| Black Chandelier to close its stores in Murray, Provo
The Black Chandelier stores at Fashion Place mall in Murray and the Shops at Riverwoods in Provo are closing. The two stores are the newest in the four-store chain. Black Chandelier's parent company Nexia Holdings Inc., a subsidiary of Gold Fusion Laboratories Inc., was unable to raise sufficient capital to properly stock all the locations and sales suffered. About 20 people will lose their jobs, Nexia said in a news release this week. Black Chandelier will ship merchandise from the closed stores to the remaining stores and will save $50,000 in negative cash flow per month. Nexia, a Salt Lake City-based health, beauty, fashion and real-estate company, had attempted to raise up to $10 million in an equity line of credit but was unable to get the registration statement cleared through the Securities and Exchange Commission for more than 20 months.
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Over the past four weeks, the City of Sydney Council has been trialling the provision of free Wi-Fi services in its libraries. With only a fortnight to go before the hotspots are switched off, a spokesperson has said that users won't have long to wait before access becomes a permanent fixture. Domain bureaucrats: Bungling the .gov.au space Australia's second level domain name system for government may have an air of legitimacy, but bureaucratic bungling is confusing Web administration between levels of government, according to one German researcher. Dell, CEOs put energy into efficency lobby Michael Dell and other high-profile technology company CEOs descended on Washington this week with a message for the US government: do more to encourage energy-efficient practices, but don't spell out specific standards for the products that companies like theirs build.
Wynwood residents call for unity on affordable housing
When Teo Martinez looks out her front door, she can see workers demolishing a Wynwood building that long housed working-class folks. She saw the renters, some whom she believes lived there for decades, evicted. ''Instead of fixing that place up for the people who have been living there for 30 years, the owners kicked them out,'' Martinez said from behind the lectern. She's worried about her own future in Wynwood. Martinez shared this story with about 100 people Saturday at a call-to-action meeting in the auditorium of José de Diego Middle School, 3100 NW Fifth Ave. As a member of Miami en Acción (Miami in Action), a group which advocates for people facing displacement in their neighborhood, Martinez knew she had to do something.
D'Arrigo Bros., UFW reach accord after 32 years
After more than 30 years of gridlock, the United Farm Workers union and Salinas Valley vegetable firm DArrigo Brothers Co. have settled on a contract. The agreement, which took effect Oct. 21, was reached after a state labor board ordered the produce company to work with a mediator to resolve differences with the union. Employees had been working without a contract since agreeing to membership in the union in 1975. .
Why the future doesn't need us.
My friend Amory Lovins recently cowrote, along with Hunter Lovins, an editorial that provides an ecological view of some of these dangers. Among their concerns: that "the new botany aligns the development of plants with their economic, not evolutionary, success." (See "A Tale of Two Botanies," page 247.) Amory's long career has been focused on energy and resource efficiency by taking a whole-system view of human-made systems; such a whole-system view often finds simple, smart solutions to otherwise seemingly difficult problems, and is usefully applied here as well. After reading the Lovins' editorial, I saw an op-ed by Gregg Easterbrook inThe New York Times (November 19, 1999) about genetically engineered crops, under the headline: "Food for the Future: Someday, rice will have built-in vitamin A.
Armenians vote in presidential election
Armenian Prime Minister and presidential candidate Serzh Sarkisian casts his ballot at a polling station in Yerevan, Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2008. Armenians vote for a new president on Tuesday in a race that pits the incumbent prime minister against the country's first president. .
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Sandra Burkhardt, professor of psychology at St. Xavier University, has received the 2008 Venerable Mary Potter Humanitarian Award. Burkhardt was honored at the Little Company of Mary Hospital and Health Care Center's Crystal Heart Ball held Feb. 2 at The Field Museum. The Venerable Mary Potter Humanitarian Award recognizes individuals whose personal and professional accomplishments embody the ideals, vision and mission of the founder of the Little Company of Mary Sisters.Burkhardt's award recognizes her support of families of children with autism spectrum disorders. Her work involves research, clinical services and community outreach. She founded Project Respect, an educational and recreational program supported by the Community Outreach Program of the Psychology Department of St. Xavier University.
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