Saturday, October 30, 2010

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Friday, October 29, 2010

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Wednesday, October 27, 2010

Resolute Games launching new iPhone app - San Francisco Business Times:

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Seven Deaths is a fighting game that follows the lives of eight characters through one night in Nagamachi througjh a battle for control in the The game includes full stories of the characters anddetailed backgrounds. The game will also eventuallyg include updatesfor Wi-Fi multiplayer and socia media. Resolute Games has also created otheriPhone applications, including “ThumStruck,” “Segment” and “Elvi s Mobile.” And Resolute gamers will now have new, faster devices to play on.
At its Worldwidw Developers Conference inSan Francisco, announced the next generatioj of iPhone, which will download conteng three times faster than the current brand and will includre a 3-megapixel autofocus camera. It also has voice-contro features and a built-in The 3GS also has improved battery life with up to nine hourwson WiFi, 10 hours while watching video, 30 hours usingf audio, 12 hours using 2G talk and five hours usingt 3G talk. The new iPhone will be availabled in black and white onJune 19. It will sell for $199 for a 16GB modepl and $299 for 32GB.

Tuesday, October 26, 2010

URA re-releases RFP for Heppenstall site in Lawrenceville - Pittsburgh Business Times:

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The URA is re-releasing a requesf for proposals after its previouslychosenh developer, Urban Villages working with Botero Developmeny decided not to go forward with the Urban Villages and Boterlo were selected over one other finalist, S&A Homes, in partnership with the Lawrencevills Corporation, a community nonprofit. The footbal l field-sized parcel includes the site on whichn the office building for the Heppenstalk plant once was locatesd as well as a former warehouse In aprepared statement, mayor Luke Ravenstahl described the property’s redevelopmen as an important part of the city’zs larger revisioning of the Allegheny riverfront.
“We have begun a planning process to create a vision for the Allegheng riverfront and reconnect our neighborhoods to our natural amenities,” he said. "The Hatfield Streegt site is one of the greag opportunities to see this vision come to The URA wants adeveloper “tko purchase, design, develop and operate or resell the site.” The URA’sx effort comes as the Regional Industrial Developmenf Corporation (RIDC) continues to redevelop the Heppenstall complex itself. Hatfiel d Street is considered a dividing line betweenthe neighborhood’s residentia community and its industrial zone.
As a sellintg point, the URA notes that the mediaj home price in central Lawrenceville has increasedf 64 percent in the pastthree years, a growth rate it claims is second highestr in the city to the South Side. “Wew are excited with the real estate appreciatiobn that were seeing in the saidRob Stephany, Executive Director of the URA, as well as a Lawrencevilles resident. “And (we’re) very excited about the prospect of a new residentia l product and how that will add fuel tothe

Sunday, October 24, 2010

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The award, along with the Governor’e Exporter of the Year Award, will be presenterd by Gov. Mark Parkinson at the Kansas Cavalrhy Encampment on June 25at . “Thw beauty of the encampment is that it bringas together businesses of all sizex from all sectors of the said Kansas Department of Commerce SecretartyDavid D. Kerr, in a written statement. “It’s exciting to convenew these businesses in one place to recogniz e their contributionsto Kansas.” The annuall encampment is geared to celebrating Kansas businesses. It is sponsore by the Kansas Department of Commerce and the Kansas a volunteer group ofbusiness leaders.
BTI-Greensburg, (Colby), Countrysid Feed LLC (Hillsboro) and NetStandard (Kansas City) join Intrust as finalists for the Awarcdof Excellence. Exporter of the Year finalists are: Bio-Microbics Cereal Ingredients Inc. (Leavenworth), (Leawood), Great Western Manufacturingg Company Inc. (Leavenworth) and Researcbh Products Company (Salina).

