On December 17, the president signed a $858-billion federal tax bill that extended the energy tax credit, offering incentives under the Energy Star program for homeowners and builders to install natural energy systems such as geothermal heat pumps, and to use energy-efficient HVAC equipment and building materials. We here at BAIR Necessities put together a short guide to help you decipher the new energy tax bill and figure out how you can get money back on home improvement. What is included in the Energy Tax Credit? 1. Geothermal and Natural Energy Systems For ...

Women Standing Tall (WST), a nonprofit organization focused on supporting services for women and families in need and AIDS organizations, has partnered with Terrell Owens to present the second WST Celebrity Charity Bowl-a-Thon, taking place on Thursday, February 17, 2011, from 4 p.m. - 8 p.m. at Lucky Strike, 6801 Hollywood Blvd., Ste 143, Hollywood, CA. This event will kick off NBA All-Star Weekend, and will be attended by numerous pro athletes and entertainers supporting these efforts. Tickets are available for public. "I couldn't be more excited to partner with WST ...

Eco-savvy experts will take guests into the garden for a series of interactive workshops Saturday, Feb. 26 at the Rockrose Education Gardens at 3538 Glen Ave. in Carlsbad. Water. Grow. Eat. is the first in a series of hands-on eco-savvy special events hosted by Del Mar-based builder Brookfield Homes. The Feb. 26 workshop is free to the first 30 people in each program who register at http://www.brookfieldsd.com. Three Water. Eat. Grow. sessions will run concurrently from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., each staged in the kitchens and backyards of the Rockrose model homes. Guests ...

TITUS, a leading provider of security and compliance solutions for email and documents, is a Silver Sponsor at RSA Conference 2011, taking place from February 14 to 18 in San Francisco. TITUS will be showcasing a number of its security and compliance products at our booth (# 1837), including TITUS Message Classification and TITUS Metadata Security for SharePoint. In addition to learning about TITUS' products, conference attendees will also have the opportunity to experience virtual reality gaming at the TITUS booth, and will have a chance to win a PS3 and Gran Turismo ...

Family Health Network is excited to announce it has selected a leading healthcare marketing firm as their new agency of record. Jennings, a North Carolina-based branding and advertising agency with a specialty in healthcare marketing, will be supporting Family Health Network with public relations and social media marketing initiatives to build awareness for its innovative online program "Connected for Life." Dan Dunlop, Jennings President and CEO, will be leading the public relations and social media marketing efforts for Family Health Network. An avid healthcare marketer, ...

The Ultimate Sports Online Skate Shop is officially open! Inside the skate shop, you will find the following brands of skateboards: Birdhouse, Black Label, Dogtown, Element, Gold Coast, Gravity, H Street, Layback, Plan B, Termite, World Industries and Zoo York. "Working in conjunction with one of the largest skateboard suppliers in the world gives us a lot of options", said Jeff Till, owner of Ultimate Sports Online. With access to products from all of the top brands, Ultimate Sports Online can offer both customers and suppliers the best fit. "The store currently focuses ...

Southwest Solutions Group isn't known for installing their high-density storage and materials handling products in residential settings, but they were eager to help a family in need when ABC's Extreme Makeover: Home Edition came calling. The company donated and installed a sophisticated carousel storage system typically used in hospital and manufacturing environments as part of a home makeover for a family in Wellman, Texas, whose 17-year-old daughter was killed in an automobile accident while texting and driving. The episode aired January 30. "While our commercial ...

To view and vote for their favorite poster, visitors can go to http://www.fortheglorythemovie.com/poster. Final artwork will be chosen on Saturday, February 12. For The Glory is based on the true story of Northern Virginia native, Kurt Kuykendall. When Kurt was cut from his university basketball team, he had no idea what lay ahead. A few months later, after a lot of hard work and persistent urging from his friend Alan Ross, Kurt became the starting goalkeeper for the school's Division I soccer team. Kurt was a natural, and went on to become an All-American, a member ...

