Kansas City Star | Sea Burial Considered, Then Rejected for Sept. 11 Remains Bloomberg The military debated whether to hold a burial at sea for human body parts from the Sept. 11 attack on the Pentagon before sending them to a landfill as medical waste, according to Defense Department documents. The documents were released to answer ... Air Force Of ficials Discussed Burial at Sea for Remains From Pentagon Attack 9/11 remains disposed as medical waste despite option of sea burial, Air Force ... Officers weighed burial at sea for 9/11 cremains |
Saturday, March 31, 2012
Sea Burial Considered, Then Rejected for Sept. 11 Remains - Bloomberg
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Thursday, March 29, 2012
What is the biological equivalent of discovering the Higgs Boson? - io9
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What is the biological equivalent of discovering the Higgs Boson? io9 It looks like we're nearing the endgame in the hunt for the Higgs boson, the missing elementary particle of the Standard Model. Its discovery will send shockwaves through the physics community and likely capture the public imagination. Oh Where, Oh Where Has My Little Higgs Gone? Nearer, my god particle, to thee Biologists May Long For A Life Sciences Higgs Boson - But Shouldn't |
Tuesday, March 27, 2012
Martin Marietta Materials CEO Zelnak signals more quarry purchases - Triangle Business Journal:
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That’s the message from Chairman and Chief Executive OfficerStephen P. Zelnak Jr. the day after the firm said that it wasspending $65 millionm to buy three rock quarries and the remaining 49 percentt interest in an existing joint venture from Cemex Inc. “We’ve got a lot of fire Zelnak told Triangle Business Journal in a phonedinterview Tuesday. “We think this is a good time to be lookinbat acquisitions.” Economic downturns such as the current one can improvse the prices on potential acquisitions. The of course, is the ability of interested buyeras toobtain funding.
Yet Zelnaok says his firm still has the debt and equityy capital resources that would allow it to spenc in excessof $500 million if the righrt acquisition opportunity came along. Any such deal probablyt wouldn’t be local; Zelnak says he sees little opportunitty for the company to grow by acquisition in North TheCemex deal, which dealty with operations in Nebraska, Wyoming and Utah, adderd 100 employees to Martin Marietta’s While the company expects to see modest improvement in the Northy Carolina transportation construction sector in the second half of the year due to federal stimulus spending, Martin Marietta doesn’t have planz to add employees in the state at this There could be some good news for existing employeex though.
Several of the firm’s North Carolina plants have been operating 30 to 32 hours a If the economy picks up in thecomingv months, those plants couled go back to operatingv at around 40 hourx per week. In really good the plants operate 50 to 60 houresa week, Zelnak says.
That’s the message from Chairman and Chief Executive OfficerStephen P. Zelnak Jr. the day after the firm said that it wasspending $65 millionm to buy three rock quarries and the remaining 49 percentt interest in an existing joint venture from Cemex Inc. “We’ve got a lot of fire Zelnak told Triangle Business Journal in a phonedinterview Tuesday. “We think this is a good time to be lookinbat acquisitions.” Economic downturns such as the current one can improvse the prices on potential acquisitions. The of course, is the ability of interested buyeras toobtain funding.
Yet Zelnaok says his firm still has the debt and equityy capital resources that would allow it to spenc in excessof $500 million if the righrt acquisition opportunity came along. Any such deal probablyt wouldn’t be local; Zelnak says he sees little opportunitty for the company to grow by acquisition in North TheCemex deal, which dealty with operations in Nebraska, Wyoming and Utah, adderd 100 employees to Martin Marietta’s While the company expects to see modest improvement in the Northy Carolina transportation construction sector in the second half of the year due to federal stimulus spending, Martin Marietta doesn’t have planz to add employees in the state at this There could be some good news for existing employeex though.
Several of the firm’s North Carolina plants have been operating 30 to 32 hours a If the economy picks up in thecomingv months, those plants couled go back to operatingv at around 40 hourx per week. In really good the plants operate 50 to 60 houresa week, Zelnak says.
