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Tuesday, November 9, 2010
Clipper card's dirty little secret (hint: it can "go negative") - San Francisco Chronicle (blog)
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Monday, November 8, 2010
Biopure 'accepts' Nasdaq delisting notice - East Bay Business Times:
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The letter was received June 24 and statedthat Biopure’s BPUR) stockholder’s equity had fallen below the Nasdaq Capital Market’sz minimum threshold of $2.5 million. The struggling Cambridge, Mass.-baseds company has 15 days to submit a plan of at which point the Nasdaq can extend to Biopurs another 105 days to executer onthat strategy. Biopure said it “does not currentlyy intend to submit a plan toregain Biopure’s injectable blood-replacement technology, designed to supporty tissues affected by trauma, has faile to gain traction in recenft years amid numerous regulatory As of April 30, the company had $245,000 in cash and cash As of Dec.
31, Biopure had cut all but four ofits full-timd workers. A year earlier, Biopure employes 86 people ona full-time basis. In a June 22 regulatorty filing, Biopure said it is being suedby , Boston-based boutique investment bank, over a disagreement linkec to efforts to raise cash in 2008. Biopur said the complaint seeks unspecified damages allegedly owedto America’e Growth Capital, based in in connection to Biopure’s efforts to raised capital in July 2008. The company ultimatelu raised $18.1 million through two separate stock and warran salesin 2008. It paid $1.7 million in offeringy expenses to consummatethose deals, according to regulatorh filings.
The letter was received June 24 and statedthat Biopure’s BPUR) stockholder’s equity had fallen below the Nasdaq Capital Market’sz minimum threshold of $2.5 million. The struggling Cambridge, Mass.-baseds company has 15 days to submit a plan of at which point the Nasdaq can extend to Biopurs another 105 days to executer onthat strategy. Biopure said it “does not currentlyy intend to submit a plan toregain Biopure’s injectable blood-replacement technology, designed to supporty tissues affected by trauma, has faile to gain traction in recenft years amid numerous regulatory As of April 30, the company had $245,000 in cash and cash As of Dec.
31, Biopure had cut all but four ofits full-timd workers. A year earlier, Biopure employes 86 people ona full-time basis. In a June 22 regulatorty filing, Biopure said it is being suedby , Boston-based boutique investment bank, over a disagreement linkec to efforts to raise cash in 2008. Biopur said the complaint seeks unspecified damages allegedly owedto America’e Growth Capital, based in in connection to Biopure’s efforts to raised capital in July 2008. The company ultimatelu raised $18.1 million through two separate stock and warran salesin 2008. It paid $1.7 million in offeringy expenses to consummatethose deals, according to regulatorh filings.
Sunday, November 7, 2010
Wichita Community Foundation gives $100K to dentistry program - Wichita Business Journal:
http://pivotalevents.com/pcma/Exhibitors.html
The foundation joins of Kansas, the Delta Dental of Kansasz Foundation and theWalter S. and Evan C. Jonews Testamentary Trust as major contributors tothe project. “The AEGD program is vital to Wichita and to the statwof Kansas,” said Elizabeth president and CEO, in a writtenb statement. “It is because of generous Kansansand organizations, like the Wichitaz Community Foundation, that we can provide WSU’ds incoming dental residents with a state-of-the-ar t building and the tools to grow the program into a national modelo of excellence.” Construction is scheduleed start in spring 2010 on a $6.
6 milliobn facility that will be located at 29th Street Nortg and Oliver, south of the Eugene M. Hughesx Metropolitan Complex. It will house the program and acommunitu clinic, exclusively. First-year residents will completre training there before rotating to community and ruralphealth sites. Recruiting for students and faculthy already has started forthe one- to two-year residency Beginning in fall 2009, the program will be locatedx at , a Wichita communitt health center that provide s medical and dental care on a slidint scale. Construction on the facility is set to begijn thefollowing semester. The building will be located on NortnhOliver Street, immediately south of the Eugenes M.
Hughes Metropolitan Complex. With half of the fund raised, the WSU Foundation continues its effortsa to secure the remainder of funding fromprivatd sources. Naming opportunities are available at all giving levelsz throughoutthe structure.
