Business Wire News Reports For Nevada 10/21/2008 thru 10/28/2008

Business Wire

October 27, 2008 06:49 PM Eastern Daylight Time

Mondrian in South Beach Opens in December with Special Introductory Rate

MIAMI--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Morgans Hotel Group Co. (NASDAQ:MHGC), the groundbreaking innovator that introduced the world to iconic brands such as Delano in South Beach, Royalton in New York City and Sanderson in London, is set to unveil Mondrian in South Beach, with the first reservations set for December 1. With over 80 percent of the property sold, limited ownership opportunities at the first Morgans property to offer private sales are still available. Though if the economy is only allowing you to call it home for a night or two, Morgans is offering an introductory rate on hotel stays, starting from $195 in limited supply through February 28, 2009.

Inspired by its LA namesake – known for cutting-edge design and glamorous nightlife personified by the original Skybar – South Beach is the latest in an exclusive collection of cities, including Scottsdale, that welcomes the Mondrian brand. Mondrian marks the first hotel outside of the Netherlands designed by Marcel Wanders, one of Fast Company’s 2008 “Masters of Design.” Conceived by the famed visionary as “Sleeping Beauty’s castle,” residents and guests will truly live within a modern fantasy. Wanders inverts traditional design elements to create chic, dramatic living spaces. He will furnish the hotel residences with original pieces from his design studio, where he produces everything from lighting to flooring, including chairs, tables and sofas. Exteriors will offer entry to a magical world, including an oasis of lush gardens that include a glamorous outdoor bar, private cabanas created with curtains of living foliage, and even a tented children’s space with a sandbox and toys. While Delano’s signature Water Salon became an international destination, Mondrian will raise the bar for poolside decadence with Wanders’ fantastical designs. Also envisioned by Wanders, the hotel will feature Morgan’s world-renowned agua spa, debuting an exclusive skincare line and several new treatments. Jeffrey Chodorow also presents the latest Asia de Cuba restaurant, bringing a vibrant, social atmosphere with innovative menus that incorporate the best of Asian and Latin cuisines.

Located at 1100 West Avenue, Mondrian offers ownership in a waterfront property with private, VIP boat access to Biscayne Bay and breathtaking views of downtown Miami. In this signature trendsetting move, Mondrian will pioneer West Avenue, creating a posh new landmark on Biscayne Bay, complete with Morgan’s distinctive lodging, dining and nightlife experiences. Mondrian invites sophisticated revelers to enjoy a destination that truly embodies Morgan’s “Modern Resort” concept, bringing the best of both worlds into perfect balance. The property features 335 hotel residences of studios, one-and two-bedroom residences, and four tower suites priced from $500,000 to $6 million. For sales inquiries, please call the Mondrian sales center at 305.672.2662. For hotel reservations please call 800.606.6090 or visit www.morganshotelgroup.com.

About Morgans Hotel Group

Morgans Hotel Group Co. (NASDAQ:MHGC) operates and owns, or has an ownership interest in, Morgans, Royalton and Hudson in New York, Delano and The Shore Club in Miami, Mondrian in Los Angeles and Scottsdale, Clift in San Francisco, and Sanderson and St Martins Lane in London. MHG and an equity partner also own the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas and related assets. MHG has other property transactions in various stages of completion, including projects in Miami Beach, Florida; Chicago, Illinois; SoHo, New York; Las Vegas, Nevada; Palm Springs, California; Boston, Massachusetts; and Dubai, UAE.

For media inquiries or images please contact: Zakarin Public Relations at 305.372.2502 or email destiny@zakarinpr.com

Business Wire

October 27, 2008 06:12 PM Eastern Daylight Time

OOPS -- Deleted the Photos Off Your Camera? Get Undelete 2009!

MUMBAI, India--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Diskeeper Corporation's newly released Undelete® 2009 software now instantly recovers digital photos accidentally deleted off cameras or PC hard drives.

"Not only was I able to recover photos that I purposely deleted for test purposes, but Undelete 2009 found images on my camera that I had deleted four months ago. This was way before I even had the software installed." --Michele McDonough, Reno, Nevada

Undelete 2009 replaces the Windows® recycle bin with a powerful Recovery Bin, capturing all digital photos accidentally deleted off the hard drive. Further, anyone with a digital camera is familiar with these two options: "Delete Photo" and "Delete All Photos." Suppose you hit the latter by accident? Undelete 2009 can recover even those photos from the camera's drive itself.

Undelete's features extend far beyond digital photography. One can recover any data accidentally deleted off a PC--including earlier "saved over" versions of Microsoft Word®, Excel® and PowerPoint® files. Just right-click the file and select "View Versions" to restore the file you want. You can also preview the files before recovery to help find the right one. Far easier than going to back up--and faster too.

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© 2008 Diskeeper Corporation. All Rights Reserved.

Business Wire

October 27, 2008 04:25 PM Eastern Daylight Time

Shelby Autos Names Sean Hyland Motorsport as First International Authorized Mod Shop

LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Shelby Automobiles, Inc. named Sean Hyland Motorsport as the first authorized Shelby mod shop outside of the U.S. to build high performance versions of current generation Shelby and Ford Mustangs for enthusiasts across Canada. SHM will begin building factory authorized post-title Shelby Mustangs at their facility in Woodstock, Ontario, Canada in late November.

“The demand for Shelby performance has grown significantly over the past three years,” said Gary Davis, vice president of production at Shelby Automobiles. “So we’re teaming with top companies like SHM who share our passion for performance and high standards to satisfy that demand. Sean Hyland’s tremendous experience engineering parts for SN197 Mustangs compliments our philosophy of offering even more power, better braking and upgraded suspensions. Working together, we’ll broaden our portfolio of balanced performance parts for American customers, as well as provide access to Shelby post title packages for Canadian enthusiasts.”

SHM will also enhance Mustangs with authentic Shelby Performance Parts. Individual components will include upgraded brakes, superchargers, suspension components and cosmetic pieces such as hoods and fascias exclusively designed at Shelby Automobiles. Chris Pessinis, director of Shelby Mod Shop Operations, will be involved in helping the Mod Shop meet Carroll Shelby’s personal expectations for quality and delivery.

“Everyone at SHM is very excited to be a part of the Shelby Autos team,” added Sean Hyland, president and owner of Sean Hyland Motorsport. “Our company has been a dominate player in the modular engine business for over 20 years. We operate from a 22,000 square foot facility that offers every in-house service from upholstery and painting to engineering and Dynos. We’re very pleased that we’ll be able to offer enthusiasts throughout Canada a piece of the Shelby dream.”

Sean has been involved motorsports for over 30 years. He founded Sean Hyland Motorsport in 1988 and is actively involved in working with competition cars and engines; he even developed new parts for the 4.6L. Sean and his staff are responsible for creating the acclaimed SHM race block and building the 400 hp naturally aspirated engine package for the MG in the United Kingdom.

Shelby and SHM are also working together to create a powerful line of 4.6 and 5.4L modular engines. Branded with the Shelby logo, there will be five engine options including a 4.6L 3-valve cast aluminum block that will crank out 600hp for ‘05 – ‘09 Mustang GTs, as well as a Shelby GT500 5.4 liter high output long block capable of 950hp. In addition to the engines, Shelby and SHM will also offer Shelby branded front and rear suspensions as well as a Shelby GT500 Power Pack. The engines, suspensions and power packs will be available soon from Shelby Automobiles.

Business Wire

October 27, 2008 03:03 PM Eastern Daylight Time

Pendleton Gets Taste of What Might Have Been: Horizon Air Q400s Arrive, But for 5 Weeks Only

SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Starting tomorrow, Oct. 28, Horizon Air will begin flying direct flights from Pendleton to Seattle with 76-seat Q400s, upgrading from the 37-seat Q200s it previously flew to Portland. Horizon’s service goes away after Dec. 1, the result of a decision by the Pendleton city council and airport manager to instead endorse a bid for nine-seat, single-engine aircraft flights to Portland.

But, for about five weeks, Pendleton air travelers will experience a major improvement to their air service, providing a taste of what they might have enjoyed locally for at least the next two years if one of Horizon’s three proposed bids had been selected. After Dec. 1, however, these improvements will be available only to those who take a short drive to catch the airline’s Seattle-bound Q400 flights from nearby airports at Walla Walla or Pasco, Wash.

The Q400 is a high-speed, twin-engine turboprop that’s considered state of the art in its class. Among the Q400’s advanced avionics is a navigational feature that allows Horizon’s highly experienced pilots to land the Q400 in some of the foggiest conditions found in the Northwest. The Q400 is also among the most environmentally friendly aircraft today, burning 30 percent less fuel and producing 30 percent lower emissions than comparable jets.

Inside, the Q400 is as quiet and comfortable as a jet. It features generously sized overhead storage bins, unobstructed under-seat space, ample headroom (6 feet, 5 inches), and a lavatory. And it’s large enough to accommodate special needs customers, such as those in wheelchairs. On Horizon’s flights, two flight attendants serve complimentary Starbucks coffee and Northwest wines and microbrews.

For connecting Pendleton passengers, there will be even more conveniences lost after Dec. 1.

SeaPort Airlines’ single-engine aircraft flights to Portland will arrive at a general aviation facility away from the airport’s main terminal. Customers making flight connections will need to buy separate tickets. Towing their own baggage, they’ll need to walk or wait for a shuttle bus to get to the main terminal. There, they’ll have to check themselves and their baggage in again and then clear security and find their connecting flight.

In contrast, Horizon customers making connections to other flights in Seattle check in only once and have their baggage automatically transferred for them to their final destination. Instead of having to buy two separate tickets -- one for their flight from Pendleton and another for their connecting flight -- passengers on Horizon purchase one ticket for their entire trip, making the cost for that connecting flight from Pendleton as low as $70 each way. On Horizon, travelers also have the peace of mind of knowing all fellow passengers and their luggage are screened by the Transportation Security Administration (TSA).

Horizon’s fleet serves 47 cities throughout Arizona, California, Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Baja California Sur (Mexico), and British Columbia and Alberta (Canada). Together, Horizon Air and Alaska Airlines serve 90 cities and are subsidiaries of Alaska Air Group, Inc. (NYSE:ALK).

Business Wire

October 27, 2008 01:01 PM Eastern Daylight Time

OCRegister.com/realestate Names Foreclosure Trackers, Inc. as Key Provider of Local Home Foreclosures and Listings Data

SANTA ANA & HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--As Orange County foreclosure activity reaches record levels, Orange County Register Communications and Foreclosure Trackers, Inc. today announced a new service at OCRegister.com/realestate to obtain the most complete and up-to-date foreclosure property listings in Orange County.

OCRegister.com/realestate visitors now have direct access to Foreclosure Trackers’ robust platform of foreclosure listings, which, unlike those of traditional foreclosure data publishers, are processed to ensure that the foreclosure data is accurate. Each of Foreclosure Trackers’ property listing profiles contains the information needed to expedite a timely investment decision, which may include: an actual photograph of the property from an appraiser, showing address verification and neighborhood; County Assessor information, such as number of bedrooms and bathrooms, square footage, lot size, and parcel number; transactional data; 20 recent comps--including distressed property data--and a valuation range.

“By increasing the quality and quantity of foreclosure listings to our aggregated MLS, new home and rental listings, we provide an even richer experience for our users and the largest inventory of home listings available to Orange County residents,” explained Gary Tackett, director of real estate advertising at Orange County Register Communications. “By using the Foreclosure Trackers tool, Orange County Register readers save valuable time and avoid an otherwise frustrating experience of researching incomplete or outdated foreclosure information.”

The partnership will provide OCRegister.com/realestate users with a 7-day free trial, which includes access to approximately 100,000 foreclosure and REO listings in Orange, Los Angeles, Riverside, San Bernardino, San Diego, and Ventura counties--as well as Nevada listings for Clark County (Las Vegas). The cost of a full monthly membership is $79.

“By using Foreclosure Trackers’ wide-ranging investment tools, current and potential investors interested in buying foreclosure properties can make smart investment decisions in a matter of minutes as opposed to days or weeks,” says Robert Lee, CEO and co-founder of Foreclosure Trackers. “This partnership with the Orange County Register expands our reach and will enable more people than ever to experience the unique advantages of Foreclosure Trackers’ services.”

In addition to Southern California and Nevada data, ForeclosureTrackers.com is rapidly expanding its foreclosure data nationwide.

About Orange County Register Communications, Inc.:

Orange County Register Communications, Inc. of Santa Ana, Calif., is publisher of The Orange County Register, a three-time, Pulitzer Prize-winning newspaper and the area’s most trusted source of news and information since 1905. The company also publishes 23 community newspapers and Spanish-language Excélsior. Web sites include OCRegister.com, OCExcelsior.com, OCRegister.com/monster, OCRegister.com/realestate, and OCRegister.com/cars. Magazines include Coast, Coast kids, Preferred Destinations and several publications supporting the performing arts. Orange County Register Communications also offers a full spectrum of custom printing services, insert and direct mail advertising vehicles.

About Foreclosure Trackers, Inc.:

Foreclosure Trackers, Inc., headquartered in Huntington Beach, California, provides one-stop foreclosure resources to investors of all skill levels, providing timely and accurate data and the knowledge and education necessary to succeed when investing in foreclosure properties. Its dedicated corporate team, which is comprised of active real estate investors, title and escrow officers, abstractors and real estate attorneys, work to ensure that all foreclosure data is up-to-date and delivered in days--not weeks. Novice and experienced real estate investors alike appreciate Foreclosure Trackers’ easy-to-use system that provides the necessary education to demystify both the foreclosure and note investing process.

To learn more about Foreclosure Trackers, Inc., its products, services, and free seminars, visit FTI online at www.foreclosuretrackers.com.

Business Wire

October 27, 2008 12:22 PM Eastern Daylight Time

Wells Fargo Global Broker Network Appoints London’s FirstCity as Newest Member

LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Wells Fargo Global Broker Network announces the appointment of FirstCity Partnership Limited (FirstCity) as its newest member and specialist London Wholesale Broker. Headquartered in London, FirstCity is a privately owned insurance and reinsurance advisory firm specializing in the financial and professional services sectors.

Commenting on the appointment, Grahame Weatherley, Director and Chief Operating officer of the Wells Fargo Global Broker Network said, “As the world’s largest network of independent brokers, we must offer the widest range of market-leading resources and capabilities to our customers. Given the importance of the London market, having the foremost London brokers as part of our global team is a major part of this commitment. FirstCity is widely regarded as a leading independent broker in their field and we are extremely happy to welcome them into our Network.”

Tim Watkins, Deputy Chairman of FirstCity, said, “"We are delighted to have been appointed the specialist London Wholesale Broker to the WFGBN and to have the opportunity to support their growing international client base. This appointment recognizes and endorses the important role of specialist brokers in the London market and having access to the talents and knowledge of network members around the world will allow us to better serve our own multi-national clients.”

The Well Fargo Global Broker Network consists of more than 10,000 insurance and risk management professionals serving customers from 330 offices across 70 countries - with the capability and resources to provide insurance brokerage services in 115 countries around the world. Collectively, the network produces revenues in excess of US $1.8 billion, making it one of the largest organizations of its type. For additional information, please visit www.wfgbn.wellsfargo.com.

FirstCity Partnership Limited is a leading independent insurance and reinsurance advisory firm specializing in the financial and professional services sectors. Established through the management buyout of the financial and professional services business from a predecessor Lloyd’s broker in 1993, the company traces its heritage back to 1926. For more information, visit www.firstcity.com.

Business Wire

October 27, 2008 11:34 AM Eastern Daylight Time

LiveDeal’s Board of Directors Authorizes the Repurchase of Additional Shares

Completes Prior Authorized Stock Buyback Program

SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--LiveDeal, Inc. (NASDAQ: LIVE), the company that combines an owned classified platform with an Internet Yellow Pages directory and best-of-breed customer acquisition services for small businesses, announced today that its Board of Directors has authorized the repurchase of up to an additional $500,000 in shares of its common stock.

The Company also reported that it has completed its prior stock repurchase plan pursuant to the Board’s May 25, 2007, authorization to repurchase $1,000,000 in shares. Since the implementation of the plan, the Company has repurchased a total of 465,824 shares of its common stock, and reflecting all purchases to date, LiveDeal, Inc. presently has approximately 6.18 million shares of common stock outstanding.

“The decision to extend the stock repurchase program reflects the confidence of both management and the board in the strength of the company and its future prospects,” said Mike Edelhart, Chief Executive Officer of LiveDeal, Inc. “We believe that the purchase of our shares has and will increase shareholder value.”

Under the board-approved repurchase program, share purchases may be made from time to time in the open market or through privately negotiated transactions depending on market conditions, share price, trading volume and other factors, and such purchases, if any, will be made in accordance with applicable insider trading and other securities laws and regulations. These repurchases may be commenced or suspended at any time or from time to time without prior notice.

About LiveDeal, Inc.

LiveDeal, Inc. is a leader in the local online classifieds and Yellow Pages marketplace, with millions of goods and services listed for sale in every city and zip code across the U.S. Through its online properties, www.livedeal.com and www.yp.com , LiveDeal offers businesses and consumers a simple and affordable way of creating a web presence and marketing their products and services to local audiences. Buyers and sellers come together through LiveDeal’s vast local marketplaces to find and list business services, merchandise, real estate, automobiles and pets. LiveDeal also provides local online marketing solutions for small- and medium-sized businesses. LiveDeal seeks to deliver local search engine marketing (SEM) through its LiveAdvisor™ and LiveClicks™ products that combine best-of-breed technology with a strong partnership model and an inside sales team to create an efficient platform local businesses need to create and optimize their Internet search advertising campaigns. LiveDeal allows business to extend their marketing reach their relevant customers on the Internet through partnerships with Google, Yahoo!, Miva, Looksmart, Superpages.com and others. LiveDeal, Inc. is headquartered in Las Vegas, Nevada. For more information, please visit www.livedeal.com.

Business Wire

October 27, 2008 11:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time

Jean Sloan Promoted at Great Basin Bank of Nevada

ELKO, Nev.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Terry R. Sullivan, Chairman of the Board and President/Chief Executive Officer for Great Basin Bank, announced the promotion of Jean Sloan to Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Sullivan said, “We are very pleased to promote from within our dedicated and knowledgeable staff at Great Basin Bank. The promotion was brought on to recognize her expertise in the banking industry, and her extensive experience and excellent skills in our industry have helped develop Great Basin Bank of Nevada to become the 'Premier Independent Community Bank in Northern Nevada.'”

Sloan joined the staff of Great Basin Bank in 1994, serving in several positions including Financial Control Specialist, Financial Officer, Controller, Assistant Vice President Controller, Vice President/Controller, and Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Sloan also serves as the Secretary of the Board of Great Basin Financial Corporation (OTCBB: GBFL). Sloan describes her job “Outstanding,” and she comments, “It is a pleasure to work at Great Basin Bank and a pleasure to serve our local community.”

Sloan has over 30 years in business administration including serving as Office Manager of the Great Basin College, formerly known as Northeastern Nevada Community College Foundation, for several years before joining the bank’s staff. She has earned three associate degrees in Science, Arts, and an Applied Science in Business from Great Basin College. She earned her Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration with a minor in finance from the University of Nevada Reno. She received her Master's in Business Administration with Beta Gamma Sigma honors from the University of Nevada Reno in 1999. She graduated from Pacific Coast Banking School with her graduate degree in banking in 2004. Sloan is an active member in the Elko Desert Sunrise Rotary Club.

Great Basin Bank of Nevada is a FDIC insured and an equal opportunity lender. Its parent company, Great Basin Financial Corporation, is listed over the OTC BB market at ticker symbol GBFL. More information on Great Basin Bank of Nevada can be found at www.greatbasinbank.com.

This press release contains forward-looking statements relating to operations, product features and benefits, market penetration and market strategies. Such statements are made based on management’s beliefs as well as assumptions made by, and information currently available to, management, pursuant to “safe harbor” provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. While these statements reflect our best judgment, they are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause a change in focus and direction.

Business Wire

October 27, 2008 09:15 AM Eastern Daylight Time

Lumigent Welcomes AMERICAN SYSTEMS to AppGRC Era

Customer Relies on AppGRC to Reduce Costs of Meeting GRC Requirements by Automating Manual Processes for Deltek Costpoint

IBM Information On Demand 2008

Booth 29

LAS VEGAS & ACTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Lumigent Technologies, Inc., the first to market with GRC business control applications, today announced that AMERICAN SYSTEMS has joined the ranks of Lumigent customers using its flagship product, AppGRC™, to automate manual governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) processes. AppGRC is the industry’s first application GRC control suite for business applications, and AMERICAN SYSTEMS has deployed AppGRC for Deltek Costpoint, realizing substantial reductions in the cost of meeting GRC requirements for their primary business applications.

“Companies of all sizes are facing the same business challenges when it comes to GRC,” said Tom Stiling, EVP and chief revenue officer of Lumigent. “People have been manually performing audits and other GRC procedures for Deltek Costpoint, Lawson, PeopleSoft and Oracle Financials, and other business applications. In turn, they have paid a high price in both time and money managing their various governmental compliance programs while missing out on opportunities to increase profitability. AppGRC provides the continuous control applications that automate GRC processes to drive down costs, minimize risks, and improve efficiencies.”

Lumigent is debuting AppGRC at IBM Information On Demand 2008 running October 26–31, 2008, at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas. The company is exhibiting in booth 29.

Adopting AppGRC

At AMERICAN SYSTEMS, a government and commercial IT solutions provider and one of the top 100 employee-owned companies in the U.S., internal auditors were requiring easier visibility into the audit trail than Deltek Costpoint could provide on its own. Deltek Costpoint is the system of record and provides all of the data necessary to produce the automated compliance reporting provided by Lumigent’s AppGRC. In particular, the company needed to track application user changes to the source data level, for both SOX compliance and internal controls, and they needed it done at a lower cost. Meanwhile, their compliance team was outgrowing internally developed, trigger-based approaches to collecting and analyzing audit data. They needed an automated compliance application to drive down their costs for compliance.

Besides running into well-known challenges of using manual methods and scripts, AMERICAN SYSTEMS had difficulty associating the collected data with their business processes and rules, monitoring controls across multiple systems, scaling up, securing the audit data, analyzing it for alerts and other irregularities, and creating reports to meet individual requirements from their various internal and external auditors. Lumigent, working in cooperation with Deltek, supplies an answer to that issue – AppGRC for Deltek Costpoint, an automated compliance reporting system tailored to Deltek Costpoint users.

Brian Neely, CIO of AMERICAN SYSTEMS, said, “Obtaining the required audit data from our financial system was a difficult, if not impossible, task. After deploying Lumigent AppGRC, we feel confident that we can address our most pressing data monitoring, reporting, and alerting needs. In addition, AppGRC gives us the flexibility to handle the ever-changing data compliance and governance issues that we continuously face in our closely watched industry.”

After evaluating several GRC solutions, AMERICAN SYSTEMS chose AppGRC for Deltek Costpoint to provide the complementary monitoring, auditing, and compliance functions for Deltek Costpoint. Key to the company’s Lumigent installation is AppGRC’s application-user-auditing (AUA) feature, which ties specific data changes in Costpoint to a unique Costpoint user ID.

“With Deltek’s Costpoint and Lumigent AppGRC, your business is ready for any government or SOX audit. Lumigent AppGRC for Costpoint is delivered with out-of-the-box reports to reduce the cost of regulatory compliance,” said Tricia Remacle, Deltek vice president of Costpoint Product Management. “AppGRC’s application baseline reports can save business users hundreds if not thousands of hours performing costly controls tests. No other GRC vendor provides this level of integrated, application GRC controls for business applications.”

For more information on Lumigent, please visit www.lumigent.com.

Recent News and Resources

News release: Lumigent Debuts Application GRC to Offset the High Cost of Business Compliance; http://www.lumigent.com/news_events/press_releases.html?newsid=204

News release: Lumigent Launches AppGRC Suite; http://www.lumigent.com/news_events/press_releases.html?newsid=205

Market Brief: Application GRC: The Rise of Automated Business Compliance; http://www.lumigent.com/Lumigent_Market%20Brief_081010_pre%20final.pdf

About Lumigent

Lumigent helps CFOs, CIOs, controllers, and other business executives reduce the cost of meeting Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) requirements for their primary business applications. Organizations worldwide use Lumigent’s AppGRC™ software solutions in some of the most heavily regulated industries, including financial services, healthcare, manufacturing, and government. Lumigent improves operational efficiencies and mitigates business and financial risk by providing complete visibility into application data activity and automating application-aware controls to maintain the integrity of critical business information. For more information, please visit www.lumigent.com.

Lumigent, the Lumigent logo, and AppGRC are trademarks or registered trademarks of Lumigent Technologies, Inc. Other product and company names are property of their respective owners.

Business Wire

October 27, 2008 09:10 AM Eastern Daylight Time

White River Capital, Inc. Announces Share Repurchase Program

INDIANAPOLIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--White River Capital, Inc. (NYSE Alternext US: RVR) ("White River") today announced that its Board of Directors approved a program to repurchase, from time to time and subject to market conditions, up to 150,000 shares of White River’s outstanding common stock, without par value, on the open market or in privately negotiated transactions. Repurchases are authorized to begin on the third business day following the filing, with the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”), of the Form S-4 registration statement relating to White River’s previously announced merger transaction with First Chicago Bancorp. The repurchase program will end on the day prior to the closing date of the merger transaction.

"White River remains committed to providing value for our shareholders," said Mark Ruh, White River’s President and Chief Operating Officer. He further added, "We believe that at current price levels, White River’s shares are an attractive investment and our repurchase program reflects our continuing confidence in White River’s financial strength. We have maintained the flexibility to invest in our current business with our strong balance sheet, high profitability and significant free cash flow."

The number of shares authorized to be repurchased under the program represent approximately 3.9% of White River’s common stock outstanding as of June 30, 2008 as reported on White River's most recent Form 10-Q filed with the SEC.

ABOUT WHITE RIVER, COASTAL CREDIT AND UAC

Founded in 2004, White River is the holding company for Coastal Credit LLC and Union Acceptance Company LLC.

Coastal Credit LLC is a specialized auto finance company, headquartered in Virginia Beach, Virginia, engaged in acquiring sub-prime auto receivables from both franchised and independent automobile dealers which have entered into contracts with purchasers of typically used, but some new, cars and light trucks. Coastal Credit then services the receivables it acquires. Coastal Credit commenced operations in Virginia in 1987 and conducts business in 20 states – Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, Nevada, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia and Washington – through its 17 branch locations. The Coastal Credit receivables portfolio, net of unearned finance charges, was $98.9 million at June 30, 2008.

Union Acceptance Company LLC is a specialized auto finance company, based in Indianapolis, Indiana, which holds and oversees its portfolio of $4.2 million in non-prime auto receivables, as of June 30, 2008.

The above mentioned repurchase program does not guarantee that any shares authorized for repurchase will be repurchased at or above the market price on the date of authorization, or that such repurchase will occur to the full extent authorized, or that the repurchase of any shares will result. Among other things, the authorized repurchases may be subject to restrictions pursuant to applicable law and rules and regulations of the SEC concerning the timing, method and amount of share repurchases. The authorized repurchases also may be subject to delay, periodic interruptions or cancellation if necessary to comply with insider trading laws and other securities-offering related restrictions under applicable securities laws.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION AND WHERE TO FIND IT

White River will file a registration statement on Form S-4 with the SEC in connection with the proposed merger transaction with First Chicago Bancorp (“First Chicago”). The registration statement will include a joint proxy statement of White River and First Chicago that also constitutes a prospectus of White River, which will be sent to the shareholders of First Chicago. We urge shareholders to read the joint proxy statement/prospectus when it becomes available because it will contain important information about White River, First Chicago, and the proposed merger transaction. When filed, this document and other documents relating to the merger filed by White River and First Chicago can be obtained free of charge from the SEC’s website at www.sec.gov. This site includes financial highlights, stock information, public filings with the SEC, and corporate governance documents. The SEC public filings available for review include but are not limited to:

White River’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2007,
its Proxy Statement on Schedule 14A dated April 10, 2008, and
its Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q for the quarters ended March 31 and June 30, 2008.
These documents and additional information about White River also are available at White River’s web site located at: www.WhiteRiverCap.com, and information about First Chicago is available at www.FirstChicago.com. Alternatively, these documents, when available, can be obtained free of charge from White River upon written request to:

White River Capital, Inc.
Mark R. Ruh
President and Chief Operating Officer
1445 Brookville Way, Suite I
Indianapolis, IN 46239
or by calling (317) 806-2166 x6468
or from First Chicago upon written request to:

First Chicago Bancorp
J. Christopher Alstrin
Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
1145 N. Arlington Heights Road
Itasca, IL 60143
or by calling (630) 250-9500

PARTICIPANTS IN THIS TRANSACTION

White River and certain of its directors and executive officers may be deemed to be participants in the solicitation of proxies from shareholders in connection with the proposed merger transaction with First Chicago under the rules of the SEC. Information about these participants may be found in the Definitive Proxy Statement of White River relating to its 2008 Annual Meeting of Shareholders filed with the SEC on April 4, 2008. This definitive proxy statement can be obtained free of charge from the sources indicated above. Additional information regarding the interests of these participants also will be included in the joint proxy statement/prospectus regarding the proposed merger transaction when it becomes available.

This press release shall not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy any securities, nor shall there be any sale of securities in any jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation, or sale would be unlawful prior to registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such jurisdiction. No offer of securities shall be made except by means of a prospectus meeting the requirements of Section 10 of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.

FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS

This press release contains certain forward-looking information about White River that is intended to be covered by the safe harbor for "forward-looking statements" provided by the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Such information includes forward-looking statements above regarding White River’s repurchase of its common stock, its confidence in its financial position and liquidity, the future financial performance of White River, its prospects for future earnings, and the prospective timing of the proposed merger of First Chicago into White River. All statements other than statements of historical fact are forward-looking statements. Such statements involve inherent risks and uncertainties, many of which are difficult to predict and are generally beyond the control of White River. White River cautions readers that a number of important factors could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed in, implied or projected by, such forward-looking statements. Risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to:

the unpredictability and volatility of the market price and trading volume of our common stock;
losses and prepayments on our receivable portfolios;
general economic, market, or business conditions;
changes in interest rates, the cost of funds, and demand for our financial services;
changes in our competitive position;
our ability to manage growth and integrate acquired businesses;
the opportunities that may be presented to and pursued by us;
competitive actions by other companies;
changes in laws or regulations;
changes in the policies of federal or state regulators and agencies; and
potential failure to obtain shareholder or regulatory approval for the merger or to satisfy other conditions to the merger on the proposed terms and within the proposed timeframe.
If any of these risks or uncertainties materializes or if any of the assumptions underlying such forward-looking statements proves to be incorrect, White River's results could differ materially from those expressed in, implied or projected by such forward-looking statements. White River assumes no obligation to update such forward-looking statements.

Business Wire

October 27, 2008 09:03 AM Eastern Daylight Time

JMAR Technologies to Unveil Bio-Contamination Detection Service at World Waterpark Association Trade Show

Company Will Use BioSentry® Technology to Monitor Continuously for Hazards

SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--JMAR Technologies, Inc. (OTCBB:JMAR), a leading innovator in the development and commercialization of sensing systems for the detection of chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear and explosive (CBRNE) materials, announced today that it will unveil BioAlert™, a new water-monitoring service based on its BioSentry® technology, at the World Waterpark Association’s 28th annual trade show in Las Vegas, Nevada on October 28-29. The convention is the world’s largest gathering of water-leisure professionals and development experts, showcasing the latest waterpark products and services.

JMAR’s new release, BioAlert™, is a monitoring service designed to detect waterborne pathogens, such as cryptosporidium, in waterparks and other water recreation facilities. BioAlert™ will be offered as a subscription-based service model, with flexible packages ranging from simple system monitoring to full 24/7 surveillance with immediate contamination alert notification.

“The BioAlert™ monitoring service provides added protection for the guests and the waterpark owners,” said JMAR’s Chief Executive Officer C. Neil Beer, Ph.D. “This new service, based on our BioSentry technology, fills a critical gap in water quality protection by providing continuous water monitoring with the ability to provide immediate notification of a contamination occurrence.”

