This is the 10th anniversary of Radio 4’s Food & Farming Awards which celebrate the people and organisations behind the best of British food.

To mark a decade of the awards, this year’s finalists will be joined at the ceremony by two very special guests who will be announced shortly before the event.

The awards – nominated by BBC audiences – set out to find the Best Food Market, Best Local Food Retailer, Best Dinner Lady or Man, Best Food Producer, Best Retail Initiative, Best Take-Away and Farmer of The Year. The event also features the BBC Food Personality of the Year, awarded in previous years to Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, Gordon Ramsay, Jamie Oliver, James Martin and Rick Stein.

This year, chef and restaurateur Raymond Blanc chairs the panel of judges which include farmer, cheese maker and Blur bassist, Alex James, school dinners champion Jeanette Orrey and chef and food writer Mark Hix.

Chair of judges Raymond Blanc said: “The finalists on this list are food producers, cooks, farmers and retailers who are all, in their own way, truly inspirational people.

“In every category you will find people who are not only passionate about food and farming but are also helping people in Britain to re-connect with their food.

“These awards are important because they offer a rare chance to recognise the hard work and dedication involved in producing incredible food to be recognised.”

The awards will take place on the afternoon of Wednesday 25 November at the Radio Theatre, BBC Broadcasting House, London, and will be hosted by Sheila Dillon, presenter of The Food Programme.

The finalists for this year’s awards are as follows:

BEST FOOD MARKET
Eye Country Market, Eye, near Diss, Suffolk
Riverside & Roathside weekly markets, Cardiff
The Goods Shed, Daily Market, Canterbury, Kent

BEST LOCAL FOOD RETAILER
A Ryan Butchers, Much Wenlock, Staffs
M&M Richardson, Fishmongers, Dungeness, Kent
Donaldsons Shop, Stanhope, Co Durham

BEST DINNER LADY OR MAN
Sarah Allen, The Vine Primary School, Cambourne, Cambs.
John Rankin, Penair Secondary School, Truro, Cornwall
Peter Anderson, Donaldson’s School for the Deaf, Edinburgh

BEST FOOD PRODUCER
The Somerset Cider Brandy Company, Martock, Somerset
Trealy Farm Charcuterie, Mitchel Troy, Monmouth
The Exmouth Mussel Company, Exmouth, Devon

BEST RETAIL INITIATIVE
Growfair: Pride of Cornwall
The Co-operative Food
The Rare Tea Company

BEST TAKE-AWAY
The Thali Cafe, Bristol
Chang Noi, Chester
Traditional Fish Smokery, Brighton
Patricks’ Kitchen, The Goods Shed, Canterbury

FARMER OF THE YEAR
Andrew Dennis, Woodlands Organic Farm, Lincolnshire
George Steriopulos, Isle of Mann
Rosemary Brown and Geoff Brown, Bluebell Woods Dairy, Derby

DEREK COOPER AWARD
The Food Ethics Council
The Food For Life Partnership
Ian Piggott – Open Farm Sunday

The Food and Farming Awards will be broadcast on Friday 27 November at 9.00am with special awards editions of The Food Programme on Sunday 29 November at 12.30pm and Monday 30 November at 4.00pm.

Notes to Editors

The Food Programme is on Radio 4 every Sunday at 12.30pm and repeated on Mondays at 4.00pm. Farming Today is on Radio 4 every weekday morning at 5.45am and on Saturdays at 6.35am. You can listen again online at bbc.co.uk/radio4.

The finalists in the Farmer of the Year category will be featured on Farming Today in the week of the awards ceremony.

This year’s judging panel is chaired by Raymond Blanc – chef, restaurateur and broadcaster – and features: Mark Hix – chef, restaurateur and food writer; Alex James – writer, farmer and broadcaster; Kath Dalmeny – Policy Director, Sustain: the alliance for better food and farming; Jeanette Orrey – former primary school dinner lady, BBC Food & Farming Award winner and now Food for Life Partnership School Meals Policy Advisor; Dr Helen Crawley – public health nutritionist and Director of the Caroline Walker Trust; Rose Prince – journalist, food and cookery writer; Lord Haskins – farmer and former chairman of Northern Foods; Robert Clark, Retail Analyst; Simon Parkes, food journalist, broadcaster and former Michelin inspector; and Sheila Dillon, food journalist and presenter of Radio 4’s The Food Programme.

