The case of the incontinent plumber has caught the public imagination this week. In a rather dashing sting operation, some Trading Standards officers from Surrey have secretly filmed a number of tradesmen at work and have found that a quarter were involved in something dodgy. There were cases of massive over-charging, fake documentation and dangerous work. One engineer was filmed looking for a gas leak with a naked flame. Perhaps for mucky, Freudian reasons, we tend to be fascinated by the plumbing business. A family gathering in the country a few years back was made particularly memorable by the moment when a blocked pipe between the house and the septic tank caused a foul bubbling to issue from the earth in a scene that might have come out of an old horror movie. The local plumber - retired but happy to help out at such times - was called out. As, puffing on his pipe (he was a genuinely happy plumber), he went about his work with plungers and brushes, the family gathered around the window to watch. It was a satisfying, oddly purging experience.
THE ADVENTURES of Bob the Builder may have inspired a future generation of construction workers, and the plumbing industry - faced with a severe staff shortage - has decided to take a leaf out of the same book by launching a series of adventures featuring Peter the Plumber. Some plumbers earn upwards of pounds 70,000 a year, but despite the lure of a lucrative career the industry fears it may have difficulty attracting the 29,000 recruits that it says it needs to meet demand. In the ominously titled Peter the Plumber rescues Mum and Dad from a Flood, Peter has to save the day when a hapless housewife tries to fix a dripping tap in the middle of the night.
Many members of Plumbers and Steamfitters Local 434 have been on strike since Monday, after voting Saturday against a contract offer from an association of about 120 contractors in central and western Wisconsin. Union members will vote Saturday on a new offer from the Mechanical Contractors Association of Northwest Wisconsin. The improved offer was made during contract talks Wednesday and includes an overall cost increase of 4.7 percent the first year, 4.7 percent the second year and 4.6 percent the third year, said David Seitz, the associations executive vice president. A three-year contract that covered about 800 union plumbers expired Sunday, said Terry Hayden, business manager for the union local, which is based in Mosinee, Wis. In the final year of that contract, journeymen plumbers and pipefitters received $39.77 an hour in wages and fringe benefits, he said. Of that, fringe benefits represent about $11, he said.
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Another year of solid output growth. * Construction has been led for the last few years by residential investment. Last year was the third in a row in which residential investment in the Triad area grew by more than 4% in real terms. Reflecting the buoyancy of housing markets worldwide, spending was strong in almost all countries except Germany and to a lesser extent Japan. This is now likely to be the high water mark for residential investment and it should slow quite sharply in the second half of 2006 and into 2007. Interest rates are rising in most of the major economies and activity in at least some housing markets is starting to respond to this. Consequently housing investment growth could be almost 2% lower this year than last and is likely to be virtually stagnant in 2007.
CONSTRUCTIONFor those companies that decide to expand via new construction, the experience can be an unsettling one, full of uncertainties. In fact, relatively few startup businesses choose construction as their mode of entry due to the higher costs associated with it and the greater length of time involved from the breaking ground stage to the day when the establishment opens its doors for business. Small- and mid-sized businesses, however, are far more likely to have the financial wherewithal to launch a new construction project. Such firms have a proven track recordwhich can help them with financingand already-productive operations that bring in revenue that can be used to defray the costs of construction.Owners of these businesses, however, should fully weigh the advantages and disadvantages of construction before moving forward. As the J.K. Lasser Institute indicated in How to Run a Small Business, Building has the advantage of giving you the space and arrangements which meet your needs, providing you know specifically and objectively what the needs are. The obvious disadvantages are the delay in occupancy while land acquisition, design work, and building are going on, and the cost of overruns and mistakes caused by forecasting errors and planning oversights.
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SAN FRANCISCO — The following release focuses on the topic Home Improvement: LOUISVILLE, Ky.–GE ClimateKeeper2 Refrigeration Technology Keeps it Fresh in the Kitchen (12/01/2004 - 08:00 AM, SOURCE: General Electric Consumer Industrial, NYSE:GE)
A specialty furniture manufacturer and retailer will open a showroom this fall in the Village Park Shopping Center, filling part of the vacancy left by the June 1 closure of Bollingers Books. Dallas-based Leather Center is spending about $50,000 to renovate 5,000 square feet at 10505 N. May Ave. Leasing agent Carl Archiniaco, vice president of Harrison Levy Co., said he will target other home improvement merchants to fill the shopping centers vacancies. He is already talking with a gift shop and framing gallery. “We hope to build around the home improvement theme within the shopping center,” Archiniaco said. “This is a theme that has been proven in many successful specialty shopping centers.”
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MARKETINGThe importance of marketing in the modern business climate cannot be overstated. In fact, management guru Peter F. Drucker has claimed that marketing is so basic it cannot be considered a separate function. It is the whole business seen from the point of view of its final result, that is, from the customers point of view. Marketing is the source of many important new ideas in management thought and practicesuch as flexible manufacturing systems, flat organizational structures, and an increased emphasis on serviceall of which are designed to make businesses more responsive to customer needs and preferences. This suggests that small business owners must master the basics of marketing in order to succeed.In the Macmillan Small Business Handbook, Mark Stevens discussed four main areas of marketing in which entrepreneurs should concentrate their efforts:1) determining the needs of customers through market research; 2) analyzing their own competitive advantages and developing an appropriate market strategy; 3) selecting specific target markets to serve; and 4) determining the best marketing mix to satisfy customer needs. The first three tasks are most appropriately performed when a start-up business is preparing to enter a market, or when an existing business is considering entering a new market or promoting a new product. The marketing mix, on the other hand, includes the main decision areas that an entrepreneur must consider on an ongoing basis. Some elements of the market environment, such as the general economic conditions, are beyond a small business owners control. But he or she can adjust elements of the companys marketing mixwhich consists of the four Ps: product, place, price, and promotionto better fit the market environment.
Earlier this fall, as I was checking out some of my regular Web sites, I came across some ideas worth consideration. Across the nation libraries are in trouble: not enough money; facing a personnel shortage; low pay for library staff because their value is not clearly understood, etc. * Make sure everyone is greeted with a smile and cheerful presence, be it in person or on the phone. * Consider adapting the Wal-Mart concept of a greeter.
