Xulon author Mary Davis Cutler's The First Gleam of Dawn ($17.99, paperback, 978-1-60477-403-0), is set against the colorful backdrop of the Depression, World War II, the complacent '50s and the tumultuous '60s -- during which the nation underwent a decade of upheaval -- chronicles how God patiently and carefully wove the tapestry of the first fifty years of her life.
Cutler thought she was living the good life. After marrying her college sweetheart, they had built their dream home and become leaders in their church and schools. Then began a series of trials that shook her world. She suffered from clinical depression, her son flunked out of college, and the elder of her two daughters and her son-in-law began doing drugs and established a hippie commune before he left her to seek spiritual enlightenment in India.
Web 2.0 startup PimpMyNews.com today announced new product features for its user base, which has grown to include users from 119 countries since its mid December launch.
PimpMyNews is a new media application that allows consumers to stay current on breaking stories from their favorite text news and blog sources by listening to them wherever they happen to be. The free service continuously scans the web's top 1,000 news and blog sites for breaking text stories based on user preferences, and instantly converts them to near-human sounding audio. Users can listen online on computers, or on the go on iPhones, iPods, Zunes and other MP3 players and mobile devices. The service also allows users to create playlists and personalized news podcasts, rate and share "talking stories" with friends, and post them to Facebook, Digg, Del.icio.us, StumbleUpon, Reddit, Mixx, and other social sites.
Young Entrepreneurs AJ 26, & Adz 22 started an online record & CD shop at a young tender age with a aim to be a market leader in the online music retail industry, with nothing but a vision, marketing ideas, some knowledge of how to make a online shop, they went out, bought a domain name and started http://www.ukrecordshop.com. Established in February 2004, UKRecordShop.com quickly grew into a strong market leader within the UK Underground music industry as a leading outlet for artists to sell their music online.
LightScribe Direct Disc Labeling announced today the LightScribe Photography Kit, a CD and DVD labeling package created specifically for professional photographers and photo enthusiasts. The LightScribe Photography Kit's disc labeling tips and resources for photographers are immediately available for free download at lightscribe.com.
LightScribe -- a laser disc labeling technology found in many popular brands of disc burners, laptops and PCs -- gives people the ability to easily burn silkscreen-quality photos, graphics, images and text directly onto LightScribe CDs and DVDs. Disc colors include gold CDs and DVDs as well as CDs in red, orange, yellow, blue and green.
The easiest way to increase traffic to any website is to create a lot of original and interesting content because it attracts people to the website. It makes them want to come back, and it also generates word of mouth referrals. The better the content and the more frequent the content is updated, the more likely a website is to attract higher visitors. Although there are many other search engine optimizations (SEO) techniques available, without a lot of interesting unique content visitors will simply not stay around and frequent a website. The website will not build up its visitor base and therefore it will have limited revenue.
InteractiveVoices, (http://www.InteractiveVoices.com), the voice-over marketplace, has released their Top Ten List for 2005, sharing their achievements and business successes with their voice talents and clients. Earlier this year, InteractiveVoices introduced the voice-over industry to podcasting and submitted the IV Podcast to the Apple iTunes Music Directory. The IV Podcast communicates directly to voice talents and clients, shares the Interactive Voices vision, and fosters growth in voice-over businesses worldwide. In a similar vein, their voice-over discussion forum VoiceOverTimes.com, sent an official invitation to voice actors and voice talents to join without cost, providing opportunities to share, interact, and learn from one another in a friendly online environment.
The flu virus, bacteria and other airborne pathogens in the home can now be sterilized with Alen Corp.'s new HEPA UV air purifier - Paralda - as well as the A375UV Multi Gas HEPA air purifier and T300 HEPA air purifier, thereby reducing the chance for infection, disease or pandemic. Using ultraviolet (UV) light called UV-C, or short range wavelength, the Alen Corp. HEPA UV air purifiers are germicidal and sterilize flu viruses, bacteria and common household germs such as mold, fungi, staph and E. Coli.
Interior Designer Amy Snyder of Sun Pine Homes, a custom home builder and developer in Prescott, Arizona writes about bringing seasonal sensibility to design in her new article, Use seasonal accents to complement your home’s good looks. View it on her company’s website, http://www.graniteparkaz.com.
