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Monday, August 9, 2010
WebCPA: Holben Hay Balzer name change  "Holben Hay Husman, Denver, has changed its name to Holben Hay Balzer CPAs LLC in recognition of the influence
and contributions of Sheila Balzer. Balzer had been with Husman & Co. since 1994, prior to its merger with the Holben
firm in 2001." Link to WebCPA (Accounting Today)
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Absolutely Public Relations Named PR Agency of Record for Denver-based Accounting Firm Holben Hay Balzer CPAs
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Sunday, July 18, 2010
DBJ Exclusive July 16, 2010: "‘Fund of funds’ a top priority as Baumunk takes over CBSA" "Holli Baumunk took over as president and CEO of the Colorado BioScience Association (CBSA) on July 12. She already
was familiar with the state’s biotech drug and medical device companies from working as vice president of the Metro
Denver Economic Development Corp. A top priority of her first year will be working on creating a “fund of
funds,” designed to supply capital to private venture funds investing in startup companies that commercialize Colorado
technologies in the biotech drug, medical device, biofuel and clean technology fields. An industry road map prepared for the
CBSA in 2008 recommended pushing for a $250 million “fund of funds” similar to ones in other states that use money
from state employee pension funds and other investors." Link to Greg Avery's profile of Holli Baumunk in today's DBJ
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Denver Post June 30, 2010: "Six Colorado biomed researchers land big grants"  "The Boettcher Foundation today awarded six biomedical researchers from Colorado universities three-year grants
of up to $250,000 each.
All six are in early stages of their careers, a time when it is difficult for researchers
to get the grants needed to fund scientific work.
The Webb-Waring Biomedical Research Program grants are an investment
in science that has the potential to make significant contributions to human health, said Timothy W. Schultz, president of
the Boettcher Foundation."
Link to the Denver Post
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Tuesday, June 1, 2010
Denver-developed Mei Zen Cosmetic Acupuncture System in the national spotlight Stop everything you're doing right now and go to the newsstand to pick up a copy of the June Oprah Magazine. Why? Because
Mei Zen Facial (Cosmetic) Acupuncture is featured on page 164. Mei Zen is the facial acupuncture system co-developed and taught
internationally by Denver's own Dr. Martha Lucas. The photo in O was taken at the practice
of Martha's New York student, Dr. Melinda Mingus.
In addition to developing the Mei Zen system, Martha is also
the author of Vanity Calamity (http://www.amazon.com/o/asin/0578026295/mockerybird/ref=nosim) -- plus, most importantly, she's my acupuncture practitioner of ten years. Thank you, Martha, for being an acupuncture trailblazer!
I admire your passion and dedication to Chinese medicine www.acupuncturewoman.com.
If you're interested in learning
more about the Mei Zen Cosmetic Acupuncture System and not in the Denver area for assistance from Dr. Lucas, you can find
a MeiZen certified acupuncture practitioner in your area at this link: http://www.cosmeticacupunctureseminars.com/practitioners.html.
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Inspiration from the Great Masters in Communications
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Wednesday, May 19, 2010
Bell Aqualculture's Norman McCowan Quoted in WSJ Yellow Perch Article  "'Perch were born to be fried,' said Fred P. Binkowski, a senior scientist of fisheries biology with the University
of Wisconsin-Milwaukee's Great Lakes Water Institute. Mr. Binkowski provides Sweet Water and similar operations with technical
assistance and baby perch that he breeds under research agreements with the companies. One company he works with
is Bell Aquaculture LLC, an indoor fish farm built in a former farm field near Muncie, Ind. Bell has invested some
$50 million and has been raising perch for three years. It sells about two million fish a year to restaurants and food distributors,
said Norman McCowan, president and chief executive. The closely held company expects to turn its first profit next year and
eventually produce six million perch annually." Link to the article
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Bell Aquaculture: Perch producer to sell direct to consumers  From the March/April issue of Aquaculture North America: "Indiana's Bell Aquaculture fish-farming
company, the United States' largest yellow perch farm, has started selling product directly to consumers. Until
now, the Redkey-based fish producer and processor has been supplying primarily to restaurants. However, it recently announced
that it will be selling directly to consumers in order increments of five and 20 lbs. In February, the company
also rolled out its breaded yellow-perch line along with launching its Bell Perch Online Ordering System, announced by president
and CEO Norman McCowan." Clipping pdf
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Tuesday, May 11, 2010
Cleantech association starts online career center  "The Colorado Cleantech Industry Association in Denver has started a Web-based Career Center, connecting job seekers
with prospective employers in the cleantech industry. The job board, powered by JobTarget, serves association members
as well as nonmembers." Link to the Boulder County Business Report
2:45 pm edt
CCIA launches online career center for companies, job seekers  "The Colorado Cleantech Industry Association has launched a new online career center for people looking for jobs in the
cleantech industry and cleantech companies looking for workers. People looking for jobs can post their resumes,
including anonymous resumes, and sign up for alerts notifying them of jobs matching their criteria. Cleantech companies can
post jobs to the site. The new career center is available to members and non-members of CCIA." Link to the posting at BrownonGreen.net
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Friday, April 30, 2010
Denver Business Journal:  PRSA Colorado President Elisabeth Monaghan contributed another bylined article to the Denver Business Journal today:
"PR pros can help executives enter networking circles." In the article, Elisabeth kindly quoted me (Maggie Holben,
author of this news feed blog): "While some executives say they lack the time to network, Maggie Holben,
owner of Absolutely Public Relations in Lakewood, says they still can establish professional contacts and enhance their company’s
community exposure.