With an estimated 360 million Americans visiting recreational water areas annually, water sanitation and disease prevention is crucial to the business of waterparks. Due to recent cryptosporidiosis outbreaks in recreational water areas, there is a growing need for continuous high-resolution water quality monitoring. More information about cryptosporidiosis is available at: http://www.cdc.gov/crypto/.

JMAR’s award-winning, laser-based BioSentry® system can immediately detect the presence of microorganisms and classify them within minutes, helping to ensure the continuing safety and quality of water supplies. Frost & Sullivan recently recognized BioSentry® as the leading innovative approach to water quality monitoring and selected JMAR for their 2008 Biological Detection Product of the Year Award.

About the WWA Trade Show

The WWA trade show, to be held at the MGM Grand-Las Vegas Conference Center on October 28-29, offers unparalleled opportunities for water-leisure professionals and suppliers to connect. Attendants will get access to the most up-to-date information on products and services and have their questions answered by industry experts. When suppliers rollout new products, the WWA trade show is where they go annually to unveil them. For further information about the trade show, please visit www.waterparks.org.

To be added to JMAR Technologies’ investor lists, please contact Haris Tajyar at htajyar@irintl.com or at 818-382-9702.

About JMAR

JMAR Technologies, Inc. (OTCBB:JMAR) is a leading innovator in the development and commercialization of sensing systems for the detection of chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear and explosive (CBRNE) materials. Coupled with its established expertise in building advanced laser systems, JMAR provides solutions for a broad range of military, industrial and commercial applications. The Company draws on more than twenty years of experience and thirty patents in photonics, laser and detection technologies to develop products and solutions that address some of the world’s most pressing issues such as water quality, hazard detection and homeland security. JMAR’s vision is to continue to develop innovative technologies and products that support the advancement of global health, safety, and security initiatives. For further information on JMAR Technologies, please visit www.jmar.com.

Forward Looking Statements: This news release contains certain “forward-looking statements” that are based on current expectations and assumptions and are inherently subject to risks and uncertainties, some of which cannot be predicted or quantified, and many of which are beyond the Company’s control. Actual results could differ materially from these forward-looking statements as a result of a number of factors, including the uncertainty of acceptance in the market for our products and technologies or the acceptance of our customers’ products or technologies which incorporate our products and technologies, the failure of our technology to perform as predicted, competition from alternative technologies, uncertainties as to the size of the markets, cost and margins for JMAR’s products, current or future government regulations affecting the use of JMAR’s products, the lack of availability of critical components, the degree of protection from future patents, other risks associated with the development or acquisition of new products or technologies and those risks detailed in the Company’s Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2007 filed with the SEC. Given these risks and uncertainties, investors are cautioned not to place undue reliance on such forward-looking statements and no assurances can be given that such statements will be achieved. JMAR Technologies, Inc. does not assume any duty to publicly update or revise the material contained herein.

Business Wire

October 27, 2008 09:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time

Interactive Intelligence Honors Resellers at Annual Partner Conference for Visionary Use of Its Software

INDIANAPOLIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Interactive Intelligence (Nasdaq: ININ), a global provider of unified IP business communications solutions, honored resellers this month at its annual partner conference for their visionary use of the company’s software.

The Vision Award winner, voice and data communications solutions provider, EDCi, was honored for its Customer Interaction Center® (CIC) deployment at Wisconsin Public Service. The contact center deployment included a first-of-its-kind multi-channel queuing application capable of prioritizing and routing e-mail, Web chats and other interactions based on key words. The deployment also included screen-pop, in-depth IVR self-service menus with speech recognition, a queued voice callback option, and multiple integrations to the customer’s existing communications systems.

“The EDCi deployment at Wisconsin Public Service resulted in the customer’s busy rates reduced to less than 1 percent without adding staff, while its call volume increased about 10 percent,” said Interactive Intelligence North America sales VP, Paul Weber. “In addition, the customer’s abandoned call rate dropped by 50 percent and response time to e-mails dropped from 24 hours to just two to four hours. These impressive metrics, along with a higher than expected return on investment that was realized 10 months faster than projected, were a direct result of EDCi’s pioneering use of our software.”

Other Vision Award nominees included Minnesota-based telecom solutions provider, AVTEX, for its CIC and Messaging Interaction Center™ (MIC) deployments at Western & Southern Financial Group.

“The AVTEX multi-channel contact center and enterprise messaging deployment resulted in overall savings for the customer of about $70,000, and a 25 percent net increase in contact rates,” Weber said. “AVTEX’ extensive knowledge and inventive use of our entire software suite – from e-mail response management and speech recognition, to quality monitoring and blended dialing – made it a very deserving Vision Award nominee.”

Nevada-based technology solutions provider, Advanced Information Systems, also received a Vision Award nomination. For deployment at its own site, the company was the first to fully integrate the Interactive Intelligence software with a digital signage product resulting in a centralized “video receptionist” that provides presence management and security functions for its multiple buildings.

“The AIS integration demonstrates the customization benefits our open software offers,” Weber said. “Its ‘video receptionist’ resulted in reduced expenses associated with staffing, along with improved security.”

Winners of other awards included Adapt, Attalus Communications, Convergent Communications, e-Contact, The OAS Group and Latin America reseller, Sixbell Nekotec.

In addition, 19 resellers were honored this year for their 10-year partnerships with Interactive Intelligence.

“The success and growth of our channel was demonstrated not just by our most deserving award-winners, but by the more than 190 resellers, consultants and analysts who attended our partner conference this year,” Weber said.

Interactive Intelligence hosted its 10th annual partner conference Oct. 7 to 9 at its headquarters city in Indianapolis, Indiana.

For more information about the Interactive Intelligence partner program, visit www.inin.com/PartnerPrograms/Pages/default.aspx.

About Interactive Intelligence

Interactive Intelligence Inc. (Nasdaq: ININ) is a global provider of unified business communications solutions for contact center automation, enterprise IP telephony, and enterprise messaging. The company was founded in 1994 and has more than 3,000 customers worldwide. Interactive Intelligence is among Software Magazine’s top 500 global software and services suppliers, is ranked among NetworkWorld’s top 200 North American networking vendors, is a BusinessWeek “hot growth 50” company, and is among FORTUNE Small Business magazine’s top 100 fastest growing companies. Interactive Intelligence employs approximately 600 people and is headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana. It has six global corporate offices with additional sales offices throughout North America, Europe, Middle East, Africa and Asia Pacific. Interactive Intelligence can be reached at +1 317.872.3000 or info@inin.com; on the Net: http://www.inin.com.

This release may contain certain forward-looking statements that involve a number of risks and uncertainties. Factors that could cause actual results to differ materially are described in the company's SEC filings.

Interactive Intelligence Inc. is the owner of the marks INTERACTIVE INTELLIGENCE, its associated LOGO and numerous other marks. All other trademarks mentioned in this document are the property of their respective owners.

ININ-G

Business Wire

October 27, 2008 09:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time

The Fight Zone, Inc. Announces New Report on the Mixed Martial Arts Industry

MMA Quickly Overtaking the NBA in Suburban Youth Mind Share - MMA Has Eclipsed Boxing and is Poised to Overtake Hockey in 2009 as America's Fourth Favorite Sport

LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Fight Zone, Inc. (Pink Sheets:TFZI), a well rounded Mixed Martial Arts (“MMA”) company, announced today the availability of a new research report on investment opportunities in the fast growing market for mixed martial arts. The report, issued by Emerging Growth Research, LLP provides an overview of the evolution of mixed martial arts and offers specific reasons why MMA is one of the fastest growing sports worldwide. The report also covers The Fight Zone’s investment potential within this industry and outlines invest related activities of some of the leading organizations within the sport, including industry leader Ultimate Fighting Championship® and ProElite, Inc., which is widely rumored to be ceasing operations.

“MMA is grabbing the attention of young male teenagers before they are able to develop an interest in traditional 'stick and ball' sports. While the NBA dominates urban youth sports culture, MMA is beginning to dominate suburban youth sports culture. Purchasing power among American suburban youth outpaces that of their urban counterparts to a significant degree. This accelerating trend has advertisers and clothing companies especially excited,” commented the report's author Joseph Noel, principal analyst at Emerging Growth Research, LLP. “There is a compelling argument that MMA has already eclipsed boxing and will likely do the same to hockey by mid-2009. We strongly believe the mixed martial arts industry will continue to see strong growth over the coming years.”

“We are excited to have been included in the new research report and to have received such a strong stock rating,” commented Lloyd Vickers, President and CEO of The Fight Zone, Inc. “As the number of MMA fans continues to boom and as leading corporate sponsors move toward the sport, we believe our business will continue to grow. It's a very exciting time for all of us at The Fight Zone and for everyone involved in the business of mixed martial arts.”

A full copy of the report can be downloaded at www.thefightzone.tv/investor

ABOUT THE FIGHT ZONE, INC.

The Fight Zone, Inc. is dedicated to developing and promoting MMA sports and its athletes to the world. The Fight Zone develops and produces only world class fighters. The Fight Zone provides complete services including discipline training, strength and conditioning training, management, marketing and sponsorship programs. The Fight Zone provides all the resources necessary to quickly develop our fighters to a Pay-Per-View (PPV) level. The Fight Zone also offers a unique corporate sponsorship and merchandising program via its network of fighters. For more information please visit www.thefightzone.tv for more information, fighter profiles, and videos.

SAFE HARBOR: Statements in this press release other than statements of historical fact, including statements regarding the company's plans, beliefs and estimates as to projections are "forward-looking statements." Such statements are subject to certain risks and uncertainties, including factors listed from time to time in the company's SEC filings, and actual results could differ materially from expected results. These forward-looking statements represent the Company's judgment as of the date of this release. The Company does not undertake to update, revise or correct any forward-looking statements.

Business Wire

October 27, 2008 09:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time

iTradeNetwork Announces Its 4th Annual Global Supply Chain Conference January 26-27, 2009, Las Vegas

Conference to Focus on Thriving in Challenging Economic Times

4th Annual ITN Global Supply Chain Conference

PLEASANTON, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--iTradeNetwork (ITN), the leading global provider of on-demand supply chain management and intelligence solutions to the food industry, today announced its 4th annual ITN Global Supply Chain Conference. The two day conference, to be held at the Four Seasons Resort in Las Vegas, will focus on critical business fundamentals: leveraging every dollar invested while lowering the cost of doing business and closely supporting customers and partners. A senior level forum, the ITN Global Supply Chain Conference, will provide executives from across the foodservice and retail industries with the opportunity to learn first-hand from their customers and supply chain partners how they are tackling the challenges of a global supply chain, given the current economic downturn.

Companies attending ITN’s 2009 conference include Ben E. Keith Company, Bunzl, DMA, GFS, Kraft Foods Inc., Loblaw, Performance Food Group (PFG), Publix Supermarkets, Schwan’s Food Service Inc., SUPERVALU and SYSCO. The following topics are some of the areas that will be addressed:

CFO Panel - discuss strategies used by distributors, manufacturers, operators and retailers to thrive in the current economic landscape
Leveraging technology to manage cash, costs and competition
Understanding trends in data synchronization and catalog sharing
Understanding consumer trends to maximize sales
Using advanced analytics to grow sales and beat quota
Driving costs out of the supply chain through collaborative contract management
Closing the loop on food safety, traceability and the recent COOL initiatives
Bridging disparate IT and business agendas to advance strategic objectives
Maximizing your partnership with iTradeNetwork across supply chain to drive further cost savings and revenue opportunities

“This year’s conference will target viable, proven solutions that increase supply chain visibility, minimize costs and help organizations improve their margins,” says Robert Bonavito, CEO of iTradeNetwork. “As a solution provider, our partners rely on us to present options that will help their business survive and thrive during challenging times. Our on-demand products and services are well positioned to do just that by maximizing return on existing investments with minimal associated cost.”

In addition, ITN will share its 2009 strategic vision and objectives. Through the recently completed mergers with Amphire Solutions, barbox and Instill Corporation, the Company has brought together the best technology, information services and industry expertise into a single entity. ITN is focused on investing in current technologies that will help its partners better serve their customers and deliver greater competitive advantage.

The conference will be comprised of general and focused breakout sessions all aimed at providing attendees with actionable information that can create positive and immediate impact on their organization. To learn more about the 2009 ITN Global Supply Chain Conference, please visit our website at www.itradenetwork.com.

About iTradeNetwork, Inc

iTradeNetwork, Inc. is the leading global provider of on-demand supply chain management and intelligence solutions to the food industry. Built upon deep industry expertise, a rich data foundation and the industry’s most extensive trading partner network, ITN's collaborative solutions allow distributors, manufacturers, operators and retailers of all sizes to reduce cost, grow revenue and strengthen trading partner relationships. Today, ITN's growing customer list includes over 5,500 global companies such as Ben E. Keith, BidVest 3663, CKE Restaurants, ConAgra Foods, Inc., General Mills, Kroger, Independent Purchasing Cooperative (IPC) for SUBWAY®, Intercontinental Hotels, Safeway, Sodexo, SYSCO and UniPro. ITN has offices in Pleasanton and San Mateo, California, Boise, Idaho and Stokenchurch, Great Britain. For more information, visit www.itradenetwork.com.

© 2008 iTradeNetwork, Inc. All rights reserved. iTradeNetwork and the iTradeNetwork logo design are trademarks of iTradeNetwork, Inc. in the United States and/or other countries. All other trademarks and registered trademarks areproperty of their respective holders.

Business Wire

October 27, 2008 09:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time

Launch of New CREDITZ Digital Currency Website for Canada

CEO America Inc. Announces New Canadian Website, creditz.com

TORONTO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--CEO America Inc., (PINK SHEETS: CEOA) is pleased to announce today that it has launched its new Canadian website at www.creditz.com. The site demonstrates that it is truly a 21st century loyalty payment system that can work in tandem and co-operation with the payment industry in Canada.

The new site has new features such as paying account holders to refer friends and family to go to CREDITZ.com.

Another feature includes a mobile browser allowing account holders to send CREDITZ via CREDITZ Mobile. You can send CREDITZ to a retailer, business, charity or friend even if they don’t have a CREDITZ account. Initially, famous name gift cards such as Starbucks and iTunes can be purchased with CREDITZ®; however the company’s objective is to discontinue this service after a significant market penetration with both online retailers and mainstream retail and businesses. In the meantime, redemption for gift cards will be available, along with the consumer increasingly finding the Get Paid Here stickers at check out and websites of retailers across the country!

Just by joining CREDITZ and filling out a survey you get 200 CREDITZ in your account immediately. To get paid even more CREDITZ, you can log in to refer friends to get a free CREDITZ Account Card. The site states, "Save Money and Get Paid to Shop! So before you get in your car and use your gas driving around to try to find the things you want, log in and check if there is a CREDITZ etailer or retailer that has what you need, at the price you want to pay and also ‘Get Paid to Shop!’”

About CEO America Inc.:

CEO America, Inc. (PINK SHEETS: CEOA) utilizes IBM’s latest db2 database and Series I infrastructure technology, CREDITZ is designed as a global loyalty payment and marketing system that provides spendable CREDITZ Digital Currency to consumers. CREDITZ is the first payment system to integrate 21st Century technology micro-payments, loyalty, marketing and business intelligence into an offline and mobile operating platform. It is the world's first Digital Currency – the transaction and marketing engine for the digital economy.

Business Wire

October 27, 2008 08:30 AM Eastern Daylight Time

Aetna to Offer AARP-Branded ‘Premier’ Health Insurance Options to Baby Boomers and Their Families in Georgia

ALPHARETTA, Ga.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--In an effort to help individuals “bridge the gap” between employer coverage and Medicare, Aetna (NYSE:AET) announced today that it has made the AARP® Essential Premier Health Insurance suite of products available to AARP members ages 50-64 and their dependents in Georgia.

These plans will be effective on November 1, and consumers can purchase them by phone (1-866-844-0888), online at www.aarphealthcare.com/aetna, or through authorized independent insurance agents or brokers.

With the combination of the “Baby Boomer” population at or nearing retirement age, fewer employers offering benefits to retirees, more sole proprietors buying their own coverage and the increasing cost of medical expenses, there is a clear need for health insurance options for individuals who no longer have employer-based coverage and are not yet eligible for Medicare.

“People in this situation often have a difficult time finding high-quality, affordable health care options,” said Frank McCauley, head of Aetna’s Consumer Business Segment. “Aetna is committed to helping uninsured and under-served residents, and we believe the AARP Essential Premier plans are one solution that can truly help members and their families protect their health and well-being.”

According to the most recent U.S. Census report, 14 percent of people ages 45-64 are uninsured. This problem is particularly relevant in Georgia, where more than 17 percent of the entire population is uninsured.

“One way to address the issue of the uninsured is to offer products that meet the unique needs of groups that often have difficulty accessing health insurance,” said John W. Oxendine, Georgia Insurance and Safety Fire Commissioner. “I am pleased that Aetna shares in the commitment to provide additional choices for consumers. These new plans offer an innovative option for eligible Georgia residents and their families.”

More Choices, More Coverage

AARP members between the ages of 50 and 64 and their dependents will be able to choose from seven different plan options in three different categories:

Premier PPO Plans – These three plans offer “employer-like” insurance – including coverage for preventive care, prescription drugs and hospitalization -- at varying deductible levels. Members do not have to fill out claim forms when using a network health care provider, and they also don’t need referrals to see a specialist.

Health Savings Account (HSA)-Compatible Plans – The two plans in this category include a personal account that lets the member pay for qualified medical expenses with tax-advantaged funds. This is the first time that AARP members in this age group have had the opportunity to purchase HSA-compatible plans.

Preventive and Hospital Plans – These two plans provide coverage for preventive care, including an annual gynecologic exam, well-child care and a physical exam. They also provide inpatient hospital coverage coupled with limited benefits for outpatient surgery, skilled nursing or home health care charges.

Consumers who sign up for these plans will also have access to coverage while they travel through Aetna’s nationwide network of doctors and hospitals; Aetna’s disease management programs; health information from registered nurses 24/7 through Aetna’s toll-free Informed Health® Line; and Aetna’s online tools, including the CareEngine®-powered Personal Health Record.

“We feel like the wide variety of options allows AARP members and their families to select a plan that fits their specific needs,” said John Wider, executive vice president for AARP Services, Inc. “These additional programs and services all place an emphasis on enhancing the quality and outcomes of health care for AARP members.”

Another valuable feature of all of these plans is dependent coverage, which is available to children, grandchildren, domestic partners and dependent relatives. These plans are also available as “child-only,” which means members can enroll a dependent child even if no other family member enrolls.

“Members in other states have said that this is an important benefit that allows them to protect the health and well-being of their entire family,” McCauley said.

The AARP Essential Premier Health Insurance products are currently available in 31 states and Washington, D.C. In addition to Georgia, they are sold in Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Louisiana, Maryland, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, Nevada, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, West Virginia, Wyoming and Washington, D.C. For more information, individuals can call 1-866-844-0888 or go to www.aarphealthcare.com/aetna

About Aetna

Aetna is one of the nation’s leading diversified health care benefits companies, serving approximately 37.2 million people with information and resources to help them make better informed decisions about their health care. Aetna offers a broad range of traditional and consumer-directed health insurance products and related services, including medical, pharmacy, dental, behavioral health, group life and disability plans, and medical management capabilities and health care management services for Medicaid plans. Our customers include employer groups, individuals, college students, part-time and hourly workers, health plans, governmental units, government-sponsored plans, labor groups and expatriates. www.aetna.com

Business Wire

October 27, 2008 08:06 AM Eastern Daylight Time

Norkom to Showcase Award-Winning Financial Crime Prevention Solutions at IBM’s Information on Demand Conference

Featuring Capabilities for Gathering and Analyzing Anti-Fraud and AML Information across the Enterprise

IBM's Information on Demand (IOD) 2008 global conference

LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Norkom Technologies, the leading provider of financial crime and compliance software to the global financial services industry, today announced its participation (Booth S36) at IBM’s Information on Demand (IOD) 2008 global conference at the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas, October 26 – 31.

Norkom will be demonstrating its latest generation of financial crime prevention products including the market-leading Enterprise Investigation Management (EIM) solution. By tracking and managing all potentially harmful financial risk events — from any source or region — EIM delivers to users the information they need for early detection of financial crime and the tools for fast, decisive action.

Last month Norkom and IBM announced an agreement to develop innovative solutions that will combine IBM’s industry expertise with Norkom’s Financial Crime and Compliance solutions. The agreement spans software development, marketing, sales, and the alignment of research and development around the IBM software portfolio, including integration of key capabilities of IBM InfoSphere Entity Analytic Solutions (EAS) within the Norkom product portfolio.

Faced with fraud, money laundering, and terrorist financing, global financial organizations need to ensure their asset bases are not compromised. Understanding the full backgrounds of prospective clients is essential. IBM InfoSphere Entity Analytic Solution’s unique identity disambiguation capability enables financial institutions to recognize and mitigate the incidence of fraud, threat, and risk. EAS provides insight on demand, and in context.

“As banking technology has advanced, so has the level of criminal sophistication,” says Rob Thomas, vice president, IBM Information Management. “Norkom’s Identity Resolution solution, embedded with IBM’s Entity Analytics software, delivers a comprehensive solution providing powerful identity recognition that helps reduce risk by protecting companies from sophisticated internal and external threats.”

Norkom’s powerful investigative platform for screening and reporting on high volumes of transactions is in use at major financial institutions including: AXA Financial, Bank of Montreal, DTCC, Euroclear, HSBC, and Standard Chartered Bank. Norkom’s technology gives financial organizations the ability to analyze and investigate high-volume financial information in a holistic manner, identifying suspicious transactions in near real-time, from anywhere in the enterprise.

“Norkom has a history of assisting clients to solve challenging information gathering, analysis, and assimilation problems across their companies. Our clients can retrieve data and turn it into meaningful information that addresses many of the topics and issues on the IOD conference agenda,” said Joseph Friscia, general manager and EVP of Norkom’s business in the Americas. “Norkom’s presence will provide IOD attendees with an opportunity to discuss their needs for scalable financial crime solutions with an industry leader.”

Norkom’s solutions can be scaled and customized to meet clients’ current and future needs – from anti-money laundering and customer due diligence to enterprise investigation of all types of fraud.

Norkom’s accolades include “Best Technology Solution” in Complinet’s 2007 compliance awards; “Number One for AML and Fraud” in OpRisk & Compliance magazine’s software rankings survey; “Vendor of the Year” by Institutional Investor News ARC Awards, and “Best AML Solution” in the Banking Technology Awards.

To schedule a meeting at the Information On Demand conference or to arrange for a demo, email Chris Belthoff ( chris.belthoff@norkom.com ) or call (617)235-8831.

About Norkom Technologies ( www.norkom.com )

Norkom Technologies (AIM: NORK.L, IEX: NORK.IE) enables financial organizations to take intelligent action, control defenses, and evolve strategies against fraud, money laundering, and other types of financial crime.

By combining a unique investigative technology platform with deep domain expertise, Norkom has established a solid track record of reducing financial losses, protecting users’ reputations, improving operational efficiencies, and lowering the cost information technology.

Norkom serves clients in over 100 countries, including AXA, HSBC, Credit Agricole, Fortis, Rabobank, and Standard Chartered Bank.

Business Wire

October 27, 2008 08:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time

Boot Barn Acquires 22 Retail Stores in Arizona, New Mexico and Nevada

NEWPORT BEACH, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Marwit Capital Partners II, L.P. (“Marwit”) announced today that Boot Barn Holding Corp. (“Boot Barn” or “the Company”), its western footwear and apparel retailer, has completed the purchase of twenty-two retail stores in Arizona (12), New Mexico (9) and Nevada (1) from BTWW Retail, L.P. (“BTWW”). The 22 store acquisition boosts Boot Barn’s position to the largest player in western themed retail in the Southwestern U.S. and one of the three largest in the country. Boot Barn’s footprint is significantly expanded from 45 to 67 stores, including 38 located in California, 6 in Nevada, 14 in Arizona, and 9 in New Mexico. The 22 new stores will be rebranded to Boot Barn after the holiday season.

“This acquisition expands Boot Barn’s presence into the highly desirable Arizona and New Mexico markets and dramatically broadens the store footprint since we acquired the platform one year ago,” said Chris Britt, Marwit Managing Partner. David Browne, Marwit Principal, adds, “We are pleased to support Boot Barn’s CEO, Pat Meany, President, John Turnbull, and their management team in building an even stronger western-themed specialty retail platform. We have great confidence in the management team and see a great opportunity to build an even stronger leadership position for the Company.”

The western wear market includes western boots, work boots, jeans, outdoor apparel, hats, gifts, belts and accessories and has proven over many years to be stable through a variety of economic cycles. Boot Barn customers include a diverse group from workers seeking quality work wear at a reasonable price, to those seeking affordable, casual, comfortable footwear and apparel and to those seeking traditional western outfits. Boot Barn’s stores and website, bootbarn.com, carry a broad selection of many of the best known and most sought after western brands.

Pat Meany said, “Boot Barn is excited to be expanding our retail footprint in the attractive markets of New Mexico, Arizona and Nevada. If our team had the opportunity to hand pick new retail sites for Boot Barn stores, these 22 stores would virtually be a perfect match. We are looking forward to integrating these 22 stores into the Boot Barn family.”

About Boot Barn

Headquartered in Orange, CA, Boot Barn is the one of the three largest specialty retailers of western and work footwear and apparel in the U.S. and the largest in the Southwest. The Company operates 67 retail stores in California, Nevada, Arizona and New Mexico as well as its online store, www.bootbarn.com.

About Marwit Capital

Marwit ( www.marwit.com ) is one of the oldest and most experienced private equity firms in the Western U.S. Founded in 1962 and based in Southern California, Marwit invests in lower middle market businesses that are leaders in niche markets. Employing a collaborative operational focus, Marwit targets investments headquartered in the Western U.S. with revenues of $20-200 million, EBITDA of $3-15 million, and enterprise value up to $100 million, at the time of acquisition. Marwit partners with experienced CEOs and management teams to complete buyouts and provide growth capital for expansion investments. Marwit generally invests $10-30 million of equity capital per platform investment, in one or a series of investments. Marwit’s current fund, MCP II, is $183.7 million of committed capital and includes a portfolio of 10 platform companies.

Business Wire

October 27, 2008 07:30 AM Eastern Daylight Time

General Growth Announces Management Changes

Company Intends to Market Certain Las Vegas Properties for Sale

CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--General Growth Properties, Inc. (NYSE:GGP) today announced that two independent directors of the company will assume senior management positions effective immediately. Adam Metz will serve as interim Chief Executive Officer, and Thomas H. Nolan Jr. will serve as interim President, positions previously held by John Bucksbaum and Robert A. Michaels, respectively. Mr. Bucksbaum will continue to serve as Chairman and Mr. Michaels will continue to serve as Chief Operating Officer and a senior officer of the company. In order to maintain a majority of independent directors, Mr. Michaels has also given up his Board seat.

“Adam and Tom bring a wealth of real estate and finance experience to our company,” said Mr. Bucksbaum. “I fully support the Board of Director’s decision to have them join the senior management team, given their deep knowledge of our industry and extensive relationships.”

“We recognize that we are facing unprecedented challenges in this economic environment, and we are committed to working with all our stakeholders to achieve a successful outcome to our strategic review process,” said Mr. Metz. “John and Bob remain committed to the company’s success and will continue to play important roles both in the strategic review process and in the ongoing operations of the company. Tom and I look forward to working with both of them.”

The company’s Board of Directors and management team, along with its financial and legal advisors, continue to be fully engaged in a comprehensive evaluation of all financial and strategic alternatives for the company, including but not limited to, asset sales, joint ventures, corporate level capital infusions, and broader strategic business combinations.

Along with other assets currently being marketed, the company’s Board of Directors and management team have elected to market for sale its portfolio of retail properties in Las Vegas, NV: Fashion Show Mall, Grand Canal Shoppes, and The Palazzo. Goldman, Sachs & Co. and Eastdil Secured will be jointly responsible for the marketing effort, which is expected to begin immediately. In conjunction with the sale process, the company is working with its syndicate of lenders on Fashion Show Mall and The Palazzo to extend the November 28, 2008 maturity date. The company continues to remain current on all of its debt obligations.

Adam S. Metz, 47, is a founding partner of Polaris Capital LLC. Before founding Polaris, Mr. Metz was Executive Vice President and Chief Investment Officer of Rodamco, North America, with approximately $6 billion of real estate assets primarily in regional malls. Previously, he had been President, Chief Financial Officer and Director of Acquisitions for Urban Shopping Centers, Inc. where he worked from 1993 until its sale in 2000. Prior to joining Urban, he held positions in the Capital Markets group of JMB Realty and in the Commercial Real Estate Lending Group at The First National Bank of Chicago.

Thomas H. Nolan Jr., 51, was most recently a Managing Director of Trefethen & Co, a real estate advisory and investment firm. From 1984 to 2004, Mr. Nolan held various positions at AEW Capital Management LP, a national real estate investment advisor, including President and Senior Portfolio of the AEW Partners Group, the Private Equity division of AEW, as well as serving as a member of the firm’s Management and Investment Committees. At AEW, Mr. Nolan also represented institutional clients in the overall management of their real estate portfolios with services ranging from troubled debt restructuring to initial public offerings, including representing a client on the Partnership Committee of the Taubman Realty Group.

The Company also announced that it has recently come to the attention of the Board that an affiliate of a Bucksbaum family trust advanced unsecured loans to Mr. Michaels and Bernard Freibaum, the company’s former director and CFO, for the purpose of repaying personal margin debt relating to company stock. The loan to Mr. Michaels, which totaled $10 million, has been repaid in full. The loan to Mr. Freibaum, whose employment was terminated prior to the Board’s knowledge of these loans, totaled $90 million and has $80 million presently outstanding.

A review by the Company’s independent directors concluded that, while the failure to disclose the loans to the Company’s Board of Directors did not follow internal company policy, no company assets or resources were involved in the loans and that no laws or Securities and Exchange Commission rules were violated as a result of the loans.

ABOUT GENERAL GROWTH PROPERTIES, INC.

General Growth is a U.S.-based publicly traded Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT). The Company currently has ownership interest in, or management responsibility for, a portfolio of more than 200 regional shopping malls in 44 states, as well as ownership in master planned community developments and commercial office buildings. The Company's portfolio totals approximately 200 million square feet and includes over 24,000 retail stores nationwide. The Company is listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol GGP.

This press release contains forward-looking statements, including information regarding our expected liquidity and future financing and other transactions that have not yet closed. Actual results may differ materially from the results suggested by these forward-looking statements, for a number of reasons, including, but not limited to, the retail market, tenant occupancy and tenant bankruptcies, the level of indebtedness and interest rates, market conditions, land sales in the Master Planned Communities segment, the cost and success of development and re-development projects and our ability to successfully manage growth. Readers are referred to the documents filed by General Growth Properties, Inc. with the SEC, specifically the most recent report on Forms 10-K and 10-Q, which further identify the important risk factors which could cause actual results to differ materially from the forward-looking statements in this release. The Company disclaims any obligation to update any forward-looking statements.

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October 27, 2008 07:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time

Torrey Pines Bank Names Paul L. Donaldson to Head Orange County/Los Angeles Expansion

LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Western Alliance Bancorporation (NYSE:WAL) announced today that its Torrey Pines Bank subsidiary has named Paul Donaldson as Division President to lead an expansion of the San Diego-based bank into the neighboring metropolitan areas of Los Angeles and Orange County.

Prior to joining Torrey Pines Bank, Donaldson spent 10 years at California Bank & Trust, a subsidiary of Zions Bancorporation, as Regional Manager/Senior Vice President of the bank’s Orange County and Los Angeles Region.

Donaldson’s career has spanned over 25 years in senior business development and management positions with major financial institutions in the Los Angeles and Orange County markets including Branch Manager of the Los Angeles Main Office of 1st Interstate Bank/Wells Fargo.

“Paul’s expertise in the LA-Orange County region and our recent capital raise enable us to launch a strategic presence and take advantage of potential new deposit franchise opportunities including those from the FDIC, as well as banker dislocation from the mergers affecting Los Angeles banks,” said Robert Sarver, Chairman and CEO, Western Alliance Bancorporation.

