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• Open day offers police advice and free checks on scooters
  Police officers will offer advice to guard against mobility scooters being stolen when they take part in an open day at a newly-opened Wolverhampton store.
  Date: May 21, 2004



• Scooters aid MTA Police in nabbing suspects
  Maryland Transit Administration Police recently stopped an attempted break-in at the Owings Mills Metro Subway Station parking lot. Using the newly acquired, electric-battery operated Freedom Scooters, MTA Police interrupted the attempt by six suspects to break into a vehicle resulting in their apprehension and arrest. The scooters supplement current patrol techniques and allow patrol officers easier movement throughout the Metro parking lots.
  Date: May 21, 2004



• As Peak Season For Specialty Vehicles Begins, Progressive Offers Agents Tips on Adding Incremental Business
  As the popularity of motorcycles, boats, personal watercraft and recreational vehicles continues to grow, the opportunity for independent agents to expand their business and increase customer satisfaction also improves.
  Date: May 21, 2004



• Attendance Up 26% at the 5th Annual Edmonton Motorcycle Show
  The fifth annual Edmonton Motorcycle Show wrapped up Sunday, January 18th, after close to 27,000 attendees passed through the doors, up 26% from last year's number of approximately 20,000 attendees. An estimated 11,000 people attended the Kawasaki freestyle motocross event-an extreme motorcycle sport where young professionals fly up ramps at 30 miles per hour, go 30 feet into the air and perform tricks such as the 'Kiss of Death' then land 70 feet away.
  Date: May 21, 2004



• Demise of the school run
  Every day thousands of parents move their children to and from school, without a thought for the environment, using inefficient petrol guzzlers
  Date: May 21, 2004



• Enhanced Mobility Assists Patrol Officers On Routine Rounds
  Seeking to thwart crime at some Metro Subway parking lots, the Maryland Transit Administration Police recently began using electric-battery operated, low maintenance, low cost scooters as an alternate means of parking lot patrol. The scooters supplement current patrol techniques and allow patrol officers easier movement throughout the Metro parking lots.
  Date: May 21, 2004



• Further steps on Medicare coverage and payment policies that apply to power wheelchairs and power scooters
  Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Administrator Mark D. McClellan, M.D., Ph.D. today announced a series of further steps on Medicare coverage and payment policies that apply to power wheelchairs and power scooters building on recent successes in reducing Medicare abuse. CMS is implementing a three-pronged approach focused on coverage, payment and quality of suppliers of power wheelchairs.
  Date: May 21, 2004



• Gifts & Home Products and DIY & Home Improvement in Shanghai
  Global Sources Ltd. announced 18 winners of the China Exporter of the Year Awards in the Small Kitchen Appliances, Stuffed Plush Toys and Electric & Gas-powered Scooters categories held during the China Sourcing Fairs: Gifts & Home Products and DIY & Home Improvement at the Shanghai New International Expo Centre.
  Date: May 21, 2004



• Latest Razor Scooter Game Ships To Stores
  Crave Entertainment today announced the shipment of Razor Freestyle Scooter, for Dreamcast. Razor Freestyle Scooter is an all-out trick bonanza set in huge scooter-friendly environments and value priced at only $19.99.
  Date: May 21, 2004



• Law would ban the use of souped-up scooters in City
  The Committee on Transportation, chaired by Council Member John C. Liu, today heard testimony about a piece of legislation, introduced by Council Member Michael McMahon, that would extend the ban on motorized scooters to include the point of sale, lease, rental and use in private spaces.
  Date: May 21, 2004



• McKenna Long & Aldridge Sponsors AeA Spirit of Endeavor Awards
  For the second year, McKenna Long & Aldridge is sponsoring the AeA's Spirit of Endeavor awards banquet at the Fox Theatre. Dean Kamen, Entrepreneur and inventor of Segway Scooters, will serve as the keynote speaker at the banquet.
  Date: May 21, 2004



• Motorized shateboards illegal on city streets
  Surprise police have a word of warning for operators of motorized scooters and skateboards: Keep them off sidewalks, bike paths and city streets.
  Date: May 21, 2004