Sunday, March 25, 2012
Stanford charity arm off the chart - New Mexico Business Weekly:
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That’s because the foundation, whicuh was to be based in hasn’t existed since June 2007, says former Stanforf Global presidentSuzanne Hamm. In the foundation never earned tax-exempt status as a according tothe . Instead, a centralized foundation to overse global charitable giving did not make sense as the company decidedd to relocate its globak headquartersto St. Croix, Virgin in early 2007, and lateer adopted a regionalized structure for philanthropyand operations, Hamm says. The companu broke ground in February 2008 on thenew headquarters, whicb was to be situated on a 37-acre site near the in St. Croix.
The project, expecteed to be finished by mid-2009, was to houswe the Stanford companies’ worldwide management functions, accordingt to the company. Plans for that project and the futur e of the company are now in doubt followingh the raid andclosing Feb. 17 of several Stanford including those in Memphisand Miss., by the U.S. Marshalws Service and the U.S. Securities and Exchanged Commission. The closures came as part of a civilo lawsuit allegingan $8.5 billiomn fraud by Stanford chairman Allenb Stanford, finance chief James Davise and chief investment officer Laurz Pengergest-Holt.
There have been no allegationsregarding Stanford’s sizable charitabl e giving in relation to the fraud But Stanford’s phenomenal explosion onto the sportsa marketing and philanthropic landscape has been meteoric in the last few yeara and is largely responsible for the dramatic growth, or at leasy visibility, of the company worldwide. In 2006 alone the companty had a marketing budgetof $53 millio n with a significant piece of that going to suppor , including underwriting the International Outreach Program and the Stanford St. Jude Championship.
At that the goal was to run a centralizeed company foundation that would oversee the worldwidd giving efforts of Stanforsd from the East Memphis office on the third floord of theCrescent Center. In February in an exclusive interviewwith , CFO Davis made a case for the foundation’e creation and structure. Having a “coordinated and approach to its charitable giving would help ensurd the company isa “good steward of shareholders’ investment,” Daviws said. Hamm was to be the leadefr of that effort, though her past experiencees weren’t directly tied to the philanthropic world.
Her experiencw was more in the public relations andpromotioj industries, having worked at and the Coletta Brewer PR She and former Mid-South Concerts executive Susabn Green started an entertainment and production company in 2002. She joined Stanfordd full-time in October 2005 as director of public and communityy relations after working part time and as a consultantr with the company for several Laterin 2006, her title was elevated to presidentf of the Stanford Global Foundation and her oversight expanded to include worldwide philanthropy.
Hamm’s title later changed when she was promoted to chief marketing officer for North Americza in July 2007 when the companuy created the decentralized foundation approacjh and created four chief marketinv officer positions overNorth America, the Europe and Latin America. In this Hamm was responsible for not only philanthropyand sponsorships, but traditionak advertising and PR for the In the 2006 interview with Hamm said the primary goal of the foundation would be to trackj the returns of charitablde giving on the company’s investments to creatw quantifiable measures.
Speaking from her home in Memphisa Tuesday, exactly a week after she was surprised to see armerd security guards ask her to leave her Hamm is still tryingto recover. “I’mm still trying to think throughit all,” she “There are many obligations that were prepaid in 2008 ... and how to handlwe things, as the investigation could lastfor months.” The decisionm to house charitable giving within the regional marketing departmenft ultimately had no impact on the company’ws charitable giving and strategic plan to capitalizre on its sports marketing and philanthropy It simply was done through the ’xs North America marketing department.
That’s because the foundation, whicuh was to be based in hasn’t existed since June 2007, says former Stanforf Global presidentSuzanne Hamm. In the foundation never earned tax-exempt status as a according tothe . Instead, a centralized foundation to overse global charitable giving did not make sense as the company decidedd to relocate its globak headquartersto St. Croix, Virgin in early 2007, and lateer adopted a regionalized structure for philanthropyand operations, Hamm says. The companu broke ground in February 2008 on thenew headquarters, whicb was to be situated on a 37-acre site near the in St. Croix.
The project, expecteed to be finished by mid-2009, was to houswe the Stanford companies’ worldwide management functions, accordingt to the company. Plans for that project and the futur e of the company are now in doubt followingh the raid andclosing Feb. 17 of several Stanford including those in Memphisand Miss., by the U.S. Marshalws Service and the U.S. Securities and Exchanged Commission. The closures came as part of a civilo lawsuit allegingan $8.5 billiomn fraud by Stanford chairman Allenb Stanford, finance chief James Davise and chief investment officer Laurz Pengergest-Holt.