Sarver continued, “Our California franchise has organically grown deposits of $130 million and loans of $159 million this year while maintaining pristine asset quality.”

“We are delighted to have Paul join our team,” said Gary Cady, President & CEO of Torrey Pines Bank. “Torrey Pines Bank is the fastest growing de novo bank in San Diego in the last 30 years and we look forward to bringing our capabilities to these desirable markets.”

“I am very excited to have this opportunity to be a part of the Torrey Pines and the Western Alliance organization,” said Donaldson. “I believe expanding into these markets will be welcomed by business people who are currently underserved and need both comprehensive services and accessible local decision makers who know them and their market.”

Torrey Pines Bank was founded in 2003 and has assets of $755 million with seven offices in San Diego, La Mesa, Kearny Mesa and Carlsbad.

About Western Alliance Bancorporation

Western Alliance Bancorporation is the parent company of Bank of Nevada, First Independent Bank of Nevada, Alliance Bank of Arizona, Torrey Pines Bank, Alta Alliance Bank, Miller/Russell & Associates, Shine Investment Advisory Services, Premier Trust, and PartnersFirst. These dynamic organizations provide a broad array of banking, leasing, trust, investment, and mortgage services to clients in Nevada, Arizona and California, investment services in Colorado, and bank card services nationwide. Staffed with experienced financial professionals, these organizations deliver a broader product array and larger credit capacity than community banks, yet are empowered to be more responsive to customers' needs than larger institutions. Additional investor information can be accessed on the Investor Relations page of the company's website, www.westernalliancebancorp.com.

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We do not intend and disclaim any duty or obligation to update or revise any industry information or forward-looking statements set forth in this press release to reflect new information, future events or otherwise.

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October 27, 2008 06:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time

Zacks Analyst Blog Highlights: Wipro Ltd., Robert Half International Inc., Monarch Casino & Resort Inc., Forest Labs, Inc. and Critical Therapeutics Inc.

CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- www.Zacks.com announces the list of stocks featured in the Analyst Blog. Every day the Zacks Equity Research analysts discuss the latest news and events impacting stocks and the financial markets. Stocks recently featured in the blog include: Wipro Ltd. (NYSE: WIT), Robert Half International Inc. (NYSE: RHI), Monarch Casino & Resort Inc. (Nasdaq: MCRI), Forest Laboratories Inc. (NYSE: FRX) and Critical Therapeutics Inc. (Nasdaq: CRTX).

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Here are highlights from Friday’s Analyst Blog:

Wipro Warrants Cautious Outlook

Wipro (NYSE: WIT) reported in-line revenues and in-line earnings in 2Q09, which was well supported by large deal wins, geographic expansion, alliances and partnerships.

We remain concerned that margins may continue to be pressured for currency fluctuations and acquisition-related integration issues in the near-term. However, there has been minimal reduction in operating margins despite salary hikes to onsite employees. It has also provided improved revenue guidance for 3Q09 and integration of its acquisitions seems to be well on track.

Robert Half Looks to Get Whole

Robert Half International Inc. (NYSE: RHI) headquartered in California, is one of the world’s largest providers of temporary staffing, project professionals, and permanent placement services to the finance and accounting industries. Although the company benefited from double-digit revenue growth in 2007, the global financial crisis and resultant economic slowdown is negatively impacting staffing companies.

Robert Half’s operating margin is contracting, primarily due to weak operations at Protiviti, which embarked on an aggressive global staff expansion program at the same time revenues came under pressure from reduced client demand for compliance-related employees. The Hold rating is maintained.

Monarch Casino Not Without Risks

We continue to believe that Monarch Casino & Resort Inc. (Nasdaq: MCRI) holds significant long-term value, and that the company is taking the appropriate steps to position itself to benefit, given a future increase in demand. That said, in light of the challenging operating environment faced by the company, we do not expect significant near-term share price appreciation.

It is our view, however, that the company continues to have significant growth potential, either via new development on a vacant land parcel at its Atlantis property or via external development/acquisition outside the Reno, Nevada market. Despite these positives, we expect the company to continue to face a very challenging operating environment in 2008 and into 2009. The economic environment in the Reno area remains weak, with unemployment up and average home prices down.

Forest Labs Sees Generic Pressure

On October 21, Forest Laboratories Inc. (NYSE: FRX) announced financial results for the second quarter of fiscal 2009. Revenue and EPS came in at $992.5 million and $0.80. This was well ahead of our estimates of $980 million and $0.71 and the Street estimate of $975 million and $0.71.

Management again revised full-year adjusted-EPS guidance upwards and now looks for EPS of $3.30 to $3.40. This is up from previous guidance of $3.20 to $3.30 which was revised from initial guidance (on April 14th) of $3.10 to $3.20. We forecast full-year EPS of $3.35 on revenue of $3.997 billion.

Critical Therapeutics Stays Sub-$1

Critical Therapeutics Inc. (Nasdaq: CRTX) is a biopharmaceutical company focused on products for respiratory, inflammatory, and critical care diseases. The company has two products, Zyflo and Zyflo CR for asthma, on the market. With the completion of the restructuring and the signing of co-promotion agreement with Dey LP, we believe both topline and bottomline will improve in the coming quarters.

In the third quarter, sales of Zyflo CR/Zyflo improved to $6 million, exceeding our expectations by $1 million. We are pleased to see the increase in prescription volume over the last five quarters which is due to the combined efforts of Dey and Critical Therapeutics. However, we think the strategic shift and management change could have a negative impact on the performance of Zyflo/Zyflo CR going forward.

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Business Wire

October 24, 2008 06:52 PM Eastern Daylight Time

Orbit Petroleum Names New President and Amends Chapter 11 Reorganization

OKLAHOMA CITY--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Orbit Petroleum (PINK SHEETS: OBPT) announces that effective October 20th, 2008 the Board of Directors has named Mike Myers as President of Orbit Petroleum, Inc. and President of the Company’s wholly owned subsidiary, Orbit Petroleum, Inc., Oklahoma, which is currently under a petition for reorganization under Chapter 11 of the United States Bankruptcy Code in Federal Court in New Mexico. Additionally, the Company has amended its originally filing petition to clarify that only the wholly owned subsidiary is petitioning for reorganization and not the parent public company. Mr. Myers will immediately be directly responsible for all action related to both Orbit Petroleum, Inc. (Nevada), the parent holding company and Orbit Petroleum, Inc. (Oklahoma) the wholly owned subsidiary. This change in management follows an equity investment by a group led by Mr. Myers to acquire approximately 40% of the parent company.

The Board of Directors feels that this is a positive development for both the holding company and its wholly owned subsidiary. Mr. Myers has a great deal of oil and gas experience and has successfully worked with other companies going through reorganization. Mr. Jim Frazier will effectively be resigning as President and Chairman of the Company with the addition of Mr. Myers. Mr. Frazier will remain active with the Company for a short period of time to aid in the transition.

Orbit Petroleum, Inc. (OBPT.PK) is the owner of oil and gas properties in New Mexico and Texas. Orbit is headquartered in Oklahoma City.

For further information you may contact David Whitney, Secretary in writing at 1131 E. Britton Road, Oklahoma City, OK 73131 or by accessing Orbit’s web at www.orbitpetro.com.

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Business Wire

October 24, 2008 06:06 PM Eastern Daylight Time

World Champion Heavy Hitter to Take $250,000

All Star Field is Set for 2008 RE/MAX Long Drive

MESQUITE, Nev.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--A record purse will go to the golfer with the longest drive in the 2008 RE/MAX World Long Drive Championship, the premier event in power golf. The winner of Saturday's Open Division will take home a cool quarter of a million dollars, doubling last year's first place money.

This year's division winners: An NBA Hall of Fame forward who is considered one of the best players of all time, and a retired SWAT team member. Rick Barry, who made the underhanded free throw famous, won the Grand Champion Division for the second year in a row. Barry, a Colorado Springs resident, took the crown with a drive of 285 yards, in brutal windy conditions. Former police officer Lana Lawless, in her second appearance at the Long Drive Finals, won her division with a 254 yard drive, beating the 2006 champ Phillis Meti of New Zealand, by four yards. Lawless is from Palm Springs, California.

In the Super Senior Division, Mike Gorton, of Erie, Colorado, won his second consecutive title. Gorton blasted a 301 yard drive to outhit his closest competitor by more than 21 yards. In the Military Division, Ryan Hixson, who works at the Coast Guard Air Station in Clearwater, Fl, also won his second consecutive title with a 389-yard drive.

More than 10,000 golfers around the world began this year's competition, in February, competing at more than 300 different international sites. 272 finalists, plus the six regional winners of the Military Division, are in Mesquite for the finals.

This year's competition is being held at the new multimillion dollar Mesquite Regional Park, Long Drive's new home.

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About Long Drive:

Drive Championship evolved out of the National Long Drive Championship, which began in 1975. It has grown from a mostly low-key event to one that includes golfers from virtually every corner of the world. A total of 272 international Long Drivers will be competing at the finals this year for a purse of $600,000. The Open Division winner takes home a record cash prize of $250,000. The Long Drive Finals have been tape-delayed to air each year during the Christmas season on ESPN and ESPN2, and have become a holiday tradition.

Over the years, divisions have been created for women, seniors, and for juniors, both boys and girls. 2007 was the first year for the military competition. In the early years, drives of 325 yards gave hitters a chance at finishing "in the money." Today—hitters typically need to drive the ball at least 350 to 360 yards to advance to the qualifying rounds.

For information about The Long Drivers of America and this year's competition results please visit www.longdrivers.com

ABOUT RE/MAX:

RE/MAX was founded in 1973 in Denver, Colorado, by Dave and Gail Liniger. In 35 years, it has grown into a global network of over 105,000 Sales Associates in more than 65 countries. No one in the world sells more real estate than RE/MAX. Today, all U.S. home listings in thousands of cities and towns can be found at www.remax.com.

RE/MAX is proud of its Premier Community Citizenship, which has helped raise tens of millions of dollars in support of charitable organizations, including Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure, Children's Miracle Network and The Sentinels of Freedom Foundation.

Business Wire

October 24, 2008 12:30 PM Eastern Daylight Time

A Global Geothermal Energy Market Analysis: Examine Forecasts to 2012, R&D Trends & the Latest Investments and Deals

DUBLIN, Ireland--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Research and Markets

http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/c8f56b/global_geothermal

has announced the addition of Global Markets Direct's new report "Global Geothermal Energy Market Analysis and Forecasts to 2012" to their offering.

The report provides detailed analysis and forecasts of the geothermal power industry, analyzing and forecasting key metrics relating to the installed capacities, market structure and regulatory policies that govern the industry. It provides information relating to the important technological, market, and research and development (R and D) trends and analyzes the growth and development of energy derived from geothermal power on a global basis. Additionally, it analyses the cost-related aspects of the geothermal technology. The report also provides trends and analysis of investments in the geothermal power market as well as deal summary and news flow for the last 6 months. On an all, it helps an investor to gauge the market and technological development of the global geothermal market.

Scope

- Key drivers and challenges of geothermal technology.

- Key technological and research and development trends.

- Predict and forecast future geothermal industry trends and market size.

- Identify growth segments and opportunities in the geothermal industry.

- Major cost-related aspects of the Geothermal Technology.

- Global and Region-wise Geothermal Market Analysis.

- Market overview, development and forecasts of the key countries.

- The policies and regulatory framework for each of the key countries in the geothermal sector.

- Rapidly prepare more detailed and effective planning materials.

Reasons to buy

- Gain the most up to date and in-depth information on the geothermal market.

- Analyze the geothermal energy market on a global scale.

- Identify the key growth technologies and opportunities within the geothermal industry.

- Facilitate decision-making based on strong historic and forecast data.

- Develop strategies based on the latest operational and regulatory events.

- Do deals with an understanding of how competitors are financed, and the mergers and partnerships that have shaped the geothermal market.

- Identify and analyze the strengths and weaknesses of the leading geothermal companies.

- Identify key partners and business development opportunities.

- Understand and respond to your competitors’ business structure, strategy and prospects.

Key Topics Covered:

- Geothermal, Executive Summary

- Global Geothermal Energy Market

- Geothermal, Regional Market Trends

- Geothermal, Key R&D Trends

- Geothermal, Technology Analysis

- Geothermal, Cost Analysis

- Geothermal, Key Drivers For Development

- Geothermal, Key Restraints For Growth

- Geothermal, Analysis of Key Countries

- Ormat Technologies, Inc., Company Snapshot

- Ansaldo Energia S.p.A., Company Snapshot

- Toshiba Corporation, Company Snapshot

- Nevada Geothermal Power Inc., Company Snapshot

- Sierra Geothermal Power Corporation, Company Overview

- Western Geopwer Corp., Company Snapshot

- Alstom, Company Snapshot

- Pertamina Geothermal Energy, Company Snapshot

- Green Rock Energy Limited, Company Overview

- Petratherm Limited, Company Overview

- Geothermal Industry, Deals Summary

- Financial Deals Landscape

- Recent Developments

- List of Tables

Companies Mentioned:

- Ormat Technologies, Inc.

- Ansaldo Energia S.p.A.

- Toshiba Corporation

- Nevada Geothermal Power Inc.

- Sierra Geothermal Power Corporation

- Western Geopwer Corp.

- Alstom

- Pertamina Geothermal Energy

- Green Rock Energy Limited

- Petratherm Limited

For more information visit http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/c8f56b/global_geothermal

Business Wire

October 24, 2008 12:23 PM Eastern Daylight Time

The New Orleans Hornets’ Chris Paul and the Utah Jazz’s Deron Williams on the Cover of ESPN The Magazine’s NBA Preview Issue

Rick Reilly Plays Fantasy With Senator Barack Obama

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Over the past three NBA seasons the who-is-the-better-point-guard debate has grown in lockstep with the New Orleans Hornets’ Chris Paul and the Utah Jazz’s Deron Williams friendship. The more each tries to outdo the other, the more intertwined they become. Both have achieved elite point guard status in only three seasons. Both have been part of deep playoff runs, and both probably will be for the foreseeable future. So who’s better? In the new issue of ESPN The Magazine on sale today, writer Ric Bucher surveyed scores of insiders and fans, and each group went with Paul (sorry Deron).

Paul on Williams: “I try to crowd him and live with jump shots. He’s going to score, but when he gets everyone else involved, you can put your head between your legs and kiss your butt goodbye.”
Williams on Paul: “Hey, we’re two motivated guys. That’s one of the things we have in common and why we get along.”
Carlos Boozer, Utah Jazz: “Chris Paul is a magician with the ball. At practices with Team USA, D-Will, J-Kidd, Kobe – nobody could stop him.”
Bill Simmons, The Sports Guy: “I thought we peaked with Isiah Thomas. Then Chris Paul fell out of the sky. He’s a classier Isiah with a better jumper. We are blessed. Comparing him with Deron Williams is like comparing Pearl Jam to Stone Temple Pilots. Don’t waste your time.”
The Magazine’s NBA preview also looks at Daryl Morey, the Rockets' young MIT MBA educated general manager, who is using obscure statistical metrics to evaluate players - he guards his secrets tightly but offers The Mag a glimpse into his system. Plus, The Mag looks at how talent is evaluated from five different vantage points - players, coaches, scouts, stat heads and fans – who all think their way is the best way – and provides fans a comprehensive list of who’s going to be good, who’s going to be bad, and why and full team reports.

In his latest Life of Reilly column, Rick Reilly introduces us to his gridiron challenge partner: Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama. But Senator Obama wasn't pushing his political agenda while picking his fantasy team. "Man, this is more important than politics!" he insisted. "This is football."

Other features in the latest issue of ESPN The Magazine include:

COUNTDOWN… TO THE HOT STOVE LEAGUE. Manny Ramirez and Mark Teixeira can expect big paydays, but most free agents should prep for a cold winter. Plus: players named Fielder, Peavy and Francoeur could be on the move. Buster Olney reports.

REVERSING FIELD. Sure Redskins QB Jason Campbell has it all figure out now. But a trip through his past shows that he was always on the right track. Justin Heckert reports.

BE THE BALL. Who knows the ins and outs of Penn State’s potent Spread HD offense better than the ball itself? Hang on for an in-depth and high-flying ride. By NIKE 3005 Collegiate Football, as told to Eddie Matz.

COULD’VE BEEN WORSE. As a sophomore forward at Nevada, Tyrone Hanson almost died at a party gone bad – and was kicked off the team for his trouble. Now the former New York prep star in Arkansas is looking for a shot at redemption. Jerry Bembry reports.

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October 24, 2008 09:25 AM Eastern Daylight Time

Prepaid Card Holdings, Inc Subsidiary to Launch a Newly Branded Prepaid Debit Card with No Loading Fee, No Monthly Fee, No Card Issuance Fee and No Activation Fees

LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Prepaid Card Holdings, Inc. (Pink Sheets:PPDC) announced today that it intends to offer through one of its subsidiaries a branded prepaid debit card with no money loading fees, no monthly fee, no card issuance fee and no card activation fee. These cards will be geared to America’s underbanked consumer who receives either a paycheck, benefit check, Social Security or other direct deposit instrument.

Some prepaid card companies charge up to $4.95 for a cardholder to deposit their own cash onto their prepaid card plus a monthly fee of $4.95 to $9.95 to use the card and a card activation fee up to $9.95. None of these fees will be charged on Prepaid Card Holdings, Inc.'s new card program. Instead customers will fund their card with some form of direct deposit. Not only does this save the aforementioned fees it also saves the cardholder time and money from having to use check cashing services.

Bruce Berman continued, "Our companies' business model and mission statement is about helping the estimated 100,000,000 underbanked Americans with an alternative low cost banking solution at a time when every penny counts to every American. Our pricing model is based on giving someone with limited financial choices a much needed product at a fair price. I don’t believe in charging more because a customer has very few options. Prepaid cards are in their infancy right now and a few years from now as this industry matures we will be known as the company that has always given the consumer a fair shake. I can look any of our cardholders in the eye and know we delivered them a much needed product at a fair price.”

About Prepaid Card Holdings, Inc.

Prepaid Card Holdings, Inc. through its wholly owned subsidiaries offers emerging prepaid card solutions that can act as a card account and payment solution for those people who do not use banks or credit cards. According to market data available, there are between 40 and 80 million people in the United States who don't have a bank account or who can't qualify for a credit card because their credit scores are too low. This is called the underbanked or unbanked market. For the unbanked or underbanked, the evolution taking place with prepaid cards can replace their reliance on check cashing centers, money orders, and the inability to buy certain products that require a major credit card.

For further information contact Bruce Berman at 877-237-6260 ext. 128 or visit the Company website at www.PrepaidHoldings.com.

FORWARD-LOOKING SAFE HARBOR STATEMENT: To the extent that this release discusses any expectations concerning future plans, financial results or performance, such statements are forward-looking within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and are subject to substantial risks and uncertainties. Actual results could differ materially from those anticipated in the forward-looking statements. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date hereof and reflect only management's belief and expectations based upon presently available information. These statements, and other forward-looking statements, are not guarantees of future performance and involve risks and uncertainties and the Company assumes no obligation to update any of the forward-looking statements in this release.

Business Wire

October 24, 2008 03:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time

Melville Announces Expansion of Services in Abu Dhabi

Melville to Offer Full Exhibition Services at Abu Dhabi National Exhibitions Centre

LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--United Kingdom based Melville Exhibition and Event Services Limited, a GES Worldwide Network company, through a Middle East subsidiary (Melville Middle East), announced plans to extend its footprint at the Abu Dhabi National Exhibitions Centre (ADNEC) and offer a full portfolio of exhibition and event services to the Middle East.

Currently, Melville Middle East is the exclusive provider of venue services at ADNEC, providing rigging and specialist lighting features in addition to its exclusive provision of venue services such as electrical mains, piped services, primary rigging and floor mark out. The full services business will extend Melville’s business into shell scheme, stand wiring, furniture, carpet, graphics, logistics, custom design and build, and data and registration.

“We plan to expand our services in the Middle East market by creating a full service offering that leverages the innovations that we’ve developed across the GES Worldwide Network,” said Melville Chief Executive Officer Nick Marshall. “Starting afresh in a market allows you to initiate the business in the optimal way and we intend to do that from our operating base in Abu Dhabi,” continued Marshall. “Our intention is to operate all our core contracting services such as shell scheme and electrics from a Melville Middle East-run warehouse operation that will enable us to provide higher-quality products and service levels.”

“Melville and the GES Worldwide Network have been great venue services partners,” said ADNEC Chief Executive Simon Horgan. “Melville and GES are recognised as world-class exhibition contractors and this expansion of their services further establishes Abu Dhabi for growth in international shows.”

“Abu Dhabi continues to be an important growth market and we are pleased with the progress of our operations there,” said GES President and CEO Kevin Rabbitt. “ADNEC is a high quality exhibition centre, and we are eager to launch a contracting service that is appropriate to that environment.”

“From our initial discussions with show organisers operating in the region, it is clear there is a demand for greater innovation, customer focus, and responsiveness from contractors operating in the Middle East,” said GES Senior Vice President of International Jason Popp. “Melville has succeeded in the United Kingdom being a customer-focused exhibition and event contractor, and we plan to extend that philosophy to the Middle East,” continued Popp. “This includes bringing our award-winning design expertise to the Middle East. Melville’s design capabilities have allowed show organisers in the United Kingdom to differentiate the overall look and feel of their show.”

ABOUT GES

Las Vegas-based GES Exposition Services, a subsidiary of Viad Corp (NYSE: VVI), services every major exhibition and event market across North America and the United Kingdom through the GES Worldwide Network. GES provides a wide range of services including exhibition planning and design, turnkey and custom exhibit rentals, material handling, staging, overhead sign rigging, temporary electrical equipment, signs and graphics manufacturing, installation and dismantling labor, carpet and furnishings, and transportation services. GES produces many well-known shows including the International Consumer Electronics Show, International Council of Shopping Centers, MAGIC, and CONEXPO-CON/AGG and IFPE. For more information, visit www.ges.com.

ABOUT MELVILLE

Melville Exhibition and Event Services Limited, a GES Worldwide Network company, is the U.K.’s leading exhibition and events services contractor with offices in Birmingham, London, Manchester, Glasgow and Abu Dhabi. Melville provides a wide range of exhibition and event services including stand design and build, electrical installations including theatrical lighting, graphic services, logistics, furniture hire, floor coverings, venue services, data and registration and floor planning services. Melville provides services to many well-known shows including the U.K.’s largest exhibition, the Spring Fair, the British International Motor show, Clothes Show Live, and Ipex. For more information visit www.melville.co.uk.

ABOUT ADNEC

The Abu Dhabi National Exhibition Centre is managed by Abu Dhabi National Exhibitions Company, a modern and dynamic organisation which is also masterminding the Capital Centre development. The stunning new exhibition complex illustrates the company’s commitment to providing the city with world-class facilities for business and its bold plans for the future development of Abu Dhabi as a commercial destination.

Business Wire

October 24, 2008 03:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time

GES Announces Expansion of Services in Abu Dhabi

New Services to Include Shell Scheme, Stand Wiring, Furniture, Carpet, Graphics, Logistics, Custom Design and Build, and Data and Registration

LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--GES announced plans to extend its footprint at the Abu Dhabi National Exhibitions Centre (ADNEC) and offer a full portfolio of exhibition and event services to the Middle East though its United Kingdom company, Melville Exhibition and Event Services Limited, and subsidiary Melville Middle East.

Currently, Melville Middle East is the exclusive provider of venue services at ADNEC, providing rigging and specialist lighting features in addition to its exclusive provision of venue services such as electrical mains, piped services, primary rigging and floor mark out. The full services business will extend Melville’s business into shell scheme, stand wiring, furniture, carpet, graphics, logistics, custom design and build, and data and registration.

“Abu Dhabi continues to be an important growth market and we are pleased with the progress of our operations there,” said Kevin Rabbitt, GES president and chief executive officer. “ADNEC is a high quality exhibition center, and we are eager to launch a contracting service that is appropriate to that environment.”

“We plan to expand our services in the Middle East market by creating a full service offering that leverages the innovations that we’ve developed across the GES Worldwide Network,” said Melville Chief Executive Officer Nick Marshall. “Starting afresh in a market allows you to initiate the business in the optimal way and we intend to do that from our operating base in Abu Dhabi,” continued Marshall. “Our intention is to operate all our core contracting services such as shell scheme and electrics from a Melville Middle East-run warehouse operation that will enable us to provide higher-quality products and service levels.”

“Melville and the GES Worldwide Network have been great venue services partners,” said ADNEC Chief Executive Simon Horgan. “Melville and GES are recognized as world-class exhibition contractors and this expansion of their services further establishes Abu Dhabi for growth in international shows.”

“From our initial discussions with show organizers operating in the region, it is clear there is a demand for greater innovation, customer focus, and responsiveness from contractors operating in the Middle East,” said GES Senior Vice President of International Jason Popp. “Melville has succeeded in the United Kingdom being a customer-focused exhibition and event contractor, and we plan to extend that philosophy to the Middle East,” continued Popp. “This includes bringing our award-winning design expertise to the Middle East. Melville’s design capabilities have allowed show organizers in the United Kingdom to differentiate the overall look and feel of their show.”

ABOUT GES

Las Vegas-based GES Exposition Services, a subsidiary of Viad Corp (NYSE: VVI), services every major exhibition and event market across North America and the United Kingdom through the GES Worldwide Network. GES provides a wide range of services including exhibition planning and design, turnkey and custom exhibit rentals, material handling, staging, overhead sign rigging, temporary electrical equipment, signs and graphics manufacturing, installation and dismantling labor, carpet and furnishings, and transportation services. GES produces many well-known shows including the International Consumer Electronics Show, International Council of Shopping Centers, MAGIC, and CONEXPO-CON/AGG and IFPE. For more information, visit www.ges.com.

ABOUT MELVILLE

Melville Exhibition and Event Services Limited, a GES Worldwide Network company, is the U.K.’s leading exhibition and events services contractor with offices in Birmingham, London, Manchester, Glasgow and Abu Dhabi. Melville provides a wide range of exhibition and event services including stand design and build, electrical installations including theatrical lighting, graphic services, logistics, furniture hire, floor coverings, venue services, data and registration and floor planning services. Melville provides services to many well-known shows including the U.K.’s largest exhibition, the Spring Fair, the British International Motor show, Clothes Show Live, and Ipex. For more information visit www.melville.co.uk.

ABOUT ADNEC

The Abu Dhabi National Exhibition Centre is managed by Abu Dhabi National Exhibitions Company, a modern and dynamic organisation which is also masterminding the Capital Centre development. The stunning new exhibition complex illustrates the company’s commitment to providing the city with world-class facilities for business and its bold plans for the future development of Abu Dhabi as a commercial destination.

Business Wire

October 23, 2008 06:14 PM Eastern Daylight Time

Las Vegas’ First Online Auction of New Homes Attracts Hundreds of Interested Buyers with Only Two Weeks Left to Bid

Caught Up in the Housing Market’s Downward Spiral, Developer Gets Creative, Uses Freedom Realty Exchange’s Online Auction to Sell New Homes

NEWPORT BEACH, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The month-long auction campaign of a well-known regional developer’s year end closeout of homes in northern Las Vegas has already reached the halfway mark, leaving interested buyers just two weeks to visit the properties, conduct due diligence, and place a competitive bid. The auction, held by LFC Group of Companies, a Southern California online auction marketing company, on its residential real estate website FRE.com® (www.FRE.com/295R4), ends November 6.

The Las Vegas housing market has suffered tremendously, with the rise in foreclosures and resale properties making it difficult for developers to sell the handful of remaining new homes in their existing inventory by the year’s close. To succeed in a dismal market, one developer has turned to LFC’s online auction format, which offers an accelerated, aggressive marketing campaign to focus buyer attention specifically on their homes. For buyers, the online auction format affords a chance to buy new homes—not foreclosures—at competitive prices they determine.

Minimum bids starting at $99,000 have already produced an impressive turnout, with hundreds of buyers eager to purchase a bigger or newer home visiting the properties and registering at FRE.com®.

The online auction format gives buyers located outside of the Las Vegas area the freedom to log on and bid on these beautiful homes, located among six communities throughout northwest and North Las Vegas. Without ever having to step foot into a crowded conference room for a traditional outcry auction, buyers can view photos of the properties, download documents, conduct due diligence, and place bids all from the convenience of their own computer.

“The Las Vegas housing market is rock bottom, but our client’s decision to hold an online auction might just be a glimmer of hope for home sales,” says Kelly Lovegrove, LFC Group of Companies’ Director of Operations. “These are primarily new homes, all with Builder Warranties, and combined with the low minimum bids, buyers are finding it hard not to come forward and bid in the auction.”

Las Vegas has grown immensely over the last decade, becoming a bustling metro area surrounded by sprawling suburbs and vast natural beauty. The 30 homes in these communities are only a short drive from Lake Mead, Hoover Dam, and the Colorado River, providing easy access to countless Southwest excursions. For shopping and entertainment, northern Las Vegas has many new venues, while the Las Vegas Strip offers opportunities to see shows and dine at some of the best restaurants in the nation.

Buyers interested in owning a home in one of six beautiful Las Vegas neighborhoods must hurry online. With only two weeks until the bid deadline of November 6, 2008, time is running out to register and bid at www.FRE.com/295R4.

Freedom Realty Exchange – part of the LFC Group of Companies

For more than 30 years, the LFC Group of Companies has served numerous Fortune 500 companies, real estate developers, investors, financial institutions and government agencies by auction-marketing thousands of commercial, industrial, land and residential properties with an aggregate value well in excess of $5 billion. www.FRE.com .

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October 23, 2008 05:41 PM Eastern Daylight Time

Sims Announces Fiscal 2009 First Quarter Result

CHICAGO & SYDNEY, Australia--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sims Metal Management (ASX:SGM)(NYSE:SMS):

Highlights

Unaudited financial results

-- Sales revenue of $3.5 billion up 169% on Q1 FY08

-- EBITDA of $285.1 million up 159% on Q1 FY08

-- EBIT of $249.2 million up 180% on Q1 FY08

-- NPAT of $145.1 million up 175% on Q1 FY08

Balance sheet well positioned to deal with the challenges and opportunities presented by the global credit crisis with net debt representing 13% of total capital at quarter end
Determined a final dividend of 75 cents per share (comprising an ordinary dividend of 65 cents per share and a special dividend of 10 cents per share) payable on 27 October 2008
Metal Management business now fully integrated
North American strategy progresses with acquisitions of Silver Dollar Recycling (through Sims’ SA Recycling joint venture) and Global Investment Recovery (through Sims Recycling Solutions)
Financial Results to 30 September 2008

Sims Metal Management’s Chief Executive Officer, Mr. Daniel W. Dienst, announced today that the Company’s unaudited NPAT (net profit after tax) for the three months to 30 September 2008 was $145.1 million, up 175% on the prior corresponding period.

Unaudited EBITDA (earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation) was up 159% on the prior corresponding period to $285.1 million. Unaudited sales revenue was up 169% on the prior corresponding period to $3.5 billion.

The result includes a full contribution in the quarter from the former Metal Management business, which merger happened post the prior corresponding period.

Unaudited NPAT and unaudited EBITDA for the quarter ended 30 September 2008 were down 42% and 32% respectively on the quarter ended 30 June 2008.

Basic earnings per share for the quarter were 80 cents, compared to 42 cents in the prior corresponding period, a more meaningful comparison given the enlarged equity base resulting from the issue of shares to former Metal Management stockholders on completion of the merger.

Mr. Dienst stated: “Entering the second quarter, the global economy has been adversely impacted by the crisis in the financial and credit markets. For the steel and metal markets, what began as a seasonal slowdown and overstocking environment has now been compounded by a worldwide financial crisis perhaps without precedent in our lifetime. The steel and manufacturing complex is experiencing the same threat of illiquidity and demand paralysis as many industries around the world. That being said, we believe that Sims Metal Management’s competitive position will be recognized in these challenging times by our adherence to our prudent and disciplined operating strategy. Ours is not a business built upon financial engineering and we will use our platform, visibility and ample liquidity to manage through these difficult markets. It is a hallmark of Sims Metal Management that we will adapt to business environments – robust or challenging – to deliver the optimum level of performance possible under such conditions.”

