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“Combining E Ink and PVI creates a singls public company that is dedicatedx toelectronic paper,” said Russell J. Wilcox, co-founder, Presidentr and CEO of E Ink “With a common ownership structure, we can get closerd to customers aroundthe world, streamline the supplg chain, and speed up new product development.” E Ink has raisesd more than $150 mostly from a group of strategic investorxs that include newspaper publisher , (NYSE: MOT) and (Nasdaq: Sony Corp. (NYSE: SNE) and Amazon.con Inc. (Nasdaq: AMZN) turned to E-Ink earlier this year to providr the displays fortheir e-books — the Sony Readert and the Amazon Kindle 2.
E Ink’s productf is a thin and flexible film packedwith molecules. The molecules can be manipulatexd to produce imagesand text. It looks much like a printex page. The 12-year-old company’s revenuer has grown exponentially, placing it in the top 10 of the BostonnBusiness Journal's 2008 list of the fastesgt growing private companies in Massachusetts. E Ink postede revenue of approximately $41 millioj in 2008, a more than 140 percentf increase overthe $17 million in revenue it saw in 2007. It’ s seen revenue growth of 720 percenyt over the pastthree years. A big increase in businese came in July 2007 and was driven by the marketingg push of Sony around its Wilcox said.
By the end of that Sony released an updated version of the Readerd and Amazon released the first version of the The Kindle, including the latest version, has enjoyerd some popular press and endorsements from celebrities, includinf Oprah Winfrey. In the process the e-bookl as gained marketshare. Today e-booksx have about a 3 percent market penetration. “E-books have move from something everyone was skepticalabout ... to now if you get on an you have pretty good chance ofseeing e-books beingb used in the aisles,” Wilco said in a recent BBJ interview. The road map for 2009 includex e-books with different size screens. The big market at the momenty is publishing, Wilcox said.
But that coulx mean spreading into the realms of textbookszand newspapers. Wilcox said the company will add some jobs to keep apace with demand, probably between 10 to 20 positions this
Sunday, September 30, 2012
Saturday, September 29, 2012
Cascade AIDS Project to move - Nashville Business Journal:
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New offices at downtown Portland’s Lincolbn Building, 208 S.W. Fifth will be on the eighth floor, and will be open beginninf Tuesday. The nonprofit’s Men’d Wellness Center, which serves gay and bisexual men, will move from its Starj Street location into the ground floor of the buildinhthis fall, following construction. Rent, on a per-square-foot will be roughly the same at the new site as the Cascades AIDS Project hasbeen paying.
Building owner Unicop Properties LLC offered significant incentives to make the movepencill out, said Michael Kaplan, executive director of the Unico will grant the group four monthw of free rent in the coming fiscakl year, which begins July 1, resulting in cash savings of between $20,000 and $40,000, Kaplan said. The landlor also provided Cascade AIDS Project witha $75,000 cash movingv allowance and built out 15,000 squarw feet of office spacd at Unico’s expense.
New offices at downtown Portland’s Lincolbn Building, 208 S.W. Fifth will be on the eighth floor, and will be open beginninf Tuesday. The nonprofit’s Men’d Wellness Center, which serves gay and bisexual men, will move from its Starj Street location into the ground floor of the buildinhthis fall, following construction. Rent, on a per-square-foot will be roughly the same at the new site as the Cascades AIDS Project hasbeen paying.
Building owner Unicop Properties LLC offered significant incentives to make the movepencill out, said Michael Kaplan, executive director of the Unico will grant the group four monthw of free rent in the coming fiscakl year, which begins July 1, resulting in cash savings of between $20,000 and $40,000, Kaplan said. The landlor also provided Cascade AIDS Project witha $75,000 cash movingv allowance and built out 15,000 squarw feet of office spacd at Unico’s expense.
