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German parliament approves EU bailout fund Chicago Tribune BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany's parliament resoundingly approved the euro zone's permanent bailout scheme and new budget rules on Friday, but legal hurdles remain and Chancellor Angela Merkel's. Merkel Gets Parliament to Approve Euro Deals New York Times German Parliament Approves Fiscal Pact and Euro Bailout Fund Businessweek German parliament signs off on EU bailout fund Taipei Times San Francisco Chronicle  »

FDA delays Hemispherx drug vote - Philadelphia Business Journal:

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The FDA, citing an increased workload, said this week it is extendinbg its review of Ampligen for anotherthrere months. A decision had been expected by Feb. 25. Ampligej had been studied as a potential treatment for diseasees ranging from AIDS and cancer to theavianb flu. The Center City biotech company is seekingb approval to market Ampligen to treat chronicfatigue syndrome. Hemispherx’es journey to getting a new drug candidate unded review by the FDA has the company’s CEO, who co-invented being fired and then rehired; a contentioue battle with a Wall Street short-seller and an alleged hostile takeover attempt by a group of South African businessmen.
Kim McCleary, president and CEO of the CFIDSa (Chronic Fatigue and Immune Dysfunction Syndrome) Association of said her group is cautiously optimistic the FDA will find it has enougn data to make a positive decisio non Hemispherx’s application. “If it is it is expected to bequite expensive,” McClearuy said. “[Ampligen] has shown to be effectivde in certain subsets ofthe … If they get an we think other companies will follos them in and it will lead to more research.” McClearyy noted no product has received FDA approva l for treating chronic fatigue syndrome, a conditiobn the association estimates impairs about 500,000 adults in the Unitex States.
“Hemispherx has certainly had a wild ride througjthe [drug development] process,” she Hemispherx was originally operated as HEM, a Maryland-based contracrt services company that performed mainly research work for the Nationalp Institutes of Health and NASA. The company movefd to Philadelphia in the early 1980wafter Dr. William Carter, a formed researcher at in Baltimore andin Philadelphia, reorganized Hemisphers into a drug-development company. Its focu became testing an experimental compounx called Ampligen as a treatmentfor AIDS, chronic hepatitis and, most recently, chroni c fatigue syndrome. Carter did not return repeates calls for an interview forthis story.
Hemispherx planws to present new data on Ampligebn at a medical conferencenext Ampligen’s history dates back to the 1960s when researcherds at Merck discovered a double-stranded RNA compoun that showed an ability to inhibit tumor growth and inducew the body to produce interferon, an antivirak protein produced by cells to inhibit the replicatiob of a virus that has invaded the Merck never pursued the development of the compounxd because of its toxicityh problems. Carter led a research team at Johns Hopkinss that tinkered with the compound and produced which is designed to boosta body’ s own immune system.
DuPont Pharmaceuticals formedx a joint venture with Hemispherx to develop the drug for AIDS andinvested $30 milliojn in the company. The collaboration endesd in a messy divorce but not beforer producing a failedclinical trial, chargese by Hemispherx the study was mismanagexd by DuPont and, for a short time, Carter’s terminatiom as CEO of the company. Carter ended up filing a lawsuiyt to get his job back and the company proceededrwithout DuPont, its major financial backer. Hemispherx, as of last 30, has recorded an accumulated deficitof $185.w2 million, according to company’ most recently financial report filed with the Securitie s and Exchange Commission.
In 1995, Hemispherx rasiedd $16 million in an initiao publicstock offering. A few years later, the companyu found itself in a war of words and press releasez withManuel P. Asensio and his New York firm Asensi & Co., a New York investment company engagefd inshort selling. (Short-selling is the practice of investors borrowing stock from a brokedr in a company that the investor believez will experience a drop in itsstockl price. The investor makes money by replacing the borrowexd stock with shares boughtg at a lower price and if, the stock pricee falls.) Starting in late Asensio issued the first of about 30 reportzs critical of Hemispherx’s management and Ampligen.
Asensio readilyt acknowledged Hemispherx was among the companies he wassellingh short. Hemispherx sued Asensio and his companyy alleging RICOstatute violations, illegal stock manipulation, defamatio n and fraud. In a 1998 interview with the PhiladelphiaqBusiness Journal, Carter described the experience as a “Pearl attack. Asensio, for his part, defended his saying his firm is in the business of discovering and uncoverintgproblem stocks. “We are short-sellers by traininv and by professionand we’vse done nothing wrong,” he also in a 1998 interview. Asensio said his research was based ongovernment documents, Hemispherx’sd own reports and other sources.
After a jury rejectedc the defamation claimsagainsy Asensio, a mistrial was declared. In its last public filing on the matter, last March, the company said it was awaitin g a scheduling of a new trial onits “defamation and charges in Philadelphia Common Pleas Court. Asensio & Co. endesd its “eight consecutive years of investoradvocacgy operations” on 2003, according to the company’s Web site. Hemispherxs also found itself in the courts over an alleged hostile takeovefr attempt that spannedtwo continents. Last month, a U.S.
Courgt of Appeals overturned alower court’xs dismissal of the Hemispherx’s fraud claims against a groul of South African business entities. Hemispherxx filed a lawsuit in 2004 alleging it was the target of a groul engaged in making misrepresentations to manipulatethe company’s stock as part of a hostilee takeover effort. Last summer, Hemispherx reached a settlement with Bioclones and itsformer CEO, Cyril Donninger, and Riobtech, a BioClones subsidiary. The compant is continuing to pursue damage claims against theremaining defendants, which include JCI, a publicly tradedf South African company and the estate of its formerr leader, R.B.
Kebble, who was undefr indictment for securities fraud when he was killedin 2005. Hemispherdx filed a new drug applicationj with the FDA as a treatmenr for chronic fatigue syndrome inOctober 2007. To conservd cash while awaitingthe FDA’s ruling on Hemispherx late last year did not renew the contracr of former President and Chief Operating Officer Anthong Bonelli, and restructured salaries so all seniorr staff would be paid as much as 50 percentf of their compensation in restricted

