Friday, November 30, 2012

Photos of Accuser on Stand Disrupt Sexual Abuse Trial - New York Times

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Photos of Accuser on Stand Disrupt Sexual Abuse Trial

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The trial of an ultra-Orthodox Jewish counselor accused of repeatedly molesting a girl was disrupted on Thursday afternoon when four spectators in a Brooklyn courtroom were accused of taking pictures with their cellphones of the accuser on the witness ...



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Thursday, November 29, 2012

SharePoint Solutions Creates Software to Integrate Microsoft SharePoint With salesforce.com

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May 27 /PRNewswire/ -- SharePoinrt Solutions, a national leader in Microsoftt SharePoint products andtechnologies training, consulting and add-on software, announcex today it has created a producrt that integrates two of the most successful software innovationsa of the post-dotcom era: Microsoft SharePoint and The product is availablw as extensions to the SharePoint Data Zoom Web a free tool that allows SharePoint userse to easily build dynamic, data-driven content on any page. Data from SharePoint Sites, SharePointr Lists and virtually any other source can be aggregated and formattedcwith ease. "SharePoint and salesforce.
com are the two biggest business software successes of the pastfive years, said , president of SharePoint Solutions. "Both have growbn to be billion-dollar businesses, and we think there are many enterprises in the world that use both becausw eachis best-of-breed in its respectivs application." According to Microsoft represents the traditional softwarse company in which users purchas e licenses for software that is installed on computers. Salesforce.coj represents the new breed of software companies that providez software via the Internet on asubscription basis, which is known as the Software as a Service (SaaS) model.
"From the customer's Microsoft's SharePoint is the best portal and team collaboratiobnsoftware available, and salesforce.com makes the best Customert Relationship Management (CRM) and Sales Forc Automation software," Cate said. "However, untikl now, there hasn't been an easy way to integrat them." Armed with the SharePoiny Data Zoom Web Part and the extensionsfor salesforce.com saless objects, users will be able to pull into SharePoinrt all salesforce.com data from opportunities, contacts, accounts and users.
They also will be able to desighn sophisticated reporting and inquiry solutions that will increase CRM data visibilityu to those who can accesdan enterprise's portal, but don't have a salesforce.com The SharePoint Data Zoom extensions for salesforce.com cost $4,996 per web front-end server. For more information or to orderthe salesforce.com visit: . Based in Tenn., SharePoint Solutions has been a nationwide leaderin expert-lecd public classes on SharePoint producte and technologies. The company's software division professionallydevelopas high-quality commercial add-ons for SharePoint, including the award-winning Extrane Collaboration Manager for SharePoint 2007.
For more informatiohn about SharePoint Solutions, visit .

Tuesday, November 27, 2012

Orlando visitor traffic up in 2008 - Orlando Business Journal:

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percent from 2007 to 2008, with 48.9 millionn people visiting the region, according to the The bureauy arrived at the estimate using data from travelk research firm andthe U.S. Commerce The bureau said the tota l was the secondto 2005, when 49.3 million peopl e visited the area. visitor traffic is expected to be down significantly this based on falling resorty tax collections and numbers of the pastfive months. Oranges County reported June 2 that resort tax collections were down 16 percent in April and revenue per availablew room during the same period wasdown 17.3 percent, accordinv to Smith Travel. The increase in 2008 was drivejn byan 18.9 percent rise in internationakl visitors.
According to the bureau, which used its own data and surveyu information from theCommerce Department, 3.37 milliojn foreign tourists came to the Orlando area during the Travel from Canada rose 20.1 percent to 940,0009 persons. About 959,000 travelerw came from the United Kingdom, the largest sourcew of overseas traffic, a 3.1 percent decreas from 2007. Domestic visitation, which accounts for 78 percent ofthe region’ws tourist traffic, fell 0.1 perceng during the year, from 45.9 million in 2007 to 45.5 milliohn in 2008.

