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LEWA-Nikkiso USA supplies metering pumps, diaphragm pumps, process pumps, and plunger pumps to the oil & gas, petrochemical, plastics, pharmaceutical, food & beverages, and energy utilities industries.
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Big push coming for fall enrollment for the new Cheboygan virtual school
Cheboygan Area School's has officially launched its virtual school program and is getting everything in place for a big push in the fall.
"We have it going now," said Mark Dombroski, CAS superintendent. "We only have a few students enrolled right now, but we're going to start advertising. The whole main thing is having everything in place and all of our ducks in a row for the fall."
The program was rolled out in mid-February, giving students from across northern Michigan the chance to get an education from home, according to Renee Weaver-Wright, spokesperson for ATS Educational Consulting Services, the company CAS has contracted to run the virtual school.
"Students from the Charlevoix, Emmet, Ostego, Presque Isle, Alpena, Montmorency, Crawford, Oscoda, Roscommon, Ogemaw, Kalkaska, and Traverse Bay areas will be eligible to participate in this program at no cost," she explained.
The virtual school will be available to students in 6-12 grade and the learning environment will be tailored to the student. It will work similar to an alternative education program, in that it results in a diploma, but all of the work can be done from the comfort of home.
"The virtual learning courses will be taken at a student's self-scheduled time and place," Weaver-Wright said. "My Virtual Academy teachers will be in constant contact with the students to coach them to success in their classes. All equipment necessary for the program will be provided if needed for the student."
This venture into the world of virtual school will be part of CAS, but entirely separate for the other building in the district.
"We're meeting a need and that's important," said Dombroski. "It's a service I think schools are going to have to start offering. Its entirely separate from our brick and mortar buildings. It is its own entity."
While this venture will offer educational opportunities to more northern Michigan students, it could also provide CAS with a much-needed boost in funding. For several years, falling enrollment has created a financial problem for CAS. If this virtual school is able to attract students, which officials believe it will, it could have a very positive impact on district as a whole.
"We think this is a really good opportunity for us," said Dombroski. "If we didn't do this, someone else would. I'm guessing there are 80-100 home-schooled students right here that could take advantage of this. If we got 100 more students, that's $200,000 more for the district."
CAS gets roughly $7,000 per full-time student enrolled. The reason the district would only net an additional $200,000 is the amount that would have to be paid to ATS.

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WASHINGTON – Under the concrete ribs of the barrel-shell roof of a crumbling coliseum, the capital awaits the Beatles. Or, rather, the Beatles tribute band. The real thing is exactly 50 years gone on this Tuesday night, in this exact spot in Northeast Washington, and Washington must make do with imitation, with nostalgia, with the reverb of the past. 'I'm listening to the Supremes and then all of a sudden on my transistor radio: 'I sawww herrr staaan-ding there,' ' says Steve Daugherty, 59, who's in from Chantilly, Va. with his wife, Chris. They're wearing Lennon-esque spectacles and holding tall-boy beers, their breath fogging in the meat-locker air of the Washington Coliseum, the site of the Beatles' first North American concert, on Feb. 11, 1964. The Daughertys are here for the music, they say, but might they also be here to recapture a long-ago feeling? 'Oh, yeah,' he says. Behind the stage, in a cramped trailer that's 40 degrees warmer an hour before showtime, four men from America spray their wigs, pencil their eyebrows and button themselves into black-lapelled gray suits until they are four mop-headed lads from Liverpool. Beatlemania Now, the expert imitators of that night 50 years ago, are being watched by a man who was there, opening for the Beatles: the singer Tommy Roe. 'It's kind of spooky,' says Roe, who will now open for an imitation, half a century later. Also, says Roe: 'Surreal.' 'They're Lennon-colored but when you get older, they're not as bushy,' says Scot Arch, aka John, as he pencils away in front of a mirror. 'And I wonder how Paul and Ringo keep their hair so brown,' Roe says with a glint in his eye, his hair a distinguished and well-adjusted gray. 