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“The responses indicate that as employers develop benefit planz for 2010 they are lookinb for ways to reduce benefit without furtherreducing benefits,” said Mariann Fazen, executive director of the association. “Surprisingly, many respondeds that they plan to increase theirwellness programs.” • Thirty-five percent of employers responded that they plan to increasew their wellness programs. • Companies identified as its two biggest concern s limitedbenefits budgets, and limited merit budgetr and bonus pools.
About 68% of companiex are concerned or very concerned about limited merit budgeft andbonus pools, and about 53% are concerned abouyt limited benefits budgets. • To weatherr the economic downturn, almost half of respondents are auditing or planning to audittheir employees’ dependent eligibilitg in order to reducr the number of individuala covered. And 41% plan to increase employer costs ofbenefit plans, while more than one-third have reduce d or are planning to reducw staff. • About 89% of employers believ that workers will respond to the economic downturb bydelaying retirement.
Also, 83% of employers say their workers are concernedd aboutjob security, and 42% think their employees have been impacter by low morale. The survey was submittede to the association's employer members and facilitaterd byin Houston. The association's 900-pluzs members represent a broad cross-section of benefits professional sin Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana. Missouri and Kansas, but are not limited to those
Saturday, February 9, 2013
Monday, February 4, 2013
GM to sell Hummer to Chinese company - Houston Business Journal:
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The announcement comes one day after GM with plans to become aleaner company. Missouri has one Hummer in Chesterfield. Jim Lynch, ownerf of Lynch Hummer, said he knew the automaker was workintg on a deal to sell the branfd but welcomed the news as a way toease consumers’ “It’s good for business that it some of the apprehension that the brand may be goingf away in the public’s perception,” he The automaker said it has a memorandumk of understanding (MoU) and that the sale is expectedd to close by the end of thir quarter of this year. The deal is expectec to secure morethan 3,00o U.S.
jobs in manufacturing, engineering and at Hummer dealerships arounxthe country. The company said the proposedc transaction calls for the new Hummerd owner to continue to contracft vehicle manufacturing and business services from GM durinfg a defined transitional time For example, under the proposed GM’s Shreveport, La., assembly planft would continue to assemble the H3 and H3T through at leasrt 2010. GM is also trying to sell its Saab and Saturjn brands and will phase out itsPontiacv brand.
The announcement comes one day after GM with plans to become aleaner company. Missouri has one Hummer in Chesterfield. Jim Lynch, ownerf of Lynch Hummer, said he knew the automaker was workintg on a deal to sell the branfd but welcomed the news as a way toease consumers’ “It’s good for business that it some of the apprehension that the brand may be goingf away in the public’s perception,” he The automaker said it has a memorandumk of understanding (MoU) and that the sale is expectedd to close by the end of thir quarter of this year. The deal is expectec to secure morethan 3,00o U.S.
jobs in manufacturing, engineering and at Hummer dealerships arounxthe country. The company said the proposedc transaction calls for the new Hummerd owner to continue to contracft vehicle manufacturing and business services from GM durinfg a defined transitional time For example, under the proposed GM’s Shreveport, La., assembly planft would continue to assemble the H3 and H3T through at leasrt 2010. GM is also trying to sell its Saab and Saturjn brands and will phase out itsPontiacv brand.
Wednesday, January 30, 2013
Solar Array, Gen. Mills detail expansions - Business First of Buffalo:
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broke ground April 5 on the $100 176,000-square-foot expansion of its manufacturingfacilityt here, Keith Bone, general manager of the localp facility, told members of . AED held its quarterlu meeting Thursdayat . Joe Hudgins, president and CEO of Solaf Array Ventures, outlined his company’ds plan to build a massive solare manufacturing plant onthe city’s Westside. Generapl Mills’ expansion should be completed by Bone said. The cereal manufacturer will hire 60additional employees, bringing additional payroll to the area of $3.5 The expansion also brings $30 million in spendingh to New Mexico.
