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- University looks to repair Education, English/Philosophy complex ... - University Daily
- gsi interactive Rebrands as TrueAction on the Philosophy of Reflex ... - Earthtimes
- Platini Wants English To Follow German Model - goal.com
- Public Symposium: Asian Perspectives on 21st-Century Issues - Southern Maryland Online
- Buffett adds rails to his investment 'masterpiece' - Findlaw.com
| University looks to repair Education, English/Philosophy complex ... - University Daily Posted: 03 Nov 2009 12:19 PM PST Barricades were placed around the entrance to the south side of the Education building and the north side of the English/Philosophy building after a stone fell off the Education building's pediment Oct. 20. "From the very minute it happened, the area was barricaded off to ensure student safety," said Judy Simpson, assistant dean for the College of Education. Bill Droll, project manager of Facilities Construction and Planning, said the English building's north side was barricaded as a precaution because the same stone also was used on the English building, "We want to check all the stone on the English building to ensure safety for students and faculty," Droll said. "We think that moisture got in behind the stone and caused some rusting on the rebar. When it rusted, it expanded and broke the stone in two." The Physical Plant is working with the building's manufacturer to asses the actual cause. The $46.2 million complex that consists of the Education and English/Philosophy buildings was completed in mid-2002, according to the facility department Web site. "Right now we have the manufacturer looking at the building," said Douglas Chowning, managing director of the Physical Plant. "The manufacturer has an engineer trying to figure out what was wrong with the initial construction to cause this." The engineer's proposal will have to be reported before repair plans can be made and costs associated with those plans can be estimated, he said. "We are taking it as a manufacturing, construction and design defect," Chowning said, "and we are looking at the manufacturer to share the cost." An additional stone will be taken down from the Education building Wednesday. "We are concerned about this stone," Droll said. "It is inside the barricaded area, but we want to be sure." Jennifer Patterson, a multidisciplinary studies major from Lubbock, said she wonders if the incident could have been avoided. "As new as the building is, it's kind of distressing the stone fell," Patterson said. "If it had been an older building like the library, it would have been a bit more understandable." Be the first to comment on this article! This content has passed through fivefilters.org. | |
| gsi interactive Rebrands as TrueAction on the Philosophy of Reflex ... - Earthtimes Posted: 03 Nov 2009 04:48 AM PST KING OF PRUSSIA, Pa. - (Business Wire) GSI Commerce Inc. (Nasdaq: GSIC) today introduced TrueActionTM, the new face of its full-service agency. Formerly known as gsi interactiveSM, TrueAction has provided digital marketing and design solutions to industry-leading retailers and brands including the NFL, GNC, kate spade, and Christopher & Banks. The new moniker reflects the company's focus on offering innovative marketing solutions that have driven millions of dollars in e-commerce transactions. TrueAction's new brand identity represents the collective knowledge of an agency built on understanding what turns users' attentions into actions – actions that can grow brands, drive revenue, and deepen relationships. Through the proper balance of TrueAction's strategy, visual design, measurement, media, technology, and usability services, the company has positioned itself as a comprehensive solution to a constantly evolving digital marketplace. "TrueAction, as a brand, is all about forging new ways of understanding online consumers in order to maximize user satisfaction and client revenue. Reflex Marketing is our philosophy that all actions have a transactional value whether it be monetary, physical or emotional," explains TrueAction president Nick Pahade. "It's about the combination of all disciplines into one true view of what users are doing and what is helping them accomplish their tasks." One TrueAction advancement is their state-of-the-art Usability Lab, a Reflex Marketing tool developed by noted user-research expert Michael Summers. Among many programs, the Usability Lab utilizes a live focus group where real consumers can provide detailed feedback on aspects including digital marketing, design, and functionality. The Usability Lab includes the latest eyetracking and remote testing technologies that allow TrueAction to help clients make decisions based on data not assumptions. Click here for a video of how the Usability Lab works. "Understanding what makes someone 'truly' purchase anything is the key to growth. By working with brands in ways that range the emotional and transactional experience, we can understand why some ideas succeed and others don't - whether it's a big concept or a small tweak to a design," said Dorian Sweet, TrueAction's vice president and executive creative director. TrueAction's rebranding follows a period of strong organic and strategic growth including the recent opening of their New York City office. To compliment their marketing services offering, GSI also acquired two outside firms in 2009; a web site design and marketing firm based in the San Francisco Bay area, Silverlign Group Inc., and Pepperjam, a full-service affiliate marketing network. "TrueAction, in the past year, has been building a powerful agency model based on our e-commerce expertise and by hiring the best in the industry." said Michael Rubin, CEO of GSI Commerce. "As GSI and its companies continue to grow and expand, TrueAction's solutions reinforce our commitment to driving more revenue for our client base." About TrueAction TrueActionTM (www.TrueAction.com) is a full-service digital agency focused on creating experiences that drive consumer actions. More than 50 of the world's leading brands and retailers rely on TrueAction to deliver effective digital solutions through a deep understanding of strategy, usability, design, media, and photography. TrueAction, with offices in New York; San Jose, Calif.; and King of Prussia, Pa., is a GSI Commerce company. About GSI Commerce GSI Commerce® (www.gsicommerce.com) is a leading provider of services that enable e-commerce, multichannel retailing and digital marketing for large, business-to-consumer (b2c) enterprises in the U.S. and internationally. We deliver customized e-commerce solutions through an e-commerce platform, which is comprised of technology, fulfillment and customer care. We offer each of the platform's components on a modular basis, or as part of an integrated, end-to-end solution. We also offer a full suite of interactive marketing services through two divisions, TrueActionTM and e-Dialog Inc. (www.e-dialog.com). Forward-Looking Statements This news release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. All statements made in this release, other than statements of historical fact, are forward-looking statements. Actual results might differ materially from what is expressed or implied by these forward-looking statements. Additional information about potential factors that could affect GSI Commerce can be found in its most recent Form 10-K, Form 10-Q and other reports and statements filed by GSI Commerce with the SEC. GSI Commerce expressly disclaims any intent or obligation to update these forward-looking statements.
