The West Michigan Symphony will hold open auditions for 15 positions as well as substitute positions May 9-11. One of Michigan's leading regional symphonies, WMS will hold auditions for chairs for violin, viola, cello, bass, oboe, bassoon, horn and piano/celeste. The Symphony will also hold substitute auditions for all instruments. Preliminary auditions are scheduled for: • Monday, May 9, in East Lansing on the Michigan State University campus • Tuesday, May 11, in Muskegon at the Frauenthal Center for the Performing Arts • Wednesday, May 12 in Kalamazoo on the ...

David Finch, president and CEO of ATCOM Business Telecom Solutions (http://www.atcombts.com), a communications solutions provider, has announced that the firm will serve as a gold sponsor at the 2011 Business Expo held by the Greater Raleigh Chamber of Commerce and The News & Observer Publishing Company on Wednesday, April 20 from 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Raleigh Convention Center, located at 500 S. Salisbury St. The Business Expo is Raleigh's largest business-to-business trade show, bringing together hundreds of businesses to showcase their products and services. QUOTES: "ATCOM ...

To help choose between over 150 entries submitted for the Perspective Magazine Awards Program, to be held the evening of May 12th, 2011 during GNEX 2011, online voting will be open to timeshare and fractional industry professionals beginning Tuesday, April 5th. Online voting will be conducted through the Perspective Magazine website at http://perspectivemagazine.com, with voters asked to go to the website and follow the links for instructions on how to place your vote for your favorite individual or company. Voting will conclude at the end of April, when the votes will ...

Stouch Lighting today announced that West Nottingham Township, Chester County, PA has completed retrofitting their street lighting and a Park and Ride dedicated to WW11 veterans. Stouch Lighting supplied and installed the LED lighting fixtures to enhance the lighting quality and meet the township's objectives to increase security throughout the community and generate energy savings. The township's street lights utilized Relume Technologies, Inc provided by Stouch Lighting. The LEDs met the particular requirements of West Nottingham for efficient lighting and increased ...

Charles Jackson believes in the power of love. He is a self-proclaimed "romantic." But, as a child of divorced parents and as a two-time divorcee, Jackson takes a more pragmatic approach to love and offers marriage and divorce solutions for others. Jackson holds no degrees in counseling nor is he an attorney or CPA, but he knows the divorce statistics and points out preventative measures to avoid the profound personal losses that can come with marital disenfranchisement in his first book, Second Thoughts on Marriage and Divorce. As a first-time author, Charles Jackson ...

Berkshire based IT support company Puzzle-IT recently visited High Wycombe automotive education charity Skidz this month to donate and install a printer and scanner. They have also offered free on-going IT support to the charity. Steve Godfrey of Skidz said ""Being provided with a good quality networked printer will help tremendously with the efficiency of the office and the great support we have been given from Puzzle-IT is much appreciated". Puzzle-IT can be contacted on answers@puzzle-it.co.uk or 01344 887420 or alternatively for more information visit our website ...

Katherine & Steve Turner, owners of MadMolly, said that they are always on the look-out to handpick products which can capture the imagination of their returning and new customers. The Harrington & Squires sets of shopping list fridge magnets and Indian spice fridge magnets do just that. Both are sets of coloured button fridge magnets, which have dimensions of 2.5cm. The shopping list fridge magnets set comprises of 35 colourful button fridge magnets which serve both as an easy way to make a shopping list, as well as a funky design addition to the kitchen. Harrington ...

Body N Balance has launched new Atlanta Pilates website to better offer you the services on Pilates and other health improving courses. Acupuncture, Reiki, Shiatsu and massages are offered in a friendly environment with the help of well experienced staff. Whether you are looking for exercise programs or injury care, you have various opportunities to maintain perfect body health. Comfortable exercise can keep you physically fit and also can provide you enough mental strength. Body N Balance concentrates on Atlanta Pilates, which has the power to strengthen and stretch your ...

