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SANTA ANA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 7, 2002
Manufacturers' Demand for PLM Solutions Pushed
Global Provider to Leadership Position
MSC.Software Corp. (NYSE: MNS), the leading global provider of simulation software, services and systems, today announced that it was ranked the #1 IBM Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) Business Partner in the Americas based on sales in fiscal year 2001. IBM (NYSE: IBM), Dassault Systemes (NASDAQ: DASTY; Euronext Paris: #13065, DSY.PA) and MSC.Software have been working together for the past four years to provide manufacturers with a complete suite of PLM products, services and systems. The three companies collaborate closely to bring innovative differential solutions to automotive, aerospace and other manufacturing industries.
"We are very excited to be the #1 business partner in 2001 and have our success recognized by our partners IBM and Dassault Systemes," said Frank Perna, chairman and chief executive officer of MSC.Software. "Our customers in the Americas, Europe and Asia are seeing an extraordinary amount of value from deploying PLM applications and we look forward to continuing our success in 2002 and beyond."
As an IBM Business Partner, MSC.Software distributes and supports the entire hardware portfolio developed by IBM and 3D PLM software portfolio developed by Dassault Systemes, including CATIA design and analysis applications, ENOVIA and SmarTeam collaborative Product Data Management (PDM) software, as well as process re-engineering tools. MSC.Software supports customers spanning the entire IBM/Dassault Systemes PLM environment, including computer and network systems, implementation services and supercomputing, design and analysis services, and process re-engineering and integration services. As an experienced provider of simulation technology, MSC.Software brings unparalleled depth of expertise to the IBM/Dassault Systemes PLM offering in the mid market.
Kim Stuckey, worldwide channel business manager, IBM Product Lifecycle Management, said, "Selling is about winning, and therefore IBM is delighted to work with a partner like MSC.Software, who makes winning a habit. A focus on creating customer value through their knowledge of industries, processes and products has brought MSC.Software this deserved award. We salute their achievement."
"MSC.Software has already demonstrated a very strong track record in helping customers implement and realize the benefits of our 3d PLM solutions. We are very pleased with MSC.Software's number one position for 2001 and we count on their strength and expertise across our entire product portfolio to have a strong 2002," added Philippe Forestier, Executive Vice President, Sales & Marketing, Dassault Systemes. "Our solutions become a compelling choice for customers to create a sustainable competitive advantage."
About IBM
IBM is the world's largest information technology company, with 80 years of leadership in helping businesses innovate. IBM Sales & Distribution, which supports more than a dozen key industries worldwide, works with companies of all sizes around the world to deploy the full range of IBM technologies. The fastest way to get more information about IBM is through the IBM home page at http://www.ibm.com.
About Dassault Systemes
Dassault Systemes (Nasdaq: DASTY; Euronext Paris: #13065, DSY.PA) is the premier global software developer in the PLM market, providing companies with e-business solutions to implement their digital enterprise, thus creating and simulating the entire product life cycle from initial concept to product in service. The CATIA, ENOVIA and DELMIA Solutions support industry-specific business processes to help unleash creativity and innovation, reduce development cycle time, improve quality, competitiveness and shareholder value: CATIA supports the digital product definition and simulation, DELMIA provides solutions to define and simulate lean digital manufacturing processes and ENOVIA delivers enterprise solutions that manage a comprehensive, collaborative and distributed model of the digital product, processes and resources. The combined integration creates the Digital Product life cycle Pipeline, supporting reuse of corporate knowledge. SolidWorks and SmarTeam, as Dassault Systemes companies, offer respectively 3D design-centric and collaborative PDM software solutions based on Windows and the Internet. Spatial, also part of the Dassault Systemes family, is a market-leading provider of world-class 3D software components and services (for 3D modeling, visualization, and interoperability) to meet the requirements of 3D in Internet-based e-commerce and B2B applications.
Information about Dassault Systemes is available at http://www.dsweb.com.
About MSC.Software Corporation
MSC.Software (NYSE: MNS) is the leading global provider of simulation software, with related services and systems, that help companies make money, save time and reduce costs associated with designing and testing manufactured products. MSC.Software works with thousands of companies in hundreds of industries to develop better products faster by utilizing information technology, software, services and systems. MSC.Software employs more than 1,200 people in 22 countries. For additional information about MSC.Software's products and services, please visit www.mscsoftware.com.
