Niagara fruit crops holding up - Denver Business Journal:

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But many more orchards and other including residential areas in the Lake Ontario Fruit Belt, remain to be testedx for plum pox virus before September. Teams workingh for the and the statd Department of Agriculture and Markets began taking leaf samplesin May. Subsequent laboratory tests did not disclose any new outbreaks of the virus inNiagarwa County, Jackie Klahn, director of the USDA’w Lockport field office, said. In early May, as orchards blossomed, optimis was growing that the spread ofthe disease, whicjh made its Niagara County debut 2006 mighyt be waning.
Between 2006 and 2008, plum pox was discoveredr in several NiagaraCounty orchards, in Orleans County and Waynew County, east of Rochester. Though harmless to humans and the virus poses an economic risk for commercial fruit growers because they must destro y all susceptible treeswithin 1.5 miles to 2 milesw of an identified hot spot. Plum pox destroysw the commercial value of the fruit that it attack because it discolors anddisfigures peaches, plums, prunesw and nectarines. In New York state counties lying alongfLake Ontario’s south shore, fruit growinh is a multi-million-dollar industry.

Oakley Group brokers $6.7M in sales - Birmingham Business Journal:

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million in four recent loca apartmentcommunity sales, totalinbg 175 units. The 97-unit Oxmoor Ridge Apartments in Homewoor sold to a private investment grouplfor $3.4 million. The apartments were builft in 1976 and were 90percent occupied, said a news Villa Maria Apartments in Hoover sold to an out-of-stat e private investment group for $2.1 The 50-unit complex was 95 percent occupied. The 13-unitr Ashford Apartments in Birmingham recently soldfor $617,500 to a local investmenrt group and were 100 percenft occupied at the time of the The Ballingary apartments, a 15-unit complex also in Birmingham, sold for $565,00o0 to a local group.
“Banks are stillp lending money if deals represeng sound fundamentals and have agood story,” said David broker and owner for Oakley Group, in the “REITS, institutional funds and private equitt ... still remain confident in the multifamily sector. Many are raisin equity as fast as they can to gear up for buyiny additionalmultifamily assets.” The Oakley Group represented both the buyer and the sellert in the transactions, with the exception of the Ballingar y complex, whose seller was represented by Joel Moore of .

San Antonio gets $12.9 million for defense projects - Baltimore Business Journal:

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million for defense-related projects in San accordingto U.S. Rep. Ciro Rodriguez, D-San who serves on the committee. A plannedr upgrade of an aircrafft maintenance building at Kellyt Annex Field has been approvedfor $7.9 milliob in federal funding. The funding will be used to bringv the building up to code compliance to provided a placewhere F-16 fightetr jets can be properly maintained. In addition, $5 millio was authorized for a program to produces unmanned aerial vehicles that use Blacklight Night Vision Advanced which is manufactured bySan Antonio-baser This technology allows for the deployment of miniatur drones to provide site-specific surveillance “San Antonio continues to be a militaryy leader in operations and the advancement of technology,” says Congressmab Rodriguez.
“These authorizations will bolsteer the ability of our troops to do theie jobs more safelyand efficiently.”

Darigold fined by state - Puget Sound Business Journal (Seattle):

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According to the "Darigold failed to follow proper operating, maintenance and notificatiojn procedures during a February 2007 milk spill that dischargeds polluted water to the cityof Lynden. The spill cause the wastewater treatment plant to resulting in the releaseof polluted, mostly untreatede sewage to the Nooksack River. ... Darigold also violatec its water-quality permit six times between August and Octoberf 2006 by discharging water containingvsuspended solids. In addition, in Novembed 2006, Darigold discharged water with a temperature of 100 degreese directly into theNooksack River. This put at risk the fish and freshwaterr organisms that need cool watetrto survive.
" "Darigold has a history of permit said Kevin Fitzpatrick, the agency's regionalo water quality manager, in a Darigold "takes these violations very said Steve Rowe, senior vice president and general in a statement.

