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North Bridge Venture Partners Joins Current Investor, HLM Venture
Partners, in Strategic Financing Round

WOBURN, Mass. — SensAble
Technologies, Inc®, a leading provider of 3D modeling software,
haptic devices and dental restoration design and fabrication solutions,
announced that it has received an $8 million investment to propel sales,
marketing and engineering efforts for its digital dentistry product
line. Existing investor HLM
Venture Partners led the round and was joined by North
Bridge Venture Partners, both of whom are headquartered in the
Boston area, and have extensive expertise with medical device company
funding.

SensAble will use the new capital to better compete in the $3 billion
worldwide market for dental restoration equipment and supplies. In 2008
SensAble introduced the SensAble
Dental Lab System, an award-winning solution that helps dental labs
of all sizes migrate to the use of digital tools in scanning, designing,
and fabricating dental prosthetics and oral devices. Since then,
SensAble more than doubled its dental
business revenues and won key strategic customers worldwide. The
additional funding will allow SensAble to build upon its initial success
in a sizable and growing market.

“As dentistry goes digital, the dental lab business is in the early
stage of a massive transformation – with less than 20% of all dental
labs currently leveraging digital technology – while demand is on the
rise as aging baby boomers need more and better dental restorations,”
said Curt Rawley, chairman and CEO of SensAble. “It’s an enormous market
with multiple opportunities to improve dental lab productivity and
quality of output with solutions that integrate a wide range of newly
advanced technologies. We’re pleased to have the support of two
high-caliber venture capital firms who share our vision and will help us
achieve these goals.”

The Eco-Dentistry Association™ (EDA), an international association promoting environmentally sound practices in dentistry, announces a powerful new offering for dental professionals. The EDAs GreenDOC™ Dental Office Certification Program is the only green business certification designed specifically for dentistry. The program provides everything dentists need to achieve their perfect shade of green. Pure Dental Dallas and ORA Dental Studio Chicago became the organizations first recipients of GreenDOC certification.

The GreenDOC™ Product Guide is the industrys comprehensive listing of products and services that green dental offices need to go green and stay green. The EDA has sourced the products and services that share a vision for clean, green dentistry, making it easy for dental professionals to achieve earth friendly initiatives. Products and services appear in one or more of the following GreenDOC™ categories: Sustainable Location; Waste Reduction; Pollution Prevention; Energy Conservation; Water Conservation; Patient Care, Workplace Policies, and Community Contribution; Leadership, and Innovation.

Combined, the GreenDOC™ Product Guide and GreenDOC™ Checklist provide dentists with the first key steps to greening their dental practice. “Where do I start, and what products do I use? These are the two most common requests we receive from dental professionals,” said Susan Beck, Director of the Eco-Dentistry Association. “Used together, the GreenDOC ™ Product Guide and Checklist make the perfect going green starter kit for dental professionals.”

Additional components of the GreenDOC™ Program lead dental practitioners through a rigorous but attainable certification program. GreenDOC™ “How To” Guides, Action Plans and Worksheets make it simple for dental professionals to meet specific goals to achieve Bronze, Silver, or Gold Certification. As a part of the programs international launch, the EDA encourages dental offices to register to be one of the 1st 100 certified offices and become a Charter-Certified Office.

North Bridge Venture Partners Joins Current Investor, HLM Venture
Partners, in Strategic Financing Round

WOBURN, Mass. — SensAble
Technologies, Inc®, a leading provider of 3D modeling software,
haptic devices and dental restoration design and fabrication solutions,
announced that it has received an $8 million investment to propel sales,
marketing and engineering efforts for its digital dentistry product
line. Existing investor HLM
Venture Partners led the round and was joined by North
Bridge Venture Partners, both of whom are headquartered in the
Boston area, and have extensive expertise with medical device company
funding.

SensAble will use the new capital to better compete in the $3 billion
worldwide market for dental restoration equipment and supplies. In 2008
SensAble introduced the SensAble
Dental Lab System, an award-winning solution that helps dental labs
of all sizes migrate to the use of digital tools in scanning, designing,
and fabricating dental prosthetics and oral devices. Since then,
SensAble more than doubled its dental
business revenues and won key strategic customers worldwide. The
additional funding will allow SensAble to build upon its initial success
in a sizable and growing market.

“As dentistry goes digital, the dental lab business is in the early
stage of a massive transformation – with less than 20% of all dental
labs currently leveraging digital technology – while demand is on the
rise as aging baby boomers need more and better dental restorations,”
said Curt Rawley, chairman and CEO of SensAble. “It’s an enormous market
with multiple opportunities to improve dental lab productivity and
quality of output with solutions that integrate a wide range of newly
advanced technologies. We’re pleased to have the support of two
high-caliber venture capital firms who share our vision and will help us
achieve these goals.”

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This research report presents shipment volume and value forecast and
recent quarter review of Taiwanese cable modem shipment volume, shipment
value and ASP, manufacturer volume ranking, shipment by maker, and price
trends. This report also includes shipment volume by technology,
function, and solution provider, as well as further examinations into
production locations, shipment destinations, business types, and
customer portfolios. The content of this report is based on primary data
obtained through interviews with cable modem makers. The report finds
that the Taiwanese cable modem industrys shipment volume and value both
saw sequential and year-on-year growth in the fourth quarter of 2009.
With the global economy recovering in 2010, the industrys shipment
volume is forecasted to gradually pick up and see year-on-year growth in
2010 when compared with shipment volume achieved in 2009.

Key Topics Covered:

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] THE ECONOMIC HEADLINES sure look better than they did a year ago. Gross domestic product (GDP) is finally growing again, rising by 2.2 percent in the third quarter of 2009, with an early estimate of 5.7 percent for the fourth. The fourth quarter number will probably be revised down, but it will still likely mark the fastest growth since 2003. The unemployment rate, after a nosedive, leveled off in the last few months of the year, and the stock market has regained 40 percent of its value after a March 2009 low. Four of the five largest bailed-out banks have either repaid the government or received permission from the Treasury Department to do so in the near future. Inflation slowed to a standstill in November after 10 months of increasing consumer prices. Construction of new homes and apartments increased in 2009 from 2008 levels, the first annual growth in housing starts since 2005. “The Recovery Act has created jobs and spurred growths,” President Barack Obama said in a December speech trumpeting the success of his economic policies. “We are in a very different place today than we were a year ago.” Lawrence Summers, director of the White House National Economic Council, concurs. “Everybody agrees that the recession is over,” Summers said that same month on ABCs This Week. But a closer look reveals those appealing numbers sit on a dangerously shaky foundation. Economic growth in 2009 was largely dependent on a historic level of government spending that even the president acknowledges is unsustainable in the long term. The root problem of mortgage delinquencies has yet to be worked out. Bank lending is sparse amid ongoing uncertainties surrounding regulatory reform. As a result, manufacturers and small businesses continue to struggle with limited credit. All that translates into historic job losses and a bleak outlook for meaningful growth in 2010 and 2011. Worst of all, many of the core problems in the housing, banking, manufacturing, and service sectors are being perpetuated and exacerbated by the very federal programs the president credits with jump-starting economic growth. Instead of confronting the roots of the crisis head on, as Obama has repeatedly boasted of doing, his administration and the Democratic Congress have kicked the can down the road, postponing the day of reckoning for real estate, the auto industry, and the toxic mortgage-backed securities that were at the heart of the economic meltdown. These unsolved problems will keep looming over the economy until theyre finally addressed.
DALLAS — Diodes Incorporated (Nasdaq:DIOD), a leading global manufacturer and
supplier of high-quality application specific standard products within
the broad discrete and analog semiconductor markets, today increased its
revenue and gross margin guidance for the first quarter of 2010.

The Company is increasing its revenue guidance for the first quarter of
2010 due to continued strength in its global markets. Revenue is
expected to range between $134 million and $138 million compared to its
previous guidance of $131 million to $137 million. The Company is also
raising its first quarter 2010 gross margin guidance to 32.5 percent to
33.1 percent from its prior guidance of 32 percent to 33 percent.

Safe Harbor Statement Under the Private Securities Litigation Reform
Act of 1995: Any statements set forth above that are not
historical facts are forward-looking statements that involve risks and
uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from
those in the forward-looking statements. Such statements include
statements regarding our expectation that: the Company is increasing its
revenue and gross margin guidance for the first quarter of 2010 due to
continued strength in its global markets; revenue is expected to range
between $134 million and $138 million; and the Company is raising its
first quarter of 2010 gross margin guidance to 32.5 percent to 33.1
percent from its prior guidance of 32 percent to 33 percent. Potential
risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, such factors
as: we may not realize the anticipated improved demand; we may not
realize or maintain the anticipated cost savings or increased loadings
in our manufacturing facilities; the global economic weakness may be
more severe or last longer than we currently anticipate; and other
information detailed from time to time in the Companys filings with the
United States Securities and Exchange Commission.

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CHICAGO — CNA recently announced that its Inland Marine Medical Scientific
Equipment product is now available in all states and Washington, D.C.
Designed specifically to meet the needs of healthcare organizations, the
product covers medical and scientific equipment that has a specific
location or is moved from site to site. Covered equipment includes MRI
machines, CAT scanners, ultrasound machines, surgical lasers, pain pumps
and dialysis units.

“This product is a great complement to our comprehensive coverage
offerings for hospitals, allied healthcare organizations and aging
services facilities,” said Jayne Honeck, assistant vice president –
Inland Marine, CNA. “Our decision to offer this special product for
these customers’ specialized equipment further emphasizes our interest
and dedication to the healthcare industry.”

CNA is a top provider of professional liability, general liability and
property coverages through CNA HealthPro, a national leader in liability
insurance for the health care and life sciences industry. Since the
release of this new product last year, CNA has also provided coverage
for medical equipment leasing companies, hospitals and treatment
centers, medical X-ray laboratories and medical offices.

THEIR horns are supposed to have amazing aphrodisiac effects, but Dublin Zoo is having to use human fertility treatments to help their rhinos conceive. Artificial insemination and hormone treatment are two of the 21st Century fertility practices being used to help the female rhinos become pregnant. In 2008, rhino Ashanti gave birth to a female calf called Zuki but the other two females in the herd, Zanta and Leni, have yet to become mothers. One of the world leading experts on rhino fertility, Robert Hermes, has travelled to Dublin Zoo to carry out ultrasounds and electro-ejaculation on the herd of southern white rhinos.

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ROCHDALE 1 LINCOLN 1 CHRIS DAGNALL came to Rochdales rescue with his 17th goal of the season to deny lowly Lincoln. Chris Suttons Imps stormed into a half-time lead through on- loan Aston Villa midfielder Chris Herd but Dagnall hit back to level the scores with 20 minutes remaining. With Dale enduring a shaky spell in the League, the visiting Imps were the more vibrant side in the opening exchanges and Davide Somma went close from 25 yards in the 18th minute.
DERBY 2 WATFORD 0 Tonge 12 Porter 77 MICHAEL TONGES first goal since August 2007 paved the way for Derby to secure a comfortable victory over Watford. Tonge, on loan from Stoke, was on the books at Sheffield United the last time he found the net, but he opened the scoring in fine fashion early on. Chris Porter doubled Derbys lead after 77 minutes as the Rams bounced back from backto-back defeats to turn in a convincing display. Derby coach Gary Crosby was delighted with Tonges performance, saying: “Michaels been struggling all week with a virus but wanted to play for as long as he could.

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BOSTON — pSivida Corp, (NASDAQ:PSDV, ASX:PSD, FF:PV33), a leader in the
development of ophthalmic sustained release drug delivery products, with
two of the only three such products approved by the FDA for treatment of
back of the eye diseases, today announced it will be presenting at the
Cowen Company Annual Health Care Conference in Boston, March 8. Dr.
Paul Ashton, president and chief executive officer, will present at 4:45
p.m. Eastern time.

pSivida is a world leader in the development of tiny, sustained release,
drug delivery products that are administered by implantation, injection
or insertion. pSividas lead development product delivers fluocinolone
acetonide (FA) for the treatment of diabetic macular edema (DME). This
product candidate, formerly known as Medidur™ FA for DME, is licensed to
Alimera, which is conducting fully-recruited Phase III clinical trials
and intends to commercialize the product under the name Iluvien®.
pSivida also has two products approved by the Food and Drug
Administration (FDA): Retisert® for the treatment of posterior uveitis
and Vitrasert® for the treatment of AIDS-related cytomegalovirus (CMV)
retinitis. pSivida has licensed both of these products and the
technologies underlying them to Bausch Lomb Incorporated. pSivida has
a worldwide collaborative research and license agreement with Pfizer
Inc. under which Pfizer may develop additional ophthalmic products.

pSivida owns the rights to develop and commercialize a modified form of
silicon known as BioSilicon™, which has potential therapeutic
applications. The most advanced BioSilicon product candidate,
BrachySil™, delivers a therapeutic P32, a radioactive form of phosphorus
used to treat cancer, directly to solid tumors. pSivida conducted an
initial safety clinical trial of BrachySil for the treatment of
pancreatic cancer and in October 2009 completed of a follow-on
dose-ranging clinical trial.

PONTE VEDRA, Fla. — MDI Healthcare Solutions, Inc., announced today that two of the
company’s senior executives will present a roundtable discussion at the
prestigious CFO Rising Conference, Navigating The New Normal on
Tuesday, March 9th in Orlando FL. The discussion, entitled,
Rx for Health Care: Why an Integrated Approach to Health Care Spend Can
Lower Costs will be presented by Andy Dengos, SVP
of Sales Business Development and Rick Farris, VP of Sales.

As health care costs continue to rise—a predicted 7 percent this year
alone-–companies are looking for effective ways to manage their
exposure. Part of the problem is that many organizations do not know
what they are paying for: they are rich in claims data, but information
poor. MDI’s Andy Dengos and Rick Farris have been scheduled by the
conference organizers to present an introduction to the multiple uses of
analytics and predictive modeling in health care cost containment. The
presentation will show corporate CFOs a multitude of tools to ensure
cost savings as well as outline the benefits of unit cost management and
an integrated approach to managing health care spending.

“In this age of ever evolving applications of data, an understanding of
the role analytics and enhanced predictability can play in containing
costs is really critical to corporations,” said Andy Dengos, MDI’s Sr.
Vice President of Sales and Business Development.

CFO Rising is the signature conference hosted by CFO magazine, an award
winning business of the Economist Group, reaching over 600,000 corporate
executives around America. The CFO Rising Conference attracts between
300-400 senior financial executives. It examines issues that are
pertinent to finance executives with clear corporate agendas.

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Educational Testing Service is pleased to announce that more than 300 students, plus their families, attended Meadow Homes Elementary Schools “Family Literacy Night,” which was held on Tuesday, March 2, at the school. ETSs Concord office was a major sponsor of the event which coincided with Dr. Seuss National Birthday Celebration and NEAs Read Across America Day .

ETS volunteers and teachers read Dr. Seuss books in English and Spanish to the children followed by a birthday cake and refreshments served to celebrate Dr. Seuss Birthday. Each student received a Dr. Seuss book and a tote bag filled with school supplies such as pens, pencils, rulers, highlighters, Dr. Seuss stickers and book marks.

ETS Vice President and Chief Operating Officer for K-12 Large Scale Assessments, George Powell says, “ETS is proud to be part of the Concord community and proud to help Meadow Homes encourage their students to discover the excitement of reading.”

