ABA consists of 12 Pro staff anglers, 208 Coalition Pro staff anglers and hundreds of Task Force members, all of whom are active duty or retired U.S. military from all branches of service. The group, which currently fishes Bass Champs and Oakley Big Bass Tour on the World Fishing Network and numerous grass roots events, gained national prominence by serving as the ceremonial launch boats for the past three Bassmaster Classics, and was recently named the ceremonial launch boat for the PAA 2011 Toyota Texas Bass Classic on Conroe. The organization focuses its efforts on helping other service members and raising national awareness for Returning Heroes Home, Heroes on the Water and Veteran Outdoors.

“Fishhound.com is honored to join forces with ArmyBassAnglers,” said Richard Marks, Fishhound’s CEO. “We are excited to be able to express our gratitude to those who serve in our nation’s Armed Forces and those who put themselves in harm’s way to protect our freedom and liberties. We believe our objectives align with those of ABA, and through our partnership, we hope to strengthen our commitment to this great organization and the brave men and women that devote so much to our country.”

“ArmyBassAnglers and the Coalition are extremely excited to join forces with Fishhound.com,” stated Cody Roberson, president and founder of ArmyBassAnglers. “Fishhound, and its vast site of fishing reports and unique information that can be found no-where else, is going to equip our staff and members with the latest and greatest G2 (Intelligence Reports) on the battlefield of fishing. Fishhound.com will truly be a combat multiplier and a game changer as we prepare for upcoming tournaments. ArmyBassAnglers can’t wait to get this intelligence gathering information into the hands of every service member to be used in their respective area of operations as quickly as possible.”

As a special thank you to the members of our Armed Forces for their sacrifice and service, Fishhound.com is offering any ABA Member a highly-discounted premium site membership. By clicking on the following linkand entering the promotion code ‘Army20’, ABA memberscan register to receive a full year of the following Fishhound.com premium services and benefits for just $9.95, a savings of $60:

-       Free Fishhound T-Shirt

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-       Real-Time Fishing Reports

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-       Free Mobile Apps

-       Search for the Best Fishing

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About Fishhound.com: Fishhound is the world’s leading provider of real-time fishing reports delivered directly to anglers by our pro staff comprised of professional anglers, licensed guides & boat captains who are on the water every single day. Fishhound provides coverage on thousands of waters across North America and our reports equip anglers with the decision-making tools necessary to help them determine where to go, when to go and what to throw, when they go fishing. A free Fishhound membership comes loaded with interactive maps, GPS coordinates, mobile apps, your own personal dashboard, catch log and more. Sign up for free at http://www.fishhound.com/registration. For more information on ArmyBassAnglers & the Coalition visit www.armybassanglers.com.

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Examining the character’s trauma – family’s financial struggles, parents’ divorce, parental and sibling abuses and addictions – relative to the timeframe of 1960s until the present day, she delves into how society, community and family played a key role in shaping the character’s life.

Wachter says, “I wrote this book to better understand who I was as a person. After completing publication, I realized the relevance the story has on present day due to worldwide economic crisis and staggering job loss. A new purpose for the story has become paramount: elevate awareness.”

Wachter believes that the fictional story of Amzy shows readers that inner exploration creates a pathway of self-understanding that helps people come to terms with their past so they can shed it and live a more productive future. With addictions, abuse, divorce and strained relations more prevalent than ever in today’s society, she hopes that young adults especially will find comfort as well as encouragement to face their own struggles through “Catharsis.”

“Catharsis” is available for sale online at Amazon.com and other channels.

About the Author: Ann Wachter, originally from Cleveland, Ohio, earned her bachelor’s from John Carroll University. She has been married for over 22 years, and spends her free time writing fiction and poetry.

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Starting at 9 a.m. PDT on October 17, 2011, interested supporters can bid on the 2012 VW Beetle on eBay auction item #: 170712491084.

All proceeds from the sale will be donated to Pin-Ups For Vets, a California registered 501(c)(3) non-profit, that works to improve the quality of life for hospitalized veterans across the United States.  The highest bidder will receive an autographed copy of the 2012 Pin-Ups For Vets calendar, in addition to bringing home this special 2012 VW Beetle with a special boxed gift key from Oprah’s “Favorite Things” show.

“We are honored that Pin-Ups For Vets has asked us to join this auction to raise funds for our veterans,” said Devin B. Holmes, CEO of Warrior Gateway. “From providing funding for equipment for spinal cord injury patients in Salt Lake City to supporting the Armed Services YMCA in San Diego, Gina is an example of how one person can impact the veterans community, and is role model for all those who want to know how to give back.”

“I am excited to partner with Warrior Gateway,” said Gina Elise, founder and CEO of Pin-Ups For Vets. “Veterans and their families need better ways to find and connect with support organizations in their local community, and Warrior Gateway provides this valuable and free service for them.  Our partnership shows how community collaboration is one of the cornerstones to successfully changing how veterans are supported.”

About Pin-Ups For Vets: Gina Elise, founder and CEO, has been dubbed the “Calendar Angel” and “The Betty Grable for a new generation” by today’s active duty service members.  She is the creator and model in the “Pin-Ups For Vets” calendar fundraiser that supports America’s hospitalized veterans and recovering troops.  In addition to raising funds to support Veterans’ healthcare programs, Gina has made countless personal bedside visits to ill and injured patients in VA and military hospitals across the U.S. and the globe, where she delivers her nostalgic pin-up calendars and posters that are donated by the public.  Gina’s nostalgic pin-up calendar draws attention to Veterans’ healthcare, while at the same time honoring the four-year military service of her late grandfather. In 2009, The Los Angeles Business Journal and its members honored Gina Elise as ‘Volunteer of the year’ at their annual “Women Making A Difference” awards ceremony. Pin-Ups For Vets has donated $50,000 to date to expand physical, cognitive and occupational rehabilitation programs for V.A. and military hospitals nationwide. Visit the website, www.pinupsforvets.com.

About Warrior Gateway: Founded in 2009, Warrior Gateway connects individuals in the military community with organizations and programs (non-profit, government, educational or employment-related) in their neighborhood that are there to support them. Led by CEO Devin B. Holmes, Warrior Gateway harnesses state-of-the art technology and community collaboration to help today’s veterans make better decisions about what service providers they can go to for help, and have a public forum to share their experiences about the quality and effectiveness of those services.  This innovation was recognized when Federal Computer Week honored Devin B. Holmes with a Federal 100 award for significant contributions to the Federal IT community. For more information, please visit: www.warriorgateway.org.

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Michael Broom
(202) 455-4062

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The study finds that UVA rays, the most common form of rays from tanning beds, may penetrate to the basal layer of the skin, a deeper level that is most vulnerable to main types of skin cancer. This new information is the latest in a heated debate over tanning salons and possible new regulations for teenagers.

“In my Tampa dermatology practice, I am seeing an uptick in people in their early twenties with suspicious lesions,” says Dr. Seth Forman. “Most of my young melanoma patients have used tanning beds in the past.”

The findings come the same week as California passed a law banning indoor tanning for those under 18 years old. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has also been considering a federal ban on indoor tanning for minors.

“Many tanning salons boast their usage of UVA rays over UVB rays to produce a deeper tan,” says the Tampa dermatologist. “This sheds light on a larger problem because UVA rays rarely produce a visible sunburn, making it exceptionally dangerous since tanning bed users can’t see the damage.”

The Tampa dermatologist believes that tanning salons should be more careful about their use of misleading marketing phrases. “When teenagers hear things like ‘tanning beds produce vitamin D’ and they ‘help prevent acne,’ they may be more likely to disregard the serious health risks.”

“Whether or not the federal government chooses to add more regulations to the indoor tanning bed industry, the facts show that they are dangerous for your skin.” The Tampa dermatologist adds, “It is best to avoid them entirely and use sunscreen when in direct sunlight.”

About Dr. Seth Forman: Dr. Forman is a board-certified dermatologist practicing in Tampa, Florida. He was voted the Best dermatologist in Carrollwood in August 2011 by the Carrollwood News and Tribune. He has two Tampa dermatology offices; one in Carrollwood and the other in Downtown Tampa. He opened the Tampa Psoriasis Center in his Carrollwood office in 2010. The center gives psoriasis sufferers access to the latest treatment options, including topical and oral medications, as well as biological and phototherapy. Dr. Forman is one of the few Tampa dermatologists to offer narrowband light therapy, which uses pharmaceutical grade light to suppress psoriasis.

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PR firm The Pubicity Agency lands doctor client on syndicated program 'The Doctors.'

Dr. Seth Forman, MD, Tampa-based dermatologist and client of the PR firm The Publicity Agency (www.thepublicityagency.com), will appear in an upcoming episode of the syndicated talk show ‘The Doctors.’

Dr. Forman talks about a breakthrough treatment option for skin cancer patients. Forman is one of only a handful of doctors in the U.S. offering it. The procedure uses a machine called SRT-100 that provides pinpointed low-dose radiotherapy, completing treatment in about 90 seconds. Forman says patients don’t experience any pain, there is no need for recovery time and it is covered by Medicare.

Debating everything from the benefits of plastic surgery to the controversy surrounding autism and vaccines, ‘The Doctors’ features information on the latest scientific breakthroughs. The Doctors: ER physician Dr. Travis Stork, OB/GYN Lisa Masterson, plastic and reconstructive surgeon Dr. Drew Ordon, pediatrician Dr. Jim Sears, doctor of psychology Wendy Walsh, Ph.D. and health and wellness expert Jillian Michaels.

The Publicity Agency (TPA) is a full-service, national PR firm with home offices in Tampa, Florida. The PR agency, called “one of the top PR firms in the U.S.” by the Tampa Tribune, and named a ‘Top 25 PR Firm’ by the Tampa Bay Business Journal in 2010, is a leading strategic public relations firm founded by power publicist Glenn Selig, a multiple award-winning former major city network news reporter/anchor. The Agency represents businesses, news makers, entertainers, professionals seeking top-tier Agency representation.

Glenn and the team of talented and experienced publicity agents and publicists, have worked with some of the biggest names in business and entertainment.

For more information about The Publicity Agency, one of the “Top PR Firms in the U.S.,” please visit http://www.thepublicityagency.com. Watch videos of PR firm clients making news, http://thepublicityagency.com/clients-making-news/.

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Celebrities, businesses and news organizations use social networking website Twitter for a number of things. Now, the press release distribution company PR NewsChannel (prnewschannel.com) is offering an affordable way to help businesses incorporate a Twitter marketing strategy into their PR budgets by introducing Twipitch (www.twipitch.com), a Twitter pitching service.

The PR NewsChannel Social Media desk conceived the Twipitch concept and will use Twitter to pitch the press release and idea through creative messages on Twitter.

Twipitch™ is for a company that doesn’t have the budget to hire a social media agency or doesn’t have the knowledge or desire to initiate a Twitter marketing strategy itself.

This is a Twitter marketing strategy that helps businesses achieve social media exposure for the press release they are already sending via email and online.

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PR NewsChannel believes this newly launched Twitter marketing strategy service will be extremely beneficial to companies that have been trying to boost Twitter marketing strategies but did not have the time, know-how or budget to do it.

“This will be on a per project basis and will be very affordable,” says Glenn Selig, founder of PR NewsChannel. “It puts a Twitter marketing strategy within reach of companies that never before could even think about doing it.”

Twitter started in 2006 and has 200 million users as of March 2011.

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TJ Fisher and her dog, Madame Calliope de Bourbon

On Friday banking behemoth Bank of America (BofA) (NYSE:BAC) failed to convince 15th Judicial Circuit Court of Florida to dismiss author TJ Fisher’s multimillion dollar lawsuit against the financial giant and its former Palm Beach branch vice president Peter Kafouros. Six months after Fisher first filed a $70-million legal action against the financial institution, Judge Thomas H. Barkdull, III denied the bank’s Motion to Dismiss.

Across the bridge from the Town of Palm Beach’s sandbar island of swaying palm trees and cloistered mansions, Fisher’s court papers indicate a forthcoming colorful clash and showdown between “David and Goliath.”

Palm Beach and French Quarter resident Fisher prevailed in round one when her attorney, sole practitioner Timothy W. Schulz, Esq., successfully moved the Negligence Claim case forward.

“The importance of the Court’s ruling is that the Judge determined the Amended Complaint states a legal cause of action against Bank of America for negligence, negligent training and supervision, and for breaching its duty to disclose critical information to its customers, all claims the bank sought to dismiss,” Schulz said.

Occasionally referred to as a “socialite,” pink Cadillac-driving Fisher’s dramatic tale and unusual legal odyssey includes some colorful elements: New Orleans, ex-Baltimore Ravens defensive end Michael McCrary, Hurricane Katrina and Louisiana’s third tallest building, the Plaza Tower.

Fisher’s suit seeks to establish how improper BofA transactions, tied to the Plaza Tower, extends to the culpability of entangling her into a firestorm of civil litigation first filed in 2007. A McCrary-spawned civil Complaint launched a flurry of legal actions naming Fisher as a “co-conspirator” in a dispute over an insurance settlement that dragged her through 13 separate federal and state courts in Florida, Louisiana, Maryland and the District of Columbia. The case remains ongoing.

Fisher’s spouse and his former partner led the New Orleans real estate development deal that involved McCrary and jointly owned LLCs; when the partnership soured, Fisher was held legally liable for her spouse’s fallout and consequences. Fisher received a 2008 Baltimore, Maryland $33.3-million default judgment levied against her, later overturned on appeal, however court documents reflect another seven-figure default decree in favor of McCrary soon looms against Fisher, pending from a recent judicial opinion to uphold default judgments.

“Banks and bankers don’t necessarily mean to cause harm, but they can cause a lot of harm,” Fisher said, referring to banking transactions, which she claims triggered her ultimate financial freefall. Fisher believes that her lawsuit will have long-term ramifications on overhauling banking industry standards. She says her saga embodies the definitive cautionary tale of how spouses, children, parents, shareholders or LLC members can become unwittingly mired in scorched-earth litigation, due to banking procedure oversight and errors, and lack of proper due diligence.

In delivering BofA news they hoped not to hear — and overriding BofA arguments that Florida’s “Economic Loss Rule” shields financial institutions from responsibility and accountability for losses resulting from negligence — Judge Barkdull denied the bank the opportunity to stop the case and block the author/producer’s next step of discovery.

In losing their Motion to Dismiss the case, Fisher’s claim against BofA remains entrenched in state not federal court jurisdiction. In a separate court action proceeding in the same Palm Beach County courthouse, the “eccentric” and flamboyant author remains ensnared a related foreclosure saga with BofA controlling two mortgages on her Palm Beach home. Like one in every four Florida homeowners, Fisher is battling her home going to the auction block.

Following in the footsteps of ex-New Orleans neighbor Nic Cage, Fisher lost her Bourbon Street French Quarter house to foreclosure auction in late September, all tied into the intricacy of being locked into the domino-effect spiral of losses that BofA actions and irregularities plunged Fisher into, according to Fisher. Over the course of McCrary’s ruinous litigation against Fisher, Fisher has been divested of virtually every asset and personal belonging.

“But I still have my three dogs, cat and two parakeets,” quips Fisher, “and they’re priceless.”

Noted international legal counsel for the entertainment industry, Russell Smith, Esq. and Frank Dehn, Esq. (New York, London, Los Angeles, India) of SmithDehn LLP and their legal assistance firm SDD Global Solutions, will assist Schulz in case preparation, as will Fisher’s longtime attorneys in the McCrary litigation, Richard Winelander, Esq. of Baltimore and Al M. Thompson, Jr., Esq. of New Orleans.

Fisher is a member of the Writers Guild of America (WGA), Directors Guild of America (DGA), Producers Guild of America (PGA), Dramatists Guild of America (DG), Authors Guild (AG), National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (ATAS), Screen Actors Guild (SAG), Actors’ Equity Association (AEA), and other professional guilds and organizations.

DOWNLOAD:  Denial of Motion to Dismiss

For more information on TJ Fisher, please visit:
http://www.tjfisher.com/
http://www.tjfisher.net/

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Glenn Selig
PR firm:  The Publicity Agency
Email: 
Phone: (813) 708-1220

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New website of the national PR firm, The Publicity Agency.

Today the PR firm known for representing newsmakers and high-profile business clients is turning some heads of its own with a revamped website that officially launched today.

“The website is your virtual real estate and it’s vital that it reflects well on what you are as a company,” says Glenn Selig, founder of The Publicity Agency.  “I am very happy with what this site says about the PR firm, its employees and its clients.”

The new website for The Publicity Agency (www.thepublicityagency.com) stands in sharp contrast to its former site which was built in 2007 and underwent a facelift in 2009.

“Though the site was not beautiful, it performed very well from a search engine perspective,” says Glenn Selig, founder of The Publicity Agency, one of the top PR firms in the country.  “I was against tinkering with something that’s wasn’t broken.  But the site was not up to par with what we’ve become as a company. And it was time for a change.”

The PR firm’s new website is designed to be easy to navigate, very clean and streamlined.  It includes a new blog, “The PR Blog,” that feature posts from Selig.  Selig is regularly called by top news outlets to offer PR perspective on big news stories.  There are blog posts on: Rosie O’Donnell and her new talk show on Oprah’s network; CNN and Erin Burnett and Nancy Grace and what she hasn’t learned from her wardrobe malfunction.

To check out the new website from the PR firm The Publicity Agency, please visit www.thepublicityagency.com.

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Congregation Kol Ami, the conservative synagogue in North Tampa, announced a partnership today to send care packages and tokens of support to at least 11 U.S. soldiers serving oversees in Afghanistan or Iraq.

On Sunday, November 6, the Congregation will prepare care the packages, children will write letters, decorate shoe boxes, draw pictures and make crafts at the synagogue social hall.

By partnering with the Florida Chapter of the AT&T Veteran Organization’s “Project Adopt a Soldier,” upon Kol Ami’s request AT&T provided a list of several soldiers who are currently deployed in combat areas and is reimbursing shipping for care packages to each of the adopted soldiers.

The Kol Ami congregants are raising money to send the rest.

“When my family visits Israel there seems to be uniformed soldiers everywhere,” says Yoav Rappaport, chair of the Social Action Committee for Kol Ami (www.kolami.org). “In Tampa, you may not see a uniformed soldier for several weeks or perhaps only when you visit businesses close to MacDill.”

But he says many congregants have family in the military or know of those who are serving.

