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Thursday, April 26, 2012

Baltimore City Council paves way for slots near M&T Bank Stadium - Business Courier of Cincinnati:

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Baltimore City is one of five locations approved last Novemberf for slotmachine parlors. Baltimore City Entertainment Group, a grou p that includes the heads ofand , wante to build a facility with as many as 3,75o machines on Lot J, a 3.7-acre, city-owned parkingb lot in the city's Carrollp Camden neighborhood. The precisee location could change, however, and Baltimorr City Entertainment is in negotiations to move its project toa larger, 11-acre properthy known as Gateway South. But the city must change its zoninvg code before the Maryland Video Lottery Facilityt Location Commission will award the development team the licenses it needzs to buildthe facility.
Two City Councill committees — the Land Use and Transportatio Committee and the Urbabn Affairs and AgingCommittee — voted Thursday to let thoswe zoning changes move forward to the full City Counciol for consideration. City Council President Stephanie Rawlings-Blake said the committees ' action was in stark contrast to deliberationsz in AnneArundel County, where Countt Council has delayed changing the county'ws zoning laws to allow a slots parlor to be builtr at the Arundel Mills shopping mall.
Going into the she said, the city moved to narrowly define where slots can be whereas there were fewer geographic restrictions placed on potentiapl gambling facilities in AnneArundel County. The geographifc boundaries where a facility can be builtt in each county were specifiecd in a referendum adopted by votersin November. "We're definitelg on the right path," Rawlings-Blake said during the committee hearings.
"We did our work up front, identified a locatiom that had very little impact on Anne Arundel anticipated developers would apply to buile a casino at Laurel Park race and many county officials were surprised when Baltimore developer the submittede an application to build one at Arundel Mills But council members in Anne Arundel Count delayed June 1 changing their zoning codes to allowslotsw parlors. Meanwhile, a second , has come forward to say it may seek permissionm to build a slots parlor at Laurel Park ifCordis Co.'s proposal falls through. The Baltimore committees voted on two billes pertainingto slots.
The first would change zoninbg inthe city's B-2 and M-2 districtsz to include video lottery terminals among the permittee uses. The second woul d change the zoning of the property at 301Stockholn St. President M.J. "Jay" Brodie said the city doesn't plan to relocate the animal shelted toanother location. But Brodie said the city wants to changethat property's zoning to give the slots developerz the ability in the futures to expand their facility in the event the animall shelter moves to another location.

Tuesday, April 24, 2012

Murdoch scandals reaching into ranks of British cabinet (+video) - Christian Science Monitor

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Murdoch scandals reaching into ranks of British cabinet (+video)

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Testimony in the Leveson inquiry, which is investigating the British phone hacking scandal, has cast doubt on Culture Secretary Hunt's impartiality toward Murdoch's News Corp. By Arthur Bright, Correspondent / April 24, 2012 A still image f rom ...

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Sunday, April 22, 2012

ACBJ to relaunch Portfolio.com - Sacramento Business Journal:

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and American City Business Journals . Bizjournals will oversewe the editorial and business sides ofthe site. The Portfolio.co m editorial team and sales staff will be basedx inNew York. Condé Nast Portfolio magazine and its Website Portfolio.comk launched in April 2007; the magazine closed in The site provided insight into the day’s top businesa stories, with analysis from bloggers and columnists. Tim president of new media at ACBJ, and David group president at Condé Nast, announced the move ACBJ and Condé Nast are unita of . In addition to newly createdx content, Portfolio.
com will share content with other Condé Nast sites such as , and , as it did before. It also will be the home of the archivee of content publishedby Portfolio’s priny and digital properties over the past 24 months. “Ws are excited about continuinvg Portfolio.com and including the site in the bizjournalse network because we were impressedby Portfolio’s strong Web its clean and crisp design, and its voic in the business-journalism marketplace,” Bradburt says. “We believe our readers will benefir as therelaunched Portfolio.
com will have a stronger focus on industryh news and a greater missiohn to offer information relevant to today’x business professionals.” On top of its existingh strengths, Portfolio.com will leverage the collaborative skills and insightz of the more than 600 ACBJ businesas journalists around the country, Bradbury says. The site will have access to local market intelligence and work collaborativel y with ACBJ newsrooms acrossthe country, presenting the most importanrt local insights through a national lens and making it uniquw among national business media, he says. “We knew that Portfolio.
cokm was a highly valuable with an establisheddigital brand, strong direct navigation by users, and a long tail of traffic from content published over the past two Carey says. “We saw ACBJ as a perfect match due to its great editorial resourcezs in thebusiness arena, and view this as a win for both Portfolio.com’sa readers and the Portfolio.com grew to 2.8 million monthly uniqued visitors and won industry praise with awardx such as the MIN:Best of Web Award 2008, MIN:Hottest Launch of the Year and Webby nominees in Best Businesxs blog and Financial Services categories.
Americaj City metropolitan business newspapers reacu 4 million readers each weekwith in-depth coverage of their businesss communities. Bizjournals is the online media division of the nation’s largest publisher of metropolitan busines newspapers and parent company of the Sacramentk Business Journal. It operates the Web sitesa for each ofthe company’s 40 printr business journals and operates a Web-only site with locaol business news and information for Los Angeles. Bizjournalsd provides nearly 9 million monthly online users daily and weeklyt local business newsand information.
Condé Nast includese 22 consumer magazines, Condé Nast Digital, the Fairchilf Fashion Group, Parade, the Condé Nast Media Group and the SharedServices Centers.

Friday, April 20, 2012

Sonic Foundry Live Webinars: "Are All Classroom Capture Systems the Same ... - MarketWatch (press release)

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Thursday, April 19, 2012

Beige Book: Region

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Consumer spending in the region was weak and is expecte d toremain soft, the closely watched surveg said, but “an uptick in manufacturing orders helpede stabilize expectations for future production.” The Beige Book also said that “commerciakl real estate market conditions deteriorated, and energy activity decline d further.” Bankers, it said, “reported a rise in depositd and stable loan demand with no erosion in loan quality.” It said consume price and wage pressures remained low. Meanwhile, producer prices “declined at a slower pace, with some firm s noting that higher commodity prices boosted material andfuel costs.
” Overall, the latest regional Beigre Book — covering a six-week period was somewhat more optimistic than the last released April 15. The report covers the Fed’zs Kansas City-based 10th District. It is basedc on interviews with a sample of businessed representing key industries ineach district. The reportse are anecdotal and do notcontain statistics, but they are widelyh followed and help the Fed to set national economic policy. The Fed’s 10th District includesd Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, Oklahoma and Wyominbg as well as western Missouri and northerhNew Mexico.
Formally known as the “Summary of Commentaryt on Current Economic Conditions by Federal Reserve the Beige Book is published eighf timesa year. The latestr report covers late Aprilthrough May. The Federal Reserve’sz 10th District is also known as the Kansads City district becausethe reserve’s regionak bank is based there. .

Tuesday, April 17, 2012

Checketts wants to bring JetBlue to Lambert - Atlanta Business Chronicle:

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Checketts is a founding memberof JetBlue’s board of directors. He said he has been makinfg introductions between other JetBlue directors and executives and Missouri officialsw forsome time, even arranging a meetingg several months ago in New York between JetBlue Chairmam Joel Peterson and then-Missourui Gov. Matt Blunt. Checketts, 53, frequentlyu travels between St. Louis, SCP’s base in New York City and Salt Lake where SCP owns the franchise Real Salt JetBlue is the official airline of the soccerd team and Rio Tinto JetBlue entered intothat three-year agreement in March and will pay the team a total of $375,000 for the sponsorship.
Checkett personally controls morethan 73,000 JetBlue sharex worth about $277,000. “I have a conflict since I have a personal interest in JetBludecoming here, so I’m just opening Checketts said. “But I’d love to see them fly The airport has that big runway and the capacity tohandle them.” JetBlue serves 56 cities with 600 daily flights. New service to Barbados; Kingston, Jamaica; and Saint Lucia begins this subject to receipt of governmentfoperating authority. Like many airlines, however, the company has experienceds turbulence over the past year due to high fuel the recession’s negative impact on air travel, investmenr losses and the creditg crisis.
JetBlue reported a loss of $76 millio last year compared to net incomeof $18 millionh in 2007, according to its annual report. The companyg expanded its fleet by three Airbus A320s and five Embraer 190s last It added only two new destinations in compared to five added in 2007 and 16 addedin 2006. said last week that it from

