In his new book, Public Schools, Public Menace: How Public Schools Lie To Parents and Betray Our Children," author Joel Turtel shows how many public schools cripple childrens ability to read with the whole-language reading method and destroy childrens confidence in doing math by teaching new" or fuzzy" math. Kids also have to suffer through dumbed-down textbooks, a dumbed-down curriculum, and incompetent or mediocre teachers who are protected by tenure.
Turtel says, If parents value their childrens time, passion for learning, and future success in life, then they should consider taking their children out of public school, permanently. Parents do not have to settle for a third-rate, mind-numbing education for their children. They have quality, low-cost education alternatives they can use right now if they take their children out of public school."... (Continue reading)
James Bond, Sean Connery, Impersonator, Lookalike, John Allen, the man known to have "THE BEST JOB IN THE WORLD."
Appearing as James Bond all over the world for corporate parties, charity fundraiser, casino promotions, conventions, movies and special events. John Allen has appeared on "Jay Leno," won The Cloney Award two years in a row for Best Impersonation of a Legend, presented in Las Vegas by The International Guild for Celebrity Impersonators and Tribute Artists.Mr.Allen has worked along side of Sir Sean Connery as his stand-in,filmed a commercial for Samsung on a jumbo-jet in New Zealand , helped raised millions of dollars for charity at James Bond themed fundraising events.John feels acquiring the World's Most Famous car would add a lot of excitement to any of his James Bond appearances he would make. The Aston Martin DB5 used in the Bond thriller "Goldfinger" is to be auctioned off Jan 20th by RM Auctions in Arizona. If you see him coming watch out for oil slicks and machine gun fire. Mr Allen's Website is http://www.johnallen007.com.... (Continue reading)
How long before all European singles will be meeting thanks to Meetic?
Meetic, the European specialist site for online dating, is a frontrunner in the new social phenomenon of meeting people online. According to the latest data revealed by Nielsen NetRatings for the countries of Western Europe, Meetic is breaking all the quantative and qualitative records to date. Taking all countries into account, the evaluation institute reports more than 340 million pages visited on the meetic sites alone, thats 3 times more than the closest competitor site (ilove) in terms of the sheer quantity of pages visited.... (Continue reading)
What: The 28th Annual Harmony Festival
Where: The Sonoma County Fairgrounds, Santa Rosa, California
When: Friday, Saturday, and Sunday June 9th, 10th, 11th
Who: Friday- North Bay Music awards showcase featuring Bob Weir & Ratdog, Hot Buttered Rum, Sound Tribe Sector 9 (STS9), The Velvet Teen and others
Saturday-Cake, Ozomatli, Zero, Sound Tribe Sector 9, Hot Buttered Rum, DJ Logic, Uberzone
Sunday- Michael Franti & Spearhead, New Monsoon + Steve Kimock, Vernon Bush Gospel Brunch, plus dozens of other bands, performers and speakers all weekend long!... (Continue reading)
The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum http://www.baseballhalloffame.org has appointed UK-based web analytics agency WebtraffIQ http://www.webtraffiq.com, for website measurement and reporting.
After an initial trial in September 2003, WebtraffIQ have been appointed for one year, delivering web analytic services for full off and online marketing, website analysis and profiling.
Dan Holmes, Web Manager at The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum explains, Using the WebtraffIQ product and service will enable us to control off and online budgets more effectively, now we have even more information on the performance of our website. As a non-profit organisation it is crucial that we are able to clearly demonstrate effective return on investment [ROI, with the initiatives that we undertake.... (Continue reading)
Data-Tel Info Solutions (www.datatel-info.com), a leader in both Hosted and Premise-Based call center solutions, has announced their plans to offer the Transition Discount to growing clients who have outgrown their current hosted systems and are interested in installing a premise-based solution.
Many of Data-Tel's clients are feeling growing pains and making the change. Some of their clients have grown by as much as 300% since partnering with Data-Tel. Changing to a premise-based solution will support increasing growth and improve company infrastructure.... (Continue reading)
Open Source Innovation, a blog devoted to the practices of innovation, creating thinking, and collaboration, has been named one of "50 Maverick Minds" by Mavericks at Work. Authors Bill Taylor and Polly LaBarre have placed Open Source Innovation in a list of 50 innovators that includes such visionaries as Tom Peters, Mark Cuban and Fast Company Magazine.
