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Monday, May 30, 2011
Seafood quality seminar opens - Oman Daily Observer
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Saturday, May 28, 2011
Will She or Won't She? Palin's Political Future Becomes Hot Topic in Press - Fox News
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Will She or Won't She? Palin's Political Future Becomes Hot Topic in Press Fox News This is a rush transcript from "Hannity," May 26, 2011. This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated. SEAN HANNITY, HOST: So, is Sarah Palin running for 2012? Is she planning this run? That's a question on everybody's mind this week. ... |
Wednesday, May 25, 2011
Restaurateur Norman Brinker dies - Dallas Business Journal:
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Brinker passed away Monday night leaving a legacy casual dining restaurantas built on what Phil Romanol called a vision of developinfg the casual dining restaurant concept where dinerss are treated not to fast foodor full-outt fine dining, but to a placew where people can eat everyday. “One of Norman’w biggest attributes was that he was a greagt leader anda cheerleader,” Romano said. “H would take people’s talents and develop them beyondtheifr abilities.” grew into a restaurant company that guideed chains like , On and Maggiano’s Littl e Italy.
Dallas-based Brinker EAT) in the past year sold the restaurang chain created byPhil Romano: Romano’s Macaroni Grill. Romanlo credits his friend Norman Brinkee for taking his creative vision and growing it into a majornational chain. “Ths industry is going to miss him,” Roman said. “Norman had the ability to take somethinhg andgrow it. That’sa his talent,” Romano added that Norman Brinker wasa “goox man” who taught him quite a bit about the restauranft industry and also quite a bit about leadership.
Brinker passed away Monday night leaving a legacy casual dining restaurantas built on what Phil Romanol called a vision of developinfg the casual dining restaurant concept where dinerss are treated not to fast foodor full-outt fine dining, but to a placew where people can eat everyday. “One of Norman’w biggest attributes was that he was a greagt leader anda cheerleader,” Romano said. “H would take people’s talents and develop them beyondtheifr abilities.” grew into a restaurant company that guideed chains like , On and Maggiano’s Littl e Italy.
Dallas-based Brinker EAT) in the past year sold the restaurang chain created byPhil Romano: Romano’s Macaroni Grill. Romanlo credits his friend Norman Brinkee for taking his creative vision and growing it into a majornational chain. “Ths industry is going to miss him,” Roman said. “Norman had the ability to take somethinhg andgrow it. That’sa his talent,” Romano added that Norman Brinker wasa “goox man” who taught him quite a bit about the restauranft industry and also quite a bit about leadership.
Monday, May 23, 2011
Wife contacts husband's long-lost daughter - Washington Post (blog)
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Wife contacts husband's long-lost daughter Washington Post (blog) By On Parenting From today's Post: A husband delays reconnecting with his estranged daughter. His wife secretly reaches out to the young woman and finds out she doesn't want her father in her life. Ask Amy columnist Amy Dickinson advises the wife on ... |
Saturday, May 21, 2011
VC firms take a dose of caution - Atlanta Business Chronicle:
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One regional VC, currently raising a fund of upto $200 has sawed its projection by about 30 perceng partly because of Wall Street’s “You’re seeing some reduction on the private equitgy allocation because of the volatility and devaluation in the public said a partner at the firm, who requestedc anonymity. “There’s general unease in investingh in both public andprivatre markets.” ’ $120 million fund, which closed about six monthx ago, came shy of its targegt and took four to five monthw longer than expected to raise.
VC fundraisintg in the third quarter is down about 33 percent nationwide from theprior quarter, based on preliminaryh data, Thomson Reuters’ peHUB.com reported. That however, is expected to shrink some when final data comees outin mid-October. United States-based venture funde raising money from traditional sources of capital like pension funds and insurance companies are going to facetoughj times, said Tom Hawkins, director at Arcapitaa Ventures . Many VCs, Hawkins said, are having to lowet their targets by up to 50 Hawkins said.
“If you’re raising a $400 million he said, “it might becomew a $200 million to $300 million Here’s why: Institutional investors who invest in VC funds have watchedd their investment portfolios get torpedoed by the volatilwstock market. The Dow Jonees industrial average, which dived 777 points on Sept. 29, is down more than 20 percent from ayear ago. When the overal value of the portfolio declines, the relativs percentage allocated to venture capital and privatseequity swells, Hawkins said. “So institutional investors find themselves with muchhigher percentages, in termw of total asset value allocated to this assert class,” he said.
“Many of them are now in excessx of theirtarget thresholds, whicj means they won’t make additional allocations to venture said Hawkins. Raising funds, especiall y in Atlanta, has been challenging for awhile, said Alan partner at Noro-Moseley. The regioj has lost companies suchas (acquired by in that traditionally invested in local VC firmss to industry consolidation, Taetle said. “Thesre are folks who wouldr potentially have a local interest in makintg sure that technologyinvesting flourished,” he said. The mauling on Wall Stree has shrunk the pool of banks investment andretail — who invest in VC said Steve Nussrallah, managing partner at Alpharetta-based .
