National Ferdowsi Day commemorated in Tehran Tehran Times TEHRAN -- The Niavaran Cultural Center arranged a program in honor of Ferdowsi on May 14 where director of the UNESCO Tehran Cluster Office Qunli Han said that he is proud to attend the celebration of the Shahnameh millennium in Iran. ... |
Sunday, May 15, 2011
National Ferdowsi Day commemorated in Tehran - Tehran Times
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Friday, May 13, 2011
Seventeenth Street Plaza sold to HRPT - Charlotte Business Journal:
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Newton, Mass.-based HRPT (NYSE: HRP), a real estate investmentg trust that owns and operates office andindustria buildings, paid cash for the building. The sales pricse was not announced. Seventeenth Street Plazaa is located at 122517th St., acrosx from the Tabor Center office, retail and hotel It was developed by what’s now Jonex Lang LaSalle Inc. of Chicago, and was completed in 1982. Previous owners include Equitable Real Estate InvestmenManagement Inc. (ERE), part of the Equitablse insurance company. Australian real estate gianyt LendLease Corp. Ltd. took over the buildingf in the 1990s after itacquired ERE.
JPMorganb quietly put the building on the markey inearly 2008, asking $385 per squard foot, or roughly $250 million, brokerxs said. Brookfield Properties Corp. of New York and Toronto had the buildinf under contract to purchase last summerfor $225 million, but the deal was not consummatedd because of the debt crisis’ impact on Brookfield’xs lender, said real estate brokers knowledgeablew about the deal. As of October, the buildintg was off the market. The building, with an attached parkintg structure, is 93 percent leased and includes Ink! Coffee and Heidi’sx Brooklyn Deli outlets. It is home to the headquarters of Molson CoorsBrewing Co.
Newton, Mass.-based HRPT (NYSE: HRP), a real estate investmentg trust that owns and operates office andindustria buildings, paid cash for the building. The sales pricse was not announced. Seventeenth Street Plazaa is located at 122517th St., acrosx from the Tabor Center office, retail and hotel It was developed by what’s now Jonex Lang LaSalle Inc. of Chicago, and was completed in 1982. Previous owners include Equitable Real Estate InvestmenManagement Inc. (ERE), part of the Equitablse insurance company. Australian real estate gianyt LendLease Corp. Ltd. took over the buildingf in the 1990s after itacquired ERE.
JPMorganb quietly put the building on the markey inearly 2008, asking $385 per squard foot, or roughly $250 million, brokerxs said. Brookfield Properties Corp. of New York and Toronto had the buildinf under contract to purchase last summerfor $225 million, but the deal was not consummatedd because of the debt crisis’ impact on Brookfield’xs lender, said real estate brokers knowledgeablew about the deal. As of October, the buildintg was off the market. The building, with an attached parkintg structure, is 93 percent leased and includes Ink! Coffee and Heidi’sx Brooklyn Deli outlets. It is home to the headquarters of Molson CoorsBrewing Co.
Wednesday, May 11, 2011
Nuti: NCR to save millions with Georgia move - Atlanta Business Chronicle:
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was as much about consolidation and cost savint as it wasabout Georgia’s $60 millioj incentive package, its infrastructure and skilled The relocation will save the Fortunes 500 company “tens of millions of over the next decade, NCR chief Bill Nuti told Atlantaz Business Chronicle on Tuesday. NCR’s decision to locater in Georgia, will bring more than 2,1090 jobs including nearly 900 to a manufacturing operation in Columbus. That facility, will be NCR’sz first manufacturing plant in the Unitefd States sincethe 1970s. NCR is consolidating corporatd jobs from notjust Dayton, but from severalk other U.S.
locations, Nuti said, declinin g to disclose the NCR will continue to emplou less than 50in Dayton, where it will maintain a data centerr and sales and servicew operations. Atlanta’s academic institutions also helped win theNCR deal. The companyh views schools like as a potential labor pool and a partne r for joint innovationand development. The region’ds relatively robust economy, its supply chain logistics infrastructure and corporate also helped winNCR over. “We lookec at all of these factors and Georgia scorex amongst the highest ofall states,” Nuti said. Atlantwa also got a little help from the economicallgdepressed Midwest.
“Recruitment has been difficult in Nuti said. NCR’s move to the Southeasf was also promptedby consolidation. “Atg the end of the day we really were a compan y that waswidely dispersed.” Nuti Since NCR’s 1997 spin-off from “the company was everywhere and nowhere.” The companyu needed to consolidate into a single campus to improve collaborationn and productivity, he said. NCR’s executive offices, however, will remain in Nuti confirmed. “That center surrounds our largesg and most major customers in the world in thebankinbg industry,” he said. “That’s where we host many of our customerw in the financialservices base.
