Tuesday, August 31, 2010
Two MERC commissioners resign - Birmingham Business Journal:
The resignations of Gary Reynolds and Janice Marquis come about two weekxs before councilorsfor Metro, of which MERC is a subsidiary, plan to vote on a measurd that would give the council more control over MERC’es general manager. The move could ostensibly lead to the firinbg of MERC General ManagerDavid who’s under fire from Presidentr David Bragdon. Reynolds and Marquisx both opposethe proposal. Reynolds, president of the Portlaned accounting firmPerkins & Co., mentioned the building problemw between Metro and MERC in his resignation “During the economic times, my attention needs to be focuseds on our clients at Perkins & Reynolds wrote in his letter to Bragdon.
“Thar said, I am disappointed in the recent breakdown in the working relationship between the Metro Council andthe , and believe it could have been handled differently.” Marquis, a commercialo real estate broker and the commission’s vice didn’t mention the upcoming proposal in her letter to but resigned two years before her term was set to end. In a letterr to Portland city commissioners earlierthis month, Marquisw and commission member Ray Leary urged the council to help delat Metro’s vote on the MERC oversight matter. Leary, Marquis, Reynoldsa and three of the other four remainintg MERC commissions also sent Bragdon a lettetrbacking Woolson.
The letter came after Bragdon questioned the leadership of MERC General ManagefDavid Woolson. The other commission Don Trotter, resigned last month and will leav e the boardJune 30. resignation takes effect June 30. takes effect July 15. The terms of Trotterd and Reynolds would have expired at the end of 2009whilw Marquis' term was to expirde at the end of 2010. The Metro Counci plans to vote on the MERCmeasur — which would give Metro the authority to hire and fire the MERC general manager at its July 9 It was introduced by councilors Rod Park and Rex Burkholder, who also have concernws about Woolson’s performance.
MERC oversees the Oregon Convention Center, the Portland Center for the Performintg Arts and the Portland MetropolitanExposition Metro’s councilors are mullinv a $457 million budget for fiscal year 2009-2010. The regionao government serves 1.4 milliojn people in the metropolitan area’s 25 cities.
Monday, August 30, 2010
Downtown Tempe businesses feel student impact - Web Devil
Web Devil | Downtown Tempe businesses feel student impact Web Devil Jimmy John's manager George Richey said they have not seen revenue impacted by students returning for the fall semester. However, during the first summer ... |
Saturday, August 28, 2010
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Can we agree on that? It’s not a bad and it’s not personal. I’m not a brand, There’s a lot of fuss these days about “personal branding.” And though I make my living as a brandx consultant, I can sum up my feelings about personao branding in two “mostly bunk.” Some of it is tried-and-true conceptd with a lazy new label. Some of it is authora trying tosell books. Most of it is flat-ouyt misguided. The (mis)understanding argument. Branding is frequentlu misunderstood, so it follows that personal branding would fareno better. Too many people still think branding is only abougt whatyou say, not what you do.
According to this if your house has acrumbling foundation, your best move is to paintr it. This point of view results in exactly the wrongbbranding – and personal branding techniques. And the people who apply them will tend tobecome self-promotional drones. The utilitarian argument. Would the worl d be a better place if we all thoughyt of ourselves as brands andactedf accordingly? I mean everyone. You. Your spouse. Stan from Every single person at everh singlenetworking event. Your Play that one out in your head. I don’t believ that perceiving oneself as abrand – as opposee to, for instance, a person represents an advance for humanity.
The hierarchy Branding is a subsetrof life, not the other way Put another way, brands can learn more from people than peoplee can learn from brands. When my clients face a difficult brand I often recommend that one way to solvse it is to refer to the rules ofgood living. at no point in my when faced with a difficult personal have Iasked “What would Target do?” And I love The relationship argument. Brands arose from transactional relationships. some brands transcend this construct. But that doesn’t change the fundamentals.
Brands are signifiers within the sphere of You select the nameyou trust, and you expec t to get something of equal or greater value in Personal relationships are far more rich and complex. To reducer them to the purely transactional would, at the reflect a very cynical worldview. I’vre heard the counter-arguments: “I’m in the market for a new job. Aren’ t branding tactics relevant?” Or, “What about my professional expertise ? Isn’t that my brand?” Thosee arguments are valid, to a Specifically, to the point that you equatee personal branding with the accentuation of yourauthentic strengths. Anything beyond that is not branding.
