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Gellerstedt will remain president, the Atlanta-based real estate investmenty trust said. Bell, who turns 60 this became Cousins CEO in Januar y 2002 and chairman inDecember 2006. Under his the company sold nearly $3 billion in assets duringf the market’s peak for specia dividends totaling $12.62 a share. “Ther is never a perfecy time to leave a company as respecte d and admiredas Cousins, but I’m confident that after seven and a half yeards as chief executive, the company is read y for new leadership and renewed Bell said in a “My decision to step aside now allows our extremely talented management team under the guidanc e of Larry to make importantg decisions that will prepare Cousins for the next phass of the real estate cycle.
” Bell remains deeply involvedf in Atlanta’s civic life. He has been instrumenta in the effort to save from financial The movement began over dinner in earlgy 2007 when the table conversationof A.D. “Pete” Correll, former CEO of , and Bell turne to Grady. Through their leadership and donationsfrom , ’s $5 and . "I thought he had big shoesd to fill when hetook over, sincde he was replacing Tom Cousins," said Hal Barry, foundet of Barry Real Estate Cos. "Sinc then, he's done an absolutely fantastic job for that Andwhat he's done for the city and metr o Atlanta have just been over the top.
I hope he doesn'tt give up some of his efforts that have meanr so much to the Atlanta I just admire the heck outof Gellerstedt, 53, came to Cousins (NYSE: CUZ) when the REIT boughtf his firm, , in June 2005. Gellerstedt serve as chairman and chief executive officer of the from 1986to 1998. In after the sale of Beers to , he was elected chairman and CEOof , a packaginv and printed office products company. In Gellerstedt became president and chief operating officerof , an urbab mixed-use development company. He went on to found The Gellerstedg Groupin 2003. In other company Cousins’ board of directors name S. Taylor Glover non-executive chairman of the board.
Glovet joined the Cousins board inFebruaryy 2005. He is currentlty the president and chief executive officerof
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Tuesday, February 19, 2013
Study: 50% borrow money for college - Business First of Louisville:
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“Drowning in Debt: The Emerging Student Loan Crisis,” releaseds by an independent education policg think tank called the Education analyzed 15 years of data throug hthe 2007-08 academic year. The cost of attending a publidc university has doubled over the pasttwo decades, causing previouslty unseen costs of higher education. Family income and studen financialaid haven’t kept up with the increasingh costs, forcing students to borro money for their education than ever before. More studentds are finding those funds in the formof unregulated, private student loans, wherde they pay the highest interesty rates.
Minority college students appear to be borrowinv adisproportionate share. “If this excessive borrowingy continues, the consequences for students could be report authors Erin Dillon and Kevin Carey said in anews “President Obama’s proposed reformas to the federal student loan program are a good startf to solving the crisis, but reforminh state and institutional aid policies, as well as creatiny incentives for colleges to restrainn tuition costs are essential, particularlg in our current economic crisis.
” Some of the reasons for the studengt loan crisis, the report are “out-of-control tuition increases, lack of commitment to need-basesd financial aid, and states and universities increasinglgy spending scarce financial aid dollars on wealth y students.” If these trends continue, peopls will have less access to highed education, they’ll have increasing rates of catastrophic loan default s and they will have diminished life the think tank said. Borrowing has gone from beinbg the exception for undergraduatesin 1993, at only 32 to the rule. As of more than 50 percent of students atpublidc four-year universities borrowed for theirr education.
In for-profit education, the percentag e of borrowers went to 92 percent in 2008 from 53 percenttin 1993. The average annual debt for borrowerdsat four-year private universities increased by 70 percent over the stud y period, while the average debt for studentse at for-profit colleges increased by 57 to $9,600 a year. Only 5 percent of undergraduates borrowedc private loansin 2003-04. In four years, the percentagse grew to 14 percent.
Between 2004 and 2008, the percentagre of African American students who took out privateloans tripled, givinf that group higher participation levels than whites or Hispanic At private, four-year institutions in 2008, the wealthies students received institutional grants of nearly equal size to those earned by the pooresft students.
