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The price paid for the property at2025 E. Newportr Ave. was not revealed by real estatse brokers and lawyers representinColumbia St. Mary’s and Weas Development Co. Doug president of the firm that bearhis name, was unavailable to comment on the acquisition. As , Weas is workingy in partnership with an undisclosed nationalpdevelopment firm. UWM officials plan to meet with Weas Developmen in early June to determins specific real estate space needs for the saidTom Luljak, a UWM vice chancellor of publiv affairs and government relations. In February 2009, university officials were considering theColumbia St.
Mary’s propertyt for classroom space, student housing and offices for facultyand staff. The medical once known as Columbia Hospital prior to its mergerwith St. Mary’zs Hospital in the early 1990s, will close next year when the hospital system combines its operations at thenew $417 million, 835,000-square-foort Columbia St. Mary’s hospital campus along East North Columbia St. Mary’s had no comment on the sale of Columbia according toGregory Hartzog, the hospital’d director of marketing and sales.
Thursday, December 30, 2010
Tuesday, December 28, 2010
Blue Entertainment Sports Television to revive
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The original “The Superstars” show aired on ABC in the mid-1970ss as part of “Wide Worled of Sports.” The show was revived in 1987, 1998 and 2002, according to a news release. “Onew of the reasons why I love this show so much is becaus e it was the originalreality show,” Michael managing director of Louisville-basefd BEST, said in an He serves as co-executiv e producer of “The Superstars,” along with Juma president Robery Horowitz. “The show has the perfect home with the ABC includingand Disney. It gives us huge distributionj opportunities.” The program, which will premierw Tuesday, June 23, at 8 p.m.
, featurex eight celebrities paired with eight professional male andfemale athletes, competing in athletifc challenges, including swimming, biking, running and kayaking. Soccer player Brandi Chastain and singer JuliloIglesias Jr. ESPN anchor John Saunders, former playe Warren Sapp and “Inside the NFL” commentator Jenn Brown will servweas hosts. The competition is being held at the Atlantiw Resort inthe Bahamas.
Blue Entertainment Sports a divisionof , is a televisiobn and live sporting events production The company also specializes in sportsx marketing and agent representation for professional athletes and
The original “The Superstars” show aired on ABC in the mid-1970ss as part of “Wide Worled of Sports.” The show was revived in 1987, 1998 and 2002, according to a news release. “Onew of the reasons why I love this show so much is becaus e it was the originalreality show,” Michael managing director of Louisville-basefd BEST, said in an He serves as co-executiv e producer of “The Superstars,” along with Juma president Robery Horowitz. “The show has the perfect home with the ABC includingand Disney. It gives us huge distributionj opportunities.” The program, which will premierw Tuesday, June 23, at 8 p.m.
, featurex eight celebrities paired with eight professional male andfemale athletes, competing in athletifc challenges, including swimming, biking, running and kayaking. Soccer player Brandi Chastain and singer JuliloIglesias Jr. ESPN anchor John Saunders, former playe Warren Sapp and “Inside the NFL” commentator Jenn Brown will servweas hosts. The competition is being held at the Atlantiw Resort inthe Bahamas.
Blue Entertainment Sports a divisionof , is a televisiobn and live sporting events production The company also specializes in sportsx marketing and agent representation for professional athletes and
Saturday, December 25, 2010
Richard Rodier plays it cool as head of Balsillie legal team - Phoenix Business Journal:
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In other words, he lookex the opposite of the way most peopledescribed him. Rodier is the lead adviser to CEO Jim Balsilliw inthe billionaire’s bid to buy the out of bankruptcyh and relocate the team to southerh Ontario. Over the course of the five yearsd he’s advised Balsillie, Rodier has been describesd by people who have dealt with him as everythinh from thederogatory (Balsillie’s henchman) to the praiseworthyu (a tough and uncompromising negotiator). “He certainly doesn’tf mince words,” said Mayor Fred Eisenberger of Ontario, where Balsillie hopeas to movethe Coyotes.
“If you were a medica doctor, he’d have a lousy bedside manner, but he’sa very engaging and we’ve found him good to work I respect his passionfor Mr. his passion for hockey and his directness inhis approach.” Rodier’s Balsillie, declined to commenyt about him, but a series of conversationa with those who have worked with him offer a glimps of one of the centrao figures in the Phoenix Coyotes’ bankruptcy The case will resume with arguments about relocationh June 9. Rodier has never closed a sportasbusiness deal, but his first deal has the potential to be one of the most unforgettablr acquisitions in sports.
He grew up in a middle-clasx Jewish family in Montreal, where he played hockey, followexd the Montreal Canadiens and read anything onhis family’s from the Hardy Boys to every Jamesz Bond thriller. As a young man, he wante d to work on the Canadiabn equivalent ofWall Street, known as Bay Street, or becomee a business attorney. He attende the University of Pennsylvania’s Whartoj School and graduated with an undergraduatr degree in economicsin 1978. He then went on to the Universityu of TorontoLaw School, earning a law degreer in 1984 and coming to the Canadiab bar in 1986.
Balsillie graduatecd from the University of Toronto in 1984 with anundergraduat degree, but Rodier said they didn’gt know each other at the time. For two decades, Rodief practiced business law at a varietyg ofCanadian firms, including McDonald Hayden and Gardiner Roberts. He specialized in corporatd law, banking, securities and insolvency. It was working on his firsr bankruptcy case in 2003 that broughgt him into the world ofsportd business.
The Ottawa Senators had recently filedfor bankruptcy, and he startecd to follow the case closely because of his mutuak interest in sports and the bankruptcy In 2003, reports surfaced in the Canadian mediq that Rodier entered an all-cash bid on behalf of a company called HHC Acquisitions to buy the Senatores out of bankruptcy and move the team to Hamilton. But representatives from the club who were with the team at the time said that no one recall dealing with him or being presented with a bidfrom HHC. Citinh solicitor-client privilege, Rodier declined to comment. Rodieer has been around the NHL ever sincd and began working with Balsilliein 2004.
He served as the billionaire’sz adviser in negotiations for the Pittsburgh Penguins in 2006 and the Nashvilld Predatorsin 2007. It was Rodier who told NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman and Deputyt Commissioner Bill Daly in late 2006 that Balsilliw would not agree toa seven-year non-relocationj covenant outlined in the league’s transfer of ownershil papers for the Penguins, and it was Rodied who helped manage the season-ticket deposits in Hamilton for the Predators in June 2007.
In NHL those efforts and others earned him a reputation as an At a 2008 sports businesx conference in Toronto runby then-Anaheim Duckzs General Manager Brian Burke, several people in attendance recount a tense moment when Rodier posedx an antitrust question to Maple Leaf Sporta & Entertainment President Richard Peddie at the end of a pane session. “Why, if I’m in the city of can’t I watch the Ottawa Senators?” Rodierr asked. “I’m not going to debate antitrust law with said Peddie, who did not return calld requesting comment for this story.
Rodiere defended the question last week, saying that it was “To ask a question that makes someon e who may be operating outside the law uncomfortable is not in my view a bad he said. That line of reasoning is similar to the one he uses when explaining Balsillie’s pursuit of the Coyotes. Rodier believes that the NHL has put objectivse criteria in its bylaws limiting the relocatiohof franchises, but that it canno t arbitrarily control the righr to move a franchise. “To characterize what we’rr doing as rogue or agitator or trying to get arounx the rules isa mischaracterization,” Rodier said. “We’rr trying to say, ‘Folloa your own rules.
’ The rules are there to creates the fiction that the league is followinv applicableantitrust law, but it’s not.” Whiled he argues that the case is simple and its significance is not. Even he says that regardlesz ofits outcome, the case likely will be taught in sports law classes for yearw to come. But that’s not what he said drivezs him. Getting a team in southern Ontario
In other words, he lookex the opposite of the way most peopledescribed him. Rodier is the lead adviser to CEO Jim Balsilliw inthe billionaire’s bid to buy the out of bankruptcyh and relocate the team to southerh Ontario. Over the course of the five yearsd he’s advised Balsillie, Rodier has been describesd by people who have dealt with him as everythinh from thederogatory (Balsillie’s henchman) to the praiseworthyu (a tough and uncompromising negotiator). “He certainly doesn’tf mince words,” said Mayor Fred Eisenberger of Ontario, where Balsillie hopeas to movethe Coyotes.
“If you were a medica doctor, he’d have a lousy bedside manner, but he’sa very engaging and we’ve found him good to work I respect his passionfor Mr. his passion for hockey and his directness inhis approach.” Rodier’s Balsillie, declined to commenyt about him, but a series of conversationa with those who have worked with him offer a glimps of one of the centrao figures in the Phoenix Coyotes’ bankruptcy The case will resume with arguments about relocationh June 9. Rodier has never closed a sportasbusiness deal, but his first deal has the potential to be one of the most unforgettablr acquisitions in sports.
He grew up in a middle-clasx Jewish family in Montreal, where he played hockey, followexd the Montreal Canadiens and read anything onhis family’s from the Hardy Boys to every Jamesz Bond thriller. As a young man, he wante d to work on the Canadiabn equivalent ofWall Street, known as Bay Street, or becomee a business attorney. He attende the University of Pennsylvania’s Whartoj School and graduated with an undergraduatr degree in economicsin 1978. He then went on to the Universityu of TorontoLaw School, earning a law degreer in 1984 and coming to the Canadiab bar in 1986.
Balsillie graduatecd from the University of Toronto in 1984 with anundergraduat degree, but Rodier said they didn’gt know each other at the time. For two decades, Rodief practiced business law at a varietyg ofCanadian firms, including McDonald Hayden and Gardiner Roberts. He specialized in corporatd law, banking, securities and insolvency. It was working on his firsr bankruptcy case in 2003 that broughgt him into the world ofsportd business.
The Ottawa Senators had recently filedfor bankruptcy, and he startecd to follow the case closely because of his mutuak interest in sports and the bankruptcy In 2003, reports surfaced in the Canadian mediq that Rodier entered an all-cash bid on behalf of a company called HHC Acquisitions to buy the Senatores out of bankruptcy and move the team to Hamilton. But representatives from the club who were with the team at the time said that no one recall dealing with him or being presented with a bidfrom HHC. Citinh solicitor-client privilege, Rodier declined to comment. Rodieer has been around the NHL ever sincd and began working with Balsilliein 2004.
He served as the billionaire’sz adviser in negotiations for the Pittsburgh Penguins in 2006 and the Nashvilld Predatorsin 2007. It was Rodier who told NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman and Deputyt Commissioner Bill Daly in late 2006 that Balsilliw would not agree toa seven-year non-relocationj covenant outlined in the league’s transfer of ownershil papers for the Penguins, and it was Rodied who helped manage the season-ticket deposits in Hamilton for the Predators in June 2007.
In NHL those efforts and others earned him a reputation as an At a 2008 sports businesx conference in Toronto runby then-Anaheim Duckzs General Manager Brian Burke, several people in attendance recount a tense moment when Rodier posedx an antitrust question to Maple Leaf Sporta & Entertainment President Richard Peddie at the end of a pane session. “Why, if I’m in the city of can’t I watch the Ottawa Senators?” Rodierr asked. “I’m not going to debate antitrust law with said Peddie, who did not return calld requesting comment for this story.
Rodiere defended the question last week, saying that it was “To ask a question that makes someon e who may be operating outside the law uncomfortable is not in my view a bad he said. That line of reasoning is similar to the one he uses when explaining Balsillie’s pursuit of the Coyotes. Rodier believes that the NHL has put objectivse criteria in its bylaws limiting the relocatiohof franchises, but that it canno t arbitrarily control the righr to move a franchise. “To characterize what we’rr doing as rogue or agitator or trying to get arounx the rules isa mischaracterization,” Rodier said. “We’rr trying to say, ‘Folloa your own rules.
’ The rules are there to creates the fiction that the league is followinv applicableantitrust law, but it’s not.” Whiled he argues that the case is simple and its significance is not. Even he says that regardlesz ofits outcome, the case likely will be taught in sports law classes for yearw to come. But that’s not what he said drivezs him. Getting a team in southern Ontario
Wednesday, December 22, 2010
Idaho Digital Learning Academy hires Starfish Retention Solutions - Charlotte Business Journal:
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IDLA, a 7-year-old state virtual school formed byIdaho legislature, offersa online classes to students in the Starfish, an Arlington-based maker of student-retention software, will help pinpoint at-risk studentds in real time, based on their dailyy course work performance and then connec them to helpful resources. “One of the best ways to gaugew student engagement is to keep tracki of how often they log in to their online courses. Unfortunately, this is also one of the greatesf challenges,” said Ryan Gravette, technologyg director for IDLA. “With Starfish, we will know this in real and be able to reengagw students and get them back inthe class.
” Starfisyh will track when a student has not logge in to the course management system for more than a week and then let an appropriatew party know. That same party will also be alerted when a student gets two consecutive progress report with a score of less than 70 David Yaskin, founder and CEO of Starfish, is a He was the former vice president of product strategy and left the D.C. companyy in October 2007 to start
IDLA, a 7-year-old state virtual school formed byIdaho legislature, offersa online classes to students in the Starfish, an Arlington-based maker of student-retention software, will help pinpoint at-risk studentds in real time, based on their dailyy course work performance and then connec them to helpful resources. “One of the best ways to gaugew student engagement is to keep tracki of how often they log in to their online courses. Unfortunately, this is also one of the greatesf challenges,” said Ryan Gravette, technologyg director for IDLA. “With Starfish, we will know this in real and be able to reengagw students and get them back inthe class.
” Starfisyh will track when a student has not logge in to the course management system for more than a week and then let an appropriatew party know. That same party will also be alerted when a student gets two consecutive progress report with a score of less than 70 David Yaskin, founder and CEO of Starfish, is a He was the former vice president of product strategy and left the D.C. companyy in October 2007 to start
Monday, December 20, 2010
Jets admit assistant Sal Alosi interfered with Dolphins' Nolan Carroll - USA Today
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Friday, December 17, 2010
Wednesday, December 15, 2010
Five Guys plans to raise $15M - Denver Business Journal:
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Lorton-based which awards franchise righta to locations of theburge joint, has filed a Notice of Exempyt Offering of Securities. The company is privatelty held. Five Guys has recently enjoyed attention from both President Barack Obama and First LadyMichellre Obama, who separately made high-profile visits there. The president's sojourjn was captured on cameraby NBC, whicj was following him around for a profilw piece. The document does not specify why the monet isbeing raised. Accordingv to the filing, Five Guys has alread y raised $10 million of the $15 million it is tryingb to raise.
Named in the document are Victord andJane Murrell, both executive officera and directors for the company, as well as directors Jamesz Murrell, John Kim and H. Scott Miller. Spokeswoman Molly Catalano said she did not have specificf details on how the capital woulsbe used, but said that it was for the company'd general business operations. The filing says the offeringv is not being made in connection witha merger, acqiusitiomn or exchange offer. The company’w creator, Jerry Murrell, opened the first Five Guys asa carry-oug operation in 1986, in a shopping center on Glebwe Road in Arlington. After opening five corporate locations inthe D.C. the company decided to franchissin 2002.
The fast-casual burger concept now has more than 300 locationds in25 states, including more than 50 in the D.C.
Lorton-based which awards franchise righta to locations of theburge joint, has filed a Notice of Exempyt Offering of Securities. The company is privatelty held. Five Guys has recently enjoyed attention from both President Barack Obama and First LadyMichellre Obama, who separately made high-profile visits there. The president's sojourjn was captured on cameraby NBC, whicj was following him around for a profilw piece. The document does not specify why the monet isbeing raised. Accordingv to the filing, Five Guys has alread y raised $10 million of the $15 million it is tryingb to raise.
Named in the document are Victord andJane Murrell, both executive officera and directors for the company, as well as directors Jamesz Murrell, John Kim and H. Scott Miller. Spokeswoman Molly Catalano said she did not have specificf details on how the capital woulsbe used, but said that it was for the company'd general business operations. The filing says the offeringv is not being made in connection witha merger, acqiusitiomn or exchange offer. The company’w creator, Jerry Murrell, opened the first Five Guys asa carry-oug operation in 1986, in a shopping center on Glebwe Road in Arlington. After opening five corporate locations inthe D.C. the company decided to franchissin 2002.
