Articles from Business Wire (December 19, 2003)

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Provident Financial Holdings, Inc. Declares Three-for-Two Stock Split and Fifty Percent Increase in Cash Dividend.			342
Prudential Chooses IAM to Deliver Hedge Fund Products to its Customers in Asia.			700
Pulse Introduces Low Profile SMT Power Inductor Series for High Power Applications.			626
Putnam Lovell NBF, Derivatives Portfolio Management LLC Build Strategic Partnership.			671
Quovadx Completes Rogue Wave Acquisition.			424
Rabin, Murray & Frank LLP and Weiss & Yourman Announce Proposed Settlement and Hearing.			352
RARE Hospitality International Names Roger L. Boeve and James D. Dixon to Its Board of Directors.			466
Real Estate Partners Purchases $145,000,000 Apartment Portfolio on Behalf of REPFund Apartments II, LLC.			586
RedPrairie Is Open For Business in China; Global Supply Chain Technology Leader Establishes Asia-Pacific Headquarters in Shanghai.			496
Renaissance Esmeralda Rolls Out ``Escape Your Way'' Packages.			380
REPEAT/Tag-It Pacific, Inc. Raises $25 Million in Private Placement Transaction.			1047
Resource America, Inc. Reports Operating Results for Fiscal Year Ended September 30, 2003.			2495
Roanoke Technology Corp. Announces up to $2 Million to Be Used from $10 Million to Buy Back Their Own Stock in Open Market.			189
Roto-Rooter Inc. Signs Merger Agreement to Acquire VITAS Healthcare Corporation.			392
Rural/Metro Awarded Contract to Continue Emergency Ambulance Services in Loudon County, Tennessee.			389
S&P Announces: BULLETIN: Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina's $1.825M Payment Not To Affect Ratings.			179
S&P Announces: Delta Dental Plan of Colorado 'A-' Ratings Affirmed; Outlook Negative.			820
S&P Announces: Medical Assurance of West Virginia Inc. Ratings Lowered Then Withdrawn.			203
S&P Announces: Medical Protective Co. Ratings Taken Off CreditWatch and Lowered to 'A'; Outlook Stable.			494
S&P Announces: Mortgage Guaranty Insurance Corp. and Related Ratings Removed from CreditWatch and Lowered.			501
S&P Announes: BULLETIN: Hartford Financial Services Group Inc.'s $1.15B Settlement Not To Affect Ratings.			245
Sales Top $1 Million Per Day at Diamond.com.			264
Salesforce.com Names Alan Hassenfeld, Chairman of Hasbro, Inc. to Board of Directors.			664
San Diego Court Directs Illumina Dispute With Applera to Arbitration.			308
Sanders Morris Harris Chief Investment Officer John Olson to Discuss Natural Gas Investments Live on `Corporate Strategies with Tim Connolly'.			456
Santa Clara Aquamaids Grab 7 of 9 Spots on U.S. Synchro Olympic Team.			282
SBC Applauds Appeals Court Ruling Against RIAA.			116
Schaeffer's Midday Options Update Features Red Hat, Maxwell Shoe, Paychex, Vans, ENSCO International.			1080
Schaeffer's Option Activity Watch Features Aetna, Dahaner, AmeriTrade.			884
Schick Nicks the Competition with Award-Winning Products For 2003.			443
Schmitt Industries Announces Profitable Second Fiscal Quarter.			691
Score Entertainment: Yu Yu Hakusho - Poised to Conquer All; Score Entertainment to Supercharge Already Hot Anime Property in 2004.			385
Scottish Re Group Limited Announces Exercise of Over-Allotment Option of Hybrid Capital Units.			511
SDC Board Considering Future Steps.			330
Sealed Air Completes Revolving Credit Facility and Repurchases Debt.			438
Seattle Genetics Receives Additional $10 Million From Genentech Under Antibody-Drug Conjugate Collaboration.			626
