GreenLeaf Media Group has purchased 11 RECs (11,000 kWh). This purchase will cover the energy used to run eight websites, designed and supported internally, over a 12 month period. An average website uses approximately 108 kWh to run per month, which comes out to 10,368 kWh per year. This purchase of the environmental attributes for 11 megawatt hours of renewable energy generation equates to 12,307 pounds of CO2 NOT being produced. 12,307 pounds of CO2 or 11 RECs is equivalent to: • the emissions from 626 gallons of gasoline consumed • the emissions from 233 ...

Adventure travel gear maker Travelpro, is teaming up with The Global Scavenger Hunt to outfit this year's participants who will be competing in the 9th annual around-the-world travel adventure competition that will crown The World's Greatest Travelers. The Global Scavenger Hunt's event will take place over 23-days between April 12th and May 4th, 2013. Teams of two will be competing in this annual travel adventure and cultural immersion that will travel from Los Angeles to Toronto—the long way! Intrepid Indiana Jone's (and Jane's) will be taking A Blind Date With The ...

Fairfield Harbour (http://www.fhpoa.com), a residential boating and golf community located 15 minutes from historic New Bern, has announced that the community's property owners association (POA) office will be collecting nonperishable food items for the Religious Community Services (RCS) Food Drive through Friday, April 5. RCS is a community-based organization of unified churches that works to help meet the basic or emergency needs of individuals and families in the New Bern area by reaching out to support those in need. Fairfield Harbor will be helping restock the RCS ...

As easy as uno, dos, tres, Monarca Language aims to give children the proper educational resources to learn Spanish at a young age through inspiring and stimulating learning materials. Parents, teachers and schools can now work collaboratively toward the shared goal of promoting increased Spanish fluency among preschoolers through this collection of enriching worksheets and curriculum that contributes to cultural awareness and linguistic abilities. Through handcrafted and teacher-tested curriculum, Monarca Language supplies the necessary tools for preschool and kindergarten ...

Innovative-e, Inc., a business consulting and technology solutions company that helps enterprise clients turn project management chaos into success, is a premier partner sponsoring the SHARE 2013 conference, the SharePoint conference for business users. SHARE 2013 will take place in Atlanta, Georgia, at the Atlanta Marriott Marquis April 10-12, 2013. During the event, Innovative-e managing partner, Dux Raymond Sy, will be facilitating a one-day Deliver SharePoint Success Workshop, titled: "How to Drive Sustainable Adoption in Your Organization." The workshop ...

Access to maternal, newborn and child health care is a growing global health and human rights concern. CPAR's World Health Day challenge is an annual event that provides physicians with the means to demonstrate their commitment to global health beyond the boundaries of their community. This year's campaign will be on Maternal, Newborn and Child Health in Tanzania, where every day 23 women die in child birth. Their support builds on the efforts of the project that launched in 2012. On World Health Day, April 7th, we are challenging Canadian Physicians to rally in support ...

The Optoelectronics Company, a leading global supplier and manufacturer of innovative optoelectronic components including Opnext (OCLARO) laser diodes and Panasonic lenses, has introduced a range of tiny laser diode collimators with high alignment accuracy specifically aimed at OEMs and system integrators using laser based technology in their products. Laser diode collimators are used to collimate the highly divergent beam that is emitted by a laser diode. They consist of a laser diode, a laser diode holder, a collimating lens holder and a high numerical aperture (NA) ...

Career Step, an online school offering career-focused education, has announced that all new Medical Coding and Billing students will now also receive a free enrollment in the school's ICD-10 FastTrack course, which will be released this summer. "Our primary goal is to ensure our students graduate with the skills required to begin working in their chosen field immediately following the completion of their program," said Career Step CEO Steve Tober. "To that end, we will continue training Medical Coding students on the ICD-9 code set as these students will ...

