Joey Kissimmee launching his first product and it's causing Mayhem

Joey Kissimmee is about to release his first product ever. Joey's product is called "Mass Marketing Mayhem" and it’s designed to create just that for your business. But not everyone is happy for him.
(1888PressRelease) - Sydney, NSW - Joey Kissimmee is about to release his first product ever. Joey's product is called "Mass Marketing Mayhem" and it's designed to create just that for your business, but will Joey succeed in this competitive market? Did Joey make the wrong decision to move from biz opportunities to product creation?

All eyes are on Joey over the next few days leading up to the launch of his new product Mass Marketing Mayhem. Why? Because others had tried to stop Joey launching it and big offers were being made to 'buy' the rights for Joey's new program. They saw the potential and how successful it will be. But after many meetings, Joey turned them all down after realizing what he had created. So Joey now takes the leap of faith and enters the product game but, will he succeed?

Triple MMM (mass marketing mayhem) Also covers all aspects of marketing. From driving traffic to list building to even establishing and maintaining a good solid, strong and long lasting relationship with your customers (the list).

"It's tough out there now, the internet marketing game has changed and you need to focus on long term solutions to marketing your business online or you don't stand a chance" Joey Kissimmee said. "Online marketing can be a costly game and if you don't have free long term strategies for your business forget it!" Joey continues. "That's why most people only stick around for 4-5 months." Joey states.

There is information overload when it comes to online marketing and people, especially 'newbies' are getting smacked out there, money is being lost and it can be a real struggle. So why did Joey turn his hand to creating his first product which includes 30 tutorials all designed to show how to market without spending a dime.

Joey himself is someone who has taken his love of technology, and the Internet, and turned it into a profitable business. Joey Kissimmee realized that all of the time he spent on the Internet could be put to good use, and realized that others could do the same.

Joey Kissimmee, 32, didn't even have his first computer until the year 2000. Once he received his computer, and was hooked up to the Internet, he began to think of all of the different possibilities that the world wide web had to offer. Many people realized that there was money to be made on the Internet, and Joey Kissimmee was right in line.

Honduran Accord Wins Backing as Zelaya Faces Vote

(Bloomberg) -- Latin American governments praised an accord that may end the political stalemate in Honduras by allowing the country’s Congress to vote on whether ousted President Manuel Zelaya should be restored to power.

Chile, Brazil and Argentina were among governments that said the agreement could lead to a democratic solution to the crisis. Zelaya and acting Honduran President Roberto Micheletti vowed to respect the results of the vote, which hasn’t been scheduled, said Thomas Shannon, the assistant U.S. secretary of state for Western Hemisphere Affairs.

“I can assure you that both sides are reaching out to members of Congress right now in trying to build levels of political support that will favor the outcome that each of them would prefer,” Shannon told reporters today in Tegucigalpa.

The agreement may make it more palatable for governments outside Honduras to recognize the Nov. 29 presidential election and end economic sanctions even if lawmakers vote against restoring Zelaya, said Heather Berkman, a political risk analyst at the Eurasia Group in New York

“Everyone wants him back in power because that’s the right thing to do,” Berkman said in a phone interview. “But this allows a way to get out of that.”

Court Orders

The military expelled Zelaya from the country June 28 after he ignored court orders to stop pursuing a referendum that would ask Hondurans if they wanted an assembly to rewrite the constitution. His opponents claim he planned to follow Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and his allies in modifying the constitution to remain in power.

“It is very probable President Zelaya will retake the Honduran presidency,” Chavez said in a speech in Caracas late today. “The tyrants won’t be able to return to Latin America.”


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BOJ Ends Corporate Debt Buying, Extends Loan Program

(Bloomberg) -- The Bank of Japan said it will stop buying corporate debt at the end of the year, as central banks around the world phase out emergency measures taken at the height of the financial crisis.

Governor Masaaki Shirakawa and his colleagues also voted to extend a program of providing unlimited collateral-backed loans to banks one last time through March 31, the central bank said in a statement in Tokyo today.

Stocks rose after reports showed the unemployment rate unexpectedly fell to a four-month low and household spending climbed, easing concern about the strength of the country’s recovery from its worst postwar recession. The bank also kept the benchmark interest rate at 0.1 percent and said it would maintain borrowing costs at “low levels” for “some time.”

“Given steady improvements in credit markets, it’s not wrong to end these finance-support measures,” said Masaaki Kanno, chief economist at JPMorgan Chase & Co. in Tokyo, who used to work at the central bank. Kanno added that falling prices will prompt the policy board to keep the key rate near zero for all of 2010 at least.

The yen traded at 91.08 per dollar at 2:39 p.m. in Tokyo from 91.31 before the announcement. The Nikkei 225 Stock Average climbed 1.4 percent to 10,027.87.

Diminishing Need

Shirakawa has said the need for the bank’s purchases of commercial paper and corporate bonds from lenders has diminished as companies are finding it easier to obtain credit. The programs have been in place since the bank slashed the key rate in December amid the worst global financial crisis since the 1930s. It decided in July to extend the measures to Dec. 31.

“Japan’s financial environment, with some lingering severity, has been increasingly showing signs of improvement, particularly in the CP and corporate bond market,” the central bank said. “The bank will maintain the extremely accommodative financial environment for some time by holding interest rates at their current low levels and providing ample funds sufficient to meet demand.”

In one example of a firm able to get credit, Kirin Holdings Co. yesterday raised 100 billion yen ($1.1 billion) in bonds to fund its acquisition of Australian brewer Lion Nathan Ltd., according to data compiled by Bloomberg.

Mizuno Dissents

The bank said it will scrap the limitless lending facility on March 31, when companies close their books for the fiscal year end, and that the program won’t be extended further. Board member Atsushi Mizuno opposed the decision, along with the scrapping of the corporate bond purchases in December.

“The special loan program, which provides lenders with as much cash as they need, distorts price-setting in financial markets and should be wrapped up eventually,” said Izuru Kato, chief market economist at Totan Research Co. in Tokyo. “Postponing its expiry to the fiscal year end seems like a safe judgment.”

The policy board will release its semiannual economic outlook at 3 p.m. in Tokyo. Economists surveyed by Bloomberg News see the economy expanding about 1 percent in each of the next two years and deflation extending into the year ending March 2012. Consumer prices excluding fresh food slid 2.3 percent in September from a year ago, the government said today.

Other figures show the recovery may be gaining traction. The unemployment rate fell for a second month to 5.3 percent in September and the ratio of jobs available to applicants rose for the first time in more than two years. Industrial production climbed for a seventh month and retail sales fell at the slowest pace in 10 months, figures earlier this week showed.

Quash Speculation

The bank’s likely forecasts of prolonged deflation and tepid growth will help to quash speculation for any early rate increase, analysts said. Fifteen of 16 economists surveyed by Bloomberg News last week said the bank will hold the key rate at 0.1 percent at least through the end of 2010.

“It’s hard to expect a rate increase in Japan as long as deflation lingers,” said Seiji Shiraishi, chief economist at HSBC Securities in Tokyo. “The Bank of Japan probably won’t raise interest rates before the Fed takes action.”

Some central banks are already increasing rates. Australia this month became the first Group of 20 nation to raise rates since the height of the crisis and Norway’s central bank followed this week.

In the U.S., two-year Treasury note yields this week rose to the highest level in almost a month on speculation Federal Reserve officials will probably discuss next month how and when to signal the possibility of higher U.S. interest rates. The U.S. economy expanded for the first time in more than a year last quarter, a report showed yesterday.

To contact the reporter on this story: Mayumi Otsuma in Tokyo motsuma@bloomberg.net

Source: bloomberg

ApexCCTV Announces Free Public CCTV Training Videos

ApexCCTV has created a large free body of CCTV and Surveillance Training Videos for use by those in the industry. These videos are available immediately at the company’s home page, and are available to the public at no charge.

Dallas, TX (1888PressRelease) - ApexCCTV Has launched a page on its website containing free CCTV and surveillance related press releases. These videos cover a broad range of topics related to the industry, and are intended to help ApexCCTV’s customers and partners with various installation, sales, marketing, and product selection tasks.

ApexCCTV’s video tutorials provide real value to anyone in the CCTV or Surveillance industry by covering in depth how to accomplish some of the more daunting tasks faced by their customers and business partners.

These videos can be broken into several categories:

Product Specific Videos – These videos are specific to individual products in the CCTV industry, and include advanced topics on installation and configuration of these products. GeoVision and VivoTek products are covered in depth, for example, as are many others.

General Installation Videos – These videos cover topics that are regularly encountered on job sites. Selected topics include things like crimping connectors properly, selecting materials, penetrating building surfaces, camera and housing installation, making proper cable connections, determining video frame rates, proper selection and use of power supplies, as well as many others.

Networking Videos – These videos handle the trickier networking related topics facing more and more CCTV installers and business owners as the lines continue to blur between CCTV and information technology. These videos cover the networking gamut, including basic network configuration, dealing with router’s, IP addressing, DHCP servers, avoiding conflicts with your customers existing NAT settings, DNS and dynamic DNS configuration, and many other topics. These topics all address networking best practices and pitfalls to look out for.