WHETHER your idea of the perfect holiday is white water rafting or relaxing on a sandy beach, you're sure to find some great ideas at Holiday Show 2000.
And we're making it even easier for dozens of lucky Sunday Mirror readers to check out just what is on offer by giving away as prizes 250 pairs of tickets to this exciting holiday experience.
Staged at the National Exhibition Centre in Birmingham during the last weekend of February, Holiday 2000 will feature more than 200 exhibitions from around the world.
There's no better way to find your ideal holiday - whether you want a package tour, private villa, cruise, an action-packed break or the chance to lie in the sun.
The adventurous will be able to try out a full-size hang glider simulator, and for would-be mountaineers, there'll be a state-of-the-art, motorised wall to climb.
The show will also have an Internet cafe where visitors will be able to book their holidays online.
Holiday 2000 is open February 25-27, 10am-5pm daily. Admission costs pounds 6 on the door, pounds 4 in advance - call 0121 7674774 for advance bookings. Children under 16 accompanied by an adult will be admitted free. Parking is free.
All you have to do to be in with a chance of winning a pair of tickets is to answer correctly the following question:
WHICH former National Lottery Show star also presented ITV's holiday programme Wish You Were Here?
a) Cilla Black
b) Anthea Turner
c) Denise Van Outen
Call 0901 562 8975 with your answer, leaving your name, address and daytime phone number. Calls cost 60p per minute. You must be 18 or over to enter.
-THE winner will be selected at random from all correct entries after lines close at midnight on Tuesday, February 15, 2000. Normal MGN Ltd rules apply.
TORONTO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 25, 1999--
WaveRider Communications (OTC Bulletin Board:WAVC) (FRANKFURT:WVR.FSE)
-Internet Access Provider Becomes Distributor Of Wireless Internet Products For Canadian Businesses and Schools-
WaveRider Communications Inc. (OTC BB: WAVC, Frankfurt WVR.FSE), a leading global provider of wireless Internet access products, today announced that Sat-Tel Corporation (ASE: SAJ), a major provider of land-based and satellite-based Internet access solutions, has become a distributor for the WaveRider NCL Series of wireless bridges and routers through Sat-Tel's 104 reseller dealers across Canada.
"WaveRider is pleased to welcome Sat-Tel to the growing ranks of WaveRider distributors across North America and the world," said David Quinn, vice president, North American Sales, for WaveRider. "Sat-Tel has already established a strong reputation as a satellite-based Internet access provider to businesses and schools throughout Canada. WaveRider's NCL wireless product line complements their products and applications extremely well."
This agreement with WaveRider calls for Sat-Tel to provide sales, service and engineering support to its dealer base for the entire NCL product line. In addition, Sat-Tel will maintain inventories of NCL products for immediate shipment to its dealers.
"With their unique functionality, WaveRider's NCL wireless products allow Sat-Tel to significantly advance our goal of delivering high-quality Internet access to remote and rural areas," said Greg Beatson, vice president, Sat-Tel Corporation, based in Red Deer, Alberta. "The addition of the WaveRider's NCL line to our reseller offering could generate over half a million dollars in new business revenue for us." About Sat-Tel Corporation
Sat-Tel Corporation is a publicly-traded company listed on the Alberta Stock Exchange under the symbol "SAJ." Sat-Tel is a broad-based telecommunications technology company that provides high-speed communications and network solutions for schools, governments and corporate users. Sat-Tel is the Canadian distributor of DirecPC(X), a high-speed satellite Internet product and has an established network of over 100 resellers. Sat-Tel supports its channel partners through product training, sales support and technical expertise to ensure a common standard of service nationwide. Sat-Tel and its partners offer the market installation and support for multiple-site applications for broadcast and electronic file distribution throughout Canada. For further information, visit Sat-Tel's web site at www.sattelcorp.com
(X)DirecPC is a trademark of Hughes Network Systems, Inc.
About WaveRider Communications Inc.
Founded in 1997, WaveRider is a leading wireless information technology company that develops, manufactures and markets products for data communications and Wireless Internet Networking (WIN). WaveRider's high performance products use frequency hopping and direct sequence spread spectrum technology coupled with time division multiple access techniques and operate in the license-free 900 MHz and 2.4 GHz ISM frequency bands. For more information, visit WaveRider's website at www.waverider.com.
