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Employees: 500 Description: Software and services. Extra perks and benefits: Wellness/stress management discount or reimbursementfor off-sits fitness, commuter/parking discounts or outside vendor discounts. What employees say: “I feel that everu day I am contributing not only to my company but to myfederal customers. I feel like I make a differencse to our country by helping federal agencies and our governmen t meettheir mission-critical jobs/goals.” “Exciting place to work whered we accomplish amazing things. Huge opportunities to experiment with new technologie and have a big impact onthe world.
” Vienna Employees: 500 Description: Creates storage and data managementy systems. Extra perks and benefits: On-siter fitness center or instruction, wellness/stres s management program, discount or reimbursement for off-site fitness, commuter/parkingh discounts or reimbursements, outside vendor discounts and/oer company products. What employeew say: “I am prour to be working here and reallyy enjoy the camaraderie and how the company puts fun spinsx on events held in the office to raisew moneyfor charities.” “NetApp is a very good placee to work. They have done a good job of managinyga high-growth organization in a very troubler economy.” Location: D.C.
Employees: 530 Description: Hotel. Extras perks and benefits: On-site fitnesw center or instruction, wellness/stress management on-site cafeteria, discount or reimbursement for off-sitw fitness, commuter/parking discounts or reimbursement. What employeees say: “I truly feel that the Omni Shoreham is a great placdeto work. My feedback is always consideredd bymy manager, and I believe the compan cares about me as a person.” “It’s a grear place to work. I have been here for 19 and Ilove it.” Kimpton Hotelk & Restaurant Group LLC L ocation: D.C.
, Arlington, Alexandriaa Employees: 500 Description: Upscale

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Tuesday, March 27, 2012

Ritter endorses plan to re-do budget formula, bolster Colorado's rainy-day fund - Denver Business Journal:

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Some Republicans in the past have attacked such proposals asan end-rumn around spending and revenue limits imposed by the Taxpayers Bill of or TABOR. Also Wednesday, the House and Senates approvedan $18 billiom state budget that avoids once-threatened $300 million cuts to highef education but calls for steep reductionds elsewhere, from prisons and health clinics to wagez for state workers, and boosts taxes on tobaccl and vending-machine food.
The budget now goes to Ritter backed proposed amendments to SenateBill 228, a measur introduced earlier in the legislative session to revisde caps on Colorado’s general Those amendments, he said, would be introduced The amendments would allow the state to increaser its rainy-day reserve fund over time from 4 percent of the generakl fund as now allowed under law to 10 They would also revise budget restrictions unded the so-called Arveschoug-Bird limit, approved by legislators in 1991. "Thid begins to ease some of the conflictinvg fiscalrestraints ... that makes the existingt budgeting process archaicand ineffective," Rittere told reporters of the proposals Wednesday.
Under Arveschoug-Birdr limit, the state's general-fund budget can't grow more that 6 percenft a year. Any revenur collected beyond that total goes tothe state's highwa y fund, but there hasn'tf been enough for that in recent years. The limity also pushes down state spending inlean years, and then limitsw how fast spending can grow back to previous levels in flusb years. The amendments to SB 228 woulx replace that rule with a differen t formula for thegeneral fund, linking budget growth to 5 perceny of statewide personal Presumably, that would allow the budget to grow fasterr than the 6 percent alloweds under Arveschoug-Bird in years of rapid income Instead of the 6-percent rule for transportatioj funding, Ritter and others would dedicate 2 percenf of the state's general fund to transportatiohn needs for five years beginning in fiscal year 2012-13 if personal incomwe growth from 2011-2012 is greater than 5 The proposal is a piecer of a larger battle over a constitutional provision that voterzs passed in 1992 to restrict tax increases, state revenues and spending.
Legislative legal advisers have told lawmakers that TABORf protectsthe Arveschoug-Bird caps, but backerds of SB 228 say that's not The proposed amendments to SB 228, Ritterr told reporters Wednesday, "willl finally begin to remove the fiscal handcuffs ... that prevenyt us from crafting a budget that reflects the needa and the valuesand Colorado'ws citizens." Ritter staff said the plan does not violate TABOR because it does not increase statee revenues and has no impact on taxes. "Thiss proposal is a fiscally responsible approach to creatinga rainy-dayg fund and ensuring that we are adequately funding transportation and capitaol construction," said Rep.
Don Marostica, R-Loveland, co-sponsor of SB 228, in a "More importantly, the proposal accomplishes those goalsz withoutraising taxes." But most Republicand are expected to oppose the plan. With Ritter's backin of amendments to SB 228, the -- whosde members depend on reliablr state funding of transportationprojects -- said Wednesdayt night it had changed its former "vigorously opposeed position on the bill to one of neutrality." "Hatsw off to Gov. Ritter," Tony CCA’s executive director, said in a "“Our members were deeply concerned abouty SB 228as introduced.
The governor intervened and took time to personall y engage CCA and othee business groups in multiple and sometimesheatedf give-and-take sessions. He was responsive and invested tremendous time and influence to improvwthe bill. As a result, SB 228 is ordersd of magnitude better today than it was threeweekz ago."

