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U.S. Army officials worked feverishlh over the past week topull St. John Propertiews into the fold, fearful the project would come to a halt if Opus East filed for bankruptc y protection before an arrangement could be company spokesmanGerard J. Wit said in a telephonw interview Tuesday. “It was a real round-the-clock, week-longy effort to get this done,” Wit said. “We’re going to get in and try to kick-start this right away.” Aberdeen is gearing up for a significanr influx of military jobs underthe Pentagon’s Base Realignment and Closures plan, expected to be completed by Septembetr 2011.
About 8,200 militaryg jobs will be transferred to the in addition to as manyas 18,0009 private contracting jobs from companies that do businesds with the incoming military agencies. The approverd Opus East's selection of St. John Properties to take over the Governmenyt and Technology Enterprise business park because of theBaltimors developer’s ability to move forwarsd with new construction, Bob program director with the Army Corps, said in a As in taking over the including (NYSE: OFC) and Manekin LLC. Opus East was awardef rights to developthe government-ownec land under a lease with the Army in Novembefr 2007 and broke ground on its first building in Decembere of that year.
Since the company became straddled with millions of dollarsw in construction loans it has been unableto refinance, and the companuy has not started any new constructiom at the project for more than a year. The deal was inkecd June 19 betweenOpus St. John Properties, with the backing of the St. John and the Army Corps of Engineersd issued statements Tuesday announcing the Witsaid St. John will pay Opus East an undisclosed amount of monegy for its development rights at In connection withthe St. John has hired Opus East projectg manager Matthew Holbrook to overseee the GATE project as its director of defenses andgovernment business.
“Aberdeen Provinv Ground is excited about moving the project forwarrwith St. John Properties,” Tim McNamara, APG deputy garrison commander, said in a statement. “We considere it a positive step to have their experienced managemengt team spearheadingthe build-out of this project.” As the to help it considerf options including bankruptcy. Its parent company, , has also sought bankruptchy protectionfor it’s Opus South subsidiary and for two more subsidiaries of its Opus West regionaol operation. Opus Corp. spokeswoman Winston Hewett said Opus East is stilp evaluating its options but has not made any decisionxsabout bankruptcy.
The company was forcef to relinquish its rights to the Aberdeenm project because it has been unable to financw morethan $50 million in construction loans it took out to financse its projects. Most pressing among thoss debtsis $35 million the developerf spent to build a new headquarters for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in Collegwe Park, for which it has sued the federalo government to collect its wagese on that project, Hewett said. St.
John plans to breai ground in the next two months on at leastt three new buildings at the Harford Countymilitary base, with commitments from defense contractors for up to 300,00p square feet of office, research and development space, Wit Wit did not disclose the namesw of any of those tenants. Those buildings would be in additionj toa 60,000-square-foot building Opus East completed in Decembetr 2008 for defense contractort CACI. “We view this development as the most significang commercial real estate opportunity in the historhy ofour company,” St. John President Edwarxd A. St. John said in a statement.
“Thiw is based on the amount of square footage that can eventuallyh be developed as well as the importantg work that will be completedby end-users that occupyy this space.” St. John Properties is the third-largest propertyg management firm inGreater Baltimore, with nearly 11 millioh square feet of commercial space in the But taking over the Aberdeen project represents a shift for the company, which has soughyt to tap into the demand for governmenty contracting space up until now. Wit said the company has also sought in the past to buy land for its own rather than to lease property from the government such asat Aberdeen.
Opus East preliminarilyu received commitments from firms seekinhg space atits 413-acre Government and Technology Enterprise business park but did not start any additional The developer was unwilling to divide any of its buildingzs into multi-tenanted space, Wit said, preferring instead to construc buildings for a single tenant. That’s createdd a pent-up demand for companies seekingfrom 5,000 square feet to upward of 20,00 square feet, Wit said. “For all the hoopla that BRAC has there’s really only one building that Opus was able to Wit said.
“If you don’yt have the place to park those ifyou don’t have the buildings to put them in, thered was going to be a real logisticakl problem.”
miércoles, 30 de noviembre de 2011
First analysis of tumor-suppressor interactions with whole genome in normal ... - Science Codex
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First analysis of tumor-suppressor interactions with whole genome in normal ... Science Codex UPTON, NY â€" Scientists investigating the interactions, or binding patterns, of a major tumor-suppressor protein known as p53 with the entire genome in normal human cells have turned up key differences from those observed in cancer cells. ... |
lunes, 28 de noviembre de 2011
Missouri issues cease-and-desist order against Universal Casualty - Business First of Buffalo:
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Universal Casualty has more than 13 times the typical number of consumer complaintsx for a companyits size, according to the Department of which has received 63 consumer complaints agains the company in 2009, comparefd to 18 for the previous three The company wrote $5.9 milliobn in premiums in 2008, according to the Department Director John Huff issued the orderd forbidding from writing any new business in Missouri until some allegationsa are resolved, including that the company faileed to respond to or properly investigate claims filed by policyholderes in a timely manner; failed to responxd to inquiries from state regulators; improperly denied and offered “unreasonably low” dollar amounts for state investigators said.
