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Route 64 Dental in St. Charles has joined DecisionOne Dental Partners' network of 21 practices in the Chicagoland area.
"We are excited to welcome Dr. Remus and Dr. Micka to the DecisionOne Dental family because they are committed to our patient first philosophy," said Dr. AJ Acierno, CEO of Schaumburg-based DecisionOne Dental. "They value the personal doctor-patient relationship and high quality of patient care above all else."
Dr. Remus received his Bachelor of Science degree from Yale University and received his doctor of dental surgery degree from Loyola University. He has been practicing for 40 years. He worked as a consultant for the Cook County Medical Examiner and was a member of the team of odontologists who worked to identify victims...
Dr. Micka received his Doctor of Dental Surgery degree from Loyola University. He has been practicing for 51 years and enjoys building relationships with his patients. He is a member of the Fox Valley Dental Association. Dr. Mica served in the Army during the Vietnam War.
Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the topical discussion from in Chertsey. The panellists are Vince Cable MP, Lord Andrew Adonis, Polly Toynbee and Kelvin MacKenzie.
Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the topical discussion from Sir Williams Perkins's School in Chertsey with questions from the audience for the panel including: Secretary of State for Business, Innovation & Skills Vince Cable; Shadow Secretary of State for Transport Lord Andrew Adonis; columnist and writer Polly Toynbee and wr...
rose to as high as C$1.0458 to the U.S. dollar, or 95.62 U.S.
strengthened on the back of it."
finish at C$1.0547 to the U.S. dollar, or 94.81 U.S. cents.
position for this sort of event ahead of it," he said.
The store's deal with Dollar Tree is a boon to executives, but it will probably hurt employees.
The French economist Thomas Piketty could not have dreamed up a better illustration of the problematic and growing income inequality in the US than the Family Dollar-Dollar Tree combination.
Let’s start with the backdrop: Essentially, the lower-income Americans that are the target customers of dollar stores have gotten too poor to buy anything other than food (a vivid illustration of Piketty’s point about income inequality). That has depressed margins and profits at these discount retailers.
The fact that these poor Americans—and the retailers that serve them—are doing so badly attracted the attention of some of the richest and best-connected investors in the world. Funds associated with the activist investors Nelson Peltz and Carl Icahn have snapped up significant chunks of Family Dollar in recent months—...
Other people that stand to earn a tidy sum on the merger? Well, Family Dollar’s CEO Howard Levine owns roughly eight percent of the shares outstanding, so the deal price would land him with paper gains of about $130 million.
But it'd be a stretch to say Levine deserves it. The entire reason the company was pushed to sell by the activist investors was because its numbers under Levine haven’t been great. The fact that a CEO at the helm of a struggling company is able to harvest such a rich payout is quite in keeping with Piketty’s contention...
It's not even clear that the merger will lead to a healthier retailer in the long run. It's being financed by roughly $9.5 billion in borrowings. The debt used to finance the deal could result in a credit rating cut for Family Dollar, which is already flirting with junk status, Bloomberg notes. In other words, Family D...
So what’s next for the company? A wave of cost-cutting, aimed at helping the combined dollar-store giant take advantage of the significant synergies and efficiencies that the deal creates. While the companies have said they don’t plan on closing stores, cost-cutting waves usually aren’t great for employees.
In short, this deal—prompted by the hardship of low-income customers—leaves a few well-connected investors, executives, and the bankers who arranged the deal much better off, as the finances of the business, its customers, and, perhaps, its employees languish.
Matt Phillips is a reporter at Quartz, where he writes about finance, markets, and economics.
A poster to pro-Democratic Facebook pages such as that of Rachel Maddow says his posts are being flagged as spam by political opponents, earning him a Facebook suspension. He says he's not alone.
Jon Kopp. Used with permission.
Why must political seasons always be as fragrant as a raccoon's breath?
Agreeing to disagree seems to have all the popularity of dancing in a graveyard. Who, then, can but offer a snort of resignation that some underhanded nastiness has allegedly wafted over to Facebook?
Allegations are surfacing from the political swamp that supporters of one party are getting those of their rival party suspended from commenting on fan pages.
What Kopp believes has happened is that Republican operatives -- not official operatives, you understand, but mere enthusiasts -- have discovered that you merely need to "like" a Facebook business page in order to be able to comment on it.
