Corpus Christi Caller-Times from Corpus Christi, Texas (2024)

July 21, 2016

Publication:

Corpus Christi Caller-Timesi

Location:

Corpus Christi, Texas

Issue Date:

Thursday, July 21, 2016

Page:

12

Extracted Article Text (OCR)

Campaign humanizes personnel ByCMsBamlra 36V8B6-3C67 cargo tonnage has received recognition in previous years at the AAPA Annual Communications Awards Most recently it won an Award of Merit for Social Media in 2014 and Awards of Distinction in 2013 in the Website and Overall Campaign categories Port community awareness campaign "When port authorities communicate strategically with their many audiences including their communities business leaders and policymakers better able to show their tremendous value as drivers of economic development environmental and the aid firm Morehead Dotts and Rybak The campaign aims to put a name and a face to the tasks of those who work at the port from finance personnel to engineers It also personalizes several of the its stakeholders ana chief customers The port the eighth largest based on enhancement and job said Kurt Nagle president CEO "This competition helps our member ports by rewarding effective communications and highlighting best practices and lessons The People Move Our Port campaign was developed in collaboration by Port Corpus Christi staff awareness campaign The American Association of Port Authorities this week announced the ports that are to receive recognition during its 50th Annual Communications Awards Program The 90-year-old port is set to receive an Award of Distinction in the Overall Campaign category for its People Move Our The Port of Corpus Christi is being recognized for its community Gannett center to consolidate MAY KVtVim MEA NOW SMUyilff Monica Rezende of Brazil poses for her husband at the Android Garden on the Google campus in Mountain View Calif Iconic high-tech firms in Silicon Valley have become tourist destinations Tech tourism has IWitten of the former parent Journal Media Corpus Christi team is responsible for exceptional award-' editing an Mizell Stewart III vice president of news operations for Gannett and former chief content officer forJMG Design Studios produce dynamic and engaging print pages for both liigh-end magazines and all of the com daily newspapers I am hopeful that we can find new roles for team members in our other studios" Readers will receive the same high-quality newspapers they currently receive Stewart said In addition to Corpus Christi the Texas center handles copy editing and page design for newspapers in Abilene San Angelo and Wichita Falls Texas Redding and Ventura California and Bremerton Washington miHinm Lawyers for three defendants said contract field workers committed fraud and duped their clients Those defendants included two employees of law firm and Hector Eloy Guerra whose lawyer described him as the liaison between the law firm and the field workers Watts and his investors and Mikal law firm got scammed" said Michael McCrum representing David Watts also a Corpus Christi native a data analyst for his brother1 law firm McCrum said correspondence will show that David Watts continually was trying to more information about people named on the list He also took issue with Rushing1 description of the payment far the steering committee saying the money was divided among hundreds of lawyers working for 95 firms SmBP51 its own pilgrims jfjt We are all the way from India This is the only thing that woke him up Disneyland Print design will relocate to desk in Phoenix By staff reports Gannett and the USA TODAY NETWORK announced Wednesday its plans to consolidate its Corpus Christi editing and design center with its simi-lar operation in Phoenix The 42 employees were informed of the decision Wednesday The precise number of fob reductions will not be known until the operation winds down late this year Eligible employees will be considered for new positions being created in Arizona as well as Gannett Design Studios in Iowa Kentucky New Jersey and Tennessee The Corpus Christi center located at the Corpus Christi Caller-Times became part of Gannett in April with the acquisition Watts accused of inflating client list in lawsuits By Janet McConnaughey Associated Press GULFPORT Miss-ATexas lawyer and six co-defendants fraudulently inflated a client list for lawsuits against BP after the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill a federal prosecutor told jurors Wednesday Assistant US Attorney Jerry Rushing said in his opening statement that the list included people who died before the spill and people whose names and -Social Security numbers were used without their permission Rushing said one reason the list was inflated was so that Mikal Watts a Corpus Christi native could get a lucrative spot on the steering committee which he described as a group of 22 attorneys who were paid a total of $600 because of growing global demand for food supplies boosted sales of genetically engineered seeds fertilizer herbicides