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Co-owners Janelle and Clint Myers are now working onthe company’s first projects since formally launching in Septemberf 2008. The company is actinbg as an environmental consultant tothe $324 milliomn Lincoln highway bypass project and it has contractsd with the Nevada Irrigation District in Grass Valley. The self-funded, woman-owned Sacramento business is focused mainly on publidcworks jobs. In additionh to project managementand consulting, MCS provide s storm water management and engineering services. MCS executive vice presidenr Clint Myers said what sets MCS aparr from traditional consulting companies isthe principals’ experience in the constructionh industry.
Not a lot of consultants have suchan expertise, he “We’re hoping that we can fill that he added. MCS has $100,000 in backloyg work. The company expects to be profitables in the first quarterof 2010. Myeras said MCS can help companies that once framedhouses — work that has dried up in the regionm and across the country explore other opportunities, such as publicc contracts. The state wants to build more highwa yrest areas, for example, he said.
Janeller Myers’ experience in the industryu dates back to 1990 when she helped starrta woman-owned highway constructioj company focused on building barrier rails in California, Nevada and New She was on the board of directors untilo the company was sold to Rancho Cordova-based , her husband’s firm, in 2006. Clint Myers worked as an engineer and project managerfor C.C. Myerx before going back to school fora master’s degrere in real estate development at the . After receiving his the younger Myersran Today, C.C. homebuilding companies — Myers Homes Inc.
, Myers Homes of Californiaz LLC (licensed in Nevada) and several subsidiaries — are estimated to be worth nothingh due to the depressedhousing market. C.C. Myers majority owned by its is a creditor in the Chapter 7 personakl bankruptcy filedby C.C. Myers last year. In these tougyh economic times, Clint Myersa said MCS plans to help companies and governmenf agencies find creative ways toremovre “fat” from their budgets and, on the environmental come up with “solutions that are more economically friendlt while still preserving the quality habitat that California has come to When the economy was strong, a developer lookinh to get a project approved for example, buy expensive mitigationm credits to destroy a wetlansd on a project site in ordere to speed it up.
But Myerd said MCS could help such a developert find a less expensive such as keeping the wetlancd and working with the city to increase the lot MCS will compete for environmental consultingg jobs with companies suchas , a Sacramento-basedr subsidiary of The company declined to commenf on the new venture. Web site went live last and it has Facebook andLinkedIn profiles, Clint Myeres said. “The people you have to appeak to for construction contracts are getting youngereand younger,” he “We’re trying to find different ways to connect to thosew people.” For now, the company has two and a wildlife biologist on contract.
MCS plansx to hire a business development manager for marketing andpreparingf proposals. When it comes to business MCS will tap people who are retirexor semi-retired from the field. “With the family beinv in the construction industry forso long, there are a variety of people that we’ved known over the years who are now retiree who are looking for something to Clint Myers said. “Our combined with people we’re able to bring in, can give us the abilityu to do somefairly high-end consultinfg for businesses wanting to grow or Consultants also can assist companies transitioninyg from one generation to the next.
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No deal on teacher evaluation system - New York Daily News
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New York Daily News | No deal on teacher evaluation system New York Daily News Andrew Cuomo pushed for a deal on statewide teacher evaluations but was forced to go with Plan B, the Daily News has learned. ALBANY â€" A determined Gov. Cuomo held “serious discussions†with union officials as he pushed for a deal on a statewide ... I'll Cuo i t alone on teachers Invoking King, Cuomo and Bloomberg Stoke Fight on Teacher Review Impasse Evaluations of teachers, risk of fund loss collide |
воскресенье, 15 января 2012 г.
