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Former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum isrunning his presidential campaign on "ego and emotion,"a backer of rival Mitt Romney said on Monday. Former New Hampshire Gov. John Sununu referred to a weekend incident, in which Santorum engaged in a heated exchange with a New York Times reporter.

"Sen. Santorum really has lost his personal discipline and self-control in the process, lashing out at the press and frankly lashing out at his opponents," Sununu told reporters on a conference call.

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After a campaign event in Wisconsin on Sunday, Santorum was repeatedly asked to clarify a portion of his speech, but the candidate got agitated with the questioning.

"Quit distorting our words. If I see it, it's bullshit. Come on man. What are you doing?" Santorum said. "I'm upset when the media distort what I say. Yeah I do get upset. You know exactly what I was saying and you're misrepresenting it. What are you guys in the business of doing, reporting the truth or are you here to try to spin and make news? Stop it."

Romney's campaign jumped on the outburst.

"It is one thing to lose your temper at a New York Times reporter and it's another to have to deal with the pressures of folks on the international stage and even opposing congressional leaders," said Sununu, who served as chief of staff for President George H.W. Bush.

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"You need discipline, you need self-control, you need to be able to handle your messaging and focus on it. You need to have a temperament that makes people want to follow the leader as president and certainly Rick Santorum's outburst in the last few days has in my opinion disqualified him completely," he added.

Also on the call was former Wisconsin State Sen. Ted Kanavas who touted Romney's support for the Badger State's embattled GOP Gov. Scott Walker.

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BURLINGTON, MA and NEW YORK, NY--(Marketwire -03/27/12)- Signiant, a provider of intelligent file movement software for the media and entertainment industry, and Dalet, a leading developer of media asset management (MAM) and news solutions, today announced the API integration of their flagship products at leading sports, post-production and broadcast organizations in the United States, Canada and The Netherlands. Through this collaboration, the companies have optimized essence manipulation and media and metadata management across multi-site operations.

The Dalet/Signiant integration addresses a wide range of needs. In contribution workflows, content can be automatically imported into the system, saving time and resources. Transfers including conversions into different formats with associated metadata can also be automated for site-to-site or multi-site delivery. In all cases, Signiant leverages available bandwidth to accelerate the transfers and enhance workflows. Dalet Enterprise Edition creates a cross-system MAM with a centralized content catalog that manages media, essence files and metadata across systems, storing and tracking contextual sets of associated multimedia along with metadata. Assets are readily searchable and accessible across the organization using Dalet tools or other third-party broadcast or business systems.

"The Dalet/Signiant partnership is a definite win-win for our customers, making multi-site collaboration and access to content seamless, whether it is through a centralized content catalog or multiple independent databases that are communicating together," said Raoul Cospen, Director of Marketing at Dalet. "The Dalet workflow engine can seamlessly control the Signiant platform to trigger exchange workflows that move and copy video between multiple sites. It's transparent for the users, and exchanges are faster and optimized. It's the perfect combination of tools for multi-site management of news, sports, program management and production or contribution workflows or consolidating a multi-site archive."

Signiant's enterprise-scale software integrates seamlessly with complex IT infrastructure to enable fast, efficient workflows and media-aware networks. Signiant's Media Managers+Agents software provides powerful security, management and control of automated file exchanges between clients, speeding tasks such as the processing of raw content, adding metadata or formatting conversions for distribution in other countries. Signiant's Media Exchange software offers distributed media organizations a powerful tool for initiating desktop-to-desktop transfers. The unified suite features patented acceleration and security protocols, provides superior user experiences and supports a range of diverse applications.

"We understand the complexity of what our customers are trying to accomplish and know that as files move around the world, they must originate from and arrive into a tightly integrated technology ecosystem," said Rick Clarkson, Vice President of Product Management at Signiant. "Our partnership with Dalet addresses this level of technical integration for customers, and it is a logical step in both companies' ongoing strategies to deliver maximum end-to-end value in workflow automation."

About Dalet Digital Media Systems Dalet solutions enable broadcasters and media professionals to create, manage and distribute content to both traditional and new media channels, including interactive TV, the Web and mobile networks. Dalet combines into a single system a robust and proven Asset Management platform with advanced metadata capabilities, a configurable workflow engine, and a comprehensive set of purpose-built creative and production tools. This integrated and open environment enables end-to-end management of the entire News and Sport and Program content chain, and allows users to significantly improve efficiency, and to maximize the use and value of their assets. Dalet's solutions are delivered through a dedicated Professional and Integration Services Department to ensure the highest possible standards.

Dalet systems are used around the world by many thousands of individual users at hundreds of TV and Radio content producers, including public broadcasters (ABS-CBN, BBC, CBC, DR, France TV, RTBF, RFI, Russia Today, RSR & TSR, RT Malaysia, VOA, WDR), commercial networks and operators (Antena 3, Canal+, FOX, eTV, Mediaset, Orange, Time Warner Cable, Warner Bros., Sirius XM Radio) and government organizations (Queensland JAG, Canadian House of Commons, The European Commission). Dalet is traded on the NYSE-EURONEXT stock exchange (Eurolist C): ISIN: FR0011026749, Bloomberg DLT:FP, Reuters: DALE.PA.

