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Boston Children's Chorus, Academy Award-winning Actor Louis Gossett Jr. and the Young People's Chorus of New York City Celebrate Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Martin Luther King, Jr. had a dream. More than 45 years later, the singers of the Boston Children's Chorus (BCC) are carrying it forward for future generations.
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On Monday, January 19, the BCC will join special guests Academy Award-winning actor Louis Gossett, Jr. and the Young People's Chorus of New York City for "Raising the Roof!" a nationally televised tapestry of words and music honoring the life and work of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
"It is the responsibility of every generation to raise the quality of life for the next one," said Gossett, who in 2006 launched The Eracism Foundation, a non-profit organization which seeks to promote education and awareness of racism, ignorance and social apathy.
US Communications Video Technologies helps N.V Perricone MD's Flaghip store NYC
Using the latest in technologies USCommunications NYC, has provided the digital video signage system that helps deliver (Best selling author and skincare guru) Dr. N.V. Perricone's skin care products and services in his new Madison Ave flagship store.
By combining NEC plasma monitors, Hitachi DLP video projection technologies, with matrix switching and routing; USC created the store's video network that helps promote products, seminars and the new store's modern skincare environment for Dr. Perricone's exciting skin care products and services.
Neighborhood America Wins 2008 WebAward, Named Among Web Marketing Association's Best Corporate Websites
Neighborhood America is proud to announce that the company has won a 2008 WebAward for Outstanding Achievement in Website Development. The award, presented by the Web Marketing Association, recognizes Neighborhood America's 'Standard of Excellence' in both the computer software and technology categories.
"Our corporate website was re-launched mid-year with three primary goals in mind: 1) deliver a web experience that was customer-focused and rich in content; 2) project a corporate image that conveyed who we are, which is both professional and cutting-edge; and 3) view our website as a distinct sales channel and optimize it accordingly," said Terry McKyton, Neighborhood America's Interactive Marketing Strategist. "We were pleased to see our accomplishment of these goals specifically recognized by the judges' feedback."
Concept Café Wins Awards for Honda Accord Campaign That Hits Emotional Buttons in Target Miami Hispanic Market
Concept Café Advertising, an agency built on the notion that tangible business results follow when you create strong emotional connections between brand and consumer, parlayed this strength into three separate awards for a mold-breaking campaign in support of the launch of the all-new 2008 Honda Accord.
The integrated campaign from the creative team at Concept Café, which featured Honda's first 60-second television spot focused on the Hispanic market, successfully played on the common values associated with the Accord brand and its owners - such as traditions and reliability - and the power of the relationship among them. That success was reflected in increased vehicle sales in the target market, a record high for brand consideration and a year-over-year bump in ad awareness.
Globalization Partners International Announced as Content Contributor for New Executive Certificate Program in Web Globalization Management
Globalization Partners International (GPI), an award winning provider of document, website and software globalization services, announced today that it is providing a variety of course content, including reports and best practices for the St. Louis University-Executive Certificate in Web Globalization Management.
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"GPI is providing content from its recent research series on Website Globalization and e-Business, as well as best practices for website globalization workflows," says Martin Spethman, GPI's Managing Partner. "In recent years companies have realized their executives need to better understand the process to create a website that functions in other languages and other locales in order to build a business case for and manage a website globalization effort." The program by St. Louis University will help executives, managers and webmasters guide their company's website globalization initiatives, which are necessary for an organization to expand globally.
MethodSmart Media, Inc. Awarded the University of Tennessees College of Business Internet Marketing Contract
MethodSmart will provide initial website Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and SEO maintenance services for The Center for Executive Education (The Center), the Aerospace Executive MBA (Aerospace MBA), the MBA program (MBA), the University of Tennessee College of Business (College of Business), and will renew and significantly expand existing SEO services to the Senior Executive MBA program (Sr. EMBA), and the Executive MBA website (Executive MBA). Additionally, MethodSmart will provide website design & development retainer services to the College and its programs.
Click here to read more…Start Your Own Business With the Home & Garden Party Home Party Plan For Only $99 Beginning June 20, 2005
If you have been waiting for the right opportunity to start your own business, Home and Garden Party could be the opportunity you have been looking for.
Beginning June 20, 2005, Home & Garden Party will have new kit options to choose from. You pick your kit for as low as $99. Home and Garden Party will have two pricing choices to fit your needs as a beginning Designer & to fit your budget.
With the Home and Garden Party plan, you pick your own profit, too. You choose how much you want to work. Home & Garden Party supports you with no sales quotas, no inventory, no delivery and no territories. As your upline, Lisa Mobus, Diamond Designer & Design Your Destiny Team Leader, will support you with training and guidance on a personal level and within the team that you will be joining - the Home & Garden Party Design Your Destiny Team.
