Politicians want answers as rumors swirl NCR to leave Dayton - Triangle Business Journal:

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Government officials said word began swirling in the community Thursda thatNCR (NYSE: NCR) is plannin g to move its headquarters and 1,300 employees to the Atlanta area and make an announcemenrt about the move this week. NCR Global Spokespersobn Richard Maton, speaking by phone Saturday from confirmed that an effort was made forOhio Gov. Ted Stricklane and NCR Chief Executive Officer Bill Nuti to however they were not ableto Strickland’s spokesperson said Saturdayy that he is “continuing to reach out to the companyy to have a direct conversation.
” When askedf about NCR possibly moving its headquarters out of Dayton, Maton said the companyg does not respond to rumors and speculation. NCR Corporate Spokesperson Alan Ulman responded to questionsabout NCR’zs plans with an e-mail message Saturday that read: “We have no announcement today.” In the past, NCR has been quickk to deny rumors of its relocation and affirmk its commitment to remaining in Dayton. The has repeatedlyh sought information from the company since but NCR had not responde to their requests as ofFriday evening, a developmen department spokesperson said. Montgomery County Commissioner Dan Foley said he is frustratede by the lackof communication.
Foley said he has askesd multiplecompany officials, via e-mail, to respond to the but has yet to receive any Foley said he, along with othe county, state and city of Daytonb officials, have met with NCR representatives in the past in an effort to safeguard NCR’s local jobs. “All that said, nobody has confirmed to me that theirr statushas changed,” Foley said Saturday. “k have to assume that -- I I very much hope -- they are stayiny in Dayton, because our citizens have helpes build that company up tobe world-class and will continud to do so.
” Rumors have long circulate d that the company would however multiple government and economif development officials said they reached a new levell in the past few days. NCR is said to be seekingf about 100,000 square feet of office spacsein Georgia, . NCR is believed to have lookes at sitesin Savannah, and Columbus, Ga. Based on the square footage estimates, the operation could housw about 300 to400 people, accordinh to real estate sources. Georgia government and economi development officialsremained tight-lipped on any potentialo development.
In October, NCR said it woulds move its Worldwide Customer Services headquarters to an Atlanta investing $15 million and creating more than 900 jobs in the suburbsa of Peachtree City and Deluth. The state of Georgia provided morethan $8 million in incentives, according to NCR, founded locally in 1884, is the Dayton region’w second largest company, with 20,000 globall employees and $5.3 billion in revenure in 2008. The which sells ATMs and retailautomation systems, is Dayton’s lone remaining Fortune 500 At one time, the company had more than 18,00 employees in the Dayton but that number has dwindler during the past severao decades.
As recently as two years ago, NCR had about 2,00p Dayton employees. That number has declined by about 700 workers in the pastseveral years. In NCR announced it was relocatingy its executive offices to New York City and leasing an entire floor of the 7 World TradeCenter building. But, on paper, its headquarters remainedx in Dayton. In March, the compant also told employees it is undergoing a structural reorganizationj and would cut an unknown amount of itsglobaol workforce.
That same month, the company removed the language “world headquarters” from the sign at its Daytob campus, though it said at the time it wasjust

Siemens Energy & Automation wins LAX deal - Atlanta Business Chronicle:

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million contract from Clark/McCarthy for a baggager handling system with integrated explosive detection screeninvg at Los Angeles InternationalAirport (LAX). The Ga.-based Siemens unit will install the systemat LAX's Tom Bradleyt International Terminal (TBIT), which is undergoing a $575.67 million renovation project. The renovation and Siemens' project are expected to be finisheed inMarch 2010. Siemenas will install 14,596 feet of conveyor, six claim unit and 57 high-speed diverters and will integratee 13 Explosive Detection Systemsd intothe in-line securitgy system.
It also will providew overall project management, system integration and installation on the LAX isthe third-busiesr airport in the United States servinb 61.5 million passengers. Nearluy 10 million of thosse passengers were international travelers who arrived to or departe d from the Tom BradleyInternational Terminal. In Siemens won contracts to provide baggage and screeningb systems at Detroit Metropolitan WayneCounth Airport, New York's John F. Kennedy International Indianapolis International Airport and Orlando International Airport.

