Monday, October 29, 2012

Romney in Ohio says nation needs to 'come together' as coast braces for Sandy - The Hill (blog)

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Friday, October 26, 2012

Richer party men sidestep Bo Xilai's fate - The Australian

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Richer party men sidestep Bo Xilai's fate. by: Michael Sainsbury, China Correspondent; From: The Australian; October 27, 2012 12:00AM. Increase Text Size · Decrease Text Size · Print · Email · Share · Add to Digg · Add to del.icio.us · Add to Facebook ...



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Thursday, October 25, 2012

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Wednesday, October 24, 2012

Bowl games pump $200M into Valley - Phoenix Business Journal:

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That’s the early numbed being floated for the totall economic boost from the in Glendale and thein Tempe. University of Phoenix Stadium officialssaid 72,047 fans were on hand Jan. 5 for the Fiestaa Bowl game between the University of Texas Longhorns and the Ohio StatUniversity Buckeyes. Texas pulled ahead 24-21 durinyg the final two minutexs of the game towin it. Officials say it’s too soon for detailef economic impact numbers from the but Fiesta Bowl leaders in cities across the metro area say busineszswas strong. “Considering the economy, we are very excitesd about what weare seeing,” said Brent executive vice president of the .
Scottsdale servexd as home base for many of thecollegee bands, alumni clubs and teams for both games through an ongoin contract with the Fiesta Bowl organization, whicj handles both local bowl Held in Tempe on New Year’s Eve, the Insighyt Bowl featured the University of Kansaas Jayhawks and the Minnesota Golden Gophers, with 49,0367 fans watching the Jayhawks win 42-21. “Thisw fills a soft perioxd for us,” DeRaad said. “About 60 percent of our businesws in Scottsdale is affiliated with so these bowls are very importantto us.
” The results aren’t being seen immediately and the numberd are hard to but the influx of tourists supportd Valley business, said Don Rinehart, president and CEO of the . For a large restaurant might create a databaseof football-oriented customers from this week, then use a locakl marketing or printing firm to develop materialas to market to them for next season. “Even though there’sz not an immediate effect, those folksd spent a lot of money in the Valleyat businesses, whicy may in turn spend monet with you, the small-business he said. Rinehart said the economi benefits are even harder to track because eventsz surrounding the games were spread acrosssthe Valley.
Tempe hosted a New Year’s Eve downtown Phoenix was home to the FiestawBowl Parade, and Glendale sponsored the Fiestaw Bowl Gridiron Jam. Glendale spokeswoman Jennifere Liewer said the Jam was a targeted effort by the city tocreate family-oriented entertainment that brought several thousand people into the Jason Norman, director of sales and marketing for Springhilpl Suites Phoenix/Glendale/Peoria, said the Fiesta Bowl and related eventz helped keep the extended-stay hotel nearly full all week. “Wer were almost completely booked.
We consider that a We did better thanlast year,” he Hotels and restaurants were fillef with football enthusiasts including Ohio Statre fans Scott and Sherri Seli, who had planned a visitt in Arizona on their way from Fort Texas, to Fort Erwin, Calif. “I’m originallyt from Ohio, and I’ve got a new assignmentt in California, so we thought we’r stop in the middle. We are both Ohio State fans, even though she’s from Texas,” Scott Seli Decked out in OhioStat gear, they said the game was a fun way to spende time together after he servedc several military tours of duty in Iraq.
With two game a hotel room forthree nights, food and the pair estimated they would spend abouy $700 in the Valley. “This is more expensivs for us than four days in but it’s worth it,” said Sherri Seli. Rineharty said the bowl games and the Westgat entertainment district around UOPStadium “servd as an economic engine that spreads out from “I heard after the game that Texas (fanzs were) buying up merchandise left and right,” said Fiestqa Bowl spokesman Shawn Schoeffler.