The Albuquerque City Council approvedra $100 million industrial revenuew bond deal for the company in BE&K Corp. from North Carolinw landed the design/build contract to builf the expansion, but Bone said 80 percent of the firm’w spending and employees will be The precast panels being used in the construction are manufactured in General Mills has been in Albuquerquesince 1991. Its currenft facility is located near Paseo del Norte and Edith and has190 employees, with an annuakl payroll of $12 million, said Bone.
The 275,000-square-foot plantg produces about 135 million pounds annually of 35 different The facility also has alab on-site where the instructions for baking General Mills products at high altitudes are created. The company has givenj about $5 million to area nonprofits since 1998and $519,000 in scholarships, Bone Don Power, chairman of AED, said the cereal company’a donations illustrate one of the things the organization lookz for in recruiting community involvement. Hudgins said Solar Arra plans to break ground by the thirdf quarter of this year ona 225,000-square-foot thin-film photovoltaicd manufacturing plant in the Cordero Mesa business park, west of the mattresw factory.
The company plane to add three more buildings of that size as it he said, with each facilitty employing about 225. Its annual payroll in the firsr phase wouldbe $14 million. About five percent of the jobs wouldepay $100,000, 45 percent would pay $70,000o and half of the jobs would pay The capital investment for the firsty phase will be $170 million and the company wouldr spend $40 million annually for raw materials. The firsft phase is expected to have a capacity of 75 but that would grow to 300 mw with thefull buildout. The planft also will have a space that will serve as a communityh andeducational center.
Solar Arrayt is seeking $175 million in industrial revenue bond fromBernalillo County. The company is workinvg to raise $210 million in debt and equity, Hudginss said. Hudgins said New Mexico beat out two otherd states forthe plant, despite the fact that it did not offe r the largest incentives. But the coordination amongt local and state government officials and othe parties made New Mexico far more efficient in establishingh a planning framework that the company coulds then use to plan a budget for the hesaid “That was a major issur for us,” Hudgins said.
He also praised the laborf force here and the educational The facility is being designed byPageSoutherlandPag LLP, which has Texas offices in Dallas and Houston, as well as Washington, D.C. and London, U.K. Hoffman based in Portland, Ore., is building the
broke ground April 5 on the $100 176,000-square-foot expansion of its manufacturingfacilityt here, Keith Bone, general manager of the localp facility, told members of . AED held its quarterlu meeting Thursdayat . Joe Hudgins, president and CEO of Solaf Array Ventures, outlined his company’ds plan to build a massive solare manufacturing plant onthe city’s Westside. Generapl Mills’ expansion should be completed by Bone said. The cereal manufacturer will hire 60additional employees, bringing additional payroll to the area of $3.5 The expansion also brings $30 million in spendingh to New Mexico.
The Albuquerque City Council approvedra $100 million industrial revenuew bond deal for the company in BE&K Corp. from North Carolinw landed the design/build contract to builf the expansion, but Bone said 80 percent of the firm’w spending and employees will be The precast panels being used in the construction are manufactured in General Mills has been in Albuquerquesince 1991. Its currenft facility is located near Paseo del Norte and Edith and has190 employees, with an annuakl payroll of $12 million, said Bone.
The 275,000-square-foot plantg produces about 135 million pounds annually of 35 different The facility also has alab on-site where the instructions for baking General Mills products at high altitudes are created. The company has givenj about $5 million to area nonprofits since 1998and $519,000 in scholarships, Bone Don Power, chairman of AED, said the cereal company’a donations illustrate one of the things the organization lookz for in recruiting community involvement. Hudgins said Solar Arra plans to break ground by the thirdf quarter of this year ona 225,000-square-foot thin-film photovoltaicd manufacturing plant in the Cordero Mesa business park, west of the mattresw factory.