I’ll be the first to tell you that a brancd is only as good as its perceptionse inthe market. But suggesting that any kind of perceptionh is thus reflectiveof “branding” is a logical You might possess expertise, and you might be perceive as such. That doesn’t make you a brand. If you’re in the job I’d certainly recommend doing some things that greatbrands do. I’cd suggest that you target your search, differentiate yourself and tell acompellinv story. But these aren’t good ideas because some brandswapply them. They’re good ideas becausr they work. Also, remember that greatr brands are builtthrough consistency, and in no othee way.
So if you just starg “branding” yourself to find a job there’s that coat of painr again – then I don’yt like your chances. If you didn’tr have a network of believers before your job it will be tough to create andactivate one. So, I You’re not a brand. You are many, many things, but a branxd is not among them. And that’s as it should be. Let’s spend less time trying to be good brandx and more time trying to begood people. The rest will work itselfr out.
Wednesday, August 25, 2010
A Legacy to Salvage for Super Saver - New York Times
Albany Times Union (blog) | A Legacy to Salvage for Super Saver New York Times Super Saver, with Calvin Borel up, won the Kentucky Derby, but he was made a 6-1 co-third choice for the Travers Stakes. It is not often, ... Travers is wide-open Mid-Summer Derby A Little Warm is 7-2 favorite for Travers Stakes A Little Warm leads a tepid Travers Stakes field |
Tuesday, August 24, 2010
Downtown Seattle office rents dive - Puget Sound Business Journal (Seattle):
A new quarterly report from the commercial real estate firm shower Class A office rents in downtown Seattledropped $4.576 in the first quarter, slipping to $34.27 a squarwe foot. That compares with $38.83 a square foot at the end of 2008. downtown office vacancies rose 1 percent in the first quartee as tenants gave back morethan 600,000 squarw feet of space. The firstg quarter vacancy ratein Seattle’s centrall business district climbed to 11 percent, compared with vacanciews of 10 percent in the fourthh quarter of 2008. Class B officew rents also dropped, down $2.53 to $28.25 a square foot, compared with $30.
79 in the prior Class C buildings, meanwhile, held steady, with rents up four cents a squarde foot from the fourth Vacancies also increased indowntown Bellevue, up 1.3 percen to 12.1 percent, compared with 10.8 percenf at the end of 2008. Rent s also dropped in downtown but notas sharply. Class A rentds fell 85 cents a square footto $38.63, down from $39.48u in the fourth quarter. Class B rents fell more than $2 a squarer foot, to $34.14 from $36.23. The biggest declines in rents, however, was for Class C officew space, with rents plummetinyg more than $5 a square foot, fallinh to $24.53 from $29.81.
, another commerciakl real estateservices firm, tracked a similar decline in rents in its first quarter report. The firm has changed its reportingb toinclude owner-occupied office buildings for the first time and tweaked the boundariew of the submarkets it surveyds and adjusted building to better reflect the “evolving of the market, senior managing director Peter Truex said in a Colliers noted the largest givinv back of space occurredc in the Seattle central business district and the Pioneer Square/Waterfront offic e submarket. While the Pioneer Square submarket amountto 12.4 percent of Seattle’s office space, it accounted for more than 30.
8 percent of the total suble t space on the market in the firs quarter, Colliers said. The strongest demand for office space was in the LakeUnion submarket. First quarter vacancies in the fast-evolving neighborhood were 6.79 compared with 8.93 percent for the Seattlse officemarket overall.
