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On March 2 of 2007, with the implementation of Law 66, Puerto Rico became a smoke-free island by completely banning indoor smoking in public places such as bars, pubs, casinos, hotels, work places with more than one employee, and cars with any passenger under the age of 13 . According to the literature, the immediate impact of smoke-free workplace policies has been to dramatically reduce the exposition to SHS for customers and workers (10-17). Many studies have used the level of respirable particulate matter ([PM.sub.2.5]) as the main indicator of exposure to SHS because it has been demonstrated that smoking is one of the main sources of indoor levels of [PM.sub.2.5] (10). For example, bars in the state of New York experienced an average reduction of 84% in their [PM.sub.2.5] levels after the Clean Indoor Air Act was implemented in July of 2003 (11). In the case of Austin, Texas, bars experienced a reduction from 71% to 99% in their [PM.sub.2.5] levels after a smoking ban was implemented (12). In another study (13), Irish-theme pubs around the globe located in countries or cities with smoke-free legislation were compared with similar pubs in places without smoke-free ordinances. In this case, the results showed an average 91% reduction in [PM.sub.2.5] levels. In March of 2006, a smoking ban was implemented in Scotland, which substantially covered enclosed places including pubs. Evidence shows that, as a result, Scottish pubs experienced an average of 86% reduction in [PM.sub.2.5] levels (14). In Italy, a year after the implementation of an all smoke-free workplace policy in January of 2005, there was an average of 68% reduction in [PM.sub.2.5] levels across bars, restaurants, game rooms, and pubs (15). The main claim of this study is that the smoke-free workplace policy implemented in March of 2007 was effective in reducing the exposure to SHS in restaurants, pubs, and discos in the metropolitan area of San Juan, Puerto Rico. The specific research objectives of the study were three. First, to measure and compare the restaurants, pubs, and discos in the metropolitan area of San Juan at baseline (before the smoke-free workplace policy was implemented) in terms of the levels of respirable particulate matter (PM), the number of smokers, the number of customers, and establishment area. Second, to measure the change in levels of PM, the number of smokers, and the number of customers before and after March 2007. And third, to measure the effect of the smoke-free workplace policy on the level of PM controlling for the number of customers and establishment area.
The main goal of the Training Program is to increase the number of Hispanic students knowledgeable and committed to careers in cancer research and cancer medicine. The specific objectives are to prepare Hispanic students to pursue careers in cancer research, cancer medicine, and population sciences and to establish a Career Development Program for clinical and basic scientist faculty at the Comprehensive Cancer Center of the University of Puerto Rico (UPRCCC). The Training Program includes a series of didactic and research experiences, and enrichment activities that include on-campus cancer research at the UPR campuses during the academic year, and summer research and year-round rotations to MDACC. These experiences are complemented and supported by a structured Mentoring Program for students and junior investigators. The mentors are well recognized senior Faculty, mostly from MDACC. Training Opportunities Various research programs are available in UPR and MDACC, all sponsored by the U54 Training Program. In the UPR there is Research Assistantships Stipends Program for Undergraduate and Graduate Students. Students have the opportunity of working in cancer research projects under the guidance of Faculty in mid to senior stages of their academic careers. Most of these scientists are re-gearing their careers to Cancer Research. The students are also required to attend Seminars and Workshops offered through the academic year, mostly offered by visiting world-renowned scientists.

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INTRODUCTION The essentiality of copper for poultry and livestock is well documented (Davis and Mertz, 1987). Cu is an essential mineral which serves as co-factor in many enzyme systems in the body. Cu-sulfate (CuS[O.sub.4]5[H.sub.2]O) is the most commonly used dietary Cu supplement. Copper in the form of Cu-sulfate improves growth rate and feed efficiency in broilers (Choi and Paik, 1989; Baker et al., 1991) and in pigs (Roof and Mahan, 1982; Edmonds et al., 1985; Cromwell et al., 1989) at supernormal level (125 to 250 mg/kg). Growth promoting effect of dietary Cu has been attributed to its antimicrobial action (Fuller at el., 1960; Bunch et al., 1961; Burnell et al., 1988). Improved availability of Cu from organic Cu complexes compared with the commonly used Cu salts recently has been suggested. Chelates, complexes or proteinates are the organic form of Cu and are usually considered for use in animal diet as alternatives to inorganic Cu source. More bioavailability of Cu is probably due to better absorption, which enhances its efficiency (Downs et al., 2000; Yu et al., 2000; Guo et al., 2001). Baker and Ammerman (1995) reported that relative bioavailability estimate of organic Cu sources ranged from 88% to 147% of the response to cupric sulfate in poultry, Swine, sheep and cattle. Improvements in the digestibility of proteins (Braude, 1965; Castell and Bowland, 1968) and retention of nitrogen (Braude, 1965) have been reported in young pigs fed diet containing added Cu. Studies by Dove and Haydon (1992) and Dove (1995) have indicated that addition of 250 mg Cu/kg improved digestibility and utilization of the fat of weaned pigs, but results have limited and inconclusive for chickens when Cu added to the feed fortified with oil. To increase the energy level in the finisher diet and to obtain higher weight of a broiler chicken, oil and fat are used because of its high energy content. Soybean oil which stimulates growth rate, when included in poultry diet (Nitsan et al., 1997) is most commonly used oil source in Indian condition. Unsaturated vegetable fats (like soybean oil) are more energetic than saturated animal fat. Therefore, the main objective of this study was to investigate the influence of level of dietary inorganic and organic forms of Cu and energy level on performance and nutrient utilization of broiler chicken.
INTRODUCTION The essentiality of copper for poultry and livestock is well documented (Davis and Mertz, 1987). Cu is an essential mineral which serves as co-factor in many enzyme systems in the body. Cu-sulfate (CuS[O.sub.4]5[H.sub.2]O) is the most commonly used dietary Cu supplement. Copper in the form of Cu-sulfate improves growth rate and feed efficiency in broilers (Choi and Paik, 1989; Baker et al., 1991) and in pigs (Roof and Mahan, 1982; Edmonds et al., 1985; Cromwell et al., 1989) at supernormal level (125 to 250 mg/kg). Growth promoting effect of dietary Cu has been attributed to its antimicrobial action (Fuller at el., 1960; Bunch et al., 1961; Burnell et al., 1988). Improved availability of Cu from organic Cu complexes compared with the commonly used Cu salts recently has been suggested. Chelates, complexes or proteinates are the organic form of Cu and are usually considered for use in animal diet as alternatives to inorganic Cu source. More bioavailability of Cu is probably due to better absorption, which enhances its efficiency (Downs et al., 2000; Yu et al., 2000; Guo et al., 2001). Baker and Ammerman (1995) reported that relative bioavailability estimate of organic Cu sources ranged from 88% to 147% of the response to cupric sulfate in poultry, Swine, sheep and cattle. Improvements in the digestibility of proteins (Braude, 1965; Castell and Bowland, 1968) and retention of nitrogen (Braude, 1965) have been reported in young pigs fed diet containing added Cu. Studies by Dove and Haydon (1992) and Dove (1995) have indicated that addition of 250 mg Cu/kg improved digestibility and utilization of the fat of weaned pigs, but results have limited and inconclusive for chickens when Cu added to the feed fortified with oil. To increase the energy level in the finisher diet and to obtain higher weight of a broiler chicken, oil and fat are used because of its high energy content. Soybean oil which stimulates growth rate, when included in poultry diet (Nitsan et al., 1997) is most commonly used oil source in Indian condition. Unsaturated vegetable fats (like soybean oil) are more energetic than saturated animal fat. Therefore, the main objective of this study was to investigate the influence of level of dietary inorganic and organic forms of Cu and energy level on performance and nutrient utilization of broiler chicken.

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Motor vehicle versus pedestrian crashes are a leading cause of injury and death among children. Because attending school is a major focal point of a childs daily activity, many pedestrian-related injuries among children occur on the way to or from school. Research on this topic has shown a number of factors to be related to motor vehicle versus pedestrian crashes, some of which include: school travel times, season, neighborhood characteristics and the number of schools in the area. School zones have been created in many areas, aimed to reduce the risk of pedestrian-related injuries to children and are meant to be safe places for children to walk during school travel times. However, the question remains as to how effective these zones are and if more should be done to protect our youth. Our study used pedestrian collision data from the City of Torontos Traffic Data Centre and Safety Bureau. The study included all police-reported motor vehicle collisions involving pedestrians with a recorded age less than 18 years that occurred in Toronto, Canada between January 1, 2000 and December 31, 2005. The Toronto District School Board (TDSB) provided a list of all 1,050 schools registered in Metropolitan Toronto. School zones, established by the Toronto Transport Operations, are defined as a 150-meter radius around a school. For the purpose of this study, additional zones were designated around schools at increasing distances of 150, 150-300, 300-450 and 450 meters. Frequency of vehicle-pedestrian collisions around schools in each zone was determined. We found that there were a total of 2,717 collisions in Toronto between 2000 and 2005 that involved children under the age of 18. The largest proportion of collisions was in the 10-14 year age group (37%). Almost 50% of collisions occurred during the hours defined as school travel times (7-9 am, 12-1 pm, and 3-5pm). When considering the rate per hour, there was 3.3 times greater rate of injury during school travel time. Furthermore, higher numbers of child pedestrian collisions occurred during the school year (from September to June), with a drop in the summer (July and August). School zones were found to be less than 10% of the surface area of the city, but had a much higher risk of child pedestrian collisions than other areas. The absolute density of injuries (collisions divided by units of area [m2]) and fatalities (fatalities dived by units of area [m2]) were 5.7 and 9.4 times higher in the school zones as compared to the largest zone (450m or more away from the school).
Motor vehicle versus pedestrian crashes are a leading cause of injury and death among children. Because attending school is a major focal point of a childs daily activity, many pedestrian-related injuries among children occur on the way to or from school. Research on this topic has shown a number of factors to be related to motor vehicle versus pedestrian crashes, some of which include: school travel times, season, neighborhood characteristics and the number of schools in the area. School zones have been created in many areas, aimed to reduce the risk of pedestrian-related injuries to children and are meant to be safe places for children to walk during school travel times. However, the question remains as to how effective these zones are and if more should be done to protect our youth. Our study used pedestrian collision data from the City of Torontos Traffic Data Centre and Safety Bureau. The study included all police-reported motor vehicle collisions involving pedestrians with a recorded age less than 18 years that occurred in Toronto, Canada between January 1, 2000 and December 31, 2005. The Toronto District School Board (TDSB) provided a list of all 1,050 schools registered in Metropolitan Toronto. School zones, established by the Toronto Transport Operations, are defined as a 150-meter radius around a school. For the purpose of this study, additional zones were designated around schools at increasing distances of 150, 150-300, 300-450 and 450 meters. Frequency of vehicle-pedestrian collisions around schools in each zone was determined. We found that there were a total of 2,717 collisions in Toronto between 2000 and 2005 that involved children under the age of 18. The largest proportion of collisions was in the 10-14 year age group (37%). Almost 50% of collisions occurred during the hours defined as school travel times (7-9 am, 12-1 pm, and 3-5pm). When considering the rate per hour, there was 3.3 times greater rate of injury during school travel time. Furthermore, higher numbers of child pedestrian collisions occurred during the school year (from September to June), with a drop in the summer (July and August). School zones were found to be less than 10% of the surface area of the city, but had a much higher risk of child pedestrian collisions than other areas. The absolute density of injuries (collisions divided by units of area [m2]) and fatalities (fatalities dived by units of area [m2]) were 5.7 and 9.4 times higher in the school zones as compared to the largest zone (450m or more away from the school).

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Motor vehicle versus pedestrian crashes are a leading cause of injury and death among children. Because attending school is a major focal point of a childs daily activity, many pedestrian-related injuries among children occur on the way to or from school. Research on this topic has shown a number of factors to be related to motor vehicle versus pedestrian crashes, some of which include: school travel times, season, neighborhood characteristics and the number of schools in the area. School zones have been created in many areas, aimed to reduce the risk of pedestrian-related injuries to children and are meant to be safe places for children to walk during school travel times. However, the question remains as to how effective these zones are and if more should be done to protect our youth. Our study used pedestrian collision data from the City of Torontos Traffic Data Centre and Safety Bureau. The study included all police-reported motor vehicle collisions involving pedestrians with a recorded age less than 18 years that occurred in Toronto, Canada between January 1, 2000 and December 31, 2005. The Toronto District School Board (TDSB) provided a list of all 1,050 schools registered in Metropolitan Toronto. School zones, established by the Toronto Transport Operations, are defined as a 150-meter radius around a school. For the purpose of this study, additional zones were designated around schools at increasing distances of 150, 150-300, 300-450 and 450 meters. Frequency of vehicle-pedestrian collisions around schools in each zone was determined. We found that there were a total of 2,717 collisions in Toronto between 2000 and 2005 that involved children under the age of 18. The largest proportion of collisions was in the 10-14 year age group (37%). Almost 50% of collisions occurred during the hours defined as school travel times (7-9 am, 12-1 pm, and 3-5pm). When considering the rate per hour, there was 3.3 times greater rate of injury during school travel time. Furthermore, higher numbers of child pedestrian collisions occurred during the school year (from September to June), with a drop in the summer (July and August). School zones were found to be less than 10% of the surface area of the city, but had a much higher risk of child pedestrian collisions than other areas. The absolute density of injuries (collisions divided by units of area [m2]) and fatalities (fatalities dived by units of area [m2]) were 5.7 and 9.4 times higher in the school zones as compared to the largest zone (450m or more away from the school).
Motor vehicle versus pedestrian crashes are a leading cause of injury and death among children. Because attending school is a major focal point of a childs daily activity, many pedestrian-related injuries among children occur on the way to or from school. Research on this topic has shown a number of factors to be related to motor vehicle versus pedestrian crashes, some of which include: school travel times, season, neighborhood characteristics and the number of schools in the area. School zones have been created in many areas, aimed to reduce the risk of pedestrian-related injuries to children and are meant to be safe places for children to walk during school travel times. However, the question remains as to how effective these zones are and if more should be done to protect our youth. Our study used pedestrian collision data from the City of Torontos Traffic Data Centre and Safety Bureau. The study included all police-reported motor vehicle collisions involving pedestrians with a recorded age less than 18 years that occurred in Toronto, Canada between January 1, 2000 and December 31, 2005. The Toronto District School Board (TDSB) provided a list of all 1,050 schools registered in Metropolitan Toronto. School zones, established by the Toronto Transport Operations, are defined as a 150-meter radius around a school. For the purpose of this study, additional zones were designated around schools at increasing distances of 150, 150-300, 300-450 and 450 meters. Frequency of vehicle-pedestrian collisions around schools in each zone was determined. We found that there were a total of 2,717 collisions in Toronto between 2000 and 2005 that involved children under the age of 18. The largest proportion of collisions was in the 10-14 year age group (37%). Almost 50% of collisions occurred during the hours defined as school travel times (7-9 am, 12-1 pm, and 3-5pm). When considering the rate per hour, there was 3.3 times greater rate of injury during school travel time. Furthermore, higher numbers of child pedestrian collisions occurred during the school year (from September to June), with a drop in the summer (July and August). School zones were found to be less than 10% of the surface area of the city, but had a much higher risk of child pedestrian collisions than other areas. The absolute density of injuries (collisions divided by units of area [m2]) and fatalities (fatalities dived by units of area [m2]) were 5.7 and 9.4 times higher in the school zones as compared to the largest zone (450m or more away from the school).

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TEST cricket never fails to amaze me. When England collapsed to 102-7 just 40 overs into the game it would have taken a brave man to suggest that England would go on to win at Lords. Yet here we are this morning with England on the brink of a quite remarkable victory. Whoever says Test cricket is dull needs to take another look. We have been royally entertained with some outstanding batting and bowling which has been a wonderful advertisement for the game. The world-recordbreaking eighth-wicket partnership of 332 between Jonathan Trott and Stuart Broad was not only of the highest class but has enabled England to secure the series win. Pakistan thoroughly deserved their success at the Brit Oval last week and arrived at the home of cricket full of confidence.
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FRANK LAMPARD and John Terry are out of Englands Euro 2012 qualifier against Bulgaria at Wembley on Friday night. Boss Fabio Capello could also be without Peter Crouch, Jermain Defoe, Bobby Zamora and David Stockdale. Chelsea midfielder Lampard will undergo an operation this week to combat a long-term hernia injury. Lampard missed a penalty as Chelsea beat Stoke 2-0 yesterday and Blues manager Carlo Ancelotti said: “He was in pain last week, but had treatment and felt it was OK to play today. It has not improved, and he has to have surgery. “This is something Frank had an operation on 10 years ago.
Epidemiological studies in the United States (US), Europe, Australia, and Africa have documented standardized incidence ratios (SIR) of AIDS related and non-AIDS related cancers using data from linked Cancer and AIDS registries (4-13). In a population-based registry linkage in New York State, Gallagher et al. (10) reported significant SIR for KS, NHL, invasive cervical cancer, and several non-AIDS related cancers affecting the tongue, mouth, rectum, anus, trachea, bronchus, and lung. In Italy, Dal Maso, Serraino and Franceschi (7) reported a SIR of 302 (95% CI, 253-357) for NHL in AIDS patients. In a linkage of AIDS and cancer registries from 11 US regions, Engels et al. (4) reported important declines in KS and NHL after the introduction of HAART in people with AIDS, no change in cervical cancer, and increased risk of non-AIDS related cancers, particularly Hodgkin lymphoma, anus, liver, and lung cancer. An AIDS-Cancer linkage was also conducted in Africa, where the incidence of all AIDS related cancers and some non-AIDS related cancers (Hodgkin lymphoma, conjunctiva, kidney, thyroid, and uterus) were found to be higher among people with AIDS (9). In a more recent prospective cohort study, Patel et al. (5) also reported a reduction in AIDS related malignancies except for cervical cancer, and a significant increase risk of non-AIDS related malignancies in a cohort of adults living with HIV compared to the general population in the US. The most important types of non-AIDS related malignancies were: anal, vaginal, Hodgkin lymphoma, liver, lung, melanoma, oropharyngeal, leukemia, colorectal and renal. These results suggest that the incidence of non-AIDS related cancers has increased more than the incidence of AIDS related cancers, and that the influence of HAART in the development and prognosis of various cancers is still not clear. Biological, environmental and behavioral risk factors must also be explored to better define the long-term cancer risk in people living with HIV/AIDS (14). Puerto Rico (PR) is one of the top ten US States and territories with the highest cumulative number of AIDS cases, and Puerto Ricans are the second largest group of Hispanics in the US with higher cancer mortality rates (15-16). However, little information is available regarding AIDS related and non-AIDS related malignancies among Hispanics with HIV/ AIDS in the US or PR. In one retrospective cohort study in Southern California, Levine et al. (17) reported that from 1982 to 1998 the prevalence of AIDS-related lymphoma decreased significantly in whites but increased in Hispanics. In another study, Fordyce et al. (18) conducted a population-based AIDS-Cancer linkage analysis of women from New York City diagnosed with AIDS between 1981 and 1994, and reported that 47% of all cancer cases were among African Americans, 36% among Hispanics, and 16% among non-Hispanic whites. Mayor et al. (19) conducted a cross-sectional analysis of 3,576 HIV/AIDS patients attending an outpatient clinic in PR from 1992 to 2005. Of these patients, 171 (4.8%) were diagnosed with cancer at some point in their lives: 51.5% AIDS related and 48.5% non-AIDS related cancers. Because no population-based studies have been conducted in PR, the risk of AIDS related and non-AIDS related cancers in PR compared to the general population is still unknown. The purpose of this study was to estimate the risk of AIDS related and non-AIDS related cancers among Hispanics with AIDS in PR using the Puerto Rico Central Cancer Registry and the Puerto Rico AIDS Surveillance Program Registry. Both are population-based registries that receive support from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. We hypothesized that the risk of all AIDS related cancers and the risk of many non-AIDS related cancers will be higher in the AIDS group compared with the general population in PR. The results of this study will provide the basis for future epidemiological studies to characterize the natural history of specific cancers in HIV infection and other important biological, environmental, and behavioral risk factors.

