Supporting Cyber Security Education
WALTHAM, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- GameLogic, Inc., a provider of interactive marketing services for the U.S. regulated gaming industry, today announced that it is a proud sponsor of the Northeast regional qualifier for the National Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition (CCDC). GameLogic joins the Department of Homeland Security, Boeing and Trustwave in supporting this prestigious, industry-recognized competition.
The National Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition (CCDC), started in 2004, is a nationally recognized cyber security competition and is the largest college-level cyber security competition in the world. Each participating college undergoes a rigorous three-day competition that includes professional penetration experts attempting to exploit their systems while the participant team works to achieve business objectives identified by their "company" executives. Knowing how to defend future employers against cyber attacks while balancing the needs of the business is a critical skill for college student bound for a cyber security career. Past sponsors of the CCDC include: Microsoft, Cisco, Accenture and AT&T.
"GameLogic's sponsorship of the competition is a natural fit with our corporate emphasis on cyber security in a real world environment," said John E. Taylor, Jr. president and chief executive officer of GameLogic. "For the gaming industry in which we operate, data protection and personal privacy is of paramount concern, especially as the Internet comes into greater utilization by casinos and lotteries. We applaud the efforts of the competition staff and participants in this critical area of expertise for all industries in the information technology age."
About Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition
The Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition (CCDC) system provides institutions with an information assurance or computer security curriculum in a controlled, competitive environment to assess their student's depth of understanding and operational competency in managing the challenges inherent in protecting a corporate network infrastructure and business information systems. For more information, please visit http://www.nationalccdc.org.
About GameLogic
GameLogic, Inc. provides a wide variety of interactive marketing products and services including player portals, promotions and database marketing technologies and tools for the US regulated gaming industry. The Company's solutions are proven to help casino and lottery operators create effective marketing strategies that attract new players and reach and increase revenue from existing ones. Leveraging the tremendous popularity of online games, GameLogic's PlayAway(TM) system features Fun Play(TM), Bonus Play(TM), Challenge Play(TM) and Money Play(TM) modules -- all which provide players with an exciting interface for "personalized play" complete with games, programs and promotions. The Company recently announced its integration with Facebook which allows its clients easy and meaningful access to social gaming and social marketing networks. Based in Waltham, MA, the Company was founded by the creators of Gamesville, a pioneering online entertainment and marketing and promotion system. Investors include Bain Capital Ventures, General Catalyst Partners and Maveron. For more information, please visit http://www.gamelogic.com.
Source: GameLogic, Inc.
OLDWICK, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- A.M. Best Co. has revised the outlook to positive from stable and affirmed the financial strength rating of B+ (Good) and issuer credit rating of "bbb-" of Eastern Dentists Insurance Company, A Risk Retention Group (EDIC) (Burlington, VT).
The ratings of EDIC reflect its supportive risk-adjusted capitalization and favorable operating performance, enhanced by non-risk bearing income generated by its subsidiaries. Partially offsetting these favorable rating factors are the company's potential exposure to multiple claims from a single insured, though this has been mitigated somewhat by reinsurance as noted below, its concentration risks related to being a monoline writer of dental professional liability insurance and its somewhat low geographic distribution. EDIC also operates with a high expense structure explained by the lower dental premium rates relative to other professional liability specialty insurers.
The outlook reflects EDIC's improved level of capitalization and contemplates the company's sustainability of risk-adjusted capitalization and profitability over the near term. EDIC is the leader in providing professional liability coverage to dentists in Massachusetts and writes business across the northeastern United States. The company maintains large aggregate policy limits up to $6 million, although reinsurance is in place that provides coverage in excess of retained limits. EDIC recently improved its reinsurance structure to protect future earnings and overall capitalization from the impact of aggregate loss accumulation on a single insured basis.
For Best's Credit Ratings, an overview of the rating process and rating methodologies,. please visit www.ambest.com/ratings.
The principal methodologies used in determining these ratings, including any additional methodologies and factors that may have been considered, can be found at www.ambest.com/ratings/methodology.
Founded in 1899, A.M. Best Company is a global full-service credit rating organization dedicated to serving the financial and health care service industries, including insurance companies, banks, hospitals and health care system providers. For more information, visit www.ambest.com.
