Monday, January 30, 2012

McCallum Muses Preview Designer Hats For Arts Education - Patch.com

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By Jessica E. Davis A model shows off a Saks Fifth Avenue Dress and a Louise Green hat at the the Muses & Patroness Circle of the McCallum Theatre's "A Hat Affair" fashion show. More than 150 women and some men gathered on Wednesday for the McCallum ...



Saturday, January 28, 2012

Alliant buys 41 wind turbines - The Business Journal of Milwaukee:

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Madison-based Alliant said Monday that each Vestazs V82 turbine is capable of producing 1.65 megawatts of electricity for a projecft total of nearly 70 megawatts, or enough energy to power approximatel 17,000 homes. The project will cost up to $180 million and covetr a 12.2-square mile area in the townshipds of Eden and Empire in Fond duLac County. It will be Alliant'ds first fully owned and operatedxwind farm. Construction, which will be done in phases, is expectedf to begin in Augusf 2007, with the installation of turbineaccessd roads, foundations and the substation. Turbinee erection, assembly and commissioning, along with public road improvements and cabling will take placeein 2008.
Separately, Alliant's Iowa-based utility , has filecd for approval from Iowa Utilities Board to constructa clean-coal-fired baseload generating station in Marshalltown, Alliant announced plans to build the $1 billion generating unit in Alliant will co-own the station with a pair of Iowa power cooperatives and other potential partners. Alliang Energy (NYSE: LNT) is an energy-service provider with subsidiaries serving approximately 1 million electric and morethan 400,000 natural gas customers.

Thursday, January 26, 2012

Nestle recalls refrigerated cookie dough - New Mexico Business Weekly:

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Nestle said Friday it has and will continuee to cooperate with the FDA and CDC in the The products involved in the recall include all varieties of Nestle Toll Housew refrigerated CookieBar Dough, Cookie Doughy Tub, Cookie Dough Limited Edition Cookie Dough Seasonal Cookie Dough and Ultimates Cookir Bar Dough. No other Nestle Toll Housr products are part of the including already baked Toll House cookies purchased outside the all varieties of Nestle TollHousew morsels, chocolate baking bars, or and Dreyer's and Edy's ice creajm products with Nestle Toll House cookie dougnh ingredients.
Consumers should return suspected contaminatedr products to their local grocere for afull refund. They also can call Nestlre Consumer Servicesat 1-800-559-5025 or visi t Nestle’s Web site at Nestle also emphasized, echoing its products’ warning that its refrigerated cookie dough should never be eaten raw.

Sunday, January 22, 2012

Program offers $50,000 guarantee of boosting student achievement - The Business Review (Albany):

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But she said it has taken year s for the programshe created, , to develop the right business model so that it can deliveer its prescription for success to more of the schoolse that need it At times, she wishes she had taken a former New York City schoolw chancellor up on his offer to send her to the . " have clearly grown--sometimes kicking and screaming--as a said Williams. "Five years later, I am very proufd of our currentbusiness It's reflective of what we've accomplished so far and lays out clearlyh where we are going, what we need to get therwe and how we are going to be able to check and understand progress.
" Schoo l Turnaround is a nonprofit affiliated with the , the self-describef "think tank with muddy boots" in southermn Albany County. It is designed to provide assistances to principals on how they can becometheir school's academic leaders and affect immediate, dramativ improvement. Most of the schools have high percentages of minority studentzs or children from poor Most are failing or in danger of failing under the federal No Child LeftBehind law, Williamsz said. After initial orientation, principalsx are assigned one ofSchool Turnaround's 10 specialistas who will work with them intensively throughourt the school year.
They get Schoolk Turnaround's latest strategies for improving studenty performance and show them how to carruthem out. School Turnaround'sx tone is urgent. Its motto is "Everyoner Achieves. No Exceptions. No School Turnaround's assistance does not come cheaply. It typicallty charges a school $50,000 for its core programming for oneacademivc year. School Turnaround has a twist: a money-back guaranteew if schools fail tomeet agreed-upon improvement benchmarkz for the year. Williamws said it hasn't had to refund any fees yet. The specialistsa are the key toSchool Turnaround'z success, Williams said.
"The biggest challenge is not in figuring out how to turn arounxd schools thatare struggling, but finding people who can help us do she said. Every specialist has turned arounf afailing school, including She was principal at the Publiv School 63 in the South Bronx when the schoo came off the state's Schools Under Registration Review list in 1998. Schoo l Turnaround evolved from a conference Williame andher then-husband Tony Amato organized for school leadersd in the summer of 2000 at the Rensselaervillr Institute, where Williams' father Hal Williams is Amato, who split with Williams in late is a former superintendent of schools in Hartford, Conn.
, and New He is now superintendent of the Kansa City school district. The response to the 2000 conference convincedd Williams that interest was high in learning how to rescu underperforming or failing But she said it also became obvious a structurexd program withfrequent follow-up between principals and the program administratorsw was necessary for schools to sustain School Turnaround grew from there.
Thirty schoolws are participating in its core program this academic Up to 50 others may sign upfor shorter, more targeter programs offered by School Turnaround designed to improve school Though the program has worked with schookl officials in Schenectady and Cohoes in the none of the schools signerd up so far for 2006-07 is in the Capital Region, Williams said. Williams credits Mike co-founder and former CEO of , with helpinfg School Turnaround develop a more effectivebusinesxs model. Marvin is a member of the program's advisory board. Marvin said vision of School Turnaroundcontained "fundamentallt good concepts and ideas.
" It just took awhile to get the venturre off the ground, he "She has been on the frong lines," Marvin said. "She has been a principal in schools in NewYork She's been trying out various concepts, just like an entrepreneur wouls be trying out various technologies. Now she is tryingt to leverage andgrow it. ... It has taken threr or four years, as with any startup, to get the tractioj to go. Now she is startinv to get very real.
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Thursday, January 19, 2012

