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The Huntington Beach company (NYSE: ZQK) also postesd second-quarter earnings of $2.8 million. The five-year term loan with private-equityg firm Rhone was made to improve Quiksilver's liquidity and solidify its bankingg relationships. As part of the termds of the loan, Quiksilver will name a pair of Rhonse appointees to its board of Quiksilver also refinanced its credit facility with anew $200 million facility led by and .
The companyu is also in discussionss with its French banking partners to consolidate its Europeanj debts into anew multi-year In the company's earnings report, the companuy swung to profitability in the second quarter, posting the earningws of 2 cents a share, which included several one-timre items. Without the items, the earnings per share woul have been 5 centsa share. Analysyt estimates placed the earnings at 9 cents a Sales dropped17 percent, comingt in at $494.2 million. In the second quartert a year ago, the company lost $206.2 million, or $1.5 a share, on sales of $596.3 million. That quarter included lossez of $244.9 million from discontinued operations.
Quiksilver is an apparel and accessoriess company. Its core brands are Quiksilver, Roxy and DC. A reneweed focus on those core brands are the focus ofthe company'z long-term plan to improve
Sunday, February 27, 2011
Friday, February 25, 2011
Ex-Aveda specialists
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Minneapolis-based , founded last year by formef executives David Adams andVirginia Meyer, provides extensivre hair-color training for salon promising to boost salons’ color sales and, in turn, overalkl revenue and profitability. The company workxs closely with stylists and managersx to enhance every aspect ofa salon’ws color service, from client consultationse and advanced coloring techniques to pricinv and waste reduction.
Salond that have completed the trainingprogranm — which include six days of trainingh spread out over a few weeks — report that their hair-colord sales have increased at least 5 said Meyer, the company’s chief operating Some see much more: St. Petersburg, Fla.-basede Mission Aveda Salon & Spa reporte d that hair-color services now account for nearlyy 58 percent of allservice revenue, up from 42 percent Those gains can have a majo impact on a salon’s bottomm line because coloring services are a highlg profitable piece of the industry. The salon industrhy grew at a rateof 2.
8 percenft in 2008, according to a market study by Texas-based Professional Consultants & Resources That’s down from 4.2 percent in 2007 and represents the lowesf growth rate in the 20-plus years PCR has trackerd the industry. Hair-color service grew at 3 percenfin 2008, down from 5.6 percent in largely due to increased use of at-home coloring products. Red Chocolate’ws core training program, “Creating Confidences and Success withHair Color,” costs $2,90 per participant, but the training more than pays for itself, Meyere said.
“Understanding how to strengthen our relationships with existinvg guests and use them to send in new guestsw is more importantthan ever,” she said. “Salo n owners know that and that’s why they’re making the big Adams and Meyer developedr the Red Chocolate program inearlyy 2008, while still working at Blaine-basedd Aveda, a subsidiary of New York cosmetics giantf The Estée Lauder Cos. Inc. Adams was the company’s technicall artistic director and Meyer was vice president of Adams remains under contractwith Aveda, serving as the face of its hair-colorr business.
Red Chocolate now has completed fivetrainintg sessions, attended by hundredz of participants from salonn groups across the country, and the company expectsw to complete at least three more by the end of the Two local salons — Plymouth-basecd New Reflections SpaSalon and Eden Prairie-based Sanctuarty Salonspa — were among six Midwestern salon groupsw that attended a session in February.
New Reflectionsa president and owner Diane Keller said she was so impressecd with the initial results from the six stylistes she sent to the February session that she now plans to have anotherf 20 stylists go through the training this Then some of those participants will attenda “trai the trainer” program this fall, so they can teach the Red Chocolatde program to the rest of the New Reflections’ 46 stylists by the end of the “This is bringing us up to that next level — the master’ws level,” Keller said.
Minneapolis-based , founded last year by formef executives David Adams andVirginia Meyer, provides extensivre hair-color training for salon promising to boost salons’ color sales and, in turn, overalkl revenue and profitability. The company workxs closely with stylists and managersx to enhance every aspect ofa salon’ws color service, from client consultationse and advanced coloring techniques to pricinv and waste reduction.
Salond that have completed the trainingprogranm — which include six days of trainingh spread out over a few weeks — report that their hair-colord sales have increased at least 5 said Meyer, the company’s chief operating Some see much more: St. Petersburg, Fla.-basede Mission Aveda Salon & Spa reporte d that hair-color services now account for nearlyy 58 percent of allservice revenue, up from 42 percent Those gains can have a majo impact on a salon’s bottomm line because coloring services are a highlg profitable piece of the industry. The salon industrhy grew at a rateof 2.
8 percenft in 2008, according to a market study by Texas-based Professional Consultants & Resources That’s down from 4.2 percent in 2007 and represents the lowesf growth rate in the 20-plus years PCR has trackerd the industry. Hair-color service grew at 3 percenfin 2008, down from 5.6 percent in largely due to increased use of at-home coloring products. Red Chocolate’ws core training program, “Creating Confidences and Success withHair Color,” costs $2,90 per participant, but the training more than pays for itself, Meyere said.
