the month, down 6 percent from Aprio and up nearly 18 percent from May according to the report.

Buenos Aires hits back at Cameron "colonialism" accusation - Telegraph.co.uk

2012-01-27T19:00:00.001-08:00

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The Senate's position has cross-party political backing in Argentina, adding further fuel to Buenos Aires' pressing demands at a time when neighbouring Brazil's recent off shore oil finds bring them the promise of enormous riches.

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worker killed in roof collapse - Deseret News

2012-01-25T15:34:00.001-08:00

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Conference focuses on logistics in Florida - Jacksonville Business Journal:

2012-01-23T10:51:00.000-08:00

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About 600 people are expecteds to attend the Association for Corporate Growth conference that highlighte opportunities inthe area’s growing logisticw industry. One of the attendees, Kris Pedersen, vice presidentt of , said the real estate developef is interested in Jaxport because it has been lookinyg fora “different to diversify its business. Lenders as a whol have tightened down on which has slowed developers on the residentia l and commercial realestate side, he said. Alliance is looking at the export industry because it has the potentiafor growth. More specifically, Pederse n said Alliance is interestedin after-marketf car exports and some military business.
With the value of the dollarf being lowuntil recently, “all of the otherf countries could be looking for us to purchase the aftermarket” he said. The conference at • As the morningy speaker, retired Lt. Gen. Gus Pagonis will talk abour leadershipunder fire. He will also speak about the supply chain. • David Darst, Morgan Stanley’s chief investment strategist ofits , will give an investiny outlook for 2009.
• Lisa Mancini, ’ds senior vice president of human resources andlabort relations, will give an updatew on the railway’s $724 millioj public-private infrastructure initiative to create an efficieny link between Mid-Atlantic portsz and the Midwest. • Bill a Holland & Knight will host a panel on supplu chains. Check jacksonvillebusinessjournal.com tomorrow for updatesw on the conference.

Morgan Stanley CEO to receive $10.5 million - Reuters

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GM Tonawanda hosting recycling event - Charlotte Business Journal:

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The one-day event June 6 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Planty 5 on Vulcan Street, is co-sponsoref by Erie County, Buffalo and the Northwest Solisd WasteManagement Board. Last year’ s event received 56,325 pounds of electronic equipment, 247 bicyclesx and a truck full of Electronics equipment is a source ofrecyclesd lead, steel, plastic, copper and glass. Item being accepted this year include: TVs, computers, keyboards, printers, fluorescent bulbs, cell rechargeable batteries, VCRs, and DVD players, textiles, and bicycles. Clothing and textilesz will be reused at Goodwill retail locationaor recycled.
Bicycles will be used for repair, bike safety educatiobn or recycled by Blue Bicycleand Recycle-a-Bicycls programs. New for this year, Buffalo ReUse will accepr used ornew hand, shop and garden tools, such as brooms, ladders, wheelbarrows, hammers and “This is a natural extension of what we do at Plant Manager Steve Finchn said in a statement. “Our plant has been landfill-freew in manufacturing since 2006. We recycles or reuse all of our so this event to help the community recycle is a natural fit for us atGeneralp Motors,” he said.

Parry urges focus - Yahoo! Eurosport UK

2012-01-16T22:51:00.001-08:00

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Professor to visit Denbigh - Milton Keynes Today

2012-01-14T19:17:00.001-08:00

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Additions of Crawford, Felton speeds up NBA's Trail Blazers - USA TODAY

2012-01-12T15:34:00.001-08:00

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Hilo Hattie sold to clothing manufacturer - Washington Business Journal:

2012-01-10T10:34:00.001-08:00

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The company’s sale to may be off the tabldafter U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Robert Faris delayed ruling onthe company’s bid to buy Hilo Hattir for $1 million. The ownership transfer was announced on Mondayin U.S. Bankruptcy Cour in Honolulu, where Faris also continued until June 29severakl motions, including one to appoint a trusteer to take over management of the Faris also suspended Hilo Hattie’s ability to borroqw money under a line of credit. Maui Divers Jewelr y had offered last montjh to buy Hilo Hattie and its seven store sfor $1 million in cash, and to investr another $2 million in the business.
Maui attorney, Cuylar Shaw, told Faris that the offer was off the tabl e if the judge did not approve the saleon However, Maui Divers President and CEO Bob Taylofr said through a spokeswoman Monday afternoon that the compang would hold its offer open until the next Hilo Hattie attorney James Wagnet told the judge that Donald B.S. owner of , acquirecd 100 percent of the company’s shares on Fridayu from , which bought Hilo Hattie from founder Jim Romihg last year before filing for Chapter 11bankruptcu protection. Kang is also on the boardf of directorsof .
Hilo Hattie CEO Ted Nelson and Presidentg John Scott resigned from theidr positions on Friday and Kang has assumeds the post of president ofHilo Hattie, Wagner told the Royal Hawaiian Creations was listed as the secondf largest creditor, owed more than $798,000, when Hilo Hattie filede for Chapter 11 last Oct. 2. It is owed another $252,000 in an administratives claim, according to courg documents. Maui Divers was the largesgt creditor, owed $1.25 million, and Taylodr was co-chairman of the committed of unsecured creditors until resigning in prior to making the Royal Hawaiian Creations also resignee fromthe committee, which supported the sale of Hilo Hattid to Maui Divers.
Kang proposes to fund a line of credirt for Hilo Hattiewith $1 milliohn in cash, and “wil arrange for an infusion of $2 million in workingf capital” into Hilo Hattie upon its emergence from according to a document filed on Monday before the hearing. Kang said he plans to folloqw the plan of reorganization submitted by Hilo Hattire andits parent, Ltd., last week, whicnh calls for paying unsecured creditors about 5 centas on the dollar. Wagnee told the judge that the reorganizatiom plan filed on June15 “was a because the sale to Maui Divers had not been confirmed.
He said he didn’tf expect any change in the treatmentg ofthe company’s hundreds of creditors under Kang’a ownership. The 46-year-old company, which claimerd $23.5 million in debt in the Chapter 11 has been losingmoney “aty a clip of $500,000 per month,” Ted attorney for the creditors’ committee, told the judge. Pettit also said he was “ver surprised” to learn of the stock transfer onFridayy afternoon.
He noted that Kang’z business is in manufacturingapparek overseas, and said that Kang intendex to take over Hilo Hattie’s Nimitz Highway headquarters and turn it into a Kang said after the hearing that he intended for the buildinbg to remain as a store and administrative offices. But the judge expressed concerhn that Maui Divers had not reached agreemeng withHilo Hattie’s landlords, most of whom have givemn the company substantial rent relief, for its sevejn stores. Pettit said that some landlords were hesitantr to negotiate until they knew for sure whether Maui Diverds would be thenew owner.
Faris also considered the transfeer of stock to Kang as a secone offer forHilo Hattie, and noted that Kang proposedf to pay back rents in full. “It seemx we have a second offer,” he said. “It may be a bettedr offer.” Nelson said that he had had discussions with Kang over the last severall months and said Kanghad “continuouslh offered to be as helpful” as he could.

A Gateway to China's Yunnan Province - Moneylife Personal Finance site and magazine

2012-01-08T06:51:00.001-08:00

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U.S. Bank returns TARP money - South Florida Business Journal:

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billion in Troubled Asset Relief Program mone y it took last year fromthe . U.S. Bank (NYSE: based in Minneapolis, had previously announcesd its plans to redeem the preferred stock issued tothe Treasury. Last it from the government todo so. U.S. Bank also told the Treasurg it intends to repurchasethe 10-year warrant it had issued along with the preferred stock. “The redemption allows our companhy to return to operating from a positiobn of both independent strength andstrategi flexibility,” said Richard Davis, the company’s president, CEO and in a statement. The Treasury in May announced that U.S.
Bank whic showed it would be able to ride out the economixc downturn without having to raise more Davis has ofthe government’s capital purchase In February he called the prograkm “lousy” and said the banking industr was pressured to participate in the program.

Steelers notes: Mendenhall on IR; Madison signed for depth in secondary - Beaver County Times

2012-01-03T22:00:00.001-08:00

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Palace mobilizes rescue, relief operations - Philippine Star

2012-01-01T18:51:00.001-08:00

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New Vine Logistics responds to critics - San Francisco Business Times:

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The company, which two yearas ago seemed poised to ship 20 percentof California’s direct-to-consumer wine market, laid off much of its staff on Frida and brusquely told customers over the weekend that it was no longer receiving or processing The move left many Wine Country provideras scrambling to gather information and to figurw out how to get back inventory at New Vine’s American Canyon warehouse so they coulde ship it to customeras another way. Published accounts said two ofthe company’ds venture capital investors effectively pulled the plug last by declining to invest additional capitap in New Vine.
“Some people changed their minds at the last saidBarbara Insel, a wine industryh analyst who served on New Vine’s advisory Kathleen Hoertkorn, New Vine Logistics’ founder and former CEO, and Chairmab of the Board Homer Dunn issuedf a statement Tuesday in response “to media report s about the suspension of its business operations.” Hoertkornh and Dunn said New Vine is working with customerz “to transfer all services to anothedr means of legal direct shipping, and in the is finalizing all work, including compilinyg of reports, reconciling inventory and invoices, and performingv all of the necessary business operationw for the month of May and June.
” Hoertkorn added, in response to reports that the companuy knew or must have known it was in financial that officials “truly believed that they would have been fundesd and were not expecting to have to cease The wine industry heardc rumblings about New Vine’s implosion over the weekene and was greeted Monday by published reports saying it had ceasec most business operations. The company’s voicse mail on June 1 said “New Vine is no longere receiving or shipping orders for shipmeny fromour facility,” and noted that it had “limites staff” to handle a transition.
Hoertkorj sent an email to clientws over the weekend indicating that NewVine “has abruptlyy gone into a state of financial crisis and is currently working on the plan forward.” The companyt -- which as recently as March 2007 had 63 staffers and plannedx to acquire a similar firm and nab up to 20 percen of the direct-to-consumer wine shipping market in the Goldej State -- had more than 200 customer s and roughly 110 employees as of last sources say.
It now has a skeletoj crew of about 30 staffers at its Napa headquartersd and American Canyonshipping facility, including a handfulk of executives who are working to wind down A host of questions remain about its situation, including whether workers laid off on Friday receivex final paychecks, the role investords and played in the company’s recengt collapse, how its partnership with (NASDAQ: AMZN) to help the online retaip giant develop a wine sales site affected the and how customers will retrieve theirt inventories and make other arrangements to ship their winea to consumers.
Insel told the San Francisco Businesse Times that a reviewq ofthe company’s operation s by state regulators delayed dealingsw with Amazon, and that Amazon “got skittish, very after a lengthy compliance review of New Vine by the Californias Department of Alcoholic Beverage New Vine was startex in 2001 on the notion that it couldd help expedite shipments to consumers in various states with confusinhg and complicated legal restrictions on wine shipments, a lingering legacy of the Prohibitioh years in America.
Charlotte Milan, apparently brought in as a companty spokeswoman sometime Monday orearlyt Tuesday, told the San Francisco Businessx Times that New Vine is workingb with its lawyers “to handle this (payingv laid-off employees) and all issues. “Alol I can say is the employees are thetop priority, and New Vine is workinbg on any employee related issues rightf now,” Milan added. In March Hoertkorn told the Business Times that New Vine woulf shipabout 4.2 million bottles that year for about 260 and expected to ship wines worth about $200 the vast majority of them for California along with small amounts for Oregonh and Washington state wineries.
At the time, New Vine’s annuak revenue was about $10 million, officialsx said, and was expected to doubl in 2007. Customers at the time included , , , , and . Financialk backers include Menlo Park’s , and New Vine has approximately 200 according to a report Monday onWine Business.com, abouft half of them wineries and the other half marketintg agents and others. It also had plans to partner with Amazon.com to launchy a wine buying andshipping site, whicu now appear to be kaput.
Hoertkorn said Tuesday that the companu will keepwinery customers, employees and shareholders advised of its next adding “We deeply apologize for the and we pledge to work with our customers to make as smooty and expedient shipping transition as

Gates Foundation, MDC give $1M grant - The Business Review (Albany):

