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ORLANDO, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--

Aetna (NYSE: AET) announced today that it has reached agreement with the Central Florida Health Alliance on a three-year contract that adds Leesburg Regional Medical Center and The Villages Regional Hospital to Aetna's provider network in the Central Florida area. The agreement takes effect Sept. 15.

"Aetna is delighted to announce the addition of these two hospitals to our Central Florida network," said Jim McCunney, Aetna's vice president of network development for Central Florida. "We continue to provide our members with broader access to physicians and facilities in the area. We're hopeful it will help us grow new business and retain existing customers in the area."

Under the agreement, members of Aetna network-based plans will be able to receive covered in-patient and out-patient services, at in-network rates, from Leesburg Regional Medical Center and The Villages Regional Hospital.

"We are pleased to now include Aetna in our family of health plans which will allow greater access to many members of our community," said Dale Hocking, senior vice president and chief financial officer for Central Florida Health Alliance. "This relationship will help reduce co-pays for existing Aetna members and encourage the use of our facilities to those who previously would have incurred out-of-network costs as a result of their preference for our Alliance hospitals."

Aetna provides and administers health benefits to more than 225,000 members in Central Florida. Those members have access to a contracted network of 35 hospitals, 1,626 primary care physicians and 4,434 specialists.

The Villages Regional Hospital, part of Central Florida Health Alliance, is a 198-bed acute care hospital located in the heart of The Villages, a nationally-known adult community. Specially designed to bring hospitality to health care, the facility serves the tri county area - Lake, Sumter and south Marion counties.

Leesburg Regional Medical Center, part of Central Florida Health Alliance, is a 309-bed acute hospital with specialty services including comprehensive cardiovascular, neurosurgery, and the only designated stroke center with the Joint Commission Seal of Approval in Lake and Sumter counties.

Aetna is one of the nation's leading diversified health care benefits companies, serving approximately 37.2 million people with information and resources to help them make better informed decisions about their health care. Aetna offers a broad range of traditional and consumer-directed health insurance products and related services, including medical, pharmacy, dental, behavioral health, group life and disability plans, and medical management capabilities and health care management services for Medicaid plans. Our customers include employer groups, individuals, college students, part-time and hourly workers, health plans, governmental units, government-sponsored plans, labor groups and expatriates. www.aetna.com

Source: Aetna

CINCINNATI, Sept. 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- CECO Environmental Corp. (Nasdaq: CECE), a leading provider of air pollution control and industrial ventilation systems, announced today that it has received two new orders totaling approximately $4.0 million.

Rick Blum, President and Chief Operating Officer, stated, "These orders were secured by our Kirk & Blum and Fisher-Klosterman subsidiaries. Kirk & Blum's order is for equipment that will be installed at a new foreign-owned automotive manufacturing facility in the southeastern United States. That order, coupled with one we announced in August means that we now have commitments for $5.0 million worth of work at that facility. The Fisher-Klosterman order is for equipment that will be shipped to a petrochemical facility in Taiwan."

Phillip DeZwirek, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, stated, "In a difficult economic environment, our bookings continue to be maintained. Bookings through August stand at approximately $126 million as compared to $130 million at the same time last year. More significantly, our backlog has remained steady. At the beginning of this year the backlog was approximately $85 million and at the end of July it was approximately $84 million. To be able to maintain our revenue stream at this time is very encouraging for CECO's prospects going forward."

ABOUT CECO ENVIRONMENTAL

CECO Environmental Corp. is North America's largest independent air pollution control company. Through its subsidiaries -- Busch, CECOaire, CECO Filters, CECO Abatement Systems, kbd/Technic, Kirk & Blum, H. M. White, Inc., Effox, GMD, Fisher-Klosterman, Flextor and AVC Specialists -- CECO provides a wide spectrum of air quality services and products including: industrial air filters, environmental maintenance, monitoring and management services, and air quality improvements systems. CECO is a full-service provider to the steel, military, aluminum, automotive, ethanol, aerospace, electric power, semiconductor, chemical, cement, metalworking, glass, foundry and virtually all industrial process industries.

For more information on CECO Environmental, please visit the company's website at www.cecoenviro.com

    Contact:
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    Phillip DeZwirek, CECO Environmental Corp.
    Email:  investors@cecoenviro.com
    1-800-606-CECO (2326)

This press release may contain forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. All forward-looking statements are subject to certain risks, uncertainties and assumptions. These risks and uncertainties, which are more fully described in CECO's Annual and Quarterly Reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, include changes in market conditions in the industries in which the Company operates. Should one or more of these risks or uncertainties materialize, or should the assumptions prove incorrect, actual results may vary in material aspects from those currently anticipated.

SOURCE CECO Environmental Corp.

IRVINE, Calif., Sept. 5 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Last night the GOP convention culminated in John McCain's acceptance of his party's nomination, ending a four-day effort to convince the American public that his Presidency is something other than a third Bush term and that he is still the maverick who ran for President in 2000, according to Eugene Hedlund and John K. Addis of TruthandHope.org PAC. Hedlund and Addis say Senator McCain is out of step with mainstream America, for while the nation has cried out for change, voicing disapproval of the Bush Administration in ever-increasing numbers, McCain has instead supported President Bush to a greater degree each passing year.

TruthandHope.org PAC has created a media campaign that with eloquent simplicity brings to the forefront these simple truths. Making this effort possible is the union of two former McCain supporters who actively campaigned on his behalf in 2000, but have found little to no resemblance to the McCain "straight-talking maverick" in the John McCain running for President today. This union of Hedlund, founder of TruthandHope.org, and Addis, graphic designer and creator of "The Public V John McCain" spot, lends a particular credibility to this effort.

