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(PRWEB UK) 29 March 2012

Door Handles LTD is offering tips to help their customers purchase the right product for their home. Handles for doors come in many different varieties and if a customer is unsure about what they want to purchase, this can be quite a daunting experience as these are items that are not replaced regularly.

Interior door handles encompass a large variety of styles and designs. Below is a brief description of some of the most popular designs and styles which will hopefully be of use when deciding on what to purchase.

Chrome Door Handles can be used either internally or externally. Dating back to Victorian times during the Industrial Revolution when they first appeared, they are still one of the most popular choices. They have many finishes such as satin, nickel. The style of finish is decided by the element of the base brass metal before plating. A polished brass base will create a polished chrome finish and a satin brass base will create a satin chrome finish.

Brass Door Handles are very highly rated due to their many finishes and designs, including period styles right through to more modern day designs. They are known for their resilience and are often used for outdoor environments as well as interior environments.

Stainless Steel Door Handles are a hardwearing, non-corrosive material, used mainly in commercial applications and very good for an office environment. They can be purchased in either satin or polished stainless steel and are a very good choice if you are after a long lasting material.

Below is a description of the two main types of handles.

Rose Door Handles are one of the fastest growing types in the market. Rose is not as much a design but rather a type of door handle and comes in both of the chrome and brass styles named above. When fitted they take up a much smaller surface area, meaning that if they are to be replaced in the future the holes from the screws can be easily covered. Round rose have very contemporary designs and have a very elegant look yet are not overly expensive.

Backplate Lever Door Handles like Rose are not a design but a type. Basically they are what the description entails…lever door handles fitted on a backplate. A backplate lever is fitted via screws and is very easy to assemble. Due to the fact that many doors come pre-fitted with backplates, keep in mind that you may need to cover the holes from the screws by purchasing another backplate handle as a Round Rose could leave the previous holes exposed.

Computing Cartels Shake Up IT Purchasing
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SOMERSET, N.J., Mar 28, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) –
Alliance
Life Sciences Consulting Group (ALSCG), a leading management and
technology consultancy, announces the implementation of MemberMATCH(TM)
at a top-five pharmaceutical manufacturer. A solution to streamline the
group purchasing organization (GPO) membership confirmation process,
MemberMATCH(TM) centralizes critical data sources, reduces and
eliminates manual processing, and increases compliance. Business case
available for download at:

http://www.alscg.com/company/downloadcenter

“Our client had been manually maintaining customer membership and
contract eligibility using internal and external data sources —
activities that were labor-intensive, time-consuming and introduced
compliance risks,” says Ed Masterson, senior vice president, consulting
operations, ALSCG. “The MemberMATCH(TM) solution strengthened the
integrity of the data within the manufacturer’s existing GPO membership
system of record. From a workload perspective, this resulted in a 45
percent decrease in processes associated with membership management.”

The MemberMATCH(TM) membership automation solution provides several
key functions, including a demographic verification and the recently
released Class of Trade (COT) validation. MemberMATCH(TM) is
provided through the cloud, enabling the client to avoid high
infrastructure costs and speed time to implementation.

ALSCG provides life sciences manufacturers with strategies for defining,
deploying and supporting business critical applications under its
Pricing and Contracting, Business Process Improvement, and Information
Management Practices.

“MemberMATCH(TM) is another example of how our solutions enable our
clients to deliver more effectively, and at lower costs,” adds
Masterson. “It provides a centralized repository for key data reference
sources, all of which are ultimately leveraged to ensure accuracy of
inbound GPO membership rosters. Empowered with more accurate chargeback
processing capabilities, our top-five client can now enjoy enhanced
relationships with its wholesalers, and achieve potential savings by
strengthening the accuracy of its GPO membership.”

About ALSCG

Formed in 1994 and headquartered in Somerset, N.J., Alliance Life
Sciences Consulting Group employs more than 175 professionals who
collectively understand the business challenges of the Life Sciences
industry and offer solutions for Sales & Marketing, Managed Care &
Government Contracting, Commercial Operations, Information Management
and Analytics. ALSCG has experience with seven of the top 10 largest
pharmaceutical manufacturers as well as middle market and emerging Life
Sciences firms. Contact: 866-581-4850
www.alscg.com

SOURCE: Alliance Life Sciences Consulting Group

Media:
CPR for ALSCG
Joelle Caputa, 201-641-1911 x54
jcaputa@cpronline.com

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NEW HOPE, PA, Mar 28, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) –
Quepasa Corporation

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, the public market leader for
social discovery and owner of North-American platform myYearbook and
Latin-American platform Quepasa, today announced the launch of in-app
purchasing in myYearbook’s flagship iPhone application.

