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Pending home sales jump 6.7 percent - Orlando Business Journal:

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Pending sales of existing homes, or contracts signec but not closed, rose 6.7 percent in according to the . April's pending sale were up 3.2 percent from a year ago, the NAR The biggest increase in Aprip was inthe Northeast, wherse pending sales jumped 32.6 percengt from the previous month. The NAR's pendin home sales index is a forwardlookingf gauge, and the group cautions that it is more volatilwe than actual closed sales. "The relationship between contracts on pending home sales and closinge on existing home sales is taking longer than in the past forseverao reasons," says NAR chiefg economist Lawrence Yun.
"Mortgage processing time has it is taking many months to closd on those homes requiring short sales with lender and some sales are falling through at thelast Still, Yun says he believes the housing market has alreadh bottomed out in some The group last week reported closed sales of existin g homes rose 2.9 percent in April. The NAR'as housing affordability index was also atits second-highest levelk on record in

Bunge posts first-quarter loss - St. Louis Business Journal:

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Bunge reported a loss of $195 milliob in the quarter endedMarch 31, compared to a profi of $289 million a year earlier. The company’ss sales dropped to $9.2 billion in the first down 26 percent from salesof $12.4 billioj a year ago. Due to lower-than-planned first quarteer results and a morechallenging near-term pricintg environment in fertilizer, the company lowered its 2009 full-year earning s guidance from $6.90 to $7.60 per share to $4.90 to $5.4o0 per share, said Chief Financial Officer Jacqualyn “The start to 2009 was more challenging than said Alberto Weisser, Bunge’s chairman and chier executive, in a statement.
“Bunge’s first quarte results reflect this. Retail fertilizer margins in Brazilp suffered from aggressive price reductionszby competitors, which drove salez prices below international levels. Additionally, globa demand for soybean mealwas soft.” St. Louis-baseds , the North American operating arm ofWhite Plains, N.Y.-basecd Bunge Ltd. (NYSE: BG), is a food and feed ingredient company that operatesgrain elevators, grain and oilseed processinb plants, refineries and food processing facilitiea in the U.S., Canada and Mexico. Alberto Weisser is chairman and CEO of Bunge Carl Hausmann is CEO of BungeNorthj America.

Constellation Brands sells eight Bay Area, Northwest wineries for $209M - East Bay Business Times:

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Officials at Healdsburg-based Ascentia Wine Estatesz confirmed June10 they've acquired eightt ultra-premium and luxury Sonoma County, Napa Countu and Pacific Northwest wineries or brands from gianty Fairport, N.Y.-based Constellation Brands STZ). Ascentia, originally known as Eight EstateFine Wines, was startec by Jim DeBonis, the former chief operatingg officer of Beam Wine Along with DeBonis, its majort investors include William and Peter Deutsch of New York-based wine importer , , a San Franciscp private equity food and beverage investor, and the .
Ascentiq acquired a portfolio of wineriesfrom California, Washingtonn and Idaho, which cumulatively produced one million casew of wines last year. They include Geyserville's Geyser Peak Winery, the Napa Valley-basexd Atlas Peak brand, Sonoma Valley's Buena Vista Carneros, Healdsburg'x Gary Farrell Winery, and XYZin, a Geyser Peak brancd -- all based in the Golden State -- along with Wash.,-based Columbia Winery and Sunnyside, Wash.-based Covey Run and southwesgt Idaho's Ste. Chapelle, along with 646 acres of primer vineyard land in Napa andSonomw counties.
Eileen Fredrikson, of Woodside's Gomberg, Fredriksohn & Associates wine industry consulting firm, said Geysetr Peak and Buena Vista, in "both have significant asset value." Before the purchasee price was released, Fredriksonn speculated that a priceof $200 million woulrd be in the right ballpark. Rob Constellation Brands' president and CEO, said the sale will "aidr in streamlining Constellation's U.S. wine portfolio by eliminating duplication and excessproductiomn capacity." He said Constellation's othed California wineries and its Hogue Cellars brand in Washington will serve Constellation's customers well.
The Northn Bay wine community has been buzzing about a potentiap salefrom months. In a report in Richard Cartiere's highluy regarded Wine Market Report industry newsletter saidGeysetr Peak, Gary Farrell and Buena Vista Carneros were beingg packaged for sale with an asking pricer of about $200 million. Cartiere's newsletter said the then-potential deal included Geyser Peak, Buena Vistz Carneros and GaryFarrell wineries, along with 1,000 acrezs of Sonoma County vineyards.
Constellatiomn Brands acquired Beam Wine Estatesin mid-Decemberr for $885 million, including leading producer Clos du Bois, but after the acquisitiom it kept Geyser Peak, Atlas Peak and Buen Vista Carneros in a separate division that many observerss expected it to sell, probably as a package Constellation continues to own former Beam Wine brands Clos du Bois and Paso Robles' Wild Horsde Winery, now part of Constellation'ds Icon Estates unit. Clos du the largest winery in theBeam package, was transferref earlier this year into Constellation's San Francisco-based VineOne unit.
"Wre are thrilled with this acquisition," said Ascentiaa CEO DeBonis, saying the highly rated brands "will flourish" in the company'ss highly focused portfolio. He addeed that W.J. Deutsch & role as Ascentia's exclusive sales and marketingb agent will give it immediate clourt inthe marketplace, and called the Constellation acquisitions an "excellent platform from which Ascentiz Wine Estates can launch future acquisitions.
" Peter the former CEO of , is Ascentia'sx chief marketing & sales and will create a marketing campaign in conjunction with Deutsch to focus greatef attention on the acquired brands, DeBonis allowing them to "step into the

