| Arizona's film industry shows signs of growth
A new TV show will be using the streets of downtown Phoenix as a stand-in for Los Angeles over the next few weeks, but it wasn't the architecture or the weather that drew it here. The show's producers came for Arizona's entertainment-industry tax incentives, and they're not the only people looking east from Hollywood toward Arizona. TV and film productions spent an estimated $208 million in Arizona in 2007, and 2008 may be an even bigger year. .
FABIO THE RIGHT ONE
Fabio must be the right person to push them in the right direction. There are good English coaches, but the reality is you cannot find at this moment an English coach with great experience of high-level, international football.
The best teams in England that play European football have foreign coaches. I dont think its an easy situation for them, but from outside I can understand the FA are taking care of their situation. They are probably waiting for the revolution to get an English manager. This is the normal tendency.
I have so many great memories of England that even if I go, like I hope to, to another football country, I will always be in love with England.
Mischievous, perhaps, but Mourinho did not state he will not be back in the Premier League next season and there is nothing in his Chelsea severance agreement that precludes it.
Dollar Thrifty loses $30 million in quarter
A sluggish travel market and higher operating costs triggered a $30.58 million fourth-quarter loss at Dollar Thrifty Automotive Group Inc., company executives said Thursday.
Tulsa-based Dollar Thrifty, which lost $2.6 million in 2006's fourth quarter, lost $1.45 per share compared with a loss of 11 cents per share in the same quarter of 2006.
Fourth-quarter revenue was $389.2 million, down from $392.8 million in the 2006 fourth quarter.
President and CEO Gary L. Paxton said the loss resulted from weakened demand and excess vehicle capacity, which depressed prices in the last half of the quarter.
"While we are disappointed in these results, we have a clear strategy in place to grow our business, improve our operations and build value for our shareholders," Paxton said in a prepared statement.
local business briefs | Columbia firm to work on data mining
Collexis Holdings Inc. said Thursday it will work with The Thomson Corp.'s Thomson Scientific subsidiary to create a custom data mining tool for researchers. The tool will help users identify and search for "documents, experts and trends more quickly, accurately and deeply than via conventional search engines," Columbia-based Collexis said. Shares rose 2 cents Thursday to 37 cents. • Chamber to host writing seminar The Greater Columbia Chamber of Commerce will hold a writing seminar Feb. 29 at its offices at 930 Richland St. Henry Price, a retired USC professor who holds a doctoral degree in communications from Michigan State University, will lead the seminar, "Good Writing is Good Business," from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Final UL president candidates answers questions
Interviews for UL's next president began Monday and continue today, but the question-and-answer sessions aren't the end-all, be-all in choosing a new president, advised UL System's search consultant. "The interview is the least valid predictor of performance," said James Fisher, the system's search consultant. "... The way to find a leader is to find a leader and that's only done through referencing." .
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