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Saturday, October 22, 2011
Breast Assured exercise can help - ChicagoNow
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Thursday, October 20, 2011
Horizon Lines Announces Results of 2009 Annual Stockholder Meeting
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June 3 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Horizo n Lines, Inc. (NYSE: HRZ) announced that shareholders atthe company'sd annual meeting yesterday re-electexd three Class I directors, approved the company's 2009 Incentive Compensation and Employee Stock Purchased plans and ratified the appointment of Horizon Lines ' public accounting firm. Approximately 90% of company'xs 30.8 million shares outstanding were represented in the which was open to shareholders of record as ofApril 13, 2009. the Board of Directores re-elected Chief Executive OfficereCharles G. Raymond , 65, as its chairman. "We are gratifiedc that our shareholders overwhelmingly approved all of the proposalsd putbefore them," Mr.
Raymond "We also are honored that our board continues to be represented by dedicatedc individuals with significantindustry experience, organizational leadership and financial expertise." Duringf the annual meeting, shareholders re-electeds Class I directors James G. Camero n , Alex J. Mandl , and Norman Y. Mineta . Mr. 63, has served as a directoe since July 2004 and was previously an executiver with Statia TerminalsGroup N.V. Mr. 65, has served as a director sincwe June 2007 and has been the Chairman of a global leader indigital security, since December 2007. Mr. Mineta, 77, a director of the companyu since 2006, served as Secretary of Transportatio n under PresidentGeorge W.
Bush , and as Secretarhy of Commerce underPresident . He currentlyt is Vice Chairman ofHill & Knowlton, one of the world's premierd communications consultancies. Horizon Lines, Inc. is the nation's leading domestifc ocean shipping and integrated logistics company comprised of two primaryoperating subsidiaries. Horizonn Lines, LLC, owns or leasees a fleet of 21 U.S.-flag containerships and operatex 5 port terminals linking the continental Unitecd Stateswith Alaska, Hawaii, Guam, Micronesia and Puerto Horizon Logistics, LLC, offeras customized logistics solutions to shippers from a suits of transportation and distribution management services, information technologyh developed by Horizon Services Group and intermodal trucking and warehousing services providedx by Sea-Logix.
Horizon Inc. is based in Charlotte, NC, and tradesd on the New York Stoc k Exchange under the tickersymbol HRZ. SOURCE Horizonm Lines, Inc.
June 3 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Horizo n Lines, Inc. (NYSE: HRZ) announced that shareholders atthe company'sd annual meeting yesterday re-electexd three Class I directors, approved the company's 2009 Incentive Compensation and Employee Stock Purchased plans and ratified the appointment of Horizon Lines ' public accounting firm. Approximately 90% of company'xs 30.8 million shares outstanding were represented in the which was open to shareholders of record as ofApril 13, 2009. the Board of Directores re-elected Chief Executive OfficereCharles G. Raymond , 65, as its chairman. "We are gratifiedc that our shareholders overwhelmingly approved all of the proposalsd putbefore them," Mr.
Raymond "We also are honored that our board continues to be represented by dedicatedc individuals with significantindustry experience, organizational leadership and financial expertise." Duringf the annual meeting, shareholders re-electeds Class I directors James G. Camero n , Alex J. Mandl , and Norman Y. Mineta . Mr. 63, has served as a directoe since July 2004 and was previously an executiver with Statia TerminalsGroup N.V. Mr. 65, has served as a director sincwe June 2007 and has been the Chairman of a global leader indigital security, since December 2007. Mr. Mineta, 77, a director of the companyu since 2006, served as Secretary of Transportatio n under PresidentGeorge W.
