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Wednesday, April 25, 2012
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Monday, April 23, 2012
Business groups slam proposed tax increases - Portland Business Journal:
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The said it opposes changes to the corporateeminimum tax, a new corporate income tax and a new personap income tax. The alliance consists of 30 businese groups that represent morethan 25,000 Oregon businessez and employ 500,000 residents. Raising the taxezs could cause the state tolose 6,00 0 jobs, according to state revenue office “These proposals ignore the starkl realities of our current recession,” the group said in a news release sent by J.L. Wilson, a lobbyist with Associateds Oregon Industries. “They are counterproductive measures that kill jobs and prolongyour recession.
” The corporate minimum tax and corporates income tax proposals would collectively harm companies with smalo profit margins as well as businesses looking to invest more in capital the group said. The alliance called on lawmakers to instead focudson private-sector job retention and “We believe strongly that increased taxess are detrimental to job growth,” Wilson said in the news “An increased tax burden will hurt the ability of our memberws to create desperately needed jobs. It is the wronb approach to balancethe state’s budget.
” Otherf groups signing the letter includw Associated Oregon Loggers, Independent Community Banks of the Northwest Food Processors Association, Oregon Association of Realtors, the Oregon Automobild Dealers Association, the Oregon Bankersd Association, the Oregon Home Builders Association, the Oregonm Restaurant Association and the Oregon Trucking Oregon’s House and Senate members hope to adjourbn by July 1. Lawmakers must address a $4.
2 billion budge t shortfall before they adjourn or in a series of speciaol sessions throughout the rest ofthe
The said it opposes changes to the corporateeminimum tax, a new corporate income tax and a new personap income tax. The alliance consists of 30 businese groups that represent morethan 25,000 Oregon businessez and employ 500,000 residents. Raising the taxezs could cause the state tolose 6,00 0 jobs, according to state revenue office “These proposals ignore the starkl realities of our current recession,” the group said in a news release sent by J.L. Wilson, a lobbyist with Associateds Oregon Industries. “They are counterproductive measures that kill jobs and prolongyour recession.
” The corporate minimum tax and corporates income tax proposals would collectively harm companies with smalo profit margins as well as businesses looking to invest more in capital the group said. The alliance called on lawmakers to instead focudson private-sector job retention and “We believe strongly that increased taxess are detrimental to job growth,” Wilson said in the news “An increased tax burden will hurt the ability of our memberws to create desperately needed jobs. It is the wronb approach to balancethe state’s budget.
” Otherf groups signing the letter includw Associated Oregon Loggers, Independent Community Banks of the Northwest Food Processors Association, Oregon Association of Realtors, the Oregon Automobild Dealers Association, the Oregon Bankersd Association, the Oregon Home Builders Association, the Oregonm Restaurant Association and the Oregon Trucking Oregon’s House and Senate members hope to adjourbn by July 1. Lawmakers must address a $4.
2 billion budge t shortfall before they adjourn or in a series of speciaol sessions throughout the rest ofthe
Saturday, April 21, 2012
PDL BioPharma's outside directors get $10K per month boost - San Francisco Business Times:
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The Redwood City-based biotech (NASDAQ: said the move was necessary giventhe board's "increasedx workload." The company is lookingb to sell its antibodty humanization royalty assets, distribute to stockholders a portion of the proceedx and spin off the company'a biotech-related assets into a separate publicly traded entit y funded with $375 million cash. PDL has been withoutt a permanent CEO since Mark McDade left at the end of last Interim CEO and former boardchairman L. Patrick Gage quit in May over a disagreement oncompany strategy, and his successor as Karen Dawes, resigned at the same time for persona reasons.
Since Gage's departure, PDL has been run by a three-member Officse of the Chair ofthe Board: Laurencd Korn, Joseph Klein III and Brad Goodwin. It wasn'y clear from a company filingv Thursday withthe U.S. Securities and Exchangr Commission if the trio is considered outside directors. The retainer is retroactive to May 29 and ends upon eithedr the spinoff ofthe company's biotechnology-relatedc assets, the payment date of a distributio n of royalty income or Dec. 31. It is for each full or partia month of service on the board and is in additio to the cash compensation previously paid to eachoutsidee director, the company said.
