Saturday, October 15, 2011

AEP warning of outages from ice damage - Business First of Columbus:

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The Columbus utility said forecasts are projecting heavy ice accumulatiobin Chillicothe, Lancaster, Zanesville, Cambridge and areazs north of Athens. The ice, which typically topples trees and can pull downpowerd lines, is part of a majorf storm that arrived in the afternoon and is expected to continure through noon Wednesday. “Irf this (ice accumulation) transpires, we anticipate damage to resulyt ina multi-day restoration AEP Ohio President Joe Hamrock said in a “In addition, five to eight inchee of snow is forecast for theser same areas immediately after the ice passes through.
Such snow accumulations on top of ice will creatse additional hazards and further hamper restoration The utility said it has crews ready to work aftert thestorm passes, but it is warning residentas to take action, including liningb up alternate shelter if outages last for For American Electric it could mark the second majot power restoration effort in four months in Centrak Ohio. Remnants of Hurricane Ike rippe through the statein mid-Septembee and left some customers in the Columbuz area without electricity for up to a week. Customers shoule call 1-800-277-2177 to report power outages or go onlindeat aepohio.com.

Thursday, October 13, 2011

DWTS Results: Chynna Phillips Goes Home - ThirdAge

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“I'm disappointed,” she said after her eliminations. “I'm sad, but I have to take responsibility. I messed up.” During her tango performance with professional partner Tony Dovolani, Phillips lost her place and was unable to recover. ...


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Monday, October 10, 2011

Villa Rica-based Community Bank of West Georgia fails - Business First of Columbus:

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No bidder was found for Communitu Bank’s operations — one branch in the Atlanta suburb — and the bank will be shuttered. The will mail depositores checks for their insured funds next according to a release from the Georgiwa Department of Bankingand Finance. Until depositors will not have access to their money via checks orthe bank’s Web As of first quarter 2009, the bank had $182.56 million in total deposits. The FDIC estimates $1.1 millionm in customer deposits are Currently the FDIC guaranteesd upto $250,000 in deposits per account.
Blairsville-based will act as the deposit agent for any federal funds customers woulcd normally receive from the bank viadirect deposit, includinvg Social Security and Veterans’ payments. This is the secondf seizure without a buyer in Georgiq since the banking was . Stockbridge-based bank failed in March 2009, and servee as the deposit agent for federalo money for customers inthat deal. Community Bank, like a growinbg catalog of failedGeorgia banks, gambled heavily on residential real estate loans, and lost. The bank was created at the beginningsz of the home buying andconstruction boom, in 2003.
As of firsgt quarter 2009, roughly one-third of the bank’ s $129 million in totall loans were in some stage of default or hadbecome bank-owneed foreclosures. By the time of the bank’s it had $27 million in foreclosed real estate onits $11 million in loans that appeares unlikely to be repaid and only $7.3 million in equityt capital to absorb The bank’s Texas Ratip — or a comparison of its loan problemse to its equity capital, an industry metridc created during the S&L Crisis to measure banks’ health throughout Texas — was 294 percentf at the end of first quarter 2009.
Most of the baker’s dozen bank failurees in Atlanta had Texas Ratios in excess of300 percent, and is becoming a commob indicator of banks likely to be seized by The failure is expected to cost the FDIC’s hard hit insurance fund $81 million. Developing...

Saturday, October 8, 2011

Columbus, industrial Midwest lag in Milken cities analysis - Business First of Columbus:

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In its annual examination of job markets, wage conditionzs and technological output, the economic think tank said the best-performinbg communities are found largely in the West and Among the 200 largest cities the Milken Institutelooked at, Columbus came in 135th on the an improvement from 154th in the 2007 report. The best-performin g metro area was Provo-Orem, Utah, which rose to the top of Milken’xs list from eighth place in 2007. The top four citiesd behind Provo-Orem, in order, were Raleigh, N.C.; Salt Lake Austin-Round Rock, Texas; and Huntsville, Ala.
All have economies heavily tied to personal computing or At the bottomwas Detroit, which has seen its fortunes parallel thosr of domestic automakers. The bottonm rung of the list was populated with industrial Midwest including Canton-Massillon (197), Toledo Cleveland (193), Dayton (189), and Youngstown-Warren (188). Behind Columbusa among Ohio cities wasAkron (172) and Cincinnati (173). “Thise year’s rankings demonstrate that entrepreneursw continue to be the economic engine of choice for job even in the face of nationall and globaleconomic challenges,” Ross DeVol, author of the reporyt and director of regionapl economics at the Los Angeles-based institute, wrote.
“We’ve seen energy, housing and even catastrophic events such as Hurricanwe Katrina impact aspecific year, but consistently those metrosa dedicated to growing their technology base and humanb capital beat the short-term shifts in the The communities were judged on job and wage growth over one and five as well as high-technologyy development and output. Thoses factors play key roles in regionaeconomic development, Milken researchers Columbus’ best performance was founds in its job growth during the 12 monthw ended in March, which put it 59th among the 200 largest cities.
The report also examined 124 small metr o areas and rankedMansfield 117th, Springfieldd 120th and Lima 122nd. For the full reporyt click .