'Ringo definitely dyed it recently,' says Ringo, aka Eric Smith, 37, who adds that when he's on stage, 'I'm not Eric Smith. It's not my interpretation. I'm trying to replicate. [Ringo's] mannerisms have become my own.' Roe exits the trailer, lopes through the cold, black backstage area, mounts the stage and plays 'Sheila,' as he did 50 years ago, when there was a thick vibe of anticipation. Now, there are comb-overs in the audience, and Styrofoam cups of hot chocolate. The shrill hysteria over something new has been replaced by polite applause for something old. The national addiction to nostalgia continues, and the present stays bearable. The coliseum tonight is a physical place to hide away. Oh we believe/ In yesterday. Reality intrudes occasionally. After Roe'sset, there is an AARP sweepstakes drawing. There are indeed young people here, people who were born years after the Beatles broke up, years even after John died. Legal assistants Jon Campbell, 24, and Daria Kasparek, 23, are here because of their parents, whose musical touchstones became theirs. 'In a sense, it's nostalgia,' Kasparek says. The music 'reminds me of driving to school in the morning and my mom playing the Beatles' greatest hits.' The re-creation isn't total, of course. The boxing-ring stage from 1964 is gone. The audience capacity in 1964 (about 8,000) is now about half that. John, Paul, George and Ringo were between 20 and 23 years old at the time. At least two of the men of Beatlemania Now are older than 30. Seats in 1964 were $2 to $4. On this Tuesday night, that won't get you a drink ticket ($5), let alone a seat ($100). A competing Beatles tribute band called the Fab Four is scheduled to perform at the same time at the Howard Theatre in Washington. The coliseum – originally used for hockey, these days for parking, and in between for roller derbies, rodeos and the Ice Capades – will soon undergo a $77 million renovation and revert to its original name, the Uline Arena, thanks to the D.C. Preservation League and Douglas Development. Where once there were music-driven riots and teenagers losing their minds, there will soon be a boutique honeycomb of offices and retail. The future wins, always. But on this night, for one night only again, the Beatles haunt the coliseum in shadows and echoes. 'What time is it?' asks George, aka Chris Colon, from the backstage steps. '8:27,' says a stagehand. 'No, 8:28.' 'I have 8:29,' Colon says. They have to go on at 8:31, because that's when the Beatles went on. And they do, as they did, and they bang out the hits that were banged out before. 'I Saw Her Standing There,' 'I Want to Hold Your Hand,' 'She Loves You.' Ringo has that hangdog wince. Paul, aka Graham Alexander, is doing that guppy-mouth thing that Paul does, or did. A lone redhead in the audience is standing and dancing during the first few songs. The rest of the crowd slowly joins her, until nearly everyone is shimmying upright for 'Twist and Shout,' and wiping their runny noses in the cold. With the theatrical fog hazing the tableau, with the golden spotlights blurring the hard edges, with the right amount of beer in your gut – you can almost believe it was then and not now.
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Bruins score twice in 3rd period, beat Canadiens
Linemates Tyler Seguin and David Krejci scored in the opening 2:05 of the third period, lifting the Boston Bruins to a 2-1 victory over the Montreal Canadiens on Wednesday night.
The victory moved the Bruins (7-1-1) into sole possession of first place in the Northeast Division and kept Montreal (6-3-0) from taking over the division lead.
P.K. Subban scored his first of the season on a second period power play for Montreal, whose five-game home winning streak ended. Boston outshot Montreal 23-22.
The Canadiens did not allow a shot on goal until more than 11 minutes into the game, but solid saves by Tuukka Rask kept it scoreless.
Subban broke the deadlock at 10:53 of the second with Milan Lucic serving a high-sticking penalty.
The flamboyant defenseman took a pass from Andrei Markov and saw his point shot go off Rich Peverley's stick and past Rask. It was Subban's first goal and third point in three games since he ended a holdout by signing a two-year contract.
The goal drew big applause from the Bell Centre crowd as Subban did the leg-lifted "Joel" pose in celebration, and it ended Boston's string of 16 straight penalty kills on the road to start the season.
Seguin tied it only 14 seconds into the third period as he lifted the puck past Carey Price from the edge of the crease after a feed from Krejci.
The Bruins then went on a rush and Lucic passed in front where the closing Krejci beat Tomas Plekanec to the puck to redirect it into the net at 2:05.
NOTES: Price left the ice in a hurry during pregame warmups after he was hit in the groin area by Lars Eller's shot, but was OK to play. ... Prospect Blake Geoffrion, who fractured his skull in an AHL game at the Bell Centre during the lockout, says he feels better and will be examined by a doctor in Montreal on Thursday to see when he can resume training. ... Montreal scratched Tomas Kaberle, Ryan White and Yannick Weber. ... Boston was missing Brad Marchand, Shawn Thornton and Daniel Paille because of injuries.


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This week's guest (on Wednesday, February 23rd) will be Rabbi Yaakov Spivak, we will talk about various inyonim concerning Purim. Rabbi Spivak, a native of Atlanta Georgia, received his ordination from Baltimore's Ner Yisroel Yeshiva. He holds a Master's Degree in Education from Loyola College, and is a nationally known newspaper columnist, as well as a radio and TV commentator and a never tiring community activist.