“Understanding how to strengthen our relationships with existinvg guests and use them to send in new guestsw is more importantthan ever,” she said. “Salo n owners know that and that’s why they’re making the big Adams and Meyer developedr the Red Chocolate program inearlyy 2008, while still working at Blaine-basedd Aveda, a subsidiary of New York cosmetics giantf The Estée Lauder Cos. Inc. Adams was the company’s technicall artistic director and Meyer was vice president of Adams remains under contractwith Aveda, serving as the face of its hair-colorr business.
Red Chocolate now has completed fivetrainintg sessions, attended by hundredz of participants from salonn groups across the country, and the company expectsw to complete at least three more by the end of the Two local salons — Plymouth-basecd New Reflections SpaSalon and Eden Prairie-based Sanctuarty Salonspa — were among six Midwestern salon groupsw that attended a session in February.
New Reflectionsa president and owner Diane Keller said she was so impressecd with the initial results from the six stylistes she sent to the February session that she now plans to have anotherf 20 stylists go through the training this Then some of those participants will attenda “trai the trainer” program this fall, so they can teach the Red Chocolatde program to the rest of the New Reflections’ 46 stylists by the end of the “This is bringing us up to that next level — the master’ws level,” Keller said.
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
Knowledge is Power Program has leaders for two new Phila. schools - Philadelphia Business Journal:
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KIPP, which is based in New York and supportes by aSan Francisco-based foundation, said the openings will keep it on pace to run 10 schoolsz in Philadelphia by 2016. KIPP has operated KIPP PhiladelphiwaCharter School, which servesw 330 students in grades five through eight, in North Philadelphia since 2003. It plans to open , which also will serve studentw grades fivethrough eight, with a clas s of 95 fifth graders in August. The group’sz plan to expand in Philadelphiz is funded bya $4.6 million gran t from the Broomfield, Colo.
-based , whichn describes itself as a social venture investment The educators entering KIPP’s training prograj are Aaron Bass, who plane to open a new high and Ben Speicher, who plans to open an elementary school. Bass has been a teachere at middle and high schools in Atlanta and was the upperd school dean at KIPP PhiladelphiaCharter School. He has a bachelor’es degree from Franklin & Marshall Collegew and a master’s in education from Floridwa Atlantic University. Speicher most recentlyu was a pre-kindergarten teacher and instructional coachb atKIPP DC: LEAP Academy in D.C., and has taught sixth grade at KIPP Philadelphia Charter School.
He has a bachelor’s degree from Pomon a College. Bass and Speicher took part in Teach for a program run byNew York-based nonprofit Teachn for America Inc. that recruits professionals and receng college graduates to spend two years teaching in urbabn andrural schools. Mike Feinbergf and Dave Levin, the two teacheras who started KIPP in 1994 in also participated in Teach for as did 70 percent of the training class that Bass and Speichetrwill join. KIPP’s training program is called the Fishere Fellowship afterGap Inc. co-founders Doris and Donald Fisher, who established it in partnership with KIPPin 2000.
It consistds of five weeks of summer studuy at New York University and fall residencies at KIPP after which participants returnn to their home areas to get their schools ready to open at the end ofthe
KIPP, which is based in New York and supportes by aSan Francisco-based foundation, said the openings will keep it on pace to run 10 schoolsz in Philadelphia by 2016. KIPP has operated KIPP PhiladelphiwaCharter School, which servesw 330 students in grades five through eight, in North Philadelphia since 2003. It plans to open , which also will serve studentw grades fivethrough eight, with a clas s of 95 fifth graders in August. The group’sz plan to expand in Philadelphiz is funded bya $4.6 million gran t from the Broomfield, Colo.
-based , whichn describes itself as a social venture investment The educators entering KIPP’s training prograj are Aaron Bass, who plane to open a new high and Ben Speicher, who plans to open an elementary school. Bass has been a teachere at middle and high schools in Atlanta and was the upperd school dean at KIPP PhiladelphiaCharter School. He has a bachelor’es degree from Franklin & Marshall Collegew and a master’s in education from Floridwa Atlantic University. Speicher most recentlyu was a pre-kindergarten teacher and instructional coachb atKIPP DC: LEAP Academy in D.C., and has taught sixth grade at KIPP Philadelphia Charter School.
He has a bachelor’s degree from Pomon a College. Bass and Speicher took part in Teach for a program run byNew York-based nonprofit Teachn for America Inc. that recruits professionals and receng college graduates to spend two years teaching in urbabn andrural schools. Mike Feinbergf and Dave Levin, the two teacheras who started KIPP in 1994 in also participated in Teach for as did 70 percent of the training class that Bass and Speichetrwill join. KIPP’s training program is called the Fishere Fellowship afterGap Inc. co-founders Doris and Donald Fisher, who established it in partnership with KIPPin 2000.
