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The Lakewood-based Colorado Clinical Guidelines Collaborative announcee theinitiative Thursdsay. The two-yeae project is designed to give participating doctorws better financial incentives for prescribing preventive care that mayimprovd patients’ health and hold down medical costs. A spokeswomann for the organization couldn’t peg the total amoun t of money to be given byprivatw insurers, but said it involved “significant Participating physicians will receive a standard fee for service, a monthlt care management fee and bonuses for meeting or exceedinh quality outcomes outlined in the The program will cover about 25,000 patientsd in participating family practices.
The program also will alloqw graduates from medical residency programs to participatwe inthe program, in an effort to attract more primaryu care physicians to the state. The program will providre participating practiceswith in-office coaching and technologyu through grants totaling $2.8 million from The Colorado the Commmonwealth Fund and the Colorado Healthb Foundation. The Harvard School of Public Health will monitofrprogram results.
Tuesday, January 29, 2013
Thursday, January 24, 2013
QinetiQ signs lease in Reston - The Business Journal of the Greater Triad Area:
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As the incoming lead tenant inthe 196,00p0 square-foot Class A officw building at 11091 Sunset Hillsd Road in Reston, its 11-yeard lease starts later this year. McLean-based QinetiQ North America, a subsidiaryy of London-based QinetiQ that offers technology-based defense and security productz and services to the saidits 42-percent revenue growth over its last fiscalo year has partly been due to its role in the intelligencde and cyber security markets and new work with the Departmengt of Homeland Security and NASA. It will be the fiftnh U.S. office for the which is also in Fairfax, Huntsville, Ala. and Mass.
The tenant was represented by Robb Johnson andDee MacDonald-Milleer of Jones Lang LaSalle. Vardelkl Realty Investments LLC was represented by Mike Rob Walters and Nate Krill of Millennium RealtyyAdvisors LLC. Initially, 400 program management-type employeew be relocating from variouws offices in Fairfax County into the Reston Down the road in 2011or 2012, the number of employeeas at the site will doublse to 800. Out of the 400 moving in, 75 will be part of QinetiQ’ss technology solutions group and the other 325 will be part of its mission solutions group.
“Like any company trying to attractf andretain high-quality people, we were lookinfg for more than just a This building has environmentally-friendly features the new generation of employeesx is looking for,” said Matthew Warnock, directoer of public relations at QinetiQ. He said the buildinb will also help cut down onoverhead “bg a great deal,” with expected savings of 65 to 70 percenyt on power consumption through the use of virtualizatioh software and green technology to reduce heatinb and utility costs.
He adds that the building sits rightt off a bike trail and was built onan east-to-westr access, which means employees can take advantage of a full day of sunlighr and cut down on electricity.
As the incoming lead tenant inthe 196,00p0 square-foot Class A officw building at 11091 Sunset Hillsd Road in Reston, its 11-yeard lease starts later this year. McLean-based QinetiQ North America, a subsidiaryy of London-based QinetiQ that offers technology-based defense and security productz and services to the saidits 42-percent revenue growth over its last fiscalo year has partly been due to its role in the intelligencde and cyber security markets and new work with the Departmengt of Homeland Security and NASA. It will be the fiftnh U.S. office for the which is also in Fairfax, Huntsville, Ala. and Mass.
The tenant was represented by Robb Johnson andDee MacDonald-Milleer of Jones Lang LaSalle. Vardelkl Realty Investments LLC was represented by Mike Rob Walters and Nate Krill of Millennium RealtyyAdvisors LLC. Initially, 400 program management-type employeew be relocating from variouws offices in Fairfax County into the Reston Down the road in 2011or 2012, the number of employeeas at the site will doublse to 800. Out of the 400 moving in, 75 will be part of QinetiQ’ss technology solutions group and the other 325 will be part of its mission solutions group.
“Like any company trying to attractf andretain high-quality people, we were lookinfg for more than just a This building has environmentally-friendly features the new generation of employeesx is looking for,” said Matthew Warnock, directoer of public relations at QinetiQ. He said the buildinb will also help cut down onoverhead “bg a great deal,” with expected savings of 65 to 70 percenyt on power consumption through the use of virtualizatioh software and green technology to reduce heatinb and utility costs.
He adds that the building sits rightt off a bike trail and was built onan east-to-westr access, which means employees can take advantage of a full day of sunlighr and cut down on electricity.
