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“We put the most important thingseon [the postcard],” said Connie Ferret, manager of commercial lines for the . Information included steps property owners need to take before and aftera hurricane, what they need to do if they file a the distinction between wind and floox coverage and the 10 most vulnerable flood zones. Raising awarenessd is vital in advance ofhurricane season, said Lynnd McChristian, Florida representative of the . The statde Web site for the institute, warns that 25 percenyt of businesses that close following a disasternevere reopen, but that disaster planning and adequate insurancr are keys to recovery.
“Onde of the primary things we tell people is to do an annuak review of theirinsurance policy,” McChristian “Things change. If they don’t reflectf the improvements they’ve made in their new equipment or furnitureor fixtures, they may find themselvexs underinsured.” Most commercial insurance policies do not cover flood but there is separate coveragse for floods, McChristian said. She advised property ownersa to check out their riskat flooodsmart.gov, the Web site of the . The programj is administered bythe , whichg works closely with 90 private insurances companies to offer floodc insurance.
Twenty-five percent of floods occur in placesathat aren’t considered flood zones, so McChristiahn tells Floridians it’s probably a good idea to have floodf coverage. “The cost of flood insurance is not that expensive for the peace of mind you There is anautomatic 30-day waiting period for floox coverage, said Steve manager of personal and marinee lines for Wallace Welcgh & Willingham. Additionally, there are limits to the amountt of flood coverage that canbe purchased, said Keith president of the agency: “If you need coverage beyonds that, we have to go to the commerciap marketplace and see if there’s a compan y that will write excess flood [coverage].
It’s difficult and expensivew to obtainin Florida, but it’z available.” Wallace Welch Willingham agents visit face-to-face with their clientw to analyze their coverage needs and give mitigation tips that can help reduc rates on wind coverage, said Cheryl HR manager. The agency also is encouraging customers to visiyt itsWeb site, w3ins.com, wheres it has an extensive list of hurricane preparednese tips. Business owners should look at ordinance and law McChristian said.
That type of insurance provideds coverage for replacing damaged property in ordefr to conform to building codes enacted after the property was Marine insurance is anotherimportant consideration, said “Many of the policies today carry 10 percentt named storm deductibles,” he “If you have a $250,000 yacht, your deductible is goingg to be $25,000.” To reducw risk, some marine insurers will offerd to share the cost of a hurricane “hauk out,” moving the vessel before a stormn hits.
For commercial marinas, the focusz primarily is making sure boats are sothey don’t break looses and cause other problems, Cunningham Insurance agencies also are vulnerable, so Wallace Welc h & Willingham has developed its own busines resumption plan, Gleaton said. The agencuy has lists of employees’ home and cell phone and personal e-mail addresses, so it can get in touchy quickly after a and has a contract with a compang that will set up temporary facilities if itsdowntown St. Pete buildin g is damaged, so agents can help clients.
The commercial propert insurance market opened up in late when , the state-run insurer of last began offering a commercial nonresidential multi-perio policy, after a change in Florida law. The coverage includesd buildings upto $2.5 million, business personal property up to $2 business income and extra expense up to $500,0090 per building, and first loss coverage on properties valued in excessd of the maximum coverage limits available. It’s availablew for businesses that cannot obtain coverage from anauthorized insurer.
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Bennet cites Colorado examples in Senate plea for health-care reform - Pacific Business News (Honolulu):
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Coloradans, he said, "speak for countleszs others acrossthe nation. All they ask for is a healtnh care system that works for a health care systemthat doesn’r crush them with unreasonable cost and a health care systemk that doesn’t deny them coveragse just because they have pre-existing conditions." D- Colo., also touted his own proposalxs to make patient transition care more cost-effective and "In Colorado, we haven’t waite d on Washington," he said. "We’ve made real progress in showing how to provide high quality health care at alowet cost.
" Bennet, formerly superintendent of the Denverd Public Schools, was appointedr to the Senate by Gov. Bill Ritter to fill the seat vacated by Ken Salazar when Salazarr was picked by President Baracjk Obama as secretary of the Here is the full textof Bennet'e Senate-floor speech as prepared for delivery Thursday, providwe by his staff. In the speech, he is addressin the president ofthe Senate. Mr. President, I rise todayh to discuss the urgent need for healt hcare reform. The people of Colorado, and the Americahn people, have waited for too long for Washington to act. We should begin with a basic principle: if you have coverage and you like it, you can keep it.
If you have your and you like himor her, you should be able to keep them as We will not take that choicee away from you. But even as we keep what we must confront the challenges of soarinv health care costs and the lack of access to qualityhealth care. The status quo is Every day, families in Colorado and across America facerising premiums. Their plans offer fewer They are denied coverage becauseof pre-existinfg conditions. And until we fix the health care we won’t be able to fix the fisca l mess in which we find ourselves. Since the share of healthcare as a part of the GDP has gone from 7 percentf to17 percent.
The Unitexd States spends over $2 trillion in healthg care costs, including over $400 billion on Medicare alone. President Obamwa has said that the biggest threaft toour nation’s balance sheet is the skyrocketiny cost of health care. And he’xs right. In Colorado, we haven’t waited on Washington. We’ve made real progress in showin g how to provide high quality health care at alowef cost. Last week, the New Yorke r magazine published an articleentitled “Th Cost Conundrum” that highlights the important work that’ss been done in Mesa County, Colorado.
Over thirty years ago this communityserviny 120,000 people came together—doctors, and the non-profit healtn insurance company. They agreedc upon a system that paid doctore and nurses for seeing patients and producing better quality They realized that problems and costs go down when care is more InMesa County, the city of Grand Junction implemente d an integrated health care system that providee follow-up care with patients. This follow-up care has helped lowerd hospital readmissions rates in Grand Junction to just 3 Compare that to the 20 percent rate and it is clear that our community on the Westerbn Slope of Colorado is ontosomething groundbreaking.
High readmissio rates are a huge problem for our Nearly one in five Medicarew patients who leave a hospita are readmitted within thefollowingb month, and more than three-quarters of these readmissionz are preventable. Rehospitalization costs Medicareover $17 billion a It’s painful for patients and families to be caughy up in these cycles of treatment. All too care is fragmented you go fromthe doctor, to the to a nursing home, back to the hospital and then back to the doctot again.
Patients are given medicationm instructions as they are leavinythe hospital, many times after coming off of strong They don’t know whom to call, and they are not sure what to ask theire primary care doctor. The solution, both our Denver and Mesa Countg health communitieshave found, is to provide patientas leaving the hospital with a “coach.” This coachn is a trained health professionakl connecting home and the hospital. This coach teaches patients how to manage theird health ontheir own.
Coloradans, he said, "speak for countleszs others acrossthe nation. All they ask for is a healtnh care system that works for a health care systemthat doesn’r crush them with unreasonable cost and a health care systemk that doesn’t deny them coveragse just because they have pre-existing conditions." D- Colo., also touted his own proposalxs to make patient transition care more cost-effective and "In Colorado, we haven’t waite d on Washington," he said. "We’ve made real progress in showing how to provide high quality health care at alowet cost.
" Bennet, formerly superintendent of the Denverd Public Schools, was appointedr to the Senate by Gov. Bill Ritter to fill the seat vacated by Ken Salazar when Salazarr was picked by President Baracjk Obama as secretary of the Here is the full textof Bennet'e Senate-floor speech as prepared for delivery Thursday, providwe by his staff. In the speech, he is addressin the president ofthe Senate. Mr. President, I rise todayh to discuss the urgent need for healt hcare reform. The people of Colorado, and the Americahn people, have waited for too long for Washington to act. We should begin with a basic principle: if you have coverage and you like it, you can keep it.
If you have your and you like himor her, you should be able to keep them as We will not take that choicee away from you. But even as we keep what we must confront the challenges of soarinv health care costs and the lack of access to qualityhealth care. The status quo is Every day, families in Colorado and across America facerising premiums. Their plans offer fewer They are denied coverage becauseof pre-existinfg conditions. And until we fix the health care we won’t be able to fix the fisca l mess in which we find ourselves. Since the share of healthcare as a part of the GDP has gone from 7 percentf to17 percent.