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Bexar County children required to take new vaccinations - The Business Review (Albany):

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Parents are required to add five new immunizations for the upcomingb school year as a result ofstate mandates. Metro Healty anticipates these requirements will affect upto 50,00o students in the San Antonio Starting Aug. 1, K-12 student s will be required to take two doses of theVaricella vaccine. Students entering the 1-6 and 8-12 grades must continue to meet the current requirement. Entering 7th grade studentsa are required to take the one dose of the meningococcall vaccine this school Students entering the 7th grade must havethe diphtheria, acellular pertussis-containing vaccine if they’ve not had the booster within the last five Students entering grades 8 - 12 must have the boostert shot if they have not had one in the last 10 Kindergarten students statewide are now required to take two dosesx of hepatitis A vaccine.
Finally, K-12 students must take two dosesz of the measles vaccine and one dose each of the mumpsd andrubella vaccine. In addition to the expanded students need to be current on previouslyrequired “These additions to the childhood immunization schedule will bring us closerr in line with CDC recommendations and make Texas an even safeer environment for vaccine preventable diseases,” health director Fernando Guerraw says.

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As part of the J.G. Wentworth’s parent, private equity firm of New York, will invesgt $100 million of new equity to supporgtongoing operations. It will also providee as much as $35 million for the compangy to buy loans from lenders in exchangw for new preferred interests in the TheBryn Mawr, Pa.-based company soughty acceptance of its plan from its lenders before what is calleds a prepackaged filing. More than 90 percent of the termlendersw approved, the company J.G.
Wentworth said its decisiohn to file for Chapter 11 came after an extensivs review of alternatives to address pressuresfrom “extremelhy challenging capital markets and high borrowing costs”, and was unanimously approved by the company’s board of directors. In J.G. Wentworth laid off 120 of its 200 employees and closed its LasVegas office. Founded in it moved from Philadelphia to Bryn Mawrin 2003.

Bauer Financial issues Q1 credit union ratings - Memphis Business Journal:

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The company uses federal regulatory data to rate credit unionas based oncapital ratio, profit/losa trend, delinquent loans and otherf factors. Bauer's rating ranks from a high of 5 starzs to a low of 0 Of the 10 largest Southh Florida credit unionsby assets, six maintained a five-stard (superior) rating: IBM Southeast Employeee Credit Union and Brightstar Credit Union held on to their four stare (excellent) in the first quarter. They had been downgraded from five starz in thethird quarter. Priority One Credit Unio n in Sunrise fell from to threed stars from four stars in the first quartedwith 69.9 million in assets, 1.6 percen of which were nonperforming.
, South Florida’ second-largest credit union with $738 million in held on to its three stars in thefirst quarter. It was downgraded to three stare (adequate) from four stars in the fourthn quarter. The Pembroke Pines-based credit union counted 1.74 percengt of its assets as First Choice in West Palm Beach also hadthree stars. , the largesr in South Florida with $1.62 billiob in assets, remained the only credit union in the statd rated zero starsby Bauer. The Miramar-based creditr union counted 8.6 percent of its assets as It was placed into conservatorshipo by Florida regulators on April 24 aftef heavy losses and the oustedits management.
Spacde Coast Credit Union has shown an in acquiringEasterhn Financial.

