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RENO, Nev., Feb. 10, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Warrior Girl Corp  (Pink Sheets: WRGL) would like to announce that it has acquired Hostwire.com in an all stock transaction in what is the first of several new acquisitions of online properties by WRGL. 

Since 2002, HostWire has provided affordable and reliable web hosting services for individuals and businesses alike.  With a proven track record, experienced team to support clients and the best technologies available, Hostwire clients rest easy knowing that their web presence possesses the best performance, uptime and support.

"These are exciting times for us," said Julian Sula, Principal of Hostwire.com. "Not only does HostWire stand on its own as a business competing with the likes of Go Daddy and HostGator, but it will provide the infrastructure for current and future WRGL online projects."

We are also extending a 50% OFF discount to all new HostWire customers who use coupon code "WRGL".

For more information on HostWire and the range of services it provides, please visit http://www.hostwire.com.

ABOUT WARRIOR GIRL CORP:

Warrior Girl Corp is a holding company for a series of diversified online projects that span B2C operations, financial services, online hosting, web services and social media.  WRGL also acts as an incubator for online start-up businesses, providing expertise and funding to development stage entities in the web arena. New projects are selected which in the view of management have significant upside potential.  http://www.warriorgirlcorp.com

SAFE HARBOR STATEMENT

Included in this release are "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. Although the company believes expectations reflected in such forward-looking statements are reasonable, it can give no assurance that such expectations will prove to have been correct. The company's actual results could differ materially from those anticipated in the forward-looking statements. The Company undertakes no obligation to update forward-looking statements to reflect subsequently occurring events or circumstances.

SOURCE Warrior Girl Corp

SAN JOSE, Calif., Feb. 10, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Altera Corporation (Nasdaq: ALTR) today announced its scheduled participation in the following events with the financial community: 

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Goldman Sachs Technology and Internet ConferenceSan Francisco, CAThursday, February 16, 2012 at 11:00am Pacific

Morgan Stanley Technology, Media & Telecom ConferenceSan Francisco, CAMonday, February 27, 2012 at 2:10pm Pacific

Raymond James Institutional Investors ConferenceOrlando, FLMonday, March 5, 2012 at 8:40am Eastern

Interested parties may access a webcast of Altera's presentation at this event on our website at www.altera.com.

About Altera

Altera programmable solutions enable system and semiconductor companies to rapidly and cost-effectively innovate, differentiate and win in their markets. Find out more about Altera's FPGA, CPLD and ASIC devices at www.altera.com.  Follow Altera via Facebook, RSS and Twitter.

ALTERA, ARRIA, CYCLONE, HARDCOPY, MAX, MEGACORE, NIOS, QUARTUS and STRATIX words and logos are trademarks of Altera Corporation and registered in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and in other countries. All other words and logos identified as trademarks or service marks are the property of their respective holders as described at www.altera.com/legal.

INVESTOR CONTACTScott WylieVP - Investor RelationsAltera Corporation(408) 544-6996 swylie@altera.com

SOURCE Altera Corporation

Regulatory changes limited and unclear

Rescission of mandate only complete solution

Continue urging passage of Respect for Rights of Conscience Act

WASHINGTON, Feb. 10, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) have issued the following statement:

The Catholic bishops have long supported access to life-affirming healthcare for all, and the conscience rights of everyone involved in the complex process of providing that healthcare. That is why we raised two serious objections to the "preventive services" regulation issued by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) in August 2011.

First, we objected to the rule forcing private health plans—nationwide, by the stroke of a bureaucrat's pen—to cover sterilization and contraception, including drugs that may cause abortion. All the other mandated "preventive services" prevent disease, and pregnancy is not a disease. Moreover, forcing plans to cover abortifacients violates existing federal conscience laws. Therefore, we called for the rescission of the mandate altogether.

Second, we explained that the mandate would impose a burden of unprecedented reach and severity on the consciences of those who consider such "services" immoral: insurers forced to write policies including this coverage; employers and schools forced to sponsor and subsidize the coverage; and individual employees and students forced to pay premiums for the coverage. We therefore urged HHS, if it insisted on keeping the mandate, to provide a conscience exemption for all of these stakeholders—not just the extremely small subset of "religious employers" that HHS proposed to exempt initially.

Today, the President has done two things.

