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Winning Minneapolis Songwriter Profits From Independence

Tim Mahoney's latest victory in the 2008 Great Lakes Songwriting Contest is further proof that he's doing just fine, thank you, without a record deal.

The Minneapolis songwriter-performer won the Grand Prize in the contest for "Theme Song," an original composition from his 2007 recording, "Stay/Leave." As well as about $3000 in prizes, he won the headliner spot at the contest's annual Winners' Concert, scheduled for Feb. 7, 2009, at the Trinity House Theatre, a premier Detroit-area concert venue.... (Continue reading)

TimeclockOnline.com Solves Old Problems in New Ways

TimeclockOnline.com released version 2 of it's popular online timekeeping software today. This software is used by various companies to record time of both hourly and project (exempt) employees for the purposes of preparing for payroll and customer billing.

TimeclockOnline.com offers employers an alternative to paper punch cards and time sheets. "The web site is so easy to use, some customers have actually left larger companies like ADP for simple online interface offered by our software," said company president Joel Slatis. "We're very excited about the opportunity to complete with the large, disorganized companies whose focus is more on payroll than time keeping."... (Continue reading)

New Website Launches Offering Free Classified Ads in the San Francisco Bay Area

A new Internet site, FreeSFAds.com, has launched today offering San Francisco Bay Area residents a free and easy destination to post ads. The site can be visited by going online at http://www.freesfads.com.

Residents of the Bay Area can post ads in a variety of categories including jobs, real estate, business services, freelance gigs, items for sale and community notices.

Finding or renting real estate is a major and expensive task in San Francisco. If you're looking to rent an apartment or sell a house in the area, you can post a listing free of charge. This applies to agents, brokers or owners.... (Continue reading)

iWeb Announces $22M Financing Agreement With Goldman Sachs

iWeb Group Inc. (TSX.V : IWB, "iWeb" or the "Company") a worldwide provider of Internet hosting services and IT infrastructure, and Goldman Sachs Credit Partners L.P. ("Goldman Sachs") today announced a $22M financing agreement.

iWeb - Internet hosting and IT infrastructure

"With this agreement, Goldman Sachs will provide financing to allow us to further our business objectives." declared Eric Chouinard, iWeb Chief Executive Officer. "A deal of this magnitude will allow us to continue investing in the infrastructures which are vital to maintaining our growth, which has been outstanding thus far. " added Marc Guindon, Vice-President and Chief Financial Officer.... (Continue reading)

New Free Publication Provides Inspiration, Motivation and Profits.

Looking for some inspiration? Or, how about some solid tips and tricks for starting your own business? Maybe youd like to improve your performance at work. Or, perhaps youre looking for some general tips for saving money and making your life better overall. All of this and more is available free of charge, once a week, thanks to Mind Gold News, a new "E-zine" published and distributed electronically via the Internet. Now available courtesy of H & H Enterprise, anyone who wishes to subscribe can do so by visiting http://rep.mindgold.com/502879/mgn_ezine_signup.php... (Continue reading)

Sutherland Wins Six Sigma Contest for Global IT and ITeS Companies

The Indian Statistical Institute, in association with the Quality Council of India (QCI) and the National Institution for Quality & Reliability (NIQR) recently named Sutherland Global Services the 2007 All India Six Sigma Contest winner for Information Technology and IT enabled services companies. The objective of the competition was to promote quality awareness, share best practices across different industries and reward the best performers. Six Sigma is a measure of quality that strives for near perfection and is a disciplined, data driven approach and methodology for eliminating defects in any process. Sutherland has consistently carried out continuous improvement across the globe using the Six Sigma framework in association with business process outsourcing contracts for major US and European companies.... (Continue reading)

Culinary Gardens Launches the First Online Gourmet Produce Market, CulinaryGardens.com

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Culinary Gardens Online Gourmet Produce Market

San Diego, CA August 28, 2007 -- Culinary Gardens has opened the first full service, online gourmet produce market for the gourmet Chef at CulinaryGardens.com. It is a complete online marketplace that is updated daily with all the freshest gourmet produce available from farms and processors spread across California and the West Coast.