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| Platini Wants English To Follow German Model - goal.com Posted: 03 Nov 2009 12:19 PM PST Outspoken UEFA president Michel Platini has claimed that if clubs in England are to remedy their mounting debt problems, then they should mimic the German model of financial balance. The Frenchman, often portrayed unenthusiastically by British media for his perceived hostility to English football, counters that he wants to protect the clubs from falling into bankruptcy and administration. Platini will, from Monday and with the aid of a committee, be pondering a new approach to debt management. He informed The Daily Telegraph: "We have three years to regulate the situation. "The idea is not to kill the clubs but to help them have better balance. As [Manchester United's chief executive] David Gill says: 'the devil is in the details'. "Gill is a very good guy and perhaps United will resolve the debts in the future. "The philosophy to participate in our competitions is you must not spend more money than you receive," Platini clarified. "If United have €300 million and they spend €400m – no! If Liverpool pay €60m [interest] every year to the banks, it's a lot of money. "Every owner has asked me for a better philosophy, for better transparency. In Germany, debts are not accepted. In England they are." Platini added: "Some of the chief executives are not okay with the chance of new regulations [on debt] because they don't want to change their business. The owners are okay with it. [Chelsea owner Roman] Abramovich hardly bought one player this year. "By putting in new rules we will protect the business of Abramovich, Massimo Moratti [at Inter Milan] or Glazer. I am sure they want to sell but who will buy clubs with so many debts? Who would be that stupid? "If you regulate the system, many people will be interested in buying. I am not a big economist but I am logical.'' Alan Dawson, Goal.com This content has passed through fivefilters.org. | |
| Public Symposium: Asian Perspectives on 21st-Century Issues - Southern Maryland Online Posted: 03 Nov 2009 11:36 AM PST
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"This ascendancy on the world stage means that we inevitably are going to be working with Asian cultures," said Bradley Park, St. Mary's College of Maryland assistant professor of philosophy. "We too often confuse the material wealth and political power of the West for having all the right answers. And we love to educate other nations, but have never been good listeners and, as a consequence, have failed to hear what Asia may have to teach us." With that in mind, the public is invited to a free public symposium and town hall at St. Mary's College of Maryland (SMCM) to examine today's global issues from the perspective of Asia. "Asian Perspectives on 21st-Century Issues" begins 7:30 p.m. Friday, November 13, 2009, in Auerbach Auditorium at St. Mary's Hall and continues 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Saturday, November 14. The goal of the program, said Park, is to study critical issues – human rights, democracy, women, and the environment – to learn from Asia and not just about Asia, using four traditions—Chinese, Japanese, Buddhist, and Islamic thought. "The animating idea of this symposium is that there are distinctive intellectual resources within these Asian traditions that can help the world better respond to the major challenges of the next century by clarifying, correcting, and broadening some of our (i.e., the West's) deeply engrained assumptions." The panel kicks off with "Role Ethics: A Confucian Moral Vision for the Global 21st Century," by Henry Rosemont Jr., former SMCM and now Brown University professor of religious studies. The next morning, at 9 a.m., Nelly van Doorn-Harder, Wake Forest University professor of Islamic Studies, will talk about "Women and Politics in Indonesia: The Power to Confront or Conform;" and William LaFleur, University of Pennsylvania professor of Japanese Studies, will address "Bio-Lust: America's Biotech Juggernaut and its Japanese Critics" at 11 a.m. Then, at 2 p.m. Peter Hershock, coordinator of the Asian Studies Development Program at the East-West Center, will talk about "Environments, Diversity and Equity: A Buddhist Perspective." All four panelists have immersed themselves in aspects of Asian study for many years. A Center for the Study of Democracy event, the symposium is part of the Asian Studies Development Program of the East-West Center and the Asian Symposium on Democracy, Rights and Development supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. College sponsors of the event include the Lecture and Fine Arts Council, and the departments of Asian studies and philosophy and religious studies. This content has passed through fivefilters.org. |
