This latest product enhancementrepresents a significant advancement

At nearly 270,000 acres, Tejon Ranch is the largest contiguous expanse ofprivate land in California. Its 422 square miles make it larger than the City ofLos Angeles and about 40 the size of Rhode Island. The Ranch is located alongInterstate 5, approximately 60 miles north of Los Angeles and 30 miles south ofBakersfield. Tejon Ranch Co.Barry Zoeller, VP Corporate Communications661-663-4212 office661-204-1919 cell Copyright Business Wire 2009. ) Yorkshire have decided to release former England swing bowler Matthew Hoggard. Hoggard has only ever played county cricket for Yorkshire since he made his debut back in 1996, but will now be on the look out for a new team, with several counties believed to be interested.Yorkshire claim that Hoggard was not satisfied with their proposition in terms of a contract for next year, but Hoggard strongly denies this.Hoggard said that the talks with Yorkshire had been going quite well, and they had even discussed him becoming a captain next year, but then next thing he knew, he was told that he was not being offered a contract at all next season.Hoggard was one of England's most consistent performers with the ball for the best part of a decade however following a poor performances in the First Test Match in New Zealand last year, which England lost he was dropped.Although Hoggard was recalled to England's squad for a Test Match against South Africa but was not picked in the final 11. It is hard to see Hoggard being able to upset the betting odds and playing International Cricket again..

Company introducing enhanced educational tools and materials to all its globalcentersBALTIMORE, Jan. 26 /PRNewswire/ Wall Street Institute, the world's premierprovider of English language instruction, has updated its educational productoffering and is introducing the enhanced features and benefits to its over160,000 ESL students around the world in a phased product roll-out.The project involved both modernizing the look and feel and use of language inits online course lessons and educational materials and introducing newfeatures including educational videos and new teacher-led class lesson topics.The project was a major undertaking by Wall Street Institute, and shows thecommitment the company has to offering its students the best and mosttechnologically advanced educational tools available to help them achievetheir English language goals. "Enhancements have of course been made over the yearsas new technology has become available. This latest product enhancementrepresents a significant advancement. One storyline follows aChinese business woman as she travels to New York, and another shows livestreet interviews of everyday people from all cultural backgrounds visitingWashington, DC. Updating the online lesson component of Wall Street Institute's educationalproduct included recording 21,900 lines of dialogue, taking 13,700 digitalimages, hiring 142 models and actors, and recording 393 different charactervoices that were put together to create the state-of-the-art multi-mediacurriculum. The project was first initiated in 2007, and has been successfullyintroduced in pilot stage to Wall Street Institute centers in Argentina,China, Taiwan, and Thailand.

In addition to updating the online component, Wall Street Institute alsoinvested heavily in updating all of its student manuals and lesson plans forits teacher-led classes. Not only were 48 classroom lessons updated, but theproject included the addition of 56 new class lesson topics available to allWall Street Institute students. "This project was a very important and necessary investment for Wall StreetInstitute," said Tim Daniels, Wall Street Institute's President and CEO. "Ourstudents are dedicated to learning English to help them achieve careeradvancement and other important life goals, and we now are able to offer themthe best tools available to do that." By April of this year, all centers in Asia will be using the updated product.The product will become available to the rest of the Wall Street Institutenetwork throughout 2009. In April 2008, the companylaunched a new online community called "The Village" where students and alumnican practice their English language skills through language games andexercises and by interacting with other students around the world. The companyalso launched operations in three new countries, and opened 50 new centers in2008, including its 400th center.