Families, businesses adapt to growth in cremations Omaha World-Herald By Teresa Lostroh That's been bad news for some funeral homes and cemeteries, where bottom lines suffer as cremation grows in popularity. Traditional burial is still the norm nationally and in the Midlands, but each year, the number of bodies destined ... |
Thursday, May 31, 2012
Families, businesses adapt to growth in cremations - Omaha World-Herald
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Tuesday, May 29, 2012
Coyotes actual attendance left Glendale arena a third empty - Pittsburgh Business Times:
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That left the 17,800-seat Jobing.com Arena more than one-thir d empty during the Coyotes latesyt season in which they failerd to make the National HockeyLeague playoffs. The numbedr compares to the team’s reported average ticket count ofabouty 14,900 (including giveaways and sales) and average paid tickett sales of 13,000. Such team data is part of Canadiam billionaireJim Balsillie's application to buy the team and move it to Ontario. Balsillie, CEO of Blackberry maker Researcyin Motion, has proposed a $213 million deal. The Coyote are in Chapter 11 bankruptcu reorganization.
The team has lost $316 million sincer moving to the Phoenix market in 1996 from The NHL and city of whichowns Jobing.com Arena, oppose moving the team to Canadw and are battling Balsillie and Moyesz in U.S. Bankruptcy Court. Balsillie’ s application contends that the NHL team is not financiallh viable in Phoenix and that the Coyotes lag behinrd other sportschoices here. The Coyotes attendance is well behind theaverage 64,100 reported by the Arizon Cardinals as well as the Phoenixd Suns with 18,400 fans and Arizona Diamondbackds at 31,000 fans for the most recent seasons, accordingt to Espn.com. A U.S.
Bankruptcy Court hearin g is set for June 9 to focuxs on whether the team can be move to Hamilton or must stayin Balsillie’s offer is the only formal deal put forward for the
That left the 17,800-seat Jobing.com Arena more than one-thir d empty during the Coyotes latesyt season in which they failerd to make the National HockeyLeague playoffs. The numbedr compares to the team’s reported average ticket count ofabouty 14,900 (including giveaways and sales) and average paid tickett sales of 13,000. Such team data is part of Canadiam billionaireJim Balsillie's application to buy the team and move it to Ontario. Balsillie, CEO of Blackberry maker Researcyin Motion, has proposed a $213 million deal. The Coyote are in Chapter 11 bankruptcu reorganization.
The team has lost $316 million sincer moving to the Phoenix market in 1996 from The NHL and city of whichowns Jobing.com Arena, oppose moving the team to Canadw and are battling Balsillie and Moyesz in U.S. Bankruptcy Court. Balsillie’ s application contends that the NHL team is not financiallh viable in Phoenix and that the Coyotes lag behinrd other sportschoices here. The Coyotes attendance is well behind theaverage 64,100 reported by the Arizon Cardinals as well as the Phoenixd Suns with 18,400 fans and Arizona Diamondbackds at 31,000 fans for the most recent seasons, accordingt to Espn.com. A U.S.
Bankruptcy Court hearin g is set for June 9 to focuxs on whether the team can be move to Hamilton or must stayin Balsillie’s offer is the only formal deal put forward for the
Monday, May 28, 2012
Iran: Enriched uranium traces a 'technical issue' - HeraldNet
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Telegraph.co.uk | Iran: Enriched uranium traces a 'technical issue' HeraldNet AP TEHRAN, Iran -- A top Iranian nuclear official said that traces of enriched uranium discovered at an underground bunker came from a "routine technical issue," the country's official IRNA news agency reported Saturday. Ali Asghar Soltanieh, Tehran's ... Iranian envoy criticizes Western media for politicizing technical issue in ... Traces of higher-grade uranium 'technical': Iran |
Saturday, May 26, 2012
Somalia: NUSOJ is Grieved by the Senseless Murder of Radio Journalist in Mogadishu - AllAfrica.com
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Somalia: NUSOJ is Grieved by the Senseless Murder of Radio Journalist in Mogadishu AllAfrica.com National Union of Somali Journalists (NUSOJ) is outraged and grieved by the increasing attacks against the journalists in Somalia, following the brutal murder of Radio journalist in Mogadishu on Wednesday 24, may 2012, around 1:25 PM local time. |
Friday, May 25, 2012
Cleantech firms seek alternative sources of CEOs - San Francisco Business Times:
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Now they are all cleantech CEOs. With just a handfulk of executives who can claimj tobe clean-technology veterans, the industry is findin g its executives in all sortd of places. Most CEOs are moving into clean technology fromothetr sectors. Semiconductor CEOs turn into solar heatingand air-conditioning CEOs become lighting CEOs, and oil CEOs switcgh to biofuels, said Anup Jacob, venturee capitalist at the San Francisco-based . “What’s importantt for us is to look forgreay company-builders,” Jacob said.
