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      <title>Key Investor Strengths Of GNCC Capital, Inc. (GNCP)</title>
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        <![CDATA[<p>GNCC Capital holds six different gold and silver exploration properties in Arizona that the company plans to develop through the use of exploration, testing, and joint ventures.</p><p>Current gold properties:</p><p>&bull; Burnt Well Gold Properties</p><p>&bull; Ester Basin Gold Properties</p><p>&bull; Clara Gold Properties</p><p>Current silver properties:</p><p>&bull; Kit Carson Silver Properties</p><p>&bull; Potts Mountain Silver Properties</p><p>&bull; Silverfields Silver Properties</p><p>The company sees itself as having a number of strengths that will help drive its strategy as it continues to acquire and develop properties.</p><p>&bull; The company has world-class management, with decades of experience in finance and mining.</p><p>&bull; The company continues to identify sound acquisitions to increase the size of its mining portfolio.</p><p>&bull; The company is current in its filings with the OTC Markets Group, and is labeled as &quot;CURRENT INFORMATION.&quot;</p><p>&bull; The availability of historic data on the tenements owned by the company should allow a higher than normal return.</p><p>&bull; The company's existing and initial portfolio of six gold and silver mining properties were very carefully selected due to their outstanding characteristics as exploration properties, coupled with management's belief that it can rapidly and inexpensively drill out a &quot;Resource Base.&quot;</p><p>&bull; The company's directors hold 12% of the outstanding shares of common stock, aligning their interest with those of the stockholders.</p><p>&bull; There is a fairly small &quot;Float&quot; of free-trading unrestricted shares of common stock.</p><p>&bull; Company shares are DTC Eligible.</p><p>&bull; Company management is committed to not increasing the number of shares of outstanding common stock.</p><p>&bull; The company's management would consider a dual listing of its shares of common stock on the Frankfurt Exchange in Germany, which would open the company to European markets and investors.</p><p>For more information, visit <a target='_blank' href='http://GNCC-Capital' rel="nofollow">GNCC-Capital</a>.com</p><p>Please see disclaimer on the QualityStocks website: <a target='_blank' href='http://disclaimer.qualitystocks' rel="nofollow">disclaimer.qualitystocks</a>.net</p>]]>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 17:32:55 -0400</pubDate>
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        <![CDATA[<p>GNCC Capital holds six different gold and silver exploration properties in Arizona that the company plans to develop through the use of exploration, testing, and joint ventures.</p><p>Current gold properties:</p><p>&bull; Burnt Well Gold Properties</p><p>&bull; Ester Basin Gold Properties</p><p>&bull; Clara Gold Properties</p><p>Current silver properties:</p><p>&bull; Kit Carson Silver Properties</p><p>&bull; Potts Mountain Silver Properties</p><p>&bull; Silverfields Silver Properties</p><p>The company sees itself as having a number of strengths that will help drive its strategy as it continues to acquire and develop properties.</p><p>&bull; The company has world-class management, with decades of experience in finance and mining.</p><p>&bull; The company continues to identify sound acquisitions to increase the size of its mining portfolio.</p><p>&bull; The company is current in its filings with the OTC Markets Group, and is labeled as &quot;CURRENT INFORMATION.&quot;</p><p>&bull; The availability of historic data on the tenements owned by the company should allow a higher than normal return.</p><p>&bull; The company's existing and initial portfolio of six gold and silver mining properties were very carefully selected due to their outstanding characteristics as exploration properties, coupled with management's belief that it can rapidly and inexpensively drill out a &quot;Resource Base.&quot;</p><p>&bull; The company's directors hold 12% of the outstanding shares of common stock, aligning their interest with those of the stockholders.</p><p>&bull; There is a fairly small &quot;Float&quot; of free-trading unrestricted shares of common stock.</p><p>&bull; Company shares are DTC Eligible.</p><p>&bull; Company management is committed to not increasing the number of shares of outstanding common stock.</p><p>&bull; The company's management would consider a dual listing of its shares of common stock on the Frankfurt Exchange in Germany, which would open the company to European markets and investors.</p><p>For more information, visit <a target='_blank' href='http://GNCC-Capital' rel="nofollow">GNCC-Capital</a>.com</p><p>Please see disclaimer on the QualityStocks website: <a target='_blank' href='http://disclaimer.qualitystocks' rel="nofollow">disclaimer.qualitystocks</a>.net</p>]]>
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      <title>P2 Solar, Inc. (PTOS) Acquires 700 KW Mini-Hydro Project Foothold In Target-Rich Indian Market</title>
