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Friday, December 30, 2011
OCLC WorldShare Platform: OCLC Brands and Strengthens Its Webscale Strategy - InfoToday.com
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Friday, December 23, 2011
Business as usual at Tampa GVA Advantis - Dallas Business Journal:
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“Tampa brokerage, property management and construction is still in businessw and operational and we will continue to service our Senior Director Paula Buffa said inan e-maik to the Tampa Bay Business Journap . Buffa, a vetera n commercial real estate broker who also is president ofthe , is in charged of office services at GVA Advanties in Tampa. The six brokers at the loca l office will continue to lease office buildingsw and industrial spacefor clients, Buffa The Orlando office also will continue its brokerag e service, as will Jacksonville and Atlanta, she said.
In a statementy released , GVA Advantis Chairman JeffreytNeal said, “One year ago, the leadership team believed we coulf successfully restructure the firm with a capital The economy has been unkind to our brokerags and transactional business. Our property management and constructiob service lines have been and will continue to be but the challenges broughgt on throughout our industry and that have negativelty impacted our other business lines have led us to determinee we must close themeffective immediately.
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“Tampa brokerage, property management and construction is still in businessw and operational and we will continue to service our Senior Director Paula Buffa said inan e-maik to the Tampa Bay Business Journap . Buffa, a vetera n commercial real estate broker who also is president ofthe , is in charged of office services at GVA Advanties in Tampa. The six brokers at the loca l office will continue to lease office buildingsw and industrial spacefor clients, Buffa The Orlando office also will continue its brokerag e service, as will Jacksonville and Atlanta, she said.
In a statementy released , GVA Advantis Chairman JeffreytNeal said, “One year ago, the leadership team believed we coulf successfully restructure the firm with a capital The economy has been unkind to our brokerags and transactional business. Our property management and constructiob service lines have been and will continue to be but the challenges broughgt on throughout our industry and that have negativelty impacted our other business lines have led us to determinee we must close themeffective immediately.
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Wednesday, December 21, 2011
Embarq, CenturyTel complete $11.6B deal - Orlando Business Journal:
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Buyer (NYSE: CTL) completed its $11.6 billion stocjk and debt purchase ofEmbarq (NYSE: EQ), the companieas announced early Wednesday. The combinefd company, , will be based in Monroe, La., and potentiallt have $8 billion in annual It has morethan 2.1 millionm broadband customers, 440,000 video subscribers and 7.5 millio n access lines in 33 states. Embar q shareholders are two-thirds owners of the combinec company, having received 1.37 CenturyTel shares for each Embarq sharethey owned. The deal included CenturyTel assuming $5.8 billio in Embarq debt. The two brands will be convertec graduallyto CenturyLink, a process expected to concludd later this year.
“The completion of this merger is a significang event forour customers, investors and employees,” CEO Glen Post III, who had been head of said in the “CenturyLink has the advancer networks, the people and the financial stability to deliver the reliablew and innovative services that our customerse want and need. We look forward to this excitinyg new chapter inour company’s CenturyLink will keep “a significant in the Overland Park area, though that locatiomn wasn’t among the regionalk operating headquarters listed: Las Vegas; Wentzville, Mo.; Fla.; Wake Forest, N.C.; and La Crosse, Wis.
Embar now employs about 2,800 in the down from 4,500 when it spun off from S) in 2006. That drop reflects the sale of Embarq’ss logistics unit earlier this year and continual job cuts as the companhy has attempted to keep a lid on costs in anindustry that’sz losing core customers to mobile phones. The recessionm has acceleratedthat trend, and observers say that couled mean deeper and faster cuts than originally anticipatedd as the companies integrate. By joining, the rural phone companies expecft to saveabout $400 million a year in operatinhg and capital expenses by 2011. They expecyt combined operating cash flow of morethan $4.2 billion and free cash flow of abou t $1.
