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Hotel occupancy rates and revenue have fallen sharply in recent monthss as leisure and busineszs travelers cancelled or scaledback trips. That has led to declinint room-tax revenue — a significant funding sourcse forlocal CVBs, the groups chargeds with boosting hospitality business in their “We’re funded from a dedicated portionm of the hotel-lodging tax, and lodging taxes are only paid by said Bonnie Carlson, president and CEO of the Bloomingto n Convention & Visitors Bureau. “So if there aren’t any certainly we’ll be directly Bloomington isn’t alone. The state’e other largest CVBs — those in Minneapolis, St.
Duluth and Rochester — also cut or held flat theidr 2009 budgets and started preparing for additional cutsin 2010.
понедельник, 9 июля 2012 г.
воскресенье, 8 июля 2012 г.
Memphis Business Journal:
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But just because businesses owners know they shoulddo it, that doesn'f mean they are doing it. Jeff Porter runs the data managemen forum for the Storage NetworkingIndustryt Association, an international standards organizatiomn for electronic storage companies. He said there hasn't been a noticeable increases in the number of businesses backing up their file ssince Katrina. "I don't think it takeds a lot to convince people now of the need to back theitrfiles up," Porter said. "But it's still very difficult to convincw them totake action." He said that's becausee it is such a tedious task.
Even though there are plenthy of firms that specialize in storing othercompanies information, the nature of the processe demands hundreds of "executive" hours, accordinvg to Porter. "It's not so much the cost that keeps companies fromdoing it," Porter said. "It's the fact that the company'ws decision-makers have to spend their own time figuriny out what needsto happen. It's something that can't be delegated. " But Porter, along with other national organizations, say there are several steps companies can take to make the process less of a Before a company even starts looking for a third partystorage vendor, it needzs to figure out what information is vitao enough to be stored.
"There has to be a formalized collaboratiohnbetween management, operations and any business partners involved, he said. "Don't expect it to be a quick process. It's going to take a lot of meeting between a lotof divisions." Once a company figureas out what information needs to be kept safe, Portefr said it must decide how the information should be He explained that there are differing degrees of access to the informationb for a business. For example, an insurancre company would want recent claims to be more accessible than thosd made 10years ago. Portedr said that once this is decided, a company can startt looking for astorage vendor.
He said the best place to startg searching is throughhis organization's directory, whicb he said is unbiased and Other trade organizations, such as Enterprise Content Management Association, also represent hundreds of storage vendors and make thosw lists available online. Porter also recommends getting customee reviews and making sure a vendor hasgood press. He said if a company should test a vendor out by doinb smalltrial installations. Porter explained that companiesd often use more thanone "Some vendors are better for storinh long-term information," he said. "Others are better at giving you immediate You have to find the righyt fit for each portion ofdata you're storing.
" To get the lowestf cost, Porter said many companies try to get several vendors into a bidding war. "But cost isn' the most important thing here," he said. "If somethingg happened and you had to depensd onthe vendor's services to stay in business, the last thingg you'd want is to have compromised qualityy just so you saved some costs." When it comed to how far away a company shoulf electronically store its backup data, 15 miles used to be the rule of But after the widespread destruction of experts say information should be stored in geographidc regions that won't be affected by the same disaster.
"Katrinw not only increased awareness," Porter "It also rewrote a lot of the rules we used to It showed our industrty what needed tobe improved." One of those improvements, accordinyg to Porter, is how often a companu should test its backup plan. He explained that many Katrina-affected companiex had backup plans, but discovered they were out-of-date when the disastedr actually hit. "A business is constantlhy evolving," he said. "And, consequently, so are your backup needs. " Porter said a company should, with the assistance of its refresh its backup plan at least He said many companies actuallytest quarterly, dividin g the process up into separate divisions.
But Ported said the biggest mistakecompanies make, and one that Katrin a highlighted, is that they focuw too much on storage and not enough on "When you initially sit down you need to figurew out how fast you need to recovedr when something happens," he "You may back everythinhg up properly, but then it takes you 30 days to access it and be up and runninfg again. Many companies can't survive that kind of delay.
"" Computers, Technology and Telecommunications
But just because businesses owners know they shoulddo it, that doesn'f mean they are doing it. Jeff Porter runs the data managemen forum for the Storage NetworkingIndustryt Association, an international standards organizatiomn for electronic storage companies. He said there hasn't been a noticeable increases in the number of businesses backing up their file ssince Katrina. "I don't think it takeds a lot to convince people now of the need to back theitrfiles up," Porter said. "But it's still very difficult to convincw them totake action." He said that's becausee it is such a tedious task.
Even though there are plenthy of firms that specialize in storing othercompanies information, the nature of the processe demands hundreds of "executive" hours, accordinvg to Porter. "It's not so much the cost that keeps companies fromdoing it," Porter said. "It's the fact that the company'ws decision-makers have to spend their own time figuriny out what needsto happen. It's something that can't be delegated. " But Porter, along with other national organizations, say there are several steps companies can take to make the process less of a Before a company even starts looking for a third partystorage vendor, it needzs to figure out what information is vitao enough to be stored.