ApexCCTV has also made a public commitment to continue producing these videos and making them available to the industry at no charge whatsoever. There is even a link on the videos page that allows individuals to request a video tutorial covering a topic of their choice, and many such videos have already been produced.

About ApexCCTV:
ApexCCTV is a distributor and installer of fine security camera systems, surveillance digital video recorder systems, general surveillance equipment, and all related accessories.

Contact:
Chris Belote, VP of Sales
ApexCCTV
972-312-1713 x 7112
http://www.apexcctv.com

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TPE Partners / ThermaPure Add Seven New Licensees in War on Bed Bugs
ThermaPure, the patent holder on the use of heat and filtration to kill bed bugs, continues its rapid growth, signing seven new licensees. This brings to 40 the number of ThermaPure equipped licensees in the United States and Canada.

(1888PressRelease) - VENTURA, CA – As a bed bug epidemic continues to spread across the United States, the use of the highly effective, pesticide-free technology ThermaPureHeat® is rapidly growing throughout North America.

Today, at the National Pest Management Association convention in Las Vegas, TPE Associates of Ventura, California today announced that its patented ThermaPureHeat® technology has been licensed by an additional seven top pest control. This brings to 30 the total number of its licensees for pest control and environmental mitigation.

“In just over 18 months, we’ve seen a 100% increase in the number of our licensees, with a number of other pest control and environmental companies currently evaluating proposals,” said David Hedman, CEO of ThermaPure. “Clearly, top pest control companies recognize the amazing customer growth and revenue potential of using the ThermaPureHeat and filtration process the only technology that’s consistently been shown to kill bed bugs and their eggs in a single application.”

Added as ThermaPureHeat licensees are: Advanced Pest Control of West Palm Beach, Florida (serving all of Florida); Expedient of New York (serving New York, New Jersey, Connecticut and Vermont); Gold Seal Pest Control of Indianapolis, Indiana (serving Indiana, Kentucky, Illinois, Ohio and Kansas); Isotech Pest Management of Los Angeles (serving most of Southern California); Sandwich Isle Pest Control of Honolulu, Hawaii (serving all Hawaiian islands); Viridian Eco Solutions of Sonoma, California (serving much of Northern California; and Total Property Renovation of Alberta, Canada (serving much of Canada).

Hello Humans: DROID by Motorola Arrives Next Week

BASKING RIDGE, N.J. and LIBERTYVILLE, Ill., Oct. 28 /PRNewswire/ -- High-speed Web browsing, voice-activated search, customizable large screen, access to thousands of Android applications and hundreds of widgets and the best 3G mobile network in the country: DROID by Motorola arrives on Nov. 6.

Verizon Wireless, the company with the nation's largest wireless 3G broadband network, and Motorola, Inc. (NYSE: MOT), a pioneer in the mobile industry, today unveiled DROID by Motorola, the first smartphone powered by Android(TM) 2.0. DROID by Motorola features the brainpower and breakneck speed of a modern smartphone, designed to outperform where other smartphones fall short.

"We're proud to work with Verizon Wireless and Google(TM) on the first smartphone to feature Android 2.0," said Sanjay Jha, co-chief executive officer of Motorola and chief executive officer of Motorola Mobile Devices. "DROID by Motorola delivers a rich consumer experience with warp-speed Web browsing, a mammoth screen, and Motorola's expertise in design and voice quality. Combined with Android's open, flexible graphical user interface and the power of Verizon Wireless' 3G network, DROID is a smartphone that simply doesn't compromise."

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WANdisco Presents New Initiatives for the Subversion Open Source Project

(1888PressRelease) - San Ramon, CA - WANdisco, a leading provider of infrastructure software for replication, scalability & high availability, today will present 2 new initiatives for the Subversion open source project at SubConf 2009. These new efforts, sponsored by WANdisco, will result in new features, SubversionJ and Obliterate, which will be contributed to the Subversion open source project under the same Apache open source license currently used by the project.

The first initiative, SubversionJ, or SVNJ, will provide a rich server-side JAVA API that will leverage Subversion’s established code base written in the C programming language. This will allow the Subversion community to reach out to millions of JAVA developers and enable the same expansion and enrichment of Subversion functionality on the server-side that has been seen on the client-side due to the rich set of APIs for JAVA, Python and Perl that are available.

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Leading Colocation Provider C4L is 12th in Deloitte's 50 Fastest Growing Technology Companies in the UK

Colocation provider C4L, who own of the largest private data centre network in the UK, ranked 12th in the Deloitte Fast 50, making them the fastest growing colocation company in the UK.

Service-now.com Hires IT Service Management Industry Veteran to Accelerate Rapid Growth in EMEA

LONDON--(Marketwire) - Service-now.com, the pioneer of modern SaaS for IT service management, today announced Chris Gomersall as Service-now.com VP of EMEA sales and services. Chris immediately assumes full responsibility for Service-now.com sales, partner alliances and operations in EMEA and is focused on expanding Service-now.com direct and channel sales.

Chris is a technology industry veteran with a significant amount of experience in not only IT service management but also in working and leading teams in both large and small software organizations.

Chris ran the Peregrine Systems northern European business from 2002 to 2004 during which time he lead a highly effective team in the United Kingdom, the Nordics, the Middle East and Africa. Prior to Peregrine Systems Chris held senior management positions with Oracle and Tivoli where he built and managed teams focused on EMEA-based Global 2000 accounts.

After leaving Peregrine Systems, Chris established the EMEA business for PolyServe and was CEO of Ipsotek, a UK-based video analytics company.

Chris said, "The quality of people at Service-now.com initially attracted me to the company. I look forward to adding my experience in the enterprise IT software industry to help change the game in IT service management. Together we will rapidly expand our business across EMEA."

Rob Luddy, Service-now.com VP of worldwide sales and marketing, said, "Chris comes to Service-now.com with a track record of success perfectly suited to help us accelerate our triple-digit growth in EMEA. His experience in meeting the needs of both enterprise and mid-market customers while leading diverse organizations will provide our EMEA organization with the leadership we seek to help us surpass the aggressive growth goals we have for the region."

Service-now.com closed FY09 on June 30, 2009 with more than $28 million in recurring revenue. Service-now.com expects to exceed $50 million in recurring revenue at the end of FY10.

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Ipreo Becomes “Founding Member” of Middle East Investor Relations Society

LONDON & DUBAI, United Arab Emirates--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Ipreo, leading global provider of market intelligence and productivity software to corporations and investment banks, announced it has joined the Middle East Investor Relations Society as a Founding Member.

As a Founding Member, Ipreo is one of a select group of firms to pledge support to the ME-IR Society since its establishment in July 2008.

Over the past two years, Ipreo has been steadily increasing its operations and resources dedicated to servicing companies in the Middle East. The firm has in-house Arabic speakers dedicated to the MENA region. In addition to conducting shareholder and bondholder identification work for a number of corporations, Ipreo also works extensively with investment banks, agencies, and other service providers in the region in a variety of capacities, indicating a commitment and reach that few providers have demonstrated.

“We believe strongly in a localized approach to service in all the regions in which we operate, working closely with local societies and industry organizations,” said Paul Lucas, EVP & MD of International Operations for Ipreo. “We’re committed to continuing to grow and enhance our services in the Middle East and look forward to working closely with the ME-IR Society in support of its member firms in this important region.”

“We’re extremely pleased to have Ipreo’s partnership in our continued efforts to promote investor relations best practices in the Middle East,” said Gretchen Haynes, General Manager, ME-IR Society.

About Ipreo
Ipreo is a global leader in the provision of market-leading intelligence, robust technology, and superior customer service to publicly listed companies and investment banks around the world. Built on a legacy of experience and a thorough understanding of the capital markets, Ipreo provides critical insights and flexible solutions to help our clients run better investor relations programs. Ipreo’s corporate services include global market intelligence, shareholder and bondholder ID, institutional investor targeting, perception studies, proxy solicitation, and the industry’s premier database of buy-side contacts & investor profiles. Ipreo has more than 500 employees and operations throughout the US, Europe, Asia, and Africa. Ipreo is majority-owned by private equity firm Veronis Suhler Stevenson (www.vss.com).

For more information, please go to www.ipreo.com.

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BorgWarner Supplies Transmission Components for Hyundai's New Six-Speed Automatic Transmissions

AUBURN HILLS, Mich., /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- BorgWarner (NYSE: BWA) supplies collated friction packs and roller one-way clutch assemblies for the new generation of six-speed front-wheel drive automatic transmissions from the Hyundai-Kia Automotive Group. Consisting of five variants, the new transmission family will ultimately drive 16 Hyundai and Kia vehicles powered by 2.0- to 3.8-liter gasoline and diesel engines. Debuting on the Hyundai Grandeur/Azera near-luxury sedans earlier this year, future applications for the new transmission family will include Hyundai's new Tucson, Sonata and Santa Fe, as well as Kia's new Sorento and Borrego (Mohave), among others.