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Woodland Hills, CA, October 07, 2009 — Green Edge Systems, Inc., a trusted leader of HACCP wireless temperature monitoring and food safety solutions, state-of-the-art affordable hardware products, software and communication platforms presents the FreshLoc HACCP wireless temperature monitoring system and its Web Based Rugged HACCP Hand Held PDA Inspection Systems for School Foodservices at the Colorado CSNA 2009 Conference and Exhibition in Colorado Springs, Colorado, October 9-10, 2009

FreshLoc is the market leader in wireless temperature and HACCP monitoring for school food services, Healthcare, food production and delivery and Hospitality.

An advanced dashboard allows the monitoring of the entire district from a single, easily operated screen. The dashboard can be organized by location, type of equipment or both. With a single click one can review in depth any alert and its actual status, reconfigure any sensor or group of sensors, and generate any report and much more.

All the important data is constantly automatically updated and presented on the dashboard, and in particular, any active alert and information that needs immediate attention is displayed and can be review in detail through a single click. This data is available 24/7 from any location, in the convenience of the home, work, and while on vacation and on the road.

This is what makes FreshLoc the ultimate refrigeration and food safety temperature monitoring solution:

• The data is monitored from a 24/7, high security monitoring center with full back-up every few hours, geographically dispersed. The system is available 24/7 from any location; in the convenience of the home, work, and while on vacation and on the road.

• No need for a specialist to operate the systems, no software configuration and support are needed, no software or servers on site. With Freshloc one never has to update software and stay with the same software version for years as mostly done by similar systems in the industry.

• Schools are open less then 180 days per year, and about 9 hours per day. Therefore, for more than 80% of the time, the kitchens are closed and refrigeration problems have to be addressed by an advanced temperature monitoring system that is effectively monitored remotely with no need to come to the location in order to view the status of problems in the refrigeration system due to the fact that the servers where the software resides are located inside the district or organization.

• Unlike most of the systems in the market, where one actually need to go to a computer at the campus in order to review problems, acknowledge alerts and stop escalating the alerts, FreshLoc’s system is available 24/7 from anywhere. When one gets the FreshLoc alert, one is only one click away from a full history of the failed equipment’s monitored data, and this is available from anywhere.

• With FreshLoc, every sensor serves as a back-up device and data logger, thus ensuring that no measurement is lost. The system continues logging temperatures when the network is down or on power outages. One just needs to put sensors in trucks or food carts and they will be monitored as well.

• FreshLoc is automatically monitoring the temperatures of the food in refrigerators and freezers. Many schools still rely on manual recording of temperatures in refrigerators and freezers, hence always record air temperature, same as done by other automatic temperature monitoring systems in the market. One should always be concerned about the food temperature, keeping food safe and not only about the air temperature in refrigerators and freezers, a reading that the Freshloc system provides as well.

• FreshLoc has the most advanced reporting system in the industry. One can schedule any report automatically and get it daily, weekly, monthly or at any other interval or whenever needed from the systems. It can show readings every hour, 2 hours, 3 hours, 4 hours, etc. The report provides full details of alerts, corrective actions and statistical data of problems occurred during the reporting period. Freshloc even provides an automatic daily status report on the systems operation that includes any element of the monitored system.

• FreshLoc provides alerts through e-mails and text messages, as typical done in the industry, but can also provide alerts to your home phone, office phone, and any cell phone. There is no need to have advanced phones by food service employees to receive alerts and reimburse them for their text messages.

• With FreshLoc there is no need to wait for temperatures to go out of range as most systems are set for. FreshLoc can closely monitor the operation of the compressor and refrigeration system and when it stops to operate or malfunctions, alert instantaneously, long before the temperatures go out of range.

• Freshloc can closely monitor the Defrost Cycle of freezers. This can not be done when temperatures are recorded manually, and are essential to ensure food safety. Kitchens need to have a system like Freshloc in place to declare that temperatures in coolers and freezers are properly monitored and food is safely stored.

• The same system monitors temperatures, humidity, door openings, dishwasher rinse temperatures, temperature of delivered food on trucks and food carts and temperatures readings while preparing food.

• Temperatures and door readings are continuously recorded, eliminating false alarms. No more false alerts on door openings that are based on random readings.

• The Freshloc system constantly analyses how often equipment malfunctions, and constantly provides alerts with suggestions for preventive maintenance for equipment that is about to fail.

Web Based Rugged HACCP Hand Held PDA Inspection System monitors a wide variety of food safety and restaurant-sanitation items (SOP) via a digital checklist on an Internet-connected PDA device. All the data and reporting are available in real time, all the time.

Highlights of the Rugged HACCP Hand Held PDA:

• Inputs temperature probe data directly into the PDA

• Ensures checkpoints are actually visited through audit reports.

• Promps with corrective actions whenever a critical limit is exceeded.

• Manages multi-step processes such as cooling.