North America

For the quarter, unaudited sales revenue was $2.7 billion and unaudited EBIT (earnings before interest and tax) (pre-corporate costs) was $248.3 million (including Sims Recycling Solutions). As the Metal Management merger was completed in the third quarter of the 2008 fiscal year, comparisons with the prior corresponding period are not relevant. Excluding the contribution from the former Metal Management business, however, unaudited EBIT was up 166%.

Sales tonnes during the quarter were 3.3 million.

Mr. Dienst said: “Despite the precipitous decline of commodity prices during the quarter, the North American business put up a strong performance. In addition to the completion of the Metal Management business integration, highlights were the metal recycling acquisitions completed in North America during the quarter. SA Recycling – a joint venture between Sims and Adams Steel operating in Southern California, Arizona and Nevada – acquired a 70% interest in Silver Dollar Recycling, the leading metal recycler in Las Vegas, operating the only shredding facility in that city. Sims Metal Management also purchased the assets of Weinert Recycling, a ferrous and non ferrous scrap metal recycler with operations in Middletown and Liberty, New York.

Mr. Dienst added: “The United States, as the origin of the financial contagion, is certainly not immune from the woes of the global financial crisis and current challenging global business climate. Customers and consumers alike are adjusting their values and levels of raw materials and finished goods inventories against the backdrop of uncertain demand and production prospects.”

Other Regions

Unaudited sales revenue for the combined Australian, Asian and European regions was up 29% to $848.6 million on the prior corresponding period. Unaudited EBIT (pre-corporate costs) was $14.6 million, down 68% on the prior corresponding period.

Sales tonnes for the combined regions during the quarter were approximately 872,000.

Mr. Jeremy Sutcliffe, Executive Director, said: “Our Australian and New Zealand operations delivered a solid result for the quarter, which was in line with the prior corresponding period. The performance of our European metal recycling operation was, however, adversely affected by inventory value adjustments which resulted in an EBIT loss for the quarter.

“Sims Recycling Solutions (“SRS”) made positive contributions in both Europe and North America and the SRS business strategy remains on track.

“The SRS business continued to expand in North America with the acquisition of Global Investment Recovery Inc., a leading US e-scrap recycler and asset recovery specialist based in Tampa, Florida, announced on 7 October 2008. The acquisition will increase our North American electronics recycling and asset recovery market presence by approximately 40%, consolidating our market leading position.”

Markets & Outlook

Trading conditions in both ferrous and non ferrous markets remain extremely difficult and short term trends in those markets are equally difficult to predict. Consequently, margins and volumes are likely to be significantly affected in the second quarter. Despite the recording of significant inventory write-downs of approximately $70 million in consideration of lower of cost or market assessments made in the first fiscal quarter just ended, additional provisions could be required should consumers and/or counterparties fail to perform on sales contracts. Accordingly, it is not possible to provide guidance on the Company’s second quarter performance at this time. At the Company’s 2008 Annual General Meeting to be held in Sydney on 21 November 2008 and if visibility is available, an update on the market and the outlook will be provided. The rapid and significant reduction of ocean freight rates and the depreciation of the Australian dollar against the US dollar and the British pound should, however, have a positive impact.

Mr Dienst concluded: “As we have said on many occasions, Sims Metal Management’s competitive advantage is its extraordinary people. Coupled with a strong balance sheet, unrivalled geographic reach and product diversity, we are optimistic that we will execute on our goal of capitalizing on market opportunities when they present themselves and emerging from this adverse point in the cycle stronger than when we entered it.”

Cautionary Statements Regarding Forward-Looking Information

This release may contain forward-looking statements, including statements about Sims’ financial condition, results of operations, earnings outlook and prospects. Forward-looking statements are typically identified by words such as “plan,” “believe,” “expect,” “anticipate,” “intend,” “outlook,” “estimate,” “forecast,” “project” and other similar words and expressions.

These forward-looking statements involve certain risks and uncertainties. Our ability to predict results or the actual effects of our plans and strategies is subject to inherent uncertainty. Factors that may cause actual results or earnings to differ materially from these forward-looking statements include those discussed and identified in filings we make with the Australian Securities Exchange and the United States Securities and Exchange Commission, including the risk factors described in the Registration Statement on Form F-4 we filed with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission on 8 February 2008.

Because these forward-looking statements are subject to assumptions and uncertainties, actual results may differ materially from those expressed or implied by these forward-looking statements. You are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these statements, which speak only as of the date of this release.

All subsequent written and oral forward-looking statements concerning the matters addressed in this release and attributable to us or any person acting on our behalf are expressly qualified in their entirety by the cautionary statements contained or referred to in this release. Except to the extent required by applicable law or regulation, we undertake no obligation to update these forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances after the date of this release.

All references to currencies reflect measures in Australian dollars.

About Sims Metal Management

Sims Metal Management www.simsmm.com is the world’s largest listed metal recycler with over 230 operations globally. Sims’ core businesses are metal recycling and recycling solutions. Sims earns around 80 per cent of its revenue from international operations in North America, the United Kingdom, Continental Europe, New Zealand and Asia. Sims has over 6,000 employees, an annualised turnover of over $10 billion in fiscal 2008 on a pro forma basis and has its ordinary shares listed on the Australian Stock Exchange (ASX CODE: SGM) and its ADRs listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE SYMBOL: SMS).

Business Wire

October 23, 2008 04:36 PM Eastern Daylight Time

Fitch Report: Balance Sheets Under Stress for U.S. Corporate Gaming Operators

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Fitch Ratings released its U.S. Gaming & Lodging liquidity report today which states that a prolonged recession and poor credit environment that extends beyond 2009 and into 2010 will put significant stress on the balance sheets of corporate gaming operators. However, the balance sheets of lodging companies, gaming suppliers and Native American gaming operators are better equipped to handle an extended downturn. Fitch says gaming industry investor sentiment is likely to remain weak, which may affect companies that have a high degree of refinancing risk in 2009 and 2010.

'We're expecting the turbulent economic climate to have an increasingly negative impact on the corporate gaming operators with near-term internal liquidity remaining weak,' said Michael Paladino, senior director at Fitch Ratings. 'As consumers focus more and more on necessities spending, and we enter into recession, the gaming and lodging operating environment will continue to be under pressure, causing significant challenges for issuers that have substantial near-term refinancing risk.'

According to Fitch, the weak economy has significantly affected consumers' gaming spending patterns and visitation levels in 2008. The largest markets, Las Vegas and Atlantic City, are experiencing some of the most significant demand pressure, as Las Vegas Strip revenues have declined 6.7% year-to-date (YTD) through August, while Atlantic City revenues have declined 6.3% YTD through September. Third-quarter and September trends are notably worse than YTD figures and Fitch believes that gaming operating trends are likely to remain weak well into 2009.

Due to heavy debt-funded, expansion-related project capital expenditures, most corporate gaming operators are generating negative free cash flow (FCF), while a significant portion of the industry's cash balance is for daily operations, or 'cage cash,' which should not be viewed as a form of liquidity. Corporate gaming operators will rely heavily on external sources of liquidity, primarily committed bank debt, to fund project spending. Fitch expects continued delays and cancellations of gaming projects in order to reduce capital expenditures and eventually generate positive FCF.

Gaming suppliers exhibit the most favorable liquidity picture, followed by lodging companies, primarily because of stronger internally generated liquidity and more stable FCF profiles. This favorable picture is driven by less capital-intensive business models and the recurrent nature of some of their revenue streams, coupled with more conservative balance sheet management. In addition, gaming suppliers and lodging companies do maintain bank credit lines, but the reliance on that external liquidity is limited.

The Native American gaming operators often exhibit more robust internal cash generation than corporate gaming operators, but typically have very limited access to committed external sources of liquidity. In addition, minor projects are normally cash flow funded, while expansion projects are typically fully funded early in the development cycle with funds held in a restricted account. However, significant liquidity concern arises when there is a major ongoing project that is not fully funded.

Please visit Fitch's web site, www.fitchratings.com, for the full report 'Liquidity Focus: U.S. Gaming & Lodging'.

Fitch's rating definitions and the terms of use of such ratings are available on the agency's public site, www.fitchratings.com. Published ratings, criteria and methodologies are available from this site, at all times. Fitch's code of conduct, confidentiality, conflicts of interest, affiliate firewall, compliance and other relevant policies and procedures are also available from the 'Code of Conduct' section of this site.

Business Wire

October 22, 2008 11:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time
Collector Car Sales Exceed $29 Million at Inaugural Barrett-Jackson Las Vegas Event
1949 MG TC Raced by Carroll Shelby Fetches $313,500

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Economic uncertainty was nowhere to be found inside the Mandalay Bay Events Center as over $29 million (including Buyer’s Premium) in collector cars were sold during the inaugural Barrett-Jackson Collector Car Event in Las Vegas Oct. 16-18, 2008. Bidders worldwide competed for over 500 vehicles that sold at No Reserve, including a 1949 MG TC that was Carroll Shelby’s first road race car, Funkmaster Flex’s custom 2006 Ford Mustang GT, a 2003 Saleen S7 and a 1954 Rolls-Royce Silver Dawn Custom. Over 50,000 people attended the automotive auction and lifestyle event, which was broadcast live in high-definition on SPEED.

“We’re thrilled with the outcome of our first Las Vegas event on many levels,” said Craig Jackson, chairman/CEO of Barrett-Jackson. “Las Vegas and Mandalay Bay welcomed us with open arms and as a strategic partner, and it’s clear that consignors, bidders and visitors were treated to a spectacular experience. Collector cars prevailed in a struggling economy, proving that they can be treated as both a hobby and an investment.”

Bidding was intense for the MG, reaching six figures within seconds of the opening offer. The $313,500 paid for the MG set a new world record. Shelby piloted the British speedster (Lot #819) to a surprise victory in a road race in Norman, Okla., in 1952, a win that set the stage for his prolific career; 10 percent of the MG’s winning bid was donated to one of Mr. Shelby’s charities.

Seven cars were sold for various charities, totaling over $655,000 at Barrett-Jackson Las Vegas, including $150,000 for the 2008 Barrett-Jackson Limited Edition Shelby GT. This rare Mustang was signed by the host and judges of “American Idol,” and all proceeds from the sale benefitted The Lili Claire Foundation. Additional charity vehicles included a 2006 custom Ford Mustang that was modified on ESPN2’s “Car Wars With Funkmaster Flex” that went for $300,000 for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation and a 2007 Dodge Charger raced by NASCAR star Kurt Busch for $85,000. In 2008, Barrett-Jackson has raised over $6.7 million for charities.

“Our goal was to build a docket with a vehicle for everyone,” noted Steve Davis, president of Barrett-Jackson. “While original examples continue to be in demand, resto-mods and customs were particularly popular in Las Vegas.”

The top 10 cars sold in Las Vegas include:

1949 MG TC – $313,500 (Lot #819)

2006 Ford Mustang GT – $300,000 (Lot #774.4)

2003 Saleen S7 – $260,700 (Lot #805.1)

1954 Rolls-Royce Silver Dawn – $225,500 (Lot #794)

1969 Ford Mustang Boss 429 – $214,500 (Lot #803.1)

1962 Lincoln Continental – $209,000 (Lot #812)

1938 Packard Victoria – $209,000 (Lot #801)

1970 Ford Mustang Boss 429 – $205,700 (Lot #816)

1970 Plymouth HEMI ‘Cuda – $187,000 (Lot #804.2)

1958 Chevrolet Corvette – $187,000 (Lot #788)

The inaugural Las Vegas event attracted more than 1,200 bidders with over 50 percent being first timers. Automobilia sales were also strong, bringing in over $272,000 during the three-day sale. More than 120 vendors and sponsors displayed a variety of items including aircraft, custom cars, racing gear, collectibles, jewelry and clothing.

“We far exceeded the first year of our Palm Beach event, which has continued to thrive over the past six years,” added Davis. “And the success of our Las Vegas event has already generated a wave of consignment and bidder requests for our 2009 Scottsdale event. The solid prices, higher attendance and unprecedented interest by corporate partners should set the stage for a great year for those who love collecting cars.”

“We’re thrilled about the Barrett-Jackson relationship and the outcome of the Vegas event,” said Bill Hornbuckle, president of Mandalay Bay. “This is the beginning of a great strategic partnership focused on lifestyle experiences that only Mandalay Bay and Barrett-Jackson can offer in such a unique and special way. I’m very excited about the association of our brands and the synergies that it provides and look forward to building the Vegas Barrett-Jackson event into one of the largest collector car auctions in the world.”

The 38th Annual Barrett-Jackson Collector Car Event in Scottsdale, Ariz., will take place Jan. 11-18, 2009.

About The Barrett-Jackson Auction Company

Established in 1971 and headquartered in Scottsdale, Ariz., Barrett-Jackson specializes in providing products and services to classic and collector car owners, astute collectors and automotive enthusiasts around the world. The company produces the “World’s Greatest Collector Car Events™” in Scottsdale, Palm Beach, Fla., and Las Vegas. For more information about Barrett-Jackson, visit www.barrett-jackson.com or call 480-421-6694.

Business Wire

October 23, 2008 12:55 PM Eastern Daylight Time

Research and Markets: A Company Profile of WellPoint, Inc. 2008: Gain an Insight into the Company's Finances, Strategies & Business Activities

DUBLIN, Ireland--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Research and Markets

http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/bab673/wellpoint_inc_bu

...has announced the addition of the "WellPoint, Inc. Business Intelligence Report 2008" report to their offering.

WellPoint, Inc. is the largest health benefits company in terms of commercial membership in the United States, serving approximately 34.8 million members as of December 31, 2007. WellPoint is an independent licensee of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association. WellPoint serves its members as the Blue Cross licensee for California and as the Blue Cross and Blue Shield, or BCBS, licensee for: Colorado, Connecticut, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Maine, Missouri (excluding 30 counties in the Kansas City area), Nevada, New Hampshire, New York (as BCBS in 10 New York city metropolitan and surrounding counties, and as Blue Cross or BCBS in selected upstate counties only), Ohio, Virginia (excluding the Northern Virginia suburbs of Washington, D.C.), and Wisconsin.

WellPoint offers a broad spectrum of network-based managed care plans to the large and small employer, individual, Medicaid and senior markets. WellPoint is organized around two strategic business units: Commercial and Consumer Business, or CCB, and Specialty, Senior and State-Sponsored Business, or 4SB. In addition, its government services business includes the Federal Employee Program and National Government Services, Inc., which acts as a Medicare contractor in several regions across the nation.

Executive Summary

Our BusIntell Report provides the information and analysis you need on WellPoint, Inc. to gain an understanding of what makes the company the nations leading health benefits company, and the largest health plan-owned PBM in the country. The BusIntell Report provides the following sections: Health Insurance Industry Overview, Pharmacy Benefit Management Overview, Medicare Prescription Drug Program Overview, Company Overview, Corporate Strategy, Strengths/Weaknesses, Internet Activities, Company Executives, Financial and Statistical Information, detailed Lines of Business, and Sources.

Key Topics Covered:

- Health Insurance Industry Overview

- Pharmacy Benefit Management Overview

- Medicare Prescription Drug Program Overview

- Company Overview

- Corporate Strategy

- Strengths/Weaknesses

- Internet Activities

- Company Executives

- Financial and Membership Information

- Lines of Business

For more information visit http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/bab673/wellpoint_inc_bu

Business Wire

October 23, 2008 12:38 PM Eastern Daylight Time

Western Sierra Mining Corp. Updates SEC Filings to Become Fully Reporting

Update on Anticipated OTC Bulletin Board Listing

PRESCOTT, Ariz.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Western Sierra Mining Corp. (OTC: WSRA) announced today an update on its progress to list the company on the OTC Bulletin Board. Western’s accountants have completed audits and reviews of the Company’s financials through the period ended June 30, 2007. All filings up to and including the period ended March 31, 2007 have been filed with the SEC; the remaining audit for the year ended December 31, 2007 and reviews through the quarter ended June 30, 2008 should be completed and filed next week. Additionally, the Company is current with its required filings for the Pink Sheets. Once these financials are filed, the Company will be current with all of its audited and reviewed financials required for a listing on the Bulletin Board.

Michael Chaffee, CEO and President of Western Sierra Mining, commented, “The completion of the requirements for listing on the Bulletin Board has been a primary focus of ours for quite some time now. While the Company has recently increased its mining portfolio with the addition of eight mining claims in the Bradshaw Mountains of Arizona with total reported proven, probable and indicated gold reserves of approximately 500,000 ounces and 950,000 ounces of silver in addition to the Gold Basin property, it has recently optioned containing a total of approximately 550,000 ounces of proven, probable and indicated gold reserves, the successful upgrade to a fully reporting company would allow us to potentially access pools of investment capital and investors previously unavailable to WSRA. We look forward to keeping our shareholders informed of the exciting developments taking place in their company.”

About Western Sierra Mining Corp.

Western Sierra Mining ( http://www.westernsierramining.com ) is an aggressive gold and silver exploration and mining company focused on the historic mining districts of the Bradshaw mountains of Arizona, with additional areas of interest within Nevada and Mexico. Current projects include the SunGold, Oro Cache, and the Big Chief mining group, all of which have demonstrated high-grade mineralization with previous histories of production. Long-term company goals are to create maximum shareholder value by continuing to build a strong base of properties and advance these projects toward production.

Safe Harbor

This press release contains statements, which may constitute "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the Securities Act of 1933 and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended by the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Those statements include statements regarding the intent, belief or current expectations of Western Sierra Mining and members of its management, as well as the assumptions on which such statements are based. Prospective investors are cautioned that any such forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance and involve risks and uncertainties, and that actual results may differ materially from those contemplated by such forward-looking statements. Important factors currently known to management that could cause actual results to differ materially from those in forward-statements include fluctuation of operating results, the ability to compete successfully and the ability to complete before-mentioned transactions. The company undertakes no obligation to update or revise forward-looking statements to reflect changed assumptions, the occurrence of unanticipated events or changes to future operating results.

Business Wire

October 23, 2008 11:01 AM Eastern Daylight Time

Tropicana Entertainment Asks New Jersey for Operational Control over Atlantic City Casino

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Making it abundantly clear that William J. Yung does not and will not have any influence or control over the company, Tropicana Entertainment, LLC today petitioned the New Jersey Casino Control Commission (CCC) to regain operating authority over its casino and resort in Atlantic City.

According to company CEO Scott C. Butera, Tropicana wants to run the casino because it believes that there is a better chance of reversing the property’s 48 percent decline in gross operating profits if it is integrated with a larger organization with the financial assets and human resources to invest in its future. The property has been under the control of a CCC-appointed conservator since last December.

“We have assembled a strong, highly competent new management team that is experienced in the Atlantic City market,” said Butera, who himself holds a New Jersey casino key employee license. ”We want to immediately deploy our managerial and financial resources to serve the gaming public and provide tax and employment benefits to the community.

“The need for this action has been made more urgent by the decision of the New Jersey Supreme Court to hear Tropicana’s appeal to regain its status,” Butera said. “The conservator’s sale process for the property, which we continue to support as a way to determine the credibility of current indications of interest, could be delayed for several months, far too long for the casino to be without the benefit of well-financed, professional casino management.”

The petition asks the CCC to appoint a company co-conservator of the property and give him the authority to bring the casino under Tropicana Entertainment’s corporate umbrella where it will have protections afforded under Chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy Code. Tropicana said it will then install a new management group at the property and make investments to improve the casino’s business so that it can be either sold at a fair price or realize its longer term value as a going concern within Tropicana’s current corporate structure.

If the CCC grants the petition, Tropicana will move to file the appropriate applications for a gaming license and ask the Commission to convene hearings – “as soon as practicable” – to establish that the newly constituted Tropicana is qualified to hold a casino license.

The petition asserts that Tropicana qualifies for a New Jersey license by virtue of the fact that the company has been “utterly and completely re-formed.” Mr. Yung is no longer involved and neither he nor the senior corporate team he had in place have any influence or control over the affairs of the company. The company anticipates that Mr. Yung’s interests will be “cancelled and extinguished” upon consummation of the Chapter 11 reorganization plan. A CCC-appointed co-conservator can provide oversight and supervision to ensure that any CCC regulatory concerns with respect to Mr. Yung’s interests are addressed.

“Tropicana is a brand new company,” said independent board member and former CCC Chairman Bradford Smith. “We have a new, independent board. We have a new team of experienced professional gaming executives managing our operations. Most important, we live by a set of business and operating philosophies that are in keeping with the best practices of a modern day gaming enterprise.”

As evidence of the company’s transformation, the petition notes a series of positive accomplishments on the part of the new management team. Among them are the separation from Columbia-Sussex Corporation, the establishment of headquarters in Las Vegas, arranging debtor in possession financing, and obtaining the approval of the Nevada Gaming Commission to operate the company’s five casinos in Nevada. It also cites Butera’s direct involvement in achieving a long-delayed labor agreement with the culinary union at the Tropicana Las Vegas.

“The issue here obviously involves maximizing value for our constituents,” Butera said. “But New Jersey and Atlantic City have a lot at stake, too. Selling the casino at today’s depressed prices could have the unintended consequence of lowering assessed values and drastically cutting city tax revenue. Faced with such a shortfall, lawmakers may be forced to increase individual property taxes to make ends meet.

“Likewise, assuming the sale is delayed until the Supreme Court rules, the business cannot be allowed to falter,” he said. “That, too, has consequences in terms of employment and overall returns to the City.

“These are outcomes that we should all work to avert,” Butera concluded.

About Tropicana Entertainment, LLC

Tropicana Entertainment, LLC, an indirect subsidiary of Tropicana Casinos and Resorts, is one of the largest privately held gaming entertainment providers in the United States. The company operates 540,000 square feet of casino space with 15,000 slot machine positions. With more than 11,000 employees and 8,300 hotel rooms at its properties, it produces in excess of $1.2 billion annual revenue. More information is available at www.tropicanacasinos.com. None of the information contained on the company's website shall be deemed incorporated by reference or otherwise included herein.

Business Wire

October 23, 2008 11:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time

Navellier & Associates Launches New International Blog for Timely Insights into Global Financial Events

The Forerunner in Money Manager Blogs Provides a Platform for Interactive Investor Discussion and Transparency Regarding Its Investment Philosophy

RENO, Nev.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Navellier & Associates (http://www.navellier.com), a registered investment advisor with approximately $3.7 billion under management for institutional and individual clients, today announced its new International Blog (http://blogs.navellier.com/international). Among the first money management firms to blog, this new discussion vehicle will focus on insights, observations, and two-way discussion concerning events around the world that impact global markets—including events in Europe, Asia, and Latin America.

Given the widespread impact of current events in today’s global economy, this blog offers timely insights regarding potential ramifications for international markets and, in turn, the portfolios of dedicated international investors. The Navellier International Blog can be found at http://blogs.navellier.com/international.

As the most recent addition to Navellier Blogs (which also includes All Cap Blog and Market Observations Blog), the International Blog is written by members of Navellier’s international portfolio management team, featuring Jim O’Leary, CFA. Mr. O’Leary is vice president and portfolio manager for Navellier's international strategies, including International Growth, International Small Cap, and Global Growth. He joined Navellier in 1996 and has thirty-four years of investment management experience in the securities industry.

Navellier has always encouraged an open dialogue to help investors understand the nuances of the market and the firm’s philosophy of embracing long-term investment strategies. Through its open commenting feature, readers are encouraged to join the discussions taking place—a unique feature among money management blogs. The new International Blog provides a convenient format for investors to stay abreast of events driving international markets on a daily basis.

In addition to offering RSS news feeds and social bookmarking tools, Navellier & Associates’ blogs include an interactive sidebar with top-ten holdings for relevant portfolios, news, and charts that are updated regularly for a stickier Web destination and optimal user experience.

About Navellier & Associates, Inc.

Navellier & Associates is a premier money manager dedicated to finding the market’s best growth stocks. Founded in 1987 by acclaimed growth analyst Louis Navellier, Navellier has guided clients for more than 20 years with a disciplined, style-consistent investment approach designed to maximize returns while controlling excessive risk. Navellier & Associates is based in Reno, Nevada.

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October 23, 2008 08:30 AM Eastern Daylight Time

GCA to Showcase New Cashless Gaming and Dynamic Marketing Technologies at G2E Expo in Las Vegas, November 18-20

G2E 2008 - Global Gaming Expo

Booth #2622
Booth #3518

LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--GCA, the wholly owned subsidiary of Global Cash Access Holdings, Inc. (NYSE:GCA), will showcase new developments in cashless gaming technology and its dynamic marketing solutions for gaming operators at G2E, the Global Gaming Expo scheduled to take place in Las Vegas November 18 – 20.

GCA is the global gaming industry’s payments leader. It provides more than 1,100 casinos and other gaming operators with a range of cash access products and information services that help patrons gain more convenient access to funds – and enable gaming operators to better serve, attract and retain patrons while lowering costs.

GCA executives will be at Booth #2622 to demonstrate and explain GCA’s product enhancement and cashless gaming innovations currently under development, including:

Wagering Accounts
Self-Enrollment
Ticket Out
Dynamic Messaging

GCA’s Central Credit and Marketing Services operations will host their own Booth, #3518. GCA executives will be on hand to discuss ways they can help gaming operators maximize direct marketing revenue and improve risk adjudication.

“We understand the challenges facing the gaming industry today, so we’re happy that G2E gives us the opportunity to engage in a deeper dialogue with our casino partners, and the industry overall, about the evolution to cashless gaming – and to demonstrate how our new products can help operators lower costs, improve player experience and realize greater efficiencies in marketing and incentives programs. We believe the movement toward a more integrated gaming floor, including cash access services, will facilitate such improvements. Our goal is to help our casino partners attract and retain the broadest range of patrons, including the digitally sophisticated,” said GCA President and Chief Executive Officer Scott Betts.

GCA’s product innovations are described on the company’s new Web site, www.gcainc.com or www.globalcashaccess.com.

About Global Cash Access, Inc.

Las Vegas-based Global Cash Access, Inc. (“GCA”), a wholly owned subsidiary of Global Cash Access Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: GCA), is a leading provider of cash access products and related services to over 1,100 casinos and other gaming properties in the United States, Continental Europe, Canada, the Caribbean and Asia. GCA's products and services provide gaming patrons access to cash through a variety of methods, including ATM cash withdrawals, point-of-sale debit card transactions, credit card cash advances, check verification and warranty services and Western Union money transfers. GCA provides products and services that improve credit decision-making, automate cashier operations and enhance patron marketing activities for gaming establishments. With its proprietary database of gaming patron credit history and transaction data on millions of gaming patrons worldwide, GCA is recognized for successfully developing and deploying technological innovations that increase client profitability, operational efficiency and customer loyalty. More information is available at GCA's Web site at www.gcainc.com.

Forward-Looking Statements

The statements contained in this press release that are not purely historical are forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Act of 1934. Such forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, any statement or implication that the gaming establishments named in this press release will continue to use the products or services described in this press release. Such forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties that, if realized, could materially impair Global Cash Access Holdings, Inc.’s results of operations, business, and financial condition. These risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, (a) inaccuracies in our assumptions as to gaming patron habits, (b) unwillingness or inability of either patrons or gaming establishment personnel to use new products and services, (c) regulatory impediments to the deployment of new products or technology, and (d) the factors discussed from time to time in reports filed by Global Cash Access Holdings, Inc. with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The forward-looking statements contained in this news release are made as of the date hereof, and Global Cash Access Holdings, Inc. does not intend, and undertakes no obligation to, update or qualify any of the forward-looking statements made herein.

For more information, or to arrange a conversation with Scott Betts, GCA’s President & Chief Executive Officer, please contact Adria Greenberg, Sommerfield Communications, Inc., at (212)-255-8386 or adria@sommerfield.com

Business Wire

October 23, 2008 08:10 AM Eastern Daylight Time

Wal-Mart Raises $978,000 for Special Olympics in California

Golden Partnership Campaign Helps Families and Athletes Save Money and Live Better

PLEASANT HILL, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--In keeping with its philosophy of operating globally and giving back locally, Wal-Mart has culminated the Golden partnership campaign to support Special Olympics Northern and Southern California by raising $978,128. The Golden Partnership campaign is a volunteerism and fundraising initiative involving more than 2,800 Wal-Mart associates, management, vendors and community leaders from across California.

“Special Olympics serves an essential role in our community through its development of some truly inspiring adult and children athletes, and we are honored to be part of its success,” said Henry Jordan, Regional General Manager. “Wal-Mart’s ongoing efforts to assist this vital grass-roots sports program is true to our commitment to give back to the communities we serve. By providing both monetary resources and dedicated volunteers, we are enthusiastic partners in helping the Special Olympics truly make a difference.”

“By taking the initiative to contribute, volunteer, and outreach to their vendors for sponsorship, Wal-Mart has gone above and beyond our expectations to help our programs and the over 26,000 athletes we serve in California,” said Mary Beth McMahon, executive vice president of Special Olympics, Northern California/Nevada.

“Since Special Olympics is offered for free to all its participants, Wal-Mart is helping provide essential resources for these programs to continue to thrive. Wal-Mart and Special Olympics is the perfect partnership as we both strive to help families save money and in turn live better lives. Wal-Mart allows us the opportunity to provide physical fitness programs for individuals many times left on the sidelines,” added McMahon.

About Special Olympics Northern and Southern California

Special Olympics Northern and Southern California is a free year-round sports training and competition program for children and adults with developmental disabilities. More than 26,000 athletes compete in over 285 competitions throughout the region in 19 sports. This requires the extraordinary support and time of more than 15,000 volunteers and more than 5,200 volunteer coaches. Programs are free to all eligible athletes. Financial support comes almost exclusively from individuals, organizations, corporations, and foundations. Find out how you can be a fan and visit www.SONC.org or www.SOSC.org.

About Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. (NYSE:WMT)

Every week, millions of customers visit Wal-Mart Stores, Supercenters, Neighborhood Markets, and Sam’s Club locations across America or log on to its online stores at www.walmart.com. The company and its Foundation are committed to a philosophy of giving back locally. Wal-Mart (NYSE:WMT) is proud to support the causes that are important to customers and associates right in their own neighborhoods, and last year gave more than $270 million to local communities in the United States. To learn more, visit www.walmartfacts.com , www.walmartstores.com , or www.walmartfoundation.org.

Business Wire

October 23, 2008 08:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time

More Than 1 Million College Students Offered Education in Practical Money Skills From Wells Fargo

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Wells Fargo & Company (NYSE:WFC) said it has offered Practical Money Skills for Life to more than 1 million college students the last five years. Practical Money Skills for Life features two online credit education lessons sponsored by Wells Fargo and Visa.

“We want our College Credit Card customers to understand the importance of building and managing credit wisely by giving them many educational resources to help them succeed,” said Dinna Martinez, Wells Fargo Card Services and Consumer Lending product manager. “By building relationships with students now, we’re helping them build healthy financial habits that will serve them well over their lifetimes.”

Wells Fargo invites every new College Credit Card customer to take the 10-minute online Practical Money Skills for Life lessons at wellsfargo.practicalmoneyskills.com.

Wells Fargo also provides college student customers:

The Student Guide to Good Credit brochure is offered to students before they apply for a Wells Fargo Credit Card and sent to them when they receive a card.

The Wells Fargo Student Credit Education website

www.wellsfargo.com/credit_cards/education/student

...offers students online tips, tools and links on money management, credit cards, and other general credit information to help build a successful financial future.
The What You Need to Know brochure is included with every credit card Welcome Kit and it reinforces using credit responsibly.

Every new College Credit Card customer receives the first statement regardless of whether or not the account has a balance. This provides an opportunity to deliver two key messages via the Statement Ad Page: Things to Know About Your Statement – highlighting major sections of their statement; and Managing Your Credit – tips on how to start a good credit record.

Every monthly statement includes a College Credit Card Tip of the Month that is relevant for that time of year.

