Megger, one of the world's leading manufacturers and suppliers of test equipment and measuring instruments for electrical power applications, hosted its 12th annual Megger Distributor Golf Event on Saturday, January 26. The event, which took place at the Lakes of Ahawatukee Golf Course in Phoenix, Arizona, is held to raise money for the Phoenix Children's Hospital (PCH) Foundation. David Danner, national distribution manager for Megger and event co-coordinator said, "We had torrential rain the day of the event. 130 golfers were pre-registered and 104 played that ...

SMi's Pharmaceutical Portfolio and Lifecycle Management conference returns to London in April for the 8th year running. The expert speakers will explore and debate the key success factors for portfolio planning and lifecycle management. With R&D prices skyrocketing ever higher, and the drug development industry feeling the squeeze of the recession, there is an ever-increasing need to ensure a cost-effective and efficient portfolio. The planning and preparation for each drug portfolio must be optimised to provide maximum revenue for minimum expenditure. Key issues ...

Technology is supposed to make our lives easier, yet instead, it often ends up confusing, frustrating and stressing out its users. The average person spends half of his or her waking hours using technology - either online, on a phone or watching TV - and studies show that heavy technology use can lead to sleep disorders, mental health issues and increased stress. To help small business owners turn this stress into success, The Digital Arts Experience, Constant Contact and theONswitch Marketing will debut "Treats, Toys, and Business Tools" at 6:30pm on March 6th ...

Wyld's Wingdom is pleased to be exhibiting at the Global Pet Expo on February 20 - 22, 2013 at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, Florida. Wyld's Wingdom, a wholesale pet bird supplies distributor, will be at Booth 3758 to display the various products they distribute and provide knowledge on bird behavior, pet bird merchandise, and retail sales to the trade show attendees. Specializing in avian care, Wyld's Wingdom will offer expo attendees a large variety of wholesale pet bird supplies to purchase at special show pricing. Products available for purchase ...

The 4th Annual Live Well Project, a free event for girls age 12-19, is an inspirational day of fun and fitness aimed at empowering young women with the knowledge and confidence they need to build strong lives for themselves. 150 girls are expected to attend the March 16, 2013 at the San Diego Hall of Champions in Balboa Park. The special day will consist of seminars about healthy eating & exercise; yoga and zumba demonstrations; dance performance groups; inspirational guest speakers; a goal setting session and complimentary breakfast and lunch. Girls will be lead ...

Pooches are wagging their tails all over the Georgian Triangle because the much anticipated Dogs We Love, a fresh food and bakery specializing in fresh food for dogs, is now open for business. Dogs We Love is the most recent retail addition to Collingwood's premier shopping center, Cranberry Mews. Dogs We Love offers homemade meals for dogs using quality and locally grown ingredients. This is the second location - the first operating in Orangeville, Ont., - for this unique baked good specialty store. Also onsite is a bakery and a retail space offering special treats ...

The essence of sports is scores, yet finding scores on most sports websites is like searching for a puck lost in a snow bank. MyScores.ca, a new Canadian sports website, stick handles past time-consuming searches and brings scores to centre ice. MyScores.ca provides fast and easy access to live scores and results for the leagues Canadians follow most including the NHL, NFL, NBA, Major League Baseball, NCAA, and UFC. MyScores.ca is also customizable allowing visitors to pick and choose the games they want to follow. "Rather than navigate to individual league pages ...

When the Broward County Sheriff's Office found Florida-resident Joy Stewart and her four grandchildren living in a home with no heat, running water, electricity or food, they called on the community for help. Budget Blinds is pitching in to answer that call, through a partnership with the hit national home improvement show Designing Spaces . With the help of Budget Blinds, other national companies and Broward County organizations such as Rebuilding Together , the Broward County Sherriff's Office, and the emergency shelter Kids In Distress, where Joy's grandchildren had ...