That’s why, he says, the Congregation wanted to reach out to soldiers to let them know that the Kol Ami community is thinking about them and appreciate what they are doing to protect our freedom.

He says regardless of what congregants think of the wars, they support the soldiers who are putting their lives on the line.

The synagogue is looking for individual or business sponsors to support the community effort. Each box runs about $18 to pack with goods and to ship overseas.

The Kol Ami adopted soldiers include: Sgt. Denise King, Pfc. Bret Terry, Spc. Jacob Sharp, Pfc. Francisco Meza, Sgt. Robert Carter, Pfc. Justin Salerno, Pfc. James Hampton, Sgt. Aaron Deboer, Spc. Peter Reilly, Pfc. Jeremy Artis and Staff Sgt. Joel Mercado.

The Congregation is asking for names of other deployed soldiers to support in the effort, please phone (813) 962-6338.

ABOUT KOL AMI
Congregation Kol Ami is an egalitarian Conservative congregation that is highly participatory and energetic. Emphasis is placed on education, fostering Jewish values and ideals, and encouraging our congregants to grow Jewishly. Our mission is to advance and promote the ideals, values, and practices of Conservative Judaism. Congregation Kol Ami is a unique and wonderful synagogue. One reason that we are special is because of dedicated, caring, involved, and skilled volunteers who participate in synagogue life at all levels. As individuals and as a congregation, we are on a ladder, trying to move upward one step at a time.

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Yoav Rappaport, SAC Chair
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Website: www.kolami.org

"A different side of her definitely emerged once she left “The Rosie O'Donnell Show” where she was known for gushing about Tom Cruise or some other Hollywood celebrity," says crisis PR expert Glenn Selig.

Rosie O’Donnell’s new show begins today on OWN, the Oprah Winfrey Network. In the weeks leading up to it, she did what she should’ve done: try to soften her image; try to remind people what she used to be like on her former syndicated talk show when they really liked her–when she was not the angry woman that some have come to know her as in recent years, says a leading public relations expert and image consultant.

Take a look at the Rosie O’Donnell promotional video on the OWN webpage for ‘The Rosie Show.’

“A different side of her definitely emerged once she left ‘The Rosie O’Donnell Show’ where she was known for gushing about Tom Cruise or some other Hollywood celebrity,” says Glenn Selig, founder of the PR firm The Publicity Agency.

She then joined ABC’s ‘The View’ where she vehemently opined and sparred with co-host Elisabeth Hasselbeck. Overnight she went from queen of nice to queen of mean.

“You know, I think I had a lot more rage than I was aware of,” O’Donnell says in this month’s issue of ‘O, The Oprah Magazine.’ “But I’ve gotten back access to my other feelings. I’m not cut off from my emotions anymore … The rage has gone away … There’s been a healing.”

“In order for her show to succeed, and for her to be fully embraced by the culture that is Oprah and her fans, she can’t come off as, well, mean,” says Selig.

She can’t deny that she was mean, because she sought the spotlight and projected meanness.

“So now she’s doing the next best thing. She’s taking OWNership of her missteps, recognizing her failings and saying that this is not who she is now. She is suggesting that she has evolved as a person,” says Selig.

Rosie O’Donnell’s image makeover

“Honestly, I believe that’s a good message for her. I think many people goes through various stages in their lives. Of course most of us don’t go through it as a celebrity with the whole world watching.

“When she walked away from her show, she left on top. Her show was doing well and the public adored her. I think people want to see her succeed and want to see her the way they like her,” says Selig.

So as the Rosie O’Donnell show begins on OWN, the public, says Selig, is there in her corner.

“Good for her for taking the time to concentrate on public relations. She needed to,” says Selig.

“Quite frankly, I believe Rosie O’Donnell is capable of being nice… and mean. And that makes her human. Which is like the rest of us. And for Rosie that works; she’s always tried to come across as an ordinary woman in extraordinary situations.

“Bottom line: She’s real. Sometimes mean, sometimes nice. Just like most of the world.”

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Alexander hired The Publicity Agency to promote Black Diamond French Truffles Inc., and Susan Rice Truffle Products to include her line of American European blended truffle products. The Black Diamond French Truffle Orchard itself is the largest in the United States and the second largest truffle orchard in the world.

“Susan Rice Alexander has worked with master chefs all over the world,” says the founder of The Publicity Agency (www.thepublicityagency.com), Glenn Selig. “We’re thrilled to be working with her and her orchard and innovative product line.  While foodies use the products here and overseas our aim is to introduce the world to the woman behind the truffle movement in America.”

Truffles are one of the most sought after ingredients in European gourmet cooking. Before launching her line in America, Alexander spent countless hours studying the world famous truffle regions of Spain, Italy and France and developing her orchard with experts and universities.

She is introducing the delicious, mystical world of black diamond truffles to households and chefs across America. Alexander is creating her truffle products and incorporating truffles to dance on the palate with her truffle oils, truffle salt and truffle popcorn, also sold overseas.

Susan has been featured in USA Today, Fox Business, AP Associated Press, New York Times, Chef Nick Stellino Cookbooks and restaurant menus, radio and overseas’ publications.

Please visit Susan’s website at www.susanricetruffles.com.

The PR firm, The Publicity Agency (www.thepublicityagency.com) may be reached at (813) 708-1220 or via email at .

About The Publicity Agency: The Publicity Agency is a full-service public relations firmspecializing in traditional news publicity, PR crisis managementand online publicity through Search Engine Optimization (SEO). The agency is frequently called by print and broadcast news outlets to offer perspective and expert opinions on stories and events in the news.

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Melissa Rogovin
PR Firm: The Publicity Agency
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Website: www.thepublicityagency.com

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Greg and Zhanna Dawson will present the story on Saturday, November 5, 2011, at the University of South Florida’s (USF) School of Music Barness Recital Hall, 3755 N. Holly Dr., on the USF Tampa campus, at 7:30 p.m.

Miriam Hinds and Marlin Jacobson from Hillel Academy, a Tampa private school, will assist in the telling of Zhanna’s story.

A book signing and a dessert reception with the Dawsons will follow the presentation.

This event is open to the entire Tampa Bay community.  An optional $5 donation will be taken at the door.

Greg Dawson is a career journalist who has worked for newspapers in Boston and Indianapolis, and is currently at the Orlando Sentinel.  Hiding in the Spotlight, about his mother’s odyssey from Jewish persecution to Holocaust survivor, has resulted in wide acclaim for this, Dawson’s first book.  It has been translated into three languages, and is the subject of numerous documentaries, two of which will premiere this year.

The 2011 Jewish Book Festival, hosted by the Tampa Jewish Community Center(JCC), will feature nine prominent authors over 12 days, beginning with Dawson on November 5, and including:  Thanassis Cambanis, a prize-winning author whose book addresses Hezbollah’s ability to create martyrs out of everyday people; Alicia Oltuski’s book about growing up in the diamond industry; Ted Gup’s story about his Jewish grandfather’s role as “secret Santa” during the depression;  well-known novelist, Pam Jenoff; scholar Jay Michaelson on the religious case for homosexuality; children’s author Laurel Snyder; local author Elaine Shimberg’s memoir about growing up Jewish in a small town; and  best-selling author Dan Senor.

The JCC and Hillel Academy are both agencies of the Tampa Jewish Federation so the school is a natural participant in this community event.  Promoting literacy and preserving the memory of the Holocaust are both prime elements of the school’s values.  “To have two of our students be a part of this important event highlights our commitment to  being a partner in bringing quality programs to the Tampa Bay area,” says Amy Wasser, head of the Tampa private school.

Marlin is a current 7th grader and Miriam is in 2nd grade at the Tampa private school. Both are from families with strong associations both at the school and in the broader community.

JCC Arts & Cultural Director, Brandy Gold, notes that “our Book Festival line-up is full of remarkable stories of extraordinary people.  It doesn’t matter if you are Jewish or not or if you read or want to read the book; you only need come to our events and hear these life-changing stories.”

For more information about the 2011 Jewish Book Festival or the Greg Dawson event which is being sponsored by the USF Music School, the Clarion Society and the Jewish Community Center, please contact Brandy Gold at the Jewish Community Center at 813-869-4725 or .

For more information about Hillel Academy, please visit www.hillelacademytampa.com.

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“Even in challenging economic times, we all need to find a way to give back and encourage today’s youth to pay it forward,” says Ahanotu. “It’s time to focus on our entire community by supporting local businesses and being an example for the future.”

Priced so anyone can attend, just a $5 donation per person is requested. Attendees will enjoy the evening with all proceeds benefiting the Jason Ackerman Foundation. The Foundation provides annual scholarships to youth who have survived tragedy, thrived despite of it and have a plan in place on how they will ‘pay it forward’ in their communities.

The evening will feature tasty foods provided by Texas Cattle Company, exclusive beverages compliments of Bacardi 8 and Skyy, cards, flat screen TVs compliments of Verizon FiOS, celebrity attendees, apparel by Black & Denim, music all night and of course, some of the best cigar selections in Tampa Bay.

WHAT:
Grand Opening Bask at Cigars of SoHo benefiting the Jason Ackerman Foundation
$5 per person donation at entry

WHEN:
Friday, October 7, 2011 - 9 p.m. to 3 a.m.

WHERE:
Cigars of SoHo
212 S. Armenia Avenue
Tampa, FL 33609
Valet parking will be available.

Chidi Ahanotu is available for interview regarding the event with a timely sports twist.

About Cigars of SoHo: Also known as SoHo Cigars is the only upscale cigar lounge in South Tampa to enjoy a cigar after dinner. No other lounge in South Tampa is open after dinner hours. Our focus is servicing customers with friendly staff, complimentary drinks and tasty chocolates. Our intimate ambiance completes your cigar smoking experience. Soothing sounds, Flat screen TVs and curtained private rooms give cigar lovers a unique experience.
For more information: www.sohocigars.orgor call (813) 769-9151

About the Jason Ackerman Foundation: The Jason Ackerman Foundation is a 501 (c) 3 organization focusing on improving the lives of children who have faced and survived tragic circumstances through educational support and entertaining experiences.
For more information: www.jasonackermanfoundation.orgor find us www.facebook.com/JasonAckermanFoundation

MEDIA CONTACT:
Shannon Hannon Oliviero

(727) 243-9825
(813) 91-JASON

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With the world critical of his statements comparing President Obama to Adolf Hitler, Hank Williams, Jr. took to Facebook to apologize.  But does it go far enough?

“I have always been very passionate about politics and sports and this time it got the best or worst of me,” writes Williams.  “The thought of the leaders of both parties jokin’ and high fiven on a golf course while so many families are struggling to get by simply made me boil over and make a dumb statement and I am very sorry if it offended anyone.  I would like to thank all my supporters.  This was not written by some publicist.”

The original posting has grammatical and spelling errors.

“To apologize for such egregious remarks on Facebook, with a message that has multiple grammatical and spelling errors shows he just doesn’t get it,” says Glenn Selig (Twitter: @GlennSelig), a crisis management PR expert and founder of the PR firm The Publicity Agency.  “ESPN clearly left open the door that if he handled the apology well his association with ESPN might not be gone for good.  Unfortunately for him, I don’t think that ESPN will believe that he’s handled this well.”

On Monday, ESPN said that due to the remarks Hank Williams, Jr. made on Fox Newschannel, that his song that has been a mainstay of Monday Night Football for years and would have preceded the game between the Buccaneers and the Colts, would be cut “tonight.”

Selig believes the wording of the statement was very deliberate.

“I’m not sure how many more chances he has to get this right.  It was a boneheaded remark that he never should have said. I think he needs to reflect the fact that he understands the gravity of the situation.  And so far I’m very sorry to say that he hasn’t done that.”

For more information about the PR firm The Publicity Agency, please www.thepublicityagency.com.

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CCAI’s Angels in Adoption™ program raises Congressional awareness about the thousands of foster children in the U.S. and the millions of children around the world in need of permanent, loving homes. The Angels in Adoption™ gala provides an opportunity for Members of Congress to commend their outstanding constituents who have enriched the lives of children through their advocacy of adoption and foster care issues.

“Childhelp was a natural fit for the Angels in Adoption™ award because of their efforts to promote the holistic welfare of neglected and abused children in their care,” said Rep. Cardoza. “From therapy to therapeutic foster homes and residential treatment facilities – they provide the love and hope our children need to break the cycle of violence.”

Currently, there are over 100,000 children in California’s foster care system. For 20 years, Childhelp’s Foster Family and Adoption Agency ofCalifornia has provided both foster care and adoption services to these youth and families, including adoptions with relatives and assisting with adoptive homes when birth parents choose to relinquish newborn children. Through their efforts over the past 53 years – Childhelp has positively impacted the lives of more than 5 million children.

About Childhelp^®: CEO and Co-Founder Sara O’Meara and President and Co-Founder Yvonne Fedderson started Childhelp in 1959, establishing it as a leading national non-profit organization dedicated to helping victims of child abuse and neglect and at-risk children. Childhelp’s approach focuses on advocacy, prevention, treatment and community outreach.

The Childhelp National Child Abuse Hotline, 1-800-4-A-CHILD^®, operates 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and receives calls from throughout the United States, Canada, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico and Guam. Childhelp’s programs and services also include residential treatment services; children’s advocacy centers; therapeutic foster care; group homes and child abuse prevention, education and training. Childhelp also created the National Day of Hope^®, held each April during National Child Abuse Prevention Month that mobilizes people across America to join the fight against child abuse.

For more information about Childhelp, please call (480) 922-8212 or visit www.childhelp.org.

Media Contact
Ashleigh Allen
Gordon C. James Public Relations
Office: (602) 274-1988
Mobile: (602) 228-8145

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Park Lane has been spotted in the first two episodes. Contestant Chynna Phillips kicked off her dancing debut wearing Park Lane’s “Spoil Me” ring on the show’s premiere, while J.R. Martinez complimented his jive with Park Lane’s “Fame” necklace. With more than 32,000 representatives across the country, Park Laners are tuning in to see more Park Lane Jewelry sparkling on the dance floor.

ABC’s Dancing With the Stars airs Monday’s and Tuesday’s at 8 p.m. EST.

About Park Lane Jewelry: For over 55 years Park Lane Jewelry has empowered people to discover their potential and realize their dreams.  Founded in 1955 by Shirley and Arthur LeVin, Park Lane today remains a family-owned and operated company. Guided by the philosophy and values of the past and inspired by the promise of the future, the LeVin brothers Scott, Mark and Arthur III, are committed to offering the finest in fashion jewelryand the best opportunity available in the direct sales industry.

About ‘Dancing With the Stars’: ‘Dancing With the Stars’ is a reality show on ABC. The show is a competition which pairs a professional dancer with a celebrity. Each duo performs selected dances for an audience and panel of judges. The contestant with the lowest combined total of the judge’s score and audience vote is eliminated.

MEDIA CONTACT

Tara LeVin
Director Public Relations & Marketing
Park Lane Jewelry
100 E. Commerce Dr.
Schaumburg, IL 60173
(847) 884-6598
[email protected]
www.parklanejewelry.com

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Hank Williams, Jr. comments on Fox Newschannel causes PR trouble for the country singer and his gig with ESPN's Monday Night Football.

After hearing comments from Hank Williams, Jr. on Fox News comparing President Obama to Adolf Hitler, ESPN dropped the traditional Monday Night Football opening song last night. You know the one: It is sung by Williams and would have played before the start of the Buccaneers and Indianapolis game.

The nation was ready for some football, minus Hank Williams, Jr., according to ESPN.

“Hank Williams, Jr. can’t get away with saying the president is anything like Hitler. That’s so outrageous, it’s beyond outrageous,” says crisis management PR expert Glenn Selig (Twitter: @GlennSelig) and founder of the PR firm The Publicity Agency.  “He sounds so, well, dumb, saying it. It’s just ludicrous.”

Hank Williams, Jr. tried to undo some of the Hitler comment damage he caused after he made a statement to Fox News. He later said the analogy was “inappropriate.”

But that wasn’t enough to undo the damage.  ESPN went ahead and cut Hank Williams, Jr. from Monday Night Football.

The singer was live remote in Nashville, Tenn. talking to Steve Doocy, Gretchen Carlson and Brian Kilmeade to talk politics.

Hank Williams comments

On the program, Hank Williams, Jr. criticized U.S. Speaker of the House John Boehner, the high ranking Republican, for playing golf with President Obama, and said it was “one of the biggest political mistakes ever.”

But this is where he got into trouble. Williams went on to say: “It’s like Hitler playing golf with [Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu.”

He then describes Obama as “the enemy.”

Carlson asks for clarification: “You used the name of one of the most hated people in all the world to describe, I think, the president.”

Williams stands his ground: “That’s true. But I’m telling you like it is.”

“Even in politics, there’s playing fair and playing dirty. And there’s playing dumb. There is a line believe it or not. And Williams crossed it,” says Selig.

“His statements are so out there, he should be ashamed of himself for having even said it on TV. This conversation might be perfectly suited for a bar near Fox News studios in New York. Or in Nashville. But not TV! This is beyond gallows humor. He should have the common sense to edit himself to not say such incredible things publicly. If he can’t help it, then his PR people should decline every opportunity like this.”

Does Hank Williams, Jr. literally mean that Obama is like Hitler?

“I simply cannot believe that he honestly believes that. He was trying to be outrageous and funny.  But he was neither.  The comments are disrespectful and wholly inappropriate. Plus I don’t even believe that Hank Williams, Jr. honestly believes that Obama is anything like Hitler,” says Selig.

“If there were ever a time for an apology this is it. He should simply make a full apology. He can explain that he does not like the president’s policies and does not care for him as a person, but upon reflection, he should never have made such statement. He does not believe that and he went way overboard and if he offended anyone, including the president, people who were murdered by Hitler, then he is sorry.”

Selig has this advice to Hank Williams, Jr.

“Stick to singing. Stay out of politics. And make a huge heart-felt apology fast!”

For more information about PR firm The Publicity Agency, please visit www.thepublicityagency.com.

Direct Link:  https://prnewschannel.com/2011/10/04/pr-trouble-for-hank-williams-jr-after-his-comments-compare-president-obama-to-hitler/

SOURCE:  The Publicity Agency

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UFASA donated high-quality water purification technology, low cost and environmentally safe heating technology for meals and energy storage and renewable energy distribution systems. The goal is to provide better sustainable energy products and services for the New Life Children’s Home orphanage in Port-au-Prince.