“ETS staff raised the money for the Dr. Seuss Books and the refreshments for the Family Literacy Night,” Rose Payan, ETS Senior Director, Large Scale Assessments, K-12 Assessment Programs, says. “We had a lot of fun and it was moving to watch the students select the books they were to take home. We had a wonderful turnout.”

The Dr. Seuss literacy celebration also includes a “Decorate Your Classroom Door Contest,” where students will decorate their classroom doors with a Dr. Seuss book theme, such as Green Eggs and Ham, to tie the book event to other aspects of their curriculum. The contest will be held on Tuesday, March 9. Powell and a team of ETS staff will judge the art contest. One classroom per grade level will win the pizza and juice, also sponsored by ETS.

ZUG, Switzerland — Foster Wheeler AG (Nasdaq: FWLT) announced today that a subsidiary of
its Global Power Group has been awarded a contract by Fundación Ciudad
de la Energía (CIUDEN), an institution created by the Spanish
Government, for the design and supply of a circulating fluidized-bed
(CFB) unit for testing Foster Wheeler’s Flexi-BurnTM carbon
capturing CFB technology. This unit will be part of CIUDEN’s Integrated
Carbon Capture and Sequestration (CCS) Technology Development Plant
(TDP) located near Endesa’s Compostilla power plant in Ponferrada, Spain.

Foster Wheeler has received a full notice to proceed on this contract.
The terms of the agreement were not disclosed, and the contract value
will be included in the company’s first quarter 2010 bookings. The unit
is expected to be operational by the second half of 2011 with testing
programs expected to follow shortly thereafter.

Foster Wheeler will design and supply the 30 MWth Flexi-BurnTM
CFB test unit and some auxiliary equipment and provide site
advisory services for the project.

Flexi-BurnTM is Foster Wheeler’s version of carbon capture
technology based on oxygen combustion (commonly referred to as
“oxy-combustion” or “oxy-fuel”) for coal plants. Unlike, pre-combustion
(IGCC plant) or post-combustion technologies (amine CO2
scrubber placed behind conventional coal boilers), oxygen combustion
technologies allow the boiler to produce a CO2 rich flue gas,
thus reducing the need for expensive and energy-intensive CO2
gas separation equipment.

The CIUDEN unit will be designed to test burn a wide range of domestic
(anthracite) and imported coals, as well as biomass. One of the
objectives of the incorporation of this unit into the TDP is to validate
Foster Wheeler’s Flexi-BurnTM CFB technology at the required
scale before proceeding to a possible full-scale demonstration plant.

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Richard Leitman is finally getting to know his father, even though he passed away last year.

” My dad spent 5 years in the army including one overseas,” he said. “He got married and had a son — me — during this time. Over that time period, he spent a total of only 100 days with my mother. Its a sharp contrast to today, in which people live together in many cases way before they are married.”

Today, when hundreds of thousands of military families are separated because of foreign deployments, Leitman found it striking how much more difficult it was for soldiers at war 70 years ago.

“His life was at risk daily, and yet letters took six weeks to be sent and answered,” he said. “In an age of cell phones and email, how could we understand what families went through back then?”

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OMAHA, Neb. — Benaissance, the leading provider of business technologies and BPO
solutions for COBRA and non-COBRA third party administrators and
insurance carriers, today announced that it has appointed Mr. Randy
Reffert Quality Assurance Leader for COBRApoint, our flagship SaaS
platform. Reffert will lead all Quality Assurance activities and product
testing on behalf of our customers.

“Randy is an exceptional, experienced and accomplished leader in quality
assurance methodologies and best practices for enterprise class
technology platforms. After an exhaustive search, we are fortunate to
have found Randy. He brings an unusual mix of technical competency and
real-world, customer centric business experience to Benaissance,” said
John Jenkins, Benaissance CEO. “I am looking forward to working closely
with Randy to implement the highest standard in quality assurance found
in any business.”

Reffert joins Benaissance after a 22 year career in developing and
implementing quality assurance controls and procedures across a wide
spectrum of enterprise class technologies. Most recently, Randy was
Software Quality Assurance Manager for ACI Worldwide where he managed
two independent groups of software test engineers, one in the US and one
in India.

About BenaissanceFounded in 2003, Benaissance has grown
into a leader in “Software as a Service” solutions for COBRA and
non-COBRA administrators across the nation. COBRApoint, Benaissance’s
flagship solution is supported by business process outsourcing services
which currently include Payment Services and Mail Services. McCarthy
Capital partnered with Benaissance in 2008 to support management’s plan
for growth and expansion into the payor and administrator markets

OLDWICK, N.J. — A.M. Best Co. has withdrawn the financial strength rating (FSR)
of B (Good) and issuer credit rating (ICR) of “bbb” of Washington
Fire Storm Insurance Company (Washington Fire) and assigned an
NR-5 (Not Formally Followed) to the FSR and an “nr” to the ICR.

Effective January 1, 2010, Washington Fire was merged with and into its
affiliate, Tuscarora Wayne Insurance Company (TWIC).

TWIC’s FSR of A (Superior) and ICR of “aa-” are unchanged by this
transaction. The outlook for both ratings is stable. Both companies are
domiciled in Wyalusing, PA.

Acquisition Offers Companies a New Way to Address Retiree Medical
Insurance Commitments

LINCOLNSHIRE, Ill. — Hewitt Associates, a global human resources consulting and outsourcing
company, today announced it has acquired Senior Educators Ltd. (“Senior
Educators”), a trusted, Web-based retiree medical insurance exchange
that provides unbiased assistance to Medicare recipients seeking
high-quality, affordable supplemental insurance products.

Many retirees face a dizzying array of retiree medical alternatives and
often have trouble navigating the options to find a cost-effective plan
that best meets their needs. Senior Educators provides retirees with
independent advice on selecting quality, private Medicare insurance to
supplement their basic coverage, tailored for their individual health
care situation.

“The retiree health insurance market represents an attractive growth
opportunity for Hewitt as more employers discontinue retiree medical
coverage or look for ways to provide retirees with cost-effective
alternatives,” said Russ Fradin, Hewitt’s chairman and chief executive
officer. “The acquisition of Senior Educators also allows us to provide
our clients with an effective, high-quality option to address their
post-65 retiree medical commitments and a framework on which to build
solutions for the broader retiree population.”

Founded in 2005, Senior Educators is licensed to market insurance in 50
states and in the District of Columbia. The company has helped more than
100,000 Medicare recipients find the right coverage. Users of Senior
Educators’ services can compare and select insurance plans using a
do-it-yourself option through the company’s interactive Web site or
choose to speak live with a highly trained, licensed representative.

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ICTA Award Recognizes Guidewire’s Positive Impact on the Canadian
Insurance Market

SAN MATEO, Calif. — Guidewire Software, a leading provider of flexible core systems to
property/casualty insurers, today announced that it has won an Insurance
Canada.ca Technology Award (ICTA). Named “Best in Class: Technology
Provider – Insurer Solutions,” Guidewire
was recognized for its ‘implementation of technology which had the
greatest positive impact on the business of insurance in Canada.’

Sponsored by Insurance-Canada.ca, the ICTA awards highlight and
celebrate technologies that have demonstrated significant business
impact. Awards were announced at the 2010
Insurance-Canada Annual Technology Conference held recently in
Toronto.

“We are pleased to name Guidewire as our Best in Class solution
provider. Guidewire has demonstrated a commitment to delivering high
value solutions to the general insurance industry,” commented Doug
Grant, principal with Insurance-Canada.ca. “We are happy to celebrate
their achievements in the Canadian market.”

“We are grateful for this recognition and are pleased to accept the
award on behalf of our Canadian customers,” said John Raguin, chief
executive officer, Guidewire Software. “This honor is every bit as much
a recognition of their success, as it is of ours.”

Pethealth Inc. (”Pethealth” or the “Company”) (TSX: PTZ) announced today that the Company will be releasing its year-end and fourth quarter results after market hours on Wednesday, 10th March, 2010. The Company also announced that it will be holding an investors conference call on Thursday, 11th March at 11.30 a.m. (EST). To participate in the conference call, please dial 1-866-225-0198. For those unable to participate, a digital replay will be available for seven days, which can be accessed by dialling 1-800-408-3053, passcode 1303162.

Pethealth is North Americas second largest provider of medical insurance for dogs and cats to pet owners, operating in Canada, the United States and the United Kingdom. In addition, the Company is the leading provider of management software to North American animal welfare organisations through its SaaS-based application and is the leading provider of pet related database management services to the North American companion animal industry. Pethealth offers a unique range of products and services for veterinarians, shelters and pet owners through a number of wholly owned subsidiaries using a range of brand names including PetCare, 24PetWatch, Pet Protect, Petpals Direct, ShelterCare, PetPoint, PawsConnect.com, Petango.com and ThePetangoStore.com.

OMAHA, Neb. — Benaissance, the leading provider of business technologies and BPO
solutions for COBRA and non-COBRA third party administrators and
insurance carriers, today announced that it has appointed Mr. Randy
Reffert Quality Assurance Leader for COBRApoint, our flagship SaaS
platform. Reffert will lead all Quality Assurance activities and product
testing on behalf of our customers.

“Randy is an exceptional, experienced and accomplished leader in quality
assurance methodologies and best practices for enterprise class
technology platforms. After an exhaustive search, we are fortunate to
have found Randy. He brings an unusual mix of technical competency and
real-world, customer centric business experience to Benaissance,” said
John Jenkins, Benaissance CEO. “I am looking forward to working closely
with Randy to implement the highest standard in quality assurance found
in any business.”

Reffert joins Benaissance after a 22 year career in developing and
implementing quality assurance controls and procedures across a wide
spectrum of enterprise class technologies. Most recently, Randy was
Software Quality Assurance Manager for ACI Worldwide where he managed
two independent groups of software test engineers, one in the US and one
in India.

About BenaissanceFounded in 2003, Benaissance has grown
into a leader in “Software as a Service” solutions for COBRA and
non-COBRA administrators across the nation. COBRApoint, Benaissance’s
flagship solution is supported by business process outsourcing services
which currently include Payment Services and Mail Services. McCarthy
Capital partnered with Benaissance in 2008 to support management’s plan
for growth and expansion into the payor and administrator markets

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Teck Resources Limited (TSX: TCK.A and TCK.B, NYSE: TCK) (”Teck”) today announced that the sale of a one-third interest in the Waneta Dam to BC Hydro for C$825 million has closed today. Teck will apply the net proceeds of the transaction along with US$300 million of cash on hand to reduce the outstanding balance on its term loan to approximately US$800 million. Tecks cash balance following the debt repayment will be approximately C$900 million.

Investments Anticipated to Fully Fund the Mt. Hope Project

LAKEWOOD, Colo. — General Moly (NYSE Amex: GMO)(TSX: GMO) announced a significant
investment and strategic relationship with Hanlong (USA) Mining
Investment Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Sichuan Hanlong Group
(Hanlong), that is anticipated to provide full project funding for the
Company’s 80% owned Mt. Hope project.

Highlights of the transaction include:

Mr. Hansen added, “We would also like to express our appreciation to
POSCO, our Joint Venture partner at Mt. Hope, for its immense support as
we have evaluated numerous financing alternatives and its commitment to
remain a 20% partner in the Mt. Hope project.”

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Attention: Business/Financial Editors

The Medipattern Corporation (”Medipattern”) (TSX VENTURE: MKI), a pioneer in the development of medical software solutions that help improve imaging workflow and productivity, is pleased to announced that it has signed its largest B-CAD-FOR-LIFE™ agreement to date with Doshi Diagnostic Imaging Services (”Doshi”). Doshi operates 38 sites with more than 115 sonographers located in both New York and Florida, and plans to deploy the B-CAD-FOR-LIFE package throughout all its locations. Installation has started and will commence based upon a rollout schedule over the next several months.

B-CAD® is computer aided detection (CAD) for breast ultrasound imaging. B-CAD can streamline workflow, provide a consistent communication platform, eliminate transcription costs and maintain compliance with the ACR BI-RADS (American College of Radiology – Breast Imaging Reporting and Data System) standards for breast ultrasound. It is an ideal tool for large imaging groups where communication is a key part of an accurate reporting process. Under the B-CAD-FOR-LIFE package all of the separate components that are required to install, train, use and maintain B-CAD are available under one monthly fee.

After decades of delivering exceptional service to its patients, Doshi Diagnostic, the premier radiology provider on the east coast, created “TOTAL BREAST CARE” – a program solely dedicated to improving the delivery of breast care for women. The Center is focused exclusively on breast health by providing the most advanced tools and techniques for the diagnosis and treatment of breast disease and breast cancer. Doshi Diagnostics Total Breast Care program provides every facet of breast cancer care on-location. This patient-focused, world-class center incorporates every facet of optimal breast health management. To minimize waiting for results, the center strives to provide women with results from their screening examinations and any additional studies needed before they leave the Center.

“We provide the most innovative testing available in the management of breast care, including Digital Mammography, Breast Ultrasound, Breast MRI, Stereotactic Biopsy, Ultrasound-Guided Biopsy, MRI-Guided Biopsy, Pathology, Surgery, and Oncology in a centralized medical center setting. Now, we are pleased to include CAD for breast ultrasound in our TOTAL BREAST CARE package,” comments Dr. Leena Doshi, founder and medical director of Doshi Diagnostic Imaging. “DOSHI has grown from my first office in Flushing to be the largest privately owned imaging practice in the United States. Weve grown through our active pursuit of quality in patient care, and B-CAD exemplifies our mission. B-CAD improves quality of communication, thoroughness in reporting and enrichment of evidence-based medicine which all contribute to improved patient care. The B-CAD-FOR-LIFE addresses many of the purchasing decisions facing imaging centers in the U.S. today. This was one of the easiest decisions weve made.”

A pounds 12m healthcare centre has been opened and will help boost a former pit villages regeneration. North Durham MP Kevan Jones helped officially open the facility in Clifford Road, Stanley. Mr Jones said it would help tackle “health inequalities” in the area, as well as enhancing efforts to improve the economy. He said: “I hope that this will act as a catalyst for regeneration in the Stanley area, along with the planned academy, Sure Start and other developments in the town centre. Stanley is changing and changing for the better.”

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How individuals choose to react to difficult circumstances makes all the difference, Barbara Heise said during the campus devotional held in BYUs Marriott Center on Tuesday, March 2. Individuals are the masters of their own choices, she said.
“Capping off a successful year of top and bottom line growth was our
merger with Triumph HealthCare in November, which has rebalanced our
business portfolio between managed and owned operations and given us
extensive expertise across the post-acute continuum,” said John H.
Short, Ph.D, RehabCare President and Chief Executive Officer. “The
addition of Triumph has provided a new foundation for our Hospital
operations to deliver strong, sustainable returns.

“Our outlook for the Skilled Nursing and Hospital Rehabilitation
Services divisions underscores the strength of our contract services
management team and effectiveness of our mitigation strategies in the
face of challenging economic and regulatory conditions. In addition, our
application of new technologies continues to differentiate our products
and drive greater clinical and operational results.”

When abaqis® was introduced less than two
years ago, it was a revolutionary new quality assurance system to help
nursing homes prepare for the new federal inspection process called Quality
Indicator Survey (QIS) and improve their resident quality of care
year-round. Now abaqis is an even more powerful tool. Called “Stage 2
Suite,” this new generation of abaqis not only identifies residents at the
highest risk for an in-depth investigation, it guides nursing homes through
the same investigation protocol used in the QIS that focuses on corrective
action for procedures, training and performance concerns.

