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Humanitarian Needs From Georgia Conflict Still Growing, World Vision Warns (Popularity:  )
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As violence in and around South Ossetia continues, World Vision teams in both Georgia and the Russian Federation are responding to the increasing humanitarian needs of children and families who have fled the conflict zone. Some 100,000 people in all are estimated to have been uprooted from their homes, and are in need of shelter and emergency support. In North Ossetia, World Vision is providing medical supplies such as bandages, ...
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In First Case of Its Kind, NASD Charges Former Securities America Broker With Misleading Union Retirement Plans About Receipt of More Than $280,000 in Improper Directed Brokerage Commissions, Other Payments (Popularity: )
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In the first case of its kind, NASD announced today that it has fined Securities America, Inc. of Omaha, NE, $375,000 for improperly sharing directed brokerage commissions from a mutual fund company with Michael Bullock, a former Securities America broker in the Los Angeles, CA area. NASD also found that Securities America failed to adequately supervise Bullock's communications with his union-sponsored retirement plan clients to ensure that Bullock disclosed his ...
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Infinity Bio-Energy Ltd. Completes Private Offer to Redeem Warrants From Certain Warrantholders (Popularity: )
Infinity Bio-Energy Ltd. ("Infinity" or the "Company") is pleased to announce the purchase of an additional 1,113,334 warrants consistent with the private offer to certain warrantholders announced on December 31, 2007. In said private offer, the Company offered to a limited number of its holders of outstanding warrants the opportunity to sell said warrants to the Company at a price equal to $1.05 per warrant. As a result of said ...
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ING Raises $162.5 Million in IPO for the ING International High Dividend Equity Income Fund (Popularity: )
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ING today announced the launch of the ING International High Dividend Equity Income Fund (the "Fund"), a non- diversified closed-end fund that invests primarily in a portfolio of high- dividend-yielding international equity securities. ING International High Dividend Equity Income Fund raised $162.5 million in an initial public offering, where Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Inc. acted as sole book runner and lead manager, and Wachovia Capital Markets, LLC and ...
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Innocoll Agrees the Sale of its CollaRx(R) GENTAMICIN SURGICAL IMPLANT and European Sales and Marketing Infrastructure to EUSA Pharma (Popularity: )
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Innocoll, Inc. announced that it has agreed the sale of its CollaRx(R) GENTAMICIN SURGICAL IMPLANT and European sales and marketing infrastructure to EUSA Pharma Inc., a transatlantic specialty pharmaceutical company focused on oncology, pain control and critical care. The transaction provides EUSA with rights to Innocoll's GENTAMICIN SURGICAL IMPLANT, a biodegradable leave-behind surgical implant for the treatment and prevention of surgical site infections, for all worldwide markets except the US. ...
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Interview - NIS Summer School with Prof. Angelos Bilas, FORTHICS and Dr. Demosthenes Ikonomou, ENISA, Members of the Programme Committee of the 2nd ENISA-FORTH Summer School on Network and Information Security (NIS'09) (Popularity: )
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In the following article ENISA Senior Expert Dr. Demosthenes Ikonomou and Prof. Angelos Bilas of FORTH-ICS and the Univ. of Crete, Programme co-Chairs of the 2nd Network and Information Security (NIS) Summer School, taking place in Crete, Greece, 14-18 September 2009, will tell us more about the Summer School in Crete.Could you first describe the Summer School and who the organizers are?The Summer School is a forum for experts in ...
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ITS Advises Professional and Executive Job Hunters to Compete in Today's Job Market, Use All Segments (Popularity: )
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If you want to give yourself the best odds for winning a desirable job, make sure you aggressively compete in all 8 segments of today's job market. "ITS is best known for providing openings, leads and contacts that will penetrate 85% of a job seeker's market," Robert Gerberg added, "but all market segments are avenues to opportunities. Exposure in each of them will give you many more options. With today's ...
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Kaboose's Two Peas In A Bucket Helps American Soldiers Stay In Touch with their Families (Popularity: )
http://www.scrappingforsoldiers.com
Kaboose Inc. (TSX:KAB), the largest independent family-focused online media company in North America, today announced that its scrapbooking property, http://www.TwoPeasInABucket.com, will be supporting the Scrapbooking for Soldiers fundraising efforts. Two Peas will be donating prizes to the all-day scrapbooking crops. The events are being organized by a group of independent consultants with Top Line Creations, a scrapbooking business, to raise funds for Soldiersangels.org, which purchases phone cards for American soldiers ...
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Kansas City Patients Rate Their Doctors in Most Reliable Survey of Its Kind (Popularity: )
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Patients in Kansas City give their primary-care doctors high marks for communicating effectively and treating them respectfully, according to a new patient experience survey.The results for more than 700 doctors are available at http://kcqic.org in a format that allows Web users to look up and compare the results for individual doctors and narrow the list to doctors near a specific zip code.In the fall of 2008, 103,537 patients responded to ...
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Kerry, Snowe Press SBA for Action on Energy Program (Popularity: )
Senators John Kerry (D-Mass.) and Olympia J. Snowe (R-Maine) are pressing the Small Business Administration for answers regarding the agency's implementation of a federally mandated energy efficiency program. At a hearing last month, SBA Assistant Administer for the Office of Policy testified that although the program was created as part of the Energy Policy Act in August 2005, the program has not been implemented by the Administration. Following is the ...
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