Sierra College launches virtual assistant degree - Sacramento Business Journal:

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Settecase, a 51-year-old mothere of three, is in the first class of ' new degree program in a fielsd that's getting noticed nationally. The program targetxs a growing industry of office serviced offeredby workers, sometimes callec "virtual office assistants," who contract with clients to handle bookkeeping, data entry and other tasks. They ofte n work from home, using the Internetr to tap intotheir clients' office computers and receive theier assignments. Settecase wants a virtual officwe professional degree to complement her experience in property management andoffice administration.
She wants a flexiblr schedule because she has health problemx and wants time withher kids. Sierra Collegwe sets itself apart and is serving as a modep in this areaof education, industrgy observers said, by offering a program that requires more unitw than other accredited colleges nationwide, and a degrere as well as a program Sierra College's program requires 27 units with threw core classes, compared to the 12 to 17 unitw required elsewhere in California. It also is Sierra College's first program that is completely online. and offer a relatively new virtualp office assistantcertificate program.
Private companies also offer a few monthas of online instruction for thousands of Cyndi Dunn, a Sierra Colleged professor of computer information systems and developed the program during a sabbatical and launched it in August. The firstg class in the program -- an online class to fit with the virtuao nature of theindustry -- quickly fillex its limit of 30 students and had to turn away aboutf 15. "What Cyndi has done with the prograkis phenomenal," said Michelle Ulrich, a Citru s Heights woman who has workede for five years as a virtual assistant. She prefers the title "business and Internet marketing strategist.
" She also runs an industr portal and advises oneducational initiatives. The of the chancellor'se office for is seeking grant money to expancd the program toother colleges, usiny Sierra College's program as a model, said who serves on the committee. Sierra College's program is "probably the best community collegweprogram that's out there right now," added Patricia who is franchising her virtual assistant business in The virtual professionals industry is still in its infancy and will industry observers said. Real numbers are hard to come by, but Dunn estimatesw there are atleast 10,000 people workint in the field.
There's more work than therd are skilled andqualified people, Beckmam said. Part of what Cybertary franchisees receive fortheir $22,500 franchise fee is continuing education and one-on-one coaching. Sincde starting to franchise this year, Beckman has sold two franchisees and next year expects to sell two to threa month. Virtual professionals are attractedx to the work forthe flexibility, the ability to be their own boss and to work from It's a good fit, Dunn for single parents, people with disabilities, residents of remoter areas with few traditional job opportunities, and people with language barriers who mighf be proficient at writing English but not speaking it.
They're especially in demand in the realestated industry, where they set up open houses and place ads on , Dunn said. Peoplse who work as job or life coaches also enlisty the help ofvirtual assistants. The insurance industry is expectef to be a growth nicher forvirtual professionals. Virtual assistants charge $30 to $100 per What: Degree and certificate program for thoser interested in working in the growing fiel of handling office work for often working from home and retrieving work over the InterneyDeveloped by: Cyndi Dunn, a professor of computer informatioj systems and business Requirements: 27 class considerably more than other schools in classes offered online Information: 916-789-2713, cdunn@sierracollege.
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Prudential Tropical Realty turns to Yesner & Boss for legal help - Tampa Bay Business Journal:

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Financial terms were not disclosed. The St. Petersburg real estate and bankruptcg law firm will provid corporate counsel for Prudentiall Tropical offices all over the Tampa Bay regionincluding St. Petersburg, Temple Terrace, Brandon and the Pinellas according toa release. Realtorws will refer clients to the firm who need help withforeclosure defense, short-sale negotiations, asset protection and consumerf protection.
“The goal of Yesner & Boss and Prudential Tropical is the to help property owners sat in theirf homes and work their way out of mortgagse difficulties to which the current market is subjecting a lot of saidChristopher Boss, a partner with Yesner & in a release. There are nearly 60,000 homesx in foreclosure in Florida, according to Yesnefr & Boss, and the Tampa Bay regioh is one of the mostl heavily beset by foreclosures andshorft sales. “While there are signs of life flickering in the residentialo realestate market, it is a long way from Boss said.
“And improvement will not be significanrt until foreclosures return to normal numbers and the backlotg of foreclosed propertiesis cleared. Ther is, unfortunately, still a lot of work to be done out Prudential Tropical Realty first opened 50 years ago and now has officexin Pinellas, Hillsborough, Pasco and Hernando Yesner & Boss was founded in according to the firm’x Web site, and specializes in real estate, foreclosure bankruptcy, evictions, and corporate planning and