Greater Phoenix CVB launches social media campaign - Washington Business Journal:

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The first contest offers a two-night stay at the Royall Palms Resort and Spa and a candlelit dinnedr for two atthe resort’d restaurant, T. Cook’s. In subsequent similar packages are expecter to be given away fromthe Ritz-Carltom Phoenix, Arizona Biltmore Resort Spa, InterContinental Montelucia Resort and Spa, Fairmongt Scottsdale, Sheraton Wild Horse Pass Resort Spa, Westin Kierland, Phoenician and Arizona The contest is part of a sociap media marketing campaign by the Greatet Phoenix CVB that also includes a new blog, Twitterf and Flickr accounts, and YouTube videos. The blog, calledf the Hot Sheet, is a frequentlu updated compendiumof restaurants, shops and activities.
The videoi project, called “Phoenix Dream Days,” features Phoeniciane of local and national renown offering tourxs of their favorite local The inaugural video is hosted by celebrity chefMark Tarbell. Facebook: Twitter: YouTube: Flickr:

Genmar warranties still good - Minneapolis / St. Paul Business Journal:

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Tracy Carrell says the letter came after boat manufacturerd on Monday filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy Genmar owns 15 different brandsof boats, which meand dealers everywhere are impacted. She says cash customers for boatsd at her dealership haveremaineed strong. But trouble financing in the currentr economy means others have been forced tohold off. “Thd boating business has been affected a lot like cars she says. The petition to reorganize its debta was filedin U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Minneapolies — where the company is headquartered along with more than 20related subsidiaries. Genma r has between 100 and 199 creditors.
It listsx its assets in the rageof $10 millionm to $50 million and its liabilitieas between $100 million and $500 million, according to court documents. The largestr unsecured creditorsare Maslon, Borman, Brand, a Minneapolis-based law firm whichu is owed $186,700. Merchant Gould, a law firm in Minneapolis, is owed $155,800. The only securex creditors are and FifthThircd Bank, according to a story in the Minneapolisz Star Tribune. Genmar said it has receivedc commitment fora debtor-in-possession (DIP) financing proposakl from both banks.
In a Genmar Chairman, CEO and largest shareholder Irwin Jacobsa said sales ofthe company’s fishing luxury yachts and other products started to decline in but worsened in recent months. The company’s sales in fiscal 2009, which ends in are likely to beabout $460 million, off by more than 50 percentt from fiscal 2008. “If someone would have said to me as recentlg as even one month ago that Genmad would someday be filing forChaptee 11, I would have said it was not even a remot possibility,” Jacobs said. Genmar had been making some strategty changes inrecent months, announcing plans to launch a line of less-expensivde aluminum boats. A spinoff company, Pa.
-based VEC Technology, and other Jacobs-related companiew aren’t included in the filing. VEC is now in the businessd of making giant bladesfor energy-generatingb windmills. Law firm Fredrikson Byron in Minneapolis, is representing Genmat in thebankruptcy case.

SMU students warned of gas leak - Orlando Business Journal:

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The warning came out afterd a gas leak was identified on campus sometimdbetween 9:30 and 9:45 a.m. Thursdag morning, said Kent Best, executive director of news and Best added that wasnotifiedx immediately. Additional e-mails with more information were sentto students, facult y and staff, and a final e-mail was distributer alerting everyone on campus to the fact that the gas leak had been Best said. “Those messages came from our emergencgy department,” Best added, “the emphasis is on brevity and speed. It is somethingh we will review to make sure that as much detaiol that we can put in there is providefd to avoid any confusion inthe future.
” Best said the wholee event lasted about an hour. The gas leak occurred at a constructionh site near Moody Coliseum at Airlines Road andBinkley Avenue, according to Best.

Some quick post-game hits, Giants a win away from World Series - San Francisco Chronicle (blog)

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Despite recession, college grad pay remains stable - Phoenix Business Journal:

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This year’s graduating class held its ground with averagee startingsalary offers, demonstrating that employerse are reluctant to significantly tinker with startiny pay despite the recession, a report by the Nationapl Association of Colleges and Employere found. The average starting salary offert for new college graduatesis $49,307, which is less than 1 percenty lower than the averagew of $49,693 that 2008 graduates posted last year at this according to a news release Wednesday. In its the association compiled data from college and university career servicesoffices nationwide.
Graduatesw with bachelor’s degrees in the business disciplines saw theidr average rise by less than 1 percent to thestudy found. “Accounting majors did betterd thanthe average,” the news release said, “and postedr a 1.9 percent increase for an average offefr of $48,993.” But the average offef to business administration majors droppec 2.1 percent to $44,944. That’a party because many of those offersw came from retailers andwholesalers that, on average, offerec starting pay of $40,220, which was 6 percen lower than what they offered a year ago.
Finance graduates and marketing graduates fared better than those in othefrbusiness disciplines, with the average offetr to finance graduates rising 2.9 percent to $49,940 and the averagde offer to marketing graduates increasing 3 percentg to $43,325. Starting salaries weren’ft looking as good in the spring for graduatews fromcomputer science-related fields, when the groupp saw a 5 percentr decline in average offers compared to the sprinfg a year earlier. But in a comparison this summer to summerdlast year, the averagwe offer to the group has increasedx 1.9 percent to $59,418. Among the specifi c disciplines in this computer science grads saw their average salary offereincrease 1.
6 percent to $61,407. Taking a slight dip were salart offers to information sciences and systems grads, whose offers fell by less than 1 percengt to $52,089. Enjoying the highest salary increasr wereengineering graduates, with the average offedr rising 3.7 percent to $59,254. Chemical engineering graduates, meanwhile, posted a 2.7 percentt increase to $64,902. Computef engineering graduates enjoyed an averagse offer riseof 3.6 percent to $61,738. Electrical engineerinf graduates earned one of thelarger increases, the news release The group’s average offer increased 5.6 percent to Civil engineering graduates saw only a tiny bump of 0.8 percengt to $52,048.
Liberal arts grads experienced a decline of less than 1 percentffrom $36,419 last year to $36,175, the study Among the liberal arts disciplines, English majors posted a 1.1 percentt increase in their average salary offer to $34,704. The salart offers for history majorsrose 1.7 percentg to $37,861. Psychology majors’ averager salary offers grew 2.1 percent to Sociology majors, on the other hand, saw theirf average offers fall 4.4 percent to $33,280.

Carolinas HealthCare reduces 1Q loss - South Florida Business Journal:

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Investment losses for the latest quarter totaledrnearly $101 million. Chief Financialo Officer Greg Gombar anticipates gains in the financia market in April and May will erasethosse losses. Carolinas HealthCare uses investment earnings forcapitao expenditures. That money is not used for daily The health-care system hopes negotiations with several lenderx will cut its interes t expenses tied to variable debt and highetr bank-liquidity fees. Those fees are about $1 milliojn per month. Interest expenses in the firsg quarterwere $21.8 million.
From an operational standpoint, Carolinas HealthCare had a strongfirstf quarter, says Russ Guerin, executive vice presidentg for business development and planning. Net operating revenu climbed 8.6 percent to $1.2 billion Operating income exceeded $24.5 million. The health-carre system saw adjusted discharges — a calculationj that gauges patientactivitgy — climb 5.2 percent from a year earlier. Growt within the health-care systenm and expense management “is the primaryh driver why we’re above budget significantly,” Guerin says. Carolinas HealthCarer spent morethan $106 million on capitao projects in the first quarter.
Projects includ new operating roomsat CMC-NorthEasft and Carolinas Medical Center, an expansionm of CMC-Pineville, a new hospital at CMC-Lincoln and constructio of health-care pavilions in Steele Creek and which will include free-standing emergency Challenges in the cominbg months include managing the system’s growing bad-debt and charity-care reducing interest expenses and preparinyg for a possible state cut in Medicaid Gombar says. Bad-debt costs were 12 percent over budgeft during thefirst quarter, topping $48 milliom in the first quarter. During the same period last bad debt wasabout $43 million.
The health-care syste spent more than $770 million in community care in includingbad debt, charity care and subsidizinyg Medicare and Medicaid. That equals 18.8 percenr of the health-care system’s net operating revenue. ”It’s a trenrd everybody’s seeing across the country,” Gombar says. “We can’yt control how many people are how many people show up at our doorwithour insurance.” North Carolina’s budge woes could results in a cut of up to 15 perceny for Medicaid. That could equate to $36 millioj in annual losses forCarolinas “Medicaid cuts are the worst economicv benefit cut the state can Gombar says. “It’s painful.
” Says Guerin: “Ig raises prices for those whodo pay. It makesa no good business sense todo that.” Gombar says everyg dollar cut from Medicaid eliminates $4 from the Carolinas HealthCare is the largest health-care systemn in the Carolinas and the third-largest public systej in the nation. The systej owns, leases or manages 25 hospitals. It has more than 40,000 full- and part-time employees.

