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Bellevue Square developer Kemper Freeman Jr. and Seattle-based development firm Wright Runstad may still be competing for tenants for their ambitious projects on opposite sides of Interstate 405.

But they're no longer fighting over the traffic Wright Runstad's planned Spring District project will bring to the Bel-Red Corridor and roads leading downtown.

After three years of conflict which played out in last year's City Council elections the battle came to a close this week before a city hearing examiner: The two developers reached agreement on what's needed to make sure roads don't become gridlocked.

Freeman's Kemper Development and Wright Runstad signed on to a four-way deal Thursday that will allow construction of 1.5 million square feet of office space in The Spring District without further traffic studies.

But Wright Runstad and its partner, Shorenstein Properties, will be required to do a detailed analysis of future traffic congestion before building the remainder of the 5.4 million-square-foot project on the site of a former Safeway distribution center.

The Spring District is expected to bring 13,000 office workers, 2,135 residents and 10,000 parking spaces, sparking redevelopment of the 900-acre industrial area east of downtown. Sound Transit plans to open a light-rail station on the site in 2023.

Kemper, Wright Runstad, the Brierwood Center strip mall and the city of Bellevue signed the agreement after two days of testimony before the hearing examiner. Kemper and Brierwood withdrew their appeal of The Spring District's master plan approval in exchange for the city requiring a future study of cumulative traffic impacts.

The city previously had decided that a traffic study for the entire Bel-Red Corridor, together with phased studies of The Spring District impacts, was sufficient.

The hearing examiner is continuing to take testimony on a separate appeal by Lake Bellevue condominium and business owners, who fear the nearby development could bring flooding, water pollution, a drop in the lake's water level and possible damage to buildings built on peaty soils.

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SEOUL, South Korea, Sept. 8, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Dr. Jeong-Chan Ra, founder and largest shareholder of RNL Bio (www.rnl.co.kr),an international biotechnology research and development firm, has pledged to give away 90% of his personal wealth over the next 10 years to promote social causes consistent with the values of human life. Dr. Ra will donate 90% privately owned equity, equity-related bonds, warrants and other assets of RNL Bio Co. and RNL Bio affiliates to the following four non-profit organizations: Bethesda Life Foundation, Yesung Medical Corporation, Academia Christiana of Korea, and Central Christian Academy.

Since 2009, Dr. Ra, based on the value of respect for human life, has supported various causes that promote social justice, access to health care, and wellness across the lifespan. A donation of $1M from Dr. Ra established the Bethesda Life Foundation (http://www.bethesdalife.org/index.php/donate), a nonprofit organization for social welfare, committed to providing patients with chronic rare diseases with access to medical care and life-saving therapies.

Through his donation, Dr. Ra wants to continue his healthcare support for those with retractable diseases as well as support for educating children of underprivileged patients with such diseases. Dr. Ra "hoped that this donation becomes the turning point for RNL Bio to fulfill its responsibility as a society helping enterprise." He also explained that while he continues to serve as a stem cell scientist at RNL Stem Cell Technology Institute he plans to focus his efforts upon the research on finding cure of rare chronic diseases.

Dr. Ra's gift is made in the spirit of other major corporate leaders worldwide who have become instrumental philanthropists by converting their personal fortune into a foundation for good, including Bill Gates, Warren Buffett and Bill Clinton. Dr. Ra is mirroring Mr. Buffet and Mr. Gates' contributions that were made in late 2010 for the wealthy to donate at least 50% of their personal wealth.

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< Bethesda Life Foundation > Bethesda Life Foundation supports patients of rare and chronic disease in the socially and economically underprivileged class with various medical help. The mission of Bethesda Life Foundation is, based on the value life-respect, for all mankind to enjoy a healthy and happy life.

< Yesung Medical Corporation > Yesung Medical Corporation operates the Bethesda General Hospital, located in Yangsan, Korea and the hospital has advanced in specializing theregenerative medicine using adult stem cell research and technology. With the realization of 100-year longevity utilizing stem cells as the mission, the corporation is enhancing the medical technology of respect for life.

< Academia Christiana of Korea > Academia Christiana was established in order to contribute to establish the mental discipline of the country and people by Christian studies to meet the growth and development of the Church in Korea. Academia Christiana of Korea has been organizing academic seminars and public lectures, publishing academic research papers and operating Ulaanbaatar University in Mongol.