• Makes reports instantly available via web-browser.

• Ensure critical food handling procedures are followed via automated checklists, action prompts, and audit trails.

• Streamline regulatory, reporting with paperless data capture.

• Stay on top of the latest safety procedures with centralized configuration and automatic change distribution.

• Improve awareness of food safety with instant alerts and enterprise reports.

• Simpllift support with centralized configuration tool and easy-to-use hardware and software solution.

Green Edge Systems, Inc. is a trusted leader of HACCP temperature monitoring and control and food safety solutions and Hand Held PDA Inspection System and is a member of SNA, the School Nutrition Association, and NACUFS. Please visit Green Edge Systems at http://www.greenedgesystems.com and at the CNMarketplace at http://www.thecnmarketplace.com

To get additional information on the HACCP Wireless Temperature Monitoring Systems for Food Services and the Web Based Rugged HACCP Hand Held PDA Inspection System or to set up a meeting and demonstration at the Colorado CSNA 2009 Conference and Exhibition in Colorado Springs, Colorado, October 9-10, 2009, please contact Green Edge Systems, Inc. at 818-825-8167 or at tommy.orpaz@greenedgesystems.com .

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GCHQ has two important missions: Signals Intelligence and Information Assurance. Our Signals Intelligence work provides vital information to support Government in the fields of national security, military operations, law enforcement and economic well being. The intelligence we provide is at the heart of the struggle against terrorism and also contributes to the prevention and detection of serious crime. GCHQ supplies intelligence to the UK armed forces, wherever they may be deployed in the world. Information Assurance is about protecting Government data – communications and information systems – from hackers and other threats.

GCHQ is heavily dependent on technology in order to execute our global missions. An increasingly rapidly changing digital world demands speedy innovation in our technical systems, allowing us to operate at internet pace, as the information age allows our targets to. One of our greatest challenges is maintaining our capability in the face of the growth in internet-based communications and voice over internet telephony. We must reinvest continuously to keep up with the methods that are used by those who threaten the UK and its interests. Just as our predecessors at Bletchley Park mastered the use of the first computers, today, partnering with industry, we need to master the use of internet technologies and skills that will enable us to keep one step ahead of the threats. This is what mastering the internet is about. GCHQ is not developing technology to enable the monitoring of all internet use and phone calls in Britain, or to target everyone in the UK. Similarly, GCHQ has no ambitions, expectations or plans for a database or databases to store centrally all communications data in Britain.

Because we rely upon maintaining an advantage over those that would damage UK interests, it is usually the case that we will not disclose information about our operations and methods. People sometimes assume that secrecy comes at the price of accountability but nothing could be further from the truth. In fact, GCHQ is subject to rigorous parliamentary and judicial oversight (the Intelligence and Security Committee of parliamentarians, and two senior members of the judiciary: the Intelligence Services Commissioner and the Interception of Communications Commissioner) and works entirely within a legal framework that complies with the European Convention on Human Rights.

The new technology that GCHQ is developing is designed to work under the existing legal framework. It is an evolution of current capability within current accountability and oversight arrangements The Intelligence Services Act 1994 and the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 underpin activities at GCHQ – both existing systems and those we are planning and building at the moment. The purposes for which interception may be permitted are set out explicitly in the legislation: national security, safeguarding our economic well being and the prevention and detection of serious crime. Interception for other purposes is not lawful and we do not do it. GCHQ does not target anyone indiscriminately – all our activities are proportionate to the threats against which we seek to guard and are subject to tests on those grounds by the Commissioners. The legislation also sets out the procedures for Ministers to authorise interception; GCHQ follows these meticulously. GCHQ only acts when it is necessary and proportionate to do so; GCHQ does not spy at will.

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Cheshire, UK, September 08, 2009 — Fleming & Howland have been making stunning furniture for over 200 years, and are particularly known for their antiqued sofas and wing back chairs. They are now releasing a ‘baby’ collection adding a cute twist to their bespoke ranges.

A fabulous gift for any child, the ‘baby’ range is just that, a smaller representation of their full sized counterparts. Available in a range of white and creamy toned leather finishes and constructed to exacting quality standards, the ‘baby’ Sheraton or classic ‘baby’ Chesterfield is very striking.

Every British Chesterfield is painstakingly crafted by hand using select woods, skins and techniques which date back centuries. As a result clients get a unique piece of furniture which generations can enjoy. That is the beauty of a Chesterfield sofa.