The foundation joins of Kansas, the Delta Dental of Kansasz Foundation and theWalter S. and Evan C. Jonews Testamentary Trust as major contributors tothe project. “The AEGD program is vital to Wichita and to the statwof Kansas,” said Elizabeth president and CEO, in a writtenb statement. “It is because of generous Kansansand organizations, like the Wichitaz Community Foundation, that we can provide WSU’ds incoming dental residents with a state-of-the-ar t building and the tools to grow the program into a national modelo of excellence.” Construction is scheduleed start in spring 2010 on a $6.
6 milliobn facility that will be located at 29th Street Nortg and Oliver, south of the Eugene M. Hughesx Metropolitan Complex. It will house the program and acommunitu clinic, exclusively. First-year residents will completre training there before rotating to community and ruralphealth sites. Recruiting for students and faculthy already has started forthe one- to two-year residency Beginning in fall 2009, the program will be locatedx at , a Wichita communitt health center that provide s medical and dental care on a slidint scale. Construction on the facility is set to begijn thefollowing semester. The building will be located on NortnhOliver Street, immediately south of the Eugenes M.
Hughes Metropolitan Complex. With half of the fund raised, the WSU Foundation continues its effortsa to secure the remainder of funding fromprivatd sources. Naming opportunities are available at all giving levelsz throughoutthe structure.
Friday, November 5, 2010
Dallas Fed: Inflation harder to predict - Dallas Business Journal:
http://www.chat-dating-love.com/personals/a33/
Researchers Mark Wynne and Patrick Roy comparedx annual economic forecasts going back to 1991with year-over-year changex in the U.S. Consumer Prics Index. Their goal was to determine whetherglobalization -- the increasingv integration of international economies through trade and financial flows -- has made it harder to predict when inflation will ( ). Wynne told the in an interview Wednesdayh that the study found that inflationh in the United Statesx has been more difficult to forecasyt in the 2000s when compared tothe 1990s. the opposite was found to be true in almos t every other country analyzed inthe study. Dr.
Ravi Batra, professord of economics at , says measuring inflatiom based on domestic demand is not as important as it once was in due to globalization andforeigjn competition. He said in the past, when a lot of money was prices went up and the high money supplty would cause a higher Consumer Price a measureof inflation. Accurate inflation forecastds are more difficult now due to globalprice competition, he CPI-type inflation has not flared up, even with new moneyy being printed in the U.S., because competition from countriezs such as China and Japan is keepinvg prices down.
However, he said inflatiom was strong inother areas, including the oil Going forward, he thinks other factors will be more accurate inflation indicators. “I thinki inflation will depend more on oil pricesw and the value of the dollad than onmoney supply," Batra “The Federal Reserve has printed a lot of If the dollar remains stabler and oil doesn’t heat up, inflation will be contained. But if the dollare falls sharply and oilheatsd up, we will have inflation,” he said.
Researchers Mark Wynne and Patrick Roy comparedx annual economic forecasts going back to 1991with year-over-year changex in the U.S. Consumer Prics Index. Their goal was to determine whetherglobalization -- the increasingv integration of international economies through trade and financial flows -- has made it harder to predict when inflation will ( ). Wynne told the in an interview Wednesdayh that the study found that inflationh in the United Statesx has been more difficult to forecasyt in the 2000s when compared tothe 1990s. the opposite was found to be true in almos t every other country analyzed inthe study. Dr.
Ravi Batra, professord of economics at , says measuring inflatiom based on domestic demand is not as important as it once was in due to globalization andforeigjn competition. He said in the past, when a lot of money was prices went up and the high money supplty would cause a higher Consumer Price a measureof inflation. Accurate inflation forecastds are more difficult now due to globalprice competition, he CPI-type inflation has not flared up, even with new moneyy being printed in the U.S., because competition from countriezs such as China and Japan is keepinvg prices down.
However, he said inflatiom was strong inother areas, including the oil Going forward, he thinks other factors will be more accurate inflation indicators. “I thinki inflation will depend more on oil pricesw and the value of the dollad than onmoney supply," Batra “The Federal Reserve has printed a lot of If the dollar remains stabler and oil doesn’t heat up, inflation will be contained. But if the dollare falls sharply and oilheatsd up, we will have inflation,” he said.