There are hundreds of garden-fresh items that are packaged and priced in wholesale quantities for the Commercial Gourmet Chef. For ease of shopping, the market is divided into mu 1f40 ltiple categories: gourmet vegetables, fresh herbs, baby vegetables, micro greens and sprouts, gourmet fruit, fresh peppers, artichokes, fresh mushrooms, dried mushrooms, edible blossoms, baby lettuce and greens, peeled and hand turned items, and other gourmet goods.... (Continue reading)

EstatePlanningSpecialist.com to be Auctioned off in San Francisco

www.EstatePlanningSpecialist.com and www.EstatePlanningSpecialists.com are going to the auction block on Monday, April 21 at the Domain Roundtable Conference in San Francisco. This is a rare opportunity to acquire one of the top brandable names in the Estate Planning.

Many attorneys and law firms are waking up to internet marketing and how a memorable, brandable domain name can make it easier to market their services. There are many listings on the web that claim to specialize in estate planning. This is a chance for an individual or firm to dominate that space by benefiting from the power and the reach of the internet along with a accurate web name.... (Continue reading)

Shoreline Reports Increase in U.S. Second Home Buyers

According to a study by the National Association of Realtors, nearly 40 percent of all recent home purchases were second home investments.

Shoreline Oceanfront Real Estate

With the recent slump in United States real estate, many second homebuyers are looking for better values in international markets such as Grand Bahama real estate.

One community, Shoreline on Grand Bahama Island, has 64 happy homeowners and just 12 more homes left to sell. Grand Bahama real estate has quickly become a favorite for second home buyers looking for premier oceanfront property.... (Continue reading)

French Player's Straight Flush Brings Him $100,000 Prize at Titan Poker

French poker player Remy Elkoubi, from Marseille, France, hit a Straight Flush that gave him a $100,000 Jackpot Prize at popular online poker room Titan Poker. Elkoubi won six consecutive Fort Knox Jackpot Sit 'n' Go tournaments to qualify for the huge prize.

Elkoubi (nickname BENNYKING) had been playing at Titan Poker for less than a year when he won the Fort Knox Jackpot Prize.

"I had tried to win this Jackpot a few times, but I never had any success until this beautiful day," he said. "I will remember this day for all of my life. I can barely recall the final game as I was under so much pressure -- but I remember the last hand. I won the Jackpot with the most beautiful hand -- a Straight Flush. A Straight Flush that earned me $100,000! I never believed that I could win this prize but the reality was different, the Fort Knox fortress is not untouchable. Thank you Titan Poker!"... (Continue reading)

MoneyToys: Calculators for Real Estate Websites

MoneyToys(tm), a growing collection of calculators for real estate web sites, has been expanded with the addition of a new Biweekly Payment Calculator.

With a few lines of HTML and MoneyToys, real estate webmasters can quickly install online financial calculators allowing their visitors to do financial math on their real estate web site.

Real estate webmasters can configure MoneyToys website calculators to match their web site's colors. In addition, the initial values of these web site calculators can be configured to meet the needs of a particular web site's market.... (Continue reading)

Quantum Develops Artificial Intelligence Tutoring Software for Accounting

Quantum Simulations, Inc., a developer of artificial intelligence (AI) tutoring, assessment and professional development software announced the field testing of a new generation of artificial intelligence tutoring software for accounting.

Available in the Spring of 2008, the Quantum Tutors for Accounting provide unlimited, real-time tutoring and homework help over the Internet for students taking principles, financial and managerial accounting courses. In collaboration with accounting professors nationwide who ranked the most essential and critical topics for accounting, the Quantum Tutors focus on the Accounting Cycle and include Transaction Analysis, Adjusting Entries and Financial Statement Preparation with more topics in development.... (Continue reading)

Wildcard--Mass Infertility

Men's sperm counts appear to be declining in some places around the world. If the drop proves real--and persists--it could become a significant discontinuity with disruptions ranging from shifts in male-female dynamics to widespread population declines, explains senior analyst Kristin Nauth in a recent report by the Washington DC-based futurist research and consulting firm Social Technologies.

"A British survey suggested 10% of men in the UK may suffer from low sperm counts, and in Australia, reports indicate one in 20 men is infertile. France, Denmark, and Germany have also found declines in sperm density," she reports.... (Continue reading)

Search Engine Strategies and Market Motive Partner to Provide Search Engine Marketing Training

Internet marketing training provider Market Motive has teamed with Search Engine Strategies to provide online classes for training in search marketing, web analytics, and web conversion techniques.

