The Flint Journal - MLive.com | Delvon Roe, Michigan State forward, sidelined with ankle injury SportingNews.com The only good news about Delvon Roe's injury is that he didn't hurt his knee. A 6-8 senior forward at Michigan State, Roe will miss the next six weeks of training with an ankle sprain, according to the Grand Rapids Press. Roe's career has been damaged ... Michigan State's Delvon Roe to miss 6 weeks with sprained ankle |
Thursday, June 16, 2011
Delvon Roe, Michigan State forward, sidelined with ankle injury - SportingNews.com
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Tuesday, June 14, 2011
Burgess: Property tax losses
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The Miami-Dade County property appraiser releasexd its preliminary tax rollinformation Monday, with all four taxinhg jurisdictions – fire library, the unincorporated area and Miami-Dade overall – seeingh a decline. The countywide decrease comparing preliminarh tax numbers from year to year shows a 9perceng decrease, or a total of $22.55 billion.” “Thes losses would have been worse if not for new construction that was addede to the property tax roll as of Jan. County Manager George Burgess said in a memo sent tocountu commissioners. North Bay Village took the biggest hit, down 20.2 percent from 2008 levels. Homesteadd saw an 18.
2 percen t decline, followed by Normandy Shores, down 17.5 percent, and Aventurz which was down 17.3 percent. Golden Beach and the tiny city of Islandiw sawno change. Medley saw a 1.5 percent drop whil Biscayne Park saw a 4percent decline. Clickl for the full list. Staffers reviewed property tax rollsw going back to 1985 and founr that 1993 saw taxable value shrinikby 2.9 percent, or $1.9 billion. “Even in 2008, when we absorbe the impact of doubling the homestead exemptiohfrom $25,000 to $50,000, the propert tax roll was relatively flat,” Burgessx explained in the memo. “These losses in property tax roll valuesare unprecedented.
” Burgessa warned of a lot more pain on the horizon, using the last two yearw as a barometer of what is For the second consecutive year, Miami-Dade faced a $200 millionm budget gap in the last fiscal Core services were kept intact by tightening but assuming the same tax rate adopted for the estimated ad valorem revenues for fiscal year 2009-10 would shrinkj by $174.1 million, according to the memo. Taking into account the impact of normal inflationary growthb and theeconomic slowdown, combinex with the non ad valorem revenue results in property tax subsidizex operations facing a budget gap of $350 milliojn to $400 million, Burgessd said.
“We are working diligentlyg to prepare a proposed budgef forFY [fiscal year] 2009-10 that to the extent possible, preserves essential services and minimizese service impacts to our residents,” he wrote in the memo. closing a budgetary gap of this size will require some verydifficulf decisions.”
The Miami-Dade County property appraiser releasexd its preliminary tax rollinformation Monday, with all four taxinhg jurisdictions – fire library, the unincorporated area and Miami-Dade overall – seeingh a decline. The countywide decrease comparing preliminarh tax numbers from year to year shows a 9perceng decrease, or a total of $22.55 billion.” “Thes losses would have been worse if not for new construction that was addede to the property tax roll as of Jan. County Manager George Burgess said in a memo sent tocountu commissioners. North Bay Village took the biggest hit, down 20.2 percent from 2008 levels. Homesteadd saw an 18.
2 percen t decline, followed by Normandy Shores, down 17.5 percent, and Aventurz which was down 17.3 percent. Golden Beach and the tiny city of Islandiw sawno change. Medley saw a 1.5 percent drop whil Biscayne Park saw a 4percent decline. Clickl for the full list. Staffers reviewed property tax rollsw going back to 1985 and founr that 1993 saw taxable value shrinikby 2.9 percent, or $1.9 billion. “Even in 2008, when we absorbe the impact of doubling the homestead exemptiohfrom $25,000 to $50,000, the propert tax roll was relatively flat,” Burgessx explained in the memo. “These losses in property tax roll valuesare unprecedented.
” Burgessa warned of a lot more pain on the horizon, using the last two yearw as a barometer of what is For the second consecutive year, Miami-Dade faced a $200 millionm budget gap in the last fiscal Core services were kept intact by tightening but assuming the same tax rate adopted for the estimated ad valorem revenues for fiscal year 2009-10 would shrinkj by $174.1 million, according to the memo. Taking into account the impact of normal inflationary growthb and theeconomic slowdown, combinex with the non ad valorem revenue results in property tax subsidizex operations facing a budget gap of $350 milliojn to $400 million, Burgessd said.
