Wednesday 29 June 2011

Ohio to get $10 million in flu pandemic money - Dayton Business Journal:

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The predicts that a more severe strain ofH1N1 influenza, more commonlu known as swine flu, will develop in the new few Ohio’s $9.8 million share is part of a $260 milliob federal program that was started by the in light of an upticik in the number of flu illnessesx throughout the country this spring. Over the next few the Ohio Department of Health in conjunctiobn with 130 local health departmentsx throughout the state will determine what projects and activities will see the The state Department of Health said the federal governmentt is expected to provide a free H1N1 vaccinr to states so the grant money will not be used to buy medicall supplies of vaccines orantiviral medicines.
From 2005 to 2008, Ohio receivedd more than $19 million for pandemic planning. More informatiom about pandemic flu can be foundat http://www.odh.ohio.gov.

Monday 27 June 2011

Accounts Now Conflict Between Prosser, Bradley Incident - Ashland Current

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Friday 24 June 2011

Gilbane, BBL hired for convention center construction - The Business Review (Albany):

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A joint venture between and was picker as theconstruction manager. HNTB Architecture of Kansas City won thearchitecture contract. Gilbanee and BBL beat out a competing bid from HNTB was selectedf over a joint venturse between of Atlanta and Einhormn Yaffee Prescottin Albany. Convention Center Authority Executive Director Duncan Stewart said Gilban e and BBL have had alongtime partnership. "Gilbane's nationallgy recognized and award winning technology resources and aggressive schedulinf management coupled with the local commitment of BBL and theirt strong site management team will help the Authorit y to successfully meet its development Stewart said in aprepared statement.
Recommendations will be presentef to the authority board in the next few weeks for theconvention center/hotel operator and the women- and minority-business compliance officer. Thoss selections will round out the consulting team planninggthe project. The facilities will be built on Hudson Avenu e between South Pearl andLibertyg streets, an area near the Greyhound bus terminal that is now largelh surface parking, and the Green-Hudson municipa parking garage. Consultants hired by the authority have done preliminary drawingsw that include a pedestrian walkwayh connecting one of the hotels with the Timezs Union Center on SouthPearlk Street.
State officials have askeds the authority to find ways to bring down theprojecteds $300 million cost. Stewart has said the authority won'tg know the actual price tag until the construction manager and architecturak team delve into the details ofthe

Wednesday 22 June 2011

EGS lands local office, industrial leases - Triangle Business Journal:

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Access Mailing signed a 7,000-square-foot lease on 38th Stree South for a new warehouse and distribution Owens & Minor Distribution Inc. renewed its 80,450-square-foot lease at Cahabsa Valley Business Park. The company distributes medical and surgical suppliesz to hospitals and integrated health care Brad Moffatt and Stuart Brock with EGS representee the landlords in both AllSouth ApplianceGroup Inc. leased 6,000 square feet of showrookm and warehouse space inPelham Promenade. This is the secondr location for theappliance retailer. Mark Byers of EGS represente the tenant and Mark Dinan of Mark DinaCommercial & Investment Real Estate represented the Dr. Nancy E.
Pajaro will relocate her office from Physicians Medical Center Carrawayto 1,656 square feet at Edward s Lake Professional Building near Trussville. Eric T. Rogere of EGS represented the tenant and Chip Wattz of WattsRealty Co. Inc. represented the landlord. Law firm Christiab & Small LLP renewed its leasre in the Financial Center in downtow n and expanded itto 36,596 squarw feet on the 17th and 18th floord of the building.
Murray Bromstad of EGS representedthe

Monday 20 June 2011

In Bellevue, Beverly Hills meets its match - Puget Sound Business Journal (Seattle):

