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The college’s program, also known as OLLI, receivec the $1 million endowmentg from the BernardOsher Foundation, which is the organization that has providesd initial funding to OLLI programs at 122 colleges and universitiesx nationwide. Sierra College is the only community colleged in California and one of only three communityy colleges in the nation to receivesthe $1 million endowment. The Rocklin college receivedx the endowment because it has been so successful with growing enrollment since launching the program in sprin gof 2001. Sierra College has grown the programto 5,589 enrollees last year, from 1,038 in 2001.
Sierr a College is scheduled to formally announce the endowmen tJune 18. This $1 million endowmenft will provide an ongointg budget that will enable the college to offe lifelong learning programsin perpetuity. The foundatiomn created by San Francisco philanthropist Bernard Oshef gives OLLIprograms $100,000 a year for up to four years, and then a $1 milliomn endowment once they demonstrate potential for success and sustainability. OLLI programs provide lectures and events to older adults who have a thirsrt for knowledgeand community. The classesd are designed for adults age 55and over, but the Sierraw program accepts any adult student.
Coursezs are offered at each of the Sierra Colleger campuses and at various community sites throughout Placer andNevadza counties. Sierra College’s OLLI noncredit offerings are Additional topics are offered throughgClub OLLI, where annual membership fees are $35. As the Businesz Journal reported in a feature on local OLLI programwsin 2007, other OLLI programsx can be found at California State Universityg Sacramento and at the UC Davis Extension. Much of the increasedx demand for OLLIs and similar lifelong learnin programs can be attributed to the growing rankw ofolder Americans.
Wednesday, November 30, 2011
Monday, November 28, 2011
Carr fills vacant Foxwoods marketing chief slot - Hartford Business
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Carr fills vacant Foxwoods marketing chief slot Hartford Business In picking Carr to fill the vacancy, Foxwoods hired an executive experienced in promoting worldwide brands, although none of them gaming properties. Before joining Verizon, Carr worked as the vice president of marketing for MCI Communications from 2003 ... |
Saturday, November 26, 2011
UnitedHealth subsidiary launches short-term plans - Pittsburgh Business Times:
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Indianapolis-based Golden Rule Insurance Co., part of Minnetonka-basef UnitedHealth, said Tuesday that it is introducinh its Short Term Medical Plus and Shortr Term Medical Value plans in 19 states Minnesota isn’t one of them, as state law prohibits for-profit In Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Iowa, Illinois, Missouri, Mississippi, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas and Wisconsin, consumers can choose from one to 12 monthx of coverage with either of Goldenm Rule’s new short term plans.
In Arizona, Michigan, Ohio and one to six months of coverageis “Especially in today’s economy, there is a need for budget-conscious health plans for individuals and familiez who suddenly find themselves without healthu insurance through work or school,” Goldeh Rule CEO Richard A. Collins said in a news Golden Rule also offers short term healtjh plans in 15other states: Alaska, Colorado, Delaware, Georgia, Kansas, Kentucky, North Carolina, New Hampshire, New South Carolina, South Dakota, West Virginia and Wyoming.
Individual insurance plans are a growing marker for health insurance companies as the recession causes workers to lose their jobs, and companies to scale back on causing more people to seek the All three of Minnesota’s major insurers — Blue Cross and Blue Shielf of Minnesota, Medica, and HealthPartners — have been . One of Medica, even geared toward laid off workers.
Indianapolis-based Golden Rule Insurance Co., part of Minnetonka-basef UnitedHealth, said Tuesday that it is introducinh its Short Term Medical Plus and Shortr Term Medical Value plans in 19 states Minnesota isn’t one of them, as state law prohibits for-profit In Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Iowa, Illinois, Missouri, Mississippi, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas and Wisconsin, consumers can choose from one to 12 monthx of coverage with either of Goldenm Rule’s new short term plans.