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Balqon Corporation (OTCBB: BLQN), a developer and manufacturer of zero emissions, heavy-duty electric vehicles and drive systems, has received a $490,000 order for electric drive systems under a new dealer agreement with DynaProTech, a leading composite automotive parts manufacturer in the Peoples Republic of China.

Under the terms of the dealer agreement, DynaProTech plans to integrate Balqons zero-emissions electric drive systems into electric buses, heavy-duty trucks, light commercial vehicles and automobiles for use throughout China. DynaProTech will also provide servicing and parts for Balqons products throughout China.

“Our relationship with DynaProTech is a continuation of our localization strategy to have our drive systems integrated into products manufactured by regional original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) in major world markets,” said Balwinder Samra, president and CEO of Balqon Corporation.

“We believe that DynaProTechs existing customer base in the automotive sector will expedite our ability to promote our technologies to a growing base of OEMs seeking zero-emissions technologies,” said Samra. “In addition, we believe that our relationship with DynaProTech will also allow us to showcase our flux vector motor controllers and battery management systems to manufacturers of electric buses, trucks and automobiles in China.”

The relationship with DynaProTech comes at a time where China is expected to increase spending in the alternative-energy vehicle industry. On August 4, 2010, the Shanghai Securities News reported (without citation) that China may invest more than 100 billion Yuan (approximately US$14.8 billion) in the alternative-energy vehicles industry during the next 10 years.

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The first problem is the name. If youre going to start a grass- roots political movement in Utah and invite everyone, the “coffee party” probably isnt the ticket. Thats sort of like holding a dance party in the Baptist South, or a pork barbecue in Israel. “I know,” says member and Ogden resident Lee Dalton. “That might be a hindrance.” But he is quick to add that the Utah group is just a chapter of the larger national party, founded by a young woman who put a post on Facebook about the “false narrative that the tea party is the real America.” “We could call our branch the Postum party, I guess,” Dalton said. And that would be right in the spirit of a party that just wants everyone to get along. Dont drink coffee? Have some fruit punch or water. There was plenty of each at a recent meeting.
IMAGINE British Telecom allowed people to call you up and spew religious hatred down the phone. Imagine all your pals received the same phone calls. No-one would blame you for switching to O2, even if the service was nowhere near as good. In the age of social networking, the methods have moved away from crank calling, but the impact has proved much more severe. Muslims all around the world are furious with Facebook after a string of anti-Islamic pages and campaigns. The notorious Draw Muhammad Day cast the first stone, daring artists all over the world to depict Muhammad – a cardinal sin in Islam – as a protest against the Danish cartoon controversy. Another page started up recently advertising Burn A Quran Day, which is set to take place on September 11 outside a Florida church. More than 6000 people have already pledged their support for this inflammatory and divisive day of hate. In contrast, a rival campaign called Burn A Bible Day boasts barely 50 supporters. These antagonistic pages are only the tip of an ugly and Islamophobic attitude surging through Facebook and other social networking sites. Unsurprisingly, Muslims are starting to vote with their mouses and click somewhere else. Pakistan actually shut off access to Facebook after the first Draw Muhammad Day, though it was only a temporary solution. More than 2.5 million Muslims using Facebook threatened to leave the site after it took down four popular Islamic pages, claiming they were being used to send spam – the sort of junk mail that plagues the internet. Now several Muslim-only social networking sites have started up. The first was a site called MillatFacebook which aimed to “unite Over 1.57 billion Muslims and peaceful people from other religions”. Although 333,000 people signed up in the first few weeks, it has been dogged with problems, mostly because it is very clunky and badly designed. Last week The Muslim Brotherhood, an international Islamist group, started its own Facebook clone – which is likely to be far less benign. The Brotherhood is in opposition in Egypt and cannot get on the TV, so its interest in a social networking site is clear. Yet its links to violent groups have been asserted over and over. If angry young Muslims leave Facebook and sign up here, the risk of cyber-indoctrination seems far greater. All the social networking Islamophobes complain a strain of Islamic supremacism is attacking the Western world, bent on putting up mosques near Ground Zero and killing critical blasphemous filmmakers in a mission to stifle any opposition to Sharia law. Of course, this is true of a tiny small minority within the Muslim world. By offending moderates and driving them into online ghettos, what chance is there of reaching some sort of cultural detente? The internet cherishes freedom of expression, but this should not come at the cost of driving yet another wedge between communities.

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WALTER SMITH is seeking a massive improvement on last seasons disastrous C h a m p i o n s L e a g u e campaign. Rangers finished bottom of their section after failing to win, home or away, against Seville, Stuttgart and Unirea. But while on paper Manchester United, Valencia and Bursaspor are even stronger, t h e I b r ox boss believes his players can step up. Smith (right) said: “Our Champions League performances from last season werent good enough, especially in our home games. “Manchester Uniteds pedigree is already set. Valencia have had a good few changes in their team for the first time in the last three seasons. They have lost four of their main players but have brought in another six or seven Spanish players. “They will be changed from the last two or three seasons where they have had fantastic consistency to finish third behind Barcelona and Real Madrid. “And Bursapor? Well, if you were drawn against Fenerbahce or Galatasaray you would say you wo u l d h ave a struggle. It would be a good game and Bursaspor have won the League and they beat Fenerbahce in the first game of the season.
Foreclosure. Reduced hours. Downsizing. Unemployment. In one month, I was given reduced hours at work, my mother lost her benefits, and a former bishop of mine became unemployed. This current economic calamity is taking no prisoners. We all are squeezed by the downturn. When faced by trials, we sometimes ask, “What did I do to deserve this?” In some cases, this may be appropriate. After all, we all need improvement. But sometimes the answer is that we did nothing. Dr. Truman G. Madsen pointed out that when we ask this question we “assume suffering is always a form of Divine punishment. It is not. (We) are convinced by Jobs friends instead of by Job” (see “Eternal Man” by Truman G. Madsen, p. 55).
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By Jan Biles An author says a Kansas physicians use of goat gland transplants to cure male impotence in the 1920s-40s may have been questionable, but the strategies the doctor used to sell himself and his products were brilliant and still used today by the nations leading marketers. Chip Kessler, an ex-radio and television sportscaster from Tennessee, and Dan Kennedy, who has authored more than 12 books on business and marketing and appeared alongside former President George H.W. Bush and former Secretary of State Gen. Colin Powell at speaking engagements, have teamed up to write “Making Them Believe: The 21 Principles and Lost Secrets of Dr. J.R. Brinkley-Style Marketing.” J.R. Brinkley, who first rose to national prominence while living in Milford, amassed a fortune before he was stripped of his license to practice in the Kansas.
HOW about this for the ultimate mobile office? German tuner Brabus has come up with the S-Class iBusiness. Forget the 750-horse 6.3-litre V12, just look at the two iPads with Bluetooth, seat-mounted multi-media screens and roofmounted Mac display. The two iPads also control the cars COMAND system, working the radio, navigation and phone set-ups. Oh, and the whole thing is powered by a Mac hard drive in the boot.
Unlike traditional multi-product enterprise solutions, onQ is a simple, turnkey appliance that pre-integrates a number of sophisticated technologies — such as replication, deduplication, snapshots continual virtualization — into a single box. onQ automatically maintains and manages up-to-date virtual machine clones on a bare metal hypervisor to give companies high performance instant recovery in the event of a failure without requiring any additional hardware or software. onQ goes beyond off-site and on-line backup and makes complete business continuity easy and affordable — without the complexity, cost, or lengthy deployment projects required of traditional enterprise solutions.

“To provide an equivalent solution to what QuorumLabs has packaged into a single appliance requires a high level of engineering and an extended migration and integration project,” said Bob Boyer, chief marketing officer, Transcend United. “For small and mid-sized companies who need business continuity, this has been a barrier to deploying virtualization-based solutions since they dont have the in-house expertise or the time. Its a lot to tackle. Thats where onQ fits in: an easy to implement, easy to maintain and easy to test appliance.”

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WLS, a leading provider of cellular platforms to top tier global phone
makers, will operate as a standalone business serving its existing
customers. WLS will also contribute to Intel’s strategy to make
connected computing ubiquitous from smartphones to laptops to embedded
computing.

“The global demand for wireless solutions continues to grow at an
extraordinary rate,” said Paul Otellini, Intel president and CEO. “The
acquisition of Infineon’s WLS business strengthens the second pillar of
our computing strategy — Internet connectivity — and enables us to
offer a portfolio of products that covers the full range of wireless
options from Wi-Fi and 3G to WiMAX and LTE. As more devices compute and
connect to the Internet, we are committed to positioning Intel to take
advantage of the growth potential in every computing segment, from
laptops to handhelds and beyond.”

“The sale of WLS is a strategic decision to enhance Infineon’s value. We
can now fully concentrate our resources towards strong growth in our
core segments Automotive (ATV), Industrial Multimarket (IMM) and Chip
Card Security (CCS). This creates a great perspective for all Infineon
customers, employees and shareholders,” said Peter Bauer, CEO of
Infineon Technologies AG. “We all stand to benefit enormously from this
deal. Thanks to the outstanding effort of the employees and the
management during the last years, WLS is excellently positioned to grow
further with the new owner who is ideally suited for this business.”

IRELANDS top wedding planner and Brides Of Franc star Peter Kelly has compiled his top recessionbusting wedding tips here for you. Hosting your wedding outside of traditional busy wedding times of the year can be the most important budgeting decision that you make at the outset. Most wedding suppliers will offer big reductions for traditional “off-peak” times of the year as well as midweek dates. With the Summer weather being less and less dependable brides should consider a Winter or Spring ceremony. Early December and early January can have all of the benefits of Christmas in terms of atmosphere and dcor while saving on the overall event. Your decision on the timing will also be reflected in the cost of your honeymoon so take your time over the decision. Give yourself plenty of time to shop around for everything from venues, suppliers to the smaller details such as accessories, to ensure that you get the very best value for your money and dont run out of time. Replace favours with a centrepiece that can be given as a gift to guests at the end of the evening. This will save you time and money as your centrepiece and favours will act as one. Try choosing a potted flower or plant that matches nicely with your wedding theme.
CALENDAR Washburn University School of Business research seminar: “Presenting Total Landed Cost Models in Business and Accounting Classes,” presented by faculty member Bill Roach (co-authored by Tom Clevenger), 12:30 p.m., Henderson Learning Resources Center, Room 104. The public is welcome, and there is no charge. Information: (785) 670-1599. Cheryl Brown Henderson and Capitol Federal Savings are among six inductees into the 2010 Mid-America Education Hall of Fame. They will be joined by Thomas Burke, president of Kansas City, Kan., Community College; Thomas M. Bloch, an inner-city teacher and former chief executive officer of HR Bloch; Jim Dougherty, director of the DeLaSalle Education Center; and Keil E. Hileman, the 2004 Kansas Teacher of the Year. The induction ceremonies will take place Nov. 6 at Kansas City, Kan., Community College and are open to the public. Reservations can be made by calling (913) 288-7632.

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I returned from a visit to my daughters in Washington, D. C., this past week. Its never long enough, but that is something for another column. Whenever I select a seat on the airplane, I always try to choose one by the window. I do so for two reasons. The first is rather superfluous: I love to go fast. I love looking out the window when the plane taxis to its assigned runway, lines up, pauses, then begins rolling, cruising, picking up momentum, then flat-out charges down the runway, straining, straining, until the pilot pulls back on the throttle and the plane lifts into the air, sharply angling up and shooting into the clouds.
Fraunhofer’s telepresence@home HD Video Conferencing Technology,
Developed within the EU Project “Together Anywhere Together Anytime”
Delivers a “Same-Room” Experience Despite the Distance between Users

BERLIN — Fraunhofer IIS, the world’s authoritative source of audio and multimedia
technologies, is presenting technologies for telepresence@home and HD
video conferencing systems, featuring low-delay, high-quality audio and
video for the first time at IFA 2010 in Berlin. Fraunhofer’s technology
allows users to experience completely natural conversation just as if
the participants were sitting in the same room.

The telepresence@home system demo is part of the European Union’s
“Together Anywhere Together Anytime” (TA2) project, which aims to enable
new media experiences to nurture relationships between families and
friends. Through its work as a research partner within TA2, Fraunhofer
contributed its Audio Communication Engine to provide the highest
quality audio, and now delivers a matching low-delay video solution.
This new video technology reduces delay to a level that allows for
natural communication experiences. In contrast to conventional video
conferencing systems, the Audio Communication Engine and low-delay video
technology deliver a complete telepresence@home system that provides the
highest audio and video quality along with imperceptible latency.

“Current low-delay video technologies require either a much higher
bit-rate or rely on very expensive dedicated hardware,” said Dr.
Nikolaus Faerber, low-delay video project manager at Fraunhofer IIS.
“However, Fraunhofer’s solution is based on PC hardware, which is widely
available at a very competitive price. The result is an HD video
conferencing system for the home that delivers the best possible
communication experience at a low cost.”

Fraunhofer’s low-delay video technology consists of low-delay,
high-quality video encoding and decoding based on H.264 in conjunction
with a custom designed low-delay frame grabber card. This combination
enables high-quality HD video at DSL compatible bit-rates well below 100
ms delay end-to-end.

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TADHG Kennelly believes Ireland is still the best breeding ground for new Australian rules recruits despite the growing trend for big name Australian rugby league defectors endorsed by the AFL in recent months. The Listowel superstar highlighted the ease with which GAA players adapt to the oval ball, a privilege that Kennelly himself didnt have, when he defected to Australian rules from Gaelic football a decade ago. “The best thing for me was because I played Gaelic football, I had the aerobic fitness because Gaelic and Aussie Rules are quite similar – with lots of running,” he said. “Rugby League players are professionals – they have egos, so theyre not going to go out there and not play well.
I AM not exactly flavour of the month at Manchester City. Apparently it is “laughable” to criticise their “sustainable” recruitment policy.
By Jayson Jenks The plan is there, somewhere, tucked inside Joe Daileys mind. He has always stored a plan, always had objectives and goals he needed to meet. In college, Dailey wanted to captain a team, start at quarterback and meet his wife. In coaching, he wants to master the tactful and competitive art of recruiting while at Kansas. Yet for a man who knew specifically what he wanted from college, who knew he would become a coach someday, who knew he was gaining valuable information while playing, he still stumbled upon a rarity of a playing career to reach this point.

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Chief Investment Officer of Leading Independent Wealth Management
Firm Can Provide Expert Opinion on US/Global Impact of Federal Reserve
Chairman’s Speech

Economist Jason Thomas, PhD and Chief Investment officer of Aspiriant,
the leading independent wealth management firm in the US, is available
to provide expert commentary on Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke’s
speech scheduled for today.

Among the many topics Dr. Thomas can discuss are:

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — International real estate investment and services firm Kennedy Wilson (NYSE:
KW) today announced the results of its 2010 annual shareholder
meeting held on Thursday, August 26, 2010.

Shareholders reelected Cathy Hendrickson to serve a three year term on
the Board of Directors and elected Stanley Zax to also serve a three
year term on the Board. Zax is chairman and CEO of Zenith National
Insurance Corporation, a subsidiary of Fairfax Financial Holdings
Limited.

Additionally, shareholders approved an amendment to the company’s
amended and restated certificate of incorporation, which increases the
number of shares of authorized common stock from 80,000,000 to
125,000,000 shares. The issuance of shares of common stock upon
conversion of Series A Preferred Stock in accordance with applicable New
York Stock Exchange Rules was approved. Shareholders also ratified the
appointment of KPMG as the companys independent registered public
accounting firm for 2010.

ROCKINGHAM, N.C. — North Carolina based Iron Horse Auction Company, Inc., a MarkNet
Alliance member, was recently the first auction company to ever conduct
a multi-parcel auction on location with live internet bidding available
through an interactive map.

The team at Iron Horse Auction broke new ground on their August 20th
auction offering a winery/vineyard onsite and to online bidders using
the open forum method of accelerated bidding using proprietary software
developed at MarkNet Alliance.

“Our company has strived to stay ahead to the curve on technology in
order to better serve our clients,” said Tom McInnis, one of the owners
at Iron Horse. “This new proprietary marketing tool will allow the
maximum participation for every property that we offer for sale. It will
prove to be the best method by which to attain maximum value for any
type of real estate offering.”

In the past there has not been a way to effectively offer property using
the multi-parcel method of selling to onsite and online bidders
simultaneously. Until this auction in order to use this method you would
have to rely on bidders traveling to the auction site. Now you can have
bidders at the site and international investors online bidding on the
property all in real time.

