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From July to September, 6 percent of the companiesd interviewed in the Honolulu metro area plan to hire more while 11 percent expect to reducetheifr payrolls, according to the survey from Milwaukee-baseds (NYSE: MAN). Seventy-eight percent expect to maintaih their current staff levels and 5 percenr remain uncertain abouthiring plans. Hiring is expected to be a littlde lighter than in the second when 10 percent of companies surveyed planned to hire and 12 perceny expected tocut payrolls, said Manpower spokeswoman Mary Lou Callahan. For the comingh quarter, job prospects in the Honolulu area appeard best in wholesale and retail trade and leisur eand hospitality.
Employers in durable goods manufacturing, nondurable goods manufacturing, information, professional and businese services, education and health services and government intened tocut staffing. Hiring in transportation and utilities, financial activities and other servicesa is expected toremain unchanged. National survey resultzs showed little change from thesecond quarter. Of the more than 28,00o0 employers surveyed acrossthe country, 15 percent expect to increaswe their staff levels during the thir quarter, while 13 percent expectg to reduce their payrolls. Sixty-seven percent expect no change in hirin g and 5 percent are undecided abouttheidr third-quarter hiring plans.
“The data shows continuesd hesitancyamong employers,” said Jonas Prising, president of the Americasw for Manpower. “They are treadingy slowly and watching withguarded optimism, hoping a few quarter of stability will be the precursor to the
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Friday, January 11, 2013
New magazines test limits of tough ad market - The Business Review (Albany):
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Barasch, a patent attorney and owner of in invested “several thousand of her own money to create . About 1,300p copies of the first issue were freeof charge, to area businesses. She said she started the bi-monthlhy publication because she saw a need fora “directy method of communication” between the area’s technology companies and the insurers, banks, nonprofits and othera eager to reach them. Her hope is that the targetedd nature of Tech Professional will help the magazinde survive in adifficult economy, when advertisingv dollars shrink. It will not be easy.
Accordingf to the , an arm of the New York City-based Magazine Publishers of America, magazine ad revenue fell 7.8 to $23 billion, in 2008. Ad pages fell 11.7 percent. In the fourth quarter alone, revenue fell by 14 percent and pagesa were down 17 percent as compared to ayear “Getting advertisers in this economyu is difficult,” Barasch said. “But I’vde gotten a good response so far, so I’ m excited.” At the same time Barasch was startingTech Professional, Liam a former musician and published author, was introducing the first issue of Capital Flip.
He said he had originallty envisioned theonline publication, which celebrateas the “underground music, arts, writingf and political scene in as a print magazine, but quicklg realized the economy was not on his “In the late ’90s, early you could get peoplse to go along with a new Sweeney said. “But now you need to be at a certainn level to get themto advertise. It is like the economy is having agatekeeped effect.” He also found production costs prohibitive. “The cheapesy rate I could get, in Canada, was $3,650 for 1,00p0 copies,” he said. “Ag $3.
65 a copy, you’re asking people to pay $5 for a People don’t have So Capital Flip will be online at least for theforeseeable future. And for the first year, while Sweeney fine-tunes the product and buildsa an audience he canshow advertisers, space is free. “Igt doesn’t cost me any more to add anothertpage online,” he said. Barasch said she used her networkingb contacts, and kept rates “reasonable,” to attract advertisersa to her magazine. The initial, 16-pagee issue contained 10 outside ads.
She said she believes advertisersx were willing to give Tech Professional a chance because they saw the valus in getting their message out to the entire tech from struggling young firms to the bigand “unreachable.” All are on her mailingg list. Still, she knows that her endeavor “mayu not be as profitable as it wouldx have been inthe ’90s.” It is not only new publicationsz that find it hardetr to attract ad dollars. The PIB’zs 2008 report lists declines at , Glamour, People and a number of othedrpopular publications.
“There is no denying that this is a toughy time forad sales,” said Vikki Moran, co-publisher of Capital Region Living, a Delmar-based gloss lifestyle magazine that has been publishing for five Moran said sales at the free-distribution monthly are off “a bit” but could not provider a figure. “One month may be down 20 percent, the next is the next up a little, but overall is definitelyy down,” she said. At the same time “we’vs been slapped with a number ofprice increases,” for paper and but have not raised rates to covedr the added expense.
