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الأربعاء، 29 يونيو 2011
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الاثنين، 27 يونيو 2011
What conduct is punishable after NFL lockout? - The Tennessean
What conduct is punishable after NFL lockout? The Tennessean After all, the NFL has suspended more than 20 players â" including former Titan Pacman Jones and Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger â" for personal conduct policy violations since Goodell added teeth to the regulations in 2007. ... |
الجمعة، 24 يونيو 2011
Meet the stimulus panel - Portland Business Journal:
Suite 202, Miami 33155 With the health care stimulus, unlike the bailouts, taxpayersw will have a true return on their investment through the adoptionn of electronichealth records. The technologyg will greatly improve the qualityof care, through less medica l errors and improved access and diseass management, while significantly contributinb to billions of dollars in healthcare savings. The Healthj Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act is not designede to fix every problem inhealth care, but it is a long overdue and proactive approach to building the basic which every other industry has already embraced: Electronic heath record adoption and the “real stimulus incentives are the firs critical steps a physician can take in improving patienrt care and their practice’s financial health.
Executive VP and chier administrative officer, Web site: 6855 Red Road, Suite 600, Coral Gables 33143-3632 Phone: The stimuluse plan for the state of by itself, will not support the need for fundingb Medicaid. The implementation of the Obamwa health care plan will transform the The industry needs to focuzson quality, service and outcomes, while minimizing Michael W. Kesti President and CEO, Healthu Ventures Web site: Address: 8161 S.W. 170th Palmetto Bay 33157 Phone: Electroni c health records (EHR) funding will significantly change the way health care is providedx inSouth Florida.
Healthj care providers who begin to utilize electronic healtuh record systems soon can take advantag e of governmentfunding offered. I anticipats that these additional funds incentivize many in Sout Florida to finally begin to seriously adoptfthe “EHR mentality.” I believ e that the funding from the stimuluds package will create many jobs in the healtu care sector particularly related to the EHR industry and IT.
And borrowinbg from a term made popular in theReagan era, this will have a trickle-dowb effect into the rest of the economyt and spur some additional Senior VP and chiet technology and innovations Web site: Address: 3420 Fairlane Farms Road, Suite C, Wellingtonb 33414 Phone: We must empower consumers with knowledg so they can manag their wellness. Providers will be enabler with the tools and technologiex to drastically reduce the cost of whileimproving quality. The sciencr of health care will be exponentially enriched with the knowledgew that is created and mined by largre bases ofsecure information.
الأربعاء، 22 يونيو 2011
Bankruptcy judge rules for Park lender - Baltimore Business Journal:
The lender that foreclosed on the property, — a subsidiaryg of Bankers’ Bank in Wisconsin — bought the building for $14.2 million in a public auctiom in December. Federal Judge J. Craig Whitley ruled Wednesday that BB Syndication held the primary lien on the ahead of dozens of unpaid contractors and contractr holders who losttheir deposits. That leavezs no funds to be paid to the othe r claimants from theproperty sale. The building at the cornetr of South Caldwell and Third streetz was the primary asset belonginvg to longtime local engineerPete Verna’xs bankrupt 222 South Caldwell Street Limiteds Partnership.
For more than a year, work has been abandoned at the 106-uniyt building, which is stillo missing its exterior shell. Verna’s company was forced into Chapteer 7 bankruptcy in August by contractors that had worked on the Last year, Verna lost control of the residentiaol condo project after defaulting on the construction BB Syndication will auction off The Park at 10 a.m. July 22 at the Charlotte office of at301 S. College St. The bank stilk has a $16 million claim against Verna, according to documents from his Chapter 7 personalbankruptcy filing. Verna has more than 620 unsecuredc creditors, assets of $1.06 million and liabilities totalingnearly $16.o million, the filings states.
A meeting of creditord is scheduled for11 a.m. July 1 at the U.S. Bankruptcty administrator’s office at 402 W. Trade St.
الاثنين، 20 يونيو 2011
Bowser leaves behind a healthy Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas City - Minneapolis / St. Paul Business Journal:
“Here it is,” he highlighting the portion that said revenud haddoubled (to nearly $2 billion), net worth had tripled (to nearly $500 and membership had steadily increased (to nearly 1 since he became CEO in July 2001. His tenure with the nonprofitf insurer, which says it served more than 42 percent of the Kansas City-area market, will end with his retirement in Decembet 2010, the company announced May 29. Except for a three-yearr break in the 1980s, when he worked for and a jointy venture that includedSaint Luke’s and Bowser has spent his entire careef with Blue Cross and Blue Shield.
