Denny Hamlin will make his 176th career NASCAR Sprint Cup Series start this weekend when he climbs behind the wheel of the #11 Sport Clips Toyota Camry at Atlanta Motor Speedway (AMS).

Sport Clips will serve as the primary sponsor of the #11 Toyota this weekend at Atlanta.  It is the first time the long-time Joe Gibbs Racing partner in the Nationwide Series has sponsored a Sprint Cup Car.  Sport Clips is headquartered in Georgetown, Texas and features more than 700 Sport Clips locations in 38 states. The franchise ranked in the top 100 overall and top 50 in growth for the sixth straight year in Entrepreneur Magazine's "Franchise 500."

Sunday night's race at AMS marks Hamlin's 11th Cup start at the 1.55-mile track.  To date, he has recorded one top-five and three top-ten finishes at Atlanta.  His best finish came in the fall of 2008 when he led 56 laps on his way to a third-place finish.  

"It's exciting to have Sport Clips on board this weekend," says Hamlin. "They have been with Gibbs for a while now supporting the Nationwide teams and they've had a lot of success there.  I am hoping to give them a good race this weekend on the Cup side – it would be fun to celebrate with them on Sunday night."

Green flag for the Emory Heathcare 500 will drop at 7:30 p.m. ET with live coverage on ESPN Television and PRN.  

About Sport Clips

Sport Clips is headquartered in Georgetown, Texas and was established in 1995 by founder and CEO Gordon Logan. The franchise ranked in the top 100 overall and top 50 in growth for the sixth straight year in Entrepreneur Magazine's "Franchise 500" and in the top 50 in Dun & Bradstreet's AllBusiness.com "2010 AllBusiness AllStars." Sport Clips is the "Official Haircutter" of the Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) and offers veterans preferential pricing on haircuts and franchises. They are also the largest contributor to the VFW's Operation Uplink program, having donated almost $500,000 to help overseas soldiers call home. Sport Clips is a proud sponsor of Joe Gibbs Racing's NASCAR driver, Joey Logano, and holds partnerships with several teams in the National Basketball Association (NBA), Major League Baseball (MLB), and National Hockey League (NHL). For media resources and additional information on Sport Clips, visit SportClipsMedia.com. To learn about franchise opportunities click here, and for locations throughout the United States, visit SportClips.com.

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Menicon Co., Ltd. (Menicon) announced the appointment of Chew Hwee Yong as Chief of Special Projects at the company's head office in Nagoya, Japan. Chew, to be based in Nagoya, will be responsible for updating and expanding Menicon's internal processes as well as external relations to support the company's globalization.

Chew started his career with the Singapore Economic Development Board (EDB). During his nine-year tenure with the EDB, Chew was responsible for overseeing significant projects in different high-tech industries (precision engineering, electronics and information/communications & media clusters). Chew also spent three years in Osaka, Japan, as the EDB's Centre Director covering western Japan and attracted investments from diverse fields including electronics, biomedical sciences, precision engineering, chemicals, food and water treatment.

While stationed in Japan from 2006 to 2009, Chew also served as a Consul at the Consulate-General Office of the Republic of Singapore, Osaka. During his term, he was the representative for Singaporeans in western Japan and fostered strong relationships with the western Japan industrial community.

Chew has a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Precision Engineering from the University of Tokyo and a Master of Engineering degree in Optics & Optoelectronics, Electrical Engineering, from Princeton University. He is proficient in English, Chinese and Japanese.

"I am very excited about joining the Menicon team," said Chew. "Menicon has made several key acquisitions in recent years and is developing new products leveraging on our strength as a technology company. Coming in at a very exciting and crucial point in Menicon's corporate history, I want to do my best to contribute to building Menicon into a global enterprise."

"We are very pleased to welcome Mr. Chew to Menicon as he will be able to bring considerable skill and knowledge necessary to building Menicon's global operations infrastructure," said Toshio Matsushima, Head of Global Strategy at Menicon.  

