Wednesday, November 10, 2010

Emeritus 5M-share offering priced at $18.25 each - BusinessWeek

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Emeritus 5M-share offering priced at $18.25 each

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Emeritus Corp. said Tuesday an underwritten public offering of 5 million of its shares was priced at $18.25 each. The company plans to sell 4 million shares ...


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Monday, November 8, 2010

9/11 workers to decide dust deal - BBC News

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Thousands of workers exposed to toxic dust after the 2001 terror attacks in New York must decide on Monday whether to accept a $712m (£441m) legal ...


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Sunday, November 7, 2010

American Electric Power Company, Inc. Company Profile | AEP Company Information

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American Electric Power is one of the largest electricx utilities in theUnitedd States, delivering electricity to more than 5 milliob customers in 11 states. AEP ranksa among the nation's largest generator of electricity, owning nearlyg 38,000 megawatts of generating capacity inthe U.S. AEP also owns the nation'xs largest electricity transmission system, a nearly 39,000-mile network that includex more 765kilovolt extra-high voltage transmissiob lines than all other U.S. transmission systemsd combined.
AEP's transmission system directly or indirectly servew about 10 percent of the electricity demand in theEastern Interconnection, the interconnected transmission syste that covers 38 eastern and central U.S. states and easter Canada, and approximately 11 percent of the electricity demand in the transmission system that coveres muchof Texas. AEP's utilith units operate as AEP Ohio, AEP Texas, Appalachianm Power (in Virginia, West Virginia), AEP Appalachian Poweer (in Tennessee), Indiana Michigan Power, Kentucky Public Service Companyof Oklahoma, and Southwestern Electrixc Power Company (in Arkansas, Louisiana and east Texas). AEP'x headquarters are in Columbus, Ohio.
For additionaol general information, see the 'Facts at a 'AEP leadership', and 'History' For information about the company's business see the sections on 'Energy marketing', 'Power plantsw and other assets', 'Regulated utility operations', and our list of 'AEP Web Sites.' ...

Friday, November 5, 2010

For Cincinnati nonprofits, great funding news - Business Courier of Cincinnati:

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The will mark its formal public debut witha Feb. 12 receptionb at the in Covington. Local nonprofits have been speculatinvg for months about the size and scop e ofthe foundation, which spent the last two yearsa quietly developing a strategic plan and settling the estatre of Ralph Haile, a Northern Kentuckyy banker who died in two years after his wife’s Those who attend the reception will hear what they long have The Haile fortune was huge. CEO Timothyg Maloney said it holds morethan $200 million in assets and sportse an annual grant-making capacityy in excess of $10 million.
“We’ll be an organization with a significanft impact in the community and withan understated, humble approac h like its grantors,” Maloney said. During an interviesw in the foundation’s new headquarters, on the 11th floor of the U.S. Bank towe downtown, Maloney said the five-employee foundation will not take applicationws formost grants. Its awardws will be strategic, focusing on education, communityy development, arts and culturaol organizationsand human-service It will use its donations to leveraged additional grants when possible. And it will collaborat with other grant makers to invest in initiativews that could have a transformational impacr onthe region.
Examples include the ’s Northern Kentucky’s Vision 2015 movement and theArts & Culturew Partner­ship, a initiative for shared fundraisingy and administrative efficiencies among local museums and performing arts groups. “We consciously decided we will not do health and Maloney said. “We are not a pot that doesn’t have a The foundation listed assetsof $245 milliohn at the end of 2007, tax recordds show, making it twice as large as familg foundations started by Robert and John whose family founded Corp., and Chairmann Richard Farmer.
Most local family foundations have assets of lessthan $50 Maloney said additional assets were transferred to the Haile foundation in 2008. Stoco market losses have claimed some of but Maloney said total assets remaibbetween $200 million and $300 Annual grants will be 5 percen t of a three-year rolling averags for total assets. In the foundation awarded $6.1 millio n to more than 80 local In 2008, Maloney said grants topped more than $8 and the figure will exceed $10 milliobn this year. That ranks it among Cincinnati’s largest grant-makintg groups, said Ellen Gilligan, vice president for community investmentg atthe .
“Thety have been very thoughtful in terms of their approacu to launchingthe foundation,” Gilligan said. “They spen t a lot of time planning and learningg and listening and figuring out what their niche could and should be to add value to the The downtown-based community foundation will provide grant-makingy services to Haile, screening applications for human-services grants. Malonet estimates Haile will award $550,000 to human-service agencies this year. Beyonde human services, the foundation will rely on prograjm managersfor guidance. Leslie Maloney, Tim’x wife, is in charge of educatio gifts.
Eric Avner, a former associate directod ofthe , leads Haile’s community development And Christine Bochenek, Maloney’es former colleague at U.S. runs the U.S. Bank Legacy with gifts that “celebrat e the gratitude Carol and Ralph hadfor U.S. Bank,” Maloney U.S. Bank’s predecessor, Cincinnati’s First National, acquirerd Peoples-Liberty Bank in 1988. The bank was founded by CarolkAnn Haile’s family.
She and her husbandx built it into one ofNorthern Kentucky’as largest thrifts by the time it was Along the way, they befriended the spending vacations and holidays with the East Walnutg Hills couple, hiding crumpled dollar bills for Maloney’s “Carol and Ralph were like parents to Tim Maloney said. “Lesliew wore Carol’s wedding dress.” Tim and Leslier Maloney remembered fondly theid relationship withthe Hailes, trotting out a box of photods – several with heads clipped out for Christmas ornaments.
The photos, the memories, the smell of new carpef and freshly painted madethe foundation’s subleased space feel like “Our biggest regret is we didn’t talk aboutr this enough,” said Maloney. “It’s important for us to honorr what theirpassions were.”

Thursday, November 4, 2010

BBC World Service is at risk of becoming a postcolonial legacy - The Guardian

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BBC World Service is at risk of becoming a postcolonial legacy

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... some of the finest minds in the world grew up, and which gave voice to people around the world, will no longer be anything but a postcolonial legacy. ...



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Tuesday, November 2, 2010

GDOT awards first stimulus contracts - The Business Journal of Milwaukee:

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The DOT signed off on 36 projectsa valued atabout $50 million, including four resurfacin g jobs in metro Atlanta worth more than $2.6 The local work will be done on Georgiw highways 92 and 139 in Fulton U.S. 19 in Clayton County and Georgia Highwat 20 inRockdale County. Three of the four contractsd wentto , while the fourtb was awarded to In selectintg projects to fund with federal stimulus money, the DOT looker for highway improvements that could be started as quicklyu as possible. Such projects tend to be thosethat don’t involvs new construction, which requires extensive environmental impact studies.
“This is all abouft creating jobs … especially (in) thosre areas considered economically depressed,” said Statde Transportation Board member Dana Lemonof McDonough, who represents Georgia’w 13th Congressional District, whicuh received one of the project awards on Friday. The DOT is responsible for 70 percent ofthe $932 million in highway system stimulus funds allocated to with the rest going to the state’s 15 metropolitan planning organizations, including the .

Monday, November 1, 2010

Help shelter dogs even if you can't adopt - ABC NEWS 4

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Help shelter dogs even if you can't adopt

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