TargetGov has teamed up with bwtech@UMBC to bring the Government Contracting Institute to the Baltimore/Washington area. The goal of the Government Contracting Institute is to accelerate businesses within the federal government marketplace. Eleven courses began on February 21, 2013 and continue through July 30, 2013. The Government Contracting Institute offers a series of courses pertaining to all aspects of contracting with the federal government. Topics covered include gap analysis, market identification strategies and tactics, marketing effectively to the federal ...

"Let's Journey Into Fashion" announces the launch of its on-line retail store http://www.letsjourneyintofashion.com featuring the fashionable and affordable designs of former Mrs. World OLM, Yassin Hall. Yassin launched "Let's Journey Into Fashion" in 2011. As a divorced mom raising four children on a budget, Yassin wondered how she could provide high-end, fashionable clothing at affordable prices. Her retail store is more than just fashion. It's about the life journey that we all individually travel. Yassin motivates women on her YouTube blog. The ...

TechBA is a program created in 2005 by the Mexican Ministry of Economy and is operated by the U.S.-Mexico Foundation for Science - FUMEC (www.fumec.org) to provide specialized consulting for small and medium sized enterprises (SME) in Mexico looking to expand its operations in international markets. TechBA strengthens entrepreneurship, technological innovation for technology-based SMEs and facilitate their internationalization process by providing consulting services tailored to their needs. Their model is aimed at accelerating the development of enterprises, providing ...

The Denver Center for Bariatric Surgery (www.denverbariatrics.com) is putting the focus on post-surgical nutrition to steer patients towards healthy habits. The people in this country are getting bigger and bigger. Lifestyle is a large component in that escalating trend. Through awareness events like National Nutrition Month, the healthcare community is fighting a war against obesity. The staff at the Denver Center for Bariatric Surgery is doing their part through nutrition education. Making the decision that surgery is the right course of action is just the first step ...

Local Measure, the business counterpart to consumer startup Roamz, today announced the launch of its geo-based social media management solution for businesses. Local Measure helps businesses become more efficient and customer-focused by highlighting insights and conversations happening at individual business locations in real-time. Local Measure's globally unique monitoring and engagement tools leverages aggregated location-based social data to provide meaningful store level insight for businesses. The social media management tool gives businesses access to data analytics ...

Louis A. Bencardino, owner of Bencardino Excavating (www.bencardino.com), a Bucks County, Pa. full-service excavating company has been hired by Vanalt Electrical Construction to manage all the excavation and concrete work at the Hamilton Sub-station in Mercer County, New Jersey. "The crew and I are excited to be working with Vanalt Elecrical and look forward to contributing to the sub-station improvements," said Louis Bencardino. "It's a pleasure to take a role in the upgrades for AMTRAK in New Jersey, helping better their infrastructure." The ...

The Grauer School hosted a performing arts Cafe Night, "A Night of Originals", featuring student performances on February 21, 2013, in the Great Hall on the campus located in Encinitas, CA. Under the guidance of Theatrical Director, Erin Langen, Muscial Director, Isaac Langen and Art Director, Christy Goodson, The Grauer School students engaged the audience in a variety of artistic presentations and dramatical skits. Proceeds from the event benefit The Grauer School's after-school arts programs. The event commemorated the premiere of the Grauer School Record's ...

Cheer Channel Inc. (CCI), the #1 online news and entertainment network for the spirit industry, will release Episode 2 of the hit web-series Secret Diary of an American Cheerleader 2: The Fierce One, Monday March 11, 2013 at 5pm PST. Cheer Channel will also continue with the second week of the sponsor contest on the Secret Diary Facebook page, where viewers can win prizes from the series sponsors. All Secret Diary 2 videos, and much more can be viewed on the Cheer Channel website, Secret Diary Show YouTube channel, and the Secret Diary of an American Cheerleader Facebook ...

