Atlantis Found Publishing Inc. announces the launch of "Words Without Voices" (™) Online Album Art Competition. The contest seeks digital visual artwork submissions to illustrate the song lyrics of Conceptual Artist James Thomas Fielding.

The contest is limited to the U.S. , Canada and the U.K.

The juried art competition, which seeks to establish a new multimedia artform based on rock "Concept Albums," offers $6,000 in cash prizes to be awarded to three finalists in two categories: Best Songbook Jacket and Best Album Jacket.

A brand new website invites people in the Phoenix, Arizona area to gain free information and to deal with the issues that lead to foreclosure. http://www.brucevoris.com provides local help, solid information, strategies and tips. Site visitors are invited to form a personal relationship with a Phoenix area foreclosure expert to help them with their foreclosure so they can move on to a brighter future.

As a long-time Phoenix resident himself, founder of the website Bruce Voris has extensive real estate experience as an investor, business owner and realtor, and now focuses on working with families facing foreclosure. He is a trusted member of the National Association of Foreclosure Prevention Professionals, which adheres to a strict code of ethics. “About 500 families a month in Maricopa County are being foreclosed upon and that number is growing. I created this website to provide a high quality and ethical source of important information to the many families who urgently need it.” Bruce says.

Turning gold into cash continues to grow in popularity as gold prices skyrocket. Gold buyer Get Gold Cash, Inc. makes it even easier to sell gold and other precious metals by announcing the expansion of their Get Gold Cash Roadshow into East coast territories.

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"Word has quickly spread. The now Famous Get Gold Cash Roadshow is making appearances in multiple venues on the East Coast," says Get Gold Cash, Inc. President Craig Nusinov. "In addition to mailing items to our company, our customers love the opportunity to meet personally to receive cash payouts for their unwanted precious metals during our Roadshows. Get Gold Cash is now answering requests from all over the Atlantic Coast by scheduling Roadshows to meet increasing consumer demand."

Doug Smith, chief executive officer of B. E. Smith, recently was honored for excellence in management recruiting by being named to BusinessWeek's "World's Most Influential Headhunters" list. Smith's detailed BusinessWeek profile may be viewed at the following link: www.businessweek.com/managing/content/oct2008/ca20081028_085486.htm

Smith joined the company started by his father, B. E. "Pete" Smith, full-time in 1984. He helped expand the organization, leading him to purchase B. E. Smith in 1996. Smith created a new vision for the company, building it into a large firm offering interim and executive leadership and consulting solutions to healthcare clients around the globe. Under Smith's leadership, B. E. Smith specializes in one-of-a-kind solutions that go beyond executive placement to encompass a comprehensive suite of leadership services designed to meet the specific needs of each client.

NetUnity Software, a private Virginia-based software company, today announced the release of its product for developing WSRP compliant portal-based business solutions using the Microsoft .NET Framework. The NetUnity WSRP .NET Framework allows businesses to build portal-based business solutions based on the recently published OASIS web service standard that promotes plug-and-play interoperability among portals and portal components - Web Services for Remote Portlets (WSRP). IT organizations, application vendors and content providers can avoid portal vendor lock-in, proprietary interfaces and specific operating environments by developing solutions based on WSRP.

On April 4, 2005, an ambulance arrived at the Magnetic Resonance Therapy (MRT) clinic in Nassau, New Providence Bahamas. The paramedic team carefully escorted Cadwyn Andrew Smith, 33, on a trolley stretcher and carefully placed him on the bed in the 4-Foot Jacobson Resonator. His breath was labored, he could not speak and his body was completely paralyzed. What has taken place during nearly five months of treatments is a dramatic testimony to bravery, faith and hard work of this gallant young man.

For two weeks in a row, the animated film "Happy Feet" has dominated the box office with its irresistible penguin characters and catchy dance and song numbers. Urban Latino recording artist Paco plays an integral part in the success of the film, his verse in the song "Boogie Wonderland" defines the character Ramon, played by Robin Williams. Paco co-wrote this verse with John Powell and also worked directly with Mr. Williams to coach the famous actor in how to rap in Spanish and accurately represent urban Latinos in his character.