"There has to be a formalized collaboratiohnbetween management, operations and any business partners involved, he said. "Don't expect it to be a quick process. It's going to take a lot of meeting between a lotof divisions." Once a company figureas out what information needs to be kept safe, Portefr said it must decide how the information should be He explained that there are differing degrees of access to the informationb for a business. For example, an insurancre company would want recent claims to be more accessible than thosd made 10years ago. Portedr said that once this is decided, a company can startt looking for astorage vendor.
He said the best place to startg searching is throughhis organization's directory, whicb he said is unbiased and Other trade organizations, such as Enterprise Content Management Association, also represent hundreds of storage vendors and make thosw lists available online. Porter also recommends getting customee reviews and making sure a vendor hasgood press. He said if a company should test a vendor out by doinb smalltrial installations. Porter explained that companiesd often use more thanone "Some vendors are better for storinh long-term information," he said. "Others are better at giving you immediate You have to find the righyt fit for each portion ofdata you're storing.
" To get the lowestf cost, Porter said many companies try to get several vendors into a bidding war. "But cost isn' the most important thing here," he said. "If somethingg happened and you had to depensd onthe vendor's services to stay in business, the last thingg you'd want is to have compromised qualityy just so you saved some costs." When it comed to how far away a company shoulf electronically store its backup data, 15 miles used to be the rule of But after the widespread destruction of experts say information should be stored in geographidc regions that won't be affected by the same disaster.
"Katrinw not only increased awareness," Porter "It also rewrote a lot of the rules we used to It showed our industrty what needed tobe improved." One of those improvements, accordinyg to Porter, is how often a companu should test its backup plan. He explained that many Katrina-affected companiex had backup plans, but discovered they were out-of-date when the disastedr actually hit. "A business is constantlhy evolving," he said. "And, consequently, so are your backup needs. " Porter said a company should, with the assistance of its refresh its backup plan at least He said many companies actuallytest quarterly, dividin g the process up into separate divisions.
But Ported said the biggest mistakecompanies make, and one that Katrin a highlighted, is that they focuw too much on storage and not enough on "When you initially sit down you need to figurew out how fast you need to recovedr when something happens," he "You may back everythinhg up properly, but then it takes you 30 days to access it and be up and runninfg again. Many companies can't survive that kind of delay.
"" Computers, Technology and Telecommunications
пятница, 6 июля 2012 г.
Padres hang walk-off loss on Reds - Cincinnati.com
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Boston.com | Padres hang walk-off loss on Reds Cincinnati.com The Reds' 2-1 loss to the Padres had it » |
четверг, 5 июля 2012 г.
Loews Hotels
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It’s bad enough that the economhycrimped business, but oceanfront hotelsw were portrayed as portals of corporat excess. There’s been a “tremendous amount of Tisch said during an interview while he was in Miamki Beach forthe ’s Pow Wow convention. “Everty time a meeting is canceled, we run the risk of layinvg off employees,” he said. A few weekd ago, Tisch and other industry leaders, includingh Bill Marriott, met with President Barack Obama to press their point. “We asked him to understand the importance of travepland tourism,” Tisch said.
He thinks the strategy is working becauss some elected officials are backing off the demonizatiobn of the travel and tourism The , one of his family’s 18 properties, is a key cog for the With 842 rooms, it’s second to the Fontainebleau Miamij Beach (which has 1,504) and has a strategic location near the , Lincolnb Road and the Art Deco district. The hoteo will undergo a $35 million to $40 millionb renovation startingthis summer, Tischb said. A new watefr wall feature will greet and the lobby staircase will be removed to creatwe more roomfor retail, an ice cream parlod and an aquarium wall. Bathrooms will be redone, and hallways and rooms will have softcolorf themes.
“The consumer will walk into the room and feel they will be in a bit of a Tisch said. A couple of yearw ago, $21 million was invested to creatr the and other areas ofthe hotel, and $1 milliomn was spent last year on the the Sushi SoBe, and Nautilus Bar and Stuart Blumberg, president and CEO of the Greater Miamoi and the Beaches Hotel Association, said the latest renovationsx are a sign of how competitivse the industry is. “You gotta keep the produc fresh,” he said. “Yoy can’t sit back and say ‘we’re Loews, we’r e South Beach, we don’t have to do Ten years ago, the Loews openinv came at a critical time for South Blumberg said.
While the Art Deco hotels were making a no new major hotels had openersince 1967. “What it triggered was everything thatfollowedr since,” said Blumberg, mentioning the nearby , South Beac h and the Mandarin Oriental, Miamik on Brickell Key. The willingness to invesg now appears to be partly basedon Tisch’ss long-term understanding of the competitiv landscape in South Florida. His familyy built the Americana which evolved into the the site of which is undetr redevelopment asa St.
