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If you didn't make it to Nashville, Tennessee, the new venue for the Black Enterprise/Bank of America Entrepreneurs Conference, you missed out on a great networking opportunity. But you can still benefit from the sessions. With more than 15 sessions featuring a lineup of small business experts and corporate executives, you, too, can be a part of the Conference action.

Our town hall meeting brought together a panel of high-profile entrepreneurs, politicians, and scholars to discuss the issue of business and race. They included: Robert L. Johnson, founder, chairman, and CEO of BET Holdings II Inc.; Clarence Avant, chairman of Interior Music/Avant Garde Music Publishing; Suzanne dePasse, CEO of dePasse Entertainment; Willie E. Gary, senior partner of Gary, Williams, Parenti, Finney, Lewis, McManus, Watson & Sperando; Rep. Charles B. Rangel (D-NY), and Earl G. Graves Sr., publisher and CEO of BLACK ENTERPRISE. Charles J. Ogletree Jr., a Jesse Climenko professor of law at Harvard Law School, was the moderator.
* "Profiting in the New Economy" featuring David Steward, chairman and CEO of World Wide Technology Inc. Steward, who was featured in the June 2001 issue of BE, has grown his technology company to an $800 million enterprise.

* "Employed by Design" is a session that explores opportunities in the fashion industry. Designers Dion Lattimore, owner of Dion Scott, and Maurice Malone, CEO of Maurice Malone Designs, provide insight on how to establish a clothing label. Both suggest that before jumping into the entrepreneurial pool, aspiring designers should get experience working for an established label.

* "Against All Odds" explores the determination and perseverance that leads to entrepreneurial success. This session features three successful entrepreneurs who tell how they overcame obstacles to share their secrets for achieving success. The three entrepreneurs are Effie Booker, CEO of Cabana Car Wash, and Albert and Odetta Murray, owners of the New Hillside Inn. All are featured in the BE book, Against All Odds: Ten Entrepreneurs Who Followed Their Hearts and Found Success by Wendy Harris (John Wiley & Sons Inc., $24.95) Harris served as moderator for the session.

ECI Conference Call Services Launches New Billing System; Comprehensive Conference Call Charge Detail Available Online

WAYNE, N.J. -- ECI Conference Call Services, the largest privately-held, full-service audio and web conferencing provider, today announced the successful launch of its new billing system. The new system includes an industry leading bill format, plus customer tools that enable immediate access to key account information online, with downloadable detail and enhanced customer service and support.

"Prospective customers tell us that an important part of their decision in selecting a conferencing services provider is the ability of the conferencing company to generate user-friendly invoices with key billing detail," said Stephen J. Pook, ECI's Vice President of Sales. "These enhancements to our invoicing system position us to successfully address a key requirement of the conferencing buyer and continue to provide the best customer service in the industry."

ECI's new invoice features enhanced readability, improved product description legends and comprehensive call detail, providing customers with access to more information about their conferencing usage than ever before. Included in the new invoicing capabilities are a one-page summary of total account charges, credits and balance due, a payment summary that details credit card charges, and a conferencing summary section that provides information about specific calls at a glance. Expanded payment options, including credit card capabilities, provide additional flexibility for customers. An optional feature, available at no charge, is online traffic information about conference call usage, which includes originating numbers (ANI) for every caller that dialed into a reservationless call (where available), and extensive detail on each conference call, including related miscellaneous expenses (e.g., recordings, transcriptions, participation lists, etc.) Through a newly designed online user interface, customers are able to easily view their conferencing activity and export the data to a spreadsheet for more detailed analysis.

ECI Conferencing Services makes conference calling powerfully simple. ECI simplifies the meeting experience through its broad range of easy-to-use web and audio conferencing services and is redefining how businesses can improve communications, creativity and costs through the use of simple, leading-edge conferencing services.

InSight Health Services Holdings Corp. to Host Fiscal 2004 Fourth Quarter and Year End Results Conference Call

LAKE FOREST, Calif. -- InSight Health Services Holdings Corp. ("InSight") today announced that management will host a conference call to discuss results for the fourth quarter and year ended June 30, 2004. InSight expects to file its Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2004, with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Friday, Sept. 24, 2004. The call is scheduled for Tuesday, Sept. 28, 2004, at 8 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time.

Michael N. Cannizzaro, president and chief executive officer, and Brian G. Drazba, chief financial officer, will host the conference call.

To participate by telephone, please dial 1-800-218-0204 ten minutes prior to the scheduled call.

