LCA-Vision adds Thomas as COO, Sebastian as Senior VP - Business Courier of Cincinnati:

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The COO job is a newly created titlrefor Thomas, who had been senior vice president of operations. Sebastian replaces Stephen Jones, who has left LCA “to pursue other the company said in anews “Dave has continually proven his leadership ability by developingb and implementing initiatives that increase our operationao efficiencies,” said CEO Steven Straud in the release. He adde d that Sebastian, who is rejoining LCA, “isw an accomplished human resources executivse with demonstrated success in developing and implementing organizational strategies in changing Sebastian most recently served as vice organization and managementfor Cincinnati-base , which in May filed for bankruptcyg and announced the sale of its assets to a privat equity firm.
LCA-Vision (NASDAQ: headquartered in Cincinnati, provides laser visiojn correction services under the LasikPlus The company operates 75 laser vision correction center in the United States and a joint venturdin Canada.

UAW sees its future on the line in talks - msnbc.com

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UAW sees its future on the line in talks msnbc.com United Auto Workers President Bob King, left, Chrysler Senior Vice President Scott Garberding, right, UAW Vice President General Holiefield., rear left, and Chrysler Vice President Al lacobelli attend opening ceremonies of union contract t! alks at ... Chrysler and union aim for deal without arbitration Reuters UAW Opens Contract Talks With Chrysler New York Times UAW President Says Labor Costs to Stay Similar at GM, Ford and Chrysler Bloomberg The Associated Press -The Detroit News -Sacramento Bee  »

Prospective StoneRidge buyer M3 talks about plans for subdivision - Prescott Daily Courier

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Prospective StoneRidge buyer M3 talks about plans for subdivision Prescott Daily Courier PRESCOTT VALLEY - The prospective buyer of the vacant lots in the StoneRidge subdivision expects escrow to close Aug. 15 and to begin building homes within three to six months. "We think there is new-home demand now," Bill Brownlee, a partner with ... and more »

Networking Calendar - Silicon Valley / San Jose Business Journal:

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Arizona International Growth Group, first Monday of the 7:30 a.m., Jobing.com, 4747 N. 22nd St., Phoenix. $5. EcoMonday, first Monday of the month, 7:30 a.m., Hilto Garden Inn, 1940 W. Pinnacle Peak Phoenix. $10. Registration required: www.ecomonday.com or Gail, Entrepreneurial Mothers Association, first Monday of the month, 6:15 Radisson Hotel, 7475 W. Chandler Blvd., rsvpev@emausa.org. Phoenix CEO-CFO Group, fourth Monda of the month, 11:30 a.m., McCormick Schmick’s, 2575 E. Camelback Road, $35. Reservations required: www.phoenixceocfo.com. Phoenix Green Chambedr of CommerceEducational Forum, fourthy Monday of the month, 6 p.m., location varies. Free $20 nonmembers.
602-682-5566 or www.phoenixgreenchamber.org. Security Practitioners Forum, fourth Monday of the 6:30 p.m., University of Advancingb Technology, 2625 W. Baseline Tempe. Free. www.azspf.org. Success Dynamics Leads Chandler Chamber ofCommerce Chapter, weekly, 7:30 Wildflower Bread Co., 3111 W. Chandlef Blvd., Chandler. 480-963-4571, ext. 205, or brad@chandlerchamber.com. Businessd Builders, weekly, noon, Tutti Santi Italian 7575 N. 16th St., Phoenix. Roberg Burton, 602-214-4217 or www.azbusinessbuilders.com. Chates Toastmasters, weekly, noon, Hope Community, 7901 E. Sweetwater Ave., Free. www.chatstoastmasters.org or Patricia 602-432-8168.
Scottsdale Vision Businesss Networking, weekly, 12:15 p.m., 15849 N. 71st St., Ste. 100, Robert Wade, 602-430-4647 or rob.wade@lpl.com. Scottsdaliansa Toastmaster Club, weekly, 6:45 p.m., Paiute Neighborhooxd Center, 6535 E. Osborn Road, Scottsdale. Women’s Council, Chandler Chambedr of Commerce, 8 a.m. June 2, Chandler Chamber of Commerce, 25 S. Arizona Place, Ste. 201, Free. Register: www.chandlerchamber.com. West Valley Women, first Tuesday of the month,11:30 a.m., Skye Fine Dining, 16844 N. Arrowheafd Fountain Drive, Peoria. Reservations: www.westvalleywomen.ortg or 602-235-2370. 3000 Club first and third Tuesdays ofthe 7:30 a.m., Holiday Inn Express, 16540 N. Bullarf Ave.
, Surprise. Bob and Hele n Estep, 623-556-6123, or www.the3000club.org. Scottsdale Job first and third Tuesdays ofthe month, 8:30 Temple Chai, 4645 E. Marilyjn Road, Phoenix. www.scottsdalejobnet.com or Arizona Entrepreneurs, second Tuesday of the month, 7:30 a.m., New Visiohn Center, Hayden and Mountain View, Scottsdale. $5. www.azentrepreneurs.cojm or 480-314-0803. Women in Insurance and Financial Services, second Tuesday of the 7:30 a.m., Donovan’s Steak House, 3101 E. Camelback Road, Phoenix. rsvpwifs@cox.net or 602-314-4456. Entrepreneurial Mothers Association-Northeast Vallety Chapter, second Tuesday of the 11:30 a.m., Stone Creek Golf Club, 4435 E. Paradisse Village Pkwy.
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Stadium Red Announces German Tour Club Dates for Jeremy Carr - Marketwire (press release)

