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"Ollie's decision to locate to Georgia underscores how important such assets are for companies who are seeking to establish new locations to serve their customers." |
Other new or expanded companies also will utilize Georgia's world-class deepwater port. |
� Shrivallabh Pittie Group, based in India, will build its first U.S. factory near Sylvania, creating 250 jobs and investing $70 million. The company anticipates moving around 800 containers per year through the Port of Savannah. |
The facility, planned for Screven County Industrial Park, will manufacture carded cotton yarn for the target markets of South and Central America. |
� Countertop manufacturer Caesarstone will bring a $70 million to $100 million manufacturing plant to Richmond Hill, creating 180 to 200 new jobs. The company will move approximately 3,000 twenty-foot equivalent container units (TEUs) per year from Israel and Turkey through the Port of Savannah. Import commodities su... |
Caesarstone's first factory outside of Israel will also be the first in Bryan County's Belfast Commerce Centre. |
� Tractor Supply Company's new Macon distribution center, which cost approximately $50 million and measures over 650,000 square feet, serves Tractor Supply stores across the Southeast. |
The facility will more than double the company's import volume through the Port of Savannah. Jeremy Cox, international transportation manager at Tractor Supply, said the company anticipates moving 7,000 TEUs a year through the port, up from the average 3,000 TEUs moved annually to serve its previous distribution center... |
� Flooring maker Mohawk Industries will convert two manufacturing facilities in Dalton and Rome, creating 420 new jobs and investing about $85 million into the two conversion projects over the next two years. Hiring is planned to begin mid-2014. |
� Toyo Tire North America Manufacturing, Inc. has announced plans to expand its facility in White, Ga., creating a total of 650 new jobs and $371 million investment into the project over the next four years. |
Following are the ships expected to call on Georgia Ports Authority's Garden City and Ocean terminals this week. Schedules are supplied by GCT and are subject to change. |
JumpStart Invests $250,000 in OrthoData, Inc. |
CLEVELAND, March 28, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- OrthoData, Inc. (www.orthodatainc.com), an Akron-based medical device company developing a novel diagnostic system for spine surgeons, has received a $250,000 investment commitment from Cleveland-based nonprofit venture development organization JumpStart Inc. (www.jumpstartinc.... |
"Up to 30 percent of post-operative patients experience continuing pain," says OrthoData's President and CEO, Ric Navarro. Determining the cause of this pain—which can occur due to incomplete fusion of the vertebrae—often requires further surgery, slowing patients' recovery time. "OrthoData's IntelliRod™ system allows ... |
OrthoData's diagnostic system is more affordable than other methods used to assess post-operative progress, such as CT scans. In addition, the IntelliRod system is more quantifiable than imaging, as it provides objective postoperative measurement of the extent of spinal fusion. |
"OrthoData's technology has the potential to transform the postoperative management of spine implant patients," says Michael Lang, JumpStart Venture Partner. "By providing early indication if the spine is or is not fusing, surgeons can intervene with alternative therapies sooner. In addition, OrthoData's solution can a... |
OrthoData plans to use the investment to complete prototype development and conduct relevant animal studies. |
ORTHODATA, INC. OrthoData, Inc. is an Akron, Ohio-based medical device company developing the IntelliRod™ system, a breakthrough implantable spine fusion sensor. This innovative diagnostic system will enable spine surgeons to accurately assess the success of spinal fusion and eliminate the need for unnecessary explorat... |
JUMPSTART INC. JumpStart accelerates the successes of diverse entrepreneurs, their companies and the ecosystems supporting them. The Cleveland-based nonprofit has given intensive business assistance to more than 440 entrepreneurial clients and invested in 71 early stage Northeast Ohio companies since 2004. For more inf... |
35 million people rely on the Great Lakes for water. In fact, the lakes comprise one-fifth of the world's fresh surface water supply and nine-tenths of the U.S. supply. That's why their survival is of prime concern. WaterLife is a film documenting everything impacting the lakes, from water abuse to invasive species, in... |
As water issues stroll further into the limelight, presenting information in an artistic way will become more important in making an impact on people. WaterLife looks to be succeeding at this. |
Screenings for the film run throughout July and into August in Ontario. |
Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen will make a $40 million gift to the University of Washington’s computer science and engineering program — a historic act of philanthropy that university officials say will put the UW and Seattle region at the forefront of the technology revolution for decades to come. |
