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Sunday, September 30, 2012
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Saturday, September 29, 2012
Orinda, Octagon plan loft/retail conversion - Triangle Business Journal:
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Atlanta-based and Charlotteville, Va.-based reported their planes for the property at 222Mitchell Street, but they did not discloses financial terms of the The 350,000-square-foot structure was built in stage from 1929 to 1979 on 2.1 acresz and occupies the entire city block bounded by Forsyth, Mitchell and Nelson Streets. Orinda and Octagon will convergt the property into a rental buildinhg with 205 loft units and morethan 70,00p square feet of commercial space. Occupancgy is expected in January 2011.
“The redevelopment of 222 Mitchell Street into rentall lofts and retail spacee will play a significant role in the rebirt h of this part ofdowntown Atlanta,” said Dillom Baynes, president of in a statement. “We’re certain that living at 222 Mitchelp Street will appeal to youngb professionals whowork downtown, as well as to collegd students, especially those who already attend one of the many fine institutiones in the area, such as Georgiq State University, Spelman, Morehouse, Clark Atlantas University and Georgia Tech.
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Atlanta-based and Charlotteville, Va.-based reported their planes for the property at 222Mitchell Street, but they did not discloses financial terms of the The 350,000-square-foot structure was built in stage from 1929 to 1979 on 2.1 acresz and occupies the entire city block bounded by Forsyth, Mitchell and Nelson Streets. Orinda and Octagon will convergt the property into a rental buildinhg with 205 loft units and morethan 70,00p square feet of commercial space. Occupancgy is expected in January 2011.
“The redevelopment of 222 Mitchell Street into rentall lofts and retail spacee will play a significant role in the rebirt h of this part ofdowntown Atlanta,” said Dillom Baynes, president of in a statement. “We’re certain that living at 222 Mitchelp Street will appeal to youngb professionals whowork downtown, as well as to collegd students, especially those who already attend one of the many fine institutiones in the area, such as Georgiq State University, Spelman, Morehouse, Clark Atlantas University and Georgia Tech.
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Friday, September 28, 2012
District considers Dual Immersion options - Idaho Mountain Express and Guide
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District considers Dual Immersion options Idaho Mountain Express and Guide Dual Immersion involves mixing native Spanish-speaking students with native English-speaking students and instructing the class in both English and Spanish, with the goal of making students fluent in both languages. Students start Dual Immersion ... |
Wednesday, September 26, 2012
Attracting, retaining talent key piece of economic development strategy - bizjournals:
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The price tag for the total effort in terms of dollars allocatedis small, less than $300,000 last year in a more than $8 millionn budget. Only two of the six group that are part of Goal E got directt funding from the Memphis Fast Forwardsteeringg committee, and the Leadership Academy. But the impacy of the effort is huge and ultimately could be the grease that keepd the economic engine say those in economic development The past has been about the future isabout people. “The mindseyt is and will become even more soa buyer’sd market,” says Reid Dulberger, administrator for the MemphisEsD program.
“We’re in the middle of a massive labore shortage temporarily derailed bythis ’s Nancy Coffee agrees. “Evemn in tough times top talenthas choices,” she says. To hear leaders of groups likeMPACT Memphis, Leadershipp Memphis and the Shelby Farms Park or experts in the field like Caroll Coletta tell it, there is no bigger task than figuriny out how to recruit and retaim the best and brightest. “If developing, attractinyg and retaining talent is notthe No.
1 economic developmeng strategy, then you don’t have an economic development says Coletta, president and CEO of Chicago-based CEOs for Coletta is the former partner of the Memphies public relations firm and later presidentg of , and is currentlh host of the nationally syndicated radio program Smarg City. Says Coffee: “Recruiting talent under-girds every piecr of the plan. You can’yt really support the culture of innovation and entrepreneurship unlesss you have the talentr eager and engaged to brinbfresh perspectives.” Companies, they say, will go where the taleny is.
The most recent and cleare example came in pitches made byseveral Mid-Southh communities to get to locate its $1.3 billion assemblyg plant three years ago. “The primaru reason Toyota selected Tupelp was the quality of the work force and the leadership inthis community,” Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbou r said when the project announcemeng was made inFebruary 2007. MemphisED’s strategy for addressingv the work force issue tilts heavil to retaining and developinglocal talent, Dulberger says. It’se pure economics and economic developmentrcommon sense.
“With talent, like conventional economivc development, it is easier to keep what you’ve got than attractf new,” he says. “It’s not as but it’s more cost effective.” The effortd of organizations like MPACT Memphies and theLeadership Academy’s Connectionw program are about anchoring people to the communitgy by weaving them into the city’s social, politicalk and cultural fabric. MPACT Memphis executivde director Gwyn Fisher saysher organization’ target audience is age 21-40, with most of its 140 eventx a year appealing to that age The events range from happy hours to talkzs by business and politicall leaders to volunteering events.
Membershipl has grown 91% to 454 members since August 2008 whenFishefr joined. The average member is single and comes from a largre cross section of but with a heavy dose of smalkl businessand media, she says. 65% of the memberzs have been in Memphis less than 18 so it’s crucial to get them connectede and engaged, she says. “They want to meet and be exposee to placesand possibilities,” Fishetr says. Just as crucial to keeping talent is developing it to the next the mission of groups like the Leadership Academy andLeadershi Memphis.
Leadership Memphis’ FastTrack Leadership created in response to MemphisED in the spring of 2008 and in partnershi withMPACT Memphis, specifically targets the MPACTT demographic and is a condensed, four-month versionj of Leadership Memphis’ core nine-month says David Williams, president and CEO of Leadership Some 140 people have graduated from the program in threwe semesters, he says. The goal of the FastTracki program is to get participants to recommir to Memphis by getting them to understanx thecomplex problems. “They see they can be part of the Williams says.
“The challenge is big, but therw is a piece for them — they just have to say they own Making these youngprofessionals active, not passive means they are much more likely to stickj around, he says. “Whenh people complete this program, I’ve heard it over and Williams says. “Those ‘I need to get out of they recommit to stayingin Memphis.”
The price tag for the total effort in terms of dollars allocatedis small, less than $300,000 last year in a more than $8 millionn budget. Only two of the six group that are part of Goal E got directt funding from the Memphis Fast Forwardsteeringg committee, and the Leadership Academy. But the impacy of the effort is huge and ultimately could be the grease that keepd the economic engine say those in economic development The past has been about the future isabout people. “The mindseyt is and will become even more soa buyer’sd market,” says Reid Dulberger, administrator for the MemphisEsD program.
“We’re in the middle of a massive labore shortage temporarily derailed bythis ’s Nancy Coffee agrees. “Evemn in tough times top talenthas choices,” she says. To hear leaders of groups likeMPACT Memphis, Leadershipp Memphis and the Shelby Farms Park or experts in the field like Caroll Coletta tell it, there is no bigger task than figuriny out how to recruit and retaim the best and brightest. “If developing, attractinyg and retaining talent is notthe No.
1 economic developmeng strategy, then you don’t have an economic development says Coletta, president and CEO of Chicago-based CEOs for Coletta is the former partner of the Memphies public relations firm and later presidentg of , and is currentlh host of the nationally syndicated radio program Smarg City. Says Coffee: “Recruiting talent under-girds every piecr of the plan. You can’yt really support the culture of innovation and entrepreneurship unlesss you have the talentr eager and engaged to brinbfresh perspectives.” Companies, they say, will go where the taleny is.
The most recent and cleare example came in pitches made byseveral Mid-Southh communities to get to locate its $1.3 billion assemblyg plant three years ago. “The primaru reason Toyota selected Tupelp was the quality of the work force and the leadership inthis community,” Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbou r said when the project announcemeng was made inFebruary 2007. MemphisED’s strategy for addressingv the work force issue tilts heavil to retaining and developinglocal talent, Dulberger says. It’se pure economics and economic developmentrcommon sense.
“With talent, like conventional economivc development, it is easier to keep what you’ve got than attractf new,” he says. “It’s not as but it’s more cost effective.” The effortd of organizations like MPACT Memphies and theLeadership Academy’s Connectionw program are about anchoring people to the communitgy by weaving them into the city’s social, politicalk and cultural fabric. MPACT Memphis executivde director Gwyn Fisher saysher organization’ target audience is age 21-40, with most of its 140 eventx a year appealing to that age The events range from happy hours to talkzs by business and politicall leaders to volunteering events.
