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New Book from Kids First Center Offers Solutions for Reducing Impact of Separation and Divorce on Children

The Kids First Center, a private non-profit organization focused on helping children and parents cope with the effects of separation and divorce, has just published a new book to help parents and professionals reduce the effects of divorce on children. "Kids First: What Kids Want Grown-Ups to Know About Separation and Divorce" is being heralded as a breakthrough tool for concerned parents and the professionals who work with divorcing families. "'Kids First' is an honest and practical guide to providing emotional and physical well-being to children whose world is rocked by divorce. This book is preventative medicine for all divorcing parents," says Christiane Northrup, MD, author of "Mother-Daughter Wisdom." Says Felicity Myers, family therapist and mediator, "I want to give a copy of 'Kids First' to each and every one of my clients. It will surely help lower inter-parental conflict and make life better for children affected by this issue."... (Continue reading)

Newslaugh Exclusive! North Korea And Iran Go Beyond Nuclear Blackmail to Nuclear Panhandling; Seek to Trade Threats of Oblivion for Alms

In this week’s free issue, NewsLaugh.com, The Sanely Funny Weekly Humor Magazine, reports that North Korea and Iran have gone beyond nuclear blackmail to outright nuclear panhandling, as they seek to trade threats of oblivion for alms. Then NewsLaugh indulges, with a not entirely charitable examination, this new and nettlesome version of “Brother, Can You Spare A Dime?”

The hilarious but pointed story is only one of the many ways readers can discover “Sanity Through Laughter” by going to NewsLaugh.com, created by humorist Tom Attea, which claims, “You can’t change the news but you can laugh at it.”... (Continue reading)

A Night of Christian Comedy Featuring Chocolate, Sean Sarvis and Coy Lasone.

Maryland (PRWEB) October 1, 2004 - New Horizons proudly presents Christian comedians Chocolate, Sean Sarvis Coy Lasone at the New Horizon Christian Faith Outreach Center on Friday, October 8, 2004, 8pm, 2211 Varnum Street, Mount Rainier, MD 20712. Tickets are $10 in advance and $15 at the door, and can be purchased at Douglas Memorial United Methodist Church, 800 11th Street NE, Washington, DC or at www.BoxOfficeTickets.com 800.494.TIXS (8497).

Born Chinnitta Morris, Chocolate acquired her stage name because she was most remembered for telling jokes about her chocolate or dark-skinned" complexion. Her professional career began in 1990. During most of the first decade of her career she appeared in secular markets until 1998, when she committed her life and her career to God. She has brought new life to the arena of Christian comedy, and has quickly found her place at the top of the Christian entertainment industry.... (Continue reading)

3 Adds Up to 14 at the ADDYs: Six-month-old Albuquerque Agency/Design Firm Earns 14 Gold and Silver ADDYs at New Mexico Advertising Federation's 2005 ADDY Awards

3, Albuquerque’s newest full-service ad agency/design firm, earned six gold and eight silver ADDY awards at this year’s statewide award show, earning the third-highest amount of gold ADDYs behind agencies Rick Johnson & Company and McKee Wallwork Cleveland. Work created during 2005 was eligible for judging; 3 had been open for only the last four months of last year.

In addition, two of 3’s partners, Sam Maclay and Tim McGrath, were Best of Show recipients for a United Blood Services campaign they helped create while at Rick Johnson & Company, their previous employer. It was Maclay’s fifth Best of Show award in a row as a creative director and the third Best of Show award for McGrath and Maclay as a creative team. The Best of Show award is the ADDYs’ top honor.... (Continue reading)

AGORACOM Investor Relations Declares "E-Mail Promotion Is Dead" At PIPEs Conference In New York

AGORACOM Investor Relations (http://www.agoracom.com) today announced its investor relations sponsorship and key note presentation at the 4th Annual PIPEs Conference 2006 being held in New York City at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel on November 7 and 8, 2006.

During his key note speach, George Tsiolis, President of AGORACOM will declare the death of e-mail promotions and demonstrate how small-cap companies can run great investor relations campaigns in a Web 2.0 world.