As Rosh Kollel of Kollel Ayshel Avraham in Monsey, NY, he has seen his musmochim occupy positions in Jewish communities across the world. As Executive Director of EMES he's known throughout the world for his successful efforts in combating missionaries and specifically those who called themselves Jews for Jesus. This group, particularly, regards him as their nemesis. He is the founder of Jewish Radio Network, where we broadcast.
We will be discussing some of the parallels between the narrative in Megillas Esther and today's situation between Israel (world Jewry) and the leaders of Iran, as well some interesting Purim customs from around the world.
Just listen in, gentle reader, at 8:00pm on Wednesday, February 23rd, on Jewish Radio Network. Enter the site and click on the red "here" under the white "Radio," then wait about 30 to 90 seconds for the application to start streaming.


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CW Sets Summer Premiere Dates for Beauty and the Beast and More
The CW has unveiled summer premiere dates for returning shows, including Beauty and the Beast and Whose Line Is It Anyway?, as well as the new docuseries Famous in 12 and comedies Backpackers and Seed.
Whose Line will move to its new night, Mondays, beginning June 2. Beauty and the Beast will return from hiatus the same night.
Shows on the bubble: Which will survive?
The new social experiment series Famous in 12, which premieres on June 3, follows a fame-seeking family around the clock for 12 weeks.
Backpackers, about two buddies trekking the world, originally aired on the CW's digital platform, Seed, and will transition to broadcast beginning Monday, July 14. Other freshman comedy Seed, which follows an underachieving bachelor who's a sperm donor, will premiere the same night.
Other new shows include Penn & Teller: Fool Us, where aspiring magicians perform for the famous duo, and Masters of Illusion, an escape/illusion showcase hosted by Dean Cain.
Check out the full list of premiere dates below. Which shows will you watch:
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9/8c: Whose Line Is It Anyway? (encore)
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Wednesday, July 30
8/7c: Penn & Teller: Fool Us
9/8c: Arrow (encore; new time slot)
Friday, August 1
8/7c: Masters of Illusion
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Letters: November/December 2011: November/December 2011
Remembering Darin Hughes
The home performance community lost a star when Darin Hughes, the founder of HughesCo, Incorporated, died of apparent cardiac arrest at his home in Grand Island, New York, on August 24. He was forty-eight years old.
His obituary in the Buffalo News gave details about his life, noting his success as a home performance contractor, his regular appearance on local TV as the energy efficiency guru, and the fact that his was one of the first companies approved through Home Performance with Energy Star. Many of us knew him, and his story, as told a few years ago in Home Energy, has inspired many more of us. Here are some excerpts:
It would be hard to imagine a more ardent, outspoken proponent of home performance principles than Darin Hughes, president of HughesCo, Incorporated, in Amherst, New York.
Occasionally homeowners don't see the savings he predicts, but with a little sleuthing Hughes can usually figure out why. Hughes worked on the home of Linda Pellegrino, a cohost of AM Buffalo, a television show that Hughes appears on regularly. One day when he walked on the stage of the live show, Pellegrino was waving her bill at him from across the room, saying that she hadn't seen any savings. A quick look at her bill told Hughes that the usage was an estimated amount. "Wait until your next bill, when you will get the actual usage," he said on live TV, "and you will see at least a 50% savings on your heating bill." Four weeks later, as he approached the set, Pellegrino was waving around a different bill. Her savings were closer to 70%. "That afternoon, after that segment, I got 30 phone calls from new customers," says Hughes. ("Remodeling a Business," HE Sept/Oct '04 p. 42)
[Larry] Zarker's favorite anecdote of a successful sell to a homeowner was told to him by Darin Hughes, who described his first two home performance contracts after he transitioned from a successful career as a remodeler. On both occasions, Hughes was asked to find what he describes as the "pain points" in the home, which in these cases was the homeowners' inability to keep the second story of the house cool in the summer or warm in the winter. When the services had been completed, the invoice paid, and the customers well on their way to comfort, the contractor returned for a follow-up test to see if the efficiency numbers and the customers' comfort matched. On both occasions the contractor and his entire crew were met with "big bear hugs." That's a happy customer. ("The Smart Sell," HE Jan/Feb '08, p. 30)
There are more than a few big personalities in the home performance community, but Darin was unique. He will be missed.
The bio for author Andrew Rudin was inadvertently cut from his article, "My Experience with Solar Electric and Solar Hot-Water Systems" (Sept/Oct '11, p. 50). The editors regret the error. Here is the missing bio: Andrew Rudin lives in Melrose Park, Pennsylvania, where he serves as an energy consultant to non profit organizations.