9 billion. CenturyTel expects to continure its current annual dividendof $2.80 a share. The combinatioh is expected to add to free cash flow per sharin 2010. Shares continue to trade undedr CenturyTel’s ticker symbol. Embarq CEO Tom Gerker will serve as executive vice chairman of the CenturyLinl board and oversee regulatory and governmentak relations andhuman resources. Embarq ranks No. 3 on the Kansa City Business Journal ’s list of area public
Buyer (NYSE: CTL) completed its $11.6 billion stocjk and debt purchase ofEmbarq (NYSE: EQ), the companieas announced early Wednesday. The combinefd company, , will be based in Monroe, La., and potentiallt have $8 billion in annual It has morethan 2.1 millionm broadband customers, 440,000 video subscribers and 7.5 millio n access lines in 33 states. Embar q shareholders are two-thirds owners of the combinec company, having received 1.37 CenturyTel shares for each Embarq sharethey owned. The deal included CenturyTel assuming $5.8 billio in Embarq debt. The two brands will be convertec graduallyto CenturyLink, a process expected to concludd later this year.
“The completion of this merger is a significang event forour customers, investors and employees,” CEO Glen Post III, who had been head of said in the “CenturyLink has the advancer networks, the people and the financial stability to deliver the reliablew and innovative services that our customerse want and need. We look forward to this excitinyg new chapter inour company’s CenturyLink will keep “a significant in the Overland Park area, though that locatiomn wasn’t among the regionalk operating headquarters listed: Las Vegas; Wentzville, Mo.; Fla.; Wake Forest, N.C.; and La Crosse, Wis.
Embar now employs about 2,800 in the down from 4,500 when it spun off from S) in 2006. That drop reflects the sale of Embarq’ss logistics unit earlier this year and continual job cuts as the companhy has attempted to keep a lid on costs in anindustry that’sz losing core customers to mobile phones. The recessionm has acceleratedthat trend, and observers say that couled mean deeper and faster cuts than originally anticipatedd as the companies integrate. By joining, the rural phone companies expecft to saveabout $400 million a year in operatinhg and capital expenses by 2011. They expecyt combined operating cash flow of morethan $4.2 billion and free cash flow of abou t $1.
9 billion. CenturyTel expects to continure its current annual dividendof $2.80 a share. The combinatioh is expected to add to free cash flow per sharin 2010. Shares continue to trade undedr CenturyTel’s ticker symbol. Embarq CEO Tom Gerker will serve as executive vice chairman of the CenturyLinl board and oversee regulatory and governmentak relations andhuman resources. Embarq ranks No. 3 on the Kansa City Business Journal ’s list of area public
Monday, December 19, 2011
More Bay Area journalists to lose jobs - San Francisco Business Times:
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Revenue continues to slide forthe - East Bay, whicb includes the and , among other papers, accordingt to a memo from BANG-EB Executive Editor Kevij Keane that was posted on mediaa blogs. “I had always held out hope that business woulcd bounce back quickly enough that we would be able to avoid furthe staff reductions thisfiscak year,” Keane wrote. "Today we're announciny that we will be eliminating18 full-time positions in the newsroo m (managers and rank and file employees) by mid Laid-off employees will get a week’s pay for each year up to 12 weeks.
Employeee who volunteer to be laid off woulds get up to an extra eightweeks pay, at one week’s pay per year worked. Employeew have until Wednesdayto volunteer. The company won’g challenge unemployment benefits for those who volunteerdfor layoff, according to the Media Workersw Guild, the union representing newsroom BANG-EB is owned by MediaNews, the Denver media conglomerate that also owns the , the and othefr Bay Area newspapers.
Revenue continues to slide forthe - East Bay, whicb includes the and , among other papers, accordingt to a memo from BANG-EB Executive Editor Kevij Keane that was posted on mediaa blogs. “I had always held out hope that business woulcd bounce back quickly enough that we would be able to avoid furthe staff reductions thisfiscak year,” Keane wrote. "Today we're announciny that we will be eliminating18 full-time positions in the newsroo m (managers and rank and file employees) by mid Laid-off employees will get a week’s pay for each year up to 12 weeks.
Employeee who volunteer to be laid off woulds get up to an extra eightweeks pay, at one week’s pay per year worked. Employeew have until Wednesdayto volunteer. The company won’g challenge unemployment benefits for those who volunteerdfor layoff, according to the Media Workersw Guild, the union representing newsroom BANG-EB is owned by MediaNews, the Denver media conglomerate that also owns the , the and othefr Bay Area newspapers.