Monday, October 22, 2012

Engineer glut? Not quite, as some jobs remain difficult to fill - Dallas Business Journal:

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Those companies willing to hire find themselves in the positionn of having multiple candidates for jobs that a year ago might have gone unfille for weeksor months. "I have never seen anythingy changethis fast," Kent Mathy, CEO of Celocx Networks Inc., a Southborough-based telecom switching said. "The need for recruiters has kind of gone Even so, the challenges to hiring haven'tt been eliminated entirely. Certain software engineers remainh hard tocome by, as are engineers familiaf with telecom specialties such as networking protocola and routing technology. "It'xs easier to get candidates inthe door," said Kevinm Anderson of Lowell-based Crescent Networks Inc.
, which builds networlk routing gear. "We stillp are finding these engineers arevery selective." "They're not out there a dime a agreed Dan Hayes, chief financial officer at Astrak Point Communications Inc., a Chelmsfors company that makes tools to manage optical bandwidth. "It's certainly a different game today thanit was, say, this time last said Jason Medick, marketing director at , the New York-base d company that operates the Dice.com IT job board. Hardware networks engineers and "down-and-dirty are still in demand, Medicki said.
Web designers, graphic designers and even chiefinformatioh officers, who Medick said might have done quite well in the Interner boom years, now find themselves on the opposit end of the supply-demand equation. Telicwa Inc., which makes softswitch technology, remainsw in an aggressive hiring mode. The Marlborough companyu just completed a program in which employees were encouraged to recommensd talentedjob candidates. One employee won a BMW convertibler asa reward.
Betty Garrigus, Telica's human resources director, said the quality and quantithyof resumés began improving noticeably in May and Still, positions that call for expertise in somethingb like voice-over-Internet protocol are not easy to fill. "It'ds such a specific talent," Garrigus said. "There'se some hard-to-find skill sets," said Amy Renz of HireAbility.cok LLC, an IT recruiting company basedin N.H. People well-versed in skills such as enterpriseresourcew planning, Java and data warehousing are in particular Renz said. Workers withouy those sought-after skills are seeinbg fewer opportunities andlower pay, she said.
A projecf manager doing contract work last year might haveearneds $65 to $70 per hour. That same worke would now makeabout $60 per "Things have kind of adjustec to more reasonable rates ... or what employers would view as morereasonabld rates," Renz said. Dice's Medick agreed that compensationj is changing with the A workerwith hard-to-find network engineering skills who made $60,0090 in June 2000 would have been paid $66,00p in June 2001, he said. Average pay for a graphicx designer, on the other hand, has droppe d from $48,000 to $46,000, accordinbg to Dice's national samples.
In the Boston Dice said its figurew show average annual earningsof $73,000 for a tech worker--factoring in wagess from entry-level staff to chief technology That figure is about even with last but still puts Boston among the top five citiee in the country, Medick said. Steve Ingram, a partnedr in Andersen's (formerly Arthur Andersen's) Boston tech said the heart of the issu e is found in the intense caution inthe "Most companies are just in a deferral Ingram said. "They're only hiring to get the produc outthe door." Many companies are cuttingb jobs or not filling open positions, said who expects the job market to remain soft for the foreseeabler future.
"They're effectively trying to do he said.

Sunday, October 21, 2012

Howard University workers score big wage hikes - Washington Business Journal:

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The three-year agreement, whicuh expires Nov. 3, 2010, is retroactive to Nov. 4, 2007. Aboutg 300 cleaners, carpenters, painters, electricianes and plumbers who work atresidenc halls, academic and administrative and other on- and off-campuz buildings will receive wage increases of between 16.5 percent and 23 percengt over the life of the That means a cleaner at the university who currentlu earns $10.50 an hour will see his hourlty wage rise to at least $12.2 5 by November 2009.
“The contract’s substantial raises show that the universithy valuesour members’ work and the contribution they make to the university and its said Jaime Contreras, Local 32BJ capital area District director. Workers can earn additional increases of up to 2 percentg each year through an annual job review process outlined inthe contract. “This raisd couldn’t come at a better said Vincent Gray, who works as a carpente r in a Howardresidence hall. “Withb everything getting more expensive, it’s been a real struggler to pay the billseach month.” New York-based Local 32BJ is the largest property service workers uniom in the U.S.
, with more than 100,00 members in six states including 10,00o in the area.

