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November 18, 2009
ASA joined a coalition of medical specialties in congratulating the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) for its careful and reasoned implementation of up-to-date practice expense rates into physician payments. The new practice expense rates that were recently issued by CMS use accurate data from a rigorous survey supported by more than 70 medical and health care professional groups, and they begin a long-needed correction that should remain untouched by Congress. The new practice expense rates recognize that overhead costs differ among physician specialties, and rely upon data that was independently corroborated by a respected third-party survey firm.
The latest practice expense data is based on a new Physician Practice Information Survey (PPIS) conducted in 2008 under strict methodology as outlined by CMS. The results were validated by The Lewin Group, an independent survey firm. CMS' implementation of reimbursement rates based on the new practice cost data ends four years of losses by many specialties that began in 2005, when CMS adopted external data from only a few specialties. CMS corrects the previous imbalances in its 2010 Final Fee Schedule rule, but will phase in the new practice expense data over a four-year period. In their own words from the rule, CMS calls PPIS "the most comprehensive, multispecialty, contemporaneous, consistently collected PE data source available." The data does not by itself result in more payments to physicians, but a redistribution of the payment pool based in part on the practice expense data.
The survey design and methodology had the wide support of medicine and other health care professional groups, including funding from CMS and the AMA. Medical and health care groups were not alone in calling for new practice expense data. The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) and the Government Accounting Office (GAO) had called for CMS to update data for all specialties.
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American Academy of Dermatology AssociationAmerican Academy of Family PhysiciansAmerican Academy of Neurology Professional AssociationAmerican Academy of OphthalmologyAmerican Academy of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck SurgeryAmerican Association of Neurological SurgeonsAmerican Association of Orthopaedic SurgeonsAmerican College of Emergency PhysiciansAmerican College of Obstetricians and GynecologistsAmerican College of SurgeonsAmerican Occupational Therapy AssociationAmerican Optometric AssociationAmerican Physical Therapy AssociationAmerican Psychiatric AssociationAmerican Society of AnesthesiologistsAmerican Society of Cataract and Refractive SurgeryAmerican Society of Plastic SurgeonsCongress of Neurological SurgeonsInfectious Diseases Society of America


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Paint Fumes w/Deadly Lo Fi, Trash Hats
Nov 29 @ The Calico Room
A wild rave-up of garage rock from this Charlotte, N.C. trio. The band takes the genre into dirty, fuzzed out, territory, playing music with reckless abandon and a sense that's it may be the last time they get to play. A bit of voodoo, a bit of The Ramones, and a sound like a fire alarm, Paint Fumes looks to be a crazy show. For fans of Shapes Have Fangs, The Cramps.
Details: 9 p.m. doors, 10 p.m. show, All Ages, Friday, 107 S. Front Street, Downtown Wilmington, $5
John Craigie and Leigh Jones
Nov 29 @ Ziggy's
In the upstairs Ziggy's lounge former Wilmington singer (and theatre performer) comes home to perform with frequent musical companion John Craigie. Jones met the San Francisco at a Burning Man show. Expect an intimate acoustic show and material from Jones' last album "Worth Wild" that's a lovingly varied offering of folk, country and acoustic soul that show off the singer's tender, cool voice.
Details: 8 p.m. doors, 9 p.m. show, Friday, 208 Market Street, Downtown Wilmington, $5
Lexx Luthor, Boneyard
Nov 29 @ Ziggy's
Shoppers of all ages, want to blow of some steam at the end of the week or a day of shopping for bargains. Then head bang away. Expect a cavalcade of classic metal at this Black Friday show from this NC band that formed in the early 80's. They play covers of a long list of metal bands like Metallica, Motorhead, Dio, Metal Church and Queensryche.
Details: 9 p.m. doors, 10 p.m. show, Friday, 208 Market Street, Downtown Wilmington, $7
Neil Cribbs
Nov 29 @ The Whiskey
Cribbs is an Atlanta musician that makes folk music that is sometimes tempered with a rock sound. In the vein of Cat Stevens (nothing wrong with that), Cribbs sings with a gentle growl and a solid soulful delivery. His Americana sound is filled with fun, energetic melodies that bring to mind what The Beatles might sound like if they went acoustic and bluesy.
Details: 8 p.m. doors, 10 p.m. show, 21+, Friday, 1 S. Front Street, Downtown Wilmington, $5
The Dirk Quinn Band
Dec 1 @ The Whiskey
Philadelphia guitarist Dirk Quinn doles out progressive sounding jazz and funk sounding rock music that has drawn comparisons to the dynamic stylings of Keller Williams and Medeski, Martin & Wood. Playing for a decade consistently, Quinn has roots in abnds like Led Zeppelin but gravitated towards experimental and free-form song construction in bands like Primus.
Details: 8 p.m. doors, 10 p.m. show, 21+, Sunday, 1 S. Front Street, Downtown Wilmington
American Big Band: Home for the Holidays
Dec 4
There are two shows on this date at Thalian Hall that wholeheartedly celebrates holiday musical favorites all done with a big band sound. For a decade American Big Band has been playing these songs with a twelve piece band and eight dancers. Shows begin at 4 p.m. and 8 p.m.
Details: 3 p.m. doors, 4 p.m. show, 7 p.m. doors, 8 p.m. show, Wednesday, 310 Chestnut Street, Downtown Wilmington, Tickets $35, $28, $18

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Friendsville, Blount County (WVLT) - A normally peaceful area in rural Blount County was anything but that Wednesday night after an elderly couple is bound and held at gunpoint.
It was a terrifying ordeal for the retired teacher and her husband at their home just outside Friendsville.
But the suspects left some clues such as taking their vehicle and using their credit cards, even taking unique items like a snake ring with a Tennessee pearl and authorities could use your help in tracking them down.
"He pulled a gun out of his back pocket, stuck it up in my face," that's what Keith Patterson faced early Thursday morning following a home invasion to his Hamil Road home shortly after midnight.
He says he was cutting off the lights going to bed when he heard a knock at the door where he was met by a woman who said she needed help, but Patterson said a man then barged in with her.
"I slugged him, which I shouldn't have done I guess," that's when Patterson says the man pulled a gun on him and the couple then began tying them up with electrical tape.
"That thumb and these two fingers are dead and they still are," Patterson says.
His wife Charlene was heavily bruised from the ordeal which lasted for nearly an hour as the man held them at bay.
"Had his gun out and the woman went back in the back bedroom and started ransacking them." Patterson says the finally left after taking items and their 1996 White Ford Explorer and later used his credit card at an unknown Shell station. The couple broke loose and later called for help at a neighbor's home.
He says he recognized the couple walking just days before. "They spoke and I spoke and they went on down the road."
The male suspect is believed to be around 30 years old and 6'1" tall.
The female in her early 20's, slender, and has dark hair past her shoulders.
The third suspect could be someone in their early teens around 5 feet two inches tall wearing a gray hooded sweatshirt.
If anyone has any information on this crime or these suspects you are asked to contact the Blount County Sheriff's 24 Hour Crime Tip Hotline at 273-5200.
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Katrin Bennhold
Katrin Bennhold is a staff writer based in London. A native German who spent most of her career in France, Ms. Bennhold's reporting has ranged from covering terrorist attacks in Algiers to youth rioting in Paris's ethnically mixed suburbs, teenagers addicted to Facebook and rogue trading at one of France's biggest banks. She writes a regular news column for the international edition of the paper.
From 2010 to 2013, Ms. Bennhold focused primarily on gender issues, exploring gender gaps and work-life models across Europe. She met Swedish hunters on father's leave, looked beneath the veneer of equality in republican France and discovered layers of stubborn history in Germany's struggle to give women more opportunities.
As French political correspondent from 2004 to 2009, Ms. Bennhold covered the final years of Jacques Chirac's presidency and the rise of Nicolas Sarkozy, writing about efforts to reform the labor market and zooming in on issues of religious and ethnic identity among Muslim immigrants.
Before joining The Times company in 2004, Ms. Bennhold was an international economics writer for Bloomberg News in Paris and a television reporter for Bloomberg TV and N24, a German 24-hour news channel in London. She graduated in 1998 from the London School of Economics with bachelor's and master's degrees in economics and was a Nieman fellow at Harvard University in 2012 and 2013. She is married with two daughters.
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Members of the upper house of Parliament are facing outrage over reports that they rejected a proposal to save money on lawmakers' bubbly.
