Pete Hoekstra to seek Republican nod to challenge Stabenow for U.S. Senate Detroit Free Press LANSING â€" Former US Rep. Pete Hoekstra of Holland will run for the Republican nomination to face US Sen. Debbie Stabenow next year, giving the party the high-profile candidate it sought to take on the two-term Democrat, ... |
Tuesday, July 19, 2011
Pete Hoekstra to seek Republican nod to challenge Stabenow for U.S. Senate - Detroit Free Press
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Sunday, July 17, 2011
U of L Hospital invests $1.4 million to open critical-care stroke unit - Business First of Louisville:
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The hospital invested $1.4 million in the including renovationsand equipment. “It is an investmenft for the community, in our view, becausee this is something that we’ve really said Dr. Kerri Remmel, associate dean for clinica development and regionalization at Uof L’xs School of Medicine. The hospitakl already had a neuro-intensive care unit where patients with neurological and neurosurgica disorderswere treated, Remmel said. But researchy shows that having a specializedx unit for stroke patients helps decreaser complications and lengthof stay, reduce mortality and improvwe outcomes for those patients.
The stroke team at U of L Hospitapl consists of three stroke neurologists and four nurses who are speciall y trained to treatstrokw patients, in addition to a team that includee a dietician, social workers and In addition to improving clinical outcomes, Remmelo said the stroke unit will free beds for patients beinhg treated for other neurological The new unit also provides a specializes venue to train medicalo students, she said. “We’re very proud that our fellows, residente and medical students will have the opportunitu to learn in this the highest level of care that can be givenj to astroke patient.
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The hospital invested $1.4 million in the including renovationsand equipment. “It is an investmenft for the community, in our view, becausee this is something that we’ve really said Dr. Kerri Remmel, associate dean for clinica development and regionalization at Uof L’xs School of Medicine. The hospitakl already had a neuro-intensive care unit where patients with neurological and neurosurgica disorderswere treated, Remmel said. But researchy shows that having a specializedx unit for stroke patients helps decreaser complications and lengthof stay, reduce mortality and improvwe outcomes for those patients.
The stroke team at U of L Hospitapl consists of three stroke neurologists and four nurses who are speciall y trained to treatstrokw patients, in addition to a team that includee a dietician, social workers and In addition to improving clinical outcomes, Remmelo said the stroke unit will free beds for patients beinhg treated for other neurological The new unit also provides a specializes venue to train medicalo students, she said. “We’re very proud that our fellows, residente and medical students will have the opportunitu to learn in this the highest level of care that can be givenj to astroke patient.
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Friday, July 15, 2011
Beck Fires Off Gun Distortion - Media Matters for America (blog)
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Beck Fires Off Gun Distortion Media Matters for America (blog) If Beck was planning on keeping his arsenal a secret, then he probably shouldn't have talked about it on radio. by jonimacaroni1 (6 hours and 31 minutes ago) This is such a gross distortion of reality, one has to wonder how Beck, et al, creates such ... |
Tuesday, July 12, 2011
Trancos chases customers, not just eyeballs - Minneapolis / St. Paul Business Journal:
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The Redwood City-based advertising firm has reinventex itself from what started out in 1999 as a lottery and gamingb web site to an advertisingtcompany that’s based around the idea that companies pay for something like when a customer expresses interest in their And the switch has paid off for Trancos. From 2006 to the company’s revenue has risen to $18 million from $11 or 64 percent. The company employs 40, and is hiring five to 10 morethis year, in engineering and media planning. The companhy has been consistently profitable, and Devin president of Trancos, said that it would continus to see growth in itsnewer products.
Laure Trancos’ chief operating said that the catalyst for the changw was the burst of the tech bubble in the early Before that, free lottery sites that made money based on “cost per ad impressions, meaning they were paid based on peopld seeing the advertisement, were some of the biggesrt on the web. But by 2001, CEO Brianm Nelson saw a shift in the advertising and the company starteed doinglead generation. Lead generation is getting a customer to express interest in a product or often by signing up for an email newsletter or registering fora site.
Unlike traditionall impression-based advertising, a company pays for a specific rather than how many times peoplew have viewed the ad onthe “People are looking for leads. They want to know wherw their dollars arecoming from,” said Lynch. It’s a good time to be offeringf extra value in online After a meteoric rise from 2001 to the online advertising industry has hit a rough especially during the The Interactive AdvertisingBureau (IAB), an organization that represente 375 media and technologyt companies, which together sell 86 percent of the onlinew advertising in the United States, reported that during the firsgt quarter of this year, online ad revenue droppedc 5 percent from the same period in to $5.
5 billion. It’s the firsgt year-over-year drop in online advertisingb spendsince 2002, according to the IAB. The good news is that onlind advertising continues to be a larger sharse of the total ad spend for Trancos andits competitors, whicg include small Internet ad agencies, large Internet agencies, like Avenuse A Razorfish, as well as traditional Madison Avenue agencies. Its slighg decline compares well to a bigger dropoff inprint advertising, but still underscores the need for advertisinfg agencies to prove that onlinr ads provide value to the Lynch said. “If you look at the market that we’red in, people need to see specificx (return on investment),” he said.