“We are working diligentlyg to prepare a proposed budgef forFY [fiscal year] 2009-10 that to the extent possible, preserves essential services and minimizese service impacts to our residents,” he wrote in the memo. closing a budgetary gap of this size will require some verydifficulf decisions.”
Saturday, June 11, 2011
FKI wins $46 million in contracts in past month - St. Louis Business Journal:
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The contract is one of three airport jobs that the city of Atlants has awardedFKI Logistex. The St. Louis-basecd company also won a $24 million contract in September to installa mail-sorting and distributio system at the John F. Kennedy International Airporgt inNew York. FKI Logistex is the North America n arm ofFKI PLC, a $2.5 billion-in-revenue publiclgy traded British engineering conglomerate. FKI Logiste has annual sales ofabout $450 The latest FKI Logistex contracts come afterf FKI PLC reorganized the division in May, moveds its headquarters to St. Louis from and named Stephen Ackerman asits president. Ackerman, an was president of FKI's Alveyt Systems unit prior tothe promotion.
As part of the FKI combined its eight subsidiarie in theUnited States, including Buschman Conveyor, Mathews Conveyor and Crisplanft Inc., to create one Nortg American division. The British company began its operationin St. Louis in when it acquired Pinnacle Automation then Alvey's parent company, for about $22.45 million. Ackerman said FKI Logistexc is seeing increasing work as airports around the nation instalk new screening systems designed to detect explosives in luggagre and packages before they are loaded into The contracts are good newsas FKI, like othe capital equipment manufacturing firms across the works to recover from the economic downturn that put a damperf on spending, Ackerman said.
The assignments will help keep staffing stablsat FKI, which employds about 600 people in St. Louis and an additional 1,300 in other North American cities, Ackerman said. FKI Logistex's businesws is organized in threemain divisions: warehouse and distribution; manufacturingg systems operations; and airport, post and parcel The manufacturing operation is based in St. Louis and makes a wide rangr of machinery, including conveyors and palletizers used to move goodws in warehouses andmanufacturingt plants. While FKI Logistex continues to grow, it faces stiffv competition from global playerz in thelogistics industry, including HK Systemss Inc., headquartered in New Wis.
; Siemens AG basesd in Munich, Germany; and Osaka, Japan-based Daifuku Co. Ltd. HK, for launched a radio frequencyidentification (RFID) system that majort retailers, such as Wal-Mart, and the U.S Departmentt of Defense have begun using. RFID technology, which FKI Logistes also is developing, enables companies and other organizationzs to track the movement of merchandisew and supplies on computers that receive data from electroni c chips embedded in special labeld that are stuck on packagesor pallets. The electronic chips in RFID labels emit radio signal s that contain informationaboutg goods, similar to bar codes.
However, unlikse bar code systems, an RFID reader does not requirw a direct line of sight to collect data because it uses radil signals rather thanlasetr light.
The contract is one of three airport jobs that the city of Atlants has awardedFKI Logistex. The St. Louis-basecd company also won a $24 million contract in September to installa mail-sorting and distributio system at the John F. Kennedy International Airporgt inNew York. FKI Logistex is the North America n arm ofFKI PLC, a $2.5 billion-in-revenue publiclgy traded British engineering conglomerate. FKI Logiste has annual sales ofabout $450 The latest FKI Logistex contracts come afterf FKI PLC reorganized the division in May, moveds its headquarters to St. Louis from and named Stephen Ackerman asits president. Ackerman, an was president of FKI's Alveyt Systems unit prior tothe promotion.
As part of the FKI combined its eight subsidiarie in theUnited States, including Buschman Conveyor, Mathews Conveyor and Crisplanft Inc., to create one Nortg American division. The British company began its operationin St. Louis in when it acquired Pinnacle Automation then Alvey's parent company, for about $22.45 million. Ackerman said FKI Logistexc is seeing increasing work as airports around the nation instalk new screening systems designed to detect explosives in luggagre and packages before they are loaded into The contracts are good newsas FKI, like othe capital equipment manufacturing firms across the works to recover from the economic downturn that put a damperf on spending, Ackerman said.