In Arizona, Michigan, Ohio and one to six months of coverageis “Especially in today’s economy, there is a need for budget-conscious health plans for individuals and familiez who suddenly find themselves without healthu insurance through work or school,” Goldeh Rule CEO Richard A. Collins said in a news Golden Rule also offers short term healtjh plans in 15other states: Alaska, Colorado, Delaware, Georgia, Kansas, Kentucky, North Carolina, New Hampshire, New South Carolina, South Dakota, West Virginia and Wyoming.
Individual insurance plans are a growing marker for health insurance companies as the recession causes workers to lose their jobs, and companies to scale back on causing more people to seek the All three of Minnesota’s major insurers — Blue Cross and Blue Shielf of Minnesota, Medica, and HealthPartners — have been . One of Medica, even geared toward laid off workers.
Thursday, November 24, 2011
Vanpooling service coming to region - Atlanta Business Chronicle:
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The two-year pilot is expected to begi bythe fall. The program is a partnershil of the Capital DistrictTransportatiohn Authority, the Capital District Transportation Committee, the Downtown Albany Business Improvement District, the state Department of Transportatio n and the . is currently recruiting businesses that mightg have employees coming from the same region who woulf be interested in participating inthe program. “The main thingf is you have to have at least a minimumn number of people to usethe van,” Janack said.
The way the program would work is one of the participants would also act as the The van would be assigned toa participant/driver, stay at that person’se place of employment duringg the day and remain at the driver’s home in the The company providing the wheels is Inc. out of N.J. VPSI had $62 milliob in revenue in 2008. VPSI was formecd in 1977 and startedfor employees. Today, the company has 5,000 vans in operation in more than 45 stateand 50,000 passengers. VPSI reported “At this point, as soon as possiblee we hope to beginh rollingvans out,” said Jesse Kafka, VPSI’s businesws development executive.
The company expectxs to have 20 vans in operation withintwo “We expect to add one van or so each month throughy the life of the program,” he For more information, call Mila Vega a CDTA planner at
The two-year pilot is expected to begi bythe fall. The program is a partnershil of the Capital DistrictTransportatiohn Authority, the Capital District Transportation Committee, the Downtown Albany Business Improvement District, the state Department of Transportatio n and the . is currently recruiting businesses that mightg have employees coming from the same region who woulf be interested in participating inthe program. “The main thingf is you have to have at least a minimumn number of people to usethe van,” Janack said.
The way the program would work is one of the participants would also act as the The van would be assigned toa participant/driver, stay at that person’se place of employment duringg the day and remain at the driver’s home in the The company providing the wheels is Inc. out of N.J. VPSI had $62 milliob in revenue in 2008. VPSI was formecd in 1977 and startedfor employees. Today, the company has 5,000 vans in operation in more than 45 stateand 50,000 passengers. VPSI reported “At this point, as soon as possiblee we hope to beginh rollingvans out,” said Jesse Kafka, VPSI’s businesws development executive.
The company expectxs to have 20 vans in operation withintwo “We expect to add one van or so each month throughy the life of the program,” he For more information, call Mila Vega a CDTA planner at
Tuesday, November 22, 2011
ACBJ to relaunch Portfolio.com - Minneapolis / St. Paul Business Journal:
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and American City Businessz Journals — the parenr company of the Minneapolis-St. Paul Business Journal — . Bizjournals will overseew the editorial and business sides of the The Portfolio.com editorial team and saled staff will be based in New Condé Nast Portfolio magazinee and its Web site Portfolio.com launched in April the magazine closed in April. The site provided insight intothe day’xs top business stories, with analysis from bloggers and Tim Bradbury, president of new media at and David Carey, group president at Nast, announced the move Wednesday. ACBJ and Condé Nast are unitsw of . In addition to newly createdx content, Portfolio.
com will share content with otherd Condé Nast sites such as , GolfDigest.com, and , as it did It also will be the home of the archives of contenf publishedby Portfolio’s print and digitall properties over the past 24 months. “Wwe are excited about continuing Portfolio.com and including the site in the bizjournalws network because we were impressedby Portfolio’as strong Web presence, its clean and crisp and its voice in the business-journalisnm marketplace,” Bradbury says. “We believe our readerz will benefit as therelaunched Portfolio.
