Thursday, September 29, 2011

Deal drives electric cars to D.C. - San Francisco Business Times:

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The D.C. Department of Transportation will startg designing a network of charging stations acrossw the city to align with agrowingv bike-sharing program, which is expanding from 10 to 100 kiosks in the next 18 City officials say they are working with , an electric energy technology company based in Monrovia, Calif., to develop the chargin stations. There are also plans to bring in Nissanelectrixc cars, equipped with advanced lithium-ion batteries that can go 100 milees on a single charge.
Some of thoses cars would go intothe city’s own “Many cities are talking abour electrification of garages and municipal lots for their city and this is an importantr part of our strategy as said Gabe Klein, director of the Districg Department of Transportation. “The D.C. difference is that we want to make astrongedr statement, for consumers and businesses to realize that this is real. They can make the changd from gas to electric and will not have to worr y about where to chargetheir car.
” The Districtr is also in discussions with local businesses involved in electrification to expand the

Tuesday, September 27, 2011

No easy meal: Freaky beetle larvae devour frog predators - msnbc.com

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Sunday, September 25, 2011

'We will respond just like during the last crisis' - RT

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Friday, September 23, 2011

NewTek

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on May 18. Philip Nelson, vice president of strategix development forSan Antonio-based NewTek, will give the presentation during the pre-conference training workshop at the Ronald Reagan International Trade Center. “Homeland Security officialas who have used NewTek TriCaster to live streampast S&rT conference sessions have been overwhelmingly Nelson says. “TriCaster is used by an impressive arrauy ofgovernment agencies, including Homeland Security, the , and This year’s conference is presented by the in association with the Science and Technology Directorate. The theme is title d “Science and Technology Changes Everything.
” The conferencw will highlight DHS research underway in the Uniterd States and around the world to make the nation Attendees from theprivate sector, academia, and all levels of governmenft will also learn about the latest business opportunitie related to this work.

Wednesday, September 21, 2011

Touting virtues of 'second chances,' Linda McMahon announces Senate bid - Ct Post

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Monday, September 19, 2011

TriServ will lease at Concourse if it wins deal - Atlanta Business Chronicle:

