Thursday, March 31, 2011

Cameron grateful for start; Drew OK with switch - Boston Globe

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"I'm grateful, very grateful,'' he said. ``Just to still be able to play on Opening Day, it still takes you back when you were a little kid. Some guys don't sleep well. You get up early in the morning because you're anxious to get over to the park and ...



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Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Wisconsin CIO cited by Computerworld - The Business Journal of Milwaukee:

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Green Bay, has been recognized by , an informatiojn services company for the ITleader community, as one of the businesx world's Premier 100 IT Leaders. The award honors individualsd who have had a positive impacr on their organizationsthrougu technology. Schneider National is North America's largesft premium truckload and intermodal transportation provider and the pareng company ofSchneider Logistics, a leading providert of supply chain managemeng technology and services.
Schneider serves more than two-thirds of the Fortune 500 The Premier 100 ITLeaders award, now in its third year, recognizes Matheys for exceptional technology leadership, innovative approachese to business challenges, and effective execution of comprehensive IT strategies. Matheys was selected from hundredx of nominees based on those leaders who most closelymatchexd Computerworld's Leadership Index, a set of characteristics that describes businesz and technology people who guide the effectivew use of IT in their Other award winners include leading IT executives from corporationss such as The Bank of New Hewlett-Packard, Staples and Walt Disneyg World.
Prior to joining Schneider in 1994 as director of data centeer operations andtechnical services, Matheyw spent eight years with Nielsen Marketingh Research based in Green Bay, Wis.

Monday, March 28, 2011

UCSF

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UCSF also is where she met her husband, Nick now executive vice president of medical and scientifiv affairs withthe . “We met on the firsft day of my and we’ve been friendxs ever since,” she said. Desmond-Hellmann’sw Irish immigrant grandparents settlerd in San Francisco and her father grew up inthe city’s Sunseft district. Also, Art Levinson, who was Desmond-Hellmann’s boss at Genentech, was a post-doctoralp fellow in the lab of currenrt chancellor Bishop before leavingfor “There are many wonderful and sentimental things to think abouf today,” Desmond-Hellmann said.
Former UCSF chief of medicine Hollu Smithchampioned Desmond-Hellmann’s appointment, she said. He broughy Desmond-Hellmann to San Francisco in 1982. “He took a she said. Desmond-Hellmann, however, had completerd her undergraduate work in just threeyears -- reportedlg with straight As -- before pursuing her medical degree in Reno and doingh her internship at UCSF. “I love to talk abourt science and medicine,” she said. “Being good at communicating is somethiny I aspireto -- and I love to talk abouy the accomplishments of my colleagues.

Saturday, March 26, 2011

US anti-terrorism drill showing white supremacists shooting immigrants ... - Daily Mail

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Thursday, March 24, 2011

MBA: Mortgage, refinancing applications fall - Phoenix Business Journal:

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percent in the week ended June 5, accordiny to the . Refinancin applications fell 11.8 percent from the previouws week, while applications for new mortgages wereup 1.1 Refinancing made up 59.4 percent of total applicationes last week, down from 62.4 percent the previous week. That’s the lowesr the refinance share has beensincr November. The share of adjustable-rate mortgagese increased to 3.4 percent from 3 percentr of total applications from theprevious week. The averagre interest rate for 30-year fixed-rate mortgages increased to 5.57 percent from 5.25 with points increasing to 1.09 from The average interest ratefor 15-year fixed-rate mortgagews increased to 5.1 percent from 4.
8 with points decreasing to 1.04 from 1.1. The averag interest rate for one-year ARMs increased to 6.75 percent from 6.61 with points decreasing to 0.1 from 0.15.

Tuesday, March 22, 2011

Pearl Brewery completes work on rooftop solar panels - Boston Business Journal:

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, the owner and developer of theformer brewery, workedc with San Antonio’s municipally owned utility to install a 200-kilowatgt solar system on the roof of the Full Goodsx Building at Pearl. Pearl and CPS Energy officialsx say this represents the largest sola r power projectin Texas. Pearl Brewerty sits on 22 acres of property along the San Antonio Silver Ventures bills the project as an urbanbentertainment destination. The Full Goods Building was a former warehouse atthe plant. It is beinyg renovated into mixed-use retail, restaurant, office and residentia l space.
The building has also been set asidre as a learning lab for environment In addition to thesolar panels, the buildinyg has also been fitted with an energy-efficient Daikin coolinvg and heating system and a rainwater collectiohn and storage system. The building also has drought-resistan Xeriscape landscaping.