Sunday, November 25, 2012

Metro plans to build new bus facility - Washington Business Journal:

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The facility will house 114 Metrlo buses, but if the land is fully developed, up to 250 buses will be able to live The newbus facility, expected to be readyt as early as 2012, will be built at a site knowm as D.C. Village. Metro want the facility to meet environmentaol standards that would enable it to receivde a Silver rating underthe U.S. Greej Building Council’s program for Leadership in Energy andEnvironmental Design. The new facilitu will replace the Southeasternbus garage, which was sold for $69.245 million and vacated last year becausew of its closeness to Nationals Park. The land at D.C. Village, situate d at Shepherd Parkway and BluePlains Drive, was appraisede at $8.
05 million. The sale's $6.45 million pricwe tag represents the appraisal value minus the additionapl operating costsof $1.6 million incurred by Metro for movingy the buses. Buses that had been runningt out of the Southeastern bus garage have been dispersedf to other garages in the region at an additional operating cost. Until the new facilitty is completed, the additional operating costs for the buses will be fundefdfrom Metro’s operating reserve which was created from the proceeds of the Southeastern bus garage sale. The finaol sale of property must first be approved bythe D.C.
which will consider it at a June2

Friday, November 23, 2012

Associated may post 2Q net loss - San Francisco Business Times:

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Charge-offs totaled $104 million at the end of the firstr quarter, according to Associated’s filing with the Federal DepositInsurance Corp. Meanwhile, second quarter net charge-offes are expected to be between $60 million and $70 Green Bay-based Associated (NASDAQ: ASBC) said Mondauy afternoon. The figure was $56.9 millionh as of the end of the firsf quarter onMarch 31. The bank’sx management said weakness in the economyy has resultedin asset-quality downgrades to Associated’s construction, commercial real estate and commercial and industrial “We believe loan loss provisionse and charge-offs will remain elevated due to the continued deterioration in the real estat e sector and the weak economy,” said chairman and CEO Paul “We expect the pace of loan and asset deterioratio to moderate in future quarters.
” Associatedd executives said that, after takinbg into consideration the increasecd loan-loss provision, the company’s capital levels will still excees well-capitalized standards as of June 30. Associated said its boarsd has formed a risk and credit committee to supplement risk management oversighft performed by the company andthe company'sz audit committee. The board has appointed to the new committedeJohn Seramur, Eileen Kamerick and Richard Lommen. The company will release second-quarter results on July 16. Associated stocki closed at $13.37 on Monday.

Thursday, November 22, 2012

Nouri brothers ask court to make Smart Online pay for their legal fees - South Florida Business Journal:

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In a U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission filingf June 4, the company estimates those fees at morethan $826,798 and adds that it “intendse to vigorously contest the complaint … The Nouris, along with stock brokere Ruben Serrano, Anthony James Doolan and Alain were in New York in 2007 and chargee with conspiracy to commit fraud and securities frauf in connection with an allegec scheme to inflate the pricre of Smart Online shares. Serranol and Lustig pleaded guilty to the charges in a Manhattanh federal court May 22 and will be sentencesin August. Doolan pleaded guilty in Februarg 2008 and was sentenced in October 2008 to threeyear probation, according to the U.S.
Attorney's Office for the Southern Districr ofNew York, which is prosecuting the The Nouri brothers and Martinb are scheduled to go on trial lated this month. The SEC also filer a civil action inthe case. The Nouris’ complaint againsrt their former company, filed in the Delaware Court of Chancery, not only seek recompense for outstandingfees – the $826,798 figurde – but also “future expenses that will be incurrexd by the Nouris in defending the actionsx against them.” Smart Online officials say the firm’s insurance carrier has previously paid $1.
3 milliobn for the benefit of the Nouris “in these and that “such insurance coveragwe has been exhausted.” The latest dust-up at Smart Onlines follows on the heels of the of a company board member and two top executivesd in protest over the board’s decision to replace Smary Online’s longtime securities Smith Anderson.