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Home Energy occasionally receives and publishes letters from readers that do not refer to previous articles but reflect a common concern of the home performance community. We invite readers to send letters expressing opinions and ideas for this section of the magazine.
As an efficiency industry, we sometimes mistake what makes good public policy for what is actually the best deal for our customers. Sealing ducts and blowing in attic insulation is equivalent to eating all your vegetables before being allowed to move on to dessert; everyone knows it's the right thing to do but, boy, does that dessert look good! A prime example of this can be seen in the solar-power industry. We often talk about how much better it is for homeowners to reduce than produce. Clearly, from an energy policy perspective it makes a lot of sense to reduce energy usage before investing in expensive generation.
However, when you look through the lens of the customer — with public policy such as the 30% solar tax credit, combined with financial tools such as the Solar Lease and Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) — it is an open question if it is really a better deal to do efficiency first.
The solar industry is booming like never before, based on its ability to provide consumers with a simple no-risk value proposition. The solar industry says to its customers, "We will guarantee your monthly energy savings with nothing up front, and we will remove all performance-related risk down the road." Contrasted with energy efficiency, which asks people to buy ten years' worth of savings up front, typically with little data to substantiate our prediction. Is it surprising so many consumers are choosing solar? It's a no-risk, all-reward proposition.
In the energy efficiency industry, financing is often treated as the Holy Grail. However, in programs and states where very low-rate financing is available, relatively small numbers of consumers are taking advantage of it. While financing is important, by itself it does not appear to be the major driver of demand that we once considered it to be.
Unlike a solar PPA, energy efficiency financing does not reduce risk; in essence it allows people to take on risk that they might not have otherwise been able to afford. And there are real and significant risks in home performance. Are homeowners really going to see the savings they are promised? Unfortunately, the answer for many homeowners will be no. That does not mean home performance does not work. It does mean that even our most advanced models are not able to predict savings perfectly on a house-by-house basis.
Even if energy savings are right on average, there are always winners and losers. And if you were promised 20% savings, and are one of the unlucky folks who, for a variety of reasons, end up only seeing a 10% reduction on your bills, you are no happier when you find out that someone else saved 30%. Now compare this to the solar PPA. Rather than having risk stay with a homeowner, aggregators such as SunRun create a pool of homes, and are then able to provide every homeowner with a guarantee of performance.
While energy efficiency is clearly a more volatile and harder-to-predict commodity than solar, it is also cheaper, and has the added advantage that people are not buying efficiency on price alone.
So the question is, Could the home energy efficiency industry offer our customers a value proposition similar to the solar PPA?
To get there, we need data and certainty about our ability to predict and then deliver on savings. This is not to say that we need to be correct 100% of the time, but rather, that we need to know how right we are on average. The less variance, the less it will cost to insure that risk and hedge the bet in the market.
To start with, if we take just heating and cooling energy, and control for behavior with an Internet-enabled thermostat, we could quickly have something that we are pretty good at predicting. Rather than buying insulation and ductwork, we start to sell consumers on "cold beer and warm showers" — which in home performance is guaranteed heating and cooling energy use and guaranteed comfort. A consumer will choose their monthly bill by choosing a plan that guarantees a set point with a certain number of degrees of variance, combined with a number of demand response events. The more flexible the consumer, the less their bills will be.
This does not have to mean giving up control. If Grandma comes over for a visit and the homeowners want it to be 78°F inside to make her comfortable, they simply override the thermostat. But those homeowners can expect a surcharge on their bill at the end of the month for the extra energy they used. Not only does this put the energy efficiency retrofit into terms homeowners understand; it also puts the industry in the value chain where it belongs. Now it can be profitable to produce quality work that delivers real savings — versus the current reality, where quality tends to mean less profits in a market with little price elasticity.
This alignment of interest means that standards and quality assurance will move from being things that are enforced on the industry by regulators to things required by the market.
Solar is a great example. Solar PPA and lease companies currently have installation standards that are significantly more rigorous than anything that has previously been required by solar installation programs, with 100% quality assurance. Once the home performance industry starts to view savings as a profit center (as well as a potential risk if savings are not delivered), the industry will be incentivized to police itself.
It is working in solar and it can work for energy efficiency. When we align the interests of homeowners to avoid risk while saving money and gaining comfort with the bottom line of industry, we will see this industry grow up and finally start to achieve the promise of jobs creation and energy savings that we all believe is possible. So next time you look down at the solar industry, or tsk at a consumer with an old air conditioner and 5 kW of solar, you should ask yourself why you expect your customers to pay you to eat lima beans when they can have a milkshake for free.