Advanced Networks (www.a-networks.com) creates IT infrastructure for multi-channel news network NewsMax Media's first New York City location. West Palm Beach-based news media company NewsMax has established a presence in New York City with a 5,000 square foot office space on West 40th Street, directly overlooking Bryant Park. The new office fills an entire floor and has space for up to thirty employees. Also included is a hi-tech television studio where video production for the company's NewsMaxTV and MoneyNews websites will take place. "NewsMax is expanding ...

The Institute for Economic Empowerment of Women (IEEW) (http://ieew.org), a nonprofit organization that encourages women's leadership and entrepreneurship through education and mentoring initiatives, has announced that CEO Dr. Terry Neese has earned the 2014 Enterprising Women Legacy Award by Enterprising Women magazine. Neese will receive the honor during the 11th annual Enterprising Women of the Year Awards Celebration on Thursday, April 4 in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. The Enterprising Women Legacy Award seeks to recognize women in the Enterprising Women community who have ...

Citybuzz Marketing have been enduring the freeze along with the rest of Britain and hear that the Federation of Small Businesses have just announced that members were "particularly hard-hit" in March. Businesses where cash flow is vital, such as restaurants and bars, are really suffering, it said. Estimates vary widely about the full extent of the overall cost to the UK economy of the cold weather but approximations suggest that one-fifth of the economy has been affected, costing about GBP1bn every day. Some industries will suffer a temporary hit, analysts ...

The top executives for global timeshare exchange company Dial An Exchange (DAE) will be leaving their corporate headquarters to attend the American Resort Development Association (ARDA) World Convention, to be held April 8-10 at the Westin Diplomat Resort & Spa in Hollywood, FL. Billed as the largest timeshare industry convention in the world, nearly 3,000 professionals are expected to gather for three days of meetings and sessions to discuss the state of the vacation ownership industry and trends which will affect the growth of the industry going forward. Fermin ...

Rabine Utility Paving is the leader in utility paving services in the Midwest, completing up to 10,000 utility patches each year for utility companies, facility managers, homeowners associations, and municipalities. Rabine Utility Paving is working to expand its Vacuum Excavation services. As directional drilling has become popular as an efficient way of installing pipe systems, issues have arose from these horizontal drills breaking into other pipelines, causing serious and even life-threatening problems. In order to check for these issues before they become a larger ...

Join the Simply Ghost Nights team on a ghost hunting event as we head to Woodchester Mansion, in the hart of the beautiful county of Gloucestershire. Set in approximately 3,000 acres of land the mansion is the perfect backdrop to its surroundings. But that is where the serenity ends, there have being around twelve apparitions documented on this site since around the 18th century. Countryside. Woodchester Mansion is world famous for being most haunted by a variety of spectral beings through ages. The first recorded settlement in Woodchester goes as far back as the Roman ...

The Philadelphia personal injury law firm Feldman Shepherd Wohlgelernter Tanner Weinstock & Dodig LLP is proud to announce that personal injury attorney and firm partner Roberta D. Pichini was inducted as a Fellow in the International Society of Barristers (ISOB) at its annual meeting in Mexico on March 11, 2013. The International Society of Barristers is an invitation-only, limited-membership society dedicated to preserving trial by jury, the adversary system and an independent judiciary. Its founders conceived the organization in order to bring together the best ...

Fellow Consulting thereby is one of the first partners in Germany, offering the complete spectrum of services - starting from consulting in early project phases and change management to the point of setup, migration, technical integration and maintenance. "Being Google Apps Reseller, we can provide the Google Tools very fast and comfortable for our customers. They profit from the most advanced Cloud Service Provider worldwide and our longtime experience implementing SaaS-solutions for our customers." Says Manuel Kanka, director of Fellow Consulting AG. Google ...

Avens Supported Living Sussex (ASLS) built on its fantastic results from 2012 and achieved very high levels of care delivery having met the required standards in all of the areas that were inspected. ASLS works with private landlords to provide support to adults with learning disabilities to live independently in their own homes. Inspectors from the (CQC) visited the care agency as part of an unannounced routine inspection and judged that ASLS was meeting all essential standards of quality and safety. The inspection covered care, user involvement, welfare and rights, ...

