End of the year message.
Dear Everyone:
As 2011 comes to a close, like every year since we had more than five employees, I want to let everyone know about this year.
We opened the year with our revolutionary power technology releases, the Mouse batteries, the Brighteye solar power system, and the Solarum fusion reactors. In February, we announced our deal with Apple as their battery provider in the newest iPhone, iPad and portable computers.
March brought good and bad: the good in the official results released on the Solarum from the scientific establishments that we had in fact succeeded in creating a stable and productive self-sustaining fusion reactor system, and bad in the Congressional hearings on them. My thanks to everyone who testified. It wasn't fun, it wasn't pleasant, and I know that some of you were afraid of the interrogations that you were put through. But we made it through all three committee hearings.
April brings showers, and it did, in the form of lawsuits and numerous attempts at break-ins at the Jenkintown and Bethlehem facilities, all targeting ways to stop out power systems from being put into general usage. While we have no proof, we all have a number of suspicions as to who might be responsible. To everyone in Security and Legal, thank you for all your work on the company's behalf.
May took some of us to Monaco, where the car we built with McLaren took third place in the Grand Prix! We learned a lot from that, and we're going back in 2012 looking for that trophy!
June was a problem, with inquests from the UN based on our operations in Haiti. We nearly had to pull out, and as it stands Tarragon and Dandilion, when in that area, have been temporarily ceded to Doctors Without Borders so as to not present the possibility that we are trying to take advantage of the political situation there. We also are having UN observers in place for our reconstruction efforts, and in the negotiations with the government for building a Caribbean/Central American corporate base in Haiti. Accusations of our company trying to 'colonize' Haiti have been leveled, and I want to make it clear that no member of this company should try to leverage our actions in Haiti for any form of gain.
July was thankfully quiet, as was August. September was the month of weather, and I complement everyone for working as much as they did, as well as insuring they did not take needless risks.
Since then, we've all been working hard. As many of you know, a new division was created within the company in October with the title of 'Planning'. I can now reveal what they're doing:
First, in early 2013 the headquarters of the company will be moving downtown. We're building a new building downtown, taking over the place where the Municipal Building is. The services there will be moved into floors four through thirteen of the new building when it's completed. The first three floors will be shopping and a display of the art piece currently near the Municipal building; the top twenty floors will be ours, and we'll work out the rest. This is going to be a big thing for us: this building is going to be a showpiece for everything we've been working for: environmentally neutral, self-powered, the whole thing. But that's just the start.
Random Access Technologies is going to make Philadelphia, and all of southeastern Pennsylvania, a showcase. We're going to make it into what the next century can look like. Once everything is worked out, the plan is to start by renovating the port. Then we're going to work from there, streets, public transportation, infrastructure, housing, all of it.
I'm excited at what the future holds, and I hope you will be too. Some of you came here because you believed in our mission, and this is our next step forwards.
We're making a better world, starting in the city we call home.
A happy 2012 to all of you.
Regards,
Eiko Takashima
CEO and Chief Mad Scientist