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Sunday, September 2, 2012
Innov8 health tech startups pitch | EnterChange
When Dawn Sheanshang suddenly found herself caring for her sick father, she became overwhelmed by a regiment of seven medications.
Seven new businesses were presented Thursday at an Innov8 for Health Showcase at the Cincinnati Museum Center. The Enquirer/Cara Owsley
An Internet search yielded no good option for organizing the pills and then checking to be sure that she delivered and he took the right ones at the right time.Sheanshang, a pharmaceutical sales rep, thought she could leverage iPads and mobile devices to better identify and track pills. She shared her idea with the year-old nonprofit Innov8 for Health, which enrolled her in this summer?s healthcare IT accelerator program and matched her with serial entrepreneur Jeffrey Shepard.
Working tirelessly in the Corryville accelerator since June, the pair has developed the Virtual Pillbox, a web and mobile technology that allows caretakers and patients to match pills in their box with high quality images on a screen. It provides detailed instructions from the Food & Drug Administration, doctor or pharmacist, and sends notifications and reminders to take and refill prescriptions.
The pair has partnerships pending with Walgreens, CVS, Kroger and VRI, a Franklin-based provider of in-home medical monitoring. Now, they need $250,000 to get the product ready for those customers and to sell to even more.
Twelve entrepreneurs behind seven new businesses presented on Thursday afternoon at the Cincinnati Museum Center cutting-edge technologies that could change the way healthcare is administered today. They are the first to graduate from Innov8 for Health, a year-old organization formed by the region?s foremost corporations and healthcare institutions to make Cincinnati a national hub of healthcare technology innovation and job creation.
A key goal of the inaugural effort was to help the most promising new businesses raise money from investors to build and launch their products. The companies pitched Thursday?s crowd of investors and potential customers to raise a combined $2.3 million to turn their inventions into technologies that change lives and long-established health care practices.
?We have to get these companies follow-on funding,? said Sunnie Southern, an Innov8 founder and lead volunteer. ?That?s the last phase of Innov8. That?s how we know we were successful.?
Innov8 kicked off last December with an event for college students and entrepreneurs to pitch their health care-related business ideas and win prizes and help from experienced health care and business professionals. A business concept expo in April let them, and others with health care ideas, share again. The nonprofit chose the most promising companies to receive $20,000, three months of office space and support and mentorship from hundreds local healthcare, venture capital and small business executives.
Investors were impressed Thursday that most companies had products built and potential customers testing and proving them.
?I suspect a number of the companies will have no difficulty raising money,? said Dov Rosenberg, a partner with Allos Ventures, a local venture capital firm. ?They are taking on big problems. To the extent they are able to solve them, they should have real promising companies.?
The technologies include:
Virtual Pillbox, created by Sheanshang and Shepard?s new company MedaCheck LLC.
Betterpointment, a mobile application that lets patients make appointments with doctors and report their symptoms and pain in advance of a visit. Founder Richard Weisberger bills his product as a technology that saves doctors time and gives patients better outcomes. He hasn?t determined a financial need yet.
MyFearZapper, a mobile and web game that helps kids overcome fears that range from bugs and monsters to abuse, building up confidence in kids and reducing the chance of mental health issues. Founders Andrea Brady, a former Procter & Gamble brand manager, and Tracy Ruberg, a sales executive at Dell, have partnered with top mental health doctors to test the product. They need $300,000 to continue development and sell to customers.
eProvizion, the first of several software programs built by Satec Health Solutions LLC. It helps human resources and information technology managers at hospitals, nursing homes and physician?s offices maintain HIPAA compliance. St. Elizabeth?s Hospital has already used the product for three years, and partners Phil and Emily Stinson hope to secure a $250,000 investment to market it to other customers.
I Feel Great Apps, a series of applications that give patients control over their health. Founder Steve Deal, who owns Deal Corporation in Dayton, has already created one application that lets patients keep a searchable journal of their doctors appointments and health records, to reference in case of a concern or an insurance dispute. Deal plans to raise $750,000 fo hire developers to complete the product and build others, and begin selling to doctors and insurers.
Caring Ties, a mobile and web application that lets a family of caregivers communicate with each other and physicians about a loved one?s care and treatment. Founders Bill Nadler and Jerry Felix already operate CCM Link, an IT firm that?builds software for?healthcare providers. They?ve spent $650,000 to create the product and plan to raise another $500,000 to market it to healthcare providers, the families they serve and companies that provide insurance benefits to employees.
