NC Beautiful, a provider of environmental education and beautification opportunities that elevate the quality of life of North Carolinians, has announced this year's recipients of the organization's environmental education grants. Eight schools were awarded Windows of Opportunity Grants (WOOG) that are available to certified, full-time K-12 teachers in the state of North Carolina. Windows of Opportunity provides up to $1,000 grants to NC teachers to reward their creativity fostering environmental stewardship, leadership, and awareness and initiating a sense of community ...

Finding and collecting original comic art pages can be challenging, as only one piece of each exists in the world. Original comic art are the unique, hand drawn pages created by artists before they are mass produced in a comic book. Now collectors can tell the world the exact piece they are looking for by adding it to their "Wanted to Buy" list on Sketch Maven. Since it opened in 2009, thousands of registered users have bought and sold on Sketch Maven, viewing and buying original comic art, cartoon art, color guides and sketches. For the first time, collectors can now post ...

Casmiro.com: Casmiro, the #1 online video distribution platform for pay-to-access content, today announced its partnership to distribute 'The Find-Claiming Nelscott Reef' on Facebook and NelscottReef.com. As profiled in Surfline.com, Transworld Surf Magazine, Surfing Magazine and Surfer Magazine, 'The Find-Claiming Nelscott Reef' documents the first few years of the Nelscott Reef Classic. Behemoth, the filmmakers, partnered with Casmiro in order to distribute and sell their content directly from their Facebook page, http://www.NelscottReef.com and other web outlets. Revenues ...

Deep River Snacks, a gourmet snack food company announced the launch of a new line of all natural, multigrain tortilla chips featuring the Whole Grains Council seal. The Whole Grains Council seal helps consumers find whole grain goods and understand their health benefits. "Traditionally, great tasting tortilla chips contained preservatives and dyes and all natural tortilla chips tasted like cardboard, said James Goldberg, President and CEO of Deep River Snacks. Now, consumers no longer need to choose between great taste and all natural. Our new Multigrain Tortilla Chips ...

PacificHost, a provider of Linux based, cPanel Shared and Reseller Hosting services announced earlier today that the company has shifted all of its shared and reseller servers to the mod_pagespeed module developed by Google. The module promises faster performance by optimizing the web pages and the resources on them. Additionally the company has started to offer a Money Back Guarantee that no longer restricts the time in which a client can receive a refund. The Page Speed Mod was a project developed under google to help websites improve their latency. mod_pagespeed automates ...

The CIO Summit team announced today that Robert Strickland, President, Strickland Consulting LLC and former SVP & CIO at T-Mobile, will act as Master of Ceremonies for the upcoming technology event, March 13-16, 2011 in Scottsdale, Arizona. The CIO Summit will bring together CIOs, senior IT executives, analysts, and solution providers to have in-depth discussions and share ideas in a relaxed, yet focused business setting. The event is an opportunity to connect with former colleagues, make new business contacts and attend in-depth educational sessions. Strickland, ...

RadiantBrands (www.radiantbrands.com), a full-service creative interactive branding agency that builds brands and campaigns online and off, has launched a new online donation and advertising campaign for Seacology (www.seacology.org), a non-profit group dedicated to preserving endangered island habitats around the world. The new "Save an Acre" program is designed to expand the non-profit's donor base and increase revenues by offering individuals the chance to adopt an acre of endangered coral reef of rainforest for only $40. In the past, Seacology received most of the ...

Wayne Gurnick, celebrated wedding and event planner and owner of InOvations Events regularly interviews an array of fellow experts in the events management field on his channel "Wedding Words of Wisdom" heard on Big Media USA, an Internet broadcasting company. Mr. Gurnick has extensive knowledge in event planning ranging from locations to decor, and posses an equally important ability to manage budgets and keep planning details in order. Mr. Gurnick carefully selects other well-respected professionals for the interviews that share his passion for creating stylish and ...

