Miss Manners: Make grandma happy with e-mails of your own - Washington Post

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Miss Manners: Make grandma happy with e-mails of your own Washington Post My grandmother sends me dozens of forwarded e-mails each week with information such as “watch out for new virus.” I try to be respectful, and even spent some time last semester trying to reply to each e-mail she sent, despite the fact that it was ... and more »

Software maker Epocrates quietly performs facelift - Silicon Valley / San Jose Business Journal:

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The privately held San Mateo which provides clinical informatiojnand decision-support software to doctors and other bid farewell to Kirk Loevner, its formed chairman, president and CEO, in Decembe r and in early March name Rose Crane, a former pharmaceutical executive, as its new chiefr executive. Crane was most recentlh group chairman forthe over-the-counter and nutritionall businesses at pharmaceutical giant Johnson Johnson, and a former president of Bristol-Myers Squibb’s U.S. primary care according to Epocrates, which has annual sales of $65 millionj and employs more than200 people.
Also in earlty March, Epocrates promoted company co-founder Jeff Tangney from executive vice president of salesz and marketing to presidentand COO, and made a host of othedr changes in its senior executived ranks, spokeswoman Erica Morgenstern confirmed. Rick Van Hoesen, formerlyt its senior vice presiden of financeand CFO, was promoted to executiv e vice president of finance, retaining the CFO Paul Banta was promoted from seniorf vice president to executive vice president, general counsel and Robert Quinn moved from senior vice president of engineering to executiv vice president, retaining his chief technology officer Joe Kleine, formerly senior vice presidenty of health care sales, is now executivd vice president in charge of a new health care busineses unit.
Matt Campion, formerly a senior vice president ofmarket research, is now executivde vice president of the new markeft research unit. Michelle Snyder, previously vice president of marketing and is now senior vice president in charge of the new subscriberdbusiness unit. Loevner left in Decembedr for “various personal and professional Snyder said, and Crane, the new CEO, “is kind of Epocrates won’t discuss financials — late last year it canceled plans for a $75 milliob IPO — but is happy to talk aboutg its iPhone application for clinicians.
The app has been downloaded by 10 percentg of physicians nationwide in the past nine orabout 75,000 doctors, the company Epocrates boasts that its prescription drug and formularuy guide “continues to rank as the No. 1 free medicalo application downloaded in the AppleApp store,” saying doctors and other health care professionalxs use it to get information aboutg correct drug dosing, adverse reactions and interactions. clinical information is used by 600,000 healthh care professionals worldwide, including 225,000 U.S. doctors. Its goal is to increasw those numbers because Epocrates gains more sponsorship and subscriptioh revenue the more clinicians itsigns up.
As of late last Epocrates had raised morethan $86 million in fundint from VC firms including Sprout Group, Goldman Sachs, InterWest Partners, Draper Fisher Three Arch Partners and Bay City Capital.

IXYS Introduces a Higher Efficiency Higher Power Bipolar Module - The MCMA140 ... - MarketWatch (press release)

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IXYS Introduces a Higher Efficiency Higher Power Bipolar Module - The MCMA140 ... MarketWatch (press release) BIEL, Switzerland, Apr 26, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- IXYS Corporation (NASDAQ:IXYS) , a leader in power semiconductors and integrated circuits technologies for energy efficient products for power conversion and motor control applications, announced today ... and more »

Cincinnati Financial enters Colorado market - Minneapolis / St. Paul Business Journal:

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The insurer said it expects to appointy eight more agencies this year in Colorado and in where it plans to be doing business by the end ofthe “We’ve had our eye on Colorado for several years,” said Kenneth president and CEO. in a news release. “Operating withib its stable regulatory andbusiness climate, we see Colorado as an opportunithy to support our goal of growth and diversifyu our geographic footprint, mitigating catastrophe Colorado is the 36th state where Cincinnati Financial has operations. The insurer has been expandinyg its presence into the West and Southwest for the past11 years.
The company expects to appoint 65 independenty agencies this year throughout the statesw in whichit operates, Stecher added. Cincinnati Financial CINF), headquartered in Fairfield, offer commercial, personal and life insurance producta in theUnited States.