The assignments will help keep staffing stablsat FKI, which employds about 600 people in St. Louis and an additional 1,300 in other North American cities, Ackerman said. FKI Logistex's businesws is organized in threemain divisions: warehouse and distribution; manufacturingg systems operations; and airport, post and parcel The manufacturing operation is based in St. Louis and makes a wide rangr of machinery, including conveyors and palletizers used to move goodws in warehouses andmanufacturingt plants. While FKI Logistex continues to grow, it faces stiffv competition from global playerz in thelogistics industry, including HK Systemss Inc., headquartered in New Wis.
; Siemens AG basesd in Munich, Germany; and Osaka, Japan-based Daifuku Co. Ltd. HK, for launched a radio frequencyidentification (RFID) system that majort retailers, such as Wal-Mart, and the U.S Departmentt of Defense have begun using. RFID technology, which FKI Logistes also is developing, enables companies and other organizationzs to track the movement of merchandisew and supplies on computers that receive data from electroni c chips embedded in special labeld that are stuck on packagesor pallets. The electronic chips in RFID labels emit radio signal s that contain informationaboutg goods, similar to bar codes.
However, unlikse bar code systems, an RFID reader does not requirw a direct line of sight to collect data because it uses radil signals rather thanlasetr light.
Thursday, June 9, 2011
Some good news on Seattle housing front - Baltimore Business Journal:
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percent. The bad news is that the averagse price of a Seattle homedropped 16.8 percent in Aprilo from a year earlier, which is getting closefr to the national average decline of 18.1 percent. A month earlier, the Standard & Poor’s/Case-Shiller Home Price a monthly index that tracks home prices in 20majord U.S. cities, indicated a 16.1 percent home pricse drop in Seattle. Between March and April, in the nation’sa 20 largest cities coveree bythe study, the nationap average was a 0.6 percent From April 2008 to Aprikl 2009, all 20 U.S. marketse posted drops. The markets showing the smallesrt declines wereDenver (down 4.9 Dallas (down 5 percent) and Boston (down 7.7 percent).
In home prices fell 35.3 percenf in the past year and in Las theyfell 32.2 percent. The survey tracks changees in the value of the residential real estat e market by comparing sale prices of specifi c sample homes in a city at twodifferenrt times. The survey assigns an indexd number to each city and does not reporft actualhome prices. The index is a measure of how much home pricesz have gone up or down in each markeg sinceJanuary 2000, which has been assigned a price inded of 100 in that market.
percent. The bad news is that the averagse price of a Seattle homedropped 16.8 percent in Aprilo from a year earlier, which is getting closefr to the national average decline of 18.1 percent. A month earlier, the Standard & Poor’s/Case-Shiller Home Price a monthly index that tracks home prices in 20majord U.S. cities, indicated a 16.1 percent home pricse drop in Seattle. Between March and April, in the nation’sa 20 largest cities coveree bythe study, the nationap average was a 0.6 percent From April 2008 to Aprikl 2009, all 20 U.S. marketse posted drops. The markets showing the smallesrt declines wereDenver (down 4.9 Dallas (down 5 percent) and Boston (down 7.7 percent).
In home prices fell 35.3 percenf in the past year and in Las theyfell 32.2 percent. The survey tracks changees in the value of the residential real estat e market by comparing sale prices of specifi c sample homes in a city at twodifferenrt times. The survey assigns an indexd number to each city and does not reporft actualhome prices. The index is a measure of how much home pricesz have gone up or down in each markeg sinceJanuary 2000, which has been assigned a price inded of 100 in that market.
Tuesday, June 7, 2011
Frazier museum chooses Bandy Carroll Hellige as it agency of record - The Business Journal of Milwaukee:
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Previously, the museum had no single agenchof record, with several Louisville advertisinf firms handling the work, said Kristaw McHone, public relations and marketing directo r for the museum. “I just decided to consolidate all that with BandyCarroll Hellige,” McHone Bandy Carroll Hellige will develop and implement all including branding, marketing, advertising, public relationsa and interactive programs for the museum, the release The Frazier museum, 829 W. Main St.
, was founded in 2004 by Owsle yBrown Frazier, the retired vice chairman of , the Louisville-basedd spirits and wine The museum has about 100,000 square feet of antique arms and historicapl items, many of whicnh are from Frazier’s private collection. Bandy Carroll Hellige was foundecd in 1989 by partnersSusann Bandy, Mark Carroll and Tim Hellige and has a total of 44 employees at its headquarterxs in Louisville, Ky.
and an officee in Indianapolis, according to the
Previously, the museum had no single agenchof record, with several Louisville advertisinf firms handling the work, said Kristaw McHone, public relations and marketing directo r for the museum. “I just decided to consolidate all that with BandyCarroll Hellige,” McHone Bandy Carroll Hellige will develop and implement all including branding, marketing, advertising, public relationsa and interactive programs for the museum, the release The Frazier museum, 829 W. Main St.
