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[March 23, 2009]

StandoutStocks.com: "Stocks that Standout" picks for today are: CRZO, DRIV, FSFG, KCAP, SATS

(M2 PressWIRE Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) RDATE:23032009 StandoutStocks.com "Stocks that Standout" picks for today are: Carrizo Oil & Gas, Inc. (NASDAQ: CRZO), Digital River, Inc. (NASDAQ: DRIV), First Savings Financial Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: FSFG), Kohlberg Capital Corporation (NASDAQ: KCAP), EchoStar Corporation (NASDAQ: SATS), ...and Proudly Introducing Proprietary Push Technology (PPT).


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http://newmediaadvisors.info/newmedia.swf Sign-up for our FREE Stock Alerts AND AWARD WINNING NEWSLETTER at www.Standoutstocks.com March 23, 2009 -- Carrizo Oil & Gas, Inc. (NASDAQ: CRZO) will make a presentation at the Howard Weil 2009 Energy Conference at 1:15 PM CDT on Tuesday, March 24, 2009.

The conference is not being webcast; however, a visual copy of the presentation can be accessed on the Company website, clicking on "Links" and then clicking on "Howard Weil 2009 Presentation" (visual only). The slide book will be available coincident with Carrizo's conference presentation.

Carrizo Oil & Gas, Inc. is a Houston-based energy company actively engaged in the exploration, development, exploitation, and production of oil and natural gas primarily in the Barnett Shale in North Texas and in proven onshore trends along the Texas and Louisiana Gulf Coast regions. Carrizo controls significant prospective acreage blocks and utilizes advanced 3-D seismic techniques to identify potential oil and gas reserves and drilling opportunities. Carrizo also controls large acreage positions in other productive shale resource plays including the Fayetteville and Marcellus.

Mar 23, 2009 -- Digital River, Inc. (NASDAQ: DRIV), a leading provider of global e-commerce solutions, has signed a joint marketing agreement with PLAYXPERT, a provider of next-generation, in-game community management tools for PC gamers. By working with PLAYXPERT, Digital River will offer game publishers, resellers and studios a way to engage players of PC-based games in a branded in-game experience that integrates e-commerce with their online communities.

"With the retail market consolidating, and digital delivery and gaming communities growing in popularity, the game industry continues to undergo change," said Joel Ronning, Digital River's CEO. "Publishers, resellers and studios are looking for new ways to build ongoing revenue streams. Joining forces with PLAYXPERT is a first step in a broader strategy to help companies involved with PC games to build not only these critical new revenue sources, but also more engaged and sustainable relationships with players of their games." Using PLAYXPERT'S True Overlay(TM) technology publishers, resellers and studios can configure, brand and deploy a full-featured, in-game toolset that appears as a translucent window inside a PC-based game.

Through this toolset and a widget gallery, players can access the Internet to watch videos, research items, chat online, and take part in other community- and content-based activities - all without leaving the game experience.

By delivering this solution in combination with its global e-commerce platform, Digital River is giving players the added ability to make purchases while in-game. The purchases will be backed by the functionality, security and global reliability of Digital River's proven in-store e-commerce platform. For publishers, the integration opens up a new channel for monetizing their games, selling into global markets and building ongoing customer relationships.

"Community is one of the strongest mechanisms used in gaming to promote adoption and commerce. Early efforts to combine community with commerce have proven successful and opened the door for further innovation," said Charles Manning, president and CEO of PLAYXPERT. "We are thrilled to be selected by Digital River as a partner in optimizing the in-game purchase experience and delivering a new best-of-breed solution for players and publishers alike." The companies will be presenting the new solution on March 25-27, 2009, during the Game Developer's Conference at the Moscone Center (West Hall, Meeting Room 12) in San Francisco.

About PLAYXPERT PLAYXPERT, LLC, is the provider of next-generation in-game community management tools for the PC and MMOG (Massively Multiplayer Online Game) market. Focused on delivering the technology gamers want to enrich their community experience, PLAYXPERT allows users to engage in their favorite activities (forum posts, chat, music control, or monitoring system diagnostics) while in-game. The PLAYXPERT client is a completely customizable platform that enables gamers to choose from a large variety of tools to enhance their gaming experience.

About Digital River, Inc.

Digital River, Inc., a leading provider of global e-commerce solutions, builds and manages online businesses for software and game publishers, consumer technology manufacturers, distributors, online retailers and affiliates. Its multi-channel e-commerce solution, which supports both direct and indirect sales, is designed to help companies of all sizes maximize online revenues as well as reduce the costs and risks of running an e-commerce operation. The Company's comprehensive platform offers site development and hosting, order management, fraud management, export controls, tax management, physical and digital product fulfillment, multi-lingual customer service, advanced reporting and strategic marketing services.

Mar 23, 2009 -- First Savings Financial Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: FSFG) (the "Company"), the holding company for First Savings Bank, F.S.B. (the "Bank"), today announced that members of its Board of Directors and Executive Management will participate in the NASDAQ Stock Market closing ceremony for Monday, March 23, 2009.

