John Baker Welch with Rothschild Investment Corporation Welcomes Phil Tobin, Co-Founder and Chairman American Endowment Foundation, on February 8, 2012

CHICAGO (MMD Newswire) February 6, 2012 — To better educate CPAs and Attorney’s on donor advised funds, John Baker Welch, registered representative with Rothschild Investment Corporation, welcomes Phil Tobin, Chairman of American Endowment Foundation on February 8, 2012.

A Donor Advised Fund is a family foundation or charitable gifting alternative that provides simple, flexible, efficient ways to manage your charitable giving. There are many aspects to consider when determining a large transfer of wealth. With Donor Advised Funds, donors enjoy administrative convenience, cost savings and tax advantages by conducting their charitable affairs through their fund over successive generations while retaining the trusted relationship of their professional advisors.

Established in 1993, American Endowment Foundation (AEF) is a tax-exempt public charity approved by the IRS. AEF was formed as a pure independent, national program for donors and their families, as they continue to set the standard for personalized, independent, conflict-free donor platform.

Attend this discussion on best practices in charitable giving led by Phil Tobin, and earn Minimum Continuing Legal Education and Continuing Professional Education credit, while enjoying a lunch and beverages compliments of Rothschild.

Event

Best Practices in Charitable Giving

Date

February 8, 2012

Time

11:30 pm CST (lunch will be served)

Place

Rothschild Investment Corporation’s Office

311 S. Wacker Drive Suite 6500

Chicago, IL 60606 (View Map)

RSVP

Joshua Lamers, (312) 983-8974, jlamers@rothschildinv.com

Speaker

Phil Tobin

Philip T. Tobin is Co-founder and Chairman of American Endowment Foundation (AEF). Established in 1993, AEF is an IRS-recognized public charity that administers a national, independent Donor Advised Fund program. Phil is a member of the International Association of Advisors in Philanthropy. He was formerly chief financial and administrative officer of The Cleveland Foundation. In addition, Phil is Founder and President of Hudson Community Foundation, Hudson, Ohio.

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Glendale, California (MMD Newswire) February 6, 2012 — Zurich-based Inplenion Business Consulting has selected Tenrox cloud-based professional services automation(Tenrox Cloud PSA) to help improve project financial reporting and resource scheduling. With 30 employees and offices in Zurich, Frankfurt, Geneva and Dubai, Inplenion is implementing Tenrox’s Project Planning, Time Expense, Project Cost Billing, Resource Management Scheduling, Work Process Management and Reporting Analytics modules.

Inplenion is a leading Business Performance Management solutions provider. They assess, design and implement strategic, financial and business intelligence solutions for well-knowninternational organizations aroundthe globe and across all industries, including financialservices, pharmaceuticals, telecom, and oil and gas.

“As our client list and scope of projects continue to expand, we are excited about using Tenrox to help us develop our infrastructure so we can continue offering the excellent customer service and project results our clients expect,” said Tamara Donnelly, senior consultant.

Until now, Inplenion had been handling project management manually through spreadsheets, phone calls and emails. As the company has staff located in several countries, coordinating the setup of larger-scale projects could require two people up to two weeks. “As our projects became larger in scope, the limitations of tracking our projects and available resources in spreadsheets became more prominent, by affecting our ability to quickly and accurately bid for potential new projects and assess the overall profitability of current individual projects,” Donnelly explained.

Inplenion chose Tenrox Cloud PSA because of its comprehensive features and capabilities. These include:

An end-to-end solution that allows Inplenion to track projects from the moment they enter the sales pipeline through to client billing and analytics at completion.

Full multi-currency support allows international projects to adapt to local currency requirements for billing and expense reimbursement.

Ease of integration with other back-end solutions. For Inplenion, this includes Oracle Hyperion Strategic Finance and exporting data for use in Abacus, the company’s accounting software.

An additional selling point for the company was Tenrox’s graphical workflows. “Developing structure and processes that are clear is not an easy task. As we grow and require a more formal organizational structure, the visual workflows are a great asset that will help us refine our work processes. A picture is worth a thousand words. Visual workflows make it simpler for personnel to understand the processes and begin to use them more quickly and effectively,” Donnelly said.

About Inplenion Business Consulting

Inplenion Business Consulting is a leader in Controlling Performance Management solutions. We help our clients sustainably improve their performance by designing innovative, customer-oriented controlling solutions that link strategic and operational processes to an integrated business

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Region 2 News Release: 12-150-NEW/BOS 2012-021

US Labor Department’s OSHA cites Manhattan contractor for safety hazards after worker falls 80 feet at Brooklyn work site

NEW YORK (MMD Newswire) February 6, 2012 — The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration has cited Navillus Contracting Tile Inc. for alleged repeat and serious violations of safety standards at a work site located at 2738 86th St. in Brooklyn. The Manhattan-based masonry contractor was cited following a Sept. 28, 2011, incident in which an employee fell 80 feet to a lower level from the top of a 118-foot-high scaffold.

“This employee is fortunate to have escaped death, but what is unfortunate is that this fall occurred in the first place,” said Kay Gee, OSHA’s area director for Brooklyn, Manhattan and Queens. “It is effective scaffold maintenance, work practices and fall protection – not luck – that are essential to protecting workers against life-threatening falls.”

An inspection by OSHA’s Manhattan Area Office found that the scaffold platform was not fully planked and lacked guardrails, an aluminum access platform was not secured against displacement, another worker was not tied off to a safe anchorage point, and employees accessed work areas by climbing up and down the scaffold frames. These conditions resulted in citations for six serious violations, with $36,000 in proposed fines. A serious violation occurs when there is substantial probability that death or serious physical harm could result from a hazard about which the employer knew or should have known.

