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Shootsac to Unveil New Highly Anticipated Fabric Covers at PDN PhotoPlus Expo in New York City: October 23-25, 2008

Spanierman East Hampton Exhibits East End Artists: Carol Hunt, Darlene Charneco, Josh Dayton, Jonathan Thomas, Fulvio Massi, & Hans Van de Bovenkamp

Spanierman Gallery, LLC at East Hampton is pleased to announce the opening on September 25, 2008 of "East End Abstraction: Six Directions". Fostered by traditions of abstract painting on Long Island, the six artists in this exhibition seek to define personal aesthetic idioms within an abstract rubric, while drawing inspiration from their peers and historical sources.

Hans Van de Bovenkamp, "Sag Portal #6 Study", 2008 Bronze , 26 x 49 x 18 inches

Darlene Charneco begins with painterly surfaces on board, defines space and imagery using numerous hammered in nails, and adds additional paint and acrylic medium to her surfaces. Often her works "read" as pages or tablets, offering mysterious messages the meaning of which is hinted at while the viewer brings a personal interpretation into the equation.

Josh Dayton has integrated his early, expressive, abstract figurative works into a more simplified format. Large, overlapping shapes combine with gestural slashes of acrylic paint on a flat ground to create a sense of rhythm and tension within the picture plane, as though Matisse and Franz Kline were collaborating in the twenty-first century.

Carol Hunt relies on color and gesture to produce openly expressive paintings that find inspiration in nature, music, and world culture. Her canvas surfaces are often filled with bold strokes in dynamic interaction with intense color, usually revealing the presence of drawing moving in and out of the broad brushwork. Pastels and acrylic on paper works are sometimes presented in vignette form, as in the Daily Exorcism Series. Here, it is as though fleeting visual thoughts, experiences, and ideas were being jotted down to be analyzed for content at a later time--or taken "as is."

Fulvio Massi fills areas of canvases that are usually white by building his surfaces with a myriad of drawn, overlapping, curvilinear lines and somewhat spare areas of subtle color. It is the drawn line that dominates revealing suggestions of surrealist imagery, some more pronounced than others.

Jonathan Thomas seems to take his imagery from primitive iconography, creating sculptures that seem to stand as totemic sentinels. Presented in three or four sizes in height, with the same width and depth measurements, each is unique in design. The black acrylic on wood forms are embellished with pieces of rope and wood to give the impression of individual personages. Presented in a threesome, they could suggest a family; as a group such as a clan or village. The light painted canvas works in scroll form, with juxtaposed symbolic imagery made of wood and other materials, complement the form and mood of the works.

Hans Van de Bovenkamp works primarily in metal, usually welded bronze or aluminum. Flat planes are formed into three-dimensional curved shapes with concave and convex tops and sides. These are welded to other forms to create free-standing works, some of which serve as models for subsequent monumental outdoor pieces. His imagery is informed by cultural iconography, mythology, and philosophical concepts.... (Continue reading)

Dichroic Glass Art Contest Sponsored by Dichroic Coatings Industry Leader

Coatings By Sandberg, Inc. is sponsoring an annual contest using Dichroic Glass in an artistic or functional piece. We will be accepting photographs of art work and placing the winning photographs on our web site for the world to see what our faithful customers create with our quality Dichroic Glass Coatings.

1st place winner will receive a $500 gift certificate towards CBS Dichroic glass.

2nd place winner will receive a $250 gift certificate towards CBS Dichroic glass.

3rd place winner will receive a $100 gift certificate towards CBS Dichroic glass.

Runner-ups and honorable mention awards will also receive Dichroic Glass packs.... (Continue reading)

Home Business Magazine Increases Advertising through Mediabids.com

Home Business Magazine, The Home-Based Entrepreneur's Magazine, with a national circulation of 139,000 came across Mediabids while researching opportunities to increase display advertising sales. In Mediabids, they found the perfect sales solution.

"Mediabids has been a great company to work with! I know exactly what type of advertising their customers are looking for and the price they are willing to pay. It really makes my job easier," said Shann 2354 on Needham, Advertising Sales Manager, Home Business Magazine... (Continue reading)

KeyStone Learning Systems and Apress Announce Partnership

KeyStone Learning Systems (KeyStone™) and Apress® today announced a strategic partnership thereby uniting the worlds of technical publications and video-based training.