So these wily weasels allegedly claim they "like," say, Rachel Maddow and then mark certain Democratic-leaning postings as spam.
In due course, Facebook suspends these allegedly decent and lawful posters with a message that reads "This Feature is Blocked For You," as if Facebook is doing you a service by blocking you from posting. The suspensions can last 15 days or more and accuse posters of "making spammy and irrelevant posts on Facebook Pages...
Kopp told me: "Since I have been accused of spamming, it effects me on all pages that are not my personal pages. I am blocked on all, just not my personal page, because I am in control of that."
Naturally, my first instinct was to contact Facebook and see if the company knew of this alleged naughtiness. A Facebook spokesman told me: "While we are not aware nor have validated the existence of this particular attack, our automated and manual review systems are trained with controversial content in mind."
So what Kopp alleges might be occurring?
The spokesman added: "We weigh both positive and negative signals in our machine learning systems. Our systems have built in manual and automated redundancies to make sure content and users are not affected by controversial content, that abides by our terms."
Ah, so it could have happened? I asked Facebook if they might look into Kopp's case. The company has promised to do so. Facebook believes in its systems and often the people who attempt this sort of spamming scam use fake accounts.
However, it is perfectly possible to post only positive things on certain pages and still get banned, simply for posting in an excessive manner.
Kopp told me he has heard of many people who have been given Facebook bans for what they suspect are the same nefarious reasons.
He believes that Facebook should have more controls in place to prevent such behavior. He insisted: "If Facebook wants to rule the world in social networking, they need to fix this flaw immediately. The business owner of that page should be in charge so that the hijacking does not occur anymore."
He says that when he tried to contact Facebook, the customer service was less than he had expected. Indeed, he says that it was less than nothing.
"I called Facebook ... and the message says if you want customer service support press 1. I press 1 and a new message says 'We do not offer customer support'," he said.
I am sure that if fans of one party are being accused of such behavior, there will be sufficient cheerleaders of their rival who have themselves worked out this vehicle of pleasure and visited it upon their opponents.
This all might seem childish, unseemly, pathetic, annoying, and despicable. These adjectives would cheerily describe contemporary politics.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison says he has an open mind about the possibility of a royal commission into the energy sector, an idea floated by Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton during his abortive push for the Liberal leadership.
Mr Morrison said he did not want a royal commission "at this point" but would consider it because he agreed with the argument that power companies were as bad as the banks.
The banking royal commission, long opposed by Mr Morrison as treasurer in the Turnbull government before it was established in a major policy u-turn, has exposed shocking misconduct in the sector and damaged the reputations of some of Australia's biggest companies.
Asked whether he agreed with Mr Dutton's idea of an energy royal commission, Mr Morrison told radio station 3AW on Monday morning: "No, not at this point. I'm open to it, though, and I'll look at it."
He linked it to regrets about opposing the banking inquiry, saying he had failed to understand it had value even while the government was legislating to fix problems in the scandal-plagued sector.
"Where I failed was to properly understand the real pain people had been feeling about being treated so badly," the Prime Minister said.
Amid high energy prices and a shift to renewable energy, the government has been vocal in its criticisms of energy companies and state governments, which they accuse of driving up costs.
Mr Morrison has also threatened to deregister the CFMMEU, saying the government was looking at options to eliminate the "out of control" union.
His comments came after CFMMEU Victorian state secretary John Setka posted a photo to Twitter of his children with a message targeting the government's Australian Building and Construction Commission. The children held a sign saying "Go get f---ed".
"This is the straw that breaks the camel's back. These guys are already demonstrating their lawlessness and their thuggery, their brutality, their threats," Mr Morrison said, challenging Opposition Leader Bill Shorten to cut ties with the union.
"The process is through the legislation and the powers that might need to be created under legislation or regulatory powers that we can look at."
Mr Setka has since issued a mea culpa and deleted the photo, saying it was an "emotional Father's Day after a tough year on family".
In a separate interview on Monday, Mr Morrison insisted that staying in the Paris climate agreement would not have any impact on power prices and was a "completely separate" issue to the government's efforts to reduce Australians' cost of living.
Under its commitment to historic global accord, the government is committed to reducing greenhouse gas emissions by at least 26 per cent by 2030 but currently has no policy to achieve the cuts.
Mr Morrison told radio station 2GB he was focused on getting electricity prices down and questioned if a "bit of paper sitting somewhere else on the other side of the world" would have an impact.