"As the first production transmission designed from the ground up by the Hyundai/Kia Motor Group, this marks a new era for Hyundai and Kia," said John Sanderson, President and General Manager, BorgWarner Drivetrain Systems. "Hyundai and Kia are relying on our 20-year partnership and BorgWarner's advanced technology to launch this breakthrough transmission. We look forward to continuing to support Hyundai and Kia's success as a major global automotive manufacturer."

Established as a joint venture with Hyundai Motor Company in 1988, BorgWarner's facility in Eumsung, Korea, has been supplying Hyundai with locally produced automatic transmission components since 1990. BorgWarner and its joint venture, NSK-Warner, subsequently acquired Hyundai's equity position and have continued to grow its operations to support Hyundai Group's emergence as a major global automaker. BorgWarner remains a preferred supplier of clutch products for Hyundai and Kia's automatic transmissions today.

Hyundai recently presented BorgWarner's facility in Korea with its 12th consecutive Five Star Quality Award for exceptional supplier performance. "BorgWarner's quality assurance programs, including computerized statistical process control and operator licensing, were developed internally and have become the benchmark for best manufacturing practices in Korea," remarked Hwan Hur, President and Representative Director at BorgWarner, Eumsung. "We are very proud that Hyundai arranges for other tier one suppliers to visit the BorgWarner plant in Eumsung to observe and learn from our manufacturing expertise."

BorgWarner Drivetrain Systems produces highly engineered drivetrain technologies for the global vehicle industry. Key product segments include: dual clutch modules; wet friction clutch components and systems; mechatronic transmission control modules; electro-hydraulic solenoid valves; mechanical clutch assemblies; all-wheel drive couplings, transfer cases and software/controls; and electric vehicle transmissions. These systems improve fuel economy and performance while enhancing vehicle stability. BorgWarner Drivetrain Systems is a trusted supplier to virtually every major light vehicle and automatic transmission producer in the world today.

Auburn Hills, Michigan-based BorgWarner Inc. (NYSE: BWA) is a product leader in highly engineered components and systems for vehicle powertrain applications worldwide. The FORTUNE 500 company operates manufacturing and technical facilities in 60 locations in 18 countries. Customers include VW/Audi, Ford, Toyota, Renault/Nissan, General Motors, Hyundai/Kia, Daimler, Chrysler, Fiat, BMW, Honda, John Deere, PSA, and MAN. The Internet address for BorgWarner is: http://www.borgwarner.com.

BorgWarner supplies transmission components for Hyundai's new generation of six-speed front-wheel drive automatic transmissions, which will ultimately drive 16 Hyundai and Kia vehicles. The new transmission debuted on the 2009 Hyundai Grandeur/Azera. Photo courtesy of Hyundai/Kia.

SOURCE BorgWarner Inc.

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Phillies get to defend their crown

They didn't even pack their bags, the thought of an all-night cross-country flight representing a negative the Philadelphia Phillies didn't care to consider. Their trump card, their ace left-hander, was stashed in reserve, ready to be deployed if need be -- but they preferred to save him for the next series, the big one. So the Phillies played, managed and carried themselves Wednesday night as if they, and not the Los Angeles Dodgers, were the ones whose season was on the verge of expiring.

And at the end of a thorough, definitive 10-4 beat-down of the Dodgers at Citizens Bank Park in Game 5 of the National League Championship Series, the Phillies, resolute and resurgent, are back in a familiar spot -- champions of their league, conquerors of another humbled opponent, one entrant in next week's World Series.

"It's about to be bedlam in here," said a be-goggled Ryan Howard, the Phillies' first baseman and the series MVP, wading through a champagne-soaked home clubhouse. "Bedlam!"

Read more at: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/22/AR2009102200122.html

The Wooden Window Workshop London launch new Sash window restoration website

A report on the London based wooden window restoration company: The Wooden Window Workshop and the launch of their new sash window repair and restoration website.
(1888PressRelease) - The Launch of West London based Sash window Restoration Company, The Wooden Window Workshop is finally here, and it’s about time too! The company already has a huge following in west London and has been trading since 1985 with its famous workshop in Chiswick, the decision to create a website can only mean good things for the rest of London.

The intention to launch the website with a very traditional low tech look and feel is in direct retaliation to most other sash window companies in London who all seem to have websites that can often be quite intimidating and expensive looking to visitors.

The website follows on with the Wooden window workshops traditional old fashioned business values of sash window restoration, not full replacement.

With a huge amount of information about the benefits of restoring period windows as opposed to replacement and the ecological advantages of sash window restoration, visitors will no doubt find the website to be a refreshing change to the hard sell of other Sash window websites currently targeting London.

Talking about the website, Robert Wood, Director of The Wooden Window Workshop commented: ‘We are delighted with the new website. It represents our specialist approach to Sash Window restoration in London and also reflects our historic approach since 1985 to restore what many believe to be part of our architectural heritage. For many years now we have seen many trends come and go, with the eighties we saw the Upvc window arrive, and then the nineties it was all the rage to replace sash window with cheap soft wood versions. Now, many of these soft wood windows are falling apart and with the Upvc windows unserviceable, it is fast becoming the trend to restore sash windows which is both far more cost effective than replacement but also better for the environment too!

A Santa for These Economic Times: New book, "The Santa Story Revisited," Inspires Parents to Tell an "Expanded" Santa Story

Both memoir and how-to book, "The Santa Story Revisited" gives a clear and simple solution to the perennial dilemma of parents who wish to protect their child’s innocence. Trahan's "expanded" Santa story offers a playful perspective that allows us to play Santa with our children rather than just for them, while encouraging anonymous giving and acts of kindness.

(1888PressRelease) - "The Santa Story Revisited: How to Give Your Children a Santa They Will Never Outgrow" offers an expanded Santa, with all of the magic and none of the pretense. In the book, which is both memoir and how-to, author Arita Trahan presents Santa as a game—a timeless game that everyone is already playing.

Arita’s expanded Santa is also the hero of anonymous giving. This is a Santa we can emulate as well as enjoy. Children are invited to play both roles—giving secretly as Santa as well receiving from Santa. This perspective segues the child into appreciating both sides of the Santa experience and eliminates any expiration date on their enjoyment.

This is a Santa experience that works for everyone. Parents continue being anonymous givers; children learn to play Santa by secretly giving gifts and acts of kindness to family and community—adding to the gifting concept of the season. Generosity becomes more of a game than an obligation as children experience the joy that’s inherent in giving without conditions.

Arita says, “I suspect that the reason parents get so invested in playing Santa is that giving anonymously (without getting any credit) is the closest demonstration we have to unconditional love. It is deeply satisfying and lots of fun. We want our children to keep ‘believing’ so we can keep playing. The good news is that by simply including our children in the game, it never has to end.”

A companion song, "I'm Being Santa" celebrates the pay-it-forward nature of anonymous giving that Trahan presents in her book. A music video of the song is on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbh45srDylc.

Here’s what "The Santa Story Revisited" does:
• It acknowledges Santa as the hero of anonymous giving and a mentor for acts of generosity.
• It presents a Santa that does not have a shelf-life, without the need for any awkward adjustments.
• It liberates all of us to celebrate Santa without the limitations that reality can impinge on our hero.
• It invites adults to participate in the expanded playfulness of the new Santa experience.
• It empowers parents as storytellers to inform and inspire their children.
• It assures parents that any other idea of Santa may co-exist alongside this expanded version.
• It helps parents guide their children through any challenging segue from the believing-in stage.
• It assists adults in valuing the Santa experience they had as children, no matter what it was.
• It presents the parent/child experience of Santa as an archetype and an important rite of passage.
• It creates a model for celebrating Santa that is less like a religion of believing and more like a game for playing.
• It encourages parents to freely create and recreate new family traditions for themselves.

WHO ARE THE AUTHORS?
Arita Trahan is mother/grandmother, actress, acting coach, and personal communication coach. She lives in Los Angeles.
Norma Eckroate has coauthored numerous books for humans and animals and has also worked extensively in television and theatre. She is a licensed practitioner at the Agape International Spiritual Center and has a Masters in Metaphysical Sciences.

London Fog Announces Eva Longoria Parker and Tony Parker to Appear in its Holiday Marketing Campaign

NEW YORK - /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Iconix Brand Group (Nasdaq: ICON) (the "Company") announced today that actress Eva Longoria Parker and her husband, NBA San Antonio Spurs champion starting point guard, Tony Parker, will appear in its London Fog® brand's holiday marketing campaign. The multi-media marketing campaign will debut in December issues of fashion and lifestyle magazines such as Elle, Marie Claire and Gotham, outdoor billboards and online.

Eva Longoria Parker, stated, "It was fun to work together. London Fog is always classy and beautiful and we knew we were in good hands for the campaign. The coats and bags were gorgeous; I am a huge fan of trench coats and all the London Fog trenches were amazing."

The Parkers were chosen for the London Fog campaign because they epitomize the modern, romantic and aspirational London Fog lifestyle. The beautiful, iconic shots feature the couple embracing, caressing and laughing as they pose in London Fog outerwear and accessories. The campaign was created by the Iconix in-house marketing team and shot by photographer Nino Munoz at Milk Studios in Los Angeles.

