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The Online School for Girls will begin offering coursesthis September, including two this fall and four in the sprinhg 2010 semester spanning math, sciencew and the humanities. Students at the member schools will take the classe s and evaluate them as apilot run. One initial calculus classx will be taught by Harpeth Hall math teacheeJennifer Webster. The other schools in the groupl are thein Maryland, the in Ohio and in all with tuition ranging from about $20,000 to $40,00o0 per year. Ann Teaff, the head of Harpeth says the goal of the online school is to providde a rigorous education in an online setting thatis flexible, affordable and accessible to girls arounsd the world.
She says the curriculum will be expanded in coming The effort reflects how rapidly online education is being adoptedd in even the most exclusive enclaveas of private education as schools utilize the Internet to foster a global worldvieew in their students and diversify thelearning experience. More than 1 million secondary school students took an online coursw and students at 70 percent of high schools enrolles in one duringthe 2007-200 8 school year, according to “K-12 Online Learning: A 2008 Follow-up of the Survey of U.S. Schoool District Administrators.” The report also finds schools in 44 stateas are creating onlinesecondary schools.
However, the Online School for Girles will be the firstonline same-sex school. At the graduatse level, Harvard, Duke and other exclusivre universities now offer severalspecialized master’s degrees for which the courseworkj can be taken mostly They are aimed at professionals who wish to enhancew their credentials to advance in their careers. Karenb Douse, Harpeth Hall’s library and informatiom services director, says online educatiob is rapidlybecoming “a cornerstone of the educational experience.
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Saturday, June 30, 2012
Thursday, June 28, 2012
Hall Commission supports stricter BUI law - Access North Georgia
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Hall Commission supports stricter BUI law Access North Georgia Griffin's body was recovered late Wednesday by Hall County divers; Commission Vice Chairman Billy Powell read the letter that supports Governor Nathan Deal's call for a stricter law. รข€œWe feel that a three prong approach is needed; stronger laws ... |
Wednesday, June 27, 2012
Tenants slow to move in uncertain downtown market - Boston Business Journal:
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Large companies are holding off on makinf real estate decisions or are carefully negotiating deals duriny anunsteady economy, insiders say. "Tenantsz are mulling moves," said William Barrack, a managingf director at JonesLang Lasalle. "Everybody's waiting becausr there's no pressure to make a decisiobn ... candidly there's not a lot of confidences out there." For example, accounting giant has been eyeinb TwoFinancial Center, a 210,000-square-foot tower under developmenrt in Boston's Leather District, but it has yet to strik e a deal. The firm has been in search of approximately 120,000 square feet for almost a year. KPMG'es current lease at 99 High St.
expires in two according to real estate Ronald Perry of ColliersMeredith & Grew said last week that KPMG had a leaswe agreement at Two Financial, but John senior vice president of , which is developin the 12-story building, said the lease has not been Perry did not return a call for comment. "We'rw working on it and we're making very good progress," said "We do not have a signecd lease." A spokesman at KPMG's New York officre did not return a callfor comment. Miller said the leasew is being negotiated andhe "hopes to make a but until the lease is finalizeds the building is available.
Miller has yet to sign up a tenanrt for the office tower that he expectds to be completed a yearfrom now. Office space at Two Financia is being offered for rent inthe mid-$60sx per square foot. Despite a lack of Miller said he believes landlords still have leverages overBoston tenants. "You still don't have a tremendous amount of supply ... you just don' have a huge supply line," said Miller.
At a Colliersz Meredith & Grew-sponsored breakfast event last Perry cited a number of large companies in the market foroffice including: LLC, which is seekinvg 250,000 square feet; Edwards Angell Palmer Dodge LLP, 250,000 square feet; , 225,000p square feet; Loomis, Sayles & Co., 200,009 square feet; and (150,000 square Tenants in search of 100,000 square feet or more of offic e space have nine options today compared to 10 a year ago, said Perryy during the breakfast.
