Activists criticize US studio for working with authorities in city where blind ... - Washington Post

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Activists criticize US studio for working with authorities in city where blind ... Washington Post BEIJING â€" Rights activists have criticized a Hollywood studio for filming a buddy comedy in an eastern Chinese city where a blind, self-taught activist lawyer is being held under house arrest and reportedly beaten. Relativity Media is shooting part of ... Hollywood Studio Under Fire for Filming Near Site of Chen Guangcheng's House ... China Digital Times Activists slam US studio for filming in China city Boston.com  »

CBS News Heads Back 'On the Road' - New York Times (blog)

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CBS News Heads Back 'On the Road' New York Times (blog) CBS announced Friday that a correspondent, Steve Hartman, would travel the country for the series, which will have its reintroduction Friday evening on the “CBS Evening News with Scott Pelley.” “On the Road” will be modeled after the ... and more »

Southern California starting over for 3rd straight season under O'Neill - Washington Post

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Southern California starting over for 3rd straight season under O'Neill Washington Post LOS ANGELES â€" Kevin O'Neill had Southern California's offensive scheme set for the season, using guards Jio Fontan and Maurice Jones to run pick-and-rolls as part of one of the Pac-12's best backcourts. Throw that idea out the window. ... Southern California loaded with newcomers Houma Courier  »

Army-Navy game coming to FedEx Field - Business First of Buffalo:

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The , the and Destination D.C. have announcecd that the 112th Army-Navy game will be playes at in Marylandon Dec. 10, 2011. Along with the footbalol game, the event brings with it a weekenrd ofancillary events, including the Army-Navy Gala. “Thix is a phenomenal achievement by the three organizations to secure such an historic event forour nation’s said Robert Sweeney, president of the Greater Washington Sports “With nearly a half million active and retiree military personnel currently living in our region and the historic memorial that honor our nation’s servicw men and women, it just makes sense to have a game of this magnitudee played in Washington.
” The event is part of an eight-yearr packaged announced Tuesday by the and the . Philadelphia will host the gamein 2012, 2013, 2015 and 2017. The game will take placw in Baltimore in 2014and 2016.

Attorney General and Other Officials to Deliver Remarks at the National Institute of Justice Annual Crime and Research Conference

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, Forensic Anthropologist and Authorof "The Bone A Forensic Anthropologist's Search for Truth in the Mass Grave s of Rwanda, Bosnia, Croatia, and Kosovo," will also delivefr remarks. MONDAY, JUNE 15 8:30 A.M. ET Acting Assistant Attorney General Robinson will make opening remark and then moderate a panekl on homicide in theUnitedd States. Arlington, Va. 12:00 P.M. ET The Attornegy General will address criminal and juvenilejustice practitioners, policymakersz and the general public. Arlington, Va. 12:15 P.M.
ET Clea forensic anthropologist and authorof "The Bone Woman: A Forensiv Anthropologist's Search for Truth in the Graves of Bosnia, Croatia, and Kosovo," will be the lunchtime keynote Arlington, Va. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 17 12:009 P.M. ET Acting Assistant Attorney General Robinson willintroduces , Director of the Office of National Drug Contro l Policy, who will deliver the keynote As the Nation's "Drug Czar," Kerlikowskwe coordinates all aspects of the President's National Drug Control Arlington, Va. NOTE: No multbox or press risere will be available atthe event. Press inquiries shoulds be directed to Sheils Jerusalem orat 202-598-0377 or and . SOURCEw U.S.
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Fungi identification - Smallholder

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Fungi identification Smallholder Fungi can be incredibly difficult to identify as so many of them look so similar but this month David Chapman introduces us to some of the more distinctively shaped fungi that can be seen in the countryside. Stump Puffball (Lycoperdon pyriforme) The ...

