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Ferrera, who developed LifeWorks into the country's most successfukl mentoring organization forLGBT youth, will join the Center' s Children, Youth & Family Services departmentr on July 1 and will continued to lead LifeWorks with his existingh team and with the active supporty of the LifeWorks board of which will become an advisory councio of the program. "LifeWorks has grown at a rapid pace and the demanfd forour services, from youth betweenn the ages of 14 and 24 all over Los has never been greater," says "As a program of the L.A. Gay & Lesbia n Center, we'll be in a much stronger positiom to meetthe demand.
We'll be a perfecrt complement tothe Center's existing servicew for LGBT youth. And the financial health of LifeWorks has never beenstrongefr -- both of our most recent major events exceedex revenue projections." To serve the estimated 3,000-5,00o0 homeless LGBT youth in Los Angeles, the Centedr operates the Jeff Griffithh Youth Center in Hollywood and a 30-bed which offers overnight stays for youtg in immediate crisis and an 18-mont h home for youth to develop the resources and confidence to live on theif own through a structured Transitional Livingg Program.
The Griffith Youth Centerr is open seven days a week and offerd three mealsa day, clothing, showers, a GED preparation program and much more. "Sadly the churches and other institutions that should nurture all young people are ofte n unsupportive or hostile toLGBT youth,"" says Center CEO Lorri L Jean. "That'as why LifeWorks is so important andwhy it's the perfect complementr to the Center's services. LGBT youth who are leadin g successful, healthy and happy lives with support and guidancwe from trained mentors are far less likely to end up addicted to drugsand at-risk of HIV infection like many of the youtnh we serve.
Michael has done an amazing job buildingb and growing the organization and he and his team are fantasticd additions to theCenteer staff." Ferrera, formerly the clinical director and then deputyg director of public policy with Gay Lesbian Adolescent Social Services (GLASS), founded LifeWorks Mentoriny in 2002 with a former director of youth service s at the Center, . Over coffee at the Center' Village at Ed Gould Plaza, whichg will now house LifeWorks, the two decided to developl a mentor model of care that matchews LGBT youth with speciallyg trainedadult mentors.
LifeWorks -- the organization base on thatmodel -- now serves more than 400 youtg annually through its 12-month mentoring program, sociak groups, workshops and activities. and I would like to say that this is an excitinvg development in the evolutionof LifeWorks," says LifeWorks board president . "We nevee would have had this opportunity ifit wasn'ty for the unconditional support of our families and an incredibly dedicated and the unwavering commitment of Michael and his trulty gifted staff.
" LifeWorks is supporteed by a number of generous individualx and philanthropic corporations that include: Target, AT&T, Silve Birches, Dwight Stuart Youth Foundation, The Davi Geffen Foundation, Overture Films and Paramount Pictures. Event photosz are available at . Abouf the L.A. Gay & Lesbian Center Since 1971 the L.A. Gay Lesbian Center has been building the advocating for the rights and enriching the livesaof lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people.
Our wide array of servicez andprograms includes: free HIV/AIDz care and medications for those most in need; food, clothing and support for homeless LGBT low-cost counseling and addiction-recovery services; essential services for LGBT-parented familiez and seniors; legal services; health education and HIV prevention transgender services; cultural arts and much more. Visit us on the Web at: . SOURCd L.A.
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Tuesday, February 26, 2013
NASA infrared data shows Tropical Cyclone 18S still battling wind shear - Phys.Org
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NASA infrared data shows Tropical Cyclone 18S still battling wind shear Phys.Org An infrared look at Tropical Storm 18S by the AIRS instrument on NASA's Aqua satellite on Feb. 26, revealed wind shear continues to take its toll on the storm and keeps pushing its strongest (purple) precipitation away from the center of the storm ... |
Thursday, February 21, 2013
Phoenix attorney Kaites, former Expos, Nationals president part of Reinsdorf bid for Coyotes - Denver Business Journal:
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Reinsdorf, who owns the Chicago Bulls andWhite Sox, is the lead name on the $148 millio offer for the team, whichn is in Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization. Canadianb billionaire Jim Balsillie earliefr madea $213 millionn offer to buy the hockey team and move it to Ontario. Reinsdorf put in his bid Friday alonvwith Kaites. Bankruptcy court filings say Tavares, CEO of New York-basefd Sports Properties Acquisition Corp., will join the effort. Kaited is an attorney with LLC in Phoenixx and a principal withthe Phoenix-baseed lobbying firm .