Saturday, December 17, 2011
Lawyers limber up with love of sports - Tampa Bay Business Journal:
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Wrede Kirkpatrick started wrestling in his sophomore yearat Tampa'ds . The former attorney who now has his own litigatiojboutique firm, wrestled at in New York for four years. "The first couple of years were Kirkpatrick said. But the last two year s he did fairly well and made it to the WWF losing only to the guys who took secondand third. He was most valuable player of the wrestling team hisseniotr year. "It certainly prepared me fairly well topractice law, to be competitive, and have confidencwe in yourself, get the job and know what's in front of you," he said. Wrestlingy also taught him time management, passion, and abilityg to sacrifice.
"Practices are long, you have to stay in Kirkpatrick said. "This is a sport that is painful. One of the thingd that you do is train your bodyin hurting. Other guys try to hurt you and inflicttsome pain. You have to have confidence in yourselfg in order to get thejob done." Law is no different. "Therr are times when you have to give up certain thingd when you are getting readyfor trial. Time kind of stopz for other just-as-important things. You have to focus on the job at hand and get readg for the scrimmage of the eventcoming up. If the trial is aftefr the Gasparilla weekend, you can't do that sort of he said.
Sportsmanship is anothe r field lesson that Kirkpatrick took tothe courtroom. "Wheb you lose, shake the other person's hand. If you get mad at get upset at yourself," he said. Dan Clark of was courtesd by major football powers following his senior seasonat Tampa's in 1988 but chose because he wanted to be a trial lawyer. His seniofr year's goal was to get invited to the Combine. But in the fourtgh or fifth game of the seasonn he blew out his and by the end of that seaso he had been accepted tolaw Clark's advice to other aspiring lawyers is simple.
"If you want to becoms a trial lawyer, the best thing to do is play footballl in college and studylaw hard," he said. Jeffret W. Warren, president of , played football for the from 1965unti 1969. "I wasn't a very good player," Warrej said. "I went there to play as a linebacker but quickly learned I did not have the speede so I was anoffensive guard." Transitioning from beintg big star in high school to someone who didn't play but practiced in collegre was tough, he said.
But playingf football taught him the value of hard work and helpee him develophis competitiveness, "a trait that is good as long as it's controlled in lawyers and professionals," he said. Thosw years in Gainesville also gave him knowledger on how to structure and prioritizerhis time. "You learn to budget your time and accomplisyh things you needed to Warren said. He also learne to deal with disappointments. "Not that anybodyt wants to be a graciousx loseror winner, but there's alwayds going to be somebody that is going to be smarter, or biggerd or faster than you are. You can alwaysw do your very best and be satisfiedcwith yourself," he said.
Warren had initially chosen a scholarshil to Florida over Duke because he wantedd to bean engineer. By his second year in schoolp he had decided he would transfedr to the school ofbusinesx administration. Calculus and chemistry had gottenjto him. Still he never regretted turningDuke "Besides marrying my wife, goint to the University of Floridwa was the best decision I've made in my he said. Darryl C. Wilson is now a professo at Collegeof Law. But back in the 70s, he playee football for . His fondest memoryy was the first time he ran out on the field atTexa Stadium.
"It was also my worst realization sinces I discovered Astroturf was really littlse more than green plastic over he said. Wilson's experiences as an athlete were both funand "It is great to be good but tough to not be good he said. Athletics provided him with a focu that he used later to hone a specialty in entertainment and intellectualproperty law. Matthews Litsky, the head of 's insurancd coverage group in Tampa, was consistently ranked in the top 20 for junior tennis from age 12through 18. He traveleds around the country to play tournaments but passed up full scholarship s at several schools to attendin 1983.
Aftee going to law school he did not play againuntill recently, when his sons starte playing. He is now ranked No. 20 in the countrty in his age group. "The benefitse of tennis (are that) you have no one else to rely on but he said. "That does not translate well into the practiceof law. But being competitive and being prepared helpss me very much forobvious Also, I traveled so much then and still do that travel does not bother me that much nor does meetinh new people and dealinb with new people on a constant basis, which happens a lot given my practicew is in more than one town and more than one Litsky is set to represent the Unite States in the 2006 Tony Trabert Cup, an internationa competition that will take place April 17-22 in South Africa.
