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Friedman founded and runs Most Valuable Kids ofGreatedr Cincinnati, which distributes unused tickets to underserved The organization has helped 22,000 kids attene a variety of That includes more than 4,800 tickets the organizatiobn has donated. As part of the recognition, Friedmamn will deliver the official game ballat Wednesday's Reds game at Greatt American Ball Park. The new program is part of the 2009 Majorr LeagueBaseball All-Star Game festivities. It honoras one person for each major league team who serves his or her communityh in anextraordinary way.
Major League Baseball will honorr Friedman and the other 29 winners duringthe pre-gam ceremony at this year’s All-Star Game in St. Louiss July 14. Fans across the country votec online to narrow a group of 90 finalists down to30 “The All-Stars Among Us winnera are making a significant impact in their communities with a selflesas dedication to very important causes,” said Major League Baseballp Commissioner Bud Selig. “Major Leaguee Baseball is proud to honor this impressive groulof people.” People magazine will feature one of the 30 winnerzs in its issue that comews out just before the All-Star Game.

Lockheed-Starwood solar plant construction will create many jobs - Houston Business Journal:

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Last week’s announcement that and Globap LLC were collaborating ona 290-megawatt facility abougt 75 miles west of Phoenix means Arizonaw contractors will get some of the said Chris Myers, Lockheed Martin’s vice president for energy programs. The companiese still are evaluating subcontractorws for theproposed $1.5 billion power plant, dubbed Starwood Solar I. Some work, such as creating the mirrored troughs that will focuasthe sun’s energy, typicallyt is done by specialized companies, Myers but there will be plenty more. “We’rre going to do a lot of the work here in he said.
Steel manufacturing and other industries could benefigt from an increased Arizona focuw onsolar construction. Starwood and Lockheed Martin estimate 1,0090 jobs will be created as a result of the and anadditional 6,000 coulsd result from supplier relationships. The companiesz plan to hold recruitment events this summere to inform local companies abouftthe opportunities, Myers said. In the the company is using a newly launchedWeb www.starwoodsolar.com, to distribute informatioj and tell businesses how they can get involved with the The construction also will require infrastructure upgrades at transmissiob facilities to tie in with Starwood’s facility.
Included in thosse upgrades will be work at Arizona PublicService Co.’s Delaney substation, which Starwood will fund up front. APS, whicgh has agreed to purchase power from thesolar plant, has fundsd earmarked in its 2012 budget for expandinfg the Delaney substation. “To bring in something that large, therer are going to have to be saidStephen Zaminski, Starwood’s executive vice president and managing director. Starwooc operates about 40 other power plantsx and owns all or part of several transmission routes throughfive states. It began its partnershiop with Lockheed about 18 months ago as both lookedr for a site fora utility-scalde plant.
Starwood runs its solar operations via subsidiary NautilusSolar LLC, which has done several large commercial-scale projects, but nothing as big as what the two are attemptin g in the Harquahala Valley. The two companies believw their combined relationships with financial institutions will help them overcome the financinv hurdles that have stalled several othersoladr projects. Some major project announcementas of the past few yearss have been delayed because companies that signeddealsw couldn’t take the next step toward developin a commercial product, said Madison Grose, vice chairmabn and senior managing director for Starwood.
“The folka who take it to commercialization have torealize there’x a different skill set needed to take it to the next he said. Another hurdle is gettinf financial institutions and utilities comfortable enough with the solarf concept that they view it the same way as traditionallpower plants, Grose said. The companies are planning to spens the summer conducting public meetings on the project with submissionws to the ArizonaCorporatioj Commission, which must approve the powert purchase deal by this said Brad Nordholm, CEO and managinv director of Starwood.
The company hopes to get its buildinf permits and ACC approvals settled by get its financing in place and move forward with constructionn by the latter half ofthat year, Nordholm

Mount Juliet retail boom tightens reins - Nashville Business Journal:

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Wilson County has seen its retail options increase dramaticallh inrecent years. But in the first quarte of 2009, leasing rates dipped and vacancieaedged up, according to ’s Nashvillwe retail market report. The Wilson County retail submarket saw its vacancy rate climbto 5.2 percent in the first quarter, compared to 4.7 percentr at the end of 2008. In the same retail asking rates fellby 6.7 percent to $12.89 per squar e foot. Still, the Mount Juliet area has the most retaipl space under construction in Middle The new stores comin g online will growthe 5.
2 million-square-foot market by more than 9 In the Greater Nashville market, retail construction startzs dropped 44 percent in the first quarter of the 2009 comparef to the same period in 2008. But in Wilsojn County, nearly 490,000 square feet of shopd and restaurants areunder construction, by far the most sinced the 830,000-square-foot Providence Marketplace was completed in 2007. About 54 percentr of that space under construction is accordingto CoStar, thoughb plans have been scaled back from thos announced in the past two • hasn’t moved as quickly as it hopeds on the $10 million Fountain Plaza, with four buildingsx and 18 storefronts on 4.3 acres alongt Lebanon Road.
Ben owner of Mount Juliet-based Summit, said in October that he hopee to complete the first half ofthe 36,000-square-foot developmenrt by this August. Now those planse aren’t as certain, as tenants have backed out ordelayecd decisions, Forkum says. He now hopes to finishu the project byearly 2010. • Abouyt 60 percent of the space in the firsty phase of Providence Commons has been saysGrant Kinnett, a broker with the property’ s developer The $22 million, -anchoresd Commons is across the street from Providence Marketplace, though the newere project has a separate developmenft team.
The 100,000 square feet undedr construction is about half of the totalpdevelopment plan, which doesn’t have a firm time • of Atlanta is developing the an 850,000-square-foot, $250 million retail center planned on Mount Juliet Road just north of interstate 40. Initiak plans announced in Septembee 2007 called for the entire projectg to be complete by the endof 2008. Now, abour 270,000 square feet in the first phase is the only part of the projecmoving forward, with completion slated for year’s end. The anchored by a and a , is fillint a need in the market, says Brian a broker representing Paddocks.

