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HQ Sustainable Maritime Industries, Inc.
(NYSE Amex: HQS) (”HQS” or the “Company”), a leading producer of
functional, sustainable Tilapia biomass, including fish and personal
healthcare products, will announce results for the fourth quarter ended
December 31, 2009 on Monday, March 15, 2010, after market close. The
Company will also host a conference call to discuss these results with
additional comments and details. Participating on the call will be Norbert
Sporns, President and Chief Executive Officer, and Jean-Pierre Dallaire,
Chief Financial Officer.

A telephonic playback will be available from 7:30 p.m. EST, March 15, 2010,
through March 29, 2010. Domestic participants may dial 877-660-6853 and
international participants may dial 201-612-7415 to hear the playback. The
account number is 3055 and the passcode is 346479.

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Onward Healthcare , Inc., one of the nations largest providers of healthcare staffing services, announced today that it has signed an exclusive vendor management services agreement with Good Shepherd Penn Partners (GSPP), a healthcare rehabilitation leader in the greater-Philadelphia marketplace.

GSPP is a joint venture between Good Shepherd Rehabilitation Network in Allentown, PA, and Penn Medicine located in Philadelphia, PA. GSPP is a patient-centric rehabilitation services organization, and the physicians and staff of GSPP provide comprehensive rehabilitation and specialty services, including: inpatient rehabilitation care at the Penn Institute for Rehabilitation Medicine; long-term acute care at the Specialty Hospital at Rittenhouse; outpatient rehabilitation care at Penn Therapy Fitness; and physical, occupational and speech therapy services within three acute-care hospitals of Penn Medicine (Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Hospital and Penn Presbyterian Medical Center).

“The demand for rehabilitation professionals needed to meet the challenges of todays patient care environment is considerable. After conducting a lengthy and in-depth review of the market offerings for a preferred vendor, we are pleased to exclusively engage Onward Healthcare to provide GSPP with a customized service offering. Working with Onward, a long-time vendor, will allow us to focus on providing the highest quality care to our patients,” said Kim Grosch, Interim Director of Therapy Services for GSPP.

“We are very respectful of GSPPs rich tradition of providing quality and compassionate care to their patients, and we are excited to advance our relationship from vendor to preferred partner,” stated Nicole Poore, Vice President of Allied Operations for Onward. “In the current economy, we are committed to efficiently and cost-effectively managing GSPPs workforce solutions so that they can focus on delivering world class patient care.”

ABOUT ONWARD HEALTHCARE
Onward Healthcare is a leading provider of integrated travel and local contract staffing for travel registered nurses and allied health professionals , as well as vendor managed services for large health systems. Onward is fully certified by the Joint Commission and currently staffs clients in all 50 states including hospitals, outpatient clinics, magnet facilities, government facilities, schools, and long-term care facilities. Founded in 2002, Onward Healthcare is headquartered in Wilton, CT with local staffing offices in Encinitas, CA, Louisville, CO, Deerfield Beach, FL, Cherry Hill, NJ, Livingston, NJ and Melville, NY.

Sage North America today announced that Annapolis
Pediatrics, a leading healthcare provider to infants, children, adolescents
and young adults in Annapolis, MD and surrounding communities, has selected
Sage to implement the Sage Intergy Suite of financial and clinical products
across its four clinics. Sage has been providing ambulatory healthcare
systems for almost 30 years, serving more than 80,000 physicians in the
United States with practice management, electronic health records, and
other services to streamline patient care.

Annapolis Pediatrics, which served over 70,000 patients last year, sought a
new practice management and EHR solution that would provide instant access
to patient clinical information and greater flexibility in scheduling
across locations, along with more advanced reporting capability. After an
extensive review process, Annapolis Pediatrics selected the Sage Intergy
Suite for its ability to streamline processes and ultimately increase
quality of patient care.

According to Annapolis Pediatrics, Sage was chosen over three other vendors
because of Intergys sophisticated yet easy-to-use features that allow
users to navigate easily through complex practice workflows. Sage Intergys
integrated practice management and EHR solution easily connects with
existing systems, improves clinical documentation with easy template
customization, and offers financial benefits through billing error
reduction.

“With our previous solution, it was extremely difficult to locate and
access patient records across offices or out in the field,” said Lisa
Wannemacher, practice administrator for Annapolis Pediatrics. “The Intergy
Suite provides the advanced capabilities we need in an easy-to-use
interface that simplifies processes and reduces employee training time,
which allows us to focus on patient care.”

For Annapolis Pediatrics, with 70 employees and 21 practitioners, Sage
Intergy will also increase efficiency in connecting with patients and
pharmacies. With the solution, practitioners are able to quickly share
information with patients through an online portal as well as send
prescriptions to pharmacies electronically, thereby saving time and
enhancing the patient experience.

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KYOTO, Japan — OMRON Corporation (TOKYO:6645)(ADR:OMRNY) has announced donation of JPY
2 million to support victims of the massive earthquake that struck Chile
on February 27.

The donation, which will be made through Japan Platform (JPF), will be
used to support rescue efforts and provide emergency medical care to
victims.

OMRON wishes to express its sincere condolences to all those who have
been affected by the disasters.

KYOTO, Japan — OMRON Corporation (TOKYO:6645)(ADR:OMRNY) has announced donation of JPY
2 million to support victims of the massive earthquake that struck Chile
on February 27.

The donation, which will be made through Japan Platform (JPF), will be
used to support rescue efforts and provide emergency medical care to
victims.

OMRON wishes to express its sincere condolences to all those who have
been affected by the disasters.

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LegacyCollectionOnline.com is proud to present its newest addition to its collectibles catalog. It is an autographed Bruce Springsteen album. This album was professionally framed and matted, and it comes with two Certificates of Authenticity and a signed appraisal.

LegacyCollectionOnline.com is a collectibles company based out of South Florida featuring a combination of music, sports and movie memorabilia that has been compiled throughout the years. LegacyCollectionOnline.com has taken great care to assure that every item they sell is 100% authentic. To do this, we only deal with the best in the business. Our in-house authentication expert, Bernard Lewis has been featured on many television and radio shows. He brings over 20 years of experience to our company.

LegacyCollectionOnline.com deals in only top quality, first class merchandise. Their focus is on authenticity of the merchandise; making sure every item has been examined by an outside expert as well as an in-house specialist. Providing excellent customer service, LegacyCollectionOnline.com offers a full 30 day money back guarantee. Their focus is on the customers happiness, and theyre not happy unless the customer is fully satisfied.

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RESTON, Va. — QuadraMed® Corporation (NASDAQ:QDHC), a leading provider of
healthcare information technologies and services that help turn quality
care into positive financial outcomes, today announced stockholder
approval of QuadraMed’s acquisition by Francisco Partners, one of the
world’s largest technology-focused private equity firms.

At the March 9, 2010 special meeting QuadraMed’s stockholders approved
the Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated as of December 7, 2009, by and
among QuadraMed and acquisition entities formed by Francisco Partners.
QuadraMed previously announced its entry into this Agreement on December
8, 2009. The all-cash transaction for all of QuadraMed’s stock is valued
at approximately $126 million.

With this approval, Francisco Partners will acquire QuadraMed via its
acquisition entities with QuadraMed remaining as a wholly owned
subsidiary of Francisco Partners. The acquisition is expected to close
next week, subject to the satisfaction of various closing conditions of
the parties pursuant to the terms of the Agreement.

“We are pleased that QuadraMed’s shareholders have approved the pending
acquisition,” said Duncan W. James, QuadraMed’s President and Chief
Executive Officer. “Francisco Partners brings QuadraMed extensive
resources and a proven track record of helping hospitals and health
systems execute on their strategic and operational goals. We look
forward to working with Francisco Partners on our priorities, which
include helping our clients meet their ARRA Meaningful Use goals,
preparing for ICD-10, and leveraging improvements in care quality to
improve their bottom line.”

In connection with the merger, QuadraMed has submitted a request to the
NASDAQ Global Market for withdrawal of the listing of its common stock.
QuadraMed’s proposed delisting is contingent, among other conditions, on
the closing of the merger. To effect the delisting, NASDAQ will file a
Form 25 with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

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In the popular press, grape extracts have been touted as miracle compounds that can do everything from cure cancer to reverse aging. These claims may be a little premature, but beneficial substances within grapes have been found to provide a variety of benefits for overall health and wellness. Sports scientists are now starting to demonstrate that grape components can benefit physical performance and recovery, as well. Grapes contain a multitude of beneficial substances classified as polyphenols. One you may have heard a lot about is resveratrol. This phytochemical, found mainly in the skins and seeds of the grape, has been shown to help prevent certain types of cancer and heart disease, as well as extend lifespan, bolster muscle endurance and even help with fat loss. Polyphenols act as antioxidants. During exercise, free radical formation can result in excessive muscle damage that can impede performance and recovery. Antioxidants help to neutralize free radicals, which may help reduce muscle damage while maintaining strength. Grapes are considered to be one of the most concentrated sources of antioxidants among all fruits and vegetables. THE STUDY French researchers conducted a study in which 20 elite male athletes from various sports received a grape extract or a placebo every day for one month. Following the one-month treatment, each subject had a two-week break, and then received the alternative treatment for another month. During the entire study, all athletes continued with their normal intensive training routines. Several tests were conducted during each study period to measure changes in overall power, antioxidant status and muscle damage. THE RESULTS When subjects took the grape extract their antioxidant levels were much higher compared to when they received the placebo treatment. Muscle damage was also found to be significantly lower during the grape extract treatment. The improvements in antioxidant status and muscle damage didnt translate into improved muscle power in all of the athletes tested, but a subgroup of handball players (10 of the 20 subjects) did gain increased overall power. The researchers also found that the subjects who experienced the least muscle damage due to grape supplementation had the greatest overall improvements in muscle power. THE DOSAGE Take 200-500 milligrams of grape extract, or grape-seed extract (Vitis vinifera) standardized for at least 80% polyphenols, in the morning and about 30-60 minutes before workouts.
CANTON, Texas — Homemade Gourmet®, a company dedicated to its customers and
Consultants, decided to issue a recall last week on its Tortilla Soup
Mix. The Tortilla Soup Mix that was recalled contained an ingredient
distributed by Best Flavored Foods of Las Vegas, that potentially
contained Salmonella. If the soup was prepared per the cooking
instructions there would be zero chance of a health risk to its
customers. Regardless, Homemade Gourmet® decided to recall
the product. Later it was confirmed that the Homemade Gourmet Tortilla
Soup Mix was in fact, not tainted.

When asked why the recall, the company’s CEO Ken Johnsen
stated, ”Homemade Gourmet® has been selling food to
millions of families for more than 12 years, and we take pride in
offering great tasting, high quality and safe products. Why take even
the slightest chance when your customers health is at stake.” As part
of the voluntary recall process, Homemade Gourmet® immediately
contacted all 184 customers who purchased the Tortilla Soup Mix and
offered an exchange or refund. The company has received positive
response about the decision as well as the process of handling the
recall.

Homemade Gourmet® has an excellent relationship with the Food
and Drug Administration (FDA). Over the past three years and as recently
as February 2010, the FDA has inspected the company’s plant and
determined they are in complete control of quality in the manufacturing
process.

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As spring approaches and the weather starts to improve, motorcyclist enthusiasts across the UK will be bringing their bikes out of winter storage.

Swinton Bikes, the UKs leading high street retailer of motorcycle insurance , is urging bikers to ensure their bike is safe and roadworthy before hitting the roads.

Swinton Bikes is offering the following tips to ensure bikers get the best out of their bikes post-winter:

- Uncover the motorcycle and remove the protections over the intake and exhaust manifolds

- Check the battery, which should be fully charged or close to fully charged

Many vacant commercial properties in the UK may have inadequate Commercial Property Insurance despite facing a significantly increased risk of arson and malicious damage. Following similar warnings from the UKs largest insurance group, Aviva, the independent commercial insurance broker, Flint Insurance, is urging owners of empty properties to remember the importance of Commercial Insurance during these financially challenging times.

Latest research from the Local Data Company shows that the worst affected areas of the UK are experiencing a level of empty commercial properties that is hitting a 24 per cent high. The UK average for empty commercial properties is currently 12 per cent. The Local Data Companys research is representative of 92 per cent of the UK, covering more than 390,000 retail and leisure premises.

Inadequate commercial insurance can lead to financial loss for the owners of empty properties if they fall prey to acts of vandalism; furthermore, failure to inform an insurance provider that a commercial property is empty could invalidate a property owners insurance. Owners of vacant properties must also ensure that their buildings are adequately insured in response to wider legal concerns, as identified by a property risk manager for Aviva, who said:

“Empty units must be adequately protected – every year, over three million properties are vandalised and 25 per cent of this malicious damage occurs in empty properties with arson costing Pounds Sterling 2 billion”.

Advantage Title’s GFEz™ Good Faith Estimate (GFE) Rate
Calculator Delivers Easy Online Calculation of Title and Escrow Related
Fees

IRVINE, Calif. — Advantage Title, a leading provider of technically advanced title
insurance and escrow services powered by Title365, introduced its new
GFEz™ RESPA-compliant online rate calculator that delivers instantly
generated, reliable electronic quotes for title premiums, endorsement,
payoff, and recording fees, transfer taxes and other title and closing
related fees for lender and real estate customers nationwide.

January 1, 2010 marked the implementation of Real Estate
Settlement Procedures Act (RESPA) reform requiring lenders to provide
residential customers with a new format for Good Faith Estimate (GFE),
documentation that estimates settlement charges and summarizes loan
terms for customers. In most situations, title fees must
fall within a tolerance level group that cannot collectively vary more
than 10 percent in compliance with this reform.

