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PR Newswire, Dec 3, 2009
CHESAPEAKE, Va., Dec. 3 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Monarch Financial Holdings, Inc. announced today that it has completed the public offering of its 7.80% noncumulative convertible perpetual preferred stock previously announced on October 14, 2009. In the offering, for which Scott & Stringfellow, LLC was the sole underwriter, the Company issued a total of 800,000 shares of its 7.80% noncumulative convertible perpetual preferred stock on December 3, 2009 at a price of $25.00 per share for gross proceeds of $20 million.
Monarch had initially filed to offer 650,000 shares of preferred stock, but decided to increase the offering to 700,000 shares due to strong demand. As the result of the underwriter’s full exercise of its option to purchase additional shares, the Company issued an additional 100,000 shares on December 3, 2009 at a price of $25.00 per share for additional gross proceeds of $2.5 million. The 700,000 shares sold, plus the underwriter’s full exercise of its option to purchase 100,000 additional shares, resulted in the sale of a total of 800,000 shares.
“We are encouraged by the strong demand for this offering and our ability to sell 23% more shares than originally filed,” stated Brad E. Schwartz, CEO of Monarch Bank. “Our ability to raise capital quickly and increase the size of the offering is a testament to Monarch’s strength. We are ready to use this capital to support loan demand as well as fund our overall growth plans.”
The annual dividend rate was set at 7.80% and each share may be converted into 3.125 shares of common stock, which equates to an $8.00 per share conversion price, subject to certain adjustments. The preferred shares have been approved for quotation on the Nasdaq Capital Market under the symbol “MNRKP”. The net proceeds from this offering will be used for general corporate purposes, including the possible redemption of the Company’s Series A preferred stock and warrant issued to the U.S. Treasury as part of the Capital Purchase Program.
This news release does not constitute an offer to sell or a solicitation of an offer to buy any securities, nor shall there be any sale of these securities in any state or jurisdiction in which such an offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such state or jurisdiction
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0 Comments | Gloucestershire Echo, The, Aug 12, 2009
A TEENAGER who modified his car number plate to look like his own name was pounced on by police in Cheltenham.
Andrew Bubb,19, adjusted the number plate on his car – A3 UBB – to look like A BUBB, magistrates in Gloucester heard yesterday.
Bubb, of Rectory Farm, Maisemore, pleaded guilty to owning a vehicle with a registration plate displaying incorrectly sized characters and spacing.
Bubb also pleaded guilty to driving his Citroen Saxo in Albion Street on March 22 without insurance.
He told magistrates: “I believed that I did have insurance as my brother took it out online.
“But the insurance company told me that they had no details because there was a fault in their computer system.”
Magistrates adjourned the case to a date to be fixed for a special reasons hearing to decide whether or not to endorse the defendant’s licence with penalty points.
12.29
0 Comments | U.S. Newswire, Dec 1, 2009
To: TECHNOLOGY EDITORS
Contact: Renee Wagner, Manager, Corporate Communications, 1-404- 751-2554, Renee.Wagner@Intergraph.com
HUNTSVILLE, Ala., Dec. 1 /PRNewswire/ — The Saxon State Ministry of the Interior, Germany, has selected Intergraph(R) integrated public safety and security solutions to amplify the Ministry’s incident prevention and response efforts. Intergraph’s state-of-the- art incident management, reporting and analysis solutions will enable Saxony Police Force’s 13 control centers and other government agencies to improve response coordination through increased operational interoperability and information sharing. Intergraph will implement a high-performance Computer-Aided Dispatch (CAD) system and a statewide emergency operations center (EOC) solution with full integration of digital radio communications.
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The law enforcement personnel throughout the 18,415-square kilometer German state will leverage real-time actionable information derived from the Intergraph incident management and business intelligence technologies to protect the 4 million residents in Saxony. Intergraph is the world leader in public safety and security incident response management solutions.
Intergraph technologies will enable the personnel of Saxony Police Force to field calls, create and update incidents and manage critical resources from a single interface, significantly improving emergency response times. Through the system’s geospatial information system (GIS)-map display and queued incident alarms, the solution can recommend resources based on relevant factors including incident and vehicle location, drive time, unit type and officer skill and availability. Intergraph’s Business Intelligence technology is the only public safety solution that will allow Saxony personnel to access real-time operational data created by CAD, records and other databases to gain further insights for investigations and planning, manage performance and generate reports for enhanced decision-making.
In addition, Intergraph will deliver a Web-based EOC module to provide a common operational picture for executing management functions and operational decisions during an emergency. The module will present a single source of information alongside standard dispatch workflows and will allow for alerting, user and rights management, workflow management, event logging, and the ability to visualize and analyze spatial (GIS) data.
Intergraph’s public safety solutions will be integrated into the Saxony Police Force’s Terrestrial Trunked Radio (TETRA) digital communications system. The enabled data sharing through digital radio will promote interoperability
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Market Wire, December, 2009
Force Energy Corp. (OTCBB: FORC)(FRANKFURT: FC2) (hereafter “Force”, “the Company”), announces today that the Company will be utilizing Hawkeye Geosensing’s satellite technology on the northwest segment of the Diamond Springs Prospect.
