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For Satya Ganti and his coworkers at Sarva Bio Remed, that November 2004 spill proved the time and effort spent developing their bioremediation product was worthwhile. Although the young company did not participate in the clean-up effort, the event confirmed the need for their technology.
"Where there is oil, there is going to be a spill," explained Ganti, president and CEO of the six-year-old company.
Sarva Bio Remed, a tenant of the Trenton Business and Technology Center business incubator, holds the patent on a biodispersion process and developed their first product SpillRemed (Marine) containing a large count of naturally occurring oil-degrading microbes isolated from the waters of Prince William Sound, Alaska – the site of the infamous Exxon Valdez accident. These microbes consume hydrocarbons (such as oil and associated fumes) quickly and effectively. Once the oil is consumed, the microbes die a natural death without leaving behind any residue for disposal.
The company has developed seven application-based products. BilgeRemed, has been successfully field-tested for cleaning oily bilge water that accumulates in ships. Another product VaporRemed has proved effective for eliminating heating oil spills for homeowners.
Moving into the Trenton business incubator has been crucial to Sarva Bio Remed's success, Ganti said. Having a business address in Trenton helped Sarva Bio Remed come to the attention of state economic development officials who invited Ganti on international trade missions. Today, Sarva Bio Remed has customers and distributors in both South America and the Middle East.
"That could never have happened without the incubator," Ganti said.
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Shari Dunn, the new morning anchor of the CBS 58 morning news, didn't follow the regular career path that most reporters take to wind up working in their hometown.
Before the Nicolet High School and Marquette University graduate landed a job in TV in Milwaukee, she worked as an attorney and lobbyist in Washington, D.C. and New York City. After a spot on "Oprah" and an appearance on "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire," Dunn decided it was time for a career change.
Dunn says she literally had a "what do you really want to do?" moment -- and decided wha she wanted to do was TV.
Dunn began freelance reporting for Court TV, and eventually landed at the NBC affiliate in Tyler, Texas, using the experience she accumulated as a Madison news intern in college. Finally, this fall, she applied for a job with WDJT-TV in Milwaukee and stepped behind the anchor desk just a few weeks ago.
We caught up with Dunn in the latest Milwaukee Talks.
OnMilwaukee.com: Before you tell me how you wound up back in Milwaukee, tell me your story about Oprah.
Shari Dunn: When I was in New York, I knew this girl who owned a dating coffeehouse. Oprah had contacted her about the concept. They have these books and when you see someone cute, you tell the staff. They set up the meeting at the coffeehouse, so you don't have to give out your information. I met (the owner) casually, and she asked me if I would agree to be one of the dates. I said, sure that would be fun. I did the date, and the producer on the Oprah show said she really liked me, and asked if I would try four more dating services. They'd fly me to Chicago, and I'd explain to Oprah and Gayle (King) how it all works. I was like, OK. I couldn't have asked for that. So I did this half-hour segment of me sitting up with her.
OMC: Did you maintain your connection with Oprah?
SD: No, not really.
OMC: The Nicolet High School thing didn't help?
SD: No, it didn't do much for me.
OMC: Did you find love from the coffeehouse?
SD: No, I did not, but it was a good platform for me. Alas, I still have not found love. Still looking, by the way.
OMC: Then what?
SD: This woman from Court TV contacted me and had seen me on Oprah. She asked if I wanted to do some legal commentary for them about divorces and celebrities. I said sure. That got me on air and talking. At that time I also got an agent. I went out and did some demo things to go with my Court TV experience. I knew I really wanted to pursue broadcasting but I was really going to need money. I decided to go on to the daytime edition of "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?"
OMC: Really?
SD: It was totally crazy, but I did. You take this test and after you pass they interview. The girl who was interviewing wasn't feeling me, but the girl next to her was. I won enough money that I didn't have to work for the next two years.
OMC: How much did you win?
SD: I don't like to say. I did not win $1 million, but I won a lot.
OMC: What question did you end on?
