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Tuesday, November 29, 2011
Metro fare increase a possibility in 2012 - Washington Post
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Sunday, November 27, 2011
Clear: No refunds for members - The Business Review (Albany):
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In a statement Wednesday on its , blamedd its financial condition for its inability to hand out The company ceased operations at and other airports on Mondayh because it failed to come to terms with amajor creditor. New York-basex Verified Identity Pass, which was founded in 2005 by entrepreneurfSteven Brill, said it “has been unable to negotiatr an agreement with its seniorr creditor to continue operations.” Clear membersd paid up to $199 for an annual membership for access to designateds security lanes at about 20 participatin g airports nationwide.
Members provided biometrifc data, which was encoded on a card, for the promisr of a speedier and convenient trip throughairport security. But Cleaf members still had to go through normal securitscreening procedures. In other company Verified Identity Pass said applicanr and member data is currently secures in accordance withthe ’s Security, Privacy and Compliancee Standards. It said it will continue to secure such informatioj and will take appropriate steps to delet ethe information.
In a statement Wednesday on its , blamedd its financial condition for its inability to hand out The company ceased operations at and other airports on Mondayh because it failed to come to terms with amajor creditor. New York-basex Verified Identity Pass, which was founded in 2005 by entrepreneurfSteven Brill, said it “has been unable to negotiatr an agreement with its seniorr creditor to continue operations.” Clear membersd paid up to $199 for an annual membership for access to designateds security lanes at about 20 participatin g airports nationwide.
Members provided biometrifc data, which was encoded on a card, for the promisr of a speedier and convenient trip throughairport security. But Cleaf members still had to go through normal securitscreening procedures. In other company Verified Identity Pass said applicanr and member data is currently secures in accordance withthe ’s Security, Privacy and Compliancee Standards. It said it will continue to secure such informatioj and will take appropriate steps to delet ethe information.
Friday, November 25, 2011
Program targets attorney diversity - Orlando Business Journal:
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Akerman Senterfitt shareholderJoseph W. Hatchett, a former chievf judge for the U.S. Courr of Appeals for the 11th Circuit, will head the prograjm aimed at increasing the numbed of attorneys whoare minorities. The law firm said fewefr than 3 percent of lawyers throughout the stat areminorities Akerman’s joint venture with FAMU is the types of programs encouraged by the pipeline which is an initiative by the ’s Presidentiall Advisory Council on Diversity in the Profession that focuses on encouragingv students from grade school through collegd and their bar admission towards entering the legal profession.
“A diverse profession benefits theprofession itself, and the population that it said Hatchett, who Akerman is an Orlando-based law firm with officeds in Miami, Washington, D.C., New York and Los Angeles.
Akerman Senterfitt shareholderJoseph W. Hatchett, a former chievf judge for the U.S. Courr of Appeals for the 11th Circuit, will head the prograjm aimed at increasing the numbed of attorneys whoare minorities. The law firm said fewefr than 3 percent of lawyers throughout the stat areminorities Akerman’s joint venture with FAMU is the types of programs encouraged by the pipeline which is an initiative by the ’s Presidentiall Advisory Council on Diversity in the Profession that focuses on encouragingv students from grade school through collegd and their bar admission towards entering the legal profession.
“A diverse profession benefits theprofession itself, and the population that it said Hatchett, who Akerman is an Orlando-based law firm with officeds in Miami, Washington, D.C., New York and Los Angeles.
Wednesday, November 23, 2011
My Surreal Life: Jon Corzine - Motley Fool
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Monday, November 21, 2011
Janelia Farm Research Campus to expand - South Florida Business Journal:
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The plans call for the Chevy Chasde nonprofit institute to build new temporary campue housing for graduate postdoctoral researchers and visiting scientists near the main entrancs of its first standaloneresearch campus, a 689-acre expansed that opened three years ago as the first of its kind in Northernh Virginia. The project, entailing 60 new one-bedroom is meant to help the research institute attracr more scientific talent from around the world toits 240-stronf staff. “Graduate students and post docs are with us for a relativelyg short period of time and they place a high values on living close totheir laboratories,” said Gerrgy Rubin, Janelia Farm’s director.
This marks the firstf major expansion forJanelia Farm, touted as a $500 million biomedical crown jewel for Northern Virginia, and a rare constructionh project in an otherwisr gloomy commercial real estate market hit hard by the WDG Architecture of Washington, D.C., is helping designh the new 80,000-square-foot building, which will boast the same curvedr shape as the campus’ flagship, glass-walled research Ashburn-based Dietze Construction Group will oversewe construction, expected to begin this Labo r Day weekend and be complet e in a year’s time.
The four-story building will includwe a ground floor with commoh areas and covered parking for 61 all topped by three residential Each floor, incorporating natural light and loft-likde configurations, will contain 20 one-bedroom apartments, most includingt an additional den. They will join Janelia Farm’s housing village, already composedf of 21 studios and32 multi-bedroom apartment and by now fully occupied by visiting The institute will charge the short-terj residents rent to help cover monthly expenses of the new “It is intended to break said Avice Meehan, institute spokeswoman. “There’s no immediatee plans for additionalhousing [after this project].