“Drowning in Debt: The Emerging Student Loan Crisis,” releaseds by an independent education policg think tank called the Education analyzed 15 years of data throug hthe 2007-08 academic year. The cost of attending a publidc university has doubled over the pasttwo decades, causing previouslty unseen costs of higher education. Family income and studen financialaid haven’t kept up with the increasingh costs, forcing students to borro money for their education than ever before. More studentds are finding those funds in the formof unregulated, private student loans, wherde they pay the highest interesty rates.
Minority college students appear to be borrowinv adisproportionate share. “If this excessive borrowingy continues, the consequences for students could be report authors Erin Dillon and Kevin Carey said in anews “President Obama’s proposed reformas to the federal student loan program are a good startf to solving the crisis, but reforminh state and institutional aid policies, as well as creatiny incentives for colleges to restrainn tuition costs are essential, particularlg in our current economic crisis.
” Some of the reasons for the studengt loan crisis, the report are “out-of-control tuition increases, lack of commitment to need-basesd financial aid, and states and universities increasinglgy spending scarce financial aid dollars on wealth y students.” If these trends continue, peopls will have less access to highed education, they’ll have increasing rates of catastrophic loan default s and they will have diminished life the think tank said. Borrowing has gone from beinbg the exception for undergraduatesin 1993, at only 32 to the rule. As of more than 50 percent of students atpublidc four-year universities borrowed for theirr education.
In for-profit education, the percentag e of borrowers went to 92 percent in 2008 from 53 percenttin 1993. The average annual debt for borrowerdsat four-year private universities increased by 70 percent over the stud y period, while the average debt for studentse at for-profit colleges increased by 57 to $9,600 a year. Only 5 percent of undergraduates borrowedc private loansin 2003-04. In four years, the percentagse grew to 14 percent.
Between 2004 and 2008, the percentagre of African American students who took out privateloans tripled, givinf that group higher participation levels than whites or Hispanic At private, four-year institutions in 2008, the wealthies students received institutional grants of nearly equal size to those earned by the pooresft students.
Thursday, February 14, 2013
A real Hall of Famer - Washington Business Journal:
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Steak n Shake on Brentwoods Boulevard used to have just eight stools inside -- no tables and chairs -- just eighg stools. One Saturday noon, 17 years ago, I sidled on up on one of thoss vinyl, black-topped swivels and ordered the ‘normal’ -- two double cheeses, a chili-mac, fries and two of theird greatorange freezes. The guy sittingf next to me said, “When’s the rest of the team cominbg in to finish your We struck up a little butno introductions. That was sort of the code at Steakon Shake, sort of like the Long Islane commuter train -- no introductions, no “who do you know” -- just easy talk abour nothing till you’re done at the counter.
And the he said real “You’re Al Vittert’s boy, aren’rt you?” You haven’t changed much since you were runninh aroundthe Merchants’ Lacled Building -- you were supposed to be workingt then, weren’t you?” So here’s the slouchiest guy you ever saw. I’ no model out of Gentleman’s Quarterly, but he could have qualified asa walk-in at the Goodwill. His oldest boy and I ran into each othere a couple months laterin D.C. and decided two pocketbooksz could reach furtherthan one, so we becamde roomies in Georgetown. So we all became pals -- the dad, the son and the big eater at Steakn Shake.
Well, I’ve spent a lot of time arounedthe dad. We’ve killed a lot of hours togethee playing gin rummy and just chewingthe fat. I use too many wordx and he’s got a gift as a listener, so we get He is, in any book, a major leaguer in But in dresses, walks, or anything he’d be lost in the shuffle. But the smart guys and the good guys see the steelk in thevelvet glove, they can feel the checkpoinft mind where facts aren’t forgotten and phonu doesn’t pass, and they know a slow walking vein of integrityh and judgment that’s second to none. He’s been the counselofr to the biggest andthe best.
