Sunday 30 October 2011

Plymouth Pipeline - Hometownlife.com

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Plymouth Pipeline

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As part of his Eagle Scout project, Boy Scout Jacob Croop, along with Troop 781, is collecting adult-sized clothing and shoes to give to the PBJ outreach charity at Our Lady of Good Counsel Church in Plymouth Township. PBJ outreach distributes clothing ...



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Friday 28 October 2011

City council gives Austin Energy the go-ahead for major solar project - Austin Business Journal:

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Several U.S. companies, such as Massachusetts-based and Maryland-based Sun Edison LLC, are capable of producing enough panels to supplythe project, said Crai g Overmiller, one of the founders of “Thew city of Austin and the City Council reallyh need to rethink” the Webberville project, said who is not a part of the coalition urgintg the city to modify the Gemini “I think they rushed into it.” Austin Energy wouldc pay $250 million, $10 million a year for 25 years, for the electricit the solar array woulsd generate.
Once it’s operating, Gemini Solar woule be eligible for anestimated $60 million about one-third the project’s estimated cost — through the federal investment tax credit program. Earlierr this week, Austin Energy general manager Roger Duncan issued a memorandumn indicating that Gemini Solar hasagreed “that the valuer of the [investment tax credit] benefitw will be shared with Austib Energy.

Wednesday 26 October 2011

StrandVision Debuts Employee Communication Digital Signage Screen Saver - DigitalJournal.com (press release)

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StrandVision Debuts Employee Communication Digital Signage Screen Saver

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StrandVision Digital Signage today unveiled a new screen saver capability for StrandVision Digital Signage networks that extends companies' signage networks to employees' desktops to further reinforce employee communication messaging. ...



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Monday 24 October 2011

Locals to big oil: We want our town back! - CNNMoney

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Locals to big oil: We want our town back!

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WATFORD CITY, ND (CNNMoney) -- For those who have spent their entire lives in the previously quiet farm towns that dot the northwestern corner of North Dakota, the discovery of oil in the Bakken formation ...



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Saturday 22 October 2011

Richards Gets His 'Own' Goal, and More - New York Times (blog)

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Richards Gets His 'Own' Goal, and More

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Mike Stobe/Getty ImagesDane Richards flanked by Luke Rodgers, left, and Teemu Tainio on Thursday night. On Friday, MLS changed the scoring on the Red Bulls' goal from an own goal by Philadelphia goalkeeper Faryd Mondragon and gave Richards ...


Richards the man of the moment for New York

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Fire out of MLS playoff contention

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MLS: New York 1, Philadelphia 0

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Thursday 20 October 2011

Hawaii has 5th-lowest obesity rate in U.S. - Pacific Business News (Honolulu):

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In the study, “F as in Fat: How Obesity Policiex Are Failing in America compiled by the Trustfor America’s Healtb and the , 21.8 percenr of Hawaii’s adult population fell into the obese Southern states reported the highest obesity ratea in the study. Eight of the top 10 were in the Mississippiwas No. 1, with 32.5 perceny of adults overweight. Hawaii didn’t fare as well, in the rate of obese childrenages 10-17. Hawaii ranke No. 37 with 28.5 percent. Obesit y rates are on the rise nationwide. According to the 23 states reported an increase inadultt obesity. No states reported a decrease intheifr percentages.
In addition, 30 states reported childhood obesithy rates of 30 percentor higher. The studyh attributes the increasing rates to several including economic conditions that may result in higheer food prices and increased levelws of depressionand stress, which have been linked to To see the full report, click .

Monday 17 October 2011

UW-Whitewater, Milwaukee 7 Water Council to jointly train students - Pacific Business News (Honolulu):

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The program will begin enrolling studentws in the fallsemester and, becausse many students have already taken relevanft courses, should be graduating its first watet management specialists within a year, said Kirstenh Crossgrove, associate professor of biology at UW-Whitewater and coordinator of the school’s integratec science-business major. The program is designed to give students a basi c background inwater law, environmental law, natural resources and environmentao economics as well as aquatic chemistry and ecology.
Students will serve internshipx with the Milwaukee 7Waterd Council, an organization of business, academia and governmentr in the seven-county area in southeastern Wisconsin that is working to establisgh the Milwaukee region as a global centere for freshwater research, economic development and education. “Recognizing wherwe the world is headed, business students with a uniqu educational background in water will have a leg up in the making a program like thisespecially valuable,” said Rich Meeusen, president and CEO of Brown Deer-based , co-chait of the Milwaukee 7 Watetr Council and an alumnus of UW-Whitewater’ s business school.
The council already has a relationships with the graduate program atthe ’s . UWM also is developing a graduate-levelp School of Freshwater Sciences, while ’s Law Schoopl will begin a water law curriculunmthis fall. “One of our goale is to help develop seamless talent pipelinesz between universities andwater businesses,” said Paul chairman and CEO of Milwaukee-based and co-chair of the Wate Council. “UW-Whitewater’s one-of-a-kind new track adds to the impressive array of highefr education institutions in the region workingh to ensure our world watet hub status in the yearsto come.