Shoed-In Magazine has released its third print and online issue featuring the latest emerging shoe trends, 3 London based emerging shoe brands and an interview with Sabrina Mckenzie, cast member of Style Network's Big Rich Atlanta. To celebrate, Shoed-In Magazine is launching the "Shoed-Box Giveaway" on Facebook. The grand prize shoe box includes a pair of 2 Lips Too wedges featured in the March issue, High Heel Healers and other shoe-lover necessities. Follow Shoed-In Magazine at Facebook.com/ShoedIn to enter to win and for official contest rules.About Shoed-In ...

The business and entertainment law firm Shackelford, Melton & McKinley, LLP, announces the addition of corporate attorney James M. Addams in the firm's Dallas office. Mr. Addams' practice focuses on counseling clients on a broad range of significant legal matters, including the acquisition and disposition of businesses and major assets, creation of joint ventures and strategic alliances, purchase and sale agreements involving products and equipment, distribution and supply agreements, operating leases, and antitrust issues. He also assists clients with business management ...

AmpliVox Sound Systems, a leading designer and manufacturer of presentation equipment, has expanded its popular line of Acrylic Lecterns with 14 different styles to fit any setting. These lecterns are part of AmpliVox's broad and deep collection of lectern products, featuring the widest range of materials and styles in the industry. Additionally, AmpliVox now offers an elegant customizable logo option to many of its lecterns, including a number of its Acrylic and Euro-Contemporary models. The new option allows any logo or image to appear on the front panel of these attractive ...

Hooked today debuts a new platform for app developers, Boomerang, an extension to its existing app discovery platform and game discovery engine for Google Play. Boomerang is solving the problem of discovery for game app developers by leveraging its intelligent prediction engine - based on user behavior and advanced algorithms - to promote apps to the right user. Now, app developers can increase their exposure among users with a greater potential for installs and user retention. According to recent studies, by 2015 ad spending on mobile games is expected to reach nearly ...

Mindsharp, a SharePoint Training company, will be hosting the 2013 Best Practices Conference. This SharePoint Conference is unique because it is the only peer-sharing conference for business leaders and stakeholders. There will be over 30 speakers from well-known profit and non-profit organizations, including Mark Rackley of Summit 7 Systems and Jim Bob Howard of Planet Technologies. Mark has been developing software applications for over 17 years and currently works for Summit 7 Systems as a Solutions Architect. He makes key SharePoint architecture and development decisions ...

Kafer, Inc (http://www.kafer.com), the US-based technology solutions company, is pleased to announce the recent growth of its Java Development and IT Support teams to align with new client opportunities. "We continue to experience strong growth as we drive forward with our efforts," stated Jason Kafer, Chief Executive Officer. "Our momentum is attracting great people and I'm delighted to welcome our latest team members." Jeffrey Allen Fischette Jr, IT Support Mr. Fischette joins Kafer, Inc after being sourced from the Rochester Institute of Technology, ...

Spring has arrived and Harris Seeds is ready to help customers find the vegetables, flowers and supplies they'll need to get the gardening season off to a great start. Many items featured in Harris' Spring Shop are on sale at up to 20% off. Harris Seeds teases the taste buds by offering 'Tastes of Spring' - a delicious collection of home grown vegetables that bring to mind spring recipes and dishes. Choose from plants or seeds of carrots, peas, mushrooms, potatoes and asparagus. Nothing is fresher than growing vegetables right in your own backyard. Grow gorgeous hanging ...

Ubbi, creator of sleek and intricately designed products for families, is excited to announce the launch of its top-of-the-line diaper pail in a sophisticated new color, pistachio, in the spirit of spring. With this new chic color, parents can add style, elegance, and functionality to any home or nursery. Always looking to expand its offerings to meet the needs of parents and their children, the new pistachio Ubbi Diaper Pail is perfect for both boys and girls nurseries, offering a fun yet understated splash of color. The new color, paired with the product's trademark ...

Jay Krishnamoorthy, Chairman of ASQ New Haven Section 0305, announced today Daryl Guberman, a quality management specialists with over 30 years experience in the aerospace, medical implants and materials, and printing fields will be the featured speaker for ASQ New Haven on April 17, 2013 at Casa Nova Ristorante, 833 River Road, Shelton, Connecticut. Guberman, President and Founder of Guberman-PMC, LLC, will discuss at the meeting the essentials of quality management and processes, including an overview on ISO standardization and compliance, the lack of value-added ...

