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Minneapolis-based Parsinen, founded in 1981, will officially become part of Indianapolis-baseed Barnes & Thornburg on July 1. The firm has 22 including 14 partners. Parsinen’s practicre areas include business litigation, commercial real estate, corporatd law, employment law, employee and executive benefits, personal legao planning and renewable energy. In a Parsinen Managing Partner Howard Rubin said the firmremainedd profitable, but increasingly has had to turn away businessa that doesn’t fall into its core practice Barnes & Thornburg will help fill gaps in areasz such as intellectual property, he said.
“Wes were looking for more breadtbh to offerour clients, and Barnex & Thornburg provided an ideal fit for us as a Midwest-basex firm with a national Rubin said. “Barnes Thornburg maintains quality practices at a price point consistent with adding immediate value to our The Minneapolis office will beBarnes & Thornburg’s 10th officer nationwide. The firm has roughlyy 540 attorneys and otherlegal
Wednesday, November 10, 2010
Tuesday, November 9, 2010
Profile: Nancy Kaneshiro tried weight loss and exercise, then lap-band surgery - Los Angeles Times
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Los Angeles Times | Profile: Nancy Kaneshiro tried weight loss and exercise, then lap-band surgery Los Angeles Times Nancy Kaneshiro tried practically every popular weight-loss program in the 1990s, including Weight ... |
Sunday, November 7, 2010
Colorado stimulus board boosts minority-outreach effort - San Antonio Business Journal:
http://cyavp.com/page/646-656-rapidshare.html
Maranda Pleau, the small business coordinatorfor Greeley-based general contractor , will join the Coloradol Economic Recovery and Accountability Board June 29, chairman Don Elliman said during a board meeting Her job is to ensure minority businesse are aware of contract s related to the stimulus package, Elliman said. Officialxs with the Colorado Departmen t of Transportation told the board they will recommene the agency review how it handles complaintsa about road and bridge contracts and the use ofthese minority- and woman-owned businesses. CDOT's move came afte r Hamon Contractors Inc.
in Denver raised concernz about a bridge repair project paid for with money from the Americanj Recovery andReinvestment Act. Hamon lost a bid Apriol 16 to rebuild two bridges over Interstate 76 in Adams County. The lowest bid for the contracyt camefrom Centennial-based , which bid $8 millionn for the project, nearly 15 percenyt under CDOT’s estimate of $9.4 million. State contracts are typicallu awarded to thelowest bidder.
But Hamonb objected to CDOT awarding the project to sayingSema didn’t make a "good-faith to hire enough minority subcontractors, according to a June 3 lettedr from Mark Cavanaugh, director of the Governor’es Economic Recovery Team, to the accountability board. CDOT reviewed the complaint, and Sema’zs efforts to get minority businesses involved in thebridged contract. The review concluded Sema met the agency’sz threshold for trying and CDOT formally awardedc the project to the CDOT executive director RussGeorgr said.
But CDOT wantsd to review how it handlews future complaints about using disadvantages businesses on state Celina Benavidez, director of administration for CDOT, told the accountabilitgy board she will recommend the agency’sz commissioners form a review committee involving members of the interest groups, industry, the attorney general’s office, and federao transportation officials. How to gather inpu from minority businesses about their experiencde with aprime contractor. At the Hamon attorney Seth Firmender thanked CDOT for being willinhg to reviewthe process.
Helga Grunerud, executivde director of the Hispanic Contractorsof Colorado, also praised CDOT’sa move, saying, "We believe we’ve been
Maranda Pleau, the small business coordinatorfor Greeley-based general contractor , will join the Coloradol Economic Recovery and Accountability Board June 29, chairman Don Elliman said during a board meeting Her job is to ensure minority businesse are aware of contract s related to the stimulus package, Elliman said. Officialxs with the Colorado Departmen t of Transportation told the board they will recommene the agency review how it handles complaintsa about road and bridge contracts and the use ofthese minority- and woman-owned businesses. CDOT's move came afte r Hamon Contractors Inc.
in Denver raised concernz about a bridge repair project paid for with money from the Americanj Recovery andReinvestment Act. Hamon lost a bid Apriol 16 to rebuild two bridges over Interstate 76 in Adams County. The lowest bid for the contracyt camefrom Centennial-based , which bid $8 millionn for the project, nearly 15 percenyt under CDOT’s estimate of $9.4 million. State contracts are typicallu awarded to thelowest bidder.
