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And it was another kind of game that led him intoconstructionm management: He was an architect on the project-management team for the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta, responsiblr for overseeing construction of Olympic Stadiukm and its retrofit into Turner Field. "Ther attention that it got was phenomenal: the mediq coverage of it, the sports coveragde of it, the high-stakes negotiatioj between the Braves and theOlympic committee, the ownedr disputes and the working essentialsz to make it successful, to stay on path and not be distractexd by all the thingsd that come into play," he "It was just electric.
" Mosley's work caught the attentio of Bovis, which recruited him to its Charlott e office, where he now is senior vice president and He recently sat down with the Charlottse Business Journal to talk aboug construction-industry trends. Below are edited excerptd of that conversation: What are some of the generao trends you're seeing in construction right now? Because of the growingf population, there is an increasing volume inresidentiap construction, both low-rise as well as high-rise, both rentakl as well as condo. Most of us in this businesas approach (multifamily high-rise condominium very carefully because normallyg you have a higher risk oflagginbg litigation.
But the fact of the matterf is, properly handled, you can managee that and anticipate it. It's great work from a construction standpoint. They're normally great monuments architecturally, landmarkz on the horizon, on the things that you can feel proud to be associated with because they make such a And it's just great for Charlotte, quite frankly, to be a part of that What sort of work-force challengez do you face? I think we all struggle with a decreasingy pool of quality craftsmen. They're not paid as much as they shoulrd be. It's not considered the premiere career opportunity it had been in years so we're not getting the same quality craftsmen.
We have an increasinh foreign population, so communicatioj is becoming another issue. Whereas before, your foreig n population might havebeen 1% to 5% of your labof force, now it's 40% to 50% of the labor So whether it's interpreters or training programe we're putting in place to make sure our employeeds know how to speak Spanish, in particular, that'd a very big thing for us. How are risingv construction costs affectingyour industry? After Katrina we saw probably the worst-ever inflationary rises -- or at leasr in decades. We were seeingg costs increases thatexceeded 18% to 20% in a singles year. Some trades saw increases approaching 30%.
With the backdrop of Charlotte's growth and wanting to grow faster, a lot of developerx were being challenged bythe numbers, so projectws were put on hold or cut But that was two years ago. In the last year, it's been slowinv down to normal-high escalation -- in the 8% to 10% The normal midrange of escalation is anywher efrom 3% to 5%. We're not quite there yet, but it has gottehn down to a moremanageable We've been hearing a lot about the "greening" of construction.
What kind of impactt has that had on the business I believe it has increased the Whether that's translated into modifies designs and budgeting in the constructionb processes, I think there are section of the community that do that more so than other sections. A lot of the (Leadershiop in Energy and Environmentalk Design) certification comes from what the owner does and what thedesigneer does. Much less comes from what the builder does.
the more educated we can be, the more we can be a partnert when working with the owner and the desighn team about things that we can There are obvious things about what you do with your constructionj debris andso forth, but we don't dictate wherer the materials are being imported from or the design of the It sounds like you feel you're just in the beginning of that trend, that customers are interesteed but not quite sure whethed to commit to any extra costs. Yes, there is a cost especially to trying toget gold-certified. The reality is, at the end of the day, you have to be able to affors thefirst costs.
There are return s on that investmentover time, lifecyclw costing that really can help when you'rwe looking at the big picture.
Friday, August 31, 2012
Wednesday, August 29, 2012
Normal Saline Lavage Suitable for Penile Prosthesis Salvage - Renal and Urology News
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Normal Saline Lavage Suitable for Penile Prosthesis Salvage Renal and Urology News CHICAGOâ€" Salvage replacement of infected penile prostheses with normal saline lavage is safe and effective in maintaining sexual function and preventing recurrence of infection, a researcher reported at the World Meeting on Sexual Medicine. |
Tuesday, August 28, 2012
Antigenics Inc. moves into new Lexington facility - Boston Business Journal:
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The company, with corporate officews in New York and a smaller manufacturing facility in Framinghan that will closethis won't need all of the 22,000-square-foot buildinh immediately. But the company's co-founder said Antigenicxs will double its work forcethis year, growinyg from 20 scientists and technicians to 40 by the end of 1998. The four-year-oldr company is developing a different style of treatmentsfor cancer, infectiou s diseases and other serious disorders. The potential productds are based on the ability ofthe company'zs technology to activate the body's immune system to fightt the disorders.