About SigniantUsed by the world's top content creators and distributors, Signiant is a leading global provider of intelligent file movement software for the media and entertainment industry. The company's powerful software suite optimizes existing enterprise network infrastructure and media technologies to ensure secure digital media exchanges, workflow efficiency and superior user experiences. Headquartered in Burlington, MA, with offices around the world, today Signiant connects tens of thousands of media professionals in more than 50 countries. For more information, visit http://www.signiant.com.

Visit Signiant at NAB 2012, Booth SL4228 and Dalet, Booth SL4615

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LOS ANGELES, March 26, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Empire Post Media, Inc. (OTCQB:EMPM.PK - News) announced that the company's senior production executive Brian Trenchard Smith has commenced screenplay and pre-production work on a feature film version of "In Search of Yamashita's Gold," a true story about the exploits of modern day treasure hunters seeking to recover millions of ounces of gold buried by the Japanese as they retreated from the Philippines at the end of World War II.

Empire previously announced that, after a feasibility study, the company had entered into an agreement to option all rights to the underlying story, with the intention of developing the material across a number of platforms, including interactive e-book, feature film, documentary, television series and videogame.

Trenchard Smith, director of 42 feature films and over 40 television programs, plans to center the production in Australia, with locations in Fiji and the Philippines. He is currently writing the script and will direct the film.

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Jersey City, N.J. - March 27, 2012 - ISO announces a new resource that will help claims and fraud investigators identify an individual`s presence on social networking websites.

Web Presence Search - available through the ISO ClaimSearch Decision Net public records information portal - will identify an individual`s "web footprint" or trail of digital information left as a result of postings on social networking websites.

"The massive volumes of information available on the internet can make any online investigation of a subject a daunting challenge," said Rich Della Rocca, vice president, ISO Claims Solutions. "Web Presence Search can make a real difference."

To deliver this service, ISO has formed an alliance with Social Intelligence Corp., a leading provider of social media screening and research solutions. Social Intelligence uses cutting-edge technology, including multiple search engines and customized web crawling tools, to automatically screen millions of websites, social networks, and secondary data sources such as blogs and photo sharing services.

Search results are displayed in a Match Report summary consisting of URL links to web pages where reference to a search subject is detected. Findings can include personal profiles, employment history, educational background, recreational interests and activities, and personal photographs, including pictures of family members, friends and associates, video clips, blog entries, and news articles.

"Combining online search results with public record findings from other third-party sources, such as data aggregators and government agencies, is one of the most effective and innovative ways to provide a comprehensive, multi-dimensional profile of a person of interest," said Della Rocca. "The Web Presence Search and Report will be an important resource for our claims and investigations customers."

For more information about the Web Presence Search or to speak with a sales representative, contact the ISO Customer Support Center at 1-800-888-4476. Or send e-mail to info.claimsearch@iso.com.

About Social Intelligence Corp. Social Intelligence, a Riv Data Corp. company, is the leading provider of social media screening and research solutions to a wide range of industries. With innovative and legally compliant tools, technology, and services, Social Intelligence`s suite of products facilitate better hiring decisions, identify insurance fraud, and reduce overall operational risks. Social Intelligence provides powerful tools to employers to mitigate workplace risks, to insurers and claims specialists to reduce fraud, and to many other organizations to benefit from the valuable information that can be attained through social media research. Social Intelligence adheres to the guidelines of the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) and is complaint with Federal and State law to ensure that both individuals and organizations are protected. Social Intelligence is located at 735 State Street, Suite 600, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. For more information, call 1-888-748-3281.

About ISO Since 1971, ISO has been a leading source of information about property/casualty insurance risk. For a broad spectrum of commercial and personal lines of insurance, the company provides statistical, actuarial, underwriting, and claims information; policy language; information about specific locations; fraud-identification tools; and technical services. ISO serves insurers, reinsurers, agents and brokers, insurance regulators, risk managers, and other participants in the property/casualty insurance marketplace. ISO is a member of the Verisk Insurance Solutions group at Verisk Analytics (Nasdaq:VRSK - News). For more information, visit http://www.iso.com and http://www.verisk.com.

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When a major Canadian telecommunications company wanted to change how it handles employee training, it turned to social networking.

Telus, based in Vancouver, had long run formal programs -- mostly classes and lectures -- to train its 35,000 employees around the world, but found they were becoming a bit too stiff, said Dan Pontefract, head of learning and collaboration.

Some workers have difficulty learning in formal settings, and can better master new tasks by communicating directly with friends and colleagues.

Learning, after all, is social, says Pontefrac. The training should be social as well, he added.

"We always thought training was an event," he said. "It was something that you went to. We had a plethora of formal learning options."

However, Pontefrac added. "That's just not the only way people learn."

Now, Telus offers a combination of learning tools for its workers. "We didn't throw classroom learning out with the bathwater, but we made it a piece of a bigger pie that included informal and social," he said

The Telus training philosophy is now broken down into the three broad categories.

Formal training refers to any self-contained event that people go to, such as a lecture or classroom course.

Informal training refers to live Webcasts, podcasts or mentoring.

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