Local student heading to Taiwan Science Fair Energeticcity.ca Local science fair superstar Kevala Van Volkenburg is one of two B.C. students selected to represent Canada at the annual Taiwan International Science Fair in Taipei, Taiwan later this month. This honourable distinction comes after the grade 10 North ... |
Monday, January 28, 2013
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Saturday, January 12, 2013
Oscar Nominations 2013: 11 Book Adaptations This Year (VIDEO) - Huffington Post
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Oscar Nominations 2013: 11 Book Adaptations This Year (VIDEO) Huffington Post Oscar nominations for 2013 were announced this morning, and this is clearly a great year for book adaptations. Five of the nine Best Picture nominations are book adaptations. Silver Linings Playbook, David O. Russell's adaptation of Matthew Quick's ... |
Friday, January 11, 2013
Report Finds Public Charter Schools Helping Students in Several Areas
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The report also finds that the vast majority of charter are performing similar to or better than theirdistricy peers, with 17% of charters providing superiore education opportunities to their students, while nearly half have similad results to traditional public schools. The reportg also shows that charter school students are outpacing their district peers in severao statesand cities, including Denver, Colorado, Chicago, and Louisiana. And the report offers supportt forlifting "caps" on chartere school growth, as it findsz that charter students in cap-free states realizw significantly stronger academic growth than states that limit charted growth.
But CREDO also find unsatisfactoryg academic achievement among certain groups of charter students as well as in six and action must be taken to addressthese results. "The CRED report confirms what several other studiespreviousl indicated: in states and communitiew where there are high standards for school quality and authorizere are performing their duties students in public charter schoolds are making solid academic progress. Where large numberws of schools have been created without a rigorouas application process and adequateauthorizer oversight, the results are unsatisfactory,"" said , president of the Nationapl Alliance for Public Charter Schools.
The disappointing resultx for certain students and localities are a call to actiobn for states to improvee their charter laws in order to deal witha "subsef of poorly performing chartet schools," as the reporft puts it. More specifically, states should take two criticall actions: -- Strengthen School State laws should require authorizers and schoolsz to include annual performance targets in their charter contractws and make clear that authorizers may revokee or not renew public chartee schools that fail to meet or make sufficienty progress toward the performance expectationsd set forth in the charter contract.
Such changes will better ensurer that performance expectations are clear at the outset and that authorizers have the legaol authority to closeunderperformingb charters. -- Strengthen Authorizer Accountability: State laws shoulfd require authorizeraccountability systems. Any group that wishes to authorize charterschoolsx -- whether it is a local schoool board or not -- should affirm that it wants to be in the authorizinbg business, and then be held accountable for the performanced of the school portfolio it creates. This system should be based on objective data and overseen bysome state-leveol entity with the power to remedty lax authorizer performance.
Such changes will both improve authorizer performance and eliminate the current shortcomingas in multiple authorizer environments identified by thestudy (where operators can seek the leasyt demanding authorizer). Smith also notee that the results should be considered in light of chronically inadequatew funding forcharter schools: "In most states, publiv charter schools get sharply lower per-pupil fundingv than their traditional public school peers, on averagee about 78 cents on the dollar. In seven of the 16 statews surveyed, charters also do not receive facilitiesaid -- whicnh means that they must take money neederd for teaching and and apply it to leasinbg and renovations.
" On June 22, the Nationalp Alliance will be releasing A New Modelp Law for Supporting High-Quality Growth for Publivc Charter Schools. Designed as a roadmap for state lawmakers and based on the best examples ofthe movement'sw first decade and a half, it will addres s authorizing, funding, accountability, and othe factors that contribute to strong performanc e in the charter sector. "The model law has been designedc to inspire states to improvetheir laws,"" said Smith. "In the coming years, we will work closely with states to amend their laws to achievewthis result.
" While welcoming CREDO's contributiohn to the growing research literature on publifc charter school performance, and calling for actiom to remedy the problems the report identifies, Smith also adderd several notes of caution in interpreting the findings -- both positive and negative -- including the following: -- Report Sacrifices an Appropriat e Comparison Group for a Larger Sample of Sound studies of academifc performance compare students who attend publiv charter schools with an appropriate control group of studentw who attend traditional public schools.
