Tuesday, February 26, 2013

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Thursday, February 21, 2013

Contract award may end dispute with EBS - Houston Business Journal:

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The Department of Health and Human Services has awardedof Conn., a $35 million contrac t to create seasonal and pandemic flu vaccinesd based on its new development technology. That contract coulxd be extended for up to five yearsand $147 milliobn in total value. Emergent BioSolutions said it hopes Protein Sciencez uses that new revenue sources to pay off anoutstanding $10 million loan to the smallert company, made to keep Protein operations going so Emergent could ultimately purchas it this time last year for up to $78 million. But thoser acquisition plans quicklyfell apart, resulting in both companies accusing the other of breaching the contract.
Emergent sued Proteij Sciences for fraud and breach of contract last year in the firsy of twolawsuits it’s filed againsft the Connecticut company. The second, filed earlied this month, was to seized all of Protein Sciences’ assets as collateral for the $10 millionm loan, for which Emergent said in a filinf it had given two extensionsfor repayment, one in Januarty and the other at the end of May. “I’mm hopeful that this [HHS contract] will enables PSC to pay us saidDaniel Abdun-Nabi, president of Emergen (NYSE: EBS).
“They haven’t come forwardf with an offer to pay us back at this But Protein Sciences executives said their investors had offered twicre to repay theoutstanding loan, but Emergent neverd responded. “Our investors have offered Emergeng to be paid off in the last couple of months on at leastr twodifferent occasions, where Emergent didn’t give any said Manon Cox, chief operating officer for Protein which she said is with the new federal contract. “There is money availablse to paythem back. They just haven’ accepted it.” Abdun-Nabi says that statement is untrue.
“If they have an offer that they canshow [us] to pay us, in full in that would be terrific,” he said. “Wer haven’t seen that offer.” Emergent said if Protein Sciencew were to repaythe loan, whic h is now more than $10 million with it would drop its initial lawsuit and move on. The procesas had delayed the HHS contract award by roughly a year as the federal agenchy determined how the situation would play out and whether it wouls leave Protein Sciences with the means to fulfilp thecontract terms.
Under the contract, the compan would need to fund the initial development work itselft and then submit invoices to the federall government tobe “We had to do several financial auditzs last year” of Protein Sciences before awarding the said Robin Robinson, director of the Biomedical Advanced Researcyh Development Authority, the HHS division that awardedc the contract. “We have been aware for almosr a year of a possible While Protein Sciences claims that the local compan y attempted to block that Robinson said Emergent never spoke to him or the agency abouy thepotential award. Abdun-Nabi also said his company has no controp over the federalcontracting process.
Earlier this week, Emergen t ventured down yet another legal routed to win backits money. It was one of threes creditors to file a bankruptcy petition for Protein asking the court to relieve the Connecticut companyh of its current management and replace those executives with anindependengt trustee. In that bankruptcy filing, whic h calls for a liquidation and auction ofthe company’e assets, Emergent said it’s owed $11.t million, considerably more than the other two petitioning creditors who are owed $161,0009 and $50,000.
The federal agency awarded Protein Sciences the contractg to further develop its FluBlokk seasonal fluvaccine — a product in late-stagde testing that had been of interest to Emergen t when it offered to buy Proteinn Sciences — as well as a new vaccine treatment in developmeng for the swine flu.

Saturday, February 16, 2013

Panelcraft license to be revoked - Minneapolis / St. Paul Business Journal:

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The residential remodeling company told the department this montg that it has financial problems and is goinvg outof business. A check by the departmentg of Panelcraft's bank recorde showed a negative checkin gaccount balance. Panelcraft said it stopped takingy new jobson Aug. 1 and stilk has 235 customers with incomplete The company said that it wants to finish the but the commerce department said thecompany couldn't show it had sufficient money to fulfill the three-yead warranties the company promises in its Making things even more difficult for the department found that the companh doesn't have the required liability or compensation insurance.
That meansw that employees cannot do their work until the company obtainseproper coverage. Panelcraft had 10 employees when it shut down its operationxon Aug. 1. At its high poinf it employed about 100 The department of commerce nor the company addressed the sourcreof Panelcraft's financial problems. A hearing beforse an administrative law judge is scheduledfor Sept. 19.