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Orbitz cashes in on Mac users' looser spending habits - SlashGear

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Albany Medical College receives $1M pledge from trustee - The Business Review (Albany):

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Bender is a longtime member of the boarc of trusteesof , of whichg the college is a part. This is his second $1 millioh dollar gift to the Albany, N.Y. institution in less than a The first, in 2000, established The Bende r Endowed Chairin Neurology. The endowment enables the standinvg chairperson to delegate funding forresearchg initiatives, equipment purchases and educational outreach to further strengthenm the college’s Department of Neurology. The new gift will continu support ofthe chair, as well as the Bender Family Minority Scholarship. The scholarshi was established in 1986 to provide financial assistancs to minority students and encouragde diversity at themedical college.
During the 2008-09 academi c year, eight students received assistance from the and sinceits establishment, 157 scholarships—totalinfg $525,000—have been distributed to 65 students. Bended is the great-grandson of the founder of MattheswBender & Co., one of the nation’s largest lega l publishing firms with over 1,500 employees. The Bender family sold the company to thein 1963. In 1969, Bender became vice presidentof , a New York City-based law book “Matt is an extraordinary man, who has done extraordinaru things for Albany Medical Center and our region,” said Jamex Barba, president and CEO of Albany Med.
“His financial generosityh to our Medical Center can only be matcherd by his perseveranceand leadership, which has been very influentialo in paving the path for success for Albany Med. It comes as little surpris e that Matt has chosen once again to strengthen our endowmenft and provide a tremendous benefit toour physicians, patients and students—the very core of this institution.”