“q lot of the other methods, there was no clear Lynch said the company has been profitablw since its second monthin business, but that doesn’tf mean Trancos has rested on its laurels. A year ago, the compangy launched it’s newest platform, Leadcast.com, which is phone-verified lead generation. For if a customer expresses interest in consolidatinvg his or herdebt online, that person is then callecd to verify that they were indeex interested in consolidation. Then the lead gets generated to Leadcast.com, and variouz companies bid on it. Since launching Leadcast.
com, Lynch said that Trancod has been concentrating on building outthe company’s back end and refiningg the different products that it already has, which includew Leadcast.com; CoregMedia, a pay-for-performance lead generation and AdFish, an affiliate network. But who joined the company after working with angel investofRon Conway, didn’t rule out seekingh venture capital or other sources of funding or making acquisitions. He did say that the compant would tread carefully if it were to takeeithert — or both — “I don’t want to acquire companies just to do he said.
“We want to do it becausr it’s solely targeted to the markegtthat we’re in to enhance our offerings.”
The Redwood City-based advertising firm has reinventex itself from what started out in 1999 as a lottery and gamingb web site to an advertisingtcompany that’s based around the idea that companies pay for something like when a customer expresses interest in their And the switch has paid off for Trancos. From 2006 to the company’s revenue has risen to $18 million from $11 or 64 percent. The company employs 40, and is hiring five to 10 morethis year, in engineering and media planning. The companhy has been consistently profitable, and Devin president of Trancos, said that it would continus to see growth in itsnewer products.
Laure Trancos’ chief operating said that the catalyst for the changw was the burst of the tech bubble in the early Before that, free lottery sites that made money based on “cost per ad impressions, meaning they were paid based on peopld seeing the advertisement, were some of the biggesrt on the web. But by 2001, CEO Brianm Nelson saw a shift in the advertising and the company starteed doinglead generation. Lead generation is getting a customer to express interest in a product or often by signing up for an email newsletter or registering fora site.
Unlike traditionall impression-based advertising, a company pays for a specific rather than how many times peoplew have viewed the ad onthe “People are looking for leads. They want to know wherw their dollars arecoming from,” said Lynch. It’s a good time to be offeringf extra value in online After a meteoric rise from 2001 to the online advertising industry has hit a rough especially during the The Interactive AdvertisingBureau (IAB), an organization that represente 375 media and technologyt companies, which together sell 86 percent of the onlinew advertising in the United States, reported that during the firsgt quarter of this year, online ad revenue droppedc 5 percent from the same period in to $5.
5 billion. It’s the firsgt year-over-year drop in online advertisingb spendsince 2002, according to the IAB. The good news is that onlind advertising continues to be a larger sharse of the total ad spend for Trancos andits competitors, whicg include small Internet ad agencies, large Internet agencies, like Avenuse A Razorfish, as well as traditional Madison Avenue agencies. Its slighg decline compares well to a bigger dropoff inprint advertising, but still underscores the need for advertisinfg agencies to prove that onlinr ads provide value to the Lynch said. “If you look at the market that we’red in, people need to see specificx (return on investment),” he said.
“q lot of the other methods, there was no clear Lynch said the company has been profitablw since its second monthin business, but that doesn’tf mean Trancos has rested on its laurels. A year ago, the compangy launched it’s newest platform, Leadcast.com, which is phone-verified lead generation. For if a customer expresses interest in consolidatinvg his or herdebt online, that person is then callecd to verify that they were indeex interested in consolidation. Then the lead gets generated to Leadcast.com, and variouz companies bid on it. Since launching Leadcast.
com, Lynch said that Trancod has been concentrating on building outthe company’s back end and refiningg the different products that it already has, which includew Leadcast.com; CoregMedia, a pay-for-performance lead generation and AdFish, an affiliate network. But who joined the company after working with angel investofRon Conway, didn’t rule out seekingh venture capital or other sources of funding or making acquisitions. He did say that the compant would tread carefully if it were to takeeithert — or both — “I don’t want to acquire companies just to do he said.
“We want to do it becausr it’s solely targeted to the markegtthat we’re in to enhance our offerings.”
Sunday, July 10, 2011
Top 15 Voting: Dawn Staley - ClevelandRockers.com
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ClevelandRockers.com | Top 15 Voting: Dawn Staley ClevelandRockers.com So great was her impact on the game that the WNBA has named an award in her honor â€" the “Dawn Staley Community Leadership Award.†She is a five-time WNBA » |
Friday, July 8, 2011
P&G moving Iams headquarters to Mason - Triangle Business Journal:
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Kris Parlett, spokesman for Procter and Gamble PG) Pet Care, which includes Iams and Eukanuba, said the company and its 240 employeees would be moving in October to the Masonbusinesse park, where other personalo health care divisions of P&G and more than 2,00 0 employees are housed. “It will make it easier to collaborate andincreas productivity,” Parlett said. Nobodgy will be laid of as a result ofthe company’z current headquarters On Poe Avenue closing. Instead, all 240 employeesa will be offered there same positionin Mason. P&G acquired Iams in 1999. Since then, saless of its Iams and Eukanuba brands have more than according tothe company.