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BOSTON (AP) _ The St. Patrick's Day parade in Boston is easing its two-decade ban on gay organizations under a tentative deal to allow them to march in an event that once went to the Supreme Court to keep gays out, a marriage equality group said Saturday.
MassEquality Executive Director Kara Coredini said a group of gay military veterans can march under its banner as part of a tentative deal with parade organizers brokered by Boston Mayor Martin Walsh.
Marchers from the gay-rights group would not, however, be allowed to wear clothing or hold signs that refer to sexual orientation, Coredini said.
Negotiators will work out final details in the coming week, she said.
``But, we are encouraged this conversation is happening. That is a significant step forward,'' Coredini told The Associated Press.
Although there are still particulars to hammer out, Coredini said the development is a big deal for members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community.
``The LGBT community faces many challenges more significant than this parade, but the parade has been historically been the symbol of those challenges that we face,'' Coredini said. ``It's been 20 years since openly LGBT people have been able to march in this parade.''
The Boston parade, sponsored by the South Boston Allied War Veterans Council, has had a long and torturous history on the question of whether gay groups can march.
State courts forced the sponsors to allow the Irish-American Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Group of Boston to march in the parade in 1992 and 1993. In 1994, the sponsors canceled the parade rather than allow the group to participate.
In 1995, the sponsors made participation by invitation only and said the parade would commemorate the role of traditional families in Irish history and protest the earlier court rulings. But several months later, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously that Massachusetts courts had previously violated the parade sponsors' First Amendment rights when they forced them to allow the gay group to participate.
Walsh, the son of Irish immigrants, had threatened to boycott the city's annual parade unless gay groups are allowed to march. He told The Boston Globe the agreement is a breakthrough.
A spokeswoman for Walsh said the mayor and U.S. Rep. Stephen Lynch met parade organizers on Saturday.
"It was a very positive meeting, and they remain optimistic that a solution can be reached that will work for all parties involved,'' spokeswoman Kate Norton said.
A message left for a parade organizer was not immediately returned.
Walsh's predecessor, Mayor Tom Menino, boycotted the parade after the Supreme Court ruling.
The parade has traditionally honored Irish-Americans and also celebrates ``Evacuation Day,'' George Washington's victory that forced British troops out of Boston in 1776.


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Legendary music producer Chips Moman will be in Memphis for Elvis Week events at Graceland in August, marking the anniversary of Elvis Presley's death in 1977.
Elvis Presley Enterprises announced this week that Moman, who produced Presley's Memphis sessions at Moman's American Sound studios in North Memphis, will be part of the Elvis Insiders panel discussion Aug. 14 at 9 a.m. at Graceland's main stage in Graceland Plaza.
Bobby Wood, Gene Chrisman and Reggie Young, who were part of the American Sound studio band that played on the Elvis sessions, will also be part of the discussion.
The American Sound recordings included some of Presley's biggest hits of the late 1960s and early 1970s, including "In the Ghetto," "Suspicious Minds" and "Kentucky Rain."
During Moman's tenure, American Sound turned out more than 120 hit records for various record labels.
Moman returned to Memphis for a brief time in the 1980s at the helm of Three Alarm Studios, a recording studio in an old city firehouse at Third Street and Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue, but he has rarely returned to the city or commented on his role in Memphis music history since the studio closed.
Metropolitan Bank has added former Union Planters Bank CEO E. Jackson Garner to its board.
Garner currently lives in Jackson, Miss., and retired from his 30-year banking career to join The Ramey Agency, a brand strategy and marketing communications firm, as its president in 2001.
Metropolitan Bank is a $915 million financial institution that currently operates eight full-service banking offices in Mississippi and Tennessee.
State officials say the Department of Labor has been expanding efforts to uncover employer fraud within the construction industry.
The efforts will help identify employers who are paying workers under the table, intentionally misclassifying workers as independent contractors and who are failing to report all wages paid.
The state Department of Labor & Workforce Development said a Nashville drywall firm accused of lying to an insurance company about how many employees were on its payroll was first to pay $300,000 in a settlement.
Officials say the fraud is typically used to avoid paying workers' compensation and unemployment insurance tax premiums. It also gives deceptive employers an unfair competitive advantage over law-abiding firms.
Part of the effort includes the hiring of additional investigators to detect the fraud.
Elvis Presley's old Circle G Ranch in Mississippi, where the singer and Priscilla Presley spent their honeymoon in 1967, has been bought by Florida real estate brokerage.
Terms were not disclosed. The deal was announced Tuesday.