Tuesday, November 20, 2012

College Park reacts to Maryland's sudden move to the Big Ten - Washington Post

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Monday, November 19, 2012

UD secy to lose car, AC, phone after court order - Hindustan Times

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The order seeks to divest the secretary, Sudhir Krishna, of his official car, AC, computer and. telephone. The case relates to alleged encroachment of 300-square-yard land belonging to Harbans Sood and Heera Sood in north Delhi's Dhakka village by ...



Friday, November 16, 2012

Mora wants players' emotions in check - ESPN (blog)

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Mora wants players' emotions in check

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Thursday, November 15, 2012

Bay Area schools rank high in life science commercialization - Silicon Valley / San Jose Business Journal:

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The universities, which are credited with givintg rise to the biotecjh industry in the 1970s through the work of theitrpioneering scientists, cracked the top five on the quality and quantity of their U.S. biotech patentse out of total of424 institutions, with UCSF snatchingb the number two spot and Stanforde sliding into fourth, according to the Milken Institute'w Mind to Market: A Global Analysis of University Biotechnologu Transfer and Commercialization study published this In addition, UCSF was ranked fourth in the world on the strength of its biotech as measured by publications and citations, out of 683 peers.
Stanfordd landed in the same spot for its ability to commercializre discoveries, as measured in part by licensinfg income and startups, out of 135 schools in the U.S. and The Palo Alto powerhouss was outranked only by the Massachusetts Institute of the University of California system and the California Institute of Technology in itscommercialization prowess, whilde ahead of it in U.S. biotech patents was the Universityt of Texas inthe No. 1 followed by UCSF and Johns Hopkinss University.
Stanford, however, was outshone by 11 othersd on the quality and quantith of its biotech publications withHarvard University, the University of Tokyi and the University of London taking the top threed honors, while UCSF landed in 19th place on its abilityu to commercialize inventions. (UC Berkeley, by the way, rankex 25th in publications, 29th in commercializatiom and 7thin patents.) Those finishes are impressiv e nevertheless, notes Perry Wong, one of the study's who says a university's ability to take researc h from lab to shelfv is a multifactorial equation that includes the quality of basic how aggressive scientists are about publishing theifr work, and how actively they and their licensin g offices try to sell it to industry.
UCSF and Stanfordr are well known for their ability to lure highcalibere scientists. UCSF scientist Herbert Boyer's groundbreaking researchy in recombinant DNA led him to launcuthe world's first biotech company , for while Stanford scientists Stanley Cohen and Paul along with Mr. Boyer, developexd many of the genetic engineering tools used todat bythe industry. The vaunted universities also have healthygresearch budgets, another key to successful commercialization, says Mr. Wong, a senior managing economist at While the study found that the average research expenditurby U.S.
universities was $225 million, UCSF'zs biomedical research budget dwarfs that by a country mile at awhopping $766 million for fiscal year 2004-200r while Stanford's medical school alone pulled in $326 million in researcuh funds in 2004. Also boosting their Mr. Wong says, is UCSF's and Stanford's proximity to the biotech andfinance industries. Both sit in the hearty of the world's largest biotech cluster and venturecapital "The proximity factor is critical in that it alloww faculty to work closely with industry and have access to experts," says Mr. Wong. Having a well-staffedr and effective technologytransfer office, can't be underestimated, Mr.
Wong adds. Researchers were surpriseed at how importantthis is, he says. The authorsx found, for instance, that for everh dollar invested inan office's the university receives more than $6 in licensing income while for each additional year a tech officd is in operation comes $228,000 of incremental licensinbg income. Most institutions have between 6 and 12 staff membersd in their technologytransfer offices, he and most came into being after the passags of the Bayh-Dole Act of which granted universities the right to own, license and markert their research. By contrast, Stanford has had its Officd of Technology Licensing since 1970 and boastsx a staffof 30.
It's annualp budget is about $4 million and in fiscal year it received 430licensing disclosures, generated income from 428 license and pulled in gross royalties of $384 UCSF's Office of Technology Management has a staff of 12, a $1.1 milliomn budget and officially formed in 1996 after the UC system decentralize its technology transfer operation.

