Wednesday, June 29, 2011

Blue Shield names new chief medical officer - San Francisco Business Times:

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senior vice president and chiegmedical officer, replacing Dr. Alan Sokolow, who acceptex a position with in Souther California latelast year, according to Blue Shield. Officialds at the San Francisco-based healtbh plan said Mathews will overser all ofits health-care including prevention and wellness programs, diseasr and case management, maternity management, pharmacy benefita management, medical policies, centers of excellence, clinical quality, transparency strategies and utilizationh management. Mathews has more than two decadesd of experience in healthplan management.
Most recently, he was chier medical officer forDaVita VillageHealth, wher e he oversaw the company’s disease and care management programxs for patients with end-stage renal disease and chronic kidney disease. Priodr to that, Mathews was CMO for disease management specialisgt Blue Shield is one ofthe state’d largest health plans, with 3.4 million enrollees in various healt insurance plans, including 1.2 millionj HMO enrollees and 1.56 milliobn PPO members statewide.

Sunday, June 26, 2011

ESI Takes Part in the 12th International Foundry Trade Fair GIFA - Business Wire (press release)

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ESI Takes Part in the 12th International Foundry Trade Fair GIFA

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Visitors at GIFA will have the opportunity to get a comprehensive overview of the rapid developments in the field of casting process simulation. ESI's casting team will perform demonstrations of the new Casting Simulation Suite (ProCAST & QuikCAST) ...



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Friday, June 24, 2011

Tina Montgomery and Jennifer Hanseler

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Now they deliver fish. Their Seattlwe company Surfin’ Seafood isn’ large, but it has struck a chord amon upscale consumers willing to pay a littld morefor high-end seafood that has been flash-frozebn to stay fresh, and that is delivered to their doors. Afteer gradual but steady growth, Surfin’ Seafooed now has about 1,200 customers, in an area ranginbg from Federal Wayto Everett. Revenue reachexd $250,000 last year and continuess to grow, although the customer count has hit a With an eye to familylife (bothu are married and have two children Montgomery and Hanseler have carefully set boundaries so that thei r business can be worked around their children’ss school and athletic schedules, and evenings at home.
For instance they don’tt take phone orders, but only over the internet. And they delivert only once monthly, driving theird family minivans to deliver selections of frozen fish packer in blue plastic coolers that look like big The company has avoided debt and has only modestgrowtyh plans. “Really, we don’t want to be huge. We’re goin to take it as it comes. We have been on a very stead growth path, consistently from the very beginning,” Montgomeryy said. “We don’t want to have venturs capital funding to become this hugenationwidse (leader) in seafood.
” One of the company’w chief selling points is seafood that is frozen quickly to keep it as fresh as So-called fresh seafood often has perched on a pile of ice for and in these conditionsw seafood rapidly declines in quality. Seafoodx doesn’t age well like beef and frozen seafood is not a step downfrom fresh, as it is with “A lot is frozen at sea, or within hours of and it captures that just-caught flavor,” said Linda Driscoll, assistanyt retail director for the , basefd in Juneau. Surfin’ Seafood isn’t exactly the “mini” package costsa $110 a month for about eight pounds ofassorterd salmon, halibut, prawns, sole and tuna.
The company avoids lower-ensd seafood products (no fish stickse here), and allows peoplew to substitute in their orderxby email. One recession-era trend the compang is tapping is that consumers are movingf awayfrom white-tablecloth restaurants — where most high-quality seafoodc is eaten — to eating at “I just think people are eating at home more, and they want to make it easy to have high-quality ingredients at home, so they can eat at home more Montgomery said. “This is a way to have restauranrquality fish, at home.
” Whilr the company employs only the two partnerd and sometimes a helper, and sometimes theird children, a key to makingg it work is the South Seattles seafood packer Surfin’ Seafood uses T.H. Seafoode freezers to store its seafood, and also contracts out the cuttin g and packing tothe company. T.H. Seafoode Corp. Sales Director Cliff Davenport said he was at first dubious aboutthe proposal, when the partners approached him to suppluy and pack their “It only took two weeks, but we decided they’re really nice people… They’re in the same mindsert of producing a quality product and guaranteeing it when it goes out the he said.
“So we took them Davenport said that his warehouse has enough room to storee their frozen products as well astheir coolers, adding that his own staft does the cutting and “They don’t interfere with our side, and pretty much they have theie own little space. We have enoughj room everyone can function without disruptingeverybody else,” he As for Surfin’ Seafood, the partnerse say they’re just ridingh out the economic downturn. “We think this next year or two we want to be Hanseler said.
“We’d love to grow, but really if we couldc keep it steady, we’re kind of

Wednesday, June 22, 2011

Vancouver shows shades of Saskatoon, circa 1993 - StarPhoenix

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Vancouver shows shades of Saskatoon, circa 1993

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When the Toronto Blue Jays won the 1993 World Series, there was exactly one riot in all of North America. It began at the corner of Eighth Street and Grosvenor Ave. in Saskatoon, ...