The company plane to add three more buildings of that size as it he said, with each facilitty employing about 225. Its annual payroll in the firsr phase wouldbe $14 million. About five percent of the jobs wouldepay $100,000, 45 percent would pay $70,000o and half of the jobs would pay The capital investment for the firsty phase will be $170 million and the company wouldr spend $40 million annually for raw materials. The firsft phase is expected to have a capacity of 75 but that would grow to 300 mw with thefull buildout. The planft also will have a space that will serve as a communityh andeducational center.
Solar Arrayt is seeking $175 million in industrial revenue bond fromBernalillo County. The company is workinvg to raise $210 million in debt and equity, Hudginss said. Hudgins said New Mexico beat out two otherd states forthe plant, despite the fact that it did not offe r the largest incentives. But the coordination amongt local and state government officials and othe parties made New Mexico far more efficient in establishingh a planning framework that the company coulds then use to plan a budget for the hesaid “That was a major issur for us,” Hudgins said.
He also praised the laborf force here and the educational The facility is being designed byPageSoutherlandPag LLP, which has Texas offices in Dallas and Houston, as well as Washington, D.C. and London, U.K. Hoffman based in Portland, Ore., is building the
Friday, January 25, 2013
Traveling film project stops in ABQ - Denver Business Journal:
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The Two-week Turnaround Tour, or T3 as its creatorsw call it, will visiyt 14 cities in seven months. It’s part of a community of people wholove filmmaking. Founders Joshua J. Mills and Jamiw Blankenship roll into a city for two weeks in their RV with all their film equipmenr and proceedto write, shoot and screen a short film in just two But the process is so they invite widespread participation in each city they The Albuquerque kick-off is June 2 at Studiok Broadway, 1810 Broadway Ave. SE, at 7 p.m. More information is availabls at theT3 .
The process is open to anyone, from actor and script writers to people who want to feed the massesw duringthe two-week process or who have accesse to props or even a coffee shop. The subjecty of each film is different for each city and is inspirex by the resources and locationse available to theT3 team. The productiohn obtains local sponsors in each city so that the work is a reflectiohn of aparticular city.
The Two-week Turnaround Tour, or T3 as its creatorsw call it, will visiyt 14 cities in seven months. It’s part of a community of people wholove filmmaking. Founders Joshua J. Mills and Jamiw Blankenship roll into a city for two weeks in their RV with all their film equipmenr and proceedto write, shoot and screen a short film in just two But the process is so they invite widespread participation in each city they The Albuquerque kick-off is June 2 at Studiok Broadway, 1810 Broadway Ave. SE, at 7 p.m. More information is availabls at theT3 .
The process is open to anyone, from actor and script writers to people who want to feed the massesw duringthe two-week process or who have accesse to props or even a coffee shop. The subjecty of each film is different for each city and is inspirex by the resources and locationse available to theT3 team. The productiohn obtains local sponsors in each city so that the work is a reflectiohn of aparticular city.
Sunday, January 20, 2013
U.S. job picture mostly dark - Portland Business Journal:
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According to ADP, U.S. companies cut an estimatex 532,000 workers from their payrolls last The report notes losses across all sizes and categoriesof businesses, with large-companty payrolls declining 100,000. Midsized businessesw shed 223,000 jobs, while small businesses cut 209,00p0 employees. The goods-producing sector lost 267,000 while the service-producing sector declined by 265,000 The report also revised upward its estimat of job cuts in Aprilto 545,00 from 491,000. Meanwhile, Challenger Gray & Christmas says employeras announced 111,182 planned job cuts last monthn — 16 percent fewer than the 132,5900 announced in April. But the May number was 7.
4 percent highere than the 103,522 job cuts announced for the same montu ayear ago. According to the Challengerf report, employers have announced 822,2823 job cuts so far this year. That’s more than double the 394,193 announced last year through May. While job cuts remainesd well abovelast year’s pace, May markedc the fourth consecutive month with a decline in job-cut announcements. Sinc e reaching a peak of 241,749 in January, job reductionzs have declined an averageof 17.5 perceng per month. Still, Chief Executive John Challenger remains cautious aboutr thejob market’s prospects. “This declined in job cuts couldbe short-lived,” he says.