SD: I'll never forget that. Which Broadway musical was the first to win a Grammy? I had really studied for this, and I knew the answer. I had won before the question, and I got totally out of focus. I got up and yelled "Oklahoma," and it was. I sold my apartment in New York and moved to Los Angeles and lived there for two years. I did a lot of freelance work.
OMC: That led you to your first anchoring job in Tyler, Texas. What was that like?
SD: It was market 108. Milwaukee is 35. I was in Tyler for two and a half years. They brought me in because of my experience as an attorney, but my reel was good. I was the main anchor at 5 and 10 p.m.
OMC: There's a big difference from anchoring and being a legal analyst, right?
SD: They put me behind the desk, and it worked. For me, anchoring comes natural. I've always had an aptitude for it. I love to report, too. This skills necessary to being a reporter -- all these are skills that being a lawyer has given me. It was good for me, and I think it was good for them ... but then I had an opportunity to come back to Milwaukee.
OMC: Tell me how that happened.
SD: As always, I'm trying to look ahead. About a year ago, I began looking aggressively with my agent. Over Thanksgiving, I learned of a position here at CBS-58, and I had an audition, sat behind the desk. It went really well, and I got called back. I've been here four weeks, because I didn't want to leave Tyler on two weeks' notice.
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lakewarden | May 2, 2009 at 9:33 a.m. (report)
Milwaukee is so fortunate to have Shari Dunn on their team. She is one of the most pleasant newspersons on the air. Her demeanor is calm and refreshing and she always has that cute, little smile. We certainly miss her back in East Texas. Ms. Dunn, it would so kind if you would set up a Twitter account (like Gillian Sheridan) so that your fans could continue to hear your comments. Thanks for being such a quality lady.
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LegallyBlonde | March 4, 2009 at 1:19 p.m. (report)
I can't believe Jerry Springer was a lawyer, that is shocking. Dunn is cute, articulate, and brings something new to 58. I like it. I may just get up early and watch!
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viewfromnyave | March 4, 2009 at 12:06 p.m. (report)
She should probably just go ahead and file that restraining order against Sijan Heights right now.
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In movie thrillers, as opposed to the real-estate market, it may be that dislocation is everything. And rarely have the connections between property development and dread been so well-captured as in Neighbouring Sounds, the subtle, hair-raising debut from young Brazilian filmmaker Kleber Mendonca Filho. Economically packed with social issues of wealth, property and class, and deft cinematic references, this is a movie built for the modern global high-rise condo market.
The script follows a group of characters living in the kind of buildings that are derisively referred to as "cocaine towers" in Latin America. The setting is the booming city of Recife, on the north-eastern bump of Brazil, set in a high-rise development surrounded by security cameras, where the residents live in cookie-cutter, open-concept apartments with flat-screen TVs, floor-to-ceiling windows and narrow corridors, stacked atop each other like hatchlings in incubator boxes.
As an acerbic social study, Filho's film evokes both Robert Altman and Luis Bunuel, but it is also filled with its own flavour of dread. Much of that derives from the insinuating sound design, referred to in the film's title. Off-screen, we hear the constant rattle of construction work, sirens, children's screams, unidentified footsteps. As in all wealthy enclaves, there's a particular emphasis on security from invaders: The movie is divided into chapters titled Guard Dogs, Night Guards and Body Guards. With so much protection around, something bad must be about to happen.
Most of the dozen-plus characters here are well-off, though there's a separate society of maids, security guards and delivery men who cater to the residents' needs. (This is the sort of place where a condo with maid's quarters seems to be included in the base package.) The relationships between masters and servants are collegial, even familial, which makes the sudden moments of cruelty all the more startling. Maids are sharply reprimanded, sometimes in front of their children, as if they were children themselves. An aging servant is suddenly replaced by her daughter; the condo board debates whether to fire their aging security man without severance, after one of the tenants' kids videotapes the old man napping.