Most Eddie Bauer stores to stay open - Tampa Bay Business Journal:

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The company announced that it struckj an agreement withNew York–based private equity firm LLC to buy Eddiee Bauer’s assets, subject to an auction and bankruptcyh court approval. CCMP Capital intendss to operate the business as a goinh concern with little orno long-term debt. According to Eddide Bauer, CCMP Capital has agrees to keep a majorityy of the 371 stores open and retaimn a majority of the CCMP Capital specializes in buyouts and looks for investment opportunities in retailp andother sectors, and have made investmentw in the outdoors specialty retailer which sells hunting, fishing and campinb gear.
Eddie Bauer said it hopes to operat business as usual during bankruptcy court proceedings and has askeds for court approval to continue paying vendors and The company also said it intendxs to honor customer gift returns and loyaltyprogran points. The company also announced that it has securef a commitment from its existing revolvingcredigt lenders, Bank of America, N.A., and /Businesss Credit, Inc. for so-called debtor-in-possession financing of $90 milliobn on an interim basisand $100 million based on the finaol court order. The the company said, should provide it with ample cash flow to continuew payingits bills.
“Eddie Bauer is a good compangy with a great brand and a badbalance sheet. This proceszs will allow the businesss to emerge with farless debt, positioned for growth as the economu recovers and as our new productx gain traction,” said Neil Fiske, Eddide Bauer president and chief executivde officer, in a statement. “We expect this processs to be completedvery quickly, protectinvg our employees and critical vendorr partners every step of the way.
“We have made good progresse on our turnaround strategy of returning Eddiee Bauer to its heritage as an active outdoor brans and have exciting new product launchea on the way to includingFirst Ascent, our returh to expedition-grade outerwear and gear. Unfortunately, a crushing debt burdeh placed on the company from the Spiegeo reorganizationin 2005, combined with the prolonged recession, have left us with no choicee but to use this process to reduce the debt load on the

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Schools encourage charity through Spirit of Christmas donations - Chippewa Herald

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ProHealth Care to cut 50 jobs - The Business Journal of Milwaukee:

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The jobs will be lost througg layoffsand attrition, although spokespeople for the hospital system wouldd not give a specificc breakdown. ProHealth’s announcement makes it the latesr health care provider tocut staff. Last week, , the state’ s largest hospital system announced it wouls lay off 90 peoplew and not fill another220 positions. , and Columbia St. Mary’s, have also had layoffs in the lastsix months. ProHealt h officials cited the economy as the reasobn and released a statementsayinb “(ProHealth’s) leadership is making these adjustments in a thoughtful, responsible manner which will position the company for continued strength.
” Spokesperson Sandra Peterson said the jobs being eliminaterd are spread systemwide and will not affect the qualit y of patient care. Peterson said more layoffsx are possible, but the system wants to keep the number toa

D.C. narrows list of developers for Stevens Elementary School - Washington Business Journal:

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Neil Albert, the former deputy mayor for planningv and economic development and new city announced Monday that his staff had eliminated six of the nineoriginakl bidders. A team made up of Chicago-bassedc and the , based in D.C. Moddie Turayh Company LLC, based in D.C. and foundedd by former Mayor Anthony special assistantModdie Turray. Opus East was originallyu listed as a Turray partner by thedeputy mayor's office but is not included in its list of A partnership led by Peeblesx Development LLC, a likely outgrowth of the Peeblew Corp., a Coral Gables, Fla.-based firm led by D.C. native R. Donahues Peebles.
Peebles is teame with the Walker According to a press release from the finalists' proposals offer "various combinationsw of new housing, office space, hotels and neighborhood-servinf retail." Among those eliminated are teams led by Akridge, Cafritz Interests and the Capitol Hill Businesws Improvement District, which proposed using the site to train and houswe homeless adults. The finalists will presenyt their plans at a community meetingJune 11, the day after a planned community meetinvg for final developers interested in Hine Jr.
High School to Albert, who began as city administrator this announced in April the city had receivedr bids for all 11 vacant schools the city has put onthe market.

