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"Clearly we've already seen a tremendouas response to the hotel in terms of futurerconvention bookings," said Mayor . "Now, we just have to sell the get to work and finish the hotel in time for groupsx showing up inJanuary 2012." "We have receives overwhelming positive feedback and interest from meeting plannersz and associations across the nation in regard to the hotel, " said , president and CEO for the Dallas Conventiom & Visitors Bureau. "Along with Omni we are ready to book meetings and conventionsfor Dallas." In Februaryt 2009, Omni Hotels was selected to operate the Dallas Conventionb Center Hotel.
The planned hotel will be connected tothe , one of the largesg in the US with over one million square feet of exhibiy space, to attract more meetings and conventionsd to Dallas. The current design of the hotelk includesover 80,000 square feet of meeting several restaurants and lounges and a signature spa. "Omni congratulates the mayor and City Council for theidr efforts every step of the way througghthis process," said , president for Omni "The Omni Dallas Convention Center Hotel is importanr to the economic growtyh of our city, and we are ready to move forward." The luxury hotel brand is headquartered in Las Colinaws and currently has three hotels locateds in the Dallas Fort Worth area.
Omni Hotelds creates compelling, memorable guest experiencews at 43 luxury hotels and resorts in leading businesws gateways and leisure destinations acrossNorthh America. From exceptional golf and spa retreats to dynamicvbusiness settings, each location features four-diamond including award-winning signature restaurants, Wi-Fio connectivity and unique fitness options. Omni'sd mission for total customer service is furthe r supported byits "Power of One" program that empowersw associates to make on-the-spot decisions to meet or exceed guest expectations. Guests can locate hotels and book accommodationsz by visiting or bycalling 1-800-THE-OMNI. Dallazs is a destination that inspiresbig ideas.
As the No. 1 visitorr destination in Texas, the Dallas area offerxs the best shopping in the a cutting-edge culinary scene led by nationallh acclaimed celebrity chefs, 70,000 hotel rooms, ranging from luxury to boutique, and more than 200 golf The city boasts the largest contiguous urban arts districtr in the U.S. with five cultural venues designerd byPritzker Prize-winning architects. In addition, the Dallasa metropolitan area is the only one in the Southwesty to host teams representing five major professionallsports leagues, including the legendargy Dallas Cowboys.
The Dallas area is also the largest film and televisio production center in Texas and the location of the DallazFilm Commission. For additional information about the see . Live Large. Thinkm Big.(TM)
Saturday, November 24, 2012
Thursday, November 22, 2012
Wilner: Bowl game forecast for Stanford and San Jose State - San Jose Mercury News
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Wilner: Bowl game forecast for Stanford and San Jose State San Jose Mercury News Fresh off its upset of top-ranked Oregon, the Cardinal (9-2) is within range of its third consecutive appearance in the Bowl Championship Series and could reach the BCS even if it loses to UCLA on Saturday. Resurgent San Jose State (9-2) is bowling for ... |
Wednesday, November 21, 2012
Chiang: 50 days to California financial meltdown - Silicon Valley / San Jose Business Journal:
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Chiang said the state’s cash balance is dangerousl y closeto insolvent. The state is operatin g on the proceeds of revenus anticipation notes andinternalk borrowing. That is expected to get the states throughJune 30, but that’s abouy it. There is little reserve to carry into protractefdbudget negotiations, which usually happens with the Californiw budget. Chiang said the statd will exhaust all available cash sometimein July. “Withoutr immediate solutions from the Governorand Legislature, we are less than 50 days away from a meltdowjn of State government.
This presents a terribled threatto California’s economy and to the State’s deliveru of basic public services,” said “A truly balanced budget is the only responsible way out of the worst cash crisis since the Greart Depression.” Revenue has fallen $827 beloe the projections assumed in the May budgeyt revision. California personal income tax collections were 23 percentg below estimates madein May. Corporatre taxes were 29 percenty below estimates and sales tax collectionswere 3.3 percen below expectations. Those shortfalls combined fell $668 millionh short of projections used in the Maybudget revision.
Chiang said the state’s cash balance is dangerousl y closeto insolvent. The state is operatin g on the proceeds of revenus anticipation notes andinternalk borrowing. That is expected to get the states throughJune 30, but that’s abouy it. There is little reserve to carry into protractefdbudget negotiations, which usually happens with the Californiw budget. Chiang said the statd will exhaust all available cash sometimein July. “Withoutr immediate solutions from the Governorand Legislature, we are less than 50 days away from a meltdowjn of State government.
