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Cuomo said the banks have and will continuse to provide liquidityto investors. In October, agreed to buy back as much as $4.7 billiojn in auction-rate securities it sold to abougt 5,500 investors, small businesses and small charities beforee the market collapsed inFebruary 2008. Accordintg to the , the settlement also required BofAto “use its best efforts” to provide up to $5 billion in liquidity to businesses and institutional investors with accountd valued at $15 millio n or more, and charities with accounts valued at $25 millio n or more.
The agreement resolved allegations that securities dealers made misrepresentationes about the safety and liquidityof auction-rat e securities to customers during sales. Auction-rate securitiees have interest rates that are rese at weekly or monthly auctions run by investment The $330 billion market collapsed last year, when investorz became alarmed at the prospects of the ability of corporatee borrowers covering debt servics on the securities. Many were left with securitiesd they could not sell intothe Charlotte, N.C.-based BofA (NYSE: BAC) neitherf admitted nor denied wrongdoing.
The SEC also has finalizeed a settlement with BofA overthe
Sunday, January 30, 2011
Friday, January 28, 2011
SIUE fills in nicely for Purdue win - Examiner.com
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SIUE fills in nicely for Purdue win Examiner.com When the Purdue Boilermakers were forced to cancel their Thanksgiving trip to Cancun because of Drey Mingo's bout with acute bacterial meningitis, ... |
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
'The Cape' Fan Columnist: Whose Crime Is It Anyway? - BuddyTV
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BuddyTV | 'The Cape' Fan Columnist: Whose Crime Is It Anyway? BuddyTV Any new television series would be proud to say its success is like a runaway train by its fourth episode. And Monday night's episode of The Cape gave us a ... |
Sunday, January 23, 2011
Falcons kicking off new marketing campaign - Orlando Business Journal:
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Falcons Vice President of Marketingf Jim Smith said he hopes the team is getting back on tracjk to where it wasin 2005, comingv off a season in which the team’s season ended one game shorft of the Super Bowl. That year the Falcons essentially capped the amoun of season tickets they sold and kept a few thousand for single-game sales. Now, despites the economy, the Falcons are in a positiojn to cash in onthe team’x surprising 11-5 season in which they made the playoffs and quarterbaclk Matt Ryan was named Rookir of the Year and coach Mike Smith was namer Coach of the Year by the .
“Out ultimate goal is to get back to wherre we werein 2005, pretty much sold out of seasonb tickets,” Smith said. In light of the the Falc-ons have created a new payment planfor fans. In the fans had to put down a depositof $100 per ticketg by a deadline, followed by a very fluic deadline for when the remainder of the balance was due. Underd the new system, the Falcons are not asking for a depositg and are allowing fans to make payments insix equal, interest-frer installments. The more structured renewal system has the added benefiy of allowing the Falcons to show new tickegt buyers where they actually will sitmuch earlier.
Under the old with its fluid new buyers could not pick theit seats until Juneor July, around the time when traininfg camp begins. Now, new buyers can pick their seataright away. In addition, whils the sponsors that some pro sporta relyon — particularly those in the financial services industry and auto manufacturers — have hit some leagues and events hard with their failure to renew, Smith had good news on that “Our renewals have gone exceptionally well,” he said. “And our new salews have been surprisinglyvery good.” In particular the team has signedf new partnerships with and concrete manufacturef The QUIKRETE Companies Inc.
Smitg called those sponsorships “sizable deals” that will be features in all ofthe team’w marketing platforms. The marketing campaign begajn the week of March 9 with the launcuh of billboards in what Smith said were seven ofthe highest-traffic areaas in metro Atlanta, calling it “a very aggressivre launch.” Smith expects the team’s radik and television ads to hit the airwavezs around March 14 or 15.
The theme of the campaigh — “The Hunt is On” — plays to the idea that the named for a bird of is now the hunter instead of the With former star quarterback Michael Vick in jail on federaldogfightintg charges, the campaign represents a continuatiom of a team-driven marketing strategy, as opposex to a change from the formerd individual-based one. Smith said the Falcons worked in conjunctiom withthe Dallas-based Richardd Group to come up with the campaign. ’s research indicatesd an evolution in coverage by the newspaperzs based in the citiesof Falcons’ opponentsx throughout last season.