South Florida advertising agencies take next step in award season - South Florida Business Journal:

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The agency’s State Farm ad “Los Felinoes de la Noche” won a Charlie in the nontraditionaladvertisingt category, and “Soccer Roots,” also for State won in the consumer/trade publicationm category. Alma DDB was one of severapl South Florida shops to win big at the held recently in Orlando and honoring top ad shopzs from throughout Florida andthe Caribbean. Brand Tango in Fort Lauderdales won a Charlie for its Royal Palms Vacations Member Kit for Royal Palm Vacations in the salesspromotion category. The agency also took two gold Addys.
Miami-basedr Sapient took a Charlie for “Burn Altert Ego Facebook Campaign & for client in the interactive The agency also won agold Addy. LLC in Fort Lauderdale earneds a Charlie in the industry self promotion category for its Pinpoin Communications BrandAid Kit. The agencyu also won a gold Addy. Among the local gold awardf winners fromthe , took three gold Addys and Battlse Advertising took two gold Addys. From the Fort Lauderdale Advertisiny Federation, Jacaty + Associates and Peak Sevem Advertising each won onegold Addy. Nikkki Aliseo and Bradley Gram, both students at the , each won a student gold Addy.
From the , Image Factory took thre gold Addys, and Machado Garcia-Serra and PG Creative each took two. Other winners included Accentmarketing, Creativse On Demand, Kabookaboo, Macias Advertising, MARCA, Out of the Blue Advertisinb and TAG, each won one gold Addy. Aidejn Ho, David Benoliel and McDonal d Predelus, students with the Miami Ad each won a studentgold Addy. Winning Studenr Best of Show this yearwere J. Aiden Ho and Brigham White of Miami Ad School fortheitr “Don’t Let There Be A Last Chip” televisiojn spot.
They also won a student gold Addy for the Gold and select silver winners will advancew to the national competition later this In anothermarketing competition, in Miami recentl y took a Webby Award for Internet-related marketing work on behalf of Mozillas Firefox 3. The firm earned a People’s Voice Awars for best online campaign for its Download Daylauncgh campaign. in Miami has been namefd to handle the comprehensive Hispanic marketinv program in select markets for Oil Can the Portland, Ore.-based automotive servicwe franchise. Barceló Rum in Miami has namedc to handle news of its new bottl designand tagline. Accentmarketingv and its agency partners have wonthe U.S.
Navy’zs advertising and marketing communications work for athircd term, following a mandatory competitive rebid. n STIR-Communications in Miami has signef severalnew clients. They include: , LP, the operatinb arm of Dallas-based ; High Point a solar energy solutions providerrin Miami; MoreGallons.com in Philadelphia, a fixed pric e gas savings program; Boynk, also in Philadelphia, an action sport sponsorship organization; , in Miami and a real estate investor; Bertoni Loungw & Brick Oven Pizza, a Miami restaurant chain; and Dolce Vita Gelati Café, a gelato chain with eight area Zimmerman Advertising in Fort Lauderdal has been named to make over the brandx and almost 400 retail locations for Arcadia, Wis.
-basedx . Fresh, Ink., a division of Tara, Ink. in Miami Beach, has bolsteredc its client roster. New accounts Shiso in Miami Beach, an Asian-inspired New Concept Video in an alternative and boutiquevideo store, for eventy marketing and media relations; MySpa at InterContinental Keva by Keva J, for product placementr for the swimwear Art of Shade in Hollywood, designer Kayce Armstrong’s boutique; Bodegaas Fariñas, South Florida P.R. for the Spanish wine brand; PK Graphics in Miami, a publishing house of posters and digital and A Fish Called Avalon inMiamo Beach, a seafood grill on Oceah Drive.
Taigh White, assistanrt VP and online marketinv managerfor , was namesd president of the .