“abaqis Stage 1 Suite is similar to a diagnostic tool that helps identify
areas of concern in a nursing home that could trigger a Stage 2
investigation,” said Shawn Scott, Medlines Vice President of Corporate
Sales. “The new Stage 2 Suite goes the next step to provide facilities the
road map and tools to take corrective action in these areas using the same
processes as the QIS.”

abaqis Stage 2 Suite is a fully web-based tool that guides the nursing home
through the same investigation protocol of the Critical Element pathways,
Triggered Tasks and Surveyor Guidance used during a QIS survey. Stage 2
Suite also includes tools to manage and track the facility level tasks
conducted during a QIS survey. Using these tools will bring insight into
areas for improvement at a broad facility level, as well as at an
individual resident level.

abaqis Stage 2 Suite helps users manage and track Stage 2 in-depth
investigations to ensure compliance with assessment, care planning and
provision of service regulations. Since Stage 2 Suite uses the same
investigative tools used in the QIS survey, nursing homes will further
manage their risk by ensuring proper documentation is in place.

As the only quality assessment and reporting system for nursing homes tied
directly to the QIS, abaqis gives providers the unique opportunity to use
QIS tools and approaches for ongoing quality assurance and continuous
survey readiness. Users are able to identify quality concerns in the same
manner as surveyors and address those concerns before, rather than after, a
survey.

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The mission of the Kansas State Board of Healing Arts is to safeguard
the public through licensure, education and discipline of those who
practice the healing arts in Kansas.

When a wife is the primary breadwinner,
whether its a big issue or a nonissue in the marriage depends largely on
expectations, according to two financial therapists at Kansas State
University.

“If men and women have the expectation that its OK for a spouse to earn
more, its not going to affect their relationship like it would if they go
into the marriage with the expectation that the husband will have the job
that pays more,” said Kristy Archuleta.

She co-directs K-States Financial Therapy Clinic, which blends financial
counseling with marriage and family therapy. She works with Sonya Britt, a
financial therapist at the clinic.

Archuleta said she doesnt see wives earning more money as a big problem
among couples she works with. But it may make a difference how wives end up
with greater earning power. If its always been that way or if its a
temporary solution to make ends meet, she said those expectations may temper
any potential problems. Not so much if its an unexpected and unwanted
shifting of roles.

A study released in January by the Pew Research Center showed that 22
percent of men made less money than their wives in 2007 — a shift from 1970
when it was just 4 percent of husbands. The Pew researchers have said that
the recession following the 2007 study will make that percentage increase.

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Inland Imaging LLC, of Spokane, has began offering diagnostic radiology services and image distribution services to Walla Walla General Hospital, in Walla Walla, Wash. Inland Imaging has hired Dr. Brian Rich, who was the hospitals contract radiologist previously, to serves as its Walla Walla-based radiologist for the hospital. The company also provides after-hours image reading and subspecialty image reading for the hospital from Spokane online. Walla Walla General Hospital is a 72-bed, acute-care hospital, and is part of the Adventist. Health Group, which is based in Roseville, Calif., and operates 17 hospitals in the West. Inland operates free-standing imaging centers and offers contract radiology services and information technology services throughout the western U.S. It has similar contracts with a number of other facilities in Washington and Arizona, including Providence Holy Family Hospital and Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center Childrens Hospital, in Spokane; Pullman Memorial Hospital, in Pullman; Providence Mount Carmel Hospital, in Colville; and Airway Heights Corrections Center.
The C-COM Satellite Systems Inc. (TSX VENTURE: CMI) iNetVu® antenna has been deployed the first time for mobile breast cancer screening in rural New Zealand.

The Breast Screen Waitemata Northland unit, which began operating this month, sets the standard for mobile breast cancer screening using digital and satellite technology.

The units new digital technology processes the picture within seconds, and beams it, via the iNetVu® mobile satellite antenna located on top of the vehicle, to radiologists in Auckland.

The BreastScreen unit was integrated with the iNetVu® mobile antenna system by C-COMs reseller Farmside, who is also the satellite service provider for this application. Farmsides CEO, Tony Baird said the mobile breast screening unit was another example of how satellite technology can deliver for rural areas an immediate and very cost effective application, made possible by the iNetVu® mobile antenna.

“To deliver the best in health and education services across New Zealand we need to be able to utilise technologies that are equivalent to those available in the cities,” he said. “In this case satellite has met an immediate need and is literally helping to save lives.”

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.

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Lihir Gold Limited (LGL) (TSX: LGG)(NASDAQ: LIHR)(ASX: LGL) declared a final dividend of US$0.015 (1.5 US cents) per ordinary share on 18 February 2010.

The record date for this dividend was 2 March 2010 (Record Date).

Shareholders with a registered address in Australia, Papua New Guinea (PNG), New Zealand, the United Kingdom or Canada will receive their dividend in the currency of the country where they are registered. The following exchange rates, set as at the Record Date, will apply to the dividend when paid in a currency other than US$:

Please note that as LGL is a PNG registered company, the dividend will be subject to PNG withholding tax at the rate of 10% and will be unfranked.

The New America High Income Fund, Inc. (the “Fund”) (NYSE: HYB) announced today that it will pay a dividend of $.065 per share on the companys common stock on March 31, 2010 to common shareholders of record as of the close of business on March 17, 2010. The ex-dividend date will be March 15th.

The New America High Income Fund, Inc. is a diversified, closed-end management investment company with a leveraged capital structure. The Funds investment adviser is T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc. (”T. Rowe Price”). As of December 31, 2009, T. Rowe Price and its affiliates managed approximately $391 billion of assets, including approximately $15.5 billion of “high yield” investments. T. Rowe Price has provided investment advisory services to investment companies since 1937.

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SUBNET Solutions Inc. (SUBNET) recently released a new substation utility software tool to help integrators, engineers, technicians and other utility personnel build better substations.

SUBNET SEL Relay Data Emulator is a versatile software application that simulates utility- specific SEL relay data communications . This simulated data is used to test communication networks, commission substations, check configurations, test firmware and more.

Traditional elements of substation bench-testing are either risky, costly or both. Testing is either done in a live substation environment with potential to cause disturbances, or the test-equipment is expensive. SUBNET SEL Relay Data Emulator enables utilities to simulate all of their SEL relays for the cost of a single relay. With SUBNET SEL Relay Data Emulator, testing can be done safely, while eliminating all potential for a power outage .

“SUBNET SEL Relay Data Emulator was created for those tasked with building, maintaining and evolving electrical substations ” comments Trevor Hill, Product Manager with SUBNET. “SUBNETs business is based on making substations more intelligent, and we know the cost and struggles utilities face testing substation integration systems. Simulating your existing SEL relay protocol communications is quick and easy. Users can simulate the communications of hundreds of different SEL relays for approximately the cost of one relay.”

The SUBNET SEL Relay Data Emulator is available as a software application that can be run on any Windows®-based laptop or PC. It features built-in configuration wizards, message logging, and easy-to-use familiar interfaces. The tool is also available as a complete hardware and software solution to enable users to simultaneously simulate up to 25 SEL relays.

The 82nd Annual Western Veterinary Conference ( WVC ) , held February 14-18 at the Mandalay Bay Resort Casino , attracted more than 13,000 attendees. As the premier veterinary meeting in the world, WVC registers more than 6,000 veterinarians, more than 1,200 veterinary technicians, several hundred practice managers, and several thousand other attendees directly related to the animal health industry .

In its continuing effort to move the conference forward, the WVC board of directors and management team announced a new Western Veterinary Conference brand identity on Feb. 16. Components of the new look and approach, including a new logo, redesigned corporate collateral materials, social media tools and new display booth, were unveiled. After the concept was revealed, the new logo and designs began to appear throughout the venue during the rest of the conference in preparation for WVC 2011 .

“Were excited to share our new, more contemporary look as it better reflects the continuing changes, innovation and forward thinking in the field of veterinary medicine around the world — and what we provide at the Western Veterinary Conference,” said 2010 WVC President Robert A. Smith , DVM, MS, Diplomate ABVP. “Our new, refreshed look and logo complement the same for our state-of-the-art Oquendo Center for Clinical Education and effectively communicate a fresh take on our long-standing philosophy — Progressive. Practical. Educational.”

Smith also announced that the 2011 Western Veterinary Conference , scheduled February 20-24, 2011, will offer a significantly expanded exhibit hall in the Mandalay Bay Convention Center. By relocating exhibits to Level 2, the conference will be able to accommodate many more exhibitors and introduce attractive additional attendee and exhibitor amenities, including a wider range of food services.

WVC 2010 attendees were the first in the industry to use WVC-Connect , a suite of mobile and Web-based applications that provided multimedia access, including onsite connection via smartphone, to conference programming, exhibitors and events. Among the hottest industry news in 2010 was the launch at WVC of a feline mobility product, Prescription Diet® j/d® Feline by Hills Pet Nutrition, Inc.

P2 Solar, Inc. (OTCBB: PTOS) (the “Company”) is proud to announce that it entered into a Letter of Intent with South Korean EPC, OSolar. The two companies are working to form a Strategic Alliance as part of the project team for the 25MWp Solar Power Station proposed for Punjab India.

OSolar brings a wealth of knowledge and expertise with its stellar team of engineers and technicians. Formerly known as Conergy Korea, the company separated from Conergy of Germany and changed its name to OSolar on January 11, 2010. It is currently responsible for designing, constructing and operating one of the largest Solar Power Stations in Asia at 24MWp in size.

Both companies participated in working on the technical feasibility study that was submitted to the Indian government agencies at the end of January. As part of the Strategic Alliance, OSolar will provide various consulting, design, and construction, services, as well as assist in the funding. This being the first and largest solar power project of its kind in this region, it will become a showcase project for Punjab India.

“We are very excited to be working with such a skilled and experienced team and look forward in having the unique knowledge and hands on experience of OSolar to assist us with our project in Punjab India,” said Mr. Raj-Mohinder Gurm, President / CEO of P2 Solar.

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Atlanta Meeting Sees Debut of Clinical Knowledge Platform, eHealth
Business

ATLANTA — This week in Atlanta, healthymagination takes center stage as GE
Healthcare uses its technology expo to demonstrate how it will affect
cost, quality and access in healthcare systems across the world. At the
annual meeting of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems
Society, the company will showcase new innovations and achievements from
each of its healthcare IT divisions. Among the highlights:

“We aren’t here in Atlanta to talk about change—we’re here to make it
happen,” said Vishal Wanchoo, president and CEO of GE Healthcare’s IT
business. “We have the breadth and depth to impact healthcare systems
across the world and we’re showing some of the industry’s leading
solutions to prove it. We look forward to active discussions, innovative
demonstrations and laying the path for the most exciting year in
healthcare IT we’ve ever seen.”

GE Healthcare is presenting its portfolio this week at Atlanta’s Georgia
World Congress Center, booth #7039.

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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NEW YORK — Fitch Ratings takes the following rating action on Norton, Ohios
limited tax general obligation (GO) bonds as part of its continuous
surveillance effort:

–Approximately $2.1 million limited tax GO bonds, series 2003,
downgraded to A- from A.

The Rating Outlook is revised to Stable from Negative.

–The downgrade to A- reflects decreases in the citys financial
flexibility evidenced by reduced income tax receipts and reserve levels
as a result of sustained retrenchment of the local automotive industry.

NEW YORK — Fitch Ratings takes the following rating action on Placerville Union
School District, California (USD, or the district) as part of its
continuous surveillance effort:

–Approximately $5.1 million general obligation (GOs) bonds affirmed at
A .

The Rating Outlook has been revised to Negative from Stable.

–The Negative Outlook reflects the significant financial pressure that
the district is facing and Fitchs expectation that the financial
pressure will continue. Although, the districts financial position
remains adequate to date, Fitch is concerned regarding future financial
flexibility due to an ongoing structural imbalance and a difficult state
funding environment.

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Purpose-Built Wireless LANs Enable Simultaneous Operation of Data,
Voice, and Video Services

SUNNYVALE, Calif. — Aruba Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ:ARUN), a global leader in 802.11n wireless
LANs and secure mobility solutions, and Motion Computing, a leading
provider of integrated mobile computing solutions, today announced a
certified healthcare solution to reliably deliver unified communications
services and data access at the point-of-care. The solution uses Aruba’s
adaptive 802.11n
and Virtual
Branch Network (VBN) technologies to deliver the quality-of-service,
security, and remote access needed to simultaneously support voice,
video and data applications on Motion C5 Mobile Clinical Assistants
(MCA) and Motion Clinical Workstations (MCW-200).

“Unlike general data access services, point-of-care voice and video
communications are latency-sensitive and require special handling,” said
Manav Khurana, Aruba’s Head of Industry Marketing. “Our high-speed
802.11n wireless LANs are application-aware, and automatically adapt
themselves to deliver the bandwidth, airtime, and quality-of-service
required by unified communication applications at the point-of-care. The
resulting wire-like performance enables Motion’s platforms to take
clinical productivity to a new level.”

The Motion C5
is a hospital-grade slate tablet PC and the healthcare industry’s first
MCA. The tool improves clinical productivity, optimizes electronic
medical record (EMR) utilization, and enhances clinician efficiency by
enabling the use of technology directly at the point of care. The
flexible MCW-200
workstation improves communication and collaboration involving complex
work-flows and information-rich content, delivers up to 15 hours of
battery life, and is available with integrated voice and video support.
Aruba’s Adaptive
Radio Management (ARM) technology improves the wireless performance
of both devices by automatically optimizing Wi-Fi band selection, load
balancing, and power levels in real-time, an important function in a
healthcare facility’s dynamically changing RF environment.

“Providing unified communications and automated patient data management
at the point-of-care requires that the Wi-Fi network follow in lock-step
as clinicians with C5 or MCW-200 devices roam through a hospital campus
or satellite clinic,” said Mike Stinson, Motion Computing’s Vice
President of Marketing. “Aruba’s 802.11n solutions deliver assured
access to latency-sensitive communications services, regardless of where
the clinician is working. That makes possible a wide range of new
opportunities to improve patient care and reduce staff workload.”