Allen’s gift, combined with an additional $10 million from Microsoft in Allen’s honor, will create a $50 million endowment for a new Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering at the UW in Seattle. The elevation from a department to a full school is an important distinction and recognizes the success and st... |
The UW Board of Regents voted moments ago to approve the new school. GeekWire was at the meeting on Thursday at the UW’s Bothell campus and spoke with UW President Ana Mari Cauce. She called Allen a “renaissance man” who the university is humbled to be associated with and said the endowment will be valuable for one of ... |
Allen will speak at an event at the UW’s main Seattle campus this afternoon celebrating UW CSE’s 50th anniversary — stay tuned to GeekWire for our reporting from there. |
Update: See Allen’s comments from the event below. |
This marks Allen’s largest donation to the UW and puts the 64-year-old Seattle native in elite company as a “regental laureate,” or those who have given more than $100 million to the university. Others on that list include Bill & Melinda Gates, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and Microsoft. |
Once fully funded, the endowment will provide roughly $2 million per year of “seed funding” for new initiatives in computer science and engineering “that enable us to envision and create the future,” said Ed Lazowska, Bill & Melinda Gates chair in the UW CSE department. |
Examples of how Allen’s gift will be used include new research initiatives; equipment purchases; recruiting purposes; professorships; scholarships for students; and more. |
In a LinkedIn post, Allen wrote that we are entering a “golden age of innovation in computer science.” He said he envies today’s computer science students. |
The $50 million endowment will not go toward the construction of the UW’s new 135,000 square-foot CSE building, which will open in January 2019 and is funded in part by companies like Microsoft, Amazon, Google, and Zillow. The building will double the capacity of the university’s CSE program and allow the school to awa... |
Allen previously donated $14 million to help build the 85,000 square-foot Paul G. Allen Center for Computer Science & Engineering, which opened in 2003 and laid the groundwork for what has become one of the nation’s top computer science programs. |
In the decade since Allen helped open the current UW CSE building, the demand for computer science graduates has skyrocketed in the Seattle region, thanks to a strong startup ecosystem, Amazon’s rapid growth, and the opening of Seattle-area engineering offices by Google, Facebook, and many other tech companies based ou... |
In 2016, CSE became the leading “first-choice” major among confirmed incoming UW freshmen, surpassing the longtime leading preferred major, Business Administration. UW says it currently has to turn away two out of every three qualified student applicants in the CSE department. Last year, 391 students graduated from the... |
Though he never attended the UW — he dropped out of Washington State University after two years to work at Honeywell — Allen’s ties to the university go back to his days as a high school student in the Seattle area, where he and fellow Lakeside School classmate Bill Gates would “tinker around” with the university’s com... |
In his LinkedIn post, Allen called the UW a “special place.” Allen described how he and Gates spent time on campus building software for the “Traf-O-Data machine,” which automated a traffic-measuring process. |
Their experience on the UW campus ultimately helped inspire the pair to launch Microsoft in 1975 and change the personal computing world forever. |
In Allen’s memoir, Idea Man, he described how he spent nearly every summer day after his sophomore year in high school on the UW campus at a computer terminal in the electrical engineering building and “read manuals over hamburgers at the student union.” In his senior year, he “brazenly walked through a door and into U... |
That’s when an assistant professor realized Allen wasn’t a UW student after word got around that “I seemed to know what I was doing,” as Allen recalled in his book. |
In 1989, Allen’s contributions helped to build the Allen Library on campus, which is named after his father, the late Kenneth S. Allen, who was the UW’s associate director of libraries from 1960 to 1982. Allen’s mom, the late Faye G. Allen, taught at the Ravenna School in Seattle. |
After leaving Microsoft in 1983, Allen has gone on to create a bevy of ventures and organizations, working under the umbrella of Vulcan Inc., his Seattle-based investment company. His ventures and research organizations include Vulcan Aerospace, the Allen Institute for Brain Science, the Allen Institute for Artificial ... |
He has also reshaped his hometown with projects including Museum of Pop Culture, formerly EMP, and Vulcan’s numerous real estate developments in the South Lake Union neighborhood, including the construction of the campus that became Amazon’s headquarters. |
Allen was also recently recognized as one of America’s top philanthropists; his contributions range from committing $100 million to fight Ebola to the various non-profits that the Paul G. Allen Foundation helps support. In addition to his donations to the UW, he has also given money to Washington State University. His ... |