Edinburgh-based recruitment consultancy Head Resourcing is aiming to reduce costs by 20% and its carbon footprint by 80% by moving its IT infrastructure to a private cloud.
Managing director Gordon Adam told Recruiter that the company will move its back-up and disaster recovery, email exchange and recruitment database to the cloud in that order. "In a month's time the aim is that we will have no servers on site," he said, explaining that this is where the carbon and cost savings will come from, alongside support and maintenance, which in future will all be included in its monthly fee to cloud provider Lumison.
Head Resourcing supplies both contract and permanent IT and business change talent to financial services and corporate clients, and also has a large international medical division, Head Medical, which supplies doctors from Europe to Australia and New Zealand. It also recently opened a second office in Leeds.
One of the main drivers for the move was the need to increase the resilience of its IT set-up, having grown from 31 staff in 2008 with a turnover of #10.2m to 50 employees in 2011 and an estimated turnover of #50m. At the end of last year, Adam said a hard drive failed and it highlighted the firm's IT vulnerabilities.
A consultant recommended the private cloud approach, which appealed to Adam who had had concerns about cloud computing in the past. "Our database and data are our Crown Jewels and I didn't like the idea of putting them somewhere in the world in the big cloud," he said. "This offers a kind of halfway house. The data is still down the road in the UK but we no longer have to worry about servers and the costs. Lumison has been our internet service provider for 10 years, so we know and trust them."
While the main driver has been resilience, Adam said the cloud will also provide faster and more straightforward access for his consultants who work at home and from the Leeds office. "We've also talked about an international office and this would make that a doddle from an IT perspective," he said.
Dr Aydin Kurt-Elli, chief operating officer at Lumison, said it expects to attract more recruiters to the private cloud who have "high-service and uptime" needs and who also want scalable platforms to support their growth.
"Public cloud services that are generally available remain problematic for mid-sized and growing organisations, particularly those with security and compliance requirements that require due diligence and transparent operating practices," he said, adding: "At the application layer, private cloud service can cost 20-30% more than public cloud services. However, you are getting integrated services across virtual local area networks (VLANS), with traceability, diligence and full 24/7 UK-based technical support."
With debate about the pros and cons of public and private clouds in the IT world, recruiters need to thoroughly research both options if they are looking at the cloud and make sure they understand the costs. "Remember that on the public cloud, you only pay for the computer resources you actually use, whereas with private cloud you're paying to reserve capacity for maximum loads, even when it's not in use," said Phil Wainewright, president of EuroCloud UK, the industry body for software-as-as-service and cloud vendors. "It's a false comparison if you calculate the public cloud cost of keeping the same load running for the whole month because you would never do this in practice."
He admitted that if you want integrated VLANs, onshore support staff, telephone helpdesk and other enterprise-grade services, it will cost more than the "bargain-basement" commodity public cloud services but it is worth shopping around. "Those options do exist and you can get them along with the scalability, flexibility, continuous improvement and pay- as-you-go economy of public cloud," he said.
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MINNEAPOLIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 23, 1999--
The same proven PLATO courses used successfully in schools
throughout the world will soon be available
in single-topic CD-ROM and downloadable formats
TRO Learning, Inc. (Nasdaq:TUTR) announced today it will begin offering single-topic PLATO(R) courses in October. Initially, 66 individual PLATO titles will be made available on CD-ROM. Later in the month, the courses will be available for immediate purchase and download at the company's e-commerce store on the PLATO Web site at www.plato.com. Course topics will include reading, math problem solving, mathematics, applied mathematics, writing in the workplace, applied science, and vocabulary building. Prices will range from $30 to $150 per course. This new single-topic product offering will enable TRO to directly target teachers, home users, and small rural schools - markets largely untapped by the company to date.
These PLATO courses are the same proven courseware used by millions of learners in thousands of schools throughout North America and the United Kingdom each year. Select PLATO curricula have been broken into topic-specific courses to provide teachers and parents with access to high-quality educational software to help their students succeed. PLATO success stories abound -- from helping individual learners reach their fullest learning potential to helping educators prepare students for success on standardized tests and state-mandated graduation requirements (www.plato.com). Recent independent evaluations at Lakeland Sr. High School (Florida), Lawrence Central High School (Indiana), and Forest Grove High School (Oregon) statistically document PLATO's effectiveness in raising test scores (www.plato.com/ed/results/second.html).