According to Snyder, seasonal color can tie the indoors and outdoors. “I like to integrate the indoors with the outdoors, and light and colors all change with the season,” Snyder said.
The article includes advice ranging from classic to edgy, including these tips:
When it gets cold, replace spring and summertime arrangements of flowers and foliage with vases of dried grasses, cattails, and pods.
Pine cones and interesting rocks work all year long. Arrange them in a container and then add seasonal accents like fall leaves, flowers or dried grass
Fill a bowl with seasonal fruit and vegetables. In autumn and winter, gourds and squash are excellent bets, as are oranges in the Christmas season. Large blown-glass bowls come in a variety of colors to match every season.
Start your garden indoors. Plants like basil, tomato and peppers, which can be transplanted into the summer garden, make beautiful springtime accents on south-facing windowsills.
Using classic and even avant-garde seasonal accents to freshen the look of your home is not only inexpensive and inspiring, it’s also an effective way to maintain a connection to the great outdoors.
3Sixty Enterprises, LLC (www.3sixtyweb.com), a leading innovator in Web technologies, today announced that it has acquired the extraordinarily popular file-sharing site DivShare (www.divshare.com). Terms of the purchase were not disclosed. Headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, DivShare is privately held, and is owned and operated by founding partners Rob Howard & David Altschul.
Divshare is an industry-leading, award-winning file sharing Website that enables users to easily upload and publish photos, videos, music, and other files for friends, family, and colleagues. DivShare is one of the world's most popular file-publishing sites, with over a million users registered worldwide.
United Country Certified Real Estate and Myers Jackson, licensed Georgia real estate broker and real estate auctioneer, announced today an upcoming Georgia real estate auction, Georgia land auction and bidder awareness seminar.Certified Real Estate Auctioneer
"At this Georgia land auction, Tahlequah Plantation, a beautiful recreational property in the heart of plantation country, will be offered to the highest and best bidders," explains Jackson, an Accredited Auctioneer of Real Estate and graduate of the Certified Auctioneers Institute. "This Georgia real estate auction gives buyers an amazing opportunity; being able to purchase a South Georgia plantation at buyer's prices is simply unheard of."
There are seven simple personal decisions that can make 2006 great. Andy Andrews, bestselling author/speaker/TV personality is one of America's most gifted storytellers. In his incredible book, "The Traveler's Gift" he offers seven important decisions that are simple, yet life-changing. His recent well-received specials on PBS nationwide launched "The Seven Decisions" DVD, based on the principles in woven in the story of David Ponder in "The Traveler's Gift".
These seven decisions include:
1. The Buck Stops Here - Taking personal responsibility
2. Seek Wisdom - Search for understanding and discernment
3. Be a Person of Action - Being a courageous leader
4. Have a Decided Heart - Overcoming double-mindedness
5. Choose Happiness - Possessing a grateful spirit
6. Forgive others - The power of grace and mercy
7. Persist - Persevering with faith until the end
Canada's leading information technology event, IT360 Conference & Expo, and the Canadian Telecommunications Consultants Association (CTCA) are pleased to announce that the CTCA Spring Conference 2008 will be hosted by IT360 (www.it360.ca) in Toronto, April 7-9, 2008 at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre.
The CTCA is Canada's only professional association of independent telecommunications consultants. Their services are increasing in demand as Unified Communications have strengthened in the marketplace. The CTCA Spring Conference is the premier event for bringing together CTCA members and those interested in unified communications.
The del Fuego Audio Car Coach CD Curriculum featuring Dr. Ivan Misner is the world's first networking curriculum and the first HOW TO educational support tool for people who want to build their business through referrals.
The newest addition to the self-paced curriculum, BNI Networking Secrets, is a 3 CD set that is packed with new information and insights from Dr. Misner, enlivened throughout with humorous anecdotes, and filled with the tried and true methods for building a solid networking foundation.
If you need answers to any of the questions below, BNI Networking Secrets will answer all of them and many more!
· It's easy to find problems. It's hard to build success. Where do I focus?
· What are the BNI networking processes?
· How long will it take me to build a strong, profitable, referral-based business?
· How can I know the difference between a lead and a referral?
