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Verizon Business Sparks Improved Security Posture for Electric ... - Yahoo Finance
Wesco Financial Corporation - Financial Analysis Review---Aarkstore ... - TMCnet
Rags to Riches CEOs: Ursula Burns - Minyanville
Siegel+Gale Chairman and CEO Alan Siegel Joins John Jay College ... - MSN Money
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Verizon Business Sparks Improved Security Posture for Electric ... - Yahoo Finance

Posted: 18 Nov 2009 07:08 AM PST

BASKING RIDGE, N.J., Nov. 18 /PRNewswire/ -- The utility industry's ongoing adoption of smart grid digital technology is bringing many conservation and cost-saving benefits, and with them some unprecedented cyber security threats. To help electric utilities meet these evolving challenges and opportunities, Verizon Business unveiled on Wednesday (Nov. 18) a new suite of professional consulting services.

The North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) has established critical infrastructure protection (CIP) standards for the nation's bulk energy system. Verizon is offering compliance and readiness assessments to help utilities meet the 2010 NERC CIP requirement to be Auditably Compliant (AC) - the highest level of compliance - subject to spot checks and audits.

"Smart grids require savvy professionals to protect these digital networks from cyber threats," said Rilck Noel, vice president and managing director for Verizon Business' global energy and utility practice. "As the power industry employs more Internet protocol (IP)-based controls and machine-to-machine communications to monitor and control power generation, transmission and distribution, we can apply our security, IT and IP communications expertise to help accelerate the adoption of smart grids."

(NOTE: To listen to a podcast about Verizon Business' role serving the utility industry, visit: www.verizonbusiness.com/resources/media/index.xml?urlid=130469. To view a video, visit http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZ41KLjYnsI.)

The new consulting services join Verizon Business' existing portfolio of managed security services and professional security services that help utilities identify and mitigate risks to critical cyber assets, including data, applications, IT systems and networks. Under Verizon's security management program (SMP), experts assess and analyze an organization's security practices and procedures.

Verizon Business takes a 360-degree approach to security. This covers the Verizon network, or cloud; across the edges of the network, where applications are handed off to a customer's premises; as well as the devices connected to a customer's network. Using ISO 27002 controls, SMP can assess security at key layers of an extended utility enterprise including employees, customers, partners and suppliers.

Stimulating Smart Grid Adoption

Verizon provides the essential wireline and wireless technology that will underlie the secure, efficient and effective delivery of energy via smart grid and smart meter initiatives. Through a dedicated team of sales, service and technical experts, Verizon Business can aid electric utilities' secure transformation to a network-based, data-centric power industry. For more information, visit http://www.verizonbusiness.com/us/solutions/utility/.

About Verizon Business

Verizon Business, a unit of Verizon Communications (NYSE: VZ - News), is a global leader in communications and IT solutions. We combine professional expertise with one of the world's most connected IP networks to deliver award-winning communications, IT, information security and network solutions. We securely connect today's extended enterprises of widespread and mobile customers, partners, suppliers and employees - enabling them to increase productivity and efficiency and help preserve the environment. Many of the world's largest businesses and governments - including 96 percent of the Fortune 1000 and thousands of government agencies and educational institutions - rely on our professional and managed services and network technologies to accelerate their business. Find out more at www.verizonbusiness.com.

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Wesco Financial Corporation - Financial Analysis Review---Aarkstore ... - TMCnet

Posted: 18 Nov 2009 02:22 AM PST

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Summary Wesco Financial Corporation (Wesco) is one of the US based financial service provider. The company is principally engaged in three business, namely, insurance business, the furniture rental business, and steel service center business. The company carries out all its functionalities through its number of subsidiaries. The company offers Insurance, Reinsurance, Furniture Rental services, Industrial services.

Wesco Financial Corporation - Financial Analysis Review is an in-depth business, financial analysis of Wesco Financial Corporation. The report provides a comprehensive insight into the company, including business structure and operations, executive biographies and key competitors. The hallmark of the report is the detailed financial ratios of the company Scope - Provides key company information for business intelligence needs The report contains critical company information � business structure and operations, the company history, major products and services, key competitors, key employees and executive biographies, different locations and important subsidiaries.

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Rags to Riches CEOs: Ursula Burns - Minyanville

Posted: 18 Nov 2009 05:21 AM PST

Ursula M. Burns graduated from college nearly 30 years ago, when "women CEOs were non-existent" and "black women CEOs were unimaginable," as she told this spring's graduating class at Rochester Institute of Technology.

"I can assure you that at my commencement, no one was pointing at me and predicting that I would become CEO of anything,"

she said.

The audience had to laugh. Just a day before, Burns had been named CEO of not just any company, but Xerox (XRX), a $17 billion industry leader. She moved into the top spot in July, taking over from Anne Mulcahy, who had led the firm for eight years. With the change, Burns became the first black woman to be named CEO of a Fortune 500 company. The transition also marked the first time a woman CEO had stepped aside and named another woman as her successor.

But the distinguishing traits of Burns's corporate rise didn't end there. As the press prepared biographies of the new leader, they uncovered a success story remarkably different from that of her predecessor: Where Malachy, the daughter of a New York publishing house editor, had grown up in a middle-class Long Island, New York, home, Burns had spent her early years on the Lower East Side of Manhattan in a low-income housing project called The Baruch Houses.

Raised by a single mother, she was one of three children who shared two absentee fathers. To pay the bills and send her children to Catholic school, Burns's mother, Olga, ran an at-home daycare center and took in ironing.