and pesticides However in the last few years falling crop prices caused trouble for both companies Facing pressure from investors Dow and DuPont made some moves to simplify their businesses DuPont spun off performance chemicals business into a separate company called Chemours last year while Dow Chemical sold its i business and most of its chlorine business But those deals enough for investors People with selfie sticks bring the kids By Ethan Baron The Mercury News (TNS) SAN FRANCISCO Move over Alcatraz clear some way cable cars and back off Mickey: Silicon Valley is giving San Francisco and other Golden State attractions a run for their money when it comes to drawing hordes of tourists Because for some tourists taking a selfie in front of Facebook is all part of the vacation plan are all the way from said Pavi Rajkumar with family members at sign outside its Menlo Park headquarters on a recent morning Alongside Rajkumar was her nephew Shriman Sendhil who spends two to three hours a day on the social network and claims 1000 Facebook friends "This is the only thing that woke him Rajkumar said of the visit tourist on her neahetfs Interest In visiting Fxebco*k headquarters the Holy Land in the Middle Ages to visit churches engaged in large-scale colonialism "We now see pilgrimages to firms that In ways both good and bad are colonizing our everyday Turner said "Folks are looking for a physical place behind the kind of dematerialized rience that they have A visit to Android garden in Mountain View presents a physical place and more: Here tourists walk among supersized representations of the operating mascots including a hulking doughnut immense cupcake and giant ice-cream sandwich representing the 11 Android iterations "We use Google every day every hour so we wanted to visit said Daniel Rezende 34 an electrical engineer from Brazil on vacation with his wife Monica a 37-year-old dentist an important Timer's pilgrimage the-ory also seems to explain their baby and a selfie stick about 1000 miles from their Vancouver home use (Facebook) every said Hsu 30 a banker Huang a 37-year-old airport shop manager gestured toward sprawling campus and said as might be predicted pretty cool in at Google next Mostly tech tourists are not focused on a single company They hopscotch from firm to firm "We just came from Oracle then we to HP Google going to do Tesla Intel eBay and Yahoo And Apple I forgot said Ray Santiago SMATntACTKMSH -T MS0CMVED NESi HU fibers More recently they have focused on agriculture Pavi I to the company "Disneyland Quietly but indubitably tech tourism has become a thing Hundreds of people a day visit the Facebook sign and Android sculpture garden in Mountain View with many stopping at other tech giants as well snapping photos and shooting video And they even get to go inside "What seeing are people on a said Stanford communications professor Fred "Rimer who regularly drives past Facebook and ponders the selfie-seeking travelers Most technology tourism is of the do-it-yourself variety but several companies offer customized tours Turner compared the new breed of tourists to pilgrims who traveled to businesses They agreed to merge in December in an all-stock deal valued at about $62 They expect the combination to be official by the end of 2P16 but regulators will still have to approve it Within two years the company plans to split into three separate publicly traded companies One company will focus on agriculture one on material science and one will make and sell specialty products DuPont and Dow Chemical were each founded in the'19th century Their research has brought the world products ranging from Ziploc bags and Saran Dow Chemical DuPont approve merger in all-stock deal DuPont CEO Ellen Kullman resigned in October a few months after the i fought affapraxyc from a hedge fund The two sides have been eliminating staffs and glint ing facilities as they get ready to combine DuPont is laying off about 10 percent of its staff worldwide and last month Dow said ft will cut 200 jobs They say the merger will reduce thrir annual spending by $3 billion Dow Chemical Co shares rose 77 cents to $5313 in afternoon trading while shares of EI du Pont de Nemours and co*k edged up 24 cents to $6773 0 Companies plan to break into 3 parts By The Associated Press YORK -Shareholders for agriculture and chemicals companies DuPont and Dow Chemical have approved their merger After complete the century-old companies plan to break up into three parts The companies field meetings where shareholders voted on the deaL Both Dow and DuPont were pushed by activist investors to break up or find other ways to revitalize their Dupont's name appears above Its trading post on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange Combined Dow and DuPont will be the second-largest chemicals company in the world wrap developed by Dow to Teflon coat- ings and Nylon and Kevlar t'.

About Corpus Christi Caller-Times Archive

Pages Available:

2,028,432

Years Available:

1910-2024