CHDT Corp -- eReader-Lite Beats National Mass Retailer's Forecast

Capstone Industries, a South Florida-based subsidiary of CHDT Corp. (OTCBB: CHDO) announced its eReader-Lite is on track to substantially surpass the account's forecasts. The adjustable LED light for e-readers and laptop computers is part of the Pathway Lights® program in the Book Section of a National Mass Retailer, which reported the item's success after only 2 weeks since hitting the shelves.

"The rapid acceptance we have experienced with our eReader-Lite confirms a real demand for the product, which translates into revenue growth within the category," said Reid Goldstein, President of Capstone Industries. "By allowing our partner retailers to efficiently meet their customer's needs, we expect a product sell-through which should generate re-orders and secures a successful relationship with our accounts," he concluded.The entire collection features new packaging and updated merchandising strategies, which have contributed to the early achievements. Also, the continually increasing sales of e-readers that utilize e-ink technology, justify the great results experienced with the eReader-Lite, as those reading devices do not provide a backlit display. This makes them hard to read in the dark. With eReader-Lite, e-readers receive a cool and long lasting luminosity from 3 LEDs, preventing eye strain."As we are just a couple weeks away from closing out Q3, we are very confident on posting record revenue results between $4,100,000 - $4,600,000 which I previously projected during our Q2 conference call," added Gerry McClinton, CFO.About CHDT Corporation CHDT Corporation ( www.chdtcorp.com ) is a public holding Company that engages, through its wholly owned subsidiaries, in the development, manufacturing, logistics, and distribution of consumer products to retailers and wholesalers throughout North America. See www.chdtcorp.com for more information about the Company. Reference of URLs in this press release does not incorporate said URLs or any of their contents in this press release.About Capstone Industries, Inc.FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS: This press release, including the financial information that follows, contains "forward-looking statements" as that term is defined in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, as amended. These statements are based on the Company's and its subsidiaries' current expectations and involve risks and uncertainties, which may cause results to differ materially from those set forth in the statements. CHDT undertakes no obligation to publicly update any forward-looking statement, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise. Forward-looking statements in this press release and risks associated with any investment in CHDT, which is a small business concern and a "penny stock Company" and, as such, a highly risky investment suitable for only those who can afford to lose such investment, should be evaluated together with the many uncertainties that affect CHDT's business, particularly those mentioned in the cautionary statements in current and future CHDT's SEC Filings."For us to achieve these results during such challenging economic times is a significant endorsement by our retail partners and consumers alike," said CEO Stewart Wallach. "The first critical step is having the product on shelf but the consumer votes their approval at check-out. Learning that our eReader-Lites are doing well is the real validation," said Stewart Wallach. "Having a record year is a foregone conclusion at this point. We have remained totally focused on running and building our business as opposed to focusing on building stock values like so many small cap companies seem to do. The reality is, audited performance should speak for itself and the stock value should follow accordingly," Mr. Wallach concluded.

FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS: This press release, including the financial information that follows, contains "forward-looking statements" as that term is defined in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, as amended. These statements are based on the Company's and its subsidiaries' current expectations and involve risks and uncertainties, which may cause results to differ materially from those set forth in the statements. CHDT undertakes no obligation to publicly update any forward-looking statement, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise. Forward-looking statements in this press release and risks associated with any investment in CHDT, which is a small business concern and a "penny stock Company" and, as such, a highly risky investment suitable for only those who can afford to lose such investment, should be evaluated together with the many uncertainties that affect CHDT's business, particularly those mentioned in the cautionary statements in current and future CHDT's SEC Filings.

Lightning hits crowd at El Paso raceway

A lightning strike "from out of nowhere" hit an east El Paso County motocross raceway Sunday afternoon, knocking people down and sending one woman to the hospital, the raceway owner said.

After the strike all of the racers were called in, he said, and the raceway was then pounded by a powerful storm making its way through the county. The National Weather Service issued a flash flood warning from 4-7 p.m. Sunday."There was a bright light and it was very loud," said Byron Wolf, owner of the Aztec Family Raceway on Highway 94 near Ellicott. "Five people got flattened."The lighting struck about 3 p.m. during the last race of the day when about 200 people were watching or participating in the race. Wolf said medical personnel already at the track immediately helped the victims. Four were able to walk away and the fifth, a woman who didn't seem to be seriously injured, was taken to the hospital, Wolf said.

