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Friday, July 26, 2013
Textura Launches CPM--Business? | Benzinga
Textura Corporation (NYSE: TXTR), the leading provider of collaboration solutions for the construction industry, announced today the launch of CPM?Business, a new version of its market-leading Construction Payment Management (CPM) solution specifically created to help General Contractors and Owners in the mid-market improve efficiencies and reduce risk in the construction payment process. The current CPM solution, used by over 300 General Contractors and Owners and nearly 60,000 subcontractors, is now called CPM?Enterprise?.
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"We recognized that some General Contractors and Owners wanted the efficiencies and process improvement that our CPM solution provides, but didn't require the full suite of functionality that CPM?Enterprise offers," said Patrick Allin, Textura Chairman and CEO. "We realized this was a gap, and we wanted to address the needs of this important market segment. CPM?Business should be particularly useful to General Contractors and Owners doing five projects or more per year or a smaller number of larger projects."
Allin continued, "As the industry becomes more competitive, larger Contractors are now competing for jobs previously in the domain of mid-market firms. Companies need every advantage they can get, and our collaboration solutions have helped companies improve key construction project processes. CPM?Business gives mid-market Contractors and Owners the same tools as some of the biggest organizations in the industry, but in a version that meets their specific requirements."
Designed with the mid-market Contractor and Owner in mind, CPM?Business improves billing, lien waiver collection, compliance management and payment processes by eliminating paper and automating processes. CPM?Business places the entire process online, allowing real-time access to project information. Textura has a team of sales, implementation and support experts dedicated to ensuring the unique needs of CPM?Business clients are met.
"From our years of experience in the industry, we have learned that no matter the size of the Contractor or Owner, all companies struggle with the construction payment process," concluded Allin. "The traditional method is too paper-laden and inefficient. Our CPM?Enterprise solution has helped some of the largest General Contractors and Owners across the world improve efficiency and increase productivity, and we're excited that with CPM?Business we are now able to offer the same advantages to mid-market organizations."
About Textura
Textura is the leading provider of collaboration and productivity tools for the construction industry. Our solutions serve all construction industry professionals across the project lifecycle ? from takeoff, estimating, design and pre-qualification to bid management, submittals, LEED? management and payment ? on a single, integrated platform.
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Source: http://www.benzinga.com/news/13/07/3782623/textura-launches-cpm-business
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Frank Smith "Nineties" | Triangle Arts and Entertainment
Some of the greatest albums of all time are biographical concepts.? The band Frank Smith would like Nineties added to the list.? With the exception of the first track, singer/songwriter Aaron Sinclair has taken an entire album to look back at the decade in which he developed as a musician as well as an adult.? Opening with ?We Will All Win?, Sinclair seems to take one last brief farewell to a style he and the band are about to leave behind.? The sparse and mournful requiem sets the emotional and topical tone for the rest of the album without leaving a clue what you will hear next.? The opening riff of the second song boldly establishes the surprising new style of Frank Smith.? Surf guitar riffs, dark and mysterious, are brilliantly illuminated by sparkly jangle pop guitar, rounded out by deliciously cheesy keyboards.? The soundscape is awash with a sea of reverb in a cavernous atmosphere that is simultaneously spacious and intimate.
While the band reveals Sinclair?s musical influences of the decade, his lyrics express the anxieties of early adulthood.? The frustrations of minor failures while struggling to succeed in life and love are both personal and universal.? Anyone in or beyond their twenties can relate.? With a what-the-hell attitude, Sinclair manages to maintain a sense of hope, even though he?d prefer to just get drunk and forget about it.? The result is a joyously fresh new style of cry in your beer bar band music.? In a word, Nineties is intoxicating.
Frank Smith will perform live in Chapel Hill at The Cave on August 8th.?? This will be their only North Carolina appearance with this tour, so don?t miss it!
Source: http://triangleartsandentertainment.org/2013/07/frank-smith-nineties/
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Thursday, July 25, 2013
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Thursday, July 18, 2013
G20 to seek reassurance from Fed and China
By Lidia Kelly and Douglas Busvine
MOSCOW (Reuters) - G20 summits don't always set the pulse racing but this week's gathering of finance ministers and central bankers in Moscow has a better chance than most of grabbing the attention of financial markets.
The policymakers meet at a sensitive time with the U.S. Federal Reserve intent on slowing, then exiting a bond-buying program that has been creating $85 billion a month, and Beijing trying to rebalance the world's most dynamic economy.
