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Gift made in support of improved safety for police officers on the street

POTTSTOWN, Pa.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- CODY Systems, the industry leader in integrated public safety software for real-time collection, analysis and sharing of critical data for public safety, law enforcement and intelligence agencies announced today that it is donating the use of its C.O.B.R.A. real-time records sharing system for police officers within Bucks County. This gift is in honor of Officer Brian Gregg, a fallen officer from the Newtown Borough Police Department, and allows police officers across the county to look up critical information on persons, vehicles and incidents from across seven participating police departments, in real-time from their mobile units.

C.O.B.R.A. provides real-time access to all connected agencies' records databases, regardless of the RMS vendor each uses, from within an officer's mobile unit, allowing officers to search for persons, incidents, and vehicles from across the network, with real-time officer safety alerts.

Gregg, who had been employed with the Newtown Borough police force for just over a year, was killed in the line of duty on Sept. 29, 2005. The gunman also shot Gregg's partner and one other person during the altercation.

CODY Systems, based out of Pottstown, PA, has had long-standing relationships with many police departments within Bucks County and across the region for up to 15 years. The company knew of the incident involving Officer Gregg, but did not know at the time that critical officer safety information regarding the subject who attacked Officer Gregg and the others, while not in Newtown Borough's records database, WAS in the records databases of at least two neighboring jurisdictions; databases provided by CODY. This information could have averted the incident by providing Officer Gregg with critical officer safety alerts about the individual who committed the attack. When CODY learned this, it decided to do something to help the public safety community in Bucks County prevent this type of incident from occurring again.

At the latest Bucks County Chiefs' meeting, after discussions with their clients in Bucks County, conducting a pilot program which CODY funded, and doing considerable financial evaluation in this difficult economic climate, the company announced its intention to donate a C.O.B.R.A. system with the following elements:

    --  1 license of the C.O.B.R.A. Center-Point Server (which is already being
        hosted by the Bristol Township Police Department and administered by
        Det. Bob Lebo).
    --  Connections for the seven participating CODY RMS clients, in order to
        allow each of them to synchronize their records information in real-time
        with the Center-Point Server.
        o Falls Township
        o Bristol Township
        o Bensalem
        o Newtown Borough
        o Warminster
        o Northampton Township
        o Doylestown Township
    --  75 licenses of the C.tac tactical search application, to be used in
        mobile units across the police departments in the county. C.tac will
        allow officers in equipped mobile units to search the records databases
        of the seven participating agencies.
    --  Web-based training sessions on the use of C.tac.
    --  Installation, set up, technical and project management services

All these elements will be fully funded by CODY, with no charge to any agency. CODY is also funding the on-going support and maintenance of the system.

"To say that what happened to Officer Gregg and the others was a tragedy is an understatement," said Fran Heffner, CEO of CODY Systems. "Critical information on suspects should always be at the fingertips of the officers on the street so that incidents like this do not occur. I cannot say that our system would have prevented the struggle that ensued, or spared the life of Officer Gregg and the injury to the others, but that's why we produce these systems. The death of just one officer in the line of duty that might have otherwise been prevented is one too many, especially when the information that could have saved him resided with two of our clients. We are proud to be in a position to donate our C.O.B.R.A. system to the police officers of Bucks County, and hope that it will help prevent future tragedies like that of Officer Gregg from happening again."

In addition to the donation of C.O.B.R.A., Newtown Borough has also received a donation of the VPN hardware needed to help connect the Borough to the system. This piece of hardware has been donated by local Bucks County Attorney Kevin Zlock, who grew up in Newtown Borough and was a friend of Officer Gregg.

About CODY Systems

CODY Systems is an industry leader in integrated public safety software for the collection, analysis, and sharing of critical data for public safety, law enforcement, and intelligence agencies for over 30 years. A wholly owned and privately held American company with all operations in the United States, CODY Systems specializes in integrated public safety software solutions and interoperable cross-platform information-sharing for First Preventers. CODY Systems provides state, local and federal agencies the power of its CodyLinksTM relational linking technology and proven technology for real-time tactical data fusion across disparate systems. CODY's industry-leading products include: The CODY Public Safety Suite (Records, Dispatch, Investigations & Intelligence analysis, Mobile Field Reporting and Dispatch Link, etc.), C.O.B.R.A.TM vendor-independent real-time data-sharing and analysis system, ExpressBridge Real-time Data Fusion Framework, and more.

    Source: CODY Systems

DETROIT, Nov. 11 /PRNewswire/ -- Consumers, businesses, governments and organizations with sensitive information are finally getting a break from the growing epidemic of identity and data theft with a new Michigan-based computer security program just announced that comes "ready to drive" out of the box, requires no learning curve and puts an advanced technology spin on an ancient Leonardo da Vinci concept popularized in the book and movie, "The Da Vinci Code."

Dearborn, Mich.-based Aegis Data Security announced today (Wednesday) its new hardware and software package called Aegis Data Shield System(TM) to drive new global standards in protecting information on computers, networks and over the Internet.