Sandy Cormack, change facilitator and owner of the Open Source Innovation website, created the blog to help people learn to think like innovators. His blog places a wealth of information on innovation effectiveness, creative thinking techniques and innovation books/videos at the world's fingertips.... (Continue reading)
Skylarhaley, LP, a premium food and beverage manufacturer introduces its achievONE® (www.achievone.com) brand line-up with new packaging, new graphics and new flavors with even fewer calories of its award winning achievONE® high-protein nutritional beverages.
The achievONE brand is positioned as a delicious nutritional beverage that from its original line up is coffee based. The new tetra-packaging graphics are similar to the previous glass bottles with bold colorful labels that will be easily identified by consumers. achievONE will offer 6 amazing flavors - Cappuccino, Mocha Java, Vanilla Nut, Hazelnut Crème, Vanilla, and Chocolate. All of these products contain just 80 calories per serving, 15 grams of protein, 18 essential vitamins and minerals, 3 g of sugar, and 0 trans fats.... (Continue reading)
During these less than flush times, faucets are still leaking and toilets are still running from coast-to-coast. Cal Campbell of Calsplumbingonline.com and Wes Somoza of Click Productions Inc. saw the need for some old fashioned slapstick plumbing humor. The Plumbing Nightmare 1, 2 and 3 videos are hosted on YouTube. Search Cals Plumbing Online. The nightmare series is designed to make consumers laugh while spotlighting real life plumbing horror stories that make them cry. The three shorts parody the stereotypical in-home plumber visit. The hero is Cal Campbell a.k.a. Master Plumber of the Universe with his online video DIY plumbing tutorials.... (Continue reading)
NDX Forecast, LLC announces that, according to its forecast model, the broad market indices will turn down in the third quarter of 2004 and continue trending downward for a minimum of twelve months. The companys model has accurately forecast major market reversals since 1995. Forecast charts are available for viewing on http://www.ndxforecast.com.
NDX Forecast, LLC is unique in the market forecasting arena because it projects broad market direction and major turning points two years in advance. Developer and founder Gary Geddie believes his companys accurate two-year forecast model is the only one in existence, and will provide business planners with a highly useful tool. We are opening up our next reversal signal to the financial and business community to provide greater awareness of this prediction resource," said Mr. Geddie.
According to Mr. Geddie, the NDX Forecast has two components, the major market reversal signal, which is particularly useful for individual and institutional long-term investors, and the two-year forecast, which is particularly useful for business planners. Investors are signaled with e-mail alerts when forecasted major market reversals begin. A major market reversal is identified in the NDX model when two conditions exist: (1) a minimum percentage movement of 20 percent and (2) a minimum time span of twelve months.... (Continue reading)
AxxiemWebSolutions launched EZmatchfranchising.com this past week. AxxiemWebSolutions is a leading website design and development firm which specializes in work with the franchise industry.
www.ezmatchfranchising.com
"Our site does for franchising what eHarmony.com and other dating sites have done for couples," says Chris Delaney, CFO of EZMatchfranchising.com, explaining that, "we are the only website that provides a behavioral assessment questionnaire specifically designed to help some 20 million adults annually who seek to find a franchise."... (Continue reading)
The Search Monitor released a white paper to assist online marketers in dealing with the new trademark policies of Google Adwords, and the standing policies of Yahoo Search Marketing, and MSN/Bing.
Research was compiled by Lori Weiman, CEO of The Search Monitor, and writer for Search Engine Land's Brandaid column. Lori is an attorney with 7 years experience with paid and organic search marketing, and affiliate marketing.
The purpose is to educate brand owners on the options available with regard to all three major search engines with regard to trademark policy, where the law stands, and steps to take to protect brands in a cost conscious and effective manner. Strategic, tactical, legal, and other methods are explained.... (Continue reading)
Martin Brinkerhoff Associates Inc. (MBA), is the first events company in the United States to utilize innovative new 3-D Holographic technology from the UK.
