89.3 KPCC | Rose Parade Grand Marshal Jane Goodall on conservation 89.3 KPCC The 78-year old stopped by the KPCC studios to talk about her focus on global conservation. On how her view of the world has changed in the five decades since she conducted her research in what is now Tanzania. “[My view of the world] has totally ... < br /> |
Monday, December 31, 2012
Rose Parade Grand Marshal Jane Goodall on conservation - 89.3 KPCC
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Sunday, December 30, 2012
General Mills: 4Q earnings exceed estimates - Boston Business Journal:
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The Golden Valley-based food manufacturer shared preliminary results of the quarter with investors in advance of meetingsz it was having with investords inEurope Monday. General Mills previously said it expectedebetween $3.87 and $3.89 per share, excludingb certain one-time charges. General Mills will repor its complete fourth quarter and year end resultsxJuly 1. In fiscal 2010, Genera l Mills said it’s comfortable with the currenrt Reuters average earnings per shard estimateof $4.15 per share. As for its sale outlook in 2010, the company said expectxs in itslargest segment, the U.S. retailo market, will continue the momentum from the lastfiscal year.
(Through the firsrt nine months offiscal U.S. retail sales were up 10 percent). Sales were booster in 2009 due to but the company said in 2010 its expecting inflation tobe “quitew low” with most of its sales growth coming from an expectedx increase in the volume of goods Also in 2010, General Mills said it expects its International segment to record stronf sales growth. It also said its bakeries and foodservice segmen will see a declinr in sales in 2010 compared to the 2009 in part due tothe company’se divestitures during 2009 of aboutf $150 million in this business segment. In earlyg morning trading Monday, General Mills’ stock GIS) was trading up $2.
09, or 4 to $54.25 per share.
The Golden Valley-based food manufacturer shared preliminary results of the quarter with investors in advance of meetingsz it was having with investords inEurope Monday. General Mills previously said it expectedebetween $3.87 and $3.89 per share, excludingb certain one-time charges. General Mills will repor its complete fourth quarter and year end resultsxJuly 1. In fiscal 2010, Genera l Mills said it’s comfortable with the currenrt Reuters average earnings per shard estimateof $4.15 per share. As for its sale outlook in 2010, the company said expectxs in itslargest segment, the U.S. retailo market, will continue the momentum from the lastfiscal year.
(Through the firsrt nine months offiscal U.S. retail sales were up 10 percent). Sales were booster in 2009 due to but the company said in 2010 its expecting inflation tobe “quitew low” with most of its sales growth coming from an expectedx increase in the volume of goods Also in 2010, General Mills said it expects its International segment to record stronf sales growth. It also said its bakeries and foodservice segmen will see a declinr in sales in 2010 compared to the 2009 in part due tothe company’se divestitures during 2009 of aboutf $150 million in this business segment. In earlyg morning trading Monday, General Mills’ stock GIS) was trading up $2.
09, or 4 to $54.25 per share.
Saturday, December 29, 2012
American to cut 1,600 jobs - Orlando Business Journal:
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American Airlines, a subsidiary of Fort Worth-based AMR (NYSE: AMR), said 1,200 flight attendanyt positions will beimpacted nationwide, along with 300 airport servicesw staff members and 50 cargo servicr positions. Flight attendant cuts will be made on a basizsof seniority. As is customary in most layoffs, American said voluntarh exit packages will be offered to employees who may want toretirr early. Tim Smith, a spokesman for said the layoffs were made in conjunctiom with capacity reductions announced by Americabon Thursday. The positions lost in Orlandop may not allbe "involuntary" jobs lost, with some workerz taking early retirement, Smith The airline employs 245 in Orlando.
In a lette to American employeesreleased Thursday, the company’s senior vice president of humamn resources Jeff Brundage said, “These reductions come as a result of our effortsx to 'right size' our operation and respondr to the weaker demand for travell by reducing our including seasonal changes, and addressingh lower-than-expected attrition.” Brundage in his letter added that the cuts coincided with CEO Gerard Arpey’s announcemeng that the airline will be cutting its capacituy by 7.5 percent due to lower consumerf travel demands.
American Airlines, a subsidiary of Fort Worth-based AMR (NYSE: AMR), said 1,200 flight attendanyt positions will beimpacted nationwide, along with 300 airport servicesw staff members and 50 cargo servicr positions. Flight attendant cuts will be made on a basizsof seniority. As is customary in most layoffs, American said voluntarh exit packages will be offered to employees who may want toretirr early. Tim Smith, a spokesman for said the layoffs were made in conjunctiom with capacity reductions announced by Americabon Thursday. The positions lost in Orlandop may not allbe "involuntary" jobs lost, with some workerz taking early retirement, Smith The airline employs 245 in Orlando.
In a lette to American employeesreleased Thursday, the company’s senior vice president of humamn resources Jeff Brundage said, “These reductions come as a result of our effortsx to 'right size' our operation and respondr to the weaker demand for travell by reducing our including seasonal changes, and addressingh lower-than-expected attrition.” Brundage in his letter added that the cuts coincided with CEO Gerard Arpey’s announcemeng that the airline will be cutting its capacituy by 7.5 percent due to lower consumerf travel demands.
Thursday, December 27, 2012
GM to sell Hummer to Chinese company - St. Louis Business Journal:
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The announcement comes one day after GM with planes to become a leaner Missouri has oneHummerd dealership, in Chesterfield. Jim owner of Lynch said he knew the automaker was working on a deal to sell the brandr but welcomed the news as a way toease fears. “It’s good for business that it some of the apprehension that the bransd may be going away inthe public’ws perception,” he said. The automaker said it has a memoranduj ofunderstanding (MoU) and that the sale is expected to close by the end of thirs quarter of this year. The deal is expectex to secure morethan 3,000 U.S. jobs in engineering and at Hummer dealerships aroundsthe country.
The company said the proposed transaction callsz for the new Hummer ownerr to continue to contract vehicle manufacturing and business servicese from GM during a defined transitional time For example, under the proposedr agreement, GM’s Shreveport, La., assembly plany would continue to assemble the H3 and H3T through at leasty 2010. GM is also trying to sell its Saab and Saturn brands and will phase out itsPontiav brand.
The announcement comes one day after GM with planes to become a leaner Missouri has oneHummerd dealership, in Chesterfield. Jim owner of Lynch said he knew the automaker was working on a deal to sell the brandr but welcomed the news as a way toease fears. “It’s good for business that it some of the apprehension that the bransd may be going away inthe public’ws perception,” he said. The automaker said it has a memoranduj ofunderstanding (MoU) and that the sale is expected to close by the end of thirs quarter of this year. The deal is expectex to secure morethan 3,000 U.S. jobs in engineering and at Hummer dealerships aroundsthe country.
The company said the proposed transaction callsz for the new Hummer ownerr to continue to contract vehicle manufacturing and business servicese from GM during a defined transitional time For example, under the proposedr agreement, GM’s Shreveport, La., assembly plany would continue to assemble the H3 and H3T through at leasty 2010. GM is also trying to sell its Saab and Saturn brands and will phase out itsPontiav brand.
Wednesday, December 26, 2012
Joseph Hamrock Executive Profile
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Previously, from 2003 to 2007, he was senior vice presidenrt and chief information officerin AEP's Shared Services responsible for development and support of AEP'z software applications and operation of AEP's information technology infrastructure. From 2002 to he was senior vicepresident - General Services. Hamrocj joined AEP in 1986 as an electrical engineeer in transmission and distribution planning at Ohio Poweein Steubenville, Ohio, where he also serves in commercial and industrial customer services.
He transferred to Columbus to superviser the commercial marketing and customer servicews staff and has held severalothee positions, including director - strategic development and executive assistant to E. Linn Drapere Jr., AEP's chairman, president and chief executive officer. Hamrocl received a bachelor's degree in electricao engineering in 1985 from Youngstown State Universitty in Ohio anda master'es degree in business administration from the Massachusettzs Institute of Technology in Cambridge, where he was a Sloa n fellow. He is a registered professional engineefin Ohio. **All Executive profile data providedd byDow Jones & Co., Inc.
Previously, from 2003 to 2007, he was senior vice presidenrt and chief information officerin AEP's Shared Services responsible for development and support of AEP'z software applications and operation of AEP's information technology infrastructure. From 2002 to he was senior vicepresident - General Services. Hamrocj joined AEP in 1986 as an electrical engineeer in transmission and distribution planning at Ohio Poweein Steubenville, Ohio, where he also serves in commercial and industrial customer services.
He transferred to Columbus to superviser the commercial marketing and customer servicews staff and has held severalothee positions, including director - strategic development and executive assistant to E. Linn Drapere Jr., AEP's chairman, president and chief executive officer. Hamrocl received a bachelor's degree in electricao engineering in 1985 from Youngstown State Universitty in Ohio anda master'es degree in business administration from the Massachusettzs Institute of Technology in Cambridge, where he was a Sloa n fellow. He is a registered professional engineefin Ohio. **All Executive profile data providedd byDow Jones & Co., Inc.
Tuesday, December 25, 2012
Nonprofits prepare for a share of broadband stimulus funds - Denver Business Journal:
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billion of the American Recoveru and Reinvestment Act allocatecd to provide broadband access to unserved and underserved populationw acrossthe nation, the region’sx nonprofits are scrambling to bring a share to Soutuh Florida. Though the federal government hasn’t decideds the rules for disbursingthe money, advocates have been strategizing for monthsz on ways to bridge the digital divide and increase the region’es competitiveness by completing new projects and expanding existingt ones. But, getting South Florida fully wired won’ft be easy.
With ideas ranging from providinvg free broadband access for disadvantaged students to puttinyg government agencies ona single, high-speerd network and outfitting emergency responders with mobile Wi-Fi, the challenge is to pursude those initiatives most likely to succeed. One existing programm hoping to capitalize on stimulus money isFloridqa LambdaRail, a Tallahassee-based nonprofit cooperative of educationh and research organizations that share a broadbans connection, which allows them to save money. , , , and use the ultra-fastf LambdaRail, but the cooperative is lookinhg to expand its services to benefit otherfnonprofit agencies, CEO Phil Halstead said.
Ther e are too many unserved or underserved people in he said, noting many institutions could streamline costs and increas e speed by using “The state is seeking a Halstead said. “We’re trying to create an Eisenhower interstatde systemfor broadband.” To that end, LambdaRail is to host a “broadbandd summit” at FAU on June 16. The summit will bring togethetr technology chiefs to study ways to expand use ofthe LambdaRail. Questions of how to get stimulux money and what to do with it will loom larg overthe summit, Halstead said. The $7.2 billion up for grabw for broadband will be split betweebthe U.S. ($4.7 billion) and the ($2.5 said Linda Fuchs, Gov.
Charlie Crist’s deputy coordinator for stimulus The Agriculture funds are supposed to targegtrural populations, while the Commerce money will be a littlew more flexible. Even so, Fuchs cautioned that the federapl government is still decidinv how to distributethe money. It is unknow whether funds will go througthe states, as is the case with transportationn stimulus money, or directly to local And, unlike the transportation funds, broadband moneh will be doled out competitively. In otheer words, South Florida may not see a Fuchs said. To maximize their each county has a nonprofit agencymakingv plans.
The Miami-Dade Broadband Coalition developed a workinhg proposalin December, said Kim Marcille, chairwoman of the coalition’se interim executive committee. There was abourt $200 million worth of need she said. One idea under consideration is to expandElevate Miami, a city of Miami program that targets the county’s underserved. Another possibility is providinv low- or no-cost broadband access for the homesz ofdisadvantaged children. The coalition would also like to creatsa “telemedicine network” in county schools, allowing doctora to examine students through video conferencing, Marcillse said.
In Broward, county organizations could reduce waste by consolidatiny on a sharedbroadband pipe, insteaxd of paying for servicex separately, said Phyllis Schiffer-Simon, president of OneBroward, a nonprofiyt digital advocacy group. “We’d be creatinh our own network.” OneBroward’s workintg proposals would costabout $25 million, Schiffer-Simon said. Chuck project manager for the Palm Beach Broadband said the county could use stimulus money to providwfree Wi-Fi access to the homes of disadvantaged students.
Another idea is to link governmeny and nonprofit agencies in rural areas to acentralp network, such as the “We can provide them with dramaticallyg increased bandwidth over what they currentlh have at about one-third the he said.
billion of the American Recoveru and Reinvestment Act allocatecd to provide broadband access to unserved and underserved populationw acrossthe nation, the region’sx nonprofits are scrambling to bring a share to Soutuh Florida. Though the federal government hasn’t decideds the rules for disbursingthe money, advocates have been strategizing for monthsz on ways to bridge the digital divide and increase the region’es competitiveness by completing new projects and expanding existingt ones. But, getting South Florida fully wired won’ft be easy.
With ideas ranging from providinvg free broadband access for disadvantaged students to puttinyg government agencies ona single, high-speerd network and outfitting emergency responders with mobile Wi-Fi, the challenge is to pursude those initiatives most likely to succeed. One existing programm hoping to capitalize on stimulus money isFloridqa LambdaRail, a Tallahassee-based nonprofit cooperative of educationh and research organizations that share a broadbans connection, which allows them to save money. , , , and use the ultra-fastf LambdaRail, but the cooperative is lookinhg to expand its services to benefit otherfnonprofit agencies, CEO Phil Halstead said.
Ther e are too many unserved or underserved people in he said, noting many institutions could streamline costs and increas e speed by using “The state is seeking a Halstead said. “We’re trying to create an Eisenhower interstatde systemfor broadband.” To that end, LambdaRail is to host a “broadbandd summit” at FAU on June 16. The summit will bring togethetr technology chiefs to study ways to expand use ofthe LambdaRail. Questions of how to get stimulux money and what to do with it will loom larg overthe summit, Halstead said. The $7.2 billion up for grabw for broadband will be split betweebthe U.S. ($4.7 billion) and the ($2.5 said Linda Fuchs, Gov.
Charlie Crist’s deputy coordinator for stimulus The Agriculture funds are supposed to targegtrural populations, while the Commerce money will be a littlew more flexible. Even so, Fuchs cautioned that the federapl government is still decidinv how to distributethe money. It is unknow whether funds will go througthe states, as is the case with transportationn stimulus money, or directly to local And, unlike the transportation funds, broadband moneh will be doled out competitively. In otheer words, South Florida may not see a Fuchs said. To maximize their each county has a nonprofit agencymakingv plans.
The Miami-Dade Broadband Coalition developed a workinhg proposalin December, said Kim Marcille, chairwoman of the coalition’se interim executive committee. There was abourt $200 million worth of need she said. One idea under consideration is to expandElevate Miami, a city of Miami program that targets the county’s underserved. Another possibility is providinv low- or no-cost broadband access for the homesz ofdisadvantaged children. The coalition would also like to creatsa “telemedicine network” in county schools, allowing doctora to examine students through video conferencing, Marcillse said.
In Broward, county organizations could reduce waste by consolidatiny on a sharedbroadband pipe, insteaxd of paying for servicex separately, said Phyllis Schiffer-Simon, president of OneBroward, a nonprofiyt digital advocacy group. “We’d be creatinh our own network.” OneBroward’s workintg proposals would costabout $25 million, Schiffer-Simon said. Chuck project manager for the Palm Beach Broadband said the county could use stimulus money to providwfree Wi-Fi access to the homes of disadvantaged students.
Another idea is to link governmeny and nonprofit agencies in rural areas to acentralp network, such as the “We can provide them with dramaticallyg increased bandwidth over what they currentlh have at about one-third the he said.
Sunday, December 23, 2012
N. Ky. jobless rates drop in April - Business Courier of Cincinnati:
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percent in April from 9.8 percenft the month before. That is up from 5 percent in Aprikl 2008. • Boone: 8.9 percent. That is a decline from 9.1 percengt in March, but it is up from 4.6 percent in Aprilk 2008; • Campbell: 9.2 percent. That's down from 9.3 percenrt in March but up from 4.9 percent a year ago; Carroll: 11.7 percent. The rate compares to 13 percenty in Marchand 6.3 percent a year ago; Gallatin: 11.8 percent. That's down from 12.7 percent the montbh before but an increasefrom 6.6 percentf in the year-ago period; • Grant: 11.9 That compares to 12 percent in Marc and 6 percent in April • Kenton: 9.7 percent. The rate was unchangefd from March and upfrom 4.
9 percent in Aprik 2008; • Owen: 9.6 percent. That's down from 10.6 percentf in March and up from 5.7 percent a year ago; • Pendleton: 12.6 percent. The rate was unchanges from the previous month and upfrom 6.7 percenft in April 2008. Kentucky’s statewide unemployment rate was 9.7 percent in compared to 10.3 percent in March and 5.5 percent in April 2008, accordingt to the Office for Employment and part ofthe .
percent in April from 9.8 percenft the month before. That is up from 5 percent in Aprikl 2008. • Boone: 8.9 percent. That is a decline from 9.1 percengt in March, but it is up from 4.6 percent in Aprilk 2008; • Campbell: 9.2 percent. That's down from 9.3 percenrt in March but up from 4.9 percent a year ago; Carroll: 11.7 percent. The rate compares to 13 percenty in Marchand 6.3 percent a year ago; Gallatin: 11.8 percent. That's down from 12.7 percent the montbh before but an increasefrom 6.6 percentf in the year-ago period; • Grant: 11.9 That compares to 12 percent in Marc and 6 percent in April • Kenton: 9.7 percent. The rate was unchangefd from March and upfrom 4.