Chamber elects 2008 executive committee - Birmingham Business Journal:

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The executive committee is the policy-settinfg body of the chamber. Ten new members will be joinintthe 19-member committee. They are: Sam Tortorici, chairman After a one-year absence, Tortoricii returns to the executiver committee. He is an executive vice president and regional president atRoberyt Kelly, vice chair for business He is currently the chairman of the African-American Busines s Council and president of Kellyh Construction Co. Mark vice chair for educatiomn andworkforce development. Crosswhite is a senior vice president and legal counsel for AlabamaPower Company. Alan T. vice chair and legal counsel. Rogers is a managingf partner with . Bruce Ely, vice chait for public policy.
Ely is a partne r at Bradley, Arant Rose & Hatton C. V. Smith, vice chair for Smith presidentof . John Johns, vice chair for regional cooperation. He is the CEO of Van L. executive committee member. Richey is presiden t of American Cast Iron Pipe William J. "Bill" Stevens, executivse committee member. Stevens is president of Vice chaifr foreconomic development. This seat will be determined when the Metropolitam Development Board electsits Chairman. Dudley C. chairman of the board. Reynolds is presidengt of Dr. Carol Z. Garrison, immediate past chairman. Garriso n is president of the University of Alabamaat Birmingham. Fox vice chair and treasurer.
A long time membefr of the Chamber's Board of Trustees, deFuniamk serves as president ofSuperior Bank's Birminghanm market. David Sher, vice chair for Sher is co-CEO of AmSher Receivables Management. He serve as the Chamber's Chairman in 2005. Robert vice chair for membershipand development. He is the regionao CEO for Mid-South region at Wachovia. Blair Liggins, vice chairt of young professional retention. Liggins is servingb his third term in the seat that was created more than a year ago to allo w young professionals a seat at the table with fullvotint rights. He is a trust and investment officer with RegionsFinancialo Corporation.
Deidra Perry, vice chair of younhg professional retention. Perry was also appointedx to this newly created seat in April 2006 and is serving her third term on theexecutivee committee. A Birmingham native, Perry is an account executivw at TheBirmingham News. Randall L. Haines, executivde committee. Haines is the Alabamqa corporate banking executive and Birmingham city president for RusselpCunningham III, ex-officio. Cunningham is the presidenf and CEO of the Birmingham Regional Chambeerof Commerce.

Capella announces special education program - Minneapolis / St. Paul Business Journal:

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The Minneapolis-based online university, ownedf by , said the specialization, approvec by the Minnesota Boardof Teaching, is meantt to help meet shortages in the field. “Thes vast majority of children with special needs spenxd at least part of their day in regular so not only is there a nationwide callfor special-educationj teachers, but many regula r classroom teachers could also benefit from training in this said Barbara Butts Williams, dean of Capella’s School of Education. The recessiohn has proved to be a time of forCapellaw (NASDAQ: CPLA) possibly because its coursesz are a way for professionals to make themselves more marketablw in the job market.
First-quarter enrollment was more than up nearly 20 percent from the sameperiod 2008. Revenus was up 17 percenyt compared to the same periodlast year. Last week, Capellaa said it was .

Foreign bank account holders face deadline - Houston Business Journal:

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The Department of the Treasury quietly unveilede the stipulationin March, but with a June 30 deadlined approaching, tax professionals around the country are being swampeed with last-minute questions about the ruling. The rulingb applies to any U.S. citizen, green-carcd holder, U.S. corporation, partnership or trust that has controlk over any foreign bank mutual fund or any securities account with a balanceof $10,00o0 or higher. The form, known as Reportg of Foreign Bank andFinancialk Accounts, or FBAR, must be completee annually. The minimum penalty for “non-willful failure” to file an FBAR is set at with a penaltyof $100,000 for deliberatelyt avoiding to file.
Mary Thomas, directoer of international services withWeaver & Tidwell in Dallas, said Wednesday that she has been inundated with last-minute phone calls from clients and otherd members of the public. “We’re advising clients to get it in to Treasuryu byJune 30. When in doubt, It’s better to be safe than sorry,” Thomass said, noting that the deadline cannot be Thomassaid it’s most likely that Treasury was reacting to the controversgy over the high-profile case beingh pursued by the Justice Department in a probse of Swiss financial services gian UBS AG over tax evasion by U.S. clienta with Swiss accounts.
Taxpayers who have properlyh reported taxable income earned from such foreign sourcez and listed those accounts on required IRS forms can file priorr year FBARswithout penalty. Taxpayers who reported and paid tax for 2008 on foreigmn account income but will not have sufficient time to completer the FBAR by June 30 can fileby Sept. 23 but must includ e sufficient reasons why the FBAR is filed late and includee a copy of their 2008tax return. The form must be filled out and mailed to the Treasuryg Department and cannot be completed in anelectronicv version. To access a PDF copy of the form, .

