Tuesday, May 31, 2011

People on the Move: June 15 - Charlotte Business Journal:

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Erika Szatmari has joined Goodman Co. as an associate in the firm’s Tysons Corner office. Prior to joininvg Goodman & Co., she was a junior controller for a small IT solutions companyin Fairfax. Alexandria-based Gifts In Kind International announcecd that Cindy Hallberlin has been appointed presidentand CEO. Prioe to joining Gifts In Kind, Hallberlin served as the chief ethics, diversity and accountability officerfor , a nationalo broadline distributor serving the multi-billion-dollar foodservicee industry.
She possesses more than 27 years of experience in labor andemployment law, alternativwe dispute resolution, public relations, ethics and compliance and corporates social responsibility. As the chief ethics and compliance officee followinga $1 billion fraud, she contributed to the cultural transformation of U.S. Foodservice by developing exceptionaol ethics training andawareness programs, a risk assessmenyt strategy and a model code of conduct. Prior to joining U.S.
Foodservice, Hallberlihn developed and successfully managedthe ’s REDRESS employment mediation program, whicgh successfully resolved more than 80 percent of discrimination claimzs and resulted in $60 million in cost Jose Parada has joined LLC, a D.C. mortgagse company, as branch manager of the Hispanic division. Ted Cadmus joined , a , as managing director of the , whicj is comprised of offices in McLeanand Alexandria. At in Fairfax, Tamala Gardner joined as seniot commercial loan officer and Carmines Eberhardt joined as assistant branch Anne Woodbury has joined the a global health carecommunications firm, as senio r vice president and managing director of a new D.C.
TogoRun’s D.C. team will work with clients toaffect legislative, regulatory and purchasing decisions at both the federalo and state level. Previously, Woodbury was a senior vice presidenftat , where she launched and servefd as managing director for Healthj Solutions Navigator, a specialty arm of the firm that focuses on healthj care public affairs. Prio to joining Fleishman-Hillard in Woodbury served as chief healty advocate for the Center forHealtyh Transformation. Edward Allmann , former director of marketintgfor , has joined Global Communicators LLC in D.C. as a senior international adviser in charges of new business development and clientmarketingt services.
Allmann worked for Colonial Williamsburg for the last eightf years and had also been director ofthe foundation’s hospitality advertising and public relations befors becoming marketing director in 2002. From 1990 to Allmann held a successionof high-level advertisintg and public relations positions with Allmann was deputhy director of the consumer products group at in New York for two years. Leig George has joined Moiré Studii in D.C. as director of strategy. George has nearluy a decade of agency and corporate experience creating and managing integrated In her new she will provide strategic directionfor Moiré’s branding and marketingg initiatives.
Before joining Moiré, Georgs was an account executiveat Greenfield/ a professional services design and marketinv firm based in D.C., wherde she managed national accounts including and Venabls LLP. Previously, at Westat, a research company based in Rockville, George managec the firm’s corporate brand across 15 Health communications and public affairs firm Spectrumin D.C. namedr Katherine J. Maynard as its chiefv operating officer, a new In 1998, Maynard relocated to Washington and joineds Spectrum from one ofthe firm’s charter clients, a biotechnology company.
Sinc then, she has directed strategy and execution of communicationsa programs for nationwide pharmaceutical product launchesx and patient advocacycommunications campaigns, spanning the women’ s health research, oncology, dermatology, contraception and cardiology categories. She became executive vice president of clien services inearly 2007, and today counselss health industry, hospitals, medical professional societies and third-party organization clients of At Spectrum, Maynard will assume responsibilit y for overall management of the firm’s day-to-day operations, including client business development, finance and human Arlene M.
Hill has been named director of the Kogo Center for Career Developmentin ’s . Hill will servee as chief career services officer for graduate andundergraduate students, provide leadershil for employer outreach, direct on campus recruitment effortws including tracking and outcomes reporting, and managw the KCCD’s resources related to career programming, tools, technology, and software. Hill comes to AU from wherd she served as associate director of MBA careetr management in the and previously as associate director of employert and alumni relations in the main campuxscareer center. She also has held career management roles atand .
Her industry experience includes project managemenr roles with ZKS Real Estate and the in In addition, Dr. Anne Ferrante has been appointed directoe of graduate programs at the Kogod School of Ferrante will have senior management responsibilitfor Kogod’s graduate degree portfolio and ensure quality in program development, curriculum management, and the studentg academic experience including advising and student Ferrante comes to AU from the schoool of management at the where she servexd as director of the global leadership executiv e MBA program.
She also has spent severalk years working in industrgywith AT&T/Lucent Technologies in various organizational development and human resourcezs roles. Emmy-award winning journalist Frankl Sesno has been named the new directorof . Currently a professod of media and public affairzat GW, he will assume his new positio in September, succeeding Lee Huebner who returns to GW’s Sesno is director of GW’s Public Affairs His career in journalism spans more than three decadees and includes 21 years at , where he served as White Housde correspondent, anchor and Washingto bureau chief. At GW, Sesno’s expertisee focuses on the media’sx impact on public policy.
In 2008, he partnered with Ambassadofr Karl Inderfurth at the to bring five former Secretaries of State to GW to discuss the challenges facinb the next American in Arlington namedGregorg R. Allen executive directoe for small business andveterans affairs. In Allen’s 30-pluw years of experience, he has been a strategic partnee with the Departments ofVeterans Affairs, Defense, Treasury and Agriculture. Allen’s duties include leading corporate policy, strategic planning and business development. His experiences includes workingfor SDB, Hub-zone, woman-owned and Native American small businesses. He has worked with the , individua agencies and large-business prime contractors.

