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China gymnastic product manufacturing Industry, 2010 is valuable for
anyone who wants to invest in the gymnastic product manufacturing
industry, to get Chinese investments; to import into China or export
from China, to build factories and take advantage of lower costs in
China, to partner with one of the key Chinese corporations, to get
market shares as China is boosting its domestic needs; to forecast the
future of the world economy as China is leading the way; or to compete
in the segment. The report provides in-depth analysis and detailed
insight into the gymnastic product manufacturing industry, market
drivers, key enterprises and their strategies, as well as technologies
and investment status, risks and trends.

Data sources: Governmental statistics organizations, market research
(monitoring) centers, industry associations and institutions, import and
export statistics organizations, and others.

This report is divided into 9 parts with 19 chapters as follow:

China gymnastic product manufacturing Industry, 2010 is valuable for
anyone who wants to invest in the gymnastic product manufacturing
industry, to get Chinese investments; to import into China or export
from China, to build factories and take advantage of lower costs in
China, to partner with one of the key Chinese corporations, to get
market shares as China is boosting its domestic needs; to forecast the
future of the world economy as China is leading the way; or to compete
in the segment. The report provides in-depth analysis and detailed
insight into the gymnastic product manufacturing industry, market
drivers, key enterprises and their strategies, as well as technologies
and investment status, risks and trends.

Data sources: Governmental statistics organizations, market research
(monitoring) centers, industry associations and institutions, import and
export statistics organizations, and others.

This report is divided into 9 parts with 19 chapters as follow:

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Healthcare organizations are learning that an investment in patient and
member education is money well spent. A patient who understands their
healthcare options, the red flags of a chronic condition and the impact
of their behaviors on health status is less likely to wind up in the
hospital or the emergency room (ER) for costly treatment of an avoidable
condition.

How prevalent are patient and member education programs, and which
health areas are addressed by these efforts? How are healthcare
organizations delivering health education, and who is the primary health
educator? What is the chief impact and ROI from patient education
efforts?

2010 Healthcare Benchmarks: Patient Education Outreach provides
actionable information from 134 healthcare organizations on their
efforts to educate patients and put them on the road to self-management.
This 24-page resource documents trends and metrics on patient education
programs that are taking shape in the primary care office, the ER, at
hospital discharge and in the patients home.

This exclusive report analyzes the responses of 134 healthcare
organizations to August 2009 Industry Survey on Patient Education and
Outreach, presenting the data in easy-to-follow graphs and tables.

AIDS Healthcare Foundation’s ‘Testing America’ Tour, with Local
Partners JASMYN and APEL Health Services, to Host Free HIV Testing Today
at ‘Community Day of Health,’ 11:00 AM to 2:00 PM

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — AIDS
Healthcare Foundation:

AHF’s
Magic Johnson ‘Testing America’ Tour, a six month, 48 state national
cross country HIV testing tour, arrives in Jacksonville, Florida today
and will offer free HIV testing, along with local partner JASMYN and
APEL Health Services, today Saturday, March 6th at APEL
Health Services, 5353 Soutel Dr., from 11:00 am to 2:00 pm. All are
welcome to attend.

The testing will take place on AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF’s) new,
state-of-the-art ‘Testing America’ mobile HIV testing unit named
in honor of and in partnership with basketball legend Earvin “Magic”
Johnson, Jr. The mobile unit will be available for filming and tours at
the press conference. The testing will be a part of a ‘Community Day of
Health’ in which a variety of free health information and screenings
will be offered by AIDS Healthcare Foundation, JASMYN, DCHD New Deal,
Health Planning Council, APEL Prostate and APEL YouthLink.

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SCOTTISH house-sales activity sprang back to life last month. The latest report from the Agency Express Property Activity Index shows the number of houses sold in February compared to the same month last year has gone up by 132%. Glasgow saw February sales double, going up by 111%, whilst Edinburgh saw a rise of almost 86%. Nationally, the UK saw a 136.6% increase in February compared to January, the highest level since March 2008 and 55.2% up on February last year.
Today, Democrats in 41(A) overwhelmingly endorsed Kevin Staunton as their candidate to run for the Minnesota House of Representatives at the District Convention. Staunton received 81 percent of delegate votes in his district amidst a challenge from former Republican and Independent candidate Ron Erhardt.

“Kevin understands Minnesotas difficult fiscal crisis and community needs. He will provide the collaborative leadership that our district deserves and the Minnesota State House of Representatives needs,” said DFL 41(A) Endorsement Committee Co-Chair and DFL Central Committee Member Dianne Thomas.

“I am honored to be the Democratic candidate and I look forward to restoring responsible, moderate representation for Edina at the state house,” said Staunton. “We are at a crossroads on a national, state and community level. We need a change.”

Staunton will work to restore Minnesotas longstanding leadership in education, economic development, healthcare, energy and the environment.

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Safety Camera Programs continue to be Deemed Legal

PHOENIX — Redflex Traffic Systems, Inc., the largest provider of automated
enforcement systems for roads and highways in the U.S., announced that a
federal court in Washington has dismissed in its entirety a putative
class action lawsuit against the company alleging that the automated
enforcement programs violate state law and are unconstitutional.

On June 25, 2009, a group of plaintiffs in Washington filed a class
action lawsuit against Redflex Traffic Systems. Plaintiffs alleged that
the automated enforcement programs were illegal because of excessive
fines, failure to obtain approval of infraction forms and improper
stop-loss contractual provisions.

On March 2, 2010, United States District Court Judge John C. Coughenour
granted Redflex’s dismissal motion on all claims with prejudice,
entering judgment in Redflex’s favor. The Court found that Plaintiffs
misinterpreted the law, determining that the fine amounts are not
excessive, the infraction forms comply with state law and that stop-loss
provisions were permissible under state law. As a result, the Court
ruled that the Automated Traffic Safety Camera programs enacted by
municipalities in the state of Washington are consistent with state law
and the constitution. This is consistent with Bell v. Redflex Traffic
Sys. Inc., 2009 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 85263, *7 (E.D. Tex. 2009) where it
was stated “Plaintiffs do not have a legally protected right to engage
in illegal conduct and be free from the consequences of that activity.”

“This ruling once again negates unfounded claims against intersection
safety camera programs and their legality,” said Karen Finley, President
and CEO of Redflex Traffic Systems. “With each case, we close the gap on
unconstitutionality claims and leave less room for argument about the
documented public safety benefits this technology provides in reducing
preventable fatalities on our roads.”

GRIPPING stuff as Jordan drinks Lemsip because shes suffering from a slight cold. Once the excitement dies down, the dauntingly stylish glamour girl attempts to enter her office. But hasnt got the key. so she cant get in. Now thats what I call great telly! Another stunning episode of ITV2s superb What Katie Did Next. and the nations top slapper is fuming after footage of her grim New Years Eve party ends up on YouTube. “This is the Katie Price the Press doesnt see,” says breathless narrator Guy Porritt. “Guard down, having fun with her kids.” While a camera crew films them.
QI AM thinking of buying a Chrysler 300C for around pounds 12,000. There seems to be a lot on the market, some with very low mileages. Is there a reason for this? – Dom Kuzniar, by email ATHE 300C looks good, but it doesnt drive that well and the interior is pants. There are too many for sale because theyre big, brassy and brash. Your money would be much safer in a Merc, BMW or Jag XJ Diesel.

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DirectView Holdings, Inc. (OTCBB: DIRV), a company focused on ownership and management of leading video and security technology companies, is pleased to announce that the Company has received final approval to list its common stock to be publicly traded. The company expects market activity to begin in short order under the ticker symbol DIRV.

Commenting on the listing approval, Mr. Roger Ralston, CEO and Chairman of DirectView Holdings Inc., stated, “We are extremely honored and proud to receive this prestigious approval for listing. I want to personally thank each and every one of our early stage investors for their patience and support as we went through the listing approval process. This is a very important step for our company as we look to enhance our corporate visibility and strengthen our shareholder base worldwide. Our entire team has worked very hard to position our company to meet the stringent requirements to be listed in the public arena. I am confident that our listing approval will significantly enhance our potential for growth here in the United States and around the world.”

Statements contained in this news release, other than those identifying historical facts, constitute “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the Safe Harbor provisions as contained in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Such forward-looking statements relating to the Companys future expectations, including but not limited to revenues and earnings, technology efficacy, strategies and plans, are subject to safe harbors protection. Actual Company results and performance may be materially different from any future results, performance, strategies, plans, or achievements that may be expressed or implied by any such forward-looking statements. The Company disclaims any obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements.

China oil drilling and production special equipment manufacturing
Industry, 2010 is valuable for anyone who wants to invest in the oil
drilling and production special equipment manufacturing industry, to get
Chinese investments; to import into China or export from China, to build
factories and take advantage of lower costs in China, to partner with
one of the key Chinese corporations, to get market shares as China is
boosting its domestic needs; to forecast the future of the world economy
as China is leading the way; or to compete in the segment. The report
provides in-depth analysis and detailed insight into the oil drilling
and production special equipment manufacturing industry, market drivers,
key enterprises and their strategies, as well as technologies and
investment status, risks and trends.

Data sources: Governmental statistics organizations, market research
(monitoring) centers, industry associations and institutions, import and
export statistics organizations, and others.

This report is divided into 9 parts with 19 chapters as follow:

U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) showed in its forecast
report (Dec 2009) that 2009 would be the year in which the global demand
for petroleum registered an all-time low ever since 2005. In 2009 China
natural crude oil had a cumulative output volume of 189.4897 million
tons; there proves to be a fall in the output volume of crude oil
compared to the previous year and the import volume kept climbing. The
cumulative output volume of natural gas in 2009 was some 82.992 billion
square meters, which basically maintained the growth momentum on
year-on-year basis despite the growth rate lower than the same period of
the year before.

This report makes analysis about China oil gas industry in terms of
production, trade as well as market. Moreover, taking the index as a
tool, the report elaborates the financial situation of oil gas
industry respectively from the perspective of the industry as a whole,
corporate size and legal status.

1 Production of Main Products in 2009 1. Production of Natural Crude Oil
1.2 Production of Natural Gas

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TiVo Inc. (NASDAQ: TIVO), a leader in advanced
television services, including digital video recorders (DVRs), announced
today the launch of TiVo® Premiere and TiVo® Premiere XL boxes. TiVo
Premiere elegantly combines access to cable programming, movies, web
videos, and music all in one box at a truly affordable price. TiVo Premiere
is now the only way to unlock the real value of the HD television set, a
box that is more powerful, compact, and energy efficient than previous
generations. If the DVR changed your life, TiVo Premiere will change it
again.

“It has never been this easy to get all your entertainment in one place, on
the big screen, in HD, right at your fingertips. And the beauty of TiVo
Premiere is that finding what to watch is just as fun as the watching the
TV shows themselves. We accomplished it by using pictures and graphics to
make the whole television guide experience come alive in a way that it
never has before,” said TiVos President and CEO Tom Rogers. “TiVo Premiere
is your new cable box, its your movie box, its your web box, and music
box; its the one box that can give you access to almost anything you want,
whenever you want it. Weve taken millions of pieces of content and
organized it for you in a way that makes so much sense youll wonder how
you ever lived without it.”

Its the One Box: TiVo Premiere is your new cable box, movie box,
web box, and music box; its the one box that gives you access to
everything you want to get on your television and all with one remote. Its
a true one stop shop for entertainment.*

Broadband and Broadcast Integration: Premieres search functionality
offers users the ability to find programs from many sources — whether its
a digital premium channel from cable, a funny outtake from YouTube or a
movie from broadband sources such as Netflix, Amazon Video On Demand, or
Blockbuster On Demand, plus options from the Web all brought together into
one unified and simple experience.*

BOLLINGBROOK, Ill. — Ulta Salon, Cosmetics Fragrance, Inc. (NASDAQ:ULTA), a beauty retailer
with 346 retail stores, today announced that the Company will conduct a
conference call to discuss fourth quarter and fiscal 2009 results on
Thursday, March 11, 2010 at 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time / 4:00 p.m. Central
Time. A press release detailing the Company’s fourth quarter and fiscal
2009 results will be issued after the market closes and prior to the
call. The conference call will be hosted by Lyn Kirby, President and
Chief Executive Officer and Gregg Bodnar, Chief Financial Officer.

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Callaway Golf today announced a formal relationship between its Diablo brand and all-or-nothing alpine skier and Olympian Manuel “Manny” Osborne-Paradis.

Osborne-Paradis is the first Canadian member of Team Diablo, a collection of intrepid Callaway staffers from around the globe who have been chosen for their passion and determination in sport to represent Callaways Diablo brand of golf equipment.

“Callaway is thrilled to welcome Manny, one of the worlds greatest downhill skiers, into the Diablo family,” said Preben Ganzhorn, Director of Marketing, Callaway Golf. “Manny embodies the spirit of Diablo in the courageous, daring and competitive way he approaches all aspects of his life.”

North Vancouver-born Manny is a charter member of the Canadian Cowboys, a new breed of Canadian ski racer. His devotion, lack of fear and natural talent have led him to multiple World Cup Downhill and Super-G victories. Manny also gives back to the sport as co-creator of a yearly youth ski camp in Whistler, BC.

“With hobbies as diverse as surfing, mountain biking and golf, 26-year-old Mannys devotion to sports, the outdoors, and his fun-loving personality make him the perfect ambassador for Callaways no-holds-barred Diablo brand,” said Ganzhorn.

Retail Giant Features Samsung R80 Series Notebooks with Blu-ray
Drives, Along With N210 Netbook Offering Options to Families and Students

RIDGEFIELD PARK, N.J. — Samsung Electronics America Inc., a subsidiary of Samsung Electronics
Corporation, will launch the new line of multimedia powerhouse R80
series notebooks at Best Buy stores and on BestBuy.com on March 7th. The
new line features Blu-ray Disc drives, nVIDIA GeForce graphics cards and
Samsung’s unique Crystal Wave design. Best Buy also features Samsung’s
stylish N210 netbook currently on sale in stores.

“Best Buy continues to be an important retail partner for Samsung, and
we’re excited to offer a range of notebook and netbook options to our
customers that deliver exceptional craftsmanship and performance,” said
Todd Bouman, director of product marketing at Samsung Electronics
Information Technology Division. “True to Samsung’s unique,
customer-focused design aesthetic, these mobile PCs are flexible enough
to be used as mobile devices or desktop replacements for all-day use.”

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The R80 series of notebooks are perfect for watching movies both at home
and on the go with a built in Blu-ray optical drive. Additionally, the
nVIDIA GeForce graphics card included in the R580 and R780 will appeal
to the gamer in any household. The HD LED displays (17.3” – R780, 15.6”
– R580, 14.0” – R480) provide the sharpest images and boldest colors
with a proper 16:9 aspect ratio. With a built-in Webcam and integrated
microphone, they are ideal for use communicating with friends and family
over Skype or other VoIP networks. With an HDMI output, these models are
perfect for college students or anyone who wants to play Blu-ray movies
or stream HD video directly to their TV.

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Getfugu users can search and purchase tickets directly on their mobile phone by simply saying the name of the event into their phone. For example, a user could ask for events like Lakers (by saying “Lakers Tickets”) or concerts (by saying “Bon Jovi tickets”). Getfugus Get Tickets application will provide dates, times, specify the venue and even tell the consumer how many tickets are available for purchase.

“This is the first in a long line of new services we are bringing to Getfugu. The objective is to put information about these events in the hands of the consumer and give them a chance to attend,” said Rich Jenkins, Getfugu co-founder and business development executive. “Currently purchasing a ticket on a mobile phone is a painful process. First, a user would need to perform a Google search for a website for the venue and search for event or calendar for a schedule. Then after finding the number for the box office, call and inquire about available tickets. Who would want to pursue such a laborious process?”