Part of the funding for these improvements at the orphanage was provided by the state of Florida Governor’s Office of Tourism, Trade & Economic Development (OTTED).The funds provided by OTTED, UFASA and organization supporters have far exceeded the amount they originally asked for. UFASA members are excited that their contribution will help the orphanage and the surrounding community. The water purification technology includes a hand pump from GenPro Energy Solutions and Net Zero Now LLC, which can produce 750 gallons of clean, high quality water a day. The pump is a significant breakthrough to aid in water purification and emergency disaster relief.

“We are glad to offer this unique solution toUFASA and their work in Haiti,” says Dwight Patterson with GenPro Energy Solutions. “Developed by proven inventors in the water purification industry, this new eight stage purification process hand pump has been tested in laboratory’s to effectively remove 99.9999% of bacteria in traditionally contaminated water sources without using a fossil fuel energy to produce the clean water.”

President of the UFASA board of directors Anthony Cannon agrees saying, “Haiti has been plagued by multiple natural disasters in recent years. UFASA and our partners are using donations to show that alternative technologies made in America can stimulate economic growth here at home while helping solve many of the issues plaguing Haiti. This can also lead to more jobs for the locals.”

UFASA executive director Adam Schlachter appreciates the multiple companies that contributed to the orphanage project, “We know it can make a huge difference to the people. We were glad to provide additional items such as an organic fertilizer alternative and Utility Flame, an eco-friendly substance that creates a flameless heat.” Since conditions are so rugged in Haiti, Utility Flame can help solve or reduce uncontained fires that have burned several homes and tents in the past.

UFASA’s donation also included Sea-Crop organic fertilizer and Perma Frost refrigerant. The companies involved serve as examples of what American businesses and technology can offer the world during economic recovery.

Miriam Frederick with New Life Children’s Home told UFASA, “We are so grateful for what you all are doing for New Life Children’s Home and the impact it will have on the future of our children. This is also your children’s home as they love you and the personal time you spent with them they will always remember until you return.”

About United for a Sustainable America:
UFASA is a non-profit sustainability education organization dedicated to promoting American-made goods in the sustainability sector. The organization has produced many green business summits and continues to produce throughout the country and internationally. These unique events bring together a collaboration of business and community leaders while promoting products and discussing the best solutions for a more sustainable future in regards to water, waste, and energy. UFASA encourages national sustainability leadership and helps businesses to, “make the business case for sustainability” as well as supporting a future of Net Zero community’s for both our national security interests but also the reduction of environmental impacts from living net zero.

RELATED LINKS
United for a Sustainable America: http://ufasa.org
New Life Children’s Home: http://www.newlife4kids.com
GenPro Energy Solutions: http://genproenergy.com
Net Zero Now: http://www.netzeronow.com
Utility Flame: http://utilityflame.com/

MEDIA CONTACT
Adam Schlachter
Executive Director, United for a Sustainable America
Phone: 813-416-7127
Fax: 813-464-7779
Email:
www.ufasa.org
http://twitter.com/AdamDSchlachter

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The program, Right on the Money, currently airs on WOKI NewsTalk 98.7 Saturdays from 2 p.m. to 3 p.m. Wieniewitz Financial president and founder Trae Wieniewitz co-hosts the show with Roger McGee, a general manager with United Capital Lending and a 15-year veteran of the mortgage industry.

The show focuses on financial facts and current events that help listeners create a personal “financial stimulus package.” The goal is to sift through financial information to discover how it affects the listeners and, more importantly, their families.  Topics vary from taxes and interest rates to reverse mortgages and other newsworthy financial topics.

Wieniewitz Financial has also found themselves in the evening news’ spotlight lately. Knoxville’s NBC affiliate WBIR, has featured Wieniewitz Financial on multiple broadcasts. Most recently, the firm has been recognized for offering assistance to retirees looking for safer investments in this crazy stock market.

With a growing number of baby boomers approaching or currently at retirement age, many are looking for ways to recover the moneylost due to the recent instability of the stock markets. Wieniewitz claims that the problem is time; there just isn’t enough to rely on the markets as a primary investment source.

Wieniewitz’s advice to retirees is to explore a fixed index annuity contract for a portion of their portfolio. Even though it does not offer a 100 percent of the stock market’s return, it offers protection when the stock market goes down.  He also advises evaluating the fees on investments, stating many new people he meets are overpaying. Focusing on efficiency allows investors to potentially take less risk to achieve the same net return.

With interest rates at 30-year lows, Wieniewitz acknowledges that earning returns on savings is difficult for retirees. That is why he advises also to look at items like insurance premiums that can add up quicker than it may seem.

About Wieniewitz Financial: Wieniewitz Financial, a financial services company, focuses on strategies to grow your retirement dollars while taking less risk. Their home office is located in Knoxville, Tennessee. Trae Wieniewitz is licensed and also has clients in over five other states.

MEDIA CONTACT
Trae Wieniewitz
(865) 691-2433
www.traew.com

Securities offered through Taylor Capital Management, Inc.
Members FINRA/SIPC | 800-924-9322

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In salute to the Tampa Bay Rays and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers for bringing positive publicity to the region, the PR firm The Publicity Agency (www.thepublicityagency.com) announced today that it will offer employees the option of coming in an hour later on Tuesday to encourage community pride.

“Work should not trump community involvement and excitement.  Having the Tampa Bay Rays and the Buccaneers showcased nationally is big from a public relations perspective because it sends the message that in Tampa we’re winners and we’re smiling,” says Glenn Selig, founder of the PR firm The Publicity Agency.  “That positive vibe resonates and exudes optimism which is always good and particularly important when the economy is where it is.  And that should be celebrated.”

(Follow Glenn Selig on Twitter: @GlennSelig)

This evening at 5:07 p.m. ET, the Rays take on the Texas Rangers in Game 3 of the American League Division Series. The game will be broadcasted nationally on TBS.

At 8:30 p.m. ET, ESPN will feature the Bucs and the Indianapolis Colts on their nationally televised Monday Night Football broadcast.

Both games are sold out.

“In most ways, this will be one of the most exciting nights in the sporting history of Tampa Bay. Certainly, it will be the most watched,” writes Gary Shelton, the St. Petersburg Times Sports Columnist in today’s paper.  “All together, roughly 15 million will view tonight’s games.”

As a business story, that’s a lot of eyeballs that will be introduced to Tampa.

“Maybe some of those people will start thinking of Tampa differently than they have in the past.  Perhaps as a place they may want to live or they may want to conduct or relocate their business,” says Selig.

The headline in the Tampa Tribune says it all:  ‘Rays, Bucs put Tampa Bay in national spotlight.’

“It has to be one of the all-time nights ever for the fans of Tampa Bay,” Bucs running back Earnest Graham told the Tribune. “So much revolves around the respect given to the sports teams, so I think the fans will see it as our time to really shine.”

Selig believes winning would be great for multiple reasons for both the Rays and the Bucs.  But from a PR perspective, simply playing well can translate into a win from a business perspective.

“It about the drive to win and the winning spirit and clearly that’s will be a big part of tonight,” says Selig.  “Tonight both teams will bring positive publicity to the region and that’s fantastic and must be celebrated.”

For more information about the PR firm, The Publicity Agency, please visit www.thepublicityagency.com or phone (813) 948-7767.

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www.thepublicityagency.com

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ArkNet Media’slatest business endeavor, Wedding Thank You Writer, offers a team of dedicated writers to handwrite thank you notes to each wedding guest. Their staff includes men and women who have exceptional penmanship who provide recipients with a note customized according to the happy couple’s desires. Pricing begins at $2.50 per card with additional options to include stamps and even the entire mailing process.

The customizations that this new wedding solutions provider offers are seemingly limitless. Clients have the option of drafting a generic response or can include a list of gifts to coincide with each guest. Couples can also provide special notations for friends, family members, co-workers or any other certain individuals. Other customization options include print or cursive writing, the ability to sign your own name at the bottom and the ability to send a return gift as a sign of appreciation.

At www.WeddingThankYouWriter.com, newlyweds can begin the process of ordering their handwritten thank you notes. A sample card will be sent to the couple, allowing for further customization and avoiding the possibility of a potentially unsatisfied client. After the client is satisfied, the writers dedicate themselves to the entirety of the list in less than two weeks.

Ryan Alovis, president of ArkNet Media, came up with the idea after speaking with many newlyweds who said writing thank you cards is one of the most stressful aspects of getting married.

“Many couples told me thank you notes are one of those things that get pushed to the side. I have personally received a card months after the wedding. The bottom line is that people pay for their clothing to be washed, for their dinner to be prepared and for the oil in their car to be changed. Why wouldn’t people want to pay for this service as well?” Alovis says.

Alovis founded ArkNet Media in 2005, and was voted to the Long Island Business News’ 40 under 40 list in 2010. Alovis has used his success as an avenue to give back to his community, founding Silver Lining Society, an organization that raises money and awareness for pediatric cancer. Since its inception in 2006, the organization has raised more than $250,000.

About ArkNet Media: ArkNet Media, headquartered in Valley Stream, N.Y., was launched in 2005 as an interactive agency that owns and operates a series of successful online companies. Since then, the company has become a well respected and fast growing business with successful eCommerce and service sites under its sphere of influence.  These sites include MagazineDiscountCenter.com, LensDirect.com and NewAlarms.com. Along with providing premier service for its clients, ArkNet Media is dedicated to charitable gifts, partnering with Silver Lining Society in an attempt to raise money for pediatric cancer.

MEDIA CONTACT
Donna Venturo
Director of Affiliate Marketing
Phone: (800) 898-5367
Fax: (516) 561-9499

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The Wisconsin-based company recently announced that its newest polyurethane foam product, RR401g, is capable of setting up, lifting concrete and maintaining its compressive strength when pumped under slabs in the presence of water.

“The three to four pound hydrophobic, hydro-insensitive foam is a two-component polyurethane foam product that works best in conjunction with HMI equipment,” said Brian Cvetezar, vice president of HMI.

RR401g is the latest HMI innovation in perfecting specialized foam for residential, commercial and DOT contractors who lift and level concrete slabs, says Cvetezar.

Along with the announcement of the latest RR401g product, HMI is also planning on holding several training seminars this fall.

Held for two days at HMI’s headquarters in Manitowoc, Wis., the seminars will train attendees how to properly handle HMI equipment, as well as on concrete-lifting foams including the latest RR401g. The training opportunity will also cover the basics of raising concrete, estimate jobs and basic business operations.

The seminars will be held on Oct. 13-14 and Nov. 17-18.

For more information about HMI, RR401g or their training seminars this fall, visit http://www.HMIfoams.com or call 1-800-626-2464.

MEDIA CONTACT
Jen Mazur
HMI

(800) 626-2464

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Park Lane participated in the VIP pre and post luncheon cocktail reception that included a “Philanthropy Bazaar” which allowed guest and celebrities to interact with the featured charities and brand sponsors. Park Lane showcased and gifted guests with their jewelry to show their support of the Power of Women message.

The event is intended to celebrate the charitable work of women today. The event featured recognition of the Lifetime Impact Honorees, Annette Bening for The Actors Fund, Mary J. Blige for FFAWN, Eva Longoria for Eva’s Heroes, Lea Michele for PETA, Stacey Snider for City Year and Olivia Wilde for Artists for Peace and Justice.

Park Lane is also featured in the September 23rd issue of Variety Magazine.

About Jewels by Park Lane: Jewels by Park Lane is a family-owned direct sales companyfeaturing high-quality fashion jewelry which is sold via home parties. Jewels by Park Lane was founded in Chicago in 1955 by Arthur and Shirley LeVin and is currently owned and operated by Scott LeVin, Mark LeVin and Arthur Levin III, the second generation of LeVin family. While known for the unconditional guarantee on its products and for its no product buy-in program, Park Lane also offers generous rewards to its sales consultants, party hostesses, and customers. One of the most admired and trusted direct sales companies in the industry; Park Lane currently has independent sales consultants in every state in the country.

MEDIA CONTACT
Tara LeVin
Sales & Marketing Manager, Park Lane Jewelry
100 E. Commerce Dr.
Schaumburg, IL 60173
(800) 621.0088

www.parklanejewelry.com

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The Costa Rica trip is one of the many promotions and incentives that Park Lane offers its representatives.  The next travel trip will be to Venice, Italy in March of 2012.

About Jewels by Park Lane- Jewels by Park Lane is a family-owned direct sales company featuring high-quality fashion jewelry which is sold via home parties. Jewels by Park Lane was founded in Chicago in 1955 by Arthur and Shirley LeVin and is currently owned and operated by Scott LeVin, Mark LeVin and Arthur Levin III, the second generation of LeVin family. While known for the unconditional guarantee on its products and for its no product buy-in program, Park Lane also offers generous rewards to its sales consultants, party hostesses, and customers. One of the most admired and trusted direct sales companies in the industry; Park Lane currently has independent sales consultants in every state in the country.

MEDIA CONTACT
Tara LeVin
Sales & Marketing Manager, Park Lane Jewelry
100 E. Commerce Dr.
Schaumburg, IL 60173
(800) 621.0088
www.parklanejewelry.com

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The evenings will include up to five wine stations, food provided by area restaurants, free live music on four stages and of course, some of the best shopping in the area.

For just a $10 donation, each person will receive a souvenir glass for wine sampling with all proceeds from the Wiregrass Wine Walk benefiting the Jason Ackerman Foundation. The Foundation provides  annual scholarships to youth who have survived tragedy, thrived despite of it and have a plan in place on how they will ‘pay it forward’ in their communities.
(All Wiregrass Wine Walk participants must also be 21 or older and show a valid form of ID.)

For more information and directions, visit www.theshopsatwiregrass.comor call Guest Services at (813) 994-2242

WHERE    The Shops At Wiregrass        WHEN: Every Thursday in October of 2011
28211 Paseo Drive                                      From:  6 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
Wesley Chapel, FL  33543                       Tickets available in Center Court

About the Jason Ackerman Foundation: The Jason Ackerman Foundation is a 501 (c) 3 organization focusing on improving the lives of children who have faced and survived tragic circumstances through educational support and entertaining experiences.
For more information: www.jasonackermanfoundation.orgor find us www.facebook.com/JasonAckermanFoundation

About the Shops at Wiregrass: The Shops at Wiregrass, a FCE property, is located at State Road 56 and Bruce B. Downs Blvd, is a unique, pedestrian and pet friendly lifestyle village offering residents and visitors exceptional options in shopping, dining and entertainment in an environment that invites lingering, relaxing and socializing.  The center offers approximately 100 retail establishments with convenient access to services for area residents.  Forest City Enterprises, Inc. is an NYSE listed national real estate company with $11.8 billion in total assets.  The Company is principally engaged in the ownership, development, management and acquisition of commercial and residential real estate and land throughout the United States.  For more information visit, www.forestcity.net.

MEDIA CONTACT:
Shannon Hannon Oliviero
The Jason Ackerman Foundation

(727) 243-9825
(813) 91-JASON

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The Annual GOVTek Awards honors Government and Industry leaders and their contributions to the IT community, their country and the ever-evolving cyber world around us.

“This evening celebration commemorates the accomplishments of the nominees and award winners in their areas of expertise for solving the challenges facing the Government IT community,” said Kelly Yocum, Co-Founder GTRA & CEO GOVTek.

The GOVTek Awards Gala at the Newseum, “Washington D.C.’s most interactive museum” is a black tie gala and will begin with a networking reception, awards ceremony with a full dinner prepared by Wolfgang Puck Catering, and an after party with raffle prizes and games.

GOVTek Awards is calling for nominations in the Government and Industry Award Categories listed. Current Government award categories and nominations include:

Excellence in Government Leadership:

Scott Bernard, Chief Architect, OMB

Michael Boller, Director of the Enterprise Planning & Investment, BTA

Richard Brenner, Assistant Administrator for Technology Transfer, Agricultural Research Service, USDA

Robert Brese, Deputy Chief Information Officer, Energy

Neal Denion, Director, Call Center Operations Group, CMS

Casey Kelley, Director, Enterprise Acquisition Division, GSA

Mary Lewin, Program Manager, Federal Cloud Computing. Initiative, GSA

Lt. General William Lord, Chief of Warfighting Integration and Chief Technology Officer, USAF

Tim Schmidt, Chief Technology Officer, DOT

Wolf Tombe, Chief Technology Officer, CBP

Dennis Wisnosky, Chief Architect, Chief Technical Officer, Business Mission Area, DoD

Michael Wood, Director, Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board

Leadership in State/Local IT Modernization:

Shakir Awan, Project Manager, County of San Joaquin, Information Systems Division (ISD)

Jerry Becker, Information Systems Director, County of San Joaquin, Information Systems Division (ISD)

Deborah Lindell, Chief Information Officer, State of Delaware

Dan Lohrman, Chief Technology Officer (CTO) and Director, Infrastructure Services Administration, State of Michigan

Molly Perry, Director at Criminal Justice Coordinating Council, State of Georgia

Government Innovator of the Year:

Michael Boller, Director of the Enterprise Planning & Investment , BTA

Brett Brunk, Chief Enterprise Architect, GSA

Aneesh Chopra, Assistant to the President and Chief Technology Officer, OMB

Vivek Kundra, Federal Chief Information Officer & Administrator for E-Gov & IT, OMB

Rich Kutter, Sr. Electronics Engineer, DoD

Richard Spires, Chief Information Officer, DHS

Teri Takai, Chief Information Officer, DoD

George Thomas, Technical Architect, HHS

Peter Tseronis, Senior Technical Advisor, Energy

Excellence in Project Management:

Johnny Burton, Chief of Information Technology, BTA

Michael Frenchik, Senior Information Technology Manager, DOT

Roderick Toms, Chief of Security Protection Engineering, FDIC

Paul Tibbits, Deputy Chief Information Officer for Architecture, Strategy and Design, VA

Women in Technology:

Monica Belisle Petring, Management Analyst, BTA

Colleen Coggins, Chief Information Officer, DOT

Doreen Cox, Chief Architect, Director, Enterprise Architecture Branch, Office of Information Technology, CBP

Lien Dinh, Chief Engineer, BTA

Deborah Lafky, Program Officer, HHS

Melissa Naroski, Management Analyst, BTA

Holly Ridgeway, Deputy Chief Information Security Officer, DOJ

Donna Roy, Director, Office of the Chief Information Officer, DHS

Merrelyn Spinks, Information Technology Specialist, Plant Genetic Resources Conservation Unit, USDA