Accessible on a 24/7 basis, The Sensor Connection E-commerce Site quickly delivers quality sensors, even with different options and electronics, to expedite the ordering process for customers with immediate needs. By providing more product content, the E-commerce Site ensures that users are well informed before making a final decision. A new FAQ page enables users to submit their own questions. Blogs on EGT Thermocouples and LVDT position sensors as well as links to Twitter and Facebook provide customers with online advice and tips on choosing the right products. "While ...

Lawyers Project is a groundbreaking non-profit organization originated within the legal community aiming to serve as a global, philanthropic exchange by offering both an online fundraising program and face-to-face events for its members. "Our intention behind this is two-fold. Firstly, we want to give lawyers, judges and everyone in the profession alike better opportunities to connect with nonprofits - in ways they haven't been offered before. Secondly, we want to hold the nonprofits we affiliate ourselves with more accountable by providing reports, photos and simple ...

Bits Republic Technologies, Inc. (http://www.bitsrepublic.com), the Vancouver-based developer of leading-edge cloud security applications and licensed technologies, today announced a significant release of its ultra-secure Document Management System, MOnet. The new system eliminates the need for an installed resident application on users' computers for local file encryption, in favour of performing all functions including encoding, upload, download, and file management right through a web browser. The use of the browser for cloud file management is becoming increasingly ...

MEDecision, Inc., a leading provider of collaborative health management solutions, will conduct a complimentary webinar titled "Going Beyond the EHR: Supporting Care Coordination Within the Patient-Centered Medical Home," on Wednesday, February 9 at 12:30 p.m. Eastern time. Hosted by Matt Adamson, MEDecision's vice president of health solutions, the session will provide background on the medical home movement and how it relates to accountable care organizations (ACOs) and other models being tested to improve care and lower costs. It will look at technology as the primary ...

iDEN (Integrated Digital Enhanced Network) is a mobile telecommunications technology which provides benefits of a trunked radio and a cellular telephone. iDEN networks are found in the USA, Canada, Argentina, Peru, Mexico, Brazil, Jordan, Chile, Israel, Philippines, Singapore, Saudi Arabia, Japan, El Salvador, China, India and Guatemala. The company will offer iDEN test sets that will enable the set-up, diagnostic troubleshooting, repair (like fault location) and maintenance of iDEN networks. The test sets support both 6:1 and 3:1 TDMA format, dynamic call simulation, ...

Financial services billing expert MetraTech Corp (http://www.metratech.com/) has announced that it is to provide billing and billing-related services across the entire product portfolio of Latin America's largest central depository for over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives. MetraTech has been selected by Brazil-based CETIP to deliver a bespoke billing software solution that will enable the OTC clearing organisation to keep pace with the demands of a rapidly evolving and increasingly competitive financial market. As well as providing a billing solution that will accurately ...

Securenet Systems, Inc., a web development and streaming services provider located in Deerfield Beach, Florida, announces the launch of Promusic.fm, the new music and social gaming platform that offers free streaming music, new artist discovery, and promotion via their animated virtual concert social game, The Music Promoter Game. The site was developed under exclusive contract by Securenet Systems for Allworks Media, the company headed by former Premiere Radio Networks co-founder, Roger Schnur. "Promusic.fm is about engagement," said Mr. Schnur, "We're offering an ...

iTrip is giving displaced professionals a unique opportunity to reposition themselves in today's new economy with a proven business model. As the visionary vacation rental management company steers its industry in a new direction, vacation property owners and consumers are taking notice of iTrip's advantages. This momentum has resulted in iTrip's expansion into 20 territories in just its first three years of licensing. The dynamic business opportunity is catching the attention of experienced professionals seeking to transition into entrepreneurship. "Like other forward-thinking ...

GoldKey announced today that Info Security Products Guide, the industrys leading information security research and advisory guide, has named the GoldKey Secure Portal, a finalist for the 2011 Global Excellence Awards in the Authentication Solution (Multi, Single or Two-Factor) category. These prestigious global awards recognize security and IT vendors with advanced, ground-breaking products and solutions that are helping set the bar higher for others in all areas of technologies. The GoldKey Secure Portal is a rack-mount unit that installs into a customers data center ...