TruthandHope.org PAC was founded in 2004 and aired independent grassroots television ads in support of Governor Dean and the Democratic Party's eventual nominee, Senator John Kerry. It raised nearly $500,000 for these efforts, and was credited by Governor Dean for his primary victory in Vermont, as he had suspended his campaign weeks earlier.

The first ad in a series titled "The Public V John McCain" became an instant Internet sensation when released in concept form. Within 24 hours the ad had over 200,000 YouTube hits and hit the front page of Digg.com with nearly 5,000 "diggs" as well as the front page on many prominent blogs across the country. Andrew Sullivan of TheAtlantic.com posted this concept ad on August 14, calling it "the most inspired yet." With this groundswell of support it was evidently clear that this message must be taken beyond the Internet and into the American public's homes. With this spot airing initially in Ohio and Virginia, early voting swing states, the effort begins to set the McCain record straight.

About Hedlund and Addis

Eugene Hedlund is a mortgage broker in Irvine, California who formed TruthandHope.org PAC in 2004. A lifelong Republican, he knew the country needed a change in 2004 and wished to do more than just cast a single vote and contribute monetarily. John K. Addis runs a web and graphic design studio in Lansing, Michigan, and has voted for the Republican Presidential candidate in every election. In recent years, however, Addis became increasingly disillusioned with the Republican party, discovering that Democrats were better at accomplishing fiscal responsibility and showing competence with foreign affairs.

    Contact:
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    Direct: 949-472-4779
    Email: eugene@truthandhope.org
    http://www.truthandhope.org/

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NEW YORK, NY -- (MARKET WIRE) -- 09/05/08 -- CAST, the worldwide leader in Automated Application Intelligence (http://www.castsoftware.com/Product/Application_Intelligence_Platform.aspx), will be presenting a tutorial titled Measuring the Technical Quality of Software at the Systems Level, at the 4th World Congress on Software Quality in Bethesda, MD at 1 pm on September 15, 2008.

The World Congress for Software Quality (http://www.asq.org/conferences/wcsq/index.html), a major international gathering of software quality professionals begun in 1995, has been a partnership of the Software Division of the American Society for Quality, the Software Group of the European Organization for Quality, and the Union of Japanese Scientists and Engineers.

Dr. Bill Curtis (http://www.asq.org/conferences/wcsq/descriptions/tut12.html), Chief Scientist for CAST, will present a tutorial titled: Measuring the Technical Quality of Software at the Systems Level which describes six trends that are accelerating the importance of software quality in business applications. He will argue that based on these trends, defining quality as the removal of defects is no longer sufficient. Different sources of business value will be related to different aspects of software quality such as robustness, maintainability, security, and other such measures. Different methods for measuring software quality, especially at the systems level, will be presented along with guidelines for their interpretation.

Dr. Curtis co-authored the Capability Maturity Model (CMM), the People Capability Maturity Model, and the Business Process Maturity Model. Until its acquisition by Borland he was Co-founder and Chief Scientist of TeraQuest, the global leader in CMM-based services. He is a former Director of the Software Process Program in the Software Engineering Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. He previously worked for MCC, GE, ITT, and the University of Washington. He has published four books, over 150 articles, and is an IEEE Fellow.

-- World Congress for Software Quality

-- Hyatt Regency Bethesda - Bethesda, MD

-- Sept 15, 2008 - 1 pm

-- Click here (https://secure.asq.org/conferences/wcsq-2008/registration.html) to register for the conference

-- Click here (http://www.asq.org/conferences/wcsq/index.html) for more information

About CAST

CAST is the world leader and pioneer in Application Intelligence software, providing the metrics and information IT executives must have to measure, monitor and improve the quality of business applications and the performance of development teams around the globe. Founded in 1990, CAST has helped more than 650 organizations worldwide speed delivery to the business, mitigate risks in production, improve the customer experience, and reduce the total cost of application ownership. CAST is listed on NYSE-Euronext (Euronext: CAS) and serves Global 2000 organizations worldwide with a network of offices in the US and Europe.

For more information visit www.castsoftware.com.

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DUBLIN, Ireland--(BUSINESS WIRE)--

Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/621d8f/us_small_business) has announced the addition of the "US Small Business Applications Expenditures, 2007-2012" report to their offering.

This Excel-based Data-rich Deliverable (DRD) that is part of the Small Business and Applications Market subscriptions includes market intelligence on IT: Application expenditures for small business. The report defines IT applications as expenditures on server and client-based custom-coded and packaged applications, including productivity, Enterprise Resource Planning and security applications. Size of business includes Small Business (5-99 employees). The Expert Guide for this deliverable is Kneko Burney. Forecasts are from 2007 through 2012 and include annual growth rates, as well as percentage of total market.

Sources: Our segment and market forecasts, which include business expenditures, market demographics, and usage and adoption statistics, are built using multiple sources, including our proprietary research.

    These sources include, but are not limited to:

    - Secondary research

- Government data and statistics (e.g. department of commerce, federal communication commission, bureau of labour statistics and us census bureau

    - Primary research

    - Vendor-based research

    - In-depth interviews with key decision-makers (where relevant)

We select data sources to provide greatest degree of perspective on each market or segment, in addition to the highest level of data accuracy, stability, and consistency over time.

Please Note: Due to the brevity and/or nature of the content posted, there is no table of contents available for this report.

    For more information visit
http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/621d8f/us_small_business

Source: Research and Markets