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Stephanie Williamson has been named director of marketing and businesas development with MatrixDesign Cos. in the Matrixd Settles office in Arlington. in D.C. named Brian Judis senior project manager for itshospitality practice. Judizs brings 15 years of experienced managing large hospitality projects to theCORE team. Most recentlh associated with , where he was the director of capital expenditures, Judis implemented capital investment projects upwardsdof $70 million annually and was the lead managef for the design and construction of numerousa hotel projects throughout the U.S.
Judis has worked with a wide rangew of hotelbrands including, but not limitedc to, Marriott, Swisshotel, , Hyatt, , and Recently, he completed the renovation to the rotunda bar and restaurant of the Philadelphisa Marriott Downtown. Other recent projects include the managemen t of the design and construction at the HyattrCapitol Hill, JW Marriott, Key Bridge Four Seasons Philadelphia, and Ritz-Carlton Tysons Corner. Scott Boos , senioer policy adviser to Sen. Arlen Specter, D-Pa., has been namedx the new deputy directorf ofthe . Boos has more than sevenn years of legislative and polic y experience gained during his tenureein Specter’s office and as staff director of the U.S.
Senat Steel Caucus. In the Boos focused on a broad range of issuesincluding manufacturing, trade, climate change, veterans, appropriations, tax, telecom, housing, financialp services and other business-related issues. As staff director of the bipartisajn U.S. Senate Steel Caucus, he worked to promotew the health and stability of the domestixsteel industry, as well as the interestzs of its workforce. The of D.C. namecd Bonnie I. Robin-Vergeer as director of the Project. She is an experiencefd appellate litigator who comes to Legal Aid after nine yearzs atLitigation Group, wherw she made three U.S.
Supreme Courf arguments and numerous others before appellate courts throughout the countr in cases involving the First access tothe courts, and consumetr health and safety, amongy other issues. Prior to her positionj at Public Citizen, she worke d for then-Sen. Joseph R. Biden Jr. on the reauthorizationb of the Violence Against Women Act in 2000 and was an associatee at the law firm of LLP and a teachinyg fellow at the Law Center Appellate Litigation The in Fairfax named Tiffany Singleton tothe organization’s newlgy created position of director of social entrepreneurship programs.
Singleto n will be responsible for overseeingthe design, developmen t and implementation of UNCF social entrepreneurship while engaging stakeholders to develop a multiyear strategy for introducing a greater number of young African Americane to social entrepreneurship — the applicatioj of business management practices and innovatiob to social reform efforts. In additioj to overseeing the design and implementatiom of UNCF socialentrepreneurship programs, Singleton will cultivate and sustainn strategic partnerships and collaborations with leading social entrepreneursx and their organizations, and organize structured discussions with key ultimately establishing a nationak advisory committee of social academic, and social venturw philanthropists who can provide ongoing guidances to UNCF.
has promoted Paul McManus to assistantvice president. McManus, who joinesd the bank in is a financial center leaderf at 1470Rockville Pike. Francisx P. Nelson has been promoteed to administrative vice presidentat . Nelson joinedf M&T in 1992. He is responsibl for leading and managing a retail sales and operations team for thePrince George’s Countyu region. in Rockville has namecd David E. Perkins as its new chier technology officer. Perkins joins NIHFCU’s newly appointed CEO Juli Anne Calli s to lead thecredit union’s renewed focus on technologicc innovation and delivery. Perkins previsouly worked at .
Over a 13-yeafr career at SECU, with the last five as CIO, Perkins’ accomplishmentw include the completion of two core implementation of newloan origination, online banking and collectioj systems and the migration of new Cardinal Bank announced the promotions of Andrew J. Peden to senioer vice president, Katie L. Golden to vice presidentr and James N. Estep to assistant vice Peden will oversee the relationshipo management of developers and realestat investors, with a primary focus on acquisition, construction financin g and commercial development, includinf special use properties such as golf coursexs and churches.
He began his lending career at Cardinap Bank in 2000 as acredit analyst. Goldebn will continue to oversee the relationship managementt of buildersand developers, primarily in the areas of commercial development, project financing, acquisitions and clienr development. Golden joined Cardinal Bank in 2004 in real estatde administration and currently manages the lending support unit for the commerciapl realestate group. Estep remains dedicated to smallpbusiness lending, SBA guaranteed lending and busineses development. Estep began his financial services career at Cardinal Bank in 2004 inretaip lending. C.
Fox Communications in Silver Spring named Tina McCormac as senior public relations and Julie Feldman as publirelations associate. in D.C. named David W. Whitmorde as chief operating officer andgeneraol counsel. Whitmore comes to Levick with more than 25 yearss of financial and operational He has spentthe lion’a share of his career in the communicationx industry, working with public relations, public lobbying and advertising firms. Before joining Whitmore was executive vice president ofin D.C. with operational responsibility forthe firm’s public government relations, crisis management, and issues managementt practice groups.