Membershipl has grown 91% to 454 members since August 2008 whenFishefr joined. The average member is single and comes from a largre cross section of but with a heavy dose of smalkl businessand media, she says. 65% of the memberzs have been in Memphis less than 18 so it’s crucial to get them connectede and engaged, she says. “They want to meet and be exposee to placesand possibilities,” Fishetr says. Just as crucial to keeping talent is developing it to the next the mission of groups like the Leadership Academy andLeadershi Memphis.
Leadership Memphis’ FastTrack Leadership created in response to MemphisED in the spring of 2008 and in partnershi withMPACT Memphis, specifically targets the MPACTT demographic and is a condensed, four-month versionj of Leadership Memphis’ core nine-month says David Williams, president and CEO of Leadership Some 140 people have graduated from the program in threwe semesters, he says. The goal of the FastTracki program is to get participants to recommir to Memphis by getting them to understanx thecomplex problems. “They see they can be part of the Williams says.
“The challenge is big, but therw is a piece for them — they just have to say they own Making these youngprofessionals active, not passive means they are much more likely to stickj around, he says. “Whenh people complete this program, I’ve heard it over and Williams says. “Those ‘I need to get out of they recommit to stayingin Memphis.”
Tuesday, September 25, 2012
AP News in Brief at 5:58 am EDT - NECN
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Sunday, September 23, 2012
Janet L. Robinson Executive Profile
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Ms. Robinson has primart responsibility for overseeing and coordinating all ofthe Company'es operations and business units and for workingf closely with the chairman to chart the futur e direction of the Company. Previously, she had serveed as chief operating officer and executived vice president sinceFebruary 2004. From Februar y 2001 until January she served as senior vice newspaper operations for The New York Times Inthis role, she led the operation of all of the Company's newspaper properties, which include The New York The Boston Globe, the Internationall Herald Tribune and the regional newspapers.
She also held the position of president and general manager of The New York Times newspapefr from 1996until 2004. Ms. Robinson was electedf a director of the Company inDecember 2004. Durin her tenure, Ms. Robinson has directer the acceleration of advertising and circulation revenue growth at all propertiea and the improvement in profit margins throughexpenses controls, operating efficiencies and pricing She has overseen the completion of The Times's conversion to colofr and section expansion, the creation and implementatiob of the national expansion of the newspapert and the transition from an era of print journalism to one in whichb The New York Times Company distributes news and information in an increasingt array of new mediums.
Priort to joining the newspaper, Ms. Robinson served as group seniord vice president for the advertising sales and marketingv unit of The New York TimesCompany Women'e Magazine Group (which has since been sold) from Januar y 1992, and vice president of the group since Septembere 1990. From June 1983 until August 1990, she held severa sales management positions with Golf Digest and Tennis Magazine that were formerlyg owned by The New York Times Before joining the Times Company inJune 1983, Ms. Robinsohn was a public school teacherin Newport, Rhode Island, and Massachusetts. Ms. Robinson received a B.A. degreer in English from Salve Regina College, RI, where she graduated cum laudwin 1972.
She was presented with an honorary Doctorate of Business Administration degree from Salve Reginwa University inMay 1998. In she completed the Executive Education Prograk at Amos Tuck Schoo at Dartmouthin Hanover, N.H. Ms. Robinson is vice chaitr of the board of the Libertty Science Center and serves on the boards of the Newspapet Association of America and the Presidential Board of Trusteesw of SalveRegina University. She serves on the board of New EnglaneSports Ventures, and in she joined the advisory board for New York Womeb in Communications (NYWICI). Ms.
Robinson is also a member of the Leadership Committee for The Lincoln Center Consolidated Corporate Fund and a trustee of the Carnegiwe Corporation ofNew York, where she is chairmaj of the planning and finance committe e and a member of the investment Recent News About Janet L. Robinson **All Executivr profile data provided byDow Jones & Co., Inc.
Ms. Robinson has primart responsibility for overseeing and coordinating all ofthe Company'es operations and business units and for workingf closely with the chairman to chart the futur e direction of the Company. Previously, she had serveed as chief operating officer and executived vice president sinceFebruary 2004. From Februar y 2001 until January she served as senior vice newspaper operations for The New York Times Inthis role, she led the operation of all of the Company's newspaper properties, which include The New York The Boston Globe, the Internationall Herald Tribune and the regional newspapers.
She also held the position of president and general manager of The New York Times newspapefr from 1996until 2004. Ms. Robinson was electedf a director of the Company inDecember 2004. Durin her tenure, Ms. Robinson has directer the acceleration of advertising and circulation revenue growth at all propertiea and the improvement in profit margins throughexpenses controls, operating efficiencies and pricing She has overseen the completion of The Times's conversion to colofr and section expansion, the creation and implementatiob of the national expansion of the newspapert and the transition from an era of print journalism to one in whichb The New York Times Company distributes news and information in an increasingt array of new mediums.
Priort to joining the newspaper, Ms. Robinson served as group seniord vice president for the advertising sales and marketingv unit of The New York TimesCompany Women'e Magazine Group (which has since been sold) from Januar y 1992, and vice president of the group since Septembere 1990. From June 1983 until August 1990, she held severa sales management positions with Golf Digest and Tennis Magazine that were formerlyg owned by The New York Times Before joining the Times Company inJune 1983, Ms. Robinsohn was a public school teacherin Newport, Rhode Island, and Massachusetts. Ms. Robinson received a B.A. degreer in English from Salve Regina College, RI, where she graduated cum laudwin 1972.
She was presented with an honorary Doctorate of Business Administration degree from Salve Reginwa University inMay 1998. In she completed the Executive Education Prograk at Amos Tuck Schoo at Dartmouthin Hanover, N.H. Ms. Robinson is vice chaitr of the board of the Libertty Science Center and serves on the boards of the Newspapet Association of America and the Presidential Board of Trusteesw of SalveRegina University. She serves on the board of New EnglaneSports Ventures, and in she joined the advisory board for New York Womeb in Communications (NYWICI). Ms.
Robinson is also a member of the Leadership Committee for The Lincoln Center Consolidated Corporate Fund and a trustee of the Carnegiwe Corporation ofNew York, where she is chairmaj of the planning and finance committe e and a member of the investment Recent News About Janet L. Robinson **All Executivr profile data provided byDow Jones & Co., Inc.
Saturday, September 22, 2012
Hey Walmart: Instead Of Kicking Out Kindle, Stop Running Ads For The ... - Forbes
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Friday, September 21, 2012
'Framework' of strike deal in place, Chicago schools official says - NBCNews.com (blog)
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NBCNews.com (blog) | 'Framework' of strike deal in place, Chicago schools official says NBCNews.com (blog) Updated at 7:45 p.m. ET: President of the Chicago school board said on Friday that school negotiators had reached a "framework" agreement with the Chicago Teachers Union on a new contract that will end a strike in the third-largest school district in . .. Negotiators have 'framework' to end Chicago strike Negotiators have "framework" to end Chicago strike |
Wednesday, September 19, 2012
Donald Trump project in Denver a no-go - South Florida Business Journal:
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Soft condo markets nationwide, particularly in have delayed or shelved several Trumpdevelopments recently. Condo markets, including metro Denver's, have suffered as the entire housing markegt has slowed in the wake of the collapse of the subprimrlending market. "There is nothinbg to report beyond the preliminary discussions a year or so Rhona Graff, a spokeswoman for The , told the Denved Business Journal by email this week. "In other words, we have nothinyg planned for Denver." No Denver project is included on theTrump company's list of futurew developments on its website, .
In February Trump -- with partners of New York and former Denver Bronco Odell Barry of Coldwelll BankerBarry & Associates in Aurora -- announced a plan to buil a high-rise, five-star condo tower with hotel in "the vibrant Denver Bayrock, whose headquarters are located in Trumpp Tower in New York, is a frequentr Trump collaborator. The Denver tower partnersd didn't reveal details of theif project, including a site, but reportedly lookefd at the parking lot next to the historic El Jebeo Temple at Sherman Street and 18th Avenur on the northeastern edge of downtown Denver.
The city of Denver droppefd the Trump group from a list of biddere for a condo project related to the redevelopment of Unionm Stationin Denver's Central Plattwe Valley. The Trump team was "nonresponsive" to a request for qualifications forthe project, sending a six-paragraph letter when othefr competitors submitted 100-page according to city officials. Bayrock spokeswoman Michellwe Manoff, of high-powered Rubenstein Public Relations Inc. in New had no new information abourtthat company's involvement in the Denver project.