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The deal hinges on TriSerc winning a massivegovernment contract, though. TriSerb would end up taking about 92,000 squarwe feet that has on the market for sublease in Concourser CorporateCenter VI, the 33-storyh landmark office tower that along with its Concourse Corporate Center V, over Georgia 400 and Interstates 285. The two towers are commonly callef The King andQueen buildings, referringv to their resemblance to ches s pieces. TriServ is a Jacksonville, Fla.-based groupo of health plans from eight It formed last April to pursura six-year, $24 billion contract with the Department of Defense to manage the government’s TRICARsE program for the southern U.S. region.
TRICARE is the government’se health-care plan for military retirees, and their families and TriServ is potentially competing against severalothetr companies, including , a division of , whichn has the contract through its expiration at the end of May. The Departmenft of Defense has until June 1 to name the winning bid to managr theTRICARE program. It can also ask Congressx to extendthe deadline. An announcemeny from the government could come as early asMay 8, said John TriServ’s senior vice president for external affairs. “We are waiting anxiously for that he said. CB .
’s Sam Holmesw and Anne Lofye are representing CompuCredit in the potential transactionm that would bring TriServto Concourse. is also helping to broker the deal. TriServ had scouted locationzs acrossthe market, which includes buildings around Perimeteer Mall and the city of Sandy Springs. TriServ wouldx mark an important transactionin Atlanta’ss Central Perimeter submarket. Atlanta recorded almost 525,000 square feet of negative overall absorption during the firstg quarterof 2009, with buildings in Centrao Perimeter suffering the greatest exodus of tenants and highest rise in according to Cushman & Wakefield. Concours e Corporate Center is ownedby .
manages and leases the George Lipscomb, former head of property managementt for CousinsProperties Inc., is the new chiedf operating officer for . Lipscombb will oversee day-to-day operations of Fifth Street’x more than 5 million square feet ofmanagedc properties, including Perimeter Summit, the well-known mixed-use development near Perimete r Mall that contains three office towers, the Villa Christinwa restaurant and a 330-unit condominium. Prior to joining Fifth Lipscombwas Cousins’ directord of property management, overseeing a portfolio that includee office buildings such as Buckhead’ds 21-story , home to Central Perimeter’s King and Queen buildings.
Lipscomb was also previously employecdat Carter, OneSource and serverd as vice president of L.P. until 2006. National Electronivc Attachment Inc. (NEA) and its sister company, , recentlyh agreed to lease nearly 17,00o0 square feet at 3577 Parkway Lanein Norcross. National Electronix Attachment was slated to move into its new home by the end of National Electronic Attachment and Medical Electronic Attachmenty recently forged an equity partnership with in Their technology candigitize health-care attachmenta for dentists, health-care providers and payers, helpin to speed up the claims process.
Nationalo Electronic Attachment wants to position itself at the forefront of the nationaol shift toward electronicmedical records. Julie Hoffman and April Hawkinson with The handlef lease negotiationsfor NEA. VIF II/Royal Peachtree Corners LLC, ownerd of 3577 Parkway Lane, was representefd by Bryan Heller of TPARealtyh Services. of Atlanta — one of the largest industruy networking organizations in theSoutheast — was schedulexd to hold its annuap awards May 7.
Sally Elliott, senior vice presideny and director of operations with PM Realty Group was to receive the career advancemenr forwomen award, recognizing her commitmeny to helping women advance in commercial real Elliott joined the organization in 2000 and now serves on the boardd of directors as treasurer and The economic improvement award was to go to Tahmid Shamsuddin, vice president of economicv development for Central Atlant a Progress, and Cheryl Thomas Strickland, managing directot of tax allocation districts with the . Centra l Atlanta Progress spearheaded the creation of a statewidre campaign committeecalled .
It was successfuol in convincing voters last year to amendd the state constitution and allow school systems to once again choose to participate in local tax allocation Shamsuddin helped create and managwthe committee. Strickland and her team closed ona $64 millionn Westside tax allocation district bond issue last year. The proceeds providse critical fundingfor $429 milliojn in redevelopment projects in downtownh Atlanta, including the Center for Civiol and Human Rights, Technology Enterprise Park, 45 Allej Plaza, the and Condominiums, Castleberryu Point, Northside Plaza and Historic Westside The humanitarian award was to go to Lauriee Ford, director of project management for .
Ford begabn volunteering at the , a nonprofit that providesx shelter and servicesto at-risk and homeleses children. Ford successfully solicited corporate and privat donors for contributions and helped develop a new Covenany House center that will focus on educatiobnfor at-risk youth and their Heather Rich, director of corporate accounts for LLC, was to receiv e the Shining Light Award. Rich, a member of CREW since 1998, served on numerous committees until 2004 when she becamwe a director for two Rich served as president in 2008 and was instrumenta in carrying outthe organization’s new strategic plan.
Rich also oversaw the largesrt fundraising drive to date and the biggesrt surge in membership since CREWwas founded. Tonyaq Creekmore, vice president of leasing for , was to receiv e the distinguishedachievement award. Since 1997, Creekmore held several key posts, including secretary, vice president of membership and Atlantachapter president. She servesx on the national CREW network board of The connector of the year award was to go to Lori a partner with lawfirm LLP. Kilberg was recognized for her commitmenr to working with fellow CREW members and referring businesse tothe network. The company of the year award was to go to Chicagp TitleInsurance Co.
, whicn has supported CREW since 1994. Melissa Hall, vice presidentt at Chicago Title, is CREW Atlanta’s The new member of the year award was to go toAriela Paschal, who works in clieny services and manages public relationd for and Katherine Brooks, general manager of Hinea Interests L.P. Owners of Atlanta’as distressed apartment properties will soon begin to unload them atsteepo discounts, according to a new report issued by real estates investment services firm . “Investment activity in the Atlantaa apartment market is constrained and will be dominated by distresse sales in the coming saidJohn Leonard, regional managet of the Atlanta office.
A distressed property faces high vacancy ratesx and may involve an owner who is unablew to make loan paymentson time, puttingg the property in risk of Owners of apartments in Stone Clarkston and West Atlanta, where properties were boughr near the peak of the market, will be most Leonard said. Several factors are combining to make it a difficul year for apartmentinvestment sales, according to the report. Atlantas is expected to lose 51,000 jobs this as payrolls decline and consumespending falls. Developers will complete about 3,300 units this year in or about 1,200 fewer than last year, a 27 perceny drop, the report said.
This year will also mark the smallestt number of units added to the market in more than a Apartment vacancy is expected to exceed 11 percent and askiny rents are forecast to fall 4 percengt toabout $828 a month. This columnn in the April 24-30 issue reportefd the wrong location of the on Ponce de Leon It is inthe Poncey-Highland neighborhood. Another item in the same columbn omitted the credit for the photographof NAIOP’ s check presentation to It should have credited Harris Hatcher Photography.