After the strike all of the racers were called in, he said, and the raceway was then pounded by a powerful storm making its way through the county. The National Weather Service issued a flash flood warning from 4-7 p.m. Sunday.

William D. Middleton, 1928-2011

Noted railroad author, photographer, and historian William D. Middleton, a contributing editor to the Simmons-Boardman Publishing Corp. Rail Group publications Railway Age, Railway Track & Structures, and International Railway Journal for many years, died June 11 in Livonia, N.Y. He was 83.

Middleton also was a frequent contributor to Trains magazine, producing more than 80 articles beginning in 1957. His photography appeared numerous times in Trains, Railway Age, and other publications.A prolific journalist, Middleton wrote or co-wrote Railway Age's Urban Rail, Light Rail, and Regional/Commuter Rail Planner's Guides, which were later consolidated into the magazine's Passenger Rail Planner's Guide. He also contributed numerous feature articles coveting all aspects of passenger and freight railroading. He was co-editor, along with George M. Smerck, of Transit Connections, which Simmons-Boardman published in the mid-1990s. Middleton also organized a series of rail transit engineering conferences for RT&S.Middleton was born in Davenport, Iowa, on March 25, 1928. His father, William, was a National Indian Service physician. His Scottish grandfather, also named William, was the first chief physician for the Rock Island Railroad.Middleton graduated from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1950 with a degree in civil engineering. He earned a graduate degree at the University of Wisconsin, then spent 30 years in the U.S. Navy in a career that included service in Korea, Japan, Turkey, and Morocco. After the Navy, he became chief facilities officer at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. He retired in 1993.During his lifetime, Middleton wrote or co-wrote 23 books. Among his best-known works are "The Interurban Era" (1961), "The Time of the Trolley" (1967), "When the Steam Railroads Electrified" (1974), "South Shore: America's Last Interurban" (1970), and "North Shore: America's Fastest Interurban" (1968). More recently, Middleton published his personal memoir, "Yet There Isn't a Train I Wouldn't Take" (2000), and, with his son William D. Middleton III, a biography, "Frank Julian Sprague: Electrical Inventor and Engineer" (2009). Along with co-editors Smerck and Roberta L. Diehl and guiding an 18-person editorial board, Middleton produced the "Encyclopedia of North American Railroads" (2004, Indiana University Press).

Middleton's wife of 53 years, Dorothy, died in 2009. He is survived by two sons, Nicholas, in Seattle, and William, in Livonia.

Proposed FDA Regulations "Appear Reasonable" for EMR and Mobile App Companies: Kalorama

The relatively easy touch with which the Food and Drug Administration has approached mobile medical apps appears reasonable and has not surprised many, according to healthcare market research firm Kalorama Information, which studies mobile medical app markets. The firm had previously estimated an $84 million market for mobile medical apps and expects accelerated growth rates in this segment of the mobile apps industry.

More information on the industry, including market forecasts and competitor profiles, can be found in Kalorama Information's "Worldwide Market for Mobile Medical Apps." Information on this title can be found at Kalorama Information's website at: http://www.kaloramainformation.com/redirect.asp?progid=82001&productid=2831262 .The agency announced that it will only lightly regulate apps that simply display, sort or transmit patient-specific medical data in its original format, FDA officials said. Those will be considered Class I. This means they are not considered high risk. For example, mobile medical apps that record or track fitness information would be Class I.The FDA will regulate a "small subset of mobile medical apps," generally those that have sensors that attach to the patient or that serve as an adjunct viewer for an already-regulated system. The type of systems that may be regulated under the proposed rules would be those that use a smartphone or tablet to make a diagnosis by reviewing an ultrasound image off a PACS. Or those apps that, with the help of attachment devices, would allow the device to function as an ECG machine or a glucose meter. But applications that allow doctors to read a patient's records, help people maintain a good diet or weight, or provide information will for the most part skip regulatory hurdles.Please direct all media inquiries to: Andrea Hiller press@kaloramainformation.com www.KaloramaInformation.comAdd to Digg Bookmark with del.icio.us Add to NewsvineAbout Kalorama Information Kalorama Information supplies the latest in independent medical market research in diagnostics, biotech, pharmaceuticals, medical devices and healthcare; as well as a full range of custom research services. We routinely assist the media with healthcare topics. Follow us on Twitter ( http://www.twitter.com/KaloramaInfo ) and LinkedIn ( http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=2177845&trk=hb_side_g ).The FDA is seeking public input on this approach over the next 90 days and will update the guidance based on feedback received, though serious changes are not expected.