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.”
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:

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So, you want to own chickens? In City Chicks: Keeping Microflocks of Laying Hens as Garden Helpers, Compost Makers, Bio-recyclers and Local Food Suppliers (Good Earth), Patricia Foreman not only reiterates why this runaway urban underground movement is so great for the environment and your health, she also provides a detailed primer on how to get started. Foreman, who has kept poultry for more than 20 years, helps newbies learn how to purchase, care for and get the most from their flocks. Then theres the fun: Because they dont need to be walked, hens are easy to case for (and theyre mesmerizing, too). This entertaining how-to book might even turn a total “city chick” into a backyard egg producer.
Inside Obamas Brain, by Sasha Abramsky, Portfblio, 278 pages, $24.95 DECEMBER 2009 may go down as the single most consequential month in Barack Obamas presidency. Starting with his announcement of a troop escalation in Afghanistan, through a Nobel Peace Prize speech in which he touted the benefits of war, then an international climate change conference that broke down in disarray, topped by a convulsive national health care debate that nevertheless staggered toward the legislative finish line by Christmas, the president at every impactful step encountered something new in his meteoric young political career: sustained and even vicious criticism from his core fan base on the left. After the Afghan announcement, 60s New Left relic Tom Hayden declared in The Nation that “its time to strip the Obama sticker off my car” At Open Left, Paul Rosenberg characterized the presidents Oslo performance as a “War-is-Peace Prize speech “When the Copenhagen climate talks broke down (for more on which see “Climate Crackup/ page 28), anti-globalization author Naomi Klein concluded in The Guardian that the “failure belongs to Obama” And by the time the 2,457-page health care overhaul made it through the Senate, a whos who list of progressives–including former Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean and netroots impresario Markos Moulitsas–were actively campaigning against it. Yet even with the noisy dissent on his left flank and record-setting disapproval ratings from the public at large, the president kept getting stuff done, not least of which appears to be the single largest entitlement expansion since the 1960s. The busy month of December also saw passage of an omnibus spending bill and subsequent Pentagon package that together helped jack up federal outlays by more than 10 percent over the previous year amid only scattered national discussion. The House of Representatives passed a massive financial regulation overhaul that would create a Consumer Financial Protection Agency, the national debt ceiling was raised once again, and the Obama has governed like the most stereotypical of old-school economic progressives. As ever, nonideology turns out to be ideological after all. Environmental Protection Agency took the potentially monumental step of regulating carbon (see “The EPAs Carbon Footprint,” page 36). For a guy who seems perpetually on the verge of losing his political mojo, Obama manages to accomplish quite a bit.
Inside Obamas Brain, by Sasha Abramsky, Portfblio, 278 pages, $24.95 DECEMBER 2009 may go down as the single most consequential month in Barack Obamas presidency. Starting with his announcement of a troop escalation in Afghanistan, through a Nobel Peace Prize speech in which he touted the benefits of war, then an international climate change conference that broke down in disarray, topped by a convulsive national health care debate that nevertheless staggered toward the legislative finish line by Christmas, the president at every impactful step encountered something new in his meteoric young political career: sustained and even vicious criticism from his core fan base on the left. After the Afghan announcement, 60s New Left relic Tom Hayden declared in The Nation that “its time to strip the Obama sticker off my car” At Open Left, Paul Rosenberg characterized the presidents Oslo performance as a “War-is-Peace Prize speech “When the Copenhagen climate talks broke down (for more on which see “Climate Crackup/ page 28), anti-globalization author Naomi Klein concluded in The Guardian that the “failure belongs to Obama” And by the time the 2,457-page health care overhaul made it through the Senate, a whos who list of progressives–including former Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean and netroots impresario Markos Moulitsas–were actively campaigning against it. Yet even with the noisy dissent on his left flank and record-setting disapproval ratings from the public at large, the president kept getting stuff done, not least of which appears to be the single largest entitlement expansion since the 1960s. The busy month of December also saw passage of an omnibus spending bill and subsequent Pentagon package that together helped jack up federal outlays by more than 10 percent over the previous year amid only scattered national discussion. The House of Representatives passed a massive financial regulation overhaul that would create a Consumer Financial Protection Agency, the national debt ceiling was raised once again, and the Obama has governed like the most stereotypical of old-school economic progressives. As ever, nonideology turns out to be ideological after all. Environmental Protection Agency took the potentially monumental step of regulating carbon (see “The EPAs Carbon Footprint,” page 36). For a guy who seems perpetually on the verge of losing his political mojo, Obama manages to accomplish quite a bit.

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Inside Obamas Brain, by Sasha Abramsky, Portfblio, 278 pages, $24.95 DECEMBER 2009 may go down as the single most consequential month in Barack Obamas presidency. Starting with his announcement of a troop escalation in Afghanistan, through a Nobel Peace Prize speech in which he touted the benefits of war, then an international climate change conference that broke down in disarray, topped by a convulsive national health care debate that nevertheless staggered toward the legislative finish line by Christmas, the president at every impactful step encountered something new in his meteoric young political career: sustained and even vicious criticism from his core fan base on the left. After the Afghan announcement, 60s New Left relic Tom Hayden declared in The Nation that “its time to strip the Obama sticker off my car” At Open Left, Paul Rosenberg characterized the presidents Oslo performance as a “War-is-Peace Prize speech “When the Copenhagen climate talks broke down (for more on which see “Climate Crackup/ page 28), anti-globalization author Naomi Klein concluded in The Guardian that the “failure belongs to Obama” And by the time the 2,457-page health care overhaul made it through the Senate, a whos who list of progressives–including former Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean and netroots impresario Markos Moulitsas–were actively campaigning against it. Yet even with the noisy dissent on his left flank and record-setting disapproval ratings from the public at large, the president kept getting stuff done, not least of which appears to be the single largest entitlement expansion since the 1960s. The busy month of December also saw passage of an omnibus spending bill and subsequent Pentagon package that together helped jack up federal outlays by more than 10 percent over the previous year amid only scattered national discussion. The House of Representatives passed a massive financial regulation overhaul that would create a Consumer Financial Protection Agency, the national debt ceiling was raised once again, and the Obama has governed like the most stereotypical of old-school economic progressives. As ever, nonideology turns out to be ideological after all. Environmental Protection Agency took the potentially monumental step of regulating carbon (see “The EPAs Carbon Footprint,” page 36). For a guy who seems perpetually on the verge of losing his political mojo, Obama manages to accomplish quite a bit.
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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Cypress Bioscience, Inc. provides therapeutics and personalized medicine services, facilitating improved and individualized patient care. Cypress addresses the evolving needs of specialist physicians and their patients by identifying unmet medical needs in the areas of pain, rheumatology, and physical medicine and rehabilitation, including challenging disorders such as fibromyalgia and rheumatoid arthritis. This approach to improving patient care creates a unique partnership with physicians. Current products include Savella® (milnacipran HCI) and the Avise PGSM and Avise MCVSM therapeutic monitoring, diagnostic and prognostic tests for rheumatoid arthritis.

The Combined Offering is an Out-of-the-Box Security Information
Management Solution for Both Applications and Infrastructure, Delivering
Immediate Support for More Than 100 Healthcare Applications and 220
Infrastructure Components

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — FairWarning, Inc., the world’s leading supplier of cross-platform
healthcare privacy breach detection solutions, today announced that Symantec
Security Information Management (SSIM) is an official FairWarning®
Ready-for-Healthcare Program Partner. By combining FairWarning’s
application privacy monitoring capabilities with the infrastructure
security monitoring capabilities of SSIM, customers for the first time
will be able to seamlessly monitor their entire healthcare enterprise.
In addition, customers using the combined solution will be able to
rapidly perform end-to-end incident investigations involving patients,
users and infrastructure devices to dramatically reduce the time and
effort required to complete such examinations.

By integrating FairWarning®, Symantec customers may now perform privacy
monitoring on more than 100 healthcare applications. Support for new
applications can be added in a matter of hours. Using SSIM, FairWarning®
customers can take advantage of unique global intelligence integration
to enhance their ability to monitor and respond to application and
infrastructure security events occurring not only in their environment
but across the globe. SSIM also helps companies meet regulatory log
archiving requirements with a single solution.

“FairWarning’s healthcare application privacy monitoring combined with
Symantec’s SIM solution provides Baptist Memorial Health Care with
end-to-end enterprise security and privacy visibility,” said Barbara
Anson, Director of Information Systems for Baptist Memorial Health Care.
“The fact that FairWarning® now seamlessly feeds SSIM with potential
privacy incidents will enable us to rapidly research all aspects of a
possible incident which both mitigates potential damages and deters
privacy incidents from ever happening.”

With ARRA HITECH privacy provisions, increased HIPAA enforcement, and
state privacy laws including California SB 541 and AB 211, many
healthcare organizations are re-evaluating their privacy and security
needs. Combining solutions from FairWarning® and Symantec allows
providers to take advantage of solutions that dovetail into their
complex information technology environment.

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.

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Comstock Homebuilding Companies, Inc. (the “Company”) (NASDAQ: CHCI) announced that on February 24, 2010, the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, Alexandria Division, issued a Memorandum Opinion and Order awarding Plaintiff, Comstock Potomac Yard, L.C., (”Comstock Potomac Yard”), a subsidiary of the Company, a total of $11,733,002 from the defendant, Balfour Beatty Construction, LLC, successor in interest to Centex Construction (”Balfour”). In addition, Comstock Potomac Yard is entitled to recovery of certain attorneys fees in an amount to be determined at a future date. Balfour was the general contractor for Comstock Potomac Yards Eclipse on Center Park Condominium project (the “Project”) in Arlington, Virginia.

The judgment resulted from litigation initiated by Comstock Potomac Yard in September of 2008 against Balfour to recover its actual and liquidated damages due to construction delays and additional costs incurred by Comstock Potomac Yard with respect to the Project and to invalidate mechanics liens improperly filed by Balfour against the Project on July 28, 2008. The mechanics liens had been previously removed from the Project by a court order dated April 20, 2009.

“We are pleased with the decision of the Court because of the potential significant positive impact to our balance sheet,” said Christopher Clemente, Comstocks Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. “We are appreciative of the effort of Stephen Seeger of Seeger, Faughnan, Mendicino, P.C. for his expert handling of this complex construction delay claim. We continue to be focused on capitalizing on emerging attractive opportunities in the Washington, D.C. market, and we are 100% committed to enhancing shareholder value in the near and long term.”

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AMG Advanced Metallurgical Group
N.V.s (”AMG”), (EURONEXT AMSTERDAM: AMG) 42.5% owned affiliate, Timminco
Limited (”Timminco”) (TSX: TIM) announced that its senior secured lender
has agreed to eliminate the
requirement for an additional $5 million of minimum availability reserve
that
would have become effective as of March 1, 2010.

Under the Credit Agreement dated April 15, 2005, as amended, with Bank of
America, N.A. Agreement, Timminco is able to access funds up to the amount
of
the availability under the revolving credit facility. Availability is
equal to
(i) the lesser of the borrowing base and the revolving credit commitment
under
the revolving credit facility, minus (ii) the sum of the amounts borrowed
under
such facility, and the minimum availability reserve. In the fourth quarter
of
2009, the Credit Agreement was amended to increase the minimum availability
reserve from $2 million to $7 million, effective for the 45 day period from
February 1 to March 17, 2010. At the end of January, this period was
postponed
by one month. The current amendment eliminates this additional requirement
entirely, such that the minimum availability reserve will remain at its
current
level of $2 million.

About AMG

AMG, incorporated in the Netherlands, is a global leader in the production
of
highly engineered specialty metal products and advanced vacuum furnace
systems.
AMG serves growing industries worldwide with its unique combination of
metallurgical engineering expertise and production know-how. AMG is a
market
leader in many of its products and systems, which are critical to the
production
of key components for the aerospace, energy (including solar and nuclear),
infrastructure and specialty chemicals and metals industries. AMG has two
operating units — Advanced Materials and Engineering Systems, and owns
interests
in publicly-listed companies Graphit Kropfmuhl AG (Deutsche Borse: GKR.DE)
and
Timminco Limited (TSX: TIM).

The Advanced Materials Division develops and produces niche specialty
metals and
complex metals products, many of which are used in demanding,
safety-critical,
high-stress environments. AMG is one of a limited number of significant
producers globally of niche specialty metals, such as ferrovanadium,
ferronickel-molybdenum, aluminum master alloys and additives, chromium
metal and
ferrotitanium, used by steel, aluminum, chemical and superalloy producers
for
aerospace, automotive, energy, electronics, optics, chemicals, construction
and
other applications. Other key products produced by AMG include specialty
alloys
for titanium and superalloys, coating materials, tantalum and niobium
oxides,
vanadium chemicals and antimony trioxide.

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Joint effort expected to save claims organizations, self-insured
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.”

Rep. Paul Ryan (R., Wis.) released an updated version of his “roadmap” for fiscal reform, and this time he got a lot of attention–in part because it serves the interests of Democrats to say that his plan proves that Republicans want nothing more than to slash Medicare and Social Security. Ryans plan would indeed reform those programs in the interest of solvency. Seniors would get vouchers to purchase health care, and workers would be able to invest payroll taxes in personal accounts. The tax break for employer-provided health insurance would be extended to people who purchase insurance for themselves. A new tax system, simpler and optional (you could continue to use the old one), would be implemented. The charge that these proposals would leave senior citizens out in the cold ignores their transformative potential: Would health-care costs rise so rapidly, for example, if people were not relying on third parties to pay for them? The plan is not perfect. As we have observed before, Representative Ryans reforms inadvertently make the taxation of parental investments in children more onerous. He could easily fix that flaw. The deeper problem with the plan is that it envisions a sort of legislative Big Bang in which conservative ideals are forever achieved. A roadmap requires more than an attractive destination.

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High-Definition Surgical Procedure Videos and Medical Slide
Images Streamed Overseas

TOKYO — OKI
Networks Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of OKI
Electric Industry Co., Ltd. (TOKYO:6703), that designs
and manufactures telecommunication products, today announced it has
partnered with Kyushu
University to successfully stream live HD-resolution(*1)
surgical procedure videos to overseas recipients.

This feat was demonstrated in the 29th
Asia-Pacific Advanced Network Conference (*2)
held in Sydney from February 8th-11th
as part of medical working group to illustrate some of the groups
activities. In the demonstration, OKI
Networks “OKI MediaServer”(*3)
was connected remotely to a media system located at Kyushu
University, after which videos of high-definition
surgical procedures and medical slide images were streamed from Kyushu
University to the APAN venue, Seoul
National University Bundang Hospital in Seoul, Korea,
and to the Kyoto Second Red Cross Hospital, in Kyoto, Japan.

Kyushu
University has pursued telemedicine education with a
special focus on Asia, establishing ultra high-speed Internet
connections with 115 universities and medical institutions in 24
countries by the end of 2009. Using this network, it has delivered
videos of medical conferences and endoscopic surgical procedures.
However, since the conventional surgical video delivery used the DVTS(*4)
method, the number of sites to which the videos could be delivered
concurrently was limited to between four to eight to ensure the
bandwidth needed. Moreover, the video data transferred was at merely
standard resolution (SD).

MURFREESBORO, Tenn. — National Health Investors, Inc. (NYSE:NHI) announced today that it will
pay a first quarter dividend of 57.5 cents per common share to
shareholders of record on March 31, 2010 and payable on May 10, 2010.

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.

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Unique Scholarship Opportunity Awards Kids Based on Good Deeds

ST. LOUIS — Just nine days are left to enter a young leader into the 2010
Build-A-Bear Workshop® Huggable Heroes® program.
Ten young people, ages eight to 18, will ultimately be selected as
Huggable Heroes and win a $7,500 educational scholarship and $2,500
donation to the 501 (c)(3) charity of their choice. Entry deadline is
February 26.

Huggable Heroes are young leaders who are doing good things to make the
world a better place. They volunteer in underserved schools, hospitals,
nursing homes, disadvantaged neighborhoods and more. They help soldiers
and those with special needs, protect wildlife and preserve the
environment. They give their time and expect nothing in return.

The search for these special, dedicated and hard-working youth ends
Friday, February 26. People may nominate a candidate by visiting buildabear.com/huggableheroes
or by obtaining a form at participating Build-A-Bear Workshop stores in
the United States, Puerto Rico and Canada.

Parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, siblings, friends, teachers,
organization leaders or young people themselves, are encouraged to submit
nominations before the February 26 deadline.

“We find it alarming that single moms are stigmatized and are not
considered respectable by the majority of Americans,” said Terrence Thomas,
Executive Vice President of Marketing for eLearners.com, which created the
Project Working Mom 2010 full-tuition scholarship program to send moms back
to school. “Through Project Working Mom, weve heard countless tales of
heroic mothers working multiple jobs to support their families while going
to school at night to provide a better life for their children. This
commitment certainly warrants tremendous respect.”