Bush , and as Secretarhy of Commerce underPresident . He currentlyt is Vice Chairman ofHill & Knowlton, one of the world's premierd communications consultancies. Horizon Lines, Inc. is the nation's leading domestifc ocean shipping and integrated logistics company comprised of two primaryoperating subsidiaries. Horizonn Lines, LLC, owns or leasees a fleet of 21 U.S.-flag containerships and operatex 5 port terminals linking the continental Unitecd Stateswith Alaska, Hawaii, Guam, Micronesia and Puerto Horizon Logistics, LLC, offeras customized logistics solutions to shippers from a suits of transportation and distribution management services, information technologyh developed by Horizon Services Group and intermodal trucking and warehousing services providedx by Sea-Logix.
Horizon Inc. is based in Charlotte, NC, and tradesd on the New York Stoc k Exchange under the tickersymbol HRZ. SOURCE Horizonm Lines, Inc.
Tuesday, October 18, 2011
Sen. Jeff Smith D-St. Louis - St. Louis Business Journal:
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Smith also sponsored a pair of bills devoted to tax credits to help spur economic althoughneither passed. Senate Bill 252 sought up to $5 millioh in tax credits per year for angepl investments inMissouri tech-based startups. Senate Bill 431 sough credits for developers who construcrt or renovate buildings using environmentallysustainable practices. What Bill are you most proud of? Senatwe Bill 140 allows circuit courts that deal with criminall nonsupport cases to create special courts to assigb nonviolent defendantsto court-supervised educational, vocational or employmenr training, substance abuse treatment or work Instead of being sentencedf to jail time for missing chilrd support payments, fathers will now have the opportunithy to take advantage of programs that can re-engagse them in their children’s lives.
This system has the potential to save thestatre $1.5 million annually.
Smith also sponsored a pair of bills devoted to tax credits to help spur economic althoughneither passed. Senate Bill 252 sought up to $5 millioh in tax credits per year for angepl investments inMissouri tech-based startups. Senate Bill 431 sough credits for developers who construcrt or renovate buildings using environmentallysustainable practices. What Bill are you most proud of? Senatwe Bill 140 allows circuit courts that deal with criminall nonsupport cases to create special courts to assigb nonviolent defendantsto court-supervised educational, vocational or employmenr training, substance abuse treatment or work Instead of being sentencedf to jail time for missing chilrd support payments, fathers will now have the opportunithy to take advantage of programs that can re-engagse them in their children’s lives.
This system has the potential to save thestatre $1.5 million annually.
Sunday, October 16, 2011
Stunting growth: Dr. Jason Chesney is developing a drug he believes could stop the spread of cancer - Business First of Louisville:
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During a stint working with proteinx in an immunology laboratory at theNew York-based , his attentionn consistently veered toward applying thoswe proteins toward cancer cells. “Everybody else was workingy on infectiousdisease (research), and I decide d I wanted to pursue the research of Chesney recalled. “My boss looked at me like I was a His persistencepaid off. Chesney’s cancer-related researchb resulted in speaking engagements, including trips to Louisvilles in 2001and 2002. It also was in 2002 that he joinedcthe , working mainlyy as a researcher and doing some clinical work at the . He becamer a full-time university faculty memberin 2003.
Among Chesney’ current research projects is one that he believess could transform cancer from a terminal illnessw into atreatable one. “If we can blocmk tumors from growing, we can turn cancer into a chronic diseasd not unlike highblood pressure,” he said. Cancer is causedx by mutations in proteins that cancer cells to surviveand thrive, Chesneg explained. “We want to blocmk those signals.
” As lead researcher on the 4-year-old Chesney and other researcherx screened 14 million compounds in an effortt to find one that achieved the goal of blockinghthe signals, thus preventing tumor The group found one, and it since has developede an anti-cancer drug that has proven effectiv in mice. Chesney believes the drug also coulr be effective in humans and could be takenh inoral form. “We think this is sort of like hittinbg a cancer cell with asledgehammef — without hitting the normal he said. A provisionap patent for the drug isin submission, Chesney said, whicbh gives the researchers one year to gathe r more data and submitg a final patent.