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Trada Inc

INITIAL LIGHT BULB Born in Scotland, raised in California and educated at M.I.T., serial entrepreneur Niel Robertson has another hit on his hands. He sold his first Internet startup, Web-performance monitor Service Metrics, at the top of the market in 1999, then had less success with his second one, software-patch facilitator Newmerix.

That's where Trada's network of about 2,000 paid-search professionals enters the picture. They craft campaigns based on relevant keywords and earn the difference between the advertiser's target and the performance of the campaigns they develop - i.e. if the advertiser's target is $1 per click and the campaign comes in at 80 cents per click, the professional earns 20 cents per click, minus Trada's 25 percent commission. Besides pay per click (PPC) campaigns, Trada's experts can also deliver cost per action (CPA) campaigns, where experts get paid after potential customers click through and fill out an online form or submit their e-mail.Experts are "an odd mix of creative's, but at least 50 percent of the job is data analysis," Quinn says. Only a handful of Trada's 2,000 experts make a full-time living off the site, but hundreds make more than $100 monthly, he adds. About 25 experts work on a typical campaign.FOUNDED September 2008THE MARKET Englewood-based market-research firm IHS Inc. pegged paid search as a $30.4 billion worldwide market last year, with Google commanding a dominant 83 percent market share. Trada's target advertisers spend $5,000 to $50,000 a month on paid search, Quinn says.IN A NUTSHELL Paid search is about getting potential customers to click through on the paid advertisements that show up alongside the results to a keyword-based query, with Google being the dominant player in the market. Trada is not in the search-engine optimization (SEO) market, where companies tinker with their website in order to rise in the organic search results.WEB www.trada.comFINANCING Trada closed on a Series C round of $5.75 million led by Google Ventures last July. Also participating in the round was Boulder-based founding investor Foundry Group.The Trada marketplace launched in March 2010. The company now has about 80 employees in its downtown Boulder HQ (the former home of the Daily Camera) and is on track to break triple digits by the end of the year."You want multiple experts working on your campaign. You want a lot of different people thinking about how people will search for your product or service. That's why the concept of crowd sourcing is very effective for paid search."WHERE BoulderPost-Newmerix, Robertson was struck by an idea on a visit to Scotland: a marketplace of paid-search professionals that small businesses could turn to for keyword-based campaigns for Google and other search engines. On his return to Boulder, he founded Trada.It's perfect for "crowd sourcing" from a wide range of experienced professionals rather than doing it in-house, says Quinn, with the end result of lowering the cost per click, sale or other action. "There are a lot of tips and hints and strategies to make your paid-search campaign have high ROI."-BILL QUINN, TRADA VICE PRESIDENT OF MARKETING

WEB www.trada.com

Moody Avenue reconstruction in Portland planned to be mostly

Reconstruction of Southwest Moody Avenue is creating a bump in the road ... intentionally.

