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Group NBT plc Updates the Web Site Building Software CM4all WebsiteCreator Business Edition for its Brand Easily.co.uk   After successfully adding the CM4all web site building software for consumers to its portfolio, Group NBT plc has now enriched its CM4all WebsiteCreator Business Edition with additional features. 2008-04-24

ADDING MULTIMEDIA Tag, You're It! Doubletree Hotels Helps Students Kick-Off Environmental Game of Tag Across North America: Educational Outreach Program Encourages Kids to ''Tag'' Trees Across the U.S. and Canada and Learn More About the Nature Outside Their Doors   The ultimate game of environmental tag is spreading from state to state today as students kick-off a game of "Tree Tag" to celebrate the world's oldest environmental holiday. Equipped with forest-green ribbons and eco-friendly tree tags in hand, 10,000 students in more than 150 communities will take part in a month-long initiative to raise awareness about the importance of trees through Doubletree Hotels' Teaching Kids to CARE(R) environmental education program. This spring initiative, created in collaboration with the Arbor Day Foundation(R), is appropriately themed Get to Know the Tree Next Door. 2008-04-24

Navigant Partners and BeyondBond Join Forces to Provide Specialized M&A Services to Commercial Real Estate and Structured Finance Industry
Navigant Partners, LLC announced today a new partnership with New York-based BeyondBond, Inc. to provide fixed-income analytics and bond collateral due diligence services for commercial real estate and structured finance mergers and acquisitions. By combining structured finance analytics and due diligence services from BeyondBond with the merger and acquisition expertise of Navigant Partners, firms searching for overlooked and undervalued companies and portfolios will be able to efficiently assess platforms and assets. 2008-04-24

SACHEM Offers Displacement Chromatography e-Learning Program: Program Enables Scientists to Understand and Evaluate Benefits of Displacement Chromatography   SACHEM announces the availability of a free displacement chromatography e-Learning program. With the growing popularity of SACHEM's Expell(TM), Isolis(TM) and Propell(TM) displacers, SACHEM is offering customers and scientists worldwide the ability to access information, learn about and explore displacement chromatography at their convenience. 2008-04-24

Cognos Honors Public Sector Customers for Exceptional Achievement in Performance Management: - Leading Customers Recognized at Cognos Government Forum for Innovation, Thought Leadership, and Success -   Cognos, an IBM company and world leader in business intelligence and performance management solutions, today announced it has awarded its Global Public Sector Leadership Awards to five customers who have demonstrated outstanding success in organizational performance management using IBM Cognos software. The awards were presented on April 16, 2008 at the 5th annual Cognos Government Forum, held at the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center in Washington, D.C. 2008-04-24

iLinc Web Conferencing Software Helps Creighton University's Doctor of Pharmacy Program Graduate More Students: Better Enabled Distance Learning, White-Boarding, Application Sharing, Virtual Office Hours Key to Degree Program Success   When Creighton University launched the nation's first Web-based entry-level doctor of pharmacy program in 2001 it didn't have the powerful Web collaboration tools it needed to satisfy the distance-learning students' needs. A Jesuit university located in Omaha, Neb., the school's Web conferencing technology allowed for some basic features, but offered very little interactivity beyond the basics. Worse, the technology only supported one session at a time, which clearly wouldn't satisfy the broad learning and collaboration requirements of the program. 2008-04-24

SmallCapInvestor.com, Small Cap Investing Website Launched by Business Financial Publishing, Celebrates One Year Anniversary: SmallCapInvestor.com is a Leading Small Cap Stock Research and News Provider to AOL Money & Finance, FinancialContent, Google Finance, Seeking Alpha, and Yahoo! Finance   SmallCapInvestor.com, the small cap investing research and news website launched a year ago by Business Financial Publishing, today celebrated its first birthday. Since its launch, SmallCapInvestor.com has quickly become the premier source of independent small cap news, research and insights for individual and institutional investors. It has also become a leading small cap news provider to top financial websites, including AOL Money & Finance, FinancialContent, Google Finance, Seeking Alpha, and Yahoo! Finance. 2008-04-24

iQor Wins New Five-Year Contract with the BBC
iQor, Inc., a premier global provider of call center services, today announced that it has won a new five-year contract to manage the TV Licensing Cash Schemes including the TV Licensing Savings Card Scheme on behalf of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC). 2008-04-24

