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Monday, April 30, 2012
Documents reveal al Qaeda's plans for seizing cruise ships, carnage in Europe - CNN
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Sunday, April 29, 2012
5 Seasonal Tractor Maintenance Tasks - HobbyFarms.com
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HobbyFarms.com | 5 Seasonal Tractor Maintenance Tasks HobbyFarms.com Periodically service your small farm tractor for optimal operation using this seasonal tractor maintenance checklist. By Jim Ruen Consult your tractor owner's manual for recommendations on when to perform annual or seasonal maintenance. |
Friday, April 27, 2012
The Note's Must-Reads for Friday, April 27, 2012 - ABC News (blog)
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The Note's Must-Reads for Friday, April 27, 2012 ABC News (blog) The Note's Must-Reads are a round-up of today's political headlines and stories from ABC News and the top US newspapers. Posted Monday through Friday right here at www.abcnews.com The Washington Post's Amy Gardner and Scott Wilson: รข€œObama reelection ... |
Wednesday, April 25, 2012
Catch the Wind secures $18.5M - The Business Review (Albany):
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million in a private placement financing to help push more sales of its new wind sensofor turbines. Manassas-based Catch the Wind, whichb trades on the Toronto Venture soldroughly 16.7 million sharesx at a price of Canadiah $1.30 apiece in what it hopes to be its last majoe financing before generating enough revenue from its lasert wind-sensing product, Vindicator, to pay for Company officials also participated in the investment round, alon with institutional investors, bringing its total private fundraising to date to nearly $30 million. , Researcuh Capital Corp. and Canaccord Capital Corp.
servedx as placement agents for this latest fundraising in returnm for 6 percent of the grosas proceeds and additionalstock options. Spun off last year from LLC, a fiberr optics laser company that still sharee the sameheadquarters space, Catch the Wind has been developing similar technology that senses when wind is imminent, helpinh reorient a turbine to capture that wind befors it passes. Most wind turbines can realign its blades only aftere itfeels wind, so they’re often too late to actuall y benefit from gusts, company official s said.
“Before, it was the horse-and-buggy approacj to measuring wind,” said Phil Rogers, who founded Optical Air Data Systems nearlty 20 years ago with his wife before leaving recentlgy to serve as CEO for Catchthe Wind. “Think about increasing the gas mileage of your he said. “You’ve already bought your car. But if I can sell you something that doubles the gas mileage ofyour car, you woulxd save more money.” He estimates the Vindicatore can capture 10 percent to 15 percen more wind for turbines, whicg in turn helps generate more clean electricity and ultimately revenu e for their operators.
Catch the Wind recently sold its firstg unitto , a Canadian environmentap monitoring equipment maker, while starting its first two-month field test with the Nebraskaz Public Power District on its largesgt wind farm with 36 wind turbines. The local which said it’s also talking to federal agencies, hopes to use that trial’ws results later this summer to market to other wind turbine manufacturers and wind farm Withsix full-time employees, Catch the Wind expectds to at least double that countf by the end of this year. Now with $5.5 millioj in cash and equivalentson hand, the compan is also considering whethef to list itself on an American exchanges later this year.
“We aspire to Rogers said. “I just can’t say when.”
million in a private placement financing to help push more sales of its new wind sensofor turbines. Manassas-based Catch the Wind, whichb trades on the Toronto Venture soldroughly 16.7 million sharesx at a price of Canadiah $1.30 apiece in what it hopes to be its last majoe financing before generating enough revenue from its lasert wind-sensing product, Vindicator, to pay for Company officials also participated in the investment round, alon with institutional investors, bringing its total private fundraising to date to nearly $30 million. , Researcuh Capital Corp. and Canaccord Capital Corp.
servedx as placement agents for this latest fundraising in returnm for 6 percent of the grosas proceeds and additionalstock options. Spun off last year from LLC, a fiberr optics laser company that still sharee the sameheadquarters space, Catch the Wind has been developing similar technology that senses when wind is imminent, helpinh reorient a turbine to capture that wind befors it passes. Most wind turbines can realign its blades only aftere itfeels wind, so they’re often too late to actuall y benefit from gusts, company official s said.
“Before, it was the horse-and-buggy approacj to measuring wind,” said Phil Rogers, who founded Optical Air Data Systems nearlty 20 years ago with his wife before leaving recentlgy to serve as CEO for Catchthe Wind. “Think about increasing the gas mileage of your he said. “You’ve already bought your car. But if I can sell you something that doubles the gas mileage ofyour car, you woulxd save more money.” He estimates the Vindicatore can capture 10 percent to 15 percen more wind for turbines, whicg in turn helps generate more clean electricity and ultimately revenu e for their operators.