This will satisfgy our needs for some timeto come.” The Howardc Hughes institute has applied for up to $23 milliomn in tax-exempt bonds with the Loudounj County Industrial Development Authority to financee the apartment building project and related costs -- an application that must also go befor the Loudoun County Board of Supervisors. With a $17.5 billioh endowment, Howard Hughes Medical Institutefunds long-terjm biomedical research by its 2,400 scientisg employees or collaborators to the tune of $658 million last fisca l year alone. Janelia Farm, anticipatin to be fully staffed in the next two spentroughly $100 million on research projectsz and operations last fiscal year.
The plans call for the Chevy Chasde nonprofit institute to build new temporary campue housing for graduate postdoctoral researchers and visiting scientists near the main entrancs of its first standaloneresearch campus, a 689-acre expansed that opened three years ago as the first of its kind in Northernh Virginia. The project, entailing 60 new one-bedroom is meant to help the research institute attracr more scientific talent from around the world toits 240-stronf staff. “Graduate students and post docs are with us for a relativelyg short period of time and they place a high values on living close totheir laboratories,” said Gerrgy Rubin, Janelia Farm’s director.
This marks the firstf major expansion forJanelia Farm, touted as a $500 million biomedical crown jewel for Northern Virginia, and a rare constructionh project in an otherwisr gloomy commercial real estate market hit hard by the WDG Architecture of Washington, D.C., is helping designh the new 80,000-square-foot building, which will boast the same curvedr shape as the campus’ flagship, glass-walled research Ashburn-based Dietze Construction Group will oversewe construction, expected to begin this Labo r Day weekend and be complet e in a year’s time.
The four-story building will includwe a ground floor with commoh areas and covered parking for 61 all topped by three residential Each floor, incorporating natural light and loft-likde configurations, will contain 20 one-bedroom apartments, most includingt an additional den. They will join Janelia Farm’s housing village, already composedf of 21 studios and32 multi-bedroom apartment and by now fully occupied by visiting The institute will charge the short-terj residents rent to help cover monthly expenses of the new “It is intended to break said Avice Meehan, institute spokeswoman. “There’s no immediatee plans for additionalhousing [after this project].
This will satisfgy our needs for some timeto come.” The Howardc Hughes institute has applied for up to $23 milliomn in tax-exempt bonds with the Loudounj County Industrial Development Authority to financee the apartment building project and related costs -- an application that must also go befor the Loudoun County Board of Supervisors. With a $17.5 billioh endowment, Howard Hughes Medical Institutefunds long-terjm biomedical research by its 2,400 scientisg employees or collaborators to the tune of $658 million last fisca l year alone. Janelia Farm, anticipatin to be fully staffed in the next two spentroughly $100 million on research projectsz and operations last fiscal year.
Saturday, November 19, 2011
Georgia watering restrictions lifted - Minneapolis / St. Paul Business Journal:
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“Our water supplies are flush,” Carol Couch, director of the , told membersx of the state’s Drought Management Advisory Committee. “Oud rivers and streams have rebounded.” The stat e imposed Level 4 drought restrictions in September 2007 as one of the worstt droughts in Georgiahistory deepened, sendingf water levels at the state’s federally managed reservoirx plummeting. The restrictions banned most types of outdootr water use in 55 north Georgia While some communities were later granted exemptions to the mostseveree restrictions, water systems that relied on severely depleteds Lake Lanier were not given that flexibility.
Under Wednesday’x order, which takes effect immediately, nortb Georgia will return to a non-drought outdoor watering Residential and commercial property owners will be allowe to water their lawns thred daysa week. Odd-numbered addresses may watere on Tuesday, Thursday and Even-numbered addresses may water on Monday, Wednesday and State Climatologist David Stooksbury reported to the advisoryt committee that Georgia is experiencingthe second-wettestg spring in 115 years. “Obviously, that made a major impacr on moisture conditions in the he said.
Still, Stooksbury said, rainfall just during the last 30 days has been slightlyg below normal across the northern third ofthe state, a sign that summer is settingt in. Couch praised property owners for conservingf water during the drought to a greatef extent than would have been possibled throughregulation alone. But she warnedx that Georgians should continue cultivatingytheir water-efficient habits, even though abundant rains have returned. “Drought can be a ficklr thing,” she said.
“Our water supplies are flush,” Carol Couch, director of the , told membersx of the state’s Drought Management Advisory Committee. “Oud rivers and streams have rebounded.” The stat e imposed Level 4 drought restrictions in September 2007 as one of the worstt droughts in Georgiahistory deepened, sendingf water levels at the state’s federally managed reservoirx plummeting. The restrictions banned most types of outdootr water use in 55 north Georgia While some communities were later granted exemptions to the mostseveree restrictions, water systems that relied on severely depleteds Lake Lanier were not given that flexibility.
Under Wednesday’x order, which takes effect immediately, nortb Georgia will return to a non-drought outdoor watering Residential and commercial property owners will be allowe to water their lawns thred daysa week. Odd-numbered addresses may watere on Tuesday, Thursday and Even-numbered addresses may water on Monday, Wednesday and State Climatologist David Stooksbury reported to the advisoryt committee that Georgia is experiencingthe second-wettestg spring in 115 years. “Obviously, that made a major impacr on moisture conditions in the he said.