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        <![CDATA[<p>P2 Solar was pleased to report today that they have successfully completed the full acquisition of their first renewable energy project in India via newly formed and wholly-owned subsidiary, Jagat Energy Private Limited, a choice little 700 KW mini-hydro job on a Sidhwan irrigation canal diversion in Ludhiana (Punjab). Known as the Rajgar mini-hydro site, this newly acquired project is fully permitted, as well as construction-ready, and will initially consist of a small turbine installation and the associated hardware.</p><p>Given the nature of the target waterway and planned implementation, this is an ideal project for PTOS, with virtually no impact on the main water channel or surrounding terrain. Moreover the company will be using a time-tested, proven hydro power model that has achieved environmentally sustainable energy production the world over. The company has even slated a potential PV Solar array for the open area above the several kilometers of canal space they have acquired rights to and there looks to be plenty of room here for significant, phased expansion.</p><p>Punjab is a thriving region with massive demand from a growing consumer base, and it is riddled with thousands of kilometers of canals that can be viewed by investors as a rich target market for PTOS. The company is set to go into construction on the Rajgar mini-hydro site as early as this summer and revenue projections are already looking cherry, with $443k/yr from the hydro and some $2.95M/yr from the proposed 10 MW solar array. While capital intensity on such projects can be daunting, the superb management team at PTOS has shaved the edges off their implementation model and they are supremely confident that the fusion of rigorous oversight and low facility operating cost is a good recipe for healthy cash flows (EBITDA margin estimates of 95% for the mini-hydro and 93% for the solar).</p><p>CEO of PTOS, Raj-Mohinder Gurm, emphasized the receptivity of local and national officials to this sort of project, which will help free India's crippling dependence on increasingly cost-prohibitive hydrocarbons like imported coal. The local Punjab government is keen to utilize their canal networks like this and PTOS shareholders are poised to reap the rich rewards while helping to bring a good model to India that incorporates PV Solar arrays on the areas above the canals. This is much-needed electricity in a nation where demand is growing at annual rate of 10%. With the electric bills for some consumers across India seeing jumps of 10% to 20% per year and improving renewable price metrics, Gurm sees this acquisition as a major milestone for PTOS and a serious foothold in India's rapidly expanding, $20B plus annually, clean energy sector.</p><p>This little beauty should make envious neighbors of surrounding states, pumping out hundreds of megawatts to consumers in Punjab and the potential for such mini-hydro implementations should become abundantly clear in short order, especially when you throw in that solar component that would use what is generally completely unused space above the canals. This is an exceptionally attractive component architecture model that PTOS has put together and the company is already chomping at the bit to secure additional market share in target-rich India on the back of this concept.</p><p>For the latest news and info on P2 Solar, visit <a target='_blank' href='http://P2Solar' rel="nofollow">P2Solar</a>.com</p><p>Please see disclaimer on the QualityStocks website: <a target='_blank' href='http://disclaimer.qualitystocks' rel="nofollow">disclaimer.qualitystocks</a>.net</p>]]>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 17:31:49 -0400</pubDate>
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        <![CDATA[<p>P2 Solar was pleased to report today that they have successfully completed the full acquisition of their first renewable energy project in India via newly formed and wholly-owned subsidiary, Jagat Energy Private Limited, a choice little 700 KW mini-hydro job on a Sidhwan irrigation canal diversion in Ludhiana (Punjab). Known as the Rajgar mini-hydro site, this newly acquired project is fully permitted, as well as construction-ready, and will initially consist of a small turbine installation and the associated hardware.</p><p>Given the nature of the target waterway and planned implementation, this is an ideal project for PTOS, with virtually no impact on the main water channel or surrounding terrain. Moreover the company will be using a time-tested, proven hydro power model that has achieved environmentally sustainable energy production the world over. The company has even slated a potential PV Solar array for the open area above the several kilometers of canal space they have acquired rights to and there looks to be plenty of room here for significant, phased expansion.