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Forget the Hounds. As Foxes Creep In, Britons Call the Sniper.
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British Regulator Urges Home Births Over Hospitals for Uncomplicated Pregnancies
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Welcome! My website has three main sections-one for my pottery, one for my jewelry work, and a third section for my theater work. Please wander around and explore the pages. Yes indeed, its all the same person!
Over the years I've found that my creativity and passions are most fully and naturally expressed in these art forms and bring me a deep and profound satisfaction. The balance of performing and visual arts is very important to me.
Pottery & Jewelry:
Big news!!! I've moved! I'm now the first Artist in Residence at a new program at the Toshiko Takaezu Studio in Flemington, New Jersey. Still trying to unpack boxes and organize my studio spaces, but it's glorious to have space both in the beautiful pottery studio and my very own room for jewelry and metal working.
New work is happening and photos will be posted soon!
My next show is coming up soon. I'll be at the American Craft Exposition in Evanston, IL again this year. The dates are August 22-24 at the Henry Crown Sports Pavilion on the campus of Northwestern University. Lincoln Street at the Lakefront, 2311 North Campus Drive. Show times are:
Friday, August 22 10am-8pm
Saturday, August 23 10am-6pm
Sunday, August 24 11am-5pm
I'll be in Booth #48. Come by and see my new work!
In September I'll be at the Rhinebeck Arts Festival in Rhinebeck, NY. Dates are September 26-28. Mark it on your calendar!
October takes me back home for a visit and the Washington Craft Show in Washington, DC. October 31-November 2.
I'll also be doing the Holiday CraftMorristown, NJ show December 13-15.
Dates and times of other shows will be posted soon.
The big news in this area is that I am taking a sabbatical from theater and teaching. For the next year or two I will be focusing on my ceramic and metal work here at the Toshiko Takaezu Studio. Of course, if the itch to do theater becomes too strong or someone offers me a dream project I'll let you know-loud and proud!
The password for this short documentary of my work is: karin
The creation of this website was supported in part by funding from the Montgomery County government and the Arts and Humanities Council of Montgomery County, Maryland.


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Exhibit 13-11
The Carbon Cycle
Ethanol supporters also say that its production and consumption are carbon-neutral. Crops like corn are finely ground and separated into their component sugars. The sugars are distilled to make ethanol, which can be used as an alternative fuel, which releases carbon dioxide that is reabsorbed by the original crops.
For more information on this exhibit, please contact the Comptroller's Data Services Division at 512-463-4900 or at P.O. Box 13528, Austin, Texas 78711-3528.
Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration.


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Just wanted to give a quick update--the hospital internet seems to have walled off Blogger, so I can only get on here sporadically. That means I may not be able to comment regularly, but my pre-scheduled posts shouldn't have any issues. In any case, thank you for all your kind thoughts. My son and my wife continue to do well, and I feel incredibly blessed by all this. So thank you, thank you, for your good thoughts and wishes.
Thanks to everyone who commented or emailed (we had a ton of emails on this one!) regarding our James Jacobs interview. The response was overwhelmingly positive, and I'm pleased, because I plan to try to expand a bit more on our Pathfinder coverage. That's not to say it will be to the exclusion of other topics--we'll still blog D&D, small press, and whatever general gaming topics that come up--but there are a ton of blogs doing an amazing job covering D&D 4th Edition. I'll be working to do something in the same vein with Pathfinder as the opportunity arises. Hopefully that means some interviews when fitting, some product reviews (if possible), and general reaction and news regarding Pathfinder. If you hate Pathfinder, bear with us--there will still be more general and generic material on here than anything else, and I'll continue to work hard to keep this blog updated, topical, and interesting within the scope of my cursed inborn Midwestern politeness. :)
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
Quick Update Re: Baby (and Pathfinder Coverage)
4 comments:
- Ron Perkins said...
Good to hear from you, Zach! Hope everyone continues to do well!
- March 10, 2009 at 4:44 AM
- Questing GM said...
Hey, then what I am I left with? I love Pathfinder too. :(
Just kidding but I will try to keep up with my coverages too (maybe I should bribe Jason Bulhman for an interview).
- March 10, 2009 at 8:04 AM
- Zachary The First said...
@Questing: You're gonna shoot me, but I have an interview with him next! :) If you want, I'd be happy to coordinate some coverage between our sites for future stuff!
- March 10, 2009 at 8:29 AM
- Questing GM said...
Coordination is a great idea. I would love to share coverages or resources (if I have any) on our sites. These days that's what my site has become anyway.
- March 10, 2009 at 9:00 AM
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ULI Blog
Houston will take center stage for 3,000 of the top real estate investors, developers, decision makers and opinion leaders in May 2015.
Recent news stories about the ULI gathering have appeared in CultureMap, The Houston Business Journal and Houston Chronicle.
ULI Members who love this city and want to help ULI put our best foot forward, there are many opportunities for you to volunteer to help and support the meeting. And, if you've been on the fence about whether or not to join ULI, this is the perfect reason to do it! Only Members will be able to attend this global gathering of the top leaders in real estate and land use.
Yesterday, ULI was invited to present the Building Healthy Places Intiative at a meeting of Houston Mayor Annise Parker's Healthy Houston Task Force, a community-wide collaboration of organizations focused on reducing obesity and encouraging healthy lifestyles. For more on the Mayor's Healthy Houston Initiative, click here.
Task force members responded positively to the inclusion of urban agriculture in all of the Texas case studies discussed, as well as ULI's endorsement of active transportation and complete streets. The group asked for ongoing dialog and opportunities to get future updates from ULI. Task force co-chair, Dr. Faith Foreman, Assistant Director, Houston Dept. of Health & Human Services, also urged ULI to bring its lessons learned into vulnerable, economically disadvantaged urban communities that are most burdened by the health crisis.
Chart: Report of follow up survey of ULI program participants immediately after "Building Healthy Communities and the Bottom Line" luncheon on May 22, 2014
Engagement with non-traditional partners such as the Mayor's task force is one of the most positive outcomes of the Building Healthy Places Inititative.
As part of a ULI Foundation Urban Innovation Grant, Texas District Councils including Houston are seeking to understand, through research on real projects, how developments promoting health and wellbeing also have a competitive advantage and healthier return on investment.
The built environment can be an important piece of the puzzle in solving the multifaceted and complex healthcare crisis, and ULI leaders are shaping the future of cities that encourage more active lifestyles, healthier eating and stronger community connections.
To see the ULI presentation for the Mayor's Healthy Houston Task Force, click here.
The most recent news about the 17-acre upstream research facility in the Upper Kirby District and the 24-acre campus in Brookhollow is only the latest to serve up tantalizing possibilities. As ExxonMobil consolidates its workforce into the new campus in far Northwest Houston, we can look forward to a very different look for the old properties. These prime sites hold the promise of being redeveloped as more walkable, mixed-use projects—something our auto-dependent and spread-out city definitely needs. Fortunately, at this time and in this market, financing and appetite for these complex urban infill projects seem to both be here in abundance.
A roundup and a few news articles on properties that are being repositioned, revived or completely redeveloped.
1. In the CBD Downtown: Shorenstein purchased and is refurbishing the 44-story Humble Oil headquarters building at 800 Bell St. Downtown.
2. Out west, in The Energy Corridor: PMRG is building a $1 billion mixed-use project on the old ExxonMobil Chemical headquarters 35-acre campus.
3. In the Upper Kirby District: the 17-acre upstream research facility on Buffalo Speedway.
4. And near northwest Houston in Brookhollow: the 24-acre ExxonMobil global services campus.
Even properties vacated by ExxonMobil that aren't on the block for redevelopment are seeing new interest and new leasing. Greenspoint Place, a 13.5 acre office complex owned and managed by Hines and represented by Colville Properties, announced a lease renewal and expansion totalling 258,735 square feet for the American Bureau of Shipping--a 30,000 square foot addition to their existing space. Hines has comprehensive plans to reposition the asset with upgrades aimed at meeting the demands of today's corporate user.
Building a place with a sense of connection – where people want to live, visit or work – will prove out in retention, frequency, sales and so forth, panelists said at the ULI discussion "Building Healthy Communities and the Bottom Line" last week in Houston.