One repeat violation with a proposed fine of $38,500 involves a lack of guardrails. A repeat violation exists when an employer previously has been cited for the same or a similar violation of a standard, regulation, rule or order at any other facility in federal enforcement states within the last five years. OSHA cited Navillus in September 2008 for a similar hazard at a Bronx work site.

“To prevent hazards such as these, employers should implement effective illness and injury prevention programs in which they work continuously with their employees to identify and eliminate hazards,” said Robert Kulick, OSHA’s regional administrator in New York.

Detailed information on scaffolding hazards and safeguards is available at http://www.osha.gov/SLTC/scaffolding/index.html.

Navillus has 15 business days from receipt of its citations and proposed penalties to comply, meet with OSHA’s area director or contest the findings before the independent Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission.

To ask questions, obtain compliance assistance, file a complaint, or report workplace hospitalizations, fatalities or situations posing imminent danger to workers, the public should call OSHA’s toll-free hotline at 800-321-OSHA (6742) or

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Region 4 News Release: 12-174-ATL (035)

US Department of Labor orders North Carolina printing company to reinstate whistleblower, pay more than $83,000 in back wages

Truck driver protected by Surface Transportation Assistance Act provision

SALISBURY, N.C. (MMD Newswire) February 6, 2012 — The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration has ordered the reinstatement of a former truck driver employed by the Salisbury-based commercial printing company, Rowan Business Forms, who was fired after reporting safety concerns about the brakes in his truck.

An investigation by OSHA’s Whistleblower Protection Program found reasonable cause to believe that the termination violated the whistleblower provision of the Surface Transportation Assistance Act. Consequently, the agency has ordered the company and its related entities/owners/officers – including Rowan Business Forms, Richard Hardesty II, Rowan Paper Co. and Janis M. Hardesty Holdings LLC – to pay the former worker more than $83,000 in back wages, interest, and compensatory and punitive damages.

“We take complaints regarding retaliation for reporting truck safety very seriously,” said Cindy A. Coe, OSHA’s regional administrator in Atlanta. “Reporting concerns are a basic worker’s right, and OSHA will continue to ensure that it is protected. Employers found in violation of whistleblower protection provisions will be held accountable.”

On Aug. 18, 2009, the employee informed his supervisor that the company’s dump truck was leaking brake fluid. He indicated that the brake pedal went all the way down to the truck floor, and he had almost hit a car in front of him because of that problem. The employee was fearful for his safety. The company manager indicated that the leak would be repaired before the next dump; however, the repair was not performed. On Oct. 21, when the truck was ready for its next dump delivery, the employee refused to drive it because of the unrepaired leak. The next day, the company terminated the employee.

Either party to the case can file an appeal to the Labor Department’s Office of Administrative Law Judges, but such an appeal does not stay the preliminary reinstatement order.

OSHA enforces the whistleblower provisions of the STAA and 20 other statutes protecting employees who report violations of various securities, commercial motor vehicle, airline, nuclear power, pipeline, environmental, rail, maritime, health care, workplace and consumer product safety laws.

Under the various whistleblower provisions enacted by Congress, employers are prohibited from retaliating against employees who raise various protected concerns or provide protected information to the employer or the government. Employees who believe that they have been retaliated against for engaging in protected conduct may file a complaint with the secretary

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EDMONTON, Alta (MMD Newswire) February 6, 2012 — Increased air, water, land and biodiversity monitoring in the oil sands will begin this year as the Governmentof Canada and Government ofAlberta take amajor step forward in their partnership to improve environmental monitoring in the oil sands region.

The Joint Canada-Alberta Implementation Plan for Oil Sands Monitoring commits to a scientifically rigorous, comprehensive, integrated, and transparent environmental monitoring program for the region. It outlines the path forward to enhance the monitoring of water, air, land and biodiversity in the oil sands by demonstrating how we will sample more sites for more substances more frequently. The program is designed to provide an improved understanding of the long-term cumulative effects of oil sands development.

“The Alberta oil sands are a key driver of the Canadian economy,” said Canada’s Environment Minister, the Honourable Peter Kent. “Today we are launching one of the most transparent and accountable oil sands monitoring system in the world. These scientific reports will be posted on our web page for the world to see. We challenge others in the international oil producing community to match Canada’s commitment to environmental monitoring.”

“Albertans, and Canadians, have high expectations that we excel at both energy production and environmental protection,” said the Honourable Diana McQueen, Minister of Alberta Environment and Water. “We can have it both ways. We are confident this environmental monitoring system will be one of the most progressive and comprehensive of any industrially developed region in the world.”

The three-year implementation plan begins this spring with increased sampling frequency, parameters, and locations. It will also integrate relevant parts of existing monitoring efforts and will give government and industry the scientific foundation necessary to continue to promote the environmentally sustainable development of the oil sands. The implementation plan reflects the Integrated Oil Sands Environment Monitoring Plan released by Environment Canada in July and will be consistent with the Government of Alberta’s plans for a province-wide environmental monitoring system.

Data from the new monitoring program, and the methods on which it is based, will be transparent, supported by necessary quality assurance, and will be made publicly available to allow independent scientific assessments and evaluations. This will encourage informed discussions and analysis on the impacts of oil sands development based on high-quality scientific information.

As the process continues to move forward, implementation of the monitoring program will be jointly managed by the Government of Canada and the Government of Alberta. Annual progress reports on implementation will be prepared for the first three years, with an external scientific peer review of the program

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