</p><p>Punjab is a thriving region with massive demand from a growing consumer base, and it is riddled with thousands of kilometers of canals that can be viewed by investors as a rich target market for PTOS. The company is set to go into construction on the Rajgar mini-hydro site as early as this summer and revenue projections are already looking cherry, with $443k/yr from the hydro and some $2.95M/yr from the proposed 10 MW solar array. While capital intensity on such projects can be daunting, the superb management team at PTOS has shaved the edges off their implementation model and they are supremely confident that the fusion of rigorous oversight and low facility operating cost is a good recipe for healthy cash flows (EBITDA margin estimates of 95% for the mini-hydro and 93% for the solar).</p><p>CEO of PTOS, Raj-Mohinder Gurm, emphasized the receptivity of local and national officials to this sort of project, which will help free India's crippling dependence on increasingly cost-prohibitive hydrocarbons like imported coal. The local Punjab government is keen to utilize their canal networks like this and PTOS shareholders are poised to reap the rich rewards while helping to bring a good model to India that incorporates PV Solar arrays on the areas above the canals. This is much-needed electricity in a nation where demand is growing at annual rate of 10%. With the electric bills for some consumers across India seeing jumps of 10% to 20% per year and improving renewable price metrics, Gurm sees this acquisition as a major milestone for PTOS and a serious foothold in India's rapidly expanding, $20B plus annually, clean energy sector.</p><p>This little beauty should make envious neighbors of surrounding states, pumping out hundreds of megawatts to consumers in Punjab and the potential for such mini-hydro implementations should become abundantly clear in short order, especially when you throw in that solar component that would use what is generally completely unused space above the canals. This is an exceptionally attractive component architecture model that PTOS has put together and the company is already chomping at the bit to secure additional market share in target-rich India on the back of this concept.</p><p>For the latest news and info on P2 Solar, visit <a target='_blank' href='http://P2Solar' rel="nofollow">P2Solar</a>.com</p><p>Please see disclaimer on the QualityStocks website: <a target='_blank' href='http://disclaimer.qualitystocks' rel="nofollow">disclaimer.qualitystocks</a>.net</p>]]>
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      <title>MMRGlobal, Inc. (MMRF) Recruits New York Times Best-Selling Author Dr. Cara Natterson, M.D. And Medicine Specialist Dr. Jeremy Fine, M.D.</title>
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        <![CDATA[<p>Leading provider of Personal Health Records, MMRGlobal has announced two new additions to its Medical Board of Advisors. New York Times best-selling author on children's health and parenting, Dr. Cara Natterson, M.D., is to join as well as Concierge Medicine Specialist Dr. Jeremy Fine, M.D.</p><p>A Board-Certified Pediatrician, Dr. Natterson will assist MMRGlobal with its goals to educate parents on the medical importance and relevance of having Personal Health Records for their children. She will help advocate the best ways to offer Personal Health Record products and services through pediatricians. Board-Certified in Internal Medicine, Dr. Fine will oversee MMRGlobal's education of Concierge Medicine professionals. He will also ensure patients maintain a current Personal Health Record.</p><p>The official announcement of MMRGlobal's newest additions was made during CEO Bob Lorschs appearance on a Fox News Radio show, during his 30-minute interview on &quot;The Vipp Jaswal Report.&quot; During the interview Lorsch discusses MMR's business model as well as humanitarian efforts regarding the release of Dr. Shakil Afridi.</p><p>A five-time author, Dr. Natterson inked &quot;Worry Proof,&quot; which was awarded The Wall Street Journal's Best Health Book of the Year Award. She also penned the American Girl book, &quot;The Care &amp; Keeping of You 2.&quot; Additionally she updated American Girl's original &quot;The Care &amp; Keeping of You,&quot; which has sold about three million copies. A former Clinical professor of Medicine at both UCLA and USC Schools of Medicine, Dr. Natterson was named by Los Angeles Magazine as one of the Best Doctors in Los Angeles, CA.</p><p>Dr. Natterson currently consults for a number of Fortune 500 companies in need of expert consultation on child wellness, health, and safety issues. Her company Worry Proof Consulting is the first pediatric practice of its kind, offering parents open-ended time to review everything from medical questions to parenting issues.</p><p>&quot;Dr. Natterson and Dr. Fine will make a great addition to the Company's Medical Board of Advisors, helping us educate two specialty markets on the value of PHRs,&quot; commented Lorsch. &quot;Dr. Natterson's role is to strategically introduce MyMedicalRecords to the pediatric market in an effort to make both pediatricians and parents aware of the importance of having a PHR for children at a very young age. Dr. Jeremy Fine truly exemplifies what Concierge Medicine is all about and being there for his patients whenever and wherever they need him.