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Transfer Engineering Devices Aboard Historic Phoenix Mars Mission - Partners with JPL on Key Soil Analysis Tool as Mission Searches for Water on Mars

New development: 'Translation Crystallization'

- A new trend called 'translation crystallization has stealthily been emerging in the translation industry. Instead of companies outsourcing their translation work to many different freelancers all over the world, corporations prefer to have all their work handled by a so-called 'translation partner. This partner in translation looks after the clients needs and demands from the beginning of the project until long after the final stage of the 'crystallization process has been completed.

For example, say that a corporation or government body has large amounts of translation work to outsource over the period of several years, what better way to have the work done than to 'umbrella the work within the premises of one full-service translation partner. This partner is equipped to meet any demands that the client may have regarding translation, editing, localization and DTP services.... (Continue reading)

Georgia State Senate Honors BlueWave Computing for Outstanding IT Support

The Georgia State Senate has adopted a resolution honoring BlueWave Computing. The resolution commends BlueWave for its selection as a Cobb Chamber Small Business of the Year as well as its growth from a startup to one of the leading information technology consulting and IT support firms in the State of Georgia.

Senate Resolution 549, sponsored by senators Judson Hill, Chip Rogers, John Wiles, and Steve Thompson, acknowledges both Dr. Steven Vicinanza, BlueWave's founder, for his vision and leadership, as well as BlueWave Computing, for its "glowing reputation throughout Georgia."... (Continue reading)

Orlando World Center Marriott Resort Offers Daily Golf Packages for Two

Swing in to the 18-hole Hawk’s Landing Golf Club, where golfers enjoy unlimited golf and children 17 and under can play free. Conveniently located right outside the main lobby of the award-winning Orlando World Center Marriott Resort, this is the perfect time to take advantage of the popular Golf Package from only $269 - $419, through January 2, 2007 which includes:

One night's deluxe hotel accommodations

Unlimited daily golf for two

Breakfast buffet for two in Solaris restaurant

Kids play free (ages 17 and under)

This powerfully engineered design by Robert E. Cupp II challenges players with strategically placed bunkers and water hazards on 15 holes, including the entire back nine. Walk the course first and view the four sets of tees that allow golfers of all skill levels to participate. Bill Madonna, director of instruction and one of Golf Magazine’s top 100 “Teachers in America,” brings his legendary expertise to the resort and leads a skilled team of professionals. The adjoining golf shop, rated among the top 100 in the nation, adds to the appeal. Following a day on the golf course, wind down in the 10,000 square-foot, full-service Spa, showcasing the latest in advanced European salon and massage treatments, as well as traditional Asian therapies.... (Continue reading)

Programmers Guild Proposes Alternative to the H-1b Lottery

On March 12th Bill Gates appeared before Congress calling for an increase in what he deemed the "arbitrarily set base cap of 65,000 H-1B visas." By March 14th, without soliciting comments from the U.S. workers who are impacted by the H-1b program, Congress introduced two bills that would double or triple the H-1b base cap:

a) The "Innovation Employment Act," (H.R.5630) introduced by Representative Gabrielle Giffords, D-Arizona, would increase the cap in H-1B visas from 65,000 a year to 130,000 a year. ((202) 225-2542)... (Continue reading)

Local Search Marketing Experts Headline Teleseminar Presentation to Feature Search Engine Optimization Best Practices

Janet Driscoll Miller and Kaitlyn Smeland of the search engine marketing firm Search Mojo will headline a teleseminar hosted by BizSummits on Thursday, March 26 at 1:30 p.m. ET entitled "Search Engine Optimization: Designing Your Pages to Dominate in Google and Yahoo".

"Search engine optimization is widely known and accepted as a high-ROI producing online marketing tactic," said Miller. "Our goal in working with BizSummits is to help companies understand the basic nuts and bolts of how to engineer their websites to rank well in Google and other search engines, thus driving more website traffic."... (Continue reading)

Online Workshops to Turn Your Email Into a Productive Business Tool

E-mails That Mean Business - $49.95 per user. Learn how to write an effective message that gets read and gets results. Participants will learn to:

- Write a compelling e-mail subject line

- Use the basics of e-mail etiquette

- Compose an e-mail that is not only read, but gets the desired action.

E-mails That Avoid Legal Pitfalls - $49.95 per user

E-mails are permanent records and can come back to hurt you. Learn to identify the dos and donts of e-mails and avoid unintended legal consequences. Participants will learn to recognize and respond to e-mails

- That create or modify legal agreements

- Cross the line" and could be evidence of harassment

Both workshops - $74.95 per user -- Volume discounts are available.... (Continue reading)

PRWeb™, Unitus Join Forces to Fight Poverty

(PRWEB) December 15, 2005 – PRWeb™, the leader in online visibility for press release distribution, announced today it is making a financial commitment to Unitus, an organization which helps alleviate poverty worldwide by increasing access to microfinance.

