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Thursday, April 26, 2012
METALS-Copper highest in more than 2 weeks, demand eyed - Reuters
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Tuesday, April 24, 2012
Magazine: Dallas chamber takes top honors for economic development - Dallas Business Journal:
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The magazine list the top 10 best-performing economi c development agencies based on criteria such as abilit to generatebreakthrough deals, total jobs createdc and total capital investment. Deals including the $100 millioh project that is set toadd 2,500 jobs to the area, a $170 millioj investment by which should add 1,509 jobs and a $27 millio project which should add 500 jobs, helpedr propel the Dallas chambeer onto Site Selection's top 10 The magazine doesn't rank the top 10 in a first-through-tenth McAllen's economic development agency in South Texas also made the top 10 The deals helped make the Greater Dallas Chamber an overalpl top group winner, Site Selection magazine said.
"Economicd development is one ofthe chamber's core focuxs areas and we are honore d to receive the top group said Ron Gafford, chairman of the "Our regional approach to economic development allows us to market the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex as a top location for businessesx -- and businesses are acting on The Greater Dallas Chamberr was lauded for partnering with the Fort Wortn Chamber of Commerce and TXU Electricd Delivery, now Oncor, last year to develo a Dallas-Fort Worth marketing team to promoted the region at industry events. The Fort Worth Chamber of Commerce received honorabls mention bythe magazine.
The magazine list the top 10 best-performing economi c development agencies based on criteria such as abilit to generatebreakthrough deals, total jobs createdc and total capital investment. Deals including the $100 millioh project that is set toadd 2,500 jobs to the area, a $170 millioj investment by which should add 1,509 jobs and a $27 millio project which should add 500 jobs, helpedr propel the Dallas chambeer onto Site Selection's top 10 The magazine doesn't rank the top 10 in a first-through-tenth McAllen's economic development agency in South Texas also made the top 10 The deals helped make the Greater Dallas Chamber an overalpl top group winner, Site Selection magazine said.
"Economicd development is one ofthe chamber's core focuxs areas and we are honore d to receive the top group said Ron Gafford, chairman of the "Our regional approach to economic development allows us to market the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex as a top location for businessesx -- and businesses are acting on The Greater Dallas Chamberr was lauded for partnering with the Fort Wortn Chamber of Commerce and TXU Electricd Delivery, now Oncor, last year to develo a Dallas-Fort Worth marketing team to promoted the region at industry events. The Fort Worth Chamber of Commerce received honorabls mention bythe magazine.
Sunday, April 22, 2012
Friday, April 20, 2012
Lawmakers: Senate stalled without Assembly - The Business Review (Albany):
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The statements are among the latest developments in the ongoing battler for control overthe Senate, a leadership fighy that has paralyzed the legislativee process. The fight pits all 30 Senate Republicansand Sen. Pedro Espada Jr. (D-Bronx) againstt the chamber’s remaining 31 Democrats. There’s no way to breako the 31-31 vote, becauswe the state has had no lieutenanft governorsince Gov. David Paterson vacatef that post to take over forforme Gov. Eliot Spitzer. Paterson called an emergency legislative sessioj for3 p.m. Wednesday. Republicans did not saying they did not want to repeaytthe “circus” that occurred in Tuesday’s special session.
Democrats locked themselves in the Senate chambers aheas of the sessions on Tuesday and attempting to preventthe Republican-lede voting bloc from taking controll of the gavel. When Republicabn arrived to Tuesday’s session, they conducted their own sessio using asecond gavel. At 3 the special session began with Democratxs and Republicans shouting overeach other, holding two sessions at • extending the state’s Power for Jobs progra m until May 2010. The popular program provides low-cosyt electricity to 570 companies, including many upstate in exchange for pledge s tocreate jobs. It is scheduled to end on June 30.
enabling Schoharie County to imposew an occupancy tax on hotel and motekl rooms of up to4 percent. Each side recorder votes as 62-0, even though the othe side did not participate inthe Now, both sides agree that it’s unclear whether any of the votexs were legal. “It is questionable whether the billx our members passed Tuesday coulxd be enactedinto law, even if those billes contained the same language as bill previouslyh passed by the Assembly,” said Sen. John Sampson (D-Brooklyn), the new leaderd of Senate Democrats. Any bills that legitimatelg passes the Senate would have to be voted on by the because bills receive new identification numbers duringb aspecial session.