Anna Tarrant, Management Analyst, BTA

Patricia Van Belle, Chief Operations Officer of the Enterprise Planning and Investment Directorate (EP&I), BTA

Excellence in Telework and Workforce Modernization:

Vashon Citizen, External Government Liaison, BTA

Jirka Danek, Chief Technology Officer and Chief Information Security Officer, Government of Canada

Martha Johnson, Acting Administrator of the U.S. General Services Administration, GSA

Rich Kutter, Sr. Electronics Engineer, DoD

Excellence in Transparency:

Michael Boller, Director of the Enterprise Planning & Investment, BTA

Giovanni Carnaroli, Associate Chief Information Officer for Business Technology, DOT

Wolf Tombe, Chief Technology Officer, CBP

Excellence in Social Media:

Michael Boller, Director of the Enterprise Planning & Investment, BTA

Johnny Burton, Chief of Information Technology, BTA

Giovanni Carnaroli, Associate Chief Information Officer for Business Technology, DOT

Caird Rexroad, Director and Research Leader, USDA

Wolf Tombe, Chief Technology Officer, CBP

Jonathan Underly, Program Manager for Enterprise Information Web, BTA

Chris Vein, City CIO and Executive Director, City of San Francisco

Excellence in Cyber Security:

Lt. Col. Gary Bartlet, Chief Information Officer, USAF

Kevin Charest, Program Manager, DHS

Ned Goldberg, Deputy Director/Chief Information Security Officer, FDIC

Rich Kutter, Sr. Electronics Engineer, DoD

Peter Mell, Senior Computer Scientist, NIST

Holly Ridgeway, Deputy Chief Information Security Officer, DOJ

Wolf Tombe, Chief Technology Officer, CBP

Roderick Toms, Chief of Security Protection Engineering, FDIC

Infrastructure Modernization and Cloud Achievement:

Kirit Amin, Chief Information Officer, State

Benjamin Bergersen, Chief Information Officer, Commerce

Daniel Corbin, Program Manager, Global Combat Support System, USMC

Wayne Farmer, Program Manager, Rapid Access Computing Environment, DISA

Ken Griffey, NCCIPS Transition Manager, NASA

Mike Krieger, Deputy Chief Information Officer, USAF

Dave McClure, Associate Administrator, GSA

Wolf Tombe, Chief Technology Officer, CBP

Government Mobile App of the Year:

IRS2GO App (IRS)

MeAnderthal App (Smithsonian)

Most Wanted App (FBI)

MyTSA App (TSA)

Recovery.GOV App (White House)

White House App (White House)

Excellence in OMB’s 25-point Federal IT Management Reform:

Darren Ash, Deputy Executive Director for Corporate Management and Chief Information Officer, NRC

Casey Coleman, Chief Information Officer, GSA

Bernie Mazer, Chief Information Officer, DOI

Ken Moore, Office of the Chief Information Officer, OMB

Nitin Pradhan, Chief Information Officer, DOT

Chris Smith, Chief Information Security Officer, USDA

Enterprise Architect Leader of the Year:

Scott Bernard, Chief Architect, OMB

Colleen Coggins, Chief Information Officer, DOT

Patricia Craighill, Assistant Director, Defense NextGen, JPDO SAF/XC NextGen, USAF

Mary Forbes, Chief Enterprise Architect, HHS

Kshemendra Paul, Program Manager, PM-ISE

Best of GTRA:

Marian Cody, Chief Information Security Officer, HUD

Frank Cipolloni, Director, Enterprise Databases Group, HHS

Chris Garcia, Acting Chief Information Security Officer, FAA

Ira Grossman, Chief Enterprise Architect, FEMA

Pat Howard, Chief Information Security Officer, NRC

Lori Pettebone-Maatta, Director, Division of Enterprise Architecture Program Management, CMS

Ron Ross, Senior Fellow, NIST

Michael Schievelbein, Lead Technologist, FBMS Implementation Office, Interior

Cindy Stowe, GSA FAS/ITS Customer Engagement Lead, GSA

John Sullivan, Enterprise Architecture Advisor, Office of Governmentwide Policy, GSA

John Teeter, Deputy Chief Information Officer, HHS

Rocky Young, Director, Outreach and Communication for Cyber Security, DoD

Industry Award categories and nominations include:

Best Security Solution:

911 Enable

ArchSmart

ArcSight ESM

Authernative

Bit9

Corero Network Security

Cyber Security Strategies

Dumbala

Fortinet

Google

LexisNexis

Lightweight PortableSecurity (LPS)

Lunarline

NESSUS

Q1 Labs

RSA NetWitness

Science Applications International Corporation

SonicWALL

Stonesoft

Women in Technology:

Andrea Cummings, Director, Federal Channels, Fortinet

Mary Alice Donceel, Database Administrator Senior Advisor, National Government Services, Inc

Linda Harris, Sr. Vice President, SGIS

Sonya Jain, President, eGlobalTech

Julie Mehan, Vice President of Cyber Security, Lunarline

Debra Ruh, CEO, TecAccess

Kay Sears, President, Intelsat General

Brooke Stevenson, President and CEO, Spry

Jaci Vilardo, VP Federal Sales, RSA NetWitness

Top Solution Providers to Watch for 2012:

911 Enable

Air Force Research Laboratory

AT&T

Bit9

Dell

Enlightened, Inc

Fireeye

Fortinet

Google

HP

Lightweight Portable Security (LPS)

Microsoft

Qwest

Revelytix

RSA

Science Applications International Corporation

SGIS

SNORT

Stonesoft

TecAccess

Troux Technologies

Winvale

Best Transparency Solution:

Science Applications International Corporation

Troux Technologies

Excellence in Government Service:

eGlobalTech

Science Applications International Corporation

SGIS

Best Green IT and Sustainability:

BOSS

Zyrion

Best Cloud Solution:

Apptis

AT&T

Confident Governance

Lightweight Portable Security (LPS)

Best Mobile Solution:

Authernative

ExteNet Systems

Fiberlink

Fortress

About GTRA: GTRA brings together executive-level government technology Security; Enterprise Architecture; Green IT and Health IT leaders to collaborate; strategize and create innovative solutions.  The semi-annual GTRA Technology Council Meeting address the topics identified through research with the government Council members and industry experts. By sharing best practices and lessons learned; knowledge is exchanged in a peer-to-peer forum; resulting in actionable government-wide strategic plans and cutting-edge solutions.  Through a unique collaborative methodology; GTRA is revolutionizing the way government does business.

MEDIA CONTACT
Kerri Tompkins
Government Technology Research Alliance (GTRA)

Office: (312) 253-4100
Mobile: (202) 660-2448

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Richard Gonzmart, fourth generation family member and president of the Columbia Restaurant Group, created the “Dining for Life” promotion to raise awareness for adolescent and young adult (AYA) osteosarcoma cancer, to help Moffitt find a cure, and to give hope to those fighting cancer.

• Osteosarcoma is the second most common cancer in children.
• More than half the number of osteosarcoma diagnoses in the U.S. are in children.

During the “Dining for Life” campaign, Columbia’s customers can donate any amount they wish in addition to their check.  Columbia and the Gonzmart family will match the donation, and donate more than $500,000in the fight against AYA osteosarcoma.

Gonzmart was particularly inspired by 8-year-old Josalyn Kaldenberg, who is the first pediatric cancer patient in the United States to have her entire upper arm bone replaced with one made of chrome and titanium.  Last May, Moffitt Cancer Center surgeon Dr. Douglas Letson became the first American surgeon to remove an entire humerus in a child and insert an expandable prosthesis in its place.  Before her parents brought her to Moffitt, other doctors recommended amputating her arm.

Artificial limb replacement is not an uncommon solution for bone cancer patients; it’s been done in the United States for roughly 15 years. Also, most replacements involve tumors invading just 20 percent to 30 percent of the bone. In Josalyn’s case, Letson replaced the entire humerus, as well as the elbow and shoulder joints in Josalyn’s 48-pound body.

“AYA cancer patients are typically between the ages of 15-30, and don’t respond to the treatment traditionally used to fight sarcoma,” said Gonzmart.  “I want to focus on raising money for this area of cancer research because pharmaceutical companies believe there‘s a ‘low return on investment,’ and that it is not worth it for them financially to invest dollars even though lives are on the line.”

Columbia Restaurant Group and Moffitt established the campaign to demonstrate how we can bring an end to cancer by working together. “Dining for Life” will help researchers and physicians in their quest to eliminate cancer through education and outreach programs.

Gonzmart selected the month of October for the promotion for a reason. After hearing Josalyn’s story, he was so inspired by her courage that he decided to run the Marine Corps Marathon in Washington, D.C., on October 30.  Gonzmart has been a marathon runner for the last 20 years, but had decided not to run any more marathons since the Stockholm Marathon in 2007. He hopes to present Josalyn with a medal from his run in the Marine Corps Marathon.

The “Dining for Life” campaign ends on Sunday, Nov. 6.  Gonzmart extended the campaign from October to coincide with the anniversary weekend of his 10th annual “Richard’s Run for Life” 5K, taking place on Friday, Nov. 4 at 7:00 p.m. in Ybor City’s Centennial Park with  100 percent of the proceeds benefiting the adolescent and young adult (AYA) initiative for sarcoma research at Moffitt Cancer Center.
For more information, see www.richardsrunforlife.org

For more information about the “Dining for Life” campaign, please visit www.InsideMoffitt.com/Giving.

About Moffitt Cancer Center
Located in Tampa, Florida, Moffitt Cancer Center is an NCI Comprehensive Cancer Center – a designation that recognizes Moffitt’s excellence in research and contributions to clinical trials, prevention and cancer control. Moffitt currently has 14 affiliates in Florida, one in Georgia, one in Pennsylvania and two in Puerto Rico. Additionally, Moffitt is a member of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network, a prestigious alliance of the country’s leading cancer centers, and is listed in U.S. News & World Report as one of “America’s Best Hospitals” for cancer.  Moffitt marks a very important anniversary in 2011 – 25 years committed to one mission: to contribute to the prevention and cure of cancer.

About Columbia Restaurant
The Columbia Restaurant was founded in 1905 in Ybor City and is Florida’s Oldest Restaurant.  Additional locations include St. Armands Circle in Sarasota, the Historic District in St. Augustine, The Pier in Downtown St. Petersburg, Sand Key on Clearwater Beach, Central Florida’s town of Celebration and the Columbia Café on the Riverwalk in Tampa. All Columbia Restaurants are owned and operated by 4th and 5th generation members of the founding family. Please see www.columbiarestaurant.comfor more information.

For more information, contact:
D. Shenell Reed
Moffitt Cancer Center Foundation
(813) 745-1413

Angela Geml
Columbia Restaurant

(813) 248-3000 ext. 17

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Cruz first became aware of this fraud when he was named senior business relationship manager over some of HSBC’s highest producing branches in Long Island, N.Y. There, he learned that managers at HSBC were so effective because they were establishing fraudulent accounts. He says he discovered and documented multiple phantom businesses with active accounts, but was explicitly told by management to forget what he saw.

Cruz continued uncovering cases of blatant fraud. He claims his documented findings included falsified tax returns, identity theft, phony company creation, falsified notarized documents, illegal money transfers, wires, cash withdrawals and excessive loan charge-offs to straw companies.

“What I realized pretty quickly was that this wasn’t just a one-time thing or the activities of a few people,” Cruz says. “What I found at HSBC was systemic and international. I wrote ‘World Banking World Fraud, Using Your Identity’ because no company should be above the law, no matter how much money it has.”

Cruz claims he worked his way up the corporate banking ladder, only to learn that sometimes telling the truth and upholding the law can ruin your life. He believes that when he discovered money laundering, bank fraud and identity theft in a major international bank, his American dream ended.

As a whistleblower, he believes “World Banking World Fraud, Using Your Identity” is an insider’s story that will expose common practices of banks, such as how they launder money and cover their tracks. Cruz hopes his work exposes how banks can destroy their employees who get too close to the truth while protecting themselves from the government.

“World Banking World Fraud, Using your Identity” will be available at Amazon in mid-October.

MEDIA CONTACT
John Cruz
www.worldbankingworldfraud.com

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“With assets increasing from less than $8 million at the beginning of 2011 to over $50 million today, we are happy to announce this first expense reduction as the Fund is now able to begin to realize economies of scale,” said Caeli Andrews, co-founder of Castle Investment Management.

Castle Investment Management is dedicated to reducing the expense ratio for the Castle Focus Fund. The Fund is available with no transaction fee on the major mutual fund supermarkets including Schwab, Fidelity and Pershing.

As of September 21, 2011, the Fund is up 0.72 percent on a year-to-date basis, while its benchmark, the S&P 500, is down 5.87 percent.

“The Castle Focus Fund has performed as we have intended this year by participating sensibly when the markets have moved up, as they did early in the year, and losing less when the broad market pulled back significantly over the last few months,” said Andrews.

The Castle Focus Fundis sub-advised by St. James Investment Company with Robert Mark as the portfolio manager.  St. James manages the Fund using the same portfolio manager and process they have used to manage institutional accounts since 1999.  The Castle Focus Fund is a focused portfolio generally holding 20 to 30 equity positions trading at a significant discount to the Portfolio Manager’s determination of intrinsic value.

To view the Castle Focus Fund’s performance report, please view the PDF here: Castle Focus Fund performance report.

The Castle Focus Fund’s prospectus contains important information about the Fund’s investment objectives, potential risks, management fees, charges and expenses and other information and should be read and considered carefully before investing. The investment return and principal value of an investment in the Fund will fluctuate so that an investor’s shares, when redeemed, may be worth more or less than their original cost. You may obtain a current copy of the Fund’s prospectus by calling (703) 260-1921. Distributed by Rafferty Capital Markets, LLC-­Garden City, NY 11530, Member FINRA.

The risks associated with the Fund, detailed in the Prospectus, include the risks of investing in small and medium sized companies and foreign securities which may result in additional risks such as the possibility of greater price volatility and reduced liquidity, fluctuations in currency exchange rates, and political, diplomatic and economic conditions as well as regulatory requirements in foreign countries. There also may be risks associated with the Fund’s investments in exchange traded funds, real estate investment trusts (“REITs”), significant investment in a specific sector and non-diversification.

Distributed by Rafferty Capital Markets, LLC 59 Hilton Avenue Garden City, NY, 11530. (Member FINRA)

MEDIA  CONTACT
Andrew Welle                          
(703) 260-1918

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The PSA brings to light the epidemic of child abuse in the United States with the compelling message that through collective help – there is hope for these children. Betty White and Shaq get in the game against Buckcherry. Who is “going down?”

“Child abuse is a problem, and I want to be part of the solution,” said Shaquille O’Neal. “These kids need our help and funding programs that heal them makes sense.”

“Our relationship with Childhelp started on the Black Butterfly tour when together we raised $10K,” said Josh Todd, Buckcherry lead singer.  “Since then we had another opportunity to make this great video with Shaq and Betty White to raise awareness for a great cause. Childhelp rocks!”

The PSA highlights some of Childhelp’s other celebrity ambassadors including Norm Crosby, Anne Jeffries and Ron Masak as well as Childhelp founders Sara O’Meara and Yvonne Fedderson.

WHO: CEO and Co-Founder Sara O’Meara and President and Co-Founder Yvonne Fedderson started Childhelp in 1959, establishing it as a leading national non-profit organization dedicated to helping victims of child abuse and neglect and at-risk children. Childhelp’s approach focuses on advocacy, prevention, treatment and community outreach.

The Childhelp National Child Abuse Hotline, 1-800-4-A-CHILD^®, operates 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and receives calls from throughout the United States, Canada, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico and Guam. Childhelp’s programs and services also include residential treatment services; children’s advocacy centers; therapeutic foster care; group homes and child abuse prevention, education and training. Childhelp also created the National Day of Hope^®, held each April during National Child Abuse Prevention Month that mobilizes people across America to join the fight against child abuse.

Betty White has been a friend to Childhelp for over 30 years, and this is the second PSA that Shaq has filmed for Childhelp. Buckcherry has been a celebrity ambassador since 2009, raising more than $10K for Childhelp’s programs and services.

WHEN: Thursday, September 22, 2011. 9AM PST. Help us raise awareness about the child abuse epidemic and share this link: www.childhelp.org/hope

About Childhelp ®: CEO and co-founder Sara O’Meara and president and co-founder Yvonne Fedderson started Childhelp in 1959, establishing it as a leading national non-profit organization dedicated to helping victims of child abuse and neglect and at-risk children. Childhelp’s approach focuses on advocacy, prevention, treatment and community outreach.

The Childhelp National Child Abuse Hotline, 1-800-4-A-CHILD^®, operates 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and receives calls from throughout the United States, Canada, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico and Guam. Childhelp’s programs and services also include residential treatment services; children’s advocacy centers; therapeutic foster care; group homes and child abuse prevention, education and training. Childhelp also created the National Day of Hope^®, held each April during National Child Abuse Prevention Month that mobilizes people across America to join the fight against child abuse.

For more information about Childhelp, please call 480-922-8212 or visit www.childhelp.org.

MEDIA CONTACT:
Chandra Stewart
(480) 922-8212

Megan Rose
Gordon C. James Public Relations
(602) 274.1988

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UNTHINK highlighted the problem by poking fun at Facebook’s frequent changes in a video released earlier this month on YouTube.

A headline on the ABC News blog: ‘Facebook Changes Look – and Everyone Hates New Ticker.” From CTV in Canada:  “Facebook takes flak for latest changes.’

The Baltimore Sun ran a headline:  “Facebook changes baffle users and more are on the way.”

And how about this from Cafe Mom:  “New Facebook Changes are the Final Straw.”

“My current newsfeed is a barrage of complaints, there was just a 10-minute bitch-fest in my office that cut into valuable work time, and remarks on the Facebook blog have been extremely negative,” writes Nicole Fabian-Weber on Cafe Mom.  “As one commenter stated, ‘Lame. Quite frankly I don’t want Facebook deciding who is most important in my life. I want my news feed to just go chronologically and if I want to hide posts from someone, I will. Stop changing. You’re becoming and I left there for a reason.’ Me-ow!

The timing is impeccable.  UNTHINK, a Facebook rival, opens to the public in weeks and just as the outrage mounts against the Facebook changes.

“Social media is at a crossroads and today’s Facebook changes absolutely underscore that point,’ says Natasha Dedis, UNTHINK social media founder and CEO. “We have no control  and they remind us of it every day.”

