OSS is proud to offer a pet supply donation box at each of our locations for May and June. We encourage all staff, patients, and anyone in the community to stop by and donate pet food, new or gently used pet supplies, and toys for the Doney Memorial Pet Clinic. The Doney Memorial Pet Clinic is 100% volunteer run and donation funded. This local clinic provides veterinary care to the pets of homeless and other low income qualifying pet families. They also offer a pet food bank and have been offering pet care for over 25 years. Their mission in addition to helping pets ...

Marti Reeder of John L. Scott was named "Best Realtor" in the Kent Reporter's 2013 "Best of Kent" contest. This is the fifth time Reeder has received the award, having previously won in 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2012. Nominees for the honor were selected by Kent Reporter readers in the newspaper's annual contest. In addition to selecting their favorite realtor, readers chose their favorite Kent officials, volunteers, restaurants, shops and other businesses. The 2013 "Best Realtor" award comes on the heels of 2012 awards Reeder received for her ...

Starfish Enterprises Ltd. announce the signature of a marketing contract with The Northern Office Innovative Marketing (TNO). The contract signing took place on April 19, 2013. TNO, an independent sales and marketing consultancy, will assist in the re-launching of Starfish Enterprise's marketing of its unique water purification system. The Chairman and CEO of Starfish, Ian Cummins, stated: "We are delighted to announce our new partnership with John & his team at The Northern Office. We have been looking for a while at ways to improve our web presence and ...

David Schlocker, founder and president of DRS and Associates is proud to announce the addition of Mariakay Chakos as Senior Account Manager. Mariakay will serve a range of lighting and kitchen and bath clients for the boutique sized agency headquartered in Los Angeles, with satellite offices in New York and Boston. She will report directly to David Schlocker. For the past fifteen years, Mariakay has immersed herself in public relations. She previously worked as a Public Relations Consultant at PJs Sleep Company where she helped launch their new Ivy Organics organic mattresses ...

The University of California, Irvine Extension, UC Irvine Alumni Association and UCI Career Center will jointly present a seminar about how to create personal competitive advantage in the workplace. The event, the first in the Breakthrough Career Seminar Series, will feature HR industry leaders from Allergan and Toshiba, and is appropriate for individuals at any career stage. The event will be held on Tuesday, May 7, from 8 am to 9 am and is open to the public. The panel discussion will feature Alice White, vice president of human resources at Allergan, Inc., and Jim ...

The tale of Watercolor Postcards is masterfully created through the imaginative and cutting edge script of Conrad Goode and the artistic direction of Rajeev Dassani. Dassani is best known for his student film, A Day's Work, which won many international festival awards, as well as the Academy award for best student film. Rhett Giles and Conrad Goode are the producers with Dick Gambala and Lucinda Herrmann as executive producers. Cast and Crew expected to attend will be Laura Bell Bundy, Conrad Goode, Steve Eastin, Rajeev Dassani and Paul Sanchez. The story is about Cotton ...

Shorter College, Arkansas' only two-year historically Black college, will hold Spring Commencement Exercises on Saturday, May 11, 2013 at 11:00 a.m. in the F.C. James Building on the campus of Shorter College. Willhelm Cedric Hawkins is the first candidate for graduation since the institution's reaccreditation candidacy through the Transnational Association of Christian Colleges and Schools. Hawkins will receive an Associate of Arts degree and graduate as an honor student with a 3.5 grade point average. "Shorter College is in the midst of a re-birth," ...

Brookfield Residential's 2,883 square-foot model home at Seaside Ridge is nearing completion. Located at 809 Dolphin Circle in Encinitas, the home will showcase the community's elegant, coastal design. Including the model, Seaside Ridge will offer 23 semi-custom residences. Tours of the model home will begin Saturday, May 18 during the community's grand opening event. "Because Seaside Ridge will offer semi-custom homes, buyers will have the opportunity to help design their dream home," said Rocky Tracy, VP of Sales for Brookfield Residential. "Home buyers ...