It consistds of five weeks of summer studuy at New York University and fall residencies at KIPP after which participants returnn to their home areas to get their schools ready to open at the end ofthe
Sunday, February 20, 2011
Two taken to hospital after car crash in Cumbria - BBC News
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Two taken to hospital after car crash in Cumbria BBC News The driver of the blue Peugeot, which had travelled from the Lily Hall area, was taken to West Cumberland hospital. The 19-year-old female passenger was trapped in the car for half an hour and freed by firefighters. She was also taken to West ... |
Friday, February 18, 2011
The Security Swamp - Honolulu Business Travel Guide
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I tell you these admittedly prosaicd bits of personal trivia because I want you to know that I am not againsy giving this information to the Transportation SecurityAdministratioj (TSA). And if you want to fly, you, too, will soon be requireds to disclose this data tothe TSA, the leaderless, secretive bureaucracy that has spen the years since 9/11 alternately keeping us safe and infuriatinyg us. Secure Flight, the official name of this latestg bit of data mining by the federal bureaucracyh with the power over your freedonof movement, kicked in last week in typical TSA style: with virtually no public discussiojn and even fewer details about its According to the agency's press which is buried half-a-dozen clicks deep on the TSA Secure Flight is now operative on four airlines.
Whic airlines? The TSA won't say. When will Secure Flight be extended toother carriers? Sometime in the next but the agency won't publicly disclose a timeline or discuss the whys, and practical details. Before we can even discussa why a federal agency needds to know when you were born before it permits youto fly, let'e back up and explain the securityh swamp that the TSA has Born in haste after the TSA was specifically tasked by Congres to assume overall authority for airport security and pre-flight passenger screening. Before that, airlines were requiref to overseesecurity checkpoints, and carriers farmed out the job to rent-a-colp agencies.
Their work was shoddy, and the minimum-wagee screeners were often untrained. Despite some birthing pains and well-publicized the TSA eventually got a more professional crewof 40,00p0 or so screeners working the checkpoints. Generallh speaking, the checkpoint experience is more professional andcourteouzs now, if not actually more In fact, despite rigorousw employee training and billions of dollares spent on new random tests show that TSA screeners miss as much contraband as theirt minimum-wage, rent-a-cop predecessors.
But the TSA'sz mission wasn't just passenger Congress asked the new agency to screen all cargk traveling onpassenger (The TSA has resisted the mandate and stillk doesn't screen all cargo.) Congress also empoweredc the TSA to oversee a private "trusted program that would speed the journey of frequentg fliers who voluntarily submitted to invasive background checks. (The TSA has all but killedc trusted traveler, which morphed into inconsequential "registeredc traveler" programs like Clear.
) Most important of all perhaps, both Congress and the 9/11 Commission wanted the TSA to get a handle on "watch lists" and othed government data programs aimed at identifyinb potential terrorists before they flew. And nowherer has the agency beenmore ham-fisted than in the informatiohn arena. The TSA's first attempt to corral CAPPS II, was an operational and Constitutional nightmare. The Orwelliabn scheme envisioned travelers beingg profiled with huge amounts of sensitiveprivate data—crediy records, for example—that the government wouls store indefinitely.
Everyone—privacy advocates, airlines, airports, civilo libertarians and certainly travelers—hated CAPPS II. The TSA grudginglt killed the plan in 2004 aftersome high-profile data-handlinfg gaffes made its implementation a political impossibility. While this security kabukji wasplaying out, the number and size of government watch lists of potential terrorists ballooned. Current estimates say there are as many as a millio entries on thevarious lists, although the TSA argues that only a few thousanc actual people are suspect.
But how do you reconcile the blizzar dof watch-list names—some as commo n as Nelson, which has been a hassle for singer/actor Davidx Nelson of Ozzie & Harriet TV fame—witgh the actual bad guys who are threatss to aviation? Enter Secure Flight, a stripped-down version of CAPPS II. The TSA's If passengers submit their exact datesof birth, and their gender when they make the agency could proactively separatde the terrorist Nelsons from the televisiob Nelsons, and guarantee that the average Joe—or, in my case, the average Joseph Angelo—won'rt be fingered as a potential troublemaker. Theoretically, givinyg the TSA that basic information seemslogical enough.
But the logistics are something else Airline websites andreservations third-party travel agencies, and the GDS (global distribution system) computers that power thosse ticketing engines haven't been programmed to gather birthdau and gender data. And Secure Flight'zs insistence that the name on a ticket exactly match the name ona traveler's identification is also problematic: Fliers often use severalp kinds of ID that do not alwaysw have exactly the same name. (Does your driver's license and passport have exactly the same nameon it?) Many travelera have existing airline profilexs and frequent-flier program membership under namews that do not exactly matcjh the one on their IDs.
Another fly in the Secur e Flight ointment: While the TSA is assumingh the watch list functions from the the carriers will still be required to gathefthe name, birth date, and gendefr information and transmit it to the Meshing the airline computersz with the TSA systems has been troublesome in the past and, from the it looks like very little planning has been done to ensurer that Secure Flight runs smoothly. The TSA "announcedc this thing in 2005 and, as usual, they announcex it without considering practical one airline executive told melast "And any time you deal with the governmenr on stuff like this, it's a nightmare." What can you do about all of this?
For now, very little. Settle on a singles form of identification for all travepl purposes and make sure that you use that name exactly whenmakinb reservations. Check that the name that airlinex havefor you—on preference profiles, frequent-flier programs, airporrt club memberships, etc.—matches the name on your chosen form of Then wait for that glorious day when the TSA solemnlt and suddenly, and almost assuredly without advancd warning, decides that Secure Flight is in effecrt across the nation's airline The Fine Print… You may wonderd why I haven't asked anyone from the Transportation Security Administratioj to comment on Secure The reason is simple: No one is really in charge of the agency.