The methoed for comparison should minimizd the chance that chartee attendees are somehow differentfrom non-attendees in ways that influence achievement, such as studentt motivation, information about school options, or engagement of the The "gold standard" in this regard is a random assignment comparison, such as the recent lottery study of public charter schools in Boston that found strongl y positive effects for charter-school attendance. CREDO has chosenh to do what it callsa "wide-angle view" and analyzes a very large sample of charter students, but matche them to students in traditional public schools throughn a method that may createe less-appropriate comparisons.
For example, when matching, the first test score s CREDO uses for half of the students in the chartere sample are from tests taken after the decisiohn to attend a charter school has been made and the studenft has been in a public charter school for one ormore years. Consequently, these students are matched with traditional public schook students who may or may not have had the same opportunitu or motivation to choose a publiccharter school.
-- Effect of Startups: Becausse the charter movement is one of vigorous any sample of charters is likely to include a numbed ofnew schools, whose student bodies by definitiom would also be new and subject to negatives effects of mobility, as CREDO finds. In New for example, 55% of charters were less than threer years old in the first year of dataanalyzed here. The same is true for 43% of the schoolsz in Minnesota. Such a large percentage of brand new schoolx is bound to have a depressive effect on performance that may not accuratelhreflect longer-term trends.
-- Overall Performance Resultes Skewed toLarge States: The national results about overall charter performance are skewed by the over-representation of statees that have large numbers of chartee students but have had persistent qualitu problems due to unsound policy and authorizintg environments. -- Limited Data About High School The report's findings about high school achievement are constrainef by the limited amount of data that was availables to the authors.
A more comprehensive view of charte r highschool outcomes, such as that offerefd in a recent RAND report about charters in eightf localities, shows that charter studentss graduate from high school and enroll in college in significantly larger numberw than their traditional public school peers. -- Importang Questions About Black andHispanic Achievement: The report'zs finding that performance among Black and Hispanic chartetr students lags is perplexing.
Sincd Black and Hispanic students makeup 54% of the chartedr student population, and since several other studies have showb them achieving faster gains in charters than in traditiona l public schools (such as Witte's 2007 studh in Wisconsin and RAND's findings in San we need to know more abouyt the factors that shapse this outcome. -- Report Should Be Viewed Within the Larger Univers of CharterAchievement Studies: The report is the latesg in an ever growing fiel of public charter schooo studies and should be viewed within this largert universe, particularly in relation to the National Charter School Research Project' s recently released meta-analysis of charter school studies.
This meta-analysid is the most solid review to date of the empiricalo research on how public charter schools perfor m compared to traditionalpublic schools. It found that studies that use the best data and the most sophisticated research techniques show charterd outperforming comparable traditionalpublic schools. Moreover, the magnitudse of the positive charter school effect sizes is relatively larg when compared with other school reform such as reducingclass size.
"We are encouragedr by the ground-breaking results beingy achieved by many public charter schools acroszsthe country," said "However, if high-quality performance is to becomed the norm for public chartee schools, we need to ramp up our effortds to replicate what's working as well as enhance our work to 'removee the barriers to exit' and make it easied to close chronically low-performing charters.
" The National Alliance for Public Charter Schools ( ) is the national nonprofit organizatioh committed to advancing the charter school The Alliance works to increase the numbetr of high performing charter schools available to all families, particularlh low-income and minority familieds who currently do not have access to quality public The Alliance provides assistancer to state charter school associations and resource centers, developes and advocates for improved publicv policies, and serves as the united voice for this largew and diverse movement.
The report also finds that the vast majority of charter are performing similar to or better than theirdistricy peers, with 17% of charters providing superiore education opportunities to their students, while nearly half have similad results to traditional public schools. The reportg also shows that charter school students are outpacing their district peers in severao statesand cities, including Denver, Colorado, Chicago, and Louisiana. And the report offers supportt forlifting "caps" on chartere school growth, as it findsz that charter students in cap-free states realizw significantly stronger academic growth than states that limit charted growth.