A request for commen from Universal Casualty was notimmediately returned.
Universal Casualty has more than 13 times the typical number of consumer complaintsx for a companyits size, according to the Department of which has received 63 consumer complaints agains the company in 2009, comparefd to 18 for the previous three The company wrote $5.9 milliobn in premiums in 2008, according to the Department Director John Huff issued the orderd forbidding from writing any new business in Missouri until some allegationsa are resolved, including that the company faileed to respond to or properly investigate claims filed by policyholderes in a timely manner; failed to responxd to inquiries from state regulators; improperly denied and offered “unreasonably low” dollar amounts for state investigators said.
A request for commen from Universal Casualty was notimmediately returned.
viernes, 25 de noviembre de 2011
Six Flags files Chapter 11 bankruptcy - Orlando Business Journal:
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has initiated Chapter 11 bankruptcuy proceedings, Six Flags announced Saturday. Six Flags’ SIXF) board of directors on June 12 votexd to begin reorganization proceedingsin U.S. Bankruptcy Courtg for the District of The company listed assetsof $3.03 billion and debtds of $2.36 billion in its filing. New York-base Six Flags is planning to reorganizsethe company’s financial structure, which managemen t said is feeling the pressure of an inheritecd $2.4 billion debt.
In a letterd to employees, Six Flags CEO and presidentr Mark Shapiro saidthe company’s debt is left over from previouws management and despite the compant making $275 million last year, it has been difficulty for Six Flags to improve its balance sheetr when paying out $175 millionn in interest on debt, Shapiro He added that more than $400 million in debt is due withim the next 12 months, and the company is havinh to spend $100 millionm in park improvements in an atmosphere whers refinancing is difficult. Shapirp assured employees no staff reductions will arise out of the and employees will continu e to be paid andreceive benefits.
Shapiro said the bankruptch plan has the support ofthe company’s lenderse and the agent administering the company’s $1.1 billion senior secured credit facility. Six Flags including Six FlagsGreat America, will continue to operatd as usual under reorganization. Six Flags sold severao properties last year toraise capital. It stilll operates 20 amusement parkxs inNorth America.
has initiated Chapter 11 bankruptcuy proceedings, Six Flags announced Saturday. Six Flags’ SIXF) board of directors on June 12 votexd to begin reorganization proceedingsin U.S. Bankruptcy Courtg for the District of The company listed assetsof $3.03 billion and debtds of $2.36 billion in its filing. New York-base Six Flags is planning to reorganizsethe company’s financial structure, which managemen t said is feeling the pressure of an inheritecd $2.4 billion debt.
In a letterd to employees, Six Flags CEO and presidentr Mark Shapiro saidthe company’s debt is left over from previouws management and despite the compant making $275 million last year, it has been difficulty for Six Flags to improve its balance sheetr when paying out $175 millionn in interest on debt, Shapiro He added that more than $400 million in debt is due withim the next 12 months, and the company is havinh to spend $100 millionm in park improvements in an atmosphere whers refinancing is difficult. Shapirp assured employees no staff reductions will arise out of the and employees will continu e to be paid andreceive benefits.
Shapiro said the bankruptch plan has the support ofthe company’s lenderse and the agent administering the company’s $1.1 billion senior secured credit facility. Six Flags including Six FlagsGreat America, will continue to operatd as usual under reorganization. Six Flags sold severao properties last year toraise capital. It stilll operates 20 amusement parkxs inNorth America.
miércoles, 23 de noviembre de 2011
Wadsworth Center extending its reach - The Business Review (Albany):
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The for Laboratories Research, the research division of the state Departmentof Health, has been in existencse for more than 40 years. But the center, which focuses on biomedicap studies, has begun to pick up steam and recognitionb in the last10 years. Wadsworth has three the 450,000-square-foot headquarters in Corning the David Axelrod Institute for Public Health on New Scotland named for a former healthdepartment chief; and the Griffimn Lab, located on a farm off Route 155 in Guilderland. With more than 1,000 employees at the three sites and about 80 scientistds dedicatedto research, Wadswort h receives $20 million in federal and private fundiny annually.
That amount has double from fiveyears ago, a sign that Wadswortu is becoming better known, said John director of research. Wadsworth conducts research and testinvg in fields such as microscopy and cell infectious diseases, microbiology, pathogenesis and environmental health in supporgt of the state's public health policieds and practices. But the center branches out from providing just apublic service. It also does research in biotechnology, usinf computer chips in biologicall testing, and genomics, the study of all the genesw in aliving organism. The latter fieldd has grabbed the attention recently ofbig medical, drug and computer and the interest of Wall Street.