“Endearing miniature furniture for children has been popular for centuries, and as adults find a Chesterfield supremely comfortable it makes sense to make a smaller version for their children too,” commented a spokesperson Chesterfields. “Perfect for the nursery or bedroom, living room or just about anywhere, a ‘baby’ Chesterfield is as cute as can be and is sure to make your child feel very special.”

Find out more about Chesterfields and their range of quality furniture by calling 0161 928 3357 or by visiting: https://www.chesterfields1780.com/

About the Chesterfields 1780 Collection:
Established in 1780, Fleming & Howland build bespoke chesterfield sofas, chairs and stools and have a longstanding reputation for quality. Custom antique designs are available in a number of fabric or leather finishes and seating can be filled with feather, foam or fibre for optimum comfort. A Fleming & Howland Chesterfield sofa is an investment with true longevity and their appeal is timeless.

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Tyne and Wear, England, September 24, 2009 — Plastering Training North East is a plastering training centre in South Shields, Tyne and Wear, who specialise in fast track intensive courses for those who want to brush up their skills or pick up a new trade.

Being self employed is a superb advantage – flexible working hours and as a well paid trade (up to £40k a year), plastering offers a chance to do a rewarding job and have a great lifestyle. A constant demand from developers and private clients, coupled with the trend for smooth plaster walls means there’s always work around for a skilled plasterer.

What you’ll learn – from preparation through to the perfect finish, Plastering Training North East impart all of their knowledge through personal training. Fixing plasterboards, jointing, skimming, bonding and rendering are all key skills, leaving students ready to tackle any job.

Whether you’re looking for a career change, to become self employed or add a new skill to your team of tradesmen, a course with Plastering Training North East is the first step.

“One of our training courses could actually be cheaper than employing a tradesman to plaster your house – lean how and do it yourself,” commented a spokesperson for Plastering Training North East. “People who want a career change will find plastering a lucrative and satisfying option.”

For more information about Plastering Training North East and their training courses please visit http://www.plasteringtrainingnortheast.co.uk/ or call 0191 4274529.

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Specialising in plastering, plumbing and tiling techniques, Plastering Training North East is a fast track training academy for those looking to change career or learn a new skill. Intensive courses over 4 or 8 days result in a certification showing you have trained to NVQ grade. Plastering Training North East is also Business Link endorsed.

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Bloomfield HIlls, MI, September 18, 2009 — Somewhere In Michigan — Continuing a series of media advisories beginning May 28, 2009, stressing the need to maintain production of the Boeing C-17 Globemaster III strategic/tactical airlifter and address erosion of US industrial base concerns, Global HeavyLift Holdings, LLC, a Florida-based, Defense Logistics Agency listed (www.CCR.gov) air transport solutions entity with principal offices in Bloomfield Hills, MI and Chicago, IL, is now revealing submission of an RFP (Request For Proposal) to Boeing Commercial Airplanes, a unit of The Boeing Company (BA) outlining a requirement of five firm order and five optioned high-efficiency 747-8F freighters.

The requested delivery timeframe is 4Q 2011 to 4Q 2013.

The aircraft will be based in Michigan, and will serve to expand the existing freighter air fleet of one of its two strategic air partners, who will operate the planes. This represents execution of a modular business model construct recommended by one of the world’s top airline business consulting firms. Aircraft acquisition funding will be accomplished through use of up to USD5billion in accessible resources.

“Submission of this RFP, we believe, demonstrates confidence in the world’s premier aircraft builder, the potential of restored financial sector equilibrium within 12-18 months, and the capability of this advanced airplane to take a lead role in the permanent air augmentation of US industrial base global supply chain as outlined in our business plan,” said Myron D. Stokes, Managing Member.

“As we continue our pursuit of a US/NATO controlled heavy and outsized industry, currently controlled by Russia and Ukraine with their AN-124s, using very modestly modified commercial variants of Boeing’s C-17 Globemaster III (BC-17) the 747-based supply chain air augmentation initiative is a near -term implementation element of our transportation and logistics sector realignment grand strategy. And, we are appreciative of global logistics personnel at GM and Ford, respectively acting on the instructions of Rick Wagoner, Bob Lutz, Brad Ross, Jac Nasser, Sir Nick Scheele, Vaughn Koshkarian and Joe Greenwell, who lent their time and expertise during the 2001-2004 case study development phase, co- developing a comprehensive permanent air augmentation of supply chain methodology designed to minimize vulnerabilities and systemic inefficiencies once engaged.”

Stokes further noted air augmentation of supply chain has been a recurring theme since the HeavyLift project, based on a restructured version of the USAF/Boeing collaborative undertaking, Commercial Application of Military Airlift Aircraft, was pursued by GHH and designed to mitigate weaknesses as outlined in a recently released RAND study.