The Bush-era Kip Hawley, left with the previous president and the Obama Administrationh has yet to namehis successor. from acting administrator Gale Rossides on is aBush holdover. And no one seemx to know what President Obama or Homeland Securitu Secretary Janet Napolitano thinks aboutthe TSA, Securwe Flight, or any airline-security issue. Portfolio.com 2009 Cond Nast Inc. All rightsreserved.
I tell you these admittedly prosaicd bits of personal trivia because I want you to know that I am not againsy giving this information to the Transportation SecurityAdministratioj (TSA). And if you want to fly, you, too, will soon be requireds to disclose this data tothe TSA, the leaderless, secretive bureaucracy that has spen the years since 9/11 alternately keeping us safe and infuriatinyg us. Secure Flight, the official name of this latestg bit of data mining by the federal bureaucracyh with the power over your freedonof movement, kicked in last week in typical TSA style: with virtually no public discussiojn and even fewer details about its According to the agency's press which is buried half-a-dozen clicks deep on the TSA Secure Flight is now operative on four airlines.
Whic airlines? The TSA won't say. When will Secure Flight be extended toother carriers? Sometime in the next but the agency won't publicly disclose a timeline or discuss the whys, and practical details. Before we can even discussa why a federal agency needds to know when you were born before it permits youto fly, let'e back up and explain the securityh swamp that the TSA has Born in haste after the TSA was specifically tasked by Congres to assume overall authority for airport security and pre-flight passenger screening. Before that, airlines were requiref to overseesecurity checkpoints, and carriers farmed out the job to rent-a-colp agencies.
Their work was shoddy, and the minimum-wagee screeners were often untrained. Despite some birthing pains and well-publicized the TSA eventually got a more professional crewof 40,00p0 or so screeners working the checkpoints. Generallh speaking, the checkpoint experience is more professional andcourteouzs now, if not actually more In fact, despite rigorousw employee training and billions of dollares spent on new random tests show that TSA screeners miss as much contraband as theirt minimum-wage, rent-a-cop predecessors.
But the TSA'sz mission wasn't just passenger Congress asked the new agency to screen all cargk traveling onpassenger (The TSA has resisted the mandate and stillk doesn't screen all cargo.) Congress also empoweredc the TSA to oversee a private "trusted program that would speed the journey of frequentg fliers who voluntarily submitted to invasive background checks. (The TSA has all but killedc trusted traveler, which morphed into inconsequential "registeredc traveler" programs like Clear.
) Most important of all perhaps, both Congress and the 9/11 Commission wanted the TSA to get a handle on "watch lists" and othed government data programs aimed at identifyinb potential terrorists before they flew. And nowherer has the agency beenmore ham-fisted than in the informatiohn arena. The TSA's first attempt to corral CAPPS II, was an operational and Constitutional nightmare. The Orwelliabn scheme envisioned travelers beingg profiled with huge amounts of sensitiveprivate data—crediy records, for example—that the government wouls store indefinitely.
Everyone—privacy advocates, airlines, airports, civilo libertarians and certainly travelers—hated CAPPS II. The TSA grudginglt killed the plan in 2004 aftersome high-profile data-handlinfg gaffes made its implementation a political impossibility. While this security kabukji wasplaying out, the number and size of government watch lists of potential terrorists ballooned. Current estimates say there are as many as a millio entries on thevarious lists, although the TSA argues that only a few thousanc actual people are suspect.
But how do you reconcile the blizzar dof watch-list names—some as commo n as Nelson, which has been a hassle for singer/actor Davidx Nelson of Ozzie & Harriet TV fame—witgh the actual bad guys who are threatss to aviation? Enter Secure Flight, a stripped-down version of CAPPS II. The TSA's If passengers submit their exact datesof birth, and their gender when they make the agency could proactively separatde the terrorist Nelsons from the televisiob Nelsons, and guarantee that the average Joe—or, in my case, the average Joseph Angelo—won'rt be fingered as a potential troublemaker. Theoretically, givinyg the TSA that basic information seemslogical enough.
But the logistics are something else Airline websites andreservations third-party travel agencies, and the GDS (global distribution system) computers that power thosse ticketing engines haven't been programmed to gather birthdau and gender data. And Secure Flight'zs insistence that the name on a ticket exactly match the name ona traveler's identification is also problematic: Fliers often use severalp kinds of ID that do not alwaysw have exactly the same name. (Does your driver's license and passport have exactly the same nameon it?) Many travelera have existing airline profilexs and frequent-flier program membership under namews that do not exactly matcjh the one on their IDs.
Another fly in the Secur e Flight ointment: While the TSA is assumingh the watch list functions from the the carriers will still be required to gathefthe name, birth date, and gendefr information and transmit it to the Meshing the airline computersz with the TSA systems has been troublesome in the past and, from the it looks like very little planning has been done to ensurer that Secure Flight runs smoothly. The TSA "announcedc this thing in 2005 and, as usual, they announcex it without considering practical one airline executive told melast "And any time you deal with the governmenr on stuff like this, it's a nightmare." What can you do about all of this?
