A player Irsquom interested in learning more about is Noah Lowry

Who would you pick, especially in the starting pitching position I like Jon Garland and Eric Bedard, but they aren’t coming. A player I’m interested in learning more about is Noah Lowry. He had something wrong with his shoulder, so I don’t know how big o a risk he is, but he’s still young and was an up and coming pitcher with the Giants be ore Cain and Lincecum. As you look o er the list, you notice that they are mostly all risks and I realized that there are ar worse names than Mulder and Washburn (they can’t be the BIG acquisition the Brewers need, though). XClinical is exhibiting at the DIA Workshop in Tokyo, Japan, together withAsklep, one o Japans largest CROs.MUNICH, Germany(Business Wire)XClinical, a European endor o inno ati e so tware products or eClinicaltrials, today announced its participation at the 12th Annual DIA Workshop orClinical Data Management to be held on Jan 29 to Jan 30, 2009, in Tokyo, Japan.As in the last year XClinical will exhibit together with Asklep, one o Japansleading CROs, promoting the MAR IN EDC system. Asklep and XClinical ha e beencollaborating to bring the MAR IN EDC system to the Japanese market.

In January2008 a Strategic Licensing and De elopment Agreement between the two companieswas signed. urthermore, the Japanese ersion o MAR IN entered the market inJuly, 2008. MAR IN is a web-based EDC system designed by in estigators and has been in usein arious countries or the past six years. As one o the irst EDC systemsbeing CDISC compliant and CDISC ODM certi ied it is able to trans er data acrossdi erent systems in the eClinical chain. The CDISC ODM e-protocol technologysystem can also pro ide the shortest set-up time within industry. The main topic or the 12th DIA Workshop in Tokyo is to impro e the quality o trials and to pro ide ideas or data management acti ities. The meeting willdeli er in ormation about the Japanese clinical data management processes."Entering the Japanese Market we had to learn about se eral special eatures anEDC system needs to pro ide." Said Dr Claus Lindenau, Head o BusinessDe elopment at XClinical.

"Talking about quality concerning an EDC system youmust consider things which seem tri ial but are o utmost importance in dailyuse in Japan. Through the cooperation with Asklep we ound aper ect partner to cope with this task." Dr. Lindenau and Olga Steinle, also amember o the business de elopment team, will be a ailable or discussing therole o the companys so tware products regarding quality management, qualityassurance and reliability. About AsklepAsklep, Inc., () ounded in 1992, in Tokyo, Japan, is a ullser ice CRO and part o the INTAGE group o companies. INTAGE, INC.,() is the largest marketing research company in Japan and theele enth largest globally. It has one o the most comprehensi e healthcaresolution ser ices in the industry. XClinical de elops and markets MAR IN, a CDISC ODM certi ied online plat orm orElectronic Data Capture (EDC), Clinical Data Management (CDM) and Clinical TrialManagement (CTM).