“myYearbook for Android is now the top-grossing social application on
Google Play (formerly Android Market),(1) according to Google’s
rankings, since the launch of in-app purchasing one month ago on that
platform. Today, we bring a similar freemium monetization engine to
our iPhone app,” said Geoff Cook, Chief Operating Officer of Quepasa
Corporation. “Our iPhone audience represents 20 percent of our daily
active users and potentially the most monetizable. iPhone has less
friction to payment than even web payments, as nearly every iPhone
app user is just two taps away from payment — even free iPhone app
downloads require an active iTunes billing profile.”

“We are excited at the opportunity for mobile monetization,”
continues Cook. “We expect the share of revenue from mobile products
will increase as smartphone penetration increases among our users, as
payment friction is reduced on Android, and as we launch a mobile
incented offers product in Q2.”

myYearbook for iPhone follows the Android product in now enabling
users to self-promote and move up in Popularity Rank by activating
three highly-trafficked Spotlight features, all targeted by age,
gender and location:

— Spotlight Bar – Purchasers are promoted on the member dashboards of
the website and mobile applications, resulting in significantly more
attention for the duration of the feature, as measured by profile
visitors and friend requests.

— Match Spotlight – Purchasers are given priority in Match, a popular
feature aimed at meeting new people, substantially increasing the
number of potential matches.

— Live Feed Spotlight – Purchasers can “pin” one of their feed posts to
the top of the Feed for everyone to see, generating great discussions
and more comments and likes than ever before!

All users receive a Popularity Rank based on the number of profile
views, friend requests, secret admirers, likes, and comments they
receive. Users can track their Popularity Rank over time, and every
user's Popularity is publicly visible on their profiles for easy
comparison.

Available today, myYearbook members can use their iTunes billing
profiles to purchase these products on the iPhone.

About Quepasa Corporation
Quepasa Corporation

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is
the public market leader for social discovery and owner of
Latin-American platform Quepasa and North-American platform
myYearbook. The company makes meeting new people fun through social
games and apps, monetized through both advertising and virtual
currency. In addition to Quepasa and myYearbook, the Company operates
Quepasa Games, a cross-platform social game development studio.
Quepasa has strong reach throughout the world, with a concentration
across North and South America. Quepasa is headquartered in New Hope,
Pennsylvania. For more information about the Company, go to

www.quepasacorp.com , or join for free at
www.Quepasa.com ,
myYearbook.com, or via the myYearbook app on iPhone, iPad, and
Android.

Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements
This press
release contains forward-looking statements including the potential
monetization of iPhone, opportunity for mobile monetization,
expectations regarding revenues from virtual currency and launching
an incented offers product in the second quarter. Forward-looking
statements can be identified by words such as "anticipates,"
"intends," "plans," "seeks," "believes," "estimates," "expects" and
similar references to future periods.

Forward-looking statements are based on our current expectations and
assumptions regarding our business, the economy and other future
conditions. Because forward-looking statements relate to the future,
they are subject to inherent uncertainties, risks and changes in
circumstances that are difficult to predict. Our actual results may
differ materially from those contemplated by the forward-looking
statements. We caution you therefore against relying on any of these
forward-looking statements. They are neither statements of historical
fact nor guarantees or assurances of future performance. Important
factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from
those in the forward-looking statements include issues that affect
the functionality of our mobile application with popular mobile
operating systems, any changes in such operating systems that degrade
our mobile application's functionality and other unexpected issues
which could adversely affect usage on mobile devices, the willingness
of our users to purchase virtual credits on their mobile devices and
unexpected delays in releasing an incented offers product.

Further information on the Company's risk factors is contained in its
filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including the
Form 10-K for the year-ended December 31, 2011 filed on March 14,
2012. Any forward-looking statement made by the Company in this press
release speaks only as of the date on which it is made. Factors or
events that could cause actual results to differ may emerge from time
to time, and it is not possible to predict all of them. The Company
undertakes no obligation to publicly update any forward-looking
statement, whether as a result of new information, future
developments or otherwise, except as may be required by law.

(1) Rankings based on Google Play (formerly Android Market) rankings
of Apps > Social > Top Grossing on 3/26/2012.