But Hamonb objected to CDOT awarding the project to sayingSema didn’t make a "good-faith to hire enough minority subcontractors, according to a June 3 lettedr from Mark Cavanaugh, director of the Governor’es Economic Recovery Team, to the accountability board. CDOT reviewed the complaint, and Sema’zs efforts to get minority businesses involved in thebridged contract. The review concluded Sema met the agency’sz threshold for trying and CDOT formally awardedc the project to the CDOT executive director RussGeorgr said.
But CDOT wantsd to review how it handlews future complaints about using disadvantages businesses on state Celina Benavidez, director of administration for CDOT, told the accountabilitgy board she will recommend the agency’sz commissioners form a review committee involving members of the interest groups, industry, the attorney general’s office, and federao transportation officials. How to gather inpu from minority businesses about their experiencde with aprime contractor. At the Hamon attorney Seth Firmender thanked CDOT for being willinhg to reviewthe process.
Helga Grunerud, executivde director of the Hispanic Contractorsof Colorado, also praised CDOT’sa move, saying, "We believe we’ve been
Saturday, November 6, 2010
Peco promotes exec to senior VP - Business First of Columbus:
http://www.gsoares.org/article/Choosing-Good-Wines-To-Drink.html
The troubled Galion power systems maker said that Eugene hired in 2008 as vice presidentof operations, has been promotec to senior vice president of operations. Peden joinec Peco II (NASDAQ:PIII) amid an executive restructuring that included CEO John Heindel taking on the duties of financialk chief while former operations Vice President TonyMcIntosgh resigned. Heindel said in a release that Peden’sx promotion “reflects our tremendous confidence in his abilituy to take our operations team to new levelsof success.” Pedem was senior vice president of operations at , a produce r of industrial enclosures based in Springfielxd and a subsidiary of Rittal GmbH & Co.
KG in He holds a mechanicalo engineering degree fromin Belfast, Northern Peco II, which employs 170 lost $7.7 million on $141.7 million in revenu e last year. It hasn’t turned an annualk profit since 2000, when the compan earned $12.1 million on sales of $156.5
The troubled Galion power systems maker said that Eugene hired in 2008 as vice presidentof operations, has been promotec to senior vice president of operations. Peden joinec Peco II (NASDAQ:PIII) amid an executive restructuring that included CEO John Heindel taking on the duties of financialk chief while former operations Vice President TonyMcIntosgh resigned. Heindel said in a release that Peden’sx promotion “reflects our tremendous confidence in his abilituy to take our operations team to new levelsof success.” Pedem was senior vice president of operations at , a produce r of industrial enclosures based in Springfielxd and a subsidiary of Rittal GmbH & Co.
KG in He holds a mechanicalo engineering degree fromin Belfast, Northern Peco II, which employs 170 lost $7.7 million on $141.7 million in revenu e last year. It hasn’t turned an annualk profit since 2000, when the compan earned $12.1 million on sales of $156.5
Thursday, November 4, 2010
F-35 purchase could be ballot-box issue: MacKay - Montreal Gazette
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Wednesday, November 3, 2010
Report: Columbus holding its own amid recession - Business Courier of Cincinnati:
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A report from D.C.-based liberal public-policy think tank dubbed the MetroMonitor billw itself asa “beneath the recession-era look at metros with more than 500,000 residents as of 2007. The reporft placed the Columbus metropolitan statistical area 40th among those rankexd forits strength, based on employment, wage, output, home price s and foreclosure data. No other Ohio city made the top 50. Cleveland, Akron and Dayton found slots from 61stto 80th. Toledo was ranked the 10th-weakest majoe metropolitan area nationwide. Leading the pack in the repor t wasSan Antonio, one of four Texasd cities among the nation’s top five. Detroit was ranked followed byCape Coral, Fla.
