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Lawyers representing managementat -ownef Lumiere sent letters Thursday to representatives of Local 74 and its , announcing a withdrawal of recognitiobn of Local 74. “The union has evince d a lack of continuitof representation, altering the identity of the bargaining representative and establishing a fundamental change in the bargaininy representatives,” DLA Piper lawyers representing Lumiere wrots to Dave Morton of Unitre HERE Local 74 and Noel Beasleh of Workers United.
Lumiere started receiving competing claimds about which union was representing its kitchen andhousekeepinh workers, creating confusion about the officiapl union representation, said Todd general manager and vice president at “Our hope was that the unions would be able to work this out amongs t themselves,” he said. “We’re tryingt to stay out of the middlee of thesecompeting unions.” He said Lumier notified workers Thursday of the company’s decision to not recognizee the union.
As a Local 74 filed unfair labor practic e charges with the National LabordRelations Board, said Morton, the organizing directoer for Local 74, who calledx Pinnacle's actions "unlawful" and "ludicrous." “This has been nothingh more than an attempt by (Pinnacled Chairman and CEO) Dan Lee and the heads of Pinnaclwe Entertainment to be anti-union,” he said. Mortonh said the union would consider picketintbut hasn't made any decisionsz yet. When asked about the possibility of a striks orother action, Georgew said: “We would hope that would not be the especially in this type of economy. That’s not the way we woul d like to proceed.
” If thers is a strike, Lumiere has a right to replaced any workers who walk offthe job, according to Mack a Lumiere spokesman. Unite HERE was formecd in 2004when Unite, a garment workers and Hotel Employees and Restaurantr Employees Union joined forces. But the marriage wasn’t a happyg one, with garment workers claiming that the newleadership didn’r care about their needs, leading to a lot of disgruntler workers nationwide. So in March, some workerx defected to createWorkerx United, which has been competing with Unite HERE to represenyt workers nationwide ever since. Local 74 voted in Marc h to leave Unite HERE to becom a part ofWorkers United, Morton said.
Workerxs United is now affiliatedx withlabor giant, . Pinnacle Entertainment Inc. (NYSE: PNK) is base d in Las Vegas.
Friday, December 31, 2010
Wednesday, December 29, 2010
Bank to auction $100 million in troubled assets - Business First of Columbus:
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The Alpharetta-based bank — one of the metro’se largest with $5.7 billion in asset s and a key subsidiaryof Columbus-basede — is selling the properties to private investmentt groups, with the deals expectedr to close by month’s end. The auction is the largesf conducted so far by Bank of North which hasbeen hard-hit by the real estate downturn, and surpasses the scale of other sales of distressed metrlo Atlanta property by Blairsville-based and smaller Bank of North Georgia has auctioned off homese to the public periodically throughout the last The auction comes as bankse across the country, from small communitty lenders to mammoth financial conglomerates, are strugglingt with how to liquidate toxic assets without pushingg the banks into insolvency.
It also signalds Synovus Financial is continuing its aggressive salesa of problem loans and repossessed if the priceis right. During the company’s first-quarter earnings call, CEO Richare Anthony said the auction process wouldaccelerates companywide. “We will have a greater leve l of exits from this portfoliol over the nexttwo quarters,” he referring to Synovus’ problem loan portfolio. Frank Bank of North Georgia’s executive vice presidentg forcorporate banking, is overseeing the auction and said the liquidation is the next step in the bank’ “ongoing balance sheet management effort.
” The bank is sellingv primarily large tracts of developed lots and raw land, he The auction process began in May, when the bank circulatef a list of distressed assets to 30 bidders, he said. Each of the biddersz was a pairing of strategic buyers with privater moneybehind them, and the firm’s sizes rangef from $20 million to $200 millionb in total capital unde management. He did not name specific “We wanted to contact larger pools of money for this Roedl said. But after the initial solicitation, interesg in the auction exploded.
“We were inundatede with phone calls,” he noting the bank now has multiple bidders for the bulk of the distressesd portfolio available inthe auction. Initial bids were due by late May, and an extendede due-diligence period is ongoin g for bidders, with the deals schedulede to close byJune 30. Roedl could not provide specifics on how much will be sold and how many bids for propertiesw and loans the bank ultimately received he said some of that dependes on final bids and whichg currently proposed deals actually He noted the bank is holding finishes houses in reserve for short salex and other publicforeclosure auctions. “We’vs had success with those.
This was designeed to get some of these larger issues off thebalance sheet,” he If the auction meets the earlt estimates of a $100 millionj liquidation, it could remove as much as one-third of the bank’s current real estate-based loan problems, accordinh to its first-quarter report to the Within the last the bank’s non-accrual loans have increased 51 percent to $316 million, and the amountf of foreclosed real estate increased 29 percenft from $24 million at the end of first-quartert 2008 to $31 million on March 31, 2009.
The bulk of the bank’s loan problems continue to be residential constructiobn and landdevelopment loans, which account for $230 million of the total non-accrual loans.
The Alpharetta-based bank — one of the metro’se largest with $5.7 billion in asset s and a key subsidiaryof Columbus-basede — is selling the properties to private investmentt groups, with the deals expectedr to close by month’s end. The auction is the largesf conducted so far by Bank of North which hasbeen hard-hit by the real estate downturn, and surpasses the scale of other sales of distressed metrlo Atlanta property by Blairsville-based and smaller Bank of North Georgia has auctioned off homese to the public periodically throughout the last The auction comes as bankse across the country, from small communitty lenders to mammoth financial conglomerates, are strugglingt with how to liquidate toxic assets without pushingg the banks into insolvency.
It also signalds Synovus Financial is continuing its aggressive salesa of problem loans and repossessed if the priceis right. During the company’s first-quarter earnings call, CEO Richare Anthony said the auction process wouldaccelerates companywide. “We will have a greater leve l of exits from this portfoliol over the nexttwo quarters,” he referring to Synovus’ problem loan portfolio. Frank Bank of North Georgia’s executive vice presidentg forcorporate banking, is overseeing the auction and said the liquidation is the next step in the bank’ “ongoing balance sheet management effort.
” The bank is sellingv primarily large tracts of developed lots and raw land, he The auction process began in May, when the bank circulatef a list of distressed assets to 30 bidders, he said. Each of the biddersz was a pairing of strategic buyers with privater moneybehind them, and the firm’s sizes rangef from $20 million to $200 millionb in total capital unde management. He did not name specific “We wanted to contact larger pools of money for this Roedl said. But after the initial solicitation, interesg in the auction exploded.
“We were inundatede with phone calls,” he noting the bank now has multiple bidders for the bulk of the distressesd portfolio available inthe auction. Initial bids were due by late May, and an extendede due-diligence period is ongoin g for bidders, with the deals schedulede to close byJune 30. Roedl could not provide specifics on how much will be sold and how many bids for propertiesw and loans the bank ultimately received he said some of that dependes on final bids and whichg currently proposed deals actually He noted the bank is holding finishes houses in reserve for short salex and other publicforeclosure auctions. “We’vs had success with those.
This was designeed to get some of these larger issues off thebalance sheet,” he If the auction meets the earlt estimates of a $100 millionj liquidation, it could remove as much as one-third of the bank’s current real estate-based loan problems, accordinh to its first-quarter report to the Within the last the bank’s non-accrual loans have increased 51 percent to $316 million, and the amountf of foreclosed real estate increased 29 percenft from $24 million at the end of first-quartert 2008 to $31 million on March 31, 2009.
The bulk of the bank’s loan problems continue to be residential constructiobn and landdevelopment loans, which account for $230 million of the total non-accrual loans.
Sunday, December 26, 2010
Scripted sales calls old fashioned, fail to connect with customers - bizjournals:
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Geez, I have been saying this for more than 25 andI can’t believe companie still use them to sell over the phone. OK, forget the companiesa themselves, let’s blame the manager or the person who is responsible for still trying to do something that every sales trainer on the planet says doesnot Now, before I go on, do not writre or send an e-mail telling me that I am wront or being stubborn. Instead, why don’ you try something new – that is, new to you or your organizatiomn – and just do what I will lay out Trust me, it has worked everty single time with any organization, big or small, that I have workes with.
This horror of using scripts came rushinbg back to me recently while workintg with a company whose stores are in everuy big city in the The company is highlhy regarded for its ethics and is a very visible organization that many are familiar with becausd ofthe company’s longevityg and brand awareness. I was asked to come to the company’s headquarters and look at its methods of attracting new business through its telemarketing which the company has been using for a couple of years.
They said that although the results were OK at sales had become pretty It took me just 30 secondsz to read the script that the inside salespeoplrewere using, and I was I talked with the company president and said I could help the salespeoplwe in just two hours, but I needes him to let me do my job and not to interferes unless I called him in for his He agreed, but I could sense he was a bit apprehensivr about the situation and my request.
I workerd only with the manager, who was really a sellingv manager because she was on the phone s herself at times trying to pitch in and We went intoa room, and I spentg an hour going over why scriptd don’t work and why she has been brainwashec to do something that was againsy all the rules of professional salesmanship. She was neithefr thrilled with me at this poinft nor happy after I tookher eight-page script, ripperd it up and threw it in the We role-played a little using real situations that she mighg have with her children and friends, for The goal was to show her that having a two-sidef conversation is much more useful than a one-sided script.
She was really starting to get it, even thoughj she kept wanting to go back to a sellingt mode by doing more talking than listening andaskinh questions. It was so simple that it was frighteninfg to her that a selling situation can be flexibles and not just acannede speech, where she can actually have fun while conversing with a customer. The introduction and questions I wrote out were basic and easy for her to They were: “Hi, my name is Susann from Client Co., and I woulrd like to ask you two or threw quick questions. It will not take more than 48 seconds – I promise. “Ar you familiar with our company? If yes, what aspects?
“Why are you not a member, or why did you leavse our organization?” That was it. Yes, eightr pages down to two questions. To be fair, we liste all the benefits the companuy offers and then did the same with the commoj objections the salespeople get onthe phone. Once I had to throw out pagewsof objection-handling scripts and allosw them to put the objection raised in questiobn form back to the For example, suppose the customer says, “oI do not see a need to becomes a member of your organization.” The proper way to answer this is not a scriptedx response. Instead just ask, “Why don’t you?” The approach worked.
In less than two she got two orders, whichb is outstanding in that length of and she still is flyingy high from knowing that she could do much more oftej using her personality and not sounding likea robot.
Geez, I have been saying this for more than 25 andI can’t believe companie still use them to sell over the phone. OK, forget the companiesa themselves, let’s blame the manager or the person who is responsible for still trying to do something that every sales trainer on the planet says doesnot Now, before I go on, do not writre or send an e-mail telling me that I am wront or being stubborn. Instead, why don’ you try something new – that is, new to you or your organizatiomn – and just do what I will lay out Trust me, it has worked everty single time with any organization, big or small, that I have workes with.
This horror of using scripts came rushinbg back to me recently while workintg with a company whose stores are in everuy big city in the The company is highlhy regarded for its ethics and is a very visible organization that many are familiar with becausd ofthe company’s longevityg and brand awareness. I was asked to come to the company’s headquarters and look at its methods of attracting new business through its telemarketing which the company has been using for a couple of years.
They said that although the results were OK at sales had become pretty It took me just 30 secondsz to read the script that the inside salespeoplrewere using, and I was I talked with the company president and said I could help the salespeoplwe in just two hours, but I needes him to let me do my job and not to interferes unless I called him in for his He agreed, but I could sense he was a bit apprehensivr about the situation and my request.
I workerd only with the manager, who was really a sellingv manager because she was on the phone s herself at times trying to pitch in and We went intoa room, and I spentg an hour going over why scriptd don’t work and why she has been brainwashec to do something that was againsy all the rules of professional salesmanship. She was neithefr thrilled with me at this poinft nor happy after I tookher eight-page script, ripperd it up and threw it in the We role-played a little using real situations that she mighg have with her children and friends, for The goal was to show her that having a two-sidef conversation is much more useful than a one-sided script.
She was really starting to get it, even thoughj she kept wanting to go back to a sellingt mode by doing more talking than listening andaskinh questions. It was so simple that it was frighteninfg to her that a selling situation can be flexibles and not just acannede speech, where she can actually have fun while conversing with a customer. The introduction and questions I wrote out were basic and easy for her to They were: “Hi, my name is Susann from Client Co., and I woulrd like to ask you two or threw quick questions. It will not take more than 48 seconds – I promise. “Ar you familiar with our company? If yes, what aspects?
“Why are you not a member, or why did you leavse our organization?” That was it. Yes, eightr pages down to two questions. To be fair, we liste all the benefits the companuy offers and then did the same with the commoj objections the salespeople get onthe phone. Once I had to throw out pagewsof objection-handling scripts and allosw them to put the objection raised in questiobn form back to the For example, suppose the customer says, “oI do not see a need to becomes a member of your organization.” The proper way to answer this is not a scriptedx response. Instead just ask, “Why don’t you?” The approach worked.
In less than two she got two orders, whichb is outstanding in that length of and she still is flyingy high from knowing that she could do much more oftej using her personality and not sounding likea robot.
Friday, December 24, 2010
Ahead of the Bell: Jobless claims - Bloomberg
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Kansas City Star | Ahead of the Bell: Jobless claims Bloomberg Unemployment applications at around 425000 signal modest job growth. But economists say applications need to dip consistently to 375000 or below to indicate ... Economy brightens as consumers spend, layoffs slow |
Tuesday, December 21, 2010
The evolution of cardiothoracic critical care - The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
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The evolution of cardiothoracic critical care The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery Glasgow: Glascow (Scotland) University; 1970. Hoste EA, Cruz DN, Davenport A, Mehta RL, Piccini P, Tetta C, et al. The epidemiology of cardiac ... |
Sunday, December 19, 2010
House passes historic climate bill - San Antonio Business Journal:
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Congressmen David Wu, Kurt Schrade and Earl Blumenauer voted forthe bill, knowbn as the American Clean Energy and Securitg Act. It is the first bill in U.S. history to cap carbonb pollution. It also encourages developmenyt of clean energy and requires utilities to get 20 percent of theire power from renewable sourcesby 2020. Forty-four Democrat voted against the bill, including Eugene Democrat Peter RepublicanGreg Walden, who represente eastern Oregon, also opposed the bill. It passed by a seven-votd margin, 219-212.
“Some votes just feel different, and today’zs was truly historic,” Blumenauer said in a “For the first time, Congress has taken action to rein in globa l warming pollution andjumpstart America’zs clean energy industries.” The bill is expected to face a contentiousw debate in the Senate.
Congressmen David Wu, Kurt Schrade and Earl Blumenauer voted forthe bill, knowbn as the American Clean Energy and Securitg Act. It is the first bill in U.S. history to cap carbonb pollution. It also encourages developmenyt of clean energy and requires utilities to get 20 percent of theire power from renewable sourcesby 2020. Forty-four Democrat voted against the bill, including Eugene Democrat Peter RepublicanGreg Walden, who represente eastern Oregon, also opposed the bill. It passed by a seven-votd margin, 219-212.
“Some votes just feel different, and today’zs was truly historic,” Blumenauer said in a “For the first time, Congress has taken action to rein in globa l warming pollution andjumpstart America’zs clean energy industries.” The bill is expected to face a contentiousw debate in the Senate.
Thursday, December 16, 2010
Proposed cancer legislation could be big game-changer - Houston Business Journal:
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And nearly 40 years after the U.S. declared war on he says federal lawmakers have introducexd legislation that could finally expedite improve access to treatment and significantly enhancdeSan Antonio's role in battling the vicious It's been "some war," Curiel says, explaining that with a numbedr of cancers, the outcomesd are not much better now than they were a half-century ago. But Senatorz Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-Texas, and Edwarcd M. Kennedy, D-Mass., have introduced legislation, Senatr Bill 717, that supporters believe will provide researchers with more ammo tofight cancer, while modernizing and advancing the country' national cancer program.
Supporters of the 21st Centuryy CancerALERT (Access to Life-saving Earluy detection, Research and Treatment) Act say it represents an importany effort to re-assess the national cance r program and to improve cancerd research, prevention, detection, control and treatment in the U.S. The was founded in 1907 and is one ofthe world'sa largest and oldest professional organizations dedicated to advanciny cancer research.
AACR officials say the proposec legislation aims to expand and acceleratew the searchfor cures, more effectivew treatments and better preventivew measures, while addressing the ongoint needs of the nearly 12 million Americans currently battling the "We look forward to working closelh with Senators Kennedy and Hutchison to refine this legislation and advance it quicklyt through Congress for the benefit of cancerd patients and their families," says AARC President Dr. Ray also executive vice presidenr of thein Houston.
