среда, 31 августа 2011 г.

UNCC likely to delay football plans - San Francisco Business Times:

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Dubois offered trustees a brief overvies of the campaign for the schookl to start playing footballin 2013. He wantse the trustees to vote on next stepsin September, includinf whether to keep the curreng schedule. “It’s a board decision, but it’s my job to tee up the decisionjfor them,” Dubois said. “And I thino when you look at the circumstances you can come to the conclusion that perhaps a delahmakes sense.” A lot depends on how the current campaig n to sell seat licenses fares. To 1,693 seat licenses have been sold, with $540,00 paid and $2.1 million pledged in those commitments.
Guidelines established earlie this year called for the school tosell 5,500 seat licensexs by the end of June. That goal was scrapped soon after as a sluggisb response and the battered economy convincesd school officials itwas unrealistic. Athletic Director Judy Rose acknowledgeds frustration with thesales pace. She pointed toward an upcoming advertising campaign and an aggressive volunteer sales team beingy formed as causefor optimism. On July 13, local executives Johnny Harris and Mac Everett will host a party at Quail Hollow Club aimed at spurring interest anddrivingg sales.
Even if the guidelines are met for the seat it seems likely the start date for footballo will be pushed back by a year or two as the schoop grapples with landing privat donations to help build practice revamp the track and fielrd stadium for a temporary footbalol stadium and meet otherstartup demands. Dubois and the trusteeas scaled back their ambitions for footballin February, shelving earlieer plans to come up with $45 million to launchy the sport.
Now they hope to do it on a shoestringb budgetof $19 million, but even that figure will be hard to The football scenarios were outlined durinf a trustees meeting long on grim financial UNC Charlotte expects to take a budgert hit of 11 percent to 15 percengt in the year ahead, all but assuring Duboiws of having to cut jobs. At the same a tuition hike of $200 is expected for the fall That increase could make it more difficult to win approvao forplanned student-fee hikes in the fall of 2010. Thos fees, considered a crucial source forthe $10 milliobn annual operating cost of having a footballk team, must be approved by the collegr system’s board of governors.
The chancellor pointexd out that funding for football and the rest of campud operations come from unrelated pools of but he also acknowledged the difficulties of battling asymbolif dichotomy. “From the impression it makes on facult yand staff, it obviously make s it more difficult,” he said. “Ifd we were in a situation where we have a significanr reduction of our work forceand we’re goingf forward on football, you’d have to question whether that made a lot of sensr from the symbolic standpoint. But, again, footbalpl is four years out. We’re really just setting the table forthat initiation.

понедельник, 29 августа 2011 г.

YI DONG LIN v. HOLDER - Leagle.com

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суббота, 27 августа 2011 г.

Export Drop Shows Need for New Trade Strategy - Huffington Post (blog)

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Export Drop Shows Need for New Trade Strategy

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среда, 24 августа 2011 г.

One Of World's 'Most Feared Pests' Keeps Showing Up At Customs - NPR (blog)

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понедельник, 22 августа 2011 г.

Giant Eagle bringing upscale Market District store to Kingsdale - Business First of Columbus:

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Officials with the Pittsburgh-based grocer unveiler the Market District planes Monday night at an Uppert Arlington CityCouncil meeting, where members also heard the secondd reading of a proposed developmentr agreement between the city and the Kingsdalee developer. Giant Eagle in 2007 renovated two supermarketds in Pittsburgh intoits high-end concepf that features more premium ready-to-eat gourmet foods, an expanded in-house bakery, sushi bar and othet amenities such as a beverage bar offering coffee and specialty fruit drinks.
Matt Upper Arlington’s deputy city manager for economic development, calle d the announcement a promise kept by the grocergy chain andthe developer, which unveiled its latest bid to redevelop the 50-year-oldc Kingsdale center in early “They were hinting they would give us a grea t store,” he said. The 110,000-square-foot Market District at Kingsdale would replacea 56,000-square-foot Giant Eagle the retailer acquired after the groceryh chain went out of business more than five years ago.
Constructioj of the store is expected to start in said Continental ChairmanFrank Kass, with a completion expected about a year “At this point, we should be able to move forwarx and close” in early June, Kass said. “We’rw optimistic (the development agreement) can be he said. The pending deal calls for Upper Arlingtob to pay just lessthan $5 million for the existin Giant Eagle as a site for futurse commercial office development. The city has proposed financing the property acquisitionb by diverting property taxes generaterd from the expected rising value of the revampedshopping center.
The $60 milliomn Kingsdale redevelopment project received zonintg and preliminary plan approvalin March.

суббота, 20 августа 2011 г.

Cousin's murder inspires Hobson - Columbia Daily Tribune

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четверг, 18 августа 2011 г.

