Nov. 30– PICAYUNE– The Picayune Police Department reported two seperate incidents– one involving a suspicious person complaint and another regarding two commercial burglaries that ended up apparently being related. “Upon officers patrolling the area, they located the vehicle on Memorial Boulevard and Telly Road,” he said. He was indentified as Conel Holloway,…
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ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 30– The following federal patents were awarded to inventors in North Dakota. ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 30– Midland National Life Insurance, Sioux Falls, S.D., has been assigned a patent developed by Joseph Edward Paul, West Fargo, N.D., for a “method for converting general account life insurance to separate account life insurance.” For more information about…
Nov. 30– A car that’s stopped its share of speeding drivers pulled to the Interstate 95 shoulder when Trooper M.D. Comstock approached with blue lights flashing. The Ford Crown Victoria police interceptor was civilian-owned, and its driver, a Chesterfield, Va. man, had just been clocked at 80 mph near the U.S. 264 Alternate overpass. Comstock tapped some keys on his…
Nov. 30– A Friday night fire displaced at least three Scranton residents from their 611 Mineral Ave. home and caused major damag to the building. The 8:20 p.m. fire significantly damaged the first floor of the home’s interior and left the second floor with some smoke and fire damage, said Scranton Fire Department Capt. Hashawn Baston, who lives in the front part of…
Nov. 30– CHEYENNE– State employees could be getting their first raise in years if the Legislature accepts a $3.3 billion two-year spending plan that Gov. The governor said the state’s inability to give raises during the past four years has hurt Wyoming’s ability to recruit and retain its best workers. Speaking by teleconference from Bahrain, where Mead spent…
Nov. 30– Amid criticism of a nearly $8 million projected shortfall in their overtime budget, Baltimore police say they have found one solution to troubling staffing shortages: a new unit that handles some 911 calls by phone so patrol officers can concentrate on emergencies. The shift can be jarring, as one resident found out recently when he called the…
Tavss is president and owner of the Tavss Fletcher law firm in Norfolk. The FDIC sent Tavss a letter in February demanding $11.9 million in repayment of bad loans Tavss signed off on while serving on the bank’s board and its loan committee. The FDIC cites “grossly negligent acts” by Tavss and his firm in connection with legal services they provided the bank.
Nov. 30– A couple in St. Louis Park expects to save more than $12,000 next year thanks to coverage available on MNsure, the state’s new health insurance exchange. In St. Paul, a man who has had good luck shopping health insurance options in the past now is looking at a hefty premium increase for the fullest access to doctors and hospitals. The mixed results were forecast…
OSHA’s Hazard Communication Standard addresses this requirement. OSHA is changing the hazardous communication classification and communication provisions of hazard communications. According to OSHA, the GHS is an international approach to hazard communication, providing agreed criteria for classification of chemical hazards, and a standardized…
CHECK OUT THE UJEBSITE CF R TYPICAL SMALL TELEPHONE COMPANY or cooperative and the service offerings read like Baskin-Aobbins 31 flavors, with everything from landline to wireless to Internet to cable television-and the list goes on. Increasingly, small telecom providers are adding security systems to this list. The Electronic Security Association, a…
Bibby Financial Services: Debra Vanderhoff has joined Bibby’s Floridabased sales team as business development officer. She will report directly to Marcus Ferrari, national sales director. Capital One Bank: Joseph Nastri has been appointed as market executive to its middle-market lending team in New York.
Cyber risk has reached new levels. Data privacy is an area where many companies have yet to implement either an overall policy/procedural framework or suitable technical protections. *The United States acknowledged the hacking of the blueprints and designs for many of its most advanced weapon systems/.
Over 300 attendees gathered at Shutters on the Beach in Santa Monica, CA on September 11 for CFA’s Southern California Chapter’s Presidents’ Panel event. Four asset-based lending leaders, Henry Jordan, CEO, Wells Fargo Capital Finance, William Kosis, CEO, PNC Business Credit, Jeffrey McLane, president, Bank of America Business Capital and Michael Sharkey,…
In the United States, the UCC grants secured lenders perfection on certain types of assets and the ability to use the proceeds from the sale of those assets to recover on their loans in liquidation scenarios. Mayer Brown has outlined in their piece Security Interests under the UCC and Civil Law Jurisdictions that “the UCC is an outgrowth of the common law legal…
Linda Jahnke has been named marketing manager for the Western U.S. and Canada, leading a team that provides asset-based solutions and complementary banking products to companies, intermediaries and financial sponsors in the region. Based in Los Angeles, Jahnke has been with Bank of America and predecessor firms since 1996, and most recently was…
The first order of business at this summers Organization of Canadian Symphony Musicians Conference, held in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, was to dedicate the conference to the memory of a dear colleague and friend, Evelyne Robitaille, who passed away in February. Evelyne was a past president of OCSM and a violist in the Orchestre Symphonique de Québec.
“ICSOM: Music Cannot Be Silenced” was the theme of the 51st International Conference of Symphony and Opera Musicians Conference in Kansas City, Missouri, August 21-24. This years theme was also chosen because ICSOM orchestras dealt with significant lockouts this past season: Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra was locked out for five weeks resulting in a…
Part 1 of this article, published in the September 2013 issue of Concrete International, discussed various causes of concrete cracking, industry guidance on the subject of cracking, and managing owner expectations. Named after the 1918 United States Supreme Court case of United States v. This principle is demonstrated in the 1991 Board of Contract Appeals…
The star-studded concert, which featured Chicago’s very own Chaka Khan, along with Bell Biv Devoe, Charlie Wilson and Robin Thicke, was clearly the hottest ticket in town, and not a single performer failed to represent for the Windy City. The show was presented by Sierra Mist Natural, and an added treat for the evening was the after party to celebrate Radio Hall of…
