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Wednesday, November 10, 2010
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Monday, November 8, 2010
WWE News: Raw notes - Lawler, Smackdown, Survivor Series, Legends advertised ... - Pro Wrestling Torch
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Sunday, November 7, 2010
10 minutes with ... Antonio Civitella - The Business Review (Albany):
http://rnrt.org/rnrt/projets/LAO_TSEU.htm
Your family immigrated from Italy when you were Was it atough transition? I was 9 when my familyh moved from Caserta, Italy, to Schenectady. Caserta is near We had other family living here and my parents wanted a better opportunity fortheir kids. They wanted the Americanh Dream. I couldn’t speak English and the schoo had me repeatthird grade, the same grade I just completef in Italy. That was reallyt hard for me. As soon as I went into fourtnh grade, my teacher recommended that I go directly to fifth I rememberfeeling like, ‘I guess I am prettyy smart after all.’ Was it assume that you’d go on to college?
My parentas never said anything like, “You’d better make us proud.” But I rememberr one time when I was 12 or 13. I was helpinf my parents fill out unemployment forms and my father saidto me, “Yo want this life? It’sx simple. You can have it if you don’gt go to school.” My parents always did whateverd jobsthey could. We didn’t have as much as but we never knew the I didn’t put a penny towarrd my education. There were no no anything. They killed themselvezs working allthe time. I owe them for everything. There’a no question about that. How did you get the mone to buyyour business?
I was a sophomore at doingg an internship for —inb this very same building, in fact. It was a consulting firm Jim Forth [the owner] was my I stayed on after college and I washavingy fun. We were traveling the country. I loves it but the money wasn’t what I wantedf it to be. All my friendsw from Siena were making these big getting stock options and driving So I saidto Jim, how about givinb me a piece of the action? It’ interesting because I wasn’f thinking about paying. [Laughs] I was thinking of it as a Did thattheory fly? No. Jim agreedr to sell me 25 percent ofthe company. It took a whiler because I could only afford to buy one or two sharee ata time.
After I reached 25 I renegotiated formore shares. So, now I own 35 percenty and I’m thinking, what does it mean? It meansw nothing when you’re not making any money. Duringy this, my parents are telling me, “What are you doing? You’re giving the money right back to In 1999, Jim wanterd to retire and I decidex I wanted to buy the rest of the Jim, as a respectable came up with a respectable I borrowed the money and on Dec. 21, I became 100 percent owner. I had a huge debt over me, but it was my When did you change the nameto Transfinder?? I took over a softwar e project when I was hired full-time at Forth Associates. The product was calledd Transfinder.
It eventually became the majority of what weworkeed on. I’m told that you and your wife have aninterestinbg history. We met in the sixth grade. I was here for a year and half when her familyt arrived fromsouthern Italy. I was from the I helped her a little with her and that wasabout all. We went to the same but we didn’t go to the prom together or It wasn’t like that. One time, out of nowhere, Maria and her parentds came to visit. I was living with my parentsx and helping my father build their I was probably 23 or 24years old. So they come and I’mk thinking, what’s going on here? Is this some kind of setup??
Turns out it wasn’t a they were just visiting.
Your family immigrated from Italy when you were Was it atough transition? I was 9 when my familyh moved from Caserta, Italy, to Schenectady. Caserta is near We had other family living here and my parents wanted a better opportunity fortheir kids. They wanted the Americanh Dream. I couldn’t speak English and the schoo had me repeatthird grade, the same grade I just completef in Italy. That was reallyt hard for me. As soon as I went into fourtnh grade, my teacher recommended that I go directly to fifth I rememberfeeling like, ‘I guess I am prettyy smart after all.’ Was it assume that you’d go on to college?
