James Avery, a family-owned jewelry retailer, announces the launch of a charm bracelet promotion through all company retail channels. Starting July 14th and running through August 31st, patrons who purchase any two charms will receive a complimentary Forged Link sterling silver charm bracelet valued at $49. James Avery Jewelry is best known for its connection and meaning inspired gold & sterling silver jewelry designs and extensive silver charm collection, including new Avery Art Glass Charms. Each James Avery charm is designed to symbolize a special memory, milestone ...

The French market concept that embodies the notion of buying local and fresh has made its way to the Shops at Prudential Center (130 E. Randolph Dr.). This Wednesday marked a successful opening day with a healthy turnout of area shoppers. Managed by Bensidoun USA, this is their second installation of the outdoor market in Chicago. Their first Chicago open-air market is located at the Nettelhorst School campus in the Lakeview neighborhood. The European style market is now open every Wednesday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. until September 26 — offering community members an unique ...

Developed in partnership with Mediaclip's European distributor Softec ApS, this solution is offered as a SaaS model featuring all cloud-based benefits. The Soft2Print model enables any type of provider to offer photo personalization online without having to invest in specific infrastructure and IT competencies since the creation and images management tools are securely hosted. (www.soft2print.com) According to Yves Gagnon C.O.O. of Mediaclip:This solution has already proven itself in Europe and our deployment in North America will increase our network efficiency, providing ...

Launched this week, FlightOffice.com is a real-time, end-to-end solution to easily manage entire flight operations, giving a complete operational overview in real time. At the office, in the field, or in a hotel room, FlightOffice.com makes it simple for staff and different departments to work closely together in a unified operational ecosystem. "Our team has been working very hard over the past year to build an aviation software system that will change the industry. The result is a simple-to-use, modular system to easily manage entire helicopter and airplane flight ...

Love Your Life Publishing, a full service self publishing company for personal empowerment books with a positive message, celebrates author, Loree Bischoff, for winning the Indie Excellence Award in the Motivational category for her book, Common Sense Happiness: 5 Principles for People Who Want to Stop Whining, Bitching, and Suffering. Lynne Klippel, Business Building Books and Love Your Life Publishing CEO, said, "In the world of self published books, this is like getting nominated for an Oscar." Loree published her book with Love Your Life Publishing last ...

California is a great place to engage in a favorite summertime activity: boating. While Californians are encouraged to enjoy the water, they must keep safety in mind. Boating accidents can cause serious personal injury or worse. Specific laws in California lay out the duty of care boaters must give to each other and other users of water. Boating Safety Tips There are many things boaters can do to keep themselves and everyone on the water safe. The driver of the boat should always pay attention to the rest of the waterway, and it is helpful to have a designated lookout ...

Divorce among older couples has become so common in recent years that the phenomenon even has its own nickname: "gray divorce." According to a study by researchers at Bowling Green University, the divorce rate among couples age 50 and older has doubled in the last 20 years, with experts attributing the spike to anything from changing social mores to longer life expectancies. Whatever the reasons, divorce after 50 can have a profound effect on a person's finances, especially if the divorce was unexpected. Unlike younger couples who typically have many working ...

Patient safety is especially important in the summer. July is the most dangerous month for patients at teaching hospitals across the country, according to a study by the Journal of General Internal Medicine. Teaching hospitals see a 10% increase in fatalities over the month of July, which is attributed to the inexperience of new medical residents who traditionally begin training in July. Many are likely caused by medical mistakes. According to the Institute of Medicine, medical mistakes cause nearly 100,000 deaths and at least half a million injuries each year. In a ...

On May 24, 2012, a Minnesota welder suffered burns and possible fractures as a result of an injury at work. The St. Paul Fire Department received a call at 9:20 a.m. reporting an explosion with injuries at a commercial roofing and sheet metal business. The injured worker had been welding while on a tank of roofing tar, and the vapors from the tar ignited. Witnesses reported an explosion with a "flash of fire," which knocked the victim off the tank and caused him to fall ten feet to the floor. Emergency responders took the worker to the hospital, where doctors ...