Stanford Medical School nets $6.9M in federal stimulus funding - Philadelphia Business Journal:
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million in federal economic stimulusd funding. Eleven of the newly funded projects hadbeen peer-revieweds and approved but hadn’t received money yet. Anothee six involved supplemental grants toexistinh projects. And in one the NIH awarded $500,00p to a researcher to buy two photonh microscopes that will be shared withothefr laboratories. These projects are the first at the medicalk school to receive support undefr theObama administration’s nationak stimulus plan, with additional grantxs expected down the road, officials said. “Thiss is a lifesaver,” said Francis M.D., associate professor of radiology andof pediatrics, who receive $655,000 in stimulus funds.
“It really stabilizes the Philip Pizzo, M.D., dean of the School of said the stimulus funding is critical tothe country’sz health-care reform effort because of the linkage betwee n research and medical care. “After six yearsz of NIH funding that constantly lost its value againsrinflation — with a profoundly negativs impact on our nation’s prized biomedical research enterprisd — the stimulus funding is helping to take researcjh off life support and breathe new hope for work that we hope will ultimatelty improve the lives of adults and Pizzo said in the June 16
million in federal economic stimulusd funding. Eleven of the newly funded projects hadbeen peer-revieweds and approved but hadn’t received money yet. Anothee six involved supplemental grants toexistinh projects. And in one the NIH awarded $500,00p to a researcher to buy two photonh microscopes that will be shared withothefr laboratories. These projects are the first at the medicalk school to receive support undefr theObama administration’s nationak stimulus plan, with additional grantxs expected down the road, officials said. “Thiss is a lifesaver,” said Francis M.D., associate professor of radiology andof pediatrics, who receive $655,000 in stimulus funds.
“It really stabilizes the Philip Pizzo, M.D., dean of the School of said the stimulus funding is critical tothe country’sz health-care reform effort because of the linkage betwee n research and medical care. “After six yearsz of NIH funding that constantly lost its value againsrinflation — with a profoundly negativs impact on our nation’s prized biomedical research enterprisd — the stimulus funding is helping to take researcjh off life support and breathe new hope for work that we hope will ultimatelty improve the lives of adults and Pizzo said in the June 16
четверг, 12 января 2012 г.
Puget Sound-area 787 parts makers expressing relief after two-year delay - Houston Business Journal:
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It’s a big relief for local companies that interruptesd manufacturing plansfor Boeing’s new aircraft when the 787’e production problems arose in the summer of 2007. Restarting locaol production of parts and assemblieds for the 787 will bring new activity and jobs to a statse industry that is facing lowefr production rates for someof Boeing’sd older models, including the 777 and 747.
Boeing currently has 866 orders forthe 787, a recordr for an aircraft that hasn’t although the order book has slid this “We’re all going to be happy when it That would mark the start of the officialp ramp-up, and the health of the prograkm being able to finally move said Kevin Steck, chairman of the , the region’s leadingt aerospace industry group. Steck also is vice presidenf of business developmentfor , a Kent-based division of owner of Boeing rival Airbus. To be the resumption in parts manufacturingis spotty, dependingy on the destinations of the parts and and on how long the 787 production was shut down.
How loca suppliers are responding to the approacg ofthe 787’s first flight also reflectas the new global production model, which depends on outsids prime contractors to buildr major airframe sections around the world so that Boeintg can assemble them into an aircraft in Everett. Bob Boeing vice president of 787 Supplier said he believes there are aboug 30 significant companies supplying the 787 in adding that the long production hiatu is nearingan end. “The phenomena you’re seeinf is the demand signals are starting to get back to and they’re starting to get signals to make he said.
“I would expecg that all suppliers, including thosed located locally, are starting to move or preparinbg to startto move.” Noble said lower-tier companies are startingg production sooner, because they must finish their parts beforer the pieces can be integrated into assemblies by companiesa farther up the assembly chain. “Ag the end of the line, you’re starting to get a signak to startmarking parts,” he “The timing and rate depends on a particular supplier’z position in the production system and the amount of inventorgy currently available.
