The Tampa Bay Dragon Boat Club's team Blade Runners beat their own 1st place championship time from last year. This year their time was 2:07.32 minutes, besting last year's time of 2:26.61. The Italy bound Black Sheep Marines were right there beside the Blade Runners with a time of 2:07.33. The Miami Dragon Slayers came in third in the final championship race at 2:07.57 minutes (last year 2nd place in 2:30.58). Each took home championship cups and victory towels. The TBDBC Blade Runners also received a ceremonial paddle with a plaque for their Division 1 win. The Village ...

- YOUR VIRTUAL WORLD (YVW) will roll out its "Movie Modules " line of English language learning tools on June 1, 2014. Our starting point as a company was, is, and remains this: storytelling is one of mankind's deepest forms of communication and our youth worldwide need all of the help they can get. From our own small corner, in our own small way, and as we are able, YVW is trying improve the lives of the people it touches even if it takes several generations to do so. Storytelling is inextricably tied to language and we leverage it as a prime motivator and facilitator ...

Recently, Carousel Industries, a leader in mobility, data networking and converged communications, held a three-part webinar entitled 'Closer to Customer", focused on building stronger brand-customer relationships. Part III of the series, which featured Blair Pleasant, president and principal analyst of COMMfusion LLC and co-founder of UCStrategies, and Terence Fogarty, Contact Center Solution Consultant - Strategic Accounts, of Carousel Industries, featured valuable discussion on how a multichannel contact center can create more loyal customer relationships, resulting ...

Identified as Arizona's very best fitness nutrition retailer since 1995, House of Fitness is truly happy to reveal a thrilling lineup of alterations along with new ownership that can make the recognized line of sports nutrient stores better than in the past in 2014. The well known chain of sports nutrition shops caters to the demands of muscle builders, athletes, power lifters along with Crossfit aficionados while offering an array of high-quality items at the lowest costs. House of Fitness' brand-new proprietor, Lance Millett, possesses over twenty years practical experience ...

Over the past few years street style has managed to substitute the runway during the non-fashion week periods throughout the year. Not to suggest that the street style craze isn't crazy (in a good way) even during fashion week. Fashionistas of all walks are recognized for their unique wears and how they put together what they put together. With the plethora of bloggers and photographers all over the city streets how great it is we get to capture, visualize and analyze great and unique everyday fashion. Luckily said fashionistas are both women and men. Gwen Beloti ...

Education can alleviate poverty, hunger and the AIDS epidemic in Africa and so Royal Dynamite, a collaborative and unique t-shirt company that combines popular culture and community, has joined forces with the nonprofit Achieve in Africa. To help improve education in rural Africa, the two organizations have come together provide children with the opportunity to reach their full potential, lead better lives and inspire future generations. Royal Dynamite has agreed to extend it's one-for-one give back program: RD Cares to reach students at an overcrowded primary school ...

Career Step, an online provider of career-focused education, is pleased to announce that it is offering over $450,000 in scholarships to seniors graduating from Utah high schools this year. One career training scholarship will be awarded to a student from each of the 149 approved Utah high schools. "Education is one of the best ways to improve society, economies and, most importantly, individual lives. However, earning a two or four year degree is not a possibility for everyone," said Steve Tober, Career Step CEO. "At Career Step, our mission is about helping people ...

If it just so happens that your faithful four-legged friend looks like a cross between Albert Einstein and Scooby Doo, you may find that it's anyone's guess what kind of canine shenanigans created such a unique mutt. For most mixed breed dogs, Fido's family tree is a puzzle that neither you nor anyone else can solve with absolute certainty. Here's where Doggie DNA Testing comes in: Thanks to the wonders of genetic testing, not only can pet parents find out exactly which breeds contributed to their adorable mutt, but prospective pet owners can also choose the right dog breed ...

Streaming live on the Co-Creator Radio Network on Tuesday, April 29, at 11am Pacific/2pm Eastern on "Why Shamanism Now? A Practical Path to Authenticity," shaman and founder of the Last Mask Center for Shamanic Healing Christina Pratt tells listeners that he true nature of our emotions can surprise us when they are explored through shamanic skills. According to Pratt, they rarely come from where we think they do, nor are they composed of what they appear to be. One of the richest explorations we can engage in with our helping spirits through journeying is the true nature ...