· How can I apply the VCP Process to my business?
Premiere Barstools is thrilled to offer a new and eye-catching solid tropical wood stool with a honey-brown finish for the savvy home decorators out there. This simple and chic wooden bar stool is a creative, space efficient response to the increasing demand for stylish additional seating options, like bar stools, for the summer entertaining season.
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This backless style bar stool is made entirely of solid tropical hardwood, making it sturdy and durable for years and years of frequent use. This stool is constructed using select hardwood, which has been properly dried to prevent warping and cracking. The scooped seat is very comfortable, and you'll find that these barstools are not only a pleasure to use, but they are versatile accent pieces that can be used in either antique or contemporary interior design style homes.
ADVA Optical Networking today introduced Optojack®, a new technology that enables the establishment of intelligent optical demarcation points to monitor advanced optical services. Optojack provides optical demarcation and service monitoring at the handoff point between carrier networks, as well as at the demarcation point between the carrier and customer network. Optojack is designed to enable remote Operations, Administration and Maintenance (OAM) of key optical network elements in the access and backhaul portions of the network.
iMedica Corporation, a leading developer of healthcare software solutions for physician practices, today announced a technology partnership with Imagetek, a national leader in enterprise content management and business process automation, to strengthen the capture of paper-based documents and ease the transition to the paperless physician practice.
Together, Imagetek and iMedica have created a solution that provides clinicians with easy and reliable access to patient records, including legacy paper documents, through the Inofile interface. Hosted within the Fujitsu fi-6010N iScanner, Inofile's convenient touch-and-go feature allows clinicians to automatically scan and store documents in the correct location within iMedica's Patient Relationship Manager™ (PRM), a single-application electronic medical record (EMR) and practice management (PM) solution that utilizes Microsoft's latest .NET technology.
Free L.A. The Ultimate Free Fun Guide to the City of Angels, is now recommended reading for a University of Southern California's School of Fine Arts course called, "A Cultural Guide to Los Angeles," taught by Linda Venis, PhD. Ms. Venis is also director of the prestigious Writers Program at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) Extension.
Detailing hundreds of free fun things to do from Hollywood to Malibu to Pasadena, Free L.A. was also used as a resource for a USC Trojan Vision video produced for freshman orientation. The video will air again on Thursday, September 22 at 8:30 p.m. on Trojan Vision (Channel 8 at USC or online at www.trojanvision.com where it will also be archived).
As part of its burgeoning expansion efforts, Strategic Alliance Group, LLC (SAG) recently acquired the core retainer search team from Miles Parker Associates, LLC. This acquisition will further augment the scope of SAG’s services. Mark Young, Managing Director of Miles Parker Associates, joined Strategic Alliance Group as Director, effective April 24, 2006, and is based in the firm’s Fort Lauderdale office. His primary focus will be leading SAG’s new Senior-Level Placements Division. Bailey Pacheco has also joined SAG as an Associate, with primary focus in research & development, strategy & implementation, and strategic sourcing.
World Trade Association (WTA), a leading independent U.S. tire wholesaler, recently completed its sixth auditing trip to China to ensure the highest quality of production for its Xtreme line of OTR tires.
WTA's auditing team includes former Goodyear engineers with very specific areas of expertise; a compounding specialist, design specialist and plant manager, as well as Jim DeChene, Vice President of WTA. The team recently spent two weeks investigating Chinese manufacturing plants to provide current and future production of both bias and radial OTR tires, in what may be the most thorough examination ever done by an OTR tire company.
UltimateBet today announced that it is once again taking its game offline in support of making the world a better place. The online poker site today announced the sponsorship of the Merage Jewish Community Center's Fifth Annual No Limit Texas Hold'em tournament. The charity poker tournament gets underway on Sunday, January 11 at 3pm PT at the Merage JCC in Irvine, California. All proceeds collected will benefit Merage JCC Scholarships and Children's Programs.
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The buy-in for the charity Texas Hold'em tournament is $200 with multiple re-buys available until the first break. In addition to a mix of prizes on the line that includes vacations, sports tickets, home electronics and others, all 10 players at the final table will be awarded with a package of UltimateBet.net swag that includes t-shirts and caps.