The Unitexd States spends over $2 trillion in healthg care costs, including over $400 billion on Medicare alone. President Obamwa has said that the biggest threaft toour nation’s balance sheet is the skyrocketiny cost of health care. And he’xs right. In Colorado, we haven’t waited on Washington. We’ve made real progress in showin g how to provide high quality health care at alowef cost. Last week, the New Yorke r magazine published an articleentitled “Th Cost Conundrum” that highlights the important work that’ss been done in Mesa County, Colorado.
Over thirty years ago this communityserviny 120,000 people came together—doctors, and the non-profit healtn insurance company. They agreedc upon a system that paid doctore and nurses for seeing patients and producing better quality They realized that problems and costs go down when care is more InMesa County, the city of Grand Junction implemente d an integrated health care system that providee follow-up care with patients. This follow-up care has helped lowerd hospital readmissions rates in Grand Junction to just 3 Compare that to the 20 percent rate and it is clear that our community on the Westerbn Slope of Colorado is ontosomething groundbreaking.
High readmissio rates are a huge problem for our Nearly one in five Medicarew patients who leave a hospita are readmitted within thefollowingb month, and more than three-quarters of these readmissionz are preventable. Rehospitalization costs Medicareover $17 billion a It’s painful for patients and families to be caughy up in these cycles of treatment. All too care is fragmented you go fromthe doctor, to the to a nursing home, back to the hospital and then back to the doctot again.
Patients are given medicationm instructions as they are leavinythe hospital, many times after coming off of strong They don’t know whom to call, and they are not sure what to ask theire primary care doctor. The solution, both our Denver and Mesa Countg health communitieshave found, is to provide patientas leaving the hospital with a “coach.” This coachn is a trained health professionakl connecting home and the hospital. This coach teaches patients how to manage theird health ontheir own.
วันพฤหัสบดีที่ 28 มิถุนายน พ.ศ. 2555
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Report: RevPAR declines slowing for hotels - Denver Business Journal:
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RevPAR will reach its cyclical low poinrt in the third quarter of closing the escalating trend of declines in RevPAR that began in the third quarterof 2008, according to . "The good news is that the bottom of the currenyt cycle forthe U.S. hotel industry is soon to said R. Mark president of PKF Hospitality Research, in a news “The bad news is that 2009 will be the weakesgt year on record for the domestiflodging industry, and 2010 is goingy to be disappointing as well. If you are wonderingh when we'll start to see actual growth in RevPAR, then you'l have to wait until 2011.
if you want to know when the operating environmengt is going to get a littleless painful, that'e happening right now." Lodging forecasts presentedf in the June 2009 edition of Hotek Horizons are based on Smitg Travel Research hotel performance data througnh March 2009 and Moody's Economy.com's May 2009 economic forecast for the Given the correlation betwee n employment and lodging demand, the new expectation is for RevPAR to declines 17.5 percent in 2009, followed by another 3.5 percent decline in 2010. Year-over-year quarterly declined in the demandfor U.S.
lodging accommodationsw started in the first quarter of 2008 and peakerd at negative 8 percent in the first quarteeof 2009. The June 2009 edition of Hotel Horizond forecasts demand to decline each of the remainintg quartersof 2009, but at a diminishiny pace. The projected quarterly declines in demand for the remainder of 2009 averagejust 4.7 Beyond 2009, the forecasyt calls for average annual increases in demanc of 3.2 percent for the next four well above the 1.9 percent long-ter average. But given the forecast 17.
5 percent decline in RevPARf for allof 2009, PKF-HR is projecting total hotel revenues to decrease 16 percent for the In 2011 and 2012, PKF-HR forecasts that RevPAR will increases on an average annual basis of 9.2 while profits will rise at a 17.8 percent
RevPAR will reach its cyclical low poinrt in the third quarter of closing the escalating trend of declines in RevPAR that began in the third quarterof 2008, according to . "The good news is that the bottom of the currenyt cycle forthe U.S. hotel industry is soon to said R. Mark president of PKF Hospitality Research, in a news “The bad news is that 2009 will be the weakesgt year on record for the domestiflodging industry, and 2010 is goingy to be disappointing as well. If you are wonderingh when we'll start to see actual growth in RevPAR, then you'l have to wait until 2011.
if you want to know when the operating environmengt is going to get a littleless painful, that'e happening right now." Lodging forecasts presentedf in the June 2009 edition of Hotek Horizons are based on Smitg Travel Research hotel performance data througnh March 2009 and Moody's Economy.com's May 2009 economic forecast for the Given the correlation betwee n employment and lodging demand, the new expectation is for RevPAR to declines 17.5 percent in 2009, followed by another 3.5 percent decline in 2010. Year-over-year quarterly declined in the demandfor U.S.
lodging accommodationsw started in the first quarter of 2008 and peakerd at negative 8 percent in the first quarteeof 2009. The June 2009 edition of Hotel Horizond forecasts demand to decline each of the remainintg quartersof 2009, but at a diminishiny pace. The projected quarterly declines in demand for the remainder of 2009 averagejust 4.7 Beyond 2009, the forecasyt calls for average annual increases in demanc of 3.2 percent for the next four well above the 1.9 percent long-ter average. But given the forecast 17.
5 percent decline in RevPARf for allof 2009, PKF-HR is projecting total hotel revenues to decrease 16 percent for the In 2011 and 2012, PKF-HR forecasts that RevPAR will increases on an average annual basis of 9.2 while profits will rise at a 17.8 percent
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Zicam maker pulls products, but affirms safety - Triangle Business Journal:
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The FDA said it received more than 130 complainte from consumers saying they have lost their sens of smell after usingthe products. Jennifer Warren, a forme r school teacher who livesin Huntsville, said she lost her sense of smel l after using Zicam to prevent the duration of a cold a few yearw ago, but had never complainexd to the FDA or the company because she figured there was no way to proves Zicam caused her anosmia. She said she doesn’r want to sue Scottsdale-based Matrixx even after learning others have had thesame experiences. “ don’t think Zicam was created to hurt she said.
“We sit here and we rip and we rave abouf all these drugs not being allowed onthe market. The first time anythingy goes wrong, everybody wants to go sue, sue, sue. That drives me I honestly believe the people were trying to do something to help people notget sick.” Williakm Hemelt, acting president and chief operating office r of Matrixx, said the FDA action was take without reviewing research he would have been more than willing to provide. “We think the science does not support this allegationbat all,” he said.
“Quite honestly, we would not be selling the product if we thought it was Zicam products use a homeopathicv remedy called ZincumGluconicum 2x, whic means they require FDA approval. Dr. Sam Benjamin, a medicalk doctor with a homeopathic license, said he can’g figure out why the FDA has take n so long to deal withthe “I can think of no part of alternatives medicine that summons up more worry to conventional physicianss than homeopathy,” said Benjamin, who has a medical talk show on KTAR 92.3 FM on Saturdaysx at 2 p.m. and 1,000 followers on Twitter.
“There are so many drugs arounsd thatcause problems, why would one evenf want to expose people to any Brett Berty, a senior recall strategist at Stericycle Inc. in Lake Ill., is coming to Phoenix this week to meet with Matrixs officials to see if he can help the companyg withdamage control. Usually, he said, companie s will voluntarily recall a product before the FDAgets That’s not how it happened with Matrixx. The FDA steppeed in and warned Matrixx that it had receivedf more than 130 consumere complaints and that the company needed to stop marketing the product until it can put a warninhg label on its packaginvg that it couldcause anosmia.
Over the past 10 Berty has worked with manufacturers to conductabougt 1,300 recalls, including Vioxx. hopefully, the manufacturer will work with me prioer to approaching theregulatory agency,” he said. “The most importanf thing for Matrixx is you can turn a seeminglhy awful situation into an opportunityif you’re judge by the public as being part of the solution. How swiftl y do they execute that will demonstrated their concern forthe public’s safety.” When the FDA sent the warningg letter to Matrixx and advised consumers not to use certaijn Zicam cold remedies, on June 16, Matrixx’s stocok plummeted 70 percent to $5.789 a share.
It bounced up a bit to $6.143 a day later, but nowhere near its 52-weeo high of $19.74, near its trading pointy before the FDA sent the warning For the fiscal year endedMarch 31, Matrix reported $13.8 million in net incomed on $112 million in net sales, up from $10.4 million in net income on $101 millionm in net sales a year ago. Hemelt said he will be meetingv with FDA regulators to discussthe issue. He also scheduled a conferencde callwith investors.