"I'm not convinced changing it makes any difference one way or the other ... That's the bottom line. We met the first round of targets in a canter and this next one is out to 2030. Now, that discussion isn't going to change anybody's electricity prices. And that's what I'm focused on. I'm not a climate warrior," he sai...
"They're two separate issues. They're completely separate issues. You've got climate policies which have been running now for some time and that's why we've met all of those targets in a canter. What I'm doing is separating those issues out."
If you haven't been keeping track of all the drama happening between legendary game developer Hideo Kojima and software publisher Konami, it's a long and winding story filled with lots of anguish and hurt, sorrow and cancelled games. Well, EA's COO, Peter Moore believes that Konami and Kojima should just “kiss and make...
From my experience, and I've spent a lot of time working in Japan, I think that Konami and Kojima will figure it out. Those kinds of business relationships [in Japan] are typically for life, and Kojima is such an important part in what has gone on there.
After an exposè was done on Konami's behind-the-scenes business relationships with some of their employees, revealing how they demoted some of their developers and designers down to janitors or publicly humiliated those who didn't clock in and clock out quickly enough during lunch breaks, it became apparent that Kojima...
Some have argued that Konami's harsh treatment of their employees is par the course in Japan, and it isn't unlike what Capcom producer Yoshinori Ono once told gaming press a few years back after he had some heart conditions and Capcom was only concerned with him getting back to work.
In the case of Konami and Kojima, it's been rumored that the reason the company is so surly with Kojima at the moment is because he went over budget with Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain and delayed the game's release by quite an extent, costing the company $80 million in operating costs.
Moore believes that there needs to be a grounded understanding between developer and publisher when it comes to budgets and release dates. However, I'll always come back to Miyamoto's quote about only getting one chance to make a good first impression with a game, and how delaying the game will always result in a bette...
Clearly, Kojima and Konami are at a rocky stage in their marriage, […] but you could take what is said about [Kojima Productions], about a game not adhering to budgets, about a game not being ready, and you could apply that to a lot of people.
Based on the bad blood between the two and how Konami has been trying to efface Kojima from the legacy he helped build at Konami, I wouldn't be surprised if Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain really is Kojima's swan song from the company. The big question isn't what Kojima could do next, but what Konami will do witho...
SAN FRANCISCO (CN) – A two-year legal battle over the supposed “lost negatives” of Ansel Adams came to end with the 9th Circuit dismissing counterclaims against the University of Arizona.
Norsigian claims to have found the negatives 10 years earlier at a garage sale and pronounced as the work of Ansel Adams, but the Ansel Adams Publishing Rights Trust insists that they are the work of talented amateur Earl Brooks.
After the trust sued Norsigian and PRS Media Partners, Norsigian asserted a counterclaim against the University of Arizona.
He said that the school had an obligation to remain neutral but had nevertheless announced on its website that Norsigian’s prints were not the work of Adams.
In 2011 Chief U.S. District Judge James Ware concluded that the university has sovereign immunity under the 11th Amendment, pursuant to the 1981 decision Rutledge v. Arizona Board of Regents.
A three-judge panel of the 9th Circuit affirmed Friday in an unpublished decision.
PRS Media also cannot look into the university’s relationship with the Center for Creative Photography, which Adams helped to establish in 1975, according to the ruling.
Members of Adarsh Youth Club, Kandwal gram panchayat in Nurpur, have pledged to end the menace of drug trafficking in their area, bordering Punjab.
Led by club president Ashwani Sapiya, these youngsters have become a role model for others, as they have virtually taken the responsibility of making their area free from drugs. They have teamed up with the police to eradicate the menace of drugs from the panchayat.
This club in not only keeping a track on peddlers in the area, but is also catching them red-handed and handing them over to the police. This public-police participation has become successful and is also aiding cops in its anti-drug campaign. Intriguingly, the police registered 119 cases under the NDPS Act in 2018 (Jan...
The club members recently caught three peddlers indentified as Deepak and Shamsher of Kandwal and Gurpreet Singh of Gurdaspur in a suspicious condition and handed them over to the police. The police recovered 28-gram heroin (chitta) from them. Before this, the club members forced the two drug addicts to give up drugs i...