“Iron Horse Auction Company owners Tom McInnis and Bill Lilly along with
their team are masters of the trade. They did a tremendous job and made
auction history in the process,” said Chris Pracht, Director at MarkNet
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On March 2 of 2007, with the implementation of Law 66, Puerto Rico became a smoke-free island by completely banning indoor smoking in public places such as bars, pubs, casinos, hotels, work places with more than one employee, and cars with any passenger under the age of 13 . According to the literature, the immediate impact of smoke-free workplace policies has been to dramatically reduce the exposition to SHS for customers and workers (10-17). Many studies have used the level of respirable particulate matter ([PM.sub.2.5]) as the main indicator of exposure to SHS because it has been demonstrated that smoking is one of the main sources of indoor levels of [PM.sub.2.5] (10). For example, bars in the state of New York experienced an average reduction of 84% in their [PM.sub.2.5] levels after the Clean Indoor Air Act was implemented in July of 2003 (11). In the case of Austin, Texas, bars experienced a reduction from 71% to 99% in their [PM.sub.2.5] levels after a smoking ban was implemented (12). In another study (13), Irish-theme pubs around the globe located in countries or cities with smoke-free legislation were compared with similar pubs in places without smoke-free ordinances. In this case, the results showed an average 91% reduction in [PM.sub.2.5] levels. In March of 2006, a smoking ban was implemented in Scotland, which substantially covered enclosed places including pubs. Evidence shows that, as a result, Scottish pubs experienced an average of 86% reduction in [PM.sub.2.5] levels (14). In Italy, a year after the implementation of an all smoke-free workplace policy in January of 2005, there was an average of 68% reduction in [PM.sub.2.5] levels across bars, restaurants, game rooms, and pubs (15). The main claim of this study is that the smoke-free workplace policy implemented in March of 2007 was effective in reducing the exposure to SHS in restaurants, pubs, and discos in the metropolitan area of San Juan, Puerto Rico. The specific research objectives of the study were three. First, to measure and compare the restaurants, pubs, and discos in the metropolitan area of San Juan at baseline (before the smoke-free workplace policy was implemented) in terms of the levels of respirable particulate matter (PM), the number of smokers, the number of customers, and establishment area. Second, to measure the change in levels of PM, the number of smokers, and the number of customers before and after March 2007. And third, to measure the effect of the smoke-free workplace policy on the level of PM controlling for the number of customers and establishment area.
Economic theory provides different methods to assess the economic impact of a health condition, as is cancer. The Cost of Illness (COI), developed by Rice (3-6), is the most widely accepted conceptual framework for cost estimates. COI estimates involve three components: direct costs, morbidity costs and mortality costs. Within this framework, several studies with different approaches have been conducted to determine the economic burden of different diseases (7-17). These studies have concluded that the component with the greatest impact lies in the productivity cost, even more than the costs for medical treatment of patients. For example, the National Institutes of Health(18) estimated the cost of illness for different causes of death in United States (US) for 2007. This study estimated the overall cost of cancer at $219.2 billion, of which, $89 billion correspond to direct costs of health expenditure, $18.2 billion in morbidity costs and $112.0 billion in mortality costs (representing more than 52% of total costs). Others studies of the economic burden of cancer in California (14-15) have concluded that the premature mortality cost of breast cancer is 80% of the total costs of the disease. Also, mortality costs of gynecological cancers like ovarian and cervical cancer represent more than 65% of total cost of these cancers. This pattern has also been observed in the state of Texas and in Sweden, Canada, and Spain (10-11, 17, 19-20). Other studies (20-25) have focused on estimating the productivity cost due to cancer mortality. Although these studies show some discrepancies in their methodology, data sources, and the inclusion of indirect costs components, such variations are not necessarily a weakness. Different arenas of application require different approaches and schemes (e.g., economic burden estimates vs. cost-effectiveness analysis) (4-5, 26). From a societal perspective, estimates of the value of labor productivity loss due to premature mortality are important in determining the economic burden of disease. Previous studies in PR have used the COI approach to estimate the cost of AIDS, schizophrenia and traffic accidents (7, 27-28). For example, cumulative total cost of AIDS in PR from period of 19821989 was estimated to be $ 525.2 million (27). Despite the importance of evaluating the economic impact of cancer in PR, there are no previous studies that have used the COI approach to investigate this issue. In fact, this economic component has been overlooked in cancer investigations in PR. Although the value of a persons life transcends its economic value as a productive unit, cost studies present another dimension of a health problem, providing valuable information for society and for policymakers to decide how to allocate scarce resources more optimally (27). Consequently, the aim of this study is to estimate the labor-market productivity loss in PR, as a result of premature mortality, due to overall cancer and by cause-specific cancers in 2004.

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In August 2004, the Law #230, approved by the Government of Puerto Rico in a three party resolution, created the University of Puerto Rico Comprehensive Cancer Center (UPRCCC), a public corporation affiliated to the University of Puerto Rico. This law established that this Center will be the organism responsible for executing the public policy related to the prevention, education, and research, as well as the clinical and treatment services related to cancer in Puerto Rico. The dual mission of the UPRCCC is: (1) To deliver the best research-driven cancer care through programs that integrate patient care, research, prevention, and education, and (2) To eradicate cancer in Puerto Rico using a multidisciplinary approach of basic, clinical, and population research. Thus, the UPRCCC is fundamental for the development of cancer control, research, and training efforts in Puerto Rico. More recently, in 2008, with funding from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Puerto Rico published its first official Cancer Control Plan, a structured guide with measurable outcomes aimed at reducing the cancer burden in our population. All of the previously mentioned initiatives will continue to be key to the progress in cancer control and research in Puerto Rico and thus, to the quality of the preventive and treatment services that we will offer to our patients. The increase in the cancer burden in Puerto Rico has been accompanied by a substantial increase in the volume of published research and federal funds to academic institutions in Puerto Rico for cancer research. Despite this advancement, areas that need our continued support and development in the years to come include: 1) continued surveillance of cancer occurrence in Puerto Rico through the Puerto Rico Central Cancer Registry, 2) development of transdisciplinary and translational cancer research that encompass all areas of the cancer control continuum (prevention, early detection, diagnosis, treatment, survivorship), 3) outreach efforts that bring scientific knowledge to the development of targeted cancer control strategies for the community, 4) development of sound cancer-related public policy, and 5) continued training of the next generation of cancer researchers and health professionals. Our ability to collaborate in multidisciplinary local and international teams will be essential to our success. The forthcoming issue of the Puerto Rico Health Sciences Journal provides an informative summary of various research studies that are currently being conducted in Puerto Rico. The 17 articles in this issue describe diverse research areas in the cancer field including disease burden, disease prevention, correlates of cancer occurrence, diagnostic technologies and clinical management. In addition, an overview of cancer training efforts in the island is discussed. Our future as a healthy nation will require a concerted effort between government, academia and industry that lead the research, training, and public policy efforts that will ultimately result in improved cancer prevention and control outcomes for the people of Puerto Rico. We hope you find in this edition of the journal a well-rounded overview of cancer research in Puerto Rico.
One important task when analyzing microarray data is that of determining which genes changed their expressions significantly from one state to another, for example, from tissues in a cancerous state to tissues in a healthy state. In general, the procedure in which such a task is undertaken is known as gene filtering and has been extensively explored due to its potential for recognizing a reduced number of genes, which recognition can offer a shortcut to illness diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment (4-5, 7-21). Gene filtering has been explored through a variety of techniques based on normal distribution, such as the 2 sample t-test (17), ANOVA (22), and the Welch t-test (19), among others. Some authors stress the fact that gene expression data do not follow a normal distribution (18, 21, 23), proposing the use of nonparametric statistical tests such as the Mann-Whitney (MW) test (18), also known as the Wilcoxon test. Genes selected through a filtering procedure can be used for many purposes. Of particular interest to this study was defining a classifier to determine whether a given tissue belongs to a particular category (i.e. cancer or healthy) through measuring the relative expressions of the selected genes. Thus, the interest was on developing a cancer diagnosis that is based on classification. As a precedent, our research group has previously proposed a strategy (based on the Wilcoxon test) to carry out gene filtering and tissue classification (24-25), aiming first for simplicity rather than performance. In this study, using this initial strategy as a baseline, classification performance was targeted through the development of two new methods. The first method employed the Wilcoxon test for gene filtering and classification; however, this revised method introduced a gene-set selection step right after filtering to enhance classification performance. The second method capitalized on this new structure, and used the Nemenyi-Damico-Wolfe (NDW) multiple comparison nonparametric test as a distinctive enhancement strategy. For brevity, the descriptions of the Wilcoxon and the NDW tests have been omitted here but can be readily perused in a textbook on nonparametric statistical methods, such as that of Hollander and Wolfe (26). The structure of this paper is as follows: In the next section, microarray databases are described in general, along with the details of the proposed methods. The computational setting is then discussed in the ensuing section, followed by an assessment of the classification performance of the proposed methods vs. that of the baseline approach. Finally, conclusions are drawn and future plans are described.
One important task when analyzing microarray data is that of determining which genes changed their expressions significantly from one state to another, for example, from tissues in a cancerous state to tissues in a healthy state. In general, the procedure in which such a task is undertaken is known as gene filtering and has been extensively explored due to its potential for recognizing a reduced number of genes, which recognition can offer a shortcut to illness diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment (4-5, 7-21). Gene filtering has been explored through a variety of techniques based on normal distribution, such as the 2 sample t-test (17), ANOVA (22), and the Welch t-test (19), among others. Some authors stress the fact that gene expression data do not follow a normal distribution (18, 21, 23), proposing the use of nonparametric statistical tests such as the Mann-Whitney (MW) test (18), also known as the Wilcoxon test. Genes selected through a filtering procedure can be used for many purposes. Of particular interest to this study was defining a classifier to determine whether a given tissue belongs to a particular category (i.e. cancer or healthy) through measuring the relative expressions of the selected genes. Thus, the interest was on developing a cancer diagnosis that is based on classification. As a precedent, our research group has previously proposed a strategy (based on the Wilcoxon test) to carry out gene filtering and tissue classification (24-25), aiming first for simplicity rather than performance. In this study, using this initial strategy as a baseline, classification performance was targeted through the development of two new methods. The first method employed the Wilcoxon test for gene filtering and classification; however, this revised method introduced a gene-set selection step right after filtering to enhance classification performance. The second method capitalized on this new structure, and used the Nemenyi-Damico-Wolfe (NDW) multiple comparison nonparametric test as a distinctive enhancement strategy. For brevity, the descriptions of the Wilcoxon and the NDW tests have been omitted here but can be readily perused in a textbook on nonparametric statistical methods, such as that of Hollander and Wolfe (26). The structure of this paper is as follows: In the next section, microarray databases are described in general, along with the details of the proposed methods. The computational setting is then discussed in the ensuing section, followed by an assessment of the classification performance of the proposed methods vs. that of the baseline approach. Finally, conclusions are drawn and future plans are described.

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National Broadband Network: Australia is among the leading countries
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with similar infrastructure over the last 100 years.

The decision from the Australian government to launch a $43 billion
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INTRODUCTION Fat deposition of pigs is of economic importance because of market incentives for lean pork production and decreased feeding costs. It is crucial to investigate and characterize new candidate genes and QTL relevant to pig fat deposit traits. To date, several quantitative trait loci (QTL) significantly affecting 10th-rib, average backfat thickness and other production traits have been mapped on SSC7 (Wang et al., 1998; Nagamine et al., 2003). Peroxisomal [[DELTA].sup.3],[[DELTA].sup.2]-enoyl-CoA isomerase (PECI) was located near the boundary of the quantitative trait loci (QTL) region. [[DELTA].sup.3],[[DELTA].sup.2]-enoyl-CoA isomerase (Ecilp) is unique because its activity is necessary for [beta]-oxidation of all unsaturated fatty acids (Geisbrecht et al., 1999). The series of enzyme-catalyzed reactions required for degradation of fatty acids are evolutionarily conserved and accomplished primarily through the p-oxidation pathway. In peroxisomes, ECI was predicted to be a dominant enzyme for 3-cis 3[right arrow]2-trans and 3-trans 3[right arrow]2-trans isomerizations of long-chain intermediates (Zhang et al., 2002). Fatty acid [beta]-oxidation in mammals is considerably more complicated, primarily due to the existence of overlapping but distinct fatty acid poxidation pathways. Mammalian peroxisomes contain at least three fatty acyl-CoA oxidases, both L-specific and D-specific 2-enoyl-CoA hydratase/3-hydroxyacyl-CoA dehydrogenase multifunctional proteins, and at least two thiolases, all of which are encoded by different genes (Palosaari et al., 1990a, 1991; Geisbrecht et al., 1998; Gurvitz et al., 1998; Geisbrecht et al., 1999; Partanen et al., 2004). When the ECI was completely excised in the mouse, it extensively perturbed the metabolism of unsaturated fatty acids, especially for short interval starvation and the fatty acid pattern of complex phospholipids was strongly altered (Palosaari et al., 1990b; Janssen et al., 2002). The PECI gene can be encoded by ECI1 and it is required for growth of saccharomyces cerevisiae on unsaturated fatty acids (Gurvitz et al., 1998). It can be concluded that the PECI gene may play an important role during the metabolic processing of unsaturated fatty acids. Deposition of fat by animals in their bodies is associated with the metabolism of fatty acids, and more research would contribute to understanding of porcine fat deposition. Genomic DNA was isolated from blood of mature Tongcheng pigs (Hubei province, China) by phenol/chloroform extraction. RNA was extracted from muscle tissue of adult Tongcheng pigs and adult Swedish Landrace with TRIzol reagent kit (Life Technologies, Grand Island, NE, USA). RACE (the rapid amplification of cDNA ends) was performed according to the instructions of the SMARTTM RACE cDNA Amplification Kit (Clontech Inc, Palo Alto, CA, USA). The PCR products of RACE were purified with the Wizard PCR Preps DNA Purification System (Promega, Madison, WI, USA). ORF were found by the program SeqMan (DNA star, Madison, WI, USA) and the amino acid sequences were deduced with Primer5.0 (Primer Premier5.0, Premier, Canada). Using the pGEM T-easy vector, DNase I (RNase-free) and M-MLV reverse transcriptase from TaKaRa Dalian (Dalian, China), primers were synthesized (Table 1) and PCR products were sequenced by AuGCT Biotechnology (Bejing, China).
INTRODUCTION Pork is a popular meat consumed by non-muslim Singaporeans with about 87,000 tonnes being consumed per year (Kanagalingam, 2005). Currently, Singapore imports its pork from several countries, but Australian and Indonesian pork is consumed most widely due to its ready availability at supermarkets and wet markets. Fresh pork is obtained from pigs raised in Indonesia but slaughtered at Singapore abattoirs, while chilled pork is mainly imported from Australia and is widely known as “Air Pork”. Singaporean consumers are aware of the origin of pork from packaging labels. Results of a recent survey showed that Singapore consumers associate non-Indonesian pork with the presence of an unpleasant mutton-like off-flavour (Leong et al., 2008). One possible cause of off-flavours in pork is by the oxidation of lipids, leading to the formation of aldehydes and short-chain fatty acids (Reindl and Stan, 1982; Devol, et al., 1988). The rate and extent of lipid oxidation depends on a number of factors, the most important being the level of polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA) in muscle (Allen and Foegeding, 1981). Pork contains high levels of unsaturated fatty acids relative to ruminant meat (Enser et al., 1996) and is more susceptible to oxidative deterioration of lipids and myoglobin. Feeding of PUFAs to pigs can improve the nutritional quality of pork, but may also increase the susceptibility to oxidation (Sheard et al., 2000; Kouba et al., 2003; Morel et al., 2006). There have been many reports of PUFA-rich feeds leading to increased lipid oxidation and thus off-flavour in pork (Houben and Krol, 1980; Warnants et al., 1998; Roman et al., 1995; Overland et al., 1996; Leskanich et al., 1997; Wood et al., 2003). There have also been examples of off-flavours in pork arising from the direct transfer of aroma components from feed to meat, including several reports on how feeding of fish oil and high fat fish meal to finisher pigs has caused “fishy” and other off-flavours in pork products (Kjos et al., 1999; Lauridsen et al., 1999; Maw et al., 2001; Jaturasitha et al., 2002). The current paper compares sensory assessments of the flavour of pork from the legs of pigs finished in New Zealand on three diets (Morel et al., 2008) using Singaporean panelists. The objective was to determine the extent to which dietary feed treatments received by the New Zealand pigs influenced the sensory properties of pork using trained and untrained Singaporean panels. Results of sensory analyses of pork from the loins of the same New Zealand pigs using New Zealand panelists were reported by Janz et al. (2008).

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THEY won the inaugural SNCL Premier Division in 2000 and Grange were last night confirmed as the team of the decade, lifting the title for the sixth and final time. Victory over Forfarshire at Forthill was enough to stave off the threat of Watsonians, who blew their chances against Dunfermline Knights at McKane Park. It has been a thrilling finale to the final season of league cricket in its present format – 16 teams will contest a diluted Premiership next season. While Grange are among a number of clubs with reservations about the new order, for the moment they will rightly savour their latest triumph. Pushed all the way by an emergent Watsonians outfit, Sanjay Patels side wobbled briefly when they lost to Clydesdale three weeks ago. It was their good fortune that outgoing champions Aberdeenshire chose that same day to hit form and dent the challenge of Watsonians.
FARMINGTON — Ever since the Utah Open became more of a real Utah event a decade ago, the annual golf tournament has usually been won by Utah golfers. Last year was an exception when Nathan Lashley of Scottsdale, Ariz., won the tournament by three shots over Doug Garwood, thanks to a final-round 63. Lashleys back to defend his title this year, but hes among the relatively few out-of-state golfers in an event that used to be dominated by non-Utahns. The tournament, sponsored by Siegfried and Jensen, begins this morning at Oakridge Country Club and revamped its format in 2001 to include any club professional in the state who wanted to compete. This year, 126 of the 162 golfers are Utahns, mostly club professionals, along with several top amateurs.
AMERICAN FORK ?– Most high school cross-country meets dont include hay bales strewn across pieces of the course. Most meets are also not run relay-style or two miles in length. These unique aspects of the American Fork Grass Relays have made it a popular event that continues to grow, even into its 15th year. “Years ago, one of our former runners wanted to have a race of this format, so we tried it and its just grown,” said American Fork girls cross-country coach Bruno Hunziker, mentioning that 43 schools participated this year. “We usually average about 30 teams so this is the biggest year by far. All the major schools are here.” Underclassmen competitors circled the same one-mile loop twice, running individually and all starting in a pack as they would in a typical race. Varsity runners, however, grouped into teams of five and ran the course as a relay. The winners of the girls race, four seniors and a speedy sophomore from Davis High who finished in 1:04:42, said they liked the variety of a different race style but it also added a challenge.

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GREAT FALLS — The Ogden Raptors were plagued by errors in a 7-5 loss to the Great Falls Voyagers on Saturday night. Rafael Vera led off the seventh inning with a single for Great Falls and the Voyagers went on to score four runs without another hit. After two walks loaded the bases, two throwing errors cost the Raptors three runs. An RBI ground-out followed to give Great Falls a 6-5 lead. Of the 12 runs scored in the game, only five were earned.
A PENSIONER could have been killed when a drunken yob threw a flowerpot on to his head from a block of flats, a court heard. Granddad Frank Allen was walking across a car park when he was clobbered by the pot, thrown from a balcony by Lee Bell. He was in hospital for 10 days and needed 32 stitches in his head. The ex-Merchant Navy man, 65, is now afraid to go out at night.
ITS all about the music in New Orleans. Well, its also about the food, the drink and the crazy people. but to really get to know the place you have to head for the Mardi Gras citys clubs, bars and lounges. This is the place that gave the world jazz, after all, as well as artistes such as Jelly Roll Morton, Fats Domino, Dr John and Harry Connick Jr. Walk down any street in the centre of town and its not long before you hear music spilling from a bar or a lone trumpeter conjuring up the ghost of Louis Armstrong. Most visitors head for the French Quarter, New Orleans oldest and most famous neighbourhood. The streets here are lined with 18th Century buildings with their elaborate wrought-iron galleries and gardens overflowing with hibiscus and roses. As well as the famous bars and jazz venues, there are antique shops, art galleries and restaurants aplenty – some of the eating places are distinctly smart like Brennans and Galatoires, some more down-home like the Acme oyster bar and others selling classic Louisiana fare such as poboys (baguettes stuffed to overflowing with hot sausage, roast beef, oysters and gravy) and muffulettas – a plate-sized bap of salad, salami and cheese. Once in the Quarter everyone heads for Bourbon Street and its raucous bars and tacky shops selling T-shirts and voodoo dolls. Its fun of the rowdy variety, but as a representation of the real New Orleans, its a bit like saying you went to Piccadilly Circus and saw the real London.