“In light of the recent RESPA regulations, GFEz continues
Advantage Titles demonstrated expertise in delivering superior online
resources for title and escrow services that streamline efficiencies
critical to today’s real estate community,” said Michael Tafoya, CEO of
Advantage Title. “We are confident our GFEz rate calculator, together
with our industry-proven Title365 transaction management platform,
should prove appealing to lenders and real estate professionals looking
for superior efficiency thanks to an accurate and user-friendly solution
for online GFE quoting capabilities.”

Advantage Title’s new GFEz boasts the industry’s most extensive,
user-friendly benefits and features, including:

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CHICAGO, March 5 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Newspaper bankruptcies and closings, vanishing advertising revenues, free online content, and the 140-character tweet are shredding profits of traditional media. The next Turnaround Management Association webinar convenes media and legal experts and turnaround practitioners to talk about the media industry in a post-Web 2.0 world. “Darwin on Media — Not Everyone Can Survive,” will take place from noon to 1 p.m. Eastern, Tuesday, March 9. Kenneth R. Yager, principal, MorrisAnderson, Chicago. With nearly 20 years executive experience in general management and capital raising, Yager has assumed PL responsibility for cash-constrained companies in growth, leveraged buyout and turnaround situations and served as interim senior manager in various industries.
BOCA RATON, Fla. — Sun Capital Partners, Inc. (“Sun Capital”), a leading private investment
firm specializing in leveraged buyouts and investments in
underperforming companies, today announced that its affiliate Protective
Products Enterprises has acquired substantially all of the assets of
Protective Products of America through a 363 bankruptcy sale. The sale
was approved by the Bankruptcy Court of the Southern District of Florida
on February 19, 2010. The company, which ranks among the top qualified
U.S. providers of soft body armor for military and law enforcement
personnel, will continue to operate under its recognized brand,
“Protective Products”.

“We are delighted with our agreement to be acquired by an affiliate of
Sun Capital,” said Neil Schwartzman, Acting CEO, Protective Products
Enterprises. “As a result of the reorganization, our company re-enters
the market with a simplified business model and stronger capital
structure, and is better positioned overall to continue to supply our
customers with the highest quality, certified protective ballistic
products. With Sun Capital’s financial support and extensive
manufacturing experience, Protective Products now has the necessary
resources to invest in our business and pursue the numerous domestic and
international growth opportunities that exist in the current marketplace.

Said Brian McGee, Vice President at Sun Capital Partners, “We look
forward to working closely with the management team and board of
directors to further capitalize on the Company’s position as a leading
provider of a comprehensive line of high quality protective products. We
foresee a number of opportunities to grow the business both organically
and through add-on acquisitions.”

Farlie Turner’s Special Situation Group served as the Company’s
investment banker and financial advisor.

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BOCA RATON, Fla. — Not long ago, high-net-worth divorcing couples used to worry about who
kept the Swiss chateau, the Mercedes-Benz or the 5-carat diamond watch.
Now, with plummeting home prices, business failures and a rising tide of
personal bankruptcies, all too often the big financial question is how
to split up the debt.

“Unfortunately, many South Florida couples are now ‘underwater’
financially,” said Boca Raton divorce attorney Doreen M. Yaffa, managing
partner at Yaffa Associates. “In working out the details of a
settlement, they may need to adjust their expectations downward.”

Yaffa, who is board certified in matrimonial and family law, is
counseling several clients whose liabilities now exceed their assets.
For instance, one couple saw the market value of their estate home fall
from $2 million to $1 million in the past three years. Since the home
still has a $1.5 million mortgage, the owners are now “underwater” in
real estate parlance.

“Higher personal debt – such as credit cards, automobile loans or
gambling losses – is another concern for many couples,” she added. “In
some cases, those liabilities can be covered by selling other assets,
such as a sailboat, jewelry, or antiques, in order to reach an equitable
settlement.”

For couples who still have significant assets, Yaffa recommends
conducting a detailed financial investigation to uncover any hidden debt
surprises. “All too often, one of the spouses has a secret bank account
or a personal credit card. In the past, we would add those funds to the
joint marital assets. Now, they could also be a source of marital debt.”

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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.
PETERBOROUGH 0 COVENTRY 1 Stead 24 JON STEADS first-half winner enabled Coventry to close in on the Coca-Cola Championship play-off places as Peterborough slipped a step closer to relegation. Stead ran through to score the second goal of his loan spell from Ipswich as Jim Gannon lost his winning touch at London Road. Posh are now 13 points adrift of safety with just 12 games remaining and their brief flirtation with secondtier football is rapidly coming to an end. Winger Chris Whelpdale took just nine seconds to smash a shot inches wide from the edge of the area as Posh made a lively start.

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Tough guy actor Mickey Rourke has a pixie ear. Honest.

Dr. Verret believes that many of the great performers who have been nominated for Academy Awards over the years have had cosmetic surgery to extend the length of their careers.

“While the only people who really know if theyve had work done are the patient and surgeon and neither is likely to talk about it, the truth is that a good surgeon can tell when theres been work done just by looking at someones face,” Dr. Verret said. “Just like a great film director can deconstruct another directors film because they know how to put one together, a surgeon intimately familiar with the cosmetic procedures can spot the tell tale signs that someones been under the knife.”

For instance, Dr. Verret believes that Oscar(C) nominee Penelope Cruz was the recipient of a nose job.

AN IRISH couple are in a frantic race against time to save their heroin junkie daughter from dying on the other side of the world. Claire Murray, 24, may have vas little as three months to live unless she gets a liver transplant. She was given a new organ last year, but it failed when she started taking drugs again. And it has stopped her having a second transplant after medics said it would be unfair for her to jump the queue. Last night, she was in hospital after an emergency flight to Singapore.

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Altus Learning Systems, a leader in enterprise video search solutions for sales enablement and knowledge sharing, announced today that Network Products Guide, a leading information technology research and advisory guide, has named Altus vSearch a 2010 Product Innovation Award winner in the SaaS and Cloud Computing category. The annual awards competition recognizes and honors vendors from all over the world that have delivered innovative, ground-breaking products that have set the bar higher for others in all areas of information technology.

Altus VirtualEvent™ is an on-line tool for meetings, conferences and other events that integrates live webcasting, user interactivity, and full-text searchable video. With Altus VirtualEvent, companies now have a single platform for on-line meetings and events that includes both live and on-demand content distribution.

“Innovation is not just about new products alone,” said Rake Narang, editor-in-chief at Network Products Guide. “To succeed, companies need to see innovation not as a one-time objective but as something that has to be continuously evolved and improved upon. This requires putting greater focus on customer needs and making innovation the center of a companys way of developing better solutions. Innovative products such as Altus vSearch are bringing improvements in corporate knowledge sharing, full-text searchable video and on-demand access to corporate information.”

“We are immensely gratified to be recognized by Network Product Guide for our innovation and leadership in the SaaS and Cloud solutions,” said Ted Cocheu, CEO of Altus Learning Systems. “Product innovation is key to meeting and exceeding our customers expectations and driving company growth.”

Sales Simplicity Extends It Record-Breaking Sales Streak, as
Demonstrable R.O.I. Wins Over Record Numbers of Builders

CHANDLER, Ariz. — Sales Simplicity Software, the widely acknowledged leader in sales
automation, CRM, and eMarketing for the builder, developer, and
senior-living sectors, announced today that it has started the 2010
sales year with a bang. In just the first ten weeks of 2010, Sales
Simplicity has executed or scheduled ten new builder deployments. These
new builder-customers will access the award-winning capabilities of
Sales Simplicity, as they collectively start more than 2,000 new homes
this year.

These new customer wins for Sales Simplicity – a recent Constructech Top
Product 2010 winner – continue a string of successful sales periods,
marked recently by Sales Simplicity’s best sales month ever in
the history of the company. What’s driving this success is the
well-documented fact that Sales Simplicity optimizes each and every lead
and each and every new-home or senior living sale, as it saves builders
money. Indeed, the “return on investment” (R.O.I.) for purchasing or
leasing Sales Simplicity is often measured in weeks, not months or years.

“Time and again, Sales Simplicity continues to outperform its
competitors in every category: sales, performance, customer
satisfaction, and customer retention,” said Barry Forbes, Sales
Simplicity’s President. “As of now, 2010 is stacking up to be our best
year ever, as we welcome an increasingly number of inquires about our
award-winning product.”

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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.

SAN FRANCISCO — McKesson Corporation (NYSE:MCK), the nation’s largest healthcare
services and information technology company, today was rated the “Worlds
Most Admired” company in its industry in an annual survey
conducted by FORTUNE magazine and the Hay Group. The company was also
named one of the 100
Best Corporate Citizens by Corporate Responsibility Magazine. Both
awards highlight McKesson’s excellence in corporate social
responsibility, employee engagement, service quality, and financial
performance.

FORTUNE magazine’s “World’s Most Admired” award measures corporate
reputation and performance against nine key attributes: innovation,
people management, use of corporate assets, social responsibility,
quality of management, financial soundness, long-term investment,
quality of products and services, and global competitiveness. McKesson
ranked number one in all nine categories.

“At McKesson, corporate social responsibility principles are embedded
within our mission to help our customers improve patients’ lives,” said
John Hammergren, Chairman and CEO of McKesson Corporation. “As we
continue to focus on making healthcare safer, more efficient, and less
expensive we’re proud to be recognized as a leader among U.S.
corporations.”

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Can social intelligence from LinkedIn or Facebook really accelerate the sales cycle? How do you successfully integrate multiple cloud sales productivity solutions to realize a meaningful ROI? And what does it take for sales professionals to work more efficiently to drive better results? Hundreds of sales experts and managers will be discussing these and other topics, as well as exploring the latest sales technologies and strategies next week at the Sales 2.0 Conference in San Francisco, Calif.

InsideView CEO Umberto Milletti and Selling Power founder Gerhard Gschwandtner will open the conference, which fills two days with panels and workshops about how best to revamp their sales organizations with new tools and methodologies to close more deals and drive revenue. Additionally, InsideView customer TriNet will speak to the specific benefits of using SalesView in accelerating new market penetration efforts as well as improving sales productivity ramp-up times — resulting in significant increases in lifetime customer value. TriNet is a leading provider of human resources outsourcing solutions to small businesses, and added more than 100 small business clients just in the final quarter of 2009.

“The Sales 2.0 Conference is the flagship annual event for the sales profession, and many of the sales productivity challenges weve faced in last years down economy are perhaps even more relevant as 2010 kicks into higher gear,” said Milletti. “Whats remarkable is that the technologies to meet these challenges already exist. This years event will inform and engage sales professionals on how best to incorporate these new capabilities into existing sales processes, accelerate sales cycles and close more deals.”

InsideView was also recently named to the Sales 2.0 Alliance , a consortium of six companies providing best-in-class Sales 2.0 solutions and chosen by Selling Powers Gschwandtner. The other members are BigMachines, Kadient, Marketo, Right90 and Xactly Corporation.

The Sales 2.0 Conference takes place March 8 and 9, 2010 at the Four Seasons Hotel in downtown San Francisco. Dont miss the “Innovations in Lead Generation Customer Acquisition” panel, featuring InsideView customer TriNet, Monday at 9:40am. The discussion will include a best practices presentation reviewing how salespeople can leverage sales intelligence from both social and traditional data sources, accessible directly in their CRMs, to improve sales productivity, with significant impact to top line.

Altus Learning Systems, a leader in enterprise video search solutions for sales enablement and knowledge sharing, announced today that Network Products Guide, a leading information technology research and advisory guide, has named Altus vSearch a 2010 Product Innovation Award winner in the SaaS and Cloud Computing category. The annual awards competition recognizes and honors vendors from all over the world that have delivered innovative, ground-breaking products that have set the bar higher for others in all areas of information technology.

Altus VirtualEvent™ is an on-line tool for meetings, conferences and other events that integrates live webcasting, user interactivity, and full-text searchable video. With Altus VirtualEvent, companies now have a single platform for on-line meetings and events that includes both live and on-demand content distribution.

“Innovation is not just about new products alone,” said Rake Narang, editor-in-chief at Network Products Guide. “To succeed, companies need to see innovation not as a one-time objective but as something that has to be continuously evolved and improved upon. This requires putting greater focus on customer needs and making innovation the center of a companys way of developing better solutions. Innovative products such as Altus vSearch are bringing improvements in corporate knowledge sharing, full-text searchable video and on-demand access to corporate information.”

“We are immensely gratified to be recognized by Network Product Guide for our innovation and leadership in the SaaS and Cloud solutions,” said Ted Cocheu, CEO of Altus Learning Systems. “Product innovation is key to meeting and exceeding our customers expectations and driving company growth.”

Kampyle , a provider of feedback
analytics to Web sites and companies, today announced bilateral integration
with Omniture, an Adobe company (NASDAQ: ADBE) and a leading provider of
online business optimization software. Customers who implement the joint
solution will experience increased ROI and direct engagement with users,
leading to higher conversion rates, reduced churn and improved customer
satisfaction.

In different but equally important ways, both Kampyle and Omniture enable users to better
understand their customers. As an illustrative example, a full house may
indicate that a stand-up comedian is funny, but he wont know which jokes
work best unless he hears the laughs. If Omniture tells businesses WHAT is
happening on their Web sites, Kampyle Feedback Analytics explains the WHY.
For example, by integrating both solutions, customers can get a complete
view of shopping cart abandonment numbers and why users
leave, why users from certain countries search for hotels but never book,
why users fail to complete a software registration process, and more.

By automatically analyzing customer
feedback data, Kampyle presents an immediate, accurate picture of
users experiences. Issues that need to be solved become easily
identifiable, and automated responses to users regarding their feedback
(e.g., informing them of progress) can improve customer satisfaction and
loyalty.