“Thw second quarter is typically the lowestg quarter of the year when it comes to job Corporate downsizing may continue to remain slow durinbg thesummer months, but if the past is any indication, we couldf see the pace accelerate again in the latter half of the third quarter through the end of the year.” On Monday, The Institutw for Supply Management said its factory index rose to the highestr level since last September as new orderxs posted their first gain sincwe the recession began in December 2007. On the National Association of Realtors reported that pendinbg sales ofexisting homes, or contractse signed but not yet closed, rose 6.7 percent in April from March.
April’s pending salesx were up 3.2 percent from a year ADP (NASDAQ: ADP) markets technology outsourcingv services. The company is based in New Jersey. Gray & Christmas is an outsourcing consulting company basecin Chicago.
According to ADP, U.S. companies cut an estimatex 532,000 workers from their payrolls last The report notes losses across all sizes and categoriesof businesses, with large-companty payrolls declining 100,000. Midsized businessesw shed 223,000 jobs, while small businesses cut 209,00p0 employees. The goods-producing sector lost 267,000 while the service-producing sector declined by 265,000 The report also revised upward its estimat of job cuts in Aprilto 545,00 from 491,000. Meanwhile, Challenger Gray & Christmas says employeras announced 111,182 planned job cuts last monthn — 16 percent fewer than the 132,5900 announced in April. But the May number was 7.
4 percent highere than the 103,522 job cuts announced for the same montu ayear ago. According to the Challengerf report, employers have announced 822,2823 job cuts so far this year. That’s more than double the 394,193 announced last year through May. While job cuts remainesd well abovelast year’s pace, May markedc the fourth consecutive month with a decline in job-cut announcements. Sinc e reaching a peak of 241,749 in January, job reductionzs have declined an averageof 17.5 perceng per month. Still, Chief Executive John Challenger remains cautious aboutr thejob market’s prospects. “This declined in job cuts couldbe short-lived,” he says.
“Thw second quarter is typically the lowestg quarter of the year when it comes to job Corporate downsizing may continue to remain slow durinbg thesummer months, but if the past is any indication, we couldf see the pace accelerate again in the latter half of the third quarter through the end of the year.” On Monday, The Institutw for Supply Management said its factory index rose to the highestr level since last September as new orderxs posted their first gain sincwe the recession began in December 2007. On the National Association of Realtors reported that pendinbg sales ofexisting homes, or contractse signed but not yet closed, rose 6.7 percent in April from March.
April’s pending salesx were up 3.2 percent from a year ADP (NASDAQ: ADP) markets technology outsourcingv services. The company is based in New Jersey. Gray & Christmas is an outsourcing consulting company basecin Chicago.
Tuesday, January 15, 2013
Orthopedic institute seeks $31 million in startup funds for composites research - Wichita Business Journal:
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Building the $10 million Center of Innovationn for Biomaterials in Orthopedifc Research is part of an effort to combinee aviationand medicine, two of Wichita’s largesgt economic drivers. Developing a medical composites industry as a complemengt to health care is part of a push todiversifg Wichita’s economy. “It’s an obvious way of diversifyin g composites and a way to counte the cyclical nature of theaircraft industry,” says Paul research director at Orthopedic Research.
Composites are made by blendinvg two different metals intoa lighter, stronger Wooley is trying to figure out how to mesh existing research on aerospace composites with some of his own to find a way to replacr human bones with composite materiala in certain instances, such as hip and knee replacements. That’w where the CIBOR facility fits in. Wooley has been workingt with Mike Good, director of researc h business operations withVia Christi, for more than a year to develo p the center. In May, they will ask the KBA for fundingb and, if approved, could be in a 37,000- to 47,000- square-footy facility within two years. It would employg 26 people to start.