“Prior to abouft 2001 some of the moreactive [limite partners] were banks,” Nussrallah said. “They’rre all gone, pretty much.” The tough times in VC-lanr are being felt up and down thefood It’s taking longer for venture firms to raise money — regardlesw of performance, said Anupendra Sharma, investment partner at in “There’s less liquidity in the Sharma said. “People are more carefull about reallocatingtheir portfolio.” Not everyone thinksa private equity and venture capital stinks as an investmenrt class in a bloodied stock market.
Privater equity — a play on innovation and entrepreneurship — coulx be among the few remaining bastions ofwealtuh creation, said Gardiner Garrard, managing partner at Atlanta-based LLC . For “peopld that do have money [to invest] and want to generatd above-average returns,” Garrard said, “one of the only places they can do it is inventur capital, where innovation can create new VCs’ troubles in raising funds are going to filteer downstream. Entrepreneurs, industry insiders said, must prepar to bootstrap their companies longer and make do with smalle r roundsof financing.
VCs will take a more detailed look at revenuew projections and sales cycle of prospectivseportfolio companies, Arcapita’s Hawkins especially in an environment where customeer IT budgets are froze n or slashed. A tougher fundraising coupled with growing pressure toboosy returns, Nussrallah said, has also driveb many VCs into the arms of the more conservative later-stagre companies. Early-stage companies, he said, are riskier and have not producee good returns inrecent years.
One regional VC, currently raising a fund of upto $200 has sawed its projection by about 30 perceng partly because of Wall Street’s “You’re seeing some reduction on the private equitgy allocation because of the volatility and devaluation in the public said a partner at the firm, who requestedc anonymity. “There’s general unease in investingh in both public andprivatre markets.” ’ $120 million fund, which closed about six monthx ago, came shy of its targegt and took four to five monthw longer than expected to raise.
VC fundraisintg in the third quarter is down about 33 percent nationwide from theprior quarter, based on preliminaryh data, Thomson Reuters’ peHUB.com reported. That however, is expected to shrink some when final data comees outin mid-October. United States-based venture funde raising money from traditional sources of capital like pension funds and insurance companies are going to facetoughj times, said Tom Hawkins, director at Arcapitaa Ventures . Many VCs, Hawkins said, are having to lowet their targets by up to 50 Hawkins said.
“If you’re raising a $400 million he said, “it might becomew a $200 million to $300 million Here’s why: Institutional investors who invest in VC funds have watchedd their investment portfolios get torpedoed by the volatilwstock market. The Dow Jonees industrial average, which dived 777 points on Sept. 29, is down more than 20 percent from ayear ago. When the overal value of the portfolio declines, the relativs percentage allocated to venture capital and privatseequity swells, Hawkins said. “So institutional investors find themselves with muchhigher percentages, in termw of total asset value allocated to this assert class,” he said.
“Many of them are now in excessx of theirtarget thresholds, whicj means they won’t make additional allocations to venture said Hawkins. Raising funds, especiall y in Atlanta, has been challenging for awhile, said Alan partner at Noro-Moseley. The regioj has lost companies suchas (acquired by in that traditionally invested in local VC firmss to industry consolidation, Taetle said. “Thesre are folks who wouldr potentially have a local interest in makintg sure that technologyinvesting flourished,” he said. The mauling on Wall Stree has shrunk the pool of banks investment andretail — who invest in VC said Steve Nussrallah, managing partner at Alpharetta-based .
“Prior to abouft 2001 some of the moreactive [limite partners] were banks,” Nussrallah said. “They’rre all gone, pretty much.” The tough times in VC-lanr are being felt up and down thefood It’s taking longer for venture firms to raise money — regardlesw of performance, said Anupendra Sharma, investment partner at in “There’s less liquidity in the Sharma said. “People are more carefull about reallocatingtheir portfolio.” Not everyone thinksa private equity and venture capital stinks as an investmenrt class in a bloodied stock market.
Privater equity — a play on innovation and entrepreneurship — coulx be among the few remaining bastions ofwealtuh creation, said Gardiner Garrard, managing partner at Atlanta-based LLC . For “peopld that do have money [to invest] and want to generatd above-average returns,” Garrard said, “one of the only places they can do it is inventur capital, where innovation can create new VCs’ troubles in raising funds are going to filteer downstream. Entrepreneurs, industry insiders said, must prepar to bootstrap their companies longer and make do with smalle r roundsof financing.
VCs will take a more detailed look at revenuew projections and sales cycle of prospectivseportfolio companies, Arcapita’s Hawkins especially in an environment where customeer IT budgets are froze n or slashed. A tougher fundraising coupled with growing pressure toboosy returns, Nussrallah said, has also driveb many VCs into the arms of the more conservative later-stagre companies. Early-stage companies, he said, are riskier and have not producee good returns inrecent years.