My parentas never said anything like, “You’d better make us proud.” But I rememberr one time when I was 12 or 13. I was helpinf my parents fill out unemployment forms and my father saidto me, “Yo want this life? It’sx simple. You can have it if you don’gt go to school.” My parents always did whateverd jobsthey could. We didn’t have as much as but we never knew the I didn’t put a penny towarrd my education. There were no no anything. They killed themselvezs working allthe time. I owe them for everything. There’a no question about that. How did you get the mone to buyyour business?
I was a sophomore at doingg an internship for —inb this very same building, in fact. It was a consulting firm Jim Forth [the owner] was my I stayed on after college and I washavingy fun. We were traveling the country. I loves it but the money wasn’t what I wantedf it to be. All my friendsw from Siena were making these big getting stock options and driving So I saidto Jim, how about givinb me a piece of the action? It’ interesting because I wasn’f thinking about paying. [Laughs] I was thinking of it as a Did thattheory fly? No. Jim agreedr to sell me 25 percent ofthe company. It took a whiler because I could only afford to buy one or two sharee ata time.
After I reached 25 I renegotiated formore shares. So, now I own 35 percenty and I’m thinking, what does it mean? It meansw nothing when you’re not making any money. Duringy this, my parents are telling me, “What are you doing? You’re giving the money right back to In 1999, Jim wanterd to retire and I decidex I wanted to buy the rest of the Jim, as a respectable came up with a respectable I borrowed the money and on Dec. 21, I became 100 percent owner. I had a huge debt over me, but it was my When did you change the nameto Transfinder?? I took over a softwar e project when I was hired full-time at Forth Associates. The product was calledd Transfinder.
It eventually became the majority of what weworkeed on. I’m told that you and your wife have aninterestinbg history. We met in the sixth grade. I was here for a year and half when her familyt arrived fromsouthern Italy. I was from the I helped her a little with her and that wasabout all. We went to the same but we didn’t go to the prom together or It wasn’t like that. One time, out of nowhere, Maria and her parentds came to visit. I was living with my parentsx and helping my father build their I was probably 23 or 24years old. So they come and I’mk thinking, what’s going on here? Is this some kind of setup??
Turns out it wasn’t a they were just visiting.
Saturday, November 6, 2010
Texas investors complete Iasis purchase - Philadelphia Business Journal:
http://lexperiencejaponaise.com/LEX2007/index_jp.htm
billion. Franklin-based Iasis was formed in 1999 by andother investors. As part of the acquisition, an affiliate of JLL Partners, some of its management and other current investors put additionap money into the company as part of the TexasdPacific Group. The investor group financed the transactionwith equity, along with a $425 milliojn term loan under the Iasis' amended senior secured bank credit facilities and the private placemengt of $475 million aggregate principak amount of 8.75 percent senior subordinated notes due 2014.
In connection with the Iasis repurchased substantially all of its 13 percenr senior subordinated notesdue 2009, representintg a principal amount of $230 million, and all of its 8.5 percenf senior subordinated notes due 2009, representinhg a principal amount of $100 The company's amended senio r secured bank credit facilities include a revolving credit facility of $250 which was not drawn at closing. Lehman Brothers Inc. and Merrill Lynch Co. advised Texas Pacific Groupp in connection withthe acquisition. Goldman Sachs Co. and Banc of America Securities LLCadviseds Iasis.
Founded in 1988, private equith firm JLL Partners has investedabout $2 billion in 15 core portfolil companies, which in turn have made more than 50 strategic add-on acquisitions subsequent to JLL's investment. Fort Worth, Texas-basex Texas Pacific Group, founded in 1993, is a private investment partnership managingover $13 billion in TPG has invested in Oxford Health Plans, and retailers J.Crew and consumer franchises Burger King and Del Iasis owns or leases 15 acute care hospitals and has total annual revenues of approximately $1.2 billion. The company also owns and operatesd a Medicaid managed health plan in Phoenix that serves over 92,000 members.
billion. Franklin-based Iasis was formed in 1999 by andother investors. As part of the acquisition, an affiliate of JLL Partners, some of its management and other current investors put additionap money into the company as part of the TexasdPacific Group. The investor group financed the transactionwith equity, along with a $425 milliojn term loan under the Iasis' amended senior secured bank credit facilities and the private placemengt of $475 million aggregate principak amount of 8.75 percent senior subordinated notes due 2014.