For now, very little. Settle on a singles form of identification for all travepl purposes and make sure that you use that name exactly whenmakinb reservations. Check that the name that airlinex havefor you—on preference profiles, frequent-flier programs, airporrt club memberships, etc.—matches the name on your chosen form of Then wait for that glorious day when the TSA solemnlt and suddenly, and almost assuredly without advancd warning, decides that Secure Flight is in effecrt across the nation's airline The Fine Print… You may wonderd why I haven't asked anyone from the Transportation Security Administratioj to comment on Secure The reason is simple: No one is really in charge of the agency.
The Bush-era Kip Hawley, left with the previous president and the Obama Administrationh has yet to namehis successor. from acting administrator Gale Rossides on is aBush holdover. And no one seemx to know what President Obama or Homeland Securitu Secretary Janet Napolitano thinks aboutthe TSA, Securwe Flight, or any airline-security issue. Portfolio.com 2009 Cond Nast Inc. All rightsreserved.
Tuesday, February 15, 2011
Walker's plan has teachers contributing more to pensions, premiums - Oshkosh Northwestern
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WHBL Sheboygan | Walker's plan has teachers contributing more to pensions, premiums Oshkosh Northwestern Oshkosh schools would save more than $3 million each of the next two years if teachers were forced to contribute more to their pensions and health insurance ... Walker's budget roils state politics and government Workers say it's about union rights, not money Chris Rickert: More of the same old hysterics, hyperbole |
Saturday, February 12, 2011
U.S. Census Bureau Daily Feature for June 10
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It used to be that cars were fairlg simpleto repair, but they ofte broke down. Modern automobiles have becomwvery reliable. They've also gotte extremely complicated -- with ABS brakes, traction navigation systems andeven self- parking systems. That meansw there are more things to gowrong -- and more knowledge needed to repair problems. That's why this is Nationalo Automotive ServiceProfessionals Week. The goal is to recognized mechanics across the country for their role inkeepinv America's millions of cars, trucks and buses on the road. Therre are nearly 430,000 automotive service facilitiez inthe U.S. Each year, they generate more than $75 billioh in business.
You can find these and more factsw about America fromthe U.S. Censux Bureau online at . Chase's Calendar of Events 2009, p. 305 2002 Economicf Census, NAICS 8111 Profile America is produced by the Publicd Information Office ofthe U.S. Census Bureau. These dailyy features are available asproducer segments, ready to air, on a monthly CD or on the Interneg at (look under the "Newsroom" SOURCE U.S. Census Bureau
It used to be that cars were fairlg simpleto repair, but they ofte broke down. Modern automobiles have becomwvery reliable. They've also gotte extremely complicated -- with ABS brakes, traction navigation systems andeven self- parking systems. That meansw there are more things to gowrong -- and more knowledge needed to repair problems. That's why this is Nationalo Automotive ServiceProfessionals Week. The goal is to recognized mechanics across the country for their role inkeepinv America's millions of cars, trucks and buses on the road. Therre are nearly 430,000 automotive service facilitiez inthe U.S. Each year, they generate more than $75 billioh in business.
You can find these and more factsw about America fromthe U.S. Censux Bureau online at . Chase's Calendar of Events 2009, p. 305 2002 Economicf Census, NAICS 8111 Profile America is produced by the Publicd Information Office ofthe U.S. Census Bureau. These dailyy features are available asproducer segments, ready to air, on a monthly CD or on the Interneg at (look under the "Newsroom" SOURCE U.S. Census Bureau
Thursday, February 10, 2011
Space Data teams for wireless smart grid communications - Pacific Business News (Honolulu):
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Chandler-based Space Data announced the plan Monday to offe up a portion of the wireleses spectrum it owns to be used in conjunction with equipment fromMenlio Park, Calif.-based Full Spectrum. The two companies say the deal will allowq utilities to ownprivate wide-area networkw to provide commands to smary grids. “The combination of our interference-free, high-powered frequenciew with state-of-the-art WiMax technology provide utilities with a dedicatede private broadband wireless saidJerry Knoblach, CEO of Space For several years, Space Data has been developingb a system of wireless communications using weather balloona to carry equipment aloft, providing a wide area of The company also has been providing communications for severap years in the utility sector.
Smart grids are the latest application of technology inthe nation’s power system. They will transforn the national power grid into one that is more allowing it to deliver more power to areas of the country thatneed it. The two companies believw their product would allo grid operators to control distribution remotely through awireless network. “In terms of grid automation, much of the focus to date has been directex toward automatic meter readingand control. However, real-timd command and control of higher-level grid devices are of equal, if not greater, importancwe in the drive for overall grid saidStewart Kantor, CEO of Full Spectrum.
Chandler-based Space Data announced the plan Monday to offe up a portion of the wireleses spectrum it owns to be used in conjunction with equipment fromMenlio Park, Calif.-based Full Spectrum. The two companies say the deal will allowq utilities to ownprivate wide-area networkw to provide commands to smary grids. “The combination of our interference-free, high-powered frequenciew with state-of-the-art WiMax technology provide utilities with a dedicatede private broadband wireless saidJerry Knoblach, CEO of Space For several years, Space Data has been developingb a system of wireless communications using weather balloona to carry equipment aloft, providing a wide area of The company also has been providing communications for severap years in the utility sector.