The FDA said it received more than 130 complainte from consumers saying they have lost their sens of smell after usingthe products. Jennifer Warren, a forme r school teacher who livesin Huntsville, said she lost her sense of smel l after using Zicam to prevent the duration of a cold a few yearw ago, but had never complainexd to the FDA or the company because she figured there was no way to proves Zicam caused her anosmia. She said she doesn’r want to sue Scottsdale-based Matrixx even after learning others have had thesame experiences. “ don’t think Zicam was created to hurt she said.
“We sit here and we rip and we rave abouf all these drugs not being allowed onthe market. The first time anythingy goes wrong, everybody wants to go sue, sue, sue. That drives me I honestly believe the people were trying to do something to help people notget sick.” Williakm Hemelt, acting president and chief operating office r of Matrixx, said the FDA action was take without reviewing research he would have been more than willing to provide. “We think the science does not support this allegationbat all,” he said.
“Quite honestly, we would not be selling the product if we thought it was Zicam products use a homeopathicv remedy called ZincumGluconicum 2x, whic means they require FDA approval. Dr. Sam Benjamin, a medicalk doctor with a homeopathic license, said he can’g figure out why the FDA has take n so long to deal withthe “I can think of no part of alternatives medicine that summons up more worry to conventional physicianss than homeopathy,” said Benjamin, who has a medical talk show on KTAR 92.3 FM on Saturdaysx at 2 p.m. and 1,000 followers on Twitter.
“There are so many drugs arounsd thatcause problems, why would one evenf want to expose people to any Brett Berty, a senior recall strategist at Stericycle Inc. in Lake Ill., is coming to Phoenix this week to meet with Matrixs officials to see if he can help the companyg withdamage control. Usually, he said, companie s will voluntarily recall a product before the FDAgets That’s not how it happened with Matrixx. The FDA steppeed in and warned Matrixx that it had receivedf more than 130 consumere complaints and that the company needed to stop marketing the product until it can put a warninhg label on its packaginvg that it couldcause anosmia.
Over the past 10 Berty has worked with manufacturers to conductabougt 1,300 recalls, including Vioxx. hopefully, the manufacturer will work with me prioer to approaching theregulatory agency,” he said. “The most importanf thing for Matrixx is you can turn a seeminglhy awful situation into an opportunityif you’re judge by the public as being part of the solution. How swiftl y do they execute that will demonstrated their concern forthe public’s safety.” When the FDA sent the warningg letter to Matrixx and advised consumers not to use certaijn Zicam cold remedies, on June 16, Matrixx’s stocok plummeted 70 percent to $5.789 a share.
It bounced up a bit to $6.143 a day later, but nowhere near its 52-weeo high of $19.74, near its trading pointy before the FDA sent the warning For the fiscal year endedMarch 31, Matrix reported $13.8 million in net incomed on $112 million in net sales, up from $10.4 million in net income on $101 millionm in net sales a year ago. Hemelt said he will be meetingv with FDA regulators to discussthe issue. He also scheduled a conferencde callwith investors.
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At your service: Piedmont Facilities Services shifts focus in down economy - Atlanta Business Chronicle:
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A contractor had agreed to replacde the sidewalk directly in front of Lorillard headquarters on Greenj Valley Road in Greensborobut “he walke off the job because he couldn’t get anyone to deliveer sufficient concrete with a holiday two days Wright says. “A call to brought four men who completedx the repair onJuly 4th,” she recalls. “One of those four was Scott I have chastised myself many times for not callingh him tobegin with.” Scott McCormick has been getting callse like that for more than 16 years from the Triad’s top employers.
As a contract project his company will do just abouft anything thatneeds doing, “from maintenance to sprinklerr systems,” says Wright. “He truly caress about a job well done.” But Winston-Salem-basedd Piedmont Facilities Services’ specialty is something that’s been in almost constang demand over the past twodecadea — moving people and reconfiguring office cubes A.S.A.P. as work forcees contract, expand and are It was McCormick who landed the contract to move practically every first in the RJR Plaza buildinfg and then in the old 1929 Reynoldsa Building indowntown Winston-Salem.
At aboug the same time, Piedmont Facilities Services also securecd a contractwith Planters-LifeSavers, which did its sharer of playing musical chairs with office “God blessed me,” McCormick says with his characteristixc modesty, “because there’s no other way someon can have two contracts like that for theif first clients.” Looking back 10 year ago, McCormick recalls fondly, “Things were really rollin then, with 80- or 90-hour and it was great.” Name a company in the Triads that’s realigned its work forced and, chances are, McCormick’s been involvedx — , , Sara Lee Direct, , Sealy and Nabisco Foods.
Not bad for someone who, at the age of 5, was assignedc his own row of tobacco to tend onhis father’x farm near Yadkinville and worked his way throug h college running a garbage “I’m an old tobacco farmer from McCormick says, slipping into his aw-shuckas guise. “I ran out of things to do, so I had to go to schoo and go out and get a real School was and his first jobwas “sellinv doorknobs” as a contract hardware salesman at Pleasant Hardware Co.
He says he quickly discovered he was not cut out to be a But he did make a numbee of excellent contacts that opened doord for him when he switched over to doing facilitiescontract “He has a good ol’ boy says Robyn Puckett, facility services manager at RMIC (Republic Mortgage Insurance Co.) in Winston-Salem, “but fulluy believes in respect, hard work and discipline and expects that from his employees.” Puckett recalls a recenr 10-week move of 350 RMIC employees from Stanleyville to the Park Buildin g in downtown Winston-Salem.
“The time constraintss were unbelievable,” she says, “but having worked with Scott formany years, I knew if anyone could pull it off that he Installing cubes during the week and moving peoplw on the weekends, McCormick’s crew did it and did it on “We needed to expand our payroll department two yearx ago,” recalls Jack Marable, maintenance supervisor for Pepsoi Bottling Group in Winston-Salem. McCormick’s crew came in Fridayu night and by Monday morning at8 a.m., “thegy had everything up and running — computers, phones, lights, everything worked.
” Companies use contractors like McCormick insteadr of their own workers because moving and construction are often one-of-a-kind projects and are mostl done after-hours. Up until last November, McCormick business was extremely good, with more 80- and 90-hour Then, he started seeing “less phone calls, less jobs that you had quoted being puton hold.” As the monthx went by, “I had to lay off five installerws and I put my designeer on the road to sell product.” McCormick’ strategy is to make the companty more sales-oriented, something, he says, “we never had to do before.
” Yes, he stilk has contracts with a number of big corporations, but now when the phoned rings, it’s mostly “punch
A contractor had agreed to replacde the sidewalk directly in front of Lorillard headquarters on Greenj Valley Road in Greensborobut “he walke off the job because he couldn’t get anyone to deliveer sufficient concrete with a holiday two days Wright says. “A call to brought four men who completedx the repair onJuly 4th,” she recalls. “One of those four was Scott I have chastised myself many times for not callingh him tobegin with.” Scott McCormick has been getting callse like that for more than 16 years from the Triad’s top employers.
As a contract project his company will do just abouft anything thatneeds doing, “from maintenance to sprinklerr systems,” says Wright. “He truly caress about a job well done.” But Winston-Salem-basedd Piedmont Facilities Services’ specialty is something that’s been in almost constang demand over the past twodecadea — moving people and reconfiguring office cubes A.S.A.P. as work forcees contract, expand and are It was McCormick who landed the contract to move practically every first in the RJR Plaza buildinfg and then in the old 1929 Reynoldsa Building indowntown Winston-Salem.
At aboug the same time, Piedmont Facilities Services also securecd a contractwith Planters-LifeSavers, which did its sharer of playing musical chairs with office “God blessed me,” McCormick says with his characteristixc modesty, “because there’s no other way someon can have two contracts like that for theif first clients.” Looking back 10 year ago, McCormick recalls fondly, “Things were really rollin then, with 80- or 90-hour and it was great.” Name a company in the Triads that’s realigned its work forced and, chances are, McCormick’s been involvedx — , , Sara Lee Direct, , Sealy and Nabisco Foods.
Not bad for someone who, at the age of 5, was assignedc his own row of tobacco to tend onhis father’x farm near Yadkinville and worked his way throug h college running a garbage “I’m an old tobacco farmer from McCormick says, slipping into his aw-shuckas guise. “I ran out of things to do, so I had to go to schoo and go out and get a real School was and his first jobwas “sellinv doorknobs” as a contract hardware salesman at Pleasant Hardware Co.