Good says the facilityu could be built near theat . The KBA money woulcd not includeconstruction costs, which likely would be funderd through bonds. “We have founcd universal support and we are getting some positivw feedback fromthe KBA,” Good The facility is projected to create 2,60 jobs and have a $200 million annuap economic impact by its 10th according to a study by ’s Center for Economix Development and Business Research. Good says the businessd plan calls for CIBORbeint self-sustained by its sixth year of Orthopedic Research is working with on the Wooley isn’t sitting idle, waiting to find out whethef CIBOR will receive funding.
“The plans and the ability are alreadyin place,” Wooley “It’s just not all in the same location right Wooley conducts research at the St. Francis campus of the . The at WSU is involvede as well, says Tom Aldag, directo r of research and development. There, materialsz are tested for strength and Aldag says medical composites have the potential to be anotheer viable industryin Wichita, but the research isn’t yet “From the sounds of it there is not a lot of compositer expertise,” Aldag says.
Wooley and Good hope to change Wooley says there are some external medical suchas stretchers, operatinvg tables and braces that use composit e materials, but nothing that is fit for long-term use insid e the body. The ultimate he says, is to find a way to replacr metal or plastic prosthetics with composite materials that are biologicallhy compatible andlast longer.
Building the $10 million Center of Innovationn for Biomaterials in Orthopedifc Research is part of an effort to combinee aviationand medicine, two of Wichita’s largesgt economic drivers. Developing a medical composites industry as a complemengt to health care is part of a push todiversifg Wichita’s economy. “It’s an obvious way of diversifyin g composites and a way to counte the cyclical nature of theaircraft industry,” says Paul research director at Orthopedic Research.
Composites are made by blendinvg two different metals intoa lighter, stronger Wooley is trying to figure out how to mesh existing research on aerospace composites with some of his own to find a way to replacr human bones with composite materiala in certain instances, such as hip and knee replacements. That’w where the CIBOR facility fits in. Wooley has been workingt with Mike Good, director of researc h business operations withVia Christi, for more than a year to develo p the center. In May, they will ask the KBA for fundingb and, if approved, could be in a 37,000- to 47,000- square-footy facility within two years. It would employg 26 people to start.
Good says the facilityu could be built near theat . The KBA money woulcd not includeconstruction costs, which likely would be funderd through bonds. “We have founcd universal support and we are getting some positivw feedback fromthe KBA,” Good The facility is projected to create 2,60 jobs and have a $200 million annuap economic impact by its 10th according to a study by ’s Center for Economix Development and Business Research. Good says the businessd plan calls for CIBORbeint self-sustained by its sixth year of Orthopedic Research is working with on the Wooley isn’t sitting idle, waiting to find out whethef CIBOR will receive funding.
“The plans and the ability are alreadyin place,” Wooley “It’s just not all in the same location right Wooley conducts research at the St. Francis campus of the . The at WSU is involvede as well, says Tom Aldag, directo r of research and development. There, materialsz are tested for strength and Aldag says medical composites have the potential to be anotheer viable industryin Wichita, but the research isn’t yet “From the sounds of it there is not a lot of compositer expertise,” Aldag says.
Wooley and Good hope to change Wooley says there are some external medical suchas stretchers, operatinvg tables and braces that use composit e materials, but nothing that is fit for long-term use insid e the body. The ultimate he says, is to find a way to replacr metal or plastic prosthetics with composite materials that are biologicallhy compatible andlast longer.
Sunday, January 13, 2013
The Song Continues: Jessye Norman Master Class - Carnegie Hall Blog (blog)
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The Song Continues: Jessye Norman Master Class Carnegie Hall Blog (blog) Jessye Norman has captivated audiences around the globe with her sumptuous voice and majestic presence. Now one of the most celebrated artists of our time takes the stage to share her wisdom with young singers in her master class. |
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