Tuesday, November 29, 2011

Commtouch opens D.C. detection center - Washington Business Journal:

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expanding its cloud infrastructure to grant customers accessto real-time threat prevention patterns with a small localk footprint. It is the fifth detection center worldwide forthe Netanya, Israel-based messaging and Web securitty technology provider (NASDAQ:CTCH), which has a subsidiarh in Sunnyvale, Calif. Commtouch’s technologies currently process more than two billion Interneft transactions every week withinthe company’s globally distributed detection centers to find new messaging and Web threat outbreaks as they are initiated. Commtouch has two otherr U.S. facilities, one in Hong Kong and another inthe U.K.
“Ae Web and e-mail traffic and threatsd continue toincrease rapidly, this new center will allow us to more efficiently and effectively serve our growint customer base,” said Yossi Maslaton, Commtouch’ss vice president of network operations and customer services. “We will be bettef equipped to handle the growinhg volumes of queriesand real-time information analysis in the and our East Coast customers will benefi t from higher quality of service with less

Sunday, November 27, 2011

Bennet cites Colorado examples in Senate plea for health-care reform - Dallas Business Journal:

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Coloradans, he said, "speak for countles s others acrossthe nation. All they ask for is a health care system that worksfor them, a health care systejm that doesn’t crush them with unreasonablr cost increases, and a health care system that doesn’t deny them coveragew just because they have pre-existing conditions." Bennet, D- Colo., also touted his own proposalsd to make patient transition care more cost-effective and successful. "Inm Colorado, we haven’t waitef on Washington," he "We’ve made real progress in showin g how to provide high quality health care at aloweer cost.
" Bennet, formerly superintendent of the Denver Publifc Schools, was appointed to the Senate by Gov. Bill Ritte r to fill the seat vacated by Ken Salazard when Salazar was picked by Presidenyt Barack Obama as secretarh ofthe Interior. Here is the full text of Bennet'e Senate-floor speech as prepared for delivery Thursday, provide by his In the speech, he is addressing the president ofthe Mr. President, I rise today to discuss the urgenty need for healthcare reform. The peopl of Colorado, and the American people, have waitefd for too long for Washingtonto act. We shoulcd begin with a basic principle: if you have coverage and you like it, you can keep it.
If you have your and you like himor her, you should be able to keep them as We will not take that choic away from you. But even as we keep what we must confront the challenges of soaring healtuh care costs and the lack of acceswsto affordable, quality healtyh care. The status quo is unacceptable. Every day, familied in Colorado and across America face rising Their plans offer fewer They are denied coverage becauseof pre-existing conditions. And untip we fix the health care system, we won’f be able to fix the fiscalk mess in which wefind ourselves.
Since 1970, the share of healthcard as a part of the GDP has gone from 7 percent to 17 The United States spendswover $2 trillion in health care including over $400 billionj on Medicare alone. President Obamw has said that the biggesg threat toour nation’s balance sheer is the skyrocketing cost of health care. And he’ds right. In Colorado, we haven’f waited on Washington. We’ve made real progress in showiny how to provide high qualit y health care at a lower Last week, the New Yorker magazine publishee an article entitled “The Cost that highlights the important work that’s been done in Mesa Colorado.
Over thirty years ago this communitytserving 120,000 people came together—doctors, nurses, and the non-profit health insurance They agreed upon a system that paid doctors and nursez for seeing patients and producing better qualituy care. They realized that problemw and costs go down when care is more InMesa County, the city of Gransd Junction implemented an integrated health care system that provides follow-upo care with patients. This follow-up care has helped lowet hospital readmissions rates in Grand Junction to just 3 Compare that to the 20 percentrate nationwide, and it is cleatr that our community on the Western Slopes of Colorado is onto something groundbreaking.
High readmission rates are a huge problej forour seniors. Nearly one in five Medicare patients who leave a hospital are readmitted within thefollowingv month, and more than three-quarters of theswe readmissions are preventable. Rehospitalization costxs Medicareover $17 billiobn a year. It’s painfuk for patients and families to be caught up in these cycles of Alltoo often, care is fragmented – you go from the to the hospital, to a nursing home, back to the hospitalo and then back to the doctor Patients are given medication instructionsa as they are leaving the hospital, many timeds after coming off of strong They don’t know whom to call, and they are not sure what to ask theirr primary care doctor.
The both our Denver and Mesa County healtj communitieshave found, is to provid patients leaving the hospital with a “coach.” This coacnh is a trained health professionapl connecting home and the hospital. This coach teaches patientd how to manage their health ontheid own.

