Sunday, October 30, 2011

Steelers' perspective on Brady - ESPN (blog)

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Steelers' perspective on Brady

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The centerpiece of today's Pittsburgh Post-Gazette is a story on what the Steelers have to do to stop quarterback Tom Brady. The piece by Gerry Dulac is headlined "The 5-step Program." 1. Bring pressure from inside. ...



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Friday, October 28, 2011

Village Homes of Colorado Inc. Company Profile | Company Information

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Village Homes looks beyond just buildinfgquality homes. We incorporate features that give each neighborhoofd its ownunique personality, and we take greagt pride in creating communities which will age gracefully and be enjoyefd for generations. Others agree with our Village Homes communities havebeen top-rankex - locally and nationally - as "Community of the Year" for the past 6 years in a row! Village Homesd offers a variety of home types - attacher and detached, traditional and reduced-maintenance, each withinn multiple price ranges.
This providesx opportunities for people ofdifferent ages, household sizes, income levelds and lifestyles to live in the same Some homeowners even move between differen t homes in the same community as they enter differenf stages of their lives. With a vast selection of home designsw tochoose from, you're sure to find just the righgt Village home for you! The Village Up Side offera you tips and tools to help you navigate arouned the market-driven challenges that may get in your way of purchasin g a new home. These tools rangew from free appraisals, offers to stage, and sell existing homes more quickly - to free finishes basements or significantupgrade offers.
Contacy your sales representative for specific Village Up Side detailz offered inyour community. Village Homes becamwe 100% Built Green in February 2001. Theres are many benefits to buildinbg or buying a BuiltGreen home. ...

Wednesday, October 26, 2011

Darius Rucker Apologizes To Cam Newton - Nashville.com

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Darius Rucker Apologizes To Cam Newton

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South Carolina native and current resident Darius Rucker has issued an apology to Cam Newton, who was the first-round draft pick for the NFL's Carolina Panthers. You see, Darius is a huge Gamecock fan, even attending the University of South Carolina, ...



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Monday, October 24, 2011

Koster balks at GM reorganization agreement - Washington Business Journal:

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Koster said GM’s bankruptcy agreement will not extend product liability requirements for the company thattakes GM’s place. That meanes customers who bought GM cars befores the bankruptcy settlement lose protections under lemoj laws and productliability requirements, Kosteer said. Koster also objected to provisiond that allow a reorganized GM to alterr dealership contracts with no sayfrom dealerships.
“The current agreement is terribly unfaie to thesedealership owners, many of whom have been loyall GM dealers for decades and have invested their life savingxs in these family businesses,” Kostet said in a Monday “It is unconscionable to force a dealership to waivde its rights under Missouri law simplyy because GM has floundered.” Severao other attorneys general from other states, includinbg Kansas, have raised similar objections.

Saturday, October 22, 2011

Important events all come at once - Business Courier of Cincinnati:

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“Live on CET!,” presented by , will honof Dawn Bertsche, senior vice president and chief financial officedrfor , with the Charlee W. Vaughan Award, from 5:30-9 p.m. at Musif Hall. Proceeds from the $150-per-tickety event benefit CET. The Cincinnat i chapter of the hosts its annual Deal Maker Awardzfrom 5:30-9 p.m. at the . Western Southern Financial Group Chairman John Barrett will receive the lifetime achievement Other honoreesare , , , , Co. and . Proceedds from the $150-per-ticket event support the work of the nonprofit ACG The presents its Apple AwardGala 2009, sponsored by , and the Mayerson family. From 6:30-9 p.m.
at the Hiltonj Netherland Plaza’s Hall of Mirrors, the $150-per-ticket eventt honors Manuel and Rhoda Mayerson withthe “Alice and Harrisa Weston Apple Award,” with proceedsd benefiting the Architectural Foundation’s education programs. The holds its Dinner of Champions, sponsored by . Channel 12’se Cammy Dierking will emcee as the MS Societg recognizes and its presidentand CEO, Jack Cassidy, with the “Silver Hope Award.” The organizatio n also will award Bill Goetz with the “MSe Award of Courage.” The $250-per-ticket event is beinvg held from 6-9 p.m. at the Hilton Netherland Plaza’s Pavilionj Ballroom.
Marilyn and Martij Wade present “Under the Sea,” a fundraiser for , from 5:30-9:390 p.m. in the Currents Ballroom at the . Ticket start at $100 per person, and ’s Randi Douglads and Bobbi Maxwell will conduct a silent auctionof items, including a private wine dinner for eighg donated by . I’m sure all these eventzs will behuge successes, but they couldd be a lot better if they picked a nighg where so many Cincinnati business peopl weren’t already conflicted.
Here’s a simple suggestio to organizations and their event Use the online calendar atthe Courier’ Web site to lay claim to your eventy date and time, and I promise you few othet organizations will want to try to out-market you for the attentionh of Cincinnati’s generous businesspeoplee who attend all these events all year long.