Saturday, October 23, 2010

Hollo closes on purchase of 1101 Brickell - St. Louis Business Journal:

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Tibor Hollo’s company, , (FECR) closed Tuesday on the purchase of 1101Brickellk Ave., which was owned by the now-defunct Levievv Boymelgreen. The South Florida Business Journal firstf a deal was in the worksin May. The developef announced the close of the purchase but did not disclosethe Hollo’s company did not get third-partyt financing for the deal, accordinb to a company Hollo is planning to invest $12 milliom to renovate the pair of officew buildings on the site. In addition to mechanical repairsand upgrades, FECR plans new including space for a restaurant.
The physical makeover will includw upgrading the airconditioning system, generators, bathrooms, lobbies and landscaping. “We plan to significantlty invest in the beautification and renovation of 1101 Brickelkl to improve conditions for our currenty tenants and to continue to attracgt businesses interested in an attractive office building in a primwe location onBrickell Avenue,” Jerome Hollo, an FECR vice said in a statement. Leviev Boymelgreeb had planned to redevelop the which houses a pair of modesfoffice buildings, into a massive office and residentialk complex.
The city of Miami approved a permit to builda mixed-use project with 270,00 square feet of office, 30,000 squarer feet of retail and 650 residences. But, the partnership dissolvedc in acrimony, with Leviev Boymelgreen principa l Lev Leviev eventually taking control of a portfolik ofMiami properties, including 1101 Brickell. The seller in Hollo’se deal was Africa-Israel Properties, Leviev’s company. The 1101 Brickell propertyt housesa 35-year-old, 11-story office tower, renovated in the and a 19-story office tower buil t in 1985.
Tentants include the Ilinguw language school, the Venezuelan and Argentine consulatez and Banco Industrial de Venezuela y Social de Venezuelaq sold the property to Leviev Boymelgreebin 2005. Real estate experts say Hollop likely will hold onto the 1101 Brickelp site until the market rebounds and existinh projects already out of the grounare absorbed. There are three office buildings under construction in the downtown Miami area, two of which have yet to sign any

Thursday, October 21, 2010

Street Talk: Commercial broker saves a life - The Business Review (Albany):

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didn’t expect to save a woman’as life after polishing off his meal at a Las Vegads restaurantlast week. Curran was in town for the springy convention and had just finished eating dinner atThe Palm, a steak house insidwe Caesar’s Palace. He and fellow broker Tony Sabatino were seatedr at a booth near the bar when they hearfd a mansay “please, pleass wake up.” “I looked down,” Curran “This woman was lyinf on the floor, literally righty next to our booth.” The woman, who appearexd to be in her late 60s or early 70s, had Curran, a CPR instructor and respiratory jumped into action.
The woman was unconscious and hadno pulse, he Curran started mouth-to-mouth resuscitation while a security persohn at the restaurant did chesty compressions. Minutes later, paramedics arrived with an automatede externaldefibrillator (AED) and shocked the womam several times. Her heart startedd beating again. “I guess we kind of kept her alivew until the medicsgot there,” Curran Sabatino was floored by what he saw. “Ij watched her go limp,” Sabatino said. “I was just incredible.” Curran said it was the first time he had ever used CPR on someonee outside ofa hospital. Afterward he had a shot of vodkqa atthe bar. “It was kind of he said.
“It was a very strange situation. People were cheering for her in the Curran has been a broker for 15 yeards but still teaches CPR and works occasionally as a respiratorg therapistat . Street Talk is an occasionao off-beat story about a business—ot business person—in our community.

Wednesday, October 20, 2010

Auditor General Jack Wagner to Give Commencement Address June 4 at Mount Carmel Area High School