Getfugu is already available on several major platforms, including iPhone, BlackBerry, J2ME and Android. Getfugu is a revolutionary new mobile search tool that is designed to work agnostically on the majority of the worlds leading phone platforms. The key consumer services: See It, Say It and Get It integrate the phones core technologies into a single easy-to-use tool. Consumers simply point their phones camera at a logo (or photo) or speak the brand into the microphone to reach content.

Kodiak Exploration Limited (TSX VENTURE: KXL)(FRANKFURT: KX3) is pleased to announce that it has entered into an option agreement dated February 25, 2010 with Merrygold Investments Ltd. (”Merrygold”) allowing Merrygold to earn up to a 70% interest in Kodiaks “Roy” gold prospect, located in Roy Township, Quebec, Canada, by incurring a total of $5,500,000 in exploration expenses.

The Roy property agreement is part of the Companys plan to farm out non-core properties and focus on its core properties. Merrygold may earn an initial 51% interest in the property by making cumulative exploration and development expenditures of $2,000,000 by the third anniversary of the agreement, and may earn a further 19% interest in the property by making further cumulative expenditures of $2,500,000 by the fifth anniversary of the agreement. Upon Merrygold earning a 70% interest in the property, the project will continue as a joint venture. If at any time either partys interest in the joint venture is reduced to below 10%, it will be deemed to have conveyed its interest to the other party in consideration of the right to receive a one percent (1%) net smelter returns royalty, which may be acquired at any time by the other party for a payment of $1,000,000.

Kodiak is also pleased to announce satisfaction of the second anniversary option payment under its January, 2008 option agreement on the West Millennium Property, located in Saskatchewans Athabasca Basin, by issuance of 585,480 shares. Those shares will be subject to a four month hold period expiring on July 3, 2010. The Companys filing in respect of the subject option payment has been accepted by the TSX Venture Exchange. Results of the 2009 exploration program on the West Millennium project were set out in the Companys May 11, 2009 news release. The Company is currently engaged in a six hole, 4,500 metre drill program on that property and expects to be in a position to report on the results of that program in the near future.

Kodiak also reports that Kirrin Resources Inc. has surrendered its option to earn up to a 70% interest in Kodiaks Otish Basin uranium prospects located in Quebec, Canada. Kodiak intends to seek another company to option the Otish Basin properties, as the primary focus of the Companys uranium division is in the Athabasca Basin.

Geological information contained in this news release has been reviewed and approved by Darren Lindsay, Kodiaks Vice-President-Exploration, who is a qualified person under the definitions established by National Instrument 43-101.

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SyVox Now Supports LXE’s HX2, HX3 and MX7 Mobile Computers,
Providing Flexibility In Hardware And Software For Multi-Modal
Applications

ATLANTA — LXE Inc., the rugged mobile computer division of EMS Technologies, Inc.,
and Genesta, a leading provider of data collection solutions for
industrial, transportation, and logistics applications, announced today
the availability of Genesta’s SyVox Client on LXEs HX3 voice-directed
wearable computer. The HX3 combines industry-leading versatility for
voice-directed logistics applications with support for wireless and
wired barcode scanners, imagers and headsets, while SyVox’s multi-modal
capabilities allow users to implement the right data collection
technology for each task in a process, making the pairing an ideal
multi-modal solution.

Bill Roeder, vice president of Marketing and Business Development for
LXE, stated, “The HX3 four-pin audio connector means less noise and
improved recognition over competitors’ three-pin models. The HX3 is also
easily paired with our BlueTooth Ring Scanner, creating multi-modal
versatility that fits perfectly with a software solution like SyVox
Client.”

SyVox Client, already available on LXE’s HX2 wearable and MX7 handheld
computer, is a speech-enabled data collection application designed for
industrial applications. SyVox uses multiple modalities, including
natural speech, barcode scanning, and keyboard entry, to exchange
information between an enterprise system (for example a WMS or ERP
system) and mobile workers who are equipped with speech-ready mobile
computers. The SyVox Client software connects to an enterprise system
via standards-based technology. By blending the hands-free and eyes-free
benefits of speech recognition, the accuracy and speed of barcode
scanning, and the flexibility of printed text and keyboard entry, SyVox
promotes a robust optimized work process with happier, more productive
workers.

“Adding support for the HX3 expands the options for deploying SyVox in
challenging facilities, including freezers,” added Kelson Elam,
Genesta’s managing partner. “And, with SyVox, we are applying speech
recognition to markets beyond traditional warehouse automation. LXE
provides a range of terminal capabilities, now including the HX3,
ensuring that the combined solution is the best fit for the application.”

KYOTO, Japan — On March 8, 2010, Questetra will be releasing version 5.2 of their
product Questetra BPM Suite SaaS Edition, a Business Process Management
Software (BPMS) that can easily be incorporated into small to
medium-sized companies with around 20 to 200 employees. (Monthly rate:
10 USD per user)

A Business Process Management Software is a business groupware that
allows you to graphically define workflows, and which you can also use
as the system on which employee tasks are administered according to
defined workflows.

Because the software is primarily used in workflows with significance on
human input—issuing invoices, preparing estimates, writing email
magazines, etc.—changes in the new version have been focused on
functions that enable non-engineers and non-programmers to improve the
workflow system.

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“In my meeting with JETRO on Feb. 23, I essentially explained GeckoSystems business model, their many proprietary, beneficial and cost effective mobile robot solutions, and their criteria for selecting a Japanese business partner. While I was pleased with their time and attention, I am now waiting for some sort of feedback from JETRO Japan through their San Francisco office. I believe it may take at least a few weeks for us to get some sort of response back from Japan. Since I am planning to be in Tokyo from Mar. 29-31, I wish to visit JETROs world headquarters at that time.

“Besides our ongoing discussions with JETRO, I am visiting tmsuk Company, Ltd. in Fukuoka, Japan on Mar. 26, and I will ask them how receptive they are to some sort of business cooperation with GeckoSystems in the future. They are very focused on cost effective health care delivery using mobile robots,” commented Hajime Yasumatsu, Chairman, Yasu, Inc., a Missouri Corporation.

Martin Spencer, President/CEO of GeckoSystems stated: “As all of us here at GeckoSystems are excited about this development, due to the growing substance of these past and future discussions, I feel it is in the best interest of all parties to reveal the present status of this continuing, if not heightened, interest in GeckoSystems by not only the Japanese government, JETRO, but also one of their most advanced mobile robot companies, tmsuk Co., Ltd. The upcoming meetings and the potential outcome(s) of them have been in the works for several years and is now coming to what looks to be an extraordinarily profitable culmination. I believe their interest in us is due to not only our flagship product, the automatic self navigation software, GeckoNav™, but also the reality that we have a complete multitasking personal robot, the CareBot™, with verbal interaction capabilities, GeckoChat™, and the ability to routinely follow a designated family member with GeckoTrak™.”

The Japanese have their own eldercare crisis because of the size of their WWII widow population. Due to their understanding of the high costs of sufficient and appropriate eldercare, the Japanese government has spent one hundred million dollars ($100,000,000) in grants (to Sanyo, Toshiba, Hitachi, Fujitsu, NEC, etc.) over the last eight to ten years to develop personal robots for their own eldercare crisis, yet no viable solutions have been developed by them to date.

Highlights:

“Our private pay strategy gained significant momentum in the fourth quarter
of 2009,” commented Laurie Bebo, President and Chief Executive Officer.
“We saw private pay occupancy gains in each month of the quarter, and at
December 31, 2009, achieved our highest private pay occupancy of the year.”

Ms. Bebo continued: “Our results in 2009 put us in good position to further
enhance profitability in 2010 and beyond. We are now substantially out of
Medicaid programs, achieving over 96% of our revenues from private pay
sources. Four years ago that number was 70%. A higher percentage of
revenues from private pay sources helps our margins because private pay
rates in 2009 exceeded Medicaid reimbursement rates by approximately $38
per day. We continue to be focused on private pay occupancy. Headwinds
caused by the economic recession constrained our ability to increase
private pay census. We were able to achieve strong margins through prudent
management of leverage and expenses. Despite the continuing effects of the
recession, we saw steady improvement in private pay occupancy in the second
half of 2009. The combination of our exiting from Medicaid programs,
attention to expenses, and increases in private pay occupancy resulted in
significant improvement in margins and provides an excellent platform for
future profitability improvement.”

For the year ended December 31, 2009, ALC reported net income from
continuing operations of $0.8 million and a net loss of $0.2 million,
compared to net income from continuing operations and net income of $14.7
million and $14.3 million, respectively, in the year ended December 31,
2008. The 2009 net income from continuing operations was negatively
impacted by a $14.7 million (net of income tax benefits) write-off of
goodwill in the first quarter of 2009 (the “Goodwill Write-off”) and a
non-cash non-recurring write-off of $0.1 million (net of income tax
benefits) related to ALCs decision not to exercise a purchase option under
a capital lease in the third quarter of 2009 (the “Capital Lease
Write-off”). The 2009 net loss resulted from the Goodwill Write-off, the
Capital Lease Write-off and an additional non-cash, non-recurring
write-off of $0.8 million (net of income tax benefits) recorded in
discontinued operations related to ALCs decision not to exercise a
purchase option under the capital lease referred to above (the
“Discontinued Operations Write-off”). Excluding the impact of the Goodwill
Write-off, the Capital Lease Write-off and the Discontinued Operations
Write-Off, net income from continuing operations and net income for the
year ended December 31, 2009 would have been $15.6 million and $15.4
million, respectively.

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Moms spend much of their time looking after everyone else — be it their husbands, parents, kids, grandkids or even pets — and leave very little time to take care of themselves. Give the Mom in your life the rare chance to focus on herself with a relaxing, seven-day Caribbean getaway to The Inn at English Harbour on Antigua.

The Inn, ideally situated on 19 acres of wooded headland next to the entrance of the historic town of English Harbour, recently finished a dramatic $1.5 million renovation that brought a fresh face to nearly every corner of the colonial-style resort. Spacious, updated, air-conditioned suites merge with a private beach, quiet walkways, an infinity edge pool and beautifully landscaped gardens to create an ideal setting for mom to pamper herself while marveling at tropical wonders.

Book a five-day stay at The Inn anytime between May 3 and May 14 — and nights six and seven will be complimentary. Room rates start at $600 a night and include taxes and service charges as well as an English breakfast and three-course dinner.

When you arrive at The Inn, youll be shown to one of 28 guestrooms. The Inns two Beach Cabanas sit right on the beach, only steps from the Caribbean, while the 16 junior suites and 8 deluxe junior suites dwell in colonial-style buildings just the right distance from the infinity-edge pool. The elegant suites evoke the grandeur of colonial days, with polished mahogany floors, handsome antiques, tall ceilings and inviting queen-sized beds. Upscale amenities includes a separate toilet and bidet, twin washbasins, a shower of earthy green slate and Penhaligons fine English toiletries as well as cable TV, direct dial telephones, flat-screen televisions and complimentary WiFi access.

For a truly indulgent experience, moms can add a visit to The Inns Spa, newly built in 2008. Enjoy a Swedish Massage, which uses long-flowing strokes to soothe muscles, relieve tensions and improve circulation. Or, sign up for The Muscle Melter, a deep-tissue massage thats designed to decrease pain and loosen tight muscles. An adjacent beauty room offers facials, along with mani-pedis, waxing and every kind of hair treatment.

Eva J. Cundick Our beloved precious aunt and sister, Eva Lillian Jorgenson Cundick, 83, passed away March 1, 2010 from complications of a stroke.She was born March 23, 1926 in Epraim, Utah to Gilbert J. and Lillian Peterson Jorgenson. She married Dean Cundick, August 29, 1953 and preceded her in death. Aunt Eva was a very gracious and kind lady, always there to give care and support to family and friends. She loved working in her yard and caring for her beautiful flowers.
Eva J. Cundick Our beloved precious aunt and sister, Eva Lillian Jorgenson Cundick, 83, passed away March 1, 2010 from complications of a stroke.She was born March 23, 1926 in Epraim, Utah to Gilbert J. and Lillian Peterson Jorgenson. She married Dean Cundick, August 29, 1953 and preceded her in death. Aunt Eva was a very gracious and kind lady, always there to give care and support to family and friends. She loved working in her yard and caring for her beautiful flowers.

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Wedding night spent in separate jail cells HYANNIS, Mass. (AP) — A newlywed Massachusetts couple spent their wedding night in separate jail cells after police said the bride tried to run over an old flame of the groom. Police say 22-year-old Hyannis resident Marissa Ann Putignano- Keene tried Monday to run over the other woman and the womans son in a parking lot. The intended victim later told police that she had previously been in an intimate relationship with the groom. The bride was charged with assault and battery with a dangerous weapon. Her husband, 37-year-old Timothy Keene, was riding in the car with her and was charged with disorderly conduct.
NCIS (7 p.m., Ch. 2): Gibbs former mother-in-law (guest star Gena Rowlands) witnesses a murder. Nova (7 p.m., Ch. 7): Neil deGrasse Tyson investigates why so many people are so passionate about the planet Pluto. Or is it a planet? American Idol (7 p.m., Ch. 13): The 10 remaining female contestants perform. NCIS: Los Angeles (8 p.m., Ch. 2): A lieutenant dies under questionable circumstances. Lost (8 p.m., Ch. 4): Sayid makes a tough decision.
Laura Skandera Trombley, President of Pitzer College and Author of the soon-to-be-released “Mark Twains Other Woman: The Hidden Story of His Final Years,” will discuss her book with TOWN HALL Los Angeles on the release date, Tuesday, March 16, 2010 at The Regency Club .

Knopf Publishers describes the book: “Sixteen years of sleuthing by Laura Skandera Trombley reveals the carefully hidden — and often deliberately ignored — truth about Twains final years. Isabel Lyon was Twains assistant and constant companion. She handled his schedule and finances, nursed him through illnesses, managed his daughters, ran his household and traveled with him. Yet, Twain fired her, blackmailed her, publicly denounced her and called her a traitor, a conspirator, a filthy-minded slut pining for seduction. Through Lyons secret journals and letters, the book reveals the destructive relationship between them and the dark secrets of Twains last years.”

Said Trombley, “My view of Twain has always been that he was an extraordinary human being. And through sheer genius he managed to overcome all of the obstacles in his life. In some ways weve never really done a very good job of accounting for that. I think in many ways the work that Ive done helps us understand a little bit what motivated him, what encouraged him and what he feared.”

Trombley became the fifth president of Pitzer College in 2002. During her tenure, Pitzer students and alumni have received more Fulbright Fellowships per 1000 students than any other college or university in the US. Trombley has authored dozens of scholarly articles on Twain. Trombleys other books on Twain include “Mark Twain in the Company of Women” and “Constructing Mark Twain: New Directions in Scholarship.”

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Becker Poliakoff, a diversified commercial law firm with more than 130 attorneys in 13 Florida offices, New York City, New Jersey, Nassau (Bahamas) and Prague, today announced it had secured a court victory in a suit against Residences of Coconut Point, LLC by a purchaser who had sued the condominium developer, seeking to rescind her purchase agreement and get back her down payment based upon the developers alleged violations of the Interstate Land Sales Full Disclosure Act (”ILSA”).

On February 3, 2010, the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit issued an opinion reversing a final judgment that had been entered in favor of the real estate purchaser.

ILSA is a federal statute which imposes certain reporting and disclosure requirements on real estate developers when they sell property, unless it can be shown that the transaction is exempt from ILSA. The lower court had held that the developer, The Residences at Coconut Point, LLC, was not exempt from requirements of ILSA, because it was not obligated to complete construction of the new condominium unit within two years, as would be required in order for the particular ILSA exemption claimed by the developer to apply.