< Central Christian Academy School Corporation > Founder Pastor Billy Kim and his wife were sent out to return to Korea in 1959 as missionaries from the Christian Service Center, an international mission organization, based in Ohio, USA and appointed to Suwon Central Baptist Church. After establishing Central Kindergarten in 1978, he obtained the lot in Woncheon-dong, Paldal-gu, Suwon, Korea, received the approval of School Corporation to open the Central Christian School to achieve the goal of nurturing Christians to become the world's salt and light through cooperation of homes, schools and churches.

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WELCOME to our special monthly series called Bible School Business School (BSBS). BSBS takes insights from the culture and history of the ancient near East as depicted in the Bible and applies these insights to business, leadership and personal development. BSBS aims to broaden our mindsets beyond the Western paradigms on business, leadership and personal development.

Report by By Brett Chulu This article seeks to show how the active involvement of the chief executive is critical to driving a successful performance management initiative that yields above-market returns. The following excerpts from what is famously known as the parable of talents will be used to draw insights on how business leaders can strategically manage performance.

Matthew 25:14 (KJV) reads: For the kingdom of heaven is as a man travelling into a far country, who called his own servants, and delivered unto them his goods. And unto one he gave five talents, to another two, and to another one; to every man according to his several ability; and straightaway took his journey.

Matthew 25:19-22 (KJV) continues: After a long time the lord of those servants cometh, and reckoned with them. And so he that had received five talents came and brought other five talents, saying, Lord you delivered unto me five talents: Behold, I have gained beside them five talents more. His lord said unto him, Well done, thou good and faithful servant: Thou hast been faithful over a few things. I will make thee a ruler over many things: Enter into the joy of thy lord.

Likewise the servant with two talents gained two more and was commended like his five-talent colleague. In sharp contrast, the one-talent servant buried the resource he had been given by the master, accusing his master of being a tyrant.

Matthew 25:26-28(KJV) continues the narrative: His lord answered and said unto him: You wicked and slothful servant, thou knewest that I reap where I sowed not, and gather where I have not strowed (scattered seed): Thou oughtest therefore to have put my money to the exchangers, and then at my coming I should have received mine own with usury (interest). Take therefore the talent from him, and give, it unto him which hath ten talents.

Talent-culture-leadership integration The primary takeaway from this parable is that the chief executive (master in the parable) should intertwine talent, culture and leadership to drive organisation-wide performance. In other words, the chief executive fully embraces the strategic HR agenda. Strategic HR is concerned with how talent, culture and leadership can be harnessed to meet or exceed the expectations of external customers, investors, regulators and the community.

The parable of talents demonstrates how talent, culture and leadership must be fused together to deliver on superior business performance.

First, for performance management to permeate the entire organisation, the chief executive must set the tone. The chief executive in the parable did not leave it to the formal HR function to champion performance management. Performance management initiatives in which the top leaders of an organisation do not take a primary role are doomed to fail. The master in the parable embodied what is referred to as the leadership brand. Leadership brand is a concept birthed by the RBL Group, a US-based strategic HR think-tank. A leadership brand occurs when the expectations of customers, investors and other key external stakeholders at all levels of an organisation are converted into thinking patterns and behaviours of executives and managers.

Second, the leaders at all levels in the organisation must turn the expectations of customers and investors into consistent employee behaviours. Put differently, the leaders must translate the leadership brand into a company culture by influencing employees to think and behave in ways that deliver on the expectations of customers and investors.

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NEW YORK, Sept.7, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --From the convenience of the desktop, the beauty and personal care industry will be able to source new products, learn from top beauty experts and make new business connections when the HBA Global Digital Trade Show takes place Thursday, September 27, 2012.

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This free-to-attend interactive online event for manufacturers of beauty and personal care products will use video, animation, digital effects, real-time chat and social media to give visitors the experience of a real trade show. Featured at the HBA Global Digital Event will be:

"Hundreds of motivated decision making professionals have already registered for our 2nd Annual HBA Global Digital Event. Last year's event visitors really enjoyed the experience of interacting in this format," said Jill Birkett, Brand Director, Beauty & Wellness Industry. "This innovative event platform makes it convenient for the worldwide beauty and personal care industry to meet and make vital business connections and advance professional development."

Registered attendees to the HBA digital trade event will also gain on-demand access to the information for up to six months after the event and are eligible for giveaways and prizes for participating. For more information and to register for free to HBA Global Digital Event go to: http://www.hbaexpo.com/reconnect.

About HBA Global Expo & Conference http://www.hbaexpo.com produced by UBM Live, is the premier product development sourcefrom concept to marketfor the cosmetics, personal care, skin care, fragrance and wellness industries and features a comprehensive educational program and exhibits floor. HBA visitors comprise the top prestige, mass and emerging beauty and personal care brands worldwide. HBA Global Virtual Trade Show will take place September 27, 2012 and the next HBA Global Expo & Conference will take place June 18-20, 2013 at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in New York. Connect with the HBA Global communities on Facebook, Linkedin and Twitter.