Allen’s other passions — which drive much of his decisions for where to spread his fortune — include aerospace and music (he can play a wicked guitar solo). The Seattle native a big sports fan, too. He and his father would attend UW football games in the early 1960s. Today Allen owns the Portland Trail Blazers, the Sea... |
Allen’s net worth is now $19.9 billion; he ranks 21st on Forbes’ list of richest people in America. |
We’ll update this post with more details from Allen’s speech at the UW later today. |
“I feel right at home with you who appreciate the same kind of challenges that attract me,” he said. |
Allen mostly read from his LinkedIn post that published on Thursday, which recounted stories from his days on campus as a high school student. Allen referenced the Traf-O-Data machine and gave a shoutout to former UW student Paul Gilbert, who built the device and was there on Thursday watching his fellow geek speak. |
Donning a black suit with a blue shirt and purple tie, Allen repeated his belief that we are entering a golden age of computing. He offered some encouragement to the students, too. |
“If you’re ever accused of being overly invested in your ideas, it may very well be a sign that you’re on the right track,” Allen said. |
Hank Levy, Wissner-Slivka Chair in Computer Science & Engineering and director of the new school, also spoke and said it was the biggest crowd he’s seen in the building, where the UW Marching Band and UW mascot Dubs were also in attendance. Cauce, UW’s president, and Smith, Microsoft’s president, also shared a few word... |
Allen then joined Lazowska, Smith, Cauce, and UW Board of Regents Chair Pat Shanahan on stage to sign the documents that officially name the school in his honor. After he and Lazowska passed a t-shirt cannon to each other, he went back to the microphone once more. |
Police say they're searching for the driver of a car that struck a 20-year-old Connecticut man in Rhode Island and then sped off. |
Police say Charles Deery, who is a Brown University student, was hit from behind Thursday evening in Cranston, Rhode Island while he was filming a documentary. |
Deery, of New Canaan, Connecticut, had been standing on the edge of the road with a camera and tripod when he was struck. |
Police say Deery has been hospitalized with serious head injuries. Chief Michael Winquist says Deery is expected to survive. |
Dashcam video released by police in New Hampshire shows a man leading an officer on a high-speed chase before crashing. |
Police say the suspect's car should've sustained damage to the right-front passenger side, including the headlight, hood and windshield. |
Fred VanVleet scored 19 points and added seven rebounds and seven assists Tuesday night as the Toronto Raptors defeated the visiting Sacramento Kings 120-105. |
Kyle Lowry added 19 points and nine assists for the Raptors, who won their season-best 10th straight home game and are 9-2 in January. |
Pascal Siakam had 18 points and Serge Ibaka had 15 points and 10 rebounds for the Raptors. C.J. Miles added 15 points and Norman Powell had 11 points. |
Marvin Bagley III scored 22 points and grabbed 11 rebounds for the Kings, who have lost two in a row. Bogdan Bogdanovic added 16 points, eight rebounds and nine assists. |
Paul George scored 36 points to lead Oklahoma City to a home win over Portland, the Thunder’s third win in a row. The result snapped the Trail Blazers’ three-game winning streak. |
Oklahoma City’s Russell Westbrook had 29 points, including a pair of emphatic dunks in the final two minutes to put the exclamation point on the victory. Westbrook added 14 assists and 10 rebounds to complete his NBA-best 14th triple-double of the season. |
Portland got 34 points from Damian Lillard and 31 from CJ McCollum. Jusuf Nurkic added 22 points and 15 rebounds. |
Disillusioned guard Dennis Smith Jr., returning from a six-game absence, scored 17 points and grabbed a season-best eight rebounds to lead Dallas past visiting Los Angeles. |
Smith missed three games with a sore back and an illness before leaving the team for another three games, upset over his role playing alongside rookie sensation Luka Doncic. Amid trade rumors, Smith stayed away from the club as it lost four of the six games. The explosive guard’s return provided a burst of offense that... |
Patrick Beverley paced the Clippers with 16 points and nine rebounds. |
Karl-Anthony Towns scored 25 points, grabbed 18 rebounds and handed out seven assists to lead Minnesota to a win at Phoenix. |
The Suns were seeking payback after Derrick Rose’s buzzer-beating shot on Sunday lifted the Timberwolves to a 116-114 win, but Towns and Minnesota had other ideas. |
Josh Okogie scored 21 points for the Wolves. Josh Jackson finished with 27 points and 10 rebounds for the Suns. |
Noël Coward, a true renaissance man, is one of the major writers of the 20th century. He is remembered for his witty, sophisticated plays, but his total body of work is much more. |
Ken Starrett, North American director of The Noel Coward Society, will give a presentation, May 22 at 2 p.m. as part of the monthly Speaker Series for Seniors,” on the many aspects of “The Master” and his fascinating career as a writer, composer, actor, director, cabaret performer and painter. |
At the age of 14, Starrett played the role of Simon in “Hay Fever,” which began a lifelong passion for the works of Noël Coward. Starrett worked in various capacities in film, television, cabarets and nightclubs, on Broadway, off-Broadway and touring plays and musicals. |
