MOLINE, Ill., Nov. 8, 2013 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- QCR Holdings, Inc.
(Nasdaq:QCRH) today announced that on November 7, 2013 the Company's
board of directors declared a cash dividend of $0.04 per share payable
on January 7, 2014, to stockholders of record on December 20, 2013.

QCR Holdings, Inc., headquartered in Moline, Illinois, is a
relationship-driven, multi-bank holding company, which serves the Quad
City, Cedar Rapids, and Rockford communities through its wholly owned
subsidiary banks. Quad City Bank & Trust Company, which is based in
Bettendorf, Iowa, and commenced operations in 1994, Cedar Rapids Bank &
Trust Company, which is based in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and commenced
operations in 2001, and Rockford Bank & Trust Company, which is based
in Rockford, Illinois, and commenced operations in 2005, provide
full-service commercial and consumer banking and trust and asset
management services. Quad City Bank & Trust Company also engages in
commercial leasing through its wholly owned subsidiary, m2 Lease Funds,
LLC, based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. With the acquisition of Community
National Bank on May 13, 2013, the Company now serves the
Waterloo/Cedar Falls, Iowa community through Community Bank & Trust, a
division of Cedar Rapids Bank & Trust Company.

Special Note Concerning Forward-Looking Statements. This document
contains, and future oral and written statements of the Company and its
management may contain, forward-looking statements within the meaning
of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 with respect to
the financial condition, results of operations, plans, objectives,
future performance and business of the Company. Forward-looking
statements, which may be based upon beliefs, expectations and
assumptions of the Company's management and on information currently
available to management, are generally identifiable by the use of words
such as "believe," "expect," "anticipate," "predict," "suggest,"
"appear," "plan," "intend," "estimate," "annualize," "may," "will,"
"would," "could," "should" or other similar expressions. Additionally,
all statements in this document, including forward-looking statements,
speak only as of the date they are made, and the Company undertakes no
obligation to update any statement in light of new information or
future events.

A number of factors, many of which are beyond the ability of the
Company to control or predict, could cause actual results to differ
materially from those in its forward-looking statements. These factors
include, among others, the following: (i) the strength of the local and
national economy; (ii) the economic impact of any future terrorist
threats and attacks, and the response of the United States to any such
threats and attacks; (iii) changes in state and federal laws,
regulations and governmental policies concerning the Company's general
business, including Basel III, the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and
Consumer Protection Act and the regulations issued thereunder; (iv)
changes in interest rates and prepayment rates of the Company's assets;
(v) increased competition in the financial services sector and the
inability to attract new customers; (vi) changes in technology and the
ability to develop and maintain secure and reliable electronic systems;
(vii) the integration of acquired entities, including CNB; (viii) the
loss of key executives or employees; (ix) changes in consumer spending;
(x) unexpected outcomes of existing or new litigation involving the
Company; and (xi) changes in accounting policies and practices. These
risks and uncertainties should be considered in evaluating
forward-looking statements and undue reliance should not be placed on
such statements. Additional information concerning the Company and its
business, including additional factors that could materially affect the
Company's financial results, is included in the Company's filings with
the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Friday, Nov. 8, 2013

WASHINGTON - Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa and Sen. Orrin Hatch of Utah today released enrollment data from the four health insurance companies participating in the Washington, D.C., exchange set up via the President's health care program.  The Obama Administration has refused to provide enrollment numbers to the American people.

CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield: two enrollees from Oct. 1, 2013, through Oct. 30, 2013.

Kaiser Permanente: three enrollees from Oct. 1, 2013, through Oct. 31, 2013.

UnitedHealthcare: no enrollment data from the exchange as of Nov. 4, 2013.

Aetna:  no enrollment data as of Oct. 24, 2013.

"A lot of Americans are getting cancellation notices from their current health care plan but they haven't been able to enroll in a new plan," Grassley said.  "The limbo and uncertainty are stressful for them, as they've been describing in emails to my office.  The chaos imposed on so many people is reason to at least delay the individual mandate, if not outright repeal it."

"With numbers like these, it's no wonder the Obama Administration hasn't wanted to release how many people have signed up for ObamaCare," said Hatch.  "With data from DC's four participating health plans in, there's been a whopping five people enrolled in the city's exchange. That's right five. Whether it's significant problems with the website, people being forced off the coverage they had or skyrocketing costs, these numbers are even more proof of what a disaster ObamaCare is and why it should be delayed."

On Oct. 24, 2013, Grassley and Hatch wrote to the four companies participating in the Washington, D.C., health care exchange.  The Washington, D.C., exchange has four major plans and so provides a snapshot of how Americans fare in trying to join the new exchanges.

Grassley and Hatch said news reports show problems with what are called "834 forms" that contain individual information that insurers use to enroll the individual in a health care plan.   Inaccurate or corrupted data would interfere with successful enrollment.  That has implications for when the Administration should enforce the individual mandate requiring enrollment.  It would be unfair to penalize people for not having health insurance when technical problems have impeded their enrollment, Grassley and Hatch said.

The responses the senators received are available here, here, here and here.

