Boston-For Carter Winslow, life was good in an idyllic setting on the coast of Maine. But when the happily married artist hears a confession of love from his talented young protg, he is forced to tackle previously repressed homosexual thoughts and feelings. Could a life-altering decision be the next blank canvas for Winslow?

This love triangle with a contemporary twist comprises the plotline of A Question of Love, a chamber opera commission created by the Boston team of composer Charles Shadle and librettist Michael Ouellette, in collaboration with Intermezzo-The New England Chamber Opera Series.

Skytide, the leading provider of analytics and reporting for online content, today announced that its analytical application for online media has been nominated for the Streaming Media Readers' Choice Awards in the category of Reporting and Analytics. Skytide was selected for its flagship solution, the Skytide Analytical Platform™, which is used to deliver valuable insights into the impact and reach of online media.

Skytide Analytical Platform is used by a variety of organizations that use online video, including Content Delivery Networks (CDN's), corporate enterprises, and educational organizations. Each of these entities offer streaming and downloadable video and rely on Skytide analytics and dashboard reports to answer critical questions that help demonstrate exactly how content is consumed, such as:

Research by the FD Centre shows how employing a part time director not only significantly helps business success, but is also a flexible and cost effective solution to business owners' financial problems.

Owners of growing businesses face multiple problems, not least is the myriad of financial concerns associated with running and developing a business - concerns that are usual 2c7b ly common, whatever the industry. Doubtless, many business owners and entrepreneurs will be familiar with the following statements.

Cape Town based Licensing Technology Network (LTN) has teamed up with US market leading invention marketing and licensing company, Lambert & Lambert, to showcase South African inventions in the lucrative US market.

The two companies signed an agency agreement whereby LTN will source promising inventions in South Africa on behalf of Lambert & Lambert. This stems from a successful license deal the two companies negotiated on behalf of a South African inventor earlier this year. The licensed product, an innovative new kitchen utensil, is expected to be available to consumers in late 2009. The inventor described this license deal as "Having a winning Lotto ticket that can only be cashed in 2010!"

Leading Psychotherapists and Personal Coaches Jennifer Ryan, M.Ed. and Diana Guintu, M.Ed. of www.ichoosechange.com are creating happy, healthy, vibrant individuals in their newly revised "Home Study System: The Proven 7-Step System for Managing Depression, Anxiety and Fear So You Have Better Health, Greater Productivity, and More Freedom… consistently!"

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This coaching system is different from anything you've ever experienced, revealing proven strategies for those who want to find their naked truth effortlessly, and medication free.

In a year rocked by the implosion of the financial markets and a record number of natural disasters, USAA increased its net worth, maintained strong liquidity and profitability and paid out $857 million in dividends, distributions, bank rebates and rewards.

In addition, the company remained one of only two property and casualty insurers to retain the highest possible financial strength ratings from all three national rating agencies: A.M. Best, Moody's and Standard & Poor's.

The details are provided in USAA's just-published annual report, available at http://www.usaa.com/ReportToMembers.

For many people the thought of unclaimed land and property simply does not seem to be logical possibility. However, savvy property investors are doing just that. Unclaimed land and property are being legitimately transferred to those who know the right procedures.

The background rests with the way in which title to land and property in the UK has traditionally been demonstrated and transacted.

For centuries ownership of land and property in the UK was in the form of title deeds. This vast amount of paper, usually tied up with red ribbon, used to be the only way to demonstrate unfettered and out right ownership of property. These papers represented a chronological order of change of ownership over the decades with the most recent detailing who is the current owner.

With over 50% of marriages ending in divorce, and 8.6 deaths per 1000 people per year, many of us are finding ourselves suddenly single.

The transition from the couples to the singles world is a real culture shock for those who have been locked comfortably in a couple’s world. It’s a scary uncomfortable world, fraught with rejection, and uncertainty.