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At the beginning of this century, a new advertising industry came of age in the United States. Now, at the turn of the twenty-first century, new global media and audiences are reshaping this industry and the advertising we see. The next frontier is worldwide, and the new media are as open-ended as cyberspace. The tremendous growth of the Internet as an advertising medium has been widely documented in a variety of published articles and reports. Although advertisers still invest more than 45 percent of their media budget in newspaper and television, the Internet Advertising Bureau (IAB) estimates that more than $900 million was spent on Internet advertising in 1997 and projects that the end-of-year figures for 1998 will show an expenditure of at least $2 billion. Business Week predicts that ad spending on the Internet will be close to $8 billion by 2002.1 One important reason why revenue is increasing at such a rapid rate is that many ol the more established and popular Web sites are charging more for their ads. In general, advertisers pay for their ads on a “cost per thousand” (CPM) basis, i.e., advertisers pay a fee for every thousand times their ad is viewed. CPM rates for television range from $5 to $6 per thousand. Compare this tc Web site charges: the average cost for banner ads is $17, but more popular sites can charge a premium of $20 to $22 per thousand for access to their visitors. Advertisers pay more for Internet ads because these sites can deliver a more targeted audience.
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Youngsters arent neglected, and it would be hard to find a kid who wouldnt enjoy a shirt with a ferocious T-Rex on the rampage over the caption “not a happy camper.” A milder approach is the bright red T with a pair of beguiling tree frogs and the identification “tree huggers.” Each shirt bears the magazine logo, the photographers name, and brief information about the creature portrayed. These stunning Ts can be found at museums, zoos, and aquariums. Adult sizes are $18, while youth versions are $14. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED]
“While we have traditionally focused on printed products such as business
cards and postcards, offering a new type of product is exciting for us
because it provides even more flexibility and value to our small business
and consumer customers,” said Janet Holian, chief marketing officer at
VistaPrint. “With VistaPrint, customers can order a customized T-Shirt in a
quantity as low as one and can buy additional T-Shirts in increments of
one. Typically a customer would be required to order dozens of customized
T-Shirts at a time that typically cost over $20 per shirt. VistaPrints
mission has always been to help small businesses market their business.
Spending over $500 ordering two dozen T-Shirts, isnt an option for so many
small businesses. With our new manufacturing capabilities, we now make it
affordable for our small business customers to buy just one customized
full-color T-Shirt for under $10.”
VistaPrints T-Shirts are perfect for small businesses such as
landscaping and painting companies that want to dress their crews with
consistent uniforms that showcase the company logo and message. T-Shirts
are also a great option for youth or adult sports leagues that want to
outfit a team with a corporate or unique logo, family events — including a
family reunion or birthday party — or even a charity or every day event
that customers desire to promote.
Customers can pick from one of more than 300 professionally designed
templates or upload a company logo or multiple photos to a T-Shirt on the
VistaPrint Web site. Designs can be printed in the left chest area or full
front with the option to print on the back. T-Shirts are available in a
number of sizes, including S, M, L, XL, and XXL. They are a high quality,
100% preshrunk cotton Hanes T-Shirt and come in two colors, white and ash
gray. As with most of VistaPrints products, T-Shirts can be designed,
ordered and received in as little as three business days.
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Terry Simnitt Terry Simnitt has joined Coldwell Banker Griffith Blair, Realtors. He will be active in real estate auction and residential sales with his wife, Ruth, who also is an associate at Coldwell Banker Griffith Blair.
There were 45 attendees including agents from Prudential Greater Topeka REALTORS, Topeka, Manhattan, Salina and Overland Park. Janice Price, of Munster, Ind., was the trainer for Prudentials University on Tour.
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> Hooker Furniture of Martinsville, NC, announced it has signed a Letter of intent to purchase the assets of New York-based Opus Designs Furniture LLC, a specialist in youth bedroom furniture. The transaction is expected to be completed by the end of the year. The acquisition would provide a solid foundation for Hooker to build a strong youth bedroom program at more moderate price points, with a more comprehensive product line and with superior sourcing arrangements compared to (Hookers) current SmartKids youth furniture Line, said Paul Toms Jr., chairman, chief executive and president of Hooker.
MFI YESTERDAY blamed a dire end to its key winter sale for plunging like-for-like sales at its core UK retail business. The furniture group, which just three weeks ago guided the market to expect sales to recover, said its “outdated” bedroom ranges had put customers off buying its products. Its shares plunged 3 per cent to 140p. Like-for-like sales across its UK estate fell by 4 per cent from Boxing Day to 21 March, exacerbating the 3 per cent decline that the group reported last month. David Jeary, at Credit Suisse First Boston, said same-store sales must have fallen by 6 to 7 per cent in March, against the managements hopes that they would be flat against the previous year.
Preliminary duties placed on imports of Chinese wood bedroom furniture by the U.S. Department of Commerce may have more of an immediate impact on the lobbying efforts of the Furniture Retailers of America than on buyer behavior. The DOC imposed punitive tariffs on Chinese wood bedroom furniture effective July 17. According to the DOC, the tariffs affect approximately $1.2 billion of wood bedroom furniture that is manufactured in China for sale to the United States each year. Seven Chinese producers, representing approximately 40 percent of all shipments of U.S. Chinese wood bedroom furniture imports, will face duties that range from 4.9% percent to 24.34%. (See box.)
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Business Editors DUBLIN, Ireland–(BUSINESS WIRE)–April 23, 2004 The Rise of the Sports Marketing Industry: the 1990s Saw Sport Go Through a Renaissance with Increased Viewing Figures and Attendances Which Lead to Increased Money in Sport Through Sponsorships or Purchasing Broadcasting Rights
To be successful in business, its imperative to know who the customer is and how they perceive your products and services. This sounds elementary, but the concept is actually complex. Great Lakes Marketing can help businesses identify who a companys customers are, where they are and their desires. The company has experienced 30 percent growth for the past few years and has nearly 100 employees. Dixon says their progress can be attributed to hiring excellent professionals. It has also been helpful to gain contracts with the federal and state governments which have led to other contracts with private manufacturers and pharmaceutical companies. Market research is a way to collect, analyze and interpret information to make better decisions. Businesses uses the statistics gathered to reduce risks, improve existing products, identify new opportunities and areas for improvement. Dixon says, “Improved products and services today are a direct result of corporations talking to customers. Nothing beats learning about your product or service through the eyes of your customer.”
