Official economic figures for last year show key areas for investment in Brazil were civil construction, household consumption and agriculture. All three registered high growth, confirming the potential for Brazilian investment. GDP growth in Brazil during 2010 reached 7.5%, the highest level since 1985. This translates into an average increase in GDP of 4.5% a year since 2002 and confirms that Brazil has left the worldwide economic crisis far behind. In 2010, Brazilian GDP reached R$3.675 trillion, the highest ever. The per capita amount of R$19,016 is also a record ...

The recent catastrophic earthquake and tsunami in Japan have brought the problems faced by mankind into much sharper focus. Governments, corporations and individuals have responded to these horrific events with offers of billions in aid. Many of us may feel our own small gifts, though well meaning and sincere, may be too small and insignificant in light of the unimaginable amount of assistance required. Harel Lawrence, author of 'Take A Closer Look', believes that no effort is too small. In his opinion, it is the thought that counts. He intends to donate 100% of the profits ...

"Happy days ahead," exclaimed Chris Black, president of Solamon Energy Corp., as the company published and proudly unveiled a new website to its senior team and to the world today. "We intended the site to simply communicate our offering and the progress of each project for our customers and all stakeholders in fact. Hetmerk has acheived that goal. Our company sells and installs power plants that generate electricity from renewable sources which are clearly abundant across the Caribbean." "We tasked Hetmerk with delivering a website that was easy to use and informative," ...

Downtown Raleigh Concert Kenny Roby is the former lead singer of Six String Drag, one of the bands heralded with ties to the Americana movement of the 90s. A North Carolina musician, Roby has released several successful solo albums, including "The Mercy Filter" and "Rather Not Know." "Kenny Roby is a prolific local musician," said Diana Tong, co-owner of Amplified Art. "We're excited that a performer of his caliber and our friends, Ashley Robinson and Jeremy Russel l of R & R, will be featured at our first ticketed concert." Amplified Art is host to open mics and ...

Pitney Bowes Inc. today announced a call for entries for the Brilliant Communication Awards to honour leading, high-volume production printing and mailing customers around the world. The awards will recognise the innovators, early adopters and creative problem solvers who implemented ways to streamline workflow, ensure accuracy, and precisely market in order to communicate better with their customers. Award winners will be recognised at the annual global Customer Summit, June 6 - 8, 2011, which is hosted by the company's Document Messaging Technologies business group in ...

The prestigious industry awards have recognized finalists in categories covering both program and project success across Lean, Six Sigma & BPM. "PEX Network is proud to once again recognize the best in Business Process Excellence through the 2011 coveted Process Excellence Awards," said Megan James, Summit & Awards Director, IQPC. "This year we are excited to see the formal addition of the BPM, Lean Transformation and BPM categories. The expansion has been reflected in the breadth of entries and industries entering for this year, truly demonstrating how many businesses ...

David has spent much of his free time over the years walking in the mountains of Snowdonia and on the coastline of North Wales and Anglesey; and it is his response to this landscape that inspires much of his work. David has a growing reputation for his highly textured, evocative paintings of this cherished landscape; and for his enthusiastic, confident still life compositions. David works with oils and a palette knife, with a thick impasto technique, and produces bold strokes that suit the often rugged nature of the landscape which is his principal subject. This method ...

Wikitude (http://www.wikitude.org/en) is joining other big industry players like Google, Samsung, RIM, LG and Nokia, in W3C's mission to lead the World Wide Web to its full potential by engaging in dialogue to help develop protocols and guidelines which will ensure the long-term growth of the Web. Wikitude has lead the field in discussing the implementation of a standard Augmented Reality Mark-up Language (ARML). It was only through process and data standardization that the World Wide Web could develop at such a fast pace. Augmented Reality is experiencing a similarly ...