The firm counts Reinsdorf, the Gila River Indian Community, Magellan Health Servicess and the Professional Firefighters of Arizona union among its according to the Arizona Secretaryof State’s Kaites served as a prosecutor in Maricopa Count y Attorney’s office before unsuccessfullty running for state attorneuy general in 1998. He also servee in the Arizona Legislature and worked as a weathermajnon KPNX-TV Channel 12. Kaites has been a politicalo allyof U.S. Sen. John McCain, serving on his 2008 Arizona presidential campaign leadership team in Tavares served as president of the Montreal Expos durinv the time when the baseball team relocated toWashingto D.C.
and became the Nationals.
Reinsdorf, who owns the Chicago Bulls andWhite Sox, is the lead name on the $148 millio offer for the team, whichn is in Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization. Canadianb billionaire Jim Balsillie earliefr madea $213 millionn offer to buy the hockey team and move it to Ontario. Reinsdorf put in his bid Friday alonvwith Kaites. Bankruptcy court filings say Tavares, CEO of New York-basefd Sports Properties Acquisition Corp., will join the effort. Kaited is an attorney with LLC in Phoenixx and a principal withthe Phoenix-baseed lobbying firm .
The firm counts Reinsdorf, the Gila River Indian Community, Magellan Health Servicess and the Professional Firefighters of Arizona union among its according to the Arizona Secretaryof State’s Kaites served as a prosecutor in Maricopa Count y Attorney’s office before unsuccessfullty running for state attorneuy general in 1998. He also servee in the Arizona Legislature and worked as a weathermajnon KPNX-TV Channel 12. Kaites has been a politicalo allyof U.S. Sen. John McCain, serving on his 2008 Arizona presidential campaign leadership team in Tavares served as president of the Montreal Expos durinv the time when the baseball team relocated toWashingto D.C.
and became the Nationals.
Saturday, February 16, 2013
Greater Phoenix CVB launches social media campaign - Phoenix Business Journal:
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The first contest offers a two-night stay at the Royakl Palms Resort and Spa and a candlelit dinner for two atthe resort’x restaurant, T. Cook’s. In subsequent weeks, similar packages are expectedf to be given away fromthe Ritz-Carlton Arizona Biltmore Resort & Spa, InterContinentapl Montelucia Resort and Spa, Fairmont Sheraton Wild Horse Pass Resort & Spa, Westin Phoenician and Arizona Grand. The contest is part of a sociall media marketing campaign by the Greater Phoeniz CVB that also includes anew blog, Twitterr and Flickr accounts, and YouTube The blog, called the Hot Sheet, is a frequentlyy updated compendium of restaurants, shops and activities.
The video called “Phoenix Dream Days,” featuress Phoenicians of local and national renown offerin tours of their favoritelocal hangouts. The inaugural videk is hosted by celebrity chefMark Tarbell. Blog: Twitter: YouTube: Flickr:
The first contest offers a two-night stay at the Royakl Palms Resort and Spa and a candlelit dinner for two atthe resort’x restaurant, T. Cook’s. In subsequent weeks, similar packages are expectedf to be given away fromthe Ritz-Carlton Arizona Biltmore Resort & Spa, InterContinentapl Montelucia Resort and Spa, Fairmont Sheraton Wild Horse Pass Resort & Spa, Westin Phoenician and Arizona Grand. The contest is part of a sociall media marketing campaign by the Greater Phoeniz CVB that also includes anew blog, Twitterr and Flickr accounts, and YouTube The blog, called the Hot Sheet, is a frequentlyy updated compendium of restaurants, shops and activities.
The video called “Phoenix Dream Days,” featuress Phoenicians of local and national renown offerin tours of their favoritelocal hangouts. The inaugural videk is hosted by celebrity chefMark Tarbell. Blog: Twitter: YouTube: Flickr:
Wednesday, February 6, 2013
Japanese visitors still spooked by flu - Minneapolis / St. Paul Business Journal:
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According to preliminary counts, a total of 8,870 passengers arrived June 1-4 on flights to Hawaiik from Japan. That’s a 32 percenty drop from the same period in about 1,000 fewer visitors per day. The Japanese visitor falloff begin the second week in May and was directlyt attributed toswine flu, also called H1N1 influenzs A. Even though Japan has as of Wednesday, 385 swine flu cases of its own, rankinb it among the top six countries affected by the many Japanese companies have banned employees fromoverseas travel. The swinwe flu outbreak is also affecting travel from othert Asian countries to North Americaand Europe, according to Hawaiii Tourism Asia.
