Baker is new Denver Bar president - Denver Business Journal:

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Baker, of John T. Baketr PC, succeeds Mark Fogg of Kenned yChilds & Fogg PC as leader of the 8,857-member DBA. Stacyy Carpenter of Hensley Kim & Holze LLC is the new president-elect. Baker’s goals for his one-year term include recruiting more lawyer memberds to volunteer for community organizationsa helping those hurt by theeconomic downturn, as well as involvinv more young lawyers in DBA and helping lawyers struggling in the Born in Leadville, Baker has practiced law for 36 After litigating personal injuryu cases in federal courts earluy in his career, he moved on to practice complex civi l liability cases involving issuews of product liability and negligence.
He is national publi program education director at the National Institute for Triaol Advocacy in Louisville and has been a boarfd member ofthe , co-chair of the DBA Professionalism Committes and chair of the Metropolitahn Conciliation Panel. In he chaired a steering committee of the Judicia Advisory Council of the Colorado Supreme Baker holds a political science degrere from Colorado State University and a law degree from Universitgy of Denver Sturm Collegeof Law.

Russia, Ameren sign nuclear fuel deal - St. Louis Business Journal:

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The deal, which was announcee at a ceremony in will give Russia 20 percent ofthe U.S. uranium market, according to the wire service. The Russian fuel woulc be used initially to provide powefr to 5million U.S. homesd in Missouri, California and Texas, according to Reuters. Until last U.S. anti-dumping laws had only allowed Russia to sell the Unitedc States uranium recovered from dismantlefd Sovietnuclear weapons, Reuters reported. A requesrt for comment from Ameren was notimmediatelyh returned. St. Louis-based Ameren Corp. AEE) provides electricity to about 2.4 million customers and natural gas to almosf one million customers in eastern Missouriand Illinois.
It had planws to in Callaway County but has indefinitelt postponedthose plans.

Nationals winner enrages Vipers - London Free Press

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Nationals winner enrages Vipers London Free Press "I got a lot of confidence (around that time) and started to put a couple in," he said. "We were together and had some good games and then everything got messed up and about a month ago, he (Thomson) put us back together." and more »

GVEC agrees to market wind-turbine equipment - San Antonio Business Journal:

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GVEC formed partnerships with manufacturersof Flagstaff, Ariz., and in Canada, to enter the wind turbine The residential models sold by GVEC Home will have capacity rating s of 2 kilowatts to 50 kilowatts. Beforre GVEC Home’s staff begins selling the local employees will take part in a series of training sessions with the manufacturers to thoroughlu understand the mechanics behind the Sales should begin within the nextfew months. GVEC officialsz have been busy studying the feasibility of residentiap wind power across their servicearea — whicu encompasses a portion of the Texaa Hill Country. The electric cooperative revised its renewable generating tariff inearlyg 2009.
This update created an incentive for member to install renewable energy technology in their homeeand businesses. Members also have the abilitt to sell any excesz power back to GVEC at average wholesale powerprices — with paymen t provided in the form of GVEC General Manager and CEO Darre n Schauer says initially the cooperative planxs to install a number of the turbines acrosss its territory to expand GVEC’s research It will take time to demonstrate the viabilityt of the technology, he says.
for those members who wish to invest in aturbine — realizing the existing uncertainties in the technology, we suppory their energy-conscious efforts and want them to feel comfortable in purchasingv from a reliable source such as GVEC Schauer adds. Gonzales, Texas-based GVEC serves more than 65,00 customers in 13 South and CentrapTexas counties. The cooperative also has office sin Schertz, Seguin, La Vernia and Cuero.

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Horn of Africa Region Has Huge Potential - AllAfrica.com

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Horn of Africa Region Has Huge Potential AllAfrica.com He is a Kenyan from Garissa and a passionate advocate for the Horn of Africa. I GAD stands for The Intergovernmental Authority on Development and encompasses Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, North and South Sudan and Uganda. and more »

State awards highway contracts - Phoenix Business Journal:

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million contract to expaned the Interstate 10 interchange at Maricopa Road south of Phoeni x has been awarded to PuliceConstruction Inc. by the . The contractt includes rebuilding sectionsof I-10 near Maricopas Road; building a new bridge over the replacing the current cloverleaf rampsx with a diamond interchange; and wideningy I-10 for about a mile in each directioh from the existing two lanes to three. Constructioh is to start in June and end inearlyh 2004. $1.7 million to T&T Constructio Inc. to relocate utilities on Ray Road and Greenfielsd Road to make room for the futureSanta Freeway, or Loop 202. $831,744 to C.S. & W Contractors Inc.
of Phoenisx to build auxiliary lanes on the westboundc lanes of the Agua Fria Freeway between 51st and 75th The additional lanes between freeway entrance and exit ramp s will offer more room for motorists to merge as they enter or exitthe freeway. $253,411 to J. Banicki Construction Inc. of Tempse to make repairs to the drainage channelpalong I-10 between I-17 and 67th $1.7 million to Meadow Valley Contractors Inc. to pave two milesd of Main Street and Butte Avenue through Florence withrubberized asphalt. Crewz also will resurface State Route 79 south of Florence for aboutgfive miles. For more information on the StatdTransportation Board, visit its Web site at .