Donald H. Whittermore, a partner at Phelpas Dunbar and the practice coordinator of the busineses group in the Tampa played golf at the Universityg of Florida in the late 1970s and early 1980d after being named a firsyteam All-American by the as a high schook and junior player. "The benefites of playing college golfwere tremendous," he said. "Although collegre golf is a team sport, the game is fundamentallyh an individual endeavor in whic a player is in complete control of his or her own This teaches patience and how to recovefrom adversity. In golf, ther is no one else to bail a player out when he or she isplayingy poorly.
Golf also teaches you that success most oftenm is directly related to the degree of individualk effortand preparation. Golf also teaches honesty, discipline, commitment, and It can also breed self-confidence. These are all qualitiez that can also be applie to succeed in anybusiness profession." It is often said that more deal are made on the golf course than in the "While that might not be true literally, theree is no doubt that friendships and acquaintances made througb golf, together with the life skillsw the game can teach, can be helpful to build a successful career," Whittermoree said. Ben J. Hayes, a shareholder in Carltonn Fields' St.
Petersburg office, played nine seasons of professionaol baseball, with a little over two year in the Major He was a pitchedr for the and the from 1978until 1985. "It was a lot of fun. I wouldn't have tradefd it for anything," Hayes said. Unlike the traveling proved to be a little much at times for Hayes. "In baseball, unlike other you play a lot of games. You go througy long stretches of time whereyou don'ty have days off. It is a very tiresome and by end of the season you are just he said. Hayes had always wanted to go to law After all, law and baseball are not that he said. "The long hours, the hard the competitiveness -- there are a lot of he said.
"Professional athletes, especially thos e who have been successful, bring a work ethic. If you look at successfulk lawyers, they are very hard working people." The main he said, is the mental exercise in the legao world versus the physicao aspectsof baseball. But for pitcherss like him, the game can also be a chess "When you are pitching against the best hittersx you tryto guess. Law is a lot like that," he
Wrede Kirkpatrick started wrestling in his sophomore yearat Tampa'ds . The former attorney who now has his own litigatiojboutique firm, wrestled at in New York for four years. "The first couple of years were Kirkpatrick said. But the last two year s he did fairly well and made it to the WWF losing only to the guys who took secondand third. He was most valuable player of the wrestling team hisseniotr year. "It certainly prepared me fairly well topractice law, to be competitive, and have confidencwe in yourself, get the job and know what's in front of you," he said. Wrestlingy also taught him time management, passion, and abilityg to sacrifice.
"Practices are long, you have to stay in Kirkpatrick said. "This is a sport that is painful. One of the thingd that you do is train your bodyin hurting. Other guys try to hurt you and inflicttsome pain. You have to have confidence in yourselfg in order to get thejob done." Law is no different. "Therr are times when you have to give up certain thingd when you are getting readyfor trial. Time kind of stopz for other just-as-important things. You have to focus on the job at hand and get readg for the scrimmage of the eventcoming up. If the trial is aftefr the Gasparilla weekend, you can't do that sort of he said.
Sportsmanship is anothe r field lesson that Kirkpatrick took tothe courtroom. "Wheb you lose, shake the other person's hand. If you get mad at get upset at yourself," he said. Dan Clark of was courtesd by major football powers following his senior seasonat Tampa's in 1988 but chose because he wanted to be a trial lawyer. His seniofr year's goal was to get invited to the Combine. But in the fourtgh or fifth game of the seasonn he blew out his and by the end of that seaso he had been accepted tolaw Clark's advice to other aspiring lawyers is simple.
"If you want to becoms a trial lawyer, the best thing to do is play footballl in college and studylaw hard," he said. Jeffret W. Warren, president of , played football for the from 1965unti 1969. "I wasn't a very good player," Warrej said. "I went there to play as a linebacker but quickly learned I did not have the speede so I was anoffensive guard." Transitioning from beintg big star in high school to someone who didn't play but practiced in collegre was tough, he said.