Heights and Hill Community Council Speaker events take place at the Brooklyn Historical Society, 128 Pierrepont Street at Clinton Street. |
Advance registration is required; to register for speaker events for seniors, call Gail Otis at 718-596-8789. |
At the mouth of Montrose and Belmont harbors small perch have been taken, but if you put in the time you can find a few larger fish. Brown trout in the 4- to 8-pound class were taken on minnows and strips of frozen smelt about a foot off the bottom. In Indiana's Trail Creek, a fresh group of steelhead have moved into t... |
Larger minnows or strips of smelt set under a slip bobber have taken brown trout, steelhead and a few coho near Johnson Pier. Using a stinger hook will improve your hooking numbers. Trollers just outside the harbor in 8 to 30 feet have been taking a few coho, steelhead and small kings. Perch have been taken on minnows ... |
With cold rain and cool air temperatures in the forecast, look for crappie to become a little more active on minnows in many of the lakes in the forest preserves. Saganashkee Slough: The concrete wall was still slow, but the few anglers who fished along the south shoreline found some active crappie. Axehead: Very light... |
Walleye on larger minnows have offered the most consistent action on Lake Marie. Stripers also are being taken by boaters drifting with the wind across the main lake. With the air temperatures dropping, the muskie will want suckers over a large artificials. Remember the quick strike rigs on those suckers for a fast hoo... |
Crappie are about the only active fish it seems on the lake. Look up into the back bays that are holding some type of wooden structure. Whether it's a down tree or a beaver hut, the crappie are being drawn to them. |
The river is in good condition right now with a few small walleye being caught across the whole area. One good location has been below the Yorkville Dam at night. Anglers were taking walleye on a minnow/split shot rig dragged along the bottom or a minnow imitator twitched on the surface near a current break. |
Walleye anglers below the Kankakee Dam are finding fish in the 2- to 4-pound class on minnows. A few smallmouth bass still are being taken. With the drop in water temperature expected, they could slow down more, and walleye should become more active. |
The water temperature is 53.8 degrees in Utica and expected to drop for the weekend. Stripers are being taken below the dam, but as the temperatures drop they will pull back and more sauger will be found below the dam and on the edges of the main river channel. |
A few bluegill were responding to wax worms, but crappie are expected to become more active for the weekend on minnows. |
Crappie action has been noted but extremely light fishing pressure has been found on the lake. |
Walleye have been slow, but with the drop in water temperature more anglers are expected to start fishing at night. Northern pike doing well on larger minnows. |
Walleye are spotty and have been found around Governors Island and the county park. It seems that better numbers of walleye move in very close to shore after dark so shore-bound anglers can have an opportunity to take fish. |
The river is holding a fair number of coho and brown trout and a few steelhead. Most of the fish have been caught in Colonial Park and below the Horlick Dam with egg pattern and brown or black nymph pattern flies. |
A 40-year-old man has been arrested in Londonderry this morning by detectives investigating violent dissident republican terrorist activity. |
Police said the arrest was made by detectives from Serious Crime Branch. |
The man has been taken to Musgrave police station for questioning. |
Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti at Jim Gilliam Park and Recreation Center in Los Angeles. |
Mayor Eric Garcetti wants to "reward" Los Angeles neighborhoods that accept temporary homeless shelters by performing more encampment sweeps in those communities than in areas resistant to the housing. |
The mayor's proposal, to be announced in his State of the City speech Monday, would pay for additional city cleaning crews and police services in communities that agree to find room for trailers, tents and other shorter-term shelter for people living on the street. |
"I will give rewards to those communities that say yes first," Garcetti said in an interview last week. "They'll get more help cleaning up. They'll get more funds. The first people to step up and say, 'We do want to solve this in our own neighborhood,' will see those funds flow first." |
The proposal comes as Garcetti and City Council members want to overcome the not-in-my-backyard battles over homeless services or shelters that have erupted in Venice, San Pedro and, more recently, Orange County. |
Garcetti's proposed budget for the next fiscal year, expected to be released Thursday, allocates $20 million for temporary shelters in the city's 15 council districts. |
That money would be divided equally, with each district to receive about $1.3 million. But City Council members would lose that money if it isn't committed by January 2019 to be spent on shelters, which could consist of trailers, large tents, unused buildings or "safe parking" programs. |
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