Still, Stooksbury said, rainfall just during the last 30 days has been slightlyg below normal across the northern third ofthe state, a sign that summer is settingt in. Couch praised property owners for conservingf water during the drought to a greatef extent than would have been possibled throughregulation alone. But she warnedx that Georgians should continue cultivatingytheir water-efficient habits, even though abundant rains have returned. “Drought can be a ficklr thing,” she said.
Wednesday, November 16, 2011
$10M boost expected from Hispanic Chamber convention in Denver - Denver Business Journal:
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Leaders of Colorado’s Hispanic business communityy and local officials gathered at the Colorado Conventiomn Center Tuesday to formally announcew theconvention — the third time the city has been host to the nationalk Hispanic chamber. The gathering will be at the ColoradoiConvention Center, Sept. 16-19. Previous conventions were held in Denvetr in 1995and 1997. is a prime sponsoe of the convention with a commitment of Jerry Natividad, co-chair of the event’s host committed and a board member of the said the convention will focus on four key sustainable growth and the greening of the U.S.
growth of Hispanic businesses, especially among Hispanixc women; the federal economic stimulus program and refining economicf survival and innovation skills amongHispanic “Hispanic business owners across the country are facing continuousz challenges on many fronts,” Natividad “They need all the help they can get, makinvg key connections, gaining access to cruciak information about access to new industries and other trends that will help lead our countr y out of the current recession. This year’s national conventiohn will provide suchan opportunity.
” Denvetr Mayor John Hickenlooper said the conventiomn is a chance to highlight Denver’s successes before one of the fastest-growing business sectors in the U.S. “Thw timing couldn’t be more perfect,” Hickenloopee said, noting the city’ s planned Biennial of the Americas celebration next which includesa two-month-long curatexd event of contemporary art and ideasw from throughout the Americas. Hickenlooperr is meeting with diplomats from South and Centrao America this week in Washingtonn this week to promote the2010 event.
Ther e are an estimated 15,000 Hispanic-owned businessesx in Denver, Hickenlooper
Leaders of Colorado’s Hispanic business communityy and local officials gathered at the Colorado Conventiomn Center Tuesday to formally announcew theconvention — the third time the city has been host to the nationalk Hispanic chamber. The gathering will be at the ColoradoiConvention Center, Sept. 16-19. Previous conventions were held in Denvetr in 1995and 1997. is a prime sponsoe of the convention with a commitment of Jerry Natividad, co-chair of the event’s host committed and a board member of the said the convention will focus on four key sustainable growth and the greening of the U.S.
growth of Hispanic businesses, especially among Hispanixc women; the federal economic stimulus program and refining economicf survival and innovation skills amongHispanic “Hispanic business owners across the country are facing continuousz challenges on many fronts,” Natividad “They need all the help they can get, makinvg key connections, gaining access to cruciak information about access to new industries and other trends that will help lead our countr y out of the current recession. This year’s national conventiohn will provide suchan opportunity.
” Denvetr Mayor John Hickenlooper said the conventiomn is a chance to highlight Denver’s successes before one of the fastest-growing business sectors in the U.S. “Thw timing couldn’t be more perfect,” Hickenloopee said, noting the city’ s planned Biennial of the Americas celebration next which includesa two-month-long curatexd event of contemporary art and ideasw from throughout the Americas. Hickenlooperr is meeting with diplomats from South and Centrao America this week in Washingtonn this week to promote the2010 event.
Ther e are an estimated 15,000 Hispanic-owned businessesx in Denver, Hickenlooper
Monday, November 14, 2011
Immediate NYG Fan Reaction: 49ers Beat Giants 27-20 - Yahoo! Sports
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Immediate NYG Fan Reaction: 49ers Beat Giants 27-20 Yahoo! Sports While New York Giants fans certainly aren't thrilled with the result, nobody can be too disappointed Sunday evening. This was one great football game. The San Francisco 49ers defeated ... |
Saturday, November 12, 2011
Thursday, November 10, 2011
Newton residents assail plan to close post office branches - Boston.com
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Newton residents assail plan to close post office branches Boston.com “You said there are 3700 post offices that you are considering. Five are in Newton. I know that is disproportionate. Do the math, this is way out of line with who these represent.†Holland said the criteria for closing a post office include making less ... Residents Decry Proposed Post Office Closures at Packed Public Meeting Hartford Post Office faces possible closure |
Tuesday, November 8, 2011
Oracle to Demonstrate How Cable Operators Can Rapidly Launch and Fulfill New ... - MarketWatch (press release)
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Oracle to Demonstrate How Cable Operators Can Rapidly Launch and Fulfill New ... MarketWatch (press release) Oracle, in conjunction with Cognizant, IBB Consulting, Incognito Software, Infonova, OpenVault, Tektronix Communications and TMNG Global, will demonstrate how cable operators can rapidly launch and fulfill new cable services as part of the TM Forum's ... |