Life change and survival expert, Cheryl Perlitz had to deal with that transition. After 29 years of marriage, Cheryl lost her husband suddenly, and was forced to live the life of a single. She had to shift her thinking from ‘how to maintain intimacy in a long term marriage’, to ‘how to find someone to talk to’. Dating in a world that had moved rapidly ahead without her was a real shift in thinking.

e-Backups (http://www.e-backups.net) a wholesale provider of branded HIPAA compliant, remote back-up software, services and managed storage, was selected by twenty VAR’s to be the remote back solution of choice to present as a value added service to their clients. Each has had the solution customized and branded to their specifications.

The new wholesale partners and resellers are: Abay Group of Haddonfield, NJ., (www.abaygroup.com), Butternut Systems LLC of Warren, Vt.,(www.butternutsystems.com), Calloway Computers and Network Solutions Inc, (www.ccans.net), Campbell’s Own Inc. of Kansas City, KS., (www.campbellsown.com), C-Comm (www.c-commtech.com), Computer Doctors of North Georgia (www.computerdoctors.com), Data Connection Inc. of Mesquite,TX., (www.dataconninc.com), Graphic Unity (www.graphicunity.com),Green Light Data Solutions of Lawrence, KS.,(www.greenlightds.com), Liquid Networx of San Antonio, TX., (www.liquidnetworx.com), Missouri Data Systems, PC Aid of Orange County, CA., (www.pcaid-oc.com), Phase IV Development, Pro Data View of Lake Charles, LA., (www.prodataview.com), Sensible Computers of Attleboro, MA., (www.sensiblecomp.com), Stratatech Group LLC of Norwalk, CT., (www.stratatech.net), UCC of San Antonio, TX., (www.netsolsa.com ), Unison Micro of Gainesville, GA.,(www.unisonmicro.com), Weston Technology Solutions of Anchorage, AK and Bend, OR.,(www.weston-tech.com).

Herndon, VA (Vocus/PRWEB ) June 26, 2009 - RCN Corporation (NASDAQ: RCNI), a leading provider of all-digital and high definition video, high-speed internet, and premium voice services to residential and small-medium business customers, as well as high-capacity transport services to carrier and large enterprise customers, today announced that RCN won two Stevie Awards at last Monday's 2009 American Business Awards, including Best Turnaround of the Year and President & CEO Peter Aquino winning Executive of the Year - Telecommunications.

While addressing an elite group of over 300 CEOs and businesspeople at the Warwick Melrose Hotel in Dallas Wednesday night, top Executive Medicine of Texas physician, Dr. Mark Anderson said with a smile, "you're all going to be having chest pains and stress-related symptoms, so you need to come see us, so we can assure you you're not gonna drop dead."

Executives are responding quickly to managing stress now more than ever. Although no two executives are alike, they are placing an even greater emphasis on their health as one united front.

P. M. H. Atwater, L.H.D., is one of the original researchers in the field of near-death studies, having begun her work in 1978. To date, she has published seven books on her findings and countless papers and articles. Throughout her work, she noticed a similarity between children who were near-death experiencers and children who were simply born that way – with the same differences and enhancements that near-death kids displayed after their episode. She wrote her most recently published book "Beyond the Indigo Children: The New Children and the Coming of the Fifth World" to pass on what she discovered.

Clarity Digital has been appointed as the lead agency by the Girls' Schools Association (GSA) as it seeks to develop its MyDaughter brand, an online resource for parents. Clarity Digital's remit will include all strategic planning, reporting and traffic generation for the recently launched site. The GSA which represents 200 independent girls' schools developed the portal following research into how parents search for schools and their needs before, during and after the selection process. This resulted in the site which offers advice, support and forums on all aspects of raising girls.

When Thomas Miller launched his fishing website in June 2009, he knew it was destined for success. "I've been a fisherman all my life, since I was 7, and I know about every fishing gadget out there," Miller said. "I think I've got a lot to share with others who want to take up fishing, even the professionals."

