The Political Bullshit Test - ChicagoNow

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The Political Bullshit Test ChicagoNow It's simple â€" when you object to something the other team does that's perfectly okay when done by your team â€" that's bullshit. The clearest examples of the Political Bullshit Test at work are criticisms of First Ladies. With all due respect, ...

Demand Abolition: Prostitution is Not a Victimless Crime - PR Newswire (press release)

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Demand Abolition: Prostitution is Not a Victimless Crime PR Newswire (press release) Dr. Melissa Farley of Prostitution Research and Education, with financial support from Hunt Alternatives Fund and logistical support from Demand Abolition, conducted a study of the sexual attitudes of men in the Greater Boston area based on ... and more »

Jones Graduate School gets new name - Houston Business Journal:

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Previously the school was called theJesse H. Jones Graduate School of In conjunction with the name the school will create a new logo that incorporate s the Rice University nameand shield. Through research, the graduatse school said it found that most top MBA programs used the term ratherthan “management,” and that people performing online searches to find the schookl were using the term “business.
” “The update in the Jones School’e name and graphic identity better reflects our associatioj with Rice University and provides clearer branding for the Joneds School’s exciting programs and initiatives,” Bill dean of the Jones School, said in a “Everyone already knows us as a businesse school. The ‘business’ designation in our new name betterf captures the breadth of ourcurrenft offerings.” In addition, a new Web site will launc in August. Other changes for the school include addingh a weekendMBA program.

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Cardinals on MLB's longest steal-less streak since 1977 msnbc.com The Cardinals went a 32nd straight game without a stolen base in Tuesday's loss to the Mets, the longest such streak for a major league team since the 1977 Indians went 35 in a row. St. Louis opened the season with 35 steals in 64 games. ... Pujols, Cardinals struggle against knucklers ESPN (blog) Mets send Dickey to the mound against Cards Los Angeles Times Reyes, Beltran spark Mets beat Cards Seattle Post Intelligencer Yahoo! Sports (blog) -Boston Herald  »

Everything Channel opens in Albuquerque - New Mexico Business Weekly:

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The company is a subsidiary ofthe U.K.’s Uniterd Business Media PLC. That firm also owns PR which opened a regionaol office in Albuquerquein 2006. Everythinyg Channel’s Field Sales and Marketing Services will rent space atPR Newswire’s facility off Interstate 25 in Northh Albuquerque. The company expects to employ about 20 people thereby year-end said Managing Director Carlosa Blanco. Everything Channel, which has an office in Miami, chose Albuquerqu e for its second locatiohn inthe U.S. largely because of PR Newswire’es experience here, Blanco said. “They spoke volumes about the city,” he said.
“That was the number-one factor that influencedf our decision.” Blanco said the low cost of access toa high-skilled local workforced and the presence of many high-tech companies here were also Everything Channel offers threse types of services to technologgy manufacturers: Recruitment of resale partners, education and indoctrinatiomn of re-sellers as vendor s for the manufacturers, and sales-team management when working with smal l resellers. By recruiting small- and mid-size firms to resellp technology products, Everything Channel helps manufacturers increasew business while offering more opportunities for the smaller guys to partner with the big Blanco said.
“It’s a niche service,” he “We target that sweet spot in betweej with viable businesses that are not big enough to warrant special attention by companies likeor .” Among Everythinb Channel’s clients are , , , HP, , , , and . krobinson-avila@bizjournals.cokm | 348-8302

Forge site eyed for $17M project - Business First of Buffalo:

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, the real estatew development armof , is working with the to develop land that once was the site of the The property, which cuts along Broadway betweejn Spring Street and Jefferson Avenue, has been vacant for decades. The entirew parcel runs between Mortimer, Sycamore and Spring Feeding off inner-city developments along Jefferson Avenue, the Willert Park neighborhoocd and the SycamoreVillagw subdivision, the company has created a plan for a mix of public space with residential and commercial components and a possible new site for the Pentecostao Temple. Financing will come from a combination of public- and private-sector sources.
If successful, it will breathse new life into one ofthe most-challengedd sections of Buffalo. “We’re not talkingb a mass or mega project, but instead it is somethingy that is in scale with the neighborhooed and could serve asa jumping-ofdf point for other developments,” said Pastor Matthew Brown, Pentecostal Temple president and CEO. The has namexd Temple Community Development designated developer forthe property. The plan has been endorsedc bythe , an alliancre of seven East Side pastors and their respectives churches. Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown said the developmentr has been in the pipeline for nearly two years and is finallhy is coming tothe forefront.
“We’vde spent a lot of time lookiny at it and sohas TCDC,” he The property is a few blocks from the Elm Street-Oakj Street arterial and the eastern edge of downtowm Buffalo. The proposed developmentf could create an urban bridged between the central business district and theEast Side. “It connect s with downtown, but it also connects with theJeffersoh (Avenue) spine,” Pastor Brown “We’re talking about building some urban densituy where some is needed.
” Jefferson Avenude has seen a number of developmentzs in recent years, including the opening of a Tops a new library brancgh and a city-run business The first phase of the project includes renovation of a 12,000-square-foot building at 437 Broadway that had been a Laux Sportint Goods warehouse. It would become a communith centerwith retail, office and meeting Work on the early-1900s building, which has a $1.7 millionm price tag, is likely to starg early next year. The first tenants would move in by late 2009 orearl 2010. Laux donated the building to thedevelopmenrt effort.
Later phases include a park that woulds have abaseball diamond, sportse fields, a gazebo and greenspacr running along Broadway and Spring Street. Also in the workas are a communityhealth center, apartmentas and a new location for the Brown estimated it may take five yearw for everything to be completed, depending on financing and environmental Some environmental testing has been completed, but the mayor said he wante more studies to make sure the land is shovel-ready. A focap point will be the park’a gazebo/amphitheater.
Sources said it coule host weekly movies in the summet ora “Langston in the Park” productiob of Langston Hughes plays, as well as annual eventse such as GospelFest, which has been held at variouxs city locales including the Johnn y B. Wiley Sports Pavilion, formerly War Memorial Stadium. “This is a strategic vision, to be sure,” Brown said. “But I remain optimistic this is goinvgto happen. We want this entire project to be a drawing attention to theEast Side.
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VSR Financial Services owners settle negligence case for $10.3M - Atlanta Business Chronicle:

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million through their insurance compant to settle a negligence case filed by249 customers. The customers had claime the Overland Park-based company was negligenrt in supervising two formed brokers whosold high-risk investments in several Florida-baseds companies. The brokers, Rebecca Engle and Brian were charged with eight countxs each of securities fraud by Nebrasksa onMay 11. VSR Financial owners and founderz J. Michael Stanfield and Donald Beary consented tothe $10.3 million settlement before an arbitrationh panel from the on May 8, the authority said in a releas Wednesday.
Stanfield, also CEO of VSR Financial, said in an interview Thursday that he and Beary did not admit to any Stanfield said part of the agreement was that the plaintiffsx agreed not to collec t the settlement from Stanfield and but instead will try to collecg payment fromthe company’s and officers’ insurance provider. Engle worked at VSR as a representatived for about nine months in 2006and 2007. Engld lost her Nebraska securities license in 2008 as part of an agreemengt she entered into withstate regulators. Schuste was a former business partnerof Engle’as and never worked directly for VSR.
“These investments were sold through CapitalGrowtj Financial, a Florida broker dealer that is no longetr in business, about three or four years before they were involved with us,” Stanfielde said. Stanfield said that no claimsa remain against VSR Financial or its The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority calls itsel f the largest independent regulatotr for securities firms doing businesse in theUnited States. It was created in July 2007 through the consolidatiobn of the and themember regulation, enforcement and arbitration functions of the .

St. Francis sisters may file HMC plan - Washington Business Journal:

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The Hawaii Medical Center had exclusive authorituy to file a reorganization plan for the ailingbformer St. Francis hospitals. The cente r submitted its plan onMarchh 30. In denying the extension requeston Monday, U.S. Bankruptcu Court Judge Robert Faris said this will help brinh the bankruptcy to asuccessfulk conclusion. On June 22, Faris approved Hawaii Medicall Center’s disclosure statement, which was viewed as a key step towar implementing the strugglinghospital system’s reorganization plan. creditors will vote to approve orrejecrt HMC’s plan sometime after a hearing scheduled for Aug. 3.
In a preparedr statement, HMC Chief Operations and Restructuring Officer Salim Hashan saidthe company’s plan builds on the progress made in turningg around the hospitals. “While we believr that our plan offers the best option for Hawaii Medical Center to thrive and continure to servethe community, we know that othersz have their own ideas for restructuring and we welcom e their participation in the he said. Officials at Hawaii Medical Center, whicnh bought the struggling former St. Francis hospitals in Ewa and Liliha more than two years agofor $68 million, files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy last August. They have sincd said they paid too much and wanta do-ovetr of the deal. St.
Francis Healthcare System of Hawaii, the Roman Catholic religious order which providesd most of the financing in the January 2007 and other creditors have objectedto HMC’s In an objection it filefd with the court July 10, St. Francizs officials called the planan “ill-conceives and gap-filled effort” and said HMC officials “merelu seek to prolong exclusivity to maintaibn their head start and to disadvantage others who seek a say in this an inappropriate use of exclusivity as a means to pressurr creditors and leverage parties in St. Francis now says it will file its own reorganization plan forthe hospitals.
“This openx the door for us to put together and submit our own plan which will be beneficial for theothe creditors, the community and our health-carre system,” said CEO Sister Agnelle Ching in a prepared statement to PBN. Hawaii Medical Centere is a partnership betweennCHA Hawaii, an affiliatse of Cardiovascular Hospitals of America and Hawaiii Physician Group LLC, which is a groul of more than 130-Hawaii based physicians.
It is Hawaii’ s only for-profit hospital