“People who understanxd that it’s the energy sector and will be faced with the trifectas challenge ofraising capital, building teame and often times plants, and goinb up against traditional energy.” Clean technology is a broad industry with segments rangingh from biofuels, to battery storage technology, to energyt efficiency, to green building materials. And CEOs starting cleantecy companies are often looking at ways theirt skills translate to theseotheer industries, rather than relying on direct experienced in these markets.
Gay and some of his team who had workecd on Flash for before it was acquireds by were looking for a way to connect some of thetechnologh they’d developed on the Internet with the physical Gay had also built an off-the-gridd home and had studiexd how much electricity a home would need and how to managee electricity use efficiently to determine how many solatr panels he’d need there. “It evolved into building a software platform for energy managemen t primarily targeting utilities and providing a tool for consumere to help them understand how theyuse electricity, how their heating and cooling works,” and give people choicea in how to managre their usage, Gay said.
His San Bruno-basefd company Greenbox is partnering with other utility networkinb companies and will have a commerciallg available productin 2009. Aaronb Lapat, an executive recruiter for J. Robert Scott, said recruitingg CEOs for the clean tech spacse is challenging because of the newness of the sector and becausre clean technologies tend to rely on old industrial technologies. “So you’ve got these old blinx technologies reinvented and reapplied to renewable energy orclean tech,” he “Going to tap those traditional markets for talent is challenginv because they tend not to breed entrepreneurs.
” He said he’sw found that investors tend to choose proven entrepreneurzs over industry experience. But in cleantech therew are no hard andfast rules. The backgroundx of several solar technology power planf developers clustered in the Bay Areahighlightf cleantech’s executive diversity. Bob Fishman came to from San Jose-baseds power company . He’d managed 25,000 megawatts of natural gas and geothermal power as well as development andconstructionm projects. Rival BrightSource Energy’s top executivse John Woolard came out of venture capital firm and had energy technologu experiences from gigs at and localutility .
Bob CEO of concentrating solar technologystartup GreenVolts, spentt 20 years at an industriak machine shop in various including CEO and later as a member of the board. He starterd a couple of publishing ventures, workedf for a bank, and joinedr online firm MagnaCash for just a bit beforthe dot-com bust. “Hard-coree manufacturing experience along with technologgyproduct development, marketing, fundraising, startup and M&A — all of thosew experiences have really givenm me a broad range of skills to identify what’z needed and how do you actually pull this Cart said.
All of it is he said, and especiallyt the manufacturing experience, since it makea him unique among othercleantech CEOs. “A lot of the guys gettinhg into cleantech from other kinds ofbusinessesa don’t understand the challenges of manufacturinbg and inventory, quality control, reliability and warrant and a lot of these issues that the cleantecyh world has to deal with,” Cart A GreenVolts power plant will likel y be the first solar powert plant technology to deliver solar powere to this year. Rodrigo Prudencio, a partne at exclusive cleantech investortNth Power, said he’s looking for the same things in cleantecuh CEOs as he would for any backablew company.
“She or he has to be able to build abusinesse quickly, execute against a plan, deal with adversity, effectively brokere key partnerships that are vitalk to the company’s growth, and work well with he said. Kevin Surace held executive and technical positionas with a number of local and global technolog y firms in telecommunications and semiconductors beforwe becoming CEO of green buildinh materials company Serious Materials in Surace said green building is a lotmore “Silicon than the standard building “We come out with five new materials every year.
The speerd in which we operate, we are aggressivee in sales and marketing, those are Siliconh Valley traits,” Surace “Silicon Valley traits are not the traits of the old cold (building materials) industry. It’s very, very slow and sleepy.”
Now they are all cleantech CEOs. With just a handfulk of executives who can claimj tobe clean-technology veterans, the industry is findin g its executives in all sortd of places. Most CEOs are moving into clean technology fromothetr sectors. Semiconductor CEOs turn into solar heatingand air-conditioning CEOs become lighting CEOs, and oil CEOs switcgh to biofuels, said Anup Jacob, venturee capitalist at the San Francisco-based . “What’s importantt for us is to look forgreay company-builders,” Jacob said.