In commenting on the debut single-topic PLATO courses, G. Thomas Ahern, senior vice president of sales and marketing, said, "Current market indicators show that single-topic course purchases are accelerating in schools. We wanted to be responsive to the desire of teachers to supplement and augment classroom instruction, as well as to complement the PLATO core-competency curricula for our current clients. In addition, we feel this offering will provide parents with an option to purchase proven, high-quality educational courseware that is reasonably priced for the home."
William R. Roach, chairman of the board, president and CEO, commented, "All of us at TRO Learning are excited about the impending release of PLATO single-topic courses. This is a major step to expand the accessibility of PLATO to all learners. These courses offer the same preassessment, tutorial, problem solving, and mastery-based approach as our comprehensive curricula, but by individual topic area. The type of products in a single-topic format currently available on the market is predominantly "edutainment," providing little educational value. Unlike those products, PLATO tracks the learner's progression through the course tutorials and problem-solving activities until the material is mastered.
"Throughout the next year," Roach continued, "we will add additional titles from our existing PLATO courseware library, as well as new products currently under development. We fully expect to have between 120 and 150 individual titles by the end of out fiscal year 2000. These titles will be sold through educational catalogues, including our own and third-party publications; our telesales organization, which we have been expanding during the last months; targeted third-party direct sales channels; and, our e-commerce site at plato.com."
Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, John Murray, added, "This new range of products enables us to increase revenues from within our core markets, as well as adding revenues from previously untapped and emerging markets. We are very excited about the opportunity this new single-topic product line and additional distribution channels offer us. Our expectation is that revenues from this effort will increase gradually throughout fiscal 2000, and then make a more significant contribution going forward. We also anticipate being able to create a more evenly spread revenue stream throughout our fiscal year given the lower price point, planned growth of the distribution network, and new market audiences."
TRO Learning is the developer and marketer of computer-based PLATO products and services. With PLATO revenues of over $40 million, TRO Learning, Inc. is a publicly held company traded as TUTR on the NASDAQ-NMS. Offering more than 2,000 hours and 10,000 learning objectives of comprehensive academic and applied skills courseware designed for adolescents and adults, PLATO Learning Systems are marketed to middle and high schools, colleges, job training programs, correctional institutions, military education programs, and corporations. The PLATO Learning System is delivered via networks, CD-ROM, the Internet, and private intranets.
TRO Learning is an international training and education company with headquarters located at 4660 West 77th Street, Edina, Minnesota 55435, (612) 832-1000 or (800) 869-2000. TRO's executive offices are located at Poplar Creek Office Plaza, 1721 Moon Lake Boulevard, Suite 555, Hoffman Estates, Illinois 60194, (847) 781-7800. TRO Learning has domestic offices located throughout the United States, and international offices in the United Kingdom, and throughout Canada. TRO Learning has international distributors located in Malaysia, Puerto Rico, Singapore, South Africa, and the United Arab Emirates. The company's Web site addresses on the Internet's World Wide Web are www.tro.com and www.plato.com
This press release contains forward-looking information regarding future prospects. There can be no assurance that the Company will be able to achieve any particular result in future periods because of uncertainties, such as timing of receipt of product orders and delivery to its customers and other matters relating to revenue recognition accounting principles.
(R) PLATO is a registered trademark of The Roach Organization, Inc.
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NTT Com to Launch New Data Center in Malaysia
TOKYO, Japan and CYBERJAYA, Malaysia, July 4 /Kyodo JBN-AsiaNet/ --
NTT Communications Corporation (NTT Com) and its wholly owned Malaysian subsidiary, NTT MSC Sdn. Bhd. (NTT MSC), announced on July 4 that NTT MSC will begin construction of the new Cyberjaya 3 Data Center in July, aiming to launch commercial operation of this Tier III-ready facility by June 2012.
Located within Cyberjaya, the Cyberjaya 3 Data Center will join NTT Com's Cyberjaya 1 and Cyberjaya 2 data centers in meeting the expanding needs of Southeast Asian customers. It will offer high-quality, low-cost services based on the NTT Com Group's strict global standards aligned with those of global organizations such as the Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA), The Uptime Institute, Inc. (TUI) and the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers, Inc. (ASHRAE).