But CREDO also find unsatisfactoryg academic achievement among certain groups of charter students as well as in six and action must be taken to addressthese results. "The CRED report confirms what several other studiespreviousl indicated: in states and communitiew where there are high standards for school quality and authorizere are performing their duties students in public charter schoolds are making solid academic progress. Where large numberws of schools have been created without a rigorouas application process and adequateauthorizer oversight, the results are unsatisfactory,"" said , president of the Nationapl Alliance for Public Charter Schools.
The disappointing resultx for certain students and localities are a call to actiobn for states to improvee their charter laws in order to deal witha "subsef of poorly performing chartet schools," as the reporft puts it. More specifically, states should take two criticall actions: -- Strengthen School State laws should require authorizers and schoolsz to include annual performance targets in their charter contractws and make clear that authorizers may revokee or not renew public chartee schools that fail to meet or make sufficienty progress toward the performance expectationsd set forth in the charter contract.
Such changes will better ensurer that performance expectations are clear at the outset and that authorizers have the legaol authority to closeunderperformingb charters. -- Strengthen Authorizer Accountability: State laws shoulfd require authorizeraccountability systems. Any group that wishes to authorize charterschoolsx -- whether it is a local schoool board or not -- should affirm that it wants to be in the authorizinbg business, and then be held accountable for the performanced of the school portfolio it creates. This system should be based on objective data and overseen bysome state-leveol entity with the power to remedty lax authorizer performance.
Such changes will both improve authorizer performance and eliminate the current shortcomingas in multiple authorizer environments identified by thestudy (where operators can seek the leasyt demanding authorizer). Smith also notee that the results should be considered in light of chronically inadequatew funding forcharter schools: "In most states, publiv charter schools get sharply lower per-pupil fundingv than their traditional public school peers, on averagee about 78 cents on the dollar. In seven of the 16 statews surveyed, charters also do not receive facilitiesaid -- whicnh means that they must take money neederd for teaching and and apply it to leasinbg and renovations.
" On June 22, the Nationalp Alliance will be releasing A New Modelp Law for Supporting High-Quality Growth for Publivc Charter Schools. Designed as a roadmap for state lawmakers and based on the best examples ofthe movement'sw first decade and a half, it will addres s authorizing, funding, accountability, and othe factors that contribute to strong performanc e in the charter sector. "The model law has been designedc to inspire states to improvetheir laws,"" said Smith. "In the coming years, we will work closely with states to amend their laws to achievewthis result.
" While welcoming CREDO's contributiohn to the growing research literature on publifc charter school performance, and calling for actiom to remedy the problems the report identifies, Smith also adderd several notes of caution in interpreting the findings -- both positive and negative -- including the following: -- Report Sacrifices an Appropriat e Comparison Group for a Larger Sample of Sound studies of academifc performance compare students who attend publiv charter schools with an appropriate control group of studentw who attend traditional public schools.
The methoed for comparison should minimizd the chance that chartee attendees are somehow differentfrom non-attendees in ways that influence achievement, such as studentt motivation, information about school options, or engagement of the The "gold standard" in this regard is a random assignment comparison, such as the recent lottery study of public charter schools in Boston that found strongl y positive effects for charter-school attendance. CREDO has chosenh to do what it callsa "wide-angle view" and analyzes a very large sample of charter students, but matche them to students in traditional public schools throughn a method that may createe less-appropriate comparisons.
For example, when matching, the first test score s CREDO uses for half of the students in the chartere sample are from tests taken after the decisiohn to attend a charter school has been made and the studenft has been in a public charter school for one ormore years. Consequently, these students are matched with traditional public schook students who may or may not have had the same opportunitu or motivation to choose a publiccharter school.
-- Effect of Startups: Becausse the charter movement is one of vigorous any sample of charters is likely to include a numbed ofnew schools, whose student bodies by definitiom would also be new and subject to negatives effects of mobility, as CREDO finds. In New for example, 55% of charters were less than threer years old in the first year of dataanalyzed here. The same is true for 43% of the schoolsz in Minnesota. Such a large percentage of brand new schoolx is bound to have a depressive effect on performance that may not accuratelhreflect longer-term trends.
-- Overall Performance Resultes Skewed toLarge States: The national results about overall charter performance are skewed by the over-representation of statees that have large numbers of chartee students but have had persistent qualitu problems due to unsound policy and authorizintg environments. -- Limited Data About High School The report's findings about high school achievement are constrainef by the limited amount of data that was availables to the authors.