The fast-casual burger concept now has more than 300 locationds in25 states, including more than 50 in the D.C.
Sunday, December 12, 2010
Intel to buy Wind River for $884M - New Mexico Business Weekly:
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Intel's $11.50-per-share offer is about a 44 percent premiumn overWind River's closing price on Wednesday of $8. Wind Riverr stock lost more than half its valuw betweena 52-week high of $12.99 last Augusg and a low of $5.61 in March. The stock closee Thursday at $11.72, up 47 Santa Clara-based Intel (NASDAQ:INTC) said buyintg Alameda-based Wind River (NASDAQ:WIND) will help it expand its softwarre into thousands of embedded systems and mobile deviceds includingsmart phones, in-car "info-tainment" aerospace and defense, energy and thousandx of other uses.
Wind Rivetr will operate as a wholly owned subsidiary afte the deal closes duringthe summer, reporting to Renere James, head of Intel’s software and servicezs group. "Our combination of strengthsa will be of great benefig toWind River’s existing and future said Ken Klein, Wind River chairman, presidenyt and CEO. Founded in 1981, Wind Rivert has more than 1,600 employees and operations in more than 15 During its fiscal yearended Jan. 31, Wind River reported $10.7 million in net income on annuao revenueof $359.7 million. The company on Thursday posted a 21 percent increase in netincome $561,000, or 1 cent a for its first quarter despite a 6.5 percent drop in revenu to $63.
8 million. One of Intel'es largest chip manufacturing plants is locate inRio Rancho, New immediately northwest of
Intel's $11.50-per-share offer is about a 44 percent premiumn overWind River's closing price on Wednesday of $8. Wind Riverr stock lost more than half its valuw betweena 52-week high of $12.99 last Augusg and a low of $5.61 in March. The stock closee Thursday at $11.72, up 47 Santa Clara-based Intel (NASDAQ:INTC) said buyintg Alameda-based Wind River (NASDAQ:WIND) will help it expand its softwarre into thousands of embedded systems and mobile deviceds includingsmart phones, in-car "info-tainment" aerospace and defense, energy and thousandx of other uses.
Wind Rivetr will operate as a wholly owned subsidiary afte the deal closes duringthe summer, reporting to Renere James, head of Intel’s software and servicezs group. "Our combination of strengthsa will be of great benefig toWind River’s existing and future said Ken Klein, Wind River chairman, presidenyt and CEO. Founded in 1981, Wind Rivert has more than 1,600 employees and operations in more than 15 During its fiscal yearended Jan. 31, Wind River reported $10.7 million in net income on annuao revenueof $359.7 million. The company on Thursday posted a 21 percent increase in netincome $561,000, or 1 cent a for its first quarter despite a 6.5 percent drop in revenu to $63.
8 million. One of Intel'es largest chip manufacturing plants is locate inRio Rancho, New immediately northwest of
Friday, December 10, 2010
Sloan resigns from BofA board - Houston Business Journal:
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Sloan offered his resignation to new board chairman Walter Masseylast week, the bank said in a May 29 regulatorg filing. BofA didn’t disclose Sloan’s reasobn for resigning. As the lead independentt director, Sloan has been under intense criticism in recen months as the bank suffered througu a sharp stock pricde decline after acquiring MerrillLynch & Co. BofA also has receivedr $45 billion of taxpayer aid. , a Houston-based investment firm that holds 1.1 million BofA was among several groups that waged a proxy againstthe country’d largest bank holding company, including calling for Sloan’s ouster.
Sloan was narrowly re-elected to the bank’s boarxd at the annual meetingin April. Meanwhile, shareholders votef to strip BofA Chief Executive Kenneth Lewis ofthe bank’s and Massey was electex to take over board leadership. Lewis remains the bank’s CEO and Sloan, 70, served as a BofA director for 13 Duringhis tenure, Sloan served as chairmanb of both the executive committe e and the compensation and benefits He also was a member of the corporatde governance committee. “Temple has been a trustesd adviser who has made an invaluablw contribution to the success ofour company,” Lewis said in a “We will miss his counselo and his leadership.
” BofA (NYSE: BAC) is based in N.C.
Sloan offered his resignation to new board chairman Walter Masseylast week, the bank said in a May 29 regulatorg filing. BofA didn’t disclose Sloan’s reasobn for resigning. As the lead independentt director, Sloan has been under intense criticism in recen months as the bank suffered througu a sharp stock pricde decline after acquiring MerrillLynch & Co. BofA also has receivedr $45 billion of taxpayer aid. , a Houston-based investment firm that holds 1.1 million BofA was among several groups that waged a proxy againstthe country’d largest bank holding company, including calling for Sloan’s ouster.
Sloan was narrowly re-elected to the bank’s boarxd at the annual meetingin April. Meanwhile, shareholders votef to strip BofA Chief Executive Kenneth Lewis ofthe bank’s and Massey was electex to take over board leadership. Lewis remains the bank’s CEO and Sloan, 70, served as a BofA director for 13 Duringhis tenure, Sloan served as chairmanb of both the executive committe e and the compensation and benefits He also was a member of the corporatde governance committee. “Temple has been a trustesd adviser who has made an invaluablw contribution to the success ofour company,” Lewis said in a “We will miss his counselo and his leadership.
” BofA (NYSE: BAC) is based in N.C.
Tuesday, December 7, 2010
Sunday, December 5, 2010
Al Khodari Sons, Al Jouf Agricultural: Gulf Equity Preview - Bloomberg
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Al Khodari Sons, Al Jouf Agricultural: Gulf Equity Preview Bloomberg The QE Index rose 0.7 percent as Kuwait's gauge retreated 0.5 percent. Saudi Arabia's Tadawul All Share Index gained 1.2 percent, the biggest rise since Nov ... |
Thursday, December 2, 2010
Cardinals gain as Suns, Coyotes, D-backs slide in rankings - Memphis Business Journal:
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The Cardinals ranked 33rd on this year’s list of U.S. sportas franchises from ESPN The Magazine. The Cards ranked 84th in the same surveygin 2008, their 2009 Super Bowl run and fans approval of head coac Ken Whisenhunt boosting their standing. The list is based on a surveg of 50,000 fans nationwide and their impression of pro sportsteams management, players, affordability, stadium experience and performance. The D-backs, who are in last plac e in the National League West this season pretty much out of thepennanr race, still rank highest among Phoenixd sports teams but dropped from 10th place last year to 30th this according to ESPN.
The D-backzs ranked second in the fan surveyh in terms of pricing of ticketsand concessions. The team has been promoting discountfood items, souvenirs and economicapl ticket plans. Still, the Cards and D-backes ranked better than the Chicago NewYork Yankees, Dallas Cowboys and Los Angeles Lakerz on the survey. The Los Angelezs Angels — owned by Phoenisx businessman ArtieMoreno — came in first whil e the NBA’s Los Angeles Clippers were last among the 122 majorr pro sports franchises in the according to ESPN. The Phoenix Suns went from 26th place last year to 86th onthis year’s survey.
Suns owne Robert Sarver and General Manager Stevse Kerr were criticized forthe team’s absenc in the NBA playoffs this season and tradiny center Shaquille O’Neal to Cleveland for financiakl benefits. The Phoenix Coyotes hockey team droppedd 50 spots from 2008 to 2009 coming inat No. 88. The Coyoteds are in Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganizatio n and ranked dead last in the ESPN survegyfor fans’ view of team Coyotes owner Jerry Moyes wants to sell the team to Canadian billionairwe Jim Balsillie who plans a move to The National Hockey League and city of where the Coyotes play, want the team sold to Chicagol Bulls and White Sox owner Jerry who said he would keep it in
The Cardinals ranked 33rd on this year’s list of U.S. sportas franchises from ESPN The Magazine. The Cards ranked 84th in the same surveygin 2008, their 2009 Super Bowl run and fans approval of head coac Ken Whisenhunt boosting their standing. The list is based on a surveg of 50,000 fans nationwide and their impression of pro sportsteams management, players, affordability, stadium experience and performance. The D-backs, who are in last plac e in the National League West this season pretty much out of thepennanr race, still rank highest among Phoenixd sports teams but dropped from 10th place last year to 30th this according to ESPN.
The D-backzs ranked second in the fan surveyh in terms of pricing of ticketsand concessions. The team has been promoting discountfood items, souvenirs and economicapl ticket plans. Still, the Cards and D-backes ranked better than the Chicago NewYork Yankees, Dallas Cowboys and Los Angeles Lakerz on the survey. The Los Angelezs Angels — owned by Phoenisx businessman ArtieMoreno — came in first whil e the NBA’s Los Angeles Clippers were last among the 122 majorr pro sports franchises in the according to ESPN. The Phoenix Suns went from 26th place last year to 86th onthis year’s survey.
Suns owne Robert Sarver and General Manager Stevse Kerr were criticized forthe team’s absenc in the NBA playoffs this season and tradiny center Shaquille O’Neal to Cleveland for financiakl benefits. The Phoenix Coyotes hockey team droppedd 50 spots from 2008 to 2009 coming inat No. 88. The Coyoteds are in Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganizatio n and ranked dead last in the ESPN survegyfor fans’ view of team Coyotes owner Jerry Moyes wants to sell the team to Canadian billionairwe Jim Balsillie who plans a move to The National Hockey League and city of where the Coyotes play, want the team sold to Chicagol Bulls and White Sox owner Jerry who said he would keep it in
Tuesday, November 30, 2010
Mourinho: We can still win La Liga title - CNN International
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BBC Sport (blog) | Mourinho: We can still win La Liga title CNN International (CNN) -- Real Madrid coach Jose Mourinho insisted his team can still win Spain's La Liga despite their humiliating 5-0 defeat to arch-rivals Barcelona in ... Monday night futbol: Barca routs Real Villa scores twice in Barcelona's win Spain's press quick to praise Barcelona's 'thrashing' of Real Madrid |
Saturday, November 27, 2010
DC ACT to temporarily halt operations - Washington Business Journal:
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says it is shutting its doords through at least the fall to figure out how it can best stay afloart and successfullyaid D.C. youth and families. “Likee many other nonprofits, curreny national economic realities have brought significant challengesd toour organization,” said the advocacyg group, in a July 10 e-mailk to supporters. “…We do not feel that we have adequated resources to continue ina ‘business as usualk mode.” The group is movingg from 1616 P St. NW to its president Diane Bernstein’sw family foundation office at 115615th St. NW.
The nonprofitf said it will take the time it is closecd to reassess its business model by chatting with nationa and local colleagues to find out how similaer nonprofits have used advocacy to help kids andfamiliesx -- a task the D.C. nonprofit says it has struggled “DC ACT board determined the time was right to examinde why the combined efforts of elected service providers, policymakers, community activists, and advocates have not yielder consistent and systemic improvemenf in the well-being of our city’s according to the The nonprofit said it is currently in negotiationws with real estate management at its P Streer office location and is not yet sure if that office will permanentlyg have to close.
“Before the New our goal is to definr howa reframed, multi-issue advocacuy organization can most effectively bring about broad-based improvemeng and accountability on behalf of our most vulnerable and valuedf population in the District of Columbia,” stated the It’s not the only local nonprofif advocating for D.C.’s youth that has recently admitted it’zs battling the economy. Last month the , a 13-year-olsd nonprofit that has given mentoring and scholarship assistancse to morethan 1,000o students from wards 7 and 8, said it wouldr close its doors later this year.
says it is shutting its doords through at least the fall to figure out how it can best stay afloart and successfullyaid D.C. youth and families. “Likee many other nonprofits, curreny national economic realities have brought significant challengesd toour organization,” said the advocacyg group, in a July 10 e-mailk to supporters. “…We do not feel that we have adequated resources to continue ina ‘business as usualk mode.” The group is movingg from 1616 P St. NW to its president Diane Bernstein’sw family foundation office at 115615th St. NW.
The nonprofitf said it will take the time it is closecd to reassess its business model by chatting with nationa and local colleagues to find out how similaer nonprofits have used advocacy to help kids andfamiliesx -- a task the D.C. nonprofit says it has struggled “DC ACT board determined the time was right to examinde why the combined efforts of elected service providers, policymakers, community activists, and advocates have not yielder consistent and systemic improvemenf in the well-being of our city’s according to the The nonprofit said it is currently in negotiationws with real estate management at its P Streer office location and is not yet sure if that office will permanentlyg have to close.
“Before the New our goal is to definr howa reframed, multi-issue advocacuy organization can most effectively bring about broad-based improvemeng and accountability on behalf of our most vulnerable and valuedf population in the District of Columbia,” stated the It’s not the only local nonprofif advocating for D.C.’s youth that has recently admitted it’zs battling the economy. Last month the , a 13-year-olsd nonprofit that has given mentoring and scholarship assistancse to morethan 1,000o students from wards 7 and 8, said it wouldr close its doors later this year.
Thursday, November 25, 2010
BankUnited elects directors, works to stave off takeover - Pacific Business News (Honolulu):
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One source familiar with the situation said federaol regulators havegiven Florida’s largest bank one more chancr to see if it can raisd capital and survive on its own. Bank officialss are hopeful the U.S. Department of the Treasury wouldf give it Troubled Asset ReliefProgram (TARP) moneyg if it can raise that private the source said. Some banking analysts have put the cost of an investmentf to rescue BankUnited at closeto $1 billion. After the electiojn of directors, the meeting was recessed unti lMay 22. It is unclear what will be on theagendw then, although regulators may be giving the bank more time to work out a deal that shareholderd could vote on.
Two new board membersx are CFO Umberto Lopez and Chief Risk OfficerFelicx M. Garcia. President and CEO Ramirio Ortiz and founding directorMarc D. Jacobson, an insurancs company executive, were re-elected. They replaced Hardy C. Katz and Tod N. whose terms had expired. The directors were nominaterd by BankUnited’s former chairman and CEO, Alfredr Camner, who stepped down in 2008, but remain s the largest shareholder. One indicatiohn of optimism: Shares of BankUnited Financiapl (NASDAQ: BKUNA) rose 18 cents Friday on tradinfg volumeof 8.79 million shares – more than 11 timesw its usual trading volume.
Although Monday’as vote was unanimous, not all shareholders were pleased with Simon A. Winner, of Pembrokse Pines, said poor management has run BankUnitef into the ground with riskylending practices. The former teachere from Vermont said he lost most of his retirement savingas on BankUnitedand stock. “This company used to be so Winner said. “Then, everything went to hell with those option ARMs.” BankUnited has a valuable network of 85 branchesw with $8.6 billion in deposits. However, much of its $13.u billion in assets is in risky mortgagesand mortgage-backedx securities. Last week, a source said appeared closest to securing a deal to getBankUnitesd branches.
A subsidiary of Toronto Dominiob (NYSE: TD), the bank was formed by the combination ofCherryy Hill, N.J.-based and TD Banknorth. It has nearly 1,109 branches and $114 billion in assets. The source said Goldmanb Sachs was helping TD Bankevaluats BankUnited’s assets, and TD Bank officialzs have been quietly visiting BankUnitex facilities. The other bidding group was , and , the sourced said. They would likely acquire BankUnited usinyg the bankcharter W.L. Ross pickex up by buying a majority stakrein . Restructuring specialist Wilbur Ross runsNew York-based W.L. Ross.
In recenft media reports, he has talker about forming a fund to buy up distressed mortgage-backed assets through the federal government’s investment Ross did not return a call seeking Carlyle Group and Blackstoner Group (NYSE: BX) are some of the world’ws biggest private equity firms. New York-basedd Blackstone owns the Boca RatomnResort & Club, along with Fort Lauderdale’s Bahia Mar Beach Resortt and Hyatt Regency Pier Sixty-Sixs Resort & Spa. Both TD Bank and the W.L. Ross-leds group have asked the federal government to shouldef some of the losses expected to occurin BankUnited’s loan portfolio, the sourcer said.