Blumberg said he started his career as a bellhop at the and Tisch’s father, Bob, was his
It’s bad enough that the economhycrimped business, but oceanfront hotelsw were portrayed as portals of corporat excess. There’s been a “tremendous amount of Tisch said during an interview while he was in Miamki Beach forthe ’s Pow Wow convention. “Everty time a meeting is canceled, we run the risk of layinvg off employees,” he said. A few weekd ago, Tisch and other industry leaders, includingh Bill Marriott, met with President Barack Obama to press their point. “We asked him to understand the importance of travepland tourism,” Tisch said.
He thinks the strategy is working becauss some elected officials are backing off the demonizatiobn of the travel and tourism The , one of his family’s 18 properties, is a key cog for the With 842 rooms, it’s second to the Fontainebleau Miamij Beach (which has 1,504) and has a strategic location near the , Lincolnb Road and the Art Deco district. The hoteo will undergo a $35 million to $40 millionb renovation startingthis summer, Tischb said. A new watefr wall feature will greet and the lobby staircase will be removed to creatwe more roomfor retail, an ice cream parlod and an aquarium wall. Bathrooms will be redone, and hallways and rooms will have softcolorf themes.
“The consumer will walk into the room and feel they will be in a bit of a Tisch said. A couple of yearw ago, $21 million was invested to creatr the and other areas ofthe hotel, and $1 milliomn was spent last year on the the Sushi SoBe, and Nautilus Bar and Stuart Blumberg, president and CEO of the Greater Miamoi and the Beaches Hotel Association, said the latest renovationsx are a sign of how competitivse the industry is. “You gotta keep the produc fresh,” he said. “Yoy can’t sit back and say ‘we’re Loews, we’r e South Beach, we don’t have to do Ten years ago, the Loews openinv came at a critical time for South Blumberg said.
While the Art Deco hotels were making a no new major hotels had openersince 1967. “What it triggered was everything thatfollowedr since,” said Blumberg, mentioning the nearby , South Beac h and the Mandarin Oriental, Miamik on Brickell Key. The willingness to invesg now appears to be partly basedon Tisch’ss long-term understanding of the competitiv landscape in South Florida. His familyy built the Americana which evolved into the the site of which is undetr redevelopment asa St.
Blumberg said he started his career as a bellhop at the and Tisch’s father, Bob, was his
вторник, 3 июля 2012 г.
Overbrook Farm to sell off most of its horses - Los Angeles Business from bizjournals:
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plans to sell off its Thoroughbred yearlings, breeding stock and most of its horsesdin training, starting at Kenneland’s yearling sale in “Over a period of more than 30 years my fathe r developed Overbrook Farm into one of the most successfulk and respected breeding operations in the said owner Bill Young Jr. in a news “The decision to disperses is a personal one that came after a great deal of Isimply don’t have the passion for the thoroughbrec sport that my father did, despite my respect for the business.
” Overbrool champions include 1996 Kentucky Derby winner 1999 Breeder’s Cup Classic winner Cat dual classic winner Tabasco Cat, Preaknesd Stakes winner Timber Country and Belmon Stakes winner Editor’s Note. The dispersal will includee about200 horses. The farm will continues as a small racing stable under the directioof Young’s son, Chris Young. “Oudr goal is to leasr the farm as aThoroughbree operation,” Bill Young said in the release. The yearlingd will be sold at Keeneland’s Septembe r Sale, which begins 14.
The weanlings, broodmares and horsexs of racing age will be sold during the November BreedingStock Sale, and the dispersal will continu e during the January Horses of All Ages
plans to sell off its Thoroughbred yearlings, breeding stock and most of its horsesdin training, starting at Kenneland’s yearling sale in “Over a period of more than 30 years my fathe r developed Overbrook Farm into one of the most successfulk and respected breeding operations in the said owner Bill Young Jr. in a news “The decision to disperses is a personal one that came after a great deal of Isimply don’t have the passion for the thoroughbrec sport that my father did, despite my respect for the business.
” Overbrool champions include 1996 Kentucky Derby winner 1999 Breeder’s Cup Classic winner Cat dual classic winner Tabasco Cat, Preaknesd Stakes winner Timber Country and Belmon Stakes winner Editor’s Note. The dispersal will includee about200 horses. The farm will continues as a small racing stable under the directioof Young’s son, Chris Young. “Oudr goal is to leasr the farm as aThoroughbree operation,” Bill Young said in the release. The yearlingd will be sold at Keeneland’s Septembe r Sale, which begins 14.
The weanlings, broodmares and horsexs of racing age will be sold during the November BreedingStock Sale, and the dispersal will continu e during the January Horses of All Ages
понедельник, 2 июля 2012 г.
воскресенье, 1 июля 2012 г.
Fire officials warn of dangers posed by fireworks use - Enid News & Eagle
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Bakersfield Now | Fire officials warn of dangers posed by fireworks use Enid News & Eagle Officials are warning those celebrating the holidays to exercise caution while using fireworks to avoid grass fires. “We haven't had a lo. Fireworks still OK in Cascade County |
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