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Contact:
Robin Shallow
EVP Communications & Public Relations
Quepasa Corporation
(215) 862-1162 x230
robin@myyearbook.com

Media Inquiries:
Tammy Chan
Atomic PR for Quepasa Corporation
(212) 699-3646
tammy@atomicpr.com

Investor Contact:
E. Brian Harvey
Vice President of Capital Markets and Investor Relations
Quepasa Corporation
(310) 801-1719
brian.harvey@quepasacorp.com
Follow us on StockTwits or Twitter at QuepasaCorp

SOURCE: Quepasa Corporation

mailto:robin@myyearbook.com
mailto:tammy@atomicpr.com
mailto:brian.harvey@quepasacorp.com

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Quepasa Corp.

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: NYSE Amex

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4.23

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Volume: 325,285
March 29, 2012 4:00p

P/E RatioN/A
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Market Cap$159.70 million
Rev. per Employee$58,668

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QPSA

Quepasa Corp.

US

: NYSE Amex

$
4.23

-0.06
-1.40%

Volume: 325,285
March 29, 2012 4:00p

P/E RatioN/A
Dividend YieldN/A

Market Cap$159.70 million
Rev. per Employee$58,668

Hackman Capital Expanding Equipment Platform and Purchasing Both Industrial Real Estate and Equipment
Hackman Capital, a privately-held investment firm based in Los Angeles, announced today that it is expanding its equipment platform. The effort will increase the firm’s ability to purchase both industrial real estate and equipment, either separately or together.

NEW YORK, March 14, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ –
Importers who sell to America’s major retailers are preparing for a significant uptick in consumer spending this spring and summer according to a recent survey conducted by Capital Business Credit (CBC), a non-bank lender that services the retail sector.

According to the quarterly Global Retail Manufacturers and Importers Survey, 43.2 percent of respondents believe that the 2012 spring season will be stronger than 2011, and 40 percent believe that the 2012 summer season will surpass last year’s sales. Fears of a double dip seem to be declining, as an additional 40 percent of respondents believe that the spring and summer retail seasons will be at least as robust as last year’s.

“Retailers have played it very close to the vest for the past several years, fearful of overstocking the shelves. As consumers begin to open their pocketbooks again, importers and manufacturers are finally beginning to see increases in orders and re-orders. This is indicative that a stronger retail and economic recovery is underway,” said Andrew Tananbaum, executive chairman of CBC.

Spring Forty percent of respondents indicated that retailers ordered more merchandise for the spring season as compared to last year. Twenty percent reported that orders stayed the same. An overwhelming 78.3 percent cited that they are receiving re-orders for spring merchandise – demonstrating stronger consumer demand than was initially anticipated.

Additional results revealed:

Of those respondents who experienced an uptick in spring orders, 47 percent indicated that retailers ordered three to five percent more merchandise, and nearly a quarter (23.5 percent) indicated that customer orders increased by 10 percent or more.

Half of the respondents indicated that prices of consumer goods increased this spring season, while 35 percent believe they stayed the same.

While demand is increasing, margin pressures remain, with 62 percent of respondents citing that retailers are still relying on discounting to move product off the shelves.

“While increases in orders are important, retailers are still relying on heavy discounting to move merchandise which is affecting margins across the board,” Tananbaum continued. “Retailers are going to need to work hard to re-train consumers to rely less on discounts.”

Tananbaum concluded, “These numbers are very encouraging for the overall state of the consumer-driven economy. This is the first time in nearly three years that the importers we work with are manufacturing more than they did last year and are planning on having to restock shelves.”

Summer Slightly more than one third (37 percent) of respondents indicated that they are seeing an increase in orders for the summer season, while another third (30.4 percent) are seeing orders stay the same. The overwhelming majority (81.8 percent) believe that the summer season will perform better than, or as well as, 2011.

While growth is expected for the summer, it is not at record breaking levels. Of those who believe that sales will be stronger, 45 percent believe it will be three to five percent stronger and 35 percent believe it will be stronger by three percent or less.

The Global Retail Manufacturers and Importers Survey, conducted by Capital Business Credit (CBC) (
www.capitalbusinesscredit.com ), polled more than 50 manufacturers and importers. The survey was conducted throughout the week of February 27, 2012. Respondents consisted of manufacturers and importers in the apparel, housewares, home furnishings, fashion accessories and furniture industries who manufacture some, if not all, of their products in China, India, Vietnam, Bangladesh, Pakistan and the United States.