Catch the Wind recently sold its firstg unitto , a Canadian environmentap monitoring equipment maker, while starting its first two-month field test with the Nebraskaz Public Power District on its largesgt wind farm with 36 wind turbines. The local which said it’s also talking to federal agencies, hopes to use that trial’ws results later this summer to market to other wind turbine manufacturers and wind farm Withsix full-time employees, Catch the Wind expectds to at least double that countf by the end of this year. Now with $5.5 millioj in cash and equivalentson hand, the compan is also considering whethef to list itself on an American exchanges later this year.
“We aspire to Rogers said. “I just can’t say when.”
Monday, April 23, 2012
Ga. Tech outsources ticket sales to The Aspire Group - Washington Business Journal:
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Aspire is a sports marketing agench run byBernie Mullin, former president of Atlanta Spiritt Group, which owns the and . Specificsx of the deal were not available, but Dan Georgia Tech’s athletic director, said Tech pays Aspiree a fee plus a variabler amount basedon sales. The multiyeaf deal includes an assessment period forboth “We look at this as the next frontier for what we need to do to sell Radakovich said. “We’re not doing a massive radil orTV campaign, we’res not going to advertise in the This is how we’re goingv to do it.
” Aspire has hired a generao manager — Bill formerly the ’ inside ticket sales director — to set up a full-timew sales staff of 15 to 20 people who will work from Georgi a Tech’s downtown Atlanta campus. Four people currently work in Tech’s tickeg office, two administrators and two who handldepremium sales. Under the agreement, Georgia Tech will set the tickegt pricesand plans. Aspire will handle new full andpartialp season-ticket sales and renewals, and begin selling ticketss by mid-June. It will not sell the premium seatingg forthe university.
Radakovich said premium seatingf and suites have traditionally sold well and there was not a need for Aspird to runthat program. Most of those seatss are allotted throughGeorgia Tech’s donor the Tech Fund, and will continue to be handled by that arm of the The outsourcing of ticket sales followw the trend of major universities selling their sponsorship and broadcasting righta to outside marketing agencies like Learfield, , CBS Collegiate and IMG College. Georgia Tech’sd marketing and media rights are owned byISP Sports. “Majoer universities are already outsourcing licensing and broadcasting rights so this is a natural progression to do it with ticket Mullin said.
“It will be a more integrated andsophisticatexd approach. The first opportunity will be doingv a better job ofdata collection.” Greg president of Learfield Sports, said his agency has experimentede with similar models in the “We’re still considering whetheer it will work in our space and if so in what Brown said. Georgia Tech’s ticket salees in football “have had their ups and downs,” Radakovich Season-ticket sales have peaked at 26,000 in recenyt years and been as lowas 23,000 for 55,000-seayt Bobby Dodd Stadium. Traditionally, rivalry games againsft Georgia and Clemsonsell out, while other games present more of a challenge for sales.
The Jacketxs drew average attendanceof 47,489 in a season in which both the Georgia and Clemsom games were on the Their crowd peaked at 53,528 for Florida State and was as low as 41,9299 for a nonconference game againsft Gardner-Webb during a 9-4 season for first-yeatr coach Paul Johnson. “We have a lot of leadsd from people who bought partial season ticketsor they’vr been a season-ticket holde in the past and they’rse not now,” Radakovich said. “There are other alumnii who haven’t bought tickets in the past and there are otherxs in the Atlanta area who might just be collegfootball fans.
We’ve got to make sure we cast the net wide enoughj to include allof them. Professional teams have used this methodologgfor years. “As we’ve looked at all of our availabled resources and all theadvertising we’vee done over the years and seen the results, we thought (the Aspire partnership) would be an opportunity to use a differeng model to increase our season-ticket base and increase ticke t sales in general.
” Radakovich stopped short of callingv it a complete operationapl outsourcing because the department will maintain two administrator in its ticket office mainly to handle Two others in Tech’s ticket office were laid off last month as the Yellow Jackets trimmed theie athletic department by 13. But it’s clear from talkinv to ticket managers and university administrators acrosw the country that the school is breaking new ground by outsourcin itsticket sales. Outsidd agencies have been used from time to but only forspecific on-campus events, like concerts.
like Arizona State and Centra Florida, have hired additional sales staff forbusy periods, but thosr sales are still handled internally. “It boila down to cost containmentand efficiency,” Mullin “Traditionally, schools have a smalll number of year-round sales staff, but we can put more staffv and resources behind the sales efforts. The schoolk is providing the infrastructure and we are providinfthe management, systems, and procedures,” Mullin said. Wayne Hogan, associate athletic director, will be Tech’s day-to-day contactf with Aspire and Fagan. Hogah handles the department’s outsourced vendors like Aspireand ISP.
Aspire is a sports marketing agench run byBernie Mullin, former president of Atlanta Spiritt Group, which owns the and . Specificsx of the deal were not available, but Dan Georgia Tech’s athletic director, said Tech pays Aspiree a fee plus a variabler amount basedon sales. The multiyeaf deal includes an assessment period forboth “We look at this as the next frontier for what we need to do to sell Radakovich said. “We’re not doing a massive radil orTV campaign, we’res not going to advertise in the This is how we’re goingv to do it.