The StoneEagle Group (StoneEagle) today announced that American Financial & Automotive Services, Inc. (American Financial), a leading provider of Finance and Insurance products, services and technologies to the automotive industry, has selected SEcureCard. StoneEagle developed the SEcureCard to provide vehicle service contract administrators a streamlined approach for handling claim payments.

From the inception of vehicle service contract products, claim payments have been a challenge when paid via credit card. Administrators spend significant time reconciling credit card charges back to individual claims within their administration systems and tracking adjustments that were made at the dealership prior to actually charging the claim payment. These over/under amounts often result in major losses. If an administration company allows up to only a $5 variance between claim approval and the actual amount charged to the card, significant claim dollars are spent without approval. There are also instances where credit cards are used for additional and often fraudulent charges by repair facility personnel.

Eduventures Higher Education Survey on Leadership, Innovation, and Technology revealed that fundraising is one of the most urgent objectives for universities, and it is a major focus for technology investment over the 5a8 next two years.

On the heels of that research, Eduventures, the leading research and consulting firm for the education industry, has released a study entitled Prospect Research: Technology and Vendor Evaluation, which identifies the most widely used and top-rated products across five categories for prospect research:

Information services: Lexis/Nexis and Hoovers

Prospect-management databases: SunGard Higher Education Advance and Blackbaud Raisers Edge

Wealth-screening services: P!N Electronic Screening and WealthTracker

Data-mining tools: Microsoft Excel

Predictive-modeling vendors: P!N Electronic Screening and Blackbaud Analytics

Increasingly, fundraising development officers are moving away from person-to-person information sharing, in favor of accessing prospect research information online and/or through an intranet," says Jennifer Zaslow, senior analyst for Eduventures. The goal of this research is to identify the products that peers consider essential and effective so universities can make the proper considerations prior to making significant investments."

Santa Monica, CA (PRWEB) October 17, 2007 - ExhibitDEAL, the leading trade show display company, is happy to announce the addition of Alumalite Hybrid Displays (http://www.exhibitdeal.com/products-alumalite.html) to their line of quality trade show displays, trade show graphics, and trade show accessories which can be found at: http://www.exhibitdeal.com .

The Alumalite Trade Show Displays are quickly growing in popularity due to their hybrid status. Not a true pop-up display, the Alumalite Hybrid Displays (http://www.exhibitdeal.com/products-alumalite.html) consist of a backwall display with numerous optional accessories, including: monitor mounts, counter systems, and literature racks. The ability to add components to the trade show display after setup, adding to its flexibility, is one of the many reasons that the Alumalite Trade Show Displays are growing in popularity exponentially.

The latest trend to hit the specialty tea market in the UK is hand tied display tea. These premium grade blooming teas magically blossom into a colourful fusion of exotic flowers and green tea needles when steeped in hot water. Although little known in the UK, the art of display tea has been practiced for centuries by teamasters in China. Originally destined for the lavish tables of emperors, tea lovers in the UK can now experience the delicate taste and visual spectacle of these unusual green teas through the new website of The Exotic Teapot - http://www.exoticteapot.co.uk This London based upscale brand imports a wide range of high quality blooming teas from China. The rich variety of shapes and floral bouquets are designed to enliven any dinner party or afternoon tea. Each tea has been hand sculpted by local artisans from Fujian Province and carefully selected based on overall appeal, taste quality and aesthetics.

eCruises.com is offering a $200 credit per stateroom for travelers looking to explore Alaska aboard select Celebrity Millennium sailings in 2008. The $200 cruise credit is valid towards onboard purchases and applicable on new bookings made by Jan. 31, 2008. Rates start at $1,499 per person based on double occupancy.

Each Celebrity Millennium Alaska cruisetour is a combination of a cruise and land tour, ranging in duration from 10 -- 12 nights. Ports of call include Seward, Alaska; Vancouver, British Columbia; Hubbard Glacier; Juneau, Alaska; Skagway, Alaska; Icy Strait Point, Alaska; Inside Passage; and Ketchikan, Alaska.

All Sharon Hunt wanted to do was lay her mother to rest next to her father.