About Menicon:

Menicon Co. (www.menicon.com), founded by Kyoichi Tanaka in 1951, is Japan's first and largest contact lens manufacturer, and now is represented in over 30 countries. Menicon is a manufacturer dedicated to all areas of soft and GP contact lens-related businesses including material development, lens designing, and manufacturing of contact lenses and care solutions. Menicon is a world leader in the development of hyper-Dk GP (Menicon Z) and soft contact lenses (Menicon PremiO).  

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Hollywood is going 3D in more than just the movies! The 3D Face Lift has set a new trend in plastic surgery thanks to Dr. Payman Simoni, famed Beverly Hills plastic surgeon, who is adding new dimensions that pave the way to the future of the facelift.

Dr. Simoni eliminates the fear of anesthesia with his famous Simoni Face Lift that requires no major anesthesia. He is breaking new ground by reversing facial fat loss (the 3rd dimension of aging) thus preventing the "too pulled" and done look that is common with a traditional facelift.

As Simoni states, "Gravity has been blamed as the main cause of aging but the lesser known and neglected cause has been the fat loss in select areas of the face. The classic facelift pulls the face in only a two-dimensional angle even though the loss of fat in the face causes it to age in the third dimension." The 3D Face Lift breaks tradition of the old facelift by adding the person's own fat to hollow areas of the face.

Dr. Simoni's avant-garde procedure takes place with the patient wide -awake using only local anesthesia and, remarkably, sitting up! Following The Simoni Face Lift he takes fat from unwanted areas and then processes and re-injects it into the areas of the face affected by thinning, such as under the eyes and cheeks.

What is more amazing is that our fat harbors a lot of stem cells which when injected under your skin can act as repair cells by producing natural growth factors and rehabilitating sun damaged and aging skin. So more recently, Dr. Simoni has been taking advantage of these stem cells from fat in his 3D Face Lift, which then repairs volume, aging skin, and the underlying tissue.

The 3D lift is Hollywood's newest fountain of youth, giving outstanding and progressive results. In about an hour patients look younger, and most importantly natural, after having a procedure that used only local anesthesia!  

Payman Simoni, MD is a dual board certified facial plastic surgeon and the founder of Simoni Plastic Surgery in Beverly Hills, California. He has been featured in/on The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The View, E! Bravo, Reuters, CNN, CNBC EXTRA, KTLA, Entertainment Tonight, The Insider, OK! Magazine, 10 Years Younger.

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In today's climate of flu and communicable disease scares, hygiene and wellness education is more imperative than ever. According to a 2009 study by the Soap and Detergent Association, 39 percent of people seldom wash their hands after coughing and sneezing*. Because Georgia-Pacific Professional believes everyone should wash their hands with soap and dry them with a paper towel, the company is launching Spread Wellness, a campaign aimed at teaching people proper techniques for washing and drying hands when away from home. The campaign also encourages everyone to be a Spread Wellness ambassador by sharing the importance of hand hygiene practices wherever they go.

The Spread Wellness website (http://www.spread-wellness.com) is a resource center that provides links, tips, education materials, news and tools to share with those around them. The website also offers an interactive hygiene poll and downloadable signs that promote hand washing. Additionally, visitors can sign up to be a Wellness Ambassador and receive a welcome kit with a Spread Wellness wristband.

"With the easy transfer of germs and diseases, we all need to be more aware of our surroundings," said Bill Sleeper, president of Georgia-Pacific Professional. "We need to practice good hygiene habits ourselves and share these tips with those we interact with. This campaign is about educating the public on how to use the best hand washing practices to stay healthy and potentially take steps to help improve cleanliness and wellness wherever they go."

