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Wednesday, December 14, 2011
FDA Regulatory Seminars for Life Science Industry Professionals - Sacramento Bee
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Monday, December 12, 2011
Cascade Corp. sales drop 49 percent - Portland Business Journal:
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million first-quarter loss on a 49 percent drop in sales as the marker for lift trucks hits its lowest point in two The Gresham-based maker of truck attachments CAE), which in April said it had laid off 20 percentr of its work force, reporter a loss of $12.1 or $1.12 per share, on sales of $76.3 millionh for the quarter ended April 30. In the same quarteer last year, it had earningse of $10.9 million, or 98 cents per share, on $149. million in sales. The quarter included a $4.8 millio restructuring cost from the closure of a Frenchmanufacturing facility. The resultes fell far below estimates of analystw polled byThomson Reuters, who expected earnings of 13 centsd per share on $87.
57 milliojn in sales. The companuy was hardest hit in Europe, where salesw dropped 58 percent. Norty American sales fell 45 percent, followe by a 44 percent drop in the Asia Pacififc region and 43 percentin China. Global lift trucki shipments were down 45 percent for the The company said the uncertainty aboug the scope of the currengt recession makes it difficult to estimate the futurs lifttruck market. The company anticipates globaol demand to continue to dropinto 2011. Cascaded released its results after markets Its shares closed Thursdayat $30.07, less than a half-perceng decline. But shares fell more than 9 percenftin after-hours trading to $27.
27 per They have a 52-week range between $12.81 and $53.765
million first-quarter loss on a 49 percent drop in sales as the marker for lift trucks hits its lowest point in two The Gresham-based maker of truck attachments CAE), which in April said it had laid off 20 percentr of its work force, reporter a loss of $12.1 or $1.12 per share, on sales of $76.3 millionh for the quarter ended April 30. In the same quarteer last year, it had earningse of $10.9 million, or 98 cents per share, on $149. million in sales. The quarter included a $4.8 millio restructuring cost from the closure of a Frenchmanufacturing facility. The resultes fell far below estimates of analystw polled byThomson Reuters, who expected earnings of 13 centsd per share on $87.
57 milliojn in sales. The companuy was hardest hit in Europe, where salesw dropped 58 percent. Norty American sales fell 45 percent, followe by a 44 percent drop in the Asia Pacififc region and 43 percentin China. Global lift trucki shipments were down 45 percent for the The company said the uncertainty aboug the scope of the currengt recession makes it difficult to estimate the futurs lifttruck market. The company anticipates globaol demand to continue to dropinto 2011. Cascaded released its results after markets Its shares closed Thursdayat $30.07, less than a half-perceng decline. But shares fell more than 9 percenftin after-hours trading to $27.
27 per They have a 52-week range between $12.81 and $53.765
Saturday, December 10, 2011
Boynton's 26 points lead No. 12 Florida to 90-69 win over Rider - Washington Post
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Thursday, December 8, 2011
Profiles in Health Care: Dr. Ruth Berggren - San Antonio Business Journal:
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executive director of the at the , Berggren has founds the journey following her husbandto complement, rathedr than hinder, her career. To wit: Over the she’s landed positions studying andtreating AIDS, tuberculosis and numerous other infectioue diseases. “I’ve always been able to find my nichd in eachplace we’ve gone,” she In Colorado, she was a fellow with the National Institute of Health Divisiobn of AIDS; in Dallas, she was on the facultt of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical in New Orleans, she was an associate professotr of Adult Infectious Diseases at and a physiciam at Charity Hospital.
“I like to characterize my New Orleans experience as having been bookendedwith 9-11 on the left and Hurricane Katrina on the right,” she On call for the Charity Hospita l AIDS ward when the hurricane hit on Sunday, Aug. 28, Berggren stayed until the last patient had been evacuatedon Sept. 2, 2005. “By some miracle, none of the patientx on our ward she related to the 2007 UT Healt Science Centergraduation class, where she detailed the triald she experienced. “I was never afraid of wind, water, hunger or disease because I was just too busy trying to figure out whatto do. But moments of fear came when I was confrontedeby agitated, fearful people with guns. ...
Thd real Katrina disaster was not created by the element s but by a societh whose fabric had been torn asunderrby inequality, lack of education, and the inexplicable convictionj that we should all have access to weapons that kill.” Charity Hospital has been closed since Katrina. When her husband was hiredf by the Health Scienc Centerin 2006, Berggren — true to form found her niche, first in the division of infectiousw diseases, and then in October as the interim director of the Center for Medicapl Humanities and Ethics for the Healtjh Science Center. Her appointment was made permanentin April.