One of the many ways users might capitalize on the Kampyle and Omniture
integration is to fine-tune advertising campaigns based on user feedback
and Web analytics. For example, prospects who land on a Web site via an ad
campaign might provide feedback regarding incorrect information or unmet
expectations. If there are problems in the campaign, businesses can
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Primary Market Remains Military, Civilian Protection from Nuclear
Event, but Humanetics Also Will Look to Develop Application to Protect
Patients Undergoing CT Scans

MINNEAPOLIS — In an announcement today, Humanetics Corporation reported that its BIO
300 medical radiation countermeasure drug candidate has been issued a
U.S. patent. The patent is assigned to the United States of America with
Humanetics as the designated licensee.

BIO 300 was discovered by researchers at the Armed Forces Radiobiology
Research Institute (AFRRI), a research institute within the Uniformed
Services University of the Health Sciences (USU), and the National
Institutes of Health (NIH). Humanetics obtained a worldwide exclusive
license from The Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of
Military Medicine, Inc., acting on behalf of USU and NIH, for patents
covering the use of BIO 300 as a medical radiation countermeasure.
Patents protecting BIO 300 have now been issued in the United States,
Europe and Australia – with others pending in Japan and Canada.

BIO 300 is being developed as a medical countermeasure for ionizing
radiation resulting from a nuclear or radiological attack, act of
terrorism or accident. The initial application of BIO 300 is intended
for military and civilian protection from events involving a nuclear
device or weapon. However, the Company said today it also will focus on
applications in medical diagnostics—particularly in the area of CT scans
which have been linked recently to excessive levels of ionizing
radiation.

“We are pleased that BIO 300 has reached this critical milestone,” said
Ronald Zenk, President and CEO of Humanetics Corporation. “There is an
urgent need for a safe and practical countermeasure to protect against
the devastating effects of both lethal and non-lethal doses of ionizing
radiation. We are also extremely concerned about patient exposure to
high levels of ionizing radiation in common diagnostic CT scans. We
anticipate that BIO 300 may become a standard of care for patients
receiving CT scans,” he added.

WHAT: Levia® is a new, innovative medical device specifically designed to provide Targeted Personal Phototherapy™ in the home, under the direction of a physician, for the treatment of scalp and small area psoriasis. For the first time, patients can target the precise location of their psoriasis plaques, safely and effectively minimizing exposure of uninvolved skin, leading to faster treatment times.

HOW: Levia delivers Ultraviolet light via two unique beam delivery attachments, LiteBrush™ for scalp psoriasis, and LiteSpot™ for the skin. Levia is a new class of smart phototherapy device with patient control via a touchscreen, and a built-in treatment regimen prescribed by the physician.

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NEW YORK — NYU
Langone Medical Center announced today that the NYU Hospitals Center
received The Gold Seal of Approval by The Joint Commission, a national
nonprofit organization responsible for certifying that some 17,000 U.S.
healthcare institutions are following the very best practices in terms
of patient care and safety. Accreditation by The Joint Commission, which
must be re-earned every three years, signals to patients and staff alike
that NYU Langone is meeting the commission’s exacting standards in such
key areas as patient rights, quality of treatment, medication safety,
and infection control.

“The Joint Commission’s survey is about seeking excellence in all we do
and serves as a framework for ensuring ongoing compliance with patient
care standards and continuous quality improvement,” said Robert I.
Grossman, MD, dean and CEO of NYU Langone Medical Center. “This
recognition is especially rewarding, as it speaks to the dedication and
medical expertise of our physicians, nurses, and staff and their
unwavering commitment to the highest standards of patient care. We
congratulate them all for their tremendous contributions and for
receiving this outstanding recognition.”

In November 2009, The Joint Commission conducted an unannounced, on-site
evaluation of NYU Langone Medical Center, including Tisch Hospital, Rusk
Institute of Rehabilitation Medicine (Rusk) and Hospital for Joint
Diseases (HJD). For five days, a group of six surveyors, including an
environmental surveyor, conducted a thorough and detailed study of the
Medical Center’s patient care practices and processes. Through each step
of care—from admission through discharge—personnel were evaluated
according to hundreds of criteria. The environmental surveyor spent two
days inspecting the Medical Center’s physical plant for potential safety
concerns.

According to Dr. Grossman, the award reflects NYU Langone’s deep
commitment to high-quality medical care and the resources devoted to
ensuring that care—even when an inspection isn’t around the corner.

“Above all, the national standards are intended to stimulate continuous,
systematic and organization-wide improvement in an organization’s
performance and the outcomes of care,” says Mark Pelletier, RN, MS,
executive director, Hospital Programs, Accreditation and Certification
Services, The Joint Commission. “The community should be proud that NYU
Langone Medical Center is focusing on the most challenging goal—to
continuously raise quality and safety to higher levels.”

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Silver Standard Resources Inc. (TSX: SSO)(NASDAQ: SSRI) provides the following updates on the Pirquitas Mine and principal development projects and reports on headline financial results from the companys fourth quarter of 2009. Effective January 1, 2009, the company adopted the U.S. dollar as its reporting currency and all figures are in U.S. dollars, unless otherwise noted.

(This news release contains forward-looking information that is subject to the risks and assumptions set out in the companys Cautionary Statements on Forward-Looking Information located on the last page of this news release.)

Pirquitas produced 1.1 million ounces during the year. Since December 1, 2009, the date of achievement of commercial production, the mine produced to year-end 545,600 ounces of silver at a cash production cost of $8.99 per silver ounce(1). Total cash costs, including transportation, treatment, refining, export taxes and royalties, were $16.57 per silver ounce(1). During the month, the company sold 460,100 ounces of silver at a realized price of $17.49 per ounce(1) and, after deducting treatment and refining charges, recorded revenues of $5.4 million.

The plant has a crushing capacity of 6,000 tonnes per day. This feeds a pre-concentration plant that is designed to feed the mill at a rate of 3,200 tonnes per day. The mills feasibility design capacity was exceeded in both November and December.

The recent host of adverts for the brand new Harry Potter theme park in Orlando, Florida, have whipped up a frenzy of excitement and anticipation in Harry Potter fans all over the world. The theme park is scheduled to open in Spring this year, and as Universal have still not announced an exact date for the opening, Harry Potter fans are waiting with baited breath.

The official website for the Orlando based theme park allows users the opportunity to have a virtual tour of the park, using a combination of real life images, and computer generated images, showing what the park will look like when it is fully completed. Millions of internet users across the globe have already logged on to the site for a sneak peak of what they can expect from this exciting new theme park, which for many will be the highlight of a holiday in Orlando .

As you would expect of a theme park, there will be various rides and rollercoasters, such as the “Dragon Challenge” which is aimed at thrill seekers, and the more family orientated “Flight of the Hippogriff” which will be tame enough for younger fans of the Harry Potter books and movies.

As well as rides, there will be themed shops and restaurants, serving food and sweets inspired by the Harry Potter series such as “Honeydukes” which sells chocolate frogs, and a British themed restaurant named “Three Broomsticks”. You can even send your mail at the theme park and letters will be stamped with a certified Hogsmeade postmark!

Orlando holidays are already every childs dream, full of magic, fun, fantasy and excitement; however the new Harry Potter theme park is likely to be the icing on the cake for some children, desperate to see the fantasy world of Harry Potter come to life. Already, around 1 million people from Britain visit Orlando, Florida each year, a figure which is likely to rise even further once the Harry Potter theme park adverts reach British television!

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Abraham, Fruchter Twersky, LLP announces that a class action law suit has been filed in the United States District Court for the Easter District of New York on behalf of purchasers of common stock of Smithtown Bancorp, Inc. (”Smithtown” or the “Company”) (NASDAQ: SMTB) between March 13, 2008 through February 1, 2010 (the “Class Period”).

The Complaint alleges that, throughout the Class Period, Smithtown and certain officers and directors violated federal securities laws by failing to disclose materially adverse facts about the Companys true financial condition, business and prospects. The Complaint alleges that the Company failed to disclose: (i) that the Companys financial results were artificially inflated due to SMTBs material understatement of its loan loss reserves and SMTBs failure to state certain of its assets at their true fair value; (ii) that the Company improperly delayed the recognition of its impaired assets in order to inflate its reported income and asset quality; (iii) that the Companys internal and disclosure controls were materially deficient; and (iv) that the Company, through its subsidiary, was engaged in unsafe and/or unsound banking practices.

The alleged material misstatements and omissions caused Smithtowns stock to trade at artificially inflated prices. On February 1, 2010, Smithtown issued a press release announcing its fourth quarter and full year 2009 results, which included a loss of $19.8 million for the fourth quarter of 2009. After this press release became public, Smithtowns stock fell approximately 15% to close at $4.60 per share, causing substantial losses to shareholders. A lawsuit has been filed alleging violations of the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934 seeking recovery from Smithtown and certain of its officers and directors for damages suffered as a result of the officers mismanagement of the Company. AFT seeks to recover damages on behalf of shareholders who purchased Smithtown stock during the Class Period.

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Abraham, Fruchter Twersky, LLP announces that a class action law suit has been filed in the United States District Court for the Easter District of New York on behalf of purchasers of common stock of Smithtown Bancorp, Inc. (”Smithtown” or the “Company”) (NASDAQ: SMTB) between March 13, 2008 through February 1, 2010 (the “Class Period”).

The Complaint alleges that, throughout the Class Period, Smithtown and certain officers and directors violated federal securities laws by failing to disclose materially adverse facts about the Companys true financial condition, business and prospects. The Complaint alleges that the Company failed to disclose: (i) that the Companys financial results were artificially inflated due to SMTBs material understatement of its loan loss reserves and SMTBs failure to state certain of its assets at their true fair value; (ii) that the Company improperly delayed the recognition of its impaired assets in order to inflate its reported income and asset quality; (iii) that the Companys internal and disclosure controls were materially deficient; and (iv) that the Company, through its subsidiary, was engaged in unsafe and/or unsound banking practices.

The alleged material misstatements and omissions caused Smithtowns stock to trade at artificially inflated prices. On February 1, 2010, Smithtown issued a press release announcing its fourth quarter and full year 2009 results, which included a loss of $19.8 million for the fourth quarter of 2009. After this press release became public, Smithtowns stock fell approximately 15% to close at $4.60 per share, causing substantial losses to shareholders. A lawsuit has been filed alleging violations of the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934 seeking recovery from Smithtown and certain of its officers and directors for damages suffered as a result of the officers mismanagement of the Company. AFT seeks to recover damages on behalf of shareholders who purchased Smithtown stock during the Class Period.

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Protesters Wearing Nude Leotards and Fig Leaves will expose the Adult
Industry Medical (AIM) HealthCare Foundation HIV Testing Clinic in
Sherman Oaks as a Fig Leaf for Porn Industry

Industry-funded Clinic Violates Federal Patient Confidentiality Laws
Via Online Database of Patient Info for Porn Producers, Yet Clinic
Refuses to Share Same Crucial Public Health Data with the Los Angeles
County Department of Public Health and Cal OSHA

LOS ANGELES — AIDS Healthcare Foundation:

As part of its ongoing campaign to require the use of condoms in porn
films in an effort to reduce the spread of STDs including HIV, AIDS
Healthcare Foundation (AHF) will take aim at a porn industry
health clinic—a fig leaf for the porn industry—during a protest and
press conference tomorrow, Thursday, March 4th
starting at 10:15 AM Pacific at the Adult Industry
Medical Healthcare Foundation’s (AIM) HIV Testing Clinic in Sherman Oaks
(4630 Van Nuys Blvd. 91403). 20 or so protesters will gather holding fig
leaves—some wearing nude body suits—and carrying banners and signs to
expose the clinic as a fig leaf for the porn industry. The protesters
will also call on LA County officials to crack down on AIM clinic
officials for two seemingly contradictory actions:

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Carlisle Management Company , a leading alternative investment and advisory firm and manager of the Luxembourg Long Term Growth Life Settlement Fund, today announced its support for additional industry transparency. Carlisle concluded a successful four-day, three country trade mission focused on bridging information between European investors and representatives from the United States Life Settlement community. The trade mission was led by the European Life Settlement Association (ELSA) and by The Life Insurance Settlement Association (LISA) and provided the first international effort to capitalize on interest within the secondary market.

The trade mission provided European investors, life settlement experts, and service providers a unique and collaborative forum to discuss acceptance of regulation, higher levels of disclosure and unifying of industry standards. “We are privileged to be a part of such an informative and ground breaking event and joining the European life settlement community in promoting best-practices, transparency and regulation,” said Jose Garcia, Chief Executive Officer of Carlisle . “The significant participation and quality of attendees here highlights that the European investment community is focused and engaged in life settlements.” The ELSA governing body also provided a timetable and theme for establishing a code of practice early this year.

Carlisle presented on a number of topics including Best Practices, Fund Investment environment and Mitigation of Risk and topics ranged from views on the financial crisis, impact of recent longevity revisions and the importance of regulated jurisdictions. Unlike investments in many asset classes, professionals attending the trade mission were drawn to the low correlation life settlements policies have in comparison to traditional investments.

Commenting on the recent trip, “The Luxembourg Life fund is well positioned with our transparent and regulated vehicle structure, mark to market valuation and tested performance. It was read loud and clear by many, that these are the attributes that will bring Life Settlements in to the future,” said Tim Mol, Chief Operating Officer of Carlisle. “This is really the door that will lead us to sophisticated European investment markets.”

HAMILTON, Bermuda — CRM Holdings, Ltd. (”CRM” or “the Company”) (Nasdaq: CRMH), a specialty
provider of workers compensation insurance products, announced results
for the fourth quarter and year ended December 31, 2009.