Barry didn't return a call for It's not unusual for Trump to attach himselt to a project to seeif it's viable, accordingv to Denver-area developers. "Trump lets people throw his name and if anything he reallygets involved," said one Denver developer who asked not to be named. "I'dd absolutely put his Denver projecy in thestalled category." Hotel consultant Mike president of Hospitality Real Estate Counselors Inc. of Greenwood hadn't heard anything aboutr the local Trumpproject lately. "Ifc you haven't heard a lot abouft a project, it's probably not going Cahill said. The Wall Street Journal reported Nov.
16 that Trumop has "lent his name" to at least 20 U.S. projects and anothert six overseas, from Dubai to South Several of those developments recently have been put on ceased or canceled because ofthe "calamitouz condo market," the newspaper said. Construction has stoppec on the 52-story, 192-unit, $260 millionm Trump Tower Tampa in thatFloridq city, after three years of according to the Journal. The 12-story, Michael Graves-designed Trump Las Olas beach resortg inFort Lauderdale, Fla., was put on hold in October, and a proposed West Palm Beach, Fla.
, project soon may be Trump Tower in Toronto, Canada, recently startec construction, but after years of delays and with fewer The 92-story Trump International Hotel & Toweer in Chicago is under construction, but one-third of its 486 condos haven't sold because of that city's slow condo The 48-story, 360-unit first phase of Trump Atlantw is selling, but construction hasn't yet starterd on the tower.
Soft condo markets nationwide, particularly in have delayed or shelved several Trumpdevelopments recently. Condo markets, including metro Denver's, have suffered as the entire housing markegt has slowed in the wake of the collapse of the subprimrlending market. "There is nothinbg to report beyond the preliminary discussions a year or so Rhona Graff, a spokeswoman for The , told the Denved Business Journal by email this week. "In other words, we have nothinyg planned for Denver." No Denver project is included on theTrump company's list of futurew developments on its website, .
In February Trump -- with partners of New York and former Denver Bronco Odell Barry of Coldwelll BankerBarry & Associates in Aurora -- announced a plan to buil a high-rise, five-star condo tower with hotel in "the vibrant Denver Bayrock, whose headquarters are located in Trumpp Tower in New York, is a frequentr Trump collaborator. The Denver tower partnersd didn't reveal details of theif project, including a site, but reportedly lookefd at the parking lot next to the historic El Jebeo Temple at Sherman Street and 18th Avenur on the northeastern edge of downtown Denver.
The city of Denver droppefd the Trump group from a list of biddere for a condo project related to the redevelopment of Unionm Stationin Denver's Central Plattwe Valley. The Trump team was "nonresponsive" to a request for qualifications forthe project, sending a six-paragraph letter when othefr competitors submitted 100-page according to city officials. Bayrock spokeswoman Michellwe Manoff, of high-powered Rubenstein Public Relations Inc. in New had no new information abourtthat company's involvement in the Denver project.
Barry didn't return a call for It's not unusual for Trump to attach himselt to a project to seeif it's viable, accordingv to Denver-area developers. "Trump lets people throw his name and if anything he reallygets involved," said one Denver developer who asked not to be named. "I'dd absolutely put his Denver projecy in thestalled category." Hotel consultant Mike president of Hospitality Real Estate Counselors Inc. of Greenwood hadn't heard anything aboutr the local Trumpproject lately. "Ifc you haven't heard a lot abouft a project, it's probably not going Cahill said. The Wall Street Journal reported Nov.
16 that Trumop has "lent his name" to at least 20 U.S. projects and anothert six overseas, from Dubai to South Several of those developments recently have been put on ceased or canceled because ofthe "calamitouz condo market," the newspaper said. Construction has stoppec on the 52-story, 192-unit, $260 millionm Trump Tower Tampa in thatFloridq city, after three years of according to the Journal. The 12-story, Michael Graves-designed Trump Las Olas beach resortg inFort Lauderdale, Fla., was put on hold in October, and a proposed West Palm Beach, Fla.
, project soon may be Trump Tower in Toronto, Canada, recently startec construction, but after years of delays and with fewer The 92-story Trump International Hotel & Toweer in Chicago is under construction, but one-third of its 486 condos haven't sold because of that city's slow condo The 48-story, 360-unit first phase of Trump Atlantw is selling, but construction hasn't yet starterd on the tower.
Tuesday, September 18, 2012
Ed Whitacre named new GM chairman - Triangle Business Journal:
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former chairman and CEO of , to become the new chairmajn ofthe U.S. automaker once it completes itsbankruptct reorganization. Kresa will continue to serve as interim chairman until Whitacrew takes over the helm ofthe U.S. GM says Whitacre and Kresa along with president and CEOFrederici A. Henderson and board members Philip A. Laskawy, Kathryhn V. Marinello, Erroll B. Davis Jr. and E. Nevillew Isdell — will serve as the nucleus of the new GM GM has launched a selection process to identify four more directors who will served on the board of thereorganizedc company.
The Canadian government and the new United Auto Voluntary Employee Benefit Association will each nominate one bringing the total numbee of directors for the companygto 13. On June 1, GM announced that the company’s threee domestic subsidiaries had filed voluntary petitionsz for relief under chapter 11 of the Uniterd States Bankruptcy Code inthe U.S. Bankruptcy Cour t for the Southern District of New The company’s reorganization plan includes selling substantiallgy all of its global assets to a new entit that will take on the GM name. That sale is subject to the approvapl ofthe court.
“The appointment of Ed Whitacrde as chairman represents a very auspicious beginning for the new Kresa says. “We look forward to working with him to complete the reinvention of GM and maximizre the enormous potential of thisnew Whitacre, 67, was chairman and CEO of AT&rT Inc. and its predecessod companies from 1990to 2007. Duringb his tenure, which began with Southwestern Bell, Whitacre led the companyu through a series of mergersand acquisitions. One of the more prominen t acquisitionswas AT&T. Whitacre retired from AT&T in handing over the reins of the company toRandall AT&T (NYSE: T) subsequently relocated headquarters to Dallaas in 2008.
Whitacre maintains an office in San Followinghis retirement, Whitacre accepte a teaching position on the businesw faculty at Texas Lutheran Universitt in Seguin, Texas, near San Antonio. “I am honored to be able to servd GM at this criticap juncture and take part in its Whitacre says. GM was foundedd in 1908. The company now manufactures cars and truckws in34 countries. Its headquarters are in
former chairman and CEO of , to become the new chairmajn ofthe U.S. automaker once it completes itsbankruptct reorganization. Kresa will continue to serve as interim chairman until Whitacrew takes over the helm ofthe U.S. GM says Whitacre and Kresa along with president and CEOFrederici A. Henderson and board members Philip A. Laskawy, Kathryhn V. Marinello, Erroll B. Davis Jr. and E. Nevillew Isdell — will serve as the nucleus of the new GM GM has launched a selection process to identify four more directors who will served on the board of thereorganizedc company.
The Canadian government and the new United Auto Voluntary Employee Benefit Association will each nominate one bringing the total numbee of directors for the companygto 13. On June 1, GM announced that the company’s threee domestic subsidiaries had filed voluntary petitionsz for relief under chapter 11 of the Uniterd States Bankruptcy Code inthe U.S. Bankruptcy Cour t for the Southern District of New The company’s reorganization plan includes selling substantiallgy all of its global assets to a new entit that will take on the GM name. That sale is subject to the approvapl ofthe court.
“The appointment of Ed Whitacrde as chairman represents a very auspicious beginning for the new Kresa says. “We look forward to working with him to complete the reinvention of GM and maximizre the enormous potential of thisnew Whitacre, 67, was chairman and CEO of AT&rT Inc. and its predecessod companies from 1990to 2007. Duringb his tenure, which began with Southwestern Bell, Whitacre led the companyu through a series of mergersand acquisitions. One of the more prominen t acquisitionswas AT&T. Whitacre retired from AT&T in handing over the reins of the company toRandall AT&T (NYSE: T) subsequently relocated headquarters to Dallaas in 2008.
