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She is responsible for more than $130 billion in assets held by the Generao Motors benefit plans andseveral non-affiliated clients. Everety joined Promark Global Advisors as chierf investment officer inJune 2005. She assumedc the additional responsibility of chief executivee officer inJanuary 2006. Previously, she was chierf investment officer for the Virginia Retirement System where she oversa w the investment ofthe $42 billion pension Everett was born in Ithaca, New York. She graduated in 1978 with a bachelor' degree in accounting from Virginia Commonwealt hUniversity (VCU) and earned the Charterex Financial Analyst designation in 1987.
Everett is currentlyu a member of the InvestmentAdvisoryu Committee, Randolph-Macon College and is a member of the board of trusteexs of the Virginia Commonwealth University School of Businessw Foundation where she serves on the Investmentt Committee. She sits on the board of directors for PacificPension Institute, is a membe r of the advisory board of The Rock Creem Group, and a member of the Committede on Directors for Capital International's Emerging Markets Growtn Fund, Inc. She is also a member of the New York Stocm Exchange Pension Managers Advisory Committee and past president of the boarcd of directors of the Richmond Society ofFinanciap Analysts.
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понедельник, 10 декабря 2012 г.
пятница, 7 декабря 2012 г.
Cincinnati-area firms win Ohio incentives - Business First of Columbus:
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, a maker of marketing simulationn andplanning software, received $1.1 million from the Innovatio n Ohio Loan Fund, at an annua interest rate of 1 percent for the first year and 8 percentr for five years. The Cincinnati-based company will use the loan to develo a new generation of its Emerging Marketplace software and buycomputer equipment. The $2.2 milliojn project is expected to create 36 jobs and retaijn10 jobs. Two localk firms also received Job Creation Tax Creditsd forexpansion projects.
• , a supplier of labeling systems for the beverage was awarded a 45 percenrt tax credit for five years fora $1 milliojn expansion project in The company expects to use the worth about $52,700 over its term, to creater 25 jobs and retain 118. • won a 45 percent job credit, for a six-year term, for a $170,00o expansion project at its regional office The credit is valued atabout $119,750 over its Advantage expects to create 33 positions and retainh 65. The company, headquartered in Spokane, provides energy management consulting services.
, a maker of marketing simulationn andplanning software, received $1.1 million from the Innovatio n Ohio Loan Fund, at an annua interest rate of 1 percent for the first year and 8 percentr for five years. The Cincinnati-based company will use the loan to develo a new generation of its Emerging Marketplace software and buycomputer equipment. The $2.2 milliojn project is expected to create 36 jobs and retaijn10 jobs. Two localk firms also received Job Creation Tax Creditsd forexpansion projects.
• , a supplier of labeling systems for the beverage was awarded a 45 percenrt tax credit for five years fora $1 milliojn expansion project in The company expects to use the worth about $52,700 over its term, to creater 25 jobs and retain 118. • won a 45 percent job credit, for a six-year term, for a $170,00o expansion project at its regional office The credit is valued atabout $119,750 over its Advantage expects to create 33 positions and retainh 65. The company, headquartered in Spokane, provides energy management consulting services.
четверг, 6 декабря 2012 г.
Kim Dotcom granted access to spying records by New Zealand court - The Guardian
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The Guardian | Kim Dotcom granted access to spying records by New Zealand court The Guardian Even though he was a German national, he had been granted New Zealand residency. New Zealand's prime minister John Key has already been forced to publicly apologise for the illegal spying after an earlier court ruled that the search warrants were ... |
среда, 5 декабря 2012 г.
Books to Match Diverse Young Readers - New York Times
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Books to Match Diverse Young Readers New York Times Introductory chapter books aimed at second, third and fourth grade readers overwhelmingly reflect a suburban milieu with white protagonists. Students of other races and ethnicities seldom encounter characters like themselves in books, and some ... |
понедельник, 3 декабря 2012 г.
Refi rally for TexasLending.com - Dallas Business Journal:
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As many as 120 loan underwriters, accounting professionals, loan processors, loan closersa and clerical positions payingbetween $30,000 to more than $100,00p a year will be said Kevin Miller, CEO and founder of TexasLending.com. The jobs will be addedr beginning in August and will be phaseed in during the next six to nine he said. The company has 160 employees now, down from 180 at the peak of the Northn Texas housing boom twoyear ago. Low mortgage rates and Miller’d expectation of climbing home sales are spurrinythe company’s growth, he said.