VitalCare Offers Licenses for Diabetes Treatment Centers: Company Will Offer Licenses in Selected Markets to Qualified Professionals   VitalCare Diabetes Treatment Centers, Inc. (Pink Sheets:VDTI), a Nevada corporation, today announced it will offer licenses in select markets for Diabetes Treatment Centers. 2008-04-24

New Flight Charters Sales Surge in Q1 2008   Private jet charter leader New Flight Charters experienced a 37 percent surge in sales in the first quarter of 2008 over the first quarter of 2007, demonstrating continued strong business growth and demand for the company's jet charter brokerage services. 2008-04-24

Entertainment Enthusiasts Interact on the New Starpulse.com: The revamped Starpulse.com Includes More Features Allowing Members to Connect and Share Celebrity News, Photos, Gossip and More with Other Entertainment Fans   Starpulse.com, an online entertainment site for celebrity enthusiasts, launched a revamped version of its popular Web site featuring interactive community enhancements, additional pictures of popular celebrities, more unique and exclusive articles, entertainment news, an expanded contest section and more. 2008-04-24

gPotato Worldwide Supports the World Community Grid Program   The online game publishing group GALA, operator of the gPotato portals in Japan, Europe and America, adds its support to the World Community Grid project to help scientific research with shared computing power from its communities. By getting involved in this program, the GALA group intends to gather gamers from all around the world to support researches in health and ecological domains, and show the power of solidarity. 2008-04-24

BIO Lauds House of Representatives' Vote to Reform SBIR Program: Changes Mean Additional Funding for Biotechnology Research
Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) President and CEO Jim Greenwood released the following statement today lauding Members of the House of Representatives for reauthorizing the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program (368-43), with provisions that allow more biotechnology companies to compete for research funding: 2008-04-24

Congressman Steve Israel Outlines Support for Plan to Help Ease Mortgage Crisis: "Appreciating America" Provides National Mortgage Relief Solution For Homeowners and Lenders Plan Developed by Refinance.com
In an April 23 letter to Federal Housing Authority Commissioner Brian Montgomery, Congressman Steve Israel (D-NY) urged further action from the federal government to help address the national mortgage crisis and the burden it's placing on America's middle class families. In particular, Congressman Israel highlighted an innovative plan, "Appreciating America," developed by the home financing experts at Refinance.com that was announced by its chief executive, Nicholas Bratsafolis, which could provide much needed mortgage relief for homeowners in need. 2008-04-24

R-O-M Introduces the DuroMatic Self-Closing PVC Strip Door for Truck and Trailer Applications: Strip Door with Auto-Close Feature is Friendly on Drivers, the Environment and the Bottom Line   R-O-M Corporation has introduced the DuroMatic Self-Closing Strip Door for the food distribution industry. DuroMatic is ideal for refrigerated trucks and trailer applications where product integrity, driver productivity and reduced wear on cooling systems are integral to efficient operations. 2008-04-24

TidalTV(SM) Announces Premiere Content Partnerships: NBC News and TV Guide Network Join the TidalTV Platform
Broadband television provider TidalTV, Inc. (www.tidaltv.com) has partnered with NBC News and TV Guide Network to feature each provider's programming on the TidalTV website, which will offer consumers free and instant access to professionally produced online video programming via a streaming, browser-based platform. 2008-04-24

RIDEMAKERZ(R) Wins ''Retail Store of the Year'': Chain Store Age Recognizes Shop as Best Attraction Retailer New Car-customizing for Kids Concept Inspired by Build-A-Bear Workshop(R) is Welcome Addition to Retail Scene -- Especially for Boys   RIDEMAKERZ(R), the new experiential retailer that offers a unique car-customizing experience for kids from 6 to 106, has roared out of the retailing pack and taken best of show in one of the nation's most prestigious retail design competitions. RIDEMAKERZ won first place for "best attraction retailing" for stores under 5,000 square feet in Chain Store Age magazine's Retail Store of the Year Awards -- a most auspicious victory given that the retailer is in its rookie year. 2008-04-24