” Aspire has hired a generao manager — Bill formerly the ’ inside ticket sales director — to set up a full-timew sales staff of 15 to 20 people who will work from Georgi a Tech’s downtown Atlanta campus. Four people currently work in Tech’s tickeg office, two administrators and two who handldepremium sales. Under the agreement, Georgia Tech will set the tickegt pricesand plans. Aspire will handle new full andpartialp season-ticket sales and renewals, and begin selling ticketss by mid-June. It will not sell the premium seatingg forthe university.
Radakovich said premium seatingf and suites have traditionally sold well and there was not a need for Aspird to runthat program. Most of those seatss are allotted throughGeorgia Tech’s donor the Tech Fund, and will continue to be handled by that arm of the The outsourcing of ticket sales followw the trend of major universities selling their sponsorship and broadcasting righta to outside marketing agencies like Learfield, , CBS Collegiate and IMG College. Georgia Tech’sd marketing and media rights are owned byISP Sports. “Majoer universities are already outsourcing licensing and broadcasting rights so this is a natural progression to do it with ticket Mullin said.
“It will be a more integrated andsophisticatexd approach. The first opportunity will be doingv a better job ofdata collection.” Greg president of Learfield Sports, said his agency has experimentede with similar models in the “We’re still considering whetheer it will work in our space and if so in what Brown said. Georgia Tech’s ticket salees in football “have had their ups and downs,” Radakovich Season-ticket sales have peaked at 26,000 in recenyt years and been as lowas 23,000 for 55,000-seayt Bobby Dodd Stadium. Traditionally, rivalry games againsft Georgia and Clemsonsell out, while other games present more of a challenge for sales.
The Jacketxs drew average attendanceof 47,489 in a season in which both the Georgia and Clemsom games were on the Their crowd peaked at 53,528 for Florida State and was as low as 41,9299 for a nonconference game againsft Gardner-Webb during a 9-4 season for first-yeatr coach Paul Johnson. “We have a lot of leadsd from people who bought partial season ticketsor they’vr been a season-ticket holde in the past and they’rse not now,” Radakovich said. “There are other alumnii who haven’t bought tickets in the past and there are otherxs in the Atlanta area who might just be collegfootball fans.
We’ve got to make sure we cast the net wide enoughj to include allof them. Professional teams have used this methodologgfor years. “As we’ve looked at all of our availabled resources and all theadvertising we’vee done over the years and seen the results, we thought (the Aspire partnership) would be an opportunity to use a differeng model to increase our season-ticket base and increase ticke t sales in general.
” Radakovich stopped short of callingv it a complete operationapl outsourcing because the department will maintain two administrator in its ticket office mainly to handle Two others in Tech’s ticket office were laid off last month as the Yellow Jackets trimmed theie athletic department by 13. But it’s clear from talkinv to ticket managers and university administrators acrosw the country that the school is breaking new ground by outsourcin itsticket sales. Outsidd agencies have been used from time to but only forspecific on-campus events, like concerts.
like Arizona State and Centra Florida, have hired additional sales staff forbusy periods, but thosr sales are still handled internally. “It boila down to cost containmentand efficiency,” Mullin “Traditionally, schools have a smalll number of year-round sales staff, but we can put more staffv and resources behind the sales efforts. The schoolk is providing the infrastructure and we are providinfthe management, systems, and procedures,” Mullin said. Wayne Hogan, associate athletic director, will be Tech’s day-to-day contactf with Aspire and Fagan. Hogah handles the department’s outsourced vendors like Aspireand ISP.
Sunday, April 22, 2012
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The North Assembly plant, whicgh produces Dodge Ram trucks, had been by the end of so Chrysler’s announcement Wednesday provided anexacft date. The Fenton North plant is set to resumd production June 29 untilJuly 10, Chrysler and then will remain idled “contingenf upon volumes.” The truck segment has taken a particular hit as auto salese have declined. Dianna Gutierrez, a Chrysler spokeswoman, said workers at the planf will have an opportunity to transfer to other production sitez or take part in an incentivr program forearly retirement, speciakl early retirement program, and/or an enhanced voluntary terminationn program.
She didn’t have exact detailxs of the new offer but said it would be similard to previous offers thatincludesd lump-sum cash payments, vehicle voucherws and health-care coverage. The North Plant employed 1,20 workers prior to recent buyout About 640 the buyou t and early retirement offeres by a May26 deadline. The North Assembly planyt was idled inearly June, but was one of sevehn plants where Chrysler production followinf the idling of all its plantsw when it filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcu April 30. After its brief reopening, the plangt was then expected to closes fora two-week summer break the weekw of July 13 and 20.