Thursday, November 4, 2010
The creepy but much-loved Mtter Museum is evolving - Philadelphia Business Journal:
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— which features a collection of skulls, petrified bodies and other medicalodditie — is responding to increased visitorship and interest, said Brandojn Zimmerman, administrative coordinator/designer at the Mütter. It is the museum’sw first major renovation since 1986. Five majo r exhibitions will be installedor updated. The new exhibitsw will open in August, though the museuk remains open duringthe “It’s the first in a long line of what we hope will be new Zimmerman said. The Mütter Museum, which was foundexd in 1849 and is named forbenefactord Dr. Thomas Dent is part of the , whichg is at 19 S. 22nd St.
The Mütter Museu has found a passionate following. It has been the subject of at leasttwo books. It has been writtenh up in travel stories. Its late director, Gretchen was featured on shows ranginfgfrom “Late Night with David to “Fresh Air” with Terry Gross. It has entriews on YouTube, RoadsideAmerica.com and Weird U.S. Last 100,000 people visited the up from 60,000 as recently as threee years ago and about 10 timeas the number from adecadse ago. “The Mütter has really changed as far as Ten years ago the college was thinkinh of shuttingit down. It was originallgy for people in themedicalk profession.
Now we have school children, medicalk students and the general public,” said who has been there nearlyfour years. To reflect the changing visitorship, the museum is offerin g five new exhibits, focusing on: The assassination of Abrahamj Lincoln, including the display of a sectioj of assassin JohnWilkes Booth’s thoraxz that came from his autopsy. An update of its long-running presidents’ including a cancerous growth from PresidentGrover “Making Skeletons Speak,” an exhibitt focusing on the “biological profile,” or more commonly “CSI,” whic will display skeletal remains and show how investigatords determine the cause of death.
A displah of a dozen shrunken heads, from the museum’zs collection as well as other museums and private A collection of temporal earbones extractexdby Dr. Adam Pulitzerr once displayed at Philadelphia’s Centennialo Exhibition, in 1876, as presented in their original glass jars anddisplayg cases. Zimmerman said the new exhibits aremore “storyg focused,” and less reliant on They will also further explorde areas that other museums shy away from. “A lot of museumd are hesitant to put out human he said. “That’s not reall an issue for us. That’s who we are.
”
— which features a collection of skulls, petrified bodies and other medicalodditie — is responding to increased visitorship and interest, said Brandojn Zimmerman, administrative coordinator/designer at the Mütter. It is the museum’sw first major renovation since 1986. Five majo r exhibitions will be installedor updated. The new exhibitsw will open in August, though the museuk remains open duringthe “It’s the first in a long line of what we hope will be new Zimmerman said. The Mütter Museum, which was foundexd in 1849 and is named forbenefactord Dr. Thomas Dent is part of the , whichg is at 19 S. 22nd St.
The Mütter Museu has found a passionate following. It has been the subject of at leasttwo books. It has been writtenh up in travel stories. Its late director, Gretchen was featured on shows ranginfgfrom “Late Night with David to “Fresh Air” with Terry Gross. It has entriews on YouTube, RoadsideAmerica.com and Weird U.S. Last 100,000 people visited the up from 60,000 as recently as threee years ago and about 10 timeas the number from adecadse ago. “The Mütter has really changed as far as Ten years ago the college was thinkinh of shuttingit down. It was originallgy for people in themedicalk profession.
Now we have school children, medicalk students and the general public,” said who has been there nearlyfour years. To reflect the changing visitorship, the museum is offerin g five new exhibits, focusing on: The assassination of Abrahamj Lincoln, including the display of a sectioj of assassin JohnWilkes Booth’s thoraxz that came from his autopsy. An update of its long-running presidents’ including a cancerous growth from PresidentGrover “Making Skeletons Speak,” an exhibitt focusing on the “biological profile,” or more commonly “CSI,” whic will display skeletal remains and show how investigatords determine the cause of death.
A displah of a dozen shrunken heads, from the museum’zs collection as well as other museums and private A collection of temporal earbones extractexdby Dr. Adam Pulitzerr once displayed at Philadelphia’s Centennialo Exhibition, in 1876, as presented in their original glass jars anddisplayg cases. Zimmerman said the new exhibits aremore “storyg focused,” and less reliant on They will also further explorde areas that other museums shy away from. “A lot of museumd are hesitant to put out human he said. “That’s not reall an issue for us. That’s who we are.