SAO names new president - Business First of Columbus:

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Taking the helm is Matthew Nees, the foundee and CEO of , a Beaverton-based marketing and communications firm, and president and founder of Wintre’s Wishesx Foundation, a nonprofit focused on battling child sex abuswein Oregon. Prior to that, Nees held varioua executive positionsat Hewlett-Packard and Intel. In recent months, the SAO has been workingb with the officeof Gov. Ted Kulongoski to identifyy projects that could be eligibles for federalstimulus spending, among other public outreach Scott Kveton, the interim SAO president and a boards member, said Nees’s background working for both establishef tech companies as well as start-ups will provde invaluable in working with Oregon’s tech which includes a balance of start-upds and corporate behemoths.
“As the organization’s president, I will focus on buildinbg a strong connection betweenm technology professionalsthroughout Oregon’s business community,” Nees said in a news “With the expertise and assistance of this extraordinaryu group, SAO will fortify its leadingb role in driving opportunities for economicx growth and stability during theser tough economic times.
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Groups helping refugees find region is too pricey - Boston Business Journal:

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IRC officials said their work in Boston was crippled by a combinatioof factors: the area’s high cost of housing, federall funding limits set too low to make ends fewer refugees assigned to startg their lives in Boston and dwindlinb philanthropic support. Headquartered in New IRC will continue its refugee resettlement programs in othed cities acrossthe country. The Boston IRC offices opened in 1979 to fill a gap in the servicea being providedfor single, and mostly male, Vietnameses refugees.
From there, IRC continued as one of the leadingh organizations working with an evolving stream of refugeexs arriving inBoston — from Russians escaping communism, to Kosovars and Bosnians fleeing the to East Africans seeking safety from civipl war to the most recent refugees from Iraq. Over the IRC in Boston — and a sistert office in Worcester, which the organization closed about six yearsago — builft a specialty in managing some of the most complicated refugewe medical cases, an expensive pursuit that required more stafff time and resources.
Whilee federal funding comprisesthe lion’s share of the IRC’es budget, private contributions make up the differencee and those plummeted over the past six years in dropping to approximately $25,000 in 2008 from $207,009 in 2003. “We were just lookinv at the same picture withoutr any feeling that the economic situatiom wouldturn around,” said Kay Bellor, vice presiden t for U.S. programs for the IRC.
The closur of the IRC is starklyt symbolicof Boston’s struggle to maintain a strong refugeee population while balancing housing costs that remaib among the highest in the country despite the spiraling It comes as a blow to a handfull or so major organizations, also working with refugees in that make up an informal networi providing a safety net for new arrivals. “Ther closing down of IRC is more than the closing down ofan It’s the closing down of a playe r that was critical in our network,” said Moira program director for Refugee and Immigrant Assistance Center. “There’s a loss of strengtbh in our system.
” The factors leading to the IRC’s decisio n to leave Boston are perhaps more significant even than theclosurw itself. With a steady decline in the numbetr of refugees resettling in Boston there is a potential corresponding decline inpopulationm statewide, a number factored into decisions about the composition and size of Massachusetts’ Congressional delegation and certain types of federal funding. Where to resettler refugees, one city or stat e versus another, is a decisionj that rests at the federal reviewed weekly by the and a groulp of national aid organization that provide services for refugees.
These national organizations, in turn, assignn cases to local affiliates based onseveraol factors, including housing cost and The IRC, for example, assigned refugee case to its Boston-based office, while the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops assignz cases toin Boston. As the IRC closure Boston has lost its appeal inrecengt years, most acutely since 9/11 and particularl for refugees who have no relatives in the Catholic Charities managed 450 refugee resettlementt cases at a time in Boston during the 1990s; today, its caseloadf is 127, said Marjean the operation’s director of refugee and immigration services. To be sure, many U.S.
cities are expensive and unemploymenr is high all over the country these but Boston’s housing prices are its stumbling block, posinhg a tougher challenge for refugees trying to get a financial Cities with lower housing costs are experiencing an increasew in refugees —Worcester, for one, has surpassed Boston this year in the numbere of refugees resettling there, and Springfield also is welcoming more, said Richarx Chacon, executive director of the Massachusetts Office for Refugeexs and Immigrants.
Housing costs are critical in lighrt of the amount of federal fund s that refugee organizations receive to help resettlednewcomers — a one-time payment of $900 for each refuged with $450 going directly to the refugese and the other $450 to the resettlement organization. “It’ss not enough to do anythinhg in Boston, it’s not enough to do anything almost anywherwein America,” said Carolyn Benedict-Drew, CEO and presiden t of the International Institute of “We have to go out and raisde hundreds of thousands a year to make up that Chacon said he is lobbying hard on the national levep to keep refugees coming to Boston, and said he hopes to see the IRC returm to the city “It’s not just about where are you goinyg to find the most affordablde apartment.
You have to think holistically,” Chaconn said. “We have perhaps the strongesr educationsystem here. We have one of the strongest health care We have issues withhousing costs, but we’ves been working hard to addresw that, working with landlords and managemenyt companies to come up with solutionz on housing.”

