The Connecticut Real Estate Investors Association, or CT REIA, is announcing its contest for real estate investors and professionals in Connecticut and New England. Winners will be selected at the CT REIA Annual Holiday Dinner. This event will take place on Monday December 6, 2010 from 6:00 to 9:00 pm. The location for this event is Violi's Restaurant, 688 Westfield Road, Meriden, CT. As part of the program, a panel of local real estate investors will share their success stories. Attendees are encouraged to bring plenty of business cards. This event will be a good opportunity ...

This week Peacocks clothing celebrates some great press coverage prior to Thursday's opening of its flagship store for Ireland. Coverage includes an amazing three separate features in the Belfast Telegraph, more press attention for Pearl Lowe's black lace dress in Grazia and Daily Mirror and strong fashion coverage coming through in the key weekly titles. In the high circulation national UK title the Daily Mirror, pearl Lowe's black lace prom dress is featured in the High Street Buyer's Guide 'Shop Talk' section, with a picture of the designer's daughter Daisy Lowe modelling ...

17th November 2010 - The Assisted Living Action Network has been launched to bring together business, healthcare professionals, service user groups and academic researchers to looking to target the GBP1.5billion UK market for products and services to support the aging population. The network will provide a forum to discuss the key issues, identify the business challenges and collaborate to transform technology to support assisted living into real business opportunities. According to the network in the UK today there are more people over 60 than under the age of 18 and ...

The hotel has taken delivery of a sledge-full of limited edition seasonal teddy bears, which, from the end of the month, will be available for guests to take home in lieu of a small donation to Martin House Children's Hospice. Since adopting the Wetherby hospice three years ago as its chosen charity, the Monkbar Hotel has raised in excess of GBP20,000, the majority of this through the bears, which are left in guests rooms. Hotel director June Nelsey said: "We get an awful lot of repeat business this time of year and many will have taken home a traditional bear. "In ...

Sand Systems, LLC ,a manufacturer of safety devices, is proud to introduce Align-N-Drive to the U.S. Market. Align-N-Drive is an innovated patented cvisial driving aid customized for individual drivers to priject their wheel path. Unlike collision avoidance systems and radar camera systems costing several thousand dollars, Align-N-Drive utilizes dominent eye theory and hydrostatic film strips that project the actual wheel path for each individual driver.The product is suitable for all drivers and is especially beneficial for new drivers. Align-N-Drive allows ...

Gillian Wheeler, Principal of The Covent Garden Academy of Flowers and one of the world's leading floral designers, drew on her 30-year career to predict the flowers that may be involved in the Royal Wedding. "White roses were Princess Diana's favorite flower and Kate's favorite are said to be white lilies - as they will both be in season in spring and summer when the wedding is due to be held, it is highly likely they will be included," Mrs Wheeler said. "All royal wedding bouquets have included a sprig of Myrtle to symbolise a happy marriage, ever since Queen Victoria's ...

Intellectsoft Ltd., a leading provider of mobile solutions and developer of smartphone applications just released the app Emotionizer for the Windows Phone 7 platform. The small application jointly developed with Ebis Solution is sure to put smartphone users in a good mood, while making them laugh. The Emotionizer app is designed to make smartphones with the latest Microsoft mobile OS even more entertaining and interactive. The application lets you express a variety of emotions using funny emoticons and amusing sounds. Nooo, Yeees, Hmmm, Ooops, Mwahaha and Bazinga - ...

SIGVARIS, the global leader of graduated compression garments and ardent advocate for DVT prevention, will supply NETS Basketball with socks from their Active Therapy line for training, recovery and travel. A growing trend among competitive athletes and weekend warriors, professional sports athletes are using compression socks during and after performance events to improve their results. When a sportsperson slips on a SIGVARIS Active Therapy sock, he or she is benefiting from the science behind "true graduated compression" - compression that is strongest at the ankle ...

