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Harte-Hanks Announces Promotion of Jeannine Falcone to Corporate Vice President

Saturday, October 31st, 2009
Harte-Hanks Announces Promotion of Jeannine Falcone to Corporate Vice President

Business Wire, Oct 30, 2009

Falcone will continue to lead The Agency at Harte-Hanks, a
full-service, multichannel relationship marketing agency specializing in
direct and digital communications

SAN ANTONIO — Harte-Hanks, Inc. (NYSE:HHS), a worldwide direct and targeted marketing
company, today announced that Jeannine Falcone has been promoted to
corporate Vice President, with responsibility for leading The Agency at
Harte-Hanks.

Falcone has been with Harte-Hanks for over guy gets girl 16 years and has served as
Managing Director for the Agency since 2007. Throughout her tenure with
the company, she has worked in key roles in Account Services and served
clients in multiple industries. Prior to joining Harte-Hanks, Falcone
was an Account Executive with DiMark, Inc., a provider of marketing and
database services based in Langhorne, Pennsylvania which was acquired by
Harte-Hanks in April 1996. Falcone earned her Bachelors Degree in
Marketing in 1988 from West Chester University of Pennsylvania.

Gary Skidmore, President of Harte-Hanks Direct Marketing, said,
“Jeannines leadership has been instrumental in helping our clients
execute effective, data-driven, multi-channel marketing solutions across
a variety of industries

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Aetna, Sarasota Memorial Hospital Sign Agreement

Saturday, October 31st, 2009
Aetna, Sarasota Memorial Hospital Sign Agreement

Business Wire, Oct 30, 2009

— Contract Expanded to Include Medicare Advantage Members –

SARASOTA, Fla. — Aetna (NYSE: AET) announced today that it has expanded its relationship
with Sarasota Memorial Hospital by reaching agreement on a long-term
contract that will provide access for Aetnas Medicare Advantage
members. This agreement marks the first time Sarasota Memorial has
agreed to participate in a Medicare Advantage network plan.

Under this new agreement, which takes effect Nov. 1, Aetna Medicare
Advantage plan members will be able to receive covered services, at
in-network rates, from Sarasota Memorial Hospital. The hospital has
participated in Aetnas commercial network for several years and will
continue to do so under this long-term deal.

“Aetna is excited about this new, expanded agreement with Sarasota
Memorial, said Jim McCunney, Aetnas vice president of network
management for Tampa/West Central and Southwest Florida. Sarasota
Memorial top dating sites has provided excellent care to our commercial-plan members for
several years, and were delighted to offer access to their facilities
for our Medicare Advantage plan members.

Aetna has established a strong track record with Sarasota Memorial
through its commercial plans, and we are pleased to not only renew, but
to expand our provider agreement to better meet the needs of Medicare
Advantage members, said Sarasota Memorial Chief Financial Officer David
Verinder.

Aetna provides health benefits to approximately 400,000 members in the
Tampa/West Central and Southwest Florida areas. Those members have
access to a network that includes 60 contracted hospitals and more than
8,500 primary care physicians and specialists.

About Sarasota Memorial Hospital

Sarasota Memorial Health Care System is a regional medical center
offering Southwest Floridas greatest breadth and depth of inpatient,
outpatient and extended care services

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McGee Whiz: 2009 Teen Nationals winner Uriah McGee has big plans for a quick rise to the top

Saturday, October 31st, 2009
McGee Whiz: 2009 Teen Nationals winner Uriah McGee has big plans for a quick rise to the top

Flex, Dec, 2009 by Shawn Perine

“THERE’S SERGIO … AND MENTZER … THERE’S PAUL DEMAYO … AND MIKE MATARAZZO …”

It’s Dallas, Texas, native Uriah McGee’s first visit to California in general and Gold’s Gym Venice in particular, and as is the case for the countless bodybuilding fans who take their first tour through bodybuilding’s mecca, he is transfixed by the hundreds of photos of legends lining the walls.

“Ferrigno,” he observes. “That’s Charles Glass, from back in the day, oh, and Reg Park …”

The thickly muscled guest continues along one of the photo-lined walls, engrossed in the process of identifying bodybuilding icons, most long-retired, if still alive. He’s no grizzled veteran, though–the guest reciting the names on the wall is 2009 NPC Teen National Championships winner Uriah McGee who, at 19, has only been involved in bodybuilding for three years. Despite his greenhorn status, he has fully immersed himself in the life, studied the history and is already talking about joining the ranks of the honorees hanging from the walls around him.

“The goal is to turn pro by the time I’m 23,” McGee asserts matter-of-factly, moments before the start of the annual photo shoot that FLEX schedules with each new winner of the Teen Nationals Championships.

“That’s an ambitious goal,” I reply.