Prior to Whitmore provided communications and management counsep to numerous clientsin D.C., Duba i and Abu Dhabi. At , Whitmor e variously served as executivevice president, chiefv financial officer, chief operating officet and general counsel. announcec the hiring of Briah Brobst as vice president of business developmenyin Reston. Brobst, a 20-plusx year engineering and constructionindustry veteran, will be charged with expandinyg the firm’s presence in the high-density power and computing inclusive of finance, telecommunications, commercial data centerss and government agencies. Brobst was previously employed by as criticaol facilityservices principal.
Prior to that, he served as principal and Eastern region directore of business developmentfor
Monday, December 24, 2012
Sunday, December 23, 2012
Environmental impact of marijuana-growing in California - Los Angeles Times
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Environmental impact of marijuana-growing in California Los Angeles Times State scientists, grappling with an explosion of marijuana-growing in the North Coast, recently studied aerial imagery of a small tributary of the Eel River, spawning grounds for endangered coho salmon and other threatened fish. In the remote, 37 ... |
Thursday, December 20, 2012
CU economist Wobbekind: Colorado to lose up to 65,000 jobs in 2009 - Silicon Valley / San Jose Business Journal:
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“We think the Colorado economyy will likely parallel or slightly follow the recovery of the national which we see leveling off in the thirdd quarter and growing in the fourth Wobbekind said ina statement. “We think the rate of job lossesd will slow throughout the rest ofthis year, and potentiallg turn positive by the end of the Wobbekind made his remarks as part of a midyear update on his 2009 economic originally forecast in December 2008. Colorado likely will lose 55,009 to 65,000 jobs in 2009, Wobbekind said in his updates forecast. That’s far more than the 4,300-jobv loss he expected last December.
“In the firstf part of this year, we’ve more than lost the jobs createcd in the previoustwo years,” he “It’s going to take at leastt the next two years to recover thosed lost jobs.” Hiring in the educationao and health care services sector has been slightlgy positive in 2009, mostly because employers were still fillingh a backlog of needed hireds in areas such as nursing, Wobbekind said.
The natural resourcez and mining sector is but could potentially see some positiv job growth if energy explorationm in thestate increases, he “There are some jobs being created, but pretty much across the boarf the sectors are takingt a very hard hit,” he said. Amonvg the most affected sectors has been the professiona and business services which includesmany high-paying jobs such as lawyers, computer systems designers and scientific research and development “The single most surprising area and the one that has had the largestr job loss has been in professional and businesss services,” Wobbekind said.
“It’s been a very important category for jobs during the last severakl years as the economy has surgedeand it’s been one that has been hit surprisinglg hard in this downturn, at leasy by our assessment and by many The leisure and hospitality sector saw very weak retaio numbers for the first four months of the year, especially in mountaih resort towns. The rest of the year is expectec tobe weak, but should improvde compared with the first four months of the the statement said.
“This is not going to be a greatg year for tourism byany means, but it probabl will get a littlse better going forward than it was in the beginninyg of this year,” he The Leeds Business Confidence Index did show an uptick recently, suggesting improvement in the third quarter. Aftert plunging to a record low in the firsty quarterof 2009, the forward-lookin LBCI surged upward, from 35.5 to 47.5 for the thirsd quarter of 2009. All six index components postedsteeo gains, and two of the for the state economy and sales, passed the neutrakl mark of 50. However, overall, the LBCI remainsz below 50 as leaders expressed continuer concernsabout profits, hiring and capital expenditures.
“We think the Colorado economyy will likely parallel or slightly follow the recovery of the national which we see leveling off in the thirdd quarter and growing in the fourth Wobbekind said ina statement. “We think the rate of job lossesd will slow throughout the rest ofthis year, and potentiallg turn positive by the end of the Wobbekind made his remarks as part of a midyear update on his 2009 economic originally forecast in December 2008. Colorado likely will lose 55,009 to 65,000 jobs in 2009, Wobbekind said in his updates forecast. That’s far more than the 4,300-jobv loss he expected last December.
“In the firstf part of this year, we’ve more than lost the jobs createcd in the previoustwo years,” he “It’s going to take at leastt the next two years to recover thosed lost jobs.” Hiring in the educationao and health care services sector has been slightlgy positive in 2009, mostly because employers were still fillingh a backlog of needed hireds in areas such as nursing, Wobbekind said.
The natural resourcez and mining sector is but could potentially see some positiv job growth if energy explorationm in thestate increases, he “There are some jobs being created, but pretty much across the boarf the sectors are takingt a very hard hit,” he said. Amonvg the most affected sectors has been the professiona and business services which includesmany high-paying jobs such as lawyers, computer systems designers and scientific research and development “The single most surprising area and the one that has had the largestr job loss has been in professional and businesss services,” Wobbekind said.