The recurring protagonist is a handsome, mild-natured Joao (Gustavo Jahn), a wealthy scion of the family that built the development, who has returned from Europe and is now working in his grandfather's business as a property agent. Early on, we see Joao waking up in his condo with a girl he hooked up with the night before, Sofia (Irma Brown), who grew up in the neighbourhood before it went vertical. Shortly after they wake, the maid arrives with her grandchildren in tow – their mother had a doctor's appointment. The kids watch cartoons while grandma jokes and prepares the lovers' breakfasts.
After breakfast, Joao takes Sofia back to her car where they discover her side window has been removed and her CD player stolen. Joao, concerned about disappointing his new potential girlfriend, makes it his mission to find out who is responsible. He interrogates a couple of local guys he sees washing a car and gets annoyed when they seem to be playing dumb. That's because all of them suspect the same person, Joao's trouble-prone cousin, Dinho (Yuri Holanda).
Joao's grandfather, Francisco (W.J. Solha), a powerful patriarch who suggests the character of Noah Cross in Roman Polanski's Chinatown, made his fortune in sugar-cane plantations before moving into real estate. He now lives in one of the condo boxes with his maid, ruling his empire via his cellphone.
When a slick private-security salesman, Clodoaldo (Irandhir Santos), shows up on the block selling a group deal for street protection, they know they must first get Francisco's approval. He gives it to them, with the warning that they leave Dinho alone. Soon, the neighbours chip in, paying a few dollars a month to have what appears to be a pointless street patrol. The security guards, who sit talking in a tent protected from the rain, wear quasi-military uniforms. In the film's first half, their most taxing job is to help a confused party-goer find his way back to the condo that he just left.
Joao's work, too, seems casual: A woman and her daughter come to see a unit. "It looks like a factory," says the woman. The potential buyer tries to bargain him down because she heard a woman threw herself off the balcony to her death and wants a discount for the "negative energy." Joao rejects her pitch: "This place isn't haunted," he assures her.
Later, after closing a deal with another buyer, he finds a loose nut on a terrace and thoughtfully pockets it. Did something break loose?
The most unhappy resident is Beatriz (Maeve Jinkings), a sultry, bored mother of two children who are doing extra classes in Mandarin and English to assure their future. She takes pleasure from her household machines: When the kids are away, she gets pot from the water delivery man and exhales the fumes into her vacuum cleaner. Then she presses herself against the vibrating washing machine.
Beatriz's great source of torment in life is a Weimaraner guard dog in the courtyard below. The neighbours leave it out at night, where it howls piteously. She drugs it by putting her sleeping pills in a piece of raw meat, blasts Queen's Crazy Little Thing Called Love to drown it out, and later, imports a high-frequency siren to torment the creature.
Neighbouring Sounds is a deceptively understated film that keeps ratcheting up the tension through details and suggestive moments as Filho, the archetypal director as puppet-master, quietly lays down the clues that show how the alienation of the present has its roots in the past.
In the film's extraordinary third act, Joao and Sophia go with the grandfather, Francisco, to the old man's country place in the mountains, next to a crumbling ghost town near the old plantation site. What happened here? We never exactly know, but the result was devastation. There's a scene where all three of them shower under a waterfall, yelling in the freezing water with the sheer intensity of the experience. After, they return to the city and their disturbingly safe boxes in the sky, to await the next step in their fates.Report Typo/Error
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Biofuels firm D1 Oils said shareholders had voted against proposals to oust the board by activist investor Brian Myerson, who was banned from merger activity in the UK last week.
D1 added that the uncertainty surrounding Myerson's move, in a bid to sell or wind up the firm by its largest shareholder, was now removed, enabling it to move forward with talks with potential buyers.
Britain's takeover watchdog banned Myerson and two other investors for three years from M&A activity, upholding an earlier ruling that the three men had broken takeover rules by acting together in a battle for control of Principle Capital Investment Trust last year.
D1 Oils said that the resolutions proposed by Priniciple Capital, on behalf of Myerson, were rejected by a substantial majority.
"The board would like to thank independent shareholders for their continuing support. We will continue to focus our energies on the running of the business while we continue discussions with potential offerors and conclude our strategic review".