Plans for the sale of the property or development of it have been discussed off-and-on for more than 10 years.
Elvis Presley owned the 155-acre ranch, just across the Tennessee-Mississippi state line in Horn Lake, Mississippi, from 1966 to 1971. He and Priscilla honeymooned there, and the building known as the "honeymoon cottage" still stands today. It includes a 14-acre lake.
Presley sold the property in 1972.
Slightly more Americans sought unemployment benefits last week, but claims for jobless aid continue to be anchored near seven-year lows.
The Labor Department said Thursday that weekly applications for unemployment benefits rose 8,000 to a seasonally adjusted 312,000. The four-week average, a less volatile measure, fell to 310,250. That's the lowest average since June 2007.
Applications are a proxy for layoffs, so the running average suggests employers are letting go of fewer workers. When businesses are confident enough to hold onto staff, they may also step up hiring. That is a positive sign ahead of May's jobs report to be released Friday and indicates steady hiring in the months ahead.
"The claims data suggest sustained better payrolls are in the pipeline," said Ian Shepherdson, chief economist at Pantheon Macroeconomics. Shepherdson added that the pace of hiring would quicken "sooner or later," though he cautioned that a "blockbuster" increase in jobs last month was unlikely.
Fewer Americans are also receiving benefits. The number of recipients declined to 2.6 million, the lowest level since October 2007.
The decline in applications since the start of the year has been accompanied by solid job growth, despite an economy that struggled to grow during the winter.
General Motors said Thursday that it will launch a program to compensate crash victims or families affected by faulty ignition switches linked to at least 13 deaths that prompted a recall of 2.6 million cars.
The company said it expects the program will start accepting claims Aug. 1 but hasn't said how much money will be involved. Guidelines and other details will be developed in the coming weeks, GM said.
The fund will be administered by compensation expert Kenneth Feinberg. GM announced in April the hiring of Feinberg, who handled the Sept. 11 Victim Compensation Fund as well as funds for victims of the Boston Marathon bombing and the BP oil spill.
Memphis Mayor A C Wharton Jr.'s administration would move the Memphis Police Department, information technology services and six city agencies renting offices on Union Avenue Extended into the Donnelley J. Hill office building if the city goes through with a plan to swap the office building with state government in exchange for parking spaces in the Peabody Place garage.
Housing and Community Development Director Robert Lipscomb outlined the general plan to Memphis City Council members Tuesday, June 3. Lipscomb said the divisions and agencies likely to move into the office building, which is just a few yards from City Hall in the Civic Center Plaza, are those whose leases elsewhere are up or about to be up.
Wharton and police brass have several times proposed renovating the old Memphis Police Building on the northwest corner of Adams Avenue and Second Street to once again become the police headquarters.
In other action Tuesday, council Chairman Jim Strickland delayed for two weeks a vote on the second reading of his ordinance to establish residential-permit parking in the Overton Square area on a trial basis.
And the council affirmed its rejection of plans for a new county cemetery at Raleigh-Millington and Duncan roads. Council member Janis Fullilove moved for reconsideration of the May 20 vote against the cemetery, but the move for reconsideration was voted down.
The Shelby County Commission approved the cemetery plans Monday, June 2.
The University of Tennessee Health Science Center's College of Medicine has been reaccredited for the maximum eight-year term by the Liaison Committee on Medical Education.
The LCME accredits medical schools in the United States and Canada. Accreditation signifies that national standards for structure, function and performance are met by a medical school's education program. Only LCME-accredited institutions may receive federal grants for education and participate in federal loan programs. Medical students in the United States must be enrolled in or have graduated from an LCME-accredited program in order to take national board exams or enter residency programs.
Preparations for the accreditation process took nearly two years and included an extensive self-study involving more than 100 faculty members, administrators and students. A five-member survey team of faculty and administrators from other medical schools spent three days on campus in November reviewing the documentation and meeting with roughly 150 faculty members and students. The survey team's report was reviewed by the LCME, and the College of Medicine's excellent relationship with partner hospitals was cited as an institutional strength.
The Memphis Health Center Inc., which provides high-quality, affordable health care services to Shelby County citizens, has received $3.3 million in federal funding from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Health Resources and Services Administration.
The Memphis Health Center, a nonprofit community health center, provides a comprehensive array of primary and preventive health and dental services to the uninsured, underinsured and medically underserved populations of Shelby and Fayette counties. It was founded 45 years ago to address concerns over health care access disparities for underserved populations in the Mid-South.
Temperatures may rise in the summer and so may the need for blood, but donations tend to go down.
