Tuesday, January 18, 2011

University of Tennessee Health Science Center plans to build $50 million research center - Baltimore Business Journal:

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The building will be a mirrore image ofthe 100,000-square-foot Cancer Research which opened on Manassas in Septemberr 2007. That facility has 32 researchu laboratories, 33 offices and a 60-seayt auditorium. The new building, tentatively calle d the Translational ScienceResearch Building, will not includd an auditorium and therefore will have more room for labs and The TSRB will be joined with the Cancer Researcnh Building by an elevated walkway. The new structures will be built just south of the existing buildinbtoward Union.
Earlier this the state government gave UTHSC officials permission to seeka $49 millionb bond from the Tennessee State School Bond That bond has not yet been but UTHSC chancellor Hershel ‘Pat’ Wall says the projectt will get off the ground “as soon as we get the “This will be a critical buildiny for us,” Wall says. “It is the beginning of our new facilithconstruction plan.” The UT system is in the midst of a $1 billion capital campaign for infrastructure improvementws across all of its campuses. portion of that is $180 million, whichn will fund acquisitions, demolition, construction and renovation projects.
UTHS C will pay more than $4 million annuallgy to service the bond debt forthe TSRB. That debt will be Wall says, by moving heavily funded scientists into thenew space. A portionb of the funds researchers get, mainly from the Nationapl Institutesof Health, will go to the university for lab spacre and equipment. While Wall says it is not yet known what departmentzs or researchers would populate the new he hopes to move many from agingt spaceson campus, like the 80-year-olde Crowe Research Building. Wall predicts construction to begin on the project early next year and foreseesxa 2-2.5-year construction process.
president Stevre Bares says the city’s research efforts have been growinbg slower than predicted in the past few years he says, UTHSC just has not had enougy space. “Anything we can do to add (research) space will be a kick starr to the biomedical effort Bares says. “A strong UT is so importanf tothe well-being of those effortz and so good research space makes all the differencer in the world.” When the entire conjoined complex on Manassas will likel be called the Translational Science Research Complex. Buildingb I will continue to focus on cancer researchh from the collegesof medicine, pharmacgy and dentistry.
UTHSC officialsw are now applyingfor $10 million-$15 millionn in funds from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to complet the CRB’s fourth floor. The space would be converted from shell space to laboratories thatRusty Johnson, UTHSC’s vice chancellor for research, says coulr create 30 new jobs and retain 25 The yet-built Building II will focus on research relating to cardiovascular disease, diabetes and When the CRB opened in it was the first new building to be built on the UTHSCd campus in 17 years. The new College of Pharmac y building is now under construction at theBioworks campus. It is the firsyt mostly state-funded project to be builgt for UTHSC in20 years.

Saturday, January 15, 2011

Dustin Johnson says he's not dating Gulbis, Sony withdraw unrelated - The Canadian Press

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Dustin Johnson says he's not dating Gulbis, Sony withdraw unrelated

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HONOLULU, Hawaii â€" Dustin Johnson says he hasn't been dating anyone for two months, not even Natalie Gulbis. Johnson spoke out Saturday because he was ...



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Thursday, January 13, 2011

Wendell Potter Coming to Brainerd - Chattarati

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Monday, January 10, 2011

Fluoride a danger to infants? - StandardNet

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Saturday, January 8, 2011

Boehner: Spending cuts must accompany debt limit - The Associated Press

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Boehner: Spending cuts must accompany debt limit

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WASHINGTON (AP) â€" House Speaker John Boehner says any increase in the nation's debt limit must include steps to cut federal spending. ...


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Wednesday, January 5, 2011

Lavonia getting new hospital - Atlanta Business Chronicle:

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The 56-bed hospital is a partnership betweenand . The hospitao -- named Ty Cobb Regional MedicaklCenter -- will replace two hospitals operates by Ty Cobb Healthcare, Cobb Memorial Hospital in Roystonb and Hart County Hospitalo in Hartwell. The hospital, expected to open in will be builton 40-acres of undeveloped land on Cleaf Creek Road near Interstate 85. “We’ve got a combined population of [about] 45,000 trying to support two hospitals, and not surprisingl y they’re both facing economic challenges,” said Chuck Adams, CEO at Ty Cobb “By putting together this partnershi p withleading cardiologists, orthopedic surgeons, neurologists, gastroenterologists and we’ve created a critical mass that will greatlyu enhance both the quality of healty care and the economic vitality of the communities we The hospital will be managed and operated by Ty Cobb Healthcare System’s new operating company, Ty Cobb Regional Medicalp Center LLC.

Monday, January 3, 2011

SBA offering car dealers help - The Business Journal of the Greater Triad Area:

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The government-guaranteed loans will be available to dealers to finance theifr eligible auto andother inventory, otherwiss known as a floor plan. Through SBA lenders, the Dealer Floot Plan financing will provider lines of credit througits 7(a) program for titled inventory includingt cars, RVs, manufactured homes, boats and Dealers can borrow between $500,000 and $2 million agains their inventory and repay the debt as they sell The loans have a maximum repaymen t term of five years, and will have 75 percent governmenty guarantee. As part of the America’s Recovert and Reinvestment Act, fees also are being eliminatedd temporarilyon 7(a) loans.
Countless small including dealerships, across the countrt are facing significant challenges as a resuly of the uncertainty in the auto said SBA AdministratorKaren Mills, in a statement. “Floof plan financing can offer some dealerships the opportunith to get through these tough economic times by allowing them to keep theirr inventory and cashflow intact, as well as save the jobs theser small businesses provide.” Amid the economivc turmoil and low auto sales, car dealers throughouy the U.S. in the last severao months have run into problems keepinbg their floor plans through banks and auto Most need them in order to be able to finance andstock inventory.
The program will run unti l September 2010, when the SBA will decide whether it willextenc it.