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Memoir by Asheville, NC author tells how she overcame depression and discovered shes psychic.

Feeling worthless and empty ever since she was a teenager, Sherry Binkelman, author of the recently-released memoir, Blindsided by Destiny: The True Story of a Reluctant Psychic, grew up believing life to be a bleak struggle and joyless chore. She completed her masters degree at the University of Michigan struggling to smile and look like everyone else. After she married and moved halfway around the world to Saudi Arabia with her dentist husband, even the birth of a child failed to bring peace or purpose to her life. Depression followed her to the desert and no matter how hard she tried, she just couldnt feel good about herself.... (Continue reading)

Premium Finance Helps Consumers Buy Insurance Policies

Insurance Premium Financing gives consumers help in purchasing insurance policies they could not afford to purchase. Most insurance policies require the payment of the full year premium up front. Premium Financing gives the consumer the option to purchase an insurance policy with a low down payment and low monthly payments.

Here is how it works: When the consumer purchases an insurance policy from their insurance agent, a premium finance company loans the consumer money for the insurance purchase. The transaction is simple and quick. It takes place in the insurance agent’s office as part of the policy purchase.... (Continue reading)

Northern Cyprus Properties at SeaTerra Opens a Show Flat for Immediate Showing

North Cyprus is quickly becoming the newest hot spot for unspoilt beach property investment. Luxury gated residences in North Cyprus which can be seen at http://www.cyprus-seaterra.com, start at £39,000 and are selling fast.

Considering an off-plan development investment? SeaTerra subsidises inspection trips to beautiful North Cyprus. You get a guided tour of our apartment complexes with swimming pools, gyms and maintained gardens. The model is fully furnished. See all the white goods which come as part of the package.... (Continue reading)

Matthew Paul Davidson of FRCH Design Worldwide, Named Cambridge Who's Who Executive of the Year in Network Technologies

Matthew Paul Davidson of FRCH Design Worldwide, has been named Cambridge Who's Who Executive of the Year in Network Technologies. While inclusion in Cambridge Who's Who is an honor, only one member in each discipline is named the Cambridge Who's Who Executive of the Year. The Cambridge Who's Who selection committee hand picks these special Who's Who honorees based on accomplishments, academic achievement, leadership, and service.

Matthew Paul Davidson is a Microsoft and Cisco Certified professional with 9 years experience in the planning, design, and implementation of network technologies. His background includes hands-on experience with multi-platform, LAN/WAN environments. He has a demonstrated record of success in troubleshooting computers, increasing efficiency, and optimizing the access and utilization of shared information. Matthew is a specialist in extending technology services from the corporate headquarters to field operations.... (Continue reading)

InvestSmart, LLC a Georgia based Real Estate Investment Firm, Celebrated Their 150th Real Estate Closing Transaction Since Their Inception in 2005

InvestSmart, LLC a Georgia based Real Estate Investment Firm, celebrated their 150th real estate closing transaction since their inception in 2005. However, what makes this occasion special is not the quantity but the quality of the 150 transactions.

Although the national real estate market has slowed down in late 2007 and early 2008, there are excellent real estate opportunities for investors here in the Atlanta market. InvestSmart is turning over investment inventory to their investors at cut-throat prices.... (Continue reading)

IHRDC Secures PetroVietnam Competency Development Consulting Tender

IHRDC, an innovative training and consulting company in the international energy industry, has been awarded a significant contract to develop competency models and provide manpower planning and consulting services to Petro Vietnam.

The scope of work includes the development of skill competency models for 150 upstream professionals (Geology, Geosciences, Petroleum Engineering, Drilling, etc.) and an additional 200 positions covering support and administrative services. IHRDC will also provide consulting services designed to help Petro Vietnam manage their professional staff and assist in the building of a technically competent and efficient organization.... (Continue reading)

South American Swimwear is Hot this Summer

According to SwimwearExpress.com a leading online retailer of swimwear, this seasons hottest swimwear designs are coming out of South America. Leading the way are swimsuits from Salinas, Vix, Rygy and Rebequinha from Brazil as well as Onda De Mar from Columbia. The South American brands tend to be more fashionable, creative, unique and fit a bit skimpier. If you are thinking that the look is very Latin, then you will be quite surprised. The great thing about the South American designs is that they have international appeal. Another up and coming brand is Island Company, manufactured in Brazil but headquartered in the U.S.; it reflects a more American preppy look.... (Continue reading)

Absolute Poker Puts Access to $100 Million on the Line this Sunday

Texas Hold'em is a game of patience. But if you've been waiting until the last minute to enter one of poker's most popular tournaments, time is officially running out. The Absolute Dream Package final event gets underway this Sunday, only at Absolute Poker.