“Yes, sir, it is,” he agrees. “But guys used to do it more often back in the day. Guys such as Shawn Ray and Rich Gaspari and Lee Priest. Lee Haney, too. I know I have my work cut out for me, but that’s my goal.”

Despite the grandeur of his statement, McGee doesn’t come off as arrogant or braggadocious. In fact, he’s exceedingly polite, always greeting his elders with “sir” and “ma’am,” and when he discusses bodybuilding, it’s with a degree of sober consideration that belies his age.

Nine days prior to the shoot, McGee was crowned middleweight and overall champ at the Teen Nationals, a contest that in past years has been won by Franco Santoriello, Shawn Ray, Shane DiMora, anti aging Branch Warren, Craig Richardson and the like. Yet for all its prestige, the show is no guarantee of future success as an open competitor. In fact, no Teen Nationals overall winner has made it to the pro ranks since Richardson in ‘94. In the 15 years between then and McGee’s win, only 2004 winner Jason Huh has even distinguished himself as a top-level NPC competitor.

“I know,” he asserts when I mention this balloon-bursting fact to him. “I’m not sure why that is, but I plan to be the one who changes it.”

HOOKED Like so many who have preceded him in bodybuilding, McGee discovered the joys of resistance training by way of football

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Saturday, October 31st, 2009
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Immedion Relies on Unitrends Data Protection Appliances to Safeguard Its Clients’ Business-Critical Data

Saturday, October 31st, 2009
Immedion Relies on Unitrends Data Protection Appliances to Safeguard Its Clients Business-Critical Data

Business Wire, Oct 28, 2009

South Carolinas Only Dedicated Data Center and Managed Services
Provider Finds Unitrends Solutions Ideal for Remote Client Data
Protection

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Unitrends (www.unitrends.com),
the leader in affordable, heterogeneous disk-based data
protection appliances, today announced that Immedion, South
Carolinas only dedicated data center and managed services provider,
relies on Unitrends disk-to-disk Data Protection Units (DPUs) and Data
Protection Vaults (DPVs) to perform remote data protection for its
clients. Chosen for their flexibility, reliability and low cost,
Unitrends DPUs and DPVs enable Immedion to reliably and efficiently
protect volumes of client data, regardless of the operating platform
being used.

Immedion is South Carolinas only dedicated data center and managed
services provider. Their objective is to keep customer business-critical
data and applications available 100% of the time 24×7x365. To accomplish
this, they have created a world-class data center facility and coupled
it with a strategic array of managed services developed to deliver the
highest degree of reliability at a very competitive price. Since 2007,
Immedion has been delivering fully redundant power, Internet bandwidth,
cooling and humidity control to South Carolinas business IT
infrastructure. Customers leverage the Immedion enterprise-level data
center to minimize critical computer system downtime caused by
commercial power outages, Internet problems, or other system failures.

Immedion has a wide range of diverse customers and each customer has
different requirements in terms of operating systems, hardware and
connectivity that need to be supported. As such, Immedion required a
data protection solution that would offer broad support for the range of
operating systems and applications used by its clients.

Unitrends solutions are ideal for Immedion in terms of flexibility,
reliability and cost, said Rob Moser, co-founder dryer vent cleaning and chief operating
officer, Immedion. Unitrends has been able to support every type of
operating system and application our customers have through a single
management console. With Unitrends, we have the flexibility to support
all of our customers individual data protection needs from one central
interface.

Key features of the Unitrends solution that are important to Immedion
include:

  • The Unitrends Rapid Recovery Console which simplifies administration
    by providing a single pane of glass for data protection management,
    showing each clients DPU in a single interface
  • Remote access so that on-demand backups and restores can be performed
    from anywhere via a web-based interface
  • Disk-based archiving which provides extremely high cartridge density
    and recovery speeds simply not possible with tape-based backup
    solutions
  • Advanced BareMetal recovery which delivers sector/track-level data
    protection

We are pleased to support the growing needs of our customers with
disk-to-disk data protection products that offer increased flexibility,
scalability and performance, said Mark Campbell, chief operating
officer, Unitrends. We are even more proud to offer these solutions at
a significant cost savings and back them with superior, world-class
support services

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Menu Focus.(Brief article)

Saturday, October 31st, 2009
Menu Focus.(Brief article)

Restaurants & Institutions, November, 2009

Staff

Turkey

f80 treadmill Healthful turkey inspires chefs at the holidays and all year long.

Cape Girardeau, Mo.

Southeast Missouri State University (Chartwells) : Spicy Turkey Tacos

Multiple Locations

Yard House : Turkey Sliders with garlic aioli, roasted tomatoes and mozzarella cheese

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Lapdance club plan is rejected; CITY RESIDENTS SPEAK OUT

Friday, October 30th, 2009
Lapdance club plan is rejected; CITY RESIDENTS SPEAK OUT

Evening Chronicle (Newcastle, England), Oct 29, 2009

Byline: AMY HUNT

FEARS that the Toon could turn into a strip club capital have seen plans for a lapdancing bar turned down. ABA Leisure wanted to convert the former Gershwin’s restaurant on Newcastle’s Dean Street into Baby Platinum, a club offering pounds 20 private dances from fully-nude girls.

