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SABIC Innovative Plastics’ New Anti-Static Stat-Loy Compounds Breathe Life into Inhalation Devices

Posted on 14 November 2010.


– Patients and medical device OEMs can now breathe easier thanks to SABIC Innovative Plastics’ new breakthrough anti-static compounds for inhalation devices. The company today launched three major additions to its family of high-performance LNP* Stat-Loy* specialty compounds. The new transparent materials provide permanent anti-static properties, eliminating the need for expensive secondary operations, and help ensure repeatability of dosing and potentially lower drug costs through more-efficient aerosol and powder dispensing. The new LNP Stat-Loy specialty compound grades are also pre-assessed for biocompatibility according to ISO 10993 to help manufacturers expedite compliance and time to market. SABIC Innovative Plastics’ ongoing investment in these and other leading-edge healthcare technologies illustrate the company’s commitment to its customers by actively addressing mounting medical industry demand for improved patient safety and lower manufacturing costs.

“SABIC Innovative Plastics is clearly delivering a fast-expanding portfolio of high-end, highly specialized materials to the medical device industry,” said David DeVito, LNP compounds product marketing manager, SABIC Innovative Plastics. “Our new transparent, anti-static LNP Stat-Loy compounds will help drive exceptional design flexibility to create very efficient inhalation devices that can optimize patient dosages for improved safety, while simultaneously slashing manufacturing system costs.”  

Inherent Anti-static Performance Assists With Consistent, Full Dosing

Static electricity is a major challenge in the effective use of inhalation devices; tiny drug particles can build up an electrostatic charge causing them to adhere to the device instead of being dispensed to the patient. SABIC Innovative Plastics’ LNP Stat-Loy compounds provide built-in, permanent anti-static performance to assist with the efficient delivery of a full dose of a powder or aerosol to the patient each time, contributing to improved safety and better outcomes. Unlike older inhalers that utilized coatings to control static charges, the inherent anti-static properties of LNP Stat-Loy compounds avoid the need for costly secondary operations.

The new LNP Stat-Loy compounds are available in three transparent resin systems:  acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS); polymethylmethacrylate (PMMA)/acrylic; and Xylex* resin, a polycarbonate (PC)/polyester alloy. The superior clarity of these compounds ensures excellent visibility of device contents while providing attractive aesthetics. The materials can be easily colored for appearance and drug identification. Other important features of the new compounds include excellent impact strength and cleanability.

LNP Stat-Loy compounds are available in opaque resins such as polyamide 6, polybutylene terephthalate (PBT), polyoxymethylene (POM), and polypropylene (PP), enabling manufacturers to combine opaque and clear components for design or functional purposes.

For more information on SABIC Innovative Plastics’ new LNP Stat-Loy compounds, please visit the company website at www.sabic-ip.com.

About SABIC Innovative Plastics

SABIC Innovative Plastics is a leading, global supplier of engineering thermoplastics with a 75-year history of breakthrough solutions that solve its customers’ most pressing challenges. Today, SABIC Innovative Plastics is a multi-billion-dollar company with operations in more than 35 countries and approximately 9,000 employees worldwide. The company continues to lead the plastics industry with customer collaboration and continued investments in new polymer technologies, global application development, process technologies, and environmentally responsible solutions that serve diverse markets such as automotive, electronics, building & construction, transportation, and healthcare. The company’s extensive product portfolio includes thermoplastic resins, coatings, specialty compounds, film, and sheet. SABIC Innovative Plastics (www.sabic-ip.com) is a wholly owned subsidiary of Saudi Basic Industries Corporation (SABIC), one of the world’s top six petrochemicals manufacturers.

* Trademarks of SABIC Innovative Plastics IP BV.

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Dieting Cycle causes stress and anxiety

Posted on 11 November 2010.


– The first question to be asked is; does dieting work? Let’s define “Dieting” According to Wikipedia dieting is; Dieting is the practice of ingesting food in a regulated fashion to achieve or maintain a controlled weight. In most cases dieting is used in combination with physical exercise to lose weight in those who are overweight or obese. Now that we what dieting is let also define what dieting isn’t? Dieting as most of us know it is a way to lose weight fast and regain that dress size that I had when I was 25, or possible a way to get into a dress in the next few weeks. I’ve even had primarily women contact me asking if I can make them lose 15-20 for their wedding day in 2 weeks. That is how most people perceive a diet or dieting. In fact this is why over 95% of the people I’ve talked to have been on so many diets in their life they can’t even remember which one they were on last or even if they lost weight. To make matters worse there are hundreds of diets out there. But they all make the same claim. You’ll lose weight. Think about this. With so many diets out there, why are we as a nation heavier and unhealthier than ever before?