Economy Watch: FNF Construction gets highway stimulus contract - Phoenix Business Journal:

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“It is a rehabilitation project to create asafefr roadway,” said Deena Billings, business development officer for Tempe-basexd FNF Construction, which is celebrating 25 yearxs in business. Some areas of U.S. 491 have deteriorated creatinv a significant safety issue for thosr whouse it, she The project is a good fit for the which also has an officer in Albuquerque, according to “Paving projects are kind of our niche.” In additio to making the roadway safer for travelers, the $8.9 million project givea FNF Construction’s staff more opportunitg for work. “We will be able to keep existinfg employees busy and perhaps hirenew ones,” she said.
The biddinf process for a stimulus contract is very similar to that on any job both for the contractof and the state department oftransportation involved. The New Mexico Departmenft of Transportation advertised the projectg in typical fashion with the lowest biddert winningthe contract, said Megan Arrendondo, spokeswoman for the New Mexicoo Department of Transportation. The federal government does look at the projectxin depth, however, Arrendondo added. Construction on the 14-mil stretch, which runs on the southern portion of the broke groundMay 20.
FNF Construction is hopefuk that its portion of the upgrade is completwe by the endof “We are excited to keep on goingt and be part of the process,” Billings said of futurew jobs.

YRC Worldwide restructures executive team - Kansas City Business Journal:

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In a release, Overland Park-based YRC YRCW) said Keith Lovetro, former president of YRC Regionall Transportation; Michael Rapken, former executive vice presidentt and chief information Jim Ritchie, former president of YRC Logistics; and Christina former vice president and treasurer, will leave the company by June 30. YRC also detailedd the following appointments, effective immediately: • John Garcia is executive vice president and chievsales officer. Garcia is responsible for sales strategy and results throughoutg YRC and its regionaloperating companies.
Garcia was presidenft of Overland Park-based ’s largest wireleszs business unit and chief marketing officef forSprint (NYSE: S). • Mike ’s president and COO, assumes responsibility for the operations of all YRC Worldwide regiona l andnational networks. • Tim executive vice presidentand CFO, leades a newly consolidated organization comprising all strategic and operational finance activities throughout YRC Worldwide companies. • Sheila Taylor, vice president of finance andinvestord relations, assumes the role of treasurer, reporting to Wicks.
Greg Reid, executive vice presidenf and chiefmarketing officer, will lead a consolidatedr marketing effort, including brand and business developmentt initiatives, supporting all YRC Worldwide companies. • Mike Naatz, executivr vice president and chief information andservic officer, assumes responsibility for YRC Worldwid e information technology, YRC customedr service and the strategic direction for the regional custome r service functions. Naatz continues to lead YRC Worldwide’s programj management efforts, initially designed to support the successfuo integration of Yellowand Roadway.
John Carr assumes the role of president for YRC leading the YRC Worldwidwe global logisticsmanagement company. Previously, Carr was COO for YRC Logisticsx and president for the Americazsand Europe. All the executivez except Taylor report directly to YRC Worldwide Chairmanb and CEOBill Zollars. Dan Churay, executivr vice president, general counsel and secretary; and Jim Kissinger, executive vice presidenyt of human resources, remain in their current roles, reporting to Zollars. YRC Worldwide said in the releasew that the changes will strengthenits “focus on criticao areas to streamline decision-making while eliminating redundant efforts and costs.
” “Today’s announcementr is a significant, strategic step as we take advantagew of the full power of YRC Worldwide,” Zollarws said in the release. “w functional organization structure allows us to dedicate an even broader team of seasoned experts to the supportt of our customers alon all lines of ourbusiness — clearlg a competitive advantage.” YRC’s announcement follows rough road for the compangy and the trucking industry the past severa months. YRC , or $4.34 a share, in the first quartefr as the freight recession continued to weighdown performance. That compared with a loss of $46.36 million, or 82 cents a share, a year earlier.
in federal bailout assistance forpension obligations. Companh officials wouldn’t comment on the More recently, the company sold its headquarters to a group of localo investors led by Ken Block andSteves Block, principals of Kansaa City real estate firm Block & Co. Inc. Realtors, in a sale-leasebacik deal that includes apotential 30-year lease for YRC. The company didn’t disclosre the price or and Ken Block saidhe couldn’t commentf because of a confidentiality agreement, but a YRC Securitiesz and Exchange Commission filinb suggested the purchase price was $22.65 million. YRC ranks No. 2 on the Kansas City BusinessaJournal ’s list of area public companies.

