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Wednesday September 16, 2009

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Celebrating the stories, culture and heritage of America’s Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Community, Purple Communications, Inc. (Nasdaq: PRPL) will honor National Champion Motocross Rider and Floridian, Ashley Fiolek for being a role model to deaf youth nationwide and her accomplishments as a stellar athlete in a male-dominated sport. Community members are encouraged to join in the celebration on September 19, 2009 at the Hilton St. Petersburg Carillon Park, 950 Lake Carillon Drive in Saint Petersburg, FL. The event will feature

Long-short investing strategies aren’t just for hedge funds anymore. Many investors believed diversified “long-only” portfolios would always serve them well, regardless of the market conditions. They expected certain asset classes would perform well even as others were struggling.

After all, most mutual funds, exchange-traded funds (ETFs) and managed accounts offer long-only strategies. And why not? After all, the strategy is simple: These portfolio managers buy securities and hope to take advantage of price appreciation.

But the ongoing financial crisis proved those investors wrong – for several reasons. After all, what do you do in a trendless (sideways) market? And what about a declining market?

In either situation, the profit payoff from a purely long portfolio doesn’t figure to be very large. And that’s no surprise. After all, when bear markets arrive – as they periodically do – long-only money managers are typically limited to raising additional cash, or seeking