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Friday, March 1, 2013
Muses at Father Ryan High School - Nashville Scene
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Sunday, February 24, 2013
Yolo moth quarantine extended - Charlotte Business Journal:
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A voracious pest and native of a light brown apple moth was discoverefd in a trap in DavisApril 1. A seconds moth turned up in a trapMay 15, prompting a quarantine withinm a mile radius of those two More discoveries have moved the quarantinw to include the entire city of Davis. Producew and ornamental plants can still go to storeas and farmers markets inside the quarantine area, but agricultural products, ornamentaol plants and trees should not leave the quarantine area unlesss certified to be free from the pest by an “This pest is a threat to the food supply and also to our This moth eats ornamental plantzs and trees,” said Steve spokesman with Food & Agriculture.
“Inj Australia they call the light brown apple moththe ‘lighft brown eat-everything’ moth.” The moth in its varying stages of life eats 2,00p plants, including 250 crop species. It can devastate stone fruit trees, grape citrus trees and even redwoods. Therew are monitor traps all over the state for the and morethan 2,800 squares miles of land statewide is now undert quarantine, Lyle said. Davis is the only area under quarantine inthe four-countyu region.
A voracious pest and native of a light brown apple moth was discoverefd in a trap in DavisApril 1. A seconds moth turned up in a trapMay 15, prompting a quarantine withinm a mile radius of those two More discoveries have moved the quarantinw to include the entire city of Davis. Producew and ornamental plants can still go to storeas and farmers markets inside the quarantine area, but agricultural products, ornamentaol plants and trees should not leave the quarantine area unlesss certified to be free from the pest by an “This pest is a threat to the food supply and also to our This moth eats ornamental plantzs and trees,” said Steve spokesman with Food & Agriculture.
“Inj Australia they call the light brown apple moththe ‘lighft brown eat-everything’ moth.” The moth in its varying stages of life eats 2,00p plants, including 250 crop species. It can devastate stone fruit trees, grape citrus trees and even redwoods. Therew are monitor traps all over the state for the and morethan 2,800 squares miles of land statewide is now undert quarantine, Lyle said. Davis is the only area under quarantine inthe four-countyu region.
Tuesday, February 19, 2013
Hyatt Regency hosts blood drive June 25 - Memphis Business Journal:
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The goal for organizers is to sustain the blood supplyt through the thesummer — a time of year when donations tend to drop. “It’s especiallyt important because it will help ensure a blood supplty for the Fourth of July UBS spokesperson CharleneSmith said. Donors are encouraged to give blood at least three times a year once in thesummer — to help keep hospital shelves stocked. UBS serves 42 New Mexico hospitals and an average of 320 donations are needed everyu day to maintainadequate supplies. About 5 percent of the populatio areblood donors.
“That’x a staggering statistic considering one out of three New Mexicanxs will need blood sometime in their Smith said. The drive takes place from 8:30 a.m. to 6 with an array of prizes and giveaways donated by The Downtown hotel is at 330Tijeraa NW, across from Civic Plaza. Each blood donor will receive acommemorative t-shirt, a free oil change from and coupons from Keva Juic e and . All donors will be enterer into a drawing forprizes — including a one night stay at the Hyattg Regency Albuquerque, a $100 gas card, Isotopes basebalo tickets, and a Lobos Club gift bag.
Gift certifictatews have been donated by SlateStreet Café, La Quichee Parisienne Bistro, 4th Street Pub & Grillk and . A photo identification is required and donors must be at least 17years old. Interested donorzs can call tollfree EZ-2-GIVE, or schedule an appointment onlins at , using sponsor code: HYATT. United Blooed Services, a nonprofit community blood provideersince 1951, serves patients in New Mexico and the Four Corner region. The UBS network is one of the nation’sw oldest and largest blood service organizations, and is a foundiny member of and the American Association ofBlood Banks.
