In light of the upcoming U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Scientific Advisory Panel's reevaluation of atrazine, The National Corn Growers Association (NCGA) reemphasizes the safety and importance of the herbicide in a new commentary: "For four days, academic, industry and government experts, along with representatives of stakeholder groups, will again address the EPA committee with information on the safe and important herbicide atrazine." The most studied herbicide in the world, with more than 6,000 studies on record, atrazine is already supported as a safe crop ...

24-PressRelease.com, a leader in news and press release distribution, today announced its break into Alexa's top 10,000 websites. "Given the billions of websites on the net, to be listed in the top 10,000 sites is a real accomplishment," said Michael Iwasaki, partner of 24-7PressRelease.com. The company has continued to grow in recent times, remaining largely unaffected by the economic recession. "Because our packages are offered at a variety of price points, there is something for every budget," Iwasaki explained. "Because of this value, we found we grew even ...

San Diego solar energy firm Solaire Energy Systems met last Friday, September 3rd, with Congressman Bob Filner (D - CA) to garner support for the PACE alternative energy financing program halted earlier this year by the federal government. Seeing the enormous energy and job creation potential in increasing the use of home solar energy systems in California, Congressman Filner and Solaire Owner Jarrod Fisk hope to push PACE financing forward and make solar more affordable for Americans. PACE, or Property Assessed Clean Energy, helps homeowners finance a solar energy system ...

Fraser Yachts is delighted to announce the addition of two spectacular new yachts to their growing fleet of luxury charter yachts. M/Y Exuma will be available for charter in the Eastern and Western Mediterranean from September and is being offered at a rate of EUR175,000/week. M/Y H2OME, meanwhile, will be based in Monaco and is currently available for Mediterranean yacht charter at a summer rate of EUR155,000/week. M/Y Exuma is a 49.90m (164'00") displacement yacht with a capacity for 10 overnight guests and is served by a crew of 8. She was built by Picchiotti and ...

After a motor vehicle crash, police officers usually fill out an accident report to record details from the scene of the wreck as well as witness accounts. The accident report provides basic information that can be used to determine which driver or drivers were at fault. Law enforcement officers, however, do not have the resources or time to conduct an intensive investigation. Personal injury lawyers who understand crash investigation and accident reconstruction are often able to uncover critical pieces of evidence pertaining to the liability and damages resulting from ...

To celebrate the World Tourism Day on September 27th, 2010, within the framework of the presentation of The Eleventh Annual Awards Ceremony of The Guide Awards are presented annually to enterprises, companies, organizations, individuals and localities throughout Vietnam that contribute to development of Vietnamese tourism, by The Guide (Vietnam Economic Times), including Luxury Travel (www.luxurytravelvietnam.com ). The Guide Awards 2009 - 2010 are expected to held on September 25, 2010, the World Tourism Day, at the Furama Resort in Danang city. The Guide Awards are ...

Stepping up the evolution of wearable video, the Contour's GPS is equipped with a built in GPS receiver that accurately tracks your location multiple times per second, enabling you to capture your location, speed and altitude - while you record, hands-free, in a range of crisp HD formats. Incorporating the quality features we are all accustomed to from Contour, the ContourGPS is taking action packed POV video to a whole new level. With sound quality beefed up with an expertly developed omnidirectional microphone, the Contour GPS ups the ante in terms of sound recording, ...

xVu ensures service quality for TV on LUSFiber Fiber to the Home (FTTH) Conference, Las Vegas, NV, September 13th, 2010: Lafayette Utilities System (LUS) today announced the deployment of Mariner's xVu service assurance solution as a key component of delivering high quality TV service as part of their LUSFiber offering. LUSFiber, the only 100% fiber optic network in Lafayette, is a clear indication of the focus and commitment by LUS to bringing high quality Video, Internet and Phone services to the community of Lafayette. As part of the LUSFiber rollout Mariner's xVu ...