Nationally recognized career coach, author, columnist, and speaker David Hults of Activ8 Career Coaching in St. Louis will deliver a lunch presentation at the 2014 St. Louis Industry Expo on Thursday, May 1. Hults will present "From Status Quo to Star Performer: 8 Powerful Change Strategies to Direct Your Career Future" from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Sheraton Westport Chalet in Maryland Heights, MO. Everyone is welcome to attend the luncheon along with the free Industry Expo immediately following. "From Status Quo to Star Performer" is built around Hults's latest book, ...

For the 9th summer, Rock'n Music Academy in Middletown, NJ is offering three weeks of rock camps and a week of recording camp. The camps are open to guitar, bass, drums, keyboard/piano, and vocal students ages 8-17. The rock camps focus on the art of playing in a band. Students take part in daily band rehearsals and technique/theory sessions to hone their skills. The week culminates with a live concert! The recording camp focuses on writing and recording original music with professional equipment. Students learn professional songwriting techniques and how to craft well ...

Expanding their Southern California hotel portfolio, San Diego-based Trigild and Santa Barbara-based Blu Hotel Investors have completed the $16.5 million acquisition of the three-story, 100-room Holiday Inn Express Hotel & Suites at 1410 Ocean Street in Santa Cruz. Trigild, a real estate services firm with decades of experience in the hospitality industry, immediately takes charge of day-to-day management. "We are thrilled to announce this latest acquisition, which meets our overall criteria of investing in high barrier to entry markets with premium brands," ...

Anaplan today announced the opening of its Eastern European office, based in Moscow, Russia delivering on the promise to provide deeper and more localized service to customers throughout the Russian and Eastern European markets. The company's expansion into Eastern Europe follows recent, dedicated moves into additional international markets including Malaysia, Australia, and New Zealand. Anaplan continues building a strong roster of international customers, including Aviva, Diageo, and HP, who are rapidly turning to Anaplan to replace their legacy business planning systems ...

Saelig Company Inc. (www.saelig.com) has introduced a high-performance RF signal source family, the DSG3000 3GHz/6GHz series, offering standard AM/FM/Phase modulation, as well as options for I/Q modulation and I/Q baseband output. The DSG3000 Series generates waveforms with high signal purity, typical phase noise of less than 110dBc/Hz@20kHz, and a wide output range of -130dBm to +13dBm. The DSG3000 RF signal generator has standard pulse modulation with an on/off ratio of up to 80dB, with an optional pulse train generator also available. The DSG3000 series has a typical ...

German tooling systems expert BENZ Inc. has announced that it will be introducing new aggregate heads including the BENZ HF103 Solidfix Spindle Motor at this year's International Woodworking Fair (IWF), which is being held August 20 -23, 2014, at the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta, GA. The new HF103 Solidfix Spindle Motor is sold exclusively by BENZ and enables users to change tools quickly using adapters that hold a variety of tools instead of requiring a labor-intensive manual tool change or adding an expensive automatic tool changer. BENZ will have the HF103 ...

Lady Lux Swimwear is a designer luxury swimwear line that was created with the intention of having every women look and feel great. The luxury brand was first started in 2007 and has grown to be one of the top selling luxury designer swimwear lines across the United States and internationally. With such great success over the years, Lady Lux is receiving remarkable media coverage by top fashion bloggers and major fashion editors and was recently featured on The Skinny Confidential Fashion Blog. Fashion guru and blogger Lauryn Evarts is the face behind famous The Skinny ...