The discussion, facilitated by ULI Senior Vice President, Washington, DC, Rachel MacCleery, brought together a cross section of projects and experiences in and around Texas focusing on the market case for projects that improve the health of people and communities. ULI Houston, one of four Texas District Councils to receive a regional urban innovation grant, presented a program for almost 300 participants, and convened a workshop for innovators from four of the largest Texas markets—Austin, Houston, North Texas (Dallas–Fort Worth), and San Antonio—seeking best practices, case studies and potential partnerships among public and private sector leaders.
Measuring the impact of healthy places today is intuitive but can also be supported by quantifiable data, said Tom Bacon, founding partner of Lionstone Investments. Bacon also serves as Chair of the Houston Parks Board, a non-profit organization implementing the Bayou Greenways 2020 project connecting 150 miles of trails and creating parkland adjacent to 9 Houston bayous. Bayou Greenways leaders sought the expertise of Texas A&M University to quantify the benefits of this investment. According to the research, the $225 million public-private project will reap $80 million a year in health benefits for the City of Houston—a figure the researchers say is conservative.
Social connectivity was the refrain often repeated among the panelists. Creating a place with a sense of social connectivity with active greenspace, restaurants and retail will generate ROI in traffic, sales and occupancy, said Jonathan Brinsden, CEO of Midway, which has a range of office, industrial, mixed use, business and industrial parks, resort and residential communities underway or complete in 23 states. "All of our developments like CityCentre and Kirby Grove [in Houston] contain a central greenspace or community space…and it is the most valuable [square footage] in the entire development."
Hillwood Communities, a builder of master planned communities throughout Texas, considered food a significant factor in fostering connectivity and health. Harvest, a 1,200-acre prototype development north of Dallas, is considered the next generation in master planned communities and is built around a 5-acre working farm. The community features a mix of single family and high density residential but also includes five green houses and a community garden where the head farmer teaches residents how to grow fresh, organic farm-to-table product in gardens in their own backyards.
Where LEED ratings focus on assessing sustainability of the building, we are now talking about impacting the health and wellness of the people in the space to encourage their well-being, said David Calkins, regional managing principal of Gensler. Calkins, who heads the education practice for the firm, went on to discuss the environmental magnet school James Berry Elementary in Houston which achieves design sustainability and efficiency, but is in fact "…a machine for creating advocates for the environment," at the earliest ages of our society. The elementary school children are "growing produce in gardens at the school and taking lessons home on healthy choices in terms of food, recycling and influencing their parent's behavior."
These and additional case studies from around the state will be published in Building Healthier Places in Texas set for release in September 2014.
For the first time in its seven-year history, the ULI Houston Development of Distinction Awards added "positive impact on community health" to the criteria for award-worthy projects. James Berry Elementary School, the 2014 winner in the nonprofit category, has been highlighted on the global ULI Building Healthy Places web site, and the video profile produced for the awards now has a world-wide distribution. Click here to learn more.
At the link below, you can watch six 4-minute videos on each finalist project and an interview with the 2014 Awards jury. It's the next-best thing to being at the Awards (minus the cocktails, great meal, live music, and networking with some of the best of the best in real estate and land use).
Congratulations again to all who were honored, and see you next year!
(Houston, TX – January 29, 2014) Throughout 2013, several significant trends continue to stand out in significance for the Houston housing market. These include robust job growth thanks to strong economic fundamentals, low resale inventory partially driven by investor activity, high rental rates, and high affordability resulting from continued low mortgage rates. This is according to a recent report by Metrostudy, a national housing data and consulting firm that maintains the most extensive primary database on residential construction in the US housing market.
The Houston new home market continued to surge in the fourth quarter, with builders starting construction on 6,141 new homes, the fastest fourth quarter pace in more than six years. Representing a year-over-year gain of 10%, Houston hasn't seen this many annual new homes starts since 2007. On an annualized basis, starts stand at 28,233, 19.5% above 4Q12. "The growth in the pace of starts continues to follow a measured linear trajectory as lot supply constraints and shortages in labor and materials have prevented Houston builders from ramping up construction more quickly," said David Jarvis, Regional Director of Metrostudy's Houston Market. In the fourth quarter, area builders closed 6,500 new homes, bringing the annualized total to 25,627. This level of activity represents a 13% gain from a year ago.
"The number of finished vacant homes in the market remains at historic lows as builders see their speculative homes purchased before reaching completion," said Jarvis. The relative supply of finished vacant homes in the market is a mere 1.5 months, well below the 10 year average of 2.5 months. While finished vacant and model inventory continue to shrink, the ramp up in under construction inventory was sufficient to push total housing supply to 6.7 months from 7.1 in the fourth quarter.
Deliveries of vacant developed Lots are starting to catch up to the pace of absorption. While last quarter the deficit was 602 lots, in the fourth quarter lot deliveries exceed lot absorption by 596. During the period, 6,737 new lots were delivered to the market while 6,141 new homes were started. On an annualized basis, 24,603 new lots have been delivered during the last four quarters, while builders have started construction on 28,233 new homes during the same time frame. That deficit is the smallest since the end of 2011, suggesting that the pace of lot development is finally gaining momentum. Houston's relative supply of VDL sits at 16.4 months, well below the 10 year average of 25 months.
"Moving forward, lot availability will continue to be a key factor for the growth of the Houston housing market. Due to builder demand for more lots, most, if not all, lots being brought to market have a buyer before they're completed. Therefore, a number of publicly-traded builders and large, privately-owned builders have begun aggressively accumulating land and developing lots for their own use as a defensive posture," said Jarvis.
"Tight supplies of available housing historically leads to home price appreciation, and prices in housing are rising quickly in both new and resale homes. On top of this, builders are coping with an overall increase in the real cost of building a new home in the market. Builders currently face fierce competition for a limited number of available lots to build on in suitable locations. In addition, builders are paying higher costs for materials and facing shortages in labor. These factors have contributed to a bottleneck which has limited growth in starts and has extended delivery times. Increased land and input costs are subsequently being passed down to consumers, as tight inventories have increased builders' bargaining power and allowed them to raise prices," said Jarvis.
About Metrostudy
Metrostudy is the leading provider of primary and secondary market information to the housing and related industries nationwide. Metrostudy provides research, data, analytics and consulting services to help builders, developers, lenders, suppliers, retailers, utilities and others make investment and business decisions every day. For more information, visit www.metrostudy.com
About Hanley Wood
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At ULI, we are delighted when Members who "do good" -- give back to their community, mentor young leaders, uphold the highest professional standards, also "do well" -- grow their business and increase their influence. Bill Odle, Managing Principal, Houston and Tulsa for TBG Partners, also is ULI Houston Chair of Mission Advancement, and an officer in a national ULI Product Council for Public + Private Partnership. He recently sat down with Jenny Aldridge, Real Estate writer for the Houston Business Journal, to discuss industry trends in landscape and real estate development. "Outdoor spaces are now becoming the reason someone chooses to buy (a commercial project) which is very powerful."
To read the complete HBJ interview with Bill Odle, click here.
From left-to-right: ULI Houston Chair, Mission Advancement, Bill Odle, ULI Houston Chair, Greg Erwin,
ULI Houston Young Leader Chair, Brian Attaway
The Houston Business Journal published favorable findings from the recent Emerging Trends in Real Estate® Americas Report.
Through the $800,000 grant from The Kresge Foundation, ULI will leverage the substantial expertise of its members to provide guidance on community building in a way that responds to inevitable climate change and sea level rise, and helps preserve the environment, boost economic prosperity, and foster a high quality of life.
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Writing an edtiorial for today's Houston Chronicle, Bill King thanks the Kinder Foundation for generously making the largest gift to parks in Houston's history, also one of the largest grants to public parks in the Nation. He also credits real estate developer, Houston Parks Board Chair, and ULI Member Tom Bacon for both the grand vision and dogged determination to see the project through.
"I got my first briefing on the project from a real estate developer named Tom Bacon. Bacon, a University of Texas at Austin and Rice University graduate, who started his career with Gerald Hines Real Estate, was a man possessed even back then with the idea of using Houston's most prominent geographic feature (and we don't have many) as the backbone for a park system.
Bacon spread out huge maps of the bayou system on which he had painstaking identified every parcel of land that would be necessary for the system.
He had personally ridden his bike around many of the areas, thus gleaning a detailed knowledge of the terrain that no map can convey. Even then, he was directing efforts of the parks board and its allies to quietly purchase as much of the land as possible to pave the way for the project now unfolding before us.
Since those early days, an amazing array of civic leaders has come forward and made wonderful contributions to this legacy project.
The Kinders' gift announced this week is a critical boost. Also critical was the support the project received from the mayoral administrations of Bill White and Annise Parker.