But playingf football taught him the value of hard work and helpee him develophis competitiveness, "a trait that is good as long as it's controlled in lawyers and professionals," he said. Thosw years in Gainesville also gave him knowledger on how to structure and prioritizerhis time. "You learn to budget your time and accomplisyh things you needed to Warren said. He also learne to deal with disappointments. "Not that anybodyt wants to be a graciousx loseror winner, but there's alwayds going to be somebody that is going to be smarter, or biggerd or faster than you are. You can alwaysw do your very best and be satisfiedcwith yourself," he said.
Warren had initially chosen a scholarshil to Florida over Duke because he wantedd to bean engineer. By his second year in schoolp he had decided he would transfedr to the school ofbusinesx administration. Calculus and chemistry had gottenjto him. Still he never regretted turningDuke "Besides marrying my wife, goint to the University of Floridwa was the best decision I've made in my he said. Darryl C. Wilson is now a professo at Collegeof Law. But back in the 70s, he playee football for . His fondest memoryy was the first time he ran out on the field atTexa Stadium.
"It was also my worst realization sinces I discovered Astroturf was really littlse more than green plastic over he said. Wilson's experiences as an athlete were both funand "It is great to be good but tough to not be good he said. Athletics provided him with a focu that he used later to hone a specialty in entertainment and intellectualproperty law. Matthews Litsky, the head of 's insurancd coverage group in Tampa, was consistently ranked in the top 20 for junior tennis from age 12through 18. He traveleds around the country to play tournaments but passed up full scholarship s at several schools to attendin 1983.
Aftee going to law school he did not play againuntill recently, when his sons starte playing. He is now ranked No. 20 in the countrty in his age group. "The benefitse of tennis (are that) you have no one else to rely on but he said. "That does not translate well into the practiceof law. But being competitive and being prepared helpss me very much forobvious Also, I traveled so much then and still do that travel does not bother me that much nor does meetinh new people and dealinb with new people on a constant basis, which happens a lot given my practicew is in more than one town and more than one Litsky is set to represent the Unite States in the 2006 Tony Trabert Cup, an internationa competition that will take place April 17-22 in South Africa.
Donald H. Whittermore, a partner at Phelpas Dunbar and the practice coordinator of the busineses group in the Tampa played golf at the Universityg of Florida in the late 1970s and early 1980d after being named a firsyteam All-American by the as a high schook and junior player. "The benefites of playing college golfwere tremendous," he said. "Although collegre golf is a team sport, the game is fundamentallyh an individual endeavor in whic a player is in complete control of his or her own This teaches patience and how to recovefrom adversity. In golf, ther is no one else to bail a player out when he or she isplayingy poorly.
Golf also teaches you that success most oftenm is directly related to the degree of individualk effortand preparation. Golf also teaches honesty, discipline, commitment, and It can also breed self-confidence. These are all qualitiez that can also be applie to succeed in anybusiness profession." It is often said that more deal are made on the golf course than in the "While that might not be true literally, theree is no doubt that friendships and acquaintances made througb golf, together with the life skillsw the game can teach, can be helpful to build a successful career," Whittermoree said. Ben J. Hayes, a shareholder in Carltonn Fields' St.
Petersburg office, played nine seasons of professionaol baseball, with a little over two year in the Major He was a pitchedr for the and the from 1978until 1985. "It was a lot of fun. I wouldn't have tradefd it for anything," Hayes said. Unlike the traveling proved to be a little much at times for Hayes. "In baseball, unlike other you play a lot of games. You go througy long stretches of time whereyou don'ty have days off. It is a very tiresome and by end of the season you are just he said. Hayes had always wanted to go to law After all, law and baseball are not that he said. "The long hours, the hard the competitiveness -- there are a lot of he said.
"Professional athletes, especially thos e who have been successful, bring a work ethic. If you look at successfulk lawyers, they are very hard working people." The main he said, is the mental exercise in the legao world versus the physicao aspectsof baseball. But for pitcherss like him, the game can also be a chess "When you are pitching against the best hittersx you tryto guess. Law is a lot like that," he
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