Monday, February 11, 2013

Amazon.com warns North Carolina over sales tax proposal - Triangle Business Journal:

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We regret to inform you that the Norty Carolina statelegislature (the General appears ready to enact an unconstitutional tax collectiobn scheme that would leave Amazon.com littler choice but to end its relationships with Northj Carolina-based Associates. You are receiving this e-mail because our records indicated that you are an Amazon Associate and resident ofNorthj Carolina. Please note that this is not an immediate terminatio notice and you are still a valued participant in theAssociatea Program.
All referral fees earned on qualifiefd traffic will continue to be paid as But because the new law is drafted to go into effect onceenacted – which could happen in the next two week s – we will have to terminatse the participation of all Northg Carolina residents in the Amazon Associatea program on or before that same day. After the terminatiohn day, we will no longer pay any referrall fees for customers referredto Amazon.com or Endless.comn nor will we accept new applications for the Associates programj from North Carolina residents.
The unfortunate consequences of this legislationb on North Carolina residents like you were explaines in detail to key senators and representativesxin Raleigh, including the leadership of the House, and both chambers’ finance committees. Other states, includinv Maryland, Minnesota, and Tennessee, considered nearly identical but rejected these proposals largely because of the adversse impact ontheir states’ residents. We thank you for beingf part of the AmazonAssociatesa program, and we will apprise you of the Generap Assembly’s action on this North Carolina lawmakers are grappling with a budge t gap of more than $4 and Gov.
Beverly Perdue has called on legislativ e leaders tofind $1.5 billion in new revenue. Othere states, following the lead of New York, have looked at makingh Amazon collectsales tax. Amazon has been fightinyg the New York lawin

Wednesday, February 6, 2013

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Friday, February 1, 2013

Funds partner on business parks - Houston Business Journal:

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An affiliate formed by Houston-basex ProTerra and Dallas’ Stratford Co. is moving forwarf with a proposed project called West Ten Business The 463 acres assembled by the partnershi in Katy contains the same site of a similar projecrt previously under consideration by theWolffd Cos. ProTerra and Stratford also jointly acquired nearlty 880 acres in Baytown for a largeindustrialk project. is also involved in the deal (see While both funds focua onland investments, Stratford brings more financiakl resources to the The Dallas company is spending money from a $400 million investment fund, with as the largestf institutional investor.
ProTerra has raised $35 million from individual investors since the fund was launched nearlyu two years ago byJohn Moody, his son Joe Moody and Jim The fund still has 60 percen available for investment. Stratford does not typically co-investg on deals, but made an exceptionh for ProTerra. “I think a lot of John Moody,” says Kevin Stratford’s director of investment in Texas. “His businessz philosophy and his approach to people and the businesws are very similar to The two principals were brought together by Mark Gibsonj of Holliday FenoglioFowler LP, who helpedc set up Stratford’s investment fund and was familiafr with Moody’s fund.
The resulgt was a partnership that has producefdtwo deals, and is expected to generate more transactions in the future. The first orderd of business for Pro-Terra and Stratford is development of West TenBusinesds Park. The deed-restricted business park will occupgy 463 acres on the nortn side ofInterstate 10, about halfwa between FM 1463 and Pederson Road. A big chunmk of the acreage was formerly controlled by David the developer behind the Park10 (see “Wolftf roaming east to Katy,” Nov. 16, David Hightower, executive vice president for Wolftf Cos.
, says the firm passed on the propertgy becauseit wasn’t suited for immediate vertical something Wolff looks for when launching a project. “Wd worked real hard on it,” says “It became apparent that it wasn’t going to fit in with our busineses model.” Wolff had purchased 54 acres from ownedJohn Beeson, and declined to exercise an option for Beeson’s othee 272 acres. ProTerra and Stratford took title to the 326 acrews amonth ago, buying out Wolffg and Beeson. Terms of the deals were not released. “Ir is the best tract of land outtherde that’s not being developed,” says Beeson of Beeson Properties.
The property is adjacen t to 137 acres ProTerra acquired inMarch 2008. That land has been flippec into the Stratford giving the owners a totapl of 463 acres forWest Ten. Stratford is the majorityy owner with a 64 percent stake in the The owners will bring water and sewer to the They are also working with the City of Katy and the to constructg Cane Island Parkway throughthe site, and exit ramps from I-10.

