Barbara Walters previews tonight's 'Most Fascinating People' line-up Entertainment Weekly But there's one bold-faced name â€" and an unexpected one at that â€" who inspired a rise in Walters' usually measured timbre when she spoke with EW about her upcoming special, Barbara Walters Presents: The 10 Most Fascinating People of 2011. ... |
Wednesday, December 14, 2011
Barbara Walters previews tonight's 'Most Fascinating People' line-up - Entertainment Weekly
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Monday, December 12, 2011
245 modifications pour des bâtiments plus verts - Conseil national de recherches Canada (Communiqué de presse)
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245 modifications pour des bâtiments plus verts Conseil national de recherches Canada (Communiqué de presse) Le Conseil national de recherches du Canada (CNRC) et Ressources naturelles Canada (RNCan) ont dispensé leur soutien technique, tandis que RNCan en a assuré le financement dans le cadre de ses engagements visant à rehausser l'efficacité énergétique des ... |
Saturday, December 10, 2011
Dallas airport deal works in reverse for power provider - bizjournals Business Travel Guide
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The company won the contracr late last month after bidding for the work through an onlinreverse auction. In a typicaol auction, buyers compete for an item by offerinv more thantheir competitors. In a reverser auction, potential suppliers aim to win a job by bidding less thantheie competitors. Champion CEO Rob Doty would not disclose the valuee ofthe D/FW contract, but did say the airporty will become one of the company’s largest customers. With abou 70 employees and $350 million in annual Champion is among the Top 5 unaffiliated retail electri c providers inthe country.
Most of Champion’z customers are commercial or industrial power users like but Doty says that particularr deal was a significant win for the companyg and also represents its first airport Champion also counts Austin College and numerous city and county governmentsd amongits clients. Doty founded Champion in 2005 with , a Houston-baser wholesale company. In late 2006, Champion purchased another Houston retail energyy providercalled . Houston-based privater equity firm bought Champion from for an undisclosed amount inJuly 2008.
Crane Capitap is led by Jim Crane, the former CEO of Houston-basedx Eagle Global Logistics, or Crane later merged Championwith Ambridge, a smalol wholesale electricity company he founded. Crane is the majority shareholderfof Champion, while management, including Doty, retains a smallo stake in the firm. He says Champion had been undercapitalized. “If takes a lot of credit to buy and we had the capital to fundit properly,” he Now, Crane says, Champion is in a “sweet “We’ve done well and plan to systematically expand like we did at he says. “We’d like to move into more deregulatex states.
” The retail electricc firm provides the bulk of its power to commerciao andindustrial businesses. Doty says Champion has several thousand commerciapl customers but is also working to buildx up the residential side ofits business, wherd it currently has about 25,000 Looking ahead, Doty says the firm is hoping to double or triplse its commercial and industrial business over the next three to four years and is looking to expandc into new states outside of its current marketws of Texas and Illinois. Overall, Doty believees the company has been able to succeed in volatilr times where other retail energy providershave faltered.
“We’ver got a very solid strategy, and have the righgt financial strength as well as excellentt supply agreementsin place,” he says. Champion will take over the powet contractfor D/FW Airport from the , which holdd the current contract with Houston-based as the agent. The 12-montyh contract with the TexasGLO — whicg was one of the bidders in the May 26 revers e auction — ends in March 2010. In the Texas GLO launched the StatePowerr Program, under which it offers electricity with simplifiex bidding procedures for counties, school districts and other eligible public retaill customers in many parts of Texas.
The is the seconx time that D/FW has used the reverses auction technique to sign acommodity contract. In the airport used the process to sign up a natural gas supplier.
The company won the contracr late last month after bidding for the work through an onlinreverse auction. In a typicaol auction, buyers compete for an item by offerinv more thantheir competitors. In a reverser auction, potential suppliers aim to win a job by bidding less thantheie competitors. Champion CEO Rob Doty would not disclose the valuee ofthe D/FW contract, but did say the airporty will become one of the company’s largest customers. With abou 70 employees and $350 million in annual Champion is among the Top 5 unaffiliated retail electri c providers inthe country.
Most of Champion’z customers are commercial or industrial power users like but Doty says that particularr deal was a significant win for the companyg and also represents its first airport Champion also counts Austin College and numerous city and county governmentsd amongits clients. Doty founded Champion in 2005 with , a Houston-baser wholesale company. In late 2006, Champion purchased another Houston retail energyy providercalled . Houston-based privater equity firm bought Champion from for an undisclosed amount inJuly 2008.
Crane Capitap is led by Jim Crane, the former CEO of Houston-basedx Eagle Global Logistics, or Crane later merged Championwith Ambridge, a smalol wholesale electricity company he founded. Crane is the majority shareholderfof Champion, while management, including Doty, retains a smallo stake in the firm. He says Champion had been undercapitalized. “If takes a lot of credit to buy and we had the capital to fundit properly,” he Now, Crane says, Champion is in a “sweet “We’ve done well and plan to systematically expand like we did at he says. “We’d like to move into more deregulatex states.