Wells Fargo College Credit Card customers receive a Credit Education Newsletter every quarter that features topics such as Budgeting Basics, Saving Money During the Holidays and Avoiding Fees.
"Never has there been a more important time to make sure college students understand how to manage credit. It's encouraging that Wells Fargo is reaching out to students from day one, to make sure they get – and stay – on the right track," says Gerri Detweiler, Credit Advisor for Credit.com.

As part of its commitment, Wells Fargo works hand in hand with teachers, school administrators, and government agencies to integrate financial education into classrooms across the country. With their input, Wells Fargo developed Hands on Banking® and its Spanish version, El futuro en tus manos®, a free, non-commercial financial literacy program. Hands on Banking teaches people in all stages of life about the basics of responsible money management, including how to create a budget, save and invest, borrow responsibly, buy a home, and establish a small business.

In 2005, Wells Fargo created Stagecoach Island, a free, multi-player, online role-playing game that teaches young adults about financial responsibility. Wells Fargo created Stagecoach Island (blog.wellsfargo.com/StagecoachIsland) for young adults – many of whom are leaving home and becoming financially independent for the first time. Young adulthood is an especially important period for learning how to move from financial dependence to independence. For most young adults it’s an era of “firsts” – first car, first job, first bank account, first apartment, first credit card, and we want to make sure they have all the tools they need to be successful.

Wells Fargo & Company is a diversified financial services company with $622 billion in assets, providing banking, insurance, investments, mortgage and consumer finance through almost 6,000 stores and the internet (wellsfargo.com) across North America and internationally. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. is the only bank in the U.S., and one of only two banks worldwide, to have the highest possible credit rating from both Moody’s Investors Service, “Aaa,” and Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services, “AAA.”

Business Wire

October 23, 2008 08:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time

Truly Nolen Exterminates Hard-Wired Data Storage Approach with Flexible Storage Virtualization from DataCore Software

By Embracing Virtual Storage in Conjunction with Server Virtualization from VMware, National Pest Control Company Achieves Total Virtualization and a Disaster Recovery Plan in Place

TUCSON, Ariz. & FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--DataCore Software, the leading provider of storage virtualization software, today announced that its SANmelody™ software has gone from simply providing more storage capacity to serving as the foundation of a replication and disaster recovery (DR) solution at Truly Nolen, one of the nation’s most visible pest control specialists. In a scenario that DataCore witnesses time and time again, Truly Nolen was struggling with disk space issues. The bottom-line for Truly Nolen is that the new DataCore SAN helps them manage storage better and enhances efficiency by making it simple to dynamically add capacity where needed only when they need it. In addition to the storage issues Truly Nolen was encountering on its existing, physical servers, the company also wanted to implement a fault tolerant SAN for business continuity and DR. After engaging with DataCore Premiere Partner The Pinnacle Group, Truly Nolen selected DataCore SANmelody to be the foundation for just that.

“We knew that DataCore could improve our high availability and serve as the lynchpin of a disaster recovery solution,” noted Themis Tokkaris, systems engineer, Truly Nolen. “However even beyond capacity issues and disaster recovery plans, we were also thinking about virtualization in terms of our legacy servers. Instead of buying 10 physical machines, with a SAN in place we could virtualize those machines and leverage storage resource pooling – or virtualization – to serve storage to those virtual machines.”

Truly Nolen looked at no less than five other vendors before selecting DataCore, including LeftHand Networks, EqualLogic, EMC, and HP, among others. According to Tokkaris, “When we compared all of the features that the other vendors were providing to DataCore’s SANmelody features, we found that DataCore’s software-based solution provided all the storage management, high-availability and disaster recovery features at a lower cost than the other vendors provide. SANmelody was the most cost-effective solution that we could recommend to our management team in order to get their ‘go-ahead.’”

A disk space odyssey: capacity constraints, cumbersome migrations, wasted resources

Truly Nolen did not have a SAN prior to DataCore, instead relying on direct-attached storage, which is still the case in some instances. The traditional approach to data storage was not working. “We were not able to allocate more space to existing servers that were running out of space,” explained Tokkaris. “One of the key reasons for embracing DataCore initially was simply to allocate more space dynamically from the DataCore-powered SAN.” Moreover, before DataCore, IT administrators at Truly Nolen were forced to do an image backup or remove the drives of a particular server, purchase new drives, install them and rebuild the server.

Apart form the fact that this is labor-intensive – wasting the time of administrators and thereby incurring unnecessary costs, the traditional approach also wastes storage resources. “DataCore saves money on resources that would otherwise be wasted,” commented Tokkaris. “When you deploy a new server and do not have virtualized storage, you commit storage capacity to that server that most of the time is excessive. You might undersize, but typically you oversize and waste disk space.”

The Solution

Having the SAN in place provided the foundation for Truly Nolen to begin a server virtualization project. IT administrators moved their applications to two physical servers virtualized by a two node VMware ESX server cluster, which replaces the legacy servers that have been retired. The company now has web services, databases, e-mail servers, etc. and the backup software running on virtual machines. “We virtualized five servers and are maintaining and monitoring performance,” noted Tokkaris. “Slowly and gradually, we will add more.” One physical server exclusively runs DataCore SANmelody storage virtualization software to perform the following essential services:

Fielding all storage-related I/O from the ESX servers coming over iSCSI SAN connections.

Aggregating disk capacity from drives connected to these two servers into a virtual storage pool.

Allocating virtual disks (many of them thinly provisioned) from the virtual pool over the iSCSI connection. This shrinks allocation time to a few minutes and reduces consumption. SANmelody automatically alerts administrators when the free space in the pool hits a low-water mark. This is a trigger to add more physical disks to the pool before the remaining space is exhausted.

Truly Nolen has developed a disk-to-disk to tape solution by virtue of utilizing the SANmelody system. Two data pools make up a total of 2.5 TBs. One pool is for fast access SAS drives and another array in the pool comprises SATA drives that are used for storing less critical servers that require less speed. Backups are sent to those slower drives to be offloaded to tape. Since system engineers at Truly Nolen are using the SANmelody snapshot feature to take snapshots of the data volumes on the SAN for faster recovery or for testing purposes, these different drives allow them to offer different service levels from the pool. For example, they use the slower drives as destinations for online point-in-time snapshots, since those have less demanding requirements for testing patches and generating backup tapes.

Currently SANmelody is running SQL databases, Microsoft IIS Web Servers (6.0), dot-Net application servers, and the Windows Software Security (WSS) update services server. Next in line will be the company’s network management server, its centralized anti-virus server, as well as its production database server and email system. “We will add more applications to the DataCore SAN over time,” noted Tokkaris. “Gradually we want to move all of the critical data of the organization – specifically email and the customer management solution to the SAN for faster access.” Currently its customer management database is hosted on two physical servers in a cluster by itself.

“Truly Nolen engaged The Pinnacle Group because of our industry expertise in the virtualization space and relationship with DataCore Software,” said Aaron Schneider, Sales Engineering Director, The Pinnacle Group. “Our job is to find the best possible solution for our customers. We understood Truly Nolen’s needs from a storage aspect and helped the company design a centralized storage solution that would not only satisfy its immediate requirements, but scale as capacity increased. The SANmelody solution will easily support ‘bolt-on’ functionality for disaster recovery and integrate seamlessly with VMware’s Virtual Infrastructure for a highly available, fully-redundant solution.” The Pinnacle Group is a Premier Partner with DataCore Software and an expert in virtualization, storage, high availability and disaster recovery infrastructures.

Next step – disaster recovery

Truly Nolen is planning to achieve business continuity first by asynchronously mirroring to another SANmelody-powered system in another city and cloning part of the ESX environment. This will involve adding a third DataCore SANmelody server for asynchronous replication. In terms of Phase II, Truly Nolen will add synchronous mirroring within the data center. The company will synchronously mirror its virtual disks between two SANmelody servers using separate disk drives to achieve high-availability with automatic failover failback recovery capabilities.

“SANmelody will enable Truly Nolen to replicate its critical data to a remote site, which will serve to protect us further,” explained Tokkaris. “The key is to have DataCore SANmelody serve as the one data source that protects all of our critical data and is replicated remotely. By having this, we will be able to achieve all our disaster recovery and business continuity objectives – allowing us to run whether a failure takes down several disk drives, an entire DataCore server, or the primary connections from the ESX hosts to the DataCore virtual storage pool.”

DataCore Software Free 30-day Trial

With virtualized storage, customers receive enduring ROI benefits from the comprehensive storage management services provided by the software. For more information and a free 30-day test drive, please visit: www.datacore.com/trialsoftware.

About Truly Nolen

Founded in 1938, Tucson, Arizona-based Truly Nolen of America is one of the largest family owned pest control companies in the United States. Truly Nolen has 69 branch offices in Arizona, California, Florida, Nevada, New Mexico, Texas and Utah. The company also has independently owned and operated franchises in an ever-growing number of territories including California, Delaware, Florida, Iowa, Kentucky, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Texas as well as Puerto Rico. For more information, please visit www.trulynolen.com.

About The Pinnacle Group

Our goal is to help our customers build a computing infrastructure that synchronizes business with technology. We recognize the importance of budget constraints in today’s volatile economy. We maximize your ROI by knowing how to solve IT issues correctly the first time and by implementing those solutions with a trained and experienced engineering team.

The Pinnacle Group is a Premier Partner with DataCore Software, VMware Authorized Consultant (VAC), and a Global National Reseller with HP.

About DataCore Software

DataCore Software, the leading provider of storage virtualization SAN software, fundamentally changes the economics of managing storage with innovative software that combines advanced functions and services with the agility and savings of hardware independence. DataCore lowers the cost and complexity of IT by making storage efficient, fast, flexible, fail-safe and virtual. DataCore's portable storage server software simplifies and automates capacity expansion and centralizes storage management for Windows, UNIX, Linux, MacOS, NetWare, VMware and other leading open system and virtual server platforms. DataCore is privately held and its corporate headquarters are in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. For more information, call (877) 780-5111 or visit www.datacore.com.

DataCore, the DataCore logo and SANmelody are trademarks or registered trademarks of DataCore Software Corporation. Other DataCore product or service names or logos referenced herein are trademarks of DataCore Software Corporation. All other products, services and company names mentioned herein may be trademarks of their respective owners.

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October 22, 2008 02:37 PM Eastern Daylight Time

Fitch Affirms Coso Geothermal Power Holdings, LLC at 'BBB-'; Outlook Stable

CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Fitch Ratings has affirmed the 'BBB-' rating of Coso Geothermal Power Holdings, LLC's (CGP) pass-through trust certificates due 2026. Fitch believes the likelihood CGP will achieve originally projected long-term financial performance remains unchanged. Recent declines in the Coso geothermal project's energy output will be remedied with a sponsor-funded capital improvement plan and should not persist beyond the near term. The Rating Outlook is Stable, as CGP's financial performance is supported by fixed prices on energy sales through April 2012.

The rating is based on CGP's long-term financial profile, which is subject to volumetric risk associated with a potential decline in Coso's production capacity. Fitch has evaluated CGP's credit quality on a stand-alone basis, independent of the credit quality of its owners. CGP is an indirect, wholly owned subsidiary of Terra-Gen Power, LLC (Terra-Gen), which in turn is a wholly owned subsidiary of ArcLight Energy Partners Fund III, LP and ArcLight Energy Partners Fund IV, LP (collectively, ArcLight).

CGP has engaged in an accelerated capital improvement program designed to enhance Coso's steam production and energy output, which had been gradually declining. CGP intends to compress the existing schedule of long-term capital improvements into a relatively short two to three year time frame. The independent engineer and geothermal consultants believe the accelerated program will increase output without negatively affecting the long-term production capacity of the geothermal resource.

Through Terra-Gen, ArcLight intends to fully fund the accelerated program with a $70 million equity contribution, demonstrating its support for the project in the near term. Terra-Gen has not made an irrevocable funding commitment, and the equity will be disbursed over time. However, related amendments to the financing documents have been executed and the accelerated program is already in progress.

CGP continues to pursue the permitting process for Coso's Hay Ranch project, which is expected to enhance and stabilize steam production through supplemental water injection. Inyo County, the local permitting authority, is currently reviewing the environmental impact report on the project. In the event Hay Ranch is further delayed, the accelerated capital improvement plan should compensate for output shortfalls in the short term. It remains uncertain whether the final permits will allow CGP to pump water at a rate that supports the sponsor's projected increase in output.

Combined with the Hay Ranch project, the accelerated program has the potential to improve output beyond the sponsor's original projections over the next 5-10 years. Fitch does not view the program as a substitute for Hay Ranch, upon which CGP's long-term financial profile continues to rely. If Hay Ranch is unable to operate as expected, Coso could require additional capital improvements to bolster long-term production capacity.

The California Public Utilities Commission continues to consider a significant overhaul of the short-run avoided cost (SRAC) methodology. Fitch expects Coso will receive a lower SRAC price under the revised formula. Fitch does not believe the financial impact will be severe, as Coso is exposed to SRAC price volatility on only one third of its output between 2012 and 2019.

CGP is a special-purpose company formed to lease and operate the Coso project, which consists of three interlinked geothermal power plants located in Inyo County, Calif. Coso provides royalty payments to the U.S. Navy and the Bureau of Land Management for use of the geothermal resource. Under a series of PPAs, Coso's entire output will be sold to Southern California Edison Company (IDR of 'A-', Stable Outlook) through January 2030. Cash flows from both Coso and Beowawe, an affiliated geothermal project in Nevada, are available to service CGP's rent payments under the CGP lease. Rent payments are the sole source of cash available to pay debt service on the pass-through trust certificates.

Fitch's rating definitions and the terms of use of such ratings are available on the agency's public site, www.fitchratings.com. Published ratings, criteria and methodologies are available from this site, at all times. Fitch's code of conduct, confidentiality, conflicts of interest, affiliate firewall, compliance and other relevant policies and procedures are also available from the 'Code of Conduct' section of this site.

Business Wire

October 22, 2008 02:04 PM Eastern Daylight Time

Computer Outlook Radio Talk Show Joins Radio360Talk.com

LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Computer Outlook Radio Talk Show and Radio360Talk announced today that internet radio station has added Computer Outlook to its weekly lineup airing rebroadcasts of the weekday show Mondays through Fridays as well as Sundays’ Java with John edition from 11:00 am. to noon Eastern Standard Time.

The Computer Outlook Radio Talk Show features 'What's New - What's Best and What's Next' in the computer and I.T. industry. The 1-hour program, hosted by John Iasiuolo, targets home and business with content that satisfies both the novice and advanced user, in a fun, yet zero tech-babble format. To ensure Computer Outlook’s listeners are getting the latest inside information on a broad range of technology subjects, the show is divided into a series of themes including: Digital Life, Industry News & Reviews, Gaming, Mobile Lifestyles, SEO, Mac Edition and the popular How To’s Show. John is joined by industry leaders and guest co-hosts based on their specific expertise of the topic being presented.

"We are tremendously pleased to add The Computer Outlook Radio Show to our schedule," said Brandon Windsor, Owner of Radio360Talk. "John presents what can sometimes be confusing or complicated topics in a simple to understand format that is entertaining the listener while simultaneously informing them."

“Although Radio360Talk is fairly new in the internet radio industry, they have already set themselves apart by creating a professional, yet listener-friendly portal, with a hand-picked line-up of shows and hosts,” said show host, John Iasiuolo. “Computer Outlook is very pleased to join the Radio360Talk family and share with a new group of listeners the fun side of computer education through a show that meets the requirements of both novice and advanced, home and business user.”

Computer Outlook Radio Talk Show is sponsored by: Diskeeper Corp, CMS Products, Kingston Technology, New Tech Infosystems, Data Drive Thru, D-Link, Roboform and Seamless.

In addition, Computer Outlook airs “Computer Tips” twice daily during the 8:30 am. and 4:00 pm. drive times. Podcasts of both live programs are available from computeroutlook.com and leading podcast portals: iTunes.com, Yahoo, www.iPodder.org , www.PodcastAlley.com , www.Podcast.net , www.PodScope.com , www.PodNova.com, www.Odeo.com , www.Podcastpickle.com and www.PodcastingNews.com .

Business Wire

October 22, 2008 12:35 PM Eastern Daylight Time

Presidential Election and Portable Connectivity Focus of Day Two at CEA Industry Forum

Attendees Hear Keynote Address from Congresswoman Shelley Berkley and Sessions on Smartphone Innovations and Emerging International Markets

LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The impact of the presidential election on the consumer electronics industry and the latest advancements in portable connectivity were among the topics discussed on Day Two of the 2008 Consumer Electronics Association (CEA)® Industry Forum. Designed to connect, educate and inform consumer technology professionals, analysts and media, the CEA Industry Forum runs through today at the Four Seasons Hotel in Las Vegas.

The CEA annual member meeting was held during a luncheon on Tuesday afternoon. Gary Shapiro, president and CEO, CEA, discussed the optimistic outlook of the CE industry even as nationwide economic troubles prevail. Shapiro also outlined several CEA initiatives to grow the consumer technology industry including free trade, the digital television (DTV) transition and environmental policies, and many new 2009 International CES® developments. Elections of CEA’s Board of Industry Leaders also were held at the annual meeting.

Congresswoman Shelley Berkley (D-NV) keynoted the lunch and discussed her home district in Nevada, the importance of the CE industry and several policy predictions once a new administration is in place. Congresswoman Berkley began by noting the importance of increasing the CE industry’s visibility on Capitol Hill, and highlighted the remarkable work of CEA’s policy initiatives, which support government leaders and policies in favor of technological innovation. She noted that Nevada, which allows early voting, is showing Democrats outpacing Republicans two and half to one. She also discussed policy issues ranging from free trade and renewable energy to white spaces and intellectual property. She concluded by stating, “the innovation of CEA is the embodiment of what we are capable of accomplishing. This innovation is the future of the nation and the future of our planet.”

Jeneanne Rae, Business Week columnist, co-founder and president, Peer Insight, hosted the morning’s first session titled, “Innovation in an Age of Uncertainty.” Given the current state of the economy, Rae stressed that companies will never have enough resources to succeed on their own. Rae suggested that companies collectively leverage the knowledge and power of hardware, software and service providers to achieve the ultimate customer experience.

Tuesday morning’s session, “Video on the Small Screen,” explored how new technologies are now streaming live television, traffic, weather and GPS updates straight to consumers’ portable devices. Moderated by Maggie Reardon, senior writer, CNET News, panelists from MediaFLO, MobiTV, Skyhook Wireless and ICO Global discussed what needs to happen for mobile video to exponentially take off, what content people want to watch on their portable devices and what business models will work in this space. The panelists predicted that video on the small screen is no longer a “lean back” experience, but an interactive experience as all small devices are now part of a connected ecosystem.

“Web 2.0: The New Era of Keeping Your Business Competitive,” discussed the impact of social media on companies. Moderated by Craig Sholtz, blogger and web strategy consultant, Web 2.Oh....Really? and comprised of panelists from Microsoft, Dell, Comcast and Google, the session explored the effects of social media on customer service and branding. The panelists concurred that interactive web communities, such as YouTube, allow companies to be more connected to both current and potential consumers.

In the Tuesday afternoon session, “Cell Phone 2.0,” Jacqueline Cooper of Research In Motion, Eric Anderson of Handango and Eric Fitzgerald Reed of Verizon discussed the future of the wireless phone. As Smartphone sales continue to grow exponentially, the panel predicted that the market for applications will also grow, and that user customization will transform the purchase experience for consumers.

Tuesday afternoon’s session, “What’s the Next China?” examined some of the issues that are driving up costs for manufacturers in China such as freight, labor and raw material. The panel, consisting of leaders from PRTM, Sima Products Corporation and Stamford International, also discussed challenges such as regulatory risks, government intervention, currency and IP issues. The panel discussed regions that could be the next hot zones for technology manufacturing including India, Eastern Europe, particularly Hungary, Poland and the Czech Republic, Brazil and Mexico.

“Best Practices for Greening Your Company,” explored programs and practices of CE industry leaders who are making progress toward environmental sustainability. Moderated by Marc Alt of Marc Alt + Partners, panelists Paula Prahl, Best Buy; John Harland, Intel and David Sherman of Blu Skye Sustainability Consulting discussed best practices in electronics recycling, green manufacturing and energy efficiency. Noting the growing consumer interest in green issues, Prahl shared recent consumer research revealing that 43 percent of Best Buy's core customers are committed to environmental issues.

The Consumer Electronics Hall of Fame Dinner was held Tuesday evening, honoring 12 new members inducted for their groundbreaking ideas and ongoing efforts to expand and improve the consumer electronics industry. Honorees include Joe Clayton, Eddy Hartenstein, Richard Sharp and developers of the first cell phone, Martin Cooper and Donald Linder.

Wednesday’s events at the CEA Industry Forum include sessions presented by the CEA Small Business Council and PARA focused on brand recognition and the importance of customer service and retention.

For more information on CEA and the 2008 CEA Industry Forum, visit www.CE.org.

About CEA:

The Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) is the preeminent trade association promoting growth in the $173 billion U.S. consumer electronics industry. More than 2,200 companies enjoy the benefits of CEA membership, including legislative advocacy, market research, technical training and education, industry promotion and the fostering of business and strategic relationships. CEA also sponsors and manages the International CES – Where Entertainment, Technology and Business Converge. All profits from CES are reinvested into CEA’s industry services. Find CEA online at www.CE.org.

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UPCOMING CEA EVENTS

-- EHX Fall 2008

November 4-7, 2008, Long Beach, CA

-- CES New York Press Preview featuring CES Unveiled@NY

November 11, 2008, New York, NY

-- Future of Television East

November 18-19, 2008, New York, NY

-- CES Unveiled: The Official Press Event of the International CES

January 6, 2009, Las Vegas, NV

-- 2009 International CES

January 8-11, 2009, Las Vegas, NV

-- Digital Music Forum East

February 24-25, 2009, New York, NY

-- Greener Gadgets Conference

February 27, 2009, New York, NY

-- EHX Spring 2009

March 10-14, 2009, Orlando, FL

-- CONNECTIONS™ Europe: Strategies for Digital Living Markets

March 31, 2009, Nice, France

-- Digital Patriots Dinner

April 22, 2009, Washington, DC

-- CEA Washington Forum

April 22 - 23, 2009, Washington, DC

-- LA Games Conference

May 20-21, 2009, Hollywood, CA

-- Digital Downtown

June 10-12, 2009, New York, NY

-- 13th Annual CEO Summit

June 17-20, 2009, Dana Point, CA

-- 2009 SINOCES

July 9-12, Qingdao, China

-- 2009 CEA Industry Forum

October 18-21, 2009, Phoenix, AZ

-- CES New York Press Preview featuring CES Unveiled @ NY

November 10, 2009, New York, NY

Business Wire

October 22, 2008 11:53 AM Eastern Daylight Time

Liberty Star and NPX Metals Enter Revised Agreement on Gold-Silver Nevada Property

TUCSON, Ariz.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Liberty Star Uranium & Metals Corp. (OTCBB: LBSU) (the “Company”) announces that it has signed an agreement to sell its option land at the Providence Project to NPX Metals Inc (“NPX”). The option land, adjacent to land already held by NPX, is believed to host commercially relevant quantities of disseminated gold and silver in Nevada’s historic Beatty Mining District.

The Company’s option which was obtained at little cost and forms the northwestern pit wall of the Montgomery-Shoshone (M-S) open pit, last mined in the 1990s by Barrick Bull Frog Mining Company a subsidiary of Barrick Gold Corp. and others for disseminated gold and silver. The mineral zone appears to continue from the M-S open pit on to the Providence Project, but has yet to be drill tested for precious metal mineralization (NR 74, April 29, 2008).

In general, the terms set forth in the sales agreement made during the summer of 2008, with revisions October 15, 2008, provide that the Company will assign its interest in the Providence Project option land to NPX for $200,000. The two companies have also agreed that NPX will hire Liberty Star to provide exploration and development services on the project area. The Liberty Star geology team has begun field work in the area.

ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS

“James A. Briscoe”

James A. Briscoe,

President/Director

SAFE HARBOR STATEMENT

Statements in this news release that are not historical are forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements in this news release include that we will sell our option land for $200,000 and that we will be hired to conduct exploration and development work on the property. Factors that may prevent or delay these statements coming to fruition include inability to come to final agreement on sale, terms on payment in the sale or in the work, other contractors offering better terms or our inability to perform the work required. Readers should refer to the risk disclosures outlined in the Company’s most recent 10-KSB and the Company’s other periodic reports filed from time to time with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

About Liberty Star’s Mineral Exploration Projects

Liberty Star Uranium & Metals Corp. is a mineral exploration company currently with ongoing exploration interests for the discovery of uranium ore deposits on the Arizona Strip region of the Colorado Plateau (North Pipes Super Project). Liberty Star also maintains exploration projects in Alaska for copper, gold, silver and moly, in Nevada for gold and silver, and southern Arizona for porphyry copper and other metals. Information on these can be found at Liberty Star’s web site http://www.libertystaruranium.com/.

About NPX Minerals Inc.

NPX Metals is a mineral exploration company focused on properties in Arizona and Nevada, headquartered in Apache Junction, Arizona. NPX Metals is a Nevada Domestic Corporation (see Nevada Secretary of State Business Entity E0254852006-7) incorporated in April 2006. President/Director Daniel Bleak is a mining industry entrepreneur. Corporate officers include Denis Corin (director), Johnathan Lindsay, (director, secretary, treasurer) and Randall Reneau (director). Bret Judd is the manager for Exploration & Land Tenure.

Business Wire

October 22, 2008 10:57 AM Eastern Daylight Time

Exciting Opportunities Emerge for Food and Beverage Companies with FloraGLO® Lutein's Expanded GRAS Status

LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Following a critical review, an expert panel has self-affirmed Kemin's FloraGLO® Crystalline Lutein as GRAS (Generally Recognized As Safe) for new applications and higher inclusion levels. This self-affirmation significantly expands the levels of use and food applications from those that were the subject of an earlier GRAS notification made by Kemin to the Food and Drug Administration without Agency objection. For food and beverage manufacturers, this news means more options for delivering to consumers FloraGLO Lutein’s valuable eye and skin benefits. Importantly, expanded GRAS status comes at a time when conventional food companies are eagerly seeking beneficial nutrients such as FloraGLO Lutein, which is backed by strong clinical support and exciting new, emerging science.

At the Supply Side West Expo in Las Vegas, Nevada, on October 24, 2008, James M. Stringham, Ph.D. will present a seminar entitled, “Diet and Vision: Macular Pigment Improves Visual Performance in Glare.” Dr. Stringham's presentation will detail how FloraGLO Lutein and OPTISHARP® Zeaxanthin can play a role in reducing the harmful effects of glare by boosting the levels of macular pigment in the central retina. This research also shows an increase in contrast acuity and enhanced filtering of blue light, which is the most hazardous fraction of the visible light spectrum.

FloraGLO’s new role in improving visual performance will be greatly welcomed by a wide range of consumers. Among the most obvious beneficiaries of this breakthrough are likely to be outdoor and recreational sports enthusiasts, such as skiers, golfers, cyclists, and pilots. This broad, largely active and competitive audience presents a wealth of new opportunities for food, beverage, and dietary supplement manufacturers and marketers. Additionally, and vastly more sizable is the range of persons who will appreciate relief from everyday eye irritations such as the glare of headlights while driving, and the strain of staring at computer monitors for long periods of time. FloraGLO Lutein can help improve visual function for almost anyone.

In its current food uses, levels of FloraGLO Lutein may now be increased for the following categories: Cereal, Granola, Energy & Nutrition Bars; Tea; Soy Milk; Frozen Yogurt; Ready-to-drink Energy, Sport & Isotonic Drinks; Fruit-Flavored Drinks; Fruit Juice; Nectars; and Vegetable Juice and Canned Soups. And, FloraGLO Lutein may now be used in new food categories, including: Gelatin, Pudding, Trail Mix, Cookies, Powdered Tea, and Powdered Energy, Sport & Isotonic Drinks.

Kemin Global Marketing Director, Andy Martin, sums up the potential impact of FloraGLO Lutein's expanded GRAS Status: "Now that more food and beverage manufacturers can add FloraGLO Lutein to a wider array of functional foods at levels that promote these important benefits, there's likely to be a sudden, dramatic increase in public awareness of lutein's value to health. It's exciting to think that we're actually at the tipping point right now where many more people are on the verge of learning just how significant lutein’s contribution is not just to eye and skin health, but also to improving visual function

For more information, please visit us at SupplySide West - Booth 21057, Health Ingredients Europe – Booth E031 or contact Kemin directly at:

North America 866-536-4666

Europe +351-214-157-500

Central/South America +55-11-3459-7115

Asia +81-3-5157-2052

Kemin – Inspired Molecular Solutions™.

Founded in 1961, Kemin Industries, Inc. (www.kemin.com) provides health and nutritional solutions to the agrifoods, food ingredients, pet food and human health and pharmaceutical industries. Kemin operates in more than 60 countries with manufacturing facilities in Belgium, Brazil, China, India, Singapore, South Africa, and the United States.

For media inquiries, please contact:

FloraGLO is a registered trademark of Kemin Industries, Inc.

OPTISHARP is a registered trademark of DSM Nutritional Products, Inc.

Business Wire

October 22, 2008 09:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time

TRIRIGA User Conference Validates Urgency of Investing in Environmental Performance

Despite economy, TRIRIGA signs new customers with environmental management system for buildings

2008 TRIRIGA International User Conference

LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--TRIRIGA®, the leading provider of real estate and facilities management software, commences its annual user conference this week in Las Vegas and welcomes a record number of attendees and industry luminaries to discuss “Building a Sustainable Future.” With 400+ executives and senior managers in attendance, the conference validates the need to devote more resources to improving environmental performance, despite tightening budgets in today’s economy. TRIRIGA meets this need with TREES (TRIRIGA Real Estate Environmental Sustainability) – the first and only environmental management system to measure, manage and reduce energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions from buildings – and customer adoption is increasing at a record pace.

By implementing Web-based operations, facilities and real estate management solutions with more than one-third of the Fortune 100 companies, TRIRIGA has found that many organizations today prioritize measuring and understanding their exact carbon footprints and levels of energy consumption. With TREES, TRIRIGA is giving customers a clear path to improved and measured environmental performance – the company calls this “carbon health” – and its Customer Advisory Board (CAB) members were integral to the design and development of the software. CAB members participating in this week’s Building a Sustainable Future user conference span a range of industries, including: financial services, life sciences, technology, media, telecommunications, consumer and industrial products, retail and energy. CAB membership is up 35% this year, and environmental sustainability is a central focus.

At the conference this week, TRIRIGA customers and CAB members will join energy and green building luminaries including Marc Heisterkamp, Market Development Manager for the U.S. Green Building Council, George Bouri, Principal in Deloitte's Strategy & Operations Consulting Practice and Dr. Stephen Stokes, Vice President of Business and Climate Change for AMR Research. In addition, Senator Fred Thompson, a strong supporter of market-based solutions for solving America’s carbon emissions challenges, will deliver the keynote address. Senator Thompson will discuss impending federal regulations surrounding environmental sustainability and their impact on businesses.

“Adapting to and developing sustainable business practices should be axiomatic for all businesses, as they provide a potent change management and business improvement vehicle to reduce bottom-line costs via energy-efficiency measures, optimization of transportation, and logistics, storage, and waste,” said Dr. Stephen Stokes, Vice President of Business and Climate Change for AMR Research. “At TRIRIGA’s conference, I look forward to discussing how organizations can cross the great divide and create authentic leadership and strategic sustainability for a Carbon Healthy Organization.”

“Rising energy costs and impending government regulations on energy and buildings are some of the top concerns among the Fortune 1000 today, and those organizations need a reliable and immediate way to translate corporate environmental goals into results,” said George Ahn, President and CEO of TRIRIGA. “We help organizations achieve results today by giving them the tools they need to focus on their buildings, the largest environmental culprit contributing to 48% of green house gas emissions. We are excited that our traditional real estate and facilities customers and TREES customers are all coming together at this historic conference. Our TREES customers are showing their peers how to set a strong and early example when it comes to drastically improving environmental performance and preparing for the regulations on the horizon.”