When she arrived at Riverside National Cemetery last year for a graveside service, she expected to place her mother's cremated remains alongside the grave where her father, a decorated Air Force pilot, had been buried almost a year to the day before.

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It was only after that service, she says, that she was summoned to the cemetery's office and told she would have to take her mother's ashes someplace else.

GenealogyBank, a leading online provider of historical and recent newspapers for family history research, announced today the addition of 219 new and expanded newspaper titles to its online archive.

Featuring millions of articles from small towns and big cities across the United States, the newest addition to GenealogyBank's unparalleled newspaper archive helps family history researchers with ties to New York (NY), Philadelphia (PA), Los Angeles (CA), San Francisco (CA), Portland (OR), Boston (MA) and Chicago (IL)--among others--track down lost ancestors and uncover fascinating details about their lives.

What is Phishing? In a typical Phishing attack, a criminal will send you an email which appears to be from a well known company, bank or government agency. The email will direct you to click on a link which directs you to a Website or pop-up box that looks like the companys or organizations legitimate site. The site will instruct you to enter personal information, such as your account ID, your password, your credit or debit card number and PIN, or your social security number. The criminals are phishing" for information.

Tips for Spotting a Phishing Scam:

A fraudulent email will usually have a sense of urgency, stating that you must respond immediately or your account will be closed or frozen. Fraudulent emails and websites will often have obvious spelling errors.

Four biomedical engineering students at the University of Rochester have won the Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center's Accessible Medical Instrumentation Competition for their exercise cycle that can be used by people with a variety of disabilities, including stroke, Parkinson's, blindness, obesity, and deafness.

The cycle, which features Braille, audio prompts, visual cues, special seating and adjustments, was designed in a course at the University that teaches engineering students to design and develop medical devices. It has proven to be such an ingenious device that the Brain Injury Unit at St. Mary's Hospital has expressed interest in obtaining and using the cycle for its patients undergoing physical therapy.

Go Visit Hawaii, the most up-to-date Hawaii vacation blog for travelers looking for the latest news and reviews of the Hawaiian Islands, today announced the publication of its 150th post.

After successfully re-launching in March, Go Visit Hawaii has focused on bringing readers the latest Hawaii travel news and vacation advice. With its 150th post, Go Visit Hawaii has achieved early success, bringing the latest hotel deals, Hawaiian attractions and restaurant advice to thousands of visitors, looking for unbiased assistance in planning their Hawaiian vacation.

DVEO, the broadcast division of CMI, will demonstrate their professional DVB-T to IP gateway for IPTV at the International Broadcasting Convention (IBC) in Amsterdam, September 11-15, at Stand 2.C33.

Designed for European broadcasting, IPTV, and "telco TV", the OnRamp DVB-T/IP™ simultaneously receives transport streams from one to four DVB-T transmitters and outputs them to a dedicated IP network. The video streams generated by the OnRamp DVB-T/IP can be viewed on television sets with standard IP capable set-top boxes, or on computers using streaming video software clients such as VLC or MPlayer. The system can also be ordered with the option to transcode MPEG-2 streams into H.264/MPEG-4, up to a maximum combined bitrate of 6 Mbps.

According to a recent PhoCusWright study, one of the key competitive areas for the online travel industry is in the groups and meetings market, which they say will represent $175 billion by 2008. One online company leading the way for the group travel market is Colorado-based, Groople.com.

"What we've found in the group travel market is that many people do not identify themselves as a group and therefore they don't take advantage of the services and travel options for groups or the new online collaboration tools to make group travel easy to plan," said Mike Stacy, CEO of Groople. "With the growing popularity of mancations, girlfriend getaways and other group-oriented travel, Groople has evolved the group travel booking process, focusing on travel options based on group types."

Join the Hyatt Regency Reston and the Greater Reston Chamber of Commerce as we celebrate the Inauguration of the 44th President of the United States of America. Raise a glass with your fellow Chamber members of the Reston community on this historic day as we live-stream the swearing in of President-Elect Barack Obama, on the big screen. We have an excellent lunch planned and will be enjoying a similar menu as the President Elect. Specialty inauguration drinks in red, white, and blue will also be offered as we watch history unfold from the comfort of the Hyatt Regency Reston.