Bacon is typical of the folks who have worked on this project. He brought to bear his unique skills as a real estate developer, his firm's resources and dogged determination to see the thing through."
Like Gerald Hines and Tom Bacon, and a host of other ULI Members, the best real estate developers possess this unique combination of skills: they can imagine big things, are willing to commit resources to back up their dreams, build collaborations that bring out the best in their teams, and are not afraid to doggedly pursue the vision to fruition.
Read the rest of King's editorial here
And the original press release announcing the Kinder Foundation's $50 million gift to the Houston Parks Board here
Better Block Houston 2013
Media Contact: John Gardosik
Better Block Houston reimagines the city on October 20th
HOUSTON, TX – October 14, 2013 – This October Better Block Houston brings a vision of Complete Streets to the Tlaquepaque Market in Houston's Eastwood neighborhood.
On October 20th, one block of Telephone Road east of Lockwood will become a showcase for community-oriented street activity. From noon until 5pm, temporary bike lanes, street furniture and trees will enliven the street while entertainers, food trucks and educational booths engage visitors. Live music will be provided by High Toned 2, Cisco, Klezmer Dogs, Kerry Mellonson of Satin Hooks, the Austin High School drum line and others.
Now in its third year, Better Block Houston promotes the concept of "Complete Streets." These streets cater to pedestrians, cyclists and transit users as well as automobile traffic. In a car-centric city like Houston, this might seem like a radical idea, but Houston has always been a city capable of changing with the times.
Though Better Block 2013 only lasts for one day, event organizers hope that the experience will inspire people to rethink what they expect from their city.
"Better Block is more than just a temporary festival," said event organizer Matt Dietrichson of Houston Tomorrow. "It's an opportunity to show what's permanently possible when a community comes together to improve the streets they travel every day."
Located minutes from Downtown Houston, the Greater East End is a burgeoning bike and pedestrian friendly community with a rich history. Organizers had this in mind when selecting this year's event location.
"Houston's greatest asset is its communities," said event chair Pat Speck. "That's why we're so excited to be working with Tlaquepaque Market this year. Dick Adkins has really kept the spirit of community in this historic place, so it's the perfect venue to investigate how Houston can better serve its people as it continues to grow.
For information, email email@example.com or call 713-568-9208.
About Better Block Houston
Founded in 2011, Better Block Houston promotes the value of walkability and community development through temporary street installations. The Better Block Project is an international movement with events in seven cities this year in Texas alone. More information can be found at http://betterblock.org.
About Tlaquepaque Market
Tlaquepaque Market is a historic shopping and community center in Houston's Eastwood neighborhood. Located at 700 Telephone Road, the center hosts a variety of local businesses including Blue Line Bike Lab, Bohemeo's Café and Thai restaurant Kanomwan.
Structural Firm Haynes Whaley Joins Global Infrastructure Company Cardno
Enhances Domestic and International Capabilities in Public, Commercial and Institutional Markets
Houston, TX. (October 9, 2013) – Haynes Whaley Associates, a 93-person structural engineering firm, has merged with Cardno, an 8,000 person professional infrastructure and environmental services company with expertise in the development and improvement of physical and social infrastructure for communities around the world.
Larry E. Whaley, P.E., President and CEO of Haynes Whaley Associates, remarked, "Haynes Whaley Associates' focus has always been to provide our clients structural engineering expertise with the highest level of integrity. We are pleased to join Cardno, a company that shares our values and corporate culture and offers us the ability to continue to grow our business by expanding our services domestically and globally through their 290 offices worldwide."
Haynes Whaley, which will be known as Cardno Haynes Whaley, offers specialized structural engineering services for a broad range of commercial, public and institutional projects. Haynes Whaley has completed several prominent projects across the United States including The Menil Collection in Houston, Renzo Piano's first project in the United States; Market Square in Washington, D.C.; Hobby Center for the Performing Arts in Houston; the Coronado Springs Resort at Disney World; the National Biodefense & Countermeasure Center at Fort Detrick, Maryland; and NASA's Neutral Buoyancy Lab in Houston. Current projects include ExxonMobil's new corporate campus in North Houston, The University of Texas Medical Branch Galveston Jennie Sealy Replacement Hospital, and the new downtown Houston Convention Center Hotel.
Haynes Whaley works nationally, as well as internationally, with projects in 40 states, the District of Columbia, Africa, Caribbean, Malaysia, and Singapore.
Paul Gardiner, President of Cardno's Americas Region commented, "We are pleased to have such a high caliber firm join us. They share our values of innovation, great people and partnering. With Haynes Whaley, we can now offer both of our client bases comprehensive development services from concept through construction. Their services complement our existing portfolio of offerings in the public, commercial and institutional arenas."
Within the United States, Cardno provides infrastructure and environmental solutions for clients such as DR Horton, Costco, the Department of Defense, universities, federal penitentiaries, oil and gas entities, hospitals, municipalities and communities. Key land development projects include the Encore Development Site in Tampa, FL, Sun City Carolina Lakes Master Plan in Lancaster County, SC, Bayou Chico Brownfields Redevelopment in Pensacola, FL and AmberGlen Site Development and Management.
Following Cardno's normal strategy, shareholders of Haynes Whaley Associates will become Cardno shareholders and remain active leaders in the company. Cardno Haynes Whaley will operate as part of Cardno's Engineering and Environmental Services Division in the U.S.
About Haynes Whaley: Founded in Houston in 1976, and with offices in Reston, Virginia and Austin, Texas, Haynes Whaley Associates focuses on creative structural engineering solutions for a broad range of commercial, public, and institutional projects. The firm works nationally as well as internationally, with projects in 40 states, the District of Columbia, Africa, Caribbean, Malaysia, and Singapore. More information about Haynes Whaley Associates is available at www.hayneswhaley.com.
About Cardno: Cardno is a professional infrastructure and environmental services company, with expertise in the development and improvement of physical and social infrastructure for communities around the world. Cardno's team includes leading professionals who plan, design, manage and deliver sustainable projects and community programs. Ranked at #26 on Engineering News Record's 2013 Top 500 Design Firms List, Cardno provides clients with access to more than 8,000 professionals in over 290 locations focusing on delivering tailored solutions to address social, physical and economic business needs.
Founded in 1945 in Brisbane, Australia, Cardno is an international company listed on the Australian Securities Exchange [ASX: CDD]. To learn more, visit www.cardno.com.
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The Houston Chronicle reported on a Midtown project aiming to tap into Gen Y preferences for urban, transit-oriented lifestyles. ULI Senior Resident Fellow, Maureen McAvey says millennials don't mind living in smaller spaces, because "they think of the city as their living room." Read the full article here.
The first ULI Houston program of the new fiscal year, "The Suburban Land Rush," brought a full house to the Junior League. Among the 330 attendees were news reporters from the Houston Chronicle, the Houston Business Journal, and the Realty News Report.
To read Erin Mulvaney's article in the Houston Chronicle, click here.
And to read Shaina Zucker's Houston Business Journal blog post, click here.
A new report published by the Urban Land Institute's (ULI) Greenprint Center for Building Performance in Washington suggests that the global real estate industry continues to make progress in improving the environmental performance of existing buildings. To read the full press release and access the 4th annual report, click here.
In an Opinion column for Urban Land, former secretaries of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Henry Cisneros and Mel Martinez say that America's housing finance system is fundamentally broken and in desperate need of repair. Read more at Urban Land.
ULI is sometimes called "the big tent" because we convene people from every discipline that makes a city work--developers, investors, planners, public officials, designers, scholars, and more. We are interested in presenting a diversity of views and voices, and welcome comment, even polite disagreement, from ULI Members on the issues that interest you.
"The Woodlands is an attractive new town that successfully integrates all the necessary elements of a vibrant, healthy community: a diversity of housing types; employment centers; a town center; a research park; and cultural, educational, medical, and recreational facilities. Its success is directly attributed to the vision, courage, and financial commitment of its developer."
Official Jury Statement on The Woodlands, 1994 ULI Awards for Excellence, New Community Category
While researching a commentary The Houston Chronicle requested from ULI Houston on George Mitchell as a visionary developer, it was gratifying to see how ULI has encouraged the development of "Healthy Places" for many decades.
To read the commentary published on Sunday, August 3 in the Houston Chronicle Opinion section, click here.
And, to view a short clip from a video tribute to longtime president of The Woodlands, Roger Galatas, in which he remembers George Mitchell, click here.
