David E. Coffman served as a judge for the 2013 Venture Plan Competition held by the Greater Susquehanna Keystone Innovation Zone (GSKIZ). The competition included business plans submitted by students from Bloomsburg University, Bucknell University, Luzerne County Community College, and Susquehanna University. The winners were: first place - Vast Frontier Innovations (Bloomsburg University); second place - POSH Prom Rentals (Susquehanna University); and third place - Agua (Bucknell University). The Greater Susquehanna KIZ is a partnership made up of: The Innovation ...

Marketing Innovations International, Inc. recently enhanced its popular MIStyle Award Voucher to include expanded delivery options, customization and e-gift card merchants (including Amazon, iTunes, Starbucks, JCPenney, Staples, and Banana Republic, among others). The vouchers and redemption website are now customizable with a business or program logo, reinforcing brand identity at every stage of the redemption process. Program participants can opt to redeem their vouchers through the branded website, by fax or mail, and select from more than 300 merchants. "We ...

The Georgia College Wellness Center invites students to take a proactive and holistic approach to their health. The 101,000 square foot (9,190m2) facility spans three floors and includes an Olympic-sized swimming pool, lounge pool, indoor track, basketball and tennis courts, fitness center, climbing wall and extreme activities facilities. Green Certification The center was also designed and constructed with holistic goals to help the project meet stringent LEED Silver program requirements. The LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) programs provide a ...

Boral Roofing, the nation's largest provider of premium sustainable clay and concrete roofing tile systems, announced it will feature a concrete tile roof solution on the Green Builder Media VISION House currently under construction in Tucson, Arizona. This is a joint collaboration between iconic green builders John Wesley Miller and Ron Jones along with sustainable building publisher Green Builder Media. The home is designed using Net-Zero energy and is located inside the nationally acclaimed Armory Park del Sol community. Optimized for performance, the home includes ...

Fuentek, LLC (http://www.fuentek.com/), a local consulting firm that provides intellectual property (IP) and technology transfer services, has announced that Laura Schoppe, president, will serve as a keynote speaker at Knowledge Innovation Market (KIM)'s KIMconference 2013: Monetizing Intellectual Property on Friday, April 26. She will be discussing the general situation of technology commercialization in North America and Europe, and identify opportunities for foreign organizations to become involved in the technology transfer market in North America. With nearly 20 years ...

Safeplace, one of the most trusted manufacturers of guestroom safes to the global hospitality industry, today announces the introduction of their latest innovation — the Extreme Advanced Electronic Safe. Safeplace's Extreme Safe features blue illuminated buttons for easy operation in dimly lit guestrooms, as well as an LED display, audio visual feedback for each operation, standard left and right opening, sleep mode, internal light, replaceable doors, and an anti-tamper feature. Extreme is ADA compliant, and also includes a low-battery indicator and external backup, ...

The Business Show UK held annually by Forwardline Events has invited Avant Garde Ideals CEO Paul Weston, as a business owner himself, to attend its Southampton show. The Business Development and Growth show, held on the 24th of May, aims to bring together local business owners, directors and senior decision makers and offers companies the chance to set up exhibition stands and partake in educational seminars headed by industry experts. As CEO of Avant Garde Ideals, an outsourced event sales and marketing company, Paul Weston has experienced rapid growth and short term ...

Dr. Michael Vories, a hair transplant surgeon specializing in follicular unit extraction (FUE) and medical director of Carolina Hair Surgery, was recognized as the only recommended FUE hair transplant surgeon on HairTransplantNetwork.com, the leading online hair transplant resource. Dr. Vories performs the FUE procedure exclusively in his two medical practices in the Charlotte, NC area and Charleston, SC. The FUE hair transplant allows the hair surgeon to extract individual hair follicles from the donor area in the back of the head leaving no visible scar and then transplant ...