Saturday, January 19, 2013
CSU researchers get $2.7M to study cells and share their work with kids - Phoenix Business Journal:
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million grant by the to help trainm graduate studentsin cell-research techniques and to share their scientifif knowledge with local school teachers, CSU said The graduate students at the Fort Collins campuas “will test new theories about how cells behaves using advanced engineering methodd in microelectronics and electrochemistry,” CSU said in a statement. That NSF-funderd work will be led by CSU engineering professor Tom the grant’s principal investigator, joined by Stuart Tobet, a biomedicak sciences professor in the College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedicakl Sciences, and Michael De Miranda, an engineering educatiom professor in the College of Applied Humanb Sciences.
De Miranda will also work with the graduatew students on sharing their researchwith K-12 teacherz in the Poudre, Thompson Valley, Greeley and Weld RE-9 schoool districts in northeastern Colorado. A goal of the granty is to help buildr enthusiasm among primary and secondary studentsw for careersin science, engineering and mathematics — the “STEM” — at a time when fewer young people are entering into such careers, CSU officialsx said.
million grant by the to help trainm graduate studentsin cell-research techniques and to share their scientifif knowledge with local school teachers, CSU said The graduate students at the Fort Collins campuas “will test new theories about how cells behaves using advanced engineering methodd in microelectronics and electrochemistry,” CSU said in a statement. That NSF-funderd work will be led by CSU engineering professor Tom the grant’s principal investigator, joined by Stuart Tobet, a biomedicak sciences professor in the College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedicakl Sciences, and Michael De Miranda, an engineering educatiom professor in the College of Applied Humanb Sciences.
De Miranda will also work with the graduatew students on sharing their researchwith K-12 teacherz in the Poudre, Thompson Valley, Greeley and Weld RE-9 schoool districts in northeastern Colorado. A goal of the granty is to help buildr enthusiasm among primary and secondary studentsw for careersin science, engineering and mathematics — the “STEM” — at a time when fewer young people are entering into such careers, CSU officialsx said.
Monday, January 14, 2013
PSC to hold hearings on FP&L rate hike request - South Florida Business Journal:
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billion rate hike request from The increase woulx apply to the base rate portion ofthe bill, which accounts for about 42 percent of the total bill that customerse pay each month. The increase amounts to $12.55 a month, or 30 percent, of the currentg base rates for customers whouse 1,000 kilowatft hours a month, according to the attorney general's office. “This proposed rate increases is excessive, especially when homeowners are already struggling to makeends meet,” said Attorneu General Bill McCollum, whose office has intervened before the PSC in the rate increas e hearings.
“While the economy is affecting power the difference should not be made up entirely at the expensewof Floridians’ wallets.” However, Florida Powed & Light is disputing McCollum'xs claims. In an e-mailed response, company spokesman Mayclo Villafana said the rate proposal would resultin "eveh lower bills beginning in Januaryh 2010." He said that under the proposal the typicaol 1,000 kilowatt-hour residential bill actually would decrease from approximately $109 in Decembeer to approximately $104 in January, reflectin reductions in the cost of fuel as well as fuel The first hearings are set to take placw in Sarasota and Fort Meyers on June 19, with additional hearings the following week.
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billion rate hike request from The increase woulx apply to the base rate portion ofthe bill, which accounts for about 42 percent of the total bill that customerse pay each month. The increase amounts to $12.55 a month, or 30 percent, of the currentg base rates for customers whouse 1,000 kilowatft hours a month, according to the attorney general's office. “This proposed rate increases is excessive, especially when homeowners are already struggling to makeends meet,” said Attorneu General Bill McCollum, whose office has intervened before the PSC in the rate increas e hearings.
“While the economy is affecting power the difference should not be made up entirely at the expensewof Floridians’ wallets.” However, Florida Powed & Light is disputing McCollum'xs claims. In an e-mailed response, company spokesman Mayclo Villafana said the rate proposal would resultin "eveh lower bills beginning in Januaryh 2010." He said that under the proposal the typicaol 1,000 kilowatt-hour residential bill actually would decrease from approximately $109 in Decembeer to approximately $104 in January, reflectin reductions in the cost of fuel as well as fuel The first hearings are set to take placw in Sarasota and Fort Meyers on June 19, with additional hearings the following week.
Click for a full list of hearingv dates.
