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China’s Sanlu milk brand - the company at the center of China’s tainted baby formula scandal - won’t recover from the damage it has suffered.

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MEDFIELD, Mass., Sept. 24 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — Mitchell Construction Group, Inc., a multi-award winning design and renovation firm located in Medfield, is pleased to announce they have been named to the 2008 Top 500 list of remodeling firms in the country by Qualified Remodeler Magazine. This marks the fifth consecutive year Mitchell was named to the list.

The Top 500 recognizes remodeling firms for significant and sustained success in the industry for the following six criteria: annual sales volume for the previous year, total number of years in business, association membership, certified employees on staff, industry awards and community service.

It is the longest running ongoing recognition program in the remodeling industry. Companies named are listed in the September issue of Qualified Remodeler Magazine, one of the most widely read trade publications in the building and construction industry.

Located in Medfield, Massachusetts, Mitchell Construction Group specializes in architectural design and construction of [...]

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JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Sept. 24 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — Widely anticipated new book about the Atlanta Courthouse Shootings, written by respected trial attorney, turned author, Shoran Reid. “Waking the Sleeping Demon: 26 Hours of Terror in Atlanta” (ISBN: 978-0-615-20749-0, Rella Publishing), follows the terrifying hours Former Prosecutor Ash Joshi felt hunted by Atlanta Courthouse Shooter Brian Nichols and reveals new information about events prior to and after the tragedy.

In the early morning hours of March 11, 2005, defendant Brian Nichols was scheduled to appear in court for the rape and kidnapping at gunpoint of his ex-girlfriend. This was the second time in less than two weeks Nichols was being tried on these charges as the first trial ended in a hung jury. Nichols took matters into his own hands and brutally beat the female deputy responsible for escorting him to the courtroom and escaped custody with the deputy’s weapon and ammunition. [...]

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Inside a rundown government building on Novaya Basmannaya Street in Moscow, a bizarre lawsuit is playing out involving $7.5 billion in illicit money transfers and America’s ninth-largest bank.

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BOSTON, Mass., Sept. 24 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — Navigate Health International, an innovator in international medical assistance services, announces its first service line, Florence Medical Assistance. Florence Medical Assistance is a service providing coordinated access to medical care for internationals living in or visiting Florence, Italy, and the nearby Tuscan countryside. This service, with its high level of in-person client assistance, will be the first of its kind in the travel industry.

The Medical Director and CEO, Kevin M. Ban, MD, has been working in Tuscany for the last five years as the Director of the Tuscan Emergency Medical Initiative, a collaboration among Harvard Medical Faculty Physicians, the three university hospitals in Tuscany, and the Tuscan regional government. He is currently serving as Director of the Meyer Pediatric Trauma Center in Florence, in addition to continuing his role as Assistant Clinical Professor at Harvard Medical School.

According to Kevin M. Ban, [...]

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BOONTON, N.J., Sept. 24 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — Telephone companies, ISPs, and cellular phone carriers can bring to bear an expansive array of technologies and services to aid consumers and enterprises in improving the environment while generating over $1 trillion in new industry revenue over the next five years, according to a new market research study from The INSIGHT Research Corporation. The study found that by using existing networks and services, phone companies, ISPs and cellular providers can create green communications portfolios that mitigate the deleterious impacts that greenhouse gas emissions, energy power consumption, and waste disposal have on the environment.

INSIGHT Research’s market analysis study, “Communicating Green: Telecommunications Value in Promoting Environmental Improvement, 2008-2013,” evaluated the use of existing telecommunications technologies and services applied to five key domains: transportation demand management to improve gasoline consumption; demand side management of electrical power; machine-to-machine communications to improve operational efficiencies; the recycling of [...]

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SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., Sept. 23 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — Libra Press confirmed its new book “Please put the toilet seat down” (ISBN: 978-0-615-21623-2), by author Darcy Frew and illustrated by John Blair Moore, is the first relationship self-help book women are buying specifically to give to their significant other, and not only is he reading it, it’s improving the relationship.

First available to the public on August 8, 2008, the book employs the concept of a Cluetoon; a cartoon mixing humor with gentle advice. The fifty cluetoons in the book cover most common relationship issues.

“We think this is big news for women. We’re constantly hearing feedback that sounds like: after he read the book he’s been acting nicer; he folded a load of laundry; he did some dishes; he volunteered to watch the kids; it’s been amazing,” said publisher Eric Shubert.

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In her first book, Darcy Frew combines her keen sense [...]

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SCRANTON, Pa., Sept. 23 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — Because of David Blaine’s Houdini-esque stunts the Board of Directors of The Houdini Museum in Scranton has decided to place David Blaine up for nomination for the first ever Houdini Award to be given out by the prestigious museum. When David Blaine is buried alive for seven days, frozen in a block of ice or hung upside down for 60 hours, he credits Harry Houdini’s legendary escapes as his inspiration. In April, Blaine broke a world record by holding his breath underwater for 17 minutes and 4.4 seconds, another Houdini inspired stunt.

Others who have been nominated include James Randi, Dorothy Dietrich and Caesar Pelez of Le Grand David. Criss Angel, David Copperfield, and Penn and Teller were in the running for nomination but did not make the cut this year. The winner of the award is to have a special coin minted in [...]

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