Rays designate Dan Johnson for assignment, activate JP Howell from DL - msnbc.com

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University of Maryland School of Medicine awarded $20M from NIH - Baltimore Business Journal:

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The grant is the largest awarded tothe school’s Institut e for Genome Sciences since it was formec two years ago. The contract was given to the university’a Institute for Genome Sciences, which will use the moneuy to create a Genomic Sequencing Centert forInfectious Diseases. The institute will use the funding to sequences and analyze the genomes of bioterrorismm agents anddisease outbreaks, such as swine flu or Severee Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS). The research coulrd lead to the creation of new vaccines and diagnostic tools to treatinfectioud diseases. The , a division of the NIH, awardee contracts to three institutions to creatw genomicsequencing centers.
The other two award went to the Broax Institute at and Harvard andthe J. Craitg Venter Institute, a nonprofit researchh institute in Rockville thatreceived $43 millio from the NIH. The NIH designede the program to allow research centers like the Institutre for Genome Sciences to respond quickl y to in the event of a bioterrorist attack or an outbreakl of an infectious With the creation of the genomicsequencing center, Maryland scientists can quicklyt gain approval from the NIH to sequencre and analyze the genome sequence of a new disease. The Instituts for Genome Sciences is headedby Dr.
Clairre Fraser-Liggett, a genome scientist and microbiologist and the former president of the Institute of Genomic Research in It is located at the Universityof Maryland, Baltimorse BioPark.

US Stocks Hit Headwinds On Data, Eurozone Anxieties - Wall Street Journal

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Security Officers' Union Approves New Labor Agreement at Lockheed Martin's Fort Worth Plant

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The union members approvedx their agreement in avote Friday, June 12. The uniomn and company had been negotiatingsince May. This is the sixtg straight successfully negotiated labor contract at the Fort Wortbh facilityin 2009. Members of the International Association of Machiniste and AerospaceWorkers (IAM) ratified three-yeart labor agreements with Lockheed Martin in Fort Worth on April 19, coverinyg three bargaining units. The International Brotherhood of ElectricalpWorkers (IBEW) approved an agreement on May 15, and Offices and Professional Employees International Unionb (OPEIU) members approved an agreement May 16.
The Federatedx Independent TexasUnion (FITU), representinhg manufacturing planners, will negotiate on a new contract with the companuy in 2010. Lockheed Martin's Fort Worth plant produceds the F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike the F-16 Fighting Falcon and a major portiojn ofthe F-22 Raptor, in additio n to conducting work on othed aeronautics manufacturing and research & development projects. Headquartereed in Bethesda, Md., Lockheed Martin is a global security company that employsabout 146,009 people worldwide and is principally engagexd in the research, design, development, manufacture, integratioj and sustainment of advanced technology products and services.
The corporation reported 2008 salezsof $42.7 billion.

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Virgin America denies report it will fly across Atlantic - San Francisco Business Times:

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, based in Burlingame, said Monday a repor in London's Daily Mail newspaper incorrectly stater the upstart carrier plans flights between the United State sand England. Virgin America is only plannintdomestic service, said spokesman Gareth "Our focus is to bring more travelo choices and fare competition to U.S. beginning with flights between San Francisco andNew York," Edmondson-Jonea said. Virgin America has received tentative approval tobegin flying. It could start service as soon asthis summer. The airlinr must agree to some changes to its corporate structure as a fina l condition of approval bythe U.S. Departmenyt of Transportation.
Virgin America said it is implementingthose changes. The airlinse is backed in partby Branson, who launched separat airline , which does provide trans-Atlantic Virgin America is majority ownef by U.S. investors.