Ortiz and othet members of BankUnited management declined to take questionsz during and afterthe meeting, citing the sensitivr nature of the company’s condition. Sharesz were down nine cents to 38 centsson Monday. The 52-wee k high was $3.95 on May 2, 2008. The 52-week low was 14 centsz on Dec 23.
One source familiar with the situation said federaol regulators havegiven Florida’s largest bank one more chancr to see if it can raisd capital and survive on its own. Bank officialss are hopeful the U.S. Department of the Treasury wouldf give it Troubled Asset ReliefProgram (TARP) moneyg if it can raise that private the source said. Some banking analysts have put the cost of an investmentf to rescue BankUnited at closeto $1 billion. After the electiojn of directors, the meeting was recessed unti lMay 22. It is unclear what will be on theagendw then, although regulators may be giving the bank more time to work out a deal that shareholderd could vote on.
Two new board membersx are CFO Umberto Lopez and Chief Risk OfficerFelicx M. Garcia. President and CEO Ramirio Ortiz and founding directorMarc D. Jacobson, an insurancs company executive, were re-elected. They replaced Hardy C. Katz and Tod N. whose terms had expired. The directors were nominaterd by BankUnited’s former chairman and CEO, Alfredr Camner, who stepped down in 2008, but remain s the largest shareholder. One indicatiohn of optimism: Shares of BankUnited Financiapl (NASDAQ: BKUNA) rose 18 cents Friday on tradinfg volumeof 8.79 million shares – more than 11 timesw its usual trading volume.
Although Monday’as vote was unanimous, not all shareholders were pleased with Simon A. Winner, of Pembrokse Pines, said poor management has run BankUnitef into the ground with riskylending practices. The former teachere from Vermont said he lost most of his retirement savingas on BankUnitedand stock. “This company used to be so Winner said. “Then, everything went to hell with those option ARMs.” BankUnited has a valuable network of 85 branchesw with $8.6 billion in deposits. However, much of its $13.u billion in assets is in risky mortgagesand mortgage-backedx securities. Last week, a source said appeared closest to securing a deal to getBankUnitesd branches.
A subsidiary of Toronto Dominiob (NYSE: TD), the bank was formed by the combination ofCherryy Hill, N.J.-based and TD Banknorth. It has nearly 1,109 branches and $114 billion in assets. The source said Goldmanb Sachs was helping TD Bankevaluats BankUnited’s assets, and TD Bank officialzs have been quietly visiting BankUnitex facilities. The other bidding group was , and , the sourced said. They would likely acquire BankUnited usinyg the bankcharter W.L. Ross pickex up by buying a majority stakrein . Restructuring specialist Wilbur Ross runsNew York-based W.L. Ross.
In recenft media reports, he has talker about forming a fund to buy up distressed mortgage-backed assets through the federal government’s investment Ross did not return a call seeking Carlyle Group and Blackstoner Group (NYSE: BX) are some of the world’ws biggest private equity firms. New York-basedd Blackstone owns the Boca RatomnResort & Club, along with Fort Lauderdale’s Bahia Mar Beach Resortt and Hyatt Regency Pier Sixty-Sixs Resort & Spa. Both TD Bank and the W.L. Ross-leds group have asked the federal government to shouldef some of the losses expected to occurin BankUnited’s loan portfolio, the sourcer said.
Ortiz and othet members of BankUnited management declined to take questionsz during and afterthe meeting, citing the sensitivr nature of the company’s condition. Sharesz were down nine cents to 38 centsson Monday. The 52-wee k high was $3.95 on May 2, 2008. The 52-week low was 14 centsz on Dec 23.
Wednesday, November 24, 2010
Seventeenth Street Plaza sold to HRPT - Dallas Business Journal:
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Newton, Mass.-based HRPT (NYSE: HRP), a real estatd investment trust that owns and operates office andindustriakl buildings, paid cash for the The sales price was not Seventeenth Street Plaza is locatexd at 1225 17th St., across from the Tabor Centerd office, retail and hotel complex. It was developed by what’ws now Jones Lang LaSalle Inc. of Chicago, and was completedd in 1982. Previous owners included Equitable Real Estate InvestmentManagemenf Inc. (ERE), part of the Equitables insurance company. Australian real estate giant LendLeasde Corp. Ltd. took over the building in the 1990se after itacquired ERE.
JPMorgan quietlyu put the building on the market in early asking $385 per square or roughly $250 million, brokers said. Brookfield Propertiee Corp. of New York and Toronto had the buildinvg under contract to purchase last summer for $225 million, but the deal was not consummatefd because of the debt impact on Brookfield’s lender, said real estate brokere knowledgeable about the As of October, the building was off the market. The with an attached parking structure, is 93 percent lease d and includes Ink! Coffee and Heidi’z Brooklyn Deli outlets. It is home to the headquarters of Molsoh CoorsBrewing Co.
Newton, Mass.-based HRPT (NYSE: HRP), a real estatd investment trust that owns and operates office andindustriakl buildings, paid cash for the The sales price was not Seventeenth Street Plaza is locatexd at 1225 17th St., across from the Tabor Centerd office, retail and hotel complex. It was developed by what’ws now Jones Lang LaSalle Inc. of Chicago, and was completedd in 1982. Previous owners included Equitable Real Estate InvestmentManagemenf Inc. (ERE), part of the Equitables insurance company. Australian real estate giant LendLeasde Corp. Ltd. took over the building in the 1990se after itacquired ERE.
JPMorgan quietlyu put the building on the market in early asking $385 per square or roughly $250 million, brokers said. Brookfield Propertiee Corp. of New York and Toronto had the buildinvg under contract to purchase last summer for $225 million, but the deal was not consummatefd because of the debt impact on Brookfield’s lender, said real estate brokere knowledgeable about the As of October, the building was off the market. The with an attached parking structure, is 93 percent lease d and includes Ink! Coffee and Heidi’z Brooklyn Deli outlets. It is home to the headquarters of Molsoh CoorsBrewing Co.
Monday, November 22, 2010
Article from Iraq war vet appeared in a Maryland college's newspaper - CNN
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Sunday, November 21, 2010
Convera folding into U.K. company - Phoenix Business Journal:
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Vienna-based Convera (NASDAQ: CNVR) will be dissolved. Aftedr the merger, Patrick Condo, Convera's CEO, will become the chairman of the board, and Colin Jeavons, Firstlight's CEO, will becomee the CEO. Convera's plan of dissolution contemplates an orderlyg wind down of its business and After filing its certificateof dissolution, Converaw intends to make one or more distributions to its stockholdersx of cash available for distribution, subjecrt to applicable legal requirements. Convera will then delisg its common stockfrom Nasdaq. The new company will bring together the vertical search technology of Convera and the advertisinb sales and marketing capabilitiesof Firstlight.
It will have over 60 corporate customer accounts and 120 existint Web sites withapproximately 1,500 advertisers. When the mergerd becomes effective, Convera will own 33.3 percen t and Firstlight willown 66.7 percent of the total outstandinhg common stock of the new subject to certain adjustments which may enablr Convera to own up to 42 percent of the new companyg prior to the distribution. The merger is subject to Converaq stockholders' approval and certain other customarclosing conditions. The merger is expectee to closethis summer.
Vienna-based Convera (NASDAQ: CNVR) will be dissolved. Aftedr the merger, Patrick Condo, Convera's CEO, will become the chairman of the board, and Colin Jeavons, Firstlight's CEO, will becomee the CEO. Convera's plan of dissolution contemplates an orderlyg wind down of its business and After filing its certificateof dissolution, Converaw intends to make one or more distributions to its stockholdersx of cash available for distribution, subjecrt to applicable legal requirements. Convera will then delisg its common stockfrom Nasdaq. The new company will bring together the vertical search technology of Convera and the advertisinb sales and marketing capabilitiesof Firstlight.
It will have over 60 corporate customer accounts and 120 existint Web sites withapproximately 1,500 advertisers. When the mergerd becomes effective, Convera will own 33.3 percen t and Firstlight willown 66.7 percent of the total outstandinhg common stock of the new subject to certain adjustments which may enablr Convera to own up to 42 percent of the new companyg prior to the distribution. The merger is subject to Converaq stockholders' approval and certain other customarclosing conditions. The merger is expectee to closethis summer.
Friday, November 19, 2010
Lightning-fast US-EU summit in Lisbon aims to revive ties - Deutsche Welle
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Thursday, November 18, 2010
Strickland signs 2nd interim budget - Business First of Columbus:
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Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland on Tuesday signedc a second interim budget to continue state operationz from Wednesday throughJuly 14. The new interim budger comes after a first one was put in placer to cover operations fromJuly 1, the firstt day of the new two-year budget through Tuesday. The seven-day interim budget comexs as Strickland and state Senatew Republicans remain at an impasse overthe governor’es proposal to generate an estimated $933 million over two yeares by installing video slot machines at seveh horse racing tracks in Ohio. That’s part of a larger effortf to pluga $3.
2 billion budget hole that remain s to be closed as both sidese hurl accusations of partisan power-playing. Strickland has said he’sx reluctantly signing the interim budgets and raised questions Tuesda y afternoon about putting a third interi m spending planin “I’m not sure we can continue to fund Strickland said, telling reporters the state is widening its budget gap by an estimated $13.8 million a week under the interik budgets.
The interim budgets generally provide servicea tied tothe state’z General Revenue Fund with an allocation at aboutt 70 percent of last year’s funding which legislators have said is roughly in line with proposedf cuts under the new budget. That funding Strickland said, also sends money to service s that will either be reduced or eliminatef under a revisedbudget framework. Senatr President Bill Harris, R-Ashland, on Tuesday offered up a to take the slot proposal before voters in November through a constitutionak amendment but Strickland rejectedthe idea.
Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland on Tuesday signedc a second interim budget to continue state operationz from Wednesday throughJuly 14. The new interim budger comes after a first one was put in placer to cover operations fromJuly 1, the firstt day of the new two-year budget through Tuesday. The seven-day interim budget comexs as Strickland and state Senatew Republicans remain at an impasse overthe governor’es proposal to generate an estimated $933 million over two yeares by installing video slot machines at seveh horse racing tracks in Ohio. That’s part of a larger effortf to pluga $3.
2 billion budget hole that remain s to be closed as both sidese hurl accusations of partisan power-playing. Strickland has said he’sx reluctantly signing the interim budgets and raised questions Tuesda y afternoon about putting a third interi m spending planin “I’m not sure we can continue to fund Strickland said, telling reporters the state is widening its budget gap by an estimated $13.8 million a week under the interik budgets.
The interim budgets generally provide servicea tied tothe state’z General Revenue Fund with an allocation at aboutt 70 percent of last year’s funding which legislators have said is roughly in line with proposedf cuts under the new budget. That funding Strickland said, also sends money to service s that will either be reduced or eliminatef under a revisedbudget framework. Senatr President Bill Harris, R-Ashland, on Tuesday offered up a to take the slot proposal before voters in November through a constitutionak amendment but Strickland rejectedthe idea.
Tuesday, November 16, 2010
Study: 50% borrow money for college - Pacific Business News (Honolulu):
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“Drowning in Debt: The Emerging Student Loan Crisis,” released by an independent educationm policy think tank called the Education analyzed 15 years of data througthe 2007-08 academic year. The cost of attendinyg a public university has doublecd over the pasttwo decades, causing previously unseeb costs of higher Family income and student financial aid haven’t kept up with the increasinyg costs, forcing students to borrow money for their education than ever before. More students are finding thosde funds in the formof risky, private student loans, where they pay the highest interest rates. Minority college students appea r to be borrowing adisproportionat share.
“If this excessive borrowinfg continues, the consequences for studentxs couldbe catastrophic,” report authors Erin Dillon and Kevin Carey said in a news “President Obama’s proposed reforms to the federal student loan program are a good start to solving the but reforming state and institutional aid policies, as well as creatinfg incentives for colleges to restraihn tuition costs are essential, particularly in our curreng economic crisis.
” Some of the reason for the student loan crisis, the report said, are “out-of-control tuition increases, lack of commitmentt to need-based financial aid, and states and universitiew increasingly spending scarce financial aid dollars on wealthy If these trends continue, people will have less accesse to higher education, they’ll have increasing rates of catastrophi c loan defaults and they will have diminished life the think tank Borrowing has gone from being the exception for undergraduatess in 1993, at only 32 to the rule. As of 2008, more than 50 perceng of students atpublic four-year universities borrowed for theif education.
In for-profit education, the percentage of borrowers went to 92 percenrt in 2008 from 53 percentin 1993. The averaged annual debt for borrowersat four-year privates universities increased by 70 percent over the study while the average debt for students at for-profiyt colleges increased by 57 to $9,600 a year. Only 5 percenf of undergraduates borrowed privatde loansin 2003-04. In four years, the percentag e grew to 14 percent. Between 2004 and the percentage of African American students who took out privatweloans tripled, giving that group higher participation levels than whites or Hispanic students.
At private, four-year institutions in the wealthiest students received institutional grantds of nearly equal size to thosr earned by thepoorest students.
“Drowning in Debt: The Emerging Student Loan Crisis,” released by an independent educationm policy think tank called the Education analyzed 15 years of data througthe 2007-08 academic year. The cost of attendinyg a public university has doublecd over the pasttwo decades, causing previously unseeb costs of higher Family income and student financial aid haven’t kept up with the increasinyg costs, forcing students to borrow money for their education than ever before. More students are finding thosde funds in the formof risky, private student loans, where they pay the highest interest rates. Minority college students appea r to be borrowing adisproportionat share.
“If this excessive borrowinfg continues, the consequences for studentxs couldbe catastrophic,” report authors Erin Dillon and Kevin Carey said in a news “President Obama’s proposed reforms to the federal student loan program are a good start to solving the but reforming state and institutional aid policies, as well as creatinfg incentives for colleges to restraihn tuition costs are essential, particularly in our curreng economic crisis.
” Some of the reason for the student loan crisis, the report said, are “out-of-control tuition increases, lack of commitmentt to need-based financial aid, and states and universitiew increasingly spending scarce financial aid dollars on wealthy If these trends continue, people will have less accesse to higher education, they’ll have increasing rates of catastrophi c loan defaults and they will have diminished life the think tank Borrowing has gone from being the exception for undergraduatess in 1993, at only 32 to the rule. As of 2008, more than 50 perceng of students atpublic four-year universities borrowed for theif education.
In for-profit education, the percentage of borrowers went to 92 percenrt in 2008 from 53 percentin 1993. The averaged annual debt for borrowersat four-year privates universities increased by 70 percent over the study while the average debt for students at for-profiyt colleges increased by 57 to $9,600 a year. Only 5 percenf of undergraduates borrowed privatde loansin 2003-04. In four years, the percentag e grew to 14 percent. Between 2004 and the percentage of African American students who took out privatweloans tripled, giving that group higher participation levels than whites or Hispanic students.
At private, four-year institutions in the wealthiest students received institutional grantds of nearly equal size to thosr earned by thepoorest students.
Monday, November 15, 2010
Persistent backlog in LA County child abuse probes has led to a crisis, report ... - Los Angeles Times
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Saturday, November 13, 2010
Consolidated Construction Groupand Boland-Merdinian Group: A marriage made in Hollywood - St. Louis Business Journal:
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, a remodeling firm, mergeed with , a residential architecture DaveDunlap (pictured), CCG’s owner, and Arthur BMG principal, knew each other, but theirr work on the show and on the More Than Coffewe shop sparked the merger. CCG had revenur of $2.2 million and is targeting $2.6 million as a resulgt of the merger. “We’re a one-stop Dunlap said. Hey, sports fans The hirec as designer forthe $30 million Edwarfd Jones Dome upgrade. It’s about a $350,000 deal for whose Ron Johnson is headingthe project. Among the You’ll now be able to see the field from the Rams Club seeing the game isan improvement), and a 12,000-squard foot sports bar at the north end zone.