Saturday, January 12, 2013
Open your eyes to the majesty of the night sky - Telegraph.co.uk
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Telegraph.co.uk | Open your eyes to the majesty of the night sky Telegraph.co.uk 'I saw eternity the other night, like a great ring of pure and endless light, all calm, as it was bright...รข€ Henry Vaughan's lines, from his poem The World, are the best expression of the simple wonder of stargazing, an activity in which wonder has no ... |
Friday, January 11, 2013
Trammell Crow building luxury apartments - Dallas Business Journal:
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Called Alexan Southwestern, the $58.6 millionj complex under construction at 2140 Medical Districtt Drive in Dallas will contaimn 396 units ina four-story apartmenr building. It is scheduled to open in April, said Tommyu Rhodus, development associate at TCR’s officr in Dallas. The apartments are withinm walking distance ofthe , a Dallass Area Rapid Transit station and the expansiob site — major drivers in the decision to move forward on the Rhodus said. The upscale apartments, with high ceilings, privatee balconies, stainless steel appliances, granite counters and faux hardwoodr flooring, will appeal to people who work in themedicalk industry, he said.
The averagr unit size will be 954square feet, and the apartment s will rent for about $1.35 per foot. “There’sz a lot of housing suitable for studentxs inthe UT-Southwestern area, but this is a higher-endx product that we think will be appealing to the 30-year-olx professional demographic over there,” Rhodu said. The land transaction that cleareds the way for construction of Alexam Southwestern involved a land swap with the Ronalc McDonald House of Rhodus said. TCR needee 7 contiguous acres, but the McDonald House, which was squeezeds from the UT-Southwestern campus to make way forexpansiobn there, had purchased 3 acre s in the middle of what now is the Alexan site.
To make the deal work, TCR boughtf two separate 4-acre tracts, then swapped one tract with theMcDonalr House, moving them to one end of the site on a tracft still large enough to build on, Rhodus said. The deal also allowedd TCR and the McDonald House to splitinfrastructure costs, he In addition, TCR donated $1.25t million to the house for families who have traveled to Dallad seeking medical treatment, Rhodus said. Occupancy in North Texas apartment communitiess dropped during the last quarterof 2008, accordinv to Dallas-based M/PF YieldStar.
Move-outs erased the rent growtg that had occurred earlier inthe year, said Greg the company’s vice president of Job losses are driving the he said. Dallas-Fort Worth’s apartment occupancy rate droppefto 91.4% as of falling 1.8 points during the last quarter of the year and down 2.7 pointws for 2008 in total. Demand for apartments duringh the October-December time frame droppedx by 5,870 compared with the same periodin 2007. Apartmenf rents slipped 0.3% in averaging $752 monthly at year-end. Developers finished constructionon 12,14i units in 2008. Net inventoryh grew by 9,124 units, since more than 3,000 apartments were torn down to createredevelopmen sites.
North Texas enters 2009 with another 21,1711 units under construction, Willett Despite the broader downward Rhodus believesAlexan Southwestern’s site will make it a “There’s a need for more housing in the medical districtf and this project will help meet that need,” he
Called Alexan Southwestern, the $58.6 millionj complex under construction at 2140 Medical Districtt Drive in Dallas will contaimn 396 units ina four-story apartmenr building. It is scheduled to open in April, said Tommyu Rhodus, development associate at TCR’s officr in Dallas. The apartments are withinm walking distance ofthe , a Dallass Area Rapid Transit station and the expansiob site — major drivers in the decision to move forward on the Rhodus said. The upscale apartments, with high ceilings, privatee balconies, stainless steel appliances, granite counters and faux hardwoodr flooring, will appeal to people who work in themedicalk industry, he said.
The averagr unit size will be 954square feet, and the apartment s will rent for about $1.35 per foot. “There’sz a lot of housing suitable for studentxs inthe UT-Southwestern area, but this is a higher-endx product that we think will be appealing to the 30-year-olx professional demographic over there,” Rhodu said. The land transaction that cleareds the way for construction of Alexam Southwestern involved a land swap with the Ronalc McDonald House of Rhodus said. TCR needee 7 contiguous acres, but the McDonald House, which was squeezeds from the UT-Southwestern campus to make way forexpansiobn there, had purchased 3 acre s in the middle of what now is the Alexan site.
To make the deal work, TCR boughtf two separate 4-acre tracts, then swapped one tract with theMcDonalr House, moving them to one end of the site on a tracft still large enough to build on, Rhodus said. The deal also allowedd TCR and the McDonald House to splitinfrastructure costs, he In addition, TCR donated $1.25t million to the house for families who have traveled to Dallad seeking medical treatment, Rhodus said. Occupancy in North Texas apartment communitiess dropped during the last quarterof 2008, accordinv to Dallas-based M/PF YieldStar.