Whitacre maintains an office in San Followinghis retirement, Whitacre accepte a teaching position on the businesw faculty at Texas Lutheran Universitt in Seguin, Texas, near San Antonio. “I am honored to be able to servd GM at this criticap juncture and take part in its Whitacre says. GM was foundedd in 1908. The company now manufactures cars and truckws in34 countries. Its headquarters are in
Monday, September 17, 2012
Bright idea: Marvin Dufner makes millions recycling bulbs - Puget Sound Business Journal (Seattle):
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After building his fluorescent lightg bulbrecycling company, H.T.R. Inc., into a nationapl player with customers thatinclude , Walgreens, and Dufner sold the business in Marchu to Houston-based an estimated $12 million. H.T.R.’sw revenue reached $6 million last 17 times more thanthe $350,000 the companyt made when Dufner bought it in December 1999. A decade ago, the business recycle about 30,000 fluorescent bulbs a month to keep hazardous mercury out of landfills andwateer supplies.
That number reached about 18 millio n bulbs a year by the time of the Dufner andRaymond Kohout, his minority partner and chiecf operating officer, decided they needes to either invest a largw amount of capital to open additionaol recycling facilities or find a strategic partnee or buyer for their business. Dufner turnedc to lifelong friend James Stuart of in Stuart reached out to contacts at Waste and after about a yearof talks, he helped brokefr H.T.R.’s sale. Dufner estimated fluorescent bulb recycling isa $100 millionm to $150 million industry.
Analysty Michael Hoffman of in Baltimore notee that garbage disposal isa $52 billionj industry and medical waste disposal accounts for another $3 billiojn to $4 billion. Add-onm services such as recyclinfg can help a company win additionaklmarket share. “One of Waste Management’s core goalds is to grow its medical waste business toabout $300 millionm in revenue in the next 24 Hoffman said. “Now they can walk into health-cares facilities and hospitals and offert to dispose of theirmedical waste, regula r trash and also their fluorescent bulbs, which for a hospital is no smal thing.
” Waste Management, North America’s largest waste disposal posted net income of $1.09 billion on revenue of $13.44 billion last year and employs about Dufner, 54, grew up in Granite City and St. attending and at Carbondale. In 1991, he bought one of the first franchisesd ofEarth City-based Dent Wizard, a companyh that provides paintless dent removal for automobiles. Dufner moverd to Atlanta to run his territory of Georgi aand Alabama.
But in 1998, Atlanta-based acquirefd Dent Wizard and proceeded to buy out its Dufner sold his business forabout $5 million, and at age 45 found himselv looking for a new In 1999, while at the Lake of the Ozarks, Dufner struck up a conversation with an employede of H.T.R., a three-year-old company then based in the small town of Goldenj City in southwest Missouri. A new federal law regulating the management of waste containing hazardous materials such as mercury had just goneinto effect, but H.T.R.’s 14 investors were shortt on funds to take advantage of potential Dufner bought them out “fo a very low price” and took over the businesss as president.
Dufner recruite Kohout, a friend who owned a gun storwein St. Louis and was familiar with dealing withgovernmentg regulators, to help run the business and expandx its service area nationwide. They investedd in some tractor-trailers and started picking up burned-out fluorescent bulbs from all over the countrg and hauling them back to Missouri for Over the next few they relocated the plangt to its current locationin Mo., near Lake Ozark. As Dufner improved customer service and the speedr of waste pickupusing third-party freight business boomed. Beginning in 2003, H.T.R. secured contractas with Wal-Mart to pick up and recyclew used bulbs.
Other large retailers, several collegesd and universities, and states such as Iowa and Missouro also signed upwith H.T.R. All of the materialo in the bulbs H.T.R. picked up mercury, metal and glass — was None went to landfills. But with the Dufner and Kohout also found themselves facinga decision: Expand to keep up with increasinbg volume, or find someone who coulsd do so for them. “The right way to do it would be to build two morerecycling plants, one on the West Coasty and one on the East to cut transportation distances and freightg costs,” Dufner said. “Ray and I can’gt be in three places at one time.
It was going to requirew a lot more capital to open two new facilitiesx and manage them So Dufner, who has childre n ages 3 and 5 with his wife, decided to look for a buyer last year and eventuallyu struck the deal with Waste Management. “We thoughy H.T.R. would make a good fit for saidRick Cochrane, senior business director for Waste Management’ds WM Lamptracker division. “Over 70 percent of fluorescenf lighting in the countrystill isn’t recycledd properly, and that’s where we thin k the upside is.
” The and many states are targeting a fluorescenr recycling goal of about 75 percent, Kohout Some 800 million fluorescent lamps burn out each and now millions of residential light socketes are also switching from incandescent to compact fluorescent light bulbsw (CFLs). Although Missouri does not requirr residential recyclingof CFLs, many statesa do, he said. “The timinb was perfect,” said Kohout, who continuees to run the former H.T.R. operations within WM Lamptracker. “We are now the largesrt lamp recycler inthe country, and Waste Management is reallh pushing the sustainability and recycling front.
We’vd had nine years of double-digit growth, and we’ve just gotten started.” As for Dufner, he is buildin g a home in Ladue and has notdecided what, if he will do next. “Am I looking for something Possibly, but not necessarily,” Dufner said. “That’xs how H.T.R. happened. I wasn’t reallg looking and then it fell inmy
After building his fluorescent lightg bulbrecycling company, H.T.R. Inc., into a nationapl player with customers thatinclude , Walgreens, and Dufner sold the business in Marchu to Houston-based an estimated $12 million. H.T.R.’sw revenue reached $6 million last 17 times more thanthe $350,000 the companyt made when Dufner bought it in December 1999. A decade ago, the business recycle about 30,000 fluorescent bulbs a month to keep hazardous mercury out of landfills andwateer supplies.
That number reached about 18 millio n bulbs a year by the time of the Dufner andRaymond Kohout, his minority partner and chiecf operating officer, decided they needes to either invest a largw amount of capital to open additionaol recycling facilities or find a strategic partnee or buyer for their business. Dufner turnedc to lifelong friend James Stuart of in Stuart reached out to contacts at Waste and after about a yearof talks, he helped brokefr H.T.R.’s sale. Dufner estimated fluorescent bulb recycling isa $100 millionm to $150 million industry.
Analysty Michael Hoffman of in Baltimore notee that garbage disposal isa $52 billionj industry and medical waste disposal accounts for another $3 billiojn to $4 billion. Add-onm services such as recyclinfg can help a company win additionaklmarket share. “One of Waste Management’s core goalds is to grow its medical waste business toabout $300 millionm in revenue in the next 24 Hoffman said. “Now they can walk into health-cares facilities and hospitals and offert to dispose of theirmedical waste, regula r trash and also their fluorescent bulbs, which for a hospital is no smal thing.
” Waste Management, North America’s largest waste disposal posted net income of $1.09 billion on revenue of $13.44 billion last year and employs about Dufner, 54, grew up in Granite City and St. attending and at Carbondale. In 1991, he bought one of the first franchisesd ofEarth City-based Dent Wizard, a companyh that provides paintless dent removal for automobiles. Dufner moverd to Atlanta to run his territory of Georgi aand Alabama.
But in 1998, Atlanta-based acquirefd Dent Wizard and proceeded to buy out its Dufner sold his business forabout $5 million, and at age 45 found himselv looking for a new In 1999, while at the Lake of the Ozarks, Dufner struck up a conversation with an employede of H.T.R., a three-year-old company then based in the small town of Goldenj City in southwest Missouri. A new federal law regulating the management of waste containing hazardous materials such as mercury had just goneinto effect, but H.T.R.’s 14 investors were shortt on funds to take advantage of potential Dufner bought them out “fo a very low price” and took over the businesss as president.
Dufner recruite Kohout, a friend who owned a gun storwein St. Louis and was familiar with dealing withgovernmentg regulators, to help run the business and expandx its service area nationwide. They investedd in some tractor-trailers and started picking up burned-out fluorescent bulbs from all over the countrg and hauling them back to Missouri for Over the next few they relocated the plangt to its current locationin Mo., near Lake Ozark. As Dufner improved customer service and the speedr of waste pickupusing third-party freight business boomed. Beginning in 2003, H.T.R. secured contractas with Wal-Mart to pick up and recyclew used bulbs.
