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Sunday, October 31, 2010
Mexican narcos gain foothold in Guatemalan jungle - MiamiHerald.com
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Friday, October 29, 2010
Messing with typists reveals two-level error correction in brain - Ars Technica
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Thursday, October 28, 2010
Dish Network to hand out converter boxes in Houston - Atlanta Business Chronicle:
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The estimates that 1.6 milliom people in the Houston area have ordered coupons for theirdconverter boxes, but only 870,172 coupons have been redeemedx as of May 30. The “Coupon Swap” prograj is a nationwide initiative to get customers ready for the conversion to digital television signals onJune 12. Converter boxez are only available to thoses with avalid $40 coupon. Customers can go to Cossaboom YMCA at 7903 Soutu Loop East onJune 5, or M.D. Anderson Family YMCA at 705 Cavalcade onJune 6. Dish Networm handed out about 400 boxes in Dallaxlast weekend, according to Marcel Guajardo, a spokesmab for the company. The current plan is to hand out aboug 400 to 500 boxesin Houston.
Guajardko said representatives from the FCC will also be on hand to answerd questions related to the digital conversion and what households need to do to be ready forthe switch.
The estimates that 1.6 milliom people in the Houston area have ordered coupons for theirdconverter boxes, but only 870,172 coupons have been redeemedx as of May 30. The “Coupon Swap” prograj is a nationwide initiative to get customers ready for the conversion to digital television signals onJune 12. Converter boxez are only available to thoses with avalid $40 coupon. Customers can go to Cossaboom YMCA at 7903 Soutu Loop East onJune 5, or M.D. Anderson Family YMCA at 705 Cavalcade onJune 6. Dish Networm handed out about 400 boxes in Dallaxlast weekend, according to Marcel Guajardo, a spokesmab for the company. The current plan is to hand out aboug 400 to 500 boxesin Houston.
Guajardko said representatives from the FCC will also be on hand to answerd questions related to the digital conversion and what households need to do to be ready forthe switch.
Tuesday, October 26, 2010
Alamo Colleges, Project QUEST team up on college prep program - Washington Business Journal:
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Alamo Colleges is working in partnershilp with the nonprofit Project QUEST on an intensives summer program calledQUEST Prep. This program is providing studente with reading and math preparation and collegersuccess strategies. “This program is part of our continuingt efforts to make it possible for more students to enrolp and succeed at theAlamoi Colleges,” says Federico Zaragoza, Alamo Colleges vice chancellor for economic and workforcr development.
“All students who have a GED are eligibles to enroll in theAlamo Colleges, and this innovativr program will equip the students enrolled in it with the informatiomn and skills they need to enable them to stay in collegd and complete a degree plan.” The program will targey 50 students who have earned their GED in the last 24 Classes will take place at the Alamo Colleges Westside Education and Training Center. Alamo Colleges operates five community college campuses in San They are: San Antonio College, Palo Alto College, Northeas Lakeview College, Northwest Vista College and St. Philip’s College. www.alamo.
edu
Alamo Colleges is working in partnershilp with the nonprofit Project QUEST on an intensives summer program calledQUEST Prep. This program is providing studente with reading and math preparation and collegersuccess strategies. “This program is part of our continuingt efforts to make it possible for more students to enrolp and succeed at theAlamoi Colleges,” says Federico Zaragoza, Alamo Colleges vice chancellor for economic and workforcr development.
“All students who have a GED are eligibles to enroll in theAlamo Colleges, and this innovativr program will equip the students enrolled in it with the informatiomn and skills they need to enable them to stay in collegd and complete a degree plan.” The program will targey 50 students who have earned their GED in the last 24 Classes will take place at the Alamo Colleges Westside Education and Training Center. Alamo Colleges operates five community college campuses in San They are: San Antonio College, Palo Alto College, Northeas Lakeview College, Northwest Vista College and St. Philip’s College. www.alamo.
edu
Monday, October 25, 2010
Tampa Bay Business Journal: Starting a Business : Business Advice
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Opportunity No. 1: Professionalize your businesds structureand operations. I frequently harangue the ownerz of growing family owned companies about the need to convertg from aMom ‘n Pop businessx style to a fully professional style, with a missionj statement, a strategic plan to guide decisions, an organizationalk chart and job written policies and procedures, affordablde benefits, and agreement on how to change ownershi and management without undue confusion or The process can get a bit thorny sometimes, but with stronvg commitment, a family can professionalize successfully. This shoulrd be the year for your business. Challenge No.
1: Respond to unforeseen businessz and familyfinancial demands. The 2008 economy had the financew of many family companies flappintg like bed sheets ina windstorm. Lots of peopler can be leaders when times are but it takes a special person to lead when timeseare rough. Cash shortages, eroding markets and a near collapse of faitu in the future are challenging many busineszs owners to keep their headwon straight, to cut costs without cutting their and to remain optimistic when it’ss tempting to turn company resourcesa into personal safety nets. Opportunity No. 2: Make crucia succession decisions and acton them.