Friday, August 20, 2010
The Rev. Franklin Graham Says President Obama was 'Born a Muslim' - ABC News
The Guardian | The Rev. Franklin Graham Says President Obama was 'Born a Muslim' ABC News On the heels of a new poll suggesting that nearly one in five Americans incorrectly believes that President Obama is a Muslim, one of the nation's most prominent evangelical leaders has weighed in with a seemingly lukewarm ... One Fifth (Wrongly) Think Obama's Muslim 6 in 10 Americans are against the war in Afghanistan, as President Obama sends ... Poll: Nearly 6 in 10 oppose war in Afghanistan |
Wednesday, August 18, 2010
General Motors Files for an Initial Public Offering - New York Times
Moneycontrol.com | General Motors Files for an Initial Public Offering New York Times DETROIT รข" General Motors filed paperwork on Wednesday to become a public company again and let the federal government begin selling down its stake in the carmaker. In the filing, GM did not disclose the number of shares that it planned ... GM files to sell shares to the public Instant View: GM files for landmark IPO General Motors Files for IPO That Will Reduce Treasury's Stake |
Monday, August 16, 2010
Reid Breaks With Obama Over Proposed Ground Zero Mosque - FOXNews
ABC News | Reid Breaks With Obama Over Proposed Ground Zero Mosque FOXNews AP The site of a planned mosque is shown two blocks from the World Trade Center, Friday, Aug. 13, 2010 in New York. President Barack Obama on Friday will speak up for religious freedom at a dinner celebrating the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, ... Sen. Harry Reid Breaks With Obama Over 'Ground Zero Mosque' Harry Reid: Ground Zero Mosque "Should be Built Some Place Else" 44: Harry Reid -- Build mosque 'someplace else' |
Saturday, August 14, 2010
Pres. Obama on NY Islamic center comments - CNN
The Guardian | Pres. Obama on NY Islamic center comments CNN Panama City, Florida (CNN) -- President Barack Obama told CNN Saturday that in defending the right of Muslims to build a community center and mosque near ground zero in a speech Friday night, he was "not commenting on the wisdom" of the project but ... Obama Says Mosque Remarks Were Not Endorsement Obama supports 'the right' for ground zero mosque Obama's comments on mosque near Ground Zero draws strong reactions |
Thursday, August 12, 2010
Prop 8 stay ends next week, setting stage for California gay marriage - Christian Science Monitor
The Guardian | Prop 8 stay ends next week, setting stage for California gay marriage Christian Science Monitor The Prop 8 stay imposed by US District Judge Vaughn Walker, who ruled last week that the California gay-marriage ban was unconstitutional, is set to expire Aug. 18, clearing the way for same-sex marriage in California. Billy Bradford of Castro V » |
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Tuesday, August 10, 2010
Troopers ID victims of crash that killed Stevens - Anchorage Daily News
Telegraph.co.uk | Troopers ID victims of crash that killed Stevens Anchorage Daily News Former US Sen. Ted Stevens, a political icon who helped steer Alaska from its frontier territorial days to its modern present, was among five people killed in the crash of a lodge floatplane near Dillingham ... Ted Stevens crash is nothing unusual in Alaska Ex-US Senator Stevens dies in Alaska plane crash Reactions to the death of Sen. Ted Stevens |
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Sunday, August 8, 2010
Accuser of ex-HP CEO Hurd steps forward - Reuters
CBC.ca | Accuser of ex-HP CEO Hurd steps forward Reuters SAN FRANCISCO, Aug 8 (Reuters) - The woman whose sexual harassment accusation against Mark Hurd led to his ouster as chief executive of Hewlett-Packard (HPQ.N) came forward on Sunday, saying she never intended for Hurd to lose his job ... Ex-HP Contractor Fisher Says She's `Saddened' by Hurd's Exit Boss's Stumble May Also Trip Hewlett-Packard Mark Hurd Neglected to Follow HP Code |
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Friday, August 6, 2010
HP Contractor Didn't Have Sex With Hurd, Lawyer Says - BusinessWeek
ABC Online | HP Contractor Didn't Have Sex With Hurd, Lawyer Says BusinessWeek Aug. 6 (Bloomberg) -- The Hewlett-Packard Co. contractor accusing former Chief Executive Officer Mark Hurd of sexual harassment didn't have an affair or a sexual relationship with him, said Gloria » |
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Wednesday, August 4, 2010
In Same-Sex Ruling, an Eye on the Supreme Court - New York Times
msnbc.com | In Same-Sex Ruling, an Eye on the Supreme Court New York Times A federal judge's forceful opinion Wednesday in favor of same-sex marriage is only the beginning of a process that is likely to go » |
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Monday, August 2, 2010
Stage set for Maxine Waters' ethics trial - Los Angeles Times
Kansas City Star | Stage set for Maxine Waters' ethics trial Los Angeles Times A House investigative panel has charged California Democratic Rep. Maxine Waters with violating ethics rules. Charles Dharapak, Associated Press A congressional panel set the stage Monday for an ethics trial for Rep. ... For Congress, a New Vigilance in Policing Ethics Cases Frank warned colleague not to aid troubled bank The Rangel Center for Public Service - re » |
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