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Contractor Cited For Deadly Scaffolding Collapse
(CBS4) BOSTON A masonry contractor faces proposed fines totaling 119-thousand dollars from a scaffolding collapse in Boston last spring that killed three people.The U-S Occupational Safety and Health Administration announced the penalties against Walpole-based Bostonian Masonry on Friday.Federal officials cited the firm for eight alleged safety violations in the April third accident at the construction site for Emerson College's new dormitory and campus center. Two workers and a passing motorist were killed when a construction platform plunged 13 stories.The accident happened when bracing was being removed as the scaffolding was being dismantled. Investigators found there was nothing to prevent the tower and platform from tipping when the bracing was removed.There was no immediate comment from Bostonian Masonry.
HHS Division Honors The Lewin Group as Outstanding Contractor
WASHINGTON, Oct. 11 /PRNewswire/ -- The Lewin Group has been named a 2006 Outstanding Contractor by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Administration for Children and Families (ACF) for its work on the Healthy Marriage Initiative. Assistant Secretary Wade F. Horn, Ph.D., presented the award to Ron Johnson, Executive Vice President of The Lewin Group, at the Assistant Secretary's Honor Awards Ceremony on Oct. 5. The Lewin Group, a leading health care and human services consulting firm, was recognized for "outstanding performance in providing technical assistance to ACF Healthy Marriage grantees, for providing ongoing support to the ACF African American and ACF Hispanic Healthy Marriage Initiatives and for exhibiting the highest degree of professionalism in responding to ACF priorities." Lewin's work with ACF included assisting 45 Healthy Marriage grantees with implementing programs, strategic planning, establishing performance measures and development of management information systems, among other things.
IBM ‘Store of the Future’ steals San Antonio self-service show
But the 171 was just one component of IBMs "Store of the Future," a special exhibit that was the lynchpin of The Self-Service & Kiosk Show, held Sept. 28-29 at the Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center in San Antonio. It shared a room with two other special pavilions, the Photo Kiosk Gallery and the C-Store Zone. (Read more about the c-store zone, and the foray of Casio into the kiosk industry.) Digital signage figures prominently in IBMs future store; the exhibit was surrounded by bright displays delivering marketing messages and touting the benefits of an integrated self-service approach to retail. Nearby, traffic was brisk at the Cyphermint display, where the payment-processing company demonstrated its PayCash Mobile a system that allows customers to make payments at a kiosk or other device using their cell phones.
In Mount Airy, Panoramas at the Right Price
Something about scraping the manure off their shoes at a rainy county fair a few years back convinced Rick and Mary Anne Smith that "hobby farming" would suit them. They sold their Silver Spring house and found a real estate agent, Mary Anne Smith said. "She kept a database of people like us -- Washingtonians who were looking for the perfect country property, those two-to-four-acre parcels." .
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