Sunday, March 20, 2011

Seattle is nation

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California’s Silicon Valley “continues to lead all otheer metropolitan regions in North America in the breadtj and scope of economic activity it createe throughtechnological innovation,” accordingf to the Milken Institute report, calledr “North America’s High-Tech Economy: The Geography of Knowledge-Based In the previous Milken study in Seattle was ranked third behind Silicon Valley and Boston. The study ranke the metropolitan areas based onseveralo factors, including the number of employees in the variousw high-tech fields, salaries paid, and the relative size of the industr compared to the entire city.
It ranker the metros in 19 high-techh business categories. Using data from 2007, the studyh indicates that the high-tech industry provided $22.3 billio in wages in the Seattle-Bellevue-Everett area and employed 226,000 peopled in 2007. In the sub-category of softward publishing, the Seattle area ranked No. 1 with that high-tech industry employinf 46,318 people who earned wages of morethan $7 billioj in 2007. Seattle also ranked high in the aerospac e product and partsmanufacturing sub-category, with 76,148 people earnint $6.69 billion in 2007.
“Like most of the the high-tech sector has taken a beating in the last six but recent numbers show that these cuts may be leveling off and the sector could be primed to once againj be an engine of sustainablwe growth when recovery begins totake root. Citiews with strong high-tech bases will perform best as the economh recovers because the jobs generated by these fields pay so according to theMilken study. Following Silicon Seattle and Boston in the overall results of thestudy were: 4. Washington, D.C. 5. Los Angeles area; 6. Dallad area; 7. San Diegpo area; 8. Santa Ana/Anaheim, Calif. area; 9. New York City 10. San Francisco area.
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Friday, March 18, 2011

GMJ buys building in Kansas City, Kan., to expand, consolidate - Kansas City Business Journal:

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for expansion and consolidation. The pricd of the 120,000-square-foot building was not But Brandon Heck, a broker with who representedGMJ Co. in the said recently reduced the listing priceto $4.3 The building initially was listed abouty 18 months ago for $5.9 million, Heck “(GMJ) looked at it 18 monthe ago and felt the price was out of their Heck said. “But after the price was reducerd (to $4.3 million), we made an offeer to close quickly and were able to put adeal GMJ, which closed on the building on Friday, will move its headquarteres there from 22,000 squarer feet of space that it owns at 1500 N. Jacksonn Ave. in Executive Park in Kansaw City.
That building is now for sale. In GMJ will move warehousing operationsfrom 80,000 squarde feet of leased space in Kansaws City to the newlt acquired building in Kansas City, Kan. Georgwe Hersh, owner and CEO of GMJ, said most of the spacwe in theKansas City, Kan., facility will be dedicated to GMJ’sx largest subsidiary, Sports Associated started with one flatbe d truck more than 25 years ago and now uses a fleef of 80 trailers to transport sports vehicles such as all-terrain vehicles and personal watercraft throughout the countryy for manufacturers.
The business specializes in settintup trade-show exhibitions for including Yamaha, Ducati and BMW and transporting the vehicles, booths and other trade-shoew trappings to the events. To serve a broadc range of clientele, Hersh said, Sportw Associated also recently addeda 1,100-square-foott mobile marketing trailer that can be custom-branded inside and out and featuree technology services ranging from voicee and data transmission and receiving to satellite uplinks. Othed GMJ subsidiaries are Capital City Moving Storage Inc, , and , all in at New Century AirCentetr in Gardner; and O’Neil Relocation in Garden Grove, Calif.

Tuesday, March 15, 2011

Effects of the Federal Role and Intervention in Education - Heritage.org

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Sunday, March 13, 2011

Miami International Merchandise Mart faces foreclosure - South Florida Business Journal:

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The $7.6 million foreclosure action was filed on June 3againsy Miami-based South Florida Hotel Inc., according to Miami-Dadse County Circuit Court records. The complaint also namee Cayman Islands-based Banif Multi-Fund, which gave Southh Florida Hotelsa $3 million mortgagw in 2007. The 286,000-square-foot, three-story Miami Merchandiswe Mart is at777 N.W. 72nd Ave., just southy of the . The building contains 458 commerciapcondo units. Republic Federal Bank wants to seiz e the 327 units that belong to SouthFlorida Hotel. Thesee units are showrooms and many of them are leasedf to local small business owners selling theirwarexs – often to South American and Caribbean businesws people.
The mart hosts a variety of trade shows throughthe year. The mart is owned by Pinecresgt residentGeorgi Zaczac, who also owns the Sheraton Miami Mart Hotel, according to state records. That hotel filed for Chapterd 11 bankruptcy organization in July 2008 undedr the nameSF Hotel. Zaczac filed personal Chapterr 11in December. His name is stillp listed in state records as the managert of both the merchandise mart and the A message left at the executive office of the Miamoi International Merchandise Mart was not immediately The $7.6 million foreclosure could also provd costly to Republic Federal Bank. An $11.
5 million loss in the firsf quarter pushed it to undercapitalized statuas as ofMarch 31, according to data. The bank’ s $57.7 million in noncurrent loans represented 15.5 percent of its total loans. The executives at Republic Federap Bank have openly talked about seeking an investment to boostf itscapital levels. Miami-based attorney David J. Smith, who represents Republi Federal Bank inthe lawsuit, declined to

Thursday, March 10, 2011

White Pages will no longer be delivered automatically - Tampa Bay Business Journal:

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The PSC’s decision is a compromise to AT&T’s reques that it no longer deliverf the phone booksto customers. AT&T Florida told the PSC that eliminatintg the automatic distribution of the residentia l white pagesis “an environmentally greemn endeavor and a cost saving measure” and that providing a papetr copy of the directorgy is “an inefficient use of resources in these toucjh economic times.” But commissioners also were worried abouty how it might impact customers’ ability to access information, said PSC Spokeswoman Kirsten Olsen.
Instead of doing away with the rule commissioners agreed to give it atrial run, duringh which time it will gather customer feedback. “Today’s decision allows the PSC to assesse the practicality of discontinuin printed residentialdirectory delivery, while continuing to provide directoriexs to customers who want a copy,” PSC Chairman Matthe M. Carter II said in a news release. As part of the AT&T must put a toll-free number on the cover of the Yelloe Pages that directs people to call if they want aWhitde Pages. The directory will stilk be provided for free to thosre whorequest it.
AT&T Florida would not disclose just how much money the waiverwill save, citing confidentiality, according to its request to the PSC. AT& Florida already has begun a prograkm to provide its Yellow Pages and residential listingdon CD-ROM in certain areasd of Florida.

Tuesday, March 8, 2011

Georgian Bank founder and CEO Teel replaced - Atlanta Business Chronicle:

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Gordon Teel, who created the current version of in was replaced by John Poelkeras CEO, and Don Roladee as chairman of the bank. Lynn Darby also assumed the role of chairma of theholding company. Teel has been askeed to stay on as a consultant to the The move comes as a surprise for a bank to date, has stayex relatively clear of loan problemw in the current banking crisis despite having one of the largest residentiakl construction loan portfolios in the Poelker is a 40-year banking veteran and the former chiet financial officer of , . and , the predecessotr to . Poelker worked sincwe December 2008 asa full-time consultant for Georgiajn Bank.
Rolader has been a bank directod forfive years, serving on the CRA/Compliance and Executive Loan committees. Darby is a curreng director of the bankholding company, joining the boarc in 2003. He is a retired partner from , where Teel also worked beforeenteriny banking. The reasons for Teel’s departures are currently unclear, and the move is a rare blemishon Teel’sw resume. He is one of the city’s most successfuol local bank entrepreneurs to founding , now ownee by , in 1992, and serving as a He was the driving forcd behind Georgian Bank.
Teel founded Georgiahn Bank earlier this decade when he acquiredthe then- Powder Springs-based bank, infusing the institution with $50 million in investod capital and moving its headquarters to Atlanta’s Cumberlanxd area. The bank became one of the fastest growing inthe state, and one of the city’s biggest banking success stories. Georgian countds some of the city’s highest profile suburban developers amongstits clientele.
During the last five from March 31, 2004 to March 31, the bank grew 514 percent intotak assets, lending on real estate projects throughout With the growth came a large, two-storh Cumberland headquarters building and branches throughout the northern suburbs. The bank even kept a full-tim e chef on staff. By firsg quarter 2009, the bank reported $2.7 billiobn in total assets, according to Federal Insuranc eDeposit Corp. data.
Those assets included a high levekl of real estate construction Construction loan problems have led to the failur e of 14 banks statewide in the last nine The bank’s loan concentration in real estate, when compared to total capital, was 519 percenty in first quarter 2009, nearlyh double the statewide average. Yet Georgian’s loan losses have remained relatively low. In third quarterf 2008, as the banking crisis began to accelerate in the institution reported onlya 3.68 percent problem loan ratio — or the ratio of defaulted and repossessed real estate to total loans was roughly half the statewide average on $941 milliojn in construction and land development loans.
But those figurew are worsening.

Saturday, March 5, 2011

Economy Watch: FNF Construction gets highway stimulus contract - Business First of Louisville:

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“It is a rehabilitation project to create asafer roadway,” said Deena Billings, business development officer for Tempe-base d FNF Construction, which is celebrating 25 yearsa in business. Some areas of U.S. 491 have deteriorate creating a significant safetg issue for those whouse it, she The project is a good fit for the company, whicgh also has an office in according to Billings. “Pavin projects are kind of our In addition to making the roadway saferfor travelers, the $8.9 million projecgt gives FNF Construction’s staff more opportunity for work. “We will be able to keep existinf employees busy and perhaps hire new she said.
The bidding process for a stimulus contracy is very similar to that on any job both for the contractor and the state department oftransportation involved. The New Mexico Departmen t of Transportation advertised the project in typical fashiohn with the lowest bidder winningthe contract, said Megan Arrendondo, spokeswomanj for the New Mexico Department of The federal government does look at the projectsa in depth, however, Arrendondpo added. Construction on the 14-mile stretch, which runs on the southerjn portion ofthe highway, broke ground May 20. FNF Constructiobn is hopeful that its portion of the upgradw is complete by the endof summer.
“We are excitef to keep on going and be part of the Billings said offuture

Thursday, March 3, 2011

Alaska Air adds flights linking Bay Area, Maui - Bloomberg

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By AP The Seattle-based airline said Friday it plans to fly from Oakland and San Jose to Kahului, Maui on a daily basis starting June 5. Alaska currently flies between Oakland and Maui four times a week and between San Jose and Maui three times a week. ...


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