As housing trends move toward smaller, lower priced homes, All American Homes® responds by adding seven additional floor plans to its Simple Living Collection™ to meet those needs. The Simple Living Collection gives cost conscious home buyers value for their dollar with functional layouts, purposeful living spaces, and plenty of "Wow" features.

The addition of the Imagine, Expression, and Serenity fits the need of singles, couples, and smaller families by offering square footage ranging from 1,056 to 1,515 and designs ranging from 2 bedrooms/1 bath to 4 bedrooms/2 baths. Each floor plan is available as a small ranch or cape cod, which provides additional bedrooms or flex space. Either choice makes these homes perfectly suited for first time home buyers or empty nesters. Since the building footprint is designed for narrow lots, these new floor plans offer flexibility for placement in community developments, revitalizing urban neighborhoods, or lake communities -- all within the average home buyer's budget.

Of course, the new floor plans also offer all the features that come standard with every Simple Living home - 8 foot ceilings, 36 inch doors, wide hallways, spacious contemporary-styled kitchens, walk-in closets, energy efficient windows, and architecturally detailed exteriors. Wow!

"We're excited to introduce these new Simple Living homes, which really fit in a variety of communities," says Stacey Miller, Marketing Manager. "We developed these homes with affordability and energy efficiency in mind without sacrificing quality or charm. We are confident these plans will be a great success."

Visit www.allamericanhomes.com to view these new floor plans and to find an All American Homestore or Independent Builder near you!

All American Group, Inc.(formerly Coachmen Industries, Inc), is one of America's premier systems-built construction companies under the ALL AMERICAN BUILDING SYSTEMS®, ALL AMERICAN HOMES® and MOD-U-KRAF® brands, as well as a manufacturer of specialty vehicles. All American Group, Inc is a publicly held company with stock quoted and traded on the over-the-counter markets under the ticker COHM.PK.

This release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Investors are cautioned not to place undue reliance on forward-looking statements, which are inherently uncertain. Actual results may differ materially from that projected or suggested due to certain risks and uncertainties including, but not limited to, liquidity, the ability of the Company to bond major contracts, availability of working capital, availability of credit to the Company and its customers, the depth and duration of the recession, the ability to produce buses to meet demand, the potential fluctuations in the Company's operating results, price volatility of raw materials used in production, the availability and cost of real estate for residential housing, the supply of existing homes within the Company's markets, government regulations, dependence on significant customers within certain product types, consolidation of distribution channels, consumer confidence, uncertainties of matters in litigation, the ability of the Company to reach agreement with H.I.G. regarding revised covenants at reasonable terms and the ability to meet the revised covenants in future periods, the availability to the Company of chassis utilized for bus production and the availability of chassis financing to procure the chassis and other risks identified in the Company's SEC filings.

SOURCE All American Group, Inc.

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John David Hart of the Law Offices of John David Hart in Fort Worth, Texas today announced the launch of the firm's new website that has been designed to provide visitors with greater information and more interactive features.  The new site can still be reached at www.hartlaw.com.

"This new website will allow us to reach more people with more information," John David Hart said in announcing the new site's launch.  "With the use of video and blogging, we'll be able to speak directly to people about issues in the law.  Of course, there will still be plenty of information about our practice and our services.  So the new site is not only informative, it's interactive, too.  It will empower people with information they need that could help them should they ever be victimized by wrongdoing or neglect."

The new site provides visitors with detailed information on the firm and its various practice areas, ranging from personal injury to truck crashes to oil and gas litigation. But it also provides a blog where John will comment frequently on important topics in the law and in the news.  And it will feature periodic video messages from John about the law.  

The Law Offices of John David Hart is a group of experienced and dedicated legal professionals working to protect the rights of people injured by the acts of others.  Across the country, the firm represents people in cases of catastrophic personal injury, wrongful death, dangerous drugs, automobile and truck accidents, workplace injuries, oil and gas litigation and other matters.

For more information, please contact the Law Offices of John David Hart at 817-870-2102 or 800-961-4278 or johnhart@hartlaw.com.

SOURCE Law Offices of John David Hart

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2bm, an innovator in data centre technology, http://www.2bm.co.uk today announces the launch of the 2bm iMeter – a highly advanced data centre power monitoring solution which has been designed to help businesses monitor and reduce power consumption in the data centre. Uniquely, the 2bm iMeter server power monitoring solution can be implemented without a complete re-fit and whilst allowing normal uninterrupted operation.

The reduction of excessive power consumption is becoming a major government initiative – and the potential significant levy for failure to comply is set to become a major concern for any large enterprise and its subsidiaries. Today, it is organisations with power consumption in excess of 500,000 pounds Sterling per annum that must comply with the Carbon Reduction Commitment (CRC) Energy Efficiency Scheme requirements. But there is little doubt that in the coming years the threshold will inevitably continue to fall, with increasing numbers of UK businesses affected.

In response to this, the 2bm iMeter is the first product to provide an intelligent, reliable and accurate method of data centre power monitoring without requiring any system downtime. This highly innovative technology can be used at rack level, providing unprecedented insight into energy requirements of servers, Storage Area Networks and switches, as well as the attendant supporting equipment, such as lighting and air conditioning, that will enable the controlled reduction of a data centre's Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) rating.

