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WASHINGTON – Democrats nervously anticipating Rep. Charles Rangel’s ethics trial know all about the media frenzy and negative ads accompanying election-season scandals. They generated it themselves in 2006, when Republican Rep.

NAPERVILLE, Ill., July 23 /CHICAGOPRESSRELEASE.COM/ — Calamos Investments announced that each of Calamos Convertible Opportunities and Income Fund (NYSE: CHI ), Calamos Strategic Total Return Fund (NYSE: CSQ ) and Calamos Convertible and High Income Fund (NYSE: CHY ) received a demand letter, dated May 21, 2010, May 21, 2010 and June 25, 2010, respectively, from a law firm on behalf of certain persons described as common shareholders of each respective Fund. The demand letters allege that Calamos Advisors LLC, and the Trustees and officers of the Funds breached their fiduciary duty to the Funds and their respective common shareholders in connection with redemption by the Funds of their auction rate preferred securities following the collapse of auction markets in February 2008. The letters demand that the Boards of Trustees of the Funds take certain action to remedy those alleged breaches

NAPERVILLE, Ill., July 23 /CHICAGOPRESSRELEASE.COM/ — Calamos Investments announced that each of Calamos Convertible Opportunities and Income Fund (NYSE: CHI ), Calamos Strategic Total Return Fund (NYSE: CSQ ) and Calamos Convertible and High Income Fund (NYSE: CHY ) received a demand letter, dated May 21, 2010, May 21, 2010 and June 25, 2010, respectively, from a law firm on behalf of certain persons described as common shareholders of each respective Fund.

Inaugural Medinah Patriot Golf Day a Resounding Success ITASCA, Ill. (July 22, 2010) — As the culmination of a months-long and very successful partnership, Eaglewood Resort & Spa announced today the results of the fundraising effort which it sponsored at the July 8 Medinah Patriot Golf Day held at nearby Medinah Country Club , host of the 2012 Ryder Cup . The event benefitted Folds of Honor Foundation whose mission is to provide post-secondary educational scholarships for children and spouses of service men and women killed or disabled while serving in the U.S Armed Forces

In its May report, the transparency group also called for a do-over. It asked agencies to fill in the gaps in their plans and resubmit them by June 25

HAYWARD, Calif., July 19 /CHICAGOPRESSRELEASE.COM/ — (IFT BOOTH #5383) – CreAgri, Inc.® ( www.creagri.com ), a world leader in providing the highest quality polyphenol antioxidants from organic olives, announced today that a new hydroxytyrosol formulation was introduced along with the company’s expanded, highly credentialed executive team at the Institute of Food Technologists’ Annual Meeting & Food Expo in Chicago, July 17-20, 2010. The new particulate-free formula, HIDROX® 12%, is the latest addition to CreAgri’s® lines of natural, organic olive polyphenolic ingredients, which also include: HIDROX® Liquid (0.5%), HIDROX® Spray Dry 2%, and HIDROX® 6% freeze dry. HIDROX® is the proprietary ingredient developed using CreAgri’s® Integrale™ de-pitting process

HAYWARD, Calif., July 19 /CHICAGOPRESSRELEASE.COM/ — (IFT BOOTH #5383) – CreAgri, Inc.® ( www.creagri.com ), a world leader in providing the highest quality polyphenol antioxidants from organic olives, announced today that a new hydroxytyrosol formulation was introduced along with the company’s expanded, highly credentialed executive team at the Institute of Food Technologists’ Annual Meeting & Food Expo in Chicago, July 17-20, 2010. The new particulate-free formula, HIDROX® 12%, is the latest addition to CreAgri’s® lines of natural, organic olive polyphenolic ingredients, which also include: HIDROX® Liquid (0.5%), HIDROX® Spray Dry 2%, and HIDROX® 6% freeze dry.

Firm Hires Veteran Marketer to Elevate Profile, Drive Further Growth CHICAGO, July 19 /CHICAGOPRESSRELEASE.COM/ — Family Office Exchange today announced the appointment of veteran marketing executive Marvin J. Pollack to the position of director of marketing. (Logo: http://photos.CHICAGOPRESSRELEASE.COM.com/prnh/20100714/FOELOGO ) (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20100714/FOELOGO ) Pollack brings to Family Office Exchange more than 25 years of global corporate and agency marketing experience, including 15 years with Leo Burnett Company, where he was responsible for a number of major consumer brands.

Hugh Hefner promotes The Girls Next Door, his TV series about the women sharing his Playboy mansion. Photograph: Chris Alan/Rex Features Famous for his coterie of younger women at the gaudy Playboy mansion in Los Angeles, pyjama-clad octogenarian Hugh Hefner might seem like a throwback to the 1970s. But the ageing lothario was plunged into a Wall Street takeover battle today as rival publisher Penthouse sought to seize control of his soft porn empire

WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama nominated Deputy Secretary of State Jacob Lew to serve as director of the Office of Management and Budget Tuesday, charging him with putting the nation on a fiscally responsible path. “At a time when so many families are tightening their belts, he’s going to make sure the government continues to tighten its own,” Obama said in announcing Lew’s selection at the White House. “He’s going to do this while making government more efficient, more responsive to the people it serves,” Obama continued.