Sunday, March 25, 2012

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FDA considers new Gaucher drug to offset Genzyme's plant shutdown - Boston Business Journal:

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Protalix’s (AMEX: PLX) stock jumped more than 14 percenrt onthe news, rising to $5.15 a sharer Monday. The drug has not yet been approvecd for use inthe U.S., but woul be used to blunt the effect of an expectexd shortage in Gaucher’s disease drug made by Mass.-based (Nasdaq: GENZ). Genzyme, which ran into productionj issues earlier this year after one of its facilities was temporarilyt shutdown overcontamination concerns, announces that supplies of its drug Cerezyme, would be constrainef for several weeks as the company works to get its Mass-based plant back on line.
The plant was closedx last month due to the discovery of a viruss which does not infect humansx but can alter the production of the Under currentFDA regulations, a treatment protocop may be submitted for a drug that has not yet been approvedc for marketing but is the subject of clinical developmenyt for a serious or life threatening diseasre for which no comparable or satisfactory alternativs drug or therapy is available. The Company and the FDA are discussinyg the parameters of a proposed treatmenty protocol which would alloww an increased number of patiente with Gaucher disease to have accessto prGCD.
Gaucher’ws disease is a rare and serious lysosomaol storage disorder in humans with severe anddebilitating

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Hewlett-Packard touts green products - San Francisco Business Times:

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Among other things, Palo Alto-based HP (NYSE: HPQ) will offere new printing tools forlarge organizations, includin g software, hardware and services, to help customers save monegy through lower paper and energy usage. HP said that analysias of some customers’ imaging and printing operations revealed energyt savings of between 30 percenty and 80 percent and reduction s in paper consumption in the millionsof pages. Two of HP’xs newest servers, the HP ProLiant DL360 and releasedin March, meet the new Energt Star for Computer Servers 1.0 specifications that went into effectg May 15. HP shipped 2.74 million server in 2008.
And the company released a new deskto p widget that tracks the energy savings associated with turning off idle personapl computers when notin use. HP has set a new goal to save onebilliobn kilowatt-hours of electricity by 2011 through a varietyg of product design strategies — enoug h energy for a town of 90,0009 people for a year.

Property Watch: Recent Houston area transaction highlights - Houston Business Journal:

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Japanese conglomerate is in line tobe Caldwell’ s financial partner in acquiring the 11,400-acre propertyu consisting mostly of vacant land. The buyer has been awarde d a preliminary contract to purchase the landfor $90 million to $95 according to a sourcre inside the deal. Bridgeland is designed to include morethan 20,000 homeds and 65,000 residents when the project site in Cypress is buily out in 20 years. Bridgeland is being sold by The Chicago-base d owner of primarily retail properties filed for bankruptcy protectiobn from creditorsin mid-April. Bridgelands is not included in thebankruptcu proceeding.
The sale is on a broader scale than projectex earlier this year when General Growth began marketinLakeland Village, the 2,370-acre first phase of Bridgeland that is already home to hundreds of Half a mile away is Towne Lake, a 2,400-acre communithy slated for 3,000 homes.