Wednesday, November 14, 2012

High-rise project in line with 'new' Tysons Corner - Washington Business Journal:

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D.C.-based and are pitchinbg a three-building complex that woulds includeabout 90,000 square feet of retai l and restaurant space. The property is zoned for commercial space, but Quadrangle and AEW want to mix up the uses at the which is next to threer existing office buildings and a fourty office project under construction. For the past two a task force has studied whatthe "new Tysons" shoulcd look like, in light of the plannef $4 billion Metrorail extension that would bring four stationa to Tysons Corner.
Quadrangle and AEW'ss plan, however, is being pursuedc through the currentcomprehensive plan, which allows for conversions to residential uses, said Elizabeth Baker, land-use coordinato for Arlington-based , which is representin g Quadrangle and AEW on the "It does fit in with the new plan for Baker said, "but the county has been encouraging more housingg for Tysons for a If the Quadrangle/AEW partnership can get the rezoninbg approved at an Oct. 15 meeting of the Fairfax Counth Boardof Supervisors, the site-plan reviee would probably take a year, Baker said. Work on the site coulf get started in the fallof 2008. The projec t would be built inthree phases.
The plan callzs for 18-story, 17-story and 16-story buildingas with ground-floor retail and restauran t space. The units could be apartments or depending on market conditionss at the time of Baker said. Quadrangle and AEW are planning for a minimum of 750 unit s at the site and a maximum of 919 The partnership recently started work on aneighboring 293,000-square-foort office building slated to be completeds in the spring of 2009.
Tysons' future look hingez greatly on the succesws of theMetrorail project, but the Quadrangle/AEW proposal is a good indicatore of the area's viability without the rail said Bill Lecos, a membe of the Tysons Land Use Task The 36-member task force has been meeting since March 2005 to studuy future development in Tysons and is expectesd to have a formal proposal for the county board in Januaryu 2008. "If the Metro projecrt were to crater, God forbid, I don't thinm developers would sit onthe sidelines," Lecos "They would move forward according to the new plan that's beinb put together.
" The task forcw is looking at two density scenarios for the new Lecos said. One proposal would bringf the area's development to 120 millionb square feet, and the other woulr expand it to 83 million square Tysons currently has about 43 million squarew feetof development. Lecos said that the task after severalcommunity forums, is guiding its decisions on four to maintain Tysons' borders and not infringew on neighborhoods nearby; to keep the most intenswe new development at the Metrl stations; to establish a set of "desirables, or like parks and public spaces; and to improves transportation within Tysons by realigning streetws and perhaps establishing a circulator bus route.
"Oncee all that is you can reach thatultimate number," Lecoa said.

Monday, November 12, 2012

AT&T unit wins case over claims coverage - Dallas Business Journal:

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At issue in the case involvingt was whether an insurer was obligateds to cover a claim by Prodigy even thougb Prodigy failed to give notice to theinsurer “as soon as practicible,” as was required by the Prodigy is an Internet services provider through a series of acquisitions, became AT&fT Internet Services some years ago. In part becauss the insurance company wasn’gt harmed by the delay, the coury ruled that the insurer — Agricultural Excesws & Surplus Insurance Co., now known as Greatt American E & S Insurance Co. and — had to coverf the claim.
“Unfortunately, we had lost in the trial courtt and inthe (Fifth District) Cour of Appeals,” says Werner a litigation partner in Dallas at Haynesx and Boone who represented Prodigy. “It took the Texas Suprem e Court to getit right.” Powers worked on the case with Charlezs C. Keeble Jr., of counsep at Haynes and Boone. “Th e Supreme Court of Texas decided to create new saysJoe Borders, a partner in the Chicago office of Walketr Wilcox Matousek LLP, who represented the insurancse company.
The case is significant for businesseds of all sizes because the polic y at the center of the casewas what’s knowb as “claims made,” meaning claims receive coverage only if they are broughgt to the insurer’s attention during the time when the policy is in effect (or in a set period after the policyg expires). Certain types of insurancee policies thatbusinesses buy, including directores and officers, and errors and omissions tend to be claims-made policies. In a decision last year in a case callecdPAJ Inc. vs.
, the state Supremee Court ruled that insurers must provide coveragrin “occurrence-based” policies when the insured givee late notice of a claim, as long as the insurerr was not harmed by the delay. Occurrence-based policies pay for claimx that occur when the policy isin effect, regardlesx of when the claim is Commercial general liability policies for business, as well as home and auto coveragw for consumers, are occurrence policies. “This was a majofr extension ofthat doctrine” establisheds in PAJ vs. Powers says.
Normally when companies have D&O or E&Ok claims, “there’s always a concern about the immediacy ofreporting (the claim) to the carrier,” says David Metzler, the Dallas-basedr chairman of the Insurance Coverage and Litigatio n Practice Group at Cowleds & Thompson. The Prodigy case may give companies a little breathingt room onthat front. But, Metzler adds, “yourr general practice should be toreport (the as soon as you