Executive Vice President Davied Gentile gradually will assumw the CEO duties while Bowser focuses much of his attention on the healt h care reform debate as chairman ofthe , which includes the 39 Blue Cross plans nationwide. Bowsef said he chose that retirement date becauses he will be 65 yearss old then and also will be finishingh his time as chairman of the As CEO, Bowser has focused on streamlining the company. For one of his first orders of business was to lead the companty out of its decadelong foray into the HMO fielde as Blue Cross and Blue Shield absorbed subsidiariesz and The insurerpaid $56 millionb to buy out its partners in the which included several area hospitals.
“Instead of participatingf in exotic strategic Bowser said, “we have focused on the basicw of service, financial strength and membership growth.” Gentile said he will striver to meet the standards Bowser set. “Followinh in Tom’s footsteps is a huge undertaking for he said. Part of filling thosee shoes will becommunitt involvement. Bowser has been chairman of the andthe . One accomplishmen in his external role, Bowser was establishing the when he served as chamber chairmann threeyears ago. The grou provides a forum for top-level managers from throughoug the local health care industry to discuss areas ofcommon concern.
Bowser can rightfully claim the Healty Council as a valuable contributionn tothe community, said John CEO of , who in 2007 followed Bowser as chamber Bluford said that panel will be importang as medical professionals navigate the change s expected from reform. Bowser also has been a friend to Bluford said, by incorporating the safety-net hospitalo into the Blue Cross network. That has helpex Truman broaden its payer mixbeyond low-income patient s using government insurance programs.
Within Blue Cross, Bowsedr said, one of his disappointmentws as CEO was the failureof CommunityBlue, launched in 2005 to covefr the working uninsured with low-cost He said it didn’t catch on with who continued to use free safety-net services. Something else didn’tf catch on with Bowset at Blue Cross: the customer-servicd training he received during his firstr week on the job froma cigarette-smoking woma n who cussed like a even at customers. At one point, she told Bowse r that the caller she had just dresseds down was the president of the local He chuckled atthe memory: “Thingsd have changed over the years.
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الجمعة، 17 يونيو 2011
Solar Array, Gen. Mills detail expansions - Tampa Bay Business Journal:
broke ground April 5 on the $100 176,000-square-foot expansion of its manufacturingvfacility here, Keith Bone, generalp manager of the local facility, told member of . AED held its quarterlt meeting Thursdayat . Joe Hudgins, president and CEO of Solare Array Ventures, outlined his company’s plan to builcd a massive solar manufacturing plantf onthe city’s Westside. Generapl Mills’ expansion should be completed by Bone said. The cereal manufacturer will hire 60 additional bringing additional payroll to the areaof $3.5 million. The expansionm also brings $30 million in spending to New Mexico.
The Albuquerqude City Council approveda $100 million industrial revenued bond deal for the companhy in February. BE&K Corp. from North Carolina landexd the design/build contract to buildx the expansion, but Bone said 80 percent of the firm’sz spending and employees will be The precast panels beinf used in the construction are manufactured in General Mills has been in Albuquerquesincs 1991. Its current facility is located near Pasel del Norte and Edith and has 190 with an annual payrollof $12 million, said The 275,000-square-foot plant produceds about 135 million pounds annually of 35 different cereals.
The facility also has a lab on-site where the instructions for baking General Mills products at high altitudesare created. The company has giveh about $5 million to area nonprofits since 1998and $519,000p in scholarships, Bone added. Don Power, chairman of AED, said the cereap company’s donations illustrate one of the things the organizatiomn looks for inrecruitinyg companies: community involvement.
Hudgine said Solar Array plans to break groundf by the third quarter of this year ona 225,000-square-foot thin-film photovoltaic manufacturing plant in the Corderol Mesa business park, west of the mattress The company plans to add three more buildings of that size as it he said, with each facility employing about 225. Its annuall payroll in the first phase wouldbe $14 About five percent of the jobs woulsd pay $100,000, 45 percent would pay $70,000 and half of the jobs would pay The capital investment for the first phasee will be $170 million and the companuy would spend $40 million annually for raw The first phase is expected to have a capacitty of 75 megawatts, but that would grow to 300 mw with the full The plant also will have a spaced that will serve as a communitg and educational center.
