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US Geothermal's Renewable Energy 'First' for Oregon Event
PORTLAND, OR 8/19/11 — US Geothermal’s (NYSE/Amex: HTM) Neal Hot Springs project is under way. Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon led a forum of energy influentials at a 2011 event at Portland’s Ecotrust Building — A Renewable Energy “First” for Oregon. US Geothermal CEO Daniel Kunz; Department of Energy Senior Fellow Steve Spinner; Enbridge executive John Whelen, and Renewable Northwest Project executive director Rachel Shimshak also presented at the event in downtown Portland’s Pearl District.
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blondchili.com Curtiss Angel – From the never aired 2010 Comedy Central pilot, The Untitled Andre Hyland Project. The Untitled Andre Hyland Project Executive produced and co-created by Bod Odenkirk Directed by Andre Hyland Curtiiss Angel – Andre Hyland Written by: Andre Hyland Bob Odenkirk Mark Rivers Mike Mayfield & Paul Oyen Edited by: Will Carsola Andre Hyland A Hothouse / bLoNd cHiLi / Comedy Central Production Full IMDB info www.imdb.com
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Industry's First Virtual Insurance Tradeshow Live Again In February 2012
Fairfield, CA (PRWEB) December 02, 2011
The 2012 Virtual Insurance Marketplace is the second offering from Direct Connection Advertising & Marketing, LLC, an agency specializing in insurance marketing services. The 2012 VIM promises industry leading sponsors, more interactivity, better accessibility, and an overall more diverse group than the 2010 show.
A virtual tradeshow experience is largely unfamiliar to many insurance professionals. The Virtual Insurance Marketplace seeks to change that while offering outstanding networking possibilities and a variety of means by which companies can share their products and services, all of which are reported on during and after the show to each exhibitor and sponsor. This real-time data is invaluable for marketing follow up and research.
President and founder of Direct Connection, Anita Nevins delights in the prospects afforded attendees and exhibitors in the upcoming show. We are very excited about the 2012 Virtual Insurance Marketplace. Having one under our belt, we know where to focus our energy. We realize that many in our industry have yet to experience a virtual tradeshow. To that end, we will offer several sneak peak free webinars for attendees, to walk them through the navigation and highlight the opportunities for them to make the most of the show. A more diverse group and larger selection of exhibitors will offer more opportunities while keynote speakers presentations will provide for a rich educational experience.
Sponsors are gearing up for the show as well, and many recognizable names have signed on for next years Virtual Insurance Marketplace. Participants are sure to experience networking opportunities and exposure to knowledgeable people at great companies.
A virtual tradeshow allows exhibitors to showcase their offerings through video, slideshows, presentations, and documents. Brandt Minnich, Vice President of Marketing for Mercury Insurance Group, is looking forward to networking while presenting their products and services in this unique forum. Mercury Insurance Group is excited to be a participant in the Virtual Tradeshow being held in February 2012, Minnich states. We are eagerly anticipating the opportunity to begin a dialogue with prospective and existing agents, in a convenient environment where our marketing staff can articulate Mercurys commitment to the independent agent channel and share information about the products and services we offer.
The VIM is an ideal way for insurance businesses to save money on costly arrangements so common to participating in a traditional tradeshow, such as travel expenses. Melissa-Anne Duncan, Director of Development and Partner Relations for the Insurance Industry Charitable Foundation, understands the savings and other opportunities the show offers.
The Insurance Industry Charitable Foundation is excited to share our mission of helping communities and enriching lives with our industrys independent agents, Duncan reports. The Virtual Insurance Marketplace is an innovative concept that offers a cost-effective means of sharing information and bringing the industry together. We eagerly look forward to participating.
Perhaps one of the biggest advantages to the virtual tradeshow in general and the VIM specifically is the convenience it offers to insurance entities. Hank Haldeman, EVP of the Sullivan Group, recognizes the importance of this fact to sponsors: At the Sullivan Group, as wholesalers and underwriting managers, we are intrigued by the opportunity to have real-time interaction with our retail clientsand prospective clientsfrom points far and near, in an environment where our brokers and underwriters can bring many of the tools supporting our value proposition immediately into the discussion through electronic means … all while sitting at our own desks!