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Baruch Men's Tennis Team Headed to CUNYAC Championship
The Baruch Bearcats defeated the City College of New York Beavers, 5-2, in a CUNYAC Tournament semifinal match last Monday evening at the U.S. National Tennis Center in Queens. Now, for the ninth time in the past 10 years, the men's tennis team will compete in the CUNYAC championship match to decide the conference title and automatic berth to the NCAA Tournament. More info
May 9, 5:30 pm: Information and Technology Building, Room 750, 151 E. 25th Street
Changes in the Regulatory Environment and their Effects on Audits and Auditors
The Stan Ross Department of Accountancy at Baruch College hosts Peggy Wood, professional standards partner at Grant Thornton LLP and president of the New York State Society of Public Accountants. Ms. Wood will discuss changes in the regulatory environment and their effects on audits and auditors. Register online
May 10, 12:30 pm: Newman Vertical Campus, Room 14-220, 55 Lexington Ave
The Madoff Clawbacks: Whose Money Is It?
This luncheon discussion will examine the ethical issues surrounding efforts to recover assets lost by the thousands of victims of Bernard Madoff's colossal Ponzi scheme. This event is the Robert Zicklin Center for Corporate Integrity's third seminar in the David Berg Foundation Series on Ethics and Accountability. Register online
May 10, 1 pm: Newman Vertical Campus, Room 7-155, 55 Lexington Ave
The Gospel According to Josh: A Film Screening and Discussion on Suicide
Psi Chi, the International Honor Society in Psychology, will be hosting a socially conscious one-man-show depicting a student's experience with suicide. A panel discussion on the issue, led by Baruch College psychology professors and psychologists from the counseling center, will follow the performance. All members of the Baruch College Community are welcome.
May 10, 6 pm: Information and Technology Building, Room 750, 151 E. 25th Street
Bernard Madoff: "The Wizard of Lies"
Bernie Madoff's massive fraud — the largest Ponzi scheme in history — raises many questions: how it came to be, why the S.E.C. was asleep at the switch and whether it will force the sale of the New York Mets, among them. In this event hosted by the Baruch College Journalism Department, author Diana Henriques of The New York Times, who has covered the Madoff scandal from the beginning, will discuss her new book, The Wizard of Lies, and take questions from the audience.
May 11, 4 pm: Information and Technology Building, Room 750, 151 E. 25th Street
Financial Planning for Nonprofits Made Easy
In these uncertain times of government funding and foundation grants,
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GASLAND: A Documentary Film
This screening, hosted in part by Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer, State Senator Liz Krueger, Assemblymember Brian Kavanagh, and Councilmember Rosie Mendez will feature the Sundance Film Festival Special Jury Prize award-winning film on domestic oil drilling. A Q&A with filmmaker Josh Fox will follow. More info
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We Were So Beloved: The German Jews of Washington Heights
As part of The Jewish Studies Center's day-long conference on German-Jewish immigration and presence in NYC, a film screening of We Were So Beloved: The German Jews of Washington Heights, including a discussion with director Manfred Kirchheimer, will be presented. More info
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New York Piano Society Spring Concert
The New York Piano Society will present a concert featuring their outstanding concert performers with guest artist Allyson Tomsky on violin. Program will include works by Beethoven, Chopin, Liszt, and Scriabin. More info
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Northwestern Oklahoma State University will honor Constitution Day with a discussion comparing and contrasting the U.S. Constitution with the Costa Rican Constitution. This free event is open to the public, and will be held in the Ranger Room on Monday, Sept. 20, from 1-3 p.m.
Dr. Mario Carvajal, former Costa Rican Ambassador to the European Union, will serve as a speaker for the Costa Rican Constitution, while Dr. Aaron Mason, assistant professor of politics, will defend the U.S. Constitution. J.W. Platt, instructor of history, will lead the discussion as moderator.
The Northwestern-Masonic Institute for Citizenship Studies is playing host to this event. As part of the day's events, the Institute also has scheduled its grand opening at which the public also is invited to attend.