Minicom Digital Signage (http://www.minicomdigitalsignage.com/?PR_Amir), leading provider of advanced media distribution and network management solutions for the Digital Signage industry, is happy to announce that it is naming Amir Shaked as the President of the North America's region. Amir Shaked is bringing to MDS 25 valuable years of experience in the technology industry and in executive management. Up until now, Amir Shaked was President of Press-sense's operations in the Americas, where he grew the company's revenues by over 60% during the current recession, by strengthening ...

IQPC are proud to present the Smart Cities Summit taking place 23-25 February 2011 in Rotterdam. The Summit brings together Heads of Urban Planning and Sustainable Development from across Europe's largest cities along with the most progressive utilities, builders and investors to discuss how cities can harness move from a sustainable city vision to implementation. As part of the program IQPC has secured a site visit of the unique Rotterdam Stadshavens. The City of Rotterdam Council and the Port of Rotterdam Authority are launching an ambitious programme to portray ...

BookWhirl.com, one of the leading frontiers in the book marketing industry, launches its Thanksgiving and Pre-Christmas 2010 All-out Sale. Running from the month of November to December, the Thanksgiving and Pre-Christmas 2010 offers fully discounted prices to all authors planning to boost their books marketing campaign in the last weeks of this year. With the promo applicable to all BookWhirl.com's marketing services, self-published authors are given the opportunity to avail bigger markdowns when they choose to sign up on earlier dates. Kicking off on the second of ...

Travellers heading to the fine accommodation Seville offers over the winter break may want to get their hands on tickets for the Christmas Concert. It is taking place at the prestigious Teatro Maestranza on Sunday December 19th and will see a selection of classic Christmas carols performed by professional musicians. The hugely talented violinist Vladimir Dmitrienko will be leading the evening as director of the show, which could be enjoyable for attendees young and old thanks to the style of music on display. With Christmas just around the corner, many people will ...

ASAP Ventures Ltd is one of the UK's top online business networks and has revealed they have acquired a new selection of websites which will help the network provide even more information and consumer advice to its users regards important issues. The latest sites that have been added to the successful network include Slogan.co.uk, Travel-Agency.co.uk and Gas.org.uk and increase the value of the company's popular network. The large variety of sites which are under the ASAP Ventures network, allow consumers to explore a wide selection of information quickly and easily. ...

Guests at 5 star hotels in Rome can expect to see some of the finest choirs in the world at the Roma Gospel Festival. The event will be kicking off with a bang on December 19th 2010, with the Soweto Gospel Choir taking to the stage at the Parco della Musica. This South African group may be familiar to many music fans for performing at the 2009 Academy Awards, as well as for their victories at the 2008 and 2009 Grammys - both of which came in the best traditional world music album category. But the Soweto Gospel Choir are not the only stars lined up to entertain ...

Theatregoers will be sure to enjoy The Diary of a Madman when it reopens in Sydney for its latest run. The show, which was created by Neil Armfield and Geoffrey Rush more than two decades ago, will be staged at the Belvoir Street Theatre from December 4th 2010 to February 6th 2011. Described by the venue as a "landmark piece of Australian theatre", the production is an adaptation of a classic work by Russian author Nikolai Gogol charting the life of lowly clerk Poprishchin. Little more than a human photocopier, Poprishchin's job involves him copying the contents ...

Online consumer deals and vouchers site DiscountVouchers.co.uk can help people's Christmas present budget stretch further this year thanks to new deals for top name retailers on laptops, electricals and more. The popular consumer deals website offers codes for more than 500 leading stores. The new deals to be had on the DiscountVouchers.co.uk site feature leading electrical retailer Comet. Consumers are able to visit DiscountVouchers.co.uk to get hold of deals like up to GBP300 off plasma and LCD TVs plus also bargain deals for Comet laptops including GBP50 off netbooks ...

The 2010-11 ISAF Sailing World Cup will be coming to Victoria next month for Sail Melbourne. Sandringham Yacht Club will be the hub of the event, which is due to take place between December 12th and 18th and is billed by the organisers as an opportunity for people to engage with "world-class Olympic sailing". Some of the most talented sportsmen on the planet will be competing at the spectacle, which is the opening race in the Sailing World Cup's 2010-11 season. However, accommodation Melbourne CBD guests keen to check out the event have much more to look forward ...