Mr. Tsiolis will discuss the evolution of Web 2.0 and the credible, valuable and cost-efficient ways for small-cap companies to reach investors faster and better than ever before. Specific topics will include:... (Continue reading)

Coolness Has Finally Been Decoded for Online Shopping Fun in a New Website for Product Research

Finally, someone has found a mathematical formula for determining what makes something cool. 99CoolPoints.com is a new website designed to make finding the coolest products more fun than ever before. The website analyzes millions of pieces of data about product sales volumes, consumer product reviews and product buzz. Using all of this information, the website calculates a single number for each product and declares it as that product's cool points number. This number is further customized for each visitor to the website based upon their product research preferences.... (Continue reading)

ABC Copywriting Unveils New Website

ABC Copywriting, the independent copywriting agency based in Norwich, UK, has created a new site providing full details of its writing and editing services.

"Previously, ABC positioned itself as a full-service marketing agency," explains founder and principal consultant Tom Albrighton. "But since most clients turn to us for copywriting, we thought it made sense to market ourselves that way."

ABC serves a diverse range of clients, and the new site includes sections aimed at each sector: marketing, online/SEO, academics, publishers and agencies. "We believe our versatility is a real strength," comments Tom. "Because we work with so many different types of organisation, we're in a good position to offer new ideas and fresh perspectives."... (Continue reading)

BUSINESS DESIGN CORPORATION Announces the Acquisition of Business Freedom Partners, LLC.

This week BUSINESS DESIGN CORPORATION, a maker of online business management software, has announced its recent acquisition of Business Freedom Partners, LLC. For the last 12 years, Business Freedom has done business consulting across the United States, as well as Canada, Australia and the UK, using Michael Gerber’s E-Myth principles. All Business Freedom consultants have been fully certified as E-Myth Consultants by Gerber’s company, E-Myth Worldwide.

Business Design Corporation’s acquisition of Business Freedom Partners joins two important business programs into one comprehensive business-building tool for owners and entrepreneurs. BDC can now offer its clients The E-Myth Mastery Program, a world-famous business educational course with the all knowledge necessary to build a fully systemized business, together with BDC’s own TOUCHSTONE Online Business System™, its new online business process systemization and workflow management tool.... (Continue reading)

Wat Tyler Promoted to Vice President Sales, East Region for SAVO

SAVO, the award winning provider of on-demand Sales Enablement solutions, has announced the promotion of Wat Tyler to the position of Vice President of Sales for the Eastern Region.

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Tyler joined SAVO in 2006 after spending more than five years working for Open Ratings, an early stage supply management solution provider that was eventually acquired by Dun & Bradstreet. In his time with the company, Tyler held numerous titles from Sales Engineer to Manager of Midsize Accounts, eventually departing the company as the top performing Major Account Executive in 2005. Further, Mr. Tyler successfully built a lead generation team that directly impacted 90% of the company's total business.... (Continue reading)

TrialPay Unveils New Purchase Incentive Platform, Reaches Milestone of 30 Million Users

In just two and a half years, TrialPay's Get It Free solution has helped more than 7,500 premier sites increase sales by providing 30 million online shoppers compelling ways to pay. Now TrialPay is expanding its payment and promotions solutions to include a Purchase Incentive Platform, which lets online sellers optimize conversions and boost Average Order Value (AOV) while reducing promotional costs, like deep discounts and free shipping.

"TrialPay emerged in 2006 as a trendsetter in the alternative payments space, but our business has since evolved to introduce compelling, cost-effective promotions that increase the probability of conversion and maximize the profit of each transaction for any online seller," said Alex Rampell, TrialPay's CEO. "In this economy, online marketers need to get creative to boost sales and reduce costs. TrialPay's purchase incentives have already helped Kmart, Lavasoft and many more name-brand companies increase conversions while lowering overhead."... (Continue reading)

XingHuo College of Oriental Medicine Announces Open Enrollment for October and January Classes Leading to Master of Science Degree in Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine.

