Exclusive Realty & Investments (CA DRE Lic #: 01802799) is leading the way in creating high equity for homeowners and investors. This company provides services ranging from 100% construction financing to property design and development. It is commendable that this company is able to work with all types of investors and homeowners, as long as they have a fico score of at least 660 and are able to show a verifiable source of income (stated or fully documented). They also offer assistance to real estate agents with their clients.

Sydney based singer-songwriter, JAY, has signed for management representation with Paddy Spinks of Global Spins in Los Angeles.

Global Spins is a Los Angeles based music company providing a wide array of services for a client roster that includes superstars such as Sir Paul McCartney, Norah Jones, Keith Urban & Joss Stone.

“From the moment I heard Jay sing I knew that she was something unique. The songs are heartfelt and honest and that voice….Heavenly!” said Paddy Spinks. “I’m really excited about showcasing Jay’s unique talent to the world.”

Continuing the success of last year, BioTrinity 2008 has already secured registration from over 150 companies. The biopartnering event, lead by Oxfordshire Bioscience Network (OBN) takes place between the 15th and 16th April in Oxford, UK. This year's agenda features an international panel of financial specialists in the biotech arena.

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The panel will focus on "Financing Alternatives in a Challenging Economy: IPO, M&A and Other Non-Dilutive 1e05 Financing." A topic particularly relevant given today's volatile financial market. Chairperson to the discussion is Karl Keegan, Managing Director, Head of Research (UK) and Global Sector Head of Life Sciences Research at Cannacord Capital. He will be joined by Niv Caviar, EVP, Chief Business and Chief Financial Officer, La Jolla Pharmaceutical Co, San Diego, California; Michael Bison, a partner at Goodwin Procter, Boston, Massachusetts; Mike Wort, Managing Director and Head of Investor Relations, De Facto Communications, London; and Patrick Baddley, Corporate Finance partner at Manches LLP, Oxford.

zenhire (www.zenhire.com), provider of zensuite, the most powerful pre-employment tools, services, and collaborative network available to human capital professionals, and CollaborateMD (www.collaboratemd.com), a leading provider of Internet-based practice management and medical billing software for the healthcare industry, today announced they have partnered to enable zenhire member recruiters to service the temporary and full-time staffing requirements of CollaborateMD customers.

For CollaborateMD, the zenhire partnership increases the value of its office solution set to healthcare providers. And for zenhire, the partnership affords its human capital professional members access to the more than 2,300 healthcare providers currently using CollaborateMD medical billing and practice management software, and the opportunity to service industry-wide staffing shortages.

Jennifer Santoleri, vice president of MedX, was named a Finalist in the Best Executive -- Service Businesses -- up to 100 Employees category in The 4th annual Stevie Awards for Women in Business, presented by Infiniti.

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The Stevie Awards for Women in Business honor women executives, entrepreneurs, and the companies they run -- worldwide. The Stevie Awards have been hailed as "the business world's own Oscars." (New York Post, April 27, 2005).

Nicknamed the Stevies for the Greek word "crowned," winners will be announced during a gala event at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas on Monday, November 12. Nominated women executives and entrepreneurs from the U.S. and several other countries are expected to attend.

Direct Response Concepts, parent company of one of the fastest-growing license programs in the nation (The City Rewards Program), is pleased to announce that the Chicago territory has been licensed by Chicago Metro Media. Chicago Metro Media is a new company created to focus on the City Rewards Program in the Chicago Metro Area. Chicago is the 67th license Direct Response Concepts has awarded nationwide.

"We are very excited about the addition of our latest Market in Chicago, IL," said David Moore, President of Direct Response Concepts, Inc. "We continue to be proud of our dedicated team of Market Owners, and look forward to our continued success in bringing outstanding results for our advertisers in each respective community that we support," said Moore.

The International Process and Performance Institute (IPAPI) has released its "roadmap to the future" for process professionalism and organizational excellence. Focused specifically on addressing the need to embrace change, advance agility and deliver success to shareholders, customers and employees in everything we do, the roadmap to the future has now been charted in the IPAPI Process Management Framework.

The IPAPI Process Management Framework identifies the subject areas and skills needed to successfully build an organization that can adapt itself to changes, regardless of their extent, scope, market or economic conditions. Building from core practices of optimization, alignment and innovation, the Framework embraces every level of organizational need -- from strategy and governance in the Board Room to delivering success without exception on the front lines.

Today, Atlassian Software Systems announced the third major update to their knowledge management product, Confluence - The Professional Wiki. Confluence 1.3 now looks better, performs better and does far more than it ever has before with the addition of email archiving, finely grained security, a host of new macros and much, much more. Validating the value of wiki technology within today's enterprise environment, Confluence now boasts over 200 customers including such notables as Boeing, Raytheon, Cisco, Alcatel, Vodafone, Pixar, BBC, BMW, Volvo, MIT, Stanford, World Bank, United Nations and more! Confluence is now arguably the most successful commercial wiki in the world today.