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GREAT FALLS — The Ogden Raptors were plagued by errors in a 7-5 loss to the Great Falls Voyagers on Saturday night. Rafael Vera led off the seventh inning with a single for Great Falls and the Voyagers went on to score four runs without another hit. After two walks loaded the bases, two throwing errors cost the Raptors three runs. An RBI ground-out followed to give Great Falls a 6-5 lead. Of the 12 runs scored in the game, only five were earned.
ITS all about the music in New Orleans. Well, its also about the food, the drink and the crazy people. but to really get to know the place you have to head for the Mardi Gras citys clubs, bars and lounges. This is the place that gave the world jazz, after all, as well as artistes such as Jelly Roll Morton, Fats Domino, Dr John and Harry Connick Jr. Walk down any street in the centre of town and its not long before you hear music spilling from a bar or a lone trumpeter conjuring up the ghost of Louis Armstrong. Most visitors head for the French Quarter, New Orleans oldest and most famous neighbourhood. The streets here are lined with 18th Century buildings with their elaborate wrought-iron galleries and gardens overflowing with hibiscus and roses. As well as the famous bars and jazz venues, there are antique shops, art galleries and restaurants aplenty – some of the eating places are distinctly smart like Brennans and Galatoires, some more down-home like the Acme oyster bar and others selling classic Louisiana fare such as poboys (baguettes stuffed to overflowing with hot sausage, roast beef, oysters and gravy) and muffulettas – a plate-sized bap of salad, salami and cheese. Once in the Quarter everyone heads for Bourbon Street and its raucous bars and tacky shops selling T-shirts and voodoo dolls. Its fun of the rowdy variety, but as a representation of the real New Orleans, its a bit like saying you went to Piccadilly Circus and saw the real London.

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Toll of Stress Impacting Health Care Costs, Absenteeism and Workplace
Safety

NEW YORK — Employers understand the detrimental effects stress is having on their
organizations, and are responding with multiple strategies to help
workers cope, a recent survey by Buck
Consultants, A Xerox Company, indicates.

The survey, ‘Stress in the Workplace,’ identifies the areas most
affected by stress and the strategies employed by organizations to
reduce stress for their workers. The research was conducted at the
WorldatWork Total Rewards Conference in May 2010. The study analyzes
responses from more than 250 conference attendees, representing more
than 200 organizations of various sizes and industries.

“Most employers realize that a stressed-out workforce drives up health
care costs,” said Barry Hall, principal at Buck Consultants. “Employers
are responding by introducing numerous methods to combat the impact of
work-related stress.”

Hall noted that workplace issues highly affected by stress are:

EAST LANSING, Mich. NAPA, Calif. — American Physicians Capital Inc. (APCapital) (NASDAQ:ACAP), a major
provider of health care liability insurance, and The Doctors Company,
the largest national insurer of physician and surgeon medical liability,
today announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement
pursuant to which The Doctors Company will acquire APCapital for $41.50
per share in cash, or an aggregate purchase price of approximately $386
million. The $41.50 per share in cash purchase price represents a
premium of approximately 31 percent over the $31.76 per share closing
price of ACAP on July 7, 2010, the last trading day prior to today’s
announcement.

R. Kevin Clinton, President and CEO of APCapital said, “This transaction
delivers significant value to our shareholders. Additionally, our
insureds will benefit as they become members of one of the largest and
most respected professional liability companies in the nation. I would
like to recognize our employees, agents, and medical society partners
for their dedication and commitment to APCapital. They are the driving
force behind the success of our company.”

“We are extremely pleased to announce this partnership between two
physician-founded companies and we look forward to delivering enhanced
value to our member insureds through the financial strength of a
combined organization with a relentless commitment to protecting,
defending, and rewarding the practice of good medicine,” said Richard E.
Anderson, MD, FACP, chairman and CEO of The Doctors Company. “Members
will benefit from our partnership and will continue to receive
aggressive claims defense, unmatched legislative and patient safety
advocacy, outstanding service, and industry leading member benefits.”

With this merger, The Doctors Company further expands its position as
the largest national insurer of physician and surgeon medical liability
to nearly 55,000 member insureds.

The Board of Directors of APCapital has approved the proposed
transaction and has resolved to recommend that its shareholders approve
the merger. The transaction is expected to close in the fourth quarter
of 2010 and is subject to customary closing conditions, including the
receipt of regulatory approvals, and approval by a majority of
APCapital’s shareholders.

Jointly Developed with University of Washington’s Department of
Laboratory Medicine

BLUFFTON, S.C. — CareCore National today announces the introduction of its Lab Management
Program with LabPrintTM technology, the latest innovative
evidenced-based management solution for the healthcare industry. The Lab
Management Program with LabPrintTM, jointly developed in
partnership with the University of Washington’s Department of Laboratory
Medicine, manages both medical and payment policy in the laboratory
health services.

CareCore National’s Lab Management Program with LabPrintTM
was designed to manage the rising utilization of lab testing services.
New laboratory technologies, increasing numbers of labs performing
complex clinical tests, the development of new genomic and genetic
testing, physician detailing and direct to consumer marketing are all
fueling increases in lab utilization. Annually 50 to 75% of insured
patients will have a laboratory test and 5 of the top 10 CMS billed
codes in 2008 were for laboratory services. According to a recent
report, laboratory services are increasing at 7% per year, with
molecular and genetic testing increasing at more than 20% per year.

CareCore National’s lab offering is differentiated in the market not
only for its breadth and depth, but for its integrated approach. The Lab
Management Program addresses the challenges in the dynamic and rapidly
evolving field of molecular and genetic testing through evidence-based
guideline protocols. The LabPrintTM technology platform
transforms claims and payment processes by identifying unique coding and
billing elements for test specific payment policy. And the program
offers genetic counseling support and scheduling when necessary.
Managing appropriate utilization, confirming proper coding and billing,
while providing patients with needed information is the unified approach
sought by the payer community.

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Zong Attracts Seasoned Payments and Mobile Veterans to Bolster its
Expansion

Elena Krasnoperova joins Zong with over 15 years of analytics, fraud and
risk management experience as VP, Analytics and Fraud Management.
Recognizing the critical importance of fraud management, Zong has added
Krasnoperova to lead a growing team focused on security and privacy as
Zong continues to expand and develop products. After an early career at
Boston Consulting Group, Krasnoperova spent 7 years at eBay and PayPal,
where she built and managed the Marketplaces Strategy team, the PayPal
Business Analytics team, and held a variety of leadership roles in
PayPal’s Global Risk Management organization. Krasnoperova has a
successful track record of enhancing e-commerce profits by implementing
data-driven strategies and applying her knowledge of risk management,
and brings this experience to Zong during a crucial growth period for
the company.

With over 6 years of strategy, business and new product development
experience at PayPal, Stephane Kasriel joins Zong as VP, Sales and
Business Development. Most recently, Kasriel ran PayPal’s Consumer
Products division where he launched award-winning products and
dramatically accelerated the growth of existing, mature products. Prior
to this, Kasriel was the Managing Director for PayPal France, where he
took the business from its infancy to being a very significant
contributor to PayPal’s global PL.

Sandy Taylor, previously Director of Strategy and Business Performance
Management for Premium Mobile Experiences at Microsoft, joins Zong as
VP, Finance. With over 15 years of experience in the software industry
Taylor’s earlier roles include Vice President of Finance and Chief
Accounting Officer at Danger, Inc., developer of the Sidekick™
smartphone, Vice President of Finance and Operations at Respond
Networks, a lead management company and Director of Finance and
Strategic Planning at Oracle Corporation.

BOCA RATON, Fla. — Office Depot, Inc. (NYSE:ODP), a leading global provider of office
products and services, will release second quarter earnings for the
fiscal period ending June 26, 2010 on Tuesday, July 27, 2010. The
Company will host a webcast to discuss second quarter earnings at 9:00
a.m. Eastern Time on Tuesday, July 27, 2010.

Every day, Office Depot is Taking Care of Business for millions of
customers around the globe. For the local corner store as well as
Fortune 500 companies, Office Depot provides products and services to
its customers through 1,587 worldwide retail stores, a dedicated sales
force, top-rated catalogs and a $4.2 billion e-commerce operation.
Office Depot has annual sales of approximately $12.1 billion, and
employs about 41,000 associates around the world. The Company provides
more office products and services to more customers in more countries
than any other company, and currently sells to customers directly or
through affiliates in 52 countries.

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INTRODUCTION Pork is a popular meat consumed by non-muslim Singaporeans with about 87,000 tonnes being consumed per year (Kanagalingam, 2005). Currently, Singapore imports its pork from several countries, but Australian and Indonesian pork is consumed most widely due to its ready availability at supermarkets and wet markets. Fresh pork is obtained from pigs raised in Indonesia but slaughtered at Singapore abattoirs, while chilled pork is mainly imported from Australia and is widely known as “Air Pork”. Singaporean consumers are aware of the origin of pork from packaging labels. Results of a recent survey showed that Singapore consumers associate non-Indonesian pork with the presence of an unpleasant mutton-like off-flavour (Leong et al., 2008). One possible cause of off-flavours in pork is by the oxidation of lipids, leading to the formation of aldehydes and short-chain fatty acids (Reindl and Stan, 1982; Devol, et al., 1988). The rate and extent of lipid oxidation depends on a number of factors, the most important being the level of polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA) in muscle (Allen and Foegeding, 1981). Pork contains high levels of unsaturated fatty acids relative to ruminant meat (Enser et al., 1996) and is more susceptible to oxidative deterioration of lipids and myoglobin. Feeding of PUFAs to pigs can improve the nutritional quality of pork, but may also increase the susceptibility to oxidation (Sheard et al., 2000; Kouba et al., 2003; Morel et al., 2006). There have been many reports of PUFA-rich feeds leading to increased lipid oxidation and thus off-flavour in pork (Houben and Krol, 1980; Warnants et al., 1998; Roman et al., 1995; Overland et al., 1996; Leskanich et al., 1997; Wood et al., 2003). There have also been examples of off-flavours in pork arising from the direct transfer of aroma components from feed to meat, including several reports on how feeding of fish oil and high fat fish meal to finisher pigs has caused “fishy” and other off-flavours in pork products (Kjos et al., 1999; Lauridsen et al., 1999; Maw et al., 2001; Jaturasitha et al., 2002). The current paper compares sensory assessments of the flavour of pork from the legs of pigs finished in New Zealand on three diets (Morel et al., 2008) using Singaporean panelists. The objective was to determine the extent to which dietary feed treatments received by the New Zealand pigs influenced the sensory properties of pork using trained and untrained Singaporean panels. Results of sensory analyses of pork from the loins of the same New Zealand pigs using New Zealand panelists were reported by Janz et al. (2008).
SUSTA™ Expands Footprint into Florida Grocery Chain

HOLYOKE, Mass. — NXT
Nutritionals Holdings, Inc. (“NXT Nutritionals”) (OTCBB: NXTH)
developer and marketer of SUSTA™ Natural Sweetener, the great tasting,
all-natural, healthier sweetener, today announced its SUSTA™ Natural
Sweetener has been approved in Publix Super Market, Inc. (“Publix”),
expanding SUSTA’s footprint in Florida.

“As one of the largest regional grocery chains in the US, we are
thrilled to the addition of Publix to our footprint,” said Michael
McCarthy, president and CEO of NXT Nutritionals. “We will continue to
build brand awareness and add distribution of SUSTA in other regions of
the country so that we may meet the demand from consumers who are
looking to or may already have selected SUSTA as their choice of
all-natural sweetener.”

“More and more grocery chains are responding to the increasing awareness
of healthy living and the demand for more natural and healthier
products. SUSTA is not only all-natural but also a nutritious sweetener
quite unique to the marketplace today,” added McCarthy.

Women in Kenya remain disadvantaged, with opportunities for educational, social, and economic advancement inferior to those of men. Women are underrepresented in modern sector wage employment, political and judicial decision making, and all major public service appointments. Numerous social, economic, and cultural barriers limit womens participation in these areas. But womens underrepresentation in education is a primary factor. The benefits of womens education to women and to society in general are immense. In the workplace, education increases skills needed for job entry, improves chances of vertical mobility, and enhances overall labor market productivity. It also has positive consequences at home, including improved health, increased child survival rates, reduced fertility rates, lower infant mortality rates, and better protection against HIV and AIDS (Tembon and Fort 2008). Education of women and girls is therefore not only a moral and human rights issue, but also an economic and development issue. Given the significant benefits of womens education, equity in education is essential to improving circumstances for all Kenyans. As the leading provider of education, the government should acknowledge that compensatory mechanisms may be required to level the playing field for disadvantaged girls, and it should adopt an approach that uses these mechanisms. Making education equitable means adopting policies and initiatives that support equal provisions across genders. Female Education in Kenya Education in Kenya has four basic levels: preschool (ages 4-6), primary (ages 7-14), secondary (ages 15-18), and tertiary. Since attaining political independence from Great Britain in 1963, the Kenyan government has emphasized educations importance to economic development. It has also increased the number of schools at all levels, from about six thousand primary and 150 secondary schools in 1963 to almost twenty thousand primary and four thousand secondary schools in 2004. As a result, the student population has increased substantially, with over 700 percent growth at the primary level and almost 3,000 percent growth at the secondary level (Ministry of Education 2007). But this total expansion in education hides disparities by gender and region.

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ROCKVILLE, Md. — RegeneRx Biopharmaceuticals, Inc. (NYSE Amex: RGN) (the “Company”
or “RegeneRx”) today announced it has received Notice of Acceptance from
the Australian patent office for the use of Thymosin beta 4 (Tβ4), its
analogues, isoforms and other derivatives in the treatment of infections
and inflammatory disorders including colitis, ileitis, gastrointestinal
ulcers and gingivitis, among others. The patent expires in 2023. This is
one of several patents the Company has been granted in Australia related
to its technology and drug candidates.

“We are pleased to enhance our global intellectual property estate for
our product candidates and their potential uses,” said J.J. Finkelstein,
president and CEO of RegeneRx Biopharmaceuticals. “We currently have
more than 60 issued patents and patent applications throughout the world
that expire between 2019 and 2027.”

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RICHMOND, Va. — Hellerman Baretz Communications (HBC) announces that Mike C. Gray has
joined the firm as a Senior Account Executive. Gray has counseled law
firms across the country including a national intellectual property
boutique and an international AmLaw 100 firm. Most recently, he served
as the Communications Business Development Specialist at Williams
Mullen, where he managed all of the firm’s public relations efforts as
well as the business development function of the financial services and
real estate sections.

Gray has developed and implemented many successful and robust PR-fueled
business development campaigns, almost all of which have included
attaining top tier rankings for firms and partners in national trade
publications, and coordinating successful new business proposals after
invitations had been received.

“Mike’s impressive experience and success at a variety of leading law
firms makes him an exceptional addition to our HBC team,” said John
Hellerman, co-founder of HBC. “Mike understands the power of actively
using PR-generated content to help create more new business
opportunities. Our clients engage us to do exactly that, and they will
benefit from his expertise.”

“Rather than producing mere publicity, HBC’s mission to partner with
clients to produce meaningful business development results is what
inspired me to join,” Gray said.

Gray is a graduate of the University of Richmond where he majored in
English and American Studies. He holds leadership positions with
numerous organizations in the Richmond area including: Co-chair of the
public relations and marketing committee for the Greater Richmond
Chamber of Commerce’s HYPE (Helping Young Professionals Engage) program,
Chair of the communications technology committee for the Legal
Marketing Association Virginias Chapter, and Development Chair for the
Tredegar Society, a young professionals organization that supports the
American Civil War Center.

Trulia and CNNMoney today announced a partnership making Trulia the exclusive provider of real estate listings to CNNMoney, which will bring Trulias award winning real estate search experience to CNNMoney, one of the webs top destinations for in-depth real estate reporting and breaking financial news.

The CNNMoney/Trulia co-branded web site allows users to easily search for properties for sale and refine their search results based on criteria like open houses, neighborhood, price, property type, new listings alongside CNNMoneys in-depth real estate coverage.

In addition to the enhanced search experience, Trulia will be the exclusive provider of real estate data for MONEYs “Best Places to Live” list. CNNMoney will incorporate Trulias local data, stats and trends into its deep editorial content to help users understand exactly what is happening in these locations.

“CNNMoney is the place to go on the web for breaking financial and real estate stories, news and trends. We are excited to bring our user experience and millions of listings to this audience,” said Pete Flint, co-founder and CEO of Trulia. “Our goal is to provide as many consumers as possible with access to listings and relevant data to help them make the biggest financial decision of their lives.”

“Through our partnership with Trulia, we will offer readers an in-depth and comprehensive real estate picture. Real estate has been and will continue to be one of the biggest topics in the coming years,” said Chris Peacock, Executive Editor and Vice President of CNNMoney. “We are excited to kick off this co-branded site with our annual Best Places to Live feature.”

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Funds Earmarked to “.Encourage Cutting Edge and Innovative
Biomedical Exploration”

RUTHERFORD, Calif. — The International Mental Health Research Organization (IMHRO) today
announced a collaboration with the Johnson Johnson Corporate Office of
Science and Technology (COSAT). Under the terms of this collaboration,
COSAT will provide a $250,000 grant towards the funding of IMHROs
Rising Star Awards. COSATs grant will be matched by IMHRO to establish
the COSAT-IMHRO Rising Star Awards Program, which, in 2010, will fund
two Rising Star Awards.

The objective of the COSAT-IMHRO Rising Star Awards Program is to
advance the understanding of underlying disease mechanisms in bipolar
disorder, schizophrenia and major depression with the great potential to
benefit patients and the healthcare system. The IMHRO Rising Star Awards
support cutting edge research programs throughout the world on the study
of psychiatric brain disorders, and are distributed annually at the
Staglin Family Music Festival For Mental Health, held this year in
September in Rutherford, Napa Valley, California.

“Our approach at IMHRO is to fund the best science as determined by our
independent scientific advisory board,” stated Garen Staglin, co-founder
of IMHRO, and proprietor of Staglin Family Vineyard. “This collaboration
will fund research of key scientists and will bring us closer than ever
to helping find the causes and cures for mental illness.”

The COSAT-IMHRO Rising Star Awards Program is intended to advance the
translation of discoveries from basic science research into therapies
for major psychiatric diseases. Understanding the mechanism of action
and the role in the brain of genes that are altered in psychiatric
disease supplies the first clue as to how these disorders arise. This
grant program fosters the next steps toward discovering therapies
through research into approaches that re-normalize or compensate for the
alterations that have already been discovered.

Session Will Discuss How Health Plans Can Begin Planning for Mandated
Changes in Mental Health and Substance Abuse Care Regulations

WAYNE, Pa. — MEDecision,
Inc., a leading provider of collaborative
healthcare management solutions, will present a complimentary
webinar discussing member-centric behavioral health utilization
management and what health plans need to begin considering today to
prepare for the changes coming tomorrow, including related workflow
requirements. The session will be held on Wednesday, July 14 at 12:30
p.m. Eastern time (9:30 a.m. Pacific time).

Hosted by MEDecision’s Vice President of Product Marketing Brian Nagle,
Director of Clinical Programs Suzanne Kunze and Clinical Product Manager
Dawn Kramer, the webinar will examine the societal, economic and
regulatory factors that are driving insurers to increase access, improve
outcomes, and control costs for mental health and substance abuse care.
Its primary topics will include:

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Idle Media, Inc. (OTCBB: IDLM) today announced it has expanded its development team to accommodate the growth it expects from the acquisition of Backyard Buddies , a popular gaming application on the number one social media website Facebook , which claims over 400 million active users worldwide.

“Our new team members have extensive knowledge of the web technologies we work with daily, as well as the drive to learn more and execute creatively,” commented Mr. Marcus Frasier, President and CEO of Idle Media, Inc. “This is imperative as we routinely push the boundaries of web technologies to produce the highest quality products.”

Idle Media recently acquired the source code for a popular Facebook game called Backyard Buddies. The acquisition opens the door for Idle Media to expand its target audience via cross-platform marketing of its core products, and marks the companys launch into the social media market.