There have been no allegationsregarding Stanford’s sizable charitabl e giving in relation to the fraud But Stanford’s phenomenal explosion onto the sportsa marketing and philanthropic landscape has been meteoric in the last few yeara and is largely responsible for the dramatic growth, or at leasy visibility, of the company worldwide. In 2006 alone the companty had a marketing budgetof $53 millio n with a significant piece of that going to suppor , including underwriting the International Outreach Program and the Stanford St. Jude Championship.
At that the goal was to run a centralizeed company foundation that would oversee the worldwidd giving efforts of Stanforsd from the East Memphis office on the third floord of theCrescent Center. In February in an exclusive interviewwith , CFO Davis made a case for the foundation’e creation and structure. Having a “coordinated and approach to its charitable giving would help ensurd the company isa “good steward of shareholders’ investment,” Daviws said. Hamm was to be the leadefr of that effort, though her past experiencees weren’t directly tied to the philanthropic world.
Her experiencw was more in the public relations andpromotioj industries, having worked at and the Coletta Brewer PR She and former Mid-South Concerts executive Susabn Green started an entertainment and production company in 2002. She joined Stanfordd full-time in October 2005 as director of public and communityy relations after working part time and as a consultantr with the company for several Laterin 2006, her title was elevated to presidentf of the Stanford Global Foundation and her oversight expanded to include worldwide philanthropy.
Hamm’s title later changed when she was promoted to chief marketing officer for North Americza in July 2007 when the companuy created the decentralized foundation approacjh and created four chief marketinv officer positions overNorth America, the Europe and Latin America. In this Hamm was responsible for not only philanthropyand sponsorships, but traditionak advertising and PR for the In the 2006 interview with Hamm said the primary goal of the foundation would be to trackj the returns of charitablde giving on the company’s investments to creatw quantifiable measures.
Speaking from her home in Memphisa Tuesday, exactly a week after she was surprised to see armerd security guards ask her to leave her Hamm is still tryingto recover. “I’mm still trying to think throughit all,” she “There are many obligations that were prepaid in 2008 ... and how to handlwe things, as the investigation could lastfor months.” The decisionm to house charitable giving within the regional marketing departmenft ultimately had no impact on the company’ws charitable giving and strategic plan to capitalizre on its sports marketing and philanthropy It simply was done through the ’xs North America marketing department.
Friday, March 23, 2012
M&T caps Provident deal - Business First of Buffalo:
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The deal, which closed Saturday, amplifiess M&T Bank’s presence in Maryland with the additioj of 135 bank branches and190 ATMs. Bank officials say therse are now more than800 M&T Bank branches and more than 1,80 ATMs throughout New York, Pennsylvania, New Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia and Washington, D.C. At the same the acquisition means that 520 Provident jobs will be lost in theBaltimors area. M&T Bank has said former Provident employees will have first dibson M&T Bank’s vacant positions. Under the agreement, formed Provident chairperson and CEO Gary Geisel has been named a directotrof M&T Bank and M&T Bank Corp.
Provident commoj stockholders willreceive 0.17 share s of M&T common stock in exchange for each shares of Provident common stock they owned. At the end of M&T Bank reported $64.9 billion in assets, while Providenr reported $6.5 billion in assets, banking officialds said.
The deal, which closed Saturday, amplifiess M&T Bank’s presence in Maryland with the additioj of 135 bank branches and190 ATMs. Bank officials say therse are now more than800 M&T Bank branches and more than 1,80 ATMs throughout New York, Pennsylvania, New Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia and Washington, D.C. At the same the acquisition means that 520 Provident jobs will be lost in theBaltimors area. M&T Bank has said former Provident employees will have first dibson M&T Bank’s vacant positions. Under the agreement, formed Provident chairperson and CEO Gary Geisel has been named a directotrof M&T Bank and M&T Bank Corp.
Provident commoj stockholders willreceive 0.17 share s of M&T common stock in exchange for each shares of Provident common stock they owned. At the end of M&T Bank reported $64.9 billion in assets, while Providenr reported $6.5 billion in assets, banking officialds said.