Julie Andrews on 'Princess Diaries' anniversary - San Francisco Chronicle

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Julie Andrews on 'Princess Diaries' anniversary San Francisco Chronicle I may have done the odd benefit. But I do miss the music. {sbox} Ruthe Stein is The San Francisco Chronicle's movie correspondent. sadolphson@sfchronicle.com This article appeared on page P - 20 of the San Francisco Chronicle. and more »

Judge rules against CIA whistle-blower who wrote book without agency's permission - Washington Post

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Judge rules against CIA whistle-blower who wrote book without agency's permission Washington Post WASHINGTON â€" A federal judge has ruled a CIA whistle-blower will have to forfeit any future money he earns from a scathing book he wrote about the spy agency after he failed to get approval from his former employer prior to publication. and more »

Coast Guard defends animal uses in medical training after alleged undercover ... - CBS News

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Coast Guard defends animal uses in medical training after alleged undercover ... CBS News The Coast Guard is defending its practice of using live animals in its combat medical training after an activist group released a video on Wednesday of a goat's legs being removed with tree trimmers during what it said was training for agency personnel ... and more »

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Orlando 7-Eleven converts to franchise - The Business Review (Albany):

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The 3,000-square-foot convenience store at 3911 McCoy Road nearConwayh Road, which also has a gasoline will now be owned by franchisee Ermal a former store manager for five years. Dallas-based 7-Elevenm Inc. announced plans in 2007 to convert 100 existing locationsx in the state to franchised Store managers were invited to apply for those franchisesd before the offer went More than40 7-Eleven stores in the Orlando markey are now franchised, with about anothetr 140 owned by the company.
Between eighg to 10 7-Eleven stores throughout the state are being converted into franchise operations each month and plans to have most of the conversionas nationwide completedby 2012, according to a news release. The companu operates, franchises or licenseas about 7,800 stores in Northg America and morethan 36,100 stores in 15 The company reported 2008 salez of more than $53.7

Six Flags, former Elitch Gardens owner, files for Chapter 11 - Baltimore Business Journal:

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The board of Six Flags (OTCBB: SIXF) voted last week to beginj reorganization proceedingsin U.S. Bankruptcy Courg for the Districtof Delaware. The company listed assetw of $3.03 billion and debts of $2.3t billion in its Cascade Investments, the investment firm for Microsoft foundedrBill Gates, owns 11.1 percent of the voting securities in New York-basedc Six Flags, the largest bankruptcy documents show. Six Flage has 97.7 million shares of commohn stockand 1.1 million shares of preferred stock. "The current management team inheritedda $2.
4 billion debt load that cannotg be sustained, particularly in these challenging financialo markets," said Mark president and CEO of Six in a statement. "As a result, we are cleaningt up the past and positioningt the company for futuregrowth ... Following a record year of performancein 2008, which completedr the three-year turnaround of our system-wide park this action to clean up the balance sheet paves the way for a full revivapl of the company," Shapiro said. Elitch Gardens had operated for more than a centurhy at a northwestDenver site.
The old Elitch Gardens shut down in and a new version of the amusemeng park opened a year later in downtown The local Gurtler family and its financiall partners sold the new park to PremieerParks Inc. in 1996 for $65 million. It becamwe Six Flags Elitch Gardensx twoyears later, when Premier acquired Six Flagzs Inc. and changed its corporate name toSix Flags. Six Flagxs sold off Elitch's and other properties in 2007 in a seriess of transactions that left the Denver attractio n in the hands of CNL IncomePropertiea Inc., a real estate investment trust based in Orlando, Fla. CNL reportedlyt paid $312 million for the properties.
CNL arrangedr for Parc Management LLC of Floridaz tomanage Elitch's. Six Flags now operates about 20 Nortbh Americanamusement parks.

Proteon Therapeutics gets $12M in venture capital - Silicon Valley / San Jose Business Journal:

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The funding came primarily from twonew investors, Proteo n said in a Thursday release: in Pa., and the Wellesley Hills, Mass., officer of . The additional funding brings the amountf of venture capital received by Proteonjto $84 million. Proteon Therapeutics, a privately held biopharmaceutical company, was founded in Kansas City and now is basesin Waltham, Mass., outside Boston. Its researcy facilities remain inKansas City. Proteon is developing a bloox vessel-dilating drug candidate. One of the main potential treatmentf benefitsof Proteon’s product is to help establish and maintaihn access points for dialysis patients.
Also Thursday, Proteon said the Food and Drug Administrationh hadgiven “orphan drug” designation to its drug candidatde for the treatment of two conditions in patientsw with end-state renal disease. Orphamn drug designation allows for certaihn tax credits and an extendedx period ofdata exclusivity, accordinyg to the release.

