Through experience obtained during childhood journeys and brief careers as a journalist and a superintendent of an ill-starred gold mine in the Sierra Nevada range in California, Olmsted gained an intimate knowledge of the American landscape that served him superbly in the role for which he is best remembered — the country's pioneering park maker.
Serge Gojkovich, chief executive of car parking app-maker Curbstand, was among the passengers affected.
Today, Pluto Media, the Menlo Park-based maker of educational, tablet-based games for kids, announced that it has raised $500K in seed funding from Learn Capital's Rob Hutter, along with individual investments from NewSchools Venture Fund's Jennifer Carolan and Peter Relan, the co-founder of OpenFeint, WebVan, Crowdstar and YouWeb.
DADE BEHRING, Deerfield Park, Ill., a maker of medical diagnostic tests, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.
In their documentary on the park, the film-makers Matt and Tim Zafir interview a number of Australian and international pro skateboarders about the park's importance.
ALBERTO-CULVER, Melrose Park, Ill., the maker of personal care products, said it had signed an agreement in principle to purchase substantially all the assets of Nexxus Products, Santa Barbara, Calif., a maker of hair care products.
The policy maker, Park Byoung Yoon, said that Hynix's creditors had agreed to go along with the government and the company union and keep Hynix operating in hope that it could survive.
In response to a flood of calls for bailouts from industries hurt directly or indirectly by the terrorist attacks, from restaurants and theme parks to steel makers, the Bush administration has developed the following official policy position: forget it.
I examine whether this is merely in response to the policy incentives or there have been external economies from the concentration of high-technology firms in the technology parks as policy makers had hoped.
For five decades, Mr. Price was a sought-after independent consultant to the makers of theme parks, amusement parks, zoos, museums and other large-scale spectacles.
