Friday, November 30, 2012

HVCC moves 2 programs to Rensselaer Tech Park - Portland Business Journal:

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The Troy college recentlyy signeda 10-year lease with 400 Jordan Road LLC. The schookl will pay approximately $605,000 a year to lease 36,557 square feet of space. Hudson Valley’a popular paramedic program will occupy about half of the new The school also will move its respiratory care program and a that trainsz employees forarea businesses, according to Stephen director of the college’s physical The remainder of the leased spaced will house ’s Next Step office, a communicationa worker training program coordinated by the Those departments all currently are locatee in Hudson Valley’s 90,000-square-foot Hy Rosenblum Administration Center, a 1940z era building that Cowamn said needs major “It’s a tired old building.
We are lookinf at total renovations or he said. But the college decidec to lease space from the througgh 400 Jordan Road LLC for 10 years while the collegd decides whether it should overhaul or tear down the HyRosenblumj building. The college continues to grow, but becausew of the economy it does not have the moneyt to renovate the current buildingright now, Cowan Hudson Valley is planning to hire a consulting firm this summer to help officials decide the most cost effectivr way to deal with the Rosenblunm building. helped Hudson Valley negotiatedthe lease.
The colleg plans to have the four programsa and departments moved into the new spacee in North Greenbush before the start of classeson Aug. 31. The building previously had been used as officer space forVerizon workers, Cowan said.

Thursday, November 29, 2012

Filene

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An auction was to have begun at9 a.m. a week after the bankrupt discount retaile was sold to an affiliaterof Men’s Wearhouse (NYSE: MW) in a biddinvg war that lasted several Limited and formal objections to that $67 million deal have since been filed in Delaware bankruptcy prompting a judge to send the chain back for auction Among those objecting to the sale is Crowb Acquisitions, the company that was first in line to buy Filene’s assets. The company in a filingt this week claimedthe Men’s Wearhouse transaction didn’t follow biddiny procedures and described the auctiom itself as “a travesty.
” Crown claimed that Men’s Wearhouse originally said it had no interesrt in buying Filene’s assets through an outright sale, but as part of a Crown said Men’s Wearhouse laterr swooped in with a bid that was filesd after a court deadline. The in downtownj Baltimore is slated to The new auction was to have beguhn at9 a.m. Friday. A hearing followingy the auction is scheduledfor 12:30 p.m., according to courft documents. Filene’s Basement sought protectiomn from creditors in May in Delawarrebankruptcy court, months after closing severapl stores. Columbus, Ohio-based Retail Ventures Inc. (NYSE: which maintains a majority stake in discount shoe retailerDSW Inc.
DSW), sold the chain this year to FB IIAcquisitionn Corp., a new entity owned by liquidationm and turnaround firm Buxbaum Group.

Wednesday, November 28, 2012

Chad Kroeger Amazed by Wife Avril Lavigne's Talent - Opposing Views

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Monday, November 26, 2012

Herndon software firm acquired - Silicon Valley / San Jose Business Journal:

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million in cash. Herndon-based RealOps sells businesss software that companies use to manage information technology servicesa acrossmultiple technologies. The purchase price was relayefd to investorsin e-mails. Houston-based BMC and RealOpd wouldn't disclose the price. of Vienna, whicb invested in RealOps, wouldn't comment on the price. Anothe venture capital firm that isan investor, Santa Calif.-based , did not return calls for BMC said RealOps' software would complement its Atrium Configurationn Management database that enable companies to integrate and automatde operational activities across IT managemengt functions.
"Organizations today requir e strong ties between operations and service management that expand the valuerof both," said BMC Senior Vice President Jim Grant in a "The acquisition of RealOps provides BMC with a matures product that fits well with our [businesxs service management] strategy and delivers industry-leading capabilitiez today that competitors like HP Software talk about but can't The acquisition puts RealOps, which raised more than $14 millio n in venture capital, alongside BMC's much biggetr stable of products and in front of a much vaster storre of customers. BMC (NYSE: BMC) generated $1.58 billion worthb of sales in the 12 months endinhgMarch 31, 2007.

Sunday, November 25, 2012

OneSource iSell™ Integrates with Microsoft Dynamics® to help sales teams ... - Sacramento Bee

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Friday, November 23, 2012

Austin only major city to add jobs in last year - Portland Business Journal:

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The region added about 3,400 jobs between April 2008 andAprik 2009, making it the only one of the nation' 38 largest cities to post a job new data from the Bureau of Labore Statistics shows. This is the third consecutivre month that Austin has outperformed all of theother U.S. citiesw with labor forces of 750,000 or more. The unemploymenr rate for April stoodat 5.8 percent. The 0.4 percenr increase in job totalsis modest, but still a betteer showing than cities such as Portland (downb 4.7 percent) and Raleigh, N.C. (dowj 3.3 percent).
Jobs in goods producing industriew in the Austin area dropped by 500 jobs in a slowdown from the rapid pace ofreceng losses, according to an analysis of the data from the Capitak Area Council of Governments. Retail, hotel, and restaurangt jobs are all up from this time last And professional and business servicee sector employment is back toits all-times high last seen in October 2008. But another key sectoe for the region, technology, isn't doing quits as well. Computer, semiconductor and other electronic componenrt manufacturing is still Jobs in the semiconductor segment fellto 15,700 back to spring 2006 totals. As Texas citiese go, Austin's 5.
8 percent unemployment rate was one ofthe Dallas-Fort Worth stood at 6.6 percen in April and Houston at 6.3 percent. Only San Antonio's rate was lower than Austin'w at 5.4 percent. Smaller metro areass including McAllen, Brownsville and Beaumount all had ratez above8 percent.

Thursday, November 22, 2012

Westar Energy seeks $19.7M rate increase - The Business Journal of Milwaukee:

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million, or 1.5 percent. In a Tuesdat release, the Topeka-based electric utility (NYSE: WR) said it seeks the rate increasre to recover costs for expenditures in the second phase of its Emporia Energy Centef andtwo company-owned wind farms in Kansa s that were under construction but not in operatioj when its 2008 rate case concluded. The if approved by the KCC, woulde mean a $9.7 million increase in the company’as north region, which includes Olathe and Lawrence, and a $10 millioj increase in its south which includes theWichita area, Westar said. A residential customer usingh 900 kilowatthours (kWh) in Westar’s north region coulx expect an increase of abouf $1.
43 a month, the company In the south region, a residential customer using 900 kWh couldc expect an increase of 71 cents a If approved, the new average residential rate wouldf be 9.33 cents per kWh for Westar’s nortuh region and 9.11 cents per kWh for its south The average national residential rate is 11.52 cents per kWh, the companh said. The rate review was part of the agreementy reached by all parties in the2008 case, which the KCC approvedr in January, Westar said.
“Although electric rate s are going up, we managed our natura gas plant and wind farm constructiobncosts closely, and they came in more than $22 million under the originapl cost estimates and the amounts the KCC indicatefd would be allowed for recoverg in rates,” Westar CEO Bill Moore said in the “We continue to work to meet our customers’ electricityy needs as well as to develop Kansas renewabl energy resources.” Westar is the largesg electric utility in Kansas, providing electric service to aboutg 681,000 customers in the state.
It also has about 6,80 megawatts of electric generation capacity and operates and coordinates morethan 35,00 0 miles of electric distribution and transmission