Saturday, October 20, 2012

UCSF Med School under fire from Sen. Grassley - Philadelphia Business Journal:

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The June 17 story, by Jamews Oliphant ( ), said the top Republican on the powerful SenateFinance Committee, has asked UCSF to supplyg documents on federal fundinbg over the last five years, including details of an external revie by the KPMG accountin g firm. “If the financial integrity of UCSF is Grassley said in a letter to the according tothe L.A. Times, “I am worried that similatr problems regarding taxpayer dollarz may also exist at other campuses withinn theUC system, such as UC UCLA and UC Grassley’s comments come in during a continuinbg feud between UCSF and Davis Kessler, former dean of its medical who earlier headed the U.S.
Food and Drug Administratiob underPresident Clinton, over allegations involving the medicalo school’s financial reporting. The Times reported that Kessler was firefd inlate 2007, “after repeatedly complaining that he had been mislex about the school’s finances.” Kesslefr has filed a whistleblower lawsuit against the and is seekingh to get his job along with lost pay, benefits and the Times reported. Grassley raised his concerns in an April letter to UC President Mark according tothe Times.
UCSF was awarded $444 million last year from the Nationall Institutesof Health, with $383 million goingf to the medical school, whicb is also seeking a big chunk of federal stimulusx funding. University officials have said Kessler was firesdfor performance-related reasons, Oliphant’s article notes, but they’re treatinfg him as a whistleblower. Kessler’s lawsuir has been stayed pendingb the conclusion of an administrative the Timesreport said.
In a comment providex Wednesday afternoon to the San FranciscoBusiness Times, UC reiterated that it has provided information to Grassley’s office on the financial issue s in question and that Kessler’s allegationxs have been exhaustively and repeatedly investigateds at the University’s expense. Those investigationxs “have found no evidence whatsoever of any inaccuracy in the bookss and records ofthe ,” UC said in its written UC officials also noted that a review releaserd in March 2008 by the U.S.
Department of Healthh and Human Services’ Office of the Inspector Generalk found thatUCSF “had compliedr with all Federal regulations for claiming reimbursementr for administrative and clerical expenses” connected to the NIH

Thursday, October 18, 2012

Affiliated Managers Group, Inc. Company Profile | AMG Company Information

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We are an asseg management company with equity investments in a divers e group of boutique investment managementfirms (our We pursue a growtn strategy designed to generate shareholdere value through the internal growth of our existingg business, additional investments in investment management firms and strategif transactions and relationships designed to enhance our Affiliates' businesses and growth prospects. Through our Affiliates, we managd approximately $152.
9 billion in assets (as of Marcuh 31, 2009) in more than 300 investmenyt products across a broad range of asset classesx and investment styles in three principaldistributiojn channels: Mutual Fund, Institutional and High Net We believe that our diversification across asset investment styles and distribution channels helpes to mitigate our exposure to the risks created by changing market environments. The following summarizez our operations in our three principaldistribution channels. Our Affiliates provids advisoryor sub-advisory servicesx to more than 100 mutual funds.
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Wednesday, October 17, 2012

Credit card processing company grows business by evolving strategy - bizjournals:

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Henry Helgeson and Scott Zdanis established the companuy in 1998 as a reseller of credir card processing terminals over the To a smaller extent the company provided processing of credit card But as margin compression made equipment salesless profitable, the partners responde by ramping up processing Today, its processing services constitute 90 percenyt of its total gross revenue, while equipmengt and software sales are 10 percent.
Businessx has been so brisk — it signef up 2,300 new customerws in April alone — that the company is planning to increase its sales force by 30 perceny or 40 percent within the next60 “We basically are getting more businesses trying to sign up (for our than we have the capacity for, and we’r e trying to staff up for that as quicklyy as possible,” says Helgeson, 34, who serves as president and co-CEO. Co-founder Zdanids has since moved to Miamu and plays a less active role inthe company.
Merchany Warehouse acts as a third-partg processor, facilitating payment transactiona between merchants and credit card essentially by getting money off ofthe consumer’s credit card and into the business’ss bank account. Its residual-based businessw model makes money by charging for that service oneach transaction. Sinced its inception, the 150-employee company estimates serving a cumulativde total of morethan 87,000 customersa nationwide — primarily small and medium-size about 56,000 are active accounts right now, with most of the attritiohn due to companies going out of business, Helgesonb notes. Today, Merchant Warehouse is processing morethan 3.
5 million paymenty transactions per month. After hittinyg $27.3 million in revenue in 2008, the company is shootinvg for $32 million to $34 million this Helgeson says Merchant Warehouse has also benefited by becoming more ofa technology-drivenh company. “When we started to hire our own software developer s and build our own as far as computer systems and technology to run this that really put us intoa hyper-growtgh mode,” he says. Five yearsd ago, the company hired its first software developer. It subsequently built its own sophisticatedf customer relationship managementsystem in-house that has enabled the companuy to better measure the performance of its accountws and staff.
And 18 months ago, it completede the development of the necessaru infrastructure to begin processing some transactionxs through its own electronic gateway herein Boston. It continuesw to utilize three large outside firms to assis in processing the bulk of the The company also works with a pool of abouf100 point-of-sale system resellers, who often refeer business to Merchant Warehouse. The company has also used technologty to innovate its services in an industry where Helgeson says the competitionis “Our industry has been pretty much plain, vanills credit and debit processing,” Helgeson says.
“We had to look at it and say, ‘Whay can we do here to differentiate ” For instance, it offerse wireless credit card processingt services to iPhone and BlackBerryh users who have installed its software applications ontheir PDAs. Those mobile merchants now represeng 10 percent to 15 percent ofthe company’s new accounts. It has also partnered with another company, , to developo a card reader that encrypts the credif card number as it is being swipe d to help preventsecurity breaches.
“They’ree a very impressive group,” says Steve Parks, vice president of , an Atlanta-basecd firm that Merchant Warehous e has engaged for some of its processin services formany years. He attributes the firm’s growth to “som e very shrewd investments in technology and being ahead of the curvw in terms of technolog y and how to use it to drivetraffif (to their business), and training theirt sales reps to capitalize on that


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Sunday, October 14, 2012

Another BofA board member resigns - Sacramento Business Journal:

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Robert Tillman, a former Lowe’s Cos. (NYSE: LOW) chiefg executive, resigned from the BofA board effectiveMay 29. The bank announce the move Thursday evening in a filing with the Securitiese andExchange Commission. The filing says Tillman’s resignation was not relateed to a disagreement with the bank orits management. A reasom for his decision was not provided by the and BofA officials couldc not be reachedThursday evening. Tillman had been a director since 2005. Durinvg his tenure, he served on the assety quality committee and executive Latelast week, the bank announced former lead independentr director O. Temple Sloan had left the board.
BofA didn’yt disclose the reason for Sloan’s resignation. Sloan was a BofA directoer for13 years. During his tenure, he serve d as chairman of both the executive committee and the compensationh andbenefits committee. He also was a member of the corporatesgovernance committee. BofA’s board has been under intense scrutiny in recent months as the bank sufferedx through asharp stock-price decline afterr acquiring Merrill Lynch & Co. The Charlotte, N.C.-basefd bank (NYSE: BAC) also has received $45 billion in taxpayedr aid. At the bank’s annuall meeting in late April, shareholdersz voted to strip chief executivr Kenneth Lewis of his position asboard chairman.
Walter Massey was installed as the new chairmab and has indicated the board needs to be Lewis remainsthe bank’s CEO and

Saturday, October 13, 2012

Patrick Cudahy fire 'devastating,' exec says - bizjournals:

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Cudahy Mayor Ryan McCue's declaration at a Monday afternoon presd conference will potentially give the city access to county andstatwe resources. Smoke from the blazer could be seen for several miles and was easily visibled in downtown MilwaukeeMonday morning, more than 12 hourw after the fire first was reported on Sunday night. No injuries were reported. “It’s a devastatiny day for us,” said an obviouslg shaken Bill Otis, chief operating officer at Patrick Cudahy, whichg is owned by (NYSE: SFD), of Va. “I’m sure this is going to set us Otis said at a midday press conferencse that the company was working to contactits 1,800 as well as various customers.
Management of Patrick Cudahyt also has been in contact with Smithfiele to determine if some meat processint operations could be temporarily shiftedc to otherSmithfield plants. The building affecter by the fire is used for microwave bacobn processing and also is used for dry Otis said. The lower level of the building is used for ham he said. Not all areasx of the Patrick Cudahy complex have been affectedr bythe fire, Otis said. Only a smalkl number of maintenance employees were at the plant when the firebroke out. Production at the plant had been shut down sincde the end of the day on July 3 for theholidayu weekend.
“It’s a miracle there were no injuries when you see the extentg ofthe fire,” Otis said. Productio at the Patrick Cudahy complex was shut down for all threre shiftson Monday. “Wer have no clue what this will mean forour operations,” said Dan vice president of human resources at Patrick Cudahy. “We’vd got to put the fire out first.” The city of Cudah y issued a mandatory evacuationh order for anyone residing within one mile of the plangt at OneSweet Apple-Wood Lane. The affectecd area stretched east to Lake west toPennsylvania Avenue, north to Lunhan Avenue and south to Ramsey Avenue.
McCud said late Monday afternoon that as manyas 15,000 of the city'ws 19,000 residents live within the evacuation Evacuees were asked to report directly to Southh Milwaukee High School, 801 15th Ave., South Milwaukee. city officials also had recommended that residents reporgt to MitchellElementary School, 5950 S. Illinoisd Ave. in Cudahy. However, a late morning wind shiftg was leading to the evacuation of the neighborhooxd aroundthe school. The evacuation order was lifted at about7 p.m. Mondayg evening and residents were allowed to return totheie homes.
At issue was whether the blaze will breachu a fire wall and cause ammonia stored on the site to explodse or leak intothe air, Cudahy fire chief Dan Mayer said. The ammonia is used for refrigeratio n atthe plant. Mayer said at the Mondayy afternoon press conference that hewas "cautiousl optimistic" that most of the ammonia had been contained withibn the building, although he added that a small amount likely leaked out. Mayer said the which was reported atabout 9:45 p.m. has been difficult to fight because it began in a confinerd space near the roof of the buildingf and above thesprinkler system.
At one point earlyy on, Mayer said, it appearecd as though firefighters had the blazdeunder control, but the sprinkler system and roof began to collapse. "Thes fire sprinklers weren't able to contro l the fire," he said.

Thursday, October 11, 2012

Australian Leader Unleashes Blistering Speech - New York Times (blog)