Friday, September 16, 2011

Integral Systems buys assets from QinetiQ - Washington Business Journal:

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The Lanham-based satellite systems controlmakeer (NASDAQ: ISYS) said it bought the servicesd and product line — called satIrD — from the U.K.-based worldwide defense and security technology companhy to add geolocation capabilitiews to its offerings. Satellite operators use satID to geolocate the source ofsatellitse interferers, jammers, and unauthorized Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. The newlu purchased product line and servicexs will become a part ofIntegrall Systems’ space communications group.
“We are excitedr to bring this capability in-house to enhance our space situational awareness product and system offerings forour customers,” said John Higginbotham, chierf executive officer, Integral Systems, in a statement. Technology consultancy and other supporrt services relating to the producf line will be provided to Integrall Systems by QinetiQ inthe U.K. In a different Integral Systems formed an agreemengt to pursue teaming arrangements with Qinetia North America on some current programs and to explores future programs for the defense andintelligence markets.

Wednesday, September 14, 2011

Six Flags, former Elitch Gardens owner, files for Chapter 11 - Business First of Buffalo:

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The board of Six Flags (OTCBB: voted last week to beginj reorganization proceedingsin U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Districtof Delaware. The compant listed assets of $3.03 billion and debts of $2.36 billio n in its filing. Cascade the investment firm for Microsoft founder Bill owns 11.1 percent of the voting securitie s in New York-based Six Flags, the largest bankruptcy documents show. Six Flags has 97.7 million sharee of common stockand 1.1 millionn shares of preferred stock. "The current management team inheriteda $2.
4 billioh debt load that cannot be sustained, particularluy in these challenging financial markets," said Mark president and CEO of Six Flags, in a "As a result, we are cleaninvg up the past and positioning the company for future growth ... Followiny a record year of performance in which completedthe three-year turnaround of our system-widew park operation, this action to clean up the balance sheet paveds the way for a full revivap of the company," Shapirpo said. Elitch Gardens had operated for more than a centuryu at a northwest Denver The old Elitch Gardends shut downin 1994, and a new versionb of the amusement park openesd a year later in downtowb Denver.
The local Gurtler family and its financial partners sold the new park to PremierPark Inc. in 1996 for $65 million. It became Six Flagsz Elitch Gardens twoyears later, when Premier acquired Six Flags Inc. and changef its corporate name toSix Flags. Six Flags sold off Elitch'e and other properties in 2007 in a series of transactionxs that left the Denver attraction in the hands of CNL Incom eProperties Inc., a real estate investmen trust based in Orlando, Fla. CNL reportedly paid $312 milliojn for the properties. CNL arranged for Parc Management LLC of Florida tomanage Elitch's. Six Flags now operatexs about 20 North Americanamusemenyt parks.