"We've already dramatically changed the lives of three lucky online poker fans," stated David Clainer, senior vice president for Absolute Poker. "This Sunday, we're about to do the same for a fourth player."

At stake in the final event of the Absolute Dream Package is access to over $100 million in Texas Hold'em prize pool money. The winner of the tournament will walk away with seats in the richest poker tournaments including a WPT event and next year's World Series of Poker. The tournament champion will also secure an $8,500 Aruba prize package that includes a $5,500 buy-in to the 2007 Aruba Poker Classic this September and $3,000 for travel and accommodations. Other package highlights include a season's pass to Sunday's $150,000 guaranteed tourney and training with the world's best pros at WPT Bootcamp.... (Continue reading)

Leading Medical Research Organizations Partner With Blackbaud to Address Increasingly Complex Funding Requirements

Blackbaud, Inc. (NASDAQ: BLKB), announced today that the Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center (LA BioMed) and the Veterans Medical Research Foundation (VMRF) will use the company’s financial management solution to streamline their complex operations. These are just two recent additions to a growing number of medical research organizations including the Minneapolis Medical Research Foundation, the MUSC Foundation for Research Development, and the Georgia State University Research Foundation that use Blackbaud solutions.... (Continue reading)

Reunite Your High School Class with New Technology from Class Creator

Prepare for a blast from the past. There's a new way to reunite your Classmates online. It's called Class Creator, and it's free.

Whether you graduated 1 year ago, 10 years ago, or even 50 years ago, the key to reuniting your former classmates and renewing old friendships is building a web site of your own.

Isn't building a web site hard? Yes. Well, normally it would be anyway. But new tools have emerged online that make it simple for anybody to develop and run highly functional class web sites with literally no experience or technical skills.... (Continue reading)

Waddell & Reed, Ivy Funds Ranked at Top of Barron's List of "Best Mutual Fund Families of 2007"

February 18, 2008- As it states in the article, "Waddell & Reed rode strong showings in all five categories to victory…" Barron's rankings are based on asset-weighted returns in five categories: domestic equity, world equity (including international and global portfolios), mixed equity (stocks and bonds), taxable bonds and tax exempt funds. Rankings also take into account an individual fund's performance within its Lipper peer group.

"Our clients understand that financial planning is a long-term commitment supported by quality investment products, which we are pleased to provide to them in the Waddell & Reed Advisors Funds and the Ivy Funds," said Marc Dobb, who manages the Wyomissing Waddell & Reed office in Reading, one of several within the region.... (Continue reading)

Printerm Announces New Line of MICR Compatible Toner Cartridges for HP, Lexmark, Xerox, Acom, Troy, and Sourcetech.

The use of a reliable MICR (Magnetic Ink Character Recognition) toner is crucial to your check printing operation. Both our MICR fonts and MICR toner cartridges have been designed to match the specific printer(HP,Lexmark,Xerox,Acom,and Sourcetech) as well as to ensure the optimum density and readability of the magnetic characters. Printerm will only provide you with sealed and tested MICR toner cartridges which are guaranteed to meet all banking industry standards.

Our MICR toner cartridges are guaranteed to give you the best possible MICR toner transfer and adhesion thereby ensuring that the complete MICR line will remain on the check throughout the rigorous check clearing process and will be read by the high speed reader/sorting machines used by the banking industry to process checks.... (Continue reading)

Dr. Man Offers BIS Monitored Anesthesia for Cosmetic Surgery Patients

Every year 21 million people undergo anesthesia during surgery to put them asleep, but 1 in 700 remain awake. This is according to movie promoters of a new psychological thriller called “Awake”, which depicts just such a case. The real number may be much lower, 1 to 2 per 1,000 surgeries, or even less, according to the American Society of Anesthesiologists.

