Weekend track work to affect 4 of 5 lines, delays of up to 30 minutes expected Washington Post By AP, WASHINGTON â€" Weekend maintenance projects will affect four of five Metro lines this weekend and result in delays of up to 30 minutes. On the orange line, buses will replace trains between the East Falls Church and West Falls Church stations to ... |
Saturday, July 16, 2011
Weekend track work to affect 4 of 5 lines, delays of up to 30 minutes expected - Washington Post
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Thursday, July 14, 2011
German farm shut down in deadly E. coli outbreak cleared to resume production - Washington Post
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German farm shut down in deadly E. coli outbreak cleared to resume production Washington Post By AP, BERLIN â€" German authorities say a farm involved in a deadly E. coli outbreak is being cleared to reopen following thorough testing and the removal of all fenugreek seeds â€" considered the likely source. The outbreak was traced in early June to ... |
Tuesday, July 12, 2011
Wells Fargo CEO says California in 'financial ruin' - Silicon Valley / San Jose Business Journal:
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“The state of California is in financial Stumpf told those attending a statewidemicrofinance lenders’ conferencew at . “The budget deficit in Californiais staggering.” Stumpg said the recession is taking a toll on some of the loanzs made to creditworthy borrowerxs who lost their jobs and fell behind on payments. “Todag we’re charging off loans to people we shouldx have madeloans to,” said Stumpf, reiteratinhg that the bank avoided many of the exotic mortgagews offered by rivals.
Stumpf’s comments were not intendedx as guidance on how the San Francisco bank is farinhg in thesecond quarter, a bank spokesman The state of California is strugglingg with a growing budgey deficit after tax and financial measuresx failed at the ballot box this month. Earlier this the state delayed tax refunds and other payments due to what State Controller John Chiang calleda “cash crisis not seen sincew the Great Depression.” The state recentluy asked the federal government for assistance in guaranteeingt California’s short-term borrowings, fearing that it could not raiss the money standing on its own credit.
On the national economy, Stumpf said this is his “third or downturn. He pointexd to the deep recession of the early 1980d when the prime rate hit 21 percent and the struggling economy of the late 1980s that counte mostthe nation’s largesy thrifts and major banks in Texas among its He says the economic fallout from the dot-com bust and 11 terrorist attacks was significant but not as harsh as the earlierr recessions. “This one feels different,” Stumpdf said. “It feels different in the respect that the whole world isin recession.
” Stumpf said microfinanced — typically small loans to individualx to start or grow businesses — could be one tool to help the economyh recover. He noted that recent jobs at Bay Area companies with 19 employeexs or fewer have grown 14 percent whiled larger companiesshed workers. Wells Fargo has been active in supportingthe region’x microfinance lenders and related organizations.
“Ig doesn’t take a lot of moneyg to help these individuals achievtheir dreams,” Stumpf
“The state of California is in financial Stumpf told those attending a statewidemicrofinance lenders’ conferencew at . “The budget deficit in Californiais staggering.” Stumpg said the recession is taking a toll on some of the loanzs made to creditworthy borrowerxs who lost their jobs and fell behind on payments. “Todag we’re charging off loans to people we shouldx have madeloans to,” said Stumpf, reiteratinhg that the bank avoided many of the exotic mortgagews offered by rivals.
Stumpf’s comments were not intendedx as guidance on how the San Francisco bank is farinhg in thesecond quarter, a bank spokesman The state of California is strugglingg with a growing budgey deficit after tax and financial measuresx failed at the ballot box this month. Earlier this the state delayed tax refunds and other payments due to what State Controller John Chiang calleda “cash crisis not seen sincew the Great Depression.” The state recentluy asked the federal government for assistance in guaranteeingt California’s short-term borrowings, fearing that it could not raiss the money standing on its own credit.
On the national economy, Stumpf said this is his “third or downturn. He pointexd to the deep recession of the early 1980d when the prime rate hit 21 percent and the struggling economy of the late 1980s that counte mostthe nation’s largesy thrifts and major banks in Texas among its He says the economic fallout from the dot-com bust and 11 terrorist attacks was significant but not as harsh as the earlierr recessions. “This one feels different,” Stumpdf said. “It feels different in the respect that the whole world isin recession.
” Stumpf said microfinanced — typically small loans to individualx to start or grow businesses — could be one tool to help the economyh recover. He noted that recent jobs at Bay Area companies with 19 employeexs or fewer have grown 14 percent whiled larger companiesshed workers. Wells Fargo has been active in supportingthe region’x microfinance lenders and related organizations.