Last Friday night two community oriented organizations, iLoveKickboxing-Sandy and Lole (Live Out Loud Everyday) in Salt Lake City, teamed up to provide a free community Women's Empowerment Night in Sandy Utah. The free event included a visit from 2010 US Olympian and Lole Ambassador Rebekah Bradford as well as a basic self defense workshop presented by "Utah's Leading Family Safety Expert" Brett Lechtenberg of iLoveKickboxing-Sandy and Personal Mastery Martial Arts. Rebekah Bradford is an Olympic speedskater who competed in the 2010 Olympics in Vancouver for the United ...

mTrip has announced the launch of a new mobile solution for tour operators. A leader in the travel industry for award winning white label solutions and consumer travel apps, mTrip's latest offering targets the modern day needs of tour operators by improving customer satisfaction, visibility and relationships with their customers. Replacing the traditional printout sent to a customer, tour operators can offer their customers a 100% offline, branded mobile application for iPhone or Android that includes all of their trip details, travel guides and advanced guidance features. Customers ...

Alzheimer's Association, Orange County (AAOC) will host the 8th Annual Visionary Women Luncheon, presented by the Argyros Family Foundation, on Friday, May 9, to honor and celebrate five extraordinary Orange County caregivers for their compassion, care and strength for those touched by Alzheimer's disease or related forms of dementia. With the luncheon coming just two days before Mother's Day, this year's celebrity guest speaker is actress Marion Ross, best known as the mother of Richie Cunningham on TV's "Happy Days". The signature event of AAOC's Visionary Women 1000 ...

Epic Flight Academy, a prestigious international flight school that has been successfully training brand new pilots through commercial airline pilots for over fifteen years, has recently announced a strategic pilot career partnership program with the prominent regional airline, ExpressJet. This new accelerated pilot career program allows newly licensed pilots that are eligible to work in the USA, the opportunity to immediately start working as a professional domestic airline pilot upon graduating from Epic Flight Academy's exclusive "Zero to Hero Flight School Program". ...

In a first for the company and the process chiller industry, leading chiller manufacturer Legacy Chiller Systems is launching its system upgrade effort for all customers who have previously purchased process chillers with the company. The factory replacement kit includes a PLC and a full color HMI touch screen. The ability to field upgrade a process chiller's complete control architecture is a first of a kind in the industry. The retrofit/upgrade is available on the following models: PAC, PACT, VPACT, PWC, and PWCT with existing PSG control boards that have been on ...

Announced today by VARTA Microbattery, a global leader in the design, manufacturing and marketing of an extensive variety of high-technology rechargeable and primary batteries for the industrial, medical and communications industries, is the CellPac BLOX system. The CellPac BLOX system is a design program implemented to offer OEMs a semi-custom power solution when off-the-shelf lithium ion (li-ion) or lithium polymer (LiPO) soft pack battery assemblies do not meet the design criteria. A dedicated CellPac BLOX engineering staff is specifically trained to help accelerate ...

Originally started by the Autism Society in the 1970s, the month of April continues to serve as National Autism Awareness Month with the intention to bring to light the growing need for concern and awareness surrounding autism spectrum disorder (ASD). This special month has afforded countless opportunities for nearly 40 years and counting. Sadly, though autism has become increasingly common (now affecting 1 in 68 U.S. children according the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in comparison to the 1 in 2,000 statistic of the 1970s) this increase may also be reflective ...

The reasons why they do it are as numerous and diverse as the thousands of runners who will line up at Monmouth Park on Sunday to compete in the Novo Nordisk New Jersey Marathon, produced by Life Time -The Healthy Way of Life Company. From personal stories of overcoming diseases, to selfless supporting of a cause close to their hearts, to fitness or just plain wanting to run, competitors in the Marathon, Long Branch Half Marathon, Half Marathon Relay and ShapingNJ 5K at Monmouth Park shared some of their motivations as they prepared to hit the pavement at the Jersey Shore ...

Hein & Associates, a leading accounting and advisory firm, has been named one of the 2015 Vault Accounting 50, a ranking of the 50 best accounting employers to work for in North America. Vault.com, a career intelligence website, provides in-depth intelligence on what it's really like to work in an industry, company or profession. For a complete list of the 2015 Best Places to Work for accounting professionals, view the entire Vault Accounting 50 Rankings list. Managing Partner, Brian Mandell-Rice, explains that Hein has created a culture that it's employees can be ...