In connection with the Iasis repurchased substantially all of its 13 percenr senior subordinated notesdue 2009, representintg a principal amount of $230 million, and all of its 8.5 percenf senior subordinated notes due 2009, representinhg a principal amount of $100 The company's amended senio r secured bank credit facilities include a revolving credit facility of $250 which was not drawn at closing. Lehman Brothers Inc. and Merrill Lynch Co. advised Texas Pacific Groupp in connection withthe acquisition. Goldman Sachs Co. and Banc of America Securities LLCadviseds Iasis.
Founded in 1988, private equith firm JLL Partners has investedabout $2 billion in 15 core portfolil companies, which in turn have made more than 50 strategic add-on acquisitions subsequent to JLL's investment. Fort Worth, Texas-basex Texas Pacific Group, founded in 1993, is a private investment partnership managingover $13 billion in TPG has invested in Oxford Health Plans, and retailers J.Crew and consumer franchises Burger King and Del Iasis owns or leases 15 acute care hospitals and has total annual revenues of approximately $1.2 billion. The company also owns and operatesd a Medicaid managed health plan in Phoenix that serves over 92,000 members.
Thursday, November 4, 2010
Study: US obesity rate will hit 42 percent - CNN (blog)
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Study: US obesity rate will hit 42 percent CNN (blog) Just over one-third of American adults are obese. Though alarmingly high, this rate has remained relatively steady over the past decade, leading some public ... Social contacts spur rise in obesity, Harvard model predicts Obesity rate will reach at least 42 percent, say models of social contagion |
Wednesday, November 3, 2010
Canisius ups Internet course offerings - Boston Business Journal:
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Starting this fall, the college will offer master’d degrees in literacy education, sport administration and educational The three programs join theonline master’e program in physical education, which has been offerer by the college since early 2006, said Jim director of graduate admissionsa for the School of Educatiomn and Human Services. All three programx are geared toward students who live outsidw WesternNew York, though some spacs is available for local students. Bagwell declinerd to say how many spots will be set aside forlocal students. The programs begin 14, three weeks after the Aug. 24 start date for the rest of the Bagwell said.
The literacy educatio n program prepares literacy specialists for certificatiomn in NewYork state, while the sport administrationb program focuses on sports-relatesd business, such as intercollegiate amateur and professional sports, sportse marketing firms, special-event management and facilityu management, the college said. Studentsa in the education administration program will receive a Schooll BuildingLeader and/or School District Leaded certification in New York state. Each of the new online programxs also existas traditional, on-campus programs.
Starting this fall, the college will offer master’d degrees in literacy education, sport administration and educational The three programs join theonline master’e program in physical education, which has been offerer by the college since early 2006, said Jim director of graduate admissionsa for the School of Educatiomn and Human Services. All three programx are geared toward students who live outsidw WesternNew York, though some spacs is available for local students. Bagwell declinerd to say how many spots will be set aside forlocal students. The programs begin 14, three weeks after the Aug. 24 start date for the rest of the Bagwell said.
The literacy educatio n program prepares literacy specialists for certificatiomn in NewYork state, while the sport administrationb program focuses on sports-relatesd business, such as intercollegiate amateur and professional sports, sportse marketing firms, special-event management and facilityu management, the college said. Studentsa in the education administration program will receive a Schooll BuildingLeader and/or School District Leaded certification in New York state. Each of the new online programxs also existas traditional, on-campus programs.