Building business a passion for Cray director Sally Narodick - Puget Sound Business Journal (Seattle):

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At 63, after a long and successful careeer as a corporate Narodick is focusing much of her energy on serving on multiple Financially comfortable at this stage in her Narodick said her intention in remaining on boards is to help steed worthy organizations through the complexities of the currenteconomivc climate. On top of that, she relishes the and loves the teamwork. “I think building a successful business is one of the most excitinbg endeavors that youcan do,” she said.
“Board of directors are part of thatteam — they contribute oversight, business strategy insights, objectivity and some and an ability to step back from the detailo and help the team focus on the most important things both for the long term and the immediate Currently Narodick serves on seven boards — three of them large corporations and the other four are nonprofif organizations. The three corporate boards upon whic Narodick servesare , Penford and SumTotal Systems Inc.
On the nonprofit side, she sits on the boardas of the , the Washington Research Foundation, the Kline Galland which provides housing forJewish seniors, and Darin Online, which helps Jewish organizationd use the internet. Narodick is this year’w recipient of the Seattle-Northwest chapter of the Nationa l Association ofCorporate Directors’ 2009 Public Companyh Director of the Year Award. Craig who nominated her for the award, cited her abilitgy to “spot strategic dilemmas or weaknesses,” her “financia wisdom” and her supportive attitude towardf otherboard members. Cole, CEO of investment firm , served with Narodick on the Pugert SoundEnergy board.
The seven boards on whicbh Narodick sits encompass a wide rangeof activities, but to Narodicik the common thread is that they and how they do it. “Thd tone at the top, and the integritu of people involved, are No. 1 determineres of whether I’ll join a she said. “It has everythinh to do with long-term valud creation.” In Narodick’s view, valuw creation is another way of sayingb she wants to dedicate her time to group s that makea difference. “I’ves been with the Hutch for seven toeighft years, and I joined that becauss they do incredible work,” she said.
And, “I thinkk the Washington Research Foundation does some fabulouz work for research institutionsin town.” But for her the othert intriguing facet of corporate and nonprofit organizations is how they fulfillk their goals, especially in terms of ethical And here, Narodick said, boardxs have a particular function. “I thinok you feel a huge responsibility,” she “Someone once said the board’s responsibility is to do the snifff tests, to make sure management is doing thei r job with integrity andstrategi focus.” Another linking factof is her background, which includes both technolog and education. She served for sevebn years as CEO ofEdmark Corp.
, a publicly held educationapl software company that has since been sold, and followed that as CEO of , another similar company backed by Paul Allen’xs . Is seven too many boards? Narodicik thinks not, adding that in her view a benefit to servintg on multiple boards is developing wider understandinh about howorganizations work, and the contextz in which they operate. “When you have an opportunity to sit on more than one that enhances the valued thatyou bring,” she said.
As for the difficulties broughty on by thecurrent recession, for Narodick that just adds to the “The nature of board conversations have changed so dramatically in this You really have to focusx on contingency planning, the availability of the ability to do acquisitions,” she “It is a challenge every day to keep up on governancer issues, economic issues, individual industry and company and on the strategy of the I find it a privilege to participate and to work with the teamsz I do, and that’s what motivates me.
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Washington Business Journal: RIP Cape May Road in Silver Spring

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The road heads to the guillotine at 11 when a small section of the road will be torn out over six tosevem hours. Come Thursday morning, drivers will be blocked from Cape May Road and can acces MD650 (New Hampshire via Good Hope Road The road is being closee by the Maryland Department of Transportatioh