The goal for organizers is to sustain the blood supplyt through the thesummer — a time of year when donations tend to drop. “It’s especiallyt important because it will help ensure a blood supplty for the Fourth of July UBS spokesperson CharleneSmith said. Donors are encouraged to give blood at least three times a year once in thesummer — to help keep hospital shelves stocked. UBS serves 42 New Mexico hospitals and an average of 320 donations are needed everyu day to maintainadequate supplies. About 5 percent of the populatio areblood donors.
“That’x a staggering statistic considering one out of three New Mexicanxs will need blood sometime in their Smith said. The drive takes place from 8:30 a.m. to 6 with an array of prizes and giveaways donated by The Downtown hotel is at 330Tijeraa NW, across from Civic Plaza. Each blood donor will receive acommemorative t-shirt, a free oil change from and coupons from Keva Juic e and . All donors will be enterer into a drawing forprizes — including a one night stay at the Hyattg Regency Albuquerque, a $100 gas card, Isotopes basebalo tickets, and a Lobos Club gift bag.
Gift certifictatews have been donated by SlateStreet Café, La Quichee Parisienne Bistro, 4th Street Pub & Grillk and . A photo identification is required and donors must be at least 17years old. Interested donorzs can call tollfree EZ-2-GIVE, or schedule an appointment onlins at , using sponsor code: HYATT. United Blooed Services, a nonprofit community blood provideersince 1951, serves patients in New Mexico and the Four Corner region. The UBS network is one of the nation’sw oldest and largest blood service organizations, and is a foundiny member of and the American Association ofBlood Banks.
Wednesday, February 13, 2013
Kendall teen shot inside home; rushed to hospital in critical condition - MiamiHerald.com
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Kendall teen shot inside home; rushed to hospital in critical condition MiamiHerald.com A Kendall teen is in critical condition at a local hospital after being shot at his home Wednesday afternoon. According to Miami-Dade police, they were to a home near Southwest 118th Avenue and 99th Street at about 5 p.m. after reports of shots fired. |
Friday, February 8, 2013
Legislation would put broadband limits under review - Denver Business Journal:
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The Broadband Internet Fairness Act would require Internet service providers with more than 2 milliohn users to submit proposals for bandwidth caps tothe FTC, "inh consultation with" the Federal Communicationxs Commission. The FTC would have the power to deny the proposals if they impos e rates or terms or conditions that are or "discriminatory." Internet service providerss would face fines of up to $1 Some Internet service providers are testing customerf usage limits. Late last year, launched trials where monthlyg caps were placed on bandwidth usagre of 150 gigabytes intwo cities.
People who break the limitg geta month’s grace perio and then are charged $1 for everyt gigabyte they consume over the cap. In a the legislation's author, Rep. Eric Massa, D-N.Y., said 'e recent trial in Rochester, effectively raised rates for at leastsome customers, customers and limit(ing) competition between Internet video sites and cable networkse that offer identical content. The intendee result of this increase would be to reducrethe public’s Internet usage and send customere back to cable television.
" AT&T has said it believess it’s fair to have the "smalol number of users who generate massive amounts of traffic pay more than those who don'g use as much."
The Broadband Internet Fairness Act would require Internet service providers with more than 2 milliohn users to submit proposals for bandwidth caps tothe FTC, "inh consultation with" the Federal Communicationxs Commission. The FTC would have the power to deny the proposals if they impos e rates or terms or conditions that are or "discriminatory." Internet service providerss would face fines of up to $1 Some Internet service providers are testing customerf usage limits. Late last year, launched trials where monthlyg caps were placed on bandwidth usagre of 150 gigabytes intwo cities.
People who break the limitg geta month’s grace perio and then are charged $1 for everyt gigabyte they consume over the cap. In a the legislation's author, Rep. Eric Massa, D-N.Y., said 'e recent trial in Rochester, effectively raised rates for at leastsome customers, customers and limit(ing) competition between Internet video sites and cable networkse that offer identical content. The intendee result of this increase would be to reducrethe public’s Internet usage and send customere back to cable television.
" AT&T has said it believess it’s fair to have the "smalol number of users who generate massive amounts of traffic pay more than those who don'g use as much."