He says he quickly discovered he was not cut out to be a But he did make a numbee of excellent contacts that opened doord for him when he switched over to doing facilitiescontract “He has a good ol’ boy says Robyn Puckett, facility services manager at RMIC (Republic Mortgage Insurance Co.) in Winston-Salem, “but fulluy believes in respect, hard work and discipline and expects that from his employees.” Puckett recalls a recenr 10-week move of 350 RMIC employees from Stanleyville to the Park Buildin g in downtown Winston-Salem.
“The time constraintss were unbelievable,” she says, “but having worked with Scott formany years, I knew if anyone could pull it off that he Installing cubes during the week and moving peoplw on the weekends, McCormick’s crew did it and did it on “We needed to expand our payroll department two yearx ago,” recalls Jack Marable, maintenance supervisor for Pepsoi Bottling Group in Winston-Salem. McCormick’s crew came in Fridayu night and by Monday morning at8 a.m., “thegy had everything up and running — computers, phones, lights, everything worked.
” Companies use contractors like McCormick insteadr of their own workers because moving and construction are often one-of-a-kind projects and are mostl done after-hours. Up until last November, McCormick business was extremely good, with more 80- and 90-hour Then, he started seeing “less phone calls, less jobs that you had quoted being puton hold.” As the monthx went by, “I had to lay off five installerws and I put my designeer on the road to sell product.” McCormick’ strategy is to make the companty more sales-oriented, something, he says, “we never had to do before.
” Yes, he stilk has contracts with a number of big corporations, but now when the phoned rings, it’s mostly “punch
วันศุกร์ที่ 22 มิถุนายน พ.ศ. 2555
Fifth Third completes $1B stock offering - Dayton Business Journal:
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The offering was raised to $1 billiobn from $750 million, Fifth Third said in a news release. As a it will issue almost 158 milliohn shares at anaverage per-share price of The bank will use the net proceedss for general corporate purposes, including funding the cash premium portion of its Serie s G depositary shares and beginning repaymenft of the $3.5 billion it received througuh the Treasury Department’s Troubled Asset Relief “We believe the completeed $1 billion common equity offering, combined with actions on other capitakl alternatives that remain available to us, could potentiall generate approximately $2 billion in aggregats Tier 1 equity, which would more than satisfyy the SCAP required buffer,” the bank said in the Fifth Third was one of 19 banksx that underwent the federal government’s “stress test” this spring.
Whiles the bank was deemed adequately capitalized, it was orderedr to raise $1.1 billion to maintainj its Tier 1 should theeconomy worsen. The bank also said it expectxs to raiseanother $1.2 billion in Tier 1 equituy from the sales of a majority stake in Fiftnh Third Processing Solutions to Advent International. That’w expected to close in the second quarter. Fift h Third (NASDAQ: FITB), headquartered in Cincinnati, is the Tri-State’ s largest bank, and has 16 affiliates with about 1,30o banking centers and more than 2,300p ATMs in Ohio, Kentucky, Georgia, North Carolina, Michigan, Illinois, Florida, West Virginia, Pennsylvania and Missouri.
The offering was raised to $1 billiobn from $750 million, Fifth Third said in a news release. As a it will issue almost 158 milliohn shares at anaverage per-share price of The bank will use the net proceedss for general corporate purposes, including funding the cash premium portion of its Serie s G depositary shares and beginning repaymenft of the $3.5 billion it received througuh the Treasury Department’s Troubled Asset Relief “We believe the completeed $1 billion common equity offering, combined with actions on other capitakl alternatives that remain available to us, could potentiall generate approximately $2 billion in aggregats Tier 1 equity, which would more than satisfyy the SCAP required buffer,” the bank said in the Fifth Third was one of 19 banksx that underwent the federal government’s “stress test” this spring.
Whiles the bank was deemed adequately capitalized, it was orderedr to raise $1.1 billion to maintainj its Tier 1 should theeconomy worsen. The bank also said it expectxs to raiseanother $1.2 billion in Tier 1 equituy from the sales of a majority stake in Fiftnh Third Processing Solutions to Advent International. That’w expected to close in the second quarter. Fift h Third (NASDAQ: FITB), headquartered in Cincinnati, is the Tri-State’ s largest bank, and has 16 affiliates with about 1,30o banking centers and more than 2,300p ATMs in Ohio, Kentucky, Georgia, North Carolina, Michigan, Illinois, Florida, West Virginia, Pennsylvania and Missouri.
วันพฤหัสบดีที่ 21 มิถุนายน พ.ศ. 2555
A Contrarians Viewpoint on the Facebook IPO - socalTech.com
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socalTech.com | A Contrarians Viewpoint on the Facebook IPO socalTech.com A Contrarians Viewpoint on the Facebook IPO. from Megan Lisa Jones. Tweet. I've been reading the recent press on the Facebook IPO with an increasingly ... |
วันอังคารที่ 19 มิถุนายน พ.ศ. 2555
Shirley's governmental public-access channel changed - Sentinel and Enterprise
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Shirley's governmental public-access channel changed Sentinel and Enterprise SHIRLEY -- As a result of changes in Comcast channel configurations, the town s government channel is now Channel 99 instead of Channel 10. |
วันจันทร์ที่ 18 มิถุนายน พ.ศ. 2555
Manpower: Many jobs remain in demand - The Business Journal of Milwaukee:
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In a study releasedd Thursday by Milwaukee-based , trades associated with manufacturing remain in highdemanx locally. "In the four years we have performedthis research, the same positionsw appear on the list againh and again," said Jonad Prising, Manpower president of the Americas. "Despitwe the current economic instability and high there are still skille thatthe U.S. workforce seemd to lack." According to the study, the 10 hardesgt jobs to fill are: Each of the 10 job categories on the 2009 list has appearedf on the Hardest Jobs to Fill list inthe Technicians, machinist/machine operators and saless representatives have been present all four years.
Engineers, drivers and laborerzs have appeared three out of four and nurses, teachers, skilled/manual trades and IT staffc have been present in two of the four yeares Manpower has performed the "While talk has slowed in the U.S. abourt the pending talent shortage, it is becomingv more clear that there is ataleny disconnect," said Melanie Holmes, vice president, world of work solutionz for Manpower North America. "Our work force needs to be more open to retrainin and upskilling for jobs that arein And, our government, business leaders and educational facilitiesa need to take action togethet to ensure students are beinh enticed to enter these fields." The U.S.
findings are part of a Manpowerd global study that surveyed morethan 39,000 employerxs across 33 countries and territoriess in January 2009. Positions in the skilled trades, sales, technica work and engineering remain the most difficult for employerxs tofill globally. Manpower surveyed more than 2,000o U.S. employers in the fourth annuao survey to determine which positionw employers are having difficulty filling this An in-depth look at the study is found at .
In a study releasedd Thursday by Milwaukee-based , trades associated with manufacturing remain in highdemanx locally. "In the four years we have performedthis research, the same positionsw appear on the list againh and again," said Jonad Prising, Manpower president of the Americas. "Despitwe the current economic instability and high there are still skille thatthe U.S. workforce seemd to lack." According to the study, the 10 hardesgt jobs to fill are: Each of the 10 job categories on the 2009 list has appearedf on the Hardest Jobs to Fill list inthe Technicians, machinist/machine operators and saless representatives have been present all four years.
Engineers, drivers and laborerzs have appeared three out of four and nurses, teachers, skilled/manual trades and IT staffc have been present in two of the four yeares Manpower has performed the "While talk has slowed in the U.S. abourt the pending talent shortage, it is becomingv more clear that there is ataleny disconnect," said Melanie Holmes, vice president, world of work solutionz for Manpower North America. "Our work force needs to be more open to retrainin and upskilling for jobs that arein And, our government, business leaders and educational facilitiesa need to take action togethet to ensure students are beinh enticed to enter these fields." The U.S.
findings are part of a Manpowerd global study that surveyed morethan 39,000 employerxs across 33 countries and territoriess in January 2009. Positions in the skilled trades, sales, technica work and engineering remain the most difficult for employerxs tofill globally. Manpower surveyed more than 2,000o U.S. employers in the fourth annuao survey to determine which positionw employers are having difficulty filling this An in-depth look at the study is found at .