40 Under Forty: Bryan Cady - The Business Review (Albany):

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Since founding the in Albany, however, he has had to become much Being both teacher and entrepreneur means overseeintg performance recitals and a facultyyof 15-plus. It means managinhg customer accountsand payroll. It meands implementing marketing plans. All while teachintg a variety of instruments. Still, all the minute detailsd and duties don’t keep him from seeing the big or losing his vision forthe school’s mission.
“ I feel that I trulyy can make a difference by giving both students and the adultd we teach a positive and creativd outletthrough music,” the 32-year-old Cady “Music is my passion, and working withi a field that allows me to share that is—quit literally—a dream come true. It is also wonderfu to work with a facultu that sharesmy passion, while effectively passingf that onto our students.” Afted attending Chatham High School in Columbia County, Cady came to Albany in 1994 as a Growing up in a rural he found the smalkl city refreshing. And he stilp does.
He considers the Frederick Law Olmsted-designedc Washington Park in Albany an attraction and a place to walk offthe “stressese of everyday life.” His No. 1 plac to bring out-of-town guests is because “you get to see a bit of Albanyu on theway [and] the place has history, classe and charm.” And he loves the cheesew at the mid-town alternative the (any cheese recommended by Gustav, that is). With a new son, who turns 1 in July, Cady still finds time for hisown music. He playzs traditional Irish music and isa singer/songwriter.
When he’ws not practicing or playing, he findsd time to hike the Pine and says heenjoyas “the never-ending old-home hous e projects.” Still, Connor keeps Cady and his wife Mary “asserting control over our lived at an alarming rate,” he says. Joking Cady quickly adds, “I find mysel truly blessed in both my wifeand child.”

Roche to buy rest of Genentech for $46.8B - South Florida Business Journal:

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billion, ending a takeover fight that went on for nearltyeight months. The Swiss drug maker close d the deal witha $95-a-share offer, up from the $93-a-shars offer it made March 6 for San Francisco-baseed Genentech (NYSE: DNA). Roche has now come full circleswith Genentech, which it once owned outright afte paying $2.1 billion. It cut its stake to 56 percengt in a series of steps about a decade Genentech has developed allof Roche's best-selliny cancer drugs. Roche said it expectsd to savebetween $750 million and $850 million by reducint complexity and eliminating duplicatio n in functions and processes but said job cuts aren't the focuss of the deal.
The Roche-Genentech deal follows a series of big pharmaceuticalk mergers that are rearrangingthe industry, including 'e (NYSE: MRK) $32.6 billion agreement earliet this week to acquire (NYSE: SGP) and 'w (NYSE: PFE) $68 billionn agreement in January to take over WYE).

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But even in the midst of the smooth there are subtle signsof Gates’ absence from day-to-day decision-making — particularly as the economy forces Microsoft to cut The company, legendary for its far-flung technology initiatives, has been rethinking some of favorite projects as part of its broader effor to shave expenses in the face of the recession. Examplews include “smart personal objects” and other technologies that Gatesz continued to champion even as they struggled inthe Gates’ shift away from day-to-day dutiesa has also changed the mix of personalities at the top of the Ray Ozzie, his successor as chief software architect, doesn’tf have anything close to the confrontational approach that the Microsoft co-founder used to shape the company.

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Cord Camera heads into receivership - Business First of Columbus:

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The photo processing and scrapbook retail chain filed papers in Franklin County Commo n Pleas Court on Friday to dissolvde its business and havea court-appointed receiver resolv e outstanding financial liabilities for the Cord President Steven Cordle could not immediately be reacherd for comment Thursday, but the company argued in its court filinhg that dissolution and appointment of a receiver were its only optionn to continue operations.
“Corcd believes that the appointment of a is the only recourse to ensure that Cord can continur to operate in the regular courseof business, whilr maintaining the value of its until such time as thosew assets can be liquidated at their highest and best price as a goingb concern,” the filing Dissolution is akin to a federalk bankruptcy filing that enableds restructuring or liquidation, except dissolutio is governed by state law. Cord Camera listexd its largest creditor as ColfaFinancial Inc., although the courgt filings do not say how much the company owes. The filing also said other creditorss have beguncollection actions.
The filing is the latest in a string of bad news for the Columbuzs retailinstitution – it was started in 1954 that has been financially buffeted during the 18 months-long recession. Troubles surfaced last year, when callec in Cord Camera’s $8.6 million creditr line, which resulted in expense cuts and the closure offour stores. Cord Camera was able to get the bankfundintg restored, but it ran into troublew again last month. Philadelphia-based filed a lawsuit May 8 in U.S. Districg Court in Columbus alleging Cord Camera had defaulted on threr equipment leases andowed $637,000.
That same Cord Camera moved its headquarters to smaller officezs and put its former home office on Dividenfd Drive on the selling blockfor $2.2 After Columbus Business First reported on the company’sd troubles last year, Cordles said the family company remaines dedicated to its business plan and survival. “We’rr committed to our he had said, “and to keeping what my fathedr started backin ’54 going.” The consolidatiom left Cord Camera with 28 stores in Ohio and Indiana.

Senate looks to gut $1B from budget - Business First of Columbus:

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That would include $417 milliom in targeted cuts to agency budgets resultin ina still-to-be-determined number of state job Senate GOP leaders said Friday as they unveiled theif plan to balance the two-year budgetf that begins July 1. Their budgeg bill would trim morethan $1 billion from the $114 billionm spending plan passed by the Democrat-controlled Ohio House in April. At the same time, Senate Republicans said their budget proposal woul boost spending for primary and secondary schoolsz rather than cut funding for them as proposefin House-approved budget. It would raise funding for gradexs K-12 school district by 0.25 percent in fiscap 2010 compared to the curren year andanother 0.
5 percent in 2011. Senate Republicanxs also rejected Gov. Ted Strickland’s sweepinv evidence-based school reform plan, calling it “fundamentally because it is basedc on school staffing needs instead ofstudent needs. They want the governor’x proposed education model to be reviewed by a bipartisanstudgy council. Senate President Bill Harris, R-Ashland, said he wants the where Republicans holda 21-12 to pass a budget bill June 4 or 5. That woulde set the stage for a House-Senate conference committee to hash out the difference in their versions of the bill and present a balances budgetfor Strickland’s signature by a June 30 deadline set by stat law.
“We want to work with the governor and Harris said, “to do what is righft for this great state. This budget is part of Like theHouse version, the Senatr Republicans’ bill does not call for tax increasezs and safeguards the broad tax reforms favored by the business community and approved by legislatores in 2005. It also protectzs a two-year tuition freeze at communityh colleges, such as Columbus State, and one-yeare freeze and 3.5 percent cap on increase in fiscal 2011at four-year state including , that were proposed by Strickland and passed by the House.
Senate Republicansx were able to provide such safeguardz despite having to workwith $912 millio n less than what the House had counted on when it passesd its budget bill. The revenues shortfall became apparent in early May when the Strickland administratioh reported state income tax receipts through April 30 were 15 percenr lower than a year ago and well belosthe administration’s revised budget forecast in Besides the $417 million in cuts for stat e agencies, Senate Republican budget-balancing moves include mandating $42 milliobn in cost-containment measures for the Medicaid health-car e program for the poor and locking in $200 million in agency service cuts ordered by Stricklanfd earlier this year.
“We thin k spending more money is not the Harris said. “The answer is getting more Ohioan s back to work and helpingy more businesses and industries in Ohiobe successful.” Eliminating 34 proposed fee increases for employers, includin ones affecting the coal, agriculture and constructionn industries. • Requiring state regulatoryh agencies to eliminate bureaucracy and red tapefor businesses. • Holdinf the line on new health-carwe mandates that drive up the cost of health insurancerfor employers.
• Eliminating a proposed fee ofapproximatelh $8 million per year for the disposal of construction and demolition • Preserving funding for the and Ohio Stater University Extension for research and innovation • Enhancing a $100 million film tax crediy to attract the motion picture industry to • Supporting expansion of the state’s Job Retention Tax Credit and Technology Investment Tax Credit. • Providing more fundingy for state Rapid Outreacj grants to attract and retain businessesin Ohio.