Mr. Frasier added, “Adding additional technical talent at this critical time in our growth will give us the added resources to capitalize on the opportunities we have identified as key to our growth, which include social media, online games and other value-added apps.”

LiveWorld’s Facebook Ask Answer 2.0 Helps Brands Increase Customer
Satisfaction Lower Support Costs

SAN JOSE, Calif. — LiveWorld’s (OTC Pink Sheets: LVWD.PK) Facebook
Ask Answer 2.0 lets customers quickly find answers to
questions about a brand’s products right on the page they’re already on
– the brand’s Facebook Fan page. The application, available today, is
specifically designed to leverage customers’ growing use of Facebook to
increase customer satisfaction and lower support costs for the brand.

Based on LiveWorlds 27 years of developing and managing online
community support solutions for Fortune 500 brands, Ask Answer has
features, language and taxonomy specially optimized for customer care.
It offers Ask A Question, Get An Answer language and search
structure, which encourages customers to answer each others questions
and participate in the brand’s community. It showcases user content by
featuring customers’ top questions and answers, and recognizes the top
contributors. Widgets include a unique dynamic featured question widget
and featured users, and more. Ask Answer can be localized into dozens
of languages.

“It’s no secret that customer support via online community has
tremendous, almost immediate ROI,” said Peter Friedman, LiveWorld’s
Chairman and CEO (@peterfriedman).
“Not only is it 5x-10x more cost effective than phone support, but it
increases customer satisfaction and lays the foundation for more loyal
customer relationships.”

New Facebook Application Allows Consumers to Send Real Treats to
Friends Family

ATLANTA SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — First
Data Corporation, a global leader in electronic commerce and payment
processing, and Cold
Stone Creamery, an innovative super-premium ice cream brand, have
teamed up to offer a new gifting application through Facebook. Starting
today, loyal Cold Stone fans can now quickly and easily send a tangible
“item-level” gift (e.g. ice cream Creations, shakes) to a friend or
loved one’s Facebook account or e-mail address.

Cold Stone Creamery, with more than 1,300 U.S. locations, is the first
merchant to launch a
gifting program using the First
DataSM eGift SocialSM solution. Unlike other
solutions in the marketplace, Cold Stone customers benefit from the
convenience of being able to gift multiple small items to one or more
recipients with a single transaction.

”We’re making it easier for people to share a Cold Stone moment, even if
time or distance prevents them from being together. Now you don’t have
to wait for special occasions to share ice cream; you can send Cold
Stone gifts instantly, any day, just because,” said Daniel Beem,
president of Cold Stone Creamery. “We’re delighted to know that we’ll be
part of more of life’s little moments, from ‘get well soon’ notes and
rewards for a job well done to ‘I miss you’ wall posts.”

Inside Facebook has estimated that consumers spent $10 million on
virtual goods through applications on the Facebook platform in 2009. The
eGift Social solution takes this trend to the next level by moving
purchased virtual gifts into the physical world.

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PORTLAND, Ore. — Bioject Medical Technologies Inc. (OTCBB: BJCT), a leading developer of
needle-free injection therapy systems, today announced that Bioject’s
needle-free injection delivery technology was used to successfully
demonstrate that intradermal administration of fractional doses of
inactivated poliovirus vaccine given to infants is safe and effective
(using seroconversion as an indication of effectiveness), and is
preferred by both health care administrators and parents over typical
full-dose needle and syringe. The study results, published in the June
24, 2010, issue of The New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM
Vol. 362 No. 25), also demonstrated a significant cost savings
in use of the fractional-dose intradermal injection as compared with a
full-dose vaccination course of treatment using an auto-disable needle
and syringe.

The study was conducted in Oman and supported by the Ministry of Health
of Oman, the Program for Appropriate Technology in Health (PATH) and the
World Health Organization (WHO) as part of the Global Polio Eradication
Initiative (GPEI). The randomized clinical trial of over 400 infants, of
whom 373 fulfilled the entry criteria, were selected to receive either
fractional-dose inactivated poliovirus vaccine (one-fifth of the full
dose) or a full-dose of the same vaccine over a three course treatment
during the first six months of age. The intradermal fractional-dose was
given with Bioject’s Biojector®2000 (B2000) needle-free injection
delivery device and the full-dose was delivered with an auto-disable
syringe and needle. The study was designed to assess the safety and
efficacy of, and preference for, the needle-free intradermal
fractional-dose and the potential to use a needle-free intradermal
fractional-dose vaccine option with infants in order to prevent polio
infection. The results of the study demonstrate that needle-free
intradermal administration of fractional doses of the polio vaccine was
safe, effective and lower cost than a similar course treatment with full
dose needle-syringe option. In addition, both health caregivers and
parents expressed a preference for the needle-free option because “the
baby does not cry.”

The study was one of the research and development initiatives stemming
from the GPEI’s goal to develop affordable injectable polio vaccine
options for the post-eradication era. GPEI is spearheaded by national
governments, WHO, Rotary International, the US Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention (CDC) and UNICEF.

“We are pleased to have participated in this significant clinical trial
and to learn about the positive results with intradermal fractional-dose
injection of inactivated polio vaccine using Bioject’s intradermal
delivery technology,” said Dr. Richard Stout, Bioject’s Executive Vice
President and Chief Medical Officer. Dr. Stout added, “Based on the
findings, as reported in the NEJM, we now have evidence that
demonstrates potential cost savings when using intradermal needle-free
injection delivery technology as compared with typical full-dose
injections. In addition, we along with the parents of the treated
infants are delighted to hear that the babies did not cry, leading to a
significant preference for Bioject’s needle-free injection devices. We
look forward to working with other organizations around the world who
are interested in leveraging the benefits of our needle-free intradermal
injection delivery technology for their vaccine portfolios,” commented
Dr. Stout.

Bioject Medical Technologies Inc., based in Portland, Oregon, is
an innovative developer and manufacturer of needle-free injection
therapy systems (NFITS). NFITS provide an empowering technology and work
by forcing medication at high speed through a tiny orifice held against
the skin. This creates a fine stream of high-pressure fluid penetrating
the skin and depositing medication in the tissue beneath. The Company is
focused on developing mutually beneficial agreements with leading
pharmaceutical, biotechnology and veterinary companies.

Women in Kenya remain disadvantaged, with opportunities for educational, social, and economic advancement inferior to those of men. Women are underrepresented in modern sector wage employment, political and judicial decision making, and all major public service appointments. Numerous social, economic, and cultural barriers limit womens participation in these areas. But womens underrepresentation in education is a primary factor. The benefits of womens education to women and to society in general are immense. In the workplace, education increases skills needed for job entry, improves chances of vertical mobility, and enhances overall labor market productivity. It also has positive consequences at home, including improved health, increased child survival rates, reduced fertility rates, lower infant mortality rates, and better protection against HIV and AIDS (Tembon and Fort 2008). Education of women and girls is therefore not only a moral and human rights issue, but also an economic and development issue. Given the significant benefits of womens education, equity in education is essential to improving circumstances for all Kenyans. As the leading provider of education, the government should acknowledge that compensatory mechanisms may be required to level the playing field for disadvantaged girls, and it should adopt an approach that uses these mechanisms. Making education equitable means adopting policies and initiatives that support equal provisions across genders. Female Education in Kenya Education in Kenya has four basic levels: preschool (ages 4-6), primary (ages 7-14), secondary (ages 15-18), and tertiary. Since attaining political independence from Great Britain in 1963, the Kenyan government has emphasized educations importance to economic development. It has also increased the number of schools at all levels, from about six thousand primary and 150 secondary schools in 1963 to almost twenty thousand primary and four thousand secondary schools in 2004. As a result, the student population has increased substantially, with over 700 percent growth at the primary level and almost 3,000 percent growth at the secondary level (Ministry of Education 2007). But this total expansion in education hides disparities by gender and region.

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Proving once again that some of the best things in life are free, Cocos Bakery Restaurant will serve up kids favorite foods — for free! — all summer long. Designed to give busy families quality time together without breaking the bank, Cocos “Kids Eat Free” dinner promotion runs nightly from 4pm until close beginning July 8 at all participating restaurants.

“Cocos is one of Americas favorite family dining destinations,” says Kazumasa Ogawa, president of Cocos. “We are proud to offer caring parents the opportunity to spend quality, affordable time with their children while enjoying our freshly prepared, wholesome food. Great food and great savings means happy parents and kids alike.”

As numerous studies have shown, eating dinner together is a simple yet effective way to raise healthier, happier children. Not only do family meals help keep the doors of communication open, they are also an ideal way for parents to show their kids that they are their top priority.

An added bonus: busy parents now have an easy and cost-effective answer to the popular “Whats for dinner?” question. Cocos Snoopy-themed kids menu offers everything from Kraft Macaroni and Cheese, grilled chicken and burgers to spaghetti, chicken tenders and grilled cheese sandwiches. Plus, every kids entrée includes a choice of a side dish, including healthy options such as salad, cinnamon apples, fruits or veggies, as well as a drink and a special Snoopy giveaway.

Available for a limited time, the Kids Eat Free summertime promotion runs nightly from July 8 through August 31. Families who dine-in at participating Cocos restaurants beginning at 4pm will receive one free kids meal with each adult entrée purchase. The free meal is valid for kids age 10 and under on any Cocos “kids menu” item. The offer is not valid with any other discounts, coupons or specials.

Avaya Expands Network of Companies to Create Innovative, IP-Enabled
Unified Communications Applications That Extend the Value of Multivendor
Networks

CUPERTINO, Calif. — Talari Networks, Inc. – the company bringing WAN virtualization and
cloud economics to Enterprise networking – today announced it has been
selected by Avaya Inc., a leading global provider of business
communications applications, systems and services, for membership in the
Avaya DevConnect program.

Talari
Networks is the developer of a new, innovative technology – Adaptive
Private Networking (APN). Talari’s Mercury family of APN appliances
combines diverse, abundant, affordable IP bandwidth sources, creating
broadband links with business-class reliability at consumer prices. As a
result, APN delivers a network with 30 to 100 times the bits per dollar,
ongoing WAN costs reduced by 40% to 90% and greater reliability than
single-provider Frame Relay or MPLS services.

The Avaya
DevConnect program promotes the development, compliance-testing and
co-marketing of innovative third-party products that are compatible with
standards-based Avaya solutions. Member organizations have expertise in
a broad range of technologies – including IP telephony, contact centers
and mobility applications – helping companies extend the value of
multivendor networks and transform voice into an intelligent business
application that delivers true value to the bottom line.

“WAN Virtualization using APN technology allows unified communications
applications to run reliably on a less expensive WAN infrastructure,”
said Andy Gottlieb, CEO of Talari Networks. “Rather than paying more for
their WAN in the move to unified communications, enterprises can
actually pay less, without sacrificing reliability or performance
predictability. As a member of Avaya’s developer community, we will join
other technology leaders to help our customers apply their precious
resources even more efficiently and effectively.”

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Winners presented awards at ceremony in the Military Healthcare
Convention Expo Hall June 23

NEW YORK — The Continuum of Care Awards were presented at the Military Healthcare
Convention and Conference June 22-25, 2010 at the Henry B Gonzalez
Convention Center in San Antonio, Texas.

Presented by the Institute for Defense and Government Advancement
(IDGA), the Continuum of Care Awards recognize military and civilian
healthcare providers and technologies throughout the Military Healthcare
Community. With awards given in five categories, the Continuum of Care
Awards honor and promote the most significant technologies and medical
solutions having positive impacts on military personnel and their
families.

Outstanding Healthcare Provider/ Military or DoDLtCol David
Dickey, Mental Health Flight Commander, 779th Medical Group, USAF

Toll of Stress Impacting Health Care Costs, Absenteeism and Workplace
Safety

NEW YORK — Employers understand the detrimental effects stress is having on their
organizations, and are responding with multiple strategies to help
workers cope, a recent survey by Buck
Consultants, A Xerox Company, indicates.

The survey, ‘Stress in the Workplace,’ identifies the areas most
affected by stress and the strategies employed by organizations to
reduce stress for their workers. The research was conducted at the
WorldatWork Total Rewards Conference in May 2010. The study analyzes
responses from more than 250 conference attendees, representing more
than 200 organizations of various sizes and industries.

“Most employers realize that a stressed-out workforce drives up health
care costs,” said Barry Hall, principal at Buck Consultants. “Employers
are responding by introducing numerous methods to combat the impact of
work-related stress.”

Hall noted that workplace issues highly affected by stress are:

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— T-DM1 is the First Antibody-Drug Conjugate in Genentech’s Pipeline
to Be Submitted to the FDA –

SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. — Genentech, a member of the Roche Group (SIX: RO, ROG; OTCQX: RHHBY),
today announced that the company submitted a Biologics License
Application (BLA) to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for
trastuzumab-DM1 (T-DM1) in people with advanced HER2-positive breast
cancer who have previously received multiple HER2-targeted medicines and
chemotherapies. This submission is based on the results of a Phase II
study, which showed T-DM1 shrank tumors in one-third of women who had
received on average seven prior medicines for advanced HER2-positive
breast cancer.

“While we’ve made great strides in treating HER2-positive breast cancer,
there is a group of people whose breast cancer will come back after many
treatments, leaving them with very limited options,” said Hal Barron,
M.D., executive vice president, Global Development and chief medical
officer. “Data from studies have shown that T-DM1 shrank tumors in these
people, so we are excited to have submitted this application to the FDA
in hopes of offering a potential new medicine to people with this type
of breast cancer.”

T-DM1 is an antibody-drug conjugate (ADC), also known as an armed
antibody, being studied for advanced HER2-positive breast cancer. T-DM1
attaches trastuzumab and the chemotherapy DM1 together using a stable
linker, which is designed to keep T-DM1 in one piece until it reaches
specific cancer cells. The antibody (trastuzumab) binds to the
HER2-positive cancer cells, and is thought to block out-of-control
signals that make the cancer grow while also calling on the body’s
immune system to attack the cells. Then, once T-DM1 is absorbed into
those cancer cells, it is designed to destroy them by releasing the DM1.

“What Heaven Sees in You” is replete with talented, familiar voices. And Doug Walker brought them all together. Walker organized the collaborative effort, which includes artists such as Mercy River, Jenny Jordan Frogley and Katherine Nelson singing 10 songs written by Walker and his wife. Many of the songs are new, but the title track has been a favorite among Mormon women and young women for years, ever since Walker and his wife wrote it in 2001 for a fireside. Also known as “Three White Dresses,” the lyrics follow a girl through her blessing, baptism and wedding — all of which take place in a white dress.
SEATTLE — Nordstrom, Inc. (NYSE:JWN) today reported a 14.1 percent increase in
same-store sales for the five-week period ended July 3, 2010 compared
with the five-week period ended July 4, 2009. Preliminary total retail
sales of $822 million for June 2010 increased 19.8 percent compared with
total retail sales of $686 million for the same period in fiscal 2009.
June 2010 multi-channel same-store sales were enhanced by an estimated
350 to 400 basis points due to the timing shift of Nordstrom’s
Half-Yearly Sale for Women and Kids, which started on Wednesday, May 26th.
In 2009, the event began on May 20th.

Quarter-to-date same-store sales increased 8.9 percent compared with the
same period in fiscal 2009. Preliminary quarter-to-date total retail
sales of $1.53 billion increased 14.0 percent compared with total retail
sales of $1.34 billion for the same period in fiscal 2009.

Year-to-date same-store sales increased 10.6 percent compared with the
same period in fiscal 2009. Preliminary year-to-date total retail sales
of $3.52 billion increased 15.5 percent compared with total retail sales
of $3.05 billion for the same period in fiscal 2009.

Consistent with last year, Nordstrom’s 17-day Anniversary Sale will
start on the third Friday in July, on July 16th.
Historically, July has been the second-highest sales month of the year.

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The Vectra 3D Imaging System utilizes special cameras and dynamic soft tissue modeling technology to generate actual 3D models, and calculates a realistic outcome based upon volume, distance, shape, placement, gravity and precise measurements.

The system has modules for Face, Breast and Body sculpting, and will support procedures including:

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WHEN THEY CUT BUDGETS, Texas legislators start talking like Jenny Craig. Theyre not slashing programs. Theyre “belt-tightening” or “trimming the fat.” If next years budget deficit is as high as experts predict, well need better analogies. Gastric bypass would be more accurate. Or maybe liposuction. We wont know the size of the budget gap until the legislative session starts next January. Estimates range as high as $18 billion. How big is that? In the 2009 budget, lawmakers allocated $80 billion in state funds. An $18 billion deficit would represent 23 percent of the current budget- double the deficit lawmakers faced in 2003, when they made cuts the state is still reeling from. Gov. Rick Perry and other Republican leaders have signaled that they intend to reduce spending rather than raise taxes. Which begs a question: Can Texaswhich already spends less per citizen than any state in the country- slice 23 percent from its budget? Can you perform liposuction on an anorexic? Most news reports and punditry have blamed the massive deficit on a weak economy that has lowered sales tax revenues. Thats only part of the story. At least half the projected deficit can be linked to Perry and legislators. In 2006, the Legislature passed a school finance reform plan, largely devised by Perry with former Comptroller John Sharp. The idea was to cut property taxes and replace the lost revenue with a new business tax. Problem is, the business tax doesnt bring in enough money to cover the loss in property taxes. Texas budget has a built-in shortfall of several billion dollars a year. Heres the key point: Perry and the Legislature knew this was going to happen. The states own analysts at the Legislative Budget Board told lawmakers at the time that the plan would create an annual $5 billion deficit. That adds up to $10 billion per biennium- more than half of next sessions estimated $18 billion gap.
Medistem Inc. (PINKSHEETS: MEDS). Medistem collaborator Dr. Jorge Paz Rodriquez was invited to give a talk at Del Mar College in Texas by arthritis patient Dusty Durrill. The patient described a profound recovery after treatment with stem cells from his own fat tissue. Mr Durrill underwent a procedure in which a small amount of fat tissue was extracted by liposuction, stem cells where purified, and subsequently injected intravenously.

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BOCA RATON, Fla. — Medical Connections Holdings, Inc. (OTCBB:MCTH), a national provider of
medical recruitment and staffing services, reported today on the growth
in revenue that the Company has experienced during the second quarter of
this year.

The Company reported that total revenue has increased 34% sequentially
from the first quarter of 2010. The sequential improvement reflected
staffing volume gains in both contract travel and permanent placement
staffing.

Anthony Nicolosi, Company President, stated, “While the overall economy
still faces challenges, it appears that healthcare staffing has seen the
worst of its share of the down-turn. We are pleased that 2010 is shaping
up to be a better year. On the acquisition front, we have located
several attractive healthcare staffing companies and are in preliminary
acquisition discussions with them.”

Medical Connections, Inc. is a national provider of medical
recruitment and staffing services. The Company’s business is to
identify, select and place the industry’s most talented healthcare
specialists, nurses, pharmacists, physicians and hospital management
executives. The Company provides recruiting and staffing services for
permanent and contract positions, leaving options for both clients and
candidates to decide the optimal formula for working together.

With headquarters in Boca Raton, Florida, Medical Connections is ideally
positioned to increase its presence in the U.S. healthcare market.
Medical Connections Holdings, Inc. is a fully reporting company trading
on the OTC B/B under the ticker: MCTH.