"By leveraging on the key strengths of Malaysia, we will offer customers a Tier-III-ready data center at a low total-cost-of-ownership." said Fumitoshi Imaizumi, President and CEO of NTT MSC. "Malaysia offers cost advantages, well-developed infrastructure, a large talent pool and good governmental support for infrastructure development. Such strengths have propelled Malaysia into the position of one of the world's top-three outsourcing destinations."
The facility will feature redundant systems for commercial power supply, cooling, uninterruptible power supply, power generator and power distribution, plus robust systems for fire and flood prevention. It is expected to be certified under the Green Building Index (GBI), Malaysia's green rating index for buildings, as an environmentally friendly data center that employs renewable-energy technologies, including solar panels, double-walled structures for improved insulation and recycled rain water.
Built with modular architecture for flexible expansion, the facility will offer convenient on-site office space, a rarity among local facilities, as part of its total disaster recovery solution. Full-time professional support will be provided by NTT MSC's multilingual team for the total management of customer networks and servers.
NTT Com has been offering data center services since 2002 through NTT MSC based in Cyberjaya, the hub of the MSC Malaysia (formerly Multimedia Super Corridor) initiative. Malaysia's relatively low incidence of earthquakes, tsunami and other natural disasters, as well as low electricity rates, make this an ideal location for disaster recovery and offshore relocation.
Customers of the new Cyberjaya 3 Data Center will receive the added benefit of extra-low-latency, extra-reliable services when the Asia Submarine-cable Express connecting Malaysia, Hong Kong, Japan, the Philippines and Singapore starts up in 2012. Customers in Malaysia will enjoy high-speed, large-capacity Internet access via NTT Com's global IP backbone and Arcstar Global IP-VPN. Service will be supported with abundant POP available at the Cyberjaya 3 Data Center, enabling customers to directly connect to the backbone without access lines or worries about network costs.
For further details about the Asia Submarine-cable Express, please visit www.ntt.com/aboutus_e/news/data/20110131.html
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--Social Networking, Tablets & Targeted Ads Come to the Living Room
--Every First-World Home to Have Internet-Connected TV
--Invaluable Charts of Smart TVs & Their Apps
Rider Research has prepared a special report to help bring you and your staff up to date on the smart TV market.
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Smart TVs (Internet-connected TVs) have become the norm. In the next three to five years, we think, every home in the "developed world" will have at least one. The nature of the entertainment and consumer electronics industries will change forever as the 250 million or so homes in North America, Europe and the Pacific Rim buy them.
The report is the second in a series of reports on smart TVs published by Rider Research. We survey the market and review the events and trends that have occurred since the beginning of this year. Based on the current evidence, we make predictions and pass along forecasts of other companies.
The charts alone are worth the price of admission. They show which apps are on each smart TV, Blu-ray player and smart TV adapter.
Rider Research does not publish detailed predictions about sales of smart TV sets and adapters to be sold. However, if you ask Americans or Canadians about their experience streaming shows from Netflix to their TV, and almost all will respond positively.
Substitute the name iPlayer in the UK and the result is the same.
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Dydacomp announced that the average SiteLink ecommerce client experienced their sixth straight month of ecommerce growth.
These SiteLink merchants saw a double digit increase in the number of visitors, orders, and total revenue per day during the month of April 2011 compared to the previous year. The average SiteLink store saw a 16 percent increase in the ecommerce revenue for April 2011 over April 2010.
"So far this year, SiteLink ecommerce merchants are growing at a rate comparable to that of all ecommerce business," said Al Pascale, Dydacomp Manager of ecommerce Services. "It's impressive that small online merchants like those on SiteLink have been able to keep up with even the largest online retailer growth rates." Pascale added, "Dydacomp's ecommerce solutions provide small and medium sized ecommerce operations efficiencies across all online and back office processes that allow them to compete with the largest online e-tailers."
SiteLink merchants experienced a 14 percent increase in the average number of orders per day throughout April 2011 compared to April 2010. This double-digit growth in orders has been fueled by a strong 25 percent year-over-year increase in the number of visitors to SiteLink powered ecommerce sites. Through an array of marketing and retargeting tools for SMBs, SiteLink merchants have consistently been able to drive traffic to their websites and successfully convert these visits into revenue producing six consecutive months of growth.