Moog Music is proud to announce that today its founder Dr. Robert Moog will be posthumously inducted in to the United States Patent and Trademark Office National Inventors Hall of Fame. Dr. Moog is being awarded this honor for Patent No. 3475623, more commonly known to Moog fans as the Moog Ladder Filter. Moog Music, which will be hosting Moogfest, its annual celebration of the innovative spirit of Dr. Moog on April 25th-27th 2014, has creat-ed a video featuring Moog hardware engineer Rick Shaich discussing the importance and innovation of this creation. The video can ...

Matt Marshall, Director of Sales at Golden Shovel Agency, is finishing his business trek this week at Vernal, Utah. Here he will be meeting with two different Utah business/organization groups and individuals including Vernal City Mayor Gary Showalter; Naples City Mayor Dean Baker; and several County Commissioners to explain the concept of Golden Shovel Agency's Regional Sites. These meetings will offer great information and exciting opportunities for the area and for Golden Shovel Agency. Early this week Matt shared, "These progressive organizations in Utah are ...

California-based Temecula Valley Hospital in Temecula, Calif. will implement the Digisonics Cardiovascular Information System (CVIS) Solution. Temecula Valley Hospital is the third UHS facility to implement the Digisonics system for cardiovascular reporting in the Southern California area. The Digisonics CVIS will enable clinicians at the facility to quickly create structured reports for their echo (adult and pediatric), cath and nuclear studies. Users will also have fully functional remote reading capabilities through the secure web-based DigiNet Pro application for ...

OSEHRA, the Open Source Electronic Health Record Agent, a nonprofit organization dedicated to accelerating innovation in electronic health record software, announced today that MedicaSoft, LLC, has joined the OSEHRA community as a Corporate Member. This follows the April 25, 2013 announcement by MedicaSoft that Mike O'Neill, former Senior Advisor at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), has joined the firm as its new Chief Executive Officer (CEO). O'Neill, an expert in the introduction of new technologies into care environments, joins MedicaSoft after three years ...

Timeless Veterinary Systems Inc., engineers of web applications for veterinary health care, recently announced the release of their latest innovation in a growing line of premium veterinary technologies. The Timeless Case Management System is a cloud-based teleradiology platform designed to simplify the entire referral process from start to finish for both radiologists and their referring clients. The new platform is extremely customizable to empower independent consultants with an affordable first-class system, but also powerful enough to manage a global network of radiologists. According ...

BookWhirl is giving away publishing packages to three lucky Facebook fans. The Free Publishing 101 encourages authors to send a 101-word essay stating why they should be given a free publishing package. This Facebook contest is open to the public, and anyone at any age can participate. The said contest will be decided basing on the highest number of votes. The first three participants who can get the most number of votes at the end of the contest duration will be rewarded a complete publishing package. The Free Publishing 101 will run from May 1 to 31. The rewards for ...

AmOne , a leading online financial solutions provider, was a proud participant in the American Cancer Society's Relay For Life event for the South Florida area. The American Cancer Society is dedicated to helping persons who face cancer. They support research, patient services, early detection, treatment and education. The American Cancer Society , the nation's leading voluntary health organization, honored cancer survivors and their caregivers during this year's Relay For Life of Plantation, held April 26th and 27th at Plantation's Central Park. The Relay For ...

American Baptist Homes of the West is pleased to announce that Jeff Glaze, senior vice president and chief operations manager, recently joined the International Council on Active Aging's industry advisory board. He was inspired to join the board after he heard Colin Milner, ICAA's founder, speak at ICAA's annual conference in 2011 and ABHOW's annual meeting in 2012. Glaze will team with other experts in wellness, senior living communities, corporate fitness and the media to identify and respond to the needs of organizations that serve older adults. "ABHOW ...

To better reflect the full spectrum of services the agency offers, Jones Public Affairs has rebranded and adopted the name JPA Health Communications. The rebrand occurs in response to changing market dynamics, as the lines between public affairs, advocacy, traditional public relations and digital marketing continue to blur. "It's not unusual for brands to evolve over time," said Carrie Jones, principal and managing director of JPA, which also has offices in Washington, D.C. and Boston. "We're excited to embrace a new name that clearly conveys our integrated ...