In Van Hook v. The Residences at Coconut Point, LLC, Case No. 09-10067, reported at 2010 WL 381363 (decision issued on February 3, 2010), the Eleventh Circuit reversed the lower courts determination, and held that the contractual language relied upon by the lower court did not disqualify the developer from being exempt under ILSA. The Eleventh Circuit remanded the matter back to the trial court for further proceedings consistent with its opinion.

“This decision represents a clear victory for real estate developers who, since 2007, have been sued with increasing frequency by disgruntled real estate purchasers who are seeking to cancel their real estate purchase agreements in the face of a declining real estate market,” commented Becker Poliakoff attorney Allen M. Levine. Mr. Levine, together with firm attorney Daniel L. Wallach, represented The Residences of Coconut Point, LLC in this appeal.

SALT LAKE CITY — A woman who blindfolded her husband, spun him around a few times and told him she had a “surprise” in store — and then beat him several times in the head with a hammer — has pleaded guilty to aggravated assault, a second-degree felony. A trial had been set for Tuesday, but instead, 3rd District Judge William Barrett accepted Amy Ricks plea. He set April 19 for sentencing. Her defense team had said that she suffers from post-traumatic- stress disorder, and they had planned to use a battered woman defense if the case had gone to trial. The charge against her will be reduced to a third-degree felony after she completes a period of probation, and after that, she can request to have her record expunged.
CitiScape Property Management Group, a full-service property management firm offering professional and proactive management services in San Francisco and the greater Bay Area, is proud to announce The SOMA Grand , a Joie De Vivre Hospitality venture, as an addition to its expanding list of clients.

The SOMA Grand, a high-rise residential condominium community with luxury hotel appeal, has engaged CitiScape for full-service property management.

Since CitiScape began in 1999, it has grown from a two person operation to a current staff of 110 managers, administrative, accounting, building engineers and service employees, growing at a rate of 10%-15% per year over that span. CitiScape currently manages 5,500 condominium homes in the Bay Area, as well as a portfolio of commercial and apartment buildings through its commercial brokerage subsidiary, FogCiti Real Estate, Inc.

For additional information, please visit citiscapesf.com .

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March 1-2

SAVANNAH, Ga. — Stage Front Presentation Systems today announced inVisionCam,
a hands-free camera that generates high-definition video for use in
dental instruction and teledentistry.

Featuring an integrated high-definition camera, light source and
microphone mounted on an articulated arm, inVisionCam looks and moves
like a dental light. Generating video is a simple matter of switching
inVisionCam on, positioning it to illuminate any dental area, and
speaking in a normal voice. As the instructor or dentist focuses on
dentistry, inVisionCam generates smooth, jitter-free HD video, with easy
repositioning as needed.

“inVisionCam introduces a unique no-fuss, no-assistance-required
approach to dental video,” said Phil Smith, new markets manager
at dental equipment manufacturer A-dec. “I would expect most dental
professionals working in teaching or teledentistry to consider it worth
a close look.”

In its basic configuration, inVisionCam is ready to serve as a video
component in Stage Front’s Multimedia
Teaching System (MTS), which currently delivers audio/video to
student bench-tops in over half of U.S. dental schools. Optional
broadcast and storage add-ons enable video routing to distance learning
and teledentistry facilities, or to a storage device for replay on
demand.

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Virginia Energy Resources Inc. (TSX VENTURE: VAE) is pleased to learn that the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) has signed a contract with Virginia Tech to conduct a study on uranium mining. This study was formally requested by the Commonwealth of Virginia. The purpose is to determine whether uranium mining and milling could be undertaken in a manner that safeguards the environment and public health in the Commonwealth of Virginia. The Company looks forward to the conclusions of the forthcoming independent scientific study regarding the safety of mining at the Coles Hill site.

Virginia Energy will own an approximate 28% indirect equity interest in the Coles Hill uranium deposit in southern Virginia after funding the 2010 operating budget for the project. Coles Hill is considered to be one of the largest undeveloped uranium deposits in the United States. It has a measured and indicated resource of 119 million pounds of U3O8 (98.7 Mt at 0.060 percent U3O8 at a cut-off grade of 0.025 percent U3O8), including a higher grade zone of 77.4 million pounds of U3O8 (37.7 Mt at 0.103 percent U3O8 at a cut-off grade of 0.050 percent U3O8) based on an April 29, 2009 National Instrument 43-101 Technical Report prepared for the Company by Behre Dolbear and Company Ltd., Marshall Miller and Associates Inc., and PAC Geological Consultants Inc. (Dr. Peter Christopher, P.Eng.). This report is available on SEDAR and on Virginia Energy Resources website.

Virginia Energy Resources Inc. President and CEO, Norm Reynolds, commented on the studys significance, saying, “We welcome the opportunity to have preeminent scientists provide independent and credible information about the development of a uranium mining and milling industry in Virginia. We expect that this study by the National Academy of Sciences will serve as part of the foundation of work which will provide Virginia with enough information to confidently bring uranium mining legislation and permitting framework into being.”

The technical information in this news release has been reviewed by Michael S. Cathro, P.Geo., Virginias Vice-President of Exploration and a Qualified Person as defined in National Instrument 43-101.

Virginia Energy Resources Inc. (TSX VENTURE: VAE) is pleased to learn that the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) has signed a contract with Virginia Tech to conduct a study on uranium mining. This study was formally requested by the Commonwealth of Virginia. The purpose is to determine whether uranium mining and milling could be undertaken in a manner that safeguards the environment and public health in the Commonwealth of Virginia. The Company looks forward to the conclusions of the forthcoming independent scientific study regarding the safety of mining at the Coles Hill site.

Virginia Energy will own an approximate 28% indirect equity interest in the Coles Hill uranium deposit in southern Virginia after funding the 2010 operating budget for the project. Coles Hill is considered to be one of the largest undeveloped uranium deposits in the United States. It has a measured and indicated resource of 119 million pounds of U3O8 (98.7 Mt at 0.060 percent U3O8 at a cut-off grade of 0.025 percent U3O8), including a higher grade zone of 77.4 million pounds of U3O8 (37.7 Mt at 0.103 percent U3O8 at a cut-off grade of 0.050 percent U3O8) based on an April 29, 2009 National Instrument 43-101 Technical Report prepared for the Company by Behre Dolbear and Company Ltd., Marshall Miller and Associates Inc., and PAC Geological Consultants Inc. (Dr. Peter Christopher, P.Eng.). This report is available on SEDAR and on Virginia Energy Resources website.

Virginia Energy Resources Inc. President and CEO, Norm Reynolds, commented on the studys significance, saying, “We welcome the opportunity to have preeminent scientists provide independent and credible information about the development of a uranium mining and milling industry in Virginia. We expect that this study by the National Academy of Sciences will serve as part of the foundation of work which will provide Virginia with enough information to confidently bring uranium mining legislation and permitting framework into being.”

The technical information in this news release has been reviewed by Michael S. Cathro, P.Geo., Virginias Vice-President of Exploration and a Qualified Person as defined in National Instrument 43-101.

Atlantis Technology Group (PINKSHEETS: ATNP) subsidiary Global Online Television Corporation has relocated to 2320 NE 9th Street, Fort Lauderdale, FL to accommodate additional staffing for customer service, sales, and tech support. Due to the fact our servers are in a collocation, this will not interrupt the GOTV IPTV service. Our new facility is currently built out for sales, tech support, customer service, and additional offices.

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Manufacturing companies have fewer resources to execute business
objectives. OnPoints study reveals the success factors that impact
leader effectiveness to help prioritize leadership development
initiatives and ensure ROI

NEW YORK — OnPoint
Consulting, with the American Management Association, collected data
on leader effectiveness in the manufacturing industry. Of 46
competencies, seven differentiate the top performing leaders. The
seven success
factors include:

Three competencies differentiated manufacturing leaders who are seen as
having potential for more challenging roles: influence, leading
change, and critical and analytical
thinking.

Route1 Inc. (”Route1″ or the “Company”) (TSX VENTURE: ROI), a security and identity-based services company, today announced the appointment of Tony P. Busseri as president and chief executive officer of Route1 effective immediately.

“I am extremely pleased with Tonys decision to join and lead the management team going forward,” noted K. Andrew White, founder and a director of Route1. “We have made significant progress on many fronts in a short period of time under Tonys leadership. His appointment as CEO is a great asset to Route1 and its future.”

Mr. White has stepped down as president and CEO of Route1 and will become vice chairman where he will continue to play an active role in business development.

“After having spent the past three months inside Route1, working with our talented team, and key customers to identify and address all issues and opportunities, I am extremely excited with the prospects of Route1s future,” noted Mr. Busseri, president and chief executive officer of Route1. “I would like to thank Andrew for his vision to create an exceptional, world-class technology, and for assisting me in the past weeks and months to get a good handle on all aspects of the business.”

Mr. Busseri is a principal of Growth Equity Partners (”GEP”), a full service business advisory firm. GEPs focus is to support small to medium sized private and publicly listed companies execute transformational business initiatives. These services include: operational improvement and restructuring, corporate finance, transaction advisory, capital markets advisory, professional directorship and governance, and proxy contest/corporate dispute resolution. Previously, Mr. Busseri served as a member of the board of directors, president and chief executive officer of EnGlobe Corp. from 2004 to 2008, and chairman of the board of directors, president and chief executive officer of Waste Services Inc. from 1997 to 2000. Mr. Busseri currently serves on the board of directors of Augen Capital Corp. (chairman of the audit committee) and Route1. Mr. Busseri is a graduate of the honours business administration program at the Richard Ivey School of Business at the University of Western Ontario and holds a certified management accountant designation.

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BURNLEY 1 THE “countdown” to relegation might have started for poor old Pompey – but the plucky South Coast side have no intention of lying down.
IM pleased but also worried by the so-called “clarification” on the law of assisted suicide. Pleased for people like Debbie Purdy, who has now been reassured that she can live longer in the knowledge that her husband will almost certainly not face prosecution if he has to help when the end comes. But worried that, in a way, the clarification represents a change in the law in all but name. There is a real fear now that the sick, the old and the disabled will feel pressurised into ending their lives and that cannot be right.

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TicketLiquidator, the leading provider of the
worlds most extensive ticket inventory of hard-to-find, low-priced
tickets , now offers Paul
McCartney tickets for his North American “Up and Coming” tour at great
prices!

The “Up and Coming” Tour will kick off at the Jobing.com Arena in Phoenix,
AZ in late March; notable dates include the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles,
CA on March 30 and 31 and Sun Life Stadium in Miami on April 3 with more
dates to be announced. The band is set to play unique venues and venues
that McCartney has never played before.

McCartney began his music career as a member of one of the most celebrated
rock bands of all time — The Beatles. Since their breakup in 1970, Paul
McCartney has released over twenty chart-topping albums through solo
projects and with the seventies rock band Wings with late wife Linda
McCartney. He has also collaborated with big name artists like Stevie
Wonder, the late Michael Jackson and Elvis Costello
(tickets) .

The upcoming US Paul McCartney Tour follows the 2009 “Summer Live” tour
with memorable performances at Coachella Festival
(tickets) in Indio, CA and opening shows for New Yorks Citi Field
Stadium with Billy Joel (tickets) .
Of the performance, Andy Greene of Rolling Stone Magazine stated “With an
exceptionally well-preserved voice, Macca plow[ed] through Beatles and
Wings hits, plus solo gems.” The new tour will include a two hour set
filled with a selection from his repertoire of The Beatles, his solo career
and Wings.

“Fans who missed out on Paul McCartneys epic performances last year have
another chance to see Macca live this year,” stated Alexandra Owens, Media
Relations, TicketLiquidator. “With more dates to be announced, the Paul
McCartney tour will be one of the hottest tickets of the year.”

MUSIC mogul Simon Cowell comes close to tears on TV as he relives the moment he learned that his father Eric had died. TVs Mr Nasty tells interviewer Piers Morgan how he had rung his parents jubilant that his band Westlife were about to get their first number one, only for his mother to say record executive Eric was dead. Simon, 50, says on ITVs Life Stories next Sunday: “I rang them to tell them the news and my mum was acting in kind of a strange way and then she called me back and told me.

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The Michigan Association of Recreation Vehicles and Campgrounds (MARVAC) is sponsoring the 18th Annual Northwest Michigan Camper RV Show, March 26-28, 2010, at the Grand Traverse County Civic Center in downtown Traverse City. Over 50 new recreation vehicles will be on display including folding campers, motorhomes, travel trailers and fifth wheel travel trailers. Theres something for everyone — prices start at just $5,000 to more than $75,000. Booths featuring a large selection of parts and accessories, campground information, on site RV financing and RV rentals make this the complete RV show experience.

The new, 2010 RV Campsite, a guide to camping in Michigan, will be available free to consumers.

The 18th Annual Northwest Michigan Camper RV Show will be held at the Grand Traverse County Civic Center and is open Friday 11 a.m.-9 p.m., Saturday 11 a.m.-8 p.m. and Sunday 11 a.m.-5 p.m. The cost for adult admission (ages 13 and up) is $5; children ages 12 and under are admitted free! Parking is also free.

The show is sponsored by the Michigan Association of Recreation Vehicles and Campgrounds (MARVAC), a member organization representing all aspects of the camping and RV industries.

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– miR-122 Represents a Novel “Host Factor” Strategy for Treatment of
Hepatitis C Infection –

– Further Demonstration of Regulus Leadership in microRNA Science,
Technology and Intellectual Property -

CARLSBAD, Calif. — Regulus Therapeutics Inc. today announced the establishment of a new
collaboration with GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) to develop and commercialize
microRNA therapeutics targeting microRNA-122 in all fields with
Hepatitis C Viral infection (HCV) as the lead indication. Under the
terms of the new collaboration, Regulus will receive additional upfront
and early-stage milestone payments with the potential to earn more than
$150 million in miR-122-related combined payments, and tiered royalties
up to double digits on worldwide sales of products.

“This new collaboration with GSK demonstrates the clear scientific
leadership that Regulus has established in advancing a whole new
frontier of pharmaceutical research. microRNA therapeutics target the
pathways of human diseases, not just single disease targets, and hold
considerable promise as novel therapies across a broad range of unmet
medical needs,” said Kleanthis G. Xanthopoulos, Ph.D., President and
Chief Executive Officer of Regulus. “It also further validates Regulus’
microRNA product platform built on fundamental biology of human diseases
and intellectual property, and also extends the therapeutic scope of our
existing collaboration formed with GSK in 2008. Furthermore, the funding
from this alliance supports Regulus’ efforts in advancing high impact,
novel medicines based on microRNA biology to patients.”

The collaboration provides GSK with access to Regulus’ comprehensive and
robust intellectual property estate. Regulus exclusively controls patent
rights covering miR-122 antagonists and their use as HCV therapeutics in
the United States, Europe, and Japan, including but not limited to the
patent families which encompass: the ‘Sarnow’ patent pertaining to the
method of use of anti-miR-122 to inhibit HCV replication, the ‘Esau’
patent application claiming the use of anti-miRs targeting miR-122 as
inhibitory agents, the ‘Tuschl III’ patent claiming composition of
matter for miR-122 and complementary oligonucleotides, and the
‘Manoharan’ patent claiming antagomirs, including antagomirs targeting
miR-122.

GAINESVILLE, Ga. — Hygafem, the Georgia-based premier provider of full-service hygiene
technologies, announced today that the company has changed its name to
WellBeing. WellBeing is introducing a new and evolving touch-free
hygiene and organizational wellness platform that communicates the
company’s ongoing commitment to “green” hygiene services, excellence and
innovation.