TRIRIGA’s Building a Sustainable Future conference is taking place at the Las Vegas area’s Green Valley Ranch Resort from October 21-24. Customers including key Fortune 100 organizations will present case studies on how TRIRIGA and real estate management factor into their corporate environmental performance plans. For more details on the conference and daily agenda, visit

http://www.tririga.com/uc2008/agenda.php.

About TRIRIGA

Recognized by leading industry analysts as the best-in-class solution, TRIRIGA provides the industry’s most extensive functionality in a fully integrated solution including real estate management, project management, facility management, operations management, workplace performance management and environmental sustainability for real estate assets. TRIRIGA’s extensible technology provides customers with unmatched business agility to rapidly configure and reconfigure the application based on customers’ changing needs. TRIRIGA’s environmental sustainability offering, TREES, is the only solution available today to help companies measure, manage and reduce the carbon footprint of their buildings. With an outstanding network of consultants, partners, industry experts, and market-leading customers, TRIRIGA has been delivering exceptional service and proven best practices to over one-third of the Fortune 100.

For more information, contact TRIRIGA at (702) 932-4444, or visit www.tririga.com.

TRIRIGA, WPM, TREES and TRIRIGA’s other marks and product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of TRIRIGA in the United States and other countries. All other trademarks are properties of their respective owners.

Business Wire

October 22, 2008 09:01 AM Eastern Daylight Time

GreenPlumbers® a Hit at Water Conservation Conference

SACRAMENTO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The WaterSmart Innovations '08 conference was held recently in Las Vegas, educating more than 1,000 attendees on water efficiency, new technology and the importance of conserving our precious natural resource. Held by the Southern Nevada Water Authority in partnership with the Environmental Protection Agency’s WaterSense program, the conference enabled professionals in the fields of water conservation and green energy to come together in planning and education.

Environmental training and accreditation program GreenPlumbers furthered its mission at WaterSmart by holding five free workshops over three days. The workshops encompassed 32 hours of continuing education for plumbers, including training on water conservation, climate care, solar hot water and new technologies. More than 450 plumbers and other industry professionals, from upwards of 30 states, attended the workshops and became accredited GreenPlumbers. “We were pleased to build a successful relationship with GreenPlumbers (at the conference),” said Doug Bennett, conservation manager of the Southern Nevada Water Authority. “It is vital that the public sector and private sector work collaboratively to accelerate adoption of the best water efficiency technologies for homes and businesses. GreenPlumbers USA is a vital link in promoting and delivering the best water efficiency technologies and techniques to the end user. This has been an ideal partnership.”

Stephanie Thornton, WaterSense partner outreach coordinator, says plumbers play a vital role in conservation. "Plumbers really are on the front lines of water efficiency, so we're excited to see such an overwhelming level of enthusiasm for the GreenPlumbers workshops."

GreenPlumbers' participation in the WaterSmart conference marked the beginning of a new round of expansion for the accreditation program, as it makes inroads into Canada and continues to train plumbers across the U.S. GreenPlumbers has November workshops scheduled in California, Oregon, Wisconsin and Washington.

The GreenPlumbers® program is open to all recognized plumbers and contractors. The program is partnered with the EPA’s WaterSense program, the Alliance for Water Efficiency, the California Center for Sustainable Energy, the California Urban Water Conservation Council, and many more industry leaders in its mission of bringing environmental training to plumbers.

For more information, visit www.greenplumbersusa.com. To learn more about the WaterSmart Innovations conference, visit www.watersmartinnovations.com.

Business Wire

October 22, 2008 09:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time

Validare, Inc. Honored By The National Association Of Specialty Health Organizations with Industry Innovation Award

LAS VEGAS & SAN RAMON, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The National Association of Specialty Health Organizations (NASHO) today announced that Validare, Inc. is the winner of the first annual NASHO Industry Innovation Award for its breakthrough technology, The Validare Gateway™. Validare executives were presented with the award at NASHO’s 6th Annual Leadership Summit in Las Vegas, NV.

Both members and non-members of NASHO were invited to submit applications for the Industry Innovation Award. Applicants were graded in the following areas: descriptive content, goals, program description and results. An independent panel of judges reviewed and graded the applications and selected The Validare Gateway. The judging committee was comprised of Tricia Barrett, vice president, product development, NCQA; Joshua Seidman, PhD, president, Center for Information Therapy and Bruce Sherman, MD, director Health and Productivity Initiatives, Employers Health Coalition of Ohio.

“Validare’s leading edge technology, The Validare Gateway, exemplifies everything that this award represents,” said Julian Roberts, executive director, NASHO. “With an innovative and thoughtful approach to assisting their clients prepare and maintain accreditation as Office-Based Surgery (OBS) providers, Validare is able to help these offices realize and document beneficial outcomes for both the providers and the patients. This network of offices certainly represents OBS provider best practices to health plans.”

The Validare Gateway is an exclusive online ASP application that provides a curriculum for training, online record keeping and data collection for ongoing support of accredited OBS providers. Designed as a tool to assist providers with the OBS accreditation application process, The Validate Gateway is also a comprehensive electronic resource for updating OBS providers on form and policy changes and serves as a repository for required documentation of OBS safety standards and how to implement those standards that lead to best practices in patient care.

The Validare Gateway has helped 200 offices prepare and achieve OBS accreditation. Additionally, 100% of all client offices have passed survey for accreditation. This has resulted in patients being exposed to a standard of care that focuses on patient safety leading to better rates of infection prevention and higher quality practice patterns for outpatient procedures.

“We are honored to be selected as the first recipient of the NASHO Industry Innovation Award,” said Jeff Griffen, chief technology officer, Validare, Inc. “We designed The Validare Gateway to support our RN consultants in educating OBS practices on the proper accreditation process. We are so pleased with how many offices have benefited from our technology and have actually been able to streamline the accreditation process while improving outcomes for patients.”

About NASHO NASHO was launched in January 2003 as a subsidiary association of the American Association of Preferred Provider Organizations (AAPPO) (www.aappo.org) to advance and evolve specialty healthcare delivery in the United States. Its mission is to enhance and promote the value proposition of specialty health organizations. To learn more about NASHO, visit www.nasho.org.

About Validare Validare is the industry leader in accreditation consulting for office-based surgery (OBS) providers. With offices in New York, Chicago and San Francisco, Validare provides patient safety advocacy and assistance to physicians and their offices in preparation for and maintaining OBS accreditation. Recognized as a valuable partner to both OBS offices and health plans, Validare’s clients provides health plans with access to qualified OBS providers who provide an alternative to costly outpatient procedures performed in the hospital setting. For more information about Validare, call 888-934-4321 or visit www.Validare.com.

Business Wire

October 22, 2008 08:31 AM Eastern Daylight Time

Solterra Concludes Worldwide Exclusive License with Rice University

Technology to Enable Low Cost Large-Scale Manufacture of More Efficient, Cheaper Solar Panels

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Hague Corp (OTCBB:HGUE), a resource exploration company, is pleased to announce that Solterra Renewable Technologies, Inc. (“Solterra”) has concluded the worldwide exclusive license with the William Marsh Rice University for intellectual property which includes the “Synthesis of Uniform Nanoparticle Shapes with High Selectivity.” The licensing agreement field of use broadly covers the manufacture and sale of photovoltaic cells and the manufacture and sales of quantum dots for electronic and medical applications. Hague and Solterra announced they had entered into a binding letter of intent on October 3, 2008.

Rice University’s breakthrough discovery has been the highlight of numerous scientific journal articles and has gained the attention of mainstream news media. This new chemical method for making low cost, four-legged cadmium selenide quantum dots, which previous research has shown to be particularly effective at converting sunlight into electrical energy, knocks down a major barrier in developing quantum-dot-based photovoltaics as an alternative to the conventional, more expensive silicon-based solar cells.

“The lack of low cost, high-quality tetrapods of the cadmium selenide kind has been a major roadblock in developing tetrapod-based solar cell devices. With this breakthrough technology that is no longer the case,” said Stephen B. Squires, CEO and President of Solterra Renewable Technologies, Inc. Squires continued with, “We believe that we are now positioned to revolutionize the solar panel industry in offering the most cost effective and efficient panels ever produced at a time that they are more in demand than ever before.”

The Rice process produces same-sized particles, in which more than 90 percent are tetrapods; previously even in the best recipe less than 50 percent of the prepared particles were tetrapods. Furthermore, the Rice process uses much cheaper raw materials and fewer purification steps reducing the production cost by 80% or more. A positively charged molecule called cetyltrimethylammonium bromide provides this drastic improvement in tetrapod manufacture. This compound, found in some shampoos, also happens to be 100 times cheaper than alkylphosphonic acids and is far safer, further simplifying the manufacturing process.

In addition to photovoltaic applications low cost high quality quantum dots are widely thought to be the enabling factor for a variety of other emerging technologies including high performance QD based lasers, color displays, solid state lighting, bioimaging, quantum computers and solar/hydrogen generation.

Solterra is scheduled to begin scale up of this revolutionary technology in early November 2008 with commercial production anticipated to begin in the second half of 2009.

About Solterra Renewable Technologies, Incorporated

Solterra is singularly positioned to lead the development of truly sustainable and cost-effective solar technology as the first company to introduce a new dimension of cost reduction by replacing silicon wafer-based solar cells with low-cost, highly efficient Quantum Dot-based solar cells.

About Hague Corporation

Hague engages in the acquisition and exploration of mineral properties in the United States. The company holds interest in the Get property, which consists of 4 contiguous mineral claims covering an area of 82.64 acres and is located in Esmeralda County, Nevada. The Company is interested in developing alternative energy sources to meet the growing demand for cleaner renewable resources.

Safe Harbor statement under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995: The statements in this release relating to completion of the acquisition and the positive direction are forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Some or all of the results anticipated by these forward-looking statements may not occur. Factors that could cause or contribute to such differences include, but are not limited to, contractual difficulties which may arise, the failure to obtain necessary approvals, the future market price of Hague Corp. common stock and/or the ability to obtain the necessary financing.

Business Wire

October 22, 2008 08:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time

Humana Expands Web Site For Spanish-Language Customers

“Nuestra Salud Humana” a comprehensive array of Spanish-language resources intended to better serve Humana’s Spanish-speaking customers

LOUISVILLE, Ky.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Humana Inc. (NYSE: HUM) will set an industry standard with the introduction of its expanded Spanish-language website, www.Humana.com en Español. The move is part of “Nuestra Salud Humana” – which translates into “our health” – and uses the Humana name to demonstrate the company’s commitment to better serving Hispanic consumers, the fastest growing minority group in the U.S., and partnering for their health and well-being.

What makes the new Spanish-language functionality on Humana.com unique is that it uses real-time technology to offer the same comprehensive information in Spanish that is currently available only in English, for all of Humana’s key audiences. The URL for Humana.com en Español is www.Humana.com/nuestra_salud.

Health-plan members, insurance agents and brokers, healthcare providers and employers who consider Spanish their primary language can now access the latest unsecured content on the Web site. These include Humana plans and products, health and wellness advice, company information, career opportunities, contracting resources for providers and product information for insurance agents.

“Research shows that Hispanic consumers prefer the Internet over other media to access information on products and services in general,” says Phyllis Anderson, vice president of Marketing for Humana. “Humana.com en Español engages Spanish-language consumers with actionable information, tools and support to make informed decisions when choosing and financing health care benefits.”

In addition to Humana.com en Español, the Nuestra Salud Humana initiative includes a variety of innovative Spanish-language tools recently enhanced by Humana:

Interactive Voice Response Systems – Launched in July 2008, this automated telephone technology allows a computer to gather and provide information for Spanish-speaking members using pre-recorded responses. Calls can also be routed to other resources such as a live bilingual Humana customer service representative.

Humana Health Assessment – This confidential telephone questionnaire is offered in Spanish to learn about the member’s health status and create an individualized action plan to better understand and improve the member’s personal well-being.

Personal Nurse® – A bilingual nurse is assigned to members with qualified plans to build a personal relationship, explore treatment options, answer questions and facilitate coordination with the patient’s caregivers and doctors.

HumanaBeginnings® – A wellness program for expectant mothers is available in Spanish.

HumanaFirst® Nurse Advice Line – A 24-hour service which includes an online health library is staffed with bilingual nurses.

“Humana is committed to better serving the needs of our Hispanic members, employers, insurance agents and providers,” added Anderson. “We care about our members’ health and well-being and have launched Nuestra Salud Humana to recognize our expanded Spanish-language resources.”

Humana.com en Español was expanded to facilitate communication with the growing segment of Humana’s Hispanic members who prefer reading Spanish text. A significant percentage of Humana members are located in states where, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, Hispanics are the largest minority population. These states include Florida, Texas, Arizona, California, Nevada, New Mexico, Colorado, Oregon, Utah and Washington.

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the estimated Hispanic population in the United States as of July 2007 was 45.5 million, making people of Hispanic origin the nation’s largest ethnic minority. There are 32.2 million U.S. household residents age five or older who speak Spanish at home. Hispanics now comprise 15 percent of the nation’s population, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, and are expected to make up 20 percent of the population within the next 20 years.

About Humana

Humana Inc., headquartered in Louisville, Kentucky, is one of the nation’s largest publicly traded health and supplemental benefits companies, with approximately 11.5 million medical members. Humana is a full-service benefits solutions company, offering a wide array of health and supplementary benefit plans for employer groups, government programs and individuals.

Over its 47-year history, Humana has consistently seized opportunities to meet changing customer needs. Today, the company is a leader in consumer engagement, providing guidance that leads to lower costs and a better health plan experience throughout its diversified customer portfolio.

More information regarding Humana is available to investors via the Investor Relations page of the company’s web site at http://www.humana.com, including copies of:

Annual reports to stockholders
Securities and Exchange Commission filings
Most recent investor conference presentations
Quarterly earnings news releases
Replays of most recent earnings release conference calls
Calendar of events (includes upcoming earnings conference call dates and times, as well as planned interaction with research analysts and institutional investors)
Corporate Governance Information

Business Wire

October 22, 2008 06:35 AM Eastern Daylight Time

Application Security, Inc.’s DbProtect™ Integrated with McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator

AppSec Declared “McAfee Compatible” Partner in the McAfee Security Innovation Alliance™; Company Participating in Two Presentations at McAfee FOCUS 08

FOCUS 08

NEW YORK and LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Application Security, Inc., the leading provider of database security solutions for the enterprise, today announced that its flagship solution, DbProtect is now integrated with McAfee’s industry-leading ePolicy Orchestrator® (ePO™) software, McAfee’s centralized security and compliance management platform. As part of this integration, Application Security, Inc. will deliver improved benchmark performance for enterprise data protection and compliance to joint customers.

The integrated solution allows McAfee ePO software to deploy DbProtect agents resulting in a seamless link between DbProtect’s real-time database vulnerability and activity monitoring, and McAfee’s incident response capabilities. The integration of DbProtect allows ePO administrators to view and report on comprehensive database vulnerabilities, threats and events while also providing customers with streamlined auditing and compliance capabilities.

“We welcome Application Security, Inc. as a McAfee Compatible partner in the Security Innovation Alliance and believe that integration with DbProtect will provide organizations with improved levels of defense against threats to the database,” said Joe Gottlieb, vice president of corporate strategy and technology alliances at McAfee. “The combination of Application Security, Inc. and McAfee solutions will add safeguards against persistent threats, while also simplifying and automating key data compliance requirements to reduce costs and increase return on investment.”

“Given the vast quantity of sensitive data in most enterprise environments and the mounting monitoring and compliance requirements organizations face, it is more critical than ever that they establish firm controls where data lives – in the database,” said Eric T. Gonzales, co-founder and director of business development and strategic partnerships, Application Security, Inc. "As leaders in our respective areas of IT security, Application Security, Inc. and McAfee together offer a comprehensive, best-of-breed, data-centric solution that offers global enterprises unparalleled protection at the database level – bridging the gap between database security and system security. Our integrated solution dramatically reduces risk for firms that are grappling with escalating compliance requirements, more sophisticated and targeted attacks, and increasing costs associated with data breaches. Quickly discovering, remediating, and monitoring vulnerabilities provides organizations the controls they desperately need to support today’s security and compliance requirements.”

A Brief Summary of the Integrated Solution

McAfee ePO software deploys DbProtect agents on assets managed by ePO software. DbProtect agents report significant database audit and threat events to ePO software, including buffer overflows, password attacks, accessing OS resources, privilege escalation, web application attacks and more.

DbProtect agents report significant database vulnerabilities to ePO software, spanning access control, application integrity, identification/password control, OS integrity, denial of services, mis-configurations, weak passwords, and more.

Database vulnerabilities, alerts, and events are stored in the ePO database along with feed reports such as database vulnerabilities by threat category, threat type, or database type, and other custom reports and dashboards.

Granular, root-cause analysis of database events are performed in the DbProtect console.

Application Security, Inc. Presentations at McAfee FOCUS ‘08

Application Security, Inc. will present at two sessions during the McAfee FOCUS ‘08 Security Conference on October 22. Josh Shaul, director of technical strategy at Application Security, Inc., will join McAfee executives and other SIA partners to speak on a panel titled “Elements of a Solid IT Governance, Risk, and Compliance Program.” The panel will highlight compliance tools currently available and provide relevant customer feedback. In addition, Josh will deliver a presentation entitled “Forensics in the Fight Against Cyber Crime,” which will explore the expanding role of forensic technology in data security.

Full session details follows:

Session I: “Elements of a Solid IT Governance, Risk and Compliance Program”

WHO: Josh Shaul, director, technical strategy, Application Security, Inc.
WHAT: Agiliance; Application Security, Inc.; HP; McAfee; and Q1 Labs: Panel - Elements of a Solid IT Governance, Risk and Compliance Program
WHEN: Wednesday, October 22, 2008, 10:30 a.m.
WHERE: McAfee FOCUS ‘08 Security Conference, MGM Grand, Las Vegas, Nev.
URL: McAfee FOCUS 08 Security Conference
Session II: “Forensics in the Fight Against Cyber Crime”

WHO: Josh Shaul, director, technical strategy, Application Security, Inc.
WHAT: AccessData and Application Security, Inc.: “Forensics in the Fight Against Cyber Crime”
WHEN: Wednesday, October 22, 2008, 2:45 p.m.
WHERE: McAfee FOCUS ‘08 Security Conference, MGM Grand, Las Vegas, Nev.
URL: McAfee FOCUS 08 Security Conference

Business Wire

October 22, 2008 03:01 AM Eastern Daylight Time

McAfee, Inc. Teams with HP ProCurve, Intel Corp. and VMware, Inc. to Deliver Security Everywhere

New and Expanded Efforts with Industry Leaders to Deliver Security with PC Hardware, Networking Components and Virtualization Software

FOCUS 08

LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--McAfee, Inc. (NYSE:MFE) today at its FOCUS 2008 Security Conference announced that it is teaming with industry leaders HP ProCurve, Intel Corporation and VMware Inc. The cooperation is designed to deliver best-in-class security for HP ProCurve networking products, Intel business PC platforms and the VMware platform.

"The era of providing complete protection simply by installing antivirus software on a PC has long passed. In today’s world of sophisticated malware, targeted threats, and multi-stage attacks, security needs to be everywhere,” said Dave DeWalt, president and chief executive officer of McAfee. “We’re excited to work side-by-side with the world’s leading names in technology to deliver on today’s security needs.”

HP ProCurve

McAfee and HP ProCurve have created a strategic alliance with the intent to jointly develop and deliver network security solutions. Under this agreement, McAfee and HP ProCurve will build security solutions that combine McAfee’s industry leading information security products with HP ProCurve’s networking product portfolio. The joint solutions will simplify networking and security from the edge to the network core, delivering uncompromising security protection for companies of all sizes.

“Together, HP ProCurve and McAfee will develop and deliver optimal secure networking solutions with the assurance of successful product interoperability for enterprise and mid-market customers,” said Marius Haas, senior vice president and general manager, HP ProCurve. “This agreement demonstrates the ability of HP ProCurve to provide a flexible and standards-based solution to optimize deployment of security solutions for enterprise and mid-market customers.”

McAfee has joined the HP ProCurve Alliance, a formal program that enables the creation of networking solutions to provide resellers with pre-qualified, open-standards solutions that have been thoroughly tested and certified for interoperability.

Intel

McAfee will work with Intel to take advantage of Intel vPro technology to provide security below the operating system layer on PCs. This forthcoming McAfee technology will provide organizations using PCs featuring Intel vPro technology with improved security and reporting while requiring fewer IT resources.

Specifically, McAfee will use Intel vPro technology to allow IT to discover and remediate security problems on PCs outside of business hours and report the health of the PC back to McAfee’s award-winning ePolicy Orchestrator management console.

“Working in conjunction with McAfee® ePolicy Orchestrator® management console, Intel vPro technology enables IT to keep PCs up to date with the latest security patches, even in off hours when PCs are turned off,” said Rob Crooke, Vice President, General Manager, Business Client Group, Intel Corporation.

McAfee is taking advantage of Intel technology in three key areas: encryption and theft deterrent technologies, security management and virtualization. McAfee had previously announced an initiative to place McAfee data encryption on platforms featuring Intel vPro technology using Intel's Anti-Theft Technology.

VMware

Building on its existing relationship with VMware, McAfee today announced that VMware is shipping McAfee VirusScan® Plus software with VMware Fusion — VMware’s award-winning desktop virtualization product for running Windows applications side-by-side with Mac applications on any Intel-based Mac. Today’s announcement means that VMware Fusion customers will receive antivirus, antispyware and Windows firewall software from McAfee at no additional cost.

“The addition of McAfee security software to VMware Fusion helps ensure that our customers can run Windows safely on their Macs,” said Shekar Ayyar, vice president, infrastructure alliances at VMware. "In addition, McAfee’s security solutions are being built to leverage VMware VMsafe technology to provide customers with better security solutions on the VMware platform than in physical environments.”

Protecting Macs that run Windows using VMware Fusion is just one of the efforts McAfee and VMware are developing to enhance the security of virtual environments. In September, McAfee unveiled McAfee Total Protection for Virtualization suite, a complete and scalable security solution spanning physical and virtual servers, desktops and networks, optimized for the VMware platform. Earlier this year at VMworld Europe 2008, McAfee was the first security company to adopt and publicly demonstrate VMware VMsafe.

VMsafe helps security vendors combat the challenges of compliance, management and security in ways previously not possible in physical environments by enabling them to develop solutions that benefit from better visibility into the memory, CPU, disk and I/O systems in VMware environments.

About McAfee, Inc.

McAfee, Inc., headquartered in Santa Clara, California, is the world’s largest dedicated security technology company. It delivers proactive and proven solutions and services that secure systems and networks around the world, allowing users to browse and shop the Web securely. With its unmatched security expertise and commitment to innovation, McAfee empowers home users, businesses, the public sector and service providers by enabling them to comply with regulations, protect data, prevent disruptions, identify vulnerabilities and continuously monitor and improve their security. http://www.mcafee.com.

McAfee and/or other noted McAfee related products contained herein are registered trademarks or trademarks of McAfee, Inc., and/or its affiliates in the US and/or other countries. McAfee Red in connection with security is distinctive of McAfee brand products. Any other non-McAfee related products, registered and/or unregistered trademarks contained herein is only by reference and are the sole property of their respective owners.

© 2008 McAfee, Inc. All rights reserved.

Business Wire

October 21, 2008 06:27 PM Eastern Daylight Time

Data Empowerment Launches Subsidiary: Records Readiness Corporation

As Wall Street Reels and Shareholder Suits Start Hitting, New Records Readiness™ Corporation Offers Off-the-Shelf Training Solution to Evidentiary Compliance Challenge

HENDERSON, Nev.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Recognizing the rapidly growing demand for corporate records compliance in the face of what is sure to be a tidal wave of new shareholder lawsuits and other legal actions taken against corporations, Data Empowerment Group (http://www.dataempowerment.com) has today announced the creation of a new subsidiary corporation, Records Readiness Corporation. Launched at the ARMA International’s (http://www.arma.org/) 2008 Conference and Expo in Las Vegas, the Records Readiness Corporation – based in the emerging high-tech Henderson, Nevada corridor – is bringing to market a series of targeted records readiness compliance training programs – Records Readiness Learning Series™ (RRLS) programs – for business, government and not-for-profit organizations.

“Our new RRLS program is focused on building and delivering online employee training to enable corporations to assure the readiness of their records to stand up to the compliance scrutiny that comes with virtually every legal dispute companies face,” CEO Thomas Utiger explained. Utiger is a records technology expert, as well as founder and CEO of both Data Empowerment Group and its new Records Readiness Corporation subsidiary; he is also the author of Records & Information Management Risk Assessment.

“Because virtually every employee can create discoverable records – the courts now consider even emails, text messages and voice mail messages to be discoverable records – our training focuses on educating all employees to the vital importance of appropriate records management,” Utiger pointed out. “Traditionally, records management training has been limited to a corporation’s or organization’s RIM specialists, but today it is also vital for front-line operational employees to ensure that all records they create are compliant with current discovery rules.”

The information management industry’s first-to-market compliance solution, the Records Readiness Learning Series of training programs specifically addresses organizations’ critical need to enlist the participation and support of all employees. And while this may seem like one more costly burden placed on companies already scrambling to find the bottom line, Utiger is quick to point out that – when it comes to records management compliance – a great deal is now at stake. “Corporations’ email, text-message and voice mail message retention policies must be guided by – and in compliance with – the new Federal Evidentiary Rules for Discovery, (http://www.uscourts.gov/rules/EDiscovery_w_Notes.pdf),” he said. “These rules make it clear that the only safe corporate RIM solution is a comprehensive, legally defensible records management program. Penalties for non-compliance can be devastating, financially and operationally.”

With the launch of the Records Readiness Learning Series, the first effective marketplace response to compliance is now at hand. “Along with the creation of our subsidiary Records Readiness Corporation (http://www.recordsreadiness.com), Data Empowerment has created the first market-ready solution for the huge, decisively-critical technological challenges facing corporations,” Utiger explained. “In helping clients achieve technical compliance, we’ve seen that the human factor may be even more important than these vital technology compliance solutions. As a result, we’ve created a blend of technology with the human element, our Records Readiness Learning Series.”

In today’s litigious society, there are few unexpected challenges that have greater potential consequences than a problem without a solution – and until Data Empowerment came up with a new approach to records management training, corporations faced with the challenge of complying with new Federal rules of Discovery have had no hope of being compliant.

Recent convulsions in Wall Street will only make matters worse. Whenever the market falls, a drop in share value inevitably leads to a sharp uptick in stockholder lawsuits and other legal actions against corporations, and this unprecedented stock market drop is expected to lead to unprecedented numbers of new corporate lawsuits. When those suits hit the courts, these new Federal rules of Discovery will create a disaster-waiting-to-happen for companies which are not yet in compliance. Those firms with effective records management policies, supported by focused records readiness training programs, will have a defense against charges of non-compliance, while those firms without policies or effective training will be vulnerable to the kinds of sanctions that have already cost corporations millions – and at least in one case – billions of dollars in fines and non-compliance penalties.

“Not only is our new records management training program uncannily timely, it is also without precedent,” Utiger said. “Until our program rolled out, corporations had been faced with a-problem-without-a-solution. This became an ever-more critical ‘sin of omission’ as America’s businesses confronted the daunting, high-stakes, high-risk field of records management compliance. Our ‘Records Readiness™’ program, offered in the convenient Software-as-a-Service format, is the core product of our new Records Readiness Corporation, which was launched today at ARMA’s annual 2008 Conference and Expo. This new program, like this new corporation, is now in the marketplace.”

While – with the ongoing crisis on Wall Street – the problem of non-compliance has become an order of magnitude more dangerous than it was during the long-term bull market, the compliance problem has been on the horizon for two years. When one of America’s major multi-national banks got hit with a billion dollar judgment for violating evidentiary rules governing records management, businesses large and small began to wake up to the risk they faced. When corporate attorneys respond to discovery motions, they have to be ready to produce records they might not have even known to exist – including records controlled by third parties.

Then, when a rash of other multi-million dollar fines and judgments were levied over issues as simple as producing email messages – or proving that they’d been destroyed under an established records management policy – companies realized that this wasn’t a one-time problem or someone else’s problem. However, what continued to remain unclear – until now, with the advent of the Records Readiness Corporation and its innovative records management training program – was how companies could comply with seemingly impossible legal expectations for managing everything from traditional printed documents to emails, voice mails and text messages.

The situation is complicated for many banks, insurance companies and other financial institutions – as well as every corporation that has merged with or acquired other corporations – because these discoverable records had to be accessed across platforms ranging from legacy mainframe computer systems to hand-held and laptop computers, as well as the company’s central servers and any hosted services. For companies that had grown through mergers and acquisitions, and for companies that had provided key employees with significant personal equipment flexibility, the challenge of managing records seemed indeed impossible.

“The biggest challenge to implementing any rational records management system may not be solely technological,” Utiger said. “The human equation, which involves gaining compliance with all employees empowered to create records – and that means everyone who uses email, voice mail or even text messages – is perhaps the largest single corporate challenge. Employees don’t realize their own records management role, nor do they have a clue on how they contribute in positive or negative ways to the corporation’s overall compliance.”

The new Records Readiness Learning Series program was created to use technology to help address the human portion of this daunting challenge. This solution includes a series of sophisticated computer-based self-study training modules, aimed at key internal audiences ranging from board-level, C-level and senior executives to risk managers, line managers and front-line employees.

“Records Management varies widely from company to company, which led to our design of the Records Readiness Learning Series training system. It is designed from the ground up to be tailored for each organization,” Utiger said. “We’ve found that a clear indication of universal top-down commitment to RIM compliance helps ensure front-line buy-in; without that buy-in, day-to-day compliance is difficult to achieve.

“This sophisticated, yet easy-to-use self-study training program is designed for every employee creating records,” Utiger said. “These records include emails, voice mails and text message records. Initially, we have created 8 core modules which will ultimately have over twenty modules in place – including translations into other languages, designed as a group to meet the full range of corporate needs, from elementary to sophisticated and demanding compliance challenges.”

Records Readiness Corporation’s Records Readiness Learning Series embraces an enterprise-wide record management training concept. “This ensures that all levels of employees are, in effect, singing from the same hymnbook,” Utiger said. “For a company to achieve practical and legally-sound compliance, all employees must embrace and practice the company’s RIM policies and procedures. And, because our program is scalable by design, we can help both SMB clients and the largest Fortune 500 multi-national corporations achieve the same level of compliance protection in a controlled, cost-effective and ongoing program that doesn’t interfere with employees’ ability to 'do business' on a day-to-day basis.”

Utiger, a widely-published Records & Information Management (RIM) expert and founder/CEO of both Data Empowerment Group and the new Records Readiness Corporation, holds several seminal pending patents in this fast-emerging field. He writes journal articles for banking, legal and technology trade publications, and conducts frequent C-level seminars on the importance – and the process – of RIM compliance in today’s litigious society.

About Data Empowerment Group

Data Empowerment Group ( http://www.dataempowerment.com ) – is a records and data management innovator and global provider of integrated enterprise content management (ECM) solutions. DEG specializes in filling functionality gaps in existing records management systems, as well as in solving records and data management challenges through its innovative content integration software and workshops. The Company’s programs work in collaboration with existing ECM platforms, enabling a fully integrated records and data management protocol that unifies client employee processes, increasing clients’ competitive edge by reducing operating costs and liability, and improving efficiency.

CEO Thomas Utiger holds several pending patents, and is the author of “Records & Information Management Risk Assessment” and a host of journal articles. He frequently speaks at conferences and seminars on Records & Information Management (RIM).

Business Wire

October 21, 2008 06:22 PM Eastern Daylight Time

Horizon Air Ending Pendleton Service After Dec. 1, But Nearby Walla Walla and Pasco Airports Remain Options

SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Horizon Air will discontinue flights from Pendleton, Ore., after Dec. 1 following the Department of Transportation’s decision to award an Essential Air Service (EAS) contract to another airline.

"We're very disappointed. We went to great lengths to craft a bid that offered multiple air service options – each addressing specific needs expressed by the community, and doing so with our state-of-the-art 76-seat Q400s," said Dan Russo, Horizon’s vice president of marketing and communications.

Horizon currently offers daily flights from Pendleton to Portland and Pasco. Starting Oct. 28, Horizon will serve Pendleton with flights to Seattle -- through Dec. 1, the last day it will provide service to Pendleton.