Aurora's Southlands shopping center damaged by tornado - Sacramento Business Journal:

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A twister reportedly touched down nearbyat 1:49 p.m. Sundayh and crossed through the area on an eightto 10-mile-long path for about 30 minutes, the . Firefighters found moderate damage at locatedat E-470 and Smokgy Hill Road, CBS4 News Rooftop heating, venting and air-conditioningt units were damaged, windows were a shed was destroyed, and a car was Natural-gas leaks also were noted. Authoritiez shut down gas service to Southlands earlySundagy afternoon. No serious injuries were reportedx onthe shopping-center but a man in a nearby neighborhoodx who was trying to take pictures reportedlyh was hospitalized with unspecified serious injuries, according to news reports.
A Southlands spokeswoman told CBS4 most ofthe center'se stores will be closefd Monday to allow for continued damags assessment. She said customers shoulfd call individual stores to verify whetherd they are closedor open. Southlands, whichh opened in 2006, is the Denver area's largesr shopping center by retail space, at 1.7 million squars feet. It consists of severakl freestanding buildings connected by pedestrian corridorwsand streets. The complex is owned by Granite Southlands Town Centef LLC and managed by Forestg City CommercialManagement Inc. Four othedr tornadoes were spotted north and east of Denver Sunday and baseball-sized hail struck some areas.
As many as 3,0009 customers were without power for a time in partz of Auroraand Centennial. .

Boatmaker Genmar files Chapter 11 - Houston Business Journal:

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The petition to reorganize its debts was filex Monday afternoonin U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Minneapolis alonfg with more than 20 related Genmar has between 100 and199 creditors. It lists its assets in the rageof $10 million to $50 million and its liabilitiea between $100 million and $500 million, according to courg documents. The largest unsecured creditorsare Maslon, Edelman, Borman, Brand, a Minneapolis-basede law firm which is owed $186,700. , a law firm in is owed $155,800. Law firm in is representing Genmar in the bankruptcy The only secured creditors areand , according to a story in the Minneapolisa Star Tribune .
Genmar said it has received commitment fora debtor-in-possession (DIP) financing proposal from both In a statement, Genmard Chairman, CEO and largest shareholder Irwinh Jacobs said sales of the company’e fishing boats, luxury yachts and other producta started to decline in 2008, but worsenesd in recent months. The company’es sales in fiscal 2009, which ends in June, are likelu to be about $460 million, off by more than 50 percentt fromfiscal 2008. “If someone would have said to me as recentlyh as even one month ago that Genmar would someday be filing forChapter 11, I woulde have said it was not even a remotde possibility,” Jacobs said.
Genmar had been makinb some strategy changes inrecent . A spinoff company, Pa.-based , and other Jacobs-relatedf companies aren’t included in the filing. VEC for energy-generatingt windmills.

Maryland Senator introduces bill to help save newspapers - Los Angeles Business from bizjournals:

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The Maryland Democrat’s Newspaper Revitalization Act would allow newspapers to operate as ifthey choose, under 501(c)(3) status for educational similar to public broadcasting stations, he said in a Marcy 24 statement. Under this proposed arrangement, newspaperds would not be allowed to makepoliticak endorsements, but would be allowed to freely report on all issues, includiny political campaigns. Advertising and subscription revenue would be tax exempt and contributiona to support coverage or operations could be tax thesenator said. However, he said the measured “is targeted to preserve local newspapers serving communities and not largsnewspaper conglomerates.
” And because newspaper profits have been fallinh in recent years, no substantial loss of federap revenue is expected. “We are losing our newspaper said Cardin. “The economy has caused an immediate problem, but the business model for newspapers, basefd on circulation and advertising revenue, is and that is a real tragedy for communities across the natio n and for our Cardin added that although many newssourcez exist, the public relies largely on newspapers “for in-depth reportinv that follows important issues, records events and exposesz misdeeds.
” In fact, he most if not all sources of journalistiv information — from radio to television to the Interneyt — gathers their news from newspaper reporterxs who cover the news on a daily basis and know their Leading business executives, including billionaire investment bankere Warren Hellman, recently made an overture to , whicj owns the San Francisco Chroniclr , to help it become a The proposal would be for a nonprofity corporation “to take over the Chroniclre ,” with Hearst continuing to provide some philanthropixc support, Coblentz said. Details remainn sketchy, and it’s unclear if the proposa is being seriously consideredby Hearst.
But there’xs no doubt that the Chroniclwe and a host of othee metropolitan dailies are seeking new Citing , the Maryland senatoer noted that newspaper advertising revenue plummetef 25 percent last year, and circulation at many print publications fell as as many readers migrated to the where most (but not all) news is free. In the Cardin noted that the , , and San Francisck Chronicle , among others, have either ceaser daily publication or announced they may have to stop and thatother publications, includinb newspapers owned by the , ownera of the and , have filed for bankruptc “or have had to institute severe cutbackxs that have impacted news Cardin’s bill came just a week after House Speakerd Nancy Pelosi asked U.
S. Attorney Generapl Eric Holder to loosen antitrust restrictions to help newspapers like the Chronicle For many, the outlook is grim. The Post-Intelligence , also owned by New York-based Hearst, shuttered its print publication March 17 and convertedto online-onlg news coverage. The Rocky Mountain News closed last The is being sold to a turnaround quite possibly because of its realestater assets. Papers such as the and the are also reporteds to be inpotential jeopardy. Critics worry that the nonprofi model may notsuit newspapers, and that such an approach couldr give government more opportunities to contro the news. And Cardin admittedc as much.
“This may not be the optimall choice for some major newspapers or corporatesmedia chains, but it should be an optiohn for many newspapers that are struggling to stay

Initiative links building owners with nonprofits - Kansas City Business Journal:

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Carolyn Cantrell, director of the Dallas office of GoodEnergh LP, has launched an initiativre called “Good Space for Good People” in which her compan y will serve as a clearinghouse for commercial propertiexs that landlords and building owners make available for nonprofits. “Mangy nonprofits have a real need for more spac right now because of the and the commercial real estatse community has more spacethan they’ds like to have because leasingh is down,” Cantrell said.
“The economic downturhn has provided an opportunity to tie them In addition, tax deductions may be available for in-kinrd donations of space, she One of the organizations needing space is the Nortu Texas Food Bank, said Jan Pruitt, the food bank’s president and CEO. NTFB’s member food pantries and othee agencies it supplies have seen a sharpo increasein first-time clientzs over the last six Many are recently laid-off workers who never imaginesd they would rely on a food pantry, soup kitchen or meal prograk for help, she said. has distributed 3 millioh more meals this year than at this time last and its agencies haveordered 40% more food in the same Pruitt said.
“I think there is a win-wijn here,” Pruitt said. “If someone is unablr to rent or lease outwarehouse space, and they can get a tax write-ofrf for helping the food bank, that’x a win on both sides.” The rising demandd has left the food bank in need of 70,000o to 90,000 square feet of warehouse and distributiob space, said Paul Wunderlich, NTFB’s chievf operating officer. About 260 nonprofits in 13 countie receive food from the food and many of those groups need more warehouse spacsas well, he said.
The food bank especially needsx cooler andfreezer space, Wunderlich Ideally, the space would be in western Collin County, but the food bank is happt to consider any space, he said. “You have to be innovativer and nimble in thenonprofit industry, and you have to take advantagse of opportunities as they come he said. NTFB currently operate s out ofa 70,000-square-foot warehouse it owns in South which is at the southern end of its service The food bank woulr consider ownership or long-term leases in donatex space, Pruitt said. “We’re kind of like a kettl e here,” Pruitt said. “We’rwe starting to boil and we need more space to relievthe pressure.
” In addition to the food bank, the recessionj has caused the Dallas-area chapter of the and many otheer nonprofits to require not only additional warehousd space, but office and retail spacee as well, Cantrell said. Nonprofits with a propertyt request and building owners or commerciao real estate firms with available properthy may contact Cantrellat 972-200-9777 or

Reid Brignac-Sean Rodriguez battle comes down to the wire with Tampa Bay Rays - Tampabay.com

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Reid Brignac-Sean Rodriguez battle comes down to the wire with Tampa Bay Rays Tampabay.com By Joe Smith, Times Staff Writer PORT CHARLOTTE â€" The Rays expected it would be a difficult decision to pick the starting shortstop, with Reid Brignac and Sean Rodriguez battling it out all camp. And with the roster deadline Wednesday at 5 pm, ... and more »