”
Tuesday, November 2, 2010
S&P lowers outlook for HEI, HECO - Charlotte Business Journal:
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Standard & Poor’s said Hawaii is “exhibitinf decidedly recessionary trends,” and that its dependence on tourism to drivd the local economy could mean the state will be more severelgy affected bythe recession. “The negative outlookj assigned to HEI reflects the potential for consolidated credig metrics to fall below our benchmarks over our outloom horizon dueto Hawaii’s weakeninf economy, which is expected to lower electric sales by 4 percentf or more and put upward pressure on borrowin requirements,” S&P said. , a subsidiary of HEI, is ratede on a standalone basis and is not affected by thelowerer outlook.
Shares of Hawaiian Electric stoclk weredown 1.6 percent to $16.95.
Standard & Poor’s said Hawaii is “exhibitinf decidedly recessionary trends,” and that its dependence on tourism to drivd the local economy could mean the state will be more severelgy affected bythe recession. “The negative outlookj assigned to HEI reflects the potential for consolidated credig metrics to fall below our benchmarks over our outloom horizon dueto Hawaii’s weakeninf economy, which is expected to lower electric sales by 4 percentf or more and put upward pressure on borrowin requirements,” S&P said. , a subsidiary of HEI, is ratede on a standalone basis and is not affected by thelowerer outlook.
Shares of Hawaiian Electric stoclk weredown 1.6 percent to $16.95.
Monday, November 1, 2010
Seattle
http://sochi-wg.com/index.php?pn=28
At 30 stories, it required the second-deepesty excavation in the city’s historu to accommodate eight floors of underground And Escala’s ample footprint on the site would no longef be allowed under city regulations imposedr after the project was approved that encouraged taller, thinner buildings. “Because of the zoning changew that havetaken place, this buildingb will not be built in Seattle ever said Eric Midby, the principal overseeinh the project. The Seattle developmenf firm’s $370 million project is under construction on four city lots at the intersectionn of Fourth Avenue andVirginia Street.
The city’s decisioh to go with skinnier towers would not allowthe 18,000-square-foot floors that Escala now has. Those larger floorsd allow more units, so the cost of amenities such as a wine private social club and fitness facility can be moreeasilhy shared. “If we had to do it we would have half as many residences sharinv the cost of allthese improvements,” Midbgy said. “The cost of all these improvements woulxd not be affordablefor people.” The Escala developmen t team includes structural engineers, of , also of Bellevue, of San Diego, and interior desig n firm. Construction is being handled by Northwest, which has an officr in Kirkland.
JE Dunn has more than 350 construction workerxs buildingthe project. Construction started in March 2007. It took a full year to completee the underground parking structure six months to reach the bottom nearly 100 feet beloww the surface and another six months to bring the parkingb structure back up tothe surface. Michael Moore, seniore project manager at JEDunn Construction, said his firm removed abourt 100,000 cubic yards of dirt durinvg the excavation. That’s enough to fill about 12,000 dump trucks. Contamination from a gas station that was once on the site had to be removedfand cleaned. The developer is seekinvg reimbursement forthose costs, Midby said.
The unusuallh deep hole allows parkinyg for478 cars. The depth of the hole requirecd the company to putin 100-foot pilings and unusuallyh large tiebacks to stabilizr the sides of the excavation. The underground tiebacks extend 60 to 80 feet beneath the street tothe Bed, Bath Beyond store to the east and to the “We were very lucky to get a tiebackl system,” Midby said. “It’s a very efficient shoriny system and facilitates faster construction If we had had to use braces it wouled havetaken longer.
” At the requestr of several buyers, the garage will also includre a charging station for electric One of the challenges was managinh materials costs, which were risin g rapidly at the time, Midby said. The developere did choose to use higher strength steel rebafthan typical, which allowed Lexaws to reduce the overall weight of the However, the stronger steel cost more on a per-pound basixs so savings were relatively small. The highefr strength steel also requiredx a longer lead time for Midby said. Perhaps the most unusuaol feature of the structure is its use of sevenj elevators instead of a centralpelevator core.
The elevators are positioned to provide most residents with their ownprivatd vestibule. The decision to splig up the elevators reduced the amountf ofhallway space, providinb more sellable space than more traditional design would have afforded. Where the elevator core typicall acts as a sheer wall to provideearthquakes resistance, Escala relies on ductile frames that absorbv the seismic load, with more horizonta support beams running between the units to help reinforces the structure.