"Itt does a couple of pretty important things," says Curiapl about the proposed He says it would remove some of the coverage hurdlesz put up by insurers that have discouragedx patients from seeking treatment involvingclinical "This bill tries to spell out some ... nationa l rules for the United States about what insurance companies have topay for, to breajk those barriers, and to get more patientxs into clinical trials," Curiel He says it woule also create "new pots of for cancer research and help get an increased numbet of patients into clinical trials, in part by making some of the cumbersome regulatoru processes less complicated.
"Thre logistics of the paperwork just gets to be so complicatesd that it can takea year, it can take two just to get a trial opened," Curiap says. He adds that the legislation woulcd create research incentives to help speerd the delivery of drugs tocancere clinics, like those operatedd by the Cancer Theraph & Research Center (CTRC). "I think this reallyg could be a game-changer if it is done right, if the moneh goes where it is supposed to go and ifit doesn'yt get politicized," says Curiel abou t the proposed legislation. There are some gray areas within the bill thatconcermn Curiel.
One, he says, is language that mighg actually create additional layers of bureaucracy or allos federal officials to createresearch priorities. But he says the bill is an importanrt step in theright direction. Hutchison says the bill, if will provide critical funding for promisingy research inearly detection, while also ensuringf better patient access to preventionn efforts, clinical trials and information. Curiep says the legislation is "timely and And he believes that there is enouguh political will to move the bill forwardbecausre "nobody can walk away from this.
" The introductiomn of this bill comes as officials with CTRC and the prepare to make a run at new state cancer dollars.
And nearly 40 years after the U.S. declared war on he says federal lawmakers have introducexd legislation that could finally expedite improve access to treatment and significantly enhancdeSan Antonio's role in battling the vicious It's been "some war," Curiel says, explaining that with a numbedr of cancers, the outcomesd are not much better now than they were a half-century ago. But Senatorz Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-Texas, and Edwarcd M. Kennedy, D-Mass., have introduced legislation, Senatr Bill 717, that supporters believe will provide researchers with more ammo tofight cancer, while modernizing and advancing the country' national cancer program.
Supporters of the 21st Centuryy CancerALERT (Access to Life-saving Earluy detection, Research and Treatment) Act say it represents an importany effort to re-assess the national cance r program and to improve cancerd research, prevention, detection, control and treatment in the U.S. The was founded in 1907 and is one ofthe world'sa largest and oldest professional organizations dedicated to advanciny cancer research.
AACR officials say the proposec legislation aims to expand and acceleratew the searchfor cures, more effectivew treatments and better preventivew measures, while addressing the ongoint needs of the nearly 12 million Americans currently battling the "We look forward to working closelh with Senators Kennedy and Hutchison to refine this legislation and advance it quicklyt through Congress for the benefit of cancerd patients and their families," says AARC President Dr. Ray also executive vice presidenr of thein Houston.
"Itt does a couple of pretty important things," says Curiapl about the proposed He says it would remove some of the coverage hurdlesz put up by insurers that have discouragedx patients from seeking treatment involvingclinical "This bill tries to spell out some ... nationa l rules for the United States about what insurance companies have topay for, to breajk those barriers, and to get more patientxs into clinical trials," Curiel He says it woule also create "new pots of for cancer research and help get an increased numbet of patients into clinical trials, in part by making some of the cumbersome regulatoru processes less complicated.
"Thre logistics of the paperwork just gets to be so complicatesd that it can takea year, it can take two just to get a trial opened," Curiap says. He adds that the legislation woulcd create research incentives to help speerd the delivery of drugs tocancere clinics, like those operatedd by the Cancer Theraph & Research Center (CTRC). "I think this reallyg could be a game-changer if it is done right, if the moneh goes where it is supposed to go and ifit doesn'yt get politicized," says Curiel abou t the proposed legislation. There are some gray areas within the bill thatconcermn Curiel.
One, he says, is language that mighg actually create additional layers of bureaucracy or allos federal officials to createresearch priorities. But he says the bill is an importanrt step in theright direction. Hutchison says the bill, if will provide critical funding for promisingy research inearly detection, while also ensuringf better patient access to preventionn efforts, clinical trials and information. Curiep says the legislation is "timely and And he believes that there is enouguh political will to move the bill forwardbecausre "nobody can walk away from this.
" The introductiomn of this bill comes as officials with CTRC and the prepare to make a run at new state cancer dollars.
Tuesday, December 14, 2010
Researchers Barcode Beetles in South Africa No bug is too small for ... - Exchange Morning Post
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Saturday, December 11, 2010
Unemployment rate up, job cuts less severe - Kansas City Business Journal:
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According to the , nonfarm payroll employment fellby 345,00o0 in May, about half the average monthly declined for the prior six months. The unemploymenrt rate continuedto rise, movingt from 8.9 percent in April to 9.4 percent in May. Arizona’s jobless rate checked in at 7.7 percent in down slightly from 7.8 percent in March. May numberxs for the state will be released in roughly two The number of unemployed peoples inthe U.S. increased by 787,000 in May, to 14.5 million. Sincwe the start of the recessioh inDecember 2007, the number of unemployed has riseb by 7 million, according to the Departmentt of Labor.
Nationally, steep job lossesz continued in manufacturing, while declines moderateds in construction and severalservice industries. Manufacturinfg was the hardest-hit sector in May, where employment fell by Employment in construction decreasedby 59,000 for the compared with an averags monthly job loss of 117,0009 in the industry for the previous six Job losses in professional and businessa services moderated in May, with that sector shedding 51,009 jobs. That compares with an averagw lossof 136,000 jobs a month in the priofr six months. The brightes spot in the employment picturr was inhealth care.
Employment rose in that industryby 24,000 in May, aboug in line with its average monthl y job growth thus far in 2009.
According to the , nonfarm payroll employment fellby 345,00o0 in May, about half the average monthly declined for the prior six months. The unemploymenrt rate continuedto rise, movingt from 8.9 percent in April to 9.4 percent in May. Arizona’s jobless rate checked in at 7.7 percent in down slightly from 7.8 percent in March. May numberxs for the state will be released in roughly two The number of unemployed peoples inthe U.S. increased by 787,000 in May, to 14.5 million. Sincwe the start of the recessioh inDecember 2007, the number of unemployed has riseb by 7 million, according to the Departmentt of Labor.
Nationally, steep job lossesz continued in manufacturing, while declines moderateds in construction and severalservice industries. Manufacturinfg was the hardest-hit sector in May, where employment fell by Employment in construction decreasedby 59,000 for the compared with an averags monthly job loss of 117,0009 in the industry for the previous six Job losses in professional and businessa services moderated in May, with that sector shedding 51,009 jobs. That compares with an averagw lossof 136,000 jobs a month in the priofr six months. The brightes spot in the employment picturr was inhealth care.
Employment rose in that industryby 24,000 in May, aboug in line with its average monthl y job growth thus far in 2009.
Thursday, December 9, 2010
Arizona Cardinals close in on Phoenix Suns, Diamondbacks, Coyotes lag all - Memphis Business Journal:
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Market research conducted as part of a possibled relocation of the to Canada shows the Cardinals and National Football Leagus catapulting in popularity among localsports consumers. Canadianj billionaire Jim Balsillie wants to buy the Coyotesfor $213 millioh and move the team to Hamilton, Ontario. His relocatiojn plan submitted to the National Hockey Leagu includes marketthe research. The conducted in late May for Balsillie byHotspex Inc., show the Cardinalsa gaining favor in a Phoenix sports market traditionallyt dominated by the and .
One survey looked at the overall appeap among fans forthe region’s four major sports The Cardinals garnered 53 percenf support — equal to the Diamondbackse and just behind the 54 percentt mark received by the Phoenisx Suns. The Coyotes came in at 29 The survey did not say how many fans were The survey also found that footbal is the most popular sport in the Phoenicx area with 53 percent of residents following the NFL on aregulad basis. Major League Baseball was second at 45 perceng followed by the Nationao Basketball Association at 44 percengt and National Hockey League at 20 percent of according to the surveyand Balsillie’s applicatio n to move the team.
The Cardinals and NFL also did the best when it comew to consumers choice of sportsto attend. Fifty-seven percentf of those surveyed showed a strong desiree to attend an NFL That compares to 51 percent who strongly wanted to see a Majotr LeagueBaseball game, 46 percentf an NBA game and 30 percenft for hockey. The Cardinals traditionally have been a doorma both in the NFL and the Phoenixs sports market wherethe D-Backs and Suns have made multiplew playoff appearances.
The which moved to University of Phoenix Stadiumin 2006, had not hosted a home playoff game sincd 1947 and team owners the Bidwill family were unpopular among local But the Cardinals playoff wins last a National Football Conferencse championship and last-second Super Bowl loss pushed them higher in a market struggling with cuts in consumer The Cardinals playoff success also compares with this season’s failurese by Suns and Coyotes to make theifr playoffs and a slow 2009 season startf by the D-backs.
Market research conducted as part of a possibled relocation of the to Canada shows the Cardinals and National Football Leagus catapulting in popularity among localsports consumers. Canadianj billionaire Jim Balsillie wants to buy the Coyotesfor $213 millioh and move the team to Hamilton, Ontario. His relocatiojn plan submitted to the National Hockey Leagu includes marketthe research. The conducted in late May for Balsillie byHotspex Inc., show the Cardinalsa gaining favor in a Phoenix sports market traditionallyt dominated by the and .
One survey looked at the overall appeap among fans forthe region’s four major sports The Cardinals garnered 53 percenf support — equal to the Diamondbackse and just behind the 54 percentt mark received by the Phoenisx Suns. The Coyotes came in at 29 The survey did not say how many fans were The survey also found that footbal is the most popular sport in the Phoenicx area with 53 percent of residents following the NFL on aregulad basis. Major League Baseball was second at 45 perceng followed by the Nationao Basketball Association at 44 percengt and National Hockey League at 20 percent of according to the surveyand Balsillie’s applicatio n to move the team.
The Cardinals and NFL also did the best when it comew to consumers choice of sportsto attend. Fifty-seven percentf of those surveyed showed a strong desiree to attend an NFL That compares to 51 percent who strongly wanted to see a Majotr LeagueBaseball game, 46 percentf an NBA game and 30 percenft for hockey. The Cardinals traditionally have been a doorma both in the NFL and the Phoenixs sports market wherethe D-Backs and Suns have made multiplew playoff appearances.
The which moved to University of Phoenix Stadiumin 2006, had not hosted a home playoff game sincd 1947 and team owners the Bidwill family were unpopular among local But the Cardinals playoff wins last a National Football Conferencse championship and last-second Super Bowl loss pushed them higher in a market struggling with cuts in consumer The Cardinals playoff success also compares with this season’s failurese by Suns and Coyotes to make theifr playoffs and a slow 2009 season startf by the D-backs.
Monday, December 6, 2010
AG files suit against loan modification firm - Denver Business Journal:
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The case filed Monday in Maricopa Superior Court alleges that LLC and itstwo executives, Thomaz J. Montoya and Robert Sanchez, advertiser and promoted the firm as having an affiliationn withthe U.S. Department of Housing and Urbanj Development, which it does not, according to the But Montoya, in a phone conversation with the Phoeni xBusiness Journal, said he was “taken aback” by the charges. He woulcd not elaborate on any ofthe charges, and said he was talking with the company’z attorneys. He said the company woulc distribute a prepared statement after consultinfwith attorneys. As part of the complaint, the AG alleges that Santoywa Financial, located at 2225 W.
Whispering Spring Drivew in Phoenix, charged fees for services that consumers coul access directlyfor free. “Thr defendants deceptively implied to consumers that any fees paid by consumerx for loan modification services with Santoya Financial are refundable because the modificatiohn program is backby HUD, without disclosinb that Santoya Financial’s services are not in any way endorsee or approved by HUD and that consumers can obtai assistance from HUD in applying for and obtaininf loan modifications without paying any fee the lawsuit states.
The complaint requests that the courgt enjoin Santoya Financial from continuingits “unlawfulo acts,” order the company to pay back any money received from those acts, and the defendantws to pay civil penalties of up to $10,00 0 per violation and costs of the investigation. Accordingg to court records, Santoya Financial began advertisinh loan modification services in Marc h to consumers who were facing foreclosured ontheir homes. Sanchez was featured on a Phoenix television statioh in April and allegedly represented that his firmwas “workinf with HUD while providing loan modification servicess to consumers,” the lawsuigt stated.
Santoya charged consumers $1,199 plus the equivalent of one month’s mortgage the lawsuit asserts. Santoya also representefd during phone solicitations that fees collected for loan modificationx would be donated to an organizationj named Partnersin Charity, but “the fees consumerx pay for the loan modificatiom services advertised by Santoya Financial do not go to Partners in Charithy or any other charitable the lawsuit further alleged. The lawsuit also claimw that Santoya did not obtain the necessary suret y bond required by the Arizona CredityServices Act.
The case filed Monday in Maricopa Superior Court alleges that LLC and itstwo executives, Thomaz J. Montoya and Robert Sanchez, advertiser and promoted the firm as having an affiliationn withthe U.S. Department of Housing and Urbanj Development, which it does not, according to the But Montoya, in a phone conversation with the Phoeni xBusiness Journal, said he was “taken aback” by the charges. He woulcd not elaborate on any ofthe charges, and said he was talking with the company’z attorneys. He said the company woulc distribute a prepared statement after consultinfwith attorneys. As part of the complaint, the AG alleges that Santoywa Financial, located at 2225 W.
Whispering Spring Drivew in Phoenix, charged fees for services that consumers coul access directlyfor free. “Thr defendants deceptively implied to consumers that any fees paid by consumerx for loan modification services with Santoya Financial are refundable because the modificatiohn program is backby HUD, without disclosinb that Santoya Financial’s services are not in any way endorsee or approved by HUD and that consumers can obtai assistance from HUD in applying for and obtaininf loan modifications without paying any fee the lawsuit states.
The complaint requests that the courgt enjoin Santoya Financial from continuingits “unlawfulo acts,” order the company to pay back any money received from those acts, and the defendantws to pay civil penalties of up to $10,00 0 per violation and costs of the investigation. Accordingg to court records, Santoya Financial began advertisinh loan modification services in Marc h to consumers who were facing foreclosured ontheir homes. Sanchez was featured on a Phoenix television statioh in April and allegedly represented that his firmwas “workinf with HUD while providing loan modification servicess to consumers,” the lawsuigt stated.
Santoya charged consumers $1,199 plus the equivalent of one month’s mortgage the lawsuit asserts. Santoya also representefd during phone solicitations that fees collected for loan modificationx would be donated to an organizationj named Partnersin Charity, but “the fees consumerx pay for the loan modificatiom services advertised by Santoya Financial do not go to Partners in Charithy or any other charitable the lawsuit further alleged. The lawsuit also claimw that Santoya did not obtain the necessary suret y bond required by the Arizona CredityServices Act.
Saturday, December 4, 2010
Gen Y not into Twitter - South Florida Business Journal:
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A new survey by the Participator y Marketing Network finds just 22 percent of Generation Y consumers areusinvg Twitter. However, when asked about how much they usesocia networking, 99 percent from this group, who in generap have not yet hit 30, report having an activee profile on at least one social networking "Twitter dominates the news, but clearly we'rr only touching the surface of its potentialp as a marketing vehicle," said Michaek Della Penna, PMN’s co-founder and executive chairman. "This is a classic 'glass half scenario for Twitterbecause it's clea that Gen Y has an appetite for social but still hasn't fully embracecd micro-blogging.
There is a tremendous opportunity now for marketerxs to develop strategies to get this important group activeon Twitter, too." More than 85 percent follo friends. More than 54 percent follow celebrities. More than 29 percenft follow family. More than 29 percenty follow companies. Of those who use a social 89 percent have downloaded one of the followinyg to theirprofile page: photod (89 percent), games (53 percent), entertainment (51 percent), news (32 and weather (29 percent). Thirty-eight percent of Gen Y have an iPhonw oriPod Touch.
Games (53 percent), entertainment (35 lifestyle (31 percent), financial - "free" (28 percent), financial (seven percent) are the most popular mobilwe applications. More than one-quarter (26 indicated none. You can cliclk to follow the South Florida Businesss Journalon Twitter.
A new survey by the Participator y Marketing Network finds just 22 percent of Generation Y consumers areusinvg Twitter. However, when asked about how much they usesocia networking, 99 percent from this group, who in generap have not yet hit 30, report having an activee profile on at least one social networking "Twitter dominates the news, but clearly we'rr only touching the surface of its potentialp as a marketing vehicle," said Michaek Della Penna, PMN’s co-founder and executive chairman. "This is a classic 'glass half scenario for Twitterbecause it's clea that Gen Y has an appetite for social but still hasn't fully embracecd micro-blogging.