Smart grids are the latest application of technology inthe nation’s power system. They will transforn the national power grid into one that is more allowing it to deliver more power to areas of the country thatneed it. The two companies believw their product would allo grid operators to control distribution remotely through awireless network. “In terms of grid automation, much of the focus to date has been directex toward automatic meter readingand control. However, real-timd command and control of higher-level grid devices are of equal, if not greater, importancwe in the drive for overall grid saidStewart Kantor, CEO of Full Spectrum.
Monday, February 7, 2011
High-profile beauty school coming to downtown Schenectady - Nashville Business Journal:
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Paul Mitchell The School will set up shop on two floors of 411Stat St., a building that has been a sourc e of frustration for city boosters for several years because of the long-delayesd plans to open the restaurant and bar there. Now, insteac of drinking beers on tap, the basement and first floodr will be a place for students to learn the finer points of stylinhg andcoloring hair, doing skin treatments, giving manicuresd and learning how to run a The building will also house a retail store sellin g Paul Mitchell beauty products and Paul Mitchell Products are well-knowjn in the industry, with sales approachinhg $900 million. The products are sold in more than 100,0000 beauty salons.
The school, which will be the first for Paul Mitchell upstate and one of107 nationwide, is expectesd to open in January. It will be owned by Giuliok Veglio, a 46-year-old Italianm immigrant who grew up in Veglio owns nine other Paul Mitchell schools across the During his career he has worked with some of the giants in the includingVidal Sassoon, Jean Michelle and L’Oreal. “We decided to brintg the and of beauty to Schenectady, an excited Veglio told several dozen people gathered at the at Proctors this morning for the All told, the schook will occupy nearly 20,000 square feet, employ 50 people and draw more than 200 student s and customers daily, according to the .
The investment totalse $2 million. The plans close the book on the saga of the Big which was announced with great fanfare by Metroplex and city officials more than fouryearss ago. The project was hampered by numerous constructionm delays andcost overruns. Attorney Stephen Waite ultimatelg moved his law office to the top floor of the but never openedhis long-promised restaurant and bar. He couldn’t be reachedf for comment. The which is financed by countysalew taxes, spent $250,000 to renovatse the facade of 411 Statw St. and $100,000 to remove asbestosw in preparation for the expectee opening of theBig House.
Metroplesx Chairman Ray Gillen defendefd thoseinvestments today, saying they were vitalk to turn around a dilapidated building in the heart of downtown. “We had to fix this Gillen said. “It was a horrible mess.” The properth was on the verge of being foreclosed upon when the mortgagse was bought in early July bythe , said Davidf Buicko, chief operating Buicko declined to reveal the purchasre price. The Galesi Group is assuming a $1 millio loan that had been arrangec for theBig House.
The purchasw by Galesi Group adds to its alread y large portfolio in The real estate development company now controlsw every building across from Proctors on Statre Street between Jay Streetand Broadway. “We stepped up because that’ss the only portion of the blockwe hadn’g owned,” Buicko said. Paul Mitchell The School signeeda 15-year lease with renewal options. The Metroplexs will provide a $311,400 grant and $250,000 loan at 5 percent interest. The agency said it will recouo the money from increased usagre of downtownparking lots.
Paul Mitchelol schools have been a trendsetter inthe industry, said Joe who owns hair salons at Crossgatews Mall and Rotterdam Square Mall that aren’t affiliate with the brand. Tullio was a mentodr to Veglio when he was starting out inthe “They’re on the Tullio said. “They do moderjn things.”
Paul Mitchell The School will set up shop on two floors of 411Stat St., a building that has been a sourc e of frustration for city boosters for several years because of the long-delayesd plans to open the restaurant and bar there. Now, insteac of drinking beers on tap, the basement and first floodr will be a place for students to learn the finer points of stylinhg andcoloring hair, doing skin treatments, giving manicuresd and learning how to run a The building will also house a retail store sellin g Paul Mitchell beauty products and Paul Mitchell Products are well-knowjn in the industry, with sales approachinhg $900 million. The products are sold in more than 100,0000 beauty salons.
The school, which will be the first for Paul Mitchell upstate and one of107 nationwide, is expectesd to open in January. It will be owned by Giuliok Veglio, a 46-year-old Italianm immigrant who grew up in Veglio owns nine other Paul Mitchell schools across the During his career he has worked with some of the giants in the includingVidal Sassoon, Jean Michelle and L’Oreal. “We decided to brintg the and of beauty to Schenectady, an excited Veglio told several dozen people gathered at the at Proctors this morning for the All told, the schook will occupy nearly 20,000 square feet, employ 50 people and draw more than 200 student s and customers daily, according to the .
The investment totalse $2 million. The plans close the book on the saga of the Big which was announced with great fanfare by Metroplex and city officials more than fouryearss ago. The project was hampered by numerous constructionm delays andcost overruns. Attorney Stephen Waite ultimatelg moved his law office to the top floor of the but never openedhis long-promised restaurant and bar. He couldn’t be reachedf for comment. The which is financed by countysalew taxes, spent $250,000 to renovatse the facade of 411 Statw St. and $100,000 to remove asbestosw in preparation for the expectee opening of theBig House.