By bundling leading technical publications for Developers, KeyStone Learning Systems and Apress are empowering its developer community with the best programming, application and web development authors, instructors and technical experts that the world has to offer. The initial co-marketing partnership and bundle arrangement will be for KeyStone Learning Systems’ “Microsoft ADO.NET 2.0 Essentials” video-based training course and Apress’ “Pro ADO.NET 2.0,” authored and instructed by Microsoft MVP, Sahil Malik.... (Continue reading)

Shop Till You Drop with Macy’s and Minneapolis City Center Marriott

The Minneapolis City Center Marriott is offering shopping enthusiasts a chance to take advantage of the fourth-largest shopping destination in the country with its Macy’s Shopping Package.

Book the package special now through December 31 and receive a $25 gift card for use at Macy’s (formerly Marshall Field’s) and any of its 800 stores nationwide! This rate special is a perfect opportunity to forage the latest fall fashions and surround yourself in sophistication at a downtown Minneapolis hotel.... (Continue reading)

Beware: Vision Statements and Mission Statements Suck as Communications Tools

Articulating powerful ideas that resonate with buyers is a natural step in the process of getting tuned in, say the authors of Tuned In the new book about uncovering the extraordinary opportunities that lead to business breakthroughs. The powerful ideas, concepts, and phrases naturally flow from understanding buyers and their problems.

"Unfortunately, what we frequently see are egotistical mission statements and corporate vision messages developed in a vacuum," says David Meerman Scott, developer of the New Rules of Marketing seminar at Pragmatic Marketing and co-author of Tuned In. "These documents are developed based on what's important to the company, not what's important for buyers and therefore they are terrible for external communications. Companies that dream up this committee created junk are doing their buyers a great disservice."... (Continue reading)

Workshop Spills Game-Changing Secrets for Business Leaders to Follow through on Their Goals

Not enough time. Not enough energy. Too little support. The list of excuses cited by business leaders for leaving items untouched on their to-do lists goes on.

In the Dare to Engage Infusion Program, Anese Cavanaugh challenges busy business leaders to ditch limiting excuses and fully engage in reaching their goals - even those that have been stalled for years.

"Part of the success of this program is getting people out of their regular pattern of reacting to what happens to them instead of actively choosing what to spend their time on. Often just one day out of their routine helps them create major life and business changing shifts in their mindset, planning, and perspective," says Cavanaugh.... (Continue reading)

CORAL Teams Up with Leisure Pro to Save Coral Reefs

The Coral Reef Alliance (CORAL) has joined forces with Leisure Pro -- the Internet's largest scuba diving and snorkeling merchant--to raise awareness about the endangered state of our planet's coral reefs.

In observance of International Year of the Reef 2008, Leisure Pro is drawing on its extensive customer base to educate the public about reef destruction and the ways CORAL is working to protect coral reefs and the communities that depend on them.

To support this unprecedented partnership and CORAL's Take a Bite out of Fish Feeding campaign -- an effort launched in Hawaii to eliminate reef fish feeding -- Leisure Pro has agreed to stop selling fish food. The practice of feeding fish can have disastrous effects on coral reefs by altering predator-prey relationships and pushing delicate ecosystems out of balance. When people feed algae grazers like surgeonfish, the fish fill up on fish food and eat less algae, causing the algae to flourish and potentially smother the reef.... (Continue reading)

Blue Box Group and New Relic Deliver Integrated Solution Providing Rails Hosting and Application Management

Blue Box Group, a leader in Rails hosting and web management services, and New Relic, the leading provider of Ruby on Rails application performance management solutions, today announced the integration of New Relic's RPM™ Rails application performance management software with Box Panel, the management console for Blue Box customers. Blue Box customers can set up a free RPM Lite account and immediately begin to monitor their Rails applications running on the Blue Box service.

"We really like what the folks over at New Relic have to offer which is why we've integrated New Relic's monitoring into our Box Panel user interface," said Jesse Proudman, Blue Box CEO. "This integration and partnership gives our customers fast and easy access to the leading tool for Rails application performance. New Relic shares the same values as Blue Box. We both want to create a highly valuable, but affordable service and give our customers great support."... (Continue reading)

Swimming Pool Contractor Search Simplified with Repair-Home.com

Having an in-ground swimming pool installed involves dozens of critical, complex decisions for homeowners -- decisions that can make or break their enjoyment of the pool. Repair-Home.com, an online, interactive home repair resource, simplifies the process of finding a reputable swimming pool contractor by linking homeowners to top area contractors (http://www.repair-home.com/Pools).