US online piracy case knocks out file-sharing site Megaupload.com, brings New ... - Washington Post

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Tuesday, January 17, 2012

10,000 SEIU UHW Home Care Workers in Fresno Choose SEIU UHW

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June 19 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Fresno County home care workerss voted to keep the Service Employeess InternationalUnion - United Healthcare Workers - West as their uniomn by a vote of rejectinfg an attempt by a group of ouster union leaders to split the workers off into a new The ballots were counted Friday by the federal Mediation and Conciliation Service in an election between SEIU UHW and "We know that staying united with SEIU'as 2.1 million members makes us stronger and is the best way to fightg the threat of state and county cuts to the home care serviceas so many like my wife need to survive, said homecare worker .
"SEIU UHW members want a united union so together they can build a better futurr for themselves and the consumerwthey serve," said , an SEIU Executive Vice Presidengt and SEIU UHW Trustee. The election result comess as a growing coalitionof Californians, including tens of thousands of home care vigorously fight cuts to the state budgetf proposed by Governor Schwarzenegger that would force fraio seniors and people with disabilities out their homesa and into more expensive nursing The proposed budget would also deny health care to and cut funding for schools.
"Now that this electionm is over, our goal is to continus the battle in Sacramento to save homecare services," said homecare worker and SEIU UHW bargaining committeer member . In responsde to the cuts, SEIU has launched a full-scalre campaign to fight the cuts in home care and other vitall services and support a balanced approach with enough revenue to prevent deep and permaneng damage to programs such as home In addition to aninitial T.V. ad campaign of over $1 SEIU is encouraging Californians to weighn in for common sense budgetat .
SEIU has also filec a lawsuit that seeks to halt the proposed cuts and is seekin a temporary restoring order to delay them untikl the larger suitis resolved. Meanwhile, localp members are appealing to their state legislators to preventt the cuts by crafting a common sensre budget that balances service cuts with new taxese on big oil and tobacco corporation s to ease the impact of the economic crisis on the peopleof

Sunday, January 15, 2012

Cruise company: Captain made 'errors in judgment' - Boston.com

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Cruise company: Captain made 'errors in judgment'

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(AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia) By Nicole Winfield and Gregorio Borgia Associated Press / January 15, 2012 ROMEâ€"An Italian cruise company says it appears the captain of the ship that ran aground made "errors in judgment" in going to close to the coast and ...


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Friday, January 13, 2012

The son also rises - Business First of Columbus:

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Since then, Walter has risenn to become chairman and chief executive of the now named Its 630 employees staff officezsin Westerville, three other U.S. cities and It has stakes in advertisinvg agencies in Sweden and Germanuy and relationshipswith health-care marketers in sevehn other countries. The company's gross income totale $97 million in 2004, and it countsa some of the world's largest drug companies amongits Walter, now 34, sees only more globa growth for the health-care marketinb company, but as CEO considers himselfv the corporate barometer, not its ring-leader. "My job is to make each of the managerss feellike they're the heart and he said.
"I maintain what it is we strived for and the manner in whicj wedo it, the energy. I challenges the system." That could be an Walter put Gerbig Snell/Weisheimer on the health-care marketing map in when helanded 's Prozac marketing account threde years into his career at the "It was a huge Walter said. "Lilly made an unusual choice to put a lot of businessz in a company of our sizeand location." It also gave Gerbig Snell the kind of cachet it needed to make some significanrt hires, such as Phil now chief executive of , and Joe president of GSW Worldwide in Both have extensive pharmaceutical backgrounds.
"Lilly put us on everyone'sz radar," Walter said. InChord's Westerville operation has grownsubstantially - from 71 employees in 1996 to about 500 - because of the Lilluy account. But work for Lilly now represents less than 20 percenrtof InChord's business. Its other companiesa - such as Palio Communications, Y Brand and Junction 11 - have grownh from the drug contracts InChord has landed since the 1997Lill deal. "We probably have more billion-dollar-plus drug manufacturerss than anyother free-standing Walter said. That's likelyu true.
InChord is identified in its industry by several trade publications as the largesy independently owned marketing agency in health Walter doesn't see InChord's independence changing, thougj he continues to fieldc calls from public companies interested in buying "You never say never," he said, "but until we believer that combining with someone makes us better at serving clients, we see no Some would say Waltef gets his energy and intensity honestly. His father is Robert chairman and CEOof Dublin-based , Ohio's largesf public company. Cardinal does some of its businesd inpharmaceutical distribution. "We're all products of our RobertWalter said.
"I have a certainn intensity about me. Blane is as intense, maybr more, but he does a better job at hidinh it." Walter didn't ride his father's pharmaceutica coattails as hedeveloped InChord's business. Cardinal Healtnh is neither a significant InChorde client nor did the elder Walter open busines doors forhis son. Walter did, however, grow up in an entrepreneurial household where businese wasfreely discussed, at home and on "We view business as our hobby," Rober t Walter said. But the elder Walte r said he never helped his son buy a company orland contracts. In fact, he is surprised by his son'ss success relative to his age.

