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NEW YORK, NY--(Marketwire -02/28/12)- The American Society of Magazine Editors (ASME) today announced the finalists for the 2012 National Magazine Awards for Digital Media. Known as the Digital Ellies (for the Alexander Calder stabile "Elephant," which is given to each winner), the awards will be presented on March 20, 2012, in New York City. Topping the list of finalists are four magazine brands -- The Atlantic, Golf Digest, National Geographic and New York -- that are each nominated for three awards including General Excellence.

Sponsored by ASME in association with the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, the 2012 National Magazine Awards for Digital Media will be presented at lunch on Tuesday, March 20, at the Grand Hyatt New York. The lunch will be co-hosted by Larry Hackett, managing editor of People and ASME president, and Lucy Danziger, editor-in-chief of SELF and ASME secretary. The Digital Ellies are presented in conjunction with "MPA Digital: Swipe," the premier conference for magazine editors and publishers focusing on tablets, e-readers, smartphones and apps.

To register to attend the National Magazine Awards for Digital Media and "MPA Digital: Swipe," click here.

This year more than 270 publications entered the National Magazine Awards, and 90 industry leaders served as Digital Ellies judges. In addition to The Atlantic, Golf Digest, National Geographic and New York, magazines nominated for three awards include The Daily Beast, The New Yorker and Slate. Titles nominated for two awards include The Atavist, EW.com, Foreign Policy, GQ, Men's Health, The New York Times Magazine, Rolling Stone and Wired.

Media companies with multiple nominations include Condé Nast (10 for Golf Digest, GQ, The New Yorker and Wired); Hearst Magazines (2 for Popular Mechanics and Redbook); National Geographic Society (3 for National Geographic), The New York Times Company (2 for The New York Times Magazine), The Newsweek Daily Beast Company (3 for The Daily Beast), Rodale (2 for Men's Health), Time Inc. (6 for Cooking Light, EW.com, People, Sports Illustrated and Time), The Washington Post Company (4 for Foreign Policy and Slate) and Wenner Media (2 for Rolling Stone).

NATIONAL MAGAZINE AWARDS FOR DIGITAL MEDIA 2012 FINALISTS

General Excellence, Digital Media
Honors the best magazines published on digital platforms

The Atlantic
EW.com
Golf Digest
National Geographic
New York

Website
Honors the best magazine websites

The Atlantic
New York
People
Saveur
Slate

Tablet Edition
Honors magazine editions published on tablets and e-readers

Golf Digest
GQ
National Geographic
The New Yorker
Spin

Design, Digital Media
Honors magazine websites, tablet and e-reader editions and utility apps for visual and functional excellence

The Daily Beast (Website)
Everyday Food (iPad App, March)
National Geographic (iPad App, "7 Billion: How the World Will Change")
The New Yorker (iPad App, Summer Reading Issue, June 13 & 20)
Wired (iPad App, Underworld Issue, February)

Website Department
Honors a department, channel or microsite

The Atlantic (In Focus)
The Daily Beast (Book Beast)
Discover Magazine (Blogs)
Foreign Policy (Middle East Channel)
Sports Illustrated (NFL Section)

Utility App
Honors single-purpose apps distributed on mobile devices, including tablets and smartphones

Cooking Light (The Healthy Menu Maker)
EW.com (viEWer)
New York (The Cut on the Runway)
Poetry (iPad App)
Time (PopuList)

Personal Service, Digital Media
Honors service journalism on digital platforms

AARP.org (5 Weeks to a New Life)
Kiplinger (State-by-State Guide to Taxes on Retirees)
Men's Health (Guy Gourmet)
Men's Health (The Skin Cancer Center)
Redbook (The Truth About Trying)

Reporting, Digital Media
Honors excellence in reporting for digital media

The Atavist (The Instigators)
IEEE Spectrum (24 Hours at Fukushima)
Mother Jones (Occupy Wall Street Coverage)
Rolling Stone (The Kill Team)
Wired (FBI Teaches Agents: "Mainstream" Muslims Are "Violent, Radical")

Commentary, Digital Media
Honors excellence in opinion journalism on digital platforms

The American Scholar ("Zinsser on Friday," by William Zinsser)
CNET ("Molly Rants," by Molly Wood)
The Daily Beast (Commentary by Michelle Goldberg)
The New Yorker ("New Yorker" Writers on Osama bin Laden)
Rolling Stone ("Taibblog," by Matt Taibbi)

Multimedia
Honors the use of interactivity and multimedia in the coverage of an event or subject

The Atavist (Lifted)
Foreign Policy (The Qaddafi Files)
Golf Digest (Masters Coverage)
Popular Mechanics (Touchdown)
Slate (The Presidential Horse Race)

Video
Honors the outstanding use of video by magazines

5280 (The Saddlemaker)
GQ (Tell)
The New York Times Magazine (My Family's Experiment in Extreme Schooling)
The New York Times Magazine (13 Villains)
Slate (Why Gold, Why Not Argon?)