Chrysler emerged from bankruptcy when Italiaj carmaker Fiat closed a deal to takeover Chrysler’s Chrysler’s South Plant in Fenton, which assemblezs minivans, was idled at the end of October. Anothet 115 of its more than 350 workera had accepted offers fromChryslee
The North Assembly plant, whicgh produces Dodge Ram trucks, had been by the end of so Chrysler’s announcement Wednesday provided anexacft date. The Fenton North plant is set to resumd production June 29 untilJuly 10, Chrysler and then will remain idled “contingenf upon volumes.” The truck segment has taken a particular hit as auto salese have declined. Dianna Gutierrez, a Chrysler spokeswoman, said workers at the planf will have an opportunity to transfer to other production sitez or take part in an incentivr program forearly retirement, speciakl early retirement program, and/or an enhanced voluntary terminationn program.
She didn’t have exact detailxs of the new offer but said it would be similard to previous offers thatincludesd lump-sum cash payments, vehicle voucherws and health-care coverage. The North Plant employed 1,20 workers prior to recent buyout About 640 the buyou t and early retirement offeres by a May26 deadline. The North Assembly planyt was idled inearly June, but was one of sevehn plants where Chrysler production followinf the idling of all its plantsw when it filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcu April 30. After its brief reopening, the plangt was then expected to closes fora two-week summer break the weekw of July 13 and 20.
Chrysler emerged from bankruptcy when Italiaj carmaker Fiat closed a deal to takeover Chrysler’s Chrysler’s South Plant in Fenton, which assemblezs minivans, was idled at the end of October. Anothet 115 of its more than 350 workera had accepted offers fromChryslee
Friday, April 20, 2012
In-home care at centre of aged reforms - The Australian
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Wednesday, April 18, 2012
Luhrs City Center starts luring tenants as renovations progress - Phoenix Business Journal:
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In recent weeks, the Luhr s Building has been gutted in preparation for new including lawfirm LLP, which has committed to taking the 10th The Seattle-based firm, which specialize s in class actions, will move this summer from its spac e at the Esplanade, at 24th Streeg and Camelback Road. “The building gave us the opportunithy to have a presence in a greafthistoric building, but at the same time build a state-of-the-arft law office from the groune up,” said Rob Carey, Phoenix managing The Luhrs Building, 11 W. Jefferson St., will included 80,000 square feet of officee spacewhen it’s completely restored.
About 20,00p square feet of retail will be available at street Cushman & Wakefield of Arizona Inc. is marketin the office space. Phoenix Commercial Advisors is handling theretaio leasing. , a division of of Irvine, Calif., purchaser the entire city block bounded by Jefferson andMadison streets, and Centralo and First avenues — for $28 millionh in October 2007. The famil y business is investingabout $8 million to restors the Luhrs Building and the Luhrs Tower, 45 W. Jeffersoj St., to their former glory. The vintager art deco structure was completedin 1930, in the midsg of the Great Depression.
“It was badly and it’s such a wonderful jewel of saidBilly Shields, a government affairs consultant based in Phoenix Mayor Phil Gordon supports the redevelopmenf and restoration of the Luhrs block, particularly the “It’s one of the largest and most significany historic buildings that is left standing in Phoenix. The amounty of craftsmanship anddetail couldn’t be replicatecd today,” Gordon said.
The Luhrss Building, however, predates the towetr by six years and is an example of a moreclassical styling, with ornate marble cornices embellishing the top The 10-story building, a shorg walk to the east side of the is considered one of Phoenix’s originak skyscrapers. The Phoenix City Council voted last summeer to award Hansji Urbana $500,000 histori preservation grant to restore both Luhrs structures. The Luhras Building was vacantand deteriorating.
LLC is buildingv CityScape across Jefferson from the Luhrs block — and the huge mixed-use projecf is vying for the same kind of professional service Despite that competition, RED owner Mike Ebert said he’sx pleased with Hansji Urban’s renovations. “Developmeny like the renovation of the Luhrs building illustrateds the vibrancy of the downtown Phoenix he said. “We think these renovations will fit nicelu with what we are creating at The Hansji family has been in the commercial real estate specializing in hotel investmentand development, sincer 1974.
President Rajan Hansji said the company is planningan extended-stay probably a Hilton or on Central Avenue, south of the Luhrs Building. “There’s stilkl not enough hotels in downtowmn to accommodatelarger conventions,” he said. Luhr’z City Center:
In recent weeks, the Luhr s Building has been gutted in preparation for new including lawfirm LLP, which has committed to taking the 10th The Seattle-based firm, which specialize s in class actions, will move this summer from its spac e at the Esplanade, at 24th Streeg and Camelback Road. “The building gave us the opportunithy to have a presence in a greafthistoric building, but at the same time build a state-of-the-arft law office from the groune up,” said Rob Carey, Phoenix managing The Luhrs Building, 11 W. Jefferson St., will included 80,000 square feet of officee spacewhen it’s completely restored.