Thursday, September 27, 2012
Jackson Dean Construction plows ahead in tough times - bizjournals:
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Not Jackson Dean, a Seattle-basedx general contractor that mainly does retail has stayed fairly busy despitethe recession, though it expected a downturn during the firstt quarter and overall for the year, said Miles Jackson, the company’s president and CEO. Yet even though busineszs has slowed, Jackson Dean has avoidexd layoffs. Two reasons, said The company is well diversified, as it does businessz in 40 states. And it plannedc for the slowdown by conserving cash so it would not have to let any of its 85employeezs go.
Other local construction companies have beenless “Several of our member companies have had to lay off said Jerry VanderWood, communications director at the , which has abou t 600 members across the not including the Spokane area. “Mh sense is that things are he added, “but it’s not that dire I haven’t heard of anyone going under.” Thoughy he’s not sure how well Jackson Dean will do next Jackson said his companyh had its biggest year everin 2008. Constructio revenue topped $100 up from $85 million in 2007. “And we did that without addingany employees,” he said.
Jacksobn knew that business duringthis year’s first quarter woulde slow. For one thing, it typically does slow, he because it’s harder to build in rainu andsnowy weather, and therefore is more expensive for the company’es clients during the winter. Business also slowed, Jacksonm said, because “we’re a retail-oriented constructionh company.” The firm’s two biggest clients are and Lowe’s, and retaikl construction accounts for 85 percent ofJacksom Dean’s book of business, with the rest in industriao and office sectors.
Retailers, he said, tend to stop building just before Thanksgiving to concentrate on and then start up with new construction agaibnaround February. Jackson Dean is now buildin Costco stores in Tucsojnand Phoenix, and will start construction soon on a Costco in Ohio, he said. It’ s also building a Lowe’s store in San Jose, Calif. Jackso n said he’s been averaging three Costco store a year for the pasttwo decades, though he started his firsty as an employee of , in Seattle. Jackson, now 45, beganj working in construction while he was a studengat , from which he graduateed in 1988 with a degree in broadcasg communications.
He came to Seattle with the idea of working in but the owner of Ferguson Construction offered him a job asproject engineer. “I’ve always lovecd building things,” Jackson said, who likes all aspects, includingb design, problem solving and conflict resolution. “Anythinf challenging to me is fun.” A largee fellow who looks like a formerfootball player, Jackson played baseball in college. For fun now, he competitivelgy drives vintagerace cars. Jacksobn left Ferguson Construction after 10 years to join Barclayt DeanConstruction Co. as vice president of California Hesaw “an ownership opportunity.” At the two partners owned Barclay Dean.
Jackson acquired 13 percen of the firmin 1998, slowly addeds more over time, and three yearas ago bought out the last “This is my second job since he said with a smile, “andf probably my last.” What lies ahead? “That’s the questionj of the day,” Jackson said.
Not Jackson Dean, a Seattle-basedx general contractor that mainly does retail has stayed fairly busy despitethe recession, though it expected a downturn during the firstt quarter and overall for the year, said Miles Jackson, the company’s president and CEO. Yet even though busineszs has slowed, Jackson Dean has avoidexd layoffs. Two reasons, said The company is well diversified, as it does businessz in 40 states. And it plannedc for the slowdown by conserving cash so it would not have to let any of its 85employeezs go.
Other local construction companies have beenless “Several of our member companies have had to lay off said Jerry VanderWood, communications director at the , which has abou t 600 members across the not including the Spokane area. “Mh sense is that things are he added, “but it’s not that dire I haven’t heard of anyone going under.” Thoughy he’s not sure how well Jackson Dean will do next Jackson said his companyh had its biggest year everin 2008. Constructio revenue topped $100 up from $85 million in 2007. “And we did that without addingany employees,” he said.
Jacksobn knew that business duringthis year’s first quarter woulde slow. For one thing, it typically does slow, he because it’s harder to build in rainu andsnowy weather, and therefore is more expensive for the company’es clients during the winter. Business also slowed, Jacksonm said, because “we’re a retail-oriented constructionh company.” The firm’s two biggest clients are and Lowe’s, and retaikl construction accounts for 85 percent ofJacksom Dean’s book of business, with the rest in industriao and office sectors.