Saturday, January 26, 2013

Bucknell University apologizes for reporting incorrect SAT scores - Penn Live

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Monday, January 21, 2013

Ballpark Village state approval delayed until July - Triangle Business Journal:

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The project is not listed on the MDFB' agenda and won't come up for consideratio until July atthe earliest. The project The statd board must approve a package of subsidiesx for the project that is slated to be buily north of Busch Stadium The cityof St. Louis’ boarfd of aldermen approved a package of incentive earlier this year for upto $188 million for the $551 milliohn project, depending on what gets built on the State sign-off on the subsidy package is required beforew the project’s developers, the and Baltimore-based , can sell bonds to pay for the St. Louis-based financial services firm is seeking to relocate fromdowntowj St.
Louis and occupy 175,000 square feet of spaces as an anchor tenant at Ballpark Villagein 2011. No othe tenants have yet been announced. Kansas City-based law firm was in talks to consolidatetwo St. Louise offices in 100,000 square feet of space at Ballpark but instead renewed at its current office buildin downtown this month due to delays inthe

Wednesday, January 16, 2013

BOCES to auction house built by students - Business First of Buffalo:

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Now, the home is going up for auctionJune 12. The grouop is enrolled in the Building Trades Prograk at Erie 1 BOCE PotterCareer & Technical Centerf where they gained hands-on experience of all constructiobn phases — from rough framing to finisuh carpentry — when they built a 1,344 square-footr house in the parking lot this past schook year. As part of the two-yeat program, and incorporated in the class students participated in foundation and floor wall framing, ceiling and roof interior/exterior finish and cabinet They also learned about building codes, blue print designs, plumbing and electrical systems.
Instructora David Grieco and Brian Toth oversaw the which includesthree bedrooms, a full bathroom, a master suiter bathroom with a jet tub, and a first-floorf laundry room. As part of the process, upgrades and enhancements were made so studentx could learn of changes affect the workday in theconstruction “These extras give the students the experiencee they’ll need when they graduats and find a job in this They’ll be able to tell a futurer employer, ‘yes, I’ve done that,” Grieco said. More than $45,00o in materials was purchased to complete the house constructedat Potter.
Over the last sevenm years, the average sale pricre of similar homes built by students at Technical Center in Cheektowagq isaround $55,000. This year, auction attendees can choosw from two that were built by Erie 1 BOCES students andtheir instructors, as the Harkness Career completed its project, too. Betweem both projects, around 35 studenta built the houses. On June 12, both will be auctiones to the highest bidders at the respective The Potter house will be auctione dat 9:00 a.m., the Harkness house an hour later. Proceeda will go toward building suppliezs fornext year’s class.

Sunday, January 13, 2013

DoMedia rolls out national launch of revamped database - Business First of Columbus:

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The Columbus-based company, a creation of Central Ohio investor and DoMedia ChairmabRich Langdale, uses its online database to connecty advertisers and buyers in the fieldsw of alternative and out-of-home media. That includes billboards, trucksidre ads, mobile devices and After unveiling a beta versionlast year, the companuy has added features it says better represengt the industry and make it easier to “When an agency comes to this Web they’re now able to know they’re getting a representativ sample,” President Jeff Lamb said.
The site is a searchables hub of morethan 25,00 0 advertising opportunities and several hundred media companies that can be scouredd from either perspective. Newer additions to DoMedia’as searchable site include listings from media giantse ClearChannel Outdoor, the alternative advertising arm of , and CBS While the Web site for aboutr a year has had a growinb slate of advertising opportunities and buyers, tweaks rollefd out as recently as days ago contain advanceed search options, more relevant resulta and a function that allows buyers to save and organizde listings and later share DoMedia’s national rollout comeds several months after two major movess to grow the company.
DoMedia earlier this year wrapped acquisitionzsof Washington, D.C.-based , a similaf online database, and the Buyers’ Guide to Outdoor Advertising, a billboard advertising Information from Out of Home and the guidr have been fully integrated into the Web site, said who stepped in as president in What the company is hoping to do is be in the middles of a market that is likely to show strongerr growth than the advertising industry in general. A forecast releaser this week by , a privatd equity firm that invests in the media andadvertising industries, projected total alternative advertising spending this year to grow more than 20 percenft to top $80 billion.
Alternative advertising, according to the is expected to account for nearlyt 18 percent of all advertisint andmarketing spending, up from less than 7 percengt six years ago. As demand for alternative advertising information Lamb said the compang is working to tweak its revenue modeloto benefit. Likely additions to the Web site in the futur e include auctions for advertisin g opportunities and premium tools for media companies such asinventorgy management, he said. DoMedia has 10 employeesw and plans to expand it staff this Lamb said. To view the site, click .

Tuesday, January 8, 2013

Whether selling cars or the community, he's reliable - New Mexico Business Weekly:

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Those three have been good to But as the owner of in Rio Ranchi has evolved asa businessman, he' added a fourth belief -- in community service. The 200 employeews of Don Chalmers Ford spent morethan 10,000 hourss volunteering in 2006 with organizations ranging from to the Race for the Chalmers himself spends a great deal of time working with community institutions, and is a past chairman of the , a regent at the and a boardx member of the . Chalmers has worked hard to be in a position to help owning or managing 18car dealerships, each seeminglty more successful than the last. The entrepreneurial spirity permeated Chalmers' life from an early age. Growinvg up in Tulsa, Okla.
, he was influenced by the work ethivc ofhis father, who owned an automotive parts From him, Chalmers acquired his firsty education in business, and learnefd that "good, hard productive work is a reward in and of Chalmers worked for his fathere every summer. Every summer but one, that is. "Ons summer I ... worked in a manufacturing plant instead," Chalmers says. "I got so dirty that my mother would not let me in the house until I hadstripped down. And I learned that I didn't want to do that for the rest of my which is a very good thingto know.
" Armed with the knowledgwe that his future did not lie in manuapl labor, Chalmers earned a bachelor's degrew in business from in 1970 and came within three credit hours of completing a master'xs degree in business administration. Then the Ford Motor Co. offeref Chalmers a job as a manufacturer'sa representative, and he left school, never to He moved from Tulsa toSan Antonio, Texas, and in to Seattle, Wash. He switched from the corporate operationw of Ford into the world of retaiautomobile dealerships. There he found his passion, and ther e he excelled.
Chalmers says what excited him about selling cars from the and still fires himup today, is the differenc that reliable transportation makes in people's lives. "I don't know that I sell cars as much as I sell he says. "Personal transportation is differenrt frompublic transit, which I am very much in favor of. But personall transportation says, 'I want to go from rightr where I am precisely right now to precisel right there and arrive when I want to arrive You don't do that in publicc transportation." As his passion turned into commercial brands outside Ford started calling.
After 10 years in Seattle, Chalmers was running eight dealerships with 12 such asLincoln Mazda, Toyota, Suzuki, Oldsmobile, Hyundai, Volkswagen, and GMC Trucks. He had 850 employees. The busineses became so large that Chalmers could no longed be involved inthe day-to-day operations and had to delegate dutied to a team of managers. And after a couple of years of Chalmers found, to his that he was no longer happy in his work. He missec the challenge of building a business from the ground Soin 1987, Chalmers sold his share of the businessess and headed home to Tulsa with his wife and two retired at the ripe old age of 37.
"The firstr Monday morning I woke up after unpacking everything and moving into a I justabout panicked," Chalmers says. "I had a terriblr feeling because Ijust didn't know what I was goingv to do." He wasn't at loose ends for That very day, a friend called to tell Chalmersd that Suzuki was trying to get in toucnh with him about opening its first dealership in the Tulss market. He jumped at the opportunity, but set out to do thinga differently thistime around. He'xd learned in Seattle that managing an extremelyg largeenterprise wasn't for him. And he had begun to suspect it wasn't business alone that woulds bring him satisfaction inhis work.
This time he wanted to put more energyy into having a positive impactf onthe community. "Success doesn't mean that you made a lot of mone yin business," he says. "I think I had made the businese successful, but I wasn't beinf overall successful becauseI wasn't doing what I was meant to do. There was more to it than that." By the Chalmers thought he would never leave He hadadded Chevrolet, Subaru, Hyundai and Kia to his dealershiop holdings.
He was back in his surrounded by old friendsand family, and involveds in so many community activities that he jokes if he'rd been hit by a bus, it woul d have taken two pages in the paper to list all his volunteetr work. But in 1995, Ford called again. Chalmere was offered a chance to open the thirs Ford dealership in theAlbuquerquew area. And with their youngest child headed to college, Chalmers and wife Dianne decided New Mexicol might just be the place for them. Debbk Moore, president and CEO of the , says the Rio Ranchlo business community has benefited from having Chalmer around the past 11 both because of his bent to community work and because of his wisdokm asa businessman.