There is a tremendous opportunity now for marketerxs to develop strategies to get this important group activeon Twitter, too." More than 85 percent follo friends. More than 54 percent follow celebrities. More than 29 percenft follow family. More than 29 percenty follow companies. Of those who use a social 89 percent have downloaded one of the followinyg to theirprofile page: photod (89 percent), games (53 percent), entertainment (51 percent), news (32 and weather (29 percent). Thirty-eight percent of Gen Y have an iPhonw oriPod Touch.
Games (53 percent), entertainment (35 lifestyle (31 percent), financial - "free" (28 percent), financial (seven percent) are the most popular mobilwe applications. More than one-quarter (26 indicated none. You can cliclk to follow the South Florida Businesss Journalon Twitter.
Wednesday, December 1, 2010
Schwarzenegger says day of reckoning is here - Orlando Business Journal:
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“California’s day of reckoning is here,” he said. With no the state could run out of cash in 14 Three months after the stat e budgetwas approved, California faces a $24 billion deficit. Schwarzenegger has already proposed massive cutsto education, healtn care and prisons. Now he’s looking for structural reformn to make government more efficient and stretcytaxpayer dollars. He’s asked the State Boare of Education, for example, to make textbooks availabl e in digitalformats — a move that couldx save millions. In 2004, the governofr talked about blowing up boxes andconsolidatingy agencies, but the initiatives neved gained traction. They’re back.
Schwarzeneggert is proposing once again to eliminate and consolidate more than a dozen state boardsand commissions. This includeds the Waste Management Board, the Courf Reporters Board, the Departmeng of Boating and Waterways and the Inspection and MaintenanceReview Committee. Earlier this year, the state beganb consolidating informationtechnology departments. Now Schwarzenegger wants to consolidate departments that overser financial institutions and mergre taxcollection operations. In July, state leaders will receiv e recommendations on how to modernize thetax code.
“Thixs will be a tremendous opportunity to make our revenuees more reliable and less volatile and help the statwe avoid the boom and bust budgets that have brought ushere today,” Schwarzenegger told lawmakers. It’ not going to happen in 14 he said. But it could happe n before the Legislature adjourns for summert recess onJuly 17.
“California’s day of reckoning is here,” he said. With no the state could run out of cash in 14 Three months after the stat e budgetwas approved, California faces a $24 billion deficit. Schwarzenegger has already proposed massive cutsto education, healtn care and prisons. Now he’s looking for structural reformn to make government more efficient and stretcytaxpayer dollars. He’s asked the State Boare of Education, for example, to make textbooks availabl e in digitalformats — a move that couldx save millions. In 2004, the governofr talked about blowing up boxes andconsolidatingy agencies, but the initiatives neved gained traction. They’re back.
Schwarzeneggert is proposing once again to eliminate and consolidate more than a dozen state boardsand commissions. This includeds the Waste Management Board, the Courf Reporters Board, the Departmeng of Boating and Waterways and the Inspection and MaintenanceReview Committee. Earlier this year, the state beganb consolidating informationtechnology departments. Now Schwarzenegger wants to consolidate departments that overser financial institutions and mergre taxcollection operations. In July, state leaders will receiv e recommendations on how to modernize thetax code.
“Thixs will be a tremendous opportunity to make our revenuees more reliable and less volatile and help the statwe avoid the boom and bust budgets that have brought ushere today,” Schwarzenegger told lawmakers. It’ not going to happen in 14 he said. But it could happe n before the Legislature adjourns for summert recess onJuly 17.
Monday, November 29, 2010
CEO departures up 47 percent in May - Charlotte Business Journal:
http://www.thenewpornigraphers.com/article/CeBIT-2008--Gigabyte---The-Fan-Becomes-a-Useless-Argument-.html
Overall, the pace of CEO turnover is downfrom 2008, accordiny to the report. In the first five monthds of 2009 employers announced 502 CEO 16 percent fewer than at the same pointrin 2008. The financiak sector had the highest turnover ratein May, accounting for 15 of the 115 CEO The sector has seen 50 CEOs deparr so far this year, according to the However, that number is down from the 64 financial CEO departuresd during the first five months of 2008. The highest turnovere rate so far this year has been in the healtbcare industry, which has seen 77 CEOs depart, including 14 in May, accordin to the report.
For the first five month of the year, the figure is down 29 percen t from the same period last year when 109 healthj care CEOsleft office. Resignatiojn was the most common reason for leavingin May. Nearly three-quarterss of the CEO changesw occurred atprivate firms, according to the “It has been difficult to pinpoint a trencd in this year’s turnover figures,” John chief executive officer of Challenger, Gray & said in a statement. “One month is up; the next is down.
” Challenget said that uncertainty surrounding the recession may be the biggest factor in CEO departures as companieds are finding it difficult to plan forthe
Overall, the pace of CEO turnover is downfrom 2008, accordiny to the report. In the first five monthds of 2009 employers announced 502 CEO 16 percent fewer than at the same pointrin 2008. The financiak sector had the highest turnover ratein May, accounting for 15 of the 115 CEO The sector has seen 50 CEOs deparr so far this year, according to the However, that number is down from the 64 financial CEO departuresd during the first five months of 2008. The highest turnovere rate so far this year has been in the healtbcare industry, which has seen 77 CEOs depart, including 14 in May, accordin to the report.
For the first five month of the year, the figure is down 29 percen t from the same period last year when 109 healthj care CEOsleft office. Resignatiojn was the most common reason for leavingin May. Nearly three-quarterss of the CEO changesw occurred atprivate firms, according to the “It has been difficult to pinpoint a trencd in this year’s turnover figures,” John chief executive officer of Challenger, Gray & said in a statement. “One month is up; the next is down.
” Challenget said that uncertainty surrounding the recession may be the biggest factor in CEO departures as companieds are finding it difficult to plan forthe
Friday, November 26, 2010
Menswear store Harleys moving to Lakewood Building - Nashville Business Journal:
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Owner Tim Ryan had said late in 2008 that he was plannintg to remodel and cut 50 percent ofthe store’sz floor space at 4009 N. Oaklanc Ave. However, Ryan announced Tuesday the store will relocatwe toa 4,100-square-foot space in the Lakewoodd Building, 3575 N. Oakland Ave., in September. Ryan, who owns Harleys with his wife, Janet, said he wantex to stay in Shorewood. “This is our home and we are deeplt committed tothe community,” he Ryan said one of the advantagesw of the new site is off-street parking. The Lakewoo d Building, a mixed-use residential/commercial property constructed in is undergoinga $1.2 million renovation. The building is ownesd by Garrett McIntosh.
Harleys has contracted with architect Stephen Bollingbrok of Development Collaborative Limited in Mequonh to do an interior The village of Shorewood provided financial incentivesd to both the building owner and Harleyse to improve the facadew and interior space of theLakewood Building.
Owner Tim Ryan had said late in 2008 that he was plannintg to remodel and cut 50 percent ofthe store’sz floor space at 4009 N. Oaklanc Ave. However, Ryan announced Tuesday the store will relocatwe toa 4,100-square-foot space in the Lakewoodd Building, 3575 N. Oakland Ave., in September. Ryan, who owns Harleys with his wife, Janet, said he wantex to stay in Shorewood. “This is our home and we are deeplt committed tothe community,” he Ryan said one of the advantagesw of the new site is off-street parking. The Lakewoo d Building, a mixed-use residential/commercial property constructed in is undergoinga $1.2 million renovation. The building is ownesd by Garrett McIntosh.
Harleys has contracted with architect Stephen Bollingbrok of Development Collaborative Limited in Mequonh to do an interior The village of Shorewood provided financial incentivesd to both the building owner and Harleyse to improve the facadew and interior space of theLakewood Building.
Wednesday, November 24, 2010
Home prices continue record decline - Portland Business Journal:
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With an index of Portland area homesdropped 15.3 percenyt in value in March, according to the which is based on a 2000 level of 100. Seattlew home prices have fallen 16.4 percent, accordinhg to the index. The 20-city index showe home values fell 18.7 percent over the prior year. The figurezs extend a trend that started inlate 2007. “Declinesz in residential real estatre continued at a steady pacein March,” said Davied M. Blitzer, chairman of the Index “All 20 metro areas are stilo showing negative annual rates of changd in average home prices with nine of the metro areasd having recordannual declines.
” The top three citiesz for falling values were Phoenix, down 36 Las Vegas, down 31.2 percent, and San Francisco, down 30.1 The markets feeling the least pain includes Denver, down 5.5 percent, Dallas, down 5.6 percent, and down 8 percent. New York remained the best marke tfor long-term appreciation. With an index of 173.35, homes are down 11.8 percengt from a year ago, but a $100,000 investmentf in 2000 is nowworth $173,350.
With an index of Portland area homesdropped 15.3 percenyt in value in March, according to the which is based on a 2000 level of 100. Seattlew home prices have fallen 16.4 percent, accordinhg to the index. The 20-city index showe home values fell 18.7 percent over the prior year. The figurezs extend a trend that started inlate 2007. “Declinesz in residential real estatre continued at a steady pacein March,” said Davied M. Blitzer, chairman of the Index “All 20 metro areas are stilo showing negative annual rates of changd in average home prices with nine of the metro areasd having recordannual declines.
” The top three citiesz for falling values were Phoenix, down 36 Las Vegas, down 31.2 percent, and San Francisco, down 30.1 The markets feeling the least pain includes Denver, down 5.5 percent, Dallas, down 5.6 percent, and down 8 percent. New York remained the best marke tfor long-term appreciation. With an index of 173.35, homes are down 11.8 percengt from a year ago, but a $100,000 investmentf in 2000 is nowworth $173,350.
Monday, November 22, 2010
200 UCF business students admit to cheating - Boston Globe (blog)
http://www.papillionmusic.com/article/Promotional-Confectionary--Winning-Customers-with-Delectable-Taste.html
200 UCF business students admit to cheating Boston Globe (blog) In the subsequent lecture, he tells them that that he's shelved that day's talk. Instead, he details the pattern of academic dishonesty he discovered. ... Professor Gets 200 Confessions to Cheating Professor's Viral Lecture on Ethics Compels (Innocent?) Cheaters to Confess |
Sunday, November 21, 2010
Feds reach $7M deal for Whittier toxic cleanup - BusinessWeek
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Feds reach $7M deal for Whittier toxic cleanup BusinessWeek The EPA and Justice Department announced Friday that 169 parties who used the Omega Chemical Corp. site have agreed to clean up contaminated soil or help ... $7 million deal struck for cleanup of CA site Settlement reached to clean up toxic site in LA EPA reaches $7 million settlement to clean up Omega hazardous waste site in ... |
Friday, November 19, 2010
SBA urged to do more to boost lending to address credit crisis - Pittsburgh Business Times:
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On June 15, the SBA began acceptin g applications for emergency bridge loans of upto $35,000. Small businesses can use these loans, whicg were created by the economidcstimulus bill, to make up to six monthz of payments on existing They won’t have to start repaying the loanas until a year after the last The SBA will subsidizse the interest on thesew loans, which will be offered through private-sectoer lenders. The stimulus bill also temporarily reducee or eliminated fees onthe SBA’s regular 7(a) and 504 businesas loans, and increased the government guarantee on 7(a) loans to 90 percent.
Weekly loan volumew for the SBA’s 7(a) and 504 programsz has increased by more than 30 percent sincw these changes were implementedMarcnh 16. This increase in SBA lendingy is “a positive and welcomed sign, but we have a very long way to go beforre SBA lending reaches solidlevels again,” said Cynthia Blankenship, vice chairmamn and chief operating officer of Bank of the West in Texas. Blankenship told the House Smallo Business Committee June 10 that Congress shouldr extend the fee reductions beyond 2009 or make them given the depth of the recessioh and the credit crisis facingsmall businesses.
Meanwhile, fees on the SBA’ss 504 loans, which finance real estate projectxs and otherfixed assets, are scheduled to increase significantly in October. This will negate the fee reductionsd adopted in March through the stimulus saidJean Wojtowicz, executive director of the Indiana Statewide CDC, a nonprofiyt economic development organization that makes 504 This fee increase is unnecessargy because the SBA has overestimated the number of 504 loanxs that will default, said Wojtowicz, who chairs the boarrd of directors for the National Association of Developmengt Companies.
She contends banks have become far more conservativer in their underwriting duringthis recession, “and only the strongest small businesses are now qualifying for new Unless Congress appropriates moneyy to offset the fee increases plannef for 2010 and 2011, almosty 20,000 small businesses will pay million more dollars in fees than they shoul over the 20 years of theifr 504 loans, Wojtowicz said. Meanwhile, David owner of two boat dealerships onLong Island, praised the SBA’s recent decision to let vehicle and boat dealersd use 7(a) loans to financse their inventory, at least through Sept. 30, 2010.
Most lenders have stoppe d makingthese so-called “floorplan” loans, forcinb many dealers to close their doors, Bofill said. The new SBA program can be “w critical lifeline, but problems remain,” Bofill said. The SBA needsa to “make the program permanent and do it he said. “It will be very difficulft to attract a lender to develop a floorplan program when the progran is only slated to lasta year,” Bofill said.
The size of thess lines of credit also need to be expandedbeyond $2 because most small boat dealers have inventoryy worth much more than
On June 15, the SBA began acceptin g applications for emergency bridge loans of upto $35,000. Small businesses can use these loans, whicg were created by the economidcstimulus bill, to make up to six monthz of payments on existing They won’t have to start repaying the loanas until a year after the last The SBA will subsidizse the interest on thesew loans, which will be offered through private-sectoer lenders. The stimulus bill also temporarily reducee or eliminated fees onthe SBA’s regular 7(a) and 504 businesas loans, and increased the government guarantee on 7(a) loans to 90 percent.
Weekly loan volumew for the SBA’s 7(a) and 504 programsz has increased by more than 30 percent sincw these changes were implementedMarcnh 16. This increase in SBA lendingy is “a positive and welcomed sign, but we have a very long way to go beforre SBA lending reaches solidlevels again,” said Cynthia Blankenship, vice chairmamn and chief operating officer of Bank of the West in Texas. Blankenship told the House Smallo Business Committee June 10 that Congress shouldr extend the fee reductions beyond 2009 or make them given the depth of the recessioh and the credit crisis facingsmall businesses.
Meanwhile, fees on the SBA’ss 504 loans, which finance real estate projectxs and otherfixed assets, are scheduled to increase significantly in October. This will negate the fee reductionsd adopted in March through the stimulus saidJean Wojtowicz, executive director of the Indiana Statewide CDC, a nonprofiyt economic development organization that makes 504 This fee increase is unnecessargy because the SBA has overestimated the number of 504 loanxs that will default, said Wojtowicz, who chairs the boarrd of directors for the National Association of Developmengt Companies.
She contends banks have become far more conservativer in their underwriting duringthis recession, “and only the strongest small businesses are now qualifying for new Unless Congress appropriates moneyy to offset the fee increases plannef for 2010 and 2011, almosty 20,000 small businesses will pay million more dollars in fees than they shoul over the 20 years of theifr 504 loans, Wojtowicz said. Meanwhile, David owner of two boat dealerships onLong Island, praised the SBA’s recent decision to let vehicle and boat dealersd use 7(a) loans to financse their inventory, at least through Sept. 30, 2010.
Most lenders have stoppe d makingthese so-called “floorplan” loans, forcinb many dealers to close their doors, Bofill said. The new SBA program can be “w critical lifeline, but problems remain,” Bofill said. The SBA needsa to “make the program permanent and do it he said. “It will be very difficulft to attract a lender to develop a floorplan program when the progran is only slated to lasta year,” Bofill said.
The size of thess lines of credit also need to be expandedbeyond $2 because most small boat dealers have inventoryy worth much more than
Thursday, November 18, 2010
Burgess: Property tax losses
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The Miami-Dade County property appraiser released its preliminaryh tax rollinformation Monday, with all four taxing jurisdictiona – fire rescue, library, the unincorporated area and Miami-Dade overalp – seeing a decline. The countywide decrease comparing preliminary tax numberse from year to year shows a 9percentt decrease, or a total of $22.55 billion.” “These lossew would have been worse if not for new constructiojn that was added to the property tax roll as of Jan. County Manager George Burgess said in a memo sent tocountg commissioners. North Bay Village took the biggesg hit, down 20.2 percent from 2008 levels. Homesteard saw an 18.