The name WellBeing further embraces the company’s philosophy that
adoption of touch-free hygiene services decreases risk of infection,
lowers costs, conserves water, promotes health and wellness and protects
the environment. The company’s services empower a variety of
organizations, such as Class-A corporate headquarters, office buildings,
educational facilities, industrial manufacturers and food processing
facilities with the ability to protect their employees and customers
from harmful pathogens, such as Hepatitis B, Hepatitis C, HINI, HIV,
Influenza, and MRSA.

“The WellBeing name embodies our company philosophy to provide
excellence in hygiene services, with a focus on proper hygiene practices
and organizational wellness,” said Doug Manning, CEO of WellBeing. “We
plan to continue Hygafem’s 14-year legacy of pioneering hygiene
services, such as hands-free feminine hygiene disposal, automatic soap
and sanitizing dispensing, air sanitizing and touchless faucets and
flushes.”

WellBeing’s innovative technologies and services address the entire
continuum of infection protection for facilities enterprise-wide.

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YOQNE’AM, Israel — Wavion™, a company transforming the Metro and Rural Wi-Fi market with a
new category of Wi-Fi Base Station, and BHU, Wavion’s distributor in the
Chinese market, announced today the deployment of Wavion’s Wi-Fi base
stations for a city-wide video surveillance network in China.

The network has been deployed as part of the “Peace City” project in a
rural city in China. The network includes 120 video cameras located in
strategic positions to monitor public buildings, roads, major junctions
and traffic load. The network infrastructure was based on Wavion’s
WBS-5800 base stations which were installed on towers with a direct
fiber connection to the command and control center of the City’s
security forces. The network design provisioned each CPE to accommodate
1-4 cameras.

“This project is a major contribution for law enforcement in rural
China,” said Mr. Yao Yongxin, BHU General Manager. “After our customer’s
disappointment from competing solutions, we received the opportunity to
introduce the Wavion solution, whose performance surpassed the
customer’s expectations. Furthermore, the open architecture offered by
Wavion enables the customer to select any off-the-shelf standard 802.11a
CPE and thus reduce the overall solution’s cost.”

Wavion’s unique and powerful WBS-2400 and WBS-5800 spatially adaptive
beamforming base stations provide extended range, higher throughput, and
much better NLOS coverage. As a result, unlike more conventional
equipment, they do not require costly high towers and can be easily
installed on rooftops and still provide very good coverage and
penetration. Moreover, their flexible architecture built around two
types of base stations – omni-directional and sector – and their
ruggedized and weather-proof enclosure add significantly to their unique
value offering to Telecom Operators.

“Wavion is proud to partner with BHU on this city-wide project in
China,” said Eran Kaplan, Wavions EVP Sales and Marketing. “Wavion’s
solution was selected because of its high capacity, superb coverage and
high resiliency to interference – key capabilities for a high quality
video surveillance network. Furthermore, Wavion’s base station ability
to interoperate with any standard off-the-shelf 802.11a based CPE
enables the customer to optimally choose the CPEs according to their
performance and price trade-offs.”

Officer, gunman dead in California gunfight SANGER, Calif. (AP) — A gunman opened fire Thursday on authorities who tried to serve search warrants at his mobile home in central California, killing a sheriffs detective and critically wounding a police officer before barricading himself in the residence during a raging gunbattle that also left him dead. It was not immediately clear if his injuries were self-inflicted or suffered during the barrage of bullets he exchanged with officers, Dyer said. Authorities need to fingerprint the man to confirm his identity before releasing his name, he said.
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Vangent, Inc., a leading global provider of information management and strategic business process services, published a white paper to help organizations understand “meaningful use” and its impact on electronic health records (EHRs) and healthcare interoperability. Meaningful Use. Not Meaningless Waste(SM): Learn How to Protect Your Investment provides an overview of the current health IT landscape and describes how federal, state and commercial healthcare providers can achieve interoperability and qualify for billions of dollars in reimbursement incentives from the federal government.

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) outlined proposed provisions in December 2009 for implementing EHRs and defined the concept of “meaningful use” as it applies to the use of EHR technology. The HITECH Act of 2009 authorized reimbursement incentives to healthcare providers who demonstrate “meaningful use” of EHRs beginning as early as October 2010.

Most patient health records are located in paper files or stored electronically in disparate, proprietary systems. When a patient moves between different healthcare settings, healthcare providers are unable to gain a complete view of a patients medical history. To gain this view, healthcare providers are forced to share sensitive patient information through email, faxes and paper copies. Meaningful Use. Not Meaningless Waste(SM) describes in detail how providers can protect their existing investment in hardware and software, but share patient information electronically quickly while adopting new information standards, staying compliant with regulations. The end result is improved patient care, a reduction in medical errors and reduction in overall costs.

“Funds from the Recovery Act are now being allocated to the states to implement EHRs and Health Information Exchanges to achieve interoperability and meaningful use. Vangents whitepaper provides States and healthcare organizations with the principles to establish sustainable models for information exchange,” said Kerry Weems, Senior Vice President for Health Strategy at Vangent.

Healthcare interoperability subject matter experts from Vangents Health Strategy and Innovation Group authored the paper. Vangents deep expertise in Health IT extends to the Office of the National Coordinator, which has incorporated Vangents HIEOS™ health data management tool as a component of the CONNECT solution for healthcare data exchange for the Nationwide Health Information Network.

Sage Healthcare Division announced today a meaningful use guarantee for Sages EHR Product Suite, providing physicians with the assurance they need to confidently deploy electronic health records for improved patient care and qualify for government incentives.

The Sage meaningful use guarantee assures physicians that Sages EHR Product Suite will meet the certification criteria for Meaningful Use set by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information (”ONC”), that Sage will modify that offering as necessary to maintain compliance, and if not, will provide a credit of up to 12 months of software support.* The Sage EHR Product Suite includes Sage Intergy EHR, Sage Intergy Practice Analytics Quality Measures Edition and Sage Intergy Practice Portal.

Sage Healthcare Division specializes in integrated electronic health records, EDI applications and practice management systems for thousands of ambulatory care practices throughout the United States that enable physicians and practice managers to better manage their practices, improve profitability, and streamline patient care.

“Sage has been working with physicians for nearly 30 years and we understand the challenges they face and the passion they bring to delivering the best patient care possible,” said Sage Healthcare Division President Betty Otter-Nickerson. “That experience enables us to deliver simple to use, highly functional systems that improve the daily operations of practices and improve both patient care and the practices bottom line. The Sage Meaningful Use Guarantee continues our history of compliance and innovation that customers have expected and weve delivered.”

Central to Sages EHR Product Suite is Sage Intergy EHR, which has been recognized by industry analysts for delivering on the essential functionality needed for achieving meaningful use. In their Vendor Assessment Industry Short list of Electronic Health and Medical Records (Documents HI220502 and HI220600), IDC Health Insights independently evaluated vendors products and financial viability, measuring how well their offerings fit market needs and how likely they were to provide a positive ownership experience. Sage Intergy EHR received high scores in both areas, with notable scores for functionality for meaningful use, reporting and decision-support functionality, integration with practice management, breadth of service and support, and customer satisfaction, among others.

Company to Host In-Booth Product Demonstrations Highlighting How
Today’s Healthcare Organizations Can Revolutionize the Management of
User Workspaces

PHILADELPHIA — RES
Software, the proven leader in user workspace management,
will feature a series of product demonstrations and interactive
presentations with a special emphasis on its desktop transformation
solution, RES
PowerFuse, during the 2010 HIMSS
conference in Atlanta, GA, March 1-4. RES Software’s solutions are
designed to help organizations, including those in the healthcare
sector, better manage and maintain their PC populations. This is
especially important as healthcare systems across the world look to
accelerate and minimize the overall impact of migrations to Windows 7
and VDI. The company currently works with several leading healthcare
systems including Country
Villa in California, Children’s
Hospital of Denver and Orbis
Healthcare and Medical Center in the Netherlands.

At HIMSS 2010, RES Software will be offering demonstrations of its
flagship product, RES PowerFuse 2010. This solution offers the
unprecedented ability to transform traditional desktops into dynamic
user workspaces. Organizations operating in Citrix,
Microsoft
and VMware
environments can now separate the desktop from the operating system,
automating the management, creation and dynamic composition of user
workspaces. RES PowerFuse 2010 also provides the essential
context-aware, secure and centrally managed delivery of applications,
data, printing and personalized settings to users irrelevant of their
location, ensuring optimal end-user productivity.

“We’re excited to bring our industry leading solutions to HIMSS 2010,”
said Jim Kirby, president of the Americas, RES Software. “Today’s
healthcare organizations are becoming increasingly more progressive in
their use of technology. As a result, it is more demanding to
cost-effectively manage the assets of their end-user populations. Our
solutions are designed to minimize these challenges, offering a
centrally-managed, automated option that guarantees user satisfaction
and productivity and reduces the amount of resources needed from IT.”

For live updates from HIMSS 2010, follow RES Software on Twitter @RES_Software.

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WOODBRIDGE, N.J. — NIP Group, Inc. published the results of the Transportation Insurance
Pricing Survey (TIPS™) for the fourth quarter of 2009. Used to benchmark
changes in availability and rates in the transportation insurance
market, the survey was issued to leading transportation insurance
brokers, wholesalers and underwriters representing thousands of account
placements.

The majority of survey participants have responded that they believe the
market is softening and that rate decreases have intensified especially
in Auto Liability since the prior quarter. Respondents also suggested
that there appears to be more insurance carriers chasing premium in the
transportation insurance market.

Participants report that rate decreases have picked up across most
policy types; Workers Comp being the one clear exception. Rates in Auto
Liability have been hit especially hard, as 30% more respondents
believed that there were significant rate decreases in 4Q09 vs. 3Q09,
and the number of reported rate increases also fell sharply.

The survey also measures premium changes across ten different
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J. Scott Penny, Regional Executive Vice President of Brown Brown, Inc. (NYSE: BRO), and Gregory P. DiMartino, President of DiMartino Associates, Inc., of Seattle, Washington, today announced the acquisition of the insurance agency and brokerage business-related assets of DiMartino Associates, Inc. by Brown Brown of Washington, Inc., a subsidiary of Brown Brown, Inc.

Founded in 1990, DiMartino Associates, with annual revenues of approximately $4.3 million, offers employee benefit solutions, including plan design and selection, marketing, employee and plan participant communications, and compliance support services to a variety of individual, business, association and governmental clients. The agency has developed particular expertise providing employee benefits products and consulting services to Taft-Hartley Act union trusts, Multiple Employer Welfare Arrangements (MEWAs) and other trusts and associations.

Based in Seattle, Washington, the agency serves clients throughout Washington and the western United States. Greg DiMartino and his staff will continue to operate from their existing Seattle, Washington office.

The selling entitys DiMartino Financial Services division was not part of this transaction and will continue to operate from its existing Seattle location.

Mr. Penny, who is responsible for Brown Browns retail operations in Washington, commented, “For 20 years, Greg and his team have developed very strong relationships with their carrier and client partners. We are excited they have chosen to join us. Their addition will enable Brown Brown and DiMartino Associates to offer expanded employee benefits and property and casualty insurance solutions to our clients.”

Local college students of color from San Antonio will have a chance to win scholarships as part of a scholarship program sponsored by Sapient Financial Group and their corporate partner, Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Co. (MassMutual).

Students of African-American, Asian/Pacific Islander, or Hispanic descent who reside in San Antonio can apply for one of three $5,000 college scholarships. Applicants must meet certain academic criteria, such as having concentrations in the fields of accounting, business, economics, finance, marketing, math or statistics.

Nationally, MassMutual is making $135,000 in scholarships available in nine cities as part of the program.

“Weve always been committed to attracting talented individuals to the field of financial services, and in particular to supporting people of diverse backgrounds, both as financial professionals and as clients,” said Frank Woodruff, Sapient Financial Groups CEO. “These scholarships will help deserving candidates to obtain the education and experience theyll need to become financial professionals and, ultimately, to help serve San Antonios increasingly diverse community.”

This year, MassMutual is expanding the scholarship program, which began in 2009 with four cities, to nine cities.

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OLDWICK, N.J. — Emmanuel Modu, managing director and global head of insurance-linked
securities, of A.M. Best Co. is participating in the National
Underwriter Company’s 3rd Annual Life Settlement Summit being held on
March 11–12 at the Doral Golf Resort Spa, Miami, Florida. Mr. Modu’s
presentation, “Securitizations of Life Settlements: What are the Risks”
will be on Friday, March 12th at 11:45 a.m.

SAN FRANCISCO — Fitch Ratings assigns an AA- rating to the following City and County
of San Francisco, California general obligation (GO) bonds:

–$297 million (San Francisco General Hospital improvement bonds, 2008),
series 2010A;

–$51 million (clean and safe neighborhood parks bonds, 2008), series
2010B.

The bonds are expected to sell competitively on March 9, 2010.

In addition, Fitch affirms the following ratings:

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The Board of Directors of Central Valley Community Bancorp (Company) (NASDAQ: CVCY), the parent company of Central Valley Community Bank (Bank), is pleased to announce that President and CEO Daniel J. Doyle will be presenting at the Sandler ONeill West Coast Financial Services Conference on Tuesday, March 2, 2010 between 9:25 a.m. – 10:25 a.m. PST as part of a panel discussion. The conference presented by Sandler ONeill Partners, L.P. will be held at The Ritz-Carlton in Marina del Rey, California.

“We are pleased to have been invited to participate for the third consecutive year in this valuable conference, which provides great opportunity to share knowledge and gain information from industry experts and potential investors. As our Company celebrates its 30th anniversary of strong and secure banking, we appreciate the expert collaboration offered at a conference of this level considering the continued challenging times for the financial services industry,” stated Daniel J. Doyle, President and CEO of Central Valley Community Bancorp and Central Valley Community Bank.

Central Valley Community Bancorp trades on the NASDAQ stock exchange under the symbol CVCY. Central Valley Community Bank, headquartered in Fresno, California, was founded in 1979 and is the sole subsidiary of Central Valley Community Bancorp. Central Valley Community Bank currently operates 16 offices in Clovis, Fresno, Kerman, Lodi, Madera, Oakhurst, Prather, Merced, Sacramento, Stockton, Tracy, and a loan production office in Modesto, California. Additionally, the Bank operates Commercial Real Estate Lending, SBA Lending and Agribusiness Lending Departments. Investment services are provided by Investment Centers of America and insurance services are offered through Central Valley Community Insurance Services LLC. Members of Central Valley Community Bancorps and the Banks Board of Directors are: Daniel N. Cunningham (Chairman), Sidney B. Cox, Edwin S. Darden, Jr., Daniel J. Doyle, Steven D. McDonald, Louis McMurray, Wanda L. Rogers (Director Emeritus), William S. Smittcamp, and Joseph B. Weirick.