Jobvite, creator of next-generation recruitment solutions, today announced it has been selected as a 2010 Red Herring Top 100 North America Company. The prestigious award recognizes the leading private companies in North America, celebrating these start-ups innovations and technologies across their respective industries.

Red Herrings Top 100 North America list has become a mark of distinction for identifying promising new companies and entrepreneurs. Red Herring editors were among the first to recognize that companies such as Facebook, Twitter, Google, Yahoo, Skype, Salesforce.com, YouTube, and eBay would change the way we live and work.

“We are honored to receive the Red Herring 100 North America award recognizing our companys customer growth and technology innovation,” said Dan Finnigan, Chief Executive Officer of Jobvite . “Jobvite has revolutionized recruiting software with our social recruiting innovations, making it practical and easy for any company to cost-effectively target talent and build the best teams.”

“Choosing the companies with the strongest potential was by no means a small feat,” said Alex Vieux, publisher and CEO of Red Herring. “After rigorous contemplation and discussion, we narrowed our list down from hundreds of candidates from across North America to the Top 100 Winners. We believe Jobvite embodies the vision, drive and innovation that define a successful entrepreneurial venture. Jobvite should be proud of its accomplishment, as the competition was very strong.”

Red Herrings editorial staff evaluated the companies on both quantitative and qualitative criteria, such as financial performance, technology innovation, management quality, strategy, and market penetration. This assessment of potential is complemented by a review of the track record and standing of start-ups relative to their sector peers, allowing Red Herring to see past the “buzz” and make the list a valuable instrument of discovery and advocacy for the most promising new business models in North America.

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CHICAGO — With the U.S. economy gradually improving and the housing market
stabilizing, U.S. home improvement spending figures to increase in the
coming months, according to Fitch Ratings, which will be hosting a
conference call this morning at 11 a.m. ET.

Director and lead Building Materials Analyst Robert Rulla will be
providing detailed insights into Fitchs Outlook for U.S. home
improvement spending. Rulla will also be joined by the following
analysts to give their perspectives:

–Robert Curran (Homebuilding);–Tiffany Co (Home improvement
retailers);–Christopher Collins (Consumer).

There will be a QA session immediately following the prepared remarks.

Following are details of the teleconference:–Date: Thursday July
8, 2010–Time: 11:00 a.m. ET–Conference ID: 86125571–U.S/Canada:
1-877-233-9813–International: 1-706-679-8437–Call
Leader: Robert Rulla

Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL)

To streamline the management of complex legislative policy rules, Oracle has announced the availability of Oracle Enterprise Taxation and Policy Management which combines the benefits of Oracle Enterprise Taxation Management and Oracle Policy Automation.
Oracle Enterprise Taxation and Policy Management can:

Help public sector authorities reduce the time and cost to modify systems when legislative policies change.
Provide detailed analysis of proposed policy changes and potential revenue impact.
Enhance the ability to navigate risk-scoring rules to assess tax declarations for further investigation to help improve audit selection capabilities and target success rates.
Provide authorized business users with access to amend policy rules in the core administration system directly without lengthy IT development cycles.

“Capgemini applauds Oracle for enhancing Oracle Enterprise Taxation Management with the capabilities of Oracle Policy Automation. Several of Capgeminis clients have saved significant costs and time and recognized new business benefits using Oracle Policy Automation. The combination allows public sector authorities to capture, maintain and embed new tax rules into core processing with a simple tool that helps reduce the costs of programming or scripting,” said Ian Pretty, vice president, tax and welfare lead, Global Public Sector, Capgemini.
“In an ever-evolving industry, public sector authorities require great flexibility to help manage the impact of policy changes. Oracle Enterprise Taxation and Policy Management can help our customers save time and costs associated with incorporating new legislative rules into their administrative systems,” said Stephan Scholl, senior vice president and general manager, Oracle Tax and Utilities Global Business Unit.

HOUSTON — Rick’s Cabaret International, Inc. (NASDAQ: RICK), the nation’s
leading chain of upscale gentlemen’s clubs, had revenues of $6.36
million at its nightclubs in June.

The June revenues brought total nightclub sales for the company’s third
quarter ending June 30 to $19.58 million.

Eric Langan, President and CEO of the company, said: “Generally
our revenues are holding up, although we are working on improving sales
at several clubs that have been impacted by market-specific economic
weakness.”

Companywide revenues were up 4.2 percent compared with the $6.1 million
reported in 2009. Same club-same month revenues compared with 2009 were
off 5.4 percent, primarily because of lower revenues at the Las Vegas
Rick’s Cabaret and at the Club Onyx locations in Philadelphia and
Charlotte.

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INTRODUCTION Pork is a popular meat consumed by non-muslim Singaporeans with about 87,000 tonnes being consumed per year (Kanagalingam, 2005). Currently, Singapore imports its pork from several countries, but Australian and Indonesian pork is consumed most widely due to its ready availability at supermarkets and wet markets. Fresh pork is obtained from pigs raised in Indonesia but slaughtered at Singapore abattoirs, while chilled pork is mainly imported from Australia and is widely known as “Air Pork”. Singaporean consumers are aware of the origin of pork from packaging labels. Results of a recent survey showed that Singapore consumers associate non-Indonesian pork with the presence of an unpleasant mutton-like off-flavour (Leong et al., 2008). One possible cause of off-flavours in pork is by the oxidation of lipids, leading to the formation of aldehydes and short-chain fatty acids (Reindl and Stan, 1982; Devol, et al., 1988). The rate and extent of lipid oxidation depends on a number of factors, the most important being the level of polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA) in muscle (Allen and Foegeding, 1981). Pork contains high levels of unsaturated fatty acids relative to ruminant meat (Enser et al., 1996) and is more susceptible to oxidative deterioration of lipids and myoglobin. Feeding of PUFAs to pigs can improve the nutritional quality of pork, but may also increase the susceptibility to oxidation (Sheard et al., 2000; Kouba et al., 2003; Morel et al., 2006). There have been many reports of PUFA-rich feeds leading to increased lipid oxidation and thus off-flavour in pork (Houben and Krol, 1980; Warnants et al., 1998; Roman et al., 1995; Overland et al., 1996; Leskanich et al., 1997; Wood et al., 2003). There have also been examples of off-flavours in pork arising from the direct transfer of aroma components from feed to meat, including several reports on how feeding of fish oil and high fat fish meal to finisher pigs has caused “fishy” and other off-flavours in pork products (Kjos et al., 1999; Lauridsen et al., 1999; Maw et al., 2001; Jaturasitha et al., 2002). The current paper compares sensory assessments of the flavour of pork from the legs of pigs finished in New Zealand on three diets (Morel et al., 2008) using Singaporean panelists. The objective was to determine the extent to which dietary feed treatments received by the New Zealand pigs influenced the sensory properties of pork using trained and untrained Singaporean panels. Results of sensory analyses of pork from the loins of the same New Zealand pigs using New Zealand panelists were reported by Janz et al. (2008).
INTRODUCTION Fat deposition of pigs is of economic importance because of market incentives for lean pork production and decreased feeding costs. It is crucial to investigate and characterize new candidate genes and QTL relevant to pig fat deposit traits. To date, several quantitative trait loci (QTL) significantly affecting 10th-rib, average backfat thickness and other production traits have been mapped on SSC7 (Wang et al., 1998; Nagamine et al., 2003). Peroxisomal [[DELTA].sup.3],[[DELTA].sup.2]-enoyl-CoA isomerase (PECI) was located near the boundary of the quantitative trait loci (QTL) region. [[DELTA].sup.3],[[DELTA].sup.2]-enoyl-CoA isomerase (Ecilp) is unique because its activity is necessary for [beta]-oxidation of all unsaturated fatty acids (Geisbrecht et al., 1999). The series of enzyme-catalyzed reactions required for degradation of fatty acids are evolutionarily conserved and accomplished primarily through the p-oxidation pathway. In peroxisomes, ECI was predicted to be a dominant enzyme for 3-cis 3[right arrow]2-trans and 3-trans 3[right arrow]2-trans isomerizations of long-chain intermediates (Zhang et al., 2002). Fatty acid [beta]-oxidation in mammals is considerably more complicated, primarily due to the existence of overlapping but distinct fatty acid poxidation pathways. Mammalian peroxisomes contain at least three fatty acyl-CoA oxidases, both L-specific and D-specific 2-enoyl-CoA hydratase/3-hydroxyacyl-CoA dehydrogenase multifunctional proteins, and at least two thiolases, all of which are encoded by different genes (Palosaari et al., 1990a, 1991; Geisbrecht et al., 1998; Gurvitz et al., 1998; Geisbrecht et al., 1999; Partanen et al., 2004). When the ECI was completely excised in the mouse, it extensively perturbed the metabolism of unsaturated fatty acids, especially for short interval starvation and the fatty acid pattern of complex phospholipids was strongly altered (Palosaari et al., 1990b; Janssen et al., 2002). The PECI gene can be encoded by ECI1 and it is required for growth of saccharomyces cerevisiae on unsaturated fatty acids (Gurvitz et al., 1998). It can be concluded that the PECI gene may play an important role during the metabolic processing of unsaturated fatty acids. Deposition of fat by animals in their bodies is associated with the metabolism of fatty acids, and more research would contribute to understanding of porcine fat deposition. Genomic DNA was isolated from blood of mature Tongcheng pigs (Hubei province, China) by phenol/chloroform extraction. RNA was extracted from muscle tissue of adult Tongcheng pigs and adult Swedish Landrace with TRIzol reagent kit (Life Technologies, Grand Island, NE, USA). RACE (the rapid amplification of cDNA ends) was performed according to the instructions of the SMARTTM RACE cDNA Amplification Kit (Clontech Inc, Palo Alto, CA, USA). The PCR products of RACE were purified with the Wizard PCR Preps DNA Purification System (Promega, Madison, WI, USA). ORF were found by the program SeqMan (DNA star, Madison, WI, USA) and the amino acid sequences were deduced with Primer5.0 (Primer Premier5.0, Premier, Canada). Using the pGEM T-easy vector, DNase I (RNase-free) and M-MLV reverse transcriptase from TaKaRa Dalian (Dalian, China), primers were synthesized (Table 1) and PCR products were sequenced by AuGCT Biotechnology (Bejing, China).
— Iteris to lead program management for implementation of over
$900 million transportation infrastructure projects –

SANTA ANA, Calif. — Iteris, Inc. (NYSE Amex: ITI), a leader in the traffic management market
that focuses on the application and development of advanced
technologies, today announced that the company has been awarded a major
contract to assist the South Bay Cities Council of Governments (SBCCOG)
located in Los Angeles County to develop an Implementation Plan and
provide Program/Project Management for the South Bay Measure R Highway
Program. Building on previous transportation study recommendations and
needed gap closures, this work will help move transportation projects
forward rapidly in partnership with Caltrans. Iteris will also assist
South Bay cities in facilitating document completion and streamlining
the construction process. This project will employ a monitoring system
to track progress and provide early identification of implementation
obstacles. The three-year contract, with funding provided from South Bay
Measure R Highway funds through the Los Angeles County Metropolitan
Transportation Authority (Metro), has a total value of $2.0 million.

Measure R is a one-half cent sales tax approved by Los Angeles County
voters in November 2008 to meet the transportation needs of Los Angeles
County. Metro oversees the distribution of the funds. The South Bay sub
region is expected to receive approximately $906 million over the
30-year life of Measure R. Although Measure R is expected to provide a
significant amount of funding to the South Bay, the intent of this
program is also to leverage the Measure R funds with other available and
possible new revenue sources.

“Iteris has a long history of assisting the South Bay Cities on
transportation projects,” said Abbas Mohaddes, president and chief
executive officer of Iteris. “We are delighted to provide our services
with this significant assignment to help implement such a significant
program to improve mobility in this important region of Los Angeles
County.” Mr. Mohaddes continued, “Additionally, this contract award is
an excellent example of how local transportation projects continue to
receive funding in these challenging economic times.”

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PARAMUS, N.J. — VORNADO REALTY TRUST (NYSE: VNO) today announced that it has completed
the first closing of its real estate investment fund with initial equity
commitments of $550 million (including $200 million from Vornado).
Vornado expects total commitments of $1 billion. Subsidiaries of Vornado
will serve as the general partner and investment manager. The Fund is
Vornado’s exclusive investment vehicle for all real estate and real
estate-related investments that fit within the Fund’s investment
parameters for its three-year investment period.

This announcement does not constitute an offer to sell or a solicitation
of an offer to buy securities in the United States. Interests in the
Fund have not been registered under the Securities Act of 1933, as
amended, or any U.S. state securities law, and may not be offered or
sold in the United States absent registration or an applicable exemption
from registration requirements.

Vornado Realty Trust is a fully-integrated equity real estate investment
trust.

Certain statements contained herein may constitute “forward-looking
statements” within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation
Reform Act of 1995. Such forward-looking statements involve known and
unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors which may cause the
actual results, performance or achievements of the Company to be
materially different from any future results, performance or
achievements expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements.
Such factors include, among others, risks associated with the timing of
and costs associated with property improvements, financing commitments,
and general competitive factors. For a discussion of these and other
risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ from
those contained in the forward-looking statements, see “Risk Factors” in
the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K filed with the Securities and
Exchange Commission.

National / Four Region Overview: Across the U.S., home prices posted 5.2% quarter-over-quarter gains, placing prices firmly 8.8% above levels experienced one year ago. Regionally, the Midwest and South saw the largest quarterly price growth, while the West and Northeast show more stable quarterly gains.

Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) drilldown: Home price gains across the U.S. were helped largely by the quarterly jump in prices by the top 15 highest performing major markets. Quarterly prices for the group are up an average 12.6%, while yearly price gains are up 17.1%.

Micro Market Analysis: Home prices in the Los Angeles MSA rebounded 13.2% from its market bottom one year ago. While this surpassed the 8.8% gains seen nationally for the same period, conditions varied widely across this large and diverse market.

The Clear Capital HDI Market Report offers the industry, investors and lenders a timely look at pricing conditions, not only at the national and metropolitan level, but within local markets as well. Clear Capital data is built on the most recent data available from recorder/assessor offices, and then further enhanced by adding the Companys proprietary market data for the most comprehensive geographic coverage available.

“Price trends nationwide have seen a considerable upswing driven in large part by the flurry of recent sales attributed to the tax credit and springtime buying activity,” said Dr. Alex Villacorta, Senior Statistician, Clear Capital. “This months national quarterly gains are certainly a positive sign that many markets have responded to the tax credit incentive, but overall markets remain volatile as evidenced by the six month price change keeping mostly flat.”

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NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. — Dennis Walsh, CEO of RE-buildUSA™, one of the real estate industrys
most popular speakers, will be presenting a series of free live events
to showcase what many call the “perfect storm of opportunity” in todays
market. The presentation, “Rebuilding America One Dream at a Time,” will
travel through Dayton,
OH July 20th, Columbus,
OH July 21st and Cleveland,
OH July 22nd. These events are sponsored by Lowes and Wells Fargo
Home Mortgage. Walshs message, already shared with thousands of
brokers, agents and mortgage professionals around the country, will give
valuable insight on a program that is helping stabilize the housing
industry.

“Every real estate professional needs to know about this great
opportunity in todays market,” says Dave Liniger, Chairman and
Co-Founder of RE/MAX. Liniger presented the RE-buildUSA™ program to
RE/MAX agents during a live broadcast via RE/MAX University.

Re-buildUSA™, in partnership with Lowe’s, simplifies use of the federal
government’s 203k Renovation Loan program to assist families in
achieving their dream of homeownership, improve communities and grow the
economy. Home improvements are rolled right into the primary mortgage,
allowing both buyers and current homeowners to more easily get the home
they want, while being able to afford their monthly payments and reduce
the overall cost of ownership.

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HOUSTON — Rick’s Cabaret International, Inc. (NASDAQ: RICK), the nation’s
leading chain of upscale gentlemen’s clubs, had revenues of $6.36
million at its nightclubs in June.

The June revenues brought total nightclub sales for the company’s third
quarter ending June 30 to $19.58 million.

Eric Langan, President and CEO of the company, said: “Generally
our revenues are holding up, although we are working on improving sales
at several clubs that have been impacted by market-specific economic
weakness.”

Companywide revenues were up 4.2 percent compared with the $6.1 million
reported in 2009. Same club-same month revenues compared with 2009 were
off 5.4 percent, primarily because of lower revenues at the Las Vegas
Rick’s Cabaret and at the Club Onyx locations in Philadelphia and
Charlotte.

Graphic.ly Launches First Windows 7 App for Comics, Expands Community
Functions in Online Store to Drive Conversation about New, Trending
Titles

BOULDER, Colo. — Graphic.ly, the digital media platform for comic books and communities,
announces a new application for Windows 7-based devices, as well as
improvements to its online comics store that will make it easier for
people to start and participate in conversations about new and popular
titles. The Windows 7 app is optimized for touch interfaces to take
advantage the upcoming Windows-based tablets.

Graphic.ly becomes the first of a new breed of comic apps that is
available on Windows 7-based devices, following its launch of a desktop
AIR and iPhone application. The company plans to launch apps for mobile
platforms, such as the iPad, Android and Windows Phone 7, and a web
application throughout the year. In addition, the store will get new
features and a layout that will highlight fresh and popular titles in
the comics store, as well as friend-recommended titles for people to
share and discover new content.

“This is the year that will change comics forever, extending the
experience of welcoming and acceptance of the comic book store into the
digital marketplace where they’ll be exposed to the largest audience
ever,” said Micah Baldwin, CEO of Graphic.ly. “To maximize that
audience, we’re going to lead the charge to bring the digital media
store to every platform and device. Today we’re proud to be the first on
Windows 7 and there will be more to come.”

Graphic.ly offers comic titles from the largest comics publishers,
including Archaia, Arcana, Archie, BOOM! Studios, IDW Publishing, and
TopCow. Hundreds of independent publishers also offer titles for sale in
the Graphic.ly online store. Today, more than 600 titles are available
for prices ranging from free to $1.99 in the Graphic.ly store.

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Tacori, the legendary fine jewelry designer known for exquisite platinum and diamond rings , is pleased to unveil the newest installment in their Iconic Passion television campaign — Cupids Arrow .

In this striking tribute to Cupid, a dramatic golden arrow delivers sparkling treasures from the Simply Tacori Collection, as well as the mythic message of true love. Featuring one of Tacoris best-selling styles of engagement rings , the matching his and hers wedding bands illustrate the full romantic bond when Cupids Arrow strikes the heart.

Cupids Arrow began airing nationally as a :30sec spot on July 1st, 2010, and is also the opening video on the Tacori site, garnering more than 10,000 unique visitors per day. Cupids Arrow is a romantic personification of Tacoris “Golden Arrow” print campaign, which has been running in magazines nationwide since 2009.

Driven by iconic visuals and sonic personifications, the musical composition in the Cupids Arrow commercial is a soaring, sultry dedication in loves most dramatic fashion. The song featured in Cupids Arrow is an edited version of the full-length song ” Avec Ton Amour ,” which is designed for Tacori lovers to dance the tango of true love. “Avec Ton Amour” is available for sale as a single, or as a 4-song album on iTunes or cdbaby.com.

“We are thrilled to continue our Iconic Passion campaign both in print and on television,” said Paul Tacorian of Tacori. “The extremely positive feedback from consumers and retail partners alike make these striking visual and musical Tacori stories a great asset towards our goal of reaching consumers with memorable, provocative and action-driven marketing.”