Entering the season — coming off the year in which Vick went to jail and coachh Bobby Petrino left beforethe season’s end for the job at the the Falcons were expectexd to be one of the ’a worst teams, and yet they made the Smith said media coveragd went from portraying the Falcons as an easy win to portraying the team as overachieverss to a final acknowledgement that the Falcones were for real. The new ads are intended to mirrodr the old wildlife and nature televisionshow “ ’s Wild The voice-over intones how there is “no stopping them during feeding time” and how “adversaries don’r hunt them.
” The connection between the Falcons and the Richards Group dates to team owner Arthur Blank’s days at T The Richardws Group still does work for Home Depot, along with Atlanta-basedr Inc. Doug Martin, a principapl at the Richards Group, said that the new marketingf campaign wasa “no-brainer.” “It’s the mentalitu of this team,” he said. “They’red driven. They’re going to work their buttx off. They’re going for the Lombardi [Trophyt given to the winner of theSuper Bowl]. They’rew going for it all.
They keep It’s a pretty obvious
Falcons Vice President of Marketingf Jim Smith said he hopes the team is getting back on tracjk to where it wasin 2005, comingv off a season in which the team’s season ended one game shorft of the Super Bowl. That year the Falcons essentially capped the amoun of season tickets they sold and kept a few thousand for single-game sales. Now, despites the economy, the Falcons are in a positiojn to cash in onthe team’x surprising 11-5 season in which they made the playoffs and quarterbaclk Matt Ryan was named Rookir of the Year and coach Mike Smith was namer Coach of the Year by the .
“Out ultimate goal is to get back to wherre we werein 2005, pretty much sold out of seasonb tickets,” Smith said. In light of the the Falc-ons have created a new payment planfor fans. In the fans had to put down a depositof $100 per ticketg by a deadline, followed by a very fluic deadline for when the remainder of the balance was due. Underd the new system, the Falcons are not asking for a depositg and are allowing fans to make payments insix equal, interest-frer installments. The more structured renewal system has the added benefiy of allowing the Falcons to show new tickegt buyers where they actually will sitmuch earlier.
Under the old with its fluid new buyers could not pick theit seats until Juneor July, around the time when traininfg camp begins. Now, new buyers can pick their seataright away. In addition, whils the sponsors that some pro sporta relyon — particularly those in the financial services industry and auto manufacturers — have hit some leagues and events hard with their failure to renew, Smith had good news on that “Our renewals have gone exceptionally well,” he said. “And our new salews have been surprisinglyvery good.” In particular the team has signedf new partnerships with and concrete manufacturef The QUIKRETE Companies Inc.
Smitg called those sponsorships “sizable deals” that will be features in all ofthe team’w marketing platforms. The marketing campaign begajn the week of March 9 with the launcuh of billboards in what Smith said were seven ofthe highest-traffic areaas in metro Atlanta, calling it “a very aggressivre launch.” Smith expects the team’s radik and television ads to hit the airwavezs around March 14 or 15.
The theme of the campaigh — “The Hunt is On” — plays to the idea that the named for a bird of is now the hunter instead of the With former star quarterback Michael Vick in jail on federaldogfightintg charges, the campaign represents a continuatiom of a team-driven marketing strategy, as opposex to a change from the formerd individual-based one. Smith said the Falcons worked in conjunctiom withthe Dallas-based Richardd Group to come up with the campaign. ’s research indicatesd an evolution in coverage by the newspaperzs based in the citiesof Falcons’ opponentsx throughout last season.
Entering the season — coming off the year in which Vick went to jail and coachh Bobby Petrino left beforethe season’s end for the job at the the Falcons were expectexd to be one of the ’a worst teams, and yet they made the Smith said media coveragd went from portraying the Falcons as an easy win to portraying the team as overachieverss to a final acknowledgement that the Falcones were for real. The new ads are intended to mirrodr the old wildlife and nature televisionshow “ ’s Wild The voice-over intones how there is “no stopping them during feeding time” and how “adversaries don’r hunt them.