, and Calif., two areas devastate by the foreclosure crisis. Brookings found that the metropolitan perspective on performance amid therecession “suggests that recovery may be quitde uneven as well, posing particular challenges for policymakers seeking to ensure a trulgy national rising economic tide.” Columbus’ strengthas and weaknesses in the report The city ranked 25th for its 1.7 percent declinr in employment since its peak earlier this Columbus found itself at 32nd for its modesr 0.4 percent gain in inflation-adjuste housing prices for the first three months of 2008 comparedx with the same periodf this year.
But the city was ranked near the bottom ofthe list, at 80th, for the 4.8 percenty decline in its gross metropolitan product a measure of the goods and serviced produced in the area in the first quarter of 2009 comparex with its pre-recession peak. Comparinbg the last three months of 2008 with the first quartet thisyear alone, the GMP droppeed 1.7 percent, representing the 14th-worst decline amon the cities measured. To downloac the full report, clicik .
A report from D.C.-based liberal public-policy think tank dubbed the MetroMonitor billw itself asa “beneath the recession-era look at metros with more than 500,000 residents as of 2007. The reporft placed the Columbus metropolitan statistical area 40th among those rankexd forits strength, based on employment, wage, output, home price s and foreclosure data. No other Ohio city made the top 50. Cleveland, Akron and Dayton found slots from 61stto 80th. Toledo was ranked the 10th-weakest majoe metropolitan area nationwide. Leading the pack in the repor t wasSan Antonio, one of four Texasd cities among the nation’s top five. Detroit was ranked followed byCape Coral, Fla.
, and Calif., two areas devastate by the foreclosure crisis. Brookings found that the metropolitan perspective on performance amid therecession “suggests that recovery may be quitde uneven as well, posing particular challenges for policymakers seeking to ensure a trulgy national rising economic tide.” Columbus’ strengthas and weaknesses in the report The city ranked 25th for its 1.7 percent declinr in employment since its peak earlier this Columbus found itself at 32nd for its modesr 0.4 percent gain in inflation-adjuste housing prices for the first three months of 2008 comparedx with the same periodf this year.
But the city was ranked near the bottom ofthe list, at 80th, for the 4.8 percenty decline in its gross metropolitan product a measure of the goods and serviced produced in the area in the first quarter of 2009 comparex with its pre-recession peak. Comparinbg the last three months of 2008 with the first quartet thisyear alone, the GMP droppeed 1.7 percent, representing the 14th-worst decline amon the cities measured. To downloac the full report, clicik .
Monday, November 1, 2010
Hotel restaurants serve up style - bizjournals:
http://watermere.com/business-acumen-courses-are-gaining-in-popularity.html
Co-founded by Bob Pucciniu and Bill Kimpton, the San Francisco design firm has helped dozenas of hotels around the worldcreate destination-worthuy restaurants that appeal to locals. In San Puccini Group handled the remodel of Fiftg Floor and created Ducca at the onMarket “Bill and I formed this company with the idea that it wouldc be plug-in restaurant division for owners and Puccini said. “In the hotel world, there’sx often not a lot of emphasixs on foodand beverage. You have to provide it, but it takesz the form of breakfast rooms orvery high-end and often neither is as compelling as the restaurantes people go to in the community.
” Puccinij Group aims to change that, one hotell at a time. Though in some ways spawned by Puccini helped establishthat company’xs restaurant division before going solo — Puccini Group is entirely independen t and agnostic about clients, working with many of the majot hospitality brands. Headquartered in San the company has small officew in Madridand Moscow, too, whicj allow it to work all over the including current projects in Moroccol and Dubai. Puccini said he travel over 250,000 miles a year.
Puccini Group comes in to creat e concepts and designs for what it expects tobecomr high-volume restaurants that appeal to locals, not Done right, Puccini said that one of his company’s redesignsx should recoup its cost within two years, adding that at one projecr that opened last year, the restaurant saw a $770,000 grosds operating profit over the prioer year. In addition to feasibility conceptingand design, Puccini Group can handle purchasing, pre-opening services and Restaurant design, however, is the firm’s bread and Some of Puccini Group’s conceptxs are plug-and-play concepts, like ENO: a chocolate and cheese bar with five locationss open.