Harrison College (http://www.harrison.edu/), an institution of higher learning with more than 5,000 students studying at 14 campuses and online, has announced that Joe Diaz, M.A., SPHR, will join the college as director of corporate learning and operations. In this position, Diaz will be responsible for managing the institution's corporate education and training programs as well as assuring quality and desired outcomes in the delivery of educational activities and effectiveness of corporate training. Diaz received his master's degree in social psychology from Ball State ...

Oombaga, the mobile application which allows timeshare owners to pay maintenance fees, make reservations and carry out transactions with their resort in real time, was honored at the Resort Development Association's World Convention with the Ace Innovator Award. The award recognizes those who have successfully implemented a groundbreaking product, service or concept. "It's about recognizing the 'best of the best' in the vacation ownership industry," said Howard Nusbaum, president and CEO of ARDA. One of the requirements of winning the coveted ACE Award is support ...

The challenge of properly cleaning the Europay-MasterCard-Visa (EMV) read pins within new EMV ready point of sale (POS) Card Reader Terminals, is now greatly reduced by a new product from KICTeam, the industry leading manufacturer of cleaning cards. This Universal Card Reader Cleaning Card featuring Waffletechnology has a unique patented design which engages the EMV read pins to easily, quickly and efficiently clean them without taking the terminal out of service. Studies on proper cleaning of POS Terminals have shown that 80% of all devices sent for repair could have remained ...

Award winning Minnesota author Karl Vanghen has announced the release of his latest historical fiction novel 'Lowertown'. The book details St. Paul's part in the Civil War, built around the formation of the Civilian Alliance Committee, to replace police and fire personnel who answered the call to arms in 1861. After the Union army's terrible loss at Bull Run, President Abraham Lincoln called for every able-bodied young man between eighteen and forty-five years of age to volunteer to fight for the life of their country. For seventeen- year-old Devon Finch, watching his ...

Autograde, the authorized manufacturer of speed limiting devices in UAE has been awarded the prestigious Emirates Quality Mark Certification (EQM) at the International Conference for School Transportation and Exhibition for the Middle East and North African regions, at Dubai World Trade Centre (DWTC) on 22nd April 2013. The award was presented by Eng. Mohamed Saleh Badri, Acting General of Emirates Authority for Standardization (ESMA) to Mr. Mohammed Ashraf, Managing Director of Autograde upon the company's successful compliance with ESMA's certification requirements. Commenting ...

Ashton Woods Homes Raleigh (http://www.ashtonwoodshomes.com), the North Carolina division of an award-winning national private home builder, has announced that the firm experienced a record month of sales in March 2013, marking the company's highest sales since entering the Triangle market in 2010. The 23 homes sold in March reflects Ashton Woods Homes Raleigh's exponential growth, as well as overall housing market improvements across the Raleigh-Durham area. Sales ranged across the Triangle, with a spike in the company's Davis Park development, a community that stands ...

FindEmployment, a rapidly developing global recruitment platform, has today announced its integration with Broadbean Technology. This new cooperation between Broadbean and FindEmployment will give recruiters access to one of the world's most successful multiposting and response tracking solutions. FindEmployment is on its way to become the world's biggest, all-encompassing employment network, which makes integration with Broadbean Technology necessary in order to streamline the recruitment process for recruiters worldwide. Recruiters registered on FindEmployment will ...

Recognized by TIME Magazine, MSNBC, and Parents Magazine, Summer Advantage USA hopes to fill over 175 jobs Colorado and Chicago. Benefiting thousands of children nationwide, Summer Advantage USA is a research based summer learning program that works with school districts and schools to impact student achievement in grades K - 9. The program is recruiting for multiple positions in Chicago and Colorado. Colorado opportunities: In partnership with Summit 54, Summer Advantage USA is returning to Roaring Fork Valley in Colorado. Summer Advantage will operate in ...

Kutol Products Company has been chosen by Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted to be featured as an April Ohio Business Profile for its contribution to the state's economy and the country's emerging bio-products industry. 'We are honored to be highlighted as an Ohio Business Profile for biobased manufacturing by Ohio's Secretary of State, " notes Joe Rhodenbaugh, president of Kutol Products Company. "Our USDA BioPreferred line of hand hygiene products provides our customers with another dimension of environmentally preferred options in addition to our Green ...