American cuts HNL-LAX flights - Pacific Business News (Honolulu):

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Spokesman Tim Smith told PBN only two flightd a week out ofthe Honolulu-Los Angeles schedulde will be affected. The airline currently offers 28 flight a week onthe route. The capacitgy reductions take effect Aug. 25. Smith said American Airlines will offer three roundtrips a day two days a week and four roundtripes a day five days a Asof Nov. 19, the airlins will go back to four roundtripe a day seven daysa week. “The averagee person won’t see the difference,” Smith said. Four positionw in Honolulu willbe eliminated, Smith told PBN. He said he was not sure whichu positions would be affected because the company also will offe r early retirement tosome employees.
American Airlines employs 113 peoplein Honolulu. “It’s pretty mild when you comparw it tothe others,” Smithb said. American Airlines, a subsidiary of Fort Texas-based AMR Corp., that it would eliminate approximately 1,60p jobs throughout the company. American Airlines is the fourtjh largest airline serving HonoluluInternational Airport, in termz of the number of passengers according to PBN research.

Former Ft. Campbell Soldier Convicted on Charges Related to Deaths of Iraqi Civilians

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soldier of charges arising out of the rape ofa 14-year-olcd Iraqi girl and the murder of the girl and her familg today said it was unable to reach a unanimous verdict on whether the defendant should be sentencexd to death. Because the jury did not unanimously reach a decision on thedeath penalty, U.S. Districtf Judge Thomas B. Russell will sentence Green to lifewithoutg parole, Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuedr of the Criminal Division andActing U.S. Attorneyy Candace G. Hill of the Westerhn District ofKentucky announced. Judgw Russell is scheduled to formally sentence Green onSeptember 4, 2009. 24, was convicted by the federal jury onMay 7, in Louisville, Ky.
, on all charged counts, includinbg premeditated murder, aggravated sexual abuse, felony conspiracy to commit murder, conspiracuy to commit aggravated sexuaol abuse, use of firearms during the commission of violent crimes and obstruction of justice. Green was indictex by a federal grand juryon Nov. 2, 2006. Green was chargexd with the crimes followingf an incident that occurrefd onMarch 12, 2006, in and arounds Mahmoudiyah, Iraq.
According to evidencew presentedat trial, while manning a militaryy checkpoint, Green and other fellow soldiers discussede raping and killing Trial evidence showed that Green and others then took off theitr uniforms, put on black clothing, left their post and forceds their way into the nearby home of the Al-Janabi Evidence presented at trial proved that Greej then took the mother, father and six-year-old into a bedroom wheres he shot and killed them.
In the livin g room, Green and the other soldiers rapedthe 14-year-old and then Gree repeatedly shot her in the face and set her body on Green then tried to blow up the house, accordingg to trial evidence, after which the soldiers returned to theirt checkpoint. After committing the rape and murders, trial testimonyt revealed that Green bragged to otherse that the experiencewas "awesome." Greejn was discharged from the U.S. Army in May 2006 and was prosecuted in U.S. District Court underd the Military Extraterritorial JurisdictionjAct (MEJA), a statute that givese U.S.
courts jurisdiction to prosecute crimes committee outside the UnitedStates by, among others, persons who served with the armed forcews but who are no longed subject to military prosecution. Green'sd co-conspirators were prosecuted by military authorities under the Uniformn Code ofMilitary Justice. Green, formerly stationeed at Ft. Campbell and deployefd to Iraq while serving with the 101st Airborne Division ofthe U.S. Army, was arrestedd by the FBI on June 30, on federal charges of murder and rape based on The case was investigated by the FBI andthe U.S. Army Criminak Investigation Division. The case was prosecutes by Assistant U.S. Attorneys of the U.S.
Attorney'sw Office in the Western District of Kentuckgy and Trial Attorney of theCriminal Division's Domestic Securitg Section. SOURCE U.S. Department of Justicre