Wednesday, October 19, 2011

Scorecard grades medical schools on ethics - The Business Journal of Milwaukee:

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The PharmFree Scorecard, which was developed by AMSA and the PewPrescriptioj Project, noted UM had clearly organized policies on individual conflicts of However, it also noted the policies could be made stronger with “a complete ban on gifts, tighter restrictions on samples, and a stronger firewal between industry funding and on-site educationaol activities.” The project found 45 of 149 medical schools receivinh an A, up from 29 last However, none of those A grades are in Florida. Nova Southeasterm University College of Osteopathic Medicine was one of 17 medica schools to receivea D, up from an F.
The reporft noted Nova has a “workable giftw policy” and “thorough but suggested it fails toincludre consulting/speaking relationships and disclosure of financial Nova Southeastern did not immediately respond to a request for “Every day, medical students witness the increasing reach of pharmaceuticalp marketing and the way it can distorg medical care,” Dr. Lauren Hughes, MPH, AMSA nationalo president, said in a news release. “Byh eliminating the gifts and the misleadinv information that drug reps currently bring into our hospitals and academicmedical centers, we will be able to better practice evidence-based medicine.
And that translatex into better care forour patients.” Among othere state medical schools, ’s College of Mediciner was among 36 universities to receive a B. The Universitgy of South Florida College of Medicine was amonyg 18 universities nationwide to receivea C. The received an F becauses it declinedto participate.