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Michigan Mid-West MRO and Role in Base Revitalization

Although Global HeavyLift Holdings’ core focus has been creating architecture for infrastructure of a US/NATO controlled Heavy and Outsized industry using commercial C-17s, its primary mission, along with colleagues in the academic, industrial and governmental sectors, is preservation of the industrial base. It also understands the critical role that the State of Michigan, with its virtually inarguable historic role as birthplace of the world’s auto industry, and the engine that drove the US to pre and post World War II prosperity, must play in the nation’s economic recovery.

“The revitalization of the nation’s industrial base will have enormous implications in the long term for the country’s strength and capabilities, not only for industry, but national defense. As you know, economic security is national security. Many people have forgotten that fact, but I have not,” says Dr. Sheila R. Ronis, a national security strategist and Director, MBA/MSSL Programs and Associate Professor, Management Walsh College in Troy, Michigan.

“This initiative by Global HeavyLift and its air partners will start the process of bringing jobs strategically important to the nation, jobs of the future that are much more difficult for other nations to take away.”

MRO Is Complete and Ready For Operation

The already complete Maintenance Repair and Overhaul (MRO) facility at an as yet undisclosed location in Michigan, will create 8,000 direct and supply side high-skill positions within a 24 month timeframe with an average salary of USD70,000. Hiring begins first quarter 2010 in order to take advantage of tax breaks associated with jobs creation. According to a senior MRO executive, the facility’s location has all the right advantages, in terms of housing, schools, shopping and entertainment. “It has enabled us to attract, and continue to attract, the best in aircraft servicing talent.

“Obviously, all jobs are not created equal, and replacing a core manufacturing position with Burger flipping at Micky D’s or as greeter at Wal-Mart just won’t accomplish much of what’s needed. Moving Michigan in to a position wherein it can adjust for auto sector losses through an expansion of aerospace industry support as represented by this MRO, and the near immediate impact on the base, is exactly what’s required.

“We are encouraging aerospace industry suppliers around the world to start considering Michigan for relocation in accordance with this initiative along with significant attraction incentives currently available,” he said.

A Heavy Maintenance Facility with USD300,000,000 in Projected Annual Revenue

The work place itself is state-of-the-art heavy maintenance operation capable of performing “C” (airworthiness) and “D” ( structural and aircraft systems comprehensive) checks, and features 3 work bays capable of handling 24 Boeing aircraft each of single and twin-aisle types including DC-9, MD-80, 717, 737, 767, 777 and 747, for a total of 72 AC per year, It will generate, according to projections, USD300,000,000 annually.

Within 2 flight hours of multiple international airports, and its location along the Polar Route, this Mid-West MRO will be most convenient for major airlines.

“Most don’t realize that Michigan was home to a short lived aircraft design, engineering and production effort known as the Lockheed-Detroit Aircraft Company in 1931,” said Stokes. “Their first intended product was a prototype all metal, low wing monoplane Fighter with retractable landing gear, the YP-24. The effort ended after a crash destroyed the aircraft.

“Most also forget that Bill Boeing was born in Detroit.”

Michigan As Anchor to Five Global Air Operations Epicenters

Global HeavyLift also expanded on comments in its 5/28/09 release relative to a Commercial C-17 (BC-17) base in Michigan serving as the anchor facility for five global air operations epicenters in the US, Middle-East, Europe and Asia. Atlantic and Gulf Coast States being considered for the second US BC-17 epicenter include Florida, Virginia, Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana. Middle-Eastern countries under consideration include Qatar, Oman, Jordan and Saudi Arabia, while Belgium, The UK (Britain, Scotland and Northern Ireland) Hungary and Spain constitute the European contingent of possible locations. Japan, Malaysia, Vietnam and India are among the Asia potential locales.

Global HeavyLift associates have already visited potential locations in the US, Europe and Middle-East over the past four years, inclusive of Oklahoma, Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, Britain, Scotland, Northern Ireland, Oman, Dubai and Saudi Arabia, while briefing Japanese and Vietnamese Consular officials. These visits were in line with GHH’s stated goals when founded in 2002 as a hybrid “Think-Tank” to “Bring together the intellectual resources within industry, government and academia, to craft architecture for infrastructure of a new, globe spanning industry, HeavyLift, using commercial variants of Boeing C-17.”

Each epicenter both here and abroad will be in close proximity to, or sharing, a combined commercial/military operations air base in recognition of the proposed dual role of Commercial C-17, which is to be instantly available in times of national emergency in all countries in which it is based. The Michigan epicenter, an extension of the MRO, is proposed to include a C-17 overflow training facility in addition to light/heavy maintenance capability, and will support existing C-17 training and maintenance operations such as those in Flowood, MS (172nd Airlift Wing) Scott AFB and Boeing’s Long Beach location.