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Stadium Red Announces German Tour Club Dates for Jeremy Carr Marketwire (press release) Jeremy will tour with German DJ trio, The Miami Rockers, beginning in Berlin on July 20 th and end in Koln with two shows on July 30 th . Jeremy will perform his latest work including "The Way We Are," "Celebrate Life" and preview "Live For Today. ... and more »

Office project in Alamo Heights set to move onto Phase II - San Antonio Business Journal:

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The Abbey is presently an 18,000-square-foot multi-tenangt office building located at 320 Austin inside the city ofAlamo Heights. who is president of Aetna Sign Group, says that Phasd II will be identicalo to Phase I in everuyway - from the size of the project to the design featurees that Gottsman incorporated the first time around. Like Phasd I, Phase II of The Abbey will be locatesd on about an acre of The goal with the Abbey has been to creatra campus-like project that looks like "it had jumpex off of the Harvard Business School campuws and on to Austin Highway," Gottsman says. To that end, localp architecture firm ChesneyMorales & Associates Inc.
used aged brick for the exteriort of the existing Abbey The roof of The Abbey givez the appearance ofa three-story building - althoughu there are only two floors of officr space. "It gives (The more of a residential feel," says Gottsmab about its design. Gottsman has also worke d to save as many mature trees aspossible - as well as puttinh in mature landscaping throughout the project. "We wantes it to look like it had been there awhils - that it didn't just says Gottsman. Phase II of The Abbey will be built perpendicular to thefirst phase. A heavily treed courtyard will be constructed betweemn the twobuildings - with the front of Phasde II facing the courtyard.
Phase I frontas Austin Highway. This set up, Gottsmanm explains, has allowed him to provide for a lot of without putting all of that parking righgt up at the front of the Gottsman acknowledges that many of the touches he has put into The Abbeuy arenot cheap; however, he believesx the extra care taken has been well worth it. Whilse interest in the project was slow at Gottsman says that things really picked up once the wallas of Phase Iwere up. "We have been flooded with says Gottsman, adding that therw are some "quality tenants" looking to be part of The The shell of Phase I is complete and finish-out work for tenants is underway, Gottsmanh adds.
Phase II, should be under construction by the seconde quarter ofnext year. The development costsd for the next phased will come toabout $2.2 The price tag for Phase I was $2.5 "We had some one-time costzs from Phase I that we'll be able to realize this time around," says One tenant that is alreadt signed up for the project is the salese office for Aetna Sign Group, which will occupy 2,400 squar e feet of Phase I of The Abbey. The Protocokl School of Texas hasanother 1,400p square feet.
The Protocopl School, which specializes in training business leaders in protocol and etiquetted for business andsocial affairs, was startex seven years ago by Gottsman and his businesws partner and wife, Diane. A downtown buildiny is being primed for anew tenant. Hangae Prosthetic & Orthotics (Hangar P O) recently inked a multi-year lease for an officde building at 801Brooklyn Ave. Hangar will take 4,00p0 square feet out of the 5,200-square-footf building, says James who has owned thebuilding - which is currently vacan t - for the past two years. Hangar P O is the patient care divisionof Md.-based Hangar Orthopedic Group Inc.
Work is presently underwah to bring the electrical andHVAC (heating, ventilating and air systems in the building up to current codes, says Mark managing director of Constructors Associates Inc., which is the general contractor on the project. Work on the exterior of the building - including patching up the outside tile and building newstorefrontse - was done a while ago, when Lifshutx first started marketing the building to prospective There is still 1,200 square feet of spac e up for grabs in the building, says adding that he would likely targegt another medical tenant for that space.
Hangart currently has two offices in SanAntonip - one off of Babcock within the Southn Texas Medical Center, and one off of San Pedrl near downtown. The company planas to move the functions of its San Pedro outlet to the Brooklynh buildingonce it's ready for occupancy. Hangar P O also has an officein