First-time buyer credit spurs residential activity - Pittsburgh Business Times:

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The segment of the market showinvg the most activity wasthe first-tim e homebuyer armed with low interesgt rates, newly affordable housing prices, an $8,000 tax credit and a boosf in Federal Housing Authority lending. The signxs are glimmers of hope that the bottomj hasbeen hit, though some observers believr a little more pain will be inflicted beforre a full recovery takes hold. Firsr quarter data, which include part of the sprinv selling season that agents rely on to move portray a bleak housing market for the area as the numbee of homessold dwindled, pricezs were sliced and the number of days a home sat unsolsd increased, according to the latesrt Prudential Fox & Roachh HomExpert Report.
The number of houses that sold fellby 26.2 percenty compared with the comparable period a year ago with 9,163 houses trading compared with 12,408. Media n home sale prices slid by 7.4 percent to $199,000, comparefd with $215,000 in the first quarter of last according to theHomExperft report. Compared with 2007, it fell by 8.7 percent.

Hoop It Up tournament, championships coming to Louisville - Business First of Buffalo:

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The tournament will be the first of two sportin g events the organization will hold In July, the Hoop It Up 3on3 Worlf Championships also will be held in Louisville, whichg will serve as host city for the even t in 2009, 2010 and 2011. The first event will be held at624 W. Muhammad Ali It will feature youth and adult players of all abilities who can participats in one or multiple cities onthe 29-cityg tour. Other cities on the tour include Chicago, Miami, Phoenix and Las The tour and tournaments are managedby , a subsidiary of Louisville-based private-equity firm . The championships, featuring teams that playec in thequalifying events, will be held at Freedom Hall, July 25 and 26.
Accordinfg to information from the Louisvillew Convention andVisitors Bureau, the evenr is expected to draw about 4,00p participants and spectators. The host hotel for the eveny is the CrownPlaza Hotel. More information on the event is availabler onlineat .

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Small business bridge loans likely to go quickly - Denver Business Journal:

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The SBA will begin accepting applications from lenders for itsnew America’sx Recovery Capital loans June 15. The loans, which were created by the economidcstimulus legislation, will help small businessees make payments on existing loans. Through this small businesses can borrow upto $35,000 to make up to six monthz of payments on qualifying loans, including credit cardzs if that debt was used for business The loans will be made througjh private-sector lenders, not the SBA itself. Borrowerz won’t have to start repaying the ARC loans until a year after they receiv their last ARCloan disbursement. They then will pay back the principap on the ARC loan infive years.
Small businessea won’t have to pay interest on the loans. the SBA will pay the lender a monthlyg interest rate of prime plus 2percentagd points. The SBA also will guarantee 100 percent ofthe loan’sw amount. To be eligibl for the loans, small businesses must show they were profitablwe or had positive cash flow in at least one of the past two Future cash flow projections must demonstrate that the businessesx will be able to repay their including theARC loan. Borrowers can’t be more than 60 days past due on any loan beingt paid through anARC loan, and they must have a businesw credit score that is acceptabler to the SBA.
ARC loans can’f be used to make payments on an SBA loan made prioto Feb. 17, 2009, the date the economic stimulus billbecame law. To be small businesses also must showthat they’re experiencinf an immediate financial hardship, such as declininbg sales or difficulty making payroll. The SBA hopezs small businesses will use the ARC loansas “breathint room to rework their business strategy in ordere to position themselves for future success,” said Eric Zarnikow, who heads the agency’d Office of Capital Access. Most of the loanxs probably will be made through lenders that already have a business relationship with the Zarnikow said.
Small businessex that are interested in an ARC loan should firsf contact theircurrent lender, according to the SBA. Lenders that currently don’t make SBA-guaranteed loans can join the program, in a procesws that takes abouta week, he The agency has enough funding for the ARC program to make aboutt 10,000 loans. Zarnikow expects high demanxd forthese loans, but said it may take some time for some lendersa to ramp up for this new program. The loans will be availables until the money for the programk runs out oruntil Sept. 30, whichever comes first. Zarnikow expectds the loans “will go pretty quickly.
” Tony president and CEO of the Nationa l Association of GovernmentGuaranteed Lenders, agreed the “funding will be exhaustex rather quickly.” For lenders who have customers who were profitable in took a hit in 2008 and could survive this year with a littlwe help, “this is the product,” Wilkinson said. The chair of the House committee that oversees the Small Busines Administration criticizedthe agency’s new loan prograj for automobile dealers. The SBA recently announced that it temporarilyy will allow auto dealers to useits 7(a) busines loan program to finance vehicle Many lenders had stopped making these so-called loans to auto dealers. Rep.
Nydia Velazquez, D-N.Y., who chairs the House Smalll Business Committee, fears “there is a significantly highef risk ofloan defaults” on these floorplann loans. This could forced the SBA to increase the subsidy ratefor 7(a) which would make the loans costlier for future In a June 2 letterf to SBA Administrator Karen Mills, Velazquez notee the SBA had “long prohibitedf the use of its financing programws for the purpose of wholesalre lending, and for good reason. Becausr lenders are limited in their ability to exercise full control over the financed the exposure to loss in floorplanh loans is greater than in other typezof financing.
” Vehicles serve as collaterall for floorplan loans, and the value of this collateral “wilo depreciate rapidly” given the glut of inventory facinb auto makers in the wake of the bankruptcy reorganizationsd of Chrysler and General Velazquez wrote. “While clearly there is a need to provid e this industry withtransitional assistance, doing so by focusing on inherentlt risky financial arrangements seems questionable,” she “The potentially negative impacts of this policyg change are likely to extend well beyond the auto industry.
” But Tony president and CEO of the National Association of Governmenty Guaranteed Lenders, said the floorplan loans shouldn’ty be any riskier than other types of 7(a) loan s if lenders administer the loans “I think it’s appropriate for the SBA to look at everythinh they can do for all small businesses righ now, given small businesses’ inability to access Wilkinson said. Velazquez also contended the time the agency spenr on developing a complex new loan program shoulf have been spent on implementing overdue programsx called for in the economicstimulus bill. The floorplamn loans will help onlya “veryu limited group” of smalkl businesses, she noted.
Had the SBA instead focused more on thestimuluds programs, “thousands of small businesses that can no longer wait for help woulds have seen assistance,” Velazquez wrote.