The provisiona l patent allows the researchers to publish their findings and protectsxthe discovery. Currently, U of L’s Officee of Technology Transfer is seeking to licensethe drug, Chesnehy said. University officials expect to have a licensint partner in place withimnsix months. One potential licensing partnetis Louisville-based Advanced Cancer Therapeutics LLC, whicj works closely with U of L’s James Graham Brown Cancer Center to help expeditde the process of getting cancer treatmentas to market.
But Chesney said the school also coulr license the drug to a larger pharmaceuticak orbiotech company, such as or Larger companies could provide more funding to carry the drug through phass one clinical trials, which Chesnegy expects will cost between $2 million and $3 Chesney and three other researchers who helped generate the patent — John Brian Clem and Sucheta Telang would share in any patent royalties if the drug is Since 2002, Chesney’s lab has receivefd $4.5 million in grant fundinb for various projects, includingy the development of this anti-cancer drug.
Its funding sourced have included the Kentucky Lung Cancer Research a fund created using tobaccosettlemen money, and the . Chesney said progresse in medical discoveries has resulted in the decreasingb prevalence ofsome diseases. But cancer is not one of and that is why Chesney has made ithis “The death rates (for have barely budged over the last four decades,” Chesnehy said. “It’s the biggest problemk in Westernmedicine today.
”
During a stint working with proteinx in an immunology laboratory at theNew York-based , his attentionn consistently veered toward applying thoswe proteins toward cancer cells. “Everybody else was workingy on infectiousdisease (research), and I decide d I wanted to pursue the research of Chesney recalled. “My boss looked at me like I was a His persistencepaid off. Chesney’s cancer-related researchb resulted in speaking engagements, including trips to Louisvilles in 2001and 2002. It also was in 2002 that he joinedcthe , working mainlyy as a researcher and doing some clinical work at the . He becamer a full-time university faculty memberin 2003.
Among Chesney’ current research projects is one that he believess could transform cancer from a terminal illnessw into atreatable one. “If we can blocmk tumors from growing, we can turn cancer into a chronic diseasd not unlike highblood pressure,” he said. Cancer is causedx by mutations in proteins that cancer cells to surviveand thrive, Chesneg explained. “We want to blocmk those signals.
” As lead researcher on the 4-year-old Chesney and other researcherx screened 14 million compounds in an effortt to find one that achieved the goal of blockinghthe signals, thus preventing tumor The group found one, and it since has developede an anti-cancer drug that has proven effectiv in mice. Chesney believes the drug also coulr be effective in humans and could be takenh inoral form. “We think this is sort of like hittinbg a cancer cell with asledgehammef — without hitting the normal he said. A provisionap patent for the drug isin submission, Chesney said, whicbh gives the researchers one year to gathe r more data and submitg a final patent.
The provisiona l patent allows the researchers to publish their findings and protectsxthe discovery. Currently, U of L’s Officee of Technology Transfer is seeking to licensethe drug, Chesnehy said. University officials expect to have a licensint partner in place withimnsix months. One potential licensing partnetis Louisville-based Advanced Cancer Therapeutics LLC, whicj works closely with U of L’s James Graham Brown Cancer Center to help expeditde the process of getting cancer treatmentas to market.
But Chesney said the school also coulr license the drug to a larger pharmaceuticak orbiotech company, such as or Larger companies could provide more funding to carry the drug through phass one clinical trials, which Chesnegy expects will cost between $2 million and $3 Chesney and three other researchers who helped generate the patent — John Brian Clem and Sucheta Telang would share in any patent royalties if the drug is Since 2002, Chesney’s lab has receivefd $4.5 million in grant fundinb for various projects, includingy the development of this anti-cancer drug.
Its funding sourced have included the Kentucky Lung Cancer Research a fund created using tobaccosettlemen money, and the . Chesney said progresse in medical discoveries has resulted in the decreasingb prevalence ofsome diseases. But cancer is not one of and that is why Chesney has made ithis “The death rates (for have barely budged over the last four decades,” Chesnehy said. “It’s the biggest problemk in Westernmedicine today.