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Drawing 10-mile rings around the two shopping zones, a retail consultinh firm found a larger pool of affluent consumersa around Bellevue thanBeverly Hills. The data were compiledx for the Puget Sound Business Journakl bythe Redlands, Calif.-based , and bolster some belief that the Seattle area is developinbg the wealth and fashiob sense to support a larger armada of luxurg retailers. “It’s been the most dramatic over the last threew tofour years,” said Wayne Hussey, a executive who helpef pick Bellevue for the high-endd chain’s first Northwest store, whichh opens in September.
While the recession has cast a pallover high-enx shopping, the long-term trend for the Seattle-Bellevu area, some say, is towarcd a growing cohort of prosperous, aging professionals primed to embracs a more formal lifestyle for example, buying splashy clothes for charityu events. “It’s not so much lifestyle, but the next levekl above that — life said Jim Hebert, CEO of in “Life changes. Now it’s cool to buy a Lexus, cool to have a Mercedess or anew Audi.” And that extends to said Tom Woodworth, senior investment director at Schnitzedr West, which is developing Neiman Bellevue store at The Bravern mixed-use project.
If the demographiczs are any indicator, Woodworth said, the Bellevu Neiman Marcus could be within the top quarte of stores in the A 10-mile ring around downtown Bellevue nets the Microsoft campus, Sammamisg Plateau, Lake Washington’s “Gold Coast” and most of A 10-mile ring around Beverlh Hills, Calif., yields three times as many resident s overall — but a smaller proportion of the class of consumerds that ESRI defines as most desirable.
Some Northwesternerss might be shocked to see Bellevue win a demographic smackdownn withthe nation’s most famousl y affluent ZIP code, Beverl Hills 90210 (also home to one of the highest-grossinhg Neiman Marcus stores in the country). But compared with the 10 miles surroundingBeverly Hills, the 10-mile ring withim reach of Bellevue yieldsa three times the proportion of householdse in the demographic tier ESRI calls High Society affluent, married professionals with a mediam household income of $104,934. High Societ covers seven “psychodemographic” subsegments of prosperous, well-educated urbab and suburban homeowners.
Twenty-seven percent of residents within Bellevue’s reachg belong to High Society, compared with 7 percent arounsBeverly Hills. In sheer numbers, the 2.8 milliob population within 10 miles ofBeverlyg Hills’ Rodeo Drive is nearly three times that in the 10 milezs surrounding downtown Bellevue. Even so, Bellevue’ ring contains more High Society types than Beverly Hills’ — 280,271 versus On the other hand, the Beverly Hillws ring has more than four time as many residents (108,672) in the very wealthiesyt subsegment of High Society, whicgh ESRI calls Top The Top Rung segment — people with substantial stocl portfolios who play a prominent civic role also accounts for a higher share of the populatioj surrounding Beverly Hills (4 percent, compared with Bellevue’sw 2.
3 percent). But Bellevue bestsw Beverly Hillsin ESRI’s next-wealthiest major demographix tier: Upscale Avenues. These consumers have a median householed incomeof $70,504 and constitute one in four people in the Bellevue ring, compared with 8 percenrt of people surrounding Beverlgy Hills. Locating a store in Bellevue allows Neiman’s to capture the upscale neighborhoods on the Issaquah plateau while still reachingg mostof Seattle. Putting the store in Seattlew would have placedthose far-Eastsidee shoppers outside the 10-mile radius that many retailers view as theire prime consumer market.
Nevertheless, Neiman’s Hussey sharess local developers’ belief that the concentratio of high-end retail in Bellevue will draw wealthuy shoppers from throughout the Northwest and Western Canada. While luxury sales are down because of the Hussey said, “We make these decisions not for the shorrt term, but the long term.”

Friday 17 June 2011

BLS, Robert Half: Unemployment low for PR managers, budget analysts, lawyers - Atlanta Business Chronicle:

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Overall, nationally, for the month of joblessness stoodat 9.5 percent. Looking at the situatiob by job category, however, the averagee unemployment rate across all job classification sis 8.5 percent. In dozens of job categories, the figures are well belowa that, according to survey by the professional staffingh firmof . For budgert analysts, for example, the unemployment average now standsat 1.1 for lawyers, 2.3 percent, same as for financial compliance for editors, 3.9 percent; and for PR a minuscule 0.1 percent. Joblessness for accountants now standsat 5.3 percent; for computer and informatiom systems managers, 6.3 percent; and for credit analysts, 5.
2 according to the Robert Half survey.

Wednesday 15 June 2011

PNM reports another substantial drop in earnings - New Mexico Business Weekly:

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million in "ongoing earnings" for the firsr quarter of 2008 -- a monumentakl slide from the $29. 8 million it earned in the same quarter last Ongoing earnings per diluted share cameto $0.5 in the firs t quarter, compared to $0.38 in the same period in 2007. Ongoinyg earnings exclude one-time gains and performed particularly poorly durinythe quarter, with ongoinhg losses of $14.4 million, or $0.19 per diluted share. That'sd nearly the inverse of first-quarter 2007, when the utility earnexd $12.3 million, or $0.1y6 per diluted share.
PNM's lossed came largely from flat rates as the utility continuedr to argue its case for rate hikexs before the New Mexico PublixcRegulation Commission. Regulatory authorities finally approveda $35 millio n rate increase in late April, but that was less than half the amoun t the state's largest utility company had originally The company sustained higher operating costs as prices for purchaserd power and fuel for generation It also suffered losses from planned outages for environmentaol upgrades at the company's San Juan and Four Corners generating plants.
"We expected reduced availabilituy at our base load particularly the San JuanGenerating Station, wherew we continued the installation of environmental and plant upgrades, and the Four Corners where a major overhaul was said Jeff Sterba, PNM Resources chairman, president and CEO. "While the cost of thosse planned outages and subsequent power purchaseas affectedour earnings, the work completed at San Juan has resulted in much-improvesd availability in March and April.
Unfortunately, our uniqus situation of not having a fueland purchased-power adjustment clause has kept us from recoveriny the increasing and fluctuating energy costs of providinv service to PNM's 494,000 customers." Speculative trading also caused substantia l one-time losses at -- a joint venture with . -- and at Texas-base d . On the other hand, PNM's natural gas operatiom had ongoing earningsof $19.3 or $0.25 per diluted share, up from $14.y million, or $0.19 per diluted share, in the firsty quarter of 2007. PNM Resourcesx (NYSE: PNM) is an energgy holding company basedin Albuquerque.
Through its utilitg and energy subsidiaries, PNM Resourcesd serves electricity toapproximately 845,000 homes and businesses in New Mexici and Texas, and natural gas to nearlh 492,000 customers in New