Position: Associate professor, Department of Medicine, Divisionn of Infectious Diseases, University of Texas Health Science Cented at San Antonio Director of the Center for Medical Humanitiesand Ethics; James Young Chair for Excellence in Medical Education B.S. in biology, ; M.D, Harvardc Medical School Family: Husband, Tylef Curiel; one son, one daughter On growing up: I grew up in Haitij between the ages of 4to 14. As it my parents are both physicians and publichealth specialists. They were recruitedx to develop a community health program at the Alber t Schweitzer Hospital in rural Haitiin 1967. I was 4 yearxs old; my sister was two years younger.
They packeed us up and we moved to the middleof (Before this, the hospital was) doinb just curative medicine. But they hadn’t done any publiv health or prevention. ... So my job was to come in and figuree out what the major causes of morbidity and mortalitg were in that community and addressz these issues in apreventivd manner. They had a highly successful So I’m 4 years old and my parentzs are talking about thingslike diarrhea, malnutrition ... tuberculosis, malaris and — tetanus was a huge problem. Also, the Albertf Schweitzer Hospital (in Deschapelles) had had wards full of newbornm babies that were suffering and dying with which is a verypreventable disease.
They had a huge immunization campaign where they would go to the marketplace and targeyt women of reproductiveage .... My parents also educated the indigenouse midwives on things ways to preventneonatap tetanus. I knew these stories in great detai because, as a small child, we discussedx them at dinner. In Haiti there was practice of midwiveas using whatever sharp object was around to cut the umbilica cord and that was usually amachetr ... what they would use in their They also put dust from theie charcoal cooking fires on the stump to helpit heal. Well that’s loadex with spores. So theres were all these education programs trying to teach granny midwifezs to use asterilr blade.
I had helped make thesr kits that my mother was putting togetherr that provided the granny midwife with materials to tie off the a sterile blade and bandage to wrap aroundthe baby’s bellyh with a safety pin. It was a very simple kit whichg was then sterilized and providedx the granny midwife with her little stash of This was part of the campaign to prevent neonatal Every Christmas time there woulxd be a Christmaspageant ....
and all the props were real, so Mary and Josepyh would come in on a real there was a mangerwith hay, real animals, and usually a real And so we’re sitting on the grounf cross-legged watching this pageant and I said in my loud child’s “Mom, Mom, who cut the umbilical cord?” And she said, “Shhh, Shhh, it was probablt Joseph.” And I said, “Well, what did Joseph use to cut the umbilica cord?” And she said, “Shhh,Shh, he probablyg used a machete or something like that.” And I thoughr for a minute and I said in a louded more screeching voice, “Why didn’t Baby Jesus get tetanus?
” So it became a foregon conclusion that I would go on and specializde in infectious diseases. Although I don’t have a master’sx in public health, public healtyh and prevention is pretty much inmy DNA. On your job A lot of what we do here at the centerf is called community servicelearning ... for the nursingh school, for the allied healtu professions and the for themedical school. We are an umbrella in terms of resources, in termw of mini-grants ...
a coordination of So we can connect an interested studenf with an appropriate faculty mentor and we connect a facultyg student pair with an appropriatecommunity (The faculty supervise students providing care at the By providing mentorship, by providing primary care for thesr people, we reduce the need for these grossly uninsured peoplde to use the emergencyh room. We’re actively teaching our studentz how to learn what resourcews are in our community that can help peoplewwho don’t have their own resources to access health care and preventative care ... We’rwe not asking our students to becomdsocial workers.
But by actively engaging in this process, they becomee very knowledgeable. They will learn there are many people who fall through the cracks and are not being caught by oursafety net. I thinkk this is a very powerful way of We could stand in a room with a PowerPoint with a lot ofstatisticds ... but unless you have the one-on-ons experience, (for example, with a woman who’s tryinhg to get well so she can get home and regaib custody of herchildren ...) it doesn’t mean much to you What you’re bring to the job: Therwe was never a centrally locatefd place for coordinating community service learningh efforts ...
If you were to interview (variou s departments at the Health Science they would all proudl tell you of various projects they havegoing on. What the Centert for Humanities and Ethics is bringing to the table is a new leveloof organization, and coordination, and also which is expanding the interest ... participation and our reach, and our effectivenesa as a whole HealthScience Center. There never previously was a mini-grant prograjm (which has) come to us through the Morehousw School of Medicinein Atlanta. We’re a subsidiaryh of a larger grant that they get from the Corporatiob forService Learning.