UNTHINK.com burst onto the social media scene earlier this month calling out Facebook for its “endless changes.”

UNTHINK released a challenge video and told Facebook that ‘the gig is up.’  And that the message is:  the world has had enough of the Facebook changes.

UNTHINK (www.unthink.com) has since received national and international attention from TV, print outlets and blogs including a review today by the Chris Voss show, another by Internet Revolution and an extensive write-up in AllThingsD.com, a tech blog owned by Dow Jones, earlier this week.

Poll: Facebook changes

A poll in Mashable today shows more than 70-percent “hate” the Facebook changes.

Just under 14-percent “Love” the Facebook changes.  And about the same number simply don’t care about the Facebook changes.

And these latest Facebook changes have everyone talking.

“Are we going to continue building on Facebook’s dictatorial domain? Are we going to continue building our virtual houses on lots we don’t own? Or, are we going to burst Facebook’s bubble and regain our autonomy, ownership and freedom?” asks Dedis.

UNTHINK highlighted the problem of Facebook changes by poking fun at Facebook’s frequent redesigns in a video released on YouTube earlier this month.

Facebook changes

With headlines like “Is UNTHINK the Un-Facebook” and “Should Facebook Fear UNTHINK?”, some news outlets have portrayed the brewing battle between Facebook and UNTHINK as a David versus Goliath fight.

The latest Facebook changes sort of ups the ante.

To return control to the people and restore their ownership and freedom, UNTHINK created a radically different legal and economic framework that obligates the domain to serve only as facilitator. The UNTHINK Deed, Emancipation Covenants, and Privacy Policy are as revolutionary for social media as the open source movement was for software development. UNTHINK upgrades USERS to OWNERS.

“Until now people didn’t have a choice.  That’s exactly why we created UNTHINK, to give people a real alternative, a choice. It is up to you. If you think Facebook is invincible, unthink it.  YOU gave Facebook its power and YOU can take it away,” says Dedis.

About UNTHINK
UNTHINK Corporation is a technology company based in Tampa, Fla. UNTHINK is not a start-up. It was founded on April 22, 2008 by successful entrepreneurs with experience in re-inventing markets, and is supported by a dedicated team of more than 100 cutting-edge techies and rebels. It is a product of the foresight of its founders who three years ago realized that social media was headed in an alarming direction. UNTHINK.com is a social media revolution. It is built ON purpose WITH purpose to better serve people and brands, empower them, and make their lives easier. It disrupts existing market ‘think’ and shifts social media in the direction of Win-for-All.

ON THE WEB:
http://www.UNTHINK.com
http://www.youtube.com/UNTHINK
http://www.twitter.com/iUNTHINK

DOWNLOADS:
UNTHINK Logo: http://ow.ly/65fCf
UNTHINK Image: http://ow.ly/65g1G
UNTHINK Homepage Image: http://ow.ly/65gkQ

CONTACT:
Glenn Selig
PR firm: The Publicity Agency
Email: 
Phone: 813.708.1220
Mobile: 813.300.5454
UNTHINK Press Releases: http://ow.ly/6izEK

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NBC Connecticut received many thumbs down in reaction to the Facebook news feed changes. (Photo courtesy: NBCConnecticut.com)

From a poll on Mashable with results showing nearly 75-percent saying they “hate” the  Facebook news feed changes to a headline on a TV station website “Lots of ‘Dislikes’ for Facebook News Feed,” the global reaction to the newest changes to the social networking site have been fast and fierce.

“Social media is at a crossroads and today’s Facebook news feed changes absolutely underscore that point,’ says Natasha Dedis, UNTHINK social media founder and CEO. “We have no control  and they remind us of it every day.”

UNTHINK.com, a Facebook rival, burst onto the social media scene earlier this month calling out Facebook for its “endless changes.”  UNTHINK released a challenge video and told Facebook that ‘the gig is up.’

UNTHINK (www.unthink.com) has since received national and international attention, including a review today by the Chris Voss show and an extensive write-up in AllThingsD.com, a leading tech blog owned by Dow Jones, earlier this week.

And now, just weeks before UNTHINK opens to the public, more Facebook news feed changes — and this one is major.

“Are we going to continue building on Facebook’s dictatorial domain? Are we going to continue building our virtual houses on lots we don’t own? Or, are we going to burst Facebook’s bubble and regain our autonomy, ownership and freedom?” asks Dedis.

UNTHINK highlighted the problem by poking fun at Facebook’s frequent redesigns in a video released earlier this month.

Continual Facebook news feed changes

With headlines like “Is UNTHINK the Un-Facebook” and and “Should Facebook Fear UNTHINK?”, some news outlets have portrayed the brewing battle between Facebook and UNTHINK as a David versus Goliath fight.

To return control to the people and restore their ownership and freedom, UNTHINK created a radically different legal and economic framework that obligates the domain to serve only as facilitator. The UNTHINK Deed, Emancipation Covenants, and Privacy Policy are as revolutionary for social media as the open source movement was for software development. UNTHINK upgrades USERS to OWNERS.

“Until now people didn’t have a choice.  That’s exactly why we created UNTHINK, to give people a real alternative, a choice. It is up to you. If you think Facebook is invincible, unthink it.  YOU gave Facebook its power and YOU can take it away,” says Dedis.

About UNTHINK
UNTHINK Corporation is a technology company based in Tampa, Fla. UNTHINK is not a start-up. It was founded on April 22, 2008 by successful entrepreneurs with experience in re-inventing markets, and is supported by a dedicated team of more than 100 cutting-edge techies and rebels. It is a product of the foresight of its founders who three years ago realized that social media was headed in an alarming direction. UNTHINK.com is a social media revolution. It is built ON purpose WITH purpose to better serve people and brands, empower them, and make their lives easier. It disrupts existing market ‘think’ and shifts social media in the direction of Win-for-All.

ON THE WEB:
http://www.UNTHINK.com
http://www.youtube.com/UNTHINK
http://www.twitter.com/iUNTHINK

DOWNLOADS:
UNTHINK Logo: http://ow.ly/65fCf
UNTHINK Image: http://ow.ly/65g1G
UNTHINK Homepage Image: http://ow.ly/65gkQ

CONTACT:
Glenn Selig
PR firm: The Publicity Agency
Email:
Phone: 813.708.1220
Mobile: 813.300.5454
UNTHINK Press Releases: http://ow.ly/6izEK

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“Leveraging Anoto® digital pen and paper technology, the hosted EDW digital writing platform solution will enable field service technical staff to automate the capture of handwritten information collected on business forms when meeting with customers to service equipment”, said Jeff Fischer, president of Florida Lift Systems. “This will speed the flow of information within our organization, as well as improving accuracy; a leap forward in our ongoing efforts to lead the industry in customer service.”

The technology will also be used to support technician time and attendance reporting. Utilizing EDW® Mobile routing technology, handwriting captured on forms is transmitted in near real-time using wireless mobile devices (in this case, BlackBerrys). The EDW software platform technology converts the handwritten information to electronic data and digital images, enabling field service technicians to easily submit the information without faxing, scanning or hand delivery of the completed forms to the field and home offices. This streamlined workflow eliminates lost or delayed paperwork and significantly reduces data entry, while improving field communications.

The solution also provides a new level of visibility and improved operational control. Management at the distributor of material handling equipment gains instant visibility to the service cycle and employee productivity with document image transfer directly from the field. Service report data is quickly received by management, and questions or issues can be identified so that action can be taken while the technician is still onsite with the equipment.

“We evaluated several digital writing vendors and selected ExpeData to provide a complete, flexible and proven solution to support our field technicians,” said Mike Parker, the general manager of Aftermarket Services for Southern States Toyotalift/Florida Lift Systems. “ExpeData took a consultative approach, taking the time to look at our workflows and understand our business. We view them as a partner rather than a vendor. It was obvious to us that ExpeData has invested in the digital writing technologywith their EDW platform as well the digital writing ecosystem. The technology itself should be a real game changer for our company and the industry.”

With the streamlined field data collection process, Parker expects to reduce costs linked to paper processing while accelerating service billing cycle times, which will lead to faster revenue recognition and enhanced customer service.

“Service organizations are embracing digital writing as a cost-effective way to automate data collection in the field,” said Mark LaForce, director of enterprise sales at ExpeData. “Automation of data capture at the point of service substantially improves business processes and workflows, while reducing costs to acquire and process valuable handwritten information. The EDW® solution for field service organizations, like Southern States Toyotalift/Florida Lift Systems, Inc., is a convenient, natural way to automate the collection of handwritten information without the typical change management or user-adoption issues associated with new technology. This robust data capture solution reduces cycle times and minimizes errors associated with manual processing, resulting in a new dimension in enterprise workflow optimization.”

About Southern States Toyotalift/Florida Lift Systems, Inc.: Southern States Toyotalift/Florida Lift Systems, Inc. operates as the exclusive distributor for Toyota Material Handling USA, the manufacturer of Toyota fork lift trucks in large sections of Florida and Georgia. It distributes new and used forklifts, scissor lifts, wheeled boom lifts, crawler boom lifts, and forklift parts, as well as warehouse accessories, including hydraulic carts, stackers, pneumatic lifts, pallet and storage rack, mezzanines, lockers, containers, shelving and shop equipment. The company also offers forklift rental, and warehouse design and engineering services, as well as maintenance and training services for its customers’ technicians and machine operators. The company was founded in 1952 and is based in Tampa, Florida.
For more information, visit http://www.sstlift.com.

About ExpeData: ExpeData is an innovative software company and a global leader in digital writing. The award-winning EDW® products provide market-leading solutions for incorporating digital writing into existing business processes via digital pen and paper technology and tablet devices. Digital writing delivers significant benefits to organizations of all sizes. EDW solutions are used across the globe, delivering value in multiple industries including health care, financial services and field services. For more information, visit http://www.expedata.net.

MEDIA CONTACT
Jason Johnson

Office: (727) 265-2271
Cell: (727) 259-8689

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The following is a statement from lead attorney Joel A. Brodsky, and the criminal defense team representing Drew Peterson.

“While Walter Maksym has represented Drew Peterson in two unrelated civil matters, he is not, and never has been, involved with Drew Peterson’s criminal defense case.  The situation Mr. Maksym now faces with the federal courts has no impact whatsoever on the criminal defense of Drew Peterson.

“While acknowledging the excellent civil law work Mr. Maksym has done for him, Mr. Peterson has decided to ask Mr. Maksym to temporarily step aside on the one remaining civil law matter while he focuses on his personal issue.”

MEDIA CONTACT

Glenn Selig
PR firm: The Publicity Agency
Phone: 813-708-1220
Email:
Web: www.thepublicityagency.com

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“My grandfather Ozzie Nelson always believed that our family was in the business of connecting with people through all popular media — which included radio, TV and film in his day,” said Sam Nelson.  “And I hope to continue his vision for the Nelsons through the Internet to revitalize this national treasure. I was immediately drawn to Kickstarter.com not only for its success rate in getting projects funded, but it also allows people to connect with our family and intimately participate in the rebuilding process with us.”

After gaining access to the family vaults for the first time in 45 years, Nelson began documenting the experience of organizing and archiving generations of Nelson family history spanning film, television, and radio. Among the materials found, were the original elements for the entire television series including rare never-before-seen footage. Unfortunately, due to time and neglect, much of these film materials had begun deteriorating. It was at that point that Nelson became interested in the idea of creating a project to save the Nelson history by rebuilding and reviving the series while simultaneously documenting the journey along the way.

Nelson’s revitalization project,  “Ozzie and Harriet: Reviving An American Treasure” will have only 45 days to achieve its fundraising goal ($10,000 US), or all pledges will be cancelled and the project will not be funded at all. The project officially kicks off Wednesday, September 21, 2011 on Kickstarter.com.

Unlike most projects on Kickstarter that focus on bringing new untested concepts to fruition, this project takes it a step further by breathing new life into a classic piece of Americana, and gives contributors the unique opportunity to actually be a part of the history making process.

An added advantage to Kickstarter is their merchant partner Amazon.com, which enables each project the convenience of receiving funds from anywhere in the world.

With a total of 435 episodes produced and an unprecedented run of 14 years on national television (ABC network October 3, 1952 through September 3, 1966), “The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet”, considered the flagship for all prime time family TV shows, certifies still as the longest running live action sitcom in the history of television.  Rock’n’Roll Hall of Famer Ricky Nelson (father to Sam and well-known siblings TV/Film actress Tracy Nelson and multi-platinum singer-songwriters Matthew and Gunnar Nelson) launched his music career as a teenager on the popular TV sitcom performing his hit songs at the end of every episode each week.  The Smithsonian plans to honor the Nelson family this year.

To learn more about the project, visit the project’s pitch page at: 
www.kickstarter.com/projects/2100802854/ozzie-and-harriet-reviving-an-american-treasure

RELATED LINKS
www.ozzieandharriet.com
Facebook: ozzie.harriet
Twitter: @OzzienHarriet

MEDIA CONTACT:
Liz Motley
Nelson PR
(786) 897-7414

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(PR NewsChannel) / September 19, 2011 / SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. 

Childhelp Hotline Poster

With nearly seven children dying each day, the epidemic of child abuse and neglect is on the rise in the US. Childhelp, a leading national non-profit dedicated to the prevention and treatment of child abuse, operates the Childhelp National Child Abuse Hotline, providing hope and help to those in need. Sadly, many children who are suffering abuse are not even aware that the hotline exists.

Childhelp Wings, a volunteer program, launched an aggressive national campaign recently, aimed at putting the hotline number in front of as many children in America as possible. Wings members have received permission to place the hotline posters in several school districts and are placing the posters everywhere that a child might see it.

“Childhelp Wings is simply a movement of people who understand that each of us doing a little can collectively add up to a lot,” said Lisa Evans, Childhelp Wings Coordinator. “Putting up a poster may not seem like much, but for the child who needs to know that the number exists, it can mean everything.”

Saving lives since 1982, the hotline receives more than 200,000 crisis calls each year, over 500 each day. The number is 1-800-4-A-CHILD (422-4453) and it is open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, and in over 170 languages. Concerned citizens can learn more and download the poster via the Childhelp website.

About Childhelp ®

CEO and co-founder Sara O’Meara and president and co-founder Yvonne Fedderson started Childhelp in 1959, establishing it as a leading national non-profit organization dedicated to helping victims of child abuse and neglect and at-risk children. Childhelp’s approach focuses on advocacy, prevention, treatment and community outreach.

The Childhelp National Child Abuse Hotline, 1-800-4-A-CHILD^®, operates 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and receives calls from throughout the United States, Canada, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico and Guam. Childhelp’s programs and services also include residential treatment services; children’s advocacy centers; therapeutic foster care; group homes and child abuse prevention, education and training. Childhelp also created the National Day of Hope^®, held each April during National Child Abuse Prevention Month that mobilizes people across America to join the fight against child abuse.

For more information about Childhelp, please call 480-922-8212 or visit www.childhelp.org.

MEDIA CONTACT: 
Megan Rose 
Gordon C. James Public Relations 
602.274.1988

Direct Link:  https://prnewschannel.com/2011/09/19/child-abuse-prevention-volunteers-launch-national-campaign/

SOURCE:  Childhelp 

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(PR NewsChannel) / September 19, 2011 / TAMPA, Fla. 

AllThingsD.com, the technology website owned by Dow Jones, today spotlighted UNTHINK, the new rival to Facebook, the PR firm that represents UNTHINK reported today.

Though UNTHINK (www.unthink.com) has been featured on more than 30 television stations and media outlets nationwide, the inner workings of UNTHINK have been a closely guarded secret for nearly four years… until now.

“Unthink, which this week started letting in users for its initial launch, is built around terms of service that are meant to be much friendlier to users than the standard we-own-your-content-into-perpetuity-and-can-change-at-any-time fare,”the article on AllThingsD.com reads.

UNTHINK Corporation is a technology company based in Tampa, Fla. UNTHINK is not a start-up. It was founded on April 22, 2008 by successful entrepreneurs with experience in re-inventing markets, and is supported by a dedicated team of more than 100 cutting-edge techies and rebels. It is a product of the foresight of its founders who three years ago realized that social media was headed in an alarming direction. UNTHINK.com is a social media revolution. It is built ON purpose WITH purpose to better serve people and brands, empower them, and make their lives easier. It disrupts existing market ‘think’ and shifts social media in the direction of Win-for-All.

According to its website, AllThingsD.com is a technology website devoted to news, analysis and opinion relating to the Internet and media.  The site is wholly owned by Dow Jones, publisher of The Wall Street Journal, and aims to adhere to the journalistic standards of the best of the mainstream media.

Link to the article on AllThingsD.com: http://allthingsd.com/20110919/manifesto-driven-unthink-promises-a-social-network-where-users-own-their-accounts/

CONTACT:
Glenn Selig
PR firm: The Publicity Agency
Email: 
Phone: 813.708.1220
Mobile: 813.300.5454
UNTHINK Press Releases: http://ow.ly/6izEK

Direct Link:  https://prnewschannel.com/2011/09/19/pr-firm-dow-jones-owned-allthingsd-provides-first-look-inside-unthink-social-media/

SOURCE:  The Publicity Agency 

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After almost four years of secrecy, UNTHINK.com has been unveiled.  The public can explore the site to learn more about the “social revolution” and request invitation codes to sign up.

In an email sent to early adopters who have pre-registered, UNTHINK announced:  “During the initial stages of our beta, we are letting in a few people at a time to enable us to get more personal feedback. Soon UNTHINK.com will accelerate the distribution of invitation codes, so expect to receive yours within a few days or weeks.”

In the meantime, UNTHINK’s extensive public pages allow everyone to explore and understand what UNTHINK is before choosing to sign up. Unlike other social media platforms that greet users with a gateway and ask them to sign up in blind faith–without knowing how the site works or intends to make money–UNTHINK’s public pages explain everything with total transparency.

UNTHINK (www.unthink.com) first announced its existence in late August and immediately challenged the alleged deceptive business practices of social media giant Facebook and its ilk. UNTHINK is a legal, economic and technological innovation that moves the market in a completely new direction, exposing the exploitive nature of the existing paradigm. UNTHINK is a social revolution that heralds the arrival of Web 3.0.

While Web 1.0 was an exciting innovation, it limited users to passive browsing of content.  This shortcoming spurred the shift to Web 2.0, which empowered us all to become content-generators through tools like blogs, wikis, and social media sites. However, Web 2.0 is plagued by information overload and a flawed business logic. Users, who provide the free labor, are denied ownership of their own content and have become the product harvested by each site.