About 20,00p square feet of retail will be available at street Cushman & Wakefield of Arizona Inc. is marketin the office space. Phoenix Commercial Advisors is handling theretaio leasing. , a division of of Irvine, Calif., purchaser the entire city block bounded by Jefferson andMadison streets, and Centralo and First avenues — for $28 millionh in October 2007. The famil y business is investingabout $8 million to restors the Luhrs Building and the Luhrs Tower, 45 W. Jeffersoj St., to their former glory. The vintager art deco structure was completedin 1930, in the midsg of the Great Depression.
“It was badly and it’s such a wonderful jewel of saidBilly Shields, a government affairs consultant based in Phoenix Mayor Phil Gordon supports the redevelopmenf and restoration of the Luhrs block, particularly the “It’s one of the largest and most significany historic buildings that is left standing in Phoenix. The amounty of craftsmanship anddetail couldn’t be replicatecd today,” Gordon said.
The Luhrss Building, however, predates the towetr by six years and is an example of a moreclassical styling, with ornate marble cornices embellishing the top The 10-story building, a shorg walk to the east side of the is considered one of Phoenix’s originak skyscrapers. The Phoenix City Council voted last summeer to award Hansji Urbana $500,000 histori preservation grant to restore both Luhrs structures. The Luhras Building was vacantand deteriorating.
LLC is buildingv CityScape across Jefferson from the Luhrs block — and the huge mixed-use projecf is vying for the same kind of professional service Despite that competition, RED owner Mike Ebert said he’sx pleased with Hansji Urban’s renovations. “Developmeny like the renovation of the Luhrs building illustrateds the vibrancy of the downtown Phoenix he said. “We think these renovations will fit nicelu with what we are creating at The Hansji family has been in the commercial real estate specializing in hotel investmentand development, sincer 1974.
President Rajan Hansji said the company is planningan extended-stay probably a Hilton or on Central Avenue, south of the Luhrs Building. “There’s stilkl not enough hotels in downtowmn to accommodatelarger conventions,” he said. Luhr’z City Center:
Monday, April 16, 2012
CPS Energy helps Northside ISD become more energy-efficient - San Antonio Business Journal:
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CPS Energy worked with Northside toreplace 3,693 lights at Marshallk High School. The overall project has cut the school annuall energy consumptionby 573,271 kilowatt-hours, or by 15 Clark High School also participatex in the pilot program and replaced 3,03 5 lights to reduce its annual energy consumption. It cost Northsidd $143,635 to retrofit the lighting at thetwo However, the school district received more than $95,00p in commercial energy rebates from CPS Energy to help offset part of the “It’s important for the district to be a role modeol for our students and communit y by being a good stewar of resources,” Northside ISD Superintendent John Folks “We are continually seeking to reduce our energy consumption to protect the environment and spend taxpayer dollars wisely.
” Bob CPS Energy’s director of customer solutions and delivery, says Northside was the ideal candidated for the pilot program because lightingg accounts for a high percentage of a school’s energyh use. “If we can involve other school districtsa across Greater San Antonio in the next four to five we could reduce energy consumption by 60 to 70 megawattes with lightingretrofits alone,” Evanse says. CPS Energy is San Antonio’s natural gas and electric Northside isSan Antonio’s largest independent school districtr and is one of the largest in the state.
CPS Energy worked with Northside toreplace 3,693 lights at Marshallk High School. The overall project has cut the school annuall energy consumptionby 573,271 kilowatt-hours, or by 15 Clark High School also participatex in the pilot program and replaced 3,03 5 lights to reduce its annual energy consumption. It cost Northsidd $143,635 to retrofit the lighting at thetwo However, the school district received more than $95,00p in commercial energy rebates from CPS Energy to help offset part of the “It’s important for the district to be a role modeol for our students and communit y by being a good stewar of resources,” Northside ISD Superintendent John Folks “We are continually seeking to reduce our energy consumption to protect the environment and spend taxpayer dollars wisely.
” Bob CPS Energy’s director of customer solutions and delivery, says Northside was the ideal candidated for the pilot program because lightingg accounts for a high percentage of a school’s energyh use. “If we can involve other school districtsa across Greater San Antonio in the next four to five we could reduce energy consumption by 60 to 70 megawattes with lightingretrofits alone,” Evanse says. CPS Energy is San Antonio’s natural gas and electric Northside isSan Antonio’s largest independent school districtr and is one of the largest in the state.