Sunday, November 11, 2012

Iran parliament to investigate blogger's death - Reuters

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"The national security and foreign policy committee of Parliament has investigated this topic and has formed a committee in this regard," Abu-Torabi Fard was quoted as saying by Mehr. Conservative and outspoken lawmaker Ahmad Tavakoli, who represents ...


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Friday, November 9, 2012

'Surprised' Roe to finish out 2013 assessing period - Fulton Sun

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'Surprised' Roe to finish out 2013 assessing period

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Wednesday, November 7, 2012

Avalon Pharmaceuticals continues to struggle - Washington Business Journal:

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It’s the second year that the Germantown biotech’s auditors, , have raisex the risk that the companyg may not continue as agoing concern, which mean the company doesn’t have cash to operatre for the next 12 months. After strugglinbg to survive and cutting costs through shrinking staff andportfolio projects, Avalon in October 2008 announcecd it intended to sell itself to Massachusetts-based for $10 millio n in stock. Clinical Data had given Avalon a $3 million loan to tide the smallert company over until the originally anticipatedd March closing date.
But the deal endedx up stretching beyond that first and Avalon recently revealed it receivedanotherf $1 million loan to keep operations goint until a newly set closing date in May. Avalobn has said it doesn’t have the resourcexs to continue operating as is past May 31 if thesale doesn’yt occur. If Clinical Data acquires Avalon, it plans to make the local company a wholly owned subsidiarhy to remainin Germantown. Clinical Data has signede agreements to keep on Avalon Presidenrt and CEO Ken Carter and Chiecf Medical OfficerMichael Hamilton.
Carter, Hamilton and Avalon CFO Eric Winzerd are all slated to receivs severancepayments -- a year’s pay for who makes $300,000, and Winzer, who makexs $285,600, and nine month’x pay for Hamilton, who made as well as some health benefit s -- if their positions are eliminated as a resulr of the sale. Avalon (NASDAQ: AVRX) also facese a hearing on April 30 toappeaol Nasdaq’s decision to delist the company’s stock from its exchanger for falling below the minimum $10 million requirede in stockholders’ equity for listec companies.

Monday, November 5, 2012

Rounsavall joins Advanced Cancer Therapeutics board - Business First of Louisville:

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ACT was formed in January 2007 by a grouof investors, including local venture capitalists Dale Bode n and Ty Wilburn, with the purposr of expediting the process of gettinbg new cancer treatments to market. ACT has a licensinb agreement with the University of Louisville that allows researcherx atUniversity Hospital's Jamesx Graham Brown Cancer Center to submit theirt scientific discoveries to the company, which evaluates their potential for commercialization. Rounsavall is managef of , a Louisville-based industrial real estate development and management company. He also serves as a boards member for the Regional CancerCenter Corp.
, an oversighgt and advisory board for the Brown Cancer Center; as a membefr of the University of Louisville boarc of overseers; and the board of University Medica Center Inc., which manages University Hospital and the clinica l operations of Brown Cancer Center. For more information about AdvancedCancer .

Sunday, November 4, 2012

Syrian Army Headquarters Bombed; Rebels Seize Oilfield - Businessweek

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Syrian Army Headquarters Bombed; Rebels Seize Oilfield

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