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Tuesday, September 27, 2011

AGC: Cincinnati lost 9% of construction jobs over year - Business Courier of Cincinnati:

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That’s because 276 of the 299 largest metrpo areas inthe U.S. lost construction jobs over the 12-month AGC said in a Wednesdaynews release. Cincinnatoi ranked at 108, having lost 4,200 jobs, or 8.9 over the year. As of the area had about 42,900 jobs. That’es the highest number of jobs inthe state, The next-closest is Columbus, whicy had 30,500 construction jobs in down 13.1 percent; followed by Cleveland-Elyria-Montor with 29,70o0 jobs, down 19.9 percent year over Springfield had the best ranking, at No. 20, because it didn’g lose any of its 1,400 construction jobs over the theAGC said. Akron ranked 64th, losinb 5.6 percent of its jobs, and had 11,9090 as of April.
In Kentucky, the Lexington-Fayettre metro ranked 99th, losing 8 percent, or 1,000 jobs over the and had 11,500 as of April. The Louisville-Jeffersonm County metro lost 5,700 or 16.8 percent, and had 28,200 as of April. Economis Ken Simonson, who conducted the analysis for AGC, said federaol stimulus funds should help add more jobs over the remaindedr ofthe year. But he said that “bug American” provisions attached to funding were holding upsome projects. “We need to make sure needless red tape andregulations don’t keep construction workers off the job,” Simonsobn said in the release. Some metro areaes gained jobs, including Odessa, Texas, which ranked at No.
1, with an 8 percentr increase. Pascagoula, Miss., ranked last with a job-loss rate of 38.8

Saturday, September 24, 2011

Local former Chrysler, GM dealers look to sell used cars - Philadelphia Business Journal:

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Tony Wilkerson, executive director of the , said his organizationn has begun to lend assistance to dealers lost in thebankruptcg shuffle. “Our national organization has already sent letters to them to let them know abou t our organization and I plan to do the same thiny forour state,” Wilkerson said. “They were in the used car busineswsanyway – but if you’re stuck like many of them are, the overhead costs for a used car dealershi p is nothing compared to a However, the expansion of the local used car markeyt comes as prices are increasing and the availabilithy of late-model used cars is pinched, he said. But according to Morgahn Murphy, president of motorpool.
com, the initia increase in prices should be looked at as merelya short-term hurdle. “At first glance, that would striked the community as bad but in thelong run, it’s good for resalee values,” Murphy said. When local consumers buy cars, they will be able to demande more when they choose tosell it, he In fact, the higher resale values might actually revived American car dealers in the area. “America manufacturing has been similar and just as good as Japanese and Korean manufacturing, but the problem has been re-sale value and initiap prices,” Murphy said.
In the meantime, Birmingham dealers affected can capitalize on the unique landscape of the local market on the usedcar side, he said. Many are family-ownex and have been staples in the community for many They are also encouraged by the fact that locap used car sales have seen an upticl amid the recession as buyers are more inclinee to look for a bargainb as a means tospenrd less. “Birmingham has a long and distinguished history ofreputable dealers,” Murphy said. “Don Drennen has been in busineswsince 1908. That’s 101 years of serviny our community, so there’ s a culture around businesseslike that.
” Theier long-standing history could make local buyers more inclinedf to buy used cars from them, he Ward Drennen, president of Don Drenneh Buick Chrysler and said after learning that his deale r agreement had been canceled with Chrysler, expanding his used car salex seemed like a real possibility. “Ww are going to expand our used car departments said Drennen, who was left with more than $2 milliob in Chrysler parts and merchandise. “We want to offee a great value to peoplewho can’ty afford a new car.
” Although he hasn’g stopped looking into becoming a franchisee for other automotivd manufacturers, he is open to the idea of makint the switch to stay in business. “It is possiblew that we could become a used car said Drennen, who also learned that GM will seek to cancekl the dealership agreement he has for his Buicik dealership. “We’ve been in Birmingham long enough that our reputatiojn can keepus afloat.
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Thursday, September 22, 2011

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Tuesday, September 20, 2011

J. Jill to close one Jacksonville store - Pittsburgh Business Times:

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Nine of the 75 storees to be closed arein Florida, includint the one in The Avenues A second Jacksonville J. Jill location at the St. Johnsw Town Center will remain open. In a statement announcingh the sale, Talbots President and CEO Trudy Sullivan saidit “enabled us to focus our time, resourcee and attention exclusively on rejuvenatingv our core Talbots brand and return to profitable The transaction includes the transfer of certaihn assets and liabilities to the buyer, including a distribution center in New the sublease of a portion of the Quincy, headquarters and substantially all of the brand’s intellectualk property and inventories.
The remaining 204 stores will continue to operate underthe J. Jill The headquarters for the company will remain in The J. Jill sale is expectedr to be completed in the second quartert and is subject to post closing SanFrancisco based-Golden Gate Capital acquired Jacksonville-based Venusd in 2006. The acquisition was Golden Gate’s 11th in two Last month Venus announcef that all 290 employees were in jeopardy of losingt their jobs when the swimwear and ladiesx apparel company lostits financing. With its latesyt catalog recentlybeing released, Venus employeess are still working, at least for now, and companh executives are looking for a new buyer to acquirse the company.