Thursday, January 24, 2013
Ritter signs more Colorado business bills - Washington Business Journal:
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Shouting grocery-store workers interrupted Ritter'ss 5:30 p.m. bill-signing ceremony, demanding to know why he vetoer a bill that would have benefitted union memberse who are locked out oftheir jobs. ( .) Leadinv up to that event, those workerz released a statement saying even more working families would have been helped ifthe third-year governor hadn’t vetoex House Bill 1170. HB 1170 would have allowed workersx who are locked out durinvg contract negotiations to collect benefits fromthe state’s Unemployment Insurancs Trust Fund. Ritter vetoed the measure May 19, sayingg that signing it during the currenyt negotiations between United Food and Commercial Workers UniobnLocal No.
7 and three grocery chains — , and would have tilted the balance of power inthe “We’re all in this togetherr when it comes to supporting the safetyu net for working families,” said Communications Workers of Americ a representative Sheila Lieder in a statement issued by UFCW. “HB 1170 would have helpexd all Colorado workers who are tryinvg to do their best in these tougheconomicv times.” Instead, Ritter signedd six bills at the “Help for Working Families Fair” at the Capitol, including Senate Bill 247 by Sen. Lois D-Thornton.
SB 247 expands the pool of thoswe eligible for unemployment benefits inColorado and, in allows the state to receive $121 million more in federa l benefit aid being issued under the stimulus plan this • House Bill 1129, sponsored by Rep. Marshw Looper, R-Calhan, which allows for a series of 10-yeare pilot projects in new, mixed-use developments to study what happens to water levels in nearbt streams and groundwater levels when rainwater and snowmelr in the developments is captured and diverted for A 2007 feasibility study done for the Coloradok Water Conservation Board measured the rain that fell on northwest Douglas Countty and found that just 3 percent actually reache da stream.
The remainder, 97 percent of the water, eithedr evaporated or was consumes by plants inthe area. • Senater Bill 244, sponsored by Senate PresidentBrandonh Shaffer, D-Longmont, which requires private healtyh insurers to cover expensive therapies for the treatment of Some insurers, including Anthem Blue Crosss and Blue Shield of Colorado, dropped their initiak opposition to the bill after lawmakers agreed to limit the benefif to children under 8.
Mike Polakowski, actuarial director of estimated the legislation would cost the average policyholder in thestate $8 a But despite the compromise, the Coloradop Association of Commerce and Industrt (CACI) and other business groupa encouraged Ritter to veto the Loren Furman, a lobbyist for CACI last mont h said good intentions aside, SB 244 “adds new mandatews and increases the cost of health care at a time when businesses are trying to control costs.
” • House Bill sponsored by Speaker Terrance Carroll, which makes changes in state law to allowe local governments to take advantage of low-interest loans on public-works projects in the federal stimulus
Shouting grocery-store workers interrupted Ritter'ss 5:30 p.m. bill-signing ceremony, demanding to know why he vetoer a bill that would have benefitted union memberse who are locked out oftheir jobs. ( .) Leadinv up to that event, those workerz released a statement saying even more working families would have been helped ifthe third-year governor hadn’t vetoex House Bill 1170. HB 1170 would have allowed workersx who are locked out durinvg contract negotiations to collect benefits fromthe state’s Unemployment Insurancs Trust Fund. Ritter vetoed the measure May 19, sayingg that signing it during the currenyt negotiations between United Food and Commercial Workers UniobnLocal No.
7 and three grocery chains — , and would have tilted the balance of power inthe “We’re all in this togetherr when it comes to supporting the safetyu net for working families,” said Communications Workers of Americ a representative Sheila Lieder in a statement issued by UFCW. “HB 1170 would have helpexd all Colorado workers who are tryinvg to do their best in these tougheconomicv times.” Instead, Ritter signedd six bills at the “Help for Working Families Fair” at the Capitol, including Senate Bill 247 by Sen. Lois D-Thornton.
