Contactmusic.com | Coldplay - Stars Get Arty For Literacy Campaign Contactmusic.com Stars including Coldplay, Dame Helen Mirren and Stephen Fry have designed and decorated envelopes for a UK literacy campaign. Dame Shirley Bassey, Star Trek's Simon Pegg and Dame Judi Dench also tapped into their creative sides to transform everyday ... |
Wednesday, February 29, 2012
Coldplay - Stars Get Arty For Literacy Campaign - Contactmusic.com
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Monday, February 27, 2012
State Governors Attend White House Dinner - ABC News (blog)
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Boston.com | State Governors Attend White House Dinner ABC News (blog) WASHINGTON, DC â€" While Hollywood celebrates the Academy Awards, a different kind of celebrity gala event unfolded at the White House this evening: President Obama hosted the nation's state governors for an annual black tie di nner. Still miffed? Jan Brewer will not attend Governor's annual White House dinner |
Saturday, February 25, 2012
Gold Follows Stocks With Unpexected Increase - The Ledger
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Gold Follows Stocks With Unpexected Increase The Ledger By Nathaniel Popper & Joel Stonington NEW YORK | While the Dow Jones industrial average has risen toward 13000, another high-profile market has unexpectedly risen alongside it: gold. The price of the precious metal has surged since the beginning of the ... |
Thursday, February 23, 2012
Greg Grainger joins Jones Lang LaSalle - San Antonio Business Journal:
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Jones Lang LaSalle said Grainger will be leadingits Dallas-Fort Worth propertyg management business. He also is expected to launch a nationall industrial propertymanagement practice. Grainger is joiningv Jones Lang LaSallefrom , where he headed the property management practice for the D-FW Prior to that, he managed the properth management division for Co. “With more than 20 yeare of experience and a proven track record in the propertymanagemenft arena, Greg will greatly enhance the firm’xs ability to provide expanderd industrial and property managemenf services to our clients,” said Paul Whitman, president of Jonezs Lang LaSalle, DFW.
“We are strengthening our property management business into the industrial sphere in responswe tomarket demand.” Grainger is not the only recentt addition to the team. Terruy Darrow, a 35-year industrial real estate joined the firm last month to lead theindustrialp group, which specializes in advisingh occupiers and investors of industrialp space.
Jones Lang LaSalle said Grainger will be leadingits Dallas-Fort Worth propertyg management business. He also is expected to launch a nationall industrial propertymanagement practice. Grainger is joiningv Jones Lang LaSallefrom , where he headed the property management practice for the D-FW Prior to that, he managed the properth management division for Co. “With more than 20 yeare of experience and a proven track record in the propertymanagemenft arena, Greg will greatly enhance the firm’xs ability to provide expanderd industrial and property managemenf services to our clients,” said Paul Whitman, president of Jonezs Lang LaSalle, DFW.
“We are strengthening our property management business into the industrial sphere in responswe tomarket demand.” Grainger is not the only recentt addition to the team. Terruy Darrow, a 35-year industrial real estate joined the firm last month to lead theindustrialp group, which specializes in advisingh occupiers and investors of industrialp space.
Monday, February 20, 2012
Southland Television Network to Broadcast Bobcats vs. Lions - SportsNOLA.com
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Southland Television Network to Broadcast Bobcats vs. Lions SportsNOLA.com FRISCO, Texas â€" Southeastern Louisiana will welcome Texas State to the University Center in Hammond, La., Wednesday at 7 pm in the Toyota Game of the Week on the Southland Conference Television Network. Both teams are just one game out of the final ... |
Saturday, February 18, 2012
Report: Long Beach's revenues projected to be down $11M for fiscal year - Contra Costa Times
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Report: Long Beach's revenues projected to be down $11M for fiscal year Contra Costa Times By Eric Bradley Staff Writer LONG BEACH - A report will be delivered Tuesday to the City Council showing projected revenues down $11 million, or 2.7 percent, for the current fiscal year. While the city's largest sources of income - property and sales ... |
Thursday, February 16, 2012
Portland-area economy weakens Q1 - Portland Business Journal:
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percent, an accelerating declin compared tothe 13.5 percent (revised) drop in the fourthn quarter of 2008. Of the nine indicators includedd inthe index, six declined significantly, said Tim Duy, director of the Oregon Economic Forum and a UO adjunc assistant professor, Labor market trends continue to Help-wanted advertising in The Oregonian fell during the consistent with a decrease in hiring demand. initial unemployment claims continuedto rise, reachingf a month average of 16,819 claims. Non-farm payrollw continue to fall as under the dual forces of increase layoffs and slackhiring demand; payrolls stand 3.9 percent lower than year-agpo levels.
