When the clock winds down on the average professional athlete's five-year career, often, their prosperous earning potential also comes to an abrupt halt. But unlike business professionals that have the benefit of lifelong education and career path guidance, these athletes often lack the direction necessary to continue their success once they've left the playing field. Enter the Professional Athlete Franchise Initiative (PAFI), which aims to fill this void by providing education and support for twilight year and retired athletes interested in exploring business ownership ...

With Spring, comes the official start of "moving season," the months during which most people who are relocating chose to do so. When moving to a new residence, storage units can prove necessary for the protection of one's belongings and sanity. Since 1991, Proguard Storage has been opening and managing Texas storage units, offering customers a place to safely and securely store excess furniture, appliances, clothing, and more. "Spring is the busiest moving season. Putting items in climate controlled storage while in the process of moving can protect belongings and make ...

Animal lovers, wine aficionados, community members and those looking for fun will sample assorted fine vintages and fetch silent auction bargains while raising funds and awareness for homeless German Shepherds at Wines, Woofs and Wishes III - A Celebration of Compassion, set for Sunday, April 3, at L'Opera Ristorante at 101 Pine Avenue in Long Beach from 4:30 pm to 7:00 pm. All proceeds will benefit German Shephard Rescue of Orange County, a non-profit organization that rescues, rehabilitates and re-homes purebred German Shepherd dogs in the greater Los Angeles area. Tickets ...

The Boys & Girls Clubs of North Central Texas announced today that Windell Middlebrooks, television star and celebrity, will serve as Honorary Chairman at their 5th Annual Golf Tournament on April 28, 2011 at Frisco Lakes Golf Course, Frisco, Texas. "We are thrilled that Windell is going to be our Honorary Chairman for the Tournament", said Babs Troutman, President and Chief Professional Officer of the Boys & Girls Clubs of North Central Texas. "With Windell in attendance I know our golfers and sponsors are going to have an entertaining time getting to meet and greet ...

Total Quality Logistics (TQL) is proud to announce that it is a Cincinnati Business Courier 2011 Fast 55 award winner. Fast 55 award recognition is given to Greater Cincinnati's fastest growing privately held companies. This is the seventh consecutive year that TQL has been recognized with this award. The Cincinnati Business Courier, along with sponsors Time Warner Cable, United Healthcare and Lexus RiverCenter, will be honoring Cincinnati's Fast 55 award winners during a luncheon held June 9, 2011, at the Hyatt Regency Cincinnati. TQL has averaged 31% year over year ...

Mosaic Community Services, an affiliate of The Sheppard and Enoch Pratt Foundation, has chosen Serenic Navigator as their financial management software and Serenic AwardVision for grant management. AVF Consulting, a Microsoft Gold Certified partner and leading Serenic partner, will provide the implementation and consulting services. Mosaic Community Services is a licensed residential rehabilitation provider and provides behavioral health services at locations throughout Baltimore County, Carroll County, and Baltimore City, Maryland. In addition to being a residential ...

BKD Technologies is pleased to present an informative webinar to help Sage MAS 90 and MAS 200 users become more familiar with Business Insights Explorer. Join BKD for this free webinar on Tuesday, April 19, 2011, from 10-11 a.m. Central time. Attending organizations will learn how Business Insights Explorer can help them gain insight into top-selling executives and what their biggest customers are buying. Find out how Business Insights Explorer helps businesses turn data into actionable knowledge, receive key business information quickly, share findings with others in ...

The Doctors include: Anthony G. Alessi, MD, MMM, Healthy Rounds, Anthony G. Alessi, MD, MMM, Healthy Rounds, is in private practice in Norwich, CT, specializing in neurology, electrodiagnostic medicine and sports neurology. He is medical director of the William W. Backus Hospital Stroke Center and writes a "Healthy Sports" syndicated column for the Norwich Bulletin. Dr. Alessi is host of "Neuro Frontiers" on Reach MD XM 160 and "Healthy Rounds" syndicated through WTIC 1080, the Hartford CBS affiliate. His book, "Healthy Sports: A Doctor's Lessons for a Winning Lifestyle," ...