Really good, fun educational resources for young children on the move can be difficult to find. But an idea that began as a mom-and- daughter craft project has blossomed into Fat Cat Phonics, one of the most innovative teaching tools on the market. It started with a simple refrigerator magnet. "My daughter and I were looking for ideas for homemade Christmas presents for her friends when we stumbled across a DIY article on how to make bubble magnets," said Fat Cat Phonics founder and mom, Jennifer Powell. "We decided to make alphabet magnets for the refrigerator and ...

Scientology Video Channel (http://www.scientology.org/videos.html#/videos) "Meet a Scientologist" adds Kenneth W. Thomas, nurse, A Scientology auditor (spiritual counselor) and advocate for the rights of children and the elders to its extensive list of profiles. Dedicated to helping others, his profile is one of 200 "Meet a Scientologist" videos available for viewing. A registered nurse since 1977, Thomas puts people first. For the past three decades, the Clearwater, Florida, native has worked in everything from emergency rooms and psychiatric wards to intensive care, ...

eProtex, a data security company specializing in the hidden risks of connected devices, announced today that it is offering a complimentary security audit to help healthcare providers identify networked medical devices that may be vulnerable to hospital-acquired computer virus infections (HAIs). Generally, HAIs are associated with a patient's medical treatment. However, another type of HAI poses a major threat to many healthcare delivery systems: one associated with the connected medical devices on a hospital's IT network. Medical devices are usually overlooked by a ...

Q1 productions, the premier provider of business intelligence to the life science community, is pleased to announce the launch of a full service talent acquisition and recruitment consulting unit. Q1's Career Services portal is designed to connect executives from leading life science companies with experienced jobseekers in an array of specialized fields. Regarded as a leading educational resource for 5 years, Q1 Productions has developed longstanding relationships with foremost industry leaders from emerging medical device companies to established pharmaceutical and ...

Xirrus , the only Wi-Fi Power Play in the industry, announced today the deployment of Xirrus high performance Wi-Fi Arrays at Weymouth College in Weymouth, United Kingdom. Weymouth College's main campus at Cranford Avenue has been used for educational purposes since 1862 and became the home of this Further Education College in 1985 offering excellent results in education and training. Today, the college has over 7,000 students and provides a broad range of courses up to degree level, modern facilities, and experienced staff across several locations in South West Dorset. ...

Fans of Potbelly Sandwich Shop's line of Skinnys now have another toasty warm option to choose from with the addition of the Little Tuna Skinny to the menu. Priced at $4, the Little Tuna is made fresh every day with 100 percent albacore and served on thin-cut bread. The new sandwich joins the T-K-Y turkey breast sandwich, Mushroom Melt and the Hammie on the Skinnys menu, which has 25 percent less fat than Potbelly's Original Sandwiches. Potbelly first launched the Skinnys menu in 2009 to offer an option for customers looking for a great-tasting sandwich that was a ...

Southwest Funding, LP is pleased to name Joshua Christensen (formerly of Legacy Mortgage) as Branch Manager of its newest office in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Joshua has 15 years in the banking and mortgage industry and is looking forward to his continued service to the people of Albuquerque, New Mexico and the surrounding areas. The branch office is located at 6100 Seagull St NE, Ste. B205, Albuquerque, NM 87109 and is open Monday through Friday from 9-5 as well as evening & weekends by appointment. Southwest Funding, LP based in Dallas, TX since 1993, is a full ...

According to a recent article in the Huffington Post, many rehabilitation facilities, including those used in some of the more famous celebrity rehab facilities, like The Betty Ford Center, east of Los Angeles, California, and Promises Treatment Center, in Malibu, use biofeedback and neurofeedback as treatments while patients are there to recover. The use of neurofeedback eeg in such high end facilities, demonstrates that some of the most cutting edge professionals in the addiction treatment business believe in the power of the human mind to self-regulate and potentially ...