'Good networkers are active in community organizations,' she said. 'They aggressively pursue
and serve on committees and hold board positions, including officer stints — even if those organizations center on their
children’s school or extracurricular activities. If an executive doesn’t have the time to volunteer, he can readily
share his company’s management and accounting talents, and he views this as an opportunity, not a chore.'
Holben
also recommends that executives encourage others in their organizations to volunteer their time and talents, sit on nonprofit
boards or join professional organizations.
'It is much easier for a public relations professional to nominate an
executive for an award or promote a company when the organization invites and is recognized for creating a culture of community
involvement,' she said."Read more at: http://www.bizjournals.com/denver/stories/2010/05/03/smallb4.html
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Thursday, April 29, 2010
Colorado's Bioscience Industry featured in European Life Science Journal  A bylined article by Leah Kientz, CBSA Director of Public Policy & Programming, is featured in the current issue
of the European Life Science Journal, "Europe's International Journal for Life Science."
Found on page 64, this is the fourth collaboration between ELSJ and CBSA. The current ESLJ issue will be distributed next
week at the BIO Convention in Chicago: "USA: Colorado's bioscience industry boasts a strong
infrastructure. Buildings that encompass a city would crumble without a strong foundation,
and a great industry community requires the same sturdy infrastructure.
The Colorado bioscience community has a strong infrastructure supporting
it, but over the last year that foundation has become even stronger...Colorado's
research institutions have grown in capacity and have been able to sustain this growth through the support of new endeavors."
Link to the new ESLJ (page 64: "Colorado's
bioscience industry boasts a strong infrastructure")
6:12 pm edt
9News/Denver: Score a job in Colorado's hot BioScience industry  "JEFFERSON COUNTY - the Colorado BioScience Association is hosting a Career and Resource Fair on April 28th, at
the Jefferson County Fairgrounds. We featured a preview on 9NEWS 5 a.m. [CaridianBCT Recruiting Manager Michael Reilly interviewed
with Kyle Dyer on behalf of the CBSA Career Fair]. The Fair is Wednesday, April 28, from 1:00 to 4 p.m. and will
bring together students and job seekers looking to learn more about bioscience industry employment and training opportunities
in the state. The announcement was made by Denise Brown, CBSA Interim Executive Director, who says the fair is
being held in response to company growth and workforce demands in Colorado's bioscience industry." Link to the 9News posting
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Colorado BioScience Association names nine to board  April 21, 2010 - The Colorado BioScience Association appointed nine new board members at its annual meeting Tuesday
in Erie. They are: Denise Brown, principal, DM Brown LLC. (Brown is serving as CBSA's interim executive director following the resignation of John Collar as CEO in February). Betty Iverson, state government
affairs, Johnson & Johnson. Ruth Lytle-Barnaby, executive director, Poudre Valley Health System Foundation. Nick
Saccamono, chief technology officer, SomaLogic. Chris Smith, president, Cochlear. Will Vaughn, director of technology
transfer, Colorado School of Mines. Jim Wilson, senior audit manager, Ernst & Young. Dan Wittenberg, partner,
Snell & Wilmer. Michael Weiner, partner, Dorsey & Whitney. Link to the article
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Northern Colorado's Lytle-Barnaby joins CBSA board  April 21, 2010 - ERIE - Northern Colorado has another representative on the Colorado BioScience Association board following
the appointment of new members at the organization's annual meeting Tuesday night. Ruth Lytle-Barnaby, executive
director of Poudre Valley Health System Foundation, now sits on the board with Sean Moriarty, vice president and general council
for Fort Collins pharmaceutical manufacturer Tolmar and the only other board member from Northern Colorado who was reappointed
at the meeting. Link to the online article
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Bell Perch Breaded Line & Online Ordering System Featured in March Fish Farming International
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Tuesday, March 16, 2010
Baxa Corp's NeoThrive Enteral Feeding System featured in March issue of Today's Medical Developments "Dozens of patients – frequently tiny babies – have been killed or wounded by a little-known medical mistake
made by nurses and doctors. Well documented in medical literature, the error is a tubing misconnection. It occurs... when
caregivers deliver the wrong medication or liquid to the wrong part of a patient’s body.
