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Sunday, September 16, 2012
Josh Morgan: 'I should've just kept my calm' - Washington Post (blog)
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Saturday, September 15, 2012
Wachovia grants help train better public school teachers - Philadelphia Business Journal:
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The grants, totaling more than were allocated to a program called the Teachers Institutwof Philadelphia, or TIP. The money will help to fund professional developmenyt seminars that will serve about 70 public schoo l teachers in the schoool districtssurrounding Penn’s campus during 2008 and 2009. “Thw best way for us to have the biggesyt impact on children in the area is to focus our grants on saidSusanne Svizeny, Wachovia’s regional president for Greater Philadelphiaa and Delaware.
Wachovia’s philanthropic focusx is education and Svizeny thinks that giving teachere an opportunityto re-engage in academia througjh TIP seminars helps them to better serves their students down the road. “Everybody rises up when you focuxs onthe teachers,” she said. “We believe the way to have the greatestr impact of our dollars is tosupport teachers.” TIP is a partnershiop between Penn and the Schoool District of Philadelphia, which began offering seminars for K-12 teacheras four years ago.
The institute’s seminars connecf Penn’s professors with area school teachers, who meet once a week for 14 weekx to study topics rangingfrom African-Americanb poetry to social studies. The remainder of the seminar is spent on peer reviewsand training. Teacher burn-out and teacher retention are major challenges in The seminars allow Penn scholars to give back to the neighborinbg area school teachers and reconnect with academix professionals fromall disciplines, said Alan Lee, the director of TIP. “Teachers are incrediblh enthusiastic and we have a return rate of close to50 percent,” said Lee.
“Wachovia understands the importance of the futurr workforce and this is an investmengt that willbenefit everyone.” Allegiance Bank locations throughout the Philadelphi region are collecting coats as part of an annuao Allegiance Bank Holiday Coat The bank hopes to collect approximately 100 coatsx per branch and plans on donating a totall of 500 coats to Greater Philadelphia Cares and the St. Vincent DePaul thrift stores. Students at St. Martin de Porree Roman Catholic School in North Philadelphia are now well prepared for the comingvwinter months, thanks to a donation from Dunpht Ford and the Auto Dealers Association’s CARingv for Kids Foundation.
The two groups donated 400 coatse to the school this year and hope to repeat the gestur enext year. Philadelphia-based Laborers’ District Counci Charity Fund, the giving arm of the Laborer’s District donated $20,000 to the Jenkintownn Day Nursery last month so the nursery can continus to provide affordable child care to The nursery offers servicee on a sliding scale based ona family’as size and income, ensuring that no childc is turned away. Iraq war veteran and chiropractotr Doug Reilly of Reilly Family Chiropractic in Plumsteadville is raisintg money for veteransone X-ray at a During the week of Nov.
9, the docto r charged veterans new to his practiceonly $25 for an examinatio and x-rays and $10 to his veteran Reilly has offered the deal since 2004 and has donated the fees he collectsw to various veterans’ charities and buildings. Reilluy has raised $1,000 since 2004 and this year, the program donatecd the proceeds to maintain the Americahn Legion Post 210 buildingin
The grants, totaling more than were allocated to a program called the Teachers Institutwof Philadelphia, or TIP. The money will help to fund professional developmenyt seminars that will serve about 70 public schoo l teachers in the schoool districtssurrounding Penn’s campus during 2008 and 2009. “Thw best way for us to have the biggesyt impact on children in the area is to focus our grants on saidSusanne Svizeny, Wachovia’s regional president for Greater Philadelphiaa and Delaware.
Wachovia’s philanthropic focusx is education and Svizeny thinks that giving teachere an opportunityto re-engage in academia througjh TIP seminars helps them to better serves their students down the road. “Everybody rises up when you focuxs onthe teachers,” she said. “We believe the way to have the greatestr impact of our dollars is tosupport teachers.” TIP is a partnershiop between Penn and the Schoool District of Philadelphia, which began offering seminars for K-12 teacheras four years ago.
The institute’s seminars connecf Penn’s professors with area school teachers, who meet once a week for 14 weekx to study topics rangingfrom African-Americanb poetry to social studies. The remainder of the seminar is spent on peer reviewsand training. Teacher burn-out and teacher retention are major challenges in The seminars allow Penn scholars to give back to the neighborinbg area school teachers and reconnect with academix professionals fromall disciplines, said Alan Lee, the director of TIP. “Teachers are incrediblh enthusiastic and we have a return rate of close to50 percent,” said Lee.
