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Craig leads S.C.-Upstate past Stetson 72-59

DELAND, Fla. – Torrey Craig scored 20 points and grabbed 14 rebounds to carry South Carolina-Upstate past Stetson 72-59 on Friday night.

The win, which avenged last month's 74-71 loss to the Hatters in Spartanburg, S.C., was the second straight for the Spartans (4-19, 3-10 Atlantic Sun Conference) after 13 losses in a row.

Stetson (6-18, 4-9), led by Corey Walden's 13 points and game-high nine assists, has now dropped seven consecutive games.

Craig, notching his 14th straight game in double figures and his sixth 20-point performance of the season, was 6 of 12 from 3-point range. He also contributed four assists, two blocked shots and two steals.

Mezie Uzochukwu added 13 points, Josh Chavis 12 and Tony Dukes 11 for USC Upstate.

For Stetson, Luis Jacobo added 12 points and Ridge Graham 10.

The Spartans trailed only once — for 31 seconds — early in the game.

U.S. vows to boost space industrial base

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Defense Department and intelligence community vowed Friday to streamline business operations they conduct with U.S. suppliers of high-tech eyes, ears and other space hardware deemed critical for national security.

"We seek to foster a U.S. space industrial base that is robust, competitive, flexible, healthy, and delivers reliable space capabilities on time and on budget," an unclassified summary of a new "National Security Space Strategy" said.

The department and the intelligence community aim to better manage investments to make sure the industrial base can sustain "those critical technologies and skills that produce the systems we require," said the summary released at the Pentagon.

Among the biggest beneficiaries could be the Pentagon's top suppliers, led by Lockheed Martin Corp, Boeing Co and Northrop Grumman Corp.

The document was signed jointly by Secretary of Defense Robert Gates and Director of National Intelligence James Clapper. It builds on other major national security planning carried out under President Barack Obama.

"The National Security Space Strategy represents a significant departure from past practice," Gates said in a statement. "It is a pragmatic approach to maintain the advantages we derive from space while confronting the new challenges we face."

The United States faces growing challenges in space, including efforts by potential adversaries to exploit perceived U.S. space vulnerabilities, the document said.

China heightened U.S. concerns about the safety of U.S. orbiting eyes and ears in January 2007, when it used a relatively simple ground-based anti-satellite weapon to shoot down one of its own aging weather satellites.

Increased congestion in space was highlighted by a 2009 collision between a Russian government Cosmos series satellite and a commercial satellite owned by Iridium, a U.S. company.

(Reporting by Jim Wolf. Editing by Gerald E. McCormick)

expressor software enters 2011 with New Products, Free ETL, and Key Hires

Company is building strong market momentum with brand new ETL and data integration product.

Burlington, MA (Vocus/PRWEB) January 31, 2011

expressor software, a leading provider of free and affordable data integration software, today announced that the company is building strong market momentum with a brand new fast, easy to download and use ETL product, and new hires in key areas of its operations.

"It took us some time to get all the components of our new business model up and running," said Bob Potter, president and CEO, expressor software. "I am very excited about the fact that we are entering 2011 with a significantly improved and redesigned product set that fully supports our high-transaction business model going forward.The download activity has surpassed our very high expectations to date and I’m expecting close to 20,000 unique downloads of the free Studio product this year."

"expressor software has made significant progress in all areas of its operations," added Melinda Smith, CFO, expressor software."I am very pleased with our year end achievements in customer and bookings growth and our ability to exceed 2010 cash flow targets. Our customer acquisition and sales goals for fiscal year 2011 are very ambitious, but I'm optimistic based on 2010 growth and momentum that we will be able to achieve them."

Product, sales and marketing momentum

During Q4 2010, expressor continued to release breakthrough products, increase customers, hired senior staff and receive positive customer and analyst feedback on its brand new expressor 3.0 data integration platform.Key highlights include:     Launched expressor 3.0 beta program, which was started in mid-2010 and was opened to the public in earlier November.Over 1,500 unique users downloaded the new expressor Studio beta product and utilized the company’s new Community Center to receive free online forum support, online training via tutorials, and access to expressor’s knowledge base and online documentation.

    Released expressor Studio 3.0 as a free community edition in late December 2010 and announced its general availability (GA) in early January.expressor Studio is a next-generation data integration application with simplified data mappings and reusable business rules.The GA release of expressor Studio is being followed by the release of the commercial expressor Standard Edition 3.1 in late February 2011.

    In addition to free community forum support, expressor announced a comprehensive annual support package priced at 1,150 dollars, which enables expressor Studio users to receive unlimited incidence reporting; email and phone support; guaranteed response; automatic notification of updates and bug fixes; 3 hours of product mentoring; and the ability to file enhancement requests. This comprehensive, yet affordable offering is the most generous support package in the industry and by far outmatches similarly priced offerings provided by open source ETL vendors.

    Added new and repeat customers including Western World Insurance Group and Viverae and continued joint partnering and marketing with Teradata by exhibiting at the Teradata Partners user group conference in late October, and conducting its first joint webinar with Teradata in early November 2010.

    expressor also had a strong showing at the PASS SQL Server Summit 2010 the week of November 8, where the company demonstrated the new expressor Studio 3.0 product, announced the public beta and GA plans for it, and jumpstarted the Studio download program right at the show floor. At the event, expressor held its first SQL Server MVP advisory council meeting to receive their input on how expressor can best position and market its product into the SQL Server community.

    Brought on board Alan DiPietro, formerly of LogMeIn, as Vice President of Sales, who is an expert in building and managing high-transaction sales environments.expressor also hired Wiqar Chaudry, formerly of Mobile Messenger and Epsilon, as the company’s product manager for the expressor 3.x product line.