Chapter Excerpt from Of Permanent Value: The Story of Warren Buffett / 2008 Cosmic Edition by Andy Kilpatrick - Highlights from the Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meetings
The following is an excerpt from Andy Kilpatrick's biography on Warren Buffett, Of Permanent Value: The Story of Warren Buffett / 2008 Cosmic Edition. This particular chapter looks back at highlights from the company movie showed every year at the Berkshire Hathaway annual meeting. Additional excerpts from the book are available at the following links: an excerpt on Generics, the Opening Chapter, and the initial press release outlining the book. The book can be purchased from Amazon by following this link. 2008-04-24

NCsoft Announces New Lineage II Expansion and Retail Package: New Content for Epic Game Launches with the Incentive-Packed 4th Anniversary Edition   NCsoft(R) (KSE: 036570.KS) today announced the release of Hellbound(TM), the newest addition to the Lineage(R) II franchise, in conjunction with its 4th Anniversary Edition retail package. Continuing the storyline and content from December's popular expansion Kamael(TM), Hellbound increases the game's level capacity to 85 and adds significant quests and skills. Players finally get the chance to best the diabolical boss Beleth fighting their way through multiple towers in the Steel Citadel. Enhancements to the pet system enable players to grow their wolf pet into a mount called a Fenrir. Additionally, this update adds more transformation options, where players earn the ability to temporarily transform into a powerful alter-ego with special skills that will aid them in their ventures. 2008-04-24

Finally: Enough Evidence to Put a Cap on Water and Plastic Bottling Industry Water Expert, Peter Goodgold, Available for Interviews to Speak on USA Today, ''BPA, Bisphenol A'' Report about Contaminants in Plastic Bottles
Peter Goodgold, the President of www.WaterWorks4u.com, a life-long expert in the water industry, author and speaker with extensive knowledge concerning plastic bottling practices, water contamination, water pollution, carcinogens in water, including the now proven toxic use of BPA Bisphenol A that leeches from plastic bottles into human beings, is available for television commentary and newspaper interviews on this subject. 2008-04-24

KMG Worldwide Public Relations Announces Launch of KMGLearn
KMG Worldwide Public Relations announced today the launch of KMGLearn, an online professional development seminar series for small business owners. 2008-04-24

Caesar Systems Appoints Alexander Jok as Client Services Manager for Shell E & P: Alex brings 14 years of experience to Caesar Systems in business and economics that upstream leaders find critical as they ramp up E & P financial investments around the world   Caesar Systems has appointed Alexander Jok as client services manager for Shell E & P in its Houston-based operations. His primary responsibility will be mentoring and coaching members of the Shell E & P team on use of the PetroVR Toolsuite in connection with integrative business planning for its future oil and gas development investments. 2008-04-24

Groundbreaking Website to Unite and Serve $500 Billion Beauty Industry: SalonGalaxy.com to Meet All Online Needs for Salons, Stylists, Manufacturers in One Place   The world's most respected beauty industry trade show will serve as the backdrop for the launch of a new website to serve this massive and growing industry. Over 65,000 professionals from stylists to salon owners are expected to gather at the International Beauty Show in New York City April 27 - 29, wherein Salonity, LLC will officially debut its new website, SalonGalaxy.com. The site offers to meet all of the online needs of this dynamic market, in one place. 2008-04-24

Progenics and Wyeth Announce FDA Has Approved RELISTOR: First Drug for Opioid-Induced Constipation to Launch in United States
Progenics Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: PGNX) and Wyeth Pharmaceuticals, a division of Wyeth (NYSE: WYE), today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved RELISTOR(TM) (methylnaltrexone bromide) subcutaneous injection for the treatment of opioid-induced constipation (OIC) in patients with advanced illness who are receiving palliative care, when response to laxative therapy has not been sufficient. In clinical studies, RELISTOR significantly decreased the constipating effects of opioids without interfering with pain relief. Wyeth expects to make RELISTOR available in the United States in early June. 2008-04-24