For more on the subject, read the ULI book, "The Woodlands, the inside story of creating a better hometown" by ULI Houston founding leader Roger Galatas with Jim Barlow. Click here to visit the ULI Bookstore.
George Mitchell leaves a wonderful legacy in The Woodlands and the historic areas of The Strand in Galveston and the Hotel Galvez, in addition to so many other visionary business and philanthropic endeavors. It is good to be reminded that building healthier, more environmentally responsible communities and advocating the importance of historic preservation are not fads or a new idea at The Urban Land Institute, as well.
We are proud that immediate past ULI Houston Chair, and current ULI Trustee Jonathan Brinsden, President and CEO of Midway, and past ULI Houston chair Ed Wulfe, CEO of Wulfe & Co.s, have accepted Mayor Annise Parker's invitation to serve on a task force led by Fred Griffin of Griffin Partners and reporting to Andy Icken, Chief Development Officer for the Mayor. The Mayor's Task Force is charged with "aggressively seeking all options to increase the amount of retail and supporting parking in downtown," according to a press release from the Office of the Mayor.
The task force will work in cooperation with the Downtown Management District, whose President, Bob Eury, also is a long-standing ULI Member. Fellow Task Force member Marvy Finger was honored with a ULI Houston Development of Distinction Award in 2010 for One Park Place, and Brinsden and Wulfe each won Development of Distinction Awards in 2012, for CITYCENTRE and Gulfgate Center, respectively.
ULI relies heavily on the experience of its members, who commit to "observe the highest standards of integrity, proficiency, and honesty in my professional and personal dealings." The Institute has long been recognized as one of the world's most respected and widely quoted sources of objective information on urban planning, growth, and development.
We applaud all ULI Houston members who generously volunteer their wealth of knowledge to create better places in our hometown.
Cities with the Highest Rent Spikes in 2012-Fortune Magazine
Still renting? With apartments and rental homes in short supply, rents are rising quickly here in Houston. According to David Jarvis, Houston Director, Metrostudy, "This is bad news for renters, but good news for apartment owners and operators. Secondarily this is also good news for our home builders who market to renters."
Read the full article from Fortune Magazine here.
Did you miss the Luncheon on October 11th? See what you missed!
No matter which party wins in November, Houston will be on the leading edge of healthcare. Hear how these healthcare real estate leaders meet challenges of delivering medical care in a fast-moving environment with regulatory uncertainty and ever-changing technology.
Marshall Heins - Memorial Hermann Healthcare System
Lisa Helfman - Texas Children's Hospital
Tanner McGraw - Marcus & Millichap
Nick Ro - Kelsey-Seybold Clinic
Dear Houston Real Estate Leader,
I am looking forward to seeing you at the largest annual forecast for ULI and the Real Estate Center at Texas A&M, the morning of Nov. 1 at the Westin Galleria, Houston.
As a past conference sponsor, I've found special value in the exclusive VIP sponsor briefing before the conference opens to the public. This unique opportunity delivers candid, unscripted discussion with program headliners—this year, Gary Maler, Director of the Real Estate Center at Texas A&M, and Steve Murdock, PhD., Director of the Hobby Center for the Study of Texas at Rice University, will pose the tough questions and challenge our assumptions.
The conference continues with presentations and a roundtable discussion with top people in real estate explaining how they stay ahead of the curve. The program concludes with a keynote luncheon.
Paul Murphy, CEO of Cadence Bank, will give the opening address. Industry veterans, Murry Bowden, with The Hanover Company, Jim Casey, with Trammell Crow Company, Brad Freels, with Midway, John Mooz, with Hines, and Tom Murray, with Toll Bros., will share with moderator Tom Fish of Jones Lang LaSalle Capital Markets Group how they're anticipating and adjusting to changes in their respective real estate sectors. Peter Rummell, ULI Global Chair, and former Chairman of Walt Disney Imagineering as well as former CEO of the St. Joe Company, will deliver the keynote address.
As a Texas A&M Mays Business student's Dad, I also appreciate a distinct feature of this program. Each year, ULI and Texas A&M professors pair Aggie graduate real estate students with a "Mentor for a Day." To be a Mentor, you simply invite a promising young person to share lunch at your table. A small thing for you, but an incredible learning opportunity for them.
I urge you to step up! Sponsor the conference on behalf of your company. Commit to be a mentor for a day to one of our future industry leaders. You'll be very glad you did.
Reid C. Wilson
Managing Shareholder
Wilson, Cribbs & Goren
ULI Houston Governance Committee
Former Chair, ULI Houston
With a sold out crowd of real estate professionals that have a commitment to our future leaders, ULI was able to provide $10,000 in scholarships for the 2nd year in a row to the University of Houston Graduate Real Estate Program. Please join us in congratulating our tournament winners.
Sporting Clays Team Tournament Winners:
- Wylie Consulting Engineers
- Old Republic Title
- Rogers Moore Engineering
Sporting Clays Team Flurry Winners:
- Balfour Beatty Construction
- Rogers Moore Engineering
- Wylie Consulting Engineers
Sporting Clays Top Gun Shooter:
- Troy Malish - Moody National Companies
Thank you again to our Presenting Sponsor:
Shown here is Joel Ambre , LEED Green Associate, Director of Development, Skanska USA Commercial Development, speaking at the ULI Houston August luncheon.
Where's the low-hanging fruit? If you pay a premium for a more sustainable building design, technology or development approach, what's an acceptable pay-back period? Is there an energy-saving or more environmentally friendly technology you considered in the past, opted not to use it then, but are using it now, either because technology has improved, or more performance data has validated the decision?
Questions like these kept more than 230 attendees in their seats and listening to stories from those who have "Been there. Done that." with sustainable development:
Moderator: Kathleen English, AIA, LEED AP, Principal, English + Associates
Joel Ambre , LEED Green Associate, Director of Development, Skanska USA Commercial Development
David DeVos, AIA, LEED AP, Global Sustainability Officer, Prudential Real Estate Investors
Mike Talbott , Director, Harris County Flood Control District
Joel Ambre with Skanska said technology can do a lot, but capturing the biggest reductions in energy use still requires people to change behavior.
Turn off that computer in the evening. Consider whether the thermostat really needs to be set on "deep freeze" in mid-August, or whether merely icy cold will do.
PREI's David DeVos agreed. 'You can't just deliver a LEED-certified building and sit on your hands. That property has to be managed and operated properly, too."
Although the $56 million in value generated by Prudential Real Estate Investors' sustainable initiatives amounts to essentially a rounding error in its massive portfolio, DeVos said a modest 2% gain in value through strategies like renting out roof space on self-storage facilities and industrial buildings for solar installations, and retaining happy tenants who extend leases in more sustainable surroundings, "would add $1 billion a year to the bottom line."
Companies that require trust from communities, regulators and business partners in order to operate need to send "signals of responsibility" to gain and maintain trust. Operating in an environmentally sustainable way, in addition to excellent governance and a sterling social track record sends signals that heighten trust.
Mike Talbott said investments in greener storm water management can also create quality of life benefits. "We may only need an area to flood one or two days a year, and the rest of the year it can provide benefit to the community, health and wellness, by incorporating trails and parks."
Watch video of these presentations and Q&A with moderator Kathleen English and ULI members online now
We are watching with interest to see what Midway makes of three big city blocks in downtown, which are now known as The Pavilions. Whatever changes Midway brings, we imagine the task at hand can't be as daunting as transforming a moribund traditional shopping mall into CITYCENTRE, one of the liveliest, most walkable activity magnets in Houston. Midway tackled that feat during the worst economic downturn in decades.
For video of Development of Distinction Award-winning CITYCENTRE, click here
Riding a stronger economy, Midway now packs a track record of having created a hipster mecca that shifted the geographic center of sprawling Houston. We wish them well with their new acquisition, because The Pavilions can play a key role in continuing downtown's evolution from a nine-to-five business center into a vibrant, livable beehive of 24/7 energy. And that could also bring a brighter smile to the face Houston shows the world--or at least that part of the world arriving on downtown's doorstep, whether they are coming to do business in an office tower, or before the bench in one of the court houses, as convention-goers at the George R. Brown, or just making day trip to enjoy the vibe at Discovery Green.
Missed the luncheon? Click HERE to view Tony Salazar's presentation from the June Luncheon: Urban Innovation Toolkit - Houston's Historic Third Ward
Click HERE to watch the podcast.