NEW YORK — The New York office of HE-5 Resources (other OTC: HRRN.PK) is proud to
launch the web based Triple Crown CRM software suites. CRM (Customer
Relationships Management) meshes people, business processes and
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Our first commercial program for immediate release is “Mustang-Look.”
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We are a developing service company, offering innovative and proprietary
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The films were designed as showcases for Hofsesss concept of cinematherapy, (1) an experiment that combined ideas from contemporary media–from Warhol and McLuhan–with ideas gleaned from writings on psychoanalytic liberation. His project was similar, if more in spirit than practice, to Wilhelm Reichs orgasm theory, wherein the organism was freed from its neurosis through the total release of dammed-up orgastic energies. Reich envisioned a healthy and functional mankind that could build a sex-positive society away from the tyranny of repressive institutions. Hofsess saw his films operating in opposition to a filmmaker such as Jack Smith (Flaming Creatures), whose shocking work, in Hofsesss estimation, could only reinforce the alienation of the neurotic and their bond to the repressive institution. The ideas underlying the productions were Hofsesss own, but the first part (Redpath 25) was a collaboration between Hofsess, McMaster art community organizer Patricia Murphy, who starred in it, and Robin Hilborn, a science student who applied bleach effects during the films processing. The second and more substantial part of the trilogy (Black Zero) was announced in the student press as being co-directed by McMaster Film Board president Peter Rowe, who was primarily responsible for the cinematography. Hofsess had also cast members of the McMaster Dramatic Society, specifically its director David Martin, who would go on to make a film with the McMaster Film Board titled To Paint the Park (1968), a single-screen experimental narrative that was heavily influenced by Hofsesss work. Martins performance in Black Zero, according to Hofsesss model of therapeutic film form, was “flattened out” in editing. The film was presented in dual projection: tension would dissipate between the two screens. The film acts as a sensual experience by emancipating the viewer from the expectations placed on them by the narrative tradition, their view of the film disrupted by the intentional compromise of performance elements as well as frequent obstructions of kaleidoscopic psychedelic images and appropriated magazine advertisements. Palace of Pleasure is an auteur work, supported through a manifesto that Hofsess contributed to Take One Magazine that expressed his unique aesthetic perspective (”Toward a New Voluptuary: From the Black Zero Notebook”), but it was made with conscious attention to the participation of others, in the spirit of collaborative practice. Hofsess showed a dedication to filmmaking as a social experience, here as well as in his community work as founder of the McMaster Film Board,

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As geothermal continues to gain traction as a
viable and cost-effective heating, cooling and hot water alternative,
states are beginning to offer substantial financial incentives for its
deployment in commercial and residential settings. Federal and state
incentives can mean an ROI of less than five years for many geothermal
installations. For homeowners, geothermal energy has suddenly gone from
exclusive and out-of-reach to a highly attractive investment.

With any new technology and up-front investment come questions, uncertainty
and hesitation. Sam Johnston, a 30-year alternative energy veteran and
Geothermal Program Manager at Terraclime Geothermal is available to provide
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NewMarket started the Greenfield Partnership Program to accelerate the
introduction of new technologies into emerging markets around the world
where technology buying is on the rise, while improving return on
investment (ROI) potential. Greenfield Program participant companies have
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PALO ALTO, Calif. — Affymax, Inc. (Nasdaq:AFFY) today announced that Jeffrey Knapp, the
company’s chief commercial officer, will participate in a panel
discussion at the RBC Capital Markets Healthcare Conference on
Wednesday, March 3, 2010 at 9 a.m. EST in New York.

IHI program building foundation for more quality-conscious providers Open School med students are initiating their own QI programs The goal of the school, she says, is “to advance health care improvement and safety competencies in the next generation. Its an attempt to address the fact that many academic organizations were teaching improvement and safety in a very limited capacity — some not at all — so we wanted to bring it directly to students.” The schools offerings, she explains, “vary from what feel like formal courses to case studies, video clips on YouTube, discussion boards, and journal articles.” Probably the development the IHI found most interesting, she continues, “is that while the program was initially targeted at students, weve also found a large number of faculty members showing interest. They view the content and integrate it with their course curriculum and share it with other faculty so the knowledge can be spread.”

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ALAMEDA, Calif. — Black Diamond Video, Inc. (BDV) announces the completed installation of
its state-of-the-art Integrated Digital Surgical Suites (IDSS) into
12 operating rooms at Shands Cancer Hospital at the University of
Florida, as of November, 2009.

BDV’s IDSS systems provide the UF faculty surgeons and Shands OR nursing
and tech staff with an all-digital video-processing framework that is
scalable, future-proof, and unrivaled in video quality and resolution.
All of the IDSS’ sophisticated features may be easily controlled via a
newly-designed touch panel interface that provides greater functionality
while maintaining its hallmark ease of use. The high-resolution digital
media content that the IDSS produces may be efficiently managed through
a central repository and easily streamed from Shands’ pathology rooms.
All 12 operating rooms with IDSS systems can be viewed on a single
display at the nurse’s control desk, allowing Shands’ nurses to monitor
each OR with the utmost efficacy. Ed Priest, Founder and CEO of BDV,
noted: “This installation was a particularly exciting one because it is
the first to include our new control system interface and nurse desk
core view technology. These new developments are just some of the ways
we are able to maintain our position at the forefront of operating room
integration technology.”

Black Diamond Video pairs this cutting-edge technology with unmatched
levels of service, support, and training. BDV has the advantage of both
manufacturing and installing its own integrated audio and video
solutions, and can thus provide superior service, support, and
reliability to all clients. David Paulus, MD, UF College of Medicine
professor of anesthesiology, commented, “The service and reliability are
superb.”

This installation is Black Diamond Video’s second at Shands at UF.
Shands’ first IDSS was installed into one operating room at the Shands
at UF medical center in March, 2007. Dr. Paulus was pleased with the
functionality of his first IDSS and decided to use the technology when
the Shands at UF campus expanded and Shands Cancer Hospital was built
and opened Nov. 1, 2009. He commented, “We chose Black Diamond because
it offers a very flexible system. Perhaps most important was our
excellent experience with our first Black Diamond system.”

Building on 15 years of reliable
integration to Rauland-Borgs nurse call systems, Versus Technology, Inc.
(Versus) announces the integration of its Real-time Locating System (RTLS) to
Raulands Responder 5
Nurse Call. The integration will help hospitals communicate in real-time,
minimize data entry, eliminate redundant activities and automate tasks such
as patient call cancellation.

In essence, Nurse Call Life Safety Systems are required in all situations
where a nurse is not constantly present with a patient. Nurse call systems
provide a mechanism allowing the patient to call for nursing assistance.
With advanced nurse call systems such as Responder 5 in place, hospitals
can increase the nurse-to-patient ratio while reducing the costs of care
and maintaining quality care. Accurate RTLS from Versus adds to
this by reducing the number of steps required for a nurse to cancel the
patient call (her presence alone does this via the RTLS badge), increasing
response times, nurse mobility, communication and staff satisfaction.

Nurse call systems are mandated by individual states and generally
regulated by Underwriters Laboratories (UL), the body that has
traditionally approved nurse call systems for safety and security. To that
end, Rauland-Borg and Versus share the only co-UL listing for RTLS-enabled
nurse call systems.

This latest integration of Versus RTLS to Raulands Responder 5 is an
important advancement in the nurse call industry because, aside from
automating Responder 5 with location information, Versus is also sharing
configuration and event data that will allow Versus and Rauland to continue
to build enterprise solutions for hospitals. This higher value information
is the foundation for real-time situational awareness and clinical workflow
automation that is lacking in healthcare.

Although the functionality is the same as existed in previous
Rauland-Versus integrations, the Versus RTLS to Responder 5 integration is
a true systems integration — where RTLS is no longer considered an add-on
to the nurse call system. Data is recorded automatically and reports from
Responder 5 will include staff-specific data from Versus, allowing managers
to evaluate one report from both systems, instead of two. The first two
Responder 5 and Versus RTLS integration went live in hospitals in Colorado
and Alabama in January 2010.

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SAN DIEGO — CUSO
Financial Services, L.P., (CFS) a full-service broker/dealer and SEC
Registered Investment Adviser that provides customized investment and
insurance solutions to the credit union industry, has entered into an
agreement to provide managed broker/dealer services and back office
support to Credit Union of Texas, community-chartered in the Dallas
metropolitan area.

Credit
Union of Texas switched its investment program to CFS after
representatives there requested the change. The $1 billion credit union,
with more than 150,000 members, had an investment program for several
years but was looking for comprehensive technology and leadership
support to grow the program. They chose CFS for its focus on customer
service, its credit
union partnership experience and its ability to provide a mentoring
program. CFS will employ the financial advisors and manage all back
office efficiencies, including operations administration, trading
services, and dataVISION, its proprietary Web-based support
platform for advisors, and will mentor the credit union staff to
take over the program eventually.

Vice President of Facilities Bryan Durrett, responsible for oversight of
the program within the credit union, indicated that the CU was looking
for a fresh start for its investment program. “We really liked that CFS
has a deep understanding of credit unions, several of which are limited
partners. Our previous broker/dealers had an independent philosophy and
didn’t really know how to integrate the program into the core offerings
of the credit union. Although this program has potential to add income
to the credit union, ultimately it is a member service and needs to help
our members with their overall financial planning needs. CFS understands
that.”

The program falls under the direction of Patti Branco, Texas-based
regional program manager for CFS. Karen Coffey, vice president of
marketing for CU of Texas, noted that Branco leads by example and
provides the kind of leadership and assistance they didn’t have before.
She also cited marketing programs, workshop materials, and creative
support as key elements of success.

ARAG training builds organizational capacity through continued
development and helps employees make the connection between their roles
within the organization and company’s business strategies for the future
growth

DES MOINES, IA — Group legal
insurance leader ARAG®
has been selected as a 2009 Workplace Learning and Performance Award
winner in the “Training as a Business Strategy” category.

The award was presented by the Central Iowa Chapter of the
American Society of Training and Development. Selection was based on
effective use of training as an organizational strategy to directly
support business initiatives and strategic planning goals.

“Aligning ARAG training programs with key business strategies
helps our employees to better understand their roles within the
organization and how they can contribute to its continued success.
Through programs such as ARAG University, employees gain the knowledge
and skills to grow professionally and to provide best in class service
to ARAG legal
plan customers,” says Erin Barfels, Chief Human
Resources Officer.

The ASTD award is one of several honors that ARAG has received in
recent months. The company was certified as a Center of Excellence by
BenchmarkPortal and was named one of the “Best Places to Work in
Insurance” by Business Insurance magazine and Best Companies Group. ARAG
was a Stevie Award recipient as Customer Service Team of the Year in
insurance, banking and financial services from The American Business
Awards.

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companies

BOSTON — Crowe Paradis Services Corporation (“CPSC”) and Coventry Workers’
Compensation Services (“CWCS”) today announced an unparalleled strategic
partnership to provide expert Medicare Secondary Payer compliance to the
property and casualty industry. With recent increases in settlement
costs prompted by the changes to the Medicare Secondary Payer Act, the
combined value of advocacy and expertise at settlement has never been
more critical.

The partnership will capitalize on the strengths of both organizations
to the mutual benefit of their existing customers. Effective
immediately, CPSC will exclusively provide MSP compliance services for
CWCS clients, including Medicare Set Aside Allocations, Conditional
Payment Discovery and Negotiation Services, and Section 111 Reporting
Services. CWCS will provide Crowe Paradis Service Corporations clients
with a comprehensive “tool box” approach to maximizing savings through
their Drug Utilization Advisory and Prescription Peer-to-Peer (P2P)
programs.

With mandatory Medicare reporting requirements scheduled for Jan. 1,
2011, Crowe Paradis Services Corporation is prepared to provide Medicare
Secondary Payer compliance to the property and casualty industry. As a
result, CPSC will help those companies avoid costly fines and other
penalties.

“Crowe Paradis has consistently delivered high quality Medicare Set
Asides and Conditional Payment recoveries with significant savings,”
explained David Young, chief executive officer of Coventry Workers’
Compensation Services. “We want our clients to have the best results
possible, and in the Medicare arena this now requires the advocacy that
Crowe Paradis delivers with the largest Medicare legal team in the
country.”

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POLICE are hunting an armed robber after a raid on a betting shop in South Shields. The axe-wielding robber struck at Chisholms bookmakers, in Fielding Court, on Saturday. At 6.36pm, the man entered the bookies and threatened staff. He then fled the shop with an amount of cash and made off in the direction of Bunyan Avenue, on a mountain bike. No one was injured, but staff were shaken by the incident. The robber is described as between 5ft 6in and 5ft 8in tall, with light coloured or ginger eyebrows. He wore a cream striped hooded top, with a checked scarf over his face, dark trousers and white trainers.

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General de Gaulle famously said that France had 246 cheeses and nobody could govern a country as anarchic as that. Alors, mon general! A keen investigative journalist from the Associated Press reports that French fromageries and small family farms have been declining for so long that they are almost extinct. Why, in the French Alps, dozens of families have given up making a traditional cheese called “persille de Tignes”; it is now made by only one lady with 30 cows and 80 goats, and if she were to cease production for any reason. Apparently its all the fault of the Americans, who have made the French go in for pasteurized, mass-produced, plastic-wrapped cheeses sold in capitalist supermarkets rather than small stores. The dwindling number of cheeses doesnt appear to make government any easier, but at least General de Gaulles antipathy to President Roosevelt survives to preserve some basic notions just as he implanted them in the French psyche.
Founders of Breast Cancer Charity ‘Breast Friends Forever’
Recognized for Easing Financial Burdens of Families Touched by the
Disease

MIDDLETOWN, N.J. — Middletown, NJ high school seniors Erika Rech and Mike Ruane are the
latest Grand Prize winners in the Fueling
Good program created by CITGO
Petroleum Corporation. The cousins earned their prize of a year’s
supply of CITGO gasoline by supporting individuals and families affected
by breast cancer. Their charity, Breast
Friends Forever, raised more than $110,000 over the last three years
to help ease the financial burdens of local families touched by this
terrible disease.

“When my cousin and I were 15 years old, two of our family members were
diagnosed with breast cancer within six months of each other,” said
Erika Rech, co-founder of Breast
Friends Forever. “From the initial diagnosis and throughout the
treatment, we saw firsthand the devastating effect that cancer can have
on a family, particularly its financial resources. The more we learned
about breast cancer and its associated treatment costs, in addition to
the emotional toll it takes on the entire family, the more we wanted to
help.”

Fundraising activities began with selling t-shirts and candy, and have
expanded to include the annual Breast
Friends Forever Gala, which raised $37,000 in 2009. Funds generated
through these events and activities help local families touched by
breast cancer with utility bills, groceries, mortgage payments, wigs,
and prostheses.

“Through Breast Friends Forever, we have experienced a wonderful
outpouring of support from our community,” added Rech. “The year’s
supply of gasoline from CITGO
will help my cousin and me expand our reach and fundraising programs so
that we can make an even greater impact on those in need.”

COVERING UP THE inconvenient facts of his resume, donning new identifies the way other men change suits, the hidden persuader at the center of AMCs Mad Men has a talent for duplicity that would seem to place him squarely in pop cultures rich canon of ad industry villains. But even with his fake name, appropriated past, perfect show family, and less than ethical approach to client management, Don Draper stands apart from the cynics, hoodwinks, hacks, and evil mesmerists who populate the pages of such anti-advertising tomes as The Hucksters, The Hidden Persuaders, and No Logo. At home in his dining room or at a fancy restaurant wooing clients, Draper may be a lying, boozing con man. But when hes in his office, dreaming up catch phrases to sell products, the specters of candor and authenticity possess him. “You are the product,” Draper tells a neophyte copywriter. “You, feeling something. Thats what sells” He doesnt just want to sell us the sizzle of girdles and popsicles; he wants to sell us their souls. Art Copy, a 2009 documentary about the advertising business, is built around interviews with eight of the industrys most celebrated practitioners. One of them, the legendary ad man George Lois, echoes Drapers passion. “I can get excited about selling a new kind of pin; growls Lois, a pugnacious blusterer whose campaigns for MTV and Tommy Hilfiger helped turn them into cultural mainstays. Contemplating a pins very pinness–identifying the precise qualities that make it useful to us and enhances our lives–is the path toward great advertising. The contrarian theme that advertising is at heart a medium for profound truth telling runs throughout Art Copy, which will be out on DVD this summer. The more common nonindustry view is of advertising as a fundamentally crooked enterprise that aims to brainwash us into buying products we dont really need to solve problems we dont actually have and attain ideals we dont genuinely aspire to. Art Copy departs from this stereotype in large part because its not a nonindustry depiction. While aimed at general audiences and directed by Doug Pray, whose past work includes documentaries on suffers, graffiti artists, turntablists, and the Seattle music scene, the movie was funded by The One Club, which describes itself as “the worlds foremost non-profit organization for the recognition and promotion of excellence in advertising”

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HAWTHORNE, N.Y. — Acorda Therapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq: ACOR)
announced today that Adrian L. Rabinowicz, M.D., FAAN, has joined the
Company as Senior Vice President and Head, Medical Affairs, reporting to
Thomas Wessel, M.D., Ph.D., Chief Medical Officer. Dr. Rabinowicz will
have responsibility for Acorda’s Medical Communications and Scientific
Affairs departments, medical education programs and the field-based team
of Regional Scientific Managers.