Emiratesfactories.com offers UAE Manufacturers & Suppliers an online portal to showcase their portfolios and products

(1888PressRelease) - The portal provides UAE based factories with a blend of services that enhances their virtual presence and offers detailed portfolios showcasing their factory, manufactured products and services.

Registered members can upload a full business portfolio which includes:

1. A full detailed company profile and supplier details (including contacts, factory certifications, factory size, number of employees etc).
2. A full detailed products page for multiple products.

In addition to uploading a full business portfolio, registered suppliers can also:

1. Utilize the in-depth research tools that are continuously used to enhance the portal’s platform.
2. Utilize the marketing tools that are used to expose the portal and the registered suppliers on the portal.

“Our goal is to provide both market awareness for factories and product awareness for UAE manufactured products,” says Emirates Factories General Manager Hani Khatib. “The portal is a unique and efficient way to give our target market quick access to useful information about the UAE factories.”

The www.emiratesfactories.com portal is working towards it’s vision of becoming the virtual front of the UAE manufacturing industry, thus helping UAE factories and suppliers make connections and reach potential customers in new markets through the web.

Indonesia Awaits Yudhoyono Cabinet

President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono will officially name his new cabinet today. Many of the names have leaked out over the past few days. Analysts say it's a mixed-bag of solid technocrats and political appointees without the track record to push much-needed reforms. Here's a rundown of the likely appointments:

Coordinating Minister for Economic Affairs

Hatta Rajasa's appointment to this position has drawn some criticism from analysts who say that as transport minister in 2007 he showed protectionist tendencies and favored local over foreign investors. In one case, he blamed foreign shipping companies for charging too much rather than try to reduce a bevy of unpopular levies at ports. He was removed from his post after a series of deadly air disasters. But Mr. Rajasa, whose last job was as state secretary, is a close aide to Mr. Yudhoyono and was crucial in bringing his party, the Islam-based National Mandate Party, behind Mr. Yudhoyono's presidential bid.

Finance Minister

Sri Mulyani Indrawati's reappointment to this job is likely to cheer markets. The former International Monetary Fund senior executive has run a tight economic shop that has seen public debt fall to 30% of GDP from 60% when she took up her position four years ago. She's also run a war on corruption, starting to clean up the tax and customs department.

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Handling Meth Addiction In Michigan

(1888PressRelease) Red Ribbon Week is the oldest and largest drug prevention campaign in the country, and many drug education groups are gathering with schools, communities and churches to help promote the message of a drug-free life in hopes to stop drug abuse before it starts. Narconon Freedom Center, a residential drug and alcohol rehabilitation program located in Albion, Michigan, has been at the forefront of the Red Ribbon Week activities in the state.

This week Narconon Freedom Center visited a neighborhood watch meeting to educate the local community about the dangers of methamphetamine abuse and the manufacturing of the drug. Supervisor Megan Werner-Brennan spoke about meth labs in the local community and signs to look for regarding meth abuse and how to stop it.

"Many people are not sure of what to look for [in regards to methamphetamine manufacturing] besides the 'over the counter' medications that have been pulled from shelves,” she explains.”But what people use to make meth are items like cooking fuel, rubbing alcohol in large amounts etc and this was all a new thought to most who have not had experience with the drug."

According to the Substances Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration Office of Applied Studies(http://www.oas.samhsa.gov/statesIndex.htm#2k4) more than 4% of persons aged 12 or older in the state of Michigan reported using meth one or more times during their life. In addition, 1% of young adults aged 18-25 reported past year methamphetamine use and an average of 500 treatment admissions per year as a result of meth abuse.

Juvenile Justice System

The Juvenile Justice System is one of the most popular in USA to deal with the adult problems.

It was come in to existence in 1899 to differentiate the youth and adult. The Juvenile Justice System can give better clarity about the adult and youth. It is helpful in various types of criminal cases where the changing pattern in the crime require implementation.

The Juvenile Justice System protect the youth that are considered as adult and get the injustice. It is one of the most important laws that prevent the youth which was getting affected due to wrong judgment.

Defendmyname.Com Launches Verified Credible To Verify Testimonials For Businesses Across The Country

defendmyname.com develops a new testimonial verification platform that authenticates customer testimonials for businesses. Internetdefensegroup.com a new division of defendmyname.com will be developing new reputation management widgets that will help companies build credibility for companies doing business online.

Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL (1888PressRelease) - DefendMyName.com, a leading interactive agency that specializes in online marketing and consulting, has announced the launch of Verified Credible, the foremost third party testimonial verification service for companies, products, and service providers. In today’s fast-paced global economy, the company provides an authentication resource to make commerce and marketing more reliable and trustworthy. Verified Credible has created a streamlined process that independently manages and verifies the authenticity of customer supplied testimonials. Prospect searchers and potential customers can find Verified Authentic testimonials on a company’s profile page at verifiedcredible.com.

The profile pages are fully customizable with a company’s logo and design aesthetic, and thus can be a natural extension of a company’s web site. Moreover, companies can use the Verified Credible seal on their own website once a certain number of testimonials have been authenticated. The seal then conveys to prospective customers and clients that the testimonials are indeed authentic and accurate. “We are very excited to bring this important, and timely, authentication service to businesses across the country. Concurrently, the Federal Trade Commission is conducting a review of its guidelines for testimonials, product review sites, advertorials, blogs and other internet marketing media.

These actions are sure to bring about changes in how companies market their products and services.” noted Robert Russo, President of DefendMyName.com and Internetdefensegroup.com. “Business is moving at the speed of light in today’s world, so having a source to verify testimonials can give thousands of customers and clients the confidence and assurance they need when doing business on the web. Verified Credible lets the market know that your marketing is honest and that your company can be trusted,” he added.

Beyond viewing authenticated testimonials at verifiedcredible.com, site visitors also can view a company’s frequently asked questions, executive bios, contact information, and other critical marketing elements. Thus in addition to a being a verification resource, Verified Credible makes it easy for satisfied customers to share their positive experiences while providing businesses with a powerful marketing tool.

How To Use Twitter For Business - A Video Series

Charlotte, NC (PRWEB) - Twitter! It's everywhere! Ever since Oprah talked about it, people can't read the paper, go to a website, or even watch the evening news without being invited to follow them on Twitter. So why are so many businesses embracing Twitter?

We recently spoke with Steve Schwartz, the author of the How To Use Twitter for Business Video Series. Steve told us, "It's a shame how few business owners really understand the potential value of Twitter and other Social Media Networks like Facebook. They're marketing to Gen X and Y who spend, on average, over 3 hours a day on the Internet and these Social Networks. Companies need to be on these Networks, and delivering their message in a way that is well received by the intended audience".

Steve (who does online real estate video marketing for a living) says, "These potential clients, particularly Gen Y, do not want to be SOLD to. They want to be ENGAGED. It's frustrating how many small business owners are quick to dismiss Twitter when it is the perfect media to Engage them."

Read more at: http://www.prweb.com/releases/twitter/videos/prweb3062984.htm

An R & B Angel We’ve Been Waiting For; The New Album Release "3'O Clock Saturday" by Jennifer Lang

A fantastic R & B CD by a woman with a voice of an angel. Jennifer Lang is definitely a rising star in her genre. Move over Mariah! Move over Toni, Jennifer is here and she’s going to stay.

1888PressRelease - When I first held Jennifer Lang’s 3 O’Clock Saturday in my hands I was taken aback by the cover. What a beautiful smile Jennifer has. I assumed that this CD was going to go the route of the usual R & B CD, but I could not have been so wrong and I was so glad of that. This is one fantastic R & B CD!

Pop 3 O’Clock Saturday into the nearest CD player and be prepared to be wowed by Jennifer Lang’s voice. To describe her voice probably wouldn’t be doing it proper justice, but her sound is like a finely aged wine about to be uncorked and shared with a few friends, something to be enjoyed and savored.

3 O’Clock Saturday is Jennifer’s second album a follow up to her 2008 debut Just A Lang Thang. Her songs are centered around a love theme, and stem from Lang’s desire for people to know how important love really is. She does it beautifully with the new album. Her voice conveys sensuality, romance and the heartache of a breakup, which is something that we haven’t seen since Toni Braxton hit the scene. Yes, her voice is that big!

NASA Spacecraft Provides First View of Our Place in the Galaxy

WASHINGTON, /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- NASA's Interstellar Boundary Explorer, or IBEX, spacecraft has made it possible for scientists to construct the first comprehensive sky map of our solar system and its location in the Milky Way galaxy. The new view will change the way researchers view and study the interaction between our galaxy and sun.

The sky map was produced with data that two detectors on the spacecraft collected during six months of observations. The detectors measured and counted particles scientists refer to as energetic neutral atoms.

The energetic neutral atoms are created in an area of our solar system known as the interstellar boundary region. This region is where charged particles from the sun, called the solar wind, flow outward far beyond the orbits of the planets and collide with material between stars. The energetic neutral atoms travel inward toward the sun from interstellar space at velocities ranging from 100,000 mph to more than 2.4 million mph. This interstellar boundary emits no light that can be collected by conventional telescopes.

The new map reveals the region that separates the nearest reaches of our galaxy, called the local interstellar medium, from our heliosphere -- a protective bubble that shields and protects our solar system from most of the dangerous cosmic radiation traveling through space.