&quot;</p><p>Dr. Fine has routinely and skillfully deployed MyMedicalRecords accounts over the past several years to many of his Concierge Medicine patients as part of his Concierge Medicine policy and protocol. &quot;As a result, Dr. Fine knows first-hand how valuable it can be in an emergency at 2 a.m. to have the ability to log in to MyMedicalRecords and access a patient's critical information regardless of where he or his patients are in the world. Consumer awareness of the importance of having a PHR is critical to the Company's business plan and there are no better professionals than Drs. Natterson and Fine to carry our message to physician colleagues, patients and parents,&quot; added Lorsch.</p><p>Additionally Dr. Fine has served on the Medical Informatics Committee at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Executive Committee and the Bioethics Committee. He is a graduate of Harvard College and Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, trained in pediatrics at the University of California at San Francisco. He was also chosen by Los Angeles Magazine as one of the Best Doctors in Los Angeles and was named as one of California's Favorite Physicians.</p><p>A company founded on working with highly qualified healthcare professionals and medical advisers, including the company's own, MMRGlobal continues to focus on its Personal Health Record services and licensing. The company currently generates revenue from the sale of Personal Health Records to employers for employee benefits. Through MMRGlobal's wholly owned operating subsidiary MyMedicalRecords, patients are provided a secure online Personal Health Record which then enables them and their families to access medical records and other valuable documents like birth certificates online at anytime.</p><p>To learn more about MMRGlobal, visit <a target='_blank' href='http://mmrglobal' rel="nofollow">mmrglobal</a>.com</p><p>Please see disclaimer on the QualityStocks website: <a target='_blank' href='http://disclaimer.qualitystocks' rel="nofollow">disclaimer.qualitystocks</a>.net</p>]]>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 17:30:57 -0400</pubDate>
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        <![CDATA[<p>Leading provider of Personal Health Records, MMRGlobal has announced two new additions to its Medical Board of Advisors. New York Times best-selling author on children's health and parenting, Dr. Cara Natterson, M.D., is to join as well as Concierge Medicine Specialist Dr. Jeremy Fine, M.D.</p><p>A Board-Certified Pediatrician, Dr. Natterson will assist MMRGlobal with its goals to educate parents on the medical importance and relevance of having Personal Health Records for their children. She will help advocate the best ways to offer Personal Health Record products and services through pediatricians. Board-Certified in Internal Medicine, Dr. Fine will oversee MMRGlobal's education of Concierge Medicine professionals. He will also ensure patients maintain a current Personal Health Record.</p><p>The official announcement of MMRGlobal's newest additions was made during CEO Bob Lorschs appearance on a Fox News Radio show, during his 30-minute interview on &quot;The Vipp Jaswal Report.&quot; During the interview Lorsch discusses MMR's business model as well as humanitarian efforts regarding the release of Dr. Shakil Afridi.</p><p>A five-time author, Dr. Natterson inked &quot;Worry Proof,&quot; which was awarded The Wall Street Journal's Best Health Book of the Year Award. She also penned the American Girl book, &quot;The Care &amp; Keeping of You 2.&quot; Additionally she updated American Girl's original &quot;The Care &amp; Keeping of You,&quot; which has sold about three million copies. A former Clinical professor of Medicine at both UCLA and USC Schools of Medicine, Dr. Natterson was named by Los Angeles Magazine as one of the Best Doctors in Los Angeles, CA.</p><p>Dr. Natterson currently consults for a number of Fortune 500 companies in need of expert consultation on child wellness, health, and safety issues. Her company Worry Proof Consulting is the first pediatric practice of its kind, offering parents open-ended time to review everything from medical questions to parenting issues.</p><p>&quot;Dr. Natterson and Dr. Fine will make a great addition to the Company's Medical Board of Advisors, helping us educate two specialty markets on the value of PHRs,&quot; commented Lorsch. &quot;Dr. Natterson's role is to strategically introduce MyMedicalRecords to the pediatric market in an effort to make both pediatricians and parents aware of the importance of having a PHR for children at a very young age. Dr. Jeremy Fine truly exemplifies what Concierge Medicine is all about and being there for his patients whenever and wherever they need him.&quot;</p><p>Dr. Fine has routinely and skillfully deployed MyMedicalRecords accounts over the past several years to many of his Concierge Medicine patients as part of his Concierge Medicine policy and protocol. &quot;As a result, Dr. Fine knows first-hand how valuable it can be in an emergency at 2 a.m. to have the ability to log in to MyMedicalRecords and access a patient's critical information regardless of where he or his patients are in the world. Consumer awareness of the importance of having a PHR is critical to the Company's business plan and there are no better professionals than Drs. Natterson and Fine to carry our message to physician colleagues, patients and parents,&quot; added Lorsch.