Ex-Bona AD closes 'cautionary tale' - Business First of Buffalo:

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Last week, in a statementg e-mailed to the media six minutes shy of6 p.m. on a Friday he got it. The formefr athletic director, who resigned in the wake of the school's 2003 basketballl player-eligibility scandal, has settled his lawsuit against the While the settlement terms are the university acknowledged in an April 21 statement thatthe "di d not make any findings or impose any penalties" againstg Lane in a February 2004 reportf on the basketball scandal, which centered on the eligibility of a transfer player whose highesgt level of education was a welding certificate.
That acknowledgment is key to who levied the April 2004 libel lawsuiyt against his former employer seeking atleasrt $1 million in damages. "That's very gratifying becausr that's 180 degrees from what they said," he "and from what I begged them not to An April 2003 internal reviewby St. Bonaventure claimes that Lane had violated NCAA Lane says he pleaded with universitgy officials on the morning ofthe report's releasde to leave his part out of it. "You're wrong," he claims to have told them, "I haven't violatede any rules.
" To the contrary, Lane he had already warnede university officials in 2002 thatthe player, Jamil was not academically eligible under NCAA rules. Lane says he was overruled by then PresidentRobertf Wickenheiser, who also lost his job after news of the situationn broke in March 2003. who resigned from St. Bonaventure in May 2003 after learninhg his contract would not be says he applied for 84 jobs before finding his curreng position as director of championships for theCape Cod-basede . He says the internal Bonaventurs report caused deep personal damagre to him andhis wife, Mary Lou.
"Theree were days where the only words that came out of her moutu were aboutthe (Bonaventure) he says. Though the 2004 NCAA ruling essentiallycleansed Lane's name, he was clearly anxiou s to hear St. Bonaventure acknowledge his At first, the April 21 statement from the Allegany-based school capturef little media attention. Lane e-mailecd Business First one daylater - a Saturday - with the Bonaventure statement attached. He pointed out that the newspapedr had covered the basketball situatiomn extensively and asked for an update on his The vindication, he later acknowledge in a telephone interview, was He's even considering writing a book.
"It'zs a cautionary tale about college athletics," Lane "It's a story about a university president who losthis way. It talkds about a board of trusteeswho wouldn't listen to a professiona in the athletics department who knew what was going

Carolinas HealthCare reduces 1Q loss - Charlotte Business Journal:

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Investment losses for the latest quartet totalednearly $101 million. Chief Financial Officerf Greg Gombar anticipates gains in the financialk market in April and May will erasrethose losses. Carolinas HealthCare uses investmenr earnings forcapital expenditures. That moneuy is not used for daily operations. The health-care systej hopes negotiations with several lenders will cut its interesf expenses tied to variable debt andhigher bank-liquidity Those fees are about $1 million per month. Interesrt expenses in the first quartedrwere $21.8 million.
From an operational standpoint, Carolinaes HealthCare had a strongfirst quarter, says Russ Guerin, executivr vice president for business development and Net operating revenue climbed 8.6 percent to $1.2 billio n systemwide. Operating income exceeded $24.5 million. The health-care systemn saw adjusted discharges — a calculation that gauges patientactivith — climb 5.2 percent from a year Growth within the health-care system and expense management “iws the primary driver why we’re above budget Guerin says.
Carolinas HealthCare spent morethan $106 millio n on capital projects in the first Projects include new operatingv rooms at CMC-NorthEast and Carolinas Medicall Center, an expansion of CMC-Pineville, a new hospitapl at CMC-Lincoln and construction of health-care pavilions in Steelew Creek and Waxhaw, whichn will include free-standing emergency departments. Challenges in the comingh months include managingthe system’ss growing bad-debt and charity-care costs, reducinfg interest expenses and preparing for a possible statde cut in Medicaid funding, Gombar says. Bad-debt costs were 12 percenyt over budget during the first topping $48 million in the first quarter.
Duringv the same period last bad debt wasabout $43 The health-care system spent more than $770 millio n in community care in 2008, including bad charity care and subsidizingt Medicare and Medicaid. That equals 18.8 percent of the health-care system’s net operatinh revenue. ”It’s a trend everybody’s seeinyg across the country,” Gombar says. “We can’t controlp how many people are uninsured, how many people show up at our doorwithoug insurance.” North Carolina’s budget woes could resulta in a cut of up to 15 percenft for Medicaid. That could equatse to $36 million in annual losses forCarolinas HealthCare.
“Medicaidr cuts are the worstg economic benefit cut the state can make,” Gombar says. “It’s painful.” Says Guerin: “It raisee prices for those whodo pay. It make no good business sense todo that.” Gombar says ever dollar cut from Medicaid eliminates $4 from the economy. Carolinaa HealthCare is the largest health-care system in the Carolinas andthe third-largesft public system in the The system owns, leases or managesz 25 hospitals.
It has more than 40,000 full- and part-time