About UBM Live UBM Live connects people and creates opportunities for companies across five continents to develop new business, meet customers, launch new products, promote their brands and expand their markets. Through premiere brands such as MD&M, CPhI, IFSEC, TFM&A, Cruise Shipping Miami, the Concrete Show and many others, UBM Live exhibitions, conferences, awards programs, publications, websites and training and certification programs are an integral part of the marketing plans of companies across more than 20 industry sectors.

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As the holiday season draws to a close many people are returning to work full of good intentions aimed at helping them hang onto that holiday feel-good factor. Holidays are a time to refresh and renew, a chance for many of us do a little inner exploration, and to reconnect with ourselves and our families. So whether it is creating space for a hobby, time out for personal development, or simply slowing the pace, it is almost inevitable that we return from our break with personal goals for improving our quality of life. It is equally inevitable that within days many people will be wondering just what happened to that good intent. and some will even lapse into post holiday blues.

It is easy to plan to lead a better life when real life the daily demands of work, family and all the rest are put on hold for the holiday. But things are quite different when we step back into our routines. Pressures of being back at work aside, there are also the stresses of how and where we live our lives which contribute. For example, most holidays are pleasant and relaxing because of where we choose to take them. Time in the mountains or on the beach is qualitatively different from time spent on the school-run or in the office. While there may be stress involved in navigating a foreign menu or entertaining the kids, this is quite different from the monotony of the daily commute, dealing with demanding colleagues, being indoors all day or looking after a home and family.

While one answer to this quandary is to take time by taking regular breaks, for many this falls into the 'good intentions' category; it is easily trumped by the daily life demands. So the dilemma is to find a way of taking care of oneself that brings some of the benefits of a holiday into the routine side of life, to create the personal space to pause, reflect and refresh.

The Inner Landscapes approach uses short personal development retreats that combine thought-provoking workshop activities with walking in inspirational settings. These events bring together three advantageous elements: the transformative power of a group, the natural environment, and the opportunity to step off the treadmill. Taken together these combine to help foster processes that aid focus, reduce stress, and clarify thinking. In short they provide a supportive and convivial setting to indulge in some effective personal development.

The concept is the result of two years study and preparation by psychologist and personal development consultant Barry Winbolt. After 20 years as leading workshops aimed at helping employees beat stress and lead more productive working lives, he has turned his attention to helping people achieve better understanding of themselves, so that they can take control of their lives. "In all the years that I have been training people, it became increasingly obvious that the real answer to wellbeing lies within us. When it comes to a sense of personal fulfillment, the successful people all have insight into what makes them tick and where they want to go in their lives", he said. This line of thinking led to a radical new concept that has become Inner Landscapes. Carefully developed personal development retreats and workshops provide attendees with the opportunity to pause and reflect. The purpose, says the founder, "is to guide people to greater satisfaction and fulfillment in their lives through an understanding of life changes, transitions, meaning and purpose." So those good intentions don't have to vanish just because the holiday is over.

About Inner Landscapes East Sussex based Inner Landscapes was founded in 2011 by Barry Winbolt, to provide retreats and workshops to enable people to find greater satisfaction and fulfillment in their lives. The organisation uses reflective personal development techniques, that include walking in the natural environment, combined with carefully structured workshops and exercises held indoors, in settings chosen for their comfort.

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Durham, NC - The Duke Professional and Personal Development Program is taking reservations for a four-week reflective workshop, "Knitting the Fabric of Your Life, One Stitch at a Time."

The four-session workshop will use the knitting process as a metaphor to examine how we cope with four recurrent themes in life: starting something new, repeating a pattern, changing things, and making an ending.

"Like many creative processes, knitting not only requires us to learn and repeat basic skills, but also to explore variations on those `stitches'," explains group facilitator, Stephanie Jenal, Ph.D., a counseling psychologist for Duke Professional and Personal Development Program. "We are excited about the prospect of helping participants gain greater understanding and mastery of the stitches they use daily to create the fabric of their lives."

The series begins Sept. 26 and continues Wednesday evenings through Oct 17. The group will meet from 5:30 P.M. to 6:45 P.M. in the fourth floor conference room of the Erwin Square building, 2200 West Main St. in Durham. The cost is $75 for the four-week workshop.

Participants are invited to bring a handiwork project such as knitting, sewing, or beading to work on during the workshop. Registration is open to employees and the public, but class size is limited. To register, call (919) 286-1244.