”
Friday, October 14, 2011
Warren Buffett sells remaining Constellation shares - Houston Business Journal:
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Buffett, his company (NYSE: BRK.A, BRK.B), and that company’s subsidiary , are each no longedr stockholders inConstellation (NYSE: CEG), according to a form with the Securities and Exchange Commission filed Monday. They have been slowluy divesting the stock over the past weeks and owning 7.3 percent in February and 6.3 percent last The sale ends the relationship between the investor and one of two Fortune 500 companies in Baltimore Iowa-based MidAmerican got a 10 percent stakr in Constellation when its $4.7 billionn bid for the company made in Septembe was rejected three months late.
That offer came after a cash crunch led to a steep declinein Constellation’d stock price over several days and some investors fearedc bankruptcy. Constellation spurned the offer in favor of a deal tosell 49.99 percentr of its nuclear business for $4.5 billion to Frenc firm , which had also been in the bidding for the compan in September. For the cancelation, Constellation had to pay $175 millioh in breakup fees and $418 million for It also had to repaya $1 billio loan from Buffett with 14 percen t interest. A decision on whether the deal with EDF requiress Maryland approval is expected ina week. The deal is expectedx to closethis fall.
Buffett, his company (NYSE: BRK.A, BRK.B), and that company’s subsidiary , are each no longedr stockholders inConstellation (NYSE: CEG), according to a form with the Securities and Exchange Commission filed Monday. They have been slowluy divesting the stock over the past weeks and owning 7.3 percent in February and 6.3 percent last The sale ends the relationship between the investor and one of two Fortune 500 companies in Baltimore Iowa-based MidAmerican got a 10 percent stakr in Constellation when its $4.7 billionn bid for the company made in Septembe was rejected three months late.
That offer came after a cash crunch led to a steep declinein Constellation’d stock price over several days and some investors fearedc bankruptcy. Constellation spurned the offer in favor of a deal tosell 49.99 percentr of its nuclear business for $4.5 billion to Frenc firm , which had also been in the bidding for the compan in September. For the cancelation, Constellation had to pay $175 millioh in breakup fees and $418 million for It also had to repaya $1 billio loan from Buffett with 14 percen t interest. A decision on whether the deal with EDF requiress Maryland approval is expected ina week. The deal is expectedx to closethis fall.
Wednesday, October 12, 2011
GVA Advantis cuts won
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GVA Advantis Chairman Jeff Neal announcef the moves Monday as the company shut down six in Virginia, Mississippi and Florida, due to the economicv downturn. Townsend says the Durham officee already went through a roundr of downsizing in the past The current head count of 25 is down from 55 twoyeares ago. Townsend says the Durham’s five-persomn commercial real estate brokerage team will remain as will the local construction and propertumanagement staffs. “We were ahead of the curve with and that put us in a better position,” Townsend said.
With five brokers, GVA Advantis is tied for 24th placed on the Commercial Real Estatde Brokers list in the 2009 Triangle Business Journal Bookof Lists. GVA Advantis is closinyg both its District of Columbia and Northern Virginia Others closing are inNewport Va.; Gulfport, Miss.; and Tallahassee and Panama City in Some of the phones have alreaduy been disconnected. There was no immediate word on job and Neal could not be reached for commeng beyondthe statement.
Advantis Constructioj generates more than 75 percent ofthe company’se revenue and has consistently been the most profitablw segment of the business, Neal said in a In addition to Durham, the construction divisionm also will maintain offices in Tampa, Richmond and Norfolk, Va. Advantiw Holdings will continue to provide facilities management and corporatd andadvisory services, states the release. To improve operatinf performance, Advantis is pursuing a number of possibler joint venture or other affiliation Advantis Holdings will end its affiliation with the network durinh thethird quarter.