“Wes expect rates to be low for the next year and a then we expect home purchasing to be strong after thatin Texas,” he said. The locakl housing market certainly has a lot of groundto New-home sales in the Dallas-Fort Worth area were down 40% for the firstr four months of the year comparee to the same period in 2008, and sales of pre-ownesd single-family homes were down 24% during that period, accordinv to housing market analyst Davixd Brown, director of the Dallas office of There were 4,191 new-home closingz and 18,442 resales in the area througy April, he said.
Brown expectz 2009 sales to trail year-ago numbers for the remainder ofthe “We do expect to begin to see some modest recovery in terms of transactions beginning in assuming we see the national economu begin to turn around and we see the jobs picturer begin to improve,” he said. Abouy 70% of TexasLending.com’s business today is refinancing, comparedc with 40% to 50% at this time last Miller said. TexasLending.com closes $60 million to $80 million in monthly loan volume now, or abougt $850 million annually, Miller said. With the additional employees, Miller’ds goal is to reach $3 billion to $4 billion in annua l loan volume in the next five he said.
The company provides residential mortgagew loansin Texas, Oklahoma, Florida, Michigan, Missouroi and Colorado, servicing all of them from the Dallae office. For the week ending May 22, mortgage loan applicationm volume nationwide wasup 28.5% compared with the same week one year according to a weekly survey by the Mortgage Bankerz Association. Refinancings made up 69.3% of the mortgages activity. Loan volume in Texas was $11.7 billion in the firstf quarter of this down slightlyfrom $12.
4 billion in according to the Texas Mortgage Bankers Association Mortgage industry employment in Texas fell by more than a 30% from 2007 to but has since stabilized, said Scott vice president of the Texas Mortgage Bankers Association. Norman said he’s heard anecdotally that the surges in refinancings is prompting mortgagr lenders toadd employees, but he did not have specififc industry employment numbers. To make room for new TexasLending.com has signed a lease for 69,000 squarse feet in its existing locationn at 4100 Alpha Road inDallasa — more than triplew the size it currently occupies, said Ben Hautt with the commerciapl real estate firm Stream Realty Partners LP.
Hautt recently left Stream’s Dallaas office to launch the company’d office in Atlanta, whers he is managing partner. TexasLending.com will begin movin g into its expanded space in after the completion of renovations that are nowunder way. Aftef expanding, TexasLending.com will occupy all of the fourth and fifth floor and part of the firsf floor inthe 11-story building, Hautt said. “It’s an expansion, and todau that’s not something you see a lot Hautt said. “They’re thriving in the currengt economy.” The 227,000-square-foot building at 4100 Alpha Road is part of The an 11-building office complex north of Interstate 635 off Midwaty Road.
The asking lease rate for the space isabout $16.5 per square foot. Hautt and Streanm Realty colleagues Ben Sumner and Chad Henningxsrepresented TexasLending.com in the and Buddy Tompkins and Seth Thatched of commercial real estate firm GVA Cawleu represented the landlord. Hautt said TexasLending.com searcher the market before deciding to expans within itsexisting building. Nationwide, not many residentialp mortgage lenders areaddint staff, despite low interest ratex and new federal tax credits for home buyers, said Jim an equities analyst with Morningstar Inc. who followx real estate service businesses.
“Generally, that does buck the It looks like they’re gearint up for a turnaround and they want to get ahead of the said Ryan, who does not folloe TexasLending.com because it is privately held, but commented generallyy on residential mortgage industry conditions. Expanding now could be risky if interesyt rates rise and home sales continueto slide, Ryan Although borrowing costs remain near record lows, interestf rates have risen slightly in recent weeks. The rate increases are likelt to continue if theoverall U.S. economt continues to improve, said Dana Johnson, seniofr vice president and chievf economistfor Dallas-based Comerica Inc.
Even with the slighy uptick in rates, the mortgage industry is likely to see strong activitt as falling prices make homes more Johnson said. In that respect, adding mortgage industry jobs in the next severaol monthsmakes sense, he said. “There was a big pullbackk when a lot of mortgage lenderxs went out of businesse after thesubprime crisis,” Johnsonn said. “I can certainly understand why some peopls would view it as an opportunity to be a strongb player when mortgageactivity
As many as 120 loan underwriters, accounting professionals, loan processors, loan closersa and clerical positions payingbetween $30,000 to more than $100,00p a year will be said Kevin Miller, CEO and founder of TexasLending.com. The jobs will be addedr beginning in August and will be phaseed in during the next six to nine he said. The company has 160 employees now, down from 180 at the peak of the Northn Texas housing boom twoyear ago. Low mortgage rates and Miller’d expectation of climbing home sales are spurrinythe company’s growth, he said.
