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Coastal Vacations Director Dean Marino Named To Sales Center Training Team As The Largest Worldwide Marketer of The Firm's Travel Products Looks To Boost Sales

Echelon Press Reaches for the Stars

Memphis, TN based company, Echelon Press Publishing, is pleased to announce the recent acquisition of an original mystery novel written by Chicago author, Robert Goldsborough, of the famed Nero Wolfe novels. Goldsborough offers a new set of characters in a familiar setting that will immediately remin 5a8 d readers of his outstanding quality of writing.

"Three Strikes You're Dead" will take fans back to 1938 Chicago, to a time when politics were king and baseball ruled. Dizzy Dean sat in the driver's seat of the Cubs' World Series ride, while scandal rocked the tight political community of the Windy City.... (Continue reading)

Eldercare Advocate, Jacqueline Marcell, to Speak in Harford County, Maryland

Jacqueline Marcell, author of the best-selling book, Elder Rage, or Take My Father...Please! How to Survive Caring for Aging Parents" - will be the Keynote speaker on September 15, 2005, 1:00 -- 3:00 p.m. and 7:00 -- 9:00 p.m. at Mountain Christian Church, 1824 Mountain Road, Joppa, Maryland. This event is free to the public, however reservations are required due to limited seating. Marcell offers guidance and insights on the challenges of eldercare based on her personal experience and research. She will also be available to sign Elder Rage", a Book-of-the-Month selection being considered for a feature film.

A former television executive, Marcell became an eldercare advocate after her own caregiving experience with her frail mother and challenging" elderly father. Now a sought-after national speaker and the host of the popular Coping With Caregiving" Internet radio program, she focuses on the importance of early diagnosis of dementia/Alzheimer's and how to manage challenging elders--medically and behaviorally.

The presentation sponsors are Amston Mortgage Company, Inc., Citizens Care and Rehabilitation Center, Coldwell Banker/Chris Sparks, Realtor, Comprehensive LTC Group, LLC, Home Instead Senior Care, Kelly Financial Services, MedTek, Rock Spring Village, Senior Move, Limited, and Shaffer Law Office, LLC.

Marcell will also sign copies of Elder Rage" from 6:00 to 8:00 pm on September 14, 2005 at Barnes & Noble, 620 Marketplace Drive, Bel Air, Maryland.... (Continue reading)

Leap of Faith: The Story of a Man, His Faith, and His Life of Service to Others

The year is 1946, the Second World War has finally come to a merciful end, and a 19-year-old Coles has just been discharged from the Royal Navy. He lands a job in the burgeoning airline industry and, as fate would have it, finds himself on humanitarian duty in Berlin.

He uses the opportunity to acquaint himself with the charitable good works of the Salvation Army and, next thing you know, the restless Coles finds himself en route to Canada to begin a new life, one that drew him more deeply into his calling as a Salvationist.... (Continue reading)

Event Planning Takes Center Stage During CMA Week; After the Awards, Randi Lesnick’s Party Planning Makes Music City Rock

For Nashville event planners, CMA week is clearly the Super Bowl of partying in Music City. While it’s a chance for the music industry to gather and celebrate its accomplishments, from performing rights organizations ASCAP, BMI and SESAC to all the major record labels and publishers, it’s also an opportunity for the town’s top event planners to strut their stuff in front of a who’s-who of musicians, music-business decision-makers and influential members of the media.

Randi Lesnick, president of Hospitality Consultants and Nashville’s “Party Planner to the Stars,” has been dealing with the pressure of this week for ten years. There’s never a dull moment for the Franklin, TN resident, and this year’s post-CMA bashes will include Lesnick-designed events for Lyric Street Records, Warner Brothers Records and a joint-event for Big Machine Records and Equity Records -- all in one night.... (Continue reading)

Brooklyn Singer Delights Canal Room Revelers

Brooklyn Singer-Songwriter Rick Cusick and his band ignited SoHos Canal Room during a recent performance. The enthusiastic Friday night crowd was treated to songs from Ricks album East", performed with a distinctly world-music flavor. The special night featured Mark Blackmon from Ricks songwriting project at the Bronx PrYde program performing on congas in his New York City debut.