2011-12-28T09:51:00.000-08:00

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Valencia will get $743,000 over threr years to create a centralizedremedial program, used acrossd four campuses. It plans to align high school, remedial and college-levekl standards, expand its remedia l learning communities, and embed reading skills into remedialkmath courses. The grants, announced June 22, will suppory remedial programs developed by Valencia through Achievinbthe Dream: Community Colleges Count, a multiyea r national initiative aimed at increasing college graduation rates among disadvantaged students. The state will get also get $300,000 over threee years to collaboratewith K-12 to reduce the need for remedial education.
Ohio, Texas and Virginia also got the which will be used to develolp new policies accelerating the remedialeducation programs. The Florida grants are part ofa $16.6 million effort to improve remedial educatiojn at community colleges in five reaching about 45,000 students nationwide. Four states and 14 othetr colleges received similar Gates grants for their Achieving theDreamm program. Each community college will receiver $743,000 over three years to expandits programs. Luminq Foundation for Education has alsocommittedx $1.
5 million to this initiative for evaluation and About 375,000 Florida degree-seeking students annuallg attend a local cmmunity with nearly 40 percent of them takingf remedial classes to build basidc academic skills. National studies have shown nearly two-thirdw of those taking remedialk classesnever graduate, but successful programs at several colleges demonstrate these numbers can be

K&L Gates opens Dubai office - Birmingham Business Journal:

2011-12-26T06:17:00.001-08:00

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Dubai is the firm’s 33rd office and its firstt in theMiddle East. K&L Gates Chairman and Globa Managing Partner Peter Kalis said the officewas “in the workas for about a year” and that the firm’e entry was “well-timed compared with a year ago becauses the costs are reduced and there is much more legapl talent at more reasonable compensationb levels available on the market.” K&L Gate s expects to grow the Dubai office principally through hires in that region. “I could see additional office in theMiddle East,” said Kalis, who first visited Dubai six months ago in preparing the firm’s entryt there.
“Because of the concentration of financia and professional services in theDuba area, it’s a very attractives and efficient point of entryy into the Gulf region. But certainlg it’s not the only market for legall servicesthat matters. A logical next step woulrd be Abu Dhabi, but there is nothing scheduled for thatto K&L Gates is also open to continued expansion opportunities internationally and in the continentap United States, Kalis said, but did not identify specific cities or countries.
Neal one of the firm’s senior dispute resolution partners, is relocatinv from the Pittsburgh office to serveas co-founder of the Dubai Joining Brendel is Paul de Cordova, who most recently worker with Ashurst, establishing and managing that firm’s Dubai office and helpinv to open a second office in the United Arab He is a corporate and projects lawyer with more than 20 yeards experience. Associate Richard Dollimors also is joining the Dubai He most recently worked inthe K&Lp Gates office in London.

Lehman Pays Marsal Firm Almost $500 Million to Manage Bankruptcy - Bloomberg

2011-12-24T01:34:00.001-08:00

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Dan Snyder stays at Six Flags under reorganization - Washington Business Journal:

2011-12-24T01:18:00.001-08:00

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Six Flags is also seekinh a $600 million loan, secure d by its assets, and $150 million in a new revolvinhcredit line. The company’s executive retentiobn plan would keep Snyder as boarf memberand chairman. Mark Shapiro, currently chief as well as chief financial officer Jeffrehy Speed and several other top management would also stay on inexecutiv roles. Six Flags, which announced its Chapter 11 bankruptcy filingy overthe weekend, listed $2.4 billion in debt and $3 billioj in assets. It hopes to cut debt by $1.8 billion and wipe out more than $300 millio in preferred stock.
Snyder and his managemeny team, who took control of the theme park operatoer three and a halfyears ago, have not been able to returmn the company to despite increasing attendance and selling several parkxs to raise capital last year. The company reported a $146 million firsgt quarter loss. Six Flags has said its reorganization will not affect park operations and its vendorsx and employees will continue tobe paid. Six Flags 20 theme parks includein Largo.

University of Tennessee Health Science Center, University of Memphis nab $1.1M in federal research funds - Memphis Business Journal:

2011-12-21T20:51:00.001-08:00

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million collectively in federal research funds from the Americamn Recovery andReinvestment Act. UTHSC was awarded two grantsw from the totaling One study will focuson tularemia, a disease foundd in contaminated water, carried by infected rodents or used in biologicalo warfare. The other study will focus on developinb anew anti-tuberculosis agent. The has given $495,452 to the University of Memphids math department to study graph a new branch of mathematicxs that has been used by the intelligenced community to create bettertraffix patterns. “These research dollars will help create jobs in the Nintn District and help to attract the best and brightest scientifi c minds toShelby U.S.
Rep. Steve D-Memphis, said in a statement. “I was proud to suppor t the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act and am grateful that these funds are moving quickly to our distric to help spureconomic

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The Wyomissing, Pa.-based owner of Charles Town Racezs and Slots said it would consider working on a proposal at the Anne Arundekl County racetrack should an application for a facilith at Arundel MillsMall fail. But it’se not actively pursuing the spokesman EricSchipper said. And that wouldn't fit withinn the slots licensing anyway, said Donald C. Fry, chairman of the state commissiomn overseeingslots development. “We’re taking a wait-and-sewe approach,” Schipper said.
The Baltimore Sun reported Tuesday that Penn which has a pending license applicationb for a slots parlor inCecipl County, was chomping at the bit for an opportunityt at Laurel Park because it appeards possible that the Arundel Mills site could fail to get zoning approval. State law allows only one slots parlore inthe county. A snag in the zoningy process wouldn’t be enough to kill the ArundeolMills proposal, put forth by Baltimore developer the The stat e slots commission’s review of Cordish’s application is ongoing untilp the fall, Fry said. Only then will therr be a final decision to accept or rejecrtthe application, he said.
From there, the commissiobn would have to put out a requestg for new bids on the slots license in Anne Arundel Fry said. And Penn National couldn’ft make such a bid on its own because applicants are limitedx toone license. “There is only one validx [Anne Arundel County] proposal before us at this and that is theCordishn proposal,” Fry said. The county councikl has delayed voting on a slots zoning designatiom for the Arundel Mills sitefour times, most recentlyh Monday. It’s slated to come up again next month, but it’xs not clear if that will happen because Council Chairman Edward Reilly is expected to take an open stats Senate seat beforethat meeting.
, the Canada-baseds owner of Laurel Park andPimlico racetracks, had applied for a slots license at Laurel but its application was rejectedd outright because it lacked a required $25 million in up-fronrt construction financing for each 500 slot Since then, the company filed for bankruptcyt and could end up selling one or both , a Magna subsidiary, also filed a lawsuir that is pending in the Maryland Court of Specialk Appeals. The group argued that it wasn’t clear whether the financintg would have been refunded if thebid wasn’g accepted. Anne Arundel County Circuit Court uphele theslots commission’s decision to disqualify the bid, but Magna appealecd the decision.
Horse racing industry advocatews were disappointed that LaurelPark didn’t make it to the finalo list of potential slots While a share of slots revenue will go to the horsew racing industry regardless of whether the slot machinese are at a it would have been better if the machine s could have made tracks more of a destinatiob to drum up business, said Alan Foreman, lawyer for the But the horsre industry is still hopefully eyeing the situation, Foremanj added. “This thing has been fraught with surprises, so I wouldn’ty think we wouldn’t see any more surprises before this thing is all he said.

Cushman & Wakefield loses third Miami exec - Business First of Louisville:

2011-12-17T12:34:00.001-08:00

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Caplin’s exit is the latest of severalrecentt high-profile departures at C&W in Miami. The firm is one of Southn Florida's largest real estate brokeragesx and, like other brokerages, has seen few investmenr deals in thelast year. Formert branch manager Tere Blanca left in the springv tolaunch , a firm focused on office leasinb and sales. Hank Klein, executive director of C&Ws in Florida, was notified last montg that his position wasbeing eliminated. Steelbridgde owns and manages propertythroughoutf Florida. It sold , on Miami’s Brickell Key, for $150 million in 2007 aftere an eight-year hold.
Steelbridge founder Gavin Campbell will continue asmanagingt principal, sharing the helm with Caplin is one of a handfukl of commercial brokers involvedx in South Florida’s largest commercialp transactions. Caplin said his exit is in responss to a paradigm shift in local investment that come at the tail end of a where leasing and management for institutional investors becamr secondary tomarket momentum. Duringv the boom years leading upto 2006, the expectation was that assetx with strong track records coulsd be purchased and flippedf quickly for big returns. For a shortt period of time, some owners made the strategy but then the economic meltdown put the brake onthe market.
Some, who bought in the last few were holding assets that cost too much compared tomarket fundamentals. The market has now shiftede back to fundamental principlesof investment, with institutional investors and private capital “seeking to co-investr with strong, nimble, local operatiny partners,” Caplin said. “The markeg and investors mostlybelieve it’s about operationd on the ground and knowin g how to position a building in a particularf submarket,” he said.
Caplin oversaw more than $7 billiomn in transactions at C&W, including ’ $307 milliomn purchase of a half-stake in downtown Miami’zs landmark and full ownership of the 1221 Brickell buildingin 2006. He was involver in the sale of 355 Alhambra in Coral Gablezsfor $87.3 million in 2008 and is currently workinyg with Hines to refinance its debt at . Capli n is a graduate of sout Miami-Dade County’s Palmetto High School. He graduatex from in 1985 witha bachelor’es degree in finance and real estate. Two yeard later, he left C&W’s appraisap group to launch the company’s local investment sales operation.
Caplin was part of a team in the late 1980x that first specialized in investmengt salesin Miami. During the mid-1990s, Steelbridgew Capital had 2 million square feet of commercial real estate in its portfoliok in seven Florida marketssincluding Jacksonville, Naples and Miami. They sold much of it from 2005to 2007. Caplin’xs arrival marks another periodof opportunity-investment for the company, Steelbridge’s Campbell said. "We thinkm valuations are finally starting to lookattractivre again,” Campbell said in a statement.
“The opportunity to buy Floridz assets at significant discounts to replacement cost is whilethe long-term job and demographic prospectsz for Florida and the Caribbean basin are as strongf as ever. Jay’s leadership will be the linchpinm ofour strategy."

Weekly Indicators: 'Tis The Seasonality Edition - Seeking Alpha

2011-12-15T08:00:00.001-08:00

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Swiss Post Solutions Opens Document Processing Center in New York - San Francisco Chronicle (press release)

2011-12-13T03:34:00.001-08:00

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Ford will stop Claycomo F-150 production for a week - Denver Business Journal:

2011-12-10T22:51:00.001-08:00

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The UAW Local 249 posted the information in a newsletter on itsWeb site. Local 249 Vice President Bobb Wyse confirmed Monday that the informationhis accurate. The production stoppage comes a week befores an alreadyscheduled one-week summerd break for the entire plant startingf June 29, a Local 249 spokeswoman said. The plant also is schedule for a summer break during the weekof Aug. 17. Sales of Ford F-series trucks were 33,381 in May, up 16 percentt from 28,757 in April but down 22.3 percen from 42,973 in May 2008.
UAW Local 249 said the slightt increasein month-to-month sales enabled Ford F) to cancel the scheduled down week on June 22 at its F-1500 truck plant in Dearborn, but the down week was left intactf at the Kansas City Assembly Plant. “Thise is partially due to depleted funds forthe state’ds Division of Unemployment in Michigan, making down weeks at less of an the Local 249 said in the Local 249 added that sales projections continue to be less than the five shift at the two truc plants can produce if they work full time through the 2010 productio year.
Ford runs two shift at Claycomo and three in Wyse said Ford is considering once agai n moving a shift fromthe F-15o0 side of the Kansas City Assembly Plant and puttingt them to work on the SUV However, nothing has been determinex so far, he said. A year ago, Ford movec about 800 workers from a second shif t onthe F-150 side of the Kansaz City plant to a third shiftf on the SUV The employees were moved back to the F-150 side on Jan. 12. Ford Escap e sales in May reached 16,391, up 20.6 percengt from 13,596 in April but down 7.2 perceny from 17,667 in May 2008. The Kansas City Assemblhy Plant also produces the Mercuryy Mariner and hybrid versions of the Ford Escaped andMercury Mariner.
Combinedf sales of hybrid versions of theFord Fusion, Mercuru Milan, Ford Escape and Mercury Mariner reachedx 3,906 in May, a new companyt record. The old sales record of 3,420 hybrid vehicle s was set inAprilk 2006. As of May, Ford’s Kansas City Assembly Plangt in Claycomo hadabout 3,900 hourly and 200 salariecd employees.

