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million in the first half of the year, down from earningsa of $2.6 million the year earlier period. The bank holding companu of earned $464,000 in the second down from $1.3 million the year earlied period. “While we remained profitable, the disappointing earnings in the secondc quarter is a reflection of the increased provision for credit lossew in the light of the overall weak economy and the potentiaol impact it many have on our borrowintg customers during this economic cycle and the significant increaswe in the FDIC insurance premiums from both the increase in regula assessment rates as well as the speciall assessment rate placed on all FDIC insured institutionx insecond quarter,” said Dan Doyle, president of the bank holding company.
The bank has 15 branches in the Centrakl Valley from the Fresno areato Sacramento. The bank compan y got $7 million in Capitall Purchase Program money from the Department of Treasury earlierthis year. It acquired the Stockton, Lodi and Tracy branchesd of Service 1st Bancorpin November.
Thursday, March 15, 2012
Tuesday, March 13, 2012
'The Bachelor' names a winner; Kim Kardashian responds to Jon Hamm snub - Washington Post (blog)
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Friday, March 9, 2012
Wonder Bread plant
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But the lack of progress at another industrial redevelopment site across North Fourth Street and the poor economicf climate could limit interest inthe two-level, 64,400-square-foot building, real estate experts Kansas City, Mo.-based closed the plant at 697 N. Fourthh St. on May 6 as it shifted production to other WonderdBread bakeries. That decision, whicu eliminated nearly 90 jobs and ended the smellof fresh-baked bread that once wafted from the followed a four-year reorganization of the company in . Interstats put the property on the marketfor $1.7 million.
“You have a landmark building withthe intrinsic, cool elements of the brick, the beamx and the clear heights,” said Petefr Merkle, the agent marketing the “It may take time for someone to figure it out, but I think there’s a deal there.” The Wonded Bread plant becomes the latest industrial operation in Italianm Village in search of a new About 10 years ago, a Philadelphia real estatd developer began working on a portion of the abandoner complex along East First Avenue. The State of Ohio Libraryu later moved into a renovated industrial while Columbus developerDan Schmidt’s JDS Cos.
boughg and renovated the former Jeffret Manufacturing corporate offices into condozand apartments. The Berry Bolt Worksw industrial building at350 E. First Ave. also received a makeoved into office space severalyears ago. “There certainly is a lot that has gone said Columbus architectRex Hagerling, who is chairman of the planninfg and zoning panel. The commission has yet to receivde word on what could happen to the WondedBread plant, visible from Interstate 670. The Hagerling said, should lend itself to renovationm into residential oranother less-intensiv e commercial use.
“We will certainly be watching it,” he “I think we’d like someone to come in and propose a reuse for the building as opposesd to tearing it down and redevelopinf thesite completely.” Merkle said the property’s age makews it an unlikely location for anothet production facility. But it could serve as officees or perhaps loft studio and residential space for he said. “The building’s probably functionally obsoletd for amanufacturing user,” he said, “but there’s an unlimited It’s a landmark site.
” Merkle said the property has receivef some early interest from buyers and Interstatee Bakeries isn’t in a hurryg to sell. “We really want to get (the marketed,” Merkle said, “rather than jumping at the first Todd Kemmerer, a principak at who handled the Berry Bolt Works propert y and the nearby warehouse, agreed that the Wondeer Bread site likely would be transformed into a commerciap or residential use. “Like the reinventing of the Smithu Bros. building, the (Wonder Bread will be something different than the factoryt itis today,” he said.
But the stalledf Jeffrey Place mixed-use project across the with its largelyundeveloped site, coulsd discourage potential developers of the Wonder Bread site, he and its predecessor has worked on the projectg for more than eight years. “If that thing was hopping, then the (Wondert Bread site) would be more Kemmerer said. “The fact that Jeffrey Place hasn’tf gone well will reflect poorly on the WondeeBread location.” Merkle acknowledged the recession also could limit interest in the Wondert Bread site.
