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"As The Slate Group continues to grow, we need smart, experienced leaders whocan help us find better ways for advertisers to engage with our audience," saysJohn Alderman, General Manager of The Slate Group. "Were thrilled to have anadvertising veteran like Matt join our team." During his tenure at Time Inc., Turck was responsible for identifying newrevenue opportunities and overseeing growth across print, television and onlinerevenue, including expanding This Old House into internet protocol TV andmobile, re-launching the Web site and increasing visitors twofold and executingmulti-platform strategies for a number of advertisers. Prior to joining Time, hewas an associate sales manager at Esquire He graduated from Michigan StateUniversity with a B.A in advertising. Turck will work with the Washington Post Digital ad sales team which willcontinue to sell washingtonpost and The Slate Group He will report toAlderman. About The Slate GroupThe Slate Group is an online publishing subsidiary of The Washington Post(NYSE:WPO) that produces savvy web-only publications that are provocative andengaging. Reaching a combined audience of nearly 7 million unique users permonth, its suite of Web sites includes Slate Magazine, Slate V, TheRoot TheBig Money and Foreign Policy. The Slate GroupJennifer Lee, Copyright Business Wire 2009.

D-VAR System to Provide Dynamic Reactive Compensation for Power TransmissionGrid in Inner Mongolia Beijing SNTA Electric Power Technique Company Becomes First AMSC ChannelPartner for the Chinese Power Grid MarketDEVENS, Mass.(Business Wire)American Superconductor Corporation (NASDAQ: AMSC), a leading energytechnologies company, today announced that it has received its first order for aD-VAR system to meet dynamic reactive compensation requirements for a 220kilovolt (kV) power transmission grid in Chifeng, Inner Mongolia, China.Reactive power compensation is necessary to stabilize voltage, relieve powergrid congestion, improve electrical efficiency, and prevent blackouts in powergrids Beijing SNTA Electric Power Technique Company, Ltd. (SNTA), which has orderedthe 16 MegaVAR D-VAR system, is AMSCs first channel partner for the Chinesepower grid market. SNTA will install the D-VAR system in the 220kV Xijiaosubstation, which is located in Chifeng and is operated by North East Power Grid(NEPG).SNTA is one of Chinas primary suppliers of low- and high-voltagereactive compensation products and turnkey power grid solutions. The Xijiao substation is connected to seven wind farms that produce a combined600 megawatts (MW) of power. The China Electric Power Research Institute, whichis a part of Chinas State Grid Corporation and is responsible for transmissionengineering, has determined that additional voltage support is required at theChifeng Xijiao substation to maintain reliable operation of the power gridserved by this substation and enable secure transmission of wind-generatedelectricity to load centers. The contract between AMSC and SNTA was signed on December 31, 2008 in a ceremonyat SNTA headquarters in Beijing AMSC expects to deliver the D-VAR system toSNTA by mid 2009. According to the International Energy Agency, Chinas power grid will requireapproximately US$1.5 trillion in investments by 2030.

"As China builds out and upgrades its power grid to meet the demands of itsrapidly growing economy, it is seeking cutting-edge energy technologies thatwill meet these demands rapidly and in the most effective way possible," saidGreg Yurek, founder and Chief Executive Officer of AMSC. The companys STATCOM customersinclude more than 20 electric utilities and 40 wind farms. About American Superconductor (NASDAQ: AMSC)AMSC is a leading energy technologies company offering an array of solutionsbased on two proprietary technologies: programmable power electronic convertersand high temperature superconductor (HTS) wires. The companys products,services and system-level solutions enable cleaner, more efficient and morereliable generation, delivery and use of electric power. AMSC is a leader inalternative energy, offering licensed wind turbine designs and electricalsystems.