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Megan Dudley, left, and Carrie Snyder chat outside Free State Brewing Co., 636 Mass., on a Friday afternoon. “This is our spot. We love sitting out here and talking," Snyder said. The mix of food and beverage providers and retailers makes downtown Lawrence a viable business district, although growth in other parts of Lawrence has some concerned about downtown's future. Enlarge photo .
IBM Teams With Simon Fraser University to Fight Crime
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA and TORONTO, ONTARIO--(CCNMatthews - April 23, 2007) - Simon Fraser University has received a $5-million donation from IBM of new technology that will help law enforcement officials fight crime by understanding when, where, and why crimes are committed.
Under the agreement, IBM will work with SFU's Institute for Canadian Urban Research Studies to create a crime prevention and analysis lab. Two RCMP research chairs, Drs. Patricia and Paul Brantingham, will lead research to examine how factors such as city design, the layout of road networks, and shopping mall hours affect the location, frequency and severity of urban crime.
The SFU lab will be equipped with IBM's threat and fraud intelligence and law enforcement technology. This includes IBM's Crime Information Warehouse, Entity Analytic Solutions, Global Name Recognition, Information Integration Suite, DB2 Data Warehouse Edition and OmniFind.
SEEKING CLUES TO OBAMANOMICS
Barack Obama is known mainly for his biography, his charisma and his early opposition to the Iraq war. On many issues, particularly economics, the Democratic presidential candidate is just beginning to fill in the blanks. The emerging picture shows a politician willing to use the government to intervene in markets to further core Democratic goals, though careful to avoid hard-edged liberal rhetoric. -The Wall Street Journal
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True Religion Apparel to Open Two Branded Stores in North Texas ...
VERNON, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--True Religion Apparel, Inc. (Nasdaq:TRLG) today announced the signing of two lease agreements to open new stores at NorthPark Center in Dallas, TX, and at The Americana at Brand in Glendale, CA. Both stores will carry the entire True Religion line of apparel. "There are few malls bigger in square feet or fashion labels than NorthPark Center, and we chose this location for the union of architecture, design, art and high fashion, all of which attracted us to open a branded store in Dallas," said Michael Buckley, president of True Religion Apparel, Inc. "We also chose Glendale for its appeal as the next big shopping destination for Los Angeles with the increasingly popular open-air retail shopping and urban living environments that Southern Californians gravitate toward.
Summer book sale benefits Newspapers in Education
CUMBERLAND - The Cumberland Times-News will collect used books through mid-June for a book sale to be held at the Country Club Mall in July to benefit the Newspaper in Education program. Books may be taken to any Times-News location: 19 Baltimore St.; 19 Broadway, Frostburg; 40 1/2 Main St., Keyser; and 685 Mosser Road, McHenry.Guest Services at Center Court at the Country Club Mall will accept book donations so that people may take a couple of bags of books with them to drop off when they go shopping."We will accept hard-back novels, children's books, cookbooks, craft and gardening books, paperback romances, Westerns, etc.," said Linda Shipway, NIE coordinator. "We accept educational books, but not encyclopedias, outdated textbooks or reference books, National Geographic magazines or Reader's Digest condensed books."The book sale will run from July 5 through 8 during the mall's working hours, according to Shipway.
True Religion Apparel to Open Two Branded Stores in North Texas ...
VERNON, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--True Religion Apparel, Inc. (Nasdaq:TRLG) today announced the signing of two lease agreements to open new stores at NorthPark Center in Dallas, TX, and at The Americana at Brand in Glendale, CA. Both stores will carry the entire True Religion line of apparel. "There are few malls bigger in square feet or fashion labels than NorthPark Center, and we chose this location for the union of architecture, design, art and high fashion, all of which attracted us to open a branded store in Dallas," said Michael Buckley, president of True Religion Apparel, Inc. "We also chose Glendale for its appeal as the next big shopping destination for Los Angeles with the increasingly popular open-air retail shopping and urban living environments that Southern Californians gravitate toward.
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