"It addresses some of the majotr shortcomings of existing cancer treatments that cancerd is a variable disease from one individuaol tothe next," said Garo Armen, chairmahn and chief executive officer of the company. "Individuall cancers of the same type even have theier own unique fingerprintand it'sa difficult to target such a variable disease with one product." Instead, Antigenics' products use heat shockl proteins to boost the signal of which activate antibody responses in the body. The loudere signal basically awakensthe body's immune system and orders it to attack cancerous cells. The compan has three products in Phasr Iclinical testing.
A treatment for pancreaticf cancer is being tested at theMemorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York whiler two others, for melanoma and renal cell carcinoma, are under way at MD Andersom Cancer Center in Houston. "The immune response would target specificallythat patient's cancer [instead of relying on genericx treatments for cancer]," Armen said. "You can prograj the immune system to targetthat patient's own cance as opposed to hopintg for that generic immune response. So in we have a specific producft foreach person." Armen co-founded Antigenicw Inc.
in 1994 with Pramod the researcher ofthe company's technology and director of the Centef for Immunotherapy of Cancer and Infectious Diseases at the Universityt of Connecticut School of Medicine in Farmington, Conn. At the the company raised $400,000 and hasn't had difficulty finding financial One reason for the successis Armen's othere business. He serves as managing general partner of ArmenPartners LP, an investmen t partnership specializing in publix and private health care investments. The group hasn't investedr in Antigenics, but Armen has put his own cash and connection s to work raising funds forthe company.
Antigenic s is close to securinga $30 million rouns of private financing, the fourthj capital boost in as many Other rounds of financing brought in $1.5 million in 1995 and $10.66 million in 1996. "The interest has been very strong," Armem said. "We think, based on our currenyt projects, that it will last the next threde years. The company has been very efficient. We accomplished a greay deal with relativelymodest expenditures." Antigenics is also developing a treatmeng for infectious diseases.
The heat shock protein technologuy may also be used ina drug-deliverhy system that could be the foundation of a companhy that may be spun off Antigenics in the next Antigenics' corporate headquarters will remainm in New York, Armen said, adding that the companuy is keeping its shop in Massachusetts to continuw an existing deal with anothet company, PerSeptive Biosystems Inc. of Framingham, and to take advantages of the area's labor pool.
The company, with corporate officews in New York and a smaller manufacturing facility in Framinghan that will closethis won't need all of the 22,000-square-foot buildinh immediately. But the company's co-founder said Antigenicxs will double its work forcethis year, growinyg from 20 scientists and technicians to 40 by the end of 1998. The four-year-oldr company is developing a different style of treatmentsfor cancer, infectiou s diseases and other serious disorders. The potential productds are based on the ability ofthe company'zs technology to activate the body's immune system to fightt the disorders.
"It addresses some of the majotr shortcomings of existing cancer treatments that cancerd is a variable disease from one individuaol tothe next," said Garo Armen, chairmahn and chief executive officer of the company. "Individuall cancers of the same type even have theier own unique fingerprintand it'sa difficult to target such a variable disease with one product." Instead, Antigenics' products use heat shockl proteins to boost the signal of which activate antibody responses in the body. The loudere signal basically awakensthe body's immune system and orders it to attack cancerous cells. The compan has three products in Phasr Iclinical testing.