On May 23, 2012, a Minnesota judge convicted a 38-year-old semi-truck driver of three counts of criminal vehicular homicide and one count of misdemeanor careless driving stemming from a fatal accident that occurred May 24, 2010. Two women died in the accident, one of whom was pregnant. This tragic crash shows how car accidents can result not only in criminal charges, but civil lawsuits as well. "Grossly Negligent" The driver, who works for Reinhart Foodservice, began his shift at 10 p.m. the evening before the accident in LaCrosse, Wisconsin. He drove through ...

International customers wanting to buy their favorite U.S. brands, but don't have a U.S. address now have a place to go to compare the best international shipping providers that allow customers to shop from their favorite U.S. based online retailers such as Amazon.com, Nike and Target by setting up a virtual U.S-based mailbox. Packageforwardingservice.com is a site that is dedicated to helping customers and businesses save money by comparing various U.S. shopping facilitators that are designed to enable international customers throughout the world to shop their favorite ...

Lee Enterprises Alternative Fuels Consulting is pleased to announce the addition of Dr. Katrina Cornish and Ken Arnold as its two newest experts. Cornish has a Ph.D. in Plant Biology from the University of Birmingham, England, is a Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Science, and more than 30 years of research, development and commercialization experience, in government, academia and the private sector, including extensive consulting. She is an Ohio Research Scholar and Endowed Chair in Bioemergent Materials at The Ohio State University where she also has a ...

SA Creative CEO Rob Houchens announced today that John Lewis has been hired as the agency's Business Development Manager. Prior to joining SA Creative, Lewis worked for another marketing company and for ten years at Louisville's FOX affiliate, WDRB "Adding John to the team is another way that SA Creative has built upon, 'Not just doing things differently, but actually doing different things.' John's recognizable face, outstanding personality and excitement for the mission of SA Creative and the family of businesses help others in their business development is a ...

The super light 6061 T6 aluminum structure weighs in at only 2.2lbs, yet is able to handle up to a 6 pound payload! Dual ball bearings on each axis support the 1" hollow aluminum shafting allowing you to route camera wires through the pan and tilt head. The head easily attaches to a jib crane in the upright or hanging position without any tools. The MPT1100-SS is precisely controlled by a new digital joystick controller. The two channel controller is fully proportional and the maximum speed of each axis can be limited by the min/max knobs for the ultra-slow shots. ...

The latest release release includes two flavours, RiskyProject Professional - a comprehensive project risk management solution; and RiskyProject Lite - an affordable yet powerful Monte Carlo schedule risk analysis software. According to Michael Trumper, a partner at Intaver Insitute, "Our latest release is the result of close work with our engineering and aerospace clients to provide full risk assessment and management capabilities for the increasingly large and complex schedules these industries are experiencing. The end result is that we now have two versions, the ...

Tim Shelley and Glenn Aldridge are joining forces to expand the certified public accounting practice of Aldridge Shelley, PC, formerly operating as K. Glenn Aldridge, PC. Glenn Aldridge formed the firm in 2009 to provide best of class service for small to middle market businesses and not-for-profit organizations. Tim and Glenn's roots serving some of the Southeast's most well-respected organizations go back three decades. Prior to forming the firm, Glenn served as an audit partner and the director of not-for-profit services at two top 25 Atlanta CPA firms. He is an ...

Keystone Pharmacy announced today that David J. Miller has been honored as a 2012 fellow for Practice Excellence and Leadership by the International Academy of Compounding Pharmacists, or IACP. Miller received this honor in recognition of his contribution as a specialist in the art and skill of pharmacy compounding. Applicants are selected following an assessment of their credentials against rigorous criteria that includes, contributions to published literature, continuing education, presentations, leadership, professional and civic service as well as professional awards. ...