In the fourth quarter of 2009, the Company incurred a net loss from
continuing operations of $19.0 million, or $(1.13) per diluted share. In
the same quarter of the prior year, the Company incurred a net loss from
continuing operations of $6.2 million, or $(0.38) per diluted share.
Unless otherwise stated, all further results discussed in this release
refer to continuing operations for 2009 and results on a comparable
basis for 2008.

Total revenues in the fourth quarter of 2009 were $27.2 million,
compared to $30.3 million in the same quarter of the prior year.
Underwriting actions taken on business written by Majestic Insurance
Company (“Majestic”), the Company’s primary insurance provider, in the
states of New York and New Jersey, reduced net earned premiums by $3.0
million. Decreases in the Company’s net earned premiums and fee-based
management services were offset by increases in investment income.
Investment income during the quarter increased to $6.7 million from $4.6
million in the fourth quarter of 2008, as the Company realized gains on
its portfolio of fixed income securities. Excluding the benefits of
realized capital gains in both periods, interest income earned was $2.3
million in the fourth quarter of 2009, compared to $3.0 million in the
same quarter a year ago, a reflection of lower prevailing interest rates
in 2009.

Total underwriting expenses for the fourth quarter increased to $33.2
million from $28.2 million a year ago. This increase primarily resulted
from higher current year loss and loss adjustment expenses at Majestic
on policies underwritten in California, where paid and incurred losses
recorded in the first three quarters of 2009 developed worse than
expected. For the fourth quarter of 2009, the Company’s overall loss
ratio was 151.7%, compared to 101.6% for the fourth quarter of 2008.

CHICAGO — Wells Fargo Insurance Services announced today that Peter Daly and Tom
Whitenight, both senior vice presidents from the company’s Redwood City,
Calif. office, received Risk Insurances 2010 “Power
Broker” award in the pharmaceutical and technology categories,
respectively.

Nearly 2,500 nominees serving 24 industry categories were considered for
the award. In confidential interviews, risk managers were asked to cite
specific examples of what their broker accomplished during 2009 to
deserve the recognition. Risk managers provided specific descriptions of
how their brokers solved different claims, coverage, or pricing issues
for their customers.

“Peter and Tom’s success comes from anticipating the needs of their
customers and delivering the best outcomes,” said Rod Sockolov, managing
director for Wells Fargo Insurance Services. “I am so pleased that their
exceptional talents are recognized by their peers and customers.
Congratulations to Peter and Tom and the teams that supported them in
providing creative risk management solutions to customers.”

As part of Wells Fargo Insurance Services’ technology division, Daly
provides the direction for a team of risk management and insurance
specialists who deliver brokerage services to customers. He has
specialized throughout his career in biotech and medical
device businesses while developing experience for the special needs in
this market segment.

“While I am honored to receive this award, I want to make sure my team
also is recognized for providing great service for our customers,” said
Daly. “Our staff delivers the highest quality service to our customers
and it’s their daily contribution that makes our practice standout. We
also work with customers who recognize the high standard to which we
hold ourselves to and reward us by choosing to work with us for many
years.”

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NEW YORK — Elite
Palace, one of New York’s premier corporate meeting and special
event venues, plans to set a new standard for advanced special effects
lighting with the installation of breakthrough color-changing
solid-state LED technology from Virginia-based Renaissance
Lighting, a leading innovator in the development and manufacture of
energy-efficient, solid-state LED luminaires.

Less than two years old, Elite Palace has already gained a solid
reputation for its “intelligent lighting” – most notably the myriad of
integrated color-changing lighting technology designed to match
everything from the mood of a milestone event like an anniversary, the
subtle colors of bridesmaid dresses at a wedding celebration or the
unique coloration of a logo at a special corporate event.

“Lighting is the big deal,” says Moses Sandel, Elite Palace’s
lighting designer. “We have great architecture with incredible lighting
whether it’s our 11,000-square-foot grand ballroom, our
4,000-square-foot cocktail venue, a smaller ballroom or one of our
smaller rooms where more intimate gatherings are staged.

The grand ballroom is equipped currently with 36 energy-efficient
Renaissance Lighting color-changing solid-state LED fixtures. By the
summer, that number will grow to 56, according to Sandel, featuring
Renaissance Lighting’s vıvía™
color-changing line of 7-inch downlight fixtures. Each vivia™ fixture
can be individually addressed allowing the user ultimate control of the
special lighting effects in the room. With a color spectrum of
approximately 16 million colors including white, the vivia™
fixtures offer supreme versatility and general illumination options for
any type of event.

“Lighting is the first thing our clients ask about, which is why
Renaissance Lighting provides the main color in our ballrooms. And
because I haven’t seen any other fixture in the business that does it as
well, we are augmenting our color-changing lineup with more of the
same,” Sandel said. The additional fixtures will allow Sandel to
establish three distinct lighted zones across the center of the room. In
turn, each zone can be controlled separately allowing for unlimited
color chases, snaps and fades.

Trump ® Hotel Collection , the next generation of luxury hospitality, today announced that Trump SoHo ™ New York , the hotel in Downtown New York , will open its doors on April 9, 2010. Located at 246 Spring Street, the dramatic, 46-story silver-glass building boasts unrivaled views of the citys spectacular skyline, the Hudson River, Statue of Liberty and Empire State Building.

Blending classically inspired interiors with contemporary New York design, this SoHo hotels 391 elegantly appointed rooms and suites will feature floor-to-ceiling windows, furnishings by Fendi Casa , and custom bedding by Bellino . With just 12 rooms per floor, Trump SoHo has the ambiance of an intimate hotel.

Trump SoHo will offer such Trump Hotel Collection hallmarks as world-class dining at Quattro Gastronomia Italiana , The Spa at Trump ® with New Yorks only authentic luxury hammam, the signature services of the Trump Attache ®, and the Trump ® Kids and Trump ® Pets programs. Bazaar lounge, seasonal Bar dEau on the lush 6,000-square-foot Pool Deck , and The Library, outfitted with TASCHEN books, will each provide a unique space to enjoy cocktails. Trump SoHo will offer the most meeting and event space in SoHo, with over 12,000 square feet that can be customized for any occasion.

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Abraham, Fruchter Twersky, LLP announces that a class action law suit has been filed in the United States District Court for the Easter District of New York on behalf of purchasers of common stock of Smithtown Bancorp, Inc. (”Smithtown” or the “Company”) (NASDAQ: SMTB) between March 13, 2008 through February 1, 2010 (the “Class Period”).

The Complaint alleges that, throughout the Class Period, Smithtown and certain officers and directors violated federal securities laws by failing to disclose materially adverse facts about the Companys true financial condition, business and prospects. The Complaint alleges that the Company failed to disclose: (i) that the Companys financial results were artificially inflated due to SMTBs material understatement of its loan loss reserves and SMTBs failure to state certain of its assets at their true fair value; (ii) that the Company improperly delayed the recognition of its impaired assets in order to inflate its reported income and asset quality; (iii) that the Companys internal and disclosure controls were materially deficient; and (iv) that the Company, through its subsidiary, was engaged in unsafe and/or unsound banking practices.

The alleged material misstatements and omissions caused Smithtowns stock to trade at artificially inflated prices. On February 1, 2010, Smithtown issued a press release announcing its fourth quarter and full year 2009 results, which included a loss of $19.8 million for the fourth quarter of 2009. After this press release became public, Smithtowns stock fell approximately 15% to close at $4.60 per share, causing substantial losses to shareholders. A lawsuit has been filed alleging violations of the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934 seeking recovery from Smithtown and certain of its officers and directors for damages suffered as a result of the officers mismanagement of the Company. AFT seeks to recover damages on behalf of shareholders who purchased Smithtown stock during the Class Period.

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–(Marketwire)–March 4th, 2010 WikiLoan, Inc. (OTCBB: WKLI) a social network providing tools for person-to-person borrowing and lending announced yesterday that they have lowered their ACH Fees to $.99.

As Microfinance and its Nobel Prize winning visionary Muhammad Yunus are gaining more attention, the entire sector is ready to transition from being a niche market business to a viable, producing arm of all finance institutions.

Even if a bank enters into the microfinance arena for socially responsible reasons, the long term viability is present. This has already been realized by finance giants like Citibank and J.P. Morgan Chase, both of which have a microfinance division. Wikiloan will capitalize on the market that does not or cannot use traditional banks for their small lending needs.

Other active stocks are Visteon Corp (PINKSHEETS: VSTNQ) J.P. Morgan Chase (NYSE: JPM) and Heartland Payment Systems (NYSE: HPY)

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Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) will host a webcast with
a corresponding slide presentation to discuss its global channel partner
strategy as a sustainable long term differentiator.

Who: Cisco executive Edison Peres, Senior Vice President, Worldwide
Partner Organization, will discuss Ciscos global channel sales model and
its value versus volume strategy. Following a brief presentation, a
question answer session will be held.

No previously unannounced issues will be discussed in this webcast.

The recent host of adverts for the brand new Harry Potter theme park in Orlando, Florida, have whipped up a frenzy of excitement and anticipation in Harry Potter fans all over the world. The theme park is scheduled to open in Spring this year, and as Universal have still not announced an exact date for the opening, Harry Potter fans are waiting with baited breath.

The official website for the Orlando based theme park allows users the opportunity to have a virtual tour of the park, using a combination of real life images, and computer generated images, showing what the park will look like when it is fully completed. Millions of internet users across the globe have already logged on to the site for a sneak peak of what they can expect from this exciting new theme park, which for many will be the highlight of a holiday in Orlando .

As you would expect of a theme park, there will be various rides and rollercoasters, such as the “Dragon Challenge” which is aimed at thrill seekers, and the more family orientated “Flight of the Hippogriff” which will be tame enough for younger fans of the Harry Potter books and movies.

As well as rides, there will be themed shops and restaurants, serving food and sweets inspired by the Harry Potter series such as “Honeydukes” which sells chocolate frogs, and a British themed restaurant named “Three Broomsticks”. You can even send your mail at the theme park and letters will be stamped with a certified Hogsmeade postmark!

Orlando holidays are already every childs dream, full of magic, fun, fantasy and excitement; however the new Harry Potter theme park is likely to be the icing on the cake for some children, desperate to see the fantasy world of Harry Potter come to life. Already, around 1 million people from Britain visit Orlando, Florida each year, a figure which is likely to rise even further once the Harry Potter theme park adverts reach British television!

We refer to the fourth quarter 2009
report released on February 26, 2010.
Frontline Ltd. is trading ex-dividend of a cash dividend of $0.25 per share
today March 5, 2010. The record date is March 9, 2010, and the dividend
will be
paid on or about March 30, 2010.

This information is subject of the disclosure requirements acc. to §5-12
vphl
(Norwegian Securities Trading Act)

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Protesters Wearing Nude Leotards and Fig Leaves will expose the Adult
Industry Medical (AIM) HealthCare Foundation HIV Testing Clinic in
Sherman Oaks as a Fig Leaf for Porn Industry

Industry-funded Clinic Violates Federal Patient Confidentiality Laws
Via Online Database of Patient Info for Porn Producers, Yet Clinic
Refuses to Share Same Crucial Public Health Data with the Los Angeles
County Department of Public Health and Cal OSHA

LOS ANGELES — AIDS Healthcare Foundation:

As part of its ongoing campaign to require the use of condoms in porn
films in an effort to reduce the spread of STDs including HIV, AIDS
Healthcare Foundation (AHF) will take aim at a porn industry
health clinic—a fig leaf for the porn industry—during a protest and
press conference tomorrow, Thursday, March 4th
starting at 10:15 AM Pacific at the Adult Industry
Medical Healthcare Foundation’s (AIM) HIV Testing Clinic in Sherman Oaks
(4630 Van Nuys Blvd. 91403). 20 or so protesters will gather holding fig
leaves—some wearing nude body suits—and carrying banners and signs to
expose the clinic as a fig leaf for the porn industry. The protesters
will also call on LA County officials to crack down on AIM clinic
officials for two seemingly contradictory actions:

ValueCentric is pleased to announce that Chris Boardman has joined as its management team as Vice President of Data Services Analytics. Chris will lead efforts to further expand ValueCentrics offerings in prescription level data services as it continues to provide unprecedented product transparency to its customers.

With over 20 years experience in the healthcare consulting profession, Chris has worked with hundreds of pharmaceutical, medical device and biotech companies to address strategic and tactical challenges. He holds dual BS degrees in Mathematics Psychology and an MS in Statistics. His experience has global reach in the areas of developing commercial databases based on medical claims, sales and Rx data as well as many estimation methodologies that are responsible for significant revenue generation in the healthcare information vertical.

Among many notable positions held, Chris worked at the Centers for Disease Control Prevention as a statistician. Additionally, he was involved in building the Division of Bio-Statistics Epidemiology at the number one pediatric hospital in the country, Childrens Hospital of Philadelphia. For over a decade he lead IMS Healths efforts in developing and bringing to market new Rx products, developing new databases and new estimation methodologies in the US as well as internationally. As IMS Healths global subject matter expert, Chris was responsible for addressing the ever changing data privacy issues that the healthcare market continually faces and their impact on prescription products. Most recently, Chris worked at Health Market Science where he focused on developing information sources and analytic techniques for non-retail markets.

Dave Janca, Founder and CEO of ValueCentric, states, “Chris Boardmans expertise with prescription data positions him to further strengthen and expand our growing data services and our ValueTrak platform. Hell play an instrumental role in our growth strategy as we bring to market more unique data streams delivered in real-time through our integrated analytic solution. Chris track record will help to ensure that our customers remain at the forefront of industry change with transformational data management and performance analytic service options.”

