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Allen Cunningham Joins Team Full Tilt
Four-time World Series of Poker bracelet winner Allen Cunningham has become the 13th member of Team Full Tilt, the most decorated collection of poker players in the game’s history.
At 29, Cunningham has been playing poker professionally for the past seven years and has quietly earned a reputation as one of top players of his generation. Most recently, Cunningham cemented his status among poker’s elite by finishing fourth at the 2006 WSOP Main Event, outlasting more than 8,800 competitors and earning more than $3.6 million.
Attention Small Business Owners, Find Out Why Forbes Business and Harvard Business Review Rank Duct Tape Marketing System as a Top Ranked Marketing Favorite
Matthew Scott, M.S., The Director of Duct Tape Marketing Coaching Evangelism is the person appointed by founder, author, and noted marketing coach, John Jantsch as the one responsible for providing initial and on-going marketing coaching professional development to the respected Duct Tape Marketing coaches located in North America, Europe, and Asia.
For a limited time offer, Matthew will offer a 15-week Duct Tape Marketing Coaching Program for select small business owners desiring to implement a systematic marketing plan into their own business.
Aprius Demos New 9.6 TeraFLOPS Computational Acceleration System, Powered by AMD, at Supercomputing'08
Aprius Inc., a provider of advanced computer interconnects, today announced its plans to demonstrate the Aprius CA8000 Computational Acceleration System at the Supercomputing 08 show in Austin, TX. The system is capable of delivering nearly 10 teraFLOPs of acceleration performance, when powered by AMD's latest compute accelerator, the FireStream™ 9270, with a high degree of data center placement and management flexibility. Aprius will be demonstrating the system in booth 3018 and 1833.
"The Aprius Computation Acceleration System delivers massive, high-bandwidth compute acceleration, using open standards for mainstream cluster environments, with the installation and management flexibility IT managers demand," said Varun Nagaraj, CEO, Aprius Inc. "We are partnering with key manufacturing and channel partners to allow OEMs to customize and get this product to market quickly and cost-effectively."
Kendra Todd Winner of Donald Trump’s Apprentice to Share Her Success Secrets on InvestorFortune.com
Kendra Todd winner of Donald Trump’s Apprentice is a highly acclaimed lecturer, Real Estate Investor, highest producing real estate agent and a marketer extraordinaire.
Kendra's mission is to help others reach financial freedom is based on a tried and true investment formula. She brings a rich, insightful, and in-depth knowledge of the real estate world. Her new book Harper Collin’s Risk & Grow Rich, Analyzes formulas for overcoming the fear of risk taking and her equity-building formula for making your first million in real estate.
Alternative Investment News Announces Nominees for 5th Annual Hedge Fund Industry Awards; Wyser-Pratte Receives Lifetime Achievement Award
Alternative Investment News, a publication of Institutional Investor News covering the global hedge fund industry, has announced the nominees for the 5th Annual Hedge Fund Industry Awards. The awards recognize the hedge fund leaders, managers and investors who have made significant impacts on the hedge fund industry in the past year. Winners will be announced and awarded at an annual gala dinner on June 27, 2007, at New York City's historic Gotham Hall.
Nominees in all categories were selected by the editors of Alternative Investment News based on their accomplishments during the 2006 calendar year.
Parasoft Embedded Showcases Next-Generation Unit Test Framework and Extended Embedded Platform Support at ESC Boston
Parasoft Embedded, leading provider of solutions and services that deliver quality as a continuous process throughout the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) for embedded and real time systems, announced today the new release of Parasoft C++test, an integrated C/C++ toolkit for automating a broad range of best practices proven to improve software development team productivity and software quality.
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The latest release, which helps development teams produce better code, test it more efficiently, and consistently monitor progress towards their quality goals, will be featured at Embedded Systems Conference (ESC) at the Hynes Convention Center in Boston, October 26-30.
Skis.com Experts Offer Professional Tips for Buying Ski Boots
With ski season just around the corner, Steve Kopitz, owner of Skis.com, is helping skiers make the right choice regarding shopping for ski boots. Kopitz is offering customer-friendly tips on his Web site, referenced above, and helping customers with one of the most important decisions they can make regarding their gear.
Skis.com offers ski boots and tips for buying them.
Skis.com's extensive Ski-O-Pedia includes numerous articles that answer some of the toughest skiing questions. The site also boasts sophisticated product filtering systems, on-snow video reviews of equipment and "create your own package" options for skiers who need a complete set of new gear. Ski boots, however, are something Kopitz has deliberately focused on, and for good reason.
Canadian Pharmacy Subsidizes Medicare Premiums for American Seniors
Winnipeg, Canada (PRWEB) May 15, 2006 – According to a recent study conducted by licensed Canadian pharmacy, APTECHA Inc, American seniors will need to spend $7900 a year on prescription drug costs under the new Medicare prescription drug plan to match the same level of savings they would otherwise enjoy on a daily basis with every order from its pharmacy in Canada. But rather than discouraging patients from enrolling in a Medicare prescription drug plan, APTECHA Inc is actively encouraging their customers to join the 37 million American seniors that have already signed up for the program to date.