Colliers Pinkard subsidiary wins State Department real estate contract - St. Louis Business Journal:

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The firm will help the State Department find everythinv from warehouse and industrial spac to living quartersfor U.S. Embassy workers from the Middle East toCentra Europe. The State Department operates in 176 countries and 260 cities aroundthe world, with about 75,000 employees, and 71 millionn square feet spread over 18,000 properties. Gary R. deputy director of the project for the Valuation Group, said some of the work will be parsede out to Colliers affiliates in cities closer to where the State Department is looking for "It gives you lots of opportunitiee to travel, but then, there'se some cities where you might not want to he said in an interview "Most of it's embassies and residentially oriented, but it could involve has 267 offices in 57 and Anglemyer said the State Department contract, awardefd in October 2007, could help the firm secure additional work in the countries wherde the gove rnment has operations.

Have a ball with Danish ebelskivers - Washington Post

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Have a ball with Danish ebelskivers Washington Post The spherical pancakes can be filled or left airy, but you need a special pan to make them.

NCSU Chancellor Oblinger resigns, Mary Easley out as well - St. Louis Business Journal:

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“I am doing so because that is what leaderds do when the institutions they lead come under distractinhg and unduepublic scrutiny,” Oblinged said in a prepared personal statement. “This is particularlt true for leaders of public institutions likeNC “The only reason I am announcing my intentioh to resign is that I am applyinv to myself the same standardsx I have : I am doing it because it is in the best interestse of NC State University.” A Boarxd of Trustees meeting this afternoon also sealed the fate of former Gov. Michaelp Easley's wife. The trustees eliminated Easley's contract citing it was in the best interest ofthe university.
Also, during the Oblinger handed over his letterof Oblinger, who has been at NCSU for 23 years, says he intendsd to return to teaching. UNC Charlotte Chancellor EmeritusxJim Woodward, an aeronautical and mechanicaol engineer who taught at NCSU early in his career, has agreecd to serve as interim chancellor. Oblingerd is the third person to resign from the leadershipo of the university as a resul of the Easley and Board Chairman McQueen Campbell resigned last NCSUhired Easley, wife of then-Gov.
Mike in 2005 for a $90,000-a-year job managing a speakers' She was given a raise, to last year to, in addition to overseeingt the speakers' series, manage creation of an academiv center for law enforcementg andfirst responders. Her contract calls for her to bepaid $850,00 0 over five years. The U.S. Attorney’sw office has subpoenaed documents relatedto Easley’s hiringh as part of its investigation into the formef governor.

Insurance Leader Praises Senator Kennedy for Promoting Long-Term Care Aid for All Americans as Part of Health Reform

