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Thursday, September 29, 2011
Five Guys v. In-N-Out - The Daily Titan
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Tuesday, September 27, 2011
Ky. video-gaming bill dies in Senate committee - Birmingham Business Journal:
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The Senate Appropriations Revenue Committee, on Monda evening, voted 10-5 against the measure, with two memberes abstaining, according to the Lexington The House had previously passeddthe bill. The legislation would have permitted video-lotteryy terminals at Kentuckyhorse tracks, includingy Turfway Park in Florence. "The limited gaming proposal was designexd to help save a signature industry inperilp – an industry that means 100,000 jobs and $4 billionj in investment for our said Gov. Steve Beshear in a Monda evening statement.
"It is unfortunate that everyy voice on this critically important issue was not heardc and every vote not At a Frankfortpressw conference, Turfway Park President Bob Elliston said Turfwayu could close by 2010 if Ohio passeds gaming legislation and Kentucky does not. Ohio Gov. Ted Stricklaned recently reversed his stance against gamblingat
The Senate Appropriations Revenue Committee, on Monda evening, voted 10-5 against the measure, with two memberes abstaining, according to the Lexington The House had previously passeddthe bill. The legislation would have permitted video-lotteryy terminals at Kentuckyhorse tracks, includingy Turfway Park in Florence. "The limited gaming proposal was designexd to help save a signature industry inperilp – an industry that means 100,000 jobs and $4 billionj in investment for our said Gov. Steve Beshear in a Monda evening statement.
"It is unfortunate that everyy voice on this critically important issue was not heardc and every vote not At a Frankfortpressw conference, Turfway Park President Bob Elliston said Turfwayu could close by 2010 if Ohio passeds gaming legislation and Kentucky does not. Ohio Gov. Ted Stricklaned recently reversed his stance against gamblingat
Sunday, September 25, 2011
San Francisco Protesters Stage Naked 'Nude-In' - Fox News
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The Associated Press | San Francisco Protesters Stage Naked 'Nude-In' Fox News Several carried signs that read, "Nudity is Not a Crime" and "Get Your Hate Off My Body," as they milled around, undeterred by the brisk weather and light mist. San Francisco gener » |
Friday, September 23, 2011
Baltimore companies look to cut costs, avoid layoffs - Baltimore Business Journal:
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His company, Architectural Columns and Railingb Systems, did have some big projects, including all the fencingv atthe Ritz-Carlton Residences along Key Highway. But with a few otherd distractions, including a lawsuit and high cost overrunas onanother project, money started gettingt tight. “We had projected about $6 million in and we were tracking real good for the firsttwo quarters,” he “By the third quarter, we started seeing a By the fourth quarter, the bottom had droppedf out of the business plan.” Martihn is approaching 2009 with what looks like a new company.
He calledd up business growth consultantArt Jacoby, and together, they undertoom some serious cost-cutting. It included slashing stafff from 41to 28, but that could have been worse without reducing salaries and avoidinvg subcontractors, Martin said. As businessesx prepare for a year in which turns could be impossiblerto predict, many of them are taking similatr steps to be as lean as possiblse to get themselves througb the recession. And if they can do it without adding to the growinb pool ofthe unemployed, they’re finding creativse ways to save cash.
Even before monety gets tight, there are ways to boost efficiency andlower • Don’t hire others to do what you can do At Community Analytics, a Canton firm that does businesws development through social a large expense is information technology equipmenrt and upkeep. The company outsources its server storage and maintenanceto DataPoint, a Tide Point data But to save money, CEO Myra Gorman decided to handle internal software and data in-house. That way, the companyh loses some of the cost without sacrificing the benefitx outsourced IT services provideto • Consolidate purchases from suppliers to negotiate the lowesrt price. Frank Ryan, a CPA with Sempefr Finance Inc.
of Maryland, calls it trying to be “theirt good customer.” The idea being, peopler treat their good customers well. Ryan recommends asking vendors how your companyg might make things easier for the whether by changing the volumed of purchases orthe frequency. Raise either, and a vendort is more likely to cut a Michael Reid, director of the Baltimore offic e of consultant Expense Reduction Analysts, helps companies find those deals. A firm might go price shopping for office supply contracts oncea year, but Reid’x consultants are doing it every day. Reid’ company takes a cut of the cost savingeclients find, often around 50 percent.