” Reflecting the complicated supply chain, in Kent is one companty that will be simultaneously supplying the same part to Boeing’s prime contractors in Asia and to Boeing itself. Cascade is resuminf productionof “clamp blocks,” plastic brackets that hold hydraulic lines into the aircrafgt hull. Each 787 will use 1,500 At the same Cascade is starting testing of anew injection-moldingy machine it installed to meet demand for clamp blockw when the 787 enters full Cascade invested nearly $4 million in the new machineryt and a section of its factory to housr it, said Mike Moran, general “All indications are they want us to commence buildingh in August,” he said.
“We’re gettinv ready to start rolling hereright away.” In three weeks ago resumed milling and shipping large titaniuj parts to Korean Airlines Aerospace after a yearlong hiatus, said Dave CEO of Precision. The Korean company, a manufacturing subsidiaruy ofKorean Airlines, makes largr airframe sections for the 787, and needsx the titanium parts to tie those sections to the rest of the 787 Baublits said. Baublits said he expects Precision’as business to rise about 7 percentthis year, althoughy this is less than the 17 percent or 18 percent growth the companh had expected before the recession.
“We’rs staying pretty flat on peoplebecause we’re watching our he said, adding that the companty now employs 165. While critics, especially union leaders, have complained that the two-year delay shows that Boeing’ss outsourced production model for the 787 has the company is sticking with the tacti c of moving more responsibilityy and production tolargse suppliers. “This was an enormous said Noble, the Boeint vice president, adding that many of the problems came from how new theaircraf is, not from anything inherent in the system “We have not materially changeed the production systems for the 787.
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It’s a big relief for local companies that interruptesd manufacturing plansfor Boeing’s new aircraft when the 787’e production problems arose in the summer of 2007. Restarting locaol production of parts and assemblieds for the 787 will bring new activity and jobs to a statse industry that is facing lowefr production rates for someof Boeing’sd older models, including the 777 and 747.
Boeing currently has 866 orders forthe 787, a recordr for an aircraft that hasn’t although the order book has slid this “We’re all going to be happy when it That would mark the start of the officialp ramp-up, and the health of the prograkm being able to finally move said Kevin Steck, chairman of the , the region’s leadingt aerospace industry group. Steck also is vice presidenf of business developmentfor , a Kent-based division of owner of Boeing rival Airbus. To be the resumption in parts manufacturingis spotty, dependingy on the destinations of the parts and and on how long the 787 production was shut down.
How loca suppliers are responding to the approacg ofthe 787’s first flight also reflectas the new global production model, which depends on outsids prime contractors to buildr major airframe sections around the world so that Boeintg can assemble them into an aircraft in Everett. Bob Boeing vice president of 787 Supplier said he believes there are aboug 30 significant companies supplying the 787 in adding that the long production hiatu is nearingan end. “The phenomena you’re seeinf is the demand signals are starting to get back to and they’re starting to get signals to make he said.
“I would expecg that all suppliers, including thosed located locally, are starting to move or preparinbg to startto move.” Noble said lower-tier companies are startingg production sooner, because they must finish their parts beforer the pieces can be integrated into assemblies by companiesa farther up the assembly chain. “Ag the end of the line, you’re starting to get a signak to startmarking parts,” he “The timing and rate depends on a particular supplier’z position in the production system and the amount of inventorgy currently available.
” Reflecting the complicated supply chain, in Kent is one companty that will be simultaneously supplying the same part to Boeing’s prime contractors in Asia and to Boeing itself. Cascade is resuminf productionof “clamp blocks,” plastic brackets that hold hydraulic lines into the aircrafgt hull. Each 787 will use 1,500 At the same Cascade is starting testing of anew injection-moldingy machine it installed to meet demand for clamp blockw when the 787 enters full Cascade invested nearly $4 million in the new machineryt and a section of its factory to housr it, said Mike Moran, general “All indications are they want us to commence buildingh in August,” he said.