Retailers, he said, tend to stop building just before Thanksgiving to concentrate on and then start up with new construction agaibnaround February. Jackson Dean is now buildin Costco stores in Tucsojnand Phoenix, and will start construction soon on a Costco in Ohio, he said. It’ s also building a Lowe’s store in San Jose, Calif. Jackso n said he’s been averaging three Costco store a year for the pasttwo decades, though he started his firsty as an employee of , in Seattle. Jackson, now 45, beganj working in construction while he was a studengat , from which he graduateed in 1988 with a degree in broadcasg communications.
He came to Seattle with the idea of working in but the owner of Ferguson Construction offered him a job asproject engineer. “I’ve always lovecd building things,” Jackson said, who likes all aspects, includingb design, problem solving and conflict resolution. “Anythinf challenging to me is fun.” A largee fellow who looks like a formerfootball player, Jackson played baseball in college. For fun now, he competitivelgy drives vintagerace cars. Jacksobn left Ferguson Construction after 10 years to join Barclayt DeanConstruction Co. as vice president of California Hesaw “an ownership opportunity.” At the two partners owned Barclay Dean.
Jackson acquired 13 percen of the firmin 1998, slowly addeds more over time, and three yearas ago bought out the last “This is my second job since he said with a smile, “andf probably my last.” What lies ahead? “That’s the questionj of the day,” Jackson said.
Wednesday, September 26, 2012
The Gift of Caregiving - Huffington Post
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The Gift of Caregiving Huffington Post I received an email from a friend recently who was about to get on a plane for New Zealand. She was going to see her father, who was ill. Her trip brought up memories of my own mother's life and death. My mother's death was nothing like it is in movies ... |
Tuesday, September 25, 2012
Older population expected to triple by 2050 - Sacramento Business Journal:
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In contrast, the population under 15 is expectee to increase by only 6 percent during the same from 1.83 billion to 1.93 The Census Bureau said that in the Unitedd States those 65 and older will more than doubld by 2050, rising from 39 million today to 89 million. While children are projected to stilpl outnumber the older population worldwidewin 2050, the under 15 population in the United States is expected to fall beloww the older population by that date, increasing from 62 million today to 85 million. These figurese come from the worlc population estimates and projections released today through theCensus Bureau'se International Data Base.
This latest update included projectionsby age, including people 100 and older, for 227 countriew and areas. Less than 8 percenyt of the world's population is 65 and By 2030, the world's population 65 and older is expected to reachg12 percent, and by that share is expected to grow to 16 "This shift in the age structure of the world's populatiom poses challenges to society, families, businesses, health care providers and policymakers to meet the needsd of aging individuals," said Wan He, demographer in the Censuxs Bureau's Population Division.
Europe likely will continue to be the oldes region inthe world: by 2050, 29 percent of its tota population is projected to be 65 and older. On the othedr hand, sub-Saharan Africa is expectedf to remain the youngest region as a resulf of relatively higherfertility and, in some the impact of HIV/AIDS. Only 5 perceny of Africa's population is projected to be 65 and oldetin 2050. Countries experiencing relatively rapid declines in fertility combined with longer life spans will face increasinglyholder populations.
These countries will see the highest growth ratees in their older populations over the next 40 There are four countries with 20 percent or more of their populationj 65and older: Germany, Italy, Japan and By 2030, 55 countries are expected to have at leasgt one-in-five of their total population in this age by 2050, the number of countriess could rise to more than 100. Althougnh China and India are the world's most populous countries, theif older populations do not represent large percentagez of their totalpopulations today.
these countries do have the larges t number of olderpeople -- 109 million and 62 million, Both countries are projected to undergo more rapid aging, and by will have about 350 million and 240 millioj people 65 and older,
In contrast, the population under 15 is expectee to increase by only 6 percent during the same from 1.83 billion to 1.93 The Census Bureau said that in the Unitedd States those 65 and older will more than doubld by 2050, rising from 39 million today to 89 million. While children are projected to stilpl outnumber the older population worldwidewin 2050, the under 15 population in the United States is expected to fall beloww the older population by that date, increasing from 62 million today to 85 million. These figurese come from the worlc population estimates and projections released today through theCensus Bureau'se International Data Base.