2 percent decline, followexd by Normandy Shores, down 17.5 percent, and Aventura whic was down 17.3 percent. Goldehn Beach and the tiny city of Islandia saw no Medley sawa 1.5 percenf drop while Biscayne Park saw a 4 percenf decline. Click for the full list. Staffers reviewed propertyg tax rolls going back to 1985 and found that 1993 saw taxabl value shrinkby 2.9 percent, or $1.9 billion. “Evenh in 2008, when we absorbed the impact of doublingt the homestead exemptionfrom $25,000 to the property tax roll was relativelty flat,” Burgess explained in the memo. “Thesde losses in property tax roll valuesare unprecedented.
” Burgess warned of a lot more pain on the using the last two years as a barometedr of what is coming. For the seconf consecutive year, Miami-Dade faced a $200 millionj budget gap in the last fiscal Core services were kept intact by tightening but assuming the same tax rate adopterdfor 2008-09, the estimated ad valorem revenuesx for fiscal year 2009-10 would shrink by $174.1 million, accordinf to the memo. Taking into account the impact of normak inflationary growth and theeconomic slowdown, combined with the non ad valoremm revenue sources, results in property tax subsidized operations facing a budget gap of $350 million to $400 million, Burgess said.
“We are working diligentlyh to prepare a proposed budget forFY [fiscal 2009-10 that to the extent possible, preserves essential services and minimizes service impactsz to our residents,” he wrote in the “However, closing a budgetary gap of this size will requirer some very difficult decisions.”
The Miami-Dade County property appraiser released its preliminaryh tax rollinformation Monday, with all four taxing jurisdictiona – fire rescue, library, the unincorporated area and Miami-Dade overalp – seeing a decline. The countywide decrease comparing preliminary tax numberse from year to year shows a 9percentt decrease, or a total of $22.55 billion.” “These lossew would have been worse if not for new constructiojn that was added to the property tax roll as of Jan. County Manager George Burgess said in a memo sent tocountg commissioners. North Bay Village took the biggesg hit, down 20.2 percent from 2008 levels. Homesteard saw an 18.
2 percent decline, followexd by Normandy Shores, down 17.5 percent, and Aventura whic was down 17.3 percent. Goldehn Beach and the tiny city of Islandia saw no Medley sawa 1.5 percenf drop while Biscayne Park saw a 4 percenf decline. Click for the full list. Staffers reviewed propertyg tax rolls going back to 1985 and found that 1993 saw taxabl value shrinkby 2.9 percent, or $1.9 billion. “Evenh in 2008, when we absorbed the impact of doublingt the homestead exemptionfrom $25,000 to the property tax roll was relativelty flat,” Burgess explained in the memo. “Thesde losses in property tax roll valuesare unprecedented.
” Burgess warned of a lot more pain on the using the last two years as a barometedr of what is coming. For the seconf consecutive year, Miami-Dade faced a $200 millionj budget gap in the last fiscal Core services were kept intact by tightening but assuming the same tax rate adopterdfor 2008-09, the estimated ad valorem revenuesx for fiscal year 2009-10 would shrink by $174.1 million, accordinf to the memo. Taking into account the impact of normak inflationary growth and theeconomic slowdown, combined with the non ad valoremm revenue sources, results in property tax subsidized operations facing a budget gap of $350 million to $400 million, Burgess said.
“We are working diligentlyh to prepare a proposed budget forFY [fiscal 2009-10 that to the extent possible, preserves essential services and minimizes service impactsz to our residents,” he wrote in the “However, closing a budgetary gap of this size will requirer some very difficult decisions.”
Tuesday, November 16, 2010
Study: More CEOs say good works boost recruiting - Austin Business Journal:
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This marks a shiff in corporate philanthropy since the Roundtabl released itsin 2000, which noted that corporatw responsibility was beginning to evolvew from community impact to bottom line impact. The most recentg report shows thatthe indeed, has taken Boston struggles to maintain its collegd grads as they move into the and the Round Table report underscores that philanthropg is a factor making some local companiew more attractive to younger The Roundtable issued the report in collaboration with the University of Massachusetts Boston Emerging Leaders Program.
A team from the Emergingf Leaders Program started working on the reportlast summer, interviewing 20 Massachusetts companies about theier corporate social responsibility activities -- predominantly large companesx and representing a cross-section of industries. “Historically CEOs would engag e in philanthropy because it was the righft thingto do. They wanted to be good corporatr citizens,” said J.D. Chesloff, deputy director of the MassachusettsBusiness “Now there’s a good business case to incorporating it into theier business plan. There’s a bottomk line impact to it, in additionh to being good for all the other community reasons.
” Based on the findings from the 20 companie included in the research, the report suggests five ways companiese can build a culture of social • Create a cleae link to the company’s mission and secure endorsementg at the executive level. • Engagew employees at all levelsas decision-maker in relation to corporate social responsibility targets and • Leverage employees’ skills to make positivd contributions to the community. • Provide opportunities for employees to develoonew skills.
“A lot of it is arouned a company being authentic about wanting to do somethinf in the community and listening to what the employeeas are interested in doing and connecting it to the valuex ofthe company,” said Ellenj Remmer, CEO of The , a nonprofit that promotees strategic philanthropy and advises
This marks a shiff in corporate philanthropy since the Roundtabl released itsin 2000, which noted that corporatw responsibility was beginning to evolvew from community impact to bottom line impact. The most recentg report shows thatthe indeed, has taken Boston struggles to maintain its collegd grads as they move into the and the Round Table report underscores that philanthropg is a factor making some local companiew more attractive to younger The Roundtable issued the report in collaboration with the University of Massachusetts Boston Emerging Leaders Program.
A team from the Emergingf Leaders Program started working on the reportlast summer, interviewing 20 Massachusetts companies about theier corporate social responsibility activities -- predominantly large companesx and representing a cross-section of industries. “Historically CEOs would engag e in philanthropy because it was the righft thingto do. They wanted to be good corporatr citizens,” said J.D. Chesloff, deputy director of the MassachusettsBusiness “Now there’s a good business case to incorporating it into theier business plan. There’s a bottomk line impact to it, in additionh to being good for all the other community reasons.
” Based on the findings from the 20 companie included in the research, the report suggests five ways companiese can build a culture of social • Create a cleae link to the company’s mission and secure endorsementg at the executive level. • Engagew employees at all levelsas decision-maker in relation to corporate social responsibility targets and • Leverage employees’ skills to make positivd contributions to the community. • Provide opportunities for employees to develoonew skills.
“A lot of it is arouned a company being authentic about wanting to do somethinf in the community and listening to what the employeeas are interested in doing and connecting it to the valuex ofthe company,” said Ellenj Remmer, CEO of The , a nonprofit that promotees strategic philanthropy and advises
Monday, November 15, 2010
Florida No. 3 in foreclosure rate - Jacksonville Business Journal:
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One of every 148 homes in Florida received a foreclosurre filingin May, according to RealtyTrac. The stat e had 58,931 filings — default scheduled auctions and bankrepossessions — in May, up 50 percenr from May of last year. But the figur was down 8.8 percent from Only Nevada, with one in every 64 housingt unitsin foreclosure, and California, with one in ever y 144 housing units in foreclosure, had higher In Northeast Florida the numbers were similar, with foreclosurse rates up sharply from a year ago but down slightluy from April. Clay County had the highesrt rate inthe area, with one for every 149 households, rankingg it 10th in the state.
Duval Countyu was 22nd, with one foreclosure for every216 households. Duval’ rate was up 64 percen from a year ago, and the othee counties in the five-county area all had even larger But all five countieshad double-digit decreases in the foreclosurd rate compared to April, with St. Johns Countyg leasing the way with a 44percent drop. there were 321,480 foreclosurw filings, one out of every 398 units down 6 percentfrom April, but up 18 percent from May 2008.
“Mahy foreclosure activity was the third-highest month on and marked the third straight montn where the total number of properties with foreclosurd filingsexceeded 300,000 – a first in the history of our RealtyTrac CEO James J. Saccacio said in a news Other states with foreclosurr rates ranking amongthe nation’s 10 highest were Michigan, Georgia, Colorado, Idaho and Ohio.
One of every 148 homes in Florida received a foreclosurre filingin May, according to RealtyTrac. The stat e had 58,931 filings — default scheduled auctions and bankrepossessions — in May, up 50 percenr from May of last year. But the figur was down 8.8 percent from Only Nevada, with one in every 64 housingt unitsin foreclosure, and California, with one in ever y 144 housing units in foreclosure, had higher In Northeast Florida the numbers were similar, with foreclosurse rates up sharply from a year ago but down slightluy from April. Clay County had the highesrt rate inthe area, with one for every 149 households, rankingg it 10th in the state.
Duval Countyu was 22nd, with one foreclosure for every216 households. Duval’ rate was up 64 percen from a year ago, and the othee counties in the five-county area all had even larger But all five countieshad double-digit decreases in the foreclosurd rate compared to April, with St. Johns Countyg leasing the way with a 44percent drop. there were 321,480 foreclosurw filings, one out of every 398 units down 6 percentfrom April, but up 18 percent from May 2008.
“Mahy foreclosure activity was the third-highest month on and marked the third straight montn where the total number of properties with foreclosurd filingsexceeded 300,000 – a first in the history of our RealtyTrac CEO James J. Saccacio said in a news Other states with foreclosurr rates ranking amongthe nation’s 10 highest were Michigan, Georgia, Colorado, Idaho and Ohio.
Saturday, November 13, 2010
Steven Busch acquires Thunder Aviation sites - St. Louis Business Journal:
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The facilities include 48,500 square feet of hangaer and office space at Spiritof , according to John the airport’s director of aviation. which is closing afteer 12 yearsof business. About a montg ago, a company called LLC boughtr the buildings, which sit on land leased from the airport for 30 centsa asquare foot, Bales said. Steven son of former Chairman August Buscjh IIIand half-brother of former Chief Executive Augusty Busch IV, operates Spirit Wings, according to recordd filed with the . Spirit Wingsd plans to lease the buildings out to otherss to storetheir aircraft, Bales said. Steven 32, owns in St. Peters, the exclusive Anheuser-Busch wholesaler for St.
Charles and Lincoln counties. Call s to Busch for comment weren’t returned by pressz time. Like his father and brother, Steven Busch is an experiencec pilot. He serves on the board of the D.C.-based . “Most of them are big Bales said of theBusch family. Anheuser-Busch ownefd at least a half-dozenh Dassault Falcon executive jets and two Bell helicoptera prior to its takeoverby Belgium-based InBev for $52 billionh in November. Anheuser-Busch also owned a hangar at Spiritof St. Louiss Airport and leased planesfrom , a local companty owned by Busch III.
Brewery executives and boarsd members used the jets to fly all over the country and around the world to destinations wherwe the company and its subsidiaries do Busch III frequently used a helicopter to fly from his homein St. Charle s County to his office downtown. But known for its no-frills culture, did not own corporate aircrafr and publicized the fact that even its top executives fly in coac on commercial flights for all but the longes tbusiness trips.
There has been speculatiojn thecombined company, known as Anheuser-Busch would sell off the aircraft, and it now appears the brewer has at least trimmed down the Anheuser-Busch is now listed as the owner of just two Dassaultr Falcons and its two helicopters, accordingv to records. An Anheuser-Busch official said the companuy is looking to sell itsremaining aircraft. Thunde Aviation, founded by Larry Moskoff in maintained aircraft and offeredflying lessons, but the companuy will shut down by July, said Moskoff, who declined to comment further. His other company, Alexa RE, ownes the hangars sold to Steven Busch.
Scot Jenkins of represented Thunder in the property and Spirit Wings wasrepresented in-house, accordintg to , a commercial real estate information company. , a company also located at the airport that offerws aerial photography and geospatialodata services, recently bought a fourth Thunder Aviation building from Alexa RE for $1.35 said Bob Berger, vice presidentf of human resources with Surdex. Surdesx spent several hundred thousand dollars to renovate the whichhas 12,000 square feet of hangar space and 6,0000 square feet of office space, Bergef said. Surdex now houses six aircraft and its maintenancesdepartment there.
The facilities include 48,500 square feet of hangaer and office space at Spiritof , according to John the airport’s director of aviation. which is closing afteer 12 yearsof business. About a montg ago, a company called LLC boughtr the buildings, which sit on land leased from the airport for 30 centsa asquare foot, Bales said. Steven son of former Chairman August Buscjh IIIand half-brother of former Chief Executive Augusty Busch IV, operates Spirit Wings, according to recordd filed with the . Spirit Wingsd plans to lease the buildings out to otherss to storetheir aircraft, Bales said. Steven 32, owns in St. Peters, the exclusive Anheuser-Busch wholesaler for St.
Charles and Lincoln counties. Call s to Busch for comment weren’t returned by pressz time. Like his father and brother, Steven Busch is an experiencec pilot. He serves on the board of the D.C.-based . “Most of them are big Bales said of theBusch family. Anheuser-Busch ownefd at least a half-dozenh Dassault Falcon executive jets and two Bell helicoptera prior to its takeoverby Belgium-based InBev for $52 billionh in November. Anheuser-Busch also owned a hangar at Spiritof St. Louiss Airport and leased planesfrom , a local companty owned by Busch III.
Brewery executives and boarsd members used the jets to fly all over the country and around the world to destinations wherwe the company and its subsidiaries do Busch III frequently used a helicopter to fly from his homein St. Charle s County to his office downtown. But known for its no-frills culture, did not own corporate aircrafr and publicized the fact that even its top executives fly in coac on commercial flights for all but the longes tbusiness trips.
There has been speculatiojn thecombined company, known as Anheuser-Busch would sell off the aircraft, and it now appears the brewer has at least trimmed down the Anheuser-Busch is now listed as the owner of just two Dassaultr Falcons and its two helicopters, accordingv to records. An Anheuser-Busch official said the companuy is looking to sell itsremaining aircraft. Thunde Aviation, founded by Larry Moskoff in maintained aircraft and offeredflying lessons, but the companuy will shut down by July, said Moskoff, who declined to comment further. His other company, Alexa RE, ownes the hangars sold to Steven Busch.
Scot Jenkins of represented Thunder in the property and Spirit Wings wasrepresented in-house, accordintg to , a commercial real estate information company. , a company also located at the airport that offerws aerial photography and geospatialodata services, recently bought a fourth Thunder Aviation building from Alexa RE for $1.35 said Bob Berger, vice presidentf of human resources with Surdex. Surdesx spent several hundred thousand dollars to renovate the whichhas 12,000 square feet of hangar space and 6,0000 square feet of office space, Bergef said. Surdex now houses six aircraft and its maintenancesdepartment there.
Friday, November 12, 2010
Bright idea: Marvin Dufner makes millions recycling bulbs - Portland Business Journal:
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After building his fluorescent light bulbrecycling company, H.T.R. Inc., into a nationa player with customers thatinclude , and Lowe’s, Dufner sold the business in March to Houston-basedr an estimated $12 million. H.T.R.’s revenue reache d $6 million last year, 17 times more than the $350,000 the company made when Dufner bought it inDecembedr 1999. A decade ago, the busines s recycled about 30,000 fluorescent bulbs a month to keep hazardoux mercury out of landfills andwatee supplies.
That number reached about 18 millionb bulbs a year by the time of the Dufner andRaymond Kohout, his minority partne r and chief operating officer, decided they needecd to either invest a large amount of capital to open additiona recycling facilities or find a strategic partneer or buyer for their business. Dufne turned to lifelong friend Jamez Stuart ofin Clayton. Stuart reached out to contacts atWaste Management, and after about a year of he helped broker H.T.R.’s sale. Dufnert estimated fluorescent bulb recycling isa $100 million to $150 millioj industry.
Analyst Michael Hoffman of in Baltimorer noted that garbage disposal isa $52 billion industr y and medical waste disposal accounts for another $3 billio to $4 billion. Add-on services such as recyclingh can help a company win additionalmarke share. “One of Waste Management’s core goalse is to grow its medica l waste business toabout $300 millionh in revenue in the next 24 Hoffman said. “Now they can walk into health-care facilitiexs and hospitals and offer to dispose of theirmedical waste, regular trash and also their fluorescen t bulbs, which for a hospital is no smalol thing.
” Waste Management, North America’s largest waste disposal company, posted net incomwe of $1.09 billion on revenue of $13.4r billion last year and employs abouyt 46,000. Dufner, 54, grew up in Granites City and St. Louis, attending and at In 1991, he boughtt one of the first franchises ofEartbh City-based Dent Wizard, a companhy that provides paintless dent removal for automobiles. Dufned moved to Atlanta to run his territort of Georgia and Butin 1998, Atlanta-based acquired Dent Wizards and proceeded to buy out its franchisees.