Chinese growth slowed only moderately in the second quarter and after causing ructions in world financial markets, Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke has been at pains to stress he will only halt the money-printing presses if he sees stronger evidence of U.S. recovery.
Nonetheless, the Group of G20 leading economies will seek reassurances that neither will upset the apple cart.
Emerging nations have seen dramatic investment outflows since the Fed announced its exit plan, forcing policy responses around the world.
Indonesia and Brazil have raised rates, India tightened liquidity as the rupee plunged to a record low and Turkey's central bank has intervened repeatedly to defend the lira.
"A key consideration going forward is the unwinding of unconventional monetary policy, where careful phasing and clear communication will be critical," International Monetary Fund chief Christine Lagarde said on Tuesday.
South Korea echoed that concern, its finance ministry demanding the Fed consider "not only its domestic conditions but also the global effects", before acting.
Bernanke will not be in Moscow but will deliver two days of testimony to the U.S. Congress earlier in the week.
Japan's top financial diplomat said Tokyo would put similar questions to the People's Bank of China about the wider impact of its actions. The bank is trying to rein in credit largely in a shadow banking system.
"The situation in China is not necessarily clear, and it would be desirable to clarify various data and issues," Mitsuhiro Furusawa, vice finance minister for international affairs, told Reuters. "We are paying close attention to see what the real picture is in China."
Japan's extraordinary stimulus program will also be under scrutiny, particularly the structural reforms it has promised will accompany it.
Tokyo has so far been given a free pass at international gatherings from countries which had previously urged it to get growth going. But there is growing disquiet.
"Most of the partners are losing more and more patience with Japan", one G20 source said. "They want to see concrete structural reforms."
A document setting out the position of the 27-nation European Union called on Tokyo to put in place a "medium-term fiscal consolidation plan" and focus on structural reforms to foster sustainable growth.
Furusawa said Japan would assure its G20 peers that its aggressive reflationary policies were not aimed at weakening the yen and would have positive effects for the world economy.
Emerging powers are flexing their muscles about the impact of a strong dollar. Brazil has been liaising with Beijing over ways to limit the effects of the dollar's rise on their economies though it is not clear what can be done or whether the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) can offer a united front.
"We are working to enable closer cooperation in many aspects, including possible swap transactions," Russian Finance Minister Anton Siluanov, who will host the Thursday/Friday summit, told Reuters. "The process continues, but not fast."
TAX DODGING
The G20 ministers will also look at corporate tax evasion, which has become a hot political issue.
The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development has been charged by the G20 with formulating measures to stop big companies shifting profits into tax havens.
A preliminary draft of the plan, seen by Reuters, showed the organization has already identified a number of specific profit shifting schemes and aims for agreement on specific changes to international tax rules in one to two years.
A G20 official said the ministers would endorse the OECD plan while labor and finance ministers will issue a statement on balancing job creation policies with efforts to cut debt.
The balance between austerity and growth remains a contentious theme as does Germany's call for concrete debt reduction targets to follow up on goals set three years ago.
"The U.S. is getting more and more angry about Europeans, who they think are not doing enough for growth," the official said.
In a tit-for-tat, the EU paper seen by Reuters said the lack of agreement on a credible medium-term fiscal consolidation plan in the United States was a risk to the global economy.
The G20 has not been able so far to agree on binding targets to reduce borrowing to follow on from a deal struck in Toronto in 2010, and officials said any hopes of new longer-term debt goals were receding fast.
(Reporting by Tetsushi Kajimoto in Tokyo, Gernot Heller in Berlin, Anna Yukhananov in Washington, Jan Strupczewski in Brussels, Se Young Lee in Seoul, Tom Bergin in London. Writing by Mike Peacock Editing by Jeremy Gaunt)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/g20-seek-reassurance-fed-china-130435798.html
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Tuesday, July 16, 2013
Obama political group rents supporter list
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The nonprofit group supporting President Barack Obama's agenda paid the president's re-election campaign nearly $700,000 during the past three months to rent the campaign's extensive list of supporters and buy equipment.
Organizing for Action was formed out of the president's campaign earlier this year. Records released Monday show the group paid the president's campaign an initial fee of $300,000 for the list of supporters and monthly fees of $87,500 to rent it.
The group, which has been promoting Obama's agenda on gun control, immigration reform and climate change, raised more than $8 million between April and June. Records show the group spent about $100,000 on equipment purchases from the campaign during the past three months.