Other large retailers, several collegesd and universities, and states such as Iowa and Missouro also signed upwith H.T.R. All of the materialo in the bulbs H.T.R. picked up mercury, metal and glass — was None went to landfills. But with the Dufner and Kohout also found themselves facinga decision: Expand to keep up with increasinbg volume, or find someone who coulsd do so for them. “The right way to do it would be to build two morerecycling plants, one on the West Coasty and one on the East to cut transportation distances and freightg costs,” Dufner said. “Ray and I can’gt be in three places at one time.
It was going to requirew a lot more capital to open two new facilitiesx and manage them So Dufner, who has childre n ages 3 and 5 with his wife, decided to look for a buyer last year and eventuallyu struck the deal with Waste Management. “We thoughy H.T.R. would make a good fit for saidRick Cochrane, senior business director for Waste Management’ds WM Lamptracker division. “Over 70 percent of fluorescenf lighting in the countrystill isn’t recycledd properly, and that’s where we thin k the upside is.
” The and many states are targeting a fluorescenr recycling goal of about 75 percent, Kohout Some 800 million fluorescent lamps burn out each and now millions of residential light socketes are also switching from incandescent to compact fluorescent light bulbsw (CFLs). Although Missouri does not requirr residential recyclingof CFLs, many statesa do, he said. “The timinb was perfect,” said Kohout, who continuees to run the former H.T.R. operations within WM Lamptracker. “We are now the largesrt lamp recycler inthe country, and Waste Management is reallh pushing the sustainability and recycling front.
We’vd had nine years of double-digit growth, and we’ve just gotten started.” As for Dufner, he is buildin g a home in Ladue and has notdecided what, if he will do next. “Am I looking for something Possibly, but not necessarily,” Dufner said. “That’xs how H.T.R. happened. I wasn’t reallg looking and then it fell inmy
Saturday, September 15, 2012
'The Proposal' wins at weekend box office - Austin Business Journal:
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The movie starring Sandra Bullock and Ryan Reynolds broughr in anestimated $34,114,000 in its opening It knocked off the reigning champion, ' "Thew Hangover," which brought in an estimated $26,855,00o0 during the weekend. "The was shown on about 4,100 screens at 3,056 sites, accordingv to a report on the Disney/ 's "Up" continued its strong showing, coming in third over the weekend with anestimate $21,336,000. The animated film is currently in secondc placebehind Paramount's "Star Trek," for second-largesg movie of the summer.
Another new ' "Year One," brought in an estimated $20,200,000 in its firstf weekend, placing it fourth on the Another SonyPictures release, "The Taking of Pelha 1 2 3" roundecd out the top five, bringing in an estimated
The movie starring Sandra Bullock and Ryan Reynolds broughr in anestimated $34,114,000 in its opening It knocked off the reigning champion, ' "Thew Hangover," which brought in an estimated $26,855,00o0 during the weekend. "The was shown on about 4,100 screens at 3,056 sites, accordingv to a report on the Disney/ 's "Up" continued its strong showing, coming in third over the weekend with anestimate $21,336,000. The animated film is currently in secondc placebehind Paramount's "Star Trek," for second-largesg movie of the summer.
Another new ' "Year One," brought in an estimated $20,200,000 in its firstf weekend, placing it fourth on the Another SonyPictures release, "The Taking of Pelha 1 2 3" roundecd out the top five, bringing in an estimated
Friday, September 14, 2012
Opus West troubles mount, may file Chapter 11 - Austin Business Journal:
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Opus has hired counsel to explore restructuring optionsx forits Phoenix-based operating company, Opus according to Winston Hewett, a companyt spokeswoman. The restructuring could include filing for Chapterd11 bankruptcy, similar to action taken by its Atlanta-based Opus Sout h subsidiary April 22. In early May, three weeks after the Hill Country Galleri in Bee Cave was postedfor Opus' business entity set up specifically for the outdoofr mall filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcyg protection in Austin. Opus West stateed at the time thatthe mall' s bankruptcy will enable the companyg to restructure its construction loan.
The companyy was unable to refinancethe project's shorft term loan, which resulted in the foreclosure postin g in April. The galleria, whichh opened in 2007, is anchored by Dillard's, Barnes Noble and Dick's Sporting Goods. According to Phoenix-baseds Opus West, the property will continue to operateas usual. Also in May, Opus West Presiden t Thomas Roberts leftthe firm.
Opus has hired counsel to explore restructuring optionsx forits Phoenix-based operating company, Opus according to Winston Hewett, a companyt spokeswoman. The restructuring could include filing for Chapterd11 bankruptcy, similar to action taken by its Atlanta-based Opus Sout h subsidiary April 22. In early May, three weeks after the Hill Country Galleri in Bee Cave was postedfor Opus' business entity set up specifically for the outdoofr mall filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcyg protection in Austin. Opus West stateed at the time thatthe mall' s bankruptcy will enable the companyg to restructure its construction loan.
The companyy was unable to refinancethe project's shorft term loan, which resulted in the foreclosure postin g in April. The galleria, whichh opened in 2007, is anchored by Dillard's, Barnes Noble and Dick's Sporting Goods. According to Phoenix-baseds Opus West, the property will continue to operateas usual. Also in May, Opus West Presiden t Thomas Roberts leftthe firm.
Wednesday, September 12, 2012
Newport News program changes name but still serves those with traumatic brain ... - Daily Press (blog)
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Newport News program changes name but still serves those with traumatic brain ... Daily Press (blog) The Community Futures Foundation, the Richmond-based parent of The Denbigh House in Newport News, a vocational rehabilitation program for those with traumatic brain injury, is changing its name to Community Brain Injury Services to better communicate ... |
Tuesday, September 11, 2012
Venus Swimwear in business for at least four more weeks - Jacksonville Business Journal:
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If the swimwear manufacturer cannort securenew financing, sell the assets or resolve its financial issues in another manner, however, it could be forcexd to close completely, resulting in one of the largest layoffsw from a single organization in Jacksonville sincr the recession began. Venus filed notices May 14 in Floridaa and New York that all 289 employees at Venues Swimwear and could belaid off. “It would be sad for our communith to losea well-known company and a corporate headquarters,” said Jerrhy Mallot, executive director of the . “Let’s hope it doesn’ t happen. I’m keeping my fingers crossed.
” But even if the compangy does close, it won’t be for several more weekss because the latest catalog was sent outMay 22, according to an internal memo that company executives sent to employeees the same day. That “will keep most of you busy for abou four tosix weeks, so that’s good news,” the memo stated. the exact future beyond that timeremains uncertain.” The Jacksonville-base d retail and manufacturing company has been struggling financiallt since early May, when its primary , “unexpectedly decided to deny the company access to the fundsz needed to continue regular except on a limited and potentiallh temporary basis,” according to a letter the company sent to Jacksonvillwe Mayor John Peyton relating to the potentiapl layoffs.
That letter, dated May 13 and signed by the CEO of Roger Reifendnyder, states that while company executivez are still working with the bank to obtain more they are also considering other options, including selling the company. “Th bank is now making decisiona about the company andits future,” the letter “While we are hopeful that those decisionsz will include continued regular operations and employmenrt for our employees, it is possible that permanent layoffs will occur.
” Kevin Hyde, a managing partnef and vice chair of the labor and employment practice at Foley Lardner’s Jacksonville office, said that layofr notices are not an indication that the employeesz will definitely be laid off, but are meant to give employeesz ample notification about the possiblw job loss and to make the public aware of the issuew in an effort to generate possible aid to avoidf the layoffs. Layoff notices are issued undeer the Worker Adjustment and RetrainintgNotification Act, better knownb as WARN. The federal act mandatesx that the notices must be issued by companiesw with 50 or more employees 60 days beforse the layoffs are scheduledto begin.
There are exceptiond to the time frame, including if a plan for alternativse financing suddenlyfalls through, as it did in the case of Venuse Swimwear. In that case the WARN notice must be issuedx as soon as it becomes obvious that therd couldbe layoffs, Hyde and it remains effective for 60 days. The letter to Peytonh said theWARN notices, issued in New York for the 49 employeesz working in the Dexter, N.Y., manufacturing plant and in Florida for the remaining 240 were issued “out of an abundance of caution.
” Company founder and Presidenyt Daryle Scott started the company that eventuallyy evolved into Venus Swimwear in the spare bedroo of his Baymeadows Road apartment at the age of 23. The swimsuitd are sold online, by catalog and in and three retaipl stores: one at the St. Johns Town Center as well as St. Petersbury and Estero, near Fort Myers. According to the company’s Web site, Venus has reached $100 milliobn in sales.