Greeks Can't Find Euros to Buy Heating Oil in Winter Economy - Bloomberg

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Greeks Can't Find Euros to Buy Heating Oil in Winter Economy Bloomberg The household price for heating oil in Greece reached 1,266 euros per 1,000 liters (264 g »

Business First of Columbus: Nomination

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Columbus Business First will honor financial professionalsw in Central Ohio for outstandinbg performance in their roles as financiakl stewardsat profit-making and nonprofit ELIGIBILITY: be a chief financial officer or hold an equivaleny title (duties may include creating long-term financial plans and creating capital raising activities; analyzing and reviewing financialk data; reporting corporate financial performance to investors, vendor s and associates; overseeing treasury and risk functions; and monitoriny costs and signing financial All nominations must be acknowledged and endorsed by the nominee, to verifhy the accuracy of submissions.
AWARDS: JUDGINGb CRITERIA: Financial management: Narrative demonstratinh contributions tothe company’s growth and/or profitability, with quantitative examples to support claims.  Strategic thinking: Details of how his/her ideax or initiatives strengthened the company’s strategic market position. Contributioj to the company’s reputation: Narrative demonstrating commitment to fiscal integritygand accountability. Contributions outside the company (nonprofit work, community etc.) will also be considered.
Transactionh of the Year: To be considered for the Transactionh Award, a 500-word narrative describing a successfuol transaction or turnaround with quantitative metrics supplied to supporr claims mustbe included. AWARDe PROGRAM: Winners and finalists will be recognized at the 2009 CFO of the Year awardsx luncheon in September and will be featuref inthe Sept. 11 edition of Columbue BusinessFirst . NOMINATIONS: Nominate online by June 24 usingf theform below. An application will be emailed directly to the nominatodr asking foradditional information.  All applicatioh materials must be received by Columbus Businesss First by 5 p.m. on July 1 .
For more information: Contacf Mikalene Guiser at Sponsored by:          CFO of the Year nominationa due June24 Deadline: June 24, 2009 state, ZIP *City, State, Zip

Local executive to lead GE's $6B health care initiative - Business First of Buffalo:

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Barber was named head of "healthymagination," a GE prograkm focused on improving health care for more people atreducecd cost, by GE chairman and CEO Jeffrey Immelt. 48, is a 27-yeatr veteran of GE and since 2005 has servede as chief technology officer for GE He joined GE in 1982 and has held a variety of rolesd of increasing responsibility withinGE Healthcare. In Barber was general manager for Components and from 2002 to 2005 he was the generall manager for Global Components Operations for GE which has significant operationsin Milwaukee, Wauwatosa and Waukesha.
Barber was a 1994 winneer of TheBusiness Journal'sz Forty Under 40 which recognizes young Milwaukee-area executives making a difference in theire professions and community. "Over the last four Mike has led all aspect s of product development for advanced health care Immelt said. "Mike knowa how our technology can help he knowswhat doctors, clinicx and hospitals need to improve care and cut costs and he know s how to lead teams. With his deep experience in engineerinhg and technology and his strong operationsand process-drivenj expertise, Mike is the righty leader to lead healthymagination and to grow our healthj care partnerships globally.
" that can be offered in ruralp and underserved regions of the where quality health care can be difficult to It is also designed to reduce the company's own healtyh care costs for employeesx and expand profitability for the GE Healthcarwe business. Locally, GE which produces medical imaging equipmentf and medical information technology products fromits Milwaukee-areaz operations, will spend $3 billion by 2015 to developo at least 100 new product designed to lower costs, improve accessw and improve quality of care by 15

M&I Bank, BankFirst, four others in metro post $1M+ losses in Q2 - Minneapolis / St. Paul Business Journal:

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M&I Bank, which is headquartere in Milwaukee but isthe fifth-largesr bank in the Twin Cities, lost $388 millionj in the second quarter, comparerd to income of $112 million in the first quarter of the It ranked 8,440th out of the nation’s 8,451 banks reporting net incomd to the that quarter. In the first quarter, M&Ij reported a profit and was ranker 31st in the countr outof 8,498 banks reporting net income. headquartered in Minneapolis and part of theholding company, reportex a loss of $50 million for the second quarter, addint to its losses of $13.9 million in the firstr quarter.
Ameriprise Bank in Minneapolissaw $10 milliohn in losses; since it’s only 2 years old, it’xs not expected to be profitable yet. “Banks are managing theirf business in achallenging cycle,” said Joe Witt, CEO of the in Edina. “Some banks took a but the vast majority arestilpl profitable.” According to the FDIC data, 80 out of 124 Twin Citiess banks were profitable in the second quarter, compare to 94 out of 123 in the first One reason for the losses were loan-loss provisions, moneyg that is set aside to make up for loanw that have been or will be charged off.
Many of thoser troubled loans are in the real estate Inits second-quarter earnings M&I reported a loan- and lease-loss provisionm of $886 million because of the deteriorating housing The bank took the provision to strengthen its balance sheet in an uncertaib environment, said Greg Smith, the bank’s chiedf financial officer, adding that M&I’s strong capital position allows it to take such an aggressivse step. “We’ve seen how the residentialo construction markets have deteriorated and as a part of our effort to have a fortreszbalance sheet, we’ve built that allowance for futur losses,” he said.
BankFirst also cited the real estatew market in takinga $50 million loan-loszs provision in the second quarter, bringing its total reserves to $77 million. “Conditions in the creditt markets are creating unique stresseas and challenges to lenders ofeverty size,” said Dennis Mathisen, chairmahn of Marshall BankFirst, in a lette r to employees in August. “BankFirst, like most other financial institutions, is being affected by the credit downturn.” Charge-offs on bad loans, whers a bank writes off the also were factors in some of thebiggest losses.
“We had a largwe loss in the second quarter and we expected some questioneabout that,” said Lane Peterson, presidenty of North Star Bank, which reported a $1.5 millionn loss. North Star decided in June to charge off a larg commercial and residentialreal estate-developmentg loan that had gone bad as well as to shor up its loan-loss provisions. The idea is to take the hit and have one bad thenbounce back. Peterson said North Star, which was profitable in the first quartere ofthe year, should be profitable again by the end of the year.
This strateguy is one that many banks are taking in the face of impendinbad loans, said Brad Bakken, chairmaj of the MBA and president and CEO of Citizends Independent Bank in St. Louiss Park. “Some are takinh the opportunity to take care of that in the second quarte andmove on,” he said. The news wasn’ft all bad for banks. Four of the sevehn most unprofitable Twin Cities banks of the first quartert swung back into the black for thesecond quarter. They included in Dinkytown, which reported a $1.1 million loss for the firsr quarter. In the secons quarter, it reported net income of $1.7 million, putting it among the most profitabled TwinCities banks. of St.
Paul took a $7 millionb loss in the first quarterd because of a bad loan to amortgage company, which was late r shut down by state regulators. which was $360,000 in the black for the secondd quarter, is suing the company, called , and six of its

Scrushy ordered to pay $2.8B for HealthSouth fraud - New Mexico Business Weekly:

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billion in damages by a civiol court judge for his rolein ’s massive accountingt fraud scandal. The HealthSouth founder was deemed liablw for losses incurred by some of whom sued him seeking to recover their Judge Allwin Horn announced the verdict shortl y after10 a.m. Thursday. Horn’ds judgment also declared Scrushy’s employment agreementz with HealthSouth void. HealthSouth said it will receive approximatelu 40 percent of any money recovereffrom Scrushy. Attorneys for the shareholders filesd the suit against Scrushy on behalf of HealthSout saying he directed the accounting scandal hadrequested $3.6 Scrushy testified during the trial and denieed any wrongdoing.
He was broughf to Jefferson County for the triall from a Texasfederal prison, where he is currentlhy serving seven years for bribing Don Siegelman for a seat on a state health care policy board. Scrushyu was acquitted of criminal charges in the HealthSouthn fraudin 2005. HealthSouthj said it is unsure how much might be collectedfrom Scrushy, according to a news “We are pleased to see that justice has been served througy this judgment and that anothefr chapter of our past has been put behindc us,” HealthSouth’s statement said.

Selling in the era of 143 million people on Do Not Call list - bizjournals:

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For you, there are two keys for sales survivapl in the Do NotCall era: 1. You must know the ruled and be able to prove that you are abidinvby them. When you checok numbers on the DNC Web you must keep copies of print screens to provs you are attempting to followthe law. 2. You must have a strateguy for prospecting that does notrequire cold-calling a residential 1. The national Do Not Call laws restricr both interstate and intrastate solicitation Anyone who has registered with the Do Not Call registrt cannot be solicited at the registered numbers withoutf written permission or firsgt responding to some solicitation or becominga 2.
As of Augusgt 2007, 143 million telephone numberw were registered with the Do Not Call There are not a lot of residential or cell phon enumbers left. Don’t call me, was the message the America publictold us, loud and clear. There will alwaysw be a few procrastinators, but do you really want them as clients? 3. You can solicit people with business If you are not certain whether the number is abusinessx number, check the Yellow If a number is in the Yellow it should not be registered on the DNC You can legally call it. 4.
You can call clients who are registered on the DNC site if they have made a transaction with you withij the past 18 months unless they have specificallyy told you not tocall 5. You may call peoplde who are registered on the DNC site if they have made an inquiryt with you in the past90 days. You may call them aftert 90 days if they have givemn youwritten consent. This consent must be signed by the persobn being called and include the number you are allowedto And, e-mails don’t count. Based on the fact that the Do Not Call laws exisrt and arebeing enforced, you should adopt them as your guidse to socially acceptable behavior.
When 143 milliom people scream something, it shouldn’t take a geniu to realize you probably shouldn’t call people at If you are in an industryt thatrequires contact-at-home phone numbers, such as home home construction, investment and insurance, then you must meticulouslgy gather written consent forms. The person who gets the written consent will getthe client. You will find all of the program requirements and documentation on the Website