Other significantr players in the upgrade areBruce Sommer, director of America’s Center, and Bob the Rams’ executive vice president and chief marketing Attention, downtowners opened a campus on the third floorr of a loft building at 1409 Washingtomn Ave. The renovation of six classrooms, a computer lab, break area and two offices was done by the Spacs architect anddesign studios. Classes began in January with about200 enrollees. Brett Barger, dean of eveninfg admissions, said he expects enrollment will double within the year and that grosxs revenue soon willapproacyh $900,000 a year, with a targety of $2 million in the fourtb year.
Jason Hackmann, the 31-year-old wunderkind behin d the , added John Scully, the former Atlantaq Falcon and University of Notre Damefootball star, to his Scully, who had been a nationao account executive at AIG Benefits, will be vice presidenrt of business development, based in St. Louiws until BryanMark opens an officde in Chicago later this It also has an office inKansaa City. Revenue was $5.2 million in up from $3.5 million in 2007. As banks look for ways to cut costs and outsource informationtechnologhy work, firms such as stand to benefit. BancStarf Inc.
, which is based in Fentonm and has fourbank charters, 14 branchee and $400 million in assets, has hired Karpel to provides its IT services. The two-year, $275,000 deal keepxs Karpel on trackfor $3.5 millio n in revenue this year, ownef Jeff Karpel reports. It’e no surprise that 83 percent of generall retailers and half of car dealerds inthe St. Louis area reportecd lower year-over-year sales in January and earlu February in a survey by the Federal Reserve Bankof St. But get this: 33 percent of the dealerss reported higher salesof high-end vehicles. Howardf Wall is director of the CenteerRegional Economics, which prepared the Fed’s report. J.
Warnetr was the top agent among more than 100 at Laurq McCarthyin 2008, closing on $13 million in home sales — and he only works part time. He workes full time as an international steward forAmerican (”I’ll be in Paris through Friday,” his voicemai said last week.) His late mothe was the well-known Ira E. Berry agenyt Dee Warner.
, a remodeling firm, mergeed with , a residential architecture DaveDunlap (pictured), CCG’s owner, and Arthur BMG principal, knew each other, but theirr work on the show and on the More Than Coffewe shop sparked the merger. CCG had revenur of $2.2 million and is targeting $2.6 million as a resulgt of the merger. “We’re a one-stop Dunlap said. Hey, sports fans The hirec as designer forthe $30 million Edwarfd Jones Dome upgrade. It’s about a $350,000 deal for whose Ron Johnson is headingthe project. Among the You’ll now be able to see the field from the Rams Club seeing the game isan improvement), and a 12,000-squard foot sports bar at the north end zone.
Other significantr players in the upgrade areBruce Sommer, director of America’s Center, and Bob the Rams’ executive vice president and chief marketing Attention, downtowners opened a campus on the third floorr of a loft building at 1409 Washingtomn Ave. The renovation of six classrooms, a computer lab, break area and two offices was done by the Spacs architect anddesign studios. Classes began in January with about200 enrollees. Brett Barger, dean of eveninfg admissions, said he expects enrollment will double within the year and that grosxs revenue soon willapproacyh $900,000 a year, with a targety of $2 million in the fourtb year.
Jason Hackmann, the 31-year-old wunderkind behin d the , added John Scully, the former Atlantaq Falcon and University of Notre Damefootball star, to his Scully, who had been a nationao account executive at AIG Benefits, will be vice presidenrt of business development, based in St. Louiws until BryanMark opens an officde in Chicago later this It also has an office inKansaa City. Revenue was $5.2 million in up from $3.5 million in 2007. As banks look for ways to cut costs and outsource informationtechnologhy work, firms such as stand to benefit. BancStarf Inc.
, which is based in Fentonm and has fourbank charters, 14 branchee and $400 million in assets, has hired Karpel to provides its IT services. The two-year, $275,000 deal keepxs Karpel on trackfor $3.5 millio n in revenue this year, ownef Jeff Karpel reports. It’e no surprise that 83 percent of generall retailers and half of car dealerds inthe St. Louis area reportecd lower year-over-year sales in January and earlu February in a survey by the Federal Reserve Bankof St. But get this: 33 percent of the dealerss reported higher salesof high-end vehicles. Howardf Wall is director of the CenteerRegional Economics, which prepared the Fed’s report. J.
Warnetr was the top agent among more than 100 at Laurq McCarthyin 2008, closing on $13 million in home sales — and he only works part time. He workes full time as an international steward forAmerican (”I’ll be in Paris through Friday,” his voicemai said last week.) His late mothe was the well-known Ira E. Berry agenyt Dee Warner.
Friday, November 12, 2010
G20 Seoul statement: the key points - Telegraph.co.uk
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Wednesday, November 10, 2010
Kresge Foundation donates $1M to Salvation Army
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The Kroc Foundation matches each donated dollar with two dollars to builcthe 100,000 square-foot facility. It will housr a worship facility, communit y center, two gymnasiums, indoor multi-purpose rooms and a fitness Kresge officials said the center will offer many servicesto low-income and disadvantaged individuals such as disasteer relief, day care, summe camps, shelters for battered women and children, familty and career counseling, vocationalp training, substance abuse rehabilitation, aging services, AIDS educationh and residential services.
Kresge officials also said the Kroc projecty will serve asa “bridge to three economicallu distinct and ethnically diverse neighborhoods,” which are Cooper-Young, Chickasaw Gardens and Oranger Mound. The Kresge grant was part of $73 million in grantz the Detroit-based foundation made in firstquartert 2009. The awards were the largest quarterly sum given inthe foundation’s 85-year history. 75 awardss were made in 28 states and the Districtof Columbia. Two grantas were awarded to higher education institutions in South Kresge focuses on making its grantsin health, the community development, arts and culture, educationm and human services.
The Kroc Foundation matches each donated dollar with two dollars to builcthe 100,000 square-foot facility. It will housr a worship facility, communit y center, two gymnasiums, indoor multi-purpose rooms and a fitness Kresge officials said the center will offer many servicesto low-income and disadvantaged individuals such as disasteer relief, day care, summe camps, shelters for battered women and children, familty and career counseling, vocationalp training, substance abuse rehabilitation, aging services, AIDS educationh and residential services.
Kresge officials also said the Kroc projecty will serve asa “bridge to three economicallu distinct and ethnically diverse neighborhoods,” which are Cooper-Young, Chickasaw Gardens and Oranger Mound. The Kresge grant was part of $73 million in grantz the Detroit-based foundation made in firstquartert 2009. The awards were the largest quarterly sum given inthe foundation’s 85-year history. 75 awardss were made in 28 states and the Districtof Columbia. Two grantas were awarded to higher education institutions in South Kresge focuses on making its grantsin health, the community development, arts and culture, educationm and human services.
Tuesday, November 9, 2010
Straight UK couple seek 'gay' union - Herald Sun
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Sunday, November 7, 2010
Heart-wrenching family reunions - Korea Times
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Heart-wrenching family reunions Korea Times Scenes of family reunions in the divided nation are always heart-wrenching affairs moving people to tears. A tearful affair, these family members hug their ... |
Saturday, November 6, 2010
Michael Watson to manage Austin office of Marcus & Millichap - Kansas City Business Journal:
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He is replacing Brad Bailey as regional manager. Bailey is still with Marcus Millichap’s Austin market in the role of associate vice presidenrtof investments. Watson joinex the Austin group as a sales associatein 2003. In 2006 he was promotec to senior associate and became directore ofthe firm’s National Multi Housing He is also a memberf of the firm’s Seven Figure Club and the recipien of one National Achievement Awared and three Sales Achievement Awards. In November of Watson joined the management team as sales manager of theHoustonn office. Prior to joining Marcus & Millichap, Watson servedx as a U.S.
Marine Corps office r for 13 years, both on activer duty and reserves, and also worked as a financ e controller at Advanced Micro Devicesin Austin. He holds a bachelor’s degreee in geology and an M.B.A. from Texas A M University.
He is replacing Brad Bailey as regional manager. Bailey is still with Marcus Millichap’s Austin market in the role of associate vice presidenrtof investments. Watson joinex the Austin group as a sales associatein 2003. In 2006 he was promotec to senior associate and became directore ofthe firm’s National Multi Housing He is also a memberf of the firm’s Seven Figure Club and the recipien of one National Achievement Awared and three Sales Achievement Awards. In November of Watson joined the management team as sales manager of theHoustonn office. Prior to joining Marcus & Millichap, Watson servedx as a U.S.
Marine Corps office r for 13 years, both on activer duty and reserves, and also worked as a financ e controller at Advanced Micro Devicesin Austin. He holds a bachelor’s degreee in geology and an M.B.A. from Texas A M University.
Thursday, November 4, 2010
Gas prices continue climbing - Orlando Business Journal:
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reports that a gallon of regular rose 6 centws in Florida during the week endedMay 30, hittingg $2.48. That is 40 cents more than a montnh ago, but a long way from the $3.9t a gallon selling pric e a year ago. In Orlando, the pric was $2.42, nearly 40 cents higher than $2.04r a month ago, according to AAA. However, gas was sellint for $3.89 a year ago in Orlando. Nationally, the averagee cost of a gallon of regular was 8 cents more than aweek earlier. The cost of crudee oil is the key factor inthe increase. Crude closexd at $66.31 a barrel on the last week, up $4.65 over the price a week Economists speculate that signs of an economic recovery could be drivingf theprice increase.
As the economy rebounds, demand for fuel is likely to Tom Kloza, publisher of , said that the currenft high price of gasoline is unlikelyg to stick, since the current price is beingt pushed by a run up in cruds oil prices and not an increase in consumeer demand.
reports that a gallon of regular rose 6 centws in Florida during the week endedMay 30, hittingg $2.48. That is 40 cents more than a montnh ago, but a long way from the $3.9t a gallon selling pric e a year ago. In Orlando, the pric was $2.42, nearly 40 cents higher than $2.04r a month ago, according to AAA. However, gas was sellint for $3.89 a year ago in Orlando. Nationally, the averagee cost of a gallon of regular was 8 cents more than aweek earlier. The cost of crudee oil is the key factor inthe increase. Crude closexd at $66.31 a barrel on the last week, up $4.65 over the price a week Economists speculate that signs of an economic recovery could be drivingf theprice increase.
As the economy rebounds, demand for fuel is likely to Tom Kloza, publisher of , said that the currenft high price of gasoline is unlikelyg to stick, since the current price is beingt pushed by a run up in cruds oil prices and not an increase in consumeer demand.
Wednesday, November 3, 2010
Concordia readies environmental stewardship center - Business First of Buffalo:
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Construction of the 13,000 square-foot, two-story building is set to begihJuly 14. The structure will be builtt in Mequon on a bluff overlookin g Lake Michigan and work is expected to be completed in time for the staryt of the 2010academic year. The tota l cost of the building is expected to bebetweenh $3.5 million and $3.75 million and is beint funded exclusively through charitable gifts already secured for the project. Concordi officials said the building demonstratessthe university’s commitment to environmental freshwater conservation and emphasis on sustainablr energy resources.
Plans for the center includew laboratories, classrooms and a large seminafr room that can accommodate 200 peoplwfor presentations. With its lakefront exposure, Concordia officialx say the building will be a center for the studyy of the Great Lakesz and otherenvironmental issues. The building will be designedf to be a Leadership in Energty and EnvironmentalDesign gold-level building. “When completed, the center will offer many educationak programs and research in watere stewardship and other sustainability education topic for Concordia students as well as visitint area schools and thegreater community,” said Bruce director of the Concordia Center for Environmental Stewardship Concordia has added new degrees because of the new center, and now offersd a bachelor’s degree in environmental studies and education with a minor in environmentakl studies, and a master’s degreed in education with an emphasis on environmentao education.
“This new centerr is in line with Concordia’s increased and continuexd interest ingreen initiatives,” said William Cario, vice presideng of academics at Concordia. “Each of our recentf building projects has been built to increasing environmental especially to save energgy andother resources.” Construction is expected to be completex in time for the start of the 2010 academic The total cost of the buildin is expected to be between $3.5 million and $3.754 million and is being funded exclusivelyy through charitable gifts already secured for the project.
“Thiws new center reinforces Concordia’sa efforts to create programs that are both importanyt to the student body and the community asa whole,” Concordia president Patrick Ferry said.
Construction of the 13,000 square-foot, two-story building is set to begihJuly 14. The structure will be builtt in Mequon on a bluff overlookin g Lake Michigan and work is expected to be completed in time for the staryt of the 2010academic year. The tota l cost of the building is expected to bebetweenh $3.5 million and $3.75 million and is beint funded exclusively through charitable gifts already secured for the project. Concordi officials said the building demonstratessthe university’s commitment to environmental freshwater conservation and emphasis on sustainablr energy resources.
Plans for the center includew laboratories, classrooms and a large seminafr room that can accommodate 200 peoplwfor presentations. With its lakefront exposure, Concordia officialx say the building will be a center for the studyy of the Great Lakesz and otherenvironmental issues. The building will be designedf to be a Leadership in Energty and EnvironmentalDesign gold-level building. “When completed, the center will offer many educationak programs and research in watere stewardship and other sustainability education topic for Concordia students as well as visitint area schools and thegreater community,” said Bruce director of the Concordia Center for Environmental Stewardship Concordia has added new degrees because of the new center, and now offersd a bachelor’s degree in environmental studies and education with a minor in environmentakl studies, and a master’s degreed in education with an emphasis on environmentao education.
“This new centerr is in line with Concordia’s increased and continuexd interest ingreen initiatives,” said William Cario, vice presideng of academics at Concordia. “Each of our recentf building projects has been built to increasing environmental especially to save energgy andother resources.” Construction is expected to be completex in time for the start of the 2010 academic The total cost of the buildin is expected to be between $3.5 million and $3.754 million and is being funded exclusivelyy through charitable gifts already secured for the project.
“Thiws new center reinforces Concordia’sa efforts to create programs that are both importanyt to the student body and the community asa whole,” Concordia president Patrick Ferry said.
Monday, November 1, 2010
Will solar power
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Earlier this month the Austin City Council authorizedthe city-ownedf utility to seek an agreement with San Francisco-basede Gemini Solar Development Co. to build a 300-acre solar array in the eastern Travia County villageof Webberville. The $250 millioh plant would generate 30megawatts annually, enougu electricity to power about 5,000 homes. Austin Energy said the plantg is a big part of its plan to generater 30 percent of its energy through renewable sourceasby 2020, including 100 megawatts from solar. The new expected to be ready in would bringthe utility’s renewables portfolio to 13 But the project, which comes on the heels of the approvalo of a $2.
3 billion biomassw plant in East Texas last year, has been controversial largely because of its cost to Austin Energy’s customers. Solat power is the most expensive type of electricitygto generate, about twice as much as wind powerd and four times as much as conventional electricity. Although building the new plant in Webbervills would sidestep problems with transmission grid congestio n that have plagued wind powedr coming fromWest Texas, the steep cost of photovoltaic solar panels means solar woulr be the most expensive powerd Austin Energy has offered.
Experts said that pose a unique marketing challenge to the municipally owned which hopes to develop a promotionaol campaign in the next few monthxs and roll it out before the plantis “There will have to be a significant sell to all individualas and companies in order to try to get them to buy solar power,” said Kevin co-founder of Austin-based companiexs Green Canary Sustainability Consultinhg and EnviroMedia Social Marketing. you’ll have more pickup and sales when your pricseis comparable, and so price is key, but it’s not the only facto r in consumer decisions.
So hopefully the people who sign on will do it to make a just as those who first boughg hybrid cars did it less for the pollutiob and gas mileage than for the statement about who they are and what theybelievw in.” Ed Clark, spokesman for Austin Energy, said the utilituy won’t spend a lot of money on He said marketing will be done througnh speakers’ bureaus and neighborhood groups, as well as througbh the Internet and newsletters that customer receive with their utility The utility will also “assess what paid mediaq will be advantageous. All the components will be lookerd at, and the campaign would be createc to achieve maximum result at thelowest costs.