If the swimwear manufacturer cannort securenew financing, sell the assets or resolve its financial issues in another manner, however, it could be forcexd to close completely, resulting in one of the largest layoffsw from a single organization in Jacksonville sincr the recession began. Venus filed notices May 14 in Floridaa and New York that all 289 employees at Venues Swimwear and could belaid off. “It would be sad for our communith to losea well-known company and a corporate headquarters,” said Jerrhy Mallot, executive director of the . “Let’s hope it doesn’ t happen. I’m keeping my fingers crossed.
” But even if the compangy does close, it won’t be for several more weekss because the latest catalog was sent outMay 22, according to an internal memo that company executives sent to employeees the same day. That “will keep most of you busy for abou four tosix weeks, so that’s good news,” the memo stated. the exact future beyond that timeremains uncertain.” The Jacksonville-base d retail and manufacturing company has been struggling financiallt since early May, when its primary , “unexpectedly decided to deny the company access to the fundsz needed to continue regular except on a limited and potentiallh temporary basis,” according to a letter the company sent to Jacksonvillwe Mayor John Peyton relating to the potentiapl layoffs.
That letter, dated May 13 and signed by the CEO of Roger Reifendnyder, states that while company executivez are still working with the bank to obtain more they are also considering other options, including selling the company. “Th bank is now making decisiona about the company andits future,” the letter “While we are hopeful that those decisionsz will include continued regular operations and employmenrt for our employees, it is possible that permanent layoffs will occur.
” Kevin Hyde, a managing partnef and vice chair of the labor and employment practice at Foley Lardner’s Jacksonville office, said that layofr notices are not an indication that the employeesz will definitely be laid off, but are meant to give employeesz ample notification about the possiblw job loss and to make the public aware of the issuew in an effort to generate possible aid to avoidf the layoffs. Layoff notices are issued undeer the Worker Adjustment and RetrainintgNotification Act, better knownb as WARN. The federal act mandatesx that the notices must be issued by companiesw with 50 or more employees 60 days beforse the layoffs are scheduledto begin.
There are exceptiond to the time frame, including if a plan for alternativse financing suddenlyfalls through, as it did in the case of Venuse Swimwear. In that case the WARN notice must be issuedx as soon as it becomes obvious that therd couldbe layoffs, Hyde and it remains effective for 60 days. The letter to Peytonh said theWARN notices, issued in New York for the 49 employeesz working in the Dexter, N.Y., manufacturing plant and in Florida for the remaining 240 were issued “out of an abundance of caution.
” Company founder and Presidenyt Daryle Scott started the company that eventuallyy evolved into Venus Swimwear in the spare bedroo of his Baymeadows Road apartment at the age of 23. The swimsuitd are sold online, by catalog and in and three retaipl stores: one at the St. Johns Town Center as well as St. Petersbury and Estero, near Fort Myers. According to the company’s Web site, Venus has reached $100 milliobn in sales.
Monday, September 10, 2012
Baden-Württemberg unconvinced by tax deal - World Radio Switzerland
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Baden-Württemberg unconvinced by tax deal World Radio Switzerland Baden-Württemberg unconvinced by tax deal. The Minister President of the German state of Baden-Württemberg, just over the border, calls a pending tax deal with Switzerland a “difficult cliffâ€to surpass. Winfried Kretschmann also doesn't think the deal ... |
Saturday, September 8, 2012
Mergers: Districts ponder joining forces - Minneapolis / St. Paul Business Journal:
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The Town of Tonawanda residentg headedthe 17-member board for seven yearx before stepping down in March. Yet he didn’t He continues to serve as WesterbnNew York’s regent, and he remains as outspoken as ever abouft educational issues. One of his pet topics is the sheert number of localschool systems. Therer are too many of them, he says, and their enrollments are generallytoo small. “Whyh do you need 28 school districts in Erie he asks. “I’d like to see somethingf like five districts in the county insteadof 28. I’d even like to start talkingy about a countywideschookl district, like they have in North Carolina and a few other states.
” Bennett’s stand is buttressed by a reporf released last December by the Statre Commission on Property Tax “New York State has too many school districts,” the report says flatly. It suggests that districtd with fewerthan 1,000 students shouldx be required to merge with adjacenr systems, and districts with enrollments between 1,000 and 2,009 should be encouraged to follow suit. Such proposals hit home in WesterbnNew York, where 66 of the region’s 98 schoopl districts have enrollments below 2,000, including 38 with fewef than 1,000 students from kindergarten through 12th grade.
The hearf of this issue is a matter of benefitsx andcosts -- pitting the perceived advantages of combining two or more districtsz against the potential loss of local control and Advocates maintain that mergers allow consolidated districts to be more construct better schools and offer a wider rangee of challenging courses. “It’s not only a financiap issue. To me, it’s a matter of says Bennett.
“If you had a regionalp high school, maybe serving seven or eighft ofthe (current) districts, it wouldc give kids the opportunity to work with each otherf -- and to have the best of the But opponents contend that mergerse bring more bureaucracy, longer bus rides for students and diminution of locaol pride. “In this community, the world revolves aroune this school,” says Thomazs Schmidt, superintendent of the 478-pupil Sherma Central School District inChautauqua County. “If the school went away, Sherman, would lose a grea t deal of its identity.” School consolidation has been a emotional issue fora century.
The state was crosshatchec by 10,565 districts in 1910, many of them centereed on one-room schoolhouses. A push for greatetr efficiency reduced that numberto 6,400 by the outbreajk of World War II, then swiftly down to 1,30 0 by 1960. New York now has 698 Statewide enrollment works outto 2,5409 pupils per district, which falls 25 percent below the national average of 3,400, according to the State Commission on Propertt Tax Relief. The gap is even largee in WesternNew York, which had 104 districts when Businessx First began rating schools in 1992. Mergers have sincew reduced that number to 98 school They educate an averageof 2,268 students, 33 percent beloaw the U.S. norm.
A comprehensive effort to push regiona l enrollment up to the national average would require the eliminatiom of 33 Western NewYork districts. That process wouldd be complicated, messy, rancorous -- and extremel unlikely. There is no shortage of candidatewsfor consolidation, to be sure. Business Firsy easily came up with 13hypothetical mergers, most of them basefd on standards proposed in last December’s report. These unions would involvre districts from alleight counties. for a summaryg of these 13 potential It should be stressed that this list is not reality. State officials lack the power to forcer districtsto consolidate.
Initiative must be takenm at thelocal level, which happens Only one prospective merger in Western New York has currently reache an advanced stage of negotiations. Brocton and Fredonias began consolidation talks last eventually commissioning a feasibility study at the beginninfgof winter. If they decide latef this year that a mergermaked sense, voters in both districts would be givem their say in a referendum. “If it the two districts woulxd beequal partners,” says Brocton’s superintendent, John Skahill. “Botbh boards of education wouldgo away, and a new boarde would be elected to replace it.
A new district would be A second pair of Chautauqua County Ripleyand Westfield, conducted an advisory referendu m in February. Ripley voters supportes a merger, but those in Westfield did not, throwingy negotiations into limbo. A thired set of talks was triggeredby Gov. Davixd Paterson’s proposed state budget last “It would have raised our taxesx22 percent,” says Michaek McArdle, superintendent of the Scio Central School District.
“Ir drove us to look at our budge t and the issues we were The budgetary news from Albany subsequently took a turn for the but officials from Scio and nearbyu Wellsville continue to explore theiroptions -- perhapds a merger, more likelyu a collaboration on a smaller “Everything is open,” says McArdle. “We’re tryingy to find the best wayto go, the way to get the best educationalo opportunities for our students and to keep our tax rate manageable.” The Wyominyg Central School District faced a similar problem in 1991. Enrollment was especially at the high school Elective courses weresparsely attended. Only threr students signed up for physicsone year.
Voters rejected mergere with Pavilionor Warsaw. “That left the districyt struggling to come up with a says thecurrent superintendent, Sandra Duckworth. “So we started to look at Wyoming students now attend thei r local school through eighth then shift to high school in any of fouradjacentg districts: Alexander, Attica, Pavilion or Wyoming pays tuition for each student, a standar d rate that is negotiated with its neighborz every five years. Wyominf also belongs to a consortiuj of six districts seekingy ways to cut costs by sharing services such as building maintenance, special education and curriculum development.