com will have a strongedr focus on industry news and a greatee mission to offer information relevant to today’s businesz professionals.” On top of its existing Portfolio.com will leverage the collaborative skills and insights of the more than 600 ACBJ business journalists around the country, Bradbury says. The site will have acces s to local market intelligence and work collaboratively with ACBJ newsrooms across the presenting the most important local insights throug a national lens and making it unique amonfg nationalbusiness media, he says. “We knew that Portfolio.
comm was a highly valuable asset, with an establisheds digital brand, strong direct navigation by users, and a long tail of traffic from content published over the pasttwo years,” Carey “We saw ACBJ as a perfect match due to its grea t editorial resources in the business arena, and view this as a win for both Portfolio.com’se readers and the Portfolio.com grew to 2.8 million monthly unique visitorse and won industry praise with award such as the MIN:Best of Web Awardd 2008, MIN:Hottest Launch of the Year 2007, and Webbyu nominees in Best Business blog and Financiaol Services categories.
American City metropolitan business newspaperzs reach 4 million readers each weekwith in-depth coverage of their business Bizjournals is the online media division of the nation’s largest publisher of metropolitan business newspapers. It operated the Web sites for each ofthe company’s 40 prin business journals and operates a Web-only site with locapl business news and information for Los Bizjournals provides nearly 9 millio monthly online users dailh and weekly local business news and information. Nast includes 22 consumer Condé Nast Digital, the Fairchils Fashion Group, Parade, the Nast Media Group and the SharedServices Centers.
and American City Businessz Journals — the parenr company of the Minneapolis-St. Paul Business Journal — . Bizjournals will overseew the editorial and business sides of the The Portfolio.com editorial team and saled staff will be based in New Condé Nast Portfolio magazinee and its Web site Portfolio.com launched in April the magazine closed in April. The site provided insight intothe day’xs top business stories, with analysis from bloggers and Tim Bradbury, president of new media at and David Carey, group president at Nast, announced the move Wednesday. ACBJ and Condé Nast are unitsw of . In addition to newly createdx content, Portfolio.
com will share content with otherd Condé Nast sites such as , GolfDigest.com, and , as it did It also will be the home of the archives of contenf publishedby Portfolio’s print and digitall properties over the past 24 months. “Wwe are excited about continuing Portfolio.com and including the site in the bizjournalws network because we were impressedby Portfolio’as strong Web presence, its clean and crisp and its voice in the business-journalisnm marketplace,” Bradbury says. “We believe our readerz will benefit as therelaunched Portfolio.
com will have a strongedr focus on industry news and a greatee mission to offer information relevant to today’s businesz professionals.” On top of its existing Portfolio.com will leverage the collaborative skills and insights of the more than 600 ACBJ business journalists around the country, Bradbury says. The site will have acces s to local market intelligence and work collaboratively with ACBJ newsrooms across the presenting the most important local insights throug a national lens and making it unique amonfg nationalbusiness media, he says. “We knew that Portfolio.
comm was a highly valuable asset, with an establisheds digital brand, strong direct navigation by users, and a long tail of traffic from content published over the pasttwo years,” Carey “We saw ACBJ as a perfect match due to its grea t editorial resources in the business arena, and view this as a win for both Portfolio.com’se readers and the Portfolio.com grew to 2.8 million monthly unique visitorse and won industry praise with award such as the MIN:Best of Web Awardd 2008, MIN:Hottest Launch of the Year 2007, and Webbyu nominees in Best Business blog and Financiaol Services categories.
American City metropolitan business newspaperzs reach 4 million readers each weekwith in-depth coverage of their business Bizjournals is the online media division of the nation’s largest publisher of metropolitan business newspapers. It operated the Web sites for each ofthe company’s 40 prin business journals and operates a Web-only site with locapl business news and information for Los Bizjournals provides nearly 9 millio monthly online users dailh and weekly local business news and information. Nast includes 22 consumer Condé Nast Digital, the Fairchils Fashion Group, Parade, the Nast Media Group and the SharedServices Centers.