So here are a few GOOD reasons to avoid the dieting cycle.

1. Research has shown that frequent dieting will cause you gain more than you previously lost before you started the last diet in the end leaving you heavier than when you started dieting. Here’s why; you start a diet most are restrictive calorie, carbohydrate, fat or some combination of these three. Your body says hay what’s happened I had all this food for energy and storage for a rainy day and now I don’t have enough to survive. People think by reducing or restricting their input of food they will lose weight, and they are correct. Here’s what happens. Your body is gone into self preservation mode. It sees the restriction as a famine and instead of starting to use the fat your body has saved it starts with lean muscle. Lean muscle is the best fuel for your body and it takes less energy to get it ready to consume. Now you start losing weight but its muscle not fat. By the way muscle weighs more than fat so you think you’re losing fat but all you’re really losing is you best way to lose fat, because muscle takes energy to do work but fat doesn’t. Now some time has passed and you’ve lost all the weight you had set out to lose or the event that you needed to lose weight for has passed and you return to eating the same amount you were before you started the diet. Now the problem starts. You’re giving your body those 2000 calories or so that you did before the diet and maintained your weight at (whatever it was) now your body needs fewer calories because it has less muscle mass to feed. Guess what it does with the extra, you’re correct it stories it for later. And the cycle will continue over and over and over again.

2. Now as if you really need another reason, how about this. New research shows that this same dieting cycle also stresses your brain, causing overeating and anxiety. Have you noticed that once you go off the diet your stress is reduced? When this occurs we normally eat comfort foods which helps use to feel better and then the cycle occurs again. This is in fact similar to addiction to drugs. Have you noted how irritable most people become when they are on a diet? Now you know why. It’s not just being hungry and missing eating it is actually an addiction. What is worse is if you go off the diet or cheat for a day or even one meal the symptoms return with more intense anxiety than before. And the cycle continues.

Conclusion: Stop dieting! Change your life style. Ask me how!


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If you’re determined to get healthy, shed fat and gain muscle then get advice from someone that has been there. Spending 20 years in the military out performing his piers much younger than he. He has been in you 2 triathlons and 2 mini triathlons.

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HGG, PROT, HIBB, HTCO – Combining Tactics to Excel by Stock-PR.com

Posted on 25 October 2010.


– Proteonomix, Inc (OTC BB:PROT.OB) is a biotechnology company focused on developing therapeutics based upon the use of human cells and their derivatives with an initial focus on diabetes and cardiac diseases. Many of the currently incurable diseases associated with aging are caused by the degeneration of specific cell types in the body. These diseases include, but are not limited to, cancer, heart disease, diabetes, and autoimmune conditions. Stem cell therapy provides much promise for the treatment of diseases previously regarded as incurable. Proteonomix’s mission is to achieve a leadership position in life enhancement regenerative stem cell therapies, services, and products through a combination of first to market technologies, and innovative clinical trial strategies.

Proteonomix is a biotechnology company focused on developing therapeutics based upon the use of human cells and their derivatives. Proteoderm, Inc. is a wholly owned subsidiary of Proteonomix that has recently opened its retail web site, Proteoderm.com, and begun accepting pre-orders for its anti-aging line of skin care products. StromaCel, Inc.’s goal is the development therapeutic modalities for the treatment of Cardiovascular Disease (CVD). StromaCel, Inc. is pursuing the licensing of other technologies for therapeutic use. National Stem Cell, Inc. is Proteonomix’s operating subsidiary. The Sperm Bank of New York, Inc. is a fully operational tissue bank. Proteonomix Regenerative Translational Medicine Institute, Inc. (“PRTMI”) intends to focus on the translation of promising research in stem cell biology and cellular therapy to clinical applications of regenerative medicine. Proteonomix intends to create and dedicate a subsidiary to each of its technologies.