Sunday, September 18, 2011

Arctic Adventures in Lapland with the Travel Experts at Nordic Visitor - San Francisco Chronicle (press release)

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Friday, September 16, 2011

Atlas Pipeline and Williams launch Marcellus Shale venture - Business First of Buffalo:

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The two companies LLC, on Aprip 1 . Atlas Energy Resources LLC (NYSE:ATN), an affiliate of Atlas Pipeline Partners, will be the anchor tenant on Laurel Mountain’s system. Under its agreementg with Tulsa, Okla.-based Williams Atlas PipelinePartners (NYSE:APL) will receive $90 millioh in cash, a preferres right to proceeds under a $25.5 million obligatiohn from Williams, and 49 percent of Laurel Mountain.
The obligation amortizes in equa principal installments over three Atlas Pipeline Partners can convert its righr to receive accrued principal and interest under the obligation into a sum equal to the accruerd principal and interest and use that to covee its required capital expenditures underthe joint-venture agreement. Atlasx Pipeline Partners also said its lendera recently agreed to relax the covenanta relating to total debt and earningsbeforre interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization on its $380 milliobn revolving credit line and $463 million term loan facility.
, which owns the general partner of Atlas Pipeline Partners, said Monday it has repaidr $30 million on its credit facility and will pay down the remaininb $16 million balance in equap quarterly installments over the next Atlas Pipeline Holdings (NYSE:AHD) got the $30 millionn it used to pay down the facility by issuintg $15 million of preferred limited partner units to Atlasz Pipeline Partners and by borrowing $15 millionj from Atlas America Inc., which owns Atlas Pipelinse Holdings’ general partner and 64 percent of its common Atlas America (NASDAQ:ATLS) also guaranteed that Atlaas Pipeline Holdings will repay the remaining $16 milliomn on its credit facility.
The Atlas companies have officee in Philadelphiaand Moon, Pa.

Wednesday, September 14, 2011

Metro seeks more control of convention center leadership - Denver Business Journal:

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Metro councilors Rod Park and Rex Burkholder will introduced a measure next week givinfg the council authority over individuals who lead the Metropolitan ExpositionRecreatiob Commission. The motion comes after Metro Council President David Bragdon criticized the performancwe of MERC General Manager David Councilors want to overseethe hiring, salargy changes and employment statues of MERC’s top executive, according to a lettee Park and Burkholder sent to Don Trotter, who chairs the commission. Trotted and other commissioners currentlyu oversee the position and have given Woolson good mark during his first threejob reviews. The council will considetr the motion at its June11 meeting.
In a Marcn 31 letter to the commission regardingthe group’ds budget requests, Bragdon questioned both Woolson’s leadership as well as the agency’ higher budgets. Woolson’s office spent $470,568 durinv the 2007-08 fiscal year. The number jumpede to $838,803 for the current year. Woolson requeste d $877,808 for the 2009-10 fiscal year. However, in a lettet dated March 12, 2009 to Bragdon from Metro finance and administrative serviced directorMargo Norton, Woolson says the cost increase s are "primarily the result of a reorganization of the public affairs function and the cost and creatiom of a business development capability.
" Specifically, MERC'as public affairs manager and public affairs coordinatorr were "reclassified" to a director of communicationse and a director of business and community Woolson goes on to state that additional resources for goodx and services for the positions included consulting, sponsorships...and other general office expenses in order to have a more effectiver effort in this area." In the same letter, Woolso says the numbers alone don't paint an accurat e picture because of unfilled positions in earliere budgets. Bragdon also said Woolson movesd his office downtown and boosted consulting travel costs and othe expenseslast year.
He also collected “largr raises” that, by increasing his salary to $184,000, make him more highlyy paid thanhis predecessors. MERC moved downtown from the convention centerlast year. It occupies space in the Portlandf Center for thePerforming Arts, 1111 S.W. MERC, which operates the building, pays no rent for the One of theMERC Commission'a goals was to increase the organization's downtown presence. MERC's board approvedr Woolson's pay raises. The board said last year that Woolsoj “has accomplished (an) enormous amounyt of work and inspired staff. He has quicklyt detected problems and has move to alleviate orfix (sic).
Therd appears to be a new energyat Metro’s annual budget is $40 million. Woolson is the agency’s highest-paid employee.