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iCarMagics dealers want one solution to manage and assist them with all customer touchpoints. AutoPencil allows dealers unparallel flexibility in quoting payments while seamlessly working inside iCarMagics Award-Winning CRM Suite, said Keith Latman, CEO of ICarMagic. Our auto dealer customers will now be able to dynamically control sales teams, track customer offers, manage inventory, launch eBay auctions, buy Google keywords, manage the DeskLog and change websites from a single screen. This truly is the silver-bullet solution dealers were waiting for. iCarMagic is the fastest growing customer relationship management software company aimed at the expansive automobile retailing marketplace and is an approved solution for most of the major automobile manufacturers in the United States. The company creates customer relationship software, internet lead management solutions, inventory management systems, websites, DeskLog, AutoPencil and eBay auction services specifically for the automobile retailing industry.
Calendars and pencils were two of Homer Millers main products when he began a sales promotion company in 1945. Companies bought the calendars and pencils, which usually included their name, address and telephone number, as advertising tools. Homer Miller realized he was not selling products - he was selling advertising and helping the companies establish an image, said Rod Miller, Homers son and CEO of the sales promotion and targeted communications company his father started 60 years ago.
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Mr. Martinez has joined Pricewaterhouse Coopers, LLP, Dallas, as manager, healthcare advisory services. Formerly, he was regional director, reimbursement and cost accounting, CHRISTUS Health, Southeast Texas, Beaumont, Texas.
While interviews are a way to evaluate an applicants humanistic skills, there are physical therapy programs that do not incorporate this into their admissions process. Some programs do not feel that the interview has good reliability, validity, or predictive value for academic success. Although minimal, there is research that shows the interview is, in fact, an accurate predictor of clinical performance. In addition to the literature being sparse in this area, there is concern as to the reliability of the interviews. Therefore, this study had 2 purposes: (1) to use applicant interviews and other preadmission factors to differentiate between good and poor clinical performance and (2) to assess the interrater reliability of group interviews. A retrospective analysis of 118 graduates from a baccalaureate physical therapist program was performed. The following preadmission data were used: overall grade point average (GPA), science GPA, GPA within the last 60 hours of course work, interview score, and previous work experience. The following postadmission data were used: physical therapy GPA and overall clinical performance scores. Based on clinical performance, the students were divided into equal quartiles for analysis. The authors utilized analysis of variance, Bonferroni adjustment, and Tukey post hoc analyses. The results revealed that only interview scores and physical therapy GPA were significant in relating to clinical performance. The authors concluded that a reliable and valid preadmission interview may be a good predictor of clinical performance. Based on these findings, the authors are currently weighing the interview score as 40% of the total admission process in their physical therapy program.
She comes to OU Physicians from the Texas Department of Mental Health, where she was a forensic psychiatrist. Sanchez served for three years with the United States Public Health Service, National Health Service Corps.
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Emanuele Pirro paused, took a deep breath, then leaned forward in his chair, elbows on the table, and said, in a very defining tone, “And now I would like to talk about the car . . . . Its diesel- powered.” That said, he waited for a response. Diesel engines, among most Americans, are not associated seriously with high-speed auto racing. For more than 30 minutes, Pirro, fresh off a flight from Italy, had talked about the upcoming Le Mans Series race coming to Miller Motorsports Park this week, about high speeds and hard braking and maximum performance.
Business Editors Tests Show Diesel Fuel Additive Cuts Potentially Harmful Emissions
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SAN JOSE, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–July 10, 1996–FORCE COMPUTERS Inc. will be hosting an open house on Wednesday, July 17 from 3:30-7:30 p.m. for high-tech positions.The company has many positions available in hardware and software engineering, product marketing, MIS, quality assurance, SAP, production, materials, manufacturing engineering and technical support. Anyone interested in attending this open house should bring two copies of his/her resume to the open house.FORCE COMPUTERS Inc. is the leading independent designer and manufacturer of systems and boards for embedded applications. The company is ISO 9001 certified with over 14 years of experience delivering embedded solutions based on SPARC, Intel, PowerPC and 680×0 technology to customers throughout the world. FORCE corporate headquarters are in San Jose. European headquarters are located in Munich, Germany and Japanese headquarters are located in Tokyo, Japan. Sales, service and support are provided on a worldwide basis via direct offices and through a network of distributors and representatives.
Each of these products has a unique Ethernet address. The product also includes software drivers that enable the host computer to define the connection on a PC as a standard COM port. There are more than 50 serial protocols embedded within the product. Along with the BTR interface, it allows communication and network connectivity with virtually any NC/CNC machine control. And also, it can still be used in pass-through or drip feed modes without regard for data source, either local or remote. Greco Systems, El Cajon, California.
Business Editors/Technology Writers FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Jan. 26, 2001 Commenting on the agreement Jason Donahue, President and Chief Executive Officer of TeleComputing said, “We are pleased to expand our existing strategic relationship with Clarus and provide them with our Advanced Web Hosting Architecture, which delivers the level of reliability and availability they need for the most demanding e-commerce and business critical applications.”
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Southwestern Bell is hoping to meet the needs of small and home- based businesses with a new product designed to allow customers to use their computers like a telephone. The company Tuesday announced it has launched its new software, PC Phone Manager, in Oklahoma to offer its customers a way to integrate computers and telephone service. This marks the companys entry into the growing computer telephony integration market — an industry expected to account for $3.3 billion in 1996, according to Rick Wilson, product manager for Southwestern Bell.
Whats new in computer software for painting contractors? Since the last PWC article on software two years ago, many programs have become more user friendly, and software developers have expanded the capabilities of some of their previous offerings based on user feedback. “If you did an estimate using just an electronic calculator and did all the calculations that Expert Estimator does for you, youd go out of business, because it would take a week to do every estimate.” So says Dean Johnson, who set out to develop user friendly software that you can adapt for your individual type of business. Johnson is currently in the process of updating Expert Estimator 2.1, including cosmetic changes that make it easier to use, but the big news is that a totally new release, Expert Estimator 3.0, is scheduled for this summer.
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Terry Simnitt Terry Simnitt has joined Coldwell Banker Griffith Blair, Realtors. He will be active in real estate auction and residential sales with his wife, Ruth, who also is an associate at Coldwell Banker Griffith Blair.
Real estate is a popular investment among Canadians. There are several advantages to investing in real estate. Real estate is leveraged. You may pay only a fraction (as low as 10%) of what the property is worth when you buy it. Real estate has utility. If you buy stocks or bonds, you cannot do anything with them; but when you buy real estate, you can use it until you sell it. For example, you can live in a house.