The Duke Professional and Personal Development Program (Duke PPDP) is one component of the Duke Occupational and Mental Health Programs. Duke PPDP offers fee-for-service coaching, talks, workshops, and other professional programs that promote work/life balance for individuals, groups, and organizations.

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MINNEAPOLIS, MN, Sept. 6, 2012 /PRNewswire/ - Inolex, a leader in the development of innovative ingredients for the personal care and cosmetics industries has launched a new range of 100% natural and sustainable emollients, using bio-based succinic acid from BioAmber. These succinate emollients have the highly appealing and differentiated sensory feel of silicone fluids, including feeling silky, powdery, light, dry and non-greasy to the touch. This sensory experience meets the modern consumer's hygiene and beauty needs, giving the clean, dry and natural feeling consumers want from their personal care routine.

The market for personal care esters is valued at over $500 million. The new succinate emollients are highly-versatile because of their sensory properties and outstanding ability to disperse pigments. These fluids can be used in skin care, hair care, color and antiperspirant products to provide shine and a light fast-drying emolliency. These emollients are suitable as alternatives to silicone fluids for improving skin-feel, as well as enhancing shine and texture in hair care products. In natural formulations, they can be used to reduce the greasiness of natural oils.

Inolex are commercializing a range of succinate technologies as natural silicone alternatives; the LexFeel N range of fluids feel like silicones, yet unlike silicones, they are 100% natural, readily-biodegradable, non-GMO, eco-certified and sustainable.

Daniel Winn, Business Director, Inolex says, "The new range of biosuccinic acid-based fluids offers an unprecedented opportunity to provide the benefits of silicones in an all-natural format with a sensory experience that is a close match to the modern consumer's hygiene and beauty needs.

Babette Pettersen, SVP Marketing & Sales, BioAmber says, "These emollients demonstrate the versatility of biobased succinic acid in providing performance solutions for a range of personal care applications. Our partnership with Inolex illustrates the benefits of joint application development work to create innovative new products, combining BioAmber's expertise and commercial capability in biosuccinic acid and Inolex's expertise and market access in the personal care market."

For Technical Information and Samples: cosmeticinfo@inolex.com

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Inolex is one of the world's leading independent personal care ingredient companies. They are known for their market-based approach, providing ingredients that tackle the greatest formulation challenges and consumer needs. Inolex's more recent creations have included preservative-free technology, natural ingredients as alternatives to traditional chemicals, and high performance excipients that enable optimal formulation of suncare products. Inolex offers customers formulation expertise, market-ready systems, and jointly developed solutions that bring optimal benefits to the cosmetic consumer. For more information, visit http://www.inolex.com.

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BioAmber is a next generation chemicals company. Its proprietary technology platform combines industrial biotechnology and chemical catalysis to convert renewable feedstock into chemicals for use in a wide variety of everyday products including plastics, nylons, food additives and personal care products. For more information visit the company's website at http://www.bio-amber.com.

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ScienceDaily (Sep. 5, 2012) During adolescence, the stories young people tell about themselves reflects their development of a personal identity and sense of self, and those autobiographical narratives vary depending on the teens' gender, according to a University of Missouri psychologist and her colleagues. Parents can use this knowledge of how teens talk about themselves to help understand the tumultuous transitions of their children into adults.

"Autobiographical stories tell us details about adolescent psychology that questionnaires and observations of behavior cannot," said Jennifer Bohanek, assistant professor of psychological sciences in the College of Arts and Science. "Narratives provide information about how adolescents interpret memories as well as how they come to know themselves. Other people then come to know the teens by the stories they tell about themselves. The differences between study participants' stories suggest there may be differences in the way male and female teens understand themselves and present themselves to the world."

Bohanek and her colleagues found that females tended to tell longer, more coherent stories. Females' stories were also generally more detailed and contained more descriptions of their own internal emotional states. Males' stories tended to be more matter-of-fact and showed less self-reflection. These differences were consistent in both positive and negative stories. The researchers suggested that the gender differences may indicate females have a greater inclination to reflect on past experiences and use their memories to give personal meaning to past events.

To conduct her study, Bohanek and her colleagues asked 65 adolescents between 13 and 16 years of age to narrate two positive and two negative stories. The teens came from racially and economically diverse backgrounds. The study was conducted in the teens' homes by one or two female research assistants. The teens' stories were then analyzed for coherence, theme, narrative development and self-reflection.