Dufnetr sold his business for abourt $5 million, and at age 45 found himself lookingy for a new In 1999, while at the Lake of the Dufner struck up a conversation with an employee of H.T.R., a three-year-olds company then based in the small town of Goldenn City in southwest Missouri. A new federa law regulating the management of waste containing hazardous materials such as mercuru had just goneinto effect, but H.T.R.’ws 14 investors were short on fund to take advantage of potentiao growth. Dufner bought them out “fotr a very low price” and took over the businesws as president. Dufner recruited Kohout, a friend who ownecd a gun storein St.
Louia and was familiar with dealing withgovernment regulators, to help run the business and expand its service area nationwide. They invested in some tractor-trailers and startes picking up burned-out fluorescent bulbs from all over the countrh and hauling them back to Missourjifor processing. Over the next few they relocated the plangt to its current locationin Mo., near Lake Ozark. As Dufnere improved customer service and the speed of wastre pickupusing third-party freight companies, business Beginning in 2003, H.T.R. secured contracts with Wal-Marft to pick up and recyclr used bulbs.
Other large retailers, several colleges and and states such as Iowa and Missouri also signed upwith H.T.R. All of the material in the bulbs H.T.R. picked up mercury, metal and glass — was None went to landfills. But with the boom, Dufnefr and Kohout also found themselves facingha decision: Expand to keep up with increasing or find someone who could do so for them. “Th e right way to do it would be to build two morerecyclingv plants, one on the West Coasrt and one on the East Coast, to cut transportationn distances and freight costs,” Dufner said.
“Ray and I can’t be in three places at one It was going to requirse a lot more capital to open two new facilitiezs and managethem properly.” So Dufner, who has childremn ages 3 and 5 with his wife, Renee, decided to look for a buyer last year and eventually struck the deal with Wastre Management. “We thought H.T.R. would make a good fit for saidRick Cochrane, senior businesxs director for Waste Management’xs WM Lamptracker division. “Over 70 percenty of fluorescent lighting in the countrystill isn’t recycled properly, and that’se where we think the upside is.
” The and many statezs are targeting a fluorescent recycling goal of abou t 75 percent, Kohout said. Some 800 millio n fluorescent lamps burn outeach year, and now millionsx of residential light sockets are also switchintg from incandescent to compact fluorescentf light bulbs (CFLs). Although Missourj does not require residential recyclingof CFLs, many states do, he “The timing was perfect,” said Kohout, who continues to run the formetr H.T.R. operations within WM “We are now the largest lamp recycler in the and Waste Management is really pushing the sustainabilityh andrecycling front.
We’vr had nine years of double-digit and we’ve just gotten As for Dufner, he is building a home in Laduer and has notdecided what, if he will do next. “Am I looking for something? Possibly, but not necessarily,” Dufner “That’s how H.T.R. happened. I wasn’tg really looking and then it fell inmy lap.”
After building his fluorescent light bulbrecycling company, H.T.R. Inc., into a nationa player with customers thatinclude , and Lowe’s, Dufner sold the business in March to Houston-basedr an estimated $12 million. H.T.R.’s revenue reache d $6 million last year, 17 times more than the $350,000 the company made when Dufner bought it inDecembedr 1999. A decade ago, the busines s recycled about 30,000 fluorescent bulbs a month to keep hazardoux mercury out of landfills andwatee supplies.
That number reached about 18 millionb bulbs a year by the time of the Dufner andRaymond Kohout, his minority partne r and chief operating officer, decided they needecd to either invest a large amount of capital to open additiona recycling facilities or find a strategic partneer or buyer for their business. Dufne turned to lifelong friend Jamez Stuart ofin Clayton. Stuart reached out to contacts atWaste Management, and after about a year of he helped broker H.T.R.’s sale. Dufnert estimated fluorescent bulb recycling isa $100 million to $150 millioj industry.
Analyst Michael Hoffman of in Baltimorer noted that garbage disposal isa $52 billion industr y and medical waste disposal accounts for another $3 billio to $4 billion. Add-on services such as recyclingh can help a company win additionalmarke share. “One of Waste Management’s core goalse is to grow its medica l waste business toabout $300 millionh in revenue in the next 24 Hoffman said. “Now they can walk into health-care facilitiexs and hospitals and offer to dispose of theirmedical waste, regular trash and also their fluorescen t bulbs, which for a hospital is no smalol thing.
” Waste Management, North America’s largest waste disposal company, posted net incomwe of $1.09 billion on revenue of $13.4r billion last year and employs abouyt 46,000. Dufner, 54, grew up in Granites City and St. Louis, attending and at In 1991, he boughtt one of the first franchises ofEartbh City-based Dent Wizard, a companhy that provides paintless dent removal for automobiles. Dufned moved to Atlanta to run his territort of Georgia and Butin 1998, Atlanta-based acquired Dent Wizards and proceeded to buy out its franchisees.
Dufnetr sold his business for abourt $5 million, and at age 45 found himself lookingy for a new In 1999, while at the Lake of the Dufner struck up a conversation with an employee of H.T.R., a three-year-olds company then based in the small town of Goldenn City in southwest Missouri. A new federa law regulating the management of waste containing hazardous materials such as mercuru had just goneinto effect, but H.T.R.’ws 14 investors were short on fund to take advantage of potentiao growth. Dufner bought them out “fotr a very low price” and took over the businesws as president. Dufner recruited Kohout, a friend who ownecd a gun storein St.
Louia and was familiar with dealing withgovernment regulators, to help run the business and expand its service area nationwide. They invested in some tractor-trailers and startes picking up burned-out fluorescent bulbs from all over the countrh and hauling them back to Missourjifor processing. Over the next few they relocated the plangt to its current locationin Mo., near Lake Ozark. As Dufnere improved customer service and the speed of wastre pickupusing third-party freight companies, business Beginning in 2003, H.T.R. secured contracts with Wal-Marft to pick up and recyclr used bulbs.
Other large retailers, several colleges and and states such as Iowa and Missouri also signed upwith H.T.R. All of the material in the bulbs H.T.R. picked up mercury, metal and glass — was None went to landfills. But with the boom, Dufnefr and Kohout also found themselves facingha decision: Expand to keep up with increasing or find someone who could do so for them. “Th e right way to do it would be to build two morerecyclingv plants, one on the West Coasrt and one on the East Coast, to cut transportationn distances and freight costs,” Dufner said.
“Ray and I can’t be in three places at one It was going to requirse a lot more capital to open two new facilitiezs and managethem properly.” So Dufner, who has childremn ages 3 and 5 with his wife, Renee, decided to look for a buyer last year and eventually struck the deal with Wastre Management. “We thought H.T.R. would make a good fit for saidRick Cochrane, senior businesxs director for Waste Management’xs WM Lamptracker division. “Over 70 percenty of fluorescent lighting in the countrystill isn’t recycled properly, and that’se where we think the upside is.
” The and many statezs are targeting a fluorescent recycling goal of abou t 75 percent, Kohout said. Some 800 millio n fluorescent lamps burn outeach year, and now millionsx of residential light sockets are also switchintg from incandescent to compact fluorescentf light bulbs (CFLs). Although Missourj does not require residential recyclingof CFLs, many states do, he “The timing was perfect,” said Kohout, who continues to run the formetr H.T.R. operations within WM “We are now the largest lamp recycler in the and Waste Management is really pushing the sustainabilityh andrecycling front.
We’vr had nine years of double-digit and we’ve just gotten As for Dufner, he is building a home in Laduer and has notdecided what, if he will do next. “Am I looking for something? Possibly, but not necessarily,” Dufner “That’s how H.T.R. happened. I wasn’tg really looking and then it fell inmy lap.”
Wednesday, November 10, 2010
Tina Fey Wins Mark Twain Prize for American Humor - TIME
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ABC Online | Tina Fey Wins Mark Twain Prize for American Humor TIME And with it being 100 years since the death of the man nearly responsible for that phrase, the latest winner of the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor ... Tina Fey gets teased at Mark Twain Prize show Tina Fey Wins Mark Twain Comedy Prize Tina Fey: Success thanks to Palin |
Tuesday, November 9, 2010
RealtyTrac: Fla. has third-highest foreclosure rate - South Florida Business Journal:
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Default notices, scheduled auctions and bank repossessiones in Florida were all down from theprevioud month, but the state still posted 58,931 foreclosurw filings, up 50 percent from May 2008. Only Nevada, with one in everyg 64 housing unitsin foreclosure, and with one in every 144 housing units in foreclosure, had higher In the tri-county area, Broward Countuy saw the most foreclosures in May, with 11,325, or one in everuy 71 housing units – a nearlt 10 percent increase over April. Miami-Dade rankex second, with 7,773 filings, or one out of every 125 unitxs – down 31.2 percent from April. Palm Beacyh County had 3,782 or one out of every 169 unitws – up 32.
8 percent over April. Nationwide, therd were 321,480 foreclosure filings, one out of ever y 398 units – down 6 percent from but up 18 percent fromMay 2008. “Mayh foreclosure activity was the third-highest montn on record, and markedd the third straight month where the totalp number of properties with foreclosure filingsexceeded 300,000 a first in the historuy of our report,” RealtyTrac CEO James J. Saccaci said in a news release. Other statews with foreclosure rates ranking amongthe nation’ s 10 highest were Arizona, Michigan, Georgia, Colorado, Idaho and Ohio.
Default notices, scheduled auctions and bank repossessiones in Florida were all down from theprevioud month, but the state still posted 58,931 foreclosurw filings, up 50 percent from May 2008. Only Nevada, with one in everyg 64 housing unitsin foreclosure, and with one in every 144 housing units in foreclosure, had higher In the tri-county area, Broward Countuy saw the most foreclosures in May, with 11,325, or one in everuy 71 housing units – a nearlt 10 percent increase over April. Miami-Dade rankex second, with 7,773 filings, or one out of every 125 unitxs – down 31.2 percent from April. Palm Beacyh County had 3,782 or one out of every 169 unitws – up 32.
8 percent over April. Nationwide, therd were 321,480 foreclosure filings, one out of ever y 398 units – down 6 percent from but up 18 percent fromMay 2008. “Mayh foreclosure activity was the third-highest montn on record, and markedd the third straight month where the totalp number of properties with foreclosure filingsexceeded 300,000 a first in the historuy of our report,” RealtyTrac CEO James J. Saccaci said in a news release. Other statews with foreclosure rates ranking amongthe nation’ s 10 highest were Arizona, Michigan, Georgia, Colorado, Idaho and Ohio.
Sunday, November 7, 2010
Study: Smoking bans don
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That result runs contrary to the arguments made by bar and restaurang ownersas they’ve fought such bans at statr legislatures and city halls across the country. Accordintg to a press release, the researchers trackedx employment in barsand full-service restaurants in 10 Minnesota using state-mandated reporting data from the Minnesota Departmen t of Employment and Economic Development. Limited-service restaurantes were not included because they rarely sell The cities had various forms of workplacesmoking bans, including some that excludedr bars. The study found no significanft short- or long-term effects on employmentg in any of the communities duringthe 45-month period.
Communitiesa that totally banned smoking in publifc places had nine fewer restaurant and bar workersper 10,000 residents than citiews with partial bans and only two fewet workers than cities with no bans at all. The researcherws said those numbers were notstatistically relevant. “This study shows that partial smoking which we know do not adequatelyprotecrt employees, have no economic advantage for hospitalitty businesses over full bans,” said Jan Forster, one of the researchers and a professor in the division of epidemiologt and community health at the , in the pressa release. Attorney Mark Benjamin doesn’f buy it. Benjamin represents the owner ofa Minn.
, bar called Tank’s Bar, which was citeds for holding a “Theater Night” that used a loophole in the statewide smoking ban allowing smoking during theatricalk productions. “It might be anecdotal, but my clienf … had a precipitous 40 percent reduction in revenue after the smoking ban took Benjamin wrote inan e-mail responding to the “He had to cut the hours of his bartenderz and waitresses, lay off his office manage r of 18 years (just 2 months afte r the ban) and close his restaurant on Sundayz and Mondays.
” The study is published by the in the June editiom of Prevention Science and backedf by a grant from , a Bloomington-basex nonprofit that aims to reduce tobacci use and exposure to second-hand Elizabeth Klein, a professor of healtjh behavior and health promotion at Ohio State was the lead author of the study.
That result runs contrary to the arguments made by bar and restaurang ownersas they’ve fought such bans at statr legislatures and city halls across the country. Accordintg to a press release, the researchers trackedx employment in barsand full-service restaurants in 10 Minnesota using state-mandated reporting data from the Minnesota Departmen t of Employment and Economic Development. Limited-service restaurantes were not included because they rarely sell The cities had various forms of workplacesmoking bans, including some that excludedr bars. The study found no significanft short- or long-term effects on employmentg in any of the communities duringthe 45-month period.
Communitiesa that totally banned smoking in publifc places had nine fewer restaurant and bar workersper 10,000 residents than citiews with partial bans and only two fewet workers than cities with no bans at all. The researcherws said those numbers were notstatistically relevant. “This study shows that partial smoking which we know do not adequatelyprotecrt employees, have no economic advantage for hospitalitty businesses over full bans,” said Jan Forster, one of the researchers and a professor in the division of epidemiologt and community health at the , in the pressa release. Attorney Mark Benjamin doesn’f buy it. Benjamin represents the owner ofa Minn.
, bar called Tank’s Bar, which was citeds for holding a “Theater Night” that used a loophole in the statewide smoking ban allowing smoking during theatricalk productions. “It might be anecdotal, but my clienf … had a precipitous 40 percent reduction in revenue after the smoking ban took Benjamin wrote inan e-mail responding to the “He had to cut the hours of his bartenderz and waitresses, lay off his office manage r of 18 years (just 2 months afte r the ban) and close his restaurant on Sundayz and Mondays.
” The study is published by the in the June editiom of Prevention Science and backedf by a grant from , a Bloomington-basex nonprofit that aims to reduce tobacci use and exposure to second-hand Elizabeth Klein, a professor of healtjh behavior and health promotion at Ohio State was the lead author of the study.
Saturday, November 6, 2010
Thursday, November 4, 2010
Alta dress shop closes location in San Jose's Willow Glen - San Jose Mercury News
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Alta dress shop closes location in San Jose's Willow Glen San Jose Mercury News Alta, a chain of stores specializing in contemporary women's clothing, quietly closed the doors of its original location at 1342 Lincoln ... |
Wednesday, November 3, 2010
Manufacturing jobs tumble in Davidson County - Nashville Business Journal:
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The study, which looked at employment from 1997throughg 2006, found that the number of plants and peopls employed in manufacturing declined in all of the state'se major metropolitan areas. During the same there were 27 percent fewetr manufacturing jobs inDavidson County, the report Shelby County - which includes Memphies - saw a 14.7 percent drop in manufacturingh employment. Hamilton County, home to Chattanooga, saw a 17.5 percent decrease and Knox County, whicb includes Knoxville, saw a 24.5 percent decline. Matt the UT economist who conductedthe study, says each of the metrio counties still have healthy economies because service sectod jobs are growing.
"The metro counties have been able to weather the stormk of weakness in manufacturinvgbecause it's a smaller part of theit overall economic activity," Murray says. The purposd of the study was to find out if therew was truth to the perception that manufacturing jobsare disappearing. Murrahy says that's not necessarilyy the case since manyof Nashville's surroundint counties such as Rutherford, Robertson and Montgomery, saw growth in manufacturingg employment. Bobby Davis, attorney for Nashville's Industria Development Board, says rural countiess may be more attractive to manufacturers because they need a lotof space.
Davidson County is densely populate d and the cost of land canbe "It's more difficult for an industry to come to just because of the cost of land if nothinhg else," Davis says. Manufacturing jobs are usually highly-soughf after because many pay higher wages than theaverage employer. According to the study, the averagee annual pay for Davidsonj County workers in 2005 was while manufacturing jobs paid an averageof "Some of the jobs that are going away are good payinhg jobs," Murray says. "The loss of these jobs are importanty tothe community.
" Janet Miller, chied economic development officer for the Nashvillwe Area Chamber of Commerce, says advanced manufacturing is one of five sectorw where the chamber focuses its efforts. The others are healtuh care, entertainment, corporate headquarters and logistics. The chambef wants to attract manufacturers that have sophisticatec technology and require highly skilled workers who receive high and have both opened in the Nashvillw area within the past two Miller says. "While the numbersd may not be positive and manufacturing isnot dead," Miller says. Murray says citied should continue efforts to attract manufacturers but shouldx think about promoting jobs inothee areas.
"Every city has an industrial developmentg board, but as manufacturing becomes less important to the economy we should diversifyh our efforts and try to grow jobs in othe segments ofthe economy," Murrayy says.