Central Illinois residents have been asking and now Macklin 6 Star Services has answered by opening up shop as the area's first online resource with local presence. In the aftermath of the great recession of 2009 and its continuance in 2010, people in the area are in need of a comprehensive package of services aimed at recovery economically for 2011, and Macklin 6 Star has that in their small business and economic service product line. The economy has hit Illinois hard, from the loss of farming and tech jobs all the way into the local government and social service jobs ...

If you live an hour or more away from an elderly loved one who needs care, you can consider yourself a long-distance caregiver. Caregiving can take many forms, ranging from the daily phone call to arranging for nursing care in a facility closer to where you live. No matter what form it takes, caregiving is often long lasting, escalating and stressful. That's why Halo Monitoring, maker of myHalo, the most advanced medical alarm with automatic fall detection, recommends families consider fall monitoring to help bridge the distance gap and provide protection when a family ...

The eight-week course - Intro to Liturgy - begins on February 14th and is designed to equip students as intelligent people of faith and provide them with the skills necessary to read and critically assess liturgical materials with a particular focus on the Byzantine liturgical tradition. It will cover basic liturgical theology, liturgical prayer, monastic, cathedral, and hybrid liturgical offices and the historical development of the two Eastern Typika and conclude with an overview of the Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom as a pathway for thinking about the importance ...

PoleStar Foods Limited and Okehampton Desserts Limited, the Okehampton based suppliers of own-label desserts and Heinz branded products, entered into administration on 4 February 2011 with the appointment of Joint Administrators, Phil Armstrong and Nick O'Reilly, partners at specialist restructuring, recovery and insolvency firm, FRP Advisory. PoleStar Foods Limited and Okehampton Desserts Limited were acquired by Privet Capital in November last year, when the Companies were facing imminent collapse. Commenting on the administration, Phil Armstrong said: "PoleStar ...

Dean Ogan, owner of Rocky Top Hospitality (http://www.rockytophospitality.com), has been named the 2011 Restaurateur of the Year by the North Carolina Restaurant And Lodging Association (NCRLA). Through Rocky Top Hospitality, Ogan actively participates in his community while developing an outstanding company culture and admirable business ethics. Each year the NCRLA honors a competitive and successful restaurant operator who enhances the overall image of the food service industry. Ogan will be honored during the Taste of North Carolina event on Monday, Feb. 28 at the Washington ...

Technology in the heating and cooling industry is always improving and providing homeowners with better ways to heat and cool their homes. One such great innovation is the variable speed furnace. This technology works like a dimmer switch. It can be turned down ("dimmed") when your heating needs are less demanding and then turned up when your comfort needs increase. Variable speed furnaces allow you to save money with the added benefit of improved air quality in your home. Lee Hill, Vice-President of Weather Master, states, " 'Variable speed' actually refers to the furnace's ...

NOW Property Preservation and Sam Sesi's high expectation of quality have assisted with a hiring blitz in Michigan. The foreclosure repair business is booming currently and according to research will only increase in 2011. Aside from the trained and qualified repair contractors, NOW Property Preservation is expanding its internal review and processing division at the company. "It is exciting times to see that from humble beginnings the company was formed and now two years later that the company is hiring skilled workers and create jobs," , said Sam Sesi. The new ...

Noah Howell, along with Brother Jonah, is one of the original Powderwhores. For the last decade of his life, Noah has been incessantly committed to skiing powder, wherever it may be found, to captivate audiences of all kinds. Noah recently renewed his commitment to his fans, by deciding to revamp his blog, which serves as an online outdoor adventure hub... covering the latest updates on the 'powder' block, gear reviews, video content, up-to-date blog posts of ski mountaineering, involvement in ski film production, behind the scenes tales and footage of the ski movie scene, ...