Before joining Acorda, Dr. Rabinowicz spent over five years with Bayer
HealthCare Pharmaceuticals holding roles of increasing responsibility.
Most recently Dr. Rabinowicz was Vice President and Head, U.S. Medical
Affairs – Specialty Medicine and led the central nervous system and
hematology medical teams. In this role, he was actively involved in all
medical and regulatory activities related to Betaseron®,
Bayer’s multiple sclerosis drug. He also served as a member of Bayer’s
Protocol Review Committee, which was responsible for evaluating and
approving all Phase II – IV protocols. Prior to his time at Bayer, Dr
Rabinowicz held the position of Medical Director in Clinical Development
and Medical Affairs at Novartis Pharmaceuticals in the U.S., where he
managed several programs and regulatory interactions in Alzheimer’s
disease, Parkinson’s disease and traumatic brain injury.

“We are very excited to have Adrian Rabinowicz join Acorda’s senior
management team and lead our Medical Affairs group. Adrian’s
accomplishments related to scientific and clinical educational
initiatives in multiple sclerosis are impressive,” stated Dr. Wessel.
“In addition, the breadth of his experience across a range of
disciplines within drug development will be critical to Acorda as we
work to execute a very ambitious agenda this year – the successful
launch and commercialization of AMPYRA™, bringing GGF2 into the clinical
trial stage and evaluating additional neurologic products and
technologies for potential in-licensing.”

Dr. Rabinowicz received his medical degree from the Universidad Del
Salvador, Buenos Aires, Argentina. He completed his residency in
neurology at the University of Buenos Aires and his fellowship in
Epilepsy and Neurophysiology at the University of Southern California,
Los Angeles. Dr. Rabinowicz is Board Certified in Neurology and for
several years served as an Assistant Professor of Neurology and as the
Co-Director of the USC Comprehensive Epilepsy program, a selected NINDS
site for antiepileptic drug development. Subsequently, Dr Rabinowicz
helped establish the Comprehensive Epilepsy Program at the Fleni
Neurological Institute in Buenos Aires, Argentina, that became an
international referral center for patients with refractory epilepsy and
a leading institution for the clinical development of antiepileptic
drugs. Dr. Rabinowicz has received several national and international
awards for his research and is a Fellow of the American Academy of
Neurology. He has published over 70 peer reviewed papers and several
book chapters.

“I’m delighted to be joining Acorda at the launch of an important new
treatment for multiple sclerosis. AMPYRA is the first new therapy
approved for MS in over ten years, and I’m looking forward to working
with the highly experienced Medical Affairs team already in place to
help direct future scientific and clinical initiatives for AMPYRA,” said
Dr. Rabinowicz.

Companies Join Forces to Encourage Patient Compliance

NEW YORK — MedTera™, an integrated marketing solutions company dedicated to
improving education, promotion and communications in the healthcare,
life sciences and pharmaceutical industries, today announced that David
Duplay, the company president, has joined the advisory board for
HealthPrize Technologies, a wellness company and industry leader in
developing technology solutions used to enhance medication compliance.
As a member of the board, Duplay will provide counsel for the company’s
executive team and its direction, specifically driving how HealthPrize
will align itself with MedTera to deliver unique patient education
solutions.

HealthPrize, founded in 2009, is committed to helping people get healthy
and stay healthy by motivating them to properly adhere to prescription
therapy instructions through various incentives. Leveraging a
proprietary technology platform, the company tracks when consumers have
taken their medication and provides them with awards, prizes and
sweepstakes entries for doing so. The HealthPrize system utilizes a
combination of financial incentives, fun and education to motivate
consumers to take better care of themselves by following doctors’
orders. By utilizing Duplay’s expertise in patient education, and
MedTera’s focus on innovative and creative marketing solutions,
HealthPrize will continue to develop new ways to engage patients with
its platform, increasing therapy compliance and improving the quality of
patient’s lives.

“Dave will be a critical member of our advisory board, helping to shape
our direction and go-to-market strategy,” said Thomas Kottler,
co-founder and CEO, HealthPrize Technologies. “The truth is, only 50
percent of patients actually take their medication as prescribed. This
chasm isn’t just bad for their health, but it negatively impacts the
entire healthcare system. Dave brings a wealth of knowledge in patient
education to our team and we’re looking forward to working closely with
him and MedTera.”

With healthcare reform at the top of everyone’s minds, it’s more
important than ever for pharmaceutical companies to invest in quality
patient education, particularly those that communicate the importance of
therapy compliance and adherence. MedTera specializes in helping
companies develop educational tools that are appropriate for a variety
of products and disease states. And with evolving regulatory and
compliance standards around patient education forming, making sure it’s
done right is crucial. MedTera’s patented dimensional designs and
creative online tools, paired with HealthPrize’s leading-edge
technology, are designed to engage patients in an opt-in, long-term
relationship that ensures everyone wins.

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Yes, your dry, blotchy, red skin is trying to tell you something (just in case you were wondering). “Your skin is a reflection of whats going on internally,” says Diane Madfes, M.D., associate professor of dermatology at Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York. “When it acts up, thats your bodys way of responding to its environment or telling you to slow down.” In other words, whenever you get tired, stressed or sick, you may see these issues reflected in your skin. Instead of automatically grabbing the closest skincare product you can find, try approaching the problem holistically. Think about your scaly skin or breakout as a response to whats going on with your body both inside and out, then choose gentle, natural skin-care products to help soothe the issues away. “Any changes, such as switching to a new cream or laundry detergent, or even eating a new food, can cause inflammation in your skin,” says Madfes. Rosacea (red inflammation of the cheeks, nose, forehead and chin) is also common this time of year as people spend more time outdoors. Many rosacea triggers come from Mother Nature: A change in temperature, strong winds and UV rays can all cause a flare-up. To soothe general skin irritations, look for products with natural anti-inflammatory ingredients such as green tea and grapeseed extract.

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The cafeteria at NBCs New York headquarters observed Black History Month by serving fried chicken, collard greens, cornbread, and black-eyed peas. A musician who calls himself “?uestlove” (and pronounces the “?” as a “Q”) took a photo of the menu and posted it online with a sarcastic caption; bloggers pounced; NBC apologized; and the invidious soul food was soon replaced with an innocuous grilled-chicken hero.
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Heating the Northeast With Renewable Biomass: Pellets, Wood, Grasses
and More April 27-28, 2010

MANCHESTER, N.H. — Seven leading environmental and energy-focused non-profit groups
announce the date for the second-annual Heating
the Northeast with Renewable Biomass Conference and vendor fair on
April 27 and 28 in Manchester, NH.

The
Biomass Thermal Energy Council, Alliance
for Green Heat, New
York Biomass Energy Alliance, Biomass
Energy Resource Center, Maine
Pellet Fuels Association, Pellet
Fuels Institute and Clean
Air Cool Planet, are hosting the event, which addresses using
biomass to heat homes and businesses to offset fossil fuel usage.

“Bringing local supporters of biomass together is a great opportunity to
figure out how we change the future of how America heats,” said Charlie
Niebling, chairman of the event’s advisory committee. “This event
appeals to anyone interested in the role that biomass can play in
achieving energy independence, reducing reliance on foreign fossil
energy, reducing greenhouse gas emissions, revitalizing rural economies
and building a more sustainable energy future for the Northeast.”

The conference will feature three educational tracks; retail, policy,
and technology of the biomass market.

SEATTLE — HomeStreet, Inc., a unitary savings and loan holding company, announced
today that it has further extended the expiration date for tender offers
that it previously launched for all of the outstanding:

The tender offers, previously scheduled to expire at 5:00 p.m., New York
City time, on February 22, 2010, will now expire at 5:00 p.m., New York
City time, on Monday, March 22, 2010, unless further extended or
terminated. Except for the extension described above, all terms and
conditions of the tender offers are unchanged and remain in full force
and effect.

Pursuant to the tender offers, HomeStreet is offering to purchase all of
the outstanding trust preferred securities, for cash, for an amount
equal to $200 per $1,000 liquidation amount outstanding. No accrued and
unpaid distributions on the trust preferred securities will be paid.
Tendered trust preferred securities may not be withdrawn once they have
been tendered in the tender offers. As of December 18, 2009, the date
the tender offers were commenced, there was approximately $60 million
aggregate liquidation amount of trust preferred securities outstanding.
HomeStreet is simultaneously soliciting consents from the tendering
holders of trust preferred securities to amend or remove certain
provisions to the declarations of trust of the trusts that issued the
trust preferred securities, the guarantees related thereto and the
indentures for the junior subordinated notes issued by HomeStreet to
those trusts in connection with the issuance of the trust preferred
securities.

The tender offers are conditioned on 100% of the aggregate liquidation
amount outstanding of each series of trust preferred securities being
tendered and are subject to the other conditions described in the offer
to purchase, including the completion of a financing transaction by
HomeStreet sufficient both to purchase the trust preferred securities
that are validly tendered and to satisfy its other regulatory capital
requirements.

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Last Exit to Utopia: The Survival of Socialism in a Post-Soviet Era, by Jean-Francois Revel (Encounter, 300 pp., $23.95) Jean-Francois Revel was marvelously intelligent, witty, no respecter of persons, a lover of the good life, cosmopolitan with a bias in favor of Italy, up to date with the news and the gossip and the latest books in several languages–in short, the kind of Frenchman everyone hopes to meet but hardly ever does. He and Raymond Aron were editors and columnists for LExpress, the weekly magazine that used to have a readership of 3 million, and its not much of an exaggeration to say that in their day they were the two commentators in Paris most worth reading. Born in 1924, Revel describes in his autobiography, memorably titled Thief in an Empty House, how he was educated first by the Jesuits and then at one of the famous institutions of higher learning that groom the countrys elite. This gave him the grounding afterwards to write polemics knocking the stuffing out of assorted charlatans like Sartre, Jacques Lacan, Teilhard de Chardin, Heidegger, and Husserl. Aged 16 when France collapsed under the German blitzkrieg of 1940, he had some experience of totalitarianism in action. However menacing the Nazi occupation might be, the collaborationist Vichy regime of Marshal Petain seemed to him more comic than anything else. It fell to Revel in 1945 to escort to prison the preposterous and anti-Semitic publicist Charles Maurras, and he loved to laugh remembering how Maurras had said of his arrest, “This is the revenge of Dreyfus.” For years Revel mocked General de Gaulle as an operetta-style dictator and perpetual fountain of purple prose. President Mitterrands pretensions were equally dismissed. But it was the hold that Communism acquired over French intellectual life that really set Revels adrenaline racing. He was influenced by Raymond Arons masterpiece The Opium of the Intellectuals, published in 1955, and the first fully informed and sustained demolition of Marxism by a Frenchman. In one carefully argued book after another, Revel took to pieces the ideology of Communism and exposed the misconceptions, contradictions, illusions, and group-thought of those who adhered to it. This was in a country where Picasso could say on behalf of influential artists, “I went to Communism as one goes to a fresh spring of water,” and Sartre could say on behalf of influential writers, “An anti-Communist is a dog.” Following leads of that kind, Communism had acquired a mind-numbing hold on public opinion. The irrationality of it was like some tidal wave swamping everything. About a third of the electorate voted for the Communists at the height of the partys success. To expose French Communist-party leaders and propagandists as crooks, dupes, and paid agents of Moscow was not enough. Georges Marchais, a long-standing general secretary of the party, even got away with having volunteered during the war to work in Nazi Germany in an armaments factory. At the outset of the Cold War, leading Communists trooped into a courtroom to testify that the Gulag was the slanderous invention of a Soviet defector, and that slave labor was unknown in the Soviet Union. From 1945 to as late as the 1980s, governments were taking Communists into coalition and giving them important ministries. Again, its not much of an exaggeration to say that Revel was obliging people to understand that crime, degradation, and failure of intellect and morality are inherent in Communism. This was to change the terms of public debate.
MIAMI — Intcomex, Inc. today issued notification of its earnings conference call
to review the Company’s results of operations for the fourth quarter and
year ended December 31, 2009. The conference call will be held on
Wednesday, February 24, 2010 at 11:00 am ET (Eastern Standard Time). The
conference call will be conducted by Michael Shalom, Chief Executive
Officer and President and Russell A. Olson, Chief Financial Officer.

Title: Intcomex, Inc. Results of Operations as of December 31, 2009Conference
Date: February 24, 2010Start Time: 11:00 am ET / 10:00 am CT /
9:00 am MT / 8:00 am PTDial-in, Toll: (914) 495-8589Dial-in,
Toll free: (877) 847-5946

Replay Dates Times: A replay of the conference call will be available
from 2:00 pm ET on February 24, 2010 through 11:59 pm ET on March 4,
2010.Replay, Toll: (706) 645-9291Replay, Toll free: (800)
642-1687Conference ID Replay Passcode: 58978252

Intcomex is a United States-based value-added distributor of IT products
to Latin America and the Caribbean with a broad in-country presence in
this region. Intcomex distributes computer components, peripherals,
software, computer systems, accessories, networking products and digital
consumer electronics to more than 50,000 customers in 40 countries.

Genoil Inc. (TSX VENTURE: GNO) (OTCBB: GNOLF) (the “Corporation”) is pleased to announce that it has closed the second and final tranche of the private placement initially announced on February 3, 2010 (the “Offering”). Subsequent to the closing of the first tranche of the Offering announced on February 3, 2010, the Corporation has issued an additional 1,154,615 Units, at a price of U.S. $0.13 per Unit, each Unit consisting of one common share and one common share purchase warrants (”Warrants”) for additional gross proceeds of U.S. $150,100. The Warrants are exercisable until two years following their issue date at a price of U.S. $0.20.

Following the closing of this second tranche of the Offering, the Corporation has issued an aggregate 5,866,920 Units for aggregate gross proceeds of U.S. $762,699.95 under the Offering. The common shares and Warrants issued in connection with this Offering are subject to a four-month hold period.

Genoil has also completed an additional shares for debt transaction to satisfy amounts outstanding to a certain lender (the “Creditor”) of the Corporation. Common shares were issued pursuant to a debt cancellation agreement between the Corporation and the Creditor, whereby the Creditor agreed to forgive and cancel debts currently owing to such Creditor by the Corporation. The total debt owing to the Creditor which has been cancelled is an aggregate amount of U.S.$105,103.22, which amounts have been cancelled in exchange for issuance of an aggregate of 808,486 common shares. The common shares issued to the Creditor are subject to a four-month hold period.

The securities to be issued by the Corporation have not and will not be registered under the United States Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “1933 Act”), or the securities laws of any state of the United States, and may not be offered or sold in the United States absent registration or an applicable exemption therefrom under the 1933 Act and the securities laws of all applicable states.

Genoil is an international engineering technology development company based in Alberta, Canada, that develops innovative hydrocarbon, oil and water separation, and marine technologies for the oil and gas and commercial marine industries. Genoils shares are listed on the TSX Venture Exchange under the symbol GNO, as well as on the OTC Bulletin Board under GNOLF.OB.