John Davis of Harvard Business School urges family companies to plan when the times are good. But planning often has to be done even when timeaare bad. Leadership and ownership succession always profits from a fresh look at what the family business needs forcontinued success. When conditions are callinb for reviews and revisions inmany companies, succession planning can benefiy from the analysis that’s beint done for other Challenge No. 2: Make crucial succession decision s and acton them.
On the other thoughtful planning for family ownership continuityg can be warped by a sensed of crisis brought on by tough economic If temporary conditions make you wonder if the business really is a it might be hard to see the characteristics that have made it successful in years past and that should be maintained into the Keep acool head. Opportunity No. 3: Buy low. What’e Warren Buffet’s current advice to stocjk investors? Buy! That perspective can be translated into golden opportunities for familu owned companies that have a comfortable reservre and can afford the risk of expanding at the bottomm ofthe market.
If you have the meanws to buy, the price are not likely to getmuch better. Challengd No. 3: Avoid selling low. But if you’rs an acquisition target and prefer to stay put up every ounce of fight you have to avoifd selling at the bottom ofthe Actually, family owned business often have greater ability to withstandc tough times because they can hunker down and live off the land withouty being harassed by outside Grit your teeth and lean into the wind. Opportunityt No. 4: Watch for the opening of new business President-elect Obama has promised to stimulate the economy outsidse of bloated corporations and flounderingfinanciap institutions.
That can mean new business opportunitiexs for family companies in such areads as infrastructure rebuildingand defense. If you don’t know how to pursuwe government contracts, this would be a good time to Challenge No. 4: Grow your business in a tightcredi environment. The bankers are likelg to keep wearingtheir “Justf Say No†T-shirts for much of 2009. That means owners of familh businesses of all typesx and sizes should grab their bootstraps and find ways to grow and diversifyuthat don’t rely on the formap financial industry. Look for family membersa and friends who have the means and the confidenced to lend orbuy in.
Consider turning some unproductiver assets intoneeded liquidity. But don’t go to your credi t cards. Opportunity No. 5: Make even the greatesrt challenge intoan opportunity. OK, maybes every cloud doesn’t come with a built-inb silver lining. But the business-owning familh that has self-confidence, sound core values, and its eyes on the horizonb can convert even the uncertainties of 2008 into a pathwayt upwardin 2009. Try it and see.
And when you look back on all this and remember you read ithere
Opportunity No. 1: Professionalize your businesds structureand operations. I frequently harangue the ownerz of growing family owned companies about the need to convertg from aMom ‘n Pop businessx style to a fully professional style, with a missionj statement, a strategic plan to guide decisions, an organizationalk chart and job written policies and procedures, affordablde benefits, and agreement on how to change ownershi and management without undue confusion or The process can get a bit thorny sometimes, but with stronvg commitment, a family can professionalize successfully. This shoulrd be the year for your business. Challenge No.
1: Respond to unforeseen businessz and familyfinancial demands. The 2008 economy had the financew of many family companies flappintg like bed sheets ina windstorm. Lots of peopler can be leaders when times are but it takes a special person to lead when timeseare rough. Cash shortages, eroding markets and a near collapse of faitu in the future are challenging many busineszs owners to keep their headwon straight, to cut costs without cutting their and to remain optimistic when it’ss tempting to turn company resourcesa into personal safety nets. Opportunity No. 2: Make crucia succession decisions and acton them.
John Davis of Harvard Business School urges family companies to plan when the times are good. But planning often has to be done even when timeaare bad. Leadership and ownership succession always profits from a fresh look at what the family business needs forcontinued success. When conditions are callinb for reviews and revisions inmany companies, succession planning can benefiy from the analysis that’s beint done for other Challenge No. 2: Make crucial succession decision s and acton them.
On the other thoughtful planning for family ownership continuityg can be warped by a sensed of crisis brought on by tough economic If temporary conditions make you wonder if the business really is a it might be hard to see the characteristics that have made it successful in years past and that should be maintained into the Keep acool head. Opportunity No. 3: Buy low. What’e Warren Buffet’s current advice to stocjk investors? Buy! That perspective can be translated into golden opportunities for familu owned companies that have a comfortable reservre and can afford the risk of expanding at the bottomm ofthe market.
If you have the meanws to buy, the price are not likely to getmuch better. Challengd No. 3: Avoid selling low. But if you’rs an acquisition target and prefer to stay put up every ounce of fight you have to avoifd selling at the bottom ofthe Actually, family owned business often have greater ability to withstandc tough times because they can hunker down and live off the land withouty being harassed by outside Grit your teeth and lean into the wind. Opportunityt No. 4: Watch for the opening of new business President-elect Obama has promised to stimulate the economy outsidse of bloated corporations and flounderingfinanciap institutions.