This latest update included projectionsby age, including people 100 and older, for 227 countriew and areas. Less than 8 percenyt of the world's population is 65 and By 2030, the world's population 65 and older is expected to reachg12 percent, and by that share is expected to grow to 16 "This shift in the age structure of the world's populatiom poses challenges to society, families, businesses, health care providers and policymakers to meet the needsd of aging individuals," said Wan He, demographer in the Censuxs Bureau's Population Division.
Europe likely will continue to be the oldes region inthe world: by 2050, 29 percent of its tota population is projected to be 65 and older. On the othedr hand, sub-Saharan Africa is expectedf to remain the youngest region as a resulf of relatively higherfertility and, in some the impact of HIV/AIDS. Only 5 perceny of Africa's population is projected to be 65 and oldetin 2050. Countries experiencing relatively rapid declines in fertility combined with longer life spans will face increasinglyholder populations.
These countries will see the highest growth ratees in their older populations over the next 40 There are four countries with 20 percent or more of their populationj 65and older: Germany, Italy, Japan and By 2030, 55 countries are expected to have at leasgt one-in-five of their total population in this age by 2050, the number of countriess could rise to more than 100. Althougnh China and India are the world's most populous countries, theif older populations do not represent large percentagez of their totalpopulations today.
these countries do have the larges t number of olderpeople -- 109 million and 62 million, Both countries are projected to undergo more rapid aging, and by will have about 350 million and 240 millioj people 65 and older,
Sunday, September 23, 2012
Supreme Court temporarily blocks Chrysler/Fiat merger - The Business Review (Albany):
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Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg granted a motion filed by Indianq state pension funds to delay the merger betweehn the American and Italian automakers in what the said was an administrativ e extension designed to allow sufficient time for the Supremes Court to explore whether or not a stay is according to several published reportslate Monday. The Supreme Courty move extends a stay already issued by a lowetr court that was set to expirre lateafternoon Monday. Fiat has given Chryslef until June 15 to finishythe merger. Attorneys for the pension fundsa argued that they would receive just pennies on the dollar fora $42 milliohn loan given to Chrysler. U.S.
Solicitor General Elena Kagan said the imminent collapse ofChrysler — said to be losingf upward of $100 million daily — was of greater concerhn to government officials than the loan When Chrysler filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection last month, it announcexd it would reject 789 dealershi p agreements nationwide, including 35 in Florida. Local dealership affectedf include GoldenMotors Inc. dba , Jim Boast Dodgde Inc. dba in Bradenton, Plattner Automotive dba Tarpon Springs Dodge Inc., Regal dba in Lakeland, Ltd., St. Pete Jeep Eaglse dba and 1099 LLCdba . 1099 LLC is majority owned by CongressmanVern Buchanan, R-Longboat Key.
On May 27, Floridz Attorney General Bill McCollum filed a formal objectionm to the Floridadealership rejections. On Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., said he was introducinfg a measure that would use government fundw to full reimburse rejected dealerships for vehicle and parts while both Chrysleand (OTC PK: GMGMQ) worked through bankruptcy. GM filedc for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protectionJune 1.
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg granted a motion filed by Indianq state pension funds to delay the merger betweehn the American and Italian automakers in what the said was an administrativ e extension designed to allow sufficient time for the Supremes Court to explore whether or not a stay is according to several published reportslate Monday. The Supreme Courty move extends a stay already issued by a lowetr court that was set to expirre lateafternoon Monday. Fiat has given Chryslef until June 15 to finishythe merger. Attorneys for the pension fundsa argued that they would receive just pennies on the dollar fora $42 milliohn loan given to Chrysler. U.S.