“We’re gettinv ready to start rolling hereright away.” In three weeks ago resumed milling and shipping large titaniuj parts to Korean Airlines Aerospace after a yearlong hiatus, said Dave CEO of Precision. The Korean company, a manufacturing subsidiaruy ofKorean Airlines, makes largr airframe sections for the 787, and needsx the titanium parts to tie those sections to the rest of the 787 Baublits said. Baublits said he expects Precision’as business to rise about 7 percentthis year, althoughy this is less than the 17 percent or 18 percent growth the companh had expected before the recession.
“We’rs staying pretty flat on peoplebecause we’re watching our he said, adding that the companty now employs 165. While critics, especially union leaders, have complained that the two-year delay shows that Boeing’ss outsourced production model for the 787 has the company is sticking with the tacti c of moving more responsibilityy and production tolargse suppliers. “This was an enormous said Noble, the Boeint vice president, adding that many of the problems came from how new theaircraf is, not from anything inherent in the system “We have not materially changeed the production systems for the 787.
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вторник, 10 января 2012 г.
Kentucky natural gas costs decline - Business First of Louisville:
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The latest natural gas cost adjustment approvesd by the forthe state’s five largest natural gas distributiojn utilities, shows an average decline of $1.10 per 1,000 cubic feet betweenb November and February, the PSC said in a news Dallas-based ; Lexington, Ky.-basedd of Kentucky Inc.; Winchester, Ky.-basefd Inc.; ; and , are the state’xs five largest natural gas suppliers in the Together, the companies serve more than 750,000 Kentucky customers and deliver abou t 176 billion cubic feet of naturap gas per year. A typical customer using 10,000o cubic feet of natural gas per montyh willpay $11 less than they did threes months ago.
In February, customerxs of the state’s five largest paid an averageof $11.60 per 1,000 cubic feet of natura l gas, compared with $11.70 per 1,000 cubic feet in The cost remains up, however, from the averagew of $9.63 per thousand cubic feet customerz paid a year ago, the PSC said. The which regulates utilitiesin Kentucky, said that base on filings it has received from various the cost of natural gas likely will decline agaihn in March.
“These declines show that the downturmn in the wholesale price of natural gas is makinhg its wayto consumers,” PSC chairmab David Armstrong said in the “If wholesale prices remain low, consumers shoulc see further decreases in their costs in the cominbg months.” By federal law, natural gas pricea are not regulated at the wholesale level and fluctuate with supply and demand, the PSC said in the Under Kentucky law, gas companies are entitled to recover the wholesal cost of the gas delivered to their including the fees they pay to interstated pipelines to transport the gas to their retail distribution systems.
Wholesale prices peaked in the summer of when natural gas distributors were storinhg natural gas for use during the winterfheating season.
The latest natural gas cost adjustment approvesd by the forthe state’s five largest natural gas distributiojn utilities, shows an average decline of $1.10 per 1,000 cubic feet betweenb November and February, the PSC said in a news Dallas-based ; Lexington, Ky.-basedd of Kentucky Inc.; Winchester, Ky.-basefd Inc.; ; and , are the state’xs five largest natural gas suppliers in the Together, the companies serve more than 750,000 Kentucky customers and deliver abou t 176 billion cubic feet of naturap gas per year. A typical customer using 10,000o cubic feet of natural gas per montyh willpay $11 less than they did threes months ago.
In February, customerxs of the state’s five largest paid an averageof $11.60 per 1,000 cubic feet of natura l gas, compared with $11.70 per 1,000 cubic feet in The cost remains up, however, from the averagew of $9.63 per thousand cubic feet customerz paid a year ago, the PSC said. The which regulates utilitiesin Kentucky, said that base on filings it has received from various the cost of natural gas likely will decline agaihn in March.
“These declines show that the downturmn in the wholesale price of natural gas is makinhg its wayto consumers,” PSC chairmab David Armstrong said in the “If wholesale prices remain low, consumers shoulc see further decreases in their costs in the cominbg months.” By federal law, natural gas pricea are not regulated at the wholesale level and fluctuate with supply and demand, the PSC said in the Under Kentucky law, gas companies are entitled to recover the wholesal cost of the gas delivered to their including the fees they pay to interstated pipelines to transport the gas to their retail distribution systems.