Sunday, November 20, 2011
HOK Sport Venue Event changes name to Populous - Kansas City Business Journal:
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“As the world becomes more and ever-advancing technology separates us into audiencesof one, our expertise becomes more Joe Spear, the Kansas City-based firm’e senior principal, said in a Tuesday release. “Our singular focuse is to design containers of emotion for the collectivr energy of lots ofpassionate people.” The firm reported $154 millionm in 2007 billings, up 22 percent from $126 million in 2006. Founded with eight engineers and architectsin 1983, the firm has abouf 110 local registered architects, spokeswoman Gina Leo It ranks No. 1 on the Kansas City BusineszsJournal ’s Top Area Architectural Firms list.
Since 2005, the firm’s headquarters has been at 300Wyandotte St. in Kansas City’sd River Market, where the company leases 70 percent ofa $22 millioj building developed by . The firm’as significance to downtown Kansaxs City’s economy was reflected in the unprecedented100 25-year property tax abatement granted for the company’sx new headquarters building by the city’d .
The company’s significance to the sporte world is evident inrecent high-profile design including new Yankee Stadium in New York and the Kauffmajn and Arrowhead renovations in Kansas
“As the world becomes more and ever-advancing technology separates us into audiencesof one, our expertise becomes more Joe Spear, the Kansas City-based firm’e senior principal, said in a Tuesday release. “Our singular focuse is to design containers of emotion for the collectivr energy of lots ofpassionate people.” The firm reported $154 millionm in 2007 billings, up 22 percent from $126 million in 2006. Founded with eight engineers and architectsin 1983, the firm has abouf 110 local registered architects, spokeswoman Gina Leo It ranks No. 1 on the Kansas City BusineszsJournal ’s Top Area Architectural Firms list.
Since 2005, the firm’s headquarters has been at 300Wyandotte St. in Kansas City’sd River Market, where the company leases 70 percent ofa $22 millioj building developed by . The firm’as significance to downtown Kansaxs City’s economy was reflected in the unprecedented100 25-year property tax abatement granted for the company’sx new headquarters building by the city’d .
The company’s significance to the sporte world is evident inrecent high-profile design including new Yankee Stadium in New York and the Kauffmajn and Arrowhead renovations in Kansas
Thursday, November 17, 2011
Busmaker Proterra eyes Charlotte region for plant - Denver Business Journal:
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Proterra founder and Chairman Dale Hill has so far discloseed visiting sites in two area including the formerAlcoa Inc. aluminum smelting planyt in Stanly County. He also likes Iredelpl County. Hill says his company needs “a couple hundred thousand square feet” on 10 to 15 acres. The value of such an economic-developmen t project hasn’t been disclosed. Hill is interested in Mooresville for its skilledfmotorsports workers. But the area lacksw existing buildings that fitthe bill, Hill says. The Alcoa plant in Badinm alsohas challenges. “It would take a lot of cleaning up toconvert it,” Hill says.
“It could be a candidater facility but not if we have to pay for all the The company, based in Golden, also is considering locations from Michiganm to South Carolina for an East Coast plant. Regional economic-development officialsz are interested in anymanufacturing project, particularly one that could bringt hundreds of jobs. “We’re doint what we can to make sure they take a hard lookat Mooresville,” says Russ Rogerson, executivs director of the “They could becoms a significant manufacturer.” Economic-development officials in Stanlhy County couldn’t be reached. Alcoa stopped refinintg aluminum in Badinin 2007, endin g 95 years in the county.
Hill, who founded Proterraa in 2004, already has had some successes in producinggreebn buses. His earlier company, TransTeq, made hybrid buses that are used by the Denvetr RegionalTransit District’s 16th Stree Mall route. Proterra has developed fuel-cell technologyg under several government The company operates froma 13,000-square-foot facilithy in the Coors Technologuy Center, where its engineering, development and prototypingt functions are based. Hill, a former Charlotte resident, says incentivesw will be key inthe company’ s decision on a site. Proterra will make its choicd withinsix months, he says.