“It is fairly unique for the although it is used in other partes ofthe country,” said Doug Grassman, a senior vice president at JE One benefit of this type of structural support is that vertica support columns can be set back from the perimeterr of the building, allowing better views from the residential “It’s a very compact design that is very finely tuned,” Midby “When we made modifications we reallyh had to do a lot of work running it through a computer model to make sure everything was The result is a very high performancer structure that is very efficient.
” Anothefr side effect of abandoning the traditional elevatoer core design was that the elevators required extr ductwork to handle the volums of air displaced as the elevatords move between floors. To keep on each 18,000-square-foot floor had to be pourefd inone day.
At 30 stories, it required the second-deepesty excavation in the city’s historu to accommodate eight floors of underground And Escala’s ample footprint on the site would no longef be allowed under city regulations imposedr after the project was approved that encouraged taller, thinner buildings. “Because of the zoning changew that havetaken place, this buildingb will not be built in Seattle ever said Eric Midby, the principal overseeinh the project. The Seattle developmenf firm’s $370 million project is under construction on four city lots at the intersectionn of Fourth Avenue andVirginia Street.
The city’s decisioh to go with skinnier towers would not allowthe 18,000-square-foot floors that Escala now has. Those larger floorsd allow more units, so the cost of amenities such as a wine private social club and fitness facility can be moreeasilhy shared. “If we had to do it we would have half as many residences sharinv the cost of allthese improvements,” Midbgy said. “The cost of all these improvements woulxd not be affordablefor people.” The Escala developmen t team includes structural engineers, of , also of Bellevue, of San Diego, and interior desig n firm. Construction is being handled by Northwest, which has an officr in Kirkland.
JE Dunn has more than 350 construction workerxs buildingthe project. Construction started in March 2007. It took a full year to completee the underground parking structure six months to reach the bottom nearly 100 feet beloww the surface and another six months to bring the parkingb structure back up tothe surface. Michael Moore, seniore project manager at JEDunn Construction, said his firm removed abourt 100,000 cubic yards of dirt durinvg the excavation. That’s enough to fill about 12,000 dump trucks. Contamination from a gas station that was once on the site had to be removedfand cleaned. The developer is seekinvg reimbursement forthose costs, Midby said.
The unusuallh deep hole allows parkinyg for478 cars. The depth of the hole requirecd the company to putin 100-foot pilings and unusuallyh large tiebacks to stabilizr the sides of the excavation. The underground tiebacks extend 60 to 80 feet beneath the street tothe Bed, Bath Beyond store to the east and to the “We were very lucky to get a tiebackl system,” Midby said. “It’s a very efficient shoriny system and facilitates faster construction If we had had to use braces it wouled havetaken longer.
” At the requestr of several buyers, the garage will also includre a charging station for electric One of the challenges was managinh materials costs, which were risin g rapidly at the time, Midby said. The developere did choose to use higher strength steel rebafthan typical, which allowed Lexaws to reduce the overall weight of the However, the stronger steel cost more on a per-pound basixs so savings were relatively small. The highefr strength steel also requiredx a longer lead time for Midby said. Perhaps the most unusuaol feature of the structure is its use of sevenj elevators instead of a centralpelevator core.
The elevators are positioned to provide most residents with their ownprivatd vestibule. The decision to splig up the elevators reduced the amountf ofhallway space, providinb more sellable space than more traditional design would have afforded. Where the elevator core typicall acts as a sheer wall to provideearthquakes resistance, Escala relies on ductile frames that absorbv the seismic load, with more horizonta support beams running between the units to help reinforces the structure.
“It is fairly unique for the although it is used in other partes ofthe country,” said Doug Grassman, a senior vice president at JE One benefit of this type of structural support is that vertica support columns can be set back from the perimeterr of the building, allowing better views from the residential “It’s a very compact design that is very finely tuned,” Midby “When we made modifications we reallyh had to do a lot of work running it through a computer model to make sure everything was The result is a very high performancer structure that is very efficient.
” Anothefr side effect of abandoning the traditional elevatoer core design was that the elevators required extr ductwork to handle the volums of air displaced as the elevatords move between floors. To keep on each 18,000-square-foot floor had to be pourefd inone day.
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