"A swimming pool can greatly enhance your home's value and appeal, but it is important to find the right contractor for the job," said Allison Beatty, founder of RenovatorsPlace.com, a premier online home improvement resource. "Visit Repair-Home.com first and see how the contractor search feature can streamline the process."... (Continue reading)

ProfEssays Develops and Perfects New Custom Essays Writing Services

The new custom writing services include essay editing, proofreading, writing tips on academic styles (MLA, APA, Harvard, Chicago/Turabian ), rendering reference sources and conducting research projects. These services are aimed to solve the problems students and researchers face due to a lack of time, a large volume of tasks of higher priority, and proficiency in writing and research.

Essay writing help services have been introduced by www.ProfEssays.com to help students and researchers cope with various difficulties they fact when beginning research, accumulating related information and analyzing it, structuring and developing thesis etc. The company has been in writing services field for almost five years. It is headed by true pros of custom essay writing, academic research, proofreading and editing. The team of writers is structured into various departments according to the subjects they are proficient in. On the whole the team of ProfEssays is versed in completing custom essays, custom research papers, custom term papers, custom admission essays, custom academic papers, compositions, book reports and case studies.... (Continue reading)

ADAM Systems Completes Honda INPLUS Certification

ADAM Systems (www.adamdms.com) today announced the completion of their certification by American Honda Motor Co., Inc., for their new iN Plus Realtime integration with the ADAM dealer management system (DMS).

ADAM previously offered Honda and Acura dealers integration for Financial Statements, Parts Orders, Parts Returns, and Warranty Submissions. The new iN Plus Realtime Integration means information sent to Honda is processed immediately over a secure Internet connection. This eliminates multiple manual "processing" steps.... (Continue reading)

B4Playing Launches its Long Anticipated Affiliation Program

B4Playing announced today that its long anticipated affiliate program was launched. Affiliates can sign up to B4Playing affiliate website at http://affiliates.b4playing.com for registration into its pre-launch program.

For the first time, a player is associated with the affiliate for a life time. Once a player downloads the B4Playing client, it has an embedded link which associates it with the affiliate who drove the player to download the B4Playing free client. Any active account, with a new operator, opened by the player through the B4Playing client entitles the affiliate with commission.... (Continue reading)

CMPS Institute Responds to the Recent Fed Rate Cuts

The Fed lowered the Federal Funds rate from to 5.25% to 3% through a series of recent actions from September 18, 2007 through January 30, 2008.

Gibran Nicholas photo

"Most people are confused as to how the Fed rate cuts impact their mortgage," said Gibran Nicholas, Chairman of the CMPS Institute, an organization that certifies mortgage bankers and brokers. The Federal Funds Rate is the interest rate that banks charge each other for lending short term funds here in the United States and will have an immediate impact on two other rates that directly affect home owners and buyers:

Prime rate – Prime is set at 3% above of the Fed funds rate (6%) and is the base retail rate that banks use for home equity lines of credit and business loans. Therefore, if you have an adjustable rate home equity line of credit, your interest rate will go down as a result of the Fed’s actions.

LIBOR rate – The London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR) is the rate that banks charge each other for lending short term funds anywhere outside of the US, primarily in the London money markets. If you are a bank in need of short-term funds, you could borrow money from other banks in the US using the Fed funds rate, or you could borrow money from any bank in the world that deals in the money markets. Borrowing from the money markets is a more flexible option primarily because banks these days do business globally with many sources as opposed to doing business only in the US with limited sources. The London money market is the largest and most fluid of all other money markets, so LIBOR is the most accurate measure of banks’ borrowing costs available today. Therefore, LIBOR is used as the “index” or base rate on most adjustable rate mortgages in the United States. If your adjustable rate mortgage is tied to LIBOR, as most are, your rate will go down as a result of the Fed’s actions.

The Fed, LIBOR and Sub-prime:

“LIBOR was the primary index used on most sub-prime adjustable rate mortgages (ARMs)”, Nicholas said. “Therefore, after the fixed period expires and these interest rates adjust, the new interest rates and payments will be based on LIBOR.”... (Continue reading)

Eco-Friendly Ecover Receives High Marks From Consumer Reports

Ecover, Belgium-based manufacturers of ecological detergents and cleansing agents, has garnered high marks from product testers in the January 2008 issue of Consumer Reports. Ecover's Ecological Dishwashing Liquid ranked in the top eleventh percentile beating out several leading national brands.

