Smart Marketing Concepts has launched a new identity by introducing a new corporate logo in tandem with the start of the new year and referring itself as "SMC". The company says the updated version of its service mark better reflects the company's focus on helping customers by following best practices of successful companies. "Our new logo better communicates what SMC stands for," said CEO Mayra Harley. "It emphasizes our mindset on business best practices and objective to drive innovation and improve efficiency." The company believes that businesses need to be smart ...

Contemporary impressionist painter Bruce Wood is a new Member of the The Franklin Art Association in Franklin, Massachusetts. His acrylic paintings "My New Home" and "Waiting For Attention" were included in the Association's Fall 2010 Members' Exhibition . The show, titled "New Images," was held at Restaurant 3 on Route 140 in Franklin, MA on November 6th. "Waiting For Attention" was awarded Second Place in the Mixed Media category. Bruce Wood is a Boston native who moved to Chicago in the 1970's to study at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where he received ...

To bring in the New Year Sound and Vision will be holding a New Years day Sale in both their television shops in Bolton and in Leeds, and online at http://www.soundandvision.co.uk. New Years Day at Sound and Vision is expected to be massive as customers from all over the country descend on the stores and shop online to make the most of the price reductions. During the New Years Day Sale, customers of Sound and Vision are expected to discover massive price reductions on the latest products from the industry's biggest manufacturers. Some of the leading electrical ...

London mayor Boris Johnson has approved plans for the redevelopment of Battersea Power Station which will create 16,000 new homes. Battersea Power Station, a grade two listed building, is located on the south bank of the river Thames, in Battersea South London. Although decommissioned in 1983, the coal-fired power station has become one of the world's best known landmarks due to its iconic four-chimney layout. It was featured in The Beatles 1965 movie Help! and on the cover art for Pink Floyd's 1977 album, Animals. Since the closure of Battersea Power Station the ...

The 2011 Anastasia Calendar, now in its 2nd edition, was published for download today on AnastasiaDate.com. The much-awaited release follows a successful 2009 launch of Anastasia's premiere edition and features several updates. Each of the 365 ladies' images that fill the months of 2011 can be downloaded onto the user's computer screen as a desktop background and may be set up to change every day. Each Lady's profile is also accessible from the Calendar, which is filled with important dates in Russian, CIS and world culture and history. Capturing the pure delight ...

Nashua New Hampshire—Debora McLaughlin, Executive Coach and Leadership Consultant is kicking off 2011 with three Think BIG Innovation Day events. Think BIG Innovation Days are designed to challenge participants to think bigger and go beyond their typical New Year's resolution. The Think BIG Innovation Days are high energy, collaborative, creative goal setting and planning days that take your typical goal plan and stretch it beyond its limits. Debora McLaughlin, CEO of Nashua based Open Door Coaching and co-founder of the Real World Leader's Institute notes "the New ...

Bumps in the night, spooky shadows and eerie sounds can make falling asleep hard enough for children, but for foster kids it can be especially difficult when in a new, unfamiliar environment. Sleep Train (www.sleeptrain.com), an employee-owned company and the number one bedding specialist on the West Coast, is trying to ease a little of that nighttime anxiety with its drive to collect snugly new pajamas for foster children. "Each year after this drive, our foster children are so excited to get their new pajamas they can't wait to rush home, put them on and get ready ...

A new book titled, "Traditional Chiropractic: A Layperson's Guide to How it Works & Why it's Attacked," (ISBN 978-0-557-98332-2) has been published by bestselling chiropractic author, Dr. John Reizer. According to Reizer, the book details the basics concerning traditional chiropractic theory while also offering readers a clear and concise explanation about how and why the profession has been relentlessly attacked by members of the media and various consumer watch groups. Dr. Reizer writes, "In the eyes of certain organizations, chiropractic and its practitioners represent ...

Songwriters who experienced the frustration of being stuck when writing lyrics can now stay creative more easily with Rhyme Genie's latest update. Version 3 of the dynamic rhyming dictionary with over 9 million rhyme references introduces a unique thesaurus with 420,000 entries that matches not only the meaning of words but also the number of syllables. "The syllable matching thesaurus opens up a new world of possibilities by suggesting alternatives for words that do not have inspiring rhymes. A word can be easily replaced without affecting the meaning or the rhythm ...

A new brand of USA online casino software has been brought to players in America - BetOnSoft. The arrival of BetOnSoft in the USA has marked the fifth brand of casino software available to those in the United States, but this is far from the last brand of software recommended to players. Due to being a new brand of casino software, the BetOnSoft software is relatively unknown in the industry. In order to inform interested parties about this new brand of casino software, a new website has opened that details nothing more than the casino software known as BetOnSoft as ...

Cruise Amour, on-line travel agency, has launched 'Photo Itineraries' which provides an example of how the thought-out application of relatively on-page technology combined with existing content can significantly enhance the customer journey. Managing director Tim Hurrell explained, "Most cruise websites use generic destination / ship images that are often only region or cruise line specific and don't represent the destinations or actual ship concerned. To us this seems like complete madness and potentially misleading. We decided that we would only show our customers ...

1st Class Medical's new website, PortableOxygenConcentratorsSales.com, will make it easier than ever before for COPD sufferers to purchase a quality portable oxygen concentrator online. This new website will allow customers to easily determine which portable oxygen concentrator will help them the most. Anyone suffering from COPD now has an online destination they can trust for helping them improve their condition. PortableOxygenConcentratorsSales.com offers a top notch selection of portable concentrators. Each item that is listed on the website includes detailed information. ...

McCusker & Company, a national leading provider of service program warranty consulting services, is partnering with Service USA to host strategic product protection partnership meetings for its industry leading consumer electronics extended warranty plan during the 2011 Consumer Electronics Show taking place in January in Las Vegas. "We are looking forward to discussing industry trends and developments in our innovative consumer electronics product protection plans with some new industry partners," said McCusker & Company President Will L. McCusker. "We have some very ...