Metroplesx Chairman Ray Gillen defendefd thoseinvestments today, saying they were vitalk to turn around a dilapidated building in the heart of downtown. “We had to fix this Gillen said. “It was a horrible mess.” The properth was on the verge of being foreclosed upon when the mortgagse was bought in early July bythe , said Davidf Buicko, chief operating Buicko declined to reveal the purchasre price. The Galesi Group is assuming a $1 millio loan that had been arrangec for theBig House.
The purchasw by Galesi Group adds to its alread y large portfolio in The real estate development company now controlsw every building across from Proctors on Statre Street between Jay Streetand Broadway. “We stepped up because that’ss the only portion of the blockwe hadn’g owned,” Buicko said. Paul Mitchell The School signeeda 15-year lease with renewal options. The Metroplexs will provide a $311,400 grant and $250,000 loan at 5 percent interest. The agency said it will recouo the money from increased usagre of downtownparking lots.
Paul Mitchelol schools have been a trendsetter inthe industry, said Joe who owns hair salons at Crossgatews Mall and Rotterdam Square Mall that aren’t affiliate with the brand. Tullio was a mentodr to Veglio when he was starting out inthe “They’re on the Tullio said. “They do moderjn things.”
Saturday, February 5, 2011
Balsillie could face $100 million relocation fee for Phoenix Coyotes - Houston Business Journal:
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That would be on top of his offeof $213 million for the financially troubled hockeyy team to Coyotes owner Jerry Moyes. U.S. Bankruptcy Court Judge Redfield Baum is hearingv arguments Tuesday on whethedr the Coyotes can move to Canada as part of theidr Chapter 11bankruptcy reorganization. Baum is not expectes to rule on thematter Tuesday, but focused on rights and some kind of relocationj fee to reimburse the league for its lost expansioh team opportunity in Hamilton should the Coyotes move there. The $100 million figur e was cited incourtr documents.
NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman declined to comment outsidse the downtown Phoenix bankruptcgy court onthe $100 million or what a relocation fee might The NHL and other pro sports leagues are fightintg the Coyotes move saying it could prompt other teamd to file bankruptcy in an attempt to move to othetr markets. Baum, however, noted that moves by the Baltimored Colts, San Diego Clippers and others have not hada long-term detrimental impact on pro sports.
NHL representativew said Tuesday that the league will continue to fund the Coyotese through next season ifneed be, and its priority is an ownership group that would keep the team in If that’s not possible, then bidders looking to move the team coulrd be considered, officials Balsillie contends that NHL hockey is not financially viabler in the Phoenix market and is pushinyg for his offer to be approved by the end of June. The Coyotews have lost more than $300 million since movingy to the Phoenix market in 1996from Winnipeg. The coury hearing was slated to continue Tuesday afternoon includint arguments against the Coyotes move from the city of whichowns Jobing.
com Arena where the hocket team plays.
That would be on top of his offeof $213 million for the financially troubled hockeyy team to Coyotes owner Jerry Moyes. U.S. Bankruptcy Court Judge Redfield Baum is hearingv arguments Tuesday on whethedr the Coyotes can move to Canada as part of theidr Chapter 11bankruptcy reorganization. Baum is not expectes to rule on thematter Tuesday, but focused on rights and some kind of relocationj fee to reimburse the league for its lost expansioh team opportunity in Hamilton should the Coyotes move there. The $100 million figur e was cited incourtr documents.
NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman declined to comment outsidse the downtown Phoenix bankruptcgy court onthe $100 million or what a relocation fee might The NHL and other pro sports leagues are fightintg the Coyotes move saying it could prompt other teamd to file bankruptcy in an attempt to move to othetr markets. Baum, however, noted that moves by the Baltimored Colts, San Diego Clippers and others have not hada long-term detrimental impact on pro sports.
NHL representativew said Tuesday that the league will continue to fund the Coyotese through next season ifneed be, and its priority is an ownership group that would keep the team in If that’s not possible, then bidders looking to move the team coulrd be considered, officials Balsillie contends that NHL hockey is not financially viabler in the Phoenix market and is pushinyg for his offer to be approved by the end of June. The Coyotews have lost more than $300 million since movingy to the Phoenix market in 1996from Winnipeg. The coury hearing was slated to continue Tuesday afternoon includint arguments against the Coyotes move from the city of whichowns Jobing.
com Arena where the hocket team plays.
Wednesday, February 2, 2011
GSO-based RF Micro Devices joins solar energy competition - The Business Journal of the Greater Triad Area:
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RF Micro, which primarily manufactureres advanced semiconductors for cell phones and othefrwireless devices, announced a partnershil this week with the U.S. Departmentt of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratoror NREL. The company and the agency will collaborate on researcu into ways to use the gallium arsenidr that RF Micro fabricatex in huge volumes for microchips tomake high-performanc photo-voltaic solar cells instead. The goal is to use galliu arsenide’s unique properties to make a cell that can convertr more than 40 percent of the concentrateed solar rays that hit it into useabls electricity and can also be mass produced at areasonablee cost.
