Jill Berg of RE/MAX Alliance Group has earned the OwnAmerica Investment Certification (OICP), having completed extensive training in the real estate investment market. This certification indicates that Berg is qualified to help real estate investors learn how to best capitalize on the housing market's influx of foreclosures, short sales and quality real estate assets at historically low prices. She can help investors determine quickly if a property will produce a profitable income and therefore be a good investment. The OwnAmerica Investment Certification Program trains ...

Miva Merchant has achieved the rank as third best shopping cart software vendor in the online marketing industry by the independent authority on Search vendors, topseos.com, for the month of January 2012. Their ranking as a top ecommerce shopping cart platform is the result of a meticulous evaluation process which delves into the business practices and achieved results. The software solution provided by Miva Merchant involves providing a complete e-commerce solution with complete PCI compliance, credit card processing services, and web design and development solutions. ...

Ez1099 2011, the new 1099s preparing, printing and e-filing software, from Halfpricesoft.com (www.halfpricesoft.com) is shipping to US business for Year 2011/2012 tax season. Ez1099 was requested by many current W2 & 1099 software users, who need to file more tax forms. This new ez1099 software can support W2G, 1097BTC, 1098s (1098, 1098C, 1098E, 1098 T), 1099s (1099A, 1099B, 1099C, 1099CAP, 1099DIV, 1099G, 1099H, 1099INT, 1099LTC, 1099MISC, 1099OID, 1099PATR, 1099Q, 1099R, 1099S, 1099SA), 5498s(5498, 5498ESA, 5498SA), 8935, 3921, 3922, 1096 forms required by the ...

After almost two seasons of keeping fans waiting to see what he'll do next, central Florida native son P.I. Bang explodes onto the scene once again with two of his latest offerings. This time around, Bang blesses the masses with motivationally charged music video "Wynn" and upcoming mixtape Bang of America. "Wynn" was produced by The Collegues production team. And the video, which shot on location in Las Vegas, features curvaceous eye candy model Heather Bianchi and directed by Florida-based videographers Legit Looks. "Wynn" will be released ...

Subuno, a fraud prevention SaaS platform that aggregates fraud screening/data solutions today announced they have integrated PacificEast real-time data services within the Subuno platform. PacificEast provides information services into the North American fraud prevention, healthcare and financial service markets. PacificEast's Telified (www.telified.com) solution, which verifies consumer identity by providing direct access to the ultimate source of contact data truth: the phone company billing database. Telified confirms the name, address and phone number supplied is ...

The Dallas-based high-stakes commercial trial law firm Skiermont Puckett is announcing the addition of accomplished litigation attorney Rajkumar "Kumar" Vinnakota. A veteran of state and federal courts, Mr. Vinnakota has represented clients in a variety of intellectual property disputes, trade secrets cases, energy matters, business torts and insurance claims. He joins Skiermont Puckett as Counsel. "Kumar has handled cases involving Global Positioning System technologies, streaming online video and DNA sequencing," says Paul J. Skiermont, co-founder ...

Seth Dzordzorme, Crown Cans Ghana's Administration Services Manager, says the company's mission is "to be recognised by our customers, employees, suppliers and shareholders as the world's premiere packaging company with customer satisfaction as the highest priority." Ensuring customer satisfaction is clearly a top priority as Dzordzorme adds: "We provide customers with various aspects of support including product information, processing of documentation as well as sales and technical support. Our clientele therefore get a high quality of value added services." Ensuring ...

The publicly owned entity, formed in 2000, is an amalgamation of 38 municipalities who previously had little or no access to piped water or proper sanitation. Taking this responsibility in its stride, eThekwini Municipality has gone on to receive various certifications and recognitions as it continues to raise the standard of both drinking water and effluent sewage. eThekwini Municipality recently completed a project to replace 2,000km of asbestos cement water pipes at a price of R2 billion. However, as some of the former municipalities eThekwini incorporated in 2000 ...

Tigo Ghana's range of services, which includes pre and post-paid service plans and mobile internet packages aims to deliver affordability, accessibility, availability and affinity. "We provide services for people who want to stay in touch, to belong to communities and to be informed and entertained, enabling them to express their emotions and enhance their lives," says the Tigo Ghana mission statement. "We focus on consistently meeting and exceeding customer's expectations and developing an inspirational brand." According to the company, Tigo Ghana ...

Having been around for quite a substantial amount of time, the company has built up quite a reputation which gives WGB Kinsey a strong advantage over competitors. "Based on our reputation and history, we seem to have an edge. We receive a vast amount of contract opportunities through the name of our company," says Damon Goldsmith, Quantity Surveyor at WGB Kinsey. "We are quite established and our size allows us to take on certain projects that only a few companies within the country like Kinsey, can manage." WGB Kinsey has developed an in-house ...

Few companies have the resilience to survive a major overhaul in market focus, but Gunns Limited is doing just that. The Tasmania-based company is Australia's largest supplier of hardwood and softwood forestry products, and is currently undergoing a radical transition period towards a more sustainable and secure business model. As one of Australia's longest standing companies, Gunns has forged a commitment to benefit not only its clients, but also its local community. This has been a strategic response to a long-running dispute over Gunns' history of logging native forests, ...

Making the TACTIX program more effective than ever for personal fitness trainers and other fitness pros, the National Exercise & Sports Trainers Association (NESTA) recently announced that the unique online certification program now qualifies for continuing education credits in its Personal Fitness Trainer program. TACTIX is a fitness-focused business system that blends martial arts, practical self-defense skills, boot camp skills, strength training and metabolic conditioning, offering martial arts finesse without any of the contact of sparring, making it safe and ...