Trusted by millions of consumers as the source to turn to for unbiased product rankings and comparisons, the independent, non-profit, Consumer Reports, has thrice scored Ecover dishwashing products in the top three for effective cleaning and the prevention of redeposit. In the January 2008 issue of Consumer Reports, the magazine applauds Ecover's performance and price point, ranking it a close second only to Dawn.... (Continue reading)

National Arbitration Forum Issues Decision on Rachel Ashwell Web Address

A National Arbitration Forum arbitrator ruled on November 22, 2004 that Shabby Chic, Inc. owned the legal rights to the website address rachelashwell.com in a dispute involving allegations of cybersquatting" and the right to control and use this address on the Internet.

Representatives of the well-known designer and author, Rachel Ashwell, filed the dispute September 27, 2004 with the Minneapolis-based National Arbitration Forum. Ashwells name is synonymous with the advent of shabby chic"; a style of interior design that made slip covers hip" again.... (Continue reading)

Business Network Consulting Ranked on Inc. 5000

Business Network Consulting, BNC, is proud to announce their inclusion in this years Inc. 5000, a ranking of the 5000 fastest growing privately held companies in America.

"We are so happy to hear we've made the list," Joe Kelly, President of BNC said when he heard the news. "We'd known we were being considered for our work in computer network security and computer consulting, but it's a real honor to actually be listed on the Inc. 5000."

The Inc. 5000 is an annual list of the top 5000 private companies in the US. The rankings are based on the percentage of increase in sales from the previous year by private companies that have been active for a minimum of 4 years. The results of the Inc. 5000 were released on August 27, with BNC being ranked 1584 out of 5000. An awards ceremony to celebrate those companies on the Inc. 5000 will be held from September 6th through the 8th in Chicago, IL.... (Continue reading)

Head Off the Pain

There are nearly 28 million headache sufferers in the United States 12 years or older. This means one in every four U.S. households has a migraine sufferer. More than half of these sufferers have never received a physician diagnosis and most are not receiving appropriate treatment, despite new and effective therapies designed specifically to treat the pain and symptoms of migraine. There have been no dramatic changes in the way physicians approach the treatment of migraine in the last ten years. Twenty-four percent of migraine sufferers report headaches so severe that they have sought emergency room care.... (Continue reading)

Barack Obama is Related to Brad Pitt? Mensa Genealogy Colloquium Helps Uncover Your Unknown Relatives

Last week, the news broke that Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie both have a familial connection to this year’s Democratic Presidential candidates, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. This news begs the question for many, “who could I be related to? And how do I find out?” Enter American Mensa’s upcoming Colloquium, Tracking Granny’s Granny: The Genealogy Quest, this September in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Mensa Education

 Hosted by the Mensa Education & Research Foundation, members of Mensa and non-members alike will gather at the Hilton Salt Lake City Center to learn various ways to define their family research goals, organize their research and share tricks and tactics to finding information about long-lost relatives and distant cousins. The Colloquium will take place on September 12-14 and will feature educational sessions guided by experts in the field of genealogy. Some of the topics include old photo research, ways to reconstruct the lives of distant relatives through research, helpful ways to use the Internet, and information about DNA research. Attendees will also be able to spend time at Salt Lake City’s historic Family History Library. Registration is open to the public. To learn more about the speakers and sessions at this event or to register, visit www.colloquium.us.mensa.org.... (Continue reading)

Shootsac to Unveil New Highly Anticipated Fabric Covers at PDN PhotoPlus Expo in New York City: October 23-25, 2008

Shootsac (http://www.shootsac.com), the first wearable lens bag designed as a stylish, versatile and practical accessory for both amateur and professional photographers, proudly announces the debut of its NEW FALL COLLECTION. These designer-inspired fabric covers instantly transform the look and feel of the basic black Shootsac as well as the hard working, gear-toting photographerswho enjoy them. The Fall Collection will make its public debut at the PDN PhotoPlus Expo (http://www.photoplusexpo.com) in New York City, to be held at Booth 2048 in the Jacob Javits Convention Center, from October 23-25, 2008. The NEW FALL COLLECTION includes: Regal, Lively, Hot, Nomad, Daredevil, Stylin', and Effervescent. These bold new colors and patterns successfully marry the hottest fall runway trends with the demands of professional studio and location shooters and style-conscious amateur photographers.... (Continue reading)

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