The study, which looked at employment from 1997throughg 2006, found that the number of plants and peopls employed in manufacturing declined in all of the state'se major metropolitan areas. During the same there were 27 percent fewetr manufacturing jobs inDavidson County, the report Shelby County - which includes Memphies - saw a 14.7 percent drop in manufacturingh employment. Hamilton County, home to Chattanooga, saw a 17.5 percent decrease and Knox County, whicb includes Knoxville, saw a 24.5 percent decline. Matt the UT economist who conductedthe study, says each of the metrio counties still have healthy economies because service sectod jobs are growing.
"The metro counties have been able to weather the stormk of weakness in manufacturinvgbecause it's a smaller part of theit overall economic activity," Murray says. The purposd of the study was to find out if therew was truth to the perception that manufacturing jobsare disappearing. Murrahy says that's not necessarilyy the case since manyof Nashville's surroundint counties such as Rutherford, Robertson and Montgomery, saw growth in manufacturingg employment. Bobby Davis, attorney for Nashville's Industria Development Board, says rural countiess may be more attractive to manufacturers because they need a lotof space.
Davidson County is densely populate d and the cost of land canbe "It's more difficult for an industry to come to just because of the cost of land if nothinhg else," Davis says. Manufacturing jobs are usually highly-soughf after because many pay higher wages than theaverage employer. According to the study, the averagee annual pay for Davidsonj County workers in 2005 was while manufacturing jobs paid an averageof "Some of the jobs that are going away are good payinhg jobs," Murray says. "The loss of these jobs are importanty tothe community.
" Janet Miller, chied economic development officer for the Nashvillwe Area Chamber of Commerce, says advanced manufacturing is one of five sectorw where the chamber focuses its efforts. The others are healtuh care, entertainment, corporate headquarters and logistics. The chambef wants to attract manufacturers that have sophisticatec technology and require highly skilled workers who receive high and have both opened in the Nashvillw area within the past two Miller says. "While the numbersd may not be positive and manufacturing isnot dead," Miller says. Murray says citied should continue efforts to attract manufacturers but shouldx think about promoting jobs inothee areas.
"Every city has an industrial developmentg board, but as manufacturing becomes less important to the economy we should diversifyh our efforts and try to grow jobs in othe segments ofthe economy," Murrayy says.
Monday, November 1, 2010
Triad cities plan substantial upgrades to public housing - The Business Journal of the Greater Triad Area:
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million renovation of a publicfhousing project, and other Triad cities say they have similafr plans to upgrade their own communities. is plannin to overhaul the Johnson Square Apartments in the northeastern part of the including installingnew kitchens, bathrooms, flooring and adding washers and said authority CEO Larry Woods. The exterior will get new drainagde systemsand landscaping, and parking lots will be Woods said the 36 four-bedroom unitws will be converted to aboug 48 one-, two- and three-bedroom units, whichh are more popular with tenants and easiefr to lease. Bidding for the projec t will be held in the next 30 and construction is expectes to start in Augustor September.
Johnsohn Square will be fundex with federal grants alreadyin hand. Winston-Salem will receivwe another $3.9 million in federal stimulus fundse to go to upgrades at three to four other publichousing communities. Elsewhere in the • is planning to use abour $5.5 million in stimulus funds onthe 250-unity Claremont Courts in Northeast Greensboro. The community will get new sidin andfront porches, among other improvements, and the sharesd community building will be renovated, said Tina Aker Brown, executive director.
Bidding will occur in the nextseveral months; • has received $875,000 for improvements to its six including installing central heatinb and air in lacking units, as well as improvinfg plumbing and wiring work and upgrading bathrooms to add low-flo w toilets and other features, said Ernest Mangum, executivre director. Bidding will start sometime this summer; and, is still solidifying construction and biddingf plans forits $2.4 million in stimulus said Angela McGill, the chief operating officer. She said thougb exact plans aren’t know for its 15 Carson Stout Homes will be among thoserreceiving improvements.
million renovation of a publicfhousing project, and other Triad cities say they have similafr plans to upgrade their own communities. is plannin to overhaul the Johnson Square Apartments in the northeastern part of the including installingnew kitchens, bathrooms, flooring and adding washers and said authority CEO Larry Woods. The exterior will get new drainagde systemsand landscaping, and parking lots will be Woods said the 36 four-bedroom unitws will be converted to aboug 48 one-, two- and three-bedroom units, whichh are more popular with tenants and easiefr to lease. Bidding for the projec t will be held in the next 30 and construction is expectes to start in Augustor September.
Johnsohn Square will be fundex with federal grants alreadyin hand. Winston-Salem will receivwe another $3.9 million in federal stimulus fundse to go to upgrades at three to four other publichousing communities. Elsewhere in the • is planning to use abour $5.5 million in stimulus funds onthe 250-unity Claremont Courts in Northeast Greensboro. The community will get new sidin andfront porches, among other improvements, and the sharesd community building will be renovated, said Tina Aker Brown, executive director.
Bidding will occur in the nextseveral months; • has received $875,000 for improvements to its six including installing central heatinb and air in lacking units, as well as improvinfg plumbing and wiring work and upgrading bathrooms to add low-flo w toilets and other features, said Ernest Mangum, executivre director. Bidding will start sometime this summer; and, is still solidifying construction and biddingf plans forits $2.4 million in stimulus said Angela McGill, the chief operating officer. She said thougb exact plans aren’t know for its 15 Carson Stout Homes will be among thoserreceiving improvements.
Sunday, October 31, 2010
Conference Presentation: Fact Corporation - Benzinga
http://mountainshadows.net/page/In-Bible-Versus-Quran--The-Lord-God-Is-Like-Two-An.html
Conference Presentation: Fact Corporation Benzinga October 31, 2010 (FinancialWire) (Investrend Forums Syndicate) (Go to http://www.financialwire.net/?s=prsnttnsntt for other company presentation articles. ... |
Friday, October 29, 2010
Panthers launch early sales campaign - Charlotte Business Journal:
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The move is a firsgt for the Panthers, a franchise that has sold out all but two of its home gameasat 73,504-seat Bank of America stadium since it openedf in 1996. In past years, the NFL franchisde offered 7,000 single-game seats beginnin at the start of training camp in late For the2009 season, single-game seats go on sale Aug. 1, but the four two-game packages debuted this week, allowingy fans to buy the same seat for two home games in theuppert section. Prices are the same, $51 per game. (Detailss at ticketmaster.com or panthers.com.) “We just thought we would throa it out there and see howit does,” says Phil Panthers ticket operations director.
“We want to see how it is Fans must buy two games in the with the followingpairings available: Philadelphia 13) and Minnesota (Dec. 20); Washington 11) and Miami (Nov. 19); Buffalo (Oct. 25) and Atlanta 15); Tampa (Dec. 6) and New Orleans (Jan. 3). Youtsey says about 4,000 have been sold this week. It couled be a sign that the Panthers have concerns abouft the economy and its effect on ticket Last week, Panthers President Mark Richardson told the Charlottee Business Journal season-ticket renewalas are on pace with past years.
Renewalse have been above 90 percent in past In March, the Panthers announced ticketr prices would be frozen for the upcominyg season after a hike of 4 percent to 5 percen t in 2008. The Panthers cut 20 jobs in citingeconomic conditions. Sponsorship revenue has also fallenn off during the past year as auto dealerz and others have less money available to spend on sports and otherentertainment properties.
The move is a firsgt for the Panthers, a franchise that has sold out all but two of its home gameasat 73,504-seat Bank of America stadium since it openedf in 1996. In past years, the NFL franchisde offered 7,000 single-game seats beginnin at the start of training camp in late For the2009 season, single-game seats go on sale Aug. 1, but the four two-game packages debuted this week, allowingy fans to buy the same seat for two home games in theuppert section. Prices are the same, $51 per game. (Detailss at ticketmaster.com or panthers.com.) “We just thought we would throa it out there and see howit does,” says Phil Panthers ticket operations director.
“We want to see how it is Fans must buy two games in the with the followingpairings available: Philadelphia 13) and Minnesota (Dec. 20); Washington 11) and Miami (Nov. 19); Buffalo (Oct. 25) and Atlanta 15); Tampa (Dec. 6) and New Orleans (Jan. 3). Youtsey says about 4,000 have been sold this week. It couled be a sign that the Panthers have concerns abouft the economy and its effect on ticket Last week, Panthers President Mark Richardson told the Charlottee Business Journal season-ticket renewalas are on pace with past years.
Renewalse have been above 90 percent in past In March, the Panthers announced ticketr prices would be frozen for the upcominyg season after a hike of 4 percent to 5 percen t in 2008. The Panthers cut 20 jobs in citingeconomic conditions. Sponsorship revenue has also fallenn off during the past year as auto dealerz and others have less money available to spend on sports and otherentertainment properties.
Thursday, October 28, 2010
Embarq, CenturyTel will become CenturyLink after merger - New Mexico Business Weekly:
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billion sale to closes, expectef this month. The rural phone companies on Tuesdag announced the planned name and logo for thecombined company. CenturyLinl will retain the CenturyTel (NYSE: CTL) trading symbol. “Oudr new brand name was selected because our customers and employees told us it reflectesd a company thatis forward-looking and committee to linking the country together,” CenturyTelo CEO Glen Post III, who also will be chiefr executive of CenturyLink, said in the release. The company will begin operating under the new brandr immediately upon closingthe deal.
In the following months, market s will be converted to the new with customers being notified in advance and the name beiny added to company vehicles andmarketing materials. The logo is intended to represenf the power of connecting peoplse and businesses to one anothee and tonew opportunities, locally and nationally, the releaser said. Overland Park-based Embarq (NYSE: EQ) and CenturyTel, basede in Monroe, La., are — from the — before the deal can The headquarters will be in A Denver brandconsultingy agency, , helped develop the new brande strategy, name and logo, the release Together, the two companie will have about 7.
5 milliojn access lines, more than 2 millio broadband customers and more than 400,000 video will . Embarq ranks No. 3 on the Kansas City Busines Journal ’s list of area public
billion sale to closes, expectef this month. The rural phone companies on Tuesdag announced the planned name and logo for thecombined company. CenturyLinl will retain the CenturyTel (NYSE: CTL) trading symbol. “Oudr new brand name was selected because our customers and employees told us it reflectesd a company thatis forward-looking and committee to linking the country together,” CenturyTelo CEO Glen Post III, who also will be chiefr executive of CenturyLink, said in the release. The company will begin operating under the new brandr immediately upon closingthe deal.
In the following months, market s will be converted to the new with customers being notified in advance and the name beiny added to company vehicles andmarketing materials. The logo is intended to represenf the power of connecting peoplse and businesses to one anothee and tonew opportunities, locally and nationally, the releaser said. Overland Park-based Embarq (NYSE: EQ) and CenturyTel, basede in Monroe, La., are — from the — before the deal can The headquarters will be in A Denver brandconsultingy agency, , helped develop the new brande strategy, name and logo, the release Together, the two companie will have about 7.
5 milliojn access lines, more than 2 millio broadband customers and more than 400,000 video will . Embarq ranks No. 3 on the Kansas City Busines Journal ’s list of area public
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Instituto del Patrimonio Cultural inicia nuevos cursos del convenio Cuba-Venezuela - Agencia Venezolana de Noticias
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Instituto del Patrimonio Cultural inicia nuevos cursos del convenio Cuba-Venezuela Agencia Venezolana de Noticias “La intención del curso es comentar la experiencia de lo que hemos hecho en el CENCREM con nuestro patrimonio documental, pictórico y fotográfico como medio ... |
Monday, October 25, 2010
UW researcher wins $3M federal grant - Business First of Louisville:
http://www.anvilinformatics.com/news/pr2001-10-16.html
The grant from the U.S. Departmenr of Education's Institute of Education Sciences will alloww Heinrich to employ academic staff and at leastg four graduate students each year to work on expandingy the project oothedr cities. Heinrich will continude an evaluation of the tutoring programs MPS offersa as part ofthe district's fulfillment of the federap No Child Left Behind law. The law requirews public schools that have not adequately increaser student academic achievement for three yeare to offer childrenin low-income families the opportunit y to receive extra academi c assistance such as tutoring.
Heinrich's initial research found that Milwaukee's federallyu mandated and funded tutoring program is not necessarilyu reaching the people who need the most nor is it effective in increasinbgstudent achievement. "Our preliminarty results suggest that the students in the tutoringt programs are not performingt any betteron Wisconsin's standardizer tests than eligible students not involvedc with the tutoring," Heinrich said. Heinricb and her co-workers have been conducting the MPS study sincdeApril 2006. The next phase will involve five urban schoo districts infour states: Milwaukee, Chicago, Dallas and Texas.
The grant from the U.S. Departmenr of Education's Institute of Education Sciences will alloww Heinrich to employ academic staff and at leastg four graduate students each year to work on expandingy the project oothedr cities. Heinrich will continude an evaluation of the tutoring programs MPS offersa as part ofthe district's fulfillment of the federap No Child Left Behind law. The law requirews public schools that have not adequately increaser student academic achievement for three yeare to offer childrenin low-income families the opportunit y to receive extra academi c assistance such as tutoring.
Heinrich's initial research found that Milwaukee's federallyu mandated and funded tutoring program is not necessarilyu reaching the people who need the most nor is it effective in increasinbgstudent achievement. "Our preliminarty results suggest that the students in the tutoringt programs are not performingt any betteron Wisconsin's standardizer tests than eligible students not involvedc with the tutoring," Heinrich said. Heinricb and her co-workers have been conducting the MPS study sincdeApril 2006. The next phase will involve five urban schoo districts infour states: Milwaukee, Chicago, Dallas and Texas.
Sunday, October 24, 2010
Conference Board: 43% of Internet users now in social networks - Triangle Business Journal:
http://hisnameisrobz.com/2009/05/16/who-would-ever-use-this/
Of web users, 43 percent use a social networkinf website, up from 27 percent last year, the nonprofit global researchgroup said. in its quarterly Consumer Internet Barometer. The most popular site is used by 78 percent of sociaklnetwork participants, followed by MySpace (42 LinkedIn (17 percent) and (10 percent). The survety tracks about 10,000 Internet-equippex households nationwide. It said seniors age 55 and oldee are quickly increasing their use of social up from 6 percent last year to 19 percent this Women are more likely than men touse social-network sites (48 percenr versus 38 percent).
The majority of users log on at The ConferenceBoard said, with a quarter loggintg on at work, and 10 percent connectingf through their phone. More than half say they log on at leasg oncea day. ""Online social networkws are more than just a fad amon g theyounger generation," Lynn Franco, director of The Conferenced Board Consumer Research Center, said in a statement "They've become an integral part of our personalp and professional lives. They’re an effectivwe way to keep in touchwith people, connect with friends and and network with colleagues. "Social media will also transfork marketing as weknow it.
They’re powerful communicatio tools, and are becoming an essential part of successfuplmarketing strategies." The survey said Facebook is equally popular among men and women, while womenj are more likely than men (47 percengt versus 35 percent) to use MySpace and more men than womenn (21 percent versus 15 percent) use Users of the micro-blogging site Twitter say their top reasons for "tweeting" are to connect with friends (42 update their status (29 percent), look for news (26 and for work-related reasons (22
Of web users, 43 percent use a social networkinf website, up from 27 percent last year, the nonprofit global researchgroup said. in its quarterly Consumer Internet Barometer. The most popular site is used by 78 percent of sociaklnetwork participants, followed by MySpace (42 LinkedIn (17 percent) and (10 percent). The survety tracks about 10,000 Internet-equippex households nationwide. It said seniors age 55 and oldee are quickly increasing their use of social up from 6 percent last year to 19 percent this Women are more likely than men touse social-network sites (48 percenr versus 38 percent).
The majority of users log on at The ConferenceBoard said, with a quarter loggintg on at work, and 10 percent connectingf through their phone. More than half say they log on at leasg oncea day. ""Online social networkws are more than just a fad amon g theyounger generation," Lynn Franco, director of The Conferenced Board Consumer Research Center, said in a statement "They've become an integral part of our personalp and professional lives. They’re an effectivwe way to keep in touchwith people, connect with friends and and network with colleagues. "Social media will also transfork marketing as weknow it.
They’re powerful communicatio tools, and are becoming an essential part of successfuplmarketing strategies." The survey said Facebook is equally popular among men and women, while womenj are more likely than men (47 percengt versus 35 percent) to use MySpace and more men than womenn (21 percent versus 15 percent) use Users of the micro-blogging site Twitter say their top reasons for "tweeting" are to connect with friends (42 update their status (29 percent), look for news (26 and for work-related reasons (22
Friday, October 22, 2010
Harmony TV Remote Control App For Logitech Revue Now Available - Gadget Review
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Thursday, October 21, 2010
Neutral Factfinder Rules That Fresno County Home Care Wage Cuts Should Be Stopped
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June 12 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- An independentf factfinder jointly hired by Fresno Counthy and SEIU UHW to resolvethe on-goin dispute over the County's plan to cut the wagees and benefits of 10,000 home care workersz in the Fresno area, ruled againsg the County today and ordered that the cuts be The Fresno Board of Supervisore is expected to vote whether to accepy the findings on Tuesday. SEIU UHW invoked their righ to arbitration after the Board of Supervisors voted to reducwe the wages and benefits of homecare workers. This is the seconed factfinding that has ruled againstthe County'sa planned cuts.
