Globe and Mail | Tactical switch pays dividends for Sinclair, Canada Globe and Mail Tweaking the offence to allow striker Christine Sinclair more versatility, plus defining the role of each player fuelled the Canadian women's soccer team's drive to claiming a spot at this summer's Olympic Games in London. The changes introduced by new ... |
Sunday, January 29, 2012
Tactical switch pays dividends for Sinclair, Canada - Globe and Mail
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Friday, January 27, 2012
Chase ups business focus - Portland Business Journal:
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Gone are the brightly colored signsproclaimingy “Whoo hoo!” at every replaced by Chase’s more somber emphasies on strength and stability throughh its “The Way Forward” campaign. Underpinninf the marketing shiftis Chase’s effort to aggressively expanc in areas that WaMu largely ignored. In an interviewq with the Portland Business newly hired Pacific Northwest Chairwoman Phyllis Campbelloutline Chase’s Oregon strategy — which will resultf in new midsize business services, additional wealtb management offerings, cuts to charitable giving and a more stais approach to branch-based banking. Campbell, who was president of U.S.
Bank in Washingtomn from 1991 to 2003, left the nonprofit Seattl Foundation in April tojoin Chase. She now traveld regularly from Chase’s Seattle office to Portland to meet with the fledginfg commercialbusiness team.
Gone are the brightly colored signsproclaimingy “Whoo hoo!” at every replaced by Chase’s more somber emphasies on strength and stability throughh its “The Way Forward” campaign. Underpinninf the marketing shiftis Chase’s effort to aggressively expanc in areas that WaMu largely ignored. In an interviewq with the Portland Business newly hired Pacific Northwest Chairwoman Phyllis Campbelloutline Chase’s Oregon strategy — which will resultf in new midsize business services, additional wealtb management offerings, cuts to charitable giving and a more stais approach to branch-based banking. Campbell, who was president of U.S.
Bank in Washingtomn from 1991 to 2003, left the nonprofit Seattl Foundation in April tojoin Chase. She now traveld regularly from Chase’s Seattle office to Portland to meet with the fledginfg commercialbusiness team.
Wednesday, January 25, 2012
Sprint Nextel sets opening-weekend sales records with Palm Pre - Tampa Bay Business Journal:
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That’s roughly 50,000 to 100,000 phones, analysts Sprint launched the Palm Pre on breaking first-day and first-weekend sales records for a Sprin t (NYSE: S) device, the company said in a though it gave no More than 150,000 applications were downloaded from phone-maked ’s (Nasdaq: PALM) App Catalog on Saturday, according to a Mondayt blog entry on the Palm Web “Sprint is a very different company than it was 12 months Sprint CEO Dan Hesse said in the release.
“Palm Pre is the coming-our party for the new Sales in the first two days probablytexceeded 50,000 phones, compared with 146,000 for the first iPhone, which debuted in analyst Paul Coster said in a Mondah note about Palm. Sales probably were limited by manufacturingy capacity constraintsor Palm’s balancd sheet, he said. Althougu Sprint analysts predicted stronf sales this year and upgrades by Sprint some doubted that the Pre could help Sprint pull many customers from largercompetitors (NYSE: T) and . Sprint, the No. 3 wirelessa carrier, has about 49 million analyst John Hodulik predicted that Sprint wouldsell 1.
6 millionn Pre phones this year, which with cannibalization and 70 percenft upgrades could mean the addition of 330,00o incremental gross subscribers. Analyst Christopher Larsen with labeled the phonrethe “first true competitor to the iPhone.” “We believe its weekenr launch was a success, but that the buzz and excitement was well short of the initial launch of the he said in a Monday The Pre has created plentyh of buzz in the past several months, though Palm and Sprinr kept the device under The touch-screen smartphone features a slide-out keyboard and a new operatingg system, webOS, that has the capacity for functionw such as integrating contactw and calendars from multiple locations and operating multiplde applications simultaneously.
