Market conditions are excellent for the upcoming introduction of Aristocrat Group’s new super-premium vodka for the U.S. marketplace. The high-end category led growth in the booming $5.5 billion vodka market last year, up 10 percent in volume.

Although global warming is considered by most people to be a subject of fairly recent interest, at least at the national and global level, the fact is that concerns about the contribution of human activity to global warming appeared in U.S. government statements over 50 years ago, during the Johnson administration.

Loans4Less.com, a publicly traded online mortgage loan brokerage focused on Conforming loans, today announced that it is on target to become a fully reporting company next year. The company’s Annual Report & Audited Financials for 2012 have been posted at www.otcmarkets.com/stock/LFLS/filings.

Today before the opening bell, Viscount Systems announced that its Freedom access control technology is being installed at facilities owned by a regional bank with operations in Ohio, West Virginia, and Kentucky. Freedom IP bridges, Freedom servers, and software are all being employed, replacing the bank’s existing access control systems.