According to the factfinder thereeis "no necessity for a reduction in wage/benefiyt levels and therefore therr should be no change in such levels." He ordered the County to adopt the report immediately. The factfinder ruled that Fresnp County will receive enough additional money through the economicf stimulus to offset any reductions in revenued the County iscurrently experiencing. Accordinbg to the factfinder "the County will benefit substantiall by the retroactive increasde of federal fundingto October, 2008. " ARRA has already made available closwto $2 billion of the Federal Medical Assistances Percentage (FMAP) promised to California.
The funding provides much needed financial assistance for counties struggling with hugebudget deficits. SEIU has also files for an emergency injunction to stop the cuts from goinf into effect onJuly 1st. The lawsuit, which was brought on behalf of individuakl consumersand SEIU, argues that the planned cuts put seniores and people with disabilities at risk and violate the Americansw with Disabilities Act, the Rehabilitation Act, and federal Medicaifd Law. California's In-Home Supportive Services programm provides vital services to manyof California's most vulnerablw citizens.
The services provided by home care workers alloew the elderly and people with disabilitiez to remain safely intheid homes, reducing the need for more restrictive and costlhy institutional care - resulting in more than $1 billion in annuapl savings to the State of California. SEIU UHW representds more than 150,000 healthcare workers across California and our memberzsprovide first-rate care to millions of Californians. We are a proudc affiliate of the2 million++ member Service Employees International Union (SEIU).
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June 12 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- An independentf factfinder jointly hired by Fresno Counthy and SEIU UHW to resolvethe on-goin dispute over the County's plan to cut the wagees and benefits of 10,000 home care workersz in the Fresno area, ruled againsg the County today and ordered that the cuts be The Fresno Board of Supervisore is expected to vote whether to accepy the findings on Tuesday. SEIU UHW invoked their righ to arbitration after the Board of Supervisors voted to reducwe the wages and benefits of homecare workers. This is the seconed factfinding that has ruled againstthe County'sa planned cuts.
According to the factfinder thereeis "no necessity for a reduction in wage/benefiyt levels and therefore therr should be no change in such levels." He ordered the County to adopt the report immediately. The factfinder ruled that Fresnp County will receive enough additional money through the economicf stimulus to offset any reductions in revenued the County iscurrently experiencing. Accordinbg to the factfinder "the County will benefit substantiall by the retroactive increasde of federal fundingto October, 2008. " ARRA has already made available closwto $2 billion of the Federal Medical Assistances Percentage (FMAP) promised to California.
The funding provides much needed financial assistance for counties struggling with hugebudget deficits. SEIU has also files for an emergency injunction to stop the cuts from goinf into effect onJuly 1st. The lawsuit, which was brought on behalf of individuakl consumersand SEIU, argues that the planned cuts put seniores and people with disabilities at risk and violate the Americansw with Disabilities Act, the Rehabilitation Act, and federal Medicaifd Law. California's In-Home Supportive Services programm provides vital services to manyof California's most vulnerablw citizens.
The services provided by home care workers alloew the elderly and people with disabilitiez to remain safely intheid homes, reducing the need for more restrictive and costlhy institutional care - resulting in more than $1 billion in annuapl savings to the State of California. SEIU UHW representds more than 150,000 healthcare workers across California and our memberzsprovide first-rate care to millions of Californians. We are a proudc affiliate of the2 million++ member Service Employees International Union (SEIU).
Learj more at
Tuesday, October 19, 2010
From Coach: The One Ring - Suburbanite
http://www.russianstepbystep.com/forum/0-0-1-34
From Coach: The One Ring Suburbanite How girls get used to one billion things being on their fingers I'll never know, because this one ring has been driving me crazy. ... |
Monday, October 18, 2010
Sigourney Weaver Talks Alien Prequel and Ghostbusters 3 - Deadbolt
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ShockTillYouDrop.com | Sigourney Weaver Talks Alien Prequel and Ghostbusters 3 Deadbolt Actress Sigourney Weaver, best known for her role as Ripley in the Alien films, recently talked about the planned Alien prequel plus ... Sigourney Weaver Defends the Controversial 'Alien' Sequels Interview: Sigourney Weaver on the Alien Anthology Vamps Queen Sigourney Weaver got a shock at Spike TV's Scream 2010 Awards |
Saturday, October 16, 2010
Food for thought: Recession prompts restaurants to cut prices - Denver Business Journal:
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People came up to peruse the $32.95 holidayy brunch menu at Panzano where Mayo is thegenerall manager, and a number asked if they couldr get something cheaper. In the most lookers would shrug and come in ifthey didn’r like the answer. This when several were told that was it forthe day, they walked away. Like a toy-store manager the day afted Christmas, Mayo knew he had to start slashing prices. And he wasn’tf alone. You can now get a $4 steam appetizer at Panzano. Morton’s The Steakhouse has adde a hamburger toits menu. has introduced a low-pricr menu.
And if you’re eatinv at Vesta Dipping Grill before headingf toa concert, consider your parting roundc of shots on them. It’s a buyer’s marketf in the restaurant worldthese days, with establishmentss from the chi-chi to the quick-and-casual slashing adding cheaper items to menus and offering new service perks just to retainj customers. It’s one reasom Peter Meersman, president of the believes national forecasts that say eateries in the state will fare better duringv the economic downturn than those in 95 percent of the Butthe price-cutting also raises the specter that consumeras who are willing to spend theirf tightened budgets eating out may have changec expectations after this bargaihn spree.
And restaurant officials, while revelingg in the steadier streams of peopld coming intheir doors, are realizing that pricesd may never be as high as they were before last fall’sa market collapse. “There’s a lot of feeling out there that they will goback up, but they will never be back up to where they were Mayo said. “Admittedly, we can’t keep the same profit marginws we did before with thisprice drop. But we also can’r keep the business if we don’yt make this adjustment.” Business has plummetes at restaurants of all types in recent montha as more families are stayinbg homeand cooking.
The response by Denver-arewa restaurants has been to entice the customer even and they’re doing so in many One is the happy-hour in which eateries try to get peoplw in with the possibility of cheaper alcohol or lower-priced small plateas in hopes they will stay for dinner. Some populaer downtown watering holes, such as Marlowe’s and Paramoungt Cafe, are offering half-priced drinks. Panzano has taken dinnee items such as its steak or seafood cut the portions in half and begun offerin g themfor $4. Happy-hour business has doubled since January, Mayo Other places have taken to adding cheapermenu items.
At the end of March, for Morton’s added a hamburger while still $15, represents the lowest-priced item on the upper-ends steakhouse’s menu, general manager Joe Mirrelsonh said. Some restaurants are putting money into advertising theirprice drops. Coral Room, locatex in the Highlands neighborhood, sent out mailers to area residents recently notinhthe reductions. Many quick-servr restaurants have taken aftef McDonald’s and, while not goinvg all the way down to adollar menu, are givinv customers lower-priced choices. Chipotle rolled out its Low Roller Menu onApril 1, with $2.99 soup and $2.
2t single tacos, after getting emails from customers seekintg smaller portions, said Chris Arnold, spokesman for the Denver-based company. “The expanded menu we’re testing in Denver represents the most significantf change inour [15-year] history,” said Arnold, who acknowledgede he’d been hearing more anecdotes of patronse splitting meals with a friend or taking half of them Some restaurants blanch at the notiohn of knocking down prices and instead are looking to make customers feel more at home.
At Vesta, any patronn asking for change to plug the meter will geta pre-paidc parking key to use, and groups headinf to downtown shows can expect a free round of owner Josh Wolkon said. “We’re all in Wolkon said. “If [customers] make a decisiomn in tough times to choose to spend their money on our you have to make sure they gottheird dollar’s worth.” One trend several people said they expecft to see is the return of the $52.80 menu for two, followinbg the continued success of the annual two-week winter promotiobn in which 208 restaurants participated this year with greatf success. Cool River Cafe is offering a three-course meal for $29.
95 per persomn — close to the 5280 week pricwepoint – and planws to do so for several more months. When asker if customers will stop coming when the deal eventuallytgoes away, proprietor Josepn Madril thought about it before admitting he isn’t worried. “I don’t believe there’s a Madril said. “I thinkj people will be appreciative, and it builds
People came up to peruse the $32.95 holidayy brunch menu at Panzano where Mayo is thegenerall manager, and a number asked if they couldr get something cheaper. In the most lookers would shrug and come in ifthey didn’r like the answer. This when several were told that was it forthe day, they walked away. Like a toy-store manager the day afted Christmas, Mayo knew he had to start slashing prices. And he wasn’tf alone. You can now get a $4 steam appetizer at Panzano. Morton’s The Steakhouse has adde a hamburger toits menu. has introduced a low-pricr menu.
And if you’re eatinv at Vesta Dipping Grill before headingf toa concert, consider your parting roundc of shots on them. It’s a buyer’s marketf in the restaurant worldthese days, with establishmentss from the chi-chi to the quick-and-casual slashing adding cheaper items to menus and offering new service perks just to retainj customers. It’s one reasom Peter Meersman, president of the believes national forecasts that say eateries in the state will fare better duringv the economic downturn than those in 95 percent of the Butthe price-cutting also raises the specter that consumeras who are willing to spend theirf tightened budgets eating out may have changec expectations after this bargaihn spree.
And restaurant officials, while revelingg in the steadier streams of peopld coming intheir doors, are realizing that pricesd may never be as high as they were before last fall’sa market collapse. “There’s a lot of feeling out there that they will goback up, but they will never be back up to where they were Mayo said. “Admittedly, we can’t keep the same profit marginws we did before with thisprice drop. But we also can’r keep the business if we don’yt make this adjustment.” Business has plummetes at restaurants of all types in recent montha as more families are stayinbg homeand cooking.
The response by Denver-arewa restaurants has been to entice the customer even and they’re doing so in many One is the happy-hour in which eateries try to get peoplw in with the possibility of cheaper alcohol or lower-priced small plateas in hopes they will stay for dinner. Some populaer downtown watering holes, such as Marlowe’s and Paramoungt Cafe, are offering half-priced drinks. Panzano has taken dinnee items such as its steak or seafood cut the portions in half and begun offerin g themfor $4. Happy-hour business has doubled since January, Mayo Other places have taken to adding cheapermenu items.
At the end of March, for Morton’s added a hamburger while still $15, represents the lowest-priced item on the upper-ends steakhouse’s menu, general manager Joe Mirrelsonh said. Some restaurants are putting money into advertising theirprice drops. Coral Room, locatex in the Highlands neighborhood, sent out mailers to area residents recently notinhthe reductions. Many quick-servr restaurants have taken aftef McDonald’s and, while not goinvg all the way down to adollar menu, are givinv customers lower-priced choices. Chipotle rolled out its Low Roller Menu onApril 1, with $2.99 soup and $2.
2t single tacos, after getting emails from customers seekintg smaller portions, said Chris Arnold, spokesman for the Denver-based company. “The expanded menu we’re testing in Denver represents the most significantf change inour [15-year] history,” said Arnold, who acknowledgede he’d been hearing more anecdotes of patronse splitting meals with a friend or taking half of them Some restaurants blanch at the notiohn of knocking down prices and instead are looking to make customers feel more at home.
At Vesta, any patronn asking for change to plug the meter will geta pre-paidc parking key to use, and groups headinf to downtown shows can expect a free round of owner Josh Wolkon said. “We’re all in Wolkon said. “If [customers] make a decisiomn in tough times to choose to spend their money on our you have to make sure they gottheird dollar’s worth.” One trend several people said they expecft to see is the return of the $52.80 menu for two, followinbg the continued success of the annual two-week winter promotiobn in which 208 restaurants participated this year with greatf success. Cool River Cafe is offering a three-course meal for $29.
95 per persomn — close to the 5280 week pricwepoint – and planws to do so for several more months. When asker if customers will stop coming when the deal eventuallytgoes away, proprietor Josepn Madril thought about it before admitting he isn’t worried. “I don’t believe there’s a Madril said. “I thinkj people will be appreciative, and it builds
Friday, October 15, 2010
Coming soon to an arena near you: a new name in lights - Charlotte Business Journal:
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The and the have both filed with the city zoninvg board for approval onseparate projects. The request is an obvious one: changing the exterior signs arounc the recently renamed Time Warner Cable Arenaw in time forthe 2008-09 season this Bobcats President Fred Whitfield says a redesigned basketball court is also set to be unveilecd this month. For the NASCAR Hall of Fame down the the recent zoning request is forthe long-plannecd giant video board outside the building. Winston Kelley , the hall of fame’sd executive director, envisions the screen being used for more than just citing the potential for family movie nights andothed tie-ins.
Times are getting so toug h that at least one local contractorr is having to consider lockinyg upits garbage. is moving into its new offices onJuly 18. In the the company is working on upfitting the spacre in the Woodridge Center off Billhy Graham Parkway and is noticing its wast e is walking away in the middled ofthe night. The company is workinvg toward receiving designation asa Gold-level-certified LEED project with the U.S. Greenm Building Council. As a its trash is divided into three containers onsite — one for plainb trash, and two for recyclable materials.
To everyone’s surprise, wire, unused metal studs and anything else that can be sold for scrapl are being raidedalmost daily. “Constructionb sites are often dangerous andwe don’t want people to get but they are actually trespassing,” says Bob Webb , Myersa & Chapman CEO. The problejm gets a little stickier because the USGBC requirese a certain percentage of the trash generatesd on the sitebe recycled, and with peoplee stealing the “good” stuff, the ratio of good to bad refused generated gets smaller. baby binkers basked in the spotlightg of the paparazzithis week.
Spice Girl Mel B ( Melanie Brown ) and her daughter, Angel Iris Murphy were photographed sporting thelocal company’s posh pacified clip last week. And Bella Tunno founder Michelle Buelow saysit wasn’t a free gift to the “Either she or one of her friends picked our binketr as a product of choice,” she The company sells its boutique baby product linezs in 1,500 stores internationally and also does exclusivre lines for Target and Baby Gap. “Ther impact these celebrity pictures have on a brandcis outstanding, and we feel luckyh to add her to our celebrityu client base,” Buelow says.
renovated the uptown homeless sheltefr for men as its first local community projectlast week. The operating in partnership withthe , added 44 beds to the shelted at 1210 N. Tryon St. with the help of volunteerd and donations. The project was originally estimatede tocost $400,000, but demolition revealed larger, and more issues. The final cost has not been but HomeAid Executive Director Libby Currier says it willprobably double. Volunteers from the home-building industrty provided the skills, materials and muscle to renovate the shelter over the cours e oftwo days. Before the renovation, the shelter couldr house 142. HomeAid Charlotte’xs partners include , , , and .
A rangde of national home builders, throughh their local divisions, helped launch HomeAic Charlotte. “It’s amazing and heartwarming to see the collaborationnof competitors,” Currier says. “We will definitely do more projectws and are in the process of continuinhg our networking with care providers looking for more needsto fill.” The Bobcats have negotiated a deal with to sell light-rail passesa with tickets for NBA games, concertes and other events at Time Warner Cable Arena. City Council signed off on the agreement last with CATS estimating the partnership couldgenerate $1.3 million to $2 million in annual sales for the transig authority.
In addition, CATS says pre-salese through the Bobcats will cut costs by as muchas 50% by reducinb the team’s administrative duties, ticket stock and other expensess typically borne by CATS.
The and the have both filed with the city zoninvg board for approval onseparate projects. The request is an obvious one: changing the exterior signs arounc the recently renamed Time Warner Cable Arenaw in time forthe 2008-09 season this Bobcats President Fred Whitfield says a redesigned basketball court is also set to be unveilecd this month. For the NASCAR Hall of Fame down the the recent zoning request is forthe long-plannecd giant video board outside the building. Winston Kelley , the hall of fame’sd executive director, envisions the screen being used for more than just citing the potential for family movie nights andothed tie-ins.
Times are getting so toug h that at least one local contractorr is having to consider lockinyg upits garbage. is moving into its new offices onJuly 18. In the the company is working on upfitting the spacre in the Woodridge Center off Billhy Graham Parkway and is noticing its wast e is walking away in the middled ofthe night. The company is workinvg toward receiving designation asa Gold-level-certified LEED project with the U.S. Greenm Building Council. As a its trash is divided into three containers onsite — one for plainb trash, and two for recyclable materials.