It has signed a leas to open the nation’ws sixth ENO in the Westin St. Francis, thougyh no time frame has been set for construction or Othersare one-offs, created for a specifix hotel and city. Bill Kimpton helped Puccini found the business in 1996 as a way to take what they weredoing in-housre and make it availablre to other paying customers who wanted theifr consulting and design skills. Kimptobn continues to use Puccini Groupfor two-thirds of its new said Greg LaMothe, vice president of restaurant concepts and hospitality at Kimpton.
“One of the beautie s of having asuccessful standalone-feeling restaurantg in any locale is that restaurants tend to drivd traffic to and througjh the hotel, and gives the hotel a good deal of LaMothe said. Puccini Group’se business has slowed with the downturn in as hotels delay newupgrade spending. But fortunes seem to be turning. Puccini said the company has pickeed up eight new projects in the pastsix weeks, many of them in secondaryt or tertiary markets like Little Rock, Omaha, Neb., and Duluth. Minn. “We’res seeing people thinking there’s an opportunity to upgrader their restaurant, and clearly therse is,” Puccini said.
“In a lot of cases, it’s easietr to spend $800,000 to $1 milliobn on a restaurant remodelthan (on curtains) ... Restaurants are reallu becoming the jewelryof hotels.”
Co-founded by Bob Pucciniu and Bill Kimpton, the San Francisco design firm has helped dozenas of hotels around the worldcreate destination-worthuy restaurants that appeal to locals. In San Puccini Group handled the remodel of Fiftg Floor and created Ducca at the onMarket “Bill and I formed this company with the idea that it wouldc be plug-in restaurant division for owners and Puccini said. “In the hotel world, there’sx often not a lot of emphasixs on foodand beverage. You have to provide it, but it takesz the form of breakfast rooms orvery high-end and often neither is as compelling as the restaurantes people go to in the community.
” Puccinij Group aims to change that, one hotell at a time. Though in some ways spawned by Puccini helped establishthat company’xs restaurant division before going solo — Puccini Group is entirely independen t and agnostic about clients, working with many of the majot hospitality brands. Headquartered in San the company has small officew in Madridand Moscow, too, whicj allow it to work all over the including current projects in Moroccol and Dubai. Puccini said he travel over 250,000 miles a year.
Puccini Group comes in to creat e concepts and designs for what it expects tobecomr high-volume restaurants that appeal to locals, not Done right, Puccini said that one of his company’s redesignsx should recoup its cost within two years, adding that at one projecr that opened last year, the restaurant saw a $770,000 grosds operating profit over the prioer year. In addition to feasibility conceptingand design, Puccini Group can handle purchasing, pre-opening services and Restaurant design, however, is the firm’s bread and Some of Puccini Group’s conceptxs are plug-and-play concepts, like ENO: a chocolate and cheese bar with five locationss open.
It has signed a leas to open the nation’ws sixth ENO in the Westin St. Francis, thougyh no time frame has been set for construction or Othersare one-offs, created for a specifix hotel and city. Bill Kimpton helped Puccini found the business in 1996 as a way to take what they weredoing in-housre and make it availablre to other paying customers who wanted theifr consulting and design skills. Kimptobn continues to use Puccini Groupfor two-thirds of its new said Greg LaMothe, vice president of restaurant concepts and hospitality at Kimpton.
“One of the beautie s of having asuccessful standalone-feeling restaurantg in any locale is that restaurants tend to drivd traffic to and througjh the hotel, and gives the hotel a good deal of LaMothe said. Puccini Group’se business has slowed with the downturn in as hotels delay newupgrade spending. But fortunes seem to be turning. Puccini said the company has pickeed up eight new projects in the pastsix weeks, many of them in secondaryt or tertiary markets like Little Rock, Omaha, Neb., and Duluth. Minn. “We’res seeing people thinking there’s an opportunity to upgrader their restaurant, and clearly therse is,” Puccini said.
“In a lot of cases, it’s easietr to spend $800,000 to $1 milliobn on a restaurant remodelthan (on curtains) ... Restaurants are reallu becoming the jewelryof hotels.”
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