วันเสาร์ที่ 16 มิถุนายน พ.ศ. 2555
Dell seeks return to No. 1 with notebooks - Dallas Business Journal:
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Although the laptop market is growing it’s also fragmenting with new productesand competitors. That coulc spell trouble for which now relies on laptopas fornearly one-third of its The Round Rock-based company is attacking the laptop marke from both ends of the spectrum by recentl introducing the low-cost and hugely popular netbook products whilr quietly developing a high-end, ultrathin notebook that is reportedlyu scheduled to be launched next month. Dell DELL) is generating plenty of speculation about its notebooj strategy after recently marketing a ruggedizesd laptop developed by an Austihn manufacturer and launching a new lineof colorful, user-designecd notebook covers.
The activity comes at a time when sales of desktoo computers are declining as consumeres buy moreportable devices. The third quarter of 2008 was thetippinb point, when shipment of notebooks surpassed desktopw for the first time. “The assumptioh we’ve come to is that when consumers spendtheir hard-earnedx money they go with said Matthew Wilkins, an iSuppli analyst. Dell generated 32%, about $4.8 billion, of its revenuer from mobility products, which include notebooks and ormini notebooks, during the thirdx quarter, which ended Oct. 31.
Dell spokesma n Jeremy Bolen said migration toward laptop devicesa has been a factor in the company updating existingt notebooks and developing new notebooksand “We saw a lot of opportunity to be more he said. “We’ve revamped our entiree line.” Industrywide, netbook sales are projected toincrease 70% this year compared with 2008. notebook sales are projected torise 15%, Wilkine said. Netbooks, which cost $300 to are low-powered versions of conventional notebooks, enabling users to trade e-mai l messages, browse the Internet and do basic word That may initially seem like good news for but the popularity of netbooka and notebooks has increasedthe competition.
Fast-growing companies such as Asia-basede , Asutek Computer Inc. and Ltd. (OTC: are taking market shard from Dell, effectively fragmenting the playingv field. (NYSE: HPQ) is No. 1 in the industryt with 19% market share. In August, HP purchasesd Plano-based . In addition to the high and low ends of thelaptol market, Dell is targetinf a niche market. Last year it launched impact-resistant Latituder XFR Series laptops. Such laptops, commonlhy called ruggedized, are developed for the military andcommercialo customers. Dell continues to develop laptop products as part of its efforf to supplant HP as king of thePC “They (Dell) have been No. 1 Wilkins said, “and they want it back.
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Although the laptop market is growing it’s also fragmenting with new productesand competitors. That coulc spell trouble for which now relies on laptopas fornearly one-third of its The Round Rock-based company is attacking the laptop marke from both ends of the spectrum by recentl introducing the low-cost and hugely popular netbook products whilr quietly developing a high-end, ultrathin notebook that is reportedlyu scheduled to be launched next month. Dell DELL) is generating plenty of speculation about its notebooj strategy after recently marketing a ruggedizesd laptop developed by an Austihn manufacturer and launching a new lineof colorful, user-designecd notebook covers.
The activity comes at a time when sales of desktoo computers are declining as consumeres buy moreportable devices. The third quarter of 2008 was thetippinb point, when shipment of notebooks surpassed desktopw for the first time. “The assumptioh we’ve come to is that when consumers spendtheir hard-earnedx money they go with said Matthew Wilkins, an iSuppli analyst. Dell generated 32%, about $4.8 billion, of its revenuer from mobility products, which include notebooks and ormini notebooks, during the thirdx quarter, which ended Oct. 31.
Dell spokesma n Jeremy Bolen said migration toward laptop devicesa has been a factor in the company updating existingt notebooks and developing new notebooksand “We saw a lot of opportunity to be more he said. “We’ve revamped our entiree line.” Industrywide, netbook sales are projected toincrease 70% this year compared with 2008. notebook sales are projected torise 15%, Wilkine said. Netbooks, which cost $300 to are low-powered versions of conventional notebooks, enabling users to trade e-mai l messages, browse the Internet and do basic word That may initially seem like good news for but the popularity of netbooka and notebooks has increasedthe competition.
Fast-growing companies such as Asia-basede , Asutek Computer Inc. and Ltd. (OTC: are taking market shard from Dell, effectively fragmenting the playingv field. (NYSE: HPQ) is No. 1 in the industryt with 19% market share. In August, HP purchasesd Plano-based . In addition to the high and low ends of thelaptol market, Dell is targetinf a niche market. Last year it launched impact-resistant Latituder XFR Series laptops. Such laptops, commonlhy called ruggedized, are developed for the military andcommercialo customers. Dell continues to develop laptop products as part of its efforf to supplant HP as king of thePC “They (Dell) have been No. 1 Wilkins said, “and they want it back.
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วันศุกร์ที่ 15 มิถุนายน พ.ศ. 2555
NPR creates news applications team as part of strategy for ... - Poynter.org
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NPR creates news applications team as part of strategy for ... Poynter.org NPR announced to staff Monday that it is creating a team to build news applications and has hired the Chicago Tribune's Brian Boyer to lead it. |
วันพุธที่ 13 มิถุนายน พ.ศ. 2555
San Antonio gets $12.9 million for defense projects - The Business Journal of Milwaukee:
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million for defense-related projects in San accordingto U.S. Rep. Ciro Rodriguez, D-San who serves on the committee. A plannedf upgrade of an aircraft maintenance building at Kelly Anne x Field has been approvedfor $7.9 millionh in federal funding. The funding will be used to brinfg the building up to code compliance to providr a placewhere F-16 fighter jets can be properly In addition, $5 millio n was authorized for a program to produce unmanned aerialk vehicles that use Blacklight Night Vision Advanced which is manufactured by San Antonio-based This technologt allows for the deployment of miniature dronesd to provide site-specific surveillance information.
“Sajn Antonio continues to be a military leader in operationw and the advancementof technology,” says Congressman “These authorizations will bolster the ability of our troope to do their jobs more safely and efficiently.”
million for defense-related projects in San accordingto U.S. Rep. Ciro Rodriguez, D-San who serves on the committee. A plannedf upgrade of an aircraft maintenance building at Kelly Anne x Field has been approvedfor $7.9 millionh in federal funding. The funding will be used to brinfg the building up to code compliance to providr a placewhere F-16 fighter jets can be properly In addition, $5 millio n was authorized for a program to produce unmanned aerialk vehicles that use Blacklight Night Vision Advanced which is manufactured by San Antonio-based This technologt allows for the deployment of miniature dronesd to provide site-specific surveillance information.
“Sajn Antonio continues to be a military leader in operationw and the advancementof technology,” says Congressman “These authorizations will bolster the ability of our troope to do their jobs more safely and efficiently.”
วันอังคารที่ 12 มิถุนายน พ.ศ. 2555
Report: Zell might lose reins of Tribune - Silicon Valley / San Jose Business Journal:
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According to the report, the company mighg fall into the hands of a group of bankse and investors thatholds $8.6 billion in senior The report says that "the plan centerw on a debt-for-equity swap that probably woulc give the senior lenders a largre majority ownership stake in the reorganized company." The plan would also likelyy wipe out a $90 million warrantf that Zell holds that would give him the right to buy 40 percent of Tribune for about $500 million.
The reporyt says that Zell's future in the company woulxd likely be determined bythe group, as it is uncleare if the group woul d want to bring in a new management, or if Zell himselt would want to remain with the The report says that "sources close to both the creditorsd and the company said it is too earlh to make such decisionsx and Tribune management continues to control the process because it currentlhy has the exclusive right to propose whatever reorganization plan it wishes." Tribuned through a buyout led by Zell. The deal left the companyh withnearly $12 billion in debt.
Tribune has sold off assetsd and cut jobs since the closde of the deal to help with the debt Thecompany .
According to the report, the company mighg fall into the hands of a group of bankse and investors thatholds $8.6 billion in senior The report says that "the plan centerw on a debt-for-equity swap that probably woulc give the senior lenders a largre majority ownership stake in the reorganized company." The plan would also likelyy wipe out a $90 million warrantf that Zell holds that would give him the right to buy 40 percent of Tribune for about $500 million.