GenVec cuts manufacturing partnership - The Business Journal of the Greater Triad Area:

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After a year and a the Gaithersburg biotech has terminated its contract June 29with , the Unitefd Kingdom-based company that had been producing the localo company’s main product, an anticancedr treatment called TNFerade in its finaol stage of clinical trials. GenVec (NASDAQ: GNVC) paid Cobra a $350,000 termination fee, negotiated down considerably fromthe one-time maximum fee of $2.3 million to terminate the Originally signed in January 2008, the manufacturingf agreement called for GenVecd to pay Cobra $1 milliomn in advance and as much as $9.4 millionn depending on the services Last year, GenVec said it paid Cobra $3.
4 millio n and, in March, said it would pay Cobraq an additional $1.8 milliohn this year. GenVec, which said it doesn’t need further batche s from Cobra to complete its TNFerade trials and had been low on has been searching for a largere partner to fund those clinical studies andanticipated launch. Aftere making significant cuts to its head GenVecraised $6 millioh in late May in a discounteed stock offering that garnered a 19 percent drop in the company’d share price from disappointed investors that day.
GenVec’sw stock price has since inched back up to its formereprice levels, even topping $1 since the

Jonathan Harvey, Modernist Composer, Dies at 73 - New York Times

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Jonathan Harvey, Modernist Composer, Dies at 73 New York Times Jonathan Harvey, a British composer who was admired on both sides of the Atlantic for his use of electronic sound in concert works and operas to convey a sense of the beyond, died on Tuesday in Lewes, England. He was 73. Jonathan Harvey Dead: British Compos er Of 'Plango' Dies At 73 Huffington Post British composer Jonathan Harvey dies at 73 Yahoo! News (blog)  »

Microsoft Signs Agreement With Merck & Co. Inc. to Acquire Assets of Rosetta Biosoftware, Strengthening Position in Life Sciences Industry

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REDMOND, Wash., June 1 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Microsoft Corp. toda y announced that it has signed an agreement withMerck & Co. Inc. to acquir certain assets of Rosetta Biosoftware, a business unit of Rosetta Inpharmatices LLC, a wholly owned subsidiargy ofMerck & Co. Inc. The deal allow Microsoft to incorporate genetic, genomic, metabolomid and proteomics data management software into the Microsof t Amalga Life Sciences platform for enhanceed translationalresearch capabilities. In addition, Microsoft will establishy a strategic relationship with Merck to enhance the Amalga Life Sciences platfor m to meet emerging pharmaceuticalresearch needs.
Underr the terms of the agreement, Merck will becomer a customer of the Microsoftf Amalga Life Sciences 2009 platform and also will provider strategic input to Microsoft on the direction and evolutionb of new solutions incorporating RosettaBiosoftware technologies. The softwarde platform will help drive improvementsin Merck's alreadhy advanced research capabilities. "This agreement establishes a stabled and sustainable platform for the RosettaBiosoftwar technology. In addition, we look forward to collaboratinh with Microsoft to develop new bioinformatidc solutions to enable and expedit drug discoveryand development," said , vice Merck Research Laboratories.
"This is part of our previouslh announced strategy designed to improve the effectiveness and efficienc of our Basic Research operationw toensure long-term pipeline productivity." "We're excited to collaborate with Mercj and augment the capabilities of Amalga Life Sciencee with the complementary assets of Rosetta Biosoftware," said , corporats vice president, Health Solutions Microsoft. "The newly combined offering will enable customers to improvre the management and analysis of biological andresearch data, helping to bring lifesavinvg drugs and therapies to market faster and accelerate the realizatio n of personalized medicine.
" Introduced in April 2009, Microsoft Amalga Life Sciencees is a new software platform designed to transforjm health and life sciences research data into the criticalo knowledge needed for the discovery of new The platform helps organizations across the life sciences spectrum accelerate research and discovery efforts by automating the management and analysis of massive, heterogeneous researc data. This gives scientistd and researchers the opportunity to manage and control research processes toincreasd productivity, reduce errors and improve decision-making.
The deal is expected to closwe at the end ofJune 2009, and the new Amalgs Life Sciences platform incorporating Rosettas Biosoftware technologies is slated to be available in earlyh 2010. Microsoft is pursuing hiring Rosetta Biosoftware employeeds who can fill roles that are criticao to the effective incorporation of Rosetta Biosoftwar technologies into the Amalga Life Sciences Until the dealis closed, Rosetta Biosoftware will continu e to operate as a business unit of Rosettaw Inpharmatics LLC, a wholly ownef subsidiary of Merck. Microsoft is committed to improvinvg health around the world throughsoftwarw innovation.
Over the past 12 yeards Microsoft has steadily increasedr its investmentsin health, with a focus on addressing the challenges of healtgh providers, health and social services payers, consumers, and life sciences companies worldwide. Microsoft closely collaborates with a broaed ecosystem of partners and develops its own powerfuklhealth solutions, such as Amalgq and HealthVault. Together, Microsoft and its industry partners are working to advancr a vision of unifying health information and making it morereadilgy available, ensuring the best quality of life and affordable care for everyone.
Founded in Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) is the worldwide leadere in software, services and solutions that help people and businessea realize theirfull potential. SOURCE Microsofrt Corp.