To counteract this, Lifeblood is holding a six-week Donor Fest through July 3 at its donor centers and mobile drives in hopes of encouraging new, regular and lapsed donors to give blood.
In celebration of fifth anniversary of Donor Fest, Lifeblood is inviting donors, blood recipients and volunteers to form a "human blood drop" on Saturday, June 14, at 9:30 a.m. on Saint Benedict at Auburndale High School's soccer field. Participants are asked to wear a red shirt. The event will include food, music, balloon animals, face painting, donor recognition and more.
The June 14 event coincides with World Blood Donor Day, which serves to raise awareness of the need for safe blood and blood products. The day is also a chance to thank voluntary, unpaid blood donors.
For information about Donor Fest, donor center locations and a listing of public blood drives this summer, visit lifeblood.org or call 888-LIFEBLOOD.
Shelby Farms Park soon will be a water park – at least, a temporary one.
Every Saturday and Sunday starting this weekend, Shelby Farms will be transformed into a "water play festival," featuring six 50-foot-long slippery slides, a splash pond, sand volleyball court, sandcastle sculpting, a food truck rodeo and a shaded stage with a place to get out of the sun and dance with help from local DJs.
Admission is $10 per person and $5 for park members. Children 12 and younger get in for $5, and all proceeds go toward helping keep the park and Shelby Farms Greenline clean and safe.
The Youth of Memphis Competitors Association will host the AAU Boys' Basketball National Championships for 2nd Grade and 7th Grade Division I and 7th Grade Division II in Memphis June 29 through July 6.
Nearly 5,000 players, coaches, parents and supporters participate in the annual AAU divisional contests, which have been hosted in Memphis more than 20 years.
The opening ceremony for the AAU National Boys Basketball Championship for 7th Grade Division I will be held June 29 at 7 p.m. at Southwind High School, 7900 E. Shelby Drive, and the opening game will follow at 8 p.m.
The opening ceremonies for 2nd Grade Division I and 7th Grade Division II will be held June 30 at 9:30 a.m., also at Southwind High.
The championship teams will compete at more than a dozen Memphis-area sites. For more information and ticket prices, visit aauboysbasketball.org or call YOMCA at 362-9550.
U.S. productivity fell even more than previously thought in the January-March period while labor costs rose at a faster pace.
Productivity, the amount of output per hour of work, declined at an annual rate of 3.2 percent in the first quarter, the weakest showing since the beginning months of the recession in 2008, the Labor Department reported Wednesday. Unit labor costs rose at a 5.7 percent rate, the fastest pace in more than a year.
Rising labor costs and falling productivity can be a cause for concern if they are an indication that inflation is worsening. But the first-quarter performance was seen as a temporary bump caused by an unusually harsh winter which caused the economy to go into reverse. A strong rebound is expected in the current quarter.
Mark S. Sutton, the senior vice president of industrial packaging for International Paper Co., is the company's new president and chief operating officer.
CEO John Faraci announced Sutton's appointment Monday, June 2, as Faraci prepares to retire as president and CEO in March.
Sutton has worked his entire 30-year career with International Paper, starting as an engineer at the company's Pineville, La., mill.
After a five-month delay, Shelby County Commissioners resumed action Monday, June 2, on an ordinance that would raise the pay of Shelby County Schools board members.
Commissioners approved Monday on the second of three readings an amended pay raise for school board members.
The original measure by Commissioner Mike Ritz was to boost the board's annual pay from the current $4,200 to $25,000, with the chairman's annual pay increasing from $4,500 to $26,000.
That failed on second reading, and Commissioner Steve Mulroy amended the raise to $15,000 for board members and $16,000 for the chairman.
The measure will need nine votes to pass on third and final reading.
The commission also approved First Citizen's National Bank's office and retail planned development at the northwest corner of Austin Peay Highway and Millington-Arlington Road.
And the commission approved a new county cemetery on the northeast corner of Raleigh-Millington and Duncan roads that was rejected last month by the Memphis City Council.
County officials estimate the existing county cemetery on Ellis Road will run out of plots in 18 months. The first phase of the new cemetery would be good for 20 years at a rate of 40 burials a month, according to county public works director Tom Needham.
Memphis Redbirds starting pitcher Tim Cooney has been named the Pacific Coast League's Pitcher of the Week for the May 26 to June 1 period.
The 23-year-old tossed a one-hit, complete-game shutout as Memphis blanked the Iowa Cubs, 4-0, at AutoZone Park during the Thursday, May 29, Minor League Baseball "Game of the Week," nationally telecast on CBS Sports Network.