This summer Yoga Is My Health Insurance (YIMHI) is mounting a USA Tour designed to inspire individuals towards healthy living. On the tour YIMHI is offering workshops that will teach participants the tools to control, manage and recover from stress. Although you can not eliminate stress from your life you can control how it affects you with techniques found in yoga. New research from the University of Oslo into Rapid Gene Expression Changes shows that yoga practice has an immediate impact on gene expression, particularly in immune cell. The data suggest that yoga results ...

IOMIC USA, manufacturer of innovative, revolutionary and dynamically designed grips, announced today that the winner of the North Texas LPGA Shootout used IOMIC grips. Two other top-10 finishers at the North Texas Shootout and one top-10 finisher at the PGA Zurich Classic also used IOMIC grips. "This is the sixth consecutive week that a professional using IOMIC grips has won a tour event. Overall we have had 17 victories on 7 different worldwide tours and we couldn't be more pleased. We congratulate the winner of the North Texas Shootout on her third victory of ...

LMI Technologies Inc. has signed an agreement to acquire 100 percent of the shares of 3D3 Solutions ("3D3", http://www.3d3solutions.com) - a leading supplier of 3D scanning software and hardware products based in Burnaby, Canada. The takeover deal will result in the integration of 3D3 by LMI Technologies under the LMI brand to create a powerhouse in 3D scanning, visualization, and measurement solutions for both inline factory automation and offline 3D scanning markets such as reverse engineering and 3D printing. 3D3 staff will continue development of HDI 3D ...

Ampush Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer, Nick Shah, presented to senior-level marketing and analytics professionals at the Interactive Insights Summit on April 30, 2013. The New Orleans event focused on ways to leverage real-time data and marketing analytics. Shah presented about the Facebook advertising landscape with the new era of News Feed and Open Graph. Shah explained how any advertiser can find success on Facebook's News Feed. Being successful and earning engagement on News Feed requires Referred Intent, the powerful force that drives people to try things ...

The Los Angeles Chapter of the Information Systems Security Association (ISSA-LA) has created a Not-for-Profit Educational Fund so that nonprofit executives and IT staff may attend, at no charge, the Fifth Annual Information Security Summit on Tuesday, May 21, 2013 at Hilton Universal City Hotel in Los Angeles. The theme of the one-day Summit is The Growing Cyber Threat: Protect Your Business, which includes the business of operating nonprofits. "We are offering free registration to our nonprofit friends because we know how important it is for nonprofits to protect ...

Labor and Employment Partner Celeste R. Yeager, Vice Chair of the Hospitality Industry Team at Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP, is slated to discuss workplace sexual harassment during the 2013 Labor and Employment Law Roundtable presented May 5-6 by The Center for Hospitality Research at Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y. Ms. Yeager will be presenting at the afternoon roundtable session on May 6 titled "Sexual Harassment 2013 - What Must an Employer Do to Comply with Ellerth and Does Ellerth Matter Anymore?" This is the fourth time she has been invited to participate ...

As the days get warmer and wedding season is upon us, Maggie's Jewelry has expanded to include unique wedding, bridesmaid and mother of the bride jewelry lines. Including pastel colors and unique gemstones, as well as traditional pearls, these will fit any color scheme for weddings this summer. Also added to the shop is Maggie's new Budget Luxe line -- started with items made of Copper only, the line now also includes items that are under $50, finished in all metal varieties. This line is perfect for that special gift that one wishes to be fun and flirty, yet not break ...

The Gus Macker Tournament is moving - to the Metro Health Village in Wyoming on June 1-2. The popular three-on-three basketball tournament expects to draw more than 200 teams when it debuts at the Village later this spring. This is the first time that Metro Health will host the Macker, which celebrates its 40th anniversary this year. Proceeds from the two-day tournament will be used to purchase automated external defibrillators, or AEDs, which are portable devices used to treat potentially life-threatening cardiac arrhythmias. Metro Health is encouraging schools within ...