This is an annual event, which celebrates the end of the Suez Crisis and the removal of British and French troops from the country. Events are taking place in various locations and the celebrations will include something for everyone, with visitors from all over the region as well as other parts of the world making the trip to take part and watch. There are many different types of events taking place, which demonstrate the culture of the country, and as celebrations take place in many locations, finding something taking place close to hotels and other forms of accommodation ...

The old part of the town is closed to cars and other vehicles and the streets and shops are decked with lanterns. The locals and tourists alike can take part in musical celebrations, theatrical productions and many parties, or simply enjoy a meal in one of the restaurants in the area while keeping an eye on the goings on outside. As most of the town will be taking part in the celebrations, there is something to suit all tastes and tourists should not have trouble getting a good spot for watching the events. Visitors are expected from all over the area as well as a large ...

Gorillaz will be bringing their unique blend of hip-hop, indie, dance and dub to Brisbane next month. The band, which was created in 1998 by Blur frontman Damon Albarn and cartoonist Jamie Hewlett, will be playing to thousands at the Brisbane Entertainment Centre on December 19th 2010 as part of the Escape to Plastic Beach World Tour. Fans of the animated group will no doubt be hoping to see each of the members - 2-D, Murdoc, Noodle and Russel Hobbs - recreated on-stage, with their parts being played by real-life stars including Albarn, Paul Simonon and Mick Jones. Commenting ...

The previous two events, CyberSocialCom-09 and CPSC-09 were held in November and July in Hangzhou and Brisbane, Australia, respectively. The event is intended as an international forum in which researchers from all over the globe can come together to exchange information and discuss topics relating to advancements in the art and practice of Cyber, Physical and Social Computing, as well as speculate on the future and examine emerging topics of research. Topics of particular interest include the fundamentals of Cyber, Physical and Social Computing, its inherent features ...

The Boat Show will feature technology and trade options from the water luxury lifestyles industry, and provide an ideal venue for interested parties to meet up with industry related buyers, suppliers and vendors alike. Visitors invited to attend the 2010 Goa International Boat Show include exporters and importers, as well as manufacturers of boating, canoeing and sailing equipment and other related industry types, with interested members of the general public also quite welcome to attend. Exhibitions at the event are expected to include accessories for boats and ...

The event, organised by the Association of Engineers and Architects in Israel, features Dr Jacob Scheuer as General Chair, with co-chairs in the form of Professor Antonello Cutolo, Professor Mario N. Armenise and Professor Ariel Cohen. Topics on discussion in the Conference include Materials and Technologies (incorporating Semiconductors, Quantum Dots, Opto-fluidics, Novel Fabrication Methods and Beam Shaping, among others), Components and Devices (including Nano-photonics Devices, Novel Semiconductor Lasers, Photonic Crystals and Fibre Optics), and Applications (including ...

Publications Director of the Texas Farm Bureau Mike Barnett says the Humane Society of the United States' recently-released undercover report/video of an egg production facility in Texas misleads consumers into believing there is a major problem with animal abuse and food safety in the United States in his latest Texas Agriculture Talks blog post. "On one hand I'm sick of those bad players in the livestock industry who mistreat their animals," writes Barnett. "On the other, I'm sick of the animal rights activist groups who promote these isolated incidents as an indictment ...

Tourists hoping to get in the festive mood during their stay in Surfers Paradise hotels next month should be sure to take a trip to Nerang Celebrates Christmas. The suburb will be playing host to a variety of seasonal family fun on December 11th 2010, with the organisers promising an array of activities will be available for people who head down to Bischof Park on Nerang Street. In order to help visitors develop some Christmas spirit, solo singers Lauchlan Baker and Angela Smith will be on hand performing an array of traditional carols, with the backing of the Gold ...