Noble Friends Foundation for OC Animal Care and Paws for a Cause will hold its first annual 2-mile Dog Walk on Sunday, September 30, at Huntington Beach Pier in Orange County, California. Participants can register online now at http://www.paws-for-a-cause.net. The Paws for a Cause Dog Walk features a 2-mile walk that starts at the famous Huntington Beach Pier and continues along the beautiful bike path right along the beach. Donations and proceeds will be given to Noble Friends Foundation for OC Animal Care, the 501c3 non-profit sister organization of OC Animal Care. ...

The team at Kaptur discovered a trend with their users leveraging the app to collect everyone's photos of Birthright trips. Kaptur works perfectly for Birthright trips. For any given Birthright trip, thousands of photos are taken by multiple people and asynchronously shared online into disparate photo albums. Kaptur aggregates all those photos and sorts them in a meaningful way to be enjoyed by all trip participants. "I found almost 3,000 photos from 80 friends for my Birthright trip and it was great to be able to see everyone's photos of Masada, Jerusalem, Camel ...

In May of this year, Dan Sciscente of Communi-T made the 2,300 mile trek to sunny Florida to reveal his company's recent updates to the popular Communi-T program, which allows clients to better utilize their SAP solutions. Communi-T 2.0 focuses on mobile application programming, reports Dan Sciscente, integrating easily with SAP to allow clients to enjoy an affordable, effective SAP solution. Software updates announced by Dan Sciscente at the conference include offline processing capabilities and interaction with JSON and SOAP. Additionally, Dan Sciscente says that upgraded ...

Weighing in at a mere two employees, WorkingWonders was a long shot to get the 250 votes required to qualify for one of twelve small business grants that will be handed out by Chase Bank and LivingSocial at the end of this summer, each one in the amount of $250,000. But they did it. What's more, founder BethAnn Lederer generated support the old-fashioned way, by pounding the streets and talking to people in the community. "I would estimate that to get 250 votes, I probably touched the lives of 2,500 people," Lederer said. But the contest represented much ...

Complete Curriculum, a digital publisher that produces electronic textbooks and lessons, is quickly gaining a reputation with home schooling parents for its high-quality K12 curriculum. "Traditional classrooms use general lesson plans that aren't ideal for every student," said a representative of Complete Curriculum. "Our lesson plans are built on years of experience, sound educational principles, and a better understanding of how children learn." Complete Curriculum's system consists of an online digital interface with social studies and mathematics ...

LP Analyst, a consulting firm providing private equity limited partners with non-discretionary, independent advice and analysis, today announced that Paula Chong has joined the company as an Associate. Ms. Chong brings four years of experience from Deloitte & Touche LLP, where she was an audit senior specializing in alternatives. During her time at Deloitte, she was responsible for overseeing the audits of a leading real estate investment trust with over $2 billion in assets. "Ms. Chong's experience in alternatives will be valuable to our clients and her ...

Current of Tampa Bay, Inc. volunteers will spend the day providing hope at a Laundromat in St. Petersburg. Current's Laundry Love Project washes and dries the clothes and linens of deserving families for free. The project will be held at Best Laundromats Coin Laundry located at 2465 5th Ave., N. St. Petersburg, FL 33713. Even though this is Current's first time at this Laundromat, this is not their first time teaming up with the owner. "We have worked with him at other locations he owns in the Tampa Bay area. He has been a generous and kind supporter for the past ...

K2M, Inc., a spinal device company developing innovative solutions for the treatment of complex spinal pathologies and minimally invasive procedures, today announced the breakthrough Rail 4D Technology will debut at the 19th International Meeting on Advanced Spine Techniques (IMAST). This 4D Technology will first be featured in the form of the MESA Rail Deformity Spinal System to address the most complex spinal curves. Inspired by structural I-beam geometry, the uniquely shaped and one-of-a-kind Rail is an alternative to the traditional round spinal rods offered with ...