Barasch, a patent attorney and owner of in invested “several thousand of her own money to create . About 1,300p copies of the first issue were freeof charge, to area businesses. She said she started the bi-monthlhy publication because she saw a need fora “directy method of communication” between the area’s technology companies and the insurers, banks, nonprofits and othera eager to reach them. Her hope is that the targetedd nature of Tech Professional will help the magazinde survive in adifficult economy, when advertisingv dollars shrink. It will not be easy.
Accordingf to the , an arm of the New York City-based Magazine Publishers of America, magazine ad revenue fell 7.8 to $23 billion, in 2008. Ad pages fell 11.7 percent. In the fourth quarter alone, revenue fell by 14 percent and pagesa were down 17 percent as compared to ayear “Getting advertisers in this economyu is difficult,” Barasch said. “But I’vde gotten a good response so far, so I’ m excited.” At the same time Barasch was startingTech Professional, Liam a former musician and published author, was introducing the first issue of Capital Flip.
He said he had originallty envisioned theonline publication, which celebrateas the “underground music, arts, writingf and political scene in as a print magazine, but quicklg realized the economy was not on his “In the late ’90s, early you could get peoplse to go along with a new Sweeney said. “But now you need to be at a certainn level to get themto advertise. It is like the economy is having agatekeeped effect.” He also found production costs prohibitive. “The cheapesy rate I could get, in Canada, was $3,650 for 1,00p0 copies,” he said. “Ag $3.
65 a copy, you’re asking people to pay $5 for a People don’t have So Capital Flip will be online at least for theforeseeable future. And for the first year, while Sweeney fine-tunes the product and buildsa an audience he canshow advertisers, space is free. “Igt doesn’t cost me any more to add anothertpage online,” he said. Barasch said she used her networkingb contacts, and kept rates “reasonable,” to attract advertisersa to her magazine. The initial, 16-pagee issue contained 10 outside ads.
She said she believes advertisersx were willing to give Tech Professional a chance because they saw the valus in getting their message out to the entire tech from struggling young firms to the bigand “unreachable.” All are on her mailingg list. Still, she knows that her endeavor “mayu not be as profitable as it wouldx have been inthe ’90s.” It is not only new publicationsz that find it hardetr to attract ad dollars. The PIB’zs 2008 report lists declines at , Glamour, People and a number of othedrpopular publications.
“There is no denying that this is a toughy time forad sales,” said Vikki Moran, co-publisher of Capital Region Living, a Delmar-based gloss lifestyle magazine that has been publishing for five Moran said sales at the free-distribution monthly are off “a bit” but could not provider a figure. “One month may be down 20 percent, the next is the next up a little, but overall is definitelyy down,” she said. At the same time “we’vs been slapped with a number ofprice increases,” for paper and but have not raised rates to covedr the added expense.
Tuesday, January 8, 2013
LandMar files for bankruptcy - Orlando Business Journal:
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The Jacksonville-based residential development company was among 125 affiliates that filed along with itsparent company, Charlotte-baserd , in the Western District of Texas. Crescent’ s estimated liabilities are morethan $1 according to the filing, and its largest at $13.6 million, is to Bank of America. The filint was necessary, according to a statement on Crescent’d Web site, for the company to reorganize its reduce its debt level and improve its capital Crescent intends to operate its continuing businesses withouf any significant interruption during the restructuring procesws because of a recentlyobtained debtor-in-possession financing facility of $110 million from a groupo of its existing according to the Andrew Hede, Crescent’s chiedf restructuring officer, has been named CEO whilse its former chief executive, Arthutr Fields, has retired and will work with Crescenty in an adviso ry capacity.