"For the first time, we're sticking our heads out of the sun's atmosphere and beginning to really understand our place in the galaxy," said David J. McComas, IBEX principal investigator and assistant vice president of the Space Science and Engineering Division at Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio. "The IBEX results are truly remarkable, with a narrow ribbon of bright details or emissions not resembling any of the current theoretical models of this region."

NASA released the sky map image Oct. 15 in conjunction with publication of the findings in the journal Science. The IBEX data were complemented and extended by information collected using an imaging instrument sensor on NASA's Cassini spacecraft. Cassini has been observing Saturn, its moons and rings since the spacecraft entered the planet's orbit in 2004.

The IBEX sky maps also put observations from NASA's Voyager spacecraft into context. The twin Voyager spacecraft, launched in 1977, traveled to the outer solar system to explore Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. In 2007, Voyager 2 followed Voyager 1 into the interstellar boundary. Both spacecraft are now in the midst of this region where the energetic neutral atoms originate. However, the IBEX results show a ribbon of bright emissions undetected by the two Voyagers.

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Pfizer And Wyeth Become One: Working Together For A Healthier World™

NEW YORK - (BUSINESS WIRE)- Pfizer Inc (NYSE: PFE) today announced that it has combined operations with Wyeth following the closing of the acquisition yesterday. Pfizer is now a more diversified health care company, with product offerings in human, animal, and consumer health, including vaccines, biologics, small molecules and nutrition across the developed and emerging markets. It has medicines in numerous growing therapeutic areas, a robust pipeline, premier scientific and manufacturing capabilities and a leading global presence.

“Pfizer’s newly strengthened company will have some of the best assets, people, pipeline and capabilities in the industry,” said Jeffrey B. Kindler, chairman and chief executive officer of Pfizer. “We have a clear responsibility to turn those strengths into meaningful results for patients, customers and the communities we serve, as well as for our shareholders. We will measure our success through our company’s new commitments, which include advancing wellness, prevention, treatments and cures that serve the world’s diverse health needs, while maximizing our financial performance.

“We are pleased to welcome our talented new colleagues from Wyeth to Pfizer, including many first-class scientists and business leaders,” Mr. Kindler added. “We are proud that our new and existing colleagues possess all of the highly valuable skills and experience essential to every aspect of our business, and share our passion for improving health and well-being at every stage of life.”

Operational Integration and Readiness

Since the acquisition agreement was announced in January, integration teams at Pfizer and Wyeth have worked diligently to ensure that the combined company is fully operational immediately upon the closing of the transaction. To further advance these objectives, Pfizer previously announced a new approach to research and development and an enhanced commercial operating structure, and named select leaders to posts that became effective upon closing of the acquisition. As a result of these actions, Pfizer will begin to capitalize on the benefits offered by the combination with Wyeth starting immediately.

“Our ability to close this transaction in such a timely manner and be operational on ‘Day One’ is a true testament to the dedication of the integration teams at both companies,” said Pfizer Chief Financial Officer Frank D’Amelio, who is leading the integration. “Because business continuity was our primary objective throughout the integration process, our leaders and colleagues are in a position to quickly build on Pfizer’s solid financial foundation, operational discipline and diverse product base to continue to improve our performance.”

Strengthened and Diversified Portfolio

Pfizer now has a broad and diversified global product portfolio, with leadership in virtually all key high-growth therapeutic areas. The combined company has strengthened capabilities in biotechnology, vaccines, consumer healthcare, nutrition and animal health. Pfizer is well positioned for consistent and stable top-line and adjusted diluted EPSi growth over the short and long term. It is expected that no drug will account for more than 10 percent of the combined company’s revenue in 2012.

The combined company has a robust and growing pipeline of biopharmaceutical development projects to help patients in critical areas, including Alzheimer’s disease, oncology, pain, neuroscience, diabetes and inflammation. The combination of top scientists from both companies, as well as leading scientific and manufacturing capabilities, and a global network of proof-of-concept clinical development centers, has greatly enhanced the company’s ability to innovate.

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Sarasota County Sheriff's Office chooses ODI Consulting to develop new Web Presence

Sarasota County Sheriffs Office has just announced that ODI Consulting Inc will develop a new website and database portal program to assist it's office personnel with enhanced maintance and updating features to areas within thier site and public information.

Sarasota-Bradenton, FL (1888PressRelease) - The Sarasota County Sheriff's Office recently announced their award of a web development contract to ODI Consulting, Inc., an IT Development firm in Bradenton, Florida.

As a part of the contract, the Sheriff's website will undergo a complete graphic re-design. Enhanced content management features will also be added to aid Sheriff’s office personnel in maintaining and updating areas of the site.

Additionally, interactive elements will allow visitors to 'opt in' to receive Email notifications or alerts. This data may assist the Sheriff's Office in early notifications to interested parties when issues or concerns arise related to a particular community or zip code area-a future goal for the website and data.http://www.odiconsulting.com

ODI Consulting is pleased and excited to be chosen to work with the Sheriff's Office on this important project.

Team leader, Keri Else of ODI Consulting, stated "We look forward to assisting the Sarasota County Sheriff’s Office in enhancing their web presence and plan to create an innovative new design combined with automated web technology to ensure that the site is both attractive and functional in supporting the Sheriff's role in the community."

The updated Sarasota County Sheriff's Office website is anticipated to go live early next year. Visit the site at: www.SarasotaSheriff.org .

For additional details regarding ODI Consulting’s IT and web development services, please visit: www.ODIConsulting.com.

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PopThatZit.com to Appear on the Tyra Banks Show

(1888PressRelease) - His moment on the show will be part of the episode that's scheduled to air on Wednesday, October 14th, in a pre-taped segment about gross people in America.

"It was an experience, to say the least," says owner Chris Azzari. "I was even approached by a few people who were familiar with the site, and they loved that I was on the show!" Asked to appear as a zit-popping expert, he chatted with Tyra who then played clips for the grossed out audience from some of the over 1000 videos that are now available on the website. "The reactions from the crowd were spectacular," Chris says. "I knew I'd done my job well."

PopThatZit.com features videos in 47 different categories on topics like abscesses, hematomas, MRSA, boils and, of course, zits of every variety on various parts of the body. While videos are the core part of the site, there's also an active community of people interested in zit-popping and other fleshy anomalies.

For those who can't understand the enthusiasm for zits and zit popping, there's a helpful "Zit Manifesto" at the website that helps to explain the zit fascination philosophy, by outlining the differences between casual zit poppers and obsessed zit poppers, as well as patient, enthusiastic and secret zip poppers. The Manifesto also attempts to explain the lure of the pop to the uninitiated.

The site has recently been updated with some new features to help promote the community spirit. One of the new additions is a Shoutbox where visitors can register, post messages about their latest zit-popping adventures and have their short messages appear live right on the home page.

Registered members of the site can send private messages to each other as well as use the Zit Chat Room, a gathering place for people similarly interested in zits and the grotesqueries of the body. For those who don't want to chat live there's always the Zit Forum. This message board has over 1700 posts thanks to its active group of members and an enthusiastic webmaster.

Michael Jackson 'This Is It' controversy: So who exactly is Safire?

A lot of questions got resolved yesterday about the new Michael Jackson single “This Is It” — in particular, exactly who wrote the tune. (The answer apparently being Jackson and veteran singer-songwriter Paul Anka.) But you may still be wondering just who is Safire, the singer who originally recorded the track when it was called “I Never Heard.”

Safire was born Wilma Cosme on the island of San Juan, Puerto Rico, and subsequently moved to New York’s Spanish Harlem. In the late ‘80s, she recorded a clutch of singles for Cutting Records and became a leading light of the on-the-rise Latin hip-hop/freestyle scene (a largely regional phenomenon whose ranks yielded stars like Stevie B, Exposé, and Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam).

After signing with Mercury/Polygram, Safire put out her first, self-titled, album, featuring the Marc Anthony-penned single “Boy I’ve Been Told.” Her big commercial break came with the slow-paced 1989 hit, “Thinking of You,” a song dedicated to her uncle, who had passed away from AIDS complications. Spin magazine put her on their cover (see left), and the singer was also featured in the pages of Vogue. In 1990 Safire released a less successful second album, I Wasn’t Born Yesterday, which featured the Jackson-Anka composition.

According to Safire’s current manager Sal Abbatiello, the song was originally intended as a duet between Safire and Anka, whose writing credits also include the English lyrics for “My Way.” “They thought Safire was going to be the next Gloria Estefan,” says Abatiello. “She had put out three big dance records and she was becoming a very well known artist. And then she put out the ballad ‘Thinking of You,’ which was one of the most played records of the year. But when Michael met her in California at the studio, he saw how young and beautiful she was. He told Paul, ‘You can’t do the record with her, she’s too young.’ And he gave her the song.”

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COLLEGE APPLICATION BOOT CAMP®: SET YOURSELF APART Rising Seniors Receive Exclusive Personal College Consulting Right in Their Homes

(1888PressRelease) - More teenagers are applying to college today than ever before, and the competition for spots at top tier colleges and Ivy League schools is shocking – in 2008 Harvard had a 7% acceptance rate and this year they received close to 30,000 applications. The college admissions process is not transparent. It is no longer simply a matter of achieving decent grades, participating in a few extracurricular activities and writing an essay about a personal experience. On top of a stellar transcript, students must set themselves apart.