The expected slowdown in lodgingb activity finally cameto pass, said Duy,with estimatede lodging revenue (seasonally and inflation adjusted) down 15.4 percent from the fourth quarter. Passenger traffic at Portland Internationak Airport was effectively unchanged from the previous Housing markets weregenerally weaker. Housing sales were effectivelyy unchanged, while average days-on-market fell, partially offsetting a particularly sharpo rise in the fourth quarterof 2008, attributable to the intensification of the financial crisiw and unusual weather conditions, said Duy. Ongoingy declines in the in point to continued economic deterioration in thePortlansd region, he added.
Signs of stabilization are difficult to he said; expectations for a firminvg of economic activity in the second half of 2009 are largelt based on some tentative signs of stability in the nationap economy. Moreover, the impact of fiscal and monetar y policies should become more evident as theyear progresses. Still, the pace of the recovery is expected to be subdued as the economy adjusts to an environment less dependenton debt-supported consumer spendinf growth.
percent, an accelerating declin compared tothe 13.5 percent (revised) drop in the fourthn quarter of 2008. Of the nine indicators includedd inthe index, six declined significantly, said Tim Duy, director of the Oregon Economic Forum and a UO adjunc assistant professor, Labor market trends continue to Help-wanted advertising in The Oregonian fell during the consistent with a decrease in hiring demand. initial unemployment claims continuedto rise, reachingf a month average of 16,819 claims. Non-farm payrollw continue to fall as under the dual forces of increase layoffs and slackhiring demand; payrolls stand 3.9 percent lower than year-agpo levels.
The expected slowdown in lodgingb activity finally cameto pass, said Duy,with estimatede lodging revenue (seasonally and inflation adjusted) down 15.4 percent from the fourth quarter. Passenger traffic at Portland Internationak Airport was effectively unchanged from the previous Housing markets weregenerally weaker. Housing sales were effectivelyy unchanged, while average days-on-market fell, partially offsetting a particularly sharpo rise in the fourth quarterof 2008, attributable to the intensification of the financial crisiw and unusual weather conditions, said Duy. Ongoingy declines in the in point to continued economic deterioration in thePortlansd region, he added.
Signs of stabilization are difficult to he said; expectations for a firminvg of economic activity in the second half of 2009 are largelt based on some tentative signs of stability in the nationap economy. Moreover, the impact of fiscal and monetar y policies should become more evident as theyear progresses. Still, the pace of the recovery is expected to be subdued as the economy adjusts to an environment less dependenton debt-supported consumer spendinf growth.
Tuesday, February 14, 2012
Syrian Activist: 'Idea Of Safety Doesn't Exist Anymore' - WBUR
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Syrian Activist: 'Idea Of Safety Doesn't Exist Anymore' WBUR "'The idea of safety doesn't exist anymore in Baba Amr,' said Omar Shakir, an activist in the neighborhood reached via Skype. 'Scary is all that exists.' "The neighborhood was hit by occasional mortar shells overnight, he said, with the heavier shells ... |
Sunday, February 12, 2012
New Vine Logistics situation gets murkier - San Francisco Business Times:
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“For us to disclosed any information aboutthe buyer, New Vine’z board would have to accepty or reject an offer,” New Vine spokeswoman Charlottd Milan told the San Francisco Business Timesa , adding that no further information about New Vine’d negotiations with two or three potential buyersa is likely to be available June 4. Late Wednesday and very earl yThursday morning, informed sources told the Business Times that 1-800-Flowers.com appeare d set to win the sweepstakes to buy the brokeh pieces of New which startled the wine industry late last week by abruptl y suspending operations.
As of early Thursday morning, an announcemeng of a deal with which owns the Wine Tasting Network Servicesshippinv company, appeared to be imminent. But that deal broke down sometimre in thewee hours, leaving New Vine’sx future uncertain. Wine Tasting according to itsLinkedIn profile, provides winer and wine club direct marketing as well as fulfillment and e-commercd services to wineries and wine retailers. Officials at WTN did not immediatelyg respond to requestsfor comment, but many in the industry see WTN as the most logicalk player to pick up some of New Vine’w pieces.
New Vine, which two years ago seemede poised to ship 20 percentof California’s direct-to-consumetr wine market, laid off much of its staff on Fridaty and brusquely told customers over the weekenxd that it was no longer receivinb or processing orders. The move left many Wine Country providers scramblinv to gather information and to figurs out how to get back inventorhy atNew Vine’s American Canyon warehouse so they could ship it to customers anothetr way. Published accounts said some ofthe company’sx venture capital investors effectively pulled the plug last by declining to invest additionap capital in New Vine.
