The 6th Annual Palm Springs Modernism Week celebrates one of the nation's seminal cultural movements February 17-27, and Park Imperial South on South Araby Drive is ready for its close-up. Designed by Barry Berkus, AIA, one of the nation's most notable residential architects, the 31-unit condominium community marks its 50th anniversary, and on February 19 Berkus will guide a tour of this vibrant enclave as he presents his take on modernism's contributions to architecture in America. "Park Imperial South marked a pivotal point for me," said Berkus. "It opened up a way ...

New FDA regulations and widespread recalls -- including an order to recall-and-destroy the Baxter COLLEAGUE -- have evoked uncertainty in the smart pumps market. For the new report, "Smart Pumps 2011: The FDA Steps in - Provider Reactions to Market Turmoil", KLAS interviewed 116 providers about how recent FDA actions were affecting them specifically and the smart pump market as a whole. Every smart pump vendor has been involved in a recall at least once in the past 24 months. Nevertheless, providers are not staying out of the market. Only 9 percent of providers said ...

With signs of spring just beginning to peek out in between those frosty mornings, it's time to fold away the fake fur, shake off the shearling and enjoy lengthening days and outdoor cappuccinos. Duo's new spring range of ladies' boots are just what the Fashion Doctor ordered to ease the discerning fashionista into the new season. With calf sizes available from 30-50cm and foot sizes 2-10, these fabulously wearable, stylish designs are the perfect addition to transition your look from winter woollies into lighter layers. Aragon is a soft suede boot in a neutral tone, ...

A large segment of Wix users are small business owners who use the free website builder to easily set up online shops. Users can create websites and add shopping carts, product galleries and checkout buttons through a simple drag & drop process, free of the need to manually enter any code. Entrepreneurs, home offices, charity organizations and other niche sites are built with Wix's tools and design elements. A sleek "Add to Cart" button is now available, which users can place on any page inside their site and link it to a shopping cart on a separate page. This lets ...

tombola bingo, the UK's biggest online bingo site attended the popular bingo industry London Affiliate Conference and picked up two coveted awards from the Bingo Port Players' Choice awards Friday 28 January 2011 held at Grange hotel, St Pauls. tombola won 'Most popular online bingo site' for the second year running. Dawn-Elizabeth Howe, Head of Marketing at tombola commented 'we are thrilled to win this award as its measured by overall player numbers obtained through Bingo Port's bingo trends data which makes it all the more valuable to win this bingo award.' tombola ...

The NJ Center for Autism is pleased to announce the upcoming professional training workshop - Clinical Assessment and Practical Interventions for Praxis. This will be a training workshop for professionals from the center on facilitating praxis in children with autism. "People are really excited to use the skills they have learned in the workshop for intervention strategies and treatment planning," said Marc Lubet, director of the NJ Center for Autism. This workshop will be lead by presenter, Teresa A. May-Benson, SCD, OTR/L. It is scheduled for February 13 and 14, 2011 ...

Figures for January 2011, indicate a tough trading climate for the Motor Trade during the coming year. The SMMT statistics recorded a fall of 11.5% in new car sales. Increasing unemployment, lack of available finance and increases in VAT and fuel prices are all effecting consumer confidence and personal budgets. Motor Traders and manufacturers are providing incentives to buyers to help revive flagging sales. However most consumers are taking a cautious approach with job security proving a factor with large numbers of public and private sector workers. Many Car Dealers ...

Since 2008, Habitatter.com has been offering the highest quality in home decorating accessories. To help break you out of cabin fever Habitatter.com is offering 10% off everything on the site for the remainder of the month. Just use the coupon code "TenOffFeb" when you make your purchase. Greg Simerlink, owner of Habitatter.com, said, "February is a great time to update your decor. Most of the country is covered in snow right now and there are a lot of people that would love to brighten things up. This deal will help you add that special something to your home." Habitatter.com ...