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IDOT and ISP Prepare for Winter Travel Season; Remind Motorists: "Ice and Snow - Take it Slow"

MILAN - In anticipation of the upcoming winter travel season, Illinois transportation officials will join law enforcement to launch the "Ice and Snow-Take it Slow" campaign and urge motorists to prepare for unfavorable winter driving conditions. The Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT) and Illinois State Police (ISP) will hold a news conference on Tuesday, Nov. 12 at 10 a.m. at the Milan Maintenance Yard, 4128 - 69th Avenue, Milan to offer important safety advice for traveling motorists and to share detailed winter plans for Illinois roads.

WHO: Pat O'Brien, assistant to the regional engineer, IDOT

Captain Robert Atherton, ISP

WHAT: Illinois transportation and law enforcement officials to discuss upcoming plans for the approaching snow and ice season.

WHEN: Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2013 at 10 a.m.

WHERE: Illinois Department of Transportation, Milan Maintenance Yard, 4128 - 69th Ave., Milan IL 61264

Vernissage for Todd Leisek:

November 15th. 2014

Art Installation :  " We Are Ghosts"

Mixed media.

This art installation is a room-sized glass exhibit.

At The Phoenix.

1530 Fifth. Avenue, Moline.

Friday. November 15th. 2013 from 6-9 p.m.

Free and open to all.

 

The exhibit and show will continue through February 2014.

Hours for the Phoenix Art Gallery : 6pm - 9p.m. Wednesday through Saturday and By Appointment.

 

www.aththephoenix.com, 309-762-8547

 

Artist's description: About the Installation:

" This large installation is a communication and an interaction between what my family's identity, ethnicity and past has faced through the years.  Behind closed doors an individual hides their own identity and reality.  By breaking down these "doors" and "walls," our identities can be slightly revealed and displaced by reflections of light upon the exhibition wall.

In this installation, I concentrate on drawing upon the simple concepts of the breakdown of these doorways and walls through looking through broken glass, doors and walls taken from dismantled homes.  This piece is the past as well as the present as it confronts some of the conflicts of tribal identity in the United States.  Four doorways will be presented in the act of breaking apart with only the shards of clear glass to bind them together and the holding together of the walls will display the reflection of a past identity of a mixed tribal past. The installation is a chance to speak without words through the materials and the photographs hidden in the cracks of the walls.

I am mixed of Potawatomi, Sac/Fox and Cherokee.  Since I am of mixed tribal generation, where do I fit in with the world or how does my family (ancestors) fit in?  We roam as "ghosts" blending in from one subculture to the next recreating ourselves over and over without stepping through to connect with our tribal roots or ancestral traditions.  There are thousands of us still roaming the United States displaced."

 

Artist Statement

My artwork (installations) is based from sensory experiences (sounds, sights, smells and dreams) from the memories of my childhood experiences and the stories of family members long past.  Throughout my experience as an artist; I have concentrated on these sparks of memory which are drawn from nature (landscape), dreams of my past, and the faded memories.  In creating these abstract sculptural pieces, I'm attempting to bring back these recollections into a form of narrative or conceptual scene into the public space.  By changing the landscape (public space), I draw the viewers into my art installations to bring their own sensory experiences into the artwork.   These sensory experiences are connected to the material I use in my artwork (Ceramics, Wood, and stain).  I hope that these pieces display the uncomfortable feeling of distance of Native American authenticity and the reconnection of my families lost mixed of Otoe and Osage/Pottawattamiepast.  It is important that my artwork does not relate directly to a "Native American" background, yet an element of these memories, love and loss which was influenced by my ancestors past.

To present a loose form of this narrative in my art installations is an important element to address in the conditions of the Post-Native American identity.  The traditions of the storyteller in my family today are dependent upon me to retell them in a modern relation of the struggles we face for a place (or voice) in this world.  We all have memories and past experiences which we cannot completely explain, yet subconsciously influence our lives.

 

About The Artist:  Todd Liesek.

I was born in Ogden, UT as Todd Woodmansee, yet grew up with a very collect a diverse step family in Lodi, CA.  My first studies in Fine Arts started in San Francisco where I spent the first 4 years at San Francisco State University for my BA, which was dual emphasize in Art History and Fine Arts.  I stayed for additional 3 years teaching for private art/music schools within the Bay Area, traveling around performing and producing artwork in California.  In 2003, I received an invitation to study at University of Wisconsin-Superior for a MA in Studio Art in sculpture and ceramics.  In addition, I had an opportunity to perform with the University Orchestra and Brazilian Guitar Ensemble to perform in Rio de Janiero, Brazil.  After my graduation from UWS in 2006 with a MA, I moved from the cold frigid North to the Quad Cities, IL.  For the past few years, I received an invitation for the MFA program at Vermont College Fine Arts in Contemporary theories and Art Installation which I recently graduated in 2013.

I have worked for private and public art/music schools and Higher Education at both the Community and State University levels for about 9 years and 3 years as an online instructor. I have taught art history/appreciation from 1300 to 21st Contemporary Art, Art Theory, Sculpture/Ceramics, music orchestration, and guitar performance.