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FREDERICKSBURG, Va., Jan. 6 /PRNewswire/ — Patients with acute deep vein thrombosis (DVT) develop potentially dangerous blood clots and can suffer severe leg pain and swelling. Doctors with Virginia Interventional Vascular Associates (VIVA) report success over the past two years in treating acute DVT patients with a procedure called isolated pharmacomechanical thrombolysis (IPMT), which destroys clots much faster than traditional therapies. VIVA performs the two-hour, minimally invasive procedure with the FDA-approved Trellis Peripheral Infusion System. Using medical images to help guide Trellis to the right spot, VIVAs interventional radiologists isolate the clot with balloons positioned at each end of the catheter, infuse the clot with fibrinolytic (clot-dissolving) medication, break it up with a tiny rotating wire, and aspirate the remaining particles. Dr. John D. Statler, a board-certified, fellowship-trained, interventional radiologist with VIVA, says the procedure offers several advantages over traditional therapies. Traditional treatments include anticoagulant medication. This prevents the clot from growing and protects the lungs, but does not dissolve the clot, relying on the body to break it down over time. Catheter-directed thrombolysis, which dissolves clots by delivering thrombolytic medication through catheters, requires a 24- to 72-hour intensive care hospital stay. “We can destroy the clot and relieve pain for most patients within a couple of hours after starting the procedure,” Dr. Statler stated. “It requires an overnight hospital stay, rather than intensive care for several days, and the risk of bleeding is lower than for catheter-directed thrombolysis.” Dr. Statler notes the safety and effectiveness of IPMT have been documented in several clinical studies. The American College of Chest Physicians has endorsed the procedure for select patients with extensive acute proximal DVT.
Covalon Technologies Ltd. (the “Company” or “Covalon”) (TSX VENTURE: COV), is pleased to announce that Dr. Murray Miller and Mr. Brian Pedlar have been appointed to the Board of Directors.

Dr. Murray Miller is the managing director of Trillium Imaging Inc. which operates medical imaging centres in Mississauga and Toronto. He has served as Chief Radiologist at Trillium Health Centre – West Toronto, and has been a consultant to the medical industry, including medical device manufacturers and medical imaging vendors.

Mr. Brian Pedlar is President of Pedlar Ventures Limited, a private venture investment and consulting firm based in Oakville, Ontario. He has served in senior executive positions with public companies including Merge Healthcare, Cedara Software Corp. and IMAX Corporation. Mr. Pedlar is a Chartered Accountant.

Dr. Miller and Mr. Pedlar replace outgoing Directors, Mr. Brad Williams and Mr. David McFaul.

Mr. Martin Bernholtz, who has for the past four years served as a Covalon director and Chairman of the Audit Committee, has been appointed Chairman of the Board, a position previously held by Mr. Williams. Mr. Pedlar has been appointed to take over as Chairman of Covalons Audit Committee.

ROCHESTER, Minn., Jan. 25 /PRNewswire/ — Preventing deadly ruptures of the blood vessels in the brain is the aim of a new Mayo Clinic project to help radiologists detect aneurysms with far greater speed and accuracy. The new method uses analytics technology developed by the Mayo and IBM (NYSE: IBM) collaboration, Medical Imaging Informatics Innovation Center and has proven a 95 percent accuracy rate in detecting aneurysms, compared with 70 percent for manual interpretation. Project findings were reported in the Journal of Digital Imaging (published online Nov. 24, 2009). Already saving patients lives, the project has examined more than 15 million images from thousands of patients since the project began in early July. It uses technology that combines advanced imaging with analytics to highlight likely aneurysms for faster detection. This helps radiologists identify them before they result in brain hemorrhage or neurological damage. In the future, Mayo Clinic expects to use the same approach for other radiology detection tests such as the diagnosis of cancer or vessel anomalies in other parts of the body. “This fully automatic scheme is significant in helping radiologists detect aneurysms in magnetic resonance angiography exams,” says Mayo radiologist Bradley Erickson, M.D., senior author of the study and co-director of the Medical Imaging Informatics Innovation Center at Mayo Clinic.

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This new type of modern eldercare will postpone, if not eliminate, many elderly persons from having to endure the loneliness and loss of independence due to leaving their own homes and living in nursing homes and other assisted living facilities. Their families can now better manage the difficult decisions regarding independence they allow their now dependent aged parent while minimizing the concern and risk the adult care giving child is willing to assume to enable an acceptable level of independence and consequent risk (to the care giver) for their now dependent parent.

“For the last several years, the US eldercare crisis is commonly portrayed as not happening until the baby boomers reach the age of great reliance on their children and younger family members. The truth of the matter, since the US is the only country in the top ten of the worlds industrialized nations without national healthcare, is that we really dont have solid statistics for our true bottom line annual US eldercare costs. Many middle class baby boomers are presently suffering significant financial, time and emotional pressures attempting to care for their surviving WWII and Korean War era parents,” observed Martin Spencer, President/CEO, GeckoSystems.

At the time of the companys founding, extensive primary market research was performed to determine the demographic profiles and the market segments appropriate to identify the probable early adopters of eldercare capable personal robots. Not surprisingly the scientific statistical analyses revealed that elderly over 65 living alone in metropolitan areas with broadband Internet available and sufficient household incomes to support were identified as those most likely to adopt initially. Using U.S. Census Bureau data from the 2000 census the pent-up demand, to the degree possible for metro areas only, is — to those not privy to this type of statistical analysis — nearly unbelievable. Due to the high cost of assisted living, nursing homes, etc. the payback for a CareBot™ is expected to be only six to eight months while keeping elderly care receivers independent, in their own homes, and living longer due to the comfort of more frequent attention from their loved ones.

“We project the available market size in dollars for cost effective, utilitarian, multitasking eldercare personal robots in 2011 to be $74.0B, in 2012 to be $77B, in 2013 to be $80B, in 2014 to be $83.3B, and in 2015 to be $86.6B. With market penetrations of 0.03% in 2011, 0.06% in 2012, 0.22% in 2013, 0.53% in 2014, and 0.81% in 2015, we will anticipate CareBot sales, from this consumer market segment, only, of $22.0M, $44.0M, $176M, $440.2M, and $704.3M, respectively. We expect these sales despite — and perhaps because of — the present recession due to pent up demand for significant cost reduction in eldercare expenses,” opined Spencer.

Data hold the key to low readmit rates As a first step toward decreasing readmission rates, examine your data, says Margaret VanAmringe, MPH, vice president of public policy and government relations in the Washington, DC, office of The Joint Commission. “Look at readmissions and discern whether there are opportunities to reduce the number,” she advises. “That will, of course, depend on disease category, population, age, and many different factors.” It will behoove you “to really analyze readmissions, assess these data, use a random sample of charts, and look to see if there is a certain group of patients in these three areas where you feel there could be the potential to prevent readmissions,” VanAmringe says. Michael C. Choo, MD, MBA, FACEP, FAAEM, ACHE, president and CEO of Clinton Memorial Hospital in Wilmington, OH, says, “Its always been very important to evaluate the data on a monthly basis and find solutions.” Choo, who served for 10 years as the ED medical director at Dayton Heart Hospital, is bringing what he learned there to his new position. “Congestive heart failure is the most difficult of the three because its especially problematic in [the Medicare] population,” he says. “Initiatives weve used include trying to identify at the time of discharge those patients who need extra support at home or additional education.” For those patients who are identified as high-risk, arrangements are made for intense home health care followed by outpatient therapy sessions, he says. His current health system has congestive heart failure clinics, where patients status is monitored to make sure they stay stable and dont return to the ED or the hospital, he says.

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CHERYL Cole has spoken of her pain and humiliation over her husband Ashleys cheating – and is struggling to forgive his latest betrayal. The Girls Aloud singer and X Factor judge, 26, has revealed to a friend how she jetted out to LA on the spur of the moment to give herself some space away from the love-rat Chelsea footballer. As a fifth girl came forward to claim she has had a fling with shamed Ashley, she is using the trip to decide whether their marriage can survive the revelations. At one point Cheryl told a close pal: “I cant forgive him this time.”
X FACTOR mentor Sinitta is pregnant after a five-month whirlwind romance. Simon Cowells former lover has been dating millionaire businessman Stefano Zagni, 43 – a friend of Mariah Carey – since November last year. Sinitta, 41, has already broken the happy news to best pal Cowell. Confirming the pregnancy yesterday, she said: “Its early days yet.” They had tried for years to have a baby, having four courses of IVF treatment and two attempts at surrogacy. She also suffered three miscarriages before they eventually adopted brother and sister, Zac, now three, and Magdelena, four, in 2007. Cowell is godfather to both children. A friend of Sinitta – who had four hits including So Macho in the 80s – said: “Shes delighted by this news. She had given up hope of ever having a child of her own and it was a surprise to find she was expecting. Simon is pleased for her.
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30% Of the Home Health Claims Are Discharged Sooner Than Physician
Anticipated

ORLANDO, Fla. — Thirty percent of the home health care workers’ compensation cases
managed by Total Medical Solutions (TMS) were discharged prior to the
“order-end date,” the last date the physician had anticipated that
services would be required.

The figure comes from an internal review of 250 cases with an intake
date between March 1 and July 15, 2009. Of the early discharges, 27
involving RN or LPN services were discharged an average of nine days
early. Twenty four of the cases involved physical therapy and were
discharged an average of 10 days early and 10 cases involved home health
care aides and nine involved intravenous or infusion services.

“With home health care adding hundreds of dollars a day to a claim,
earlier discharge represents significant savings for our clients,” said
Cara Barde, president of TMS.

TMS has a policy of having staff in patients’ homes within 24 hours of
the receipt of doctors’ orders. “We start treatment early and provide
the level of professional expertise these complex cases require,” she
added.

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Maile Fine Maile was born December 28, 1994 and passed away February 18, 2010. He was a Freshman at East High School. He loved playing football, tennis and listening to music, and hanging out with his family and friends.
Topeka Treasure Hunters Club, 7 p.m. today , Papans Landing Senior Center, 619 N.W. Paramore. Topeka Needlework Guild Stitchery Group, 9:30 a.m. Monday , Topeka and Shawnee County Public Library, 1515 S.W. 10th, Room 101A. Program: Kathy Lambert will discuss ideas for coming projects. Information: 640-3262.

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THE Government has scrapped plans to replace the sunken sailing vessel Asgard II and is instead to hand over the EUR3million insurance payout to Brian Lenihans Department of Finance. Former Defence Minister Willie ODea torpedoed the popular Sail Training Scheme despite the offer of a FREE tall ship. Now it is highly unlikely that any Irish sailing ships will take part in the Tall Ships Race which is due to be the biggest tourist event in Ireland when it visits Waterford during 2011. The Department of Defence considered refloating the Asgard II but the EUR2million cost was seen as prohibitive.
MARCO ISLAND, Fla. — Kevin Hale, Executive Vice President of Mutual of Omaha Bank, will be
available to the news media on Monday, Feb. 22, from 10:00 a.m. to 10:30
a.m. at the Mutual of Omaha Bank (formerly Marco Community Bank) at 1770
San Marco Road in Marco Island.

Mutual of Omaha Bank opened in Marco Island taking over the deposits and
loans of the failed Marco Community Bank.

Mutual of Omaha Bank assumed substantially all the deposits and loans of
the failed bank, including those that exceeded the FDIC insurance limit,
after federal regulators closed the banks on Friday. Depositors of the
failed bank automatically became depositors of Mutual of Omaha Bank and
no depositor lost money as a result of the failure.

With more than $4 billion in assets, Mutual of Omaha Bank operates a
network of full-service community banks in Florida, Arizona, California,
Colorado, Florida, Nebraska, Nevada and Texas, and has loan production
offices in Iowa and Kansas. It recently opened its first full-service
Florida bank in Naples, and a Tampa location is slated to open this
spring.

For more information or to make other coverage arrangements, please
contact Jim Nolan at (402) 616-6455.

Motorcyclists are largely in favour of the bike scrappage scheme, according to a survey of customers by Swinton Bikes.

An online survey of 1,200 customers by Swinton Bikes, one of the UKs leading motorbike insurance brokers, found that almost 50% would be encouraged to buy a new motorbike if the scrappage scheme were to be put in place.

With sales of motorcycles dipping in 2009, the Motor Cycle Industry Association (MCI) has called for measures to boost bike purchases, following the success of the car scrappage scheme.

According to reports, a total of 111,513 motorcycles, scooters and mopeds were sold in the UK last year – 20% fewer than in 2008.

The MCI is calling for local authorities, transport planners and the Government to view motorcycling as an alternative to the use of cars and public transport.

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NICKY SHOREY admits hes amazed to be back in the Premier League – and the full-back hasnt given up hope of a shock World Cup call- up. Shorey, who never settled at Aston Villa, was rescued by Fulham boss Roy Hodgson, who took him on loan until the end of the season. Now Shorey, 28, who also had a loan spell at Nottingham Forest earlier this season, reckons the move has reignited his chances of making a late dash to be included in Fabio Capellos England squad.
MARCO ISLAND, Fla. — Kevin Hale, Executive Vice President of Mutual of Omaha Bank, will be
available to the news media on Monday, Feb. 22, from 10:00 a.m. to 10:30
a.m. at the Mutual of Omaha Bank (formerly Marco Community Bank) at 1770
San Marco Road in Marco Island.

Mutual of Omaha Bank opened in Marco Island taking over the deposits and
loans of the failed Marco Community Bank.

Mutual of Omaha Bank assumed substantially all the deposits and loans of
the failed bank, including those that exceeded the FDIC insurance limit,
after federal regulators closed the banks on Friday. Depositors of the
failed bank automatically became depositors of Mutual of Omaha Bank and
no depositor lost money as a result of the failure.

With more than $4 billion in assets, Mutual of Omaha Bank operates a
network of full-service community banks in Florida, Arizona, California,
Colorado, Florida, Nebraska, Nevada and Texas, and has loan production
offices in Iowa and Kansas. It recently opened its first full-service
Florida bank in Naples, and a Tampa location is slated to open this
spring.

For more information or to make other coverage arrangements, please
contact Jim Nolan at (402) 616-6455.

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SLEAZY Ashley Cole took a glamour model home for sex – on the night he first went public about his relationship with Cheryl. Just minutes after waving goodbye to Cheryl on their first official night out together, he sidled up to Alexandra Taylor in the bar of a London nightclub. And she became the FIFTH woman with whom Cole cheated on Cheryl. The shameless footballer brought Alexandra home for sex – in his bachelor flat in the same apartment complex where Cheryl was living.
HIT BBC sitcom The Office is on the move again. this time to Israel. Hapless David Brent, who turned Ricky Gervais into a star, will be reborn with less hair as Avi Meshulam as the action moves from Slough to Tel Aviv. Gareth becomes Yariv, Dawn is Dana and her love interest Tim becomes Yossi.
SLEAZY Ashley Cole took a glamour model home for sex – on the night he first went public about his relationship with Cheryl. Just minutes after waving goodbye to Cheryl on their first official night out together, he sidled up to Alexandra Taylor in the bar of a London nightclub. And she became the FIFTH woman with whom Cole cheated on Cheryl. The shameless footballer brought Alexandra home for sex – in his bachelor flat in the same apartment complex where Cheryl was living.

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Video gets patients more involved in hand hygiene Patients, physicians report more questions asked The video, called “Hand Hygiene Saves Lives,” was tested in common areas and patient rooms at 17 Catholic Health Partners hospitals; the research was coordinated by the Premier Healthcare alliance. The video encourages patients, family, and visitors to play a role in their own care by helping health care professionals remember to clean their hands before and after touching patients. After the video was shown, patients were twice as likely to report reminding nurses to wash their hands, and doctors were twice as likely to report being asked by patients to wash their hands. In addition, after watching the video, the majority of patients:
SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. — First DataBank a leading provider of drug
databases that help drive patient safety, today announced that
veteran healthcare industry executive, Bob Katter, has joined the
company as Vice President, Sales and Marketing. Katter joins First
DataBank from McKesson Corporation’s RelayHealth division, where he most
recently served as Vice President, Strategy and Business Development.
Katter is based in the company’s headquarters in South San Francisco.

