Latinva Dance Fitness is now an authorized Aerobics and Fitness Association of America ("AFAA") Continuing Education Provider, a fitness certification which demonstrates a commitment to excellence. Workshop Objectives The Latinva Dance Fitness workshop will help fitness professionals embark on a career teaching Latinva cardio workout classes. It will provide innovative ideas for choreographing routines and enabling instructors to cater to a diverse range of individuals at different levels of fitness and ability. • Learn and master the fundamentals ...

The New York SPORTIMES today announced the promotional events for their five-date home World TeamTennis schedule this July at SPORTIME Randall's Island Tennis Center in Manhattan, including two "Mom's Nights Out," along with a special evening spotlighting the Johnny Mac Tennis Project and Queens night, with special deals for residents of that borough. SPORTIMES Marquee Players John McEnroe, Martina Hingis and Kim Clijsters will compete in several matches for the SPORTIMES, while visiting teams' stars will include Jimmy Connors and Lindsay Davenport in this "Season ...

Business IT Professionals, Inc. (Biz IT Pro), a premier Microsoft Gold Certified CRM consulting & training firm, is now offering a CRM training boot camp for the newly released CRM 2011. This boot camp, to be held in the Raleigh-Durham Metro area beginning on July 18, 2011, is the latest in a popular nationwide series of BizITPro boot camps, and the first in an upcoming series of BizITPro boot camps covering the exciting new features of CRM 2011. Biz IT Pro's certified Microsoft Dynamics CRM instructors will teach both customer relationship management professionals ...

Soket, a SaaS-based command center that provides a single place for local businesses to orchestrate their web presence, was honored with the People's Choice Award during the 2011 GRA/TAG Business Launch Competition, Tuesday, May 24. Management of online promotions, events and customer interaction has become increasingly complex as more technologies emerge and hyper-local businesses struggle with how to use these channels, determine if their efforts are working and find time to manage content. While individuals love social media and networking, local organizations generally ...

As the third anniversary of their green product review section approaches next month, consumer website http://www.uk-energy-saving.com are looking for exciting and innovative green products for review. There are currently well over 100 product reviews accessible on the UK Energy Saving website covering skincare, kitchen appliances, household cleaners, books and much more, but they are always on the lookout for more products which fit in with their green/energy saving criteria. Hayley Jones, Web Marketing Director at UK Energy Saving, explains further. "Reviews ...

Debbie Bervel, MD, FACEP, was named NASCAR Medical Director of the Year for 2010. She has been the Medical Director at the Auto Club Speedway in Fontana, California, for the past 2 years and has worked there as a track MD for the last 13. When not on the raceway, Dr. Bervel serves as ED Quality Director at Community Hospital of San Bernardino in San Bernardino, California. Dr. Bervel was named EMP Partners' Physician of the Year in 2010. She received the 2010 California Meritorious Award for her service with the State of California EMS. She has been with EMP Partners (formerly ...

To commemorate National Running Day on June 1, Health Warrior , a new brand of premium chia seeds and 100-Calorie All Natural Chia Energy Bars featuring only the best-sourced chia on earth today announces the "Health Warrior Chia Challenge," a month-long contest intended to introduce the modern world to the incredible health and fitness benefits of the ancient seed by encouraging daily ingestion for a month. The Health Warrior Chia Challenge asks novices and newbies alike to make a pledge to "Chia" every day throughout June by adding the recommended ...

The boutique collections at Peacocks continue to attract attention in the fashion press today, with Daisy Lowe's swimwear featured in Grazia, Pearl Lowe's line recommended in Woman's Own and Ronnie from Eastenders pictured filming for an episode that will be seen by thousands, sporting a Pearl Lowe for Peacocks dress. As excitement builds for the launch of the Daisy Lowe for Peacocks swimwear line, a daisy printed cut-out swimsuit from the line is pictured amongst Grazia's top swimwear picks alongside designer brands such as Calvin Klein, Stella McCartney and Heidi Klein. Three ...

Supreme Court Decision Allows Fiance to Bring Suit for Retaliatory Firing A unanimous decision this year by the Supreme Court makes it illegal to fire a close family member, such as a spouse or fiance, in retaliation for bringing a discrimination claim. The case arose when a female supervisor at North American Stainless (NAS) filed a discrimination claim with U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). The woman, Miriam Regalado, alleged NAS was not giving her the same raises as her male co-workers. Three weeks after the EEOC notified the company of the claim, ...

Nursing Homes Liable for Neglecting Elderly Residents' Bedsores Bedsores are painful and life-threatening for patients in nursing homes. They occur when a person is confined and immobile to either a bed or a wheelchair for so long that the skin begins to blister. Also known as pressure sores, pressure ulcers and decubitus ulcers, according to a report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 11 percent of nursing home patients had the painful condition in 2004. In addition to the obvious physical and emotional trauma that occurs from being stationary for so ...

Are 10,000 Pending DUI Cases in South Carolina Too Many? South Carolina's Chief Justice Orders Courts to Reduce Backlog Increased driving under the influence (DUI) enforcement in South Carolina, combined with limited court resources, has led to a large amount of pending DUI cases for the state. According to the South Carolina Judicial Department, there are over 10,000 outstanding DUI cases statewide, the longest going back 10 years. The backlog led law enforcement officials to report frustration to Chief Justice Joan Toal for the amount of time the officers are currently ...

El Paso's Extra DWI Enforcement During Spring Break 2011 a Success $50,000 Texas Department of Transportation Grant Helped Prevent Any Fatalities From Saturday, March 12 to Sunday, March 20, 2011, the El Paso Sheriff's Office participated in a statewide program that increased deputy hours on roads often frequented by impaired drivers. It was an attempt to get motorists driving while intoxicated (DWI) off the road during a time when many choose to drive impaired. On its blog, the El Paso Sheriff's office reported the program a success, with 185 enforcement hours ...