Diavik Diamond Mines, Northwest Territories of Canada

BC-17’s operating out of Michigan will be available for heavy and outsized cargo missions in and out of the Diavik diamond mines, Yellowknife, in the Northwest Territories of Canada. This project is one of 17 cases studies conducted to determine if BC-17 use would have reduced facility build to output time. Their availability will become increasingly important as global warming affects the structural integrity of the ice roads still used 8 weeks of the year as a critical supply chain support route. An existing airstrip of 5,249′ length, currently receiving 737 and C-130 Hercules (L-100) aircraft, can easily accommodate BC-17 with its 87 ton payload as opposed to the 25 tons for the C-130. Fewer trips and the ability to carry D-8 Class Bulldozers and similar vehicles categorized as outsized should reduce supply chain costs and complexity over the projected 20+ year life of this project.

“Had we been flying BC-17s in 2006, we would be there even today,” Stokes said. “We had several contacts with the Diavik logistics people at the time who were in the middle of a supply chain crisis with an urgent completion deadline to meet. In any event, the climate for obtaining “A” model first generation C-17s on a Congressionally approved USAF resale basis has improved notably, we believe, as a result of the recent ending (June) of the mandate against retiring any Lockheed-Martin C-5s beyond the 14 mothballed or dismantled in 2004.”

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Quick Facts:
* 747-8F aircraft are being funded via a financial instrument possessed of sufficient equity for this purpose. Total value of proposed aircraft acquisition is USD 3,000,000,000.

* Firm is in process of acquiring additional administrative office facilities in Southfield, MI.

* Several highly placed government officials in various counties, and corporate executives have been instrumental in crafting this aerospace industry based revitalization effort.

* Discussions on-going at moment to identify lead bank for USD18.4billion capital raise for acquisition of 40 new and 60 “A” model C-17s by a consortium of financial institutions.

* Firm reveals its participation in 1Q 2008 quest to gain control of Jaguar and Land Rover with intent of maintaining UK ownership and production.

* Firm has registered with USAF (WPAFB) to take over production of C-17 should Boeing elect to discontinue this position as sole source supplier.

Overall Economic Impact

Global HeavyLift’s September 6, 2009 release discussed in detail how the negative impact resulting from Economic War accelerated industrial base erosion has been up to this point grossly underestimated.

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“Our current and proposed activities, in conjunction with our partners, should help to achieve the diametric opposite in Michigan’s, and by appropriate extension, the nation’s, economic stabilization outcome expectations,” Stokes says, especially when one considers the 4 elements involved: One; expansion of the current freighter fleet of our strategic air partner with new, high-efficiency 747-8Fs, two; Completed Mid-West Region MRO to service up to 72 Boeing aircraft per year, three; BC-17 Anchor air operations epicenter for four sister bases globally and four; expansion of the MRO to include a C-17 overflow training and maintenance operation. Taken collectively, it doesn’t require rocket science to understand the positive effect. It goes without saying that air operations often serve as the crucible of economic development.

“We’ll leave it to our colleagues in the economics departments of the University of Michigan, Wayne State University and Michigan State University to calculate the economic impact in accordance with the Keynesian Economic Multiplier Principle as it was meant to be used, its falling a bit out of favor among some economists following the early 1970’s recession notwithstanding”, he said.

Previous Releases:

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http://www.pressrelease365.com/pr/industry/military-and-defense/boeing-c17-2010-congressional-budget-dod-usaf-airlift-3650.htm

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About Global HeavyLift Holdings, LLC:
Founded in 2002, GHH is a strategic air transport solutions entity born of a multi-year public/private effort among forward thinkers in both the private sector and government to mitigate emerging and observable vulnerabilities in the U.S. industrial base global supply chain. Such vulnerabilities are represented by the fact that no ocean-borne shipping is in U.S. hands at present, thus potentially subjecting American corporations, especially automotive, and their global operations to the whims and perhaps economically hostile activities of and by foreign governments. Add to this the risk of terrorist activities, which have, according to the Department of Homeland Security, targeted maritime operations; i.e., ships, ports and ocean containers.

Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) listed, it is the goal of GHH and its strategic partners around the planet to work with key logistics personnel within these corporations and government agencies to conceptualize, craft and structure long-term global supply chain alternative transportation methodologies through continuous — not stop gap or emergency — air augmentation solutions. Its most important mission, however, has been in the co-development of global architecture for infrastructure of a new American controlled industry, Heavylift, utilizing the excellent airlift performance characteristics of the Boeing BC-17.