As award-winning digital strategist Bilal Jaffery wrote in Social Media Today, “Anyone can create content on sites like Facebook, but that content effectively belongs to Facebook. The more content we create for free, the more valuable Facebook becomes. We do the work, they reap the profit. Same story with Twitter, Xing and other networks… The landlord has all the control.”

Just as any innovation addresses the shortcomings of the existing paradigm, Web 3.0 will return control to the users, reduce the noise, and unclutter our lives by organizing and filtering the chaos of Web 2.0.  It will blend our online and offline worlds and bend Web 2.0 rules to our collective will.  Web 3.0 will be our servant, not our master.  This is the vision behind UNTHINK.com.

To return control to the people and restore their ownership and freedom, UNTHINK created a radically different legal and economic framework that obligates the domain to serve only as facilitator. The UNTHINK Deed, Emancipation Covenants, and Privacy Policy are as revolutionary for social media as the open source movement was for software development. UNTHINK upgrades USERS to OWNERS.

To unclutter our lives, reduce the noise and enable us to organize the chaos, UNTHINK created the ALL-IN-ONE networking Suite. The UNTHINK Suite saves people time by integrating all the functionalities of Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and much more. It is a universal tool that is customizable to satisfy individual preferences and save people time. In a new video titled “UNTHINK Suite Tour” released today, Kate – an animated character – guides us through a tour of her Suite.

To blend our online and offline worlds, UNTHINK created a user experience that is true to life.  Inside a Suite, people can form relationships just like they do in real life.  They can follow, friend, connect with people, and subscribe to brands, keeping their public, social, professional and lifestyle conversations separate. They can even cluster their contacts for more granular sharing. Their Suite adjusts to each person viewing it, allowing Suite owners to present themselves appropriately and reveal only what they want.

To bend web rules to our collective will, UNTHINK created a transparent and win-for-all economic model, steering the market away from the opaque win-lose Facebook model.  People are guaranteed transparency in how UNTHINK.com makes money.  They are assured that UNTHINK is aligned with their interests and will never seek to profit by exploiting them. No ads, not now, not ever, will bother Suite owners, who are guaranteed quiet enjoyment of their Suites. UNTHINK not only allows people to maintain their FREEDOM, but is also truly FREE.

Are you an Unthinker? And would you like to lead this revolution? Go to UNTHINK.com and pre-register.

ON THE WEB:
http://www.UNTHINK.com
http://www.youtube.com/UNTHINK
http://www.twitter.com/iUNTHINK

DOWNLOADS:
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UNTHINK Image: http://ow.ly/65g1G
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CONTACT:
Glenn Selig
PR firm: The Publicity Agency
Email: 
Phone: 813.708.1220
Mobile: 813.300.5454
UNTHINK Press Releases: http://ow.ly/6izEK

Now, Willard Hanson, 98, Marjorie Hoffs, 89, and Frances Schlact, 88, are getting ready for a trip of a lifetime to Washington, D.C. to visit the National World War II Memorial constructed in their honor. Hanson served as a Staff Sergeant in the United States Army Air Corp while Hoffs and Schlact both served as nurses for the Army, each earning the rank of 1st Lieutenant.

They will be flown, at no charge, on September 20, accompanied by 71other WWII veterans and their guardians from the Honor Flight West Central Florida regional hub (HFWCF).

Honor Flight Network, a non-profit organization created to honor America’s veterans, is assisting the surviving veterans in traveling to see the World War II Memorial as an ultimate thank you for the service they provided.

“I willingly served my country then and I’d make the same decision again,” said Hanson “I’m humbled to be chosen to visit the memorial but I’m more excited for the chance to see my brothers again,”

Honor Flight Network has been flying veterans to Washington since 2005 and has flown nearly 20,000 WWII veterans to Washington to see the memorial that was dedicated in May of 2004.

The veterans are chosen mainly based on age and their ability to fly. In an attempt to aid as many veterans as possible, the selection starts with the oldest that are still physically able. There are nine other residents at the Royal Palms Senior Living community whose names are included with approximately 7,000 other veterans on the nationwide waiting list.

The trio will leave on an Allegiant Airways flight from the St Petersburg/Clearwater airport on the morning of the 20th. They will be provided a meal before visiting the memorial where there will be a ceremony and photo opportunities including all veterans.

Previous Honor Flight trips have also included trips to the Vietnam and Korean War Memorials as well as the Lincoln Memorial depending on the size of the group and time constraints. The group will fly back to St. Petersburg, arriving around 7 p.m.

The general public is encouraged to greet the veterans at the airport if they would like to show their support and thanks.

All flights are free for the veterans as the Honor Flight Network relies on donations and partnerships in order to assist the veterans in their travel. The HFWCF has garnished support from Southwest and Allegiant Airlines, Brighthouse Networks and TECO among other private individuals and groups to partake in their third flight this year.

About The Palms of Largo: Located in the heart of Pinellas County, the 95-acre Palms of Largo campus offers housing, programs, and services for individuals of all ages. Residents enjoy family and senior independent apartments, assisted living and memory care, a holistic spa and fitness center, an experiential pre-school, home health care and skilled nursing. The intergenerational living facility also features Pearl Essence, Pinellas County’s first ‘women only’ memory care environment at Cypress Palms. The campus is located within minutes of Gulf beaches, major shopping, restaurants, and the Largo Cultural Center.

MEDIA CONTACT
Robin Katchuk
Email:             
Phone:             (727) 585-8003
Website:           www.royalsenior.com

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The Palms of Largo, a 95-acre assisted living complex located in Pinellas County, is participating in the National Center for Assisted Living’s (NCAL) annual National Assisted Living Week. The week-long series of events is designed to help promote the assisted living community to the public, and will take place during the week of Sept. 11 – 17, 2011.

Each year, the events are connected under a universal theme, and with the start coinciding with the 10-year anniversary of the devastating terrorist attacks of 9/11, the theme for this year’s events is “Forever Proud.” The NCAL believes it was important for the theme to reflect the national pride citizens feel, as well as the personal pride displayed as active members of the community.

Each community can preview a guide posted on the NCAL website that includes ideas for various events and activities. Communities can also order various shirts, balloons and other memorabilia to add to the festive atmosphere created by each community. Scheduled events and activities are planned throughout the week, starting on Monday, Sept. 11 with a special presentation to honor and remember the people and events of 9/11. Other events planned for the week are as listed below.

Monday, September 11: Grandparents Day brunch with music by the Midlife Crisis; Remembrance Day, including a special presentation

Tuesday, Sept. 12: Veteran’s picnic at the War Veteran’s Memorial Park; Pride of heritage discussion group

Wednesday, Sept. 13: Family pride photo display; “Forever Proud of Our Cypress Palms Staff” pizza party

Thursday, Sept. 14: Resident recipe luncheon using residents’ recipes

Friday, Sept. 15: “Forever Proud,” a salute to resident veterans with a display showcase featuring pictures, medals, memorabilia, etc.

Saturday, Sept. 16: Celebration of resident family life at Cypress Palms, featuring a presentation of resident pictures taken over the years

Sunday, Sept. 17: Parkinson’s disease health fair

According to the NCAL website, National Assisted Living Week was established in 1995, and provides a unique opportunity for residents, families, staff, volunteers and the surrounding community to enjoy a variety of events. The week’s events are meant to celebrate the residents by showing them how much they mean to the community, and to demonstrate the commitment assisted living professionals show while providing care and assistance to the residents.

About The Palms of Largo: Located in the heart of Pinellas County, the 95-acre Palms of Largo campus offers housing, programs, and services for individuals of all ages. Residents enjoy family and senior independent apartments, assisted living and memory care, a holistic spa and fitness center, an experiential pre-school, home health care and skilled nursing. The intergenerational living facility also features Pearl Essence, Pinellas County’s first ‘women only’ memory care environment at Cypress Palms. The campus is located within minutes of Gulf beaches, major shopping, restaurants, and the Largo Cultural Center.

MEDIA CONTACT
Stephanie Reimund
Phone:             (727) 559-7888
Website:           www.cypressalf.com

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“I recently worked with a couple that had been using a personal friend who was an advisor with a reputable company,” Wieniewitz says. “After one of my free financial workshops, they arranged a meeting so that we could look at all they had. In about 15 minutes, we discovered they were paying over $10,000 a year in fees.”

Wieniewitz encourages consumers to use his free-of-charge ‘Discover Hidden Fees’ worksheet in conjunction with facts provided by their investment company to uncover how much money they are paying, rather than investing. When speaking with the couple who paid over $90,000 to their investment company over the course of nine years, he saw that their accounts were slightly less than what they had put in originally.

“They were stuck in a cycle of recovering old money they used to have, rather than making any new money,” the Knoxville-based financial advisor says. “Plus, the 3.25% annual drag on their account made it difficult for them to get ahead.”

While investors and consumers may not be able to completely escape the fee trap, Wieniewitz believes they may be able to keep themselves from falling hard by staying educated and updated on the terms of their accounts. He encourages investors to use the ‘Discover Hidden Fees’ worksheet available on his website for free, and to attend his free seminars throughout the Knoxville area.

About Wieniewitz Financial: Wieniewitz Financial, a financial services company, focuses on strategies to grow your retirement dollars while taking less risk. Their home office is located in Knoxville, Tennessee. Trae Wieniewitz is licensed and also has clients in over 5 other states.

MEDIA CONTACT
Trae Wieniewitz
865-691-2433
www.traew.com

Securities offered through Taylor Capital Management, Inc.
Members FINRA/SIPC | 800-924-9322

Direct Link:  https://prnewschannel.com/2011/09/06/financial-advisor-claims-fees-don%e2%80%99t-have-to-be-painful-part-of-investment-routine/

SOURCE:  Wieniewitz Financial

Two weeks ago, UNTHINK burst into the public eye and the social networking scene after nearly four years in secret development and immediately picked a fight with social media giant Facebook. Since then, reporters and tech bloggers have been searching for details about UNTHINK. The closely guarded secret will finally be revealed next week, UNTHINK has confirmed.

UNTHINK first announced its existence in a video that challenged the unfair and deceptive business model on which Facebook, Google+ and all existing social networking media platforms are based: ensnaring users with the ‘illusion of free’ and then subjecting them to a litany of abusive practices as the sites seek to make money on their users’ backs.

UNTHINK then released three humorous videos illustrating Facebook’s virtual housing bubble and demonstrating that people build Facebook profiles without realizing that everything they do on Facebook is CONTENT that Facebook owns.

The first of these ‘Facebook Follies’ demonstrates that Facebook can delete a user’s account – the user’s online home, along with all the user’s content and relationships, at any time without cause or explanation.

The next video depicts a group of friends attempting to watch a football game as Facebook constantly interrupts them with ‘social ads’ based on their conversations.

The third video in the series continues the housing crisis metaphor by depicting the intrusiveness of Facebook’s endless redesigns. All of the videos are available on UNTHINK’s YouTube channel.

Today, UNTHINK released a video created by renowned sand artist Joe Castillo that illustrates the philosophy behind UNTHINK.

Facebook’s fundamental problem is its exploitive business ‘logic’, and UNTHINK’s new video explains the importance of replacing an exploitive brand with an extraordinary brand. Many of the world’s systems are collapsing because they were based on an outdated ‘win-lose’ business logic that sought profit at any cost by exploiting consumers. In these insecure times, UNTHINK believes that brands have a duty to step up and provide direction, treating their customers as stakeholders. UNTHINK was built on these principles.

UNTHINK.com is founded on an innovative legal structure and a win-for-all business model that restore OWNERSHIP and FREEDOM to people.

ON THE WEB:
http://www.UNTHINK.com
http://www.youtube.com/UNTHINK
http://www.twitter.com/iUNTHINK

DOWNLOADS:
UNTHINK Logo: http://ow.ly/65fCf
UNTHINK Image: http://ow.ly/65g1G
UNTHINK Homepage Image: http://ow.ly/65gkQ

CONTACT:
Glenn Selig
PR firm: The Publicity Agency
Email:
Phone: 813.708.1220
Mobile: 813.300.5454
UNTHINK Press Releases: http://ow.ly/6izEK

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Two weeks ago, UNTHINK burst into the public eye after nearly four years in secret development and immediately picked a fight with social media giant Facebook.  Since then, reporters and tech bloggers have been searching for details about UNTHINK. The closely guarded secret will finally be revealed next week, UNTHINK has confirmed.

UNTHINK first announced its existence in a video that challenged the unfair and deceptive business model on which Facebook, Google+ and all existing social media platforms are based: ensnaring users with the ‘illusion of free’ and then subjecting them to a litany of abusive practices as the sites seek to make money on their users’ backs.

UNTHINK then released three humorous videos illustrating Facebook’s virtual housing bubble and demonstrating that people build Facebook profiles without realizing that everything they do on Facebook is CONTENT that Facebook owns.

The first of these ‘Facebook Follies’ demonstrates that Facebook can delete a user’s account – the user’s online home, along with all the user’s content and relationships, at any time without cause or explanation.

The next video depicts a group of friends attempting to watch a football game as Facebook constantly interrupts them with ‘social ads’ based on their conversations.

The third video in the series continues the housing crisis metaphor by depicting the intrusiveness of Facebook’s endless redesigns.  All of the videos are available on UNTHINK’s YouTube channel.

Today, UNTHINK released a video created by renowned sand artist Joe Castillo that illustrates the philosophy behind UNTHINK.

Facebook’s fundamental problem is its exploitive business ‘logic’, and UNTHINK’s new video explains the importance of replacing an exploitive brand with an extraordinary brand.  Many of the world’s systems are collapsing because they were based on an outdated ‘win-lose’ business logic that sought profit at any cost by exploiting consumers.  In these insecure times, UNTHINK believes that brands have a duty to step up and provide direction, treating their customers as stakeholders.  UNTHINK was built on these principles.

UNTHINK.com is founded on an innovative legal structure and a win-for-all business model that restore OWNERSHIP and FREEDOM to people.

ON THE WEB:
http://www.UNTHINK.com
http://www.youtube.com/UNTHINK
http://www.twitter.com/iUNTHINK

DOWNLOADS:
UNTHINK Logo: http://ow.ly/65fCf
UNTHINK Image: http://ow.ly/65g1G
UNTHINK Homepage Image: http://ow.ly/65gkQ

CONTACT:
Glenn Selig
PR firm: The Publicity Agency
Email:
Phone: 813.708.1220
Mobile: 813.300.5454
UNTHINK Press Releases: http://ow.ly/6izEK

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While many may not know who or what a public adjuster is, Hurricane Irene victims may soon want to get acquainted with these experts in the field of insurance claims. Rather than tackle the daunting task alone, The Public Adjusters will assist property owners every step of the way to help with Hurricane Irene claims. A public adjuster works for and is paid by the policyholder, not the insurance company, in the negotiation of an insurance claim.

“There are going to be thousands of people filing claims after Irene, and most will wait days, if not weeks, for their insurance company to send out an adjuster,” Kenneth Browne, COO of The Public Adjusters, says. “The waiting game and amount of damage can lead to pure chaos and frustration. It will benefit the consumer to have a reputable, proven and licensed public adjuster working on their behalf.”

However, claimants can’t stop after notifying their insurance companies or hiring public adjusters in the wake of a storm, like Irene. Individuals are responsible for immediately protecting their property against further damages as much as possible, including placing a tarp over a damaged roof or boarding up any broken windows.

The Public Adjusters will arrive in North Carolina today to help with Hurricane Irene-related insurance claims. Their 40’ Class A motor home, the Mobile Claims Unit, will ease the hurricane damage insurance claim process. Additionally, The Public Adjusters have a licensed adjuster answering the phones 24 hours a day, 7 days a week for Hurricane Irene claim help at (800) 572-7914, or through e-mail at .

About The Public Adjusters: The Public Adjusters/ Insurance Claim Consultants Inc. is a public insurance adjusting firm licensed in 11 states throughout the United States.  The firm works exclusively for the policyholder, ensuring maximum settlement amounts are paid based upon the damage and policy provisions unique to each insurance claim. With over two decades of winning experience and more than 10,000 clients served, the Tampa-based firm of public loss adjusters and insurance consultants specialize in loss assessment adjusting for home and business owners that suffer property loss from hurricane damage, tornado damage, fire and smoke damage, water loss damage, sinkholes, flood damage, hidden decay and business interruption claims. Acting as an ally and personal advocate for its clients during the claims process, The Public Adjusters has negotiated hundreds of millions of dollars- including tens of millions in increased settlements- on behalf of property owners and managers. The firm of independent public loss adjusters boasts a 100% success rate in the re-opening of property insurance claims and has obtained settlements higher than 500% of the insurance company’s original offer. Company principle, Ronald Delo, is considered an industry- expert in property insurance lending his voice and expertise to numerous media outlets such as CNN, NBC and ABC, The New York Times and other media outlets to discuss property insurance issues and topics.

MEDIA CONTACT

Jane N. Delo
The Public Adjusters
(800) 572-7914
www.thepublicadjusters.biz
www.hurricaneirenepublicadjusters.com
www.insuranceclaimconsulants.com

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SOURCE:  The Public Adjusters

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The creation of Facebook became ‘The Social Network.’  Could the creation of UNTHINK become ‘The Social Revolution’?  In the latest Facebook news, making headlines are reports that a company called UNTHINK (www.unthink.com) is plotting what it calls a ‘social revolution’ to rival Facebook.  With UNTHINK’s launch just weeks away, a David vs. Goliath battle is brewing between UNTHINK and Facebook.

It seems that every day brings Facebook news of term changes and privacy controversies. UNTHINK challenges Facebook’s exploitive business ‘logic’, which asks you to ‘build’ on their virtual ‘lot’ and abide by terms they can change at will.  As Facebook seeks ways to make money, its users are subjected to frequent redesigns, unilateral term changes and increasingly intrusive advertising.

Almost nothing is known about UNTHINK’s secret project, except that it was conceived in Tampa, Florida, and has been in the works for nearly four years by a team of almost 100 people from all over the world.

The talking points from UNTHINK highlight what’s wrong with Facebook. TV stations across the country picked up the first video released by UNTHINK, which attacks a litany of Facebook abuses.

UNTHINK’s second video and third video utilize a virtual housing crisis metaphor to demonstrate Facebook’s illusion of ‘free’ and describe the problem with social media as one about OWNERSHIP and FREEDOM.

The fourth video, released today, pokes fun at Facebook’s endless redesigns.