My Healthy Tale, an interactive storybook that uses characters to teach kids with diseases like diabetes how to care for themselves. Created by 20-year-old Xavier University student Anthony Breen, in partnership with the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, the technology reduces fear and anxiety associated with a disease and motivates children to live a healthy lifestyle over a lifetime. Breen will distribute the application through the iPhone app store. He hopes to raise $250,000 to continue to develop books to help kids.
Source: http://enterchange.cincinnati.com/2012/08/31/innov8-health-tech-startups-launch/
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The Election's Portent for Dividend Stocks ? Investing Daily
?The reason political party platforms are so long is that when you straddle anything it takes a while to explain it.?
That was what legendary entertainer Will Rogers quipped about political conventions and the policy platforms they produce. And while there weren?t too many surprises to emerge from the GOP?s latest platform, there were some planks that could have a substantial impact on investors?particularly if the party should win both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue in November.
Anything less than that, of course, would force both parties to compromise to pass any meaningful legislation. And it?s likely that frequent face-offs over policymaking will continue anyway, particularly since any party that holds at least 40 seats in the Senate still has the ability to block almost any legislation by means of the filibuster.
Whoever wins the White House, however, will have enormous latitude when it comes to enforcing federal regulations under existing laws. And the list of affected industries includes everything from communications and electric power to natural gas drilling and media ownership.
One of the narratives in the Republican campaign this year is that the Obama administration has a hidden agenda that it?s waiting to spring on America in a second term. The president, however, not only enjoyed congressional majorities in both houses during the first two years of his administration,?but for several months his party actually had the necessary votes in the US Senate to invoke cloture and end filibusters. It?s a bit rich to claim there?s something he wasn?t pushing then when he held all the levers of power in Washington, and that he?s instead held it in reserve should he get elected to a second term.
Rather, the primary uncertainty surrounding this election is what will happen if Republican candidate Mitt Romney wins the White House. Romney?s claim that he would not reappoint Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke?who was originally appointed by Republican President George W. Bush?is certainly red meat for many conservatives. But it does beg the question just who would he appoint to the position, and how much the decision would be influenced by politics. And there?s no doubt this will create uncertainty in global markets until the decision is made.
Similar uncertainty exists for other key offices the president appoints. For utility companies, a Romney win would bring a 3-2 Republican majority to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC). The Obama FERC?s 3-2 Democratic majority has shown itself to be less laissez-faire than the Bush and Clinton FERCs that preceded it.
My guess is that a Romney FERC would draw its cues from the Bush-era FERC, with consultation from the industry playing a bigger role. The Republican Party platform, however,?includes a sharp reversal from that of 2008, when it pledged support to nuclear energy as a way to reduce carbon dioxide emissions from power plants. Additionally, there?s opposition to tax credits to support renewable energy, and there?s only vague language about supporting oil and gas drilling in North America.
Most observers presume that a President Romney would support hydraulic fracturing or ?fracking,? the drilling technique that?s absolutely essential for developing North American oil and gas. Romney has also released an energy plan that calls for, among other things, immediate approval of TransCanada?s (NYSE: TRP) Keystone XL pipeline, the opening of whole new areas to offshore drilling off the US coast, and what would be largely an end to fuel-efficiency standards for vehicles.
How those plans would actually be enacted via policymaking, however, is far from clear. Companies could probably count on less scrutiny from the Environmental Protection Agency. Coal-fired power plants, however, still face a Bush-era rule on mercury emissions that?s slated to kick in starting in 2015.
That?s one reason why a change in the White House alone won?t guarantee a recovery for coal. The best the coal industry can hope for from a Romney win is more time to gear up its output for export, particularly to countries such as China that will build many more coal-fired plants than the US will close in the coming years. The likely change in policy will also give coal-burning utilities such as Southern Company (NYSE: SO) a couple more years to transition to clean-burning natural gas.
Of course, most investors are far more concerned about how the outcome of the election will affect their tax rates. That was the clear message I got at the San Francisco MoneyShow last week, as well as from the MLP Profits subscriber chat my coeditor Elliott Gue and I held this week.
To review, if nothing else is done between now and January 2013, tax rates on income, dividends and capital gains will revert to Clinton-era levels. That means dividends will be taxed at the same rate as ordinary income, which for some investors could be more than 40 percent.
Some suggest this will trigger a massive selloff in dividend-paying stocks?as much as 25 percent to 30 percent below current values?as higher taxes will make them less attractive as investments.