</p><p>Additionally Dr. Fine has served on the Medical Informatics Committee at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Executive Committee and the Bioethics Committee. He is a graduate of Harvard College and Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, trained in pediatrics at the University of California at San Francisco. He was also chosen by Los Angeles Magazine as one of the Best Doctors in Los Angeles and was named as one of California's Favorite Physicians.</p><p>A company founded on working with highly qualified healthcare professionals and medical advisers, including the company's own, MMRGlobal continues to focus on its Personal Health Record services and licensing. The company currently generates revenue from the sale of Personal Health Records to employers for employee benefits. Through MMRGlobal's wholly owned operating subsidiary MyMedicalRecords, patients are provided a secure online Personal Health Record which then enables them and their families to access medical records and other valuable documents like birth certificates online at anytime.</p><p>To learn more about MMRGlobal, visit <a target='_blank' href='http://mmrglobal' rel="nofollow">mmrglobal</a>.com</p><p>Please see disclaimer on the QualityStocks website: <a target='_blank' href='http://disclaimer.qualitystocks' rel="nofollow">disclaimer.qualitystocks</a>.net</p>]]>
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      <title>Solar Wind Energy Tower, Inc. (SWET) Shatters Expectations For Wind Energy With Hybrid Solar-Thermal Tower System</title>
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        <![CDATA[<p>Solar Wind Energy Tower is an ingenious little company with some key patent applications on their tech, including an improved wind energy power transmission system using multi-stage variable hydraulic drives that can achieve high efficiencies across a wide range of speeds, and an energy tower having external wind capturing capacity that dovetails exceptionally well with their flagship Solar Wind Downdraft Tower concept.</p><p>Effectively, this is a solar/wind concept which can also be constructed with large, vertical vanes that help to capture additional prevailing winds, but which primarily operates on very simple downdraft physics. Basically you have a huge hollow cylinder structure with wind tunnels at the base that have turbines in them. The design functions exceptionally well in hot environments and represents a large-scale passive capture strategy using water which is misted out across the opening and evaporates in the hot, dry air, forcing the outside warmer air to downdraft through the cylinder at speeds in excess of 50mph.</p><p>The Solar Wind Energy Tower is remarkably efficient, generating electricity at a cost per kilowatt similar to typical coal or gas-fired plants. The company moved to further improve this efficiency back in April, partnering strategically with Commonwealth Dynamics, who have developed (in conjunction with the Whiting Turner Contracting Company) an adaptation of a hyperbolic, thin-walled concrete structure. This key breakthrough in the Solar Wind Energy Tower's design offers multiple advantages, from drastically reduced cost, complexity, and time for the building of the structure, to elimination of onsite assembly/fabrication requirements when using steel. The company's goal has always been to offer the most cost effective and efficient clean energy system available, confident that to truly be successful, an alternative energy producer must be able to survive and thrive without subsidies.</p><p>President and CEO of SWET, Ronald Pickett, a 40-year veteran in the construction, development, and technology arena, who has nurtured three highly-innovative startups from inception through to public ownership, noted that steel was still a valid design choice in regions that called for even taller structures to be built, but that this new thin-walled hyperbolic concrete implementation was ideal for the towers. While they certainly won't be ruling it out, the price/performance metrics on the new Commonwealth Dynamics implementation has already made it the de facto standard in tower design for SWET.</p><p>Utilizing new software which can calculate and predict energy production for a Solar Wind Downdraft Tower based on empirical, local weather data, SWET has managed to shave a whopping 750 feet off the basic tower height (down to 2,250 in the specs). This software allows for dynamically configuring tower height/diameter before building, as well as the amount of water appropriate to be used as fuel. We are talking roughly 500 megawatt hours net (1.25k gross potential at maximum capacity) on the specs for the first San Luis Tower at just 60% capacity (435 Mwh average across an entire year when factoring in the winter season). This global energy generation calculator software is indispensible as an analytical tool moving forward for SWET and represents a year or more of development time by the company, as well as the ideal means of positioning the Solar Wind Downdraft Tower concept before global markets. SWET can go to an interested party with accurate specs and potential output data with data-driven analytics to show the client, making commercialization, especially in the EU and other green energy hungry markets, an easy sell.