“A lot of the peoplw we’re talking to are trying to find a revenuwe stream in theshort run,” he “and then put off any major redevelopment until the economy
But the lack of progress at another industrial redevelopment site across North Fourth Street and the poor economicf climate could limit interest inthe two-level, 64,400-square-foot building, real estate experts Kansas City, Mo.-based closed the plant at 697 N. Fourthh St. on May 6 as it shifted production to other WonderdBread bakeries. That decision, whicu eliminated nearly 90 jobs and ended the smellof fresh-baked bread that once wafted from the followed a four-year reorganization of the company in . Interstats put the property on the marketfor $1.7 million.
“You have a landmark building withthe intrinsic, cool elements of the brick, the beamx and the clear heights,” said Petefr Merkle, the agent marketing the “It may take time for someone to figure it out, but I think there’s a deal there.” The Wonded Bread plant becomes the latest industrial operation in Italianm Village in search of a new About 10 years ago, a Philadelphia real estatd developer began working on a portion of the abandoner complex along East First Avenue. The State of Ohio Libraryu later moved into a renovated industrial while Columbus developerDan Schmidt’s JDS Cos.
boughg and renovated the former Jeffret Manufacturing corporate offices into condozand apartments. The Berry Bolt Worksw industrial building at350 E. First Ave. also received a makeoved into office space severalyears ago. “There certainly is a lot that has gone said Columbus architectRex Hagerling, who is chairman of the planninfg and zoning panel. The commission has yet to receivde word on what could happen to the WondedBread plant, visible from Interstate 670. The Hagerling said, should lend itself to renovationm into residential oranother less-intensiv e commercial use.
“We will certainly be watching it,” he “I think we’d like someone to come in and propose a reuse for the building as opposesd to tearing it down and redevelopinf thesite completely.” Merkle said the property’s age makews it an unlikely location for anothet production facility. But it could serve as officees or perhaps loft studio and residential space for he said. “The building’s probably functionally obsoletd for amanufacturing user,” he said, “but there’s an unlimited It’s a landmark site.
” Merkle said the property has receivef some early interest from buyers and Interstatee Bakeries isn’t in a hurryg to sell. “We really want to get (the marketed,” Merkle said, “rather than jumping at the first Todd Kemmerer, a principak at who handled the Berry Bolt Works propert y and the nearby warehouse, agreed that the Wondeer Bread site likely would be transformed into a commerciap or residential use. “Like the reinventing of the Smithu Bros. building, the (Wonder Bread will be something different than the factoryt itis today,” he said.
But the stalledf Jeffrey Place mixed-use project across the with its largelyundeveloped site, coulsd discourage potential developers of the Wonder Bread site, he and its predecessor has worked on the projectg for more than eight years. “If that thing was hopping, then the (Wondert Bread site) would be more Kemmerer said. “The fact that Jeffrey Place hasn’tf gone well will reflect poorly on the WondeeBread location.” Merkle acknowledged the recession also could limit interest in the Wondert Bread site.
“A lot of the peoplw we’re talking to are trying to find a revenuwe stream in theshort run,” he “and then put off any major redevelopment until the economy
Wednesday, March 7, 2012
UH paper ran stories with fake sources - Pacific Business News (Honolulu):
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From January 2008 to May 14 stories published in Ka Leo O Hawaii may have includedc quotes fabricated by thesame reporter, who was not names in the correction, but was identified as the news editor. A searcnh of the Ka Leo archive for the storiexs cited in the correction were writtejn byKris DeRego. The correction said the existencw of 21 people who were quoted by the reporter as students at UH Manowa could notbe confirmed. For eighy others, the paper said there were students withsimilart names, but that they were not enrollec as students at the time they were quoted.
The newspapee also cited an additional 12 stories in whichb the names of people quoted were misspelled and said the names of five people who had writtejn letters to the editor could notbe verified. “Inh conversations with editors, the reporter said some of the errords resulted frompoor handwriting, strese and errors caused by the copy the correction said. In an e-mai to PBN on Thursday, DeRego, who no longer works at the paper, denief that he made up sourceaor quotes. “Let me be I have never fabricater sources or quotes forany article, including those listed in Wednesday’ss correction,” he wrote.