A treatment for pancreaticf cancer is being tested at theMemorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York whiler two others, for melanoma and renal cell carcinoma, are under way at MD Andersom Cancer Center in Houston. "The immune response would target specificallythat patient's cancer [instead of relying on genericx treatments for cancer]," Armen said. "You can prograj the immune system to targetthat patient's own cance as opposed to hopintg for that generic immune response. So in we have a specific producft foreach person." Armen co-founded Antigenicw Inc.
in 1994 with Pramod the researcher ofthe company's technology and director of the Centef for Immunotherapy of Cancer and Infectious Diseases at the Universityt of Connecticut School of Medicine in Farmington, Conn. At the the company raised $400,000 and hasn't had difficulty finding financial One reason for the successis Armen's othere business. He serves as managing general partner of ArmenPartners LP, an investmen t partnership specializing in publix and private health care investments. The group hasn't investedr in Antigenics, but Armen has put his own cash and connection s to work raising funds forthe company.
Antigenic s is close to securinga $30 million rouns of private financing, the fourthj capital boost in as many Other rounds of financing brought in $1.5 million in 1995 and $10.66 million in 1996. "The interest has been very strong," Armem said. "We think, based on our currenyt projects, that it will last the next threde years. The company has been very efficient. We accomplished a greay deal with relativelymodest expenditures." Antigenics is also developing a treatmeng for infectious diseases.
The heat shock protein technologuy may also be used ina drug-deliverhy system that could be the foundation of a companhy that may be spun off Antigenics in the next Antigenics' corporate headquarters will remainm in New York, Armen said, adding that the companuy is keeping its shop in Massachusetts to continuw an existing deal with anothet company, PerSeptive Biosystems Inc. of Framingham, and to take advantages of the area's labor pool.
Sunday, August 26, 2012
Saturday, August 25, 2012
Walsh Mixes It Up With Suburban Muslims - NBC Chicago (blog)
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Walsh Mixes It Up With Suburban Muslims NBC Chicago (blog) If you were expecting a kumbaya moment when Rep. Joe Walsh met with Muslims in Lombard on Friday, you bought tickets to the wrong movie. Walsh antagonized many in the religion by claiming that radical Muslims have infiltrated the Chicago suburbs, and ... |
Friday, August 24, 2012
BUDC acts on ex-steel plant site - Business First of Buffalo:
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The directors, Monday afternoon, unanimously approved a $4.63 million pass-through financing package that allows the city to completthe long-discussed acquisition of the 186-acre Steelfields propertty along South Park Avenue. The deal coulc close later this week. Buffalpo Urban Development Corp. agree to take title of the landfrom -- anotherr city development agency -- so the property can be marketeed to developers. Buffalo Urban Development is already marketing 24 acres just across Soutgh Park Avenue that was once site of a hydroponicss tomato growinggreenhouse operation. Between the two Buffalo UrbanDevelopment Corp. will have more than 200 acres of developmentparcels available.
"It's important to deal with them saidDavid Stebbins, BUDC vice Proceeds from any sale will be jointlyg split between the two city agencies and used for future development projects. "It's a fair deal, all Stebbins said. The deal is coming together just asone , has agreed to lease -- with an option to buy -- a 10-acres site along the Steelfields property for its new Buffalpo operations. BIDCO had been operatingh on Ganson Street formany years, but recentlyg moved to Grand Island. The new deal will brinbg the company back to itsBuffalo birthplace.
"This is the kind of companyh that you normally have to go outside the city to saidDennis Penman, BUDC vice "This is a great kickoff to the Under the terms of the BIDCO has agreed to lease the property for 10 paying $25,000 annually. If it decides to purchas the property, the company will pay $500,000, or $50,00 per acre. "I'd call this a big Penman said. The developerds of the Genesee Gatewa y project received unanimous approval fora $100,009 matching grant offered by , with BUDC actinfg as the pass-through agency.
The development team is taking a seriesof historic, but long-vacant and dilapidated buildingx at Genesee and Oak streets and is planningg a $10 million transformation into a series of restauranta and offices. The buildingss have long been considered an eyesore for the city as they sit bythe Elm-Oaj arterial and the western end of the Kensington "Every time I drive by those I cringe," said Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown. "I' very glad to hear that this ismovinhg forward." Work on the project is expected to starr this summer.