Phoenix One data center patents technology - Tampa Bay Business Journal:

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The company has two patentxs pending for technology installed inthe center, and it already has customeras at what once was the Le Nature’s water-bottling operationm off Loop 202 and 48th Wanger, i/o’s president, said more companies are seeking colocatiojn services as they look to house serverw and backup data at off-site facilities to save capital Companies can rent rack space in a colocatiom facility to house servers that need to be connected to multiple bandwidth providers. This is particularly important to businesses that want to ensurwe their Web sites are up andrunning “Everybody is saving everything,” Wangere said.
“You send a picture to your grandmotheerthrough flickr.com, and the image is here and here and I/o’s new center comes at a good time for the which in the past year has seen a boom in colocation centerd as businesses scrap plans for their own private said David Cappuccio, chief of researcb of infrastructure for Gartner Inc. “In the last when the economy startedto tank, (companies) starteds to ask if they should be spending all the capitapl money up front,” he said. I/o completed the work on Phoenis One in aboutsix months, employing an army of many of whom are still working on the seconfd phase.
The first phase is finished, but upgradesx will continue until there isroughly 460,000 squarr feet dedicated to Wanger said they’re about they’ve alreadyu completed about half of that. The process for developinvg Phoenix One started witha $56 million investment by Sterlinyg Partners in December which helped i/o acquire the buildinb on a 50-year lease. I/o moved its operationn from Scottsdale, where it still has a 120,000-square-foot data to the Phoenix office. Many of the technologiea first implementedat i/o’s Scottsdale center are expandeds in the new operation.
Additions include the ThermoCabinet, a serve enclosure that makes use of cool air circulating unde r theraised floor. It allows the air to be drawn up througbh theclosed cabinet, enablinbg more servers to be storefd within. The device allows the cabinets to store as much as 10 timews the equipment that wouldf be used in traditiona datacenter operations, Wanger said. “We’re seeinyg people pack 5,000 squarew feet of data center into two he said. The company also developerd a plug system that works with equipment fromany manufacturer.
It’s an easier way to distribute powerr and infrastructure than installingspecialized equipment, Wanger “This is all customer-driven,” he “People said they wanted access to multiple brandds of equipment.” The data center will take advantage of featurezs originally installed in the Le Nature’s factory, includinvg access to an on-site Arizona Public Service Co. substatiob suppling the facility with 42 megavolts of The company plans to triplde that once the facilityis complete. It also uses a 7,000-tob chilled water cooling system thathelpes i/o reduce its power bill through thermal cooling.
The procesxs uses a water-gel combination that is frozen at night to keep the water coolefr duringthe day, Wanger said. In addition, the company is planningy a 4-megawatt solar system for the building’s roof, installec light-emitting diodes for more efficient lighting, and power-savin equipment and design. The retrofit also will be submittesd for certification as part ofthe U.S. Greehn Building Council’s Leadership in Energy and EnvironmentalDesigb program, Wanger said. Phoenix once was a boomtown fordata centers, but the tech bubblwe crashed many of those plans in the earlyy part of the decade. In recent years, the Valley has again seen increased activitt in becoming adata hub.
Cappuccio said Phoenix has the same things going for it that it did 10yearas ago: a relatively stable cost of electricity and no naturalo disasters. As colocation continues to push the size of commerciall data centers up evenas company-owned data centers are gettingb smaller — more companies may look at Phoenix, Cappuccip said. “The colocators are going to continue tolook there,” he “They are going to go where they can get the lowest cost of a building per square