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TRANSPORTATIONTransportation systems move goods and people around the world. Physical distribution of goods is accomplished by various means: truck, railroad, airplane, ship or boat, and pipeline, or a combination of these methods. Surface and air transportation systems that are widely used to transport people include automobiles, bicycles, rail, air, ship or boat, bus, and rapid-transit systems.Railroads are a low-cost mode of transportation for large quantities of heavy and bulky items. Since rail lines are stationary, other forms of transportation move goods to
Within freight transport, railway transport rose substantially, while maritime transport dropped by a fifth. Transport of goods by railway surged by 14.9%, and the growth of road freight transport remained strong at 7%. The rapid expansion of land transport is explained by the robust domestic GDP growth and the high increase in harbour transport (10.6%). Roughly in the middle of 2006, the global growth of maritime transport eased off, which led to several quarterly decreases in the volume of this form of transport, including the first quarter of 2007, when the volume of Slovenian maritime transport fell by 19.9%. Over the past three years, the volume of road freight transport enjoyed the highest growth (by more than 50%) within freight transport (railway transport rose by 13.8%), while harbour and maritime transport rose by over 30%. Road freight transport is the main transport activity within the transport, storage, and communications sector, which has also seen the biggest expansion in the last few years. In 2006, the three main transport activities within the transport, storage, and communications sector were road freight transport, which employed 35.8% of workers in this sector, railway transport (15.2%), and the shipping industry (6.6%; both companies and sole proprietors are included, and the latter are also counted as employees). The corresponding shares of value added generated in these three branches are 23.3%, 12.0%, and 6.3%. Looking at the structure of workers employed in transport activities within the sector in 2003-2006, the highest increase of 3.2 p.p. was recorded in the share of road freight transport, while the shares of railway transport and shipping declined by 1.3 p.p. and 2.2 p.p., respectively (a similar direction and intensity of changes was also observed in the structure of value added; see graph). The number of employees in the transport segment of the transport, storage, and communications sector rose by 2,053 to 39,028. In 2006, road freight transport employed 18,807 workers, 2,425 more than in 2003. The number of workers in the forwarding industry fell by 950 to 3,445, while the number of railway workers declined by 326 to 7,985. The decline in the volume of the forwarding industry was largely caused by Slovenias entry to the EU. Data regarding both the volume of transport and the size of the activity are unfavourable in terms of sustainable development, since cargo is still largely being moved from railways to roads, rather than the other way around.
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After the alluring Age of Enchantment show, another enticing slice of art history arrives in Dulwich. Coming of Age charts the maturation of a nation in a century of change through literal landscapes, abstract works and Modernist pieces. Among the items on loan from the Addison Gallery of American Art in Massachusetts are the Realist portraits of Thomas Eakins and the lush landscapes of James McNeill Whistler. The 20th-century shift is marked by the likes of the Impressionist Childe Hassam, and later by artists such as the Cubist Stuart Davis. Dulwich Picture Gallery, London SE21, Fri to 8 Jun
Britain was at the dynamic heart of the 19th-century world, which might explain why the experimental art of photography was enthusiastically taken up by so many pioneers. The Lady Lever Art Gallerys exhibition of Victorian photographs includes images of the celebrities of the time, such as Charles Dickens and the politician William Gladstone, as well as the masses enjoying a day out on Yarmouth Sands. It also features work by female artists such as Julia Margaret Cameron (right), who escaped the social restrictions of the time to produce photographs that echo Pre-Raphaelite painters with their intensely romantic focus on female subjects. Lady Lever Art Gallery, Wirral, to 16 Mar-Peter Chapman
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Real Estate Investing 101 8019 Belair Road, Suite 10, Baltimore, MD 21236
Real estate is a popular investment among Canadians. There are several advantages to investing in real estate: * Real estate is leveraged. You may pay only a fraction (as low as 5%) of what the property is worth when you buy it. * Real estate has utility. If you buy stocks or bonds, you cannot do anything with them; but when you buy real estate, you can use it until you sell it. For example, you can live in a house.
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SYRACUSE - From its 40,000-square-foot facility at 701 E. Hiawatha Boulevard, American Limousine of CNY, Inc. sends out a fleet of 20 cars, corporate sedans, limousines, limo buses, and H2 Hummer limousines. “We are the largest operator in New York State excluding the New York City area,” says Joseph R. DiDomenico, CEO and company owner. “We provide transportation for a variety of customers in the Central New York area and beyond.” “Our core business is. corporate meetings, funerals, weddings, proms, and nightsout,” DiDomenico says. “Each type of job brings in pretty much the same percentage of revenue.”
Business Editors/Transportation Writers BERKELEY HEIGHTS, N.J.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–April 29, 2004 Two billion Americans ride in a taxicab or limousine each year, which accounts for more than $10 billion in industry-wide revenue per year(2). The most popular reasons Americans hire a taxicab or limousine service include: general transportation, rides to and from the airport and special occasions such as weddings(3).
The Journal Sentinel staff Lauren Essig is going to prom tonight, but shes less than thrilled about it. “My date is on prom court, so Im going, and its my last dance at high school,” Essig said. What concerns Essig, an 18- year-old senior at Kettle Moraine High School, is the schools new prom transportation rule either take the bus to prom or dont go. Even the traditional limousine ride is out.
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A revolutionary device that tells anxious mothers-to-be exactly when they are about to give birth could be on sale within the year. The labour prediction kit promises to end the agonising uncertainty experienced by expectant women in the final weeks of pregnancy. Its backers claim the labour predictor will one day be as commonplace as the home pregnancy test. It will be available over the counter in chemists for between pounds 20 and pounds 70.
* How often should I see my health care professional during pregnancy? * What kinds of regular diagnostic tests can I expect to have during my pregnancy? The tests at your regular monthly visits with your health care professional likely will include blood tests to check for your blood type, Rh factor, anemia, immunity to rubella (German measles), hepatitis B virus and some sexually transmitted diseases (STDs). Your health care professional may ask whether youve been tested for HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. If you havent been tested, they might suggest you have one, regardless of whether you are in a high-risk category or not. A urine test may be a routine part of every prenatal visit. Results from urine tests give information about sugar (which could be a sign of diabetes), protein (which could signal potential kidney problems) and signs of infection. The first visit also may include a Pap test to detect changes in the cervix that could be an early sign of cancer.
What is a post-term pregnancy? A pregnancy is called post-term when the baby is two weeks past its due date. One out of every 10 to 20 pregnancies is post-term. No one knows what causes some pregnancies to be post-term. It does not seem to be caused by anything a woman does during her pregnancy. A post-term pregnancy does not mean there is anything wrong with the baby.
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Terry Simnitt Terry Simnitt has joined Coldwell Banker Griffith Blair, Realtors. He will be active in real estate auction and residential sales with his wife, Ruth, who also is an associate at Coldwell Banker Griffith Blair.
