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wwwSanAngeloStandardHmescom BUSINESS NEWS CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1C 2C San Angelo Standard-Times Monday June 14 2004 Book retailer moves into urban stance Borders blazes trail for businesses in city locations By MIKE RAMSEY Associated Press SIP 111)4 ir ii tiH IJJf DETROIT Borders Group Inc Is becoming an urbanploneec The book retailer is opening stores in Chicago San Francisco and Detroit in once-devastated retail areas or In commercial or industrial areas that have never had places to shop The Detroit store opened on the ground floor of Compuware new world headquarters amid shuttered storefronts and empty buildings many of them under renovation Urban locations are not always an easy sell especially for large stores similar to Borders that rely on roomy parking lots But Ann Arbor-based Borders the second-largest bookseller has SO stores in urban settings out of 480 Alex Lelll vice president of development said urban stores are big contributors to the profits store which opened in November has exceeded sales expectations though the company provide sales figures too early to say how well the stores In Chicago and San Francisco are doing Lelll said the newest stores are opening in places that obvious Borders is looking for areas where redevelopment looks like going to take off "We hopeflilly make that decision at the right he said ff AP PHOTO BY RAUL SANCYA Connie Garza looked for book during her lunch break May 17 at the Borders book store in downtown Detroit Borders Group Inc is going places other retailers gone New book stores in Chicago San Frandsco and Detroit inhabit either oncfrdevastated retail areas or commercial or industrial areas that have never had places to shop The Detroit store opened on the ground floor of Compuware Corp's new world headquarters amid shuttered storefronts and empty buildings though many are now under renovation Dick Baggett Human Resources Tips Grasping overtime changes The new significant changes to the Wage and Hour Law Ttests of Exemption take effect Aug 23 We are continuing our analysis of these changes to assist businesses in preparing for their effective date Today we will start to examine the new tests cf exemptions for the new rules governing overtime pay Our first classification for being exempt from receiving overtime pay is someone whose primary duty is managing the enterprise or a customarily recognized department or subdivision of the enterprise Every key word in this state-ment is important The inter-pretation of the new rules can hinge cm each of them The key words are: primary duty managing enterprise recognized department and subdivision Each of these needs same clarification "Primary duty" is distinguished from "aM duty or primary duties The emphasis is clearly that there is one primary duty for tills Job and that is managing is to be Interpreted to include many different types of activities including but not limited to: Interviewing selecting and training employees Directing the work of employees Appraising productivity and efficiency -Planning the work and determining foe techniques to be used Apportioning the work among the employees Managing also includes planning and controlling the budget as well as monitoring and implementing legal compliance measures The functions of managing processes projects or contracts would also be considered Under some circumstances the regulations recommend or require a case-by-case analysis of specific duties and activities in a joh These case-by-case analyses are necessary to determine whether the Job meets the definition of Consider customer complaints In a restaurant it could be the job of each watiec In these employees' job this would not be If the restaurant were organized so a manager was designated to handle all customer complaints this duty would be part of pleased when the store can make an Impact In an area trying to make a rebound but it has to make financial sense In Detroit Lelll said unlikely the store would have been built If It were not located In the same building as Compuware which employs more than 4000 people Paul Czarnlck a Compuware employee browsing magazines said the bookstore created a major buzz among co-workers before it opened "Being In the computer business handy to have it here to see he said executives are Roslyn Smith the sales manager for the store said customers have thanked her personally for opening "They say my God I believe a bookstore in downtown she said "People who live down here say am so glad I have to drive to the In some cases such as In Detroit the arrival of the Bop ders is pegged by local development officials as a magnet for more retail development nearby Other stores and restaurants Including a Hard Rock Cafe also have opened on the ground floor of the Compuware building Blog writers look to ads for income By KATHLEEN PENDER San Frandsco Chronide Three ways to make money Blogads: Blogads Is a small appears Google