Wholesale prices peaked in the summer of when natural gas distributors were storinhg natural gas for use during the winterfheating season.
воскресенье, 8 января 2012 г.
Penske losing Big Lots logistics contract - Portland Business Journal:
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is packing up this summedr at thediscount retailer’s headquarters and four othee distribution facilities after the merchant opted to not renewa a logistics contract that expires in July. The Pa.-based Penske said 186 workers, including 53 in could be affected when its contract with Columbus-based Big Lots expires July 31. Penske spokesman Randyh Ryerson said the company has worked with the retailersince 1991. The 1,300-store Big Lots has chosen a new third-partyg logistics provider to continue the warehousing and distribution work that Penskwe performed atthe retailer’s Phillipi Road headquarters and its distribution centers in Pa; Montgomery, Ala.; Ranchpo Cucamonga, Calif.
; and Durant, Okla. Timothy Big Lots’ vice president of strategic planning andinvestor relations, said more than a dozenb carriers bid for the work. He declined to disclose the companyh Big Lots selected tosucceed Penske. Big Lots and Penske representativezssaid they’re working with truck drivers looking to continu e work under the new logistics provider. Johnson said the compangy met with workers over the weekensd to introduce thenew contractor. In the event that some workerssare cut, Ryerson said privately held Pensk will work with the state “to make sure employees are aware of different services.” Penske employs about 20,000 workerds worldwide.
Asked why Big Lots optexd to bid for a new contractor afterf thelatest five-year contract with Penske, Johnson “a lot has changed in transportatiojn in the past five years. We owed it to our associatez and shareholders to take a fresg look at how we handle outbound The loss of the Big Lots contract comes less than a year aftetr Penske was replaced at a warehouswin Lockbourne. Chattanooga, Tenn.-based last fall stepped in at the where Penske had employede146 workers. Penske has 400 logisticw centers worldwide. Its Central Ohio operations include a number of distributionb and warehousing facilities inthe region.
is packing up this summedr at thediscount retailer’s headquarters and four othee distribution facilities after the merchant opted to not renewa a logistics contract that expires in July. The Pa.-based Penske said 186 workers, including 53 in could be affected when its contract with Columbus-based Big Lots expires July 31. Penske spokesman Randyh Ryerson said the company has worked with the retailersince 1991. The 1,300-store Big Lots has chosen a new third-partyg logistics provider to continue the warehousing and distribution work that Penskwe performed atthe retailer’s Phillipi Road headquarters and its distribution centers in Pa; Montgomery, Ala.; Ranchpo Cucamonga, Calif.
; and Durant, Okla. Timothy Big Lots’ vice president of strategic planning andinvestor relations, said more than a dozenb carriers bid for the work. He declined to disclose the companyh Big Lots selected tosucceed Penske. Big Lots and Penske representativezssaid they’re working with truck drivers looking to continu e work under the new logistics provider. Johnson said the compangy met with workers over the weekensd to introduce thenew contractor. In the event that some workerssare cut, Ryerson said privately held Pensk will work with the state “to make sure employees are aware of different services.” Penske employs about 20,000 workerds worldwide.
Asked why Big Lots optexd to bid for a new contractor afterf thelatest five-year contract with Penske, Johnson “a lot has changed in transportatiojn in the past five years. We owed it to our associatez and shareholders to take a fresg look at how we handle outbound The loss of the Big Lots contract comes less than a year aftetr Penske was replaced at a warehouswin Lockbourne. Chattanooga, Tenn.-based last fall stepped in at the where Penske had employede146 workers. Penske has 400 logisticw centers worldwide. Its Central Ohio operations include a number of distributionb and warehousing facilities inthe region.
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