Internet Marketer Declares War on Saturday Chores -- Vows He Can Eliminate Them For Anybody
Internet marketing expert Alan R. Bechtold hates weekend chores. Fortunately, he's made enough money publishing and selling online information over his 22-year career that he can hire all his weekend chores done for him.
Now Bechtold is dedicated to helping other people follow in his footsteps. "Financial freedom is about choice," Bechtold said. "Running a successful small business of your own is the key to the kind of income that can literally eliminate all chores you don't enjoy from your life... and anyone can operate a highly successful small business today, thanks to the Internet."
Enterprise Smartphones: Now the Heavy Lifting Begins
Smartphone vendors and channels have been successful in convincing large U.S. and EMEA businesses to begin deploying multifunctional handhelds. Now the challenge is to convert this broad but shallow coverage into deep, pervasive smartphone utilization.
More than three-quarters of U.S. and EMEA enterprise decision makers recently interviewed by InfoTech for its “Driving Enterprise Smartphone Sales” report have begun equipping mobile workers with smartphones. “However, the vast majority of these companies have fewer than one-quarter of their mobile employees using the device,” says Jeanine Sterling, vice president for the “InfoTrack for Enterprise Mobility” (IEM) program. “There’s plenty of room for smartphone growth within these companies. Current customers – rather than new prospects – offer vendors the greater incremental sales opportunity, but now vendors have to get canny on how to make that happen.”
UK’s The Telegraph Group Makes News in Selecting DataCore and VMware for a New Virtual Infrastructure
DataCore Software today announced that one of the United Kingdom's most prestigious media conglomerates -- the Telegraph Group -- has chosen DataCore Software along with VMware to provide a virtual infrastructure for the company and its operating units. DataCore Software, through its flagship SANsymphony(TM) solution, is now delivering data storage virtualization to this large British media group.
DataCore partner, London-based virtual infrastructure specialist, Transam Microsystems, analyzed the group's requirements, introduced it to virtual storage and recommended and implemented a DataCore SANsymphony-based solution. In terms of the environment itself, around sixty servers are being consolidated onto six VMware ESX host servers. A DataCore SANsymphony virtualized storage platform will be added to the existing Fibre Channel SAN to enable new and existing storage resources to be pooled together and data replicated between different models of storage array over two sites.
Universities.AC Launches a Database of Worldwide Universities
Universities.AC, an online leading provider of academic information announced today that the company managed to build an online comprehensive directory for universities around the world. According to John Metis, company's CEO, the database contains information about education systems and thousands of higher education institutions including details about their academic divisions, the degrees and diplomas they offer, Location and classification, General Details, Facilities, Statistics and more.
Michael Hill, Co-Owner of Universities.AC says: "The database is both extensive and user friendly. We established Universities.AC in order to create the ultimate database solution for worldwide universities. Most of us were students or plan to be. As former students we have experienced first hand the unique needs of future students who are looking to choose a college or university from what seems to be an endless and cumbersome selection... that's way we decided to build this massive directory."
IDT Brings HaiVision's MAKO-HD "Zero Latency" H.264 HD Codec to Australia
HaiVision Systems Inc. (Montreal, Canada), the world's leading vendor of performance H.264 network video encoders, is pleased to announce the appointment of Image Design Technology (IDT) based in Sydney, Australia as HaiVision's primary distributor for Australia and New Zealand. IDT has commenced regional marketing of HaiVision's complete product line and in March will be introducing HaiVision's revolutionary MAKO-HD technology.
The MAKO-HD has imperceptible latencies and pristine full motion image quality, making it ideal for the demands of telepresence, medical, and broadcast applications. With the lowest latency ever achieved by an H.264 codec system, the MAKO-HD provides highly interactive communication between remote sites.
Investigation Expanded of Major US Homebuilders and Title Insurance Kickbacks, Appraisal Schemes and More
Americas Watchdog and its National Mortgage Complaint Center are expanding their investigations into major US homebuilders scheming with large national title insurance companies, in order to get a unjustified kickback, as well as forcing local US real estate appraisers to come up with unjustifiable comparable home sales information, in order to artificially inflate the values of their new homes. According to Americas Watchdog, "we are talking about extremely greedy major US homebuilders, that intentionally created an environment, that caused consumers to over pay for their title insurance." "At the same time we want to talk to honest real estate appraisers, who were told by major US homebuilders, either give us the inflated value, or we will find someone who will." Independent title insurance company executives or independent real estate appraisers with specific information can call Americas Watchdog's National Mortgage Complaint Center anytime at 866-714-6466 or visit their web site at Http://NationalMortgageComplaintCenter.Com.
Click here to read more…Environmental Working Group Report on Bottled Water Contains Sensationalized Science and Exaggerated Claims, IBWA Says
A report that will be released by the Environmental Working Group (EWG) on Oct. 15, 2008, contains false claims and exaggerations about bottled water products, according to the International Bottled Water Association.
"The testing results show that only two bottled water brands didn't meet a California state standard for one regulated substance," said IBWA President Joe Doss. There are many hundreds of brands sold in the United States that are not involved in this study.