"We are honored and thrilled to celebrate the success of our recent mutual to stock conversion and first months of operation as a public company listed on the NASDAQ Capital Market by participating in the closing ceremony and ringing the NASDAQ closing bell," commented Larry W. Myers, President and Chief Executive Officer. "The capital raised coupled with the outstanding employees of the First Savings Bank has positioned us to thrive in challenging economic times and presents us with great opportunity to expand our services throughout Southern Indiana. We intend to execute a strategy that best serves the interests of our shareholders, customers, employees and community." On October 6, 2008, the Company completed its initial public offering in connection with the Bank's conversion from the mutual to stock form of organization. The Company's common stock began trading on the NASDAQ Capital Market on October 7, 2008 under the symbol "FSFG". Kilpatrick Stockton LLP served as legal counsel to the Company in the conversion and Keefe Bruyette & Woods, Inc. acted as the marketing agent.

First Savings Bank, F.S.B. currently has seven offices in the Indiana communities of Clarksville, Jeffersonville, Charlestown, Sellersburg, Floyds Knobs and Georgetown. Access to First Savings Bank accounts, including online banking and electronic bill payments, is available anywhere with Internet access through the Bank's website.

Mar 23, 2009 -- Kohlberg Capital Corporation (NASDAQ: KCAP) ("Kohlberg Capital") today announced that its Board of Directors has declared a cash dividend of $0.24 per share on shares of its common stock for the quarter ended March 31, 2009. The dividend is payable on April 29, 2009 to shareholders of record as of April 8, 2009.

We have adopted a dividend reinvestment plan ("DRIP") that provides for reinvestment of our dividends on behalf of our stockholders, unless a stockholder elects to receive cash. As a result, if we declare a cash dividend, our stockholders who have not "opted out" of our dividend reinvestment plan will have their cash dividends automatically reinvested in additional shares of our common stock, rather than receiving the cash dividends. Please contact your broker or other financial intermediary for more information regarding the DRIP.

About Kohlberg Capital Corporation Kohlberg Capital Corporation is a publicly traded, internally managed business development company. Our middle market investment business originates, structures, finances and manages a portfolio of term loans, mezzanine investments and selected equity securities in middle market companies. Our wholly-owned portfolio company, Katonah Debt Advisors, manages CLO Funds that invest in broadly syndicated corporate term loans, high-yield bonds and other credit instruments.

Kohlberg Capital Corporation's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, earnings releases, press releases and other financial, operational and governance information are available on the Company's website Mar 23, 2009 -- EchoStar Satellite Services, a division of EchoStar Corporation (NASDAQ: SATS), announced today the company's IP-Prime Conversion Program, designed to provide continued delivery of video transport services for telco IP headend facilities across the United States. Commercial transport provider IP-Prime has previously announced it will discontinue its video transport service to headend facilities by July 31, 2009. EchoStar's IP-Prime Conversion Program provides qualified customers with EchoStar's ViP-TV(TM) transport service, replacement IDC satellite receivers and a standard professional installation, including compatible LNBs, a satellite dish re-point, cabling and connectors.

EchoStar's ViP-TV transport service delivers a secure, MPEG-4 encoded IP stream of approximately 250 channels of popular, broadcast quality TV channels from a satellite located at 85 degrees W.L. In addition, ViP-TV can provide local TV channel aggregation in the telco's DMA in both high definition and standard definition (where available).

EchoStar will demonstrate the service at Satellite 2009 booth #597 at the Washington Convention Center, March 25-27.

ViP-TV provides a complete set of design and integration services to build a fully provisioned IPTV system for telcos. EchoStar also offers flexible choices from market leading suppliers of conditional access systems (CAS), subscriber management systems (SMS), video on demand (VOD), emergency alert systems (EAS), electronic program guide (EPG), ad insert systems (AIS), boxware (middleware) and set-top boxes ranging from entry level to full featured standard definition and high definition digital video recorders.

"EchoStar is committed to delivering a best-in-class transport service not only to IP-Prime customers but also to telco operators across the nation," said Steve Skalski, vice president of EchoStar's ViP-TV division. "ViP-TV offers operators affordable, scalable and aggregated MPEG-4 IP-encapsulated audio and TV channels from a high-powered satellite. Through our proven work with CAS and middleware solutions, our ViP-TV service can be deployed rapidly and maintained at a low cost. Our experts are also available to provide a channel management analysis to help telcos competing in a triple play market determine how best to acquire and retain video subscribers." ViP-TV's suite of channels includes the following: -- ViP-Premier(TM), offering approximately 110 of the most popular TV channels; -- ViP-HD(TM), boasting approximately 42 channels of industry-leading high definition programming; -- ViP-Movies(TM), presenting a menu of approximately 39 channels of the most popular movie services; -- ViP-Latino(TM), offering approximately 38 channels of top-rated Spanish-language programming; -- ViP-International(TM), providing approximately 23 channels in multiple languages.

About EchoStar Satellite Services EchoStar Satellite Services is a business unit of EchoStar Corporation (NASDAQ: SATS) and provides a highly reliable network that is available for backhaul, aggregation and distribution of video, audio and data content domestically and internationally. EchoStar also offers the ViP-TV platform providing IPTV solutions for telco and cable operators.

EchoStar represents a significant source of Ku-band and Ka-band satellite capacity and spacecraft operation services with access to a fleet of eight satellites, sophisticated ground-based teleport facilities, and an expansive terrestrial backhaul network crisscrossing the U.S. along with 24-hour Traffic, Technical Operations and Satellite Access Centers staffed by highly trained engineers and technicians.

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