The first webinar, Top 10 Keys to Successful Blended Learning, will be presented to the Metro DC chapter of ASTD on 15 September at noon. The second will be presented in conjunction with Jennifer Hofmann, of InSync Training, on 16 September at 6pm Eastern to the Charlotte chapter of ASTD. The latter presentation focuses on multi-venue blended learning offerings and is titled Getting InSync! Miner and Hofmann are co-authors of Tailored Learning: Designing the Blend that Fits (ASTD Press, June 2009), an instructional guide for designing successful blended curricula in ...

Customers can set up their LMS in just a few clicks and load up any SCORM compliant elearning courses regardless of which toolset was originally used to create them. Customers are not faced with any up-front set up fees or licence cost. Perhaps just as importantly they are not locked into long contracts and can exit the system at any time just as easily as they joined it. Luminosity Reach can optionally be branded to reflect the customer's colours and logos and can be used to generate a full range of management reports. Technical Director Alex Mackman said, "Some ...

Luminosity Synergy is provided as as SaaS-based offering that is highly effective, very low cost, quick to set up and easy to use. Often the person reviewing a new eLearning course is a subject expert or a business manager. Their time is valuable, especially if they are on the staff of an external customer organisation. Luminosity Synergy makes it easy and quick for even occasional reviewers to use the system, saving them time and effort. The whole review experience becomes painless and productive which will significantly improve the whole experience for an eLearning ...

Greeneville, Tennessee-based Meco Corporation has entered into a 7 year agreement for the provision of outsourced manufacturing support, or "shelter", services in Mexico with The Offshore Group of Tucson, Arizona. Under the terms of the agreement, the company will establish a 175,000 sq. ft. facility at the La Angostura Industrial Park in the city of Saltillo, Coahuila. At the project's maturity Meco expects to employ approximately 400 workers in the manufacture of folding chairs and tables. This is production that will be shifted from China, and will utilize Mexican ...

When it comes to selling homes in Westchester County, New York, Michelle Madaffari will be your best possible choice. Michelle brings a lot to the table in this hard to sell market. She goes out of her way to give unsurpassed results in buying or selling a home throughout the county. With the amount of Internet marketing you will get with Michelle and the Coldwell Banker Team it is no wonder why Michelle is in the Top 5% of all Coldwell Banker Agents in the world. When it comes to selling homes, Ms. Madaffari definitely has the Midas touch. Michelle began her career ...

The Dingoo is on track, Sounds like some Australian outback creature forgotten, however it's far from that. According to new DMCA rulings "jailbreaking" of your portable media devices is now legal. But what happens when a device is so "open-source" friendly that it has the potential to take a sales bite out of big portable gaming manufacturers' products like Nintendo & Sony. Das Cheap! of Walnut, CA.- CEO David Scarpitta says: " The Dingoo does what you want it to do! Just like earlier technologies including the VCR, your PC and of course now some of your Smart Phones. ...

ColorTonerExpert, the ideal third-party store for remanufactured laser toner cartridges, fuser kits, maintenance kit, and MICR toners has started its "Craziest Contest" to welcome the start of Fall Season. By simply creating your weirdest buzz phrase about Fall, you will instantly win an iPod Nano Multi-Touch. The mechanics of ColorTonerExpert's newest contest are very easy. You may post a comment on the contest's blog page. Just include your name and address for contact purposes. There is also a forum topic about this contest in the store's forum found at forums.colortonerexpert.com ...

Waterpointe Homes invites interested buyers to sign up for the interest list for the upcoming Newport Palisades collection. Only 33 new homes will be available. The interest list is already gaining momentum. Affordable new homes in Newport Beach, one of the most highly desired locations in Orange County, are exceedingly rare. Even rarer are these prices. The three-bedroom, single-family homes with all of today's favorite features are priced from the low $600,000s. "Today's market provides a rare opportunity for homebuilders and homebuyers alike," said Garrett Calacci, ...

Given the fast pace and general demands of our daily lives we are all feeling more stress. Dozens of clinical studies show that massage therapy is a proven, mainstream, noninvasive way to physically reduce harmful levels of stress hormones in the body while increasing levels of endorphins. Hands On Health, the Triangle's foremost massage therapy and wellness practice, has introduced a great many Triangle residents to the benefits un-stressing with massage through their successful "Unlimited Summer Massage Pass." The "Unlimited Summer Massage Pass" entitles new Hands ...

