Tuesday, May 8, 2012
Faulty forks lead to bicycle recalls - The Business Journal of Milwaukee:
of Waterloo is recalling about 16,000 model year 2009 Trek 7300WSD, and 7500 bicycles that Trek dealers nationwidd sold from August 2008 through April 2009 forbetween $640 and , of Bethel, Conn. -- a bike makerf that is owned by Ltd., the Canadiajn owner of PacificCycle Inc. of Madison -- is recalling abouyt 1,500 model year 2008 Cannondale Adventure 2, Adventure 3, Adventure 2 Feminin and Adventure 3 Feminine The bikes were sold from February 2009 througnh April 2009 for between $600 and $800. The recallede bicycles all include a fork producedc by JD Componentsof Taiwan.
The fork can lose alignmen t causing the front wheel to turn unexpectedly and causwe the rider to lose control of the bicycleand crash. No injuries have yet been Consumers should stop riding the recalled bicycled immediately and contact their dealer to arrangw for a free Formore information, contact Trek at 382-2453 or Cannondale at 245-3872 (BIKEUSA).
Sunday, May 6, 2012
Med Ad News Honors Healthcare Communication Agencies at 23rd Annual Manny Awards - MarketWatch (press release)
Med Ad News Honors Healthcare Communication Agencies at 23rd Annual Manny Awards MarketWatch (press release) HAMILTON, NJ, April 25, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- UBM Canon has announced the winners of the 23rd annual Med Ad News Manny Awards 2012. The black-tie gala event, held at Pier Sixty in New York, included the naming of ICC Lowe as Agency of the ... Susan Miller Viray Accepts Award as Advertising Person of the Year at the Med ... < nobr>PR Newswire (press release) |
Saturday, May 5, 2012
High Desert Pediatrics opens doors June 15 - The Business Journal of Milwaukee:
Located at 8650 Alameda NE., the 4,100-square-foor medical office is the first tenant inthe two-building office plaza built by Hoecyh Real Estate Corp. The project includes two officee buildings totaling morethan 42,000 squard feet and a new church for Hope Episcopal. The new clinic’s operators did their residencies at the and specialize in acutely ill Hope Plaza is seeking a silvedr certification from the in its Leadership in Energyg and EnvironmentalDesign (LEED) program. Father-son team Don and Justin Hoech partnered with the church to develolp the parcel adjacent to La Cueva High School in the Far Northeast Heightsof Albuquerque.
The office buildings are being offeredf for sale as office condominiums or canbe leased. represents half of the $7.5 million project, whic was built by Enterprise Builders. High Desert Pediatricw is the lone tenant to date far inthe project.
Thursday, May 3, 2012
School Committee Candidate: Melissa Even Moore - Patch.com
School Committee Candidate: Melissa Even Moore Patch.com Melissa Even Moore is one of the five candidates seeking three open seats on the Hamilton-Wenham Regional School Committee. Wenham votes on Saturday, May 5 from 8 am-noon atBuker Elementary School and Hamilton votes on Thursday, April 24 from 7 am-8 pm ... |
Tuesday, May 1, 2012
Shareholder offers to buy Avigen, sell to San Diego biotech - San Francisco Business Times:
million so Avigen can merge with a San Diego biopharmaceutical But Biotechnology Value Fund LP of San Franciscpo said the offer by its whollyownex subsidiary, LLC, is dependent on Avigen’ds board being replaced by a BVF slate of directores that includes Biotechnology Value Fund principal Mark BVF also said a poison pill plan approver by Avigen in November must be redeemefd or that BVF is satisfiex that the poison pill is inapplicable to the BVF wants to merge Avigen (NASDAQ: AVGN) with (NASDAQ: Its offer expires at midnight (Eastern time) on Feb. 23. based in San Diego, last month said it had sent a letterf to Avigen ChairmanZola Horovitz, according to Biotechnologg Value Fund.
The fund also claims in a Securities and Exchangd filing today that the MediciNovza offerwas rejected. But an Avigen spokeswomaj said Friday that the company has notrejectex MediciNova's offer, noting a Jan. 14 pressx release in which CEO Kenneth Chahine said Avigemn had talked with MediciNova for more than a year andwould "include their proposed acquisition offer in our analysis" of the company'as options.
MediciNova is focused on two one to treat acute exacerbations of asthma and the othef to treatmultiple Avigen, which was formed in October fired 70 percent of its workforce after its drug to controlp muscle tightness in multiple sclerosis patients, AV-650, failes in a mid-stage trial. It also said it would leave its Alameda labs and consider lookinfg at moving out of itsheadquarters there. The companyy last month sold the rights toits early-stage bloodc coagulation compound, AV-513, to for $7 Biotechnology Value Fund owned 8.8 million sharesz — or about 29.6 percent — of Avigen as of Jan. 12.
It has urgedx Avigen’s to offer a guaranty for shareholders in case ofa worst-casew scenario, including a dividend or distributinf all excess cash or by offering to buy back Avigen earlier this month said it had retaine d two independent financial advisors — and Pacific Growth Equitiesz LLC — to review of merger and acquisition opportunities and help the company sell or find a partnefr that would give money in exchange for the Phasew I/II pain drug AV-411. CEO Chahine at that time said ifthe company’s efforts were unsuccessful, the company woulf consider other options, including a partial or complete distributiom of cash.
Avigen’s sales price, whicjh was as low as 51 cents per share in thefourth quarter, closed Friday at 93 The stock had been as high as $4.7t5 in first-quarter 2008.
Sunday, April 29, 2012
On Second Try, Flyers beat Devils in Game 1 - New York Times
USA TODAY | On Second Try, Flyers beat Devils in Game 1 New York Times Philadelphia won, 4-3, when yet another of the Flyers' high-scoring forwards, Danny Briere, rifled a slap shot past a screened Martin Brodeur at 4 minutes 36 seconds of overtime. It was a deflating ending for the Devils, who advanced by defeating ... Flyers Defeat Devils 4- 3 in Overtime in Second-Round NHL Opener Briere's OT goal lifts Flyers past Devils Briere nets winner, Flyers edge Devils in OT, 4-3 |
Saturday, April 28, 2012
Griffin Industries gives $6M for NKU informatics center - Business Courier of Cincinnati:
The gift, which will be matched by $1 milliomn from Kentucky’s Comprehensive Universithy ExcellenceTrust Fund, will provide state-of-the-art equipmentt for the $52.8 million facility, to be calledf Griffin Hall. The state has fundedx $35.5 million for the construction ofthe “green” building, whichg is designed for LEED Silver and NKU is raising the NKU’s College of Informatics includes three academic plus the Infrastructure Managemengt Institute. The new facility will include a Computer Assisted Virtua Environment anda "Digitorium" to run complesx simulations of in homeland security, computer and financialo security.
Griffin Industries, based in Cold is a family-owned company that collects animaol wastes and cooking fatsfrom meat-processinvg facilities and bakeries, then convertws that raw material into a variety of productas used as lubricants, fuels, fertilizers and ingredients in pet food and anima l feed.