The notion of being angry with God goes back to ancient days. Such personal struggles are not new, but Case Western Reserve University psychologist Julie Exline began looking at "anger at God" in a new way. "Many people experience anger toward God," Exline explains. "Even people who deeply love and respect God can become angry. Just as people become upset or angry with others, including loved ones, they can also become angry with God." Exline, an associate professor in Case Western Reserve's College of Arts and Sciences, has researched anger toward God over the past ...

DARIEN, IL – Patients with obstructive sleep apnea often report that they feel like "a new person" after beginning treatment with continuous positive airway pressure therapy. A new study in the Jan. 1 issue of the journal SLEEP provides objective evidence to support these anecdotal reports, showing that three weeks of CPAP therapy significantly reduced fatigue and increased energy in patients with OSA. Results of the randomized controlled trial show that CPAP therapy significantly reduced self-reported, mean fatigue scores on two independent measures: from 8.76 at baseline ...

Although a clear association of tuberculosis with lung cancer remains to be established, a new study published in the January issue of the Journal of Thoracic Oncology provides compelling evidence of increased lung cancer risk among people with tuberculosis. Researchers at China Medical University and Hospital in Taiwan randomly selected 1 million patients covered under the country's National Health Insurance (NHI) program. All patients aged 20 years and older with a new diagnosis of tuberculosis between 1998 and 2000 were identified as the exposed cohort and all people ...

Soundcrafting.com releases the new Goldmind Producer Pack. This the best to date hip hop sound series that we have ever released. There are four packs in this series. It has the Mannie Fresh Series, Trap Star kits, Nu Urban Tools, and The Big Bang Kitz. The Goldmind Producer Pack is load with hip hop samples and Hip Hop Sounds. There are 745 sounds in this series. You can buy the whole series or buy each kit/and or pack individually. This series will work with FL Studio and Fruity loops. It will also load into the MPC Drum Machine Series, as well as any software sampler ...

This free nationwide online-based casting call will start on Monday, December 6, 2010, and will continue through the end of February 2011. The casting call is open to females and males, aged 16 and above. Each contestant is required to submit an entry form with photos (professional not required) on ExploreModeling.com. South Moon Under will then select six lucky winners (three females and three males) to be featured in their Spring 2011 photo shoot in New York City. Each of the six models will receive $250 in clothing products and professional tear sheets from the shoot. Immediately ...

Dream Cartel, a Los Angeles-based fashion public relations agency for emerging designers, models, and stylists, will be presenting a networking party at Nobody Jones Boutique on January 15, 2011. The event will be located at 4703 Crenshaw Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90043 from 6:00-9:00pm. This is a free event with complimentary liquor, wine, and treats. Mingle with the fashionistas of L.A. while shopping, networking, and building professional relationships with fashion industry insiders. Invited guests include designers, models, stylists, bloggers, editors, photographers, ...

The Metro New York Chapter of National Black MBA Association is calling on mentors to lead a series of academic enrichment and leadership workshops to begin in January. College Awareness Symbolizes Hope (C.A.S.H.) is a free and fun team-based mentoring program that strives to educate African-American students about the advantages of graduating from high school and attending college. Mentors will play a critical role in giving students the tools and resources for setting goals, applying to college, seeking financial aid, budgeting, resume writing, public speaking, networking, ...

For those who are serious about making sure that their house is immaculate, hiring a home inspector makes sense. A home inspector comes with his whole baggage of equipments and expertise to identify hidden problems that if uncovered later can cause a lot of damage. In fact a number of real estate agents get a routine inspection done on every house that they've undertaken to sell. "A home inspection can be likened to an examination by a physician. The inspector inspects the physical structure and the major interior systems of a house and points out possible problems ...

Online recruitment specialist, Recruitment Genius, has today (16 November 2010) been presented with the Best New Product Service Award by the Best Business Awards. The Best Business Awards are open to organisations of all sizes and aim to highlight and reward excellence with entries judged by an independent panel of business experts and past winners. The Best New Product / Service category is not just about innovation but also looks at pricing, after-sales service, design and performance. Each submission is scored against specific category criteria with particular emphasis ...

Fingo Games (http://www.fingogames.com) announced today that they have launched the debut of their online presence in the Gaming Industry, with FingoGames.com. FingoGames.com will be the home to a series of games they will be releasing over the next three months. The Fingo Games concept was developed by the company's owner and is a new spin on Bingo where players are required to build non-traditional patterns, at an accelerated pace. Company head and game inventor, Dave D'Matrix developed the concept of Fingos after creating finger daubers for his Grandmother to help her ...

For the first time in more than two years, the number of Americans filing for their first week of unemployment benefits fell below 400,000 last week -- a ray of hope in the one of the longest job droughts in U.S. history. Job seekers are using job search engines like FindAChristianJob.com (http://www.findachristianjob.com) to locate Christian jobs, ministry jobs, church jobs and pastor jobs. FindAChristianJob.com's growth in the last three months can be seen in its exponential website traffic and nearly 18,000 Twitter followers. The number of initial claims fell to 388,000 ...

Stevens Auction Company will kick off 2011 in style with a Jan. 15 multi-estate sale featuring over 600 fresh-to-the-market lots from five important estates (two of which are from just south of Atlanta). The auction will be held at Stevens Auction Company's gallery, located at 609 North Meridian Street in Aberdeen. The sale will begin at 10 a.m. (CST). Featured will be beautiful antique furniture, china, silver, hand-made rugs, fantastic lamps, original oil paintings, collectibles, hundreds of pieces of old Victorian glassware and more. An auction preview will be held ...