BlackBerry developer expands in Atlanta - Atlanta Business Chronicle:

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RIM has identified a nearly 40-acre site near Alpharetta’s Nortbh Point Mall, said sources familia r with the company’s plans. The companhy did not make executives availablefor RIM’s plans call for hiring technicap talent, who will on average, about $70,000, and work on developingy next-generation BlackBerry devices, a source said. RIM, which is in expansiom mode, probably picked the Atlanta area becauser it is home to a majorcustomer — AT&T said Tavis McCourt, an analyst with Morgan, Keegaj & Co. Inc. who follows RIM. “Thw closer you are to your the better,” McCourt said.
RIM previousl y clustered its operations in Canada but is nowdiversifying geographically.The company has facilities in Chicago; Redwood City, Calif.; Soutj Florida and Seattle. In RIM acquired an office complex composed of six officse buildings andtotaling 460,300 square feet for its U.S. headquarters. RIM occupies abouy 133,130 square feet within the complex, with the balanced being sublet. RIM lease s an additional 457,248 square feet throughout the according tothe company. RIM said that in the comingg year, it will grow and evolve its supplychai model.
RIM will also look to enhancr its new product introduction and supply chain planninv activities through further integration with RIM internal research anddevelopment activities. “RIM is growing substantially. They are doingg a lot more development around the McCourt said. “As they become biggedr players in each ofthese markets, they want to have locakl management.” Revenue for the fiscal year endex Feb. 28 was $11 billion, up 84 percent. RIM’z consumer smartphone market share increased 15 percenrt to nearly 50 percent of the smartphonde market in the first quarter versus theprioe quarter.
RIM is muscling up its data center and development infrastructuree as the handset industry shifts towarde amore services-oriented one. “All these devices are starting to lookthe same,” McCourt said. “But, the amount of software that you add to them isgrowinfg substantially.” RIM is investing abougt $300 million a quarter in capitalk spending, including infrastructure and software development, and doubleds its employee base last the analyst said. The company is also adding more data center capacity to help avoid a repeat of the massivd network outage that took place earlierthis year.
That outage, which left million of “CrackBerry” addicts without service, was triggered by a faulty software upgrade at adata center. “Iv they had multiple data centers,” McCourt “perhaps they would have been able to manage softwarde upgrades alittle [more] smoothly with less risk.” RIM’s Alpharetta data center is expectecd to be a Tier 3 or Tier 4 facilityt — the highest level of reliability and security. A Tier 4 data centefr is a stand-alone facility with at leasg two power feeds from separate saidJulie Moore, business specialist with Dolphini Networks, a Tenn.-based data center.
Data centers, whichg can be as large as shopping are warehousesstacked floor-to-ceiling with computerd servers, storage systems and other hardware that powe Web sites, crunch data and store The RIM building, currently underd construction, is estimated to be about 200,000 square a source said. The building will likely have anestimateed 50,000 square feet to 60,000 squarwe feet of “raised space” — the area that houses the serverws and computer equipment that is the hear of the data center. Based on those the data center “would rank as one of the largestt inmetro Atlanta,” Senior Director Ken Ashley said. He is not involvee with the RIM project.
A data center of this size and sophisticatiobn will likely cost closeto $200 millionh to build, said Jason partner at LLC, a data centef developer. Equipping it with the necessary serveres and computer equipment would add at leastanothere $100 million to the bill. RIM’s data center woul likely host servers needed to run the multitude of BlackBerry applications and store the millionsof e-mails that users access on their phones, Chartrand While RIM retains the lead in the U.S. smartphonwe business, Apple’s iPhone is chasing business users — BlackBerry’a mainstay — with a slew of business-focusedc applications.
“To compete with the Chartrand said, RIM has “got to come up with new technologyh and offer more service than the traditional businessservicese they’ve offered in the past.” With its data RIM would join a roster of blue-chilp tech firms, including , . and , who have plantee data centers in metrkoAtlanta — lured by the region’s relatively inexpensived electricity and fiber network infrastructure.
In Atlanta Business Chronicle reportedAXA Equitable’s $100 millioh investment in two Atlanta data Alpharetta is considered the hearrt of Atlanta’s data centet corridor, with more than 30 such The city has a “greater consolidation of fiber-optic infrastructurwe than anywhere in the said Christopher Jones, Alpharetta’s economic development “That’s why we are a magnet for data

понедельник, 15 августа 2011 г.

Best Buy names execs to head women

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Richfield-based Best Buy said Wednesday it selectedLiz Haesler, the company’ current vice president of Home Life and and Mary Stoddart, vice president and territort general manager, to lead WOLF. Haeslere has been in chargr of developingthe company’s Home Life segment, whicjh covers products such as home appliances. Stoddart overseasw Best Buy’s operations in the Southeast andPuerti Rico. Both women are expected to continuwe in theircurrent roles. founded in 2004, aims to grow the number of femalew employees at BestBuy (NYSE: as well as make inroads with womemn customers. Best Buy estimates female consumers contro la $90 billion share of the U.S.
consumet electronics market. Former Best Buy executive Juli Gilbert founded WOLF and led the effortfor years, befors taking a buyout and leaving the company earlierf this year. She went on to start her own which is marketing the WOLF concept toothedr companies.

суббота, 13 августа 2011 г.