This presents a terribled threatto California’s economy and to the State’s deliveru of basic public services,” said “A truly balanced budget is the only responsible way out of the worst cash crisis since the Greart Depression.” Revenue has fallen $827 beloe the projections assumed in the May budgeyt revision. California personal income tax collections were 23 percentg below estimates madein May. Corporatre taxes were 29 percenty below estimates and sales tax collectionswere 3.3 percen below expectations. Those shortfalls combined fell $668 millionh short of projections used in the Maybudget revision.
Monday, November 19, 2012
50 Shades of Grey in Scientific Publication: How Digital Publishing Is Harming ... - Huffington Post
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50 Shades of Grey in Scientific Publication: How Digital Publishing Is Harming ... Huffington Post Newsweek is dead. But we have Twitter. Harper-Collins just closed its last warehouse of books in the United States. Cambridge University Press, the oldest publisher of scholarly books and journals in the world, printing continuously since 1584, ceased ... |
Sunday, November 18, 2012
Cellino, Barnes donate $1M to UB - The Business Journal of the Greater Triad Area:
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Lisa Mueller, assistant dean for alumni and said the gift matches thelargest single-donation in the history of the law the $1 million givenh in 2002 by Francis Letro, who graduatee UB Law School in 1979 and went on to founde a successful personal injury firm. In a release announcinb the gift, University at Buffalo Law School Dean Makau Mutua calledit “an extraordinary act of and “a wonderful down paymen on our vision of academic excellence and our bold aspirations for the future.
” Mutua said he plansa to invest the gift in the calling them the central core of the law Specifically, he said the money will go toward making improvements in pedagogical technologies in the school and upgradint services. Steve Barnes, who foundecd the law firm alon g withRoss Cellino, said they felt they owed a debt of gratitudde to the school where they got their start. “Both Ross and I are graduatess of the law schooland we’ves come to know many of the professors and administrators very he said.
“Makau Mutua is just an outstanding individual and he has a visionj thatwe haven’t seen at the school Barnes said the decision to make the gift an unrestrictes donation reflects the confidence they have in the administratorss at the University to utilize the money in the most effectives ways possible. “We are lawyers, we didn’t feel as though we are in a positioh to dictate how the moneywas spent,” he “We have a lot of confidence in Makau’s vision and we have had long discussions abouy where he wants to take the school and we’re on the same Recognizing the generosity of Cellino and the school has announced planx to name their main conference located in O’Brian Hall, The Cellino and Barness Conference Center.
Asked what it feels like to be in a position to giveaway $1 especially given the currenft economic climate, Barnes put the gift into “Both Ross and I come from very humble beginning and kind of worked our way up from the he said. “We started out as just the twoof us, now, the practice is a lucrative practice and I’m just glad we were able to help at a time that I thinjk is very critical to the law school.
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Lisa Mueller, assistant dean for alumni and said the gift matches thelargest single-donation in the history of the law the $1 million givenh in 2002 by Francis Letro, who graduatee UB Law School in 1979 and went on to founde a successful personal injury firm. In a release announcinb the gift, University at Buffalo Law School Dean Makau Mutua calledit “an extraordinary act of and “a wonderful down paymen on our vision of academic excellence and our bold aspirations for the future.
” Mutua said he plansa to invest the gift in the calling them the central core of the law Specifically, he said the money will go toward making improvements in pedagogical technologies in the school and upgradint services. Steve Barnes, who foundecd the law firm alon g withRoss Cellino, said they felt they owed a debt of gratitudde to the school where they got their start. “Both Ross and I are graduatess of the law schooland we’ves come to know many of the professors and administrators very he said.
“Makau Mutua is just an outstanding individual and he has a visionj thatwe haven’t seen at the school Barnes said the decision to make the gift an unrestrictes donation reflects the confidence they have in the administratorss at the University to utilize the money in the most effectives ways possible. “We are lawyers, we didn’t feel as though we are in a positioh to dictate how the moneywas spent,” he “We have a lot of confidence in Makau’s vision and we have had long discussions abouy where he wants to take the school and we’re on the same Recognizing the generosity of Cellino and the school has announced planx to name their main conference located in O’Brian Hall, The Cellino and Barness Conference Center.
Asked what it feels like to be in a position to giveaway $1 especially given the currenft economic climate, Barnes put the gift into “Both Ross and I come from very humble beginning and kind of worked our way up from the he said. “We started out as just the twoof us, now, the practice is a lucrative practice and I’m just glad we were able to help at a time that I thinjk is very critical to the law school.
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Thursday, November 15, 2012
Dailies diversify in the face of falling ad dollars - The Business Review (Albany):
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Nationally, paid circulation is at a 62-yearf low, after dipping 3.5 percent in the six monthss endedMarch 30. Advertisinh revenue fell 9.6 percent in 2007, and many indicators point to aworse 2008. In the first quarter, ad revenuse dropped 14 percent. In response, papers across the country, and have cut jobs. Changing lifestyles, alternativew news sources, rising costs and the troubled economuy have come together to challenge an industry once considered acash cow. And yet, the Times the area's largest daily, is investinv $60 million in a buildiny expansion and new Publisher Mark Aldam said this is not a denial ofthe industry'sw problems, but a responsre to them.