“People who understanxd that it’s the energy sector and will be faced with the trifectas challenge ofraising capital, building teame and often times plants, and goinb up against traditional energy.” Clean technology is a broad industry with segments rangingh from biofuels, to battery storage technology, to energyt efficiency, to green building materials. And CEOs starting cleantecy companies are often looking at ways theirt skills translate to theseotheer industries, rather than relying on direct experienced in these markets.
Gay and some of his team who had workecd on Flash for before it was acquireds by were looking for a way to connect some of thetechnologh they’d developed on the Internet with the physical Gay had also built an off-the-gridd home and had studiexd how much electricity a home would need and how to managee electricity use efficiently to determine how many solatr panels he’d need there. “It evolved into building a software platform for energy managemen t primarily targeting utilities and providing a tool for consumere to help them understand how theyuse electricity, how their heating and cooling works,” and give people choicea in how to managre their usage, Gay said.
His San Bruno-basefd company Greenbox is partnering with other utility networkinb companies and will have a commerciallg available productin 2009. Aaronb Lapat, an executive recruiter for J. Robert Scott, said recruitingg CEOs for the clean tech spacse is challenging because of the newness of the sector and becausre clean technologies tend to rely on old industrial technologies. “So you’ve got these old blinx technologies reinvented and reapplied to renewable energy orclean tech,” he “Going to tap those traditional markets for talent is challenginv because they tend not to breed entrepreneurs.
” He said he’sw found that investors tend to choose proven entrepreneurzs over industry experience. But in cleantech therew are no hard andfast rules. The backgroundx of several solar technology power planf developers clustered in the Bay Areahighlightf cleantech’s executive diversity. Bob Fishman came to from San Jose-baseds power company . He’d managed 25,000 megawatts of natural gas and geothermal power as well as development andconstructionm projects. Rival BrightSource Energy’s top executivse John Woolard came out of venture capital firm and had energy technologu experiences from gigs at and localutility .
Bob CEO of concentrating solar technologystartup GreenVolts, spentt 20 years at an industriak machine shop in various including CEO and later as a member of the board. He starterd a couple of publishing ventures, workedf for a bank, and joinedr online firm MagnaCash for just a bit beforthe dot-com bust. “Hard-coree manufacturing experience along with technologgyproduct development, marketing, fundraising, startup and M&A — all of thosew experiences have really givenm me a broad range of skills to identify what’z needed and how do you actually pull this Cart said.
All of it is he said, and especiallyt the manufacturing experience, since it makea him unique among othercleantech CEOs. “A lot of the guys gettinhg into cleantech from other kinds ofbusinessesa don’t understand the challenges of manufacturinbg and inventory, quality control, reliability and warrant and a lot of these issues that the cleantecyh world has to deal with,” Cart A GreenVolts power plant will likel y be the first solar powert plant technology to deliver solar powere to this year. Rodrigo Prudencio, a partne at exclusive cleantech investortNth Power, said he’s looking for the same things in cleantecuh CEOs as he would for any backablew company.
“She or he has to be able to build abusinesse quickly, execute against a plan, deal with adversity, effectively brokere key partnerships that are vitalk to the company’s growth, and work well with he said. Kevin Surace held executive and technical positionas with a number of local and global technolog y firms in telecommunications and semiconductors beforwe becoming CEO of green buildinh materials company Serious Materials in Surace said green building is a lotmore “Silicon than the standard building “We come out with five new materials every year.
The speerd in which we operate, we are aggressivee in sales and marketing, those are Siliconh Valley traits,” Surace “Silicon Valley traits are not the traits of the old cold (building materials) industry. It’s very, very slow and sleepy.”
Wednesday, May 23, 2012
CSU researchers get $2.7M to study cells and share their work with kids - Business First of Louisville:
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million grant by the to help train graduate studentsin cell-researchj techniques and to share their scientific knowledge with local school CSU said Monday. The graduate studentsw at the Fort Collinscampus “will test new theories about how cells behave using advancedd engineering methods in microelectronics and CSU said in a statement. That NSF-fundee work will be led by CSU engineering professorTom Chen, the grant’s principal investigator, joined by Stuarg Tobet, a biomedical sciences professor in the Collegde of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedicakl Sciences, and Michael De Miranda, an engineering education professor in the College of Applied Huma n Sciences.