BIS Monitoring Anesthesia

“Safety has no substitute. Before going into surgery, most patients usually ask two questions. They want to know will I be asleep during surgery and are you going to wake me up," says Dr. Daniel Man, board certified plastic surgeon in Boca Raton, Florida. Now, thanks to a revolutionary device that monitors brain activity during surgery, Dr. Man and anesthesiologist Dr. Roger Gorman have an extra added margin of safety.... (Continue reading)

iCIMS to Sponsor Human Capital Institute Webcast; “Great Product, Real People: How Corporate Environment Can Build Your Talent Pool”

iCIMS, a leading Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) provider of talent platforms, and the Human Capital Institute (HCI), a global professional association and educator advancing the science of strategic talent management, announced today that they will be offering a webcast that will focus on building talent pipelines through new and innovative methodologies.

On Tuesday, November 4, at 1:00 PM ET, the Director of Talent Operations for Liz Claiborne Inc., Helene Richter, will present the webcast, “Great Product, Real People: How Your Corporate Environment Can Build Your Talent Pool.” The complimentary webcast, which is sponsored by iCIMS, will focus on the unique ways Liz Claiborne Inc. showcases its brand and corporate environment, helping the company build talent pipelines through brand awareness and in turn, how its recruitment team leverages that knowledge to produce better hires.... (Continue reading)

CryoService Ltd Liquid Nitrogen Safety Training will Hit the Road Again in October 2009

CryoService Ltd are planning a brand new series of nationwide events on Liquid Nitrogen Safety and Liquid Nitrogen Application Developments, which follow on from the overwhelming success of the 2007 roadshows jointly hosted by CryoService, Chart Biomedical and Thames Cryogenics.

Liquid Nitrogen Safety Training

The 2009 Liquid Nitrogen Roadshows will take place during October 2009 and are currently planned to include presentations from companies such as Crowcon Detection Instruments, Chart Biomedical, Gas Safe Consultants and Fisher BioServices UK on subjects such as: practical aspects of liquid nitrogen safety; specifying the correct oxygen depletion system for your application; a comparison of vapour and liquid phase sample storage techniques; a review of integrated LIN Cryoroom project management and the developments in off-site storage of biological samples.... (Continue reading)

Seniors Have Basic Question About Reverse Mortgages: “How Much Money Will I Get?” – Answered Online by Calculator on NewRetirement.com Website

Repeated questions from callers asking “so how much do I qualify for” now are answered online with NewRetirement.com’s reverse mortgage calculator. Retirees will find the new reverse mortgage information online in website’s analysis of reverse mortgages (http://www.newretirement.com/Services/Reverse_Mortgage.aspx ).

Unlike a typical home mortgage or mortgage refinance (sometimes called ‘forward mortgages’), a reverse mortgage doesn’t require repayment as long as the homeowner remains in their primary residence. The money provided by a reverse mortgage lender can improve a senior’s cash flow, effectively increasing their retirement income. For those hoping to retire and age in place, but facing increasing expenses, such as healthcare costs, a reverse mortgage can be an attractive option. The first question many have on their mind is: “what kind of income can I get from a reverse mortgage?”... (Continue reading)

The Universe of Power Releases Much-Anticipated Web Portal

Fulfilling a lifetime goal is never easy, especially when that goal is the delivery of a message of hope and encouragement throughout the world. After committing every waking hour for close to a year to the construction of their dream, Jessica and Ron LaRock have launched their new web portal, The Universe of Power. "I'm exhausted, but thrilled," says Jessica. "This represents a long-term goal and at the same time is a testament to the principles we teach on our web site."

Ron LaRock, the technical wizard behind the site, points out that without any formal marketing effort the site has already had over 40,000 visitors and its Alexa ranking (currently at approximately 175,000 out of 56 million sites) is improving weekly. Jessica says, "I think this clearly demonstrates the attractiveness of our mission and our message. We wanted to create a website where people feel as though they've come home - where they've finally found what they'd been looking for all their lives. That we've had so much participation in the site so soon says that our message is coming through loud and clear."... (Continue reading)

Management Expert & Author Richard Anthony Sees Four Generations at War in the Workforce

The US workforce may be on the verge of an historic clash as four distinctly different demographic groups compete for jobs, pay, benefits and opportunities for advancement.

Richard Anthony Sr.

"For the first me in history, we have four, and some people argue five, generations in the workforce - the Traditionals, Baby Boomers, Gen X and Gen Y," says Richard J. Anthony, Sr., author of the new book, Organizations, People & Effective Communication. "The normal stresses in the workplace are being exacerbated by the fact that the leading edge of the 79 million Boomers born between 1946 and 1964 are not moving out of the workforce as expected. Because of lifestyle preference or financial necessity, Boomers in large numbers are trying to hang on to their paychecks and their health care benefits, blocking the career paths of younger employees and putting pressure on employers' payroll and benefits costs."



