Dr. Timothy Block, co-founder, volunteer president and director of the Hepatitis B Foundation, the Pennsylvania Biotechnology Center and the Institute for Hepatitis and Virus Research, was recently named to the 2011 PharmaVOICE 100 list for serving as a positive contributor to the life-sciences industry. "The PharmaVOICE 100 are individuals who think outside the box, pioneer new paths to success, and inspire their colleagues in the industry; they translate industry issues into opportunities and take the time to mentor the next generation of leaders in the life-sciences ...

Ecotech Institute, the first and only college focused entirely on preparing America's workforce for careers in renewable energy and sustainable design, today announced that it has created MORE (Mentoring Others Results in Excellence), a mentorship program to help incoming students. Now that Ecotech has students entering into their third and fourth terms, many of these more experienced students have great expertise and knowledge about Ecotech, the course material and the Denver Metro area. These qualities are great attributes to help acclimate first-term students with their ...

Chris Saviano joins PGM Billing as Director of Business Development PGM Billing, a national healthcare IT and service company, has hired Chris Saviano as Vice President of Business Development. He is responsible for all forms of business development and further accelerating PGM's rapid and sustained growth as the company expands its medical billing and practice management services to physicians and other healthcare providers across the nation. Saviano's duties include, direct marketing, print and web advertising, media relations, conference exhibiting, special events, ...

The comprehensive guarantee covers surfaces against loose stones, cracking, oil damage, UV degradation, colour-change and frost damage. When a SureSet installer carries out the installation, the guarantee also covers workmanship. SureSet has supplied projects across the UK and abroad with high quality surfaces for drives, pavements, paths, patios, pool surrounds and much more, providing a wide range of colours and textures and an exciting, modern alternative to traditional materials. From natural gravel and crushed stone to marble and recycled glass, the range provides ...

The Pennsylvania Integrated Pest Management (PA IPM) Program and The Poison Control Center based at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia are joining forces to educate Philadelphians about the importance of EPA's new law to protect children, pets and wildlife from accidental exposure to rodent control products. On June 7, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced its plans to ban the sale of some popular household mouse and rat poisons along with most bait and pellet products. Since rodenticides are pesticides designed to kill mammals by thinning blood, they ...

Dependable, strong, powerful, the Silverado proves to be dependable in the most hardest jobs. Sure the Silverado can help build roads, bridges, front porches and back decks. Things that matter and that last like the Chevrolet Silverado . Chevy build the Silverado with a strong 4.8L,5.3L and 6.2L V8 engines available on Silverado 1500 and can operate on either regular unleaded gasoline, E85 and blend 85% gasoline or any combination of both. Power and efficiency the Vortec 5.3L V8 engine include on the Silverado XFE offers an impressive combination of 315 horsepower and ...

The Scenic Hotel Auckland, one of seventeen hotel properties owned by the Scenic Hotel Group in New Zealand, is anticipating huge interest in the Rugby World Cup 2011 from its guests. To ensure they can enjoy World Cup rugby in comfort and with the best views 'in the house', Scenic Hotel Auckland recently upgraded all its in-room televisions at a cost of approximately NZ$85,000. With all standard rooms enjoying newly-installed 32-inch flatscreen televisions and superior rooms, 42-inch screens, guests will have a great view of the rugby whether they have tickets for ...

Budding entrepreneurs, David Grimes & Paul Haydock have won their third award in just 12 months for their on-line Parcel Delivery company - myParcelDelivery.com . Selected by a panel of Judges, the business has been awarded GBP1000 to help develop their business plans for 2011/12. Awarded on the grounds of an innovative business pitch to extend the company's services, the Shell LiveWIRE Grand Ideas Awards are contested by some of the UK's finest young business prospects and represents yet another milestone in what has already been a hugely successful first year online ...