Tuesday, March 20, 2012
Still-rising Austin-area home sales jump 16 percent in February - Austin American-Statesman
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Still-rising Austin-area home sales jump 16 percent in February Austin American-Statesman "This year should prove to be the best year for housing in the past five for many areas across the country, especially those in Texas, and particularly in Austin," said Ed Friedman, a director in the Moody's Analytics office in West Chester, Penn. |
Sunday, March 18, 2012
Volvo Feb Truck Deliveries Up 3% On Year, N Amer Sales Up 65% - Fox Business
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INAUTONEWS | Volvo Feb Truck Deliveries Up 3% On Year, N Amer Sales Up 65% Fox Business -Volvo truck deliveries In Europe amounted to 3077 trucks in February, down 18%. While continued uncertainty concerning economic development in Southern Europe continued to impact truck customers in certain markets, the picture is mixed, with favorable ... Volvo: Truck Deliveries in February 2012 Volvo Trucks' Deliveries: February 2012 |
Friday, March 16, 2012
Yancy Gates lands decisive blows as Cincinnati beats Texas - USA TODAY
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USA TODAY | Yancy Gates lands decisive blows as Cincinnati beats Texas USA TODAY By Tom Weir, USA TODAY NASHVILLE รข€" Yancy Gates became nationally known this season when he sucker-punched an Xavier player during an ugly December brawl. Friday, Cincinnati's big man played a crystal-clean game, but still registered a KO. |
Wednesday, March 14, 2012
Robert E. Lee Elementary addition formally opens - Progress Index
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Progress Index | Robert E. Lee Elementary addition formally opens Progress Index A ribbon-cutting ceremony was held Tuesday afternoon at Robert E. Lee Elementary School for a new addition. PETERSBURG - School and community leaders gathered at Robert E. Lee Elementary School on Tuesday for the official ribbon cutting on the new ... |
Monday, March 12, 2012
Villa Rica-based Community Bank of West Georgia fails - Business First of Columbus:
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No bidder was found for Community Bank’s operations one branch in the Atlantasuburb — and the bank will be shuttered. The will mail depositorsw checks for their insured funds next according to a release from the Georgia Departmenf of Bankingand Finance. Until depositors will not have access to their moneyvia ATMs, check s or the bank’s Web site. As of first quarterf 2009, the bank had $182.4 million in total deposits. The FDIC estimates $1.1 million in customer depositsare uninsured. Currently the FDIC guaranteesw upto $250,000 in deposits per account.
Blairsville-basedd will act as the deposit agenrt for any federal funds customers would normalluy receive from the bank via direct including Social Securityand Veterans’ payments. This is the second seizurw without a buyer in Georgia since the banking was . Stockbridge-based bank failed in Marcuh 2009, and served as the deposit agent for federall money for customers in that Community Bank, like a growing catalog of failed Georgia banks, gambled heavily on residential real estate loans, and lost. The bank was creater at the beginnings of the home buyingv andconstruction boom, in 2003.
As of first quarter roughly one-third of the bank’s $129 million in total loans were in some stagdeof delinquency, default or had becomed bank-owned foreclosures. By the time of the bank’ss seizure, it had $27 million in foreclosed real estat onits books, $11 million in loanas that appeared unlikely to be repaid and only $7.3 milliob in equity capital to absorb The bank’s Texas Ratio — or a comparison of its loan problemd to its equity capital, an industry metricx created during the S&L Crisis to measure health throughout Texas was 294 percent at the end of first quarter 2009.
Most of the baker’es dozen bank failures in Atlanta had Texas Ratios in excesz of300 percent, and is becominhg a common indicator of bankxs likely to be seized by regulators. The failure is expected to costthe FDIC’s hard hit insurance fund $81 million. Developing...
No bidder was found for Community Bank’s operations one branch in the Atlantasuburb — and the bank will be shuttered. The will mail depositorsw checks for their insured funds next according to a release from the Georgia Departmenf of Bankingand Finance. Until depositors will not have access to their moneyvia ATMs, check s or the bank’s Web site. As of first quarterf 2009, the bank had $182.4 million in total deposits. The FDIC estimates $1.1 million in customer depositsare uninsured. Currently the FDIC guaranteesw upto $250,000 in deposits per account.
Blairsville-basedd will act as the deposit agenrt for any federal funds customers would normalluy receive from the bank via direct including Social Securityand Veterans’ payments. This is the second seizurw without a buyer in Georgia since the banking was . Stockbridge-based bank failed in Marcuh 2009, and served as the deposit agent for federall money for customers in that Community Bank, like a growing catalog of failed Georgia banks, gambled heavily on residential real estate loans, and lost. The bank was creater at the beginnings of the home buyingv andconstruction boom, in 2003.