“I’m pleased to join First DataBank because of the tremendous
opportunity to support our vision of creating a world free of medication
errors by collaborating with our partners to provide the industry’s most
trusted medication information to doctors, pharmacists, nurses and other
healthcare providers,” said Bob Katter, Vice President, Sales and
Marketing.

“As the leading provider of integrated drug information, First DataBank
is ideally positioned to capitalize on the substantial investment in
health information technology through the federal stimulus program, the
emergence of new technologies and the increased participation of
consumers in healthcare delivery and decision-making,” continued Katter.

Katter has more than 15 years of experience at leading companies in the
healthcare technology and services industry where he has been
instrumental in developing and bringing to market emerging technologies
focusing on health information exchange. Prior to his tenure at
RelayHealth, Katter served as Vice President of Business Development at
MedicaLogic/Medscape, a provider of digital
health records and online
health information. Earlier in his career, Katter served on the
executive team at Vivra Specialty Partners, a practice management
company, in operations and business development roles. Katter earned an
MBA degree from Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut and a BA degree
in Chemistry from St. Olaf College, Northfield, Minnesota.

“Bob is uniquely qualified to assume this position given his breadth of
experience in healthcare information technology, especially as it
relates to the development of interoperable systems and the increasing
importance this represents to our customers,” said Donald Nielsen, MD,
President, First DataBank. “Bob has strong relationships within the
industry segments that comprise the majority of First DataBank’s
customer base, which is essential to ensure the voice of our customers
is well represented in all our marketing and sales activities.”

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GREENWOOD VILLAGE, Colo. — Red Robin Gourmet Burgers, Inc. (Red Robin), known for its high-quality
gourmet burgers and family-friendly atmosphere, announced the launch of
a new national online, television and radio marketing campaign beginning
on Monday, Feb. 22, based on the casual dining chain’s popular and
memorable mnemonic, “Red Robin… YUMMM™”.

The campaign was designed to increase awareness for Red Robin’s quality,
variety and value and drive guest traffic by capitalizing on the already
widely recognizable catch phrase, “Red Robin… YUMMM™,” while also
promoting Red Robin’s latest limited time offer menu items, the Prime
Chophouse Burger and Southwest Grilled Chicken Salad, each available for
$5.99.

Created by Periscope,
a Minneapolis-based advertising firm and Red Robin’s agency of record,
the campaign was developed after focus group research found that many
consumers could easily recall and recite Red Robin’s mnemonic – “Red
Robin… YUMMM.” Throughout the campaign, promotion of the “YUMMM”
mnemonic will help keep Red Robin® restaurants a top-of-mind
choice for dining out among consumers.

“We realized Red Robin’s popular mnemonic – YUMMM – could function as a
modern-day Pavlovian bell which, when sounded, would cause people to
immediately think of our craveable gourmet burgers,” said Susan
Lintonsmith, Red Robin chief marketing officer. “So, we’re leveraging
this already well-known asset to engage our guests and encourage them to
try one of our value-priced limited time offers this spring.’”

Red Robin’s marketing campaign is appearing online; on cable television,
including USA Network, TBS, TLC, Comedy Central and Food Network; and on
local television and radio stations in approximately 30 markets
nationwide, including Denver, Colo.; Seattle, Wash.; St. Louis, Mo.; and
Phoenix, Ariz.

GREENWOOD VILLAGE, Colo. — Red Robin Gourmet Burgers, Inc. (Red Robin), known for its high-quality
gourmet burgers and family-friendly atmosphere, announced the launch of
a new national online, television and radio marketing campaign beginning
on Monday, Feb. 22, based on the casual dining chain’s popular and
memorable mnemonic, “Red Robin… YUMMM™”.

The campaign was designed to increase awareness for Red Robin’s quality,
variety and value and drive guest traffic by capitalizing on the already
widely recognizable catch phrase, “Red Robin… YUMMM™,” while also
promoting Red Robin’s latest limited time offer menu items, the Prime
Chophouse Burger and Southwest Grilled Chicken Salad, each available for
$5.99.

Created by Periscope,
a Minneapolis-based advertising firm and Red Robin’s agency of record,
the campaign was developed after focus group research found that many
consumers could easily recall and recite Red Robin’s mnemonic – “Red
Robin… YUMMM.” Throughout the campaign, promotion of the “YUMMM”
mnemonic will help keep Red Robin® restaurants a top-of-mind
choice for dining out among consumers.

“We realized Red Robin’s popular mnemonic – YUMMM – could function as a
modern-day Pavlovian bell which, when sounded, would cause people to
immediately think of our craveable gourmet burgers,” said Susan
Lintonsmith, Red Robin chief marketing officer. “So, we’re leveraging
this already well-known asset to engage our guests and encourage them to
try one of our value-priced limited time offers this spring.’”

Red Robin’s marketing campaign is appearing online; on cable television,
including USA Network, TBS, TLC, Comedy Central and Food Network; and on
local television and radio stations in approximately 30 markets
nationwide, including Denver, Colo.; Seattle, Wash.; St. Louis, Mo.; and
Phoenix, Ariz.

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A 92-page toolbox of guidelines, benefit interpretations, policies and
procedures for the effective management of appropriate and medically
necessary emergency and urgent care services. Includes strategies for
after-hours, emergency care, plus review criteria guidelines to develop
an effective after-hours and emergency care program that will provide
quality-driven care and meet most coverage determinations. Also included
is psychiatric care in the ER, trauma center checklists. References and
resources include links to emergency care protocols and guidelines and
other web resources.

This single topic medical guideline and review criteria has been
developed to provide a representative model for common, acceptable,
customary, reasonable and necessary managed care contract benefit
interpretations and objective evidence-based review for authorization
(or denial) of services. Each guideline must be reviewed by the medical
policy committee of the HMO or contracted/delegated medical group,
modified and adapted, as appropriate. It is strongly recommended that
all applicable documents that will be used to manage medical care in the
organization be sent to relevant providers for review and comment prior
to implementation. This will always promote an understanding of the
guideline, avoid compliance issues, and frequently improve the document
by additional input. Cost effective health care is quality driven (true
quality, that is; not excessive care) and attention must always be
focused on the issues that will result in optimal medical/surgical
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Pocket-Sized, Easy-to-Use Device Enables Physicians to Provide More
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MILWAUKEE — GE Healthcare today announced the availability of Vscan, a new,
pocket-sized visualization tool developed to provide physicians with
imaging capabilities at the point-of-care. Roughly the size of a smart
phone, Vscan houses powerful, ultra-smart ultrasound technology that
provides clinicians with an immediate, non-invasive method to help
secure visual information about what is happening inside the body. Vscan
is portable and can easily be taken from room to room to be used in many
clinical, hospital or primary care settings.

The Vscan imaging device received 510(k) clearance in the U.S. by the
Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the CE Mark by the European Union,
as well as the Medical Device License from Health Canada and is now
commercially available in the U.S., Europe, India and Canada.

“Having Vscan at my disposal at all times has allowed me to use
ultrasound in a number of settings and with patients that I wouldnt
have anticipated before – from the ICU, to the outpatient clinic as well
as with ambulatory patients,” said Anthony N. DeMaria, MD, Professor of
Medicine, Judith and Jack White Chair in Cardiology and Director,
Sulpizio Cardiovascular Center at University of California, San Diego
School of Medicine. “Vscan is more than a simple diagnostic tool. The
handheld device should help physicians make treatment decisions more
quickly. I believe the Vscan technology will play an important role in
physical exams.”

The ability to take a quick look inside the body using Vscan may help
clinicians detect disease earlier. This may prove invaluable in today’s
busy practice environment including primary care physicians and those
specializing in cardiology, critical and emergency care and women’s
health, as well as hospitalists.

An X-ray of the abdomen revealed a grossly distended large intestine. Ultrasound showed increased ascitic fluid. A total colectomy with an ileostomy was performed. Histological examination of the colon (Fig. 2) was consistent with a diagnosis of hollow viscus myopathy. The patient died after a second laparotomy.

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Video gets patients more involved in hand hygiene Patients, physicians report more questions asked The video, called “Hand Hygiene Saves Lives,” was tested in common areas and patient rooms at 17 Catholic Health Partners hospitals; the research was coordinated by the Premier Healthcare alliance. The video encourages patients, family, and visitors to play a role in their own care by helping health care professionals remember to clean their hands before and after touching patients. After the video was shown, patients were twice as likely to report reminding nurses to wash their hands, and doctors were twice as likely to report being asked by patients to wash their hands. In addition, after watching the video, the majority of patients:
Focus on the Family, the evangelical Christian group, bought air time to run an ad during the Super Bowl. In the ad, Florida Gators quarterback Tim Tebow will reportedly praise his mother for ignoring the advice of her doctors to abort him. NOW and NARAL urged CBS not to run the ad. But why? The advance publicity does not suggest that the ad says anything about how governments should treat abortion.
COVERING UP THE inconvenient facts of his resume, donning new identifies the way other men change suits, the hidden persuader at the center of AMCs Mad Men has a talent for duplicity that would seem to place him squarely in pop cultures rich canon of ad industry villains. But even with his fake name, appropriated past, perfect show family, and less than ethical approach to client management, Don Draper stands apart from the cynics, hoodwinks, hacks, and evil mesmerists who populate the pages of such anti-advertising tomes as The Hucksters, The Hidden Persuaders, and No Logo. At home in his dining room or at a fancy restaurant wooing clients, Draper may be a lying, boozing con man. But when hes in his office, dreaming up catch phrases to sell products, the specters of candor and authenticity possess him. “You are the product,” Draper tells a neophyte copywriter. “You, feeling something. Thats what sells” He doesnt just want to sell us the sizzle of girdles and popsicles; he wants to sell us their souls. Art Copy, a 2009 documentary about the advertising business, is built around interviews with eight of the industrys most celebrated practitioners. One of them, the legendary ad man George Lois, echoes Drapers passion. “I can get excited about selling a new kind of pin; growls Lois, a pugnacious blusterer whose campaigns for MTV and Tommy Hilfiger helped turn them into cultural mainstays. Contemplating a pins very pinness–identifying the precise qualities that make it useful to us and enhances our lives–is the path toward great advertising. The contrarian theme that advertising is at heart a medium for profound truth telling runs throughout Art Copy, which will be out on DVD this summer. The more common nonindustry view is of advertising as a fundamentally crooked enterprise that aims to brainwash us into buying products we dont really need to solve problems we dont actually have and attain ideals we dont genuinely aspire to. Art Copy departs from this stereotype in large part because its not a nonindustry depiction. While aimed at general audiences and directed by Doug Pray, whose past work includes documentaries on suffers, graffiti artists, turntablists, and the Seattle music scene, the movie was funded by The One Club, which describes itself as “the worlds foremost non-profit organization for the recognition and promotion of excellence in advertising”

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In response to the recent earthquake in Haiti,
WakePharmaUS, in conjunction with The Relief Foundation and The Red Cross,
have sent a volunteer group comprised of 100 translators, religious
leaders, surgeons, nurses, construction teams, and trained psychologists to
assist with continuing relief efforts. WakePharmaUS has also provided a
massive in-kind donation of its revolutionary new product, Wound-Be-Gone,
to help treat both acute and chronic wounds. This “Wound-Be-Gone-Entourage”
is the first of its kind to be dispatched with relief efforts focused
strictly on wound care and management. As an international company with
strong global family ties, WakePharmaUS has made an impact with its
breakthrough product Wound-Be-Gone by focusing on the promotion of wellness
rather than the treatment of disease. The current situation in Haiti is no
different.

Dr. Macy Hall, Jr., Board Member, Reconstructive Surgeon, and Wound Care
Specialist from Washington, DC explains:

“The WakePharmaUS family is saddened by the recent catastrophe in Haiti.
Our thoughts and prayers go out to the victims. With some reports
estimating over 100,000 deaths and 250,000 injuries, there must be an
immediate plan of action. A catastrophe in a nation where over 85% of the
population lives in poverty is exponentially devastating due to the lack of
healthcare education and access to proper lifesaving techniques. We need
to treat the injured as quickly and efficiently as possible, in order to
have the most impact, prevent disease, and conserve resources.”

While experts point out that victims are most likely to survive if rescued
within 48 hours, the ongoing treatment and care required to keep those
survivors healthy is intensive. Often, highly experienced rescue and
relief teams have difficulty remaining useful. The Wound-Be-Gone-Entourage
was designed with that issue in mind. By deploying the Entourage after the
initial emergency relief efforts, their purpose remains focused on the
promotion of wellness through treating and educating survivors in order to
promote self-sufficiency.

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“We are learning that valued family behaviors can be readily expressed to
the care receiver using a CareBot due to the robustness of its
functionality. Here, primarily GeckoChat™ and GeckoScheduler™ are
utilized. Our caregivers have been telling us that the earlier version of
GeckoScheduler was cumbersome and required repeated entries for the same
reoccurring reminders. Hence our recent rewrite of this important
GeckoSavant™,” commented Martin Spencer, President/CEO, GeckoSystems.

“This new version was developed in response to caregivers in our present
elder care robot trials. I am pleased to have GeckoScheduler separated from
GeckoChat and accessible to every GeckoSavant. Now it is a stand alone AI
engine and usable for more than just time and date scheduling of verbal
reminders due to its increased flexibility,” observed Mark Peele, Vice
President, RD, GeckoSystems.

GeckoScheduler 2.0 enables the caregiver to program the CareBot to remind
her mother of her grandchildrens birthday wishes many times a day so even
though she may forget, she gets “reminded” of their best wishes. The new
GeckoScheduler eliminates putting in more than one instance of the phrase,
paragraph, or anecdote for the same reoccurring reminder. Now only one
entry is needed with multiple announcements per hour or day.

“We have recently learned that important, valued family behaviors and
anecdotes can now be aggregated by members of the family and/or friends to
further personalize the CareBots interaction with the care receiver. Hence
our coining of the more appropriate term, personal family robot, as
compared to simply personal robot. Our new GeckoScheduler makes this
aggregation of valued family behaviors as told in anecdotes, quicker and
easier to accomplish,” summarized Spencer.

First-Ever All-in-One Service Integrates Live TV, On-Demand Movies and
Programs, and Web Video; Breakthrough Pricing Starting at Less
Than $5 a Month

BELMONT, Calif. — Sezmi today announced an introductory release of its all-in-one
television service, available in the greater Los Angeles area
exclusively through Best Buy (NYSE: BBY). The first-of-its-kind personal
TV service seamlessly integrates live television, on-demand movies and
television shows, and web videos in an easily self-installed system that
automatically records, recommends and organizes the favorite shows of
each individual member of the family.

Buno Pati, co-founder and chief executive officer of Sezmi, said,
“Consumers have been clamoring for a better way to view their favorite
shows, movies and web videos in a seamless way, and at an affordable
price. Today, Sezmi is making that a reality with the first
self-installed, all-in-one home television service that delivers leading
cable networks live and on-demand with the easiest access to broadcast,
on-demand and online entertainment.”

“The Sezmi personalized experience makes our rapidly expanding
collection of content uniquely accessible and easily discoverable on the
primary television screen. Our ability to automatically organize and
display content for each individual in the household is a real game
changer,” said Phil Wiser, co-founder and president of Sezmi.

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WALKERS can get in shape as they stroll through a park. Kirklees Council has installed exercise equipment at Savile Town Recreation Ground in Dewsbury. The trim trail includes a rowing machine, pull-up bars, parallel bars and a cycling machine. The councils cabinet member for leisure, Clr Mary Harkin, will open the trim trail tomorrow. She said: “As the better weather approaches we hope lots of people discover that trim trails can be fun and improve fitness.
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