Monday, September 12, 2011

Giving blooms in economic winter - Atlanta Business Chronicle:

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Del Martin of nonprofit fundraiser was recently namede chairpersonof , which has been studying giving trendz for 50 years. "Thw effect is that there's never been a decrease in recessio years," she said. "There's been a rate increase. Givingb still goes up." Martin said the reason for that is wealthuyindividuals -- take Arthur for instance, whose family foundation gave out $19 milliobn in gifts in 2007 -- will continue to give at a similarf rate.
Endowed foundations do not want the work ofnonprofitx -- whose service to the community is needed more in difficulgt economic times -- to be negatively affectec by the vacillations of economic As a result, those endowments are put in safe investmentsz that are largely impervious to downturns in the stock Plus, the federal government requires foundatione to give out a minimum of 5 percengt of their holdings annually. In all, giving tendas to stay constant atbetween 1.2 percent and 2 percent of gros domestic product, according to Givingh USA statistics.
It's for reasons like those that Beauchamop Carr, executive vice president of the Woodruff Arts Center and its chief is not worried aboutthe organization's corporate The arts center has set a goal of $8.7 millionh this year for the fund that covers its operating expenses and it must meet it in 10 as it has changed its fiscal year. With only three monthss left, the arts center has raised a littlew more thanhalf ($4.
8 million) of its Because of the shortened year -- the timinvg is designed to align with the openinhg of the new Amphitheatrwe at Encore Park -- the arts center has receivef a number of one-time $215,000 from the Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta, $200,00p from Georgia Power Foundation, $100,000 apiece from and and $50,009 each from Deloitte, The Sara Gilesx Moore Foundation, and Carr said the leadership of Atlanta's corporated community is strong, thougb he admits to "sa little faith" in reaching the "I think in some cases we're beggingt a little bit harder and a littlew bit more persistently," he He expects that some "strong repeating that have not yet made donations still will.
"Wde haven't heard from any large ones that are in he said. "If one of those top donoras calls and gives us abad message, we mighyt miss our goal but that hasn't happened Like the Woodruff Arts Center, attracts major dollards and often is a first priority for That's why Susan Cruse, the university'z senior vice president for development and alumnio relations, thinks it will not suffer as much as what she callz "secondary philanthropic priorities." "Wer have people who care about what we she said. "We're a major research universit y that is going to be there for thelong haul.
The way it shakess out, people might give to fewerf things, but they will certainly give to Emory." whose expertise is helping nonprofits meettheire goals, appeared to agree, in a way. "Youi could probably find smaller nonprofits that are dependent on smaller gifts that perhaps have startesd to seesome effect," she said. Those she said, tend to depend more on government which often is cut quickly in a Martin said a recession could affecgt annual fund giving in the form of smaller gift by corporations that give a percentager ofpretax profits. gives a percentage of pretax profits and it also gives throug hits foundation.
Lajuana Bradford, Wachovia's community relations executivefor Mid-South and Virginia, said the bank'a corporate foundation has a budget for giving in metro Atlantaa of about $3 million the last few But Wachovia is in a giving mode and it doled out $8.8 million last year for specialo projects, including the Beltline and the Cente for Civil and Human Rights. Bradford said the company's guideline is to donate 1 percent of theprevious year'sa pretax profits. In the current banks have tightened lending and been subject to lossesa from the subprimemortgage crisis. Quarterl y earnings reports for banks havebeen ugly.
But perhaps following the counter-intuitive concepy that giving does not fall ina recession, says its donationds will continue to increase. "We don't expect the environment to have any effect on our giving atthis time," Bradforsd said. According to Giving USA, nonprofi t giving has not decreased durinyg recessions for the last 50 Nonprofit giving representsbetween 1.2 percent and 2 percent of grosws domestic product, according to Givingh USA. Wachovia Corp. generallyy uses 1 percent of theprevious year'es pretax profits as its guide for giving. The bank'ws budget is about $3 million for metrol Atlanta butgave $8.8 milliomn in 2007.
The Woodruff Arts Center has raisedf $4.8 million of its $8.7 million goal for its corporat campaign and hasreceived "challenge" funds totaling $815,000.

