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The lab, a part of the museum’s gree n initiative, will demonstrate smalk wind turbines that could be erected on smallo businessesand homes. When five turbines — ranging betweejn 40 feet and seven feet inheight — will rest on the museum’sa roof. Two of the turbines are operationapl on the Cambridge side of the with the other three to be installed on the Bostoj sidethis summer. “This is a giant science says David Rabkin, Farinom Director for current science and technolog y atthe museum, in a prepared writtenn statement. “No one has tested five differentf small turbines in arooftoop laboratory.
Although there’s lots of interest in small-scalde wind turbines, we found little data on theirt performanceand impact. Despite a year of collecting data on the wind at the westill don’t really know enougjh about the turbines to predict their performance.” The lab came out of earlu efforts to use wind to meet a portion of the museum’sx energy needs. Studies showed the area’s wind resources were not stront enough to generate meaningful so the museum andthe ’s Renewabl e Energy Trust refocused the projecyt to provide information to potentialp turbine owners on differences in design and function of varioue turbines.
Monday, May 16, 2011
Friday, May 13, 2011
Obama offers 7-year protection for biotech drugs - Silicon Valley / San Jose Business Journal:
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The biopharmaceutical industry has argued that the five years of protectiom offered by Waxmanin H.R. 1427 would stifle But the in a report earlier this montb said the 12 to 14 years that the industryu has said publicly that it wantas also would hurt innovation anddelay patients’ acces s to cheaper drugs. Eshoo’s H.R. 1548 callss for a 12-year period of data basically protecting the patents covering innovativebiotech therapies.
In a letterr to Waxman, Nancy-Ann DeParle, Obama’s health-carer reform director, and budget directo r Peter Orszagsaid “the seven-yeart policy in the FY 2010 Budger is a generous compromisse between what the FTC research has concluded and what the pharmaceutica industry has advocated.” , however, said it is “extremel y concerned” that the seven-year plan is “a risk shortcut to biosimilars.
” “We believe this abbreviated perioed will undermine the incentives necessaryu for continued biotech research into breakthrough medicinee and cures for diseases such as cancer, multiplde sclerosis, Alzheimer’s and HIV/AIDS as well as unmet medicall needs,” BIO President and CEO Jim Greenwood said in a Besides patent exclusivity, the industry has argued that drugs like those developeds by South San Francisco’s and other biotech companiexs can’t be copied like pharmaceuticao drugs because they are complez to make and the finishedr products can differ.
The biopharmaceutical industry has argued that the five years of protectiom offered by Waxmanin H.R. 1427 would stifle But the in a report earlier this montb said the 12 to 14 years that the industryu has said publicly that it wantas also would hurt innovation anddelay patients’ acces s to cheaper drugs. Eshoo’s H.R. 1548 callss for a 12-year period of data basically protecting the patents covering innovativebiotech therapies.
In a letterr to Waxman, Nancy-Ann DeParle, Obama’s health-carer reform director, and budget directo r Peter Orszagsaid “the seven-yeart policy in the FY 2010 Budger is a generous compromisse between what the FTC research has concluded and what the pharmaceutica industry has advocated.” , however, said it is “extremel y concerned” that the seven-year plan is “a risk shortcut to biosimilars.
” “We believe this abbreviated perioed will undermine the incentives necessaryu for continued biotech research into breakthrough medicinee and cures for diseases such as cancer, multiplde sclerosis, Alzheimer’s and HIV/AIDS as well as unmet medicall needs,” BIO President and CEO Jim Greenwood said in a Besides patent exclusivity, the industry has argued that drugs like those developeds by South San Francisco’s and other biotech companiexs can’t be copied like pharmaceuticao drugs because they are complez to make and the finishedr products can differ.
Wednesday, May 11, 2011
Local businesses venture onto the online social networking scene - San Francisco Business Times:
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They were wrong. And this lessonm is not lost on thosee who are today increasingly turninv to online social networking Web siteslike , and to get an edge in George LeMieux, chairman of law firm , started using sociapl networking Web sites a couple monthds ago, in part to promotd his blog, The Boardroom Brief, and his e-newsletter, The LeMieux LeMieux, who divides his time among Gunster’sx South Florida offices and Tallahassee, uses his blog as a way to communicates on a wide variety of issues. The blog promotes Gunster, and social networking tools promote the LeMieux may post something on the Web that he then linkz toon Twitter.
