The Association of Equipment Manufacturers in partnership with Destination Imagination will host an innovative workforce development competition on February 7, 2009 preparing youth in the U.S. and Canada for exciting construction industry opportunities — now poised to add more than 1 million jobs by 2012 as a result of the high numbers of retiring Baby Boomers and the anticipated national infrastructure projects of the incoming Obama administration. (PRWeb Jan 4, 2009)

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DeSilva+Phillips, media investment bankers, releases its annual Media M&A Report 2009. It will surprise no one that 2008 was the worst year of the century for media deals of the century, with 109 deals totaling just over $2 billion in value in those sectors of the media market it has been tracking for a dozen years What is surprising, perhaps, is that compared with other years of this decade, the 2008 numbers are not that much worse. There have been three years since 2000 when the total deal volume in our media sectors was less than $3 billion — 2003, at 2.7 billion, 2004 at 2.9 billion, and 2008 at $2.0 billion. In the deal count, this year's 108 deals topped the counts in 2000, 2002 and 2003, and in fact does not look far behind the deal count of recent years. (PRWeb Jan 4, 2009)

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Benjamin Bassichis, MD, FACS, a double-board certified facial plastic surgeon, is honored with Diamond Level Status for Botox Cosmetic and Facial Fillers. Dr. Bassichis, a leading national expert in Cosmetic Injectables, is the only Facial Plastic Surgeon in Texas ever to receive this distinguished award reflecting his higher level of experience and excellent reputation in facial care. (PRWeb Jan 3, 2009)

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