Minneapolis, MN, January 26, 2006 – http://www.testedandproven.com – DDL, a leading package, product and material testing services laboratory, is offering advice to packaging professionals as to how ISO 11607 revisions will affect their business.
DDL COO, Patrick Nolan, is involved in the AAMI/ANSI/ISO Sterilization Packaging Working Group, which is responsible for drafting the Technical Information Report (TIR) for the ISO 11607 revisions.
“It is really important that packaging manufacturers and engineers understand just how the ISO 11607 revisions will affect compliance requirements for their packaging,” said Nolan. “Even small changes to sample size requirements can significantly impact the package validation process.”
The proposed revisions will affect the following aspects of package testing and validation: • Sample requirements • Testing methods used • Requirements for validation • Documentation • Labeling
DDL Package Engineers are offering a free PackAdvice consultation service to their package testing customers to ensure that they understand the compliance implications of the revised standard.
“Many manufacturers find the package validation process confusing as it is,” said Nolan, “DDL plans to make the change in compliance requirements as smooth as possible for its customers, while making sure they clearly understand how their business will be affected.”
Minneapolis, MN, January 23, 2006 — http://www.minco.com - Minco, a designer and manufacturer of critical components for critical applications, is broadening its building automation product offerings with the launch of its new Relative Humidity Sensor.
The Relative Humidity Sensor is designed to guarantee system accuracies of +/- 1% in a previously unavailable economical manner. Since Minco is also a temperature sensor manufacturer, it is able to offer its customers a more comprehensive sensor package than its competitors.
“Relying on one vendor for multiple sensing parameters eliminates costly sourcing exercises and the cost of issuance of purchase orders,” said Marty Knutson, Minco Marketing Manager, Sensors Division & HVACR Industry. “One-stop shopping also allows lower transactional costs, lower installation time and greater reliability, which all add up to ideal total cost of ownership.”
The launch of the Relative Humidity Sensor not only enhances Minco’s building automation product offering, but it also establishes Minco as a sensor product one-stop-shop that offers both customer ease and cost efficiency.
“Minco has found that customers that require temperature sensing, oftentimes require humidity sensing as well,” said Knutson. “Minco is now in a position to offer customers a full-service sensor package that ultimately saves them money.”
Minneapolis, MN, January 18, 2006 – http://www.minco.com - Minco, a designer and manufacturer of critical components for critical applications, has launched its Thermal Vial™ Temperature Sensing System to provide accurate measurement and documentation of freezing, process and storage methodology.
Designed and manufactured for the HVAC and building automation markets, the Thermal Vial Temperature Sensing System builds on existing Minco sensors with additional options such as vial size, multiple thermowell configurations, loop powered indication and three levels of calibration accuracy to ensure that customer requirements are always satisfied.
“Minco recognizes that facilities with critical environments and processes are in need of building automation systems with advanced capabilities,” said Marty Knutson, Minco Marketing Manager, Sensors Division & HVACR Industry. “Facility managers and systems engineers are looking for something that will provide more accurate monitoring, alarming, logging, and control. Standard HVAC sensors do not have the capability to perform to these advanced standards.”
The Thermal Vial System not only ensures that processes and storage temperatures are accurately measured and controlled, but it also removes the need for in-house calibration and simplifies the validation process.
Minneapolis, MN, January 12, 2006 –- http://www.evolvingsol.com – Evolving Solutions, a leading IT architect providing data on demand and storage virtualization solutions, today announced that it has deployed an IBM BladeCenter storage consolidation solution at 7 Medical Systems, an on & off-site storage service provider (SSP) serving the healthcare industry.
Evolving Solutions is helping 7 Medical Systems to cost effectively host and manage their utility computing based storage platform for healthcare providers, by architecting and implementing an IBM BladeCenter technology solution that includes fiber & data disk along with tape.