The American Society of Magazine Editors is the principal organization for magazine journalists in the United States. ASME members include the editorial leaders of most major consumer and business magazines published in print and online. Founded in 1963, ASME works to defend the First Amendment, protect editorial independence and support the development of journalism. ASME sponsors the National Magazine Awards in association with the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. The first National Magazine Award was presented in 1966 to Look; the first award for digital journalism was presented in 1997 to Money.

Adobe is the sponsor of the 2012 presentation of the National Magazine Awards for Digital Media.

To register to attend the National Magazine Awards for Digital Media and "MPA Digital: Swipe," click here.

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ATLANTA, Feb. 28, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Vericom Corporation has partnered with Froedtert Health, named one of the Milwaukee area's top employers by The Milwaukee Business Journal to provide ChannelCare healthcare digital signage at six hospital and clinic locations, with plans to implement Vericom's SoundCare on-hold messaging soon in 16 facilities.

In their quest for the optimal digital signage solution, Froedtert Health looked to Vericom's experience with digital signage and their intuitive understanding of the complexities of internal healthcare communications. Vericom was able to offer a sustainable and reliable communications solution that transcends technology, where dynamic visual messaging provides crucial healthcare information that gives patients tips and strategies to better manage their health. The messaging also greatly influences internal audiences' perception of the quality of care, leadership, services, and the workplace.

Via ChannelCare digital signage, Froedtert aims to convey messaging that reflects important cultural considerations like excellence in care and service, and compassion and respect in every patient encounter. "Vericom has been the right cultural fit for us from the start, and we are absolutely pleased with Vericom's extraordinary service," says Chris Sadler, director, creative services and e-business for Froedtert Health. "We feel comfortable and right at home with Vericom, knowing we are embarking on a long-term partner relationship with them."

Patient education and informing patients and consumers about additional service lines are Froedtert's primary objectives. Froedtert Health is using Vericom's content library to meet their communications goals and ensure messaging remains fresh. The ability to use premade content as well as custom content is integral to sustaining a successful long-term digital signage platform. Froedtert Health also aims to use this new form of communication to elevate branding and differentiate its hospitals and clinics. Whether Froedtert is using messages from the ChannelCare library or creating custom messages, ChannelCare content impresses viewers with stunning graphics. "The ChannelCare graphics look great. The high-definition messages surpass our expectations. They are spectacular," comments Sadler.

As Froedtert Health evolves with their new communications efforts, SoundCare will play an important role in meeting their objectives. In a competitive marketplace, healthcare organizations spend tremendous amounts of money, time, and resources to get consumers to call their facilities. SoundCare on-hold messaging engages and educates callers who are placed on hold or in queue. SoundCare's current, timely, and clinically accurate content vastly improves the waiting experience for calling audiences, potentially leading to higher patient and employee satisfaction.

"Our goal in partnering with our clients is to exceed their expectations every day. When your business is first and foremost delivering exceptional patient care, you need exceptional and sustainable communications and a partner who can deliver on that promise," says Robert J. Loeb, Vericom CEO. "We are committed to helping Froedtert Health achieve the results they seek today and tomorrow."

Froedtert Health is a regional health care organization made up of Froedtert Hospital, Milwaukee; Community Memorial Hospital, Menomonee Falls; St. Joseph's Hospital, West Bend; and Froedtert Health Clinics. Joining the capabilities of an academic medical center affiliated with The Medical College of Wisconsin, two community hospitals and primary and multi-specialty clinics, Froedtert Health delivers highly coordinated, cost-effective health care to residents of southeastern Wisconsin and beyond. For more information, visit froedterthealth.org.

Vericom's ChannelCare(TM) digital signage and SoundCare(R) on-hold messaging enable hospitals, health systems, and physician practices to better promote their service lines, improve patient safety, support branding efforts, recruit employees, and increase patient and employee satisfaction. Vericom has been exclusively serving healthcare providers with turnkey, comprehensive communications solutions for more than 23 years. Call 800-800-1090, email marketing@vericom.net or visit http://www.vericom.net. Click here for more information about healthcare digital signage.

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I’m normally reluctant to mention my own investments in my blog, because one’s motive can be easily misconstrued. But as some readers will already be aware, I have a fair degree of exposure in my portfolio to tangible assets, particularly rare coins.

