DETROIT LIONS' PLAN FOR MOVING FORWARD: EXPECT THE UNEXPECTED - MLIVE NEWS

At 10 a.m. Tuesday, more than four months' worth of frustration and inactivity will explode. That's the moment the National Football League will fly into action.

With the NFL Players Association agreeing to a settlement today (the first step toward a new collective bargaining agreement), the owners lifted their lockout and league activity will begin.

At 10 a.m., the Detroit Lions will welcome their veterans into the team practice facility for voluntary workouts and also begin work on upgrading their 2011 team. Training camp will open on Thursday.

"We're excited to be back in operation and we're excited to welcome our players back,'' Lions president Tom Lewand said today.

At 10 a.m. Tuesday, the Lions will be allowed to sign their drafted rookies, restructure current contracts and also sign any undrafted free agents. In addition, the Lions can begin negotiating with unrestricted free agents, but can't officially sign them until 6 p.m. Friday.

The situation presents the possibility that a player could agree to terms with one team but then back out to sign with another.

"We've had those kinds of experiences in the rookie free agent market, it happens fairly frequently,'' Lewand said. "They're on the phone with a lot of different clubs, it's a robust situation. At the end of the day, it sorts itself out.''

The Lions are in the market for linebackers and cornerbacks, but there's no telling how active the Lions might be. Lewand, general manager Martin Mayhew and head coach Jim Schwartz have operated under the philosophy that a solid team is built through the draft with just a few holes plugged by free agents.

"We've got a plan that we have laid out for quite some time now, about how we want to build this team and that was a philosophy that we communicated to you a couple of years ago,'' Lewand said. "That philosophy is shared by Martin and Jim and myself and we're going to stick to that philosophy about how you build the nucleus of a team and how we have built the nucleus of this team. We'll add some players to the roster who can help us in areas of need and, obviously, there are still some of those areas where we want to add guys and we'll be strategic in doing that.''

The Lions are going to welcome back a lot of familiar faces on Tuesday, but they realize a lot of time has elapsed since the last time they saw most of them back in January. After meetings and a conditioning test on Thursday, the Lions will hit the practice field for the first time on Friday with just light practices the first two days.

"It's a good opportunity for us to ascertain where we are physically,'' Lewand said. "We have every reason to believe, given the makeup of our team, that guys for the most part are going to be in great shape. We're going to have to be ready to expect the unexpected and see some things that we didn't anticipate when it comes to some guys' physical condition and injuries that might have cropped up that we didn't know about during the course of the off-season. We'll be prepared for those things as well.''

For instance, it was reported that left tackle Jeff Backus suffered a minor chest injury earlier this month. Lewand would not discuss any information he has about Backus; the Lions' policy is not to discuss injuries.

Overall, whether it's the new rules for the cap, free agency or practice, Lewand said the Lions have to be prepared for everything.

"Obviously, things are a little different this year.'' Lewand said. "I shouldn't say a little, they're significantly different and I think the mantra for the next few days is to expect the unexpected and be tremendously comfortable with being uncomfortable. Anybody who can do those things and learn the rules quickly and adapt quickly will be at a competitively advantageous position.''


Source: http://www.mlive.com/lions/index.ssf/2011/07/detroit_lions_plan_for_moving.html




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EARLY PEACHES READY, MOVING FAST - KJCT8 NEWS

PALISADE, Colo -- The Grand Valley's cash crop is beginning to show up at fruit stands and farmers markets around the area. Some varieties of peaches are ready to eat.Sunday, Aloha Organic Fruit had some of their locally grown peaches for sale at the Palisade Farmer's Market.Owner, Steven Sherer says the crops are about ten days behind schedule this year because of the late spring. But he says peaches love the hot days and cool nights we've had in the last few days."The heat is wonderful, it is part of our environment here in Western Colorado. Heat is exactly what throws the juices and the sweetness and the sugar in and out of the peach," Sherer says.He has been selling early peaches for the last couple of weeks. He says he is selling his second variety of early peaches and others will be coming soon. There are numerous types of peaches which mature at different times of the summer. Sherer says the taste and texture may vary slightly but he doesn't consider one type to be better than another.You can check out Aloha's Organic peaches at the farmers markets held at Mesa State College on Fridays, in downtown Fruita on Saturdays or in Palisade on Sundays.You can also stop by their orchard at store located at 3525 G Road in Palisade or call (970) 464-2272 for more information. 