Ed Wulfe and Elise Weatherall, both founding members of Wulfe & Co., shared their philosophy with ULI Young Leaders on using a multi-phase approach for the completion of BLVD Place as well as provided an update on current and pipeline projects for the prestigious Galleria area development. BLVD Place Phase I was completed in 2009 and will account for just one-tenth of the final proposed build-out of the 21-acre site.
To see more about BLVD Place click here
Urban Land Institute's Executive VP Maureen McAvey presented the newly released book "What's Next? Real Estate in the New Economy" to a full crowd at Dynamo's new BBVA Compass Stadium in downtown Houston. Maureen highlighted the US outlook on the economy, categorizing it in six groups: Work, Live, Connect, Renew, Move and Invest.
A group of panelists moderated by Jonathan Brinsden, ULI Houston Chair discussed Houston's present and future outlook. The panel included: Ed Wulfe, Wulfe & Co.; Tim Williamson, Cadence Bank; Reid Wilson, Wilson Cribbs & Goren PC; John Landrum, MHP Investors; Jim Noteware, Noteware Development.
Attendees walked away with a free copy of Ms. McAvey's book and fresh perspective on where the economy is headed.
To order a copy of the book, click here
To view the podcast and event photos, click here
The 2012 ULI Spring Meeting, an exclusive member conference, brought members together, top decision-makers and industry experts from every sector of real estate. To connect to key presentations and details about this year's conference in Charlotte, NC, click here.
Twenty-five Young Leader Group members received the VIP treatment as they enjoyed a hard hat behind-the-scenes tour of Ashton Rice Village. The Hanover Company hosted tour and discussed the latest happenings at this exciting 379-unit, multi-family development in the heart of Rice Village.
To learn more about the Young Leaders Group, click here
WASHINGTON— A joint team of students representing the University of Colorado and Harvard University has won the $50,000 top prize in the 2012 Urban Land Institute (ULI)/Gerald D. Hines Student Urban Design Competition with a long-term redevelopment plan for a new downtown Houston district that includes public open space, integrates into the existing fabric of the surrounding neighborhoods, and brings residential units into the city's core.
The joint team edged out teams from University of California-Berkeley, Columbia University, and the University of Michigan in the final round of the competition, held April 6 in Houston. The three finalist teams split $30,000 in prize funds. The competition was created in 2003 to encourage cooperation and teamwork–necessary talents in the planning, design and development of sustainable communities–among future land use professionals and allied professions, such as architecture, landscape architecture, urban planning, historic preservation, engineering, real estate development, finance, psychology and law. World-renowned real estate developer Gerald D. Hines, chairman and owner of the Hines real estate organization, established the competition and has funded it in perpetuity with a $3 million endowment. He attended the final round and the announcement of the winner.
Read more here
Looking at our weekly activity report from Facebook, I see the number of "friends of fans" is 67,799.
That means if we connected with all the friends of people who have "liked" our ULI Houston Facebook page, we would have reached 67,799 PEOPLE. That's pretty astounding when you realize ULI Houston has about 140 Facebook friends--and we appreciate and cherish each and every one.
You 140 friends of ULI have incredible potential impact.
In fact, that exceeds the approximately 50,000 people who attended ULI District Council programs in the 51 District Councils across the US, Canada and Mexico since July 1. Which is an impressive reach for ULI District Councils (without counting people who attend the big Fall and Spring national ULI meetings).
Small wonder then, when social networks get exercised about some issue, whether it is child soldiers victimized by African civil war, or companies advertising on Rush Limbaugh's radio program, they spark immediate action.
Two years ago, we saw this locally. News of a potential real estate project leaked over a hot, sleepy July 4th weekend. Before Tuesday morning, a Facebook group opposing the project had formed and had over 2,000 "Friends."
Likewise, when someone really, REALLY likes something, it spreads like wildfire. I certainly had no idea what a slow loris was until my daughter mentioned it--yes, on my Facebook page. And when I (of course) Googled it, I went to a You Tube video that had been viewed 4,317,749 times.
They used to say when you lived in a small town, everybody knows your business. Social media can quickly turn the whole world into a small town.
So, all of you Fans of ULI Houston, we'd love to meet more of our neighbors in this small town. Please help us meet more friends of friends. And follow us, if you haven't already. We'd love for you to invite them to join the conversation, although we probably couldn't handle all 67,799 of you at once.
Ann Taylor, ULI Houston Executive Director
Held on April 4th at the Sugar Land Marriott Town Square, "Fast Forward: Developing Dynamic Communities" was well attended by top Houston area real estate executives. Panel speakers covered topics ranging from Houston population growth, water supply, top communities in the area and the state of the economy.
Check out the podcast, photos and presentation here.
Evolving Uptown - This luncheon focused on the Uptown area and how it has kept up its vibrant and lively feel, followed by a panel discussion on exciting new projects ahead.
Featured speakers included: Kevin Batchelor, Hines; Patty Bender, Weingarten Realty Investors; John Breeding, Uptown Houston District; Steven Lerner, The Redstone Companies; Adil Noorani, Hines.
To view the podcast, click here
WASHINGTON– Graduate-level student teams representing the University of California-Berkeley, Columbia University, the University of Michigan, a joint team from the University of Colorado and Harvard University have been selected as finalists for the tenth annual Urban Land Institute (ULI) Gerald D. Hines Student Urban Design Competition. This year's finalists were charged with proposing a long-term vision for creating a distinct identity for Houston's old US Post Office site near downtown.
A grand prize of $50,000 will be awarded to the winning team; and each of the remaining three finalist teams will receive $10,000. This year, applications were submitted from 139 teams representing 64 universities in the United States and Canada, with 695 students participating in total.
Click here to see the full ULI press release, Culture Map article, and KUHF radio story.
Urban Land Institute's Houston District Council hosted its annual Development of Distinction Awards at the Rice Crystal Ballroom. Winners named during the sold-out event were CITYCENTRE, Gulfgate Center and Mandolin Gardens Park.
To view press coverage and more about the event, click here.
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Contribute your opinion pieces or educational articles to this blog—we would be delighted to publish work by our members that will inform our wider community about issues of concern. We are especially interested in material that invites further investigation, creates opportunities to collaborate, challenges conventional wisdom, or invites us to see a familiar landscape with new eyes.
The shared wisdom and experience of you, our members, is what makes ULI unique. Will engaging in ULI as an active member give you connections and tools to be more successful, to make bigger and better deals? Yes. But in addition, being a ULI member brings the responsibility of leadership. Are you up for the challenge of being a leader? Are you ready to be a person of influence, or to maximize your influence by joining with others who share your interest?
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Welcome to the website of the LINK-Group!
The LINK-Group was formed in 2004 by researchers and research students from different fields and different universities to discover the topology and dynamics of networks from amino acids to social networks and ecosystems. The group is a multidisciplinary group requiring and offering a multidimensional understanding of complex systems. We use the network approach to judge the importance of our findings by their transferability to another level of complexity (i.e. from proteins to society or vise versa). Moreover, we use networks as "highways" between remote areas of science resolving creativity-deadlocks by allowing the re-formulation of the original questions at a different field and thereby promoting the creative associations by its different conceptual context. If you want to join us, send your message by clicking here.
ComPPI has been accepted for publication in the NAR Database Issue 2015
October 2014
Our paper "ComPPI: a cellular compartment-specific database for protein-protein interaction network analysis" describing the ComPPI database has been accepted for publication in the Nucleic Acids Research Database Issue 2015.
Turbine wins one of the best poster awards at Interdisciplinary Signaling Workshop 2014
July 2014
The poster "Turbine: Novel dynamic analyses of signaling (and other) networks" by Kristóf Zsolt Szalay and Peter Csermely has won the Best poster award in the Network tools and resources section of the Interdisciplinary Signaling Workshop 2014.
Best interdisciplinary signaling team award
July 2014
The team working on the topic "Can we create large-scale signaling networks?" originating from the LINK-Group at the Interdisciplinary Signaling Workshop 2014 has won the Best interdisciplinary signaling team award!
Members of the group were:
More than 100,000 visitors of the LINK-Group web-site
June 2014
We would like to thank to our more than 100,000 visitors at this web-site.