The eLearners.com survey found that although 68 percent of Americans agree
a college education is important for single moms to land a well-paying job
or support their children, about just as many (66 percent) think they
shouldnt receive financial privileges, like scholarships or tax breaks.

“Unfortunately, single moms are caught in a catch-22. Americans agree that
single moms need higher education to best support their children, but dont
think they should receive help paying for it,” continued Thomas. “Yet,
without assistance many single moms would continue to stay in the cycle of
under-education and under-employment, which is a crisis that cant go
unaddressed.”

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KATE Moss is one supermodel who will do literally anything to avoid those dreaded wrinkles. And Mossy took her beauty regime to extraordinary – and icy – new levels on a night out, when she decided she need a facial pick-me- up. The swish after-show bash, held at exclusive private members venue The Brompton Club in Fulham, saw Kate order a huge ice bucket to be sat in front of her before she hilariously started plunging her face in to the chilly water. My mole tells me: “Kate was drunk and knocking back glass after glass of Laurent Perrier Rose champagne. “She was dancing with her friends, including Naomi, to hits like Madonnas Borderline and Jay-Z and Alicia Keys Empire State Of Mind.
The Insolvency Services recently released statistics on personal insolvencies shed some shocking light on our rising personal debt crisis. In fact, over 134,000 people went bankrupt, entered an IVA or began a Debt Relief Order. And accountancy firm, Grant Thornton, carried out further research which confirmed that the growth in those seeking IVA advice is fastest amongst the middle class professionals. This is somewhat contrary to fairly popular misconception that IVAs are generally taken up by those at the lower income end of the spectrum.

The middle class professionals may indeed have been amongst the demographics thought most able to afford their lifestyles. However, the 18 month recession meant dire consequences for many. Hundreds of thousands of jobs were lost and even those who were fortunate enough to keep their jobs faced the painful possibility of pay cuts. Sudden drops in income are particularly distressing to those living a life on credit and it is thought that this contributed greatly to the overall number of IVAs and bankruptcies. Falling incomes coupled with crashing house prices and reluctance by banks to lend, meant that families who might traditionally have coped with tough financial periods by lending more were unable to do so.

And although the recession came to a formal conclusion in the final quarter of 2009 here in the UK, its effects are likely to stick around for some time yet. Its anticipated that unemployment is likely to remain high throughout this year, with a real possibility that normal levels will not be regained before 2012.

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New weapon in the fight against multi-drug resistant bacteria
published in “Science”

ALLSCHWIL, Switzerland — Today, Polyphor Ltd published the discovery of a new class of
antibiotics with a novel mode of action (Science, VOL 327, ISSUE 5968).
This proprietary new class of antibiotics is effective against
multi-drug resistant Gram-negative bacteria, opening up new treatment
options for serious and often life-threatening infections. The most
advanced drug candidate in this new class, POL7080, selectively kills
the dangerous bacteria Pseudomonas aeruginosa.

In collaboration with Prof. John Robinson at the University of Zürich,
Polyphor applied its proprietary Protein Epitope Mimetics Technology
(PEM Technology) to identify new antibiotics that either act against a
broad-spectrum of bacteria or selectively target one particular
bacterial strain. This joint research effort resulted in the discovery
of a new drug target and mechanism of action by which Gram-negative
bacteria are killed effectively.

Many Gram-negative bacteria have become multi-drug resistant in recent
years as they have developed mechanisms to escape the therapeutic
effects of current antibiotic drugs. New antibiotics against drug
resistant bacteria are thus urgently needed as the current arsenal of
drugs becomes ineffective against such resistant pathogens. However, in
the history of pharmaceutical research, the discovery of a new class of
antibiotics with a novel mechanism of action is a rare event occurring
only about once every 20 years. This reported discovery therefore
represents a major breakthrough in antibiotic research.

The leading antibiotic PEMdrug candidate POL7080 represents an important
new weapon to combat life-threatening infections with Pseudomonas
aeruginosa which frequently occur in the hospital setting or in
chronic lung infections. Polyphor is currently preparing the start of
Phase I clinical trials with POL7080 to rapidly advance the clinical
development and has initiated out-licensing negotiations with Pharma
partners.

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Basel, Switzerland, February 19, 2010 – Basilea Pharmaceutica Ltd.
(SIX: BSLN)
announces that the European Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use
(CHMP) adopted a negative opinion on the Marketing Authorization
Application
(MAA) for ceftobiprole for the treatment of complicated skin and soft
tissue
infections (cSSTI).

The sponsor Janssen-Cilag International NV (Janssen-Cilag), a Johnson
Johnson
company, has been notified that the CHMP adopted a negative opinion on the
MAA
for ceftobiprole for the treatment of cSSTI.

The MAA for ceftobiprole for the treatment of cSSTI was filed by
Janssen-Cilag
in June 2007. After a positive opinion from the CHMP in November 2008, the
European Medicines Agency took the unusual step of halting the European
Commission authorization process on ceftobiprole pending completion and
assessment of Good Clinical Practice (GCP) inspections.

The CHMP now stated that inspections showed that the phase III studies
supporting the MAA had not been conducted in compliance with GCP in some
sites.
The CHMP indicated that, although the study results suggested that the
medicine
was beneficial to patients, it was concerned about how reliable the results
were. The Committee therefore recommended that, in light of the uncertainty
surrounding the results, ceftobiprole should not be granted marketing
authorization.

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China Crescent Enterprises, Inc. (OTCBB: CCTR)
board member Ret. Major General Hugh G. Robinson is scheduled to provide
the closing presentation for the Companys upcoming Pacific Rim sales
conference. Hugh Robinson is also the newly appointed Chief Executive
Officer of Nova Energy, Inc. (OTCBB: NVAE). Nova is updating and expanding
its business plan to diversify into multiple early stage
infrastructure-focused business opportunities specific to the East African
economy. In his closing remarks, Robinson is expected to present on his
expectations for mobile commerce (M-commerce) in East Africa including the
opportunity for M-commerce partnerships between Africa and China and the
role Alternet Systems, Inc. (OTCBB: ALYI) could play with China Crescent in
facilitating the Africa and China connection.

The conference is scheduled for the week of March 8, 2010 at the Le Royal
Meridien hotel in Shanghai, China and will feature China Crescents key
product offerings from technology reseller partners such as Hewlett-Packard
and Lenovo. China Crescent is a systems integration service provider that
markets technology outsourcing services in China including the sale and
service of brand name technologies such as Microsoft, Oracle, Cisco, IBM,
HP and Dell and has recently expanded its business line to include original
design manufacturing (ODM).

Mr. Robinson is a former Chairman of the Dallas Federal Reserve and a
retired Major General with a distinguished career serving in the United
States Army. Among other prestigious posts, Mr. Robinson served as
President Lyndon Johnsons military aide de camp. In addition to his public
service experience, Mr. Robinsons career has included extensive executive
management experience with senior positions at Southland Corporation and
City Place Development Corporation. He is a graduate of the United States
Military Academy at West Point and earned a Masters Degree in Civil
Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Mr.
Robinson also currently serves on the board of Carmax, Inc., the LBJ
Foundation and the Better Business Bureau.

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Commerce National Bank (OTCBB: CNBF), a
community business bank now in its seventh year of operation, is pleased to
announce that Gloria Miller has joined Commerce National Bank as Senior
Vice President and SBA Lending Department Manager.

With over 20 years of experience in business banking and real estate
financing, Ms. Miller brings an extensive background in all aspects of SBA
lending including business development, credit analysis and documentation.
“Ms. Miller is a high caliber banking professional with an extensive
knowledge base. We are very pleased to have her join our senior management
team,” said President Chief Executive Officer Mark E. Simmons.

Ms. Miller has held key positions with two of the largest SBA lenders in
the United States, Comerica Bank and Banco Popular. She currently serves
on the loan committee and Board of Directors for Advantage CDC, a local
Certified Development Company originating SBA 504 loans. Ms. Miller is a
southern California native who graduated with honors from California State
University Fullerton with a BA degree in Business Administration.

With offices in Newport Beach and the City of Fullerton, the Bank is well
positioned to serve businesses, professionals and selected real estate
customers in both the northern and southern areas of Orange County. The
offices are staffed by experienced business bankers who are committed to
providing exemplary service to their customers in the business community.

Commerce National Bank (OTCBB: CNBF), a
community business bank now in its seventh year of operation, is pleased to
announce that Gloria Miller has joined Commerce National Bank as Senior
Vice President and SBA Lending Department Manager.

With over 20 years of experience in business banking and real estate
financing, Ms. Miller brings an extensive background in all aspects of SBA
lending including business development, credit analysis and documentation.
“Ms. Miller is a high caliber banking professional with an extensive
knowledge base. We are very pleased to have her join our senior management
team,” said President Chief Executive Officer Mark E. Simmons.

Ms. Miller has held key positions with two of the largest SBA lenders in
the United States, Comerica Bank and Banco Popular. She currently serves
on the loan committee and Board of Directors for Advantage CDC, a local
Certified Development Company originating SBA 504 loans. Ms. Miller is a
southern California native who graduated with honors from California State
University Fullerton with a BA degree in Business Administration.

With offices in Newport Beach and the City of Fullerton, the Bank is well
positioned to serve businesses, professionals and selected real estate
customers in both the northern and southern areas of Orange County. The
offices are staffed by experienced business bankers who are committed to
providing exemplary service to their customers in the business community.

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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.”

Fiscal 2009 Major Goals Met or Exceeded. Fiscal 2009 Net Revenue from
Services of $39.1 million with Adjusted EBITDA from Operations before
Corporate Overhead of $4.4 million. Current Net Revenue Run Rate of $41
million based on Fiscal 2010 First Quarter Results. Positive 2010
Outlook.

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — First Physicians Capital Group, Inc. (“FPCG” or the “Company”) (OTCBB:
FPCG), an operator of healthcare services firms primarily in rural and
suburban markets in the U.S., reported results for the Company’s first
fiscal quarter ended December 31, 2009 and delivered today the following
update to shareholders from FPCG’s CEO, David Hirschhorn.

Highlights for the first fiscal quarter were:

A worldwide economic recession that created the most difficult business
environment since the Great Depression made Fiscal 2009 (the fiscal year
ending September 30, 2009) and the first quarter of Fiscal 2010 a
challenging one for FPCG. The global recession had a major impact on the
financial performance of companies around the world in virtually every
industry, and FPCG was no exception. In addition to a very weak economy
and extremely tight credit markets, we were uniquely affected by the
uncertainty surrounding the entire healthcare sector as legislators in
Washington, D.C. worked toward passage of a reform bill with
far-reaching consequences.

(NYSE: CAE) (TSX: CAE) – CAE Healthcare today announced that is has partnered with Ornge, a leader in the field of Transport Medicine, to become the exclusive provider of Ornges simulation and education programs for healthcare practitioners worldwide.

“We believe Ornges suite of programs is an excellent addition to our growing portfolio of best-in-class medical education and simulation solutions. We share a common vision with Ornge for the delivery of innovative and quality education to health practitioners in order to improve patient care and safety,” said Guillaume Herve, President of CAE Healthcare. “Transport medicine requires healthcare providers to be highly trained in providing specialized medical care in a mobile environment. Ornges expertise in providing patient care and education coupled with CAEs simulation-based aviation training experience will be deployed in air, ground and marine medical transport applications. CAE Healthcare will be able to offer its customers comprehensive solutions that bring a new level of excellence to critical care transport and emergency medical services.”

Under terms of the agreement, CAE Healthcare will be the exclusive provider worldwide of Ornges current and future product portfolio of educational programs save and except that Ornge will continue to provide Transport Medecine solutions including these educational programs in Ontario. This includes the only Canadian Medical Association (CMA) accredited Critical Care Flight Paramedic program in Canada, as well as Ornges CMA-accredited education program for Advanced Care Flight Paramedics. All educational programs are based on innovative and flexible models that integrate different types of learning. Students participate in classroom sessions, videoconferences, seminars, high fidelity patient simulations, on-line learning, and placements in hospitals, helicopters, fixed-wing aircraft and land ambulances.

“We are delighted to partner with CAE, a brand that is well respected and globally recognized. This opportunity will enable Ornge to leverage CAEs expertise in simulation and modelling technology, educational program development, and its sales channel to expand our transport medicine offerings to healthcare providers worldwide,” said Dr. Chris Mazza, President and CEO of Ornge.

CAE Healthcare and Ornge will jointly develop solutions for transport medicine and critical care programs. Both organizations will be attending and exhibiting at HELI-EXPO 2010, taking place in Houston Texas from February 20 to 23.

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Celsius
Holdings, Inc. (OTCBB: CSUH) announced today that Celsius®, the
original calorie burner, is available at Walgreens drugstores in the diet
section. Walgreens is the nations largest drugstore chain with more than
7,100 locations in all 50 states and the District of Columbia and Puerto
Rico. Walgreens sells four packs of the delicious Green Tea flavors of
Raspberry Acai and Peach Mango.

According to Kelly Michols, VP of Strategic Sales at Celsius, “Walgreens is
a significant retailer addition that will maximize the effectiveness of our
national marketing campaign. As people learn about Celsius from TV ads,
radio ads, grass roots event marketing, print media, or online through
social media efforts, they will be able to easily find Celsius at a
Walgreens near their home throughout the country. We are especially excited
about the compelling in-store promotions planned at Walgreens to encourage
people to try and reward them for buying Celsius.”

Celsius®, the Original Calorie Burner, is healthy everyday refreshment
that tastes great. Celsius has been scientifically shown to burn up to 100
calories and more per can by raising metabolism and providing sustained
energy. Research demonstrates that consuming one Celsius prior to a workout
may enhance the benefits of regular exercise, such as cardio fitness,
endurance and body composition.

Naturally refreshing Celsius contains no sugar, no high fructose corn
syrup, no aspartame, no artificial flavors, colors or preservatives, and is
very low in sodium. Celsius is powered by a proprietary blend of
ingredients: MetaPlus®, which includes Green Tea with EGCG, Ginger,
Caffeine, Calcium, Chromium, B Vitamins and Vitamin C.

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WebTech Wireless Inc. (TSX: WEW), a leading provider of vehicle fleet location-based services (LBS) and telematics technology, announces that it has learned today of a lawsuit filed in Tyler County, Texas, relating to an alleged patent infringement by a number of companies, including WebTech Wireless, of certain patents held by Innovative Global Systems LLC.

WebTech Wireless has not yet been served with the materials relating to the claim, but has performed a preliminary review of the underlying patents and the claim, and believes the allegations to be without merit. The Company will provide further particulars once available.

MIAMI — Marine Exploration, Inc. (OTCBB: MEXP), and its Joint Venture Partner
Hispaniola Ventures, LLC, have released a recent radio interview with
its President Paul Enright. Discussing the shipwreck industry, Mr.
Enright comments on the high tech salvage tools used by the dive team on
the RV Hispaniola, and the various treasures to expect aboard the
inbound and outbound ships that sank.

Interviewed by “Downtown Dave,” the show aired on WTAN Clearwater, FL,
WDCF Dade City, FL, WZHR Zephyrhills, FL, and on KLRG Little Rock, AR.

The objects recently found include silver coins, jewels, gold jewelry
with pearls, a solid gold ring with diamonds, two hand-held bronze
cannons, numerous pistols and cannons, a bell from 1693 with the phrase
Soli Deo Gloria, guild pewter plates, navigation compasses, plumb
lines for measuring depth, a pistol, sword sheaths, ornaments, plates,
silverware, sword handles, a device to measure the ships speed, and
bronze candlesticks. Marine Exploration expects to commence salvaging
two shipwreck sites concurrently.