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[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Much of the problem of making teams successful in the workplace stems from past perceptions of what teams are, and ignorance of the powerful principles underlying them. Teams are a formal way to actualise collaboration. Collaboration is at the heart of successful decision-making, but somehow this fact eludes many organisations. In teams, the sum total of collaboration is greater than what could have been achieved individually. To test this, think of some decision you need to make, then ask someone for his or her thoughts. If you want to really expand the possibilities, get several people together and ask them to discuss the issue. Then take notes. Later, look at your notes and see how many new facts and ideas have been added. Thus, team building is a process of awareness building. Its helping people to understand that they are greater collectively than individually. It is an understanding that most of our decisions will be better when some degree of collaboration is applied.
A GOOD BOOK Title: Team Workout: A Trainers Sourcebook of 50 Team-Building Games and Activities Author: Glenn Parker and Richard Kropp Publisher: AMACOM ISBN: 0-8144-7120-X
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This four-page brochure features the companys BSM C-Series brushless servo motors. Included is information on motor design characteristics, dimensions, performance data, and mounting information. FREE INFO: CIRCLE NO. 508
WEG Electric Motors Corp. has made several improvements to its Top Premium Efficiency line of motors. WEG improved the performance of this line of motors so that all ratings now meet the efficiency levels set by the Consortium for Energy Efficiency (CEE) and its members. These new efficiencies also meet newly announced initiatives of The National Electrical Manufacturers Association (NEMA) and its NEMA Premium product marketing campaign. WEG Top Premium Efficiency TEFC motors are built according to NEMA specifications and are designed for operation in moist or dusty conditions without affecting useful life.
The companys permanent split capacitor (PSC) motor is designed to reduce motor watt and heat gain into the conditioned space. This results in reduced compressor loads with a corresponding reduction in compressor Watts, making the compressor work less and consume less energy, according to the manufacturer. The motors come standard on medium- and high-profile unit coolers, air cooled condensers, and most condensing units. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED]
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The intent behind relationship enrichment programs is to provide participants with new knowledge, skills, and experiences that will, in turn, improve the quality and level of satisfaction of an existing relationship. For the most part, enrichment programs are not intended to address significant problems or clinical issues and are not considered an appropriate substitute for counseling or therapy. Rather, relationship enrichment programs are designed to expand existing relationships that are deemed to be, overall, functional or healthy, based on some criteria. Although programs differ in terms of target population, theoretical orientation, techniques, and methodology, all utilize some sort of structured format consisting of educational or experiential activities, or both. The larger society entrusts counselors, therapists, and other helping professionals with the task of assisting people in their efforts to bring about desired changes in their lives. The work conducted in counseling and related therapeutic and educational activities takes various forms. In many instances the focus of professional intervention is therapeutic. Theories and techniques are employed to ameliorate emotional pain and suffering, improve troubled interpersonal relationships, and support improvement in the overall quality of human life.
In considering the work place, I think my friend Patricia Wyatt, the President of North America for HIT Entertainment, expressed perfectly what we should all strive for when she said, “Whatever my position, Ive worked with all my heart to try to create environments where people feel valued, honored, creative, and part of something that supports them as human beings. While I may not have reached these lofty goals, I continue to do all I can to humanize the workplace. I try to make the motions of my workday filled with artful gestures-thoughtfulness towards my co-workers, and striving to achieve the best results through thoughtful means. I also enjoy trying to inspire my colleagues to reach their highest capabilities and take great joy in seeing what they accomplish.” These are indeed lofty goals, but I believe they are best accomplished by very simple acts of kindness. We should all listen more, be generous with praise, welcome opportunities to assist each other, laugh often and think before we act. How happy we are in life depends very much on how kindly we play the strings of our relationships.
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The term didnt appear in a major American newspaper until 1988 but the Internet has become the most powerful individual electronic communications network in the worlds history. From high-pressure advertising to a brief message from a political prisoner Internet e-mail and World Wide Web sites make it possible for anyone with a computer software and an appropriate connection to speak to the world at the speed of light with the touch of a keypad. In the process the Internet has added a host of new phrases and words such as information superhighway spam hyperlink chat rooms flames and dotcom into the English language and revolutionized the culture. It has also led to serious concerns about the ready access it provides to pornography violence and hate literature the loss of personal privacy it has occasioned the spread of mis-and dis-information and the future of books newspapers and magazines. Yet efforts were underway at the end of the twentieth century to increase the transmission speed of Internet connections still further and to create a second Internet both of which would provide computerized copies of entire feature films and books in seconds and make possible the first practical mix of moving images sound and the printed word.
INTERNETAn internet is a collection of interconnected computers that use networking hardware and software to send and receive data. The Internet is the global network of inter-connected computers and servers available to the public. The World Wide Web is the collection of graphically intensive Web pages that have enabled the Internet to become a societal phenomenon.
An article (December 29, 2003) in The Christian Science Monitor about the Internet has some interesting paragraphs:”After spiking in the 1990s and early 2000s, the percentage of adult Americans online has leveled off in the past two years at 63 percent, says a new study from the Pew Internet and American Life Project. That percentage is expected to rise, but not as quickly has some had imagined.”One key barrier slowing Internet growth is the lack of broadband connections in some areas, says Phillips Gamse, an e-business strategy consultant in Santa Cruz, CA. Broadband allows users to move around the Internet faster, doesnt tie up the phone line, and perhaps most important, can be left on all the time, like other appliances.”
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Aunt Sophie was a teacher who never married. She was the aunt who visited, the only one I recall staying the night in my boyhood home. Visits often meant some small gift for me. When I outgrew toys, she gave me books, then pocket money on the sly. Her colorful talk was always a treat, but a summer trip up to Connecticut seemed a great effort: long check-in lines, delayed flights, airport crowds, risky food, the usual irritations. My wife Nicole phoned from Bordeaux, and I told her about Cashs gathering of the clan, and why. She urged me to make the effort. Suddenly I felt guilty about not being in France with her. But she sounded buoyant. It gave her great pleasure, she said, to see our sons getting reacquainted with their cousins and improving their French. They actually seemed to be enjoying the visit. Before saying goodbye, she told me not to take my family “trop au serieux” on certain subjects, and not to drink too much. I arranged to see an old college friend in Connecticut, caught a plane from Atlanta to Hartford, and rented a car. I drove southeast toward the farm where my father, his three brothers, and four sisters had been born and raised. Stone walls that ran through pastures and woods, white wooden churches, picket fences-the perfect postcard of New England, so familiar, had become strange to me. So had lilac and white birch, which didnt grow in Georgia.