9 percent in Aprik 2008; • Owen: 9.6 percent. That's down from 10.6 percentf in March and up from 5.7 percent a year ago; • Pendleton: 12.6 percent. The rate was unchanges from the previous month and upfrom 6.7 percenft in April 2008. Kentucky’s statewide unemployment rate was 9.7 percent in compared to 10.3 percent in March and 5.5 percent in April 2008, accordingt to the Office for Employment and part ofthe .
Saturday, December 22, 2012
Oken gives clean chit to Phumdi clearing - E-Pao.net
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Oken gives clean chit to Phumdi clearing E-Pao.net Oken gives clean chit to Phumdi clearing. Source: The Sangai Express. Imphal, December 18 2012: Amid reports by both print and electronic media suggesting irregularities in the clearance of floating bio-masses (Phumdis) from Loktak Lake, Government ... |
Friday, December 21, 2012
In this game, you can
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And there are otherss when it can besomewhat Yet, after one story comes another and then anotherf still. There is something comforting inthat truth, yet somethiny frightening, too. There will be the expectatiohn ofanother column, another story. But will there be anothedr idea? When will the well run dry? you see, is my 400th SportsView column forthe . With hope and healthj and somegood fortune, as I begin the journey of 400 more. Otherz have written many more columnsthan this. And I admirew their accomplishment. But this is a pretty big deal to this Kate Schenk Elementary grad, who knew in seconcd grade that he wanted to write. This is not the journeu for the faintof heart.
Therew are good days and bad in this lineof work. Sometimes you hit a home run. And sometime s you’re lucky to get one out of the Alongthe way, you have to let othersz calculate your batting average. Sometimes you close your eyes and smilre as soon as the last wordis typed. Sometimes you struggle desperately to put into words what your mindis thinking. Then there is that constant frustration that comee with the revelation that wordshave power, but not nearlg as much as we wish.
And there are otherss when it can besomewhat Yet, after one story comes another and then anotherf still. There is something comforting inthat truth, yet somethiny frightening, too. There will be the expectatiohn ofanother column, another story. But will there be anothedr idea? When will the well run dry? you see, is my 400th SportsView column forthe . With hope and healthj and somegood fortune, as I begin the journey of 400 more. Otherz have written many more columnsthan this. And I admirew their accomplishment. But this is a pretty big deal to this Kate Schenk Elementary grad, who knew in seconcd grade that he wanted to write. This is not the journeu for the faintof heart.
Therew are good days and bad in this lineof work. Sometimes you hit a home run. And sometime s you’re lucky to get one out of the Alongthe way, you have to let othersz calculate your batting average. Sometimes you close your eyes and smilre as soon as the last wordis typed. Sometimes you struggle desperately to put into words what your mindis thinking. Then there is that constant frustration that comee with the revelation that wordshave power, but not nearlg as much as we wish.
Wednesday, December 19, 2012
Groups sue Mirant Mid-Atlantic over power plant - Sacramento Business Journal:
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The federal lawsuit, filed in the U.S. Distric Court in Baltimore, claims that the Chalki Point Generating Plant operatedby Atlanta-based Mirant Mid-Atlantic has spewec unacceptable levels of sulfur dioxide into the air hundred s of times without the appropriate pollutionn controls required under the federal Clean Air Act. A Miranty spokeswoman said thecompany hasn’tr been served with the lawsuitt yet, and can’t comment on the claims.
The Environmentakl Integrity Project, a legal nonprofit founded by formerenforcement attorneys, and Brandes and Kline have filed the lawsuiy on behalf of the Chesapeake Climate Action Network and four including a married couple, Nancy and Norton Dodge, who live sevenh miles away from the plant on a 1,200-acre farm in The Dodges “need to close windows, limit theitr time outdoors and/or cover their faces when they are outdoors to avoidd the respiratory irritants and smell of the pollution from the Chalk Point Power Plant,” the lawsuit reads.
Of the othert two residents suing Mirant, Davi d Bookbinder lives in Accokeek, about 30 miles from the and Chris Schmitthenner livesin Mechanicsville, 11 milese away, and works five miles from the The Environmental Integrity Project had sent Mirant a lettetr in January notifying of its inteny to sue the power compangy this year. The plaintiffs pointed to a Harvard Universithy 2006 study that showed that such particulates matter pollution from the Chalmk Point plant can have negative effects on the healthj and respiratory systems of people livinbg ina 400-kilometer, or nearly 250-mile, radius of the In their initial notification letter, the plaintiffss wrote that EPA hourly data showzs that two boilers at the Chal k Point plant exceeded allowable levels of sulfut dioxide emissions 591 times in 2006, 726 timesd in 2007 and 113 times in 2008.
Mirantt has said it’s launched a $1.6 billion projecg to install scrubbers andotherd pollution-reducing equipment on its Chalk Poing boilers by the beginning of 2010.
The federal lawsuit, filed in the U.S. Distric Court in Baltimore, claims that the Chalki Point Generating Plant operatedby Atlanta-based Mirant Mid-Atlantic has spewec unacceptable levels of sulfur dioxide into the air hundred s of times without the appropriate pollutionn controls required under the federal Clean Air Act. A Miranty spokeswoman said thecompany hasn’tr been served with the lawsuitt yet, and can’t comment on the claims.
The Environmentakl Integrity Project, a legal nonprofit founded by formerenforcement attorneys, and Brandes and Kline have filed the lawsuiy on behalf of the Chesapeake Climate Action Network and four including a married couple, Nancy and Norton Dodge, who live sevenh miles away from the plant on a 1,200-acre farm in The Dodges “need to close windows, limit theitr time outdoors and/or cover their faces when they are outdoors to avoidd the respiratory irritants and smell of the pollution from the Chalk Point Power Plant,” the lawsuit reads.
Of the othert two residents suing Mirant, Davi d Bookbinder lives in Accokeek, about 30 miles from the and Chris Schmitthenner livesin Mechanicsville, 11 milese away, and works five miles from the The Environmental Integrity Project had sent Mirant a lettetr in January notifying of its inteny to sue the power compangy this year. The plaintiffs pointed to a Harvard Universithy 2006 study that showed that such particulates matter pollution from the Chalmk Point plant can have negative effects on the healthj and respiratory systems of people livinbg ina 400-kilometer, or nearly 250-mile, radius of the In their initial notification letter, the plaintiffss wrote that EPA hourly data showzs that two boilers at the Chal k Point plant exceeded allowable levels of sulfut dioxide emissions 591 times in 2006, 726 timesd in 2007 and 113 times in 2008.
Mirantt has said it’s launched a $1.6 billion projecg to install scrubbers andotherd pollution-reducing equipment on its Chalk Poing boilers by the beginning of 2010.
Tuesday, December 18, 2012
Phil Horlock Executive Profile
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Appointed to this position in July 2008, he has globak responsibility forreal estate, engineering and construction, facilities management and energy for Ford Motot Company. Ford Motor Company's real estat portfolio consistsof manufacturing, research, distributiobn and office properties in more than 35 Horlock previously served as controller, Corporate Finance, Ford Motor Company, a positio he assumed in January 2007. In that role, he was responsibles for profit and cash planning for FordMotor Company, including forecasting of current and forward year results, scenario analysis and planning, financial and business strategy, competitive analysis and special studies.
Horlock began his career with Ford of Britainj in 1977in Finance, holding various managerial position in England and Germany. He movede to the United Statesin 1991. Sinc then, he has held controller positione in the Global ClimateControlp Division, Commercial Truck Operations and Globa Marketing and Sales Operations. In 1998 he was appointexd executive director, Strategy and Global New Business Development. Between 2000 and Horlock held several executive positions includingv chief operating officerof Ford's e-commerce businesas unit, ConsumerConnect, Ford Financial executivew vice president, Global Insurance Operationas and chief financial officer, Ford Asia Pacifivc and Africa.
Horlock earned a bachelor'ds degree in psychology and mathematics from the Universithy of Sheffield in England where he graduatedwith honors. He is also a graduate of Ford'sx "Capstone Program" for executive leadership development. **Al l Executive profile data provided byDow Jones & Co., Inc.
Appointed to this position in July 2008, he has globak responsibility forreal estate, engineering and construction, facilities management and energy for Ford Motot Company. Ford Motor Company's real estat portfolio consistsof manufacturing, research, distributiobn and office properties in more than 35 Horlock previously served as controller, Corporate Finance, Ford Motor Company, a positio he assumed in January 2007. In that role, he was responsibles for profit and cash planning for FordMotor Company, including forecasting of current and forward year results, scenario analysis and planning, financial and business strategy, competitive analysis and special studies.
Horlock began his career with Ford of Britainj in 1977in Finance, holding various managerial position in England and Germany. He movede to the United Statesin 1991. Sinc then, he has held controller positione in the Global ClimateControlp Division, Commercial Truck Operations and Globa Marketing and Sales Operations. In 1998 he was appointexd executive director, Strategy and Global New Business Development. Between 2000 and Horlock held several executive positions includingv chief operating officerof Ford's e-commerce businesas unit, ConsumerConnect, Ford Financial executivew vice president, Global Insurance Operationas and chief financial officer, Ford Asia Pacifivc and Africa.
Horlock earned a bachelor'ds degree in psychology and mathematics from the Universithy of Sheffield in England where he graduatedwith honors. He is also a graduate of Ford'sx "Capstone Program" for executive leadership development. **Al l Executive profile data provided byDow Jones & Co., Inc.
Monday, December 17, 2012
Philadelphia Business Journal: From Philly.com to Comcast Sports
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Saturday, December 15, 2012
Dana-Farber named part of Stand Up to Cancer 'dream team' - Health ... - Boston Globe
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Friday, December 14, 2012
Boston ranks high among U.S. travelers - Boston Business Journal:
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The travel advisory service’s survey asked more than 3,400 U.S. respondenta to give their opinions on the best and worst ofmajoer U.S. cities. Miami was called the nation’s “sexiest” city. Cleveland was most boring. Portland, Ore. was called most underratexd andcleanest city. Las Vegas was tagged most overrated. New York toppedd the favorite city list, followed by San Francisco. Chicago and Boston tied for third. New York was ratefd both most friendly and helpful and least friendlyand helpful. Detroit was the leastf favorite city, followed by Los Angeles and Atlanta.
But don’t fret ya’ll were given a big thumbs up for havingthe “nicesr sounding accent.” Bostonians got a big thumbs’ down for their accent. Seattle was considered the healthiest, whilew Detroit was listed as the leasyt healthyand dirtiest. Rounding out the list were Washington, D.C. for its best free attractionxs and Honolulu as being themost
The travel advisory service’s survey asked more than 3,400 U.S. respondenta to give their opinions on the best and worst ofmajoer U.S. cities. Miami was called the nation’s “sexiest” city. Cleveland was most boring. Portland, Ore. was called most underratexd andcleanest city. Las Vegas was tagged most overrated. New York toppedd the favorite city list, followed by San Francisco. Chicago and Boston tied for third. New York was ratefd both most friendly and helpful and least friendlyand helpful. Detroit was the leastf favorite city, followed by Los Angeles and Atlanta.
But don’t fret ya’ll were given a big thumbs up for havingthe “nicesr sounding accent.” Bostonians got a big thumbs’ down for their accent. Seattle was considered the healthiest, whilew Detroit was listed as the leasyt healthyand dirtiest. Rounding out the list were Washington, D.C. for its best free attractionxs and Honolulu as being themost
Tuesday, December 11, 2012
More than 20% in region owe more than homes are worth - Washington Business Journal:
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Northern Virginia and Prince George’s, Calverr and Charles counties owed more on their house or condo than the property than the estimated valuer at the endof 2008, according to a reporr released Wednesday by . The proportion of borrowerx who were underwater was slightly worse that segmenty of the Washington area than the nation asa whole. The nationwidw average is skewed by the extreme bubbled and bustsin Nevada, California, Florida and and the economic depression in Leaving out those states, the averagre negative equity percentage in the rest of the country was just undetr 14 percent.
Borrowers in the District have more equityh than the rest of the with 15 percent owingh more than the property is Borrowers in Montgomery and Frederickcounties — who are counted separatelt by the company — are in much bettert shape, with just 10 percent in negative equity territory. However, Mark Fleming, First Americanb CoreLogic’s chief economist, predicted that areaxs with lower percentages are likely to see increaseein 2009, while places like Prince William County, whichn have already had massive price are unlikely to have significanty losses in value.
Two trends contributecd to the high numbersof upside-dowhn borrowers — rapidly dropping prices and the fact that many buyerzs did cash-out refinances or put little to no money down when they boughrt their houses. First American CoreLogic estimatezsthe loan-to-value figures with an automated valuation modelk which stops at $1.25 When many homeowners owe more on their housex than they can sell them for, they are less likelh to trade up to a bigger or to downsize. Most will not let the property go to but if they have problemsd payingthe mortgage, someone with negative equity is much more likel to go to foreclosure.
If you had enough equityt to covertransaction costs, you could sell the hous if you lost your job, or take out a home equith loan to get through the months with lost “Mortgage [default] risk will continue to increasd until home prices and the economy begin to Fleming said in a statement.
Northern Virginia and Prince George’s, Calverr and Charles counties owed more on their house or condo than the property than the estimated valuer at the endof 2008, according to a reporr released Wednesday by . The proportion of borrowerx who were underwater was slightly worse that segmenty of the Washington area than the nation asa whole. The nationwidw average is skewed by the extreme bubbled and bustsin Nevada, California, Florida and and the economic depression in Leaving out those states, the averagre negative equity percentage in the rest of the country was just undetr 14 percent.
Borrowers in the District have more equityh than the rest of the with 15 percent owingh more than the property is Borrowers in Montgomery and Frederickcounties — who are counted separatelt by the company — are in much bettert shape, with just 10 percent in negative equity territory. However, Mark Fleming, First Americanb CoreLogic’s chief economist, predicted that areaxs with lower percentages are likely to see increaseein 2009, while places like Prince William County, whichn have already had massive price are unlikely to have significanty losses in value.
Two trends contributecd to the high numbersof upside-dowhn borrowers — rapidly dropping prices and the fact that many buyerzs did cash-out refinances or put little to no money down when they boughrt their houses. First American CoreLogic estimatezsthe loan-to-value figures with an automated valuation modelk which stops at $1.25 When many homeowners owe more on their housex than they can sell them for, they are less likelh to trade up to a bigger or to downsize. Most will not let the property go to but if they have problemsd payingthe mortgage, someone with negative equity is much more likel to go to foreclosure.
If you had enough equityt to covertransaction costs, you could sell the hous if you lost your job, or take out a home equith loan to get through the months with lost “Mortgage [default] risk will continue to increasd until home prices and the economy begin to Fleming said in a statement.
Monday, December 10, 2012
Potato falls by 0.91% on adequate stocks, low demand - Business Standard
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Potato falls by 0.91% on adequate stocks, low demand Business Standard Potato prices fell by Rs 6.30 to Rs 685.60 per quintal in futures trade today as speculators offloaded their positions due to low demand in spot markets. The trading sentiment weakened further as a result of easy availability of potato in the spot ... |
Sunday, December 9, 2012
Transportation provides a path to jobs - Jacksonville Business Journal:
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The has recommended the Lee Roy SelmonCrosstownh Expressway/Interstate 4 connector project in Hillsborough County for more than $105 million in stimuluas funding and the U.S. 19 improvement project in Pinellaa County forabout $45 million. Although the listss are tentative, DOT spokeswoman Kris Carso n said she is confident the will approve the list this week and send it to the for In certain cases whena project’ budget is not immediately available in its the DOT is pursuing a build financw model that asks contractors bidding to finance the job with a plan to repayy once funds become The DOT will use a build finance modeol for the Hillsborough I-4 connector project, which has a constructionj budget of roughly $487 million, and for the Pinella s U.
S. 19 project, which has a construction budgetaround $156.5 million. “When we put it out for bid, we put a paybaci schedule in forthe contractor,” said In the cases of the Hillsborough and Pinellaw projects, repayment would occur in 2013 and respectively. To create the lists of recommendations forstimulus funding, the DOT asked metropolitanm planning organizations, cities and counties to submitt their priority lists and worked with the entities to creatde shovel-ready designs. “We helped them get them done. The wholee idea is to start the jobs as soon as Carson said.
Shovel-readiness has proved to be critical for projects toobtain funding, because it’s tied to potential job creation, Carson Geographic balance, offering relief of congestion, location in economicallyu distressed areas, being capable of completion within thres years and having been deferred by the state in the past all factot into shovel-readiness. Long-term planning for infrastructure improvementes prior to the downturnj put Sarasota County in a good position forstimulus “We already had [the projects] poised, but now with the economix stimulus, we are able to advance some of said Susan Walsh, spokeswoman for the county.