Unitus seeks out and partners with the highest-potential microfinance institutions (MFIs) in the world and provides them with capital assistance and expert consulting services. With this support, Unitus’s MFI partners are able to serve exponentially more poor clients. Unitus also aims to demonstrate that MFIs can be run as profitable, large-scale, poverty-focused businesses with links to local capital markets. Unitus’s seven MFI partners currently serve more than 500,000 clients in India, Kenya and Mexico.... (Continue reading)

Giuliani Electable as Third-Party Candidate with 37 Percent Support in Latest Straw Poll

His poll numbers are high and his approval numbers are the best of all 2008 presidential candidates. But many are starting to question the long-term viability of Rudy Giuliani as the republican nominee because of his not-so-conservative political views, says PresidentPolls2008.com.

According to the U.S. presidential election poll-tracking Web site, once the primary season comes around and the "true" conservatives start to vote, that demographic may begin to sway away from "America's mayor." Since Giuliani has mass appeal among independents and moderates on both sides, this leaves voters with a very interesting scenario:... (Continue reading)

Award Winning Film Director Kevin Booth "American Drug War" to be Featured on Deadline Live w/ Jack Blood -- April 28 2008

After winning just about every film festival award the film was entered in, American Drug War spent some time on Showtime via cable TV.

Now the film is finally released to the public in its new DVD release at www.sacredcow.com

Kevin Booth is well known for his work with America's most prolific comedian, Bill Hicks.

Booth has also worked with many of today's cutting edge comedians such as Doug Stanhope, and Joe Rogan, while helping to produce powerful documentary films with the controversial Alex Jones.... (Continue reading)

Classy Closets Announces Custom Closet and Home Office Preview Events for Interior Designers and Contractors in the Phoenix Metro Area

Classy Closets today announced a series of custom closet and home office preview events for interior designers, general contractors and home builders in Arizona. Designers and contractors will have the opportunity to tour a Classy Closets showroom and see examples of Classy Closets professionally designed closets, home offices, kitchens, garages, pantries, and more. In addition, every attendee will receive one free custom closet organizer installation from Classy Closets.

Classy Closets

Classy Closets custom closet and home office preview events will take place at their Chandler showroom at 4320 W Chandler Blvd, Chandler AZ 85226 and at their Scottsdale showroom at 17025 N Scottsdale Rd, Scottsdale AZ 85255 from 10 AM to 6 PM Friday, May 16, Wednesday, May 21st, and Thursday, May 22. Lunch will be served from 11 AM - 2:30 PM.... (Continue reading)

Parature Named to Software Magazine's 26th Annual Software 500

Parature, the global leader in on-demand customer service software, announced today its inclusion on the Software Magazine's Software 500 ranking of the world's largest software and service providers, now in its 26th year.

"The 2008 Software 500 results show that revenue growth in the software and services industry was healthy, with total Software 500 revenue of $451.8 billion worldwide for 2007 representing 14.7% growth from the previous year," says John P Desmond, editor of Software Magazine and Softwaremag.com. "We have added over 100 new companies to the list this year. We're seeing strong growth from more companies based outside the U.S., especially from systems integration and outsourcing services firms based in India."... (Continue reading)

Vocus Executive to Host PR News Webinar on Measuring Media Relations Activities

Vocus, Inc (NASDAQ: VOCS), a leading provider of on-demand public relations management, announced today that Vocus' Chief Marketing Officer, Bill Wagner, will host PR News' upcoming webinar entitled 'High-Return Tactics for Measuring & Maximizing Your Media Relations.' The webinar will be held on Friday, February 9, 2007 at 1:30pm ET. Registration is available at http://www.prnewsonline.com/webinars/webinar_feb09.

"In today's media intensive world, organizations need to constantly monitor their news and measure the success of their public relations," said Wagner. "This panel will explore different approaches to analyzing the media, measuring the performance of PR campaigns and understanding the impact of news on an organization's bottom line."... (Continue reading)

Back To School Bargain Hunting

For kids, back-to-school means new clothes, new lunch boxes, new backpacks and supplies, perhaps even a new desk or computer. For parents, back-to-school means a big outlay of cash, a commodity thats in short supply in many households around the country.