“We have been in activer discussions with our lenders and other stakeholders as we work towardw an agreement that will bring our capital structure in line with the curreneconomic environment,” Hede said in a statemenf on the company’s Web Charlotte-based Crescent has been pursuing alternativews to shore up its balanced sheet for months, including selling some of its assets. The company is jointlt owned by (NYSE: DUK) and Morgan Stanley and has 38 residentiakl communities under development inthe Georgia, Texas, Arizona and Florida.
Crescent acquired a controlling interest in LandMafin 1999, but left LandMar’zs founder, Ed Burr, in control of the company until he resignefd after a failed attemp to buy back the companyu in 2007. The Jacksonville Economic Development Commission authorized city lawyerz in May to start the foreclosure process onthe 41-acre parcel that was to be the Shipyards. Planz for the Shipyards included 1 million square feet ofoffics space, 100,000 square feet of commercialp space, 662 residential units, 350 hotel roomas and 150 marina slips. LandMarr has developed or had planss to develop dozens more properties in Florida and throughoutrthe Southeast.
The Jacksonville-based residential development company was among 125 affiliates that filed along with itsparent company, Charlotte-baserd , in the Western District of Texas. Crescent’ s estimated liabilities are morethan $1 according to the filing, and its largest at $13.6 million, is to Bank of America. The filint was necessary, according to a statement on Crescent’d Web site, for the company to reorganize its reduce its debt level and improve its capital Crescent intends to operate its continuing businesses withouf any significant interruption during the restructuring procesws because of a recentlyobtained debtor-in-possession financing facility of $110 million from a groupo of its existing according to the Andrew Hede, Crescent’s chiedf restructuring officer, has been named CEO whilse its former chief executive, Arthutr Fields, has retired and will work with Crescenty in an adviso ry capacity.
“We have been in activer discussions with our lenders and other stakeholders as we work towardw an agreement that will bring our capital structure in line with the curreneconomic environment,” Hede said in a statemenf on the company’s Web Charlotte-based Crescent has been pursuing alternativews to shore up its balanced sheet for months, including selling some of its assets. The company is jointlt owned by (NYSE: DUK) and Morgan Stanley and has 38 residentiakl communities under development inthe Georgia, Texas, Arizona and Florida.
Crescent acquired a controlling interest in LandMafin 1999, but left LandMar’zs founder, Ed Burr, in control of the company until he resignefd after a failed attemp to buy back the companyu in 2007. The Jacksonville Economic Development Commission authorized city lawyerz in May to start the foreclosure process onthe 41-acre parcel that was to be the Shipyards. Planz for the Shipyards included 1 million square feet ofoffics space, 100,000 square feet of commercialp space, 662 residential units, 350 hotel roomas and 150 marina slips. LandMarr has developed or had planss to develop dozens more properties in Florida and throughoutrthe Southeast.
Monday, January 7, 2013
Kansas Department of Transportation directs $196M in stimulus money - Kansas City Business Journal:
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million of American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 moneu forspecific projects. KDOT said in a Thursday release that it had obligatedf that amount by the second weekin May, surpassin g the required amount of $121.7 million — half the state’s $243.4 million in stimulus financing — to be obligated by June 30. Of five big project s KDOT identified forstimulus money, one is an $82.3 million project awarded to Kansase City-based to improve U.S. Highwayt 69 in Overland Park from Interstate 35 to103rr Street. The project will addresas congestion by rebuilding the interchange at 95th Streetand U.S. 69 and enhancinfg the corridor’s capacity, KDOT said.
“We wantec to be sure to hit the ground runningh with projectsthat couldn’t have been built in the foreseeablr future without the one-tim recovery funding,” KDOT Deputy Secretary Jerry Youngef said in the release. “The Kansas projects will create enhance safety andsustain long-term economic growth.” Based on estimatees from the , Kansas stands to gain more than 10,000 jobs from its KDOT said.
million of American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 moneu forspecific projects. KDOT said in a Thursday release that it had obligatedf that amount by the second weekin May, surpassin g the required amount of $121.7 million — half the state’s $243.4 million in stimulus financing — to be obligated by June 30. Of five big project s KDOT identified forstimulus money, one is an $82.3 million project awarded to Kansase City-based to improve U.S. Highwayt 69 in Overland Park from Interstate 35 to103rr Street. The project will addresas congestion by rebuilding the interchange at 95th Streetand U.S. 69 and enhancinfg the corridor’s capacity, KDOT said.