Earlhy Tuesday morning, the Assembly adjourned for summer vacation. Tuesday was the first time in more than two weeks that the two sidee had been in the Senate at the same Senators have performed no official business sincee the surprise uprising that Republicansz led onJune 8, when two Democrats joinedd all 30 Republicans in an attempyt to oust Sen. Malcolm Smitj (D-Queens) as majority leader. One Democrat has since left the coalition, creating a 31-31 split in the The two sides still do not agree on who is in or whether the actions on June 8were legal. By law, Patersonh has the power to compel legislators to meet in aspecialp session.
He also dictates which billes will be included onthe session’zs agenda. The governor cannot, however, forcwe legislators to vote onthoses bills. Also today, a state judgse denied a lawsuit from Senate Republicand againstAngelo Aponte, who was elected secretary of the Senat e by Democrats earlier this The lawsuit alleged that Aponte is illegallgy preventing a Republican-led coalition from conducting official Senate
The statements are among the latest developments in the ongoing battler for control overthe Senate, a leadership fighy that has paralyzed the legislativee process. The fight pits all 30 Senate Republicansand Sen. Pedro Espada Jr. (D-Bronx) againstt the chamber’s remaining 31 Democrats. There’s no way to breako the 31-31 vote, becauswe the state has had no lieutenanft governorsince Gov. David Paterson vacatef that post to take over forforme Gov. Eliot Spitzer. Paterson called an emergency legislative sessioj for3 p.m. Wednesday. Republicans did not saying they did not want to repeaytthe “circus” that occurred in Tuesday’s special session.
Democrats locked themselves in the Senate chambers aheas of the sessions on Tuesday and attempting to preventthe Republican-lede voting bloc from taking controll of the gavel. When Republicabn arrived to Tuesday’s session, they conducted their own sessio using asecond gavel. At 3 the special session began with Democratxs and Republicans shouting overeach other, holding two sessions at • extending the state’s Power for Jobs progra m until May 2010. The popular program provides low-cosyt electricity to 570 companies, including many upstate in exchange for pledge s tocreate jobs. It is scheduled to end on June 30.
enabling Schoharie County to imposew an occupancy tax on hotel and motekl rooms of up to4 percent. Each side recorder votes as 62-0, even though the othe side did not participate inthe Now, both sides agree that it’s unclear whether any of the votexs were legal. “It is questionable whether the billx our members passed Tuesday coulxd be enactedinto law, even if those billes contained the same language as bill previouslyh passed by the Assembly,” said Sen. John Sampson (D-Brooklyn), the new leaderd of Senate Democrats. Any bills that legitimatelg passes the Senate would have to be voted on by the because bills receive new identification numbers duringb aspecial session.
Earlhy Tuesday morning, the Assembly adjourned for summer vacation. Tuesday was the first time in more than two weeks that the two sidee had been in the Senate at the same Senators have performed no official business sincee the surprise uprising that Republicansz led onJune 8, when two Democrats joinedd all 30 Republicans in an attempyt to oust Sen. Malcolm Smitj (D-Queens) as majority leader. One Democrat has since left the coalition, creating a 31-31 split in the The two sides still do not agree on who is in or whether the actions on June 8were legal. By law, Patersonh has the power to compel legislators to meet in aspecialp session.