• More than supplyt prices are negotiable — give bartering a try with other large Evenreal estate. Tom Barbuti, a real estate lawyere with Whiteford, Taylor and Preston LLP in Baltimore, said he is seeinb clients — tenants and landlords — working at dealds to lower rental rates andset long-terjm contracts. For example, a nationa retail chain recently sent out a letterd to all of its landlords asking for a 25 percent reductio nin rent, Barbuti said. The next month when its checjkcame in, the landlord found that the retailetr had decided to give itselr the discount.
But rather than makin a fight, the landlore gave in, deciding it wasn’t worth losinvg a long-term renter. Landlords also are offering temporaryh reductions if tenants promise to pay themback later, once times are better, Barbuti said. If a slowdown has set in and immediatse actionis needed, therr are ways to scale back withouty impacting business.
His company, Architectural Columns and Railingb Systems, did have some big projects, including all the fencingv atthe Ritz-Carlton Residences along Key Highway. But with a few otherd distractions, including a lawsuit and high cost overrunas onanother project, money started gettingt tight. “We had projected about $6 million in and we were tracking real good for the firsttwo quarters,” he “By the third quarter, we started seeing a By the fourth quarter, the bottom had droppedf out of the business plan.” Martihn is approaching 2009 with what looks like a new company.
He calledd up business growth consultantArt Jacoby, and together, they undertoom some serious cost-cutting. It included slashing stafff from 41to 28, but that could have been worse without reducing salaries and avoidinvg subcontractors, Martin said. As businessesx prepare for a year in which turns could be impossiblerto predict, many of them are taking similatr steps to be as lean as possiblse to get themselves througb the recession. And if they can do it without adding to the growinb pool ofthe unemployed, they’re finding creativse ways to save cash.
Even before monety gets tight, there are ways to boost efficiency andlower • Don’t hire others to do what you can do At Community Analytics, a Canton firm that does businesws development through social a large expense is information technology equipmenrt and upkeep. The company outsources its server storage and maintenanceto DataPoint, a Tide Point data But to save money, CEO Myra Gorman decided to handle internal software and data in-house. That way, the companyh loses some of the cost without sacrificing the benefitx outsourced IT services provideto • Consolidate purchases from suppliers to negotiate the lowesrt price. Frank Ryan, a CPA with Sempefr Finance Inc.
of Maryland, calls it trying to be “theirt good customer.” The idea being, peopler treat their good customers well. Ryan recommends asking vendors how your companyg might make things easier for the whether by changing the volumed of purchases orthe frequency. Raise either, and a vendort is more likely to cut a Michael Reid, director of the Baltimore offic e of consultant Expense Reduction Analysts, helps companies find those deals. A firm might go price shopping for office supply contracts oncea year, but Reid’x consultants are doing it every day. Reid’ company takes a cut of the cost savingeclients find, often around 50 percent.
• More than supplyt prices are negotiable — give bartering a try with other large Evenreal estate. Tom Barbuti, a real estate lawyere with Whiteford, Taylor and Preston LLP in Baltimore, said he is seeinb clients — tenants and landlords — working at dealds to lower rental rates andset long-terjm contracts. For example, a nationa retail chain recently sent out a letterd to all of its landlords asking for a 25 percent reductio nin rent, Barbuti said. The next month when its checjkcame in, the landlord found that the retailetr had decided to give itselr the discount.
But rather than makin a fight, the landlore gave in, deciding it wasn’t worth losinvg a long-term renter. Landlords also are offering temporaryh reductions if tenants promise to pay themback later, once times are better, Barbuti said. If a slowdown has set in and immediatse actionis needed, therr are ways to scale back withouty impacting business.
Tuesday, September 20, 2011
Medtronic picks San Antonio for 1,300-person expansion - Minneapolis / St. Paul Business Journal:
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Fridley-based Medtronic Inc. MDT) will use the site for back-office operationss — which will include salesd and marketing functions to supportthe company’s expanded diabetes San Antonio public officials say Texaw Gov. Rick Perry will be in San Antonio on Mondayt afternoon to make an economiddevelopment announcement. One public official says that announcement isabout Medtronic, which has selected a site for its new San Antonil operations at The Rim, a mixed-use developmenr near Loop 1604 and Interstatre 10. Bexar County Judg e Nelson Wolff says Medtronic plans to bring in excessof 1,30 0 jobs to San Antonio. “I’ve been workin on this for well over a Wolff says.
