Toyota announced Wednesday that some of its plants will remain idle as demand for parts by US manufacturers are left unmet due to extended production halts made at the company's factories in Japan. Honda and other major electronic firms like Sony and Lenovo are having similar production problems due to a shortage of raw materials, components and power caused by the massive earthquake in Japan last March 11. Japan, being the world's largest supplier of silicon used to make semiconductor chips, is creating a global impact on major manufacturers of professional equipment ...

Membership in the Children's Writers' Coaching Club (CWCC) includes LIVE teleclasses EVERY week - that's 4 or more per month. Each of these 55-minute teleclasses is taught by a successful children's book author or illustrator who knows the "tricks of the trade" of children's writing, illustrating, and publishing. Join CWCC instructor and children's author, Margo Dill when she presents her teleclass, "Writing Middle Grade Novels: Characters and Conflict," on Wednesday, March 30 at 7 pm CST. In this teleclass, Margo will help you develop characters for your middle grade ...

Taipan Publishing Group, a leading financial research publishing service is excited to launch their new service, 180 Trader, on April 7. 180 Trader will focus on a database of troubled companies poised for turnaround profits; potentially reaching up to a 300% profit. The new service is written by American Underground Wealth editor, Michael Robinson. Michael uses a triple threat method in his new service that concentrates on buying stocks, as opposed to the risk of options. 180 Trader subscribers will receive monthly stock recommendations, weekly portfolio updates and ...

This week, PEX Network announced Global 360 as a Partner at their 2011 Nordic Process Excellence Summit. The Conference will take place in Stockholm, 15th - 16th June 2011. The Nordic Process Excellence Summit is tailored to key objectives and challenges specific to the Nordic region. This will include sessions on standardising and streamlining successes, learning and training initiatives and evaluating tools and methods to substantially improve both strategies and deployment. Experience rich, interactive and honest conversation through presentations, focus groups, ...

PetTravelCenter.com announced today that it will provide Indiana-based General Cage pet products on its site, including crates and exercise pens. The Heavy Duty Exercise Pen is easy to set up and provides a place for the pet to relax or exercise. The pen has eight panels that can be configured as a rectangle, square, octagon or fence. "General Cage products are durable for home use but also convenient for traveling," said Tom James, president of PetTravelCenter.com. "We're excited to add these pet crates and exercise pens on our site."About PetTravelCenter.com PetTravelCenter.com ...

Product CMAXX Dust and Fume Collector, Duct, Fittings and Install Application Welding and Cutting Fumes Customer Precision Tooling Manufacturer Challenge: The Precision Tooling Manufacturer has a proven track record of manufacturing high quality, precision tooling. The manufacturers' emphasis is on customer satisfaction, quality workmanship, quick turnarounds and employee safety. The Precision Tooling Manufacturer decided to invest in a dust and fume extraction system to protect their employees from welding and cutting fumes and contacted Imperial Systems, Inc. ...

Sepi Asefnia, president of SEPI Engineering & Construction (www.sepiengineering.com), a firm which provides civil engineering and planning services to private and public sector clients across the southeast, has announced the addition of Christa Morrison, CPSM, as marketing manager. Morrison is responsible for assisting with marketing proposals, creating marketing budgets, updating the company website and other marketing initiatives. A native of Batavia, N.Y., Morrison brings with her more than 14 years of experience in marketing. She holds an associate's degree in applied ...

Locally and affectionately known as MUD, Midwest Urgent Dentistry became MY Urgent Dentistry during the first week of March 2011. Preparing for a leap to national placement and concerned about infringing on the toes of regional dental practices, MUD chose to alter and familiarize the name of this emergency dental practice. Open since September of 2010, MUD has successfully established itself as a full-service emergency dental care service with patients from the greater Metropolitan Detroit area. Increasing staff and in-take capabilities have helped to answer the demand ...

