Salt Lake City.Salt Lake City--The MARRIOTT DOWNTOWN HOTEL received the 2003 Gold Key Award presented by Meetings and Conventions magazine. All winners of the recognition were nominated by readers of the publication based on overall professionalism and quality of the property. Park City--CAPITAL GROWTH PARTNERS, a real-estate development company, has acquired UNITED PARK CITY MINES CO., a silver mining company for over 100 years until it became a real estate company in 1982. Although a portion of United Park City Mines Co. is leased to resorts in the area, the sale of the company will not affect ski access for the resorts. Salt Lake City--REGENCE BLUECROSS BLUESHIELD has launched an online health insurance enrollment site for those who wish to sign up for affordable health insurance online. The tool allows consumers to compare BlueCross BlueShield health coverage levels and prices for themselves and their family. Salt Lake City--The Utah Lake Total Maximum Daily Loads Project for the State of Utah, Department of Environmental Quality. Division of Water Quality, was awarded to PSOMAS, a consulting engineering firm. Psomas specializes in water quality analysis and modeling, water and natural resources, land development and surveying. Salt Lake City--NPS PHARMACEUTICALS, INC inc - /ink/ increment, i.e. increase by one. Especially used by assembly programmers, as many assembly languages have an "inc" mnemonic. Antonym: dec. . has settled its pending arbitration with Forest Laboratories. In settlement, Forest paid NPS NPS National Park Service NPS Naval Postgraduate School NPS Net Promoter Score (customer management) NPS Non-Point Source pollution NPS Native Plant Society NPS Norfolk Public Schools (Virginia) $1.525 million. NPS Pharmaceuticals is engaged in the discovery, development and the commercialization of therapeutic small molecules and recombinant proteins. Salt Lake City--CLEARONE COMMUNICATIONS, INC., a solutions company that provides audio, video and web conferencing products, launched a redesigned web site at www.clearone.com. The new site offers improved access to new and more in-depth product, sales, marketing and technical information. Salt Lake City--FORUM SYSTEMS INC. products recently became the first to comply with the Federal Information Processing Standard Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) are publicly announced standards developed by the United States Federal government for use by all non-military government agencies and by government contractors. 140-2 Level III standard for the WS-Security 1.0 specification, the industry benchmark for XML XML in full Extensible Markup Language. Markup language developed to be a simplified and more structural version of SGML. It incorporates features of HTML (e.g., hypertext linking), but is designed to overcome some of HTML's limitations. web hardware security. Salt Lake City--The UTAH TRAVEL COUNCIL has a new online Utah! Travel Resources Database, http://travel.utah.gov/trdatabase.html. The database will be available to tourists and business travelers planning to visit Utah, as well as business and organizations involved in travel and tourism in Utah. Salt Lake City--DELTA AIR LINES launched an airport redesign at Salt Lake City International Airport Salt Lake City International Airport (IATA: SLC, ICAO: KSLC) is a public airport located in western Salt Lake City, Utah. The airport is the second largest and one of the fastest growing hubs for Delta Air Lines, as well as hubs for Delta Connection . The new model includes eight new Delta Direct phones (which provide customers with ticket transactions) and an additional 11 self-service kiosks. Salt Lake City--FRANCHISE NETWORK, a leading group of franchise consultants, has opened a new Utah branch at 1174 E. 2760 South #4. FranNet offers services to anyone thinking of buying or starting a business to help them choose the right fit. Salt Lake City--BIG-D CONSTRUCTION has begun construction for a new, Sears Grand, retail facility in the Las Vegas area for Sears, Roebuck and Co. The 165,000 square-foot project will take 9 months to complete. Salt Lake City--SITE L.L.C., a promoter of Utah's media and artistic presence through the site creative network, has moved to the Salt Lake Hardware Building at 105 N. 400 West. Salt Lake City--CHRISTOPHERSON TRAVEL GROUP, a leader in travel management, has launched Plan2AttendSM, a comprehensive web-based tool that streamlines the meeting planning process. The tool will allow more control of the overall meetings process, which may result in significant cost-savings. Salt Lake City--EVANS & SUTHERLAND COMPUTER CORP. completed a contract with Havelsan of Ankara, Turkey, to deliver visual systems for the Republic of Korea Air Force The Republic of Korea Air Force (ROK Air Force, ROKAF, Hangul: 대한민국 공군, Hanja: 大韓民國 空軍) is the air force of South Korea. It operates under the Ministry of National Defense. CN-235 simulator. Evans & Sutherland produces hardware and software to create highly realistic visual images for simulation, training and engineering. Salt Lake City--Avaya has certified MOUNTAIN WEST TELECOM as a Gold Business Partner, an industry-recognized designation indicating that the company has met a series of rigorous criteria to ensure superior technical competency and customer service. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Salt Lake City--SORENSEN MEDICAL, an international medical device manufacturer, has released its new ambIT pain management infusion pumps. The small, lightweight and portable devices deliver a controlled infusion of local anesthetic local anesthetic n. An agent that, when applied directly to mucous membranes or when injected about the nerves, produces loss of sensation by inhibiting nerve excitation or conduction. to the intra-operative site and nerve block nerve block n. Interruption of the passage of impulses through a neuron by the injection of alcohol or an anesthetic. nerve block, n 1. regions. Salt Lake City--UTFC FINANCING SOLUTIONS, a licensed small business investment company, is the only Utah firm on the new directory of socially responsible institutional investors produced by the Columbia Business School Columbia Business School (part of Columbia University), officially named the Columbia University Graduate School of Business, and also known as CBS, was established in 1916 to provide business training and professional preparation for undergraduate and graduate . Researchers selected about 60 firms for the nationwide Double Bottom Line investor Directory. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Salt Lake City--MWI, a leading business and technology consultancy, has launched a web site, at www.utahfirms.com, dedicated to helping businesses and individuals purchasing services. Sandy--4LIFE RESEARCH, a developer and marketer of Transfer Factor products that derive from eggs, acquired the Korean Subsidiary of Nutrition For Life, Inc. (NFLI NFLI National Football League Italy ). The acquisition includes the Korean distributor organization NFLI inventories, equipment and other assets other assets Assets of relatively small value. For financial reporting purposes, firms frequently combine small assets into a single category rather than listing each item separately. . Salt Lake City--ROSIES COVERALLS has launched a new website developed by BIG BANG big bang Model of the origin of the universe, which holds that it emerged from a state of extremely high temperature and density in an explosive expansion 10 billion–15 billion years ago. CREATIVE COMPANY, www.rosiescoveralls.com. The mix and match feature on the website allows users to try out various color combinations and articles of clothing. Salt Lake City--CONSONUS, a provider of data center, professional and IT managed services, has received the Partner of the Year Award from Qlogic Corporation, a producer of solutions based on all storage network technologies. Provo--NOVELL INC. has acquired privately held Ximian of Boston, Mass., a provider of desktop and server solutions enabling enterprise Linux adoption. Salt Lake City--Health magazine named ASSOCIATED REGIONAL AND UNIVERSITY PATHOLOGISTS (ARUP) as one of the top 10 healthiest companies for women to work. The companies were chosen for their accessible programs to help women accomplish the feat of balancing professional and personal responsibilities. Salt Lake City--The State of Utah's new office business portal now offers OneStop Business Registration at WWW.BUSINESS.UTAH.GOV. Businesses can now register electronically with federal and state agencies and initiate business licensing procedures with local government. Salt Lake City--Two planetariums in Northern Germany are installing EVANS & SUTHERLAND COMPUTER CORP.'s Digistar 3 theaters. Planetarium planetarium, optical device used to project a representation of the heavens onto a domed ceiling; the term also designates the building that houses such a device. A modern planetarium consists of as many as 150 motor-driven projectors mounted on an axis. Hamburg and Mediendom Kiel are the first digital theaters in Germany and also the first German planetariums to establish full cooperation on joint multimedia production and training. Salt Lake City--INTEGRATED MARKETING GROUP (IMG IMG International medical graduate, see there ) recently became the first marketing and branding agency in the U.S. to certify in the Federal Trade Commission (FTC FTC See Federal Trade Commission (FTC). ) Advertising Compliance Course, which covers the application of FTC laws regarding dietary supplement advertising. Salt Lake City--BUYERS UNITED has agreed to purchase approximately 12,000 long distance customers from Glyphics Communications, representing approximately $300,000 in monthly revenue. Salt Lake City--MEDICONNECT has been granted a patent for its online record