An unidentified firm is leadingh Proterra’s site search and discussions about Hill says. “We will go wherse the incentives are there toattractt us.” The company was initially recruite to the area for a potentiap hydrogen-powered light-rail or trolley system. Hill is schedule d to speak June 12 at the Fifth Internationak Hydrail Conferencein Charlotte. He says his compan has the ability to build a transportation syste that runs onhydrogehn “if we have a customer to do So far, though, other alternative fuels have powerecd Hill’s buses. “Our predominant market is battery-poweres and fuel-cell-powered buses.” Its fuel-cell bus sellsd for $1.
7 million and its battery-electric bus sells for $1.2 Hill says. Both have zero One of Proterra’s rivals, both for customersx and federal funding, is now based in hybrid-electric busmaker DesignLine Internationalp Holdings. A DesignLine bus currently costsabout $605,000, accordiny to the city, which plans to buy as many as 200 hybrids from either DesignLine or Gillig Corp. of San Franciscol by fiscal 2012. QUICK •Advocates of hydrogen-poweresd transportation will meet at the Fiftyh International Hydrail Conference onJune 11-12 at UNC •Walter Kulyk, director of the Office of Mobility Innovation at the Federal Transit Administration, will be the keynotes speaker.
•Other presenters include Dale Hill, chairmann of Colorado-based Proterra, who has been scoutinf the region for amanufacturing site. •Details: hydrail.orgb
Proterra founder and Chairman Dale Hill has so far discloseed visiting sites in two area including the formerAlcoa Inc. aluminum smelting planyt in Stanly County. He also likes Iredelpl County. Hill says his company needs “a couple hundred thousand square feet” on 10 to 15 acres. The value of such an economic-developmen t project hasn’t been disclosed. Hill is interested in Mooresville for its skilledfmotorsports workers. But the area lacksw existing buildings that fitthe bill, Hill says. The Alcoa plant in Badinm alsohas challenges. “It would take a lot of cleaning up toconvert it,” Hill says.
“It could be a candidater facility but not if we have to pay for all the The company, based in Golden, also is considering locations from Michiganm to South Carolina for an East Coast plant. Regional economic-development officialsz are interested in anymanufacturing project, particularly one that could bringt hundreds of jobs. “We’re doint what we can to make sure they take a hard lookat Mooresville,” says Russ Rogerson, executivs director of the “They could becoms a significant manufacturer.” Economic-development officials in Stanlhy County couldn’t be reached. Alcoa stopped refinintg aluminum in Badinin 2007, endin g 95 years in the county.
Hill, who founded Proterraa in 2004, already has had some successes in producinggreebn buses. His earlier company, TransTeq, made hybrid buses that are used by the Denvetr RegionalTransit District’s 16th Stree Mall route. Proterra has developed fuel-cell technologyg under several government The company operates froma 13,000-square-foot facilithy in the Coors Technologuy Center, where its engineering, development and prototypingt functions are based. Hill, a former Charlotte resident, says incentivesw will be key inthe company’ s decision on a site. Proterra will make its choicd withinsix months, he says.
An unidentified firm is leadingh Proterra’s site search and discussions about Hill says. “We will go wherse the incentives are there toattractt us.” The company was initially recruite to the area for a potentiap hydrogen-powered light-rail or trolley system. Hill is schedule d to speak June 12 at the Fifth Internationak Hydrail Conferencein Charlotte. He says his compan has the ability to build a transportation syste that runs onhydrogehn “if we have a customer to do So far, though, other alternative fuels have powerecd Hill’s buses. “Our predominant market is battery-poweres and fuel-cell-powered buses.” Its fuel-cell bus sellsd for $1.
7 million and its battery-electric bus sells for $1.2 Hill says. Both have zero One of Proterra’s rivals, both for customersx and federal funding, is now based in hybrid-electric busmaker DesignLine Internationalp Holdings. A DesignLine bus currently costsabout $605,000, accordiny to the city, which plans to buy as many as 200 hybrids from either DesignLine or Gillig Corp. of San Franciscol by fiscal 2012. QUICK •Advocates of hydrogen-poweresd transportation will meet at the Fiftyh International Hydrail Conference onJune 11-12 at UNC •Walter Kulyk, director of the Office of Mobility Innovation at the Federal Transit Administration, will be the keynotes speaker.
