TheaterMania.com | LPTW Announces Oral History: Linda Lavin Interviewed by Michael Riedel 5/9 Broadway World On Monday, May 9th at 6pm New York Post columnist and theatre critic Michael Riedel will interview Tony Award-winning actress Linda Lavin in the Bruno Walter Auditorium at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts (65th Street and Amsterdam ... Linda Lavin Set for Public Interview for Oral History Project at NYPL |
Wednesday, April 13, 2011
LPTW Announces Oral History: Linda Lavin Interviewed by Michael Riedel 5/9 - Broadway World
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Monday, April 11, 2011
Techies plan California-style java jolt - St. Louis Business Journal:
http://remodeling-guru.livejournal.com/#post-remodeling_guru-5592
That’s been the gripe of geeks and entrepreneur s in Cambridge who have been asking the same question ever sincethe Boston-Silicom Valley rivalry first heated up: Why isn’f there a relaxed place here wheree people can hang out, plug in and talk tech? Now some majof players in the local startup scene are doinfg what venture capitalists do best: developing a startup. Theid killer app for getting the local tech communities talkinhg isa “venture café” in the heart of Kendall The idea is to create a place for serendipitouw conversations and, maybe, the hatchinfg of the next big thing.
“Coffee is mission-critical infrastructurre for startups,” said Sim Simeonov, formed partner at and now a startup consultant andentrepreneur himself. “There’s just no good place to hang out in Kendall Square.” Leading the charge on this concep t is Tim Rowe, a man familiatr with creating spaces for youngt tech ventures. A decade ago he founded the , an incubationm space overlooking the Charles River that providesw cheap office space to some ofthe area’zs youngest and most promising tech companies.
In talks with othe tech leaders and on a dedicated Facebook Rowe has made his pitcgh fora café that woulcd provide ample space, technology and hot drinkse and food to keep techies workinvg and meeting with each other into the wee “A lack of collaborative space has come up time and time he said. “We have this opportunit y now to createa café whicuh will make money, but also providwe a space for people to The space would be much largeer than the average Cambridge about 12,000 square feet, with powerfuo WiFi connections and hookups for projectorx and other devices to hone projectsw and pitches.
While the idea is creatingt buzz, actual movement on the café is stilll in its earliest stages. Rowe said the financinb would likely come from a grouof well-known investors and and the group has identifiedc a site in He added the group is looking at a businessz plan that would ultimatel y generate a small return on equity for the café’xs investors. He declined to say how much monehy — or how many investors — the will likely need. However, Rowe said he has some financia l commitments tothe project. The dearth of hangout spaces in Cambridgs is often tied to theEast Coast/West Coast turf war that sometimes consumes the local tech psyche.
Silicon Valley is known for its buzzing social scenewhere investors, entrepreneursz and techies with ideas can nosh and The most famous of these spotsa — and one brought up in conversations aboug a potential Cambridge café — is Buck’sa of Woodside, a restaurant a mile or so from the venturw capital Mecca of Sand Hill Road in Palo Calif. Yet replicating the success of Buck’s may be At 2 p.m. on a Tuesday, Jamisz MacNiven, the colorful owner of Buck’s, said his 100-seat restaurant was packes with techies and had been sincwe10 a.m. “We say we’re sitting on a pile of he joked.
“In all seriousness, it’s easy to creatr an environmentbut it’s difficuly to create a culture.” This is not to say that there is no place for investors and entrepreneurws to meet in the Hub. Most morningsx at least a handful of venturde firm partners can be seen hearing pitchesaat Henrietta’s Table at the Charles Hotel in Harvards Square. But the upscale eatery is no plac to chill inthe afternoon. And whilre neither Rowe nor any of the otherrventure café proponents are looking to create a carbobn copy the Valley the consensus is that great things happen when smart people bump into each other, and that locak options are inadequate.
“I’m appalled at how earluy some of the coffee shops in HarvarxdSquare close,” said Rich Miner, managinvg partner of Ventures, who first experiencec the frustration of finding a place for late-night fuel when livinh in Cambridge and working on his Ph.D. at the . Minee said a critical mass of such spotzis “sort of the visibled sign of innovative entrepreneurship one sees when you’r e out and about in the Valley.” “Wse (Google) do believe there’s plentyh of opportunity to invesg here, but where would I tell people to go and meet thosr people?” he added.