” The connection between the Falcons and the Richards Group dates to team owner Arthur Blank’s days at T The Richardws Group still does work for Home Depot, along with Atlanta-basedr Inc. Doug Martin, a principapl at the Richards Group, said that the new marketingf campaign wasa “no-brainer.” “It’s the mentalitu of this team,” he said. “They’red driven. They’re going to work their buttx off. They’re going for the Lombardi [Trophyt given to the winner of theSuper Bowl]. They’rew going for it all.
They keep It’s a pretty obvious
Thursday, January 20, 2011
Kingpin investors raise energy stakes - Puget Sound Business Journal (Seattle):
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A bevy of high-profile asset managers and hedgr fund gurus returned to buying mode after takingy financial lumps in the second half of 2008 when the valu e of energy company shares tanked alonvg with the price of oil andnatural gas. Prominentf investors such as all-star asset manager Paul Tudo Jones, energy maverick T. Boone Pickenas and hedge fund investor George Soros dipped their toes in the energyy pool once again and grabbed multiple stakese inHouston companies, according to regulatory statementz filed this month.
Jones, who oversees Tudor Investment found bargains in10 Houston-based energy companiex or major players with a significant presence in the region, and also took a new positioj in Waste Management Inc., stilkl a big favorite of Microsoft Corp. foundefr Bill Gates. Pickens, who has spenr the past 12 months lobbying for his plan to help the countrg kick the importedoil habit, stilkl knows a fossil-fuel bargain when he sees one. The Texasx oil maven took new positions in a wide range of energty companieswith beaten-down stock prices at the end of a year that the bellwetherf Philadelphia Oil Service Index dipped nearly 60 Pickens dabbled in services players such as Schlumberger Ltd.
and Halliburton Co., natural gas shal producer ChesapeakeEnergy Corp. and high-profile exploratiobn and production company AnadarkoPetroleum Corp. Soroas took even bigger bites inthe process, gaining new positions in servicesa players Nabors Industries Ltd. and Weatherfordc International Inc. — after selling off his Schlumbergedrstake — while adding to his position in . Besidesd his substantial switchinto Weatherford, Soros made anothere big move in late April involving a Houston-based company by adding 3 millionn more shares of Plains Exploration and Productionm Co., boosting his stakes to nearly 6.5 million shares.
Energy analysts and asset investmenrt managers who follow these movers and shakers say that aftetr energy stock prices kept climbing in 2007 toward lofty highdin mid-2008, it’s been a while since the notion of value investing couls be applied to the sector. “Timinbg is everything,” says Eddide Allen, senior partner with Eagl e GlobalAdvisors LLC. “There may have been an over-reactionj in the fall with the sell-off of oil stocks. There’s still a lot of volatility to deal but these investors did well in anticipating therise (in oil that we’ve seen so far this year, from the mid-$30ws to $60.
” Allen says that valure investors are still playing a bit of a waitiny game. He notes that stock pricew are down, natural gas has not followed oil’z recovery in 2009, and ther are concerns that prices could stay depressed asinventoriew build. There is also more he adds, about possible consolidation as mid-cap exploratiom and production companies eye the pickings among smaller Dan Pickering, co-president and head of research at Pickering, Holt & Co. Securitiea Inc., says Pickens, Sorose and Tudor might have even addee more shares during the quarter if energyu stocks had not rallied and moveed a bit higherthan expected.
“Thed market took off so strongly in the first quartedr that investors took a pause waiting for a pullback that never came. They might have wanted more but the stocks got away a littlr bit onthe upside,” Pickering All things considered, energy was the hottesg investment game in Says Pickering: “The overall theme here is that investorsd became reengaged in energy, which dramaticallyt out-performed the rest of the market in the firstr quarter, as people were just less terrified abouty the state of the world The energy resurgence party had some notable While Pickens and Soros were pickin g new favorites, other big-name investore were still cleaning house.
Warren Buffett sold 13.7 million ConocoPhillipe shares in the quarterf to reduce his stake to a stillsizable 71.2 million Buffet conceded to shareholders of his Berkshire Hathawa y Inc. asset management firm that his huge investmenty in ConocoPhillips last year when oil prices peakedcat $147 a barrel was a mistake.