Boot Camp Digital (www.bootcampdigital.com), a market leader of custom social media marketing training programs invites business professionals to its monthly Social Media Lunch Session about integrating social media with search engines like Google, on August 18st, 2011 from 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM at Boot Camp Digital's Cincinnati Training Facility located at 1600 Main Street, Cincinnati. Boot Camp Digital's top-rated Social Media Lunch Sessions are designed to help businesses stay up to date on the most important trends and changes in social media and Internet marketing. ...

The book, Marketing Senior Housing, written by Janis R. Ehlers, MBA, has received a bronze recognition in 20th annual National Mature Media Awards competition, the nation's largest awards program that recognizes the best in marketing communication, educational materials and programs for adults age 50 and older. Ehlers published the second edition of the book in November, 2010 to assist senior housing communities with marketing challenges from launch through various phases of occupancy. She draws on her career experiences having opened more than 50 communities in the ...

We are Yokto [http://yokto.tv], and we've just launched a pretty neat way of adding video to your website or blog. Yokto makes light work of sourcing and embedding video, leveraging the collective awesomeness of all your favourite video sites - YouTube, Vimeo, Ustream, Dailymotion, SlideShare, etc, you can even link to and upload your own, all through a single beautifully designed player, for free! Web video is fast becoming an invaluable tool in the savvy website or blog owner's arsenal. There's no denying it, online video consumption is on the up, hurtling towards ...

Specialty Answering Service is now offering day care options for full time employees. Because the company offers 24 hour messaging and call services for clients in North American and Europe, there is a multitude of shifts that need to be covered at all times. As the economy slowly recovers from the recent recession, people have a desire to work more hours while also being able to conserve expenditures. Specialty Answering Service understands that child care can be expensive and the cost quickly adds up over time. This can lead to stressed workers that are constantly ...

John Muter, president and chief operations officer of New Atlantic Contracting, Inc.(http://www.new-atlantic.net), a licensed contractor providing general contracting, construction management and design build services to the institutional, educational, health care and industrial markets in North Carolina, has announced that the firm served as the general contractor for the recently opened Cary Arts Center, a 48,000-square-foot renovation and addition to Old Cary Elementary School at 101 Dry Ave. valued at $13.1 million. The three-story building provides rooms for classes, ...

Celebrity Staff, a leading staffing and recruiting firm, will participate as an exhibitor during the upcoming Nebraska State Human Resources Conference. The conference, sponsored by the SHRM Nebraska State Council of the Society for Human Resources Management, will be held September 15-16, 2011 at the Qwest Center Omaha. Celebrity Staff is also a sponsor of the event. In addition, Celebrity will offer a session, "Align and Activate a Staffing Strategy You Can Execute", along with its affiliate firm, Aureus Group, on September 15, 2011. More than 500 human ...

The Daniel Group, a Houston based executive search and human resources firm, announced that they placed their 72,500th professional in a position this month on their "Road to a Million". Jarrod Daniel, CEO of The Daniel Group, established the goal of helping one million individuals find work before he retires. "It's all about our company's vision to me," says Daniel. "If our main priority is to simply service the communities within the markets we serve, everything else will fall into place." The CEO received the clarity of his vision ...

On August 10, two teens, Danny Brookes and Edwin Zhang, will begin their grueling seven-day journey skateboarding from High Point State Park, N.J., all the way down to Cape May, N.J., to complete their goal of raising $20,000 for childhood cancer. Titling the trip "Skate Cape May," the two co-founders will raise money for Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation, a national fundraising movement to support childhood cancer, by selling lemonade, t-shirts, wrist bands, and raffle tickets, while spreading awareness of their trip and the fundraising cause at their stops ...

ColdTech Commercial is not frozen in the past; it is the first North American commercial refrigeration company to launch its product line exclusively online. The friendly, service-driven company is an active part of the social media and food service community. Launching online allows ColdTechCommercial.com to have a great product and the longest warranty in commercial refrigeration. It passes direct value to customers while allowing the company to really get to know its customers. General Manager, Dominic Dotto says this "go-to-market strategy" is new in the ...