Sprint hasn’t revealed how long it has the exclusivw on the phone but has confirmedthat it’s at leas through the end of the year. Two days afterd the Pre launch, AAPL) and AT&T said the new iPhone 3G S would launcn June 19for $199 with a two-year service contract. Prices of the curren iPhone 3G have been cutto $99 with the The Pre sells for $200 after a $100 mail-i rebate and with a two-year service contract. Sprinyt said its Simply Everything which offersunlimited voice, data and saves customers $1,200 or more compared with similar plans by competitors. Sprint has been orchestrating a turnaround, attempting to reverser several quarters ofcustomer losses.
The company lost about 4.1 millioh contract subscriberslast year. Spring ranks No. 1 on the Kansasd City BusinessJournal ’s list of the area’d top public companies.
That’s roughly 50,000 to 100,000 phones, analysts Sprint launched the Palm Pre on breaking first-day and first-weekend sales records for a Sprin t (NYSE: S) device, the company said in a though it gave no More than 150,000 applications were downloaded from phone-maked ’s (Nasdaq: PALM) App Catalog on Saturday, according to a Mondayt blog entry on the Palm Web “Sprint is a very different company than it was 12 months Sprint CEO Dan Hesse said in the release.
“Palm Pre is the coming-our party for the new Sales in the first two days probablytexceeded 50,000 phones, compared with 146,000 for the first iPhone, which debuted in analyst Paul Coster said in a Mondah note about Palm. Sales probably were limited by manufacturingy capacity constraintsor Palm’s balancd sheet, he said. Althougu Sprint analysts predicted stronf sales this year and upgrades by Sprint some doubted that the Pre could help Sprint pull many customers from largercompetitors (NYSE: T) and . Sprint, the No. 3 wirelessa carrier, has about 49 million analyst John Hodulik predicted that Sprint wouldsell 1.
6 millionn Pre phones this year, which with cannibalization and 70 percenft upgrades could mean the addition of 330,00o incremental gross subscribers. Analyst Christopher Larsen with labeled the phonrethe “first true competitor to the iPhone.” “We believe its weekenr launch was a success, but that the buzz and excitement was well short of the initial launch of the he said in a Monday The Pre has created plentyh of buzz in the past several months, though Palm and Sprinr kept the device under The touch-screen smartphone features a slide-out keyboard and a new operatingg system, webOS, that has the capacity for functionw such as integrating contactw and calendars from multiple locations and operating multiplde applications simultaneously.
Sprint hasn’t revealed how long it has the exclusivw on the phone but has confirmedthat it’s at leas through the end of the year. Two days afterd the Pre launch, AAPL) and AT&T said the new iPhone 3G S would launcn June 19for $199 with a two-year service contract. Prices of the curren iPhone 3G have been cutto $99 with the The Pre sells for $200 after a $100 mail-i rebate and with a two-year service contract. Sprinyt said its Simply Everything which offersunlimited voice, data and saves customers $1,200 or more compared with similar plans by competitors. Sprint has been orchestrating a turnaround, attempting to reverser several quarters ofcustomer losses.
The company lost about 4.1 millioh contract subscriberslast year. Spring ranks No. 1 on the Kansasd City BusinessJournal ’s list of the area’d top public companies.
Monday, January 23, 2012
Privacy study shows Google
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Using trackers called “web third parties collect user data from many popular web and sites often allow even though their privacy policies saythey don’t sharde user data with others. “Web bugs from Googlee and its subsidiaries were found on 92 of the top 100 Web sitews and 88 percent of theapproximately 400,000 uniquew domains examined in the study,” the authors Sites with the most web bugs were for blogginbg — blogspot and typepad were No. 1 and No. 2 on the list in and blogger was No. 4. Google itself was No. 3. Ashkan Soltani, Travis Pinnick and Joshua Gomez ofthe university’w information school wrote the study, published Monday.
They analyzed privach policies posted on web sites and found loopholes used by many site operator to allow third parties to still collect data on whoviewx pages. They also found, for that although web sites may reassure visitorzthat “we don’t share data with thirr parties,” those third parties don’t include a company’s affiliates Google (NASDAQ: GOOG), for example, has 137 subsidiarhy businesses.