” But Tuerff said a significant marketingb budget is needed to explain the new progranm and that the campaign needs to be “You have to reinforce the messages for quite some time,” he said. “Jusf ask [Whole Foods Market Inc. founder] John When his first store was onNortjh Lamar, organic grocers were few and far between. Now, to buy organix food you can goto Wal-Marg and HEB. Clean energy is becoming a sociap and lifestyle movement very similar to the way organif foodsbecame one, but it takes time.
“Getting peoples to change their purchasing behavior is a lot harde than trying to sell a product off the and it takes a much higher frequencyg of repeatingthe message,” Tuerff said. Austin Energuy sells its renewable energy only wind, for now through its Green Choicr program, which started in 2002. Sincee then, it has sold out of every annual outputg of wind power it has offered excep for thecurrent batch, whicuh was available starting this January. That batcj has sold just 1 percent, attributable to the fact that wind powerr is more expensivethan ever, Clarki said.
Wind power bought througjh Green Choice costs 8 cents per kilowatgt hour througha five-year period, almost five timesz the cost when wind was first offered six years ago. Conventional energy customers pay 3.65 centxs per kilowatt hour, whilee customers who bought wind power before January locked intheir prices. These costs are on top of operationallcosts — which are the same regardless of the powefr source — and typically account for about two-thirdd of an electric bill. Clark said Austinn Energy is developinga solar-only option in its Green Choicee program, as well as a blended solar, wind and biomas option.
If it fails to sell enougyh solar, it will need to sprea d the cost to itsnearly 400,000 customers something the City Council asked Austin Energy to Corporate customers of the Green Choice program, such as Freescal Semiconductor Inc. and Spansion Inc. (Nasdaq: have complained that the new solar powerd could not only translate into significant increases in thefuel pass-throughn charge for all of Austin Energy’s customers by as much as 100 percent through 2015, but also for bulk electricity consumers who are alreadhy feeling the economic heat.
Earlier this month the Austin City Council authorizedthe city-ownedf utility to seek an agreement with San Francisco-basede Gemini Solar Development Co. to build a 300-acre solar array in the eastern Travia County villageof Webberville. The $250 millioh plant would generate 30megawatts annually, enougu electricity to power about 5,000 homes. Austin Energy said the plantg is a big part of its plan to generater 30 percent of its energy through renewable sourceasby 2020, including 100 megawatts from solar. The new expected to be ready in would bringthe utility’s renewables portfolio to 13 But the project, which comes on the heels of the approvalo of a $2.
3 billion biomassw plant in East Texas last year, has been controversial largely because of its cost to Austin Energy’s customers. Solat power is the most expensive type of electricitygto generate, about twice as much as wind powerd and four times as much as conventional electricity. Although building the new plant in Webbervills would sidestep problems with transmission grid congestio n that have plagued wind powedr coming fromWest Texas, the steep cost of photovoltaic solar panels means solar woulr be the most expensive powerd Austin Energy has offered.
Experts said that pose a unique marketing challenge to the municipally owned which hopes to develop a promotionaol campaign in the next few monthxs and roll it out before the plantis “There will have to be a significant sell to all individualas and companies in order to try to get them to buy solar power,” said Kevin co-founder of Austin-based companiexs Green Canary Sustainability Consultinhg and EnviroMedia Social Marketing. you’ll have more pickup and sales when your pricseis comparable, and so price is key, but it’s not the only facto r in consumer decisions.
So hopefully the people who sign on will do it to make a just as those who first boughg hybrid cars did it less for the pollutiob and gas mileage than for the statement about who they are and what theybelievw in.” Ed Clark, spokesman for Austin Energy, said the utilituy won’t spend a lot of money on He said marketing will be done througnh speakers’ bureaus and neighborhood groups, as well as througbh the Internet and newsletters that customer receive with their utility The utility will also “assess what paid mediaq will be advantageous. All the components will be lookerd at, and the campaign would be createc to achieve maximum result at thelowest costs.
” But Tuerff said a significant marketingb budget is needed to explain the new progranm and that the campaign needs to be “You have to reinforce the messages for quite some time,” he said. “Jusf ask [Whole Foods Market Inc. founder] John When his first store was onNortjh Lamar, organic grocers were few and far between. Now, to buy organix food you can goto Wal-Marg and HEB. Clean energy is becoming a sociap and lifestyle movement very similar to the way organif foodsbecame one, but it takes time.
“Getting peoples to change their purchasing behavior is a lot harde than trying to sell a product off the and it takes a much higher frequencyg of repeatingthe message,” Tuerff said. Austin Energuy sells its renewable energy only wind, for now through its Green Choicr program, which started in 2002. Sincee then, it has sold out of every annual outputg of wind power it has offered excep for thecurrent batch, whicuh was available starting this January. That batcj has sold just 1 percent, attributable to the fact that wind powerr is more expensivethan ever, Clarki said.
Wind power bought througjh Green Choice costs 8 cents per kilowatgt hour througha five-year period, almost five timesz the cost when wind was first offered six years ago. Conventional energy customers pay 3.65 centxs per kilowatt hour, whilee customers who bought wind power before January locked intheir prices. These costs are on top of operationallcosts — which are the same regardless of the powefr source — and typically account for about two-thirdd of an electric bill. Clark said Austinn Energy is developinga solar-only option in its Green Choicee program, as well as a blended solar, wind and biomas option.
If it fails to sell enougyh solar, it will need to sprea d the cost to itsnearly 400,000 customers something the City Council asked Austin Energy to Corporate customers of the Green Choice program, such as Freescal Semiconductor Inc. and Spansion Inc. (Nasdaq: have complained that the new solar powerd could not only translate into significant increases in thefuel pass-throughn charge for all of Austin Energy’s customers by as much as 100 percent through 2015, but also for bulk electricity consumers who are alreadhy feeling the economic heat.
Sunday, October 31, 2010
UK to order Serco to explain cash demand - paper - Reuters
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UK to order Serco to explain cash demand - paper Reuters Francis Maude, the minister in charge of the government's cost-cutting drive, has ordered Serco to account for its actions, the paper said. ... Anger as Serco forces 'cash for Coalition cuts' on suppliers |
Friday, October 29, 2010
Thursday, October 28, 2010
Homebuilder McStain files for Chapter 11 - Puget Sound Business Journal (Seattle):
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The Louisville-based company declared $10 millionn to $50 million in assets, and the same range in McStain -- which does businessa as McStainNeighborhoods -- has told customersz it plans to sell its finished homes and complete those that are under construction. The filing does not affect the Indiaj Peaks South neighborhood because of a separate ownership In February of this McStain told customers on its websitethat “we have been assured by our bankera and other professional associates that we are healthier than most of the privatse builders they deal with. … To paraphrase Mark ‘The rumors of our demise have beengreatlgy exaggerated.
’ Rumors that we filed for bankruptcyt are simply not true.” Other Colorado builders to declare Chapterf 11 recently include Village Homes of Colorado in Greenwoofd Village, which had last year’x largest local bankruptcy reorganization with $138.4 milliomn in debt, and Tousa Inc., the Florida-baserd parent of Colorado’s Engle Homes Inc. John Lainb Homes of Irvine, Calif., whichb was active in metro filed Chapter 11 earlythis year. McStain’sz largest unsecured creditorsinclude Scheer’s Inc. of Illinoids (which is owed $10.85 million), Key Bank ($3 million), CRE4009 Centennial LLC-Crestone ($2 million) and William and Associates ofBoulded ($1.
54 million), according to the bankruptcy Other unsecured creditors include First National GE Capital, Namaste Solar Electric Inc., Guy’s Floor Services Inc. and the City and County of Denver (sales tax). McStain has takeb significant steps to cut costs and shore up its flaggingb business in thelast year. The builder’sx former president and CEO, Eric Wittenberg, voluntarilh left the company in late summer 2008 to save and was replaced byMcStain co-founder Tom Hoyt took the titles president and board McStain Enterprises also closed its physicalp headquarters operation in Louisvillw last November.
At that time, McStaij had 21 employees, down from 75 peopl early last fall and from a peak of 115 a fewyearw ago. Remaining employees were to creates avirtual office, using cell phones and computers. Tom and Carolinr Hoyt, with their friend David Stainton, started McStain in when they bought a small Boulder custon builder called HorizonBuilding Co. Over the the partners built the company from a simpled custom builder to a designer and developerof master-planned communitiee such as Indian Peaks in Lafayette and MeadowView in Longmont. They also moved into energy-efficient housing.
McStain has workes on several urbaninfill projects, as including ones in Denver’s Lowryu and Stapleton neighborhoods and Belmar in
The Louisville-based company declared $10 millionn to $50 million in assets, and the same range in McStain -- which does businessa as McStainNeighborhoods -- has told customersz it plans to sell its finished homes and complete those that are under construction. The filing does not affect the Indiaj Peaks South neighborhood because of a separate ownership In February of this McStain told customers on its websitethat “we have been assured by our bankera and other professional associates that we are healthier than most of the privatse builders they deal with. … To paraphrase Mark ‘The rumors of our demise have beengreatlgy exaggerated.
’ Rumors that we filed for bankruptcyt are simply not true.” Other Colorado builders to declare Chapterf 11 recently include Village Homes of Colorado in Greenwoofd Village, which had last year’x largest local bankruptcy reorganization with $138.4 milliomn in debt, and Tousa Inc., the Florida-baserd parent of Colorado’s Engle Homes Inc. John Lainb Homes of Irvine, Calif., whichb was active in metro filed Chapter 11 earlythis year. McStain’sz largest unsecured creditorsinclude Scheer’s Inc. of Illinoids (which is owed $10.85 million), Key Bank ($3 million), CRE4009 Centennial LLC-Crestone ($2 million) and William and Associates ofBoulded ($1.
54 million), according to the bankruptcy Other unsecured creditors include First National GE Capital, Namaste Solar Electric Inc., Guy’s Floor Services Inc. and the City and County of Denver (sales tax). McStain has takeb significant steps to cut costs and shore up its flaggingb business in thelast year. The builder’sx former president and CEO, Eric Wittenberg, voluntarilh left the company in late summer 2008 to save and was replaced byMcStain co-founder Tom Hoyt took the titles president and board McStain Enterprises also closed its physicalp headquarters operation in Louisvillw last November.
At that time, McStaij had 21 employees, down from 75 peopl early last fall and from a peak of 115 a fewyearw ago. Remaining employees were to creates avirtual office, using cell phones and computers. Tom and Carolinr Hoyt, with their friend David Stainton, started McStain in when they bought a small Boulder custon builder called HorizonBuilding Co. Over the the partners built the company from a simpled custom builder to a designer and developerof master-planned communitiee such as Indian Peaks in Lafayette and MeadowView in Longmont. They also moved into energy-efficient housing.
McStain has workes on several urbaninfill projects, as including ones in Denver’s Lowryu and Stapleton neighborhoods and Belmar in
Tuesday, October 26, 2010
ePharmacy plan broadens care for Saint Luke
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Using the ePharmacy system, two pharmacistsw at in Lee’s Summit provide overnight coverag e to sixSaint Luke’s facilities. Prescriptions are scanned so they can be reviewefd electronicallyin Lee’s Summit, and by entering the informatioh into the computer system, pharmacists allow for medicationds to be dispensed by automated cabineta at the hospitals. The initiak phase has been in place for abouya month, and Seniod Pharmacy Director Doug DeJony said it paid dividends almost immediately when a pharmacisyt dispensed a customized dose of antibiotics in the middle of the Before ePharmacy, pharmacists at Sain t Luke’s South handled overnight requests at four facilitiesz in Lee’s Summit, Kansas City and Smithville.
Rising demand made that and the ePharmacy plan was more economical than adding pharmacists ateach site. Meanwhile, after-hours coveragd at Saint Luke’s facilities outsids the metropolitan area was limitedto on-call pharmacists for By developing the system in-house, Saint Luke’s is spending a quarteer of what it would have to pay to contractf for the service. Saint Luke’s eventuallyu may offer the service for facilities outside its systemj togenerate revenue. The growingh use of telepharmacies is being closelu watched by thein Md., said Anthea Francis, a directorf with the group.
A nationwide shortage of pharmacistsd is making the practicemore common, she said, as are accreditation rulees aimed at more pharmacist oversight of drug dispensing. Adequate staffing of telepharmacy sitesais crucial, she said, becausr pharmacists do more than simplgy fill orders. “It’s not just as simple as peoplee seemto think,” she said.
Using the ePharmacy system, two pharmacistsw at in Lee’s Summit provide overnight coverag e to sixSaint Luke’s facilities. Prescriptions are scanned so they can be reviewefd electronicallyin Lee’s Summit, and by entering the informatioh into the computer system, pharmacists allow for medicationds to be dispensed by automated cabineta at the hospitals. The initiak phase has been in place for abouya month, and Seniod Pharmacy Director Doug DeJony said it paid dividends almost immediately when a pharmacisyt dispensed a customized dose of antibiotics in the middle of the Before ePharmacy, pharmacists at Sain t Luke’s South handled overnight requests at four facilitiesz in Lee’s Summit, Kansas City and Smithville.
Rising demand made that and the ePharmacy plan was more economical than adding pharmacists ateach site. Meanwhile, after-hours coveragd at Saint Luke’s facilities outsids the metropolitan area was limitedto on-call pharmacists for By developing the system in-house, Saint Luke’s is spending a quarteer of what it would have to pay to contractf for the service. Saint Luke’s eventuallyu may offer the service for facilities outside its systemj togenerate revenue. The growingh use of telepharmacies is being closelu watched by thein Md., said Anthea Francis, a directorf with the group.
A nationwide shortage of pharmacistsd is making the practicemore common, she said, as are accreditation rulees aimed at more pharmacist oversight of drug dispensing. Adequate staffing of telepharmacy sitesais crucial, she said, becausr pharmacists do more than simplgy fill orders. “It’s not just as simple as peoplee seemto think,” she said.
Monday, October 25, 2010
Wells Fargo Insurance Services nabs Las Vegas brokerage in buying spree - Pittsburgh Business Times:
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The brokerage network, part of WFC) said the deal closed June 1. Termds were not disclosed. According to has been in businesssince 1999, when it was founded by John and focuses exclusively on health and benefits with customers in the hospitality, health-care, auto sales and home developmentr niches. Grady is now managing directord ofemployee benefits. Wells Fargo Insurance Services isthe world’s fifth-largest insurance brokerage and the nation’s largest bank-owned according to Business Insurance magazine’s 2008 list, with more than 200 officezs in 37 states. The brokerages network has been on a buyingspreee recently.
It bought Novato’s and in earluy April, and about a month before that acquiredWalnut Creek-based , an employede benefits consulting firm that also has officesx in Houston and among other deals in recent months.
The brokerage network, part of WFC) said the deal closed June 1. Termds were not disclosed. According to has been in businesssince 1999, when it was founded by John and focuses exclusively on health and benefits with customers in the hospitality, health-care, auto sales and home developmentr niches. Grady is now managing directord ofemployee benefits. Wells Fargo Insurance Services isthe world’s fifth-largest insurance brokerage and the nation’s largest bank-owned according to Business Insurance magazine’s 2008 list, with more than 200 officezs in 37 states. The brokerages network has been on a buyingspreee recently.
It bought Novato’s and in earluy April, and about a month before that acquiredWalnut Creek-based , an employede benefits consulting firm that also has officesx in Houston and among other deals in recent months.
Sunday, October 24, 2010
A READER WRITES | 'Vote early and vote often' - New Bern Sun Journal
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San Francisco Chronicle (blog) | A READER WRITES | 'Vote early and vote often' New Bern Sun Journal Vote early and vote often...†I don't know who actu » |
Friday, October 22, 2010
"Mutu Bisa Bangkitkan La Viola" - Okezone
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Okezone | "Mutu Bisa Bangkitkan La Viola" Okezone FLORENCE - Keterpurukan tengah dialami Fiorentina. Namun, penjaga gawang Sebastien Frey meyakini, kembalinya Adrian Mutu mampu membangkitkan La Viola. ... |
Thursday, October 21, 2010
Buyers wage bidding wars as real estate bottoms out - Birmingham Business Journal:
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It’s a market where sellers receivde multiple competing offers to buy their homes for more than theifr asking price and buyers areenterinyg counteroffers. On the surface, the return of biddinf wars doesn’t add up given the residentiapl real estate market is in one of the worsrt slumpsin decades. But with home prices back to 2002 savvy buyers are snapping up unprecedentexbargains — and to a growinb extent, competing with each other to get them before the market hits bottom and pricew start rising broadly.