Secrest Wardle Law Firm Spreads Holiday Cheer to Soldiers and Their Families.			277
Sensient Announces Cost Savings Initiatives.			396
Serologicals Announces Signing of Definitive Agreement for Sale of Therapeutic Plasma Business.			544
Seventy Six Grassroot Industrial Plants Planned for the Southwest Region in 2004, an Advisory from Industrialinfo.com.			189
Sharp Microelectronics Announces Secure Contactless Microcontroller for e-Passport and Identity Applications.			553
Sharp Microelectronics' ARM Microcontrollers Selected by Fisher Price for Product Roadmap.			694
Sheraton New York Deploys Converged IP Telephony Solution from Nortel Networks; Installation Includes Nortel Networks 50 Millionth Enterprise Telephony Line Shipped.			1152
ShopNBC Selects IBM To Meet Holiday Sales Demand; IBM eServer p690 Is Industry's Top-Selling High-End UNIX Computer System, Out-Shipping HP and Sun.			955
SHPS Teams with Mutual of Omaha to Offer Benefit Plan Administration for Consumer Driven Health Plans.			599
Shurgard Announces Two Major Financing Transactions to Support Its European Expansion Program.			582
Six Players Share $219,546 Top Prize In FANTASY 5.			229
SJE Wins Bid To Supply Electricity To Central and N. Jersey School Districts; Competitive Bidding Process Saves School Board $5.9 Million.			513
Sodexho Alliance Revenues for 1st Quarter 2003-2004; Conference Call Wednesday 7 January 2004 from 8:30 am Paris Time.			150
Sonexis Awarded 2003 'Product of the Year' By Technology Marketing Corporation's INTERNET TELEPHONY Magazine; Sonexis Singled Out For Its Technological Excellence and Vision.			581
Sonoran Energy Appoints Paul Bristol as New President & CEO.			397
Southwall Technologies Secures New Bank Loan and Equity Financing Agreement Led by Needham & Company.			1286
Space Needle Partners with Quadrant Homes to Light up Seattle on New Year's Eve; Annual Tradition Expected to Reach over 400,000 Seattle-Area Spectators.			801
Spectacular Space Exploration Images Collected in 2004 Calendar; Discounts and Free Shipping for 'The Year In Space'.			341
SSA Global Completes Merger With EXE Technologies, Inc.			854
St. Jude Medical Submits Final RHYTHM ICD PMA Module to FDA.			130
Star Choice Communications Inc.: More Channels, Better Channels, Ultimate Choice.			564
Star Names Joe Dolce as New Editor-in-Chief.			371
Starwood Hotels & Resorts Declares 2003 Dividend.			173
Stock Market Ratings by StockPickReport.com for Concord EFS, Verizon Communications, Qwest Communications, E TRADE Financial, Placer Dome.			376
Stock Market Ratings by StockPickReport.com for General Electric, USURF America, Wyeth, Monster Worldwide, Biogen.			373
Stock Market Ratings by StockPickReport.com for Hewlett-Packard Co., Proxim Corp., Seagate, Electronic Data Systems, Marvell Technology Group.			374
Stock Market Ratings by StockPickReport.com for Hewlett-Packard, Proxim, Seagate, Electronic Data Systems, Marvell Technology.			374
Stock Market Ratings by StockPickReport.com for Lucent Technologies, Amgen, IBM, PepsiCo, Nanogen.			372
Stock Market Ratings by StockPickReport.com for Taiwan Semiconductor, BellSouth Corp., Cypress Semiconductor, Wells Fargo & Co., and Goldcorp.			375
Stock Market Ratings by StockPickReport.com for Viragen, Newmont Mining, Avitar, Western Digital, Carnival.			373
StoreFront Named Finalist for Small Business Computing's Excellence in Technology Award; Industry Leader Gets Recognized for Raising the Bar with 2003 Enhancements.			432
Street Chatter From SIR Highlights the Following Stocks: Dick's Sporting Goods, Red Hat, and Time Warner.			657
