eMAIN TEAM MEETING AND REPORTS

The March 21 meeting was cancelled. Look for our next eMain team meeting report on April 11.

Special Event

Greater Louisville Inc.'s Business at Breakfast Series

Tom Thomas, President and CEO of HAHT Commerce, and a faculty member Bellarmine Center for eWorld Education spoke at the April 18 Greater Louisville Inc. Business at Breakfast. Thomas is a Louisville native and former CIO of Dell Computer. At the breakfast, Thomas shared his vision of new technologies and how they can impact area businesses. He also spoke about how the initiatives currently underway at eMain USA are poised to change Louisville's business economy.

bCatalyst

On April 16^th and 17^th, bCatalyst a business accelerator opened its new eMain location at 124 North First Street. bCatalyst offers an entrepreneurial environment for promising new economy startups, including expert mentoring from seasoned entrepreneurs and venture capitalists.

ReLated Local nEWS

$5 million grant to help fund new incubator, Downtown site links eMain, medical center

The Louisville Medical Center Development Corp. and the University of Louisville have received a $5 million state grant to apply toward a $10 million facility that will house two incubators, one for life sciences and another for information technology businesses.

http://louisville.bcentral.com/louisville/stories/2001/04/09/story1.html

Gift helps Waterfront Park grow

A $4 million donation has pushed fund raising past the midway point for a $40 million expansion of Waterfront Park that would add 30 acres. Waterfront Park drew more than 1.2 million visitors last year. It has been lauded as Louisville's, and Kentucky's, ''new front door." The newest round of development should begin in August and will be completed in about five years.

http://www.courier-journal.com/localnews/2001/04/12/ke041201s11068.htm

Louisville will buy Vencor property

The downtown riverfront property once slated as the site for a gleaming new headquarters for Vencor Inc. will soon belong to the city of Louisville, which will look for proposals to develop it. In addition to the 2.16-acre KingFish property, the city will get four adjacent century-old buildings, from 615 through 621 West Main Street, that were also part of the Vencor plan.

http://www.courier-journal.com/localnews/2001/04/12/ke041201s11066.htm

Industry-ReLated nEWS

Emazing set to buy rival TipWorld
Louisville-based Emazing.com is close to acquiring San Francisco-based Topica Inc.'s TipWorld, and with it a million subscribers to add to its 12 million. Both companies provide advertiser-supported information on a wide variety of subjects daily, via e-mail, to people who sign up.

http://www.courier-journal.com/business/news2001/04/18/bu041801s13201.htm

Case Study: Paperless office

General Electricís Appliance Park takes a digital leap. Digitization, as GE calls going paperless, has greatly improved the accuracy and speed of communications. Since last November, Appliance Park has gone from 1,600 personal printers to 20, and from 800 network printers to 150. Paper use dropped from 32 million sheets, in annual terms, to 15 million. The paper-elimination program has rung up significant savings. Even considering the addition of other devices such as meeting-room screens 10 feet square, GE puts the savings so far at about $3 million a year.

http://www.courier-journal.com/business/news2001/04/09/bu040901s9788.htm

Life insurer goes online

More than a year after its founding, Inviva Inc. has set up shop offering paperless life insurance products to banks, brokerage firms and independent insurance distributors -- all via the Internet.

http://louisville.bcentral.com/louisville/stories/2001/04/09/story6.html

Widening project for Second Street may begin this year
Louisville officials are moving forward with plans to widen Second Street from Broadway to Jefferson Street and open it to two-way traffic. Construction on the $7.5 million project could begin by year's end and should be done by early 2003.

http://www.courier-journal.com/localnews/2001/04/09/ke040901s9958.htm

Neighborhood Entertainment

Slugger Field

April	Game Riverbats vs.	Time
Thursday, April 26	Indianapolis	7:15
Monday, May 7	Rochester	7:15
Wednesday, May 9	Rochester	11:15
Thursday, May 10	Rochester	7:15
Friday, May 11	Scranton/ W-B	7:15
Saturday, May 12	Scranton/W-B	6:15
Sunday, May 13	Scranton/ W-B	1:15

http://www.batsbaseball.com/

Swanson Cralle

Call 589-5466 for more information.

Stevie Ray's Blues Bar Calendar of Events for April

Sunday	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday
			25 Blind Pig Records Recording Artist Joanna Connor 9:00 PM	26 Lamont Gillispie & 100 Proof Blues 9:30 PM	27 Soup Bone 7:30 PM Tony-O and the Legendary Blues Band w/Bob Stroger & Willie "Big Eyes" Smith 10:30 PM	28 Soup Bone 7:30 PM Tony-O and the Legendary Blues Band w/Bob Stroger & Willie "Big Eyes" Smith 10:30 PM
29 Closed	30 Derby Week Concert Kickoff!Jimmy Hall & the Prisoners of Love Doors Open at 6:30 PM Show at 8:00 PM (No opening act) $15	1 Blues Jam 9:00 - 11:30 PM No Cover	2 Dr. Hector & the Groove Injectors 9:00 PM	3 Wayne Young & The Youngsters 10:00 PM - 2:00 AM	4 Derby WeekendSofa King Deluxe 7:00 - 11:00 PMEl Roostars 11:30 PM - 4:00 AM	5 Derby WeekendSofa King Deluxe 7:00 - 11:00 PMEl Roostars 11:30 PM - 4:00 AM
6	7	8	9 Ruf Records Recording Artist Larry Garner Showtime 9:00 PM	10	11	12