But operators of other table-dancing venues, along with businesses and residents living near the proposed club, objected, saying it would be the start of a downward spiral.

There are four lap-dancing clubs already in the city with another given a licence and due to open.

Councillors turned down Baby Platinum’s application, saying it would add to nuisance in the area and have a negative impact on public safety.

Speaking at a meeting of the licensing sub-committee, Glenn Nicie, director of For Your Eyes Only Ltd, said: “There’s nothing wrong with competition but this is in the wrong place, the wrong time and is too many.”

Paddy Wuhr, representing the applicant, said evidence that the city was reaching saturation point for lap-dancing clubs was unsubstantiated. He said the applicants, including Philip Whitehouse, a former director of Spearmint Rhino, were experienced in running similar venues in Leeds and Manchester and understood their responsibilities.

But Sarah Smith, representing the For Your Eyes Only group, which also runs Blue Velvet and Diamonds, along with the owners of hammock with stand the Purple Door club due to open on Neville Street and the managers of the Surtees Hotel, said Baby Platinum was looking to “up the ante” in the type of adult entertainment offered in the city.

The application was for nude dancing from 11am to 3.30am on Monday to Saturday and noon to 3.30am on Sundays, with alcohol served until 3am. As well as a topless stage show upstairs, the firm was offering private booths downstairs to regular customers spending around pounds 200 each in a night and a chauffeur service to ferry them home.

Around two dozen people living in the flats at 55 Degrees North, in Newcastle city centre, signed a petition opposing the application, and businesses in the area also objected.

The council’s environmental health department raised concerns about noise from customers and staff leaving the premises

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The hole story

Friday, October 30th, 2009
The hole story

Flex, Dec, 2009 by Ben Pakulski

“I’m a huge advocate of control while performing a squat. Many guys try to go too heavy and they end up losing tension and control at herbalife diet the bottom of the rep. For me, this is really the only part of the rep that matters. Anyone can move a weight through the middle range of movement

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M&F.com forum member of the month

Friday, October 30th, 2009
M&F.com; forum member of the month

Muscle & Fitness, Nov, 2009

BRIAN POE

Warsaw, Indiana

I joined M&F; Forums in bariatric weight loss 2005 to learn more about weight training and fitness. I was an athlete for many years and had lifted weights off and on, but I wanted to see better gains and prevent injury. I visit the forums often and have 10,000-plus posts because I enjoy the discussions and appreciate the knowledge that’s shared. Diverse member locations and political opinions make for interesting debates. But overall, the members of M&F; Forums are good people and try to assist others in attaining their goals.

I’ve posted some You Tube training videos that were taped at my gym, and I hope to pass along some knowledge based on what I’ve seen work with my clients and in my own experience

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Hertz Reports Improved Third Quarter Profits

Friday, October 30th, 2009
Hertz Reports Improved Third Quarter Profits

Market Wire, October, 2009

Hertz Global Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: HTZ) 

--  Adjusted pre-tax income(1) for the quarter increased 15.5% over the
    prior year, to $195.3 million, on 15.7% lower revenues; GAAP pre-tax income
    increased 189% to $75.8 million.
--  Adjusted pre-tax margin of 9.6%, 260 bps better than last year, GAAP
    pre-tax income margin of 3.7% for the quarter, also a 260 bps improvement.
--  Worldwide car rental adjusted pre-tax income of $258.3 million for the
    quarter, a 54.6% increase year-over-year on 11.5% lower revenues, and a
    margin of 14.7%, 630 bps better than last year.
--  Corporate EBITDA(1) of $388.1 rent generator million for the quarter, or a margin of
    19.0%, 300 bps better than last year.
--  Worldwide equipment rental Corporate EBITDA margin of 41.9%.

Hertz Global Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: HTZ) (with its subsidiaries, the
“Company” or “we”) reported third quarter 2009 worldwide revenues of $2.0
billion, a decrease of 15.7% year-over-year (a 13.4% decrease in constant
currency). Worldwide car rental revenues for the quarter decreased 11.5%
(an 8.9% decrease in constant currency) to $1.8 billion. Revenues from
worldwide equipment rental for the third quarter were $280.5 million, down
35.2% (a 33.9% decrease in constant currency) over the prior year period.

Third quarter 2009 adjusted pre-tax income was $195.3 million, an
improvement of 15.5%, versus $169.1 million in the same period in 2008, and
income before income taxes (”pre-tax income”), on a GAAP basis, was $75.8
million, an increase of 189%, versus $26.2 million in the third quarter of
2008

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