“Some people changed theitr minds at the last saidBarbara Insel, a wine industry analystg who has served on New Vine’s advisory board. Kathleen New Vine Logistics’ founder and former CEO, and Chairmah of the Board Homer Dunn said Tuesday that New Vine is workiny withcustomers “to transfer all services to anothef means of legal direct shipping, and in the meantime, is finalizin g all work, including compiling of reports, reconciling inventort and invoices, and performing all of the necessary businesx operations for the montb (sic) of May and June.
” Hoertkorn in response to reports that the company knew or must have knowmn it was in financial trouble, that officials “truly believed that they would have been funded and were not expecting to have to ceasee operations.” The company had more than 200 customers and roughlyu 110 employees as of last sources say. It now has a skeletomn crew of about 30 staffers at its Napa headquarterz and American Canyonshipping facility, includint a handful of executives who are working to wind down New Vine was started in 2001 on the notionb that it could help expedite shipmentws to consumers in various states with confusing and complicated legalk restrictions on wine shipments, a lingerintg legacy of the Prohibition years in America.
Financial backers include Menlo Park’s , Altos Ventures, and San Francisco’s LLC, whicbh reportedly pulled its people out ofNew Vine’s officeds late last Thursday.
“For us to disclosed any information aboutthe buyer, New Vine’z board would have to accepty or reject an offer,” New Vine spokeswoman Charlottd Milan told the San Francisco Business Timesa , adding that no further information about New Vine’d negotiations with two or three potential buyersa is likely to be available June 4. Late Wednesday and very earl yThursday morning, informed sources told the Business Times that 1-800-Flowers.com appeare d set to win the sweepstakes to buy the brokeh pieces of New which startled the wine industry late last week by abruptl y suspending operations.
As of early Thursday morning, an announcemeng of a deal with which owns the Wine Tasting Network Servicesshippinv company, appeared to be imminent. But that deal broke down sometimre in thewee hours, leaving New Vine’sx future uncertain. Wine Tasting according to itsLinkedIn profile, provides winer and wine club direct marketing as well as fulfillment and e-commercd services to wineries and wine retailers. Officials at WTN did not immediatelyg respond to requestsfor comment, but many in the industry see WTN as the most logicalk player to pick up some of New Vine’w pieces.
New Vine, which two years ago seemede poised to ship 20 percentof California’s direct-to-consumetr wine market, laid off much of its staff on Fridaty and brusquely told customers over the weekenxd that it was no longer receivinb or processing orders. The move left many Wine Country providers scramblinv to gather information and to figurs out how to get back inventorhy atNew Vine’s American Canyon warehouse so they could ship it to customers anothetr way. Published accounts said some ofthe company’sx venture capital investors effectively pulled the plug last by declining to invest additionap capital in New Vine.
“Some people changed theitr minds at the last saidBarbara Insel, a wine industry analystg who has served on New Vine’s advisory board. Kathleen New Vine Logistics’ founder and former CEO, and Chairmah of the Board Homer Dunn said Tuesday that New Vine is workiny withcustomers “to transfer all services to anothef means of legal direct shipping, and in the meantime, is finalizin g all work, including compiling of reports, reconciling inventort and invoices, and performing all of the necessary businesx operations for the montb (sic) of May and June.
” Hoertkorn in response to reports that the company knew or must have knowmn it was in financial trouble, that officials “truly believed that they would have been funded and were not expecting to have to ceasee operations.” The company had more than 200 customers and roughlyu 110 employees as of last sources say. It now has a skeletomn crew of about 30 staffers at its Napa headquarterz and American Canyonshipping facility, includint a handful of executives who are working to wind down New Vine was started in 2001 on the notionb that it could help expedite shipmentws to consumers in various states with confusing and complicated legalk restrictions on wine shipments, a lingerintg legacy of the Prohibition years in America.
Financial backers include Menlo Park’s , Altos Ventures, and San Francisco’s LLC, whicbh reportedly pulled its people out ofNew Vine’s officeds late last Thursday.
Friday, February 10, 2012
Forest City breaks ground on D.C. park - Kansas City Business Journal:
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The 5.4-acre park will include open recreation areas, landscaped gardens, publicc art, a pedestrian bridge and walking paths that connect the site with other developments along the The Yards development is five blocks east of theNationals Park, near the Navy Yard Metrorail station. Mayodr Adrian Fenty said "w world class city needx a world-class waterfront" and "this, I is the biggest part to He was joined by CouncilmanTommy Wells, D-Ward 6, and Kwame Brown, D-at large. The Yardsz is the only public-private partnership in the countryg being built onfederal land, which was made availabled by Congress in 2000.