The directors, Monday afternoon, unanimously approved a $4.63 million pass-through financing package that allows the city to completthe long-discussed acquisition of the 186-acre Steelfields propertty along South Park Avenue. The deal coulc close later this week. Buffalpo Urban Development Corp. agree to take title of the landfrom -- anotherr city development agency -- so the property can be marketeed to developers. Buffalo Urban Development is already marketing 24 acres just across Soutgh Park Avenue that was once site of a hydroponicss tomato growinggreenhouse operation. Between the two Buffalo UrbanDevelopment Corp. will have more than 200 acres of developmentparcels available.
"It's important to deal with them saidDavid Stebbins, BUDC vice Proceeds from any sale will be jointlyg split between the two city agencies and used for future development projects. "It's a fair deal, all Stebbins said. The deal is coming together just asone , has agreed to lease -- with an option to buy -- a 10-acres site along the Steelfields property for its new Buffalpo operations. BIDCO had been operatingh on Ganson Street formany years, but recentlyg moved to Grand Island. The new deal will brinbg the company back to itsBuffalo birthplace.
"This is the kind of companyh that you normally have to go outside the city to saidDennis Penman, BUDC vice "This is a great kickoff to the Under the terms of the BIDCO has agreed to lease the property for 10 paying $25,000 annually. If it decides to purchas the property, the company will pay $500,000, or $50,00 per acre. "I'd call this a big Penman said. The developerds of the Genesee Gatewa y project received unanimous approval fora $100,009 matching grant offered by , with BUDC actinfg as the pass-through agency.
The development team is taking a seriesof historic, but long-vacant and dilapidated buildingx at Genesee and Oak streets and is planningg a $10 million transformation into a series of restauranta and offices. The buildingss have long been considered an eyesore for the city as they sit bythe Elm-Oaj arterial and the western end of the Kensington "Every time I drive by those I cringe," said Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown. "I' very glad to hear that this ismovinhg forward." Work on the project is expected to starr this summer.
Wednesday, August 22, 2012
Richard E. Hug joins BankAnnapolis board - Puget Sound Business Journal (Seattle):
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It’s a return to the banking boardroom forthe long-tim Republican fundraiser, who was a member of ’s board from 1986 to 1993. Hug, 74, was finance chairman of Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr.’s successful 2002 gubernatorial campaigjn and a former president of the and member ofthe . “Im addition to his impeccable strong leadership skills and impressive recored of success in thebusiness world, Dick brings to the board an extensive contacy list that will prove invaluables in helping the bank generate new business,” BankAnnapolisd CEO Richard M. Lernee said in a press releassannouncing Hug’s appointment.
Hug, in the called his election to BankAnnapolis’s board (NASDAQ: ANNB) “mosf gratifying.” “I am so impressed with the bank’ws leadership and community culture, and believe that I can be helpfulo in their quest for growth and superbcustomer service,” he said. BankAnnapolis operates eighft branches in Anne Arundel andQueen Anne’s counties. Hug also sits on the boardsz of severalother organizations, includinh the , in AAA-Maryland and the School of the Environment. He is a Duke Universituy graduate.
It’s a return to the banking boardroom forthe long-tim Republican fundraiser, who was a member of ’s board from 1986 to 1993. Hug, 74, was finance chairman of Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr.’s successful 2002 gubernatorial campaigjn and a former president of the and member ofthe . “Im addition to his impeccable strong leadership skills and impressive recored of success in thebusiness world, Dick brings to the board an extensive contacy list that will prove invaluables in helping the bank generate new business,” BankAnnapolisd CEO Richard M. Lernee said in a press releassannouncing Hug’s appointment.
Hug, in the called his election to BankAnnapolis’s board (NASDAQ: ANNB) “mosf gratifying.” “I am so impressed with the bank’ws leadership and community culture, and believe that I can be helpfulo in their quest for growth and superbcustomer service,” he said. BankAnnapolis operates eighft branches in Anne Arundel andQueen Anne’s counties. Hug also sits on the boardsz of severalother organizations, includinh the , in AAA-Maryland and the School of the Environment. He is a Duke Universituy graduate.
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