On August 14, 2008, the President of the United States signed legislation that reformed the laws and regulations of the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) governing all consumer products sold in the U.S. This legislation, called the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act of 2008 (CPSIA), is the most important revision to the Consumer Product Safety Act (CPSA) since the CPSC's formation in 1972. Manufacturers must understand how CPSIA legislation (http://www.cpsc.gov/cpsia.pdf ) applies to their products, the complexities of how the CPSC will interpret ...

Digital Asset Management (DAM) solutions have become more and more important to multinationals as well as small- and medium-sized companies in the last decade. The need for central management and consistent decisions surrounding the intake, annotation, cataloguing, storage, retrieval and distribution of rich content grew enormously with the rise of social media marketing and CSS-based web presentations. The demand on text content, images and multimedia files generates a vast number of assets as well as an incredible amount of simultaneous users, workflows, and use cases. celum ...

Designzillas, an Orlando web design agency, announced the official launch of http://www.YGRIN.com, an online social community with a sustainability objective. The YGRIN (Yellow Grease Renewable Initiative) innovative "zero waste" revolution is focused on advancing the clean energy movement through incentives and deals, spanning from your local community to the national level. YGRIN's President, Dower Drummond recognized the growing need for an online community to create awareness in the importance of converting waste to energy, and to serve as the foundation for a new ...

Auto Kenya Ltd, a specialist shipping company concentrating on shipping cars, trucks and anything on wheels to East Africa and are now expanding their operation by setting up an office in Kenya giving customers a total solution no matter where they are based. The Managing Director, Sudhir Khatri, states "when our customers are shipping cars to Mombasa, we want them to feel comfortable knowing we have another office in Nairobi or Mombasa who can also look after them" As an individual or a company looking to ship a car to Kenya, Sudhir informs us that they offer a comprehensive ...

Enolsoft Corporation, a professional developer of multimedia applications, today announces the release of video converter tools for iPad 2, which helps all the users to easily transfer videos and DVD movies to iPad and iPad 2 for enjoy on-the-go! The entire video converter tools for iPad 2 contains Video to iPad Converter and DVD to iPad Converter for both Mac and Windows users. Mac users can now enjoy DVD movies on iPad 2 with Enolsoft DVD to iPad Converter for Mac, this Mac DVD to iPad Converter are able to convert DVD movies to any iPad 2 supported video formats (including ...

As 888poker continues to expand the "We Play Different" poker strategy with several features, such as, Teams Tournaments, PokerCam tables and 3D themes, they have recently added a new game structure called "Push or Fold". The new "Push or Fold" structure has been incorporated into 888poker's cash game tables and the concept is simple. When choosing a "Push or Fold" labeled cash game you enter a standard 6-max cash table, however the maximum buy-in is only 5x the big blind instead of the usual 100x. This structure creates a fast paced, short stack table which causes ...

Chelsea's Agora Gallery will feature a Swedish artist, Andreas Hessman, in Degrees of Abstraction. The exhibition is scheduled to run from March 25, 2011 through April 15, 2011 (opening reception: Thursday, March 31, 2011). About the Artist Andreas Hessman paints medium-sized acrylic works on canvas inspired by natural phenomenon such as evolution, indigenous life, vegetation and outer space. His works are dominated by red and chrome with platinum accents, while geometric and organic shapes punctuate the foreground against somber backdrops suggestive of a dimly lit ...

DiscountVouchers.co.uk, the leading money saving website which offers consumers deals at more than 500 retailers, has been named on the shortlist for this year's A4UAwards 2011 - only two years into its lifespan as a company. The leading retail deals site has been named in the 'Best Use of Social Media' award category this year and has received the nomination for its festive "12 Days of Christmas" campaign. The scheme ran throughout the Christmas 2010 period and the A4UAwards will be handed out on May 17 at the Grosvenor House Hotel in central London. Since being ...

Academy of Cosmetic Arts and Sciences, a top national cosmetics training institution in South Florida, is now offering Accelerated Cosmetic Programs geared towards BOTH aspiring Makeup Artists and already established Professional Makeup Artists. These programs are designed to take students that have no formal previous makeup school training to being able to pull off a real live, on location, high fashion editorial shoot in just 5 days. Graduates of ACAS Academy walk away with comprehensive skills in Professional Makeup Artistry, Multi Media Makeup, and Airbrush ...