XingHuo College of Oriental Medicine Announces Open Enrollment for October and January Classes Leading to Master of Science Degree in Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine.

University of Complementary and Alternative Medicine and RainStar University of Scottsdale, Arizona, http://www.rainstaruniversity.com/ announce open enrollment availability for XingHuo College of Oriental Medicine Master of Science Degree Program. Classroom and clinic space is available for immediate enrollment. RainStar has won five Best Practices Awards from the Arizona Private School Association. They are well known for their College of Therapeutic Massage http://www.rainstaruniversity.com/html/college_overview.html and continue that tradition of excellence in the College of Oriental Medicine.... (Continue reading)

Does Homeschooling Work - Meet the 2005 Sonlight Scholarship Winners

Sonlight Curriculum, Ltd., a leading homeschool curriculum provider, has just awarded eight students $60,000 in college scholarships. The winners will each receive a four-year college scholarship, ranging from $4,000 to $20,000 total, to fund their attendance at the colleges of their choice. 15F

The scholarship winners' academic achievements include: an average SAT score of 1460; one perfect math score (800) and a near-perfect verbal score (790) on the SATs; a near-perfect ACT score of 35 (out of 36), with perfect scores in the Reading and Science Reasoning sections; and a perfect score of 5 on the Advanced Placement Physics exam. 227... (Continue reading)

Finally, the Convergence of File Transfer and Email; BeeMail Enables Any Email Client to Securely, Attach Very Large Files.

In the chaos of clunky ftp utilities and confusing collaboration applications, Beehive Software has brought Order by merging secure file transfer with ANY email system. Beehive Softwares new BeeMail products transform your current email package into an industrial strength File Courier.

There has always been a desire to use email for sending files. Email is easy to use and email is nearly universal. Unfortunately, in the past, email was not suitable for this purpose because it could not handle the transfer of large files efficiently or reliably. BeeMail changes everything. Running in the background, BeeMail turbo-charges file transfers for ANY email system. BeeMail speeds the transfer with On-the-Fly" streaming compression, BeeMail secures the transmission with the Https-SSL secure protocol and BeeMail provides new control to the recipient who now can determine when they want to download the attachment. Above all else - BeeMail is simple, in fact, it is completely transparent to your current email application.... (Continue reading)

Nature’s Accent, Inc. Offers Renewable Energy at Fossil Fuel Prices

Nature’s Accent, Inc., a wholesale generator of renewable energy announced today a proposal to the New Mexico PRC for low-cost renewable energy at fossil fuel prices.

Highlights of the precedent setting proposal are:

Power priced at 4.8 cents per kilowatt at a fixed price for 30 years.

This price equates to power being discounted to 2.2 cents per Kilowatt over the term of the contract with inflation estimated at 2.5%

Guaranteed 100% deliverability

Guaranteed price matching of any renewable energy supplier over term of the contract

The proposal was made to all state & federal entities, wholesale buyers, public utilities, co-op electric utilities and, if legislated, to all buyers of electricity statewide.

“Nature’s Accent was created to address global warming, over crowded forests and bovine biomass waste issues”, said Allen Witters CEO of the Company. “Through ecologically managed forests, we will reduce the threat of catastrophic fires while increasing water production for the surrounding communities. By using dairy and feed lot waste, we remediate a large ecological problem and create low cost energy. New Mexico has tremendous natural energy resources that can be turned into large scale renewable energy generation. We can compete directly with coal, gas and nuclear systems and beat them on price, global ethics and uptime,” he said.... (Continue reading)

CFO Conferences Announces Speaker Roster for Upcoming Technology Summit

CFO Conferences has announced the preliminary speaker lineup for its 2008 CFO Technology Summit, an event for corporate finance executives. The conference will be held September 7-9, 2008, at the Grand Hyatt in San Francisco.