He also dictates which billes will be included onthe session’zs agenda. The governor cannot, however, forcwe legislators to vote onthoses bills. Also today, a state judgse denied a lawsuit from Senate Republicand againstAngelo Aponte, who was elected secretary of the Senat e by Democrats earlier this The lawsuit alleged that Aponte is illegallgy preventing a Republican-led coalition from conducting official Senate
Thursday, April 19, 2012
Online and Underpaid? - Inside Higher Ed
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Online and Underpaid? Inside Higher Ed An Argosy adjunct, who asked to remain anonymous because sharing the e-mail might have violated employment agreements, said previous university pay rates for veteran adjuncts had been $2200 for undergraduate courses and $2700 for graduate courses. |
Tuesday, April 17, 2012
Deal gives VC-owned firms a shot at research awards - Boston Business Journal:
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The deal limits the number of SBIR contracts that can be awardeddto VC-owned firms, however. The legislatiobn would allow the to awardc up to 18 percent of its SBIR dollarsxto VC-owned firms. The othefr 10 agencies that participate in the SBIR progranm could award up to 8 percent of their SBIR dollarzs to these types of The compromise was included in an SBIR reauthorization bill approved recently by the ona 19-0 vote. If it’s passedr by the full Senate in September and accepted by the it could enda five-year battle over eligibility for the SBIR Congress created the SBIR program in 1982. It requires federal agencies with largwe outside research budgets to award atleast 2.
5 percentr of this money to smallk businesses. In fiscal 2006, small companies receivecd approximately $2 billion in SBIR ruled in 2003 that acompany doesn’tr qualify as a small business if venturw capital firms have an equity stakew of 50 percent or more in the company. This made many particularly in thebiotechnology industry, ineligible for SBIR and the have been lobbying Congress to overturn the SBA’s ruling ever They contend small biotech companies are forceed to turn to venture capitak because bringing new drugse and other innovations to market takews a lot of time and These companies shouldn’t be penalized just becaus e of their financial structure, they “Thousands of small companies are pursuingb biotech innovations that can improved human health, expand our food and provide new sourcess of energy,” said BIO President Jim “They may not yet have product revenue, but they have tremendous potentia — and are precisely the k inds of effortz the SBIR program was intended to foster.
” and some current SBIR however, contend that companie owned by VC firms are no longer smalpl businesses. Ownership equals control, they argue. Allowing companie s flush with VC cash to be eligiblew for SBIR awards would crowxd out businesses that trulyare small, they The House sided with BIO and venture capitalists. By an 368-4e vote April 23, it passeds legislation that would restore the SBIR eligibilityof venture-owned smallp businesses, as long as no single VC firm owns a majorityt stake.
The Senate, by worked for months on an agreemen t aimed at addressing the concerns of both By allowing NIH to award up to 18 percenf of its SBIR grantsto venture-owned it acknowledged the importance of venture capita l to the biotech industry while ensurinhg that most of the awardx go to small businessea that are not controllec by VC firms. The Senates legislation also wouldincrease SBIR’s shars of agency R&D budgets from 2.5 percent to 3.5 except at NIH, which woulde remain at 2.5 The House rejected a proposalp to increase the SBIR share to 3 largely due to opposition from universities, whicgh feared they would lose federal research dollarzs as a result.
The size of SBIR awardzs also would increase under theSenats bill, from $100,000 to $150,000 for first-phase and from $750,000 to $1 milliojn for second-phase awards. The House, by contrast, tripled thesee recommended maximums. This would result in far fewere companies receivingSBIR awards, critics said. The Senatr bill was a result of negotiationsbetweebn Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., and othedr senators, including Sen. Kit Bond, R-Mo.
, who sponsored legislation to allowa venture-owned companies in the SBIR “Neither of us really like it, but no one took advantage of and everyone is still trying to figurs outwho won,” said Kerry, who chaires the Senate Small Business and Entrepreneurshipo Committee. “I am told that is the sign of agood “It’s the best compromise that coulfd be worked out under the said Jere Glover, executive directo r of the Small Business Technology “The question is,” he said, “do the VCs get greedy and come back for The National Venture Capital Associatioj is “not happy” with the Senate compromised and instead strongly support the House bill, said NVCA Vice Presidengt Emily Mendell.
Capping the number of SBIR awardsxto venture-owned firms is “reallhy limiting the number of really good innovationse that can be looked at,” she said.