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Y Yandel Take Home Multiple Awards

Special Award Recipients, Chayanne, Thalía and Alejandro Fernández
Deliver Historic Three-Stage Opening Performance

Daddy Yankee Debuts New Single “Descontrol” With Blowout
Special-Effects Production Number

Pop Diva Paulina Rubio Brings Down the House with Rip Roarin Western
Movie Remix of Her Hit “Ni Rosas Ni Juguetes”

MIAMI — Featuring the largest number of musical performances and awards given in
one night, the 22nd edition of “Premio Lo Nuestro a la Música
Latina®” Awards, held at Miami’s American Airlines Arena and broadcast
live and in high definition (HD) on the Univision Network, was an
unforgettable evening overflowing with talent and spectacular
productions. Making history for the second consecutive year, the kings
of bachata Aventura were the biggest winner of the night,
taking awards in all of the five categories for which it was nominated,
including this year’s new top award “Entertainer of the Year.” Puerto
Rican artist Luis Fonsi also received numerous awards, including
“Male Artist of the Year,” Pop Genre for the second consecutive year, as
well as the additional new award “Collaboration of the Year” for his hit
“Aquí Estoy Yo” which he recorded alongside David Bisbal, Aleks Syntek
and Noel Scharjis. Mexican singer/songwriter Espinoza Paz took
home three awards, including “Banda Artist of the Year,” “Male Artist of
the Year” and “Song of the Year” in the Regional Mexican Genre.

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa — Whether women are ice skating, skiing, playing ice hockey, snowboarding,
or simply running on the treadmill at home, the right support is
important to fully enjoy all winter activities. Simply walking on ice
and through snow can be stressful for women’s limbs and requires the
right support to help prevent injury and fractures, such as the
specially-designed braces crafted by Wellgate
for Women.

“From cross-country skiing to speed skating, active women should have
the best support possible in order to perform at their best,” said NYC
Physical Therapist, Megan
Barclay. “Winter sports can be utterly brutal, and Wellgate’s braces
and supports can give women the edge they need to win, or just have a
good time, on the slopes and in the rink.”

Braces and supports made for men simply don’t do the job, as women’s
bodies respond to stresses and pressures differently as a result of
different body structures. For instance, women are more susceptible to
ankle injuries since they have narrower feet than men, and their heels –
in particular – are narrower compared to the front of the foot.

“Winter sports such as skating and skiing are all about having the right
equipment,” said April Elsinger, Brand Manager for Wellgate.
“Our Ultra-Light
Knee Support fits comfortably under clothes, is specifically
contoured to fit women’s bodies and is available in various sizes,
included Queen size. We want to see women do their very best and not
have to worry about the fit of their equipment.”

“Women need support for their wrists, ankles, and knees and we provide
special braces and supports for all three,” said Elsinger. “From
snowboarding to curling to simply surfing the internet, we’ve got women
covered where they need it most.”

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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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ST. LOUIS — Through a partnership with Inquisit, Amerinet’s strategic education
partner, Alsius Corporation (recently acquired by ZOLL Medical
Corporation) was able to expand educational programming related to its
innovative products and increase attendance to its webinars by 940
percent.

“The goal is to educate,” said Dr. Xia Luo, director of clinical
education for ZOLL Medical Corporation, a pioneer in the development of
intravascular temperature management therapies for critically ill
patients in intensive care, emergency departments and surgical settings.
“Through educational webinars, we are able to assist physicians and
nurses in their mission to improve patient care.”

Prior to its association with Inquisit, Alsius had worked with a
different company to extend educational services, but had been
disappointed in attendance, particularly the low number of physicians
represented.

Supported by an educational grant from Alsius, Inquisit’s team
developed, marketed and presented three education sessions on
temperature management in patients. A total of 940 healthcare
professionals in all 50 states and 15 foreign countries participated –
an increase of 940 percent from the prior year. The sessions were
offered at no charge to participants and/or their facilities due to the
educational grant from the company. The programs are archived and
continue to provide needed education via Inquisit’s Learning-On-Demand.

“I really prefer Inquisit because of its association with Amerinet and
the access to the Amerinet network,” Dr. Luo said. “Inquisit provided a
lot of flexibility and options that fit our needs.”

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The implant is indicated for patients with painful post-traumatic
arthritis or osteoarthritis who post-operatively may place their hands
under loading situations that preclude alternative implants. It may also
be used for revisions of a failed prosthesis. The form conserving
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joint surfaces, preserving bone, sparing soft tissue damage and
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The motion preserving kinematic behavior of the implant closely mimics
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implant consists of an ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene (UHMWPE)
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designed to permit bone in-growth. SBi estimates that approximately
8,000 PIP joint replacements (silicone and metal implants) were sold in
U.S. in 2009.

The implant is available in five sizes and has been marketed in the U.S.
since 1998 under an FDA Humanitarian Device Exemption (HDE). It also has
received a European Union CE Mark. The SR™ PIP is approved for use with
or without cement. The procedure demonstrated in the DVD includes the
use of cement.

The DVD features Scott W. Wolfe, MD, Chief of the Hand Service and
Director of the Hand Surgical Fellowship teaching program at Hospital
for Special Surgery (HSS), New York.

The implant is indicated for patients with painful post-traumatic
arthritis or osteoarthritis who post-operatively may place their hands
under loading situations that preclude alternative implants. It may also
be used for revisions of a failed prosthesis. The form conserving
implant is designed to alleviate pain while replicating the anatomic
joint surfaces, preserving bone, sparing soft tissue damage and
minimizing disruption to the collateral ligament origins and insertions.

The motion preserving kinematic behavior of the implant closely mimics
that of a normal joint when the soft tissue is well preserved. The
implant consists of an ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene (UHMWPE)
and titanium distal component, and a cobalt chrome alloy proximal stem
designed to permit bone in-growth. SBi estimates that approximately
8,000 PIP joint replacements (silicone and metal implants) were sold in
U.S. in 2009.

The implant is available in five sizes and has been marketed in the U.S.
since 1998 under an FDA Humanitarian Device Exemption (HDE). It also has
received a European Union CE Mark. The SR™ PIP is approved for use with
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The DVD features Scott W. Wolfe, MD, Chief of the Hand Service and
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NEW YORK — Fitch Ratings today upgraded Jamaicas long-term foreign and local
currency ratings to B-. The Rating Outlook is Stable. Fitch has also
upgraded the short-term foreign currency rating to B and the country
ceiling rating to B.

The upgrade takes into account the recent approval of a USD1.27 billion
IMF Stand-By Arrangement which mitigates near-term external liquidity
concerns. The successful outcome of the domestic debt exchange also
supports the upgrade. The Jamaican authorities estimate that the
exchange achieved a 97% participation rate, which could result in
interest savings of at least 3% of GDP in FY 2010/11. The rating is also
underpinned by the governments commitment to maintain macroeconomic
stability and implement reforms as envisioned in the IMF program, as
well as stronger per capita income and governance indicators than the
corresponding B medians.

“IMF support and the domestic debt exchange reduce Jamaicas near-term
balance of payment and fiscal pressures while allowing the country to
embark on economic reforms required to secure a more sustainable fiscal
trajectory,” said Shelly Shetty, Senior Director in Fitchs Sovereign
Group. The IMF program targets a steady increase in the central
government primary surplus through a reduction in the wage bill and
restraint in current spending. A broader fiscal consolidation is
expected to take place through a further reduction in interest burden
and the streamlining of broader public sector activities. It is also
expected to pave the way for additional disbursements of approximately
USD1 billion from other multilateral creditors in the coming years.

Notwithstanding the IMF program, Jamaicas credit profile remains quite
weak. While the sovereign secured interest savings through the domestic
debt restructuring, Fitch forecasts that Jamaicas interest-to-revenue
ratio will remain extremely high at over 40% during the forecast period.
Furthermore, Fitch expects other fiscal solvency ratios to remain weaker
than the B medians. For example, general government debt stands at
over 120% of GDP compared to a B median of 31%.

“While the fiscal consolidation embedded in the IMF program is
encouraging, Fitch notes that meeting the program targets will still
remain challenging, especially as public finances remain vulnerable to
external and weather-related shocks. Moreover, revenue under-performance
cannot be ruled out given the weak state of the economy,” added Shetty.
In order to sustain the fiscal effort, the government will have to
implement politically difficult measures such as rationalizing public
sector employment and maintaining a public sector wage freeze. At the
same time, tax administration efforts to boost revenue collection will
need to gain pace.

Colehour Cohen Earn Top Honors for Puget Sound Energy “Rock the
Bulb Tour”

SEATTLE — The Puget Sound Chapter of the Public Relations Society of America
(PRSA) named Colehour Cohen as the winners of the 2010 Totem
Awards “Best of Show.” The agency’s entry, “Puget Sound Energy’s ‘Rock
the Bulb Tour’” – a Public Relations (PR) program developed to help
Puget Sound residents reduce their energy use, learn about energy
efficiency, connect with their neighbors and communities and have fun –
received 95.5 points out of a maximum 100.

The Totem Awards recognize outstanding public relations tactics,
programs and achievements. Entries are judged on the basis of research,
planning, execution and evaluation. The 23rd annual banquet
was held Feb. 11 at Seattle’s Bell Harbor International Conference
Center. The event honored the 68 entries that were submitted. A total of
13 Totem Awards and 12 Certificates of Excellence were presented at the
Totem Awards banquet.

Attendees were entertained by Pat Cashman who was recently voted
“Western Washington’s Funniest Comedian” by KING5 “Evening Magazine”
viewers. Cashman, who was an announcer and character actor on Disney’s
popular “Bill Nye the Science Guy” and a writer/entertainer for the
popular “Almost Live” program on KING5, inspired attendees to make sure
that their work positively impacted others.

The Third Annual “People’s Choice” was selected by attendees to honor
the entry that excelled in creativity despite limited resources such as
time, budget, or staff. This coveted title was awarded to PRR, Inc.
for the program “1-405 Springbrook Creek Wetland Habitat Mitigation
Bank Ribbon Cutting.” This program’s budget of $10,000 was creatively
and efficiently utilized to incorporate community presentations, native
plantings, student exercises, interactive displays and a media tour with
a biologist.

CHICAGO — Fitch Ratings has affirmed the ratings of Principal Financial Group Inc.
(PFG) and its subsidiaries. The affirmation includes the Insurer
Financial Strength (IFS) ratings of PFGs primary life insurance company
subsidiaries at AA- and its holding company senior debt rating at
A-. A full list of rating actions follows at the end of this release.
The Rating Outlook remains Negative.

The affirmation reflects Fitchs belief that PFG has sufficient
resources and flexibility available to mitigate most likely investment
losses under current economic conditions. Principal Life Insurance
Companys investment portfolio contains concentrations in commercial
mortgage backed securities (CMBS) and financial sector securities, for
which Fitchs outlook has grown more negative since the rating action in
February 2009. PFG has $750 million of cash at the holding company, the
result of proceeds maintained from its May 2009 equity and debt
issuances, which enhance its financial flexibility should additional
capital needs arise. The Negative Outlook reflects the potential for
additional investment impairments to insurance company capital levels
beyond Fitchs estimates. Fitch will continue to monitor the performance
of the investment portfolio under its various stress tests.

PFG continues to hold a favorable operating profile reflecting the
companys strong market position in the employee benefit business. Fitch
also continues to believe that PFG has strong liquidity and does not
anticipate the company will have to liquidate assets at depressed prices
to fund maturing operating company liabilities. Also, the company has
modest exposure to the troubled variable annuity segment, where
movements in the equity markets have had a negative impact on reserves.
However, operating earnings in 2009 were negatively affected by the
sensitivity of the asset management and pension businesses to financial
market and economic conditions. Fitch expects earnings pressures to
continue.

Fitch believes PFGs Total Financings and Commitments ratio (TFC), at
0.6 times when excluding goodwill, is moderate and remains appropriate
for the ratings category. The TFC is a non-risk-based leverage measure
that expands on Fitchs traditional debt-to-equity calculations. PFGs
equity-credit adjusted leverage excluding accumulated other
comprehensive income was 16% at Dec. 31, 2009, a decrease from 20% at
year-end 2008.

Fitch affirms the following with a Negative Outlook:

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Dear Tom and Ray: My daughter bought a 2005 Kia Sorento nine months ago, and was given an extended warranty by the dealership. A week ago, it started running badly, so she took it back. The technician said two cylinders werent working. He said they found a piston ring in the oil pan and corrosion on the top of one piston. Now they are telling her that the damage was caused by an “unknown foreign object” that got into the engine. They are calling this a “road hazard,” and wont pay for the large repair bill. Does this diagnosis make sense to you guys? — Jennifer Ray: An “unidentified foreign object” got in there? Like what? Leonid Brezhnev? Tom: There are only a few ways that a foreign object could get into the cylinders, Jennifer. And they are all unlikely. Ray: One is through the air filter. But even the lousiest air filter is supposed to filter out objects larger than about 50 microns (that is about two-thousandths of an inch). So if a foreign object large enough to cause catastrophic engine failure snuck in the through the air filter, the innards of the air filter would be destroyed. Tom: So ask the guy to give you the air filter. You may need it as evidence at a later date.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti, Feb. 5 /PRNewswire/ — Haiti telecom operator Voila has been busy since the January 12 earthquake providing local and international service to over a million Haitian customers and thousands of incoming relief workers. However, Voila technicians are also assisting a host of agencies – from the US Coast Guard to international NGOs – to set up or restore public safety communications networks and to launch new text services tailored specifically for disaster relief. Working with the Irish Red Cross and the International Federation of the Red Cross Red Crescent (IFRC), Voila is sending text messages with vital health-related information to all of its customers over a 10 day period. Each message will appear in Creole and will be distributed as a public service. The Irish Red Cross, IFRC, and Voila plan to support this service with voice recordings about vaccination programs, sanitation tips, and other advice that users can access with a few keystrokes on their phones. As Voila customers pass the messages to others by word-of-mouth, the information campaign should reach 3 to 4 million Haitians. Robin Padberg, Voilas CEO, said, “We are pleased to partner with the Irish Red Cross and IFRC in providing a critical service that stands to protect a significant number of people from the inevitable spread of disease following this tragedy.” In collaboration with the US embassy, Voila is also participating in Mission 4636, which enables a mobile phone user to use a short code – 4636 – to text a free request for medical help or food to appropriate relief agencies. Organized by Samasource and Crowdflower, the project uses thousands of volunteers to translate the incoming messages to English and to redirect them to the Red Cross, Ushahidi, and a variety of NGOs, along with data indicating the location of each sender. The agencies can then direct aid where and when it is needed. Besides using its own wireless network to connect Haitians who need assistance with those who can provide it, Voila is helping Haitian and US government public safety agencies deploy their own communications systems, so that they can fulfill their public safety, rescue, and relief responsibilities. On the island of La Gonave, sitting in the gulf off of Port-au-Prince, police and fire radio services were knocked out by the earthquake. Voila technical experts traveled to the island, and installed new electrical equipment, a fuel tank and a generator, enabling Haitian police and fire authorities to respond to local needs. Voila will continue to monitor the ongoing emergency communications needs of the police and fire departments and supply additional fuel to the Gonave communications facility.
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — NASA fueled shuttle Endeavour for an early morning launch in darkness Sunday with the last major pieces of the International Space Station. Stiff wind rattled the launch site Saturday night as the fuel flowed into the shuttle, but forecasters were hopeful the gusts would subside in time for the 4:39 a.m. liftoff. The odds of good weather were 80 percent. Technicians had to adjust the flow of air into the crew cabin before fueling could begin. That made fueling a half-hour late but was not going to affect the launch time. The six astronauts assigned to the mission slept all afternoon to prepare for the graveyard shift during the 13-day flight.