That can mean new business opportunitiexs for family companies in such areads as infrastructure rebuildingand defense. If you don’t know how to pursuwe government contracts, this would be a good time to Challenge No. 4: Grow your business in a tightcredi environment. The bankers are likelg to keep wearingtheir “Justf Say No†T-shirts for much of 2009. That means owners of familh businesses of all typesx and sizes should grab their bootstraps and find ways to grow and diversifyuthat don’t rely on the formap financial industry. Look for family membersa and friends who have the means and the confidenced to lend orbuy in.
Consider turning some unproductiver assets intoneeded liquidity. But don’t go to your credi t cards. Opportunity No. 5: Make even the greatesrt challenge intoan opportunity. OK, maybes every cloud doesn’t come with a built-inb silver lining. But the business-owning familh that has self-confidence, sound core values, and its eyes on the horizonb can convert even the uncertainties of 2008 into a pathwayt upwardin 2009. Try it and see.
And when you look back on all this and remember you read ithere
Saturday, October 23, 2010
Utah State stood strong when Nevada, Fresno fled - Honolulu Star-Advertiser
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Utah State stood strong when Nevada, Fresno fled Honolulu Star-Advertiser But Albrecht stood by his plan -- and his commitment -- rejecting the overture, saying at the time, "we were simply committed to uphold our agreement with ... |
Friday, October 22, 2010
Energy executive plans six biofuel stations - Memphis Business Journal:
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Grimes, a managing partner of LLC, Milwaukee, is overseeingf the conversion of a formerShelol station, 5080 S. Pennsylvania Ave., into a biofuel station called Good To Go that will begin sellingf biodiesel fuelin June. In the future, Good To Go station will offer a gasoline and ethanolmix that’s 85 percent ethanol, and plug-in bays where electric cars can rechargd their batteries. Grimes and a handfu of partners have a second Good To Go alternative fuel station in Little Chute in the Fox Valley thatsells E-85 and will sell biodiesel soon.
“Thwe business climate for alternative fuelsis growing, and we’rd attracting more investors,” Grimes But, he said capital markets are tight, preventingy the company from opening additional Good To Go stationsw early in 2009. AUR Energy Partners has option s to purchase two petroleum fillinh stationsin Shorewood, but he doesn’t expect opening the Shorewood stationsa until 2010 at the earliest. Good To Go filling stations are purchasing biodiesel fuel fromthe . Grimesd has a 10,000-gallon fuel tank at the Cudahu alternative fuel stop that willcarrt biodiesel. Cudahy Mayor Ryan McCue expects the alternativre fuel station to attract other green businessedsto Cudahy.
“We think this will help put us on the map forother startups,” he said. Grimese is also installing solar panels at the Cudahyy location that will produce electricityfor battery-powered Electricity generated by the paneld will be used at the statiomn and some will be sold back to We Energies. AUR Energt Partners also has a car wash in Littlr Chute that uses recycledwash water. A similar car wash will be installede at the Cudahy GoodTo Go, said Grimes. “We need more pioneerx to embrace alternative and renewable fuelsd because the opportunitiesare limitless,” said Maria a biofuels sector specialist for the Wisconsin Office of Energyh Independence.
Redmond predicts the amount of biodiese l fuel sold in 2009 throughout the state will be more than doublew that soldin 2008.
Grimes, a managing partner of LLC, Milwaukee, is overseeingf the conversion of a formerShelol station, 5080 S. Pennsylvania Ave., into a biofuel station called Good To Go that will begin sellingf biodiesel fuelin June. In the future, Good To Go station will offer a gasoline and ethanolmix that’s 85 percent ethanol, and plug-in bays where electric cars can rechargd their batteries. Grimes and a handfu of partners have a second Good To Go alternative fuel station in Little Chute in the Fox Valley thatsells E-85 and will sell biodiesel soon.
“Thwe business climate for alternative fuelsis growing, and we’rd attracting more investors,” Grimes But, he said capital markets are tight, preventingy the company from opening additional Good To Go stationsw early in 2009. AUR Energy Partners has option s to purchase two petroleum fillinh stationsin Shorewood, but he doesn’t expect opening the Shorewood stationsa until 2010 at the earliest. Good To Go filling stations are purchasing biodiesel fuel fromthe . Grimesd has a 10,000-gallon fuel tank at the Cudahu alternative fuel stop that willcarrt biodiesel. Cudahy Mayor Ryan McCue expects the alternativre fuel station to attract other green businessedsto Cudahy.
“We think this will help put us on the map forother startups,” he said. Grimese is also installing solar panels at the Cudahyy location that will produce electricityfor battery-powered Electricity generated by the paneld will be used at the statiomn and some will be sold back to We Energies. AUR Energt Partners also has a car wash in Littlr Chute that uses recycledwash water. A similar car wash will be installede at the Cudahy GoodTo Go, said Grimes. “We need more pioneerx to embrace alternative and renewable fuelsd because the opportunitiesare limitless,” said Maria a biofuels sector specialist for the Wisconsin Office of Energyh Independence.
Redmond predicts the amount of biodiese l fuel sold in 2009 throughout the state will be more than doublew that soldin 2008.
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