Source: http://www.kjct8.com/news/28652092/detail.html




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ROBBINSVLLE: LAST PHASE OF TOWN - CENTRAL JERSEY NEWS

ROBBINSVILLE — Sharbell’s amended site plan for the construction of two mixed-use buildings that will essentially complete the commercial core of Town Center on the north side of Route 33 has received final Planning Board approval.

   The amended plans call for a three-story building with two floors of office space above ground-level retail stores, as well as another four-story building comprised of 28 residential units above street-level shops.

   The buildings would front Route 33 between Lake Drive and a yet-to-be-built extension of Park Street that will connect to Route 33 near Mack Dinette.

   ”This is, for lack of a better term, pretty much the last phase of the north side of Town Center,” Tom Troy, Sharbell’s senior vice president, told the Planning Board during a two-hour hearing on the application June 23.

   Sharbell’s attorney, Tom Letizia, of Pepper Hamilton LLC, said the original approvals for the seven mixed-use buildings that comprise the commercial core of Town Center allowed the developer to build a total 95,000 square feet of commercial space with 172 loft condominiums/apartments. Twenty-six of the 172 residential units had to be set aside as affordable housing.

   The amended site plan for the two Town Center buildings does not affect the total number of market-rate or affordable-housing units in the project, but “reflects a small 6,900 square-foot increase in commercial (space), which is permitted under the zone,” Mr. Letizia said.

   To date, 125 market-rate condos and 19 affordable housing apartments have been built in Town Center above 55,000 square feet of ground-floor retail shops. The final construction phase will add 21 market-rate condos and seven affordable housing units, bringing the total residential component in the commercial core to 172.

   The four-story mixed-use residential and retail building, referred to as Building F, will have 15,820 square feet of retail space on the ground floor. Building G, the three-story retail/office building located closest to Lake Drive near the Roma Bank headquarters, will have 10,024 square feet of first-floor retail and 20,568 square feet of office space above.

   Mr. Troy said the residential/retail building, could break ground later this year, while the retail/office building could start construction in 2012, depending on market conditions.

   The Park Street extension to Route 33, a 36-foot wide avenue with curbside parking spaces should also be completed in early 2012, he said.

   The Planning Board unanimously approved the amended site plan and granted a variance allowing Building F to have an 18-foot setback from Park Street, instead of the 5-foot maximum setback set by ordinance. The board agreed with the developer that a deeper setback would provide a safer sight-triangle for drivers.

   The two new buildings would have a total 161 parking spaces in a rear lot, with 28 of those spaces restricted for residents’ use only, according to traffic engineer Mark Zelina, of Maser Consulting.

   There would also be 20 spaces of street parking on Park Street, four spaces on Lake Drive and 12 spaces on Route 33, Mr. Zelina said.

   Planning Board members’ expressed concern about whether there was adequate parking for residents, office workers, commercial tenants and their customers in the shared parking lot – an issue in existing mixed-use parking areas in Town Center. Mr. Troy responded that Sharbell had “learned from experience.”

   Adequate parking for retail customers in shared lots will be provided by enforcing a strict parking policy that calls for towing the cars of residents who park their vehicles in the spaces meant for shoppers, instead of the gated area farther away from the building that is designated for residents.

   ”The best way to deal with parking, and we’ve started to learn from experience here, is that you have to really demand that residents use the parking spaces they both own and have been relegated to,” Mr. Troy said.