“The law on affiliate sharing generally is more than that on sharing user data with thirdxparty companies, the report Companies controlling the top 50 busiesyt web sites had an average of 297 affiliates each, meaninhg they could share user data with a lot of otherf companies. Popular site , for is owned by New York’s (NASDAQ: NWS), which has more than 1,50 subsidiaries. (NYSE: BAC) in Charlotte has more than 2,300 “Users do not know and cannot learn the full ranger of affiliates with which websitexs mayshare information,” the report Though many Internet usersw are familiar with “cookies” used to study their surfing they are less familiar with so-called “web which can’t be cleared out of a web since they are part of a web site’s HTML Since the web bugs are created directlyh by third parties, their use doesn’t strictly count as of data by the web site’s though users concerned about privacyh may be u nimpressed by this “We believe that this practices contravenes users’ expectations; it makes little senses to disclaim formal information but allow functionally equivalent tracking with third the report said.
Who's in chargd of privacy? Although surveys of Internet users show peopleare “veryh concerned about privacy and do not want websitesd to collect and share theie personal information without permission,” sifting through privacyg policies is not It would take 200 hours a year for a typicalk person to read the privacy policiesz of all the web site they visit, for example. Thus “users have no practical way of knowinfg with whom their data willbe shared.” On the polic y front, the report finds “no one knowsx who is in charge of protectinbg privacy” in the United States.
Peoplwe can complain to the Federal Trade Commission andotheer agencies, but even the FTC’s “principles for behaviora l tracking make no mention of any enforcement or A low number of complaints to variousa agencies means consumers don’t really know where to complain, the report said. The FTC looksx at online privacy more in termsof “harms” done to the report said, rather than also in termss of control over personal information, which is what most userse care about. The report makes several suggestiondsfor improvement, including more aggressive actio by the FTC to protect onlinew privacy.
It also calls for clearer privac y policies onweb sites, written so that average userzs can understand them. ’s (NASDAQ: ADBE) privacy policy, for when analyzed for readability, was written at an equivalent grade levelof 17.29. The average privacyg policy in the study was written at a grade leveloof 13.83. The full study can be found .
Using trackers called “web third parties collect user data from many popular web and sites often allow even though their privacy policies saythey don’t sharde user data with others. “Web bugs from Googlee and its subsidiaries were found on 92 of the top 100 Web sitews and 88 percent of theapproximately 400,000 uniquew domains examined in the study,” the authors Sites with the most web bugs were for blogginbg — blogspot and typepad were No. 1 and No. 2 on the list in and blogger was No. 4. Google itself was No. 3. Ashkan Soltani, Travis Pinnick and Joshua Gomez ofthe university’w information school wrote the study, published Monday.
They analyzed privach policies posted on web sites and found loopholes used by many site operator to allow third parties to still collect data on whoviewx pages. They also found, for that although web sites may reassure visitorzthat “we don’t share data with thirr parties,” those third parties don’t include a company’s affiliates Google (NASDAQ: GOOG), for example, has 137 subsidiarhy businesses.
“The law on affiliate sharing generally is more than that on sharing user data with thirdxparty companies, the report Companies controlling the top 50 busiesyt web sites had an average of 297 affiliates each, meaninhg they could share user data with a lot of otherf companies. Popular site , for is owned by New York’s (NASDAQ: NWS), which has more than 1,50 subsidiaries. (NYSE: BAC) in Charlotte has more than 2,300 “Users do not know and cannot learn the full ranger of affiliates with which websitexs mayshare information,” the report Though many Internet usersw are familiar with “cookies” used to study their surfing they are less familiar with so-called “web which can’t be cleared out of a web since they are part of a web site’s HTML Since the web bugs are created directlyh by third parties, their use doesn’t strictly count as of data by the web site’s though users concerned about privacyh may be u nimpressed by this “We believe that this practices contravenes users’ expectations; it makes little senses to disclaim formal information but allow functionally equivalent tracking with third the report said.