Medical Errors More Common Than Previously Thought In 1999, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) released a study noting that up to 98,000 people died each year from medical mistakes. The IOM also estimated that an additional one million people were injured as a result of these errors, putting the total cost of these mistakes anywhere between $17 billion and $29 billion annually. The purpose of the study was to bring attention to the prevalence of medical mistakes and ultimately make hospitals safer. A new study, however, indicates that medical errors may be up to 10 times ...

Confirming the latest phase in the company's expansion programme, the catering firm has opened new office premises in Irvine, Ayrshire, from which its UK operations will be managed. "The company had long since outgrown the current premises and the new office offers us the perfect base for managing operations throughout the UK. Following a period of rapid expansion in each of our service areas, it became increasingly apparent that the team required additional space to successfully manage existing contracts and I'm confident that expanding into new premises is a key ...

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The participation in the Ukrainian Renewable Energy Forum has already established a strong position in the plans of players who are interested in developing and promoting of their business. During the year we have been preparing a business platform REF-2011, to give forum participants the maximum that is possible over two days - the quality information and communication, and to ask another impetus to the development of renewable energy in Ukraine. In 2010, the Ukrainian Renewable Energy Forum REF-2010 brought together over 260 delegates from 28 countries and this fact proves ...

Nuance Communications, Inc. has already proven itself a leading provider of imaging and speech solutions. It has previously introduced to the technology crowd its Nuance PDF Converter for Windows. The company follows up the move with another good one - the release of the Nuance PDF Converter for MAC. This action allows MAC users to do just about everything with PDF files. MAC versus Windows Though the MAC operating system (OS) is frequently encased in stylish exteriors, which Apple is known for, the OS itself is still just a runner up to Windows. So, the introduction ...

A new biomaterial designed for repairing damaged human tissue doesn't wrinkle up when it is stretched. The invention from nanoengineers at the University of California, San Diego marks a significant breakthrough in tissue engineering because it more closely mimics the properties of native human tissue. Shaochen Chen, professor in the Department of NanoEngineering at the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering, hopes future tissue patches, which are used to repair damaged heart walls, blood vessels and skin, for example, will be more compatible with native human tissue ...

Are you worrying about the disobedience of your dog? Dogs need plenty of physical exercise, an effective standard of communication and mental stimulation, and a lack in any one of these could affect your dog's behavior. Although pet dogs aren't that difficult to deal with some breeds are very difficult to train and control. Whatever effort you put, in training your dog sometimes may yield no required result. Through dog obedience training, that provide customized, private, in-home lessons to your dogs, they are taught to behave in a certain manner. After each lesson, you ...

New York, NY, May 25, 2011 – Sudden cardiac death in young athletes who had not previously exhibited symptoms is a relatively rare yet tragic event. This occurs in around 60-80 young athletes annually in the United States. In the June 2011 issue of The American Journal of Medicine, researchers collected electrocardiograms and echocardiograms of 964 athletes at a single university and found that distinct ECG abnormalities were present in 10% and were more common in males as well as black athletes. Two athletes were subsequently excluded from competition. Investigators ...

The cofounder of the Small Business Survival Summit urged Maryland business owners to celebrate Small Business Week by becoming more adept at business practices that will make them successful. "Small business is the core strength of the American economy," says summit creator Patrick Chambers. "More than half of all Americans either own or work for a small business. And while there's a lot of talk about creating jobs, let's remember that small businesses create 60 to 80 percent of new jobs." The first-ever Small Business Survival Summit, scheduled ...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - Over the past two decades, scientists have shown that babies only a few months old have a solid grasp on basic rules of the physical world. They understand that objects can't wink in and out of existence, and that objects can't "teleport" from one spot to another. Now, an international team of researchers co-led by MIT's Josh Tenenbaum has found that infants can use that knowledge to form surprisingly sophisticated expectations of how novel situations will unfold. Furthermore, the scientists developed a computational model of infant cognition that ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] — There is water inside the moon – so much, in fact, that in some places it rivals the amount of water found within the Earth. The finding from a scientific team including Brown University comes from the first-ever measurements of water in lunar melt inclusions. Those measurements show that some parts of the lunar mantle have as much water as the Earth's upper mantle. Lunar melt inclusions are tiny globules of molten rock trapped within crystals that are found in volcanic glass deposits formed during explosive eruptions. The new finding, ...

Auto repair shop direct mail ( http://www.mudlickmail.com/ ) services provider, Mudlick Mail has formed a partnership with Honest-1 Auto Care, the nation's only eco-friendly auto repair chain. The partnership will help Honest-1 franchisees more effectively market and advertise their shops and grow their businesses. Mudlick Mail ( http://www.mudlickmail.com/ ) will offer exclusive direct mail packaging and pricing for Honest-1 franchisees, according to the agreement. As part of the company's partnership with Mudlick Mail, Honest-1 franchisees will receive a market analysis, ...

Athens, Ga. – A technical comment published in the current (May 27) edition of the journal Science casts doubt on a widely publicized study that concluded that a bacterial bloom in the Gulf of Mexico consumed the methane discharged from the Deepwater Horizon well. The debate has implications for the Gulf of Mexico ecosystem as well as for predictions of the effect of global warming, said marine scientist and lead author Samantha Joye, University of Georgia Athletic Association Professor in Arts and Sciences. Based on methane and oxygen distributions measured at 207 ...