EPA approves California greenhouse gas rules - Silicon Valley / San Jose Business Journal:

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The approval is a reversal of a 2005 decisionj striking downthe state’s Clean Air Act waivedr request. The EPA waivee means the state can begin implementing a 2004 law that requirexs automakers to increase the fuel efficiencgy of cars by40 percent, to 35.5 miles per gallon, over the next sevejn years. “This waiver is consistent with the Cleanb Air Actas it’s been used for the last 40 years and supportsa the prerogatives of the 13 states and the Districyt of Columbia who have opted to follow California’s EPA administrator Lisa Jackson said in a news “More importantly, this decision reinforces the historic agreement on nationwidde emissions standards developed by a broad coalition of government and environmental stakeholders earlier this year.
” President Obamas in May announced a national polich to improve fuel efficiency in new cars and trucks.

'Cold' front may bring tiny bit of relief to area - Evansville Courier & Press

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'Cold' front may bring tiny bit of relief to area Evansville Courier & Press A cold front is expected to cover the Tri-state region today, alleviating some of the area's extreme heat with a few showers and thunderstorms. The National Weather Service based in Paducah issued an excessive heat warning for Henderson County Monday, ... and more »

Hotels, restaurant to profit from Shearon Harris shutdown - Triangle Business Journal:

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In coming weeks, 600 workers will descend on New where they will work arounr the clock in a meticulouslychoreographed exercise: The schedulefd refueling and maintenance of ’s Shearon Harrias nuclear plant. The month of work amountw to morethan 18,000 room nights for hotelsd and hundreds of thousands of dollars for locall restaurants. “I just got a call from a moteklin Sanford, wondering about the says Shearon Harris spokeswoman Julia Milstead. Progressw does not announce shutdownsin advance. But refuelinfg shutdowns generally happen in fall and spring when power demaneis lowest.
Harris has a scheduled refueling every 18 and Milstead confirmed a shutdown is scheduled for this While the plantis offline, Progress performs maintenance it can’ t do while the plant is operating. Durinb the shutdown, Harris’ work force of 600 will doubles toabout 1,200. Progress will pull in workerz from its other nuclear plants in the Carolinas and Denny Woodruff, director of sales for the in says occupancy typically dips in winter and pickse up again in spring. He says most of his hotel’s guests are business travelers and the influxz of Progress workers will be a boosgt forlocal hotels.
“I’m goin to have to call up Progress,” he Progress also will brinyg in contractors experienced with nuclearplant components. Each worker will work 12-houer shifts, six days a week. Many of their tasks are scheduled down to the based on planning that began aftedr the last scheduled refueling Representatives of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission will come to town for the The agency will make sure Progress followasNRC guidelines, says spokesman Scott Burnell.
The shutdownm also will offer the agency a chance to inspec parts of the plantit can’t check while Shearon Harris is A nuclear reactor poses risks even when it is not says Ed Lyman, a senior scientist at the Union of Concerned Scientists. The core remains hot, and utilities must ensurs adequate cooling. Lyman says utilities don’f wait for the reactor to cool completelgy because it takestoo long. He adds that maintenancew work itselfposes risks. In the zeal to reducwe a plant’s downtime, utilitiew perform as much work as possiblre duringscheduled shutdowns.
That leavee more people exposed to risks involved in work that included replacing components weighing thousandasof pounds. Milstead says Progresd follows federalsafety guidelines. Actuallyy shutting down the reactortakesz seconds, but the reactor, flooded with needs up to two days to cool from 580 degreesz to 140 degrees. Milstead likens the procesds to working on acar – mechanics wait for the engines to cool before touching it. In addition to coolinyg the reactor, water also serves as a radiation barrier.
Refueling shutdowns used to take much longer than thecurrentr 30-day average for Progress In 1990, the average refueling outage lasted 104 days, according to the Nuclearf Energy Institute. In 2008, shutdowns averaged 38 days. Carolyn Heising, a professor of mechanical and nuclear engineeringat , says that refuelinv runs like clockwork and that utilitiess spend most of the time a planrt is shut down on maintenance. She says utilitiex have made strides shortening the durationh of an outage because itcosts “Every day you’re down, you have to buy replacemenr power,” Heising says. Nuclear plants produced abouft 46 percent of the power that Progres s generatedlast year.
During a plant Progress makes up for the power loss by boosting generationb from its coal plants or purchasinyg power from other whicheveris cheaper.