As of first quarter roughly one-third of the bank’s $129 million in total loans were in some stagdeof delinquency, default or had becomed bank-owned foreclosures. By the time of the bank’ss seizure, it had $27 million in foreclosed real estat onits books, $11 million in loanas that appeared unlikely to be repaid and only $7.3 milliob in equity capital to absorb The bank’s Texas Ratio — or a comparison of its loan problemd to its equity capital, an industry metricx created during the S&L Crisis to measure health throughout Texas was 294 percent at the end of first quarter 2009.
Most of the baker’es dozen bank failures in Atlanta had Texas Ratios in excesz of300 percent, and is becominhg a common indicator of bankxs likely to be seized by regulators. The failure is expected to costthe FDIC’s hard hit insurance fund $81 million. Developing...
Saturday, March 10, 2012
Medical journal scolds Gates Foundation - Puget Sound Business Journal (Seattle):
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The Lancet medical journal’s edition publishedx Friday had an analysis of Gates Foundatioh grants from 1998 through along with commentary onthe study’s The analysis found that: Much of the foundation’s research and developmen grants have gone to universities and institutions in high-income The study even cites Seattle-based PATH, a globak health organization that has received nearly $1 billionj from Gates, and asks whether some organizations woulr be better characterized as agents of the foundation rathedr than independent grantees.
• The foundation has focuseed too heavily onselected diseases, for example, while other diseases may exact a greater Specifically, the Lancet commentary points toward a “poor correlation betweebn the foundation’s funding and childhood disease • A lack of transparency in decisiomn making and planning has caused “serious anxiety” and questionxs about the Gates family’s “whimsical governance in setting priorities. “What are the foundation’as plans for the future?
It is hard to know for according tothe Lancet’s The London and New York-based Lanceg praises the contributions to globalo health made by the General awareness and funding have been the report said. the report cites the foundation’s initia gift of $750 million made in 1999 to the Global Alliancwe for Vaccines and Immunization (GAVI), and founding of the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the as particularl important accomplishments.
The Lancey editorial makes five recommendations to the Improve governance, increase transparency and accountability, target granta to better reflect disease burdens, invest in health systemzs in low-income countries and listen to and engage allies. The Gates Foundation released a statement in response to theLancet “We welcome this article and its We try to be very thoughtfulk about how to targetr our resources, and we constantly seek out feedbaco from outside experts and In the end, we use our best judgmenr to determine where our funding can achiev e the greatest reductions in health inequityy around the world.
We are committede to communicating information abouyour strategy, grants, and results, and are usingb our website to make it easier to find this the foundation said. The Bill Melinda Gates Foundation, founded by Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) co-founder Bill Gates and his wife, is the world’s largest privatew philanthropy with assets ofnearly $27.5 billion, as of Aprio 1, 2009. The foundation has three primary program global health, global development and U.S.
The Lancet medical journal’s edition publishedx Friday had an analysis of Gates Foundatioh grants from 1998 through along with commentary onthe study’s The analysis found that: Much of the foundation’s research and developmen grants have gone to universities and institutions in high-income The study even cites Seattle-based PATH, a globak health organization that has received nearly $1 billionj from Gates, and asks whether some organizations woulr be better characterized as agents of the foundation rathedr than independent grantees.
• The foundation has focuseed too heavily onselected diseases, for example, while other diseases may exact a greater Specifically, the Lancet commentary points toward a “poor correlation betweebn the foundation’s funding and childhood disease • A lack of transparency in decisiomn making and planning has caused “serious anxiety” and questionxs about the Gates family’s “whimsical governance in setting priorities. “What are the foundation’as plans for the future?
It is hard to know for according tothe Lancet’s The London and New York-based Lanceg praises the contributions to globalo health made by the General awareness and funding have been the report said. the report cites the foundation’s initia gift of $750 million made in 1999 to the Global Alliancwe for Vaccines and Immunization (GAVI), and founding of the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the as particularl important accomplishments.
The Lancey editorial makes five recommendations to the Improve governance, increase transparency and accountability, target granta to better reflect disease burdens, invest in health systemzs in low-income countries and listen to and engage allies. The Gates Foundation released a statement in response to theLancet “We welcome this article and its We try to be very thoughtfulk about how to targetr our resources, and we constantly seek out feedbaco from outside experts and In the end, we use our best judgmenr to determine where our funding can achiev e the greatest reductions in health inequityy around the world.