We continue to add new algorithms, resources, papers, lectures and other information to the site. Please share your comments with us here: http://linkgroup.hu/email.php
Description of Turbine 1.4, an extensive tool for the analysis of network perturbations and dynamics was published in PLoS ONE
September 2013
Turbine 1.4 is an open-source network analysis package for simulating network dynamics. It is particularly suited for experiments involving perturbations (i.e.: observing the effects of outside stimulations on a target network). Turbine is written in C++, and is currently available for Windows and Linux systems. Turbine is able to accommodate any model or real world networks, single, multiple, or continuous perturbations with custom-made delay or dissipation dynamics. You may see a more detailed characterization of the program and download all its components, source code, and detailed instructions here.The PLoS ONE paper describing the results obtained by Turbine can be accessed here: Download the document!
Description of NetworGame 2.0, a program package to simulate spatial games on model and real world networks with individual starting strategies of any nodes was published in PLoS ONE
July 2013
The NetworGame program package is a cross-platform, multi-threaded, generic tool to simulate repeated spatial games. NetworGame accommodates any model or real-world networks and is able to set individual starting strategies to any nodes. The NetworGame program package is a console application augmented with a Graphical User Interface, and a data mining tool, which helps extracting and storing data in comma-separated value (csv) format. You may see a more detailed characterization of the program and download its Linux- or Windows-compatible packages, and detailed instructions here. The PLoS ONE paperdescribing the results obtained by NetworGame can be accessed here:
Our comprehensive review on the use of networks in drug design was published in Pharmacology & Therapeutics and was recommended 2 times as an F1000 Prime paper
May 2013
A comprehensive review on the topology and dynamics of networks was published in Pharmacology & Therapeutics and was recommended 2 times at the maximum, 3-star level as an F1000 Prime paper.
In the review we cited 1270 references, and gave extensive examples on the use of network approach in drug design. Several novel concepts were formulated, including the concept of the "central hit strategy", which selectively targets central node/edges of the flexible networks of infectious agents or cancer cells to kill them. On the contrary, the "network influence strategy" works against other diseases, where an efficient reconfiguration of rigid networks needs to be achieved. The review can be downloaded from here.
Peter Csermely was elected as a member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
May 2013
The LINK-member, Peter Csermely was elected as a member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. The Academy was established in 1825, covers all areas of science and the number of its members younger than 70 years can not be higher than 200.
Our extended signal transduction network and database, SignaLink 2.0 was highlighted by Science Signaling
March 2013
SignaLink 2.0, the recently published extension of our former signaling network and database was highlighted in the March issue of Science Signaling. SignaLink 2.0 is the second network resource from our lab, after ModuLand featured by Science Signaling and included to their selected list of bioinformatics resources.
Peter Csermely was elected as a member of Academia Europaea and as president of the European Council for High Ability
September 2012
LINK-Group member, Peter Csermely was elected at the Bergen-meeting of the Academia Europaea as a member of the academy.
He was also elected as the president of the European Council for High Ability between 2012 and 2016. The Council promotes network building of talent support acitvities in all European countries. This work is supported by the Budapest Centre of Talent Support established in the spring of 2012.
A Cytoscape plug-in of the ModuLand modularization program was published in Bioinformatics
August 2012
An updated version of the user-friendly, platform independent implementation of the LinkLand method of the ModuLand method family published earlier in PLoS ONE became available as a plug-in for the widely used Cytoscape program. The paper introducing the plug-in was published in Bioinformatics and can be accessed here. The introducing paper demonstrates the usefulness of the method
The program file and its User Guide can be downloaded from here.
A joint paper with Ruth Nussinov on the new drug-design paradigm of allo-network drugs was published as the cover story of the December issue of Trends in Pharmacological Sciences
November 2011
The paper proposed that the concept of allosteric drugs can be broadened to allo-network drugs, whose effects can propagate either within a protein, or across several proteins, to enhance or inhibit specific interactions along a pathway. Allo-network drugs can achieve specific, limited changes at the systems level, and in this way can achieve fewer side effects and lower toxicity. The paper summarized possible methods to identify allo-network drug targets and sites. The concept outlined a new paradigm in systems-based drug design. The paper, which was published as the cover story of the December issue of Trends in Pharmacological Sciences, can be downloaded from here.
Ágoston Mihalik's paper showing a partial desintegration of the yeast interactome as a general model of systems level adatptation processes has been published in PLoS Computational Biology
July 2011
The paper described that heat shock induces a marked decrease in the overlap of the communities (modules) of the yeast interactome. Our results indicated that heat shock induces a partial disintegration of the protein-protein interaction network. The residual inter-modular bridges, maintaining the integrity of the interactome after stress, were key proteins of stress-survival. The changes observed may be rather general occurring at the initial phase of crises in many complex systems, such as proteins in physical stretch, ecosystems in abrupt environmental changes or social networks in economic crisis. De-coupling and re-wiring of modules emerges as a general model of adaptation and learning. The paper and its Supplement, which were published in PLoS Computational Biology, can be downloaded from here.
The Hungarian version of the book Weak Links was voted to the best 500 Hungarian books
June 2011
A wide panel of experts has recently determined the "Márai-list", which is a list of the top 500 Hungarian books (including the top 250 non-fiction books) among a competing 8,000 books recommended to all Hungarian libraries. The Hungarian version of the book Weak Links (a 2009 Springer book on networks, which is downloadable from here or at Google) has been included to this selection of the top 250 non-fiction Hungarian books.
A summary paper of our results appeared in Science Signaling: Network-based tools in the identification of novel drug-targets
May 2011
A summary paper and an accompanying slide show of our work appeared in the May 2011 issue of Science Signaling. Slides were updated from the opening presentation at the International Conference on Systems Biology of Human Disease (SBHD) in Boston, Massachusetts, 16 to 18 June 2010. The paper contains several novel ideas on network dynamics and drug design, a summary of our very recent results as well as a brief description of a few ongoing projects. The paper is available here and the accompanying slideshow is downloadable from here.


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I'm a 40-some year old woman and I hate to admit that I haven't had a gynecological exam for at least a couple of years. I do plan on finding a new doctor of course, and soon.
I am embarrassed to also admit to the fact that I truly have no idea of what I am looking for when doing a self-breast exam.
|Wed, 02-02-2011 - 11:42am
i haven't been to my primary care doctor for a general checkup in 4 years, mostly because of insurance changes, but i keep putting it off. i'm embarrassed to admit that i have no idea what my cholesterol looks like, but of course i worry about it all the time, instead of just making an appointment. you're definitely not alone!
when my gynecologist does a breast exam, she presses firmly (not enough to hurt, but enough that you feel the pressure). she checks for anything that feels hard, like a pebble or a frozen pea, and anything that feels unusual (everybody is different, but the tissue should feel the same throughout). if you have pain, you should mention it to your primary care doctor; they are good at looking at body parts as just body parts and nothing more. he is there to help you feel better, and he's seen it all, so you won't be telling him anything he hasn't heard before. or you could make a gynecological appointment ASAP; sometimes pain is just a psychosomatic reminder that it's time for a checkup. good luck :)
|Wed, 02-02-2011 - 4:18pm
Ask the doctor what you need to be watchful for while doing a self-exam. A lot of offices have what looks like a necklace of beads or they might have an artificial breast with a lump in it, so you can know what to be looking for when you do your exam.
I hope the pain has subsided and is not indicative of anything serious.


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As Chickens Go, So Go State's Largest Firms
by Gwen Moritz
Posted 5/23/2005 12:00 am
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"Just a good year in the chicken business."
The words actually came by e-mail from an assistant to Ronald Cameron, chairman and CEO of Mountaire Corp. of North Little Rock. But they explain a lot about this year's list of the state's largest private companies.
Mountaire moved up a notch to No. 5 on this year's list by reporting $905.5 million in revenue during the fiscal year that ended Oct. 31 - an increase of nearly 35 percent from 2003 and a two-year increase of 59 percent.
Simmons Foods Inc. of Siloam Springs reported a 24 percent increase in revenue (to $565 million) and Peterson Farms Inc. of Decatur claimed an increase of nearly 43 percent, to $189 million. Even Latco Inc., the chicken-house builder headquartered at Lincoln that had for years declined to reveal exact revenue numbers, felt like bragging on a 36 percent growth rate — $109 million — last year.
Using those company-provided figures, Arkansas Business estimates that O.K. Industries of Fort Smith had revenue of at least $900 million last year and that George's Inc. of Springdale did at least $600 million.