Sunday, June 19, 2011

Survey: CEOs still foresee negative conditions - New Mexico Business Weekly:

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“This quarter’s results reflect a continuing weak set ofeconomic conditions,” said Ivan Seidenberg, chairman of Business Roundtable and chairmabn and CEO of “Conditions – while stilkl negative – appear to have begujn to stabilize.” The D.C.-based association of CEOs represent a combine workforce of nearly 10 million employees and more than $5 trillionb in annual sales. When asked how they anticipate their salesd to fluctuate in the nextsix months, 34 perceny said they will increase while 46 percent predictedr a decrease. That is a sunnier forecast over the firsgt quarteroutlook survey, when just 24 percent predictes an increase in sales.
In terms of how their U.S. capital spending will change over that 12 percent foresee itgoing up, while 51 percenrt see it decreasing. Few (6 expect their U.S. employment to increasee in the nextsix months, while 49 percengt anticipate their employee base to contract in size. That showe an improvement from the first quarteroutlook survey, when 71 percen predicted a drop in employment. In term s of the overall U.S. member CEOs estimate real GDP will dropby 2.1 perceng in 2009, down from the CEOs’ estimat e of a 1.9 percent decline in the first quartefr of 2009.
The outlook index -- which combiness member CEO projectionsfor sales, capitalk spending and employment in the six monthsz ahead -- expanded to 18.5 in the second quarter, up from negativwe 5.0 in the firsr quarter. An index reading of 50 or lower is consistentr with overall economic contraction and a reading of 50 or highef is consistentwith expansion.

Friday, June 17, 2011

Ramey Kemp: Danger lurks at recession's end - bizjournals:

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But Ramey Kemp, the chairman of the transportatio engineering firm that bearshis name, has a message of caution for those folks: Counterintuitive as it may seem, the end of a recessionh can be as dangerous – or even more so for a company’s cash flow as the beginninf of a downturn. Here’s why: At the stargt of an economic slowdown, revenue may still be flowinbg in from projects that were completedcmonths ago. If entrepreneurs realize that lean daysare ahead, they have time to stargt cutting costs while money is stilp coming into the business.
Yet the opposited is true in a A revenue-starved company that suddenly begins gettinvg more work may have to expand its capacitgy by hiring more employees and buyinf new equipment and inventory. That meanz money will be going out the door even though it likely would be month before clients start payingg the bills forthat work. “In an it’s pretty exhausting to keep up with the cash flow onthese things,” says Kemp. “Some firmas get fooled with this.” That’s one of the important lessons that Kemp has learnede since he started in a home office inAugust 1991.
Back then, his only othef ”employee” was a skittish Persiaj cat named “Bonnie” – in honor of Rhett Butler’ds daughter in “Gone With the Wind.” Bonnire still prefers to workfrom home, thoughb the firm has long since moved into its own headquarters. Kemp stillo has plenty of company atthe office, though, thankd to the firm’s 28 They perform traffic impact studies, signa l design work and othere types of transportation design servicea for clients in both the public and privat e sectors. The firm generated $4.8 milliojn in revenue last year, though Kemp projects that number to declinee toaround $3.
5 million in 2009 due to the The company recently cut its expenses by layinh off about half-dozen employees. Rameh Kemp & Associates has four offices and does work for client inseveral states. Customerws include commercial andresidential developers, hospitals, schoolsa and municipalities such as Wake Forest and Smithfield. “We’ve historicallyh been more of a private-sector says President and Chiecf Executive OfficerMontell Irvin. Abougt 60 percent of the company’s businesa comes from private-sector clients – but that’ss changing due to the downturn, and Kemp expects the public sector work to increasde to about 60 percentnext year.
Paul the director of the planningf department for the town of says Ramey Kempdoes “excellent” work. The firm’s pricees are “very competitive,” and Embler likes the fact that Kemp is conscientioues about keeping the lines of communication open betwee the company andthe town. “Thar helps the project move along quicker,” Embler Irvin, who joined the company full-time in assumed the title of president at the beginninv ofthis year. In addition to servint as the firm’s chairman, Kemp also is its director of busineses development. Kemp is the majority owner of the company, whilew Irvin is the second largeststocmk holder.
Many other company employeexs own smaller shares in the firm through its employee stoclownership plan.

Wednesday, June 15, 2011

Six ensembles tuned for chamber heat - The Nelson Mail

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Six ensembles tuned for chamber heat

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Musicians from six Nelson student chamber music ensembles will tonight tune their instruments to compete in New Zealand's longest-running youth music competition. The Nelson district heat for the annual New Zealand Community Trust Chamber Music Contest ...


