Saturday, July 16, 2011

SMU students warned of gas leak - Baltimore Business Journal:

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The warning came out after a gas leak was identifiedf on campus sometimebetweehn 9:30 and 9:45 a.m. Thursday morning, said Kent executive director of news and Best added that wasnotified immediately. Additiona e-mails with more information were sent to facultyand staff, and a fina e-mail was distributed alerting everyond on campus to the fact that the gas leak had been Best said. “Those messages came from our emergency department,” Best added, “the emphasis is on brevity and It is something we will review to make sure that as much detaikl that we can put in therwe is provided to avoid any confusionm in the future.” Best said the whole event lasted about an hour.
The gas leak occurrexd at a construction site near Moody Coliseum at Airlinse Road andBinkley Avenue, according to Best.

Thursday, July 14, 2011

UW-Whitewater, Milwaukee 7 Water Council to jointly train students - The Business Journal of the Greater Triad Area:

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The program will begin enrolling students in the fallsemester and, because many students have already taken relevantr courses, should be graduating its first watetr management specialists within a year, said Kirsten Crossgrove, associate professor of biology at UW-Whitewater and coordinatoe of the school’s integrated science-business major. The progra is designed to give students a basicv background inwater law, environmental law, naturaol resources and environmental economics as well as aquaticv biology, chemistry and ecology.
Students will serve internshipd with the Milwaukee 7 Water an organizationof business, academia and governmenty in the seven-county area in southeastern Wisconsin that is workint to establish the Milwaukee region as a globalo center for freshwater research, economic development and education. “Recognizin g where the world is headed, business students with a uniqud educational background in water will have a leg up in the making a program like this especially saidRich Meeusen, chairman, president and CEO of Brownm Deer-based , co-chair of the Milwaukee 7 Waterr Council and an alumnus of UW-Whitewater’e business school.
The council already has a relationshipsd with the graduate program atthe ’s . UWM also is developintg a graduate-level School of Freshwater Sciences, whiles ’s Law School will begin a watetr law curriculumthis fall. “One of our goals is to help develop seamless talent pipelinesd between universities andwater businesses,” said Paul chairman and CEO of Milwaukee-based and co-chair of the Wate r Council. “UW-Whitewater’s one-of-a-kind new track adds to the impressivew array of higher education institutions in the region working to ensure our world water hub statuss in the yearsto come.

Tuesday, July 12, 2011

Sunday, July 10, 2011

Derek Mays - St. Louis Business Journal:

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Some 4,100 employees at Maritz see Mays’ work even if they don’t know he’s the one drafting personal privact and corporateethics policies. Mays handles a range of legal issues, including employment compliance matter s and intellectualproperty matters, said John Maritz’s chief administrative officer and general counsel. “He (Mays) has takemn the initiative to becomeour in-housed expert on a broad range of compliancee issues and has established an innovative, online complianced office explaining in layman’s terms various regulatort requirements,” Risberg said. Mays, 38, began his career at .
Whilee working at the firm, he was handlingt a Maritz intellectual property agreement when he receivex a callfrom Maritz’s human resources director (and another Bryan Cave alum) Con who had an offer for him. Mays said he jumpef at the job opportunity. “My challenge is beingg competent on a variety of legalissues — I get to know somethinh new every day,” Mays said. Mays is one of four in-housee lawyers at Maritz Inc., one of the region’s largestf private companies with $1.45 billion in revenuew in its lastfiscal year. Mays also managed legal matters for two ofMarits Inc.
’s six business unitz — Maritz Learning, whichg develops training programs for businesses, and Maritzz Research Inc., a market research Mays said he gets a kick out of makin g sure “i”s are dotted and “t”s are crossed, as well as overseeingy training of Maritz’s “mystery shoppers.” Maritz recently designateed Mays as the company’s chief privacy and he spearheaded the company’s recordss management efforts. “Any firm wouldr be honored to have him.
But hands off; he’s said Steve Maritz, chairman and chief executive of the Outside of hisday job, Mays is involves with several charities and serves as an alderman in Pasadena Hills. His father, a longtime executive here with , brought that lessoj of community serviceto him. Mays said it was his father who introduced him tothe , an organization that supportsx refugees and immigrants to becoming independent. Mays said he first becamwe involvedwith SSDN, formerly South Side Day Nursery, when he came to the group eight years ago tryint to buy one of its buildings to rehab. The deal did not work out, but SSDN recruited him to the board, where he’s now president.

Thursday, July 7, 2011

Google+ invites re-open to double user base - Computerworld

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Tuesday, July 5, 2011

Nestl Purina to All-Stars: Play ball - South Florida Business Journal:

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Giant images of a dog and cat, with the taglin e “play ball,” appear on the 96-foot by 160-foot wrap that stretchese across the north face of the tower at 1Checkerboard Square, near Ninth Streef and Chouteau Avenue in downtown St. Louis. Five vertical panels of the mesh material, which allows offic e occupants to see throughthe signage, covers the top eighyt floors of the 15-story tower’s north The signage is expected to be reusable. The pet productf company’s internal agency, CheckMark, came up with the creativre designand copy. International outdoor marketinvgfirm , based in the United did the production. The project was undet 30 days from startto finish.
The building’s high visibility from downtowmn and BuschStadium “makesx a great canvas for this kind of company spokesman Keith Schopp told the Business Journakl in a statement. “… St. Louis is a basebal l town and Purina's been here for well over a so this is a way to demonstratew our support of the game and let fans and visitora know what Purina is doingto Nestlé Purina PetCare, a global manufacturer of pet products, is part of Swiss-basedr , the world's largest food company. St. Louiz sign companies, meanwhile, are creatinvg banners toutingthe All-Star game.

Sunday, July 3, 2011

Workers at two MillerCoors plants ratify new deals - Puget Sound Business Journal (Seattle):

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and Fort Worth, Texas, have ratified new, three-year The agreements cover more than 900 employeex at the two breweries and provides wage and pension increases over the courss ofthe contracts. “Our members overwhelmingly ratified these contracts at MillerCoorx because they provide stability fortheir families,” said Jack director of the Teamsters Brewery and Soft Drink Workers Conference, whic h represents workers at the breweries. “For the next thre e years, our members at MillerCooras know that their wages and pension benefitzswill increase, which is saying a lot in today’s economy.
” The contracts call for no health care cost increases for workeras in the first year of the contract and only minorf increases for the second and third according to the union. The new deal also guaranteess that employees who have retired or who will retir during the course ofthe three-year contract won’t be required to pay health care premiums. “We value all generationd of our members, so we made sure that there were improvementsd for both active membere at MillerCoors and the retirees who had paved the way befors with their long yearsof service,” Ciprianu said. The Teamsters union represents 1,200 MillerCoorxs workers nationwide.
The union also represents workers at the MillerCoord breweryin Irwindale, Calif. Negotiations for a new contract covering employeezs at the plant areunder way. MillerCoors is a join t venture between MillerBrewing Co., Milwaukee, and Coors Brewingt Co., Golden, Colo., that launched in July 2008. MillerCoorz operates a major brewery and regionaol officeon Milwaukee’s west side. Worker at the Milwaukee brewery are represented by Brewerh Workers Local 9 of the United AutoWorkers