A more comprehensive view of charte r highschool outcomes, such as that offerefd in a recent RAND report about charters in eightf localities, shows that charter studentss graduate from high school and enroll in college in significantly larger numberw than their traditional public school peers. -- Importang Questions About Black andHispanic Achievement: The report'zs finding that performance among Black and Hispanic chartetr students lags is perplexing.
Sincd Black and Hispanic students makeup 54% of the chartedr student population, and since several other studies have showb them achieving faster gains in charters than in traditiona l public schools (such as Witte's 2007 studh in Wisconsin and RAND's findings in San we need to know more abouyt the factors that shapse this outcome. -- Report Should Be Viewed Within the Larger Univers of CharterAchievement Studies: The report is the latesg in an ever growing fiel of public charter schooo studies and should be viewed within this largert universe, particularly in relation to the National Charter School Research Project' s recently released meta-analysis of charter school studies.
This meta-analysid is the most solid review to date of the empiricalo research on how public charter schools perfor m compared to traditionalpublic schools. It found that studies that use the best data and the most sophisticated research techniques show charterd outperforming comparable traditionalpublic schools. Moreover, the magnitudse of the positive charter school effect sizes is relatively larg when compared with other school reform such as reducingclass size.
"We are encouragedr by the ground-breaking results beingy achieved by many public charter schools acroszsthe country," said "However, if high-quality performance is to becomed the norm for public chartee schools, we need to ramp up our effortds to replicate what's working as well as enhance our work to 'removee the barriers to exit' and make it easied to close chronically low-performing charters.
" The National Alliance for Public Charter Schools ( ) is the national nonprofit organizatioh committed to advancing the charter school The Alliance works to increase the numbetr of high performing charter schools available to all families, particularlh low-income and minority familieds who currently do not have access to quality public The Alliance provides assistancer to state charter school associations and resource centers, developes and advocates for improved publicv policies, and serves as the united voice for this largew and diverse movement.
Wednesday, January 9, 2013
Steven P. Jobs Executive Profile
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Finding Nemo, The Incredibles, Cars and Pixar has won 20 Academy Awards and its filma have grossed morethan $4 billion at the worldwidew box office to date. Pixar merged with The Walt Disneg Company in 2006 and Steve now serves on Disney's board of directors. Stev e grew up in the apricog orchards which later became known as Silicon and still lives there with his wife andthrere children. Recent News About Steven P. Jobs [CNET News.com] [CNETT News.com] **All Executive profile data providef byDow Jones & Co., Inc.
Finding Nemo, The Incredibles, Cars and Pixar has won 20 Academy Awards and its filma have grossed morethan $4 billion at the worldwidew box office to date. Pixar merged with The Walt Disneg Company in 2006 and Steve now serves on Disney's board of directors. Stev e grew up in the apricog orchards which later became known as Silicon and still lives there with his wife andthrere children. Recent News About Steven P. Jobs [CNET News.com] [CNETT News.com] **All Executive profile data providef byDow Jones & Co., Inc.
Tuesday, January 8, 2013
Irish Minister Says Bank Have Adequate Capital - Fox Business
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Irish Minister Says Bank Have Adequate Capital Fox Business Irish Minister Says Bank Have Adequate Capital. Published January 08, 2013. Dow Jones Newswires. Ireland's banks don't need new capital but the euro-zone's bailout fund could help the Irish government by purchasing shares of Irish banks now held by the ... |
Monday, January 7, 2013
bizjournals: Highest-paying occupations in the private sector -- bizjournals.com
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Chief executive officers earn substantially more monety than anyone else in theprivated sector, according to a new bizjournald analysis of more than 300 The typical CEO makes $240,903 per year, based on salary data collected from U.S. companiezs between December 2005 andJanuary 2007. That translates to $4,6332 per week or $103.76 per hour of No other job even comes Physiciansand surgeons, who collectivelyh rank second in the compensationh standings, earn $139,849 on average. That puts them $101,000o below chief executive officers. Everyday workersx are so far behind CEOs that they can only dreakmabout six-figure salaries.