Eco-story, a leader in LED lighting solutions, today announced its partnership with Ansara Restaurant Group, one of Red Robin International's largest franchise organizations. The project involved the installation of approximately 3,500 Eco-story LED lamps and is expected to achieve more than 1 million kilowatt hours of savings annually, which translates into more than $117,000 saved in utility costs per year. In addition, the switch to Eco-story's LED lights will save about 524 tons of carbon dioxide annually, which is equivalent to removing about 100 cars from the road ...

Terry Myrick has much to sing about in his new studio recording. A veteran in the music industry, Myrick has a range that's one of a kind. Soaring from baritone to soprano, Terry Myrick has mastered his unique gift. He has won the famed Apollo Amateur Night and had the opportunity to showcase his talents on Off-Broadway stages in musicals like "Mama, I Want To Sing" as well as in numerous churches. He's sung on stages with gospel greats like the late Bishop Walter Hawkins, Tramaine Hawkins, Edwin Hawkins, Shirley Caesar and Commissioned. It's his amazing vocal talents that ...

Sam Quinones, a Los Angeles Times reporter, storyteller, and author of two creative nonfiction books about Mexico and Mexican immigration, will host a two-hour writing workshop entitled, "Tell Your True Tale." Quinones will discuss his bold brand of reporting, including embedding with Mexican gangs, migrant farm workers and drag queens to tell the story of their lives. He will also teach you how to effectively tell your stories. Tell Your True Tale Writers' Workshop Held at the Kavarna Cafe, 707 East Lake Drive, Decatur, on Wednesday, April 13, 2011 beginning at 8:00 ...

CardiaLen, Inc., a medical device company focused on providing pain-free internal cardioversion therapy for atrial fibrillation (AF) with a low-energy implantable atrial cardioverter plus pacing device, received $735,000 in funding from Broadview Ventures, Inc. (broadviewventures.org). The financing will be used as working capital and will help fund the completion of CardiLen's preclinical animal studies in atrial fibrillation as well as finalize the development of the company's external low-energy pain-free atrial cardioversion device to be used in First-in-Man studies. ...

Flexera Software, one of the world's leading providers of application and software solutions, have announced their attendance at the 3rd Cloud Computing World Forum, taking place on the 21st and 22nd June at Olympia, London. As gold sponsors of the show, the company will have a presence both as an exhibitor and speaker in the forum's Approach Theatre. Richard Northing, Senior Vice President of Global Services will be presenting a twenty minute session discussing License Enforcement, while other insightful debates are expected to focus around how to understand your cloud ...

Kris Tualla, award winning author of the Hansen series of historical romance novels, announces that she will be appearing at the 2011 RT Booklovers Convention in Los Angeles. In the historical romance genre, Scotland has always held the upper hand in regards to popular story lines. For many years, novels featuring Scottish themes have been devoured by the reading public. One writer, Kris Tualla, feels that this popular theme has been overwritten and is offering something new, fresh and exciting to the loyal readers of historical romance. "In the historical romance ...

Back to Basics Learning Dynamics, the area's premiere full-service educational facility, recently announced the launch of its new "Reading is Basic Program." Currently, the company services over 150 Title I students from the Red Clay, Colonial, Brandywine, Smyrna, and Appoquinimink school districts for supplemental instruction. Back to Basics will make over 500 age-appropriate books available to Title I students. Back to Basics' teachers will distribute 2-3 books per student, which they can take home and keep. "Since March is National Reading Month we felt that this ...

MetaCommunications (http://www.metacommunications.com) today has made its software products available free of charge to any student, educator, or educational institution residing in Iowa. Graphic Communications, Marketing, Business, and Computer Science students and educators may register and download their choice of MetaCommunications' project management, graphic design, and database development software. "Our goal is to assist educators of Iowa in graduating students that have hands-on experience and practical usage of real world professional software tools used everyday ...

TargetGov is expanding and moving their offices to allow for more staff and larger quarters at the award-winning NeoTech Incubator in Howard County. The move was necessary due to TargetGov's growth in business serving the federal contractor market. ""We have built a solid reputation and our client base has steadily increased through the years" said Gloria Larkin, TargetGov president. "The NeoTech Center offers wonderful amenities, conference rooms, meeting space and a dynamic business environment that is a perfect fit for our work." The NeoTech Incubator is an award-winning ...

