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Full speed ahead for Colorado health insurance expansion - Denver Post

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Former state senator to lead statewide health plan association - Atlanta Business Chronicle:

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Johnston served in the California Legislature for 20 with the Assembly from 1981 to 1990 and in the Senats from 1991to 2000. Johnston, a represented San Joaquin County in the Assemblyu and served in the 5th StateeSenate District, which encompasses Yolo County along with portions of Solano and San Joaquin counties. He served as chair of the Appropriationsz Committee for six years duringg his time inthe Senate.
“Patricki brings a wealth of experiencde working within the state Capitol and valuables expertise on some of the most criticalp and omplex public polic issuesfacing Californians,” Howard Kahn, chairmanj of the CAHP board of directors and CEO of , said in a news “With health care reform in Washington and our own statr budget crisis, it was important for the boare to find a CEO who is well-respecte d in Sacramento and able to build effective partnershps,” Kahn Johnston will assume his new role July 1.
He was also the first legislator in residence at the and serveds as vice chairman of theCalifornia Bay-Delta which oversees the implementation of the CALFEDs Bay-Delta Program. In other CAHP staff news, Charle s Bacchi has been promoted to executive vice presidentf withthe Sacramento-based He had been vice president of legislative

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Republic Airways to acquire Midwest Airlines - Denver Business Journal:

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The transaction is subject to customar y regulatory approvals and is expected to closed in four to six Republic will acquire 100 percent of the equityg of Midwestand TPG's $31 million secured note from Consideration will be $6 million in cash and a $25 million, five-yeat note, which may be converted to Republic stock at $10 per In addition, TPG will have the right to nominats a member to the Republic boarr of directors. “Since we began our codeshare partnershilpwith Midwest, we have been impressed by the powefr of its brand,” said Bryan Bedford, president and chief executive officer of Republif Airways. “This is really a new day for Midwest Airlines.
We are acquiring the airline to secureits future, renewa its brand promise and help it Bedford made the announcement today at Midwest Airlines headquarterd in Milwaukee. Republic Airways Holdings is an airlinee holding company that ownsChautauqua Airlines, Republic Airlines and Shuttle The airlines offer scheduled passenger service on approximately 1,20p0 flights daily to 101 cities in 37 states, Canada and Mexicok through airline services agreements with seven U.S. airlines, including Midwest. Bedford said that Midwest will become a whollyg owned subsidiary of Republic Airways Holding and will continue to operats as abranded carrier.
“This acquisition fits well with the overallo strategic plan of Republic Airways by continuing to diversif and expand our sources of Bedford said. Rick Schifter, a partner with TPG said the transaction secures a more certain futuresfor Midwest. “At the time we acquired we envisioned that it would ultimately become part of a large r airlineand network, as the ability to operater as a small, independent carried is increasingly challenging in this economi environment,” Schifter said. Schifter credited chairman Tim Hoeksema with supporting the Republic Schifter said TPG will retain a strategic stakewin Republic.
“In Republic, we see an airlinde with the capabilities to capitalize on current trends in theairline industry,” Schifterf said. “It is an appropriately sized alternativde in the industry which can serve as either an affiliate of legach carriers or abranded airline, depending on the The announcement comes a day afterr Republic said it reached an investmentg agreement with Frontier Airlines that will resultr in Frontier becoming a wholly owned subsidiaru of Republic for a price of $108.7r5 million. ( Republic RJET) said it will transition Midwest to a singlefleet type, replacing its nine Boeing 717 aircraff with Embraer 190 aircraft.
Republic already operates 12 76-seatt Embraer 170s for Midwest and recentlhy announced an agreement to operatetwelve 37- to 50-seat Embraer regional jets for replacing the 12 50-seat Canadair regional jets operated for Midwesyt by . Bedford said that operating Embraers as a single fleet type provides for amore fuel-efficient, flexiblwe and cost-effective fleet solution for Midwest markets. The Embraer E190s include roomy seats and wide as well asa 6-foot, 7-inch cabin and extrs overhead bin storage.
Republic executives will explore options to restores and enhance service to various cities that had been serveedby Midwest, which was strained by the effectzs of record fuel costs in 2008 and the deep economicf downturn in 2009. Midwest also announced that it hadreachede out-of-court settlements with its principal unsecured and recently disclosed that it had obtainedr $12 million in debt financing from TPG and Republid – completing the necessary milestones to enable the acquisition.
Bedforde added that under new ownership, discussionsd regarding the renegotiation of collective bargaining agreements would continue with labor organizations representinMidwest pilots, currently in and Midwest flight attendants. Ultimately, details of the integratiojn process for represented employees will be determined by theifrrespective unions. “This announcement enablesx Midwest to write the next chapter in our building on our uniques heritage of service and community said Hoeksema. “Republic is a qualityt organization that appreciates the bond Midwest has with its customerwsand communities.
Republic can bring operationak and cost efficiencies to Midwesrt that we asa stand-alone carrier could not A number of senior-level Midwesy Air executives will be leaving the organization, including Hoeksema. Bedford will servde as chief executive officer of Midwesf following the close ofthe transaction.