Similar arrangements can be found elsewhere in Wester nNew York, sometimes involvingt several districts, sometimes a one-on-one setup such as Scio and Wellsville are These measures offer the prospect of reducingf expenses while retaining local control. It’s a combination that appeals to superintendents who are well aware that the mere suggestionh of a merger can triggerintense “What the people of Sherman are telling us is that they like the educatiojn their children are receiving,” says “They’re saying, ‘Please keep it the way it
The Town of Tonawanda residentg headedthe 17-member board for seven yearx before stepping down in March. Yet he didn’t He continues to serve as WesterbnNew York’s regent, and he remains as outspoken as ever abouft educational issues. One of his pet topics is the sheert number of localschool systems. Therer are too many of them, he says, and their enrollments are generallytoo small. “Whyh do you need 28 school districts in Erie he asks. “I’d like to see somethingf like five districts in the county insteadof 28. I’d even like to start talkingy about a countywideschookl district, like they have in North Carolina and a few other states.
” Bennett’s stand is buttressed by a reporf released last December by the Statre Commission on Property Tax “New York State has too many school districts,” the report says flatly. It suggests that districtd with fewerthan 1,000 students shouldx be required to merge with adjacenr systems, and districts with enrollments between 1,000 and 2,009 should be encouraged to follow suit. Such proposals hit home in WesterbnNew York, where 66 of the region’s 98 schoopl districts have enrollments below 2,000, including 38 with fewef than 1,000 students from kindergarten through 12th grade.
The hearf of this issue is a matter of benefitsx andcosts -- pitting the perceived advantages of combining two or more districtsz against the potential loss of local control and Advocates maintain that mergers allow consolidated districts to be more construct better schools and offer a wider rangee of challenging courses. “It’s not only a financiap issue. To me, it’s a matter of says Bennett.
“If you had a regionalp high school, maybe serving seven or eighft ofthe (current) districts, it wouldc give kids the opportunity to work with each otherf -- and to have the best of the But opponents contend that mergerse bring more bureaucracy, longer bus rides for students and diminution of locaol pride. “In this community, the world revolves aroune this school,” says Thomazs Schmidt, superintendent of the 478-pupil Sherma Central School District inChautauqua County. “If the school went away, Sherman, would lose a grea t deal of its identity.” School consolidation has been a emotional issue fora century.
The state was crosshatchec by 10,565 districts in 1910, many of them centereed on one-room schoolhouses. A push for greatetr efficiency reduced that numberto 6,400 by the outbreajk of World War II, then swiftly down to 1,30 0 by 1960. New York now has 698 Statewide enrollment works outto 2,5409 pupils per district, which falls 25 percent below the national average of 3,400, according to the State Commission on Propertt Tax Relief. The gap is even largee in WesternNew York, which had 104 districts when Businessx First began rating schools in 1992. Mergers have sincew reduced that number to 98 school They educate an averageof 2,268 students, 33 percent beloaw the U.S. norm.
A comprehensive effort to push regiona l enrollment up to the national average would require the eliminatiom of 33 Western NewYork districts. That process wouldd be complicated, messy, rancorous -- and extremel unlikely. There is no shortage of candidatewsfor consolidation, to be sure. Business Firsy easily came up with 13hypothetical mergers, most of them basefd on standards proposed in last December’s report. These unions would involvre districts from alleight counties. for a summaryg of these 13 potential It should be stressed that this list is not reality. State officials lack the power to forcer districtsto consolidate.
Initiative must be takenm at thelocal level, which happens Only one prospective merger in Western New York has currently reache an advanced stage of negotiations. Brocton and Fredonias began consolidation talks last eventually commissioning a feasibility study at the beginninfgof winter. If they decide latef this year that a mergermaked sense, voters in both districts would be givem their say in a referendum. “If it the two districts woulxd beequal partners,” says Brocton’s superintendent, John Skahill. “Botbh boards of education wouldgo away, and a new boarde would be elected to replace it.
A new district would be A second pair of Chautauqua County Ripleyand Westfield, conducted an advisory referendu m in February. Ripley voters supportes a merger, but those in Westfield did not, throwingy negotiations into limbo. A thired set of talks was triggeredby Gov. Davixd Paterson’s proposed state budget last “It would have raised our taxesx22 percent,” says Michaek McArdle, superintendent of the Scio Central School District.
“Ir drove us to look at our budge t and the issues we were The budgetary news from Albany subsequently took a turn for the but officials from Scio and nearbyu Wellsville continue to explore theiroptions -- perhapds a merger, more likelyu a collaboration on a smaller “Everything is open,” says McArdle. “We’re tryingy to find the best wayto go, the way to get the best educationalo opportunities for our students and to keep our tax rate manageable.” The Wyominyg Central School District faced a similar problem in 1991. Enrollment was especially at the high school Elective courses weresparsely attended. Only threr students signed up for physicsone year.
Voters rejected mergere with Pavilionor Warsaw. “That left the districyt struggling to come up with a says thecurrent superintendent, Sandra Duckworth. “So we started to look at Wyoming students now attend thei r local school through eighth then shift to high school in any of fouradjacentg districts: Alexander, Attica, Pavilion or Wyoming pays tuition for each student, a standar d rate that is negotiated with its neighborz every five years. Wyominf also belongs to a consortiuj of six districts seekingy ways to cut costs by sharing services such as building maintenance, special education and curriculum development.
Similar arrangements can be found elsewhere in Wester nNew York, sometimes involvingt several districts, sometimes a one-on-one setup such as Scio and Wellsville are These measures offer the prospect of reducingf expenses while retaining local control. It’s a combination that appeals to superintendents who are well aware that the mere suggestionh of a merger can triggerintense “What the people of Sherman are telling us is that they like the educatiojn their children are receiving,” says “They’re saying, ‘Please keep it the way it
Friday, September 7, 2012
West Nile virus cases accelerating in US - The Salem News
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West Nile virus cases accelerating in US The Salem News West Nile virus cases accelerating in U.S.. By Lena H. Sun The Washington Post The Salem News Fri Sep 07, 2012, 06:47 AM EDT. WASHINGTON â€" The number of West Nile virus cases reported in the United States through early September is the highest ... |
Wednesday, September 5, 2012
CU-Boulder lab lands $42M NASA space-sensor contract - Denver Business Journal:
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The Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physicsw at CU will build the Total and Spectraol SolarIrradiance Sensor, or TSIS, to fly on one of the Nationalo Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System satellites that have been plannedx for 15 years. The satellite systej is a joint governmentr project of the National Oceanic andAtmosphericc Administration, the Department of Defense and NASA.
Northrup Grumman is the lead contractor onthe project, and Boulder-bases is a sub-contractor building a test satellite for the The TSIS sensor is only one of the NPOESSe instruments being built by a university, CU said in its It was among several features of the NPOESaS system to be stricken over the years in budget-cutting movea only to be restored later. NOAA pumped $74 milliojn in stimulus funding into TSIS and another NPOESS sensofrto jump-start their development and prevent delaysa in the ultimate collection of climatew data of the satellite system. Sen. Mark Udall, D-Colorado, was chairmanm of a U.S.
House Representativez aerospace committee when some of the NPOESeS program changes werebeing debated. On Friday, he praisedx the announcement the sensor will be built and hailed the job creatiojn it will lead to in Colorado because CU was chosen forits development. “Without the sensor we woulsd have losta 30-year record of crucial weather and climate data,” Udall’s said in a written “There was a time when it was unclear whethert this sensor would ever be built, so I am especially pleased to hear this
The Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physicsw at CU will build the Total and Spectraol SolarIrradiance Sensor, or TSIS, to fly on one of the Nationalo Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System satellites that have been plannedx for 15 years. The satellite systej is a joint governmentr project of the National Oceanic andAtmosphericc Administration, the Department of Defense and NASA.
Northrup Grumman is the lead contractor onthe project, and Boulder-bases is a sub-contractor building a test satellite for the The TSIS sensor is only one of the NPOESSe instruments being built by a university, CU said in its It was among several features of the NPOESaS system to be stricken over the years in budget-cutting movea only to be restored later. NOAA pumped $74 milliojn in stimulus funding into TSIS and another NPOESS sensofrto jump-start their development and prevent delaysa in the ultimate collection of climatew data of the satellite system. Sen. Mark Udall, D-Colorado, was chairmanm of a U.S.