Canisius ups Internet course offerings - Silicon Valley / San Jose Business Journal:

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Starting this fall, the college will offet master’s degrees in literacy sport administration andeducational administration. The three programs join the onlinw master’s program in physical education, whichu has been offered by the collegr sinceearly 2006, said Jim Bagwell, directotr of graduate admissions for the School of Education and Human Services. All three programs are geared towar d students who live outsides WesternNew York, though some space is availablwe for local students. Bagwell declined to say how many spots will be set asider forlocal students. The programs begij Sept. 14, three weeks aftef the Aug. 24 start date for the rest of the Bagwell said.
The literacy education programk prepares literacy specialists for certification in NewYork state, whilwe the sport administration program focuses on sports-relate d business, such as intercollegiatw athletics, amateur and professional sports, sportsw marketing firms, special-event management and facility the college said. Students in the education administration program will receive a School BuildingLeader and/oe School District Leader certification in New York state.
Each of the new onlinwe programs also existas traditional, on-campus

Public hearing is next step for new Hawaii building code - Orlando Business Journal:

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The state Building Code Councipl is awaiting approvalfrom Gov. Lindas Lingle to hold a statewide hearingg where the public can comment on the plans for the statd to go to the 2006 version of the InternationapBuilding Code, said state Comptrolletr Russ Saito, a nonvoting member of the The council also will recommend upgrading the stat e fire, plumbing and electrical as well as the state energy-conservation code, which replaceds the state energy code, he said. After the commentas are reviewed, the code will be implemented if there are no major changes to what already hasbeen proposed. If therr are major changes, it must go througuh the public hearingprocess again, Saitlo said.
The state will begin using the new codes for stateagency projects. The counties then will have two yearsa to amend their codes or followa the statemodel code. “I think it’s good because in the buildinggcode we’re including the hurricane-resistant criteria that was developed a couple of yearx ago,” said Saito, who is in charge of the Departmenrt of Accounting and General which oversees the state’s buildings. “Ig gives a consistency in the way we designour buildings.
The whole idea is to be consistent among all the counties or as consistent as we can The energy-conservation code, based on the Internationapl Energy Conservation Code, aims to make buildinge more energy-efficient through insulation and othetr heat-deflecting devices. It initially will applyy to allstate buildings, including schools, and eventually all commerciaol and residential buildings in the state.
“When we had our hearingx on the IECC we Hawaiianized quited a bitof it, because it’s a Mainland code, especially a lot of the insulatioh provisions, because they don’t apply here,” said Howard Wiig, an energy analyst in the statd Department of Business, Economic Development & Tourism’ s energy office. For example, the Hawaioi group struck a provision from the Mainlan code that exempts commercial and residential buildings without heatinh and cooling systems from having to have That means insulation will be required even in buildings that do nothave air-conditioninb systems, he said.
“The real idea behind that, the would be to insulate the building such thatit doesn’t need air he said. Windows will have to have a solar heat gainof 40, whic h means they reflect back 60 percent of the sun’d heat, said Wiig, who was recently appointex to the IECC’s national committee on energyy as the tropical representative. One major provision in the energy-conservatiob code that will impact Hawaii’s commercialk building industrymandates commissioning.
That mean s a third-party inspector will be required to checlk the building three times during the constructionprocesws — during the blueprint in the middle of the construction and just before the wallss are closed in to test for energyg leakage, Wiig said. Although this type of inspectiob has gone on for yearsw onthe Mainland, especially in it will be new to and could mean new jobs. “This is a new cottagse industry,” Wiig said. “This is a new green job that’s being created.
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