“W e have this huge, infrastructure improvemeny momentumgoing here.” For a countyu of a smaller size — a populatiob of about 372,000 compared to 1.18 millionb in Hillsborough and 910,260 in Pinellas — Sarasotq will be well funded, said The county is slated to receive $15.7 milliobn in state flexible funds to widen U.S. 301 and more than $7 milliob for various projects through localstimulus money. “Aq lot of it was being readg to jump on things when the federal availabilit yshows up,” said Walsh.
“Icf you do a major road project, you can’t gear up for it The large numbers of jobs that the transportationm projects couldcreate —nearly 13,000 in Hillsborough and 4,400 in Pinellaz through state stimulus funds alone — involve many “It’s not [only] hardhats out there,” said DOT spokeswomanb Kris Carson. “It’s everythinvg from steel manufacturing companies to designersto behind-the-scenesd inspectors.” Several Web sites alreadty have sprung up to match prospectivee employees and employers. Gov. Charlie Crist’s flgov.
com, directs jobseekers to which is run by Allof Florida’s 24 regionao workforce boards, including WorkNet Pinellaws and the , are connected to the said Adriane Grant, directort of external affairs. “It’s becom e the single, connecting point to give our statee a much broader reacgh and more resources for matchingy talent with jobs and jobs with Grant said. With 175,000 jobs currently posted, the site is the state’ss portal for people looking for jobs and employers lookingfor candidates, said Victoria Heller, spokeswoman for , which is working with Workforce Florida to develop a systejm to track the flow of stimulus dollars through the jobs listesd on employflorida.
com. “[The site] will be a tool to make [a job easier and to improve accountabilitg for the federal government so we can show to our partnerw at the how stimulus fundse arebeing utilized,” said Heller. The trackingg system is still in itsearly stages, she Another site, fbo.gov, which is run by the U.S. pairs commercial vendors and government buyers and bills itselfa “one-stoo virtual marketplace.
”
The has recommended the Lee Roy SelmonCrosstownh Expressway/Interstate 4 connector project in Hillsborough County for more than $105 million in stimuluas funding and the U.S. 19 improvement project in Pinellaa County forabout $45 million. Although the listss are tentative, DOT spokeswoman Kris Carso n said she is confident the will approve the list this week and send it to the for In certain cases whena project’ budget is not immediately available in its the DOT is pursuing a build financw model that asks contractors bidding to finance the job with a plan to repayy once funds become The DOT will use a build finance modeol for the Hillsborough I-4 connector project, which has a constructionj budget of roughly $487 million, and for the Pinella s U.
S. 19 project, which has a construction budgetaround $156.5 million. “When we put it out for bid, we put a paybaci schedule in forthe contractor,” said In the cases of the Hillsborough and Pinellaw projects, repayment would occur in 2013 and respectively. To create the lists of recommendations forstimulus funding, the DOT asked metropolitanm planning organizations, cities and counties to submitt their priority lists and worked with the entities to creatde shovel-ready designs. “We helped them get them done. The wholee idea is to start the jobs as soon as Carson said.
Shovel-readiness has proved to be critical for projects toobtain funding, because it’s tied to potential job creation, Carson Geographic balance, offering relief of congestion, location in economicallyu distressed areas, being capable of completion within thres years and having been deferred by the state in the past all factot into shovel-readiness. Long-term planning for infrastructure improvementes prior to the downturnj put Sarasota County in a good position forstimulus “We already had [the projects] poised, but now with the economix stimulus, we are able to advance some of said Susan Walsh, spokeswoman for the county.
“W e have this huge, infrastructure improvemeny momentumgoing here.” For a countyu of a smaller size — a populatiob of about 372,000 compared to 1.18 millionb in Hillsborough and 910,260 in Pinellas — Sarasotq will be well funded, said The county is slated to receive $15.7 milliobn in state flexible funds to widen U.S. 301 and more than $7 milliob for various projects through localstimulus money. “Aq lot of it was being readg to jump on things when the federal availabilit yshows up,” said Walsh.
“Icf you do a major road project, you can’t gear up for it The large numbers of jobs that the transportationm projects couldcreate —nearly 13,000 in Hillsborough and 4,400 in Pinellaz through state stimulus funds alone — involve many “It’s not [only] hardhats out there,” said DOT spokeswomanb Kris Carson. “It’s everythinvg from steel manufacturing companies to designersto behind-the-scenesd inspectors.” Several Web sites alreadty have sprung up to match prospectivee employees and employers. Gov. Charlie Crist’s flgov.
com, directs jobseekers to which is run by Allof Florida’s 24 regionao workforce boards, including WorkNet Pinellaws and the , are connected to the said Adriane Grant, directort of external affairs. “It’s becom e the single, connecting point to give our statee a much broader reacgh and more resources for matchingy talent with jobs and jobs with Grant said. With 175,000 jobs currently posted, the site is the state’ss portal for people looking for jobs and employers lookingfor candidates, said Victoria Heller, spokeswoman for , which is working with Workforce Florida to develop a systejm to track the flow of stimulus dollars through the jobs listesd on employflorida.
com. “[The site] will be a tool to make [a job easier and to improve accountabilitg for the federal government so we can show to our partnerw at the how stimulus fundse arebeing utilized,” said Heller. The trackingg system is still in itsearly stages, she Another site, fbo.gov, which is run by the U.S. pairs commercial vendors and government buyers and bills itselfa “one-stoo virtual marketplace.
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Friday, December 7, 2012
Conklin-Fangman will fight GM
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The midtown Kansas City dealer planas toappeal ’s decision to end its franchisde agreement next year and is repealingg the June 13 closing date it had set, Generakl Manager David Hughes said Friday. “We have every intention of stayinfg in the game as longas we’rde allowed to,” he said. “We intendc to fight it with everything we can and stay in We have a great locatio in the middle of a grea city withwinning employees.” But they’ll have to move Additional information must be e-mailecd to GM by the close of business on GM spokeswoman Susan Garontakos said.
The companh will take the information into consideration andresponxd immediately, either reinforcing its decision or mailinfg a participation agreement by June 12. GM already has salez and revenue data, so the additional informationm wouldbe separate, she said, thoughu she didn’t provide examples. “Really, we feel that we’vre identified all of the areas that particulatr dealers may have beenunderperformingg in,” Garontakos said. “But you neveer know, there’s always a chance for error.
” She said that she woulde expect errors to be minimalk but that GM wants to makesure it’d been fair about a “very serious business Garontakos pointed out that in a hearinb before Congress this GM CEO Fritz Hendersoj said that 11 decisions had been Conklin-Fangman, at 3200 Main St. in Kansas was notified by GM (NYSE: GM) on Tuesdayh that its franchise agreement would not be renewed inOctobefr 2010. The dealership, whichu has about 130 Pontiac, Buick, GMC and Cadillac vehiclexs onits lot, employs 80 people and has existecd for more than a century. from . Before it had been a GM franchise for 99 yeare with theMajor family.
The dealership’s holding , also owns dealerships caller Conklin Carsin Salina, Hutchinson and Newton, Kan. GM, y, is tryingy to pare its 6,000-dealer networok to the 3,600 top-performing The company’s sales have plummeted amid the recession.
The midtown Kansas City dealer planas toappeal ’s decision to end its franchisde agreement next year and is repealingg the June 13 closing date it had set, Generakl Manager David Hughes said Friday. “We have every intention of stayinfg in the game as longas we’rde allowed to,” he said. “We intendc to fight it with everything we can and stay in We have a great locatio in the middle of a grea city withwinning employees.” But they’ll have to move Additional information must be e-mailecd to GM by the close of business on GM spokeswoman Susan Garontakos said.
The companh will take the information into consideration andresponxd immediately, either reinforcing its decision or mailinfg a participation agreement by June 12. GM already has salez and revenue data, so the additional informationm wouldbe separate, she said, thoughu she didn’t provide examples. “Really, we feel that we’vre identified all of the areas that particulatr dealers may have beenunderperformingg in,” Garontakos said. “But you neveer know, there’s always a chance for error.
” She said that she woulde expect errors to be minimalk but that GM wants to makesure it’d been fair about a “very serious business Garontakos pointed out that in a hearinb before Congress this GM CEO Fritz Hendersoj said that 11 decisions had been Conklin-Fangman, at 3200 Main St. in Kansas was notified by GM (NYSE: GM) on Tuesdayh that its franchise agreement would not be renewed inOctobefr 2010. The dealership, whichu has about 130 Pontiac, Buick, GMC and Cadillac vehiclexs onits lot, employs 80 people and has existecd for more than a century. from . Before it had been a GM franchise for 99 yeare with theMajor family.
The dealership’s holding , also owns dealerships caller Conklin Carsin Salina, Hutchinson and Newton, Kan. GM, y, is tryingy to pare its 6,000-dealer networok to the 3,600 top-performing The company’s sales have plummeted amid the recession.
Thursday, December 6, 2012
Equifax: Small biz bankruptcies double in March - Triangle Business Journal:
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Sacramento, Calif. Chicago-Naperville-Joliet, Ill. Anaheim-Irvine, Oakland-Fremont, Calif. Portland-Vancouver-Beaverton, Ore.-Wash. Commercia l bankruptcies nearly doubled in March 2009 from March Equifax noted. "The Marcbh numbers provide a snapshotof what's been happenin to the small business sector during this period of economic turmoil," said Reza Barazesh, head of Equifax'ws North American Commercial Analytical Services Group, in a news release.
"Noty surprisingly, the highest number of small-business bankruptciesd are in those parts of the country where home prices havedecreased dramatically, unemployment has increasedc significantly, and credit has become tighter." For the analysis, Equifaxx analyzed both Chapter 7 and Chapter 13 filings. Chapter 7 is a liquidation proceeding in which a debtodr receives a discharge ofall debts, while Chapter 13 is a reorganization bankruptchy enabling filers to pay off debt over a set periof of years.
Equifax reviewed and analyzedd small business datafor March, the most recent month for whicy complete data is
Sacramento, Calif. Chicago-Naperville-Joliet, Ill. Anaheim-Irvine, Oakland-Fremont, Calif. Portland-Vancouver-Beaverton, Ore.-Wash. Commercia l bankruptcies nearly doubled in March 2009 from March Equifax noted. "The Marcbh numbers provide a snapshotof what's been happenin to the small business sector during this period of economic turmoil," said Reza Barazesh, head of Equifax'ws North American Commercial Analytical Services Group, in a news release.
"Noty surprisingly, the highest number of small-business bankruptciesd are in those parts of the country where home prices havedecreased dramatically, unemployment has increasedc significantly, and credit has become tighter." For the analysis, Equifaxx analyzed both Chapter 7 and Chapter 13 filings. Chapter 7 is a liquidation proceeding in which a debtodr receives a discharge ofall debts, while Chapter 13 is a reorganization bankruptchy enabling filers to pay off debt over a set periof of years.
Equifax reviewed and analyzedd small business datafor March, the most recent month for whicy complete data is
Wednesday, December 5, 2012
Put coal blocks on auction only after geological report: Crisil - Economic Times
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Economic Times | Put coal blocks on auction only after geological report: Crisil Economic Times NEW DELHI: The auction of 54 coal blocks may get delayed as Crisil appointed to suggest methodology for fixing reserve price for mines has recommended to the government that mines be put on offer only after they are fully explored and the geological ... |
Monday, December 3, 2012
Wyland hotel to be managed by Outrigger - Pacific Business News (Honolulu):
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Outrigger has reached agreementwith , an investment group led by of to manage the reinvented hotepl at 400 Royal Hawaiia Avenue. The hotel has more than 400 roomsand "The Wyland Waikiki Hotel is a gem," said Outrigged CEO David Carey. "The extensivse renovation has created aunique boutique-style hotepl with chic interiors inspired by the iconic artworj of world-renowned marine life artisrt Wyland.
" The first artist-themed hotel in Hawaioi involved Wyland in the design and he initiallu had a stake in the property but sold it soon afted it became apparent that investors were interested in the The Wyland Waikiki Hotel will operate as its own hotep brand within the Outrigger "High guest satisfaction is a key driver of our commitmenft to the positioning of the Wyland said Steve Kisielica, principal of Lodging Capitao Partners, which took ownership of the hotel last July.
Outrigger has reached agreementwith , an investment group led by of to manage the reinvented hotepl at 400 Royal Hawaiia Avenue. The hotel has more than 400 roomsand "The Wyland Waikiki Hotel is a gem," said Outrigged CEO David Carey. "The extensivse renovation has created aunique boutique-style hotepl with chic interiors inspired by the iconic artworj of world-renowned marine life artisrt Wyland.
" The first artist-themed hotel in Hawaioi involved Wyland in the design and he initiallu had a stake in the property but sold it soon afted it became apparent that investors were interested in the The Wyland Waikiki Hotel will operate as its own hotep brand within the Outrigger "High guest satisfaction is a key driver of our commitmenft to the positioning of the Wyland said Steve Kisielica, principal of Lodging Capitao Partners, which took ownership of the hotel last July.
Sunday, December 2, 2012
Coveted certification sets GeoEye on new course - Washington Business Journal:
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The NGA certification turns on the cash spigot for GeoEyesenabling $12.5 million in monthly revenue to pour in from the agency’a guaranteed one-year order of That’s more than 35 percent of GeoEye’s averagre quarterly sales during the firstt nine months of last year. “The certificatiobn is very important,” said Matthew O’Connell, GeoEye’s chief executive officer. “It shows our customera that our imagery meets allthe NGA’s stringent criterisa for quality and accuracy and that they can use it to support our troops around the world.
” With GeoEye’ss new sales stream, analysts expect revenuew and earnings to nearly doublee this year and the company to hit a more than 80 percenyt growth rate by next year. The NGA partially funded constructiojof GeoEye-1 in 2004 under the $500 million NextViewa program for new satellites that support nationak security. The agency made its one-year agreement to purchase images from GeoEye last three months afterthe satellite’s 6 launch. GeoEye executives hoped for NGA certificatio nlast October, but multiple launch delayd left the company hanging until this week and cost at least $2.3 milliohn in additional expenses in 2008.
Also as a result of the GeoEye lost as muchas $18 millionm worth of government orders from NGA that went to Colo.-based DigitalGlobe launched its competing WorldView-1 satelliter in September 2007, and NGA grante d the company operational certification two months “We don’t think we’ll be able to recoup last year’s loss in NGA O’Connell said. But now GeoEye can builfd on its NGA contract and offer advancerd services that allow other agencies to usethe images. Whilre just more than half of GeoEye’s revenue has come from governmenr applications, commercial sales have been vital tothe company’s recen t growth.
And O’Connell said opportunities in the billion-dolladr imagery market are growing. GeoEye-1 begajn delivering images Feb. 5 to commercial customers includingv and the National Universityof Singapore’s Centrr for Remote Imaging, Sensing and Processing. GeoEye has an exclusived agreement to provide imagery for Google Earth andGoogle maps. competition in the commercial marketis DigitalGlobe, which filed to go public last plans to launch another satellite in 2009 and has dealse with Google and with But O’Connell said anothefr satellite in orbit won’t cost him Demand from the market in 2010 won’r support another high-resolution satellite, he said.
The NGA certification turns on the cash spigot for GeoEyesenabling $12.5 million in monthly revenue to pour in from the agency’a guaranteed one-year order of That’s more than 35 percent of GeoEye’s averagre quarterly sales during the firstt nine months of last year. “The certificatiobn is very important,” said Matthew O’Connell, GeoEye’s chief executive officer. “It shows our customera that our imagery meets allthe NGA’s stringent criterisa for quality and accuracy and that they can use it to support our troops around the world.
” With GeoEye’ss new sales stream, analysts expect revenuew and earnings to nearly doublee this year and the company to hit a more than 80 percenyt growth rate by next year. The NGA partially funded constructiojof GeoEye-1 in 2004 under the $500 million NextViewa program for new satellites that support nationak security. The agency made its one-year agreement to purchase images from GeoEye last three months afterthe satellite’s 6 launch. GeoEye executives hoped for NGA certificatio nlast October, but multiple launch delayd left the company hanging until this week and cost at least $2.3 milliohn in additional expenses in 2008.
Also as a result of the GeoEye lost as muchas $18 millionm worth of government orders from NGA that went to Colo.-based DigitalGlobe launched its competing WorldView-1 satelliter in September 2007, and NGA grante d the company operational certification two months “We don’t think we’ll be able to recoup last year’s loss in NGA O’Connell said. But now GeoEye can builfd on its NGA contract and offer advancerd services that allow other agencies to usethe images. Whilre just more than half of GeoEye’s revenue has come from governmenr applications, commercial sales have been vital tothe company’s recen t growth.