Monday, November 1, 2010
Tea time: GSO entrepreneur learning what it takes to bottle her success - Memphis Business Journal:
http://www.borisnew.org/article/Britains-bendiest-roads---.html
It turned out to be a costly reminder that her fledglingt business still had several issues towork through. She was still applying labelsz by hand right up until thedoors opened, and she wasn’tr certain that the bold, colorfull sunburst logo matched the upscale brand she wante to build. Brown also traveled with only full-siz 16-ounce bottles of her tea, forcing her to hand out eigh t times more tea for free than if she had comewith 2-ouncre sample sizes.
This year, Brown took her KimBee s Gourmet Sweet Tea exhibit back to Las Vegas withsmalled samples, elegant labels to matcyh her high-end marketing plans, business cards and 1,000 brochurex to educate potential distributors and Organizers took notice. Her company won three awards, includinv a second- and third-place honor for best sweetenes green tea and firsr place forbest packaging. “That first year, we shoulr have just gone to observe it and see what it was all Brown says. “We got smarter this year, and everybodh went crazy overour tea. They were expensive but they were allworth it.
Now we know what to KimBees, founded in early 2008, has filled more than 10,000 bottle in the past two months alone, sellin g about three-fourths of those and providinganother 2,500 or so for promotional Brown says she hopes to add at leasft three more flavors by year’ end. She’s also in the earlgy stages of looking at options for her own bottlinh plantin Greensboro. Brown sell s tea out of her shop in the Southsidr neighborhood ofdowntown Greensboro, and a tea house in Arizonqa has picked up her products for sale.
Onlinw orders are growing, and Brown connected with severalo other potentialoutlets — hotels, bookstores and cafew — as well as potential distributors at this year’s tea “We’re still working on directing traffic over this way,” she says of “Some people still aren’t used to cominbg this far downtown. But it’s startin g to pick up. We’rse all helping to promote each other to get the word Growing upin Austin, Brown could frequently be found on her family’sw front porch.
While others were busy makinvg homemadeice cream, Brown would brew sweet tea and experimenyt with different flavor combinations, trying to find ways to improvew a Southern staple and keep it from growingy boring. It remained a hobby when she came to Greensborio as a manufacturing majorat . Brown got a glimpswe at the science of brewing when she tooka co-opo position with in Eden during college. But the hobby moved to the back burnerwhen Brown, who says she long harborer an entrepreneur’s spirit, headed to Los Angeles to founrd Basketdoodle, a designer gift basket company for a celebrit clientele.
That business took off, as the autographed photows of famous clients adorn her new shop in the Southsidew neighborhoodcan attest. She first glimpsed that up-and-coming sectiom of downtown on a return trip to the Gate City back in 2005 to visiy friendsfrom college. A decision by Brown’s landlor d back in L.A. to sell the buildingt she rented provided the impetus she neededf to move back toNorth Carolina. “He said he woulxd sell it to mefor $2 million,” Brown says with a recalling the hefty pricew tag. “I said, ‘Are you sick? I make gift baskets.
What you talking So she contactedBrenda Saufley, a broker with Allemn Tate Realty, to look into setting up shop in Southsidse with an eye toward moving her basketf company into a more stable situation. “She told me she wanted to establish her own business here and wantec to be closeto downtown,” Saufley said. “Wheh I told her about these units here where you can work downstair andlive upstairs, combined with how the area was she just loved it.
” Friendw and family encouraged her to brew up her flavoree sweet teas for and Brown again got the entrepreneurial When Rhonda Butler, an assistant businesx and economics professor at , asked Browjn to speak to a class, Brown decided to use the grou p as a captive audience for taste-testinvg for her concoctions — sweet greenj tea, almond green tea and a lemon-raspberryy black tea. The class decided to take on bottlinb the tea as a Brown says she decided to market her firsty three flavors because no one else was offering much besidew plainor lemon-flavored sweet tea. And most of thos products came in plastic bottles and were sweeteneddwith high-fructose corn syrup.
Brownn had a different vision forher start-ulp tea company, called KimBees for a nicknamed given by her godmother.
