LA MANCHA Resources Inc. is pleased to report its operating activities for the fiscal year ended December 31st, 2006. Year-end financial results will be released on March 26, 2007. The Company's senior management will host a conference call on Tuesday March 27, 2007 at 10:00am (EST) to discuss these financial results.

In 2007, Vancouver Film School commemorates its twentieth anniversary, and to celebrate, VFS is planning a year of special events. The year-long celebration begins with VFS offering 1 million dollars in scholarships to students with a combination of ambition, talent and need. Starting today, VFS will be awarding scholarships across fourteen different programs to the best, the brightest, and the most passionate aspiring artists applying under this program for the upcoming 2006/2007 start dates.

Zecotek Medical Systems Inc. today reported that it has closed its previously announced non-brokered private placement for gross proceeds of $3,500,000. Due to strong investor demand the original $2,000,000 private placement announced on January 25, 2007, was increased to $3,000,000 on January 30, 2007, then subsequently increased to $3,500,000 on closing. Under the terms of the private placement, 3,043,478 common shares were issued at $1.15 per share.

Belvedere Resources Ltd. Is pleased to announce that the final assay results have been received from its recently completed diamond drill programme on its 100% owned Kiimala property in Central Finland, 30 km north of the Hitura Mine. Drilling was focused on the Angesneva occurrence, with additional holes intersecting mineralisation on the Vesipera occurrence two kilometres to the South.

Finavera Renewables Inc. is pleased to announce the completion of its previously announced private placement. An aggregate of 28,571,500 Units were placed at a price of $0.35 per Unit, for gross proceeds of $10,000,025. The placement consists primarily of institutional investors.

Thunder Sword Resources Inc. is pleased to announce that it has been successful in acquiring an additional 6500 hectares offsetting its existing 12,290 hectare Dufferin East project, bringing the total acreage on the Dufferin East prospect to 18,790 ha. The Dufferin East project is immediately adjacent to and offsets Cameco et al's Virgin River Uranium Project.

Xantrex Technology Inc. will release its fourth quarter and 2006 results after the Toronto Stock Exchange closes on Tuesday, February 27, 2007. To discuss the results, a conference call has been scheduled for Wednesday, February 28, 2007 at 6:00 am Pacific Time (9:00 am Eastern Time).

Russian classical music is some of the most passionate, full-blooded, and popular music ever written. The list of great Russian composers and works is a long one, and the VSO's RussiaFest celebrates the legacy of this extraordinary music tradition in three concerts showcasing the full spectrum of Russian works, from old to new, from popular to works that are less well known.

Blood test results and an ultrasound show that Hana, the Vancouver Aquarium's 12-year-old Pacific white-sided dolphin is pregnant. The average gestation period for these animals is 11 - 12 months, so a birth is expected this summer.

A canoe made entirely of duct tape, a stolen car, eight toilet seats and fourteen barbecues were just some of the items found during last year's TD Canada Trust Great Canadian Shoreline Cleanup. Organizers have tallied the findings from 966 cleanup sites across the country, and participants removed 84,708 kg of shoreline litter that would have otherwise dirtied our beaches and park waterways for local plants, animals and us! 40,781 registered participants scoured 2,080 km of shoreline across the country.

Vancouver Aquarium Chair Janet Landucci and Vice-President of Conservation, Research, and Education Eric Solomon presented McBride Annex school in East Vancouver with a copy of People, Fish and Whales, written by former Aquarium Director Dr. Murray Newman, with a section by current President Dr. John Nightingale. The school hosted the Aquarium's AquaVan today and was very pleased to receive this book.

Superb Canadian pianist Stewart Goodyear performs Gershwin's Piano Concerto in F Major, and VSO Principal Cellist Lee Duckles performs the Canadian Premiere of the beautiful Kernis Air for Cello and Orchestra. In addition, the orchestra performs the world premiere of VSO Associate Principal Trumpet Marcus Goddard's newly commissioned piece, I Send Only Angels.