To listen to a live or archived webcast of the call, visit go to the bottom of the home page and click on financial information to access a link to the call. Refer to conference ID# 24761. The archived webcast of the call will be available for 90 days beginning

InSight, with headquarters in Lake Forest, provides diagnostic imaging and information, treatment and related management services. It serves managed care entities, hospitals and other contractual customers in 37 states, including the following targeted regional markets: California, Arizona, New England, the Carolinas

InSight Health Services Holdings Corp. to Host Fiscal 2004 Fourth Quarter and Year End Results Conference Call

LAKE FOREST, Calif. -- InSight Health Services Holdings Corp. ("InSight") today announced that management will host a conference call to discuss results for the fourth quarter and year ended June 30, 2004. InSight expects to file its Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2004, with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Friday, Sept. 24, 2004. The call is scheduled for Tuesday, Sept. 28, 2004, at 8 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time.

Michael N. Cannizzaro, president and chief executive officer, and Brian G. Drazba, chief financial officer, will host the conference call.

To participate by telephone, please dial 1-800-218-0204 ten minutes prior to the scheduled call.

To listen to a live or archived webcast of the call, visit www.insighthealth.com, go to the bottom of the home page and click on financial information to access a link to the call. Refer to conference ID# 24761. The archived webcast of the call will be available for 90 days beginning on Sept. 28, 2004.

, with headquarters in Lake Forest, provides diagnostic imaging and information, treatment and related management services. It serves managed care entities, hospitals and other contractual customers in 37 states, including the following targeted regional markets: California, Arizona, New England, the Carolinas, Florida and the Mid-Atlantic states. For more information

W-H Energy Services Announces Conference Call

HOUSTON -- W-H Energy Services, Inc. (NYSE:WHQ) has scheduled the date of its release of third quarter results to occur prior to the open of the market on October 28, 2004. The earnings release will be followed by a conference call at 11:00 a.m. central time and is open to the public. The conference call will include a discussion of the third quarter 2004 results as well as expectations for the fourth quarter of 2004. A brief question and answer session will follow.

To participate by telephone, call 877-502-9276 ten to fifteen minutes prior to the scheduled starting time. Participants should inform the operator that they are calling for the W-H Energy conference call hosted by Ken White, CEO of W-H Energy. For international calls, call 913-981-5591. A rebroadcast of the call will be available through November 28, by dialing 800-528-0581 pass code 1058.

In addition, the Company's third quarter conference call will be available on a listen only basis over the internet as provided by CCBN at www.whes.com. The entire teleconference call will be broadcast live, and a replay will be available on the W-H Energy Services web site for 30 days following the event.
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W-H Energy is a diversified oilfield service company that provides products and services used primarily for the drilling, completion and production of oil and natural gas wells. The Company has onshore operations in the United States, Canada, Brazil, Europe, North Africa and the Middle East and offshore operations in the Gulf of Mexico, the North Sea, the Persian Gulf, the Gulf of Suez, the Mediterranean Sea and off the coast of Brazil.

Statements in this press release that are not strictly historical are "forward-looking" statements as defined in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. The actual results may differ materially from those projected in the forward-looking statements due to, among other things, the current and expected future prices of crude oil and natural gas, the level of exploration, development and production activity of, and the corresponding capital spending by, our customers, the development and implementation of new technologies and weather conditions in offshore markets. These risks are more fully described in W-H Energy Services, Inc.'s Annual Report filed on Form 10-K with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The Company disclaims any obligation to update the statements in this press release.

MILCOM 2006 Conference

Thank you Dave [Major General (ret) Bryan] for the warm introduction ... It is delightful to be with you all today. I congratulate the organizers--you have done a marvelous job all these years. Congratulations to all of you on the Silver Anniversary of this event!

At the very beginning--I do want to recognize a few people, from the senior leadership of the Department of Defense--especially John Grimes, the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Networks and Information Integration. A few days ago, I went to a special event at the Army Navy Club. He was given an award by the Russian Technical Expert Delegation--did I get that right, John?--who came from the Kremlin and the Ministry of Defense. They gave him a medal for a lifetime of dedication to US/Russian communications--the hotline we've had all these years. They gave him paintings, plaques, accolades, and even a sword, and John--you richly deserved all of it! Thank you for the great job you do for the Department of Defense and the Nation.

Also, Lt. Gen. Charlie Croom is here today. He heads up the Defense Information Systems Agency, and he, too, is providing important leadership. Also, LTG Steve Boutelle, the G6 and Chief Information Officer of the Army is here. Thank you for everything you do, wearing the uniform of our Nation--thank you for what you do.

Now this is an organization that I can personally relate to. It's been a fascinating 45 years since I graduated with a BSEE in 1961. My career has literally encompassed the entire micro-electronics generation. In my senior year of college, the university offered, for the very first time, a transistor course. Literally, a transistor. This was about a decade after the first practical, point-contact transistors were built at Bell labs. Even though I'm pretty old, it's still an extraordinarily short period of time for all the micro-electronic changes that have happened since then--especially in area of net-centric design.