“As the industry continues to face challenges with projected and estimated data, we now have the opportunity to work with real actionable prescription data that is integrated directly with sales data down to the pharmacy level. Im excited to join ValueCentric at this pivotal time and prepared to change how the industry works with this data,” states Chris Boardman.

Protesters Wearing Nude Leotards and Fig Leaves will expose the Adult
Industry Medical (AIM) HealthCare Foundation HIV Testing Clinic in
Sherman Oaks as a Fig Leaf for Porn Industry

Industry-funded Clinic Violates Federal Patient Confidentiality Laws
Via Online Database of Patient Info for Porn Producers, Yet Clinic
Refuses to Share Same Crucial Public Health Data with the Los Angeles
County Department of Public Health and Cal OSHA

LOS ANGELES — AIDS Healthcare Foundation:

As part of its ongoing campaign to require the use of condoms in porn
films in an effort to reduce the spread of STDs including HIV, AIDS
Healthcare Foundation (AHF) will take aim at a porn industry
health clinic—a fig leaf for the porn industry—during a protest and
press conference tomorrow, Thursday, March 4th
starting at 10:15 AM Pacific at the Adult Industry
Medical Healthcare Foundation’s (AIM) HIV Testing Clinic in Sherman Oaks
(4630 Van Nuys Blvd. 91403). 20 or so protesters will gather holding fig
leaves—some wearing nude body suits—and carrying banners and signs to
expose the clinic as a fig leaf for the porn industry. The protesters
will also call on LA County officials to crack down on AIM clinic
officials for two seemingly contradictory actions:

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VANCOUVER, British Columbia — AFRICAN QUEEN MINES LTD. (the “Company”) is pleased to announce
receipt from Scientific Services Laboratories of Cape Town, S.A. of
geochemical results from its extensive soil sampling survey over its
King Solomon Project in Mozambique. After careful integration with
geological mapping to date, as well as results of ground geophysics
surveys and sampling programs previously completed, the current data
indicate a number of linear Cu-Au-Zn enriched zones are present, with
the potential to host skarnoid-type Cu-Au mineralization over the
Mankombiti target as well as mesothermal shear-hosted Au-Cu-Zn
mineralization over the Eiland and Kazito targets. The regional soil
sampling results corroborate the strong rock and chip sample results
from the three main target zones previously announced in the Company’s
Press Releases of September 17 and October 14, 2009, and January 11,
2010.

In excess of 7100 samples were collected and assayed as part of the soil
sampling survey over the key targets in the license area, generally from
relatively thin soils which reflect in situ material. Samples were
collected along 100 m spaced lines with two samples collected at every
50 m. These included samples submitted for mini-BLEG gold analysis as
well as samples submitted for AAS analyses for the elements Cu, Pb, Zn,
Co, Ni, Mn and Fe. Applicable quality control procedures were adhered to
in shipment as well as in the analytical process, with the necessary
duplicates, blanks and in-house standards being submitted.

The gridded soil Au results define a number of significant soil
anomalies over the Eiland, Kazito and to a lesser extent the Mankombiti
and Ntumba targets. Approximately 6.5% of all samples reported had
anomalous gold values in excess of 100 ppb Au. The gridded soil Cu
results define a number of soil anomalies over the Kazito, Mankombiti,
Ntumba and Messeca targets, with over 8% of all samples reporting Cu
values in excess of 200 ppm. The gridded soil Pb results, like the soil
Zn results, are typically elevated over the metacarbonates within the
Kazito, Mankombiti and Ntumba areas. Over 13% of the Zn values were in
excess of 200 ppm.

Preparations are now underway for a 3000 m reconnaissance core drilling
program set to commence immediately upon conclusion of the rainy season
when vehicular access is possible. Principal drill targets have already
been selected over the key target zones discussed herein and a drilling
contractor has been secured. A site visit by our team to conduct further
preparatory work is scheduled to take place later this month. Weather
permitting, it is hoped that drilling will commence in the first part of
April.

The King Solomon Project is located within the central parts of the
Mesoproterozoic Fingoe Belt in western Tete Province, Mozambique. These
rocks consist of metavolcanics, metasediments and intrusive granitic and
gabbroic rocks. The license is the subject of the Earn-in and Joint
Venture Agreement dated July 10, 2009 (the “Agreement”), with
Swiss-based Opti Metal Trading Limited (“Optimetal”), covering
exploration, development and exploitation of Prospecting License No.
884L held by Optimetal’s Mozambique subsidiary (the “License”). The
License covers an area of approximately 230 km2 in the center
of the Fingoe Belt, adjacent to permits which are the subject of
existing earn-in and joint venture Agreements between the Company and
Manica Minerals Ltd. and African Eagle Resources plc (AIM: AFE),
respectively, covering an aggregate of 1359 sq.km.

Advent Software, Inc. (NASDAQ: ADVS), a leading provider of software and services for the global investment management industry, today announced the release of Advent Portfolio Exchange® (APX) 3.0, its most extensive release of APX to date. With this release, Advent continues to set a new standard in comprehensive portfolio management for asset managers and global wealth managers. The latest version of APX offers ultimate flexibility to manage portfolios and client relationships.

Key features of APX 3.0 include:

“The CRM and client service component in APX continues to get better with each version; the enhanced search capabilities, Microsoft Outlook email capture and Microsoft Exchange synchronization were all must-haves,” said Peter Rieke, Chief Compliance Officer and IT Manager, Disciplined Growth Investors. “Advent is continually working to make its products better and engaging clients in the process — we are very pleased to have them as our technology partner.”

“We are very excited about APX 3.0, a feature rich release which marks a critical milestone in the products evolution and extends its market leadership,” said Michele Holton, Director of Product Marketing at Advent. “The expanded features and platform enhancements, along with the open architecture in APX 3.0, provide our clients with a valuable tool to help manage operations, grow assets and strengthen client relationships.”

Finisar Corporation (NASDAQ: FNSR), a global
technology leader in high-speed optical communications, today announced
that that Company management will speak at two upcoming investor
conferences including the Morgan Stanley Technology, Media Telecom
Conference to be held in San Francisco on Thursday, March 4th and the
Jefferies Annual Global Technology Conference to be held in New York on
Monday, March 8.

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Surescripts, The Nations E-Prescription Network ™ , today announced the release of its 2009 National Progress Report on E-Prescribing . The report, “Advancing Healthcare in America,” is the third in an annual series that tracks the status of e-prescribing adoption and use in the United States. The report measures the growth of e-prescribing from 2007 through 2009 across a number of categories. Highlights include:

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New to this years report is a section highlighting the efforts of the Rhode Island Department of Health, MinuteClinic and others. The profiles reveal how these organizations are using the Surescripts network to create innovative approaches to improving the quality of health care through the secure sharing of health information.

The report also features a discussion with Surescripts Chief Quality Officer David Yakimischak. Yakimischak details how Surescripts focus on quality is setting the standard in health information exchange by aiming to achieve 100 percent reliability of e-prescribing — from the time a prescription is first prepared by a prescriber to the time the medication is dispensed and at all points in between.

Harold McGraw III , chairman, president and CEO of The McGraw-Hill Companies, will be the next chairman of the United States Council for International Business (USCIB), which represents Americas top global companies in major international forums. Elected by USCIBs board of directors on Friday, Mr. McGraw will succeed William G. Parrett , retired CEO of Deloitte, who has served as the pro-trade groups chairman since 2005, effective April 15.

“I look forward to the opportunity to lead an organization dedicated to greater global cooperation and economic growth,” said Mr. McGraw. “Now, more than ever, we must remain focused on expanding global access to capital, education, healthcare and technology. I want to especially congratulate Bill Parrett on his extraordinary leadership of USCIB and his contribution to global understanding and trust.

“This is an exciting time and an extraordinary opportunity to foster more coordination between developing and developed countries, in the pursuit of economic growth and improved standards of living.”

A champion of open markets worldwide, USCIB serves as the American affiliate of three global business bodies: the International Chamber of Commerce, the International Organization of Employers, and the Business Industry Advisory Committee to the OECD. Its membership includes over 300 major U.S. multinationals and other firms. USCIB also provides a variety of services for those doing business overseas, including issuing and guaranteeing ATA Carnets, the “merchandise passports” that speed temporary, duty-free export of various types of goods.

“We are excited about working with Terry McGraw,” stated Peter M. Robinson , USCIBs president and CEO. “He is a longtime supporter of USCIB and its fundamental goal of improving the conditions for global trade and investment, and has demonstrated a firm commitment to business leadership on public policy. I would like to express my personal gratitude, and that of USCIBs members, to Bill Parrett for his outstanding stewardship. We look forward to his continued support and participation in our work.”

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Data hold the key to low readmit rates As a first step toward decreasing readmission rates, examine your data, says Margaret VanAmringe, MPH, vice president of public policy and government relations in the Washington, DC, office of The Joint Commission. “Look at readmissions and discern whether there are opportunities to reduce the number,” she advises. “That will, of course, depend on disease category, population, age, and many different factors.” It will behoove you “to really analyze readmissions, assess these data, use a random sample of charts, and look to see if there is a certain group of patients in these three areas where you feel there could be the potential to prevent readmissions,” VanAmringe says. Michael C. Choo, MD, MBA, FACEP, FAAEM, ACHE, president and CEO of Clinton Memorial Hospital in Wilmington, OH, says, “Its always been very important to evaluate the data on a monthly basis and find solutions.” Choo, who served for 10 years as the ED medical director at Dayton Heart Hospital, is bringing what he learned there to his new position. “Congestive heart failure is the most difficult of the three because its especially problematic in [the Medicare] population,” he says. “Initiatives weve used include trying to identify at the time of discharge those patients who need extra support at home or additional education.” For those patients who are identified as high-risk, arrangements are made for intense home health care followed by outpatient therapy sessions, he says. His current health system has congestive heart failure clinics, where patients status is monitored to make sure they stay stable and dont return to the ED or the hospital, he says.
Your article, “Antibiotic Alternatives,” (Good Medicine, December/January 20l0) was my go-to handbook this winter. When I felt a sore throat coming on or started to get a little congested, Id refer to this article and go down to my local health-food store to pick up the supplements you recommended. And I didnt have to go to the doctor once.
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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access an encore recording of the conference call for one week by
calling 800-642-1687, conference ID # 55572577. The encore recording
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that are not historical facts are “forward-looking statements” that
involve risks and uncertainties. The Company wishes to caution readers
not to place undue reliance on such forward-looking statements, which
statements are made pursuant to the Private Securities Litigation Reform
Act of 1995, and as such, speak only as of the date made. To the extent
the content of this press release includes forward-looking statements,
they involve various risks and uncertainties, including the successful
integration of acquired businesses, projected financial information and
the continued successful implementation of the Companys business
strategy.

The National Groups, the parent company of the National Default Servicing, LLC suite of mortgage service operations, announced today that Mitchell Oringer and Richard T. Fikani have joined the firm, filling two new leadership positions.

In response to the increased volume of distressed borrowers and the growing number of foreclosed and REO properties nationwide, The National Groups has been expanding its efforts to help reduce the exposure of both “At Risk” borrowers and “Value Challenged” collateral.

Mr. Oringer will assume the role of Senior Managing Director – REO/Loss Mitigation Operations, for The National Groups. He was most recently with Titleserv National Default in Austin, TX where he was Senior Vice President, Loss Mitigation Services. Mr. Oringer brings more than 20 years of experience in the REO and loss mitigation industry to The National Groups, including senior positions with Indymac Federal Bank, GMAC Rescap, LLC, GMAC Mortgage Corporation, and Clayton National, Inc.

Mr. Fikani steps in to the new position of Managing Director – Default Services for The National Groups. He comes to the firm from Titleserv National in Austin, TX where he was Vice President – Director of Operations. Previously, Mr. Fikani was Executive Vice President – Mortgage for Wachovia Corporation in Charlotte, NC. He held various management positions with the firm in origination and underwriting beginning in 1989.

“Mitch and Richard bring a deep knowledge of REO and loss mitigation to the firm, and were thrilled to have them join us,” said Bruce Wentworth, Senior Managing Director of The National Groups. “Theyre the right people at the right time for the firm, and their abilities will go a long way toward accelerating and managing the organic growth of The National Groups.”

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Officer, gunman dead in California gunfight SANGER, Calif. (AP) — A gunman opened fire Thursday on authorities who tried to serve search warrants at his mobile home in central California, killing a sheriffs detective and critically wounding a police officer before barricading himself in the residence during a raging gunbattle that also left him dead. It was not immediately clear if his injuries were self-inflicted or suffered during the barrage of bullets he exchanged with officers, Dyer said. Authorities need to fingerprint the man to confirm his identity before releasing his name, he said.
JONATHAN Rhys Meyers claims the best thing about Hollywood is watching himself on screen – and the mega bucks he is paid. The Irish hunk says he was lured to Tinseltown by the “soft money” it offered, but quickly found himself motivated, not by cash, but vanity. “Any actor who sits down in front of you and tells you theyre not vain, its bulls**t,” he said. “To get up in front of a camera, of course you have to have a certain amount of vanity. All acting is narcissism in some way. “Am I a narcissistic person? Absolutely. Am I vain? Absolutely.”

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[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] We dont have to tell you about the healing power of relationships. Theres nothing like sharing a belly laugh with your best friend or leaning on your partner when times are tough. And two new studies prove pairing up does more than provide an emotional outlet: Your loved ones can also decrease physical pain. In one study, scientists at the University of Oxfords Institute of Cognitive and Evolutionary Anthropology found that members of a rowing team who exercised together were able to tolerate twice as much pain as they could when they trained on their own. The researchers concluded that acting as a group ramped up the athletes pain thresholds.
THE hair is straighter and blonder, but the face is unlined. and that million-dollar smile is just as wide. Its hard to believe its 20 years since Julia Roberts slipped on her thigh-high leather boots to play Vivian, the hooker with a heart of gold who wowed millionaire Richard Gere in the smash-hit movie Pretty Woman.