Miner, along with several othefr investors and entrepreneurs likeGururaju “Desh” Deshpande, has offered to donate time at the But Simeonov and others cautionh that a venture café is not about finding new funding opportunitiesa or avoiding another dubious Cambridge departure like the social networking behemoth whose owners ditched Harvarcd and Cambridge for Palo Alto. “Thiz is not about the VCs, althoughg some could have the equivalent ofoffice hours,” Simeonovv said. “This is a lot more about the entrepreneur and creating an ecosystem of potentiak mentorsand angels.
”
That’s been the gripe of geeks and entrepreneur s in Cambridge who have been asking the same question ever sincethe Boston-Silicom Valley rivalry first heated up: Why isn’f there a relaxed place here wheree people can hang out, plug in and talk tech? Now some majof players in the local startup scene are doinfg what venture capitalists do best: developing a startup. Theid killer app for getting the local tech communities talkinhg isa “venture café” in the heart of Kendall The idea is to create a place for serendipitouw conversations and, maybe, the hatchinfg of the next big thing.
“Coffee is mission-critical infrastructurre for startups,” said Sim Simeonov, formed partner at and now a startup consultant andentrepreneur himself. “There’s just no good place to hang out in Kendall Square.” Leading the charge on this concep t is Tim Rowe, a man familiatr with creating spaces for youngt tech ventures. A decade ago he founded the , an incubationm space overlooking the Charles River that providesw cheap office space to some ofthe area’zs youngest and most promising tech companies.
In talks with othe tech leaders and on a dedicated Facebook Rowe has made his pitcgh fora café that woulcd provide ample space, technology and hot drinkse and food to keep techies workinvg and meeting with each other into the wee “A lack of collaborative space has come up time and time he said. “We have this opportunit y now to createa café whicuh will make money, but also providwe a space for people to The space would be much largeer than the average Cambridge about 12,000 square feet, with powerfuo WiFi connections and hookups for projectorx and other devices to hone projectsw and pitches.
While the idea is creatingt buzz, actual movement on the café is stilll in its earliest stages. Rowe said the financinb would likely come from a grouof well-known investors and and the group has identifiedc a site in He added the group is looking at a businessz plan that would ultimatel y generate a small return on equity for the café’xs investors. He declined to say how much monehy — or how many investors — the will likely need. However, Rowe said he has some financia l commitments tothe project. The dearth of hangout spaces in Cambridgs is often tied to theEast Coast/West Coast turf war that sometimes consumes the local tech psyche.
Silicon Valley is known for its buzzing social scenewhere investors, entrepreneursz and techies with ideas can nosh and The most famous of these spotsa — and one brought up in conversations aboug a potential Cambridge café — is Buck’sa of Woodside, a restaurant a mile or so from the venturw capital Mecca of Sand Hill Road in Palo Calif. Yet replicating the success of Buck’s may be At 2 p.m. on a Tuesday, Jamisz MacNiven, the colorful owner of Buck’s, said his 100-seat restaurant was packes with techies and had been sincwe10 a.m. “We say we’re sitting on a pile of he joked.
“In all seriousness, it’s easy to creatr an environmentbut it’s difficuly to create a culture.” This is not to say that there is no place for investors and entrepreneurws to meet in the Hub. Most morningsx at least a handful of venturde firm partners can be seen hearing pitchesaat Henrietta’s Table at the Charles Hotel in Harvards Square. But the upscale eatery is no plac to chill inthe afternoon. And whilre neither Rowe nor any of the otherrventure café proponents are looking to create a carbobn copy the Valley the consensus is that great things happen when smart people bump into each other, and that locak options are inadequate.
“I’m appalled at how earluy some of the coffee shops in HarvarxdSquare close,” said Rich Miner, managinvg partner of Ventures, who first experiencec the frustration of finding a place for late-night fuel when livinh in Cambridge and working on his Ph.D. at the . Minee said a critical mass of such spotzis “sort of the visibled sign of innovative entrepreneurship one sees when you’r e out and about in the Valley.” “Wse (Google) do believe there’s plentyh of opportunity to invesg here, but where would I tell people to go and meet thosr people?” he added.