“As radiology images continue to grow in size, imaging centers, hospitals and clinics require more and more storage both on site and at an off site location,” said Bruce Buerman, IBM Intel & Storage Specialist for Evolving Solutions. “Storage service providers are searching for the most efficient and cost effective technologies available to them in order to serve their customers with high availability, easy access storage.”
The IBM BladeCenter storage consolidation solution from Evolving Solutions, integrates 7 Medical Systems’ current computing resources into a centralized, cost-effective, high-density chassis.
Magnum Technologies’ ADVANTAGE® Business Service Management Software monitors Starz Entertainment Group LLC’s (SEG) entire IT infrastructure to give IT and Business personnel proactive insight into how technology fault and performance affects, and will impact, deployment of SEG’s newly- released Vongo service.
MINNEAPOLIS, Jan. 11, 2006 – http://www.magnum-tech.com – Magnum Technologies®, the leading provider of IT Business Service Management software, today announced its role as a critical enterprise-wide IT infrastructure monitoring software solution provider, which has enabled the successful launch of Starz Entertainment Group’s Vongo service.
In order to successfully offer more than 1,000 movies and video selections and a live streaming Starz TV channel to subscribers using broadband or wireless-enabled devices, Starz Entertainment Group relies solely on Magnum Technologies’ Business Service Management (BSM) software for not only monitoring its infrastructure, but for also monitoring key services provided by its partners.
“Magnum Technologies deployed ADVANTAGE®, a superior business service management and information technology monitoring system, that gave us the critical data necessary to adjust our infrastructure and processes in real-time in order to support our goal of the ultimate Vongo experience,” said Richard Brownrigg, vice president of technology for SEG. “A surprising benefit of ADVANTAGE® is its powerful ability to see issues in our partner environments that could ultimately impact the SEG business applications.”
A National Arbitration Forum arbitrator rules in favor of alternative rock band Pearl Jam regarding the Internet domain name pearljams.com.
Minneapolis, MN (PRWEB) January 6, 2006 — The National Arbitration Forum announced today that a ruling has been issued in favor of alternative rock band Pearl Jam regarding the rights to pearljams.com (Claim Number: FA0511000593325).
Pearl Jam, A General Partnership, represented by Leslie C. Ruiter of Stokes Lawrence, P.S., filed a complaint electronically with the National Arbitration Forum on November 8, 2005, asserting legal rights to the domain name pearljams.com. The address was registered with Domain Systems, Inc. by the Respondent, Vertical Axis, Inc. c/o Domain Administrator, on August 25, 2005. The panel found that the domain was being used without permission to refer Internet users to a variety of commercial web sites unrelated to Pearl Jam, including links to “Sponsored Results for Eddie Vedder,” “Eddie Vedder at Amazon.com, Pearl Jam and Eddie Vedder-$9.99 and Eddie Vedder on Yahoo!Music,” and, later, to categorized links, including links to “Freshwater Pearl,” “Jam,” and “Eddie Vedder,” as well as “chess,” “music,” “Fischer,” “ICC,” and “Blitz.”
A National Arbitration Forum arbitrator rules in favor of heavyweight boxing champion George Foreman regarding the Internet domain name georgeforemanenterprises.com.
Minneapolis, MN (PRWEB) January 9, 2006 — The National Arbitration Forum announced today that a ruling has been issued in favor of heavyweight boxing champion and Olympic gold medalist George Foreman regarding the rights to georgeforemanenterprises.com (Claim Number: FA0511000599036).
George Foreman Ventures LLC, represented by Jeanine L. Gibbs of Wargo & French LLP, filed a complaint electronically with the National Arbitration Forum on November 17, 2005, asserting legal rights to the domain name georgeforemanenterprises.com. The panel found that the Web address was registered by the Respondent, “zinnia c/o Zinnia Gonzalez,” on August 18, 2005, and resolved to an “under construction” web page.