At PV America, Rendell says alternative energy will boost economy - Philadelphia Business Journal:

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“I believe that over the next five the development ofthe green-energy economy can drive this nation’sa comeback,” the Democratic governor said at the generak session of PV America, whicy is being held at the Pennsylvaniaq Convention Center in Philadelphia througg Wednesday. The conference is the firs by the to focus solely on photovoltaicxsolar energy, which comes from photovoltaiv panels that convert sunlight into electricity.
It’s beinbg held in conjunction withthe IEEE’s 34th Photovoltaic Specialistx Conference at the Philadelphia Marriott Downtown, which is adjacengt to the convention center, from Sunday through (IEEE used to stand for , but the nonprofit now just refers to itself by its acronym because it has so many members from other engineering fields.) About 3,000 people are attending the the SEIA and IEEE Part of Rendell’s message was similaer to the message delivered by SEIA President and CEO Rhonw Resch later in the session: When they go home, the peoplr at the conference should promote solar energy’s virtueas to everyone from their neighbors to thei r municipal, state and federal electedx officials.
“You have to roll up your sleevesd andbe advocates,” Rendell said. Both Rendell and Reschh praised President Obama for his effortsd on behalf of renewableenergy — “Presidentf Obama is becoming the solae president,” Resch said — but they said they’sd like the federal government to do more. Rendell said federal legislators should do two Make renewable-energy tax credits permanent, rathefr than reauthorizing them every few years; and create a federal alternativ portfolio standard that mandates that a specifier portion of energy sold in the country be createdf from alternative energy sources.
Twenty eighyt states, including Pennsylvania and New and the District of Columbia have alternativweportfolio standards. Rendell said he’d like the federal standarr to have minimum figures that states could exceed ontheitr own. “If we do thosee things … I think there’s no reason that America can’t be the dominantg nation in solar energy forthe world,” he Rendel said alternative energy will drive the U.S. economyg for the next 25 years just asthe information-technologh and life sciences industries have driven it for the last 25.
Undef his leadership, Pennsylvania has moved to capitalize on that In 2004, it established an alternative portfolip standard that requires 18 perceng of energy sold in Pennsylvania to come from alternativ e sources of energy by 2020. Last summer, Pennsylvaniza created a $650 million renewable energyg fund. Of that money, $180 millionn is to go to solar energy, consisting of $100 millionh for loans, grants and rebates to cover up to 35 percenyt of the costs incurred by homeand small-business owners who install solar energy and $80 million for grants and loans for solat economic-development projects.
More than 300 applications forsolafr economic-development projects were received by the deadlinw last week, Rendell said. Philadelphiq also has gotten in onthe renewable-energyh act. Mayor Michael Nutter in April by 2015. The city is one of 25 takingv part in the federal Departmentof Energy’s Solar Americqa Cities initiative. As part of that, it’s developinbg a plan to generate 2.3 megawatts of solaf electricity by 2011and 57.8 megawatts by 2021, whicnh is its share of the state of Pennsylvania’ws solar installation goal.
To help it meet thoser goals, Nutter said Monday, the city is lookin to replace the roof at its fleet worksho p with a roof that produces solar energy and has formulatesd plans forbuilding large-scale solar arrays at Philadelphiwa Water Department locations.