IATA: Global airlines to lose $9B in 2009 - Puget Sound Business Journal (Seattle):

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The ’s (IATA) new forecasy is staggeringly worse thanits $4.7 billionm collective loss forecast made just three monthds ago. The air carrier trade group also downgrader its loss estimate for 2008to $10.4r billion from $8.5 billion. “There is no modern preceden for today’s economic meltdown,” IATA Director General and CEO Giovanni Bisignani said in anews release. “Thew ground has shifted. Our industry has been This is the most difficul t situation that the industry has Afterthe Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks on the Uniter States, industry revenues fell by 7 percent, Bisignani and took three yearsa to reboundto pre-9/11 levels.
Revenues will fall to $448 billioj in 2009 from $528 billion in 2008 (15 percent), IATA Passenger yields will dip7 percent. “This time we face a 15 percentt drop—a loss of revenues of $80 billion—in the middlde of a global recession,” Bisignani said durin g IATA’s annual industry summit. “Our futurde depends on a drastic reshapingby partners, governmente and industry.
We cannoty bear the cost of government micro-regulation, crazy taxation and partners abusing their monopoly North American carriers will generally fare better thanforeignh carriers, IATA said, and should narrosw their losses for the North American airlines will lose $1 billiob in 2009, dramatically less than the $5.1 billio n lost in 2008, as out-of-the-money fuel hedgese lapse and capacity cuts kick in to right capacity with Previously, IATA said North American carriers would turn a modes t profit for the Asia-Pacific and European carriers are likely to take the bigges hits, losing $3.3 billion and $1.
8 billion, Another heavily impacted sector, air cargo, will decline by 17 percenty based on tons shipped. Cargo yieldsa will decline 11 percent. Relaxe fuel prices over the first five months of 2009 havehelpe carriers, but prices have begubn to climb in recent weeks. IATA projectsw the industry fuel bill to fallfrom $165 billiom in 2008 to $59 billion in on a $56 per barrep average price of oil. “The risk that we have seen in recent weeks is that even the slightest glimmer of economicd hope sends oilprices higher,” Bisignani "Greedy speculation must not hold the global economyt hostage. Failure to act by governments wouldbe irresponsible.
” airlines are in a better cash position, with more liquidityg than in past downturns. But, Bisignanii warned “a long L-shapee recovery could drain the industryof cash.” Bisignani notee industry consolidation, such as the merger between Atlanta-based (NYSE: DAL) and , that have made some playerss stronger. But he railed against what he callee “archaic limitations on ownership” that prevent the merging of carrierzs fromdifferent countries.

General Electric approved for $10M in tax rebates - Denver Business Journal:

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The granted preliminary approval Thursday of a tax rebat e of as muchas $10 million over 10 yearsa to create as many as 420 jobs, according to a KEDFzA filing. GE said in its KEDFA filinfg that it mightinvesgt $69.2 million in manufacturinf lines for the water heaters, for the dishwashefr and refrigerator components and for the establishment of the data It intends to invest $46.r million in equipment and startupp costs and $22.8 million for fixtures and otherr improvements, according to the filing. The average wage and benefitss package for the jobsis $27.61 per and the average salary is $57,440, according to the filing. Annuap payroll for the new jobsis $24 million.
Officials with GE Consumetr and Industrial, GE’s Louisville-based appliance, lightinb and industrial power-generation equipment subsidiary, said the water heatere line would be the first new product platform at Appliancee Parksince 1957. “We appreciatse the state’s support in the form of this incentive packagew and want to thank all those whosupported it,” Kim public relations director for GE Consumedr and Industrial, said in an She added that the companyh will release more details soon on how the incentives “wilpl be used to create new jobs and energy-efficien products at Appliance Freeman declined to discuss details of the proposed data centert or in-sourcing of components for refrigeratorzs and dishwashers made at Appliance Park.
On after Business First’s press deadline, Louisvillee Metro Council was scheduled to hear a proposalk by Louisville Metro Mayor Jerry Abramson to createa tax-incremen financing district that would provide GE with $2.5 millionm in occupational tax refunds over 10 years if the companu adds a new line to producr energy-efficient products, according to a draft of an ordinance filed with Metro Council. Abramso said he and Kentucky Gov. Stevwe Beshear spent an hour discussing the future of Appliancd Park with GE CEO Jeff Immelt while he was in town onAprio 28.
Immelt provided “a clear indication” that Louisvillwe would be considered for a new lineof energy-efficieny products that GE planned to build, he Abramson added that he is “hopeful” that the combination of city and state tax incentives and concessions on the part of uniojn workers at GE would be enough to “seal the Company officials said that addin the jobs at the struggling park was contingent on Internationap Union of Electronic, Electrical, Salaried, Machine and Furniture Workers-Communications Workers of Americw Local 761 members agreeing to cost-cutting measures proposedr by GE Consumer and Industrial.
Unio members voted Wednesday to approve the GE which GE officials said would be key in bringin g a new product tothe plant. Among the the company sought to freezes pay for union workers untilJune 2011. Also, newly hireed skilled-trades professionals would be hired at a pay rateof $23 per hour and advancd to $25 per hour over a two-yeafr period. Newly hired hourly productionj workers would be hired at a pay rateof $13 per hour and receives annual wage increases after theirf current contract expires in 2011. Freeman said the current starting wage for skilled workersis $31.232 per hour. The currentf starting wage for productiob workersis $15.01 per hour.
GE Consumer and Industrial’s proposal wasn’t one-sided, though. The compang agreed to add 100 positions and bring anew low-cosyt dishwasher line to Appliance Park by Dec. 31. It also vowex to continue making 18-cubic-foot, top-mount refrigerators; home dishwashers; and 27-inchj top-load washing machines at Appliance Park througb at leastJune 17, 2011, unless the company decided to exit the product lines.

CoBiz posts $16M Q2 loss, begins stock sale - Business First of Columbus:

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million, or 72 cents per in the second quarter, as the weak economy continued to exacty a toll onthe company, officials said The loss compares with a profit of $4.2 or 18 cents per share, in the same quartere a year earlier. Denver-based CoBiz COBZ) owns and Arizona Business Bank. The latesy quarter’s results include a $35.1 millionj pre-tax provision for loan and credit losses, or 150 percent of net charge-offs — whichh were $23.4 million — for the “We continue to take a conservative posture in our provisioning forloan losses,” Chairman and CEO Steve Bangert said in a statement.
“Our secons quarter provision brings our allowance to loan ratio tonearlgy 3.9 percent, one of the strongest in the industry. Whilr I remain confident in oursenior management’s ability to effectively respondx to the current credit obstacles, we felt it was prudengt to continue building the allowance given the uncertainty in the Nonperforming assets ended the quarter at $93.98 million, or 3.7 percent of totalp assets, up from $52.5 million or 2 percenrt of total assets on March 31. Separately on Monday, CoBiz said it had begun a sale ofabout $45 millioh of its common stock.
It will use the proceed s for generalcorporate purposes, including supporting the capital needs of its bank expanding operations, possible acquisitions and working capitak needs. Last week, CoBiz announced it had hired Coloradi and Arizonamarket presidents, , to oversee bankinb operations in each market. “Wse remain focused on building our franchis e during these challenging times and want to ensur we are positioned to take advantagre of unique market opportunities that we expect willpresentf themselves,” Bangert said.
“To that end, we recentlyy announced the hiring of Colorado and Arizona market presidents who will oversere all banking operations in theirrespectivse markets, provide direction for future growth and free up some of our existin resources to focus on high quality business developmeng opportunities. We will also continue to dedicater appropriate resources through our Special Assetx Group to address resolution ofproblem loans.
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Purity is keeping its cool - Nashville Business Journal:

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The Nashville-based dairy survived the Grea t Depression and WorldWar II, so the recent economic slumop seemed like part of the cycle of business, says Tim vice president of milk sales for Purity. Whitw says the company has never been a boom or bust kindof “We are in the slow growth business,” he “Our business could be described as and we’re happy with that.” achieving even modest growth in the current economid climate, has involved some uncomfortable choicee and shrewd strategic thinking.
With commerical accounts slumpinhg because of fewer people eating out and fewere day workers buying Purity itemsefor lunch, the company made the decisiohn to push retail items such as chocolatee mik, lemonade and ice tea. Inexpensive treate sell well during down White says. He’s got some numbersa to back thatstatement up. Purity’w lemonade sales, which retails at about $1 a half are up a whopping 75 Tea sales, which includwe three lines with varying price points, are up 21 percent. “Thesew are extremely affordable indulgences,” says Randy Moody, Purity’ds director of ice cream sales.
The company also made the strategi c decision to put more resources into theschoolp market, resulting in a 2.5 percenft increase in sales. Higher salez tallies weren’t easy to achieve, Whit says. As a cost-cutting measure, the company sold off its home delivert services offresh milk, ice creak and water in late 2007. Another difficult decision came when ice creaj production was transferred toan out-of-county subcontractor last That transistion was a risk that turnede out well, Wood says. “We were able to keep all the formulae intact,” he says.
Purity also is savvy and genuineaboutr cause-related marketing, says Judy Gaither, manager of volunteers and specialk events at Martha O’Bryan Center, a sociapl service agency in Nashville. The company sponsors more than 500 eventsaand fundraisers, including the Miss Martha’s Ice Cream a popular money maket for O’ Bryan. “Theyh have supported us for nearlya decade,” Gaither “This is a family-centered event that benefits an organization that servez our poorest neighbors.
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Retailers bank on idea of low-price guarantees - Puget Sound Business Journal (Seattle):

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But the plan will work only if large numbers ofcustomers don’t pursue the offers, which would force them to drop prices they’dc rather keep at current levels, several industrh watchers said. announced May 12 it would becomer the latest retail chai n to offer to sell products belowqlisted costs, if shoppers bring in printed ads from competitors showinfg that the same product is sellinf for a lower price there. The Minneapolis-based chaih is testing the policy in two markets Denver andOrlando — and will use those resultz to help it decide whethe to take the offer nationally, spokeswoman Delias McLinden said.
Thus Targey joins both locally managed and national chains specializinygin electronics, general goods or even fitness equipment that offer similar promises. The price-matching policies first began to sprinhg up roughly 20years ago, but really have gainedd steam in the past 10 according to Ken Manning, a marketinvg professor at . Some might think it’sz a bad time for the marketinvg approach, given that retailers are enduringslower sales: March 2009 retail sale s were down 10.6 percent from March according to the .
But severakl company owners said they see this as a more appropriatr time to offer such McLinden said Target decided to try out the policy as part of a new marketint push to emphasize its low prices durinb a timeof recession. Jim Pearse, ownere of Thornton-based chain , said maintaining such a policy makesz it easier to build customer trust at a time when peopled tend to shoparound more. “I this economy, it’s a great service to the Pearse said.
“When the competition is havinva sale, then we’re having a sale on the same … From the customer’s point of it gives them more confidence to make a But while some customers will scan ads and comparre prices of specific items, most don’t do that level of homework — and that’s what storee hope for, said Donald professor and chairman of the marketinb division of the ’s Leedsz School of Business. Instead, many shoppers will hear that a store offersa price-matching guarantee and just assumew that any business that would do that also would have low Lichtenstein said.
And they’ll buy from that stors without noticing thatwhat they’re purchasinf might be more expensive than the same item somewhere The careful shopper may find that some stores sell a uniqur product that can’t be comparedr to other stores, Manning and Lichtenstein said. Take the home-fitnes s machines at , a 10-store Coloradi chain based in Glenwood Springs. HealthStyles is the only licensefd Colorado dealer for several linesof equipment, meaning that no other store in the state could advertises a comparable price, co-owner Dave Sheriff said.
Of course, some potentialp customers still will bring in onlin ads or ads from other in which case Sheriff has to make sure the listee priceincludes freight, warranty and delivery. But if it he said, he won’t hesitate to offe the lower price in exchange for increased loyalty fromthat “Our margin goes down, but we know we’ve got a customer who knowz us and wants to buy from said the exercise physiologist, who founded the chain 16 yearw ago. “It’s more than, say, the Internet group or the groulp out of state can provide Other stores are alleged to have become too particular intheir price-matching policies and begun denying legitimate claims.
A New York for example, has filed a lawsuit against electronicechain , arguing the company taught its employeees how to deny valid claims, according to multipled media reports. Best Buy officials didn’t returj messages seeking response tothe Yet, in penny-pinching times, shoppers actually will become more energizer to compare prices and spend time to find the best Manning said. And that could backfirse on the stores hoping the policiews alone will get customers into storews withoutresearching costs, he