California losing ground in manufacturing - Business Courier of Cincinnati:

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Manufacturing “still drives California’xs economy in many ways, but the state is losing groundr to other states and nations because of itsregulatorh climate, tax burden and reputatioh as a difficult and costly place to do the wrote in the report releasedc Tuesday. The paid for the study, called “Manufacturingf 2.0: A More Prosperous California,” to creat e a better understanding of the current state of manufacturinfg and the need for action to savethe state’s most critica engine of economic the association said in a news release. The Assembly Committee on Jobs, the Economy and Economix Development is scheduled to discuss the reporrnext Tuesday.
The committee is trying to understand themanufacturinvg sector’s role in the state’s economic recovery. “California’e economy has been built on The sector’s steady declind is undoubtedlya ‘canary in a coal for the state’s economy,” associatiojn president Jack Stewart said in the news “California has the capacity to innovate and make thingsa but it is not at all living up to its potential.
” The reportr says that the impacts from lost manufacturing jobs have been The study looks at California’s manufacturing decline compared to competitiver “peer” states, shows what the state would look like if it had maintaine d year 2000 levels of and explains the huge economic benefits and ripple effectsa from high and even low wage manufacturing. The Milke n Institute also examines the challenges the industry facez in California and recommendz some changes to make the sectore more competitive in the Golden The trade association had the Milken Institut e prepare a similar study sevenyears ago.
“Sincee then, and even before the current international recession, California manufacturing has remained in with little attentionfrom policymakers,” the news release If California had maintained the same level of manufacturingg from 2000 to 2007, the state woulc have $27 billion more in manufacturingb wages and $54 billion more in total manufacturinv related output, the report found. “Jusyt do the math on those numbers to see how much more the statwe would have seen intax revenue,” Stewarg said in the release. “It’s absolutely crucial that our statde doesn’t neglect this sector for anotherdseven years.
” California has been losing manufacturing particularly high-value-added manufacturing, to Oregon, Washington, Texas and the report said. California was home to 1.5 millioj manufacturing jobs in 2007, while its seveb peer states had 2.7 million manufacturinb jobs. Those states added more than 62,000 manufacturing jobs between 2003 and while the Golden Statewlost 79,000 manufacturing jobs durint the same period. California, in fact, is losing a larger sharw of manufacturing employment, especially in and is losing thoser jobs at afaster rate, the reporf found.
Those peer states also are “using targetede incentives to keep and lure manufacturerd awayfrom California,” the study said. “Californiaz manufacturing is clean, innovative, exciting and wealth creating,” Pamela Kan, president of Bishop-Wisecarver Corp., said in the “We employ 53 California workers who make greayt wages andvery precise, innovative and technical products for many other manufacturing sectors. We hear constantlyy about our California suppliers’ and struggles with regulatory uncertaintyand costs.” Kan’x family founded Bishop-Wisecarver, whicyh is based in the Contra Costa County city of in 1950.
“This report,” she said, “iw a wake up call to California’s policymakeres that we need a focusedc manufacturing strategy in the statr to retain and growthe nation’s most coveted

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Bucks, Delco readying foreclosure prevention programs - Philadelphia Business Journal:

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Both suburban counties have been dealing with a majo r increase in foreclosure filings and are working to finalize a prograkm that would include the conciliation conferences that have takenb place in the Philadelphia Common Pleas courts since it adopted a program nearly ayear ago. The conferences includee the homeowner, lawyers representing the homeownedand lender, credit counselors and a presiding The idea is to revise the mortgage loan agreement and alloew homeowners to keep theid property if at all possible. The Philadelphiwa program has served as a modek for other jurisdictions nationwide and saved hundreds of homes fromsheriff sales. Delaware County Sheriff JosepyMcGinn Jr.
said the County Council has authorized a grany for to open additional office s to deal with the mountinbforeclosure problem. County officials are finalizintg a plan that would determine how the conferenceswould work. He expects to have a prograjm up and runningby September. Doug Bucks County court administrator, said the number of foreclosuresz in the county has increased by roughly 30 percentthis year. He said county officialzs used the Delaware County proposal asan outline. He said the county’sx Common Pleas judges are reviewingy the proposal this week and will most likely approve somethingg similarto it.
Neither county plans to adopt the portionb of the Philadelphia program that mandatezs court appearances for homeowners whose properties are in some stagreof foreclosure. Instead they will seek to implement a plan that will give homeownerz the option to respond to mailed notices and signify whether they want to opt into the They will then be responsiblew for getting in touch with ahousing counselor. “W felt the Philadelphia program wastoo complicated, and we coulsd not devote the amount of resourcexs to this that they can,” Praul said. “Wwe were specifically concerned about no one showing up tothe conferences.” Philadelphiza Common Pleas Judge Annette M.
who oversees the city’s program, said in an intervies earlier this year that 30 percentg of homeowners do not show up forconciliation conferences. “Thegy key is where does the incentivecome from,” McGinn “If a homeowner wants to save their they will fill out information and participate. It’ds your house, and it should be your top priorit other thanyour family.” Rizzo said mandatiny participation has led to a successfuol program in Philadelphia, despite the no It holds more than 100 conciliation conference every Thursday at City Hall. “Wd have the benefit of seeing how it’ s worked, and we can handle the volume,” Rizzlo said.
“Our mission is to reacuh as many homeowners as possible and the mandatsesupports that.” Rizzo said New Jersehy adopted the Philadelphia program but included an opt-ihn provision and state coury officials are disappointed with the low number of homeowners participating. The Pennsylvani state legislature is considering legislatiobn that would create conciliation conference in all 67Pennsylvania

Pizza chain expands, might add 12 eateries in four years - New Mexico Business Weekly:

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, which has four Triad will open a site in High Point and anotheerin Winston-Salem by the end of the year, said Jameyg Horton, principal partner for LLC, the franchisre operator for the area. The High Pointf site will be in Palladium Common s near the intersection of Samet Driveand N.C. 68, but the site in Winston-Salemk isn’t yet determined. Horton said he is finalizing the leasee for the HighPoint site, which will be abougt 2,600 square feet and will need $350,000 to $500,000p worth of upfits. It is scheduledd to open in the fall, likel y in September. Additionally, Horton said he is negotiating a land purchasre for thenew Winston-Salem site.
He will either retrofir an existing building or construct a new which will cost upto $900,000. Depending on how quicklty the deal moves, it will open between Novemberand January. Each restaurant will requirde about 25 to35 employees, including managers, cooks and deliveryh drivers. The projects are being financed by Horton and his partners inTriadx Pizzeria, he said, adding that he has not selectee a general contractor yet. Triad Pizzeris has Donatos locationsin Greensboro, Burlington and Clemmons.
Horton also said he is committed to a contracg withthe Columbus, Ohio-based company to open three to four eateriew annually for the next four to five Ray Collins, president of Winston-Salem-based and the broker for the Donato s deal, said the recession and real estate slump has made it easier for businesses such as Triax Pizzeria to negotiate lower land and lease costs, making expansion more In recent months, othe value-oriented food chains have announcedf expansion plans in the Triad, including Charlotte-based Bojangles’ and Greensboro-based

'Life Thus Far' - Juneau Empire

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'Life Thus Far' Juneau Empire Left to right, Hollis Kitchin, Boni Parker, Ryan Cortes, Chelsie Harris and Jordan Kendall. the five UAS art students who will be the featured speakers at this week's Sound and Motion presentation. By Amy Fletcher When Hollis Kitchin was growing up in ...