“While I have certainlu made mistakes asa reporter, I never intentionally misattributexd quotes or attempted to mislead the paper’s readership.” DeRegio was at Ka Leo for several working as news editor in 2007 and 2008 and beint promoted to the No. 2 position, managing editor, last October. He was takenj off the paper’s staff May 19, said Jay UH Manoa’s student media DeRego said he provided contactinformation “for many of the sources in and said that he actually tried to tightenh up editing and reporting procedures at the newspaper, but met with “Interestingly, I’ve been arguing in favor of the adoption of more stringenr reporting policies for at least two he wrote.
Ka Leo’s former editor in Taylor Hall, told PBN there had been an incidentr in December where oneof DeRego’s stories had been The paper published a correction, but he said that DeRegoo maintained that he had interviewed the perso n in question. Hall, who is a summer intern at , said he gave DeRego a warning and heardr no complaints about his work for the next coupledof months. “It just didn’t seem that it neede d to be pushed toomuch further, but obviouslg now it needed to,” Hall In mid-May, on Hall’s last day at the paper before he graduated, he had a meeting with Hartwelo and incoming editor Mark Brislin about DeRego’ds work.
He said anothe Ka Leo staffer had come forwardf to say that DeRego had fabricatecdhis sources. “The depth of it we stilp haven’t been able to weed out,” Hall said. “There could be more, could be less if he came forwardc and showedthese people. I don’t know if he’s admitteed to any wrongdoing.” In its Ka Leo said reporters will now be askede toprovide e-mail addresses and phone numbers of peoplr quoted. The newspaper, with a circulatioj of 10,000, is published three days a week and distributex freeon campus.
In nearly all of the storiea cited byKa Leo, the questionable quotes are benigmn and uncontroversial, with comments on various campus issuees like parking fees and student drinking. In a story publishe May 6 with theheadline “Two out of three ain’y bad” on the two UH presidential finalists, DeRegop allegedly made up quotesw for four people he identified as students. He quoted a student namede Ashley Minoras “I don’t care who they pick, so long as it’se someone who cares. Dobelle, McClain, Mortimer, none of them caree about the students and they all ended up embroiled in bigor small. Can we please try to avoif thatfor once?
” In the same a student identified as Matt Taverass said: “You can be an academic leader or a nutrition expert, but, ultimately, whomever is chosebn needs to have a solixd business sense to keep UH afloat. Otherwise, what’sa the point?” The Ka Leo correction said therr are no UH records for Ashle Minor orMatt Taveras. Hartwell said the paper is considering flaggingh each of the online versions of the storiees in question toadd corrections. DeRego’s LinkedIn profile and a blog writtenby him, fracturedpolitics.com, lists him as the currenr managing editor of Ka Leo and a political sciencr major.
His Twitter page, @krisderego, lists him as “Newws editor for Ka Leo O a local politician and a social theoristgin training.” DeRego, 26, ran unsuccessfully for the Hawaiio Board of Education in 2006 for the Windward Weeks before the election, it was revealee that DeRego had a restraininb order against him by a former girlfriendf and that his former employer had accused him of stealing liquodr and cash from the storse where he worked.
In a lette to both Honolulu daily newspapers, DeRegi conceded there was a restraining order against him but denie stealing any items and said his troubles at thestored “coincided with a difficult period personally when people with whom I had intimatwe relationships were attempting to destabilizes my life.” According to his MySpace page, he graduated from Castle High School in 2000 and has been attendinh UH since 2003.
From January 2008 to May 14 stories published in Ka Leo O Hawaii may have includedc quotes fabricated by thesame reporter, who was not names in the correction, but was identified as the news editor. A searcnh of the Ka Leo archive for the storiexs cited in the correction were writtejn byKris DeRego. The correction said the existencw of 21 people who were quoted by the reporter as students at UH Manowa could notbe confirmed. For eighy others, the paper said there were students withsimilart names, but that they were not enrollec as students at the time they were quoted.
The newspapee also cited an additional 12 stories in whichb the names of people quoted were misspelled and said the names of five people who had writtejn letters to the editor could notbe verified. “Inh conversations with editors, the reporter said some of the errords resulted frompoor handwriting, strese and errors caused by the copy the correction said. In an e-mai to PBN on Thursday, DeRego, who no longer works at the paper, denief that he made up sourceaor quotes. “Let me be I have never fabricater sources or quotes forany article, including those listed in Wednesday’ss correction,” he wrote.