Saturday, September 10, 2011

Motorola Droid Bionic Release Announced by Verizon - Gather.com

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Thursday, September 8, 2011

State taking applications for BadgerCare Plus - Atlanta Business Chronicle:

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The Core Plan is an expansion of BadgerCare Plus and provides accesz tothe state’s most chronically uninsured population – low-income adults without dependent “During this difficult budgert environment, it’s important we continue to protecy our basic priorities,” Gov. Jim Doyled said in a statement. we are making quality, affordable health care achievable for peoplse who traditionally have not hadany options.” The BadgerCaree Plus Core Plan for Adultz with No Dependent Children is a limited plan that coverw basic health care services, including primaryu and preventive care and generi c drugs to low-income, chronically uninsured adults.
People who have been withouty health insurance for a year or or lost their health insurance through no faulr of their own and have alimitex income, can apply online at: . Funding for the BadgerCarw Plus Core Plan is provided througn the hospital tax that was approved by the legislaturs and signed into law earlierthis

Monday, September 5, 2011

Is United Technologies' Growth for Real? - msnbc.com

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Saturday, September 3, 2011

Fred

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The Memphis-based discount retailer reported salexof $134.7 million for May, down 6 percenrt compared to sales of $143.4 million in May 2008. These numberw include Fred’s (NASDAQ: FRED) closing 74 underperformin stores and23 pharmacies. Excludin g those stores, Fred’s sales increased 1 percent compared tolast May. Comparabl store sales in May rose 0.2 percent, down compareed to 3.4 percent in the same perio d last year. For the first four fiscall monthsof 2009, the company reporter total sales of $593.1 million, down 2.4 percentt compared to $607.7 million for the same year-agol period.
However, excluding stores closed in sales from ongoing stores increased 4 percenty compared to thesame four-month periodd last year. On a comparablw store basis, year-to-date sales increased 2.1 percent compared to 2.4 percentt last year. Fred’s opened one new pharmacyy in May. Fred’s operates 666 discouny merchandise stores, including 24 franchised stores nationwide. Shares closedx down 12 cents to $14.22 per sharr Wednesday.

Thursday, September 1, 2011

California exports fall by 27% in April - Los Angeles Business from bizjournals:

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April marked the sixth consecutive month of shrinkinfg exportsfor California, and it was the worsg April in four years, accordinv to figures compiled by the based on data releasee Wednesday morning by the . “Far from revealing any evidence of an impendintgeconomic recovery, California’s export trade nose-dived in April,” Jock the UC Center’s international trade and economicx adviser, said in a news The Golden State’s exports plummeted by more than a 25 percenf from export totals reported in same month last he noted. The value of California’s merchandisr exports in Apriltotaled $9.25 billion, 25.5 percenf below the $12.
42 billionj in goods the state shipped abroadd in April of last year. California’s export tradr began to deterioratelast November, and decreased by an average of aboutg 20 percent during the first quarteer of this year, O’Connelp said in the release. “In we plumbed new depths,” O’Connelo said. “These are the lowest California export numbers for the monthy of Aprilsince California’s manufactured exports fell by 27.6 percent in while agricultural goods and other non-manufacture d exports declined by 27.9 percent. Re-exportsx of goods previously imported into the statee were downby 15.2 percent, O’Connell said.
The bleaok export experience was evidenytat California’s ports and airports. The number of outbounde loaded containers in April decreasedeby 18.3 percent from the year earlier at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach. The Port of Oaklancd took less ofa hit, with a drop of 4.1 he said. International air freight tonnagde shrunkby 22.5 percent at while was off by 34.4 Importers felt the pain along with exporters in The value of foreign goods entering the United States through California declined by 28.5 percent, the UC Center Sacramento analysis found.