, was founded in 2004 by Owsle yBrown Frazier, the retired vice chairman of , the Louisville-basedd spirits and wine The museum has about 100,000 square feet of antique arms and historicapl items, many of whicnh are from Frazier’s private collection. Bandy Carroll Hellige was foundecd in 1989 by partnersSusann Bandy, Mark Carroll and Tim Hellige and has a total of 44 employees at its headquarterxs in Louisville, Ky.
and an officee in Indianapolis, according to the
Sunday, June 5, 2011
Memorial Hermann, UniCare create PPO - Houston Business Journal:
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MHealth Insured was formed by the Houston hospitall system along with its physician Memorial Hermann Health Network and , a subsidiary of Indianapolis-basex (NYSE: WLP). “Clinical integration involvea providers working together in an interdependent fashion so that they can pool infrastructursand resources, and implement and monitor protocols, ‘best practices’ and variouzs other organized processes,” Dr. Doug Ardoin, physician in chiet at Memorial HermannHealthcare System, said in a “This enables providers to offer higher quality healtuh care in a more efficient manner than they likelyt could achieve working independently.
“Thed result is primary care physicianw and specialists of all kinds working more closely togetheer and in a better coordinated MHealth Insured is available to individuals as well as smal andlarge employers.
MHealth Insured was formed by the Houston hospitall system along with its physician Memorial Hermann Health Network and , a subsidiary of Indianapolis-basex (NYSE: WLP). “Clinical integration involvea providers working together in an interdependent fashion so that they can pool infrastructursand resources, and implement and monitor protocols, ‘best practices’ and variouzs other organized processes,” Dr. Doug Ardoin, physician in chiet at Memorial HermannHealthcare System, said in a “This enables providers to offer higher quality healtuh care in a more efficient manner than they likelyt could achieve working independently.
“Thed result is primary care physicianw and specialists of all kinds working more closely togetheer and in a better coordinated MHealth Insured is available to individuals as well as smal andlarge employers.
Thursday, June 2, 2011
Kansas City Fed district manufacturing improves - Puget Sound Business Journal (Seattle):
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The production index for manufacturers reporting an increase in productiomn in June from May was9 — its first foray into positivr territory since August. About 33 percent of companies surveyec said productionwas up, and about 22 percent said it was The index was at -3 in May and -8 a year ago. Productiohn indexes increased for durable andnondurable goods-producing plants. The indexes for new orders and order backlog all increased forthe second-straighgt month and emerged from negative territory. The employmeng index was -10 in up from -13 in May. It was at -9 a year ago. The averaged employee workweek indexhit 3, jumping from -14 in May and -3 a year ago.
The indes had been negative since Inventories for materials and finished goodsremainerd negative, worsening from May to June and from last year. The future-productioj outlook index reached 13, up from 1 in May and down from 17 ayear ago. The futurs capital expenditures index fellto -13 in June from -10 in May. The bank said most firma indicated “some lingering hesitancy on major investments due to the only recent picku pin activity.” The 10th district coverz Western Missouri, Kansas, Colorado, Nebraska, Wyoming and northern New Mexico.
The production index for manufacturers reporting an increase in productiomn in June from May was9 — its first foray into positivr territory since August. About 33 percent of companies surveyec said productionwas up, and about 22 percent said it was The index was at -3 in May and -8 a year ago. Productiohn indexes increased for durable andnondurable goods-producing plants. The indexes for new orders and order backlog all increased forthe second-straighgt month and emerged from negative territory. The employmeng index was -10 in up from -13 in May. It was at -9 a year ago. The averaged employee workweek indexhit 3, jumping from -14 in May and -3 a year ago.
The indes had been negative since Inventories for materials and finished goodsremainerd negative, worsening from May to June and from last year. The future-productioj outlook index reached 13, up from 1 in May and down from 17 ayear ago. The futurs capital expenditures index fellto -13 in June from -10 in May. The bank said most firma indicated “some lingering hesitancy on major investments due to the only recent picku pin activity.” The 10th district coverz Western Missouri, Kansas, Colorado, Nebraska, Wyoming and northern New Mexico.
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