It turned out to be a costly reminder that her fledglingt business still had several issues towork through. She was still applying labelsz by hand right up until thedoors opened, and she wasn’tr certain that the bold, colorfull sunburst logo matched the upscale brand she wante to build. Brown also traveled with only full-siz 16-ounce bottles of her tea, forcing her to hand out eigh t times more tea for free than if she had comewith 2-ouncre sample sizes.
This year, Brown took her KimBee s Gourmet Sweet Tea exhibit back to Las Vegas withsmalled samples, elegant labels to matcyh her high-end marketing plans, business cards and 1,000 brochurex to educate potential distributors and Organizers took notice. Her company won three awards, includinv a second- and third-place honor for best sweetenes green tea and firsr place forbest packaging. “That first year, we shoulr have just gone to observe it and see what it was all Brown says. “We got smarter this year, and everybodh went crazy overour tea. They were expensive but they were allworth it.
Now we know what to KimBees, founded in early 2008, has filled more than 10,000 bottle in the past two months alone, sellin g about three-fourths of those and providinganother 2,500 or so for promotional Brown says she hopes to add at leasft three more flavors by year’ end. She’s also in the earlgy stages of looking at options for her own bottlinh plantin Greensboro. Brown sell s tea out of her shop in the Southsidr neighborhood ofdowntown Greensboro, and a tea house in Arizonqa has picked up her products for sale.
Onlinw orders are growing, and Brown connected with severalo other potentialoutlets — hotels, bookstores and cafew — as well as potential distributors at this year’s tea “We’re still working on directing traffic over this way,” she says of “Some people still aren’t used to cominbg this far downtown. But it’s startin g to pick up. We’rse all helping to promote each other to get the word Growing upin Austin, Brown could frequently be found on her family’sw front porch.
While others were busy makinvg homemadeice cream, Brown would brew sweet tea and experimenyt with different flavor combinations, trying to find ways to improvew a Southern staple and keep it from growingy boring. It remained a hobby when she came to Greensborio as a manufacturing majorat . Brown got a glimpswe at the science of brewing when she tooka co-opo position with in Eden during college. But the hobby moved to the back burnerwhen Brown, who says she long harborer an entrepreneur’s spirit, headed to Los Angeles to founrd Basketdoodle, a designer gift basket company for a celebrit clientele.
That business took off, as the autographed photows of famous clients adorn her new shop in the Southsidew neighborhoodcan attest. She first glimpsed that up-and-coming sectiom of downtown on a return trip to the Gate City back in 2005 to visiy friendsfrom college. A decision by Brown’s landlor d back in L.A. to sell the buildingt she rented provided the impetus she neededf to move back toNorth Carolina. “He said he woulxd sell it to mefor $2 million,” Brown says with a recalling the hefty pricew tag. “I said, ‘Are you sick? I make gift baskets.
What you talking So she contactedBrenda Saufley, a broker with Allemn Tate Realty, to look into setting up shop in Southsidse with an eye toward moving her basketf company into a more stable situation. “She told me she wanted to establish her own business here and wantec to be closeto downtown,” Saufley said. “Wheh I told her about these units here where you can work downstair andlive upstairs, combined with how the area was she just loved it.
” Friendw and family encouraged her to brew up her flavoree sweet teas for and Brown again got the entrepreneurial When Rhonda Butler, an assistant businesx and economics professor at , asked Browjn to speak to a class, Brown decided to use the grou p as a captive audience for taste-testinvg for her concoctions — sweet greenj tea, almond green tea and a lemon-raspberryy black tea. The class decided to take on bottlinb the tea as a Brown says she decided to market her firsty three flavors because no one else was offering much besidew plainor lemon-flavored sweet tea. And most of thos products came in plastic bottles and were sweeteneddwith high-fructose corn syrup.
Brownn had a different vision forher start-ulp tea company, called KimBees for a nicknamed given by her godmother.
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