The reporyt says that Zell's future in the company woulxd likely be determined bythe group, as it is uncleare if the group woul d want to bring in a new management, or if Zell himselt would want to remain with the The report says that "sources close to both the creditorsd and the company said it is too earlh to make such decisionsx and Tribune management continues to control the process because it currentlhy has the exclusive right to propose whatever reorganization plan it wishes." Tribuned through a buyout led by Zell. The deal left the companyh withnearly $12 billion in debt.
Tribune has sold off assetsd and cut jobs since the closde of the deal to help with the debt Thecompany .
วันจันทร์ที่ 11 มิถุนายน พ.ศ. 2555
Obama: 'Doing nothing' about health care not an option - Dayton Business Journal:
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“Health care reform is not somethin I just cooked up when Itook office,” Obams told a crowd of about 1,509 people Thursday at in the Greebn Bay, Wis., suburb of Ashwaubenon. “It is central to our economif future. In past years and decades, thers may have been some disagreement onthis point. But not Earlier this month, Obama said he wantsw Congress to pass a comprehensive health care bill by the end of the summe and ready for his signatureby fall.
Many including the president, favor a government-sponsoresd health insurance plan that woulrd compete with private insurers and be available for people not eligibl for other government health care programs such as Medicare or Medicaid. Most Republicans and many business groups, however, say a competing plan that isn’ profit-driven would drive private insurers out of On Thursday, the , a physician’ group Obama is scheduled to meet with Monday in Chicago, said it is opposex to a government-sponsored insurance Obama said his administration is workinh on a Health Insurancs Exchange that would allow people to compare insuranc e benefits and prices.
None of the plans included in the exchangee would be allowed to deny coveragre basedon pre-existing conditions and all must includs an affordable, basic benefirt option. “I also strongly believr that one of the options in the Exchanges should be a public insuranceoption – becausee if the private insurance companies have to competew with a public option, it will keep them honesr and help keep prices down,” Obama said. Supporters of health care reform say it wouldx provide health insurance coverage to millions Americans and make coveragee more affordable for those who arealreadyg covered.
Because health insurance premiums have doubled over the last nine and have grown at a rate three times fasterthan wages, even those with coveragse have reached a breaking point, Obama Employers are not faring any Small business owners have been forced to cut healtj care benefits or drop coverage entirelty because of rising costs, Obamw said. “We have the most expensive health care system in the Obama said. “We spend almosf 50 percent more per person on health care than the next mostcostlyy nation.
But here’s the thing, Green Bay: we’re not any healthier for Obama vowed to let Americans who are contenrt with their coverage and their physicians keep what they but said the country has reached a pointg where doing nothing about the cost of health care is no longeean option. “If we do nothing, withinh a decade we will spending one out of every five dollars we earn on health Obama said. “In 30 years, it will be one out of ever three.
” Obama acknowledged covering all Americans wouldbe expensive, but promised health care reform woulxd not add to the country’s deficit over the next 10 “To make that happen, we have already identifiec hundreds of billions worth of savings in our budget savings that will come from steps like reducing Medicare overpayments to insurance companies and rooting out waste, fraud and abusew in both Medicare and Medicaid,” Obama said. In addition, Obamwa is proposing that Congress scale back the amountthe highest-income Americans can deducr on their taxes and use that money to help financee health care.
Obama spoke for about 20 minutes and then took questionss from six people in the audience who expressed fearover “socializesd medicine,” asked questions about wellness and even questionedf the country’s education system. Regarding the idea of socializerd medicine, Obama said that isn’t what he, or anyon e in Congress, wants.
“Health care reform is not somethin I just cooked up when Itook office,” Obams told a crowd of about 1,509 people Thursday at in the Greebn Bay, Wis., suburb of Ashwaubenon. “It is central to our economif future. In past years and decades, thers may have been some disagreement onthis point. But not Earlier this month, Obama said he wantsw Congress to pass a comprehensive health care bill by the end of the summe and ready for his signatureby fall.
Many including the president, favor a government-sponsoresd health insurance plan that woulrd compete with private insurers and be available for people not eligibl for other government health care programs such as Medicare or Medicaid. Most Republicans and many business groups, however, say a competing plan that isn’ profit-driven would drive private insurers out of On Thursday, the , a physician’ group Obama is scheduled to meet with Monday in Chicago, said it is opposex to a government-sponsored insurance Obama said his administration is workinh on a Health Insurancs Exchange that would allow people to compare insuranc e benefits and prices.
None of the plans included in the exchangee would be allowed to deny coveragre basedon pre-existing conditions and all must includs an affordable, basic benefirt option. “I also strongly believr that one of the options in the Exchanges should be a public insuranceoption – becausee if the private insurance companies have to competew with a public option, it will keep them honesr and help keep prices down,” Obama said. Supporters of health care reform say it wouldx provide health insurance coverage to millions Americans and make coveragee more affordable for those who arealreadyg covered.
Because health insurance premiums have doubled over the last nine and have grown at a rate three times fasterthan wages, even those with coveragse have reached a breaking point, Obama Employers are not faring any Small business owners have been forced to cut healtj care benefits or drop coverage entirelty because of rising costs, Obamw said. “We have the most expensive health care system in the Obama said. “We spend almosf 50 percent more per person on health care than the next mostcostlyy nation.
But here’s the thing, Green Bay: we’re not any healthier for Obama vowed to let Americans who are contenrt with their coverage and their physicians keep what they but said the country has reached a pointg where doing nothing about the cost of health care is no longeean option. “If we do nothing, withinh a decade we will spending one out of every five dollars we earn on health Obama said. “In 30 years, it will be one out of ever three.
” Obama acknowledged covering all Americans wouldbe expensive, but promised health care reform woulxd not add to the country’s deficit over the next 10 “To make that happen, we have already identifiec hundreds of billions worth of savings in our budget savings that will come from steps like reducing Medicare overpayments to insurance companies and rooting out waste, fraud and abusew in both Medicare and Medicaid,” Obama said. In addition, Obamwa is proposing that Congress scale back the amountthe highest-income Americans can deducr on their taxes and use that money to help financee health care.
Obama spoke for about 20 minutes and then took questionss from six people in the audience who expressed fearover “socializesd medicine,” asked questions about wellness and even questionedf the country’s education system. Regarding the idea of socializerd medicine, Obama said that isn’t what he, or anyon e in Congress, wants.
วันเสาร์ที่ 9 มิถุนายน พ.ศ. 2555
Local golf courses hope people are ready to get to the green - Denver Business Journal:
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The state is home to more than 250 golf courses ranging from mountain resorts to suburban country and they’re counting on the passion and dedication of thosw who play to keep business strong during the next several “It’s difficult at this point to determine what effecy the economy will have on our business,” said Jim Hajek, PGA head golf professionall at , a publid course in Golden. “Ouer business is more dependent on the weather thanthe economy.” Hajek said two key measures to help him estimatew what 2009 course traffic will be are salea of gift certificates from Thanksgivin through December and the number of group golf events booked.
Gift certificate salea totaledapproximately $31,000, and grouop bookings, which are 21 percent of total business, have matchesd the number in 2008.
The state is home to more than 250 golf courses ranging from mountain resorts to suburban country and they’re counting on the passion and dedication of thosw who play to keep business strong during the next several “It’s difficult at this point to determine what effecy the economy will have on our business,” said Jim Hajek, PGA head golf professionall at , a publid course in Golden. “Ouer business is more dependent on the weather thanthe economy.” Hajek said two key measures to help him estimatew what 2009 course traffic will be are salea of gift certificates from Thanksgivin through December and the number of group golf events booked.
Gift certificate salea totaledapproximately $31,000, and grouop bookings, which are 21 percent of total business, have matchesd the number in 2008.
วันศุกร์ที่ 8 มิถุนายน พ.ศ. 2555
General Motors files Chapter 11 - Pacific Business News (Honolulu):
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once the world’s biggesty auto maker, protection early under whichthe U.S. government will becoms GM’s largest shareholder. The filing, made in U.S. Bankruptc Court in Manhattan, marks the largesy ever filing of its kind fora U.S. It follows months of speculation thatthe 101-year-old compang would have to restructur through the courts, despite desperatr attempts by management to avois the move. As it turned out, the bankruptcy filing was the only way GM coulc get its hands on the government money it needasto survive. In its filing, GM listed $82.3 billionh in assets and $172.8 billion in debts.
reportws that the company's largest creditors were WilmingtonTrus Company, representing bondholders holdinf $22.8 billion in debts, and UAW affiliatezs representing $20.6 billion in employeew obligations. The U.S. government has alreadty injected $20 billion into GM, and will provide anothere $30 billion to keep the company goint as it worksthrough bankruptcy. The investmenf will buy the governmenta 72.5 percent stake. That will give government officials more power to name members of theGM board. Officiald have said they don’t want to get involved in the dailyh operations ofthe company.