In addition, it is important to note that the 2bm iMeter provides continuous server power monitoring allowing reporting which compares every hour, day, week and month, providing not only clear trends in energy consumption but also the opportunity to set alarms based on predetermined thresholds. Real-time alerts can be raised if consumption exceeds the specified threshold, improving day-to-day management; while the information can also be integrated with existing systems management tools to provide a complete data centre overview.

Mark King, Director of 2bm says, "Not only is the Government set to impose significant levies for those businesses that fail to achieve year-on-year reduction in energy usage, but in this environmentally conscious times, organisations are painfully aware both of the brand damage associated with breaches of energy-led regulations and the importance of attaining a good position in the soon to be published CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme league tables."

King comments, "With traditional metering technology requiring downtime, data centre managers have so far been unable to achieve the in-depth insight into energy consumption required, opting instead for a temporary or best guess solution. However, the 2bm iMeter is a revolutionary data centre power monitoring tool because it can be implemented in a 'live' environment without a complete re-fit, allowing normal uninterrupted operation. Indeed, within just three days, the average medium-sized data centre can be set up with the 2bm iMeter solution, providing managers with real-time access to continuous, in-depth and accurate energy consumption information."

The power of the 2bm iMeter server power monitoring solution lies in its intelligent sensor, intelliAmp, which has been designed to monitor the current draw of racks via 16A and 32A cables. Unlike other power monitoring solutions that require downtime for implementation, the intelliAmp can be installed in 'live' environments as it simply clips around the cable that needs to be monitored. Its unique calibration system ensures the sensor can be positioned correctly to achieve optimum levels of accuracy, ideal for legacy data centres where a re-build is prohibitively expensive or not possible.

King concludes, "It is now imperative for businesses to intelligently monitor power usage throughout the organisation. And it is those highest areas of usage, such as the data centre, that must be the priority if businesses are to gain control of energy usage and to provide the much tighter control over power consumption that is now being demanded by both government and shareholders."

Key Features

• Real-time Monitoring of Current and Voltage
• True-RMS Current Metering for maximum accuracy
• Installation into 'live' environments - no downtime required
• User configurable alarm thresholds
• Web interface
• SNMP for NMS Integration
• On-board logging/graphing
• intelliAmp monitoring of 16A and 32A cables

About 2bm Limited

Nottingham-based 2bm is an innovator in the provision of data centre products and services, offering UK-wide, complete installation and in-house project management from concept through to completion.  2bm's full service offering is enhanced by its dedicated team of installation engineers who ensure projects are delivered on time and on budget, with minimal disruption to day-to-day data centre operations.

2bm prides itself on the delivery of best practice, focusing on the efficient layout and distribution of IT equipment within the data centre, covering current and future business needs, IT technology trends and their implication on future data centre capacity requirements.

2bm has built its continued success on recommending only best-of-breed solutions. These innovative offerings are based upon a clear understanding of its client's requirements, which are either supplied as part of a strong relationship with strategic business partners or from its own growing portfolio of products like the 2bm iMeter – a highly advanced environmental and power monitoring solution. All these products have been selected because they offer real value for money whilst minimising the impact on the environment - through reduced power requirements and lower carbon emissions.

The majority of 2bm's implementations are in the major conurbations - London, Manchester, and Birmingham – however, from its base in Nottingham it is able to support customers across the whole of the UK maintaining 200+ implementations, which are predominantly in the financial services, education and local government sectors.

2bm's annual revenues grew to over 8 million pounds in 2009 and have continued to grow by a further 20% in the first six months of 2010.

SOURCE 2bm Limited

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Microblogging, famous for its 140 character limit, just got better. At an event hosted by the University of Portland on August 31, PingGadget is set to launch the beta version of its next-generation microblogging and social media service. PingGadget allows users to communicate with one another, stay connected to what is going on around them, and build custom groups specific to their location and interests – all through the microblogging protocol of 140 characters, photos up to 1MB, and video up to 8 MB.

PingGadget is a free service and users can sign-up at PingGadget.com.

"We saw an opportunity to make some significant improvements for existing users as well as those new to microblogging," said Dennis Moulton, co-founder of PingGadget. "In addition to staying connected to the people you care about and are interested in, we designed the PingGadget system to help users stay connected to what is going on around them within their location."

The PingGadget service specifically focuses on location-centric benefits and use cases and includes a powerful location and category directory. PingGadget features a 493 city location directory with a custom topic directory, including location-centric topics like jobs, classifieds, recycled goods, events, nightlife, music, and volunteering opportunities.

PingGadget can also support custom groups.

"Everything from bird watching to you-name-it hobby or interest can have real-time representation to benefit interested users," Moulton said.

Millions of Americans participate in microblogging as a means to stay in touch with friends and connect with like-minded users. However, only a small percentage of users have active accounts. According to social media analytics provider Sysomos, about 5% of microbloggers create 75% of all activity. PingGadget, with its powerful location-centric and category tools, provides more value to users and with the goal of increasing activity rates.

"Beyond the current usage for entertainment and broadcast, so much more is available with microblogging," said Moulton. "We believe PingGadget's unique benefits will go a long way for the everyday user, making microblogging simple, more productive, useful, and fun."

Nguyen and Moulton are entrepreneurs with strong hi-tech backgrounds. The two University of Portland class of 2005 alumni met in 2009 at an awards ceremony where both were recognized as "Significant 75" alumni of the University's Pamplin School of Business.

SOURCE University of Portland

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