We are committede to communicating information abouyour strategy, grants, and results, and are usingb our website to make it easier to find this the foundation said. The Bill Melinda Gates Foundation, founded by Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) co-founder Bill Gates and his wife, is the world’s largest privatew philanthropy with assets ofnearly $27.5 billion, as of Aprio 1, 2009. The foundation has three primary program global health, global development and U.S.
Thursday, March 8, 2012
Symmetricom, Inc. Company Profile | SYMM Company Information
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The Network is changing to meet the explosive growthin data, video, and cellulart traffic. Across the globe, telecom carriers, cable and data service providers are migrating to Next Generation Networks capable ofdelivering voice, video, and data traffixc across a converged network-centric environment based on Interneg Protocols. Symmetricom products provide theprecise frequency, timing, and distributioh that assure the performance, enablse the management and facilitatwe the deployment of next-generation Consistent and reliable timing from Symmetricom is essentia for quality assurance, network performance, service availability and seamlesd interoperability across emerging IP servicesd and Ethernet transport, now and in the Symmetricom is the worlc leader in generation, synchronization and distribution of precis time and frequency signals.
20,000o kilometers over the earth, Symmetricom products are at providing theprecise time, frequency and synchronization signals requiree by a network of GPS Around the globe, the international timescale is set to sub atomic precision using Symmetricom frequency reference. Our timing solutions are critical to radio navigation incoastal waters, deploymenty of missiles, the seamless delivery of voice, data, and videol across telecom and cable networks, and uninterruptedx availability of power to millions. ...
The Network is changing to meet the explosive growthin data, video, and cellulart traffic. Across the globe, telecom carriers, cable and data service providers are migrating to Next Generation Networks capable ofdelivering voice, video, and data traffixc across a converged network-centric environment based on Interneg Protocols. Symmetricom products provide theprecise frequency, timing, and distributioh that assure the performance, enablse the management and facilitatwe the deployment of next-generation Consistent and reliable timing from Symmetricom is essentia for quality assurance, network performance, service availability and seamlesd interoperability across emerging IP servicesd and Ethernet transport, now and in the Symmetricom is the worlc leader in generation, synchronization and distribution of precis time and frequency signals.
20,000o kilometers over the earth, Symmetricom products are at providing theprecise time, frequency and synchronization signals requiree by a network of GPS Around the globe, the international timescale is set to sub atomic precision using Symmetricom frequency reference. Our timing solutions are critical to radio navigation incoastal waters, deploymenty of missiles, the seamless delivery of voice, data, and videol across telecom and cable networks, and uninterruptedx availability of power to millions. ...
Tuesday, March 6, 2012
Indictments in alleged looting of ancient Four Corners burial sites - Silicon Valley / San Jose Business Journal:
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The on Wednesday released details of 12 indictments related to 23 Law enforcement officials have startexd arresting those named inthe indictments, most of whom live in according to the Interior Department. The indictments were handede down by a Salt Lake Citygrandd jury. Roughly 250 artifacts estimated to be worth morethan $335,000o allegedly were stolen by the ring, accordinyg to the Interior Department. The artifactse include Anasazi pottery, created by Native Americans centuries ago, as well as ceremoniap masks and abuffalo headdress.
An undercover investigatiob intothe ring’s activities has been goingt on for two years, and included agenta from the Interior Department’d (BLM) and FBI as well as U.S. marshals. “Letg this case serve notice to anyonwe who is considering breakin these laws and tramplingour nation’s culturapl heritage that the BLM, the Departmenr of Justice and the [rest of] the federalk government will track you down and bring you to justice,” Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said in a The federal Archaeological Resources Protection Act makes it illegal to excavate archaeologicao sites without authorization, and take artifacts from federal land for sale or Once the artifacts’ tribal affiliations have been they will be returned to those tribes, as requireed by the Native American Gravesd Protection and Repatriation Act.
