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Textingly founder David Dundas has previously worked at You Are TV, Social Cord, and mobile startups like Thumbplay and Flycell. At the Disrupt panel last year Dundas talked about the ways in which businesses could engage in a detailed two way conversations with their customers by text. Textingly users, for example, could use their phones to find out how long the line was at their favorite restaurant or movie theater.
Hopefully the “Niets” new owner will move them to Brooklyn soon, making this deal a real local win for NYC.
NEW YORK - A federal judge said yesterday that he would reluctantly approve an amended $150 million settlement between the Securities and Exchange Commission and Bank of America to end civil charges accusing the bank of misleading shareholders when it acquired Merrill Lynch.
But US District Judge Jed S. Rakoff called the revised pact “half-baked justice at best’’ and said the court approved it “while shaking its head.’’ The dispute had been scheduled for trial next week.
The SEC had accused Bank of America of failing to disclose to shareholders before they voted on the Merrill deal that it had authorized Merrill to pay up to $5.8 billion in bonuses to its employees in 2008, even though the investment bank lost $27.6 billion that year.
He said his approval depends on both sides formally ratifying the amended agreement by Thursday, including a change he had recommended - that an independent auditor to oversee accounting at the bank be fully acceptable to the SEC, with the judge having final say if the two sides cannot agree.
The new deal also requires that the independent auditor assess whether the bank’s accounting controls and procedures are adequate to assure proper public disclosures. And it calls for the bank to begin submitting executive compensation recommendations to shareholders for a nonbinding vote of approval or disapproval over the next three years.
The judge said he would have rejected the revised settlement, which he said provides shareholders a few pennies per share, if he were deciding the issue solely on the merits. But he said the law requires him to give substantial deference to the SEC’s view.
The $150 million penalty is the largest ever levied by the SEC for a violation of that kind, Nester said, noting that the settlement also calls for internal changes to be made by the bank to avoid future violations of disclosure rules.
"A poignant moment in Vietnam during the Thanksgiving holiday. Not quite sure what year this was filmed. I couldn't help but raise a smile roundabout the 1:14 mark when the commentator alternated between the contents of the helicopter supplies. Dinner was for 150, but only 144 actually sat down to eat it."
The elections office said 9,777 voters didn’t receive information on Measure D in their voter information guides. For more details go here.
The Nevada County elections office has mailed additional information to voters after learning some people didn’t receive any documentation about Measure D, authorities said.
The omission affects no sample or official ballots for the Grass Valley school bond measure. Instead the information is missing from voter information guides only, elections officials said.
“We deeply regret this error and any inconvenience to affected voters,” a release states.
Information about the measure also is available online.
The measure, on the June 5 ballot, asks voters to approve $18.8 million in bonds. The projected tax rate is 2.4 cents per $100 of a property’s assessed value.
Local small business Town Barre is celebrating its one-year anniversary this month in Marblehead.
The owner of Town Barre, Michelle Nigro, started the small business last October part time. Since last October, she has quit her full-time job in public relations, increased her classes from four to 15 a week and now teaches at three different gyms, Marblehead Fitness Center, Studio 21 in Swampscott and Velocity Fitness in Lynn. Town Barre also now offers barre; TRX; and cardio dance, a Top 40s spin-off from Zumba.
Town Barre’s staff consists of three former New England Patriots cheerleaders from the Marblehead area: Nigro; Danielle Beatrice, owner of Studio 21; and Siobhan O’Keefe from Salem.
Nigro’s goal when she started Town Barre was to create a community where clients felt comfortable and motivated to come in and work their way to a happier and healthier body and mind. She wanted to create a fun spot where they are known, like their local town bar.
“Despite not having my own physical space, I am so proud of where that community is a year later and excited for how Town Barre will grow this year and to meet more people in the North Shore,” Nigro said.
What time AII DEC SF SPL depart from अजमेर जं. Railway Station?
अजमेर जं. दिल्ली कैंट स्पेशल (09627) departs from अजमेर जं. Railway Station at 05:45.
How much time AII DEC SF SPL take to reach दिल्ली कैंट Railway Station?
अजमेर जं. दिल्ली कैंट स्पेशल reach on day 1 to दिल्ली कैंट Railway Station. The arrival time of अजमेर जं. दिल्ली कैंट स्पेशल at दिल्ली कैंट Railway Station is 11:05.