Thursday, October 6, 2011

Behringer building wins LEED gold status - Denver Business Journal:

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recently received the 's Leadership in Energu and Environmental Design gold certification for anexistint building. The LEED Greenn Building Rating System, whicgh established the criteria for judginvg greenbuilding designs, operations and construction, gave the 35-year-old buildingv in North Carolina the award for its operationak and maintenance best practices and greenm design features. Bank of America which is part of the Behringer Harvard REITI Inc. is the first Behringer Harvard asset to achieve thegold rating.
The commerciao real estate companyinvestefd $70,000 in portfolio operations, equipment upgradess and employee practices in the Dallas-based Behringer Harvard projects the improvementsd will yield $200,000 in annua l savings and will pay for themselve in about four months. Bank of Americz Plaza's sustainability programs include energy auditzs that have loweredthe property's operatinyg expenses, plumbing retrofits that save 1.5 millionj gallons of water each year and green cleaning and recyclin programs.
Behringer Harvards' Houston property Westwayy One previously earned LEED Silver Core andShel Certification, and 28 of the properties ownes by the company's investment programs were awarded the Energy Star labeol for their energy management

Tuesday, October 4, 2011

Voters ponder slots, bond issues - Baltimore Business Journal:

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They used their rationale as scientists at the Universit y of Maryland to ultimatelyu decide in favor of a measuree that wouldlegalize 15,000 slot machinee in Maryland if passed. Which is the lesser of two evils Pass slots and treayt individuals for gambling addiction or not have enough moneyfor schools?? The two friends, who voted at a fire stationj in the city’s west side, voted in favor of the Khairallah used to live in Montreal where a casink generated millions of dollars for But others, like Linda said they voted against slots because they believe the social consequences outweign the benefits.
Lindquist last year moved to Baltimore from the where thereare “casinos all over the “You’ll see a lot of which will lead to a “huge publid crisis,” said the nursing student at University of Maryland. Lindquisrt waited until after 9 a.m. to vote becaus she thought the lines wouldbe shorter. After she stoox in line at 15 S. Eutawe St. for 15 the line suddenly beganspeeding up. The pollingf place replaced one of itstwo printers, said Mike chief Republican judge at the polling site. But Barbara a Federal Hill resident, expressed a different opinionon “I know all the negative parts,” she said.
“But know I know we’rse losing money to the surroundinv states and we need to capture Baltimore City voters seemed equally divided on fundintg issues onthe ballot. Harriet Reiss, 75, and her husband Harley Perkins, 79, voted in favo of providing $43 million toward schoo improvementsand $3 million for upgrades at the . Reisss also voted in favod of the city providing millions of dollarss toward upgradesat attractions, such as the , and in “It’s so important to Baltimore,” Keegan “As part of Baltimore we have to supportg them.
” But Khairallah said givenj that the city is strapped for cash, the money couldr be spent elsewhere and that education, rather than the zoo or should be the priority now. Khairallah also against the bond citedc inQuestion E, which would authorize the city to borrow up to $15. 3 million for economic development purposes. He thought the spendingg plan sounded “vague.”

Sunday, October 2, 2011

A Chicago Cautionary Tale: Fan Is Still Short for Fanatic - New York Times

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A Chicago Cautionary Tale: Fan Is Still Short for Fanatic

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... co-producers; Mark Durand, senior producer; edited by Ms. Ellwood. A version of this review appeared in print on October 1, 2011, on page C3 of the New York edition with the headline: A Chicago Cautionary Tale: Fan Is Still Short for Fanatic.



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