Response to the show was unabashedly positive from long-time fans and first-time listeners. A terrific set", chimed New Century Bookings Mike McHugh. The band and the entire set were really tight." From the opening song, the story of Michael OBrien", the show combined the best elements of Ricks live performances -- emotional and moving vocals, danceable grooves and rhythms, and inspired improvisation. The show included a medley of songs by Marvin Gaye, and finished with a rousing version of Ride", with the audience singing along with Rick and the band.... (Continue reading)

Apogee Honors the Traditions of the Perm Ballet School with Twelve Excellence Awards and an International Exchange

The Apogee Foundation is providing three Excellence Awards to Ninel Danilovna Silvanovich and the top two students in her graduating class at the Perm State Ballet School. Ms. Silvanovich's historic teaching career at the Perm School spans more than 50 years, in the course of which she has incorporated and passed on the greatest traditions of ballet's "Russian School".

Ms. Silvanovich received her own training in St. Petersburg under some of the most celebrated instructors in history, including Agrappina Vaganova, who is credited with the invention of the "Russian School". She subsequently began her own teaching career under the direction of the Perm School's founder, Ekaterina Geidenreikh. During the ensuing half century, Ms. Silvanovich has preserved and passed on the greatness of these traditions to hundreds of students and instructors in Perm and throughout Russia.... (Continue reading)

CYH Plastic Plating Continues to Serve in Global Markets

"Our integrated operation from material to finished products is highly effective and reliable," Cherng Yi Hsing General Manager Yen Ching, Wang said. Having a long-term partnership with Tong Yang Industry Co.,Ltd., one of biggest vehicle b68 parts manufacturers in Taiwan, on plastic chrome plating, CYH has built its great reputation and earned customers' trust in terms of high quality production and on-time delivery. To extend its reach of business, CYH will take part in international trade shows to seek more opportunities and will attend the SEMA trade show on October 30th in Las Veges.... (Continue reading)

New Free Educational Web Site, RealEstateInvestmentTv.com, is the Easiest-to-Use Real Estate Learning Tool On the Internet

The number-one source of anxiety for most people today is achieving and maintaining financial security. Nationally acclaimed Real Estate Investment Educator Sandy Shaud’s new free web site, http://www.RealEstateInvestmentTv.com, now educates individuals nationwide on the topic of increasing their net worth through real estate including how to traverse loans, mortgage brokers, buying commercial properties, attorney reviews, contingencies, home inspections, real estate finance, real estate agents, marketing, residential listings, foreclosures, and much more. The new e-zine is distinguished from its competitors by the fact it makes real estate investing easy to understand for everyone by:... (Continue reading)

Holiday Equity Does The Math On Search Engine Gaffe

A recent and well-publicized release of user search terms by AOL has been gleaned of its valuable information for resort developers and marketers. David Skinner, president of Holiday Equity, stated, "The list was floating around the Internet if you knew where to look. Because the data doesn’t reveal private information and is publicly available, we decided to do the math."

"The stunning results build upon our T.I.G.E.R. Strategy, and will prove a goldmine for Holiday’s resort partners," said Skinner. "The file contains 19 million queries, though only a small percentage is directed to travel and timeshare. That still leaves a few million to sift through." The T.I.G.E.R. Strategy is Holiday’s integrated approach to Internet marketing for the timeshare industry. "Coincidentally," Skinner added, "we are responding to demand and releasing T.I.G.E.R. on the Internet in streaming media format." Resort developers and timeshare marketing companies can access the video at http://meetholiday.com/tiger/.

About Holiday Equity: A subsidiary of the Seattle-based Holiday Group, Holiday Equity has been serving timeshare owners and resort developers around the world since 1992. For more information about Holiday Equity, the "Trade-In & Trade-Up" company, please contact Holiday's Director of Resort Services, Rick Fernandez, at 1-800-704-0307 ext. 1198, or visit www.meetholiday.com.... (Continue reading)

TubeMogul Secures Seed Investment from NetService Ventures

TubeMogul, the online video analytics and distribution company, today announced that it has received seed funding from NetService Ventures Group. The funds will be used to advance TubeMogul's rapid growth, expand business development and marketing efforts, and accelerate development of new services for its subscribers.