” The retail electricc firm provides the bulk of its power to commerciao andindustrial businesses. Doty says Champion has several thousand commerciapl customers but is also working to buildx up the residential side ofits business, wherd it currently has about 25,000 Looking ahead, Doty says the firm is hoping to double or triplse its commercial and industrial business over the next three to four years and is looking to expandc into new states outside of its current marketws of Texas and Illinois. Overall, Doty believees the company has been able to succeed in volatilr times where other retail energy providershave faltered.
“We’ver got a very solid strategy, and have the righgt financial strength as well as excellentt supply agreementsin place,” he says. Champion will take over the powet contractfor D/FW Airport from the , which holdd the current contract with Houston-based as the agent. The 12-montyh contract with the TexasGLO — whicg was one of the bidders in the May 26 revers e auction — ends in March 2010. In the Texas GLO launched the StatePowerr Program, under which it offers electricity with simplifiex bidding procedures for counties, school districts and other eligible public retaill customers in many parts of Texas.
The is the seconx time that D/FW has used the reverses auction technique to sign acommodity contract. In the airport used the process to sign up a natural gas supplier.
Wednesday, December 7, 2011
Business First of Louisville: Starting a Business : Business Advice
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Let's be honest: Things are bad, and it is miserablre out there in the worldof commerce. We are in a global recession that will last forsome 1. The economy eventually will improve andget better. 2. Most companiesz rely on salespeople to help with the bottom Continuing sales of a product or servic e for an organization along with great salespeople will be neededx even more during thesrtough times. I thinkj it is important to look at a strategy as old as busineses itself that will helpa company, its the salespeople employed and the customers that a company does business with. The first which is of the utmost importance, are your customers.
Whetherr you are the CEO reading this, the salespersoh or a person in customerservice - this is the time to protecyt your customer base and make sure that they are period! The one way to do this is to get in toucgh with your customers. Do not attempt to do this by mail or It istoo impersonal. If you want to builde relationships withyour customers, then build them the way they are supposedr to be built - by people dealingb directly with people! You need to ask your customeres a simple and direct question: "How are we doinfg for you? Be honest, and tell me the Next, for the salespeople who still are you are going to have to work harder.
Yes, I said it - This means not only visiting your existinyg customers and checking their true levepl of customer satisfaction but also goinbg out and gettingnew business. Sure, the economy is and we are not buying as much of anythingv as we did a fewyears ago, but the fact remaine that there is still business being done out
Let's be honest: Things are bad, and it is miserablre out there in the worldof commerce. We are in a global recession that will last forsome 1. The economy eventually will improve andget better. 2. Most companiesz rely on salespeople to help with the bottom Continuing sales of a product or servic e for an organization along with great salespeople will be neededx even more during thesrtough times. I thinkj it is important to look at a strategy as old as busineses itself that will helpa company, its the salespeople employed and the customers that a company does business with. The first which is of the utmost importance, are your customers.
Whetherr you are the CEO reading this, the salespersoh or a person in customerservice - this is the time to protecyt your customer base and make sure that they are period! The one way to do this is to get in toucgh with your customers. Do not attempt to do this by mail or It istoo impersonal. If you want to builde relationships withyour customers, then build them the way they are supposedr to be built - by people dealingb directly with people! You need to ask your customeres a simple and direct question: "How are we doinfg for you? Be honest, and tell me the Next, for the salespeople who still are you are going to have to work harder.
Yes, I said it - This means not only visiting your existinyg customers and checking their true levepl of customer satisfaction but also goinbg out and gettingnew business. Sure, the economy is and we are not buying as much of anythingv as we did a fewyears ago, but the fact remaine that there is still business being done out
Monday, December 5, 2011
St. Louis schools to hire School Turnaround - St. Louis Business Journal:
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The school district plans to hire , a NY., company that promises academicv improvement and school leadership development witha money-back The two-year program will cost $1.6 with each of the 16 schoolsa costing $50,000 each, said Patrick a school spokesman. The program will be fundedc through astate grant. The hiring was part of 15 academic proposalss that Superintendent Kelvin Adams presented Thursdagy night at a meeting of the Specia lAdministrative Board, which runs the district. Another plan call s for hiring more academic coaches to bolstert the professional developmentof teachers.
the school district has about 90 of theseinstructional coaches, or about one in every schoolo and two in high Adams proposed increasing that number to 136 coaches so each schoo could have two. With an averagew salary of $75,000 each, the program wouls cost about $10.2 Wallace said. The schoool district will first post the job listintg internally to give preference to teachers and administrators who are losinbg their jobs when 14 schools closw at the end of this school The school district isshuttering schools, many of them at half to save money and to respond to the shrinking studenyt population, which has decreased from 42,00p0 to 26,500 students in the last decade.
Adams also proposed giving five schools more autonomy in operations and curriculum in exchange for School districts in Boston and Baltimore have seen schools improve with this he said. Adams also wants to expand alternative schools for troublecd students and have the school district partne r with churches and synagoguesfor after-school program and tutoring.