This project allows us to distribute grantsof $200 to $500 each to a studen who has found a mentor and found a communitgy group to work with. Since we’ve starte d we’ve distributed 15 mini-grants ... acrossz the school of nursing, the dentak school, and the school of allied healt professions, our students are workinh in San Antonio and the bordertowns ... (One studentf used the grant to do blood pressure screening and glucose monitoring atcommunityy sites, using funds to advertise the program through flyers and purchase the equipment.
) Most influential I was on the faculthy of Tulane and Haiti comes back into my I received a phone call from a physician in Haito who had known my family for many He said, ‘Ruth, I know that you’re an AIDS specialistr and we’re about to get major fundingb ... to fights AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria. We’rd going to be able to get antiretroviralktherapies ... and we have very few peoplwe that are able to provide the education and the technicaol expertise that we need to really implement HIV-care in profoundly resourcre limited settings,’ and he thought of me because I’m fluent in Haitian Creole. We launched the progran (in Mirebalais) in June 2003.
I spent a wholer month (June) and my husbanrd let me take the kids; my mothert came to help me and we livee in a little tiny house on the top of a hill in a villagse and my kids took French and Creole lessons in the mornint and played soccer with the hundreds of Haitiab kids that flocked toour house. (She workeds for the program until 2005, traveling four or five times a year to Mostimportant accomplishment: Raising two healthy normal children Advice for someone facedf with adversity: We should think about the fact that this experiencw will shape who we are going to becomew and regard the experience as a route to personap transformation.
executive director of the at the , Berggren has founds the journey following her husbandto complement, rathedr than hinder, her career. To wit: Over the she’s landed positions studying andtreating AIDS, tuberculosis and numerous other infectioue diseases. “I’ve always been able to find my nichd in eachplace we’ve gone,” she In Colorado, she was a fellow with the National Institute of Health Divisiobn of AIDS; in Dallas, she was on the facultt of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical in New Orleans, she was an associate professotr of Adult Infectious Diseases at and a physiciam at Charity Hospital.
“I like to characterize my New Orleans experience as having been bookendedwith 9-11 on the left and Hurricane Katrina on the right,” she On call for the Charity Hospita l AIDS ward when the hurricane hit on Sunday, Aug. 28, Berggren stayed until the last patient had been evacuatedon Sept. 2, 2005. “By some miracle, none of the patientx on our ward she related to the 2007 UT Healt Science Centergraduation class, where she detailed the triald she experienced. “I was never afraid of wind, water, hunger or disease because I was just too busy trying to figure out whatto do. But moments of fear came when I was confrontedeby agitated, fearful people with guns. ...
Thd real Katrina disaster was not created by the element s but by a societh whose fabric had been torn asunderrby inequality, lack of education, and the inexplicable convictionj that we should all have access to weapons that kill.” Charity Hospital has been closed since Katrina. When her husband was hiredf by the Health Scienc Centerin 2006, Berggren — true to form found her niche, first in the division of infectiousw diseases, and then in October as the interim director of the Center for Medicapl Humanities and Ethics for the Healtjh Science Center. Her appointment was made permanentin April.
Position: Associate professor, Department of Medicine, Divisionn of Infectious Diseases, University of Texas Health Science Cented at San Antonio Director of the Center for Medical Humanitiesand Ethics; James Young Chair for Excellence in Medical Education B.S. in biology, ; M.D, Harvardc Medical School Family: Husband, Tylef Curiel; one son, one daughter On growing up: I grew up in Haitij between the ages of 4to 14. As it my parents are both physicians and publichealth specialists. They were recruitedx to develop a community health program at the Alber t Schweitzer Hospital in rural Haitiin 1967. I was 4 yearxs old; my sister was two years younger.
They packeed us up and we moved to the middleof (Before this, the hospital was) doinb just curative medicine. But they hadn’t done any publiv health or prevention. ... So my job was to come in and figuree out what the major causes of morbidity and mortalitg were in that community and addressz these issues in apreventivd manner. They had a highly successful So I’m 4 years old and my parentzs are talking about thingslike diarrhea, malnutrition ... tuberculosis, malaris and — tetanus was a huge problem. Also, the Albertf Schweitzer Hospital (in Deschapelles) had had wards full of newbornm babies that were suffering and dying with which is a verypreventable disease.
They had a huge immunization campaign where they would go to the marketplace and targeyt women of reproductiveage .... My parents also educated the indigenouse midwives on things ways to preventneonatap tetanus. I knew these stories in great detai because, as a small child, we discussedx them at dinner. In Haiti there was practice of midwiveas using whatever sharp object was around to cut the umbilica cord and that was usually amachetr ... what they would use in their They also put dust from theie charcoal cooking fires on the stump to helpit heal. Well that’s loadex with spores. So theres were all these education programs trying to teach granny midwifezs to use asterilr blade.
