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Wharton Launches Executive Education Program for Top Leaders of FirstCaribbean International Bank: Modular Design and Focus on Current Initiatives Increase Program Impact
The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania launched a new executive education program for senior leaders of FirstCaribbean International Bank, the largest, regionally-listed bank in the English-speaking Caribbean. The first cohort of 20 executives from FirstCaribbean's senior leadership and executive leadership teams came to Wharton's campus for The FirstCaribbean Leadership Program in November and January. They will return for sessions in May and August as part of the 18-month program. 2007-03-08

U.S. Couple on Ultimate Caribbean Sailing Escape Aboard Hand-built Boat: Seven-month Caribbean sailing voyage takes Jan and Bruce Smith from Gig Harbor, WA, to West Indies
52 year-old artist and sailing enthusiast, Bruce Smith, his wife Jan and parrot Lars are sailing from their home in Gig Harbor, Wash., to the Caribbean, keeping in touch with the outside world via a satellite phone and their Web site and blog, brucesmithsvoyage.com. Though best known as a Caribbean folk artist whose work can be seen throughout the Caribbean islands and in every Bahama Breeze restaurant across the United States, Bruce Smith would rather be sailing on his hand-built 34-foot sailboat, Woodwind, than almost anywhere else in the world. Smith is currently living that dream, as he and his wife Jan and parrot Lars are sailing to the West Indies for a seven-month journey, documenting the excitement via their sailing blog. 2007-03-08

Socket Mobile Unveils New Handheld Computer for Business Mobility Market: Company to Leverage Existing Reseller Channels to Target Small to Medium Deployments
Socket Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCKT), dba Socket Mobile, Inc., an innovative provider of mobile productivity products, today unveiled its new handheld mobile computer specifically designed to make essential business mobile productivity solutions possible and affordable. The company's extensive line of mobile data collection and networking connectivity peripherals combined with the new handheld make Socket a one-stop supplier of mobile computing hardware systems. 2007-03-08

Smith Group -- Dallas-Based Investment Management Firm Launches New Portfolio Strategy
Smith Group, an investment management firm based in Dallas, Texas, has expanded its product offerings with a new 130/30 strategy. This strategy incorporates both long equity holdings and a limited amount of short selling with the objective of increasing investment returns without increasing risk. 2007-03-08

Invitrogen Dominates Cell Culture Market - Revealed in New Life Science Dashboard(TM) from Percepta Associates: However Invitrogen Challenged by HyClone and Sigma in Specific Cell Culture Market Segments
Today Percepta Associates launched its Cell Culture Life Science Dashboard(TM) market research report revealing Invitrogen (NASDAQ:IVGN) as the dominant supplier in the cell culture research market, which includes: basal media, animal sera, balanced salt solutions, serum free media, dry powdered media and growth and attachment factors. The Cell Culture Dashboard shows Invitrogen to be the leading cell culture supplier in all six market segments surveyed. However, Invitrogen is challenged by close competitors Thermo Fisher Scientific/HyClone (NYSE:TMO), which takes the lead in supplying North American animal sera, and Sigma (NASDAQ:SIAL), the leading supplier of growth and attachment factors to the academic market. Opportunities for companies looking to gain share in the cell culture market lie in dashboard findings that four of the six market segments surveyed showed greater than 20% of scientists using cell culture techniques are considering switching to a different supplier. 2007-03-08

Mark Christensen Named VP of Marketing for Corda Technologies: Mr. Christensen Will Lead Marketing and Product Development Initiatives
Corda Technologies announced today that it has named Mark Christensen as VP of Marketing. Mr. Christensen will head Corda's Marketing and Product Development departments. 2007-03-08

EFD(R) Announces New Auger Valve System: Ensures Accurate Fluid Control for Higher Yields, Less Waste, Reduced Costs
EFD, Inc., a Nordson company, announces the Auger Valve System. 2007-03-08

Drug Information Association (DIA) 43rd Annual Meeting: June 17-21, 2007 - 8,000+ International Professionals from Pharmaceutical Industry, Academia, and Regulatory Agencies Including FDA Convene in Atlanta - Keynote by Dr. Julie Gerberding of the CDC
The Drug Information Association (DIA) (http://www.diahome.org) will provide a neutral forum to discuss the pharmaceutical industry's dramatic improvements to public health around the world during the DIA 43rd Annual Meeting (http://www.diahome.org/DIAHome/FlagshipMeetings/home.aspx?meetingid= 11362 (Due to its length, this URL may need to be copied/pasted into your Internet browser's address field. Remove the extra space if one exists.)), June 17-21, 2007, at the Georgia World Congress Center, in Atlanta, GA. 2007-03-08

Court Said Arthur Alan Wolk and The Wolk Law Firm Acted ''Honestly and In Good Faith'': Arthur Wolk Shares Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas Opinion on Pennsylvania Superior Court's Eigen v. Textron Lycoming Reciprocating Engine Div
In response to a question about a previous and now outdated court case, aviation attorney Arthur Alan Wolk made public today the fact that he and his firm, The Wolk Law Firm, have been totally exonerated from a long past criticism made by the Pennsylvania Superior Court in an opinion authored by the Honorable Sandra Mazer Moss of the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas. In her opinion (see: http://arthuralanwolk.com/_wsn/page3.html), rendered on January 31, 2006, Judge Moss cited facts established on the record showing that the Superior Court's criticism of Wolk were completely unwarranted in the case of Eigen v. Textron Lycoming Reciprocating Engine Div., No. 003079, Control No. 012169, 2006 WL 891072 (Pa. C.P. Philadelphia County Jan. 31, 2006). Judge Moss' opinion was entered by stipulation after defense counsel who made the charges was removed from managing Precision Airmotive's defense. 2007-03-08

MarketVolume.com Clients Made Money in the Market Last Week: Trade Indicators Based on Real-Time Market Volume Helped Investors on February 27
MarketVolume.com, the single source of real-time advance-and-decline trade volume indicators for all U.S. equity markets, announced today that MarketVolume.com clients following its daily recommendations have successfully avoided loss, and even made money, during the market downturn last Tuesday and days following. 2007-03-08

Castle, Petersen & Krause, LLP Announces That a Notice of Collective Action Was Mailed Today to over Ten Thousand Police Officers Eligible to Join an FLSA Overtime Lawsuit Filed against the City of Los Angeles: LAPD Officers Have 90 Days to Join the Overtime Lawsuit against the City
Castle, Petersen & Krause, LLP announced that Notices of Collective Action and Consent to Join Forms were mailed today to 10,670 Los Angeles Police Officers, including, but not limited to Lieutenants, Sergeants, Detectives and Patrol Officers ("Officers") who are eligible to join the Alaniz, et al. v. City of Los Angeles ("Alaniz") lawsuit. Approximately six hundred Officers have already joined the Alaniz Lawsuit, with approximately 75 Officers joining the case each week based solely on word of mouth discussions and prior to receiving notice from the court. 2007-03-08