While most of this is via my own coin collection, I also have exposure to this particular collectables market through a long-standing shareholding in Avarae Global Coins. (AVR)

Avarae is a listed investment company that invests in high end coins of a quality that, if I wanted to buy them physically, would be way beyond my fiscal reach.

I mention this only because, in the last two trading days, Avarae’s shares have risen 15%, although even at the current price of 11.75p they are still at a discount of 17% to the last published NAV. It is entirely possibly that published NAV will increase again before too many months elapse.

The company’s year-end is at the end of March and a new set of accounts should be published in the summer.

The strength in this little company is not an isolated instance, however.

Shares in Noble Investments (NBL), the listed coin dealer that manages Avarae’s portfolio and in which it has a percentage stake in the ‘teens, are up by 14.5% in the last month and 65.9% since the beginning of last year. Stamp dealer Stanley Gibbons' (SGI) shares are up by 9.2% and 18.8% respectively over the same period.

I don’t think this can be coincidence. There is a dynamic underlying recent movements like this which is nothing to do with bullion prices or a flight to physical assets. Bullion prices represent a small fraction of the value of rare gold coins, for example.

The message is basically coming loud and clear from auction results that high-value rarities, whether stamps or coins, attract substantial investment from affluent collectors in the USA, Russia, China, India and the Middle East.

Noble’s auction of the stunning Prospero Collection of more than 600 rare ancient coins in New York on January 4 2012, for example, saw the marathon eight-hour sale produce a total of over $25m, more than pre-sale estimates.

This pattern has been repeated in stamps and in some sections of the art market. Stanley Gibbons index of rare Chinese stamps shows prices tripling in five years. Its index of GB Rarities has taken 14 years to register the same gain, but that’s still a compound annual gain of nearly 11%.

It might be a bit late in the day to chase prices too much higher in either category. Stamps underwent a major bubble in the late 1970s, and contemporary art prices and wine have proved pretty cyclical in times of financial crisis.

There are also hefty transaction costs involved in buying and selling physical investments like this. Conventional shares may do better from now on.

But as long as auction results continue to reflect the enthusiasm of wealthy collectors in the way they have in the last couple of years, shares like Stanley Gibbons, Noble and Avarae will continue to prosper. 

For more from The Colonel and others, take a look at Interactive Investor's share trading blogs.

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by Manx Rally Media

Isle of Man based rally co-driver Rob Fagg got his 2012 season off to the best possible start by taking victory on the opening round of the Eurocars Motorsport Manx Rally Championship, the Mann Construction Chris Kelly Memorial Rally. Competing alongside Bury’s John Cope in the Cope Engineering Subaru Impreza WRC99 they took the spoils by just two seconds in one of the tensest finishes Manx Rallying has seen.

Prior to the event Cope and Robert Graham & Co Quantity Surveyors backed Fagg undertook a two day reconnaissance of the events stages, and on the first day the stages looked to be in excellent condition, but that was to change. Overnight rain turned the roads into a far more challenging test and as crews took the start there was concern regarding some sections which were now mud coated that would be hard to see in the dark Friday night stages.

It was therefore a steady start on stage one, the four mile blast over Slieu Whallian, which saw the pairing setting only the fifth fastest time, 13 seconds to pace setters Steve Colley and Graham Fargher in their Mitsubishi Evo 8. Another fifth fastest time on the 11 mile St Marks stage saw them move up into joint third before making that place their own with second fastest over the new Balladoole test, although they now trailed the lead by 22 seconds.

Service followed and with no major issues on the Geo-Prep prepared and run Subaru, it was just a routine check over and some minor suspension tweaks before a repeat of the previous three stages.
Despite what felt a quicker run over Slieau Whallian the time would just be one second quicker but an improved more committed run through St Marks kept them in the hunt although now 31 seconds off leader Sean Kelly (Evo 9). That gap was to grow by a further 11 seconds as a high-speed overshoot at the final chicane of Balladoole cost John and Rob time as they recovered, ending the night in fourth behind Colley, Kelly and 2010 event winner Dave Pattison in yet another Evo.

The opening stage of day two would see a different John Cope behind the wheel of the Impreza as he blasted through the 11 mile Curraghs test on Saturday morning to immediately reduce the gap to top spot to 28 seconds, that lead now being held by Pattison as Colley dropped to third behind Kelly. A run over Druidale saw the gap drop further before Pattison opened it back up after the fast 10-mile Staarvey test.  