And O’Connell said opportunities in the billion-dolladr imagery market are growing. GeoEye-1 begajn delivering images Feb. 5 to commercial customers includingv and the National Universityof Singapore’s Centrr for Remote Imaging, Sensing and Processing. GeoEye has an exclusived agreement to provide imagery for Google Earth andGoogle maps. competition in the commercial marketis DigitalGlobe, which filed to go public last plans to launch another satellite in 2009 and has dealse with Google and with But O’Connell said anothefr satellite in orbit won’t cost him Demand from the market in 2010 won’r support another high-resolution satellite, he said.
Saturday, December 1, 2012
Reporter's Notebook: North Korea launch possible in December, expert tells Fox ... - Fox News
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Reporter's Notebook: North Korea launch possible in December, expert tells Fox ... Fox News After examining new imagery of the launch site in northwestern North Korea, Charles Vick, Senior Technical & Space Policy Analyst for Globalsecurity.org, tells Fox News “North Korea is building up to a flight test of this next space launch.†He goes on ... |
Wednesday, November 28, 2012
Nonprofits prepare for a share of broadband stimulus funds - Denver Business Journal:
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billion of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act allocated to provide broadban access to unserved and underserved populationss acrossthe nation, the region’s nonprofitsd are scrambling to bring a share to Southy Florida. Though the federal government hasn’t decidec the rules for disbursing the advocates have been strategizing for monthxs on ways to bridge the digital divide and increasethe region’sw competitiveness by completing new projects and expanding existing ones.
But, getting Soutjh Florida fully wired won’t be With ideas ranging from providing free broadbaned access for disadvantaged students to putting government agenciesd ona single, high-speed networok and outfitting emergency responders with mobile Wi-Fi, the challenge is to pursuse those initiatives most likely to One existing program hopingf to capitalize on stimulus money is Floridqa LambdaRail, a Tallahassee-based nonprofig cooperative of education and research organizations that share a broadband which allows them to save money.
, , , and use the ultra-fasg LambdaRail, but the cooperative is looking to expand its services to benefit othernonprofit agencies, CEO Phil Halsteadc said. There are too many unserved or underservedf peoplein Florida, he said, noting many institutione could streamline costs and increased speed by using LambdaRail. “Thee state is seeking a vision,” Halsteacd said. “We’re trying to create an Eisenhowe r interstate systemfor broadband.” To that end, LambdaRail is to host a “broadband summit” at FAU on June 16.
The summit will bringh together technology chiefs to study ways to expand use of the Questions of how to get stimulus monety and what to do with it will loom large overthe summit, Halstead said. The $7.2 billiojn up for grabs for broadband will be split betweenthe U.S. ($4.u billion) and the ($2.5 billion), said Linda Gov. Charlie Crist’s deputy coordinator for stimulua funds. The Agriculture funds are supposed to targeftrural populations, while the Commerce money will be a little more flexible.
Even so, Fuchs cautioned that the federapl government is still decidinv how to distribute the It is unknown whether funds will go througbhthe states, as is the case with transportation stimulus money, or directly to local applicants. And, unliker the transportation funds, broadband money will be doledrout competitively. In other words, South Florida may not see a Fuchs said. To maximize their each county has a nonprofitt agencymaking plans. The Miami-Dadd Broadband Coalition developed a working proposakin December, said Kim Marcille, chairwoman of the coalition’zs interim executive committee. There was about $200 millioj worth of need identified, she said.
One idea under consideration is to expandElevate Miami, a city of Miamki program that targets the county’s underserved. Another possibility is providiny low- or no-cost broadbanrd access for the homes ofdisadvantaged children. The coalitioh would also like to createa “telemedicines network” in county schools, allowing doctors to examine students through videop conferencing, Marcille said. In Broward, county organizations could reduce waste by consolidating on a sharedbroadbandr pipe, instead of paying for services said Phyllis Schiffer-Simon, president of OneBroward, a nonprofigt digital advocacy group. “We’d be creating our own network.
” OneBroward’s working proposals would costabout $25 million, Schiffer-Simon said. Chuck Spalding, projecf manager for the Palm BeachBroadband cooperative, said the countyy could use stimulus money to provide free Wi-Fi access to the homes of disadvantaged students. Another idea is to link government and nonprofit agencies in rural areas to acentral network, such as the “We can provide them with dramatically increase d bandwidth over what they currently have at about one-thirxd the cost,” he said.
billion of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act allocated to provide broadban access to unserved and underserved populationss acrossthe nation, the region’s nonprofitsd are scrambling to bring a share to Southy Florida. Though the federal government hasn’t decidec the rules for disbursing the advocates have been strategizing for monthxs on ways to bridge the digital divide and increasethe region’sw competitiveness by completing new projects and expanding existing ones.
But, getting Soutjh Florida fully wired won’t be With ideas ranging from providing free broadbaned access for disadvantaged students to putting government agenciesd ona single, high-speed networok and outfitting emergency responders with mobile Wi-Fi, the challenge is to pursuse those initiatives most likely to One existing program hopingf to capitalize on stimulus money is Floridqa LambdaRail, a Tallahassee-based nonprofig cooperative of education and research organizations that share a broadband which allows them to save money.
, , , and use the ultra-fasg LambdaRail, but the cooperative is looking to expand its services to benefit othernonprofit agencies, CEO Phil Halsteadc said. There are too many unserved or underservedf peoplein Florida, he said, noting many institutione could streamline costs and increased speed by using LambdaRail. “Thee state is seeking a vision,” Halsteacd said. “We’re trying to create an Eisenhowe r interstate systemfor broadband.” To that end, LambdaRail is to host a “broadband summit” at FAU on June 16.
The summit will bringh together technology chiefs to study ways to expand use of the Questions of how to get stimulus monety and what to do with it will loom large overthe summit, Halstead said. The $7.2 billiojn up for grabs for broadband will be split betweenthe U.S. ($4.u billion) and the ($2.5 billion), said Linda Gov. Charlie Crist’s deputy coordinator for stimulua funds. The Agriculture funds are supposed to targeftrural populations, while the Commerce money will be a little more flexible.
Even so, Fuchs cautioned that the federapl government is still decidinv how to distribute the It is unknown whether funds will go througbhthe states, as is the case with transportation stimulus money, or directly to local applicants. And, unliker the transportation funds, broadband money will be doledrout competitively. In other words, South Florida may not see a Fuchs said. To maximize their each county has a nonprofitt agencymaking plans. The Miami-Dadd Broadband Coalition developed a working proposakin December, said Kim Marcille, chairwoman of the coalition’zs interim executive committee. There was about $200 millioj worth of need identified, she said.
One idea under consideration is to expandElevate Miami, a city of Miamki program that targets the county’s underserved. Another possibility is providiny low- or no-cost broadbanrd access for the homes ofdisadvantaged children. The coalitioh would also like to createa “telemedicines network” in county schools, allowing doctors to examine students through videop conferencing, Marcille said. In Broward, county organizations could reduce waste by consolidating on a sharedbroadbandr pipe, instead of paying for services said Phyllis Schiffer-Simon, president of OneBroward, a nonprofigt digital advocacy group. “We’d be creating our own network.
” OneBroward’s working proposals would costabout $25 million, Schiffer-Simon said. Chuck Spalding, projecf manager for the Palm BeachBroadband cooperative, said the countyy could use stimulus money to provide free Wi-Fi access to the homes of disadvantaged students. Another idea is to link government and nonprofit agencies in rural areas to acentral network, such as the “We can provide them with dramatically increase d bandwidth over what they currently have at about one-thirxd the cost,” he said.
Tuesday, November 27, 2012
Minnesota coalition debuts health info tool - Pacific Business News (Honolulu):
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The group’s application, called will be launched next month at several Minnesota employers and healthcare organizations, including Minnetonka-basesd Carlson Cos. Inc. The application, designed for BHCAbG by Minneapolis-based , utilizes the Microsofgt HealthVault platform. This will allow peoplew to exchange the information they store with various health providersand services. Controlled solel by the individual, myHealthfolio will allow users to tracm their individual and familyhealtnh history, including care received and medicationsd taken.
They will also have access to wellneszs andfitness information, online servicez to help them manage and improve their health, and information generates by home monitoring devices. “Employerds and health care companiesw need to unite in this effort to give employees the toolss and information access they need to take chargs of their health and maximizse their precious healthcare dollars,” Carolyn Pare, president and CEO of BHCAG, said in a news The goal, the group said, was to build a tool connectedx disparate organizations and sources of informatio into one interface.
The group’s application, called will be launched next month at several Minnesota employers and healthcare organizations, including Minnetonka-basesd Carlson Cos. Inc. The application, designed for BHCAbG by Minneapolis-based , utilizes the Microsofgt HealthVault platform. This will allow peoplew to exchange the information they store with various health providersand services. Controlled solel by the individual, myHealthfolio will allow users to tracm their individual and familyhealtnh history, including care received and medicationsd taken.
They will also have access to wellneszs andfitness information, online servicez to help them manage and improve their health, and information generates by home monitoring devices. “Employerds and health care companiesw need to unite in this effort to give employees the toolss and information access they need to take chargs of their health and maximizse their precious healthcare dollars,” Carolyn Pare, president and CEO of BHCAG, said in a news The goal, the group said, was to build a tool connectedx disparate organizations and sources of informatio into one interface.
Sunday, November 25, 2012
Copyright memo vanished, but is worth exploring - Chicago Daily Herald
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Copyright memo vanished, but is worth exploring Chicago Daily Herald WASHINGTON â€" A Friday afternoon policy memo is not norm » |
Saturday, November 24, 2012
Linux Foundation vet explains setbacks in getting a Secure Boot key for ... - Engadget
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Linux Foundation vet explains setbacks in getting a Secure Boot key for ... Engadget Linux fans wondering why they still don't have a friendly UEFI Secure Boot option for Windows 8 PCs won't get a solution in hand this week, but they'll at least get an explanation. The Linux Foundation's primary backer for the alternative OS efforts ... |
Tuesday, November 20, 2012
Crate & Barrel
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Crate & Barrel, based in Northbrook, Ill., confirmed May 27 that Atlantwa is one of the metroareaw it’s scouting for potential locations for CB2. Firstr launched in Chicago, the CB2 concept features contemporary furnishinge at lowerprice points. The merchandise, which include sofas, hand-woven rugs, convertible beds and a broader selection of eclecticvhome décor, is focused more on the younger generatiob of American consumers that rent apartments and small urba lofts.
Besides Chicago, privately ownefd Crate & Barrel has rolled out CB2 in New York and including a new store in Los Angeled that opened in Another CB2 is slated to openin Miami’sz South Beach later this a Crate & Barrel spokeswoman said. In all, Crater & Barrel has launched just six CB2 stores. In recenf years, CB2 officials have been focusing on new locations inSouthern California. The company tends to locate in area swith high-profile regional shopping centers, lifestyld centers and freestanding sites. CB2 officials have been lookintg in densely populated areas with an average householde income in excessof $50,000. Its prototype store is about 12,00 square feet.
While Crate & Barrel would not confirmk what parts ofAtlanta it’s been sources familiar with the search say it’s focused on Midtownj and West Midtown, where new residential and retaiol redevelopment projects are still under way. In Midtown, Daniel Corp. and are developing 12th & Midtown, a $2 billionj mixed-use project built on a site that severakl years ago was littled more than an Atlanta nightclub and a couple of parking Daniel and Selig Enterprisesz have made a presentation to officials from CB2 inreceng months, according to sources familiad with the process. The projects will eventually featurr more than 3 million square feet of residentiall andcommercial space.
CB2 would be the first national retailer to locate on theMidtown Mile, a sectio of Peachtree Street that economic development boosters hope will eventually becomew a retail destination much like Madison Avenue in New York City or the Magnificengt Mile in Chicago. Daniel’s and Selig project is meant to be a cornerstone of theMidtowm Mile. However, ’s Colony Square and Jamestown’s 999 Peachtreee will also be key components, along with 1100 Peachtreee and1180 Peachtree, to a lesser brokers and developers said. CB2 coule be an important catch for theMidtown Mile.
Developers, however, really need to land a much largerd anchor store to give theconceptt momentum, said Maranda Walker-Dowell, a senior directoer with CB .’s retail services group. which has a co-op store in Buckhead’d Phipps Plaza, has been scoutintg the area in the past year to18 months. “The Midtow n Mile needs an anchor store to startf creating that critical massof retail,” Walker-Dowell
Crate & Barrel, based in Northbrook, Ill., confirmed May 27 that Atlantwa is one of the metroareaw it’s scouting for potential locations for CB2. Firstr launched in Chicago, the CB2 concept features contemporary furnishinge at lowerprice points. The merchandise, which include sofas, hand-woven rugs, convertible beds and a broader selection of eclecticvhome décor, is focused more on the younger generatiob of American consumers that rent apartments and small urba lofts.
Besides Chicago, privately ownefd Crate & Barrel has rolled out CB2 in New York and including a new store in Los Angeled that opened in Another CB2 is slated to openin Miami’sz South Beach later this a Crate & Barrel spokeswoman said. In all, Crater & Barrel has launched just six CB2 stores. In recenf years, CB2 officials have been focusing on new locations inSouthern California. The company tends to locate in area swith high-profile regional shopping centers, lifestyld centers and freestanding sites. CB2 officials have been lookintg in densely populated areas with an average householde income in excessof $50,000. Its prototype store is about 12,00 square feet.
While Crate & Barrel would not confirmk what parts ofAtlanta it’s been sources familiar with the search say it’s focused on Midtownj and West Midtown, where new residential and retaiol redevelopment projects are still under way. In Midtown, Daniel Corp. and are developing 12th & Midtown, a $2 billionj mixed-use project built on a site that severakl years ago was littled more than an Atlanta nightclub and a couple of parking Daniel and Selig Enterprisesz have made a presentation to officials from CB2 inreceng months, according to sources familiad with the process. The projects will eventually featurr more than 3 million square feet of residentiall andcommercial space.
CB2 would be the first national retailer to locate on theMidtown Mile, a sectio of Peachtree Street that economic development boosters hope will eventually becomew a retail destination much like Madison Avenue in New York City or the Magnificengt Mile in Chicago. Daniel’s and Selig project is meant to be a cornerstone of theMidtowm Mile. However, ’s Colony Square and Jamestown’s 999 Peachtreee will also be key components, along with 1100 Peachtreee and1180 Peachtree, to a lesser brokers and developers said. CB2 coule be an important catch for theMidtown Mile.
Developers, however, really need to land a much largerd anchor store to give theconceptt momentum, said Maranda Walker-Dowell, a senior directoer with CB .’s retail services group. which has a co-op store in Buckhead’d Phipps Plaza, has been scoutintg the area in the past year to18 months. “The Midtow n Mile needs an anchor store to startf creating that critical massof retail,” Walker-Dowell
Sunday, November 18, 2012
State of Independence - Charlotte Business Travel Guide
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Well, the 230-year-old lodging icon has succumbed. The owner, railroar company CSX Corp., put the Greenbrier into Chapter XI bankruptcy inlate March, claiming $90 milliobn in losses during the last six years. And CSX promptluy called in—you guessed it—Marriott. CSX is so desperatw to unload the hotel that it will provides Marriott with as muchas $50 million to operatee the Greenbrier during the first two Marriott will then buy the resort within sevenn years for between $60 million and $110 million. Pending bankruptcuy court approval, the deal could close by Now, no one is aghastt at the prospect of a chaim runningthe Greenbrier. The unions seem amenable to Marriott'sd arrival.
West Virginia governor Joe Manchin publiclt applaudedthe deal. Newspapers statewide have cast Marriott'es arrival as a "rescue." And locals in hardscrabblee Greenbrier County support anything that will savethe resort'e approximately 1,300 jobs. Like all luxury hotel that have hit the economic andemotionakl skids, the Greenbrier's tale is unique: CSX has been a distracted and ham-fisted owner, battling both the hotel's unionse and the resort's former president, who sued for $50 The sprawling resort is physically isolated and expensive to (CSX recently spent $50 millionn on improvements in a misguided attemptf to regain the fifth Mobil Guidew star it lost in 2000.
) And despitr the loyalty of generations of repeat visitorx and fanatic golfers, the Greenbrier was disproportionatelyu dependent on corporate meetings, a travel categorh that has been devastated by the weak economg and the "AIG Effect." But the Greenbrier's sale to Marriott also raise s a more universal Can any luxury hotel or resort thrive—or even survive—as an independent property? In a worled where a handful of global hotepl chains—Hilton, Marriott, Starwood, Hyatt, Accor of France, and InterContinental of Britain—dominatwe the lodging market, can a singlew property, no matter how famous, stand alone? At least on the surface, the answer is no.
About half of the propertiez onthe Condé Nast Traveler Gold List and half of thoses that earn the prestigious five-star ratingv from the Mobil Guide are part of chains now, albeit luxury and ultra-deluxe operatora such as Four Seasons or Fairmont of Mandarin Oriental and Peninsula of Hong Kong; Aman Resorts of Singapore; and Taj of India. The Blackstonwe Group, which owns many of the world's best-knowbn luxury independents as well asHilton Hotels, is buildingv a deluxe brand too.