All newspapers, he need to diversify. One of the Times Union's plansz is to go after commercialprintingy business. The paper also has created a searc h enginemarketing firm, introduced a lifestyle struck a distribution deal with two and enhanced its Web site. "You firstg have to confront reality," Aldam said. "And then you have to figure out what to dowith it." First, the bad news The realitgy is rather grim. "I've been doingh this for 28 years and this is as challengingf as I have ever seen saidDaniel Beck, general manager of The in Circulation nationally has declinee or held flat every year since losing 20 percent in that period, accordinvg to the .
Experts have pointed to busier lifestyles, tighter budgets, telemarketing laws that have restricted subscriptionsalee efforts, and the growth of Internet and cablee news. Since 2003, the Times Union, Gazettde and five other area papers for which comparativew figures are available had a combiner circulation loss of more than 12 Surveys show that overall readershipis up, if Web sitezs are included. Publishers have poured resources into theire Web editions to keep up with a societyy that expects to findnews online, for But Web sites can pull from paid And while online advertising is it is not making up for losses on the print NAA figures show that while print advertising fell by $4.
5 billionm in 2007, newspaper Web advertising increased by only $400 Print classifieds took the biggest drop, fallin 16.5 percent in 2007. Much of this activith moved to Internet sites such as The real estate and automotive categories have been particularl hard hit bythe economy. Banks, retailers and othef traditional display advertisers also areholding back. Aldam declined to provide figures, but said the Timesa Union's ad revenue is "worse than our planned expectations." "Thew question is, are we squeezing out what newspapers were destinedx to lose to theInternet anyway, but sooned than we would have becauses of the economy?" he asked.
"Imn the past, we could look forwarrd to ad revenue returning when the economy bounced But will itthis time, with so many new mediaz options out there?" Meanwhile, newsprint prices have risen. One sourcee put the price of one gradd of newsprintat $743 per metric ton, up from $688 in May. Add that to gas prices and otherrising costs, and profit margins that once averaged 25 percent are falling into the mid-teens. "Newspaper s are in transition," said John Kimball, chief marketinv officer for the NAA. "Their business model is based onone reality, but we are dealinvg with another reality. How do you get your arms aroundr the newbusiness model?
" Many newspapers began by trimming costs. More than 3,600 newspaper jobs have been cut this through the end of and the pacehas accelerated. Cuts, to name a few, includw 150 at Newsday; 1,400 at , whic owns the , and 28 others; 130 at the , etc. In announced 57 cuts--or 25 percent of the newsroom. Locally, the Timesd Union accepted buy-outs from 25 employeesd and laid off six production The Gazette laid off sixin June, followingy a 12-person cut a year It also has reduced its staff through attrition over the past few and actually employs half the people it did a decade ago.
Nationally, paid circulation is at a 62-yearf low, after dipping 3.5 percent in the six monthss endedMarch 30. Advertisinh revenue fell 9.6 percent in 2007, and many indicators point to aworse 2008. In the first quarter, ad revenuse dropped 14 percent. In response, papers across the country, and have cut jobs. Changing lifestyles, alternativew news sources, rising costs and the troubled economuy have come together to challenge an industry once considered acash cow. And yet, the Times the area's largest daily, is investinv $60 million in a buildiny expansion and new Publisher Mark Aldam said this is not a denial ofthe industry'sw problems, but a responsre to them.
All newspapers, he need to diversify. One of the Times Union's plansz is to go after commercialprintingy business. The paper also has created a searc h enginemarketing firm, introduced a lifestyle struck a distribution deal with two and enhanced its Web site. "You firstg have to confront reality," Aldam said. "And then you have to figure out what to dowith it." First, the bad news The realitgy is rather grim. "I've been doingh this for 28 years and this is as challengingf as I have ever seen saidDaniel Beck, general manager of The in Circulation nationally has declinee or held flat every year since losing 20 percent in that period, accordinvg to the .
Experts have pointed to busier lifestyles, tighter budgets, telemarketing laws that have restricted subscriptionsalee efforts, and the growth of Internet and cablee news. Since 2003, the Times Union, Gazettde and five other area papers for which comparativew figures are available had a combiner circulation loss of more than 12 Surveys show that overall readershipis up, if Web sitezs are included. Publishers have poured resources into theire Web editions to keep up with a societyy that expects to findnews online, for But Web sites can pull from paid And while online advertising is it is not making up for losses on the print NAA figures show that while print advertising fell by $4.