As I?ve written previously, I view any lasting loss of dividend stock valuations as highly unlikely. First, there was no surge in dividend stock values following the enactment of lower dividend tax rates back in 2003. Second, the majority of the float of dividend stocks is owned by institutions, which aren?t affected by changing tax rates. And much of the rest is held inside IRAs and other tax-deferred retirement accounts.
Finally, even if dividends are fully taxed at the highest rate, dividend stocks are still the only game in town to generate the necessary income for retirement, as bond yields are at multi-decade lows and ?savings? yields are almost nonexistent. Regardless of whether there will be higher tax rates, there are simply no alternatives.
If there is a selloff due to higher tax rates, the resulting higher yields and more attractive valuations will soon lure new buyers, which will quickly erase any losses.
Fortunately, the most likely outcome no matter who wins the election will be a compromise that will prevent the dreaded ?fiscal cliff? in 2013. Europe?s economic turmoil is a continuing reminder of how aggressive austerity measures do more harm than good, as sharply reduced government spending sends?economies reeling by crimping government revenue and running deficits ever higher.
No one ever went broke betting on the venality and ignorance of politicians. But given that example?despite the tough talk leading up to the election?it?s in everyone?s best interest to forge a deal that avoids what could certainly be an economic catastrophe. The only question is what that compromise will look like, and that ultimately depends upon which party holds more power after the election.
So the most likely outcome following November is a post-election compromise with some tax benefits and spending restored and no fiscal cliff.
But I also strongly believe in the Boy Scout motto: Be prepared. That means making sure the underlying businesses of your portfolio holdings can endure the possibility of a sharp slowdown in US economic growth. The need for minimal debt refinancing between now and the end of 2013 is one sign of strength for companies. Also, companies that proved their ability to continue producing revenue and paying dividends during the 2008-09 Great Recession are likely to fare well in a worst case scenario for 2013.
Finally, make sure you own some dividend-paying stocks that will remain tax advantaged. That means master limited partnerships (MLP), particularly those in the energy midstream business. MLPs pay dividends that are part return of capital and are therefore not taxed until you sell, and only then as a capital gain. And energy midstream is one business that held up well in 2008-09, thanks to reliance on long-term contracts and the minimal impact of energy price swings.
MLPs were not part of the agreement last year that raised the ceiling on US debt in exchange for automatic spending cuts and tax increases that comprise the so-called fiscal cliff. Their tax status could be threatened at some point in the future. But they won?t be if there is a fiscal cliff. In fact, their tax advantages will only make them more valuable.
One good example: Spectra Energy Partners, LP (NYSE: SEP). The company?s major assets are pipelines and related facilities that provide natural gas to power utilities, which are increasingly switching over to cheap gas. And it?s backed by Spectra Energy Corp (NYSE: SE), a major player in the energy business and a source of asset ?drop downs? to the LP.
Most companies have now reported their second-quarter earnings. As such, it?s time for those of us who look at the market and economy from the ground up to put what we?ve seen into perspective.
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My first takeaway was just how low the drama quotient was on actual news. A handful of dividend-paying companies?primarily producers of commodities hurt by falling prices?did cut their dividends. Those moves, however, were mostly expected by the market, which limited the fallout on share prices.
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For most companies, however, it was another quarter to focus on the blocking and tackling of running a business in an economic environment that was neither bullish nor bearish. And for most, the conservative financial and operating strategies employed since the crash of 2008-09 have put overall results on a mostly even keel.
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There was, of course, no shortage of drama in the mainstream financial media, which after all is in the business of getting investors? attention. But even when a widely publicized negative opinion of a stock did make headlines and spur selling, the downside impact on the share price was short-lived. In fact, several times we saw speculation drive stocks down, only for them to pop back up sharply when the actual release of numbers refuted the rumor.
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The lesson to draw from this is to keep an even keel yourself and don?t just blindly accept bearish opinion just because it seems astute. Even if those views are not self-interested, they?re not necessarily correct. Look at the numbers yourself and make up your own mind.
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My second takeaway from earnings season is just how cautious management of most companies sounded in conference calls. That?s certainly a good sign as far as dividend safety goes. And it likely means companies are going to continue to limit their exposure to near-term debt maturities as well.
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There?s certainly plenty of justification for being cautious now, for individuals as well as corporations. Europe has not resolved its challenges, though they have at least temporarily faded from the headlines. Data from Asia are opaque as usual, but it?s pretty clear that growth has slowed over the past year, and it may take a while to get things going there. And the US economy is still stuck in a ?two steps forward, one step back? situation.