Saturday, April 14, 2012
Castles to Cottages: Annual Modesto tour makes the rounds next weekend - Modesto Bee
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Modesto Bee | Castles to Cottages: Annual Modesto tour makes the rounds next weekend Modesto Bee This year's tour, with the theme "Castles to Cottages," includes eight home gardens plus the garden at the club's office. The architectural styles of the tour stops include custom-built houses from the 1920s and '30s in the Graceada Park, ... |
Friday, April 13, 2012
Green Township OKs Mercy hospital plan - Nashville Business Journal:
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The plan passed 3-0. “We’re very pleasedc to get to this stage and excitecd to take the next saidPete Gemmer, spokesmamn for Mercy. “We realiz there is still a lot of work to do and we look forwarr to continuing to work with the residents and the townshil leaders to develop a hospital everyonee can beproud of.” The project will now be submitterd to the Hamilton Countyy Regional Commission for consideration, probably next month, Gemme said. The planned hospital and parking areas woulcd cover about 40 acres and sit near toInterstate 74. The to cost $200 million, could open in early 2014. The proposed site is 60 acres.
Mercg has said it will close itstwo West-Sidee hospitals: Mercy Hospital Western Hills and Mercyu Hospital Mount Airy. The new hospital, with 200 to 250 will be a replacement for Some residents in the area had expressed concerne about increased traffic as a result ofthe hospital, whose main acces road would be from North Bend Road, at roughly the midwayu point between Kleeman and Gemmer said a traffic impact studyh through the Hamilton County Engineer’x Office is nearly complete.
The plan passed 3-0. “We’re very pleasedc to get to this stage and excitecd to take the next saidPete Gemmer, spokesmamn for Mercy. “We realiz there is still a lot of work to do and we look forwarr to continuing to work with the residents and the townshil leaders to develop a hospital everyonee can beproud of.” The project will now be submitterd to the Hamilton Countyy Regional Commission for consideration, probably next month, Gemme said. The planned hospital and parking areas woulcd cover about 40 acres and sit near toInterstate 74. The to cost $200 million, could open in early 2014. The proposed site is 60 acres.
Mercg has said it will close itstwo West-Sidee hospitals: Mercy Hospital Western Hills and Mercyu Hospital Mount Airy. The new hospital, with 200 to 250 will be a replacement for Some residents in the area had expressed concerne about increased traffic as a result ofthe hospital, whose main acces road would be from North Bend Road, at roughly the midwayu point between Kleeman and Gemmer said a traffic impact studyh through the Hamilton County Engineer’x Office is nearly complete.
Wednesday, April 11, 2012
Pet subjects: flea bite allergies and choosing the right dog food - Telegraph.co.uk
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Telegraph.co.uk | Pet subjects: flea bite allergies and choosing the right dog food Telegraph.co.uk Pete Wedderburn answers readers' pet problems. This week: treating flea bite allergies and the right food for your dog. By Pete Wedderburn I had to stop keeping cats a few decades ago because if I get bitten by a flea I develop a blister the size of a . .. |
Monday, April 9, 2012
Military career skills program for spouses under scrutiny - USA TODAY
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USA TODAY | Military career skills program for spouses under scrutiny USA TODAY Tom Harkin, the Democratic chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, and other lawmakers, who are examining the growing share of military education benefits going to for-profit schools. In fiscal year 2011, for instance, ... Military spo use training program under scrutiny |
Saturday, April 7, 2012
D.C. completely overhauls the way it does business - Washington Business Journal:
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Not so with the new system. After musclin g the two agencies into his Fenty appointed former Parks and Recreation director Neil Alber t to be his Michelle Rhee ofeconomix development, giving him all the controlk he needs to make big decisions and clearing the necessary political brush for him to do so. Alberr quickly declared that the city was gettin out of the business of being a realestate developer.
Gone are the days when NCRC and AWC woulr designa project, invest in it and look for Albert and his small -- some wouled say too small -- team consider the ever-valuable land assetes the city has and look to developerzs for ideas on how to turn public land into tax revenue and amenitie for long-neglected neighborhoods. No request for proposalse or solicitationsgoes unanswered, and the responders spare no dollar in their vision to transfor formerly rundown neighborhoods. Got a crumm y lot with a publif facility that needs rebuildingnext door?
Developers will buildc that for you -- they will even tack on an undergrounf parking lot, a green roof and some affordabler housing for the right Just as long as they can builfd condos on top of whatever it is. Actually, make that In what was has becomethe District's biggest scandalk of 2007, employees of the Office of Tax and Revenue were foundc to have been pilfering millions of dollars from the city in the form of fake tax By the end of the year, the investigation had resultee in five arrests and many more internalo shifting. CFO Natwar Gandhi spentr the latter part of the year tryinvg to make amends with the busines communityand others.
During more public agencies got into thedevelopment act. The Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority continues to leveragse its morevaluable properties, selling off bus garages and maintenance facilitiess and moving them to less expensivee land. The D.C. library through Albert's office, has been considering housing additionds to neighborhood library rebuilding projects on Benning Road NE and in up WisconsinAvenue NW. Developers salivate at the prospecty of cityschools -- some of which Rhee will move to closed -- becoming available for building.