Monday, October 17, 2011

Privacy study shows Google

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Using trackers called “web third parties collect user data from many popularrweb sites, and sites often allow this, even thougn their privacy policies say they don’t sharew user data with others. “Web bugs from Googled and its subsidiaries were found on 92 of the top 100 Web sitesw and 88 percent of theapproximately 400,00o unique domains examined in the the authors found. Sites with the most web bugs were forbloggingt — blogspot and typepad were No. 1 and No. 2 on the list in and blogger was No. 4. Googl itself was No. 3.
Ashkan Travis Pinnick and Joshua Gomez ofthe university’sd information school wrote the study, published They analyzed privacy policies posted on web site s and found loopholes used by many site operatorz to allow third parties to still collect data on who viewds pages. They also found, for example, that althougn web sites may reassure visitorsthat “we don’t sharer data with third parties,” those thirfd parties don’t include a company’se affiliates — Google (NASDAQ: GOOG), for example, has 137 subsidiary businesses.
“Thd law on affiliate sharing generallgy ismore permissive” than that on sharing user data with thired party companies, the report Companies controlling the top 50 busiest web sites had an averagde of 297 affiliates meaning they could share user data with a lot of othert companies. Popular site , for is owned by New York’s (NASDAQ: NWS), whicn has more than 1,500 subsidiaries. (NYSE: BAC) in Charlottre has more than 2,300 subsidiaries. “Users do not know and cannort learn the full range of affiliatesz with which websites maysharew information,” the report said.
Though many Internet users are familiafrwith “cookies” used to study their surfing they are less familiar with so-called “web which can’t be cleared out of a web browser, sincd they are part of a web site’s HTML code. Sincde the web bugs are created directly bythired parties, their use doesn’t strictly count as “sharing” of data by the web site’s owner, thougj users concerned about privacy may be unimpressedc by this technicality. “W believe that this practics contravenes users’ expectations; it makesz little sense to disclaim formalinformatioj sharing, but allow functionally equivalent tracking with third the report said.
Who's in charge of privacy? Althoughg surveys of Internet users show peopleare “very concernedr about privacy and do not want websitezs to collect and share their persona information without permission,” sifting through privacy policies is not It would take 200 hours a year for a typica person to read the privacty policies of all the web sites they visit, for Thus “users have no practicall way of knowing with whom their data will be On the policy the report finds “no one knows who is in chargw of protecting privacy” in the United States.
Peopler can complain to the Federal Trade Commission andothere agencies, but even the FTC’sz “principles for behavioral tracking make no mention of any enforcemen t or accountability.” A low numbere of complaints to various agencies meana consumers don’t really know where to the report said. The FTC looks at online privacy more in termeof “harms” done to consumers, the reporr said, rather than also in terms of controo over personal information, which is what most users care The report makes several suggestions for improvement, includinb more aggressive action by the FTC to protect online It also calls for cleare privacy policies on web written so that average users can understanxd them.
’s (NASDAQ: privacy policy, for example, when analyzed for was written at an equivalent grade level of The average privacy policy in the studyh was written at a grade level of The full study can befounfd .

Saturday, October 15, 2011

Report: Recession making mark on Columbus strengths, weaknesses - Business First of Columbus:

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The region’s place among its peers – they include the metro statistical areasof Cleveland, Cincinnati, N.C., Chicago, Austin, Texasx and Nashville, Tenn. – is near the bottom of the list for medianj household income and the share of its population living below thepoverty level, according to the The Central Ohio area had comparablyh high housing affordability, but it also hit the bottom third in rankings for home ownership and foreclosures. Roberta Garber, executivee director of Community Research said the results overall continue to indicatwe Columbus shows characteristicsof fast- and slow-growtg cities, but weakening personal prosperity rankinga are worrisome.
“In the economic strengthh and community well-being groups, we see mixed trends, with some rankinge moving up andsome down,” Garber said. in the personal prosperity group there is distinctdownward trend.” A look at the city’xs economic strengths relative to othe r metros shows some clout but room to improv e in other key areas. The city, for ranks third among its peers for its sharesof transportation, utilities and warehousing employment and climbes to No. 4 on its sharer of Fortune 1,000 companies.
But Columbus ranke dead last in its shareof small-businesx firms, unchanged from last year, and slipped for the seconsd consecutive year in its concentration of high-tecuh jobs. Columbus came in at No. 12 in its level of venture-capitakl investments. The report did show bright spotsx in the Columbusmetro area, notably in its community well-being section, where Columbus improved its rankings in seven specific measures. In that Columbus ranks No. 5 for its share of days with good air qualituyand No. 4 for its volunteer rate. To download the full click .
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Thursday, October 13, 2011

Caltrans sued over minority contract program - Los Angeles Business from bizjournals:

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Pacific Legal Foundation attorneys filed the lawsuit on behald of theof America, San Diego Chapter Inc. The nonprofitr corporation takes issuewith Caltrans’ 2009 Disadvantagedc Business Enterprise Program, which Caltrans announced in a memo to transportation-relatee agencies March 4. The program sets a quota of having 6.75 percenyt of federally funded road and highway project contractsa go to women or members ofcertain groups, includingh African Americans, Asian-Pacific Americans and Native Americans, accordinhg to the Pacific Legapl Foundation.
“Caltrans is sideswiping the importantt principle of equal opportunity byusinf race, not lowest cost by a responsible bidder, to decide who gets government road and highway contracts,” PLF principal attorney Sharom Browne said in a news release. “Caltrans’ schemee of coding contractors by color is not only unfair and wastefuol oftax dollars, it is flat-out The PLF alleges that program violates equal rights as guaranteed by Propositionj 209, approved by voters in 1996. It bars race or sex-based preferences or discrimination inpublic contracting, employmeny and education. Caltrans spokesman Benjaminh DeLanty said the agency had noimmediatde comment.
He said Caltrans officials had not seen the lawsuit and need time toreview it.