</p><p>Selling clean energy to the grid also opens up the carbon credit angle and SWET has wasted no time moving to take advantage of this strategic play, scoping out the potential of a planned project in Mexico to produce international, highly-marketable carbon credits, as well as the aforementioned location in San Luis, Arizona, which should generate some $250M in investment tax credits (based on IRS guideline projections). The cachet value alone in global markets for the design, when fully commercialized, is profound enough to grab the market's attention and SWET is well aware of this fact. They have a robust, highly passive, and extremely efficient green energy production model on their hands here and are looking to push the envelope in hybridized wind/solar generation technology.</p><p>The running idea of building large compounds, consisting of many such towers, deployed in optimal locales and design-scaled using the company's software to further tweak the yields, introduces even greater efficiency into this model, as associated construction, labor, water sourcing, and the like can be localized/streamlined. It is almost like sinking wells in a grid pattern to optimize hydrocarbon extraction on a piece of given acreage, only here we are building up, sky-drilling for premium thermal vectors and creating the downdraft towers. The most efficient turbines at the base, the new thin-walled hyperbolic concrete for the structure, and highly efficient water distribution systems all combine in this tower design, taking full advantage of the underlying physics in a truly ingenious way.</p><p>For more info visit <a target='_blank' href='http://CleanWindEnergyTower' rel="nofollow">CleanWindEnergyTower</a>.com</p><p>Please see disclaimer on the QualityStocks website: <a target='_blank' href='http://disclaimer.qualitystocks' rel="nofollow">disclaimer.qualitystocks</a>.net</p>]]>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 17:29:58 -0400</pubDate>
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        <![CDATA[<p>Solar Wind Energy Tower is an ingenious little company with some key patent applications on their tech, including an improved wind energy power transmission system using multi-stage variable hydraulic drives that can achieve high efficiencies across a wide range of speeds, and an energy tower having external wind capturing capacity that dovetails exceptionally well with their flagship Solar Wind Downdraft Tower concept.</p><p>Effectively, this is a solar/wind concept which can also be constructed with large, vertical vanes that help to capture additional prevailing winds, but which primarily operates on very simple downdraft physics. Basically you have a huge hollow cylinder structure with wind tunnels at the base that have turbines in them. The design functions exceptionally well in hot environments and represents a large-scale passive capture strategy using water which is misted out across the opening and evaporates in the hot, dry air, forcing the outside warmer air to downdraft through the cylinder at speeds in excess of 50mph.</p><p>The Solar Wind Energy Tower is remarkably efficient, generating electricity at a cost per kilowatt similar to typical coal or gas-fired plants. The company moved to further improve this efficiency back in April, partnering strategically with Commonwealth Dynamics, who have developed (in conjunction with the Whiting Turner Contracting Company) an adaptation of a hyperbolic, thin-walled concrete structure. This key breakthrough in the Solar Wind Energy Tower's design offers multiple advantages, from drastically reduced cost, complexity, and time for the building of the structure, to elimination of onsite assembly/fabrication requirements when using steel. The company's goal has always been to offer the most cost effective and efficient clean energy system available, confident that to truly be successful, an alternative energy producer must be able to survive and thrive without subsidies.</p><p>President and CEO of SWET, Ronald Pickett, a 40-year veteran in the construction, development, and technology arena, who has nurtured three highly-innovative startups from inception through to public ownership, noted that steel was still a valid design choice in regions that called for even taller structures to be built, but that this new thin-walled hyperbolic concrete implementation was ideal for the towers. While they certainly won't be ruling it out, the price/performance metrics on the new Commonwealth Dynamics implementation has already made it the de facto standard in tower design for SWET.