BEST MILITARY-FAMILY DISCOUNT GO! CHOICE: Morale, Welfare and Recreation center, Fort Carson This service provides discounts on dining, recreational- equipment rentals, lift tickets, tickets to local events, mountain- bike trips, rock- and ice-climbing classes and other outdoor- recreational programs to active-duty military and their families. The service also organizes special events and provides youth services on Fort Carson year-round.
The Journal staff Waukesha Shawn Sanders dropped out of school in the ninth grade to help her mother raise younger siblings. The fourth of 12 children, Sanders says she thought she knew it all when it came to parenting. She found out differently after attending the Families Learning Together program at Waukesha County Technical College. The program celebrated its one-year anniversary earlier this week, as Sanders and her 3-year- old daughter, Kayla Heartz, joined other moms and kids in a celebration at WCTCs Waukesha campus, 327 E. Broadway.
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Higdon Furniture offers the industry a variety of guestroom furniture styles from which to choose. The furniture has the look of luxury at a practical price. Headboards, credenzas, nightstands, desks, chairs, armoires, sofas and tables are available, directly delivered on the companys trucks. Circle 326
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World Travel 101 Want to travel on the cheap? Holly Ridenour of Hostelling International, Rocky Mountain Council, will talk about using hostels as inexpensive accommodations while traveling. Her free talk is 7- 8:30 p.m. Thursday at REI, 1376 E. Woodmen Road. Call 260-1455 for information.
Ask an expert A Colorado Springs woman who decided to drive to Denver instead of flying the first leg of her trip to Chicago showed up at DIA only to find her entire trip had been canceled by the airline. How did this happen? Local travel agent Tim Lange gets asked questions like this all the time. Hes a member of the Rocky Mountain Chapter of the American Society of Travel Agents, and if he doesnt have an answer, hell find one.
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IN the ever-changing world of business, legal intricacies are common. In fact, it is becoming ever more complex, making it challenging for executives not equipped with adequate legal knowledge. Providing solutions with an in-depth analysis of legalistic approach is one of the trainings given to graduates with legal degrees. Realising this, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysias (UKM) Faculty of Law, in collaboration with the Centre for Educational Extension (PKP) of UKM, offers a Master in Business Law (MBL). The programme is to fulfil the legal disparity of the executives in meeting the challenge of solving legal problems in an increasingly complex and dynamic international business environment.
The report also noted that the countys payouts in medical malpractice lawsuits dropped from $15 million to $9 million and general liabilities fell from $41 million to $13 million.
As Gemstar-TV Guide International Inc. re-launches a bigger version of its television programming guide, the company faces rising legal costs associated with a Securities and Exchange Commission inquiry of its former officers. Several former officers, including founder Henry Yuen, are under investigation by the SEC for inflating licensing revenues. The trial has been put on hold as both sides battle over whether their severance payments may be frozen. For the April-June period, Gemstar reduced legal expenses by $5.8 million to $600,000. But the company also filed a complaint last month against its former insurance carriers alleging they have failed to pay claims filed under its policies.
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Washington, DC Web site under construction NALFA has 8 regular members and 7 associate supplier members Business is excellent, said E.C. Bill Dearing, president of NALFA, which was founded in January 1997. Laminate floors continue to be the most successful category in the entire flooring industry in terms of advancement.
Of course, the ultimate judge and jury of a products worth in this great free-enterprise nation of ours are consumers. This year, U.S. consumers are expected to spend between $80 million and $100 million on laminate flooring, which translates to about 1 percent of the U.S. residential flooring industry. That may not sound like much, but as E.C. Bill Dearing, president of the North American Laminate Flooring Assn., pointed out, If you consider that four years ago the category share was really nothing and as little as a year and a half ago it was not measurable, this is a highly significant achievement.Dearing, who is also manager of new product development for Perstorp Flooring, was among the presenters at the Second Essentials of Laminate Flooring technical seminar sponsored by NALFA, the Laminating Materials Assn. and Wood Wood Products. The program, held Sept. 15 in Chicago, brought together some 100 interested manufacturers and suppliers for what Dearing referred to as the most dramatic consumer product I have ever had anything to do with.Dearing, who said he sees laminate flooring competing more against vinyl flooring than hardwood floors, said he thinks achieving 5 percent market share by 2000 is doable. I have never seen anything grow this fast, he said.
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VENTURA, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–June 8, 1999– Kinkos Tuesday announced that a new scanning and image-hosting service is now available at its branches in North America. The new service will easily convert photographs, illustrations or diagrams into digital images and store those images for use on the Internet.
Business Editors Sharper Image Corp. (Nasdaq:SHRP) today announced that it will host a Web cast replay of the Annual Shareholders meeting to be held on June 3, 2002. Richard Thalheimer, chairman, founder and chief executive officer, Tracy Wan, president and chief operating officer, and Jeff Forgan, executive vice president and chief financial officer, will present at this years annual meeting.
THE MUCH-CRITICISED host of the Winter Olympics, Salt Lake City, has been involved in last-minute efforts to boost the venues image ahead of tonights opening ceremony. The citizens of Salt Lake City in Utah have been taken back by recent reports which have variously described their home as “the strangest state in America”, “puritanical”, “a theocracy”, “holier- than-thou Hicksville” and “Dullsville”. Some have even suggested that the thousands of hotel beds that remain unsold are the result of the bad publicity, even though organisers warned months ago the event would not sell out. This week the local paper, the Salt Lake Tribune, said in one of its editorials: “Get used to it, Utah. This Olympic thing hasnt even officially started yet and already much of the worlds media is ripping on us, dredging up the old Mormon cliches, reinforcing the stereotypes.” Faced by adverse publicity, members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints are maintaining a sense of humour.
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- Real estate - B.J. McGivern was honored as Valley Inc. Realtors top sales associate for the month of September. For more information about McGivern, call 233-4222 or B.J. McGivern.realtor.com. - Harold Herrick has joined Countrywide Realty Inc. of Topeka, specializing in commercial and residential real estate.