Parents take heart. Art Beroff, coauthor of The Bargain Hunters & Smart Consumers Field Guide (Avebury Books 2003, available at Amazon.com and BarnesandNoble.com) offers these tips for stretching your back-to-school dollars:

Clothing: Shop consignment stores (which sell pre-loved clothes and furnishings at discounts that increase the longer the item sits in the store) for togs that are trendy and sometimes have never even been worn with the original tags still attached. Find consignment stores in your local yellow pages, but remember that as a rule the more affluent the neighborhood, the better the merchandise. (People in tonier areas can afford to buy designer outfits to wear just once or twice and then discard, while those in less affluent areas often must wear things until they wear out.)... (Continue reading)

NIH National Study Testing Chelation Therapy for Heart Disease Under Way at International Medical Clinics (IMC) Atlanta, Georgia

International Medical Clinics (IMC) is seeking men and women age 50 and older who have had a heart attack to join a National Institutes of Health (NIH) study on the effectiveness and safety of an investigational treatment for heart disease. The investigational treatment is a combination of chelation therapy and high-dose vitamin therapy compared with placebo (inactive treatment).

International Medical Clinics (IMC) is one of more than 100 medical institutions across the country selected to take part in the Chelation Therapy Study, the largest clinical research study to evaluate the therapy's effectiveness and safety as a treatment for heart disease.... (Continue reading)

New York State General Contractors and Construction Managers Gain Construction Software Expertise Through RiverGuide and GBC Partnership

Today RiverGuide for Construction Software (http://www.riverguideinc.com/construction) and the General Building Contractors of New York State (GBC) announced the launch of an on-line Construction IT Center for the GBC website. Through this partnership, RiverGuide has contributed its original construction software research and evaluation content to the GBC.

The Construction IT Center provides a wealth of information for general contractors, including insightful articles that provide best practices for selecting and implementing construction software. This Construction IT Center represents an ongoing effort by RiverGuide to help associations and their members make the right technology decisions.... (Continue reading)

Alliance Announces Private Placement

Alliance Mining Corp. ("Alliance" or the "Company") is pleased to announce a non-brokered private placement of up to 765,000 units ("Units") at a price of $0.13 per Unit, for a total gross proceeds of up to $99,450. Each Unit will be comprised of one common share of the Company ("Share") and one nontransferable share purchase warrant ("Warrant") Each Warrant will entitle the holder to purchase one additional Share at a price of $0.18 per Share for a period of eighteen months from the date of issuance. The private placement is subject to all regulatory approvals.... (Continue reading)

2008 Game of the Year Award is "Tossed" to Kubit2me

Gaining national grass roots support from parents, educators and child development specialists, Kubit2me's innovative line of "toss it to me" self expression games were created to enable parents to connect with their children and children to connect with each other.

The three editions of Kubit2me games (Lil' Scholars, Truth or Dare and Now You're Talkin') are designed to entertain all ages and demographics as well as encourage positive social interaction, trust and empathy. Its engaging fun and fuzzy cube design connects kids and adults through socially-charged small or large group games that actually toss thought-provoking, and sometimes silly, questions from player to player.... (Continue reading)

JobApp Network Reports Record Growth and Secures Credit Facility to Fuel Expansion

Troy, Mich. (PRWEB) May 4, 2009 – JobApp Network, the provider of the leading web and IVR hiring management system for employers with hourly employees, announced a fifth consecutive record quarter of revenue growth. Additionally, during the months of March and April 2009 JobApp signed 27 new multi-unit client agreements. Strong revenue and earnings momentum has also enabled the Troy, Michigan based company to secure a credit facility arranged by Vineyard Capital Group, a private equity fund based in Southfield, Michigan to further expand and accelerate sales and distribution.... (Continue reading)

New Book Reveals How Real Estate Investors Can Help Solve the Foreclosure Crisis by Outsourcing Loss Mitigation

Today REIMarketingTips.com released a new book, Pre-Foreclosure Investing 2.0: The Secret Weapon To Successful Investing - Make More Money and Do Less Work Outsourcing Loss Mitigation, written by Justin and Dreama Lee, Founders and Owners of SaveMeFromForeclosure.com, LLC. This revolutionary book teaches preforeclosure real estate investors how to outsource all of their loss mitigation files and create a moneymaking referral system by helping homeowners facing foreclosure keep their homes.

Pre-Foreclosure Investing 2.0... (Continue reading)

Transfer Engineering Devices Aboard Historic Phoenix Mars Mission - Partners with JPL on Key Soil Analysis Tool as Mission Searches for Water on Mars

Supporting the first mission to the polar regions of Mars, Transfer Engineering's innovative vacuum technology is aboard NASA's Phoenix spacecraft, which launched August 4 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The Phoenix spacecraft includes a Microscopy, Electrochemistry, and Conductivity Analyzer (MECA) provided by Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). JPL, a leader in the robotic exploration of the solar system, designed the MECA instrument and integrated Transfer Engineering's Sample Wheel & Translation Stage into the instrument, which is used to characterize the soil of Mars much like a gardener would test the soil in his or her yard.... (Continue reading)