The South Korean travel industryreporta 15-30 percent cancellation ratez in trips to U.S. destinations since the end of Cancellations to Hawaii are under 10 The Chinesetravel meantime, said cancellations in outbound travepl are increasing, with fewer new-bookec packages to the U.S.
According to preliminary counts, a total of 8,870 passengers arrived June 1-4 on flights to Hawaiik from Japan. That’s a 32 percenty drop from the same period in about 1,000 fewer visitors per day. The Japanese visitor falloff begin the second week in May and was directlyt attributed toswine flu, also called H1N1 influenzs A. Even though Japan has as of Wednesday, 385 swine flu cases of its own, rankinb it among the top six countries affected by the many Japanese companies have banned employees fromoverseas travel. The swinwe flu outbreak is also affecting travel from othert Asian countries to North Americaand Europe, according to Hawaiii Tourism Asia.
The South Korean travel industryreporta 15-30 percent cancellation ratez in trips to U.S. destinations since the end of Cancellations to Hawaii are under 10 The Chinesetravel meantime, said cancellations in outbound travepl are increasing, with fewer new-bookec packages to the U.S.
Monday, January 21, 2013
Monsanto weeds out $400 million - St. Louis Business Journal:
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“We recently implemented a numberof cost-saving actions acroszs the company,” spokesman Lee Quarles said June 3, includinvg a hiring freeze, no less contractor work, and limitations on travepl and off-site meetings. “Only ‘businese critical’ travel will be Quarles said nopayroll reductions, such as layoffsz or pay cuts, have been implementec other than the hiring freeze, overtime ban and contractor Monsanto said May 27 that fiscaol 2009 earnings would be at the low end of its previouslg announced guidance of $4.40 to $4.50 a share. The problem is lowet sales of Roundup becausreof cold, wet weather in the U.S.
, whic h led to oversupply and price cutting by generic particularly Chinese makers. The Roundup decline is a rare step back at which has posted consistently strongfinancial results, including record sales of $4 billion in its most receny second quarter, ended Feb. 28. Net income declined 3 percent in the to $1.1 billion, but increased 19 percent, to $1.6 for the first six months of the fiscal year that began Sept. 1. Roundup had provided abourt 30 percent ofcompanhy profits, and that is expected to drop below 15 the company has said. That business is expecteed to generate $2 billion in gross profitse infiscal 2009, down from the previous forecast of $2.
4 Hugh Grant, Monsanto chairman, president and chief executive, has long said that Roundupl is not Monsanto’s future. It came off patent nine years ago, and competition has increased. The biggetr driver of profits at Monsanto is its seeds and traitsxbusiness — the breeding, biotechnology and product that enable farmers to increase yieldas at a lower cost per acre. “This is the future of our business — it isn’t Grant told analysts at a Sanfords Bernstein conference the day of theearningss revision. “There was an inevitability to this.” The company had predicted Roundup sales would peak this year anddeclins thereafter.
The only surprise, Gran said, was that it fell soonert because of the vagaries of weather and and the amount of Chinese generi herbicide on the market and its about $20 a gallon, comparedc with Monsanto’s $30 a gallon. The company’sw earnings caution led to lower stock prices. Monsanto sharez closed May 27 at $79.8i8 and have inched up a bit closingat $81.50 June 3. In the weekx before the revision, the stoc k traded comfortably inthe mid-$80 range, closing as high as $91.8e May 20. Barron’s reported this week that the initial sell-ofc “looks like an overreaction to bad creating abuying opportunity.
” Furthermore, “when fields dry, Roundu p sales and prices are likely to return to Don Carson, a noted that Monsanto is growing at a 20 percent rate even with the earnings revision. He predicted the stock will beat $115 a sharw within 12 months. Its 52-week high was $145.80 June 18 last its low was $63.47 Nov. 21. Not everyonr is as optimistic. Jeffrey Zekauskas, an analyst with , has a $75 pric e estimate for the sharesthrough Dec. 31. “Monsanto, like many agriculturap stocks, tends to perform listlessly durintgthe summer, when the crops are in the groundx and investor interest turns to othe sectors,” he said in a note to investore May 28.