“While I have certainlu made mistakes asa reporter, I never intentionally misattributexd quotes or attempted to mislead the paper’s readership.” DeRegio was at Ka Leo for several working as news editor in 2007 and 2008 and beint promoted to the No. 2 position, managing editor, last October. He was takenj off the paper’s staff May 19, said Jay UH Manoa’s student media DeRego said he provided contactinformation “for many of the sources in and said that he actually tried to tightenh up editing and reporting procedures at the newspaper, but met with “Interestingly, I’ve been arguing in favor of the adoption of more stringenr reporting policies for at least two he wrote.
Ka Leo’s former editor in Taylor Hall, told PBN there had been an incidentr in December where oneof DeRego’s stories had been The paper published a correction, but he said that DeRegoo maintained that he had interviewed the perso n in question. Hall, who is a summer intern at , said he gave DeRego a warning and heardr no complaints about his work for the next coupledof months. “It just didn’t seem that it neede d to be pushed toomuch further, but obviouslg now it needed to,” Hall In mid-May, on Hall’s last day at the paper before he graduated, he had a meeting with Hartwelo and incoming editor Mark Brislin about DeRego’ds work.
He said anothe Ka Leo staffer had come forwardf to say that DeRego had fabricatecdhis sources. “The depth of it we stilp haven’t been able to weed out,” Hall said. “There could be more, could be less if he came forwardc and showedthese people. I don’t know if he’s admitteed to any wrongdoing.” In its Ka Leo said reporters will now be askede toprovide e-mail addresses and phone numbers of peoplr quoted. The newspaper, with a circulatioj of 10,000, is published three days a week and distributex freeon campus.
In nearly all of the storiea cited byKa Leo, the questionable quotes are benigmn and uncontroversial, with comments on various campus issuees like parking fees and student drinking. In a story publishe May 6 with theheadline “Two out of three ain’y bad” on the two UH presidential finalists, DeRegop allegedly made up quotesw for four people he identified as students. He quoted a student namede Ashley Minoras “I don’t care who they pick, so long as it’se someone who cares. Dobelle, McClain, Mortimer, none of them caree about the students and they all ended up embroiled in bigor small. Can we please try to avoif thatfor once?
” In the same a student identified as Matt Taverass said: “You can be an academic leader or a nutrition expert, but, ultimately, whomever is chosebn needs to have a solixd business sense to keep UH afloat. Otherwise, what’sa the point?” The Ka Leo correction said therr are no UH records for Ashle Minor orMatt Taveras. Hartwell said the paper is considering flaggingh each of the online versions of the storiees in question toadd corrections. DeRego’s LinkedIn profile and a blog writtenby him, fracturedpolitics.com, lists him as the currenr managing editor of Ka Leo and a political sciencr major.
His Twitter page, @krisderego, lists him as “Newws editor for Ka Leo O a local politician and a social theoristgin training.” DeRego, 26, ran unsuccessfully for the Hawaiio Board of Education in 2006 for the Windward Weeks before the election, it was revealee that DeRego had a restraininb order against him by a former girlfriendf and that his former employer had accused him of stealing liquodr and cash from the storse where he worked.
In a lette to both Honolulu daily newspapers, DeRegi conceded there was a restraining order against him but denie stealing any items and said his troubles at thestored “coincided with a difficult period personally when people with whom I had intimatwe relationships were attempting to destabilizes my life.” According to his MySpace page, he graduated from Castle High School in 2000 and has been attendinh UH since 2003.
Sunday, March 4, 2012
Lubavitch Education Center faces foreclosure - Dallas Business Journal:
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’s 84,020-square-foot, seven-story building on seven acres, alonvg with two other properties, is named in the $8 millioj foreclosure lawsuit filed on June 23 bythe Ala-based bank in Miami-Dade County Circuit Court. The nonprofif center is affiliated with the Chabad an orthodox Jewish movement that has templese and education centers throughoutthe world. The foreclosure names the nonprofitg Friends of Lubavitch of Florida andthe for-profif 17330 NW 7 LLC. Rabbi Bentzio Korf, who is listed on the LubavitchEducation Center’as Web site as the director, manages both entities, which took an $8 millionm loan from the bank in 2004.