Click here to read more…The Airline Industry Embraces Cargo Screening as Bill Passes -- Aviation Security Company Provides Guidance, Training and Answers in Order to Comply
It has been nearly six years since 9-11 and what seemed an obvious first step in providing protection to enhance our national security interests is finally being adopted. The House approved a 279-page bill enacting several of the Sept. 11 commission's unfulfilled recommendations to prevent terrorist attacks. While most knew the day would come to enact stricter screening of cargo, there will be bumps in the road to full compliance. "There isn't a person out there who disagrees that cargo security requires enhancing. The legislative changes will bring us closer to closing the door on potential and real abuse by terrorist groups," states Will McGuire, President and CEO of the New York-based international aviation security firm Global Security Associates, LLC.
Click here to read more…What Women Want… to Make a Mom's Life Easier
In a June 2007 study conducted by ChicBlvd.com online magazine--a girlfriend's guide to dating, marriage, baby and career--it was determined that mothers of infants, regardless of whether they work outside of the home or not, want to find a way to simplify their lives.
The survey results supported the February 2007 study released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics that 53% of married mothers of infants are in the work force. While some may suspect that working mothers have more chaos in their lives, ChicBlvd.com's research revealed that an astounding 97% of these moms, whether pursuing a career or working as a full-time mom, are dissatisfied with their lifestyle and wish they led a simpler life.
Announcing The Beginner’s Guide To California Divorce
Sacramento, California (PRWEB) April 3, 2008 — Veteran divorce attorney Robert Busch has just released, “www.californiadivorcetips.com [How To Win Your California Divorce, The Beginner’s Guide”, a 73 page book written for California residents who are considerin 5a8 g divorce and know little, if anything, about California divorce law.
After consulting with thousands of men and women, the author became frustrated with the lack of easy-to-understand basic information on the divorce process in California. Many of the books on divorce are outdated, many are written by attorneys who have never practiced law in California, and some are crammed full of information the typical reader doesn’t need.
SpiralFrog™ Now Offers Three Million Songs For Free And Legal Downloading
SpiralFrog (www.spiralfrog.com), the free and legal music experience, today announced several key milestones in the company's growth. SpiralFrog now offers more than three million songs for free and legal download - four times the amount offered since its launch little more than a year ago. Music videos available for download also increased to almost five thousand, while the number of consumers registered to use the service has grown to more than 2.3 million. This is believed to be the largest total registered users of any legal, free music download site.
Click here to read more…Is it Time to Make Wealth History?
Make Poverty History raised awareness of poverty, but it is affluence that poses the biggest risk to the earth and its people. In response, bloggers Paul and Jeremy Williams suggest that it is in fact time to Make Wealth History.
"This week saw the UK government double the national debt in an attempt to tackle a crisis that began with bad debts" said Jeremy Williams, editor at http://www.makewealthhistory.org [Make Wealth History]. "It reveals a fatal flaw in the whole way we have constructed our economy."
Vigilar Executes a Management Led Buyout and Raises New Capital
Vigilar announced today that it has completed a management led spin-off making Vigilar an independent company and has raised an additional seven figures of private capital for operations expansion and forthcoming acquisitions.
James Fox the Chairman and CEO stated, "Vigilar has been performing very well for the last three quarters during what is a challenging environment. Sales are up almost 10% quarter over quarter and profitability is up over 25%. Our ATLAS SaaS platform did over $6 million in sales. Given the challenges our parent company was facing it simply made sense for management to lead a spin-off."
PPQC Adds Delivery of CMMI-ACQ Training and Appraisals to Its Offerings
Process and Product Quality Consulting, LLC (PPQC), the premier deliverer of CMMI services in Houston, TX, announced today that it has signed a partnership agreement with the Software Engineering Institute (SEI) at Carnegie Melon University in Pittsburgh, PA to deliver CCMI for Acquisition (CMMI-ACQ) training and appraisal services. This is a significant milestone as only SEI Partners are permitted to deliver services to this new process improvement model.
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The CMMI-ACQ is a process improvement model that provides guidance to acquisition organizations for initiating and managing the acquisition of products and services. The model focuses on acquirer processes and integrates bodies of knowledge that are essential for successful acquisitions. The CMMI-ACQ provides an opportunity for acquisition organizations
•to avoid or eliminate barriers and problems in the acquisition process through improved operational efficiencies
•to initiate and manage a process for acquiring products and services, including solicitations, supplier sourcing, supplier agreement development and award, and supplier capability management
•to utilize a common language for both acquirers and suppliers so that quality solutions are delivered more quickly and at a lower cost with the most appropriate technology
TEC Launches Center to Help Companies Evaluate and Select Point of Sale Software
Leading industry analyst research predicts that “IT spending in retail will increase from $109 billion in 2003 to $136 billion in 2009. For wholesale, IT spending will increase from $67 billion to $76 billion.” (Gartner, 2005)
In response, software evaluation firm, Technology Evaluation Centers (TEC) (http://www.TechnologyEvaluation.Com/press) created its Retail Research Center (http://retail.technologyevaluation.com) and its Point of Sale Systems Evaluation Center (http://pos.technologyevaluation.com) to help companies with the challenging process of researching, evaluating, and selecting a point of sale (POS) software solution.