wont disclose Its NEWS in brief SAN ANGELO K1DY employees honored for service The following employees were honored during the quarterly staff meeting for Sage Broadcasting the parent company of Fax 10 KIDY-TV for their years of service: Bill Carter 25 years John Talley 21 years Teddye Read 13' years Santos Cardenas six years Mack Ray and Charles Sherrill five years Jerlann Cox three years and John Key two years The following employees have one-plus years of service: Jess Black Andy Forman Glenda Tourville Frank Flores and Brett Robinson KIDY Is San Angelo's Fox affiliate Ballinger bank branch officially opens doors The official opening of the Bank of San Angelo a branch of the First National Bank of Ballinger was Friday The branch la at the corner of Knickerbocker Road and Valleyvlew The San Angelo and Ballinger banka are subsidiaries of Texas Country Bancshares which also owns Brady National Bank and Citizens Bank NA of Abilene and Knox City Plans are In place to apply later this year for the Bank of San own charter: The bank la operating in a temporary facility while a per manent structure is under construction Staff reports Web logs or blogs which started as labors of love are becoming moneymakers for writers selling advertising on their sites Some top bloggers who car ry advertising say they make hundreds or In a few cases thousands of dollars a month The typical take Is $20 to $50 a month which covers the cost of running a typical Web site A blog Is an online journal typically written by an individual Some are devoted to single topics such as pets or politics Others are stream-of-consclousness muslngs on anything and everything Most blogs are updated daily co research company says estimates between 2 percent and feature links to other there are about 25 million and 7 percent of adult Internet Mobs blogs with lOflOO created dally users write a blog and 11 per Tarimnrafi a San Franria- The Pew Research Center cent visit blogs North Carahna company Advertisers prices or revenue sham and it ft go to wwwhkxpdsxom and choose bids bloggers from disclosing them sites on which they want to appeat Amazon Associates: While Prices range from $5 to $700 a week technically not advertising Ama-Blogads gets 20 percent of the rate zoncom has offered bloggers and the niogger gets the rest other Web sites a way to make Google Adaonaa: Instead of money since 1996 selling ads on specific sites Google Sites that join the Associates Adsense sells ads linked to certain program link content on their site words that appear in the content of to books consumer electronics sites Bloggers like this approach and other products sold on Ama-because it provides relatively unob- zon If a visitor clicks on the link trusive ads their readers might and buys the product the Web want to see site gets a percentage of the rev- Advertisers pay Google each enue The cut has been as high as time a user clicks on their ads 1 5 percent but is now 25 percent Google gives a portion of this rev- to 1 0 percent depending upon enue to the site where the ad the product RADIO: Family sells station to Foster Staha takes on the cigar business thing about radio The Tejano station was a dream of Audrey Luna'a brother Dwight Carver After dreaming for years of opening a station he decided to give radio a try In 1995 "My brother started looking around for a place that had natural beauty historical significance and of course frlfendly Audrey Luna said "He was looking for all these special attributes and he found them in San Carver died abruptly from complications of diabetes in March 1999 and the ownership went up for grabs Foster tried to buy the station at that time Luna said surprised at how much a person would spend on a cigar that you think normally would My clientele consists from high school seniors up to successful businessmen and women Have you seen a growing trend in the number of female cigar and pipe smokers? Staha: I am seeing the percentage of women smoking cigars increasing especially the flavored cigars They see their husbands with their groups smoking cigars and they say we can hang with the boys" Hove you had any struggles working with mostly male customers? Staha: It is surprising to people when they come Into the store and want to learn about but her family ready to let go of her station The Lunas left Utah and took ownership of KYZZ "We come to it with an idea except to keep the station on the Audrey Luna said 1 "We had a lot of great help from a great staff the only reason we got Key said the KYZZ staff two fuU-timers and eight part-timers will join the rest of the Foster staff in the Sherwood Way offices In July after construction of a KYZZ addition la finished "It frill be a good place for KYZZ to Audrey Luna said cigars or pipe tobacco and a woman Is explaining it They find that to be interesting that a woman knows so much in what Is typically a domain At first I thought it'd be intimidating but wotkedtomy benefit Has the number of cue-tomers decreased as Americans