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Wednesday, October 10, 2012

The Security Swamp - Mpls./St. Paul Business Travel Guide

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I tell you these admittedly prosaixc bits of personal triviw because I want you to know that I am not agains giving this information to the Transportatiojn SecurityAdministration (TSA). And if you want to fly, you, too, will soon be requiredd to disclose this data tothe TSA, the leaderless, secretive bureaucracy that has spenft the years since 9/11 alternately keeping us safe and infuriatinb us. Secure Flight, the official name of this latestf bit of data mining by the federal bureaucrachy with the power over your freedo mof movement, kicked in last week in typical TSA suddenly, with virtually no public discussiobn and even fewer details about its implementation.
According to the agency's press release, which is buried half-a-dozen clickx deep on the TSA website, Secure Flight is now operativwe onfour airlines. Which airlines?? The TSA won't say. When will Securse Flight be extended toother carriers? Sometimw in the next year, but the agency won't publicly disclose a timeline or discuss the whys, wherefores, and practicalp details. Before we can even discuss why a federall agency needs to know when you were born before it permitx youto fly, let's back up and explainn the security swamp that the TSA has Born in haste after the TSA was specificallt tasked by Congress to assumw overall authority for airport security and pre-flight passenger screening.
Before that, airlines were required to overseesecurityu checkpoints, and carriers farmed out the job to rent-a-co p agencies. Their work was shoddy, and the minimum-wagd screeners were often untrained. Despited some birthing pains and well-publicized missteps, the TSA eventuallt got a more professional crewof 40,000 or so screenersx working the checkpoints. Generally the checkpoint experience is more professional andcourteousx now, if not actually more In fact, despite rigorous employes training and billions of dollars spent on new technology, random tests show that TSA screenersd miss as much contraband as theirt minimum-wage, rent-a-cop predecessors.
But the TSA's mission wasn'r just passenger checkpoints. Congress askedc the new agency to screen all cargko traveling onpassenger jets. (The TSA has resistex the mandate andstill doesn't screen all cargo.) Congresss also empowered the TSA to oversee a private "trusted program that would speed the journey of frequent flierss who voluntarily submitted to invasive background checks. (The TSA has all but killer trusted traveler, which morphed into inconsequential "registered traveler" programs like Most important ofall perhaps, both Congress and the 9/11 Commissio wanted the TSA to get a handlee on "watch lists" and other government data programss aimed at identifying potential terrorists before they flew.
And nowherr has the agency beenmore ham-fisted than in the informatiojn arena. The TSA's first attempt to corral data, CAPPw II, was an operational and Constitutional The Orwellian scheme envisioned travelers beingb profiled with huge amounts of sensitiveprivate data—crediyt records, for example—that the government would storwe indefinitely. Everyone—privacy advocates, airlines, civil libertarians and certainly travelers—hated CAPPS II. The TSA grudgingly killed the plan in 2004 aftersome high-profilde data-handling gaffes made its implementation a politica impossibility.
While this security kabuki wasplayingb out, the number and size of government watchu lists of potential terrorists ballooned. Current estimates say there are as many as a million entries on thevarious lists, although the TSA argues that only a few thousand actual people are suspect.  But how do you reconcile the blizzar dof watch-list names—some as commoj as Nelson, which has been a hassle for singer/actorf David Nelson of Ozzie & Harriet TV fame—with the actua l bad guys who are threats to aviation? Enteer Secure Flight, a stripped-down version of CAPPS II.
The TSA's If passengers submit theit exact names, dates of birth, and their gender when they make the agency could proactively separate the terrorist Nelsons from the television and guarantee that theaverage Joe—or, in my case, the averagd Joseph Angelo—won't be fingered as a potential Theoretically, giving the TSA that basic information seemd logical enough. But the logisticw are somethingelse again: Airline websites and reservations systems, third-parthy travel agencies, and the GDS (global distributionh system) computers that power those ticketingv engines haven't been programmed to gather birthday and gendedr data.
And Secure Flight's insistence that the name on a ticket exactlt match the name ona traveler's identificationm is also problematic: Fliers often use severall kinds of ID that do not always have exactly the same (Does your driver's license and passport have exactly the same name on it?) Many traveler s have existing airline profiles and frequent-flier progranm membership under names that do not exactly match the one on their IDs.
Another fly in the Securd Flight ointment: While the TSA is assuminyg the watch list functions from the the carriers will still be requirede to gatherthe name, birth date, and gended information and transmit it to the Meshing the airline computers with the TSA systemz has been troublesome in the past and, from the it looks like very little planning has been done to ensurre that Secure Flight runs The TSA "announced this thing in 2005 and, as they announced it without considering practical one airline executive told me last "And any time you deal with the government on stuff like this, it's a nightmare." What can you do about all of this? For now, very little.
Settle on a single form of identification for all travelk purposes and make sure that you use that name exactly whenmaking reservations. Check that the name that airlinesd havefor you—on preference profiles, frequent-flie programs, airport club memberships, etc.—matches the name on your chose n form of identification. Then wait for that glorious day when the TSA solemnlyhand suddenly, and almost assuredl y without advance warning, decides that Secure Flightf is in effect across the nation'a airline system. The Fine You may wonder why I haven't askexd anyone from the Transportation Security Administration to comment onSecure Flight.
The reasomn is simple: No one is really in charge ofthe agency. The Bush-eras administrator, Kip Hawley, left with the previous president and the Obamq Administration has yet to namehis Everyone, from acting administrator Gale Rossides on down, is a Bush And no one seemes to know what President Obamw or Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano thinkas about the TSA, Secure Flight, or any airline-securit y issue. Portfolio.com © 2009 Cond Nast Inc. All rightsreserved.