Forrester Vice President and principal analyst,, Jean-Pierre Garbani, praises Evolven in his blog referred to it as representing "...the original BSM spirit: effective solutions that provide immediate results". "Evolven has introduced a change control solution that discovers all changes in real time, analyzes their impact, detects the rogue ones, and proposes an actionable dashboard for remediation. It connects to the service desk change requests to determine what was authorized," writes Jean-Pierre Garbani, VP, Forrester Research. "The two essential components that ...

Marcy Colangelo, President of Headroom Limited, Inc., and inventor of the BooBooLoon Inflatable Pet Recovery Collar has retained Mass Media Communications, a public relations and marketing communications firm specializing in the pet industry, to manage all aspects of a nationwide business development and media relations campaign for the company and its products. The agreement was signed at the Global Pet Expo in Orlando commemorating the one-year anniversary of the launch of the BooBooLoon Collar. Marcy Colangelo said, "We will be working with Steve Sandler, experienced ...

AutoVision As of now TV & cinema commercials, TV programs, brand and corporate websites, interactive and multimedia productions, corporate videos, informational films and product presentation films can be submitted to the 10th jubilee edition of AutoVision in 2010 to win one of the prestigious OttoCar trophies in gold, silver and black! New OttoCar Grand Prix We are proud to introduce a new OttoCar Grand Prix especially for the interactive and multimedia categories in addition to the OttoCar Grand Prix for classical linear audiovisual productions. New categories such ...

Maryland Considering Change in Parole System On March 8, 2011 Maryland's House of Delegates passed a bill attempting to change the governor's role in parole decisions. Currently, the governor must approve or reject each parole recommendation the Maryland Parole Commission makes regarding prisoners sentenced to life with the possibility of parole. The House bill would force the governor to decide his or her approval within 90 days of the recommendation. After 90 days, if the governor had made no decision, the Maryland Parole Commission's decision would stand. The Maryland ...

Bill Proposing Medical "Tort Reform" Meeting Wide Opposition A bill currently making its way through the U.S. House of Representatives is generating a fair amount of concern from advocates for patients' rights. Opponents of the bill claim H.R. 5, the Help Efficient, Accessible, Low-cost, Timely Healthcare Act of 2011 (Act) aims to make it harder for victims of medical malpractice to bring suits and lowers the accountability of insurance and pharmaceutical companies towards patients. In a strongly worded letter to Lamar Smith, Chairman of the Subcommittee on Health, ...

Pacific West Capital Group announced today that they will host informational seminars on April 7th and 8th at Bittersweet Bistro in Santa Cruz, California. Pacific West Capital Group representatives will discuss investing in the Life Settlement market. The company specializes in the sale of interests in life settlements. The life settlement market is the secondary market for life insurance. Life settlements are an alternative to traditional investments because returns are not tied to stock market fluctuations, interest rate changes, inflation, or government policies. The ...

The Connecticut Real Estate Investors Association, or CT REIA, in association with Robert Shemin, is announcing the April 2011 CT REIA monthly meeting for real estate investors. This event will take place on Monday April 11, 2011, from 5:30pm to 9:00pm at the Crowne Plaza Hotel, 100 Berlin Road, Cromwell, CT. This event is free for CT REIA members and $30 for not-yet-members. Robert Shemin is an internationally respected wealth creation expert and current New York Times' bestselling author. He has taught tens of thousands of Americans the secrets to attracting, growing, ...

The Hilton Dallas Park Cities offers special room rates for the parents, families, friends, faculty and staff of SMU during the spring 2011 graduation weekend. A block of rooms have been reserved for May 12 through May 15. A special room rate is available at the Hilton Dallas Park Cities. Graduation guests can stay at the hotel near SMU in a room with one king bed or a room with two queen beds for $189 per night. The hotel near SMU is located near Love Field DFW airport, many retail and religious establishments and they offer guest amenities that include: • 5 minutes ...

