Wednesday, July 27, 2011

Ivy Tech schedules hearing on tuition - Business Courier of Cincinnati:

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in the fourth floor auditoriu of the North Meridian Center atIvy Tech’as downtown Indianapolis campus. The campus is located 50 W. Fall Cree Parkway North Drive. The 2008-0i in-state student tuition rate is $95 per credit hour with a $40 per-semested technology fee. The proposed rates are $99.6 per credit hour with a $50 per-semester technolog y fee for the 2009-10 year and $104.55 per credir hour and $60 per-semestet technology fee for the 2010-11 year. The cost for full-time who take 15 credit would increaseby $79.75r per semester in 2009-10 and by $83.509 in 2010-11.
Indiana residents who want to addres s the committeebut can’t are encourageds to send written comments to Bob vice president for finance and treasure r of the college, at bholmes@ivytech.edu or maile to him at the Ivy Tech Communit y College, 50 W. Fall Creek Parkwauy North Drive, Indianapolis, Ind., 46208. Ivy Tech, the state’d community college system, operates 23 campuses in including a Southern Indiana campuswin Sellersburg.

Sunday, July 24, 2011

CCI EXCLUSIVE: Fraction Unravels a Strange Conspiracy in "Defenders" - Comic Book Resources

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Friday, July 22, 2011

Point Park, Art Institute develop Downtown Pittsburgh dorms - Pittsburgh Business Times:

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But Seybert, a native Ohioan who has lived on campusz since arrivingin Pittsburgh, has no such plans. She likexs being able to walk to class, a baseball game at PNC Park and the storesd and clubs atStation "Preferably I'd like to stay in Downtown," she Apartment and condominium developers are pushing forwarc with a range of projects in the Downtown But, amid a sluggish residential real estate it appears a numberd of student housing projects are leading the Point Park is a good The university is in the process of increasingf its student housing stock by nearly 50 percenr in the hopes that othere students reach the same conclusion as Seybert.
The universityt expects to have 1,200 students livingb in Downtown university housingby 2012, up from about 750 students today. "Our president is emphasizing ... an environmenty where more students" want to live in student housinvg Downtown, said Sue vice president for student affairs and dean of studentws atPoint Park. The demand for on-campusa student housing, Oatey said, has been strong. Of the school'sz 740 beds, all but one were filled this fall.
In late Decembefr of last year, the universituy made its most recent studenthousinb acquisitions: two office buildingds at 312 and 322 Boulevard of the It plans to use the buildinge as upscale apartments for juniors and The school, which paid $4.3 million to for the expects to start renovations on partsd of the 322 building soon, according to Bill vice president of operations at Point Park. The renovations, designedx by Squirrel Hill-based TKA Architects with Massaro Corp. of O'Hars as general contractor, will starty with floors four through eightg and should be ready for just underf 100 studentsby August.
The lowert floors will be renovated later becausee they are still occupied byoffice tenants. The new suitesx will feature apartment-style living in two-bedroom configurationa with a full kitchen and standard Cameron said. "These are premier residential facilities," Oategy said. The 312 Boulevard of the Alliesa property is scheduled to undergo a similatr renovation as soon as work on the firs buildingis finished. When both buildings are complete, the school will have abougt 280new beds, Cameron said. Meanwhile, The completed a $21 milliojn conversion of the 230,000-square-foot Try Streey Terminal building into Shannon Halllast year.
The building is now home to 634 Last year, The Art Institute also openec the 47,000-square-foot Standard Life Building at 345 Fourth Ave., whicjh is owned by Elizabeth-based . and mastetr leased to the school. And five-story Miller Hall at 100 Smithfiels St., another property owned by McHolme and mastee leased to the has been fully occupied since the first of the year and holds 88 students, said George Pry, president of The Art Of the roughly 3,200 students who take coursesa on the Art Institute's campus, the school can housw about 940, Pry said. For the immediate future, the school has enough spacde forits students.
However, with the new students "now want to stay in housing putting more pressure on the schoolo to find accommodations for the 65 percen of its enrollees who come from outside ofthe Pittsburgh-area. "I may have a need for anothef dorm," Pry said. Pry said the schoolk has looked atthe 85,000-square-foot buildinvg at 424 Third Ave., which is on the marketg for $5.5 million, as a potential dormitory for as many as 180 Ralph Falbo, president of , the developer of Downtown's 151 First Side condominium complex, said he welcomesw the additional student housing. "I believe students are part of theDowntownh fabric," he said.
"I think it is an additionao opportunity to see more thingshappen Downtown."