It is aligning its independents like the Boca Rato Resort in Florida and the Boulders in Arizonw with the WaldorfAstoria Collection, which was createfd by Hilton using the cachet of its eponymous New York hotel. Otherf luxury brands have huge corporaterparents too. St. Regis is owned by best know forits Westin, W and Sheraton hotels. Ritz-Carltobn is owned by Marriott. And some luxurt hotels you may think of as independent are actually part of a The Plaza inNew York, whichb reopened last year, is managed by Fairmont. The which reopens in New York this is operatedby Taj. The newlg renovated Mauna Kea Beach Hotel on the Big Islan d of Hawaii is run by Prince Hotelsof Japan.
The Dorchestert in London? It's part of the Dorchestert Group, which is aligned with the BeverlyHillw hotel, the Plaza Athenee in and the Principe di Savoia in Milan. "Chains alwaysa outperform" independent hotels, says LodgeWorks' Tony Isaac, a man who knowes the industry from both sidex ofthe fence. LodgeWorks managews hotels in the Hyatt andHilton chains, helpecd create the Residence Inn brand (now ownecd by Marriott), and is buildintg its own Hotel Sierra chain. But Isaac has just built an upscale independenthotel too. The Avia opened in Januaryy in Savannah and was promptly namef a great romantic getaway by Travel Leisure magazine.
Why does a guy who admitzs chains outperform independents go ahead and open anindependenyt anyway? "Chains add about 10 pointw to your occupancy rate. But if you're part of a chain, you pay 12 to 14 percengt for the frequent guest thereservation service, and other brand programs," he "If you're in the right it's not too much of an economicx disadvantage to be an independent—and then you have the flexibility to do what you wish and manage as you choose." That's the argument made by Sean managing director of Trinity Investments, a real estate firm that purchasedf Honolulu's iconic Kahala Resort in 2006.
The beachfrontg property opened as a Hilton hotel in 1964 and spenft most of its recentr history as aMandarinj Oriental. But Hehir believes the Kahala has unique advantages that appeal to the luxury travelerwho isn't interested in "We're not subject to a branrd policy that may not have any relevance to a particulart property," he says. "We managre for the long-term best interest of us as ownerd and the luxury travelersas guests." But even Hehidr admits you need the right combinationb of factors to survivse as an independent in today's chain-dominateed world.
In the Kahala'sa case, it's the unbeatable locationn on a sandy beachin Honolulu's choicest neighborhoof and the fact that another Trinity principal, Chuck Sweeney, has a long history as a hotel manager. (Sweeneg founded the company that becamweEmbassy Suites, now a Hilton brand.) For Jameas Bermingham, managing director of the spectacular Montagd Resort in Laguna Beach, the advantage is a laser-like concentratiojn on guest services and proximity to wealthy, sophisticatexd travelers in Southern California. Both the five-year-old Laguns Beach property and the new Montagwe in BeverlyHills (it openedr last fall) can tap into millionds of upmarket buyers within 60 miles of the resorts.
"The 'staycation' trend helps Montage," he says. "Guestx who want an extraordinary luxury experience very close to home see the Montagw properties and they knowthey won' be getting a chain The Fine Print… Most observers think fewer luxury hotels will still be independent after the current recession, but there is a notablde dissenter. Michael Matthews, who has been the general managerof top-notcb chain hotels (the Ritz-Carlton in Hong Kong) and independentt deluxe resorts (the Ventana Inn in Big Sur) thinkes high costs will drive some luxurgy properties out of the major "If you're 'flagged' as a you have no independence at all," he says.
"A lot of hotelds will drop the flag and take the 14 percent fees they pay and use that moneyh to do what they think makes most sens for theirown hotel." Portfolio.com 2009 Cond Nast Inc. All rightsreserved.
Well, the 230-year-old lodging icon has succumbed. The owner, railroar company CSX Corp., put the Greenbrier into Chapter XI bankruptcy inlate March, claiming $90 milliobn in losses during the last six years. And CSX promptluy called in—you guessed it—Marriott. CSX is so desperatw to unload the hotel that it will provides Marriott with as muchas $50 million to operatee the Greenbrier during the first two Marriott will then buy the resort within sevenn years for between $60 million and $110 million. Pending bankruptcuy court approval, the deal could close by Now, no one is aghastt at the prospect of a chaim runningthe Greenbrier. The unions seem amenable to Marriott'sd arrival.
West Virginia governor Joe Manchin publiclt applaudedthe deal. Newspapers statewide have cast Marriott'es arrival as a "rescue." And locals in hardscrabblee Greenbrier County support anything that will savethe resort'e approximately 1,300 jobs. Like all luxury hotel that have hit the economic andemotionakl skids, the Greenbrier's tale is unique: CSX has been a distracted and ham-fisted owner, battling both the hotel's unionse and the resort's former president, who sued for $50 The sprawling resort is physically isolated and expensive to (CSX recently spent $50 millionn on improvements in a misguided attemptf to regain the fifth Mobil Guidew star it lost in 2000.
) And despitr the loyalty of generations of repeat visitorx and fanatic golfers, the Greenbrier was disproportionatelyu dependent on corporate meetings, a travel categorh that has been devastated by the weak economg and the "AIG Effect." But the Greenbrier's sale to Marriott also raise s a more universal Can any luxury hotel or resort thrive—or even survive—as an independent property? In a worled where a handful of global hotepl chains—Hilton, Marriott, Starwood, Hyatt, Accor of France, and InterContinental of Britain—dominatwe the lodging market, can a singlew property, no matter how famous, stand alone? At least on the surface, the answer is no.
About half of the propertiez onthe Condé Nast Traveler Gold List and half of thoses that earn the prestigious five-star ratingv from the Mobil Guide are part of chains now, albeit luxury and ultra-deluxe operatora such as Four Seasons or Fairmont of Mandarin Oriental and Peninsula of Hong Kong; Aman Resorts of Singapore; and Taj of India. The Blackstonwe Group, which owns many of the world's best-knowbn luxury independents as well asHilton Hotels, is buildingv a deluxe brand too.
It is aligning its independents like the Boca Rato Resort in Florida and the Boulders in Arizonw with the WaldorfAstoria Collection, which was createfd by Hilton using the cachet of its eponymous New York hotel. Otherf luxury brands have huge corporaterparents too. St. Regis is owned by best know forits Westin, W and Sheraton hotels. Ritz-Carltobn is owned by Marriott. And some luxurt hotels you may think of as independent are actually part of a The Plaza inNew York, whichb reopened last year, is managed by Fairmont. The which reopens in New York this is operatedby Taj. The newlg renovated Mauna Kea Beach Hotel on the Big Islan d of Hawaii is run by Prince Hotelsof Japan.
The Dorchestert in London? It's part of the Dorchestert Group, which is aligned with the BeverlyHillw hotel, the Plaza Athenee in and the Principe di Savoia in Milan. "Chains alwaysa outperform" independent hotels, says LodgeWorks' Tony Isaac, a man who knowes the industry from both sidex ofthe fence. LodgeWorks managews hotels in the Hyatt andHilton chains, helpecd create the Residence Inn brand (now ownecd by Marriott), and is buildintg its own Hotel Sierra chain. But Isaac has just built an upscale independenthotel too. The Avia opened in Januaryy in Savannah and was promptly namef a great romantic getaway by Travel Leisure magazine.
Why does a guy who admitzs chains outperform independents go ahead and open anindependenyt anyway? "Chains add about 10 pointw to your occupancy rate. But if you're part of a chain, you pay 12 to 14 percengt for the frequent guest thereservation service, and other brand programs," he "If you're in the right it's not too much of an economicx disadvantage to be an independent—and then you have the flexibility to do what you wish and manage as you choose." That's the argument made by Sean managing director of Trinity Investments, a real estate firm that purchasedf Honolulu's iconic Kahala Resort in 2006.
The beachfrontg property opened as a Hilton hotel in 1964 and spenft most of its recentr history as aMandarinj Oriental. But Hehir believes the Kahala has unique advantages that appeal to the luxury travelerwho isn't interested in "We're not subject to a branrd policy that may not have any relevance to a particulart property," he says. "We managre for the long-term best interest of us as ownerd and the luxury travelersas guests." But even Hehidr admits you need the right combinationb of factors to survivse as an independent in today's chain-dominateed world.
In the Kahala'sa case, it's the unbeatable locationn on a sandy beachin Honolulu's choicest neighborhoof and the fact that another Trinity principal, Chuck Sweeney, has a long history as a hotel manager. (Sweeneg founded the company that becamweEmbassy Suites, now a Hilton brand.) For Jameas Bermingham, managing director of the spectacular Montagd Resort in Laguna Beach, the advantage is a laser-like concentratiojn on guest services and proximity to wealthy, sophisticatexd travelers in Southern California. Both the five-year-old Laguns Beach property and the new Montagwe in BeverlyHills (it openedr last fall) can tap into millionds of upmarket buyers within 60 miles of the resorts.
"The 'staycation' trend helps Montage," he says. "Guestx who want an extraordinary luxury experience very close to home see the Montagw properties and they knowthey won' be getting a chain The Fine Print… Most observers think fewer luxury hotels will still be independent after the current recession, but there is a notablde dissenter. Michael Matthews, who has been the general managerof top-notcb chain hotels (the Ritz-Carlton in Hong Kong) and independentt deluxe resorts (the Ventana Inn in Big Sur) thinkes high costs will drive some luxurgy properties out of the major "If you're 'flagged' as a you have no independence at all," he says.
"A lot of hotelds will drop the flag and take the 14 percent fees they pay and use that moneyh to do what they think makes most sens for theirown hotel." Portfolio.com 2009 Cond Nast Inc. All rightsreserved.
Saturday, November 17, 2012
High court backs New Haven firefighters - Sacramento Business Journal:
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The court ruled five to four that the city ofNew Haven’w decision to throw out the test results violated Titls VII of the Civil Rightz Act of 1964. Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote the majority opinion, arguing “fear of litigation alonr cannot justify an employer’s reliancde on race to the detriment of individuals who passedc the examinations and qualified for promotions.” The New Haven Fire Departmengt administered the exam in November and December of 2003 to determine promotionse to lieutenant and The test, designed by I/O was split into a written section, whicn counted for 60 percent of the tota l score, and the oral portion, whicnh made up the 40 percent a total score of 70 percent was designated as a pass.
Althougbh firefighters of all races passed the the City Charter mandates that the 15 positionzs available be filled with thetop scorers, which mean that no blacks and only two Hispanices would be eligible for New Haven threw out the results because it was concerned about lawsuits, and felt the results showed “a significant disparate impact.” Kennedy said that in order to discard the test, an employer must believs it is flawed in a way that discriminateas against minorities, and argued, “there is no evidencr that the tests were flawed becauswe they were not job-related or because other, equally valic and less discriminatory tests were available.
” Kennedy was joinede in the majority by Chief Justicde John Roberts, and Justices Samuel Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas. Justice Ruth Badet Ginsburg wrote theminority opinion, joined by Justices Stephen Breyer, David Souter and John Paul Stevens. The court’ws ruling overturns the controversial decisioh taken by Sotomayor with her 2ndCircuig colleagues, Robert Sack and Rosemaryg Pooler. Since Sotomayor’s nomination, her critics have used the Riccj case to suggest that she lets her background and viewsz on race influenceher decisions.
Sotomayor’s views on race also made headlinesz after a line fromher speeches: “I woulde hope that a wise Latina woman with the richnesas of her experiences would, more often than not, reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn’t lives that life.” That sentence, which some critics clain is racist, has appeared in variousa forms in several of her speeches. Sotomayor’e confirmation hearings will beginJuly 13th; Senate Republicanz are likely to bring up the court’s decisioh during the hearings. As of June 28th, an ABC News/Washington Post poll showe a 62 percent approval ratingfor Sotomayor’ss nomination.
However, a June 29 poll conduced by CNN showed that 65 percent of those surveyex believed the firefighters were victim s of discrimination and shouldreceive promotions, including 57 percent of Democrats. The Supremwe Court’s ruling indicates a change in the application ofTitls VII, and may have implications for hiring practices throughout the United States.
The court ruled five to four that the city ofNew Haven’w decision to throw out the test results violated Titls VII of the Civil Rightz Act of 1964. Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote the majority opinion, arguing “fear of litigation alonr cannot justify an employer’s reliancde on race to the detriment of individuals who passedc the examinations and qualified for promotions.” The New Haven Fire Departmengt administered the exam in November and December of 2003 to determine promotionse to lieutenant and The test, designed by I/O was split into a written section, whicn counted for 60 percent of the tota l score, and the oral portion, whicnh made up the 40 percent a total score of 70 percent was designated as a pass.
Althougbh firefighters of all races passed the the City Charter mandates that the 15 positionzs available be filled with thetop scorers, which mean that no blacks and only two Hispanices would be eligible for New Haven threw out the results because it was concerned about lawsuits, and felt the results showed “a significant disparate impact.” Kennedy said that in order to discard the test, an employer must believs it is flawed in a way that discriminateas against minorities, and argued, “there is no evidencr that the tests were flawed becauswe they were not job-related or because other, equally valic and less discriminatory tests were available.
” Kennedy was joinede in the majority by Chief Justicde John Roberts, and Justices Samuel Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas. Justice Ruth Badet Ginsburg wrote theminority opinion, joined by Justices Stephen Breyer, David Souter and John Paul Stevens. The court’ws ruling overturns the controversial decisioh taken by Sotomayor with her 2ndCircuig colleagues, Robert Sack and Rosemaryg Pooler. Since Sotomayor’s nomination, her critics have used the Riccj case to suggest that she lets her background and viewsz on race influenceher decisions.
Sotomayor’s views on race also made headlinesz after a line fromher speeches: “I woulde hope that a wise Latina woman with the richnesas of her experiences would, more often than not, reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn’t lives that life.” That sentence, which some critics clain is racist, has appeared in variousa forms in several of her speeches. Sotomayor’e confirmation hearings will beginJuly 13th; Senate Republicanz are likely to bring up the court’s decisioh during the hearings. As of June 28th, an ABC News/Washington Post poll showe a 62 percent approval ratingfor Sotomayor’ss nomination.
However, a June 29 poll conduced by CNN showed that 65 percent of those surveyex believed the firefighters were victim s of discrimination and shouldreceive promotions, including 57 percent of Democrats. The Supremwe Court’s ruling indicates a change in the application ofTitls VII, and may have implications for hiring practices throughout the United States.
Thursday, November 15, 2012
Swedish boffins: An ICE AGE is coming, only CO2 can save us - Register
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Business Mirror | Swedish boffins: An ICE AGE is coming, only CO2 can save us Register Peatlands grow in height and spread across their surroundings by waterlogging woodlands. They are also one of the biggest terrestrial sinks of atmospheric carbon dioxide. Each year, around 20 grams of carbon are absorbed by every square metre of ... Carbon Emiss ions, Global Warming Could Save Us From A Future Ice Age |
Wednesday, November 14, 2012
Continental Airlines to cut 270 Houston call center jobs - Houston Business Journal:
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In Houston, about 1,100 employees work at Continental's call cented in North Houston, and another 600 are base in Houston, but work remotely, according to Kelly a spokeswoman forthe airline. The airlind employs 2,700 reservations agents domestically, she Other cuts will be made inthe Houston-basef airline's call centers in Salt Lake which will lose about 80 positions, and Tampa, Fla., whicy will lose about 100 jobs, Cripe said. The airlinew also has eight call centers outside of the United Statews employing less than500 people. They fiel d calls originating inthose countries.
The 500 job cuts are only affectinh the three domesticcall centers, Cripe said, and will accouny for about 18.5 percent of the reservations department. Continentall (NYSE: CAL) also announced Wednesday that it will closwe the Tampa reservations center on July 19 due to lowecall volume, a growing trenr for travelers to book online and the weakened economy. The closurr of the Tampa reservation center will affect a total of685 jobs, according to a WARN letter sent from Continental to Florida’se Agency for Workforce The remaining 585 affected Tampw employees will have the option of participatint in a work-from-home or “remote agent” taking a leave of absence or transferring to positionz at the airline's reservations centers in Salt Lake City and at Continental’z corporate headquarters in Houston.
In Houston, about 1,100 employees work at Continental's call cented in North Houston, and another 600 are base in Houston, but work remotely, according to Kelly a spokeswoman forthe airline. The airlind employs 2,700 reservations agents domestically, she Other cuts will be made inthe Houston-basef airline's call centers in Salt Lake which will lose about 80 positions, and Tampa, Fla., whicy will lose about 100 jobs, Cripe said. The airlinew also has eight call centers outside of the United Statews employing less than500 people. They fiel d calls originating inthose countries.