   Most residents follow the rules and park in the gated areas when the weather is nice, but when it is cold or raining, many condo owners park their cars in the first space they find near the buildings, Mr. Troy said. This creates a “bit of parking pinch” for the stores because shoppers have no place to park, Mr. Troy said.

   ”We are now ... implementing a towing policy in the first two lots out there to force people to follow the rules that they agreed to when they bought their units,” Mr. Troy said, referring to the existing shared parking lots near Commerce Square.

   ”It’s being handled by the homeowners association,” Mr. Troy said. “The management company, at our direction, has engaged the services of a towing company and we’ve notified all the residents that the program will be in effect.”

   There will be no problem identifying which cars belonging to condo owners, because they have previously provided their vehicle descriptions and license plate numbers to the management company in order to obtain parking permits, he said.

   ”We think it will be fairly easily administered,” Mr. Troy said. “I’m not sure it will be fairly well received by the people who have their cars towed, but frankly my hope is that we only have to tow two or three before the message gets out that they have to start playing by the rules,” Mr. Troy said.

   Planning Board member Jim Guididas asked how these parking rules would be enforced once Sharbell completes Town Center.

   ”You’re involved with the homeowners association in putting this into effect,” Mr. Guididas said to Mr. Troy. “What happens in a couple of years when you are no longer involved?”

   Mr. Troy said that because of the way Sharbell structured the homeowners association, the developer would always be the majority entity because it owns all the retail and office space in Town Center as well as all the affordable housing units.

   ”We’ve got a pretty strong hand ... it’s not our first trip to the rodeo,” Mr. Troy said.

   Planning Board member Janet Van Nest observed that most couples probably have more than one car and that it would make more sense to do away with the gated parking area providing one-space per condo owner and open all spaces to everyone. That way, if condo owners parked close to the buildings, the spaces behind gates wouldn’t sit empty while shoppers have no place to park, she said.

   The problem with that idea, Mr. Troy said, is that the residential units in buildings A, B, C, D, and E, have already been sold with a sheltered parking space as part of the purchase price.

   ”Those units when they buy their unit buy their parking space,” Mr. Troy said. “So now I’d have to turn around and un-buy it from them and I’m not sure that they’d want to part with it anyway.”

   Mr. Troy said he was confident parking issues in Town Center could be solved with proper enforcement of existing rules.

 

 

Source: http://centraljersey.com/articles/2011/07/26/the_messenger_press/news/doc4e0b77d1a8312464651181.txt

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SPECIAL REPORT: RECORD NUMBER OF COLLEGE GRADS MOVING BACK HOME

Grand Junction, COLO -- A college degree no longer means you can get a job right out of college. For recent graduates, they are learning this out the hard way. They are also discovering college costs a lot of money.It's actually one of the reasons some Mesa State students are staying closer to home instead of going to a pricier or even out-of-state college. "Transferring to Colorado State University was the original plan, but i stayed (closer to home) because of cost," said recent graduate Lauren Bell.The rising cost of college is also what drove Lauren back under her parent's roof. "It just added and added and added," Bell said. "My biggest expense was paying rent. I was spending a ridiculous amount of money when I had my home available to me. It's silly to be spending all of this money when there are doors open to me at home."Lauren is not alone. According to a recent poll by Twenty Something Inc., 85% of recent graduates are back home to nest. Surprisingly, this number is up 18% from 2006. "I think it's the recession. I really do," says Bell.For parents on the Western Slope like Lauren's mother Carol, seeing their children deal with limited job prospects is difficult to watch. "You worry about your kids. You want them to be successful. Even though I'm concerned, she is a hard worker, when she gets her foot in the door she'll do well," she said.Lauren tells KJCT News 8 that having supportive parents is a key element to success. She tells us another important piece of the puzzle is making connections. "Networking is everything. I really believe it's who you know. Especially in a town this small."In July 2011, Lauren landed her first job out of college at a marketing firm. Now, she's slowly saving up for her own place. Regardless of where Lauren goes, Carol says she's just happy her daughter is landing on her feet. "I'm proud she went to college and finished in the first place but to have a job on top of it is like a whole new stage in our lives."There could be a silver lining in this otherwise gloomy economy. The National Association of Colleges and Employers say they expect to hire nearly 14% more new graduates this year, than in 2010.Supervisor Gilbert Lujan with the Mesa County Work Force Center says if you want to stand out, you now have to be a package deal. "You need to have the attitude, education; and if you do; the experience to offer whenever you're applying for a position."Lauren tells us now is not the time to be picky since so many others don't have a job. She's hoping the economy will turn around soon, which will give her more opportunities in the future. "Hearing news that the job market is looking up is reassuring." Carol on the other hand is more weary, "I want to see it, coming out of the recession is taking longer than we thought. I'll believe it when i see it."