Dan Anderson, a spokesman for the Portland Bureau of Transportation, said the extent of changes coming to the area is "hard to communicate." The corridor, including main entrances for buildings, will rise 14 feet by the end of the project. The road also will line up with the new Gibbs Street pedestrian bridge over Interstate 5.In addition, the landscape of the entrance to the South Waterfront is rising by a few feet, so that underground parking can be added without digging into contaminated soil.Crews will finish pouring fill and layering in the underground utilities in the next two weeks, Bruce said."As fill gets completed, it will turn into a normal street project," Bruce said.A 1,500-foot-long section of Moody Avenue is being elevated to 15 feet in the middle and then sloped so that each end is at its present height. The road is being framed between walls, which will be filled with 30,000 cubic yards of a lightweight concrete material. Also, that under-road area will be filled with 150,000 feet of conduit.By this fall, work will be substantially completed. When it's done, the road will be higher in the middle and have an at-grade crossing with light-rail tracks as they approach a new transit bridge nearby. The road also will include three traffic lanes and bike and pedestrian facilities.The "fill" beneath the road is a product called low-density cellular concrete: a mixture of concrete, water and foam poured like a liquid through hoses. When it solidifies, the material is strong enough to hold up the street, but is one-fifth the weight of normal concrete.Low-density cellular concrete is typically used in projects where there is concern about a surface or fill settling under the weight of a project. It has been used for highway on- and off-ramps and to fill abandoned underground tunnels, but not as the base for a new road, Bruce said. It's ideal for the situation, he added, because it's lightweight and less expensive than alternatives such as foam blocks or pumice stone.Usually, utilities are installed by excavating through existing ground, but because Moody Avenue is being built up, crews are installing utility infrastructure as they pour the road itself.The swift-moving project is being funded by the federal stimulus money and TIGER grants, which impose a strict schedule. Construction also is taking place directly in the way of a busy traffic lane.Bruce expects that the road will be open on Oct. 31. But finishes, such as planting new trees along the road, will still be needed."It is a fairly disruptive project when it comes to South Waterfront," Bruce said. "South Waterfront is traditionally a hard place to get to, and the longer this project goes on, the more prolonged that aspect is."The road will have two streetcar tracks and a crossing with light rail, and both have intensive utility needs. Moody Avenue also is the main utility line to the South Waterfront District and the new OHSU Schnitzer campus, so the amount of wires, vaults and foundations that need to be installed is double the amount needed for a typical street project, Bruce said.To ensure the project schedule is maintained, crews have occasionally worked double shifts and an average of six days a week, Bruce said. When the project is finished, 50 different subcontractors will have logged 125,000 man-hours.

Dan Anderson, a spokesman for the Portland Bureau of Transportation, said the extent of changes coming to the area is "hard to communicate." The corridor, including main entrances for buildings, will rise 14 feet by the end of the project. The road also will line up with the new Gibbs Street pedestrian bridge over Interstate 5.

Light up your Kitchen with the right lighting!

The proper lighting in a room can make or break it. With lighting, you can create a soft, cozy room for reading and relaxing. With bright, brilliant light you create a sense of excitement and energy. When looking for the right lighting for a room consider what you will do in that space and what you want the lighting to do. If you plan to install lighting fixtures in your kitchen, you will want to use kitchen lighting that is bright and clean. You need to see what you are doing without shadows and haziness.

Lighting, in whatever form, can be expensive. But, purchasing the proper lights can add quality and life to a room. So, what do you do? There are several options. For one, there are stores that offer discount lighting. Many of your larger home stores and even some department stores carry lighting fixtures that are very nice and affordable. Of course, the selection and styles may be limited, but you may find what you want anyway. There are stores that specialize in lighting and they often can order something you want if they do not carry the items. So, there are choices.A common area that people seem to have trouble with is outdoor lighting. Again, there are many options available to choose from. Strings of lighting fixtures that push into the ground are common. Usually, these, get bumped or run over with the lawnmower if placed near high traffic areas. And, keeping the lights on all evening can become costly. Another alternative is solar lighting. These look similar to the last but are powered by the sun. During the day they charge up from the solar rays even in cloudy weather. Then, at evening, when the sun is down, they are glowing. Landscape lighting is a great way to line your driveway or sidewalks. You can also use brighter fixtures to light up your flag or just a flower bed. It makes for a great look to those approaching the house in the evening hours.For all types of spaces, indoor and outdoor, there are lighting options. Consider all aspects of what you are installing though. The cost of the fixtures, the wattage they will put out and even the quality of light you will gain. Lighting fixtures can add and enhance the mood of any room. Take your time and consider all these options before choosing the lighting you want.

For all types of spaces, indoor and outdoor, there are lighting options. Consider all aspects of what you are installing though. The cost of the fixtures, the wattage they will put out and even the quality of light you will gain. Lighting fixtures can add and enhance the mood of any room. Take your time and consider all these options before choosing the lighting you want.