"Aegis Data Shield System(TM) is the only data security product on the market that provides a full, robust and nimble suite of features for the highest and most advanced levels of total security, 'ready to drive' out of the box with user-friendly point and click simplicity, no learning curve and easy to run with all software," Aegis Data Security founder and president Matt Fanto said.

Fanto should know. He has strong roots in modern computer encryption, gaining national attention while still in high school, wrote U.S. Government standards while at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) for the basic protocols that ensure Internet user privacy (SSL -- Secure Socket Layer and TLS -- Transport Layer Security), wrote software for the National Security Agency (NSA), and was head cryptographer for Ford Motor Company with global responsibilities; all by the age when most folks are just getting out of college. Fanto just turned 26.

New state-driven privacy laws are making encryption the new norm rather than the exception as states respond to the run-away epidemic of millions of lost or stolen records.

More than a quarter-billion data records [251,033,160] were reported lost or stolen in nearly 1,200 incidents in the last two years. The epidemic has reached a point where the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse began tracking a chronology of all reported data breaches: http://www.privacyrights.org/ar/ChronDataBreaches.htm.

More than 40 states now have legislation to protect consumer records. Nevada's data privacy law, started in October, 2008, prohibits businesses from electronically transferring consumer personal data outside their organizations unless it is encrypted.

Massachusetts passed the toughest law to date, in January, 2009, forcing all companies to encrypt information regardless of how it is stored or used, including laptops, mobile devices, smart phones, USB drives and all electronic transmissions.

"No CEO wants to be the next data loss poster child," Fanto said. "The next, natural step that is clearly coming is Federal legislation, which is already on the Congressional radar screen. Data loss protection is now the cost-effective action for any organization as well as the smart thing to do."

Fanto has a modest and even shy personality but found himself and Dearborn [Mich.] High School (DHS) buddies suddenly thrust onto the international stage, while still a sophomore, when they built the world's second wearable computer in 1999, complete with wireless Webcam. They suddenly were featured on TODAY, in the New York Times, AP and in media outlets around the world. The first was built by MIT's Media Lab.

Fanto and two DHS friends then developed the next year a "smart card" identification card with vital information stored in the card with CD-ROM technology. Fanto headed the encryption work for the card, using complex, custom password access algorithms for complete security. They were awarded the national Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Grand Prize Professional Award; even before graduating high school.

Aegis Data Shield System(TM) is completely unobtrusive with transparent integration into daily work flow. It works seamlessly with all widely used platforms and operating systems.

Users can even determine a point and click "time lock" so that files can only be viewed between certain times on a specific date. This could allow, for example, a patient to carry digital medical files to a specialty doctor who can only read them during the scheduled appointment; or keep documents in a complex deal from being read until a certain time.

Organizations with multiple locations can easily share data without the need to also share passwords or cumbersome steps and procedures. "The originator of the document simply points and clicks on the encryption icons on the screen. It really is that simple," Fanto said.

Aegis Data Shield System(TM) provides an automatic and detailed audit trail of all authorized access as well as any unauthorized access attempts; automatically protects portable and external media and devices, and enables users to manage their encryption from anywhere in the world.

Even the hardware that manages all this is tamper proof, using the "safe box" self destruction Leonardo da Vinci technique popularized in The Da Vinci Code book and movie. The story characters had to find and use an exact code or the vinegar in the "locked box" would spill and dissolve the parchment inside before the box could even be opened.

The Aegis Data Shield System(TM) server hardware uses a coating over its core operating chip that produces a chemical reaction to melt the chip if anyone tampers with it. Just like the original opening of "Mission Impossible," the brain chip self-destructs when tampered.

About Aegis Data Security: Aegis Data Security provides comprehensive data protection with The Aegis Data Shield System(TM) which wraps data with a total security blanket and sets new standards with the highest and most advanced levels of data security using simple, point-and-click encryption ready to use out of the box with no learning curve, no new passwords, total global control and ease of use. More detailed information is available at: http://www.aegisdatasecurity.com/index.html.

SOURCE Aegis Data Security

VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA--(Marketwire - Nov. 11, 2009) - The following issue(s) have been halted on the TSXV today:

Company/Compagnie:           Nevado Venture Capital Corp
TSXV Symbol/Symbole:         NVD.P - V
Reason/Motif:                Company request pending news
Halt Time/Heure de l'Arret:  At the open

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GREAT NECK, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- United Capital Corp. (NYSE Amex: AFP) today reported results for the third quarter and nine months ended September 30, 2009 (see Table attached).

Total revenues were $14.7 million for the quarter ended September 30, 2009, generating operating income of $1.7 million. Net income for the three months ended September 30, 2009 was $1.6 million or $.18 per basic share. This compares to total revenues, operating income and net loss of $18.5 million, $2.8 million and ($7.0) million, respectively, for the corresponding quarter in 2008.