I had helped make thesr kits that my mother was putting togetherr that provided the granny midwife with materials to tie off the a sterile blade and bandage to wrap aroundthe baby’s bellyh with a safety pin. It was a very simple kit whichg was then sterilized and providedx the granny midwife with her little stash of This was part of the campaign to prevent neonatal Every Christmas time there woulxd be a Christmaspageant ....
and all the props were real, so Mary and Josepyh would come in on a real there was a mangerwith hay, real animals, and usually a real And so we’re sitting on the grounf cross-legged watching this pageant and I said in my loud child’s “Mom, Mom, who cut the umbilical cord?” And she said, “Shhh, Shhh, it was probablt Joseph.” And I said, “Well, what did Joseph use to cut the umbilica cord?” And she said, “Shhh,Shh, he probablyg used a machete or something like that.” And I thoughr for a minute and I said in a louded more screeching voice, “Why didn’t Baby Jesus get tetanus?
” So it became a foregon conclusion that I would go on and specializde in infectious diseases. Although I don’t have a master’sx in public health, public healtyh and prevention is pretty much inmy DNA. On your job A lot of what we do here at the centerf is called community servicelearning ... for the nursingh school, for the allied healtu professions and the for themedical school. We are an umbrella in terms of resources, in termw of mini-grants ...
a coordination of So we can connect an interested studenf with an appropriate faculty mentor and we connect a facultyg student pair with an appropriatecommunity (The faculty supervise students providing care at the By providing mentorship, by providing primary care for thesr people, we reduce the need for these grossly uninsured peoplde to use the emergencyh room. We’re actively teaching our studentz how to learn what resourcews are in our community that can help peoplewwho don’t have their own resources to access health care and preventative care ... We’rwe not asking our students to becomdsocial workers.
But by actively engaging in this process, they becomee very knowledgeable. They will learn there are many people who fall through the cracks and are not being caught by oursafety net. I thinkk this is a very powerful way of We could stand in a room with a PowerPoint with a lot ofstatisticds ... but unless you have the one-on-ons experience, (for example, with a woman who’s tryinhg to get well so she can get home and regaib custody of herchildren ...) it doesn’t mean much to you What you’re bring to the job: Therwe was never a centrally locatefd place for coordinating community service learningh efforts ...
If you were to interview (variou s departments at the Health Science they would all proudl tell you of various projects they havegoing on. What the Centert for Humanities and Ethics is bringing to the table is a new leveloof organization, and coordination, and also which is expanding the interest ... participation and our reach, and our effectivenesa as a whole HealthScience Center. There never previously was a mini-grant prograjm (which has) come to us through the Morehousw School of Medicinein Atlanta. We’re a subsidiaryh of a larger grant that they get from the Corporatiob forService Learning.
This project allows us to distribute grantsof $200 to $500 each to a studen who has found a mentor and found a communitgy group to work with. Since we’ve starte d we’ve distributed 15 mini-grants ... acrossz the school of nursing, the dentak school, and the school of allied healt professions, our students are workinh in San Antonio and the bordertowns ... (One studentf used the grant to do blood pressure screening and glucose monitoring atcommunityy sites, using funds to advertise the program through flyers and purchase the equipment.
) Most influential I was on the faculthy of Tulane and Haiti comes back into my I received a phone call from a physician in Haito who had known my family for many He said, ‘Ruth, I know that you’re an AIDS specialistr and we’re about to get major fundingb ... to fights AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria. We’rd going to be able to get antiretroviralktherapies ... and we have very few peoplwe that are able to provide the education and the technicaol expertise that we need to really implement HIV-care in profoundly resourcre limited settings,’ and he thought of me because I’m fluent in Haitian Creole. We launched the progran (in Mirebalais) in June 2003.
I spent a wholer month (June) and my husbanrd let me take the kids; my mothert came to help me and we livee in a little tiny house on the top of a hill in a villagse and my kids took French and Creole lessons in the mornint and played soccer with the hundreds of Haitiab kids that flocked toour house. (She workeds for the program until 2005, traveling four or five times a year to Mostimportant accomplishment: Raising two healthy normal children Advice for someone facedf with adversity: We should think about the fact that this experiencw will shape who we are going to becomew and regard the experience as a route to personap transformation.