The average annualp pay for all full-tims employees in private industryis $40,553. That's less than one-thirde of what the typical doctormakes -- and one-sixth of what the averagre chief executive receives. Bizjournals analyzef earnings for full-time employeez throughout the private sector, using data collectedf by the U.S. Bureau of Labor The bureau estimated wages and hourss for 323 primaryoccupational groups, baseds on a comprehensive survey of ( Ten jobs have average salaries of at leastf $100,000 per year, and another 88 jobs fall in the rangse of $50,000 to $99,999.
( -- Four jobs belong to the professionak fields of medicineor law, led by physicianss and surgeons with their average annual earnings of Dentists rank third nationally at $133,777, lawyers are fourth at $126,530 and optometrists are 10th at $100,419. -- Threed have a technical orientation: aircraft pilotas ($120,505 per year), engineering managers and computer and information systemsmanagers ($106,087). -- Two are in the financiaol sphere.
Brokers who sell stocks and bonds, officially classifiede as "securities, commodities and financial servicezsales agents," make an average of Marketing and sales managers check in at $100,491 per -- And, of course, chief executives are alone at the top of both the salary scale ($240,903) and the organizationap pyramid. An array of medical, managerial and technicaol jobs follow close behind on the salary Pharmacists barelymiss six-figure status with average annual earnings of $97,334, good for 11th placwe overall. General and operations managerws are 12that $96,777. The strong link between salary and education is clearly evident inBizjournals analysis.
Postgraduate degrees are required for seven of the20 highest-payingy occupations, while bachelor's degrees are mandatory or strongluy preferred for the rest. ( Education and training requirements are especiall y stringent for several professions near the very top of the A physicianor surgeon, for example, must earn a bachelor's degree, attendx four years of medical school, spend thre e to eight years in internships and and pass a licensing exam. But no correspondingg link exists between wageasand hours, according to the study. Employees in nine of the 10 highest-payin jobs spend more than 1,900p hours at work during an averaged year.
But the same is true of the two lowest-payingv occupations, waiters and waitresseds (who make an average of $5.44 per and casino employees and other gaming services workers ($6.43 per hour). Two jobs come extremely closde to matching the averagd earnings forall full-time workers in all $40,553. Bus and truck mechanics are $128 above the norm with averagr annual payof $40,681, while septic tank servicers are $133 beloa the line at The lowest annual pay goes to workere in the occupation officiallyt classified as "food service, tipped," which includex waiters, waitresses and bartenders. Their average annualp earnings, excluding tips, are $10,353.
That's pocket changd for the typical CEO, who makew the same amount of money in just 16 based on annual earningwsof $240,903. (
Chief executive officers earn substantially more monety than anyone else in theprivated sector, according to a new bizjournald analysis of more than 300 The typical CEO makes $240,903 per year, based on salary data collected from U.S. companiezs between December 2005 andJanuary 2007. That translates to $4,6332 per week or $103.76 per hour of No other job even comes Physiciansand surgeons, who collectivelyh rank second in the compensationh standings, earn $139,849 on average. That puts them $101,000o below chief executive officers. Everyday workersx are so far behind CEOs that they can only dreakmabout six-figure salaries.
The average annualp pay for all full-tims employees in private industryis $40,553. That's less than one-thirde of what the typical doctormakes -- and one-sixth of what the averagre chief executive receives. Bizjournals analyzef earnings for full-time employeez throughout the private sector, using data collectedf by the U.S. Bureau of Labor The bureau estimated wages and hourss for 323 primaryoccupational groups, baseds on a comprehensive survey of ( Ten jobs have average salaries of at leastf $100,000 per year, and another 88 jobs fall in the rangse of $50,000 to $99,999.
( -- Four jobs belong to the professionak fields of medicineor law, led by physicianss and surgeons with their average annual earnings of Dentists rank third nationally at $133,777, lawyers are fourth at $126,530 and optometrists are 10th at $100,419. -- Threed have a technical orientation: aircraft pilotas ($120,505 per year), engineering managers and computer and information systemsmanagers ($106,087). -- Two are in the financiaol sphere.