"While bottled water products should always comply with all established regulatory standards, the California requirement for this substance is eight times lower than the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) standard of quality for bottled water and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) maximum contaminant level for tap water," Mr. Doss said.
The report provides results from of a market basket testing program that the EWG conducted on ten brands of bottled water in nine states and the District of Columbia. "This is certainly not a representative sample of bottled water products, which the report acknowledges," he said.
Appetite Be Gone with Hoodia Gordonii Appetite Suppressant
Millennium Health Supplements (Canada) Inc. is introducing 100% Pure Hoodia Gordonii directly from South Africa.
Hoodia Gordoniis revolutionary properties will take the multi-billion dollar diet industry by storm, after much research by South African scientists and western pharmaceutical companies have proven that Hoodia has no known side effects and no stimulants.
Hoodia Gordonii grows in the high deserts of the Kalahari Desert region of South Africa where temperatures reach as high as 50 degrees Celsius. Although there are other species of Hoodia, the Gordonii is the only one that contains the all-natural appetite suppressant.
US Based Bates Style Bedspreads Manufacturer MH Weavers Looking to Add 2nd Shift as Competitors Move Overseas
MH Weavers owner, Fred Lebel recently received word that one of the nation's largest manufactures of Matelasse Bedspreads is getting out of the business apparently because it cannot compete with products being produced in China and other foreign countries. "The fact they are going out of the business is sad in one sense because it means people will be losing their jobs, but on the other hand it presents a tremendous opportunity for Maine Heritage Weavers. We think our company has reached a point where we can meet the challenge and can continue to grow as we have over the past five years," Lebel said.
Click here to read more…Slayers Stake Available Now
There are not a lot of ways to kill a vampire. While decapitation and exposure to direct sunlight will do, the preferred method of most Vampire Slayers throughout the ages has always been a good old-fashioned wooden stake through the heart. Of course, any sharp and pointy wooden object can be used-- a pencil, a table leg, a pool cue -- but theres just no substitute for a well-whittled stake to rid yourself of that undead pest.
Now, you can bring home a stake of your own, as Factory Xs Slayers Stake is in stock. A striking prop replica that pays tribute to the Slayers whove kept the world safe from evil all through the millennia, Factory Xs Slayers Stake is made of actual, hand-carved wood. The piece itself comes in a handsome satin-lined, black wooden box, adorned with an attractive brass plaque, and the inside of the lid features the now-famous words, Into every generation a Slayer is born, one girl in all the world, a chosen one..."
Third World Medical Care... UK Heart Patient Sings Praises of Indian Hospital
A retired businessman who was told he was dying from a heart condition in 2003 was so frustrated by the health care he received in the UK that he flew more than 4,000 miles to be treated in India.
Stan Ayres, of Penrhyn Beach East, Penrhyn Bay, has been trying to get his debilitating heart condition sorted since being diagnosed with atrial fibrillation three years ago.
But every time he felt he was getting somewhere, more obstacles were put in the way.
"It started in 2000 when I went for a cystoscopy," explained Stan. "The doctors asked if I was in general good health, and I said I got a bit puffed going up the stairs, and from there I was referred to another doctor and put on drugs."
Custom Product Specialties New Website Offers Easy Shipping Methods
The Custom Product Specialties Company recently launched their website, www.CustomProductSpecialties.com, with a new custom shipping method which allows buyers the ability to purchase promotional products for their special occasion, event, club, and/or associations and not have to be considered with the shipping hassles that most large orders have. By doing so, this Mesa area business is hopeful for gathering a larger portion of market share and further accentuates their ability to flex their model to the wants and needs of their consumer base.
Click here to read more…HealthForumOnline Offers New Online CE Course on Working with Transgender Individuals
HealthForumOnline (HFO), a nationally-approved (APA, ASWB, NBCC, PSNA, CA-BBS) online provider of continuing education (CE) for psychologists, social workers, counselors, nurses and other allied healthcare professionals announces the addition of a new online CE course, Health Care Needs and Health-Related Disparities: Building Cultural Competence in Working with Transgender Individuals, to the new LGBT category of their extensive online CE resource library.
The term transgender applies to a range of diverse individuals whose gender identity and/or gender expression is not concordant with the gender they were assigned at birth. Among many associated life challenges, transgender people face multiple social and institutional barriers to competent mental and physical healthcare regardless of whether or not they seek hormonal and/or surgical intervention. In addition, these life challenges and other related factors often contribute to substance abuse and HIV risk behaviors in this group. Thus, transgender individuals frequently find themselves in need of and simultaneously at odds with the healthcare system. "Healthcare providers who work with transgender people often express the desire to treat their patients with competence and respect, but also acknowledge frustration with the lack of information and resources available to inform their practice and expand their awareness of this highly varied population" notes course author Dr. Jae Sevelious.