The upcoming Virtual Insurance Marketplace will take place on February 810, 2012. We are actively seeking attendees, exhibitors, and speakers for the Virtual Insurance Marketplace. Visit http://www.webdcmarketing.com, contact Anita Nevins via email at anita(at)webdcmarketing.com, or call (707) 429-0877 to learn more. Registration for the Virtual Insurance Marketplace is free for retail insurance agents and brokers.
The Virtual Insurance Marketplace is brought to you by Direct Connection Advertising & Marketing, LLC, an agency that specializes in insurance and social media marketing, planning and services. For media information, visit http://www.webdcmarketing.com/media.
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Ecolab posts record sales in first quarter
Ecolab posts record sales in first quarter
The St. Paul-based company beat analyst revenue estimates of $ 2.72 billion. "The 'new' Ecolab is off to an excellent start," said CEO Douglas Baker, adding sales grew in every business segment in every region. Ecolab is known for making cleaning, …
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Spring Cleaning's To-Do List
The increasing pressures, challenges and expectations of FM are unlike those of other business functions. Building operators are now dealing with advanced technology, new building components, increased levels of building complexity, managing energy …
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Waze Launches First Hands-Free Traffic Reporting for iPhone; Sets New Standard for Mobile Commuting
Palo Alto, CA (PRWEB) February 09, 2012
Waze, the now 12 million-strong community of traffic resisters, is announcing today the next breakthrough in the global fight against traffic: hands-free operation of its popular iPhone app. With the simple wave of a hand, drivers can now speak to navigate, report traffic, and alert others to potentially hazardous incidents on the road. With the launch, Waze hopes to set a hands-free standard for the future of the traffic-reporting industry, as well as any driver-focused products to come.
How it Works
Unlike other touch-activated speech recognition systems, the latest version of Waze uses the iPhones native proximity sensor to initiate voice control. When activated with a wave past the screen, Waze prompts the driver to speak the intended commands, without ever having to touch the phone or its screen. For example a spoken command of report traffic will prompt the driver to specify heavy, moderate, or standstill. Waze will then place that alert on the map, offering a drivers the ability to share details normally reserved for users in passenger mode. The new feature also understands destination-related commands such as drive home or drive to work, so drivers can continue to focus on the road rather than the screen.
A Completely Hands-Free Experience
In addition to Wazes new hands-free traffic reporting, Waze enhances the experience by allowing the use of Apples native Siri speech recognition for specific addresses as well as local search queries. To further ensure minimum driver distraction, Waze also disables text input into the app while the car is in motion. The result is a completely hands-free navigation experience for Waze drivers from start to finish.
Waze has found a touch-free means for drivers to safely interact with their traffic information while driving, said Roger C. Lanctot, Associate Director of Strategy Analytics Global Automotive Practice. With a swipe of the hand drivers will now be able to access the information they need and report on incidents they see. The implications for crowd sourced traffic information are significant.
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HealthStream Announces First Quarter 2012 Results
HealthStream Announces First Quarter 2012 Results
By Business Wire 04/23/12 – 04:30 PM EDT HealthStream, Inc. (NASDAQ: HSTM), a leading provider of learning and research solutions for the healthcare industry, announced today results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2012.
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BBCN Bancorp Reports Strong First Quarter 2012 Earnings
By Business Wire 04/23/12 – 09:12 PM EDT BBCN Bancorp, Inc. (the “Company”) (NASDAQ:BBCN), the holding company of BBCN Bank (the “Bank”), today reported net income available to common stockholders of $ 22.1 million, or $ 0.28 per diluted common share, …
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5 Sustainable Green Ideas for Your Portfolio
On the contrary, I enjoy researching companies that have sustainable and renewable business models — I'm just hypercritical when it comes to new technologies because many are still years away from being viable — and by "viable" I mean "profitable.
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One Network Enterprises Introduces Markets first Demand Driven S&OP
Dallas, TX (PRWEB) January 27, 2012
One Network Enterprises (ONE), a leading provider of demand driven supply chain solutions in the cloud, is introducing the markets first multi-party Demand Driven Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP), Financial Planning and Executive Analytics solution.
Organizations having implemented S&OP today continue to struggle with the limitations or traditional software applications and business processes that do not effectively plan sales and operations across organizations within the enterprise and across their trading partners. To overcome these challenges, ONE is delivering a state-of-the-art demand-driven sales and operations planning (DDS&OP) solution, that aligns goals across the multi-party, multi-echelon value network to help organizations and their trading partners improve their financial plans, revenues, reduce operational costs, and effectively meet their customers needs.