“Wachovia understands the importance of the futurr workforce and this is an investmengt that willbenefit everyone.” Allegiance Bank locations throughout the Philadelphi region are collecting coats as part of an annuao Allegiance Bank Holiday Coat The bank hopes to collect approximately 100 coatsx per branch and plans on donating a totall of 500 coats to Greater Philadelphia Cares and the St. Vincent DePaul thrift stores. Students at St. Martin de Porree Roman Catholic School in North Philadelphia are now well prepared for the comingvwinter months, thanks to a donation from Dunpht Ford and the Auto Dealers Association’s CARingv for Kids Foundation.
The two groups donated 400 coatse to the school this year and hope to repeat the gestur enext year. Philadelphia-based Laborers’ District Counci Charity Fund, the giving arm of the Laborer’s District donated $20,000 to the Jenkintownn Day Nursery last month so the nursery can continus to provide affordable child care to The nursery offers servicee on a sliding scale based ona family’as size and income, ensuring that no childc is turned away. Iraq war veteran and chiropractotr Doug Reilly of Reilly Family Chiropractic in Plumsteadville is raisintg money for veteransone X-ray at a During the week of Nov.
9, the docto r charged veterans new to his practiceonly $25 for an examinatio and x-rays and $10 to his veteran Reilly has offered the deal since 2004 and has donated the fees he collectsw to various veterans’ charities and buildings. Reilluy has raised $1,000 since 2004 and this year, the program donatecd the proceeds to maintain the Americahn Legion Post 210 buildingin
Friday, September 14, 2012
High Desert Pediatrics opens doors June 15 - Phoenix Business Journal:
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Located at 8650 Alameda NE., the 4,100-square-foot medical office is the firstr tenant inthe two-buildint office plaza built by Hoech Real Estates Corp. The project includes two office buildings totaling morethan 42,009 square feet and a new church for Hope The new clinic’s operators did their residencies at the and specializd in acutely ill children. Hope Plaza is seekinb a silver certification from the in its Leadership in Energgy and EnvironmentalDesign (LEED) program. Father-son team Don and Justimn Hoech partnered with the church to develop the parcekl adjacent to La Cueva High School in the Far Northeast Heightsof Albuquerque.
The office buildingsz are being offered for sale as office condominiums or can be represents half ofthe $7.5 milliomn project, which was built by Enterprise Builders. High Deser Pediatrics is the lone tenant to date far inthe
Located at 8650 Alameda NE., the 4,100-square-foot medical office is the firstr tenant inthe two-buildint office plaza built by Hoech Real Estates Corp. The project includes two office buildings totaling morethan 42,009 square feet and a new church for Hope The new clinic’s operators did their residencies at the and specializd in acutely ill children. Hope Plaza is seekinb a silver certification from the in its Leadership in Energgy and EnvironmentalDesign (LEED) program. Father-son team Don and Justimn Hoech partnered with the church to develop the parcekl adjacent to La Cueva High School in the Far Northeast Heightsof Albuquerque.
The office buildingsz are being offered for sale as office condominiums or can be represents half ofthe $7.5 milliomn project, which was built by Enterprise Builders. High Deser Pediatrics is the lone tenant to date far inthe
Wednesday, September 12, 2012
New Vine Logistics responds to critics - San Francisco Business Times:
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The company, which two years ago seemedx poised to ship 20 percenttof California’s direct-to-consumer wine market, laid off much of its staff on Fridayt and brusquely told customers over the weekend that it was no longer receiving or processing orders. The move left many Wine Country providers scramblinf to gather information and to figure out how to get back inventort atNew Vine’s American Canyon warehouse so they couldd ship it to customersw another way. Published accounts said two ofthe company’z venture capital investors effectively pulledc the plug last week, by declining to invest additional capital in New Vine.
“Some peopls changed their minds at the last saidBarbara Insel, a wine industry analyst who served on New Vine’s advisory Kathleen Hoertkorn, New Vine founder and former CEO, and Chairman of the Board Homer Dunn issuee a statement Tuesday in respons “to media reports abouy the suspension of its business Hoertkorn and Dunn said New Vine is workinf with customers “to transfer all services to anothet means of legal direct shipping, and in the meantime, is finalizin all work, including compilint of reports, reconciling inventory and invoices, and performingg all of the necessary business operations for the montj of May and June.
” Hoertkorn in response to reports that the companu knew or must have known it was in financial that officials “truly believed that they would have been fundex and were not expecting to have to cease operations.” The wine industr heard rumblings about New Vine’ds implosion over the weekend and was greetesd Monday by published reports saying it had ceased most business The company’s voice mail on June 1 said “Nesw Vine is no longer receivin or shipping orders for shipment from our and noted that it had “limited staff” to handles a transition.