With summer over and seniors making the final push to earn extraordinary grades; compete in top high school contests; and score well on standardized tests, many of them forget how important it is to showcase those achievements in a winning college application…and time is running out to do so. To up the odds of students’ admission into top colleges, it is imperative to make an early application plan; those students applying Early Decision—a binding application—to their top-choice school have a significantly better chance of receiving an acceptance letter. Most Early Decision applications are due November 1 or 15th!

Top college admissions consultant Dr. Michele Hernandez and parenting guru Mimi Doe joined forces to help families navigate the daunting process of applying to college and help students set themselves apart. For the past six years, Hernandez and Doe have offered rising seniors an intensive, four-day Application Boot Camp® to move them through the process with ease. The 2009 sessions ended in August, with a select group of 40 students from around the world taking the opportunity to join this internationally acclaimed program.

With more and more students and families recognizing the need for this service, Application Boot Camp® is excited to announce new programs for seniors to finish their early college applications quickly using the proven Application Boot Camp® method. Personal Application Boot Camp™ is ideal for students who were unable to take part in the sold-out traditional Application Boot Camp® sessions or who simply want to set aside time to retreat from the tumult of senior year and, for a few days, give their applications the attention they deserve. No other program in the world brings the expertise of Application Boot Camp® to your doorstep.
Personal Application Boot Camp™ can be crafted for between one and four students and, schedules permitting, can take place anywhere in the world. Students receive personal, expert guidance at every step of the process in order to ensure that they submit the best, most genuine applications. This premium package includes:

• Three days of one-on-one work with a senior member of the Application Boot Camp® staff
• Real-time support from other members of the Boot Camp team
• All elements of Application Boot Camp® including selection of colleges, crafting of essays and activity sheet, assembly of entire application, and a pre-Boot Camp® student report
• A consultation with Mimi Doe and Michele Hernandez via teleconference. Mimi and Michele will evaluate your background, identify appropriate schools, and recommend a winning application strategy

And, for those who are motivated to create their own Application Boot Camp, Doe and Hernandez have created a self guided kit. The Application Boot Camp Self Guided Program® enables students to complete all the pieces of their college applications and present themselves in the best light possible on their own time. Full of specific tips to navigate the application process, as well as tools to articulate their strengths and academic focus, the Application Boot Camp® Self Guided Program guides students as if Michele Hernandez and Mimi Doe were right there with them. It includes audio and printed guides:

• Four-day Application Boot Camp® Schedule for students to follow on their own
• How to complete the Common Application with insider tips
• How to develop an appropriate list of colleges to which you will apply
• Tips on creating extra essays to give you an edge
• Advice on developing an Activity Sheet, with samples, to highlight your passions and experience
• How to put it all together into winning application packages
• And much, much more!

To sign up for personal consultation or for more information on how to purchase products and services, call (877) 659-4204 or visit http://applicationbootcamp.com. Join the most intensive programs in the nation with America’s premier college consultants. Getting into college doesn’t have to be stressful!

Efficiency Matrix, unveils the Downlight Mitt

(1888PressRelease) - Efficiency Matrix unveils its new Downlight Mitt product which finally makes it alright to install recessed Downlight lighting in your home!

Downlights are the most inefficient lights you can put in your house. In summer they make your living area warmer, and in winter they make your living area cooler. Open air connectivity between your living area and the roof is a big "NO! NO!". These two areas should be separated as much as can be, because the roof is there to protect you from the elements, not to join you to the elements.

This is the under lying problem with downlights. Efficiency Matrix has unveiled two new product, for the first time targeting downlight inefficiencies head on.

The Halogen Mitt and the LED Mitt.
- Includes a 2 hour fire rating
- An insulating material which significantly reduced heat loss.
- Blocks draught spreading from the most windy parts of the house(roof).

http://efficiencymatrix.com/media-demonstrations/

The Halogen Mitt includes a special 12V Lamp which directs heat downwards and provides the same light output as a standard 50W lamp but only utilizes 35W of energy.

The LED Mitt includes a 12V LED Lamp which produces great light output compared to a 20W halogen Lamp with only 5W of energy consumption.

"Your light fitting is either in the living area or in your roof, there can be no in between. and the Halogen Mitt finally resolves the inefficiencies of recessed lighting, cost effectively."

Source: 1888PressRelease.com

Zimbabwe: ICC and Nobel Peace Prize

With Barrack Obama's inherited war in Afghanistan raging on unabated; a war he calls a "war of necessity" and with the occupation of Iraq still intact under his administration, the man himself was shocked to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 2009.

The deadline for nominations was just a week after Obama assumed office, and the man has just been in office for 10 months.

He is struggling with his public health policy at home, is fast losing the war in Afghanistan, has failed to pull troops out of Iraq as he promised during his election campaign, and he is yet to pull his country out of the global financial crisis.

With this unenviable record, Obama still made it to number one out of the 205 shortlisted candidates whose negatives must clearly have overshadowed this gloomy record of the 48-year-old United States president.

According to Alfred Nobel's will, the Swedish industrialist after whom this increasingly controversial if not notorious prize is named, the award is meant to go "to the person who shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses".

Read more at: http://allafrica.com/stories/200910130020.html

Success In The City Announces Women's Political Voice Project Virginia Gubernatorial Race Forum On October 21st

This event is about Red White and Blue, not Blue or Red - it is about being informed, getting the facts and deciding what matters most. Most importantly know that as women business leaders, our vote counts.

Washington, DC-MD-VA-WV (1888PressRelease) - Success in the City, Northern Virginia’s fastest growing women’s preeminent executive networking and membership group will be hosting a special gubernatorial panel discussion with Maureen McDonnell, wife of Republican Candidate Bob McDonnell, on Wednesday, October 21st at the Marriot Fairview Park in Falls Church, Virginia.

“The Virginia governor’s race is especially important to women this year,” says Cynthia de Lorenzi, Success in the City’s CEO. “We’ve seen in past state elections how important the women’s vote is and how influential Northern Virginia voters are to the final vote tally. Women care deeply about many issues related to business and growth in our state and we deserve to be heard.”

The panel discussion set to start at 8 a.m. will feature Maureen McDonnell, the candidate’s wife and his two daughter’s Jeannine McDonell an Iraqi war veteran, Cailin McDonnell, and Sheila Johnson, co-founder of Black Entertainment Television, and owner of the Washington Mystics. The panel discussion will be moderated by Cynthia de Lorenzi.

“We are excited to have this discussion with the McDonnell women,” says de Lorenzi. “We recognize that Bob McDonnell is the candidate but that the McDonnell women are an important part of the campaign team and they will carry our messages and concerns directly to the candidate.”

Success in the City is a non-partisan women’s membership organization that endorses neither candidate and offers no financial contributions to political campaigns. This first forum, with a second one hoped for with the democratic candidate’s wife, Pam Deeds, is designed to allow audience members to have a voice to discuss their views and hear directly how the candidate, if elected to the Governor’s office, would respond to concerns.

“Women in Northern Virginia are business owners, tax payers, and commuters, as well as mothers and wives. Our concerns go well beyond traditional “female” issues. I’m inviting all interested women, republican, democrat, or undeclared to join us for this important event and let the candidate know your views,” says de Lorenzi.

Date: Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Location: Marriott, Fairview Park, 3111 Fairview Dr., Falls Church, VA 22043
Time: 8 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.
Cost: $55 Success in the City Members
$75 Non-members

To register for this event, learn about sponsorship opportunities or to voice your ideas and thoughts on the Success in the City Blog, please visit Success in the City online at: www.successinthecity.org

Source: 1888PressRelease.com

Attacks demonstrate Taliban resurgence in Pakistan

ISLAMABAD – A week of terror strikes across Pakistan, capped by a stunning assault on army headquarters, show the Taliban have rebounded and appear determined to shake the nation's resolve as the military plans for an offensive against the group's stronghold on the Afghan border.

The 22-hour raid on Pakistan's "Pentagon" in the city of Rawalpindi, which ended with 20 dead Sunday, was the third terror attack in a week to shake this nuclear-armed nation. It demonstrated the militants' renewed strength since their leader was killed by a U.S. missile strike in August and military operations against their bases.

The attack followed warnings from police as early as July that militants from western border areas were joining those in the central Punjab province in plans for a bold attack on army headquarters. The suspected ringleader in Saturday's raid, known as Aqeel, also was believed to have orchestrated an ambush on Sri Lanka's visiting cricket team in Lahore this year.

The U.S. has long pushed Islamabad to take more action against Taliban and al-Qaida militants, who are also blamed for attacks on U.S. and NATO troops in Afghanistan, and the army carried out a successful campaign against the militants in the Swat Valley in the spring.

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Republicans both assail, applaud Nobel award

By Kathy Kiely, USA TODAY

WASHINGTON — To Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele, President Obama's Nobel Peace Prize is an opportunity to exploit conservative outrage and raise funds. To John McCain, the GOP's 2008 presidential nominee, it's cause for national pride.