First, he has decided to retain HHS's nationwide mandate of insurance coverage of sterilization and contraception, including some abortifacients. This is both unsupported in the law and remains a grave moral concern. We cannot fail to reiterate this, even as so many would focus exclusively on the question of religious liberty.

Second, the President has announced some changes in how that mandate will be administered, which is still unclear in its details. As far as we can tell at this point, the change appears to have the following basic contours:

• It would still mandate that all insurers must include coverage for the objectionable services in all the policies they would write. At this point, it would appear that self-insuring religious employers, and religious insurance companies, are not exempt from this mandate.
• It would allow non-profit, religious employers to declare that they do not offer such coverage. But the employee and insurer may separately agree to add that coverage. The employee would not have to pay any additional amount to obtain this coverage, and the coverage would be provided as a part of the employer's policy, not as a separate rider.
• Finally, we are told that the one-year extension on the effective date (from August 1, 2012 to August 1, 2013) is available to any non-profit religious employer who desires it, without any government application or approval process.

These changes require careful moral analysis, and moreover, appear subject to some measure of change. But we note at the outset that the lack of clear protection for key stakeholders—for self-insured religious employers; for religious and secular for-profit employers; for secular non-profit employers; for religious insurers; and for individuals—is unacceptable and must be corrected. And in the case where the employee and insurer agree to add the objectionable coverage, that coverage is still provided as a part of the objecting employer's plan, financed in the same way as the rest of the coverage offered by the objecting employer. This, too, raises serious moral concerns.

We just received information about this proposal for the first time this morning; we were not consulted in advance. Some information we have is in writing and some is oral. We will, of course, continue to press for the greatest conscience protection we can secure from the Executive Branch. But stepping away from the particulars, we note that today's proposal continues to involve needless government intrusion in the internal governance of religious institutions, and to threaten government coercion of religious people and groups to violate their most deeply held convictions. In a nation dedicated to religious liberty as its first and founding principle, we should not be limited to negotiating within these parameters. The only complete solution to this religious liberty problem is for HHS to rescind the mandate of these objectionable services.

We will therefore continue—with no less vigor, no less sense of urgency—our efforts to correct this problem through the other two branches of government. For example, we renew our call on Congress to pass, and the Administration to sign, the Respect for Rights of Conscience Act. And we renew our call to the Catholic faithful, and to all our fellow Americans, to join together in this effort to protect religious liberty and freedom of conscience for all.

SOURCE U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops

BOGOTA, Colombia, Feb. 10, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Ecopetrol S.A. (NYSE: EC; BVC: ECOPETROL; BVL: EC; TSX: ECP), will release on Wednesday, February 15th, 2012 after the markets close its results for the fourth quarter and full year 2011 . The earnings release will be available on the Company's website: www.ecopetrol.com.co

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On Thursday, February 16th, Ecopetrol's senior management will host two webcasts to review the results of the fourth quarter and full year 2011:

Spanish 1:30 p.m. Bogota / Lima / Nueva York / Toronto

English 3:00 p.m. Bogota / Lima / Nueva York / Toronto

The webcast will be available on Ecopetrol's website: www.ecopetrol.com.co and at the following links:

http://www.media-server.com/m/p/ptv3yk54 (Spanish)

http://www.media-server.com/m/p/2qgq334c (English)

Please access the site 10 minutes in advance to download any necessary software.  The webcast file will be available for one year following the live event.

Contacts:

Investor Relations DepartmentPhone: (+571) 234 5190E-mail: investors@ecopetrol.com.co  Website: www.ecopetrol.com.co

Ecopetrol is Colombia's largest integrated oil & gas company, where it accounts for 60% of total production. It is one of the top 40 oil companies in the world and the fourth largest oil company in Latin America. The Company is also involved in exploration and production activities in Brazil, Peru and the United States Gulf Coast, and owns the main refineries in Colombia, most of the network of oil and multiple purpose pipelines in the country, petrochemical plants, and is entering into the biofuels business.

This release contains forward-looking statements relating to the prospects of the business, estimates for operating and financial results, and those related to growth prospects of Ecopetrol. These are merely projections and, as such, are based exclusively on the expectations of management concerning the future of the business and its continued access to capital to fund the Company's business plan. Such forward-looking statements depend, substantially, on changes in market conditions, government regulations, competitive pressures, the performance of the Colombian economy and the industry, among other factors; therefore, they are subject to change without prior notice.

SOURCE Ecopetrol S.A.