Contact:
John Chuhran
Global Heavylift Holdings LLC
74 W. Long Lake Rd, Suite 103
Bloomfield HIlls, MI, 48304
248-310-2650
globalheavyliftholdings@ymail.com
http://www.emotionreports.com

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“Far from choosing the most cost effective option, the Government is planning for failure, with kiwis picking up the tab,” said Jeanette Fitzsimons, Green Party Climate Change Spokesperson.

“It will see our emissions continue to climb unchecked, with no incentive to reduce them.

“Kiwis will have to pay for their own emissions up front via their electricity and petrol bills, and then pay for those of our largest polluters, via their taxes.”

The Report of the Emissions Trading Scheme Review Committee shows that National’s plan is for polluters to get more free credits the more they pollute, and for a price cap to be put on carbon, shutting forestry out of the market.

“The current ETS will become the sceptic’s ETS, as only the Act Party could support intensity based allocation,” Ms Fitzsimons said.

“What the Government is proposing is the biggest wealth transfer in New Zealand history from the taxpayer to the big polluters.

“It would be easier and cheaper if the National Party just wrote some big cheques and handed them to our largest foreign-owned companies.

“It is an outrage that a scheme meant to tackle the most pressing issue of our generation has been high jacked to line the pockets of the wealthy corporations, rather than protect the most vulnerable, our children.

“The Green Party had great difficulty supporting the weak scheme put forward by Labour. It will be much easier to reject this time around,” Ms Fitzsimons said.

For the full report back to the House, (see page 66):
http://www.parliament.nz/NR/rdonlyres/83AC973B-6FDE-4260-846E-E7CCFBD3FE…

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Rockville, MD, September 09, 2009 — Multi-state closings can be a daunting process for even the most experienced agent. Each state has its own set of regulations and so coordinating the various details of the transaction can be a logistical nightmare. Many national title service companies claim to be specialists in multi-state transactions, however, in actuality; they have a single office and a network of outsourcing relationships. Closeline Settlements bucks this trend by being one of the few national title companies that does not work under an outsourcing model.

“From Maryland to California, we have a real national network of fully staffed offices,” said Tanya Themistokleous, Senior Vice President of Marketing and Sales at Closeline Settlements. “We pride ourselves in the fact that we deliver the same high level of consistency and service even when conducting multi-state transactions. When you work with Closeline Settlements, you work with one company; we don’t shuffle you from company to company.”

Regardless of what state the transaction is located in, each customer is assigned a dedicated account manager who is the singular point of contact nationwide. The dedicated account manager makes the process efficient and much easier on the client. Nobody wants the hassle of dealing with different people in different states, and trying to develop a client relationship with multiple contacts. The one-stop-shop customer service model was implemented based on years of feedback from long time clients.

“We often receive feedback from our customers who comment that having one point of contact is a major plus for Closeline Settlements. Many of our clients who have previously worked with outsourcing networks say that they have to deal with a different contact in each state. And, often times, there isn’t adequate communication between all the parties involved. We don’t want you to have to do the back and forth, that defeats the purpose of using a national title company. At Closeline, we handle the entire transaction and ensure a smooth and seamless process,” said Themistokleous.

Title laws and regulations differ from state to state. So many brokers, lenders, investors and Realtors prefer to work with companies that are equipped to navigate through these regulations in an efficient and accurate manner.

“Closeline gives me a competitive advantage because I know that, with their national presence, we can get loans closed no matter where we originate,” said Peter Hyman, Director of Operations for a national mortgage company. “We can’t possibly know the particulars of the laws in each state, but chances are that Closeline has an office there that can help us. Moreover, we know that when a Closeline agent visits our customer, we will be represented by a courteous, honest, helpful professional who will cast a positive reflection on our company.”

About Closeline Settlements:
Closeline Settlements was founded in 1993 by attorneys Michael P. Bell and Elliot M. Liss. Since that time, the Company has grown into a multi state title agency that services 45 states. By utilizing proprietary technology, Closeline Settlements developed a web based platform which allows Closeline Settlements and its sister organizations to have a multi-state branch network around the country. Unlike the competition, quality of service is consistent in every office. Closeline’s proprietary and innovative products allow them to offer a full range of customized title and settlement services. For more information about Closeline Settlements and their services, please visit www.closeline.com or call 301-795-2880.