retrieval solution, RapidRetrieve, an efficient means of obtaining medical records for underwriting insurance, processing insurance claims and legal documents that involve medical records. MediConnect is a leader in online retrieval and delivery of medical records. Salt Lake City--HOME SAVINGS BANK savings bank, financial institution that, until recently, performed only the following functions: receiving savings deposits of individuals, investing them, and providing a modest return to its depositors in the form of interest. is the only Utah bank listed by The American Bankers Association The American Bankers Association (ABA) is comprised of banks and other financial institutions. It seeks to promote the strength and profitability of the banking industry by Lobbying federal and state governments, building industry consensus on key issues, and providing products and for best return on equity. The investment bank specializes in residential and commercial real estate loans, development loans and SBA SBA abbr. Small Business Administration Noun 1. SBA - an independent agency of the United States government that protects the interests of small businesses and ensures that they receive a fair share of government loans. Park City--Westgate Resorts, a parent company of WESTGATE PARK CITY RESORT & SPA and PRUDENTIAL UTAH REAL ESTATE partnered together to raise funds for Park City charities. The alliance has set a goal to raise $1 million a year, a percentage of the profits produced by each company will be earmarked for charities. Salt Lake City--BIG IDEA COMMUNICATIONS, LLC (Logical Link Control) See "LANs" under data link protocol. LLC - Logical Link Control is a new communications consulting firm at 10 W. Broadway Suite 500. The company provides several products to supplement traditional public relations public relations, activities and policies used to create public interest in a person, idea, product, institution, or business establishment. By its nature, public relations is devoted to serving particular interests by presenting them to the public in the most and message development consulting. Salt Lake City--CHRISTOPHERSON TRAVEL GROUP (CTG CTG Cartridge CTG Center for Technology in Government (SUNY, Albany, New York) CTG Center for Technology in Government CTG Computer Task Group (IT consulting company; Buffalo, NY, USA) ) has been awarded the Bourns, Inc. business travel contract for all U.S.-based employees with an estimate travel budget of $900,000. CTG will provide Bourns, Inc. with monthly consolidated budget reports. Bourns, Inc. is a leading manufacturer of modular contacts, capacitor networks and analog input devices. Salt Lake City--ASSOCIATED REGIONAL AND UNIVERSITY PATHOLOGISTS, INC. (ARUP Laboratories) will serve as the sole source of reference laboratory testing for Ascension Health, the nation's largest Catholic and nonprofit health care system. ARUP Laboratories is a national full-services reference laboratory owned by the University of Utah The University of Utah (also The U or the U of U or the UU), located in Salt Lake City, is the flagship public research university in the state of Utah, and one of 10 institutions that make up the Utah System of Higher Education. . Salt Lake City--ATK Thiokol Propulsion, a Minnesota-based aerospace and defense company with Utah facilities, awarded an $8 million contract to UINTA BUSINESS SYSTEMS to refresh its current computing environment. Uinta Business Systems is an information systems, sales, service and support company. Salt Lake City--Genta Incorporated, a biopharmaceutical company focused on delivering products for the treatment of patients with cancer, has acquired SALUS THERAPEUTICS, INC., a developer of drugs that are based on DNA DNA: see nucleic acid. DNA or deoxyribonucleic acid One of two types of nucleic acid (the other is RNA); a complex organic compound found in all living cells and many viruses. It is the chemical substance of genes. or RNA RNA: see nucleic acid. RNA in full ribonucleic acid One of the two main types of nucleic acid (the other being DNA), which functions in cellular protein synthesis in all living cells and replaces DNA as the carrier of genetic . Genta issued $13 million in Genta to Salus shareholders as an upfront payment. Salt Lake City--SBI AND COMPANY has helped Pfizer launch a new website devoted to the health care needs of the Hispanic community, at www.sanalarana.com. The Spanish language site offers educational content regarding health topics and diseases. Salt Lake City--Arizona School Services through Educational Technology (ASSET) has utilized IASSESSMENT's new GPS smartPortal, a Web-based gateway that unifies the K-12 data center to enable the personalized delivery of education resources based on each user's needs. iAssessment offers Web-based systems that deliver software solutions to the K-12 education sector. |
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