Distance covered by अजमेर जं. दिल्ली कैंट स्पेशल?
अजमेर जं. दिल्ली कैंट स्पेशल covers 363 km to reach दिल्ली कैंट Railway Station at average speed of 69 km/hr. अजमेर जं. दिल्ली कैंट स्पेशल passes through 13 stations.
TOWNSHIP 3, RANGE 8, Maine — Maine sportsmen were outraged when Roxanne Quimby, the conservation-minded founder of Burt’s Bees cosmetics, bought up tens of thousands of acres of Maine’s fabled North Woods — and had the audacity to forbid hunters, loggers, snowmobiles and all-terrain vehicles on the expanses.
Quimby confronted the hornet’s nest she’d stirred up head-on — calling one of her sharpest critics, George Smith, then-executive director of the Sportsman’s Alliance of Maine. Smith couldn’t believe his ears. The back-to-the-earth advocate who made millions with her eco-friendly line of personal care products was calling him at home, on a Saturday morning?
That call in 2006 opened a face-to-face dialogue with some of her biggest critics over the land she’s bought — more than 120,000 acres of woodlands.
Quimby wants to give more than 70,000 wild acres next to Maine’s cherished Baxter State Park to the federal government, hoping to create a Maine Woods National Park. She envisions a visitor center dedicated to Henry David Thoreau, the naturalist who made three trips to Maine in the 1800s.
The park would be nearly twice the size of Maine’s Acadia National Park.
In a giveback to sportsmen, her vision is to set aside another 30,000 acres of woodlands north of Dover-Foxcroft to be managed like a state park, with hunting and snowmobiling allowed.
“There’s enough land that we can all get what we want,” said Quimby.
The multi-millionaire disarmed her critics, who thought they’d have to deal with a patchouli-scented eccentric. What they found was a woman who thinks big, but is a pragmatic problem-solver; someone who has strong ideals, but is willing to compromise; a self-made businesswoman who’s willing to put up her own millions to achieve her conservation goals.
Smith, for one, came to respect and admire her.
If she can win support, Quimby wants to time her donation in five years to the 100th anniversary of the creation of the National Park Service. It would be her gift, her legacy.
The Park Service is intrigued by Quimby’s idea, especially since it believes the Northeast is underserved. The last time a large national park was created was in Alaska in the 1980s during the Carter administration.
The proposed national park land occupies a wild sprawl east of Baxter State Park. Much of it is covered with saplings as it recovers from logging operations that ended five years ago. Mountain ridges offer breathtaking views of Mount Katahdin, Maine’s tallest mountain and the northern end of the Appalachian Trail.
At the eastern boundary is the East Branch of the Penobscot River, on which Thoreau enjoyed a ride in a flat-bottomed bateau on his last visit to the region in 1857.
Animal tracks crisscross the snow-covered land, evidence that it’s teeming with wildlife, even during Maine’s harsh winter. Moose have made figure-8’s in the snow during their playful jousting. Smaller tracks indicate snowshoe hares, fisher cats and coyotes. Endangered Canada lynx also prowl the area.
A native of Massachusetts, Quimby was the black sheep of a family in which her father was an engineer and a salesman, and her sisters both earned their MBAs. Foregoing the business track, she went to art school in San Francisco, where she joined the “good life” back-to-the-land movement led by Helen and Scott Nearing.
With $3,000 in savings, she and her boyfriend ended up in Maine in 1975 — not because of the state’s rugged natural beauty but because the land was cheap.
They bought 30 acres in Guilford and built a cabin with an outhouse. They cut their own firewood. What staples they didn’t grow, they bought in 60-pound bags.
Eventually, Quimby met beekeeper Burt Shavitz, the namesake whose bearded face appears on the labels of Burt’s Bees lip balm, moisturizers and shampoos.
Quimby used Burt’s beeswax to create candles she sold at craft fairs in 1984. In the first year, her company made $20,000. The candles gained popularity in boutiques and specialty stores and within five years, there were 40 employees. In 1991, Burt’s Bees introduced what remains its most popular product — lip balm made from beeswax.
As the business grew, Quimby did something that stabbed at the heart of Mainers: She moved her business out of Maine, which she said was a punishing place to do business.
She relocated to a windowless, climate-controlled building the size of a small Wal-Mart in a North Carolina industrial park. She eventually bought out Shavitz’s shares.
Quimby made plenty of money without an MBA, moving easily between the business world and her passions for art, wildlife, conservation and the environment.