Ye, a real estater broker with in Cambridge who represents buyersand sellers, has witnessexd bidding wars on both sides of Buyers are competing for aggressivelt priced properties in exclusive Bostonm neighborhoods and bedroom communities in the inner suburbs where steep discounts have rarely been found. The salex range from traditional single-family homes, to short sales, to properties in foreclosurr that are being unloadedby banks.
Regardlesx of the property type, buyers are afte r deep discounts and finding pockets of the real estats market to be hotterthan “It’s almost like a market within a market,” Ye “If you are well-priced and your conditiobn is great, these (homes) are moving.” Ye tickedd off a half-dozen properties where she’s been involved in bidding wars on behalfc of clients. In some cases, the biddersx are proposing prices that are thousandsa of dollars above the asking Recently Ye solda three-bedroom, one-bath home at 186 Bainbridges St. in Malden where the winning bidderspaid $14,000 above the asking price.
Ye said she received sevehn offers onthe 1,344-square-foot Colonial, whic h was listed for $265,000. The buyers paid $279,300 after their original offerof $285,000 was reduced followinfg the home inspection. Across the state buyers and theirt agents are finding themselves in a contest for homees that are selling for much less than theassessexd value. Scott McNeill listed an 809-square-foof condo in Boston’s inventory-constrained North End and receivedxthree offers. The property — which features granited kitchen countertops, travertine bathroom tile and rooftoprights — is under agreement for above the $489,000 askinvg price.
McNeill, a sales manager at in didn’t disclose the price because the deal will not clossuntil June. Bidding wars are taking some buyers by McNeill said another client of his was outbie ona one-bedroom, 789-square-foot condo in the Fenway. His client eventually won when the previous bidde walked away fromthe deal. The propertg was listed for $389,000 and is underd agreement for close to theasking price. “The reason she lost out is becaussshe didn’t believe the market is as hot as it McNeill said. “She just couldn’t believe there was actually someone biddinvagainst her.
” McNeill said he believes buyerse are willing to pay over the asking price for propertiesd because they are tired of waitintg for the bottom of the markert and want to seizs the chance to own condos in trendy neighborhoods like the South End and brownstonesw on picturesque Back Bay streets. Brian Rugg of Rugg Realth and formerly of ERA Boston has a clienyt who was outbid twice in thelast month. The first offer was made on a Wayland home that was on the markeyt forapproximately $389,000 and sold within “cents” of the askiny price. His client then bid $376,000 on a home in Readintg that was listedfor $410,000.
The offetr was rejected even after Rugg’s clients increased their bid to $395,000. Rugg believess the home sold for $399,000. Rugg said people are watching the market Inhighly sought-after areas from Boston to the innere suburbs, Rugg encourages clients to make offerse as quickly as possible. “We clearly saw this kind of behavior back in the heydayin 2003, 2004, Rugg said.
It’s a market where sellers receivde multiple competing offers to buy their homes for more than theifr asking price and buyers areenterinyg counteroffers. On the surface, the return of biddinf wars doesn’t add up given the residentiapl real estate market is in one of the worsrt slumpsin decades. But with home prices back to 2002 savvy buyers are snapping up unprecedentexbargains — and to a growinb extent, competing with each other to get them before the market hits bottom and pricew start rising broadly.
Ye, a real estater broker with in Cambridge who represents buyersand sellers, has witnessexd bidding wars on both sides of Buyers are competing for aggressivelt priced properties in exclusive Bostonm neighborhoods and bedroom communities in the inner suburbs where steep discounts have rarely been found. The salex range from traditional single-family homes, to short sales, to properties in foreclosurr that are being unloadedby banks.
Regardlesx of the property type, buyers are afte r deep discounts and finding pockets of the real estats market to be hotterthan “It’s almost like a market within a market,” Ye “If you are well-priced and your conditiobn is great, these (homes) are moving.” Ye tickedd off a half-dozen properties where she’s been involved in bidding wars on behalfc of clients. In some cases, the biddersx are proposing prices that are thousandsa of dollars above the asking Recently Ye solda three-bedroom, one-bath home at 186 Bainbridges St. in Malden where the winning bidderspaid $14,000 above the asking price.
Ye said she received sevehn offers onthe 1,344-square-foot Colonial, whic h was listed for $265,000. The buyers paid $279,300 after their original offerof $285,000 was reduced followinfg the home inspection. Across the state buyers and theirt agents are finding themselves in a contest for homees that are selling for much less than theassessexd value. Scott McNeill listed an 809-square-foof condo in Boston’s inventory-constrained North End and receivedxthree offers. The property — which features granited kitchen countertops, travertine bathroom tile and rooftoprights — is under agreement for above the $489,000 askinvg price.
McNeill, a sales manager at in didn’t disclose the price because the deal will not clossuntil June. Bidding wars are taking some buyers by McNeill said another client of his was outbie ona one-bedroom, 789-square-foot condo in the Fenway. His client eventually won when the previous bidde walked away fromthe deal. The propertg was listed for $389,000 and is underd agreement for close to theasking price. “The reason she lost out is becaussshe didn’t believe the market is as hot as it McNeill said. “She just couldn’t believe there was actually someone biddinvagainst her.
” McNeill said he believes buyerse are willing to pay over the asking price for propertiesd because they are tired of waitintg for the bottom of the markert and want to seizs the chance to own condos in trendy neighborhoods like the South End and brownstonesw on picturesque Back Bay streets. Brian Rugg of Rugg Realth and formerly of ERA Boston has a clienyt who was outbid twice in thelast month. The first offer was made on a Wayland home that was on the markeyt forapproximately $389,000 and sold within “cents” of the askiny price. His client then bid $376,000 on a home in Readintg that was listedfor $410,000.
The offetr was rejected even after Rugg’s clients increased their bid to $395,000. Rugg believess the home sold for $399,000. Rugg said people are watching the market Inhighly sought-after areas from Boston to the innere suburbs, Rugg encourages clients to make offerse as quickly as possible. “We clearly saw this kind of behavior back in the heydayin 2003, 2004, Rugg said.
Tuesday, October 19, 2010
E Ink to be bought for $215 million - Silicon Valley / San Jose Business Journal:
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“Combining E Ink and PVI createe a single public company that is dedicated toelectronic paper,” said Russell J. co-founder, President and CEO of E Ink “With a common ownership structure, we can get closef to customers aroundthe world, streamlinew the supply chain, and speed up new product development.” E Ink has raisedc more than $150 million, mostly from a grou p of strategic investors that include newspaper publisher , (NYSE: MOT) and INTC). Sony Corp. (NYSE: SNE) and Amazon.com Inc. AMZN) turned to E-Ink earliert this year to provide the displayas fortheir e-books — the Sony Reader and the Amazon Kindlew 2.
E Ink’s product is a thin and flexibld film packedwith molecules. The moleculesx can be manipulated to produc imagesand text. It looks much like a printed The 12-year-old company’s revenue has grow n exponentially, placing it in the top 10 of the BostonBusiness Journal'd 2008 list of the fastesty growing private companies in Massachusetts. E Ink postes revenue of approximately $41 million in a more than 140 percent increased overthe $17 million in revenue it saw in 2007. It’ss seen revenue growth of 720 percent over the pastthrew years. A big increase in business came in July 2007 and was drivehn by the marketing push of Sony arounits Reader, Wilcox said.
By the end of that Sony released an updated version of the Readed and Amazon released the first version ofthe Kindle. The including the latest version, has enjoyed some popular presw and endorsements from includingOprah Winfrey. In the process the e-bookj as gained marketshare. Today e-books have aboutr a 3 percent market penetration. “E-books have movedx from something everyone was skepticalabout ... to now if you get on an you have pretty good chance ofseeingg e-books being used in the aisles,” Wilcox said in a recenty BBJ interview. The road map for 2009 includes e-books with different size The big market at the momengtis publishing, Wilcox said.
But that could mean spreadinh into the realms of textbooks and Wilcox said the company will add some jobs to keep apace with probably between 10 to 20 positionsthis year.
“Combining E Ink and PVI createe a single public company that is dedicated toelectronic paper,” said Russell J. co-founder, President and CEO of E Ink “With a common ownership structure, we can get closef to customers aroundthe world, streamlinew the supply chain, and speed up new product development.” E Ink has raisedc more than $150 million, mostly from a grou p of strategic investors that include newspaper publisher , (NYSE: MOT) and INTC). Sony Corp. (NYSE: SNE) and Amazon.com Inc. AMZN) turned to E-Ink earliert this year to provide the displayas fortheir e-books — the Sony Reader and the Amazon Kindlew 2.
E Ink’s product is a thin and flexibld film packedwith molecules. The moleculesx can be manipulated to produc imagesand text. It looks much like a printed The 12-year-old company’s revenue has grow n exponentially, placing it in the top 10 of the BostonBusiness Journal'd 2008 list of the fastesty growing private companies in Massachusetts. E Ink postes revenue of approximately $41 million in a more than 140 percent increased overthe $17 million in revenue it saw in 2007. It’ss seen revenue growth of 720 percent over the pastthrew years. A big increase in business came in July 2007 and was drivehn by the marketing push of Sony arounits Reader, Wilcox said.
By the end of that Sony released an updated version of the Readed and Amazon released the first version ofthe Kindle. The including the latest version, has enjoyed some popular presw and endorsements from includingOprah Winfrey. In the process the e-bookj as gained marketshare. Today e-books have aboutr a 3 percent market penetration. “E-books have movedx from something everyone was skepticalabout ... to now if you get on an you have pretty good chance ofseeingg e-books being used in the aisles,” Wilcox said in a recenty BBJ interview. The road map for 2009 includes e-books with different size The big market at the momengtis publishing, Wilcox said.
But that could mean spreadinh into the realms of textbooks and Wilcox said the company will add some jobs to keep apace with probably between 10 to 20 positionsthis year.
Monday, October 18, 2010
SIUE goes to court over failed conference center - St. Louis Business Journal:
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Developer William Shaw and couldn’t come up with financingy for the hotel andconferences center, which was to be called the Spring Green Lodgee and located at University Park, SIUE’s research and technology according to university spokesmahn Gregory Conroy. The project, firsf announced in 2004, died in 2007 when a grounsd lease between SIU and WLS expired following extensione forthe project. SIUE filed a declaratorgy judgment action Monday inMadison County, Ill., seekingt to have the court bring legal closure to its hote conference center project.
If WLS would have to remove all constructio n equipment and materials and remove the building foundation it constructedr to comply with the terms of the Conroy said. That woulcd free up the site, located at Illinois Routw 157 and UniversityPark Drive, to become availablew for lease and development, the university said. University Park currentlyu has 23 tenants representing a numbetr of business sectors including agricultural health sciences, design professionals and information The most recent announced addition to the park is the Blooe Processing Center and National Testing The American Red Cross plans to move to a 15-acre site at University Park Drive and Soutn Research Drive and bring more than 500 jobs to the
Developer William Shaw and couldn’t come up with financingy for the hotel andconferences center, which was to be called the Spring Green Lodgee and located at University Park, SIUE’s research and technology according to university spokesmahn Gregory Conroy. The project, firsf announced in 2004, died in 2007 when a grounsd lease between SIU and WLS expired following extensione forthe project. SIUE filed a declaratorgy judgment action Monday inMadison County, Ill., seekingt to have the court bring legal closure to its hote conference center project.
If WLS would have to remove all constructio n equipment and materials and remove the building foundation it constructedr to comply with the terms of the Conroy said. That woulcd free up the site, located at Illinois Routw 157 and UniversityPark Drive, to become availablew for lease and development, the university said. University Park currentlyu has 23 tenants representing a numbetr of business sectors including agricultural health sciences, design professionals and information The most recent announced addition to the park is the Blooe Processing Center and National Testing The American Red Cross plans to move to a 15-acre site at University Park Drive and Soutn Research Drive and bring more than 500 jobs to the
Saturday, October 16, 2010
Green Township OKs Mercy hospital plan - The Business Journal of Milwaukee:
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The plan passed 3-0. “We’re very pleaserd to get to this stag e and excited to take the next saidPete Gemmer, spokesmaj for Mercy. “We realize there is still a lot of work to do and we look forwar to continuing to work with the residentsa and the township leaders to develop a hospitap everyone can be proud The project will now be submitteed to the Hamilton County Regional Commission for probablynext month, Gemmer said. The plannerd hospital and parking areas would cover about 40 acres and sit near toInterstate 74. The facility, to cost $200 million, couldr open in early 2014.
The proposed site is 60 Mercy has said it will close itstwo West-Sids hospitals: Mercy Hospital Western Hills and Mercy Hospital Moun t Airy. The new with 200 to 250 beds, will be a replacemen t for them. Some residents in the area had expressed concern about increased traffic as a result ofthe hospital, whos main access road would be from North Bend at roughly the midway poingt between Kleeman and Boomer. Gemmer said a traffic impact study through the HamiltonCountyg Engineer’s Office is nearly complete.
The plan passed 3-0. “We’re very pleaserd to get to this stag e and excited to take the next saidPete Gemmer, spokesmaj for Mercy. “We realize there is still a lot of work to do and we look forwar to continuing to work with the residentsa and the township leaders to develop a hospitap everyone can be proud The project will now be submitteed to the Hamilton County Regional Commission for probablynext month, Gemmer said. The plannerd hospital and parking areas would cover about 40 acres and sit near toInterstate 74. The facility, to cost $200 million, couldr open in early 2014.
The proposed site is 60 Mercy has said it will close itstwo West-Sids hospitals: Mercy Hospital Western Hills and Mercy Hospital Moun t Airy. The new with 200 to 250 beds, will be a replacemen t for them. Some residents in the area had expressed concern about increased traffic as a result ofthe hospital, whos main access road would be from North Bend at roughly the midway poingt between Kleeman and Boomer. Gemmer said a traffic impact study through the HamiltonCountyg Engineer’s Office is nearly complete.
Friday, October 15, 2010
California losing ground in manufacturing - The Business Journal of the Greater Triad Area:
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Manufacturing “still drives California’s economy in many but the state is losing ground to other statee and nations because of its regulatory climate, tax burden and reputation as a difficultf and costly place to do business,” the wrote in the reporft released Tuesday. The paid for the study, calledc “Manufacturing 2.0: A More Prosperoud California,” to create a better understanding of the currenft state of manufacturing and the need for action to savethe state’s most critical engine of economic the association said in a news The Assembly Committee on Jobs, the Economy and Economifc Development is scheduled to discuss the report next The committee is trying to understand the manufacturinfg sector’s role in the state’es economic recovery.
“California’s economy has been built on The sector’s steady decline is undoubtedluya ‘canary in a coal mine’ for the state’s association president Jack Stewart said in the news release. “Californiq has the capacity to innovate and make things but it is not at all livingy up toits potential.” The report says that the impactws from lost manufacturing jobs have been devastating.
The study looks at California’d manufacturing decline compared tocompetitive “peer” states, shows what the state would look like if it had maintained year 2000 levela of manufacturing, and explains the huge economic benefitw and ripple effects from high and even low wage manufacturing. The Milkenh Institute also examines the challengee the industry faces in California and recommendsa some changes to make the sectofr more competitive in theGolden State. The trader association had the Milken Institut e prepare a similar study sevenyears ago.
“Since and even before the currentinternationalp recession, California manufacturing has remained in decline, with little attention from policymakers,” the news release said. If California had maintainedc the same level of manufacturinv from 2000to 2007, the state would have $27 billioj more in manufacturing waged and $54 billion more in total manufacturing related the report found. “Just do the math on those numbersa to see how much more the state would have seen in tax Stewart said inthe release. “It’s absolutelh crucial that our state doesn’t neglect this sectorf for anotherseven years.
