Global Banking News-August 31, 2017--National Bank of Canada announces financial results (C)2017 ENPublishing - httpwww.enpublishing.co.uk Global Banking News - 31 August 2017 National Bank of Canada (TSX: NA), based in Montreal, has reported net income of CAD518m for the third quarter of 2017, an ... (Publication: Global Banking News (GBN))
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National Bank of Canada Announces Financial Results
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VersaBank Declares Preferred Stock Dividends
Global Banking News-August 31, 2017--VersaBank declares preferred stock dividends (C)2017 ENPublishing - httpwww.enpublishing.co.uk Global Banking News - 31 August 2017 VersaBank (TSX: VB) has said that its board of directors has declared quarterly cash dividend of CAD0.175 per share on its 7.0 ... (Publication: Global Banking News (GBN))
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PumpMan Holdings Completes Acquisition of Bartley Pump
International Resource News-August 31, 2017--PumpMan Holdings completes acquisition of Bartley Pump (C)1994-2017 ENPublishing - httpwww.enpublishing.co.uk International Resource News - 31 August 2017 PumpMan Holdings LLC, a Soundcore Capital Partners LLC portfolio company, has completed the ... (Publication: International Resource News (IRN))
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Agrobank CEO to Leave
Global Banking News-August 31, 2017--Agrobank CEO to leave (C)2017 ENPublishing - httpwww.enpublishing.co.uk Global Banking News - 31 August 2017 Wan Mohd Fadzmi, president and CEO of Malaysia-based Agrobank, is to leave the firm. Fadzmi had been in office for the past six years. Chief finance ... (Publication: Global Banking News (GBN))
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Electric Vehicles
Tampa Electric Co. (TECO) has joined with the Hillsborough Area Regional Transit (HART) Authority to help fund a first/last mile transportation service near the University of South Florida in Tampa. HART's HyperLINK service is using four Tesla Model X electric vehicles to take riders to their final ... (Publication: Florida Trend)
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Sober Homes
Thank you for your cover story, "Greed and Corruption in Florida's Drug Rehab Industry" [May, FloridaTrend.com]. For years, the Florida League of Cities and the Florida League of Mayors have been trying to pass legislation at the state level to allow our cities more authority in preventing the ... (Publication: Florida Trend)
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Award-Winning, Results-Based Executive Development Programs Meet Your Needs
Grounded in the latest research and with a unique, participant-focused approach, the FIU Center for Leadership's programs have a track record of developing executives to become better leaders for their organizations and in their communities. Award-winning programs include: * The High-Impact ... (Publication: Florida Trend)
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National Institutes of Health
* The NIH, part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, is the largest biomedical research agency in the world. It funds a range of medical research at both public and private institutions. * 39--Number of institutions in Florida receiving NIH grants in 2017 * $338.75 million--Total ... (Publication: Florida Trend)
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Paddy Stakes: Rice Farming Surges
The Everglades farming area, long synonymous with sugar cane and winter vegetables, has seen a rise in planting in the Everglades. in an obscure niche: Rice. Paddies in the Everglades Agricultural Area this year produced a record crop of 120 million pounds, a 33% increase from 2016. West Palm ... (Publication: Florida Trend)
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Rural Florida: Almost Half of All Florida Counties Are Classified as Economically Distressed
Of 33 counties in Florida with fewer than 110,000 residents, the only one that isn't economically troubled is Monroe County (Key West). The other 32 counties meet state standards that qualify them as "economically distressedmeaning they suffer from conditions that depress their fiscal and economic ... (Publication: Florida Trend)
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Building a Smarter Energy Future: Wireless Sensing Devices and Other Smart Grid Technologies Are Modernizing Duke Energy's Delivery System
Since 2004, Duke Energy has spent more than $2.4 billion maintaining and strengthening its Florida power delivery system. The company is working hard to strengthen the grid and build a smarter energy future. Together, these improvements are reducing outages, increasing storm resiliency and ... (Publication: Florida Trend)
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Looney Tunes
One of my favorite cartoons when I was growing up was a Warner Bros, series involving Sam, a bumbling sheepdog, and Ralph, a dimwitted wolf. As with the Road Runner cartoons, the plots of each episode were basically the same. Ralph would devise a stratagem for stealing one of the sheep that the ... (Publication: Florida Trend)
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How Health Informatics Is Revolutionizing Medicine: The Latest Evolution of Medicine Started with an Effort to Move from Paper to Digital
Mohamed Rehman, M.D., was an early adopter about 20 years ago of electronic medical records. He set up a system to organize the information, eliminate the paper and make it more efficient. Before long, he realized he wasn't just getting rid of paper. He was compiling a wealth of data that could be ... (Publication: Florida Trend)
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Finely Focused: Max Planck Florida Institute
A Nobel Prize-winning German physicist brings his work--and the microscope he invented --to Florida. It's the only such microscope in the U.S. In 1873, German physicist and optical pioneer Ernst Abbe discovered the limits of "microscope resolutionhow precisely an optical instrument can focus light, ... (Publication: Florida Trend)
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Rail Service
Your Editor's Page in the June issue ignores some valid reasons for supporting Amtrak and even subsidizing its operation. Transportation networks in America are all money pits --whether airline, automobile, trucking, passenger rail or mass transit. They all require some form of financial subsidies ... (Publication: Florida Trend)
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Better Storage: A Startup Company in Volusia County Is Trying to Develop a Lightweight, Environmentally Friendly Battery
In the wake of the 2011 meltdown of the Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan, Sigrid Cottrell, a real estate broker and entrepreneur, began talking with a longtime friend, Andrew Heath, who had studied electrical engineering and industrial marketing at Clarkson University in New York, about how to ... (Publication: Florida Trend)
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Unprofitable Cases: Non-Profit Florida Rural Legal Services Handles Cases 'Nobody Would Take.'
Two years ago, Florida Rural Legal Services, a non-profit law firm that provides civil legal aid to migrant workers statewide, filed a federal lawsuit in Tampa on behalf of 56 Hondurans. The case stemmed from 2013, when Fancy Farms, a family-owned farm in Plant City, hired a recruiter to find ... (Publication: Florida Trend)
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Literacy after the School Bell
More than 10 million children nationwide--including over 600,000 in Florida alone--attend after-school programs to bridge the gap between the final school bell and the end of their parents' workday. Children spend more than seven hours a week in these programs, which commonly offer opportunities ... (Publication: Florida Trend)
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FIU Center for Leadership Delivers Decade of 21st Century Training: High-Energy, Interactive and Relevant Leadership Development Programs Take Good Leaders and Make Them Even Better
High-performing organizations have adaptive and skilled leaders. The award-winning Center for Leadership at Florida International University delivers concrete toolkit growth and remarkable results for organizational leaders from across all industries--health care, banking and finance, technology, ... (Publication: Florida Trend)
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Tooting Their Own Horns
Thomas Moore, physics professor at Rollins College, received a $371,645 National Science Foundation grant to involve undergrads in original scientific research to settle a topic debated in scientific literature for more than a century: Whether the vibrations of the metal of brass musical ... (Publication: Florida Trend)
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