GAAR sees home sales improvement - New Mexico Business Weekly:

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For the third consecutive month, existing homes were spendingtfewer days, 85, on the market and prices have reached theirr highest level since October 2008. Average homes sales peaked in May 2007 at slightlyuabove $260,000 and now the median (half half below) sales price in the metro regiom is $222,000. The 566 closed sales in May representeda 4.4 percenr increase over April’s performance, but a 16 percentr drop compared to May 2008. Therwe were 1,472 new listings in April, a nearly 25 percent decline compared to ayear ago. The supply/demane ratio is another encouraging sign, standin g at just 6.31 in May. That ratiop peaked in Novemberat 12.09.
The ratil measures pending sales against the total number of homezs onthe market. The higher the supply/demanxd ratio, the more supply there is relativedto demand. “Rio Rancho has the largest of available new homes on the drawing the attentionof first-time buyers who are taking advantager of the $8,000 income tax credit,” Padilla said. the Albuquerque metro housing market continues to outpace othe r markets nationally in sales and June is expected to be one of the strongestt monthsin 2009.
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Colorado Hispanic business leaders to lobby Bennet, others on union bill - Minneapolis / St. Paul Business Journal:

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The delegation includes members of the Hispanicd Contractors ofColorado (HCC) and the Denver Hispanicd Chamber of Commerce. The group will be in Washingtobn on Tuesday and joining small-business leaders from other The Colorado business leaders want to tell D-Colo., and other lawmakers “whyy this bill would really hurt them as they try to emergew from a tough economy,” said HCC spokesman Sean Duffy said the group arranged to meet with Bennegt because he has not yet declaredf how he will vote on the labor “In these very difficulty economic times, companies are struggling to retaibn the jobs they have,” Helga HCC executive director, said in a statement.
“We want to send a messager that we want to help jump start economiv recoverybut [the labor bill] wouldf make that challenge far, far greater.” The Employees Free Choice Act, also known as the “card bill, would allow workers to organize a union withoutt a secret election, as now required. Instead, a local couldr be launched at a workplacre if at least half its worker sign anauthorization card. Unions say the bill is needef to protect worker rights inthe recession.
But in a statement, HCC said that enactmenty of thelaw “would unfairly tip the delicatde business-labor climate in Colorado sharply away from employers, and woulc result in further economic damage and job loss.” As part of a large nationwide contingent organized by the , the Coloradol group will meet with Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., and othef legislators “to be determined,” Duffy said. The business leadersz also want to discussother issues, including health care reformn and the allocation of federal stimulus funds.

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Local former Chrysler, GM dealers look to sell used cars - South Florida Business Journal:

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Tony Wilkerson, executive director of the , said his organization has begu to lend assistance to dealers lost in thebankruptcyu shuffle. “Our national organization has already sent lettere to them to let them know about our organization and I plan to do the same thiny forour state,” Wilkerson said. “They were in the used car business anyway butif you’re stucko like many of them are, the overhear costs for a used car dealership is nothinh compared to a franchise.” However, the expansiojn of the local used car market comesz as prices are increasing and the availabilit y of late-model used cars is pinched, he But according to Morgan Murphy, presidenf of motorpool.
com, the initial increase in pricew should be looked at as merely a short-term hurdle. “Atg first glance, that would strike the community as bad but in thelong run, it’ s good for resale values,” Murphy said. When local consumers buy cars, they will be able to demand more when they choose tosell it, he In fact, the higher resale values migh t actually revive American car dealers in the “American manufacturing has been similar and just as good as Japanese and Korean manufacturing, but the problekm has been re-sale valued and initial prices,” Murphy In the meantime, Birmingham dealers affected can capitalizes on the unique landscape of the local market on the used car he said.
Many are family-ownedf and have been staples in the community for many They are also encouraged by the fact that local used car sales have seen an uptick amid the recession as buyeres are more inclined to look for a bargain as a meanw tospend less. “Birmingham has a long and distinguishedr history ofreputable dealers,” Murphy said. “Don Drennen has been in busineswsince 1908. That’s 101 years of servingg our community, so there’s a culturs around businesses like that.” Their long-standintg history could make local buyers more inclinee to buy used carsfrom them, he said.
Ward president of Don Drennen Buick Chryslereand Jeep, said after learning that his dealer agreement had been canceledr with Chrysler, expanding his used car salews seemed like a real possibility. “We are goinf to expand our used cardepartmentz drastically,” said Drennen, who was left with more than $2 milliohn in Chrysler parts and merchandise. “We want to offee a great value to peoplsewho can’t afford a new Although he hasn’t stopped looking into becomin a franchisee for other automotiv manufacturers, he is open to the idea of making the switc h to stay in business.
“It is possiblde that we could become a usedcar superstore,” said who also learned that GM will seek to cancel the dealershipo agreement he has for his Buicm dealership. “We’ve been in Birmingham long enough that our reputation can keepus