Summit America Agrees to Sell Shop At Home Minority Interest, Five TV Stations to Scripps.			656
Superior Energy Services, Inc. Announces Subsidiary SPN Resources, LLC Acquires Properties from Unocal Corporation.			465
Survey Shows That More Than 8 in 10 Visitors to lawyers.com Plan to Hire a Lawyer Within the Month.			640
Swiss Medica Signs Up National Retail Group.			456
Tag-It Pacific, Inc. Raises $25 Million in Private Placement Transaction.			1041
Technip/Fels Setal Consortium Sign the Contract for the P-52 Platform Offshore Brazil.			430
Tel Offshore Trust Announces Fourth Quarter 2003 Distribution.			970
TeleVideo, Inc. Announces Collaboration with Giant Smart International Limited.			368
Teva Announces Tentative Approval of Terbinafine HCl Tablets.			436
Textron Confirms Confidence in Cessna Citation CJ3 Backlog; No Financial Impact Expected from Recent NetJets' Order Cancellation.			566
The A&E Television Network Selects Page Digital to Provide Solutions for its Video/DVD Mail-Order Division.			771
The Asia Pacific Fund Declares Dividend.			139
The Asia Tigers Fund, Inc. Dividend Announcement.			287
The Assets Purchase Proposal Involving the Transfer of Water and Sewage Services of the Municipality of Sao Bernardo do Campo to Sabesp Approved.			412
The Cypress Group Completes Sale of AmeriKing Burger King Operations in Illinois, Wisconsin and Tennessee.			188
The Hyperion Strategic Mortgage Income Fund, Inc. Dividend Declaration, December 19, 2003.			294
The Hyperion Total Return Fund, Inc. Declares Dividend on December 19, 2003.			337
The India Fund, Inc. Dividend Announcement.			285
The Shaw Group Awarded First Phase of Housing Project by U.S. Army to Privatize Fort Leonard Wood in Missouri.			921
The WM Group's Northwest 50 Stock Index for the Week Ending Friday, December 19, 2003.			199
Thistle Group Holdings, Co. Shareholders Approve Plan with Citizens Financial Group, Inc.			197
Today's Events in Southern California.			97
Todd Shipyards Corporation Announces Dividend.			187
Trace Purchases Seismic Imaging Technology from Input/Output; Apache Specifies I/O Digital, Full-Wave Imaging Platform to Enhance Seismic Program.			748
Transbotics Secures Order in the Paper and Allied Products Industry.			249
TranSwitch Corporation Introduces TEPro-Fx28 for Channelized T1/E1 Access Systems.			717
Travel Industry Leaders Join the New York Times Travel Show; Air Jamaica, Carnival Cruise Lines and Sandals Resorts Join American Express as Sponsors of First Annual Show.			708
Trivest Partners Acquires Herbal Magic Systems International Inc., the Leading Franchisor of Weight Loss Centers in Canada.			453
TV Guide Celebrates the Year in Television with Cover Story and Television Special.			663
Two New Directors Elected To The Xerox Board: Richard J. Harrington And William Curt Hunter.			416
U-Systems, Inc. Secures $25.6 Million in Venture Financing.			409
U.S. Bancorp Announces Effectiveness of the Form 10 Registration Statement of Piper Jaffray Companies.			806
U.S. Department of Homeland Security Orders $2.6 Million of Drexler Technology's LaserCard Optical Memory Cards for Use as Enhanced ''Green Cards''.			598
U.S. Home Systems Files with SEC to Offer 1,825,000 Shares of Common Stock.			379
Union Planters to Release Fourth Quarter Earnings on January 15, 2004.			201
Univision Communications Inc. to Present at Fourteenth Annual Smith Barney Citigroup Entertainment, Media and Telecommunications Conference.			302