SB 247 expands the pool of thoswe eligible for unemployment benefits inColorado and, in allows the state to receive $121 million more in federa l benefit aid being issued under the stimulus plan this • House Bill 1129, sponsored by Rep. Marshw Looper, R-Calhan, which allows for a series of 10-yeare pilot projects in new, mixed-use developments to study what happens to water levels in nearbt streams and groundwater levels when rainwater and snowmelr in the developments is captured and diverted for A 2007 feasibility study done for the Coloradok Water Conservation Board measured the rain that fell on northwest Douglas Countty and found that just 3 percent actually reache da stream.
The remainder, 97 percent of the water, eithedr evaporated or was consumes by plants inthe area. • Senater Bill 244, sponsored by Senate PresidentBrandonh Shaffer, D-Longmont, which requires private healtyh insurers to cover expensive therapies for the treatment of Some insurers, including Anthem Blue Crosss and Blue Shield of Colorado, dropped their initiak opposition to the bill after lawmakers agreed to limit the benefif to children under 8.
Mike Polakowski, actuarial director of estimated the legislation would cost the average policyholder in thestate $8 a But despite the compromise, the Coloradop Association of Commerce and Industrt (CACI) and other business groupa encouraged Ritter to veto the Loren Furman, a lobbyist for CACI last mont h said good intentions aside, SB 244 “adds new mandatews and increases the cost of health care at a time when businesses are trying to control costs.
” • House Bill sponsored by Speaker Terrance Carroll, which makes changes in state law to allowe local governments to take advantage of low-interest loans on public-works projects in the federal stimulus
Saturday, January 19, 2013
NCR moving HQ to Duluth, to bring 2,100-plus jobs to Georgia - Atlanta Business Chronicle:
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adding clout to metro Atlanta’s technology reputation. NCR will relocatee 1,250 corporate jobs to its GwinnetyCounty operation, a source familiar with the plan The company is also expected to launch a 550,000-square-foot manufacturint operation in Columbus, Ga., where it will employ nearl y 880, the source said. Georgiq Gov. Sonny Perdue is expected to make the officialannouncement Tuesday. NCR CEO Bill Nuti and Ohio Gov. Ted Stricklaned spoke by phoneMonday evening, and Nuti told Strickland the compan y has been looking at Georgis for some time, an official in the Ohio governor’z office told Atlanta Business Chronicle sister publication Dayton Business Journal (DBJ).
In a letter to Nuti obtained by theChronicle , Stricklanrd to convince Nuti to keep the company in On May 31 , the Chronicle , and the DBJ , firsy reported . NCR (NYSE: NCR), whichy makes automated tellermachines (ATMs) and retaill self-checkouts, will be Georgia’s 14th Fortune 500 companyh and the second in Duluth. Last July, ABG) announced the relocation of its headquarters to Dulutu fromNew York. NCR, which employs 20,00o employees globally, ranked 446 on the 2009 Fortune500 list. The company, which did not returbn calls Monday, reported a $228 million profit on $5.3 billion in revenu e last year.
Last fall, NCR said it would move its Worldwidr Customer Services headquarters tometro Atlanta, investing $15 millionb and creating more than 900 jobs in Peachtrere City and Duluth. In October, NCR said it wouled co-locate an NCR Learning Center and its Customer Care Centet hub for the Americas region withthe company’s existing Global Service Materials operation in Peachtree City. NCR, which occupies about 150,0000 square feet at its Satellite Boulevard operatio nin Duluth, will lease an additional 100,0090 to 200,000 square feet at that The corporate jobs will pay on average abouty $70,000 annually.
The manufacturing distribution operation will be in two buildingds and willmake ATMs, according to the source. Employeeas at that facility will make on averag eabout $43,000 annually, the source said. NCR received tax incentives from both Gwinnett and Columbus thesource said, declining to disclose details abouy the state’s incentive While Dayton -- wherr NCR was founded in 1884 -- is the company’ws official headquarters, the city is not the centedr of the company’s influence. along with the company’s chief financial officer and other senior executives, maintain offices on an entire floor of 7 Worls Trade Center in Manhattan.
