Claris Networks expanding to Birmingham
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- Claris Networks expanding to Birmingham
- Carter to speak to Baptists in Birmingham
- Study: Walking While Talking on Cell Phones Hazardous for Children
- Birmingham Mayor Larry Langford said the city is in talks about …
- Birmingham-based BioCryst Pharmaceuticals optimistic about new drugs
- Lee Carlsey leads Birmingham home
- Unemployment rises in Birmingham area
Claris Networks expanding to Birmingham
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us Digg This A Knoxville Tenn. information technology firm is expanding into the Birmingham market. Claris Networks said Birmingham was a prime candidate for expansion because it is Alabama’s business hub. Claris provides information technology services for small and medium sized businesses. It already has operations in Tennessee Georgia and North Carolina. Claris CE Paul Sponcia said the company saw an opportunity in Birmingham despite the current economic climate. “Birmingham’s size business community and growth potential give us confidence that we have great potential there” Sponcia said.
Carter to speak to Baptists in Birmingham
Atlanta Journal Constitution USA
The first one in Birmingham will take place Saturday featuring as speakers Carter and Marian Wright Edelman the founder of the Children’s Defense Fund. Workshops on health care poverty and race are planned. Later this year other regional meetings will take place in Kansas City Norman klahoma and Winston-Salem North Carolina. In 2010 regional meetings will be held in western locations said Lance Wallace a spokesman for the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship which is a participating organization. Wallace said the meetings are to encourage cooperation and cement relationships that formed during the first meeting.
Study: Walking While Talking on Cell Phones Hazardous for Children
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In tests that had 10- and 11-year-olds walk in a simulated “virtual” neighborhood researchers found that when the children talked on a cell phone as they traveled they paid less attention to traffic and were more likely to step into the path of a virtual car. The effects were seen regardless of how much experience a child had in using a cell phone or in being pedestrian according to Despina Stavrinos and colleagues at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. “Cell phones are not necessarily bad for children to carry and use” the researchers write in the journal Pediatrics. “However” they add “our results suggest that just as drivers should limit cell phone use while driving pedestrians — and especially child pedestrians — should limit cell phone use while crossing streets. The study included 77 children who completed a dozen simulated road crossings half of them while talking on a cell phone to one of the research assistants. In general the researchers found the children paid less attention to traffic when they were on the cell phone and were more likely to find themselves in situations where in real life they would have been hit by a car or narrowly missed an accident.
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Birmingham Mayor Larry Langford said the city is in talks about …
The Birmingham News – al.com AL
Langford said that in recent years some car dealers hadleft the city. But he intended to reverse that tide. After the meeting Langford’s chief of Staff DeborahVance-Bowie declined to elaborate on the negotiations withSerra.
Birmingham-based BioCryst Pharmaceuticals optimistic about new drugs
The Birmingham News – al.com AL
said Tuesday it has a strongcash position and two promising drugs including aprospective entry into the multi-billion market for seasonalinfluenza. Jon Stonehouse chief executive of the Birmingham-basedcompany told the Kiwanis Club of Birmingham that the fludrug Peramivir is in the midst of three clinical trialsworldwide and that a new drug application with the Food andDrug Administration might come in 2010. It would be a big milestone for the drug developerfounded in the 1980s from research conducted at theUniversity of Alabama at Birmingham. The company has yet todevelop a commercially successful drug. A debut in thelucrative seasonal flu market would pave the way to fillingprescriptions for some of the hundreds of millions of peopleworldwide who get the flu each year.
Lee Carlsey leads Birmingham home
Telegraph.co.uk United Kingdom
Some can cope with the pressure others cannot. Birmingham City’s Lee Carsley showed which camp he belonged to on Tuesday night grabbing his team by the scruff of the neck and putting them back on track for automatic promotion first scoring a goal and then diverting the ball off his own line just minutes from time. These teams are at opposite ends of the Championship Birmingham third from top and Derby third from bottom but they have been experiencing a similar dip in self-belief. A glance at the statistics suggests there should not be much for Birmingham to get worked up about. Just two points adrift of second-placed Reading promotion is still very much a possibility. Yet a poor run of results has dealt their confidence a blow.
Unemployment rises in Birmingham area
Bizjournals.com NC
us Digg This The Birmingham-metro area saw an increase in jobless claims in December to 5. 7 percent the state Department of Industrial Relations reported Monday. That’s a jump from November’s unemployment rate of 5. 2 percent and last December’s rate of 3.
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