"Our study filled an important gap in the research on autobiographical narratives," said Bohanek. "Previous studies looked at gender differences in children's and adults' storytelling. Other research has found there are differences in the ways parents tell stories to male and female children as well as differences in how emotional content was explained. Other studies found that families talked about past events every five minutes on average, so reflecting on the past seems to have an important influence on family relationships. Our study suggests that these interactions may affect adolescents as they develop their own definition of themselves."

The study, "Gender Differences in Adolescents' Autobiographical Narratives," was published in the Journal of Cognition and Development. Lead author was Robyn Fivush of Emory University. Co-authors were Widaad Zaman of Emory University and Sally Grapin of Brown University.

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Cupertino, Calif., Sept. 5, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Most everyone has personal devices that they want to be able to use for work. Whether it's their smartphone, personal laptop or the tablet they got for their birthday, employees want to be able to use their own device, connect to the corporate network and conduct business. While personal mobile device use can help boost productivity, organizations that quickly endorse BYOD can introduce serious security gaps. So what kinds of BYOD risks need to be managed, how can you obtain BYOD policy acceptance, and how can you limit mobile device exposures?

A new SANS webcast, "Architecting a Flexible Strategy for Securing Enterprise and Personal Mobile Devices (BYOD)," will answer these questions and more. The expert session will examine BYOD trends and risks, the mobile security landscape, policy development and control options. The session will also present a tiered service approach to enterprise mobile security, where complementary controls can offer necessary network and device level defenses to enable IT organizations the means to realize mobility advantages and reduce security threats.

The webcast will be led by guest speaker Phil Hochmuth, security program analyst at IDC, who will be joined by Scott Gordon, vice president at ForeScout Technologies Inc.

This SANS webcast, sponsored by ForeScout, will take place on Thursday, September 14, 2012 at 1:00 PM EDT/10:00 AM PDT. ForeScout invites users and media to register for the webcast at: http://www.forescout.com/byodflex. As a special bonus, registrants will receive a complimentary, in-depth IDC white paper on the issues presented.

The webcast presents proven process and technology considerations that InfoSec professionals can put to immediate use. Other topics that will be addressed include:

About ForeScout Technologies, Inc. ForeScout enables organizations to accelerate productivity and connectivity by allowing users to access corporate network resources where, how and when needed without compromising security. ForeScout's automated solutions for network access control, mobile security, endpoint compliance and threat prevention empower IT agility while preempting risks and eliminating remediation costs. Because the ForeScout CounterACT platform is easy to deploy, unobtrusive, intelligent and scalable, it has been chosen by more than 1,300 of the world's most secure enterprises and military installations for global deployments spanning 37 countries. Headquartered in Cupertino, California, ForeScout delivers its solutions through its network of authorized partners worldwide. Learn more at http://www.forescout.com.

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Contact: Emma Knott emma.knott@kaizo.co.uk 020-317-64715 European Science Foundation

The aim of the study was to assess the applicability across Europe of a generic framework for the professional development of researchers based on the Vitae Researcher Development Framework (RDF). The RDF is a UK-context framework set up with the purpose to better define researcher's professional profiles and to develop guidance for the continuous professional development of researchers. The report reveals that there is a real demand among researchers for a more structured approach towards researchers professional development and active career planning.

This new ESF-co-funded study, with its members from the ESF MO Forum on Research Career Development, has applied the existing Vitae Researcher Development Framework in Europe. The RDF has been designed for:

The testing of the RDF in different European settings gave encouraging results in overcoming some of the identified deficiencies and in progressing towards a shared understanding of the skills and attributes that characterise modern researchers. Furthermore, the RDF proved to be a solid basis for making researchers reflect on their skills and attributes and on their career aspirations in general. It provides an important potential to support the professional development of researchers in any national or institutional environment.

The report detailed that there are big differences between countries in their overall awareness and readiness to engage and invest into the general development and career development of researchers. However, there is a real demand among researchers for a more structured approach towards researchers professional development and active career planning.

The report contains five key recommendations:

Commenting on the study, Martin Hynes, CEO, European Science Foundation said: "The continued progress of the European Research Area and more acutely the development of researchers has always been top priority for us. This new study has revealed that within Europe there is a clear need for a European Researcher Development Framework which can aid researchers professional development. The adoption of the RDF, adapted as recommended in the report, would also be a great tool for supporting intersectoral mobility".

Martin continued: "This project has been an important first step in identifying the potential opportunity of creating a pan-European professional development framework"

Janet Metcalfe, Chair and Head of Vitae commented "The adoption of the Vitae Researcher Development Framework across Europe would support the aims of the European Charter and Code, specifically the principles relating to continuous professional development, career development, access to research training and continuous development and access to careers advice. It would also provide a common language for researchers to talk about their expertise and professional development."

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