OBAMA'S WORDS: Attracting global attention

"Americans are always pleased when their president is recognized by something on this order," the Arizona senator said Sunday on CNN. William Kristol, editor of the Weekly Standard, is not among them. On Fox News Sunday, he said Obama should have turned down a prize from "an anti-American committee."

The sharply different GOP responses to Friday's surprise announcement reflects deeper divisions within a party that must decide whether to cooperate with Obama as he faces tough decisions about Afghanistan and health care — or press its political advantage. Recent public opinion polls by Gallup show a majority approve of Obama's handling of foreign affairs but rate him lower on the economy and health care.

On one side, conservative hard-liners: Talk show host Rush Limbaugh's website featured the headline "Our president is a laughingstock" and portrayed Obama as the darling of "European leftist elites."

Steele echoed that notion in a letter sent within hours of the Nobel announcement that mockingly announced Obama won for "awesomeness."

"Democrats and their international leftist allies want America made subservient to the agenda of global redistribution and control," Steele wrote in an e-mail that invited contributions of up to $1,000. "And truly patriotic Americans like you and our Republican Party are the only thing standing in their way."

Joining McCain at the other end of the GOP spectrum: former secretary of State Henry Kissinger. A 1973 Nobel Peace Prize winner for his efforts to end the Vietnam War, Kissinger offered "warm congratulations" for the award, "which, beyond the tribute to your person, honors America and the cause of peace."

For full news, please visit http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2009-10-12-obama-nobel_N.htm

Pluromed, Inc. Signs Agreement with Boston Scientific

Woburn, Massachusetts (PRWEB) October 8, 2009 -- Pluromed, Inc. has announced that it has entered into an alliance with Boston Scientific Corporation (NYSE: BSX) regarding Pluromed's BackStop™ product, a device used in ureteroscopic kidney stone management procedures. Boston Scientific has acquired the worldwide distribution rights to BackStop. The financial terms of the agreement were not disclosed.

Kidney stone disease is estimated to affect millions of people worldwide. A common method of treating these stones is intracorporeal lithotripsy where the stones are fragmented using a laser or other energy modality in a minimally invasive procedure. Backstop™ is based on Pluromed's proprietary Rapid Transition Polymers™ (RTP™) that are liquid at low temperature and transition to a gel at body temperature; the transition is reversible via cooling and the gel is completely dissolvable. The BackStop gel forms a plug above the stones in the ureter and is designed to prevent stone migration during the procedure. After stone fragmentation is complete, the gel is dissolved with saline and exits the body. The BackStop product offers the potential to reduce operating time and complexity, and improve "stone free" rates for patients.

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Los Angeles Entrepreneur Courtney "The Genius" Foley Takes Celebrity Collectibles To A New Level as she sells her Celebrity Brother's Body

1888PressRelease - Foley will put the cherry on the top of the Bodies of Art project in this Saturday, October 10, 2009 at 10:30 AM when she cast's the final sculpture in the series, the "Venus de Jeremy." The headless, armless, legless torso of her celebrity brother(Jeremy Foley star of such movies as Dante's Peak, Soccer Dog, Action News at 5 and Caitlin's Way). The Bodies of Art collection is based on an interesting process in which the artist, Courtney "The Genius" Foley casts select body parts of celebrities in plaster. Sculpture: From the Bodies of Art project, created by Courtney "The Genius" Foley: Bodies of Art Sculptures are the only celebrity collectable where art aficionados can actually own single edition original cast pieces of the celebrity.

Expert Witness Guide to be published by State Bar of Arizona in March 2010

Phoenix-Mesa, AZ (1888PressRelease) - Qualified expert witnesses who are interested in more engagements in Arizona are invited to advertise in the Arizona Attorney Expert Witness Guide, which will be distributed to more than 18,000 lawyers, judges and law firm adiministrators.

The State Bar of Arizona is compiling the eighth annual edition of its official guide to expert witnesses for distribution to every licensed attorney and judge statewide in March 2010.

The Expert Witness Guide will be published as a special advertising section in Arizona Attorney magazine, the official bar journal for the state. The cost of each of the listings in the Arizona Attorney Expert Witness Guide will be $165. Expert witnesses who purchase display ads in this special section will receive 1-3 listings at no extra charge, depending on the size of the display ad purchased.

The Expert Witness Guide offers greatly discounted rates on our display ads, which include the use of full color at no extra charge. In 2009, more than 90 expert witness firms advertised in over 80 different categories in the Arizona Attorney Expert Witness Guide.

In addition to the print edition of the magazine, the Expert Witness Guide will also be published online in our digital edition at no extra charge. The digital edition of the 2009 Expert Witness Guide received 2,366 page views in just six months! To view the Expert Witness Guide online, please visit the magazine homepage at http://www.myazbar.org/azattorney/ and then click on the “Expert Witness Guide” link in the right hand column.

To find out more about advertising in the 2010 Arizona Attorney Expert Witness Guide, please contact Drew Williamson at 602-340-7230 (voice) or 602-416-7430 (fax).

Stunner Baby Magazine Beauties

(PrWeb) Stunner Baby Magazine is the World's largest online urban fashion and general interest magazine to invade the internet. Since its launch the magazine has produced (9) issues; (15) cover models; written over (170) featured articles and interviewed over (70) beautiful stunner babies worldwide. In (7) short months Stunner Baby Magazine has over 1,800,000 hits and over 50,000 unique visitors to view and study the background of our array of stunner baby models. In changing gears in the devastating advertising slump, the online E-Magazine is a refreshing alternative for readers and advertisers.

Stunner Baby Magazine provides cutting edge marketing and focus of beautiful urban models worldwide. The magazine is the brainchild of Claude Julian (CEO/Editor-in-Chief). This dedicated former professional runway star, print model, fashion editor, music video model expert, actor and professional makeup artist
http://www.modelmayhem.com/crashadj provides 25 years of experience in the world of fashion and beauty.

Claude Julian states ...

"It is important to provide a media communications platform to change the current perception of urban models. For too long our beautiful and talented women have had the fashion doors of opportunity "slammed" in their faces. No longer can the fashion industry ignore these curvy, shapely, exotic and intelligent models that don't fit the under 5' 10" and size 2 syndrome of skinny success. Hip hop music and their innovative music videos allow these urban beauties the opportunity to catapult their name-to-fame.

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RacersReunion Memory Lane Hall of Fame "Recognizing The Grass Roots of Auto Racing" Announces Induction Schedule and Primary Sponsorship

Charlotte-Gastonia-Rock Hill, NC-SC (1888PressRelease)- RacersReunion Memory Lane Hall of Fame will induct fifteen in its inaugural class on October 10, 2009. This new hall of fame is located inside the fabulous antique race car and memorabilia exhibit that is Memory Lane Museum on Highway 150 in Mooresville, NC. The first class of ten living and five posthumous inductees, all participants in the early years of auto racing, made their impact on the sport before the days of multi-million dollar sponsors, luxurious motor coaches, personal airplanes, and teams the size of factories.

The ten living and five posthumous inductees are: Paul Goldsmith, Buddy Arrington, Dink Widenhouse, Sam Ard, Marvin Panch, Dave Marcis, Paul Lewis, Neil Castles, Jake Elder, James Hylton, Wendell Scott, Herman Beam, G.C. Spencer, Elmo Langley, and Gene Glover. All living inductees will be in attendance except for Sam Ard, Jake Elder, and James Hylton. Ard and Elder are in poor health and unable to attend, but the seventy-five-year-old Hylton’s absence is due to his refusal to yield to age as he continues his racing career and will be qualifying for the American 200 ARCA Championship event at Rockingham Speedway.

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Somali pirates attack French military flagship

NAIROBI (AFP) – Somali pirates attempted to storm the French navy's 18,000 tonne flagship in the Indian Ocean after mistaking it for a cargo vessel, the French military said on Wednesday.

The crew of La Somme, a 160-metre (525-foot) command vessel and fuel tanker, easily saw off the brazen night-time assault by lightly armed fighters on two lightweight skiffs and captured five pirates, a spokesman said.

"The pirates, who because of the darkness took the French ship for a commercial vessel, were on board two vessels and opened fire with Kalashnikovs," Admiral Christophe Prazuck said in Paris.

La Somme is the French command vessel in the Indian Ocean, overseeing French air, sea and land forces fighting Somali pirates and hunting terrorists under the banner of the US-led Operation Enduring Freedom.

Officers on the ship have directed commando operations to free French hostages in the hands of Somali pirates.

The pirates tried to flee when they realised their mistake but were pursued by French forces who, after an hour-long chase, caught one of the skiffs, Prazuck said.

On it they found five men but no weapons, water or food as the pirates had apparently thrown all of the boat's contents overboard, the spokesman said.

A Western official at sea in the area, speaking to AFP on condition of anonymity, said that there had been an exchange of fire between the warship and the pirate launches.

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Mutual Spirituality Awaits Persons with Dementia and Their Caregivers

Nashville, TN (1888PressRelease) - Even if a person with dementia can only greet family members or old friends with a silent stare of non-recognition, authors Jane Marie Thibault and Richard L. Morgan say both the caregiver and care receiver still can travel together along a mutual spiritual pathway.