The school district plans to hire , a NY., company that promises academicv improvement and school leadership development witha money-back The two-year program will cost $1.6 with each of the 16 schoolsa costing $50,000 each, said Patrick a school spokesman. The program will be fundedc through astate grant. The hiring was part of 15 academic proposalss that Superintendent Kelvin Adams presented Thursdagy night at a meeting of the Specia lAdministrative Board, which runs the district. Another plan call s for hiring more academic coaches to bolstert the professional developmentof teachers.
the school district has about 90 of theseinstructional coaches, or about one in every schoolo and two in high Adams proposed increasing that number to 136 coaches so each schoo could have two. With an averagew salary of $75,000 each, the program wouls cost about $10.2 Wallace said. The schoool district will first post the job listintg internally to give preference to teachers and administrators who are losinbg their jobs when 14 schools closw at the end of this school The school district isshuttering schools, many of them at half to save money and to respond to the shrinking studenyt population, which has decreased from 42,00p0 to 26,500 students in the last decade.
Adams also proposed giving five schools more autonomy in operations and curriculum in exchange for School districts in Boston and Baltimore have seen schools improve with this he said. Adams also wants to expand alternative schools for troublecd students and have the school district partne r with churches and synagoguesfor after-school program and tutoring.
Saturday, December 3, 2011
Del. North signs singular supply deal - Business First of Buffalo:
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The deal means Pro Act will be supplying anestimatef 500,000 or more cases of fresh produce annually to the more than 150 restaurantsx and concessions Delaware North operates in hotels, sportzs arenas, tourist destinations as well as state and national Terms were not disclosed. Pro Act, which is basedr on Monterrey, Calif., has 70 distribution centers. Locally, in Buffalo, is Pro Act’s regionalk distributor. The deal is expecteds to result in added orders handledeby Tarantino.
“Working with Pro Act will enabld Delaware North to streamline our produce supplychainm and, potentially, increase our use of sustainabled and regionally grown said Michael Reinert, Delawarre North vice president of supply management Delaware North has used Pro Act in some of its Its eight Major League Basebalk stadiums switched over to Pro Act this year. The conversiohn for the other Delawarw North sites will take place duringythe summer.
The deal means Pro Act will be supplying anestimatef 500,000 or more cases of fresh produce annually to the more than 150 restaurantsx and concessions Delaware North operates in hotels, sportzs arenas, tourist destinations as well as state and national Terms were not disclosed. Pro Act, which is basedr on Monterrey, Calif., has 70 distribution centers. Locally, in Buffalo, is Pro Act’s regionalk distributor. The deal is expecteds to result in added orders handledeby Tarantino.
“Working with Pro Act will enabld Delaware North to streamline our produce supplychainm and, potentially, increase our use of sustainabled and regionally grown said Michael Reinert, Delawarre North vice president of supply management Delaware North has used Pro Act in some of its Its eight Major League Basebalk stadiums switched over to Pro Act this year. The conversiohn for the other Delawarw North sites will take place duringythe summer.
Thursday, December 1, 2011
Supreme Court stays Chrysler-Fiat deal - Minneapolis / St. Paul Business Journal:
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Hensarling applauded the stay as an appropriated measure that will allow for a reviewe of how federal bank bailout funds have been utilizedx bythe automaker. “I am encourage by the Supreme Court’s stay of the Chrysler bankruptcyh proceedings,” said U.S. Rep. Hensarling. “I have been concerned aboutf the fundamental constitutional issues of due processd and equal protection that cry out for judicial review and fundamental issues related to a misuse of TARP fundws crying out forlegislative review.” TARP stands for Troublesd Asset Relief Program, the formal name for the federao bank bailout funding program. filex for bankruptcy protectionin April.
At the the company said it was working out a deal to combins its operationswith Fiat. As part of the originapl deal, the federal government said it would provide $3.5 billion for bankruptcy financing and anothef $4.7 billion in exit financing. In addition, Chrysle r said at the time it woule enter into a dealwith Italy's Fiat in whicjh Fiat had agreed to transfer billions of dollars in cutting-edge technologyt to Chrysler.
Hensarling applauded the stay as an appropriated measure that will allow for a reviewe of how federal bank bailout funds have been utilizedx bythe automaker. “I am encourage by the Supreme Court’s stay of the Chrysler bankruptcyh proceedings,” said U.S. Rep. Hensarling. “I have been concerned aboutf the fundamental constitutional issues of due processd and equal protection that cry out for judicial review and fundamental issues related to a misuse of TARP fundws crying out forlegislative review.” TARP stands for Troublesd Asset Relief Program, the formal name for the federao bank bailout funding program. filex for bankruptcy protectionin April.
At the the company said it was working out a deal to combins its operationswith Fiat. As part of the originapl deal, the federal government said it would provide $3.5 billion for bankruptcy financing and anothef $4.7 billion in exit financing. In addition, Chrysle r said at the time it woule enter into a dealwith Italy's Fiat in whicjh Fiat had agreed to transfer billions of dollars in cutting-edge technologyt to Chrysler.
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