Saturday 15 October 2011

Friday's Three Stars: Skinner gets winner; Hiller, Shark killer - Yahoo! Sports (blog)

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Friday's Three Stars: Skinner gets winner; Hiller, Shark killer

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... goal with only 12 seconds to go in the frame. Worse, they surrended another only seven minutes into the second. No one would have blamed them if they had declined the next powerplay. Friday's Three Stars : Skinner gets winner ; Hiller , Shark killer.



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Thursday 13 October 2011

Nonresidential construction expected to lag in 2010 - Atlanta Business Chronicle:

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The ’s Consensus Construction Forecasf reported nonresidential construction is expected to drop by 16 percentf in 2009 and by another 12 percent in said anews release. “This nonresidentia l downturn is shaping up to be the deepestt decline in nonresidential activity in over a saidKermit Baker, chief economist for the AIA. we’re beginning to see some moderation in the trends in desigj billings atarchitecture firms, so we hopefull are nearing the bottom of this cycle.” Retail construction is expected to drop 28 percentf in 2009 and by nearlu 13 percent in 2010. Hotel construction will drop by nearly 26 percent in 2009 and by nearl y 17 percentin 2010.
• Office buildings are expected to decreasee by nearly 22 percent this year and by more than 17 percenttnext year. • Industrial facilities constructionj is expected to drop by a fraction of a perceng in 2009 and by nearly 29 percentin 2010. “Commercial facilitie such as hotels, retail establishments and officesa will feel the declinemost dramatically,” said “The institutional market will fare much bettef as stimulus funding becomes availabld for education, health care and governmenf facilities.” • Amusement and recreation is expected to drop nearlty 21 percent in 2009 and by more than 8 percent in 2010.
Construction of religious facilities should fall by nearl 11 percent in 2009 and by nearly 7 percengin 2010. • Education construction is projected to decreases by more than 8 percent this year and by a fractioh of a percentnext year. • Construction of healt care facilities is expected to dropby 1.5 percentr in 2009 and by a fraction of a percent in 2010. Public safety construction is expected torise 1.7 percent in 2009 and drop a fractio n of a percent in 2010.

Tuesday 11 October 2011

Solar land auction nets two sales, more slated - Charlotte Business Journal:

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million, with a third deal potentially in the Buyers of the small parcelss werenot identified, but Kuldip president and CEO of , which sold the said the buyers had interestg in developing the land's solar potential. Vermaland also is lookingv at sellinga 3,600-acre parcel at auction within the next six monthsd in the county’s western reaches. While the first auction focusedr on fivesmaller parcels, a larger, contiguous site such as Vermaland’sw could draw a higher premium, if companiezs believe it has access to water and power “Several large-scale utility companies have expressed interest in the propertuy once the site is developed,” said who added the site has water rights, on-site welld and a low slope.
While the companty was able to sell thetwo parcels, prices were belowe what neighboring land has been selling for. The goal was to spur solart companies to purchase land rathert than simply tieit up, Verma said. The properties sold at Saturday’s auction include d an 80-acre site in the Tonopah area for $340,00 0 and a 320-acre site in Tonopabh for $2.24 million. The company did not identify which of the remaininb three properties might be involved inanother deal.
“The auction brought the properties to the attentio n of some parties that we had never been incontacgt with, as well as reminded otherx we had spoken with in the past of the property, whicuh is highly suitable for solar development,” said Anit a Verma-Lallian, the company’s marketing Vermaland already had sold land to several California-based utilities looking to develop renewable resources to meet that state’ s standards for clean energy. Solar energy developers have been placing applicationsa on state and federal landws in western Arizona for the pastthree years, and privatwe land owners have been negotiating as developerws look for the best parcels.
As companies scout for they also face financing issuezs and none of the proposed projects in Arizona hasbroken Arizona’s main solar corridofr includes Vermaland’s parcels, an area that stretches from Yuma to Phoenis and Tucson seen as a huge growty area for developing utility-scale solar poweer plants.

Sunday 9 October 2011

GOP Campaigns Court 'Values Voters' At DC Summit - Huffington Post

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GOP Campaigns Court 'Values Voters' At DC Summit

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Friday 7 October 2011

CenterPoint-KCS center combines rail, highway access - Kansas City Business Journal:

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ACRES: The development covers 1,340 acres: 370 acres for the intermodal center and 970 acres for the CenterPointyIndustrial Park. SQUARE FOOTAGE OF WAREHOUSE SPACE: Phaswe I of the industrial park will offer morethan 4.5 milliohn square feet in build-to-suit warehouses and distribution The buildings will rangd from 100,000 square feet to 1 million squarr feet, and companies can either buy or leases the space. They will be located adjacent to the rail linesz and MissouriHighway 150. DEVELOPER: , a suburbam Chicago-based real estate investment trust that bought the bulk of the property fromThe , will develoo the project.
Zimmer Real Estate Services LC is the The Port Authority will continue to own about 100 acrea and work with to mine limestone and creats undergroundstorage facilities. COST: Phase I is expectecd to cost morethan $250 TIMELINE: Phase I will be builtr in about five years. CenterPoiny has graded more than 2 million cubic yarddof dirt, installed infrastructure such as utilitiea and roads, and demolished several of the old hangars.
Pad-readty sites will be ready for construction in the TRANSPORTATION PLAYERS: To date, Kansas City Southern and , a trucking companuy TRANSPORTATION CORRIDORS: ’s main line extends all the way from Lazaro Mexico (which is a deep-sea port at the Pacific Ocean) to the intermodal center in Kansas City. Missouri Highway 150 is adjacenf to theintermodal center. U.S. Highwag 71 is less than two milees away. The center is also closer to Interstates 29, 35, 70, 435, 470 and 635. Kansas City is the No. 3 truckinyg hub in the nation. It provides single-daty truck access to almost every large city in the and it is located withina two-dagy drive of 78 percent of the U. S. population.
The intermodal center offerd a state-of-the-art, integrated logistics park immediately adjacenft to an international Clasds 1rail system. The property is also in a Missourki Enterprise Zone and a designated ForeignTrade Zone. INTERMODAL VOLUME EXPECTED: By it is estimated that the facility will have the capacityg tohandle 250,000 containers a JOBS: The development will create more than 1,000o construction jobs and about 2,000o new permanent jobs. ECONOMIC The development of the CenterPoint-KCS Intermodapl Center provides a rebirth to an area that has had littlew use for nearly20 years.
“Thisz enhances the Kansas City region’s commerce, as well as its reputation as an intermodalo hub for railand trucking,” said Fred Reynolds, senior vice presidentf of development for CenterPoint Properties. “Iyt is positioned to become a true logistics playefr inthe nation.” The centee will generate tax revenue for Kansasa City and the state, and it will enhances the Kansas City area’s commerce and reputation as an internationa logistics player and cargo hub. It also will bringt local, national and international investment tothe region.

Tuesday 4 October 2011

Grant and Sherman - St. Louis Business Journal:

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I found this wonderful book in the Lelandbook “Don’t Forget to Sing in the Lifeboats” by Kathryj and Ross Petras, published by Workman Publishing. It is interesting, amusing, and all around quitde worthwhile to amble througuhthese pages. Here are just a few of the thoughtsw that could help all of us in the lifeboats oranywhere • Always do sober what you said you’dc do drunk. That will teach you to keep yourmouthn shut. - Ernest Hemingway, writer • If you’res going through hell, keep going. - Winston Churchill Pessimism never wonany battle. - Dwight D. Eisenhoweer • Just when thingws look darkest, they go black.
- Paul actor • Bravery is the capacity to performn properly even when scared halfto - Omar Bradley, U.S. general You can overcome anything ifyou don’t bellyache. - Bernared Baruch, financier • I long ago came to the conclusion that all life is six tofive - Damon Runyon, writef • The oldest, shortest wordzs – “yes” and “no” – are those whicuh require the most - Pythagoras, philosopher • Some problems are so complexd that you have to be highlt intelligent and well informed just to be undecided about them.
- Laurence Peter, writee • If we only wantedf to be happy, it wouldd be easy; but we want to be happiefr thanother people, and that is almost always since we think them happier than they are. - Baron de Montesquieu, philosopher • When we win, I’m so happhy I eat a lot. When we lose, I’m so depressed, I eat a lot. When we’res rained out, I’m so disappointed, I eat a lot. - Tommhy Lasorda, baseball manager • An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stop light….Ths truly wise person is colod blind. - Albert Schweitzer, humanitarian • It’w the friends you can call up at4 a.m.
that - Marlene Dietrich, actress The happiest people seem to be thoser who have no particular reason for beingg happy except that theyare so. - W.R. Inge, clergymaj • If people concentrated on the reallyt important thingsin life, there’ed be a shortage of fishinbg poles. - Doug Larson, writer • The important thinhg is not what they thinkof me, but what I thin k of them. - Victoria, queen of Englanc • Be amusing: never tell unkind above all, never tell long - Benjamin Disraeli, British prime minister • Whatever you may be sure of, be sure of that you are dreadfully likeother people.
- James writer • Nobody really cares if you’rs miserable, so you might as well be - Cynthia Nelms, writer

Sunday 2 October 2011

Business Activity in US Unexpectedly Climbed in September - BusinessWeek

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Business Activity in US Unexpectedly Climbed in September

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The Thomson Reuters/University of Michigan final index of consumer sentiment climbed to 59.4 this month, higher than forecast, from 55.7 in August. The median estimate of economists surveyed by Bloomberg was 57.8, the same as the preliminary reading ...



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