Travelers from Eastern Oregon will be able to continue to use Horizon to connect to the national transportation system by taking the airline’s Seattle-bound flights from nearby airports at Walla Walla (48 miles away) or Pasco, Wash. (69 miles away). With this, travelers will retain the convenience of traveling to destinations beyond Seattle with one ticket, one check-in, and one fare, and of having their luggage automatically transferred to their final destination without having to reclaim it and recheck it. In addition, travelers will be able to continue earning miles in the Alaska Airlines Mileage Plan on Horizon, Alaska, and their numerous airline partners.

“We look forward to continuing to serve our Pendleton customers from Walla Walla or Pasco, where they will enjoy the same warm welcome they’ve experienced since we began service to Pendleton in 1982,” Russo said. “Our three daily flights from Walla Walla and six from Pasco will offer plenty of convenient options.”

Horizon operates the Bombardier Q400 from Pasco and, starting Oct. 27, Walla Walla. This 76-seat, high-speed, twin-engine turboprop is one of the most technologically advanced regional aircraft in the world. It's as quiet and comfortable as a jet – thanks to its special technology that suppresses noise and vibration, its generously sized overhead storage bins, its unobstructed under-seat space, and its ample headroom (6 feet, 5 inches). The Q400 is also among the most environmentally friendly aircraft today, burning 30 percent less fuel and producing 30 percent lower emissions than comparable jets.

Horizon currently has seven employees in Pendleton, and they are all being given the opportunity to apply for openings elsewhere in Horizon’s route system.

“They have worked tirelessly to provide the very best service to the people of Pendleton,” Russo said. “We are deeply grateful for their years of dedicated service and will do all we can to find other opportunities in the company for those who'd like to stay with Horizon.”

Horizon’s fleet serves 47 cities throughout Arizona, California, Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Baja California Sur (Mexico), and British Columbia and Alberta (Canada). Together, Horizon Air and Alaska Airlines serve 90 cities and are subsidiaries of Alaska Air Group, Inc. (NYSE:ALK).

Business Wire

October 21, 2008 04:30 PM Eastern Daylight Time

Disney-ABC, Activision Publishing and AMD Chief Executives to Deliver Industry Insider Addresses at the 2009 International CES

Top Leaders from Television, Gaming and Semiconductor Industries Join 2009 CES Program

2009 International CES

ARLINGTON, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Consumer Electronics Association (CEA)® today announced that Anne Sweeney, co-chair, Disney Media Networks and president, Disney-ABC Television Group; Mike Griffith, president and CEO, Activision Publishing and Dirk Meyer, president and CEO of AMD will deliver addresses at the 2009 International CES® as part of the Industry Insider Series. Produced by CEA, the 2009 International CES, the world’s largest tradeshow for consumer technology, will return to Las Vegas, January 8-11, 2009.

“We are thrilled to welcome this dynamic lineup of Industry Insider speakers to the 2009 International CES stage, each representing key markets in the consumer technology industry,” said Gary Shapiro, president and CEO, CEA. “Anne Sweeney has been instrumental in merging the worlds of technology and content to allow greater access for consumers, and Dirk Meyer and Mike Griffith are true pioneers shaping the future of the respective IT and gaming markets. CES attendees will gain incredible insight from these industry leaders regarding the next generation of technology innovations.”

Dirk Meyer, president and CEO, AMD, will kick off the 2009 Industry Insider Series with an address at 11 a.m., Thursday, January 8. Anne Sweeney, co-chair Disney Media Networks and president, Disney-ABC Television Group, will deliver Thursday afternoon’s Industry Insider address at 2:30 p.m. Mike Griffith, president and CEO, Activision Publishing, will round out the series with an address at 11 a.m., Friday, January 9, 2009. All Industry Insider addresses will take place at the Las Vegas Hilton theater.

In 2004, Anne Sweeney was appointed co-chair, Disney Media Networks and president, Disney-ABC Television Group, where she is responsible for The Walt Disney Company's entertainment and news television properties globally. Ms. Sweeney oversees the ABC Television Network, which provides entertainment, news and kids programming to viewers via 228 affiliated stations across the U.S. in addition to other technological platforms. ABC series, many of which are produced by ABC Studios, are distributed to more than 200 territories across the globe by Disney-ABC Worldwide Television. She also oversees Disney Channel Worldwide, which has created such global franchises as “High School Musical,” “Hannah Montana” and “Camp Rock” starring the Jonas Bros. Since assuming her current role, Ms. Sweeney has repeatedly been named the "Most Powerful Woman in Entertainment" by The Hollywood Reporter, one of the "50 Most Powerful Women in Business" by Fortune and one of "The World's 100 Most Powerful Women" by Forbes.

Mike Griffith has served as president and CEO of Activision Publishing Inc., since June 2005. A leading worldwide developer, publisher and distributor of interactive entertainment and leisure products, Activision Publishing’s portfolio contains some of the biggest franchises in interactive entertainment, including Call of Duty® and Guitar Hero®. During his tenure, Activision’s net revenues have more than doubled and the company achieved some of the highest operating margins in the industry. Prior to joining Activision, Mr. Griffith had a 23 year career The Procter & Gamble Company, a manufacturer of consumer goods products, serving most recently as president of The Procter & Gamble Company's Global Beverage Division.

Dirk Meyer is president and CEO of AMD and also serves on the company’s Board of Directors. Prior to being named CEO in 2008, Meyer served as president and COO of AMD. From 2001 to 2006, Meyer led the company’s microprocessor business, overseeing related R&D, manufacturing, operations and marketing. His leadership during these five years resulted in a doubling of revenue for the microprocessor business and a substantial expansion of AMD’s global profile. Meyer joined AMD in 1995 and led engineering for the AMD Athlon™ microprocessor. As one of the world’s leading microprocessor design innovators, Meyer was presented with the prestigious Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Maurice Wilkes Award at the 2003 International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA).

The 2009 International CES will feature more than 2,700 exhibitors introducing the latest consumer technology products throughout 30 product categories including digital entertainment, high performance audio, digital imaging, electronic gaming and more. For more information and to register to attend the 2009 International CES visit www.CESweb.org, the interactive source for CES information.

Note to Journalists:

General press and analyst registration, as well as detailed press conference information, is available at www.CESweb.org. Journalists are encouraged to arrive in Las Vegas by Tuesday, January 6, to take advantage of all the CES press events, including CES Unveiled from 4-7 p.m. on January 6.

About CEA:

The Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) is the preeminent trade association promoting growth in the $173 billion U.S. consumer electronics industry. More than 2,200 companies enjoy the benefits of CEA membership, including legislative advocacy, market research, technical training and education, industry promotion and the fostering of business and strategic relationships. CEA also sponsors and manages the International CES – Where Entertainment, Technology and Business Converge. All profits from CES are reinvested into CEA’s industry services. Find CEA online at www.CE.org.

Follow the 2009 International CES on Twitter at http://twitter.com/2009CES and visit the International CES Page on Facebook.

UPCOMING EVENTS

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CEA Industry Forum

October 19-22, 2008, Las Vegas, NV

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Digital Hollywood

October 27-29, 2008, Hollywood, CA

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EHX Fall 2008

November 4-7, 2008, Long Beach, CA

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CES New York Press Preview featuring CES Unveiled@NY

November 11, 2008, New York, NY

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Future of Television East

November 18-19, 2008, New York, NY

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CES Unveiled: The Official Press Event of the International CES

January 6, 2009, Las Vegas, NV

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2009 International CES

January 8-11, 2009, Las Vegas, NV

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Digital Music Forum East

February 24-25, 2009, New York, NY

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Greener Gadgets Conference

February 27, 2009, New York, NY

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EHX Spring 2009

March 10-14, 2009, Orlando, FL

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Digital Patriots Dinner

April 22, 2009, Washington, DC

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CEA Washington Forum

April 22 - 23, 2009, Washington, DC

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LA Games Conference

May 20-21, 2009, Hollywood, CA

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Digital Downtown

June 10-12, 2009, New York, NY

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13th Annual CEO Summit

June 17-20, 2009, Dana Point, CA

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2009 SINOCES

July 9-12, 2009, Qingdao, China

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2009 CEA Industry Forum

October 18-21, 2009, Phoenix, AZ

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CES New York Press Preview featuring CES Unveiled @ NY

November 10, 2009, New York, NY

Business Wire

October 21, 2008 04:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time

Nokia President and CEO Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo to Deliver Keynote Address at the 2009 CES Leaders in Technology Dinner

2009 International CES

ARLINGTON, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Consumer Electronics Association (CEA)® today announced that Nokia President and CEO Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo will deliver a keynote address at the Leaders in Technology Dinner (LIT), to be held at the 2009 International CES®. Produced by CEA, the 2009 International CES, the world’s largest consumer technology tradeshow, will return to Las Vegas, January 8-11, 2009.

Kallasvuo’s address will kick off the annual Leaders in Technology Dinner, which honors the technologists, entrepreneurs and policymakers who drive innovation. The dinner is scheduled to take place at 6:30 p.m. Friday, January 9, 2009, at The Venetian.

“We are thrilled to welcome Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo back to the CES stage as the keynote speaker for the 2009 Leaders in Technology Dinner,” said Gary Shapiro, president and CEO, CEA. “Kallasvuo is the driving force behind the success of Nokia, the largest manufacturer of mobile devices and one of the premiere telecommunications corporations in the world. His insight and innovation have benefited the consumer technology industry and consumers around the world. He is an industry visionary, and we look forward to his address.”

Nokia began in 1865 as a paper mill in rural Finland, and has reinvented itself throughout its history. Now, Kallasvuo is leading another transformation as Nokia expands into a wide array of Internet-based services.

The company has the largest customer base for any consumer durable in the world, with more than one billion people using Nokia devices. For the past two years, Nokia has ranked 5th on Interbrand/BusinessWeek’s Best Global Brands List, and was the number one consumer electronics corporation named.

Kallasvuo has been a member of the Nokia Group Executive Board since 1990 and was named President and CEO of Nokia in 2006. He held several executive positions after joining Nokia in 1980 as corporate counsel, including executive vice president, North America, and CFO.

The Leaders in Technology Program at CES allows high-level public policymakers and technologists to learn from the 2,700 exhibitors and thousands of new products that contribute to a dynamic industry that supports $600 billion in retail worldwide. The program also provides information and insight to assist officials in evaluating federal policies that affect the consumer technology industry.

The Leaders in Technology Dinner is an invitation-only event; however, tickets can be purchased for $500. For more information on the Leaders in Technology Program, or to purchase tickets, please contact Jill Wiener at 703-907-4316.

The 2009 International CES will feature the hottest product debuts from more than 2,700 exhibitors, covering 30 product areas, including the latest in content, wireless, digital imaging, in-vehicle electronics, home theater and audio. For more news on the 2009 International CES before, during and after the show, visit www.CESweb.org, the interactive source for CES information.

Note to Journalists:

General press and analyst registration, as well as detailed press conference information, is available at www.CESweb.org. Journalists are encouraged to arrive in Las Vegas by Tuesday, January 6, to take advantage of all the CES press events, including CES Unveiled from 4-7 p.m. on January 6.

About CEA:

The Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) is the preeminent trade association promoting growth in the $173 billion U.S. consumer electronics industry. More than 2,200 companies enjoy the benefits of CEA membership, including legislative advocacy, market research, technical training and education, industry promotion and the fostering of business and strategic relationships. CEA also sponsors and manages the International CES – Where Entertainment, Technology and Business Converge. All profits from CES are reinvested into CEA’s industry services. Find CEA online at www.CE.org.

Follow the 2009 International CES on Twitter at http://twitter.com/2009CES and visit the International CES Page on Facebook.

About Nokia:

Nokia is the world leader in mobility, driving the transformation and growth of the converging Internet and communications industries. Nokia makes a wide range of mobile devices with services and software that enable people to experience music, navigation, video, television, imaging, games, business mobility and more. Developing and growing our offering of consumer Internet services, as well as our enterprise solutions and software, is a key area of Nokia’s focus. Nokia also provides equipment, solutions and services for communications networks through Nokia Siemens Networks. More information on Nokia is available at www.Nokia.com.

Business Wire

October 21, 2008 03:30 PM Eastern Daylight Time

CEA and Whiskey Falls Launch New DTV Contest on YouTube

Grand Prize Winner Gets State of the Art Home Theater

CEA Industry Forum
ARLINGTON, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Consumer Electronics Association (CEA)® today launched a contest on YouTube to reward consumers who help friends and family transition to digital television (DTV). The “Digital TV: Convert Now!” contest encourages the YouTube community to help family and friends prepare for February 17, 2009, when all full-power TV stations in the U.S. will transition to digital.

Gary Shapiro, CEA’s president and CEO, announced the contest today during CEA’s Industry Forum, a four-day conference designed to inform and connect leaders in the CE industry. The contest starts today and will run until December 10, 2008. Full contest entry details can be found at www.youtube.com/dtvtransition.

To encourage participation, popular country music band Whiskey Falls created a new video, “We are America”, which explains contest details and demonstrates how consumers can prepare for the DTV transition. Lead singer Seven explains, “We are looking forward to seeing your video, and to help everyone get ready for the DTV transition! ‘Cause we are America!”

Entrants can post eligible videos, no longer than three minutes long, at www.youtube.com/dtvtransition. These videos should demonstrate ways to get family and friends ready for the digital TV transition. Videos will be judged on originality and creativity, aesthetic appeal and the relationship of the content to the contest theme, “Digital TV: Convert Now!” One grand prize winner will receive a home entertainment center including a flat screen high-definition TV, a Blu-ray disc player and a surround sound audio system. The grand prize-winning entry will be announced on December 10, 2008.

“CEA is thrilled to use the YouTube service to educate consumers about the biggest change in TV broadcasting since color television,” said Shapiro. “It is crucial to reach various audiences by using diverse platforms, including online media. The YouTube community will help spread the word about the importance of preparing for the transition now.”

This campaign augments diverse government and industry consumer outreach campaigns already underway and is designed to remind viewers who rely on an antenna and an analog TV set for reception that they have three choices before February 17, 2009:

1) Buy a new TV with built-in digital tuner;

2) Purchase an affordable digital TV converter box to receive over-the-air digital TV signals and convert them for analog TV viewing or;

3) Subscribe to a pay TV service like cable or satellite.

To learn more about the “Digital TV: Convert Now!” contest or how to transition to digital television, visit www.youtube.com/dtvtransition.

About CEA

The Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) is the preeminent trade association promoting growth in the $173 billion U.S. consumer electronics industry. More than 2,200 companies enjoy the benefits of CEA membership, including legislative advocacy, market research, technical training and education, industry promotion and the fostering of business and strategic relationships. CEA also sponsors and manages the International CES - Where Entertainment, Technology and Business Converge. All profits from CES are reinvested into CEA's industry services. Find CEA online at www.CE.org.

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October 21, 2008 01:22 PM Eastern Daylight Time

Fitch Affirms GE Commercial Mortgage 2003-C2; Assigns Outlooks

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Fitch Ratings affirms and assigns Outlooks to GE Commercial Mortgage Corporation series 2003-C2 commercial mortgage pass-through certificates as follows:

--$56.2 million class A-2 at 'AAA'; Outlook Stable;

--$54.3 million class A-3 at 'AAA'; Outlook Stable;

--$406.1 million class A-4 at 'AAA'; Outlook Stable;

--$178.4 million class A-1A at 'AAA'; Outlook Stable;

--Interest-only class X-1 at 'AAA'; Outlook Stable;

--Interest-only class X-2 at 'AAA'; Outlook Stable;

--$35.5 million class B at 'AAA'; Outlook Stable;

--$14.8 million class C at 'AAA'; Outlook Stable;

--$26.6 million class D at 'AAA'; Outlook Stable;

--$14.8 million class E at 'AAA'; Outlook Stable;

--$14.8 million class F at 'AAA'; Outlook Stable;

--$14.8 million class G at 'AA'; Outlook Positive;

--$14.8 million class H at 'A'; Outlook Positive;

--$19.2 million class J at 'BBB'; Outlook Positive;

--$7.4 million class K at 'BB+'; Outlook Positive;

--$8.9 million class L at 'BB'; Outlook Stable;

--$4.4 million class M at 'B+'; Outlook Stable;

--$7.4 million class N at 'B'; Outlook Stable;

--$3 million class O at 'B-'; Outlook Stable;

--$1.9 million class BLVD-1 at 'A'; Outlook Stable;

--$2.5 million class BLVD-2 at 'A-'; Outlook Stable;

--$4.5 million class BLVD-3 at 'BBB+'; Outlook Stable;

--$3.5 million class BLVD-4 at 'BBB'; Outlook Stable;

--$8 million class BLVD-5 at 'BBB-'; Outlook Negative.

Fitch does not rate $18.5 million class P certificates and class A-1 has paid in full.

The affirmations are due to stable Fitch-expected credit enhancement levels since Fitch's last rating action. The pool paid down by 6.5% of the aggregate principal balance since the last Fitch rating action, due to the repayment of six loans (5.0%), the liquidation of one loan (0.8%), and scheduled amortization. However, a majority of the paydown (52.0%) came from defeased or liquidated loans already incorporated in the Fitch-expected credit enhancement levels. In addition, the transaction's concentration of Fitch loans of concerns increased slightly, to 6.0% from 4.4%. The Rating Outlooks reflect the likely direction of any rating changes over the next one to two years.

As of the October 2008 distribution date, the pool's aggregate principal balance has decreased 23.7% to $920.3 million, from $1.21 billion at issuance. To date, 26 loans (29.3%) have defeased, including four of the top 10 loans (10.9%).

Currently, there is one asset (0.4%) in special servicing, with expected losses that are anticipated to be absorbed by the non-rated class. The loan is secured by a 660-unit self-storage facility located in eastern New Orleans, LA, which sustained damage from hurricanes Katrina and Rita. The property is 100% vacant, and is currently listed for sale.

Fitch has identified nine Fitch loans of concern (6.0%). The largest Fitch loan of concern (2.6%) is secured by a 227,939 square foot (sf) retail property located in Central Valley, NY. A major tenant (13.6%), Linens 'n Things, rejected its lease at the property as part of its May 2008 bankruptcy protection filing. According to a rent roll dated June 30, 2008, additional rollover is limited to 0.6% and 0.9% of the net rentable area in 2009 and 2010, respectively; however, it is unclear if any co-tenancy provisions exist in the leases corresponding to other tenants at the property. Prior to the Linens 'n Things vacancy, the property was 100% occupied, compared to 99% occupancy at issuance. No other Fitch loan of concern represents more than 1% of the pool.

Two shadow-rated loans remain, of which, one, the Wellbridge Portfolio (2.3%), has defeased. The Boulevard Mall loan (7.0%) is secured by a 1.2 million sf regional mall in Las Vegas, Nevada, of which 587,170 sf represents collateral. The A note has been divided into two pari-passu notes, one of which is included in the trust ($44.2 million). The B note, a $20.5 million non-pooled portion of the loan, is also included in the trust and collateralizes classes BLVD-1 through BLVD-5. Total occupancy was 98.7% as of December 2007, up from 92.6% at issuance. The loan, which matures in 2013, has a coupon of 4.27%. Though collateral performance has been stable to date, Fitch is concerned about weakening fundamentals in the Las Vegas retail market as well as the declining financial condition of the mall's operator and the loan sponsor, General Growth Properties. The Outlooks reflect the concern.

The transaction has limited near-term maturity risk, with no loans scheduled to mature throughout the remainder of 2008 or in 2009. The next scheduled maturities occur in 2010, when five non-defeased loans (2.0%) mature. The transaction's weighted average coupon is 5.56% and interest rates range from 4.27% to 7.73%.

Fitch's rating definitions and the terms of use of such ratings are available on the agency's public site, www.fitchratings.com. Published ratings, criteria and methodologies are available from this site, at all times. Fitch's code of conduct, confidentiality, conflicts of interest, affiliate firewall, compliance and other relevant policies and procedures are also available from the 'Code of Conduct' section of this site.

Business Wire

October 21, 2008 12:44 PM Eastern Daylight Time

RSD Launches EOS for z/OS 2.0

Market-leading report and output management solution expands system capacity, adds EMC Centera storage support

LAS VEGAS & GENEVA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--RSD, a leading provider of enterprise content management and business information delivery solutions, today announced the availability of RSD EOS™ 2.0 (Enterprise Output Solution), the next major release of RSD’s distributed output and report management solution.

“The rising challenge of information governance sets demanding requirements for how documents and other rich content are stored, distributed, and disposed of,” said Pierre Van Beneden, RSD CEO. “We are extremely proud to bring this new release of EOS to market. The product includes breakthrough scalability enhancements and expanded integration with key third-party enterprise storage technology. These enhancements meet market requirements to improve system capacity and scalability as organizations continue to produce business content at astonishing rates of growth.”

RSD EOS 2.0 for z/OS includes several key new capabilities. Specifically, the EOS spool is now implemented as a z/OS “large data set,” which removes prior limitations to spool size. In addition, EOS Form Index capacity has been expanded 15-fold, providing ample headroom for even the most report-intensive organizations.

RSD EOS 2.0 also adds hardware storage system support for EMC Centera. EOS thus supports Centera in addition to IBM Object Access Method (OAM) and IBM System-Managed Storage.

EOS increases productivity and reduces costs by automatically capturing information generated throughout the organization, creating customized report packets and delivering them anywhere, online, in print or via e-mail. With EOS, organizations securely control content access by delivering only appropriate reports or report sections, based on a user’s job function, information access restrictions, disclosure requirements or confidentiality policies.

To find out more, please go to www.rsd.com/en/products/enterprise-output-solution-eos.html.

About RSD

Founded in 1973 in Geneva, with affiliates in New York and London, RSD helps companies meet the growing challenge of information governance by providing market-leading products for business information delivery, content and records management, and document archiving and retrieval. RSD solutions are used by more than 1,200 organizations worldwide, including a majority of the Fortune 500. Today RSD supports over 2 million users, and offers its innovative products and services in more than 26 countries around the globe – both directly and through strategic business partners.

Business Wire

October 21, 2008 12:39 PM Eastern Daylight Time

Social Media Innovation Takes Top Prize at CEA’s i-Stage

Boxee Wins New Technology Prize at CEA’s Industry Forum

LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Consumer Electronics Association (CEA)® today announced that Boxee took top honors at the new i-stage competition, a technology event featuring the most innovative new consumer technology products. The event, which took place yesterday, coincided with CEA’s Industry Forum, which runs through October 22, at the Four Seasons Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Boxee took the winning prize with its “social” media center that allows consumers to share personal videos, music and photos as well as content from websites like Hulu, CNN.com, ABC.com, Flickr and PicasaWeb. As the winner of i-stage, Boxee will receive $50,000 to further develop its product line, as well as a turnkey booth at the 2009 International CES®, CEA’s flagship event and the world’s largest consumer technology tradeshow.

“Boxee exemplifies technological innovation,” said Gary Shapiro, president and CEO of CEA. “The product is a complete social networking solution and raises the bar for aggregating networking sites. Boxee is a great example of the convergence of content and devices, and we look forward to their exhibit at the 2009 International CES.”

In addition, Promotion and Display won the “Fan Favorite” award for its Novo Minora, the world’s first 3D webcam. As the “Fan Favorite,” the company wins a spot in the i-stage TechZone at the 2009 International CES.

Fourteen finalists unveiled their products at CEA’s i-stage yesterday afternoon before a live audience. The i-stage finalists were:

Amulet Devices, The Amulet Remote
Avaak, Vue ™ personal video network
Boxee media center
Frontline Inc., Fitness Interactive Technology (FIT)
GenAudio Inc., AstoundSound
IPEVO digital photo frame
JFDI Engineering Ltd., GridSearch
Lightglove, LtWv
Next2Friends, People in Motion ™
Occipital LLC
Pongr Inc.
PDT Ltd, Novo, Minora 3D Webcam
Taggle
YouBundle
The products, not yet available on the market, were judged by technology experts Kevin Kelly, Wired Magazine; Ryan Block, formerly of Engadget and Jeff Pulver. Molly Wood, executive editor of CNET, served as Master of Ceremonies for the event.

Kevin Kelly, senior maverick for Wired Magazine and i-stage judge, also delivered yesterday’s luncheon keynote at CEA’s Industry Forum. Noting that the web browser was only commercially deployed 5,000 days ago, he summed up three trends that will affect the future as ‘global, you and do.’ The Internet is increasingly a global machine, Kelly noted, and “Nobody is as smart as everybody.”

For more information on i-stage visit www.CE.org/i-stage. For the latest information on the 2009 International CES, scheduled January 8-11, 2009 in Las Vegas, visit www.CESweb.org.

Note to Journalists:

General press and analyst registration, as well as detailed press conference information, is available at www.CESweb.org. Journalists are encouraged to arrive in Las Vegas by Tuesday, January 6, to take advantage of all the CES press events, including CES Unveiled from 4-7 p.m. on January 6.

About CEA:

The Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) is the preeminent trade association promoting growth in the $173 billion U.S. consumer electronics industry. More than 2,200 companies enjoy the benefits of CEA membership, including legislative advocacy, market research, technical training and education, industry promotion and the fostering of business and strategic relationships. CEA also sponsors and manages the International CES – Where Entertainment, Technology and Business Converge. All profits from CES are reinvested into CEA’s industry services. Find CEA online at www.CE.org.

Follow the 2009 International CES on Twitter at twitter.com/2009CES and visit the International CES Page on Facebook.

Business Wire

October 21, 2008 12:18 PM Eastern Daylight Time

LEO MOTORS SIGNS A MAJOR CONTRACT WITH THE PHILIPPINES GOVERNMENT TO SUPPLY $15 MILLION IN ELECTRIC VEHICLES, PARTS AND BATTERIES

LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Leo Motors, Inc. (OTC: LEOM) announced today that it has signed a major contract with the city government of Puerto Princesa, of the Republic of the Philippines, to form a company to produce electric vehicles to sell in Puerto Princesa, and also throughout Asia.

The agreement includes minimum numbers of vehicles to be produced, as well as monetary contributions of up to $5 million by the government of the Philippines. The city government of Puerto Princesa, the capital of the province of Palawan, agreed to form a joint company to set up an assembly plant to supply the electric taxis and help manage the program financially. Leo Motors will supply knock-down parts and batteries for minimum 2,500 electric taxis to the joint company, and the city will subsidize 200 million Pesos (approximately $5 million U.S.). Before selecting Leo Motors, Mayor Hagedorn visited Leo Motors' factory in Seoul, and selected the model over other competitive models for being able to drive long distances and maintain peak power without losing battery power, in addition to ease of recharging.

Puerto Princesa is seeking to eliminate the pollution emitted by numerous tricycles, which emit carbons and pollution 15 times more than a typical passenger car. The city decided to create a tricycle that would make the air more breathable.

Leo Motors CEO & President Mr. John Lee said, "I am very proud that Leo Motors has signed this major agreement with the government. This contract will serve as the momentum for Leo Motors to be the leader of EV industry."

Electric vehicles to be produced by Leo Motors are 100% battery powered, and are fueled by recharging, rather than refueling at a petrol station. In the Leo Motors program in Puerto Princesa, to lower the initial E-Taxi purchasing cost, Leo Motors, together with the city in a joint venture, will operate the Fresh Battery Station, which is a battery swap center. When completed, drivers will not need to buy expensive batteries. Recharging is a simple process, which involves swapping a discharged battery for a fully charged battery, or plugging in the innovative quick charger to top up the battery at the battery swap center. Leo Motors’ advances in cutting-edge battery and charger technology are dramatically improving vehicle recharge times. Battery swaps will not take more than five minutes. When completed, the center would always be available for drivers with freshly and fully recharged batteries.

Leo Motors enjoys many technical advantages over existing better known companies in acceleration, mileage and shorter charge time. Leo Motors extends the longevity of the expensive Lithium Polymer Battery through new inventions, called Omni BMS and PCM, which digitally manage and control the battery charging. Leo Motor’s Super Lithium Polymer Battery Pack has the highest energy density and longest life ever developed. Such technologies are not found easily, even in the most expensive electric vehicles in the market. Lead Acid Batteries are not being used for this project because of their lower life, huge weight and contamination of the lands where disposed.

Electric cars are in the news almost daily. Large manufacturers and startups appear to be responding aggressively to changing circumstances and customer preferences. In the Philippines alone, there are 2.2 million tricycles. Neighboring countries like Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia have more than 10 million tricycles contaminating the air. Leo Motors will have vast business opportunities in this region.

This press release includes "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. In addition to statements which explicitly describe such risks and uncertainties, readers are urged to consider statements labeled with the terms "believes," "belief," "expects," "intends," "anticipates," "will," or "plans" to be uncertain and forward looking. The forward-looking statements contained herein are also subject generally to other risks and uncertainties that are described from time to time in the company's reports and registration statements filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Business Wire

October 21, 2008 11:47 AM Eastern Daylight Time

Western Sierra Completes Infrastructure Improvements at the Gold Basin Mine

PRESCOTT, Ariz.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Western Sierra Mining Corp. (OTC: WSRA) announced today that it has completed all infrastructure improvements to the Gold Basin mine necessary prior to initial production. Work will begin next week to begin preliminary excavation of the proven reserves to stockpile and ready the ore for production scheduled to begin in November.

Michael Chaffee, CEO & President of Western Sierra Mining, commented, “We are pleased that we brought the project in within budget with only minor delays. First excavation has already begun and will last through the end of the following week. Initial testing will also be conducted as we finalize the first production schedule and work to complete the mine development plan.”

About Western Sierra Mining Corp.

Western Sierra Mining is an aggressive gold and silver exploration and mining company focused on the historic mining districts of the Bradshaw mountains of Arizona, with additional areas of interest within Nevada and Mexico. Current projects include the SunGold, Oro Cache, and the Big Chief mining group, all of which have demonstrated high-grade mineralization with previous histories of production. Long-term company goals are to create maximum shareholder value by continuing to build a strong base of properties and advance these projects toward production.

Safe Harbor

This press release contains statements, which may constitute "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the Securities Act of 1933 and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended by the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Those statements include statements regarding the intent, belief or current expectations of Western Sierra Mining Corp., and members of its management, as well as the assumptions on which such statements are based. Prospective investors are cautioned that any such forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance and involve risks and uncertainties, and that actual results may differ materially from those contemplated by such forward-looking statements. Important factors currently known to management that could cause actual results to differ materially from those in forward-looking statements include fluctuation of operating results, the ability to compete successfully and the ability to complete before-mentioned transactions. The company undertakes no obligation to update or revise forward-looking statements to reflect changed assumptions, the occurrence of unanticipated events or changes to future operating results.

Business Wire

October 21, 2008 10:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time

Shoptopia Launches in Las Vegas Connecting Online Shoppers With Local Shopping Center

New Social Shopping Site Is the First Online Shopping Portal Designed to Drive Traffic to Local Shopping Centers

LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Mallfinder Network, LLC, in partnership with Forest City Commercial Management, Inc., today announced the launch of Shoptopia, a social shopping site designed to connect shoppers with retailers and other community groups at their local shopping center. Galleria at Sunset, one of the area’s most popular shopping destinations, will host Shoptopia’s debut in Las Vegas. Galleria at Sunset is owned and operated by Forest City Commercial Management.

Shoptopia bridges the gap between online and traditional retail shopping, allowing users to access all of the benefits of online shopping while reconnecting them with the enjoyment of an in-store shopping experience. With Shoptopia, online users have access to the communal-shopping experience they demand – a community of fellow shoppers to share tools, knowledge and product reviews – while receiving special discounts and incentives that can be redeemed at the brick-and-mortar retail locations at the Galleria at Sunset.

“When using more than one channel to shop for goods, 75% of consumers overwhelmingly prefer to move from online to brick-and-mortar locations,” said John Dee, president of Mallfinder Network. “We launched Shoptopia to meet the needs of these consumers and to connect them directly with brands and products available locally. We’ve partnered with Forest City as we test the concept and intend to roll out not only to Forest City’s multiple centers but in partnership with shopping centers across the country.”

