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ROSEVILLE, Calif., Dec. 7 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- SureWest Communications (Nasdaq: SURW) has promoted Ed Butler to vice president of sales effective immediately. Butler has more than 20 years of general management, sales management and sales training experience, serving in sales leadership roles for small, entrepreneurial and large organizations. In this new role, Butler will oversee all of SureWest's residential and business sales functions in the Sacramento and Kansas City regions....

MELVILLE, N.Y. and DUBLIN, Ohio, Nov. 30 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Henry Schein, Inc. (Nasdaq: HSIC) and Butler Animal Health Supply today announced an agreement to form Butler Schein Animal Health, a new company that will combine Butler Animal Health Supply and Henry Schein's U.S. animal health businesses. The new company will be 50.1%-owned by Henry Schein and 49.9%-owned by the owners of Butler Animal Health Supply, including Oak Hill Capital Partners and The Ashkin Family Group....

The first round of swine flu vaccinations may be administered with a needle-free nasal spray version, government health officials said Friday.The government has said that approximately 3.4 million doses of the vaccine will be made available in early October, and it now looks like they will all be in nasal spray form.The nasal vaccine has only been approved for those between 2 and 49 years of age who are in good health, said Dr. Jay Butler, who heads the Centers for Disease Control and...

U.S. health officials said Friday 3.4 million doses of H1N1 flu vaccine are expected to be available the first week of October. Jay Butler, a medical epidemiologist and chief of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's H1N1 vaccine task force, said most of these initial doses of H1N1 vaccine will be the nasal spray form, which is not recommended for pregnant women, people age 50 and older, or those with asthma, heart disease or other chronic diseases. The first doses will primarily...

Common qualities linked to resiliency in victimsPeople who live through an extreme traumatic experience such as the 9/11 terrorist attacks or an airplane crash often have the capacity to bounce back or even grow to a higher level of functioning and personal strength, according to a University at Buffalo researcher and expert in the effects of horrifying trauma.And at the heart of these extensive findings is a surprisingly optimistic conclusion: Most people recover well following devastating...

People who see misinformation in historical films and then read accurate accounts are 50 percent more likely to recall the misinformation, U.S. researchers say. Andrew Butler, a psychology doctoral student at Washington University in St. Louis, said students who learn history through watching blockbuster movies may be doomed to repeat history. We found that when information in the film was consistent with information in the text, watching the film clips increased correct recall by about 50...

Students who learn history by watching historically based blockbuster movies may be doomed to repeat the historical mistakes portrayed within them, suggests a new study from Washington University in St. Louis.The study, forthcoming in the journal Psychological Science, suggests that showing popular history movies in a classroom setting can be a double-edged sword when it comes to helping students learn and retain factual information in associated textbooks."We found that when information...

EDEN, N.C., Aug. 6 /PRNewswire/ -- Stella Butler's first book of poetry, titled "A Single Moment in Time," addresses the often sensitive issues of love, betrayal, desire and sexual fantasy. During her struggle with several long illnesses and with her first marriage, Butler believes that she experienced a deep inner awakening. This allowed her to write such inspired verses as those found in "Man of My Dreams": He'll be quiet like a soft heart beat Not the type who demands But the...

Movie stars Katherine Heigl and Gerard Butler were among hundreds of people evacuated from a Los Angeles hotel because of a bomb scare, a witness says. An unidentified witness told People magazine the 27 Dresses actress and 300 actor, along with 400 other hotel guests, were told to leave the Four Seasons Hotel in Los Angeles Saturday to allow police to investigate the unfounded scare. Heigl and Butler were at the hotel promoting The Ugly Truth, their movie about an unlikely romance between a...

CHICAGO, June 30 /PRNewswire/ -- Chicago's renowned skyscrapers will share the sky with motocross superstar Ronnie Renner on Saturday, July 25. The Windy City will watch as Renner attempts to break his own Guinness World Record for the highest air ever attained on a motorcycle at Red Bull High Rise. He will go sky-high at Butler Field prior to Chicago's annual Venetian Night, adding a new spin to an old tradition. (Photo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20090630/AQ40363-a) (Photo:...