"CFOs know they have to continue to invest in technology, but accomplishing that wisely has been a persistent challenge," said Julia Homer, SVP and Chief Content Officer at The CFO Group, which includes CFO magazine, CFO Conferences, and CFO.com. "An uncertain economy is now adding another variable. Our aim with this conference is to showcase companies that have done it well, and also to hear from academics and other strategists who can discuss the most innovative current thinking about how to integrate technology into a company's strategy."... (Continue reading)

Conservation International Announces Partnership with Toyota to Protect Philippines’ Rain Forests

Conservation International (CI) today announced a partnership with Toyota to support efforts to restore and protect more than 4,000 acres of the Philippines’ Peñablanca Protected Landscape and Seascape (PPLS), located in the Northeastern part of one of the nation’s main islands. In addition to protecting the forests, local communities will receive additional benefits from agroforestry projects under the three-year agreement.

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Restoring a forest to its primeval power of sustaining biodiversity, while at the same time tailoring the restoration to satisfy human needs, requires the cooperation of all stakeholders

The site was chosen to launch the partnership between CI and Toyota because it will support efforts to link the PPLS with the adjacent Northern Sierra Madre Natural Park. Additionally, the on-the-ground work will demonstrate how forest protection efforts benefit both biodiversity and community development.... (Continue reading)

Santa's Belly Goes Digital -- New Line of Digital-Photo-Viewers Shaped Like Holiday Characters and Hang As Ornaments from the Christmas Tree

Media Street's award-winning line of eMotion Digital Photo Frames just got a whole lot cuter and dressed up for the holidays. You have never quite met a Santa, Snowman and Penguin quite like these before. Introducing the new line of eMotion Digital Photo-Viewer Holiday Character Ornaments that have a 1.5" LCD screen perfectly snuggled and situated in the belly of each of these cute holiday characters.

Enjoy your holiday photos immediately as you hang them on your tree for all to see.

1.5" TFT LCD Screen

Automatic Photo Slide show

Decorative Cheerful Holiday Character(s) that hang from your tree

Auto On/Off Timer

Built-in storage holds 67 of your digital photos

Software converts photos to perfect compression, size and format

USB 2.0 connectivity

Power: 2 x AAA Batteries

Includes:

USB Cable

Instruction Guide

Photo Viewer Software (PC)

2 - AAA Batteries

Access to thousands of FREE professional photos and art at http://MyDigitalContent.com... (Continue reading)

Mingoville Uses Social Media to Help Kids Learn English in New Virtual World

Picture this. Eight year old Juan sits in front of the computer in the Internet café near his home in Bogotá, Columbia. He concentrates deeply as he records his first song in English. The sound must be perfect and the pronunciation correct, because he invited his cyber friends to his concert later. On the other side of the world in Luxor in Egypt, six year old Mustafa logs into Mingoville World from his dad's computer in the corner of the living room. Excited, he prepares for the concert he'll attend with his friend Juan, knowing afterwards they will chill out, talk, and drink seawater in the Mingoville café. ... (Continue reading)

Every Man's Battle Workshop Comes to Cincinnati

New Life Ministries, a nationally syndicated Christian radio and counseling ministry which offers a variety of programs aimed at spiritual transformation, is bringing its best-known men's program to the Cincinnati area, February 2 - 6, 2005. The Every Man's Battle Workshop, which grew out of an overwhelming interest in the release of the book, "Every Man's Battle," by Stephen Arterburn and Fred Stoeker, is a comprehensive five-day program for men struggling with sexual integrity. Whether a man's struggle centers around pornography, affairs, or other sexual temptations, this seminar will equip him with the tools to achieve victory in this battle. The program is Christ-centered and uses a combination of teaching sessions and small group interaction, all led by licensed Christian counselors.... (Continue reading)

The Holiday Survival Guide When Lice Come to Visit

The holiday season is usually frantic. The, but the holiday season with head lice is horrific. The age old problem of head lice doesnt take a break to celebrate the holidays, as a matter of fact, it is quite the opposite. So if you find yourself searching for the perfect way to rid your family of head lice while you search for the perfect gifts, you are not alone. More than four million U.S. kids could will contract head lice this year based on the national statistics., There could be 400,000 cases in Los Angeles County alone.... (Continue reading)

September 3rd, 2010