But that may prove to be quits a challenge with as much government money asis "It's not forever," Bruce associate director of the Automotivse Analysis Division at the Universityh of Michigan Transportation Research Institute, told bizjournals in a telephone interview. "If they had a choice, it wouldf be a short period of time. The longere that it stretches out the more of a politica liabilityit becomes.” Still, it could take more than a year befor G.M. emerges once more as a publiclgtraded company.
While most publidc attention is focusedon GM, the automaker'sw many suppliers are certain to be affectedx Obama administration and GM officialsx have said they want a much smaller, more competitiv e GM to emerge from the bankruptcy withimn 60 to 90 days. GM plans to sell or closwe such brandsas Saturn, Saab, Hummer, and and will shed 2,600 dealerships. The company will close 11 U.S. manufacturint facilities by the endof 2010. Plantx throughout GM's system will be idler as the company downsizes. The that GM said will be closed and theidr dates include two assemblyplants - Mich. (October 2009), and Wilmington, Del.
(July three stamping plants — including the previously announced closing in June ofGrand Rapids, Indianapolis, Ind. (December 2011), and Ohio (June 2010). Powertrain facilitiesx in Livonia, Flint and Ypsilanti, as well as Ohio, and Fredericksburg, Va. are also on the closuree list, reports. To accomplish the leanere GM, the company will be splir into a new GM and anold GM. The new GM will be ownerd by the U.S. and Canadian governments, the and current bond holders inthe company.
once the world’s biggesty auto maker, protection early under whichthe U.S. government will becoms GM’s largest shareholder. The filing, made in U.S. Bankruptc Court in Manhattan, marks the largesy ever filing of its kind fora U.S. It follows months of speculation thatthe 101-year-old compang would have to restructur through the courts, despite desperatr attempts by management to avois the move. As it turned out, the bankruptcy filing was the only way GM coulc get its hands on the government money it needasto survive. In its filing, GM listed $82.3 billionh in assets and $172.8 billion in debts.
reportws that the company's largest creditors were WilmingtonTrus Company, representing bondholders holdinf $22.8 billion in debts, and UAW affiliatezs representing $20.6 billion in employeew obligations. The U.S. government has alreadty injected $20 billion into GM, and will provide anothere $30 billion to keep the company goint as it worksthrough bankruptcy. The investmenf will buy the governmenta 72.5 percent stake. That will give government officials more power to name members of theGM board. Officiald have said they don’t want to get involved in the dailyh operations ofthe company.
But that may prove to be quits a challenge with as much government money asis "It's not forever," Bruce associate director of the Automotivse Analysis Division at the Universityh of Michigan Transportation Research Institute, told bizjournals in a telephone interview. "If they had a choice, it wouldf be a short period of time. The longere that it stretches out the more of a politica liabilityit becomes.” Still, it could take more than a year befor G.M. emerges once more as a publiclgtraded company.
While most publidc attention is focusedon GM, the automaker'sw many suppliers are certain to be affectedx Obama administration and GM officialsx have said they want a much smaller, more competitiv e GM to emerge from the bankruptcy withimn 60 to 90 days. GM plans to sell or closwe such brandsas Saturn, Saab, Hummer, and and will shed 2,600 dealerships. The company will close 11 U.S. manufacturint facilities by the endof 2010. Plantx throughout GM's system will be idler as the company downsizes. The that GM said will be closed and theidr dates include two assemblyplants - Mich. (October 2009), and Wilmington, Del.
(July three stamping plants — including the previously announced closing in June ofGrand Rapids, Indianapolis, Ind. (December 2011), and Ohio (June 2010). Powertrain facilitiesx in Livonia, Flint and Ypsilanti, as well as Ohio, and Fredericksburg, Va. are also on the closuree list, reports. To accomplish the leanere GM, the company will be splir into a new GM and anold GM. The new GM will be ownerd by the U.S. and Canadian governments, the and current bond holders inthe company.
วันพุธที่ 6 มิถุนายน พ.ศ. 2555
Unions and Democrats renew criticism of Citizens United following Walker ... - ABC News
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Arutz Sheva | Unions and Democrats renew criticism of Citizens United following Walker ... ABC News He said his group's emphasis will not be shifted to "raising money and ads," following the rec » |
วันอังคารที่ 5 มิถุนายน พ.ศ. 2555
Phoenix principles rising - Business Courier of Cincinnati:
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But the founding partners of alsouse storytelling, guidinyg the reader through the fable of the who has landed in corporates America and is rotating through a managemengt program. Phoenix isn't doing too She or he - the gender keeps changinb - is about to be fired when a vice presidenr provides one last chance to succeed by leadingt adiversity initiative. The tale illustrates the principlese of diversity and inclusion and how they can benefi ta company's bottom line. It distills the how-ti into five key points, the "phoenix principles." Reporter James Ritchie sat down with Reid to discusssthe book. Q. Can you explain the concepft for the book and how itwas written? A.
Peoplee who read the especially those who are practitioners of diversityand inclusion, inevitablyt see themselves. If it's a male readint it, the person will say, Phoenix is a man about 50-some-odx years old." It worked In every other chapter of the book the voiced of the phoenix changes from the masculine to the femininre andso forth. In part that was becausew Vincent and I are male and but that wasreally Vincent's creation, to have the phoenix not have much more identit y than that. On the other the vigor around the measures andso that's more my piece. I woul d say the writing of the book frankly was the processz of literally playing out all of thephoenix Q.
Why did you choosw the fable format as opposed to drawing specififc examples from your yearsof experience? A. The fable is because we wanter the book tobe transcendent, to go up over any singularf corporate example with this so that it really could touch upon the very reader and not be outsid e of the reader, so to speak. The othed reason we chose to do it this way is that in most businessabooks there's a kind of pedagogy, an academifc aspect.
It's not that this doesn'f have that; clearly there are toolss and all kinds of instruments in here that canbe However, we wanted to be able to take this into a real that can allow people to imagine a corporatew culture different from what they currentlgy have and imagine themselves as leaders differenr than they've been in the past. So ultimately this book is aboutytransformation - personal transformation, corporatde culture transformation. The premise is that you cannor lead a diversity and inclusion initiative effectively unlesws you allow yourself tobe Q.
Early in the book the phoenix is assignede this diversity initiative and it appears to be the castofg that nobody else wantsto do. How big of a problenm do you think that is incorporate culture?? A. That is often how the assignment begins. Because often with corporationss that are new on the diversity and inclusion learning they don't understand the profound impact that it can have on bottom-liner benefits.
They almost look at this as somethinhg that somebody oughtto do, that's a greart thing to do for all the sociaol reasons, that's sort of tangential to the profitability of the So they give it to people as broadeninfg assignments or as the phoenid got it, as sort of a last-ditch ... We made Phoenix practically on his or her way out the but it's not too far off from wherw most corporations begin. Q. Are there companies that don't need this A. No. There are companies that don' realize that they do, but there are no companieas that don't. None.
Even if your company only does businesss in theUnited States, it will have a worl d customer base, because the world is represente d here in the U.S. And if you don'r understand your consumers, you're out of business. Q. What do you thinkl is the first step for a corporation to take instarting ? A. People ask me quite a bit wherdto begin. I alwaysa say begin with the thought, "Wha is the reason for undertaking diversityy and inclusion withinyour corporation?" We call it the compellingv purpose within the five phoenix In essence, if you can't find the link between diversity and inclusiojn and your corporate profit-making then there's no reason to undertake this.
For say you have a retailer who has done very well in the America s and Western Europe and that retaile is now interested in moving into Asia or Eastern When you think about diversityand inclusion, then you must thino about them within the context of an internationao framework. You have to think about it then in term s of how do we take products that have been successful in the Americas and see what fits and what needsd to be developed differently for the Asian and EasterEuropean markets. And let me use a term that we usequitee often, "cultural dexterity," the ability to understand cultura l differences, to be able to articulate the unarticulated needs in thos e environments.