Southern Manufacturing Show, Farnborough UK - 14th February 2013 - Following the recent launch of its Nanotherm MBPCB (Metal-Backed Printed Circuit Board) product, Cambridge Nanotherm has signed its first value added reseller (VAR) agreement with UK-based printed circuit board (PCB) maker Spirit Circuits. Cambridge Nanotherm has developed a unique process for converting Aluminium into Alumina (Aluminium Oxide [Al2O3]). The process allows the surface of an Aluminium plate to be converted into a layer of Alumina - which acts as a dielectric. A range of standard Printed ...

Dial An Exchange (DAE), the largest privately owned timeshare exchange company in the world, announces a new agreement with Italian resort Residence San Rossore, located in the Tuscany region near the world famous town of Pisa. Residence San Rossore will begin selling timeshare options to guests this month and DAE will have the support of resort management as it offers its free timeshare exchange membership program directly to Residence San Rossore owners. Located near the magnificent Tuscan countryside and an easy visit to Florence, the resort provides guests the ...

Pancheros (www.pancheros.com), a fast casual Mexican restaurant, has officially brought back its shrimp scampi tacos for a limited time available now until March 30, 2013. Reintroduced by popular demand, the dish will be gracing all Pancheros' establishments for the third consecutive year. The mouthwatering tacos are filled with cilantro and lime rice, crisp lettuce, cheese, and seared shrimp scampi. To top off the delectable taco creations, guests can choose from an array of mild to hot salsas such as the mild ancho salsa and the hot tomatillo salsa, to heat up their ...

Georgia Representative David Knight (HD-130), CPA, introduced new legislation on Monday to strengthen the Georgia State Board of Accountancy (GSBA), giving the GSBA greater financial and operational independence in order to effectively protect the citizens of Georgia and Georgia's business community. "We have a vital interest in the strength of the Georgia State Board of Accountancy. I am deeply concerned that the authority, lack of necessary resources, and current reporting relationship to the state legislature and Governor are inappropriate and lead to an ineffective ...

Service station equipment manufacturer, Universal Valve Co., announces that Martin C. Pettesch has been promoted to President. Pettesch has been with Universal for over 25 years. His past positions within Universal Valve include Design Engineer, Operations Manager, Manager of Engineering, Vice President of Engineering, and Executive Vice President. Pettesch, a graduate of New Jersey Institute of Technology for Mechanical Engineering and the University of Phoenix MBA Program, has over 26 patents related to bettering the service station industry to his name. The announcement ...

"Is poetry still for lovers?" asks inspirational author and first time published poet Justin C. Hart. "If you ask me," he continues, "the fiery love and passion burning within today's poets have somehow decreased to a mere billow of smoke." On Hart's behalf, he might be right. There was a time in poetic history when poetry was its own language. Considering the liberty of publication in the 21st century, there are currently more writers than ever before, but is poetry still a language of its own? Are poets still romantically passionate about ...

What better way to start off Valentine's Day than helping distressed homeowners using a short sale as an alternative to foreclosure? Caroline Simmons just closed a Fairburn Short Sale in Fulton County with Wells Fargo Home Mortgage for a 4 bedroom property located on Blacktop Way in the Vicker's Mill subdivision. Caroline is an Associate Broker/REALTOR and Atlanta Short Sale Specialist under the brokerage Keller Williams Realty Peachtree Road. The property was originally listed for $99,000 and sold for $94,000 where the investor purchaser paid cash and received no closing ...

Now in its third year, the awards aim to highlight the best financial products available to the public, by combining customer feedback and technical assessments, "giving the winners of these awards the ability to prove that they combine technical merit with service excellence" (Moneyfactsgroup.co.uk/Awards). This means that the Moneyfacts judges have assessed the Holidaysafe products against our competitors, and have found us to be one of the top three travel insurance providers in the entire UK market. Amber Howard, Holidaysafe.co.uk Brand Manager said; ...

Gateway Commercial Finance announced it has designed a new Receivables Management Program that allows it to monitor invoices while using a low-level approach when interacting with a client's customer base. "We know that one of the biggest obstacles companies face in working with a receivables factoring provider is their reluctance to let an outside firm contact their customers," said Marc J. Marin, Managing Director. "But with Gateway's new proprietary system, we reduce that interaction, if not eliminate it all together." Receivable factoring companies ...