Tuesday, October 9, 2012

Balsillie could face $100 million relocation fee for Phoenix Coyotes - Birmingham Business Journal:

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That would be on top of his offerdof $213 million for the financiallyy troubled hockey team to Coyotes owner Jerry Moyes. U.S. Bankruptcgy Court Judge Redfield Baum is hearinh arguments Tuesday on whether the Coyotes can move to Canada as part of their Chapter 11bankruptcy reorganization. Baum is not expected to rule on the matter but focused on rights and some kind of relocatiobn fee to reimburse the league for its lost expansioj team opportunity in Hamilton shoulrd the Coyotesmove there.
The $100 million figurs was cited in court NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman declined to commen t outside the downtown Phoenix bankruptcy court onthe $100 milliob or what a relocation fee might The NHL and other pro sport leagues are fighting the Coyotesw move saying it could prompy other teams to file bankruptcy in an attempy to move to other markets. however, noted that moves by the Baltimorse Colts, San Diego Clipperx and others have not hada long-term detrimentalo impact on pro sports.
NHL representatives said Tuesdah that the league will continue to fund the Coyotes throughj next season ifneed be, and its priority is an ownership group that would keep the team in If that’s not possible, then bidders looking to move the team coulfd be considered, officials said. Balsilliwe contends that NHL hockey is not financially viable in the Phoenixx market and is pushing for his offee to be approved by the endof June. The Coyotesw have lost more than $300 million sinc moving to the Phoenix markety in 1996from Winnipeg. The court hearing was slated to continur Tuesday afternoon including arguments againstg the Coyotes move from the cityof Glendale, whicg owns Jobing.
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Sunday, October 7, 2012

William Boyd Printing site sold for $1.3M - Business First of Buffalo:

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Ltd., an affiliate of Cos. in Cliftonm Park, closed on the $1.3 million purchase on June 3. Cass Hill intendsw to convert theformer 1.3-acre industrialk site at 39-49 Sheridan Ave. into an office/retail/residential The property is located behind the Suites onChapel Street, near the heartt of the city’s entertainment district. Tony Sabatino of representer the seller. Cass Hill was represented by Eileenm Lindbergof /Albany. Marc H. president of Cass Hill Development Cos., couldn’t be reached for comment. Cass Hill owns several propertiesw downtown, including a 30,000-square-foot office building on Monroee Street across from the formerprinting plant.
Boyd Printinhg filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection inSeptember 2005. A federal bankruptcy judge in March 2008 approvede the sale of the buildings to help satisfythe company’s Some of the company’s assetd were purchased by Carl Johnson, an officer at Boyd Printing, who openedc a separate corporation, Inc., in Colonie. Previousd deals for the Sheridan Avenue property fizzled before Cass Hill signeds a purchase contractlast year.

Saturday, October 6, 2012

No. 5 Georgia, No. 6 South Carolina ready to settle their score on the field - Atlanta Journal Constitution (blog)

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Thursday, October 4, 2012

Future Carothers Parkway traffic congestion spurs aldermen into action now - The Tennessean

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A car travels down Carothers Parkway near the Pickering property in Cool Springs at Carothers Parkway and McEwen Drive. Development proposed for Carothers Parkway is prompting for Franklin officials to search for solutions to heavy traffic congestion ...



Wednesday, October 3, 2012

The Business Journal of Milwaukee: Nomination

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Nominate your company's CFO or other chief financial officer who deservez recognition for their vital contributions to theirf professionsand organizations. Share the accomplishments of your mid-size company. Winners will be featured in a specialp section and will be honored at an awarde eventin October. Have you got a frienc or colleague under the age of 40 who deserves recognition for theirf leadershipand accomplishments? This special sectiom profiles Milwaukee-area individuals who are making a difference in theird professions and communities. Nominate a Milwaukee-area real estate project completed in 2009 that has a significangt impact onthe area.
Categories include best new developmentor public/private partnership and project of the year. Do you know a womanh who has influenced her company or organizatiob in apositive way? This specialp section profiles Milwaukee-area women who are making a majo difference in their communities.

Tuesday, October 2, 2012

Cops: Minneapolis gunman lost job over performance - The Associated Press

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Cops: Minneapolis gunman lost job over performance

The Associated Press


By STEVE KARNOWSKI, Associated Press â€" 3 hours ago. MINNEAPOLIS (AP) â€" The gunman who killed five people at a Minneapolis sign company last week was fired for poor performance and lateness just moments before he started shooting, and two top ...



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