House Rabbit Society (HRS) has been named the April 2011 beneficiary for Rescue Chocolate, the vegan chocolate company which donates 100% of its profits to various animal rescue organizations. House rabbits, as distinguished from rabbits out in the wild, are human companion animals similar to dogs and cats. They require social interaction, veterinary attention, and spaying/neutering just like other domestic pets, according to the HRS website, http://www.rabbit.org. "We chose April as the month to spotlight this group because of Easter. And Easter is when people think ...

Corazon Real Estate, experts in Reno property management, state that managing Reno apartments and other rental property, particularly if there are a large number of tenants, can be a full-time job. If the rental property is an investment and not your main job, you may not have the time to fulfill all of the related responsibilities. Hiring a good Reno property manager allows you to earn income through your property without taking on additional work. "Dealing with tenants is not always easy. Issues such as late rent, property damage and even evictions are going to arise. ...

Global 1 Resources has recently partnered with Find Rack Space to help meet the needs of thousands of IT companies and webmasters throughout the United States. The partnership matches up the two biggest needs of web hosts by combining marketing opportunities with infrastructure expansion. "Any company that is trying to get more hosting business is inevitably going to need more server racks to accommodate the growth, and vice versa" said Marcos Garza, owner of Global 1 Resources. Garza continued by saying that "...the two industries are so aligned, it just made sense ...

Founder of The Brainchild Group, Aaron Schoenberger, is now offering social media consulting and training to companies in Miami, Florida. He uses his social media, search engine optimization (SEO), and PR expertise to craft profit-increasing Internet marketing strategies for vacation destinations, hotels, restaurants, real estate developers, law firms, and many other businesses. Before creating The Brainchild Group in 2007, Aaron Schoenberger spent 4 years working in the marketing department of a world-renowned, billion-dollar celebrity brand. Additionally, he served ...

In an effort to reach out to even more business and families that are facing foreclosure, The Rigley Group is offering free negotiation services to all new customers who are looking to avoid foreclosures on their business or residential properties. The Rigley Group has an "A" Rating from the Better Business Bureau, a testament to their outstanding customer service and client satisfaction. In addition to the free negotiation services, The Rigley Group offers a 100% money back guarantee on their forensic loan audits. Financing options are available to pay for the services ...

Infinit Outsourcing, Inc. (Infinit-O), a boutique business process outsourcing solutions provider that has been at the forefront of the social media outsourcing industry in the Philippines, today announced that it recently attended the International ICT Awards - Philippines 2011 event held at the Dusit Thani Hotel in Makati City, Philippines. Infinit-O was named as one of the finalists nominated for the Most Innovative BPO Company of the Year award for its exemplary demonstration of services unique to the country. The Most Innovative BPO Company of Year award is given ...

In a study conducted in 2007, The National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty estimated that annual homelessness in America was approximately 3.5 million people, of which 1.35 million were children. No one ever imagines themselves being a part of these types of statistics and yet an increasing number of people are finding themselves in this distressed situation every day. Take for instance, Versandra Kennebrew, a working class single woman who had to take refuge in a Detroit area homeless shelter in 2003 with the undertaking of restoring her life during an economic ...

Its always important to keep the fans involved with the fan page on Facebook, if a company chooses it to be the main source of communication with its fans, followers and clients/customers. That's why the Custom-Writing.org academic writing project decided to organize a contest for the fans, or anyone who stumbles upon their page. "We had a lot of debate and decision making involved in this process. First, we thought that a contest with real prizes and/or financial rewards for the winners, would be great. But, as we stated earlier, we are just starting our path through ...

Novosoft, the international provider of IT solutions for home and enterprise users, announced a bundle of its Handy Backup and partner SpeedUpMyPC software. The bundle features the popular automated backup and system performance improvement programs available on the product site of Handy Backup for a special price. The offer is limited. "Here at Novosoft the two major priorities forming the grounds of our strategy are customer satisfaction and partner interconnections. That is why our new offer is so much Novosoft-style: it brings the customers two novel program solutions ...