Niche Retail LLC, marketing and ecommerce solution providers, announced a new partnership with Magento, the rapidly growing ecommerce platform that currently manages 180 solution providers and supports 60,000 merchants and brands throughout the world. Through this latest partnership, Niche Retail brings the popular professional Open Source ecommerce platform from Magento to its clients. Featuring an e-commerce solution that offers complete flexibility and control to its users, the Magento platform currently enables more than 25 billion (USD) transactions per year. According ...

American Brick Company (Ambrico), brick suppliers and installation experts, have reported that more companies are choosing thin brick installations as an environmentally friendly alternative to traditional brick products. The company, who specializes in the Ambrico E-Z Wall System, report that their exterior stone veneer, brick veneer siding and other thin brick products are made from natural materials that look as good as traditional brick. Unlike regular bricks, thin brick products are typically made out of fired clay or concrete and airbrushed with a polyester resin ...

StraighterLine (http://www.straighterline.com) announced today that it has added two identity verification safeguards to its online courses. They are: * An automated, telephone based interactive voice response system that requires students to provide identifying information and a voice sample prior to taking an exam; and * An optional web-based proctoring service delivered by ProctorU (www.proctoru.com) and paid for separately by the student. With these new systems, StraighterLine's identity verification systems meet or exceed the standards used by most online ...

A person identifying himself as a police officer is at your door. He has just told you that he has evidence that a computer in your home contains child pornography. He asks for permission to enter and examine your computers. They've taken your computers. Should you be worried? YES. This officer is an agent of the Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) task force. He is already aware of some of your computers content either through undercover Internet chat or observing Internet traffic involving your computer with services such as Limewire or Gigatribe. The most important ...

Doing the right thing often takes a clear conscience. For employees, it also takes a tremendous sense of courage and some fundamental understanding of the law. When you find out that your employer or the company that you're working for is doing something legally unsound or ethically dubious, you may find yourself in a difficult situation. That inner moral guide may tell you to report what you know: a crime, a fraud, some irregularity or violation of practice, but you may be afraid of retaliation or discrimination or fired by your employer for doing the right thing. There ...

Criminal lawyer Patrick Roberts of the Roberts Law Group was featured on the Warren Ballentine Show on the Radio One network in late November 2010. Mr. Roberts spoke on important criminal topics, including false allegations of sexual assault, domestic violence and drug crimes. Radio One is a radio network with stations throughout the United States. The host, Warren Ballentine, is well known as "The People's Attorney," according to the network. Ballentine encourages his listeners to engage in truthful discussions about "legal issue, politics, education, religion and ...

The health benefits of breastfeeding are widely recognized. Nevertheless, there are many practical hurdles to overcome - especially for working mothers. The American Academy of Pediatrics currently recommends that breastfeeding continue for at least 12 months, and thereafter for as long as mother and baby desire. Also, the World Health Organization recommends continued breastfeeding up to 2 years of age or beyond. Recent legal developments are making it easier for women to adhere to these guidelines. Employers Required to Provide Lactation Breaks Due to Recent Amendments ...

Tesco Real Food has revealed that Italian food is growing ever more popular in the UK. Antipasti and olives, once considered posh people's nibbles, have surprisingly become one of Britain's fastest growing culinary trends on the back of the ever-growing love for Italian food and Italian recipes. In the last year demand for the starters has taken off with sales rising by 42 per cent across all UK retailers in a market worth GBP38m. At Tesco, antipasti and olives, in particular the dressed variety, have become the fastest growing foods on its deli counters. So ...

Body Solutions, Atlanta Personal Training and Fitness Studio founded by Dan McGrath, has set its sights on couples for Valentine's Day. Atlanta personal trainer McGrath explains, "One of the key factors we look at to determine how successful a client can be is their support system and specifically their significant other." In honor of Valentine's Day, Body Solutions has created special "Couples Conditioning" Atlanta fitness packages specifically geared towards team work and healthy living. "We have coupled members who push through workouts together on a weekly ...