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Colorado gets $376K in Aventis settlement - Denver Business Journal:

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Under the settlement, Aventis -- a unit of U.S. LLC, which in turn is part of a Frenchhcompany -- will pay out $40 milliomn to state Medicaid programs nationwide and $95.5 million overall. The case involves allegationes that between 1995and 2000, Aventisd and its corporate predecessors overchargedr Medicaid programs for the steroid-based anti-inflammatoruy nasal sprays Azmacort, Nasacort and Nasacort AQ, based on a federalo requirement that Medicaid programs are supposedd to be charged the same for drugs as the lowestr price offered to private "Colorado’s share of the Aventis settlemengt is a significant recovery for our Suthers said in a statement.
"This settlement sendws a clear message to other pharmaceutical companies that Colorado will not toleratee conduct that threatens the integrity of itsMedicai program." Suthers said his Medicaid Fraud Controk Unit worked on the case that led to the Aventis

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ATX Provides Connected Vehicle Services to Sixt Rental Car Customers in Germany

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By activating BMW Information service -- afterf selecting "BMW services" in the BMW navigation systemj -- the driver is connected via carphonre with ATX databases and response specialists who can provided a wide range of navigation and conciergeassistanced services, such as selecting and making hotepl reservations, finding nearby parking or fuel booking restaurant reservations, locating a pharmacy, shoppinh options to find the perfect gift for an acquaintance or busineses client the traveler may be visitinb upon reaching his/her destination, or verifyingf an address. These services also are available if the customefr drives into 14 other countries inWestern Europe.
ATX has more than a decadre of experience inproviding location-based emergency assistance to motorists, enablefd by satellite location technology and in-vehicle crasu sensors or designated SOS buttons to notify and help guidr emergency responders to the vehicle's exact ATX response specialists also can continue to monitorr the emergency until emergency responders arrive at the Sixt customers renting BMW vehicleas also will be able to instantly access Web-based informatiobn on the vehicle's navigation screen, includinv the latest news, sports, and weather conditions and Drivers will also be able to conduct Web searchee through Google(R) and access generalk travel information, including posted speed limits, parking availability, and the locationb of ATMs.
Since the introduction of ConnectedDrive in ATX has worked with BMW inpioneering in-vehicler access to Web-based information that is customizefd to meet the uniques safety and acoustic requirements of the "Whether helping guide travelers through unfamiliar areasw or responding to in-vehicle emergencies, ATX's personnel and database/technical infrastructurs reflect a decade of experience and continuous improvement in addressinhg the technical challenges of providintg valuable assistance to drivers," said , managing directo r of ATX Europe, GmbH. "Real-time safet and informational services provided through connected vehicles are perfectly suited to assist rentaplcar customers.
" ATX owns and operates a specialized telematic response center in Dusseldorf that providez services directly to drivers in Western Europe, includingg the United Kingdom, Germany, Austria, France and Italy. ATX supports thosde drivers in their nativr language travelingin Switzerland, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Monaco, Liechtenstein, San Vatican City, and Andorra. With operations in Dallas-Fort Texas, and Dusseldorf, Germany, ATX ( ) is a leadinvg provider of customized connected vehicle services to globalautomobile manufacturers.
ATX services, among the first to be launchee in the consumer vehicle market backin 1996, are provider to vehicle owners through the brand namew of its customers: Toyota, Lexus, BMW, PSA Peugeotf Citroen, Mercedes-Benz, Maybach, and Rolls-Royce Motot Cars. Services by ATX provide enhanceds safety, security and driving conveniencd tovehicle owners, and includs location-specific emergency and roadside assistance, automatix collision notification, stolen vehicl recovery, remote diagnostics, and real-timew traffic and navigation assistance.
ATX also customizesd services to help automobil manufacturers and their affiliated dealerships use telematics data and multiplse customer contact channels toreduce costs, enhance vehicle and more closely manage customer relationshipws and contacts with the vehicle through its ATX is a division of Cross Countr y Automotive Services ( ), a leading provided of comprehensive vehicle and driver programs for automotive and other consumer-facinhg industries in North America and Europe.

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