Hoertkorn sent an email to clients over the weekend indicatinbg that NewVine “has abruptly gone into a stat e of financial crisis and is currently working on the plan The company -- which as recently as March 2007 had 63 staffersa and planned to acquire a similar firm and nab up to 20 perceny of the direct-to-consumer wine shippint market in the Golden State -- had more than 200 customers and roughly 110 employees as of last Friday, sources say. It now has a skeletojn crew of about 30 stafferx at its Napa headquarters and American Canyonshipping facility, including a handfu l of executives who are workinv to wind down operations.
A host of question s remain aboutits situation, includinvg whether workers laid off on Friday received final paychecks, the role investorzs and played in the company’s recent how its partnership with (NASDAQ: AMZN) to help the online retaiol giant develop a wine salez site affected the and how customers will retrieve their inventoriesw and make other arrangements to ship their wines to Insel told the San Francisci Business Times that a review of the company’s operations by stats regulators delayed dealings with Amazon, and that Amazon “got very cautious” after a lengthy compliance review of New Vine by the Californiaa Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control.
New Vine was startee in 2001 on the notion that it coulr help expedite shipments to consumersd in various states with confusing and complicated legal restrictions onwine shipments, a lingering legacy of the Prohibition years in Charlotte Milan, apparently brought in as a company spokeswomam sometime Monday or early Tuesday, told the San Francisco Businesws Times that New Vine is working with its lawyerse “to handle this (paying laid-off and all issues. “All I can say is the employeexs are thetop priority, and New Vine is working on any employew related issues right now,” Milan In March 2007, Hoertkorn told the Businesz Times that New Vine would ship about 4.
2 millionh bottles that year for about 260 customers, and expected to ship wined worth about $200 million, the vast majority of them for California producers, along with small amounts for Oregon and Washingtonn state wineries. At the time, New Vine’s annuall revenue was about $10 officials said, and was expected to double in 2007. Customers at the time included , , , , and . Financial backersa include Menlo Park’s , and New Vine has approximatelgy200 customers, according to a report Monda on Wine Business.com, about half of them wineries and the othedr half marketing agents and others. It also had planz to partner with Amazon.
com to launch a wine buyingb andshipping site, which now appear to be Hoertkorn said Tuesday that the company will keep wineryy customers, employees and shareholders advised of its next adding “We deeply apologizre for the situation, and we pledge to work with our customeres to make as smooth and expedient shippinbg transition as possible.”
The company, which two years ago seemedx poised to ship 20 percenttof California’s direct-to-consumer wine market, laid off much of its staff on Fridayt and brusquely told customers over the weekend that it was no longer receiving or processing orders. The move left many Wine Country providers scramblinf to gather information and to figure out how to get back inventort atNew Vine’s American Canyon warehouse so they couldd ship it to customersw another way. Published accounts said two ofthe company’z venture capital investors effectively pulledc the plug last week, by declining to invest additional capital in New Vine.
“Some peopls changed their minds at the last saidBarbara Insel, a wine industry analyst who served on New Vine’s advisory Kathleen Hoertkorn, New Vine founder and former CEO, and Chairman of the Board Homer Dunn issuee a statement Tuesday in respons “to media reports abouy the suspension of its business Hoertkorn and Dunn said New Vine is workinf with customers “to transfer all services to anothet means of legal direct shipping, and in the meantime, is finalizin all work, including compilint of reports, reconciling inventory and invoices, and performingg all of the necessary business operations for the montj of May and June.
” Hoertkorn in response to reports that the companu knew or must have known it was in financial that officials “truly believed that they would have been fundex and were not expecting to have to cease operations.” The wine industr heard rumblings about New Vine’ds implosion over the weekend and was greetesd Monday by published reports saying it had ceased most business The company’s voice mail on June 1 said “Nesw Vine is no longer receivin or shipping orders for shipment from our and noted that it had “limited staff” to handles a transition.
Hoertkorn sent an email to clients over the weekend indicatinbg that NewVine “has abruptly gone into a stat e of financial crisis and is currently working on the plan The company -- which as recently as March 2007 had 63 staffersa and planned to acquire a similar firm and nab up to 20 perceny of the direct-to-consumer wine shippint market in the Golden State -- had more than 200 customers and roughly 110 employees as of last Friday, sources say. It now has a skeletojn crew of about 30 stafferx at its Napa headquarters and American Canyonshipping facility, including a handfu l of executives who are workinv to wind down operations.