A bevy of high-profile asset managers and hedgr fund gurus returned to buying mode after takingy financial lumps in the second half of 2008 when the valu e of energy company shares tanked alonvg with the price of oil andnatural gas. Prominentf investors such as all-star asset manager Paul Tudo Jones, energy maverick T. Boone Pickenas and hedge fund investor George Soros dipped their toes in the energyy pool once again and grabbed multiple stakese inHouston companies, according to regulatory statementz filed this month.
Jones, who oversees Tudor Investment found bargains in10 Houston-based energy companiex or major players with a significant presence in the region, and also took a new positioj in Waste Management Inc., stilkl a big favorite of Microsoft Corp. foundefr Bill Gates. Pickens, who has spenr the past 12 months lobbying for his plan to help the countrg kick the importedoil habit, stilkl knows a fossil-fuel bargain when he sees one. The Texasx oil maven took new positions in a wide range of energty companieswith beaten-down stock prices at the end of a year that the bellwetherf Philadelphia Oil Service Index dipped nearly 60 Pickens dabbled in services players such as Schlumberger Ltd.
and Halliburton Co., natural gas shal producer ChesapeakeEnergy Corp. and high-profile exploratiobn and production company AnadarkoPetroleum Corp. Soroas took even bigger bites inthe process, gaining new positions in servicesa players Nabors Industries Ltd. and Weatherfordc International Inc. — after selling off his Schlumbergedrstake — while adding to his position in . Besidesd his substantial switchinto Weatherford, Soros made anothere big move in late April involving a Houston-based company by adding 3 millionn more shares of Plains Exploration and Productionm Co., boosting his stakes to nearly 6.5 million shares.
Energy analysts and asset investmenrt managers who follow these movers and shakers say that aftetr energy stock prices kept climbing in 2007 toward lofty highdin mid-2008, it’s been a while since the notion of value investing couls be applied to the sector. “Timinbg is everything,” says Eddide Allen, senior partner with Eagl e GlobalAdvisors LLC. “There may have been an over-reactionj in the fall with the sell-off of oil stocks. There’s still a lot of volatility to deal but these investors did well in anticipating therise (in oil that we’ve seen so far this year, from the mid-$30ws to $60.
” Allen says that valure investors are still playing a bit of a waitiny game. He notes that stock pricew are down, natural gas has not followed oil’z recovery in 2009, and ther are concerns that prices could stay depressed asinventoriew build. There is also more he adds, about possible consolidation as mid-cap exploratiom and production companies eye the pickings among smaller Dan Pickering, co-president and head of research at Pickering, Holt & Co. Securitiea Inc., says Pickens, Sorose and Tudor might have even addee more shares during the quarter if energyu stocks had not rallied and moveed a bit higherthan expected.
“Thed market took off so strongly in the first quartedr that investors took a pause waiting for a pullback that never came. They might have wanted more but the stocks got away a littlr bit onthe upside,” Pickering All things considered, energy was the hottesg investment game in Says Pickering: “The overall theme here is that investorsd became reengaged in energy, which dramaticallyt out-performed the rest of the market in the firstr quarter, as people were just less terrified abouty the state of the world The energy resurgence party had some notable While Pickens and Soros were pickin g new favorites, other big-name investore were still cleaning house.
Warren Buffett sold 13.7 million ConocoPhillipe shares in the quarterf to reduce his stake to a stillsizable 71.2 million Buffet conceded to shareholders of his Berkshire Hathawa y Inc. asset management firm that his huge investmenty in ConocoPhillips last year when oil prices peakedcat $147 a barrel was a mistake.
Monday, January 17, 2011
Apache Corporation Company Profile | APA Company Information
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The Investment Partnership does not maintain itsown However, copies of this Form 10-K and the Partnershipe periodic filings with the Securities and Exchangd Commission (SEC) can be found on the Managing Partnersa website at www.apachecorp.com/Offshore_Investment_Partnership. The Investment Partnershi p will also provide paper copies of these freeof charge, to anyonee so requesting. ...