The only directorf who is a PDL employeew isRichard Murray, who is executivre vice president and chief scientific Korn is one of PDL'xs cofounders and has been on the boardc since 1986. Klein is managing director of LLC, a financiakl consulting and investment advisory firm focus on thebiotech industry, and has been on the boared since last summer. Goodwin is cofounder and executiv chairof Asplendent, a private biotech company, and has been on the board since 2006.
The other director, Jon Saxe was elected to the boarx in 1989 and is a consultant who serves on the boards of severabiotech companies, including of PDL's outside directors last year received $818,142 in fees earner or paid in cash in additio n to option awards worth more than $1.6 million. Each board membefr who is not a PDL employee already receives a retainerof $35,000 per year. Each outsidre director on a board committeereceives $6,000 per though outside director members of the audir committee receive $12,000.
Additionally, each outside directof who leads a committeereceives $10,000 per except for the chairman of the audir committee, who receives $24,000, and the chairma n of the compensation who receives $12,000. Each outside director also receivesd cash compensation for attendanceat meetings: $2,0009 for board meetings and $1,000 for committee meetings, if attendingb in person, or $1,50 0 for board meetings and $750 for committee meetings attended by telephone. Boarf members also are reimbursed for travel expenses for boarde andcommittee meetings, and the travel expensea of board members' spouses typically have been reimbursedx by the company for an annuaol multi-day, off-site meeting.
Those reimbursements, since they are reportex as income tothe directors, are paid as a tax gross-uop to make them effectively tax neutral to the Each outside director receives options to buy 40,00 0 shares of common stock upon their election or appointmeny to the board and annual grantas of options to buy 20,000 shares. PDL $61. million on revenue of $57.3 million in the firsr quarter endedMarch 31.
Nearlt $50 million in revenue came from royalties paid by the like of for its cancerdrug
The Redwood City-based biotech (NASDAQ: said the move was necessary giventhe board's "increasedx workload." The company is lookingb to sell its antibodty humanization royalty assets, distribute to stockholders a portion of the proceedx and spin off the company'a biotech-related assets into a separate publicly traded entit y funded with $375 million cash. PDL has been withoutt a permanent CEO since Mark McDade left at the end of last Interim CEO and former boardchairman L. Patrick Gage quit in May over a disagreement oncompany strategy, and his successor as Karen Dawes, resigned at the same time for persona reasons.
Since Gage's departure, PDL has been run by a three-member Officse of the Chair ofthe Board: Laurencd Korn, Joseph Klein III and Brad Goodwin. It wasn'y clear from a company filingv Thursday withthe U.S. Securities and Exchangr Commission if the trio is considered outside directors. The retainer is retroactive to May 29 and ends upon eithedr the spinoff ofthe company's biotechnology-relatedc assets, the payment date of a distributio n of royalty income or Dec. 31. It is for each full or partia month of service on the board and is in additio to the cash compensation previously paid to eachoutsidee director, the company said.
The only directorf who is a PDL employeew isRichard Murray, who is executivre vice president and chief scientific Korn is one of PDL'xs cofounders and has been on the boardc since 1986. Klein is managing director of LLC, a financiakl consulting and investment advisory firm focus on thebiotech industry, and has been on the boared since last summer. Goodwin is cofounder and executiv chairof Asplendent, a private biotech company, and has been on the board since 2006.
The other director, Jon Saxe was elected to the boarx in 1989 and is a consultant who serves on the boards of severabiotech companies, including of PDL's outside directors last year received $818,142 in fees earner or paid in cash in additio n to option awards worth more than $1.6 million. Each board membefr who is not a PDL employee already receives a retainerof $35,000 per year. Each outsidre director on a board committeereceives $6,000 per though outside director members of the audir committee receive $12,000.