Friday, November 25, 2011

Business First of Columbus: Columbus Commercial Real Estate Listings - View Commercial Real Estate

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Tuesday, November 22, 2011

Nickelback is living in the diversity of 'Here and Now' - USA Today

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Sunday, November 20, 2011

Pepco Energy Services wins $55M contract from Baltimore schools - Baltimore Business Journal:

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Arlington, Va.-based Pepco Energyt Services has been supplyinb electricity to the school systenm since June ofthis year. The new 15-yeaer contract calls for Pepco Energuy Services toprovide high-efficiency lighting and water conservation replace heating and cooling systems, expand the energy-managementy control system and install new Construction is under way and slate for completion by November 2007, the company "The energy savings created by these improvementa will allow the to fund much neede upgrades in 32 said David Weiss, presidengt of Pepco Energy Services' performance management Pepco Energy Services is a subsidiary of D.C.
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Friday, November 18, 2011

Times' retirement plan hit by $154M loss - Boston Business Journal:

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Net assets of the plan for the which owns the Globe and fellto $417.7 million. The plan was particularlh hard hit bysome $171.5 million in lossesw within several mutual funds. For the plan’s largest holding, the Vanguard 500 Indecx Investment fund, suffered a nearly 40 percenr lossin value. Another fund in the Times’ portfolio, the Vanguard Asset Allocation Investment dropped nearly 32 percent Only one of its majorfund holdings, the Dodgr & Cox Income Fund, posted a positive returnh in 2008. Investments in fixed income and insurance assetsgeneratedx $5.3 million in income. Dividendc income of $11.6 million also helped offseft losses.
Interest income from the company’x borrowing from its retirement fundtotaled $594,000. The Times has traditionall matched a fraction ofGlobr employees’ contributions to their 401(k) accounts, howevef a proposal in fronf of leadership would eliminate the program.

Wednesday, November 16, 2011

Karzai seeks Loya Jirga's help in crafting US partnership - MiamiHerald.com

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Monday, November 14, 2011

SEC: N.Y. investment firm misled S. Fla. seniors - Portland Business Journal:

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"They used free lunches as the low-tecj bait for their high-scale scheme," said Robert Khuzami, director of the SEC' Division of Enforcement. The SEC alleges elderly and retirex investors were lured into purchasing highl unsuitable variable annuities with lucrative salee commissions while ignoring the financial goals of The SEC alleges thatEric J. Browhn of Highland Beach, Matthew J. Collins of Boyntom Beach, Kevin J. Walsh of and Mark W. Wells of Boca Raton, were among those offering and sellingthe annuities. It’zs alleged that the firm and its representativea earned millions of dollars insalee commissions.
PCS is a registered broker-dealer and wholly-owned subsidiary of Gilman an income tax preparation businessx headquartered in Poughkeepsie that offers financial services in New New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Florida. Robert Heim, a NewYorko attorney who representsPrime Capital, Gilman Ciocia, and several of the including Collins and Wells, said the conducft at issue in the complaint is "very and occurred in the late 1990s and earlh 2000. He said the company reached a settlement withthe (FINRA), when it was caller the (NASD).
As part of that the company implementedsome wide-ranging updates to its supervisor y and compliance systems in 2005, Heim He added that he didn't know why the SEC was goinh over the same ground. "All of these issues were addressef years ago and we feelthe company's responsew has been appropriate," he While Brown and Walsnh have since left, Collinsx and Wells are still with the company, he An administrative law judge will determine whether the allegationsa against the respondents are true and, if so, whetherr they should be ordered to ceasr and desist from future violations.

Saturday, November 12, 2011

F.N.B. appoints Delie president - Pittsburgh Business Times:

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Delie succeeds Stephen Gurgovits Sr., who has held dual responsibilitiee as president and CEO of both the bank and corporatiom sinceFebruary 2009. It marked the third promotionh in less than a yearfor Delie, who joined (NYSE:FNB) in 2005 as presidenr and CEO of its Pittsburgh region. He had previouslhy been executive vice presidenrt and division manager for corporate bankin atNational City’s Pittsburgh region. It is the latesrt in a rapid slate of changesa that havereshaped F.N.B.’s executive Delie was promoted to executive vice president and chief revenue officerf two weeks ago. At that time, Brian Lilly was namedf executive vice presidentand COO.
Also, Gurgovits, who had been servinb as interim president and CEO of the corporation since February, was given the positionse on a permanent basis. He had plannedx to retire, and after a two-year Robert New was hired for the top postdat F.N.B., while Gurgovitse served as chairman. But when New resigned in Gurgovits returned tothe helm. Wednesday, announced that long-time directorr William Campbell was itsnew chairman, enabling Gurgovitzs to focus on his corporate responsibilities and to conforn to F.N.B.’s corporate Thursday, F.N.B. promoted Vincent J. Calabrese to CFO, fillinh Lilly’s previous post.
Gurgovits said in a statementtthat Delie’s new position “more strategicallt aligns his responsibilities as Chief Revenue Officer at the bank levepl and provides continuity for revenuer production. Vince has the experience, the vision and the energy to be a greaf leader forthe bank. I am confidengt that F.N.B. will grow and thrive undef his leadership.” It was a busy week for in other ways. Tuesday it complete d a public offering of more than 24 million share s and expected to realize net proceeds ofapproximateluy $125.8 million. Gurgovits said the money positions F.N.B.
to “takre advantage of growth opportunities, both organivc and through acquisitions, due to market and the “flexibility to consider” repurchasinf $100 million in preferred shares the government invested through the Capitao Purchase Program of the Troublex AssetRelief Program. Friday, shares rose 2.75 percent to reacj $6.36 per share by noon. F.N.B. is based in Hermitage, abou t 60 miles north of Pittsburgh.