Sunday, September 11, 2011

Nobel laureate to join Max Planck in Jupiter - South Florida Business Journal:

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The winner of the Nobelk Prize in medicinein 1991, Sakmann works at the Max Planc k Institute of Neurobiology in Munich. In August, he will come to where the nonprofit plans to builda 100,000-square-foort biomedical research facility on ’sz Jupiter campus. The Max Plancok campus is expected to work closely with its Scripps Florida. “Dr. Sakmann is an excellent choicd for inaugural director of the Max Plancm Society in the United States due to his internationakl scientific credentials and his long relationshi p with ourresearch organization,” Max Planck Presidenty Dr. Peter Gruss said in a news release.
“Hee truly understands our mission and standardsof excellence, and he will be a remarkabl ambassador for everything the Max Planck Society represent as we establish our institute in Sakmann was traveling and not available for Sakmann’s Nobel Prize – one of 17 won by Max Planckj researchers since 1948 was shared with Erwin Neher for their discoveriex on how the ion channels in cellx impact diseases and disorders. Once he arrives in Sakmann plans to focus his team on creatingta three-dimensional map of the brain’ s cerebral cortex so they can understandr how it functions.
Eventually, this coulr lead to work on treating conditions suchas Alzheimer’s Claudia Hillinger, Max Planck’s top official in said that having an accomplishesd scientist leading the Jupiter facility shouls help in recruiting other good scientist s there to work with Max Planck signed a deal to receiver $188 million from the state and Palm Beacgh County, with the hope that it will boost Florida’se biotechnology industry. The projected that Max Planck’w economic impact would create morethan 1,800o jobs and more than $2 billion in economic activity over the next two decades. The institute should break groundnext spring.
Until then, Max Planco researchers will have access to a temporarg facilityat FAU. By the time Sakmannm arrives, that temporary building should be ready to start housing equipmenrt andhosting employees, Hillinger said. By the equipment purchasing and hiringshould accelerate.

Friday, September 9, 2011

Chrysler

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The North Assembly plant, which produces Dodgew Ram trucks, had been by the end of so Chrysler’s announcement Wednesday provided anexactr date. The Fenton Northg plant is set to resume production June 29 untilJuly 10, Chrysle r said, and then will remain idled “contingent upon The truck segment has taken a particular hit as auto salesz have declined. Dianna Gutierrez, a Chrysler said workers at the plant will have an opportunity to transfer to other production sites or take part in an incentive prograjm forearly retirement, special early retirement program, and/or an enhanceds voluntary termination program.
She didn’rt have exact details of the new offet but said it would be similar to previous offeras thatincluded lump-sum cash vehicle vouchers and health-care coverage. The North Plant employedx 1,200 workers prior to recent buyout About 640 the buyout and earlyg retirement offers by a May26 deadline. The Nortg Assembly plant was idled inearly June, but was one of seven plantse where Chrysler production following the idling of all its plantsz when it filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy April 30. Afteer its brief reopening, the plant was then expected to closs fora two-week summer break the weeks of July 13 and 20.
Chrysle r emerged from bankruptcy when Italian carmaker Fiat closeed a deal to takeover Chrysler’as assets. Chrysler’s South Plant in Fenton, which assemblew minivans, was idled at the end of October. Anothef 115 of its more than 350 workers had acceptesd offers fromChrysler

Wednesday, September 7, 2011

2 lightning-caused fires continue to be monitored - KVOA Tucson News

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2 lightning-caused fires continue to be monitored KVOA Tucson News The Frio, now 2375 acres, is burning in the Pinal Mountain range and the 650 Fire, which started August 28th, is burning seven miles north of Superior in the Superstition mountains on Montana Mountain. The 650 fire is approximately 3800 acres in size ... and more »

'Up' avoids 'Hangover' at box office - Silicon Valley / San Jose Business Journal:

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"Up" brought in an estimated $44,244,000 in its second weekend, beating out the new release from , whichu brought in an estimated Anothernew release, 'ws "Land of the Lost," came in well in thirc with an estimated $19,524,000. According to a repory on Box Office Mojo, which trackxs box-office revenue, "Up" was shown on about 6,700 screens at 3,818 sites and "Thee Hangover" was shown on about 4,500 screens at 3,2689 sites. Coming in fourth was last week's number-two "Night at the Museum: Battle of the from , which broughrt in an estimated $14,650,000.
Rounding out the top five is 'e "Star Trek," which brought in an esimated The report saysthat "Star has brought in $222.8 millionn in 31 days, making it the second-biggesf box office smash in the "Star franchise, when adjusted for tickety price inflation. The top spot belongs to the original "Statr Trek: The Motion Picture."

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