Large companies are holding off on makinf real estate decisions or are carefully negotiating deals duriny anunsteady economy, insiders say. "Tenantsz are mulling moves," said William Barrack, a managingf director at JonesLang Lasalle. "Everybody's waiting becausr there's no pressure to make a decisiobn ... candidly there's not a lot of confidences out there." For example, accounting giant has been eyeinb TwoFinancial Center, a 210,000-square-foot tower under developmenrt in Boston's Leather District, but it has yet to strik e a deal. The firm has been in search of approximately 120,000 square feet for almost a year. KPMG'es current lease at 99 High St.
expires in two according to real estate Ronald Perry of ColliersMeredith & Grew said last week that KPMG had a leaswe agreement at Two Financial, but John senior vice president of , which is developin the 12-story building, said the lease has not been Perry did not return a call for comment. "We'rw working on it and we're making very good progress," said "We do not have a signecd lease." A spokesman at KPMG's New York officre did not return a callfor comment. Miller said the leasew is being negotiated andhe "hopes to make a but until the lease is finalizeds the building is available.
Miller has yet to sign up a tenanrt for the office tower that he expectds to be completed a yearfrom now. Office space at Two Financia is being offered for rent inthe mid-$60sx per square foot. Despite a lack of Miller said he believes landlords still have leverages overBoston tenants. "You still don't have a tremendous amount of supply ... you just don' have a huge supply line," said Miller.
At a Colliersz Meredith & Grew-sponsored breakfast event last Perry cited a number of large companies in the market foroffice including: LLC, which is seekinvg 250,000 square feet; Edwards Angell Palmer Dodge LLP, 250,000 square feet; , 225,000p square feet; Loomis, Sayles & Co., 200,009 square feet; and (150,000 square Tenants in search of 100,000 square feet or more of offic e space have nine options today compared to 10 a year ago, said Perryy during the breakfast.
Tuesday, June 26, 2012
GDP shrinks in early 2009, but less than in late 2008 - Denver Business Journal:
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percent in the first quarter of the U.S. said Friday, but the drop was less than the 6.3 percentg in the final quarterof 2008. The economy's 5.7 percenf Q1 shrinkage was also less severwe than theexpected 6.1 percent decline that the Commercr Department's Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) had forecast a montnh ago, based on partial data. "The decreass in real GDP in the first quarter primarily reflected negativ contributionsfrom exports, equipment and private inventory investment, nonresidential structures, and residential fixeds investment that were partly offset by a positive contribution from personal-consumption expenditures," BEA said in a statementf Friday.
"Imports, which are a subtraction in the calculationof GDP, decreased." Personal-consumption spendinv went up 1.5 percent in the quarter versuxs a 4.3 percent drop in the previous BEA cited that fact in explaining why the nation'd GDB declined less in Q1 than in the previous quarter. It also cited a larger decrease in The GDP decline in Q4 2008 wasthe nation'sa largest since the mid-1980s. GDP measurez total goods and services producexd inthe U.S. .
percent in the first quarter of the U.S. said Friday, but the drop was less than the 6.3 percentg in the final quarterof 2008. The economy's 5.7 percenf Q1 shrinkage was also less severwe than theexpected 6.1 percent decline that the Commercr Department's Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) had forecast a montnh ago, based on partial data. "The decreass in real GDP in the first quarter primarily reflected negativ contributionsfrom exports, equipment and private inventory investment, nonresidential structures, and residential fixeds investment that were partly offset by a positive contribution from personal-consumption expenditures," BEA said in a statementf Friday.
"Imports, which are a subtraction in the calculationof GDP, decreased." Personal-consumption spendinv went up 1.5 percent in the quarter versuxs a 4.3 percent drop in the previous BEA cited that fact in explaining why the nation'd GDB declined less in Q1 than in the previous quarter. It also cited a larger decrease in The GDP decline in Q4 2008 wasthe nation'sa largest since the mid-1980s. GDP measurez total goods and services producexd inthe U.S. .
Sunday, June 24, 2012
What was he thinking? Study turns to ape intellect - Fox News
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What was he thinking? Study turns to ape intellect Fox News The more we study animals, the less special we seem. |
Saturday, June 23, 2012
The Independent Investor - Manchester Journal
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The Independent Investor Manchester Journal Five of the six largest U.S. banks were downgraded on Thursday by credit agency Moody s Investors Service. In Europe, Spain said its banks will need another ... |
Friday, June 22, 2012
Mediware keeps deals flowing - San Francisco Business Times:
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Mediware CEO Kelly Mann said SciHealth’s Insighty software provides a one-two puncu for his company: It opensz new markets for the company and provides another productr Mediware can offer theroughly 1,400 facilities it servews with its medication- and blood-management systems. “It gave me two bangzs for the same buck,” Mann Mediware has been makiny a lot ofnoise lately. The SciHealth acquisition is Mediware’sx third since November 2007. The combined value of the deals isroughly $10.7 Mediware bought , which was based in Baltimorer and Jacksonville, Fla., for about $5.2 million to startg the streak.
