August 23, 2011 Global Intelligence Alliance (GIA) announces that the Handbook of Market Intelligence is now available for pre-order on Amazon.  This resource gives readers a step-by-step roadmap for establishing, conducting, and further developing market intelligence programs within an organization, turning market data into actionable insights. It is full of best practice advice based on hundreds of real-life international case studies, including companies such as ABB, Cisco Systems, Dunkin' Brands and Statoil. The material is backed up by extensive global survey data ...

4Media Software recently upgraded their Blu-ray converter tools, resulting in faster ripping, decoding and converting speeds. Since 4Media adopted NVIDIA CUDA and multi-threading decoding technology, the 4Media Blu Ray ripper is capable of converting: Blu-ray to iPad and Blu-ray to MKV two times faster than before. Blu-ray DVDs are getting increasingly more popular. However, because of their general format, most people can't watch Blu-ray DVDs on their portable digital devices such as: iPod, iPad, iPhone, PSP, Xbox or Apple TV. This is because their devices are generally ...

eLearners.com today announced that it has partnered with TestDriveCollegeOnline.com to provide prospective students the opportunity to try an online college class for free. TestDriveCollegeOnline allows students to complete an online course at no cost and no obligation so that they may assess their readiness for online education before committing to an online college degree program or paying tuition. Earlier this year, a study from the Community College Research Center at Teachers College of Columbia University offered recommendations to improve the success of online students, ...

The event that started it all in the USA in Reno, Nevada, is happening again on January 11-15, 2012. The 4th Reno International Bachata Festival will take place at the famous Peppermill Resort Spa and Casino with its 20,000 square feet ballroom. With its five diamond hotel rating, Peppermill Resort Casino is Reno's #1 hotel, spa, and casino, this is where you will be treated to the most luxurious accommodations offered by any hotel. It is an ideal location for everyone. Located just 10 minutes from the excitement of downtown and only seven minutes from Reno/Tahoe Airport, ...

CorkSport Performance is pleased to announce another addition to its Front Mount Intercooler line for the 2010+ Mazdaspeed 3. The latest kit is designed specifically to accommodate the CorkSport Power Series Short Ram Intake giving customers the flexibility to purchase a kit that will accommodate a short ram intake while providing the maximum air cooling capabilities that can only be achieved with a front mount intercooler. The factory top mounted intercooler can easily be over worked and overheated due to its smaller size. In return, the intake air temperatures rise ...

AC Generations look into the reason why a company such as FoxConn, whom has been applauded for creating so many jobs would then turn from using people to using our robotic counterparts. Chinese manufacturing giant FoxConn, which produces all of Apple's iPhones and iPads, will be introducing 1 million robots into its workforce over the next three years. The company currently uses 10,000 robots in its production line, a number it'll increase to 300,000 next year alone. AC Generations consider according to a report in the Washington Post, the robots at FoxConn will take ...

Leading South Attleboro MA Orthodontists Dr. Raymond George, Sr. and Dr. Raymond George, Jr. announced the launch of their practice's new blog. The practice's orthodontic services are easily accessible by current and prospective patients via its patient-friendly website, and now George Family Orthodontics has added a new blog to help patients stay informed and entertained. The practice, which has three locations in South Attleboro, Seekonk, and Vineyard Haven, Massachusetts, specializes in a comprehensive range of orthodontic care including braces and Invisalign for ...

SMS Worldwide's Business Development Manager Kendall Jarrett, considers: "Due to the client demand and the hard work from everyone involved we are looking to open up another office for SMS Marketing in the following weeks." "SMS Worldwide are so proud and excited to be expanding once again. In the last 14 weeks since opening up in Peterborough town centre, our hard work has paid off as client demand has increased and we now have the opportunity to bring our services to another city," said Managing Director Mr Simon Morris earlier this week. SMS ...

Leading Las Vegas, NV Orthodontist Dr. Brian Chamberlain of Supersmile Orthodontics announced the launch of his practice's new website at http://www.supersmilevegas.com. The practice's orthodontic services are now easily accessible by current and prospective patients via its patient-friendly website. The practice, which is located at 3200 Soaring Gulls Drive in Las Vegas, Nevada, specializes in a comprehensive range of orthodontic care including SureSmile braces which reduce treatment time by up to 40% as well as Invisalign and Invisalign Teen: the "braceless" ...

Nationally acclaimed Casting Director for "Army Wives" Richard Futch will hold a workshop September 10, for Commercial Casting Atlanta. The cost of the 1-Day Workshop is $165. MORE ABOUT RICHARD FUTCH, CSA: A graduate of the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York, Richard Futch, CSA, began his professional theatrical career in New York under the guidance of the late Michael Shurtleff, renowned Broadway casting director, playwright and author. He worked with Mr. Shurtleff on major Broadway productions, including Pippin, Miss Moffat and Chicago. During ...

Steam Master is your local honest reliable family owned and operated business with more than 20 years of service to the Palm Beach community. When you call, their staff answers the phone without endless automated systems or voicemail. They pride themselves on being friendly and courteous, never pressuring you into other services you don't want. Never any travel charges, hidden charges or silly gimmicks. Services provided are: carpet cleaning, tile cleaning, grout cleaning, area rug cleaning, upholstery cleaning. In addition they also provide 24 hour emergency water damage ...

Tom's Foreign Auto Parts, a multi channel online retailer of used foreign auto parts, uses a gas tank driller to recycle the gas of every salvage car that comes in to the shop. For safety and environmental reasons, Tom's Foreign Auto Parts drains every gas tank of every car so that no fluids hit the ground. When a salvage car enters the shop it is put on a lift and an air powered drill gets raised up to the gas tank, drills into the gas tank, and sucks the gas out. The gas then goes through a filtering system and then into one of Tom's Foreign Auto Parts' 250 gallon ...