•Other presenters include Dale Hill, chairmann of Colorado-based Proterra, who has been scoutinf the region for amanufacturing site. •Details: hydrail.orgb
Tuesday, November 15, 2011
Hackney's Hope hosting gala on Saturday - Middletown Press
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Sunday, November 13, 2011
County to seek requests for proposals on industrial site - Houston Business Journal:
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The county could send out the requests by the end ofthe day. The decisio n comes after commissioners twic e delayed making a decision on a proposal tospenx $14 million to buy 808 acres in Bel Aire for a county-ownedf industrial park. Commissioners said Wednesdagy the county should look for tracts of land with at leasft 500 acres and access to railand highways. The countuy says the proposals are dueJuly 1. County stafv has argued ground is needede to createa shovel-ready industrial site for largr users.
The , funded by the privatr sector andlocal government, has said the metro area hasn’t been able to compete well against other communities when industriap companies are seeking large sites with rail access, somethingv that’s become more common as fuel prices have increased. The issu came to the forefront in May when overlookedr the Wichita area in its search for a placer to constructa 300,000-square-foot wind turbine plant. Wichita’e lack of large tracts of industriapl ground with rail access likely kept it on the Theplant will, instead, be built in Hutchinsonj and could employ 400 people.
The county’s plan to buy land in Bel Aire came underf fire as opponents accused commissioners of being toonarrowly focused.
The county could send out the requests by the end ofthe day. The decisio n comes after commissioners twic e delayed making a decision on a proposal tospenx $14 million to buy 808 acres in Bel Aire for a county-ownedf industrial park. Commissioners said Wednesdagy the county should look for tracts of land with at leasft 500 acres and access to railand highways. The countuy says the proposals are dueJuly 1. County stafv has argued ground is needede to createa shovel-ready industrial site for largr users.
The , funded by the privatr sector andlocal government, has said the metro area hasn’t been able to compete well against other communities when industriap companies are seeking large sites with rail access, somethingv that’s become more common as fuel prices have increased. The issu came to the forefront in May when overlookedr the Wichita area in its search for a placer to constructa 300,000-square-foot wind turbine plant. Wichita’e lack of large tracts of industriapl ground with rail access likely kept it on the Theplant will, instead, be built in Hutchinsonj and could employ 400 people.
The county’s plan to buy land in Bel Aire came underf fire as opponents accused commissioners of being toonarrowly focused.
Friday, November 11, 2011
Individual insurance can be difficult to obtain - The Seattle Times
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Live Insurance News | Individual insurance can be difficult to obtain The Seattle Times It can be tough to get affordable, individual, comprehensive health care if you've had previous health scares. By BILL TOLAND No comments have been posted to this article. Like many others her age, 60-year-old Mary Ann Mason fell through one of the ... 2010 Health Care Reform Law Costing Americans Insurance Coverage and Jobs Implementing the federal health care act a first step? |
Wednesday, November 9, 2011
Imperium sells small biodiesel plant - Pacific Business News (Honolulu):
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General Biodiesel, a startu p biofuel company in Seattle, announced Wednesday that it boughrt the former Seattle Biodiesel facility for an undisclosed The facility is capable of producing 5 million gallonsa of biodiesela year. The refinery served as a pilott plant for Imperium Renewablesd for two years before the company opened a larger refinery inGrayse Harbor, Wash., which is capable of producing 100 milliom gallons annually. Seattle-based Imperium is contracted to ship between 5 milliobn and 12 million gallons of biodiesel annually to Kalaeloa Harbodr for use at HawaiianElectric Co.
’s new powef plant at Campbell Industrial HECO spokesman, Peter Rosegg, said the utility had not been informede of the refinery’s sale but that it doesn’g affect the contract. “In this has no impact on us Roseggtold PBN. “The Grays Harborr plant ... would be supplying the biodieseo for our new Campbell Industrial Parkgeneratingt station.”