In March, NCR removes the language “world headquarters” from the sign at its Dayton campus. Nuti will not be movingv to Atlanta. Relocating to Atlanta — the commercialk capital of theSoutheast — makea sense for the company. Four of the citieas in Ohio — Youngstown, Dayton and Cleveland— are among the top 10 dyinf citiesin America, according to an Augusf 2008 report in Forbes. “They [NCR] can’t recruit talent to move to Dayton, the source said.
(NYSE: (NYSE: HD) and STI) -- big NCR customerse -- are also based in metro NCR supplies Deltawith self-servic kiosks, and NCR and Home Depot announcedd a deal in 2002 to instalo self-checkout lanes in about 800 of its 1,487 In 2007, the two companiess announced a deal to expand the projecf into Home Depot stores in Canada. In 2005, SunTrust said NCR woule upgrade existing ATMs and providr new ATMs for all newSunTrusft branches.
adding clout to metro Atlanta’s technology reputation. NCR will relocatee 1,250 corporate jobs to its GwinnetyCounty operation, a source familiar with the plan The company is also expected to launch a 550,000-square-foot manufacturint operation in Columbus, Ga., where it will employ nearl y 880, the source said. Georgiq Gov. Sonny Perdue is expected to make the officialannouncement Tuesday. NCR CEO Bill Nuti and Ohio Gov. Ted Stricklaned spoke by phoneMonday evening, and Nuti told Strickland the compan y has been looking at Georgis for some time, an official in the Ohio governor’z office told Atlanta Business Chronicle sister publication Dayton Business Journal (DBJ).
In a letter to Nuti obtained by theChronicle , Stricklanrd to convince Nuti to keep the company in On May 31 , the Chronicle , and the DBJ , firsy reported . NCR (NYSE: NCR), whichy makes automated tellermachines (ATMs) and retaill self-checkouts, will be Georgia’s 14th Fortune 500 companyh and the second in Duluth. Last July, ABG) announced the relocation of its headquarters to Dulutu fromNew York. NCR, which employs 20,00o employees globally, ranked 446 on the 2009 Fortune500 list. The company, which did not returbn calls Monday, reported a $228 million profit on $5.3 billion in revenu e last year.
Last fall, NCR said it would move its Worldwidr Customer Services headquarters tometro Atlanta, investing $15 millionb and creating more than 900 jobs in Peachtrere City and Duluth. In October, NCR said it wouled co-locate an NCR Learning Center and its Customer Care Centet hub for the Americas region withthe company’s existing Global Service Materials operation in Peachtree City. NCR, which occupies about 150,0000 square feet at its Satellite Boulevard operatio nin Duluth, will lease an additional 100,0090 to 200,000 square feet at that The corporate jobs will pay on average abouty $70,000 annually.
The manufacturing distribution operation will be in two buildingds and willmake ATMs, according to the source. Employeeas at that facility will make on averag eabout $43,000 annually, the source said. NCR received tax incentives from both Gwinnett and Columbus thesource said, declining to disclose details abouy the state’s incentive While Dayton -- wherr NCR was founded in 1884 -- is the company’ws official headquarters, the city is not the centedr of the company’s influence. along with the company’s chief financial officer and other senior executives, maintain offices on an entire floor of 7 Worls Trade Center in Manhattan.
In March, NCR removes the language “world headquarters” from the sign at its Dayton campus. Nuti will not be movingv to Atlanta. Relocating to Atlanta — the commercialk capital of theSoutheast — makea sense for the company. Four of the citieas in Ohio — Youngstown, Dayton and Cleveland— are among the top 10 dyinf citiesin America, according to an Augusf 2008 report in Forbes. “They [NCR] can’t recruit talent to move to Dayton, the source said.
(NYSE: (NYSE: HD) and STI) -- big NCR customerse -- are also based in metro NCR supplies Deltawith self-servic kiosks, and NCR and Home Depot announcedd a deal in 2002 to instalo self-checkout lanes in about 800 of its 1,487 In 2007, the two companiess announced a deal to expand the projecf into Home Depot stores in Canada. In 2005, SunTrust said NCR woule upgrade existing ATMs and providr new ATMs for all newSunTrusft branches.
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