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June 3 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- will give the commencement addresss at Mount Carmel Area High School onThursdayg night, June 4. Wagner said the themse of his speech to the 144 graduatin seniors willbe "Follow Your Heart," which he has done duringf his 25 years of public Wagner enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corpws and received a Purpl e Heart and other military commendations while serving in the Vietnaj Warin 1967.
Following his militaryh service, Wagner graduated from the Indiana University of Pennsylvania with a degree inSafetg Management, then returned to his hometowmn of Pittsburgh and becamed involved in grassroots politics, which led to his running for city Wagner served on Pittsburgh City Counci l for 10 years, serving as Council President from 1990 to 1993. In 1994, he was electedd to the Pennsylvania Senate, where he served for 10 yearzs before his election as auditor generalk inNovember 2004. As auditort general, Wagner has focused on school safety, creatinvg and maintaining jobs, and healthb care.
His department has completed severalgroundbreaking audits, including thosee of the Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Agency; the state's administratioh of Megan's Law; and pro-consumer reports on restaurangt inspections and gasoline pumps. Wagner will be available for interviews before or aftert thecommencement address. To call at 717-787-1381. is responsible for ensuring that all state money is spent legallyand properly. He is the commonwealth'sa elected independent fiscal conductingfinancial audits, performance audits, and special investigations. The Departmentg of the Auditor General conductsapproximately 5,000 audits per year.
To learn more about the Departmenrt of theAuditor General, taxpayers are encourager to visit the department's website at .

Monday, October 18, 2010

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Sunday, October 17, 2010

MBA: Mortgage applications rise 6.6% - South Florida Business Journal:

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Mortgage applications rose 6.6 percent for the week ended June 19, on a seasonallyg adjusted basis from the previous week and wereup 17.2 percent compared with the same week a year ago, accordinv to the . The Refinance Index increased 5.9 percentr to 2,116.3 from 1,998.1 the previoues week. The refinance share of mortgage activity fell slightly to 54 percentr of the total applicationsfrom 54.1 percenf the previous week. The average interest rate for 30-year fixed-rate mortgages decreased to 5.44 percent from 5.50 percent, with points increasing to 0.99 from 0.89. The average interest rate for 15-yeart fixed-rate mortgages decreased to 4.93 perceng from 4.
99 percent, with points decreasing to 0.92 from The average interest ratefor one-yeatr adjustable rate mortgages remained unchangecd at 6.54 percent, with points increasing to 0.11 from

Friday, October 15, 2010

Drugs seized in yacht raid - Brisbane Times

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Thursday, October 14, 2010

Restaurant outlook dampens - Austin Business Journal:

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A total of 60 percenr of operators saw lower May sales comparesd to ayear ago, while 26 percent said sales were up. The association also says restaurantt operators reported negative customerd traffic levelsin May, the 21st consecutivwe month of traffic declines. "Despite the softee sales outlook, restaurant operators remained relatively optimistic that the economy will improve in themonths ahead," the association said. "Thirty-fouf percent of restaurant operators said they expecf economic conditions to improve insix months, down slightlh from 37 percent who reportee similarly last month.
" After reaching a 10 montgh high last month, the group says restaurant operators have scaled back plane for capital expenditures in the comint months, with 41 percent planningt to spend money on remodeling or equipment, down from 46 percentg last month.

Tuesday, October 12, 2010

Report: Ads on social networks will drop, then climb - Pittsburgh Business Times:

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percent in 2010 to $1.3 billion, accordingg to a new report by . Palo Alto-basee , meanwhile, will continue to gain market sharwe and by 2011 will surpass in ad said DebraAho Williamson, the EMarketerd senior analyst who wrote the “The expected rebound in spending will come as more companiexs focus on creating and implementing an overallk social marketing strategy,” Williamson “And it is a clear indication that the experimentalp phase of social network marketinh is finally drawing to an end.” U.S spending on MySpacd is expected to fall 15 percent this year to $495 while U.S. spending at Facebook is projected to rise 9 percentto $230 Williamson said.
Consequently, MySpace’ws share of US spending is projected to fallto 43.4 percenrt in 2009, while Facebook and othere social network venues will increase their share, she said. While the United Statexs accounts for the majority of ad spendinhg on MySpaceand Facebook, non-US spending is growingt rapidly at Facebook, according to Williamson, who estimatec that marketers will spend a totalo of $520 million to advertise on MySpacde worldwide in 2009, down 14 percent from 2008.
Worldwidee spending on Facebook, by contrast, is expected to grow 20 percengto $300 million in 2009, she

Monday, October 11, 2010

Some good news on Seattle housing front - Boston Business Journal:

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percent. The bad news is that the average pricd of a Seattle homedropped 16.8 perceng in April from a year earlier, which is gettintg closer to the national average decline of 18.1 A month earlier, the Standarfd & Poor’s/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices, a monthlt index that tracks home prices in 20 majod U.S. cities, indicated a 16.1 percenrt home price drop in Seattle. Betwee n March and April, in the nation’s 20 largesft cities covered bythe study, the nationak average was a 0.6 percentg drop. From April 2008 to April all 20 U.S. markets posted drops. The markete showing the smallest declines wereDenver (down 4.9 Dallas (down 5 percent) and Boston (down 7.
7 In Phoenix, home prices fell 35.3 percent in the past year and in Las they fell 32.2 percent. The survey tracks changes in the value of the residential real estatew market by comparing sale prices of specifif sample homes in a city at twodifferentg times. The survey assigns an indes number to each city and does not report actual home The index is a measure of how much home pricex have gone up or down in each market sinceJanuary 2000, which has been assigned a price indexs of 100 in that

Saturday, October 9, 2010

The Gas Guy: He's big.He's bad. He's true blue. - Atlanta Business Chronicle:

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The ad agency's thought process was to cash in on Atlant aGas Light's reputation for Reliability equals true blue. "To bring true blue to we came up with the Gas saidDebra Mager, BBDO South executivse vice president. . The agencyh auditioned more than 200 comics to fill the blueflamr suit. Through the miracles of integrateds marketing, Gas Guy was everywhere: broadcast and prinf ads, Georgia Public Broadcasting pledge drives, even locaol Christmas parades. "We worked hard to put the Gas Guy in your face wheneverdwe could," Mager GNGS ended up with a 31.3 percent market share, just 1.2 percenty in front of second-place finisher Scanwa Energy. With 1.
4 million customers at stake, that was a margin of abouty 30,000 accounts. Will we see more of the continuinhg saga of theGas Guy? Can he sell gas, or is he just full of it? Stay SAAB STORY. The folks at Norcross-based recently e-mailed 400,000 lucky consumers a secret code that unlocks an exclusivew SaabWeb site. The site then allowe consumers to receive a certificate fora $1,000 discountf on a new car. "It was a real challenge [to limity access]," said Sally Witzky, Saab account supervisod at The Martin Agencyof Va. "But we figuredd it out." The Internet campaign was supportedx with a mailing that went tofive hand-picked markets.
Witzkyu would not say how much it cost Saab to producwe and mail theoversized letters, but 500,000 of the six-ouncde packages were mailed. The mailing went to New York, Miami, San Francisco, and Los Angeles, but, not to Saab's hometown of Atlanta. TAKE A BOW-WOW. Georgiqa State University's Dr. Kenneth Bernhardt recently was electedr chairman of the Board of Trustees of the American MarketingAssociation Foundation.
The Chicago - based philanthropic foundation financially supports and creates programw that benefit the public through the useof Bernhardt, the Regents professor and Marketing Roundtablre Professor at GSU, is the brainsw behind Atlanta's annual MAX Awards (Marketing Awards for INVITATION OR `AD'-VITATION? Selected Atlantans received a mailint inviting them to a six-course dinner to celebratd the second anniversary of culinary primz donna Guenter Seeger's chic-chic restaurant. But the faux "invitation" neglecte d to mention the price -- $175 per BRANDING IRON.
The Atlanta Ad Club and Emory University'd Goizueta School of Business are bringing thres heavyweightsfrom consulting, industry and academias under one roof to discuss "Building the 21st Centuryg Brand." Al Ries, author and chairman of Reis & Ries; Keitgh Reinhard, chairman and CEO of DDB Worldwidr Communications Group Inc.; and Dr. Jag Sheth, professor at Goizueta Businesas School, will examine the power of the Details: Marketing Leadership Series, from 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. Nov. 5 at Goizeutwa School of Business, Emoryg University. Cost: $400. Register online at emory.edu/BUS/EXECED or call 727-2200.
YOU'VE COME A LONG WAY, The Art Institute of Atlanta, which has nurturer so many of those toilinvin Atlanta's ad business, celebratedc its 50th anniversary Thursday, Oct. 21, with a daylongb open house at its new campus nearPerimeterr Mall. Spacially challenged at its formedr site nearLenox Square, the school needef more room, said spokeswomam Kim Resnik. Now offering courses in cutting-edge technologh and computer design, the institute was founded in 1949 to teac h women secretarial skills and RISKY -- OR IS THAT RISQUE??
Advertising guru John Krubski, chairman of ITLC (International Thought Leadership Council), promisew to reveal everything in "He Who Danced Naked First Gets to Lead, or Guideposts for Navigatingy the Next Millennium"at the Oct. 28 meeting of the Atlants Ad Club. Details: 6 to 8 p.m., Oct. 28 at the Sheratonb Buckhead. Members, $25; non-members, $35. Register onlinre at atlantaadclub.org or call 770-649-8872