Source: A.M. Best Co.
DENVER and BEIJING, Feb. 9 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- China Wi-Max Communications, Inc. ("China Wi-Max" or "the Company) (OTC Bulletin Board: CHWM) today announced that the Company projects recurring revenue growth based on its fiber ring ownership and development, combined with the use of its government licensed and protected wireless spectrums.
BROADBAND INTERNET ACCESS GROWTH
"There are many very large commercial buildings within reach of our 47-mile fiber ring around Beijing's Fourth Ring Road," noted Iain Stewart, Chief Technical Officer of China Wi-Max Communications, Inc. "We are currently engaged in strategic negotiations with multi-tenant building owners and managers to provide broadband Internet access to those buildings and their tenants."
"Our 47-mile fiber ring, when combined with our licensed broadband wireless access, is especially valuable because further fiber development in the center of Beijing -- inside our fiber ring -- is currently discouraged. China Wi-Max will use its government-licensed and protected wireless band at 5.8 GHz to extend broadband access eventually to most of Beijing."
SHANGHAI and HANGZHOU
China Wi-Max is also licensed by the government to use its wireless 5.8 GHz spectrum in Shanghai and Hangzhou. (See: "CHWM Moves Forward in Shanghai With Agreement to Purchase 90 Miles of Fiber Network" at http://gaskinsco.com/chwm-1-14-10.htm).
"In addition, the Company currently owns 17 miles of fiber in Hangzhou, where it intends to develop and grow a significant, recurring revenue stream based on the success of the model being established in Beijing," continued Mr. Stewart.
Shanghai is the largest city in China and one of the largest metropolitan areas in the world, with over 20 million people, while Hangzhou has a population approaching 7 million people. Agreements are in place to acquire fiber and broadband wireless licenses in 7 additional Chinese cities in the near future, thereby addressing a population approaching 100 million.
Separately, IPOdesktop's CHWM analyst report is updated at
http://www.gaskinsco.com/linkto-chwm.shtml
About China Wi-Max Communications, Inc.
China Wi-Max Communications, Inc. (CHWM), a world-class telecommunications and IP transport company, was formed to take advantage of the rapidly expanding wireless and landline communications needs in China. The goal of China Wi-Max Communications is to become the premier provider of broadband technology and allied services in the Chinese market. Building on world-class technical experience and proven management skills, China Wi-Max Communications is approaching its market with the tools that experience suggests are necessary to achieve success. The Company is headquartered in Denver, Colorado and its common stock is listed on the OTC Bulletin Board under the symbol "CHWM". For additional information, please visit the Company's website at www.chinawi-max.com.
'Safe Harbor Statement'
This press release contains forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties. The statements of this Summary Overview are forward-looking statements that are made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Actual results, events and performances could vary materially from those contemplated by these forward-looking statements. These statements involve known and unknown risks and uncertainties, which may cause the Company's actual results, expressed or implied, to differ materially from expected results. These risks and uncertainties include, among other things, product demand and market competition. You should independently investigate and fully understand all risks before making an investment decision.
For More Information Please Visit the Company's Website at www.chinawi-max.com.
SOURCE China Wi-Max Communications, Inc.
Nexxus Lighting's Array Par 30 8 watt lamp is highest efficacy directional LED lamp tested in the nine rounds of the DOE CALiPER program.
Independent tests conducted by ITL in Boulder, Colorado confirm high performance.
CHARLOTTE, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Nexxus Lighting, Inc. (NASDAQ Capital Market: NEXS) today announced that according to a review of all nine rounds of CALiPER test results conducted by the U.S. Department of Energy, its Array Par 30 has the highest efficacy (lumens per watt) of any directional LED replacement lamp tested.
These performance results have been validated further by more recent and comprehensive independent third party LM-79 photometric tests conducted by ITL in Boulder, Colorado. These tests show the 8 watt Array Par 30 Warm White lamp produced 527 lumens at 3000 Kelvin or 65.9 lumens per watt and the Array Par 30 Natural White lamp produced 545 lumens at 5000 Kelvin or 69.0 lumens per watt. These industry leading results are made possible through Nexxus Lighting's patented design and patent pending Selective Heat Sink (SHS) technology which has resulted in the lightest weight and highest efficacy LED replacement lamp line in the industry. The Company has made copies of the DOE and ITL tests available on its website.