ACAS Academy is a top national cosmetic enhancement school that continues to raise the bar in education. Offering rewarding services such as Permanent Cosmetics and Paramedical Derma-pigmentation (medical tattooing) can bring unlimited earning potential. The dedicated working professional can earn from $250 - $1250 for a single procedure. As little as two (2) procedures a day, five (5) days a week, charging the minimum, technicians can yield over $100,000 per year. The cosmetic enhancing buzz has been catching on across the globe; the demand for Permanent Cosmetics and ...

People can help restore a part of Italy's religious and artistic history at a new exhibition in Rome called Memory and Hope. The installation will be on display at the Vatican Museums from March 31st to May 31st 2011 and showcase the range of items damaged by the 2009 earthquake in L'Aquila, Abruzzo. It will describe how important each piece recovered is to the region's history and invite visitors to contribute to the restoration of individual furnishings or overall costs of repairing the collection. The earthquake hit L'Aquila on April 6th and rated 5.8 on the ...

Madrid's Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia (MNCARS) is showcasing an exhibition of Asier Mendizabal's work this spring. The installation will be on display until May 2nd 2011 and features all sorts of pieces, ranging from collections of photographs to abstract sculptures. According to the venue, Mendizabal's work shows how much modernity is a reflection of the past. There will be several of the artist's previous works on show, but much of the excitement will surround the two items he has created especially for the installation at MNCARS, Hard Edge and Soft ...

London Wasps and Bath will face off for the special St George's Day Rugby event, which will also act as a fundraiser for the armed forces. In addition to the excitement of seeing the two top-tier clubs clash on the Twickenham pitch on April 23rd 2011, the crowd will be treated to host of other entertainment. Former M People singer Heather Small recently confirmed she will perform at the match, with London Wasps owner Steve Hayes lauding her voice. He said: "Heather is a tremendously talented and much-loved artist whose songs evoke great emotion and passion amongst ...

Accounting software vendor Accomplish has launched a new version of CashManager that introduces new enhancements that makes the simplest desktop SME accounting package even easier to use. There are a number of enhancements with some key changes included in this release. Over the past 20 years, more than 26,000 businesses have experienced the ease of accounting with CashManager and with the new version released this month, the software takes it a step further by introducing key enhancements for stock control and sales reporting. Stock Control. There are two key changes ...

With the emergence of nuclear families, the apartment culture is gaining popularity. Apart from good apartments, residents today want additional lifestyle facilities like a club-house, swimming pool, gymnasium etc. One of the leading real estate development companies in India, Puravankara Projects Limited (PPL), offers its residents with a state-of-the-art and value-for-money living facilities along with visually appealing landscapes. The group began operations in Mumbai and has established a considerable presence in the real estate industry in the metropolitan cities ...

India receives bright sunlight almost throughout the year especially in West and Central parts of the country. Due to global warming and rising CO2 levels, average temperature in India is set to increase by 4 degrees by 2050. So considering India's geographic location and climatic conditions, there is a huge market of manufacturing of the Solar Energy systems waiting to be tapped and HHV Solar is already on its way to becoming the leader in this sector. Incorporated in the year 2008, HHV Solar Technologies Private Limited (HHV Solar) is a subsidiary company of Hind High ...

On Sunday, March 27th at 12:00 Noon, Clarke Auction will sell 400+ lots drawn from estates in Larchmont, Bronxville, Scarsdale, Fifth Avenue, Tuckahoe, Hunterdon County, Greenwich CT, Rye, and Fort Lee. Americana, Civil War and Medical Antiques Fresh from a Hastings home are two large antique Cigar Store Indians, one a princess. In addition, Clarke is selling a collection of Civil War militaria consigned by a direct descendant of the original owner, Captain John H Budke. Budke was born in Germany in 1824 and emigrated to America in 1844, establishing successful ...