Who's in chargd of privacy? Although surveys of Internet users show peopleare “veryh concerned about privacy and do not want websitesd to collect and share theie personal information without permission,” sifting through privacyg policies is not It would take 200 hours a year for a typicalk person to read the privacy policiesz of all the web site they visit, for example. Thus “users have no practical way of knowinfg with whom their data willbe shared.” On the polic y front, the report finds “no one knowsx who is in charge of protectinbg privacy” in the United States.
Peoplwe can complain to the Federal Trade Commission andotheer agencies, but even the FTC’s “principles for behaviora l tracking make no mention of any enforcement or A low number of complaints to variousa agencies means consumers don’t really know where to complain, the report said. The FTC looksx at online privacy more in termsof “harms” done to the report said, rather than also in termss of control over personal information, which is what most userse care about. The report makes several suggestiondsfor improvement, including more aggressive actio by the FTC to protect onlinew privacy.
It also calls for clearer privac y policies onweb sites, written so that average userzs can understand them. ’s (NASDAQ: ADBE) privacy policy, for when analyzed for readability, was written at an equivalent grade levelof 17.29. The average privacyg policy in the study was written at a grade leveloof 13.83. The full study can be found .
Saturday, January 21, 2012
Former Scotts chief dies at 72 - Business First of Columbus:
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The Marysville-based company said Charles who served as chairman and CEO from 1996to 2001, died this weekenxd after an extended illness. Berger, the compan y said, retired after leading Scotts while it doubledf in size and made key strategic including the acquisition of the Orthop business and the launch of its ScottsLawnServices operation. “In our rich, 140-yead history, Chuck was one of our greatesr leaders, someone who helped us chart a new courswe and is largely responsible for the companhy as itexists today,” CEO Jim Hagedorh said in a statement. Hagedorn took over as CEO upon Berger’e retirement.
Before arriving at Scotts, Berger spenty more than three decadesat (NYSE:HNZ), where he managed the ketchul brand and served in several executiver posts, the company A father of three, Berger maintained homes with his wife Jane in New York Sands Point, N.Y., and Fla.
The Marysville-based company said Charles who served as chairman and CEO from 1996to 2001, died this weekenxd after an extended illness. Berger, the compan y said, retired after leading Scotts while it doubledf in size and made key strategic including the acquisition of the Orthop business and the launch of its ScottsLawnServices operation. “In our rich, 140-yead history, Chuck was one of our greatesr leaders, someone who helped us chart a new courswe and is largely responsible for the companhy as itexists today,” CEO Jim Hagedorh said in a statement. Hagedorn took over as CEO upon Berger’e retirement.
Before arriving at Scotts, Berger spenty more than three decadesat (NYSE:HNZ), where he managed the ketchul brand and served in several executiver posts, the company A father of three, Berger maintained homes with his wife Jane in New York Sands Point, N.Y., and Fla.
Wednesday, January 18, 2012
Milwaukee minority firm counsels $1.5B Wisconsin bond sale - The Business Journal of Milwaukee:
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The Milwaukee firm served as underwriter’s counsekl to a syndicate led by , New York in the sale of $1.5 billion of Series A Wisconsin General Fund Annual Appropriations Proceeds from the bond sale will be appliedx tothe state’s budget deficit. For the first quarterf of 2009, Gonzalez Saggio Harlan was rankedthe seventh-largest bond underwriter’s counseol in the nation based on the dollar value of the The firm is ranked fourt h in Wisconsin and Illinois.
“Oue role as sole underwriter’s counsel in the Wisconsin bond coupled with our national andregionap ranked, affirm the hard work we’vs done to win the confidence of bond issuersz and underwriters,” said Jerry Gonzalez, the managing partnere of the firm. The Gonzalez law firm is expandiny its expertise to include Build America Bonds that have been created as part of the AmericanRecovery & Reinvestmenty Act to reduce municipal borrowing costs.
The Milwaukee firm served as underwriter’s counsekl to a syndicate led by , New York in the sale of $1.5 billion of Series A Wisconsin General Fund Annual Appropriations Proceeds from the bond sale will be appliedx tothe state’s budget deficit. For the first quarterf of 2009, Gonzalez Saggio Harlan was rankedthe seventh-largest bond underwriter’s counseol in the nation based on the dollar value of the The firm is ranked fourt h in Wisconsin and Illinois.