In an effort to help prospective home buyers who may be affected by the tough economy (or tough housing market) in the Port Saint Lucie and Fort Pierce areas, Kitterman Woods Luxury Apartment Homes http://www.KittermanWoods.com, today announced the introduction of a new affordable housing program for prospective buyers, Kitterman Woods Home Buyer Assistance Program Effective immediately, we will be waiving all lease termination fees for anyone who rents one of our one, two or three bedroom luxury Port Saint Lucie apartments, fulfills at least 7 months of an initial lease ...

CPDA, a CIMdata company, announces that Andrew Wertkin, CTO of PTC's Integrity Business Unit, will make a keynote presentation on "Driving Innovation and Quality through a Systems Engineering Approach to PLM" at PLM Road Map 2011. The keynote line-up also includes presentations by IBM Rational's Brett Hillhouse, Comet Solution's Malcolm Panthaki, Siemens PLM Software's Steve Bashada, Pendaran's Dr. Hossein Nivi, Geometric America's Joseph Sahiouni, Georgia Tech's Dr. Chris Paredis, and HP's Christian Verstraete. PLM Road Map 2011 will take place at The Inn at ...

In the capacity of Consultant, Megan will be responsible for the continued growth and development of the Technology Recruiting Business and will help Brine Group evolve in ways to better service its client's recruiting and employment needs. Megan is a Boston College graduate. It is with tremendous excitement and optimism that they welcome Megan to the firm.Brine Group is a professional recruiting firm specializing in the search and placement of Healthcare, Information Technology and Computer Software candidates in permanent employment positions. We provide opportunities ...

Join David Michael & Co. on Wednesday, April 25, 2012 at the Hyatt Regency Philadelphia at Penn's Landing, for the flavor industry's most anticipated event - the ninth annual Innovation Roadshow . Each year, the Innovation Roadshow highlights our best ideas - in technical creativity, new flavor development, and cost-saving technology. We'll help you to track new and emerging trends from around the world, spark your creativity, and show you how to bring products to market faster and smarter. That's what the Innovation Roadshow is all about! Attendees are encouraged ...

Planeterra, an international non-profit organization, and leading adventure travel company Gap Adventures, appealed yesterday to the adventure travel community, and in just 6 hours realized their goal of $25,000 to help fund emergency drinking water stations in drought-stricken areas in East Africa. The humanitarian effort, which is managed by international non-profit CARE Canada, is continuing its appeal to the travel and business communities to help fund a second emergency water station in Kenya. Donors everywhere can contribute directly to the relief effort online ...

Miles For Hope, a 501 (c) 3 non-profit organization dedicated to funding cutting-edge brain tumor research, will hold its Moving Towards a Cure 5K Brain Tumor Awareness Run/Walk on Saturday, October 22, 2011 at 9 am at the Fred G. Bond Metro Park in Cary, NC. Portion of proceeds will fund brain tumor research for Duke University's brain tumor immunology program. "It has been quite frustrating to see the same vaccine that saved my life, and the lives of others, unavailable to those battling this devastating disease," said Robert (Bob) Gibbs, co-founder of Miles ...

Chris Wallace, vice president of sales and marketing at Southport Graphics (http://www.southportgraphics.com), a Morrisville-based digital printing company, has announced the launch of a new, user-friendly website with an enhanced design and expanded portfolio. The website, designed by Cathy Hofknecht of Neu Concepts LLC in Durham, N.C., focuses on showcasing the advanced printing and visual capabilities of Southport Graphics. Individual pages allow users to easily navigate the site while learning more about the company and services offered. The new site can be viewed at ...

World leading chemical company, BASF, has embarked on an operational excellence programme with change management consultancy, Reliable Manufacturing, to help maximise asset utilisation and increase capacity at its Antwerp plant. The initiative has the potential to save the organisation tens of millions of Euros as part of its drive for world class performance. BASF Antwerp is a highly successful operation. EUR1 billion of capital investment saw dramatic increases in production between 2006 and 2008. When asset utilisation was introduced as a key performance indicator ...