As Burt’s Bees grew, she began buying land for conservation. Once again, she chose to buy in Maine.
In 2003, she sold 80 percent of Burt’s Bees for $170 million, she said. The investor group told her she’d make that much again, when the remaining 20 percent was sold. And indeed, she made another $180 million when she sold her remaining stake four years later to Clorox, which now owns Burt’s Bees.
All of that money — roughly $350 million — will buy a lot of land.
Quimby, now 60, says she always felt Maine tugging at her and later learned why. It is her spiritual home, where her forebears had settled. The Quimby name runs deep in Maine.
But to many Mainers, she’ll always be “from away” — Maine’s expression for an outsider — because she wasn’t born here. And her vast land purchases continue to make some sportsmen uneasy because she’s personally opposed to hunting, and the use of noisy and oil-consuming snowmobiles and ATVs.
Paul Reynolds, an outdoorsman and editor of the Northwoods Sporting Journal, was particularly alarmed late last year when Quimby was named to the National Park Foundation, which raises money to assist park service programs and acquisitions. The post could give her influence with the Park Service.
Reynolds believes that despite her concessions to sportsmen Quimby shouldn’t be trusted because at her core she’s opposed to hunting and motorized recreation. He’s described her as a “clever tactician” and “a shrewd, self-made businesswoman” who knows how to get her way.
“I’m not convinced that she’s had a turn of heart,” Reynolds said.
Bob Meyers of the Maine Snowmobile Association sees things differently. He credits Quimby for opening a discussion with sporting groups and other stakeholders and for working to accommodate others’ needs.
“The door kind of swung both ways. We have a pretty good relationship with her now. I think she feels the same way about us. We communicate on a regular basis. That’s the way it should be,” he said.
Things have changed since Quimby first started buying land.
The state’s mighty paper mills have continued to struggle, and unemployment remains high. Vast tracts of land are changing hands. Seattle-based Plum Creek Timber Co. plans the largest subdivision in Maine history, smack dab in the Moosehead Lake region, part of the wilderness where Thoreau tromped.
Plum Creek’s development plan reminded all that large, unspoiled tracts that aren’t conserved could be turned into housing tracts by private landowners.
Quimby says a new national park would conserve land and create jobs by drawing millions of additional visitors to the region to stay and spend.
It remains to be seen whether Quimby is one day mentioned in the same breath as Percival Baxter, who donated the land that became Baxter State Park, or George Dorr, whose efforts helped create Acadia National Park.
These days, she lives most of the year in a home built by the Baxter family in Portland, where one of her philanthropic organizations is creating an “artist-in-residence” program. Others distribute millions of dollars each year in Maine.
“I have a big imagination and I’m an artist and I went to art school, so I’ve fostered that sort of big-picture stuff. But I’m really interested in getting things done,” she said.
Eugene Conlogue, town manager in Millinocket, said many outdoorsmen remain incensed over her restrictions on land they’re accustomed to using for recreation, and for professional logging. But he sees a multi-faceted person.
“You can trust her word. She’s one of these folks that if you shake her hand on a deal, then it’s a deal,” Conlogue said.
GENEVA – A Swiss magistrate investigating allegations of corrupt links between a Swiss regional prosecutor and FIFA chief Gianni Infantino and has closed his investigation, clearing him of any suspicion.
The special prosecutor appointed late last year concluded that gifts that Rinaldo Arnold received were not aimed at influencing his work, said a statement from his office. Arnold is a prosecutor in the southern canton of Valais.
Arnold had been suspected of receiving the gifts from FIFA chief Infantino, which included match tickets, in return for favours, said the statement. The case was closed on April 10.
The investigation was launched last year as a result of “Football Leaks”, a cross-border investigation by several European news organisations based on a massive leak of hacked data in 2016.
Rui Pinto, a Portuguese hacker linked to the leaks, is being held in Portugal awaiting trial there on charges of “aggravated attempted extortion” and data theft. If convicted he could face up to 10 years in prison.
Perfect for a custom home or build for the market, last building lot in an attractive neighborhood. Muskopf Farms is an inviting subdivision where the homes are well cared for on the west side of town, very near the city park and new swimming pool complex. The nice roll to the backyard may be an excellent candidate for a walkout basement.
Directions US 27 North To Oxford; Left On Chestnut St Which Becomes Brookville Rd; Autumn Drive On The Right.