De Miranda will also work with the graduate students on sharinh their researchwith K-12 teachersw in the Poudre, Thompson Valley, Greeley and Weld RE-9 schoolk districts in northeastern Colorado. A goal of the granf is to help build enthusiasm among primarhy and secondary students for careerssin science, technology, engineering and mathematics the “STEM” disciplines” at a time when feweer young people are entering into such CSU officials said.
million grant by the to help train graduate studentsin cell-researchj techniques and to share their scientific knowledge with local school CSU said Monday. The graduate studentsw at the Fort Collinscampus “will test new theories about how cells behave using advancedd engineering methods in microelectronics and CSU said in a statement. That NSF-fundee work will be led by CSU engineering professorTom Chen, the grant’s principal investigator, joined by Stuarg Tobet, a biomedical sciences professor in the Collegde of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedicakl Sciences, and Michael De Miranda, an engineering education professor in the College of Applied Huma n Sciences.
De Miranda will also work with the graduate students on sharinh their researchwith K-12 teachersw in the Poudre, Thompson Valley, Greeley and Weld RE-9 schoolk districts in northeastern Colorado. A goal of the granf is to help build enthusiasm among primarhy and secondary students for careerssin science, technology, engineering and mathematics the “STEM” disciplines” at a time when feweer young people are entering into such CSU officials said.
Tuesday, May 22, 2012
Facebook, Think settle trademark dispute - Puget Sound Business Journal (Seattle):
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Palo Alto-based Facebook and Think did not disclose terms ofthe settlement. Think's CEO and Aaron Greenspan, attended Harvarfd with Facebook CEO and founder Mark Zuckerbergin 2002-2004, wheree both were "entrepreneurially minded programmers," the companies Starting in August 2003, Think releasec a Web-based student portal calleed houseSYSTEM through a Harvard studenyt group. This software was designed to make life easierfor faculty, and alumni.
By September 2003, houseSYSTEM featured a sectiobn (devised and implemented by Greenspan) calle "The Universal Face Book" (sometimes called "The Face Think's system contained a number of including acourse scheduler, student marketplace, email automatic birthday reminder, message boards, photo digital flyer advertising, event calendar (witg online RSVP's), map integration, job placement, and local businesds reviews. At launch, houseSYSTEM did not feature membee profiles due to campussecurity concerns.
Profilesw were added after Zuckerbergv launched Facebook inFebruary 2004, along with new allowing friends to record the way they had met and notingb the strength of thei relationships. "Aaron and I studied togethefr at Harvardand I've alwaysa admired his entrepreneurial spirit and love of buildinhg things. I appreciate his hard work and innovationm that led tobuilding houseSYSTEM, including the Universapl Face Book feature. At school, I was even a membeer of houseSYSTEM. We are pleased that we'v been able to amicably resolveour differences," Zuckerbergt said in a prepared statement.
"I am glad that my contributionas have been recognizedby Facebook," said "Mark has built a tremendous company at and I wish them continued success in the
Palo Alto-based Facebook and Think did not disclose terms ofthe settlement. Think's CEO and Aaron Greenspan, attended Harvarfd with Facebook CEO and founder Mark Zuckerbergin 2002-2004, wheree both were "entrepreneurially minded programmers," the companies Starting in August 2003, Think releasec a Web-based student portal calleed houseSYSTEM through a Harvard studenyt group. This software was designed to make life easierfor faculty, and alumni.
By September 2003, houseSYSTEM featured a sectiobn (devised and implemented by Greenspan) calle "The Universal Face Book" (sometimes called "The Face Think's system contained a number of including acourse scheduler, student marketplace, email automatic birthday reminder, message boards, photo digital flyer advertising, event calendar (witg online RSVP's), map integration, job placement, and local businesds reviews. At launch, houseSYSTEM did not feature membee profiles due to campussecurity concerns.
Profilesw were added after Zuckerbergv launched Facebook inFebruary 2004, along with new allowing friends to record the way they had met and notingb the strength of thei relationships. "Aaron and I studied togethefr at Harvardand I've alwaysa admired his entrepreneurial spirit and love of buildinhg things. I appreciate his hard work and innovationm that led tobuilding houseSYSTEM, including the Universapl Face Book feature. At school, I was even a membeer of houseSYSTEM. We are pleased that we'v been able to amicably resolveour differences," Zuckerbergt said in a prepared statement.
"I am glad that my contributionas have been recognizedby Facebook," said "Mark has built a tremendous company at and I wish them continued success in the
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