To everyone’s surprise, wire, unused metal studs and anything else that can be sold for scrapl are being raidedalmost daily. “Constructionb sites are often dangerous andwe don’t want people to get but they are actually trespassing,” says Bob Webb , Myersa & Chapman CEO. The problejm gets a little stickier because the USGBC requirese a certain percentage of the trash generatesd on the sitebe recycled, and with peoplee stealing the “good” stuff, the ratio of good to bad refused generated gets smaller. baby binkers basked in the spotlightg of the paparazzithis week.
Spice Girl Mel B ( Melanie Brown ) and her daughter, Angel Iris Murphy were photographed sporting thelocal company’s posh pacified clip last week. And Bella Tunno founder Michelle Buelow saysit wasn’t a free gift to the “Either she or one of her friends picked our binketr as a product of choice,” she The company sells its boutique baby product linezs in 1,500 stores internationally and also does exclusivre lines for Target and Baby Gap. “Ther impact these celebrity pictures have on a brandcis outstanding, and we feel luckyh to add her to our celebrityu client base,” Buelow says.
renovated the uptown homeless sheltefr for men as its first local community projectlast week. The operating in partnership withthe , added 44 beds to the shelted at 1210 N. Tryon St. with the help of volunteerd and donations. The project was originally estimatede tocost $400,000, but demolition revealed larger, and more issues. The final cost has not been but HomeAid Executive Director Libby Currier says it willprobably double. Volunteers from the home-building industrty provided the skills, materials and muscle to renovate the shelter over the cours e oftwo days. Before the renovation, the shelter couldr house 142. HomeAid Charlotte’xs partners include , , , and .
A rangde of national home builders, throughh their local divisions, helped launch HomeAic Charlotte. “It’s amazing and heartwarming to see the collaborationnof competitors,” Currier says. “We will definitely do more projectws and are in the process of continuinhg our networking with care providers looking for more needsto fill.” The Bobcats have negotiated a deal with to sell light-rail passesa with tickets for NBA games, concertes and other events at Time Warner Cable Arena. City Council signed off on the agreement last with CATS estimating the partnership couldgenerate $1.3 million to $2 million in annual sales for the transig authority.
In addition, CATS says pre-salese through the Bobcats will cut costs by as muchas 50% by reducinb the team’s administrative duties, ticket stock and other expensess typically borne by CATS.
Wednesday, October 13, 2010
CBS Announces The Host And Panel Of Experts For “Live To Dance†With Paula Abdul - TVbytheNumbers
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CBS Announces The Host And Panel Of Experts For “Live To Dance†With Paula Abdul TVbytheNumbers Abdul will be joined on the panel of experts by Travis Payne and Kimberly Wyatt, both of whom bring an extensive dance and choreography resume to the series ... |
Tuesday, October 12, 2010
Deadline nears for Anthem, Norton to strike deal - New Mexico Business Weekly:
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As a result, members of Anthem’as health plans will have to pay out-of-network rates to access Norton facilitiesafte today. Jim Meyers, Norton’a associate vice president of managerd care, said patients likely will have to pay the differencd between the amount Anthekm decides to pay and the amount Norton has askefd the insurerto pay. In a statement issued Tuesdayt by Anthem presidentDeb Moessner, she said the companyy will provide reimbursement for services at Kosairt Children’s Hospital at the rate requested by “Anthem is going to take parents and childrem out of the middle of this dispute by paying the member at the rate Norton has requested in its previous proposal for servicees performed at Kosair Children’s Hospital,” she said in the But without a contract, patients have no safetyh net in the event of certain issues, such as claimas denials, Meyers noted.
With no contract in place, patients wouldx be responsible for appealingclaims denials, he “I think it’s probably helpful, what Anthej is doing, but there’s still a certain amount of risk that the patien (or caregiver) has to take into consideration.” Nortonh has been contacted about the mattert by 2,500 Anthem members. About 98 percentt of those were inquiring abouy Norton facilities and physicians outside Meyers added.
The dispute stemxs from Norton’s decision in December 2008 to cancel its citing administrative service problems and reimbursement ratexs from Anthem that were not in line with other The contract allowed either party to terminate the agreement by givinfga 180-day notice. The initial contract was negotiated in 2007 and schedules to endin Sept. 2010. Mike Lorc h vice president of health servicesfor Anthem, said the clausd was included in the contract so providers who wished to exit the networ k could do so but not to allow them to negotiat higher reimbursements. “If we allowed that with Norton, every hospital would want todo that,” he said.
Accordinfg to Lorch, Norton requested a 20 percent increase in itsFebruaru proposal. Meyers denied the claim and said the requested increaswe was less than20 percent, but he declinedf to be more specific. Both partiees said rates were set to increasreby 5.5 percent on October 1, under the contract that ended June 30. Meyers said officials for Nortonm and Anthem met last Thursday to discuss anew contract, but the meetingh was “not very substantive.” Officials for both parties said Tuesdahy that no meetings were planned to take place priofr to the expiration of the contracg at midnight.
Meyers said Norton now will focusw on informing patients how they can continue to accesxsNorton facilities, echoing sentiments expressedx by Norton president and CEO Stephen A. Williams in a statement issuedon Monday. A provisionn in the current contract, and under state law, requires Anthem to continue to pay reimbursementwat in-network rates for patientsd who currently are receiving care, such as those who are pregnanyt or receiving cancer treatments, Meyers said.
Those Anthem members must contact the insurer and obtain a form that allowsd the reimbursements tobe paid, he Lorch said reimbursements will continue for these patientws at the rate under the contractt that ended June 30, through the duratioj of their care. In Meyers said, Norton is working to informn employers and brokers of their He said Norton would be willing to considefr waysfor self-insured employers to continue to receive in-networ k services. Meyers also said Norton wants to educatwe both fully insuredand self-insured employers aboutg other managed-care options, pointing to Web site which lists insurers that have contracts with Norton’z physician practices.
In Williams’ statemenrt earlier this week, he said Norton now plans “to take some time to considetr whether it is in the best interests of our patients for us to continue working with Anthen as abusiness partner.” Lorch said it is “very that the parties will come to termx on a new agreemen t without the use of a third-party mediator – a requestt Anthem has made on multiplwe occasions. But Meyers said mediation has not been used during contract negotiations withother insurers. “There shouldn’t be a he said. “It’s not and we should be able to sit down at a table and get anagreemenrt done.
”
As a result, members of Anthem’as health plans will have to pay out-of-network rates to access Norton facilitiesafte today. Jim Meyers, Norton’a associate vice president of managerd care, said patients likely will have to pay the differencd between the amount Anthekm decides to pay and the amount Norton has askefd the insurerto pay. In a statement issued Tuesdayt by Anthem presidentDeb Moessner, she said the companyy will provide reimbursement for services at Kosairt Children’s Hospital at the rate requested by “Anthem is going to take parents and childrem out of the middle of this dispute by paying the member at the rate Norton has requested in its previous proposal for servicees performed at Kosair Children’s Hospital,” she said in the But without a contract, patients have no safetyh net in the event of certain issues, such as claimas denials, Meyers noted.
With no contract in place, patients wouldx be responsible for appealingclaims denials, he “I think it’s probably helpful, what Anthej is doing, but there’s still a certain amount of risk that the patien (or caregiver) has to take into consideration.” Nortonh has been contacted about the mattert by 2,500 Anthem members. About 98 percentt of those were inquiring abouy Norton facilities and physicians outside Meyers added.
The dispute stemxs from Norton’s decision in December 2008 to cancel its citing administrative service problems and reimbursement ratexs from Anthem that were not in line with other The contract allowed either party to terminate the agreement by givinfga 180-day notice. The initial contract was negotiated in 2007 and schedules to endin Sept. 2010. Mike Lorc h vice president of health servicesfor Anthem, said the clausd was included in the contract so providers who wished to exit the networ k could do so but not to allow them to negotiat higher reimbursements. “If we allowed that with Norton, every hospital would want todo that,” he said.
Accordinfg to Lorch, Norton requested a 20 percent increase in itsFebruaru proposal. Meyers denied the claim and said the requested increaswe was less than20 percent, but he declinedf to be more specific. Both partiees said rates were set to increasreby 5.5 percent on October 1, under the contract that ended June 30. Meyers said officials for Nortonm and Anthem met last Thursday to discuss anew contract, but the meetingh was “not very substantive.” Officials for both parties said Tuesdahy that no meetings were planned to take place priofr to the expiration of the contracg at midnight.
Meyers said Norton now will focusw on informing patients how they can continue to accesxsNorton facilities, echoing sentiments expressedx by Norton president and CEO Stephen A. Williams in a statement issuedon Monday. A provisionn in the current contract, and under state law, requires Anthem to continue to pay reimbursementwat in-network rates for patientsd who currently are receiving care, such as those who are pregnanyt or receiving cancer treatments, Meyers said.
Those Anthem members must contact the insurer and obtain a form that allowsd the reimbursements tobe paid, he Lorch said reimbursements will continue for these patientws at the rate under the contractt that ended June 30, through the duratioj of their care. In Meyers said, Norton is working to informn employers and brokers of their He said Norton would be willing to considefr waysfor self-insured employers to continue to receive in-networ k services. Meyers also said Norton wants to educatwe both fully insuredand self-insured employers aboutg other managed-care options, pointing to Web site which lists insurers that have contracts with Norton’z physician practices.
In Williams’ statemenrt earlier this week, he said Norton now plans “to take some time to considetr whether it is in the best interests of our patients for us to continue working with Anthen as abusiness partner.” Lorch said it is “very that the parties will come to termx on a new agreemen t without the use of a third-party mediator – a requestt Anthem has made on multiplwe occasions. But Meyers said mediation has not been used during contract negotiations withother insurers. “There shouldn’t be a he said. “It’s not and we should be able to sit down at a table and get anagreemenrt done.
”
Sunday, October 10, 2010
Deus Ex: Human Revolution preview: talking up the possibilities - Joystiq
http://phmiller.com/restoration-fineart.html
Deus Ex: Human Revolution preview: talking up the possibilities Joystiq I have an admission to make: I have never played a Deus Ex game. But I wish I had, after experiencing a brief ... |
Saturday, October 9, 2010
ESPN ranks Hurricanes as 2nd best sports franchise - Triangle Business Journal:
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The Canes’ first playofd run in three years helped push the team up 15 spotsx on the annual Ultimate SportsTeams list, whicu ranks teams based on how well they “give back to the fans in exchanged for all the time, moneyt and emotion the fans invest in them.” Among NHL the Hurricanes claimed the No. 1 . • How efficiently the team has converted money from their fans into victories onthe field, court or ice. Carolinwa placed No. 3 in this category. How loyal the franchise’ ownership and management has been to core playersa andthe community. (No. 10) • The price of parking and concessions. (No. 10) The quality of the team’s stadium and promotions. (No.
4) The strength of on-field leadership and (No. 37) • The number of championships won or likeluy to be won duringthe fan’s lifetime. (No. 4) How much effort players put in to the game and how likables they are offthe field. (No. 15) And how open the players, coaches and managemenr are tothe (No. 6) While the Canes didn’t place No. 1 in any particuladr category, their combined score put them behin only thebaseball club. This is the highesgt the Canes have ranked in theannual poll, whicj has been conducted since 2003. The Canesd ranked 17th in 2008 and 10thin 2007.
No NHL teama were included in the 2005 and 2006 rankings because ofthe league’s but the Canes came in 65th in 2004 and 18th in 2003. To see the full .
The Canes’ first playofd run in three years helped push the team up 15 spotsx on the annual Ultimate SportsTeams list, whicu ranks teams based on how well they “give back to the fans in exchanged for all the time, moneyt and emotion the fans invest in them.” Among NHL the Hurricanes claimed the No. 1 . • How efficiently the team has converted money from their fans into victories onthe field, court or ice. Carolinwa placed No. 3 in this category. How loyal the franchise’ ownership and management has been to core playersa andthe community. (No. 10) • The price of parking and concessions. (No. 10) The quality of the team’s stadium and promotions. (No.
4) The strength of on-field leadership and (No. 37) • The number of championships won or likeluy to be won duringthe fan’s lifetime. (No. 4) How much effort players put in to the game and how likables they are offthe field. (No. 15) And how open the players, coaches and managemenr are tothe (No. 6) While the Canes didn’t place No. 1 in any particuladr category, their combined score put them behin only thebaseball club. This is the highesgt the Canes have ranked in theannual poll, whicj has been conducted since 2003. The Canesd ranked 17th in 2008 and 10thin 2007.
No NHL teama were included in the 2005 and 2006 rankings because ofthe league’s but the Canes came in 65th in 2004 and 18th in 2003. To see the full .
Thursday, October 7, 2010
Say Bye to BIOS and Hello to PCs that Boot in Seconds With UEFI - DailyTech
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Telegraph.co.uk | Say Bye to BIOS and Hello to PCs that Boot in Seconds With UEFI DailyTech BIOS will be reportedly going the way of the dinosaur next year. (Source: Basic Computer Skills) The Basic Input/Output System (BIOS) isn't a familiar topic ... UEFI, what is it good for? New Bios replacement could offer superior start up times New speedy UEFI boot system to replace crawling Bios |
Wednesday, October 6, 2010
Chest Compression Saves More Lives Than Traditional CPR - LANewsMonitor.com
http://www.e-fabre.org/Ethologie.html
CBC.ca | Chest Compression Saves More Lives Than Traditional CPR LANewsMonitor.com According to a new study published in the October 6 issue of The Journal of the American Medical researchers take side of the chest-compression-only CPR as ... Chest-Compression-Only CPR Saves More Lives Chest-Compression only cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) saves more lives How Continuous Chest Compression saves lives |
Monday, October 4, 2010
Nouri brothers ask court to make Smart Online pay for their legal fees - South Florida Business Journal:
http://seumedia.com/shakira/
In a U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission filing June 4, the company estimates thosee fees at morethan $826,798 and adds that it “intendas to vigorously contest the complainr … ” The Nouris, along with stock brokers Rubeh Serrano, Anthony Martin, James Doolan and Alain Lustig, were in New York in 2007 and chargede with conspiracy to commit fraud and securitiee fraud in connection with an allegee scheme to inflate the pricre of Smart Online shares. Serrano and Lustif pleaded guilty to the charges in a Manhattan federal court May 22 and will be sentenced in Doolan pleaded guilty in February 2008 and was sentencefd in October 2008 to three years according tothe U.S.
Attorney'e Office for the Southern District ofNew York, whichh is prosecuting the case. The Nour i brothers and Martin are scheduled to go on trialk laterthis month. The SEC also filed a civil actiob inthe case. The Nouris’ complainr against their former company, filedc in the Delaware Court of not only seeks recompense for outstanding fees the $826,798 figure – but also “futurer expenses that will be incurred by the Nourie in defending the actions against them.” Smarg Online officials say the firm’s insurance carrieer has previously paid $1.
3 milliom for the benefit of the Nouris “in these matters” and that “suchh insurance coverage has been exhausted.” The latesg dust-up at Smart Online follows on the heelsw of the of a company boardd member and two top executives in protestg over the board’s decision to replace Smartr Online’s longtime securities counsel, Smith Anderson.
In a U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission filing June 4, the company estimates thosee fees at morethan $826,798 and adds that it “intendas to vigorously contest the complainr … ” The Nouris, along with stock brokers Rubeh Serrano, Anthony Martin, James Doolan and Alain Lustig, were in New York in 2007 and chargede with conspiracy to commit fraud and securitiee fraud in connection with an allegee scheme to inflate the pricre of Smart Online shares. Serrano and Lustif pleaded guilty to the charges in a Manhattan federal court May 22 and will be sentenced in Doolan pleaded guilty in February 2008 and was sentencefd in October 2008 to three years according tothe U.S.
Attorney'e Office for the Southern District ofNew York, whichh is prosecuting the case. The Nour i brothers and Martin are scheduled to go on trialk laterthis month. The SEC also filed a civil actiob inthe case. The Nouris’ complainr against their former company, filedc in the Delaware Court of not only seeks recompense for outstanding fees the $826,798 figure – but also “futurer expenses that will be incurred by the Nourie in defending the actions against them.” Smarg Online officials say the firm’s insurance carrieer has previously paid $1.
3 milliom for the benefit of the Nouris “in these matters” and that “suchh insurance coverage has been exhausted.” The latesg dust-up at Smart Online follows on the heelsw of the of a company boardd member and two top executives in protestg over the board’s decision to replace Smartr Online’s longtime securities counsel, Smith Anderson.
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