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| Posted: 11 Aug 2009 07:38 PM PDT Stewardson Homecoming features tractor/truck pull, mud racing, auto show, coronation of queen
STEWARDSON — Three evenings of entertainment highlight the Stewardson Lions Club Homecoming that begins Thursday.
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| GEICO’s Largest Regional Office Turns 35 - Businesswire.com Posted: 11 Aug 2009 12:57 PM PDT The company celebrates 35 years at its Southeast, Midwest Regional offices in Macon MACON, Ga.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--On a muggy, overcast August morning in 1974, GEICO employees reported for work at a new, sprawling, four-story, brick-and-glass building in East Macon. A huge storm the night before made the pathways a muddy mess to navigate (the sidewalks and many of the parking areas were yet unpaved), and associates tracked Georgia red clay on their shoes and into the building. The day was marked with optimism as GEICO opened its Southeast Regional office, one of the first large regional offices of its kind in company history. At 8:10 a.m. that Aug. 12 morning, then-Gov. Jimmy Carter sent flowers and called GEICO management to welcome the company to the Peach State. "We are so excited to be celebrating the 35th anniversary of the Macon office," said Regional Vice President Mary Zarcone. "Selecting the Middle Georgia area has certainly been a big win for us. It's hard to imagine GEICO without Macon or Macon without GEICO." Since its opening, GEICO has become one of Macon's largest employers. Thirty-five years ago, the Macon office opened with 150 employees, but by year's end there were nearly 800 associates in the Macon office. The work force continued to grow and 25 years later, in 1999, GEICO opened a second, four-story, brick-and-glass office across the street from the first building to house its Southeast operations. When the second building opened, the company had roughly 3,400 employees and contributed $74 million in payroll to the local and state economy, according to the Georgia Chamber of Commerce. Earlier in 1974, GEICO operated in a small office space on Poplar Street in the old First National Bank office building downtown. But GEICO relocated from those temporary digs and moved to a large tract of land off Ocmulgee East Boulevard – which was a two lane highway coined locally as the "Cochran Short Route." The site GEICO chose was formerly Camp Wheeler, a staging location for many U.S. Army units during World Wars I and II roughly five miles outside of Macon city limits in east Bibb County. The military compound was the best one scouted by the GEICO selection committee according to former Macon's 1974 regional vice president Ross Pierce, who was also a member of the selection committee. "(Camp Wheeler) and the city of Macon had great infrastructure, particularly its mail and phone facilities," Pierce said. Today, Macon remains GEICO's largest regional office comprised of both Midwest and Southeast regions, as well as consolidated services. With nearly 4,100 employees, the company is the third largest employer in the city, behind Robins Air Force Base and The Medical Center of Central Georgia. The Macon office is also the largest corporate contributor to the United Way of Central Georgia. "We're elated to have GEICO's largest operation right here in Macon," said Southeast Regional Vice President Shawn Burklin. "We're over 4,000 employees strong – and growing." GEICO (Government Employees Insurance Company) – as part of Berkshire Hathaway – is the third-largest private passenger auto insurer in the United States*. GEICO provides auto insurance coverage for 9 million policyholders and insures more than 15 million vehicles. In addition to auto insurance, GEICO offers customers insurance products for their motorcycles, all-terrain vehicles (ATVs), boats, homes, apartments and mobile homes. Commercial auto insurance and personal umbrella protection and life insurance are also available. As a member of the Berkshire Hathaway group of companies, GEICO is rated A++ for financial strength by A.M. Best Company and ranks at the top of several national customer satisfaction surveys. For more information, go to http://www.geico.com. *A.M. Best 2008 market share data
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| GEICO CIO to Deliver Keynote Address at JBoss World 2009 - Newsblaze.com Posted: 12 Aug 2009 04:57 AM PDT RALEIGH, N.C. - (BUSINESS WIRE) - Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that GEICO Group Vice President and Chief Information Officer, Jess Reed will keynote at the 2009 JBoss World conference in Chicago, September 1-4, 2009. Reed will highlight GEICO's deployment of Red Hat's JBoss Enterprise Middleware and their use of open source middleware software for mission critical platforms. GEICO's participation in JBoss World demonstrates the continuing adoption of JBoss by leading global companies. GEICO (Government Employees Insurance Company) - as part of Berkshire Hathaway - is the third-largest private passenger auto insurer in the United States. GEICO provides auto insurance coverage for 9 million policyholders and insures more than 15 million vehicles. In addition to auto insurance, GEICO offers customers insurance products for their motorcycles, all-terrain vehicles (ATVs), boats, homes, apartments and mobile homes. Commercial auto insurance and personal umbrella protection and life insurance are also available. As a member of the Berkshire Hathaway group of companies, GEICO is rated A++ for financial strength by A.M. Best Company and ranks at the top of several national customer satisfaction surveys. For more information, go to http://www.geico.com. Reed and his GEICO colleagues have made strides to improve performance, position the company for additional growth and implemented ways to improve the efficiency of IT systems and applications. Most recently Reed's team deployed Red Hat's JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, where GEICO was able to reduce the total cost of ownership over proprietary Java application servers by more than 30%. "Middleware represents the next wave of open source adoption, which is why we made a strategic decision to standardize on Red Hat's JBoss Enterprise Middleware," said Reed. "We are very pleased with our JBoss deployment and I look forward to sharing our successes and vision with JBoss customers, partners and developers at JBoss World 2009." "We are happy to welcome GEICO's CIO, Jess Reed, as a featured keynote speaker at JBoss World 2009. This event will highlight some of the best and most innovative open source middleware use cases and technologies and we are proud to count GEICO as one of our customers," said Craig Muzilla, vice president, Middleware, Red Hat. "GEICO has executed a highly successful