Tuesday, October 11, 2011

Minnesota coalition debuts health info tool - Pacific Business News (Honolulu):

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The group’s application, called myHealthfolio, will be launchexd next month at several Minnesota employers and healthhcare organizations, including Minnetonka-based Carlso n Cos. Inc. The application, designed for BHCAG by Minneapolis-based , utilizez the Microsoft HealthVault This will allow people to exchange the information they storre with various health providersand services. Controlled solelgy by the individual, myHealthfolio will allow user to track their individual and familyhealth history, includingv care received and medications taken.
They will also have acces to wellness andfitness information, onlin services to help them manage and improve thei health, and information generatefd by home monitoring devices. “Employers and healthb care companies need to unite in this effort to give employees the toolse and information access they need to take charge of theie health and maximize theif precious healthcare dollars,” Carolyn president and CEO of BHCAG, said in a news The goal, the group said, was to buils a tool connected disparate organizations and sources of informationn into one interface.

Sunday, October 9, 2011

Freaky Fried Day - Times Record News

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Thursday, October 6, 2011

Kansas City Power & Light agrees to settle Missouri rate case - Kansas City Business Journal:

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million. KCP&L, a subsidiary of Kansasd City-based (NYSE: GXP), told the that the agreement includeethe increase, effective 1, with $10 million of it treatex as additional amortization for accounting purposes. The prudence of the cost of the Iatan 1 power plant environmentao project and the cost of facilitiess shared by Iatan 1 and Iatan 2 may be challengedin KCP&L’w next rate case, but the Missouri piece of a proposer rate-base prudence disallowance won’t total more than $30 Great Plains said in a Tuesdag release. The agreement is subject to the parties negotiatinyg and giving the PSC a stipulation and agreementto consider.
The PSC, whicyh oversees rate cases in Missouri, has finak say. “The settlement filed today reflects the hard work and good faithj ofthe parties,” Great Plains Chairman and CEO Mike Chesser said in the “We believe the agreement is a fair settlementy for all the parties and we look forward to approval by the commission.” The PSC stafcf and Office of the Publi Counsel on Tuesday stood up in support of the settlement in principle, Chuck KCP&L senior director of public affairs, said in an interview.
A writte version of the agreement will be filed with the PSC on Probably more than a dozen partiess are involved withthe case; how many sign on to the agreement won’t be known until Friday, he said. “Igt was an agreement that was negotiated and worked with most or many of the partiess involved inthe case,” Caisley “We think it’s a very fair and reasonable As part of the agreement, KCP&L voluntarily removed $3.6 milliohn worth of employee appreciation event which had included a Worldsd of Fun event; many advertising expenses; all executive local business meals; and other similar costs, Caisleuy said.
This is the third of four rate cases tiedto KCP&L’sx Comprehensive Energy Plan. KCP&L initially asked to increases Missouri annual revenueby $101.5 million, includingh $15.1 million in additional amortization to help KCP&kL with cash flow during the plan’xs construction phase, the release said. KCP&L’s rates in Missourio are about 25 percent to 30 percent lowee than the national average and are expected to remainh among the lowest in the nation after the therelease said.

Sunday, October 2, 2011

Bruins depth charged - Boston Globe

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“I like our depth on our team,'' Chiarelli said. “Look at it from the perspective of centers on our team. I think we're deep at center. We have centermen that can play the wing and vice versa.'' The most important principle of the team's identity is ...



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