In a chapter titled "Bridging the Great Divide among Four Generations," Anthony writes: "The underlying trend lines that will ensure intergenerational conflict for at least the next 20 to 25 years have finally captured the attention of researchers, social scientists, government and corporate policy makers. Most seem to agree that simply tweaking existing policies won't be enough. We need new approaches to managing divergent generations and to supporting 79 million Boomers who will be transitioning to the third stage of their lives over the next 30 years. We need a new vocabulary to redefine words like work, career, success, retirement and quality of life. Words like 'senior' and 'mature adult' are resented and irrelevant because they have been code for 'old.' Although late in coming, awareness of the need for change in the way different stages of life are perceived is becoming a daily topic of discussion and debate. Solutions, however, will be hard to come by."



Anthony, a consultant with more than 35 years of experience in human resource management and organizational effectiveness, is the founder and managing director of The Solutions Network, Inc., a management consulting firm. He recently moderated a WHYY forum on Boomer entrepreneurs and an AARP convening of business, education and government leaders on the aging workforce in Pennsylvania. He also teaches a course at Villanova University titled "Managing the Aging Workforce." He was cofounder of iGrandparents.com, a website for the 73 million grandparents in the US, about half of whom are Baby Boomers, and is on the board of advisors of five companies that provide products and services to the aging population.



Intergenerational clashes in the workforce can be averted, Anthony asserts. "It will require management and labor to close the book on more than 50 years of employee and labor relations and adopt new rules of engagement between employers and employees. Managing the intergenerational workforce requires employers to do a better job of forecasting their staffing needs, developing competency models, redesigning their pay and benefits programs, introducing job sharing and mentoring programs, investing in training and retraining, and designing career paths that match the profiles of younger employees whose aspirations are different from their older coworkers. I realize that this is a tough message for employers who are struggling because of the economy. On the other hand, when the economy recovers, employers will still be challenged by intergenerational issues they have never experience before."



About Richard J. Anthony, Sr. - In addition to his consulting, Anthony is an entrepreneur, speaker, educator and TV host. He is founder of The Entrepreneurs Network, a venue for aspiring and serial entrepreneurs and accredited angel investors. He is a member of the adjunct faculty at Villanova University where he teaches courses in Organizational and Leadership Communication, Entrepreneurialism and Managing the Aging Workforce. In 2007, he co-authored a chapter in a book titled After Sixty: Marketing to Baby Boomers Reaching Their Big Transition Years. He is currently leading a project for the Delaware County Community Foundation to provide easy, multimedia access to county residents 50+ and their families to information about volunteerism, lifelong learning and employment.... (Continue reading)

Ancient Beauty Remedies Combine to Create Hair Serum Synergy in LookWow™ Argan Hair Serum

For centuries, both Argan oil and Rice Bran oil have been beauty powerhouses, delivering beauty benefits to women all over the world. LookWow™ - Argan Hair Serum delivers both oils in a weightless, non greasy hair serum that is great for all hair types.

The Organic Argan oil and Organic Rice Bran oil found in LookWow™ - Argan Hair Serum work together to create the perfect synergetic blend. These two oils create a weightless, non-greasy hair serum that is the perfect consistency for all hair types. Argan oil by itself would result in a heavier product that is less flexible and suitable for limited hair types. The combination of Argan oil and Rice Bran oil provides a lighter alternative that works with thin to thick hair types, from straight to curly.... (Continue reading)

Las Vegas Poker Tournament to Benefit Homeless and At-Risk Children

The Small Town Poker Tour Pro Am will take place July 13, 2007 at 12:00 PM. and will benefit the Corps of Compassion.

There are approximately 4,000 homeless and at-risk children in Las Vegas. The Corps of Compassion currently delivers backpacks of food to over 700 children in 14 Las Vegas schools every single weekend.

"The Corp of Compassion needs help to expand their efforts, and I hope all caring poker players come out to support them," stated Mark Fracalossi STPT Creator.

The Tournament will be held at the South Point Hotel, Casino & Spa in Las Vegas. The Tournament is open to all poker players both amateur and pro. The seats are very limited and reservations are encouraged. Contact the South Point Poker Room to guarantee a position.... (Continue reading)