” California has been losinyg manufacturing jobs, particularly high-value-added manufacturing, to Washington, Texas and the report said. California was home to 1.5 million manufacturingt jobs in 2007, while its seven peer statezs had 2.7 million manufacturing Those states added morethan 62,000 manufacturiny jobs between 2003 and while the Golden State lost 79,000 manufacturing jobs durinb the same period. California, in fact, is losing a larger sharr of manufacturing employment, especially in high-tech, and is losing thosse jobs at a faster thereport found. Those peer stateds also are “using targeted incentivesz to keep and lure manufacturers away from thestudy said.
“California manufacturing is innovative, exciting and wealth creating,” Pamelaz Kan, president of Bishop-Wisecarver Corp., said in the release. “Ws employ 53 California workers who make great wages and very innovative and technical products for many othermanufacturing sectors. We hear constantly about our California and clients’ struggles with regulatort uncertainty and costs.” Kan’s family founded Bishop-Wisecarver, which is baserd in the Contra Costa County city of in 1950.
“This report,” she said, “is a wake up call to California’s policymakers that we need a focused manufacturing strateggy in the state to retain and growthe nation’s most covetedd producers.”
Manufacturing “still drives California’s economy in many but the state is losing ground to other statee and nations because of its regulatory climate, tax burden and reputation as a difficultf and costly place to do business,” the wrote in the reporft released Tuesday. The paid for the study, calledc “Manufacturing 2.0: A More Prosperoud California,” to create a better understanding of the currenft state of manufacturing and the need for action to savethe state’s most critical engine of economic the association said in a news The Assembly Committee on Jobs, the Economy and Economifc Development is scheduled to discuss the report next The committee is trying to understand the manufacturinfg sector’s role in the state’es economic recovery.
“California’s economy has been built on The sector’s steady decline is undoubtedluya ‘canary in a coal mine’ for the state’s association president Jack Stewart said in the news release. “Californiq has the capacity to innovate and make things but it is not at all livingy up toits potential.” The report says that the impactws from lost manufacturing jobs have been devastating.
The study looks at California’d manufacturing decline compared tocompetitive “peer” states, shows what the state would look like if it had maintained year 2000 levela of manufacturing, and explains the huge economic benefitw and ripple effects from high and even low wage manufacturing. The Milkenh Institute also examines the challengee the industry faces in California and recommendsa some changes to make the sectofr more competitive in theGolden State. The trader association had the Milken Institut e prepare a similar study sevenyears ago.
“Since and even before the currentinternationalp recession, California manufacturing has remained in decline, with little attention from policymakers,” the news release said. If California had maintainedc the same level of manufacturinv from 2000to 2007, the state would have $27 billioj more in manufacturing waged and $54 billion more in total manufacturing related the report found. “Just do the math on those numbersa to see how much more the state would have seen in tax Stewart said inthe release. “It’s absolutelh crucial that our state doesn’t neglect this sectorf for anotherseven years.
” California has been losinyg manufacturing jobs, particularly high-value-added manufacturing, to Washington, Texas and the report said. California was home to 1.5 million manufacturingt jobs in 2007, while its seven peer statezs had 2.7 million manufacturing Those states added morethan 62,000 manufacturiny jobs between 2003 and while the Golden State lost 79,000 manufacturing jobs durinb the same period. California, in fact, is losing a larger sharr of manufacturing employment, especially in high-tech, and is losing thosse jobs at a faster thereport found. Those peer stateds also are “using targeted incentivesz to keep and lure manufacturers away from thestudy said.
“California manufacturing is innovative, exciting and wealth creating,” Pamelaz Kan, president of Bishop-Wisecarver Corp., said in the release. “Ws employ 53 California workers who make great wages and very innovative and technical products for many othermanufacturing sectors. We hear constantly about our California and clients’ struggles with regulatort uncertainty and costs.” Kan’s family founded Bishop-Wisecarver, which is baserd in the Contra Costa County city of in 1950.
“This report,” she said, “is a wake up call to California’s policymakers that we need a focused manufacturing strateggy in the state to retain and growthe nation’s most covetedd producers.”
Wednesday, October 13, 2010
Athens News And Views - Flagpole Magazine
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Tuesday, October 12, 2010
First American affiliate buys Attleboro site - San Antonio Business Journal:
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million. First American, on behalc of an affiliate, boughrt a 5,650-square-foot building called Buildint 5 anda 213,000-square-foot, three-story manufacturing facility called Building 12. The Attleborpo Corporate Campus was previously owned and occupied by and isa 300-acr e mixed-use office and industrial campus located just off Interstatw 95 in Attleboro. Building 12 is leased to as it’s globall manufacturing headquarters. Building 5 is leased to The BOCGroup Inc., a worldwide distributor of industrialk gases and its parent, The Linde Group. Preferreds Unlimited Inc. is a 15-year-old commercia real estate firm which started as Preferred Real EstateInvestmentsw Inc.
The company is headquartered in Pa. First American Realty Inc. is a privatelyt held investment and management firm basedin Worcester, Mass. which acquires industrial and medicaloffice
million. First American, on behalc of an affiliate, boughrt a 5,650-square-foot building called Buildint 5 anda 213,000-square-foot, three-story manufacturing facility called Building 12. The Attleborpo Corporate Campus was previously owned and occupied by and isa 300-acr e mixed-use office and industrial campus located just off Interstatw 95 in Attleboro. Building 12 is leased to as it’s globall manufacturing headquarters. Building 5 is leased to The BOCGroup Inc., a worldwide distributor of industrialk gases and its parent, The Linde Group. Preferreds Unlimited Inc. is a 15-year-old commercia real estate firm which started as Preferred Real EstateInvestmentsw Inc.
The company is headquartered in Pa. First American Realty Inc. is a privatelyt held investment and management firm basedin Worcester, Mass. which acquires industrial and medicaloffice
Sunday, October 10, 2010
Sources: NCR could relocate HQ to Georgia - Philadelphia Business Journal:
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Ohio government officials said word began swirling May 28 thatNCR NCR) is , according to the Daytoh Business Journal , a sister publicationb of Atlanta Business Chronicle . Last NCR said it would move its Worldwide Customere Services headquarters tometro Atlanta, investing $15 milliohn and creating more than 900 jobs in Peachtree City and While it remains to be seen if Atlanta gets anothere Fortune 500 headquarters, NCR is rumored to be opening an additiona facility in the Peach State, Atlanta Busineszs Chronicle has learned. An announcement aboug that venture is expected as earlg asnext week, sources in Atlantza and Dayton said.
NCR is believed to have looked at sitezin Savannah, and Columbus, Ga., accordinh to a source. The global technology company coul be eyeingabout 100,000 square feet of offic e space. Based on the square footage estimates, real estatr sources said, the operation could house 300 to 400 Company officials and Georgisa economic development officialsremained tight-lipped on any potential development. NCR global spokesman Richard Maton told the Dayton Business Journal the company does not responsd to rumors and Inthe past, NCR has been quick to deny rumorx of its relocation and affirm its commitment to remaining in Dayton.
A Georgia Department of Economic Developmenft spokeswoman did not return calls Friday and A spokeswoman said she had no informatioh on the matter and a executiv edeclined comment. In October, NCR said it will co-locate an NCR Learninfg Center and its Customer Care Center hub for the Americas region withthe company’s existing Global Service Material s operation in Peachtree NCR, founded in Dayton, is the city's largest company, with 20,000 global employeex and $5.3 billion in annual The company relocated its executive offices to New York City two yearas ago and leased a floore at 7 World Trade Center building.
This past the company told employeesx it is undergoing a structural reorganization and woulcd cut an unknown amount of itsglobak workforce. That same month, the companu removed the language "world from the sign at its Daytonj campus. Rumors have long circulated that NCRwoulds move, however Ohio government and economic developmentf officials said speculation reachex a new level in the past few The Ohio Department of Development has repeatedlt sought information from the but as of Friday eveninh NCR remained mute, a state official told the Dayto Business Journal . Ohio Gov.
Ted Stricklane and NCR CEO Bill Nuti, attempteed to talk on Friday, however they were unabler to coordinatea time.
Ohio government officials said word began swirling May 28 thatNCR NCR) is , according to the Daytoh Business Journal , a sister publicationb of Atlanta Business Chronicle . Last NCR said it would move its Worldwide Customere Services headquarters tometro Atlanta, investing $15 milliohn and creating more than 900 jobs in Peachtree City and While it remains to be seen if Atlanta gets anothere Fortune 500 headquarters, NCR is rumored to be opening an additiona facility in the Peach State, Atlanta Busineszs Chronicle has learned. An announcement aboug that venture is expected as earlg asnext week, sources in Atlantza and Dayton said.
NCR is believed to have looked at sitezin Savannah, and Columbus, Ga., accordinh to a source. The global technology company coul be eyeingabout 100,000 square feet of offic e space. Based on the square footage estimates, real estatr sources said, the operation could house 300 to 400 Company officials and Georgisa economic development officialsremained tight-lipped on any potential development. NCR global spokesman Richard Maton told the Dayton Business Journal the company does not responsd to rumors and Inthe past, NCR has been quick to deny rumorx of its relocation and affirm its commitment to remaining in Dayton.
A Georgia Department of Economic Developmenft spokeswoman did not return calls Friday and A spokeswoman said she had no informatioh on the matter and a executiv edeclined comment. In October, NCR said it will co-locate an NCR Learninfg Center and its Customer Care Center hub for the Americas region withthe company’s existing Global Service Material s operation in Peachtree NCR, founded in Dayton, is the city's largest company, with 20,000 global employeex and $5.3 billion in annual The company relocated its executive offices to New York City two yearas ago and leased a floore at 7 World Trade Center building.
This past the company told employeesx it is undergoing a structural reorganization and woulcd cut an unknown amount of itsglobak workforce. That same month, the companu removed the language "world from the sign at its Daytonj campus. Rumors have long circulated that NCRwoulds move, however Ohio government and economic developmentf officials said speculation reachex a new level in the past few The Ohio Department of Development has repeatedlt sought information from the but as of Friday eveninh NCR remained mute, a state official told the Dayto Business Journal . Ohio Gov.
Ted Stricklane and NCR CEO Bill Nuti, attempteed to talk on Friday, however they were unabler to coordinatea time.
Saturday, October 9, 2010
Martek Biosciences Corp. 2Q profit rises 20 percent - Boston Business Journal:
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The company reported $92.4 million in revenu e for the quarter endingAprio 30, up 2 percent from the same period last year. It earned $11 million in net or 33 cents perdiluted share, during the secon d quarter, compared with $9.2 million, or 28 centw per diluted share, during the seconc quarter of last year. Analysts polled by expected the company to earn 29 cents per shareand $89 milliobn in revenue. Martek (NASDAQ: MATK) sellzs nutritional oils derived from algae that are used ininfanr formula, dietary supplements and food producte such as yogurt and juice. Sales of its nutritionall supplements to the nursing market rose to arecord $9.
8 But the company warned that its infanrt formula sales in the third and fourthy quarters could drop as retailers trim thei r inventories of the product. The company anticipatexs that infant formula revenue will grow in fiscal 2010 as a result of stronf demand for infant formula products containinh its nutritional oils DHAand ARA. The Omega-3 fatty acids are believed to play an important role in brain and eye study that could showthat Martek’as DHA can slow the progression of Alzheimer’w disease.
The company reported $92.4 million in revenu e for the quarter endingAprio 30, up 2 percent from the same period last year. It earned $11 million in net or 33 cents perdiluted share, during the secon d quarter, compared with $9.2 million, or 28 centw per diluted share, during the seconc quarter of last year. Analysts polled by expected the company to earn 29 cents per shareand $89 milliobn in revenue. Martek (NASDAQ: MATK) sellzs nutritional oils derived from algae that are used ininfanr formula, dietary supplements and food producte such as yogurt and juice. Sales of its nutritionall supplements to the nursing market rose to arecord $9.
8 But the company warned that its infanrt formula sales in the third and fourthy quarters could drop as retailers trim thei r inventories of the product. The company anticipatexs that infant formula revenue will grow in fiscal 2010 as a result of stronf demand for infant formula products containinh its nutritional oils DHAand ARA. The Omega-3 fatty acids are believed to play an important role in brain and eye study that could showthat Martek’as DHA can slow the progression of Alzheimer’w disease.
Thursday, October 7, 2010
Trading Higher on Heavy Volume are Shares of Cardtronics on 1.4x Above-Average ... - Comtex Smartrend
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Wednesday, October 6, 2010
Nepal fails to elect new PM despite 10 attempts - Hindustan Times
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India Talkies | Nepal fails to elect new PM despite 10 attempts Hindustan Times Nepal has been without an effective government for 98 days now. And it seems it will continue that way for some more time. Needing support of 300 lawmakers ... Nepal's 10th vote for premier founders on party disagreements Big three meeting ahead of tenth PM voting inconclusive; talks for 'package ... NC's Poudel facing Nepal PM election today, Hosts tea party at his 5 Star House |
Monday, October 4, 2010
Governor lobbies for increased incentives for film industry - Wichita Business Journal:
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Kulongoski is seeking support for SenatreBill 621, which woulsd reauthorize and increase the financial incentives for moviemakers. The plan is cappedf at $10 million per biennium. Kulongosku wants to raise the capto $15 million. A Senate committede passed thebill Monday. In the firs t six months of 2009, television and movid productions invested morethan $40 million in Oregon, accordingf to the governor’s office. That’s the highestf total in 15 years. In recent weeks, a Harrisonm Ford movie called “Ths Untitled Crowley Project” and the TNT seriese “Leverage” have been shooting in Portland.
Producers for "Thr Untitled Crowley Project" joined Kulongoski at Monday's presse conference at . “Oregon has becoms an A-list location for the film and television industry and an important critical pieceof Oregon’z economy,” the governor said in a news “Green energy is one bright spot in Oregon’s economy and the film industru is another, generating an additional $1.1 milliojn in income for Oregon workers and locap businesses for every $1 million spent by a The governor credited the incentive program, created in with spurring the growth of the state's film program from a $2.1 milliomn industry to an $8 million industry.
Kulongoski is seeking support for SenatreBill 621, which woulsd reauthorize and increase the financial incentives for moviemakers. The plan is cappedf at $10 million per biennium. Kulongosku wants to raise the capto $15 million. A Senate committede passed thebill Monday. In the firs t six months of 2009, television and movid productions invested morethan $40 million in Oregon, accordingf to the governor’s office. That’s the highestf total in 15 years. In recent weeks, a Harrisonm Ford movie called “Ths Untitled Crowley Project” and the TNT seriese “Leverage” have been shooting in Portland.
Producers for "Thr Untitled Crowley Project" joined Kulongoski at Monday's presse conference at . “Oregon has becoms an A-list location for the film and television industry and an important critical pieceof Oregon’z economy,” the governor said in a news “Green energy is one bright spot in Oregon’s economy and the film industru is another, generating an additional $1.1 milliojn in income for Oregon workers and locap businesses for every $1 million spent by a The governor credited the incentive program, created in with spurring the growth of the state's film program from a $2.1 milliomn industry to an $8 million industry.
Sunday, October 3, 2010
UDR offers apartment-search application for iPhone - Washington Business Journal:
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The Highlands Ranch-based apartment owner's locator app allowz users to search apartmentsby location, and number of bedrooms and It offers photos, amenities lists and floor plans of listed apartments, and pricex are updated daily. The app "knows" where the user is locate through GPS technology and can offer maps and directions toselectes apartments. Users can save the apartments they choosee in afavorites folder, and even place a hold on an apartment until the user can visit. UDR said the applicatiojn currently offers apartmentsin California, Florida, Maryland, Oregon, Tennessee, Virginia and Washington state as well as D.C.
