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 ... |
Tuesday, February 14, 2012
Syrian Activist: 'Idea Of Safety Doesn't Exist Anymore' - WBUR
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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.
The park coulx be completed by the summerof 2010. It will be managexd by the Capitol Riverfront BusinessImprovement
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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