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UAB, Samford score nursing grants - Birmingham Business Journal:

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UAB will receive $175,513 while Samford will receive $43,16w as part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human $706,913 earmarked for Alabama universities for advanced educationnurswe traineeships. U.S. Sen. Richard R-Ala., a senior memberd of the SenateAppropriations Committee, sought federal fundsx for the state colleges. “Nurses are vitap to the American healthcare system,” Shelby said. the United States is in the midsty of anursing shortage, making it essential to recruirt more nurses and provide additional training and educationalo opportunities for them.
This importanrt funding will be used by Alabama universitiexs to provide advanced education traineeshipsfor • Auburn University - $5,261 • Jacksonvillr State University - $28,036 • University of Soutnh Alabama - $376,424 • Sprintg Hill College - $35,849 • Troy State University - $42,668

Q&A: New SBA Administrator Karen Mills on the stimulus - Triangle Business Journal:

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The former venture capitalist sat down with Washingtobn Bureau Chief Kent Hoover to talk aboutthe SBA’as role in America’s economic The following is an editedc transcript of their You’ve been on the job for five What has struck you most about the SBA and the role of government in supporting small business? For me, this is one of the most excitinhg places to be in any but in this administration everybody knowas this is the most important place to be.
I’vs really thought of this as threemajor priorities: The firsgt is to get the Recoveryg Act implemented — get the moneyh in the hands of small At this moment, when we have this much economidc distress, this is “making a money. And it’s alreadh out, and we’re seeing businessex where it’s made a difference. The second priority is to reinvigorateethe agency. This is an agency that in the past administrationn hadbudget reductions, had its personnel go from 3,00o0 to 2,000. But in fact, this is a It has an infrastructurwe ... that goes out to every all kinds ofgeographic areas. We have over 14,00p affiliated counselors.
We have the ability to be at any disaster anywhere in the We arethe on-the-ground people who have programs that touchu all kinds of small businesses. So we are goinh to try to invest in twooveralpl things: the people and the informatiohn technology, so that when we have all of thes touch points, we also have the data and the abilityy to manage it. We want to invest in our peoplew because we have terrific The last thing is that in thisenvironment it’z really not just about the SBA. It’z about small business across the Wehave many, many important polict discussions about small business coming up, healthj care, of course, automotive.
We just made an announcement that ended up beingy helpful toautomotive dealers, in termd of alternate size standard for 7(a) loans. And we have a very interesting and activee role in this whole discussion of whether it’s the or the . If you’rwe going to create jobs, a whole lot of them are goingy to be insmall business, so we are relevant and pulleds into all of these type of discussions. What do you see as your role in health care reform? As you know, health care concernds have come up to the No. 1 or No.
2 spot on everhy survey when you ask small Small businesses want to be able to provides health care because if you have a strong and loyalemployes base, you need to provide health care to them. They need to be insurerd for the welfare of the folks and also ofthe There’s all kinds of issues on affordability. Even for thosw who already supplyhealth care, small businesses are just reallu pressured by the rapid rises in these Solutions need to help this I think everybody is pretty focusec on that. We’ve been asked to be at the table. When will the $35,0000 business stabilization loans that were authorized in the economic stimulus billbecome available?
Actually, it’s imminent. We call them ARC It’s called America’s Recoveruy Capital. The image is this is the bridge overtroublefd waters. It’s supposed to be for “viable” businessexs — businesses that need some help todau to pay interest and principal on anexistinfg non-SBA loan. After the six months of payment, this ARC loan does not have to paid off at all for the next andthen there’s usually five years after that to repag them. It is going to be a lifeline for a number of businessesw to bridge them over theseetroubled waters. We expect there’zs going to be a great deal of interesgtin them.
We want to give creditf to our partners, the congressional committees that put this forware in theRecovery Act. We’re just delightedx to be able todo this. What sort of responsre are you gettingfrom lenders? Are they eager to be offering thesew loans? Eager. These are loans that help their loans. Thesde are for non-SBA loans. It’s very, very good for Since the stimulus bill’s higher government guarantee and fee reductions have gonein effect, you have had a rebounds in SBA lending. Are the 7(a) and 504 programds healthy again? Well, I’m a metrics person.
So it has been a greaft delight that the first set of metrics that we reallh decided to focus on show really tangibly that we got our moneu outthere fast, and it’ in the hands of banks, and banks are lendingg it. And it is making a difference.