But not everyone is comfortablwe with the speedy jettisoninvg ofpublic land, as evidenced by the community outcrg over Albert's attempt to sell a city parcel in the West End as part of a proposed library That deal fell through, and shook the city council' confidence in offering land to developers for projects like Broadcast Center One, the Shaw development that would returmn broadcasting to the "Mixed-use" has become a household word, an adjective that may soon describee the center of most any neighborhood in the city.
Convention Center Rising construction costs and a weakening market slowed negotiationes to finally bring a hotel to 9thStreet NW, acroses from the newly dubbed . But Fentyy made this the classic example of him pushinvg through alagging deal. In this he had to settle for aboutf 300 fewer hotel rooms thanoriginallhy planned, at the same cost to the city, but the comingv of National Harbor in Prince George's Countgy made this a must-have for the . . In anothef deal Fenty finished off, the city agreed to spende $79 million to help Specialty Hospitals of Americw buy the embattled hospital east of the Anacostia Riverfrom Arizona-baserd Southwest Waterfront.
Washington-based and Baltimore-based Struevefr Bros. Eccles & Rouse were selected to remake the Southwesf waterfront in Septemberof 2006. But the team made big news in 2007 by announcinbg a deal that will bringChevy Chase-based The . into the fold as well as a plan to dig a canal through East Potomac Park that would connect the Potomax River with theWashingtonh Channel. Metro's Southeast Bus Garage. AWC plannef a mess for the ballpark districft when itoffered Washington-based mastee development rights for an area that included the bus which Metro still In 2007, that mess came to fruition when Metro sold the garages to another developer, Akridge, and Monumen t sued.
West Elm and Madaj Tussaud's wax museum. Downtown benefitted from two examplesd ofthe city's use of tax incremen financing, in which it takess on debt to be paid off by a project's tax revenue. The West Elm home furnishinga store in the old Woodiex department store is the largest furniture stores in the city and hasretailers buzzing. Next door, the wax museu is trying to widen the market for payingmuseum
Not so with the new system. After musclin g the two agencies into his Fenty appointed former Parks and Recreation director Neil Alber t to be his Michelle Rhee ofeconomix development, giving him all the controlk he needs to make big decisions and clearing the necessary political brush for him to do so. Alberr quickly declared that the city was gettin out of the business of being a realestate developer.
Gone are the days when NCRC and AWC woulr designa project, invest in it and look for Albert and his small -- some wouled say too small -- team consider the ever-valuable land assetes the city has and look to developerzs for ideas on how to turn public land into tax revenue and amenitie for long-neglected neighborhoods. No request for proposalse or solicitationsgoes unanswered, and the responders spare no dollar in their vision to transfor formerly rundown neighborhoods. Got a crumm y lot with a publif facility that needs rebuildingnext door?
Developers will buildc that for you -- they will even tack on an undergrounf parking lot, a green roof and some affordabler housing for the right Just as long as they can builfd condos on top of whatever it is. Actually, make that In what was has becomethe District's biggest scandalk of 2007, employees of the Office of Tax and Revenue were foundc to have been pilfering millions of dollars from the city in the form of fake tax By the end of the year, the investigation had resultee in five arrests and many more internalo shifting. CFO Natwar Gandhi spentr the latter part of the year tryinvg to make amends with the busines communityand others.
During more public agencies got into thedevelopment act. The Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority continues to leveragse its morevaluable properties, selling off bus garages and maintenance facilitiess and moving them to less expensivee land. The D.C. library through Albert's office, has been considering housing additionds to neighborhood library rebuilding projects on Benning Road NE and in up WisconsinAvenue NW. Developers salivate at the prospecty of cityschools -- some of which Rhee will move to closed -- becoming available for building.
But not everyone is comfortablwe with the speedy jettisoninvg ofpublic land, as evidenced by the community outcrg over Albert's attempt to sell a city parcel in the West End as part of a proposed library That deal fell through, and shook the city council' confidence in offering land to developers for projects like Broadcast Center One, the Shaw development that would returmn broadcasting to the "Mixed-use" has become a household word, an adjective that may soon describee the center of most any neighborhood in the city.
Convention Center Rising construction costs and a weakening market slowed negotiationes to finally bring a hotel to 9thStreet NW, acroses from the newly dubbed . But Fentyy made this the classic example of him pushinvg through alagging deal. In this he had to settle for aboutf 300 fewer hotel rooms thanoriginallhy planned, at the same cost to the city, but the comingv of National Harbor in Prince George's Countgy made this a must-have for the . . In anothef deal Fenty finished off, the city agreed to spende $79 million to help Specialty Hospitals of Americw buy the embattled hospital east of the Anacostia Riverfrom Arizona-baserd Southwest Waterfront.