“The details of what UNTHINK’s platform are yet to be announced,” writes blogger Mike Schaffer,  “The founders are talking a big game. Directly taking on the most successful social media platform in the world takes … cajones… not to mention smarts/insanity.”  UNTHINK hints that it will begin its unveiling as early as next week.

ON THE WEB:
http://www.UNTHINK.com
http://www.youtube.com/UNTHINK
http://www.twitter.com/iUNTHINK

DOWNLOADS:
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UNTHINK Image: http://ow.ly/65g1G
UNTHINK Homepage Image: http://ow.ly/65gkQ

CONTACT:
Glenn Selig
PR firm: The Publicity Agency
Email:
Phone: 813.708.1220
Mobile: 813.300.5454

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Beyonce pregnant announcement is made through gestures by Beyonce herself on MTV's Video Music Awards. (Courtesy: MTV/VMA)

Who knows how long it was it the planning or how heavily scripted, but the Beyoncé pregnant moment will certainly go down in the history books as one of the memorable in the history of Hollywood awards, says an public relations expert.

“It was brilliant–from the idea to the execution,” says Glenn Selig, a public relations expert with the PR firm, The Publicity Agency (www.thepublicityagency.com), of the Beyoncé pregnant reveal.  “Beyoncé pulled it off beautifully and people just love news like that.”

And Selig isn’t the only one to be lauding the scripted Beyonce pregnant moment, that came off, quite naturally.

“Beyonce upstaged the entire event by announcing her pregnancy on the pre-show,” wrote Click Track, The Washington Post pop music blog.  “It will be the first child for her and Jay-Z, and we at Click Track look forward to serving the Golden Child in whatever capacity possible.”

TheHollywoodGossip.com described the Beyonce pregnant moment like this:

“The 2011 MTV Movie Awards got off to a rousing start before Lady Gaga even took the stage tonight: Beyonce revealed a baby bump on the red carpet and her rep later confirmed.”

After performing at the VMAs, Beyoncé Knowles unbuttoned a blazer and then rubbed her belly.   The MTV camera then cut to a shot of Jay-Z and Kanye West who were in the audience.

“Sure it was all staged but who cares,” says Selig.  “They had some fun in making the announcement and it really was well done.

The Beyonce pregnant moment is the type of thing that people will continue to talk about today and if you’re MTV, Beyonce and Jay-Z, that’s exactly what you want.”

ON THE WEB:

Beyonce pregnant moment:  http://www.mtv.com/videos/misc/684908/love-on-top-live.jhtml#id=1668980

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In a new attack video, UNTHINK continues to pound Facebook’s illusion of “free” and exploitive business “logic.” Continuing with the virtual housing crisis metaphor, UNTHINK describes the fight with Facebook as one about ownership and freedom, calling people to emancipate themselves from Facebook’s unfair and deceptive business practices.

The video is posted on UNTHINK’s YouTube channel (http://youtu.be/SepXOv4WL30).

UNTHINK (www.unthink.com) asks Facebook users to consider the following:

Think about it. What was the value of a blank Facebook page when you settled on it? Zero. What was the value of that same page after you deposited your life on it? Huge! In fact, all the value that Facebook commands today is the sum total of these pages that YOU made valuable. And what did Facebook give you in fair value exchange? NOTHING. They are playing us all for fools. They are turning us into indentured servants, using us to make money, constantly subordinating us to their agenda. They are repeatedly dropping the ball by showing no respect to us or the value we brought them and by continually using and abusing us.

Facebook has the whole world convinced that since their service is “free,” users must tolerate intrusive ads – one of the many abuses. After all, is there a better way?

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Unthink about it. You deserve to be able to socialize without being exploited or having to put up with intrusive ads. You deserve it, in exchange for the value you bring to any network. And if Facebook had done their job right and thought things through, instead of looking to cash in quickly, they would have found a way to make money while at the same time respecting their users. “And that’s why we at UNTHINK spent over three years building UNTHINK.com; to offer you a real alternative, a CHOICE that is not only FREE, but also allows you to maintain your FREEDOM, “ said Natasha Dedis, UNTHINK founder and CEO.

“So, facing this crossroads, what are we going to do? Are we going to continue building on Facebook’s dictatorial domain? Are we going to continue building our virtual houses on lots we don’t own? Or, are we going to burst Facebook’s bubble and regain our autonomy, ownership and freedom?

“It is up to you. If you believe Facebook is invincible, unthink it. YOU gave Facebook its power and YOU can take it away.”

Are you an Unthinker? And would you like to lead this revolution? Go to UNTHINK.com and pre-register. We will soon unveil the SECRET.

Look for our upcoming videos and press releases to find out more about UNTHINK.com.

About UNTHINK
UNTHINK Corporation is a technology company based in Tampa, Fla. UNTHINK is not a start-up. It was founded on April 22, 2008 by successful entrepreneurs with experience in re-inventing markets, and is supported by a dedicated team of more than 100 cutting-edge techies and rebels. It is a product of the foresight of its founders who three years ago realized that social media was headed in an alarming direction. UNTHINK.com is a social media revolution. It is built ON purpose WITH purpose to better serve people and brands, empower them, and make their lives easier. It disrupts existing market ‘think’ and shifts social media in the direction of Win-for-All.

Looking Backward from a User Perspective
Social media until now:
-A popular activity spoiled by a business ‘logic’ that clashed with users
-Compromised their privacy
-Plagued by endless redesigns
-Profile pages turned to commercial junkyards
-Ever-changing terms of use
-Segmented into multiple one-dimensional niche networks
-Unable to live up to its core promise of empowerment
-Lacked a strategy to stimulate collaboration between people and brands
-A non-transparent business, which used people as guinea pigs in its pursuit to exploit the social graph for profit

Looking Backward from a Brand Perspective
Social media until now:
-Consumed by privacy controversies
-Forced brands to build pages and fan bases they didn’t own
-Deleted accounts at will
-Subordinated brands to ever-changing policies and constantly dictated terms of use
-Segmented into multiple on dimensional niche networks
-Kept brands hostage to an unrealized promise of direct engagement
-A ‘business’ without a sustainable business model, which used brands as guinea pigs in its futile pursuit for profit

ON THE WEB:
http://www.UNTHINK.com
http://www.youtube.com/UNTHINK
http://www.twitter.com/iUNTHINK

DOWNLOADS:
UNTHINK Logo: http://ow.ly/65fCf
UNTHINK Image: http://ow.ly/65g1G
UNTHINK Homepage Image: http://ow.ly/65gkQ

CONTACT:
Glenn Selig
PR firm: The Publicity Agency
Email:
Phone: 813.708.1220
Mobile: 813.300.5454

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UNTHINK (www.unthink.com) is not another social network; it is a social revolution. UNTHINK was built ON purpose – WITH purpose. It is the product of the foresight of its founders, who in 2007 realized that social networks were headed for a dead end because of their arrogant behavior and total disregard of users, and that Facebook would evolve into what some call a cyber-dictatorship.

Now with social media news about how the whole world is coming to realize the problems plaguing current social media – such as compromised privacy, endless redesigns, profiles turned into commercial junkyards, ever-changing terms of use – and the inherent danger of these dictatorial structures to our freedoms, UNTHINK is preparing to launch the solution.

“I realized this was a revolution waiting to happen,” says UNTHINK founder and CEO Natasha Dedis. “Here was a huge market with most of its growth still ahead of it; with the market leader taking advantage of users through an outdated and exploitive business model; a market built on the business ‘logic’ that user profiles, relationships and conversations are CONTENT to be exploited for profit.”

Realization to solution takes years, as former Facebook CTO Adam D’Angelo recently explained. He stated that it would take two years for 250 people to build a Facebook competitor and, by then, Facebook and the whole market would be completely different. Therefore, for Facebook to be challenged, it would take the foresight to anticipate future market needs and the ability to visualize a solution and bring together all the necessary resources to make it happen. But more than that, it would take a team so passionate about setting things right that they would be willing to face any risk and go up against insurmountable odds to give people a CHOICE.

And that’s exactly what UNTHINK did.

UNTHINK Corporation is a technology company based in Tampa, Fla. It is also the parent company of two wholly-owned subsidiaries: UNTHINK Technologies Pvt. Ltd., a development center based in New Delhi, India, and UNTHINK International Ltd., an international delivery center in Dublin, Ireland. UNTHINK is not a start-up. It was founded after a year of research on April 22, 2008 by successful entrepreneurs with experience in re-inventing markets, and is supported by a dedicated team of more than 100 cutting-edge techies and rebels.

In 2007, UNTHINK’s founders studied Facebook’s terms of service and business model and decided to research further. “We came to discover that they were baiting users by offering them a ‘free’ service and in exchange they were taking away their FREEDOM,” says UNTHINK founder and chief legal officer Spiro Verras. “Users were then subjected to endless redesigns and term changes, in effect treated as guinea pigs as Facebook tried to make money.” The UNTHINK team realized that this was a platform of control with the intention of creating a “walled garden” with the potential to undo the democratic web.

As UNTHINK prepares to launch, it invites all the Unthinkers of this world to rise and declare the emancipation of social media, paving the way for a social revolution. “We worked hard for more than three years to research people’s needs and present them with a solution that will empower them,” says Dedis. “We believe that anyone can be extraordinary; that anyone can bring the change they want to see in the world. Our mission is to emancipate social media and unleash people’s extraordinary potential. Our – not so covert – mission is to spark a social revolution. We believe in people.”

Are you an Unthinker? And would you like to lead this revolution? Go to UNTHINK.com and register.

A video just released today by UNTHINK illustrates the enthusiasm and trust Facebook users placed in Facebook when they first joined, the letdown, the problems, and calls people to action:

VIDEO TRANSCRIPT

“You told us this is our world, this is our show; you set it up, invited us in. A performance for all by all. I couldn’t wait to strut my stuff, to stand out in my share of the spotlight. I couldn’t wait to tell my story! I couldn’t believe all this was free!

But I never knew that I’d be part of some damn puppet show …that you thought you could own me!

ENOUGH with your endless dictating, arrogant attitude, disrespecting me, imposing your rules on me, moving my things, jerking me with endless tricks, controlling my news feed, caging me in, making money by interrupting me, constantly spying – yes, spying on me! I’ve seen through your illusion of free.

How lame can you be?

You even called me a dumb f**k just ’cause I trusted you!

All you greedy giants fighting over my turf, yanking me around, trying to intimidate me: I’m nobody’s fool.

The gig is up. You broke my trust.

So now YOU listen to ME: It’s FU time! I’m not gonna live under your tyranny.

This is my turf, my world, my story to write, my turn to lead. I am finally breaking free! Come on world, let’s write our own story!”

Look for our upcoming videos and press releases to find out more about UNTHINK at http://www.UNTHINK.com or on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/UNTHINK

Coming Next: a video featuring Unthinkers explaining why “Anyone Can Be Extraordinary!”

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About UNTHINK
UNTHINK Corporation is a technology company based in Tampa, Fla. UNTHINK is not a start-up. It was founded on April 22, 2008 by successful entrepreneurs with experience in re-inventing markets, and is supported by a dedicated team of more than 100 cutting-edge techies and rebels. It is a product of the foresight of its founders who three years ago realized that social media was headed in an alarming direction. UNTHINK.com is a social media revolution. It is built ON purpose WITH purpose to better serve people and brands, empower them, and make their lives easier. It disrupts existing market ‘think’ and shifts social media in the direction of Win-for-All.

Looking Backward from a User Perspective
Social media until now:
-A popular activity spoiled by a business ‘logic’ that clashed with users
-Compromised their privacy
-Plagued by endless redesigns
-Profile pages turned to commercial junkyards
-Ever-changing terms of use
-Segmented into multiple one-dimensional niche networks
-Unable to live up to its core promise of empowerment
-Lacked a strategy to stimulate collaboration between people and brands
-A non-transparent business, which used people as guinea pigs in its pursuit to exploit the social graph for profit

Looking Backward from a Brand Perspective
Social media until now:
-Consumed by privacy controversies
-Forced brands to build pages and fan bases they didn’t own
-Deleted accounts at will
-Subordinated brands to ever-changing policies and constantly dictated terms of use
-Segmented into multiple on dimensional niche networks
-Kept brands hostage to an unrealized promise of direct engagement
-A ‘business’ without a sustainable business model, which used brands as guinea pigs in its futile pursuit for profit

ON THE WEB:
http://www.UNTHINK.com
http://www.youtube.com/UNTHINK
http://www.twitter.com/iUNTHINK

DOWNLOADS:
UNTHINK Logo: http://ow.ly/65fCf
UNTHINK Image: http://ow.ly/65g1G
UNTHINK Homepage Image: http://ow.ly/65gkQ

CONTACT:
Glenn Selig
PR firm: The Publicity Agency
Email:
Phone: 813.708.1220
Mobile: 813.300.5454

Dr. Neuzil’s Irrigator is enhanced with all-natural essential oils. The nasal spray rinses out irritants that cause sinus discomfort. Its essential oils help moisturize passages and leave the user feeling refreshed. The 1 fluid ounce bottle easily fits in a pocket or pack for easy access to relief.
 
“Operation Homefront is pleased to be able to get Dr. Neuzil’s Irrigator into the hands of men and women serving our country and who we know may be suffering in the climates of those regions,” said Megan Lysaker, Operation Homefront-Florida Director of Development.
 
"With friends and family members who have served in the military, we know how difficult conditions can be,” said Ed Neuzil, ARNP, PhD and creator of Dr. Neuzil’s Irrigator. “We're thrilled to partner with Operation Homefront-Florida to help provide relief from uncontrollable conditions and do our small part in reminding our service men and women how much we appreciate their sacrifices.”
 
Additionally, Dr. Neuzil’s Irrigator is inviting consumers to support Operation Homefront-Florida with a special offer through the IrrigatorNasalSpray.com online store. Purchasers who input the code: HOMEFRONT at checkout will receive free shipping and Lor-Ed Enterprises will donate $1 to Operation Homefront-Florida for each purchase.

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“It’s a tremendous honor to be voted the best dermatologist in Carrollwood,” says Dr. Forman. “The Carrollwood community embraced my new office when it first opened just last year.”

In 2010, the native Tampa dermatologist opened the Tampa Psoriasis Centerin his Carrollwood office to focus on latest treatments for psoriasis. The center gives psoriasis sufferers access to the latest treatment options, including topical and oral medications as well as biological and phototherapy.

Psoriasis is one of the most prevalent autoimmune diseases in the United States, but the Tampa dermatologist says psoriasis is manageable, especially with the new technology being developed.

“I will continue to provide the best dermatology care for the people in Carrollwood and in my Tampa office,” says Dr. Forman. “Every patient deserves the best treatment and it’s an honor to be recognized for doing my job.”

Every year, the Carrollwood News and Tribune polls readers and awards the “Best of Carrollwood” distinction to local businesses. The full results will be featured in the Wednesday, August 24 edition of the Carrollwood News and Tribune.

About Dr. Seth Forman: Dr. Forman has two Tampa dermatology offices; one in Carrollwood and the other in Downtown Tampa. He opened the Tampa Psoriasis Center in his Carrollwood office in 2010. The center gives psoriasis sufferers access to the latest treatment options, including topical and oral medications, as well as biological and phototherapy. Dr. Forman is one of the few Tampa dermatologists to offer narrowband light therapy, which uses pharmaceutical grade light to suppress psoriasis. In August 2011, Dr. Forman was voted the “Best Dermatologist in Carrollwood” by the Carrollwood News and Tribune.

For more on Dr. Seth Forman or Tampa dermatology, please visit www.formanderm.com

MEDIA CONTACT
Melissa Rogovin
PR Firm: The Publicity Agency
Email:
Phone: (813) 708-1220 x 7783
Website: www.thepublicityagency.com

UNTHINK (www.unthink.com) is not another social network; it is a social revolution. UNTHINK was built ON purpose – WITH purpose. It is the product of the foresight of its founders, who in 2007 realized that social networks were headed for a dead end because of their arrogant behavior and total disregard of users, and that Facebook would evolve into what some call a cyber-dictatorship.

Now, just as the whole world is coming to realize the problems plaguing current social media – such as compromised privacy, endless redesigns, profiles turned into commercial junkyards, ever-changing terms of use – and the inherent danger of these dictatorial structures to our freedoms, UNTHINK is preparing to launch the solution.

“I realized this was a revolution waiting to happen,” says UNTHINK founder and CEO Natasha Dedis. “Here was a huge market with most of its growth still ahead of it; with the market leader taking advantage of users through an outdated and exploitive business model; a market built on the business ‘logic’ that user profiles, relationships and conversations are CONTENT to be exploited for profit.”

Realization to solution takes years, as former Facebook CTO Adam D’Angelo recently explained. He stated that it would take two years for 250 people to build a Facebook competitor and, by then, Facebook and the whole market would be completely different. Therefore, for Facebook to be challenged, it would take the foresight to anticipate future market needs and the ability to visualize a solution and bring together all the necessary resources to make it happen. But more than that, it would take a team so passionate about setting things right that they would be willing to face any risk and go up against insurmountable odds to give people a CHOICE.

And that’s exactly what UNTHINK did.

UNTHINK Corporation is a technology company based in Tampa, Fla. It is also the parent company of two wholly-owned subsidiaries: UNTHINK Technologies Pvt. Ltd., a development center based in New Delhi, India, and UNTHINK International Ltd., an international delivery center in Dublin, Ireland. UNTHINK is not a start-up. It was founded after a year of research on April 22, 2008 by successful entrepreneurs with experience in re-inventing markets, and is supported by a dedicated team of more than 100 cutting-edge techies and rebels.

In 2007, UNTHINK’s founders studied Facebook’s terms of service and business model and decided to research further. “We came to discover that they were baiting users by offering them a ‘free’ service and in exchange they were taking away their FREEDOM,” says UNTHINK founder and chief legal officer Spiro Verras. “Users were then subjected to endless redesigns and term changes, in effect treated as guinea pigs as Facebook tried to make money.” The UNTHINK team realized that this was a platform of control with the intention of creating a “walled garden” with the potential to undo the democratic web.

As UNTHINK prepares to launch, it invites all the Unthinkers of this world to rise and declare the emancipation of social media, paving the way for a social revolution. “We worked hard for more than three years to research people’s needs and present them with a solution that will empower them,” says Dedis. “We believe that anyone can be extraordinary; that anyone can bring the change they want to see in the world. Our mission is to emancipate social media and unleash people’s extraordinary potential. Our – not so covert – mission is to spark a social revolution. We believe in people.”