Ruling in George Foreman Ventures LLC’s favor, National Arbitration Forum arbitrator Hon. James A. Carmody Esq. concluded that georgeforemanenterprises.com was “confusingly similar” to the GEORGE FOREMAN trademark, to which George Foreman established common law rights based on his celebrity status and boxing career. Judge Carmody also ruled that the Respondent did not have legitimate rights to, or interest in, the disputed Web address. The Respondent, who did not submit a response in the case, failed to demonstrate plans to use the domain name, leading to Carmody’s finding of bad faith registration and use. The Respondent’s previous attempt to sell the domain name registration to George Foreman Ventures LLC further reinforced the bad faith finding.
Kingston, Jamaica, January 5, 2006 — http://www.onevoicecomm.com — OneVoice Communications, a wireless Internet provider servicing Jamaican businesses, schools and end-users, is patenting its proprietary product, the InterComm Booth®, a free-standing computer booth offering versatile, affordable wireless Internet communications to the Jamaican public.
The InterComm Booth is a self-contained workstation that looks like a hybridization of an ATM, photo booth, telephone booth and arcade game. The booths will be sold and rented to Jamaican facilities in government, business, education, hospitality and tourism industries.
“The average Jamaican does not have access to the Internet, let alone the kind of wireless technology that the InterComm Booth offers,” said Todd Holcomb, OneVoice Communications CEO. “We are providing an Internet service that is more easily accessible to the entire Jamaican public and is much cheaper than current offerings from other ISPs.”
At present, a small proportion of the Jamaican population accesses the Internet via Cable. This is both costly and elusive due to the mountainous terrain in the center of the island that prevents cable from being laid.
OneVoice Communications will “light-up” Jamaica with wireless communications by integrating its proprietary technology into ARCOS ((Americas Region Caribbean Ring System), a broadband fiber optic cable that is being laid by a submarine circling the Caribbean.
MINNEAPOLIS, MN, January 5, 2006 — http://www.minco.com - Minco, a designer and manufacturer of critical components for critical applications, has launched the HVAC industry’s first combination temperature sensor, an air handling system sensor that includes both a low temperature cut-out sensor (freeze stat) and an averaging resistance temperature sensor in one self-contained unit.
Designed and manufactured for the HVAC and building automation markets, the Chill-Out™ Combination Sensor features an entirely solid state design with the relay integral to the tubing.
“In today’s conventional sensors, the relay must be housed outside the air flow system to work properly,” said Marty Knutson, Marketing Manager at Minco. “This means that the entire length of the attached wound spiral tubing must be carefully uncoiled and threaded though a small mounting hole into the air flow area. The Chill-Out Combination Sensor eliminates this process and therefore reduces installation time and effort.”
The Chill-Out Combination Sensor design is also more reliable than conventional sensors. Its solid state design replaces gas-filled capillary tubes, eliminating the risk of kinking during installation or the occurrence of field failures due to leaking.
Beaverton, OR, January 5, 2006 — Pacific Security Capital (“PSC”), (http://www.pacificsecuritycapital.com), a leading commercial real estate investment bank providing commercial loans, structured finance, investment sales and capital markets services, announced today that it has appointed industry veteran Gene Bentley, CCIM, as a Director in its global investment sales practice. Bentley will be responsible for working on larger capital asset transactions and key disposition assignments on a global basis.
Bentley is a highly regarded professional within the investment sales community, bringing more than 20 years of experience in capital assets acquisitions and dispositions to Pacific Security Capital. Bentley joins Pacific Security Capital from NAI Norris, Beggs and Simpson where he was perennially a top performing broker.
“Gene is widely regarded as one of Portland’s top performing investment sales brokers,” said Scott Pozzi, Managing Director of Global Real Estate Services for Pacific Security Capital. “He has previously been named Commercial Realtor of the Year and has been recognized by the Commercial Association of Realtors as the Most Valuable Broker.”
Bentley has participated in some of the most notable transactions in the Portland market during his career. These include: ● The sale of Cornell Oaks Corporate Center (685,000 sq. ft.) ● Lincoln Center (735,000 sq. ft.) ● 1515 Building (204,000 sq. ft.)