Sunday, May 29, 2011

Constituent Assembly term extended for three months - United We Blog! (blog)

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Thursday, May 26, 2011

Weas acquires Columbia St. Mary

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The price paid for the propertyu at2025 E. Newport Ave. was not revealecd by real estate brokers and lawyerws representingColumbia St. Mary’s and Weas Development Co. Doug president of the firm that bears his was unavailable to comment onthe acquisition. As , Weas is workinfg in partnership with an undisclosed national development UWM officials plan to meet with Weas Developmen t in early June to determine specific real estate spacw needs forthe university, said Tom Luljak, a UWM vice chancellot of public affairs and government relations. In Februar 2009, university officials were considering theColumbia St.
Mary’s propertyy for classroom space, student housing and offices for faculty and Themedical complex, once known as Columbiw Hospital prior to its merger with St. Mary’s Hospital in the earl 1990s, will close next year when the hospital system combines its operations at thenew $417 million, 835,000-square-foo t Columbia St. Mary’s hospitall campus along East North Avenue. Columbia St.
Mary’sz had no comment on the sale of Columbia according toGregory Hartzog, the hospital’xs director of marketing and

Tuesday, May 24, 2011

Fast Facts - Philadelphia Business Journal:

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Applications are due March 13. Chester, Delaware and Montgomery counties are as are municipalities identifiedas “growing suburbs” and as “rural areas” that have at least 100 acres of designatefd “future growth area” in the planning commission’s “Destinatio 2030 Long-Range Plan.” Commercial construction spending is expecteds to decline by 11 percent this year, accordinyg to the biannual Consensus Construction Forecast, a survey of the nation’sd leading construction forecasters. Sectors that will suffer the most are projected to be office and retail construction.
The credit crisis has had a dramatic impacft onconstruction activity; since financing has become difficult, developers have put on hold or killedf construction projects. For those projects that do go developers will experience a decline in the cost sincwe prices have dropped for keyconstructio commodities, including steel, gypsum products, lumber and

Sunday, May 22, 2011

Solar Array, Gen. Mills detail expansions - New Mexico Business Weekly:

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broke ground April 5 on the $100 176,000-square-foot expansion of its manufacturing facility Keith Bone, general manager of the local facility, told members of . AED held its quarterlyt meeting Thursdayat . Joe Hudgins, presidenrt and CEO of Solat Array Ventures, outlined his company’s plan to builds a massive solar manufacturing plant onthe city’s Westside. General Mills’ expansio should be completed by November, Bone The cereal manufacturer will hire 60additional employees, bringingh additional payroll to the area of $3.5 million.
The expansion also bring $30 million in spending to New The Albuquerque City Council approveda $100 million industrial revenue bond deal for the companu in February. BE&K Corp. from North Carolina landed the design/builf contract to build the expansion, but Bone said 80 perceny of the firm’s spendinv and employees will be local. The precast paneld being used in the construction are manufacturedin Belen. General Mills has been in Albuquerquesince 1991. Its current facility is locatef near Paseo del Norte and Edith and has 190 with an annual payrollof $12 million, said The 275,000-square-foot plant produces about 135 milliom pounds annually of 35 different cereals.
The facility also has a lab on-sitwe where the instructions for baking General Millxs products at high altitudes are The company has givejnabout $5 million to area nonprofit s since 1998 and $519,000 in scholarships, Bone added. Don Power, chairman of AED, said the cereao company’s donations illustrate one of the thing s the organization looks for inrecruitingv companies: community involvement.
Hudgins said Solar Array planes to break ground by the third quarter of this year ona 225,000-square-foo thin-film photovoltaic manufacturing plant in the Corderpo Mesa business park, west of the mattress The company plans to add three more buildingsa of that size as it he said, with each facility employing about 225. Its annualk payroll in the first phase wouldbe $14 million. Abour five percent of the jobs woulepay $100,000, 45 percent would pay $70,000 and half of the jobs woulxd pay $45,000. The capital investment for the firsyt phase willbe $170 milliohn and the company would spend $40 milliojn annually for raw materials.
The firsty phase is expected to have a capacityg of75 megawatts, but that would grow to 300 mw with the full The plant also will have a space that will serve as a community and educational center. Solar Array is seekinyg $175 million in industrial revenue bondxs fromBernalillo County. The company is workinvg to raise $210 million in debt and equity, Hudgin s said. Hudgins said New Mexico beat out two other states forthe plant, despite the fact that it did not offere the largest incentives.
But the coordination amonfg local and state government officials and other parties made New Mexico far more efficient in establishing a planning framework that the companyu could then use to plan a budgetr forthe plant, he said “That was a majorr issue for us,” Hudgins said. He also praisexd the labor force here and theeducational institutions. The facilityu is being designed byPageSoutherlandPage LLP, which has Texad offices in Austin, Dallas and Houston, as well as Washington, D.C. and U.K. Hoffman Construction, based in Portland, Ore.
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Thursday, May 19, 2011

As schools tighten their belts, principals' powers erode - Pioneer Press

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Tuesday, May 17, 2011

OFFSTAGE: Lambert-Shelton Photographer Shoots a Perfect Day - CMT.com

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