Sunday, February 27, 2011

Rumor: iPhone 5 Front Panel Indicates Larger Screen - iSmashPhone

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Thursday, February 24, 2011

Textron cancels Cessna Columbus program - Denver Business Journal:

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In April, the company announced it wouldr suspendthe program, leading Cessna leaderes to say it woul d only be a matter of time until the projecty came back. But in Thursday’sw filing with the SEC, Textrom (NYSE:TXT) said “Upon additional analysis of the business-jet markett related to this product we decided to formally cancel furthef development of the Citation Textron says it already had incurredeabout $50 million in capitalized tooling and facility costs related to the It says it will record a non-cash pre-tax charge of abouty $43 million for the first two quarters of 2009 to reflecg the impairment of the facility and tooling Wichita Mayor Carl Brewer, who was in Denver Fridagy at a conference, had not heard the Columbues project was being canceled until asked about it by the Wichita Business Journal.
“I’m disappointed,” Brewer says. We believe this is part of the futurs for the cityof Wichita. We’re just realluy disappointed thatit happened.” At the same time, he he understands the economic climate has forced businessesd to make tough The project was to have built 600,000-square-foot finall assembly building at Cessna where the majorithy of the $27 million business jet woulfd be built. There was also to have been a 45,000-square-foog physical plant to serve the main Construction costs were expectee tobe $200 million and bids were put out in • • • • • Columbus, Kan.-based Inc.
Aparf from the loss in construction the Wichita area now appearsa to have lost out for good onthe 1,000 direct jobs and the 3,0009 spin-off jobs the program was estimated to It also appears likelyy that Cessna will have to pay back the $10 millioj it received in city and count incentives and the $33 million it received from the state for the project. Like Brewer, Sedgwick County Commissionet Tim Norton says he is disappointed to hear the news ofthe “I think most Wichitans and the business community lookee at that as a big announcement,” he “It takes a little bit of the wind out of the sailsa for Cessna and general aviation.
It could have been a huge boostr to Wichita over the next couple years and I think everybodhsaw that.” Norton says he hopes the project will be able to returnj somewhere down the line. The businesd plan that was putin place, he still could be a good fit.

Tuesday, February 22, 2011

Son Of Iranian Opposition Leader Karrubi Detained - RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty

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Saturday, February 19, 2011

Negative protest, positive outcome - Malaysia Star

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Thursday, February 17, 2011

Crescent files Chapter 11, replaces CEO - Business First of Buffalo:

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The moves are part of an effortr to cutthe company’s debt and rework its capital structures, the Charlotte, N.C.-baseds developer says. and some of its subsidiariess have filed voluntary Chapter 11 petitions in the in the Westerh Districtof Texas, Austin Division. Crescent also announced todag thatArthur Fields, the company’s chiedf executive officer, has retired, effective immediately. He will continuer to work in an advisory Crescent had been struggling to refinancea $1.2 billiom loan, with payment due in full by Septembert 2012. The company amended the loan in June 2008 because it was in violation of theoriginal terms.
Before the Chaptet 11 filing, Crescent facede payments of $50 million by the end of this $75 million in 2010 and $100 millionn in 2011 on its debt. The company, whicb has developed more than 1 milliojn square feet of office spacde in Cool Springs sincethe 1990s, has been facinyg local troubles, too. Pat Crescent’s long-time vice president and regional managefin Tennessee, left the company last month. And the developer’w Crescent’s Greenway One, a $33 168,000-square-foot building near completion on Carothers has been boarded up for months as contractors filed millions of dollarsw in liensagainst it.
Anothed similarly sized Crescent project next to it is abouty 90 percent vacant a year afterbeint built. The company says it plans to continu businesses without any significant interruptionduring restructuring. Crescent has obtainex a debtor-in-possession financing facility of $110 million from a group of itsexistint lenders, which will provided funds so it can continue Andrew Hede will replace Fields as CEO and will be charger with leading the restructuring.
Hede, a managing director with LLC, has more than 15 yearsw of financial restructuring andbusiness “We have been in active discussionss with our lenders and other stakeholders as we work toward an agreement that will brinhg our capital structure in line with the currentt economic environment,” Hede says in a “Those discussions are and we are pleasedx with the ongoing support we have receivec from our lenders. We intend to reach an agreement on our new capitakl structure and emerge frombankruptcyt quickly.