“What Heaven Sees in You” is replete with talented, familiar voices. And Doug Walker brought them all together. Walker organized the collaborative effort, which includes artists such as Mercy River, Jenny Jordan Frogley and Katherine Nelson singing 10 songs written by Walker and his wife. Many of the songs are new, but the title track has been a favorite among Mormon women and young women for years, ever since Walker and his wife wrote it in 2001 for a fireside. Also known as “Three White Dresses,” the lyrics follow a girl through her blessing, baptism and wedding — all of which take place in a white dress.

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The Accounts Receivable Network (TARN) , the leading accounts receivable resource for financial professionals, announces today its upcoming virtual education event for accounts receivable management and staff. The Improve Profitability by Reducing Controlling Chargebacks Deductions webinar is designed to help AR professionals learn best practices for controlling deductions and chargebacks.

The webinar is scheduled to take place on Tuesday, July 20, 2:00 – 3:30 p.m. EDT .

This 1.5-hour training session can help AR professionals and their entire financial team understand and implement appropriate policies to achieve successful customer settlements in their organizations and to build effective cross-functional communication and coordination improving organizations success.

Attend this program and learn common myths surrounding retail chargebacks and deductions and the real reason many companies struggle to prevent and control them. Learn from Jessica Butler , a well-respected chargeback expert presenting a special information-packed webinar on reducing and controlling deductions.

To learn more about this event, please, visit Accounts Payable Deduction Management Webinar .

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Victorinox, the manufacturer of the Original Swiss Army Knife, has announced their latest initiative aimed at families who propose a valuable, innovative project that benefits their local community. The worthwhile project will see Victorinox donate EUR10,000 to the winning family, allowing them to fund their proposed project and idea.

The contest is open to families in Switzerland, France, Spain, Italy, Germany, Austria, Belgium and the United Kingdom – one family in each country will be awarded funding. The contest runs from June 1, 2010 until January 31, 2011.

To launch this project in the UK Victorinox is partnering with The House Of Fairy Tales, the innovative family arts and education project founded by artist Gavin Turk. Families will have the opportunity to find out more during its Travelling Art Circus Tour of UK festivals throughout the summer.

The House Of Fairy Tales Travelling Art Circus will be creating magical interactive experiences through theatre, story-telling, art and more at Glastonbury, Latitude, Port Eliot Festival and Camp Bestival.

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CHICAGO — Navigant Consulting, Inc. (NYSE: NCI) announced today that Dr. Mohan Rao
has joined Navigant Economics as a Managing Director in Chicago.

Dr. Rao specializes in economic analysis in complex intellectual
property and antitrust litigation, including patent and trademark
infringement, misappropriation of trade secrets, false advertising,
commercial success, and antitrust analysis ranging from monopolization
and exclusive dealing to price discrimination and price fixing. He is a
nationally recognized expert on intellectual property issues facing
corporations in transactions and complex litigation including valuation,
business strategy, and the interplay between intellectual property and
antitrust.

“Intellectual assets continue to be a strategic and economic focus for
companies across many industries and geographies,” stated John Garvey,
Managing Director at Navigant Economics. “Dr. Rao’s intellectual
property expertise spans the array of services companies require to
protect and maximize those assets. His addition will substantially
expand the breadth and depth of our offerings to our clients.”

Dr. Rao has served as an economics expert in U.S. and foreign courts and
in domestic and international arbitration proceedings on significant
litigation matters. Dr. Rao teaches finance in the McCormick School of
Engineering and Applied Science at Northwestern University. Earlier, he
served on the faculty at UCLA and as a Teaching Fellow at Harvard
University. He has taught and published on a wide range of topics,
including intellectual property valuation and strategy, high technology
competition, econometrics, international trade, and defense economics.
Select publications include the chapters on “Econometric Analysis” and
“Economic Analysis in Securities Class Actions” in the Litigation
Services Handbook and “Innovation Markets” in Market Definition
in Antitrust: Theory and Case Studies.

Dr. Rao served as the Chair of the Valuation Committee of the Licensing
Executives Society and currently serves on the Board of Directors of the
Children’s Memorial Hospital in Chicago, on the Board of Trustees of the
Rotary/One Foundation, and is a member of the Economic Club of Chicago.

Third Degree Advertising prides itself on “serving up fresh ideas, hot creative, friendly service and right results” when it comes to executing advertising, marketing, PR and strategic branding campaigns. As a result of the continued growth of the agencys national clientele, Third Degree recently expanded to Durham, North Carolina to build on the agencys momentum.

Since the agencys founding in 1995, Third Degree has offered integrated marketing communications for clients located throughout Oklahoma and the United States including California, Texas, New York, Georgia, and Virginia.

“At Third Degree, weve strategically chosen to locate our headquarters in Oklahoma City and add a second office in Durham because of business and economic opportunities in both areas,” said Third Degree CEO and founder Roy Page.

“Third Degree was among the first professional companies to locate in Bricktown,” said Page. “In deciding to locate in the East Coast, we sought a portal for developing business which also fit our companys culture and strategic branding forte.”

Several parallels can be drawn between Oklahoma Citys Bricktown and Durhams American Tobacco District, regions of the respective cities where Third Degree offices now reside. Like Bricktown and Oklahoma City, the American Tobacco District and Durham are undergoing unprecedented urban renewal. Both locations are revitalized and converted into environments filled with entertainment, restaurants, and office buildings providing professional services.

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Encounter Technologies, Inc. (PINKSHEETS: ENTI) announces instructions for this weeks toll-free call-in update. Investors can hear the latest status of projects and business for Encounter Technologies, Inc. This weeks call will feature the latest news for MusicMatrix.com, a one-of-a-kind, interactive site for music fans.

The new call update will be available at 10:00am EDT on Friday, July 9, 2010. To access the updated information, please call 800-642-1687 in the US and Canada or 706-645-9291 for international calls. The new conference code for this updated release is 78255015, and you will be prompted to enter in that conference code. It will be conducted by Sheri Cook, Marketing Representative for Encounter Technologies, Inc. The message can be accessed for one week, and a new message will be updated each Friday at 10:00am EDT with a new conference code.

On MusicMatrix.com, users are able to participate in music video editing competitions in order to win prizes and recognition. Encounter Technologies, Inc. (ENTI) has developed a cutting edge, innovative and simple to use platform for MusicMatrix.com which facilitates the video uploading, editing, sharing and viewing experiences. By creating an environment which rewards both innovation and creativity, users are given the incentive to implement their own unique online marketing campaigns in order to expose a particular artist or song to populations and demographics not typically reached through standard mass campaigns.

About Encounter Technologies (ENTI)

Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas) — Martinrea International Incorporated (NYSE:MRETF) (Windsor, Ontario) closed operations at the companys Windsor factory in July, after 45 years of operations. The factory produced twist axles, cross-members and other welded metal parts for Chrysler minivans. The factory was deemed to be no longer cost-competitive.

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Wyndham Hotels and Resorts , LLC, a subsidiary of Wyndham Worldwide Corporation (NYSE: WYN), today announced its expansion in the Caribbean with the opening of the 303-room-and-suite Wyndham Kingston Jamaica .

Just ten miles from Jamaicas Norman Manley International Airport, the Wyndham Kingston Jamaica is located in the heart of the capital citys financial and diplomatic district on the southern coast of the Caribbean island, making it an ideal home base for business and leisure travelers.

Owned by Ocean Chimo, the Wyndham Kingston Jamaica will undergo extensive renovations of the hotels public spaces and guest rooms to further enhance the guest experience and meet Wyndham standards. The hotel will be managed by Wyndham Hotels and Resorts.

“This opening marks the Wyndham brands exciting return to the island and to the New Kingston community,” said Jeff Wagoner , president of Wyndham Hotels and Resorts. “Jamaica is a vibrant island that draws business travelers and vacationers from around the world. We are proud to welcome the Wyndham Kingston Jamaica to our expanding portfolio and look forward to growing its strong base of corporate and leisure travelers through our robust marketing channels and signature style of personalized service.”

The hotel is situated on seven-and-a-half acres overlooking Emancipation Park and is within close proximity to many of the areas top attractions, including championship golf courses, the National Gallery, the Bob Marley Museum and Castleton Botanical Gardens, located on the banks of the Wag Water River.

WOMENS VOLLEYBALL: The Westminster womens volleyball team released the schedule for 2010 on Wednesday afternoon. The team will participate in two tournaments including playing host to the season opening Tournament of Champions head coach Kim Norman said. The Griffins will face Daemen College, College of Idaho and Azusa Pacific during the two-day event to begin the 2010 season. The Tournament of Champions will feature four pool play matches in the Behnken Field House on Aug. 27 and conclude with two pool play matches and the three bracket matches on Aug. 28. Westminster will travel to Irvine, Calif. for the Asics/Crowne Plaza Labor Day Tournament hosted by Concordia (Calif.) over Labor Day weekend. The tournament schedule hasnt been announced at this time, but the team will play two matches on both Sept. 3 and Sept. 4. The Frontier Conference opener is scheduled for Sept. 9 in Billings, Mont. against Rocky Mountain College. That game is followed by the annual trip to Helena, Montana to face Carroll College on Sept. 11. Montana Western visits the Behnken Field House for the Frontier home opener on Sept. 16. Montana Tech comes to Salt Lake City on Sept. 18 with the trip to Great Falls and Havre, Montana coming the following weekend for games at Great Falls and Montana State- Northern.

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96% say international travel is up
66% see domestic travel bookings up
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The U.S. Tour Operators Association reports that 2010 business is up significantly compared to 2009, surpassing expectations. In a recent informal membership poll, 92% of respondents said business is up since the beginning of the year, contrasting with 70% who last fall predicted a turnaround.

Sales of international tours, vacation packages and custom arrangements led the way, with 96% of respondents seeing an average increase of 30% over last year. This surpasses last falls expectations, when three-quarters of members predicted international sales to grow in 2010 by slightly under 20%.

Two-thirds of USTOA respondents report that domestic vacation bookings are up by an average of 33% this year. This improvement tops USTOA member projections: last fall, when 56% of respondents expected an increase of just 10%, while 37% predicted that domestic travel figures would remain unchanged.

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SAN ANTONIO — Tootie
Pie Company, Inc. (OTCBB:TOOT) announced that it has entered into a
partnership with Kraft Foods for the upcoming holiday season. The two
companies will co-market Tootie Pie with Kraft’s Cool Whip.

“There is probably no more recognizable, high-quality food brand than
Kraft Foods,” said Don Merrill, President CEO. “We are proud and
excited that Kraft recognizes the value of having its Cool Whip product
featured alongside Tootie Pie.”

Terms of the deal were not disclosed as of this date; however, the deal
was made possible through a mutual agreement in partnership with HEB
Grocery Stores, according to Tootie Pie Company.

“Experience tells us that more in-store pie tastings result in
significantly more Tootie Pie sales. Once customers taste Tootie Pie,
they are hooked,” explained Merrill. “HEB wants to grow Tootie Pie sales
dramatically and brought Kraft to the table in a three-way partnership
that will drive consumers to the frozen food section during peak times
of the year!”

THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. — Energy crop company Ceres, Inc. announced today that it has completed a
private offering of convertible preferred stock. The proceeds will be
used, in part, to expand the company’s research and commercialization
activities in the advanced biofuels and biomass-to-power markets.

Over the past three years the company has launched its energy grass seed
business in the United States and expanded its research and
commercialization activities into the biopower, bio-based chemical and
sugar-to-biofuel markets, including joint projects with electric
utilities and next-generation biorefineries. The company also grew its
international presence, and is deploying its seeds and technology in
Brazil. Ceres President and CEO Richard Hamilton says that Ceres plans
to build a leadership position in each of these markets.

“The common denominator among these diverse renewable energy markets is
having a scalable and economic source of feedstock,” said Hamilton. “We
believe that dedicated energy grasses are uniquely capable of supplying
the raw materials that will be needed for long-term growth.”

“In addition to the operational benefits, this new funding will allow us
to maintain our independence to collaborate with participants across the
energy and agricultural industries – a freedom that has proven highly
valuable as we help assemble value chains among growers, bioenergy
companies and technology providers,” said Hamilton. “These joint
projects are proving critical to validating our technology and products
with the nascent bioenergy industry.”

Ceres currently markets improved seed varieties of switchgrass and
high-biomass sorghum under its Blade Energy Crops brand, and has
additional research programs in sweet sorghum and miscanthus. The
California-based company’s biotech pipeline includes traits that can
improve the economics of bioenergy production, make greater use of
marginal land and enhance the environmental benefits of energy grasses.
In 2009, Ceres received a prestigious ARPA-E award from the U.S.
Department of Energy to evaluate a trait that increases yield and
reduces fertilizer requirements.

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Panasonic, the leading manufacturer of cordless home telephones worldwide,* today announced that all of its 2010 cordless home telephone systems, available at retailers nationwide, feature proprietary DECT 6.0 PLUS ™ performance for optimal sound quality and extended range. Additionally, the phones offer extended battery life and a variety of time-saving and convenience features designed for the way todays multi-tasking families use their cordless phones.

Panasonics 2010 cordless phones are designed with feedback from extensive consumer research and raise the bar on performance in three key ways:

Improved Voice Quality
In response to consumer demand, Panasonics proprietary DECT 6.0 PLUS technology provides better quality reception by increasing the error-correction rate by 80 times compared with Panasonics prior DECT 6.0 models.

Extended Battery Life
2010 Panasonic cordless phones feature Intelligent Eco Mode, which automatically lowers the handsets power consumption when used near the base station. The result is up to 13 hours of continuous talk time on average, compared to 11 hours of continuous talk time when not using Intelligent Eco Mode.

Double the Transmission Distance with Range Extender Module
The new Range Extender module, included with the KX-TG4053B and sold separately as an accessory for all other 2010 models (SRP $29.95), doubles the effective transmission distance between the base unit and handsets when compared with previous models.

Proving once again that some of the best things in life are free, Carrows Restaurant will serve up kids favorite foods — for free! — all summer long. Designed to give busy families quality time together without breaking the bank, Carrows “Kids Eat Free” dinner promotion runs nightly from 4pm until close beginning July 8 at all participating restaurants.

“Families are first at Carrows,” says Kazumasa Ogawa, president of Carrows. “We are proud to offer caring parents the opportunity to spend quality, affordable time with their children while enjoying our freshly prepared, wholesome food. Great food and great savings means happy parents and kids alike.”

As numerous studies have shown, eating dinner together is a simple yet effective way to raise healthier, happier children. Not only do family meals help keep the doors of communication open, they are also an ideal way for parents to show their kids that they are their top priority.

An added bonus: busy parents now have an easy and cost-effective answer to the popular “Whats for dinner?” question. Carrows Snoopy-themed kids menu offers everything from Kraft Macaroni and Cheese, grilled chicken and burgers to spaghetti, chicken tenders and grilled cheese sandwiches. Plus, every kids entrée includes a choice of a side dish, including healthy options such as salad, cinnamon apples, fruits or veggies, as well as a drink. A special Snoopy Sundae served in a “dog bowl” will be available this summer, and all kids will enjoy Peanuts-themed giveaways.

Available for a limited time, the Kids Eat Free summertime promotion runs nightly from July 8 through August 31. Families who dine-in at participating Carrows restaurants beginning at 4pm will receive one free kids meal with each adult entrée purchase. The free meal is valid for kids age 10 and under on any Carrows “kids menu” item. The offer is not valid with any other discounts, coupons or specials.

Proving once again that some of the best things in life are free, Carrows Restaurant will serve up kids favorite foods — for free! — all summer long. Designed to give busy families quality time together without breaking the bank, Carrows “Kids Eat Free” dinner promotion runs nightly from 4pm until close beginning July 8 at all participating restaurants.

“Families are first at Carrows,” says Kazumasa Ogawa, president of Carrows. “We are proud to offer caring parents the opportunity to spend quality, affordable time with their children while enjoying our freshly prepared, wholesome food. Great food and great savings means happy parents and kids alike.”

As numerous studies have shown, eating dinner together is a simple yet effective way to raise healthier, happier children. Not only do family meals help keep the doors of communication open, they are also an ideal way for parents to show their kids that they are their top priority.

An added bonus: busy parents now have an easy and cost-effective answer to the popular “Whats for dinner?” question. Carrows Snoopy-themed kids menu offers everything from Kraft Macaroni and Cheese, grilled chicken and burgers to spaghetti, chicken tenders and grilled cheese sandwiches. Plus, every kids entrée includes a choice of a side dish, including healthy options such as salad, cinnamon apples, fruits or veggies, as well as a drink. A special Snoopy Sundae served in a “dog bowl” will be available this summer, and all kids will enjoy Peanuts-themed giveaways.

Available for a limited time, the Kids Eat Free summertime promotion runs nightly from July 8 through August 31. Families who dine-in at participating Carrows restaurants beginning at 4pm will receive one free kids meal with each adult entrée purchase. The free meal is valid for kids age 10 and under on any Carrows “kids menu” item. The offer is not valid with any other discounts, coupons or specials.

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WATERTOWN, Mass. — pSivida Corp. (NASDAQ:PSDV) (ASX:PVA), a leader in the development of
sustained release back of the eye drug delivery systems for
difficult-to-treat conditions, today announced that its licensee,
Alimera Sciences (NASDAQ:ALIM) has submitted a Marketing Authorization
Application (MAA) to the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory
Agency (MHRA) in the United Kingdom (UK) for Iluvien®. Iluvien,
developed by pSivida and licensed to Alimera Sciences in 2005, is a
sustained release drug delivery system releasing the steroid
flucocinolone acetonide for the treatment of diabetic macular edema
(DME). The MAA is being submitted through the Decentralized Procedure
with the UK MHRA as the Reference Member State (RMS). Applications have
also been submitted to the following other Concerned Member States (CMS)
in the European Union: Austria, France, Germany, Italy, Portugal and
Spain.

This submission closely follows the submission last week of the NDA to
the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for approval for Iluvien to treat
DME. The MAA submission includes the 24 month low dose data from the
FAME study. Alimera has indicated it plans to follow this MAA submission
with a registration filing in Canada in the near future. pSivida has
joint ownership and reference rights to the MAA and NDA.

pSivida continues to work to develop new products for the sustained
release of drugs and proteins based on its existing and new
technologies. Additionally, Pfizer and pSivida are collaborating to
develop ophthalmic products based on pSivida technology. While the
Company remains primarily focused in ophthalmology, pSivida is exploring
other therapeutic areas.

About pSivida Corp.

pSivida Corp. is a world leader in the development of tiny, sustained
release, drug delivery products and technologies that are administered
by implantation, insertion or injection. The Company uses these systems
to develop treatments for serious, unmet, medical needs. pSivida’s
intellectual property portfolio consists of 59 patent families, more
than 100 granted patents, including patents accepted for issuance, and
more than 150 patent applications. pSivida conducts its operations from
Boston in the United States and Malvern in the United Kingdom.

Premier BPO, Inc. today has announced that they have entered into an agreement with JT Healthcare Services, LLC for the purposes of establishing a Chinese based Joint Venture to provide back office billing and data management services. This Joint Venture is expected to support JT Healthcare Services, LLCs planned revenue cycle management business in service to U.S. Hospitals.