The London Palestine Film Festival will kick off on April 29th and include a range of movies from - or about - the country. It will take place at three venues - the Barbican, the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) and University College London's (UCL) Darwin Theatre. Anticipated highlights include showings of Raed Andoni's Fix Me, documentary Jaffa: The Orange's Clockwork and Zindeeq by Michel Khleifi. The screening cycle at the Barbican runs until May 4th, with SOAS hosting screenings from May 5th to 8th and UCL taking over from May 9th to 11th. Several ...

BINGHAMTON, NY -- Two of the biggest influences on children — parents and schools — may unintentionally contribute to childhood obesity. That's the observation of Susan Terwilliger, clinical as­sociate professor in the Decker School of Nursing at Binghamton University, who studies the problem. "As a pediatric nurse practitioner I've taken care of children and their families for about 30 years, and I saw this huge increase [in childhood obesity] from 5 to 30 percent over about a 10-year period when I was in the school-based health centers," she says. In researching ...

A stunning display of royal jewellery, clothing and art is on show at an exhibition entitled Queen Margherita - The Legend of Modernity in Post-Unification Naples. The installation is available to view at the city's Palazzo Reale until July 17th 2011 and will explore the wider nation, as well as the titular royalty. It has been organised as part of Naples' 150th anniversary celebrating Italy's unification, which recently prompted a huge number of special events all over the country. The Queen Margherita show will look at the impact the regal figure had on social ...

The huge tsunami triggered by the 9.0 Tohoku Earthquake destroyed coastal towns near Sendai in Japan, washing such things as houses and cars into the ocean. Projections of where this debris might head have been made by Nikolai Maximenko and Jan Hafner at the International Pacific Research Center, University of Hawaii at Manoa. Maximenko has developed a model based on the behavior of drifting buoys deployed over years in the ocean for scientific purposes. What this model predicts about the tsunami debris can be seen in Figure 1. The debris first spreads out eastward from ...

Whowish has announced the official launch of a new Facebook application: 2Meet4. The online scheduler and meeting wizard helps Facebook friends arrange get-togethers and professionals schedule meetings. For skilled service providers who have integrated Facebook into their business, 2Meet4 also can schedule office visits or visits to a customer's home. "2Meet4 is one of those Facebook apps that truly is a useful utility for everyone, from teens and college students to adults and business professionals," says Sam Kittayapong, CEO of Whowish. "These days both young and ...

BOGOR, Indonesia (April 5, 2011) _ New research shows that mangroves store exceptionally more carbon than most tropical forests, but they are being destroyed from coastlines at a rapid rate causing significant emissions of greenhouse gases. The findings from the study, which was carried out by scientists from the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) and the USDA Forest Service, underscore a call by scientists for mangroves to be protected as part of global efforts to combat climate change. "Mangroves are being destroyed at an alarming rate. This needs ...

Rome's Palazzo delle Esposizioni is showcasing a fascinating history of currency in Italy as part of the country's unification celebrations. The exhibition will look at how the nation changed its monetary system in the 19th century and the challenges it had to overcome to do so. From Lira to Euro parallels this story with the background of the single European currency and explores similarities in the two periods of change. The show runs from April 5th to July 1st and is free to attend thanks to sponsorship by the Bank of Italy. It includes original banknotes ...

Veteran rock band Dropkick Murphys will headline an event in Milan later this month. The group will play the Loud & Proud Festival on April 26th along with Madball, Devil's Brigade and more guests still to be confirmed. Dropkick Murphys have been building up their reputation for delivering a fearsome live show filled with Celtic-influenced punk tunes since 1996. They released their seventh studio album earlier this year and the quality of the guests on the record shows how respected the band are. Both NOFX's Fat Mike and iconic singer Bruce Springsteen made ...