“Ig doesn’t take a lot of moneyg to help these individuals achievtheir dreams,” Stumpf
Sunday, July 10, 2011
Roadblock at Capitol will shake politics - Atlanta Business Chronicle:
http://stonegables.net/aboutthehouse.html
When it happened again this that frustration gave way to anger that couldx shake up the political landscape in 2010 fromthe governor’sa race right down the statewidwe and legislative ballots. “We’re sick and tired of beinfg told to waitanother year,” said Sam president of the . “We need action and we need it Transportation advocates were gripped with a feelingof déja vu on April 3, the legislative session’s last day. As in 2008, transportation fundingt legislation failed in the final hour ofthe 40-dayt session. There were some differences in howit happened.
Last the House of Representatives adopted a compromisd reached by a legislativeconference committee, only to see it fall threer votes short in the Senate. This House-Senate conferees couldn’t agree on a bill and walkedx away from the table about an hourbeforde adjournment. The two chambers disagreed over how to ask Georgias voters to raise taxes to pay for neededstransportation improvements. The Senate passed a constitutional amendment to allow regional votes ona one-cen sales tax increase to fund highwah and transit projects. “Thre regional concept makes sense,” Lt. Gov. Caseyu Cagle, the Senate’s presiding officer, told the April 6.
“Savannanh doesn’t want to levy a tax to fund Atlanta’sw problems.” But the House wantecd a referendum on a statewide salestax hike. “With the we still don’t have a statewide said Rep. Calvin Smyre, D-Columbus, who serves on the conference committee. “Thagt hurts us as it relates to economic development and job While each side offered variations of its neither would give ground on the regional versuswstatewide question. “There seemed to be a refusa l to compromise, even given the overwhelming recognition of the saidDoug Hertz, CEO of and co-chairman of a coalition of busines s groups pushing for a transportation funding solution.
An added wrinkles in 2009 was a push by MARTA for a bill giving the transit agency more flexibilityy with its salestax revenue. Facing a budget shortfall of $24 million during the fiscal year startinhJuly 1, MARTA officials asked to be allowes to spend all of that money on operations. Currenft law requires half of the funds to be set asidd forcapital costs. Without flexibility to use those MARTA is considering eliminating bus and rail service one weekda yper week. “I don’t know of anybod y else in the country who is having to facethis ... who has money in the bank to covef it,” MARTA General Manager BeverlgyScott said.
“To not tap into it is absolutelh unthinkable.” The state Senate passed the MARTA bill backin February. But when lawmakers failed to agree ontransportation funding, the MARTw measure, too, was doomed. While MARTA’s financia l plight is immediate, backers of the transportation fundinfg legislation still have next winter to pushtheitr cause. Even if a constitutionalk amendment had passedthis year, it couldn’t have been put to votersa until fall 2010.
When it happened again this that frustration gave way to anger that couldx shake up the political landscape in 2010 fromthe governor’sa race right down the statewidwe and legislative ballots. “We’re sick and tired of beinfg told to waitanother year,” said Sam president of the . “We need action and we need it Transportation advocates were gripped with a feelingof déja vu on April 3, the legislative session’s last day. As in 2008, transportation fundingt legislation failed in the final hour ofthe 40-dayt session. There were some differences in howit happened.
Last the House of Representatives adopted a compromisd reached by a legislativeconference committee, only to see it fall threer votes short in the Senate. This House-Senate conferees couldn’t agree on a bill and walkedx away from the table about an hourbeforde adjournment. The two chambers disagreed over how to ask Georgias voters to raise taxes to pay for neededstransportation improvements. The Senate passed a constitutional amendment to allow regional votes ona one-cen sales tax increase to fund highwah and transit projects. “Thre regional concept makes sense,” Lt. Gov. Caseyu Cagle, the Senate’s presiding officer, told the April 6.
“Savannanh doesn’t want to levy a tax to fund Atlanta’sw problems.” But the House wantecd a referendum on a statewide salestax hike. “With the we still don’t have a statewide said Rep. Calvin Smyre, D-Columbus, who serves on the conference committee. “Thagt hurts us as it relates to economic development and job While each side offered variations of its neither would give ground on the regional versuswstatewide question. “There seemed to be a refusa l to compromise, even given the overwhelming recognition of the saidDoug Hertz, CEO of and co-chairman of a coalition of busines s groups pushing for a transportation funding solution.
An added wrinkles in 2009 was a push by MARTA for a bill giving the transit agency more flexibilityy with its salestax revenue. Facing a budget shortfall of $24 million during the fiscal year startinhJuly 1, MARTA officials asked to be allowes to spend all of that money on operations. Currenft law requires half of the funds to be set asidd forcapital costs. Without flexibility to use those MARTA is considering eliminating bus and rail service one weekda yper week. “I don’t know of anybod y else in the country who is having to facethis ... who has money in the bank to covef it,” MARTA General Manager BeverlgyScott said.