work to become healthier? Staha: I see people that are trying to get off cigarettes lean toward smoking a pipe because It's easier tojust light up a cigarette and keep puffing on it With a pipe you don't Inhale and smoking a pipe does take patience and practice: When one person decides to quit smoking there Is always another one that's ready to start and learn about cigars or pipes Continued from Page 1C "We think KYZZ fits great with our Key said a natural fit with our community and a great piece of the puzzle both In satisfying our audience and our Former KYZZ general manager Audrey Luna said her empty house at the foot of the Uintah Mountains in Vernal Utah finally beckoned her back home "It made us sick literally to have to leave Luna said Luna had been a schoolteacher Her husband Will Luna had been a petroleum engineer Neither knew any Continued from Page 1C Which products do you sell most? Staha: Cigars pick up In the wanner months and pipe tobacco In the cooler months because men will have to smoke their cigars outside because of the heavy aroma and It takes longer to smoke a cigar Pipe tobacco has a more pleasant aroma and they can sit in front of the fireplace inside and enjoy their pipe Men also come in to buy dgare to take to the gdf course fishing camping out How do you appeal to a range of customers? Staha: I try to keep cigars in various price ranges so that have something that can suit price You would be TV: Stations to go from being competitors to partners with little change in appearance As the television industry changed with advances in technology Kimbell said independently running a single station was no longer economically feasible Mqjor networks stopped paying for their programming and the transfer to digital cable became a costly expense Kimbell said Nexstar had been Interested in KLST for years but became particularly interested after Mission acquired KSAN about a year ago Nexstar made Kimbell a fair offer he said and in late May they entered Into a definitive agreement They await FCC approvaL what is happening to many small-market stations and will continue to happen over the next years" Kimbell said Once the sale la final Jewell Broadcasting will liquidate itself and Kimbell will retire he said KLST "I say I have a lot of control of what happens" Kimbell said been represented and sold to me I hope will be a benefit to employees that are employed In our station be able to advance within Nexstar The product over the air will be advanced and there will be more resources put into programming and Kimbell's family had owned KLST since his unde TB Lanford bought the station in the late 1960a Lanford died in 1978 but his family continued to operate the station and incorporated Jewell Broadcasting in 1981 side of the Lanford family bought ownership of Jewell outright In 1994 By the late 1990a Jewell had dumped its few other holdings In Louisiana KLST became its only asset Jones said Nexstar hopes to incorporate the KSAN newsroom into KLffFs facility at 2800 Armstrong St Jones also said the two stations will have a consolidation of resources but did not say whether the consolidation would result In a reduction of Jobs Members of the two stations met June 1 the day Nexstar took over operation of KLST while it awaits approval of the $12 million purchase from the Federal Communications Commission Before accepting her KSAN duties Munoz said foe June 1 meeting between the two stations was friendly were together in the room for two minutes and all it took for us to welcome each Munoz said Ted Kimbell president and chief executive officer of Jewell said he is optimistic about Nexs plans for "We have a lot of affection for the people out there in San said Kimbell who Uvea in Dallas certainly mlaa owning KLST and our family will miss the people We enjoyed the community and really befog a part of the community It's an attachment that is going to be hard to let loose of but it simply did not make sense from an economic standpoint for us to hold onto KLST employees now wait to see how money will be used "They (the employees) are looking forward to this and Just ready to go for the Munoz said a team now and everything is moving in the positive direction I think that it's a little premature (to discuss changes) right now But from what I've been hearing going to Continued from Page 1C Munoz who was unavailable for comment after the change Is developing a plan for how the two stations can help one another and provide more load news coverage The stations will move from befog competitors to partners although KLST General Manager Tom Stovall said the transition will appear seamless to the viewers "To a viewer at home there wlU be no change of what they see on either station other than a way to enhance the look of either Stovall said noting there will be no crossover of on-screen personalities between the two stations As Munoz has with news coverage Stovall has shouldered the responsibility of managing both business operations.