Wednesday, May 18, 2011
Development fees to rise in Fairfax County - Washington Business Journal:
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The $7.5 million officials expect to raisew through fee hikes is much smalleer than the cuts the county for instance, merit raises and length-of-service raises were eliminatedf for the next fiscal saving $19.1 million. If the board of supervisords approves thecounty executive’s proposal, site fees will cost 39 percentt more, building permit fees will cost 27 percentr more, new residential permits will increase by 50 percent, an infillp grading plan, which only applies to residentiak lots, will double in cost. The changes would take effecftJuly 1, at the beginninv of fiscal year 2009.
James Patteson,, directore of land development services, said the department’s revenue from permits and fees has droppecalmost $4.5 million as building has slowed in the last two The department has shrunk by 55 positions — 35 through attrition. The other 20 workers were reassigneds to other county divisions that needed engineers and Sites and building permit fees last went up in fisca lyear 2006. Patteson made an estimate of how much revenus would grow because of the but said activity has dropped so much in the last four he had torevise it, dropping $500,000p from the projection.
Zoning fees will go up even more with the costof variances, special special exceptions and rezonings going up 55 percent. An appeal to the administrator would morethan quadruple, from $375 to An interpretation of approved now free, would cost $500. When applicants ask for a deferralp of apublic hearing, it would cost $130 if the hearingt were in front of the Board of Zoning and $1,000 if it were in fronrt of the planning commission or board of Zoning fees last went up in 2006. Both proposals will have publicv hearings, on March 12 and March 30.
The $7.5 million officials expect to raisew through fee hikes is much smalleer than the cuts the county for instance, merit raises and length-of-service raises were eliminatedf for the next fiscal saving $19.1 million. If the board of supervisords approves thecounty executive’s proposal, site fees will cost 39 percentt more, building permit fees will cost 27 percentr more, new residential permits will increase by 50 percent, an infillp grading plan, which only applies to residentiak lots, will double in cost. The changes would take effecftJuly 1, at the beginninv of fiscal year 2009.
James Patteson,, directore of land development services, said the department’s revenue from permits and fees has droppecalmost $4.5 million as building has slowed in the last two The department has shrunk by 55 positions — 35 through attrition. The other 20 workers were reassigneds to other county divisions that needed engineers and Sites and building permit fees last went up in fisca lyear 2006. Patteson made an estimate of how much revenus would grow because of the but said activity has dropped so much in the last four he had torevise it, dropping $500,000p from the projection.
Zoning fees will go up even more with the costof variances, special special exceptions and rezonings going up 55 percent. An appeal to the administrator would morethan quadruple, from $375 to An interpretation of approved now free, would cost $500. When applicants ask for a deferralp of apublic hearing, it would cost $130 if the hearingt were in front of the Board of Zoning and $1,000 if it were in fronrt of the planning commission or board of Zoning fees last went up in 2006. Both proposals will have publicv hearings, on March 12 and March 30.
Monday, May 16, 2011
Out-of-pocket costs rising for health insurance - Jacksonville Business Journal:
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The study, authored by researcheres from the National Opinion Research Centee and Watson Wyatt Worldwide and funded by The Commonwealth examines trendsin employer-sponsored insurance from 2004 to 2007. It founds rising rates of underinsuranc eand unaffordability, particularly for poorer and sicker people. In 2007, adults with employer coveragd faced an averageof $729 annually in out-of-pocket costes for medical services, including deductibles and othetr forms of cost sharing such as copaymentsa and coinsurance.
That represents a 34 percent increase from when theaverage out-of-pocket burden was Health plans covered a slightly smaller percentage of overalkl expenses in 2007 than 2004, but growthy in overall health spending was the chiefv culprit behind rising out-of-pocket costs, according to the “The years from 2004 through 2007 were a period of economi expansion, yet rising health care costes still eroded the value of employer-sponsorec coverage,” said lead author Jon “Historically, employees have been asked to shoulderd even more of the cost-sharing burden during difficult economic timeas such as the United Statesd is now experiencing.
Hence, it is imperative that health care reform includwe constraints onhealth spending, or else health insurance will becomew unaffordable for low- and middle-incomre Americans, and reform itself will be unsustainable.”
The study, authored by researcheres from the National Opinion Research Centee and Watson Wyatt Worldwide and funded by The Commonwealth examines trendsin employer-sponsored insurance from 2004 to 2007. It founds rising rates of underinsuranc eand unaffordability, particularly for poorer and sicker people. In 2007, adults with employer coveragd faced an averageof $729 annually in out-of-pocket costes for medical services, including deductibles and othetr forms of cost sharing such as copaymentsa and coinsurance.
That represents a 34 percent increase from when theaverage out-of-pocket burden was Health plans covered a slightly smaller percentage of overalkl expenses in 2007 than 2004, but growthy in overall health spending was the chiefv culprit behind rising out-of-pocket costs, according to the “The years from 2004 through 2007 were a period of economi expansion, yet rising health care costes still eroded the value of employer-sponsorec coverage,” said lead author Jon “Historically, employees have been asked to shoulderd even more of the cost-sharing burden during difficult economic timeas such as the United Statesd is now experiencing.
Hence, it is imperative that health care reform includwe constraints onhealth spending, or else health insurance will becomew unaffordable for low- and middle-incomre Americans, and reform itself will be unsustainable.”
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