Search Engine Strategies and Market Motive Team to Provide Search Marketing Workshops

The workshops are live and interactive, delivered via video screen sharing and live telephone conference. Limited class sizes ensure attendees have time to ask for clarification or deeper explanations. Tuition for each class is $395 and registration opens today at http://www.marketmotive.com/online-workshops... (Continue reading)

Gibson Custom and ZZ Top's Billy Gibbons Create the Limited Edition Billy Gibbons 'Pearly Gates' Les Paul Standard

Gibson Custom announced a guitar fit for every sharp dressed man, the Billy Gibbons Pearly Gates Limited Edition Les Paul Standard. And now you can own it. Billy Gibbons' favorite axe has always been his beloved Pearly Gates - a rare 1959 Gibson Les Paul Standard with legendary angelic qualities. It has appeared on every track of every ZZ Top album to date, and sings with a "God-like voice" unlike any other guitar. And now, the master craftsmen at Gibson Custom have recreated it in excruciating detail - right down to the last scratch and ding. Gibbons' legendary Pearly Gates - a rare 1959 Gibson Les Paul Standard - is like no other guitar in the world. The Gibson Custom Shop and Billy Gibbons himself took painstaking steps to make sure the replica of this sacred instrument is true to its every form. There are three different models, all in very limited quantities.... (Continue reading)

Fiscal Crisis Will Cut $30 Billion From State & Local It Spending Over Next Five Years

The current fiscal crisis in the states and localities will trim $30 billion in cumulative IT spending over the next five years, according to a recent report by INPUT. This will come as states and localities try to come up with approximately $250 billion in new revenue and spending cuts to align their budgets to the levels that preceded the real estate boom of 2003-07. The compound annual growth rate (CAGR) for the state and local IT market has been reduced to 4.3% from the 6.4% announced by INPUT in its June 2008 forecast.... (Continue reading)

Binge Drinking On the Rise Among Youth, Warns Alcohol Addiction Counselor

In the UK, binge drinking is fast becoming an epidemic among young people. Pubs and clubs are allowed to remain open 24 hours as young people gather for the exclusive purpose of getting drunk. Crime rates and destruction of self and family are on the rise.

Phil Collins, a veteran alcohol addiction counsellor, offers a pathway out of the culture of binge drinking for young people before they become addicted to alcohol. Collins has developed a self-help booklet on how to reduce binge drinking. This booklet is based on his ten years experience with successfully treating alcohol addiction.... (Continue reading)

Hi-Tech Mosquito Protection Sought as West Nile Season Begins

As fears of a potential avian bird flu pandemic persist, many are also focused on the threat of mosquito-related illnesses such as West Nile virus, malaria and encephalitis. The month of May unofficially kicks off the 2006 mosquito season and officials are already predicting another active summer.

The mosquito repellent market, which topped $500 million in 2005, has seen significant scientific and technological advancements in recent years to help curb threats posed from the blood-seeking pests.... (Continue reading)

Learn to Buy and Sell on Ebay and Win a Free Laptop

In collaboration with the ed2go network of more than 1,500 of the top accredited colleges and universities across the United States, Canada, and Australia, www.learntobuyandsell.com/ kicked off a "Thanks A Million" campaign to celebrate the one millionth enrollment. Everyone who enrolls for the Learn to Buy and Sell Ebay course between now and February 2007 will be eligible to win a free laptop computer.

A new online course begins each month and runs for six weeks, with a two-week grace period at the end. Two lessons are released each week for the six-week duration of the course and costs as little as $119. Interested students can enroll online directly through www.learntobuyandsell.com/ or locate a school of their choice that is offering Learn to Buy and Sell on eBay in their area. A list of participating schools is available on the website; or simply call your local college or university for details.... (Continue reading)

Survival Kit Company Advises to Prepare for Natural Disaster, Terrorism, Hostile Countries

A survival kit in today’s uncertain times is not only smart but necessary, says Tom Sciacca, President of www.CampingSurvival.com, a company specializing in the sale of Meals Ready to Eat (MREs), water purification systems and other survival gear.

He adds that North Korea has declared in recent years that it has nuclear weapons and is willing to use them against the U.S. Iran, another unpredictable and potentially hostile country, could soon have nuclear weapons as well, and terrorism is on the rise with most of it directed at American citizens. Also, the frequency and magnitude of natural disaster events, such as hurricanes and tropical storms, has been particularly troublesome in recent years.... (Continue reading)

September 5th, 2010