Yum Brands named one of 40 best for diversity - Business First of Louisville:

2011-12-08T19:00:00.001-08:00

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The magazine made its selections based on the numbereof African-Americans and members of other ethnid minority groups in four categories: supplier senior management, board of directors and totalp workforce. More than 50 percent of Yum’w employees are minorities, as well as 50 percent of the company’ds new hires. “We are very proud of Black Enterprise’s and it fuels our passion to continue to develop current and future business franchisees and suppliers that reflect the changing demographics of our customersd aroundthe world,” Yum chairman and CEO Davide Novak said in a news release.
Louisville-basee Yum (NYSE: YUM) is the world’s largest restauranty company in terms of number of with morethan 36,000 in more than 100 companies. It is the parent company of KFC, Pizzz Hut, Taco Bell and Long John

Howard University opens new pharmacy lab - Washington Business Journal:

2011-12-06T14:34:00.001-08:00

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CVS/pharmacy donated $300,000 -- a majod chunk of the $400,000 it took to builr -- to erect the new laboratory. Its purpose is to draw and retai n students inthe school’s 70 freshmen pharmachy positions, a field whicg has grown from 300 applicantz in 1998 to 1,300 applicantw today. Pharmacy students will learn how todispensr medication, counsel patients and practice with new pharmacy technologiesz in the lab. Construction begabn last October at the lab site at 2400Fourthb St. NW. The old lab will eventuall be taken down.
“As the demand for top pharmacistsincreasesz nationwide, due to an aging populatiomn and increased use of prescription drugs, Howardx University is experiencing a dramatic increasee in the number of applicants to our pharmacy Partnerships such as with CVS/pharmacy have helpedx us become more competitive,” said Clarence Curry, interim associatee dean at Howard University’s School of Nursing, and Allied Health The laboratory houses 24 workstations that lets students enter and asses s patient information. The laboratory is also stockedwith prescriptions, and home-testing devices so students can practice dispensin g and advising on medication and home tests.
Partlg as a result of their existingy relationshipwith CVS, more than 35 percent of Howardd University pharmacy graduates began careerz at CVS/pharmacy stores this year. CVS/pharmacy, the retaiol division of (NYSE: CVS), is the largest retaill pharmacy inthe U.S. with 6,300 retail

Bali boy set to arrive back in Australia - Sydney Morning Herald

2011-12-04T10:34:00.001-08:00

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2011-12-02T06:34:00.001-08:00

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Jim Sherriff is Chairman and CEO of Cisco Chins and has responsibilities for developing andexecuting Cisco

Aurora opening Summit clinic early - Pittsburgh Business Times:

2011-11-30T03:00:00.001-08:00

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The Aurora Wilkinson Medical Clinic will open Octobere 26 and will replace the current Auroras Wilkinson Medical Clinic at 915Summit Ave. in Oconomowoc, although urgent care services will continue to beofferedf there. The new clinic also will replac e the AuroraWilkinson Women’s Center and the Aurora Visionb Center, both currently in The other Aurora Wilkinson Medical Clinic locations – in Hartland, Delafield, Wales and Waukesha – will continues to serve patients. “October 26 will represen t the start of a new era in healthj care inthis area,” said Dr. David president of Aurora WilkinsonMedical Clinic.
“The opening of our new clinivc and cancer center will move us closer to a fullty integrated system of care for the people of westernWaukesha County.” Meanwhile, the hospital part of the project remains on schedule to open in early Aurora officials said. The Wilkinson clinic will open at the same time as the new Vincew Lombardi Cancer Clinic on the Summit The new Aurora Medical Center campus in the Town of Summitf is at the southeast corner of Interstate 94 andHighwat 67. The new Aurora Wilkinson Medical Clinic will be on the west side of the and the new Vince Lombardi Cancer Clinivc is on thesouth side.

Strands of similarity in Azad, Kishenji killings - Hindustan Times

2011-11-27T22:00:00.001-08:00

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Travel: Christmas prepping in Prague - Del Mar Times

2011-11-25T18:00:00.001-08:00

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Travel: Christmas prepping in Prague

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2011-11-23T14:17:00.001-08:00

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RealtyTrac records indicate that a notice ofa trustee’sx sale has been filedd on homes matching the description of Adams’ Northg Portland Kenton neighborhood homes. The notice indicatesz that the homes will be put upfor auction. , whicn broke the story, noted that Adams’ lender has filed a “notice of default,” meaning he’s defaulted on his loan agreementr withhis lender. Adams told the paper he’s catchinbg up on his mortgage afterpaying “significant” legal The houses that face foreclosure are at 2131 N. McClellanb and 2121 N. McClellan. Adams lives in the 2121 home. He also owns a triples at 2031 N. McClellan.
Adams, who makes $118,14 yearly, is facing an impending scheduled to kick off inearly July, aftee admitting he had a sexual relationship with Beau Breedlove. The pair met beforw Breedlove turned 18. Adams said the sexual relationship beganafter Breedlove’ss 18th birthday. Oregon’s attorneyh general is investigating whether Adams didanything improper. The mayor concedes that he lied aboutwhether he’d had sex with Breedlov e when a political opponent first made the charger during the 2008 primary campaig n season.

Cushman & Wakefield loses third Miami exec - Triangle Business Journal:

2011-11-21T10:51:00.001-08:00

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Caplin’s exit is the latest of severalrecent high-profiler departures at C&W in The firm is one of Southh Florida's largest real estate brokerages and, like othere brokerages, has seen few investment deald in the last year. Former branch manager Tere Blanca left in the sprinb tolaunch , a firm focused on officwe leasing and sales. Hank Klein, executive director of C&W in Florida, was notifief last month that his position wasbeingh eliminated. Steelbridge owns and manages propertythroughout Florida. It sold , on Miami’se Brickell Key, for $150 million in 2007 aftet an eight-year hold.
Steelbridge founder Gavinb Campbell will continue asmanaging principal, sharing the helm with Caplin is one of a handful of commercialo brokers involved in South Florida’s largest commercial transactions. Caplin said his exit is in response to a paradigm shift in local investment that comes at the tail end of a where leasing and management for institutionalp investors became secondary tomarket momentum. During the boom yearsz leading upto 2006, the expectationm was that assets with strong track records could be purchased and flippec quickly for big returns.
For a shorgt period of time, some ownersd made the strategy work, but then the economixc meltdown put the brakes onthe Some, who bought in the last few years, were holdinfg assets that cost too much compared to markeyt fundamentals. The market has now shifted back to fundamenta l principlesof investment, with institutionak investors and private capital “seeking to co-investg with strong, nimble, local operatinhg partners,” Caplin said. “The market and investors mostlybeliever it’s about operations on the grounx and knowing how to positio n a building in a particular he said.
Caplin oversaw more than $7 billiob in transactions at C&W, including ’ $307 millionb purchase of a half-stake in downtown Miami’d landmark and full ownership of the 1221 Brickell buildingin 2006. He was involvecd in the sale of 355 Alhambra in Coral Gablewsfor $87.3 million in 2008 and is currentlu working with Hines to refinanced its debt at . Caplin is a graduate of south Miami-Dade County’s Palmetto High School. He graduated from in 1985 witha bachelor’s degreew in finance and real estate. Two years later, he left C&W’ds appraisal group to launch the company’sz local investment sales operation.
Caplin was part of a team in the late 1980x that first specialized in investmentt salesin Miami. During the mid-1990s, Steelbridge Capital had 2 milliohn square feet of commercial real estatee in its portfolio in seven Florida markets including Naplesand Miami. They sold much of it from 2005to 2007. Caplin’w arrival marks another periodof opportunity-investment for the company, Steelbridge’ss Campbell said. "We think valuations are finally starting to lookattractive again,” Campbelo said in a statement.
“The opportunity to buy Floridz assets at significant discounts to replacement cost is whilethe long-term job and demographic prospects for Florida and the Caribbea basin are as strong as ever. Jay’s leadership will be the linchpihn ofour strategy."

Inner Harbor's long-neglected side slated for redo - Washington Business Journal:

2011-11-19T07:17:00.001-08:00

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The redevelopment of Key Highway has been discusseefor years, but a Baltimore City Councikl committee is considering legislatiomn that would change the zoningt for some of waterfront corridor’s buildingas to allow for new retailk stores and other commercial projects. The city coulds hold a hearing as early as August on the which would do away with much ofthe area’sw industrially zoned properties. No date has been scheduled for thosse hearings because the city wants to make sure residents and communityu groups weigh in onthe proposals, said Douglas McCoacgh III, the city’s planning director. The sites in flux includer Main SteelPolishing Co.
’s former Boylw Street plant, the South Harbor Business Centere at 1414 Key Highway and the Little Havana restaurant at 1325 Key Highway. Also in play is General Ship Repai Corp.’s 2-acre site in the 1400 blockk ofKey Highway, which is slated for a zoning change. The companyu needs to expand its operations to accommodats larger ships for its repair and Vice President Cary Lynch said the companyy has been looking for othetr properties alongthe harbor. Lynch said the 45-persobn General Ship Repair, which has been on Key Highway since 1927, has no specificf plans to move in the immediate future.
The road, whic stretches from Light Street toInterstate 95, is alreadyu changing with the opening of the Ritz-Carlton Residencea and the conversion of the former Chesapeake Paperboarx site into McHenry Row shoppingh center. HarborView Properties Development Co. hopex to build a 26-story tower and a 17-storyy building further down Key Highway. Some of the area’z older industrial properties could befacing changes, including developed Martin Azola’s South Baltimore Business Centefr at 1414 Key Highway.
Azola said he wantzs to createabout 15,000 square feet of retaikl space facing Key The project could help establish a more pedestrian-friendlyh feel to the roadway, he Marks, Thomas Architects moved out of the space withibn the past month to take larger officexs elsewhere in the building. Azola has hired Lutherville, Md., brokerage MacKenzie Commercial Real Estate Services LLC to market thespace — as offices for now — with the hope the city will rezonde the property to allow for retailo use. Nearby, developer Shapiro Co. is working to converty the former Main SteelPolishing Co.
site at Boylre Street and Key Highwauy into a newcommercial development, also pendin g the city’s rezoning. Mark principal of Shapiro Co., said he had plannerd to convert the space into about 90 condominium but with a slowdown in the condo marke t he is now consideringotherd options. Also, Obrecht Corp. has hired Shapiro to help markeytits 1-acre lot at 1321-1325 Key Highwat for potential development. Little Havana leasess part of the property, which Shapiro is marketinyg for potential redevelopment as a commercial orhotel project.

New Vine Logistics situation gets murkier - Phoenix Business Journal:

2011-11-17T03:34:00.001-08:00

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“For us to disclose any information about the New Vine’s board would have to accept or rejecft an offer,” New Vine spokeswoman Charlotte Mila told the San Francisco Business Timesz , adding that no further information about New Vine’sz negotiations with two or three potential buyers is likely to be availabl e June 4. Late Wednesday and very earlytThursday morning, informed sources told the Businesse Times that 1-800-Flowers.com appeared set to win the sweepstakes to buy the brokenb pieces of New Vine, which startled the wine industrg late last week by abruptly suspendinb operations.
As of early Thursdayg morning, an announcement of a deal with which owns the Wine Tasting Network Services shipping appeared tobe imminent. But that deal broke down sometime in the wee leavingNew Vine’s future uncertain. Wine Tastingh Network, according to its LinkedIn profile, provides wineryg and wine club directmarketing services, as well as fulfillmentt and e-commerce services to wineries and wine retailers. Officials at WTN did not immediatelgy respond to requests for but many in the industry see WTN as the most logical playetr to pick up some ofNew Vine’s pieces.
New which two years ago seemerd poised to ship 20 percentof California’zs direct-to-consumer wine market, laid off much of its stafft on Friday and brusquely told customers over the weekend that it was no longere receiving or processing orders. The move left many Wine Country providers scrambling to gatherf information and to figure out how to get back inventoryy atNew Vine’s American Canyon warehouser so they could ship it to customersa another way. Published accounts said some ofthe company’z venture capital investors effectively pulled the plug last by declining to invest additionalp capital in New Vine.
“Some peoplre changed their minds at thelast minute,” said Barbara Insel, a wine industry analyst who has served on New Vine’s advisoryy board. Kathleen Hoertkorn, New Vine founder and former CEO, and Chairman of the Board Homer Dunn said Tuesday that New Vine is workinvg withcustomers “to transfer all servicee to another means of legal direct shipping, and in the is finalizing all work, including compiling of reports, reconcilinfg inventory and invoices, and performing all of the necessary business operatione for the month (sic) of May and June.
” Hoertkorhn added, in response to reports that the company knew or must have know it was in financial that officials “truly believed that they would have been fundedr and were not expecting to have to cease The company had more than 200 customers and roughlu 110 employees as of last Friday, sources say. It now has a skeletonj crew of about 30 staffers at its Napa headquarter s and American Canyon shipping including a handful of executives who are workinf to winddown operations.
New Vine was started in 2001 on the notiohn that it could help expedite shipments to consumerws in various states with confusing and complicatedr legal restrictions onwine shipments, a lingeringg legacy of the Prohibition years in Financial backers include Menlo Park’s , Altos Ventures, and San Francisco’sa LLC, which reportedly pulled its people out of New Vine’x offices late last Thursday.

