Strategic Relationships

The National Investor Relations Institute (NIRI), which was founded in 1996, is an
international professional organization dedicated to the advancement of the
practice of investor relations and the competency and stature of its more
than 5,000 members.

This is a professional association of corporate officers and investor relations
consultants responsible for communication amoung corporate management, the
investing public and the financial community. NIRI sets the highest standards in
education designed to advance the practice of investor relations and meet the
growing professional development needs of those engaged in the field.
(Website: www.niri.org).

We have arranged for our clients to receive a 25% discount on the distribution of news releases and a discount on webcast through PR Newswire, one of the two primary financial newswire services in North America. We also work closely with PR Newswire to be certain that client news releases are distributed through the most cost-effective "circuits", thus assuring widespread national and regional dissemination of news, while avoiding the high costs often incurred by public companies that are less familiar with alternative "circuits". prnewswire.com

Chorus Call is an international provider of telecommunications/conferencing services that we use to manage our clients’ quarterly earnings conference calls, international and domestic and other multimedia presentations. We have negotiated favorable rates for our clients for such services. We have found that Chorus Call allows our clients to excel in the targeted areas of teleconferencing and the delivery and retrieval of information through a wide variety of wired and wireless formats. (Website: www.choruscall.com) choruscall.com