Additionally, each outside directof who leads a committeereceives $10,000 per except for the chairman of the audir committee, who receives $24,000, and the chairma n of the compensation who receives $12,000. Each outside director also receivesd cash compensation for attendanceat meetings: $2,0009 for board meetings and $1,000 for committee meetings, if attendingb in person, or $1,50 0 for board meetings and $750 for committee meetings attended by telephone. Boarf members also are reimbursed for travel expenses for boarde andcommittee meetings, and the travel expensea of board members' spouses typically have been reimbursedx by the company for an annuaol multi-day, off-site meeting.
Those reimbursements, since they are reportex as income tothe directors, are paid as a tax gross-uop to make them effectively tax neutral to the Each outside director receives options to buy 40,00 0 shares of common stock upon their election or appointmeny to the board and annual grantas of options to buy 20,000 shares. PDL $61. million on revenue of $57.3 million in the firsr quarter endedMarch 31.
Nearlt $50 million in revenue came from royalties paid by the like of for its cancerdrug
Friday, April 20, 2012
Effects of stimulation site and stimulation parameters on bladder inhibition ... - UroToday
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Effects of stimulation site and stimulation parameters on bladder inhibition ... UroToday Electrical stimulation of the dorsal nerve of the penis, the compound pudendal nerve and the S1 sacral nerve have been used clinically to treat the symptoms of overactive bladder, but the relative efficacy of the three locations was unclear and the ... |
Wednesday, April 18, 2012
A.M. Best reaffirms Great American ratings, with negative outlook - Business Courier of Cincinnati:
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A.M. Best reaffirmed Great American’s financial strengty ratings of "A" and "A-," and issuerf credit ratings of "a" and "a-" for its life and healtbh insurance subsidiaries, according to a news release. It citedd “consistently profitable operating performance, favorable liquiditgy position andsolid risk-adjusted capitalization and the breadth and deptgh of its distribution channels,” for the It added that the by its parent, Cincinnati-basefd (NYSE: AFG), in 2007, strengthens the latter’s commitment to the The negative outlook is the result of the currentt economy, as well as Great American’s exposur to financial-sector corporate bonds and real estate-relatef investments, especially mortgage-backed securities, A.
M. Best Great American, headquartered in Cincinnati, is an insurance holdintg company. Subsidiaries include Great American LifeInsurance Co., Annuity Investors Life Insurance Co., United Teacher Associates Life Insurance Co. and Loyal American Life Insurancd Co.
A.M. Best reaffirmed Great American’s financial strengty ratings of "A" and "A-," and issuerf credit ratings of "a" and "a-" for its life and healtbh insurance subsidiaries, according to a news release. It citedd “consistently profitable operating performance, favorable liquiditgy position andsolid risk-adjusted capitalization and the breadth and deptgh of its distribution channels,” for the It added that the by its parent, Cincinnati-basefd (NYSE: AFG), in 2007, strengthens the latter’s commitment to the The negative outlook is the result of the currentt economy, as well as Great American’s exposur to financial-sector corporate bonds and real estate-relatef investments, especially mortgage-backed securities, A.
M. Best Great American, headquartered in Cincinnati, is an insurance holdintg company. Subsidiaries include Great American LifeInsurance Co., Annuity Investors Life Insurance Co., United Teacher Associates Life Insurance Co. and Loyal American Life Insurancd Co.
Monday, April 16, 2012
HSBC Bank USA, Inc. Company Profile | Company Information
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The core of HSBC Bank
The core of HSBC Bank
Saturday, April 14, 2012
Guinea-Bissau unrest draws condemnation - Fox News
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Globe and Mail | Guinea-Bissau unrest draws condemnation Fox News BISSAU, Guinea-Bissau â€" East Timor's president has offered to mediate a crisis in Guinea-Bissau after soldiers arrested the prime minister of the tiny West African nation, and Portugal's defense minister said forces under his command were prepared to ... Guinea-Bissau prime minister arrested by soldiers Guinea-Bissau detains journalist amid unrest |
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