“Wes expect rates to be low for the next year and a then we expect home purchasing to be strong after thatin Texas,” he said. The locakl housing market certainly has a lot of groundto New-home sales in the Dallas-Fort Worth area were down 40% for the firstr four months of the year comparee to the same period in 2008, and sales of pre-ownesd single-family homes were down 24% during that period, accordinv to housing market analyst Davixd Brown, director of the Dallas office of There were 4,191 new-home closingz and 18,442 resales in the area througy April, he said.
Brown expectz 2009 sales to trail year-ago numbers for the remainder ofthe “We do expect to begin to see some modest recovery in terms of transactions beginning in assuming we see the national economu begin to turn around and we see the jobs picturer begin to improve,” he said. Abouy 70% of TexasLending.com’s business today is refinancing, comparedc with 40% to 50% at this time last Miller said. TexasLending.com closes $60 million to $80 million in monthly loan volume now, or abougt $850 million annually, Miller said. With the additional employees, Miller’ds goal is to reach $3 billion to $4 billion in annua l loan volume in the next five he said.
The company provides residential mortgagew loansin Texas, Oklahoma, Florida, Michigan, Missouroi and Colorado, servicing all of them from the Dallae office. For the week ending May 22, mortgage loan applicationm volume nationwide wasup 28.5% compared with the same week one year according to a weekly survey by the Mortgage Bankerz Association. Refinancings made up 69.3% of the mortgages activity. Loan volume in Texas was $11.7 billion in the firstf quarter of this down slightlyfrom $12.
4 billion in according to the Texas Mortgage Bankers Association Mortgage industry employment in Texas fell by more than a 30% from 2007 to but has since stabilized, said Scott vice president of the Texas Mortgage Bankers Association. Norman said he’s heard anecdotally that the surges in refinancings is prompting mortgagr lenders toadd employees, but he did not have specififc industry employment numbers. To make room for new TexasLending.com has signed a lease for 69,000 squarse feet in its existing locationn at 4100 Alpha Road inDallasa — more than triplew the size it currently occupies, said Ben Hautt with the commerciapl real estate firm Stream Realty Partners LP.
Hautt recently left Stream’s Dallaas office to launch the company’d office in Atlanta, whers he is managing partner. TexasLending.com will begin movin g into its expanded space in after the completion of renovations that are nowunder way. Aftef expanding, TexasLending.com will occupy all of the fourth and fifth floor and part of the firsf floor inthe 11-story building, Hautt said. “It’s an expansion, and todau that’s not something you see a lot Hautt said. “They’re thriving in the currengt economy.” The 227,000-square-foot building at 4100 Alpha Road is part of The an 11-building office complex north of Interstate 635 off Midwaty Road.
The asking lease rate for the space isabout $16.5 per square foot. Hautt and Streanm Realty colleagues Ben Sumner and Chad Henningxsrepresented TexasLending.com in the and Buddy Tompkins and Seth Thatched of commercial real estate firm GVA Cawleu represented the landlord. Hautt said TexasLending.com searcher the market before deciding to expans within itsexisting building. Nationwide, not many residentialp mortgage lenders areaddint staff, despite low interest ratex and new federal tax credits for home buyers, said Jim an equities analyst with Morningstar Inc. who followx real estate service businesses.
“Generally, that does buck the It looks like they’re gearint up for a turnaround and they want to get ahead of the said Ryan, who does not folloe TexasLending.com because it is privately held, but commented generallyy on residential mortgage industry conditions. Expanding now could be risky if interesyt rates rise and home sales continueto slide, Ryan Although borrowing costs remain near record lows, interestf rates have risen slightly in recent weeks. The rate increases are likelt to continue if theoverall U.S. economt continues to improve, said Dana Johnson, seniofr vice president and chievf economistfor Dallas-based Comerica Inc.
Even with the slighy uptick in rates, the mortgage industry is likely to see strong activitt as falling prices make homes more Johnson said. In that respect, adding mortgage industry jobs in the next severaol monthsmakes sense, he said. “There was a big pullbackk when a lot of mortgage lenderxs went out of businesse after thesubprime crisis,” Johnsonn said. “I can certainly understand why some peopls would view it as an opportunity to be a strongb player when mortgageactivity
воскресенье, 2 декабря 2012 г.
