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Hooray for us! All that was missing from the 2012 NHL Awards show in Las Vegas was Liberace's jeweled coat.

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LAS VEGAS -- Of course, the only word that applies is "absurd" in trying to explain how and why the NHL's Awards show is now staged in this city every year. Months of struggle and work by still mostly small-town prairie boys ends with a coronation in the most garish, un-hockey place on earth: Las Vegas.

The most self-conscious of all major sports, its players taught to never attract the spotlight to themselves, somehow takes its final bow in a place of outlandish, outsized neon self-promotion.

The place where Liberace flaunted his jeweled coat, where Elvis did karate chops in white bell-bottoms, where Mike Tyson once partially bit off a man's ear -- this is where the painfully shy Evgeni Malkin fumbled through his Hart Trophy acceptance speech as the NHL's most valuable player on Wednesday night at the Wynn casino.

Maybe it's not all that surprising though, really. Hockey people work so hard at staying humble 363 days a year in freezing cold rinks, maybe it's only natural that they'd want to put orange lampshades on their heads and slosh around blazing hot sidewalks with open containers for the other two days.

Much like this year's show -- from the baggy-eyed, flat opening monologue of Matthew Perry to the hysterical Brendan Shanahan impersonator sketches -- this whole Vegas hockey act works and ... doesn't.

First off, what worked:

The hockey writers, most of them from beleaguered print outlets, still get to choose who wins the major trophies, and they got things right with the selection of Malkin as the Hart winner. The Penguins center earned it with a fabulous season for a franchise where he probably is still only the third-most popular center in town behind the owner, Mario Lemieux, and the kid, Sidney Crosby.

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Word-Soul Artist LadyBoss-AmaniShakhete Releases New Music Video "Murder 2012" - Now On YouTube

-- The video can be viewed online at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uB8krsNIn7Q --

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Pacific Northwest/USA (June 21, 2012) -- There are thousands of music videos, but none quite like "Murder 2012." This new video by Word-Soul Artist LadyBoss-Amanishakhete (A-ma-ni-sha-kete) depicts a message that racism is escalating in the twenty-first century. Underreported in mainstream media, hate groups have tripled in the past three years, are increasingly dangerous and use high profile blacks - such as President Obama and Trayvon Martin - to heighten their hate messaging.

Both Obama and Martin are featured in the video, including Aaron Campbell, an unarmed mentally ill black man who was gunned downed by police in Portland, Oregon. The Aaron Campbell case gained national attention because the police officer, who was fired because of the unjustified shooting, is being reinstated to active duty.

"Times are dangerous for especially people-of-color," warns LadyBoss-Amanishakhete. "There is a clear attack on our civil rights."

Unlike her first album, Epiphany of Lady, which introduced her as an introspective and spiritual artist, in "Murder 2012", LadyBoss is hard-hitting. The soundtrack's powerful mix of symbolic lyrics also demonstrate an artist who remains true to her style - Word-Soul - a vocal sound LadyBoss created and defines as: a balance between spokenword, rap and hip hop with emphasis on a message that is underscored by jammin' music!

Since the release of "Murder 2012", LadyBoss' fans have grown to include people who live in the Netherlands, United Kingdom and Israel.

"Music with a message can bring people together," says LadyBoss. "Murder 2012 resonates with people who want hate and discrimination to end."

LadyBoss-Amanishakhete teamed with Portland hip-hop artist Anuff, who composed the music for "Murder 2012". To support this indie artist, music enthusiasts can download the song from cdbaby, whotune.com, Amazon MP3, iTunes and other online retailers. The video is produced by Perception Media in Portland, Oregon.

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Across the country, something is missing from the campaign ads of men and women running for Congress: the word "Congress."

Likewise, "Senate," "senator" and "representative" are making only rare cameos in these campaign ads. The absence is especially pronounced in the case of incumbents who are asking voters to re-elect them in November.

"How do you go from working in a family seed business in Iowa to fighting for Iowans at the highest levels?" a narrator intones in an ad for Rep. Tom Latham, R-Iowa.

The highest levels of what, exactly? The ad notes that Latham took "Iowa common sense" to Washington and voted against the stimulus package but never exactly spells out that he has served at the highest levels of the U.S. government in Congress since 1995.

There are years when incumbents can tout their experience and legislative achievements as they seek re-election. This is not one those years, as the approval ratings of the gridlocked Congress have begun to approach the popularity of pond scum among an increasingly disenchanted electorate.

The result is that consultants and strategists who run congressional campaigns appear to be employing some artful ad copy to avoid mentioning that their candidates are members of Congress. "They don't use their title. They don't refer to their years of service. They don't show pictures of themselves in committee meetings," said Stuart Rothenberg, a nonpartisan congressional analyst, explaining the incumbent-as-outsider strategy. "They have to acknowledge the anger, the frustration. They've got to run as agents of change," he said.

Rep. Rick Berg, R-N.D., who is running for the Senate, appeared in a campaign ad earlier this year with his mother, Francie.

"I want to tell you about my son, Rick Berg," she said, seated at a kitchen table next to him. She said that he had grown up on a farm, working cattle, bailing hay and learning the value of a dollar. She vouched for his knowledge of "the North Dakota way."

She declined to mention that he also knows at least something about the Washington way, having served as North Dakota's only member of Congress since 2011.

Campaign officials generally deny that their candidates are ducking the congressional label, and it is hard to deny or obscure membership in that body. But after more than a year of bitter disputes on Capitol Hill a handful of near-government shutdowns, a showdown over raising the nation's legal borrowing limit last summer, the utter failure of a special deficit reduction "supercommittee" it's clear that this year, even the incumbents are running as outsiders who will shake the place up. Although this is not an entirely new strategy, more incumbents may be forced to embrace it, given the political climate.