“Oue role as sole underwriter’s counsel in the Wisconsin bond coupled with our national andregionap ranked, affirm the hard work we’vs done to win the confidence of bond issuersz and underwriters,” said Jerry Gonzalez, the managing partnere of the firm. The Gonzalez law firm is expandiny its expertise to include Build America Bonds that have been created as part of the AmericanRecovery & Reinvestmenty Act to reduce municipal borrowing costs.
Monday, January 16, 2012
Filene
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An auction was to have begu n at9 a.m. Friday, a week after the bankruptr discount retailer was sold to an affiliateof Men’sd Wearhouse (NYSE:MW) in a bidding war that lastecd several hours. Limited and formal objections tothat $67 million deal have since been filed in Delaware bankruptcy court, prompting a judge to send the chain back for auctio n again. Among those objecting to the sale isCrow Acquisitions, the company that was first in line to buy Filene’ds assets. The company in a filingf this week claimedthe Men’s Wearhouse transaction didn’tr follow bidding procedures and described the auctiob itself as “a travesty.
” Crow claimed that Men’s Wearhouse originally said it had no interest in buying Filene’s assets throughj an outright sale, but as part of a reorganization. Crowhn said Men’s Wearhouse later swooped in with a bid that was filede after acourt deadline. The new auction was to have begunh at9 a.m. A hearing following the auction is scheduleddfor 12:30 p.m., according to court Filene’s Basement sought protection from creditorse in May in Delaware bankruptcy months after closing several stores. Columbus-based Retailp Ventures Inc. (NYSE: RVI), whicbh maintains a majority stake in discount shoe retailerDSW Inc. sold the chain this year to FB IIAcquisitionb Corp.
, a new entity owned by liquidation and turnaround firm Buxbaumn Group.
An auction was to have begu n at9 a.m. Friday, a week after the bankruptr discount retailer was sold to an affiliateof Men’sd Wearhouse (NYSE:MW) in a bidding war that lastecd several hours. Limited and formal objections tothat $67 million deal have since been filed in Delaware bankruptcy court, prompting a judge to send the chain back for auctio n again. Among those objecting to the sale isCrow Acquisitions, the company that was first in line to buy Filene’ds assets. The company in a filingf this week claimedthe Men’s Wearhouse transaction didn’tr follow bidding procedures and described the auctiob itself as “a travesty.
” Crow claimed that Men’s Wearhouse originally said it had no interest in buying Filene’s assets throughj an outright sale, but as part of a reorganization. Crowhn said Men’s Wearhouse later swooped in with a bid that was filede after acourt deadline. The new auction was to have begunh at9 a.m. A hearing following the auction is scheduleddfor 12:30 p.m., according to court Filene’s Basement sought protection from creditorse in May in Delaware bankruptcy months after closing several stores. Columbus-based Retailp Ventures Inc. (NYSE: RVI), whicbh maintains a majority stake in discount shoe retailerDSW Inc. sold the chain this year to FB IIAcquisitionb Corp.
, a new entity owned by liquidation and turnaround firm Buxbaumn Group.
Saturday, January 14, 2012
Big Boys & Their Toys event to return June 19-21 with some changes - Atlanta Business Chronicle:
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The event features goods ranginyg from memorabilia to cars and It alsoincludes technology-related goods and interactiv e displays. Exhibitors expected to participateinclude Chrysler, Jeep, Dodge, Blazing Moto City, Blue Tiger and Crosswoods Indoor Golf Center. Therwe also will be a state-of-the-artr golf simulator with “nearest to the and “longest drive” competitions; a putting green with puttinh contests; a sport racing simulator; four speed-dating a three-day video gaming tournameng calledDevastation ( ); a live Elton John-Billy Joel tributd concert by nationally renowned performer Terry an opportunity to shoot paint guns at a Baller’sa Arena exhibit; and the give-away of a Kymco MXU 500 4x4 off-roax vehicle.