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JOZY ALTIDORE has appealed to Hull boss Phil Brown to hand him a permanent deal. The USA hit-man, who joined the Tigers last summer on a season- long loan from La Liga outfit Villarreal, is now making a big impact at the KC Stadium after a slow start to his Premier League career. Altidore, 20, has become a firm crowd favourite and is desperate for City to take up their option to sign him full-time for pounds 6.5million at the end of this term. Altidore said: “I want to be here. England is a great place to play football, and the Premier League is the best league in the world.
DONCASTER 1 N.FOREST 0 Sharp 31 BILLY SHARP continues to embarrass Sheffield United for allowing him to leave Bramall Lane and he bagged the winner again yesterday. Sharp couldnt buy a goal for the Blades, so he was shipped out on loan to Doncaster at the start of the season. “Of course I would like to keep him permanently, but we will have to give United pounds 1m to do that.” A couple of weeks ago, promotion-chasing Forest were awesome. Yesterday, they were awful as they crashed to a third defeat in four league games.

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AUSTIN, Texas — The Farmers
Insurance Group of Companies® is pleased to announce the
introduction of a new homeowner’s insurance policy, called “Farmers Next
Generation Home Policy.” This new policy provides coverage flexibility,
innovative features and competitive pricing, which all adds up to
exceptional value.

“We’re thrilled to be able to provide Texas consumers with an improved
product for their hard-earned dollar,” said Jim Swope, Farmers Vice
President and State Executive Director for North Texas. “The great
service provided by our agents, combined with this new policy, will
provide new levels of value to consumers.”

“Our ‘Farmers Next Generation Home Policy’ will provide our
customers the ability to select a policy that they can tailor to fit
their specific insurance needs,” said John Henle, Farmers State
Executive Director for South Texas. “No two families are alike, so no
two families have the same insurance needs, and this policy gives more
options to suit every need. Farmers agents throughout Texas can be
contacted to find out more about the ‘Farmers Next Generation Home
Policy.’”

Available as of today, “Farmers Next Generation Home Policy” offers new
discounts for professionals such as physicians, educators and law
enforcement personnel. Homes with newer roofs will also qualify for
substantial savings. Policy features include what many customers might
expect such as replacement cost coverage for their home and personal
property along with coverage they might not expect to be included such
as Identity Fraud.

The average UK motorist will waste 16 days looking for their car keys in a lifetime(i), according to Swinton, the UKs leading high street retailer of car insurance .

A survey of 2,000 car insurance customers found that motorists spend on average one minute and 15 seconds each day searching for their car keys.

Women were worst offenders, spending on average an extra seven minutes and 21 seconds each week looking for their keys compared to men.

When it comes to age, young people are most forgetful, with 18-25 year olds spending on average to two minutes and 15 seconds per day finding keys, followed by 25-30 year olds with two minutes and three seconds. The 50 bracket lost their keys the least, and spent on average just 41 seconds per day key-searching.

Motorists from Sheffield seem to have the best memories, spending on average just 49 seconds per day looking for keys compared to drivers from Birmingham who spent a whopping three minutes and four seconds each day key finding.

The Government funded scrappage scheme has brought huge success to Britains beleaguered motor industry since its launch in May 2009, but as Motor Trade Insurance Specialist Flint Insurance warns, with money fast running out the trade looks set to face a tough year ahead.

On February 4th, the Government announced that the scheme had been extended by a month to help both car manufacturers and dealers prepare for the final stages. According to the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT), published figures show a 30% year on year increase in car sales in January 2009, but the monthly total was shockingly decreased by 17,000 vehicles compared to sales in January 2008.

The UK recession was officially announced as “over” at the start of 2010, but many car dealerships and manufacturers will take months and even years to recover. Last year the job cuts at Jaguar Land Rover in Merseyside and Nissans Sunderland plant only highlighted the difficulty that the industry was facing.

A spokesman from Flint Insurance commented, “The Governments scrappage scheme has been a huge success for what seems to have been an industry desperately keeping afloat. The motor industry has had a short boost from the scheme, but with the funding due to come to an end most will feel a sharp decrease in sales as people tighten the belts on their spending.”

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This databook provides comprehensive and up-to-date information on
technology spending within the insurance industry in Benelux.

Scope

Policy administration led the insurance technology spending in Benelux,
accounting for 24.6%, with a spend of $696.6m in 2007. Claims processing
followed, with a spend of $475.6m, accounting for 16.8% of the total
insurance technology spend in 2007.

The average UK motorist will waste 16 days looking for their car keys in a lifetime(i), according to Swinton, the UKs leading high street retailer of car insurance .

A survey of 2,000 car insurance customers found that motorists spend on average one minute and 15 seconds each day searching for their car keys.

Women were worst offenders, spending on average an extra seven minutes and 21 seconds each week looking for their keys compared to men.

When it comes to age, young people are most forgetful, with 18-25 year olds spending on average to two minutes and 15 seconds per day finding keys, followed by 25-30 year olds with two minutes and three seconds. The 50 bracket lost their keys the least, and spent on average just 41 seconds per day key-searching.

Motorists from Sheffield seem to have the best memories, spending on average just 49 seconds per day looking for keys compared to drivers from Birmingham who spent a whopping three minutes and four seconds each day key finding.

Swinton Bikes, one of the UKs leading motorbike insurance brokers, has seen hundreds of enquiries for their electric motorbike insurance deals since their launch in May last year.

An increasingly popular and powerful option, the new generation of electric bikes are light, economic and fast. One of the latest models, the Zero S Supermoto, delivers zero to 50mph in just five seconds, weighs in at just 122.5 kg and with no clutch and no need to change gears offers bikers a smooth and seriously fun ride.

The bikes also offer environmentally conscious motor-cyclists a greener alternative to their traditional petrol machines. The most recent models deliver only an eighth of the carbon emissions per mile than their petrol powered equivalents and will be fully charged and ready to go after only a few hours hooked up to a standardised domestic power socket.

Anthony Aronin, head of Swinton Bikes said: “It has been very exciting to watch the new electric motorbike models develop, and we are pleased to be able to keep up with the cutting-edge technology by providing competitive cover for the latest electric bike models.

“Judging by the significant number of electric motorcycle insurance enquiries we are receiving every week, there is clearly an appetite for these new machines. Whilst remaining committed to finding our best deals for all bikers out there, we understand the importance of investing in environmentally friendly modes of transport and can offer anyone thinking of investing in this new technology a great quote on all levels of cover.”

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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:
Young Britons are worried that the recession will rob them of employment prospects for years to come according to the latest Youth Commission report into young peoples employability.

The report, established by independent education foundation Edge s Learner Forum and supported by the Children, Schools and Families Select Committee , reveals the concerns young people have over finding a job. Two thirds (64 per cent) of young people believe that the recession will have a long-term effect on their employability.

And with youth unemployment hitting record highs last year and nearly a million young people still out of work(1) 58 per cent believe that radical changes need to be made to the education system to improve their employability.

The research, carried out in conjunction with teen community, Habbo Hotel , shows remarkable agreement about the changes that need to be introduced to the current education system to improve their employability with employment skills, careers advice and work experience identified as key.

The impact of a positive work experience is understood by the nations youth with nearly half of young people (48 per cent) saying they dont feel that they have had enough work experience to inform their career choice.

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WASHINGTON — What could be worse than health care overhaul? No health care overhaul. Its anybodys guess whether President Barack Obamas health remake will survive in Congress. But theres no doubting the consequences if lawmakers fail to address the problems of costs, coverage and quality: surging insurance premiums, more working families without coverage, bigger out-of-pocket bills, a Medicare prescription gap that grows wider and deeper, and government programs that pay when people get sick but do little to keep them healthy. For economist Douglas Holtz-Eakin, a top adviser to 2008 GOP presidential nominee John McCain, “no one has the luxury of saying were not going to worry about this.” While hes no fan of the Democrats approach, he said Republicans “are going to have to deliver something at some point. The question is whether they do it with this president leading or wait for a Republican president.”
pounds DESPITE over half of people saying in January 2009 that house prices wouldnt start to recover until late 2010, nearly a third now say that prices are starting to rise and 18 per cent say they have reached their lowest level. Research by financial website Unbiased.co.uk found that 22 per cent of people now think you may be able to negotiate up to 15 per cent extra on the asking price. pounds HOMEOWNERS whacked their heating up to a sweaty 23C during the cold snap last month. Researchers found the average central heating thermostat was set at 22.6C as we tackled one of the coldest winters for 30 years. The statistics were revealed by comparison site Confused.com on the day it emerged heating bills are set to rocket by 20 per cent. pounds DRIVERS making a claim on their motor insurance policy, with an “unprotected” no claims discount (NCD), could see the cost of their premiums increase by a staggering 73 per cent, claims moneysupermarket.com. Its research reveals if a policy holder who had five years unprotected NCD made a claim they would see premiums hiked from pounds 528 to pounds 911. However, motorists with five years protected NCD making a claim would only see an 18 per cent increase – from pounds 590 to pounds 694.

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A SEX beast cabbie jailed for raping a female passenger was allowed to continue to operate his taxi despite an attempt by gardai to remove his licence. Father-of-two John Ryan was jailed for seven years last week for raping and sexually assaulting a young female passenger after driving her to an isolated spot. The married cab driver had pleaded not guilty to rape and sexual assault of the now 21-year-old woman on October 17, 2007 after picking her up near a Limerick nightclub. Now the President of the Irish Taxi Drivers Federation, John Ussher, is calling for serious charges against taxi drivers to be fast-tracked by the courts to ensure the safety of the public.
A SEX beast cabbie jailed for raping a female passenger was allowed to continue to operate his taxi despite an attempt by gardai to remove his licence. Father-of-two John Ryan was jailed for seven years last week for raping and sexually assaulting a young female passenger after driving her to an isolated spot. The married cab driver had pleaded not guilty to rape and sexual assault of the now 21-year-old woman on October 17, 2007 after picking her up near a Limerick nightclub. Now the President of the Irish Taxi Drivers Federation, John Ussher, is calling for serious charges against taxi drivers to be fast-tracked by the courts to ensure the safety of the public.
His name is synonymous with love. Or should we say “their names”? St. Valentine — whether a single individual or several — joins St. Patrick and St. Nicholas as the three religious saints whose names are most ingrained in the public mind, thanks to their associations with popular secular holidays. While most standard calendars denote Feb. 14 as the celebration of St. Valentines Day — commonly simplified as Valentines Day — the liturgical celebration has long been removed from the Roman Catholic calendar because of uncertainties and scarcity of information regarding the man. While St. Valentine cant be found on the General Roman Calendar, hundreds of other saints are there, aligned with associated feasts and commemorations.

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SHAMED Vernon Kay yesterday made a grovelling apology to wife Tess Daly over his sex text “affairs”. live on Radio 1. He halted his weekly radio show to tell his two million listeners he deeply regretted betraying Strictly Come Dancing host Tess, 40. Vernon, 35, admitted he was a “fool” and “stupid” for sending explicit messages to glamour model Rhian Sugden and four other women. He said: “This week you may or may not be aware that, because of some foolish and stupid decisions Ive made, Ive disappointed and let down a lot of people. To my family and everybody else, I am very sorry. ” Producers cancelled any phone-ins from the public, fearing listeners would turn on Vernon. Instead they played back-to-back music, leaving Vernon – whose pounds 2million two-year ITV deal is up in a few weeks – little airtime to speak. At the end of t h e s h ow, Vernon left by taxi heading towards the mansion in Beaconsfield, Bucks, he shares with Tess and daughters, Phoebe, five, and nine-month-old Amber. A friend said: “He wanted to make a public apology. It shows how shame-faced he is.”
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:

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$20,000 in Cash Prizes for International Bayada Award for
Technological Innovation in Nursing Education and Practice

PHILADELPHIA — Drexel
University College of Nursing and Health Professions (CNHP)
announces the seventh annual Bayada
Award for Technological Innovation in Nursing Education and Practice.
The award, sponsored by brothers Mel and Mark Baiada, recognizes the
importance of incorporating technology in nursing for better patient
outcomes. Applications are being accepted now.

“We are proud to sponsor this award and recognize the vital
contributions of nurses through technology,” said Mark Baiada, Founder
and President of Bayada Nurses. “Innovation that focuses on nursing
education and practice can have a lasting impact on the field of nursing
and ultimately provide a better quality of life for the people that
nurses serve.”

DEAR AMY: My mother and “Barbie” started working in a nursing home more than 25 years ago and are good friends. Mom retired in 2008, and Barbie still works there part time. Mom suffered a stroke last spring and wanted us to put her in the home where she worked. At first, Barbie was so helpful. She truly was a godsend. But things have changed. Barbie visits my mom at the nursing home every single day, and I know mom likes to see her. My brother and I try to visit mom at least once a week, but our jobs and family commitments make it impossible for us to see her as often as we would like. She shows up at my mothers therapy sessions, has insulted her care manager, tried to insinuate herself into care meetings, has attempted to accompany mom to doctors appointments and even tried to persuade one of moms doctors to change her medication.
DEAR AMY: My mother and “Barbie” started working in a nursing home more than 25 years ago and are good friends. Mom retired in 2008, and Barbie still works there part time. Mom suffered a stroke last spring and wanted us to put her in the home where she worked. At first, Barbie was so helpful. She truly was a godsend. But things have changed. Barbie visits my mom at the nursing home every single day, and I know mom likes to see her. My brother and I try to visit mom at least once a week, but our jobs and family commitments make it impossible for us to see her as often as we would like. She shows up at my mothers therapy sessions, has insulted her care manager, tried to insinuate herself into care meetings, has attempted to accompany mom to doctors appointments and even tried to persuade one of moms doctors to change her medication.

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Soltoro Ltd. (TSX VENTURE: SOL) today closed a non-brokered private placement of 6,715,000 units (”Units”) at $0.35 per Unit for total gross proceeds of $2,350,250, subject to final approval of the TSX Venture Exchange. Directors of Soltoro authorized a $250,250 increase beyond the original $2,100,000 contemplated placement, as the issue was oversubscribed.

Each Unit consists of one common share and one half of one common share purchase warrant. Each whole warrant (”Warrant”) will entitle the holder to subscribe for one additional common share (a “Warrant Share”) at a price of $0.50 per Warrant Share for a period of 18 months from the date of closing. In the event that after four months and one day after the closing, the volume weighted average trading price of the Companys common shares on the TSX Venture Exchange (or such other stock exchange on which the Companys shares are listed and where a majority of the trading volume occurs), for a period of 20 consecutive trading days exceeds $0.65, the Company may, within five days after such an event, provide notice to the warrant holders of early expiry and thereafter, the Warrants will expire on the date which is 30 days after the date of the notice to the warrant holders.

In connection with the financing, the Company has issued to Axemen Resource Capital Ltd. (”Axemen”) 199,200 Units, in lieu of a cash finders fee, and 199,200 Finders Warrants. In addition, the Company has paid to Canaccord Financial Inc. (”Canaccord”) a cash finders fee of $71,085 and has issued to Canaccord 203,100 finders warrants (”Finders Warrants”). Each Finders Warrant will be exercisable to acquire one common share for a period of 18 months from the closing at a price of $0.50 per common share. Proceeds from the offering of $28,000 are being held in escrow pending receipt of final documentation.