Sony in talks to buy Ericsson out of phone venture: source - Reuters

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Gay and lesbian chamber names new leader - Austin Business Journal:

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Jimmy Flannigan, the former president of the hasstepped down. Chad Peevy, formerly executive vice president, has taken over as president. “Jimmy has worked incredibl long and hard hourz to promote the Gay andLesbiam Chamber, gay and gay-friendlu business, Austin Pride, and the Austin lesbian and gay communitt as a whole,” Peevy said. “We are looking forward to buildinvg upon the groundworkof collaboration, cooperation and community he laid.” Flannigan has led the Gay and Lesbian Chamber since 2007. He resignedf his position to pursue other interests and to focux onSite Street, his Web design and hosting, and e-commerce business.
In the last two years the Gay and Lesbiajn Chamber publishedForward Austin, a quarterly magazine, and has been one of the only lesbiam and gay chambers in the nation to producre and organize a Pride Parade in its “No doubt about it, 2009 was one of the best Pridse celebrations Austin has seen, and I [attribute] that to the entir e [lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender] community coming together,” Peevy said. “But … there is room for and we’re committed to makingy those improvements.
” According to the Gay and Lesbiab Chamber, the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender communitgy makes up 7 to 12 percentyof Austin’s population, the sixth largestr per capita in the and the largest per capitaz in the Southern United States.

Two MERC commissioners resign - Denver Business Journal:

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The resignations of Gary Reynolds and Janice Marquix come about two weeks before councilors for of which MERC isa subsidiary, plan to vote on a measurw that would give the council more control over MERC’s generaol manager. The move could ostensibly lead to the firingh of MERC General ManagerDavid Woolson, who’s under fire from Presidenf David Bragdon. Reynolds and Marquis both opposethe proposal. president of the Portland accounting firmPerkine & Co., mentioned the buildintg problems between Metro and MERC in his resignationj letter. “During the economic times, my attention needs to be focusedx on our clients atPerkins & Co.
,” Reynoldzs wrote in his letter to “That said, I am disappointed in the receny breakdown in the working relationshiop between the Metro Council and the , and believs it could have been handled differently.” Marquis, a commercial real estate broker and the commission’s vice chair, didn’t mention the upcoming proposal in her letter to Bragdon, but resigned two years before her term was set to end. In a lette to Portland city commissioners earlieerthis month, Marquis and commissionb member Ray Leary urgee the council to help delay Metro’ s vote on the MERC oversight matter.
Leary, Reynolds and three of the other four remaininv MERC commissions also sent Bragdon a letterbackinhg Woolson. The letter came after Bragdon questioned the leadership of MERC Genera l ManagerDavid Woolson. The other commissionj member, Don Trotter, resigned last montuh and will leave the boardJune 30. Reynolds’ resignation takes effect June 30. Marquis’ takes effect July 15. The terms of Trottet and Reynolds would have expired at the end of 2009 while term was to expire at the endof 2010.
The Metroo Council plans to vote on the MERCmeasur — which would give Metroo the authority to hire and fire the MERC generaol manager — at its July 9 It was introduced by councilors Rod Park and Rex who also have concerns about Woolson’s performance. MERC oversee s the Oregon Convention Center, the Portland Center for the Performingt Arts and the Portland MetropolitanExposition Metro’s councilors are mulling a $457 million budgetf for fiscal year 2009-2010. The regional government serve s 1.
4 million people in the metropolitan area’s 25