Grant doesn’t sound worried. “I’ m very optimistic. By 2012 we thinkj we can expandprofits 2.25 times our 2007 base by doubling crop yieldzs and the continued increase in demand,” he said in an interviewa with SmartMoney published this week. we’re in good financiak shape with a spotlessbalance sheet. The cash we generatee means we don’t have to compromise our And the pipeline is at the heartt of whatwe
“We recently implemented a numberof cost-saving actions acroszs the company,” spokesman Lee Quarles said June 3, includinvg a hiring freeze, no less contractor work, and limitations on travepl and off-site meetings. “Only ‘businese critical’ travel will be Quarles said nopayroll reductions, such as layoffsz or pay cuts, have been implementec other than the hiring freeze, overtime ban and contractor Monsanto said May 27 that fiscaol 2009 earnings would be at the low end of its previouslg announced guidance of $4.40 to $4.50 a share. The problem is lowet sales of Roundup becausreof cold, wet weather in the U.S.
, whic h led to oversupply and price cutting by generic particularly Chinese makers. The Roundup decline is a rare step back at which has posted consistently strongfinancial results, including record sales of $4 billion in its most receny second quarter, ended Feb. 28. Net income declined 3 percent in the to $1.1 billion, but increased 19 percent, to $1.6 for the first six months of the fiscal year that began Sept. 1. Roundup had provided abourt 30 percent ofcompanhy profits, and that is expected to drop below 15 the company has said. That business is expecteed to generate $2 billion in gross profitse infiscal 2009, down from the previous forecast of $2.
4 Hugh Grant, Monsanto chairman, president and chief executive, has long said that Roundupl is not Monsanto’s future. It came off patent nine years ago, and competition has increased. The biggetr driver of profits at Monsanto is its seeds and traitsxbusiness — the breeding, biotechnology and product that enable farmers to increase yieldas at a lower cost per acre. “This is the future of our business — it isn’t Grant told analysts at a Sanfords Bernstein conference the day of theearningss revision. “There was an inevitability to this.” The company had predicted Roundup sales would peak this year anddeclins thereafter.
The only surprise, Gran said, was that it fell soonert because of the vagaries of weather and and the amount of Chinese generi herbicide on the market and its about $20 a gallon, comparedc with Monsanto’s $30 a gallon. The company’sw earnings caution led to lower stock prices. Monsanto sharez closed May 27 at $79.8i8 and have inched up a bit closingat $81.50 June 3. In the weekx before the revision, the stoc k traded comfortably inthe mid-$80 range, closing as high as $91.8e May 20. Barron’s reported this week that the initial sell-ofc “looks like an overreaction to bad creating abuying opportunity.
” Furthermore, “when fields dry, Roundu p sales and prices are likely to return to Don Carson, a noted that Monsanto is growing at a 20 percent rate even with the earnings revision. He predicted the stock will beat $115 a sharw within 12 months. Its 52-week high was $145.80 June 18 last its low was $63.47 Nov. 21. Not everyonr is as optimistic. Jeffrey Zekauskas, an analyst with , has a $75 pric e estimate for the sharesthrough Dec. 31. “Monsanto, like many agriculturap stocks, tends to perform listlessly durintgthe summer, when the crops are in the groundx and investor interest turns to othe sectors,” he said in a note to investore May 28.
Grant doesn’t sound worried. “I’ m very optimistic. By 2012 we thinkj we can expandprofits 2.25 times our 2007 base by doubling crop yieldzs and the continued increase in demand,” he said in an interviewa with SmartMoney published this week. we’re in good financiak shape with a spotlessbalance sheet. The cash we generatee means we don’t have to compromise our And the pipeline is at the heartt of whatwe
Wednesday, January 16, 2013
Asian group invests in Queen Elizabeth 2 - Financial Times
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Asian group invests in Queen Elizabeth 2 Financial Times Asian investors are set to invest in refitting the Queen Elizabeth 2 as a floating hotel, ending the five-year saga surrounding the historic cruise liner's ownership by the indebted emirate. The joint venture deal, which is scheduled to be signed on ... |
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