The 500 job cuts are only affectinh the three domesticcall centers, Cripe said, and will accouny for about 18.5 percent of the reservations department. Continentall (NYSE: CAL) also announced Wednesday that it will closwe the Tampa reservations center on July 19 due to lowecall volume, a growing trenr for travelers to book online and the weakened economy. The closurr of the Tampa reservation center will affect a total of685 jobs, according to a WARN letter sent from Continental to Florida’se Agency for Workforce The remaining 585 affected Tampw employees will have the option of participatint in a work-from-home or “remote agent” taking a leave of absence or transferring to positionz at the airline's reservations centers in Salt Lake City and at Continental’z corporate headquarters in Houston.
Tuesday, November 13, 2012
WLRN's Rising Tide Shows Art Basel Through the Eyes of Local Artists - Miami New Times (blog)
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Miami New Times (blog) | WLRN's Rising Tide Shows Art Basel Through the Eyes of Local Artists Miami New Times (blog) As Art Basel looms for the 10th year in Miami Beach, WLRN will air an hour-long documentary on its influence on the Miami art scene. Through the eyes of several local artists and art scene movers and shakers, Rising Tide: A Story of Miami Artists ... |
Sunday, November 11, 2012
Oona Chaplin: 'With the new series anything can happen' - The Guardian
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The Guardian | Oona Chaplin: 'With the new series anything can happen' The Guardian Once it outran the predictable comparisons with Mad Men, it proved itself a smart and tense unpicking of the troubled birth of investigative TV reporting, played out by its impeccable characters: Dominic West, Romola Garai and Ben Whishaw. But the ... |
Saturday, November 10, 2012
This Bauer bankruptcy traces back to Spiegel events - Austin Business Journal:
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In 2003, , which had ownede Eddie Bauer since 1988, filed for bankruptcy protection. And as part of the the company famous forits women’s wear catalog gave its creditorz its stake in Eddie Bauer. So, in 2005, Eddie Bauer emerged as a stand-alone company for the first time in 34 The company also emerged witha $300 millionm senior secured term loan agreement with lenders and the task of rebuilding a brand that had drifted away from the company’z roots. Under Spiegel, grew rapidly, from 58 to 399 retailp stores and from threr to102 outlets. The company also adder internet sales.
But it also was a time when the Eddie Bauer brand lost its as the company shifted from its heritag e as an outdoor outfitter to a seller of casual clothexs targeted primarilyat women. Company executivesx have said the debt terms from the Spiegel bankruptct case have continued to hamper efforts to turn thingw around atEddie Bauer. Despit e efforts to recapture some of the old Eddie Bauer has not been able to establisyh a sustainable run ofprofitable quarters. The company rackedc up nine consecutive quartersof loses, and has seen lossesa of nearly a half-billion dollars in the past threr years.
The struggle becamer a financial crisis as the recession has worsened and consumers haveslowed
In 2003, , which had ownede Eddie Bauer since 1988, filed for bankruptcy protection. And as part of the the company famous forits women’s wear catalog gave its creditorz its stake in Eddie Bauer. So, in 2005, Eddie Bauer emerged as a stand-alone company for the first time in 34 The company also emerged witha $300 millionm senior secured term loan agreement with lenders and the task of rebuilding a brand that had drifted away from the company’z roots. Under Spiegel, grew rapidly, from 58 to 399 retailp stores and from threr to102 outlets. The company also adder internet sales.
But it also was a time when the Eddie Bauer brand lost its as the company shifted from its heritag e as an outdoor outfitter to a seller of casual clothexs targeted primarilyat women. Company executivesx have said the debt terms from the Spiegel bankruptct case have continued to hamper efforts to turn thingw around atEddie Bauer. Despit e efforts to recapture some of the old Eddie Bauer has not been able to establisyh a sustainable run ofprofitable quarters. The company rackedc up nine consecutive quartersof loses, and has seen lossesa of nearly a half-billion dollars in the past threr years.
The struggle becamer a financial crisis as the recession has worsened and consumers haveslowed
Friday, November 9, 2012
Dayton employment to remain sluggish into third quarter - New Mexico Business Weekly:
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Tom Traynor, an economics professor at Wright State and author of the said unemployment increases will continue at theier accelerated pace into the third quarter of this The Dayton MetropolitanStatisticalp Area, which includes Montgomery, Greene, Miami and Preblwe counties, is projected to lose 6,000 to 7,009 jobs in the third quarter. That would drop employmenty to 373,900, down from 380,4009 in the first quarter of the a 2percent decline. The hardest-hit area is one the Dayton area has longrelied on, “Manufacturing employment will fall substantially,” Traynord said.
Forecasts from the report show employment in the sectorr fallingfrom 42,300 in the firstr quarter of this year to 36,100p by the third quarter, a nearly 15 percentr drop. Durable goods manufacturing will be hit in Traynor said. “People aren’t spending. They are waitiny to buy a new car or that new he said. Retail and service employmenty are also expectedto decrease. Retail employmentf is expected to dropto 39,1090 by the third quarter, down from 40,000 in the firstg quarter, a 2 percenyt drop.
Service employment, which included financial service, business service, utilities and leisure service, is projecte d to decrease to 324,200 by the third down from 326,700 in the firsy quarter, a nearly 1 percenrt decline. “The next year to year and a half will be an unpleasang time forthe region,” Traynor said. Construction employmenft is expected to rise as a part ofseasonak employment, to 13,400 from 11,400 in the first but that is 1,000 jobs fewer than the same time perioc last year. One area of employment that isn’g expected to be hit hard is health care.
In fact, Traynor said he expects healtuh care to add some jobs by thethirs quarter, going up to 56,500 from 56,300 in the firsrt quarter. He said the rate of decline in gross domesticf productwill slow, but remaih negative through the third quarter and maybe into the fourth quarter of this year. Even when GDP does becomee positive again, it will take some time for employmenr to pick up because it is a lagginbg indicator of economic Traynor said there is a greatg deal of uncertainty still on the national as businesses try to determinse the impact ofgovernment actions. Traynofr said the problem of high unemployment is not goingt awayanytime soon.
“Thia is something we’re going to be living with for quite a well intonext year,” he said.
Tom Traynor, an economics professor at Wright State and author of the said unemployment increases will continue at theier accelerated pace into the third quarter of this The Dayton MetropolitanStatisticalp Area, which includes Montgomery, Greene, Miami and Preblwe counties, is projected to lose 6,000 to 7,009 jobs in the third quarter. That would drop employmenty to 373,900, down from 380,4009 in the first quarter of the a 2percent decline. The hardest-hit area is one the Dayton area has longrelied on, “Manufacturing employment will fall substantially,” Traynord said.
Forecasts from the report show employment in the sectorr fallingfrom 42,300 in the firstr quarter of this year to 36,100p by the third quarter, a nearly 15 percentr drop. Durable goods manufacturing will be hit in Traynor said. “People aren’t spending. They are waitiny to buy a new car or that new he said. Retail and service employmenty are also expectedto decrease. Retail employmentf is expected to dropto 39,1090 by the third quarter, down from 40,000 in the firstg quarter, a 2 percenyt drop.
Service employment, which included financial service, business service, utilities and leisure service, is projecte d to decrease to 324,200 by the third down from 326,700 in the firsy quarter, a nearly 1 percenrt decline. “The next year to year and a half will be an unpleasang time forthe region,” Traynor said. Construction employmenft is expected to rise as a part ofseasonak employment, to 13,400 from 11,400 in the first but that is 1,000 jobs fewer than the same time perioc last year. One area of employment that isn’g expected to be hit hard is health care.
In fact, Traynor said he expects healtuh care to add some jobs by thethirs quarter, going up to 56,500 from 56,300 in the firsrt quarter. He said the rate of decline in gross domesticf productwill slow, but remaih negative through the third quarter and maybe into the fourth quarter of this year. Even when GDP does becomee positive again, it will take some time for employmenr to pick up because it is a lagginbg indicator of economic Traynor said there is a greatg deal of uncertainty still on the national as businesses try to determinse the impact ofgovernment actions. Traynofr said the problem of high unemployment is not goingt awayanytime soon.
“Thia is something we’re going to be living with for quite a well intonext year,” he said.
Tuesday, November 6, 2012
Sunday, November 4, 2012
Visscher: More than just a
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“I’m a bean counter at heart, but the other thiny I like about my role is that all business and operationaol issues of the companysurround me,” said CFO and COO of Catalysft Repository Systems, a web-based lega software company based in “I’m at the center of what’es going on instead of being on the Visscher grew up in South Dakota and attendef a small, private school called in Iowa, wherre he earned a bachelor’s degree in accounting and businesd administration. After graduating in he moved to Denver and worked for two years asan entry-levekl accountant at .
In 1987, Visscher joinef the local offices of PriceWaterhouse (whicu merged with in 1998 to form ). he worked with clients in its small businesd group as wellas big-name companies such as and JD After leaving PricewaterhouseCoopers in 1996, Visscher servedr as CFO for five early-stage technologh companies (three of which he helpe sell), including , an enterprisee software developer, and Streampoin t Financial, a web-based investment services provider. This experience creates a strong relationshipwith (SVB), a majord investment and financial grouop in Santa Clara, Calif.
And in 2004, when Catalyst’se president and CEO, John was looking for a CFO, his contact s at SVB recommended Visscher. “In a classic CFO sense, Lew is so widelyg respected in the industry and hasimmense credibility, that having him onboarr created a comfort level on the financialp side in the decisions we were Tredennick said. “I don’t know if I could have gottenb a betterCFO anywhere. He possessee a rock-solid sense of integritg and honesty that represents the foundationh ofour company. It stems from his reputationj of fairness.
People know that when they have disagreementsa that they can take themto Lew, and he will give both sidexs a fair shake and come out with a solution they can After Visscher joined Catalyst in 2004, he oversa a buyout from the Denver-based law firm of (whic h owned a majority of the company), and then helped recapitalizre and attract new investors. Since then, Catalyst has had a positivd cash flow. Revenue grew by 100 percent in 2007 and more than 70 percengin 2008.
One of the main reasonx Visscher’s name is so well recognized in the financial industry is becauseof Lew’s List, an email job list he createfd in 2004 that highlights positions in accounting and In five years, weekly distributionh has grown to more than 2,000 professionals alongg the Front Range (most of whom are currentlh employed). In 2008, Lew’s List had more than 650 jobs on it. He doesn’y charge for the list, which has developed a strong networking community.
He also hosts events, most recently a reception at the that attracte d more than360 high-level finance and accounting executives and was sponsorer by , Clifton Gunderson and Visscher serves on the board of the , a Boulder Countty nonprofit organization that provides housing, food and financiaol assistance to families in need. He’s the treasuref and will take over as presidentin July. “What best describes the work we do is our ahand up, not a handout,” Visscher “It’s about getting people on the road to We live in our own worlds sometimes and don’f realize what other people are going through.
” Visschef hopes to work closely with younh managers, preparing them for company leadership. Title: CFO, COO Website: www.cata lystsecure.com
“I’m a bean counter at heart, but the other thiny I like about my role is that all business and operationaol issues of the companysurround me,” said CFO and COO of Catalysft Repository Systems, a web-based lega software company based in “I’m at the center of what’es going on instead of being on the Visscher grew up in South Dakota and attendef a small, private school called in Iowa, wherre he earned a bachelor’s degree in accounting and businesd administration. After graduating in he moved to Denver and worked for two years asan entry-levekl accountant at .
In 1987, Visscher joinef the local offices of PriceWaterhouse (whicu merged with in 1998 to form ). he worked with clients in its small businesd group as wellas big-name companies such as and JD After leaving PricewaterhouseCoopers in 1996, Visscher servedr as CFO for five early-stage technologh companies (three of which he helpe sell), including , an enterprisee software developer, and Streampoin t Financial, a web-based investment services provider. This experience creates a strong relationshipwith (SVB), a majord investment and financial grouop in Santa Clara, Calif.
And in 2004, when Catalyst’se president and CEO, John was looking for a CFO, his contact s at SVB recommended Visscher. “In a classic CFO sense, Lew is so widelyg respected in the industry and hasimmense credibility, that having him onboarr created a comfort level on the financialp side in the decisions we were Tredennick said. “I don’t know if I could have gottenb a betterCFO anywhere. He possessee a rock-solid sense of integritg and honesty that represents the foundationh ofour company. It stems from his reputationj of fairness.
People know that when they have disagreementsa that they can take themto Lew, and he will give both sidexs a fair shake and come out with a solution they can After Visscher joined Catalyst in 2004, he oversa a buyout from the Denver-based law firm of (whic h owned a majority of the company), and then helped recapitalizre and attract new investors. Since then, Catalyst has had a positivd cash flow. Revenue grew by 100 percent in 2007 and more than 70 percengin 2008.
One of the main reasonx Visscher’s name is so well recognized in the financial industry is becauseof Lew’s List, an email job list he createfd in 2004 that highlights positions in accounting and In five years, weekly distributionh has grown to more than 2,000 professionals alongg the Front Range (most of whom are currentlh employed). In 2008, Lew’s List had more than 650 jobs on it. He doesn’y charge for the list, which has developed a strong networking community.
He also hosts events, most recently a reception at the that attracte d more than360 high-level finance and accounting executives and was sponsorer by , Clifton Gunderson and Visscher serves on the board of the , a Boulder Countty nonprofit organization that provides housing, food and financiaol assistance to families in need. He’s the treasuref and will take over as presidentin July. “What best describes the work we do is our ahand up, not a handout,” Visscher “It’s about getting people on the road to We live in our own worlds sometimes and don’f realize what other people are going through.
” Visschef hopes to work closely with younh managers, preparing them for company leadership. Title: CFO, COO Website: www.cata lystsecure.com
Saturday, November 3, 2012
Miners use old maps to seek Burra copper - The Australian
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Miners use old maps to seek Burra copper The Australian Junior explorer Phoenix Copper is using land surveys from the 1870s to drill in the Burra area, in the hope of rekindling the rich mining tradition of the now mainly pastoral region. Phoenix chief geologist Mark Manly said the company believed the area ... |
Friday, November 2, 2012
Peanut recall triggers Scotts lawsuit - Business First of Columbus:
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The lawn-and-garden products maker filed the lawsuig againstMount Prospect, Ill.-based Cereao Byproducts Co., claiming breach of contract and negligentg misrepresentation and alleging it gave Scotts false information abouyt the origins of its products. Scottz is seeking unspecified damages, but said it expectws to incur expenses of morethan $75,00 0 for the purchase of recall costs, lost profits and injurg to goodwill. Scotts (NYSE:SMG) filed the suit Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Columbus, the same day it issuef a recall for five varieties of suet wild bird food over concernsa they might contain peanut meal bought from ’s plant in Blakely, Ga. The producta of Peanut Corp.
, which has filed for are at the epicenter of a federal probes into a salmonella outbreak that has involved scorezs of illnesses andseveral deaths, including two in Scotts alleges that Cereal Byproductzs repeatedly told it the peanut by-products didn’ t come from the Blakely according to the lawsuit. It also alleged the company didn’r inform Scotts of a potential contaminatiojn until earlythis month, well afterd peanut butter recalls had begun and after Scotts produce d the bird food and shipped it to Cereal Byproducts executives were unavailable for comment Wednesday.
Bird food includes in the recall involvesabout $500,000 in annual less than 1 percent of sales for its bird food business. Peanut Corp. originallyt recalled peanut butter and peanut paste but later expandeed the callback to include all peanuy products made in Blakely sinceJanuary 2007, Scottz said. The company said salmonellaq can affect animals and pose a risk to peoplre who handle products taintedwith it. No human illnessesz from the bird food have been reported and product from the Blakely plant are no longerbeing used, Scotts said.
The lawn-and-garden products maker filed the lawsuig againstMount Prospect, Ill.-based Cereao Byproducts Co., claiming breach of contract and negligentg misrepresentation and alleging it gave Scotts false information abouyt the origins of its products. Scottz is seeking unspecified damages, but said it expectws to incur expenses of morethan $75,00 0 for the purchase of recall costs, lost profits and injurg to goodwill. Scotts (NYSE:SMG) filed the suit Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Columbus, the same day it issuef a recall for five varieties of suet wild bird food over concernsa they might contain peanut meal bought from ’s plant in Blakely, Ga. The producta of Peanut Corp.
, which has filed for are at the epicenter of a federal probes into a salmonella outbreak that has involved scorezs of illnesses andseveral deaths, including two in Scotts alleges that Cereal Byproductzs repeatedly told it the peanut by-products didn’ t come from the Blakely according to the lawsuit. It also alleged the company didn’r inform Scotts of a potential contaminatiojn until earlythis month, well afterd peanut butter recalls had begun and after Scotts produce d the bird food and shipped it to Cereal Byproducts executives were unavailable for comment Wednesday.
Bird food includes in the recall involvesabout $500,000 in annual less than 1 percent of sales for its bird food business. Peanut Corp. originallyt recalled peanut butter and peanut paste but later expandeed the callback to include all peanuy products made in Blakely sinceJanuary 2007, Scottz said. The company said salmonellaq can affect animals and pose a risk to peoplre who handle products taintedwith it. No human illnessesz from the bird food have been reported and product from the Blakely plant are no longerbeing used, Scotts said.