The Colorado Cleantech Industry Association (CCIA) is beginning efforts to highlight companies that are bridging the gap between traditional and new energy to support the creation of a stronger, cleaner and more efficient energy industry. "In the past, there has been this perception of competition between traditional energy and cleantech. It doesn't have to be one or the other," said Chris Shapard, executive director of CCIA. "I believe that clean technologies working in partnership with traditional energy sources will push innovation in both sectors, ...

Cost Containment International, LLC announces their purchase of 25 Renewable Energy Certificates (RECs), helping C2 Intl. achieve their sustainability goals; the use of green power to meet 100% of their company's electricity use. In so doing, the company has earned qualification as an EPA 100% Green Power Partner. "This purchase is part of our mission to support the continued development of renewable energy," said Hans Herrmann, President of Cost Containment. "Our purchase of the environmental attributes of 25 megawatt hours of renewable energy generation ...

Billie Redmond, CEO of TradeMark Properties (http://www.trademarkproperties.com/), has announced that Tara Kreider, vice president at the firm, has received the Triangle Commercial Association of REALTORS (TCAR) 2012 Million Dollar Land Sales Club award for the second year in a row, as part of meeting the requirement of having a minimum sales volume of $2,500,000 in land sales for 2012. Each year, TCAR recognizes members who have made significant achievements to the industry and community as part of the President's Frontier Awards. TCAR is the second largest commercial ...

Diane Kuehn, president and CEO of VisionPoint Marketing (http://www.visionpointmarketing.com), a Raleigh-based online marketing agency that provides strategic consulting, development and execution of online marketing solutions for higher education, has announced that the firm has been selected to collaborate with Virginia Tech Director of Web Communications, John Jackson, and his team to design and develop a new website for the university which will replace the one located at http://www.vt.edu. VisionPoint Marketing will be responsible for extensive research and usability ...

D|C|CADD, a leading Autodesk solutions provider offering software and services to the building, infrastructure and manufacturing communities, today announced that it has been awarded the new Simulation Specialization designation for value added resellers from Autodesk, Inc., a world leader in 3D design, engineering and entertainment software. The Autodesk Simulation Specialization allows D|C|CADD to demonstrate their expertise in delivering services in key industry areas. By completing the required curriculum and training, as well as meeting high levels of service and ...

Flip.to, a brand advocate platform that helps hotels use the marketing power of social networks by encouraging guests to spread the word about upcoming stays, has unveiled an entirely new website with a focus on illustrating how hotels around the world are using Flip.to to boost brand awareness and their bottom lines. The debut of the new http://www.flip.to comes on the heels of a new software infrastructure rollout that ensures the Flip.to platform is even faster, more reliable and more secure than before. The new http://www.flip.to is designed to tell the story of ...

1099 W2 software provider halfpricesoft.com released the new ezW2 software for 2013 tax season. This W2 1099-misc program gives small businesses and accountants another option for W2 and 1099 Printing and filing, combining versatility in features with affordability. ezW2 software fills out, prints and efiles W2, W3, 1099 and 1096. Two new features inside the latest version speeds up tax filing for last users: - Fast data import feature: Users can import recipient data, W2 data and 1099-misc data easily and quickly from external .csv file. This saves customers time, ...

Mortgage rates for fixed rate programs were down on average this week reports mortgage rate research website, PriceAMortgage.com, reversing course after a small increase last week. On Friday, March 22, 2013 30 year fixed mortgage rates were advertised in the rate tables as low as 3.125% (APR: 3.365%, Points: 1.776, Fees in APR: $1995, Lender: AimLoan.com. 15 year fixed rates were posted as low as 2.375% (APR: 2.582%, Points: 0.875, Fees in APR: $946, Lender: Home Loan Enterprise,) and 5/1 ARM interest rates as low as 1.750% (APR: 2.586%, Points: 2.000, Fees in APR: $1845, ...