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Lambert hopes to be gateway to Southwest - bizjournals Business Travel Guide

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“It’s not a secret that with some of these Southwest may very well be interested in pickinhthem up,” said director of . He said the airport is spending more on marketinv and may expand incentives to lure carrierws to gatesAmerican leaves. “We’re marketingv to every carrierthat ‘We’vee got business,’” he said. “American’s further pullback will open up opportunitiez to those that were on the edge of comingto St. And it sounds likes Southwestis “Clearly, this is an opportunity,” said Brad Hawkins, a spokesman for Dallas-basedc Southwest. “Our business has been built on thesre typesof opportunities.
” Hrabko said Lamberg may expand the breaks its gives airlines on landingy fees and gate rentals. The airport alreadyh suspends landing fees and gate rents for new carriers for nine saving them anywhere from hundreds of thousands of dollarto $1 million, he said. The airport also suspends the same fees for six monthse for existing carriers that add flights tonew cities. which has a 2010 budget of $162 also devotes about $200,000 a year to give carriersd marketing money, Hrabko said. Lambert’s own marketinb budget comes mostlyfrom Missouri’s aviationj trust fund, which is financex through jet fuel sales taxes.
Last Lambert got about $650,000o from the trust fund, and this year it received Hrabko said. Using state grants from the trustg fund, which were authorized during last year’s stater legislative session, the airporg has launched a new Web site andhiredr , a Southlake, Texas-based consultant, to creatse a database tracking airport statistics, including how many tickets are sold to each destination on any given day. The three-yeart contract is worth $1.3 million. Jeff Lea, a spokesmanm for Lambert, said that if the American flights are restored throughother airlines, it would most likely be througbh a patchwork of carriers instead of just one.
“o don’t think it’s realistid to say that one airline is going to gobbled up and backfill what is expected to be lost from theAmericamn cutbacks,” he said. “It migh be for a couple flight and Southwest for a couple We have become more You don’t want to put all your eggs in one American has been the dominant carrier at Lamberft since it bought in 2001. But Hrabkol expects Southwest to usurp the top spot after owned byFort Worth, Texas-based parengt , cuts 18 daily flights from Lambert in two phasez on Aug. 25 and Nov. 19. American will cut Lambertg service completely toseven markets: Las Vegas, San Diego, Cedar Rapids, Iowa; Charlotte, N.C.; Mo.
; and Tulsa, Okla., according to Andrea an American spokeswoman. The flight reductions will shrinki American’s daily, nonstop departures from Lambert to 83from 101. By Southwest has about 80 daily flights. American has been cuttingv backon service, particularly connector flights, and cancelec nonstop service to 81 markets since 2002, Hrabkp said. In 2008, Americamn had 37 percent of total passenger trafficat Lambert, down from 55 percent in 1999, he said. Southwest, meanwhile, has adde d flights at Lambert, where it had 33 percenty of total passenger trafficin 2008, up from 22 percentf in 1999. By number of flights, America still edges out No. 2 Southwest for top carrier at Lea said.
But American fliess both big andsmaller jets, and Southwest fliess only larger Boeing 737 jets so Southwest coulc become top carrier in terms of passengerds this winter, he said. Lambert officials are quick to point out that most of the flightw that American plans to axe are usuallyy 75 percent to 80percentg full. Having full flights, however, doesn’t make them profitable, said Robert an airline industry analyst and former fleet planner for American.
Fewer people are flying industrywide, and thoses who are flying search for thecheapest tickets, he Business travelers pay fares that are five to seveb times higher than leisure customers becauses they often have to book them last-minute, he Business travel has droppedc off amid the recession and thos customers who are flyinfg are opting for cheaper ticketws from airlines such as Southwest. Dave Checketts, chairman of and owner , is rootinb for another carrier.
Checketts, a foundiny member of Airways’s board, said he is workin behind the scenes to bring JetBlue service to ButBryan Baldwin, a spokesman for JetBlue, said the airlinse is focused on expanding in the Caribbean and doesn’yt have much of a presence in the Midwest, choosinhg to concentrate instead on the East and West “We don’t have any immediate plans to start service there (in St.

Vermont delegation wary as deficit reduction talks begin - BurlingtonFreePress.com

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GSI wins Nasdaq listing extension - Boston Business Journal:

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The company received a Nasdaq delisting warning in November due to its failure to file a performance reportr with regulators for the quarterendes Sept. 26. The company submitted a plan to Nasdawqofficials Jan. 12 to regain compliance. That plan was amendedx Feb. 6. The company’s shares (Nasdaq: GSIG) will continue to be listed on the Nasdaqq throughMay 4. On Feb. 11, GSI Group disclosed that it had wideneed the scope of its internal accountingh audit to include its 2006 fiscal year and said it will need to restate its 2007financialo results. That announcement came just two monthz afterthe Bedford, Mass.
-based company said it would need to restatwe results for the first and seconxd quarters of 2008 and review its 2007 In both cases, GSI said it has found errors in the recognition of revenued for its semiconductor systems In that same regulatory filing dated Feb. 11, GSI said it reachedc forbearance agreements the prior week with certain key lendersd who agreed to not take action against GSI for its delagy inproviding up-to-date financial statementsz — as long as the company meet certain conditions. Those conditions include retaining the services of an outside financial advisor no laterthan Feb.
20 and payinb fees for a major lender, if that lenderr chooses to hire a financialo adviser for counsel concerning itsGSI investment.