In their new book, No Act of Love Is Ever Wasted: The Spirituality of Caring for Persons with Dementia, Thibault and Morgan draw upon decades of personal experiences to describe how both the caregiver and receiver can benefit from their relationship.

"We want to affirm that the care giving is not in vain," says Thibault, a clinical gerontologist and a clinical professor of Family and Geriatric Medicine at University of Louisville since 1981. "Whatever the caregiver does, the act of love for a person with dementia is never an action that is meaningless."

The most common type of dementia is Alzheimer's disease, although dementia is a general term that includes many diseases with similar symptoms of progressive mental decline but different causes. By 2010, an estimated 35.6 million people worldwide will be living with dementia, according to Alzheimer's Disease International (ADI), the umbrella organization of Alzheimer associations around the world. The ADI's recently released World Alzheimer Report for 2009 predicts the number will nearly double every 20 years, to 65.7 million in 2030, and 115.4 million in 2050.

"People with Alzheimer's are more than body, brain or breath," says Morgan, a retired chaplain and professor who has pursued a ministry for persons with dementia for 30 years. "They are souls and they are spirits, and therefore, you can communicate with them that way, even though their minds may be ravaged by the disease, and even though their bodies are wasting away."

The book by Thibault, who has a Ph.D. in clinical gerontology, and Morgan, who holds three seminary degrees including a Ph.D. in early Christian history, contains information about the various types of dementia and specific suggestions to help provide spiritual care for persons with dementia and their caregivers. The authors also provide tips for leading support groups and worship services for persons with dementia.

Family members, chaplains, and activity directors and nurses in memory care units who deal with dementia every day yearn for the insights in No Act of Love Is Ever Wasted, Morgan says. "I hate to say this, but unfortunately clergy are not yet on board when it comes to dealing with dementia. Clergy are busy, and I understand that this is not a priority. Sometimes it is not just denial, but because they are not trained by the seminaries about how to deal with parishioners with dementia."

Caring for those with dementia presents a major faith challenge, Thibault and Morgan write. "It tests whether we can trust that God will take care of us if we are ever in the same situation," they say in the book. "It tests whether we can love unselfishly, without asking for any love back for ourselves. It also tests whether we can love lavishly without expecting anything in return, without paying attention to the cost, knowing that no act of love is ever wasted."

In addition to No Act of Love Is Ever Wasted, Thibault is author of: 10 Gospel Promises for Later Life and A Deepening Love Affair: The Gift of God in Later Life.

Morgan has authored 14 books, including Settling In: My First Year in a Retirement Community and Remembering Your Story: Creating Your Own Spiritual Autobiography.

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Elpida Completes Development of the Industry's Smallest 40nm 2-gigabit DDR3 SDRAM

TOKYO - BUSINESS WIRE - Elpida Memory, Inc. (TOKYO:6665), Japan's leading global supplier of Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM), today announced that it had finished development of the smallest high-speed low-power 40nm 2-gigabit DDR3 SDRAM in the DRAM industry.

The new 2-gigabit DDR3 SDRAM uses a smaller chip size to achieve a 44% higher chip yield per wafer compared with Elpida's 50nm DDR3 SDRAM and a 100% yield for DDR3 products that operate at 1.6Gbps, the highest speed standard for current DDR3. Compared with 50nm products, it uses about two-thirds less current and supports 1.2V/1.35V operation as well as DDR3 standard 1.5V, thus reducing power consumption by as much as 45%.

The development of the DRAM using a 40nm process focused on both performance and cost competitiveness. As a result, the investment cost of converting from 50nm manufacturing to 40nm manufacturing is expected to be almost zero. Moreover, a 65nm to 40nm process conversion can be accomplished with greater investment efficiency compared with a 65nm to 50nm conversion.

In addition to finer process technologies Elpida is also developing 65nm XS process technology that can compete with the 50nm process of other companies. Another development effort recently underway aims to produce smaller die size products based on the 65nm process.

Given this range of development choices, Elpida will have greater flexibility to deal with changing market conditions and in making decisions about the timing of investment in 40nm process equipment and the content of technology licensed to its Taiwan partners.

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GM Expects Car Sales to Stay Slow

By Peter Whoriskey - The chief executive of General Motors said Wednesday that uncertainty surrounding the U.S. economic recovery will continue to depress auto sales and remains one of the primary challenges facing the company.

Citing the high unemployment rate and other dismal statistics, Fritz Henderson predicted that sales will remain far off their 2007 peaks. He forecast that next year there will be 11.5 million car and light-truck sales, down more than 28 percent from about 16 million two years ago.

"Everything we've seen . . . suggests that's a good number to use," Henderson said.

Henderson's remarks stand in contrast to some of the optimism on Wall Street, where stock market indices rose this week in anticipation of strong corporate earnings.

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Swine Flu Vaccine Reaches D.C. Area

Thousands of doses of swine flu vaccine began arriving in the Washington region Tuesday night as a private high school in Laurel became the first in the area to close for disinfection after more than 100 students missed class, many with complaints of illness.

Stephen J. Edmonds, principal and president of St. Vincent Pallotti High School, said there had been five confirmed cases of H1N1 influenza, known as swine flu, among students at the school since the beginning of the school year. Edmonds said about 100 of the school's 500 students missed class Tuesday "for various reasons," including swine flu and seasonal flu.

Because of the high absentee rate, Edmonds ordered the school closed Wednesday to allow professional cleaners to disinfect surfaces touched by students.

"It's just precautionary," Edmonds said. "We want to make sure we provide the safest environment for the students."

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Vernalis initiates Pilot Study of V3381 in patients with chronic cough

Vernalis plc (LSE: VER) today announces that it has initiated a pilot study of indantadol (V3381), a novel dual-acting NMDA antagonist & MAO inhibitor, in patients with chronic cough. V3381 has already completed a Phase IIa trial in patients with neuropathic pain and a second study in this indication has just achieved full recruitment.

The pilot study is being conducted specifically in patients with chronic cough who do not have an obvious underlying reason for the cough, such as a persistent chest infection, asthma or gastro-oesophageal reflux. This type of cough is believed to be caused by over-sensitivity of the nerves supplying the respiratory tract and so has many parallels with neuropathic pain.

The study will be run in collaboration with Professor Ashley Woodcock from the University Hospitals of South Manchester NHS Foundation and will be conducted in up to 20 patients with chronic cough. The study will utilise a new objective cough monitor developed by Professor Woodcock's team to determine whether indantadol is likely to have any effect on cough frequency. If the pilot study indicates an effect, further randomised studies may be conducted.

Chronic cough affects between 10-20% of the non-smoking population. Chronic intractable cough is an under-recognised and under-treated phenomenon. Chronic cough patients have on average a cough history of greater than six years, and report many physician contacts, with multiple investigations and unsuccessful trials of treatment. Chronic cough also substantially impacts on a patient's quality of life with an average of 240 coughs in a 24 hour period, half are clinically depressed, and two thirds of women with chronic cough have urinary incontinence.

Commenting on the study, Ian Garland, CEO of Vernalis, said "There are currently no specific therapies approved for treatment of chronic cough and there have been no new effective anti-tussives for many decades. By initiating this pilot study we will be taking the first steps to developing a treatment for this distressing condition."

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http://www.vernalis.com

Aerocar Begins Service at Vancouver International Airport (YVR)

(1888PressRelease) Richmond, B.C – Vancouver International Airport Authority (YVR) exclusive sedan and limousine service arrives in time for the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games.
Aerocar Service today announced that the company is the official sedan and limousine provider for the Vancouver International Airport Authority (YVR).
Operating 24 hours a day, the on-demand service allows passengers to book a sedan or limousine in advance of arriving or departing from YVR. With pickup on the arrivals level of the International and Domestic Terminal buildings, Aerocar Service offers visitors a quick and seamless transportation alternative. This exclusive curbside service is also available without a reservation, by simply exiting either of the terminals and looking for an Aerocar vehicle.
“We are proud to be affiliated with the Vancouver International Airport Authority,” said Angela Mackinnon, Account Manager, Aerocar Service. “We intend to operate and conduct business in an up to date, first class and reputable manner, while making customer satisfaction our primary focus.”
Thousands of visitors are expected in Vancouver for the 2010 Winter Games and Aerocar Service will provide them with another fast and cost-efficient mode of transportation to and from the airport. Bookings for Aerocar Service can be done one year in advance.
“During the Games we anticipate a high volume of customers using our service,” said Mackinnon. “Our extensive fleet and comprehensive digital dispatch system provides us with the infrastructure to handle the Olympic Games demand while maintaining customer satisfaction.”
Aerocar Service has one of largest fleets of luxury sedans and limousines in the Lower Mainland, with professional chauffeurs on hand to take visitors to their destination in one of the company’s Mercedes Benz, BMW, Hybrid Tahoe or luxury stretch limousines. Offering fixed rates to locations in the Vancouver area, passengers can travel from YVR to downtown Vancouver for $39, a rate comparable to a taxi fare.