Associated Wholesale Grocers' shopping bags $350M growth - Triangle Business Journal:
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The Kansas City, Kan., grocery wholesalerr will buy about $9 million worthb of assets — mostly inventory from estimated the annualrevenue increase. Just aftere Affiliated Foods filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcyh onMay 5, AWG started supplying many of the 400 independengt grocery stores the Little Rock, cooperative serviced. Affiliated Foods serviced supermarketsin Louisiana, Mississippi, Oklahoma, Tennessee and Texas. AWG will supply the storeds from its existing distribution centersin Mo.; Oklahoma City; Memphis, Tenn.; and Fort Texas. Industry observers said the deal lets AWG penetratw deeper in markets where it alreadhy hasdistribution channels.
“That’ws a natural move for said David Livingston, a grocery industry “They already supply a lot of storez in thatgeneral area, and it overlapd in some of the areas wherde they distribute. It’s one less AWG also will help Affiliated Foods sell off or close 22 storedsit operates, mostly and Piggly Wiggly locations in Texasd and Arkansas. Affiliated Foods spokesman Al Milledr said AWG picked up several common brands italready distributed, such as , Colgatee and .
“AWG’s resources will be focuser on providing the retailers a smooth transitiohn with little disruption in product AWG CEO Jerry Garlan said in a written AWG swooped in and beat out anotheer bidder to buy Affiliated assets once it became clear itface bankruptcy, according to court Affiliated Foods had said as earlu as March 14 that it was exploring reorganization after hitting cash-flos problems. Miller said Affiliated Foods normally fillecd 97 percent ofits customers’ orders but just beforre the bankruptcy filing fell into into the 60 percenrt to 70 percent range.
Normally, Chapter 11 bankruptciess protect companies from creditors whilethey reorganize, but Affiliatex Foods’ filing is designed to liquidate assets. Mark a Cleveland lawyer representing several said AWG’s $9 million payment will do littlre to cover the money owed creditors. Affiliated Foods, whicj had $730 million in revenue in 2008, listedx $101.4 million in liabilitiesd in its filings. AWG reported recordr revenue in 2008, with $6.85 billion in net a 20 percent increase from thepreviouz year.
The Kansas City, Kan., grocery wholesalerr will buy about $9 million worthb of assets — mostly inventory from estimated the annualrevenue increase. Just aftere Affiliated Foods filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcyh onMay 5, AWG started supplying many of the 400 independengt grocery stores the Little Rock, cooperative serviced. Affiliated Foods serviced supermarketsin Louisiana, Mississippi, Oklahoma, Tennessee and Texas. AWG will supply the storeds from its existing distribution centersin Mo.; Oklahoma City; Memphis, Tenn.; and Fort Texas. Industry observers said the deal lets AWG penetratw deeper in markets where it alreadhy hasdistribution channels.
“That’ws a natural move for said David Livingston, a grocery industry “They already supply a lot of storez in thatgeneral area, and it overlapd in some of the areas wherde they distribute. It’s one less AWG also will help Affiliated Foods sell off or close 22 storedsit operates, mostly and Piggly Wiggly locations in Texasd and Arkansas. Affiliated Foods spokesman Al Milledr said AWG picked up several common brands italready distributed, such as , Colgatee and .
“AWG’s resources will be focuser on providing the retailers a smooth transitiohn with little disruption in product AWG CEO Jerry Garlan said in a written AWG swooped in and beat out anotheer bidder to buy Affiliated assets once it became clear itface bankruptcy, according to court Affiliated Foods had said as earlu as March 14 that it was exploring reorganization after hitting cash-flos problems. Miller said Affiliated Foods normally fillecd 97 percent ofits customers’ orders but just beforre the bankruptcy filing fell into into the 60 percenrt to 70 percent range.
Normally, Chapter 11 bankruptciess protect companies from creditors whilethey reorganize, but Affiliatex Foods’ filing is designed to liquidate assets. Mark a Cleveland lawyer representing several said AWG’s $9 million payment will do littlre to cover the money owed creditors. Affiliated Foods, whicj had $730 million in revenue in 2008, listedx $101.4 million in liabilitiesd in its filings. AWG reported recordr revenue in 2008, with $6.85 billion in net a 20 percent increase from thepreviouz year.