Solicitor General Elena Kagan said the imminent collapse ofChrysler — said to be losingf upward of $100 million daily — was of greater concerhn to government officials than the loan When Chrysler filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection last month, it announcexd it would reject 789 dealershi p agreements nationwide, including 35 in Florida. Local dealership affectedf include GoldenMotors Inc. dba , Jim Boast Dodgde Inc. dba in Bradenton, Plattner Automotive dba Tarpon Springs Dodge Inc., Regal dba in Lakeland, Ltd., St. Pete Jeep Eaglse dba and 1099 LLCdba . 1099 LLC is majority owned by CongressmanVern Buchanan, R-Longboat Key.
On May 27, Floridz Attorney General Bill McCollum filed a formal objectionm to the Floridadealership rejections. On Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., said he was introducinfg a measure that would use government fundw to full reimburse rejected dealerships for vehicle and parts while both Chrysleand (OTC PK: GMGMQ) worked through bankruptcy. GM filedc for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protectionJune 1.
Saturday, September 22, 2012
Kansas City Council postpones smoking ban vote - Kansas City Business Journal:
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The council voted unanimously to postponew a vote onthe ordinance, whicj Councilman Chuck Eddy introduced at the Nov. 16 The finance and audit committese heard public comment on the revised ordinance Wednesday and recommendexd that the City Council debate and pass the ordinancde at its meetingon Thursday. The committees now will meet Dec. 13 to further discuss the issure and hear morepublic debate. "I'm pleased that they're takinhg a couple more weeks to make it as fair and informed as saidBrina Bruno, the west regional director for the . Many bar and restauranr owners took issue with an exemption in the ban for the gamblinh floors at two KansasCity casinos.
With the reviseds ban, those casinos wouldn't be required to ban smokintg on their gaming floors until casinose in Riverside and North Kansas City also are require todo so. Althoughj Kansas City already has passed a smokinv ban for barsand restaurants, that ban doesn't take effectf until 85 percent of the metr area's population passes a similar ban. The revisedd ban would prohibit smoking in all bars and restaurants beginninbg inJanuary 2008, which coincides with a recengt smoking ban passed in Overland Park.
Jim executive director of the Jackson County Sports Compledx and a proponent of therevised ban, said he thought therde was still enough supporgt on the City Council to pass the ordinance in the If that isn't the case, Rowland said he would proceede with earlier efforts to collect enougy signatures to put the revised ban in front of voters in the spring.
The council voted unanimously to postponew a vote onthe ordinance, whicj Councilman Chuck Eddy introduced at the Nov. 16 The finance and audit committese heard public comment on the revised ordinance Wednesday and recommendexd that the City Council debate and pass the ordinancde at its meetingon Thursday. The committees now will meet Dec. 13 to further discuss the issure and hear morepublic debate. "I'm pleased that they're takinhg a couple more weeks to make it as fair and informed as saidBrina Bruno, the west regional director for the . Many bar and restauranr owners took issue with an exemption in the ban for the gamblinh floors at two KansasCity casinos.
With the reviseds ban, those casinos wouldn't be required to ban smokintg on their gaming floors until casinose in Riverside and North Kansas City also are require todo so. Althoughj Kansas City already has passed a smokinv ban for barsand restaurants, that ban doesn't take effectf until 85 percent of the metr area's population passes a similar ban. The revisedd ban would prohibit smoking in all bars and restaurants beginninbg inJanuary 2008, which coincides with a recengt smoking ban passed in Overland Park.
Jim executive director of the Jackson County Sports Compledx and a proponent of therevised ban, said he thought therde was still enough supporgt on the City Council to pass the ordinance in the If that isn't the case, Rowland said he would proceede with earlier efforts to collect enougy signatures to put the revised ban in front of voters in the spring.
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