People who followa him on Twitter seethe – an electronic message – and are more likely to read the blog Sometimes, LeMieux uses Twitter just to disseminate simple informatiomn – such as his geographical location or who he’llp be meeting at a givenm time – but it’s all about makinb connections and keeping them, he said. “I can give you a numbetr of examples of where I go to a meeting with aclientg and, before I’ve ever met the they say ‘I read The LeMieux Report,’” he said. Anotheer tool he uses is LinkedIn. That’s a more professional-orienteed Web site where people can post their biosand resumes.
The key, is that the site allowe peopleto “link” to indicating “who knows who” to users of the Person A may post a get linked to Person B. Then, Perso C, who is also linked to B, can see that B knowsa A. If A is a candidate for a job C needs to fill, for instance, the sharedc connection can be an immediate LinkedIn draws credibility from the fact that users have to get each other’s consent in order to be directlyt linked. LinkedIn sounds simple, but it’s very valuable for Mattheaw Beck, managing director of the ’s Miami office.
As a staffinyg and recruiting specialist, Beck places skilled individuals into professionaol positions in financial servicesand engineering. Whether or not he has a positiom open, Beck relies on LinkedIn as a kind ofelectronicc Rolodex. So, after meeting people at networkinf events, he makes it a point to find them on the Web site and reac outto them. “It’s a good way to network with Beck said. “It reall tells you more than aresume But, while social networking websitezs are potentially great marketing tools, they can cut both ways, said Joe president of the (SFIMA).
“If you’rse a person and you set up on one of thes e social networking sitesand you’rd incredibly unprofessional, it worka against you,” he said. Online records can survive indefinitely, whereaxs paper resumes are not aseasily disseminated, Laratr noted. has been using Faceboom to promote its products for aboutsix months, said Mark senior VP of marketing. The Miramar-base institution uses the Web site’ free features, as well as paid he said. While the resultz so far are mixed, Holmes said Facebooi is a promising marketing vehicle becausre advertisers can get a good demographic profile of the useras who viewthe ads.
It can show thinga like how oldpeople are, where they live and what their hobbieds are. “You can drill down pretty he said. Steve McKean, the founder and CEO of Acceller, an onlinre marketing company in Miami, said Faceboook is a natural fit forhis business. Acceller lets users do onlinee comparison shopping for telephone anddata services, so the company spends about half of its ad dollars on the Web. Most of the moneu goes to , and MSN (in that but Facebook could easily takethe No. 2 slot in the next one to two McKean said. Acceller uses Myspace, too, but the company is movinb most of its ad money away from that in favofof Facebook, McKean said.
With its emphasis on music and moreplayfupl presentation, Myspace doesn’t fit the corporate mold as well as some other sites, SFIMA’s Laratro said.
They were wrong. And this lessonm is not lost on thosee who are today increasingly turninv to online social networking Web siteslike , and to get an edge in George LeMieux, chairman of law firm , started using sociapl networking Web sites a couple monthds ago, in part to promotd his blog, The Boardroom Brief, and his e-newsletter, The LeMieux LeMieux, who divides his time among Gunster’sx South Florida offices and Tallahassee, uses his blog as a way to communicates on a wide variety of issues. The blog promotes Gunster, and social networking tools promote the LeMieux may post something on the Web that he then linkz toon Twitter.
People who followa him on Twitter seethe – an electronic message – and are more likely to read the blog Sometimes, LeMieux uses Twitter just to disseminate simple informatiomn – such as his geographical location or who he’llp be meeting at a givenm time – but it’s all about makinb connections and keeping them, he said. “I can give you a numbetr of examples of where I go to a meeting with aclientg and, before I’ve ever met the they say ‘I read The LeMieux Report,’” he said. Anotheer tool he uses is LinkedIn. That’s a more professional-orienteed Web site where people can post their biosand resumes.
The key, is that the site allowe peopleto “link” to indicating “who knows who” to users of the Person A may post a get linked to Person B. Then, Perso C, who is also linked to B, can see that B knowsa A. If A is a candidate for a job C needs to fill, for instance, the sharedc connection can be an immediate LinkedIn draws credibility from the fact that users have to get each other’s consent in order to be directlyt linked. LinkedIn sounds simple, but it’s very valuable for Mattheaw Beck, managing director of the ’s Miami office.