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Memorabilia fans are in for a tremendous opportunity as Paid, Inc.s (BULLETIN BOARD: PAYD) Rotman Auction concurrently hosts an Autograph Authentication Day and sports Cards collectibles Buying Day on May 16th, 11a.m. - 4 p.m. at Rotman Auction, 4 Brussels St., Worcester, Mass. Owners of autographed sports, entertainment, historical and political memorabilia can have their autographed items authenticated by one of the worlds foremost autograph experts - PSA/DNAs Jimmy Spence. Additionally collectors can sell non-autographed or autographed memorabilia and collectibles of all types for CA$H to Rotman Auction. As a means to enhance the value of their autographed memorabilia and ensure their authenticity, memorabilia, collectors can submit autographed items for authentication by Jimmy Spence, lead authenticator for PSA/DNA. PSA/DNA, a division of publicly held Collectors Universe , is the worlds leading and largest third-party sports card authentication service. Spences years of expertise and knowledge in the trade have established an impeccable reputation for providing professional, unbiased, expert opinions. PSAs permanent grading standard is recognized industry-wide as the best possible form of consumer protection. Each item submitted for autograph authentication will be thoroughly examined by Jimmy Spence. On items deemed authentic, PSA/DNA will apply invisible DNA laced-ink, in conjunction with its tamper-evident label and matching Certificate of Authenticity (COA) - the PSA/DNA security matrix that thwarts counterfeiting, forgery and piracy of high-value collectibles. PSA/DNA guarantees the COA will be accepted by any major auction house or the authentication fee will be refunded.
NORTHBROOK, Ill. — Artist Carlo Beninati and publisher Midwest Estate Buyers (MEB) have released two new exclusive fine art projects featuring sports stars Tiger Woods and Michael Jordon. Tiger Roars is the first worldwide authorized limited-edition fine art print signed by golfer Woods. It has been produced in a mixed-media serigraph edition of 250 on canvas. Upper Deck Authenticated (UDA), an autograph authentication company, granted Beninati and MEB the rights to document and produce the prints. UDA authenticates the signature of each print with its patented five-step process. The validity of the autograph is also documented through the use of Pen-Cam, UDA technology that records the stars in the action of signing prints on digital video.
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Demand for the six-year instruments, which were denominated in pesos, doubled the offering. The Mexican government sold $1 billion in 10-year bonds in international markets. Even the corporate sector is in on the trend. Telefonos de Mexico, a Mexican telecommunications company, sold $1.30 billion in debt on Wall Street. Grupo Posadas, a Mexican hotel chain, offered in the United States $75 million in bonds due in 2011. That sale came only three months after a $125 million issue in October 2004.
MARKETING; if Google hits are any indication of celebrity, then chief marketing officers arent doing very much to market themselves. So says a Light Reading survey, which it launched after hearing that Alcatel appointed Alan Mottram as its new CMO, replacing the retiring Ron Spithill. It seems that Mottrams name (as president of Alcatels fixed solutions division) generated almost twice as many Google hits as Spithill (score: 996 to 499). What does all this mean? Were not sure, except that Google comes in handy on really slow news days.
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This surely has to go down in someones book as one of lifes most embarrassing moments. The citys Human Relations Commission scheduled a conference for last Thursday on “fair housing,” where, among other things, accessible housing for the disabled would be discussed. The meeting had to be postponed when disability advocates pointed out that the organizers had failed to provide sign-language interpreters and program materials in Braille as required by the Americans with Disabilities Act.
Its the request small business owners have nightmares about”Im having back trouble, so I need you to order me this $800 chair.” A new state law requires employers with six or more employees to make reasonable accommodations for workers with disabilities. The new law may leave many small employers wondering, “Just how accommodating do I have to be?” New Hampshire employers previously had to meet federal requirements under the Americans with Disabilities Act, which applied to businesses with 15 or more employees. Last year, the NH Legislature passed a law requiring those reasonable accommodations be made by businesses with six or more employees.
Under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), employers are required to accommodate physical and mental disabilities of present and prospective employees. It is unlawful to refuse a job to an applicant or employee whose disability can be reasonably accommodated. Traditionally, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) - which enforces the ADA - has taken the position that a potentially significant interference with a major life activity makes a person disabled, even if the condition is corrected (by glasses for seeing, for example). The United States Supreme Court recently rejected the EEOC position. The Court says that all corrective measures must be taken into account in determining whether a person actually has a disability. Thus, the fact that a person may be legally blind without glasses is immaterial if 20/20 vision can be accomplished with glasses. Sutton v. United Airlines Inc. is a case that I previously discussed in Pit Quarry: Understanding ADA (December 1998). The case, which I referred to as the twin sisters case, had not yet reached the Supreme Court.
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Since scattering by molecules and particles is several fold higher at shorter than at longer wavelength it is not surprising that the percentage of diffuse UV-B is generally higher than that of UV-A. Furthermore, autumn and winter have the highest UV-B percentage of the global UV due to higher pathlength through the atmosphere, although the absolute values are lower in winter than in summer. Nevertheless under tree shadow the diffuse UV-B radiation ranges between 23% at noon in the spring to 59% in the afternoon at wintertime, whereas in the UV-A this range is between 17% and 31%. Within a season the percentage of diffuse UV-B was lower at noon than in the morning or in the afternoon, given with 58%, 62% and 71% respectively based on the average of all measurements whereas in the UV-A this percentages were 51%, 52% and 59%. The authors conclude that even in a shadow of a tree the percentages of diffuse UV are about 20% to 30% higher than in the full sun. Since UV-B radiation has been reported to increase cataracts and other eye diseases even at low UV-B exposures it was recommended to protect the eyes from lateral diffuse UV-B radiation especially in the shade by wearing sunglasses with lateral shields.
Casebook Friends in Australia told us about clothes that have an ultraviolet protection rating. Does this apply to normal childrens clothes?
ENGLEWOOD CLIFFS, N.J. — ENGLEWOOD CLIFFS, N.J., June 18 /PRNewswire/ — Ready or not, here it comes! June 21st, officially the first day of summer, is around the corner, and if you havent already planned out your sun protection strategy, now is the time. Applying sun screen and covering up with a T-shirt may seem like complete sun protection, but are you really shielded from the damaging rays of the sun? The fact is, you may not be. Harmful ultraviolet (UV) rays can actually penetrate clothing — particularly light-colored cotton T-shirts — and leave you vulnerable to skin damage. Most people believe their clothing gives them adequate protection from the sun, stated Dr. Perry Robins, president of The Skin Cancer Foundation. Unfortunately, that is not always the case. In fact, many white cotton T-shirts, a summertime wardrobe staple, only provide an ultraviolet protection factor of 5. That is significantly less than the recommended UPF of 15 and puts the wearer at risk for skin damage. There are two types of ultraviolet rays commonly associated with skin cancer: UVA and UVB. UVB rays can cause a visible burn and UVA rays penetrate more deeply into skin, causing skin to age. Over time, both types of ultraviolet rays may cause more serious skin problems, including skin cancer. Protecting yourself from both types of UV rays can help reduce your risk of developing skin cancer from sun exposure.