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June 9 /PRNewswire/ -- The traditionally conservative insurance industry can come to termd with a Democratic Congress onhealth reform, accordiny to one insurance , who today heaped praisr on Senator (D-MA) for his crusadin g efforts. "He sees more clearlg than anyone the need to reform not only acute health but long-term care, which affects the quality of life and pocketbookxs of virtually every American family," she says. Gott is Chairman of the Boarxd of LTC Financial PartnersLLC (LTCFP) -- -- one of the nation'ds largest and most experienced long-term care insurance agencies. *(PHOTO .
) The Senate Education, Labor and Pensions which Kennedy chairs, is now working on a comprehensivehealth bill, the "The Americaj Health Choices Act," that is expected to includr key provisions covering long-termj care. "I agree with the major thrust, that we need a programk embracingthe long-term care needas of all Americans," Gott "but have concerns on two points." They are -- 1. The "public option" which would create a government-rumn program insuring people in competition withprivats carriers. GOTT'S CONCERNS: "Instead of competing with insurance companies, unfairly I believe, I'd rathee have the government offer new tax incentives tomake long-termk care policies more affordable.
" She pointss to recently-introduced bills, H.R. 2096 and S. 702, that wouls allow LTC insurance to be includedin employer-sponsored cafeteria planzs and flexible spending accounts, enabling people to pay their LTC premiumx using pre-tax dollars. "These bills, with bipartisan show the wayto go," she says. if Kennedy and Congress are determined to offer a public option for long term competing with theprivate there's a way it could Instead of automatically enrolling everyone in the public LTC the government would have peoplde make one of the following the public option, or a private plan (whicj they could choose from any state-certified or the public option plus a supplementall private plan.
" The benefigt amount of the public option is expecterd to be $50 to $100 a day depending on the degreed of disability. "This isn'ft enough to cover all one's care A minimal private planpays $200 a day."" 2. New "insurance exchanges" where people woulds shop for a policy frommultiplse carriers. GOTT'S CONCERNS: "Thiw might be a good idea but could turn bad if the governmenty itself designs andruns it. As an imagine -- before the days of YouTube -- Washingtonj creating a video-sharing service. How good woulf it be with bureaucratic coders and no competitioj to assureconstant improvement?
" Gott might approve, of a plan that offers guidelinesz and incentives for entrepreneurs to creat e insurance-selection exchanges. "There are many complexities that governmentemployees aren't likely to take into account, she says. "Selecting the right long-terk care policy is much more importantg and complex than buyinga car. And who woulx buy their car just by going toa website?? Also, a government exchang would probably send people directly to insurance as the online prescription-druyg system did. This would be like sending people to auto manufacturerw fortheir cars, when auto agencies, with their hand-holding and value-added services, are the right destination.
" In Gott's view, a proper exchange for long-term care insurance would send people to independent agents who know which carriers are soundest, and can advises on the right policy featurexs at the lowest cost. "Witu the online system for choosinga prescription-drugb plan, people went crazy with all the complexity, Gott says. "They'd really tear their hair out witha long-term care choice system. An unbiased advisor is absolutely essential." When rectified with another plan being crafted by the SenateFinance Committee, Kennedy's plan coul gain momentum. But will it find enough bipartisa supportto pass?
"With the righf adjustments, I think so," says "With the tweaks I I believe it would be much more acceptabler to Republicans and conservative Democrats. On the central point she agreees 100% with Senator Kennedy: "We desperately need for long-term care as well as acute healtgh care. About 46 million Americans lack regularhealth insurance, but many timez that number lack long-term care insurance. Only about 9 million have it out of a population of more than 300 and among those atgreatest risk, 45 and older, more than 90% go uncovered." Gott encourages concerned citizens to make theire views known to their representatives in Congress.
Legislators' phone numbersd and fill-in forms may be found at -- . "Womeh in particular should speak up," Gott says. "They're at risk even when they themselves stay welland fit. Typicallyh they're the ones forced into unpaid care givinhg when a family membef suddenly develops acare need." This releases was issued on behalf of the abov e organization by Send2Press(R), a unit of Neotrope(R).

Portola inks potential $470M Merck deal - San Francisco Business Times:

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Merck (NYSE: MRK) will pay South San Francisco-base d Portola an upfront fee of $50 The value of the deal could climnto $470 million, the companies upon hitting development, regulatory and commercialization Privately held Portola also could receivre double-digit royalties on worldwide sales if betrixaban is Merck will take on all developmenyt and commercialization costs, including the costs of Phase III clinical trials.
But Portola has optionxs to co-fund the Phasw III trials in return for higher royalties andto co-promotr the drug in the United Betrixaban, now in Phase II trial to prevent stroks in patients with atriakl fibrillation, is an oral Factor Xa inhibitor Several oral Factor Xa drugs are in development becauses current anticoagulants — like warfarin, the most frequently prescribefd one in North America — are associate d with bleeding as well as drug and food Betrixaban, however, is the only drug currently being studied in patienta with severe and moderate kidney impairment, the companied said.
Portola in Februarg won $75 million upfront from (NYSE: NVS) for a mid-stagd anti-clotting treatment. Milestone payments couldf push the value of that deal upto $500 Portola CEO Charles Homcy said the deals with Merckk and Novartis validate the quality of the company’s drug candidatea and R&D expertise. “This represents a significanty milestone forthe company, and we now have over $175 millionn in cash to further advance the rest of our valuable proprietaryy pipeline,” Homcy said in a press release.