The crews would then repeat the loop and the Curraghs bought Cope and Fagg right back into the mix, moving up to second behind Pattison as they went fastest by 15 seconds, the gap now just 10 to top spot, but with Kelly only six back in third. With another second taken back over Druidale, they would take the lead on what turned out to be the penultimate stage of the rally, as Pattison hit trouble and dropped time, now seven second back on John and Rob.

With the final planned Curraghs run being cancelled, just the six mile Druidale test left and the top four separated by a mere 19 seconds with no positions safe it was going to be a dramatic finish and that it was. First to complete the stage was overnight leader Colley, recording a lightning quick 5:19. Kelly would be next, 16 down on Colley while Pattison took second fastest although only two quicker than Kelly. As Cope and Fagg bought the Impreza to the stop line the times were checked, had they done enough?

They had, but by just two seconds as Colley jumped from fourth to second to secure runners-up spot, and beat Pattison by just two seconds with Kelly in fourth a further five back. A margin of just nine seconds from first to fourth, one of the, if not the closest finish in Manx rallying history.

“What a finish, after the time we dropped last night I didn’t think this would be possible but John has driven unbelievably well today” commented Rob at the finish. “The two runs through the Curraghs did it for us and put us in a position to fight for the win and we have got it, only just though with that time from Steve (Colley) on the last stage, he gave it everything. But a wins a win, it’s been a great event and what a finish, let’s hope for more of these.”
Rob is supported in 2012 by Cannon Tech. (Scotland) Ltd (www.cannontech.co.uk), Robert Graham & Co Quantity Surveyors, Synergy IT (www.synergyit.co.im), Cable Design Services (www.cdsl.net), Holton Homes (www.holtonhomes.co.uk), Nicky Grist Motorsport (www.nickygrist.com) and Fastime Stopwatches (www.astopwatch.com)

Photo Courtesy of Martyn Parnell (www.martynsfotos.com

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A wins a win, it’s been a great event and what a finish, let’s hope for more of these.

Rob Fagg,

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by Mariel Norton

The Isle of Man Government’s Treasury Minister has provided an in-depth presentation of the 2012 Manx budget to representatives of the Island’s financial services industry, at a packed breakfast briefing hosted by Lloyds TSB Offshore.

The event was held at the Claremont Hotel on the morning of Friday 24th February and was extremely well attended, building upon the significant reputation that the Lloyds breakfast briefings have developed as a valuable source of information and access to decision makers.  The Hon Eddie Teare MHK, Minister for the Treasury, walked attendees through the state of the Manx economy and expanded upon some of the changes made in the latest budget and the reasoning behind them, before taking questions from the audience.

The Minister’s view of the economy was cautiously positive.  He made it clear that the plan to balance the budget by the 2015/16 tax year was based upon forecasts of Government revenue which he felt were very reliable, and which were in turn based upon an economic growth forecast of around 3% per annum.  Mr Teare also emphasised the fact that the renegotiation of the VAT agreement had now left the Island with an appropriate and steady income, which actually had the benefit of making forward planning easier than it had been under the previous arrangement.  He concluded by saying: “The easiest thing for any government to do is to put taxes up, rather than to address its own spending.  We want to do the hard work; we want to get our costs down.”

When questions were put to the audience, the mood was generally positive, with many congratulating the Minister on a sensible budget before asking their question.  One area of contention related to figures shown by the Minister which suggested that public sector pay was on average 14% higher that pay in the private sector.  This was addressed by one attendee, alongside the issue of ‘gold plated’ final salary pension schemes.  The Minister’s response was that immediate change to the pension scheme to funded arrangements was not feasible, but that a further review would be necessary in the medium term, and that the public sector pay figures were distorted by the number of high-end professionals on the Government’s payroll compared to the private sector.

Questions were also asked regarding the continued ‘subsidy’ of the construction industry from the capital expenditure fund.  To this the Minister replied that construction was one of the first to be hit by the recession but was also likely to be one of the first to recover, with a number of large private developments currently in planning.  As such, the current Government investment in bricks and mortar was a ‘bridging’ operation, intended to ensure that skilled staff were not lost to the UK in the interim.

Trevor Kirk, Head of Corporate Banking at Lloyds TSB Isle of Man, represented the hosts of the event.  He commented: “I am very thankful for the Minister taking time out of what must be a really hectic schedule in budget week to present to all of our clients and introducers.  I am also very pleased that so many were able to make it along, and hope that they found it as informative as I did.  It is certainly encouraging, and a great benefit of our jurisdiction, that we can have access to such a key decision maker – even to the extent of being able to ask questions and provide direct feedback.  As a bank dedicated to keeping our clients informed as part of our service offering, we are proud that we are able to facilitate these opportunities.”
 
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