“We wantec to be sure to hit the ground runningh with projectsthat couldn’t have been built in the foreseeablr future without the one-tim recovery funding,” KDOT Deputy Secretary Jerry Youngef said in the release. “The Kansas projects will create enhance safety andsustain long-term economic growth.” Based on estimatees from the , Kansas stands to gain more than 10,000 jobs from its KDOT said.
Sunday, January 6, 2013
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Friday, January 4, 2013
SEC: N.Y. investment firm misled S. Fla. seniors - Silicon Valley / San Jose Business Journal:
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"They used free lunches as the low-techg bait for their high-scalde scheme," said Robert Khuzami, director of the SEC'e Division of Enforcement. The SEC alleges elderly and retireds investors were lured into purchasing highlt unsuitable variable annuities with lucrative salez commissions while ignoring the financial goals of The SEC alleges thatEric J. Browm of Highland Beach, Matthew J. Collins of Boynton Beach, Kevin J. Walsh of Viera, and Mark W. Wells of Boca were among those offering and sellingtthe annuities. It’s allegefd that the firm and its representatives earned millionx of dollars insales commissions.
PCS is a registeredf broker-dealer and wholly-owned subsidiary of Gilmaj Ciocia, an income tax preparatioj business headquartered in Poughkeepsie that offerws financial services inNew York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Florida. Robert a NewYork attorney who represents Prime Gilman Ciocia, and several of the including Collins and said the conduct at issue in the complaint is "vergy old" and occurred in the late 1990s and earlhy 2000. He said the company reached a settlementy withthe (FINRA), when it was called the (NASD). As part of that the company implementedsome wide-rangin updates to its supervisory and compliance systems in 2005, Heim said.
He added that he didn't know why the SEC was going over thesame ground. "All of thesd issues were addressed years ago and we feelthe company'es response has been appropriate," he While Brown and Walsh have since left, Collines and Wells are still with the he said. An administrative law judge will determine whethe r the allegations against the respondents aretrue and, if so, whethere they should be ordered to cease and desist from futurwe violations.
"They used free lunches as the low-techg bait for their high-scalde scheme," said Robert Khuzami, director of the SEC'e Division of Enforcement. The SEC alleges elderly and retireds investors were lured into purchasing highlt unsuitable variable annuities with lucrative salez commissions while ignoring the financial goals of The SEC alleges thatEric J. Browm of Highland Beach, Matthew J. Collins of Boynton Beach, Kevin J. Walsh of Viera, and Mark W. Wells of Boca were among those offering and sellingtthe annuities. It’s allegefd that the firm and its representatives earned millionx of dollars insales commissions.
PCS is a registeredf broker-dealer and wholly-owned subsidiary of Gilmaj Ciocia, an income tax preparatioj business headquartered in Poughkeepsie that offerws financial services inNew York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Florida. Robert a NewYork attorney who represents Prime Gilman Ciocia, and several of the including Collins and said the conduct at issue in the complaint is "vergy old" and occurred in the late 1990s and earlhy 2000. He said the company reached a settlementy withthe (FINRA), when it was called the (NASD). As part of that the company implementedsome wide-rangin updates to its supervisory and compliance systems in 2005, Heim said.
He added that he didn't know why the SEC was going over thesame ground. "All of thesd issues were addressed years ago and we feelthe company'es response has been appropriate," he While Brown and Walsh have since left, Collines and Wells are still with the he said. An administrative law judge will determine whethe r the allegations against the respondents aretrue and, if so, whethere they should be ordered to cease and desist from futurwe violations.
Thursday, January 3, 2013
Class VIII student raped in Patan - Times of India
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Class VIII student raped in Patan Times of India AHMEDABAD: A class VIII student from Sami village near Patan was allegedly abducted and raped by a 19-year-old youth on December 28. A team of Patan police arrested the youth and his elder brother on Monday. According to Patan police, a 14-year-old ... |
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