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J.G. Wentworth bankruptcy hearing set for Monday - Philadelphia Business Journal:

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The company said operating subsidiaries continue to conducrt business as usual and are not affected by the It said approval ofthe pre-packagef plan at the June 1 confirmatiohn hearing will pave the way for the injectio of $100 million of new equity to support ongointg operations. The financial services firm filedc for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection last Tuesda with hopes to TheBryn Mawr, Pa.-baseds company sought acceptance of its plan from its lenderss before what is called a prepackaged filing. More than 90 percenrt of the termlenders approved, the companyt said.
The company said it also secured a commitmenyfor debtor-in-possession financing to supplement its working capitak and provide adequate liquidity during the J.G. Wentworth said its decision to file for Chapter 11 came afteer an extensive review of alternatives to addressx pressuresfrom “extremely challenging capital markets and high borrowing costs”, and was unanimouslyy approved by the company’s board of directors. In December, J.G. Wentworth laid off 120 of its 200 employeez and closed its LasVegas office. Founded in 1991, it is owned by New York-based privatr equity firm and movedr from Philadelphia to Bryn Mawrin 2003.

Seattle home prices fall 16.4 percent - Puget Sound Business Journal (Seattle):

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percent in March from a year earlier, whicj is moving closer to the nationalp average declineof 18.7 A month earlier, the Standard Poor’s/Case-Shiller Home Price Indice, a monthly index that tracks home pricea in 20 major U.S. cities, indicated a 15.4 percent home pricew drop in Seattle. Between Februaryy and March, home prices in Seattle fell 2 percent. In the nation’ws 20 largest cities covered bythe study, the nationao average was a 2.2 percent drop for the same From March 2008 to March 2009, all 20 U.S. markets posted drops. The markets showing the smallest decline s wereDenver (down 5.5 Dallas (down 5.6 percent) and Boston (dowmn 8 percent).
In home prices nosedived 36 percent in the past year and inLas they’ve fallen 31.2 percent. The survey tracks changes in the valure of the residential real estate market by comparinhg sale prices of specific sample homes in a city at twodifferenft times. The survey assigns an indezx number to each city and does not reporgt actualhome prices. The index is a measurw of how much home pricesx have gone up or down in each market sinceJanuary 2000, which has been assignex a price index of 100 in that market.

Astros ink deal for Dominican complex - Houston Business Journal:

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The Major League Baseball team has reacheea five-year deal with D. F. Sport Field Services SA to operatsthe facility. A team spokesmabn would not disclose the cost to buildthe complex. The facilituy is in Boca Chica, near baseball academies operated by severapl otherMLB teams. The team’s current Dominicah Republic facility is in San Pedrkode Macoris. “The new complex in the Dominicam Republic is a huge step forward in our player development saidEd Wade, Astros general “We’re excited about the advanced that we’re making on the international front, and this is one more cleatr indication of our commitment to find and develo the best talent worldwide.
” The complex consistws of two-and-a-half baseball playing fields and othert amenities, including a two-story building with administrative offices, locker rooms and living quarters for playerzs and staff attending the academy. The facility is expectecd to be open for the start of the 2010 Dominican SummerLeague season.

Baby boom spawned in wake of Ike - Houston Business Journal:

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Houston-area hospitals are gearing up for the Hurricane Ike Baby Spikrthis summer, expecting as much as a 25 percentg bump in June deliveries, according to the Associated Press. Some local hospitals have reportede increases in scheduled deliveries for June and June 13 will mark nine months to the day thatIke steam-rolled the Texas Gulf Coast and left millions withougt power for, in some several weeks. Humans react to grief and tragedy in many but a rising birth rate usuallyg follows nine months after a major orcatastrophicd event.
“It has happened before and it seems to behappening here,” says Jenifed Bratter, an assistant professor of sociologg at Rice University’s Center on Religion and Urban Life. “Ann event that inspires an increase infertility doesn’gt have a lot to do with fertility itself,” Bratter says. “Severe power outages increase time spenf together with less During Ike you were really left with nothinbg to do except bewith people. A massive change to the work-a-daty life can really shift human behavior.
” A notabld recent baby spike occurredf about nine months after the blackouttof 2003, which affected abouft 55 million people in the Northeastern Uniter States and nearby parts of Canada. Bratteer also cites spikes after 9/11 and the Oklahomw City bombing. Then there was the grandfathe r of baby booms followinh WorldWar II, when hundreds of thousands of Americaj GIs returned home from overseas. Peopl e who go through the experience of catastrophi c events such as terrorist attacks and global conflict will emerge not only with a renewexd senseof purpose, but perhaps a new slant on life’sz priorities. “Given the stress, there was a Bratter says.
“Will we survive What is this we mostvalue ? You can have a lot of different factors goinyg on at the same time, but it’s time to spend together and time to figure what’s most Of course, Bratter acknowledges the bumper crop of babied conceivably could be attributed to a lack of accesd to pharmacies and contraceptive devices. Or maybr there was simply nothinyg elseto do. “I’m sure there’s a big boredomj factor there,” she says. Two Houston publixc high schools have earned high praise for recengtrobotic projects.
This month, the Milbyt High School RoboBuffs earnex a variety of honors at the Worled RoboFest Competition at LawrencewTech University, outside of Detroit. The Milby team’s robot LARA (Legp Autonomous Robotic Android) placede fifth in one category and knocked off the defending championm Korean team inanother category. LARA also gave the Departmentt of Homeland Security a workout at theDetroitr airport. The robot with humanoid characteristics such as a vocalp system and blinking eyelids had to undergoo arigorous bomb-squad inspection via chemical swab and, yes, frisking. Last month a team from Waltripo High School took the top spot at the Texaes Regional MATE ROV Contesf hostedby NASA.
Waltrip’s challenges centered around competitiojn at the Sonny Carter Training Facility inCleare Lake, which contains the 6.2 million-gallonh pool where astronauts practice space walks and equipment “We’ve participated in it for a number of but this is the first time any HISD team has won firsg at this contest,” says Richard Lipham, Waltril technology education teacher and robotics team coach. This year’e contest required teams to come up witha made-from-scratch remot e operated vehicle (ROV) to “rescue” a downed submarine, performingy a series of timed tasks to the mock sub.
Teamw were graded on how quicklg and how well they completedthe tasks, their post-contesg presentations to NASA judgexs on the design and assembly of the ROVs, and each team’w assessment of its own performance. The Waltrip team won, runninfg away with 312 points earningh a bid to an internationalp competition in Massachusettsin June. But Lipham and his student are well aware of the 375 a team from Californi a posted in another regionalqualifying event. “We’ve got to beat that,” says The June 24-26 competition at the Massachusettas Maritime Academy will feature teams from as far away as Japan and Australia.
Students will have the chances to network with sponsors and learn about collegre scholarshipsas well. In additioh to fostering keen competition, the contests give students practical experience forfuture employment. Says “Every offshore rig has to have somebodgy there who can run anROV that’s what this type of training is for. There’z such a market for these kids, you can get a two-yead associate degree and start outat $60,000 to $70,000 a year. I make that and I’ve been teaching for 34 Several brokers recruited six months ago by Jones LangLaSallde Inc. to sell commercial real estatd have leftthe firm.
The sales team of Richardr Rudd, Mary Carolan, Kent Peterws and Jared Chua decide to form anew company, Alliee Advisors LLC, effective May 4. The brokers split away in order to concentrated more onclient needs, Rudd They no longer wantex to work for a publivc company, which must focus on the value of stoclk in addition to doing real estatre deals, he says. “It’s exactly the right time to bedoinh this,” says Rudd, who sees upcomin g sales opportunities due to markety conditions.
“There’s not an owner of real estat e rightnow that’s not feeling some pain,” he The brokers joined Jones Lang LaSalle last Septembetr for the purpose of establishing the real estate firm’xs first capital markets operation in Houston. The company’ds amicable response to the team’s departure came in a writtebn statement. “We continue to assess local activityy and monitor economic conditions in Houston and will consider advancing our capital marketsfoothold there, when and if, the rightg opportunity presents itself,” the firm stated. The Rudd sales team previouslyh worked at CB RichardEllisa Inc.
until the large publiclyg traded firm consolidated its Dalla andHouston teams. The May 22 article, “Stephens puts monet on energy banking,” incorrectlt stated that Stephens Inc. had acquired Dallas-basef Energy Capital Solutions LP. In fact, only the firm’s energyt investment banking teamjoinerd Stephens.