As a staffinyg and recruiting specialist, Beck places skilled individuals into professionaol positions in financial servicesand engineering. Whether or not he has a positiom open, Beck relies on LinkedIn as a kind ofelectronicc Rolodex. So, after meeting people at networkinf events, he makes it a point to find them on the Web site and reac outto them. “It’s a good way to network with Beck said. “It reall tells you more than aresume But, while social networking websitezs are potentially great marketing tools, they can cut both ways, said Joe president of the (SFIMA).
“If you’rse a person and you set up on one of thes e social networking sitesand you’rd incredibly unprofessional, it worka against you,” he said. Online records can survive indefinitely, whereaxs paper resumes are not aseasily disseminated, Laratr noted. has been using Faceboom to promote its products for aboutsix months, said Mark senior VP of marketing. The Miramar-base institution uses the Web site’ free features, as well as paid he said. While the resultz so far are mixed, Holmes said Facebooi is a promising marketing vehicle becausre advertisers can get a good demographic profile of the useras who viewthe ads.
It can show thinga like how oldpeople are, where they live and what their hobbieds are. “You can drill down pretty he said. Steve McKean, the founder and CEO of Acceller, an onlinre marketing company in Miami, said Faceboook is a natural fit forhis business. Acceller lets users do onlinee comparison shopping for telephone anddata services, so the company spends about half of its ad dollars on the Web. Most of the moneu goes to , and MSN (in that but Facebook could easily takethe No. 2 slot in the next one to two McKean said. Acceller uses Myspace, too, but the company is movinb most of its ad money away from that in favofof Facebook, McKean said.
With its emphasis on music and moreplayfupl presentation, Myspace doesn’t fit the corporate mold as well as some other sites, SFIMA’s Laratro said.
Monday, May 9, 2011
Red Roof restructuring debt after mortgage defaults - Birmingham Business Journal:
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Horsham, Pa.-based , a ratingss agency that trackscommercial mortgage-backed securities for investors, said four of the company’sd mortgage loans have been reported to be 30 days delinqueng and are being transferred to a speciapl servicer. Frank Innaurato, a managing director at said the loans, collateralized by 131 Red Roof properties, totao about $361.4 million. Red Roof has four smaller mortgage loanx totalingabout $12.5 million that are current, according to a Realpoint aleryt issued late Wednesday.
The hotep chain said it is in talks with lenders to restructure debt related to the acquisitionm ofthe company’s real estate assetw “due to the current state of the lodginfg industry.” Red Roof in 2008 was spun off to two private investmen t firms for $1.3 billion and movecd back to Columbus after beingt owned by Motel 6 owner “To discussions have been highl y constructive and we expect a positives resolution in due course,” the company said in a statement. “Thes e discussions do not affectthe day-to-dauy operations of the company’s properties and will not affectt Red Roof’s employees, vendors or franchisw owners.
” A Red Roof spokeswoman declined to comment beyone the company’s statement. Red Roof has about 4,5000 employees and about 350 company-owned and franchised properties.
Horsham, Pa.-based , a ratingss agency that trackscommercial mortgage-backed securities for investors, said four of the company’sd mortgage loans have been reported to be 30 days delinqueng and are being transferred to a speciapl servicer. Frank Innaurato, a managing director at said the loans, collateralized by 131 Red Roof properties, totao about $361.4 million. Red Roof has four smaller mortgage loanx totalingabout $12.5 million that are current, according to a Realpoint aleryt issued late Wednesday.
The hotep chain said it is in talks with lenders to restructure debt related to the acquisitionm ofthe company’s real estate assetw “due to the current state of the lodginfg industry.” Red Roof in 2008 was spun off to two private investmen t firms for $1.3 billion and movecd back to Columbus after beingt owned by Motel 6 owner “To discussions have been highl y constructive and we expect a positives resolution in due course,” the company said in a statement. “Thes e discussions do not affectthe day-to-dauy operations of the company’s properties and will not affectt Red Roof’s employees, vendors or franchisw owners.
” A Red Roof spokeswoman declined to comment beyone the company’s statement. Red Roof has about 4,5000 employees and about 350 company-owned and franchised properties.
Friday, May 6, 2011
Watco Companies Inc. Company Profile | Company Information
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Watco Companies will provide the best transportation relateed services to our customers in the most efficient and economicalomanner possible. We will provider an environment that allows our companies and our peopler to improveand grow, passing on to future generationw a company with an outstanding reputationm for customer service, profitability and quality. Watco Companiezs was started in 1983 byCharlew R. "Dick" Webb. The first operatioh was an industrial switching operation in Louisiana that is still inexistence today.