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There's no surer sign of legislative adjournment than the advent of the campaign season, and as of April 28 — thanks to the first and one of the biggest political parades of the year, the Vermont Maple Festival — the election year is off to a sweet start.
Thousands rallied for the sunny afternoon ritual, and there to wave and entertain were some familiar Montpelier faces — Gov. Peter Shumlin, Secretary of State Jim Condos, Vermont Attorney General Bill Sorrell and his Democratic primary rival, TJ Donovan, plus two candidates for Franklin County Vermont state senate.
Republican Sen. Randy Brock was there too — on his first official campaign event as a candidate for governor — with a Bear for Brock in tow wearing tie-dye t-shirt with the slogan "Give the $21 million back to ratepayers!"
Brock said the slogan hit home with constituents who are upset about whether they'll get their money back.
"It's a campaign issue, and frankly it's a nonpartisan issue," Brock said. "If you look at various groups and coalitions forming this isn't a Republican issue, this is an issue that crosses lines like few you see around Vermont. Instead of pitting right against left, it pits right against wrong."
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New bill would require health insurers to be transparent
As of this summer, health insurance companies in Vermont will be required to report the number of denied claims, appeals, and other grievances on BISCHA's website with other company information.
Insurance companies could face more demands, however, depending on which version of S.200 is signed into law. The version of the bill passed in the Senate on March 29 is fairly bare bones, but the House version, amended this week by Rep. Sarah Copeland-Hanzas, D-Orange, and passed 135-1, adds several more reporting requirements.
These include reporting the salaries of corporate officers and board members, political contributions, and advertising and lobbying expenses. It also adds a new section on pharmacy audits and reimbursements for ambulance services.
Sen. Anthony Pollina, P-Washington, one of the sponsors of S.200, said that he liked the changes made by the House.
"The more reporting, the more we know about insurance companies the better off we're going to be as consumers," Pollina said. "Hopefully someday we're not going to even have a need for insurance companies, but as long as insurance companies are around, it's important that we have as much information about their behaviour as possible so that people can make decent choices about who they want to do business with."
VPIRG's health-care advocate Cassandra Gekas said she was pleased with the bill, particularly the House version. Health insurance has been a campaign issue for the consumer advocacy group.
"I think it was just a huge victory for Vermonters, and I feel really proud of the fact that justice prevailed, that legislators sided on patients instead of on profit," Gekas said. "And when I think about this in the big picture, health care and health insurance, we're not talking about widgets," she said. "From my perspective, Vermonters deserve to know not only how their premium dollars are being spent but also what the business practices are of health insurers."
However, Sen. Claire Ayer, D-Addison, the chair of Senate Health and Welfare, says many of these additions are unlikely to remain. Ayer intends to call for a conference committee, where the bill will likely get pared back down to the version passed in the Senate.
"Basically in Senate Health and Welfare we stripped [S.200] down because the entire system is going to change in 2014, when we go into the insurance exchange. They'll have specific and unified reporting requirements and that sort of thing. So to ask an insurance company to change all its forms for one year is just a waste of resources," Ayer said.
"But there were a few things that we thought were really valuable in assessing health care, that would be useful information to the Green Mountain Care Board: about how we give care and what it's used for, and what it costs, denial and that sort of thing. Those are things we put in that we thought were useful information."
Health insurance companies like Blue Cross Blue Shield (BCBS) and MVP Healthcare appear to have taken a neutral stance on the change, saying that they already report on much of the information required in the bill.
Lee Tofferi, a lobbyist for BCBS, said the company was not against reporting claims, provided they could explain the reasons for most of them, like duplicate claims or clerical errors.
"What we want to make sure is that we have the ability when we submit the claims denial basis that we can also illustrate and illuminate more of the reasons for those denials," Tofferi said. "Because there are interest groups out there that are trying to suggest we are denying claims just to avoid paying claims, when in fact most of the claims we deny are for legitimate reasons."
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