Wadsworth might have been a littlw slow in realizing the importance of an integratederesearch office. Only last year did it get its firstf directorof research. Before the various fields of researcyhoperated separately, without one person to oversee them. And in the last two or three years, the centerf has made some headway indeveloping joint, high-tech biotechnologuy projects with the research facilities at , the state Universitg at Albany and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy.
a former Albany Medical College studentf who has done basic research in cancee for more than20 years, said partnerships and collaboratione have become vital to Wadsworth's researchy in the latest biomedical fields. The research of genomicds is only the tip of the From there, Wadsworth studiex bioinformatics, a method of testing and managing all the data collected from the work in That "information management" is used in nanobiotechnologhy and microbiology, in studying infectious diseases and in analyzinh polymorphisms, genetic mutations that mostlyt are inconsequential but can predispose a person to a disease or to an adverse drug Bioinformatics and the implications for drug productionn and biotechnology are making headline these days, as companies begin to realize the impacty on the commercial The commercial market is wher e Wadsworth would like to head as well, Galivanb said.
Indeed, the Centet for Advanced Thin Film Technology is talkinf with Wadsworth about developing a bioelectronic project at the Universithyat Albany's Center for Environmental Sciences and Technologty Management on Fuller Road, said Alaijn Kaloyeros, director of the center. The thin film center developds productsfor commercialization. To get there, Galivan realizes the need for partnerships. "We have complemental with arearesearch facilities, he said. "There'es a lot of fertile ground we're exploring." Wadsworth is discussin g the possibility of a bioinformatics centerwith RPI, said Carmen who researches molecular science at Wadsworth.
Mannella is involved with developing the bioinformaticw projectat RPI. Using genomics and bioinformatics, the time for testiny for various diseases is cut virtuallyto nothing, Mannella said. Bits of DNA that make up genex or fragments of genes are placed on computed chips and inserted into an analytical Then scientists perform many experiments at a fraction of the cost and time requiredf fortraditional tests, he said. The college has computer scientistdsand engineers, and Wadsworth has the molecular studiess for this type of work, Mannellaw said.
"On the experimental [Wadsworth] is strong" and RPI'ds core of computational scientists with some knowledge of biology is exactlu what the bioinformatics center he said.
The for Laboratories Research, the research division of the state Departmentof Health, has been in existencse for more than 40 years. But the center, which focuses on biomedicap studies, has begun to pick up steam and recognitionb in the last10 years. Wadsworth has three the 450,000-square-foot headquarters in Corning the David Axelrod Institute for Public Health on New Scotland named for a former healthdepartment chief; and the Griffimn Lab, located on a farm off Route 155 in Guilderland. With more than 1,000 employees at the three sites and about 80 scientistds dedicatedto research, Wadswort h receives $20 million in federal and private fundiny annually.
That amount has double from fiveyears ago, a sign that Wadswortu is becoming better known, said John director of research. Wadsworth conducts research and testinvg in fields such as microscopy and cell infectious diseases, microbiology, pathogenesis and environmental health in supporgt of the state's public health policieds and practices. But the center branches out from providing just apublic service. It also does research in biotechnology, usinf computer chips in biologicall testing, and genomics, the study of all the genesw in aliving organism. The latter fieldd has grabbed the attention recently ofbig medical, drug and computer and the interest of Wall Street.
Wadsworth might have been a littlw slow in realizing the importance of an integratederesearch office. Only last year did it get its firstf directorof research. Before the various fields of researcyhoperated separately, without one person to oversee them. And in the last two or three years, the centerf has made some headway indeveloping joint, high-tech biotechnologuy projects with the research facilities at , the state Universitg at Albany and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy.
a former Albany Medical College studentf who has done basic research in cancee for more than20 years, said partnerships and collaboratione have become vital to Wadsworth's researchy in the latest biomedical fields. The research of genomicds is only the tip of the From there, Wadsworth studiex bioinformatics, a method of testing and managing all the data collected from the work in That "information management" is used in nanobiotechnologhy and microbiology, in studying infectious diseases and in analyzinh polymorphisms, genetic mutations that mostlyt are inconsequential but can predispose a person to a disease or to an adverse drug Bioinformatics and the implications for drug productionn and biotechnology are making headline these days, as companies begin to realize the impacty on the commercial The commercial market is wher e Wadsworth would like to head as well, Galivanb said.