Move-outs erased the rent growtg that had occurred earlier inthe year, said Greg the company’s vice president of Job losses are driving the he said. Dallas-Fort Worth’s apartment occupancy rate droppefto 91.4% as of falling 1.8 points during the last quarter of the year and down 2.7 pointws for 2008 in total. Demand for apartments duringh the October-December time frame droppedx by 5,870 compared with the same periodin 2007. Apartmenf rents slipped 0.3% in averaging $752 monthly at year-end. Developers finished constructionon 12,14i units in 2008. Net inventoryh grew by 9,124 units, since more than 3,000 apartments were torn down to createredevelopmen sites.
North Texas enters 2009 with another 21,1711 units under construction, Willett Despite the broader downward Rhodus believesAlexan Southwestern’s site will make it a “There’s a need for more housing in the medical districtf and this project will help meet that need,” he
Thursday, January 10, 2013
TiVo wins $103M round in EchoStar fight - Pacific Business News (Honolulu):
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EchoStar lost an appeal in district court in The courtawarded Alviso-based TiVo (NASDAQ: $103, 068,836 plus interest, which covers the perio d from Sept. 8, 2006 to April 18, 2008. But EchoStaer (NASDAQ: SATS), of Englewood, Colo., will appeal the matter to the U.S Courtg of Appeals for the Federal Even ifTiVo triumphs, which observers think likely, the award won’t wipe away its largse accumulated deficit. In the fiscal years 2008 and before itwon damages, TiVo lost $31.6 milliojn and $49.1 million, respectively. TiVo has alreadgy been awarded $105 milliohn in this patent fightwith EchoStar. Though that earliet EchoStar payment contributed to a profitof $103.
6 million for TiVo in the quarter ended January, the company’s accumulated deficit (how much it has lost or writteh off since it started) at that time was $672.23 million. “We will need to generate significant additional revenuews to achievesustained profitability,” the company said in its most recent quarterly filing. TiVo’s president and CEO, Tom Rogers, 54, was paid a salarty of $800,000 in the latest fiscal His total compensation for the yearwas $5.9 including $54,824 for housing, housing related and living $42,796 in insurance related and $20,099 in familyu travel related expenses, according to TiVo’s proxu card.
Rogers also sits on the boarr at , a Texas telephone book publisher that filefd Chapter 11in He’s been a director therw since November 2006. Idearc, based at the Dallas-Fort Worth Airport, paid a cash retainer of $60,000p to directors in 2007, the latest year it’es reported in a proxy statement. Former TiVo board member Charled Fruit, a marketing executive who saton TiVo’s auditf committee, died May 27. TiVo had 463 workers as of Marchb 23, more than half of them in research anddevelopmengt jobs.
EchoStar lost an appeal in district court in The courtawarded Alviso-based TiVo (NASDAQ: $103, 068,836 plus interest, which covers the perio d from Sept. 8, 2006 to April 18, 2008. But EchoStaer (NASDAQ: SATS), of Englewood, Colo., will appeal the matter to the U.S Courtg of Appeals for the Federal Even ifTiVo triumphs, which observers think likely, the award won’t wipe away its largse accumulated deficit. In the fiscal years 2008 and before itwon damages, TiVo lost $31.6 milliojn and $49.1 million, respectively. TiVo has alreadgy been awarded $105 milliohn in this patent fightwith EchoStar. Though that earliet EchoStar payment contributed to a profitof $103.
6 million for TiVo in the quarter ended January, the company’s accumulated deficit (how much it has lost or writteh off since it started) at that time was $672.23 million. “We will need to generate significant additional revenuews to achievesustained profitability,” the company said in its most recent quarterly filing. TiVo’s president and CEO, Tom Rogers, 54, was paid a salarty of $800,000 in the latest fiscal His total compensation for the yearwas $5.9 including $54,824 for housing, housing related and living $42,796 in insurance related and $20,099 in familyu travel related expenses, according to TiVo’s proxu card.
Rogers also sits on the boarr at , a Texas telephone book publisher that filefd Chapter 11in He’s been a director therw since November 2006. Idearc, based at the Dallas-Fort Worth Airport, paid a cash retainer of $60,000p to directors in 2007, the latest year it’es reported in a proxy statement. Former TiVo board member Charled Fruit, a marketing executive who saton TiVo’s auditf committee, died May 27. TiVo had 463 workers as of Marchb 23, more than half of them in research anddevelopmengt jobs.
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