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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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SALT LAKE CITY — Two bounty hunters were run over by a getaway car driven by the brother of a man they were pursuing, prosecutors say. The brother, who has been charged with two counts of aggravated assault, a third-degree felony, then drove off. He was arrested and booked into Salt Lake County Jail the next day.
KABUL — Insurgents struck Friday at hotels in the heart of Kabul with suicide attackers and a car bomb, killing at least 16 people — half of them foreigners — in an assault that showed the militants remain a potent force despite setbacks on the battlefield and the arrest of more than a dozen key leaders. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attacks, which President Hamid Karzai said targeted Indians working in Kabul. A French filmmaker and an Italian diplomat also were killed, their governments said. The Kabul police chief said the Italian, Pietro Antonio Colazzo, died a hero, slain by the Taliban when they found he was phoning tips to police from inside his hotel where attackers were holed up. Italys news agency ANSA said Colazzo was deputy chief of the Kabul office of the Italian foreign intelligence agency and had been in the country for about two years. Police said three attackers died in addition to the 16 victims.

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ON NOVEMBER 30, 2009, North Koreans awoke to find that their savings had lost 99 percent of their official value. Kim Jong Ils dictatorship dropped two zeros from the North Korean won, making a 100-won note worth only one. Exchange of old currency for new is capped at 300,000 of the old won per family in bank savings and half that amount in cash. The limit is a de facto ceiling on savings, rendering worthless any currency held above the cutoff. The sudden revaluation may be an attempt to crack down on the black markets that have long existed in the comers of North Koreas centralized economic system. Defending the monetary change, which was imposed against a background of rampant inflation and widespread poverty, an official at the countrys central bank told a pro-Pyongyang paper in Japan that “in the future, a large share of economic activities will be subject not to the market, but the planned supply and distribution system.”

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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.”
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 — Following its monthly surveillance review of U.S. Student Loan
asset-backed securities (ABS) transactions, Fitch Ratings designated
four U.S. private student loan ABS deals as Under Analysis, indicating
that Fitch is in the process of reviewing the deal which will be
followed by a rating action. A rating action could include an
affirmation, upgrade, downgrade or placement on Rating Watch.

A total of 459 Student Loan ABS deals were designated with a SMARTView
date of Feb. 24, 2010, indicating that performance has been reviewed and
a rating action is not anticipated within the next 30 days.

The following transactions have been placed Under Analysis because
they will be subject to a periodic in-depth review:

–Access Group, Inc. 2002-A Indenture of Trust;

–Access Group, Inc. 2003-A Indenture of Trust;

GILROY, Calif. — Pinnacle Bank (OTCBB:PBNK) announced today that Kenneth Meagor has
joined the bank as Vice President, Credit Administrator.

“I am delighted that Ken has joined the Pinnacle Bank team. His
extensive credit background, coupled with his knowledge of the local
business communities will add great value to our credit team,” stated
Susan K. Black, President and Chief Executive Officer.

Mr. Meagor began his banking career with World Savings and Loan before
moving to Mexico City to work for Citibank as a product manager. He
joined Bank of Nova Scotia in 1998 in Mexico City as a senior manager,
branch support before moving to Toronto, Canada where he rose to
associate director, international corporate and commercial banking. In
2006 Ken moved to the Cayman Islands to become senior account manager
for Scotiabank Trust (Cayman) Ltd. Prior to joining Pinnacle Bank, Ken
was a vice president in the commercial and wealth management division of
Pacific Capital Bancorp in Morgan Hill.

“I joined Pinnacle Bank because I wanted to be part of a growing and
dynamic community bank that believes in standing behind local businesses
by providing them with creative and responsive banking solutions,”
stated Mr. Meagor.

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[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] From the health-trends-we-never-saw-coming file: backyard chickens! As part of the movement away from mass-produced, factory-farmed food and toward environmental sustainability and self-sufficiency, a growing number of suburbanites and city dwellers are raising chickens in their own backyards. In addition to providing fresh, humanely raised, nutrient-dense, organic eggs, many flocks become entertaining members of the family. Mailee Jones, who keeps three chickens in San Leandro, Calif., says she wanted her son to see where eggs came from. “We were interested in seeing if we could stop purchasing something from the store and rely on ourselves completely,” she says. Although the trend has often been framed as a recession-buster, most chicken enthusiasts say economics isnt their primary concern. “People keeping chickens on a small scale are probably not going to save money in the short term,” says Jennifer Megyesi, an organic farm owner in South Royalton, Vt., and author of The Joy of Keeping Chickens (Skyhorse Publishing). But in addition to being surprisingly cuddly, homegrown chickens mean health benefits, too. Megyesi says free-range eggs have higher omega-3 fatty acid levels than the ones youll find in conventional cartons. But the satisfaction of rearing a flock might be best of all.
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] From the health-trends-we-never-saw-coming file: backyard chickens! As part of the movement away from mass-produced, factory-farmed food and toward environmental sustainability and self-sufficiency, a growing number of suburbanites and city dwellers are raising chickens in their own backyards. In addition to providing fresh, humanely raised, nutrient-dense, organic eggs, many flocks become entertaining members of the family. Mailee Jones, who keeps three chickens in San Leandro, Calif., says she wanted her son to see where eggs came from. “We were interested in seeing if we could stop purchasing something from the store and rely on ourselves completely,” she says. Although the trend has often been framed as a recession-buster, most chicken enthusiasts say economics isnt their primary concern. “People keeping chickens on a small scale are probably not going to save money in the short term,” says Jennifer Megyesi, an organic farm owner in South Royalton, Vt., and author of The Joy of Keeping Chickens (Skyhorse Publishing). But in addition to being surprisingly cuddly, homegrown chickens mean health benefits, too. Megyesi says free-range eggs have higher omega-3 fatty acid levels than the ones youll find in conventional cartons. But the satisfaction of rearing a flock might be best of all.
ON NOVEMBER 30, 2009, North Koreans awoke to find that their savings had lost 99 percent of their official value. Kim Jong Ils dictatorship dropped two zeros from the North Korean won, making a 100-won note worth only one. Exchange of old currency for new is capped at 300,000 of the old won per family in bank savings and half that amount in cash. The limit is a de facto ceiling on savings, rendering worthless any currency held above the cutoff. The sudden revaluation may be an attempt to crack down on the black markets that have long existed in the comers of North Koreas centralized economic system. Defending the monetary change, which was imposed against a background of rampant inflation and widespread poverty, an official at the countrys central bank told a pro-Pyongyang paper in Japan that “in the future, a large share of economic activities will be subject not to the market, but the planned supply and distribution system.”

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While the economy founders, government grows, and therefore lobbying thrives as a recession-proof industry. The K Street crowd spent a record sum last year–$3.47 billion–which sounds like a lot but is not even peanuts (subsidized to the tune of $3.5 billion in the last farm bill) when one considers what is at stake in this era of trillion-dollar federal boondoggles.
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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I remember sitting at a networking lunch for professionals working in neonatal intensive care units (NICUs) 3 years ago. It was a large NICU conference in Las Vegas, and occupational therapists, physical therapists, speech therapists, nurses, physicians, and other professionals from around the country were in attendance. There were eight occupational therapists at my table and two additional tables of occupational, physical, and speech therapists next to us. Everyone was talking about their work in the NICU. Some occupational therapists did feeding and positioning, others assisted with developmental care and environmental modification, some completed range of motion (ROM) and light sensory stimulation, and one said she did “play therapy.” Everyone was very nice, obviously intelligent, and genuinely interested in each others work, but I walked away feeling not enlightened but perplexed. Occupational therapy in the NICU has few specific standards of practice (with the exception of AOTAs Knowledge and Skills Paper1) or universal treatment techniques. In fact, there are many variances in occupational therapy intervention from one NICU to another. Over 13 years, I have slowly developed a consistent program of care for occupational therapists in the NICU. I want to share the treatment techniques and ideas that have made occupational therapy in our Level 3 NICU hugely successful and valued by other members of the NICU team. One of the reasons for sharing this information is that there is a lack of large, well controlled randomized studies in NICU care by occupational therapy. The research on developmental interventions in the NICU is interdisciplinary and multimodal in nature, which limits the ability to identify the effectiveness of any single health care profession.2 However, there is substantial agreement and research about the benefits of developmental intervention in general.2 Studies conducted on the effects of sensory stimulation on premature infants differ on type, quantity, and total duration, as well as on how effects were measured, but general conclusions are generally positive.3 Although the intent of this article is to provide a basic structure for delivering occupational therapy in the NICU, all occupational therapists have the important responsibility of educating themselves on working in this environment, the medical and developmental risks preterm infants face, and the literature and research on developmental care.

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Quality Check measures added by Joint Commission Quality Check displays data on National Quality Improvement Goals for hospitals on selected performance measures in six treatment areas: childrens asthma care, heart attack, heart failure, pneumonia, pregnancy, surgical care, and pregnancy. The EDs performance in all of these areas becomes part of the hospitals data submission to Quality Check. That information then can be accessed by consumers as part of their search for hospital care. Bruce S. Auerbach, MD, FACEP, vice president and chief, emergency and ambulatory services at Sturdy Memorial Hospital in Attleboro, MA, says, “Once a person has been admitted to the hospital, the ED really has no further involvement in what goes on while in theyre in the hospital or upon discharge.” However, he notes, “Some EDs have instituted programs that process or provide more care in the ED or through which patients are overseen in adjacent areas — like observation or clinical decision units — as a means to manage those individuals they think they can take care of within a 24-hour-period and not admit them.” These patients, he continues, will be discharged from the ED or the other units, in which case the ED staff that oversee that unit will provide discharge instructions, he says. In addition, he notes, some institutions will put case managers in the ED. “Because they have so much to do with discharge planning, they will use them in the ED even for patients who are being admitted since they can start work early on discharge planning so that when theyre discharged there are no obstacles in the way of going home,” Auerbach explains.
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.
A year ago, Rep. John Murtha (D., Pa.) told a local newspaper: “If Im corrupt, its because I take care of my district.” He was, and he did. Murtha, who won his seat in 1974, soon fell afoul of Abscam, an FBI sting in which agents posing as Arabs offered bribes to congressmen. “You made an offer,” said Murtha on tape.

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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:
Quality Check measures added by Joint Commission Quality Check displays data on National Quality Improvement Goals for hospitals on selected performance measures in six treatment areas: childrens asthma care, heart attack, heart failure, pneumonia, pregnancy, surgical care, and pregnancy. The EDs performance in all of these areas becomes part of the hospitals data submission to Quality Check. That information then can be accessed by consumers as part of their search for hospital care. Bruce S. Auerbach, MD, FACEP, vice president and chief, emergency and ambulatory services at Sturdy Memorial Hospital in Attleboro, MA, says, “Once a person has been admitted to the hospital, the ED really has no further involvement in what goes on while in theyre in the hospital or upon discharge.” However, he notes, “Some EDs have instituted programs that process or provide more care in the ED or through which patients are overseen in adjacent areas — like observation or clinical decision units — as a means to manage those individuals they think they can take care of within a 24-hour-period and not admit them.” These patients, he continues, will be discharged from the ED or the other units, in which case the ED staff that oversee that unit will provide discharge instructions, he says. In addition, he notes, some institutions will put case managers in the ED. “Because they have so much to do with discharge planning, they will use them in the ED even for patients who are being admitted since they can start work early on discharge planning so that when theyre discharged there are no obstacles in the way of going home,” Auerbach explains.
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CALGARY, Alberta — Vermilion Energy Trust (VET.UN – TSX) (“Vermilion”) is pleased to
announce 100% success from its four-well drilling program in the
Netherlands with combined estimated initial production volumes in excess
of 4,000 boe/d net to Vermilion. With current Netherlands production
capacity of approximately 3,200 boe/d, Vermilion’s recent program is
expected to provide significant production growth in 2010 and 2011 as
the respective wells are brought on production through a staged tie-in
process.

Two of the four wells, Middelburen-2 and Middenmeer-3, were considered
lower risk development wells with access to needed infrastructure that
should enable tie-in during the first quarter of 2010. These wells are
expected to be brought on at a combined rate of approximately 15 mmcf/d
net to Vermilion (each are 92.8% working interest) and add nearly 2,000
boe/d of average production net to Vermilion in 2010. Accordingly,
Vermilion is currently projecting that it will approach the high end of
its initial production guidance range of 29,000 to 31,000 boe/d in 2010.

The two remaining wells, the Vinkega-1 and the De Hoeve-1 (each
representing up to 42.25% working interest), require production
permitting, pipeline construction and all related regulatory approvals
prior to tie-in. Production from both wells is expected on-stream by
early to mid-2011. As previously announced, the Vinkega-1 tested at
gross rates in excess of 30 mmcf/d and is expected to produce at a
relatively stable gross rate of approximately 17.5 mmcf/d (1,150 boe/d
net to Vermilion). The De Hoeve-1 well is currently being tested.
Initial results from two of the four zones are encouraging and we expect
this well will add in excess of 1,000 boe/d net to Vermilion beginning
mid-2011.

Vermilion is working to obtain permits to drill four to six additional
wells beginning as early as the first quarter 2011, and has identified
more than thirty further prospects that are expected to accommodate
ongoing organic growth in the Netherlands, subject to regulatory
approvals. Natural gas prices in the Netherlands are based on a basket
of oil-based products with a small spot gas component. Vermilion
realized nearly C$9.00 per mcf for its Netherlands natural gas in 2009
and is expecting similar pricing levels in 2010.