I'm not a designer any longer but I still have a keen interest in net-centricity--since it's the backbone of everything we do in the Department. On behalf of all Service members who wear the uniform of this Nation and put their lives on the line every day, I do thank you all for your leadership and innovation, and what you do every day to provide capabilities to the warfighter, at a time when our Nation faces multiple threats.

In these early days of the 21st century, America and our friends and allies face a much, much broader array of challenges and greater uncertainty than ever before.

Now, for the Department of Defense, the top priority is the war on terror. Terrorists are determined to destroy our very way of life--and of all who love freedom and liberty.

This is an adversary that cannot challenge us with conventional methods, so he makes full use of asymmetrical and irregular approaches. Terrorists hide themselves among civilian populations, they target civilians directly, they target the economic infrastructure that supports developed civilizations, and they disdain and despise the international laws of war.

And terrorists are technologically very savvy--they adapt to new conditions extraordinarily quickly. Though they aim to undo centuries' worth of progress, they are not at all reluctant to take full advantage of that progress. They use the latest technological innovations to communicate, recruit, and transfer money. They keep websites, and they update them in real time, to share their lessons learned.

The very technologies that you develop and the technologies that make globalization possible are used by terrorists throughout the world against freedom-loving nations. In fact, they have it much easier, since late-comers can take a short-cut. To use cutting edge technology, it's no longer necessary to study for years and complete a Ph.D.--nowadays you can now just download almost any technology from the Internet.

Globalization is creating vast new opportunities for economic growth, and it's extending the marketplace of ideas. But at the same time, all of those opportunities and ideas are equally available to our adversaries. The challenges of rapid technological change, and the ways that change might be abused, face all of us--the United States, and all of our friends and allies around the world. This is the fundamental technical and operational challenge of our time.

International terrorism is absolutely ruthless, and no one--no nation--is immune. As the President said a few weeks ago, this is a struggle "that will set the course for this new century, and determine the destiny of millions around the world." This is the fundamental strategic challenge of our time.

Magellan Health Services Announces Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2004 Earnings Release Date and Conference Call

FARMINGTON, Conn. -- Magellan Health Services, Inc. (Nasdaq:MGLN) today announced that the Company will release fourth quarter and fiscal year 2004 earnings results on Thursday, March 3, 2005.

The fourth quarter and fiscal year 2004 earnings announcement will be issued at approximately 6:30 a.m.

A conference call will be held to discuss the earnings at 9:00 a.m. Eastern time on Thursday, March 3. To participate in the call, interested parties should call 1-888-390-4698 and reference the passcode 2004 Earnings and conference leader Steve Shulman approximately 15 minutes before the start of the call.

A taped replay of the conference call will be available from approximately 11:00 a.m. Eastern time on Thursday March 3, until 12:00 midnight on Thursday, March 10. The call-in numbers for the replay are 1-866-395-4276 and 1-203-369-0484 (from outside the U.S.).

Those who plan to listen to the call and/or Webcast are encouraged to read Magellan's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2003, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on March 30, 2004, including the discussion of risks set forth in the section entitled 'Cautionary Statements.' In addition, listeners are encouraged to read all other 2003 and 2004 reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including but not limited to the Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on October 29, 2004, to learn about Magellan's historical operational and financial results.

Consumer Portfolio Services, Inc. Announces 2004 Fourth Quarter and Full-Year Earnings Conference Call - Friday, March 25, 2005

IRVINE, Calif. -- Consumer Portfolio Services, Inc. (Nasdaq:CPSS) today announced that it will release its fourth quarter and full-year 2004 results after the market closes today March 24, 2005. Management will then host a conference call Friday, March 25, 2005, at 1:30 p.m. EST. to discuss the results.

Dial-in number for the call is 973-409-9261.

A replay of the call will be available until March 31, 2005, by calling 877-519-4471 or 973-341-3080 for international participants, with pin number 5859610.

This call is being webcast by Thomson/CCBN and can be accessed at the CPS Web site at

The webcast is also being distributed through the Thomson StreetEvents Network to both institutional and individual investors. Individual investors can listen to the call at Thomson/CCBN's individual investor portal, powered by StreetEvents. Institutional investors can access the call via Thomson's password-protected event management site, StreetEvent Consumer Portfolio Services, Inc. is a consumer finance company that specializes in purchasing, selling and servicing retail automobile dealers located throughout the United States. The Company is currently active in 38 states. Through its purchases of contracts, the Company provides indirect financing to car dealer customers with limited credit histories, low incomes or past credit problems, who generally would not be expected to qualify for financing provided by banks or by automobile manufacturers' captive finance companies.