Cooney was one out away from recording the first no-hitter in Redbirds franchise history before allowing a single in the top of the ninth inning. The left-hander retired 27 of 30 batters faced on the evening, striking out seven and walking two over a career-high nine innings. Seventy-three of his 101 pitches were thrown for strikes.
Artist vendor booths for the Cooper-Young festival will be available soon.
The artist vendor booths go on sale Sunday, June 15, at midnight, and will be sold on a first-come, first-served basis.
To help artists pick prime spots, maps of the festival site are available at cooperyoungfestival.com.
This year's main event will be held Saturday, Sept. 13, from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. The free music, arts and crafts street festival is in its 27th year.
On Thursday, Sept. 11, the Art Invitational hosted by the Jay Etkin Gallery, 942 S. Cooper St., will highlight the many artists who live and work in Cooper-Young.
The Cooper-Young Festival Friday 4-Miler will take place Friday, Sept. 12. People who want to take part in the race can register at cooperyoung4miler.racesonline.com.
Dollar General's fiscal first-quarter net income edged up 1 percent, with sales climbing and some expenses dropping.
Sales were strong in categories such as tobacco products, perishables and candy and snacks.
Chairman and CEO Rick Dreiling said in a statement on Tuesday that the results were pressured by bad winter weather, increased competition and current economic conditions. Still, trends improved as the quarter progressed, he said.
For the period ended May 2, the company earned $222.4 million, or 72 cents per share. That compares with $220.1 million, or 67 cents per share, a year ago.
Analysts, on average, expected earnings of 73 cents per share, according to a FactSet poll.
Revenue increased 7 percent to $4.52 billion from $4.23 billion, but fell short of the $4.56 billion Wall Street forecast.
Sales at stores open at least a year, a key indicator of a retailer's health, rose 1.5 percent on improved customer traffic and an increase in the average transaction amount. This metric excludes results from stores recently opened or closed.
International Paper Co. CEO John Faraci will retire effective March 1, the Memphis-based company announced last week.
Faraci turns 65 years old in February, which is the company's mandatory retirement age for executives.
The company also filed Monday, June 2, with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission a notice that Faraci had sold 30,000 shares of common stock. Faraci made similar transactions in April and May.
Mid-South Marking Systems is changing its company name to MSM Solutions to better reflect its products and offerings in providing barcoding and radio-frequency identification, or RFID, solutions.
The name change will go into effect July 1. MSM's core focus will remain unchanged, and service to its nearly 2,000 customers will not be interrupted.
"We want our customers to know we that we utilize the latest technology in barcoding and RFID," said Rick Summers, president and CEO of MSM Solutions. "We place a premium on research and development and providing the best printing and data collection equipment in our
Eighteen Memphis Redbirds games will be broadcast on KTRS 550 AM radio in St. Louis during the 2014 regular season. The first game was to have aired Saturday, May 31.
"It allows for us to extend the Redbirds brand in St. Louis," said Redbirds general manager Craig Unger. "It also lets us get the word out about upcoming events and attract tourists to Memphis."
Redbirds games are broadcast by Steve Selby, who has been part of the broadcast team since AutoZone Park opened in 2000. The Virginia native is currently in his 29th season in the booth and has been at the microphone for more than 1,800 games as a member of the Redbirds.
KTRS' broadcasts of Redbirds games are to take place at times when the St. Louis Cardinals are not scheduled to be playing.
Memphis-based Crye-Leike Realtors Inc. agents and employees collected $64,840 for United Way during the 2013 campaign season.
In each of the nine states Crye-Leike serves, the company's branch offices and Realtors host a variety of fundraisers to help individuals and organizations.
In addition to supporting Crye-Leike's annual United Way campaign, the offices support charities in their communities through activities such as coat drives for the homeless or chili cook-off fundraisers.
"Since first opening our doors in 1977, Crye-Leike has been a company that cares about the communities we serve proudly supporting many charitable organizations including United Way, Youth Villages, Habitat for Humanity and numerous other local charities," said Crye-Leike co-founder and CEO Harold Crye. "Crye-Leike is thankful to have so many generous agents and employees who continue to be excited about lending a helping hand to their neighbors in need."
The Institute for Supply Management has twice corrected its May manufacturing index to show that factories grew at a strong pace last month. The original report said that manufacturers had expanded at a weaker pace.
The ISM's manufacturing index for May now reads 55.4, up from 53.2 in the initial report. Any reading above 50 indicates expansion.
The corrected figures show that measures of production and orders rose, rather than fell. Production surged to 61 from 55.7 in April. Factories added jobs, according to a gauge of employment, but at a slower pace.
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