Founded in 2006 by online video buffs who met while in graduate school at UC Berkeley, TubeMogul's objective from the start has been to empower online video creators, advertisers and the online video industry by providing publishing tools and insightful, easy to interpret analytics.

TubeMogul's services are used by video creators who are sick of wasting hours uploading their work one-by-one, and then tracking each video's performance individually. With TubeMogul, video creators, advertisers and marketers upload videos once and TubeMogul deploys them to as many of the top video sharing sites the creators chooses. TubeMogul's integrated analytics then provide a single source of metrics on where, when, and how often the videos are viewed.... (Continue reading)

Home Mortgage Defaults on the Rise; National Foreclosure Centers Created to Educate and Assist Home Owners

According to RealtyTrac, an industry organization that maintains a nationwide database of foreclosures, home mortgage defaults between January and March of this year numbered 323,102 compared with 188,122 during the same period last year - an increase of 72 percent. With Americans in nearly every income bracket being forced into foreclosure, banking, finance and credit expert, Eric Turner created National Foreclosure Centers.

National Foreclosure Centers has experience in working with lenders and their agents in an effort to avoid foreclosure. The team consists of talented, educated, professional personnel who are dedicated to assisting home owners nation-wide. As the nation's housing bubble deflates, National Foreclosure Centers seeks to help consumers who are unable to pay their home mortgage.... (Continue reading)

E-Provisioning: Sapien Revolutionizes the HRMS and HCM Industry with Self-Provisioning Service

What Henry Ford achieved with the assembly line and the Model T, Sapien will repeat with "E-Provisioning" HRMS and HCM with Sapien.HRMS and Sapien.HCM services. Just like the assembly line made it practical to create automobiles that were low cost/high quality and offer them to everyone at a reasonable price so will E-Provisioning allow Sapien to achieve the same results by bringing enterprise quality HRMS and HCM services to a vastly underserved mid-market.

Sapien introduces self-provisioning tools for HRMS & HCM using the Sapien.HRMS and Sapien.HCM Editions. The E-Provisioning tools, as Sapien has coined the term for HRMS and HCM, will allow companies with less than 500 employees to E-Provision their HRMS and HCM needs with little, if any, intervention from Sapien. Following a simple customer questionnaire, E-Provisioning will create a trial site with customer data, security, and roles; existing robust configuration tools are available for the customer to address workflow, branding, reporting, setup, etc. An E-Commerce and Trial site engine will allow customers to choose from a variety of flexible and economical payment options based on the size of their organization. For customers beyond 500 employees, E-Provisioning will enable rapid and less expensive services for HRMS and/or integrated HCM - Sapien already offers the least expensive and fastest ROI service in

the industry and typically, there are no up-front or capital expenses for either HRMS or HCM.... (Continue reading)

REI Begins Strategic Expansion Adventure with geoVues Site Selection Software

geoVue, a leading provider of site selection software, market optimization and other location intelligence solutions for retail, franchise, real estate and other chain operations, announces their recent licensing agreement with Recreational Equipment, Inc. (REI), a national retail cooperative selling quality outdoor gear and clothing. REI is currently using geoVues iSITE and iPREDICT solutions to analyze and map potential sites, generate custom demographic reports, and evaluate the sales potential of prospective new store locations.... (Continue reading)

Primary Care Trust Backs Down Over Decision Not To Provide Life Saving Drug to Single Mother

Single mother of four Elaine Barber (41) has today won her fight to be given the drug Herceptin by her local health authority, North Stoke PCT. This comes just one day after the PCT had refused her the drug for the second time, a decision which had seen Ms Barbour's lawyer's Irwin Mitchell threaten to proceed with the legal action lodged in the High Court for her right to be given the drug.