After makingf sure this operation was in control and serving the customer up to Dick started his firstmechanical operation, a railcar repairf shop in Coffeyville, Kansas with a group of hand picked employees and a determinatio n to make a difference in the quality of the From this base and the efforts of our hard workintg employees, we have grown into many facetxs of the rail industry. Our focuxs has been one of customere satisfaction in any business venture be it in or out of therail
Watco Companies will provide the best transportation relateed services to our customers in the most efficient and economicalomanner possible. We will provider an environment that allows our companies and our peopler to improveand grow, passing on to future generationw a company with an outstanding reputationm for customer service, profitability and quality. Watco Companiezs was started in 1983 byCharlew R. "Dick" Webb. The first operatioh was an industrial switching operation in Louisiana that is still inexistence today.
After makingf sure this operation was in control and serving the customer up to Dick started his firstmechanical operation, a railcar repairf shop in Coffeyville, Kansas with a group of hand picked employees and a determinatio n to make a difference in the quality of the From this base and the efforts of our hard workintg employees, we have grown into many facetxs of the rail industry. Our focuxs has been one of customere satisfaction in any business venture be it in or out of therail
Wednesday, May 4, 2011
New York Italian restaurant among newcomers to Congress Ave. - Orlando Business Journal:
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Mastrangelo is busy renovating a historic storefronr at 908 Congress Avenue where later thissummer he’llo open Quattro Gatti, the second location of his family’s famousx Manhattan ristorante. “I’m a passionate person and I’m very passionated about food,” Mastrangelo said. “Prettt much my whole life revolvesaround that. And when I came to I felt that this was a city that appreciatexsgood food, food that someone puts their heartf and soul into.” Quattro Gatti isn’gt the only culinary newcomer of late to downtown Congress. Just stepds away, the people behind local favorite El Chiled have reworked the space they opener last fall asEl Chilito.
That initial concep t offered breakfast andlunch but, basedd on demand, the owners recently turned it into another El Chile Café y Cantina, serving lunch and dinner and featuring a full bar. And a few blockzs south at 319 Congress, Applse Annies Café co-owners Love Nance and Sherry Jameson aredebuting Annies, a dramaticallty expanded reimagining of their 25-year-old restaurant. The bistro-themed eatery that now includesx a full bar will be open daily from7 a.m. to 2 serving customers everything from organic breakfast omelets to late night meatloaf in achic space.
Collectively, the new restaurants are addingh to the culture change at work on The DowntownAustin Alliance, the landlords and other groups are collaborating in an ongoingv effort to bring more retail and restaurants to downtown’ main thoroughfare. The goal: a 24/7 Congress alive with commercs and serving as a model for the rest of Indeed it wasLinda Asaf, the DAA’s retail recruiter, who helped secure Quattro Gatti for Austin. Asaf ate at the Upper East Side restaurant—one of her favorites—on a trip to New York last year and spokee with owner Remo Mastrangelo about the possibility of cominhgto Austin.
Remo Mastrangelo, Gianfranco’s started Quattro Gatti in 1985. The neighborhood-oriented restaurantr is hailed by critics as one of the best of its kind in New According toZagat “the leisurely meals with treat-you-like-familyy service make this old-linde Upper East Side Italian feel like home to many. There’ a reason it’s been there forever: supporters say the food’s Earlier this year, the Mastrangelos begahn giving serious considerationto Austin.
They came down togethefr and scouted spaces, agreeing that the Congrese location would be a great fit forthe “We had always heard good thinge about Austiin and we immediately had a good impression of the said Gianfranco Mastrangelo, who recently relocatedx here. Mastrangelo said if all goes as planned, the 2,000-square-foot Quattrk Gatti in Austin will be open by late July for lunchuand dinner. Because of his own passionm for pizza, Mastrangelo said the restaurantt will have a large brick ovenfor wood-firerd pizzas. Other plates, like the traditional fish and meat dishes made famous at the New York restaurang will also be onthe menu.
Prices shouls range from about $13 to the mid-$20s.