The annual list of the 75 largest private companies in Arkansas, which appears on Pages 27-31, is once again led by a company that isn't actually in Arkansas: Truman Arnold Cos. of Texarkana, Texas. Arkansas Business has traditionally treated all of Texarkana as part of Arkansas for the purposes of this list. Truman Arnold and E-Z Mart Inc., which dropped one place to No. 11 this year, are the beneficiaries of that policy.
Dropping off the list:
• K-Mac of Fort Smith and World Wide Travel of Little Rock, both of which have been acquired by out-of-state owners;
• Cross Oil Refining & Marketing Inc. of Smackover, which did not respond to repeated requests for information and whose most recent estimate by Thomson Gale Competitive Intelligence was not large enough to make the list; and
• Twin Rivers Group Inc. of Fayetteville, a poultry processor that might well have made the list if owner Matt Duffy had agreed to share revenue data.
Moving onto the list:
• No. 64 ERC Properties of Barling, which reported $97.6 million in revenue for 2003 (and was included in the version of this list that appeared in the Arkansas Business Book of Lists in December). CEO Rod Coleman declined, however, to provide a 2004 revenue figure because "ERC is in some transition within the organization with both product and people." Its current ranking assumes no change in revenue from 2003 to 2004.
• No. 56 USAble Life Insurance Co. of Little Rock, which should have been on the list as a separate company, even though 70 percent of its stock is owned by a subsidiary of Arkansas Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Little Rock;
• No. 72 AmerCable Inc. of El Dorado, which barely missed making the list last year. See story on Pages 22-23.
• No. 75 Carco Capital Inc. of Fort Smith, Carl Corley's holding company, which eased back onto the list for the first time since 2001.
The 75 companies on the list represent $22.25 billion in annual revenue last year, confirmed or estimated. That compares with $19.29 billion in 2003 and $18.21 million in 2002.
The wild card of this list is always Stephens Group Inc. of Little Rock, which is so diverse and tight-lipped as to be impossible to estimate with any confidence. The figure used to rank it No. 2 this year, $1.147 billion, is Thomson Gale's estimate for Stephens Inc., the Stephens Group's investment bank subsidiary.
Some things to note on the list:
• Stephen LaFrance Pharmacy Inc. of Pine Bluff only moved up one spot to No. 13 but had an estimated 47 percent increase in sales last year thanks to the acquisition in July of 61 stores in the Tulsa area.
The estimates of $525 million came from Drug Store News, which published a feature on LaFrance's growing chain of stores in its May 2 issue. Expect a big increase again next year when LaFrance enjoys a full year of revenue from the purchase of the May's and Med-X chains — unless owner Stephen LaFrance takes the chain public by then.
• No. 15 Perfect 10 Distributing Co., the satellite TV dealer in North Little Rock, reported $416.2 million in revenue in 2004. Last year it was ranked 31st based on estimated revenue of $200 million, but it has now revealed that its 2003 revenue was $362.2 million, which would have ranked it at No. 14.
No. 33 National Home Centers Inc. of Springdale reported $221.5 million in revenue for the fiscal year that ended Jan. 31, up 41.4 percent from the previous year. Brent Hanby, executive vice president and chief financial officer for the company owned by Dwain A. Newman, said in an e-mail that the acquisition of OneSource Home & Building Centers of Little Rock helped, but "it is most attributable to comparable store sales increases for the stores we operated prior to buying One Source in Novem-ber 2003.
• No. 35 A. Tenenbaum Co., the North Little Rock salvage yard that declined to release 2004 revenue figures for a feature story published last month, now reports $211.8 million, an increase of more than 13 percent from 2003.
Several of the largest companies are being led by new top executives this year. Among them are Karl D. Kennedy, who succeeded Richard E. Bell as president and CEO of Riceland Foods of Stuttgart; John R. Mills, who succeeded the late Jerry Davis as chairman, president and CEO of Afflilated Foods Southwest of Little Rock; John Guest, who succeeded interim president William P. Sennett at Sparks Health System Inc. of Fort Smith; Mark Bever, who followed Stephen B. Lampkin as CEO of Washington Regional Medical Center; Blake Evans, who took over his grandfather's Peterson Farms Inc. of Decatur; and Don Crabbe, who succeeded Alton Higginbotham as CEO of First Electric Cooperative Corp. of Jacksonville.
And, as also reported in Whispers this week, Ralph Bradbury is returning as president of Continental Express Inc. of Little Rock after a six-year absence. He replace Kelly Wooldridge this week.
Of the 75 companies on the list, 60 provided revenue data on which the rankings were based. The remaining 15 were estimates taken from industry sources (as was the case with LaFrance Pharmacy); from Dun & Bradstreet's Million Dollar Directory or from Thomson Gale Competitive Intelligence, whichever is more recent; or by applying industry trends to earlier data considered reliable, as with George's Inc. and O.K. Industries.
Biggest Revenue Increases
Click here for the chart detailing the biggest revenue increases among companies on the list. (Chart requires Adobe Acrobat viewer. Click here for a free copy.)


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Chance paved the way for an invention that is used all over the world today. If Per-Ingvar Brånemark had not discovered a growth attachment instrument and taken the decision to carry out further research, we may not have had any titanium screws within medicine today.
In an experiment during the 1950s, Per-Ingvar Brånemark discovered that an instrument made out of titanium had grown on to the skeleton of a rabbit. Normally, the body resists and rejects foreign matter. Per-Ingvar Brånemark did further research and succeeded in creating the method which is applied today for the attachment of a number of different artificial limbs.
The method, known as osseointegration, was used for the first time in 1965 to provide a toothless patient with new teeth. The technique is built on anchoring titanium directly to the jawbone without the need for any adjacent tissue. Over a period of time, the titanium grows together with the skeleton. The body does not resist or reject the titanium, but instead believes that it is a part of the body. The titanium screw functions as a tooth root, on which the dentist can attach a new artificial crown or dental bridge. Today, the method is very developed and is also used to attach artificial legs and prostheses for the face.
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Article by Maxim Lubomudrov and Eduard Lyssenker
Mobile banking is a financial revolution. A new reality of "non-cash payments, anytime, anywhere" has been added to the old familiar formula of "cash anytime". Even regulators have decided to stimulate an increase in non-cash payments in the economy. One of the recent initiatives of the Russian Ministry of Finance is a bill proposing restrictions on cash payments in excess of 600,000 RUB.
Mobile banking is now the most attractive means of customer service for credit institutions. In the past, multifunctional ATMs, terminals and Internet banking helped banks to optimize their tellers' performance. However, the high cost of maintaining branches is forcing bankers to look for new opportunities for cost reduction. Now, some banks are even introducing additional charges for executing transactions through tellers, in an attempt to increase the share of transactions through remote channels and thus lower operational costs.
Why is it that what we are seeing is an actual revolution and not simply a logical development in online banking? Mobile banking offers unique opportunities thanks to the technical specifications of smartphones. Because of the "here and now, 24/7" lifestyle. There are no longer any obstacles to conducting banking transactions anytime and anywhere. You can instantly receive notifications and relevant information with a permanent Internet connection. With geolocation and navigation services, users can always quickly locate the nearest branch or a partner bank providing special offers. Cameras allow you to scan receipts or QR codes to make fast payments. In addition, users can make video calls to the bank to arrange a consultation with a specialist.
We are seeing a change in the banker's image as such. Banks are increasingly seen by their customers not as conservative financial institutions, but rather as innovative companies, which use the latest technology and service channels to implement the most advanced solutions, in order to maintain their relevance and appeal to the new generation of customers.


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CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (AP) - The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers says it's still weighing its options amid concerns that a rising Mississippi River could flood Cairo, Ill.
But it's moving barges loaded with explosives closer to a levee downstream from the small town. A federal court has cleared the way for the Corps to blow a hole in the levee to try to prevent flooding in Cairo, Ill.
But the breach could also inundate about 130,000 acres of Missouri farmland.
The state of Missouri had asked the court to block the agency's plan, but the court rejected the request.
(Copyright 2011 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
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Petrobras's IPO just got a little more intriguing. The Brazilian oil giant has announced that it will add another 376m shares to its offering, under an over-allocation option. That could take the IPO to a total of $79bn – three-and-a-half times the world record set by AgBank earlier this year.
The question is why. Does Petrobras think the IPO is going well or badly?
The bearish view is that demand is so low that Petrobras needs to sell the extra shares to finance its $224bn investment plan. (Thursday's FT suggested why this may be the case: the IPO process has dissatisfied many investors, in Brazil and the US.)


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