15-Year Software Industry Vet to Lead Growing Sales Team as Roambi
Sales Take Off

SAN DIEGO — MeLLmo,
Inc., a provider of innovative mobile applications that allow users to
view and interact with critical business information on-the-go, today
announced that Brad Freitag has joined the MeLLmo management team as
Vice President of Sales.

Brad’s expertise in enterprise software sales will allow MeLLmo to
expand its reach to more customers worldwide as interest in Roambi, the
company’s flagship mobile reporting app, intensifies. Before joining
MeLLmo, Brad made significant contributions to the growth of companies
including Oracle, IBM and Hyperion Solutions.

“This is such an exciting time to join MeLLmo – Roambi is already one of
the most popular business apps for good reason – it’s the most useful
way for mobile professionals to view, analyze and interact with
information on the go. The growing enterprise adoption of the iPhone,
and soon the iPad, make MeLLmo an even bigger player in the mobile
enterprise space,” said Brad Freitag, vice president of sales for
MeLLmo. “I’m thrilled to be joining a team with such innovative products
and such a strong track record of entrepreneurial success.”

“Coming off his successes at Oracle and Host Analytics, Brad is a great
fit to help us manage the rapidly growing enterprise demand for Roambi,
and expand our portfolio of enterprise customers,” said Santiago
Becerra, co-founder and CEO of MeLLmo. “We are pleased to have Brad on
board to manage our sales team and extend our reach to a new set of
Roambi customers.”

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PETER STORRIE has lifted the lid on the financial chaos engulfing Portsmouth and the reasons why the club are drowning in debt. Chief executive Storrie decided to speak out after growing increasingly agitated by speculation over the clubs fate. He said: “Naturally there are lessons to be learned from what has gone on at Portsmouth but fundamentally the club was run no differently than Chelsea, whereby we had owners supporting substantial debt. “When Milan Mandaric was at the club he personally supported the debt and overdraft facilities. Obviously the level of spending during his time was in line with what the club could afford.

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Beneficial Holdings, Inc. (PINKSHEETS: BFHJ), a casino and hospitality investment and management holding company, previously announced its intention to issue a share dividend of 6 shares of free trading common stock for every 1 share of unrestricted common stock that a shareholder owns (holders of restricted shares will receive restricted certificates). This means that the shareholder will have 7 shares of common stock after the dividend for every 1 share currently held.

The Company issued a resolution directing that the ex-date for the dividend will be March 5, 2010. The Company requested that the shares be prospectively distributed on March 10, 2010. However, the Company notes that these dates are tentative in nature and subject to approval by FINRA. In the event that FINRA cannot perform their review in time for the March 10 date, the distribution may be delayed; however, the ex-date probably will not be delayed. The ex-date is the date you must have settled your positions to receive the dividend. This will not be treated as an ordinary forward split, so shareholders must factor in the settlement times for the
ex-date when deciding when to purchase or sell their shares. In the event that the Company is notified of any changes, it will advise shareholders promptly.

In addition, the Company received information that a large portion of the daily sales of its common stock is due to short sellers and not retail investors trying to sell their shares. This short selling action is precisely why the Company needed to issue a dividend to make our common stock more liquid. Our shareholders cannot benefit from liquidity when short sellers are manipulating the price of the securities by creating a wall.

The following information was received from FINRAs published reports.

February 19, 2010: 220600 short shares of 306612 volume (72%).
February 18, 2010: 157000 short shares of 619360 volume (25%).
February 17, 2010: 660383 short shares of 1419469 volume (47%).
February 16, 2010: 255864 short shares of 324864 volume (79%).
February 12, 2010: 6000 short shares of 34500 volume (17%).
February 11, 2010: 75000 short shares of 213000 volume (35%).
February 10, 2010: 135000 short shares of 170700 volume (79%).
February 09, 2010: 729786 short shares of 853186 volume (86%).
February 08, 2010: 105000 short shares of 132895 volume (79%).
February 04, 2010: 125000 short shares of 155400 volume (80%).

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A CHARITY backed by the Sunday Mirror today launches an appeal to help our troops returning from Afghanistan with horrific injuries. The Army Benevolent Fund Soldiers Charity is urging people to back its Homes for Heroes fund, which aids servicemen who have lost limbs in conflict by adapting their homes so they can lead their lives as normally as possible. It comes as a growing number of troops return from Afghanistan as amputees after being blown up by Taliban bombs. But the full tragic toll of injuries, some dating back years, often goes unreported as they are overshadowed by the 263 deaths our forces have suffered in the conflict. And now the charity is asking Sunday Mirror readers to donate to its fund, used to adapt soldiers houses. Major General Sir Evelyn Webb-Carter, chief executive of The Soldiers Charity, said: “We have a duty to provide everything we can for those who serve and have served this country. We anticipate that in the next few years we will see a surge in applications for help.”

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Led by Stephen Czech, Team Will Manage Strategy Dedicated to Lending
to Small and Mid-Sized Businesses in the U.S.

NEW YORK — FrontPoint Partners LLC announced today that it has added a new
investment team to its platform. The team, led by Stephen Czech, will
manage a direct lending strategy dedicated to originating and investing
in secured loans to small and mid-sized businesses primarily in the
United States. Mr. Czech will be joined at FrontPoint Partners by Mark
Newlun, Sze Ling Wan and Paul Ahrens. The team will be based in
FrontPoint’s Greenwich, Connecticut office.

Mr. Czech has over 21 years of leveraged lending and corporate finance
experience and was the Founder and Portfolio Manager of Contrarian
Capital Finance, a middle market-focused direct lending strategy. At
Contrarian, Mr. Czech successfully built the investment team and
executed the strategy for four and a half years. Mr. Czech was most
recently a Managing Director and Portfolio Manager at Gottex Fund
Management Holdings Limited LLC. (“Gottex”). As part of an agreement
between FrontPoint Partners and Gottex, Gottex clients will continue to
be able to access investment opportunities sourced by Mr. Czech and his
investment team.

Dan Waters, Co-CEO of FrontPoint Partners, said, “Steve brings to
FrontPoint extensive direct lending, corporate finance and corporate
restructuring experience across numerous industries and companies. We
are extremely pleased that he and his team are joining our platform to
manage a strategy that will focus on investments in loan opportunities
that would not typically attract the attention of conventional banks,
commercial finance firms, collateralized loan obligation investors,
hedge funds and mezzanine investors.”

Added Mike Kelly, Co-CEO of FrontPoint Partners, “Given the significant
dislocation in the direct lending market, we believe this strategy
presents a compelling opportunity for both our investors and for
middle-market businesses seeking funding.”

Led by Stephen Czech, Team Will Manage Strategy Dedicated to Lending
to Small and Mid-Sized Businesses in the U.S.

NEW YORK — FrontPoint Partners LLC announced today that it has added a new
investment team to its platform. The team, led by Stephen Czech, will
manage a direct lending strategy dedicated to originating and investing
in secured loans to small and mid-sized businesses primarily in the
United States. Mr. Czech will be joined at FrontPoint Partners by Mark
Newlun, Sze Ling Wan and Paul Ahrens. The team will be based in
FrontPoint’s Greenwich, Connecticut office.

Mr. Czech has over 21 years of leveraged lending and corporate finance
experience and was the Founder and Portfolio Manager of Contrarian
Capital Finance, a middle market-focused direct lending strategy. At
Contrarian, Mr. Czech successfully built the investment team and
executed the strategy for four and a half years. Mr. Czech was most
recently a Managing Director and Portfolio Manager at Gottex Fund
Management Holdings Limited LLC. (“Gottex”). As part of an agreement
between FrontPoint Partners and Gottex, Gottex clients will continue to
be able to access investment opportunities sourced by Mr. Czech and his
investment team.

Dan Waters, Co-CEO of FrontPoint Partners, said, “Steve brings to
FrontPoint extensive direct lending, corporate finance and corporate
restructuring experience across numerous industries and companies. We
are extremely pleased that he and his team are joining our platform to
manage a strategy that will focus on investments in loan opportunities
that would not typically attract the attention of conventional banks,
commercial finance firms, collateralized loan obligation investors,
hedge funds and mezzanine investors.”

Added Mike Kelly, Co-CEO of FrontPoint Partners, “Given the significant
dislocation in the direct lending market, we believe this strategy
presents a compelling opportunity for both our investors and for
middle-market businesses seeking funding.”

CHICAGO — Fitch Ratings rates Freescale Semiconductor Inc.s (Freescale) $750
million senior secured note offering due 2018, which are pari passu with
the existing senior secured debt, at CCC/RR4. Additionally, Fitch
believes that the current ratings on Freescale Semiconductor Inc.
(Freescale) are unaffected by the companys amendment to its existing
bank credit facility.

Fitch currently rates Freescale as follows:

–Senior secured bank revolving credit facility (RCF) CCC/RR4;

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IN SAN FRANCISCO, any gathering after 2 a.m. requires a permit if there is “live entertainment,” a category that is apparently broad enough to include spinning records. Now cops charged with breaking up these events have taken it upon themselves to expropriate laptops from renegade disc jockeys. According to accounts from local DJs, one officer makes it a habit to take every laptop he can find when raiding parties, even computers not visibly being used to play music. Jennifer Granick, a lawyer with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, says this practice undermines the “evidence in a crime” excuse for seizing the computers, many of which belong to people not charged with any crimes. One of the DJs, Justin Miller, tells a tragicomic tale of an aggressive plainclothes policeman who barged into a private Halloween party while she was in full down regalia and asked her if she had a laptop. She wasnt using it to play music, she says, hut that didnt stop him from grabbing the computer out of her hands when she took it from its bag in response to his request. Miller says she followed the cop out to his car as he put her property in his trunk, along with other laptops hed nabbed that night. Miller recalls the annoyed officer telling her hed do all he could to make sure that it took her months to get back the machine, which is her primary source of livelihood.
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NEW YORK — GLG Partners, Inc. (“GLG”) (NYSE: GLG) today reported a GAAP net loss
attributable to common stockholders for the fourth quarter and full year
ended December 31, 2009 of $75.3 million, or $0.33 per fully diluted
share, and $319.0 million, or $1.45 per fully diluted share,
respectively.

Highlights

“We have an outstanding team of investment professionals underpinned by
a rigorous approach to investment analysis and risk management,”
commented Emmanuel Roman, Co-CEO. “Together with a robust infrastructure
and a high level of transparency, we are well placed to accommodate the
growing client interest in GLG and enjoy the benefits of operational
leverage. It is confidence in our longer-term outlook that was the basis
for our investments in our people and infrastructure throughout 2009. I
am pleased we are already seeing positive results from these
investments.”

PHILADELPHIA — RAIT Financial Trust (“RAIT”) (NYSE: RAS) today announced results for
the fourth quarter and year ended December 31, 2009. RAIT reported net
income allocable to common shares for the three-month period ended
December 31, 2009 of $15.6 million, or $0.24 total earnings per share –
diluted based on 66.3 million weighted-average shares outstanding –
diluted, as compared to net loss allocable to common shares for the
three-month period ended December 31, 2008 of $505.9 million, or total
loss per share – diluted of $7.78 based on 65.0 million weighted-average
shares outstanding – diluted. RAIT reported net loss allocable to common
shares for the year ended December 31, 2009 of $441.2 million, or $6.77
total loss per share – diluted based on 65.2 million weighted-average
shares outstanding – diluted, as compared to net loss allocable to
common shares for the year ended December 31, 2008 of $443.2 million, or
$6.99 total loss per share – diluted based on 63.4 million
weighted-average shares outstanding – diluted.

Scott Schaeffer, RAIT’s Chief Executive Officer and President,
commented: “2009 was part of an ongoing transition period for RAIT as we
continue to adapt our business to current economic conditions. We have
begun to see signs of stabilization in our commercial real estate
portfolio because of increased leasing activity in our multi-family and
office portfolios. Notwithstanding the financial crisis, we also see
opportunities to use our vertically integrated commercial real estate
platform to generate new revenue streams for RAIT. We look to execute on
these opportunities in 2010.”

NEW YORK — GLG Partners, Inc. (“GLG”) (NYSE: GLG) today reported a GAAP net loss
attributable to common stockholders for the fourth quarter and full year
ended December 31, 2009 of $75.3 million, or $0.33 per fully diluted
share, and $319.0 million, or $1.45 per fully diluted share,
respectively.

Highlights

“We have an outstanding team of investment professionals underpinned by
a rigorous approach to investment analysis and risk management,”
commented Emmanuel Roman, Co-CEO. “Together with a robust infrastructure
and a high level of transparency, we are well placed to accommodate the
growing client interest in GLG and enjoy the benefits of operational
leverage. It is confidence in our longer-term outlook that was the basis
for our investments in our people and infrastructure throughout 2009. I
am pleased we are already seeing positive results from these
investments.”

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BANNOCKBURN, Ill. — First bullet, date should read: Monday, February 22, 2010 (sted
Thursday, February 22, 2010); and second bullet, date should read:
Thursday, February 25, 2010 (sted Monday, February 25, 2010).

APAC CUSTOMER SERVICES ANNOUNCES FINANCIAL CONFERENCE SCHEDULE

APAC Customer Services, Inc., (NASDAQ:APAC), a leader in global
outsourced services and solutions, today announced its will present at
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NEW YORK — The board of directors of MetLife, Inc. (NYSE: MET) announced today that
the company will hold its 2010 annual shareholders meeting on Tuesday,
April 27, 2010. The board of directors established March 1, 2010 as the
record date for determining shareholders entitled to vote at the
meeting, which will begin at 1:00 p.m. (ET) and take place in New York
City.