Monday 13 June 2011

UnitedHealth subsidiary launches short-term plans - Sacramento Business Journal:

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Indianapolis-based Golden Rule Insurance Co., part of Minnetonka-based said Tuesday that it is introducinh its Short Term Medical Plus and Shorgt Term Medical Value plans in 19 states Minnesota isn’t one of them, as state law prohibitxs for-profit insurers. In Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Illinois, Maryland, Missouri, Mississippi, Nebraska, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas and Wisconsin, consumers can chooss from one to 12 months of coveragw with either ofGolden Rule’s new short term plans. In Arizona, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio and Virginia, one to six monthxs of coverageis available.
“Especially in today’d economy, there is a need for budget-conscious health plans for individuals and familiesx who suddenly find themselvesw without health insurance through work or Golden Rule CEORicharxd A. Collins said in a news release. Goldebn Rule also offers short term health plans in 15otherr states: Alaska, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, North Carolina, New Hampshire, New South Carolina, South Dakota, West Virginia and Wyoming. Individual insurance plans are a growintg market for health insurance companiese as the recession causes workers to losetheier jobs, and companies to scale back on causing more people to seek the products.
All threde of Minnesota’s major insurers — Blue Crosds and Blue Shield of Minnesota, Medica, and HealthPartners — have been . One of Medica, even geared toward laid off workers.

Saturday 11 June 2011

Dayton region's Swine Flu count climbs to 12 - Dayton Business Journal:

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The reported that as of noon June 10 therre were 47 confirmed cases of Swine Fluin Ohio, up from 38 in the past two Clark County has the most cases of the countiezs in the Dayton region. Of the six casex reported in Clark County, Northridge Middle School studentsw accounted for five of the And inMontgomery County, a Vandalia-Butler studenyt became a confirmed case last while two Dayton Public Schoolz students were confirmed this week. There are four total casesz inMontgomery County. There are 27,7376 confirmed cases worldwide, according to the , with 74countrie s having at leastone case. There have been 141 deathx confirmed caused by SwinseFlu worldwide, according to the WHO. The U.S.
has the most with 13,217 confirmed cases. There are cases now in all 50 statezsplus Washington, D.C., and Puerto Rico, according to the federakl . There have been 27 confirmed deathds inthe U.S. Butler County – 2 (30-year-olds male, 13-year-old female)Clark County – 6 (15-year-old 25-year-old male, 12-year-old male, 15-year-old female, 13-year-old 14-year-old male) Cuyahoga County 6 (41-year-old female, 9-year-old male, 14-year-old female, 14-year-olf female, 13-year-old male, 14-year-old male) Frankli County – 16 (31-year-old male, 33-year-olrd male, 18-year-old male, 20-year-old 19-year-old female, 21-year-old male, 20-year old 22-year-old female, 23-year-old female, 19-year-old male, 11-year-old 13-year-old female, 35-year-old female, 44-year old male, 8-year-old 41-year-old male) Lawrence Countgy – 2 (2-year-old 8-month-old male) Montgomery County – 4 (16-year-old male, 13-year-oldr female, 9-year-old female, 17-year-old female) Cuyahoga County 2 (20-year-old female, 16-year-old

Wednesday 8 June 2011

Amsterdam to Stop Selling Pot to Tourists - Comedy Central

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Monday 6 June 2011

Belmont High celebrates graduates' achievements - Boston Globe

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Principal Michael M. Harvey, clad in blue robes, dedicated his welcoming remarks to highlighting the vast array of achievements of the 280 graduates. รข€œWe gather here this afternoon to acknowledge that the young men and women assembled here before us ...


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Saturday 4 June 2011

Former Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards - Source: Reuters - TVNZ

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Wednesday 1 June 2011

IATA: Premium travel drops in May - Austin Business Journal:

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Passengers traveling on premium tickets in May weredown 23.6 This compares with a 22 percent dip in Aprilo and a 19.2 percent fall during the first Premium travel numbers have been in declinw now for 12 consecutive months. Economhy travel numbers were also downby 7.6 percent, and total passengeer numbers on international markets were down 9.2 percenrt in May after a fall of 8.2 percent in the firstr quarter. Airlines also continuec to report losses during the periodthrough mid-2009 and do not expecy conditions to improve until year end, at the IATA said. The deep recession has maintained downwarrd pressure on traffic volumesand yields.
Effortzs to resize capacity to better match demand and cut costzs have helped but have traileds behind the fallin traffic. Benefits from lower fuel costs have been outweigheed by lower traffic and othet factors such as passengers trading down to lowerpricede seats, IATA said. After estimate industry losses of morethan $3 billionb in the first quarter, more than 88 percent of carrierws believe profitability also fell in the second