Net proceeds of this private placement will be used to further the Companys exploration projects, fund possible new acquisitions and for general working capital. All securities issued pursuant to the private placement are subject to a four month and one day hold period.

Neither the TSX Venture Exchange nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in the policies of the TSX Venture Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release.

NEW YORK — Cornerstone Progressive Return Fund (NYSE Alternext US: CFP) (the
“Fund”), a closed-end management investment company, today announced
that in keeping with its previously adopted monthly distribution policy,
the Fund is declaring the following distributions:

The Board of Trustees (the “Board”) believes that the Fund’s
shareholders are well served by regular distributions which increase
liquidity and provide flexibility to individual shareholders in managing
their investment. Accordingly, it is the intention of the Board that the
Fund will make continuous monthly distributions. The monthly
distributions will be reviewed by the Board and declared periodically
throughout the year. From time to time, the Board may consider resetting
the distribution amount.

It should be noted that the distributions made pursuant to this policy
are not tied to the Fund’s investment income or capital gains and do not
represent yield or investment return on the Fund’s portfolio. The
distribution policy will be reviewed and approved at least annually by
the Board and can be modified at their discretion for the benefit of the
Fund and its shareholders. The Board remains convinced that a managed
distribution policy of this kind enhances flexibility for shareholders
in managing their investment in the Fund. Shareholders have the option
of reinvesting all or a portion of these distributions in additional
shares of the Fund through the Fund’s reinvestment plan or receiving
them in cash. Shareholders should carefully read the description of the
reinvestment plan contained in the Fund’s report to shareholders.

Under the distribution policy, the Fund’s distributions will consist
either of (1) earnings, (2) capital gains, or (3) return-of-capital,
also known as paid-in-capital, or some combination of one or more of the
above. A return-of-capital is the return of a portion of the investor’s
original investment. Given the current economic environment and the
composition of the Fund’s portfolio, a substantial portion of the Fund’s
distributions made during the current calendar year is expected to
consist principally of a return of the investor’s capital. Accordingly,
these distributions should not be confused with yield or investment
return on the Fund’s portfolio. The final composition of the
distributions for 2010 cannot be determined until after the end of the
year and is subject to change depending on market conditions during the
year and the magnitude of income and realized gains for the year.

HONOLULU — The board of directors of Hawaiian Electric Industries, Inc. (NYSE:HE)
today maintained the regular quarterly cash dividend of 31 cents per
share, payable March 10, 2010 to stockholders of record at the close of
business on February 22, 2010 (ex-dividend date is February 18, 2010).
The dividend is equivalent to an annual rate of $1.24 per share.

Dividends have been paid continuously since 1901. At the indicated
annual dividend rate and the closing share price on February 11, 2010 of
$19.84, HEI’s yield is 6.25%.

In addition, HEI’s 27th annual meeting of shareholders has been
scheduled for Tuesday, May 11, 2010 at 9:30 a.m., in Room 805, American
Savings Bank Tower 8th Floor, 1001 Bishop Street, Honolulu,
Hawaii. Shareholders of record at the close of business on March 3, 2010
will be entitled to vote.

HEI supplies power to over 400,000 customers or 95% of the Hawaii market
through its electric utilities, Hawaiian Electric Company, Inc., Hawaii
Electric Light Company, Inc. and Maui Electric Company, Limited, and
provides a wide array of banking and other financial services to
consumers and businesses through American Savings Bank, F.S.B., one of
Hawaii’s largest financial institutions.

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ROCKVILLE, Md. — Catalyst Health Solutions, Inc. (NASDAQ: CHSI), a pharmacy benefit
management company, will release its fourth quarter earnings results on
Tuesday, February 23, 2010, after the market closes.

The Company will hold a conference call on Wednesday, February 24, 2010,
at 10:00 a.m. Eastern time. To participate, call 1-877-718-5106, access
code 4973689 ten minutes prior to the scheduled start time, and request
to be connected to the Catalyst Health Solutions Q4 Earnings Call.

Following brief opening remarks, the conference call will be open for a
question-and-answer session. The conference call will be available for
telephonic replay from February 24th, after 1:00 p.m. Eastern
time, through March 6th at 1:00 p.m. Eastern time. To access
the replay, dial 1-888-203-1112, replay access code 4973689.

Catalyst Health Solutions, Inc. is built on strong, innovative
principles in the management of prescription drug benefits and provides
an unbiased, client-centered philosophy resulting in industry-leading
client retention rates. The Companys subsidiaries include Catalyst Rx,
a full-service pharmacy benefit manager serving more than 6 million
lives in the United States and Puerto Rico; HospiScript Services, LLC,
one of the largest providers of pharmacy benefit management services to
the hospice industry; and Immediate Pharmaceutical Services, Inc., a
fully-integrated prescription mail service facility in Avon Lake, Ohio.
The Companys clients include self-insured employers including state and
local governments, managed care organizations, unions, hospices,
third-party administrators and individuals.

Judge rules Florala and Andalusia tax assessments valid

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — A Montgomery Circuit Court judge has upheld tax assessments administered
by PRA Government Services, LLC (d/b/a Revenue Discovery Systems (RDS))
and granted summary judgments in two cases affirming taxes owed to the
cities of Florala and Andalusia by a local pharmacy. Judge Eugene W.
Reese ruled Wednesday, Feb. 10, 2010 that the tax ordinances under which
RDS had issued assessments on behalf of the two cities were “plain and
unambiguous and therefore … valid on their face.” The two cases made
various claims against the cities and RDS including challenges to the
constitutionality of the local business tax ordinance, violations of due
process, violations of the Taxpayer Bill of Rights (TBOR) and
allegations of improper contingency fee billing by RDS. Judge Reese
dismissed each action in its entirety.

“We are pleased that the taxes we assisted our client cities to assess
were determined to be clearly due and owing in such a forceful and clear
manner,” said Kennon Walthall, President of PRA Government Services
d/b/a RDS.

Based in Birmingham, Ala., RDS is a government services company
providing revenue enhancement support services to state and local
government in the areas of tax administration, revenue discovery
recovery, and compliance audit examination.

CARY, N.C. — Biologics, Inc., the leading cancer management company in the
United States, announces that its Oncology Clinical Trial Services
division has been selected by the National Marrow Donor Program®
(NMDP), a nonprofit organization that facilitates unrelated
hematopoietic cell transplants.

Biologics’ Oncology Clinical Trial Services division is providing
pharmacy management services for an NMDP Phase III trial that is
determining the safety and efficacy of filgrastim (Neupogen®)-stimulated
peripheral blood stem cells (PBSC) in hematopoietic cell transplants
involving unrelated donors. The trial is also investigating the effects
of the donation process on the unrelated stem cell donors.

According to the NMDP, PBSC is now used more often than marrow for adult
patients in need of allogeneic and autologous transplants. PBSC donors
receive injections of the drug Neupogen for five days prior to the
donation to stimulate the growth of more blood-forming cells and their
release from the donor’s marrow and into the bloodstream. The blood
cells can then be collected on an outpatient basis, through less
invasive methods than those used in marrow collection.

Biologics is responsible for inventory management and coordination of
the on-time delivery of approximately 200 shipments a month of Neupogen.
More than 50 NMDP donor sites throughout the United States are
participating in the trial, which is conducted under an FDA
investigational new drug protocol. While Biologics’ involvement is
recent, the trial started in 1997. Fifteen-thousand donors are expected
to participate by 2012.

As is the case for many clinical trial protocols, timing is a critical
component for this study. Biologics’ Oncology Clinical Trial Services
division must adhere to the protocol’s time constraints in order to
successfully support the complex transplant schedule. In addition, the
drug must be shipped overnight in temperature-controlled packaging to
ensure the stability of the drug.

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Excel Inc., the worlds leading provider of next-generation transcoding
solutions for Mobile
TV WebTV ,
today announced that it is expanding its HERA4000
product line by offering the most advanced suite of WebTV technologies
designed for Operators, Web Portals and Media Content owners that plan to
broadcast “Over the Top” live TV or Video on Demand content to multiple TV,
PC, notebook and tablet devices through multiple networks.

The new features include full interoperability with the leading streaming
technologies for WebTV such as HTTP adaptive streaming, content and pipe
based encryption, Standard and High Definition outputs, compatibility with
all types of devices that can receive IP streams and simultaneous
transmission over multiple networks, including Cable, Copper, Optical,
3G/4G, Wimax or Wi-Fi. The new WebTV features are seamlessly incorporated
in Media Excels HERA4000 transcoding product line as an integrated set, on
top of a large variety of Mobile TV outputs that are offered concurrently
within the same solution. The new set of features and outputs will take
advantage of the advanced algorithmic and management software suite that
has made Media Excel the preferred solution for the worlds most
high-profile Mobile TV and WebTV deployments.

Nikos Kyriopoulos, Product Director at Media Excel, said, “We are
responding to our customer requirements for an integrated video solution
that addresses the needs of Mobile TV and WebTV markets for multiple
screens and networks, all out of one appliance. We expect the launch of new
smartphones and tablet products to accelerate the need for Over The Top
and Mobile video services as an integrated offering. Media Excel customers
can effectively accommodate multiple delivery mechanisms with the maximum
encoding density and without the need for an additional relay/proxy
appliance.”

Media Excels high-density, high quality video compression product line is
based on Texas Instruments DaVinci chipset, providing a low power, high
density solution with world-class video quality. Media Excel current
customers include the worlds largest live Mobile TV and WebTV networks,
providing a multitude of low to high video resolutions out of one box.
Media Excels solutions are addressing the growing Mobile TV, WebTV and
IPTV markets and the expanding needs of telcos, wireless operators, cable
and satellite operators in their pursuit to offer cost-effective network
video solutions for multiple screens while reducing energy consumption.

“We are very excited to see MEDIA EXCEL, a strategic collaborator in our
video ecosystem, utilizing the full capacity and performance of our
scalable, low power, DaVinci solutions,” said Ramesh Kumar, business
manager of TIs multicore and media infrastructure business. “The
combination of TIs high performance, power efficient devices and Media
Excels high quality video compression products effectively addresses our
customers growing need for Over the Top Video for Wireless, Cable,
Satellite and Telco Operators who require scalable, flexible, low power
video transcoders for Mobile TV and WebTV.”

Compliance rates low on egress, fire safety For the first time in several years, The Joint Commission standards and goals with the lowest compliance rates are not directly related to the delivery of health care. In its annual listing of the standards or goals with the highest rates of noncompliance for the first six months of 2009, The Joint Commission listed the following: Life Safety (LS) 02.01.20: The hospital maintains the integrity of the means of egress, 45% noncompliant; Record of Care, Treatment, and Services (RC) 02.03.07: Qualified staff receive and record verbal orders, 40% noncompliant;

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Barbary Lions are Believed to be Extinct in the Wild; Less than 100
Believed to Exist in the World

AUSTIN, Texas — Austin Zoo recently received two lions into its care – Cleopatra and
Caesar. The possibility exists that the new residents could be Barbary
lions. Barbary lions are believed to be extinct in the wild with less
than 100 in captivity in zoos around the world. Austin Zoo is working
with other zoos and conservation societies, as well as the Barbary Lion
Project, to ensure the well being of their new lion family. Mother
Cleopatra has since given birth to lion cubs.

“As always, the mission of Austin Zoo is to rescue and rehabilitate,”
said Patti Clark, executive director of Austin Zoo. “We took in the
lions from a private owner who was no longer able to house them as has
been our policy for many years. As we are not a breeding zoo, the
arrival of the cubs was a rare but exciting event. We are doing all we
can to assist the Barbary Lion Project in determining whether these
cubs, as well as Cleopatra and Caesar, will be eligible to help renew
the Barbary lion in the wild.”

The Barbary Lion Project is an ambitious program by WildLink
International in conjunction with Oxford University, to resurrect the
Barbary lion population and to ultimately release the lions into a
national park in the Atlas Mountains in Morocco. While the Barbary lion
is believed to be extinct, strains of the DNA still exist in lion
populations in captivity. The Barbary Lion Project program will isolate
the strongest candidates for breeding to ensure the comeback of the
Barbary lion.

“It was surely a difficult choice for Austin Zoo to participate in the
Urgent Population Assessment of panthera leo leo without prophylactic
options such as separation,” said Pete Thompson of WildLink
International. “European zoos that have acquired and bred Barbary lions
from Morocco were asked to provide DNA samples in 2008 and some are
still awaited. Austin Zoo has been the most recent zoo to participate
and submitted their lion DNA samples to Dr. Burger at the lab in Germany
in just a few weeks. Patti and her dedicated team demonstrate that zoos
can help Host Country conservation with swift responsible action. These
efforts are very greatly appreciated.”

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Expense Reduction Consulting® Services are
Now Available through AdviCoaches

“ERC’s cost control programs and proprietary software have generated
significant savings for many business owners,” said Brian
Miller, COO and President of AdviCoach. “These programs strongly
complement the business strategies and solutions we offer our clients to
ensure more robust and faster cost savings.”

These cost cutting programs join the armory of services AdviCoaches
bring to entrepreneurs. Through a supportive partnership with business
owners, AdviCoaches work with clients to assess their business’
performance in critical areas, address gaps and overcome obstacles to
drive immediate results. “We work collaboratively with our clients to
make them aware of their blind spots and the possibilities in their
businesses. Through education and coaching, and the implementation of
rapid impact strategies, we can help increase profits and bring their
businesses to the next level of success,” Miller added.

Now the practices of AdviCoaches can also offer companies and
organizations measurable cost savings in various indirect expense
categories such as supplies, telecommunications, staffing, printing,
maintenance contracts and professional services.

Corefino Buyers Replacing On-Premise Technology and Headcount ‘Budget
Busters’;

New Analyst Research: Software-as-a-Service Delivers Long-Term ROI,
Many Levels

SUNNYVALE, Calif. — Corefino, a new Silicon-Valley based company offering a turnkey
outsourced online
accounting solution to mid-market Chief Financial Officers (CFO’s),
said today that its growing list of customers continue to validate
savings of 25-40% or more following a move away from on-premise
solutions. Marketing its bundled software-as-a-service (SaaS) plus
people outsourcing solutions as “The Future of 21st Century
Accounting™,” Corefino CEO Karen Watts cites new industry research from
leading technology analysts that substantiates multiple long-term
benefits from outsourcing.

“The powerful global software companies have huge customer footprints
and profitable on-premise hardware and software business models to
protect,” explains Karen Watts, CEO of Corefino, and a former CFO who
bought and installed many of the industry’s best-known systems for her
former employers. “The big ERP (enterprise resource provider) companies
want companies to continue to believe that SaaS
accounting solutions are cost effective only for the
short-term. That’s completely inaccurate. Cloud-based software saves
companies money over both the short-term AND long-term.”

Watts said that with the perpetual, never-ending cycle of purchasing,
installing and upgrading on-premise software, mid-sized companies get
caught in a financial doom loop that busts budgets and traps them into
long-term spend cycles. “Companies have long known the benefits of
outsourcing non-strategic activities to experts with deep business
processes, much like ADP has done for the payroll function,” says Watts.
“Corefino had taken that same value proposition but provided an even
greater return by adding a complete turnkey people-place-platform
solution that allows CFO’s to focus on more strategic activities.”

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