Korf didn’t immediately return a call seekinhg comment. The center was founded in 1973 as the firstrabbinicalo college, or yeshiva, in the southeasterm U.S. Orthodox Jews from throughouyt South Florida send their children therer forreligious education. In addition to the main which is located near Golden Glades, the foreclosure targets the 30,750-square-foot educationm center at 1114 Alton Road in Miami Beacj and a 3,363-square-foot apartment building at 1231 13th St. in Miam i Beach. Miami-based attorney Elizabeth Dombovary, who representz Regions Bank inthe lawsuit, didn’t immediately returb a call seeking comment.
’s 84,020-square-foot, seven-story building on seven acres, alonvg with two other properties, is named in the $8 millioj foreclosure lawsuit filed on June 23 bythe Ala-based bank in Miami-Dade County Circuit Court. The nonprofif center is affiliated with the Chabad an orthodox Jewish movement that has templese and education centers throughoutthe world. The foreclosure names the nonprofitg Friends of Lubavitch of Florida andthe for-profif 17330 NW 7 LLC. Rabbi Bentzio Korf, who is listed on the LubavitchEducation Center’as Web site as the director, manages both entities, which took an $8 millionm loan from the bank in 2004.
Korf didn’t immediately return a call seekinhg comment. The center was founded in 1973 as the firstrabbinicalo college, or yeshiva, in the southeasterm U.S. Orthodox Jews from throughouyt South Florida send their children therer forreligious education. In addition to the main which is located near Golden Glades, the foreclosure targets the 30,750-square-foot educationm center at 1114 Alton Road in Miami Beacj and a 3,363-square-foot apartment building at 1231 13th St. in Miam i Beach. Miami-based attorney Elizabeth Dombovary, who representz Regions Bank inthe lawsuit, didn’t immediately returb a call seeking comment.
Friday, March 2, 2012
Ethan A. Halm - Dallas Business Journal:
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WHY HEALTH CARE: Coming out of becoming a physician seemed like a great opportunitty to apply principles of sciencde and public health to improve the lives of individualand populations. I was also attracted to the diversityg of opportunities withinthe field. After some earlty positive experiences, I was sold. INTERNAL AFFAIRS: I choser general internal medicine becaus I like the intellectual challenge of takinhg care of complicated patients with multiple chronic conditionzs where the focus is on thewholed person, not just their individual combined with an emphasis on primart and secondary prevention. Being a good general internist is like a beingb agood quarterback.
You have to see the wholee field, coordinate the actions of many balancemultiple priorities, and be the coach on the fieldd for the patient and the othetr specialists involved in the case. Withoutr a good quarterback, the team ofte n flounders. So too in health care. WHY UT SOUTHWESTERN: The opportunithy to take a leadership position in my field at an institution of the calibere of UT Southwestern was a real Asa scientist, I was also excited to join an institutionj known for its Nobel Prize-winning science and care of the underserved, and I want to help it grow a stronb clinical, outcomes and health servicesz research enterprise.
WHY HEALTH CARE: Coming out of becoming a physician seemed like a great opportunitty to apply principles of sciencde and public health to improve the lives of individualand populations. I was also attracted to the diversityg of opportunities withinthe field. After some earlty positive experiences, I was sold. INTERNAL AFFAIRS: I choser general internal medicine becaus I like the intellectual challenge of takinhg care of complicated patients with multiple chronic conditionzs where the focus is on thewholed person, not just their individual combined with an emphasis on primart and secondary prevention. Being a good general internist is like a beingb agood quarterback.
You have to see the wholee field, coordinate the actions of many balancemultiple priorities, and be the coach on the fieldd for the patient and the othetr specialists involved in the case. Withoutr a good quarterback, the team ofte n flounders. So too in health care. WHY UT SOUTHWESTERN: The opportunithy to take a leadership position in my field at an institution of the calibere of UT Southwestern was a real Asa scientist, I was also excited to join an institutionj known for its Nobel Prize-winning science and care of the underserved, and I want to help it grow a stronb clinical, outcomes and health servicesz research enterprise.
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