London Bridge Resort invites visitors to stay close to the action for Lake Havasu Desert Storm 2011 April 27-30, 2011. Guests can rent boats and jet skis at the on-site Marina with boat slips to enjoy the action on the lake and watch speed boat races. London Bridge Resort has waterfront suites that put guests just steps from Lake Havasu and the famed London Bridge, nearby to all the Lake Havasu Desert Storm 2011 weekend events. Lake Havasu Desert Storm Events include: • Wednesday Charity Boat Rides • Thursday Desert Storm Street Party on main street • Friday ...

Golden Systems Middle East, the distributor of IT products in the Middle East, today announced that it has won the coveted 'Choice of Channel' award 2010 in the 'Best After Sales Service' category from VAR magazine. This award recognises the company's commitment to its customers, channel and vendor partners across the Middle East region. "We are happy to win the VAR magazine's Choice of Channel award, which is both an achievement and an honor. We would sincerely like to thank our channel partners and dealers for voting for us. This award is a testimony of our company's ...

The award is designed to acknowledge the speaker who made the best contribution to the day and the winner is chosen by the audience. Delegates at the Summit, which was held for the first time alongside Search Marketing Expo, heard from a range of global specialists including Philippe Pieri from Cisco, LinkedIn Co-Founder Konstantin Guericke and WebCertain CEO Andy Atkins-Krüger however almost unanimously chose Bill as the Medallion Speaker. Managing Multilingual Content was the focus of Bill's presentation and he shared key tips for leveraging existing global content ...

Likno Software, a software house targeting the international web design/web development market has released the latest version of its Drop Down Menu / CSS Menu / JavaScript Menu builder AllWebMenus PRO, v5.3 build #858. AllWebMenus creates popup menus for website navigation, without any programming experience required. The created SEO-friendly web menus, CSS menus, Mega drop-down menus, AJAX menus etc. work alike in all DHTML browsers (IE, Firefox, Mozilla, Safari, Chrome, Opera etc.) & all popular platforms (Win, Mac, Unix). Many Themes & properties can be applied ...

International online software store http://www.softkey.net offers its customers the opportunity to make purchases via DIRECTeBanking. The money is directly debited from the customer's bank account. A personal payment details are not stored in the store system. Now users can pay not only in U.S. dollar but also in euro, sterling pounds and Swiss francs. In this case the residents of Germany, Austria, the Netherlands, Great Britain, Belgium and Switzerland have got an opportunity to shop on Softkey.net. In the near future citizens of France and Spain will join them. At ...

A new meditation website, aptly titled http://www.Meditation-Techniques-Made-Easy.com banishes the mystery surrounding the art of meditation in practical, easy lessons. Scientific studies confirm that the benefits of meditation are astonishing. Whether consciously or not, nearly everyone on the planet has used a form of meditation at some point in their lives. Marika Bende shares her techniques and expertise to demonstrate that mastering meditation isn't at all difficult or time consuming rather its a relaxing and serene way to restore yourself both physically and emotionally. "Meditation ...

After successfully developing and offering it's HRM Series for over 7 years in Vietnam, Dutch business software company Cadena launched it's HRM products in Singapore and Thailand from the beginning of 2011. The Cambodian version is already available for several years. In Singapore the fully compliant Payroll product is initially focused on the SME market under the brand name SG PayTime and marketed and implemented by Cadena's sister company Cadena Singapore. Cadena's CEO, Mr. Mark Ketelaars, commented: "after initial launch of the basic payroll system, a full range ...

Event management software provider evocos, has today released the results of a recent survey into the delegate registration and payment process. The survey, taken online via their website http://www.evocos.co.uk and through their Twitter account, @evocosEvents, asked event managers how they currently accept delegate registrations and payments. Only 65% of respondents said they were able to take both registration and payments online. Kate Oxton, Marketing Manager at evocos was surprised by this result "It's never been easier to implement technology to take advantage ...

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