The Grand Rapids Symphony welcomes pianist Jim Brickman for a single performance on Tuesday, April 12, at 7:30 p.m. in DeVos Performance Hall. With six Gold and Platinum albums to his credit, Brickman will perform with the Grammy -nominated Symphony to present an evening of popular romantic piano and orchestral music. Brickman, who has collaborated with many gifted musical artists, has been said to revolutionize the sound of solo piano with his pop-style instrumentals. The concert is part of the SymphonicBoom series, which is designed to bring world-class entertainers ...

Toyota announced Wednesday that some of its plants will remain idle as demand for parts by US manufacturers are left unmet due to extended production halts made at the company's factories in Japan. Honda and other major electronic firms like Sony and Lenovo are having similar production problems due to a shortage of raw materials, components and power caused by the massive earthquake in Japan last March 11. Japan, being the world's largest supplier of silicon used to make semiconductor chips, is creating a global impact on major manufacturers of professional equipment ...

Membership in the Children's Writers' Coaching Club (CWCC) includes LIVE teleclasses EVERY week - that's 4 or more per month. Each of these 55-minute teleclasses is taught by a successful children's book author or illustrator who knows the "tricks of the trade" of children's writing, illustrating, and publishing. Join CWCC instructor and children's author, Margo Dill when she presents her teleclass, "Writing Middle Grade Novels: Characters and Conflict," on Wednesday, March 30 at 7 pm CST. In this teleclass, Margo will help you develop characters for your middle grade ...

Taipan Publishing Group, a leading financial research publishing service is excited to launch their new service, 180 Trader, on April 7. 180 Trader will focus on a database of troubled companies poised for turnaround profits; potentially reaching up to a 300% profit. The new service is written by American Underground Wealth editor, Michael Robinson. Michael uses a triple threat method in his new service that concentrates on buying stocks, as opposed to the risk of options. 180 Trader subscribers will receive monthly stock recommendations, weekly portfolio updates and ...

This week, PEX Network announced Global 360 as a Partner at their 2011 Nordic Process Excellence Summit. The Conference will take place in Stockholm, 15th - 16th June 2011. The Nordic Process Excellence Summit is tailored to key objectives and challenges specific to the Nordic region. This will include sessions on standardising and streamlining successes, learning and training initiatives and evaluating tools and methods to substantially improve both strategies and deployment. Experience rich, interactive and honest conversation through presentations, focus groups, ...

PetTravelCenter.com announced today that it will provide Indiana-based General Cage pet products on its site, including crates and exercise pens. The Heavy Duty Exercise Pen is easy to set up and provides a place for the pet to relax or exercise. The pen has eight panels that can be configured as a rectangle, square, octagon or fence. "General Cage products are durable for home use but also convenient for traveling," said Tom James, president of PetTravelCenter.com. "We're excited to add these pet crates and exercise pens on our site."About PetTravelCenter.com PetTravelCenter.com ...

Product CMAXX Dust and Fume Collector, Duct, Fittings and Install Application Welding and Cutting Fumes Customer Precision Tooling Manufacturer Challenge: The Precision Tooling Manufacturer has a proven track record of manufacturing high quality, precision tooling. The manufacturers' emphasis is on customer satisfaction, quality workmanship, quick turnarounds and employee safety. The Precision Tooling Manufacturer decided to invest in a dust and fume extraction system to protect their employees from welding and cutting fumes and contacted Imperial Systems, Inc. ...

Sepi Asefnia, president of SEPI Engineering & Construction (www.sepiengineering.com), a firm which provides civil engineering and planning services to private and public sector clients across the southeast, has announced the addition of Christa Morrison, CPSM, as marketing manager. Morrison is responsible for assisting with marketing proposals, creating marketing budgets, updating the company website and other marketing initiatives. A native of Batavia, N.Y., Morrison brings with her more than 14 years of experience in marketing. She holds an associate's degree in applied ...