Contact:
Meg Fullenkamp
Closeline Settlements
1300 Piccard Dr, Suite L-105
Rockville, MD 20850
301-795-2880
closeline@captivamarketing.com
http://www.closeline.com

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Gainesville, FL, September 07, 2009 — Russia’s Tenex plans to partner with US Nuclear Power Plant Operators to improve the quality of life for the people who live and work in operators service territory and around their nuclear generating stations through contributions, sponsorships, volunteerism, executive involvement on nonprofit boards and in-kind donations.

Sigma Transnational today announced that Russia’s Tenex plans to partner with US Nuclear Power Plant Operators to improve the quality of life for Americans who live and work in operators service territory and around their nuclear generating stations through contributions, sponsorships, volunteerism, executive involvement on nonprofit boards and in-kind donations.

Sigma Transnational outlined Russia’s Tenex community strategy in a move to bolster Tenex’s corporate image in the eyes of their customers. US utilities: Constellation Exelon, Pacific Gas & Electric Co., AmerenUE; and Luminant. These companies signed contracts with Russia’s Techsnabexport (Tenex) for delivery of enriched uranium between 2014 and 2020. These six (6) contracts with US utilities are the first to be signed since the conclusion of the Amendment to the Russian Suspension Agreement of February 2008. Under the amended agreement, the USA will import Russian commercial uranium products from 2011 under new legislation. The amendment allows Russian companies to sell low-enriched uranium (LEU) to US nuclear generators. Russia will be able to supply limited amounts of nuclear fuel for reactor reloads from 2011, while the supply of initial fuel loads for new reactors would be unlimited. All limits are to be phased out by 2021.

The Constellation Energy contract and two (2) Exelon Contracts have already been approved by the U.S. Dept of Commerce. The remaining three (3) contracts Pacific Gas & Electric Co., AmerenUE; and Luminant will also go through the U.S. Dept. of Commerce Review process.

About Constellation Energy
Constellation Energy (NYSE: CEG), headquartered in Baltimore, Maryland, USA, generates, trades, supplies, and distributes energy. The company operates over 35 power plants in 11 states (mainly Maryland, Pennsylvania, New York, West Virginia, and California) under its operating company Constellation Commodities Group and/or Constellation Generation Group. Constellation NewEnergy, a wholly owned subsidiary of Constellation Energy, is a leading competitive supplier of electricity, natural gas and energy-related services to commercial, industrial and institutional customers throughout North America. Constellation NewEnergy serves more than 19,000 commercial, industrial and institutional customers throughout 31 states and three Canadian provinces representing nearly 14,000 megawatts of peak load and more than 354 billion cubic feet (1.00×1010 m3) of annual natural gas consumption. Constellation Energy also manages fuels and energy services on behalf of energy intensive industries and utilities. It owns a diversified fleet of 83 generating units located throughout the United States, totaling approximately 9,000 megawatts of generating capacity. The company delivers electricity and natural gas through the Baltimore Gas and Electric Company (BGE), its regulated utility in central Maryland.

About Exelon:
Exelon Corporation has one of the industry’s largest portfolios of electricity generation capacity, with approximately $19 billion in annual revenues. Exelon distributes electricity to approximately 5.4 million customers in Illinois (ComEd) and Pennsylvania (PECO), and gas to 485,000 customers in the Philadelphia area (PECO) and the third largest commercial nuclear fleet in the world.

About Tenex in North America:
Techsnabexport» — brand name TENEX — is owned by Atomenergoprom, which has a 40% share in the world’s uranium enrichment services, 17% in nuclear fuel production, 8% in uranium mining, and 28% in NPP construction (10 reactors). Tenex is the world’s largest exporter of Russian nuclear fuel cycle and delivers uranium products to meet reactor requirements of Nuclear Power Plants in the USA. Tenex product to the USA is low-enriched uranium down-blended from highly enriched uranium extracted from dismantled warheads (HEU-LEU Agreement). To obtain more information on Tenex http://www.sigmatran.com/tenex.htm

About Sigma Transnational Inc.:
Sigma Transnational is a global professional consulting company focused in Energy, Telecommunications, Pharmaceutical and Transportation sectors. Sigma Transnational is an advocate their clients and provides the following functions, which includes but not limited to: Project Management, Business Development, Executive Account Management, Public Relations, Marketing, Promotions and Strategic Positioning, Market Research and Intelligence, Liaison between private enterprise and government agencies, Relationship Management and Leveraging, Advice, Interpretation and Positioning of news events, and Crisis Management. Sigma Transnational is the JSC Techsnabexport (Tenex) North American Associated Partner.
To obtain more information on Sigma Transnational http://www.sigmatran.com

Contact:
Dale Forrester
Sigma Transnational Inc
Gainesville, FL
404-583-7775
press@sigmatran.com
http://sigmatran.com

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