About Capital Business CreditEstablished in 1988, Capital Business Credit, LLC (
www.CapitalBusinessCredit.com ) is a commercial finance company specializing in providing creative supply chain financing solutions. The Company’s service offerings include: full-service factoring; immediate cash for receivables; single debtor credit coverage; letters of credit; accounts receivable management services; inventory lending; and international financing. CBC Trade Finance, a division of CBC, provides trade finance solutions for U.S.-based importers working with Asia-based suppliers (exporters). Capital Business Credit is based in New York, with office in Hong Kong; Shanghai; Los Angeles; Charlotte; NC; and Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.

Contact: Danielle DeVoren KCSA Strategic Communications212-896-1272 / ddevoren@kcsa.com

SOURCE Capital Business Credit

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Aestiva Purchase Order was introduced as the first truly web-browser based multi-user purchasing software a decade ago. We are proud to celebrate our tenth year of continuously enhancing it based on input from 1,000s of customers around the world

Through trial and error and after a few scandals over the years, West Virginia state government developed a bidding process through its Division of Purchasing.

But in 2009, the Legislature agreed to exempt certain contracts for the Medicaid program from the competitive bid process as overseen by purchasing.

The exemption proved to be very expensive for the state and four bidders when a contract likely worth more than $100 million had to be re-bid because of the mere appearance of a conflict of interest.

The state Department of Health and Human

Resources, which runs Medicaid, sought bids on a 10-year contract for a computer program to process claims for the 420,000 people covered by Medicaid.

The state currently pays $15 million a year to

Molina, based in Texas, to perform this service.

This is a highly complex field. For that kind of

money, the state must make sure it gets a system that will indeed work.

The bidders included Molina, Hewlett-Packard, CNSI, and a division of Xerox, ACS State Healthcare. Each bid likely cost hundreds of thousands of dollars to prepare.

SOUTH BEND, Ind., March 14, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ –
Press Ganey has updated its Value-Based Purchasing Calculator to reflect new federal fiscal year (FFY) 2014 methodologies. With this latest release, client hospitals can access an accurate picture of their hospital’s performance based on either FFY 2013 or 2014 criteria, and model different scenarios to prioritize improvement opportunities and optimize payment.

The 2014 methodology from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) adds a new outcomes domain and is weighted as follows: 45% clinical process of care; 30% Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HCAHPS); and 25% outcomes.

The new outcomes domain includes mortality measures for acute myocardial infarction, heart failure and pneumonia. A new clinical process of care measure has also been added for Surgical Care Improvement Project (SCIP)-Inf-9: postoperative urinary catheter removal on postoperative day one or two.

“With the shift to value-based payment underway, it’s imperative for clients to have the most current data available, modeled on the timeliest methodology, to understand their true position,” said Patrick T. Ryan, CEO of Press Ganey. “This enhancement delivers that vital business intelligence. Press Ganey continues to be the only company that can provide to clients a near real-time look at accurate clinical process, HCAHPS and outcomes data to determine the right strategies that will drive improvement.”

Press Ganey’s Value-Based Purchasing Calculator is refreshed monthly with clients’ most recent, complete data from Press Ganey’s proprietary databases – data that are a full year more recent than publicly available data. This means that hospitals that work with Press Ganey to meet HCAHPS or core measures reporting requirements can now calculate their value-based purchasing (VBP) scores based on 2011 data.

The CMS value-based purchasing program will impact Medicare payments for general, acute-care hospitals beginning with Oct. 1, 2012 discharges. The performance period baseline assessment year for all hospitals subject to VBP began July 1, 2011. The 2014 performance period for the new outcomes domain is more than halfway over, and the performance period for process of care and HCAHPS domains begins April 1, 2012.

For further information on Press Ganey’s Value-Based Purchasing Calculator solution and VBP-related resources, visit:
http://www.pressganey.com/VBP .

Press Ganey Associates, Inc. Recognized as a leader in performance improvement for more than 25 years, Press Ganey partners with more than 10,000 health care organizations worldwide to create and sustain high-performing organizations, and, ultimately, improve the overall health care experience. The company offers a comprehensive portfolio of solutions to help clients operate efficiently, improve quality, increase market share and optimize reimbursement. Press Ganey works with clients from across the continuum of care – hospitals, medical practices, home health agencies and other providers – including 50% of all U.S. hospitals. For more information, visit
www.pressganey.com .

SOURCE Press Ganey

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During Tuesdays regularly scheduled meeting, the Pinellas County Board of Commissioners put a limit on their use of purchasing cards.