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[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Much of the problem of making teams successful in the workplace stems from past perceptions of what teams are, and ignorance of the powerful principles underlying them. Teams are a formal way to actualise collaboration. Collaboration is at the heart of successful decision-making, but somehow this fact eludes many organisations. In teams, the sum total of collaboration is greater than what could have been achieved individually. To test this, think of some decision you need to make, then ask someone for his or her thoughts. If you want to really expand the possibilities, get several people together and ask them to discuss the issue. Then take notes. Later, look at your notes and see how many new facts and ideas have been added. Thus, team building is a process of awareness building. Its helping people to understand that they are greater collectively than individually. It is an understanding that most of our decisions will be better when some degree of collaboration is applied.
A GOOD BOOK Title: Team Workout: A Trainers Sourcebook of 50 Team-Building Games and Activities Author: Glenn Parker and Richard Kropp Publisher: AMACOM ISBN: 0-8144-7120-X
Beginning in 2001 James Naylor P.E., special projects manager at Marine Corps Base (MCB) Quantico, led the charge to modernize the bases ailing infrastructure with efficient, decentralized heating plants. The poor condition of the steam and condensate piping resulted in substantial energy loss, building damage, and a mounting deferred-maintenance liability. Within three years, new heating plants serving 125 buildings (3.5 million sq ft) had been installed and placed in operation. The central steam system was decommissioned, and measurement and verification (MV) confirms that the project saves more than $3.9 million/yr in costs for utilities and OM. Taking utility cost escalation into account, the total savings over the life of the project will exceed $120 million. The total ESPC cost, which MCB Quantico repays out of its utility budget as annual savings, is $31.5 million and includes construction as well as OM over the 23-year contract term.
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During the late 19th century, climbers who conquered Alpine peaks such as the Matterhorn and Mont Blanc managed to do so without the benefit of synthetic fleeces and lightweight tents. Indeed, one of their number, the Italian Vittorio Sella, even lugged his old- fashioned camera with him every step of the way. It was worth the effort, though, as his stunning records of the views from the top confirm. Frozen in Time is an exhibition of the epic pictures Sella took, first in Europe and later in north Africa, Alaska and the Himalayas. Estorick Collection, London N1, Wed to 14 Sept
David Sandison, picture editor of The Independent on Sunday, was the runner-up in the Photo Essay category of the Nikon Press Awards.
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34-year-old captures first place in biking event after earlier win in Governors Cup Cylcists competing in the Sunflower State Games mountain bike races make ground on the flatland portion of McLennan Park, the site of Sundays races.
Bikes are magical, says Lee Ravenscroft amid piles of tires, handlebars, gear boxes, and buckets of chains in the unheated warehouse of Working Bikes Cooperative. The all-volunteer group takes donated and discarded bikes, repairs them, and then distributes them locally and internationally. The cooperative has working relationships with nongovernmental organizations in Latin America and Africa. In April, the three-year-old group plans to ship several hundred bikes to Angola. And it recently managed to send a volunteer to Ghana in addition to bicycles. In the Third World, bikes help farmers deliver produce and enable children to go to better schools, Ravenscroft says. Nick Colombo, a college student and volunteer, says that Working Bikes Cooperative is a good introduction to the subversive yet innocuous rebel subculture of people who like bikes. We take garbage and make it usable, he says.
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For the past several years printing technology has been radically changing the printing industry, and while many printing companies are reluctant to invest in new, state-of-the-art equipment and software out of concern for their return on investment, Print Tech believes it is essential. Print Tech has always considered itself a leader in the quick printing area, and to grow within that arena the company understands that it must evolve within the industry. With that understanding, Print Tech is now offering its customers PrintFLEX(TM), a Web-to-print document customization technology. Print Tech has been working on this technology for the past two years and invested millions to bring its clients to the cutting edge of customized business and marketing communications. “Print Tech has developed PrintFLEX(TM), a technology that will set the benchmark for all print marketing customization, or as we like to say variable data printing on steroids,” says Russell Evans, CEO. “With traditional print, direct marketing returns of .5% to 2% are the norm. PrintFLEX(TM) customization, however, has proven results 10 times the norm and has seen response rates of over 20%. Its about helping our customers market and communicate more successfully to their current and potential clients.”
Business Editors/High-Tech Writers REDWOOD CITY, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–May 4, 2000 eFax.coms two million subscribers can now access iPrint.coms business printing services via a link on the eFax.com Web site. iPrint.com lets eFax.com members easily create and order printing supplies such as custom stationery, business checks, and signs and banners at prices that are up to 50% less than traditional quick print shop rates. Members also get 25% off any other iPrint.com product when they order their free business cards or address labels.
HP has responded to the trend for colour adoption in in-house marketing, with the recent launch of a suite of high performance LaserJets, OfficeJet all-in-ones and printers, and ScanJets - 17 new imaging and printing products in all.
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Abstract painter showcased in the 1960 exhibition Situation A defining moment in contemporary art on a par with Damien Hirsts 1988 show “Freeze”, “Situation” brought a generation of British abstract painters to the public eye. Among the 20 artists in the show were such soon-to-be-big names as William Turnbull, John Hoyland and Bridget Riley. So, too, was John Plumb, whose name has been largely consigned to footnotes. The reason for this is in part historical. No sooner had the “Situation” painters established themselves in the British mind than the art market was swept by the vagaries of Pop. The 1970s were not a good time for abstractionists, and Plumb was among many artists who found the sudden eclipse of their style hard to take. Born and raised in the car-making town of Luton, he had served an apprenticeship as an auto-stylist trainee at Vauxhall Motors. This pragmatic pedigree informed both his own work and his approach to art-making in general. (At the height of his success in 1964, Plumb took time out of the studio to design a fabric, “Chiricahna”, for Heals department store.)
A new line of products is designed for plumbing maintenance in restaurants. All-natural Microcat removes obstructions in pipes, elbows, traps and drains without redeposits of fats, oils and greases in sewers or treatment plants. The products come as either dry powders or liquids, contain naturally occurring, safe microorganisms.
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By ANN MARIE BUSH Illustration by CHRIS OCHSNER The Capital- Journal Where can we go in Kansas? Selecting a destination can be a tedious task. The best solution> Ask your kid. Picking the right destination and taking the time to plan
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