In November of 2008, Force Energy Corp. announced positive results from Hawkeye Geosensing’s satellite imagery of the north and west segments of the Diamond Springs Prospect. The map’s findings were directly in-line with C.P. Abassarat’s geological assessment of the Prospect.
For more information about Hawkeye Geosensing’s Digital Spectral Satellite Map or to view a copy of the latest geothermal study of the Diamond Springs Prospect, please visit the Company’s website at www.forceenergycorp.com .
About Force Energy Corp.
Force Energy Corp
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People buy homes that are not in tip top shape all the time. But why do they do this? The obvious answer is that they want to save money in the initial cost. Of course, there can be other reasons such as wanting to fix up a house, but whatever the reason there are a few things that you need to remember. Before you make a final decision on a home that needs repairs, you should know a couple of things to help you along the way. There are many questions that you need to ask yourself before buying a house, but even more if you are buying a fixer upper. This article will help you get the best information possible before making a decision.
Before you even ask yourself the crucial questions, it is important that you do some number crunching. If the repairs of the house will be more than a home without repairs, then you obviously do not want to buy the fixer upper. Buying a home that needs repairs can save you money, but you need to do the math first to make sure.
The first thing that you have to ask yourself is whether or not you can actually do the tasks required of you. Some things may seem easy until you actually try it. Fixing up a house will not only be hard if you do not know what you are doing, but it will also be very dangerous. If you cannot complete the tasks ahead of you, then you probably should not buy a house that needs repairs. Naturally, you can also hire a contractor to make the repairs to the home but that will add to the cost so don’t forget to factor that in as well.
If you can complete all the tasks ahead of you, then you need to ask yourself another question. Do I have enough free time to do everything? If this answer is no, then you can be sitting on a home that needs crucial repairs for a very long time. Of course, waiting will only make the damage worse and the repair more difficult. Time is crucial in planning on doing repairs, and you need to find the time to do it or it will get worse
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Business Wire, Dec 02, 2009
Cooperative Sales, Service and Integrated Product Solution of
Esterel SCADE and Quantum3D IData Products Enables Model-Based
Development and Certified Code Generation of Embedded Graphics Displays
BOSTON & SAN JOSE, Calif. — Esterel Technologies, the leading worldwide provider of
model-based development solutions for mission and safety-critical
systems and Quantum3D Inc., a leading developer and manufacturer of
Commercial-off-the-Shelf (COTS), open-architecture, real-time visual
computing solutions have announced a strategic alliance to benefit
developers of mission and safety-critical embedded display systems. With
this worldwide alliance, Esterel Technologies and Quantum3D commit to
both integrate and resell each others products to the mission and
safety-critical embedded display software community.
To the benefit of the critical embedded display developer community we
are very happy to bring these two industry leaders together into a close
cooperative relationship. Our alliance fulfills the needs and requests
of our mutual clients who want a simplified acquisition process and a
turnkey solution to their embedded display application development
needs, said Eric Bantegnie, President and CEO of Esterel Technologies.
This relationship makes it very easy for our customers to acquire the
best mission and safety-critical graphics solutions available. With
the Esterel Technologies SCADE product family, developers have an
industry proven mission and safety-critical software development
environment, qualified as a development tool under DO-178B up to level
A. Users of IData generating critical embedded displays can benefit from
the strength of behavioral modeling and certified code generation
provided by SCADE Suite. Similarly, users of SCADE Suite and SCADE
Display will be able to enhance their displays with IData 3D design
capabilities and IData Map mapping solutions, said Arthur Yan,
President and COO of Quantum3D. We have been working with Esterel on a
major European design win in the defense industry and through that
effort have come to realize the industry wide advantages of integrating
our product lines, said Arthur.
About Esterel SCADE
The Esterel SCADE family of products offers an integrated
design and development environment for mission and safety-critical
embedded software applications
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Market Wire, December, 2009
Market research firm Infonetics Research
( http://twitter.com/infonetics ) released the 3Q09 edition of its Content Security
Appliances and Software report, which tracks content security gateway
software and messaging, Web/malware, and integrated appliances.
ANALYST NOTE
“This was the first quarter in the last year where the global economy
didn’t dominate vendors’ quarterly financial discussions, and while signs
abound that the general economy is on the rebound, the content security
gateway market is a couple of quarters ahead. In fact, this market has
actually been up in the low double digits year-over-year for the first
three quarters of 2009, and we project it to be up nearly 20%
year-over-year in the fourth quarter,” explains Jeff Wilson , principal
analyst for security at Infonetics
Research .