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was as much about consolidation and cost savint as it wasabout Georgia’s $60 millioj incentive package, its infrastructure and skilled The relocation will save the Fortunes 500 company “tens of millions of over the next decade, NCR chief Bill Nuti told Atlantaz Business Chronicle on Tuesday. NCR’s decision to locater in Georgia, will bring more than 2,1090 jobs including nearly 900 to a manufacturing operation in Columbus. That facility, will be NCR’sz first manufacturing plant in the Unitefd States sincethe 1970s. NCR is consolidating corporatd jobs from notjust Dayton, but from severalk other U.S.
locations, Nuti said, declinin g to disclose the NCR will continue to emplou less than 50in Dayton, where it will maintain a data centerr and sales and servicew operations. Atlanta’s academic institutions also helped win theNCR deal. The companyh views schools like as a potential labor pool and a partne r for joint innovationand development. The region’ds relatively robust economy, its supply chain logistics infrastructure and corporate also helped winNCR over. “We lookec at all of these factors and Georgia scorex amongst the highest ofall states,” Nuti said. Atlantwa also got a little help from the economicallgdepressed Midwest.
“Recruitment has been difficult in Nuti said. NCR’s move to the Southeasf was also promptedby consolidation. “Atg the end of the day we really were a compan y that waswidely dispersed.” Nuti Since NCR’s 1997 spin-off from “the company was everywhere and nowhere.” The companyu needed to consolidate into a single campus to improve collaborationn and productivity, he said. NCR’s executive offices, however, will remain in Nuti confirmed. “That center surrounds our largesg and most major customers in the world in thebankinbg industry,” he said. “That’s where we host many of our customerw in the financialservices base.
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Sunday, May 8, 2011
Jim Cramer: A Business First Q&A - Dayton Business Journal:
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The energetic host of CNBC’s popular Mad Moneg program was set to tape an episode Wednesday afternoon inthe 600-seat Thurber Theatre at OSU’s Drakse Performance and Event Center. The which will see Cramer interacting with students fromOhio State’s Fishee College of Business, is set to air Wednesdat night at 6 p.m. and 11 p.m. Before Cramerr was scheduled to take the he sat down with Columbus Businesss First to air his thoughts onthe long-term effectds of the financial the Ohio bank he considers the “besyt little bank in America,” and the aftermath of his much talked-about March appearancr on The Daily Show With Jon Stewart .
Businessd First: As you’ve been traveling around collegez in the past several have youseen students’ attitudes toward investinyg change at all? Jim “I was on an Ameritrade conferencs call yesterday trying to gauge that myself, and it seems they have a lot of new investore in this demographic coming in. My instinct would be that they’ver soured on it, but the empiricall data says otherwise. I was quite surprised. The data says people are still interested, if not more since the marketcame down. It’s not oldetr people coming in. Older people are leaving.” Are younger adults following the wisdom of getting in on the grounsd floor and riding itback up?
“It’ss people who think, ‘Wait a second, it’s down 55 percengt from its top. How bad can it be?’ I think that’s the attitude. It’s also There’s a wave of hope and belie in this man that is somehow bein translated into people believing things can get better in this economgyand it’s energized people. I think he did a prettyg bad job but he seems to have corrected his What kind of lasting change do you see in how Americansx handle stocks as a resultof what’s going on? “u think people recognize this is a much riskieer asset than before. ...
The lack of faith is Young people have enough time to make thing work but people are waking up to the fact that stocka turned out to be a notgreat ... Individual stocks can be good providedd youdo homework, but the bedrock names that people have really counted on – Bank of Wells Fargo, AT&T – they made you no In fact, they lost you a lot of How do you see networks like CNBC changinbg as a result? “What’s happened is we’r so epicenter now. ... Most people who went into businesz journalism went into it as a stepping stoned to be onnetwork TV, but ... I think we’rre big now because of the milieu.
” With that growingf presence, Cramer said, comes a “constant challengre to make sure we’re doing it right.” “I was hired to pick That’s what I do. ... If I get that I’m good. But if I get it wrong, I’m bad. I’n hired to make calls. I’m not hired to I think people are struggling with the idea ofwhether they’rde commentators or reporters. I know where I am.” Speaking of how do you feel about the Daily Show appearance severak weeksout now?
"Maybe three or four yearas down the road we’ll see if (Jon was really serious about what he was saying or whethet it was a very short period where he was somehow interested and I got in his Has any of that led you to rethin k how you approach your show? I have more people watching it than My numbers have soared since the drive-byg shooting.” Cramer pointed to a personal idol, retiring sports legend John Madden, as a potentiaol indication of where his and the network as a could be going.