ONEs demand-driven S&OP links S&OP plans to your multi-year strategic initiatives to account for the attainment of desired goals. Furthermore, it uses a single sales forecast at the forward most echelon to derive sales and marketing, distribution, production, procurement and financial plans. The single sales forecast can be shaped jointly with your partners providing a single version of the truth (SVOT) within the enterprise and across trading partners. Once the demand has been shaped and agreed upon the system generates order forecasts for each organization and each node in the multi-party, multi-echelon value network, including multi-tier raw material providers. Based on these orders forecasts, the system calculates distribution, transportation, production, and procurement plans, matches demand and supply, computes and bi-directionally propagates all capacity constraints, and synchronizes the plans for the entire network. ONEs real-time incremental planning and execution capability seamlessly puts the plans in action generating detailed, actionable short-term plans to the execution systems.
Most importantly, ONEs demand-driven S&OP delivers a Directional P&L that analyses profitability based on the revenue plans and operations plans for organization to fully understand the effect of their plans. The objective function of DDS&OP is to maximize the revenue and profit subject to the actionable operations plans for all parties in the value network.
“S&OP inherently is a multi-party, multi-echelon activity. Traditional systems can take months to compute and propagate plans across the value chain. One Networks DD S&OP solution does it in a matter of hours or days engaging seamlessly with all internal and external operations. One Network has proven repeatedly that increased business agility is the key to achieving impressive results,” said Greg Brady, One Networks CEO.
Gaining deeper insights and becoming demand-driven through ONEs DDS&OP enhances an organizations ability to effectively manage the complexities of the modern supply chain, offering a superior alternative to traditional systems.
To schedule a demonstration, call us today at (866) 302-1936 or visit us at http://www.OneNetwork.com.
About One Network Enterprises
One Network is the worlds only multi-party, multi-echelon supply chain solution in the cloud. As the leading provider of demand driven supply chain technology solutions, One Networks cloud-based platform enables customers to easily collaborate with all their value chain participants on a single network. With more than 7,000 companies connected, One Networks community based supply chain solutions help customers increase profitability and efficiencies by optimizing their supply chain operations. One Network serves a variety of industries including high tech, retail, consumer products, public sector, automotive, energy, and logistics. Headquartered in Dallas, Texas, One Network also has offices in Europe and India. For more information, please visit http://www.onenetwork.com.
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Contact: Sobia Ahmed | Phone: 972-455-3596 | Email: Sahmed(at)OneNetwork(dot)com
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Fresh Harvest Products Completes the First Phase of Its Digital and Social …
Fresh Harvest Products Completes the First Phase of Its Digital and Social …
NEW YORK, NY, Apr 18, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) — Fresh Harvest Products, Inc. (otcqb:FRHV) (pinksheets:FRHV) announced today that it has completed the first phase of its Digital Strategy and Social Media Marketing Plan; the re-launch of its …
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Debunking myths about social media and inbound marketing
We're now half way through our ten article series looking at putting together a successful inbound marketing strategy, and only now are we considering social media as part of our plan. Social media can be a terrible waste of time if you don't have a …
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Principle First Highlights Budget Plans
Derry, Northern Ireland (PRWEB) May 28, 2010
Principle First has registered extremely strong demand for Venture Capital Trust (VCT) investments driven on the one hand by the VCT’s numerous tax advantages, but also by proposed positive changes in VCT legislation which were announced in this year’s budget, which if passed should allow VCTs to invest in a wider range of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) with up to 250 employees, and market capitalisation up to
Jay Duplass talks about crowd-funding his first documentary Kevin
We’ve been hearing some great things about the first documentary KEVIN from filmmaker Jay Duplass about musician Kevin Gant. Also grabbing our attention was the fact that Jay has decided to use Kickstarter, not for himself but to help launch a comeback tour for Kevin on the film festival circuit. Jay was kind enough to sit down with us and tell us about why he had to make this film along with his experience in crowd-funding. The Kickstarter campaign is now down to it’s final 3 days and ends this Friday May 20th at 3:59pm PDT for those of you who find this interview in time and would like to contribute. Here is the short link – kck.st
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