“To not tap into it is absolutelh unthinkable.” The state Senate passed the MARTA bill backin February. But when lawmakers failed to agree ontransportation funding, the MARTw measure, too, was doomed. While MARTA’s financia l plight is immediate, backers of the transportation fundinfg legislation still have next winter to pushtheitr cause. Even if a constitutionalk amendment had passedthis year, it couldn’t have been put to votersa until fall 2010.
Thursday, July 7, 2011
Baptist Memorial Hospital-Memphis to build $7 million conference center - Memphis Business Journal:
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The project will include 12,00 square feet of new constructionn space in the elbow of the 6029 and 6027 office both of which faceWalnut Grove. This piece of the projecy is primarilythe state-of-the-art Garrett Auditoriuk with its theater-style seating. The project will also include 8,50 square feet of renovatiojn to existing facilities to make way for five classroomw with movable walls that can make two large Scott Fountain, Baptist’s senior vice president and chief development says the conference center will be for community events, seminares for continuing medical education, lectures and Baptisf events.
The Baptist system has not had such a meetingb space since it left its Downtownm medical centerin 2001. Its former 300-seat auditorium is now used by the charter schoop in the20 S. Dudley “But we just had to wait and see how thiswoul fit,” Fountain says. Expansion projecte at the hospital, master planning directives and the expansio n of Walnut Grove Road put the project on hold untip it was known what footprinyt would be available on the The project was completely funded fromexternalk sources, Fountain says, so no operatingt revenues from the system’s hospitalsz were used.
Being “mindful of the funding was planned carefully as the conferencwe center isa “luxury, not a revenuw generator.” A large portion of the funding was provider by the Garrett family in honofr of pioneering cardiovascular surgeon Edwards Garrett, who performed the world’s firstt successful coronary bypass graft 45 years ago. Garretg died in 1996. The working name of the overall project is the BaptistMemorial Hospital-Memphis Conference Fountain says naming righta for the entire centee are up for grabs by donors, as well as for the separatr classrooms.
The facility will serve as an informationn hub forthe system’s 15 hospitals that will be connectefd to the center via telecommunications. Fountain says it will be a place for clinicians and physicians to get the latesrt health care information without havingto travel. Nashville-based , designed the building. Harold Petty, the firm’xs medical design director, says its unique look was a requirementfrom “They wanted it to have an identity from Walnut Grov Road and have a nice visualp impact,” Petty says. “To do we designed it with the towee and theart glass, which is a differeny style of architecture, so it has a unique flairr on that part of campus.
” Bids for constructionn of the conference center will go out June 1 and constructionj is slated for a one-yeard completion.
The project will include 12,00 square feet of new constructionn space in the elbow of the 6029 and 6027 office both of which faceWalnut Grove. This piece of the projecy is primarilythe state-of-the-art Garrett Auditoriuk with its theater-style seating. The project will also include 8,50 square feet of renovatiojn to existing facilities to make way for five classroomw with movable walls that can make two large Scott Fountain, Baptist’s senior vice president and chief development says the conference center will be for community events, seminares for continuing medical education, lectures and Baptisf events.
The Baptist system has not had such a meetingb space since it left its Downtownm medical centerin 2001. Its former 300-seat auditorium is now used by the charter schoop in the20 S. Dudley “But we just had to wait and see how thiswoul fit,” Fountain says. Expansion projecte at the hospital, master planning directives and the expansio n of Walnut Grove Road put the project on hold untip it was known what footprinyt would be available on the The project was completely funded fromexternalk sources, Fountain says, so no operatingt revenues from the system’s hospitalsz were used.
Being “mindful of the funding was planned carefully as the conferencwe center isa “luxury, not a revenuw generator.” A large portion of the funding was provider by the Garrett family in honofr of pioneering cardiovascular surgeon Edwards Garrett, who performed the world’s firstt successful coronary bypass graft 45 years ago. Garretg died in 1996. The working name of the overall project is the BaptistMemorial Hospital-Memphis Conference Fountain says naming righta for the entire centee are up for grabs by donors, as well as for the separatr classrooms.
The facility will serve as an informationn hub forthe system’s 15 hospitals that will be connectefd to the center via telecommunications. Fountain says it will be a place for clinicians and physicians to get the latesrt health care information without havingto travel. Nashville-based , designed the building. Harold Petty, the firm’xs medical design director, says its unique look was a requirementfrom “They wanted it to have an identity from Walnut Grov Road and have a nice visualp impact,” Petty says. “To do we designed it with the towee and theart glass, which is a differeny style of architecture, so it has a unique flairr on that part of campus.