BIRDVIEW Technologies has introduced their 4 Step System TM designed to provide real estate agents and brokers with a systematic approach to internet success.

The 4 Step System TM is the product of the experience we have gained from generating nearly 4 million leads for our clients in the past 9 years," said Bob Kehoe, National Director of sales. The fundamentals to internet success are the same whether you are practicing real estate in Florida, California, or anywhere else in between," added Kehoe.

Scott Spivey, President of Prospectus Central has finally figured it out. After spending years cataloging and constantly replacing mutual fund prospectuses and supplements, and painstakingly tracking disclosures, Spivey took advantage of the storage and delivery potential of the Internet and came up with an effective solution. Prospectus Central, http://www.prospectuscentral.com , is the only on-line mutual fund data delivery source that currently offers side by side expense analysis as well as on-demand trackable access to mutual fund data from any computer.

In an industry fraught with fly-by-night financing and dreams that are often bigger than budgets it’s rare to see an independent comic imprint that has survived more than one publisher, let alone survive for half a decade. SMASH! Comics, gearing up for the summer of 2006, has accomplished both and is ready to celebrate.

In June of 2001 the now defunct Lightningstrike Publishing launched a new comic book imprint. Thanks to the friends and connections owner Mike Gagnon had made on the convention circuit he was able to gather a group of trusted creators and get a specialty investment firm to finance the operations. Thus SMASH! Comics was born.

Addintools has announced the release of Classic Menu for Office 2007 v.2.08, a user interface enhancement add-on for Microsoft Office 2007.

The Microsoft Office team has done a wonderful job designing the new Office Fluent interface that has replaced the system of layered menus, toolbars, and task panes with the so-called Ribbon. For all its great looks, there are still many users who find the new interface difficult to get used to it, wishing it could look the same as in earlier versions of Microsoft Office.

The American Filtration and Separations Society (AFS) is offering short course training on May 19, 2008 in Valley Forge, PA.

To kickoff the 21st Annual Conference, May 19-22, 2007, that the American Filtration and Separations Society (AFS) is holding in Valley Forge, PA, there will be eight short courses on May 19, 2008. Two of these courses are "Gas/Solid Separation with Fabric Filters" and "Gas/Solid Separation with Cyclones."

In the "Gas/Solid Separation with Fabric Filters" course, attendees will learn the mechanisms of filtration, the effect of nano fibers on filter performance, filtration of ultra fine particles, the effect of size distribution in filter performance and high temperature filtration. Additional topics include testing filters for dust retention, test methods for reverse pulse jet cleaning, testing of fabric filters, testing of paper filters and various types of cleaning.

Returning war veterans may face a multitude of physical and mental challenges. Veterans' families are often unprepared to deal with a family member who may experience nightmares, feelings of detachment, irritability, trouble concentrating, and sleeplessness. These are some of the symptoms of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD).

Experts estimate that between 25% and 30% of Vietnam veterans who fought in combat have symptoms of PTSD, and it's been recently estimated that 30% of combat soldiers returning from service in Iraq and Afghanistan are experiencing similar trauma.

"Tears of a Warrior: A Family's Story of Combat and Living with PTSD" is a patriotic book written about soldiers who are called to duty in service of their country. It is a story of courage, valor, and life-long sacrifice. Long after the cries of battle have ended, many warriors return home to face a multitude of physical and mental challenges. Author Tony Seahorn writes from his experience as a young army officer in Vietnam who served with the Black Lions of the First Infantry Division, which fought in some of the bloodiest battles of the war. He was wounded in action and continues to recover from the physical and emotional scars of combat.

For some, tidal energy's time may be just around the corner. For others, tidal power is at an innovation stage and it's an opportunity we can't afford to let slip.

Despite such optimism, the fact remains that tidal energy companies, especially device developers, need to tackle several technical and commercial challenges at this stage.

And one of them is related to developing an effective supply chain and the right project team for it.

Such operational considerations, which are going to be discussed in detail in the forthcoming 3rd International Tidal Energy Summit 2009 in London this year (November 17-18), are quite significant for any device to stand any chance of making it to the marketplace. The project team, as with any technology in its nascent stages, needs to convince potential financiers and/or customers that they can progress from negative to positive returns within a reasonably short period of time.

"All device developers face competition not only from other tidal energy devices but also from offshore wind," says Thomas Royle, commercial development manager, Gurit UK Ltd.

Royle, who is scheduled to speak at the conference, feels developers must be able to demonstrate that they can quickly produce power at a commercially viable rate with a machine which will provide an acceptably short payback period; and be absolutely clear where their particular market lies.