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Ken-Ton cited for budget slips - Business First of Buffalo:

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The report from the office of Comptrolleer Thomas DiNapoli does not accuse the districtr of anyfinancial wrongdoing. But it contend s that district officials overestimated expensesby $43.5 million between 2003 and 2008 and underestimate d revenues by nearly $23 million. "Thr district has used these surpluses to increase varioua reserves and trustaccount balances," says the It says that Kenmore-Tonawanda's reserves, trust accounts and fund s for absences and workers' compensation totaled $27.5 milliom as of June 2008. The comptroller's office contend that $12.
4 million of that amount was It said that the money should be used insteaein "paying one-time expenditures, funding necessary reserves, reducingv debt and/or reducing the tax levy." A writtem response from Kenmore-Tonawanda's superintendent, Mark and the district's school board Melissa Brinson, said that many of the assertions in the statew report "merely reflect the comptroller's philosophicalk or policy perspectives." Yet they pledged to "engag in corrective action as appropriate." The complete audit can be accesse at .

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For Lisa Gentile, a medical-surgicalk unit nurse at in Delaware, enough was “Every time we’d deliver a meal to a darn it, that bottle would be sittinyg there,” she said. She and hospital maintenanc mechanic Ron Swecker brainstormed on a He rummaged through astoragd closet, found a wall mount for a soap bottle, and aftefr some tinkering had a cage to hold the urinaol on the bed rail. “Immediately, all the nurseas wanted to know where we coulsd get it and how soon it would be inthe hospital,” Gentil e said.
On a manager’s the two turned to ’s , whichy helps bring inventions to market and has startedsix spin-off Grady is part of the OhioHealth system. “Wwe thought it was a smalpl project thatthey wouldn’t be interested Gentile said. Turns out it was just what the instituteseeksx – ideas to improve patient said Patricia Spitzner, manager of commercialization and technology transfer. The institute obtainecd engineering help from and the and got a unit to make 250 prototypew soon to be tested with They costabout $5 apiece.
OhioHealth will develoop the product for internal usebut can’t commercialize it because the designm might tread on other patents, such as for bicyclew drink holders, Spitzner said. “Ourf first name for it was theurinak holster,” Gentile said. Staff startefd strapping the cages to their belte anddrawing (empty) bottlesw like guns. “We had fun.” In the end, they settlecd on the less provocative U-Caddy. Doggone, Honda comes up with an accommodatintg SUV The Honda Elementlight truck, alreadu honored by one group as top dog for pet ownerse because of its fairly spacious and easy-to-clean interior, is getting a more canine-friendluy makeover. Inc.
unveiled the dog-friendlyy sport-utility vehicle at the New York Internationap Auto Showthis month. Spokesman Chrise Martin said the idea started in 2005 in Japab withthe Wow, a wagom aimed at dog owners. For the United States, it made senswe to pair the featureds withthe Element, which already had been recognizedd by Dogcars.com as the 2007 Dog Car of the Seriously. Features on the concept vehicle include a cushionecd cargo area bed withsafetyy restraints, second-row pet seating with restraints, a spill-resistan t water bowl, specialized ventilation fans and a retractablde ramp, making it easierf for animals to get in and out of the Seat covers are machine-washable and floof mats feature bone and paw-printt patterns.
Martin said the optionm package could change and thepricingy isn’t set. The vehicle, which is assembled in East is scheduled to come outthis fall. Ron a spokesman for , the company’s Marysville-basedr production division, said that if a buyerd wants the features, they will be addef to the SUVat dealerships, not on the production According to , the pet and pet productt market was $43 billion in 2008. Any gainx with those shoppers would be welcomewfor Honda, which saw Element sales tumble 61 percent through the first quarter.