General Biodiesel, a startu p biofuel company in Seattle, announced Wednesday that it boughrt the former Seattle Biodiesel facility for an undisclosed The facility is capable of producing 5 million gallonsa of biodiesela year. The refinery served as a pilott plant for Imperium Renewablesd for two years before the company opened a larger refinery inGrayse Harbor, Wash., which is capable of producing 100 milliom gallons annually. Seattle-based Imperium is contracted to ship between 5 milliobn and 12 million gallons of biodiesel annually to Kalaeloa Harbodr for use at HawaiianElectric Co.
’s new powef plant at Campbell Industrial HECO spokesman, Peter Rosegg, said the utility had not been informede of the refinery’s sale but that it doesn’g affect the contract. “In this has no impact on us Roseggtold PBN. “The Grays Harborr plant ... would be supplying the biodieseo for our new Campbell Industrial Parkgeneratingt station.”
Monday, November 7, 2011
CL&P Misses its Avon Power Restoration Goal By About Thirty Percent - Patch.com
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CL&P Misses its Avon Power Restoration Goal By About Thirty Percent Patch.com Avon Patch reader Meg Weist submitted this photo of a downed wire at Woodhaven Road, taken 10:23 am on Nov. 6. Submitted by Meg Weist Connecticut Light & Power's reforcasted goal to restore power to 96 percent of Avon by 11:59 pm has ... |
Saturday, November 5, 2011
Report: Doctors' compensation trails inflation - Portland Business Journal:
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In fact, doctors are making less than they did the previous year when their income is adjusted for the reportfrom Englewood, Colo.-based MGMA Compensation for primary-care physicianzs rose 2 percent (or decreased 1.73 percenyt when adjusted for inflation) at a median incoms of $186,044. Meanwhile, compensation for specialists rose 2.19 percent (or decreased 1.59 percent when adjusted for inflation) with a median income of $339,738. Inflationh in 2008 amounted toa 3.8 percenrt increase in the U.S.
Consumer Price Primary care physicians fared the worst in the Among specialists, emergency medicine physicians, dermatologists and generall surgeons all reported flat salaries befored inflation was factored in. Gastroenterology and pulmonary medicine were among the few specialtiex posting compensation gains in2008 — up 7.38 percentg and 6.65 percent, respectively. MGMA represents professional administratorsw and leaders of medical grouppractices nationwide.
The organization has 22,500o members who employ 275,000 physicians that provide more than 40 percent of the healthu care services delivered in theUnited
In fact, doctors are making less than they did the previous year when their income is adjusted for the reportfrom Englewood, Colo.-based MGMA Compensation for primary-care physicianzs rose 2 percent (or decreased 1.73 percenyt when adjusted for inflation) at a median incoms of $186,044. Meanwhile, compensation for specialists rose 2.19 percent (or decreased 1.59 percent when adjusted for inflation) with a median income of $339,738. Inflationh in 2008 amounted toa 3.8 percenrt increase in the U.S.
Consumer Price Primary care physicians fared the worst in the Among specialists, emergency medicine physicians, dermatologists and generall surgeons all reported flat salaries befored inflation was factored in. Gastroenterology and pulmonary medicine were among the few specialtiex posting compensation gains in2008 — up 7.38 percentg and 6.65 percent, respectively. MGMA represents professional administratorsw and leaders of medical grouppractices nationwide.
The organization has 22,500o members who employ 275,000 physicians that provide more than 40 percent of the healthu care services delivered in theUnited
Wednesday, November 2, 2011
Bhava Communications Named a 2011 Stevie Awards for Women in Business Finalist ... - MarketWatch (press release)
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Bhava Communications Named a 2011 Stevie Awards for Women in Business Finalist ... MarketWatch (press release) BERKELEY, CA, Oct 26, 2011 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- Bhava Communications, a leading-edge integrated public relations, marketing and brand identity agency, today announced that it has been recognized as a 2011 Stevie Awards for Women in Business ... |