Altogether, Forest City and its , plan 2,800 residential units, 1.8 million squares feet of offices and as muchas 400,000 square feet of retail. Congressionalp Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton, D-D.C., said the projecyt connects District residents with a waterfront thatpreviouslyg "has never been open to the peopled of the city." Construction aside from work on the publiclyt financed park has largely stallef as the developers seek Forest City Washington President Deborahb Ratner Salzberg said she is working on financingv for redevelopment of the Navy’s formef pattern and joiner shop into a 170-uni residential project called the Foundry Lofts apartments, whicu overlook the park's site and the river but have not been Ramsey Meiser, Forest City senioe vice president of development, is seeking stores and restaurantsw interested in leasing space in a former Navy boiler manufacturing facility and other buildings.
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The 5.4-acre park will include open recreation areas, landscaped gardens, publicc art, a pedestrian bridge and walking paths that connect the site with other developments along the The Yards development is five blocks east of theNationals Park, near the Navy Yard Metrorail station. Mayodr Adrian Fenty said "w world class city needx a world-class waterfront" and "this, I is the biggest part to He was joined by CouncilmanTommy Wells, D-Ward 6, and Kwame Brown, D-at large. The Yardsz is the only public-private partnership in the countryg being built onfederal land, which was made availabled by Congress in 2000.
Altogether, Forest City and its , plan 2,800 residential units, 1.8 million squares feet of offices and as muchas 400,000 square feet of retail. Congressionalp Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton, D-D.C., said the projecyt connects District residents with a waterfront thatpreviouslyg "has never been open to the peopled of the city." Construction aside from work on the publiclyt financed park has largely stallef as the developers seek Forest City Washington President Deborahb Ratner Salzberg said she is working on financingv for redevelopment of the Navy’s formef pattern and joiner shop into a 170-uni residential project called the Foundry Lofts apartments, whicu overlook the park's site and the river but have not been Ramsey Meiser, Forest City senioe vice president of development, is seeking stores and restaurantsw interested in leasing space in a former Navy boiler manufacturing facility and other buildings.
The park coulx be completed by the summerof 2010. It will be managexd by the Capitol Riverfront BusinessImprovement
Wednesday, February 8, 2012
Man accused of being lookout - Beaver Dam Daily Citizen
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Man accused of being lookout Beaver Dam Daily Citizen Mark Humfleet, 301 N. Montgomery St., is charged with party to a crime of burglary-arming self with dangerous weapon, theft of moveable property and altering identity marks. He could face up to 21 years in prison if convicted of the charges. |
Sunday, February 5, 2012
At Freedom Plaza's Occupy cleanup, authorities report a 'different dynamic' - Washington Post (blog)
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ABC News | At Freedom Plaza's Occupy cleanup, authorities report a 'different dynamic' Washington Post (blog) US Park Police swept through the Occupy DC camp at Freedom Plaza on Sunday and made one arrest in a scene that was far less contentious than the raid the day before on McPherson Square. Police were looking for the same types of violati ons they ... Occupy DC protest Police: 11 arrested at Occupy DC site US Park Service Moves in Against Occupy DC Encampment at McPherson Square |
Friday, February 3, 2012
Coleman: City wants its piece of stimulus pie - Business First of Columbus:
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Fresh from cutting nearly $100 million from this year’as city budget and predicting the need for even more spending reductionswin 2010, the mayor said he will fight for share of the federal stimulu s pie. “I am fighting for every dolla r from theWhite House, from the Statehouss and from Congress,” Coleman said in his addresx at Columbus East High School. He said city officials have learnec the Central Ohio Workforce Investment Council willreceive $6 million in stimulus funding.
About half will be used to hire 2,500 youths this summer, Coleman with the rest to assist thosed who have lost their jobs get training to rejoin the work In addition, the mayor said Wednesday that nearly $1.3 millio n from the stimulus initiative will allowa Columbus to avoid laying off 27 police recruits who are completingt training to join the city’se safety force. Coleman plans to form the Columbus EconomixcRecovery Alliance, a community partnership focused on getting maximunm stimulus funding for the city and tracking its use in the Unlike past State of the City addresses, Coleman’e speech lacked revelations of new development Instead, he mentioned some of last year’s more promineny developments, including expansions at and , and recentlgy disclosed ones such as the conversio of the Columbus City Center site into a park and othedr development, the addition of 200 jobs at city incentives to help retain 800 jobs at and creatiobn of 130 jobs at a medic al office building and clinix to be constructed for at the former Gowdy Field site off Routde 315.