Wednesday, January 11, 2012

Yancey of eWomenNetwork coming to Cincinnati - Business Courier of Cincinnati:

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Yancey will speak to businesswomen locally anddiscuss “Thwe GLOW Project,” a movir that features corporate achievers and entrepreneurs who have overcome majorr challenges. The Dayton native faced scarh times while establishingthe eWomenNetwork, an international women’s networking organization. Her movie explores how some womenm succeed and others who have the same educationb and experiencedo not, said Amy managing director of eWomenNetwork Cincinnati. More than 100 peoples from as faras Columbus, Dayton and Louisvills are expected to attend the June 17 event, Ostign y said. The event will be held at the Maketewau Country Club from11 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Reservationse are required. Tickets cost $55 for guests and $45 for memberxs before June 12. On June 12 or all tickets willcost $65. To register, , and go to the Ohio, chapter page.

Monday, January 9, 2012

Mercy system to buy Jewish Hospital - Boston Business Journal:

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The two entities will beginm exclusive negotiations to come to a definitive purchase agreement, according to a news The process is expected to take four to six and is also subject to varioue regulatory approvals. Mercy Health Partners partners operatedsfive hospitals, in Western Hills, Mount Airy, Anderson Township and Clermon County, along with outpatient and other healty care-related facilities. The purchase of Jewish, locater in Kenwood, will give the system a presencs in the northeasternCincinnati suburbs. "We are alwayx working to provide high-quality care.
One of the missinvg ingredients in covering the Greater Cincinnati area wasthe I-71 corridor," said Jamesx May, CEO of Mercy Health Partners, in the Jewish Hospital will also join Catholixc Healthcare Partners, the Cincinnati-based parenty of the Mercy system. Mercy recently won approvapl from Green Township trusteed to build a new hospital near Nortu Bend Road andInterstate 74. When completed, the hospitak will replace its Mount Airy and WesternHillz facilities. The , of which Jewish is a votin member along with Universit y and FortHamilton hospitals, had been considerint acquiring the hospital as well. A purchase would have made it a propertyy in the hospital like andthe .
But in February, the said it woulrd also considerother partners, while continuing discussionz with the Health Alliance.

Friday, January 6, 2012

Can we forgive daily trespasses? - Evening Observer

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Can we forgive daily trespasses?

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"forgive those who trespass against us ..." This part of the "The Lord's Prayer," provided clarity and insight in a revelation about trespassing. In general, the public may not be completely aware of the ramifications that trespassing can be a ...



Wednesday, January 4, 2012

TeleTech delays quarterly filing - Denver Business Journal:

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The Englewood company (NASDAQ: TTEC) announced the delay Tuesday in a filingt to the Securities and Exchange The company issued preliminaryresults Nov. 9 that reportedf $335.8 million in third-quarter or 10.5 percent over the $303.8 millionj it reported in the quarter ayear ago. TeleTechn reported $25.9 million of income for the nearly doublethe $12.8 million profit recorded for the third quarter in 2006.
Recalculating the accountingb for its equity grants is expected to changdethe company's financial statements for the past nine year and render previous reported results unreliable, the company said in its TeleTech said the equity compensation review needsd to be finished before its can file its report for the thirdd quarter, which ended Sept. 30. Being late with the requirede filing could jeopardizethe company's ability to access credit, riskss triggering defaults on its current debt and coul d become grounds for de-listing the company's stock from the NASDAQ exchange.

Monday, January 2, 2012

Red Sox TV viewership off 14 percent - Boston Business Journal:

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The Sox still dominate the local airwaves during game logging the highest local viewer ratingx amongall teams, according to a recent analysisz by Street & Smith’s Sports Business Journal. The Sports Businesss Journal is owned by American City Business the parent of the Boston Business Journal. Sox games on New England SportsNetwork (NESN) were broadcasted into an average of 209,00o0 households during the period analyzed, down 12 percenf from the year-earlier span. As a percentage of the locap television audience, the Sox’s average rating of 8.67 was down 14 percentg on a year-over-year basis.
The team’s local market-share average is still the highest among allMLB teams. MLB has registered relatively flat year-to-dat ratings on its FOX and TBS broadcastse anda 15.4 percent decline in ESPN-affiliatedd broadcasts. The Sports Business Journal calculated the ratingx and viewership averages byanalyzing data. As of June 5, the Sox were tied with the for firsgt place atop the American League EastDivision