For the nine months ended September 30, 2009, total revenues were $42.2 million, a decline of $13.8 million from $56.0 million reported in the comparable period of 2008. Operating income was $4.5 million for the first nine months of 2009 while net income was $3.9 million or $.44 per basic share. Operating income and net loss for the nine months ended September 30, 2008 was $8.3 million and ($1.8) million, respectively.

The decline in revenues and operating income for both the quarter and nine month period are a reflection of the continued weakness in the economy and the impact it has had on our engineered products and hotel operating segments. The prior year results include $15.8 million and $16.2 million in impairment charges for the quarter and nine month period, respectively, on the Company's marketable security portfolio resulting from the sudden decline in the stock market and collapse of certain financial institutions in which the Company held an interest.

In commenting on these results, A.F. Petrocelli, Chairman of United Capital Corp., noted, "Although the operating results of our manufacturing and hotel businesses continue to be adversely impacted by the global recession, our real estate segment is strong and we continue to search for properties which meet our stringent investment criteria. We are very excited about the acquisition of the DoubleTree Miami Mart Hotel and Convention Center during the quarter. This represents the latest addition to this growing segment of our portfolio."

Certain statements in this press release and other statements made by the Company or its representatives that are not strictly historical facts are "forward-looking" statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 that should be considered as subject to the many risks and uncertainties that exist in the Company's operations and business environment. The forward-looking statements are based on current expectations and involve a number of known and unknown risks and uncertainties that could cause the actual results, performance and/or achievements of the Company to differ materially from any future results, performance or achievements, expressed or implied, by the forward-looking statements. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, and that in light of the significant uncertainties inherent in forward-looking statements, the inclusion of such statements should not be regarded as a representation by the Company or any other person that the objectives or plans of the Company will be achieved. The Company also assumes no obligation to publicly update or revise its forward-looking statements or to advise of changes in the assumptions and factors on which they are based. See our 2008 Annual Report on Form 10-K and our current year Form 10-Q's for a discussion of risk factors that could impact our future financial performance and/or cause actual results to differ significantly from those expressed or implied by such statements.

United Capital Corp. and its subsidiaries own and manage real estate and hotel properties and provide engineered products to industrial and automotive markets worldwide.

UNITED CAPITAL CORP. AND SUBSIDIARIES

CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL HIGHLIGHTS

(Unaudited)

(In thousands, except per share data)

                               Three Months Ended       Nine Months Ended

                               September 30,            September 30,

                               2009        2008         2009        2008

Revenues                       $ 14,734    $ 18,545     $ 42,168    $ 55,994

Operating income               $ 1,663     $ 2,814      $ 4,544     $ 8,295

Other income (expense)         $ 990       $ (13,641 )  $ 2,667     $ (11,037 )

Income (loss) from continuing
operations before income       $ 2,653     $ (10,827 )  $ 7,211     $ (2,742  )
taxes

Provision (benefit) for        $ 1,027     $ (3,883  )  $ 2,708     $ (895    )
income taxes

Income (loss) from continuing  $ 1,626     $ (6,944  )  $ 4,503     $ (1,847  )
operations

(Loss) income from             $ (33    )  $ (89     )  $ (557   )  $ 14
discontinued operations

Net income (loss)              $ 1,593     $ (7,033  )  $ 3,946     $ (1,833  )

Basic earnings (loss) per
share:

Income (loss) from continuing  $ .18       $ (.82    )  $ .50       $ (.22    )
operations

Loss from discontinued           --          (.01    )    (.06   )    --
operations

Net income (loss) per share    $ .18       $ (.83    )  $ .44       $ (.22    )

Diluted earnings (loss) per
share:

Income (loss) from continuing  $ .16       $ (.82    )  $ .46       $ (.22    )
operations

Loss from discontinued           --          (.01    )    (.06   )    --
operations

Net income (loss) per share    $ .16       $ (.83    )  $ .40       $ (.22    )
assuming dilution

Weighted average shares
outstanding:

Basic                            9,106       8,502        8,954       8,396

Diluted                          9,975       8,502        9,753       8,396

    Source: United Capital Corp.

BORDENTOWN, NJ -- (MARKET WIRE) -- 11/11/09 -- WORLDWIDE FOOD SERVICES, INC. (PINKSHEETS: WFSV) plans to establish an office in the Dominican Republic to coordinate sales to the hotel industry on the Island. In comparison to the Company's Bahamian Hotel Program which services primarily American travelers, the Dominican Republic caters to up to 12,000,000 European tourists and requires a broader food service selection.

Worldwide Food Services' representatives will be visiting the Dominican in early December to select the sales office location and interview current hotel distributors.

For further information about this release, contact Rich Kaiser, Investor Relations, YES INTERNATIONAL, #800-631-8127 and/or www.wwfoodservices.com.

Safe Harbor statement under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995: Certain forward information contained in this release contains forward-looking statements that involve risk and uncertainties, including but not limited to, those relating to development and expansion activities, domestic and global conditions, and market competition.

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