Items not covered by the triba l repatriation law will be made availabls for scientific research andpublic education. The Four Cornerss region includes partsof Utah, New Mexico and Arizona, and occupies Native Americah land. Colorado’s corner is part of this state’z Ute Mountain Ute reservation, and the otheer states’ corners are part of the Navajop Nation. Indicted defendants were to appeat beforea U.S.
magistrate in Moab, Utah, on
The on Wednesday released details of 12 indictments related to 23 Law enforcement officials have startexd arresting those named inthe indictments, most of whom live in according to the Interior Department. The indictments were handede down by a Salt Lake Citygrandd jury. Roughly 250 artifacts estimated to be worth morethan $335,000o allegedly were stolen by the ring, accordinyg to the Interior Department. The artifactse include Anasazi pottery, created by Native Americans centuries ago, as well as ceremoniap masks and abuffalo headdress.
An undercover investigatiob intothe ring’s activities has been goingt on for two years, and included agenta from the Interior Department’d (BLM) and FBI as well as U.S. marshals. “Letg this case serve notice to anyonwe who is considering breakin these laws and tramplingour nation’s culturapl heritage that the BLM, the Departmenr of Justice and the [rest of] the federalk government will track you down and bring you to justice,” Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said in a The federal Archaeological Resources Protection Act makes it illegal to excavate archaeologicao sites without authorization, and take artifacts from federal land for sale or Once the artifacts’ tribal affiliations have been they will be returned to those tribes, as requireed by the Native American Gravesd Protection and Repatriation Act.
Items not covered by the triba l repatriation law will be made availabls for scientific research andpublic education. The Four Cornerss region includes partsof Utah, New Mexico and Arizona, and occupies Native Americah land. Colorado’s corner is part of this state’z Ute Mountain Ute reservation, and the otheer states’ corners are part of the Navajop Nation. Indicted defendants were to appeat beforea U.S.
magistrate in Moab, Utah, on
Sunday, March 4, 2012
ZeaChem to spend $40M on new ethanol plant - Denver Business Journal:
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That was left to millions of yeard ofMother Nature’s work, creating bacteriaa that live and work in the bellies of termitesw around the world. The bacteria, called acetogen, consum e plant matter and churn out acetic which is similarto vinegar. Zeachem marriesw that biochemical reaction with heat for a thermochemical reaction that results in ethanol and other chemical products forthe “That lowly termite — Mother Naturee spent a few million years makingv the termite pretty well,” said Imbler, presideng and CEO of Lakewood-based ZeaChem. “There’as no new bugs, no new We’re taking things that already exist.
” The firs generation of ethanol used corn as the The second generation focusex on cellulosicmaterial — nonfoo plants — and used either enzymes or gasification to produce ethanol. The thirrd generation, where ZeaChem lies, uses a mixture of the two, Imbler Imbler said ZeaChem’s process produces very littlse carbon dioxide as a byproduct compared to otheebiofuel processes, and is more ZeaChem’s process produces about 135 gallons of ethanoo for every ton of dry biomass (plant material). Other methods get abour 90 gallons of ethanolper ton, he Venture capitalists and refining companies are takingh notice.
ZeaChem announced in early Januart it hadattracted $34 million in a second roundc of fundraising, giving the company a tota of $40 million to build and operate a demonstrationn plant in Oregon. The first $6 million was announced in summer 2007. The demonstration plant, expectefd to produce about 1.5 million gallons of ethano l a year, is scheduled to break ground this year and start operationin 2010, Imbler ZeaChem has 25 employees, half in Denve and the rest working on research in Menlk Park, Calif. (NYSE: VLO) contributed to the second San Antonio-based Valero is the largest refining companhy in theUnited States.
ZeaChem was the first investmeng contractValero signed, through its new alternatived energy and project development group, Valero spokesman Bill Day Valero also has investedr in , a algae-to-fuel startup in Fort Collins, which Solidx announced last November. “It’s a new thing for Day said of investingin alterative-fuel “We make and sell motor fuel out of oil. This is an attemprt by us to look towarrd the future and see what kindof alternative-energy busineszs lines there might be. “We concentrated on areas where we think the companies have a viablre business plan and an ability tomove forward.
” ZeaChemn also has funding from Firelake Capital Management LLC, base in Palo Alto, which invested in both rounds. “Wwe believe that the ZeaChem technology offered the highesf carbon yield of any of the biofuelx that welooked at,” said Martin a co-founder and managing partner of and a ZeaChem board “We believe it’s a mistake to focus on biofuelz that require food as a feedstock, and we’ve focused exclusively on nonfood biomass,” Lagod said. Another Denver-area biofuel company to score fundingis Broomfield-basexd The U.S.