Finance Committee backs UWM funding - The Business Journal of Milwaukee:

2011-11-14T23:17:00.001-08:00

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The plan submitted by the university includee funding for the School of Freshwated Sciences and the School of Public Health in downtown and the UWM College of Engineerinb campusin Wauwatosa. The full budget is expected to be considered by the state Assembly and Senate over the next several Accordingto legislators, UWM must raiswe $60 million in private funds to qualif for the state The funding package includes $123.4 million in state-issued $55.6 million in a bond issue to be paid back using university-generated revenue; and $1 million from the state’s building trusyt fund.
“This investment in the future will make the region and the stats financially stronger for yearsto come,” said Statr Sen. Jim Sullivan “Our children and our grandchildren will benefit from what we are doinhg to improve education and bolsterthe

Report: Property values fall 23.4% - Business First of Louisville:

2011-11-12T19:51:00.001-08:00

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Home prices in the Orlando-Kissimmee slipped 23.4 perceng in April when compared with the same month a year the seventh highest percentager of decline among some ofthe nation’s largest metrl areas. The Orlando-Kissimmee market posted a 20.9 percent decrease in home values in March when compared withMarcbh 2008. Florida passed California to postthe second-highesty rate of home price depreciationn at 23.2 percent. Nevadw topped the nation with a 26.1 percent drop, whil e California — the leading state for 20 consecutivemonths — landerd third at 22.7 percent. Nationwide housinf prices fell 10.
2 percenr in April compared to ayear ago, representinyg the smallest year-over-year decline so far this The national decline peaked at 11.9 percent in Januaryy 2009 and has since been trending down. First Americah CoreLogic’s LoanPerformance Home Price Indexd evaluates the residential real estate market basedon price, time between property type and loan as well as increases and decreases in sales pricee for the same homes over time.

Nutrition and Advanced Diagnostics Can Combat Parasite Plagues, Other GI ... - VetPracticeNews.com

2011-11-10T16:00:00.001-08:00

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Obama campaign encourages Virginians to vote - Washington Post (blog)

2011-11-08T12:34:00.000-08:00

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Obama campaign encourages Virginians to vote

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North Carolina cops shoot ex- Elizabeth City State University student caught ... - New York Daily News

2011-11-06T08:34:00.001-08:00

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Google may offer cable TV service in KC, newspaper says - Kansas City Star

2011-11-04T05:34:00.001-07:00

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Former Onyx boss Renton joins Affymax board - Dayton Business Journal:

2011-11-02T01:51:00.001-07:00

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Hematide is in a Phase III trial. Renton led Onyx for nearlg 15 years, stepping down in February 2008as CEO, chairman and a member of Onyx’ s board. At the company, he helped negotiate a research, development and commercialization partnership with that resulted inthe anti-cancer drug Nexavar. Nexavar tablets, which cost aboutf $5,000 a month in the Uniteed States and areapproaching $1 billionb in annual sales, are approved in more than 80 countrieds to treat kidney cancer and 70-plus countries for liver Prior to joining Onyx, Rentonn was president and COO of Chiron, which acquirerd Cetus in 1991.
Renton had been presidenrt of Cetussince 1990, COO since 1987 and CFO from 1983 to 1987. Rentoh also serves on the boardsof , Cepheid and the Speciaol Olympics of Northern California.

Plymouth Pipeline - Hometownlife.com

2011-10-30T21:34:00.001-07:00

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City council gives Austin Energy the go-ahead for major solar project - Austin Business Journal:

2011-10-28T17:51:00.001-07:00

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Several U.S. companies, such as Massachusetts-based and Maryland-based Sun Edison LLC, are capable of producing enough panels to supplythe project, said Crai g Overmiller, one of the founders of “Thew city of Austin and the City Council reallyh need to rethink” the Webberville project, said who is not a part of the coalition urgintg the city to modify the Gemini “I think they rushed into it.” Austin Energy wouldc pay $250 million, $10 million a year for 25 years, for the electricit the solar array woulsd generate.
Once it’s operating, Gemini Solar woule be eligible for anestimated $60 million about one-third the project’s estimated cost — through the federal investment tax credit program. Earlierr this week, Austin Energy general manager Roger Duncan issued a memorandumn indicating that Gemini Solar hasagreed “that the valuer of the [investment tax credit] benefitw will be shared with Austib Energy.
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StrandVision Debuts Employee Communication Digital Signage Screen Saver - DigitalJournal.com (press release)

2011-10-26T13:51:00.001-07:00

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StrandVision Debuts Employee Communication Digital Signage Screen Saver

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StrandVision Digital Signage today unveiled a new screen saver capability for StrandVision Digital Signage networks that extends companies' signage networks to employees' desktops to further reinforce employee communication messaging. ...

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Locals to big oil: We want our town back! - CNNMoney

2011-10-24T09:34:00.001-07:00

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Richards Gets His 'Own' Goal, and More - New York Times (blog)

2011-10-22T05:51:00.001-07:00

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Hawaii has 5th-lowest obesity rate in U.S. - Pacific Business News (Honolulu):

2011-10-20T02:00:00.001-07:00

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In the study, “F as in Fat: How Obesity Policiex Are Failing in America compiled by the Trustfor America’s Healtb and the , 21.8 percenr of Hawaii’s adult population fell into the obese Southern states reported the highest obesity ratea in the study. Eight of the top 10 were in the Mississippiwas No. 1, with 32.5 perceny of adults overweight. Hawaii didn’t fare as well, in the rate of obese childrenages 10-17. Hawaii ranke No. 37 with 28.5 percent. Obesit y rates are on the rise nationwide. According to the 23 states reported an increase inadultt obesity. No states reported a decrease intheifr percentages.
In addition, 30 states reported childhood obesithy rates of 30 percentor higher. The studyh attributes the increasing rates to several including economic conditions that may result in higheer food prices and increased levelws of depressionand stress, which have been linked to To see the full report, click .

UW-Whitewater, Milwaukee 7 Water Council to jointly train students - Pacific Business News (Honolulu):

2011-10-17T22:00:00.001-07:00

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The program will begin enrolling studentws in the fallsemester and, becausse many students have already taken relevanft courses, should be graduating its first watet management specialists within a year, said Kirstenh Crossgrove, associate professor of biology at UW-Whitewater and coordinator of the school’s integratec science-business major. The program is designed to give students a basi c background inwater law, environmental law, natural resources and environmentao economics as well as aquatic chemistry and ecology.
Students will serve internshipx with the Milwaukee 7Waterd Council, an organization of business, academia and governmentr in the seven-county area in southeastern Wisconsin that is working to establisgh the Milwaukee region as a global centere for freshwater research, economic development and education. “Recognizing wherwe the world is headed, business students with a uniqu educational background in water will have a leg up in the making a program like thisespecially valuable,” said Rich Meeusen, president and CEO of Brown Deer-based , co-chait of the Milwaukee 7 Watetr Council and an alumnus of UW-Whitewater’ s business school.
The council already has a relationships with the graduate program atthe ’s . UWM also is developing a graduate-levelp School of Freshwater Sciences, while ’s Law Schoopl will begin a water law curriculunmthis fall. “One of our goale is to help develop seamless talent pipelinesz between universities andwater businesses,” said Paul chairman and CEO of Milwaukee-based and co-chair of the Wate Council. “UW-Whitewater’s one-of-a-kind new track adds to the impressive array of highefr education institutions in the region workingh to ensure our world watet hub status in the yearsto come.
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Friday's Three Stars: Skinner gets winner; Hiller, Shark killer - Yahoo! Sports (blog)

2011-10-15T18:00:00.001-07:00

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... goal with only 12 seconds to go in the frame. Worse, they surrended another only seven minutes into the second. No one would have blamed them if they had declined the next powerplay. Friday's Three Stars : Skinner gets winner ; Hiller , Shark killer.

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Nonresidential construction expected to lag in 2010 - Atlanta Business Chronicle:

2011-10-13T14:00:00.001-07:00

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The ’s Consensus Construction Forecasf reported nonresidential construction is expected to drop by 16 percentf in 2009 and by another 12 percent in said anews release. “This nonresidentia l downturn is shaping up to be the deepestt decline in nonresidential activity in over a saidKermit Baker, chief economist for the AIA. we’re beginning to see some moderation in the trends in desigj billings atarchitecture firms, so we hopefull are nearing the bottom of this cycle.” Retail construction is expected to drop 28 percentf in 2009 and by nearlu 13 percent in 2010. Hotel construction will drop by nearly 26 percent in 2009 and by nearl y 17 percentin 2010.
• Office buildings are expected to decreasee by nearly 22 percent this year and by more than 17 percenttnext year. • Industrial facilities constructionj is expected to drop by a fraction of a perceng in 2009 and by nearly 29 percentin 2010. “Commercial facilitie such as hotels, retail establishments and officesa will feel the declinemost dramatically,” said “The institutional market will fare much bettef as stimulus funding becomes availabld for education, health care and governmenf facilities.” • Amusement and recreation is expected to drop nearlty 21 percent in 2009 and by more than 8 percent in 2010.
Construction of religious facilities should fall by nearl 11 percent in 2009 and by nearly 7 percengin 2010. • Education construction is projected to decreases by more than 8 percent this year and by a fractioh of a percentnext year. • Construction of healt care facilities is expected to dropby 1.5 percentr in 2009 and by a fraction of a percent in 2010. Public safety construction is expected torise 1.7 percent in 2009 and drop a fractio n of a percent in 2010.

Solar land auction nets two sales, more slated - Charlotte Business Journal:

2011-10-11T10:00:00.001-07:00

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million, with a third deal potentially in the Buyers of the small parcelss werenot identified, but Kuldip president and CEO of , which sold the said the buyers had interestg in developing the land's solar potential. Vermaland also is lookingv at sellinga 3,600-acre parcel at auction within the next six monthsd in the county’s western reaches. While the first auction focusedr on fivesmaller parcels, a larger, contiguous site such as Vermaland’sw could draw a higher premium, if companiezs believe it has access to water and power “Several large-scale utility companies have expressed interest in the propertuy once the site is developed,” said who added the site has water rights, on-site welld and a low slope.
While the companty was able to sell thetwo parcels, prices were belowe what neighboring land has been selling for. The goal was to spur solart companies to purchase land rathert than simply tieit up, Verma said. The properties sold at Saturday’s auction include d an 80-acre site in the Tonopah area for $340,00 0 and a 320-acre site in Tonopabh for $2.24 million. The company did not identify which of the remaininb three properties might be involved inanother deal.
“The auction brought the properties to the attentio n of some parties that we had never been incontacgt with, as well as reminded otherx we had spoken with in the past of the property, whicuh is highly suitable for solar development,” said Anit a Verma-Lallian, the company’s marketing Vermaland already had sold land to several California-based utilities looking to develop renewable resources to meet that state’ s standards for clean energy. Solar energy developers have been placing applicationsa on state and federal landws in western Arizona for the pastthree years, and privatwe land owners have been negotiating as developerws look for the best parcels.
As companies scout for they also face financing issuezs and none of the proposed projects in Arizona hasbroken Arizona’s main solar corridofr includes Vermaland’s parcels, an area that stretches from Yuma to Phoenis and Tucson seen as a huge growty area for developing utility-scale solar poweer plants.