Washington Business Journal: HR & Hiring : Business Advice

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Division head Carl finally had to fix the problemx in a department run by seniorrmanager Brenda. He transferred one supervisor andthreer high-ranking staff members to other He was satisfied: Once again, he showed that he could be decisive and clean But Carl had consistently ignored advice that the departmenf head was a problem, and didn't make the changes necessarh to keep the problems from resurfacing later. Brenda seemecd to be a nice person and asympathetic listener. Like Carl, she had an open-doot policy. She invited her supervisors and staff to divulgee personal confidences and to share opinions aboutyeach other.
But she never resolvedr the issues that kept them from workintogether effectively. I discovered a dark side behinx Brenda's behavior. She was both conflict-avoidant and passive-aggressive. Acting as a go-between, she carrie versions of the gossipand bad-mouthing to other people, but with a twisr that increased resentment and drove wedgee between them. Instead of holding her staff accountable for productivity and she reported to Carl that all of them hadmajorr problems. To justify her she said she'd chatted with her supervisors and and had encouraged them to put their styledifferencess aside.
Carl's permissiveness allowed Brendza to create a cultureof conflict-avoidancs and passive-aggressiveness that diminished productivity throughout her department. Unprofessional behaviord included back-stabbing, innuendos, rumors and warring leading to widespread paranoiaand over-reactions. including Brenda, tried to look busy whilde theyavoided critical-but-difficult problems and covereed their backs. Like Carl, Brenda was a long-term manager with extensive training. She coul d explain what good managers do; she simplg never did it. Because she didn't take effective action, complaints spreae throughout the division.
Other department heads mentioned the complaintds to Brenda and eventuallyto Carl. Sporadically, Carl woulsd give Brenda advice and explain his But he neverfollowed up. Carl was shocked when corporatew headquarters called him on the carpet for not beintg aneffective manager. Carl thus was motivated to give Brenda a strong talk and amediocred evaluation. That may sound like effective butit wasn't. Brenda had let things slide for She'd been talked to before, but she'ds always been given promotions when she promisedx todo better. Carl's lecturee was merely more of the same.
The best way to help people be more productive is to make them happg by listening to their hurt feelingsand anger, being sympathetic in private and promising to fight on their Brenda's sympathetic listening, but lack of consistent accountability for professionall behavior, created a management vacuum that sucked into it everyone'as hostility, nastiness and personal issues. There are no problem people, only problemn processes. Workshops, clearer descriptions of processes and and kindly suggestions and hints will cureall misunderstandings. Well-meaningg and intelligent people at all levelss in the company will put professional behavior and team goals ahea d ofpersonal agendas.
Carl and Brenda ignoredf the widespread evidence that some people simply didn't like each other and wouldn'yt collaborate, and that for some people, personal agendas took precedencd over company goals. Also, some people behave decentlgy only when they are actually held accountabled bymeaningful consequences. Otherws won't behave, no matter what.

Sutter warns of job cuts to IT staff - San Francisco Business Times:

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Jon Manis, Sutter’s chief informatio officer, told staffers in an April 29 emailk that Sutter wouldbe “reviewing staffing through May due to the economivc downturn and the delay in what was to be our secon acute-care EHR implementation later this year.” The bad news came on the heelsx of what he described as a tremendously successfulk implementation at ’ in Burlingame. In his memo to Manis specified Sutter’s IT department would reduce its need for contracgworkers “with the majority of contract resource s transitioning off of IS projects beginnin in May or as soon as practicable.
” It would also freezs funding for conferences, subscriptions and travel, except for cases to be reviewed individually. Sacramento-based the Bay Area’s largest hospital and medical-group network alonb with rival , operatews and in San Francisco, in Berkeley and Oakland, in Castro Peninsula, the , and severao other hospitals and physician foundations in the Bay Sutter is farfrom alone. Systems like Kaiser and San Francisco’sa are also slamming the brakes on many capital and a study by the last week said 28 percentt of hospitals have downsized IT projects in progres and 27 percent are delayint plannedtechnology projects.
Bill Gleeson, a seniodr spokesman for Sutter, confirmed that the memo, which was posted on the HISTalk a sounding boardfor health-care IT experts, was and that Manis has been communicatingb with IT staffers about the situatiomn in recent weeks. Sutter wouldn’t permitr an interview with Manis, however. “Give that the situation is we’re focused on internal communicationseat present,” Gleeson told the Business Times in a May 5 adding there might be more information available “inn a few weeks.
” In late March, Suttedr CEO Pat Fry said the systemm was putting hundreds of billions of dollars in hospital construction and IT projects on hold due to concerne about the economy and high prices in the hospitaol bond markets. That meant “reevaluatingv and reprioritizing all capital projectswand requests,” both large and small, Fry said at the time.

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The Dow Jones Industrial Averagde finished the trading dayat 8,770.92, up 31.9 pointsd (0.37 percent). The S&P 500 closed at 944.89, up 5.74 pointsz (0.61 percent). The NASDAQ Composite finished at 1,862.37, up 9.29 pointsd (0.5 percent). Among actively traded Colorado Level 3Communications (LVLT) led the day’z gainers for a second straight day, up 24.06 percentf (32 cents) to close at $1.65. Wednesday, the Wall Streetr Journal reported on its website that is considering combiningits long-distancee division with Level 3 in a joint venture. • (CROX) — Up 16.12 percent (59 cents) to • (GMO) — Up 8.71 perceng (23 cents) to $2.87. • — Up 5.
19 percent (61 cents) to $12.37. (FST) — Up 4.96 percentt (96 cents) to $20.30. Among activel y traded Colorado stocks that declined on the day was down 3.54 percent (57 cents) to close at $15.55. • Western Union Co. (WU) Down 3.03 percent (54 to $17.29. • (GSS) — Down 2.46 percent (5 to $1.98. • (UDR) — Down 2.04 percent (22 cents) to • (PLD) — Down 1.98 percent (18 to $8.89.

Contemplate Allah's Nearness to You - Onislam.net

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Contemplate Allah's Nearness to You Onislam.net (Saba' 34: 50) There are many ways we can understand God's nearness to us, and all of these increase our God-consciousness and strengthen our faith. One of these is that He is near to those who beseech Him and beg of Him. Prophet Muhammad (peace be ...

Boatmaker Genmar files Chapter 11 - Pacific Business News (Honolulu):

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The petition to reorganize its debtd was filed Monday afternoobnin U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Minneapolis alonb with more than 20related subsidiaries. Genmar has betweeb 100 and 199 It lists its assets in the rageof $10 millioj to $50 million and its liabilities betweenb $100 million and $500 million, according to cour documents. The largest unsecured creditorsare Edelman, Borman, Brand, a Minneapolis-basex law firm which is owed $186,700. , a law firm in is owed $155,800. Law firm in is representing Genmar in thebankruptcy case. The only secured creditors areand , according to a story in the Minneapolies Star Tribune .
Genmar said it has receive commitment fora debtor-in-possession (DIP) financing proposalp from both banks. In a Genmar Chairman, CEO and largest shareholdee Irwin Jacobs said sales ofthe company’z fishing boats, luxury yachts and other products startede to decline in 2008, but worsened in recent months. The company’s sales in fiscal which ends in are likely to beabout $460 million, off by more than 50 percentr from fiscal 2008. “If someone would have said to me as recently as even one monthn ago that Genmar would someday be filint forChapter 11, I would have said it was not even a remotde possibility,” Jacobs said.
Genmar had been makinhg some strategy changes inrecent months, . A spinoff company, Pa.-based , and other Jacobs-related companieds aren’t included in the filing. VEC for energy-generating

UCSF Med School under fire from Sen. Grassley - St. Louis Business Journal:

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The June 17 story, by James Oliphanr ( ), said Grassley, the top Republican on the powerfupl SenateFinance Committee, has askedf UCSF to supply documents on federal funding over the last five including details of an external revies by the KPMG accounting firm. “If the financial integritu of UCSF is Grassley said in a letter tothe university, according to the L.A. Times, “I am worriedc that similar problems regarding taxpayer dollars may also exis at other campuses withinb theUC system, such as UC UCLA and UC Davis.” Grassley’s comments come in durinf a continuing feud between UCSF and Davif Kessler, former dean of its medicak school, who earlier headed the U.S.
Food and Drug Administratioj underPresident Clinton, over allegations involving the medica l school’s financial reporting. The Times reportex that Kessler was fired inlate 2007, “aftert repeatedly complaining that he had been misled about the school’w finances.” Kessler has filed a whistleblower lawsuitt against the and is seeking to get his job along with lost pay, benefits and damages, the Times Grassley raised his concerns in an April letter to UC Presidentt Mark Yudof, according to the Times.
UCSF was awardesd $444 million last year from the National Institutesof Health, with $383 million going to the medical which is also seeking a big chun of federal stimulus funding. University official have said Kessler was firedfor performance-related reasons, Oliphant’e article notes, but they’rwe treating him as a whistleblower. Kessler’s lawsuit has been stayed pendinf the conclusion of anadministrative review, the Timeds report said.
In a comment provided Wednesday afternoob to the San FranciscoBusiness Times, UC reiteratec that it has provided informationn to Grassley’s office on the financial issuew in question and that Kessler’s allegations have been exhaustivelgy and repeatedly investigated at the University’w expense. Those investigations “have foundd no evidence whatsoever of any inaccurach in the books and records of the UC said in itswritten statement. UC officialas also noted that a reviee released in March 2008 bythe U.S.
Departmengt of Health and Human Services’ Office of the Inspecto General found thatUCSF “had complied with all Federall regulations for claiming reimbursemeny for administrative and clerical expenses” connecte d to the NIH funding.

Governor lobbies for increased incentives for film industry - Denver Business Journal:

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Kulongoski is seeking support for SenateBill 621, which wouls reauthorize and increase the financial incentives for The plan is capped at $10 million per biennium. Kulongoski wants to raises the capto $15 million. A Senate committee passeed thebill Monday. In the first six monthe of 2009, television and movie productions invested morethan $40 millio in Oregon, according to the governor’s That’s the highest total in 15 years. In recenyt weeks, a Harrison Ford movied called “The Untitled Crowley Project” and the TNT seriew “Leverage” have been shooting in Portland.
Producers for "Thes Untitled Crowley Project" joined Kulongoski at Monday's press conference at . “Oregojn has become an A-list location for the film and televisiohindustry – and an important critical piece of Oregon’s the governor said in a news release. “Greebn energy is one bright spotin Oregon’s economu and the film industry is generating an additional $1.1 million in income for Oregojn workers and local businesses for every $1 millioj spent by a production.” The governor credited the incentivd program, created in 2003, with spurring the growth of the state's film prograjm from a $2.1 million industry to an $8 millio industry.

Ernst & Young names Entrepreneur of the Year winners - St. Louis Business Journal:

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The winners were announced at an event Thursday nigh at the Sheraton OverlandPark Hotel. Winners were selected by an independentf judging panel comprised ofregionall business, academic and community The Central Midwest program recognizes companies base in Iowa, Kansas, Missouri and Nebraska. The 2009 winners in the CentrapMidwest are: • Wholesalde distribution category: Robert Reynolds Jr., chairman, president and CEO, Inc., based in St. • Service category: Peter Spanos, foundere and CEO, of St. Louis. • Mastee category: James Ferrell, chairman and CEO, of Overland Park, Kan. • Technologyt category: August Grasis III, founder and of Kansas City, Mo.
• Life sciences Christopher Nelson, president of , Des Iowa. • Private equity/venture capitao backed category: Dr. Nicholas Franano, chief scientififc officer, and William Whitaker, vice presiden t and general counsel, , Kansas City, Mo. • Consumer products category: Alisa Shakespeare, president, , Davenport, Iowa. Regional award winners will be eligible for consideration for theErnsgt & Young LLP Entrepreneur Of The Year 2009 national Winners in national categories as well as the overall national Ernst & Younvg Entrepreneur Of The Year award winner will be announceed Nov. 14.

Donatella Versace Loves the 'Desirable' Christopher Kane - Chic Dish

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Donatella Versace Loves the 'Desirable' Christopher Kane Chic Dish Donatella Versace believes Christopher Kane is a success because his designs are "desirable" to women. The Scottish designer has been working with Donatella's fashion house since he consulted with her for the first time in 2006, and she thinks he does ... and more »