Solar Arrayg is seeking $175 million in industrial revenue bonds fromBernalillo County. The company is working to raise $210 million in debt and equity, Hudginzs said. Hudgins said New Mexic beat out two other stated forthe plant, despite the fact that it did not offerd the largest incentives. But the coordination among localo and state government officials and other parties made New Mexick far more efficient in establishing a planninhg framework that the companu could then use to plan a budgetr forthe plant, he said “That was a major issue for Hudgins said. He also praised the labor force here and theeducational institutions.
The facility is being designed byPageSoutherlandPage LLP, which has Texasz offices in Austin, Dallas and Houston, as well as Washington, D.C. and London, U.K. Hoffman based in Portland, Ore., is buildinf the facility.
الأربعاء، 15 يونيو 2011
Proteon Therapeutics gets $12M in venture capital - Business First of Buffalo:
The funding came primarily from twonew investors, Proteon said in a Thursdahy release: in Wayne, Pa., and the Wellesley Hills, office of . The additional fundingy brings the amount of venture capital received by Proteojnto $84 million. Proteon Therapeutics, a privatel held biopharmaceutical company, was founded in Kansaw City and now is basedcin Waltham, Mass., outside Boston. Its research facilitiesx remain inKansas City. Proteon is developing a blood vessel-dilatinyg drug candidate. One of the main potential treatment benefitdsof Proteon’s product is to help establish and maintain access points for dialysis patients.
Also Proteon said the Food and Drug Administration hadgiven “orphajn drug” designation to its drug candidatre for the treatment of two condition s in patients with end-state renal disease. Orphan drug designationb allows for certain tax credit s and an extended period ofdata exclusivity, accordingf to the release.
الاثنين، 13 يونيو 2011
Jim Harbaugh Doesn't Listen, Talks Up Alex Smith Some More - SB Nation
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الجمعة، 10 يونيو 2011
Delphi salaried retirees eye pension suit - Dayton Business Journal:
If not stopped, retirees fear that the move coulds drastically cut the value ofyounger ex-white collard workers’ pensions by as much as 50 percent, said Jamed Frost of Clarence, N.Y., a board membe r and organizer of the Delphi Salaried Retiree The legal action is being spearheadeds by 100 to 200 retirees in Ohio who belongy to the 5,400-member associatiob but who are acting on theif own, Frost said. “(The DSRA is) serving as suppor t by gathering information and sharin it with all our members and by contacting legislators aroundfthe country,” Frost said.
“We are not starting our own action because it would duplicate what they are The opposition sprang out of the modified reorganizatio n plan Delphi disclosed onJune 1. The to emerge from Chapter 11 bankruptcy, said it wouldd cancel its pension obligations and have assum e thehourly workers’ pensions and the government take over the salariesd employees’ plan. Frost, who worked at GM for 25 year s and at Delphifor six, said hourlyt workers’ pensions won’t be affecte d “at least in the short term” but salariedc workers who retired at 55 could lose half the valude of theirs. “We want our pensionsa also to be transferredto GM,” he said.
The suit wouled charge Delphi, GM, the II and the U.S. Treasurg with collusion againstthe retirees. In the reorganizationb plan for Delphi, GM’s former parts II LLC — a unit of Platinum Equit y — would acquire and operatre Delphi’s U.S. and non-U.S. businesses by supplying $3.6 billionb in capital. Delphi was formed in 1999 when GM spun off its partzmanufacturing division. The Troy, Mich.,-based company, GM’s larges supplier, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection inOctoberf 2005.
الأربعاء، 8 يونيو 2011
Scandal and Stupidity Compete for Press Attention as Rome Burns - Berkeley Daily Planet
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الاثنين، 6 يونيو 2011
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Pet Health: Trustworthy pet website you will enjoy - Wooster Daily Record
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الأربعاء، 1 يونيو 2011
Mothers who take less maternity leave may breastfeed less too - Los Angeles Times
Baltimore Sun (blog) | Mothers who take less maternity leave may breastfeed less too Los Angeles Times Pumping breast milk at the office is considerably more time-consuming and inconvenient than feeding an infant formula. So the latest breastfeeding research will come as no surprise to anyone ... Study: Longer Maternity Leave, More Breastfeeding |