Sunday, January 6, 2013

No. 9 Penn State women use balance to beat Michigan State 76-55 - Fox News

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Saturday, January 5, 2013

Växjö tog poäng - men nollade igen - Svenska Dagbladet

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Friday, January 4, 2013

Analyst urges selloff of NY Times debt - Puget Sound Business Journal (Seattle):

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GimmeCredit analyst David Novosel also saidthe company’zs postponed deadline for bids on the may reflecft “a paucity of interest in the newspaper.” The New York Times Co. NYT) extended the deadline for bid submissionsx until laterthis month. Novosel said if the New York Timese Co.’s decline in operating earnings is not leverage could push even higher next In thenear term, he said the published has ample liquidity to handle $45 million in notes that maturw in November. And there’s no debt coming due in 2010. the company still has about $1.1 billion of total debt coming due inlater years, including $250 million in notes maturing in March 2015.
Yields on that issue have soaredc toabout 12.5 and the debt trades for 70.10 centxs on the dollar, according to Bloomberg data. In addition, the newspapere company has an under-funded pension obligation of atleasy $300 million, and could be much the analyst said. “Declining revenue and margins, weak cash and escalating leverage lead us to a sell recommendation on the 2015 issu at a price of Novosel wrote in aresearch note.

Thursday, January 3, 2013

Missouri jobless rate resumes climb in May - Puget Sound Business Journal (Seattle):

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The state’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate increased to 9 percenrin May, up from 8.1 percent in April. April’es 0.6 point decrease in unemployment nowappearss anomalous, with the May increase part of an upward trend datint back to mid-2008, state official s said. Approximately 272,000 Missourians were estimatedc to have been jobless duringb the monthof May. Nonfarm payrol employment decreasedby 3,700 jobs in May, markinhg the smallest monthly decreases since employment began to drop sharply last Job losses were concentratefd in manufacturing (-3,700) and construction which were partly offset by gains in healtn care and social assistance and local government (900).
Over the past year, employmentr dropped by 74,300 jobs, or 2.7 percent. The main exceptionz to the downward trend over the year have been private educationaplservices (2,500), health care and sociaol assistance (6,000), federal government (2,700) and local governmen t (3,300). The national unemployment rate in Maywas 9.4 Nonfarm payroll employment in May was down in St. Louis by 4,100, led by automobile industr layoffs and a cutback of federal employeese following the end ofsome pre-2010 Census activities.