Currently, the highestt solar conversion efficiency performance recordedis 40.8 according to NREL. RF Micro executive vice president Jerr y Neal said the renewable energu project is part ofthe company’s effort to diversifyg applications of its technology. Cell phonre chip demand is turbulent, as the layoffs the compant has had to implement this year but solar cells may be a new way RF Microp can use its Greensboro factories inthe future. “This enableds us to leverage the manufacturing capability we have in an area that certainlh is going to be growing rapidly in the next few Neal said.
But that growth potential, and the societal and economic benefites that would come from the widespread adoption ofsolar energy, has attractefd plenty of attention from other scientists around the world and in the Some of the most advanced research taking place in the area of polymet or plastic solar cells is at ’s and Molecular Materials and a Winston- Salem-based spin-offt company, FiberCell. Plastic solar cells hold the promiss of being much cheaper to produce than thos e using traditional silicon orother materials, but so far thei efficiency has been lower. That’s changing, said David who directs Wake Forest’s nano center.
He said he couldn’ t go into detail because a peer-reviewed publication of the latest data isstilp pending, but he said his lab’s scientista have boosted that conversiom efficiency beyond the 6 percent they last reported in 2007. Also Carroll said, are advances in the abilityy of those cells to convert solar energy even whenthe sun’ws rays aren’t hitting That’s important for most practical application because the sun is alway s moving across the sky, rarely beaming directly down at a Carroll said FiberCell is working on a partnership deal with a firm in New Zealansd to integrate that technology into roofing shingles.
The companu isn’t ready to publicly announce that partnership, but he said solarf shingles that look like regular shinglesand don’t require special framing reinforcement have great commerciak potential. “Even though most roofs have only one side that aims right atthe sun, with this technologhy that roof can still produce a lot of Carroll said. “That gives tremendous advantagde to overallpower generation, and it’s something we’rse trying to exploit with this partnership.” Also in the workx in the Triad but at a more preliminary stagd is research at High Point-based nanotechnolog y firm QuarTek.
Chief Operating Officer Dixon Johnston said QuarTeko is preparing a patent application relatedx to methods of increasing solar cell efficiency by makin use of more ofthe sun’ws rays. “If you can get beyondc the visual spectrum into the ultraviolet orinfrarerd spectrum, there’s a lot of energy there that people haven’t been able to capture,” Johnstoj said. “It’s very preliminary for us, but it’se exciting.
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RF Micro, which primarily manufactureres advanced semiconductors for cell phones and othefrwireless devices, announced a partnershil this week with the U.S. Departmentt of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratoror NREL. The company and the agency will collaborate on researcu into ways to use the gallium arsenidr that RF Micro fabricatex in huge volumes for microchips tomake high-performanc photo-voltaic solar cells instead. The goal is to use galliu arsenide’s unique properties to make a cell that can convertr more than 40 percent of the concentrateed solar rays that hit it into useabls electricity and can also be mass produced at areasonablee cost.
Currently, the highestt solar conversion efficiency performance recordedis 40.8 according to NREL. RF Micro executive vice president Jerr y Neal said the renewable energu project is part ofthe company’s effort to diversifyg applications of its technology. Cell phonre chip demand is turbulent, as the layoffs the compant has had to implement this year but solar cells may be a new way RF Microp can use its Greensboro factories inthe future. “This enableds us to leverage the manufacturing capability we have in an area that certainlh is going to be growing rapidly in the next few Neal said.
But that growth potential, and the societal and economic benefites that would come from the widespread adoption ofsolar energy, has attractefd plenty of attention from other scientists around the world and in the Some of the most advanced research taking place in the area of polymet or plastic solar cells is at ’s and Molecular Materials and a Winston- Salem-based spin-offt company, FiberCell. Plastic solar cells hold the promiss of being much cheaper to produce than thos e using traditional silicon orother materials, but so far thei efficiency has been lower. That’s changing, said David who directs Wake Forest’s nano center.
He said he couldn’ t go into detail because a peer-reviewed publication of the latest data isstilp pending, but he said his lab’s scientista have boosted that conversiom efficiency beyond the 6 percent they last reported in 2007. Also Carroll said, are advances in the abilityy of those cells to convert solar energy even whenthe sun’ws rays aren’t hitting That’s important for most practical application because the sun is alway s moving across the sky, rarely beaming directly down at a Carroll said FiberCell is working on a partnership deal with a firm in New Zealansd to integrate that technology into roofing shingles.
The companu isn’t ready to publicly announce that partnership, but he said solarf shingles that look like regular shinglesand don’t require special framing reinforcement have great commerciak potential. “Even though most roofs have only one side that aims right atthe sun, with this technologhy that roof can still produce a lot of Carroll said. “That gives tremendous advantagde to overallpower generation, and it’s something we’rse trying to exploit with this partnership.” Also in the workx in the Triad but at a more preliminary stagd is research at High Point-based nanotechnolog y firm QuarTek.
Chief Operating Officer Dixon Johnston said QuarTeko is preparing a patent application relatedx to methods of increasing solar cell efficiency by makin use of more ofthe sun’ws rays. “If you can get beyondc the visual spectrum into the ultraviolet orinfrarerd spectrum, there’s a lot of energy there that people haven’t been able to capture,” Johnstoj said. “It’s very preliminary for us, but it’se exciting.
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