As Victor Martinez tried to decide where to play next season, one of his countrymen contacted him about the possibility of teaming up in Detroit.
Now Martinez and Miguel Cabrera will form a powerful duo in the middle of the lineup for the Tigers.
Detroit introduced Martinez yesterday after completing a four-year contract with the 31-year-old switch-hitter. The Tigers� top priority this offseason was to add another big bat, so Cabrera helped recruit his fellow Venezuelan.
Detroit had reached a preliminary agreement with Martinez on a $50 million, four-year contract.
Martinez hit .302 with 20 home runs and 79 RBIs in 127 games with Boston last season. He started 106 games at catcher, but that number may be cut in half now that he�s with the Tigers, who want him to be their designated hitter while occasionally filling in behind the plate. Alex Avila is still expected to be the team�s No. 1 catcher.
Detroit already re-signed third baseman Brandon Inge and shortstop Jhonny Peralta this offseason, and the Tigers added reliever Joaquin Benoit last week. They were looking for another offensive threat to go along with Cabrera, the slugging first baseman who hit .328 with 38 home runs in 2010 and finished second to Josh Hamilton in the AL MVP vote.
Even with Cabrera�s production, the Tigers finished only eighth in the American League in runs and went 81-81. They were hurt by injuries to Inge, Magglio Ordo�ez and Carlos Guillen.
�Once Magglio went down, we didn�t have another offensive force in the middle of our lineup,� Dombrowski said.
Ordo�ez is recovering from right ankle surgery and played only 84 games. The Tigers did not exercise his $15 million option, so he�s a free agent. Dombrowski had left open the possibility of Ordonez returning to the Tigers, but he wouldn�t comment yesterday on whether there was still a chance of that.
Detroit finished 13 games behind AL Central-winning Minnesota. The Tigers were unable to capitalize on an impressive season by center fielder Austin Jackson, who finished second in the Rookie of the Year race. With a rotation anchored by Justin Verlander and Max Scherzer, the Tigers were clearly hoping for an immediate return to contention, and Dombrowski wasted no time identifying players he wanted to keep or add.
Martinez was signed by the Indians as a 17-year-old shortstop, then developed into an All-Star. He played in Cleveland from 2002 until he was traded to the Red Sox during the 2009 season.
Martinez was limited to 73 games in 2008 because of an elbow injury, but he bounced back to hit 23 homers in 155 games with Cleveland and Boston the following year.
The Los Angeles Dodgers and free agent pitcher Jon Garland have agreed to a $5 million, one-year contract that includes a club option and could be worth $16 million over two seasons.
The right-hander went 14-12 with a 3.47 ERA in 200 innings for the San Diego Padres last year.
In 2009, Garland played for Arizona and Los Angeles and went 11-12 with a 4.01 ERA. He was acquired by Los Angeles on Aug. 31, 2009, for infielder Tony Abreu and went 3-2 with a 2.72 ERA in six starts for the Dodgers.
Garland can make $3 million in performance bonuses next year. Los Angeles has an $8 million team option for 2012 that could become guaranteed depending on his 2011 performance.
The Minnesota Twins have 30 days to sign Japanese infielder Tsuyoshi Nishioka after submitting the highest bid for his negotiating rights.
The Chiba Lotte Marines announced yesterday they had accepted the bid for the 26-year-old Nishioka.
If no agreement is reached, the Marines will not receive the fee.
The deadline for bids was Wednesday.
More than 10 years in the making, ground was formally broken this morning at the Leominster Business Park, a site state and local leaders hope will be ready for business when the economic climate improves.
Lt. Gov. Timothy P. Murray was on hand to mark the occasion as earthmovers continued work upgrading Tanzio Road to open up 50 acres of industrial land. More than $2.7 million in state money has been allocated for roadway and infrastructure improvements to the road.
Developers Gregg Lisciotti and Ernest Lattanzio each have interests in the property and prior disputes over the land resulted in litigation. All suits are settled now, however, and both men took the podium to salute a brighter future for the spot.
Mr. Lisciotti saluted the efforts of former state Sen. Robert A. Antonioni, D-Leominster, and his former chief of staff Wendy Wiiks, who were both in attendance this morning. Mr. Antonioni is a lawyer in private practice and Ms. Wiiks works in City Hall.
�This new road will serve as a catalyst for new business to grow and to prosper,� said Mr. Lisciotti.