The originators of Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP), Oliver Wight, are lead sponsors of Akolade's Australian Sales & Operations Planning Forum 2013 - the first event of its kind in the country. Taking place 13th-15th March at the Stamford Plaza in Melbourne, the event covers key industry topics, from S&OP and Globalisation, to Integrated Business Planning, Demand Forecasting and Continuous Improvement. Attracting top industry leaders in S&OP, supply chain, demand planning, sales, operations and logistics nationwide, the S&OP Forum will provide ...

Allsup, a nationwide provider of Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) representation and Medicare plan selection services, is pleased to support the Lupus Foundation of America's "Help Us Solve the Cruel Mystery " tour, which will be in Raleigh Saturday, March 2, 2013. "Lupus is one of the cruelest, most mysterious diseases on earth," said Christine John-Fuller, executive director of the Lupus Foundation of America North Carolina Chapter. "It strikes without warning, has unpredictable, sometimes fatal effects, lasts a lifetime, and has ...

The life-changing Paleo way of eating eliminates processed junk and focuses on consuming whole, natural foods. Robb Wolf, author of The Paleo Solution, sums it up like this: "The Paleo diet is the healthiest way you can eat because it is the only nutritional approach that works with your genetics to help you stay lean, strong and energetic! Research...indicates that it is our modern diet, full of refined foods, trans fats, and sugar that is at the root of degenerative diseases such as obesity, cancer, diabetes, heart disease, Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, depression ...

Lake Minnetonka fishing expert Dan Jasper of Jasper Services, a leading provider of guided fishing on Lake Minnetonka and educational programs, announced today a partnership with Neon Lites Jigs. The partnership will help promote and encourage the sports of fishing by introducing, educating and providing interactive experiences to children and adults using the glow in the dark jigs. These unique glow in the dark jigs will be highlighted at Fish Camp, Corporate Fishing Events, and Guiding on Lake Minnetonka and other area lakes and rivers during the ice fishing season. Neon ...

AmOne, a national leading financial solutions provider, announced today that Hollie Lemons of St. Petersburg, Florida, is the winner of the 2013 AmOne Valentine's Day Video Contest. The contest, which concluded February 8, asked participants to submit a three-minute video sharing how a loved one has influenced their life and how the prize money would help to make Valentine's Day special for them. The AmOne team selected Hollie's entry as the winner. The judging was based on the creativity, originality, and the content of her video message, the message delivery itself, ...

The new single, 'Trust in Me', from Joe Spinella's upcoming album is available world-wide on iTunes, eMusic and Amazon. Collaborating with producer and song writer, Joe Vulpis, has added a more contemporary flavor to this new ballad. Spinella's powerful vocals are illuminated by the Emmy award-winning Macedonia Radio Symphonic Orchestra. A native of Wayne, NJ and residing in Sarasota, Florida, Spinella is a classically trained tenor soloist and performer, offering a diversified repertoire including opera, classical crossover, musical theater, light jazz and romantic ...

SRS Cinema, a Central New York based motion picture production and distribution company, in business since 1992, is among the company's leading the charge back to a format many had considered dead... VHS! Yes, VHS is back. Over the last year, many rare VHS titles have fetched into the $100's of dollars. Even some old SRS titles, under previous banners of Sub Rosa Studios and Salt City Home Video, have sold on sites like Ebay for well over $100. Now SRS has started bringing many of these older titles back, as well as unleashing never before released titles, in limited ...

2013 is starting off strong with a surge of sales for Inland Empire homebuilder, Pardee Homes. Interest has been on the upswing, and home sales for the first month of the year soared to 42 sales at a combination of Pardee's five Inland Empire new home neighborhoods. "The market is coming back, prices are stable and interest rates are at near historic lows," said Matt Sauls, regional marketing director for Pardee Homes. "We are strongly optimistic about the rebounding real estate market based on the incredible sales rate in January. With that in mind, ...