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Already prevalent in most organizations today, project and program management offices are now becoming strategic entities, adding ever more value to their firms. According to PM Solutions’ bi-annual benchmark study “The State of the PMO 2014,” three quarters of high-performing PMOs participate in their organization’s strategic planning, and help to…

The bus took Hughes, his wife and daughter to Central Church of Christ on U.S. 31 in Athens, which was serving as a shelter from the storm. They said they believe three tornadoes went through west Limestone County, killing two people and leaving a path of damage roughly 13 1/ 2 miles long and about 4 miles wide from Bayhill Marina to west Athens. Limestone County Coroner…

April 30– COXEY– Nancy Musser pointed to a mangled mobile home and six garbage bags of belongings. “This is our home– what’s left of it,” she said Tuesday morning, peering at the devastation in this Limestone County community from an EF2 or EF3 tornado. Musser and about 30 other residents of Billy Barb Trailer Park crammed into a storm shelter Monday night as the tornado…

Medallia ®, the global leader in SaaS Customer Experience Management solutions, today announced that lifestyle brand Tommy Bahama has selected it to help Tommy Bahama better understand and improve the guest experience. Using Medallia’s real-time CEM software, Tommy Bahama will build the Voice of the Customer into its operations so employees everywhere…

According to TrueConf, the Russian market for video conferencing in 2013 declined to $86 million*: a reduction of more than 10% compared to 2012. The research indicates that this trend is also being observed in the global market, where the share of infrastructure equipment for video conferencing fell in the total revenue of leading vendors.

April 30– A new definition of “rural area” in the 2014 farm bill means Lewiston residents with low or moderate incomes will soon be eligible for low-interest and subsidized housing loans through the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The city will become an eligible rural lending area for USDA’s Rural Development housing programs on May 6, according to a news…

April 30– The Development Corporation of Abilene authorized a construction budget of more than $11 million to “finish-out” a building at Five Points Business Park to better fit the needs of recycling business CarbonLITE. While the project is costly, Richard Burdine, the DCOA’s interim chief executive officer, said the decision was good for Abilene in many…

The debate highlights the intense competition between the growing number of traditional cabs and Lyft and Uber, the two smartphone-based companies now operating illegally while the city hashes out how to regulate them. The main issue is whether Lyft and Uber are distinct enough from taxicabs to warrant the more relaxed regulations that are under review.

Washington, DC- The U.S. House of Representatives approved bipartisan legislation which repeals onerous language in the Affordable Care Act which is forcing U.S. jobs overseas and making it prohibitively expensive for U.S. companies to provide quality health care for workers posted overseas. “When our Texas workers take a post overseas- in energy, for example-…

My name is Robert Flurer and I am Vice President and part owner of Skeels Electric Company, which is located in Bismarck, North Dakota. B.K.’ s Electrical Shop, as the company was originally named, performed “everything electrical” throughout western North Dakota under his leadership until his death in l949. William Kraft and Carl Flurer- my grandfather- purchased…

Thank you for inviting the National Institute on Drug Abuse, a component of the National Institutes of Health, to participate in this important hearing and contribute what I believe will be useful insights into the growing and intertwined problems of prescription pain relievers and heroin abuse in this country. It is estimated that between 26.4 million and…

Testimony by Suzanne Spaulding, Under Secretary, National Protection and Programs Directorate And Phyllis Schneck, Deputy Undersecretary for Cybersecurity, National Protection and Programs Directorate. Chairman Carter, Ranking Member Price, and distinguished Members of the Subcommittee, let me begin by thanking you for the strong support that you have…

WASHINGTON, April 30– The U.S. Department of Homeland Security published the following notice in the Federal Register from the Federal Emergency Management Agency:. A Notice by the Federal Emergency Management Agency on 04/25/2014. The purpose of this notice is to seek general information and comment regarding the preliminary FIRM, and where applicable, the…

April 30– HAMDEN– A Hamden man has been charged with negligent homicide for his involvement in the head-on crash that killed his 15- year-old nephew in September, police said. Keron Troutman, 28, was arrested on April 8, police said Tuesday. Troutman’s nephew, Tyseem Troutman, was killed in a head-on crash on Dixwell Avenue on Sept. 5, police said.

Total third-party long-term mutual fund and exchange traded fund assets under management totaled $8.8 trillion in the first quarter of 2014, surpassing the total for the fourth quarter of 2013 by 3.3 percent and increasing 12.6 percent from the first quarter of 2013, according to new data released today by Access Data, a Broadridge Financial Solutions,…