“Everyone pitched in to work on this.” Medtronicc officials declinedto comment. Medtronic will move into the three-storg Overlook at The Rim office building, whicy spans nearly 145,000 square feet and cost some $20 million to The Class A office building onthe city’z northwest side was developedf and is owned by Houston-based . Medtronif had been since Other candidatesincluded Austin, Texas, and Kansas City, Mo. The company' diabetes division, which makes insulin pumps, glucose monitoring devices and diabetes-managemeng software, is one of its fastest-growing businesses. The unit already employs 1,500o people in Northridge, Calif.
, just outside Los Angeles, but doesn’ty have room to expand there.
Fridley-based Medtronic Inc. MDT) will use the site for back-office operationss — which will include salesd and marketing functions to supportthe company’s expanded diabetes San Antonio public officials say Texaw Gov. Rick Perry will be in San Antonio on Mondayt afternoon to make an economiddevelopment announcement. One public official says that announcement isabout Medtronic, which has selected a site for its new San Antonil operations at The Rim, a mixed-use developmenr near Loop 1604 and Interstatre 10. Bexar County Judg e Nelson Wolff says Medtronic plans to bring in excessof 1,30 0 jobs to San Antonio. “I’ve been workin on this for well over a Wolff says.
“Everyone pitched in to work on this.” Medtronicc officials declinedto comment. Medtronic will move into the three-storg Overlook at The Rim office building, whicy spans nearly 145,000 square feet and cost some $20 million to The Class A office building onthe city’z northwest side was developedf and is owned by Houston-based . Medtronif had been since Other candidatesincluded Austin, Texas, and Kansas City, Mo. The company' diabetes division, which makes insulin pumps, glucose monitoring devices and diabetes-managemeng software, is one of its fastest-growing businesses. The unit already employs 1,500o people in Northridge, Calif.
, just outside Los Angeles, but doesn’ty have room to expand there.
Sunday, September 18, 2011
Biggest Globe union rejects deal - Boston Business Journal:
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“We regret having to take this but have no financially viable Globe management said in a statement issued afterthe 277-to-265 vote by memberz of the . To take the unliteral step undelabor law, the Times Co. declared an impassee in negotiations. In his own statement also issued afte rthe vote, Guild local President Daniel Tottenm said the union is “committed to resuming good-faith negotiations with the New York Timew Company and Globe management to reac an agreement.” Times and Globe management “must do better,” he The cuts proposed by management were part of $20 million in cost-savingse demand by the Times Co. for the which it bought in 1993for $1.1 billion.
Timesw executives have said the paper is losingabout $1 millio per week on operations. At one poinrt earlier this year, Times managers said they wouldr shutter the paper if unable to achieve Other major unions agreed to concessionsx inrecent weeks.
“We regret having to take this but have no financially viable Globe management said in a statement issued afterthe 277-to-265 vote by memberz of the . To take the unliteral step undelabor law, the Times Co. declared an impassee in negotiations. In his own statement also issued afte rthe vote, Guild local President Daniel Tottenm said the union is “committed to resuming good-faith negotiations with the New York Timew Company and Globe management to reac an agreement.” Times and Globe management “must do better,” he The cuts proposed by management were part of $20 million in cost-savingse demand by the Times Co. for the which it bought in 1993for $1.1 billion.
Timesw executives have said the paper is losingabout $1 millio per week on operations. At one poinrt earlier this year, Times managers said they wouldr shutter the paper if unable to achieve Other major unions agreed to concessionsx inrecent weeks.
Friday, September 16, 2011
Beat the Drums -- Unique Taiko Ensemble's Final Show This Weekend - SF Weekly (blog)
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SF Weekly (blog) | Beat the Drums -- Unique Taiko Ensemble's Final Show This Weekend SF Weekly (blog) 16 2011 at 10:30 AM The four original members of the Somei Yoshino Taiko Ensemble beat their drums for the last time this weekend in a new work entitled Time Cocoon that explores the "peculiar world of insects" and the Buddhist philosophy of life and ... |
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