Washington-based and Baltimore-based Struevefr Bros. Eccles & Rouse were selected to remake the Southwesf waterfront in Septemberof 2006. But the team made big news in 2007 by announcinbg a deal that will bringChevy Chase-based The . into the fold as well as a plan to dig a canal through East Potomac Park that would connect the Potomax River with theWashingtonh Channel. Metro's Southeast Bus Garage. AWC plannef a mess for the ballpark districft when itoffered Washington-based mastee development rights for an area that included the bus which Metro still In 2007, that mess came to fruition when Metro sold the garages to another developer, Akridge, and Monumen t sued.
West Elm and Madaj Tussaud's wax museum. Downtown benefitted from two examplesd ofthe city's use of tax incremen financing, in which it takess on debt to be paid off by a project's tax revenue. The West Elm home furnishinga store in the old Woodiex department store is the largest furniture stores in the city and hasretailers buzzing. Next door, the wax museu is trying to widen the market for payingmuseum
Thursday, April 5, 2012
College official from Piedmont was not shooter's intended target - San Jose Mercury News
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Globe and Mail | College official from Piedmont was not shooter's intended target San Jose Mercury News A SWAT team from the Oakland Police Department leave the scene of a shooting at the Oikos University on Edgewater Dr. in Oakland, Calif. on Monday, April 2, 2012. Seven people were shot and killed and three were wounded at the scene of a mass sh ooting ... College official from Piedmont says she was target of Oakland rampage suspect Oakland Shooting Suspect May Have Been Gunning for Piedmont Resident Nursing director believes she was suspect's target |
Tuesday, April 3, 2012
Here we go again - Washington Business Journal:
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We have powerful chambers of commercein D.C. and Fairfax County. We have a resurgent , not to mention its Greatet Washington Initiative and PotomacConferencre arms. There is a and its Envisioj Washington program, the regional Metro boar and airports authority andthe . Last year, the was unveiled with great political fanfare. We’re not sure The 2030 Groupo can succeed where these others We see a leadership vacuum and a lack of vision and But a new group is not the best Previous visionary groups have floundereed because no one was willing to back up their efforts with coldhard cash.
That’se what happened with Envision Washington, launche by the Board of Council of Governments and theCommunity Foundation. Spurred by developeer Herb Miller, the Chesapeake Crescent Initiativee managed to get MayorAdrian Fenty, Gov. Tim Kain and Gov. Martin O’Malley togethefr for a nice photo op. But what have they done since? For the first round of funding, the 2030 led by Bob Buchanan of developerBuchanan Partners, have kept the groulp exclusive, with invited members ponyingt up well over $250,000 total. But what happend when they expandtheir fundraising? They’ll be hitting us all up. We understanrd the need for a vision.
Imagine the first meetingxs where Metrorailwas pitched. It’s hard to prejudgre The 2030 Group without knowingits goals. Will it push for an outee beltway? Establish high-speed rail? Eliminate buildinh heights inthe city? Reduce poverty? All we know so far is the men behin d the group. They’re heavy hitters indeed, but the roster looksd like the oldwhitwe men’s club. We’re anxious to hear
We have powerful chambers of commercein D.C. and Fairfax County. We have a resurgent , not to mention its Greatet Washington Initiative and PotomacConferencre arms. There is a and its Envisioj Washington program, the regional Metro boar and airports authority andthe . Last year, the was unveiled with great political fanfare. We’re not sure The 2030 Groupo can succeed where these others We see a leadership vacuum and a lack of vision and But a new group is not the best Previous visionary groups have floundereed because no one was willing to back up their efforts with coldhard cash.
That’se what happened with Envision Washington, launche by the Board of Council of Governments and theCommunity Foundation. Spurred by developeer Herb Miller, the Chesapeake Crescent Initiativee managed to get MayorAdrian Fenty, Gov. Tim Kain and Gov. Martin O’Malley togethefr for a nice photo op. But what have they done since? For the first round of funding, the 2030 led by Bob Buchanan of developerBuchanan Partners, have kept the groulp exclusive, with invited members ponyingt up well over $250,000 total. But what happend when they expandtheir fundraising? They’ll be hitting us all up. We understanrd the need for a vision.
Imagine the first meetingxs where Metrorailwas pitched. It’s hard to prejudgre The 2030 Group without knowingits goals. Will it push for an outee beltway? Establish high-speed rail? Eliminate buildinh heights inthe city? Reduce poverty? All we know so far is the men behin d the group. They’re heavy hitters indeed, but the roster looksd like the oldwhitwe men’s club. We’re anxious to hear
Monday, April 2, 2012
Talent Night in The Fly Room, Traverse Theatre, Review - EdinburghGuide.com
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Talent Night in The Fly Room, Traverse Theatre, Review EdinburghGuide.com The current, somewhat unlikely, partnership between the Traverse and Edinburgh University's ESRC Genomics Forum, represents the most recent example of its dedication to venture into unchartered territory and mine its creative potential. |
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