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13 hrs ago | Bradenton Herald

Vin Mannix column | Strangely speaking, Florida's No. 1

Florida, the strangest state in America? Yeah, so. Tell us something new. Tableseed.com., an e-mail marketing firm in Madison, Wis., analyzed 2,000 Associated Press "strange news" stories this year, and 169 originated in the Sunshine State.

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Related Topix: Florida, Marketing, Sarasota Metro, Bradenton, FL, Manatee County, FL, Matthews International

Sat Nov 21, 2009

About.com

Moments With Baxter, the "Hospice Angel"

Few stories are as inspiring and affecting and Baxter's. The "golden chow" rescue dog turned hospice hero spent the last seven years of his life volunteering at San Diego Hospice.

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Thu Nov 19, 2009

US News & World Report

Why Asia Once Again Favors Long-Term Investors

After months of favoring speculative gambits, the momentum of the Asian markets is returning once again to the hands of the long-term investor, says Robert Horrocks of Matthews International Capital Management.

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Related Topix: Matthews International

Tue Nov 17, 2009

HometownAnnapolis

Ashes to ashes a " burial becomes environmentally conscious

Norma Hooks described laying her sister, Leona Miller, to rest in the Chesapeake Bay as a "wonderful experience." Miller's cremated remains, combined with an environmentally safe cement mixture, were cast as an artificial "memorial" reef and personalized with Miller's "jewelry and knickknacks," said Hooks, 64, a Finksburg resident.

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Related Topix: Finksburg, MD, Non-Profit, Annapolis, MD

Sun Nov 15, 2009

Graphic Arts Online

Matthews International Earnings Rise as Sales Fall 10 Percent

PITTSBURGH, Nov. 12A -- Matthews International CorporMatthews International Announces Earnings for the Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year Ended September 30, 2009 ation today announced earnings for the quarter and fiscal year ended September 30, 2009.

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Related Topix: Matthews International

Sat Nov 14, 2009

Press-Telegram

Hundreds attend services for Wilson High student Melody Ross

Vanareth Ross, center, and Chantha Ross, left, grieve over their daughter's casket during a funeral service at Rose HIlls in Whittier, Calif.

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Related Topix: Whittier, CA, Los Angeles Metro, Long Beach, CA

Fri Nov 13, 2009

Pittsburgh Tribune Review

Matthews International profit drops 23 percent

Matthews International Corp., North Shore, said profit dropped 23 percent to $15.6 million, or 52 cents a share, for the fiscal fourth quarter ended Sept.

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Related Topix: Matthews International

Thu Nov 12, 2009

New Pittsburgh Courier

No operator for Hill grocery store, Search goes on

Thursday, 12 November 2009 12:46 When 20 or so Hill District residents attended the regularly scheduled Dinwiddie Community Alliance meeting, they expected to hear from Hill House CEO Evan Frazier that construction would soon begin on a grocery and retail center anchored by a Kuhn's market.

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Related Topix: Pittsburgh, PA, Shadyside (Pittsburgh, PA), Oakland (Pittsburgh, PA), Downtown (Pittsburgh, PA), Pittsburgh Metro, Matthews International

Business First of Louisville

There's an app for that

Chaz Rough is shown with his iPhone app at his YogaMazing studio. View Larger While Chaz Rough sleeps, someone around the world is buying the iPhone/iPod application created for his YogaMazing brand of yoga lessons.

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Related Topix: iPhone, Science / Technology, Apple, iPod, Yoga, Fitness, Matthews International

Wed Nov 11, 2009

FANGORIA

Help this heroine get REVENGE

Pittsburgh-based Fort Street Entertainment is winding up preproduction on its revenge/horror shocker REVENGE IS HER MIDDLE NAME, an ode to the gruesome drive-in flicks of the 1970s.

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Related Topix: Matthews International

Nashua Telegraph

City hairstylist helps fill in new housing complex

Staff photo by Bob Hammerstrom Kathleen Dube opened up O'Hairs beauty salon inside the atrium of Palm Square, the former Batesville Casket building in Nashua, Friday, November 6, 2009.

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Related Topix: Nashua, NH, Nashua Metro

Mon Nov 09, 2009

Columbus Dispatch

Donors will replace vandalized grave marker

After news of the vandalized grave broke, Paul Chait and his staff at Floral Hills Memory Gardens could hardly keep up with the telephone calls.

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Related Topix: Lancaster, OH, Fairfield County, OH, Matthews International

Sat Nov 07, 2009

Press-Telegram

Funeral for Melody Ross will be Nov. 14 in Whittier

The family of Melody Ross announced services for the 16-year-old Wilson High junior will be held Nov.

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Related Topix: Whittier, CA, Los Angeles Metro, Long Beach, CA, Bellflower, CA

Thu Nov 05, 2009

ScrippsNews

Cremations increasing, funeral industry squeezed

Cremations increasing, funeral industry squeezed Submitted by SHNS on Thu, 11/05/2009 - 15:19 "The economy has impacted people's willingness to spend on funerals and memorial services, and we see that being translated to lower-priced products being sold," said Joseph Bartolacci, president and CEO of Matthews International.

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Related Topix: Matthews International, Cooperstown, NY

EurekAlert!

Carnegie Mellon researchers receive grant

Carnegie Mellon University's Lucio Soibelman, H. Scott Matthews and Jose M.F. Moura received a three-year $1.5 million grant from the National Science Foundation to identify inexpensive ways to track energy consumption in buildings.

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Related Topix: Carnegie Mellon University, Matthews International, The National, Entertainment, Television, Non-Profit, Pittsburgh Metro

Tue Nov 03, 2009

Graphic Arts Online

Matthews International Announces New Director

Matthews International Corporation announced that Alvaro Garcia-Tunon was elected to the Company's Board of Directors.

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Related Topix: Matthews International, Transportation, Automakers, Wabtec Corporate, Railroads

Mon Nov 02, 2009

TheStreet.com

Living It Up Post-Mortem: Big Spender

The cost for the average funeral, including cemetery expenses, a memorial service and embalming fees, ranges from about $9,000 to $12,000. But the price of an extraordinary funeral costs considerably more, especially if it includes the Promethean Bronze, the top-of-the-line product from Batesville Casket , the biggest casket company in the world ...

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Related Topix: Scientific Instruments, Medicine, Hillenbrand Industries, Medical Equipment, Healthcare Industry, Black Entertainment, Pop/Rock, Michael Jackson

Sun Nov 01, 2009

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Funeral company leaving its mark

Steven Nicola, chief financial officer of Matthews International Corp., and Joseph Bartolacci, president and CEO, stand with some of the bronze plaques made with their digital technology.

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Related Topix: Matthews International, Pittsburgh, PA, Pittsburgh Metro, University of Pittsburgh

Fri Oct 30, 2009

WABC

A woman was attacked in the garage of her home in Holtsville, NY.

It happened in the normally quiet hamlet of Holtsville on Long Island. Police believe the attacker didn't know his victim, but rather, took advantage of a situation while he was lurking around the neighborhood.

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Related Topix: Holtsville, NY, Suffolk County, NY, Stewart Enterprises

Thu Oct 29, 2009

About.com

Report Find "Unbearable Pain", Underused Pain Meds in India

A recent report by Human Rights Watch found an alarming number of Indian cancer and HIV patients are left to suffer without adequate, if any, pain control.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Health, Pain, Charitable Organizations, Morphine (generic), MS Contin, Kadian, Medication, Palliative Care, Drugs

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