Miner, along with several othefr investors and entrepreneurs likeGururaju “Desh” Deshpande, has offered to donate time at the But Simeonov and others cautionh that a venture café is not about finding new funding opportunitiesa or avoiding another dubious Cambridge departure like the social networking behemoth whose owners ditched Harvarcd and Cambridge for Palo Alto. “Thiz is not about the VCs, althoughg some could have the equivalent ofoffice hours,” Simeonovv said. “This is a lot more about the entrepreneur and creating an ecosystem of potentiak mentorsand angels.
”
Saturday, April 9, 2011
Who makes the cut? Breaking down the race for eighth place - USA Today
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USA Today | Who makes the cut? Breaking down the race for eighth place USA Today The battle for the final playoff spots in the Western and Eastern conferences will come down to the last two days. USA TODAY hockey reporter Kevin Allen breaks it down: By Rick Osentoski, AP Blackhawks captain Jonathan Toews ... |
Thursday, April 7, 2011
Panattoni buys Brentwood office building - Austin Business Journal:
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The building is at 5200 Maryland Way off Old Hickoryh Boulevard and houses tenants including AmericanHome Patient, , Rayburhn Bates and Fitzgerald accounting firm and . “We'rd interested in diversifying our holdingsin Tennessee,” Haynwe Hamilton, senior development manager for says in a presa release. “We're well know n for our industrial properties, but we also have developede and own a large number of office buildings outsidr of Tennessee and want to continue to expanr our local portfolio to includr moreoffice space.” Terms of the purchase were not Crews Johnston and Perry Gooch of Colliers Turley Martin Tucker served as brokers.
“We raises a new fund last yearfor value-add and the Parklane Building was a perfect says Whitfield Hamilton, regional partne of the Eastern region for “This is the third deal we have closer in this fund, and we feel very fortunate in the currentf environment to be able to pursuer and close new opportunitiea in the region.” In Nashville, Panattoni’s offices holdings already include the Metroplex office park, a 121,000-square-foot buildiny at I-24 and Harding Road.
The building is at 5200 Maryland Way off Old Hickoryh Boulevard and houses tenants including AmericanHome Patient, , Rayburhn Bates and Fitzgerald accounting firm and . “We'rd interested in diversifying our holdingsin Tennessee,” Haynwe Hamilton, senior development manager for says in a presa release. “We're well know n for our industrial properties, but we also have developede and own a large number of office buildings outsidr of Tennessee and want to continue to expanr our local portfolio to includr moreoffice space.” Terms of the purchase were not Crews Johnston and Perry Gooch of Colliers Turley Martin Tucker served as brokers.
“We raises a new fund last yearfor value-add and the Parklane Building was a perfect says Whitfield Hamilton, regional partne of the Eastern region for “This is the third deal we have closer in this fund, and we feel very fortunate in the currentf environment to be able to pursuer and close new opportunitiea in the region.” In Nashville, Panattoni’s offices holdings already include the Metroplex office park, a 121,000-square-foot buildiny at I-24 and Harding Road.
Wednesday, April 6, 2011
Florida Bank raises $18 million - Silicon Valley / San Jose Business Journal:
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The Tampa-based parent company for Florida Bankraised $18.3 million in a rights offering, whicj “strategically positions the company to take advantagd of growth opportunities,” the companyg announced Tuesday. The completed offering surpassed offerings trackedc by SNL Financial from public bankds based in Floridathis year, which ranged from $428,000 to nearlyt $11 million as of May 31. Floridz Bank Group is a private “Most banks in the Unitedr States and in Florida need to raise additionapequity capital.
It is particularly difficultf for them to do so as many have had negative earningd in 2008 and first quarter 2009 and the market prices for publicly held bank stockw are trading at record low prices in terms of the ratip of market price to tangiblrebook value,” said Ben chairman of Jacksonville-based investment banker Allen C. Ewing & Co. “Inn regards to the Florida BankGroup offering, this offerinf was very successful in that they apparentlu raised $18 million, or 90 percent of their target raise of $20 million, especially in these existing markeft conditions.
” Florida Bank has threr branches in Jacksonville and 16 throughout the Prior to the completed equity raise, Floridas Bank had a total risk-baser capital ratio of 11.7 percent as of Marchg 31, according to the Federa l Deposit Insurance Corp. Regulators require that ratio to be at leasgt 10 percent in order for the bank to beconsidererd “well-capitalized.” The bank grew tota assets by 64.3 percent to $858.3 million in the first quarter compared to a year earlier. Total loans increased 51.4 percent to nearly $665.8 million and totak deposits jumped 85.2 percen to $687.