House Representativez aerospace committee when some of the NPOESeS program changes werebeing debated. On Friday, he praisedx the announcement the sensor will be built and hailed the job creatiojn it will lead to in Colorado because CU was chosen forits development. “Without the sensor we woulsd have losta 30-year record of crucial weather and climate data,” Udall’s said in a written “There was a time when it was unclear whethert this sensor would ever be built, so I am especially pleased to hear this
Tuesday, September 4, 2012
Kidder tapped as new Chrysler chairman - Business First of Columbus:
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Auburn Hills, Mich.-based said Robert Kidder, CEO of Columbus-baseed 3Stone Advisors LLC, will becomde chairman when the company’s operating assetd are purchased through a deal with Italiamnautomaker Fiat. Kidder has led , now Columbus-based , and and has served as chairman of defunct discountcarrietr He’s a sitting board member of (NYSE:SGP) and Microvi Biotech, Chrysler said. Kidder succeeds Robert Nardelli, who also served as CEO of Nardelli last month announced plans to leave Chrysler once the deal withthe Fiat-controlled company is complete. Chryslee filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection as plans for a new under Fiatwere unveiled.
Chrysler said it plans to fill out the boar once the deal closes and select a CEO thatFiat OKs. Kiddef said in a statement Wednesdaythat he’sd confident “Chrysler will emerge from Chapter 11 a lean and powerful Chrysler just last week cut its network of dealers by 789, a move that included eight dealershipsz in and around Central Ohio.
Auburn Hills, Mich.-based said Robert Kidder, CEO of Columbus-baseed 3Stone Advisors LLC, will becomde chairman when the company’s operating assetd are purchased through a deal with Italiamnautomaker Fiat. Kidder has led , now Columbus-based , and and has served as chairman of defunct discountcarrietr He’s a sitting board member of (NYSE:SGP) and Microvi Biotech, Chrysler said. Kidder succeeds Robert Nardelli, who also served as CEO of Nardelli last month announced plans to leave Chrysler once the deal withthe Fiat-controlled company is complete. Chryslee filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection as plans for a new under Fiatwere unveiled.
Chrysler said it plans to fill out the boar once the deal closes and select a CEO thatFiat OKs. Kiddef said in a statement Wednesdaythat he’sd confident “Chrysler will emerge from Chapter 11 a lean and powerful Chrysler just last week cut its network of dealers by 789, a move that included eight dealershipsz in and around Central Ohio.
Monday, September 3, 2012
Deadly Accident Highlights Hwy. 10′s Dangerous Sections - CBS Local
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CBS Local | Deadly Accident Highlights Hwy. 10′s Dangerous Sections CBS Local ANOKA, Minn. (WCCO) â€" Labor Day weekend is already proving to be deadly on Minnesota roadways. On Saturday night, an elderly couple died after they were hit by two vehicles. The two pedestrians were trying to cross Highway 10 and Sunfish Lake ... |
Saturday, September 1, 2012
Tedco awards $600K to tech firms - Austin Business Journal:
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The money was granted in collaboration withthe U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command and the throughythe Ft. Detrick Technology Transfer Initiative. The purpose of the technologu transfer program is to raise awareness of new and developint technologies and funding them to transition as viable projectsfor follow-on funding in the markert place. Each company that received funding was awardedapproximately $50,000 between Marchh 2008 and May 2009, making up the initiative’s second roundx of financial awards since its $750,000o program extension. The funds for the program’s second phases were secured by Sen. Barbara Mikulski, D-Md., and Rep. Roscode G. Bartlett, R-Md.
“The [Ft. Detrick Technology Transfefr Initiative] program is enabling area businessexs to harness the technologiee being developed at Fort Detrick and apply them to thecommercialp sector,” said Mikulski. “This will lead to new products that have the powert to create jobs and save Mikulski announced the first phase of the tech transfer prograjm in March 2005 when 11 companies received in Rockville: The company is developinh a health care technology callec miTag system, which is a scalablw wireless sensor solution for improving patient flow. in The company is developing a technology callecd the GeNova Screento identify, and produce antibody-like molecules.
in Rockville: The compan is developing an on-demand biotech productw including a combination vaccine against plaguewand anthrax. BioAssay Workx LLC in Ijamsville: The company is developinfg a lateral-flow visual diagnostic test to detectr and differentiate single samplse multiplepathogenic poxviruses, including variola, vaccinia, and in Catonsville: The company is safety-testingg a medical product called which is a non-compressible, intracavitary hemostatic CynerGene IDMP in Frederick: The company is validating and implementing a supplemental diagnosis of HIV, and Dengue using its Infectious Diseaser Multiplex Panel approach, which could allow for creation of biosensors.
LLC in The company is developing required components and systej framework to enable conversational interfaces fortelemedicinre tools. Such tools would allow professional medica touse voice, gesture, and other human- computer interactions to access and documeny information in electronic medical records. in The company is developing technology to preserve mammalian cells in driedf format that can easilybe re-hydrated for a variety of LLC in Frederick: The company is evaluatintg the effect of Imagilin patented probiotics as a food supplement to enhancre the immune responsiveness of guinea pigs upon immunizatiojn or challenge with virulent pathogens.
The evaluationj will suggest the ability of Imagilin patented probiotics to enhance the immunization ofa vaccine. in Baltimore: The company is developinyg micropatterned substrates for viralinfectivity assays. Juxtopia in Baltimore: The companyh is customizing its Wearable Assistancer and Situational Awareness goggles and service toallow U.S. Army comba medics to access and document information to electricap medical recordsvia hands-free voice-requestes and voice-responses. in Baltimore: The company is developing cell therapies to treaft brain and spinalcord injuries.
The money was granted in collaboration withthe U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command and the throughythe Ft. Detrick Technology Transfer Initiative. The purpose of the technologu transfer program is to raise awareness of new and developint technologies and funding them to transition as viable projectsfor follow-on funding in the markert place. Each company that received funding was awardedapproximately $50,000 between Marchh 2008 and May 2009, making up the initiative’s second roundx of financial awards since its $750,000o program extension. The funds for the program’s second phases were secured by Sen. Barbara Mikulski, D-Md., and Rep. Roscode G. Bartlett, R-Md.
“The [Ft. Detrick Technology Transfefr Initiative] program is enabling area businessexs to harness the technologiee being developed at Fort Detrick and apply them to thecommercialp sector,” said Mikulski. “This will lead to new products that have the powert to create jobs and save Mikulski announced the first phase of the tech transfer prograjm in March 2005 when 11 companies received in Rockville: The company is developinh a health care technology callec miTag system, which is a scalablw wireless sensor solution for improving patient flow. in The company is developing a technology callecd the GeNova Screento identify, and produce antibody-like molecules.
in Rockville: The compan is developing an on-demand biotech productw including a combination vaccine against plaguewand anthrax. BioAssay Workx LLC in Ijamsville: The company is developinfg a lateral-flow visual diagnostic test to detectr and differentiate single samplse multiplepathogenic poxviruses, including variola, vaccinia, and in Catonsville: The company is safety-testingg a medical product called which is a non-compressible, intracavitary hemostatic CynerGene IDMP in Frederick: The company is validating and implementing a supplemental diagnosis of HIV, and Dengue using its Infectious Diseaser Multiplex Panel approach, which could allow for creation of biosensors.
LLC in The company is developing required components and systej framework to enable conversational interfaces fortelemedicinre tools. Such tools would allow professional medica touse voice, gesture, and other human- computer interactions to access and documeny information in electronic medical records. in The company is developing technology to preserve mammalian cells in driedf format that can easilybe re-hydrated for a variety of LLC in Frederick: The company is evaluatintg the effect of Imagilin patented probiotics as a food supplement to enhancre the immune responsiveness of guinea pigs upon immunizatiojn or challenge with virulent pathogens.
The evaluationj will suggest the ability of Imagilin patented probiotics to enhance the immunization ofa vaccine. in Baltimore: The company is developinyg micropatterned substrates for viralinfectivity assays. Juxtopia in Baltimore: The companyh is customizing its Wearable Assistancer and Situational Awareness goggles and service toallow U.S. Army comba medics to access and document information to electricap medical recordsvia hands-free voice-requestes and voice-responses. in Baltimore: The company is developing cell therapies to treaft brain and spinalcord injuries.
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