• New Health consumer Website, Life and Health Related Issues, Wheelchairs and Motorized Scooters
  We are proud to announce the launch of a new health consumer service-oriented website, http://www.101-health.com. 101-Health.com offers you the only site that includes the best free information, facts, and links on smoking addiction, how to stop smoking, and pain relief with exercise in addition to links and facts about Long Term-Care Insurance and the reasons and best ways to buy Long Term-Care Insurance.
  Date: May 21, 2004



• Road Safety Is No Accident
  Drastic measures are required to overcome the trend of increased road accidents, says the United Nation's Children Fund at a function in Hanoi to promote World Health Day today. The event will be celebrated on 7 April and the theme for this year is Road Safety Is No Accident.
  Date: May 10, 2004



• Bladez Scooters introduces top manager and team leader
  Frank Finn is the President and Co-Founder of the Bladez, Inc. As the Founder and Chairman of The Lighthouse Marketing Group, Frank has been building brands and new categories for international companies for all of his life. Since the mid 1970’s and under Mr. Finn’s direction, LMG has successfully built brands for such billion dollar companies as Canon USA, The LG Group, The Conair Corporation, The Holmes Group, Pacific Telesis, Plantronics and many others. Frank’s leadership in product and distribution strategies has helped companies build stronger brand name recognition within the North American markets. Over time, this responsibility has afforded him the opportunity to help factories develop and pioneer new product categories and participate in creating new retailing store trends. His experience with bringing key retail decision makers directly to factories all over the world has secured key account responsibilities with nationally recognized Wholesale Club’s, Mass Merchants and Office Superstores. To date, many Mass Merchants, National Accounts, Specialty, Catalog’s and Key Regional distributors throughout the country have current relationships with his companies. Mr. Finn has led sales efforts that have exceeded half billion in annual sales for many years. Excuses for poor performance in sales or profitability are not in his vocabulary.
  Date: October 4, 2003



• The makers of Piaggio scooters announces new business arrangement
  Piaggio Holding S.p.A. and Italjet S.p.A. today announce that they have signed a letter of intent which will see Piaggio becoming a shareholder of Italjet as well as jointly developing various technical and manufacturing projects.
  Date: October 4, 2003



• Skates, ‘boards, scooters: People love the freedom electric scooters bring
  Inline skating continued its transition from the red-hot sport of the 1990s to one of the more popular activities of the early 21st century. With 29 million participants in 2000 (down from a high of 32 million in 1998), inline skating is not attracting enough new participants to maintain sales levels achieved when first-time skaters were pouring into the sport.
  Date: October 4, 2003



• Shareholders advised of sale of company that makes Segway scooter products
  As 2002 comes to a close, we are pleased to provide you with this brief summary of your company's progress and business. We look forward with anticipation to 2003, a year we expect will be the most significant in the history of the Company.
  Date: October 3, 2003



• Stafford county showground site of Yamaha scooter display
  The Carole Nash Classic and Motorcycle Mechanics show on 18/19 October, is now but a few short weeks away. As the summer begins to draw towards its end, taking with it the traditional riding season, motorcyclists can console themselves with another big weekend in Stafford, to set themselves up for a project to occupy those ever nearer, long-winter nights.
  Date: October 3, 2003



• Kids Take Part in Walk to School Week boosting electric scooters for sale in local shops
  Children from five primary schools in the town will be 'scooting' and walking to school this week to mark Walk to School Week!
  Date: October 3, 2003



• The motor industry has estimated future prospects appear to be quite buoyant and include scooter sale figures
  The motor industry had an estimated value of £44.7bn at manufacturers' selling prices (msp) in 2002, compared with £39.5bn in 1998. Although there was strong and increasing demand for cars over the past 5-year period, the cost of cars to the buyers began to drop. Future prospects appear to be quite buoyant for the motor industry, although there is considerable hostility from environmental groups to any further expansion in traffic.
  Date: October 3, 2003



• LSU Dining Customers Win Trip To Spring Break Or An Air Scooter
  Shannon May & Justin McCain each won a trip to Gulf Shores for Spring Break 2002. Each trip includes hotel accommodations for 4 days/3 nights, cash for gas, food money and spending money.
  Date: October 3, 2003



• What goes up... has a soft landing! Is that true with petrol scooters?
  Toy Manufacturers of America Releases 2000 Results and Projects Robust 6 Percent Increase in 2001
  Date: October 3, 2003