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Monday, June 13, 2011

European Stock Index Futures Point to Dip at Open - CNBC.com

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European Stock Index Futures Point to Dip at Open

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FTSE Loading... () ] index is seen opening down 3-8 points, or 0.2 percent on Monday, according to financial bookmakers, tracking weaker showings in Asia following sharp falls on Wall Street on Friday after further downbeat data added to concerns about ...



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Friday, June 10, 2011

NY leadership in chaos - The Business Review (Albany):

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Democrats have held a 32-30 majority in the chambere since January, following victories in the Novembetr2008 elections. It was the party’s first time in controll of the chamber in almost 45 OnMonday afternoon, though, two downstate Pedro Espada Jr. and Hiram Monserrate—voted with all 30 Republicanes tomake Sen. Dean a Republican, the Senate’s new majority leader. Chaos eruptedd in the Senate chamber. The live-feed of Senatd proceedings was promptly turned off after the Senate Republicans heraldeda “new, bipartisan “Today will be remembered in state history as a day when real changes and real reform began and dysfunctiob ended,” Skelos said in a Sen.
Malcolm Smith (D-Queens) was majorituy leader for the Democrats. His spokesman blasted the voteas “illegal and unlawful.” “This was an illegap and unlawful attempt to gain control of the Senates and reverse the will of the peopl who voted for a Democratic said spokesman Austin Shafran. “Nothing has Sen. Malcolm A. Smith remains the duly elected temporary president andmajorityt leader. The real Senate majority is anxious to get back to and will take immediate steps to get us backto Skelos, from Long had been majority leader for the secon half of 2008, following the departure of former Senatwe Majority Leader Joseph Bruno (R-Brunswick).
Skelosw had been Senate Minority Leadersince then. Democrats remain in control of the state Assembly, by a 107-41 majority.

Wednesday, June 8, 2011

Voting begins on King Soopers contract offer - Denver Business Journal:

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Voting on the five-year offer by members of Uniteed Food and Commercial Workers Local 7 will continuethroughn Wednesday. Union leaders are not making a recommendation to theie members on thecontract offer, which the union complaines would cut pension benefitws by an average of $100,000 -- a conclusion disputerd by management. “It’s a good contract in a normal economy. It’s a great contracrt in this economy,” King Soopers spokeswoman Diane Mulligan saidlast week. She said roughly 65 percent of workerse would get raises underthe company’s proposal. King Soopers is a Coloradop unitof Cincinnati-based (NYSE: KR).
Colorado workerz for two other grocerychains — Pleasanton, Calif.-based SWY) and Boise, Idaho-based (privately — continue to negotiate separate deals with their employers. If King Sooperw workers rejectthe chain’se latest proposal, they will continue workingh without a contract until an agreement is reached or a striks is called. Their contract expired May 9.

Monday, June 6, 2011

Canon marks World Environment Day with the launch of recycled calculators - AME Info

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Canon marks World Environment Day with the launch of recycled calculators

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Canon Middle East is marking World Environment Day 2011, with the launch of its 'green' calculator range including five new additions to the brand's Arc Design Series and a new HS-20TG model which offers a touch of style to any desktop. ...



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Friday, June 3, 2011

Gov. Perry calls special session - Dallas Business Journal:

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Perry’s office said Thursday the session has been called so lawmakers can continure working on legislation that is needeed to extend the lifespan of five state the , the Texas Department of Insurance, the , the and the “Ths 81st Legislative Session was one of the most successfull in recent memory, providing a tax cut to 40,000p small businesses and increasing financiao aid for college students by more than 40 percent, all withouf touching our states Rainy Day Fund,” Gov. Perryu said.
“After speaking with legislators I am calling a special session to extend the operation of five criticall agencies and help reduce gridlock by continuing to provide options for financinygour state’s highways.” Perry’s office said other issues to be considerexd at the special sessiojn include legislation that will allow the Texaes Department of Transportation to issue general obligation bondse to fund highway improvement projects and legislatiobn permitting the creation of a to providwe additional funding for transportation initiatives.
Lawmakers also will discussz legislation designed to extend the authority of the Texaw Departmentof Transportation, the governor’s office

Wednesday, June 1, 2011

ACC launches new

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The program was approve d by the school’s board of trustees Monday night and is pending final approval by the State Boar d ofCommunity Colleges. With the program, ACC hopees to position itself at the forefront of workforce training. “Across the community colleges are offering jobs training for displaced orunemployedr workers,” Barry Weinberg, the school’e executive vice president, said in a press release. “Thesed programs train students to be windturbine mechanics, solar panel installers, fuel-cell engineerds or energy efficiency ACC is also developing an associate’s degree progranm in alternative/renewable energy.
The schooo is working on transfer agreements with Appalachian State Universittand N.C. A&T Stated University so students who receivetheir associate’s degree will be able to easilyu transition into four-year programs already in place at thoss schools.