Wednesday, July 20, 2011

Survey: Boston sports teams strong on ownership, weak on affordability - Birmingham Business Journal:

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That's according to a recent ESPN rankinh of all 122 franchises inthe , the , the and . How efficientlt the team has converted money from their fans into victories onthe field, courtt or ice. How loyal the franchise’s ownership and managementr has been to core players andthe community. The price of parking and concessions. The qualitgy of the team’s stadium and The strength of on-field leadership and coaching. The number of championshipsd won or likely to be won duringthe fan’s lifetime. How much efforgt players put in to the game and how likablwe they are offthe field.
And how open the coaches and management are to the Inthe "overall" rankings, the local franchises were all above the Patiots ranked highest at 19, followeds by the Celtics Bruins (56th) and Red Sox (58th). The top-rated franchisre overall was the LosAngeles Angles, whild its neighbor the ranked When it came to ownership the Red Sox (13th), Celticw (17th) and Patriots (28th) all fared well. the Bruins and their oft-criticized owner, Jeremy Jacobs, ranked in the bottomn half at 71. Affordabilityu appears to be a point of contention amongh local fansas well.
All four of the locak pro teams ranked in the bottom half of theaffordabilityh rankings, with the Red Sox (116th) falling near the botto m of the barrel of the entirwe 122-team field. The Bruin's ranked 97th in while the Patriots (96th) ad Celticse (75th) rounded out the pack. The full list and expandedr methodology can befound . Los Angelex Business contributed tothis story.

Monday, July 18, 2011

NCR confirms move to Georgia - Business Courier of Cincinnati:

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NCR (NYSE: NCR) will create 2,120 additional jobs in Georgisa as a result of the headquarters move and a newmanufacturinfg facility, according to a company press The company said it will begij moving its headquarters from Dayton to Ga., in July. The company will add roughlh 1,250 jobs with the shiftinbg headquarters, NCR said in a Tuesda press release. The company did not specif how many of those jobs will comefrom However, it said it will work with impacted employeez to provide career services support and NCR will not completely vacatse Dayton, as it will continue to operate a data center and supportf for local customers, with fewer than 50 employees remainin locally.
A company spokesperson said Tuesday there will be opportunities for some staff to transfert and it will depend onindividual circumstances. He emphasizedr the majority of the jobs will leave Dayton and the companyh will putits 1.3 million-square-foot headquarters up for He said there will be no publicx announcement and the company will work through the issuee internally in the coming months. Officials said they expect the transition to be completedxby 2010. Dayton Commissioner Nan Whalehy said the city willlose $2.5 million in incomed tax revenue with NCR's The loss is expected to creatd peripheral losses, too.
According to a presz release, NCR — which was founded in Daytonn in1884 — decided to move its worldwid e headquarters to Georgia after analysis of potential U.S. using data on the available workforce, infrastructure, financiakl incentives and government tax In addition tothe headquarters, NCR will create about 870 jobs in Ga., at its new ATM manufacturing Columbus, Ga., officials will use stimulus funding, providedr by the Economic Development to purchase a building for the plant, which will be leased back by NCR, according to the press The , with local officials expressinb frustration the company was not responding to their Monday night, the to retain the but believed an announcement about an NCR announcement was Atlanta Business Chronicle, a sister publicatiob to the DBJ,

Friday, July 15, 2011

To Russia with hope: Dublin architecture firm is seeking new markets - St. Louis Business Journal:

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The Dublin-based firm, formerly named , plans to open an offic in St. Petersburg in July as a way to diversify its client base beyond theweakened U.S. market for designb and projectadministration services. It follow s a number of Columbus architectural and engineerinhg firms that have made similad moves in the lastseveral years. Don the M&A associate serving as liaison to theRussian office, said the decline in the U.S. real estate developmen t and construction markets prompted the firm to find anoversea base. The firm has four activer projects in Moscow and other Russian cities and expectsx to hire a Russian representativ to continue its businessedevelopment efforts.
“It’s been in our long-term goals to look overseaa and expand,” Brogan said. “Witnh the markets the way they are we sawan opportunity.” M&A President Mark Danielsd said discussions with consultants his firm works with at the engineering firm in Westerville prompted to the move into the Russiab market. “They showed us the opportunitiesover there,” Danielsa said.
“There are more opportunity in that part of the Russia has experienced aneconomid slowdown, especially with the collapse of petroleu m prices last fall and into early he said, but rising oil prices have bolsteree the economy in Russia, which has emerged in the last decadd as a crude exporter. “With oil prices goingg up,” Daniels said, “thar really helps their economy.” Another M&A partner, John said seeking business overseas helps diversifythe firm’s revenu base. An office in the Baltic Sea portof St. Petersburbg instead of Moscow also makesx it easier to pursue projects innearby countries.
“In threew to five years,” he said, “we’d like to have a self-sufficient office that’s doing work in Russia and in other market sin Europe.” The move overseas comes aftef a concerted four-year effort to increase the firm’s reputation as a design-focuserd organization and creating a new Eymann said the firm had built a reputationb in the production of reliable constructionb documents but lagged on the design “We went out and brought in talented Eymann said. “We intentionall wanted to raise our designb level in order toget large-scale projects.
” The firm recentlt dropped the names of founders Denny Meachakm and Bob Apel nine years after a management grou p bought out the two architects’ ownership. “Ws had kept the names Meacham and Apel even througbh the ownership change because of the strengtb inthe marketplace,” Eymann said. “This new brandinb finalizes the transition by simply shortening itto M&q Architects.
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Wednesday, July 13, 2011

Study highlights respiratory disorders prevalent in the Middle East - EurekAlert (press release)

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Study highlights respiratory disorders prevalent in the Middle East

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Lung diseases in the Middle East range from the centuries-old pulmonary tuberculosis (TB) to modern manifestations caused by chemical warfare. A new paper now available in Respirology, a journal of the Asian Pacific Society of Respirology, ...



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