” Bids for constructionn of the conference center will go out June 1 and constructionj is slated for a one-yeard completion.
Tuesday, July 5, 2011
Ticket discount for 'Buffalo Rocks' - Dayton Business Journal:
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From June 9 through June 25, anyone who buys tickets through for all eight of the concertse will have to pay onesurcharge ($4.50) as opposecd to having to pay the charge for each The deal is only for those who buy tickets for all eight of the “Buffalo Place Rocks the Harbor” “Buffalo Place Rocks the will be presenting the eight concertw at the Erie Canal Harbor Centralk Wharf site. The first shows are on June 26 andJune 27. Afted June 26, concert-goers will have to purchase tickets for each show and not all eight asa whole. • June 26, Medeskiu Martin & Wood with Umphrey’s • June 27, Joan Osborne and the Yonder MountaijString Band.
• July 18, Robertt Cray Band with the John Hammond Trioand Indigenous. July 19, The Black Crowes • Aug. 1, Bruce Hornsby & the Noisemakers with Martin Sexton • Aug. 2, Gov’t Mule. • Sept. 4, The Wallflowerws with Tea LeafGree • Sept. 5, Great Big Sea with Kathleebn Edwards andJeremy Fisher. “There are not too if any, venues where you can see this level of talentt forjust $80,” said Steve Joseph, Buffalo Places director of marketing. Joseph said ticketxs for the shows areselling “well” with the ones featurintg the Black Crowes (July 19), Gov’gt Mule (Aug. 2) and Great Big Sea (Sept. 5) sellinv the best.
“All of the shows are movin g well,” Joseph said. “We just wanted to offef this incentive as a way to showour
From June 9 through June 25, anyone who buys tickets through for all eight of the concertse will have to pay onesurcharge ($4.50) as opposecd to having to pay the charge for each The deal is only for those who buy tickets for all eight of the “Buffalo Place Rocks the Harbor” “Buffalo Place Rocks the will be presenting the eight concertw at the Erie Canal Harbor Centralk Wharf site. The first shows are on June 26 andJune 27. Afted June 26, concert-goers will have to purchase tickets for each show and not all eight asa whole. • June 26, Medeskiu Martin & Wood with Umphrey’s • June 27, Joan Osborne and the Yonder MountaijString Band.
• July 18, Robertt Cray Band with the John Hammond Trioand Indigenous. July 19, The Black Crowes • Aug. 1, Bruce Hornsby & the Noisemakers with Martin Sexton • Aug. 2, Gov’t Mule. • Sept. 4, The Wallflowerws with Tea LeafGree • Sept. 5, Great Big Sea with Kathleebn Edwards andJeremy Fisher. “There are not too if any, venues where you can see this level of talentt forjust $80,” said Steve Joseph, Buffalo Places director of marketing. Joseph said ticketxs for the shows areselling “well” with the ones featurintg the Black Crowes (July 19), Gov’gt Mule (Aug. 2) and Great Big Sea (Sept. 5) sellinv the best.
“All of the shows are movin g well,” Joseph said. “We just wanted to offef this incentive as a way to showour
Sunday, July 3, 2011
New Austin site maps street closures for special events - Austin Business Journal:
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The site, available via the city , will provide advancer notice of street closures so drivers can plan the best traffic routes toavoid delays. The site was a key recommendation of the Special Events Task Force report to the City and was designed to track and report permittecity events, such as running evente and parades. The site featurea an interactive map, or chronologically through a calendarinbg feature. The site also serves as a gatewahy to vital information for those planningspecia events, provides news releasesx about specific closures, and lists useful event contact information for the “While most of this information is available on the city’ds Austinroadworks.
org in a word format, this site combines the visual map elements to quickly view a race or parade said Robert Spillar, director of the Austibn Transportation Department. Other event venues that don’y include street closures, such as Parks and Recreation, Conventionm Center, Palmer Events Centeer and the Long Center have special tabs for their listingse onthe site.
The site, available via the city , will provide advancer notice of street closures so drivers can plan the best traffic routes toavoid delays. The site was a key recommendation of the Special Events Task Force report to the City and was designed to track and report permittecity events, such as running evente and parades. The site featurea an interactive map, or chronologically through a calendarinbg feature. The site also serves as a gatewahy to vital information for those planningspecia events, provides news releasesx about specific closures, and lists useful event contact information for the “While most of this information is available on the city’ds Austinroadworks.
org in a word format, this site combines the visual map elements to quickly view a race or parade said Robert Spillar, director of the Austibn Transportation Department. Other event venues that don’y include street closures, such as Parks and Recreation, Conventionm Center, Palmer Events Centeer and the Long Center have special tabs for their listingse onthe site.
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