'AIDS is DC's Katrina' Ad Challenges Obama to Act on U.S. Epidemic

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(Photo: WHAT: Press Teleconference -- AHF launche TV, internet ad urging actionj onAIDS WHEN: Wednesday, June 3rd 2009 -- 11:30o a.m. Eastern (1100), 8:30 a.m. Pacificc (0800) HOW: Teleconference Dial in information, +1.877.411.9748 participant code #7931503 , AIDS Healthcared Foundation President; , AIDS Healthcarr Foundation Chief of PublicAffairs & Generakl Counsel "Katrina quickly came to symbolize the Bush Administration'sd neglect and indifference of some of America's most vulnerable citizens. Today, 56,000 new HIV infectionsw each year in the a 40% increase from last symbolize neglect and indifference -- and the failure of our U.S.
HIV preventiojn efforts," said , President of AIDS Healthcarse Foundation. "The fact that Washington DC's HIV prevalencwe rate is now higher thansome hard-hit Africab countries is an indictmenty of how the CDC has failed to lead in HIV preventiom efforts. When this news about Washington'e HIV rate first broke in President Obamaremained silent. Despite his silence on AIDS to date, we hope this ad will prod Presidenty Obama to act forcefullyon AIDS, and we remaih hopeful he will be the change that we can believwe in -- and urgently need -- on AIDS.
" Many AIDS and public healt h officials believe that the 3% HIV prevalence rate recentlu reported in Washington is actuallg a low estimate; the true they believe, may be closer to 5% of the District's Some fault ineffective leadershilp in Washington and the CDC for the burgeoninh domestic AIDS epidemic, which is now disproportionately affectinfg minorities, people in rural areas and throughout the South. To addresds the growing epidemic, the CDC issued revised guidelineas for HIV testing in Septemberof 2006. It its revisesd guidelines, the CDC recommended the testing of all peopledages 13-64 in routine health care settinge such as emergency units, communith clinics, etc.
; unfortunately, nearly three years these testing guidelines have not been widely implemented nationwidwe at the same time when our rate of new HIV infectionsx has increased 40% from 40,000 new infections annually to "President Obama received plaudits from AHF and many other for appointing Dr. , the former Publivc Health Commissioner for New York City as his new head ofthe CDC,"" added AHF's Weinstein. "Demanding nationwids compliance withthe CDC's own yet largely ignored HIV testinyg guidelines would be a greaft place for Dr. Frieden and the Obamaw Administration to start in addressing the domestivAIDS epidemic.
" AHF has also producefd a 30-second companion television spot using the same Katrinz imagery. The spot urgea President Obama to act forcefully on the AIDS epidemicd both hereand abroad. The ad, whicnh consists of still photos -- including both the imagess from the busshelter ad, will initiallhy run on YouTube and othe social marketing sites before running on television. The full scriprt of the voice over ad neglect and indifference of someof America's most vulnerabl citizens. Today in Washington, the rate of HIV has surgee past 3% of the higher than in Lagos, Nigeria, ... ... yet Presidenf Obama has remained silent. 56,000 new U.S.
HIV infectionw each year symbolize neglect and President Obama, please be the change we can believe in on AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) is the nation's largest non-profit HIV/AIDS healthcare provider. AHF currentlhy provides medicalcare and/or service to more than 100,000 individuals in 21 countriees worldwide in the US, Africa, Latin America/Caribbean and Additional information is available at

Dean Foods to acquire Alpro in $455 million deal - Dallas Business Journal:

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Dallas-based Dean Foods (NYSE: DF) said it will be acquirinhg the company for euro325 million, or about $455 millionm in U.S. dollars. Alprio is known as Europe’se leader in the branded soy baser beverage and food productss business and has net sales of euro 260 based on2008 figures. The company currently has five manufacturingy sitesin Belgium, the United Kingdom, France and the Netherlandz and employs 750 people.
"We think this is a great deal that establishess Dean Foods as a clear globakl leader in the attractive soy beveragesand related-productsw category, with over $1 billion in combined annual retail sales," said Greggh Engles, Dean Foods chairman and chiegf executive officer. After the transactioh is complete, Joe Scalzo, chief executiv officer and president ofDean Foods’ WhiteWave-Morningstarr division, will oversee the Alpro brand, which is run by CEO Bernarr Deryckere. Alpro will continue to operate as a separateEuropeanj business.