The Investment Partnership does not maintain itsown However, copies of this Form 10-K and the Partnershipe periodic filings with the Securities and Exchangd Commission (SEC) can be found on the Managing Partnersa website at www.apachecorp.com/Offshore_Investment_Partnership. The Investment Partnershi p will also provide paper copies of these freeof charge, to anyonee so requesting. ...
Saturday, January 15, 2011
Sheraton opens $1 million Leahi club - Hawaii News Now
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Sheraton opens $1 million Leahi club Hawaii News Now HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - The opening Friday of Sheraton Waikiki's Leahi Club Lounge marks the completion of the final phase of a $188 million renovation ... Hawaii Hotel & Lodging Association names top employees |
Wednesday, January 12, 2011
Way To Go, Britney Spears! Your New Single Is The #1 Song On iTunes In 17… - Hollywood Life
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Reuters | Way To Go, Britney Spears! Your New Single Is The #1 Song On iTunes In 17… Hollywood Life Nina Dobrev Melts The Snow (And Our Hearts) In A Sexy New Magazine Spread! Read More & See Pics! Way To Go, Britney Spears! Your New Single Is The #1 Song ... Britney Spears' 'Hold It Against Me' Likely Safe From Copyright Case Brothers say Britney's song oddly familiar Britney Spears' New Song 'Hold It Against Me' Tops iTune Charts |
Monday, January 10, 2011
Obama: Public plan would
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If insurance companies do provide good insurance to their then they should have nothing to fear froma government-runj competitor, he said. “They shoule be able to compete,” he said. If the publicf plan is able to reducee administrativecosts significantly, private insurers should take note and see if they can do the “There shouldn’t be any objection to Obama said. The public plan should be required to collect notbe “simply eating off the taxpayed trough,” he added.
Health insurerws and many business groups contend a public plan would have an unfair advantage becauseit wouldn’t be subject to all the rulesd imposed on private insurers and likelhy would pay health providers less for their services. This coulf crowd out many private insurers and lead providers to charge private insurers more to make up for the lost incomee from thepublic plan, they When asked whether including a public plan in health care reformm was non-negotiable, the president said, “We are still early in this process.
“We have not drawj a line in the other than reform has tocontrol costs, and it has to providde relief to people who don’t have health insurance or are Obama also was asked what he thoughyt about the performance of Federal Reserve Chairman Ben given the fact his financial regulatory refor m plan proposes expanding the Fed’s authority. “I thinjk he has done a very good job under verydifficultg circumstances,” Obama said. All regulators fell shorty of doing what was needed to prevent thefinancialo crisis, but the Fed “probablh performed better than most,” he Since the financial crisis Bernanke has “performed very well,” Obama said.
If insurance companies do provide good insurance to their then they should have nothing to fear froma government-runj competitor, he said. “They shoule be able to compete,” he said. If the publicf plan is able to reducee administrativecosts significantly, private insurers should take note and see if they can do the “There shouldn’t be any objection to Obama said. The public plan should be required to collect notbe “simply eating off the taxpayed trough,” he added.
Health insurerws and many business groups contend a public plan would have an unfair advantage becauseit wouldn’t be subject to all the rulesd imposed on private insurers and likelhy would pay health providers less for their services. This coulf crowd out many private insurers and lead providers to charge private insurers more to make up for the lost incomee from thepublic plan, they When asked whether including a public plan in health care reformm was non-negotiable, the president said, “We are still early in this process.
“We have not drawj a line in the other than reform has tocontrol costs, and it has to providde relief to people who don’t have health insurance or are Obama also was asked what he thoughyt about the performance of Federal Reserve Chairman Ben given the fact his financial regulatory refor m plan proposes expanding the Fed’s authority. “I thinjk he has done a very good job under verydifficultg circumstances,” Obama said. All regulators fell shorty of doing what was needed to prevent thefinancialo crisis, but the Fed “probablh performed better than most,” he Since the financial crisis Bernanke has “performed very well,” Obama said.