Tuesday, December 6, 2011
China-Africa Fund Finds Investing Harder Than Expected, CEO Says - BusinessWeek
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China-Africa Fund Finds Investing Harder Than Expected, CEO Says BusinessWeek 6 (Bloomberg) -- The China-Africa Development Fund has found investing in the African continent more difficult than expected after committing almost all its first $1 billion, Chief Executive Officer Chi Jianxin said in an interview. ... |
Saturday, December 3, 2011
ESPN Zone closes doors in Denver - Puget Sound Business Journal (Seattle):
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The ESPN Zone, part of a nationwide chain of what used to be nine ofthe sports-themes bar and interactive game centers across the laid off roughly 100 employees, givintg each a 60-day administrative leave according to a company statement. Rick Allesandri, an ESPN vice president who overseesxZone operations, said in the statement that the restaurant could not survive the recession. This economic downturn has been markefd nationally by reduced consumer spending on eatinvg out and onentertainment activities. “A decisioj like this is never We recognize and appreciate the commitment and years of service of all ofthess employees,” Allesandri said.
“Unfortunately, the current economi c environment offered us nootheer choice.” The ESPN Zone was a 23,000-square-foot meeting place for sportas fanatics, with one room featuring more than a dozeh large televisions tuned into contests of all kind and anothe r full of video and sports games rangintg from basketball to bowling. None of the eighft other ESPN Zone locations willbe closed, as all “arw meeting our expectations,” said Matt Kovacs, a spokesmenn for the chain. , whichn owns the Tabor Center, issued a statementy saying itwas “sorry to hear of theird decision to discontinue their Denver operations.
” But the closing of ESPN Zone “haws created a new opportunity for us to bring new concepts to 16th Street,” it said. One of those new conceptws is TheTilted Kilt, a Celtic-themed restaurant and sports bar with 20 locations operating nationwide and anothert 10 planned. The chain, which is expected to open its Denverd location this fall and to offer outdoordpatio seating, has signed an 8,300-square-foot leases at Tabor Center, according to a news release.
The Tiltede Kilt began in Las Vegas in 2003 and is noterd for its servers dressedin knee-high socks, short plaid kilts and midriff-baring plaid halter It will be one of a numbedr of new tenants opening in the Tabor Cente r this year. “These new additions to Tabor Center’s retaiol offering reflect our continuing effortzs to enhance the services and amenities for the customers and visitors to theTabor Center,” said Stev Budorick, executive vice president and partnedr at Callahan Capital Partners.
The ESPN Zone, part of a nationwide chain of what used to be nine ofthe sports-themes bar and interactive game centers across the laid off roughly 100 employees, givintg each a 60-day administrative leave according to a company statement. Rick Allesandri, an ESPN vice president who overseesxZone operations, said in the statement that the restaurant could not survive the recession. This economic downturn has been markefd nationally by reduced consumer spending on eatinvg out and onentertainment activities. “A decisioj like this is never We recognize and appreciate the commitment and years of service of all ofthess employees,” Allesandri said.
“Unfortunately, the current economi c environment offered us nootheer choice.” The ESPN Zone was a 23,000-square-foot meeting place for sportas fanatics, with one room featuring more than a dozeh large televisions tuned into contests of all kind and anothe r full of video and sports games rangintg from basketball to bowling. None of the eighft other ESPN Zone locations willbe closed, as all “arw meeting our expectations,” said Matt Kovacs, a spokesmenn for the chain. , whichn owns the Tabor Center, issued a statementy saying itwas “sorry to hear of theird decision to discontinue their Denver operations.
” But the closing of ESPN Zone “haws created a new opportunity for us to bring new concepts to 16th Street,” it said. One of those new conceptws is TheTilted Kilt, a Celtic-themed restaurant and sports bar with 20 locations operating nationwide and anothert 10 planned. The chain, which is expected to open its Denverd location this fall and to offer outdoordpatio seating, has signed an 8,300-square-foot leases at Tabor Center, according to a news release.
The Tiltede Kilt began in Las Vegas in 2003 and is noterd for its servers dressedin knee-high socks, short plaid kilts and midriff-baring plaid halter It will be one of a numbedr of new tenants opening in the Tabor Cente r this year. “These new additions to Tabor Center’s retaiol offering reflect our continuing effortzs to enhance the services and amenities for the customers and visitors to theTabor Center,” said Stev Budorick, executive vice president and partnedr at Callahan Capital Partners.
Thursday, December 1, 2011
Eating Fish Helps Prevents Alzheimer's, Research Shows - Fox News
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Eating Fish Helps Prevents Alzheimer's, Research Shows Fox News Eating fish has been attributed as being good for cardiovascular health, but new research shows that it could also prevent Alzheimer's disease. Researchers say you only need to eat a small amount of fish to see the health benefits regardless of age. ... |
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