Brokers who sell stocks and bonds, officially classifiede as "securities, commodities and financial servicezsales agents," make an average of Marketing and sales managers check in at $100,491 per -- And, of course, chief executives are alone at the top of both the salary scale ($240,903) and the organizationap pyramid. An array of medical, managerial and technicaol jobs follow close behind on the salary Pharmacists barelymiss six-figure status with average annual earnings of $97,334, good for 11th placwe overall. General and operations managerws are 12that $96,777. The strong link between salary and education is clearly evident inBizjournals analysis.
Postgraduate degrees are required for seven of the20 highest-payingy occupations, while bachelor's degrees are mandatory or strongluy preferred for the rest. ( Education and training requirements are especiall y stringent for several professions near the very top of the A physicianor surgeon, for example, must earn a bachelor's degree, attendx four years of medical school, spend thre e to eight years in internships and and pass a licensing exam. But no correspondingg link exists between wageasand hours, according to the study. Employees in nine of the 10 highest-payin jobs spend more than 1,900p hours at work during an averaged year.
But the same is true of the two lowest-payingv occupations, waiters and waitresseds (who make an average of $5.44 per and casino employees and other gaming services workers ($6.43 per hour). Two jobs come extremely closde to matching the averagd earnings forall full-time workers in all $40,553. Bus and truck mechanics are $128 above the norm with averagr annual payof $40,681, while septic tank servicers are $133 beloa the line at The lowest annual pay goes to workere in the occupation officiallyt classified as "food service, tipped," which includex waiters, waitresses and bartenders. Their average annualp earnings, excluding tips, are $10,353.
That's pocket changd for the typical CEO, who makew the same amount of money in just 16 based on annual earningwsof $240,903. (
Saturday, January 5, 2013
Politicians want answers as rumors swirl NCR to leave Dayton - Dallas Business Journal:
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Government officials said word began swirling in the community Thursdat thatNCR (NYSE: NCR) is planning to move its headquarterd and 1,300 employees to the Atlantaz area and make an announcementf about the move this week. NCR Global Spokesperson Richard speaking by phone Saturdayfrom London, confirmed that an effortr was made for Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland and NCR Chietf Executive Officer Bill Nutito speak, howevef they were not able to connect. Strickland’s spokesperson said Saturday that heis “continuing to reach out to the companyg to have a direct conversation.
” When asked aboutg NCR possibly moving its headquarters out of Maton said the company does not respond to rumors and NCR Corporate Spokesperson Alan Ulman responded to questions about NCR’s plans with an e-mail messagew Saturday that read: “We have no announcement today.” In the NCR has been quick to deny rumorsd of its relocation and affirm its commitmeng to remaining in The has repeatedly sought information from the companyu since Thursday, but NCR had not respondedf to their requests as of Friday evening, a developmenf department spokesperson said.
Montgomery Count y Commissioner Dan Foley said he is frustrated by the lack of Foley said he has asked multiplecompany officials, via to respond to the rumors, but has yet to receivd any information. Foley said he, alonvg with other county, state and city of Daytoj officials, have met with NCR representatives in the past in an efforf tosafeguard NCR’s local jobs. “Alkl that said, nobody has confirmed to me that theird statushas changed,” Foley said “I have to assume that -- I I very much hope -- they are staying in Dayton, because our citizens have helped builxd that company up to be world-class and will continued to do so.
” Rumors have long circulated that the compan would move, however multiple government and economic development officialw said they reached a new level in the past few NCR is said to be seekiny about 100,000 square feet of office space in Georgia, . NCR is believedr to have looked at sitesin Savannah, and Ga. Based on the square footage estimates, the operation couldd house about 300 to 400 according to realestate sources. Georgiq government and economic development officialsremainee tight-lipped on any potential development.
In October, NCR said it wouldx move its Worldwide Customer Services headquarterws to anAtlanta suburb, investing $15 milliomn and creating more than 900 jobs in the suburbs of Peachtreew City and Deluth. The state of Georgia provided morethan $8 millionn in incentives, according to officials. NCR, founded locally in is the Dayton region’x second largest company, with 20,00o global employees and $5.3 billionj in revenue in 2008. The company, which sellws ATMs and retail automation systems, is Dayton’z lone remaining Fortune 500 company. At one the company had more than 18,000 employee s in the Dayton area, but that number has dwindled durin g the pastseveral decades.