Monday, February 14, 2011

Personal Medical Records of 1.7M New York Individuals Stolen - Becker's Hospital Review

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Saturday, February 12, 2011

Attorneys Glass and Harrold set up shop here with Chattanooga firm - Atlanta Business Chronicle:

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On that day, Harrold was calling Pete Glassa to find outwhether Tenn., firm had extended offers to them and several other partners from the old firm. Glas told him the deal had been made. "k was able to relaxd on my vacation," Harrold said. It'zs not every day that two name partners leavetheirr firm. Harrold had been with Glass McCullouggh for more than12 years. He said that he needed a largefr firm to support hisinternational practice. Glass, a real estate workou t specialist, was also looking for a broader platform. Harrold and five other defecting attorneys have set up shop on the 12th floor of the 100 Galleria building in space previouslyg leased toAlston & Bird.
Harrold said that Millerd & Martin planned to expande the Atlanta office to about25 attorneys, moving some attorneysw from other offices and hiring new Miller & Martin is the oldesft firm in the South, founded in 1867. Amontg its clients is Coca-Cola Enterprises. Harrold is urging Millef & Martin to jump aboard the initiative to run a bullett train between Chattanoogaand Atlanta. "They shoulxd call it the Miller & Martibn Express," he said. BROWN PASSES BATON.
One of Atlanta's leadin g developers is passing on his management duties and settint up a smooth succession plan for his Charles Brown, 59, who has been the front man for Technology Park/Atlanta for 21 years, is handinv off day-to-day duties of the organization to Richarc O'Brien, 46. O'Brien, who has been executive vice president, becomesw president and chief operating Actually, O'Brien has more seniority than Brown. O'Brien startedr with Technology Park/Atlanta two yearsx before Brown came in to runthe company.
Brow will remain vice chairman, and will stay active at the boarde level, along with Timothy Harding, the director of Tech Park/Atlanta'sx majority British owner, Peninsular & Oriental Steakm Navigation Co. (P&O) of William Pauls, chairman of Tech Park/Atlanta; and After 21 years together, Browhn and O'Brien said they have the same vision for Tech Perhaps thebiggest change, will be college loyalties. Brown is one of Georgiza Tech's biggest backers, and sits on the Georgia Tech O'Brien is a graduate of GeorgiaState University. OLYMPIC EFFORT.
United Parcel Servicre is sending a large contingentto Nagano, Chairman Jim Kelly, Vice Chairman John Alden and UPS International President Ron Wallace will be amonbg of the dozens of UPS executives travelingt to Japan. UPS has set up four waves of top brasd who will overseethe "hospitality" for UPS. In addition, UPS is sendintg over top managers from the corporate office to overseee the customer shipping operations set up allaround Separately, the company has set up the UPS Winterf Olympic challenge, an internal mini-Olympics at Lake Placid, starting on Feb. 6. Seventy-five UPS employeea received invitations to Lake Placid for winnin g variousemployee programs.
They will competw in their own "Games," performing in the same sports as the Olympifc athletes overa three-day period.

Wednesday, February 9, 2011

Consumer confidence buoys Dow; Qwest leads Colorado gainers - Puget Sound Business Journal (Seattle):

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The Dow Jones Industrial Average finishe the trading day at up 196.17 points (2.37 percent). The S& P 500 closed at 910.33, up 23.33 pointsz (2.63 percent). The NASDAQ Composite finished at 1,750.43, up 58.42 pointws (3.45 percent). Among actively traded Colorado stocks, Denver-based telecom Qwest (Q) led the day’s up 7.98 percent (32 cents) to close at • (UDR) — Up 7.96 percent (81 to $10.99. • (DCT) — Up 7.33 perceng (31 cents) to $4.54. ProLogis (PLD) — Up 7.26 percent (56 to $8.27. • — Up 6.72 percentg (75 cents) to $11.91. Among the few actively traded Colorado stockzs that declined on the daywas (TEC), down 9.
98 percentt (4 cents) to close at 36 • (GSS) — Down 0.96 percent (2 to $2.06. • (DGI) Down 0.27 percent (5 cents) to $18.75.

Monday, February 7, 2011

Humana to market Medicare plans through credit union association - The Business Review (Albany):

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According to a news Louisville-based Humana (NYSE: HUM) has formed an alliance with , which providesa financial services tocredit unions. Unde r the agreement, CUNA Mutual’s call centedr and agents will helpmarke Humana’s Medicare products to more than 9.5 million credift union members who are age 65 and over. Thosde plans are: Medicare Advantage, a health insurancre plan that combinesthe government’s traditionakl Medicare benefits with health and wellness offeringw designed by Humana; Medicare Part D prescription drug and Medigap, a Medicare supplement.
“Wde know that millions of Americans place a tremendoue amount of trust with theidrcredit unions, and relationships such as this new Humana-CUNA Mutua l relationship are vital to Humana’s continueds success as one of the nation’s leadinf Medicare Part D health-benefit plan Lance Hoeltke, vice presidenr of strategic alliances with said in the release. Humana one of the nation’s largestr publicly traded health and supplementalbenefits companies, provides health benefitsz to about 10.4 million medical members.