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Today, Indianapolis-based appliance and electronics leader hhgregg (NYSE:HGG – News) released hhgregg is seeking enthusiastic, highly motivated Virginia-area residents to fill approximately 50 positions for a new store scheduled to open in Manassas, VA this Fall. Positions are available for commissioned sales associates, managers-in-training, warehouse staff and customer service merchandisers for the new store located at 7412 Stream Walk Lane. Interested applicants are encouraged to complete an online application and assessment at http://www.hhgregg-jobs.com. Accepted applicants will be invited to interviews from September 20th October 8th.

Like all hhgregg employees, newly hired associates will undergo a comprehensive training program that includes over 200 hours of product training. The program is designed to ensure each associate is well prepared to answer all product related questions in order to help customers make the best purchase decisions. Each hhgregg store showcases over 100 digital TVs and has more than 500 major appliances in stock every day. Individuals interested in applying for the open positions are encouraged to visit the “Careers” section on hhgregg’s website. An online application and assessment must be completed in order to secure an interview with hhgregg. To apply online, please visit http://www.hhgregg-jobs.com/.

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Hibbett Sports, Inc. (NASDAQ:HIBB), a sporting goods retailer, released results for the second quarter ended July 31, 2010. Net sales for the 13-week period ended July 31, 2010, increased 13.6% to $139.8 million compared with $123.1 million for the 13-week period ended August 1, 2009. Comparable store sales increased 11.9%, making it the second straight quarter Hibbett Sports has produced double digit comparable store sales growth. Net income for the second quarter of Fiscal 2011 increased 261.9% to $4.0 million compared with $1.1 million for the second quarter of Fiscal 2010. Earnings per diluted share increased 257% to $0.14 compared with $0.04 for the second quarter of Fiscal 2010.

Net sales for the 26-week period ended July 31, 2010, increased 15.5% to $324.3 million compared with $280.8 million for the 26-week period ended August 1, 2009. Comparable store sales increased 13.4%. Net income for the 26-week period ended July 31, 2010, was $21.4 million compared with $12.0 million for the 26-week period ended August 1, 2009. Earnings per diluted share increased 75% to $0.73 compared with $0.41 for the 26-week period ended August 1, 2009.

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HickoryTech Corporation (Nasdaq:HTCO), through HickoryTech’s Enventis subsidiary, was awarded $16.8 million in federal stimulus grants to extend HickoryTech’s middle mile fiber-optic network across greater Minnesota connecting health care facilities, schools, libraries, higher education institutions and public offices with an advanced high-capacity broadband network. Upon accepting this award administered by the U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Telecommunication and Information Administration (NTIA), HickoryTech will expand its 2,800-mile fiber network with 428 miles of new fiber construction connecting rural community anchor institutions across greater Minnesota. Enventis will directly connect community anchor institutions of its collaborative partners including: health care facilities, state and local government offices and educational institutions with a minimum of 100 MB of broadband service and 10GB backbone fiber services supporting advanced high-capacity service applications.

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MLHR, PROT, HT, HSY – Good Companies Doing Great! by Stock-PR.com

Posted on 23 October 2010.


– Proteonomix, Inc. (OTC.BB:PROT), a biotechnology company focused on developing therapeutics based upon the use of human cells and their derivatives, reported that Mr. Michael Cohen, Chairman and CEO, is scheduling a multi-city European road trip to create additional awareness of the Proteonomix, Inc. investment opportunity to institutional investors.

Scheduled for early October, Mr. Cohen will discuss with sophisticated investors the recent contract to establish a joint venture with a group of investors that will establish a new stem cell treatment and research facility in the United Arab Emirates (U.A.E.). In addition, Mr. Cohen will discuss the opportunity to set up additional joint ventures in other countries using the U.A.E. arrangement as a model.

Proteonomix is a biotechnology company focused on developing therapeutics based upon the use of human cells and their derivatives. Proteoderm, Inc. is a wholly owned subsidiary of Proteonomix that has recently opened its retail web site, Proteoderm.com, and begun accepting pre-orders for its anti-aging line of skin care products. StromaCel, Inc.’s goal is the development therapeutic modalities for the treatment of Cardiovascular Disease (CVD). StromaCel, Inc. is pursuing the licensing of other technologies for therapeutic use. National Stem Cell, Inc. is Proteonomix’s operating subsidiary. The Sperm Bank of New York, Inc. is a fully operational tissue bank. Proteonomix Regenerative Translational Medicine Institute, Inc. (“PRTMI”) intends to focus on the translation of promising research in stem cell biology and cellular therapy to clinical applications of regenerative medicine. Proteonomix intends to create and dedicate a subsidiary to each of its technologies.