Now, borrowing theory
from automotive and industrial designers, medical supply companies are redesigning their tubes and syringes with behavior-shaping
constraints that make these devastating mistakes impossible. In this arena, [Denver-based] Baxa Corp., has developed a syringe
and pump specifically to feed premature babies in intensive care."
Link to the article posting
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Thursday, March 11, 2010
New Products: Bell Perch Announcement in Seafood Business "Frozen breaded yellow perch fillets and Cajun nuggets are now
available through an online ordering system from Bell Aquaculture.
Bell’s panko breading balances tangy and
mild flavors, and the fillets cook best in canola oil in just under three minutes. The sweet, mild-tasting fish is available
year-round. Bell Aquaculture in Albany, Ind., owns and operates one of the nation’s largest yellow perch farms, with
corporate headquarters and production facilities nearby in Redkey, northeast of Indianapolis. The fillets and nuggets are
available in orders of either 5 or 20 pounds. Non-breaded fillets will be available online in the near future. Contact Bell
Aquaculture at (765) 369-2392, or visit www.bellperch.com."
Link to Seafood Business online
2:17 pm est
Fitzsimons: From vacant Army post to medical promised land
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Thursday, March 4, 2010
Special Report: Green Technology - Can Green Technology Propel Economic Development? Chad Vander Veen's article in the March 2010 Governing magazine includes quotes from Matt Cheroutes,
CCIA Founding Board Member:
"That's the case in Colorado, where Gov. Bill Ritter ordered his Energy Office,
Economic Development Office and state CIO to collaborate on ways to nurture green technology start-ups and create demand among
consumers for emerging — and typically more expensive — green products.
Colorado is testing a new Discovery
Grant Program designed to help early stage companies, which are often simply groups of researchers attempting to take an idea
out of the lab and into the commercial market.
'At that point, there's not a lot of available seed capital. So
to give them some small grants at the very beginning really shows great support from the state,' says Matt Cheroutes, director
of communications and external affairs for the Colorado Governor's Office of Economic Development and International Trade.
Cheroutes, a founding member of the Colorado Cleantech Industry Association, says strong executive
support for green technology in Colorado will lead to job growth and economic prosperity. But that won't happen, he says,
unless companies can deliver their products to a public that can afford them — a tall order in green tech markets that
are often too immature to deliver at affordable economies of scale.
Cheroutes says the state works closely with
renewable energy firms to develop incentives for consumers. Take solar power, for example, where the cost of installing solar
panels typically doesn't pencil out for the average homeowner.
'We've had a lot of people in our state say they
want solar on their homes,' Cheroutes says. 'But they simply can't afford the initial investment to do it. We've seen estimates
anywhere from $8,000 for a very small home to $15,000 for a medium-sized home. These days, not a lot of people have the ability
to pay that.'
The state worked with two Colorado solar firms — SolarCity and SunRun — to develop a
financing model that makes solar installations more affordable. Instead of paying the full installation fee upfront, consumers
instead put up a down payment that is a fraction of the total cost. Over the next three or four years, the energy savings
the consumer realizes goes back to the solar company to pay the remaining balance. After the company is paid in full, the
consumer's energy bill decreases significantly. . .
'The culture has changed in Colorado,' says Cheroutes. 'It's
something that everyone in Colorado has sort of agreed to and bought in to. And whether that's out of a desire to protect
our mountains or to keep our kids from being sent halfway around the world to fight, or if it's to keep kids who are home
employed and working, it's a cultural mind change, and sometimes those are the hardest things to deal with in the beginning.
So if you have the will of the people, of industry and of political leaders, you can make anything happen.'"
Link to the article
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Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Colorado Institute for Drug, Device and Diagnostic Development: "With $4.75M in hand, institute helps biotech startups"  "Local bioscience industry boosters have formed a state-supported nonprofit institute to fund biotechnology startups
and provide them executive leadership at their earliest stages. The Colorado Institute for Drug, Device and Diagnostic
Development (CID4) is armed with $3.75 million from the Colorado Office of Economic Development and International Trade and
$1 million from the Fitzsimons Redevelopment Authority in the next five years." Link to the Denver Business Journal feature
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