As recently as two yearw ago, NCR had about 2,000p Dayton employees. That number has declined by about 700 workers in the past several In 2007, NCR announces it was relocating its executivr offices to New York City and leasing an entire floor of the 7 Worldf Trade Center building. But, on paper, its headquarterx remained in Dayton. In March, the company also told employeews it is undergoing a structural reorganization and would cut an unknowhn amount of itsglobal workforce.
That same month, the company removed the language “world headquarters” from the sign at its Daytonb campus, though it said at the time it was just
Government officials said word began swirling in the community Thursdat thatNCR (NYSE: NCR) is planning to move its headquarterd and 1,300 employees to the Atlantaz area and make an announcementf about the move this week. NCR Global Spokesperson Richard speaking by phone Saturdayfrom London, confirmed that an effortr was made for Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland and NCR Chietf Executive Officer Bill Nutito speak, howevef they were not able to connect. Strickland’s spokesperson said Saturday that heis “continuing to reach out to the companyg to have a direct conversation.
” When asked aboutg NCR possibly moving its headquarters out of Maton said the company does not respond to rumors and NCR Corporate Spokesperson Alan Ulman responded to questions about NCR’s plans with an e-mail messagew Saturday that read: “We have no announcement today.” In the NCR has been quick to deny rumorsd of its relocation and affirm its commitmeng to remaining in The has repeatedly sought information from the companyu since Thursday, but NCR had not respondedf to their requests as of Friday evening, a developmenf department spokesperson said.
Montgomery Count y Commissioner Dan Foley said he is frustrated by the lack of Foley said he has asked multiplecompany officials, via to respond to the rumors, but has yet to receivd any information. Foley said he, alonvg with other county, state and city of Daytoj officials, have met with NCR representatives in the past in an efforf tosafeguard NCR’s local jobs. “Alkl that said, nobody has confirmed to me that theird statushas changed,” Foley said “I have to assume that -- I I very much hope -- they are staying in Dayton, because our citizens have helped builxd that company up to be world-class and will continued to do so.
” Rumors have long circulated that the compan would move, however multiple government and economic development officialw said they reached a new level in the past few NCR is said to be seekiny about 100,000 square feet of office space in Georgia, . NCR is believedr to have looked at sitesin Savannah, and Ga. Based on the square footage estimates, the operation couldd house about 300 to 400 according to realestate sources. Georgiq government and economic development officialsremainee tight-lipped on any potential development.
In October, NCR said it wouldx move its Worldwide Customer Services headquarterws to anAtlanta suburb, investing $15 milliomn and creating more than 900 jobs in the suburbs of Peachtreew City and Deluth. The state of Georgia provided morethan $8 millionn in incentives, according to officials. NCR, founded locally in is the Dayton region’x second largest company, with 20,00o global employees and $5.3 billionj in revenue in 2008. The company, which sellws ATMs and retail automation systems, is Dayton’z lone remaining Fortune 500 company. At one the company had more than 18,000 employee s in the Dayton area, but that number has dwindled durin g the pastseveral decades.
As recently as two yearw ago, NCR had about 2,000p Dayton employees. That number has declined by about 700 workers in the past several In 2007, NCR announces it was relocating its executivr offices to New York City and leasing an entire floor of the 7 Worldf Trade Center building. But, on paper, its headquarterx remained in Dayton. In March, the company also told employeews it is undergoing a structural reorganization and would cut an unknowhn amount of itsglobal workforce.
That same month, the company removed the language “world headquarters” from the sign at its Daytonb campus, though it said at the time it was just
Friday, January 4, 2013
eBay Item of the Day: Named for Greatness - Baseball Nation
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Baseball Nation | eBay Item of the Day: Named for Greatness Baseball Nation Not everybody named for an all-time great ballplayer makes it to the major leagues. For every Willie Mays Aikens there are probably a dozen Carl Yastrzemski Johnsons. One thing is for certain, though: Nobody got to the majors quicker after being named ... |
Thursday, January 3, 2013
Tuesday, January 1, 2013
Top Five: Tarantino Film Sequences - Filmophilia
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Top Five: Tarantino Film Sequences Filmophilia There is no escaping it, and for better or for worse, Tarantino is enlivening the holiday season across the world, jolting us away from our garishly wrapped presents and banal figgy pudding with his seventh studio feature, a little film you may have ... |
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