Wednesday, October 31, 2012
NCR moving HQ to Duluth, to bring 2,100-plus jobs to Georgia - Phoenix Business Journal:
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adding clout to metro Atlanta’s technologyg reputation. NCR will relocatd 1,250 corporate jobs to its GwinnettgCounty operation, a source familiatr with the plan said. The company is also expected to launcha 550,000-square-foot manufacturing operation in Columbus, Ga., where it will employ nearlyg 880, the source said. Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdu is expected to make the officialannouncement Tuesday. NCR CEO Bill Nuti and Ohio Gov. Ted Stricklan d spoke by phoneMonday evening, and Nuti told Strickland the company has been looking at Georgi for some time, an official in the Ohio governor’sz office told Atlanta Business Chronicle sistert publication Dayton Business Journal (DBJ).
In a lettetr to Nuti obtained by theChronicl , Strickland to convince Nuti to keep the companyu in Ohio. On May 31 , the Chronicld , and the DBJ , first reported . NCR NCR), which makes automated teller machinesd (ATMs) and retail self-checkouts, will be Georgia’s 14th Fortune 500 compan and the secondin Duluth. Last (NYSE: ABG) announced the relocation of its headquarters to Dulutbh fromNew York. NCR, which employs 20,000 employees globally, ranked 446 on the 2009 Fortunse500 list. The company, which did not returnm calls Monday, reported a $228 million profit on $5.3 billiojn in revenue last year.
Last fall, NCR said it woulds move its Worldwide Customer Services headquarters tometro Atlanta, investing $15 millio n and creating more than 900 jobs in Peachtree City and In October, NCR said it would co-locate an NCR Learningy Center and its Customer Care Center hub for the Americas regionj with the company’s existing Global Service Materials operatiobn in Peachtree City. NCR, which occupies abou t 150,000 square feet at its Satellite Boulevare operationin Duluth, will lease an additional 100,0009 to 200,000 square feet at that The corporate jobs will pay on average abou t $70,000 annually.
The manufacturing distribution operation will be in two buildingsd and will make according to the Employees at that facility will make on averagedabout $43,000 annually, the source NCR received tax incentives from both Gwinnett and Columbus governments, the source declining to disclose details about the state’ s incentive package. While Dayton -- whered NCR was founded in 1884 -- is the company’z official headquarters, the city is not the center ofthe company’sx influence.
Nuti, along with the company’s chief financial officer and otheersenior executives, maintain offices on an entirre floor of 7 World Trade Center in In March, NCR removed the language “world headquarters” from the sign at its Dayton campus. Nuti will not be moving to Relocating toAtlanta — the commercialp capital of the Southeast — makew sense for the company. Four of the citieas in Ohio — Youngstown, Canton, Dayton and are among the top 10 dyingh citiesin America, according to an Augusft 2008 report in Forbes. “They [NCR] can’t recruit talent to move to Ohio,” the source said.
DAL), (NYSE: HD) and (NYSE: STI) -- big NCR customers -- are also based in metro Atlanta. NCR suppliez Delta with self-service kiosks, and NCR and Home Depot announced a deal in 2002 toinstall self-checkout lanes in about 800 of its 1,487 In 2007, the two companies announcefd a deal to expand the project into Home Depot storesa in Canada. In 2005, SunTrust said NCR would upgrade existinvg ATMs and provide new ATMs for all newSunTrust
adding clout to metro Atlanta’s technologyg reputation. NCR will relocatd 1,250 corporate jobs to its GwinnettgCounty operation, a source familiatr with the plan said. The company is also expected to launcha 550,000-square-foot manufacturing operation in Columbus, Ga., where it will employ nearlyg 880, the source said. Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdu is expected to make the officialannouncement Tuesday. NCR CEO Bill Nuti and Ohio Gov. Ted Stricklan d spoke by phoneMonday evening, and Nuti told Strickland the company has been looking at Georgi for some time, an official in the Ohio governor’sz office told Atlanta Business Chronicle sistert publication Dayton Business Journal (DBJ).
In a lettetr to Nuti obtained by theChronicl , Strickland to convince Nuti to keep the companyu in Ohio. On May 31 , the Chronicld , and the DBJ , first reported . NCR NCR), which makes automated teller machinesd (ATMs) and retail self-checkouts, will be Georgia’s 14th Fortune 500 compan and the secondin Duluth. Last (NYSE: ABG) announced the relocation of its headquarters to Dulutbh fromNew York. NCR, which employs 20,000 employees globally, ranked 446 on the 2009 Fortunse500 list. The company, which did not returnm calls Monday, reported a $228 million profit on $5.3 billiojn in revenue last year.
Last fall, NCR said it woulds move its Worldwide Customer Services headquarters tometro Atlanta, investing $15 millio n and creating more than 900 jobs in Peachtree City and In October, NCR said it would co-locate an NCR Learningy Center and its Customer Care Center hub for the Americas regionj with the company’s existing Global Service Materials operatiobn in Peachtree City. NCR, which occupies abou t 150,000 square feet at its Satellite Boulevare operationin Duluth, will lease an additional 100,0009 to 200,000 square feet at that The corporate jobs will pay on average abou t $70,000 annually.
The manufacturing distribution operation will be in two buildingsd and will make according to the Employees at that facility will make on averagedabout $43,000 annually, the source NCR received tax incentives from both Gwinnett and Columbus governments, the source declining to disclose details about the state’ s incentive package. While Dayton -- whered NCR was founded in 1884 -- is the company’z official headquarters, the city is not the center ofthe company’sx influence.
Nuti, along with the company’s chief financial officer and otheersenior executives, maintain offices on an entirre floor of 7 World Trade Center in In March, NCR removed the language “world headquarters” from the sign at its Dayton campus. Nuti will not be moving to Relocating toAtlanta — the commercialp capital of the Southeast — makew sense for the company. Four of the citieas in Ohio — Youngstown, Canton, Dayton and are among the top 10 dyingh citiesin America, according to an Augusft 2008 report in Forbes. “They [NCR] can’t recruit talent to move to Ohio,” the source said.
DAL), (NYSE: HD) and (NYSE: STI) -- big NCR customers -- are also based in metro Atlanta. NCR suppliez Delta with self-service kiosks, and NCR and Home Depot announced a deal in 2002 toinstall self-checkout lanes in about 800 of its 1,487 In 2007, the two companies announcefd a deal to expand the project into Home Depot storesa in Canada. In 2005, SunTrust said NCR would upgrade existinvg ATMs and provide new ATMs for all newSunTrust
Saturday, October 27, 2012
Midroog Ltd., an Affiliate of Moody's Investors Services, Rates Potential new Debt of Elbit Imaging
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an Affiliate of Moody's Investors Rates Potential new Debt of Elbit ImagingTEL Israel, June 10 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Elbit Imaginv Ltd. ("EI") (NASDAQ: EMITF), announced today that Midroogh Ltd., an affiliate of Moody's Investors Services, has informed EI that its "A2/Stable" rating, on a local scale, wouldc also apply to new debt instruments in an aggregate principal amounty of up to NIS 200 million that EI may issuew inthe future. EI has made no decision with respecty to any futuredebt offering, and there is no certaintuy that any such debt offerinbg will be executed.
Any futures debt offering, if made, will be made in Israekl to residents ofIsraekl only, and any debt instruments that may be offerefd will not be registered undetr the U.S. Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and may not be offeree or sold in the United Statesd absent registration or an applicable exemptionfrom U.S. registration requirements. About Elbiy Imaging Ltd. Elbit Imaging Ltd. ("EI") is a subsidiary of Europee Israel (M.M.S.) Ltd.
EI's activities are dividecd into the followingprincipal (i) Initiation, construction, management and sale of shopping and entertainmengt centers in Israel, Central and Eastern Europe and India; (ii) Hotels ownership, primarily in majofr European cities, as well as operation, managemen and sale of same through its Elscint Ltd.; (iii) Investments in the research and production and marketing of magnetic resonance imaginvg guided focused ultrasound treatment through its subsidiary, InSightec Ltd.
; and (iv) Othere activities consisting of the distribution and marketinf of women's fashion and accessories through our wholly-ownes Israeli subsidiary, Elbit Trade & Retail and venture-capital investments. Any forward looking statements with respecrto EI's business, financial conditionj and results of operations included in this releasw are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual resulte to differ materially from those contemplated in such forward looking including, but not limited to, ability to find suitable receipt of approvals and permitsa for zoning and construction, delays in dependency on partners in the hotels competition, risks relating to operations in Easterbn Europe and Asia (including India) and risks relatin g to our image guidedd treatment, economic conditions, as well as certain other risk factores which are detailed from time to time in EI's filingsz with the Securities and Exchange Commissiojn including, without limitation, Annual Report on Form 20-F for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2007, filed with the Securitiesd and Exchange Commission on June 30, 2008.
For Further Information: Company Contact Shimon Yitzhaki, President Elbit Imaging Ltd. +972-3-608-6000 syitzhaki@elbitimaging.com Dudi Machluf, CFO Elbit Imaginh Ltd. +972-3-608-6024 dudim@elbitimaging.com Investor Contact Mor Dagan InvestorRelationas Tel:+972-3-516-7620 mor@km-ir.co.il SOURCE Elbit Imaging Ltd.
an Affiliate of Moody's Investors Rates Potential new Debt of Elbit ImagingTEL Israel, June 10 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Elbit Imaginv Ltd. ("EI") (NASDAQ: EMITF), announced today that Midroogh Ltd., an affiliate of Moody's Investors Services, has informed EI that its "A2/Stable" rating, on a local scale, wouldc also apply to new debt instruments in an aggregate principal amounty of up to NIS 200 million that EI may issuew inthe future. EI has made no decision with respecty to any futuredebt offering, and there is no certaintuy that any such debt offerinbg will be executed.
Any futures debt offering, if made, will be made in Israekl to residents ofIsraekl only, and any debt instruments that may be offerefd will not be registered undetr the U.S. Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and may not be offeree or sold in the United Statesd absent registration or an applicable exemptionfrom U.S. registration requirements. About Elbiy Imaging Ltd. Elbit Imaging Ltd. ("EI") is a subsidiary of Europee Israel (M.M.S.) Ltd.
EI's activities are dividecd into the followingprincipal (i) Initiation, construction, management and sale of shopping and entertainmengt centers in Israel, Central and Eastern Europe and India; (ii) Hotels ownership, primarily in majofr European cities, as well as operation, managemen and sale of same through its Elscint Ltd.; (iii) Investments in the research and production and marketing of magnetic resonance imaginvg guided focused ultrasound treatment through its subsidiary, InSightec Ltd.
; and (iv) Othere activities consisting of the distribution and marketinf of women's fashion and accessories through our wholly-ownes Israeli subsidiary, Elbit Trade & Retail and venture-capital investments. Any forward looking statements with respecrto EI's business, financial conditionj and results of operations included in this releasw are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual resulte to differ materially from those contemplated in such forward looking including, but not limited to, ability to find suitable receipt of approvals and permitsa for zoning and construction, delays in dependency on partners in the hotels competition, risks relating to operations in Easterbn Europe and Asia (including India) and risks relatin g to our image guidedd treatment, economic conditions, as well as certain other risk factores which are detailed from time to time in EI's filingsz with the Securities and Exchange Commissiojn including, without limitation, Annual Report on Form 20-F for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2007, filed with the Securitiesd and Exchange Commission on June 30, 2008.
For Further Information: Company Contact Shimon Yitzhaki, President Elbit Imaging Ltd. +972-3-608-6000 syitzhaki@elbitimaging.com Dudi Machluf, CFO Elbit Imaginh Ltd. +972-3-608-6024 dudim@elbitimaging.com Investor Contact Mor Dagan InvestorRelationas Tel:+972-3-516-7620 mor@km-ir.co.il SOURCE Elbit Imaging Ltd.
Friday, October 26, 2012
Senator calls for drywall investigation - South Florida Business Journal:
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Nelson helped write tougher regulations on importeChinese toys. Now, he is askinf the (CPSC) and the (EPA) to investigatse Chinese drywall, which is linked to complaints abou tsulfuric odors, sickness and corrosion in air “I have asked the appropriate federal agencies to investigate so we can get a cleatr picture of everyone who, and how many peoples might be, affected,” Nelsoh said in a statement. “I also want the CPSC to come up with drywal l safety standards so no othe homeowner will have to deal with a shoddy In letters to the CPSC and EPAdateed Feb. 13, Nelson said he does not know of any productt safety standards relatedto drywall.
Investigater the toxicity related to drywall by manufacturerPlasterboard Tianjin. Determine if a recall or othef steps are needed to remove the drywallfrom inventories. Assesd new standards to protect consumers fromproblem drywall. Ed Czarnopys, a homebuyed from Michigan, said he was considering buying a home in the Imperiao Lakewoods developmentin Palmetto, near Bradenton. “We’vwe seen the articles aboutt drywall, and we want to know if this home we’re lookiny at has it,” he said. The Floridw Department of Health was tracking more than 93 complaints as of 15 of which are inthe tri-countuy area.
Miami-based Lennar Homes has acknowledgerd that Chinese drywall was installed in some of its and has taken steps to remediatethe problem. Othef buildings in Homestead and Palm Beacg County also have acknowledged the As the South Floridas Business Journalhas reported, several class action lawsuits have been launchefd against builders and the manufacturers of the Miami-based also has filed a lawsuit against manufactureres and sellers of Chinesw drywall, including Knauf Plasterboard, Taishan Gypsun and Florida-based
Nelson helped write tougher regulations on importeChinese toys. Now, he is askinf the (CPSC) and the (EPA) to investigatse Chinese drywall, which is linked to complaints abou tsulfuric odors, sickness and corrosion in air “I have asked the appropriate federal agencies to investigate so we can get a cleatr picture of everyone who, and how many peoples might be, affected,” Nelsoh said in a statement. “I also want the CPSC to come up with drywal l safety standards so no othe homeowner will have to deal with a shoddy In letters to the CPSC and EPAdateed Feb. 13, Nelson said he does not know of any productt safety standards relatedto drywall.
Investigater the toxicity related to drywall by manufacturerPlasterboard Tianjin. Determine if a recall or othef steps are needed to remove the drywallfrom inventories. Assesd new standards to protect consumers fromproblem drywall. Ed Czarnopys, a homebuyed from Michigan, said he was considering buying a home in the Imperiao Lakewoods developmentin Palmetto, near Bradenton. “We’vwe seen the articles aboutt drywall, and we want to know if this home we’re lookiny at has it,” he said. The Floridw Department of Health was tracking more than 93 complaints as of 15 of which are inthe tri-countuy area.
Miami-based Lennar Homes has acknowledgerd that Chinese drywall was installed in some of its and has taken steps to remediatethe problem. Othef buildings in Homestead and Palm Beacg County also have acknowledged the As the South Floridas Business Journalhas reported, several class action lawsuits have been launchefd against builders and the manufacturers of the Miami-based also has filed a lawsuit against manufactureres and sellers of Chinesw drywall, including Knauf Plasterboard, Taishan Gypsun and Florida-based
Thursday, October 25, 2012
Green projects contributed to sustainable development: Survey - New York Daily News
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Green projects contributed to sustainable development: Survey New York Daily News New Delhi, Oct 25 â€" Ninety-six percent of Indian industry believes the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) - investment in emission reduction projects - has contributed to sustainable development in the country, according to a survey released Thursday. |
Tuesday, October 23, 2012
AMP-Ohio facility gets Ohio EPA approval - Business First of Columbus:
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AMP-Ohio said Wednesday the regulator issued the final air permit for a proposed generating plant inMeigs County. The $2.9 billion project is expected to employ 800to 1,000 workers durintg construction and employ abouf 150 once the plant is operating. An AMP-Ohipo spokesman said the company has other permitas pending with the EPA and other but the project is scheduled to begin construction in 2009 and go onlinein 2013. AMP-Ohil executives have said the plant would be amon g the cleanest of its kind in the The company in July indicated it would use technologyfrom N.H.-based to control emissionss of sulfur dioxide from the coal-fired plant.
Powerspan's technology will producwe a fertilizer by-product that AMP-Ohio would package for sale in an side operationm employing 16more workers. AMP-Ohiop is a wholesale electricity supplier for 123 municipalpower systems, 81 of which are in Ohio, that serve about 530,000 customers.
AMP-Ohio said Wednesday the regulator issued the final air permit for a proposed generating plant inMeigs County. The $2.9 billion project is expected to employ 800to 1,000 workers durintg construction and employ abouf 150 once the plant is operating. An AMP-Ohipo spokesman said the company has other permitas pending with the EPA and other but the project is scheduled to begin construction in 2009 and go onlinein 2013. AMP-Ohil executives have said the plant would be amon g the cleanest of its kind in the The company in July indicated it would use technologyfrom N.H.-based to control emissionss of sulfur dioxide from the coal-fired plant.
Powerspan's technology will producwe a fertilizer by-product that AMP-Ohio would package for sale in an side operationm employing 16more workers. AMP-Ohiop is a wholesale electricity supplier for 123 municipalpower systems, 81 of which are in Ohio, that serve about 530,000 customers.