Overall, the president's campaign had about $300,000 in cash in the bank at the end of the filing period on June 30, according to Monday's filing with the Federal Election Commission. The campaign had nearly $3.5 million in debts.
The campaign of 2012 Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney reported $1.1 million in the bank at the end of June and no debt. Romney's filing shows that his campaign continues to pay off bills trickling in from last fall's election, although he earned money by renting lists of supporters as well.
Specifically, Romney's campaign earned about $130,500 from selling lists to two companies: Minnesota-based FLS Connect and Granite Lists of New Hampshire, which describes itself on Facebook as "the political world's most dynamic Republican lists."
This year's activity represents a small fraction of the overall spending in the 2012 presidential contest. Obama and Romney combined to spend more than $1.1 billion overall, which doesn't include hundreds of millions more from outside groups.
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Peoples reported from Boston.
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Source: http://news.yahoo.com/obama-political-group-rents-supporter-130935118.html
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NES at 30: Why Mario still makes a difference
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The original box for the Nintendo Entertainment System.
The Nintendo Entertainment System, which turned 30 Monday, may seem like a relic in an era of consoles like the PS4 and Xbox One ? but it helped define those systems and the games on them in more ways than one.
Lasting franchises
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New Super Mario Bros Wii, one of the latest titles in the Mario line of games.
The power of the series was apparent to Nintendo, existing as it did in the days of "Star Wars," "Indiana Jones" and "Back to the Future." So the company was happy to make and publish sequels and spin-offs, even if it had little to do with the original. The result is that the "core" franchises became a staple of gaming. That began on the Nintendo, perhaps best exemplified by "Super Mario Bros."
The original game smashed records (largely due to being included in the box), the second was a bizarre cult hit (but still an excellent game) and the third is hailed by many as one of the best games ever made, regardless of age.
Nintendo and its stable of developers would continue this pattern for decades with other major properties: with repetition, "Legend of Zelda," "Mega Man," "Castlevania," and many more became ingrained in the minds of young gamers ? gamers who grew up to compose Nintendo's current core audience.
It may have been a tactical move to avoid risk and stick with what worked, but the fact is that Mario and Link have become utterly iconic through their constant presence, an accomplishment others have tried with varying success to imitate.
Games that defined genres
While "Super Mario Bros." may be the most obvious success story, the NES was also home to games that both inspired genres and still define them.
For instance, "Final Fantasy" and "Dragon Warrior" elevated the comparatively obscure role-playing game genre to playable form. The extreme length and depth of these games created gamers who would not be satisfied by mere arcade thrills, helping move games from then-rare PCs and arcades into the home. And their sequels (now numbering in the double digits) still act as yardsticks for others in the genre.
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The original "Legend of Zelda," still used as a reference and inspiration by gamers and developers.
But it's not just sequels that inherited Nintendo game qualities. To this day, games can be described in terms of the Nintendo games that preceded them: "Zelda"-esque item hunting, "Metroid"-style exploration, "Contra"-quality shooting, "Battletoads"-level difficulty. If you want to make someone understand the basic gameplay of even a major modern game, NES titles are the common vocabulary, something that everyone understands.
For better or worse, it made gaming child's play
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An ad for the original NES emphasizing its family-friendly nature.
Nintendo's most dubious legacy, in full force on the NES, was its insistence on being family-friendly. The NES was, after all, originally called the Famicom, or family computer. From the beginning, games and accessories were designed with friends and family in mind ? and while that meant lots of bright, accessible games, it also meant mature themes were generally avoided.
This occasionally resulted in some mind-boggling mix-ups and errors ? the neutered "Mortal Kombat," the inexplicably un-censored exploding Hitler head in "Bionic Commando" ? but its main effect was to establish home gaming systems as the province of kids. Never mind that some games were more difficult than anything that came before or after ? the stigma, which Nintendo worked actively to promote, was that games were Disney-level entertainment.
30 years later, the games industry is still recovering from this: games are often reduced in the public eye to "blasting aliens" or "saving the princess" despite having shed those limitations long ago. And that which helped Nintendo reach millions of living rooms in the 1980s and 1990s may now be holding it back: more gamers than ever want Hollywood-level content in both tone and setting, meaning sex and violence that Nintendo even now is barely willing to tolerate.
The NES may not have been the first game console by a long shot, but for millions it was the first they owned and loved. After 30 years it still resonates with gamers, and probably will for decades to come.
Devin Coldewey is a contributing writer for NBC News Digital. His personal website is coldewey.cc.
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