Many teams however have never undertaken a similar project; to design, develop, test and install a full scale, complex device. These projects are a major undertaking requiring a vast range of different expertise and resources. Often the developer is either undecided, or simply doesn't understand where within the complex supply chain it intends to operate.

Any project team with a reasonable chance of success will contain a mix of technical, financial and entrepreneurial skills. Without funding in place, this can present the device developer with an almost insurmountable task; a real chicken and egg situation: No funding = no in-house expertise. No expertise = no route to funding.

Building the project team of course is only part of the story. This team then has to draw together all the pieces of the supply chain jigsaw puzzle which they themselves don't already hold. Identifying companies willing to act as eventual subcontractors is relatively easy of course, but finding those with the necessary expertise, experience and attitude and who are prepared to undertake some of the inevitable unpaid work required to raise necessary funding to build the device may be somewhat harder, especially in a climate of downsizing, redundancies and restricted lending.

"During the critical conceptual design phase of the project it is essential that all members of the team are literally in a room together at very regular intervals if frustrating and time-consuming re-design is to be avoided at a later date. It goes without saying that no detailed design should be commenced until a thorough design brief, or device functional specification has been issued," Royle said.

Unfortunately, without a clear "road map" and highly competent technical and commercial business case, it's likely that many device developers will never raise the necessary funds to bring their invention to fruition.

Royle and a host of other speakers will discuss project development and deployment-related issues during the 3rd International Tidal Energy Summit 2009.

Other speakers include:

Martin Wright, Managing Director, Marine Current Turbines

Richard Parkinson, Company Director, Mojo Maritime Ltd.

Billy Langley, Developer - Marine, RWE npower

For more information, click here:

http://www.tidaltoday.com/ITES/3 [3rd International Tidal Energy Summit website]

or Contact: Abbie Badcock - 44 (0)207 375 7581

Toy Kite Software is excited to announce iSamurai Bluetooth, the new version of their action/simulation sword fighting game for iPhone and iPod Touch. iSamurai is the first Wii-like game for the iPhone, and now using Apple's recently released 3.0 software, it is one of the first multiplayer games that can be played anywhere over Bluetooth.

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In iSamurai, players attack and defend with their iPhones, slashing and blocking their way to victory against their friends. Advanced accelerometer analysis allows each iPhone to distinguish between four different attacks and four blocks. Each attack can be countered by the opponent using the correct block. The two devices communicate their actions and countering actions to each other over Bluetooth in real time and use realistic sounds to indicate whether an attack was successful or blocked.

The Green Guide Institute and SRB Marketing today announced that SRB would advise, plan and place online marketing campaigns for The Green Guide to obtain subscribers to its print and online magazines.

“Current Green Guide readers have much in common with the nearly 68 million U.S. adults known as LOHAS consumers or ‘conscious consumers,’” says Wendy Gordon, The Green Guide’s executive director. She notes that research indicates these consumers are well educated, Internet savvy, and predominantly female. “They also tend to act on their values, preferring products that are environmentally friendly and from sustainable sources over other, conventional products,” Gordon adds.

An investigative report by consumer health advocate Mike Adams and natural health publisher Truth Publishing reveals that nearly two-thirds of the tested hoodia gordonii weight loss pills sold in the United States contain no detectable levels of genuine hoodia herb. Published at the Natural Health Report (http://www.NaturalHealthReport.com), this report reveals that skyrocketing demand for hoodia weight loss pills has created a golden opportunity for con artists who peddle sawdust, leaves and other plant material as weight loss supplements.



The author of this report, health advocate Mike Adams, sells no nutritional products and earns no commissions or advertising fees of any kind from vitamin or supplement companies. The investigation is 100% independent and is based on verifiable laboratory tests conducted on sealed product samples by Alkemist Pharmaceuticals (http://www.Alkemist.com) in Costa Mesa, Calif.

Announcing the launch of our new web site, Patiobargains.com. Patiobargains.com will showcase lawn and garden products such as fountains, grill accessories and much more.

Pationbargains.com was developed to offer some of our best selling items at incredible savings...our way of saying thank you for your patronage. We feel more and more people are staying home these days so we're offering an affordable way to enhance your outdoor living space at a tremendous value.

As an added incentive, we offer prepaid freight on all shipments.

In an open call for instructors, My Creative Classroom is looking for talented teachers of arts and crafts online classes. Classes should run 4-8 weeks long and are typically based on techniques or longer projects. Instructor's can be located anywhere in the world as long as they have internet access.

"Our business model offers the best of both worlds for both students and instructors," said Jeri Parks, owner of My Creative Classroom. "We offer highly interactive online arts and crafts courses in a virtual setting. The results are motivated students from all over the United States and beyond and a unique opportunity for exceptional instructors."