GOP Campaigns Court 'Values Voters' At DC Summit - Huffington Post

2011-10-09T06:00:00.001-07:00

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CenterPoint-KCS center combines rail, highway access - Kansas City Business Journal:

2011-10-07T03:00:00.001-07:00

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ACRES: The development covers 1,340 acres: 370 acres for the intermodal center and 970 acres for the CenterPointyIndustrial Park. SQUARE FOOTAGE OF WAREHOUSE SPACE: Phaswe I of the industrial park will offer morethan 4.5 milliohn square feet in build-to-suit warehouses and distribution The buildings will rangd from 100,000 square feet to 1 million squarr feet, and companies can either buy or leases the space. They will be located adjacent to the rail linesz and MissouriHighway 150. DEVELOPER: , a suburbam Chicago-based real estate investment trust that bought the bulk of the property fromThe , will develoo the project.
Zimmer Real Estate Services LC is the The Port Authority will continue to own about 100 acrea and work with to mine limestone and creats undergroundstorage facilities. COST: Phase I is expectecd to cost morethan $250 TIMELINE: Phase I will be builtr in about five years. CenterPoiny has graded more than 2 million cubic yarddof dirt, installed infrastructure such as utilitiea and roads, and demolished several of the old hangars.
Pad-readty sites will be ready for construction in the TRANSPORTATION PLAYERS: To date, Kansas City Southern and , a trucking companuy TRANSPORTATION CORRIDORS: ’s main line extends all the way from Lazaro Mexico (which is a deep-sea port at the Pacific Ocean) to the intermodal center in Kansas City. Missouri Highway 150 is adjacenf to theintermodal center. U.S. Highwag 71 is less than two milees away. The center is also closer to Interstates 29, 35, 70, 435, 470 and 635. Kansas City is the No. 3 truckinyg hub in the nation. It provides single-daty truck access to almost every large city in the and it is located withina two-dagy drive of 78 percent of the U. S. population.
The intermodal center offerd a state-of-the-art, integrated logistics park immediately adjacenft to an international Clasds 1rail system. The property is also in a Missourki Enterprise Zone and a designated ForeignTrade Zone. INTERMODAL VOLUME EXPECTED: By it is estimated that the facility will have the capacityg tohandle 250,000 containers a JOBS: The development will create more than 1,000o construction jobs and about 2,000o new permanent jobs. ECONOMIC The development of the CenterPoint-KCS Intermodapl Center provides a rebirth to an area that has had littlew use for nearly20 years.
“Thisz enhances the Kansas City region’s commerce, as well as its reputation as an intermodalo hub for railand trucking,” said Fred Reynolds, senior vice presidentf of development for CenterPoint Properties. “Iyt is positioned to become a true logistics playefr inthe nation.” The centee will generate tax revenue for Kansasa City and the state, and it will enhances the Kansas City area’s commerce and reputation as an internationa logistics player and cargo hub. It also will bringt local, national and international investment tothe region.

Grant and Sherman - St. Louis Business Journal:

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I found this wonderful book in the Lelandbook “Don’t Forget to Sing in the Lifeboats” by Kathryj and Ross Petras, published by Workman Publishing. It is interesting, amusing, and all around quitde worthwhile to amble througuhthese pages. Here are just a few of the thoughtsw that could help all of us in the lifeboats oranywhere • Always do sober what you said you’dc do drunk. That will teach you to keep yourmouthn shut. - Ernest Hemingway, writer • If you’res going through hell, keep going. - Winston Churchill Pessimism never wonany battle. - Dwight D. Eisenhoweer • Just when thingws look darkest, they go black.
- Paul actor • Bravery is the capacity to performn properly even when scared halfto - Omar Bradley, U.S. general You can overcome anything ifyou don’t bellyache. - Bernared Baruch, financier • I long ago came to the conclusion that all life is six tofive - Damon Runyon, writef • The oldest, shortest wordzs – “yes” and “no” – are those whicuh require the most - Pythagoras, philosopher • Some problems are so complexd that you have to be highlt intelligent and well informed just to be undecided about them.
- Laurence Peter, writee • If we only wantedf to be happy, it wouldd be easy; but we want to be happiefr thanother people, and that is almost always since we think them happier than they are. - Baron de Montesquieu, philosopher • When we win, I’m so happhy I eat a lot. When we lose, I’m so depressed, I eat a lot. When we’res rained out, I’m so disappointed, I eat a lot. - Tommhy Lasorda, baseball manager • An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stop light….Ths truly wise person is colod blind. - Albert Schweitzer, humanitarian • It’w the friends you can call up at4 a.m.
that - Marlene Dietrich, actress The happiest people seem to be thoser who have no particular reason for beingg happy except that theyare so. - W.R. Inge, clergymaj • If people concentrated on the reallyt important thingsin life, there’ed be a shortage of fishinbg poles. - Doug Larson, writer • The important thinhg is not what they thinkof me, but what I thin k of them. - Victoria, queen of Englanc • Be amusing: never tell unkind above all, never tell long - Benjamin Disraeli, British prime minister • Whatever you may be sure of, be sure of that you are dreadfully likeother people.
- James writer • Nobody really cares if you’rs miserable, so you might as well be - Cynthia Nelms, writer

Business Activity in US Unexpectedly Climbed in September - BusinessWeek

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Business Activity in US Unexpectedly Climbed in September

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The Thomson Reuters/University of Michigan final index of consumer sentiment climbed to 59.4 this month, higher than forecast, from 55.7 in August. The median estimate of economists surveyed by Bloomberg was 57.8, the same as the preliminary reading ...

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Wellington subleasing 134k sq. ft. of space - Boston Business Journal:

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the first major block of subleased office space to hit Bosto n downtown marketthis year. Wellington’s spokeswoman, Lisa Finkel, declined to commentt but real estate executives confirmed the space has been listes for sublease for abouta month. The spaced is located on floors 20 throughb 22 ofthe tower. The addition of Wellington’s sublease spacer brings the overall amount of office spacse available for sublease in the area to morethan 1.5 millionh square feet. Earlier this the , the state's pension fund ended its contract withthe Boston-based investment management firm due to poor according to several published reports.
While real estate executivezs have anticipated the market to be floodedc with sublease space for months given the the market has only seen dribs and drabsz of smallerblocks listed. According to a reportt from , the availability of sublease spacw increased in the firsr quarter ofthis year. Since the end of 2008 about 600,000 square feet of sublease space has come onthe market, accordingh to the report. The trendc is seen a negative by most in the realestatr sector, as the additionm of sublease space drags down rents as tenantes can find cheaper space availabl e by renting from a companhy rather than directly from a landlord.
The averagd asking rate for local sublease space isbetweej $33-per-square-foot and $35-per-square-foot, compared with betweeh $47-per-square-foot and $53-per-square foot for spacs rented directly from landlords. The amount of sublease space coming to the market is expecte to grow by the end of the saidJohn Barry, a partner at LLC. “Our numbers show that there’z about 1.5 million square feet of sublease on the markey and we project that this numbef will increase by the end of the said Barry.
Barry said the amounrt of sublease space inthe 67-million-square-fooy Boston market could grow toward 2 million square feet by the end of the Though sublease space is increasingly available, it has yet to match the last majotr downturn. During the technology bust of local sublease space reached a peakof 2.1 millionh square feet in 2002, said

Broadway renews Matrix, MultiPlan leases - New Mexico Business Weekly:

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The private real estate investment and management firm is renegotiatinvg leases with tenants at the same time it is tryingt to clear up debt issuexs withits lender. Broadway, which lost ownership of the Hancoc k Tower after it defaulted ona loan, has debt that maturex this month. The financing in question is secured byseverall properties, including the 980,000-square-foot Bay Colony. Broadwag is in discussions with lenderss to renegotiate the terms ofthe loan. Broadwat was given an extension onthe loan, which was due earlierr this month, according to a source with knowledg of the situation. However, the landlore renewed MultiPlan Inc.
, which leases 105,062 square and Matrix Partners, whicg leases 11,421 square feet, at the officew complex. CB Richard Ellis represented MultiPlan. DTZ/FHO Partnerd represented Broadway Partners and Matrix in theleas negotiations. Broadway acquired Bay Colony from Beacon Capital Partners LLC in May 2007 as part of a larged portfolioof assets. The four-building complex officew park sits ona 58-acre site overlookin g Route 128.

APAC Customer Services, Inc. Holding Job Fair to Fill 120 Positions in Corpus ... - MarketWatch (press release)

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The Fountains signs on additional retailers, first office tenant - Sacramento Business Journal:

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While the opening this monthj of ’s Seafood Restaurant was the big some smaller tenants will open at The Fountains over the nextseveralp months, filling 15,000 square feet, center managef Gloria Wright said. Opening in two new retaipl buildings will bein 5,50 0 square feet, bakery in 3,500 squarew feet and , a restaurant franchise, in 2,600 squarer feet. The three businesses are expecter to open in Julyor August, Wrighgt said. Coming to two existing buildingsare , a high-endd home and business window covering companyt from Stockton, and , a franchised facial and body waxing services company.
They’lk each take about 1,500 square feet and are scheduled to open in the The Fountains center also has signed its first officetenant — a financial adviserd company that will take about 2,00p0 square feet. The center, which is across from the Westfield Galleriaq atRoseville mall, has 20,000 square feet of office Office leasing has struggled, Wright Local father-and-son developers Pete r and Paul Bollinger own The Fountains and a dozen othetr centers.
The Lofts, a mixed-use development in downtown Davis, has filledd up its retail space once A deli/market and clothing store that closed have sincd been replaced in the E Stree t building with a trio of food tenants in 5,000p square feet. The latest, a franchisee of , filled two-fifths of that space when it opened twomonths ago. The eatert joins the independentand , which serves Japanese-stylew crepes and gelato. Shaun a partner with the Terranomiczs division ofin Sacramento, represents landlordr and local developer Chuck Roe. Michelle and Matt Mattingly don’tt just own and operate theirr Beach Hut Deli franchise inthe building; the coupl also moved into The Lofts upstairs.
They grew up in Orangevale and respectively, and remember grabbingh a sandwich from Beach Hut Deli in Graniter Bay on the way to outingd atFolsom Lake. For the past dozen years, they livedd in the Sparks area of Nevadza and owned ajanitorial company. They grew tired of commuting and the snow and wantesd to return to the Sacramento Beach Hut Deli provided themthat opportunity. Business is prettty good, considering the couple opened up only twomonth ago, Michelle Mattingly said. This they’re adding live music, and open mic night, to attracr more customers.
Sam’s Town Marketplace in Cameron Park is gettingg its third new tenant in the past few bringing its occupancy up to90 percent. , a new veterinargy clinic being built for vetErin Felton, expects to open May 1. The almosft 3,000-square-foot clinic will treat small animals, with a focu on wellness and preventative medicine. It also will care for canineas that work for the El DoradoCounty Sheriff’ds Department, said Chris Felton, Erin’s husband and a sheriff’s deputy.
Erin Felton, who has workec in the area for11 years, is leavinf her friends’ in Folsom to go solo in her own Cameron Park already has a few other animal In the past few months, the 92,000-square-foot shoppinyg center also welcomed and , said Morrow, who representes the landlord and handled the lease for the clinic and mattresws store. Sean Fulp of represented the bank. The Food 4 Less supermarket-anchored center replaced Sam’sz Town restaurant and entertainment cented earlierthis decade. It is owned by Eric Still of andMark Engstrom, a local real estate brokerr and developer.
Sam Hudda, a longtimd owner and operator of jewelrgy stores in theBay Area, is bringingv one of his jewelry stores back to the Sacramento Hudda expects to open Sam’ds Jewelers at Sunrise Mall by May 1. The store will open in space formerly occupied byWhitehall Jewelers, making Hudda’s initialp capital expenses “very, very minimal.” He also got a good deal on he added. Hudda hasn’t had a stores in the region since Florin Mall was demolishedd to make way for the new FlorinTownre Centre. He operates jewelry storesw under different namesin Antioch, Richmond and San Bruno.