GM trying to strong-arm Florida dealers, McCollum says - Tampa Bay Business Journal:

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The objection was filed with the ’as Southern District of New York, where General Motors (OTC.PK: GMGMQ) filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcgy protection earlierthis month. In the McCollum said that Genera l Motorshas “misused [its] bankruptcy-enhanced bargaininb power and forced automotivse dealers to waive the very statew laws that were designed to protect them from such overreachingh conduct.
” The problem stems from GM askinv dealers to agree to waive several protectiones under Florida law before they can be considered a deale through the new General Motors organization, McCollum GM also wants disputes over the agreements to play out in New York despite laws that give Florida jurisdiction in such McCollum is asking the court to “affirm that the relationshiop between New GM and its Florida dealers will be governed by Florida law” and order any new agreementy that does not follow Florida law to be “invalid and “In the event the court approves the sale motion, it should clarify that such approval does not validatde the attempt to evade Florida law by amendinhg the dealer franchise agreements,” McCollum said.
The new agreements create an ultimatum along the lineof “takde it or leave it,” McCollum said, meaning dealer either have to lose the protections of Florida law or lose theirf business. The New GM couldr have some problems doing business if such stipulationa in agreements with dealerswould remain, McCollum said. The new company would have to applgy for a new license to operateein Florida, and it could have that application denies if state officials feel the companh is working to circumvent state law.

Health of Haredi leader Rabbi Elyashiv deteriorates to 'very grave' - Haaretz

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Health of Haredi leader Rabbi Elyashiv deteriorates to 'very grave' Haaretz Family members were called to his side at Shaare Zedek Medical Center on Tuesday morning, according to an Army Radio report. Elyashiv, who is nearly 102 years old, was admitted to the intensive care unit in Jerusalem's Shaare Zedek Medical Center four ... and more »

NBA: New territory for Oklahoma City Thunder - San Jose Mercury News

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NBA: New territory for Oklahoma City Thunder San Jose Mercury News When the Oklahoma City Thunder signed five-time NBA champion Derek Fisher late in the season, it added a veteran guard with oodles more NBA finals experience than the rest of the roster he was joining. Whether Fisher can prepare his Thunder teammates ... Paul Forrester: Top He at-Thunder Finals storylines SI.com NBA Finals 2012: 5 Reasons Thunder Will Dominate Heat on Way to Title Bleacher Report  »

McDonald's Global Comparable Sales Rise 3.3% In May - MarketWatch (press release)

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McDonald's Global Comparable Sales Rise 3.3% In May MarketWatch (press release) OAK BROOK, Ill., June 8, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- McDonald's Corporation today announced global comparable sales growth of 3.3% in May. Performance by segment was as follows: "Our commitment to providing customers with menu variety, ... McDonald's comparable sales up 3.3 percent in May Reuters McDonald's Posts 3.3% Growth In May Global Comparable Sales - Quick Facts NASDAQ  »

Sustainable Business Network of Washington won't name permanent replacement for outgoing chief - Washington Business Journal:

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After one year in the post, Pam Skarda, SBNOW’s second executiv e director to date, said she is optinyg to take another private-sector job offer ratheer than renew her contract with the nonprofiythis month. Before Skarda joined the regionalbusiness group, she had servefd for five years as president and CEO of her own consultingt firm for public relations, marketing promotionsw and federal lobbying. “I’m truly entrepreneurial by Skarda said.
“And I want to take advantage of the currentg environment politically and the sociakl changes that are happening to brinf those changes to the private Her decision may come at an opportunse timefor SBNOW, which fell short of its fundraising goals for the year. Instead, the groul has recruited its volunteedr treasurer andboard member, Wendy Walter, to step in as interim executive director until a permaneny replacement could be funded and found -- a proceses its leaders say they hope takee no more than three months. Despitre rising membership andevent revenue, “wde found it much harder to get corporate donations,” said John board chairman of SBNOW.
He said the board will look regionallh to fill the top job when the organizationb has at least six months worth of cash reserves in the bank and when revenueassurpass expenses. In the past year, Skardw said she doubled SBNOW’e membership rolls, from about 160 to 330 businesseesand nonprofits. She helped cement a new green businesscertificationn program, which will recognizd entities for greening their internal, day-to-day operations and, SBNOaW leaders hope, provide another revenuer stream for the nonprofit.
With roughly a half-dozen groupd expected to be certified through pilo t programsthis year, SBNOW hopesz to launch that certification system regionally later this Skarda succeeded SBNOW’s co-founder and originall executive director, Mike Mielke, who left last year to direcf environmental programs at the Silicojn Valley Leadership Group. She said she’ll be transitioning her job throughg this monthto Walter, a LEED-accrediteed real estate broker. Walter, who runs her own real estatsefirm W. K. Walter & Co. full time and helpe d construct Georgetown’s first LEED Platinum home, offered to fill in for the but only on a temporary Friedman said.
“Wendy will bring he said.

Fla., Orlando again tops in foreclosures - Business First of Buffalo:

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The state posted 58,931 foreclosur filings — including default notices, scheduled auctionsw and bank repossessions — in May, down 8.8 percent from April’s total, but still 50 percent highet thanMay 2008, according to RealtyTrac’s monthly Foreclosurew Market Report. Only California had a higher with 92,249 properties with May 2009 foreclosure filings. The Sunshine State was No. 3 in the nation in foreclosure rates, with one in everh 148 households receiving a foreclosur filingin May. Nevada led the countrhy with one in every 64 homes receivingha filing, while California was second highesft with one in every 144. The Orlando-Kissimmee market took the No.
8 spot amontg the nation’s top 10 metro areas with the highesgforeclosure rates. The area recorded a rate of one foreclosurer filing for every101 homes. Florida had thre e cities among the top 10 metro while California had six cities amongthat mix. Las Vegas toppedd the list with a rate of one in every 54 household getting aforeclosure filing. 321,480 foreclosure filings were reportedin May, whichu is 6 percent lower than April 2009, but about 18 percentf higher than May 2008. One in every 398 U.S. home received a foreclosure noticelast month. Vermontt again recorded the lowest numberof foreclosures, with six reportedr in May, or one for everu 51,906 households. The RealtyTrac U.S.
Foreclosures Market Report provides the total number of properties with at leasg one foreclosure filing reported during the Data is collected from morethan 2,200p counties that account for more than 90 percent of the nation’ s population.

State attorney general recognized by national leadership program - St. Louis Business Journal:

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Class members were selected for their reputatiojnfor “intellect, thoughtfulness and a bipartisan approach to according to a news release. The Aspenm Institute’s fellowship program was establishedin 2005. Its purposse is to enhance Americanj democracy by conveningthe nation’s most promising young political leaders in a casual, bipartisan setting to explore valueas and principles, the relationship betweemn individuals and their communityg and the responsibilities of public The Class of 2008 will begin its dialogue in The class will meet twic e after that over the course of its 24-monthy fellowship. The Washington, D.C.
-based Aspen founded in 1950, is an international nonprofit organizationb dedicated to fostering leadershipand dialogue.

Arta ancestrala aborigena - Revista Magazin

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Arta ancestrala aborigena Revista Magazin Este vorba de o arta a vanatorilor care au invatat sa "citeasca" amprentele animalelor de pe solul desertic. Alte figuri reprezinta linii paralele sau curbe, executate cu degetele inmuiate in vopsea. Ceea ce ofera siturile Australiei in materie de arta ...

Probiotics can reduce occurrence of diarrhoea - The Hindu

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Probiotics can reduce occurrence of diarrhoea The Hindu At the end of the 24-week study period, the group that received the probiotic drink showed reduced occurrence of acute diarrhoea. “The level of protective efficacy for the probiotic group was 14 per cent,” stated the paper published in the journal ... and more »