| Buffett adds rails to his investment 'masterpiece' - Findlaw.com Posted: 03 Nov 2009 02:21 PM PST | By JOSH FUNK AP Business Writer The 79-year-old investor plans to add a brilliant orange section to the painting for the brightly colored locomotives of Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corp. that Berkshire will acquire for $34 billion in cash and stock. It will be the biggest deal yet in a career of big deals. Buffett described it as an "all-in wager on the economic future of the United States," but it's also transformative for his Omaha-based company. It will make freight railroads Berkshire's third-largest industry after insurance and utilities. "I think it's classic Buffett," said Andy Kilpatrick, the stockbroker-author who wrote "Of Permanent Value: The Story of Warren Buffett." Buffet's Berkshire prefers to buy companies instead of just investing in stocks, and Buffett has simple standards for what he looks for in an investment: easy-to-understand large companies with a strong competitive advantage that generate cash and above-average returns on capital. Just a few weeks into the stock market collapse that began in September, 2008, Buffett wrote an opinion column for the New York Times headlined "Buy American. I am." The column encouraged investors to buy U.S. stocks, as he was doing with his personal investments outside of Berkshire. "A simple rule dictates my buying: Be fearful when others are greedy, and be greedy when others are fearful," he wrote, repeating an axiom he's used for years to sum up his investing philosophy. Throughout the nation's economic struggles of the past two years, Buffett and Berkshire have been busy making deals, but few of those were outright acquisitions. Recent big transactions include investing $6.5 billion in equities related to Mars Inc.'s acquisition of Wm. Wrigley Jr. Co., $5 billion in preferred shares of Goldman Sachs Group Inc., $3 billion in General Electric Co., and $2.6 billion in Swiss Reinsurance Co. Those financing deals have given Berkshire favorable terms, substantial stakes of at least 10 percent and in some cases, warrants to buy stock. As a result the company has collected millions in interest. Last year, Berkshire failed in its attempt to buy Constellation Energy Group Inc. But even failure was profitable because of the breakup terms. Berkshire's utility division MidAmerican Energy Holdings received 20 million Constellation shares and $593 million cash last year after Baltimore-based Constellation rejected MidAmerican's $4.7 billion takeover bid in favor of a deal with Electricite de France SA. MidAmerican has since sold the Constellation stock. Buffett hasn't gone through the recession mistake-free. He acknowledged earlier this year that he shouldn't have bought 79.9 million shares of ConocoPhillips stock when oil and gas prices were near their peak. But Berkshire has partly made up for that misstep by selling some of the ConocoPhillips stock to generate a loss to offset past capital gains taxes. Over the years, Buffett's company has bought more than 60 subsidiaries; including clothing, furniture, jewelry and candy companies, restaurants, natural gas and corporate jet firms and has major investments in such companies as Coca-Cola Co. and Wells Fargo & Co. Berkshire's biggest acquisition before BNSF was the $16 billion stock purchase of reinsurance giant General Re announced in 1998. Analysts who follow Berkshire say the BNSF deal will reshape the company because of the railroad's size. Justin Fuller, who works with Midway Capital Research & Management in Chicago and writes about Berkshire online at http://www.buffettologist.com, said this is the kind of elephant deal that Buffett seems to be able to find once every five or six years. Buffett has said he realized a few years late that railroads had become an appealing investment because they are healthier today than in past years. Berkshire is buying BNSF at a time when railroad profits are down because of the recession. But as diesel prices rise, shipping by rail instead of truck will only become more attractive. "It's a very effective way of moving goods. I basically believe this country will prosper and you'll have more people moving more goods 10 and 20 and 30 years from now, and the rails should benefit," Buffett told CNBC Tuesday. Morningstar analyst Bill Bergman said he thinks Berkshire's acquisition of BNSF is consistent with Buffett's long-term philosophy, and the timing is good for the investment. Bergman said he thinks BNSF will be a good fit with Berkshire's other operating companies, and that could be important even with Berkshire's hands-off management style. "It's not just energy prices," Bergman said. "I think the fit with the operating subsidiaries is important." Berkshire owns major utilities through its MidAmerican that rely on coal that moves by rail. Berkshire also owns Acme Brick, Shaw carpet and other manufacturing companies that need to ship products, and it owns major furniture retailers, like Nebraska Furniture Mart, that buy many imported products to sell. There is no sign that BNSF will be the last major deal for Buffett. He has no plans to retire and says he's having too much fun each day looking for deals. --- On the Net: Berkshire Hathaway Inc.: http://www.berkshirehathaway.com 2009-11-03 22:14:27 GMT
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