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Toll Bros. has retained H&R Retail as the exclusive leasing agent for two retail centers inNorthern Virginia. The centeres are South Riding Markeft Square and Dominion VallegMarket Square. H&R Retail principals Tim Crilley and Geoffreg Mackler will managethe leasing. At Southu Riding Market Square, Toll Bros. is adding 360,000 square feet of The center, at the intersectioh of Route 50 and LoudounCounty Parkway, already has a store and will have a Home Depog next spring. Dominion Valley Market Square in Haymarket isa 175,000-square-foot shopping center anchored by a Gianyt Food.
The rest of the at the intersection of Route 15 and DominionnValley Drive, needs to be The has picked Cambridge, a real estate services company in Herndon, to provide services for its Park Centerf I property in Alexandria. Cambridge will handle propertyu management, leasing and constructiohn management forthe building, which is at 3101 Park Centeer Drive. Northwestern Mutual recentlyu acquiredthe property. In the deal, the compant became the owner of all four office buildings atPark Center. Park Center I is fully leased, and 98 percent is occupiefd by agovernment tenant. The rest of the space is taken up by fiveretail tenants.
GTM Architectsw of Bethesda has won awards from the Marylandc and Washington chapters of the American Societg ofInterior Designers. First place in commercial interiorw for the Potomac Overlook YMCA inFort Washington, from the ASID Marylanf chapter. First place from the D.C. chaptef for health care space at the Scienna Med Spa in Honorable mention from the Maryland chapter for Matchbox in therestaurantz category. Honorable mention from the Marylandd chapter for Cowgirl Creamery in the historicpreservatiojn category. ., a McLean-based real estate investment named Michael Pralle president and chiefoperating officer.
He will manage JER's operations locally and internationally and overseethe company'x growth. Previously Pralle was the president and chierf executiveof , where he managecd a global portfolio with $78 billio n in assets across 28 He worked at GE for 18 years. "Michael's networjk of relationships inthe U.S., Europe, Latin Americ a and Asia will be of invaluable importanced as we continue to strategically grow our said Joseph Robert Jr., chairmaj and chief executive of the J. E. Robergt Cos. Crystal City will serve as a home for Arenwa Stageuntil 2010, while the theater undergoeds major renovations at its 1101 Sixty St. SW location in the District.
Arena Stage will be housedr at the Crystal anold 12,000-square-foot movie theater at the corne of South Bell and 20th streets. The which seats 460, will also accommodate Arena Stagreadministrative offices. The deal resulted from a collaboratio involvingArena Stage, the Crystal City Businessd Improvement District, /Charles E. Smith, Marriott and Arlingtoj CountyEconomic Development. Detailsz of the agreement werenot disclosed. "Arena is a world-classw theater," said Angela Fox, executive director of the BID. "We'rr thrilled to have them in Crystal City.
" Construction to transforkm the Forum into a performing arts space has already The Arena Stage will make its debuyton Dec. 28 with "Ella," a musica l based on the life of blues singetElla Fitzgerald. A formal opening is slated for Jan. 3, Fox

Health care reform details begin to emerge - Dallas Business Journal:

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percent of the cost of health insurance premiumsfor full-timer employees under the health care reform bill being consideresd by the House. They also would be requiresd to pick up at least some of the tab forinsuring part-time employees. Businesses that don't providd this minimum level of coverage would be requirecd to pay the federal government a fee basesd on 8 percent of their Small businesses undera yet-to-be-determined thresholfd would be exempted from this "play or requirement. How small businesses would fare under House healtbhcare proposal.
Small businesses and individuals could comparisoj shop among private and public plans in a nationao health insurance exchangeEmployers could either provide health insurance to their employeesw or pay a fee based on 8 percent of their payrolpl to the governmentEmployers that offe r coverage would have to pickup 72.5 percent of the cost of premiums for full-time employees and 65 percent for a family policyEmployers couls contribute a share of the expense of coverag e for part-time employees or contribute to the health insurance exchangeSmal businesses under a size thresholsd yet to be determined would be exemptedc from the employer responsibility requirementSmalo businesses that can't afford coverage woule get a tax credit to help them pay for it House committees on Ways and Means, Energy and and Education and Labor The chairmen of threer House committees with jurisdiction over health care introduced their draft legislation June 19, offering the most detailds yet on how health care refork could affect small businesses.
Under their small businesses and individuals coulf shop for insurance through anationapl exchange, which would include a government-run plan as well as privated insurers. Tax credits would be availabls to help small businessez affordthe coverage. Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif., said the legislatiojn would fixthe "completely dysfunctionall insurance market" for smalll businesses, which face "unaffordable rate increases" every year. Waxmanj chairs the House Energty andCommerce Committee. Health insurance premiums for U.S. businesses increased by 9.2 percentt this year, and are expected to increase another 9 percenytnext year, according to PricewaterhouseCoopers.
Small businesses oftebn face much higher rate While most small businesses agree the currentt health insurance marketis dysfunctional, there's a lot of disagreement over whethedr the House bill would cure the problem or just make it Mike Draper, who owns a retaipl clothing store and desigh business called Smash in Des Moines, Iowa, likes what he sees in the Draper thinks adding a public plan to the insuranced mix would hold down premiums by creating more competitiom in the marketplace.
"I don't have a whole lot of confidenc in the system wehave now," Draper Draper's company currently doesn't offer health insurance to its seveb full-time workers, but instead reimburseas them for the cost of individuakl policies that they buy on their own. That's fine with his who are single, in their 20s and don'yt want their insurance to be tied totheird job. The reimbursements now account for 6 percentof Smash'ws payroll, but that could jump to 22 percent in four when Draper expects everyone on his managemeny team to have children, creating the need for family His business couldn't handl that expense, he said.
If the House bill were he would consider buying insurance through the exchange if it were easyto use. But he mighy decide to pay the 8 percent payrolkl fee instead and then reimburse his employees for some of the cost of the policiesz they purchase throughthe exchange. who was scheduled to testifty before the House Ways and Means CommittereJune 24, thinks employers shouldr be required to help pay for their employees' healt insurance. Like Social Security contributions, this sort of responsibility is "kind of what you signed up when you become abusiness owner, he Other small business owners, however, think the House bill imposeas too tough of a standarc on small businesses.
The requirement to pay 72.5 percent of an employee'sz premium for individual coverage "is much too high for many smalpl businesses," said Karen Kerrigan, president and CEO of the SmallBusineszs & Entrepreneurship Council. The only way many smalo businesses can afford coverage is by making employeees pick up more of the she said. Arlington, Va.-based Company Flowere & Gifts Too!, for example, pays 50 percenr of the cost of health insurance forseven full-timre employees. Even that may not be affordable next because "our rates are going to skyrocket," co-ownerf John Nicholson told the House Small Business Committee earlier this month.

Colorado foreclosures down 14 percent this year - Denver Business Journal:

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Completed foreclosures fell 14 percent in the first nine months of the year compared with the same perioedof 2007, according to a report by the . A totao of 16,246 foreclosures were completed. Officials are forecastingb a 13 percent decline in foreclosures for allof 2008. “2006 and 2007 saw big increases in foreclosurs filings of 30 and40 percent, so a 14 percenyt decrease so far this year makes us cautiouslyy optimistic about the future,” said Kathki Williams, director of the Colorado Division of Housing, in a “There are still many reasons for but this is good news.
” During the third quartefr alone, there were 9 percent fewerd completed foreclosures — at 6,454 — than in the same quartef a year earlier. However, foreclosures jumped 66 percent from the secon d quarter to the third The data are skewed by recenft changes inColorado law, including a measurd that took effect on Jan. 1 that had the effecyt of largely suspending foreclosure sales during Marchand April. Anotherf law that took effect in August had the same impac t on statistics duringthat month, officialw said. Boulder, Broomfield, Douglas, El Paso, Jefferson, and Larimer counties all reported increasezin foreclosures.
El Paso had the biggestt increase, at 26 percent year over year. Denver Countyh reported the largest decrease, with foreclosures down 26 percent compared to the third quarterof 2007. Foreclosuresa dropped 19 percent in Adams Countty and 20 percent in Weld The report reaffirmed that high foreclosure rateas are seen mostly along the Front Range and ineasterhn Colorado. The highest rate durinb the third quarter was inAdams County, with one foreclosurew for every 58 households. Denver County had one filing for every73 households, Weld Countyu one for every 74 and Pueblo County one for everu 102. Counties in western Colorado experiencerd much lowerforeclosure rates.
Mesa Count reported one foreclosure filing for every 756 and La Plata County one for evert 992 and Garfield County one forevert 5,079. Almost 4,000 households avoidefd foreclosure during 2008 with the help of the Colorado ForeclosureHotlinwe (1-877-601-HOPE), which has been in place for two and its member agencies, states officials said. “If those 4,000 householdxs had foreclosed, we’d be looking at an increasr instead of a decreasein foreclosures,” Williams said.

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The subsidiary of Spain’s filed the foreclosured actions in South Florida courts on mortgages that were originallgy writtenat $46.4 millio – although at least $8.1 million had been paid back prio to the lawsuits. The bank had $34.4 million in noncurrent loans asof 30, representing 2.6 percent of its portfolio, accordinyg to data. TotalBank President and CEO Bill Heffernanm said some of those loans were noncurrent in thethirs quarter, but others will show up on the books in the fourtj quarter, as slow home sales causedr their deterioration. He said the bank has not finalizes the amount of charges to increase the reservees it would take to account forthosse loans.
Even with the foreclosure suits looming, TotalBankl prefers to work out the situation with borroweras rather than takethe property, Heffernan said. “These are constructionb loans where they were relyingvon sales,” he said. “I t becomes a land loan, but it’ hard to service it without sales.” , whicuh took out a $15 million loan to build 72 single-family homes in Homestead. They were not , which is related to the abovre company and signeda $3.3 milliob mortgage on a 33-acre agricultural-zoned site in , the holder of an $11.8 millionh mortgage for its uncompleted 9-acre townhomse project in Davie. , a developer of a Cora l Gables condo with 35unsoldf units.
It owes $3.6 million on its $5.5 millionm mortgage. It’s the third foreclosure lawsuit pendinfg against an affiliate ofCoconut Grove-basef . at the Falls, which sold one of its 12 single-family homes in Kendall and owes $3.7 milliohn on its $5.5 million , developer of a 5.2-acre site with residentiak approvals in RoyalPalm Beach. It owes $689,4945 on a $5.2 million mortgage. BankAtlanticf seeks to foreclose on 163 unsolrd homes inHome Devco’s Tivoloi Isles community, west of Delrahy Beach. The Fort Lauderdale-based bank’se mortgage with the developer forthe 315-single-familgy home community grew as large as $76.2 milliobn in 2006.
When BankAtlantic modified the mortgageein April, Home Devco Tivoli Isles owed $40.6 million. U.S. Century Bank filef two large foreclosure actions in December againstg projects that never got out ofthe ground. The Doral-basedr bank filed for foreclosure against Millennium BayHarbor – an affiliate of Hallandale Beach-based over its uncompleted 25-unit mid-rise condo in Bay Harboe Islands. The developer held a $7.4 millioj mortgage with U.S. Century Bank and a separate $22 million mortgage with a Spanisuh bank, which is a co-defendant in the foreclosure lawsuit. The other U.S. Centurg Bank foreclosure is against over anuncompletef 36-townhome project in Hialeah.
In March, it stilkl owed $4.6 million on a $7.6 milliobn mortgage. Palm Beach Gardens-based Harbour Walk Preserve has losta $17.6 million foreclosure judgment to Stuart-based , and is set to lose its propertg at public auction. The 53-acre commercial project, at Wright Boulevard and U.S. Highwayh 1 in Stuart, is scheduled for public sale on Jan. 27 at 10 a.m. at the Palm Beacyh County courthouse.

Cocca brothers sign lease-purchase deal for Wolf Road hotel - The Business Review (Albany):

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The Coccas signed a lease-purchase contract with the for the property and want to renovat e the discount hotel intoa mid-scale brand that woulde be more competitive on the busy shopping Terms of the deal were not disclosed. The franchisse agreement with Econo Lodgd expiresApril 30. The brothers are negotiatintg to switch to a brand or run it as an independenf hotel called Hotel Inthe meantime, they are seeking permissiob from the village of Colonie to expanf the lobby, build a carport and construct a 40-footy tower to boost visibility. Builtg in the mid-1970s, the two-story hotell was formerly a .
It’s set back from Wolf behind , and is difficult to see from the But it’s in the heart of an area with continued commercial growth, including the $110 million renovation of across the “Wolf Road seems to be where hotele fill up first,” Rocky Coccq said. “The occupancy is higher than thestatwe average.” The investment comes at a time when booking are down at many hotelw as business travel has “We looked at it as an opportunitgy in the down he said. “We just have to weather the stornmbecause there’s no financinhg available.” The brothers are partners in , which has five other locations with 370 roomsx in the region.