When is a cruise not a boat trip? When it's a car show. The Red Hot Blues Cruise, a gathering of spicy food, music and cars is set for 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. on Saturday, April 20, along Ocean Avenue just east of Seacrest Boulevard. A FREE event and fun for all. Just released "Nothing's Too Hot For Me" Hot Pepper Eating Contest now taking applications! Sign up at http://sweetmeliss.wufoo.com/forms/q7x2w5/ Contestants must check-in on location at the "Red Hot Blues Cruise Event" Saturday, April 20, at 5 p.m. to participate. Contest will be at 7 p.m. on ...

Lee Enterprises Consulting of Little Rock, Ark., the world's largest alternative and renewable fuel consulting group, is pleased to announce the formation of a strategic alliance with ICM, Inc. of Colwich, Kansas. Established in 1995 and headquartered in Colwich, ICM is a leading ethanol technology provider in the U.S. ethanol industry with patented and patent-pending technologies. The company's proprietary licensed equipment and processes are currently used in the majority of U.S. ethanol plants, and the company continues to be a leader in developing new processes and ...

When it comes to secure cloud-based file sharing for enterprises, the most popular and praised solution is box.com. Box offers secure sharing using password-protected links and granular permissions. With a new app officially certified by box.com, Share2B users can integrate their business box account into the new enterprise social network. 'Share2B and Box.com are a dream team' says Mirco Mueller, CTO of Share2B Inc. 'The combination promises maximum data security and flexibility for businesses of all sizes'. Share2B is a brand new enterprise social network focusing ...

A.M.T. & Associates (AMT), Bangkok, Thailand, has been confirmed as a full member of the Russell Bedford global network of CPA firms. AMT was founded in 1982 and became a correspondent firm of Russell Bedford International in 2006. It is now one of the strongest local organisations providing professional services to business and government in Thailand. It has three partners and more than 80 personnel. The firm's managing partner, Prof. Emeritus Kesree Narongdej, is a well-known figure in the Thai business and academic communities. She was president of the Federation ...

The Surgery Center Experience (TSCE) announced today the launch of a new digital portal with an interactive component designed to educate consumers on the benefits of having surgery at an outpatient surgery center. With the advent of technological advances, most surgical procedures performed at an outpatient facility -- from joint replacements to spine injuries -- create a higher quality and lower cost surgical option with both shorter recovery times and reduced susceptibility to infection. According to Tom Wilson, cofounder of TSCE, "Our surgery centers are encountering ...

Exodus Studios, an events production company, announced today that the tenth annual "Art Around Adams 2013: Ten Years on the Avenue!," a music and art walk extending over 2 miles on Adams Avenue is happening on June 1 from 2 p.m. to 10 p.m. A free and family-friendly event, Art Around Adams 2013: Ten Years on the Avenue! will showcase numerous visual and performance artists, stretching from Oregon street in Normal Heights to Vista street in Kensington. More than 100 businesses will change into art galleries and/or performance arenas for the day. The event ...

Online timeshare resale and rental advertising leader BuyaTimeshare.com has received word that the annual CHaD Battle of the Badges All-Star Hockey Championship has raised just shy of $190,000 to support the Children's Hospital at Dartmouth-Hitchcock (CHaD). As a sponsor of the event, BuyaTimeshare.com was informed by event organizers through email of the totals, with a record 5,511 people attending the event at the Verizon Wireless Arena in Manchester, NH on March 16. CHaD is New Hampshire's only full care children's hospital, with this year's event helping to ...

MediPurpose, a manufacturer and master distributor of medical products, today announced the publication of a new white paper, Reinventing a Better Safety Heelstick: Obtaining U.S. FDA 510(k) for Sharps Prevention Features. The white paper illustrates: - The meaning and significance of a 510(k) for medical devices with sharps injury prevention features. - Why MediPurpose applied for a new 510(k) for its babyLance safety heelstick--despite having already received clearance for its first generation heelstick device. - How MediPurpose identified and met the requirements ...