Excentive, a leading global provider of incentive compensation management (ICM) and employee performance management (EPM) solutions, today announced that it received a "Promising" rating in Gartner's recent research report entitled "MarketScope for Insurance Incentive Compensation Management Applications," published on December 11, 2010 by Gartner Research Vice President Steven Leigh. Leigh notes that the strong growth in purchases of ICM applications by insurance companies "reflects a desire on the part of insurers to address the inaccuracies and inefficiencies many ...

The Look Team, creators of listinglook.com, recently released a report detailing findings from two 2010 Silicon Valley Association of Realtors meetings, in which two top economists discussed the fate of the housing market. The economists spoke at two local real estate meetings held by Silicon Valley Association of Realtors. The report notes that the economists, Lawrence Yun and Leslie Appleton-Young, agree that the housing market has entered recovery. Lawrence Yun, the chief economist for the National Association of Realtors, spoke at the Silicon Valley Association ...

Rival Media, LLC a high-end, state of the art web design and multimedia development firm, today announced the launch of Internet Marketers Elite (http://internetmarketerselite.com), a comprehensive internet marketing training and education resource for small to mid-sized businesses. Internet Marketers Elite was created to address growing demand from small and mid-sized businesses looking to create a strong, thriving presence on the internet. "The site is designed to provide business owners with an extremely informative and useful resource. Visitors to the site can ...

The functionality of the new version includes the following main features. 1. It supports 12 objective metrics and 5 plugins. Among them: PSNR, MSAD, SSIM, VQM and etc. 2. It supports more than 30 video formats, including those with 10-, 14- and 16-bit color depth. Supported formats include AVI, YUV (YUV, YV12, UYVY, etc.), BMP, MOV, VOB, WMV and others. 3. Metric Visualization. Program can generate visualization video for each specified metric. This video contains the visual information about metric values in each pixel of the frame. Visualization video allows ...

Students from Pacific Ridge School, a non-profit, independent middle and upper school in Carlsbad, Calif., committed to support Feeding America San Diego through a December "Penny Wars" competition. The students collected over 17,060 coins, weighing in at 114 lbs. On Friday, December 17, 2010, a check in the amount of $1,012.07 was presented to Feeding America San Diego Executive Director Jennifer Gilmore. The Junior and Senior class presidents, Rachel Latterich and Monica Pastor, respectively, presented the check. The goal of the Penny Wars competition was for each ...

Illinois residents have been hearing about emerald ash borer (EAB) since 2006. Neighborhoods and municipalities now being impacted may find relief from federal funding and the work of Certified Arborists, the Illinois Arborists Association (IAA) reports. All or part of 25 Illinois counties - from the Wisconsin state line as far south as Champaign and Vermilion Counties - have confirmed or are likely to confirm cases of EAB. It is expected every county in the state will eventually be impacted, threatening the state's more than 100 million ash trees. According to IAA President ...

America is reaching records high in its population of unhealthy bodies and minds. On March 5, 2011, from 1pm to 4pm, PSS Injury & Wellness Center is teaming up with Absolute Body Symmetry to award patrons with healthy lifestyles, and influence those who need help with changing their bodies. They want to empower others by improving their confidence and sustaining more positive thoughts throughout their daily lives. Absolute Body Symmetry and PSS Injury and Wellness Center are taking on the responsibility of providing "whole body" health demonstrations, information, and ...

Roger Swaninger, President & CEO, has announced Spectrum Human Services has been awarded a contract to develop and implement juvenile sex offender treatment programs for the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. The two-year project begins this month and will continue through December 31, 2012. The state of California has several residential treatment facilities for male and female juvenile offenders, who are ages 12 - 25 years old. The project will involve developing and implementing five distinct and evidence-based treatment programs, training and ...

Ciena Healthcare has announced that Qualicare Nursing Home, one of Ciena's skilled nursing and rehabilitation communities located in Detroit, has earned the Five-Star Quality Rating from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), which signifies a "much above average" rating. Five Stars is the highest and most respected rating a nursing home can receive, and it is based on health inspections, staffing and quality measures. "At Qualicare Nursing Home, we not only believe in high quality patient care, we practice it and excel at it day in and day out," said ...