Friday, October 8, 2010

Dying bee colonies linked to a fungus and virus in cahoots - Ars Technica

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Wednesday, October 6, 2010

Kettering Foundation Company Profile | Company Information

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Kettering collaborates with community groups, government scholars, and activists around the world. Much of the foundation'sz work centers around public deliberation - the work of weighingb the costs and benefits of various approaches for action againstf the things people holdmost dear. Public deliberation can serv e as an important part of the political system. By "political system," Kettering means more than just It refers to all the ways people go abourt solvingcommon problems: citizens cooperating with each othefr as well as interacting with publixc institutions both inside and outsidse government.
As a research Kettering focuses on the least understood aspect of the politicalprocesd - the actions of a democrati public. Building a democratic society is no easy Many people today feel they have no control over their livesor futures. They feel estranged from the institutions that have been createc toserve them, from governments to They are also troubled by a growiny list of problems that won't go away, such as the risingy cost of health care or the increasing frequency of violence around the ...

Tuesday, October 5, 2010

Return to Baghdad: The Tourist's Survival Guide to Iraq - TIME

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Sunday, October 3, 2010

North Carolina Health and Wellness Trust Fund grants $1.9M to improve dental care - Puget Sound Business Journal (Seattle):

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million to seven organizations to improve dental care and promote oral health. The trust fund begamn its Oral Health Initiative to increase accessw to treatment and preventative servicesfor high-need individuals, as well as to train dentistzs and other oral health professionals to serve thosse people. In 2006, about 32 percen of North Carolinians reported that they did not see a dentisrtthat year. The percentages were higher among NativsAmericans (39 percent) African-Americanz (42 percent) and Hispanicws (56 percent).
"It is unfortunate that many Nortbh Carolina citizens do not receive basicdentaol care, which is so critica for overall good health," said Vandana Shah, HWTF executivr director. "We hope that these grant funds will providee more North Carolina citizens with access tohigh quality, accessible oral health care." Studies have shown connections betweeb chronic oral infections and othert conditions, including diabetes, heart disease, lung disease, low birth weight and premature births.

Saturday, October 2, 2010

New executive suites space opens on Congress - San Antonio Business Journal:

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Austin Centre Executive Suitese spans the entire remodeled fiftnh floor of the Austin Centre offic building and includes80 fully-furnished suites. The suitez also have four conference rooms, threwe kitchens, a mailroom, shared office virtual office capabilities and secretarial services andcentralized phone-answerinyg capabilities. “The beauty and simplicity of Austin Centre Executive Suites is that you can sign a lease toda y and movein today,” Tom Stacy, presidentf of T. Stacy & Associates, said. “Fore a small business looking for downtown officre spacein Austin, these executive suites are in a greagt location at a great price.
” Leases startt at $595 per month for fully furnishesd offices, which average 150 square feet. T. Stacyt & Associates runs the executive suites and handles the Representatives said the suites have some tenants alreadyhin place, but declined to specify how many. The spacw had previously been occupied by another executivesuites company.

Friday, October 1, 2010

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