</p><p>Utilizing new software which can calculate and predict energy production for a Solar Wind Downdraft Tower based on empirical, local weather data, SWET has managed to shave a whopping 750 feet off the basic tower height (down to 2,250 in the specs). This software allows for dynamically configuring tower height/diameter before building, as well as the amount of water appropriate to be used as fuel. We are talking roughly 500 megawatt hours net (1.25k gross potential at maximum capacity) on the specs for the first San Luis Tower at just 60% capacity (435 Mwh average across an entire year when factoring in the winter season). This global energy generation calculator software is indispensible as an analytical tool moving forward for SWET and represents a year or more of development time by the company, as well as the ideal means of positioning the Solar Wind Downdraft Tower concept before global markets. SWET can go to an interested party with accurate specs and potential output data with data-driven analytics to show the client, making commercialization, especially in the EU and other green energy hungry markets, an easy sell.</p><p>Selling clean energy to the grid also opens up the carbon credit angle and SWET has wasted no time moving to take advantage of this strategic play, scoping out the potential of a planned project in Mexico to produce international, highly-marketable carbon credits, as well as the aforementioned location in San Luis, Arizona, which should generate some $250M in investment tax credits (based on IRS guideline projections). The cachet value alone in global markets for the design, when fully commercialized, is profound enough to grab the market's attention and SWET is well aware of this fact. They have a robust, highly passive, and extremely efficient green energy production model on their hands here and are looking to push the envelope in hybridized wind/solar generation technology.</p><p>The running idea of building large compounds, consisting of many such towers, deployed in optimal locales and design-scaled using the company's software to further tweak the yields, introduces even greater efficiency into this model, as associated construction, labor, water sourcing, and the like can be localized/streamlined. It is almost like sinking wells in a grid pattern to optimize hydrocarbon extraction on a piece of given acreage, only here we are building up, sky-drilling for premium thermal vectors and creating the downdraft towers. The most efficient turbines at the base, the new thin-walled hyperbolic concrete for the structure, and highly efficient water distribution systems all combine in this tower design, taking full advantage of the underlying physics in a truly ingenious way.</p><p>For more info visit <a target='_blank' href='http://CleanWindEnergyTower' rel="nofollow">CleanWindEnergyTower</a>.com</p><p>Please see disclaimer on the QualityStocks website: <a target='_blank' href='http://disclaimer.qualitystocks' rel="nofollow">disclaimer.qualitystocks</a>.net</p>]]>
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      <title>Michael Matte Named CFO At Aspen Group, Inc. (ASPU)</title>
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        <![CDATA[<p>Yesterday, Aspen Group, a nationally accredited online postsecondary education company, announced that Michael Matte has been named as the company's Chief Financial Officer, effective immediately.</p><p>Matte is taking over this role form David Garrity, Aspen's former CFO; Garrity has been appointed EVP, Corporate Development, where he will head Aspen's investor relations activities, M&amp;A, and corporate partnerships. He will also be responsible for building Aspen's corporate sales function, which is focused on institutional partnerships.</p><p>Matte is joining Aspen Group having most recently been at MeetMe, Inc. as its CFO. He has over 20 years of experience as a CFO of both technology and public companies. A Certified Public Accountant in Florida, Matte began his career in public accounting with Price Waterhouse. He holds a Bachelors of Science from Florida State University,</p><p>Michael Mathews, Aspen's Chairman and CEO, remarked, &quot;We are delighted to have attracted Mike to join the Aspen team and we welcome him. He is a strong financial and operational executive with outstanding leadership experience. His track record of managing businesses and positioning them for sustainable, profitable growth is impressive and I look forward to working with him as we continue to identify opportunities to increase shareholder value at Aspen.&quot;</p><p>For more information, visit <a target='_blank' href='http://aspen' rel="nofollow">aspen</a>.edu</p><p>Please see disclaimer on the QualityStocks website: <a target='_blank' href='http://disclaimer.qualitystocks' rel="nofollow">disclaimer.qualitystocks</a>.net</p>]]>
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        <![CDATA[<p>Yesterday, Aspen Group, a nationally accredited online postsecondary education company, announced that Michael Matte has been named as the company's Chief Financial Officer, effective immediately.</p><p>Matte is taking over this role form David Garrity, Aspen's former CFO; Garrity has been appointed EVP, Corporate Development, where he will head Aspen's investor relations activities, M&amp;A, and corporate partnerships. He will also be responsible for building Aspen's corporate sales function, which is focused on institutional partnerships.