Miller's website, www.FishingTackleOverstock.com, boasts some of the finest fishing tackle selected by Miller himself. "The most important item in the tackle box is the fishing reel, and I've gone around and selected the best fishing reels on the market," Miller said.

Ummah Foods today announced the launch of the Ummah Orange chocolate bar. The Halal milk chocolate bar with an orange creme centre is the second of Ummah Foods’ products and will hit the stores after Ramadan 2005. Following on from the original Caramel bar it will similarly be available in Islamic Book Shops, Newsagents, Grocers, Mosques, Hospitals and Universities reaching the ever increasing number of Muslim consumers in the UK.

The launch of Ummah Orange is encapsulated by Ummah Foods’ new brand ethos "THE UMMAH IS CHANGING" – the theme of all future branding and marketing exercises. The Managing Director of Ummah Foods, Mr K Sharif, perceives the brand as an articulation of the “changing Muslim world and its culture” moving forward in an exciting and wholesome manner. Sharif reiterates, “Like all our products the Ummah Orange will be halal and ten percent of all net profits will go to Muslim and non-Muslim charities as well as community projects.”

Medical experts and pharmaceutical critics expose the drug industry's unsafe tactics that are affecting today's health care system in the timely documentary, Money Talks: Profits Before Patient Safety, which is now available on DVD. The film explores drug industry influence on various levels through interviews with key opinion leaders from Harvard, Columbia, UCLA and more.

Money Talks: Profits Before Patient Safety comes as filmmaker Kathleen Slattery-Moschkau's second film about the issues within the pharmaceutical industry. Her debut film Side Effects, was a fictional approach to exposing the issues, based on her decade working as a drug sales rep for two of the nation's top pharmaceutical companies. Because of the overwhelming response from people all over the world, Slattery-Moschkau felt there was a need to leave Hollywood behind, and present a more informational, academic approach to the topic.

"When a company hits a milestone in any industry, it's special. But to know that we're helping people get home safely every night makes our mission even more important," says Mark Ziebarth, CEO of Bongarde Media.

Ziebarth is referring to the 10th anniversary of his flagship product, Safety Smart! Online, which more than 1,000 major North American companies use to keep their workers safe.

"The secondary benefit to those companies is how much money they save by using this full-featured integrated online safety training system," adds Ziebarth.

When President Barack Obama and Congress weigh health care reform options to rein in runaway medical costs, they should take a close look at the largely unheralded work of "group purchasing organizations" (GPOs), which already are achieving over $36 billion in annual health care and related costs savings in the United States, according to a new study of 429 hospitals and over three million hospital admissions by Dr. Eugene S. Schneller, principal Health Care Sector Advances, Inc. and professor at the Arizona State University School of Health Management and Policy.

NORTHWIND-Maestro PMS, provider of Maestro Enterprise Property Management hotel software and reservation software solutions for hospitality, has attracted the attention of hotel operators recently weighing their PMS options to find the best fit rather than just paying to upgrade to newer versions of their current system. NORTHWIND has never in 30 years of operation charged users who stay current and hold standard maintenance agreements for version upgrades or forced them to migrate platforms. Maestro provides its users with cost-free upgrades and free transition services as well as online training webinars, tutorials and other assistance as part of their standard Diamond Plus Service agreement - the industry's most comprehensive hotel system service package. This enhanced package replaces the former Four Diamond Service package for all Maestro users so they can benefit from the expansion in services offered by NORTHWIND.

In a press conference today, The Ohio Election Justice Campaign (OEJC) is calling for the recall, return, and refund of voting systems used in Ohio, the state that clinches presidential elections. Representatives from Boards of Elections (BOE) plagued by election irregularities, such as failing to preserve their 2004 ballots in violation of federal court order, are now sitting in review of the state's electronic elections systems, courtesy of a lobbyist.

According to the Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner's answers to the State Controlling Board, which approved $1.8 million in Help America Vote (HAVA) funds to review Ohio's elections systems, the final recommendations will be the "responsibility of the Secretary of State's Office working with a representative group of the state's election officials."