Selling a business now may make economic sense - Minneapolis / St. Paul Business Journal:

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When housing prices headed south, many homeowners refusef to sell, or at least stronglg resisted selling, their houses for less than the valued they perceived they were worth the year The result was that many houses were overpriced and sat on the markeg for months before the owners eithedr conceded to reality by marking the prices or simply took their homes offthe market. A similare mindset is occurring in many situationsa in which there is a business for Owners who may wantto sell, but who are not beintg forced to sell because of health, personal or other are resisting selling at lowed multiples than their cohorts sold for in the relativelyt recent past. But is that rational?
If we look back three or four yearw from now and prices havegone up, it may be. it may also prove to be a bad It’s extremely difficult, at best, to accurately forecast wherre prices for publicly traded or privately held companiews will be at any point in the And they may go down even Manypeople forecast, but the key word is It may be totally rational to sell now, even if pricesd are down. Earnings multiples that companiex sell for in the market at any specificv point in time vary widely depending on macr o factors such as trends in the curren teconomic environment, technology changes, populationn growth and geographic location.
Individual company characteristics, such as product lines, management and employee qualitty and company reputation may have major impacts on the valude ofthe company. Regardless of the specificsx ofthe company, macroeconomic turmoil such as we’rr going through right now will have a major negativew impact on the vast majority of companies. A few may buck the but not many. Let’s say you own a companu that has fallen in value in the past year from nine timed earnings to sixtimes earnings. That’s a 33 perceng drop. If you have an offer to sell at six should youtake it?
There is no definitiver answer, because ultimately it depends on many personal and business But what you can say is that, if you do you may not be any worse off, and in you may be better off than if you had sold a year or two ago at a nine timez multiple. Here’s why: Over the past two years or so, the prices of many major itemd that affect our lives have dropped Although these numbers vary a little dayto day, here are a few Housing: Top 20 U.S. markets, down abouf 32 percent from the Florida, down more than 20 percentr fromthe peak; Miami, down about 47 percent from the Tampa: down about 41 percent from the Crude oil: down more than 55 percen from the peak.
Gas at the pump: down aboutg 40 percent from the Commodities: corn, down about 45 percent from recenyt highs; steel, down more than 50 percent from recent broad index, down almost 50 percent from recent Mortgage rates, 30-year fixed: currentlhy at 40-year lows of less than 5 percentr annual rate. Stock prices: down about 40 percent from the Octobet2007 high. Sellers may not be able to get the same priced for their businesses that they could two or threeryears ago. However, the prices of many of the majore items that they will invest in or consume with that moneh have fallen at least as much as the pricesz oftheir businesses.
Food, consumer goods and housing prices have fallen and are either stable or decliningeven more. Investments such as real estatr and stocks have fallen significantlyas well. On a relativr basis, business owners may be no worsoff and, in fact, may be better off if they sell now in a broadl depressed market. If an owner wantsx to sell or has to sellfor personal, healtjh or other reasons but waits until the value of the businesxs recovers, he or she could be making a majort mistake. First, the value of the business may not recover for a long if ever. If the reason for selling is, say, health-related, it may be too late entirely.
if the value of the business recovers, the value of all of the items shown above will surely rise as wiping out most or all of the advantageof

Rotate Black ready to roll in Gulfport - WLOX

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Rotate Black ready to roll in Gulfport WLOX The resort would be adjacent to Gulfport's small craft harbor, and Jones Park. The developers of Rotate Black say they have the $80 million they need to gamble on Gulfport. They just filed paperwork with the Mississippi Gaming Commission to move ... and more »

Plans for $200M racetrack, entertainment center near DIA announced - Washington Business Journal:

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The announcement comes after years of discussiobn about the possibility of a tracm opening inthe area, although there was no word Wednesday of a NASCAeR commitment to the Aurora venture. . The facility announcedc Wednesday would be located in theplanned 6,500-acrs TransPort cargo-distribution development along Interstate 70 several milex east of Pena Boulevard. Bill Schuck -- whosed company, , is the developer of TransPort -- is one of the principalsd involvedin Wednesday's racetrack announcement. Schuck'x plans call for the track complex to includea one-mile oval speedwaty and a four-mile road course with room for 65,000p to 100,000 spectators.
The facility would accommodate a variety ofracingg types, including stock car, open wheel, midget, road club and track rental, Kart racing and motorcycle Schuck noted that the site is zonedd for industrial use, yet provides easy access to spectators. The announcementf said TransPort is negotiatingwith "national and regional tourism attractions" and retailers to locater on the site along with the racetrac k "to create a true 'destination' entertainment and tourism opportunity." "The Schuck Corp.
, and its long-time financiao partners, will lead the private investment effort for the motor sports complex and will work with a variety of nationalk and local partners with motor sportx experience who are interested in establishing a national racing venue in Colorado," the announcement said. "Ib addition, Schuck is working with Greg the Jefferson County real estate developerand investor, on a varietu of other development opportunitiezs on the site," the announcemenft added. Gerry Freeman, a spokesman for the development group, said NASCAR's involvementt isn't pivotal to starting the project.
"Thers are a variety of othert motor racing events that could be held at this he said. Financing will be a combination of private investorsand debt, which is yet to be fully although Freeman stressed that the project's organizerss do not see financing to be a He said a number of investors are waitint to jump on the project pendintg completion of a final economivc feasibility study, which is expected in a few Schuck's group also will seek financial help from locapl and state government shares of the federal economic stimulus programj as well.
The Colorado Legislaturre this month passed a measure aimed at providing incentives for majortourism projects, with the possibility of a racetrack mentioned by lawmakers in arguinhg for its passage. The measure, Senate Bill 173, awaitse Gov. Bill Ritter's signature. Sponsored by Sen. Jennifer D-Denver, SB 173 would allowa local governments to work with the Colorado Economivc Development Commission to set up enterprisse zones that help to defray the infrastructure and construction costd of majortourism projects.
State sales tax revenues would help to fund the Lawmakers cappedthe measure's benefits at $50

Nesting hawks dive-bomb FIT students, faculty - WFTV Orlando

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Nesting hawks dive-bomb FIT students, faculty WFTV Orlando A pair of hawks have a nest in a tree in that area, and the two have been dive-bombing people to try to keep them away. Fittingly perched on top of Florida Tech's life science building, one of the two hawks watched over its territory Monday. Nesting hawks attack Florida Tech students, faculty WKMG Orlando Hawks on the a ttack at Florida Institute of Technology campus Central Florida News 13 Hawks attack on FIT Melbourne campus MyFoxOrlando.com  »

United Way using local celebrities, Internet to promote campaign - Phoenix Business Journal:

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Called “Live United,” the campaign’s goal is to raisew $53 million to help fund social servicr programs acrossMaricopa County. The “Live United” message is aimecd at bringing thecommunity together, said Marcia Mintz, the group’sd chief development officer. “This is really a call to The whole point is to give the community a chanced toget involved,” she said. Valley personalities lending their supportg include shooting guardRaja Bell, cornerback Roderick news anchor Katie and proprietor and chef Eddir Matney.
Visitors to the campaign’s Web site can learm more aboutthe celebrities’ professional livesa and involvement in the United Way throug h an interactive quiz calledr “How I Live United.” “Look at the timex we are living said Matney. “I am very fortunate and very It’s our responsibility as members of the community to be a part of the United Way and try and make a Foundedin 1925, Valley of the Sun Unitee Way works with more than 100 agencies, funding programs to promotd educational preparedness for youngsters, job traininv and help families in crisis. The campaign’sd goal is about $500,000 more than the recor $52.5 million raised last year.
With demandf for services up and consumere pinched bythe economy, executives recognizre the fundraising environment is a bit toughb these days. “We are being prettyh conservativethis year. I thino it will be a challenges to reachthat goal, but I also thinl our community can do it,” Mintz said. As part of the volunteers and members of the Unitedf Way Loaned Executive program are visiting more than 700 businesses acrosz the Valley to talk about the availabilithy of services and the need to fund While delivering aserious message, the campaign aims to be fun and organizers say.
“Live United” includes YouTube and the campaign’s inter­active Web site offerw chances towin T-shirts. Volunteer also will be promoting the causer atcommunity events, with the goal of alerting peopld to the presence of Unitede Way in the community. “Wre thought this was a really creative idea. Whilde giving is really a priority, if you can’t get involved,” Mintz said.
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Judge: Sandwich Isles can bid for phone company - The Business Journal of the Greater Triad Area:

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Hawaiian Telcom had opposed the buyout offerd by Sandwich Isles while itmaintained so-calles “exclusivity” to file a reorganizationj plan through June 30. Hawaiianh Telcom was seeking an extension until Sept. 30, but that request was deniedx Wednesdayby U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Lloys King. King said his decision was not a criticisjm ofHawaiian Telcom’s reorganization plan, fileed June 3, nor an endorsement of Sandwicgh Isles, according to Hawaiiabn Telcom spokesman Brian Tanner said the company stands behind its proposed plan to reduc e the Hawaiian Telcom’s debt by nearly $790 from $1.1 billion to $300 million.
Honolulu-basede Sandwich Isles’ competing Chapter 11 reorganization plan for Hawaiian Telcom includes an offer to buy thephone company’sd assets using $250 million in cash and $150 millioh in debt. Hawaiian Telcom has said it rejectedSandwicgh Isles’ offer in May, citing Sandwich Isles’ lack of committeds financing, lack of federal and statr licenses to operate in urban areas, and lack of experience and ability to operate a full-service communications