Celayix Software has pre-released the latest version of its eTime Xpress product which contains significant enhancements that will benefit its core markets: advanced scheduling and time and attendance software users. Release 7.6 expands on the improvements of 7.5 with added integration capabilities and increased export/import flexibility; however the majority of its value lies in its new time clock integration and Celayix's new and improved time clock hardware offering . Celayix chose to focus its development resources on these specific features and products after reviewing ...

Dion von Moltke, completing his first full season in the Daytona Prototype class, and rising star Matt Bell are looking to cap off a strong Rolex Car Series season this weekend at the Utah 500 at Miller Motorsports Park. Dion and Matt will be racing in the #77 McDonalds/South African Airways/PR Newswire Doran Racing Ford Dallara. The duo teamed up for the first time in July at the NJMP 250 and finished sixth at that race. Bell, who had never raced before in a DP, earned the coveted Jim Trueman Award at that race as Dion had done earlier in the season. Now, as the Rolex ...

Robert Higgins, who is the Co-founder and CEO of Nashville based club Promotion Company, FlyMajor.com is serving the community with the FlyMajor Above All Odds Annual Scholarship. Higgins, also known as Black Rob, is offering the need based scholarship in keeping with FlyMajor.com's social responsibility and by following the Tennessee State University creed of Think, Work, and Serve. The grants are being offered to full-time college freshman, sophomores, and/or juniors attending Tennessee State University, Fisk University, Vanderbilt University, Lipscomb University, Belmont ...

The St. Louis Society for the Blind and Visually Impaired and the Lighthouse for the Blind-St. Louis have joined forces to implement a program to increase low vision in-home services to individuals and families in the greater St. Louis region. Society President David Ekin, ACSW, LCSW, says, "This is a productive example of community non-profit organizations collaborating to share resources to expand low-vision services to better serve the needs of visually impaired people in our region.without duplication or redundancy. "It enables the Society to conduct additional ...

Envisage Technologies, a recognized leader in first-responder, law-enforcement and military training modernization and automation, announced today that the Utah Peace Officer Standards and Training (POST) Academy has purchased the Learning Management System (LMS) module of the Acadis Readiness Suite. Utah plans to deploy the Acadis LMS to augment the residential and skills-based training that all officers are required to complete annually, thus capturing all dimensions of an officer's lifelong learning within a unified legally defensible training record. Increasingly, ...

All purpose prepaid MasterCard 'cashplus' has had over half a billion pounds loaded on it by over 500,000 cardholders. Launched five years ago this month by now profit turning Advanced Payment Solutions (APS), the card's success has defied critics who said there was no place for prepaid in a supposed 'free banking' market. APS posted nearly GBP8 million in revenue for the year ending March 2010 and hit profitability earlier this year. The Company is now recouping its considerable start up investment costs and is well on target to hit GBP12million in revenue for this financial ...

From the author of numerous books showing how recent scientific discoveries point to the God of the Bible comes a new edition of his award-winning classic, "Beyond the Cosmos". In this book Hugh Ross, astronomer and founder of Reasons To Believe, tells the story of a dramatic scientific breakthrough: the discovery that there's more to the universe than just the familiar dimensions of space and time. The cosmos is actually a ten-dimensional system! "A universe of ten dimensions carries profound theological implications," Ross says. "The One who brought such a universe ...

The Greater Miami Chamber of Commerce's Healthcare Committee will host their first Health Career Resource Expo on Tuesday, September 14 from 2:30-7:30 p.m. at Hilton Miami Downtown, 1601 Biscayne Boulevard, Ballroom Level. Transitioning workers interested in pursuing a healthcare career, hospital and healthcare managers looking for employees and new graduates, education institutions looking for potential students and employment opportunities for graduates, and allied health professionals looking for new opportunities should attend. The health career fair will feature ...