For years, the Intense Mixed Performance Accelerated Cross Training known as IMPACT has helped personal trainers make an impact on their clients' lives and their own earnings. Now it is making an impact in another way: IMPACT's online certification program now qualifies for continuing education credits through the National Exercise & Sports Trainers Association's (NESTA) Personal Fitness Trainer program. Developed by NESTA founder John Spencer Ellis and award-winning fitness coach and spokesperson Kelli Calabrese, the online IMPACT training and business systems helps ...

Ventana Research is set to commence new benchmark research and provide education on Next-Generation Workforce Management. Ventana Research finds traditional workforce management is evolving from just a time and attendance centered world to a new form of next-generation workforce management, which requires, among many things, collaborative and mobile tools for workers and managers. Traditional administrative-focused workforce management processes have a reputation of being time-consuming, error-prone and inefficient. Because these inefficiencies do not serve today's ...

Christopher Flach (20th Century) Lot 140 Estimate $3,000 - $5,000 Pre-Lot Text PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF JEAN DELEAGE http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Deleage Sale Information Sale 2530 Christie's Auction House 10 - 11 January 2012 New York, Rockefeller Plaza 20 Rockefeller Plaza New York, NY 10020 Tel: +1 212 636 2000 Fax: +1 212 636 2399 Featured artists included, Christopher Flach, Jim Dine, Francisco Goya, Milton Avery, David Salle, and Joan Miro. http://www.christies.com/lotfinder/lot_details.aspx?intObjectID=5524489About Christie's Christie's ...

Specialty Home Improvement, a family-owned design and remodel firm recently earned two Regional Contractor of the Year (CotY) awards from the National Association of the Remodeling Industry (NARI). The CotYs were awarded for "Best Interior Residential Specialty Remodel" and for "Best Bathroom Remodel between $30,000 - $60,000". According to the NARI website, "The Contractor of the Year (CotY) awards are given each year by NARI Headquarters to members who have demonstrated outstanding work through their remodeling projects." The awards help ...

Due to an increase in tablet and mobile devices, careLearning, a leader in Internet-based learning for healthcare organizations, asked KnowledgeShift to convert their extensive library of compliance courses from Flash to a mobile friendly version to ensure that their clients with tablets would be able to view all of their content regardless of which device they were accessing it from. "We know that more and more employees in healthcare and other industries are being armed with tablets or other mobile devices that don't support Flash," states Nancy Munro, CEO ...

The recent news that vehicle insurer Allstate plans to issue refunds to policyholders who are unhappy after a filing a claim for damages shows the insurer is among those that realize the value of keeping their customers happy following an accident, according to Online Auto Insurance (OAI). Insuring vehicles is a multibillion-dollar business, and industry experts say some coverage providers try to limit losses by keeping payouts as low as possible. But while that may save them money in the short term, research shows it could cost more in the long haul by prompting policyholders ...

More people will survive sudden cardiac arrest when 9-1-1 dispatchers help bystanders assess victims and begin CPR immediately, according to a new American Heart Association scientific statement published in Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association. In the 2010 resuscitation guidelines, the association advised 9-1-1 dispatchers to help bystanders assess anyone who may have had a cardiac arrest and then direct them to begin CPR. The new scientific statement provides more specific information about how emergency dispatchers should provide such help and ...

Your risk of heart attack may increase during the days and weeks after the death of a close loved one, according to research reported in Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association. A study of 1,985 adult heart attack survivors showed that after a significant person's death, heart attack risks: Increased to 21 times higher than normal within the first day. Were almost six times higher than normal within the first week. Continued to decline steadily over the first month. "Caretakers, healthcare providers, and the bereaved themselves need to recognize ...

DURHAM, N.C. -- Researchers at Duke University Medical Center have developed a new way to identify the genes of harmful microbes, particularly those that have been difficult to study in the laboratory. This new method uses chemicals to create mutant bacteria, followed by genomic sequencing to identify all mutations. By looking for common genes that were mutated in Chlamydia sharing a particular trait, the investigators were able to rapidly "zero in" on the genes responsible for that trait. The approach is versatile and inexpensive enough that it could be applied to ...

Acute kidney injury (AKI) has severe consequences, with a 25 to 80 percent risk of in-hospital death. Researchers have found a way to diagnose AKI using a urine test, enabling emergency departments to identify these high-risk patients when they first arrive at the hospital. The study will be published online on January 9, 2012, in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology. Physicians typically measure a patient's creatinine levels to determine kidney function. But creatinine levels can remain normal for several hours after acute kidney damage, and an accurate ...

Spine Institute Northwest announced today it has launched a new website, designed to inform and engage current and future patients as they consider their options for back pain relief, including spinal injection, minimally invasive spinal surgery and other non surgical therapy options. The new site, at www.spineinstitutenorthwest.com, has moved to a dynamic, data-driven design, including a new blog. The site aims to make it easier for those suffering from chronic pain, sports injuries, leg, foot and ankle problems or people with physical therapy needs to learn more about ...

STANFORD, Calif. — A well-known protein complex responsible for controlling how DNA is expressed plays a previously unsuspected role in preventing pancreatic cancer, according to researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine. Technological advances in the way researchers can compare normal and tumor DNA showed that the gene for at least one subunit of the multi-subunit SWI/SNF protein complex was either deleted, mutated or rearranged in about a third of the 70 human pancreatic cancers that the Stanford team examined. Additionally, the researchers found that ...

CHICAGO – The anticoagulant dabigatran is associated with an increased risk of myocardial infarction (heart attack) or acute coronary syndrome in a broad spectrum of patients when tested against some other medicines, according to a study published Online First by the Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. "Clinicians should consider the potential of these serious harmful cardiovascular effects with use of dabigatran," the study concludes. Dabigatran etexilate was approved by the European Medicines Agency in 2008 for prevention of venous thromboembolism ...