IMS providedr software for blood and plasmaw donation centers in North Americaand Europe. Twelvs months later, Mediware spent $3.5 millio to buy , a pharmacy-management provider basedr in Santa Rosa, Calif. All the Mediware has maintained a cash balancew ofabout $20 million, which Mann attributed to good salee and customer relations coupled with cost controls. The compang reported roughly $39.4 millionm in revenue in fiscal 2008. With the addition of SciHealth, Mediwaree has about 210 employees. Mediware traces its rootxs to a New York business incorporated in 1980 as part of a partnershilpwith . The company moved to the Kansas City area soon aftefr its 1996 purchase of a divisionof .
Althouggh the SciHealth deal broadened Mediware’s product line, Mann said the IMS and Hann’s On transaction s deepened itscore business. The IMS deal, he “actually gives us a large enougyh footprint to establish ourselves as a playet in blood centers to a much greater degrew than we had inthe past.” In Hann’s On, Mann Mediware gained entry to the pharmacy business in mediuk and small hospitals and also to the home-infusiomn market, where treatments such as IVs that can be administered by medicakl professionals outside a hospital.
The strategyg of buying companies that provide additional products for existing clients is asolir one, especially because the total number of hospitald in the United States has remainer relatively unchanged for years, said Mike Crabtree, a formef Mediware executive who now is a health care informatiob technology consultant in Dallas. But it probably will take 18 to 24 monthzs to say whether the recentg acquisitions were good saidJonathan Braatz, a partner with , an institutiona sales and research firm. Braatz does not own stockm in the company, but he said his daughtet has 300 shares.
“They are certainly not makingg any acquisitions that woulx suggest they are betting the farm on he said. Mediware’s plans for long-term growthh impressed Dr. Jay medical director and CEO of the in Kansas when he attended a company presentationmlast year. And now, he Mediware is one of two vendorsd the Community Blood Center is considering to installk a replacementcomputer system.
Mediware CEO Kelly Mann said SciHealth’s Insighty software provides a one-two puncu for his company: It opensz new markets for the company and provides another productr Mediware can offer theroughly 1,400 facilities it servews with its medication- and blood-management systems. “It gave me two bangzs for the same buck,” Mann Mediware has been makiny a lot ofnoise lately. The SciHealth acquisition is Mediware’sx third since November 2007. The combined value of the deals isroughly $10.7 Mediware bought , which was based in Baltimorer and Jacksonville, Fla., for about $5.2 million to startg the streak.
IMS providedr software for blood and plasmaw donation centers in North Americaand Europe. Twelvs months later, Mediware spent $3.5 millio to buy , a pharmacy-management provider basedr in Santa Rosa, Calif. All the Mediware has maintained a cash balancew ofabout $20 million, which Mann attributed to good salee and customer relations coupled with cost controls. The compang reported roughly $39.4 millionm in revenue in fiscal 2008. With the addition of SciHealth, Mediwaree has about 210 employees. Mediware traces its rootxs to a New York business incorporated in 1980 as part of a partnershilpwith . The company moved to the Kansas City area soon aftefr its 1996 purchase of a divisionof .
Althouggh the SciHealth deal broadened Mediware’s product line, Mann said the IMS and Hann’s On transaction s deepened itscore business. The IMS deal, he “actually gives us a large enougyh footprint to establish ourselves as a playet in blood centers to a much greater degrew than we had inthe past.” In Hann’s On, Mann Mediware gained entry to the pharmacy business in mediuk and small hospitals and also to the home-infusiomn market, where treatments such as IVs that can be administered by medicakl professionals outside a hospital.
The strategyg of buying companies that provide additional products for existing clients is asolir one, especially because the total number of hospitald in the United States has remainer relatively unchanged for years, said Mike Crabtree, a formef Mediware executive who now is a health care informatiob technology consultant in Dallas. But it probably will take 18 to 24 monthzs to say whether the recentg acquisitions were good saidJonathan Braatz, a partner with , an institutiona sales and research firm. Braatz does not own stockm in the company, but he said his daughtet has 300 shares.
“They are certainly not makingg any acquisitions that woulx suggest they are betting the farm on he said. Mediware’s plans for long-term growthh impressed Dr. Jay medical director and CEO of the in Kansas when he attended a company presentationmlast year. And now, he Mediware is one of two vendorsd the Community Blood Center is considering to installk a replacementcomputer system.
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