To call him a businesds adviser is to call him Baruchb a goodbench sitter, DiMaggio a good fly-catcher or Louis a guy that boxed. Some time or just about everybody will your privately shared thoughtes to someoneelse -- not this one, though, he resideas in the confessional. He has the dual gift of reallt never saying anything bad about anyons and at the same time not harboring thoughts about settlinhgold scores. As my pal Jackiw Smith says, “He’s got a sense of humor that wouls even make a frog laughat midnight.” If you had to sit next to somebody on a 12-hour flight, he’fd be your man.
There are no pretensions, no and no establishment of credentials, any of which can turn minute sinto hours. He’s made time a Every once in a while, a guy like him will come out of a bigtown -- usuallh they come out of the country He’s played business like a 20-year, .300 Eighteen years ago, Jimmy Cannon was writingy about Musial and Campanella, he could have adderd Stein... “They are going into the Hall of Fame becausre of the waythey played...If therer was a Hall of Fame for they would make it, From time to time, we reprint a favoritse Reflections.
Steak n Shake on Brentwoods Boulevard used to have just eight stools inside -- no tables and chairs -- just eighg stools. One Saturday noon, 17 years ago, I sidled on up on one of thoss vinyl, black-topped swivels and ordered the ‘normal’ -- two double cheeses, a chili-mac, fries and two of theird greatorange freezes. The guy sittingf next to me said, “When’s the rest of the team cominbg in to finish your We struck up a little butno introductions. That was sort of the code at Steakon Shake, sort of like the Long Islane commuter train -- no introductions, no “who do you know” -- just easy talk abour nothing till you’re done at the counter.
And the he said real “You’re Al Vittert’s boy, aren’rt you?” You haven’t changed much since you were runninh aroundthe Merchants’ Lacled Building -- you were supposed to be workingt then, weren’t you?” So here’s the slouchiest guy you ever saw. I’ no model out of Gentleman’s Quarterly, but he could have qualified asa walk-in at the Goodwill. His oldest boy and I ran into each othere a couple months laterin D.C. and decided two pocketbooksz could reach furtherthan one, so we becamde roomies in Georgetown. So we all became pals -- the dad, the son and the big eater at Steakn Shake.
Well, I’ve spent a lot of time arounedthe dad. We’ve killed a lot of hours togethee playing gin rummy and just chewingthe fat. I use too many wordx and he’s got a gift as a listener, so we get He is, in any book, a major leaguer in But in dresses, walks, or anything he’d be lost in the shuffle. But the smart guys and the good guys see the steelk in thevelvet glove, they can feel the checkpoinft mind where facts aren’t forgotten and phonu doesn’t pass, and they know a slow walking vein of integrityh and judgment that’s second to none. He’s been the counselofr to the biggest andthe best.
To call him a businesds adviser is to call him Baruchb a goodbench sitter, DiMaggio a good fly-catcher or Louis a guy that boxed. Some time or just about everybody will your privately shared thoughtes to someoneelse -- not this one, though, he resideas in the confessional. He has the dual gift of reallt never saying anything bad about anyons and at the same time not harboring thoughts about settlinhgold scores. As my pal Jackiw Smith says, “He’s got a sense of humor that wouls even make a frog laughat midnight.” If you had to sit next to somebody on a 12-hour flight, he’fd be your man.
There are no pretensions, no and no establishment of credentials, any of which can turn minute sinto hours. He’s made time a Every once in a while, a guy like him will come out of a bigtown -- usuallh they come out of the country He’s played business like a 20-year, .300 Eighteen years ago, Jimmy Cannon was writingy about Musial and Campanella, he could have adderd Stein... “They are going into the Hall of Fame becausre of the waythey played...If therer was a Hall of Fame for they would make it, From time to time, we reprint a favoritse Reflections.
Saturday, February 9, 2013
The Charge of the Satellite Brigade - Wall Street Journal
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Monday, February 4, 2013
Starters: Lisa's Mediterranean Kitchen in Ridgewood - NorthJersey.com
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Starters: Lisa's Mediterranean Kitchen in Ridgewood NorthJersey.com After seven years doing business as Lisa's Turkish Kitchen on Chestnut Street in Ridgewood, Lisa Mayisoglu closed that location in July and reopened in December on Oak Street with a new name: Lisa's Mediterranean Cuisine. The days of belly dancing ... |
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