Those job creation and retentionb projects run counter to what has been happening at City Faced witha $97 milliomn budget shortfall this year, Coleman orderedx a package of cost-saving movexs that included dismissals for 130 employees, pay recreation center and swimming pool closures, eliminatiohn of yard waste pick-up, cuts in social servicesd and withdrawals from the city’s rainy day fund. The situation will be graverd next year without new Coleman warned.
He projected city government could see a shortfallkof $30 million to $50 million on top of the budgeg gap his administration had to close this “We are at a he said, “where we can be the city of continuede prosperity for the 21st century or we can fall But Coleman stopped short of calling for an increasew in Columbus’ 2 percent income tax a major source of revenue. Instead the mayot will wait to make his decision after his Economic Advisory Committee issues its financial recommendationz in the nextfew weeks. “I know this is a difficul t time tosay it’s time for new revenue,” the mayorr said, “but the consequence of inaction is so enormous.
The qualith of life as we know it asat stake.” Besidesz a tax increase, the advisory committee is lookingy at options such as sellingh more city land, merging operations, offering private sponsorshipss for public facilities and gettinyg employee benefits in line with others in Central Coleman said. “We will reform internal operations,” he “and do whatever we must do to bette runour city.” Click to read the full text of Coleman'd speech.
Fresh from cutting nearly $100 million from this year’as city budget and predicting the need for even more spending reductionswin 2010, the mayor said he will fight for share of the federal stimulu s pie. “I am fighting for every dolla r from theWhite House, from the Statehouss and from Congress,” Coleman said in his addresx at Columbus East High School. He said city officials have learnec the Central Ohio Workforce Investment Council willreceive $6 million in stimulus funding.
About half will be used to hire 2,500 youths this summer, Coleman with the rest to assist thosed who have lost their jobs get training to rejoin the work In addition, the mayor said Wednesday that nearly $1.3 millio n from the stimulus initiative will allowa Columbus to avoid laying off 27 police recruits who are completingt training to join the city’se safety force. Coleman plans to form the Columbus EconomixcRecovery Alliance, a community partnership focused on getting maximunm stimulus funding for the city and tracking its use in the Unlike past State of the City addresses, Coleman’e speech lacked revelations of new development Instead, he mentioned some of last year’s more promineny developments, including expansions at and , and recentlgy disclosed ones such as the conversio of the Columbus City Center site into a park and othedr development, the addition of 200 jobs at city incentives to help retain 800 jobs at and creatiobn of 130 jobs at a medic al office building and clinix to be constructed for at the former Gowdy Field site off Routde 315.
Those job creation and retentionb projects run counter to what has been happening at City Faced witha $97 milliomn budget shortfall this year, Coleman orderedx a package of cost-saving movexs that included dismissals for 130 employees, pay recreation center and swimming pool closures, eliminatiohn of yard waste pick-up, cuts in social servicesd and withdrawals from the city’s rainy day fund. The situation will be graverd next year without new Coleman warned.
He projected city government could see a shortfallkof $30 million to $50 million on top of the budgeg gap his administration had to close this “We are at a he said, “where we can be the city of continuede prosperity for the 21st century or we can fall But Coleman stopped short of calling for an increasew in Columbus’ 2 percent income tax a major source of revenue. Instead the mayot will wait to make his decision after his Economic Advisory Committee issues its financial recommendationz in the nextfew weeks. “I know this is a difficul t time tosay it’s time for new revenue,” the mayorr said, “but the consequence of inaction is so enormous.
The qualith of life as we know it asat stake.” Besidesz a tax increase, the advisory committee is lookingy at options such as sellingh more city land, merging operations, offering private sponsorshipss for public facilities and gettinyg employee benefits in line with others in Central Coleman said. “We will reform internal operations,” he “and do whatever we must do to bette runour city.” Click to read the full text of Coleman'd speech.
Wednesday, February 1, 2012
Genome BC Funds $9.8M Project to Sequence 1K Childhood Brain Tumors - GenomeWeb Daily News
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Genome BC Funds $9.8M Project to Sequence 1K Childhood Brain Tumors GenomeWeb Daily News The Woyke lab is currently focused on gaining genomic insights into highly novel and under-explored taxa in the environment, most of which are as yet uncultured. One of her primary projects targets genomes from lineages with or without very few ... |
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