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ALBANY, N.Y. — SEMATECH, a global consortium of chipmakers, and Dow Electronic
Materials announced today that Dow has joined SEMATECH’s Resist
Materials and Development Center (RMDC) at the College of Nanoscale
Science and Engineering (CNSE) of the University at Albany.

To advance the development of next-generation patterning technologies,
Dow Electronic Materials will collaborate with SEMATECH researchers at
CNSE’s Albany NanoTech Complex to develop and demonstrate extreme
ultra-violet lithography (EUVL) materials and resists for use at the 22
nm node and beyond.

“We are excited to partner with the most advanced technologists in the
effort to develop and commercialize EUVL technology for the
manufacturing of future nanoelectronics devices,” said George Barclay,
microelectronics RD director of Semiconductor Technologies at Dow
Electronic Materials. “This new partnership combines Dow’s experience in
photoresist materials, developers, and bottom anti reflective coatings,
with SEMATECH’s strengths in the development of fundamental resist
processes that are critical for EUV infrastructure.”

“This collaborative effort reinforces SEMATECH’s commitment to develop
cutting-edge resist and materials and accelerate EUV process
introduction into pilot line manufacturing,” said John Warlaumont, vice
president of advanced technologies at SEMATECH. “We are pleased to
welcome Dow as a member, and appreciate their participation in
SEMATECH’s ongoing effort to build broader and deeper collaborations for
advanced materials development.”

“The addition of Dow Electronic Materials will accelerate the
leading-edge research in EUVL technology at CNSE’s Albany NanoTech
Complex,” said Richard Brilla, CNSE vice president for strategy,
alliances and consortia. “This collaboration further enhances the
world-class capabilities and roster of leading global companies at the
UAlbany NanoCollege, and underscores the success of the SEMATECH-CNSE
partnership in enabling advanced technology solutions that are critical
to industry.”

SALT LAKE CITY — Burton Group will kick off its annual Catalyst
Conference Europe with a keynote address from industry luminary John
Seely Brown. Mr. Brown and Burton Group analysts will offer insight and
actionable advice on how technologists and executives can respond more
effectively to the challenging operating environment in the year ahead.

Mr. Brown is the Independent Co-Chairman of the Deloitte’s Center for
the Edge, and a visiting scholar and advisor to the Provost at
University of Southern California (USC). Previously, he was the chief
scientist of Xerox Corporation and the director of its Palo Alto
Research Center (PARC). In this position, Mr. Brown expanded the role of
corporate research to include such topics as the management of radical
innovation, organizational learning, complex adaptive systems and
nano/mems technologies. He was a co-founder of the Institute for
Research on Learning (IRL).

Mr. Browns keynote is one of more than 100 presentations by Burton
Group analysts, industry perspectives and roundtables available to
attendees on critical issues, including enterprise-ready clouds, the new
identity architecture and networks in motion.

“2010 is IT’s time to capture the opportunity of the moment,” said Chris
Howard, Burton Group executive analyst. “The post-crisis playing field
is more level than ever; enterprises are looking to create aggressive
new business models that reposition them in the market. Technologists
have an important role in this corporate redefinition. If they don’t
take advantage of the moment, it will pass them by.”

For more information and registration for Burton
Group’s Catalyst Europe 19 – 22, April 2010 in Prague, visit the Catalyst
Conference site.

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Florida Insurer Updates Technology Platform and Expands Services for
Agents

FALLS CHURCH, Va. — CSC (NYSE: CSC) today announced a six-year extension to its business
process outsourcing (BPO) services agreement with Sunshine State
Insurance Company, St. Augustine, Fla. Under the extension, CSC will
support Sunshine State’s personal and commercial property business
through January 2016 from an upgraded technology platform that automates
more of the underwriting process, making it easier for agents to conduct
business with the company. This contract was awarded to CSC during the
company’s fiscal 2010 second quarter.

CSC’s end-to-end processing services continue to support Sunshine
State’s underwriting, rating, policy issuance and administration, agency
point of sale automation, customer service, print and imaging, financial
accounting and reporting to bureaus and industry databases. These
services, provided since 2000, contributed to the insurer’s growth from
a start-up in 2000 to managing more than $110 million in direct written
premium in 2009, exemplified through the addition of another line of
business and expansion beyond the Florida borders into South Carolina.
CSC currently administers the company’s property business in Florida and
South Carolina on the latest versions of CSC’s POINT IN policy
administration system and Agency Link, the software automating the front
end.

Through this extension, Sunshine State and CSC are expanding the
technology and services for improved risk management and selection,
business analytics and advanced Web 2.0 capabilities. Agents can enter
data, obtain quotes, underwrite and issue policies online, as well as
conduct other functions throughout the policy lifecycle, all in a matter
of minutes.

“The Agency Link functionality has already been released to our first
group of agents, and the response has been phenomenal. Many of them
attribute their success to how quickly they can provide answers to their
customers,” said John Rogan, president and CEO, Sunshine State. “CSC’s
BPO services have also enabled Sunshine State to employ a virtual
insurer model with a focus on delivering exceptional service. As we
expand, CSC’s BPO staff and systems can scale to meet our needs.”

CHICAGO — Global business insurer CNA recently announced its implementation of
CargoNet™, a database network that combats cargo theft through improved
sharing of cargo theft information between the industry and law
enforcement. As a charter member of CargoNet, CNA leads the insurance
industry in a national initiative centered on secure information
sharing, education/training, and loss prevention services, as well as
investigative support.

Cargo theft is a multibillion-dollar economic drain that exploits
existing gaps in the nation’s information-sharing framework. When theft
victims are unable to provide timely and accurate information concerning
their losses, law enforcement’s ability to conduct effective
investigations is hampered. In addition to the immediate loss of
merchandise, cargo theft affects insurers and their policyholders
through added costs that are ultimately passed along to consumers.

“It’s universally agreed that better data collection and sharing are
critical to combating cargo theft,” said David Shillingford, president
of CargoNet. “We would not have been able to build the system needed to
achieve this without the support of forward-looking insurers like CNA.”

The CargoNet database and information-sharing system were designed by a
group of law enforcement, insurance industry, and supply-chain experts
and is managed by ISO. Investigations support and law enforcement
liaisons are coordinated by the National Insurance Crime Bureau (NICB).

AgencyPortal improves agent satisfaction and increases new business
for Harford Mutual

BOSTON — AgencyPort (a Sword Group company), the leading provider of web-based
solutions to the property and casualty insurance industry, today
congratulated Harford Mutual, a regional provider of PC insurance, on
being recognized by leading industry analysts Celent as a Model Carrier
for its innovative application of web portal technology. Harford Mutual
sought to increase independent agent adoption of its online portal, and
by partnering with AgencyPort, Harford Mutual saw growth in its new
business premium and agent utilization of the system to nearly 80%.

Harford Mutual also sought to modernize its insurance policy rating
engine from the existing processes to a more service-oriented
architecture; a project they knew would have far-reaching impact within
its back office operations. In order to shield its 400 independent
agencies from this internal systems upgrade and to simultaneously
install a new agent portal to improve agents’ experience with them,
Harford Mutual chose AgencyPorts web-based solution, AgencyPortal.

“We’re honored by this prestigious recognition from Celent,” said
Michael K. Winn, of Harford Mutual who led the launch of the portal. “In
selecting a software product for our agent front-end, it was imperative
that the solution integrate with our vendor-bought rating engine and our
existing policy administration system. We selected AgencyPort’s
AgencyPortal solution as the foundation for our RapidWrite product,
because it offered proven connector architecture and because AgencyPort
has a proven track record of project teams working effectively with
other vendors.”

“Harford Mutual’s agents have enthusiastically embraced the new
RapidWrite agent portal—most often citing faster service time as the
main improvement,” said Mason Power, Vice President of Product Marketing
AgencyPort. “The results speak for themselves: Business Owners Policy
applications were up over 20%, Workers’ Compensation up over 15%, and
Commercial Automobile up a staggering 54% in 2009. Harford Mutual has
also seen a major increase in quote-to-bind ratios across all three
Lines of Business meaning the company is growing its book of business as
a result of its technology investment.”

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OpenPeak Inc, a provider of touch screen devices, today announced its new OpenTablet 7, a touch screen tablet based on Intels handheld and tablet platform, codenamed Mooretown. The integrated device management service allows providers to remotely provision, monitor and update customer devices on demand over broadband networks to ensure the delivery of the most up-to-date services and software, according to OpenPeak. The device runs on the OpenPeak platform and uses Flash to display applications, which in turn means that developers can work with existing applications or develop new applications in a familiar environment.
SightLogix®, Inc., a supplier of intelligent video surveillance
systems for outdoor security
applications, has received Lenel factory certification as a member of the
Lenel OpenAccess Alliance Program. The certification confirms compatibility
between SightLogix automated surveillance equipment and Lenel Systems
International, Inc.s OnGuard security management system.

SightLogix combination of edge-based video analytics ,
large area coverage, and geospatial target tracking provides accurate and
cost-effective area and perimeter security . SightLogix thermal and visible
SightSensor™ cameras capture detailed information over large areas, in
all weather and geographic conditions, minimizing nuisance alarms and
reducing infrastructure costs. Key markets for SightLogix outdoor security
products include petro-chemical, airports, seaports, mass transit/rail,
public safety, Fed/Gov, data centers and other critical infrastructure
applications.

“SightLogix has completed required factory testing at Lenel to validate the
functionality of its interface to OnGuard. We look forward to their
continued involvement in the Lenel OpenAccess Alliance Program,” said
Raffaele Ceravolo, director of strategic alliances for Lenel.

“SightLogix open systems design makes it easy to integrate with
third-party systems,” said John Romanowich, President and CEO, SightLogix.
“Our certification in the Lenel OpenAccess Alliance Program clears the way
for customers to incorporate cost-effective and accurate protection of
large outdoor areas and perimeters as part of their Lenel deployments.”

SightLogix products include long and wide-range SightSensor security
cameras in both visible and thermal spectrum, SightTrackers that
automatically steer PTZ/dome cameras, and SightMonitor GPS target display
software.

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Optibase (NASDAQ:OBAS), a leading provider of advanced video solutions,
today announced that the Utah Air National Guard will deploy an Optibase
IPTV solution that streams up to 248 H.264 video channels, including
feeds received from satellite, cable systems and cameras, to base
employees, both on and off base.

The IPTV solution enables real-time information-sharing and
collaboration between Utah Air National Guard personnel in the field and
those on base during emergency events, as well as for exercises and
routine operations. It provides a secure means to distribute classified
content, and serves as a robust, easy-to-access platform for training
sessions and informational presentations. The system also allows
employees to monitor news and satellite TV channels on their PC
workstations.

The Optibase solution includes five MGW
5100 multi-channel encoders, which together can stream up to 124
channels. Secondary stream functionality doubles streaming capacity to
248 streams at two different bit-rates. MGW platforms are integrated
with the Cluster
Manager, Optibases professional management suite. The system offers
full N K redundancy and video matrix control capabilities, effectively
eliminating single point-of-failure scenarios.

Optibase EZ
TV System is an advanced application suite that manages and delivers
all of the streamed channels to all PCs on-base and to PCs off base over
the Internet. EZ TV provides user-configurable mosaic views of up to 16
channels on a single screen. Administrators can quickly create channel
groups and distribute them to all users or selected user groups at the
click of a button. User groups and access privileges can be easily
defined based on existing Microsoft Active Directory groups.
Installation of the browser-based EZ TV Player is automatically
initiated at first entry for lowest deployment cost.

“Utah Air National Guard is responsible for providing the Air Force’s
tactical airlift support, combat communications functions and aero
medical evacuations, as well as for meeting the needs of the state of
Utah in the event of natural disasters or civil disturbance. Optibase
IPTV solution will ensure we maintain reliable systems for communicating
essential information and collaborating with the field during emergency
events,” said spokesperson of the Utah Air National Guard.

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CLEVELAND — Abanaki
Corporation offers the Oil Grabber® Model 8 oil skimmer for the food
processing industry where plant maintenance engineers are looking for
the lowest cost, most reliable method of removing food greases and oils
from the wastewater stream. Abanaki skimmers use the differences in
specific gravity and surface tension between oil and water, allowing the
belt to attract frying oils, vegetable oils, greases, and animal fats as
the belt passes through the surface of the water. The simple
belt-and-motor approach is proven to operate unattended and reliably for
decades with little maintenance.

To avoid fines from government and municipal sewer districts, food
processing plants must limit the amount of oils discharged into the
environment. Oils and greases entering a plant’s wastewater stream in
the process line or during sanitary washdowns, must be removed
continuously. The Model 8 oil
skimmer provides a continuously operating belt and wiper that can
remove up to 40 gallons per hour of oil and grease from water and
water-based solutions. Depending on the characteristics of the liquid,
the Model 8 oil skimmer is capable of reducing oil content to fewer than
five parts-per-million in water. Another benefit of using an Abanaki oil
skimmer comes from the recaptured greases and oils, which can be used to
manufacture other products such as pet food.

About Abanaki Corporation: Abanaki, the world leader in oil
skimmer products, manufactures a wide range of products to remove
oils, greases, solvents, and related hydrocarbons from water. Belt and
Tube skimmer models are available with removal rates ranging from 1 to
200 gallons per hour in both stationary and portable systems.
Headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio, Abanaki has served a global customer
base in industries as diverse as iron and steel, wastewater, paper, food
processing, automotive, environmental remediation and recycling for more
than 40 years. Today, under the corporate motto “Clean Our World TM,”
Abanaki continues to address pollution in industry through innovation,
customer commitment, and environmental stewardship within its own
operations.

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