“We like the new Semantic Types capability in expressor Studio 3.0 and are firmly of the belief that the use of semantics is the way forward in many technology areas, of which data integration is just one,” said Philip Howard, Research Director at Bloor Research. “When combined with cross-core parallelism in the commercial editions of expressor 3.x, it is our opinion that expressor offers significant advantages over traditional methods in terms of ease of use, reuse and performance.”

About expressor software

expressor software knows data integration -- and we know today’s most capable data integration tools are too complex and too expensive. Our vision is to provide enterprise-class data integration software that is cost-effective, fast and easy to use.

expressor’s game-changing usability enables you to use less technical, lower-cost development resources. Our unique, active metadata foundation simplifies data mapping and transformation to reduce your time-to-value. And our dramatically lower cost makes it easy to justify replacing your brittle and expensive hand-coded implementations or underperforming in-house ETL tools. Version 3 of expressor is a comprehensive design, development and deployment platform available in three editions tailored to support the full range of data integration applications, from tactical data migrations to the largest enterprise data warehouses and strategic, predictive analytics.

To learn more about what makes expressor the leader in affordable, enterprise-class data integration, visitor download the free expressor Studio at .

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Rwandan rebel: I am innocent of Congo war crimes

THE HAGUE, Netherlands – A Rwandan rebel told war crimes judges Friday that he was not involved in what prosecutors describe as a murderous 2009 bid for power in Congo.

Callixte Mbarushimana spoke at his first appearance at the International Criminal Court since he was handed over by French authorities on Tuesday. He was arrested in Paris last October.

"All my life I have fought injustice, hatred of other people and all forms of exploitation of human beings and I will continue to fight that in all its forms," he told judges at his arraignment.

Mbarushimana, a leader of the Hutu rebel group Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda, is accused of 11 counts of crimes against humanity and war crimes by his rebels, including murder, rape, persecution based on gender, and extensive destruction of property.

Mbarushimana had been on Interpol's list of wanted fugitives for alleged involvement in the Rwandan genocide in 1994, but he was arrested in connection with crimes in 2009 in Congo's Kivu provinces, where Hutu militants from Rwanda have been active.

Prosecutors allege his FDLR fighters deliberately targeted civilians "in order to ultimately obtain political concessions."

And while Mbarushimana lived in France at the time, prosecutors say he "personally and intentionally" contributed to the criminal plan by leading an international campaign seeking political power, waged from his Paris apartment.

Among the allegations against him are that FDLR forces forced men to rape and mutilate women in Congo's North and South Kivu provinces. On one occasion in May 2009, they slit open the bellies of pregnant women and tore out the fetuses, prosecutors allege.

Mbarushimana, who told judges he was a computer engineer, was not required to enter a plea on Friday. But he insisted he was "in no way involved" in any of the crimes.

"I condemn attacks on innocent civilians," he said.

Mbarushimana's lawyer Nicholas Kaufman said he would file a formal request soon for his client to be released pending further hearings.

The court scheduled a hearing for July 4 to weigh prosecutors' evidence and determine whether it is strong enough to merit sending Mbarushimana to trial.

The court's chief prosecutor, Luis Moreno-Ocampo, said earlier this week that prosecuting the FDLR leadership is "a step toward justice for all victims, peace for the region, hope for the populations."

Mbarushimana is the fifth suspect in the court's custody, four of them accused of crimes in Congo. He had been in France since 2002, and received political refugee status in 2003.

France had refused to arrest him on the genocide charges because it does not extradite citizens of countries that have the death penalty.

Cancer Organizer:The Best Way to Keep Track of the Cancer Experience

The cancer medical organizer, known as Cancer Trakker beats all other medical organizer’s hands down. Cancer Trakker is a utility designed to help patients verify the information in their medical record and monitor health data about themselves.

(Vocus/PRWEB) January 27, 2011

, known as Cancer Trakker beats all other medical organizer's hands down. The creator of the medical organizers, Amber Bowden has officially put the health organizer industry on notice: efficient and quality care of medical patients will soon be as mandated by consumers with the introduction of her innovation medical organizer,is a utility designed to help patients verify the information in their medical record and monitor health data about themselves.

It is a program that allows for continuous, comprehensive care with better coordination between patients, physicians, and other providers.It takes the guesswork out of the all the frightening and sometimes overwhelming issues that come with a patient diagnosed with cancer.

As Ms. Bowden states, "When a person hears the news that they have a terminal health condition, their life is turned into a whirlwind of lab tests, procedures, possible surgeries, doctor appointments, medical claims, and pharmacy runs."This is how the first our medical organizer came into existence.

This medical organizer is a three ring 1 inch binder filled with a place to record pertinent information including:

·         Prescription and Non Prescription Medication

·         Doctor's visits and Doctors Instructions

·         Lab Results

·         Chemotherapy and Radiation Treatments

·         Surgery schedule and After Care Instructions

·         And so much more

Each section inside of thewas designed to fit the needs of every type of cancer patient.It is made specifically with the sensitivity and care that each individual patient needs.This health organizer is an essential piece of the patient's goal to having overall comprehensive care. Without the our MedTrakker it is literally impossible to keep track of all the whirlwind of information and schedules that the patient must endure.

As Amber Bowden cites, "The medical organizer was created to save the anxiety of starting from scratch."It is an essential tool for managing any type of cancer and treatment stages that exceed well beyond basic emergency care information.Where most companies in the health organizer market space provide basic health information our medical organizer gives the patient a comprehensive plan to self manage their cancer experience.

The medical trakkers are available exclusively online at:

For Media: Amber Bowden is available for speaking, events, book signings and expert quotes.

Amber Bowden can be reached atfor further questions regarding Medical Trakker.

Publicist Tatyana Gann, 615.354.7625

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