DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - Wednesday, May 1st 2013 [ME NewsWire]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Featuring the world of the extinct; Ilyas & Mustafa Galadari Group (IMG Group) have announced the next eye-catching partnership for the IMG Theme Park; ‘The Lost Valley’. This reinvigorated land of dinosaurs is a designed Intellectual Property exclusively created for the expansive IMG Theme Park, located in the City of Arabia, Dubailand adjacent to Sheikh Mohammad Bin Zayed Road.

The IMG Theme Park will let you discover the excitement of an epic journey bursting with thrills, speed and adventures as the no longer dormant vertebrates are bought back to life. The Lost Valley is the third of four zones in the IMG Theme Park in addition to MARVEL and Cartoon Network Zones with the final unannounced Zone to be revealed shortly. The MARVEL Zone will include a range of interactive entertainment experiences featuring many of MARVEL’s Super Hero icons including Spider-Man and Avengers such as ... Read more »

TAMPA, Fla - Wednesday, May 1st 2013 [ME NewsWire]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Together with Microsoft, Ferranti Computer Systems has launched the MECOMS™ 2012 2.0 system for utilities at the CS Week conference in Tampa Florida.

MECOMS™ is a utilities software suite developed by Ferranti Computer Systems, a utilities technology provider since 1885. MECOMS™ is built on top of Dynamics AX, Microsoft’s flagship ERP platform and has been designated as Microsoft’s preferred utilities solution. After having won and completed successful MECOMS™ projects in Europe, system integrators Avanade and Accenture have brought MECOMS™ to the North American market, as an alternative to legacy utility systems.

Utilities face severe new challenges: the advent of smart metering and its big data requirements, increasing demands for customer service and the integration and maintenance of ageing assets. For many utilities, their current landscape of outdated and fragmented IT systems is quickly bec ... Read more »

GATWICK, England - Wednesday, May 1st 2013 [ME NewsWire]

EWMA conference

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- The results of a recently completed study confirming for the first time the relationship between elevated protease activity (EPA) and skin graft failure will be presented at the European Wound Management Association (EWMA)’s conference in May 2013 by Prof. Franck Duteille MD, Head of Department of Plastic Reconstructive and Esthetic Surgery, University Hospital, Nantes, France, the study’s investigator and author. The presence of EPA was determined using WOUNDCHEK™ Protease Status, the world’s first point of care wound diagnostic test.

Clinicians have long suspected EPA to be detrimental to skin graft adherence, both for auto-grafts and human skin equivalents as reflected in a recently published consensus paper on this topic: "A point of care protease activity test could be used prior to use of skin grafts in order to improve the success rate of surgery as EPA has been identi ... Read more »

LOS ANGELES - Wednesday, May 1st 2013 [BUSINESS WIRE/ ME NewsWire]

US General Wesley Clark, US Army, retired, former US Presidential candidate and NATO Supreme Allied Commander, Advisor to Avenue Ventures, was present at the investor seminar along with Mr. Robert W. Sweeney, Senior Executive Vice President of Avenue Ventures

Drs. Brian Perri and Khawar Siddique, Surgeons at Beverly Hills Spine Surgery and Cedars Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, California, USA and Mr. Eugene Kang, advisor to Avenue Ventures were also present

-- Bahrain-based Al Areen Holding Company announced at an investors’ seminar held at Al Areen’s Client Relations Centre, that the Al Areen Project is renewing its momentum with an upgrade of existing hospitality and leisure infrastructure, and the introduction of new facilities. Esam Janahi, representing the owners, announced a partnership with US firm Avenue Ventures - who have completed global transactions valued at US$15bn - to acquire a ... Read more »