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SAINT LOUIS, June 7, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Isle of Capri Casinos, Inc. (NASDAQ: ISLE) (the "Company") today reported financial results for the fourth fiscal quarter and fiscal year ended April 29, 2012, and other Company-related news. Consolidated Results The following table outlines the Company's financial results (dollars in millions, except per shares data, unaudited): Three Months Ended Twelve...
CANTON, Miss., June 6, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Nissan and its Canton employees are celebrating a milestone today as the first Canton-produced fifth-generation Altima rolled off the assembly line. The Canton Vehicle Assembly Facility began producing the award-winning Altima in 2004 and since has built more than 1.1 million of Nissan's best-selling vehicle. (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20120606/CL20498 )(Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20080506/NISSANBADGELOGO )...
On World MS Day, May 30, people from more than 70 countries are joining together to raise awareness and unite in the MS Movement NEW YORK, May 30, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Multiple sclerosis is a life altering disease that affects each person in a unique and different way. More than 2.1 million people worldwide live with MS, which is why demonstrating the power and importance of the global MS movement is critical on World MS Day, today -- May 30. (Logo:...
Cloud Medical Doctor Software Corporation (Cloud-MDs) ( Pink Sheets: NSCT) , a leading provider of “Cloud Based” Practice Management (PMS) and Electronic Medical Record (EMR) software solutions for the healthcare industry announced today that it has signed a Letter of Intent to acquire Doctors Network of America in Flowood, Mississippi. Phoenix, AZ (PRWEB) May 22, 2012 Cloud Medical Doctor Software Corporation (Cloud-MDs) ( Pink Sheets: NSCT) , a leading provider of “Cloud Based”...
TORONTO, May 23, 2012 /CNW/ - Today Biogen Idec announced that Health Canada has approved a product monograph change for TYSABRI® that will help enable individual benefit risk assessment for patients with multiple sclerosis (MS). The new label identifies anti-JC virus (JCV) antibody status as a risk factor for developing an uncommon, but serious, brain infection known as progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (PML). This marks the third risk factor identified to help...
HOUSTON, May 23, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Goodrich Petroleum Corporation (NYSE: GDP) today announced a Tuscaloosa Marine Shale well result, updated acreage position and development plans. WELL RESULTGoodrich Petroleum Corporation today announced its participation in and the completion of the Encana - Anderson 17H-1 (5% WI) well in Amite County, Mississippi, with a 72-hour production rate of 1,082 barrels of oil equivalent per day (975 Bopd, 425 Mcf/d) on a 15/64 choke with 2,119 psi...
STARKVILLE, Miss., May 21, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Mississippi State will officially serve as host to a presidential library--one of only five universities in the nation to share such a distinction. Ulysses S. Grant Association President Frank J. Williams formally announced the decision of the organization's board of directors to designate the Ulysses S. Grant Collection at MSU's Mitchell Memorial Library as the Ulysses S. Grant Presidential Library. The announcement came...
ANN ARBOR, Mich., May 15, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Synthetic Biologics, Inc. (NYSE Amex: SYN), a developer of synthetic DNA-based therapeutics and innovative disease-modifying medicines for serious illnesses, today reported financial results for the three months ended March 31, 2012 and summarized operational highlights. Operational Highlights Management Team - Strengthened Clinical Development and Regulatory Affairs Functions Recruited former Chief Medical Officer of Clinical...
WASHINGTON, May 14, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) today paid tribute to the first African American post-Reconstruction era federal law enforcement officer killed in the line of duty almost 130 years after his death. The name of William Henderson Foote, a deputy tax collector with the U.S. Department of the Treasury, Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR), was unveiled on ATF's Memorial Wall during a memorial ceremony...
When the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig exploded April 20, 2010, residents feared that their Gulf of Mexico shores would be inundated with oil. And while many wetland habitats and wildlife were oiled during the three-month leak, the environmental damage to coastal Louisiana was less than many expected, in part because much of the crude never made it to the coast. Research by a trio of geoscientists, including the University of Pennsylvania’s Douglas Jerolmack, now offers an explanation...
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Symbol: SPMI9 Group: Moss Family: Sphagnaceae Growth Habit: Nonvascular Native Status: NA N Classification: Kingdom Plantae – Plants Division Bryophyta – Mosses Subdivision Musci Class Sphagnopsida – Peat mosses Subclass Sphagnidae Order Sphagnales Family Sphagnaceae Genus Sphagnum L. – sphagnum Species Sphagnum mississippiense R.E....
The Blue sucker, Cycleptus elongatus, is a freshwater species of fish in the sucker family. Huge migrations of these fast, powerful fish once migrated throughout the Mississippi River basin, and spring harvests of blue sucker were a staple food for early pioneers. Blue suckers are quite rare today, mainly due to the segmentation of habitat caused by the thousands of dams that have been built in the last century. Early records indicate that this fish once reached weights of over 40 lb,...
The Pallid sturgeon (Scaphirhynchus albus) is an endangered species of fish that exists in the waters of the Mississippi and Missouri River and numerous tributaries. In 1990, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service placed the species on the endangered species list, as very few young sturgeon had been found in recent years, and also due to the fact that all sightings of the fish had lessened in the preceding decade. The Pallid sturgeon is one of the largest fish found in the Mississippi...
The American Black Bear (Ursus americanus), also known as the black bear or cinnamon bear, is the most common bear in North America. The black bear can be found throughout much of North America, from northern Canada and Alaska south into Mexico and from the Atlantic to the Pacific. This includes 39 of the 50 U.S. states and all Canadian provinces. Populations in east-central and the southern United States remain in the protected mountains and woodlands of parks and preserves. While there...
The largemouth bass (Micropterus salmoides) is a freshwater fish in the sunfish family (Centrarchidae) of order Perciformes. One of the black basses, it is native to a wide area east of the Rocky Mountains in North America, encompassing the Mississippi River basin, the Saint Lawrence River"“Great Lakes system, and up into the Hudson Bay basin, as well as down into Florida, Texas, and northeastern Mexico. The largemouth bass is distinguished by a series of dark blotches forming a ragged...