"The functionality provided to SiteLink merchants via the integration with Multichannel Order Manager's fulfillment engine offers a complete solution for businesses to streamline all of their ecommerce operations," continued Pascale. "SiteLink stores are attractive, well designed, user friendly, and create an enjoyable online shopping experience that continues to attract online visitors and convert them into buyers. SiteLink ecommerce merchants are utilizing SiteLink's online selling tools in combination with other online marketing tactics to remain competitive in the ecommerce marketplace. SiteLink merchants are standing out as leaders in their niche markets, proving that small and medium online businesses are able to capture more online shoppers than ever before."
Dydacomp will be demonstrating SiteLink ecommerce and Multichannel Order Manager at the Internet Retailer Conference and Exhibition in San Diego June 14-17 at Booth 1204.
Dydacomp specializes in multichannel software solutions for ecommerce, catalog, DRTV, and traditional point-of-sale business.
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Directors of AmeriGas Propane, Inc., general partner of AmeriGas Partners, L.P. (NYSE: APU), have declared a partnership distribution of $0.74 cents per limited partnership unit, payable May 18, 2011 to unitholders of record May 10, 2011.
The annualized distribution will increase to $2.96 per limited partnership unit from the current $2.82 per limited partnership unit, representing a 5% increase.
AmeriGas Partners is the nation's largest retail propane marketer. UGI Corporation (NYSE: UGI) through subsidiaries owns 44% of the partnership and individual unitholders own the remaining 56%.
Comprehensive information about AmeriGas is available on the Internet at http://www.amerigas.com.
Nominees are hereby notified that they are responsible for withholding 35% of this distribution from foreign investors as required under Section 1446 of the Internal Revenue Code.
Keywords: Alkanes, AmeriGas Partners L.P., Propane.
This article was prepared by Chemicals & Chemistry Business editors from staff and other reports. Copyright 2011, Chemicals & Chemistry Business via VerticalNews.com.
CSO Leads Business Development and Strategic Partnerships
BATON ROUGE, La. -- Amedisys, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMED), one of America's leading home care and hospice companies, announced today that Robert Yungk, a principal with Corporate Health Strategies, LLC, will join the company as its new chief strategy officer (CSO) in May.
"Bob is an experienced, effective leader and is going to be an excellent addition to our senior executive team," stated William F. Borne, Amedisys chief executive officer. "He brings more than 30 years of senior health care management experience with some of the largest payor and hospital organizations in the nation, and will play an integral part in expanding Amedisys' portfolio of relationships with hospitals and Medicare providers."
In this new role, Mr. Yungk will be leading the company's focus on diversifying its revenue model by engaging hospitals, managed care providers and Accountable Care Organizations regarding the value of home health care and hospice to their patients. He will also be responsible for overseeing home care and hospice business development as well as supporting corporate development efforts.
Mr. Yungk joins Amedisys from Corporate Health Strategies, LLC, where he served as a principal and strategy consultant to early phase private equity. Prior to Corporate Health Strategies, Mr. Yungk was the president of Mercer Health and Benefits leading global operations. At Tenet Healthcare, he held the position of national senior vice president of managed care for Tenet Healthcare, the nation's second largest hospital system. In addition to his managed care operational responsibilities, he led the strategy and development of managed care Centers of Excellence. In addition, Mr. Yungk was the chairman and CEO of Tenet Choices, one of the largest independent Medicare Advantage health plans in the country.
Prior to joining Tenet, Mr. Yungk served in senior leadership roles in the managed care industry. He was president of Cigna Healthcare of Georgia/Alabama, executive vice president of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Georgia, a Well Point subsidiary. Previously, he was with United Healthcare, serving as chief operations officer of United Healthcare South, a UHC subsidiary, and national corporate vice president of sales. In addition, he spent the first 11 years of his career with Lincoln National HealthPlans in general management and as Western division vice president of sales.
Mr. Yungk holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from Florida Atlantic University and is currently pursuing graduate studies in finance from Harvard University.
He has also served on many health care boards. As a veteran of the armed forces, he served in the Strategic Air Command, U.S. Air Force.