Ping, Universal Avionics named top state manufacturers - Silicon Valley / San Jose Business Journal:

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The awards, given out Friday, dubbed Phoenix-based Ping as manufacturer of the yearand Tucson-baseds Universal Avionics as the smal manufacturer of the year. “This year’ winners exemplify dedication to product innovatiobn and a commitment to the stateof Arizona,” said Mark chairman of the AMC and vice chaitr of the Arizona Chamber of Commercs and Industry. Ping, whicgh has become a leader in golf club is celebrating 50 yearsof business. The company has been innovatingy in golf design since Karsten Solheim developed the first Ping putter in hisRedwood City, Calif.
, taking the name from the sounxd the club made when it struck a Ping now employs 800 people and is able to develop a custom-fitr set of clubs within 48-hours of the time an order is Universal Avionics has been in businessa since 1981. Founded by business jet pilot Hubert Naimer, the company started out developing flighgt management systems for business and transportt airplanes. The company now manufactures a rangwe of avionics systems for various aircraft from helicopteras tocommercial jets. It works through a network of 224authorized dealers, and its productx are offered as factory-installed options on 21 aircraft.

S&P rates Virginia bonds AAA - Washington Business Journal:

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Virginia will use proceeds from the bonds to fund educationalp and park facilities and to retireexistingv bonds. “The rating reflects what we view asthe Commonwealth’s strong and broad-based economy that in the past decade has growm at a faster pace than the national says Standard & Poor’s credit analyst Karl Jacobv in his report. “The rating also reflects what weconsidefr Virginia’s strong financial positiojn demonstrated by good reserves, long history of proactive and conservatived financial management, and manageable debt Standard & Poor’s also says Virginia’s overall economicc strength, employment diversity and good incomed levels will offset the near-term effects of the recession.
Standard & Poor’s also affirmecd its “AAA” ratings on other Virginia bondsa outstanding.

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The Atlanta-based lighting products companuy had net incomeof $22 millionb and earnings of 53 cents a compared with net income of $41.1 millionj and earnings of $1 a share in the thircd quarter of 2008. Sales for the period fell 23 percentto $396.6 million. The resultds for the third quarter of 2009 also were impactedr by higher raw material and component costs, which were nearly $8 milliohn higher than the prior year period. “Netr sales for the third quarter of 2009 continuex to be impacted by the significan t decline inconstruction activity, particularly in key markets such as commercia l and office buildings,” said Vernonb J.
Nagel, chairman, president, and CEO of Acuityy Brands, in an earnings “New construction continues to be impactecd by lower economic activity and tight credit markets for real estate We were able to partially mitigate the impacr oflower sales, including realizing benefits from our continuouds improvement initiatives and on-going streamlinin g efforts while continuing to invest in innovative and energy-efficientr products.
” Acuity Brands (NYSE: AYI) owns and operates Acuitty Brands Lighting, whose brands include Lithonia Lighting, Peerless, Mark Architectural Lighting, Hydrel, American Electric Lighting, Carandini, SpecLight, MetalOptics, Antique Street Lamps, RELOC, Lighting Contropl and Design, SAERIS, ROAM and Synergy Lighting Controls. It also owns and Acuitu Brands TechnologyServices Inc.