Nexxus Lighting is launching a national advertising campaign this month to promote its new Array Lighting product line in industry periodicals. This campaign will showcase the performance and the energy and money saving potential of the Array product line to the commercial lighting market.
"The results of the DOE CALiPER program, and other independent third party test data, demonstrate that we currently have the highest efficacy (lumens per watt), longest life, lightest weight LED replacement lamp in the market," stated Mike Bauer, President and CEO of Nexxus Lighting, Inc. "In the coming weeks, we will be rolling out our global branding strategy through a national advertising campaign, major tradeshows and additional new product announcements. Our goal is to increase awareness of the advantages of Nexxus Lighting and position the Array Lighting brand of LED replacement lamps as the high quality performance leader in the market," concluded Mr. Bauer.
About Nexxus Lighting
Nexxus Lighting is a leader in advanced lighting technology, including solid-state LED and fiber optic lighting systems and controls used in commercial, architectural, signage, swimming pool, entertainment and retail lighting. Nexxus Lighting sells its products through its Commercial Lighting, Lumificient and Nexxus Lighting Pool & Spa divisions under the Array(TM) Lighting, Savi(R), eLum(TM), LiveLED(TM), Super Vision(R) and Lumificient(TM) brand names.
Nexxus Lighting - Life's Brighter(R) www.nexxuslighting.com
Certain of the above statements contained in this press release are forward-looking statements that involve a number of risks and uncertainties. Such forward-looking statements are within the meaning of that term in Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Reference is made to Nexxus Lighting's filings under the Securities Exchange Act for factors that could cause actual results to differ materially. Nexxus Lighting undertakes no obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events, or otherwise. Readers are cautioned that any such forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance and involve risks and uncertainties, and that actual results may differ materially from those indicated in the forward-looking statements as a result of various factors. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements.
Source: Nexxus Lighting, Inc.
SAINT PAUL, Minn., Feb. 9 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The nation's fourth leading cause of death, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), is now being measured by the Minnesota Department of Health's Environmental Public Health Tracking Program. The program focuses on three major causes of hospitalizations in Minnesota that can be triggered or made worse by environmental factors such as secondhand smoke or outdoor air pollution — asthma, heart attacks and COPD.
The report indicates that 3.4 percent of adult Minnesotans report having COPD, among those 65 or older the rate is much higher, 7.4 percent. For seniors 85 or older, COPD is even more common, as hospitalizations for the chronic lung disease has nearly tripled between 1996 and 2007. This trend in Minnesota mirrors national statistics, although the state's age-adjusted mortality rates for adults 45 years and older per 100,000 population is lower (78.4 percent) than the national average (88.5 percent).
Minnesota's lower death rates for COPD may be a result of the state's excellent health facilities, higher than average health insurance coverage, and a focus on the lung disease not found in other states. Minnesota is one of the few states to track COPD statewide with the Minnesota Behavioral Risk Factor Survey System. It also was one of the first states with a coalition of caregivers and research focused on COPD. In 2008, the Minnesota COPD Coalition and the American Lung Association in Minnesota issued a joint report that for the first time looked at the scope and cost of COPD in the state. Among the key findings:
-- In 2006, 1,760 Minnesotans aged 45 and older died of COPD
-- From 1996 to 2007, emergency department visits due to COPD increased 250
percent
-- While males have a higher rate of death due to COPD, females are quickly
closing the gap
-- The average cost of hospitalization for COPD is high: $18,975, excluding
professional fees.
"We applaud, loudly, MDH's inclusion of COPD in their tracking program and anticipate more people hearing about this quiet killer of five Minnesotans daily," said Al Heaton, PharmD, pharmacy director at UCare and chair the American Lung Association's Minnesota COPD Coalition.
Links to websites:
MDH http://www.health.state.mn.us/divs/eh/tracking/hospreport.pdf
ALAMN http://www.alamn.org/pdf/MNCOPDreport.pdf
SOURCE American Lung Association of Minnesota
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