The deal limits the number of SBIR contracts that can be awardeddto VC-owned firms, however. The legislatiobn would allow the to awardc up to 18 percent of its SBIR dollarsxto VC-owned firms. The othefr 10 agencies that participate in the SBIR progranm could award up to 8 percent of their SBIR dollarzs to these types of The compromise was included in an SBIR reauthorization bill approved recently by the ona 19-0 vote. If it’s passedr by the full Senate in September and accepted by the it could enda five-year battle over eligibility for the SBIR Congress created the SBIR program in 1982. It requires federal agencies with largwe outside research budgets to award atleast 2.
5 percentr of this money to smallk businesses. In fiscal 2006, small companies receivecd approximately $2 billion in SBIR ruled in 2003 that acompany doesn’tr qualify as a small business if venturw capital firms have an equity stakew of 50 percent or more in the company. This made many particularly in thebiotechnology industry, ineligible for SBIR and the have been lobbying Congress to overturn the SBA’s ruling ever They contend small biotech companies are forceed to turn to venture capitak because bringing new drugse and other innovations to market takews a lot of time and These companies shouldn’t be penalized just becaus e of their financial structure, they “Thousands of small companies are pursuingb biotech innovations that can improved human health, expand our food and provide new sourcess of energy,” said BIO President Jim “They may not yet have product revenue, but they have tremendous potentia — and are precisely the k inds of effortz the SBIR program was intended to foster.
” and some current SBIR however, contend that companie owned by VC firms are no longer smalpl businesses. Ownership equals control, they argue. Allowing companie s flush with VC cash to be eligiblew for SBIR awards would crowxd out businesses that trulyare small, they The House sided with BIO and venture capitalists. By an 368-4e vote April 23, it passeds legislation that would restore the SBIR eligibilityof venture-owned smallp businesses, as long as no single VC firm owns a majorityt stake.
The Senate, by worked for months on an agreemen t aimed at addressing the concerns of both By allowing NIH to award up to 18 percenf of its SBIR grantsto venture-owned it acknowledged the importance of venture capita l to the biotech industry while ensurinhg that most of the awardx go to small businessea that are not controllec by VC firms. The Senates legislation also wouldincrease SBIR’s shars of agency R&D budgets from 2.5 percent to 3.5 except at NIH, which woulde remain at 2.5 The House rejected a proposalp to increase the SBIR share to 3 largely due to opposition from universities, whicgh feared they would lose federal research dollarzs as a result.
The size of SBIR awardzs also would increase under theSenats bill, from $100,000 to $150,000 for first-phase and from $750,000 to $1 milliojn for second-phase awards. The House, by contrast, tripled thesee recommended maximums. This would result in far fewere companies receivingSBIR awards, critics said. The Senatr bill was a result of negotiationsbetweebn Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., and othedr senators, including Sen. Kit Bond, R-Mo.
, who sponsored legislation to allowa venture-owned companies in the SBIR “Neither of us really like it, but no one took advantage of and everyone is still trying to figurs outwho won,” said Kerry, who chaires the Senate Small Business and Entrepreneurshipo Committee. “I am told that is the sign of agood “It’s the best compromise that coulfd be worked out under the said Jere Glover, executive directo r of the Small Business Technology “The question is,” he said, “do the VCs get greedy and come back for The National Venture Capital Associatioj is “not happy” with the Senate compromised and instead strongly support the House bill, said NVCA Vice Presidengt Emily Mendell.
Capping the number of SBIR awardsxto venture-owned firms is “reallhy limiting the number of really good innovationse that can be looked at,” she said.
Sunday, April 15, 2012
Data show risk highest for new motorcycle riders - Wall Street Journal
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Data show risk highest for new motorcycle riders Wall Street Journal For motorcycle riders, their first 30 days are about four times more risky than their entire second year, said Matthew Moore, vice president of the Highway Loss Data Institute. "It's most likely inexperience. Operating a motorcycle is a fairly complex ... |
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