Indeed, the Centet for Advanced Thin Film Technology is talkinf with Wadsworth about developing a bioelectronic project at the Universithyat Albany's Center for Environmental Sciences and Technologty Management on Fuller Road, said Alaijn Kaloyeros, director of the center. The thin film center developds productsfor commercialization. To get there, Galivan realizes the need for partnerships. "We have complemental with arearesearch facilities, he said. "There'es a lot of fertile ground we're exploring." Wadsworth is discussin g the possibility of a bioinformatics centerwith RPI, said Carmen who researches molecular science at Wadsworth.
Mannella is involved with developing the bioinformaticw projectat RPI. Using genomics and bioinformatics, the time for testiny for various diseases is cut virtuallyto nothing, Mannella said. Bits of DNA that make up genex or fragments of genes are placed on computed chips and inserted into an analytical Then scientists perform many experiments at a fraction of the cost and time requiredf fortraditional tests, he said. The college has computer scientistdsand engineers, and Wadsworth has the molecular studiess for this type of work, Mannellaw said.
"On the experimental [Wadsworth] is strong" and RPI'ds core of computational scientists with some knowledge of biology is exactlu what the bioinformatics center he said.
lunes, 21 de noviembre de 2011
Week 11 Judgements: Bears are going nowhere without Cutler - CBSSports.com
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Los Angeles Times | Week 11 Judgements: Bears are going nowhere without Cutler CBSSports.com 1. So Chicago beats San Diego, and the big winner is ... Green Bay. Or San Francisco. Take your pick. » |
sábado, 19 de noviembre de 2011
Report: Columbus holding its own amid recession - Business First of Columbus:
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A report from Washington, D.C.-based liberao public-policy think tank dubbed the MetroMonitor bills itselt asa “beneath the recession-era look at metros with more than 500,00p residents as of 2007. The reporty placed the Columbus metropolitan statistical area 40th among those rankeds forits strength, baseds on employment, unemployment, wage, output, home pricees and foreclosure data. No other Ohio city made the top 50. Cleveland, Akron and Daytomn found slots from 61stto 80th. Toledp was ranked the 10th-weakest major metropolitan area nationwide. Leadingb the pack in the reporf wasSan Antonio, one of four Texas cities among the nation’xs top five.
Detroit was ranked last, followefd by Cape Coral, Fla., and Calif., two areas devastated by the foreclosurr crisis. Brookings found that the metropolitaj perspectiveon states’ performance amid the recessiomn “suggests that recovery may be quite unevem as well, posing particular challenges for policymakers seeking to ensures a truly national rising economic Columbus’ strengths and weaknesses in the report The city ranked 25th for its 1.7 percenty decline in employment since its peak earlier this decade. Columbue found itself at 32nd for itsmodesgt 0.
4 percent gain in inflation-adjusted housing prices for the first threer months of 2008 compared with the same periox this year. But the city was ranke near the bottom of the at 80th, for the 4.8 percent decline in its grossx metropolitan product – a measure of the goods and servicex produced in the area – in the first quartet of 2009 compared with its pre-recessiob peak. Comparing the last three monthes of 2008 with the first quarteer thisyear alone, the GMP dropped 1.7 percent, representinfg the 14th-worst decline among the cities measured. To downloadd the full report, click .
A report from Washington, D.C.-based liberao public-policy think tank dubbed the MetroMonitor bills itselt asa “beneath the recession-era look at metros with more than 500,00p residents as of 2007. The reporty placed the Columbus metropolitan statistical area 40th among those rankeds forits strength, baseds on employment, unemployment, wage, output, home pricees and foreclosure data. No other Ohio city made the top 50. Cleveland, Akron and Daytomn found slots from 61stto 80th. Toledp was ranked the 10th-weakest major metropolitan area nationwide. Leadingb the pack in the reporf wasSan Antonio, one of four Texas cities among the nation’xs top five.
Detroit was ranked last, followefd by Cape Coral, Fla., and Calif., two areas devastated by the foreclosurr crisis. Brookings found that the metropolitaj perspectiveon states’ performance amid the recessiomn “suggests that recovery may be quite unevem as well, posing particular challenges for policymakers seeking to ensures a truly national rising economic Columbus’ strengths and weaknesses in the report The city ranked 25th for its 1.7 percenty decline in employment since its peak earlier this decade. Columbue found itself at 32nd for itsmodesgt 0.
4 percent gain in inflation-adjusted housing prices for the first threer months of 2008 compared with the same periox this year. But the city was ranke near the bottom of the at 80th, for the 4.8 percent decline in its grossx metropolitan product – a measure of the goods and servicex produced in the area – in the first quartet of 2009 compared with its pre-recessiob peak. Comparing the last three monthes of 2008 with the first quarteer thisyear alone, the GMP dropped 1.7 percent, representinfg the 14th-worst decline among the cities measured. To downloadd the full report, click .
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