Source: http://www.kjct8.com/news/28666061/detail.html


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ASIA'S LTE LAUNCHES RISE TO FIVE , WITH OPERATORS MOVING AWAY FROM FLAT-RATES - NEWSBYTES

To date, LTE services have been commercially deployed by five operators in Asia Pacific, including in Hong Kong, Japan, the Philippines, Singapore, and South Korea, according to Ovum telco strategy analyst Nicole McCormick.

South Korean operators SK Telecom and LG U+, the largest and smallest of three operators in the market, are the latest operators to debut LTE services on July 1, 2011.

Like Japan’s NTT DoCoMo, which launched its LTE platform in December 24, 2010, both Korean operators have moved from all-you-can-eat “unlimited” pricing to capped data plans for LTE.

McCormick welcomes moves by operators to abolish unlimited pricing models in the expected video-intensive LTE world.

In an upcoming report, McCormick warned that operators should be careful not to repeat the mistakes of some 3G operators who overburdened their networks due to unlimited pricing.

“While LTE delivers video more efficiently than 3G, operators offering flat rates for LTE could quickly overstretch their LTE networks and find themselves having to invest more than expected to alleviate this congestion,” said McCormick.

Hong Kong operator CSL is offering unlimited data for LTE, but excessive data usage is throttled. In Singapore, M1 is offering free LTE modems to enterprise customers on an existing plan that also has no limit on data usage.

“Big bucket and unlimited pricing dominate LTE offerings across the globe,” added McCormick, whose research analyzed LTE tariffs in nine markets: Sweden, Norway, Finland, Denmark, Germany, Austria, Hong Kong, Japan and, the US.

“LTE – as a ‘new’ service for consumers — offers operators an opportunity to offer new premium pricing schemes,” McCormick commented.

“But in general we were disappointed to find a lack of innovation from these LTE first-mover operators in packaging and pricing LTE tariffs for blue-chip customers.”

Source: http://newsbytes.ph/2011/07/26/asia%E2%80%99s-lte-launches-rise-to-five-with-operators-moving-away-from-flat-rates/

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TRANSLINK MOVING OUT OF BURNABY - DELTA OPTIMIST NEWS

TransLink's corporate headquarters are moving from Metrotown to New Westminster's Brewery District.

The Transit Police will also be sharing the space in a move that will save the company more than $430,000 over current costs, according to TransLink spokesperson Ken Hardie.

TransLink has been looking for a new spot for the past two years, as the company's lease at Metrotower 1 is due to expire in January 2013.

"There was an urgent need to relocate the Transit Police," Hardie said, adding that the policing facilities are in two separate buildings. "We looked at the efficiencies of co-locating."

TransLink looked at about 17 locations, taking into account how close each was to a SkyTrain station, and other aspects such as resident and employment density in each area.

Metrotown was a good location based on these specifications, but so was Sapperton, Hardie said.

The timing worked well, as it is currently a tenants' rental market for office space on both cities, he added.

Mayor Derek Corrigan said he understood TransLink's move was a financially driven decision.

"I understand there's a savings for them," he said, adding he hopes the costs of moving and setting up elsewhere were factored into the decision.