migration from proprietary Java middleware products to Red Hat's JBoss Enterprise Middleware. Their story is a prime example of how companies can carve costs out of their datacenters and leverage open source to drive innovation." GEICO's strategic use of Red Hat's middleware solutions led them to win a JBoss Innovation Award in the "Superior Alternative" category. The awards are designed to recognize the outstanding use, innovation and extension of Red Hat and JBoss solutions by Red Hat customers, partners and the open source community. For more information or to register for the 2009 Red Hat Summit or JBoss World, please visit www.redhat.com/summit or www.jbossworld.com. About JBoss World JBoss World is an annual conference that brings together business decision makers, engineers, developers and community enthusiasts from around the world. Attendees will learn about the latest open source advancements from Red Hat solutions and JBoss Enterprise Middleware technologies. Co-located for the first time this year with the Red Hat Summit, JBoss World will take place in Chicago, Sept. 1-4, 2009. The co-location of Red Hat Summit and JBoss World will provide attendees with the unique ability to move between both conferences with one pass, offering the opportunity to gain increased knowledge across the entire application stack. About Red Hat, Inc. Red Hat, the world's leading open source solutions provider, is headquartered in Raleigh, NC with over 65 offices spanning the globe. CIOs ranked Red Hat as one of the top vendors delivering value in Enterprise Software for five consecutive years in the CIO Insight Magazine Vendor Value survey. Red Hat provides high-quality, affordable technology with its operating system platform, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, together with applications, management and Services Oriented Architecture (SOA) solutions, including JBoss Enterprise Middleware. Red Hat also offers support, training and consulting services to its customers worldwide. Learn more: http://www.redhat.com. 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Actual results may differ materially from those indicated by such forward-looking statements as a result of various important factors, including: risks related to delays or reductions in information technology spending, the integration of acquisitions and the ability to market successfully acquired technologies and products; the ability of the Company to effectively compete; the inability to adequately protect Company intellectual property and the potential for infringement or breach of license claims of or relating to third party intellectual property; the ability to deliver and stimulate demand for new products and technological innovations on a timely basis; risks related to data and information security vulnerabilities; ineffective management of, and control over, the Company's growth and international operations; fluctuations in exchange rates; adverse results in litigation; and changes in and a dependence on key personnel, as well as other factors contained in our most recent Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q (copies of which may be accessed through the Securities and Exchange Commission's website at http://www.sec.gov), including those found therein under the captions "Risk Factors" and "Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations". In addition to these factors, actual future performance, outcomes, and results may differ materially because of more general factors including (without limitation) general industry and market conditions and growth rates, economic conditions, and governmental and public policy changes. The forward-looking statements included in this press release represent the Company's views as of the date of this press release and these views could change. However, while the Company may elect to update these forward-looking statements at some point in the future, the Company specifically disclaims any obligation to do so. These forward-looking statements should not be relied upon as representing the Company's views as of any date subsequent to the date of the press release. (c) 2009 Red Hat, Inc. Red Hat, the Shadowman logo and JBoss are registered trademarks of Red Hat, Inc. in the U.S. and other countries. Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds.
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| Vernon Ross Sullivan - Brainerd Dispatch Posted: 06 Aug 2009 04:59 PM PDT Vernon Ross Sullivan, age 72, of Brainerd, died at his home Friday, Aug. 7, 2009. Services for Ross will be 1 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 13 at Bethany Samaritan Village Chapel with Pastor Lilja Behr officiating. Friends are welcome to visit Wednesday evening from 5-7 p.m. at the Brenny Funeral Chapel in Baxter and one hour prior to services at Bethany on Thursday. Interment will follow at Evergreen Memorial Gardens Cemetery in Brainerd, Minn. Ross was born Oct. 6, 1936, in Carson City, Nev., to Robert John and Lillian (Root) Sullivan. Raised and educated in Rio Linda, Calif., he was a graduate of Grant Union High School and Moler College. He served in the Army National Guard in New Jersey and in the Reserves in California. He was employed by Blue Chip Stamp in Richmond, Calif.; Frontier Electric in Santa Rosa, Calif.; ARA Group Transportation in Riverside, Calif.; and BFI Waste Systems North America in Omaha, Neb., and Minneapolis, Minn. Ross retired in 1998 and moved to his cabin on North Long Lake. He worked after retirement for Mills Motors and CarQuest Auto Parts. Ross was a fun guy and enjoyed boating, riding his Harley, ATVs, snowmobiles and "golf cart." Ross was an avid drag racing fan and traveled to numerous race tracks throughout the country. Ross is survived by wife, Gigi; daughter, Lori Bottenfield of Chaska, Minn.; son, Jerry Lee, of Chico, Calif.; daughter, Serena Sullivan of Beaumont, Calif.; sister Genelle (Frank) Palmer of Sacramento, Calif.; brother, Tim (Chery) Dwyer of Galt, Calif.; sister-in-law, Kathy Sullivan, of Hayden, Ind.; brother-in-law, James Arrington of Santa Rosa, Calif.; grandchildren, Dustin Ross (Jaime) Oldenburg of Waconia, Minn., Clayton Lee of Chico, Calif., Blair, Bailey and Brieann Bottenfield of Chaska, Minn., and Jimmy Cox of Beaumont, Calif.; and one great-granddaughter, Hailey Joyce Oldenburg. He was preceded in death by his parents; step-father, Gene Dwyer; and brother, Robert Wayne Sullivan. Memorials are preferred to Bethany Good Samaritan Garden Fund. Success has nothing to do with what you gain in life of accomplish for yourself It's what you do for others. We love you and miss you. Arrangements have been entrusted to the Brenny Funeral Chapel of Baxter.  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
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