Archive for March, 2011
Mar 31st, 2011
SOLON, Ohio, March 31, 2011 (CRWENewswire) -- Energy Focus, Inc. (Nasdaq:EFOI) today announced financial results for the fourth quarter ended December 31, 2010 and outlook for 2011.
Financial and operating highlights for the fourth quarter and the full year of 2010 include the following:
* Fourth quarter 2010 net sales from continuing operations of $8.8 million increased 2.4 times fourth quarter 2009 net sales from continuing operations of $3.6 million.
* Annual sales from continuing operations in 2010 of $35.1 million increased 2.8 times 2009 net sales from continuing operations of $12.5 million.
* Cash increased $3.0 million for the fu
Mar 31st, 2011
It is hard to imagine a major market that will change more in the next decade than the more than $100 billion international lighting market.
I’m Lynn Lumpkin with CRWE Newswire --- Today’s company highlight is Energy Focus Incorporated trading with the symbol EFOI
Energy Focus Incorporated is a leading provider of energy efficient light-emitting diode (LED) lighting products and turnkey energy efficient lighting solutions, holding 74 relevant lighting patents. The company's solutions provide energy savings, aesthetics, safety and maintenance cost benefits over conventional lighting. The company's long-standing relationship with the
Mar 31st, 2011
Via free text reminders from clinics and a network of calling system in which doctors call each other are helping Africa. They are so much beneficial that the text message appears with life-saving discretion.
The free texts from largest HIV treatment site of South Africa are part of a push in Africa in order to boost health by focusing the continent's 624 million mobile phone subscribers.
Patients check their cell phones all the time. Nearly 10,000 people have chosen for the txtAlert reminders, which have proven a great success. Percentage of missed appointments at the centers has fallen down if we compare with mid 2007.
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Mar 31st, 2011
A latest research has revealed that women's appreciation of their bodies is only indirectly related to their body mass index (BMI), which is a common health measure of weight relative to height.
The study proposes that the most powerful influence on women's appreciation of their bodies is how they consider important others view them. When women are more able to focus on the inner workings of their body or how their bodies function and feel instead of how they appear to others, then they will appreciate their own bodies more.
And when the more a woman appreciates her body, the more probably she will eat intuitively and will re
Mar 31st, 2011
Parliamentarians from Afghanistan have offered the Pakistani business community to invest in the construction phase of Afghanistan and extend technical assistance in the areas of mutual interest to enhance economic cooperation. A 30-member delegation of Afghan parliamentarians led by Syed Ishaq Jilani was invited to an exclusive dinner meeting hosted in Islamabad by Iftikhar Ali Malik, Vice-president Saarc, Chamber of Commerce and Industry in collaboration with the PPP Senator Jahangir Bader. Engr Abdul Ghaffar an Afghan MP said Pakistan has always helped Afghanistan in the time of need, particularly providing shelter to the Afghan
Mar 31st, 2011
I’m Lynn Lumpkin CRWENewswire Sports Commentator. This is the Sports Corner.
Former New York Yankee Randy Velarde testified Wednesday that he bought a human growth hormone from Barry Bonds’ personal trainer during the 2002 season, making him the fourth major leaguer to admit drug use during Bonds’ perjury trial.
Velarde revealed the HGH gave him more “endurance and strength” and that personal trainer Greg Anderson helped him inject the performance-enhancing drug.
The 48-year-old Velarde was the latest athlete to testify about wanting to work with Anderson because of his connection to Bonds, the home-run king who experienc
Mar 31st, 2011
English recording artist and talk show host, Lily Allen, who is a celebrity child of an actor and musician, Keith Allen, and film producer, Alison Owen, revealed in an interview that she was traumatized at the death of her baby son in November.
The 25-year-old singer, who is engaged to construction boss, Sam Cooper, extracted blood poisoning after the premature birth of her son, six months into her pregnancy. She said that she got really ill after her son died and she got admitted to the hospital but she was in such a huge mental mess that she did not care for her life at all. She added that it was very rough few days for her but
Mar 31st, 2011
Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh recently made a new offer to protesters demanding his ouster, proposing he stays in office until elections were held but transferring his powers to a caretaker government, an opposition source said. Meeting on Tuesday night, he made his new offer to Mohammed al-Yadoumi, head of the Islah party.
This was the first time that President Saleh had dealt with Mr. al-Yadoumi, once partner in his government, an opposition spokesman said. An opposition source said of the offer that the opposition could pick a head of government of its own choosing and there would be parliamentary elections by the end of
Mar 31st, 2011
The government predicts U.S. farmers will increase this year's corn crop, but it more that likely won't be enough to stem the rise in food prices.
Farmers plan to plant 92.2 million acres of corn this spring, 5 percent more than last year, the Agriculture Department estimated Thursday. That would be the second-largest corn crop since 1944, after a record-setting planting in 2007. Yet the additional supply will not be expected to keep up with growing global demand.
Prices of corn and soybeans went up after the report as analysts warned that even with the increase in corn acreage, grain prices won't fall back to their lower
Mar 31st, 2011
The World Bank has said that Russia is recovering well from the financial crisis thanks to strong oil, but high commodity prices pose risks to inflation and fiscal stability, and a poor investment climate puts a drag on the growth. It said on Wednesday that the government must resist the temptation to go on a pre-election spending splurge, while the central bank should press on with increasing rouble flexibility even if it mean allowing sizable currency appreciation.
The World Bank lashed its forecast for 2011 gross domestic product growth to 4.4 per cent from 4.5 per cent in November`s report, and forecast a slowdown to 4.0 pe