"If that's true, there is a business case for them to make the move," Corrigan added. "Hopefully it benefits all taxpayers in the Lower Mainland."

But he said the city is sorry to see the company go.

"Any business leaving the city is unfortunate," Corrigan said. "We were very proud to be a home to TransLink. It is always too bad when businesses move."

Corrigan said Burnaby has been fortunate not to be hit harder by the recession, and downsizing of businesses in the community.

"We're very successful in attracting business," he said. "I think there'll be someone who'll fill the space."

It is unfortunate timing, losing such a large tenant from Metrotower 1 while the developer is trying to pre-lease space in Metrotower 3.

"When any of the towers lose a tenant, it's unfortunate for them," he said.

Construction on the third office tower at the Metrotown complex has stalled as development and management company Ivanhoe Cambridge works to secure pre-leasing agreements.

The Metrotower office complex is connected to Metropolis at Metrotown.

Burnaby is one of two submarkets with high office vacancy rates. Burnaby's is currently at 13.2 per cent. Last year the vacancy rate was 7.5 per cent, according to the midyear report in July 2009, compared with 5.4 per cent in July 2008.

Richmond leads the region with a current vacancy rate of 22 per cent.

TransLink is relocating to a development being built by the Wesgroup Properties in New Westminster's Sapperton neighbourhood in early 2013.

A building under construction on East Columbia Street is set to house Thrifty Foods and TD Canada Trust. TransLink will be located nearby. The building for the new headquarters is not yet under construction.

Source: http://www.delta-optimist.com/news/TransLink+moving+Burnaby/3494652/story.html?id=3494652

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JUDGE KOSIK KEEPS PROCEEDINGS MOVING - THE TIMES-TRIBUNE NEWS

U.S. District Judge Edwin M. Kosik had heard enough.

"Let's go!" the 85-year-old jurist said, his voice transcending the filter of white noise meant to keep the discussion private.

The attorneys and prosecutors standing near his bench had prattled on for six minutes with a roomful of jurors waiting.

Judge Kosik repeated the instruction twice more before the attorneys and prosecutors returned to their seats, invoking it as a mantra of the courtroom philosophy he has held for four decades: don't waste time.

Judge Kosik, appointed to the federal bench in 1986, pleaded for urgency and expedience throughout the first day of former Judge Mark A. Ciavarella Jr.'s trial on a 39-count corruption indictment.

Attorney Chris Powell of Scranton described Judge Kosik as "stern" and his attitude toward attorneys as "no nonsense."

"If they're fumbling around, he'll get irritated," Mr. Powell said.

Judge Kosik will sometimes tap his bench with a pen, signaling to a long-winded attorney he or she has gone on for too long, Mr. Powell said.

That impatience with attorneys is, the lawyer said, a byproduct of Judge Kosik's allegiance to jurors.

"He's very aware of the jury sitting there, twiddling their thumbs," Mr. Powell said. "He doesn't want to waste anyone's time."

Judge Kosik's impatience flared about an hour into the proceeding Monday morning, during an exchange with defense attorney Al Flora Jr. over a question about the potential jurors' exposure to media coverage of the case.

Mr. Flora, prompted by Mr. Ciavarella, asked Judge Kosik to poll members of the jury pool on whether they had read or heard any media coverage of the case since they sent in their jury questionnaires in December.

Judge Kosik agreed, but tweaked the question slightly, asking the potential jurors only if they had read about the case and if doing so had swayed their opinion of Mr. Ciavarella.

Mr. Flora stood, objecting to the change.

"What's your problem?" the judge asked.

Judge Kosik later chided attorneys and prosecutors for meticulously reviewing the jury questionnaires submitted by jurors who had been added to the final pool of 36 potential jurors.

"I thought you were going to wear the writing off those questionnaires," he told the attorneys after dismissing the jury for the day. "You went through the damn things often enough."

Source: http://thetimes-tribune.com/news/judge-kosik-keeps-proceedings-moving-1.1101603

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