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There?s plenty of room for companies to fall between the cracks if management isn?t careful. And a stumble is all it takes to set off a selling wave that will feed on its own momentum.
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But being hunkered down also leaves a lot fewer targets. And in any case, it?s a sharp contrast with the situation before the 2008 crash, and a pretty good reason why such a catastrophe is unlikely this year. That alone is good reason for optimism following a second-quarter earnings season that generally produced numbers supporting dividends, balance sheet strength, and even companies? plans for long-term growth.
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There?s no substitute for picking apart the numbers of companies you own. And every investor needs to understand just what measure of profits is funding the dividends he or she is receiving, whether it?s sustainable, and if it provides ample cash flow coverage for dividends.
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Despite today?s very low interest rates, I would still advise avoiding companies that would be hurt if capital markets were to suddenly tighten. That means most companies with hefty debt maturities between now and the end of 2013.
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One good measure is the total debt needing to be rolled over as a percentage of market capitalization. Anything less than 10 percent isn?t likely to be of consequence. But the higher that number goes, the more risk. Keep in mind that dividend cuts at European telecommunications companies like Telef?nica (NYSE: TEF) weren?t caused by falling revenue, but to avoid having to roll over debt at exorbitant rates.
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The most important lesson of this earnings season is to beware of momentum. Now perhaps more than ever, investors seem to be equating falling share prices with growing risk, and rising share prices with safety.
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That?s perfectly understandable, given what the markets have been through the past few years. But it?s the very antithesis of value investing, which is the basis for making real money as an individual investor. Investors who chase momentum will always pay too much for their shares. And dumping stocks while shares suffer downward momentum will always fetch a poor price.
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The nice thing about earnings numbers is that they give investors a basis for defying mindless momentum. You can make up your own mind about what a company is worth and whether its stock is worth buying. And that?s what it?s all about when it comes to buying low and selling high.
Source: http://www.investingdaily.com/15603/the-elections-portent-for-dividend-stocks
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Saturday, September 1, 2012
LG Intuition 4G LTE may become available on Verizon September 6th
The day of September 6th is gearing up to be a rather hefty one for Verizon: earlier we reported that the Samsung Galaxy Stellar is slated to launch on that date, and it's also the day after Motorola unveils its latest lineup for Big Red. Why not throw in another device that we've heard so much about, such as the LG Intuition? Indeed, docs detailing the CDMA-clad Optimus Vu is now beginning to make the rounds in Verizon's internal system -- and its intended launch date is among the trove of treasures to be found within. According to the docs, we should expect to see the 5-inch device available online in time for the 6th, while all channels won't be ready to go until the 10th. We can't imagine that too many people will be upset over having to wait another four days, however.
In terms of specs, here's what we can anticipate from the Intuition: Ice Cream Sandwich, a dual-core 1.5GHz Qualcomm MSM8660 (Snapdragon S3) processor paired with MDM9600 LTE modem and 1GB RAM, Gorilla Glass, a 5-inch IPS display with a resolution of 1024 x 768, 15 hours of talk time, 8MP rear camera with 1.3MP front-facing cam and no microSD expandable storage option. Ultimately, the Intuition is Verizon's variant of the Optimus Vu, and boasts that commonality right down to the components and design -- you won't find much difference in specs, weight or dimensions between the two. We've compiled a few images for your enjoyment, so head below to see. As before, we had to be creative in how we treated these images to protect the identity of everyone involved.
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Jp Morgan, 94, Bosque Farms, New Mexico
Jp passed away on Monday, August 27, 2012.
Jp was a resident of Bosque Farms, New Mexico at the time of his passing.
JP served his country in an anti-aircraft unit during WWII defending Washington DC.
He was preceded in death by his wife Elsie.
Services will be held on Saturday, September 01, 2012, 9:00 a.m. at First Baptist Church of Bosque Farms, 1350 Bosque Farms Blvd, with Pastor Sid West officiating. Interment will take place at Sunset Memorial Park. Friends may visit French - University, Friday, August 31, 2012 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm.
Should friends desire, memorial contributions may be made to the American Cancer Society .
Source: http://krqe.tributes.com/show/Jp-Morgan-94352380
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Today on New Scientist: 31 August 2012
Twin craft head for heart of Earth's magnetic storm
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One-Minute Physics: How to travel through the Earth
Watch an animation that shows what would happen if you fell in a hole through the Earth
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Could sneezing, yawning and tickling have a shared function? PLUS The call to bring back parasites and the woolly credulity of Sheldrake's swansong
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