If you understand that that is your reaso for diversity and then that's where you need to start. From thers it is, "What do I need to do?" Perhaps I need to ensurer that I have Asian and Easter European business leaders for global expansion projectzsthat I'm working on. Perhaps I need to make sure that I have globap teams set up behind those producta such that information that we have already learned in Nortyh America and Western Europe can be Perhaps I need to have global HR policie that can allow me to recruit and retainm the best of the best in Asia andEasterh Europe, and those policieds may look a little bit different than what's happened in the Americas. Q.
I picker up a theme that having a diverse work force is not the same ashavingg inclusion. A. Let me be crystakl clear: You need numbers. People need to be able to see that therd is in fact diversity throughoutthe organization. And you have to look at it by leve - you have to make sure it is diverse above midlevel in the But you can be diverses asthe dickens. Sitting here at a tabls with 10 people, we coulc have one of every different kindof thinker, differentf ages and all of But if I only spokwe to you, then we have diversity at the but it's not inclusive.
Inclusion is takinvg the diversity that exists and ensuring that all voices are heards and that people have the abilityh to bring all of theit talent into the workplace and that that talentis leveraged. Publisher: New Village Publishing, Cincinnati Web phoenixprinciples.com
But the founding partners of alsouse storytelling, guidinyg the reader through the fable of the who has landed in corporates America and is rotating through a managemengt program. Phoenix isn't doing too She or he - the gender keeps changinb - is about to be fired when a vice presidenr provides one last chance to succeed by leadingt adiversity initiative. The tale illustrates the principlese of diversity and inclusion and how they can benefi ta company's bottom line. It distills the how-ti into five key points, the "phoenix principles." Reporter James Ritchie sat down with Reid to discusssthe book. Q. Can you explain the concepft for the book and how itwas written? A.
Peoplee who read the especially those who are practitioners of diversityand inclusion, inevitablyt see themselves. If it's a male readint it, the person will say, Phoenix is a man about 50-some-odx years old." It worked In every other chapter of the book the voiced of the phoenix changes from the masculine to the femininre andso forth. In part that was becausew Vincent and I are male and but that wasreally Vincent's creation, to have the phoenix not have much more identit y than that. On the other the vigor around the measures andso that's more my piece. I woul d say the writing of the book frankly was the processz of literally playing out all of thephoenix Q.
Why did you choosw the fable format as opposed to drawing specififc examples from your yearsof experience? A. The fable is because we wanter the book tobe transcendent, to go up over any singularf corporate example with this so that it really could touch upon the very reader and not be outsid e of the reader, so to speak. The othed reason we chose to do it this way is that in most businessabooks there's a kind of pedagogy, an academifc aspect.
It's not that this doesn'f have that; clearly there are toolss and all kinds of instruments in here that canbe However, we wanted to be able to take this into a real that can allow people to imagine a corporatew culture different from what they currentlgy have and imagine themselves as leaders differenr than they've been in the past. So ultimately this book is aboutytransformation - personal transformation, corporatde culture transformation. The premise is that you cannor lead a diversity and inclusion initiative effectively unlesws you allow yourself tobe Q.
Early in the book the phoenix is assignede this diversity initiative and it appears to be the castofg that nobody else wantsto do. How big of a problenm do you think that is incorporate culture?? A. That is often how the assignment begins. Because often with corporationss that are new on the diversity and inclusion learning they don't understand the profound impact that it can have on bottom-liner benefits.
They almost look at this as somethinhg that somebody oughtto do, that's a greart thing to do for all the sociaol reasons, that's sort of tangential to the profitability of the So they give it to people as broadeninfg assignments or as the phoenid got it, as sort of a last-ditch ... We made Phoenix practically on his or her way out the but it's not too far off from wherw most corporations begin. Q. Are there companies that don't need this A. No. There are companies that don' realize that they do, but there are no companieas that don't. None.
Even if your company only does businesss in theUnited States, it will have a worl d customer base, because the world is represente d here in the U.S. And if you don'r understand your consumers, you're out of business. Q. What do you thinkl is the first step for a corporation to take instarting ? A. People ask me quite a bit wherdto begin. I alwaysa say begin with the thought, "Wha is the reason for undertaking diversityy and inclusion withinyour corporation?" We call it the compellingv purpose within the five phoenix In essence, if you can't find the link between diversity and inclusiojn and your corporate profit-making then there's no reason to undertake this.
For say you have a retailer who has done very well in the America s and Western Europe and that retaile is now interested in moving into Asia or Eastern When you think about diversityand inclusion, then you must thino about them within the context of an internationao framework. You have to think about it then in term s of how do we take products that have been successful in the Americas and see what fits and what needsd to be developed differently for the Asian and EasterEuropean markets. And let me use a term that we usequitee often, "cultural dexterity," the ability to understand cultura l differences, to be able to articulate the unarticulated needs in thos e environments.
If you understand that that is your reaso for diversity and then that's where you need to start. From thers it is, "What do I need to do?" Perhaps I need to ensurer that I have Asian and Easter European business leaders for global expansion projectzsthat I'm working on. Perhaps I need to make sure that I have globap teams set up behind those producta such that information that we have already learned in Nortyh America and Western Europe can be Perhaps I need to have global HR policie that can allow me to recruit and retainm the best of the best in Asia andEasterh Europe, and those policieds may look a little bit different than what's happened in the Americas. Q.
I picker up a theme that having a diverse work force is not the same ashavingg inclusion. A. Let me be crystakl clear: You need numbers. People need to be able to see that therd is in fact diversity throughoutthe organization. And you have to look at it by leve - you have to make sure it is diverse above midlevel in the But you can be diverses asthe dickens. Sitting here at a tabls with 10 people, we coulc have one of every different kindof thinker, differentf ages and all of But if I only spokwe to you, then we have diversity at the but it's not inclusive.
Inclusion is takinvg the diversity that exists and ensuring that all voices are heards and that people have the abilityh to bring all of theit talent into the workplace and that that talentis leveraged. Publisher: New Village Publishing, Cincinnati Web phoenixprinciples.com
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Survival Better with Continuous ADT - Renal and Urology News
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Streamline jumps into black for 1Q - The Business Review (Albany):
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The software company reporte net incomeof $16,300, or zero centw per share, compared to a net loss of $815,000, or 9 centx per share, in the year-ago Revenues grew to $3.8 million from $3.6 million. The one analystr who covers the company expectexd a net loss of 2 cents on revenuesof $3.5 Systems sales and maintenance and support revenues both rose 12 percen during the quarter, while applicatioj hosting services revenues fell 23 the company said in a news release.
“We continue to make progres s in moving this business forward to the poiny of becoming consistently that is our main strategic said CEO Brian Patsy in the Inearly June, Streamline won a contracyt valued at more than $1 millionj to integrate its document workflow solutions into an electronic medicapl records system at a Canadian healtjh care region, Patsy said. It is the secondd Canadian contract the company has won in the past Despite thebetter news, shares of Streamlind (NASDAQ: STRM), followed most tech stocks down on Wednesdat morning, losing more than 8 percent, or 26 to $2.89.
Streamline Health Solutions, based in is a supplier of workflos and documentmanagement tools, applicationse and services to businesses, specifically health-care organizations.
The software company reporte net incomeof $16,300, or zero centw per share, compared to a net loss of $815,000, or 9 centx per share, in the year-ago Revenues grew to $3.8 million from $3.6 million. The one analystr who covers the company expectexd a net loss of 2 cents on revenuesof $3.5 Systems sales and maintenance and support revenues both rose 12 percen during the quarter, while applicatioj hosting services revenues fell 23 the company said in a news release.
“We continue to make progres s in moving this business forward to the poiny of becoming consistently that is our main strategic said CEO Brian Patsy in the Inearly June, Streamline won a contracyt valued at more than $1 millionj to integrate its document workflow solutions into an electronic medicapl records system at a Canadian healtjh care region, Patsy said. It is the secondd Canadian contract the company has won in the past Despite thebetter news, shares of Streamlind (NASDAQ: STRM), followed most tech stocks down on Wednesdat morning, losing more than 8 percent, or 26 to $2.89.
Streamline Health Solutions, based in is a supplier of workflos and documentmanagement tools, applicationse and services to businesses, specifically health-care organizations.
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