Univision's KUVN Is #1 Among Young Adults in Primetime During November Sweep.			335
UPS Urges DOT to Closely Review Recommendation in DHL/ASTAR Case.			99
Urbanfind, Inc., News Release.			255
US Natural Gas Prices Projected to Rise; NSTAR seeks interim adjustment.			234
USA Capital Closes More Than $90 Million In Real Estate-Backed Loans in November 2003; Company is Currently Seeking Financing Opportunities for Projects Between $2-30 Million.			181
USEC Elects Robert Van Namen Senior Vice President; Former Sales & Marketing VP Will Focus on Expanding Customer, Industry Relationships.			298
V-Net Beverage Announces Purchase Order for 3,500 Cases of Buzzy's Coffee - Enters Central and South America Markets.			355
Valley Health System Engages in Bond Program.			200
Vans, Inc. Reports Second Quarter Sales and Earnings; Retail Comps up 15.2%; Raises Fiscal 2004 Guidance.			3521
Varian Medical Systems and Mitsubishi Electric Corp. Complete Agreement for Joint Venture in Japan, Asia.			484
Varian Semiconductor Equipment Associates Announces Live Public Webcast of Upcoming Conference Call.			174
Varian Semiconductor Equipment Associates Announces Presentation at The Sixth Annual Needham Growth Conference.			141
Vicom/Multiband Announces Opening of Two New Properties; Minneapolis, St. Louis Facilities Total Over 600 New Multiband Units.			291
Victory Capital Holdings Corp. Announces Acceptance of New CEO.			317
Victory Capital Holdings Corp. Announces Launch of TurboCard.			372
Viisage Relationship with State of Illinois Clarified.			624
Vision Real Estate Management and Development will be opening a wholly owned branch office of MEM Financial Solutions.			543
Vitran Closes US$27.5 Million Equity Offering.			241
Wavecom Provides Fourth Quarter 2003 Revenue Update.			758
Weiss & Yourman Law Office Announces Class Action Lawsuit against Biovail Corp.			416
Weiss & Yourman Law Office Announces Class Action Lawsuit against Marsh & Mclennan Companies, Inc.			422
WildCard Systems, Inc. Obtains $2,500,000 Equipment Loan Line of Credit from GE Technology Finance.			318
Wilson Greatbatch Technologies, Inc. Elects New Board Member.			219
Winchester Systems Announces Red Hat Certification of FlashDisk Storage Products; FlashDisk storage arrays support Red Hat Enterprise Linux v.3.			293
Wireless Service Provider, USA 1 Rate, to Convert from Hard Cards to Electronic Top Up of Prepaid Wireless Airtime with Q Comm's Point-of-Sale Activation Terminals.			1477
XRAYMEDIA Announces Revenues on the Rise for 'By Vets Only' as Sharon Osbourne Show Picks up Products to Be Highlighted December 24.			661
Zacks Buy List Highlights: Career Education, Centex Corporation, Foundry Networks, and Lexmark International.			1427
Zacks Sell List Highlights: Orthodontic Centers, Sonoco Products, General Mills, and XL Capital Limited.			1545
Zacks.com Announces That Bill Martin and Matt Ragas Highlight the Following Stocks: General Electric, Annaly Mortgage, Verisign, and Time Warner.			990
Zacks.com Announces That Gregory Spear Highlights the Following Stocks: DR Horton, Pulte Homes, Lennar Corporation, Hovnanian Enterprises, and Beazer Homes.			720
Zacks.com Announces That Richard Lehmann Highlights Bonds for the Following Stocks: Darden Restaurants and Tesoro Petroleum.			717
Zacks.com Features the Following Top Stocks in the Schools Industry: Apollo Group, Career Education Corporation, DeVry, and Strayer University.			1068
ZiLOG on KNTV Channel 11, TechNow Program --NBC Affiliate-- December 20, 6:30 PM.			255
Zindart Updates Information on Corgi Sale.			343