Friday, February 4, 2011

Mayo Clinic pushes to wipe out hospital-borne infections - Jacksonville Business Journal:

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Hospitals around the country have put in place initiativesd toreduce occurrences, or in some eliminate certain types of hospital-acquired infections that sicke n 1.7 million people per year. has decideds to push the envelope, and tackle the five major types of infections with the ambitious goal of eliminatin them in aslim 18-month The Jacksonville campus in Januarty began the project, and is spearheading the effor t for Mayo Clinic’s headquarters in Rochester, and its Arizona hospital. “Everyoner is working on reducing infections, but our nichw is trying to push itto zero,” said Dr. Bill CEO of Mayo Clinic “Infections are costly.
They add to the cost for us, and ultimatelhy consumers. Eliminating them will make better outcomes forour patients, and that’ s ultimately what we’re after.” While there is some disagreement abou the exact cost of the infections, economist R. Douglas Scott II in a Marcu report for thesaid that, by his the annual direct medical costs to U.S. hospitals rangerd from $28.4 billion to $33.8 billiob on the low end and $35.7 billion to $45 billion on the high end. To put that in if all U.S. hospitals eliminated health care-acquiref infections, it would be roughly the equivalent of the combinerd health care tolls of coronar y arterydisease ($17.5 billion), heartr attack ($11.
8 billion) and congestive heart failure ($11.3 billion). Mayo Clinic Florida beganm the initiative just a few weekeafter Rupp, an oncologist, was named CEO in late As Mayo started its plan, the CDC launched its own initiativs to reduce and “possibly eliminate” healtj care-acquired infections. It includes a set of five-year national prevention targets, lists areas in which the infectionss can be prevented andoutlines cross-agencu efforts to save lives and reduce health care costs through expanded prevention efforts.
“For a long we assumed that health care-acquiredf infections just happen in verysick people,” Rupp said, adding that the infections kill about 99,000o people each year in the United “As an industry, what we are realizing is this is a real and there tend to be things we can do to reducde the instances.” Health care-acquired infections mostly happen whiled a person is undergoing medical treatment or and are largely preventable.
There are five types of infections that Mayo is focusingy itsefforts on: catheter-associated urinary-tract infections, centralp line-associated bloodstream infections, ventilator-associated surgical site infections and infectiona due to drug resistance. Drug-resistant bacteriq strains, most notably methicillin-resistant staphylococcuds aureus, commonly referred to as MRSA, have been labeled a “majorf public health problem” by the . The bacteria has becomde the most frequent cause of skin and soft tissue infectionas in emergency departments inthe U.S. and can cause sometimes fatal, invasive disease. Eliminating it is a prioritu forthe .
The industry traded group has assembled a group of experts from across the statd to participate in an infection preventionadvisory board, and attacking healtjh care-acquired MRSA is the initiak focus. Two Mayo Clinic physicians are on the including Dr. Bob Brigham, the chairmabn of the departmentof Mayo, like the FHA, said bringing to zero each of the five typed of infections will largely involve “bundling” or group s of treatment processes that are known to loweer infection rates.
For ventilator-associated pneumonia, that wouldd mean keeping the head elevated at 30 keeping patients from developing blood clots intheire legs, preventing peptic attempting to ween them off the ventilator daily and givinh “sedation vacations” which can strengthen the body’s immunee system, Rupp said. In catheter-associated urinaryy tract infections, a large part of cutting them down is simplh reducing the frequencyof use.
Rupp said catheters are commonl y used for the comfort of the but aren’t vital, and by reducing unnecessary use, the hospitao can make a dent in the number of infections stemming from “The push back from some peopler is of course, ‘I don’t think you can get to and my response is, ‘Maybe, but if we don’gt try, we won’t get to zero,’ Rupp said. The Floridwa Hospital Association is on asimilar path, seeking to eliminate healtjh care-acquired infections in Florida hospitals.
The association plans to use its infectiob prevention advisory board to identify best practices, particularly in the area of and disseminate that information to Florida hospitals so they can begijn reducing the rate of occurrence. “It’s an organizationakl priority to help hospitals acquirebest practices,” said Martha DeCastro, vice president of nursing and a former infectionas control manager who is leading the organization’ s efforts on health care-acquired infections. “It’s important to know not just whatto do, but how to do it and get the best levelss of compliance.
We’re tryingb to help hospitals network with one as well as do voluntary data collectiojn so we can provide a statewided benchmark and hopefully monitor thedownwarfd trend.” DeCastro said there is some controversy in the medicapl community about whether eliminatin g secondary infections in health care is realistic. “But there’sd not a better goal than Even if there are somewe can’t eliminate, therre are many others we know we can make progressx in reducing.

Wednesday, February 2, 2011

Pending home sales up 6.7% - Washington Business Journal:

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Pending sales of existing or contracts signed butnot closed, rose 6.7 percen in April, according to the ’ Pendingb Home Sales Index. April’s pending sales were up 3.2 percent from a year earlier. The bigges increase in April was in the where pending salesjumped 32.6 percent from the previous month. They were up 0.8 percent from a year The index in the Southslippeds 0.2 percent in April. However, it is 3.5 percent higher than a year earlier. The association cautions that the reporting sample for pending home sales is smallee than that of existinghome sales, so it is subject to greatefr variability. The index measures housing-contract activity.
It is basedc on signed real estate contractd forexisting single-family homes, condos and A signed contract is not counted as a sale untipl the transaction closes.