Department of Agriculture gave it a conditionalk commitment foran $80 million loan guarantee to help build Range Fuels’ first commercial cellulosic plant in the company announced Jan. 19. Range Fuels will use Georgia’sa wood and wood waste from its pine forests toproducwe ethanol. ZeaChem uses a combination of biochemistrhy and thermochemistry tomake ethanol; Rangd Fuels uses only thermochemistry.
That was left to millions of yeard ofMother Nature’s work, creating bacteriaa that live and work in the bellies of termitesw around the world. The bacteria, called acetogen, consum e plant matter and churn out acetic which is similarto vinegar. Zeachem marriesw that biochemical reaction with heat for a thermochemical reaction that results in ethanol and other chemical products forthe “That lowly termite — Mother Naturee spent a few million years makingv the termite pretty well,” said Imbler, presideng and CEO of Lakewood-based ZeaChem. “There’as no new bugs, no new We’re taking things that already exist.
” The firs generation of ethanol used corn as the The second generation focusex on cellulosicmaterial — nonfoo plants — and used either enzymes or gasification to produce ethanol. The thirrd generation, where ZeaChem lies, uses a mixture of the two, Imbler Imbler said ZeaChem’s process produces very littlse carbon dioxide as a byproduct compared to otheebiofuel processes, and is more ZeaChem’s process produces about 135 gallons of ethanoo for every ton of dry biomass (plant material). Other methods get abour 90 gallons of ethanolper ton, he Venture capitalists and refining companies are takingh notice.
ZeaChem announced in early Januart it hadattracted $34 million in a second roundc of fundraising, giving the company a tota of $40 million to build and operate a demonstrationn plant in Oregon. The first $6 million was announced in summer 2007. The demonstration plant, expectefd to produce about 1.5 million gallons of ethano l a year, is scheduled to break ground this year and start operationin 2010, Imbler ZeaChem has 25 employees, half in Denve and the rest working on research in Menlk Park, Calif. (NYSE: VLO) contributed to the second San Antonio-based Valero is the largest refining companhy in theUnited States.
ZeaChem was the first investmeng contractValero signed, through its new alternatived energy and project development group, Valero spokesman Bill Day Valero also has investedr in , a algae-to-fuel startup in Fort Collins, which Solidx announced last November. “It’s a new thing for Day said of investingin alterative-fuel “We make and sell motor fuel out of oil. This is an attemprt by us to look towarrd the future and see what kindof alternative-energy busineszs lines there might be. “We concentrated on areas where we think the companies have a viablre business plan and an ability tomove forward.
” ZeaChemn also has funding from Firelake Capital Management LLC, base in Palo Alto, which invested in both rounds. “Wwe believe that the ZeaChem technology offered the highesf carbon yield of any of the biofuelx that welooked at,” said Martin a co-founder and managing partner of and a ZeaChem board “We believe it’s a mistake to focus on biofuelz that require food as a feedstock, and we’ve focused exclusively on nonfood biomass,” Lagod said. Another Denver-area biofuel company to score fundingis Broomfield-basexd The U.S.
Department of Agriculture gave it a conditionalk commitment foran $80 million loan guarantee to help build Range Fuels’ first commercial cellulosic plant in the company announced Jan. 19. Range Fuels will use Georgia’sa wood and wood waste from its pine forests toproducwe ethanol. ZeaChem uses a combination of biochemistrhy and thermochemistry tomake ethanol; Rangd Fuels uses only thermochemistry.
Thursday, March 1, 2012
Taylor Swift gets 'Punk'd' by Justin Bieber -- VIDEO - Entertainment Weekly
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Entertainment Weekly | Taylor Swift gets 'Punk'd' by Justin Bieber -- VIDEO Entertainment Weekly by Lanford Beard MTV just released a trailer for its Punk'd reboot, and they're aiming high. Unlike the prank show's previous Ashton Kutcher-led incarnation, a different celebrity will host the show each week (though Kutcher is still producing). Justin Bieber Mean 'Punk'd' Trick on Taylor Swift: What would Selena Gomez Think? 'Punk'd' Sneak Peek: Justin Bieber Punks Taylor Swift Taylor Swift 'Punk'd' by Justin Bieber |
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