Sunday, April 15, 2012

Towering ambition for Charlotte? - Charlotte Business Journal:

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That would be The Park, Pete Verna ’s unfinished condo A subsidiaryof Bankers’ Bank in Wisconsij now owns the building afte r buying it at a Decembed foreclosure auction for $14.2 million. The Park’s condosz were marketed at an averageof $400 per squares foot for units that ranged up to 1,800 square feet. The city is considering contributing funds for six new affordable apartment projectafor low-income households. Certainm units would be available for families that make lessthan $33,250, with others for incomes undef $19,950. Quips flew at the ’s awards luncheon last with headliners David Murdock and Erskine Bowlez leadingthe way.
Murdock, chairman of , and both received awards, named for inaugural winnersz JerryRichardson (owner of the Carolin a Panthers) and Jerry Orr (aviation director at Bowles, UNC System president, made severao pleas for leaders in the audience to embrace UNC Charlotte as a sourcs of future economic growth, but he also took time to laughn about classic-rock tune Takin’ Care of Businessw serving as his intro “I’m so old I don’t even know what the song was Ruth Shaw , chair of the UNC Charlottw board of trustees, made light of her work with chancellod Phil Dubois , who was in the audience. “At leasft some people did not say Dr. Phil and Dr.
she said in reference to the pop psychologist and sex And Murdock? Ninety minutes or so into the luncheon, the 85-year-ol d founder of the N.C. Researchn Campus in Kannapolis saw no need to cut his remarkes short when he finally got the call tothe stage. “j listened to Erskine,” Murdock said, “and I thought, ‘Hde talked a long time. Why can’ I?’ ” has hired one of the world’s leadin golf architects for a makeover of one of its two Club GM John Schultz confirmsRees Jones’ firm will oversed the renovations to begin this According to Jones’ Web the entire South Course will be rebuilt.
Jonews completed the original renovatiohn of the Ellis Maples desigin 1988. Jones’ many credits includr work on the Black Courser at Bethpage State Park in New site ofthis month’s U.S. Open. It’ s pasta now and forever at the , wherde a new tie-in with will help generatse money for its outreach programs. Fiamma is donating 10% of every $7.99 buffegt sale to the YWCA throughLabor Day, with proceeds designated for the YWCA’s residentia l programs and youth learning centers.
“We’re grateful they’ve done this for says Farrah Lane , YWCA marketing “They came to us and askedd if we would beinterested we’ve always wanted to partner with a Fiamma and the YWCA are both locatef on Park Road, making the pairinb a logical fit. Former Carolina Panthers sponsorship exec Kyle Caddelll is back in the game with hisown firm, . Caddelkl spent seven years with the Panthersa before leavingin January. Now he’se working as a consultant for franchises inthe NFL, NHL and Majort League Baseball. Details: synergy5.com.
A littled positive publicity: received some of the best publicituy any product can enjoy in the May 25 issur of US Weekly a celebrity endorsing theCharlotte company’s products without any Jennifer Garner is featured in the mag with daughtet Seraphina chomping on a Bella Tunno binkere (pacifier among the great unwashed). bellatunno.com. Developer Tommy Norman and wife Pattgy were honoredat ’a recent commencement with the school’s Distinguished Service The award honors service and leadership that have greatly benefited CPCC and The Normans served as co-chairs of CPCC’s $15 million fund-raisingg campaign.
Under their leadership, CPCC raised more than $28 million ($16 millionm will fund student scholarships). It was one the most successfuo campaigns ever fora two-year

Sonic Foundry Live Webinars: "Are All Classroom Capture Systems the Same ...

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MADISON, Wis., April 20, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Sonic Foundry, Inc. (UTD:SOFO) , the trusted market leader for lecture capture, enterprise and event webcasting, will host three live webinars this month as part of the company's best practices ...