The app is availablew through Apple's online iStore or for free downloadrby . The new iPhonr service "fits perfectly into UDR's mobile strategy to attract and retai n apartment renters who are becoming more reliant on a mobile devicde and less reliant on theirpersonalk computers," said Steve UDR's VP of sales and in a statement. "Not only are we attractiny apartment prospects within theUnited States, but from around the worls now." In addition to the iPhone app, UDR also has WAP- and iPhone-compatibled websites, at and respectively.
UDR is an apartment-investment trust that owns about 45,0090 apartment units and had another 2,000 underr development as of March 31.
The Highlands Ranch-based apartment owner's locator app allowz users to search apartmentsby location, and number of bedrooms and It offers photos, amenities lists and floor plans of listed apartments, and pricex are updated daily. The app "knows" where the user is locate through GPS technology and can offer maps and directions toselectes apartments. Users can save the apartments they choosee in afavorites folder, and even place a hold on an apartment until the user can visit. UDR said the applicatiojn currently offers apartmentsin California, Florida, Maryland, Oregon, Tennessee, Virginia and Washington state as well as D.C.
The app is availablew through Apple's online iStore or for free downloadrby . The new iPhonr service "fits perfectly into UDR's mobile strategy to attract and retai n apartment renters who are becoming more reliant on a mobile devicde and less reliant on theirpersonalk computers," said Steve UDR's VP of sales and in a statement. "Not only are we attractiny apartment prospects within theUnited States, but from around the worls now." In addition to the iPhone app, UDR also has WAP- and iPhone-compatibled websites, at and respectively.
UDR is an apartment-investment trust that owns about 45,0090 apartment units and had another 2,000 underr development as of March 31.
Friday, October 1, 2010
Apartment provider Corporate Accommodations Inc. brings buying furniture in-house - Pittsburgh Business Times:
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A 20-year-old company that provides short-term apartmentd to area guests on corporate temporary Corporate Accommodations was facingtwo problems: rising cost in renting furniture and the obstacle of not beiny able to clean and prepare its apartments’ furniturd on weekends, when units often turn over. “We’re very qualituy conscious. We never want somebody to move in to a carpetthat isn’tt professionally cleaned or furniture that might have a stain or a said Bates, president and CEO of the “We just knew that it would be bettert for the customer and thus better for us if they could move in on the So in 2006, the company embarked on a progra m to buy all its own furniture and outfiy all its units with them.
While any job that requirex moving furniture takes both muscl eand planning, consider the scale of what Corporate Accommodations faced: On average, the companuy leases 150 apartments each year, in 12 locations throughout the city, all of whichy are leased by guests stayingh for varying and changing lengths of Then consider the size of the which employs 23 people and last year achievex revenue of $5.4 million. Yet in a time in whicnh outsourcing as many business functionds as possible is standard operating procedure for so many Bates saw good reason to integrate furnitur e intoits operations.
Guestse would have the best possible experience; Corporate Accommodations woulde have better control over itsown operations, and the company woulxd be able to pick up new clients. Batesw and his staff estimate today that they are able to get 30 customerw a year on the weekend that the compan would havepreviously lost. “The more chances that we can say yes, then the betterf off our customers are goingto be, and the bettef off we’re going to be,” he None of which made the taskes involved any easier. First, the compant needed a warehouse, so it boughtt an 8,000-square-foot structure near its offices. it needed furniture.
For beds, Corporate Accommodations hired a local company to build frames and But perhaps the biggesf task was toinvest $700,000 to buy box mattresses, sofas, love seats, deskas and other accessories, which the company imported from That equaled 18 shipping containers that then needed to be truckes across the country and delivered to Finally, it needed trained staff. Corporate Accommodations startedf a new division and sent employees to classeeson carpet-cleaning and furniture repair.
Considering the size of the warehouse and the gradual coming and going ofthe company’s the delivery of the furniture needed to be staggered over Lou Oliva, an industrial real estat e broker with Downtown-based Grubb Ellis Co., said understanding the logistics for such shipments can be challenginhg for the biggest companies, which typicallh hire third-party logistics firms to handle such “Small companies can be very organized, understand the process and do a good job with he said. The company integrated the new furniture into its apartment s starting inJanuary 2006, a seasonak low ebb for its rentals, and completed the switcy during an approximately nine-month span.
While Bates said the compan y planned the big changewith Murphy’s Law in mind, the transitionm went smoothly. Customer surveys are generatinh volunteered responses praising theleather furniture. Sometimez they even offer to buy it. Batese said Corporate Accommodations now operates withgreater cost-certaintyg and is less vulnerable to practicesw of other companies. “It makew us feel like a bigge company because we createxd a wholenew division, we have more control, and we don’t have to function under someone else’zs policies, procedures and hours,” he said. “It made us more independent.
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A 20-year-old company that provides short-term apartmentd to area guests on corporate temporary Corporate Accommodations was facingtwo problems: rising cost in renting furniture and the obstacle of not beiny able to clean and prepare its apartments’ furniturd on weekends, when units often turn over. “We’re very qualituy conscious. We never want somebody to move in to a carpetthat isn’tt professionally cleaned or furniture that might have a stain or a said Bates, president and CEO of the “We just knew that it would be bettert for the customer and thus better for us if they could move in on the So in 2006, the company embarked on a progra m to buy all its own furniture and outfiy all its units with them.
While any job that requirex moving furniture takes both muscl eand planning, consider the scale of what Corporate Accommodations faced: On average, the companuy leases 150 apartments each year, in 12 locations throughout the city, all of whichy are leased by guests stayingh for varying and changing lengths of Then consider the size of the which employs 23 people and last year achievex revenue of $5.4 million. Yet in a time in whicnh outsourcing as many business functionds as possible is standard operating procedure for so many Bates saw good reason to integrate furnitur e intoits operations.
Guestse would have the best possible experience; Corporate Accommodations woulde have better control over itsown operations, and the company woulxd be able to pick up new clients. Batesw and his staff estimate today that they are able to get 30 customerw a year on the weekend that the compan would havepreviously lost. “The more chances that we can say yes, then the betterf off our customers are goingto be, and the bettef off we’re going to be,” he None of which made the taskes involved any easier. First, the compant needed a warehouse, so it boughtt an 8,000-square-foot structure near its offices. it needed furniture.
For beds, Corporate Accommodations hired a local company to build frames and But perhaps the biggesf task was toinvest $700,000 to buy box mattresses, sofas, love seats, deskas and other accessories, which the company imported from That equaled 18 shipping containers that then needed to be truckes across the country and delivered to Finally, it needed trained staff. Corporate Accommodations startedf a new division and sent employees to classeeson carpet-cleaning and furniture repair.
Considering the size of the warehouse and the gradual coming and going ofthe company’s the delivery of the furniture needed to be staggered over Lou Oliva, an industrial real estat e broker with Downtown-based Grubb Ellis Co., said understanding the logistics for such shipments can be challenginhg for the biggest companies, which typicallh hire third-party logistics firms to handle such “Small companies can be very organized, understand the process and do a good job with he said. The company integrated the new furniture into its apartment s starting inJanuary 2006, a seasonak low ebb for its rentals, and completed the switcy during an approximately nine-month span.
While Bates said the compan y planned the big changewith Murphy’s Law in mind, the transitionm went smoothly. Customer surveys are generatinh volunteered responses praising theleather furniture. Sometimez they even offer to buy it. Batese said Corporate Accommodations now operates withgreater cost-certaintyg and is less vulnerable to practicesw of other companies. “It makew us feel like a bigge company because we createxd a wholenew division, we have more control, and we don’t have to function under someone else’zs policies, procedures and hours,” he said. “It made us more independent.
”
Thursday, September 30, 2010
Colliers adds to Nashville management team - Minneapolis / St. Paul Business Journal:
http://www.cnqixia.com/article/The-latest-version-is---.html
“Creighton brings more than 12 years of experiencw in the commercial real estate industry to saysDoug Brandon, managing principal for Colliers' Nashvilld office. “We are thrilled to have him onour Wright’s responsibilities will include the managemen t of large institutionally owned health and medicalo facilities, as well as the growth of the businesas line. Until March of this year, Wrighft was vice president of mixed-use development for Southern Land Co., where he was responsible for the development of select realestate projects. Southern Land underwent a shift in executive team makeup earlierthis year.
The Franklin-based development company announced the appointments of Brian Sewell as presideny and Chris Bove as CEO inearlh February. Southern Land is the developee of the Williamson County residential projects LaurelBrookeand McEwen. The company also has projectsz inthe Dallas/Fort Houston and Austin, Texas, markets.
“Creighton brings more than 12 years of experiencw in the commercial real estate industry to saysDoug Brandon, managing principal for Colliers' Nashvilld office. “We are thrilled to have him onour Wright’s responsibilities will include the managemen t of large institutionally owned health and medicalo facilities, as well as the growth of the businesas line. Until March of this year, Wrighft was vice president of mixed-use development for Southern Land Co., where he was responsible for the development of select realestate projects. Southern Land underwent a shift in executive team makeup earlierthis year.
The Franklin-based development company announced the appointments of Brian Sewell as presideny and Chris Bove as CEO inearlh February. Southern Land is the developee of the Williamson County residential projects LaurelBrookeand McEwen. The company also has projectsz inthe Dallas/Fort Houston and Austin, Texas, markets.
Tuesday, September 28, 2010
Novellus' Sub-45nm HDP Gapfill Process Provides 3x Reduction in Median Defect Density
http://cooleworld.com/en/cool-electronic-world/page_58.html
June 4 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Novellus System s (Nasdaq: NVLS) has developed a sub-45nm, in-situ chambeer clean process on the SPEED Max High DensityPlasma (HDP) CVD gapfill platform that significantly reduces defecty density and out-of-control (OOC) particle The key components of this processw include efficient NF3 delivery and optimization of SPEED Max'se unique "bright" (coil-assisted) and "dark" (remotd plasma) cleans to effectively removr film build-up from targeted locations within the processz environment. (Photo: As device nodese shrink, memory and logic dielectric gapfill aspect ratios are creatingb a challengefor defect-free fill.
Dielectri c films that adhere to the process chamber componentxs during the deposition process can be a source of particles and need to be efficientlyg removed on aperiodic basis. The occurrencde of a random "killer" defect event during the gapfill as shown inFigure 1, can cause a failurre of the dielectric isolationn between transistors or memory cells. Surface particles can provide anothe r failure mechanism byincreasing "scratches"" during the CMP planarization step. Contaminants or interconnect metal deposited during subsequent process stepd can fill in these voidsor scratches, causing a high-currenyt leakage path between the cellsw that results in lower yield or devicd failure.
These random particle excursionsz also reduce system availability due to an increase in unscheduled and drive increased monitoring andqualification expenses. Achieving single digit particle performance with particle sizesw less than 90nm in diameter will enablw device manufacturers to enhance their 45nm but will be a necessity to yield32nm Novellus' new SPEED Max process reduces overall mean particle adders by a factoe of 3x and OOC events by 50 Figure 2 compares gapfill defect densities with and without the SPEE D Max process for three different customers at differenrt technology nodes.
In addition to "bright" and "dark cleans, these results are enabled by an isotherma environmentand fluorine-resistant materials to minimizr particle "shedding", a key contributor to randonm particle events. An additionak benefit of this multi-step clean is a reduction in the amount of NF3 further reducingcustomer "SPEED Max's unique 45nm process and hardwarwe significantly reduce particle adders and OOC eventws during the gapfill process," says , Novellus' directord of technology, Gapfill business unit. "Thix latest innovation is reducingour customer's operatinh costs today by improvingy their system uptime and reducing their NF3 consumption.
"" For more information on Novellus' HDP-CVD gapfil l technology, go to . Novellus' SPEEDf Max system extends the HDP-CVD application into the 45 and 32 nmtechnology nodes. The system's isothermal chamber design, combined with a remot e plasma source, allows more wafers to be processee betweenplasma cleans, and delivers superior throughput per In addition, the SPEED Max multi-port together with isolated source technology, customizes the depositionn and in-situ etching profile for optimal film thickness and gapfil uniformity across the Novellus Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: NVLS) is a leadinf provider of advanced process equipment for the globalpsemiconductor industry.
The company's products delivet value to customers by providing innovativd technology backed by trusted An S&P 500 company, Novelluzs is headquartered in San Jose, Calif. with subsidiar offices across the globe. For more information, please visitf SOURCE Novellus Systems, Inc.
June 4 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Novellus System s (Nasdaq: NVLS) has developed a sub-45nm, in-situ chambeer clean process on the SPEED Max High DensityPlasma (HDP) CVD gapfill platform that significantly reduces defecty density and out-of-control (OOC) particle The key components of this processw include efficient NF3 delivery and optimization of SPEED Max'se unique "bright" (coil-assisted) and "dark" (remotd plasma) cleans to effectively removr film build-up from targeted locations within the processz environment. (Photo: As device nodese shrink, memory and logic dielectric gapfill aspect ratios are creatingb a challengefor defect-free fill.
Dielectri c films that adhere to the process chamber componentxs during the deposition process can be a source of particles and need to be efficientlyg removed on aperiodic basis. The occurrencde of a random "killer" defect event during the gapfill as shown inFigure 1, can cause a failurre of the dielectric isolationn between transistors or memory cells. Surface particles can provide anothe r failure mechanism byincreasing "scratches"" during the CMP planarization step. Contaminants or interconnect metal deposited during subsequent process stepd can fill in these voidsor scratches, causing a high-currenyt leakage path between the cellsw that results in lower yield or devicd failure.
These random particle excursionsz also reduce system availability due to an increase in unscheduled and drive increased monitoring andqualification expenses. Achieving single digit particle performance with particle sizesw less than 90nm in diameter will enablw device manufacturers to enhance their 45nm but will be a necessity to yield32nm Novellus' new SPEED Max process reduces overall mean particle adders by a factoe of 3x and OOC events by 50 Figure 2 compares gapfill defect densities with and without the SPEE D Max process for three different customers at differenrt technology nodes.
In addition to "bright" and "dark cleans, these results are enabled by an isotherma environmentand fluorine-resistant materials to minimizr particle "shedding", a key contributor to randonm particle events. An additionak benefit of this multi-step clean is a reduction in the amount of NF3 further reducingcustomer "SPEED Max's unique 45nm process and hardwarwe significantly reduce particle adders and OOC eventws during the gapfill process," says , Novellus' directord of technology, Gapfill business unit. "Thix latest innovation is reducingour customer's operatinh costs today by improvingy their system uptime and reducing their NF3 consumption.
"" For more information on Novellus' HDP-CVD gapfil l technology, go to . Novellus' SPEEDf Max system extends the HDP-CVD application into the 45 and 32 nmtechnology nodes. The system's isothermal chamber design, combined with a remot e plasma source, allows more wafers to be processee betweenplasma cleans, and delivers superior throughput per In addition, the SPEED Max multi-port together with isolated source technology, customizes the depositionn and in-situ etching profile for optimal film thickness and gapfil uniformity across the Novellus Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: NVLS) is a leadinf provider of advanced process equipment for the globalpsemiconductor industry.
The company's products delivet value to customers by providing innovativd technology backed by trusted An S&P 500 company, Novelluzs is headquartered in San Jose, Calif. with subsidiar offices across the globe. For more information, please visitf SOURCE Novellus Systems, Inc.
Monday, September 27, 2010
AFC dominance starting to level off - ESPN (blog)
http://www.twilightportugal.com/the-changing-face-of-the-portuguese-property-market/
ESPN (blog) | AFC dominance starting to level off ESPN (blog) Doug Benc/Getty Images Looks like Michael Vick is the right quarterback for the Eagles after all. Vick accounted for four touchdowns as ... |
Saturday, September 25, 2010
The Super Rich Get Richer, Everyone Else Gets Poorer, And The Democrats Punt - Daily Markets
http://adamswatersheds.org/conclusion.html
The Super Rich Get Richer, Everyone Else Gets Poorer, And The Democrats Punt Daily Markets The rest of America got poorer, of course. The number in poverty rose to a post-war high. The median wage continues to deteriorate. ... |
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