When it was time to step up to the big leagues in Boston's Real Estate market, Hodara Property Management knew that their new office space needed serious help. That help came when they decided to engage (m) + charles beach INTERIORS - the Boston Interior Design firm known for bringing their A game to every one of their client's projects. "Hodara Property Management is a young, aggressive firm that needed an office that was going to reflect their image, ambitions and energy," says m charles beach, Principal and Chief Designer of (m) + charles beach INTERIORS. ...

Estate planning is a topic that most people like to put off or avoid all together. Yet your estate plan will either be your choice or follow the intestacy laws of your particular state in which you reside. People work hard and long for their assets yet a lot of this hard work could be undone if we do not plan for our own mortality. Some things all people should thing about regarding estate planning: When was the last time your estate plan was reviewed, do you own property in multiple states, do your beneficiary designations match your estate plan, are your assets title ...

The nature of estate planning is one that changes over time. As life progresses and goals change so should the estate plan. Lack of an adequate estate plan or an estate plan that is not current can cause undue additional emotional and financial burden on family. An effective estate plan can possibly: decrease the amount of estate taxes one may have to pay, have your assets distributed the way want or desire and not the courts way. Provide the liquidity needed for estate expenses, and thus not force the sale of assets, clearly lay out your plan and thus not have family members ...

In 1996, The Sagemont School in Weston opened serving 23 preschool through 5th grade students. When the building was not ready on time, classes were held in meeting rooms at the Bonaventure Hotel, currently known as The Hyatt. The students studied there for two months until they were able to officially move into the building. Flash forward to 2011. Now, the school has 800 students on two beautiful campuses and is a well-established, accredited college preparatory school. Richard and Renee Goldman, their son Brent, and a group of investors founded the Sagemont School. ...

Platinum Play Online Casino currently has a host of promotions underway for all registered players including the Summertime promotion, where thousands in cash and casino credits can be won. For those players looking to play online casino games, but who have not registered yet, more incentive comes in the form of the two-part welcome bonus. As a reputable Australian online gambling portal, Platinum Play is offering new players a 1,500 free bets offer as well as a 100% deposit match bonus to use when joining the casino. The 1,500 free bets offer does not require ...

Dr. Paul Culver, Brookfield dentist, is helping parents understand the orthodontic needs of their children. He does this by providing informational consultations to examine and discuss potential issues and treatment options for promoting a healthy smile. Some orthodontic problems may be easier to correct if treated early. Dr. Culver, Brookfield emergency dentist, prides himself in being able to properly inform parents of future orthodontic concerns in order to successfully treat patient's orthodontic problems. Waiting until all the permanent teeth have come in, or until ...

Dr. David Choi of Come Orthodontics and Pediatric Dentistry, pediatric dentists and orthodontists in Long Island, is pleased to announce the launch of his practice's new educational materials available online via their interactive practice website. Patients can visit the website for Dr. Choi to view the educational patient library and videos. The education library and videos allow patients to easily access dental health care information at any moment of their day, even outside of office hours. When a patient has a question about their symptoms, procedure or other treatments ...

Entrepreneur Howard Helfant has just launched My Skinny Senorita, a non-alcoholic beverage company based in Boca Raton, Florida. In 2010, Helfant launched Hot Shot Beverage Company. My Skinny Senorita will be both owned and operated by Hot Shot Beverage, LLC. My Skinny Senorita is a non-alcoholic beverage company known for their product line of Margarita, Mojito and Daiquiri mixes. Since they are only five calories per serving and sugar free, the drinks remain as healthy as possible. Some prefer it shaken, frozen, or stirred--either way, my Skinny Senorita drinks are ...

Psychologists at the University of Liverpool have found that children as young as two years old have an understanding of complex grammar even before they have learned to speak in full sentences. Researchers at the University's Child Language Study Centre showed children, aged two, sentences containing made-up verbs, such as 'the rabbit is glorping the duck', and asked them to match the sentence with a cartoon picture. They found that even the youngest two-year-old could identify the correct image with the correct sentence, more often than would be expected by chance. The ...

A higher proportion of female nurses among intensive care teams may decrease individuals' risk of professional burnout, according to Swiss researchers who studied the factors related to burnout in the high-stress setting of the intensive care unit (ICU). The research was published online in the articles-in-press section of the American Thoracic Society's American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. Burnout is believed to be a psychological response to chronic stress. It can lead to emotional instability, feelings of failure and low production or an urge ...

Men and women differ in the way they anticipate an unpleasant emotional experience, which influences the effectiveness with which that experience is committed to memory, according to new research. In the study, supported by a grant from the Wellcome Trust, women showed heightened neural responses in anticipation of negative experiences, but not positive ones. The neural response during anticipation was related to the success of remembering that event in the future. No neural signature was found during anticipation in either positive or negative experiences in men. Dr ...

Bremerhaven/North Pole, 22 August 2011. You can't get any "higher": on 22 August 2011 at exactly 9.42 a.m. the research icebreaker Polarstern of the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research in the Helmholtz Association reaches the North Pole. The aim of he current expedition is to document changes in the far north. Thus, the researchers on board are conducting an extensive investigation programme in the water, ice and air at the northernmost point on the Earth. The little sea ice cover makes the route via the pole to the investigation area in the Canadian ...

NAIROBI, KENYA (23 AUGUST 2011) – As hunger spreads among more than 12 million people in the Horn of Africa, a study by the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) of the response to Kenya's last devastating drought, in 2008-2009, finds that investments aimed at increasing the mobility of livestock herders – a way of life often viewed as "backward" despite being the most economical and productive use of Kenya's drylands – could be the key to averting future food crises in arid lands. The report, "An Assessment of the Response to the 2008-2009 Drought in Kenya," ...