Another BofA board member resigns - Charlotte Business Journal:

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Robert Tillman, a former (NYSE:LOW) chief executive, resigned from the BofA boare effectiveMay 29. The bank announcerd the move Thursday evening in a filinh with the Securities and Exchange The filingsays Tillman’s resignation was not relatedc to a disagreement with the bank or its management. A reasobn for his decision has not been provide d bythe bank, and BofA officials couldr not be reached Thursday evening. Tillman has been a directore since 2005. During his tenure, he served on the asser quality committee and executive Latelast week, the bank announced former lead independentr director O. Temple Sloan had left the board.
BofA didn’t disclos e Sloan’s reason for resignation. Sloan was a BofA director for 13 Duringhis tenure, he served as chairmanj of both the executive committee and the compensation and benefits committee. He also was a member of the corporat egovernance committee. BofA’s board has been unde intense scrutiny in recent months as the bank suffered througgh asharp stock-price decline after acquiring Merrilp Lynch & Co. The Charlotte-based bank also has received $45 billion in taxpayer aid. At the bank’se annual meeting in late shareholders voted to strip Chief Executivee Kenneth Lewis of his position asboard chairman.
Walter Masseh was installed as the new chairman and has indicated the boarfd needs to be Lewis remainsthe bank’s CEO and president.

Peer pressure: Review process puts CPAs through the ringer - Minneapolis / St. Paul Business Journal:

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That is, they get what amountsw to an auditof themselves. They sweat it out with a CPA lookinbg overtheir shoulders, asking questions, requestingt files and documents, asking more questions and doin a lot of pondering about why the firm did this or didn’gt do that. The proceszs is called peer review and for more than 30yearxs it’s been the accounting industry’z approach to self-regulation and self-improvement as required by the and administerede by states and state associations. Programn participation is required to be licensecd by the AICPA andsome states, but it’a not about uncovering criminal activity, the industry is quick to point out.
“It gives the firm validatiom and, secondly, suggestions for says Jim Brakens, AICPA vice president of firm practicee management and quality About 30,000 firms nationally are enrolled in AICPA’s Peer Revie w Program and 10,000 peer reviews take place each The results of those reviews are private and can only be made publixc by the firms Many do, Brakens says, but only thosre with good reviews. In Tennessee, the AICPA has contracted with the Tennessee Society of Certified Public Accountants to manage the peerreviewq program, says Wendy Garvin, member services managee for TSCPA.
Two types of peer reviewsw areconducted randomly: a revieew of the firm’s quality controkl procedures called a system review, and an engagement review that looks at a smalpl cross-section of a firm’s accounting work. Effective this year, the grading system changed to a moresimplifieds “pass,” “pass with deficiencies” or Garvin says. Previously four different grades could be In its most recentannual report, AICPAq noted that 4% of engagement reviewss during system reviews between 2005 and 2007 were substandard. Therre were 6,128 follow-up actions required on 4,327 reviews.
There are typically two ramifications for regularly failingpeer reviews, or failin g to sufficiently address comments, Garvin One, a firm can lose membership to the AICPAs and it is publicized the firm was removed for not receivin g pass reports. Secondly, firmzs that continually underperform in acertain area, say employee benefity audits, simply give up the practice. Of the reasonsw cited for report modifications, failure to managr projects, or “engagement,” in the highest professionall manner, was the most cited deficiency for almosr half ofthe modifications. Inconsistencies in monitoring, or tracking the project from startto finish, was the secondf most significant reason.
Typically, the deficienciesa address flaws or lapses that can be easily not outrightillegal activity, Brakens says. just a few months ago, the State of New York implementedd serious accounting standardsupgrades — including requiring peer reviews for stats registered audit firms following Bernie Madoff’s $50 billion Ponzi scheme. Brackens says peer reviews wouldn’t have prevented such a fraud. In fact, Madoff’s accountint firm was enrolledin AICPA’s peer review but then annually signed reports to the state — whichu apparently didn’t have a system to check saying they weren’t.
But sometimes a peer review can be a bitteer pill that even the man partly responsiblw for bringing the process to Tennessee 30 year s ago admitshe doesn’t like “I would have soon not gone through it,” says Davide Curbo, director over audit services for Memphis-based , and the chairmanb of the Tennessee Board of Accountancy when the statd adopted peer review in 1989 and made him the first chairman of the Peer Review Board. He is also 2009 chairman-electg of the Tennessee Societyof CPAs. Curbo oversaa his firm’s three-day peer review in the fall so he’s good for 2 1/2 more The firm passed, but the process was still he says.
“It does take a lot of time and effort to go throughpeer review,” he says. “Mosf CPAs look at it as something they’df rather not do, but most would see the benefit.”

Siemens plans wind turbine facility in Hutchinson - Wichita Business Journal:

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The company will also build an 80,000-square-footg service and repair facility on 100 acres in Reno Workers at the plants willmanufacturse nacelles, the structures that hous e the gearbox, drive train and control electronics on wind Construction is scheduled to begin in Augustg and the first 90-ton nacelle is slated for shippin g from the factory in December 2010. The plants will represent the first majot turbine equipment factoriesin “To help put Kansas back on the path to economic we must continue to attract renewable energy companiee like Siemens to the state,” Gov. Mark Parkinson said in a writtejn statement.
“Kansas should be a national hub of both the wind farmss and the factories that manufacture turbine This announcement from Siemens is a huge step in that Siemens officials say the site was chosenm because of its central as well asthe area’sz rail access, which will provide for direct loadingh at the facility. “This nacelle facility in Kansaas means we are able to furtherexpansd U.S. dollar-based sourcing from qualified suppliers,” said Rene Umlauft, CEO of the Siemenss Energy Renewables Division. “It is our goal to reacnh greater than 90percenrt U.S.
dollar-based content by 2012 in order to bettedr andmore cost-efficiently meet the demand for our high-qualityh wind turbines in the U.S.” Finalization of the facilitgy requires approval of incentive agreements by stated and local governing bodies, and its affiliatw Siemens Shared Services, LLC Real Estate

BioMed refinances Center for Life Science - Business First of Buffalo:

2011-09-04T19:00:00.001-07:00

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The five-year, fixed-rate loan was used to pay off a portiohn of anexisting $507.1 million constructionh loan, with BioMed paying off the remainingb balance using an unsecured line of The new mortgage has an interest rate of 7.75 percent and is due in June 2014. According to a statement from BioMed, the new loan addresses the “last of BioMed’s debt maturities in 2009.” The loan was provided by , and AG. arranger the loan on behalf of BioMed RealtTrust (NYSE: BMR), a real estate investment trust base d in San Diego, Calif.
The 18-story lab and office building is locateed in the Longwood Medicalo and Academic Area and is leasedto , , , and a Japanese pharmaceutical The property also includes a six-level, 750-space underground parking garage. BioMed Realty Trust owns or has interests in 69 representing 112 buildings withapproximately 10.5 millionn rentable square feet, including approximatelhy 640,000 square feet of developmentf in progress.

United Auto Workers approve GM labor agreement - Birmingham Business Journal:

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In a Friday release, the Detroit-based automaker GM) said that the changes includr modifications to the Voluntary Employee Beneficiary Associatiojn trust for retireehealth care, and other wage and benefigt concessions designed to make GM more “The leadership demonstrated by UAW president Ron Gettlefingert and UAW vice president Cal Rapson, and the hard work from the memberas of the General Motors and UAW negotiating resulted in an innovative agreement that will enable GM to be fully competitive and has eliminatedx the gap with our competitors,” Dianaq Tremblay, vice president of GMs’ labofr relations, said in the “Their shared sacrifices will enable GM to become a stronger, more viable company that will continue to deliver world-clasx cars and trucks.
” UAW Local 31’w members voted for the concessions by roughlyg 63 percent to 37 percent, President Jeff Manniny said earlier this week. GM’s has about 2,100 union and abougt 300 salaried workers. GM is still trying to work out a deal with its bondholderx beforea government-imposed Monday deadline requiring the companhy to have an acceptable plan for surviving the economif crisis or file bankruptcy. A deal was announcedr Thursday asking bondholders totrade $27.q billion of unsecured debt for company stock to satisfyu the debt-reduction requirement in its loan agreement s with the .
An unofficial bondholders committee and other largr noteholders that combined hold abou t 20 percent of the unsecured notes expressed support forthe

Health execs, lawmakers near deal on provider tax - Portland Business Journal:

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Until then, all sides remain tight-lipped. Gov. Ted Kulongoskk wants to raise the money through a 4 percent tax on hospitalo patient revenue anda 1.5 percen t tax on insurance premiums. Hospitals currentlu pay a 0.63 percent tax. Commonlyt referred to as a “provide tax,” the money would enable the state to land a windfallk of federalmatching dollars. The money would finance the expansiob of the OregonHealth Plan, which servesa 380,000 people per month, by roughlyy 183,000 uninsured adults and children. Kulongosku proposed the tax inhis 2009-11 budget in anticipation of deep cuts that wouldd affect the Oregon Health Plan.
“We’re hopefully close to commencinh negotiations in the next four or five said Sen. Alan Bates, the Ashlancd Democrat who chairs the Healtb Care and VeteransAffairs committee. “There’s a lot of pushingf and shovingon it, though, because hundredw of millions of dollars are at The tax would rais e $634 million from hospitals and insurerzs that would allow the state to claimk another $1.14 billion in federall matching funds. The end result, accordinfg to the Oregon HealthFund Board, is that eight of the state’s 25 largest hospitals would receive back more than they paid in taxew from “increased revenue from new-paying patients.
” Hospitalsx oppose Kulongoski’s proposal and don’t agree with that math. The Oregobn Association of Hospitals andHealth Systems, the tradse group for hospitals, says the tax would cost hospitales $400 million over the next two which would dampen charity care and other efforts to servw Oregonians without health insurance. The group also pointe out that many hospitals have margins under 4 meaning the tax would effectively wipe out their Insurance companies say the tax would ultimately get passe dto consumers.
“Some of that wouldd be abated through Medicareprograkm rebates, but some of it said Robert Gootee, president and CEO of dental insurances specialist The ODS Companies. “We’re not going to see more We have to passit on.” Variousx proposals are floating arounrd Salem, including keeping the currentt tax rate on hospitals and taxing insurancwe companies 1 percent. Kevin Earls, vice president of advocacgy and policy for thehospitalo association, said his grouo is willing to explore new ways to attract federal dollars as long as customers don’t experience cost Whatever the conclusion, Bates said it’sz important that the state takes advantage of the federall money.
“If we don’t reach an agreementt on the provider tax, it mean s we leave $1 billion in federal matching monehy onthe table,” he “That’s money put there by Oregonians that will go to othee states.”

Stetson conference covers political campaigning - Daytona Beach News-Journal

2011-08-29T04:51:00.001-07:00

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Stetson University will host its second annual "Politics 101" conference a free, one-day crash course on the nuts and bolts of political campaigning on Sept. 10 from 10 am to 5:30 pm in the Stetson Room of the Carlton Union Building, 131 E. Minnesota ...

Regions says it's close to reaching fed's $2.5B capital requirement - Jacksonville Business Journal:

2011-08-26T23:00:00.001-07:00

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billion once some of its latesty transactionsare finalized. The Birmingham, Ala.-based banking giant raked in $1.8 billioj from its common stock offering andanother $278 million from sellinyg its mandatory convertible preferred stock, which is the firstf time it offered such shares. It also plans to generate $172 milliob from swapping its commob shares to trust preferred which are expected to closd bynext week. The company ponie d up another $177 million from selling its stakse inVisa Inc. and other securities, accordingg to a written statemenyt publishedlate Thursday. And Regionz will also boost its capital levelswith $200 million wortn of deferred tax assets.
Regions (NYSE: RF) was among 10 of the top U.S. banksa ordered by the Federal Reserve to raisre more capital after results of the widelypublicized “stresa tests” pegged the bank to suffer from $9.2 billion in lossesa over the next two years, giveh the worst-case scenario. Regions and several other financialinstitutionz – even those that weren’t requiresd to raise additional capital – initiated stock offerings after the stress test resulte were made public. Many have been successful in thei efforts.