Thursday, November 10, 2011

Fla., Orlando again tops in foreclosures - Denver Business Journal:

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The state posted 58,931 foreclosure filings — includingf default notices, scheduled auctions and bank repossessionz — in May, down 8.8 percent from April’s but still 50 percent higheer thanMay 2008, according to RealtyTrac’s monthly Foreclosurd Market Report. Only California had a higher total, with 92,249 properties with May 2009 foreclosurde filings. The Sunshine State was No. 3 in the nation in foreclosurre rates, with one in every 148 households receivinf a foreclosure filingin May. Nevadaa led the country with one in every 64 homees receivinga filing, while California was seconsd highest with one in ever 144. The Orlando-Kissimmee market took the No.
8 spot amongv the nation’s top 10 metro areas with the highesyforeclosure rates. The area recorded a rate of one foreclosur e filing for every101 homes. Florida had threde cities among the top 10metro areas, whilse California had six cities among that mix. Las Vega topped the list with a rate of one in evergy 54 households getting aforeclosure Nationwide, 321,480 foreclosure filings were reported in May, whic is 6 percent lower than April but about 18 percent higher than May 2008. One in everyh 398 U.S. homes received a foreclosure noticrelast month. Vermont again recorded the lowest number of with six reportedin May, or one for every 51,906 households. The RealtyTraxc U.S.
Foreclosure Market Report provides the totapl number of properties with at leasyt one foreclosure filing reported duringthe month. Data is collectexd from more than 2,200 counties that account for more than 90 percen t ofthe nation’s population.

Monday, November 7, 2011

Ritz-Carlton Denver names new GM - Phoenix Business Journal:

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Andrew Rogers comes to the 1881Curtis St. hoteo from the Ritz-Carlton Kapalua in Hawaii, where he oversaw the resort’sw $170 million re-launch. Before then, Rogers served as resory manager forthe Ritz-Carlton Club in St. U.S. Virgin Islands, and directod of golf operations forthe Ritz-Carlton in Rose Jamaica. Before beginning his employment for in Rogers workedin ’s golf division at threew separate resorts. He holds a bachelor of sciencee in marketing from Ferris State University and has a wife andtwo “My family and I are excited to be in a city as wonderfu as Denver and I look forward to becominyg part of the community,” Rogers said in a news release.
The Ritz-Carltonh Denver property includes 202 guest roomw spread over14 floors, a spa and Elway’e Downtown restaurant.

Saturday, November 5, 2011

NHL commissioner: Coyotes move could damage Westgate, arena construction - Denver Business Journal:

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He also said it could have a chillin g impact on other cities considering helping teams buildfnew arenas. The Coyotes have 41 regular seasoj home gameseach year. Bettmam and the NHL opposew theproposed $213 million sale of the team to Canadia businessman Jim Balsillie, who would move it to Ontario, saying the league shoulcd make the decision. A June 9 hearing is set in U.S. Bankruptct Court to decide whether Coyotes owner Jerry Moyeas can sell to Balsillie or if it must be sold to a buyee who would keep the NHL franchisein Arizona. The Coyoteas are in Chapter 11bankruptcy reorganization.
Balsillie argued in court filings thathis $213 million will be the best deal and the court’a main charge is to get the most monegy to pay off debt and position the team to be financiallu viable going forward. The Coyotes have lost $316 millionh since moving to the Phoenix marketg from Winnipeg in according tocourt filings. Balsillie says NHL hockeyu is not financially viable in the Phoenixsport market, but the league points to four potentiakl bidders for the Coyotes that would keep the team in Jobing.Com Arena was built by the city of which says it will pursud a $500 million to $750 million claim if the Coyote s break their 30-year lease.
Balsillie’s courty filing contends the bankruptcy court has the leewat to discharge sucha claim. The Nationak Football League, National Basketball Association and Major League Basebalo backthe NHL’s bid to keep the Coyotes in Arizonaq fearing the move could set a

Thursday, November 3, 2011

Cain and supporters attach themselves to Clarence Thomas, to their benefit - Washington Post (blog)

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Tuesday, November 1, 2011

Streets filled with revellers as woman bashed to death on Halloween - Sydney Morning Herald

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THE usually quiet suburban street was swarming with trick-or-treaters on Monday night as Lynette Bradbury lay bound and dead in her family home. The 56-year-old was found by her husband tied at the hands and feet between her bed and a war drobe in their ...



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