</p><p>Matte is joining Aspen Group having most recently been at MeetMe, Inc. as its CFO. He has over 20 years of experience as a CFO of both technology and public companies. A Certified Public Accountant in Florida, Matte began his career in public accounting with Price Waterhouse. He holds a Bachelors of Science from Florida State University,</p><p>Michael Mathews, Aspen's Chairman and CEO, remarked, &quot;We are delighted to have attracted Mike to join the Aspen team and we welcome him. He is a strong financial and operational executive with outstanding leadership experience. His track record of managing businesses and positioning them for sustainable, profitable growth is impressive and I look forward to working with him as we continue to identify opportunities to increase shareholder value at Aspen.&quot;</p><p>For more information, visit <a target='_blank' href='http://aspen' rel="nofollow">aspen</a>.edu</p><p>Please see disclaimer on the QualityStocks website: <a target='_blank' href='http://disclaimer.qualitystocks' rel="nofollow">disclaimer.qualitystocks</a>.net</p>]]>
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      <title> Dynamics Research Corp. (DRCO) Announces Extension Of Veterans Relationship Management Contract</title>
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        <![CDATA[<p>Leading technology and management consulting company Dynamics Research Corp. (DRC) has announced that the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), through the General Services Administration, has exercised the third year option of the Veterans Relationship Management Portfolio Monitoring and Coordination contract, extending the period of performance until May 10, 2014. The contract was awarded in May 2010 to High Performance Technologies, Inc., the company's wholly owned subsidiary, and has a five-year performance period through May 2015 and a total contract value of $125.5 million.</p><p>A multi-year initiative, Veterans Relationship Management restarts previously troubled programs with the end goal of providing veterans, service members, and eligible beneficiaries with fast, accurate, and easily accessible healthcare information and benefits. DRC delivers the next generation of IT solutions geared for veterans, providing a full range of program and portfolio management services across more than 30 projects. The company's solutions include identity management, advanced voice-recognition tools, enhanced Web self-services tools, and integrated desktop interfaces.</p><p>DRC is engaged in providing program architecture, program planning and management, requirements analysis, IV&amp;V, and life cycle engineering to create an IT system that provides veterans with access to the VA through various methods, enables them to access information about VA benefits and services through a uniform interface, and allows them to complete multiple business processes within the VA without the necessity of reentering identifying information.</p><p>For more information, visit <a target='_blank' href='http://drc' rel="nofollow">drc</a>.com</p><p>Please see disclaimer on the QualityStocks website: <a target='_blank' href='http://disclaimer.qualitystocks' rel="nofollow">disclaimer.qualitystocks</a>.net</p>]]>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 10:29:17 -0400</pubDate>
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        <![CDATA[<p>Leading technology and management consulting company Dynamics Research Corp. (DRC) has announced that the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), through the General Services Administration, has exercised the third year option of the Veterans Relationship Management Portfolio Monitoring and Coordination contract, extending the period of performance until May 10, 2014. The contract was awarded in May 2010 to High Performance Technologies, Inc., the company's wholly owned subsidiary, and has a five-year performance period through May 2015 and a total contract value of $125.5 million.</p><p>A multi-year initiative, Veterans Relationship Management restarts previously troubled programs with the end goal of providing veterans, service members, and eligible beneficiaries with fast, accurate, and easily accessible healthcare information and benefits. DRC delivers the next generation of IT solutions geared for veterans, providing a full range of program and portfolio management services across more than 30 projects. The company's solutions include identity management, advanced voice-recognition tools, enhanced Web self-services tools, and integrated desktop interfaces.</p><p>DRC is engaged in providing program architecture, program planning and management, requirements analysis, IV&amp;V, and life cycle engineering to create an IT system that provides veterans with access to the VA through various methods, enables them to access information about VA benefits and services through a uniform interface, and allows them to complete multiple business processes within the VA without the necessity of reentering identifying information.</p><p>For more information, visit <a target='_blank' href='http://drc' rel="nofollow">drc</a>.com</p><p>Please see disclaimer on the QualityStocks website: <a target='_blank' href='http://disclaimer.qualitystocks' rel="nofollow">disclaimer.qualitystocks</a>.net</p>]]>
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