Premier BPO, Inc. is a leading provider of BPO and KPO services to North American and European Companies. From its headquarters in Clarksville, Tennessee, Premier BPO delivers its services to the worlds best companies from multiple geographies including China, The Philippines and Pakistan. Premier lowers the cost and improves the quality of a clients back office operations. Premier was founded in 2003 by an industry savvy team of Senior executives, with over 125 years direct combined experience in the outsourcing and off shoring industry who have implemented hundreds of programs, covering thousands of highly educated, deeply skilled agents, in multiple countries across the globe.

Premier has created a strategic relationship with the Chinese government to provide training and facility cost deferrals, building a “center of excellence” specifically dedicated to Medical Billing in Kunshan, China, approximately 45 kilometers from Shanghai, and has access to an extremely large, highly educated work force in the Jiangsu Province which has 115 Colleges and Universities supplying hundreds of thousands of English literate graduates.

JT Healthcare Services, LLC is positioned to be a leading provider of full revenue cycle outsourcing (RCO) services to healthcare providers through aggressive organic and acquisitive growth. Their founding management team consists of seasoned executives that pioneered the industry and built successful RCO businesses with integrated technology offerings. Through this joint venture with Premier BPO, JT Healthcare will leverage a BPO model using scale and automation to elevate service levels while lowering costs and increasing profit margins for hospitals and physician groups in this $50B revenue cycle processing market with huge untapped scale opportunities. Most revenue cycle processing is still performed in-house at hospitals with inefficient and sub-scale back-office operations suffering from economic and governmental pressure to reduce costs and focus on clinical operations.

The partnership created by Premier and JT Healthcare Services will provide end-to-end RCO services which will provide the perfect solution for this crippling drain on health care providers.

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Free Event to Include Career Tip Seminars, Resume Review and Local
Employers Recruiting On-Site

SEATTLE — The University of Phoenix Western Washington Campus invites job seekers
to attend a free Career Expo at its Tukwila location on July 9th and
10th. The two-day event will offer a series of job hunting and career
strategies seminars, individual advisement and resume review, as well as
several local companies recruiting on site.

“Even with the economy showing signs of recovery, the unemployment rate
continues to hover around nine percent and many Washingtonians are
seeking the tools and resources to land a job,” said Alexis Lim, campus
direct of University of Phoenix Western Washington campus. “This event
is designed to educate job-seekers on how to market themselves
effectively and take their career search to the next level. The campus
is thrilled to have the participation of career expert Tony Vianna – and
with a number of hiring companies in attendance, it promises to be a
successful and engaging event.”

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ROSLYN, N.Y. PORTLAND, Ore. — IQ
Workforce, a leading recruiting firm in the web and marketing
analytics marketplace, today announced a partnership with Web
Analytics Demystified to provide an unprecedented level of support
for companies investing in digital measurement resources. The Staffing
and Resource Allocation service from Web Analytics Demystified is a
one-of-a-kind offering to help organizations of all kinds find, hire,
and maximize the contributions of web analytics and social media
specialists.

“We are incredibly excited to have forged this unique relationship with
IQ Workforce,” says Eric T. Peterson, Founder and Senior Partner at Web
Analytics Demystified. “Corry’s team is widely known as the most capable
talent acquisition firm working in web analytics today. By working
together we can help the thousands of companies looking for measurement
specialists not only find those people but also ensure that they’re
properly integrated into the digital measurement process.”

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China Techfaith Wireless Technology Limited (NASDAQ: CNTF) (”TechFaith”) today announced the expansion of its motion games effort with the establishment of a new subsidiary focusing on motion games. The new entity, 17Wee, is an indirect subsidiary of TechFaith under 798 Entertainment Beijing Co Ltd. 17Wee was established with the objective of creating the largest platform in China for the development of motion terminals, controllers, accessories and the distribution of the motion games.

Mr. Defu Dong, Chairman and CEO of TechFaith, and the CEO of 798 Entertainment, said, “The formation of 17Wee is an important step in 798 Entertainments business development strategy. Among 798 Entertainments subsidiaries, 798 Game is focusing on the development of PC online games and publishing, while 798 Mobile is focusing on the development of mobile phone games. 17Wee will now focus on the development of motion games. We believe the business opportunities in the motion game area are very big and we are striving to develop the motion gaming business to become our core gaming business.”

Mr. Defu Dong further commented, “Gamers visit mobile phones and TV set-top game boxes featuring motion sensor capabilities for both gaming and fitness. It is very appealing to gamers to get the real time motion feedback these systems offer. Importantly, the motion sensor capabilities make the games much more popular, entertaining, engaging and exercise oriented. By having a dedicated company focusing on this market, we are confident that 798 Entertainment will build its business in China.”

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TechFaith (NASDAQ: CNTF) is a China-based original developed product (”ODP”) provider focused on the original design and sales of mobile phone products. TechFaith is targeting to build it to be a branded mobile phone specialist in differentiated market segments in the China market. TechFaith is also striving to be a leading PC and online gaming business through its wholly-owned subsidiary, 798 Entertainment Limited.

Nextraction Energy Corporation (TSX VENTURE: NE) (the “Company”) and its wholly-owned subsidiary, Nextraction Energy (US) Inc. (”Nextraction”), along with its operating partner, Vantage Energy (”Vantage” – see press release dated January 26, 2010), are pleased to announce the successful completion of the Noble 6-24 well in the northern region of the Pinedale Anticline, Wyoming. The Companies will flow back the well for two to three weeks and will then determine a steady flow rate. Flow rates will be tested and reported after the first months production and periodically thereafter.

The Companies have isolated and fracd 13 lower stages in the well, opening up 462 feet of net pay (gas producing zones) in the Mesaverde and Lower Lance formations. The operations proceeded as planned, on time and on budget. Pipeline installation and infrastructure are complete for immediate gas sales during the flowback procedure.

The Company also plans to frac an additional 340 feet of net pay in the upper gas-bearing zones to achieve additional resource development. This additional fracing program is anticipated to occur after the deeper, higher pressured zones that are currently completed have decreased in pressure so that well bore pressure equalization can be achieved.

The Company anticipates a total investment to date of approximately US$5.4MM for its 100% interest in the Noble #6-24 well. Vantage operates the well and has the right to become a 26.25% interest owner in the well after Nextraction receives payout of 150% of its invested capital.

Company President Mark S. Dolar reports, “The completion program at Pinedale was successfully executed and we look forward to reporting the production results in the normal course in the weeks and months ahead. As we establish the flow rates we will announce our plans for further drilling on our leasehold area at Pinedale.”

Google has chosen the Nevada Commission on Tourisms (NCOT) online winter ski commercial as a success-story case study after it attracted 8 million viewers in seven targeted markets, Lt. Gov. Brian K. Krolicki, NCOT chair, said today.

NCOT was among the first tourism entities in the country to use Googles new technology, in-stream video, which places video ads into online video programs, including television segments, in a commercial break format as on regular television. Viewers who were exposed to the ad in markets where it appeared were 33 percent more likely to consider Nevada as a vacation destination than were those who saw other NCOT online ads that did not use Googles technology, NCOTs research showed.

“We seek innovative, cost-conscious ways to maximize the return on investment of each tourism dollar, and Googles video advertising program achieved this for us,” Krolicki said. “The ads captured the attention of the consumers we sought and stimulated their interest in visiting Nevada. They got our message.”

Tracking technology showed that 45 percent of the viewers watched the entire 30-second commercial that appeared on in-stream video. The lively ad showed skiers on snowy Sierra Nevada mountain slopes overlooking blue Lake Tahoe. Travel Nevada: winter commercial .

“We have advertised Nevadas tourism attractions in many ways, including traditional television, outdoor advertising, online display ads and mobile ads, and we found the exposure and maneuverability of Googles in-stream video really got results,” NCOT Director Dann Lewis said.

Offshore Company Formation

WASHINGTON — The American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) today announced
support for new Senate legislation designed to encourage green
infrastructure – a novel, sustainable approach that uses natural systems
of trees, plants and soils to manage rainwater instead of the
overburdened and outdated infrastructure that currently exists in cities.

In most instances, rainwater picks up pollutants as it flows from
driveways, parking lots, roofs and roadways before pouring untreated
through the sewer system into the nearest watershed or drinking water
supply. Introduced by U.S. Senator Tom Udall, the Green Infrastructure
for Clean Water Act (S 3561) offers grants and technical assistance for
communities to use green roofs, rain gardens and other sustainable
approaches that naturally capture and clean the rainwater – often
preventing the water from ever entering the sewer system.

“Green infrastructure techniques can save cities millions of dollars
each year on water management and billions of dollars in infrastructure
upgrades. In addition, these natural systems actually remove pollutants
from the water while helping clean the air, reduce the urban heat-island
effect and lower energy consumption,” said ASLA Executive Vice President
and CEO, Nancy Somerville, Hon. ASLA. “We applaud the leadership of
Senator Udall for this legislation, and encourage swift action.”

The legislation would create between three and five centers around the
country to research best green infrastructure practices and provide
technical assistance to communities. S 3561 also provides community
grants to implement these practices and create a green infrastructure
program within the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

ORANGE, Calif. — Village Nurseries’ CEO David House will be the featured interview for
the monthly Garden Center Professionals Roundtable on Wednesday, July
14, 2010 at 2:00am Eastern/11:00am Pacific. The roundtable theme is
“Wholesale Green Grower Giant Fights Economic Challenges: Ideas That
Will Make You Stay in the Ring.”

Mr. House will offer his unique perspective as president and CEO of
Village Nurseries, a California-based, 700-acre wholesale grower that
supplies container-grown trees and shrubs to landscapers and retailers
throughout most of the country. With 30 years of industry experience, he
will share his thoughts and insights about sales, marketing, quality
control and inventory planning. He will also explain how Village
Nurseries continues to build its business by forging new relationships,
staying involved in trade associations, increasing marketing efforts and
developing a long range focus.

The Garden Center Professionals Roundtable is a live call-in show hosted
by Anne Obarski, president of Merchandise Concepts and sponsored by Garden
Center Magazine and the California Association of Nurseries and
Garden Centers (CANGC). Each month, top names in the garden center
industry are interviewed. These CEOs and high-profile consultants
routinely share their insider knowledge and advice providing new that
help garden centers survive in a tough economy. These ideas include the
importance of diversifying sales regions and channels of distribution as
well as developing new strategic alliances.

About CANGC

Bank of America Presence at Aspen Ideas Festival Ignites Dialogue on
Fostering Opportunity Amid New Global Economic Landscape

NEW YORK — U.S. Trust is proud to continue its underwriting of the Aspen Ideas
Festival to promote discourse on the drivers of economic recovery and
how to harness the new opportunities the recovery presents. Plenary
sessions and idea exchanges underwritten by U.S. Trust will address the
history of innovation within the financial industry, investment
confidence during the economic recession, and the intersection between
businesses, governments and nonprofits in enabling economic growth.

“Our mission, within U.S. Trust and across Bank of America, is to enable
opportunity for each customer, each institution and each community with
whom we work,” said Anne Finucane, Global Strategy and Marketing
officer, Bank of America Corporation. “We are looking forward to
contributing to the dialogue at the Aspen Ideas Festival on how to
create the conditions for economic opportunity by addressing some of the
most critical issues of our time, including the recovery of our
financial system, the sustainability of our economy and the vitality of
our communities.”

Several senior executives from U.S. Trust and Bank of America will
participate in expert panels and events focused on many of today’s most
challenging financial and economic issues, such as:

Mulch Fairfax

Funds Earmarked to “.Encourage Cutting Edge and Innovative
Biomedical Exploration”

RUTHERFORD, Calif. — The International Mental Health Research Organization (IMHRO) today
announced a collaboration with the Johnson Johnson Corporate Office of
Science and Technology (COSAT). Under the terms of this collaboration,
COSAT will provide a $250,000 grant towards the funding of IMHROs
Rising Star Awards. COSATs grant will be matched by IMHRO to establish
the COSAT-IMHRO Rising Star Awards Program, which, in 2010, will fund
two Rising Star Awards.

The objective of the COSAT-IMHRO Rising Star Awards Program is to
advance the understanding of underlying disease mechanisms in bipolar
disorder, schizophrenia and major depression with the great potential to
benefit patients and the healthcare system. The IMHRO Rising Star Awards
support cutting edge research programs throughout the world on the study
of psychiatric brain disorders, and are distributed annually at the
Staglin Family Music Festival For Mental Health, held this year in
September in Rutherford, Napa Valley, California.

“Our approach at IMHRO is to fund the best science as determined by our
independent scientific advisory board,” stated Garen Staglin, co-founder
of IMHRO, and proprietor of Staglin Family Vineyard. “This collaboration
will fund research of key scientists and will bring us closer than ever
to helping find the causes and cures for mental illness.”

The COSAT-IMHRO Rising Star Awards Program is intended to advance the
translation of discoveries from basic science research into therapies
for major psychiatric diseases. Understanding the mechanism of action
and the role in the brain of genes that are altered in psychiatric
disease supplies the first clue as to how these disorders arise. This
grant program fosters the next steps toward discovering therapies
through research into approaches that re-normalize or compensate for the
alterations that have already been discovered.

Positions Merck to Capitalize on Opportunities for Global Growth

WHITEHOUSE STATION, N.J. — Merck Co., Inc. (NYSE: MRK), known outside the U.S. and Canada as MSD,
today provided further detail on integration plans for the companys
research and development, manufacturing and other business operations as
part of a global restructuring program announced following the November
2009 merger of Merck and Schering-Plough. The consolidation plans
support Mercks strategic direction as a customer focused, innovative
and diversified global health care company, and position the company to
invest in key areas for future growth, including emerging markets,
biologics, vaccines and consumer care.

Merck today announced plans to phase out operations at eight research
sites and eight manufacturing sites, as well as to continue to
consolidate office facilities worldwide, as part of the global merger
restructuring program that began last December. The goal of the
restructuring is to create a flexible RD organization that cultivates
scientific innovation, facilitates external collaboration and drives
pipeline progress and a reliable, more fully utilized and cost efficient
worldwide manufacturing supply chain to support Mercks broader product
portfolio.

Merck continues to expect its total workforce to be reduced by
approximately 15 percent across all areas of the combined company
worldwide as part of the initial phases of its merger restructuring
program. The company said it will continue to hire new employees in
strategic growth areas of the business as necessary.

“Today’s announcement is another important step as we successfully
integrate our global operations on schedule and move forward with
Mercks strategic priorities,” said Richard T. Clark, chairman and chief
executive officer of Merck. “These changes are crucial to drive future
growth and realize the promise of being a global health care leader for
the long term. While we believe these actions are necessary to support
Mercks competitive advantage, they required difficult decisions that
will impact some of our colleagues, their families and local
communities. We will implement our restructuring plans with the utmost
care and respect for the hard-working and talented employees of Merck,”
he said.

Funeral Programs

CINCINNATI — Macy’s, Inc. (NYSE: M) today reported total sales of $2.229 billion for
the five weeks ended July 3, 2010, an increase of 9.0 percent compared
with total sales of $2.044 billion in the five weeks ended July 4, 2009.
On a same-store basis, Macy’s, Inc. sales were up 6.5 percent in June.

“We are pleased with our sales in June. They reflect continued progress
in implementation of our strategies, particularly My Macy’s localization
and the increased effectiveness and efficiency of our unified national
organization. We remain on track in our drive for sales and market share
growth, improved earnings and strong cash flow,” said Terry J. Lundgren,
chairman, president and chief executive officer of Macy’s, Inc. “While
various calendar shifts complicate month-by-month sales comparisons, it
is important to note that Macy’s, Inc.’s same-store sales in May/June
combined, plus the Sunday and Monday of Independence Day weekend, were
up approximately 5 percent over the prior year. This is consistent with
our year-to-date trend. We are optimistic as we look ahead to our fall
merchandise offerings, including the early August introduction of the
new Material Girl juniors brand exclusively at Macy’s.”

For the year to date, Macy’s, Inc.’s sales totaled $9.589 billion, up
6.7 percent from total sales of $8.987 billion in the first 22 weeks of
2009. On a same-store basis, Macy’s, Inc.’s year-to-date sales were up
4.9 percent.

Online sales (macys.com and bloomingdales.com combined) were up 37.6
percent in June 2010 and 32.5 percent for the year to date. Online sales
are included in the same-store sales calculation for Macys, Inc.

Macy’s, Inc. expects same-store sales for the second quarter of 2010 to
be approximately 4.5% ahead of last year. The company also continues to
expect same-store sales in the full-year 2010 to be up by 3 percent to
3.5 percent.

Dayforce’s On-Demand Solution Offers Companies an Immediate
Improvement in Operational Efficiency

“Bridgescale Partners’ investment is further validation of Dayforce’s
position as the industry leader in Workforce Management,” said David
Ossip, CEO and President of Dayforce. “Our solution gives every decision
maker in an organization the insight to understand corporate goals, the
confidence to measurably improve business performance, and the power to
make their company more profitable.”

“Dayforce has the first solution that I have seen that delivers the
potential for full enterprise user adoption – the ‘holy grail’ for
getting value from a SaaS product. With Dayforce, workforce management
moves from something I have to do to something that I want to do – and
this makes the offering truly disruptive,” said Howard Gwin, Partner of
Bridgescale and former EVP, Worldwide Operations at PeopleSoft.
“Additionally, as a three-time repeat successful entrepreneur, David
Ossip’s exceptional track record of building and leading high-growth
companies was a strong factor in our investment decision,” Gwin added.

Premier BPO, Inc. today has announced that they have entered into an agreement with JT Healthcare Services, LLC for the purposes of establishing a Chinese based Joint Venture to provide back office billing and data management services. This Joint Venture is expected to support JT Healthcare Services, LLCs planned revenue cycle management business in service to U.S. Hospitals.

Premier BPO, Inc. is a leading provider of BPO and KPO services to North American and European Companies. From its headquarters in Clarksville, Tennessee, Premier BPO delivers its services to the worlds best companies from multiple geographies including China, The Philippines and Pakistan. Premier lowers the cost and improves the quality of a clients back office operations. Premier was founded in 2003 by an industry savvy team of Senior executives, with over 125 years direct combined experience in the outsourcing and off shoring industry who have implemented hundreds of programs, covering thousands of highly educated, deeply skilled agents, in multiple countries across the globe.

Premier has created a strategic relationship with the Chinese government to provide training and facility cost deferrals, building a “center of excellence” specifically dedicated to Medical Billing in Kunshan, China, approximately 45 kilometers from Shanghai, and has access to an extremely large, highly educated work force in the Jiangsu Province which has 115 Colleges and Universities supplying hundreds of thousands of English literate graduates.

JT Healthcare Services, LLC is positioned to be a leading provider of full revenue cycle outsourcing (RCO) services to healthcare providers through aggressive organic and acquisitive growth. Their founding management team consists of seasoned executives that pioneered the industry and built successful RCO businesses with integrated technology offerings. Through this joint venture with Premier BPO, JT Healthcare will leverage a BPO model using scale and automation to elevate service levels while lowering costs and increasing profit margins for hospitals and physician groups in this $50B revenue cycle processing market with huge untapped scale opportunities. Most revenue cycle processing is still performed in-house at hospitals with inefficient and sub-scale back-office operations suffering from economic and governmental pressure to reduce costs and focus on clinical operations.

The partnership created by Premier and JT Healthcare Services will provide end-to-end RCO services which will provide the perfect solution for this crippling drain on health care providers.

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