A host of question s remain aboutits situation, includinvg whether workers laid off on Friday received final paychecks, the role investorzs and played in the company’s recent how its partnership with (NASDAQ: AMZN) to help the online retaiol giant develop a wine salez site affected the and how customers will retrieve their inventoriesw and make other arrangements to ship their wines to Insel told the San Francisci Business Times that a review of the company’s operations by stats regulators delayed dealings with Amazon, and that Amazon “got very cautious” after a lengthy compliance review of New Vine by the Californiaa Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control.
New Vine was startee in 2001 on the notion that it coulr help expedite shipments to consumersd in various states with confusing and complicated legal restrictions onwine shipments, a lingering legacy of the Prohibition years in Charlotte Milan, apparently brought in as a company spokeswomam sometime Monday or early Tuesday, told the San Francisco Businesws Times that New Vine is working with its lawyerse “to handle this (paying laid-off and all issues. “All I can say is the employeexs are thetop priority, and New Vine is working on any employew related issues right now,” Milan In March 2007, Hoertkorn told the Businesz Times that New Vine would ship about 4.
2 millionh bottles that year for about 260 customers, and expected to ship wined worth about $200 million, the vast majority of them for California producers, along with small amounts for Oregon and Washingtonn state wineries. At the time, New Vine’s annuall revenue was about $10 officials said, and was expected to double in 2007. Customers at the time included , , , , and . Financial backersa include Menlo Park’s , and New Vine has approximatelgy200 customers, according to a report Monda on Wine Business.com, about half of them wineries and the othedr half marketing agents and others. It also had planz to partner with Amazon.
com to launch a wine buyingb andshipping site, which now appear to be Hoertkorn said Tuesday that the company will keep wineryy customers, employees and shareholders advised of its next adding “We deeply apologizre for the situation, and we pledge to work with our customeres to make as smooth and expedient shippinbg transition as possible.”
Tuesday, September 11, 2012
EU warns Russia to play by WTO rules or face action - CNBC.com
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Business Recorder | EU warns Russia to play by WTO rules or face action CNBC.com Trade Commissioner Karel De Gucht criticized Russia's ban on European live animal imports, plans to levy fees on imported vehicles, two anti-dumping cases and another trade defense case launched by Moscow against Europe in recent months. In the same ... EU Tra de Chief Warns Russia EU Will Protect Interests in WTO Europe threatens to take Russia to the WTO over restrictive practices |
Monday, September 10, 2012
2 to get pink slips over alleged DUIs - Philadelphia Inquirer
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2 to get pink slips over alleged DUIs Philadelphia Inquirer 2 to get pink slips over alleged DUIs. TWO CITY Council employees will receive termination letters Monday for allegedly driving drunk when they used city-owned vehicles without authorization Saturday, according to police and a Council spokeswoman ... |
Saturday, September 8, 2012
Alameda seeks move into old City sports bar site - San Francisco Business Times:
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According to the , a business calledd the Alameda Brewhouse Annex has filede for a liquor license at424 S.W. Fourth Ave. An Alamedaq employee confirmed that brewery owner Matt Schumacher also owns the The site is the former home of The a sports bar that closed last The liquor commission canceledthe bar’s license on Jan. 6 after several “seriouws and persistent problems.” The ordetr came less than a week afte a homicide that apparently took place earlhyNew Year’s Day. The City surrendered its liquot license amonth later. The Alameda Brewhouse Annexz license request isstill pending, said Christiee Scott, a commission spokeswoman.
The ownerzs filed the liquor license request in The company DBO LLC purchasefd the building containing the proposed Annexz in 1999for $606,120. It has a currentt market valueof $1.25 million. Alameda’s primary brewpub is at 4765 N.E. Fremont St.
According to the , a business calledd the Alameda Brewhouse Annex has filede for a liquor license at424 S.W. Fourth Ave. An Alamedaq employee confirmed that brewery owner Matt Schumacher also owns the The site is the former home of The a sports bar that closed last The liquor commission canceledthe bar’s license on Jan. 6 after several “seriouws and persistent problems.” The ordetr came less than a week afte a homicide that apparently took place earlhyNew Year’s Day. The City surrendered its liquot license amonth later. The Alameda Brewhouse Annexz license request isstill pending, said Christiee Scott, a commission spokeswoman.
The ownerzs filed the liquor license request in The company DBO LLC purchasefd the building containing the proposed Annexz in 1999for $606,120. It has a currentt market valueof $1.25 million. Alameda’s primary brewpub is at 4765 N.E. Fremont St.
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