"Nina Jo brings back everything I loved about the 1960s, the dream of peace, the power of love..." - Michael Buffalo Smith, http://universalmusictribe.com/ Local singer-songwriter Nina Jo Smith is releasing her debut full-length studio album People, Places and Sings on April 29th, 2013. Following a successful Kickstarter campaign, Smith recorded People, Places and Sings which offers an eclectic mix of original songs spanning multiple genres including Americana, folk, and country. "Hey Songwriter" has already been picked up by 356 radio stations. Nina ...

SECUDE, an innovative data security provider, announces the upcoming release of SecureDocument, a data protection solution that is designed to bridge the gap between SAP security and the rest of the corporate IT landscape by using SECUDE's innovative "Middleware" approach. SecureDocument uses Microsoft Active Directory Rights Management Services (AD RMS) to automatically apply Information Rights Management (IRM) protection to data downloaded from SAP. Key changes implemented to 2013 Microsoft AD RMS pushed SECUDE to create a solution that goes beyond the traditional ...

"The types of eye problems that can occur from UV and sun exposure are not trivial," explained Indiana Ophthalmologist Scott Buck, M.D. "There are numerous studies as well as our own clinical experience that link UV exposure and eye sun damage to the early formation of cataracts, increased risk of age related macular degeneration, facial and eyelid skin cancers, a growth of vascular tissue on the surface of the eye called a pterygium and even solar keratitis and solar retinitis-inflammation of the cornea and the retina," explained Dr. Scott Buck. "I ...

For Bioceutica, the first quarter of 2013 has been nothing short of amazing in terms of company growth, individual income, new products and product lines introduced, existing products re-introduced, incentives, sales tools, web development and all the other benchmarks by which accomplishments can be measured. Candace Keefe, Bioceutica's CEO announced on a recent National Conference call to the organizations Independent Consultants: "Our numbers are impressive. I don't believe that there is another multi level marketing company currently matching our growth."A ...

The Specialty Hospital of Washington - Capitol Hill has developed a Coma Neuro Stimulation Program Unit in a cooperative project with internationally renowned neurologist Dr. Peter Bernad. The Coma Neuro Stimulation Program Unit will offer multi-sensory treatment protocols developed by Dr. Bernad to reestablish meaningful intellectual and physical functionality in patients with traumatic brain injury. Susan Bailey, CEO of Specialty Hospital of Washington - Capitol Hill, explained the significance of the new unit, "Dr. Bernad has been treating his patients here at ...

The full-day event held on the 20th April involved a series of business development seminars where experts on their field provided advice and information for attendees, and a 'meet and greet' session to enable networking and questions. Qaysar Bhatti, MD of Tempest Elite Marketing felt that the event was extremely worthwhile and informative: "The Hilton was packed with entrepreneurs of all stages - from people starting their first businesses to serial entrepreneurs, so it was great to hear different experiences and points of view. I certainly made some useful contacts ...

In 2012, the URALCHEM group increased funding for environmental programs to 465.6 million roubles. This represents an increase of more than 28% compared with 2011. Successful projects included new modern processing facilities and treatment systems, industrial waste recycling and reclamation of previously polluted sites. The Azot branch of URALCHEM in Berezniki in 2012 implemented an environmental programme costing a total of more than 44 million roubles. During the year, factory emissions were reduced by 3%, concentration of monoethanolamine pollutants in waste water ...

Research published by IBM demonstrates that outsourcing is a growing trend in the Australian market. The Australian BPO Report 2012 shows that up to 65% of Australian businesses engage in some form of business process outsourcing. Sydney-based firm LMS Thinking believes both Australian brands and individuals can benefit from this trend. Outsourcing is the allocation of specific business functions to an independent contractor or company as opposed to an in-house department or employee. LMS Thinking, an outsourced marketing and sales company that expanded into Sydney ...