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TORONTO, June 20, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --eDev Technologies (www.edevtech.com)today announced the initial availability of its breakthrough requirements authoring technology inteGREAT Smart Docs, a Microsoft Office Word 2010 or 2007 plugin for requirements authoring and collaboration.

"One key challenge faced by organizations today is that business and IT use different tools; businesspeople tend to use tools like Microsoft Word, while IT staff use other technical tools for requirements engineering. This leads to broken communication, rekeying data, redundancy, lack of traceability and fragmentation of information," says Asif Sharif, Chief Technologist, eDev Technologies.

inteGREAT Smart Docs allows business users, managers and analysts to author requirements with the familiar, yet structured, Microsoft Word 2010 or 2007 interface. Information from Smart Docs is automatically saved in the requirements repository, Team Foundation Server, as: goals, risks, market potential, requirements, user stories, actors, events, processes and data; along with their properties, attachments and traceability. "This provides TFS users with a very familiar user interface, will enhance its speed of adoption, while broadening its use throughout the enterprise," says Brian Harry, Product Unit Manager for Team Foundation, Microsoft Corporation.

Smart Docs allows users to reuse requirements, either via the auto prompting intellisense feature or by dragging and dropping search results. Users can create WYSIWYG documents like a Requirements Catalogue, BRD, Use Case, User Story, SRS and other Smart Docs right from within Microsoft Word 2010 or 2007, leveraging current templates as the foundation. Once information is created in Microsoft Word 2010 or 2007, flow charts and test cases can be automatically generated. Legacy documents can also become Smart Docs, thereby bringing this content into TFS as a live link.

Documents generated by inteGREAT can be configured as Smart Docs, including the templates currently used by clients today. Smart Docs can be used offline or connected real-time to TFS. "This technology efficiently solves the real time collaboration problem faced by project stakeholders using different interfaces today, since virtually everyone uses Microsoft Word," says Bob Savelson, SVP Sales & Marketing, eDev Technologies. General availability is expected in the fall of 2012.

About eDev Technologies, Inc. (www.edevtech.com)

eDev Technologies, Inc., headquartered in Toronto, Canada, is an established global technology company, recognized worldwide for its unique brand inteGREAT. inteGREAT is a Requirements Lifecycle Management platform that is being used in both the Public and Private Sectors, in organizations of all sizes, worldwide. inteGREAT's success has earned eDev Tier One partnerships including Premier Microsoft Visual Studio Industry Partner and Microsoft Gold Certified Partner. inteGREAT has also been cited by Forrester Research, Gartner, Seilevel and BaseX Research, as they too have recognized the depth of eDev's services and the measureable value inteGREAT brings to its clients.

For more information, call: Bob Savelson at eDev 416-469-3131 x 226 bob.savelson@edevtech.com

This press release was issued through eReleases Press Release Distribution. For more information, visit http://www.ereleases.com.

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(RTTNews.com) - Hopes of additional easing the traders have built against the backdrop of softening economic environment may be put to test, as the D-day has arrived. Reflecting the nervousness of traders ahead of the decision, the U.S. index futures point to a slightly higher opening on Wednesday. The Fed's post-meeting policy statement, updated economic forecasts and press briefing of Chairman Ben Bernanke are expected to be the focal points of the day, as the global economy waddles through muddled waters.

A warning issued by Procter & Gamble (PG) and lackluster guidance announced by tech companies Adobe Systems (ADBE) and Jabil Circuit (JBL) may create some uneasiness about the corporate profit outlook ahead of the second quarter reporting season. The currency market is also searching for direction, with trading muted ahead of the Fed decision. Crude oil is consolidating after yesterday's rally.

As of 6:18 am ET, the Dow futures are up 3 points and the Nasdaq 100 futures are adding 4.75 points, while the S&P 500 futures are down marginally.

U.S. stocks advanced on Tuesday, thanks to hopes that the U.S. Federal Reserve will announce stimulatory support in the wake of weakening global economic fundamentals.

The Federal Open Market Committee, the monetary policy-setting arm of the Federal Reserve is due to release the post-meeting policy statement at 12:30 am ET followed by the release of the FOMC forecasts at 2 pm ET. Chairman Ben Bernanke will hold a press briefing at 2:15 pm ET.

The Energy Information Administration is scheduled to release its weekly petroleum inventory report for the week ended June 15th at 10:30 am ET. A report released by the American Petroleum Institute showed that crude oil stockpiles fell by 550,000 barrels to 385.1 million barrels in the week ended June 15th. While distillate inventories fell by 269,000 barrels, gasoline inventories increased by 1.07 million barrels.

In corporate news, Procter & Gamble lowered its June quarter guidance, citing slower than expected market growth rates and market softness in developed regions along with unfavorable currency translation effects.

Jabil Circuit reported third quarter core earnings that were in line, while its revenues were shy of estimates. For the fourth quarter, the company expects core earnings of 54-66 cents per share on net revenues of $4.1 billion to $4.35 billion. The guidance was soft.

Adobe Systems' second quarter results exceeded estimates. The company guided third quarter non-GAAP earnings to 56-61 cents per share and revenues to $1.075 billion to $1.125 billion. The guidance was soft. The company also narrowed its full year revenue growth guidance to 6-7 percent from 6-8 percent and non-GAAP earnings guidance to $2.40-$2.46 per share from $2.38-$2.48 per share.

La-Z-Boy's (LZB) fourth quarter earnings rose to 37 cents per share, including 19 cents per share in anti-dumping duties, compared to 19 cents per share in the year-ago period, which included a 5 cents per share impairment charge. Sales fell 3.4 percent to $327.39 million, below the consensus expectations.

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