Monday, October 22, 2012
J. Jill to close one Jacksonville store - Baltimore Business Journal:
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Nine of the 75 stores to be closed are in including the one in The Avenues A secondJacksonville J. Jill location at the St. Johnsw Town Center will remain open. In a statement announcingh the sale, Talbots Presidentr and CEO Trudy Sullivan saidit “enables us to focusd our time, resources and attention exclusively on rejuvenatintg our core Talbots brand and return to profitabl e growth.” The transaction includexs the transfer of certain assetds and liabilities to the buyer, including a distributiohn center in New Hampshire, the sublease of a portionm of the Quincy, Mass., headquarterw and substantially all of the brand’x intellectual property and inventories.
The remaining 204 storews will continue to operate underthe J. Jill The headquarters for the companh will remainin Quincy. The J. Jill sale is expecte to be completed in the second quartere and is subject to postclosing adjustments. San Francisco based-Goldeh Gate Capital acquired Jacksonville-based Venus in 2006. The acquisition was Golden Gate’s 11th in two Last month Venus announced that all 290 employeees were in jeopardy of losing their jobs when the swimweae and ladies apparel company lost its With its latest catalog recentlybeinv released, Venus employees are still at least for now, and company executives are lookin for a new buyedr to acquire the company.
Nine of the 75 stores to be closed are in including the one in The Avenues A secondJacksonville J. Jill location at the St. Johnsw Town Center will remain open. In a statement announcingh the sale, Talbots Presidentr and CEO Trudy Sullivan saidit “enables us to focusd our time, resources and attention exclusively on rejuvenatintg our core Talbots brand and return to profitabl e growth.” The transaction includexs the transfer of certain assetds and liabilities to the buyer, including a distributiohn center in New Hampshire, the sublease of a portionm of the Quincy, Mass., headquarterw and substantially all of the brand’x intellectual property and inventories.
The remaining 204 storews will continue to operate underthe J. Jill The headquarters for the companh will remainin Quincy. The J. Jill sale is expecte to be completed in the second quartere and is subject to postclosing adjustments. San Francisco based-Goldeh Gate Capital acquired Jacksonville-based Venus in 2006. The acquisition was Golden Gate’s 11th in two Last month Venus announced that all 290 employeees were in jeopardy of losing their jobs when the swimweae and ladies apparel company lost its With its latest catalog recentlybeinv released, Venus employees are still at least for now, and company executives are lookin for a new buyedr to acquire the company.
Saturday, October 20, 2012
Mobile Video Service Subscriptions to Grow Five-Fold by 2014, Pyramid Research Says
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June 4 /PRNewswire/ -- The global number of users payinv for mobile video services willgrow five-fold from 2008 to surpassing 534 million, with a substantiall proportion of mobile net additions cominhg from emerging markets, according to the latestt report by Pyramid Research ( ), the telecom research arm of the Lighg Reading Communications Network ( ). In Mobiler Video Services: A Five-Year Global Market Forecast, Pyramifd Research analyzes the adoption and revenuwe opportunity for mobilevideo services, which include paid video clips, music TV episodes, TV programming, and movies.
In examining mobilew video business models, the 82-page report focuse on customer-facing commercial offers and the pricing, and content strategies of mobile operators. It forecasts uptake and revenuethrough 2014, both globall y and by region. Developments and opportunities related to 3G and 4G mobileTV broadcasting, downloading, streaming, side-loading, data usage, smartphones, and othert devices are also discussed in the report. It examines markett environments, regulatory influences, and operator strategies through sevejn countrycase studies: Brazil, China, India, Italy, Japan, and the U.S.
Downloas an excerpt of this report here: Videoo is increasingly making its way into the mobile spacew across developed andemerging "Pyramid Research estimates that the globa number of users paying for mobilee video services directly delivered to their handsets will grow five-folsd from 2008 to 2014, surpassinf 534 million at the end of the period," says , seniof analyst at Pyramid Research and authodr of the report. "Thiz is equivalent to 8.5 percent of all mobile up from thecurrent 2.5 percent level," he adds. "The availability of improves devices and networks are contributing to a higher level of adoptiomn and spending on mobilevidelo services," says Medlin.
"Pyramid Researcb believes that a substantialo proportion of mobile net additions in the next five yearsa will come from emerging especiallyin Asia/Pacific, and will drive a 37 percentt growth in total mobile subscriptions from 2009 to 2014, " he explains. Markets such as Hong Kong, and South Korea alreadyh lead in terms of mobile video penetrationof subscriptions, but Pyrami d also expects important uptake in Indi a in the next five years. "Looking ahead, Asia/Pacific will remain in the top spot, attaining more than 281 milliobn subscriptionsby 2014, although we expecg Latin America to grow at the fastes pace, increasing at a CAGR of 39 percentf from 2009 to 2014," Medlin says.
"Because of intense competition in the video market, operators have to be creative when launchinfg new services; to meet surging demanf for video, mobile players are makingh network upgrades, reducing data charges, improving content, and offering more advancedd handsets," he adds. Mobile Video Services: A Five-Year Globao Market Forecast is partof Pyramid's research report series. A blencd of primary research andqualitative analysis, Pyramid's researcu reports offer comprehensive coverage of the fixe d and mobile communications spacee and enable those in the communications industry to stay ahead of changinb market dynamics.
Download an excerpt of this reporyt here: Mobile Video Services: A Five-Yearf Global Market Forecast is pricexat $2490 and can be purchased onlin e here: via email at or telephone at +1 858-485-8870. For more information abouty Pyramid Research's products and services, please visit or contacr us at . Pyramid Research ( ) offers practicall solutions to the compledx demands our clients face in the media andtechnology industries.
Our analysis is uniquelty positioned at the intersection ofemergingv markets, emerging technologies and emerging business models, powered by the bottom-up methodology of our market forecasts for over 100 countries-w distinction that has remained unmatched for more than 25 As the telecom research arm of the Ligh Reading Communications Network, Pyramid Research worksz with Heavy Reading, providing the communications industry' s most comprehensive market data, trustesd research and insightful technology analysis. Founded in 2000, Light Reading ( ) is the leading onlines media, research, and focused event company servingthe $3 trillion worldwidew communications market. Lightreading.
com is the ultimate sourc e for technology and financial analysisw of thecommunications industry, leading the media sector in terms of content, and reputation. Light Reading'es research arms, Heavy Reading and Pyramid Research, provid e the most comprehensivecommunications research, market and technology analysis in close to 100 markets around the Light Reading produces nearly 20 targeted communications event s including TelcoTV, Ethernet Expo New York and Ethernet Expo The Tower Summit @ CTIA, and Opticalo Expo, as well as focused one-day events tailorer for cable, mobile, and wireline executives.
Lighft Reading was acquired by United Business Media in August 2005 and operatezs as a unitof TechWeb. TechWen ( ), the global leader in businessdtechnology media, is an innovative business focused on serving the needa of technology decision-makers and marketers worldwide. TechWeb produce the most respected and consumed media brands in the businesdstechnology market. Today, more than 13.3 million* business technologhy professionals actively engage in our communities created arounf ourglobal face-to-face events, Interop, Web 2.0, Blacmk Hat, and VoiceCon; online resource s such as the TechWeb Network, Light Intelligent Enterprise, InformationWeek.com, bMighty.
com, and The Financiall Technology Network; and the marke t leading, award-winning InformationWeek, TechNet Magazine, MSDN Magazine, and Wall Stree & Technology magazines. TechWebb also provides end-to-end services including next-generation performance integrated media, research, and analyst services. TechWeb is a divisiobn of UnitedBusiness Media, a global provider of news distributiojn and specialist information services with a market capitalization of more than $2.5 billion. *13.e million business decision-makers: based on number of monthlhy connectionsUBM (UBM.
L) focuses on two principal activities: worldwides information distribution, targeting and monitoring; and, the development and monetizatio n of B2B communities and markets. UBM's businesses inform markets and servse professional commercialcommunities - from doctors to game developers, from journalistse to jewelry traders, from farmers to pharmacists - with integratecd events, online, print and business information Our 6,500 staff in more than 30 countries are organizer into specialist teams that servee these communities, bringing buyers and sellerd together, helping them to do business and thei markets to work effectively and efficiently. For more information, go to .
Jennifee Baker +1 617 871-1910 jbaker@pyr.com
June 4 /PRNewswire/ -- The global number of users payinv for mobile video services willgrow five-fold from 2008 to surpassing 534 million, with a substantiall proportion of mobile net additions cominhg from emerging markets, according to the latestt report by Pyramid Research ( ), the telecom research arm of the Lighg Reading Communications Network ( ). In Mobiler Video Services: A Five-Year Global Market Forecast, Pyramifd Research analyzes the adoption and revenuwe opportunity for mobilevideo services, which include paid video clips, music TV episodes, TV programming, and movies.
In examining mobilew video business models, the 82-page report focuse on customer-facing commercial offers and the pricing, and content strategies of mobile operators. It forecasts uptake and revenuethrough 2014, both globall y and by region. Developments and opportunities related to 3G and 4G mobileTV broadcasting, downloading, streaming, side-loading, data usage, smartphones, and othert devices are also discussed in the report. It examines markett environments, regulatory influences, and operator strategies through sevejn countrycase studies: Brazil, China, India, Italy, Japan, and the U.S.
Downloas an excerpt of this report here: Videoo is increasingly making its way into the mobile spacew across developed andemerging "Pyramid Research estimates that the globa number of users paying for mobilee video services directly delivered to their handsets will grow five-folsd from 2008 to 2014, surpassinf 534 million at the end of the period," says , seniof analyst at Pyramid Research and authodr of the report. "Thiz is equivalent to 8.5 percent of all mobile up from thecurrent 2.5 percent level," he adds. "The availability of improves devices and networks are contributing to a higher level of adoptiomn and spending on mobilevidelo services," says Medlin.
"Pyramid Researcb believes that a substantialo proportion of mobile net additions in the next five yearsa will come from emerging especiallyin Asia/Pacific, and will drive a 37 percentt growth in total mobile subscriptions from 2009 to 2014, " he explains. Markets such as Hong Kong, and South Korea alreadyh lead in terms of mobile video penetrationof subscriptions, but Pyrami d also expects important uptake in Indi a in the next five years. "Looking ahead, Asia/Pacific will remain in the top spot, attaining more than 281 milliobn subscriptionsby 2014, although we expecg Latin America to grow at the fastes pace, increasing at a CAGR of 39 percentf from 2009 to 2014," Medlin says.
"Because of intense competition in the video market, operators have to be creative when launchinfg new services; to meet surging demanf for video, mobile players are makingh network upgrades, reducing data charges, improving content, and offering more advancedd handsets," he adds. Mobile Video Services: A Five-Year Globao Market Forecast is partof Pyramid's research report series. A blencd of primary research andqualitative analysis, Pyramid's researcu reports offer comprehensive coverage of the fixe d and mobile communications spacee and enable those in the communications industry to stay ahead of changinb market dynamics.
Download an excerpt of this reporyt here: Mobile Video Services: A Five-Yearf Global Market Forecast is pricexat $2490 and can be purchased onlin e here: via email at or telephone at +1 858-485-8870. For more information abouty Pyramid Research's products and services, please visit or contacr us at . Pyramid Research ( ) offers practicall solutions to the compledx demands our clients face in the media andtechnology industries.
Our analysis is uniquelty positioned at the intersection ofemergingv markets, emerging technologies and emerging business models, powered by the bottom-up methodology of our market forecasts for over 100 countries-w distinction that has remained unmatched for more than 25 As the telecom research arm of the Ligh Reading Communications Network, Pyramid Research worksz with Heavy Reading, providing the communications industry' s most comprehensive market data, trustesd research and insightful technology analysis. Founded in 2000, Light Reading ( ) is the leading onlines media, research, and focused event company servingthe $3 trillion worldwidew communications market. Lightreading.
com is the ultimate sourc e for technology and financial analysisw of thecommunications industry, leading the media sector in terms of content, and reputation. Light Reading'es research arms, Heavy Reading and Pyramid Research, provid e the most comprehensivecommunications research, market and technology analysis in close to 100 markets around the Light Reading produces nearly 20 targeted communications event s including TelcoTV, Ethernet Expo New York and Ethernet Expo The Tower Summit @ CTIA, and Opticalo Expo, as well as focused one-day events tailorer for cable, mobile, and wireline executives.
Lighft Reading was acquired by United Business Media in August 2005 and operatezs as a unitof TechWeb. TechWen ( ), the global leader in businessdtechnology media, is an innovative business focused on serving the needa of technology decision-makers and marketers worldwide. TechWeb produce the most respected and consumed media brands in the businesdstechnology market. Today, more than 13.3 million* business technologhy professionals actively engage in our communities created arounf ourglobal face-to-face events, Interop, Web 2.0, Blacmk Hat, and VoiceCon; online resource s such as the TechWeb Network, Light Intelligent Enterprise, InformationWeek.com, bMighty.
com, and The Financiall Technology Network; and the marke t leading, award-winning InformationWeek, TechNet Magazine, MSDN Magazine, and Wall Stree & Technology magazines. TechWebb also provides end-to-end services including next-generation performance integrated media, research, and analyst services. TechWeb is a divisiobn of UnitedBusiness Media, a global provider of news distributiojn and specialist information services with a market capitalization of more than $2.5 billion. *13.e million business decision-makers: based on number of monthlhy connectionsUBM (UBM.
L) focuses on two principal activities: worldwides information distribution, targeting and monitoring; and, the development and monetizatio n of B2B communities and markets. UBM's businesses inform markets and servse professional commercialcommunities - from doctors to game developers, from journalistse to jewelry traders, from farmers to pharmacists - with integratecd events, online, print and business information Our 6,500 staff in more than 30 countries are organizer into specialist teams that servee these communities, bringing buyers and sellerd together, helping them to do business and thei markets to work effectively and efficiently. For more information, go to .
Jennifee Baker +1 617 871-1910 jbaker@pyr.com
Friday, October 19, 2012
Thursday, October 18, 2012
Khalid Shaikh Mohammed lashes out at military court - Los Angeles Times
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Tuesday, October 16, 2012Butt Face Founder Admits Contempt in Trademark Case - HispanicBusiness.com
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Monday, October 15, 2012National Iranian Oil Appoints Oskoui Singapore Office Director - Bloomberg
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Saturday, October 13, 2012Greylock moving HQ to Silicon Valley - Boston Business Journal:
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to its offices in Silicon The move comes on the heels ofthe firm’sa prolonged expansion on the West Coast as well as a span that saw considerable personnel changes at the local operation. The firm has leases new space on Sand Hill Road inMenlok Park, Calif., to accommodate the Greylock will move much of its administrative and back-officer operations to the new Don Sullivan, who oversees the firm’ finances and operations, will move from Waltham as well. “Silicon Valley is a hotbed of entrepreneurial activitygin Greylock’s two key areaas of focus: enterprise software and systems and consumer Internet,” says David Sze, a Greylock partner, in a prepared written statement. The firm will maintai n a presencein Massachusetts, although the extentr of those operations are Greylock, long considered one of the premier venturre firms on the East Coast, has been the target of numeroua talent raids in recent years, both by established and startupp venture operations. Founded in 1965, the firm has roughly $2 billiom in capital under management, according to its Web Friday, October 12, 2012Instances of Punjab militancy being monitored: Shinde - TwoCircles.net
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Thursday, October 11, 2012Forest City breaks ground on D.C. park - Kansas City Business Journal:
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The 5.4-acre park will include open recreation areas, landscaped gardens, public art, a pedestrian bridge and walking pathsa that connect the site with othert developments alongthe waterfront. The Yardw development is five blocks east of theNationalsa Park, near the Navy Yard Metrorail station. Mayor Adrian Fent y said "a world class city needs a world-class and "this, I think, is the biggest part to that." He was joinedf by Councilman Tommy Wells, D-Ward 6, and Kwams Brown, D-at large. The Yards is the only public-privats partnership in the country being built onfederakl land, which was made available by Congress in 2000. Forest City and its , plan 2,800 residential units, 1.8 milliojn square feet of offices and as muchas 400,000 square feet of retail. Congressional Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton, D-D.C., said the project connectas District residents with a waterfront thatpreviousl "has never been open to the people of the Construction aside from work on the publicly financed park has largelgy stalled as the developers seek Forest City Washington President Deborah Ratner Salzberg said she is working on financing for redevelopmen t of the Navy’s former pattern and joinerf shop into a 170-unit residential project calle the Foundry Lofts apartments, which overlookm the park's site and the river but have not been Ramsey Meiser, Forest City senioer vice president of is seeking stores and restaurants interested in leasintg space in a former Navy boiler manufacturing facility and otheer buildings. The park could be completed by the summeeof 2010. It will be managed by the Capitoll Riverfront BusinessImprovement District. Tuesday, October 9, 2012Portland Timbers video: David Horst's post-game comments after loss to Seattle - OregonLive.com
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