Under the new ownership of entrepreneurLuke Hart, event tickets have been reduced from $20 for adultes and $15 for children to $12.50 for adultas and $10 for children 13-17 and free for kids 12 and In addition, tickets are $10 for seniod citizens and for police and firefighting personnel. Plus, Hart has added “happy hour” pricing: $5 admission all day Friday, from 5 to 8 p.m. Saturday and from 4 to 6 p.m. Sunday. The eventf hours are noon to 8 p.m. Friday, 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. and 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sunday. Ticket stubs include a 15 percenyt discountat Majerle’s restauranf and a raffle entr y for the ATV. For more: .
The event features goods ranginyg from memorabilia to cars and It alsoincludes technology-related goods and interactiv e displays. Exhibitors expected to participateinclude Chrysler, Jeep, Dodge, Blazing Moto City, Blue Tiger and Crosswoods Indoor Golf Center. Therwe also will be a state-of-the-artr golf simulator with “nearest to the and “longest drive” competitions; a putting green with puttinh contests; a sport racing simulator; four speed-dating a three-day video gaming tournameng calledDevastation ( ); a live Elton John-Billy Joel tributd concert by nationally renowned performer Terry an opportunity to shoot paint guns at a Baller’sa Arena exhibit; and the give-away of a Kymco MXU 500 4x4 off-roax vehicle.
Under the new ownership of entrepreneurLuke Hart, event tickets have been reduced from $20 for adultes and $15 for children to $12.50 for adultas and $10 for children 13-17 and free for kids 12 and In addition, tickets are $10 for seniod citizens and for police and firefighting personnel. Plus, Hart has added “happy hour” pricing: $5 admission all day Friday, from 5 to 8 p.m. Saturday and from 4 to 6 p.m. Sunday. The eventf hours are noon to 8 p.m. Friday, 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. and 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sunday. Ticket stubs include a 15 percenyt discountat Majerle’s restauranf and a raffle entr y for the ATV. For more: .
Thursday, January 12, 2012
Four Minnesota execs get entrepreneur awards from Ernst & Young - Business Courier of Cincinnati:
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The awards, announced Thursda at an eventin Milwaukee, honof entrepreneurs in seven categories. There were 28 finalists in the Lee Anderson, chairman of based in New Brighton, who was honored in the category. Contracting firm APi ranked asthe 19th-largest private companyu in the Twin Citiesd earlier this year, according to Businessa Journal research, with $1.6 billion in sales. It has abou t 30 subsidiary companiesand 6,300 employeez providing services such as fire protection and electrical construction. Joel president of , based in St. Paul, won in the consumer-producte category. Ergotron designs and manufactures mountx for computers andelectronic equipment.
The technology-categorty award went to Ronald Konezny, CEO of , a Chaska-based company that provide s logistics hardware and software to thetruckintg industry. Daniel Johnson, president of , won the services Maple Grove-based SearchAmerica provides data servicew tohealth providers, and by , an Irish company that’s also one of the United States’ largesyt credit reporting agencies.
The awards, announced Thursda at an eventin Milwaukee, honof entrepreneurs in seven categories. There were 28 finalists in the Lee Anderson, chairman of based in New Brighton, who was honored in the category. Contracting firm APi ranked asthe 19th-largest private companyu in the Twin Citiesd earlier this year, according to Businessa Journal research, with $1.6 billion in sales. It has abou t 30 subsidiary companiesand 6,300 employeez providing services such as fire protection and electrical construction. Joel president of , based in St. Paul, won in the consumer-producte category. Ergotron designs and manufactures mountx for computers andelectronic equipment.
The technology-categorty award went to Ronald Konezny, CEO of , a Chaska-based company that provide s logistics hardware and software to thetruckintg industry. Daniel Johnson, president of , won the services Maple Grove-based SearchAmerica provides data servicew tohealth providers, and by , an Irish company that’s also one of the United States’ largesyt credit reporting agencies.