Through the Spread Wellness website, consumers and facility managers are provided a way to take action to further promote hygiene away from home. Beyond hand washing materials, consumers can request enMotion® Automated Touchless Towel Dispensers in places they go and where they work, and facility managers can learn more about leasing enMotion Automated Touchless Towel Dispensers for their facilities. Georgia-Pacific Professional enMotion Automated Touchless Towel and Soap Dispensers help reduce cross-contamination and maintain a hygienic washroom.

Information on how to Spread Wellness can be found at http://www.spread-wellness.com, on Facebook at www.facebook.com/spreadwellness or by following on Twitter @GPProfessional (www.twitter.com/gpprofessional).

ABOUT GEORGIA-PACIFIC PROFESSIONAL

Georgia-Pacific Professional is a provider of hygienic dispensing systems, towels, tissues, soaps, air fresheners, wipers, cups, cutlery and napkins. Two business groups operate under the Georgia-Pacific Professional business. The Washroom and Wiper Solutions group provides the full range of products to market segments including office buildings, healthcare, manufacturing, and lodging facilities. The Food Services Solutions group focuses on such segments as restaurants, coffee shops, and convenience stores. The Georgia-Pacific Professional business features such well-known product brands as enMotion®, Compact®, Dixie®, EasyNap®, SmartStock®, and Brawny Industrial™. For more information on Georgia-Pacific Professional, please call 1-866-HELLO GP (435-5647) or visit us at http://www.gppro.com.

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ABOUT GEORGIA-PACIFIC PROFESSIONAL'S WELLNESS INITIATIVE

As a leading supplier of hygienic solutions for the away-from-home washroom, wiper and foodservice industries, the primary goal of Georgia-Pacific Professional for decades has focused on spreading wellness to improve the health and wellbeing of individuals, businesses and communities. This includes providing hygienic products and wellness solutions that address issues such as sustainability, hand hygiene and hygienic environments in washroom and foodservice areas.  

Today, Georgia-Pacific Professional's wellness initiative continues to focus on improving the well-being of its customers and users. This effort includes educational and awareness programs for industry professionals and consumers that highlight the benefits of proper hand washing. Numerous products from the company's Washroom and Wiper Solutions and Food Services Solutions groups support the company's commitment to wellness by promoting good hygiene, while offering source reduction benefits. For more information on the company's wellness initiative, visit http://www.gppro.com/healthy.

*http://www.cleaninginstitute.org/clean_hands_report_card%C2%AE_americans_get_a_%E2%80%9Cb-%E2%80%9D_on_hand_hygiene/?Archive=y&CategoryId=3&F_All=y

*enMotion® dispensers are only available for lease through an authorized distributor.

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OXIS INTERNATIONAL, INC. (OTC Bulletin Board: OXIS, Paris: OXI) announced today the launch of its wholly owned subsidiary, Oxis Consumer Products (OCP), focused on the development, marketing, promotion, and sales of direct to consumer brands. OCP will be responsible for sales, marketing and distribution of the recently announced ErgoFlex® and ErgoPLex® products as well as additional consumer products currently in development. In addition, OCP is currently in negotiation with several prestigious companies regarding formation of Joint Ventures in numerous consumer brand verticals. OXIS will continue to update its shareholders as these opportunities are completed.

About OXIS International, Inc.

OXIS International, Inc. develops technologies and products to research, diagnose, treat and prevent diseases of oxidative stress/inflammation associated with damage from free radical and reactive oxygen species (ROS). The company holds the rights to several therapeutic classes of compounds in the area of oxidative stress, and has focused commercialization programs that include SOD (superoxide dismutase), MPO (myeloperoxidase), GPx (glutathione peroxidase), as well as a highly potent antioxidant, Ergothioneine, that may be sold over-the-counter (OTC) as a dietary supplement. Please visit www.oxis.com for additional information.

Forward-Looking Statement

This press release contains forward-looking statements that involve numerous risks and uncertainties. Actual results, performance or achievements could differ materially from those anticipated in such forward-looking statements as a result of certain factors, including those set forth in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

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