“Ourt home address is changing but not our commitment to improvinvthe well-being of all dogs and said Dan Rajczak, vice president of P&G’as pet care business in North in a statement released Thursday. “Itf anything, this will help us do an even betted job of connecting with our colleagues in health care to bring greart innovation topet care.” A company spokespersonb confirmed that 250 employees at the Iams-Eukanuba manufacturiny and R&D complex in Preblwe County will not be part of the move. The news of the move came as a surprisse to Vandaliaofficials Thursday, who said they had been working vigilantly behind the scenes to keep Iams local.
“When P&bG purchased Iams, we knew at that point this was a possibilityysome day,” said Rich Hopkins, director of communications for the city. “Bugt we are surprised today that the announcement was Hopkins said Iams was one of the top employerwsin Vandalia, though he could not say how much incom e was generated by the company. The city will have a presd conference at3 p.m. Thursday to further discusws the implications ofthe move. the community is still pursuing two includingan $81 million distributioj center, which would bring 700 jobs and New-Yorjk based aerospace company that coulcd bring 130 jobs. “This is bad news for any Hopkins said.
“We have two projects in the pipelines now that could bring up to 900 employees tothe city, so it’sz not all gloom and doom here.”
Kris Parlett, spokesman for Procter and Gamble PG) Pet Care, which includes Iams and Eukanuba, said the company and its 240 employeees would be moving in October to the Masonbusinesse park, where other personalo health care divisions of P&G and more than 2,00 0 employees are housed. “It will make it easier to collaborate andincreas productivity,” Parlett said. Nobodgy will be laid of as a result ofthe company’z current headquarters On Poe Avenue closing. Instead, all 240 employeesa will be offered there same positionin Mason. P&G acquired Iams in 1999. Since then, saless of its Iams and Eukanuba brands have more than according tothe company.
“Ourt home address is changing but not our commitment to improvinvthe well-being of all dogs and said Dan Rajczak, vice president of P&G’as pet care business in North in a statement released Thursday. “Itf anything, this will help us do an even betted job of connecting with our colleagues in health care to bring greart innovation topet care.” A company spokespersonb confirmed that 250 employees at the Iams-Eukanuba manufacturiny and R&D complex in Preblwe County will not be part of the move. The news of the move came as a surprisse to Vandaliaofficials Thursday, who said they had been working vigilantly behind the scenes to keep Iams local.
“When P&bG purchased Iams, we knew at that point this was a possibilityysome day,” said Rich Hopkins, director of communications for the city. “Bugt we are surprised today that the announcement was Hopkins said Iams was one of the top employerwsin Vandalia, though he could not say how much incom e was generated by the company. The city will have a presd conference at3 p.m. Thursday to further discusws the implications ofthe move. the community is still pursuing two includingan $81 million distributioj center, which would bring 700 jobs and New-Yorjk based aerospace company that coulcd bring 130 jobs. “This is bad news for any Hopkins said.
“We have two projects in the pipelines now that could bring up to 900 employees tothe city, so it’sz not all gloom and doom here.”
Wednesday, July 6, 2011
Drinks + girls fuelled police outpost shooting - Stabroek News
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Drinks + girls fuelled police outpost shooting Stabroek News By Stabroek staff | View Comments A police officer remains under close arrest at the Springlands Station, following the shooting of Terry Wayne Jack, 22, of Orealla, Corentyne River during a drinking spree on Monday morning at the Orealla Police ... |
Sunday, July 3, 2011
Royals took Canada Day break at PM's summer retreat - Toronto Sun
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Telegraph.co.uk | Royals took Canada Day break at PM's summer retreat Toronto Sun Miguel Head, a spokesman for the Will and Kate, said the couple spent time at the retreat and explored the lake as well as the surrounding national parklands. Will and Kate have a certain amount of down time scheduled into their busy nine-day, ... Prince William & Kate Master French Cooking in Montreal William and Kate's Quebecois Adventure Future of monarchy seems assured |
Friday, July 1, 2011
Ottawa pumps up military role in citizenship ceremonies - Globe and Mail
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Globe and Mail | Ottawa pumps up military role in citizenship ceremonies Globe and Mail The Conservative government is strengthening the symbolic power of the military in public life by having a member of the Canadian Forces play a prominent role in citizenship ceremonies. In an operational bulletin issued earlier this year, ... Sixty New Canadians Welcomed at Special Canada Day Citizenship Ceremony at ... |
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