About Amedisys:
Amedisys, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMED) is a leading health care company focused on bringing home the continuum of care. Amedisys delivers personalized health care services to patients and their families, in the comfort of patients' homes, with approximately 10 million patient care and education encounters per year. Amedisys has two divisions, home health care and hospice. The Company's state-of-the-art advanced chronic care management programs and leading-edge technology enables it to deliver quality care based upon the latest evidence-based best practices. Amedisys is a recognized innovator, being one of the first in the industry to equip its clinicians with point-of-care laptop technology and referring physicians with an internet portal that enables real-time coordination of patient care seamlessly. Amedisys also has the industry's first-ever nationwide Care Transitions program. Amedisys Care Transitions is designed to reduce unnecessary hospital readmissions through patient and caregiver health coaching and care coordination, which starts in the hospital and continues throughout completion of the patient's home health plan of care. For more information about the Company, please visit: www.amedisys.com.
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(BW)(CA-ARCSIGHT)(ARST.NASDAQ) Dr. Prescott Winter, Cyber Threat Expert, to Address Government Personnel on Impact of Cyber Threats on Hong Kong Organisations
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HONG KONG--(BUSINESS WIRE) - Jun. 10, 2010-- ArcSight, Inc., a leading global provider of security and compliance management solutions that protect businesses and government agencies, today announced that Dr. Prescott Winter, ArcSight CTO, Public Sector, and former CTO and CIO for the NSA (National Security Agency), has been invited to conduct a workshop on the impact of cyber threats on government agencies and corporations on Monday, 14 June 2010 in Hong Kong.
In light of the current political and economic climate, combined with new and emerging threats, organisations in both the public and private sectors are facing increased incidents of cyber theft, cyber fraud, and cyber warfare.
The session, held in partnership with the Office of the Government Chief Information Officer (OGCIO), will bring together top-level Hong Kong government representatives to discuss the increasingly significant role that cyber threats play in the regional arena, and what at-risk stakeholders must do to respond to such threats.
About ArcSight
ArcSight (NASDAQ: ARST) is a leading global provider of security and compliance management solutions that protect businesses and government agencies. ArcSight identifies, assesses, and mitigates both internal and external cyber threats and risks across the organization for activities associated with critical assets and processes. With the market-leading ArcSight SIEM platform, organizations can proactively safeguard their assets, comply with corporate and regulatory policy and control the risks associated with cyber-theft, cyber-fraud, cyber-warfare and cyber-espionage. For more information, visit www.arcsight.com.
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Intuitive Mouse Drive(TM) Swing System and High-Speed Precision Animation Mark
Major Advancements in Golf Simulation Genre
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 2 /PRNewswire/ -- Empire Interactive(R), a worldwide publisher and developer of innovative interactive entertainment, today announced that it has teamed up with legendary golfer Gary Player for The Golf Pro, the first in a series of realistic golf simulation games designed to appeal to both the games player and the golfer. Taking advantage of a radical new swing control system, The Golf Pro treats avid and armchair golfers to exciting rounds at two of the world's most challenging and picturesque courses, while providing valuable tips and tutorials from Gary Player, one of the world's top ranked golfers and winner of nine major championships. The Golf Pro will release on a four CD-ROM set beginning in April 1998.
As host of The Golf Pro, Player leads a series of 18 interactive lessons covering everything from game fundamentals to techniques for improving specialized shots -- such as how to hit the perfect chip or time a killer drive. For users wanting more personal attention, Player is also featured in the game's Play with the Pro(TM) option, where he assesses all aspects of a user's game as each shot is taken and provides valuable tips and techniques for successful shot-making.
The first in a planned series of golf simulation games from Empire Interactive, The Golf Pro represents a major development in the way golf is played on the home computer. Traditionally, golf simulations have used an effective -- but unrealistic -- button-clicking method to control the golf
swing. Empire's new Mouse Drive(TM) system closes the gap between computer golf and the real game by allowing a single, seamless swing that mimics a real golf shot. A wide range of shots can be accomplished with the highly-intuitive Mouse Drive system -- a low drive into the wind, a long pitch into a fast green, or an explosion shot from deep pot-bunker 20 yards from the pin -- all can be achieved with the flick of a wrist.
"There's only so much you can do with the traditional click-click-click system," said David Pringle, project manager of The Golf Pro for Empire Interactive. "With the Mouse Drive system, you're using a lateral mouse movement to draw the club back and forth, so you have a wider range of shots for a more accurate portrayal of a true golf swing. After using our Mouse Drive system, few players will wish to return to the traditional method."