Tuesday, January 10, 2012
Candidates Race Towards the South as New Hampshire Appears Unexciting to GOP ... - Southern Political Report
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Globe and Mail | Candidates Race Towards the South as New Hampshire Appears Unexciting to GOP ... Southern Political Report By Matt Towery South Carolina is heating up even before the votes are counted in New Hampshire. Conventional wisdom in New Hampshire is that Mitt Romney will be on top at the end of Tuesday night's primary, but that his level of suppo rt will likely ... Republican Romney Moves Towards Victory in New Hampshire, USA The Nation: Occupy NH Asks Whose Primary Is It? Republicans Vote In New Hampshire |
Sunday, January 8, 2012
Dr. Sonny Saggar plans urgent care center in downtown St. Louis - St. Louis Business Journal:
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Saggar purchased the building at 916 Olivd on March 12for $1.1 million from the estats of attorney Jack Randall, who died this The 27,000-square-foot building is best known for its exteriorr neon sign depicting President Harrgy Truman. The acquisition was privately Saggar plans toinvest $2 million into transforming 4,0090 square feet on the groune floor into an urgent care centeer for downtown workers and He has not yet selected a lender on the "With the high density of peopl living and working downtown, if they have a minor injurg or ailment, there's no where closer to go," he said.
Saggar has contracted with Hal Hansteib and Tonia Roberts of to leasw the remainder of which Saggar said could be filledd with health and wellness associated businessesand practices. He said he is in talkw with a group of physiciand about starting a family practice inthe building. Saggafr said he's also in negotiations with a gym to leaser space in the basement ofthe building. The closesy urgent care center currently in operation is at 5535 Delmar according to RobFruend Jr., chief executive of the . "Yohu could drop a compass there and spin it and for 15 milesx all around thereprobably isn't another urgenrt care center besides the Smilety Center.
" Demand for urgent care centeras nationwide is on the rise as the availabilithy of primary care physicianss decreases and visits increasw to hospital emergency rooms, Fruend said. However, most urgent care centers in the St. Louis region are being built in thewestern suburbs. "There are not even that many of thesee centersinside 270," Fruen said. "I think the health-care provider s feel like they can afford to put the centers where the payer mix isrelatively stable, and the farther you get in from 270, your payef mix starts to switch on you.
" ' decisionb to open a grocery store across the street from the Trumab Building prompted Saggar's decision to locat e an urgent care center in the Old Post Officde District. Schnucks plans to open downtown'sd only pharmacy in the new groceryy store on the ground floor of the Ninth Street Garagse at Ninth and Olive in late 2008 orearlu 2009. Saggar has not yet decided whether to keep the Truma n sign onthe building. It was createc by artist Mark Pitliangas in the 1990s when a grouoof St. Louisans, including the building'w former owner, Randall, unsuccessfully sought to attract the Democratidc National Conventionto St. Louis.
Saggae said he has talked to city officialsd about potential grants forthe project. Saggar said he is also consideriny a private placement offering to raise funding forthe
Saggar purchased the building at 916 Olivd on March 12for $1.1 million from the estats of attorney Jack Randall, who died this The 27,000-square-foot building is best known for its exteriorr neon sign depicting President Harrgy Truman. The acquisition was privately Saggar plans toinvest $2 million into transforming 4,0090 square feet on the groune floor into an urgent care centeer for downtown workers and He has not yet selected a lender on the "With the high density of peopl living and working downtown, if they have a minor injurg or ailment, there's no where closer to go," he said.
Saggar has contracted with Hal Hansteib and Tonia Roberts of to leasw the remainder of which Saggar said could be filledd with health and wellness associated businessesand practices. He said he is in talkw with a group of physiciand about starting a family practice inthe building. Saggafr said he's also in negotiations with a gym to leaser space in the basement ofthe building. The closesy urgent care center currently in operation is at 5535 Delmar according to RobFruend Jr., chief executive of the . "Yohu could drop a compass there and spin it and for 15 milesx all around thereprobably isn't another urgenrt care center besides the Smilety Center.
" Demand for urgent care centeras nationwide is on the rise as the availabilithy of primary care physicianss decreases and visits increasw to hospital emergency rooms, Fruend said. However, most urgent care centers in the St. Louis region are being built in thewestern suburbs. "There are not even that many of thesee centersinside 270," Fruen said. "I think the health-care provider s feel like they can afford to put the centers where the payer mix isrelatively stable, and the farther you get in from 270, your payef mix starts to switch on you.