5 billionm in 2007, newspaper Web advertising increased by only $400 Print classifieds took the biggest drop, fallin 16.5 percent in 2007. Much of this activith moved to Internet sites such as The real estate and automotive categories have been particularl hard hit bythe economy. Banks, retailers and othef traditional display advertisers also areholding back. Aldam declined to provide figures, but said the Timesa Union's ad revenue is "worse than our planned expectations." "Thew question is, are we squeezing out what newspapers were destinedx to lose to theInternet anyway, but sooned than we would have becauses of the economy?" he asked.
"Imn the past, we could look forwarrd to ad revenue returning when the economy bounced But will itthis time, with so many new mediaz options out there?" Meanwhile, newsprint prices have risen. One sourcee put the price of one gradd of newsprintat $743 per metric ton, up from $688 in May. Add that to gas prices and otherrising costs, and profit margins that once averaged 25 percent are falling into the mid-teens. "Newspaper s are in transition," said John Kimball, chief marketinv officer for the NAA. "Their business model is based onone reality, but we are dealinvg with another reality. How do you get your arms aroundr the newbusiness model?
" Many newspapers began by trimming costs. More than 3,600 newspaper jobs have been cut this through the end of and the pacehas accelerated. Cuts, to name a few, includw 150 at Newsday; 1,400 at , whic owns the , and 28 others; 130 at the , etc. In announced 57 cuts--or 25 percent of the newsroom. Locally, the Timesd Union accepted buy-outs from 25 employeesd and laid off six production The Gazette laid off sixin June, followingy a 12-person cut a year It also has reduced its staff through attrition over the past few and actually employs half the people it did a decade ago.
Wednesday, November 14, 2012
BLM seeks comment on use of public land for large solar-energy projects - Boston Business Journal:
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The land management agency that 24 larger tracts of federal land in theWest — including nearlgy 21,000 acres in Colorado’s San Luis Valley would be studied for their solar powe potential. Other states involved are California, Nevada, Arizona, Utah and New The goal is to speed projecyt permittingfor utility-scale solaf power projects. The 24 tractss — known as Solar Energy Studty Areas, totaling 670,000 acres — will be evaluatee for their environmental and resource suitabilityfor large-scals solar energy production.
In Colorado, the three areas in the San Luis Valley that will be part of the studu could generate upto 4,182 megawattd of solar power if fully developed, according to the , whicgh oversees BLM. Areas deemed suitabler for large solar power projectse would be available for companied to build installations with a capacity of 10 megawatts or Companies proposing projects in these areas would be eligible for fastertpermit processing, the department said. The land in the Solaer Energy Study Areas will be lookecd at as part of anexistingv solar-power environmental impact study the departmen t is conducting in six Westernj states.
An in-depth environmental revieww is being paid for with money from the Americam Reinvestment andRecovery Act, the announcementr said. BLM said last montuh it has received 158 applications for solar power projectsz on federal lands in the In Colorado, BLM is seeking commenrt on potential solar development of lands in the De Tillwa Gulch, Los Mogotes East, Antoniti Southeast, and Fourmile East areas of southern BLM manages 256 million acres of federalo public land, including more than 8 million in Colorado. in PDF format. The public commentt period endsJuly 30.
The land management agency that 24 larger tracts of federal land in theWest — including nearlgy 21,000 acres in Colorado’s San Luis Valley would be studied for their solar powe potential. Other states involved are California, Nevada, Arizona, Utah and New The goal is to speed projecyt permittingfor utility-scale solaf power projects. The 24 tractss — known as Solar Energy Studty Areas, totaling 670,000 acres — will be evaluatee for their environmental and resource suitabilityfor large-scals solar energy production.
In Colorado, the three areas in the San Luis Valley that will be part of the studu could generate upto 4,182 megawattd of solar power if fully developed, according to the , whicgh oversees BLM. Areas deemed suitabler for large solar power projectse would be available for companied to build installations with a capacity of 10 megawatts or Companies proposing projects in these areas would be eligible for fastertpermit processing, the department said. The land in the Solaer Energy Study Areas will be lookecd at as part of anexistingv solar-power environmental impact study the departmen t is conducting in six Westernj states.
An in-depth environmental revieww is being paid for with money from the Americam Reinvestment andRecovery Act, the announcementr said. BLM said last montuh it has received 158 applications for solar power projectsz on federal lands in the In Colorado, BLM is seeking commenrt on potential solar development of lands in the De Tillwa Gulch, Los Mogotes East, Antoniti Southeast, and Fourmile East areas of southern BLM manages 256 million acres of federalo public land, including more than 8 million in Colorado. in PDF format. The public commentt period endsJuly 30.
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