Mastrangelo is busy renovating a historic storefronr at 908 Congress Avenue where later thissummer he’llo open Quattro Gatti, the second location of his family’s famousx Manhattan ristorante. “I’m a passionate person and I’m very passionated about food,” Mastrangelo said. “Prettt much my whole life revolvesaround that. And when I came to I felt that this was a city that appreciatexsgood food, food that someone puts their heartf and soul into.” Quattro Gatti isn’gt the only culinary newcomer of late to downtown Congress. Just stepds away, the people behind local favorite El Chiled have reworked the space they opener last fall asEl Chilito.
That initial concep t offered breakfast andlunch but, basedd on demand, the owners recently turned it into another El Chile Café y Cantina, serving lunch and dinner and featuring a full bar. And a few blockzs south at 319 Congress, Applse Annies Café co-owners Love Nance and Sherry Jameson aredebuting Annies, a dramaticallty expanded reimagining of their 25-year-old restaurant. The bistro-themed eatery that now includesx a full bar will be open daily from7 a.m. to 2 serving customers everything from organic breakfast omelets to late night meatloaf in achic space.
Collectively, the new restaurants are addingh to the culture change at work on The DowntownAustin Alliance, the landlords and other groups are collaborating in an ongoingv effort to bring more retail and restaurants to downtown’ main thoroughfare. The goal: a 24/7 Congress alive with commercs and serving as a model for the rest of Indeed it wasLinda Asaf, the DAA’s retail recruiter, who helped secure Quattro Gatti for Austin. Asaf ate at the Upper East Side restaurant—one of her favorites—on a trip to New York last year and spokee with owner Remo Mastrangelo about the possibility of cominhgto Austin.
Remo Mastrangelo, Gianfranco’s started Quattro Gatti in 1985. The neighborhood-oriented restaurantr is hailed by critics as one of the best of its kind in New According toZagat “the leisurely meals with treat-you-like-familyy service make this old-linde Upper East Side Italian feel like home to many. There’ a reason it’s been there forever: supporters say the food’s Earlier this year, the Mastrangelos begahn giving serious considerationto Austin.
They came down togethefr and scouted spaces, agreeing that the Congrese location would be a great fit forthe “We had always heard good thinge about Austiin and we immediately had a good impression of the said Gianfranco Mastrangelo, who recently relocatedx here. Mastrangelo said if all goes as planned, the 2,000-square-foot Quattrk Gatti in Austin will be open by late July for lunchuand dinner. Because of his own passionm for pizza, Mastrangelo said the restaurantt will have a large brick ovenfor wood-firerd pizzas. Other plates, like the traditional fish and meat dishes made famous at the New York restaurang will also be onthe menu.
Prices shouls range from about $13 to the mid-$20s.
Monday, May 2, 2011
MaxWest poop-to-power process goes on stream - Houston Business Journal:
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Houston-based MaxWest a process to convert the Cityof Sanford’w treated waste stream into methane, carbon dioxide and hydrogejn through high-temperature gasification. The city will then use thosre gases as a source of energ y instead of buyingnatural gas. At Sanford’s Soutg Water Resource Center, MaxWest dryers remove aboug 90 percent of the moisture fromthe sludge. It is then gasifierd in a near-complete Starting Thursday, the extracted gas will be used to powerrthe dryer, saving Sanford, whic is located near Orlando, an estimated $9 million over the cours e of the 20-year contract.
Sanford is the firsr municipality in North America to apply gasification technology toits wastestream. “The Sanford gasifiee will serve as the MaxWes operational education center for interested municipalities across the saidBill Baker, MaxWest’s vice president of “We’re ready to show it MaxWest has other projects on tap for including gasifying “horse muck” in
Houston-based MaxWest a process to convert the Cityof Sanford’w treated waste stream into methane, carbon dioxide and hydrogejn through high-temperature gasification. The city will then use thosre gases as a source of energ y instead of buyingnatural gas. At Sanford’s Soutg Water Resource Center, MaxWest dryers remove aboug 90 percent of the moisture fromthe sludge. It is then gasifierd in a near-complete Starting Thursday, the extracted gas will be used to powerrthe dryer, saving Sanford, whic is located near Orlando, an estimated $9 million over the cours e of the 20-year contract.
Sanford is the firsr municipality in North America to apply gasification technology toits wastestream. “The Sanford gasifiee will serve as the MaxWes operational education center for interested municipalities across the saidBill Baker, MaxWest’s vice president of “We’re ready to show it MaxWest has other projects on tap for including gasifying “horse muck” in
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