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Toy Industry's Prospects Are Improving (AP via Yahoo! Finance) - Toy company stocks are on an upswing as it appears the industry will extend a rebound that began with a respectable holiday season.

Aerospace industry veteran joins board of Aurora Flight Sciences (bizjournals.com via Yahoo! Finance) - Aurora Flight Sciences, which makes unmanned aerial systems for defense and homeland security, named aerospace industry veteran Marty Dandridge to its board.

California Court Ends Insurance Industry Lawsuit Challenging New State "Good Driver" Regulations (The Auto Channel) - SACRAMENTO, CA – A Sacramento Superior Court judge today ruled for consumers and the Insurance Commissioner in a lawsuit filed by the insurance industry challenging new state regulations benefiting good drivers.

Agreement gives aviation industry a role in deploying Capstone program (Alaska Journal of Commerce) - Alaska aviation industry leaders have signed an agreement with the Federal Aviation Administration with hopes to equip aircraft and airports statewide with the next generation of avionics.

City Receives Grant to Clean Up Harmful Textile Industry Remnants (RedNova) - By Matt Garfield, The Herald, Rock Hill, S.C. Feb. 16--The collapse of the textile industry left behind more than a legacy of job losses and poverty in center-city Rock Hill.

Idaho industry groups demand personal-property tax repeal (The Times-News) - BOISE, Idaho - Industry groups want to repeal Idaho's personal property tax on business equipment by 2015.

Opportunities Abound for EMS Providers in the U.S. Automotive Industry (The Auto Channel) - DUBLIN, Ireland-- The growing shift in the automotive industry - from conducting all operations in-house to outsourcing certain key operations - has created huge opportunities for electronic manufacturing service (EMS) providers.

Jupiter Analyst: Interoperable DRM Won't Solve Music Industry Dilemma (BetaNews) - The lead analyst of last week's JupiterResearch report showing a majority of music industry executives in the EU agreeing that a world without digital rights management would be a world with greater revenues, told BetaNews in an exclusive interview this afternoon that his firm believes the interim solution supported by 70% of executives polled - a single, open, interoperable, standard DRM scheme ...

Insurance industry veteran Park receives career award (Fort Worth Business Press) - John Park, a local insurance industry leader, is set to receive the Career Service Award from the Fort Worth Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors (FWAIFA) during Insurance Week on Feb. 27. The award will be presented at the organization’s annual awards luncheon at Colonial Country Club.

Futures Industry Assn. opposes CME/CBOT merger (Crane's Chicago Business) - (Crain's) -- The Futures Industry Association, the D.C. industry group representing futures brokers, Friday came out in opposition to the Chicago Mercantile Exchange's proposed acquisition of the Chicago Board of Trade, saying the combination would hurt competition. "The CME-CBOT merger would ...