Kuoni's 'We Know What You're Thinking' sale campaign is taking a new twist as it enters a 'social' phase and the luxury tour operator will be asking customers to tell them exactly what they're thinking. Kuoni will be challenging its customers to come up with amusing lines for different themes over the coming weeks to see if they can better its own offerings such as: The Kuoni 'I'm sorry I got you such a dreadful Christmas present I hope you'll forgive me' sale or The Kuoni 'I want to broaden my mind not permanently shrink my bank balance' sale. The first week of the ...

Stena Line has reported its highest number of North Sea passengers for three years in its figures for 2010. For the first time since changing its Harwich to Hook of Holland operations to a twice-daily service in 2007, the ferry giant carried over half a million passengers in a year. Stena Line is attributing part of the 8.7 per cent annual growth in North Sea passengers to reinvigorated interest in ferry travel, fuelled both by the two new-build Superferry vessels it launched on the route in May and October and by difficulties affecting the UK aviation industry. ...

LighterLife and the National Obesity Forum have launched The UK Obesity Barometer to track weight gain in the UK. The UK Obesity Barometer shows that around 1.2 million people in the UK moved into the 'overweight' or 'obese' category over the festive season* pushing levels to a new high. The LighterLife UK Obesity Barometer shows that although overweight or obese averages decreased in some regions, overall, the nation has piled on the pounds over the last few weeks.  Whilst over one third of people questioned before the holidays in the UK were worried about putting ...

Debenhams has discovered that British women carry a staggering GBP256 worth of make-up in their handbags every day, as reported in a new study. Research found that 13 essential products make up the average cosmetics bag, with each item costing on average GBP20. Despite the fact that their beauty products are often worth more than their mobile phone and camera, 72 per cent of women did not include their make-up kits on their personal belongings insurance and 64 per cent would not think to claim for the items if their handbag was stolen. Mascara was the 'must have' ...

The video "PlaneMob" for the German discount airline Germanwings is #1 on AdCracker.com's annual list of the world's top 10 creative advertising ideas. "PlaneMob is the first project that was created specifically for social media to make our annual top 10 list, let alone to make #1," said Steve McNamara, Creative Director at AdCracker.com. "It's original. It's persuasive. And funny. Perhaps best, it didn't cost a lot of money." To create the video, ad agency Lukas Lindemann Rosinski, of Hamburg, Germany, sent six confederates aboard a competitor's airline. During ...

Introducing Aussie Talk Soup presented via Internet radio giant Blog Talk Radio. Originally from Brisbane in the great State of Queensland, Australia, Brad Smith, the presenter of Aussie Talk Soup, is a proud Aussie who has been living in Southern California for over 20 years. Drawing on his vast experience from the entertainment industry, exposure to international celebrities, and varied life opportunities, Brad creates a 'slice of Australia' through his various intrinsically unique programs. Brad gives excellent relationship advice via his segment titled 'No Yolk' ...

Vendor Insure Now, a leading online provider of vendor insurance, has developed a "tech-friendly" Internet platform that can quickly and affordably allow vendors to meet an event's liability insurance requirements by issuing a policy within minutes 24/7. Most event planning occurs at this time of year, so event organizers should be evaluating systems to improve ease-of-use, cost effectiveness and compliance. One of the trickiest compliance issues is for an organizer to demonstrate that all vendors have insurance coverage. "Some organizers have to devote an entire ...

As February 14th fast approaches, love is most certainly in the air, and today Legal & General are proposing an all-together unusual, but nonetheless heartfelt gift for your loved one; life insurance. We all know love isn't a bunch of flowers. Love is a promise: "I'll always care for you. I'll always look after you." But could you keep that promise if you or your partner became critically ill, or if one of you were to die? To truly look after each other, you need to secure your future, together or apart. That's why perhaps the best gift you can give each other ...