Surprisingly, Burns has been known to talk about her early life in the projects with some fondness. In those days, the idea of high-density subsidized housing was still new, and the experiment held some promise. Still, as writer Michael Wilson pointed out in a New York Times story last spring, "It was not all hopscotch-and-shaved-ice idylls." The Baruch Houses, he wrote, opened in 1953 "amid dirty alleys and half-demolished buildings. Born in 1958, Ursula M. Burns, was not yet 3 when a group of five teenagers shot and killed a 76-year-old man in the project for $2.60."

Burns has also acknowledged that in her neighborhood, "the common denominator and great equalizer was poverty," but if she grew up at a disadvantage to other kids in her school, she was hardly aware of it.

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Siegel+Gale Chairman and CEO Alan Siegel Joins John Jay College ... - MSN Money

Posted: 18 Nov 2009 06:54 AM PST

NEW YORK, Nov. 18 /PRNewswire/ -- John Jay College of Criminal Justice today announced the appointment of Alan Siegel to the John Jay College Foundation Board. Mr. Siegel is Founder and CEO of Siegel+Gale, one of the world's premier strategic branding companies.

"Over its 40-year history, Siegel+Gale, led by Alan Siegel, has demonstrated that successful brands live or die through the customer experience they deliver, and that this extends far beyond advertising or communications," says Jeremy Travis, President of John Jay College. "Alan's genius is his ability to distill the essence of an organization into its own distinctive 'voice' that then translates into every medium - powerfully, clearly, and simply. This skill has never been more needed than it is today. His wealth of knowledge and expertise will be invaluable as we develop our strategic plan for the future growth of John Jay."

Alan Siegel is a founder of the Plain Language movement. Siegel+Gale's "Simple is Smart" philosophy has applied the art and science of simplicity to create branding programs that have helped many of the world's best-known organizations excel.

"John Jay is an impressive institution that has enormous appeal to young people who want to build careers as public servants in Justice and Social Services. Jeremy Travis has grown the college to an impressive stature, and there is no stopping him. I very much look forward to supporting and helping to accelerate the College's upward trajectory," says Mr. Siegel.

As consultant, teacher, and commentator, Mr. Siegel's influence extends to creating strategic branding programs for organizations such as 3M, American Express, AARP, the National Basketball Association, Caterpillar, The Girl Scouts, Xerox, CBS, Phoenix House, and The Legal Aid Society. He also serves on the boards of numerous business and cultural organizations, including the Museum of Arts and Design, the Authors Guild Foundation, Hamptons International Film Festival, Turnaround for Children, Business for Diplomatic Action, Lapham's Quarterly, and the American Theater Wing, where he is a TONY Awards voter.

He is the author of an extensive series of personal guides for TheWall Street Journal, including the bestseller, The Wall Street Journal Guide to Understanding Money and Markets (Lightbulb Press), as well as Writing Contracts in Plain English (West Publishing) and Simplified Consumer Credit Forms (Warren Gorham & Lamont). One of the world's foremost collectors of fine photographs, he is also the author of One Man's Eye: Photographs from the Alan Siegel Collection, which was published by Harry N. Abrams in October 2000, and Step Right This Way: The Photographs of Edward J. Kelty, published by Barnes & Noble in October 2002.

In December 2006, Jorge Pinto Books published Alan Siegel on Branding and Clear Communications by Louis J. Slovinsky as part of its Working Biographies series.

A graduate of Cornell University's School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Mr. Siegel also attended New York University Law School, the School of Visual Arts, and Alexei Brodovich's Design Laboratory.

If you would like to speak with Alan Siegel, or for more information about Siegel+Gale, please contact Davia Temin, Susan Ollinick, or Christine Summerson of Temin and Company at 212-588-8788 or news@teminandco.com.

About Siegel+Gale

Siegel+Gale (www.siegelgale.com) is one of the world's premier strategic branding companies and a pioneer in simplifying complex customer communications. Since it was founded by Alan Siegel in 1969, Siegel+Gale has led the way in bringing innovation to the corporate branding field, including transforming complex, incomprehensible customer communications into plain English; helping clients create distinctive brand voices across all their communications; transporting brands onto the Internet; and aligning the brand experience with the brand promise.

Siegel+Gale is part of the Omnicom Group Inc. (www.omnicomgroup.com), a leading global marketing and corporate communications company. Omnicom's branded networks and numerous specialty firms serve over 5,000 clients in more than 100 countries.

About John Jay College of Criminal Justice

An international leader in educating for justice, John Jay College of Criminal Justice of The City University of New York offers a rich liberal arts and professional studies curriculum to upwards of 15,000 undergraduate and graduate students from more than 135 nations. In teaching, scholarship and research, the College approaches justice as an applied art and science in service to society and as an ongoing conversation about fundamental human desires for fairness, equality and the rule of law. For more information, visit www.jjay.cuny.edu.

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Ventas Inc. - Financial Analysis Review---Aarkstore Enterprise - TMCnet

Posted: 18 Nov 2009 01:32 AM PST

Summary Ventas, Inc., (Ventas) through its subsidiaries, operates as a healthcare real estate investment trust in the United States. It finances, owns and leases healthcare related and senior housing facilities. Ventas owns 243 seniors housing communities, 193 skilled nursing facilities, 40 hospitals and 29 medical offices and other properties in 43 states and two Canadian provinces, including 77 seniors housing communities. In addition, it includes 505, healthcare-related facilities containing approximately 50,000 licensed beds and senior housing units located in 43 states. The company has its presence in the geographical areas namely, Canada and the US.

Ventas Inc. - Financial Analysis Review is an in-depth business, financial analysis of Ventas Inc.. The report provides a comprehensive insight into the company, including business structure and operations, executive biographies and key competitors. The hallmark of the report is the detailed financial ratios of the company Scope - Provides key company information for business intelligence needs The report contains critical company information � business structure and operations, the company history, major products and services, key competitors, key employees and executive biographies, different locations and important subsidiaries.