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Herman Miller, Inc. (Nasdaq:MLHR), last week released results for Herman Miller’s first quarter ended August 28, 2010. Net sales in the quarter of $380.7 million  were 17.5% higher than the prior year first quarter and up 18.4% sequentially relative to the fourth quarter of last fiscal year. Consolidated orders in the first quarter totaled $393.8 million, reflecting year-over-year and sequential-quarter increases of 22.3% and 8.0%, respectively. Diluted earnings per share in the first quarter were $0.22 compared to $0.14  in the same period last year. Excluding the per-share impact of previously announced restructuring actions, adjusted earnings per share in the first quarter were $0.23. In the first quarter of last fiscal year, Herman Miller reported adjusted earnings per share of $0.22, an amount which included $0.05 per share related to favorable adjustments to income tax reserves

Herman Miller works for a better world around you-with inventive designs, technologies and related services that improve the human experience wherever people work, heal, learn, and live. Its curiosity, ingenuity, and design excellence create award-winning products and services, resulting in more than $1.3 billion in revenue in fiscal 2010. Innovative business practices and a commitment to social responsibility have also established Herman Miller as a recognized global company. In 2010, Herman Miller was again cited by FORTUNE as the “Most Admired” in its industry and among the “100 Best Companies to Work For” in America, while Fast Company has named Herman Miller among its 2010 “Innovation All-Stars.”

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Hersha Hospitality Trust (NYSE: HT), owner of select service and upscale hotels in major metropolitan markets, reported that Hersha Hospitality Trust’s Board of Trustees declared a cash dividend of $0.50 per Series A Preferred Share for the third quarter ending September 30, 2010. The preferred share dividend is payable October 15, 2010 to holders of record as of October 1, 2010. The Board of Trustees also declared quarterly cash dividends of $0.05 per Common Share and per Limited Partnership unit for the third quarter ending September 30, 2010. The common share dividend and limited partnership unit distribution are payable on October 15, 2010 to shareholders and unitholders of record on September 30, 2010.

Hersha Hospitality Trust is a self-advised real estate investment trust, which owns interests in 76 hotels, totaling 10,071 rooms, primarily along the Northeast Corridor from Boston to Washington D.C. Hersha also owns hotels in Northern California and Scottsdale, Arizona. Hersha focuses on upscale, mid-scale and extended stay hotels in major metropolitan markets.

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The Hershey Company (NYSE: HSY) issued Hershey’s first Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Report. The report was launched on the anniversary of Milton S. Hershey’s birthday, in commemoration of Hershey’s legacy of responsible operation and of Hershey’s commitment to continued progress. The CSR Report, which can be found at http://www.thehersheycompany.com/social-responsibility, outlines Hershey’s priorities and sets goals for improvement in key areas.

Hershey’s CSR Report outlines Hershey’s accomplishments in these areas and sets measurable goals for future progress. For example, Hershey has decreased energy consumption by nearly 10 percent in Hershey’s manufacturing and distribution facilities since 2008. Hershey, along with others in the industry working through the World Cocoa Foundation, has taken a proactive leadership role in promoting sustainable cocoa farming practices and increasing incomes for cocoa farming families. These programs have made a positive difference in the lives of 500,000 farming families over the past decade.

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Healthy-Nurse.com relaunches website as a new Health Management blog

Posted on 21 July 2010.


– Healthy-nurse.com is happy to announce the launch of its new and improved website. The new site offers much of the same great information as the previous site; however, Healthy-nurse.com has become more engaging with a wider range of health topics. In addition to the site’s informative content, the design and interface are developed in a way so as to provide a positive user experience. The topics are well defined and categorized so finding what you are looking for will be easy.

A new blog interface has been added to the website to provide a continuous stream of information dealing with the many health issues suffered by children and adults. You can subscribe to our blog via RSS feeds and stay up to date with our latest posting. Visit today


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