REPORT HIGHLIGHTS
-- Growth in the content security gateway market picked up in 3Q09, with
worldwide revenue up 5% sequentially to $571 million
-- McAfee continues to lead in worldwide revenue share in the overall
content security gateway market in 3Q09
-- Blue Coat leads the appliance segment of the content security gateway
space in terms of revenue, and Websense leads the software segment
-- Almost all content security vendors increased their revenue in the
single digits from the previous quarter
-- In recent discussions with Infonetics analysts, most content security
vendors focused on growth opportunities, hosted security/security as a
service (SaaS), the changing threat landscape, smartphone protection, and
social networks
-- The North American content security gateway market is expected to pass
the $1 billion mark for the first time in 2009
REPORT SYNOPSIS
Infonetics’ quarterly content security
report provides worldwide and regional market share, market size,
forecasts through 2013, and analysis of content security gateway appliances
(messaging, Web/malware, integrated) and software. The service tracks Blue
Coat, Cisco, Citrix, McAfee, SonicWALL, Symantec, Trend Micro, Websense,
and others.
MORE INFORMATION Log on or join: http://www.infonetics.com/login From the portal, go to RESEARCH, then SECURITY. SALES -- Larry Howard, Vice President: larry@infonetics.com , 1 408-583-3335 -- Scott Coyne, Senior Account Director, Eastern North America, Europe, Middle East: scott@infonetics.com , 1 408-583-3395
RELATED RESEARCH
– Network access control has evolved
significantly, worth a fresh look (white paper)
– Content security survey: complexity drives cloud
deployments; Cisco top vendor
– Cisco, McAfee, and Juniper top
intrusion prevention vendor ratings by enterprise IPS users
– Security SaaS survey shows McAfee, ScanSafe, Qualys
lead in brand awareness
– Mobile security client software market to hit $1.6 billion
in 2013
UPCOMING RESEARCH
– Virtual
Security Deployment Strategies: North American Enterprise Survey (Dec.
2)
– NAC Enforcement
Appliances (Dec. 9)
Infonetics Research is an
international market research and consulting firm serving
the communications industry since 1990
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0 Comments | U.S. Newswire, Dec 4, 2009
To: NATIONAL EDITORS
Contact: Linda Paris, 1-202-540-6354, lparis@pewtrusts.org, or Erin Campbell, 1-202-293-6200 EXT. 207, erin@spitfirestrategies.com, both of Pew Charitable Trusts
BALTIMORE, Dec. 4 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — On December 7, Dr. Aaron Wernham will discuss health impact assessments as a tool to create healthier communities and address the root causes of public health problems as part of a lecture series at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
Health impact assessments give public health officials the tools and data needed to inform projects and work in partnership with policymakers across sectors to prevent increased burdens on the health system. Dr. Wernham will provide an introduction to the field of health impact assessment and examples of how it has been used successfully in the U.S. He also will discuss the work of the Health Impact Project, which has an open call for proposals to fund health impact assessment demonstration projects.
WHO:Aaron Wernham, M.D., M.S., Director, Health Impact Project
Stephanie B. Coursey Bailey, MD, MS, Chief, Office of Public Health Practice, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Frances B. Phillips, RN, MHA, Deputy Secretary for Public. Health Services, Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene
WHAT:Grand Rounds Lecture Series atJohns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Inspiring and Training Future Public Health Leaders: “Tough Times Tough Decisions: Strategies for Putting Public Health First”
WHEN:Monday, December 7, 3:30 – 5:00 pm EST
WHERE:Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 615 N. Wolfe Street, Sheldon Hall, Room W1214
Live Webcast:
http://www.jhsph.edu/maphtc/training_events/events_calendar.html
The Health Impact Project is a 4.5-year initiative of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and The Pew Charitable Trusts. The Health Impact Project is now accepting proposals for up to 15 HIA demonstrations ranging from $25,000 to $150,000. For more information, visit www.healthimpactproject.org
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Investment Adviser, December, 2009
Byline: Emma Ann Hughes
The FSA should implement regulation not just of buy-to-let mortgages but property investments as a whole, according to Assetz.
The property specialist argued this would prevent mis-selling, ensure risks were properly disclosed to investors and control the marketing activities of agents and developers who misquote capital growth forecasts and yields to amateur buy-to-let investors.
However, Stuart Law, chief executive at Assetz, conceded a move to regulate just buy-to-let mortgage sales would be a step in the right direction.
He said regulation of the buy-to-let mortgage market would help curb the activities of property clubs, mortgage brokers and solicitors who continue to package finance to minimise or…
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0 Comments | AFP, December, 2009
HONG KONG (AFP) Thailand aims to top the medals table at the 25th Southeast Asian Games starting in Laos this week with organisers hoping the event is free from bitter accusations of unfair judging that blighted the last edition.
The 10-day biennial showpiece officially opens Wednesday in the capital Vientiane, with attention also focused on medal hopefuls ahead of next year’s Asian Games in China.
Two years ago, then-hosts Thailand dominated the medals standings with 183 gold out of a total of 477 – well ahead of second-placed Malaysia on 68 and Vietnam on 64.
Thailand won their eighth consecutive football title and came out on top in athletics, felling many SEA Games records, while Singapore were kings of the pool and Indonesia swept the badminton gold…