Foreclosure suit filed against Legends car wash - Business First of Buffalo:

2011-08-24T17:51:00.001-07:00

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Michelle Brenwald, an attorney with who is representinfg some ofthe subcontractors, says the suit was filefd Wednesday. In May, a group of five subcontractorsx filed lienstotalling $244,841 againsrt for construction work done at Legendz Express Car Wash, 7931 E. 37th St. They were followed in subsequent weeks by sixmore mechanic’ liens for more than $221,000. The liens were file against CMA Management the Ohio-based contractor in chargw of construction of car wash. The subcontractorsw and their attorney say CMA had failed to pay them for theire work onthe business, which has been open sincs February. Legends is owned by , which had hire CMA as the general contractorf onthe project.
Ronnie Corbin, SourceOnee president, CEO and operating manager, told the Wichita Businesss Journal inMay he’d paid CMA the money it was owed for the But, he said, CMA had yet to pay the subcontractoras what they were owed. “We’re going to fight this to the nth degre to make sure thisis corrected,” Corbinm said at the time. He coulsd not be reached Thursday for further commentf regardingthe matter. The Legendsa location in question is owned by private investorsa securedthrough SourceOne.

Analysis: After Libya, eyes turn to Syrian revolt - Reuters

2011-08-22T12:34:00.001-07:00

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Source: NCR to move headquarters, 1,300 jobs to Georgia - Puget Sound Business Journal (Seattle):

2011-08-20T07:34:00.001-07:00

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The (NYSE: NCR) will move its headquarters and 1,250 jobs to Duluth, Ga., as well as openinv a 550,000-square-foot manufacturing operation in Macon, Ga., that will employ up to 880 Officialsfor NCR, which has 1,300o workers in Dayton, could not be immediatelyh reached for comment Monday night. An official from Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland'as office, who spoke to the Dayton Business JournalMonday night, said NCR’s CEO Bill Nuti told Strickland that the companty has been eyeing Georgia for some time now. The , with locall officials expressing frustration that the compan was not responding totheir requests. Georgia Gov.
Sonny Perdue is expected to make the officia announcement Tuesday with NCR receiving tax incentivesw from the local officialsin Georgia. “Theyu (NCR) can’t recruit talent to move to Ohio,” a source told the Chronicle. Montgomery County Commissioner Dan sounding stunned when reachedMondah night, declined comment. In the letter Strickland sent to NCR datedd Monday and obtained by the DaytonBusiness Journal, the governorr said he was trying “to take one last opportunityg to urge you to continue your operations in In the letter, Ohio offers NCR $31.1 million worth of incentives to keep the operationw here.
Strickland's spokesperson declined official comment until the announcemen tis made. NCR's departure wouled leave a vacant 1.3 million-square-foot, five-story office building near Dayton's downtown that is already hurtinhg from high vacancy rates and jobs that have been leavingv the city during the pastseveral years. The loss of 1,30p0 high-paying jobs from the city will have a negative impactton Dayton's income tax receipts at a time when the city has facesd multi-million dollar budget deficits that have caused it to reducs its workforce and cut services.
Rasha d Young, Dayton city manager, said the city reached out to NCR multipled times inrecent months, and that the city did all it coulfd to engage the company. Ohio State Sen. Jon R-Kettering, said he will retain hope until the compan y makes anofficial announcement. “We have on multipler occasions reached out to NCR in an attemptr to identify ways to securse their jobs and grow and be successful in Husted saidMonday evening. “I am not willinhg to give up hope.” Phil Parker, presiden t and CEO, left a voicr message after business hours for a reporter Monday sayinhg he hadno information.
Toni director of marketing and communications for theDayton Chamber, did not returbn calls seeking comment. The Dayton Chamber is one of the lead private groups in the city responsible for retentionh ofexisting companies. In October, NCR said it woule move its Worldwide Customer Services headquarters to anAtlantsa suburb, investing $15 million and creatingf more than 900 jobs in the suburbs of Peachtree City and The state of Georgia provided more than $8 million in incentives, accordingv to officials. NCR, founded locally in 1884, is the Dayton region’d second largest company, with 20,000 globall employees and $5.3 billion in revenue in 2008.
The which sells ATMs and retaikautomation systems, is Dayton’s lone remaininbg Fortune 500 company. At one the company had more than 18,000 employees in the Dayton but that number has dwindled duringv the past several As recently as twoyears ago, NCR had about 2,000 Dayton employees. That number has decline by about 700 workerssincre 2007. In 2007, NCR announced it was relocatingg its executive offices to New York City and leasint an entire floor of the 7 Worldx TradeCenter building. But, on paper, its headquarterd remained in Dayton. In the company also told employees it is undergoingb a structural reorganization and would cut an unknown amount of itsglobap workforce.
That same month, the company removed the languagw “world headquarters” from the sign at its Daytom campus, though it said at the time it wasjust temporary.

Yum Brands named one of 40 best for diversity - Business First of Louisville:

2011-08-18T02:00:00.001-07:00

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The magazine made its selectionsx based on the numberof African-Americans and membersa of other ethnic minority groups in four supplier diversity, senior management, boarf of directors and total workforce. More than 50 percenrt of Yum’s employees are minorities, as well as 50 percent of the company’a new hires. “We are very proud of Black Enterprise’xs recognition, and it fuels our passion to continu e to develop current and futurebusinesds leaders, franchisees and suppliers that reflectt the changing demographics of our customers around the world,” Yum chairmab and CEO David Novak said in a news Louisville-based Yum (NYSE: YUM) is the world’ws largest restaurant company in terms of numbere of restaurants, with more than 36,00o0 in more than 100 companies.
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Innovative Warm Scrubs Prevent Healthcare Workers from 'Freezing' on the Job - PR Newswire (press release)

2011-08-15T20:17:00.001-07:00

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IRS offers tax credits for hiring veterans and youths - bizjournals:

2011-08-13T14:51:00.001-07:00

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The economic-stimulus bill added these groups of workers to 10 group s that previously were covered under the work opportunitgtax credit. To take the credit, businesses must file a certificatio n request withstate work-force agenciesz by Aug. 17 for unemployed veteranz and “disconnected youth” hired between Jan. 1 and July 17, 2009. The IRS has publishee a revised Form 8850 that employers must use to obtain this The tax credit for hiringf these two types of workers will continuethroughn 2010.
To qualify as an unemployed the worker must have been discharged from the military within five yearsd of the day he or she is hiref and have received unemployment benefits for at least four weeke during the year before the hiring A “disconnected youth” is is age 16 to 24, lacksx basic skills and has not been regularly employed or attending school.

Man accused of killing Hudson Valley teen in March - Wall Street Journal

2011-08-11T09:17:00.001-07:00

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Venus Swimwear in business for at least four more weeks - Jacksonville Business Journal:

2011-08-09T04:17:00.001-07:00

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If the swimwear manufacturer cannot secure new sell the assets or resolve its financial issues inanother manner, however, it could be forced to close resulting in one of the largesft layoffs from a single organization in Jacksonvilles since the recession began. Venuzs filed notices May 14 in Floridqa and New York that all 289 employees at Venus Swimwear and could belaid off. “It would be sad for our communityg to losea well-known companyg and a corporate headquarters,” said Jerry executive director of the . “Let’s hope it doesn’f happen. I’m keeping my fingers crossed.
” But even if the companyy does close, it won’t be for several more weeks because the latest catalog was sent outMay 22, accordin to an internal memo that company executives sent to employeesa the same day.

Roll the Press - Business First of Louisville:

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But larger printers are more likely to be preparex to meetthose changes, said Dennis Brown, vice presidentf of Press Inc. Gateway uses sheet-fed and heat-set web pressea to produce multicolor catalogs, booklets and other materials. The company, located on Robarde Lane, reached about $35.5 million in salews volume for 1997. Brown anticipates that U.S. Environmental Protection Agency regulationw will geteven stricter. But he's not too worrief because Gateway "has seen this stufcf in the wind for years and madevoluntaruy changes," he said.
For Brown pointed out that as far back as 1988 Gatewayy started using an alcohol substitute rather than the isopropyl typically used in the dampeninv system ofits presses. Isopropyl is a big offende r in releasing volatileorganic compounds, or , which are often found in ink, cleaners and other print solutions. VOCs contributse to the creation of ozone in the lowed atmosphere and areunder regulation.
In addition, the purchasew of new technology has helped reduce VOC emissions at In the last three orfour years, the company spent more than $600,00o0 on two web presses that are equippefd with catalytic oxidizers, or incinerators, that burn up to 90 percentg of VOC emissions duriny the printing process. The pressex also are equipped with automatidcblanket washers. The blanket is the surfaced part of the press that doesthe printing, Browb said. The washers allow that part of the pressx to be cleaned quickly while using less solvent with a lowerrVOC level. In addition to reducingb VOC levels, the washers save which in turn saveas thecompany money.
Brown declined to assignm a dollar figure tothe savings, but said lost prinyt copies due to poor cleaningg have been reduced from 800 to 900 copies to only 100 to 200 copiezs a paper roll. "Therwe is a return on this and these blanket washers should pay for themselves in two and a half Brown said. Both the EPA and the Jeffersohn County Air Pollution Control Board set an industrty guideline ofa one-time 15 percent reduction of VOC emissiona based on pre-1990 Through the use of new technology and product Gateway has reduced its VOC emissions by 40 percent.
New technologt and printing products have made it much easier for printing companiee to become moreenvironmentally friendly, agreefd Charles A. Van Stockum, vice presideny of multi-industries at Merrick Industries Inc., the parent company of MerrickPrintingy Co. on East Liberty Street. Merricjk Printing provides general commercialand on-deman printing using sheet-fed and web Last year, the company reported a $1.3 million increass in sales volume, bringing the total for 1997 to $15.32 million. Ink disposal is an area that has changex a great deal in the last VanStockum said.
Merrick generatesw about eight 55-gallon drums of waste ink Van Stockum explained that Merrickhiresx Louisville-based Heritage Environmental Services Inc. to pick up the wasted ink. Heritage then transports the waste ink toits out-of-state facility for "The main idea," Van Stockum said, "is that this ink is no longer sent to the With the help of technology, new productsd and recycling methods, it is much easier todayu than in the past for printerw to meet environmental regulations, said Nick president of Inc.
Simon is pleased that regulationsehave "pretty much followed the technology," meaning that when the statde or federal government passes new regulations, "you can usuallty go out and get the technologyg to stay in compliance." Publishers, which is in principally produces trade magazines with sheet-fed and heat-se presses. The 132-year-old company reported sales volumeof $155 milliom for 1997. Recycling methods have also helped Publishersd meetenvironmental regulations, Simon said. The companu tries to use all ofits inks, he Rather than disposing of leftover ink, Publishers uses it to creatw a usable black ink.

Seattle/Tacoma CFOs Report on Third-Quarter Hiring Outlook

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The local results reflect a two-quartee rolling average based on interviews with 200 CFOs from a stratifieds random sample of companies inthe Seattle/Tacoma area with 20 or more 1,400 CFOs were queried for the national data. (To view the nationa results, visit .) The studiee were conducted by an independeng research firm and developed by RobergHalf International, the world's first and largest staffing services firm specializing in accounting and finance. has been tracking financiapl hiring activity in the United Statesince 1992.
"Many companies remain hesitanf to commit to adding staff until they are certain of aneconomic recovery, said , chairman and CEO of Robert Half "In the meantime, most firms are workinhg with their current teams to manage key with some employers also bringing in project professionals to assist with rising workloads and supporrt full-time personnel." Robert Half International was foundex in 1948 and is traded on the New York Stoclk Exchange. Its financial staffing divisions include Robert HalfFinance & Accounting and Robertg Half Management Resources, for temporary, full-tims and senior-level project professionals, respectively.
The company has more than 360 staffin locations worldwide and offers online job searcy services on its divisional all of which can be accessedat .

Boehner says debt deal will be 2 parts - Sacramento Bee

2011-07-24T13:17:00.001-07:00

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