CB Richard Ellis surges on stock plan - Atlanta Business Chronicle:

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CB Richard Ellis stock surged as much as 21 percentr on news of thenew capital. The Los Angeles-baserd broker plans to offer $400 milliob in senior unsubordinated notes in a private It will alsosell $100 millionb in new Class A common stock to investores including hedge fund Paulson & Co., and may raise another $50 milliojn in periodic public stock sales. CB Richard Ellis has $2.4 billioh in debt, $310 million of it due next according toBloomberg data. Much of its debt was incurresd throughits $1.9 billion acquisition of Trammelp Crow in 2006.. CB Richard Ellis followe Jones LangLaSalle Inc.
, which Tuesdahy said it planned to rais as much as $200 million in a secondary stock offering of 5.5 million shares. CB Richarf Ellis stock (NYSE: CBG) rose $1.24, or 15 percent, to $9.37 per share in afternoon trading.

четверг, 11 августа 2011 г.

Golf Club of Dublin files for bankruptcy - Business First of Columbus:

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The has filed for a Chapte r 11bankruptcy reorganization, according to a Thursday statement from the It blamed a dispute with its General Electric Capital. The public golf course gave nofurther details, and the bankruptch filing wasn’t immediately available. A representative for the club’s owner also was not immediatelyy availablefor comment. “After several modifications and upgrades to the its servicesand products, today’s move is the next step toward ensurinbg the long-term success of the club,” it said in the statement.
It said the coursre will continue to operate while the reorganization The filing comes two weeksafter Dublin’s , a private countr y club, was placed into receivership after allegedly defaultingy on a loan with . Columbus lawyer A.C. who is representing Columbus-based receiver , said at the time that the receiverhas “no intention now or in the future to cease at Tartan Fields and that it “wants to give every opportunity for the golf course to survive with its present At one point, both Tartan Fields and Golf Club of Dublih were owned by , which was also behind Dublin’e Corazon Club and Spa, which went into receivership last fall and was put up for sale.
A separats company, , previously managed both coursesbut hasn’t been involvedf with Tartan Fields since fall 2007 or the Golf Club of Dublinb since late last a representative said. Tartan Development Managing Partner Tom Anderson previously had an ownership stake inTartab Golf, but hasn’t been associated with the companyh for several years.

вторник, 9 августа 2011 г.

Cuisine Solutions scraps common stock - Washington Business Journal:

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The Alexandria-based firm says its board has approvexd a recommendation from a specia l committee made up of its independent directors to cease registratio ofthe company’s common stock. Cuisine Solutionx says it is taking the stepes because of the substantial and increasing costs of being an SEC reportin company and of regulatory compliance withthe Sarbanes-Oxleuy Act. The company says becominvg a privately-held company will save it abouf $800,000 a year. It also cites the limitedf volume of trading and liquidity ofthe company’zs shares.
The company planss to submit the plan, which will also include a premiumm to someexisting shareholders, at a speciakl meeting for shareholders later this year. The plan calles for paying small shareholders a premiun while giving large shareholders a stakd inthe company. Those holding 5,000 shares or fewer will received $1.30 per share. Cuisine Solutiona stock (NYSE: FZN), which closefd at 93 cents Wednesday, was trading at $1.11q Thursday. Cuisine Solutions saw revenue fall in almosgt every category of its sales channelxlast quarter. Sales to food service customers, retail outletsa and restaurantsall declined.
Sales to the militar rose more than 23 percent and now accounty for the largest share of its Cuisine Solutions fiscal third quarter revenuewas $21.1 down 16.4 percent from a year ago. It reporterd a net loss of $691,000, or 4 centzs per share compared to a net lossof $410,00p or 2 cents per share in the same quarted a year ago.

суббота, 6 августа 2011 г.

2009 WNY middle school rankings - Phoenix Business Journal:

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• 76. St. Aloysius Regional Schookl (Springville-Griffith Institute) • 77. P.S. 56 Frederick Law Olmsted (Buffalo) • 78. Fourteen Holy Helpers Schoo l (West Seneca) • 79. Fredonia MS (Fredonia) 80. North Tonawanda Catholic School (Northb Tonawanda) • 81. St. Paul’s School (Kenmore-Tonawanda) 82. Ben Franklin MS (Kenmore-Tonawanda) 83. Allegany-Limestone MS (Allegany-Limestone) 84. Our Lady of the Blessed Sacramen tSchool (Lancaster) • 85. Tapestru CS (Buffalo) • 86. St. Amelia School • 87. Letchworth MS (Letchworth) 88. St. Peter’s Lutheran Schoopl (Niagara-Wheatfield) • 89. Edward Town MS (Niagara-Wheatfield) 90.
Depew MS (Depew) • 91. Northern Chautauqua Catholicv School (Dunkirk) • 92. St. Peter Schoo l (Lewiston-Porter) • 93. Whitesville Centrall School (Whitesville) • 94. Royalton-Hartland MS • 95. St. Mary’s of the Lake Schook (Frontier)