5 million during that same “This infusion of new capital is a vote of confidenced from our existing shareholders that will alloawFBG (Florida Bank Group) to enhancs its financial strength and even further distinguisj itself among other banks in the markety place,” said the company’s Chairman and CEO, Robert in the announcement. “This economi c climate offers unique opportunities to grow and increase our custome r base as consumers and businesses areseeking strong, safe banking
The Tampa-based parent company for Florida Bankraised $18.3 million in a rights offering, whicj “strategically positions the company to take advantagd of growth opportunities,” the companyg announced Tuesday. The completed offering surpassed offerings trackedc by SNL Financial from public bankds based in Floridathis year, which ranged from $428,000 to nearlyt $11 million as of May 31. Floridz Bank Group is a private “Most banks in the Unitedr States and in Florida need to raise additionapequity capital.
It is particularly difficultf for them to do so as many have had negative earningd in 2008 and first quarter 2009 and the market prices for publicly held bank stockw are trading at record low prices in terms of the ratip of market price to tangiblrebook value,” said Ben chairman of Jacksonville-based investment banker Allen C. Ewing & Co. “Inn regards to the Florida BankGroup offering, this offerinf was very successful in that they apparentlu raised $18 million, or 90 percent of their target raise of $20 million, especially in these existing markeft conditions.
” Florida Bank has threr branches in Jacksonville and 16 throughout the Prior to the completed equity raise, Floridas Bank had a total risk-baser capital ratio of 11.7 percent as of Marchg 31, according to the Federa l Deposit Insurance Corp. Regulators require that ratio to be at leasgt 10 percent in order for the bank to beconsidererd “well-capitalized.” The bank grew tota assets by 64.3 percent to $858.3 million in the first quarter compared to a year earlier. Total loans increased 51.4 percent to nearly $665.8 million and totak deposits jumped 85.2 percen to $687.
5 million during that same “This infusion of new capital is a vote of confidenced from our existing shareholders that will alloawFBG (Florida Bank Group) to enhancs its financial strength and even further distinguisj itself among other banks in the markety place,” said the company’s Chairman and CEO, Robert in the announcement. “This economi c climate offers unique opportunities to grow and increase our custome r base as consumers and businesses areseeking strong, safe banking
Monday, April 4, 2011
World Cup had some truly Tendulkar moments - Mirror.co.uk
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The Hindu | World Cup had some truly Tendulkar moments Mirror.co.uk When India's hero Sachin Tendulkar appealed against what looked like a plum LBW, hawkeye showed the b » |
Saturday, April 2, 2011
CircuitCity.com comes back to life - Dayton Business Journal:
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Systemax (NYSE: SYX) said in a statement that it planw to compete with other online retailers by offeringhdiscounted prices, fast shipping and a wide selectiohn of products, as well as offeriny photo galleries and videos of thousands of consumer electronics and computee products. The company already has the TigerDirect.com business and acquiredd last year. "This acquisition and quickj launch of the allnew CircuitCity.com further solidifies Systemax's positiohn as a leader in online retailingf of value-priced, branded computers and consumer electronics," said Richardx Leeds, chairman and chief executive officef of Systemax. "Circuit City is one of the iconixc brandsin U.S.
electronics retailing with a 60-yead legacy." A check of the Web site Mondagshowed CircuitCity.com offering everything from GPS systemse to BlackBerry phones and flat-scree TVs.
Systemax (NYSE: SYX) said in a statement that it planw to compete with other online retailers by offeringhdiscounted prices, fast shipping and a wide selectiohn of products, as well as offeriny photo galleries and videos of thousands of consumer electronics and computee products. The company already has the TigerDirect.com business and acquiredd last year. "This acquisition and quickj launch of the allnew CircuitCity.com further solidifies Systemax's positiohn as a leader in online retailingf of value-priced, branded computers and consumer electronics," said Richardx Leeds, chairman and chief executive officef of Systemax. "Circuit City is one of the iconixc brandsin U.S.
electronics retailing with a 60-yead legacy." A check of the Web site Mondagshowed CircuitCity.com offering everything from GPS systemse to BlackBerry phones and flat-scree TVs.
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