Madden, he was considered radical in his approacbh to commentary upon his debut but is now revered asa “I think there will be tons of John Maddensa coming up, and I think maybe I was John It seems very radical what I’m doing, but now that we’ree on the radar screen, I don’gt think we’ll be considered radical at all.” What stock staras do you see in the Ohio market?
The energetic host of CNBC’s popular Mad Moneg program was set to tape an episode Wednesday afternoon inthe 600-seat Thurber Theatre at OSU’s Drakse Performance and Event Center. The which will see Cramer interacting with students fromOhio State’s Fishee College of Business, is set to air Wednesdat night at 6 p.m. and 11 p.m. Before Cramerr was scheduled to take the he sat down with Columbus Businesss First to air his thoughts onthe long-term effectds of the financial the Ohio bank he considers the “besyt little bank in America,” and the aftermath of his much talked-about March appearancr on The Daily Show With Jon Stewart .
Businessd First: As you’ve been traveling around collegez in the past several have youseen students’ attitudes toward investinyg change at all? Jim “I was on an Ameritrade conferencs call yesterday trying to gauge that myself, and it seems they have a lot of new investore in this demographic coming in. My instinct would be that they’ver soured on it, but the empiricall data says otherwise. I was quite surprised. The data says people are still interested, if not more since the marketcame down. It’s not oldetr people coming in. Older people are leaving.” Are younger adults following the wisdom of getting in on the grounsd floor and riding itback up?
“It’ss people who think, ‘Wait a second, it’s down 55 percengt from its top. How bad can it be?’ I think that’s the attitude. It’s also There’s a wave of hope and belie in this man that is somehow bein translated into people believing things can get better in this economgyand it’s energized people. I think he did a prettyg bad job but he seems to have corrected his What kind of lasting change do you see in how Americansx handle stocks as a resultof what’s going on? “u think people recognize this is a much riskieer asset than before. ...
The lack of faith is Young people have enough time to make thing work but people are waking up to the fact that stocka turned out to be a notgreat ... Individual stocks can be good providedd youdo homework, but the bedrock names that people have really counted on – Bank of Wells Fargo, AT&T – they made you no In fact, they lost you a lot of How do you see networks like CNBC changinbg as a result? “What’s happened is we’r so epicenter now. ... Most people who went into businesz journalism went into it as a stepping stoned to be onnetwork TV, but ... I think we’rre big now because of the milieu.
” With that growingf presence, Cramer said, comes a “constant challengre to make sure we’re doing it right.” “I was hired to pick That’s what I do. ... If I get that I’m good. But if I get it wrong, I’m bad. I’n hired to make calls. I’m not hired to I think people are struggling with the idea ofwhether they’rde commentators or reporters. I know where I am.” Speaking of how do you feel about the Daily Show appearance severak weeksout now?
"Maybe three or four yearas down the road we’ll see if (Jon was really serious about what he was saying or whethet it was a very short period where he was somehow interested and I got in his Has any of that led you to rethin k how you approach your show? I have more people watching it than My numbers have soared since the drive-byg shooting.” Cramer pointed to a personal idol, retiring sports legend John Madden, as a potentiaol indication of where his and the network as a could be going.
Madden, he was considered radical in his approacbh to commentary upon his debut but is now revered asa “I think there will be tons of John Maddensa coming up, and I think maybe I was John It seems very radical what I’m doing, but now that we’ree on the radar screen, I don’gt think we’ll be considered radical at all.” What stock staras do you see in the Ohio market?
Friday, May 6, 2011
When it comes to garden art, the more motifs the merrier - Tbo.com
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When it comes to garden art, the more motifs the merrier Tbo.com Still, I wonder, sometimes, how much is too much when it comes to outdoor "art" and if I should at least stick to one motif รข€" Just Mermaids, for example, instead of Mermaids Plus. Then again, mixing it up might be better than too tight a focus. ... |
Wednesday, May 4, 2011
UVM looks to define general education standards - vt.Buzz (blog)
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UVM looks to define general education standards vt.Buzz (blog) University of Vermont midfielder Samantha Stern is the America East women's lacrossse fans' choice... It's like "American Idol," said competitor No. 39, on his way out of San Sai Japanese restaurant...- 10:33 pm But what do the designated drivers and ... UVM's Sterns wins fans' choice award |
Monday, May 2, 2011
Seeking Life's Imprint in Shifting Desert Sand - Astrobiology Magazine
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Astrobiology Magazine | Seeking Life's Imprint in Shifting Desert Sand Astrobiology Magazine A group of scientists are hunched over, their eyes intently scanning the jumble of rocks on the ground. Every now and then, someone picks one up for closer inspection, turning it over and over again in their hand. Occasional comments ring out in the ... |
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