• Honda scooters lead Sacramento Ride For Kids
  On a day just made for motorcycling, 800 riders gathered in Sacramento, CA, bringing with them $138,431 in donations to fund the programs of the Pediatric Brain Tumor Foundation of the US, who awards grantsto medical researchers working to find the cause and cure for brain tumors, the disease that takes more children’s lives in Americathan any other.
  Date: October 3, 2003



• Unique groups to visit Steubenville Saturday riding Cushman motor scooters
  Funky scooters and serious walkers can be seen throughout downtown Steubenville on Saturday, May 17. Members from the North Central Cushman Ohio Chapter will arrive on Cushman scooters dated from the 1940’s and the 1960’s, and the Valley Vagabonds of Cleveland will walk the streets of downtown Steubenville to obtain credit for two sanctioned walks by the Ohio Volkssport Association. The Old Fort Steuben and the City of Murals were the main draws for bringing the groups to Steubenville, and the Steubenville Convention and Visitors Bureau helped the groups in planning their visits.
  Date: October 3, 2003



• Bombardier adds a sea scooter to its line-up
  Bombardier Recreational Products is introducing the Quest™ 650, an All Terrain Vehicle (ATV) aimed at the sport-utility segment of the market. The Quest 650 joins the utility-targeted Traxter™ and the DS 650™ sport model in the growing Bombardier® ATV line-up.
  Date: October 3, 2003



• Can you call them Mosquito scooters because they fly?
  Looking a lot like a UFO, capable of speeds up to 15 mph, and hailed by the New York Times as a "miniature flying saucer with handlebars," the levitating Hover Scooter takes personal transportation to a new level. Literally.
  Date: October 3, 2003



• Get in gear at the 15th annual Philadelphia Cycle World International Motorcycle Shows® presented by Suzuki scooters
  The nation’s largest and oldest consumer show series returns to Philadelphia's Pennsylvania Convention Center. Show features include the 2002 model line-up of ATVs, motorcycles and scooters in factory showcase displays from the industry’s leading manufacturers; plus performance products, clothing and aftermarket accessories available for on-site purchase; product and vehicle giveaways — and much more.
  Date: October 3, 2003



• Internet Technologies Group, Inc. today donated 15 Razor scooters to the Boston Medical Center's Child Life Program
  This donation is part of ITG's continuing efforts to give back to the community. ITG is no stranger to philanthropy: from pro-bono work designing and hosting Web sites for New England Holocaust Memorial and Brookline Police, to donating old software and hardware to inner city programs and public agencies, ITG's staff is committing their time and talents to doing good deeds.
  Date: October 3, 2003



• Motorists declare war on Blair and encourage use of very cheap electric scooters
  Motorists will declare war and vote in their millions against Tony Blair's motoring "Toll Tax" announced in the Queen's Speech, predicts Democratic Party transport spokesman Philip Snow.
  Date: October 3, 2003



• Rotary Club of Richmond and Richmond Goodwill kick-off new community partnership by donating Rascal scooters
  The Rotary Club of Richmond is pleased to announce a new partnership with Richmond Goodwill Industries, and other community agencies, that will connect medical and adaptive equipment and supplies with the people who need it. A kick-off event for RotaDapt was held during the weekly meeting of the Rotary Club of Richmond, at the Willow Oaks Country Club on August 5, and included the project’s first presentation.
  Date: October 3, 2003



• From rationing to rock and roll and cheap scooters – Somerset in the 1950s
  If you could travel back to the Coronation of 1953, you would find a familiar world. Or would you? What about your mobile, trainers, tights, teabags, computer, credit cards, microwave, and all the other things we take for granted…
  Date: October 1, 2003



• City hosts meeting on minni bike chopper and electric vehicle program
  The City of Palo Alto has joined with EPRIsolutions, Inc. to identify specific actions that the City can take to broaden the use of electric drive vehicles (EDV) such as battery-electric vehicles (BEV), hybrid-electric vehicles (HEV) and other electric propulsion technology vehicles (EPT) such as neighborhood vehicles, electric bicycles, and scooters. The final report is entitled the Electric Vehicle Planning Program. A meeting will be held to discuss the final report from EPRI and share the findings with the community on Friday, November 15 from 3:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. at the Lucie Stern Community Center at 1305 Middlefield Road in the Community Room. The public is invited.
  Date: October 1, 2003