Friday, January 7, 2011
Worker dies at Taum Sauk rebuild - St. Louis Business Journal:
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The unindentified workers was flownto , where she died from her The will investigate the cause of the Ozark plans to bring in grief counselors to help employeew and families. “The safethy and well-being of our employees is our firstg priority and the project had an exemplary safety recored prior to thistragic loss,” the company said. “Unfortunately, it takese only one accident to negat more than 2 million hours of safe construction over the past 21 TheAmerenUE reservoir, located in Johnson’xs Shut-Ins State Park in Reynolds County, is after the utility’ss hydroelectric plant spilling 1.
3 billiob gallons of water through the state park, injuringv the park superintendent and his destroying the park and damaging the East Fork of the Blackm River and the lower Taum Sauk Reservoir. In Ameren agreed to pay the state of Missouriinearly $180 million to rebuilx in the aftermath of the state’s worst man-madse disaster. "Our thoughts and prayers go out to the familuand co-workers of the construction worker who died as a resuly of this morning’s tragif accident at the Taum Sauk upper reservoi rebuild site," Mike Cleary, an Ameren said in a statement.
The unindentified workers was flownto , where she died from her The will investigate the cause of the Ozark plans to bring in grief counselors to help employeew and families. “The safethy and well-being of our employees is our firstg priority and the project had an exemplary safety recored prior to thistragic loss,” the company said. “Unfortunately, it takese only one accident to negat more than 2 million hours of safe construction over the past 21 TheAmerenUE reservoir, located in Johnson’xs Shut-Ins State Park in Reynolds County, is after the utility’ss hydroelectric plant spilling 1.
3 billiob gallons of water through the state park, injuringv the park superintendent and his destroying the park and damaging the East Fork of the Blackm River and the lower Taum Sauk Reservoir. In Ameren agreed to pay the state of Missouriinearly $180 million to rebuilx in the aftermath of the state’s worst man-madse disaster. "Our thoughts and prayers go out to the familuand co-workers of the construction worker who died as a resuly of this morning’s tragif accident at the Taum Sauk upper reservoi rebuild site," Mike Cleary, an Ameren said in a statement.
Wednesday, January 5, 2011
Treasury give up gains after ADP data - MarketWatch
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Globe and Mail | Treasury give up gains after ADP data MarketWatch NEW YORK (MarketWatch) â€" Treasury prices turned down on Wednesday, pushing yields higher, after a report from ADP said ... Fed's bond buying likely to run its course Treasurys flat after Fed details Dec. meeting Treasury Market Little Changed After FOMC Minutes |
Sunday, January 2, 2011
TBBJ
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Name of the firms making the Tampa Bay Busines sJournal ’s annual list are showmn below in alphabetical order. As part of the event sponsor Tampa accounting firm Kirklandx RussMurphy & Tapp PA coordinates the data submitted by candidatre firms to create a safe haven for potentiallyt proprietary numbers. Among the criteria to make the list is a annuao revenue thresholdof $1 million or more since 2006 and consecutiv annual growth since then. The ranking based on revenue growth for the pastthrere years, will be revealedc at TBBJ’s annual Fast 50 luncheo at the A La Carte Event Pavilion in Tampa July 23. AgileThought Inc. • Alltrust Insurance Inc.
• American Healthcarew Holdings Inc. • AnazaoHealth and Affiliates • Celestar Corp. Central Maintenance & Welding Inc. Corporate Interiors Inc.
Name of the firms making the Tampa Bay Busines sJournal ’s annual list are showmn below in alphabetical order. As part of the event sponsor Tampa accounting firm Kirklandx RussMurphy & Tapp PA coordinates the data submitted by candidatre firms to create a safe haven for potentiallyt proprietary numbers. Among the criteria to make the list is a annuao revenue thresholdof $1 million or more since 2006 and consecutiv annual growth since then. The ranking based on revenue growth for the pastthrere years, will be revealedc at TBBJ’s annual Fast 50 luncheo at the A La Carte Event Pavilion in Tampa July 23. AgileThought Inc. • Alltrust Insurance Inc.
• American Healthcarew Holdings Inc. • AnazaoHealth and Affiliates • Celestar Corp. Central Maintenance & Welding Inc. Corporate Interiors Inc.
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