JustArticles.com Reveals the Truth about the Role of Blogs in Internet Marketing and Web Site Promotion
Blogs are taking the Internet by storm and for good reason. Blogs make it easy to publish content to the web on a regular basis and the Internet is all about content. By publishing articles on a regular basis to a blog webmasters increase the overall size of their site, which contributes to better search engine placement and page rank.
No one knows web content like the blog design experts at http://www.JustArticles.com. According to Dustin Cannon of JustArticles.com, blogs are the perfect content management solution because they allow for effortless publishing and are indexed by the search engines quickly. “In addition to keyword articles written on demand a large part of our web content business is integrated content based Internet marketing which primarily includes custom blog design and publishing as well as press release and article distribution. We are finding that the results for our clients who implement custom search engine optimized blogs are nothing short of amazing. Their article pages are being indexed very quickly resulting in new search engine results and consequently more traffic. Blogs are really an essential part of our content based Internet marketing packages,” says Dustin.
FluxData, Inc. Announces New Line of Compact Spectroradiometers that Provide Modularity, Flexibility and High Reliability
FluxData, Inc. is proud to announce the release of the FD-1840 series of modular high-performance NIST-Traceable spectroradiometers. The system includes a small hand-held ergonomic spotting scope, VIS/NIR corrected lens, high-throughput spectrometer and software. The FD-1840 has no moving parts, thus increasing reliability and robustness, making it the perfect device for a wide range of applications in the laboratory and on the factory floor.
The FluxData FD-1840 feature set is ideal for laboratory, industrial and manufacturing users. The compact spotting scope allows measurements to be taken in confined and previously inaccessible locations such as those found in the production of Flat Panel/LCD/Plasma Displays, LEDs, OLEDs, and traditional light sources. The FD-1840 also allows VIS/NIR quantitative analysis to be performed in diverse fields such as forensics, art conservation, agriculture and mineralogy. The FD-1840's size and flexibility means it can improve existing processes, or be designed into future applications.
The FD-1840 combines modularity, accuracy and ruggedness in a package designed specifically for radiometric use. The FD-1840 measures Spectral Radiance, Luminance, Spectral Irradiance, Illuminance, Radiant Intensity, CCT, L*a*b*, L*u*v* and XYZ.
The FD-1840 series contains two models based on different spectrometers. Both are complete plug-and-play systems, and include the same versatile spotting scope and software. The FD-1840+ is and economical version well-suited for many typical applications covering 380-1000nm and contains the Ocean Optics' USB2000+. The FD-1840QE incorporates the Ocean Optics' QE65000 with increased sensitivity and a wavelength range of 385-765nm, appropriate for the most demanding applications, such as extreme low light conditions or for measuring the darkest blacks of modern displays. Custom configurations are also possible by integrating the full range of Ocean Optics spectrometers.
Pano Spiliotis, CEO of FluxData, Inc., states "The FD-1840 spectroradiometer provides the versatility that the measurement market is demanding. We have chosen Ocean Optics as a technology provider for their proven status in the market with over 100,000 spectrometers sold. FluxData's innovative versatile spotting scope will now allow traditional spectrometer customers to achieve radiometric and color measurement functionality."
FluxData provides high performance spectroradiometers at various price/performance points. Complete integrated systems with software are available starting under $10,000.
About FluxData, Inc.
FluxData develops and manufactures color analytical instrumentation for a wide range of industrial applications. Product offerings are based on a core set of technologies that have been developed as a modular set of building blocks which can easily be configured to meet specific customer application requirements. FluxData provides accurate, flexible and scalable color instrumentation for research and development, production and process control. Every product comes with FluxData's commitment to first-rate customer support.
Home Exchange & Vacation Rental Free Six Month Membership for a Limited Time
Interest rates on the rise and petrol prices straining the household budget, naturally the first spending cut is the family holiday. Even with cheap airfares, accommodation costs makes the family holiday out of reach.
Consider a new and possibly more fulfilling holiday option
'Living away' founded and developed by leading Italian web designers is a new and improved website that allows users to link up with other potential 'swap partners anywhere in the world.
Like the plot from the movie 'The Holiday' (a romantic comedy about two women on opposite sides of the globe who swap houses) the idea is simple, swap your house for someone else's house anywhere in the world.
An apartment in Paris, a cabin in Tuscany or perhaps a chalet in the Swiss Alps.
New Year's Resolution Weight Loss Weapon Finally Arrives
Weight Loss Assistant.com is making life easier for consumers by bridging the gap between valuable weight loss resources, and information seekers.
Beverly Hills Celebrity Exercise Physiologist, and Author, Jim O'Connor, has created a one stop, tell all, website featuring everything from weight loss programs, to weight loss products. Due to the overwhelming amount of weight loss information and theories found scattered all over the internet, Mr. O'Connor felt it would be best to bring all of this information underneath one roof, just a click away, at Weight Loss Assistant.com. Gaining quick access to this valuable information has become much easier.