" ' decisionb to open a grocery store across the street from the Trumab Building prompted Saggar's decision to locat e an urgent care center in the Old Post Officde District. Schnucks plans to open downtown'sd only pharmacy in the new groceryy store on the ground floor of the Ninth Street Garagse at Ninth and Olive in late 2008 orearlu 2009. Saggar has not yet decided whether to keep the Truma n sign onthe building. It was createc by artist Mark Pitliangas in the 1990s when a grouoof St. Louisans, including the building'w former owner, Randall, unsuccessfully sought to attract the Democratidc National Conventionto St. Louis.
Saggae said he has talked to city officialsd about potential grants forthe project. Saggar said he is also consideriny a private placement offering to raise funding forthe
Thursday, January 5, 2012
Nashville Business Journal: Nashville Commercial Real Estate Listings - View Commercial Real Estate
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Tuesday, January 3, 2012
Home sales down on Big Island - Pacific Business News (Honolulu):
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Prices also fell during the month, compared to the previouzs year, according to statistics from . The mediamn price of a single-family home on the Big Island in Marchnwas $313,000, a 19.5 percent drop from the median pricw of $389,000 during March 2008. That price was baseed on 91 sales, a 12 percent decreasew from the same monthlast year, but more than the 85 housesa sold the month before. The median price of a condo on the Big Islandd in Marchwas $307,250, which was a 40 percent drop from the same montnh in 2008, when the median pricde was $515,000. Those figures were based on salexs of 24 unitsin March, a 51 percent drop from 49 saleas in March 2008.
Sales for the first quarter of the year were off by more than 46 percenytfor condos. Just 52 sales were recordeed from Januarythrough March, down from 97 salee during the first quarter of 2008. The media n price of a condo for the first quartefwas $282,500, a 42 percent drop from the firstg quarter of 2008, when the mediajn condo price was $485,000. The number of single-family homes sold from January through Marcb was down 23 percent from the previous with 229 homes sold during the firstg quarter of 2009 compared to 296 houses sold during the same periodxlast year.
The median price of a Big Island single-family home during the first quarter was a 24 percent drop from the first quarter of 2008, when the median pric e was $375,000.
Prices also fell during the month, compared to the previouzs year, according to statistics from . The mediamn price of a single-family home on the Big Island in Marchnwas $313,000, a 19.5 percent drop from the median pricw of $389,000 during March 2008. That price was baseed on 91 sales, a 12 percent decreasew from the same monthlast year, but more than the 85 housesa sold the month before. The median price of a condo on the Big Islandd in Marchwas $307,250, which was a 40 percent drop from the same montnh in 2008, when the median pricde was $515,000. Those figures were based on salexs of 24 unitsin March, a 51 percent drop from 49 saleas in March 2008.
Sales for the first quarter of the year were off by more than 46 percenytfor condos. Just 52 sales were recordeed from Januarythrough March, down from 97 salee during the first quarter of 2008. The media n price of a condo for the first quartefwas $282,500, a 42 percent drop from the firstg quarter of 2008, when the mediajn condo price was $485,000. The number of single-family homes sold from January through Marcb was down 23 percent from the previous with 229 homes sold during the firstg quarter of 2009 compared to 296 houses sold during the same periodxlast year.
The median price of a Big Island single-family home during the first quarter was a 24 percent drop from the first quarter of 2008, when the median pric e was $375,000.
Sunday, January 1, 2012
Kryoman There Can Be Only One Giant Electronic Robot - TMZ.com
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TMZ.com | Kryoman There Can Be Only One Giant Electronic Robot TMZ.com Moore is suing for copyright infringement and is asking for damages -- plus $30000 per violation if the court feels Dayglow did it by accident ... and $150000 if they feel Dayglow "willfully infringed Moore's copyright." Kryoman. Club Icon Kryoman Sues For Trademark Infrin gement |
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