Posts Tagged ‘john’
The Beatles interviewed by Richard Linley on being awarded the Graduation 2010: Honorary Degree Profile – John Thorpe MBE
Wednesday, November 10th, 2010
Leeds City Council Civic Architect, John Thorp, mbe, has been awarded an honorary degree by Leeds Metropolitan as part of our Summer Graduation celebrations.
John was born in Leeds, studied at the Liverpool School of Architecture and has worked for the City Council for over 35 years. Examples of John’s work include the Henry Moore projects at Leeds City Art Gallery and, more recently, the £12 million creation of Millennium Square.
John has been instrumental in developing the current programme of City Centre Squares, Buildings and Spaces such as City Square and Briggate, major civic buildings such as Leeds Town Hall, the City Library and Art Gallery, Victoria Gardens and the renewal of green spaces such as Park Square and Merrion Gardens.
John received a lifetime achievement award in the 2009 Leeds Architecture Awards in recognition of his creation of award-winning places and spaces created by a lifetime of dedication to the city of Leeds.
John received his honorary doctorate in arts from the University’s Faculty of Arts and Society.
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BEATLES HISTORIC MOMENTS No10..Lennon Returns His MBE
Sunday, October 24th, 2010
its Christmas 1969 and John Lennon Returns his Candidate John Lewis presents new plan for Local business
Tuesday, September 7th, 2010
Candidate John Lewis, President of Visions Project Development Group LLC presents new plan for promoting local area business for the city of Landrum.
The goal of the City’s Business website is to provide simple and intuitive electronic access to business services, serve as a public communications tool, enhance and promote Landrum and surrounding area business, and to streamline local business information.
The Landrum Business Station will be committed to creating wealth in Landrum and surrounding communities by providing key information on topics critical to the success of small business: Money, Markets, Management and Technology. The Landrum Business Station will supports the startup and growth of small and minority-owned businesses by enabling access to timely business information, online training and best practices, resulting in a more vibrant local business community.
Candidate John Lewis informs City Council that will be no cost to the city or Local business owners for the new web portal.
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John Carpenter, MBE
Saturday, March 20th, 2010
John Carpenter, PDC Exceeds Minority Contracting Goals
Monday, February 22nd, 2010
The Portland Development Commission has exceeded 35 percent diversity in contracting in a city that is reported to be the whitest in the United States. Bold adoption of aggressive requirements followed by structural changes and internal oversight made the difference. In each of the past two years, PDC has exceeded its goals for utilization of minority, women-owned and emerging small businesses (M/W/ESB) by at least 15 percent annually, achieving more than 35 percent of the dollars committed to state-certified firms.
For 2008-2009, PDC spent $94 million on construction projects; $35 million of that went to M/W/ESB firms. Another $36 million is committed to additional PDC-supervised projects of more than $70 million to M/W/ESB firms. Apprentices worked nearly 250,000 of the total hours in the past fiscal year, or three percent above the 20 percent PDC goal.
“For PDC to be willing to take this on, to commit to making a difference here, says that part of economic development is economic development for everybody. Thats leadership, says Connie Ashbrook, founder of Oregon Tradeswomen, Inc.
Download the 2008-2009 Diversity in Contracting Report here, http://www.pdc.us/diversity
Video produced by
John Cárdenas
Music by
Yo La Tengo- “Retrun To Hot Chicken”
Fernando- “Same Ol’ King”
Duration : 0:2:35
Short clip from the press conference of John returning his