• Making their list and checking it twice: you can bet kids scooters are on it this year!
  It’s a holiday tradition. Dreamy-eyed children making their holiday wish list, hopeful their selections will magically appear under the Christmas tree.
  Date: October 1, 2003



• So, what are you wearing to the account executive meeting and are motor scooters used?
  Looking forward to the upcoming "Love May Make the World go Round, but Laughter Keeps us from Getting Dizzy Week", the associates of Johnson & Company (jo&co), the "Virtual Agency"™, pooled their expertise on keeping a sense of humor in the home or "virtual"office.
  Date: September 29, 2003



• Casey joins consumer group to inform parents of potentially dangerous toys adds toy list and elec scooter safety tips to website
  Auditor General Robert P. Casey Jr. today joined with a consumer group to make public a list of potentially dangerous toys, and to remind parents and caregivers of the need to ensure that toys are safe and age-appropriate. In particular, Casey focused on safe use of one of this year's most popular toys - the scooter.
  Date: September 29, 2003



• UnderGroundOnline and its celebrity pop-culture columnist, Gary Coleman, combat the motorscooter trend
  UnderGroundOnline, the entertainment mecca for 18-34 year old males on the Web, and their pop- culture celebrity columnist Gary Coleman, are demanding that people support their call for the first ever referendum to ban scooters.
  Date: September 29, 2003



• Pooch, pet and pedal parade coming so build a gas scooter decorating plan for your pet
  Des Plaines kids and pets are gearing up for the third annual POOCH, PET AND PEDAL PARADE, Saturday, September 6, 2003 at Prairie Lakes Community Center (at the south end of the park near the Mountain View Mine Adventure Golf Course, 510 E. Algonquin Rd.). Sponsored by the Special Events Commission, registration for the event, coordinated by Special Events Commissioners Carol Shannon and Penny Wenstrom., will begin at 8:00 am. It’s free and kids of all ages are invited to attend.
  Date: September 29, 2003



• Santas on a Scooter holiday hit bringing popularity to board scooters and mopeds!!!
  Santas on a Scooter Soars up Holiday Charts!!!!
  Date: September 29, 2003



• Huffy Bicycle Company's new Green Machine(TM) to be launched at the 100th Annual Toy Fair Exhibition where you will also see scooters for sale
  HUFFY CORPORATION: Huffy Bicycle Company, a division of Huffy Corporation, will be launching the next generation of tri-wheel innovation with the unveiling of its new Green Machine(TM) -- developed to capture the imagination of kids searching for the ultimate spin, slide and skid experience -- at the 100th Annual Toy Fair Exhibition, Jacob Javits Center (NYC). The Green Machine(TM) was recently selected as one of the thirty semi-finalists, vying for the 6th Annual Sports Product of the Year Award for product innovation, at the recent SGMA Super Show held in Las Vegas, Nevada.
  Date: September 29, 2003



• Introducing The City Mantis the most innovative used scooters on today's market; it's radical are you?
  The unique features of the foldaway City Mantis ensure admiring glances wherever the rider glides effortlessly past to the glorious sound of silence.
  Date: September 29, 2003



• Oakland International Airport opens natural gas service station and aids gasoline scooters
  Oakland International Airport will officially open its new compressed natural gas station on July 18 with a display of alternative fuel vehicles ranging from sedans and vans to garbage trucks, transit buses and street sweepers.
  Date: September 29, 2003



• Performing arts facilities receive elder friendly certification by scooter tuning their buildings
  Phone listings that are easy to find, doors that open readily, helpful customer service staff - these are elements of being an elder friendly facility. Portland Center for the Performing Arts was recently certified as an elder friendly business by Elders in Action, a nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the quality of life for older adults.
  Date: September 29, 2003



• President Bush tries out 2-wheel electric scooter during visit to New Hampshire
  In what may be a sign of things to come, postal workers will be zipping past palm trees on Segway Human Transporters as they go about their appointed rounds today in Tampa, Fla.
  Date: September 27, 2003



• Skates, ‘boards, scooters: sales down on electric scooter 15mph but participation steady
  The skating segment has been troubled for several years by an oversupply of product.
  Date: September 27, 2003