The Golf Pro features 21,000 frames of high-speed animation and more than 90 swing variations, generating the most realistic golf simulation to enter the popular genre. Unlike competing products, graphics are fast loading and render a consistent visual flow of the on-screen action. When a player takes a shot, the graphics move in time with the mouse-controlled swing, eliminating a delay in action. Additionally, with each shot the player's stance is accurately positioned on the screen, significantly improving on the standard center-screen viewpoint.
The heart of any golf simulation is the courses that you're able to play. The Golf Pro will launch with two major course licenses, including St. Mellion International, one of the world's most beautiful courses set in the English countryside to the design of Jack Nicklaus, and Hilton Head National, Gary Player's personal masterpiece and one of the premiere golf resorts in the US. Together, the courses comprise 36 challenging holes of golf. Based on detailed ground surveys, each course is pre-rendered with painstaking accuracy to deliver the most accurate and attractive computer visualization of a golf course yet achieved.
Three different types of gameplay are featured in The Golf Pro, including MatchPlay and StrokePlay competitions, and Stableford matches against top professionals as they play actual rounds on the game's featured courses. A genuine handicap system allows players to progress through different levels of play -- beginner, amateur and professional -- and accurately charts a user's success. As a player's handicap improves new competitions become available. Additional features of The Golf Pro include a 5,000 word 'TV-style' commentary that follows the action and gives detailed analysis as each shot is taken.
Empire Interactive plans to release additional add-on courses and an Internet play enhancement allowing multiplayer head-to-head and tournament play via LAN, modem and ISP connections. With the full Internet gameplay system, players will be able to link up for a host of interactive tournament modes, also planned for release within the current year.
System Requirements
Pentium 133 MHz with Windows 95
16MB RAM
5MB Free Hard Disc Space
4X CD-ROM
Standard Mouse
About Empire(R) Interactive
Empire Interactive is a leading worldwide publisher and developer of interactive entertainment products for PC and console systems. With headquarters in London, England, and corporate offices in San Francisco, California and Munich, Germany, Empire Interactive enters its 11th year of business as a leading independent game publisher. Empire's award-winning product lines include Flying Corps Gold, a multiplayer flight simulator game, and Pro Pinball: Timeshock!, a remarkably realistic pinball simulation. Empire Interactive's products are distributed on an exclusive basis in North America by GT Interactive Software Corp.
Additional information on Empire Interactive and its products can be obtained on the World Wide Web at http://www.empire-us.com, or by calling 415-439-4854.
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MEMPHIS, Tenn. - FedEx Kinko's, a unit of package-delivery company FedEx Corp., said on Monday it plans to expand its operations throughout fiscal 2008 by adding 300 U.S. office and print centers.
The company also said it would redesign 110 centers and introduce 20 locations internationally - primarily in the Asia-Pacific region, due to increased demand.
FedEx Kinko's has more than 1,700 U.S. locations in operation. FedEx is based in Memphis, while FedEx Kinko's is headquartered in Dallas.
The stores set to be redesigned, which range from 6,000 to 10,00 square feet, will house more than 2,500 different office supplies. The locations also will have enhanced areas for shipping, computer rental and Internet services.
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Superconductor Technologies announces the following Webcast:
What: Superconductor Technologies First Quarter 2004 Results When: Thursday, April 29, 2004 @ 5:00 p.m. EDT Where: http://www.firstcallevents.com/service/ajwz405886603gf12.html How: Live over the Internet -- Simply log on to the web at the address above. Contact: Doug Mollenauer of Superconductor Technologies Inc, 805-690-4724. (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20020216/SUPCONLOGO)
If you are unable to participate during the live webcast, the call will be archived on the Web site http://www.suptech.com/. To access the Web site replay, go to Investor Relations and click on Conference Calls.
Superconductor Technologies Inc (STI) develops, manufactures and markets high-performance wireless infrastructure products to commercial service providers, systems integrators and original equipment manufacturers as well as government entities. Our products, known commercially as SuperLink(TM) Solutions, are proven to increase capacity utilization, lower dropped and blocked calls, extend coverage, and enable higher wireless data throughput. STI's products work in concert to provide Total Link(SM) enhancement, meeting the growing demand for cost-effective, premium solutions that improve the quality of wireless networks while reducing capital and operating costs.
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