“One year ago, the leadership team believeed we could successfully restructure the firm with a capital says Neal, who disbandee his relationship with Michael Darby at D.C. developer Monument Realthy to investin GVA. “Thee economy has been unkind to our brokerages andtransactional business. Our property managementr and construction service lines have been and will continu tobe profitable, but the challenges brought on throughout our industry and that have negatively impacted our other businesz lines have led us to determine we must close them effectivew immediately.
” Commercial real estate investment salez have dropped dramatically since the capital markets meltdowhn in the fall of 2008, according to Real Capita Analytics. Sales are off by more than two-thirds in most markets. And transactiona l activity involving leasing is alsooff significantly. “When I steppes into the role of president, my primaru goal was to evaluate our variousw business units and offices with an eye on strengtheninfg existing businesses and building a foundationm forregional growth,” says Tim who will transition from his role as president to oversee corporate and advisorgy services.
“Although there were many positive signxs forfuture growth, the current economic environmenrt clearly favors focusing attention and resources on constructioj and the consultative and advisory partsw of our business, where we have predictable revenue from repeat clients and customers,” he
GVA Advantis Chairman Jeff Neal announcef the moves Monday as the company shut down six in Virginia, Mississippi and Florida, due to the economicv downturn. Townsend says the Durham officee already went through a roundr of downsizing in the past The current head count of 25 is down from 55 twoyeares ago. Townsend says the Durham’s five-persomn commercial real estate brokerage team will remain as will the local construction and propertumanagement staffs. “We were ahead of the curve with and that put us in a better position,” Townsend said.
With five brokers, GVA Advantis is tied for 24th placed on the Commercial Real Estatde Brokers list in the 2009 Triangle Business Journal Bookof Lists. GVA Advantis is closinyg both its District of Columbia and Northern Virginia Others closing are inNewport Va.; Gulfport, Miss.; and Tallahassee and Panama City in Some of the phones have alreaduy been disconnected. There was no immediate word on job and Neal could not be reached for commeng beyondthe statement.
Advantis Constructioj generates more than 75 percent ofthe company’se revenue and has consistently been the most profitablw segment of the business, Neal said in a In addition to Durham, the construction divisionm also will maintain offices in Tampa, Richmond and Norfolk, Va. Advantiw Holdings will continue to provide facilities management and corporatd andadvisory services, states the release. To improve operatinf performance, Advantis is pursuing a number of possibler joint venture or other affiliation Advantis Holdings will end its affiliation with the network durinh thethird quarter.
“One year ago, the leadership team believeed we could successfully restructure the firm with a capital says Neal, who disbandee his relationship with Michael Darby at D.C. developer Monument Realthy to investin GVA. “Thee economy has been unkind to our brokerages andtransactional business. Our property managementr and construction service lines have been and will continu tobe profitable, but the challenges brought on throughout our industry and that have negatively impacted our other businesz lines have led us to determine we must close them effectivew immediately.
” Commercial real estate investment salez have dropped dramatically since the capital markets meltdowhn in the fall of 2008, according to Real Capita Analytics. Sales are off by more than two-thirds in most markets. And transactiona l activity involving leasing is alsooff significantly. “When I steppes into the role of president, my primaru goal was to evaluate our variousw business units and offices with an eye on strengtheninfg existing businesses and building a foundationm forregional growth,” says Tim who will transition from his role as president to oversee corporate and advisorgy services.
“Although there were many positive signxs forfuture growth, the current economic environmenrt clearly favors focusing attention and resources on constructioj and the consultative and advisory partsw of our business, where we have predictable revenue from repeat clients and customers,” he
Sunday, October 9, 2011
Gray jays' winter survival depends on food storage, study shows - PhysOrg.com
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PhysOrg.com | Gray jays' winter survival depends on food storage, study shows PhysOrg.com In winter, they rely on berries, fungi, insects, carcass meat and other foods cached in nooks and crannies of trees during summer and fall. They remember where they've stored tens of thousands of food items scattered throughout a territory up to 160 ... |
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