The legal case and North Stoke PCT's decision also saw them drawn into conflict with the Health Secretary Patricia Hewitt who said that their ruling conflicted with decisions made by other Trusts, and had requested a meeting with the PCT today.... (Continue reading)

BreatheAudio's New Website Has Landed

BreatheAudio is pleased and excited to direct you to its newly created consumer website. After several months in development, the company believes that this website is an excellent tool for the novice consumer who may be experiencing whole home audio for the first time. It pays a great deal of attention to educating the user on the full gamut of functionality of the system and clearly expresses how it will work in their home. It also is an informative resource for those wanting to learn more about what BreatheAudio has to offer in affordable, advanced home audio systems.... (Continue reading)

Online Poker Tournament Takes NBC'S Heads-Up Challenge to the Next Level

On the heels of NBC's National Heads-Up Poker Challenge, UltimateBet, http://www.ultimatebet.com, one of the world's largest internet poker sites, is bringing a new head-to-head online poker tournament to the table. It's called the Ultimate Heads Up Challenge. It features a $128,000 prize pool. It features some of poker's biggest names. And if you play your cards right, it will feature you.

Phil Hellmuth, a past champion of NBC's National Heads-Up Poker Challenge, will take a seat in UltimateBet's online poker tournament. Also seated in the event will be poker celebrities Annie Duke, Mark Seif and "The Grinder." UltimateBet is opening up 60 spots for online qualifying players and players can win their $2,000 seat in the tournament online. The Ultimate Heads Up Challenge is broken into brackets with a single elimination basketball style format. If the online poker player wins a match they will advance with the best of six to be named champion.... (Continue reading)

Spectacular Sedona Hosts Life Transforming Workshop

An ancient practice is enjoying a renaissance in Western culture. Feng Shui (pronounced "fung schway") has its roots in Chinese culture and has been used for centuries by people seeking to improve their lives through the use of color, materials and object placement in order to invite positive energy, or "Chi" into their homes and workplaces.

"In Feng Shui, the primary goal is to create an optimal flow of energy, which will improve all aspects of one's life - relationships, finances, health and career," says Linda Binns, internationally renowned Feng Shui practitioner, author and founder of the Feng Shui Success Institute based in Boise, Idaho. "More and more people are discovering how powerful these principles can be in bringing about real changes."... (Continue reading)

Bailleaux Enters 20th Year at 1st National Reserve

1st National Reserve announces the anniversary of Sheila Bailleaux's twentieth year as Office Manager. From its early days as a small company, Bailleaux has been taking care of customer service, billing, and meeting a myriad of managerial challenges head-on. She has played an instrumental role in the company's growth, and an even larger role when the company decided to move to their new location to accommodate its spiraling growth. "I started working here when 1st National Reserve was only a small operation on Harrison St. in Beaumont, TX. I have been delighted with the growth and modernization 1st National Reserve has undergone. My job has been exciting and very f E98 ulfilling realizing the success my company has achieved. It is fun knowing you have some power in helping others have a better life," Bailleaux said. Her contribution to the company has been so great that she is among an elite group of only two employees that have receive their "Employee of the year" award.... (Continue reading)

High Satisfaction Marks Suggest Anesthesia Administered During Office-Based Procedures Provides a More Tranquil and Enjoyable Experience for Patients

A recent survey completed by Somnia, shows an all-time high in patient satisfaction of office-based and ambulatory anesthesia services. In fact, 99% of patients who responded indicated their anesthesia expectations were fully met. In comparing these results to similar hospital or surgery center-based surveys, the office-based anesthesia satisfaction rates were the same, and in some cases better. Surgical and anesthesia care in the office-based setting is often associated with a more convenient, familiar and emotionally comfortable experience, albeit with fewer medical resources. These data suggest that patient satisfaction need not suffer in these less traditional surgical environments.... (Continue reading)

Coastal Vacations Director Dean Marino Named To Sales Center Training Team As The Largest Worldwide Marketer of The Firm's Travel Products Looks To Boost Sales

Coastal Vacations Director Dean Marino is the latest addition to the Sales Center training team. Marino brings over 25 years of sales management and sales training experience to the table.as the largest worldwide marketer of Coastal Vacations travel products looks to boost sales going into 2006. Marino is well known among the Coastal membership because of his far reaching marketing methods and his seemingly infectious enthusiasm. He has been hosting live, interactive Q&A conference calls for the Coastal Vacations Sales Center since August.... (Continue reading)

September 3rd, 2010