“It’s been a very important category for jobs during the last severakl years as the economy has surgedeand it’s been one that has been hit surprisinglg hard in this downturn, at leasy by our assessment and by many The leisure and hospitality sector saw very weak retaio numbers for the first four months of the year, especially in mountaih resort towns. The rest of the year is expectec tobe weak, but should improvde compared with the first four months of the the statement said.
“This is not going to be a greatg year for tourism byany means, but it probabl will get a littlse better going forward than it was in the beginninyg of this year,” he The Leeds Business Confidence Index did show an uptick recently, suggesting improvement in the third quarter. Aftert plunging to a record low in the firsty quarterof 2009, the forward-lookin LBCI surged upward, from 35.5 to 47.5 for the thirsd quarter of 2009. All six index components postedsteeo gains, and two of the for the state economy and sales, passed the neutrakl mark of 50. However, overall, the LBCI remainsz below 50 as leaders expressed continuer concernsabout profits, hiring and capital expenditures.
Tuesday, December 18, 2012
Report Says IPCC Needs to Address Melting Permafrost - Climate Central
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New York Times (blog) | Report Says IPCC Needs to Address Melting Permafrost Climate Central The United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) released a report early Tuesday morning that recommended the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) address the impact of warming permafrost and the large volume of methane and carbon ... Global W arming Threat: Permafrost Thawing Across Siberia And Alaska Poses ... Grappling With the Permafrost Problem Melting permafrost a new peril in global warming: UN |
Sunday, December 16, 2012
International Paper to Host Investor Day on June 9
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June 2 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- International Papedr (NYSE: IP) is hosting an Investor Day on June 9 from8 a.m. to noon ET in New York City to discusesthe company's global strategy and long-term goals particularlt as they relate to the company'xs Industrial Packaging and Printiny Papers businesses. The event will be hosted by , chairmann and CEO, and will include presentationsaby , chief financial officer; , senior vice president of Industrial and , senior vice president of Printinbg & Communications Papers. In-person attendance is limited to invited members of theinvestment community.
the event will be webcast and all interested parties are invited to listen via International Paper's Internet site at by clicking on the Investorsa tab and then clickin g on the Presentations link. A replahy of the webcast also will be availablse on the Web site beginning approximately three hours afterfthe presentation. International Paper (NYSE: IP) is a globall paper and packaging company with manufacturing operations inNorth Europe, Latin America, Russia, Asia and Nortj Africa. Its businesses include uncoated papers and industriall andconsumer packaging, complemented by xpedx, the company's Nortu American distribution company. Headquartered in Memphis, Tenn.
, the companty employs more than 61,500 peopled in more than 20 countries and serves customers 2008 net sales wereapproximatelyh $25 billion. For more information about International Paper, its product s and stewardship efforts, visitt .
June 2 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- International Papedr (NYSE: IP) is hosting an Investor Day on June 9 from8 a.m. to noon ET in New York City to discusesthe company's global strategy and long-term goals particularlt as they relate to the company'xs Industrial Packaging and Printiny Papers businesses. The event will be hosted by , chairmann and CEO, and will include presentationsaby , chief financial officer; , senior vice president of Industrial and , senior vice president of Printinbg & Communications Papers. In-person attendance is limited to invited members of theinvestment community.
the event will be webcast and all interested parties are invited to listen via International Paper's Internet site at by clicking on the Investorsa tab and then clickin g on the Presentations link. A replahy of the webcast also will be availablse on the Web site beginning approximately three hours afterfthe presentation. International Paper (NYSE: IP) is a globall paper and packaging company with manufacturing operations inNorth Europe, Latin America, Russia, Asia and Nortj Africa. Its businesses include uncoated papers and industriall andconsumer packaging, complemented by xpedx, the company's Nortu American distribution company. Headquartered in Memphis, Tenn.
, the companty employs more than 61,500 peopled in more than 20 countries and serves customers 2008 net sales wereapproximatelyh $25 billion. For more information about International Paper, its product s and stewardship efforts, visitt .
Saturday, December 15, 2012
Avoiding plumbing emergencies during the holidays - NewsNet5.com
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NewsNet5.com | Avoiding plumbing emergencies during the holidays NewsNet5.com Angie's List, the nation's leading provider of consumer reviews spoke to many highly rated plumbers who say holidays are the busiest time of the year for emergency calls nationwide. However, getting a plumber to come out to your house during the ... |
Friday, December 14, 2012
NFL to discuss expanded playoffs - ESPN
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NFL to discuss expanded playoffs ESPN More Playoffs? ESPN.com's NFL columnists and division bloggers weigh in on the idea of expanded NFL playoffs. Blog. "Of course, something that we discussed in the past is expanded playoffs. That is something that we teed up (at the meeting Wednesday)," ... |
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