суббота, 1 декабря 2012 г.
Medford man pleads guilty in charity fraud case - Boston Business Journal:
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Brandon Seeley, 21, pleaded guilty to charges of larceny over attempted larceny, conspiracy to commit larceny over $250, grossz fraud and deceptive professional solicitatiob practices, said the attorney general’s Superior Court Judge Sandras Hamlin sentenced Seeley to serve 2 1/2 years in prison, with the sentence suspended for five years. This follows co-defendant, Georgd Borden, age 53, of Quincy, who pleadedc guilty in Middlesex Superiort Court on June 3 tosimilar charges. Thre e other co-defendants have also been charged in connection with this case and theirf cases arestill pending.
The attorney generalp began investigating this case in 2006 aftee receiving a number of Investigators determined that betweejn August 2006 andJanuary 2008, Brandojn Seeley and other telemarketerxs from his father’s professional fundraising organization, CMR Marketing in Medford, allegedlyu engaged in fraudulent fundraising telemarketing schemes to raise money for two charities — Veteran’s , Fla., and the Retiree Boston Police Officers Association, a retired police officersd organization. Authorities allege that much of the moneyg given by donors never made it to the veteranz and retired police officers it was intendedcto benefit.
In addition, authoritiess allege that, in total, more than 1,0090 donors were defrauded and morethan $100,000 in donations were misappropriated. In a separate case, the attorne general’s office obtained two separate preliminary injunctions related to a lawsuit against Florida charity Disabled PoliceOfficeras , its president and its professional Among other things, the preliminarh injunctions restrain them from engaging in deceptivw practices and from destroying or altering recordsa while the civil lawsuit is pending. The preliminary injunctions related to a civil lawsuit filed May 20 in Suffolok Superior Court againstthe defendants.
The lawsuit charged the defendants misled potential donors into believin g that fundraisers were volunteers calling on behalvf of local disabled police The lawsuit also alleges that the defendantes did not disclose their status asprofessional fundraisers, did not disclosee the charity’s Florida address and did not file fundraising report for their fundraising campaigns, required by law. The lawsuigt also alleges the professional solicitors working for Disabled Police Officeres Counseling Center failed to disclose to potential donors theier status as professional fundraisers who are paid by charitablew organizations to solicit the publicfor
Brandon Seeley, 21, pleaded guilty to charges of larceny over attempted larceny, conspiracy to commit larceny over $250, grossz fraud and deceptive professional solicitatiob practices, said the attorney general’s Superior Court Judge Sandras Hamlin sentenced Seeley to serve 2 1/2 years in prison, with the sentence suspended for five years. This follows co-defendant, Georgd Borden, age 53, of Quincy, who pleadedc guilty in Middlesex Superiort Court on June 3 tosimilar charges. Thre e other co-defendants have also been charged in connection with this case and theirf cases arestill pending.
The attorney generalp began investigating this case in 2006 aftee receiving a number of Investigators determined that betweejn August 2006 andJanuary 2008, Brandojn Seeley and other telemarketerxs from his father’s professional fundraising organization, CMR Marketing in Medford, allegedlyu engaged in fraudulent fundraising telemarketing schemes to raise money for two charities — Veteran’s , Fla., and the Retiree Boston Police Officers Association, a retired police officersd organization. Authorities allege that much of the moneyg given by donors never made it to the veteranz and retired police officers it was intendedcto benefit.
In addition, authoritiess allege that, in total, more than 1,0090 donors were defrauded and morethan $100,000 in donations were misappropriated. In a separate case, the attorne general’s office obtained two separate preliminary injunctions related to a lawsuit against Florida charity Disabled PoliceOfficeras , its president and its professional Among other things, the preliminarh injunctions restrain them from engaging in deceptivw practices and from destroying or altering recordsa while the civil lawsuit is pending. The preliminary injunctions related to a civil lawsuit filed May 20 in Suffolok Superior Court againstthe defendants.
The lawsuit charged the defendants misled potential donors into believin g that fundraisers were volunteers calling on behalvf of local disabled police The lawsuit also alleges that the defendantes did not disclose their status asprofessional fundraisers, did not disclosee the charity’s Florida address and did not file fundraising report for their fundraising campaigns, required by law. The lawsuigt also alleges the professional solicitors working for Disabled Police Officeres Counseling Center failed to disclose to potential donors theier status as professional fundraisers who are paid by charitablew organizations to solicit the publicfor
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