Similarly, the vigilant members assisted the police in nabbing a woman drug peddler active in Bhadroya village. She allegedly had been selling chitta (heroin) to youngsters in Kandwal gram panchayat and was absconding since January 25. The club, with a mission to make Kandwal drug-free, is active for the last one month...
Coca-Cola Enterprises' commitment to energy efficiency and other environmental measures has allowed the company to reduce its carbon footprint by 11.5%.
June 30, 2010, 1:13 p.m.
Coca-Cola Enterprises (CCE) has released its fifth company-wide Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability (CRS) report. The new report revealss that CCE is well on its way to meeting its Commitment 2020 goals. The 2009 CCE CRS report shows that the company has reduced its carbon footprint by 11.5 percent when compare...
The majority of CCE’s carbon footprint falls under Scope 3 categories with 68.5 percent, or 3.7 million metric tons of CO2 emissions, coming directly from sales and marketing equipment in use at customer sites. Third-party distribution accounts for 3.9 percent of the company’s overall carbon footprint and business trav...
Scope 1 items that were measured including CCE’s mobile fleet (10.5 percent of the overall footprint), stationary facilities (4.1 percent), and other emissions (3.2 percent). The company’s use of purchased electricity makes up 9.6 percent of CCE’s overall carbon footprint, representing 517,513 metric tons of CO2 emissi...
Several steps were taken to achieve this 11.5 percent reduction in carbon footprint including the opening of its first LEED certified distribution center. The LEED Gold certified Coachella, California CCE facility is a 60,000 square foot building that uses solar panels to generate onsite renewable energy, utilizes nati...
CCE has also expanded its hybrid vehicle fleet by adding 194 new hybrid trucks to its North American market and completing a hybrid pilot at its European locations. Six CCE facilities in Europe are also using a new energy monitoring and targeting system to help reduce energy use at these locations.
Besides Energy Conservation and Climate Change, CCE’s CRS report focused on four other key areas including Water Stewardship, Sustainable Packaging/Recycling, Product Portfolio/Balanced and Active Lifestyle, and Diverse and Inclusive Culture.
In addition to reducing its carbon footprint by 700,000 metric tons over the 2007 measurement, CCE has reduced its water use from 1.73 liters of water used per liter of product made to 1.67 liters. This is the company-wide average and some locations are even closer to achieving a 1:1 ratio. CCE’s global recycling rate ...
CCE’s growth in the Product Portfolio/Balanced and Active Lifestyle area including supporting First Lady Michelle Obama’s “Let’s Move!” campaign, leading the Clear on Calories labeling initiative, reducing beverage calorie consumption in U.S. schools by 88 percent since 2006, and appointing the first Chief Medical Offi...
CCE’s commitment to its employees extends beyond the appointment of a Chief Medical Officer; the company also introduced a global teleworking policy in 2009. The new teleworking policy will not only help meet the varying needs of its employees but will also help the company further reduce its carbon footprint.
Overall, Coca-Cole Enterprises’ 2009 CRS report shows that company is well on its way to meeting its Commitment 2020 goals. For more information, you can download the report in its entirety: CCE 2009 Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability Report (PDF).
Easily irritated and on edge the last few days?
Do you just feel “off” lately?
Blame it on the time change.
Sleep experts say losing even one hour of rest, as we all did when clocks sprang forward an hour on Sunday, can dramatically affect the body.
“People get quite mumfy about this sort of thing,” said Stan Coren, using the slang word for feeling unmotivated and out of sorts.
Coren, author of Sleep Thieves and a psychology professor emeritus at the University of British Columbia, said the switch to daylight time exacerbates the fact our society is already chronically tired.
“If we weren’t sleep-deprived to start with, it wouldn’t (make a difference),” he said.
“By setting our clocks ahead, we are asking our body clock to advance by an hour to align itself. This takes a few days, and different rhythms adjust at different rates,” said Judith Davidson, a sleep researcher and clinical psychologist at Queen’s University, adding the time change is similar to the effects of jet lag...
According to Davidson, the change throws off our normal sleep routine, which means few of us slept well this week. “Having poor sleep does make us more irritable, and the desynchronization of our rhythms can contribute to feeling off,” she said.
This is why many of us were feeling particularly emotional and unmotivated this week, Coren said.
Coren was involved in one study showing traffic accidents increase in the week after the time shift, and he cited other studies — one that found stockbrokers are more likely to make silly decisions in the days immediately following the start of daylight time.

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