“Forest City embraces the technological preferences of our shoppers at each of our centers,” said Jane Lisy, vice president marketing, Forest City Commercial Management. “In partnership with Mallfinder, we have worked to provide our customers with choices and options that make their shopping more fun, satisfying and efficient. Shoptopia is one more step in combining the power of technology and exciting destination shopping.”

Using Shoptopia is simple. Users sign up to create a profile and personalize their shopping preferences. They can discover, collect and organize favorite products with Shoptopia Lists, seek the opinions of like-minded shoppers and share a shopping experience with family and friends in the Talk section. Shoppers can engage across all major retail categories including, Women’s Fashion, Men’s Fashion, Kids, Gadgets, Home, Health & Beauty, and Eco-Green.

The shopping experience is enhanced with the Shoptopia “Bag It!” button which can be installed to a Web browser toolbar allowing users to add things to their Shoptopia lists from anywhere on the Web.

Once users have created a profile that identifies their preferences, they can also enjoy exclusive perks and deals from the Galleria at Sunset. Retailers can enhance relationships with customers who frequent their stores and provide these shoppers with the product information and promotions that are relevant to them.

“Shoptopia helps us to build relationships with customers and provides them with information about the products and promotions that are specifically relevant to them,” said Marie Martorano, Marketing Director at Galleria at Sunset. “This way we are able to translate the online shopping experience into a trip to the mall for people who love the experience of shopping in a store.”

Following the launch in Las Vegas, Shoptopia will roll out to shopping centers nationwide.

About Shoptopia

Shoptopia is an online social shopping experience where members can share their love for their favorite brands, discover new products, seek shopping advice from a community of friends, family and peers, and receive exclusive benefits from local shopping centers. Shoptopia is the creation of Mallfinder Network, the leading developer and provider of interactive marketing services for the shopping center industry. Mallfinder develops and hosts websites, manages email-marketing campaigns and coordinates the delivery of brand and retailer content. Mallfinder has been servicing leading companies in the shopping center industry with interactive marketing services since 1997. Experience Shoptopia at www.shoptopia.com.

About Forest City

Forest City Commercial Management, Inc. is a subsidiary or Forest City Enterprises, Inc. a $10.9 billion NYSE-listed national real estate company. Forest City Enterprises is principally engaged in the ownership, development, management and acquisition of commercial and residential real estate and land throughout the United States.

Business Wire

October 21, 2008 09:46 AM Eastern Daylight Time

Insurance Litigation Expert Available to Discuss Insurer Insolvency Issues and the Guaranty Fund

KCIC President to Present at 2008 BVR Legal/Mealey’s SuperConference

WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Kenesis Corporate and Information Consulting (KCIC), a nationally recognized consulting firm specializing in litigation support and insurance-related asset and liability management, announced that its president will participate in discussions on “Insurer Insolvency Issues and the Guaranty Fund.”

Who:

Jonathan Terrell, President
KCIC

What:

"Insurer Insolvency Issues and the Guaranty Fund"
BVR Legal/Mealey's Comprehensive Construction Defect Claims & Coverage SuperConference

http://www.bvresources.com/conferences.asp?f=bvrmealeys110508live

Where:

Mandalay Bay Resort
Las Vegas, Nev.

When:

Friday, Nov. 7, 2008
11:30 a.m. PST

Details:

When it comes to reaching a settlement agreement with an insurer, a frequent concern of policyholders is the insurer's credit risk, also known as solvency risk. If the insurer agrees to make payment over future years, will it be solvent to honor them? How will the insurer's chances of survival compare to the industry this year and in years to come? If insolvency does occur, how will a state's guaranty fund help provide protection?

While there is no absolute answer, KCIC’s Jonathan Terrell provides valuable insight to help policyholders form an educated view as to the level of solvency risk associated with a particular insurer. Terrell is available to discuss how to:

Assess solvency risk;
Maximize recoveries from failing or insolvent insurers;
Navigate the contingent claims process; and
Work with state guarantee funds that provide protection to policyholders and claimants of insolvent insurers.

Contact Angelique Rewers at 410.667.1113 or arewers@kmsystemsgroup.com to schedule an interview.

ABOUT KCIC

Kenesis Corporate and Information Consulting is a premier consultancy providing a full range of financial and strategic services to corporate policyholders and their legal counsel. Based in Washington, D.C., KCIC brings decades of insurance industry knowledge and technical expertise in the areas of policy review, insurance archaeology, liability forecasting, allocation, credit analysis, litigation support and expert reporting. Its proprietary technology, the Kenesis Allocation and Billing system, leads the industry in its ability to capture, organize, model and report on insurance-related assets and liabilities. KCIC clients include Fortune 500 companies and leading law firms.

To learn more, visit www.kcicllc.com.

Business Wire

October 21, 2008 09:15 AM Eastern Daylight Time

Lumigent Debuts Application GRC to Offset the High Cost of Business Compliance

Company Defines New Market for GRC Controls of Business Applications

IBM Information On Demand 2008

Booth 29

ACTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Making its debut in the emerging market for GRC controls for primary business applications, Lumigent Technologies, Inc. today defined a new market, supported by a new pre-configured product suite called AppGRC™, for offsetting the high cost of business compliance. A market brief identifying the Application GRC market is available today at

http://www.lumigent.com/Lumigent_Market%20Brief_081010_pre%20final.pdf .

See the related product announcement for AppGRC at

http://www.lumigent.com/news_events/press_releases.html?newsid=205.

Lumigent will also be announcing its first two Fortune 2000 customers of AppGRC, as well as partners at IBM Information On Demand 2008 on October 26-31, 2008, at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas. The company will be exhibiting in booth 29.

“Governance, risk and compliance issues continue to cost significant dollars to manage, take valuable time to audit, and distract management. Amazingly, this is still not automated,” said Michael Skok, partner at North Bridge Venture Partners, a key investor in Lumigent. “People assume that their business applications have the necessary controls, and auditing and reporting functions built in. Or they build a GRC solution from scratch—a costly proposition. Now, Lumigent is delivering the first packaged enterprise applications automating GRC to serve the business executives who have to answer to their auditors and stakeholders.”

Collectively, the announcements reflect a new Lumigent led by a proven management team. With a heritage rooted in data monitoring at the tools level, the company is now dedicated to serving the application GRC market and to helping CFOs, controllers, and other business users seeking to drive down the costs of meeting governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) requirements for their primary business applications while improving governance-driven productivity and profitability.

“People are spending a lot of time and money to satisfy auditors,” said John H. Capobianco, chairman of Lumigent. “At the same time, they’re missing out on revenue opportunities. Why? Because they’re manually auditing changes to business data when they could be focusing on business optimization. Lumigent is committed to automating those processes and giving CFOs and other business users applications that deliver the kind of irrefutable, source-level information that leads to decisive action and compliance with confidence.”

The New Application GRC Market

Organizations charge their CFOs, controllers, and other business users with meeting GRC requirements for their business processes. However, while there are general computer control and IT security systems, these users have no readily available, automated way to carry out their application-level GRC duties. The result? Internal and regulatory audits are conducted manually, exacting a high price in time, money and aggravation.

To drive down those costs, a new class of enterprise business application is emerging: Application GRC—business-focused compliance and control applications that complement primary business applications. Application GRC solutions improve operational efficiencies and mitigate business and financial risk by providing complete visibility into application data activity at the source level and automating application-aware controls to maintain the integrity of critical business information. With application GRC, business users finally get off-the-shelf applications that automate compliance efforts.

The New AppGRC Suite

AppGRC applications are the governance, risk, and compliance controls for primary business applications, fortifying the integrity of critical business operations and reporting for applications. Using automated, continuous controls monitoring at the database layer, AppGRC enhances the integrity of financial reporting and decision making by providing persuasive, source-level information—the who, what, when and before/after values of data changes that exceed policy parameters. In turn, AppGRC complements solutions from other vendors in the GRC ecosystem, like Paisley, MetricStream, Approva, AXENTIS, and, for that matter, Oracle and SAP.

Through its proven methodology, Lumigent:

discovers business processes and the supporting information that need monitoring,

creates an application baseline to quickly identify application changes, and

implements continuous controls to ensure data integrity and ongoing compliance.

Among other advantages, AppGRC applications help organizations develop sustainable compliance processes, create comprehensive audit trails, drive down audit and compliance costs, and optimize business operations.

Lumigent is initially offering AppGRC for Deltek Costpoint, which has already been deployed by SAIC and AMERICAN SYSTEMS. Lumigent is also offering AppGRC for PeopleSoft Financials. Going forward, the company will work in close collaboration with its customers and ISVs to develop AppGRC solutions for both packaged and custom-built applications that use IBM DB2, Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, or Sybase databases.

The New Lumigent Team

The new Lumigent has evolved its core technology assets—including database logging, auditing, and baselining technologies—into an application GRC control suite that includes deep subject matter, industry, and regulatory expertise. To take Lumigent into the application GRC market as a provider of finished, enterprise business applications, the company’s executive team has grown to include industry veterans with proven skills at creating and dominating new markets, including:

John H. Capobianco, chairman
Ronald Nall, EVP products and services
Tom Stiling, EVP sales and partners
For more information on Lumigent, please visit www.lumigent.com.

About Lumigent

Lumigent helps CFOs, CIOs, controllers, and other business executives reduce the cost of meeting Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) requirements for their primary business applications. Organizations worldwide use Lumigent’s AppGRC™ software solutions in some of the most heavily regulated industries, including financial services, healthcare, manufacturing, and government. Lumigent improves operational efficiencies and mitigates business and financial risk by providing complete visibility into application data activity and automating application-aware controls to maintain the integrity of critical business information. For more information, please visit www.lumigent.com.

Lumigent and the Lumigent logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Lumigent Technologies, Inc. Other product and company names are property of their respective owners.

Business Wire

October 21, 2008 09:15 AM Eastern Daylight Time

Lumigent Launches AppGRC Suite

Industry’s First Application GRC Control Suite Initially Targets Deltek Costpoint, PeopleSoft Financials

IBM Information On Demand 2008

Booth 29

ACTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Lumigent Technologies, Inc., the first to market with GRC business control applications, today announced AppGRC, the industry’s first application GRC control suite for business applications. The new applications help CFOs, controllers, and other business users drive down the costs of meeting GRC requirements for their primary business applications while improving governance-driven productivity and profitability. The first applications in the suite are AppGRC for Deltek Costpoint and AppGRC for PeopleSoft Financials.

The launch of the AppGRC Suite was made today in conjunction with the company’s debut of Application GRC, a new market opportunity to offset the high cost of business compliance. See related announcement at http://www.lumigent.com/news_events/press_releases.html?newsid=204 and secure a copy of “Application GRC: The Rise of Automated Business Compliance,” a market brief identifying the Application GRC category, at http://www.lumigent.com/Lumigent_Market%20Brief_081010_pre%20 final.pdf. Lumigent will also be announcing AppGRC customers and partners at IBM Information On Demand 2008 on October 26–31, 2008, at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas. The company will be exhibiting in booth 29.

AppGRC applications strengthen the integrity of critical business operations and reporting for a primary business application that uses IBM DB2, Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, or Sybase databases. Through automated, data baselining and continuous controls monitoring at the database layer, AppGRC enhances the integrity of financial reporting and decision making by providing persuasive, source-level information — the who, what, when and before/after values.

“Simply put, we watch data. When data changes exceed our policy and control values, we issue an alert,” said John H. Capobianco, chairman of Lumigent. “It’s a simple process, but the way we do it demands deep technical and subject matter expertise. We’re not just monitoring the controls. We are the controls. And we capture every single change to the source data we monitor, no matter who or what initiates it — another application, privileged user, hacker, etc. That gives our business users absolute confidence in their application GRC processes, and it spares them a lot of manual labor.”

Added Michael Tinsely, president and CEO at NeoSystems Corp., “AppGRC applications provide the fastest possible way to pass an audit. Business users can demonstrate regulatory compliance quickly with pre-configured reports and templates. We have added the applications to monitor our hosted SAS 70 applications in order to provide our clients with a more robust and effective control environment. And AppGRC’s application baseline reports can save them hundreds if not thousands of hours performing costly controls tests. No other GRC vendor — or ISV, for that matter — provides this level of integrated, application GRC controls for business applications.”

The AppGRC Breakthrough

Application GRC is an integrated approach that includes discovery, control, and visibility of application data and processes for many reporting uses, such as internal audits, compliance programs, and data and business risk mitigation. AppGRC for Deltek Costpoint, AppGRC for PeopleSoft Financials, and upcoming additions to the AppGRC suite all share a common methodology, including:

Discover – Discover where sensitive data is stored and how it relates to business processes and applications. Identify information and controls that need to be monitored, and uncover data protection and privacy standards violations.

Assess – Assess internal control objectives and how they are being met by understanding and prioritizing risk, identifying key controls, and establishing baselines to measure effectiveness of controls over time.
Monitor – Implement efficient, automated, ongoing monitoring operations to reduce the need for expensive, manual, separate evaluations. Collect persuasive information by continuously monitoring key controls and supporting data at the source. Gather relevant, reliable, and timely details including how data was changed and who changed it along with before and after values.

Alert/Report – Compile and deliver results in a business context with structure and consistency to process owners at the appropriate level to either confirm the effectiveness of controls or to highlight deficiencies that require investigation.

Secure – Understand application and operational vulnerabilities early, and take corrective action before they are exploited.

AppGRC applications are finished business applications that run alongside their target, primary business applications. Pre-configured to monitor the most critical application data, AppGRC applications can be up and running in days rather than months. Still, AppGRC applications can be extended and configured to meet an individual organization’s unique controls and regulatory requirements. Key features across the entire AppGRC suite include:

Baselining – The AppGRC Baseline combines continuous monitoring of key controls with an easy-to-read master report, which identifies areas that require testing. AppGRC baselining provides the persuasive information necessary to skip expensive manual testing for controls that have not changed since they were tested during a prior audit.

Reporting Templates – The AppGRC reporting templates provide the essential application and business context, so deficiencies and the actions necessary to correct them can be clearly understood.

Command Line Interface – AppGRC includes a powerful command line interface that can be used to automate tasks related to automating controls, saving time and ensuring performance consistency to minimize the risk of error.

Complete audit trail – Policy-driven audit collection ties application user IDs to before and after views of all data changes at the field level, simplifying compliance reporting with policies mapped to specific audit requirements.

For more information on Lumigent, please visit www.lumigent.com.

About Lumigent

Lumigent helps CFOs, CIOs, controllers, and other business executives reduce the cost of meeting Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) requirements for their primary business applications. Organizations worldwide use Lumigent’s AppGRC™ software solutions in some of the most heavily regulated industries, including financial services, healthcare, manufacturing, and government. Lumigent improves operational efficiencies and mitigates business and financial risk by providing complete visibility into application data activity and automating application-aware controls to maintain the integrity of critical business information. For more information, please visit www.lumigent.com.

Lumigent and the Lumigent logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Lumigent Technologies, Inc. Other product and company names are property of their respective owners.

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October 21, 2008 09:14 AM Eastern Daylight Time

BioSphere to Hold Symposium on Physician Collaboration in Fibroid Treatments at AAGL Congress

-UFE Topic of Discussion in Post Graduate Course-

ROCKLAND, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--BioSphere Medical, Inc. (NASDAQ: BSMD), a medical device company that has pioneered the use of bioengineered microspheres to treat uterine fibroids, hypervascularized tumors, and vascular malformations by a minimally invasive, image-guided medical procedure called embolotherapy, today announced that the Company will sponsor a symposium at the AAGL 37th Global Congress of Minimally Invasive Gynecology on October 30 in Las Vegas at the Paris Las Vegas Hotel. The Symposium topic is “Successful Collaboration for the Latest Treatments of Fibroids.” Also, on October 29, the treatment of fibroids will be further discussed in a post graduate course, chaired by Dr. Linda Bradley, Vice-Chair, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, and Director, Center for Menstrual Disorders, Fibroids & Hysteroscopic Services, The Cleveland Clinic, which includes as a learning objective the creation of a “successful collaborative practice with radiologists for uterine fibroid embolization (UFE).”

Richard Faleschini, BioSphere Medical’s president and chief executive officer, said, “We’re very pleased that AAGL is recognizing the importance of UFE treatment and the interdependent roles of the interventional radiologist and the gynecologist. Our Symposium features four leaders in the field, each discussing treatment options, techniques and patient management, current clinical data in the literature, and maximizing outcomes via the collaboration of the gynecologist and interventional radiologist. We’re also pleased to have Dr. Bradley, and Drs. John H. Fisher, II, Assistant Professor, Department of Radiology, St. Luke’s Episcopal Hospital, Houston, TX), James B. Spies, Professor of Radiology and Chairman and Chief of Service, Department of Radiology, Georgetown University School of Medicine, and Robert K. Zurawin, Associate Professor of Obstetrics & Gynecology, Baylor College of Medicine, leading our symposium.

“BioSphere has been very focused on promoting the distinct value of physician collaboration, not just for patients, but for hospitals and physicians. The postgraduate course at the AAGL meeting validates and builds upon the approach we have taken as we seek to increase the utilization of UFE, where appropriate,” Mr. Faleschini added.

About BioSphere Medical, Inc.

BioSphere Medical, Inc., a medical device company based in Rockland, Massachusetts, seeks to develop and commercialize products used in minimally invasive diagnostic and therapeutic applications based upon its pioneering proprietary bioengineered microsphere technology. The Company's core technologies, patented bioengineered polymers and manufacturing methods, are used to produce microscopic spherical materials with unique beneficial properties that are designed for a variety of medical applications. BioSphere's principal focus is the treatment of symptomatic uterine fibroids using a procedure called uterine fibroid embolization, or UFE. The Company's products continue to gain acceptance in this rapidly emerging procedure, as well as in a number of other new and established medical treatments.

Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements

This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, including, without limitation, statements regarding the expected favorable benefits of the Company’s “Ask4Tell4” marketing campaign. The Company may use words such as "plans," "seeks," "projects," "believes," "may," "anticipates," "estimates," "should," "intends," "looking forward," and similar expressions to identify these forward-looking statements. There are a number of important factors that may affect the Company's actual performance and results and the accuracy of its forward-looking statements, many of which are beyond the Company's control and are difficult to predict.

These important factors include, without limitation, risks relating to: the failure of the Company to successfully develop, commercialize and achieve widespread market acceptance of its products; the failure of the Company to increase the rate of UFE procedures, and concomitant use of its products for UFE, with its expanded sales force and its recently initiated sales and marketing strategies; the failure of the Company to achieve or maintain necessary regulatory approvals; the Company's ability to obtain and maintain patent and other proprietary protection; the absence of, or delays or cancellations of, product orders, and delays, difficulties or unanticipated costs in the introduction of new products; competitive pressures and the risk of product liability claims, either of which may impact market acceptance of products and adversely affect the Company's operating results; the inability of the Company to successfully execute on its plans and strategies for future growth; the inability of the Company to raise additional funds in the near term to finance the development, marketing, and sales of its products; general economic and market conditions, both domestically and abroad; and, risk factors described in the section titled "Risk Factors" in the Company's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended June 30, 2008, as filed by the Company with the Securities and Exchange Commission, and described in other filings made by the Company from time to time with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

In addition, the forward-looking statements included in this press release represent the Company's estimates as of the date of this release. The Company anticipates that subsequent events and developments may cause its forward-looking statements to change. The Company specifically disclaims any obligation or intention to update or revise these forward-looking statements as a result of changed events or circumstances after the date of this press release.

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October 21, 2008 09:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time

Epicor® Signs 10 New Value-Added Resellers to Its Partners for Growth Channel Program through Third Quarter 2008

New Partners to Leverage Epicor’s Next Generation True SOATM Enterprise Resource Planning Solution

Perspectives 2008

LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Epicor Software Corporation (NASDAQ: EPIC), a leading provider of enterprise business software solutions for the midmarket and divisions of Global 1000 companies, today announced that it has added 10 new value-added resellers (VARs) to the Company’s sales channel through the third quarter of 2008. The new partners span the United States and Canada, signifying 20% growth of Epicor’s channel presence in the Americas. Leveraging the technological advancements of Epicor 9, these partners will drive business without barriers — offering a comprehensive, configurable enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution across multiple industries.

Epicor’s sales channel continues to evolve and grow, providing collaboration and support to increasingly open markets. While many vendors continue to offer rigid manufacturing solutions, Epicor allows its partners to transcend industries and markets. Built on the second-generation service-oriented architecture, Epicor Internet Component Environment (ICE) 2.0, Epicor fuses modern Web 2.0 technologies with Epicor True SOA™ to deliver business architecture that offers new levels of flexibility, usability, and agility in support of application-to-application integration and business-to-business collaboration.

“Initially, our midmarket ERP vendor selection came down to the wire between SAP and Microsoft,” explained Bruce Grant, owner and president of the Estes Group. The Estes Group became an Epicor channel partner in September, 2008. “Instead, we focused on flexibility and value across many customer bases. We’re seriously looking forward to Epicor 9. It gives us the ability to have wide latitude across several vertical industries,” Grant continued.

“Buyers are looking for Web-enabled services,” said John Preiditsch, owner and president of Six-S Partners. “A strong product, strong customer service and serious investment in new technology are a formula for success. Epicor offers each of these, second to none in the midmarket.” Based in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, Six-S Partners provides technology solutions, process and operational improvement consulting to midmarket manufacturing companies. Six-S Partners and the Estes Group join eight other new Epicor partners signed in 2008.

“Epicor has significantly strengthened its indirect sales channel in 2008,” said Salena Butler, director of channel sales for Epicor. “With an enhanced partner incentive program, the addition of ten new dedicated partners and the anticipation of Epicor 9 in the sales channel – we have seen significant progress in our channel program in 2008. These steps underscore our dedication to serious, invested partners and the customer relationships they cultivate.”

In addition to Epicor 9, recent enhancements to the Epicor Partners for Growth Program provide partners with outstanding support ranging from increased sales margins to an intensive partner training and certification process and direct reimbursement on marketing development funds. Each of these aspects include a variety of benefits ranging from marketing funds, co-branding and increased commissions to discounted participation at Epicor’s three annual partner events.

“The recent changes Epicor has made speak volumes, not only additions to software but in the partner program as well. Epicor never floods the sales channel. They remain very selective and customer focused,” Grant explained.

A focus on quality in partner relationships was also a key factor in Six-S Partners’ choice of Epicor as well. “Epicor has been great in helping us come up to speed. It’s a testament to our strength and success,” Preiditsch added.

Epicor Partners for Growth Program

The Epicor Partners for Growth program provides a solid foundation for partners committed to excellence and customer satisfaction. Epicor provides a comprehensive sales, marketing and support program that offers its channel partners significant opportunities to grow their businesses in key industries—manufacturing, distribution, retail, hospitality and professional services—backed by Epicor’s award-winning solutions, support and services. More than 300 value-added resellers and authorized consultants participate in the Epicor Partners for Growth Program worldwide. For more information on this program and the new three-tiered partner incentive program, send e-mail to partnerinfo@epicor.com.

About Epicor Software Corporation

Epicor is a global leader dedicated to providing integrated enterprise resource planning (ERP), customer relationship management (CRM), supply chain management (SCM) and professional services automation (PSA) software solutions to the midmarket and divisions of Global 1000 companies. Founded in 1984, Epicor serves over 20,000 customers in more than 140 countries, providing solutions in over 30 languages. Employing innovative service-oriented architecture (SOA) and Web services technology, Epicor delivers end-to-end, industry-specific solutions for manufacturing, distribution, retail, hospitality and services that enable companies to drive increased efficiency, improve performance and build competitive advantage. Epicor solutions provide the scalability and flexibility to meet today's business challenges, while empowering enterprises for even greater success tomorrow. Epicor offers a comprehensive range of services with its solutions, providing a single point of accountability to promote rapid return on investment and low total cost of ownership. Epicor’s worldwide headquarters are located in Irvine, California with offices and affiliates around the world. For more information, visit www.epicor.com.

Epicor is a registered trademark of Epicor Software Corporation. Other trademarks referenced are the property of their respective owners. The product and service offerings depicted in this document are produced by Epicor Software Corporation.

Business Wire

October 21, 2008 08:30 AM Eastern Daylight Time

Gartner Announces 27th Annual Data Center Conference

--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Media Alert:

When: December 2-5, 2008

Where: MGM Grand Hotel & Casino, Las Vegas, NV.

For complete event details, please visit the Gartner Data Center Conference Web site at www.gartner.com/us/datacenter.

Details: As the pressure mounts on IT to improve the utilization levels of assets and reign in the labor component in budgets, the result is many new products being brought to market. The Gartner Data Center Conference will focus on these new products and trends and provide real-world perspectives and strategies to transform data centers. In three and a half packed days, over 2,000 attendees will focus on hot topics including servers, IT operations, virtualization, storage, infrastructure challenges, business continuity and disaster recovery.

Gartner analysts will analyze the risk and rewards in next-generation virtualization technologies - and share how to avoid creating new problems down the road - with the deepest coverage of virtualization we've ever had. Gartner analysts will also investigate emerging storage technologies designed to help data center executives manage, secure, backup and archive the burgeoning growth in data.

Learn what the future holds for those running Unix, Linux, Windows and z/OS server environments as we explore new management and operations technologies, processes and organizational structures designed to optimize the environment while maintaining critical business service levels.

Keynotes & Guest Speakers:

* The Future of Infrastructure & Operations: The Engine of Cloud Computing - Tom Bittman, Gartner VP & Distinguished Analyst

* The Data Center Scenario: Planning for the Future - Paul McGuckin, Gartner Research VP and Donna Scott, Gartner VP and Distinguished Analyst

* The 4 Traits of the World's Best Performing Business Leaders - Jason Jennings, Business Thought Leader and Best-Selling Author

* Top Ten Disruptive Technologies Affecting the Data Center - Carl Claunch, Gartner VP & Distinguished Analyst

* Mastermind Panel: The Future of the Data Center - Panelists Include - Mark Thiele End user, Director Business Operations R&D, VMWare and Mark J.E. Bramfitt, Principal Program Manager, PG&E.

Over 90 companies will be sponsors exhibiting at the Summit. A listing of Summit sponsors is available on the Solution Showcase page at

http://www.gartner.com/it/page.jsp?id=627607&tab=soln_showcase#current

Additional companies interested in participating as a Conference Sponsor should contact Brent Bodick (A-E) at brent.bodick@gartner.com, Stephen Paster (F-M) at stephen.paster@gartner.com, Neil Whitney (N-R) or Hope O'Brien (S-Z) at hope.obrien@gartner.com, or

Members of the media can register to attend the event by contacting christy.pettey@gartner.com.

About Gartner

Gartner, Inc. (NYSE: IT) is the world's leading information technology research and advisory company. Gartner delivers the technology-related insight necessary for its clients to make the right decisions, every day. From CIOs and senior IT leaders in corporations and government agencies, to business leaders in high-tech and telecom enterprises and professional services firms, to technology investors, Gartner is the indispensable partner to 60,000 clients in 10,000 distinct organizations. Through the resources of Gartner Research, Gartner Executive Programs, Gartner Consulting and Gartner Events, Gartner works with every client to research, analyze and interpret the business of IT within the context of their individual role. Founded in 1979, Gartner is headquartered in Stamford, Connecticut, U.S.A., and has 4,000 associates, including 1,200 research analysts and consultants in 75 countries. For more information, visit www.gartner.com.

Business Wire

October 21, 2008 08:28 AM Eastern Daylight Time

McAfee, Inc. and CommVault Form Strategic Alliance to Deliver Integrated Data and Security Management Solutions

– Industry-Leading Technology Providers to Offer Integrated Solutions Worldwide, Built on McAfee ePO and CommVault Simpana Software –

FOCUS 08

LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--McAfee (NYSE:MFE) and CommVault (NASDAQ:CVLT):

McAfee, Inc. (NYSE: MFE) and CommVault (NASDAQ: CVLT) today announced a strategic partnership to deliver an integrated data and security management solution built on the two companies’ respective data management, backup and security expertise.

The agreement will provide customers worldwide with access to integrated data and security management technology solutions from both McAfee and CommVault.

The solution integrates McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator® (ePO™) software, McAfee’s security risk management platform, with the award-winning CommVault® Simpana® software, which delivers Backup, Replication, Archive, Storage Resource Management and Search capabilities.

As part of the partnership, CommVault has also joined the McAfee® Security Innovation Alliance, McAfee’s technology partnering program, which is designed to accelerate the development of interoperable security products and simplify the integration of those products with complex customer environments. Additionally, McAfee has joined CommVault’s PartnerAdvantageTM program as a Strategic Partner to help expand product integration efforts, compatibility testing and further align the companies’ go-to-market strategies.

The McAfee-CommVault solution will enable mutual customers to monitor corporate data for increased security and compliance with simplified policy management. The integration allows McAfee ePO users to report on the data protection/recovery state of end point clients to identify conditions such as the backup status. When that condition is outside the prescribed protection policy threshold it can trigger an alert notification or report to warn the ePO user. Additional integration features are expected to target expanded software distribution and data leakage profiling using the Simpana Search and eDiscovery features.

This partnership highlights the ongoing commitment of both companies to provide customers with powerful solutions that address both security and data backup. The solution will not only help reduce the complexity in customers’ IT environments but also improve protection, compliance and lower the Total Cost of Ownership.

Availability

The initial phase of the integrated McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator and CommVault Simpana software solution is expected to be available in 2009. For more information on integrated risk and data management solutions, visit CommVault’s Booth #113 at Focus 08.

Supporting Quotes

“Business requirements and security threats demand a blended approach to storage and security. In coming together, CommVault and McAfee can provide customers with award-winning data protection capabilities that work hand in hand with industry-leading security applications for a complete, more easily deployable and cost effective data and security management solution,” said Lauren Whitehouse, analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group.

“In today’s uncertain economy and changing regulatory environment, IT directors and compliance officers need sharper and more real-time visibility into business risks,” said N. Robert Hammer, president and chief executive officer, CommVault. “The integration between Simpana software and McAfee ePO software will help businesses make more informed and rapid business decisions. Our partnership with McAfee is another step in our continued efforts to deliver customers added value through strategic industry alliances. We look forward to a mutually rewarding partnership with McAfee and to exploring other synergies between our two companies.”

“Mitigating business risk is essential and customers are demanding a solution that addresses both their backup and security needs,” said David DeWalt, CEO, McAfee. “Our partnership with CommVault builds on their data management and our security management and protection expertise, allowing us to offer an integrated data and risk management solution that is simple and cost-effective to deploy.”

Supporting Resources

Learn about the CommVault Simpana software suite

Learn about McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator

About McAfee, Inc.

McAfee, Inc., the leading dedicated security technology company, headquartered in Santa Clara, California, delivers proactive and proven solutions and services that secure systems and networks around the world. With its unmatched security expertise and commitment to innovation, McAfee empowers home users, businesses, the public sector, and service providers with the ability to block attacks, prevent disruptions, and continuously track and improve their security. http://www.mcafee.com.

About CommVault

A singular vision — a belief in a better way to address current and future data management needs — guides CommVault in the development of Singular Information Management® solutions for high-performance data protection, universal availability and simplified management of data on complex storage networks. CommVault's exclusive single-platform architecture gives companies unprecedented control over data growth, costs and risk. CommVault's Simpana® software suite of products was designed to work together seamlessly from the ground up, sharing a single code and common function set, to deliver superlative Data Protection, Archive, Replication, Search and Resource Management capabilities. More companies every day join those who have discovered the unparalleled efficiency, performance, reliability, and control only CommVault can offer. Information about CommVault is available at www.commvault.com. CommVault's corporate headquarters is located in Oceanport, New Jersey in the United States. (cvlt-pt)

Safe Harbor Statement

Customers' results may differ materially from those stated herein; CommVault does not guarantee that all customers can achieve benefits similar to those stated above. This press release may contain forward-looking statements, including statements regarding financial projections, which are subject to risks and uncertainties, such as competitive factors, difficulties and delays inherent in the development, manufacturing, marketing and sale of software products and related services, general economic conditions and others. Statements regarding CommVault's beliefs, plans, expectations or intentions regarding the future are forward-looking statements, within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. All such forward-looking statements are made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Actual results may differ materially from anticipated results. CommVault does not undertake to update its forward-looking statements.

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