Leave your audience utterly mesmerized by the startling realism of a virtual 3-D show. Live or virtual stage presenters can appear alongside and interact with virtual images, humans or animated characters, to create a dynamic, memorable and truly interactive experience.
3-D virtual images can be created from image sizes of just 3ft x 3ft, to large-scale image sizes of 26 feet tall by 300 feet long.... (Continue reading)
New stuffed animal building workshops from www.NoahsArkBearWorkshop.com allow children to stuff and fluff their own animals at birthday parties, daycares, camps, churches and Girl Scout gatherings. Site offers demonstrations, birthday club, gifts to "goah" and more.
The French philosopher Gaston Bachelard once said, "Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event." One woman, Olympia Alfonso, agrees wholeheartedly with Bachelard, and is offering a unique service that will fill children with wonderful memories they can remember fondly for the rest of their lives.... (Continue reading)
Mission: Renaissance will be using eBay as a medium to provide not only high quality art supplies but to promote their Art of Drawing home instruction art lessons.
Currently they service over 4,000 fine art students in their art instruction school located in Southern California and Canada.
According to Mission: Renaissance CEO - Ted Prescott - teaching art to students for over 30 years coupled with the sheer volume of students has been an incredible boon in being able to test out and thus find the best art supplies on the market for their students.... (Continue reading)
Virtual product development and Virtual Reality methods are increasingly being adopted within manufacturing industries. Associated customer benefits are well understood: Improved product innovation, enhanced design quality, compressed development cycles and substantially reduced costs, realized across the entire product development process. However, until today market-driving manufacturers were forced to deal with competing standards and one-off solutions, especially with regards to advanced Virtual Reality and visualization solutions. This trend can be seen globally and ICIDO is one the world's largest solution supplier's for best-in-class virtual product analysis, visual decision making, and validation in a 3D immersive environment.... (Continue reading)
Extrememotorsales.com & Tank Sports to participate in the 3rd Annual Scooters 4 Hooters™ charity ride and free music fest in Orlando, FL. Extrememotorsales.com, America's #1 website store for electric and gas scooters, along with scooter manufacturer Tank Sports, join forces to help increase breast cancer awareness and raise money by donating a Tank 49cc gas powered scooter to the one-of-a-kind event.
When: Sunday, April 26th, 1PM
Where: Wall Street Plaza, downtown Orlando, FL
What: A 22-mile, police-escorted scooter ride, live & silent auctions, scooter raffle and free live music performances.... (Continue reading)
With the economy still in the doldrums, people looking for jobs and the stress all of this is putting on relationships today's launch of Chriss Barr's book, 4 Easy Ways to Ignite Your Love Life & Fatten Your Wallet, is perfect timing. The book launch is being held today only at 24 Hour Feng Shui Book Offer.
Barr's book is a revolutionary feng shui (pronounced fung shway) how-to book that is based on your birthday. Barr says, "You have four feng shui directions that are ideal for you and these directions are based on your birthday. Using feng shui in your personal Success, Health, Relationship and Wisdom directions has a much greater impact on your life than general feng shui and because of this you'll see results in about 9 weeks or less."... (Continue reading)
Owner and Mom inventor Shannon Krieger of BooghabooBaby.com announced the launch of their new product, the Bottle Mate, sure to give big help for little hands.
The Bottle Mate was created for a friend of Booghaboo Baby whose son born at only 26 weeks and survived against all odds. Months in the NICU, brain surgery and other obstacles tried to stand in his way of survival but he pushed through them all leaving the Nurses in tears and excited by his success. At 13 months old the Bottle Mate was invented to give his tiny little hands just a little help learning to hold his bottle on his very own. "For so many months I was able to be a supportive friend, but now I had a skill that not only gave love and support but something tangible to help make his daily routine a little easier." said Booghaboobaby.com's owner/and mom inventor Shannon Krieger. "Now, we are so excited that he doesn't need the Bottle Mate anymore but it made me wonder how many other mothers could benefit from such a product."... (Continue reading)