Are you an Unthinker? And would you like to lead this revolution? Go to UNTHINK.com and register.

A video just released today by UNTHINK illustrates the enthusiasm and trust Facebook users placed in Facebook when they first joined, the letdown, the problems, and calls people to action:

VIDEO TRANSCRIPT

“You told us this is our world, this is our show; you set it up, invited us in. A performance for all by all. I couldn’t wait to strut my stuff, to stand out in my share of the spotlight. I couldn’t wait to tell my story! I couldn’t believe all this was free!

But I never knew that I’d be part of some damn puppet show …that you thought you could own me!

ENOUGH with your endless dictating, arrogant attitude, disrespecting me, imposing your rules on me, moving my things, jerking me with endless tricks, controlling my news feed, caging me in, making money by interrupting me, constantly spying – yes, spying on me! I’ve seen through your illusion of free.

How lame can you be?

You even called me a dumb f**k just ’cause I trusted you!

All you greedy giants fighting over my turf, yanking me around, trying to intimidate me: I’m nobody’s fool.

The gig is up. You broke my trust.

So now YOU listen to ME: It’s FU time! I’m not gonna live under your tyranny.

This is my turf, my world, my story to write, my turn to lead. I am finally breaking free! Come on world, let’s write our own story!”

Look for our upcoming videos and press releases to find out more about UNTHINK at http://www.UNTHINK.com or on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/UNTHINK

Coming Next: a video featuring Unthinkers explaining why “Anyone Can Be Extraordinary!”

+MORE INFO

About UNTHINK
UNTHINK Corporation is a technology company based in Tampa, Fla. UNTHINK is not a start-up. It was founded on April 22, 2008 by successful entrepreneurs with experience in re-inventing markets, and is supported by a dedicated team of more than 100 cutting-edge techies and rebels. It is a product of the foresight of its founders who three years ago realized that social media was headed in an alarming direction. UNTHINK.com is a social media revolution. It is built ON purpose WITH purpose to better serve people and brands, empower them, and make their lives easier. It disrupts existing market ‘think’ and shifts social media in the direction of Win-for-All.

Looking Backward from a User Perspective
Social media until now:
-A popular activity spoiled by a business ‘logic’ that clashed with users
-Compromised their privacy
-Plagued by endless redesigns
-Profile pages turned to commercial junkyards
-Ever-changing terms of use
-Segmented into multiple one-dimensional niche networks
-Unable to live up to its core promise of empowerment
-Lacked a strategy to stimulate collaboration between people and brands
-A non-transparent business, which used people as guinea pigs in its pursuit to exploit the social graph for profit

Looking Backward from a Brand Perspective
Social media until now:
-Consumed by privacy controversies
-Forced brands to build pages and fan bases they didn’t own
-Deleted accounts at will
-Subordinated brands to ever-changing policies and constantly dictated terms of use
-Segmented into multiple on dimensional niche networks
-Kept brands hostage to an unrealized promise of direct engagement
-A ‘business’ without a sustainable business model, which used brands as guinea pigs in its futile pursuit for profit

ON THE WEB:
http://www.UNTHINK.com
http://www.youtube.com/UNTHINK
http://www.twitter.com/iUNTHINK

DOWNLOADS:
UNTHINK Logo: http://ow.ly/65fCf
UNTHINK Image: http://ow.ly/65g1G
UNTHINK Homepage Image: http://ow.ly/65gkQ

CONTACT:
Glenn Selig
PR firm: The Publicity Agency
Email:
Phone: 813.708.1220
Mobile: 813.300.5454

“We’ve exclusively secured the shortest physical distance between these two POPs,” stated Michael Persico, CEO and founder of Anova Technologies. “This is just another example of the specialized and intimate knowledge that drives our team to dig deeper and evolve our routes for optimized distance. Our exclusive focus on this area is why we consistently deliver competitive advantages to our clients in their pursuit of zero latency.”

The New Jersey metro area, with its multitude of equities, futures, FX and cash exchanges, is a veritable hotbed of algorithmic activity. Given the disparate location of each respective electronic matching engine, securing the fastest exchange-to-exchange connectivity becomes a tactic of paramount importance in the low latency arms race.  Today’s advanced execution systems are literally calibrated to take advantage of nanoseconds, something Anova excels at providing.

Kieran Athy, the new CTO of Anova Technologies continued, “Zero latency is what fuels our engineering mandate to constantly innovate and advance technology… basically score wins with faster and faster trading routes.  This is one of the things that made joining a focused firm like Anova so exciting. By the time the large telecomm providers can even initiate our level of engineering implementation, we’ve improved the technology so much that its original incarnation is nearly obsolete.”

This path between two of the world’s largest financial liquidity centers is scheduled to go live September 8, 2011.

About Anova Technologies: Anova Technologies is exclusively concentrated on HFT and algorithmic trading clients. Our goal is to symbiotically implement the most up-to-date and best-in-class trading connectivity solutions with unrivaled speed and agility.  With the fastest routes connecting the major exchanges throughout the US, Canada, Europe, and now, South America, Anova Technologies consistently delivers the ultimate trifecta to its clients: speed, accessibility and easy deployment.

MEDIA CONTACT
Denise Heitz
Marketing Consultant
(312) 540-9594 xt 103

“We wanted our name to reflect our academics as well as our Jewish identity,” says Amy Wasser, head of school at Hillel. “We’re excited to be starting the new school year with an enhanced new look and renewed energy.”

The school unveiled its new name and logo to parents, students and faculty at the end of the school year. Now the school is letting everyone else know.

Though its name has changed, Hillel Academy (www.hillelacademytampa.com) says it will maintain the same strategy of project based education to promote a higher level of thinking and collaborative learning.

Hillel is recognized in the academic world because its curriculum not only teaches above grade level but because it is enhanced with exploration and experience.

Class sizes at Hillel are smaller to create a lower teacher-student ratio and to enhance individualized learning. The school has received media attention for utilizing the latest in computers and technology to enhance learning.

“We foster a respect for self, school and community, and prepare students to be active and knowledgeable members of their societies,” says Wasser. “Our students have a sense of pride in their heritage and identity, cultivated by moral, cultural, and religious development. Hillel graduates’ strong academic ability is well known and they are sought after by the finest high schools in the Tampa Bay area.”

For students, the new name means a new logo, new uniforms and new school colors. And it also means a new state-of-the-art website, www.hillelacademytampa.com

The website has been completely retooled and redesigned to act as a hub for students, parents and faculty. It offers enhanced navigation, information about the school, videos and a blog.

For more information about Hillel Academy, please visit www.hillelacademytampa.com.

About Hillel Academy: In 1970, a group of parents recognized the need for a Jewish Day School in Tampa and decided to do something about it. Thanks to their hard work, Hillel School began its life as a private school with 30 students in grades 1-4, housed at Congregation Rodeph Sholom in South Tampa.

The school developed a stellar reputation over the years. As enrollment increased so did the need for additional space. In 1984 the school moved to the South Tampa campus of the Jewish Community Center. By 1992, Hillel was open to Kindergarten through 8th grade, and the need for farther greater expansion was clear. A beautiful, ten acre lot was identified as the perfect location for Hillel, and a campus in North Tampa was purchased. With additions constructed in 1999 and 2003, Hillel school is able to provide for over 200 students in grades transitional kindergarten through 8th.

Hillel’s mission is to provide a superior education that encourages a love of learning and a strong Jewish identity. To that end, Hillel students are encouraged to attain the highest possible level of personal achievement.

CONTACT:
Name: Amy Wasser
Company: Hillel Academy of Tampa
Email:
Phone: 813.963.2242
Web: www.hillelacademytampa.com

ON THE WEB:

www.hillelacademytampa.com

When he broke away to start his private practice seven years ago, Wieniewitz began to see that this traditional route was flawed for many investors. Frequently, investors diversify their money in the market to achieve what the financial industry has deemed as a sense of safety. But when the market corrected in 2008, Wieniewitz claims he failed to see a single diversified portfolio that didn’t lose money.

“If you buy a number of different mutual funds and the market goes down, you lose more in some and less in others usually,” Wieniewitz says. “But none of that stock market money is principal protected.”

Wieniewitz believes that true diversification would include some financial tools that would not be directly affected by a stock market downturn. As an experienced financial advisor, he assumed that individuals would not want to lose their principal or the interest they earned if the market went down.

“The fact of the matter is that most people, when they are honest with themselves, are in strategies that force them to recover old money they used to have. Wouldn’t it be better for some of your money to be positioned so that you always made new money?” the Knoxville-based finance advisor asks.

In an unstable and often faltering market, people are craving predictability more than ever. Wieniewitz Financialoffers monthly financial workshops on stable and predictable investment options in the Knoxville area.

About Wieniewitz Financial: Wieniewitz Financial, a financial services company, focuses on strategies to grow your retirement dollars while taking less risk. Their home office is located in Knoxville, Tennessee. Trae Wieniewitz is licensed and also has clients in over 5 other states.

MEDIA CONTACT
Trae Wieniewitz
865-691-2433
www.traew.com

In a surprise move earlier this year, officials from the Fraternal Order of Police (FOP) lodges based primarily in South Florida convinced union officials across the state to institute a statewide boycott of the law enforcement website LEOAFFAIRS.COM and its advertisers.

That angered the rank and file who believe that instead of solving their problems, union officials are trying to shut them up.

“The FOP feels threatened,” writes an officer on a LEOAFFAIRS.COM message board. “They have failed to address our concerns and are mad.”

Complains another: “Thank God for Freedom of Speech. The union fears this website and it should because they can’t conduct business as usual.”

LEOAFFAIRS.com is one of the largest law enforcement websites in the world. It has over 500 law enforcement agencies online in 18 countries each with its own message board to allow officers to raise work related issues.

Earlier this year, officers criticized union officials in Miami, Miami Beach and Ft. Lauderdale. Immediately after, union reps called for a boycott of the site.

Now Florida FOP officials will try to convince their counterparts nationwide to expand the boycott when they meet this week in Salt Lake City, Utah for the 60^th Biennial National FOP Conference.

In late July, Chip DeBlock, operating manager and co-founder of LEOAFFAIRS.COM, sent a letter to the FOP national president.

“Members… have been expressing their outrage over lodge presidents and officers supporting the boycott and failing to represent the very rights of law enforcement officers that they have sworn to protect,” wrote DeBlock, who is also a corporal and a member of the FOP for 25 years.

“I was recently informed that (the president) … of the Jacksonville FOP Lodge effectively threatened one of my advertisers to stop advertising with LEOAFFAIRS.COM if they wanted their products and services to be successful in Jacksonville. The advertiser did in fact stop their advertising on LEOAFFAIRS.COM as a result of this threat and we no longer receive compensation from them.”

DeBlock says he has consulted with a lawyer and is considering legal action.

LEOAFFAIRS.COM has been featured in The Washington Post and on MSNBC because of the role it has played in affecting positive change for officers over the last eight years.

“I am a firm believer that law enforcement officers need union representation,” DeBlock says, “but the public and officers could become confused if it appears that the FOP is attacking an officer rights website.”

There’s a flurry of postings from officers, which have been almost universally supportive of LEOAFFAIRS.COM.

“Board members who do not support freedom of speech should be turned out of office,” writes one officer. “Sadly I feel you were misinformed by our Union about what takes place here. This site has put pressure on those that are corrupt to the core to change.”

From another: “I reject your attempt to silence free speech — a cornerstone of the First Amendment to the Constitution. I find your attempt to do so by the use of boycott reprehensible.”

The vote is still scheduled.

The union’s national president, Chuck Canterbury, told DeBlock in an email: “This will be a decision of the members at the conference. I will chair the debate but ultimately it will be there call.”

DeBlock hopes pressure from officers and the public will convince union leadership to back off from a boycott.

About LEOAFFAIRS.COM: LEOAFFAIRS.COM is one of the largest law enforcement websites in the world. It has over 500 law enforcement agencies online in 18 countries and boasts millions of hits per month. The site consists of an Officer Rights Website and Agency Message Boards that allow officers to talk about work related issues. It has directly influenced many positive contributions to law enforcement including shelters for the families of first responders during natural disasters in Tampa/Hillsborough County; the acquisition of carbine assault rifles for officers’ safety and the move to a 4 day work week for morale in St. Pete; the ability to carry guns, make arrests and receive training for Florida Probation & Parole officers and the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office takeover of the Pahokee and Belle Glade police departments (at the request of the officers) to name a few.

MEDIA NOTE: Chip DeBlock is available for interviews. He is in Tampa. Please use the media contact below.

CONTACT:

Glenn Selig

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Phone: (813) 708-1220

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“Over the past three decades, conventional treatments like surgery, radiation and chemotherapy have only been able to extend the median survival of brain cancer patients by approximately two weeks,” said Robert Gibbs, co-founder of Miles For Hope and seven-year brain tumor survivor. “For that reason, my wife and I feel compelled to increase awareness and raise funds for brain cancer vaccines.  We desperately want others to have access to the same treatment that saved my life.  The additional clinical trial sites announced recently by Northwest will offer those facing a brain cancer diagnosis hope and, possibly, extend their life.”

Gibbs, married and father of four sons, was diagnosed in 2004 with brain cancer. If one brain tumor diagnosis was not enough, one year later their oldest son was diagnosed with a brain tumor.  Gibbs and his wife, Barb, researched all possible treatment options and came across an experimental brain cancer vaccine.  During his second surgery in 2008, his brain cancer became aggressive enough that it qualified him for an early DCVax® clinical trial at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA).  Gibbs set out on a mission to increase awareness and raise funds for the disease that attempted to take his life.  Gibbs, and his wife started Miles for Hope, a national non-profit brain tumor organization dedicated to funding cutting-edge cancer vaccines, like DCVax®, to save the lives of others.

Brain tumors currently affect over 200,000 people each year, one person every 3 minutes in the United States, and they are the leading cause of solid tumor cancer deaths in children under the age of 20.  It is estimated that over 600,000 people are battling a brain tumor in the United States.  In addition, brain tumors are the second-leading cause of cancer death in males under the age of 29 and the fifth cause of cancer death in female adults 20-39.

The following hospitals are hosting clinical trials for DCVax® immune therapy for glioblastoma:

    * UCLA in Los Angeles, CA  (Dr. Linda Liau)
    * University Hospitals Seidman Cancer Center in Cleveland, OH  (Dr. Andrew Sloan)
    * Virginia Piper Cancer Center in Minneapolis, MN  (Dr. John Trusheim)
    * Swedish Neuroscience Institute, Seattle, WA  (Dr. Greg Foltz)
    * NYU in New York, NY  (Dr. Michael Gruber)
    * Overlook Hospital in Summit, NJ  (Dr. Michael Gruber)
    * Baylor Research Institute in Dallas, TX  (Dr. Karen Fink)
    * University of Rochester Medical Center in Rochester, NY  (Dr. Kevin Walter)
    * Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, Michigan (Dr. Tom Mikkelson)
    * Brain & Spine Surgeons of NY in White Plains, NY  (Dr. John Abrahams)
    * Sutter Medical Center in Sacramento, CA  (Dr. Nora Wu)
    * Long Island Brain Tumor Center in Commack, NY  (Dr. Jai Grewal)

For more information on Miles for Hope visit the website at http://www.milesforhope.org/.

Gibbs has become an expert on current immunotherapies and treatment options for brain cancer because of his personal experience with the disease. Gibbs is available for interviews to discuss these points and other topic-related developments. To interview Bob Gibbs, call 727-781-4673.

About Miles for Hope: Miles for Hope, Inc. is a non-profit organization dedicated to funding cutting-edge brain tumor research, raising awareness of brain tumors and providing travel assistance to brain cancer patients enrolled in clinical trials.

MEDIA CONTACT
Bob Gibbs
1684 North Belcher Road
Clearwater, FL 33765
(727) 781-4673

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Participating locations will showcase their dinner options by offering $25, $35, or $45 prix-fixe, three-course menus (appetizer, entrée and dessert) throughout the week. Each participating restaurant will provide a special Restaurant Week menu in addition to their standard menu, which will suggest three options for each course.

Diners can choose from old favorites to the latest culinary hot spots, nationally known chain restaurants to local chef-owned bistros, Asian or Spanish fare to Italian, fondue, tapas and sushi, and from the award-winning restaurants of downtown Tampa to the gourmet gems on the beaches.

Dine Tampa Bay Restaurant Week begins Aug. 19 and runs through Sept. 2 and more than 60 area restaurants are participating.  Prices are per person and exclude beverages, tax and gratuities.

For more information about Dine Tampa Bay Restaurant Week, including a list of restaurants, chef bios, and other event information, log on to www.DineTampaBay.com.

About Tampa Bay & Company: Tampa Bay & Company is an independent, non-profit membership organization created to attract and serve visitors to Tampa Bay in an effort to create “Economic Development Through Tourism.”  Tampa Bay & Company is funded, in part, by the Hillsborough County Board of County Commissioners/Tourist Development Council.

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The album mirrors Fields’ journey from his beginnings in the 1970s funk scene, through the 80s and 90s, to the present. As reviewer Andrea Guy wrote, “This album will bring back memories of the great soul music of the 1970s while bringing a bit of modern flair to the songs. Lee’s been in the industry since the 70s so that classic sound has stayed with him through the years.”

Guy also writes, “The album isn’t all old school sound. Catchy songs like “Living’ for the Gusto” and “Man Hunt” are very modern dance tracks, going as far as using a vocoder effect.” Other recent Fields’ appearances includes a collaboration with Martin Solveig, which produced three hit singles (Jealousy, Everybody, I Want You), and starred in the music video Jealousy, see the video on YouTube. Martin Solveig is best known in the U.S. for his current Top 40 hit song, “Hello.”

Fields also recorded with the soul group Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings, and is featured in the music video for the song “I Learned the Hard Way.” Fields’ song with the Expressions, “Ladies” was sampled with new rapper and Jay-Z protégé J Cole. Just as impressive are his performances with Grammy award winning artists like The Black Keys in New York City, P. Diddy at Brown University, and Lupe Fiasco at UCLA Reggae Festival.

“When Lee Fields steps in front of a microphone, he always puts his heart, soul and mind into everything he sings,” says reviewer Peggy Oliver. Fields’ legendary music career is only highlighted by the stories he tells about the old days performing with artists like Percy Sledge, Wilson Pickett and B.B. King. He can keep you entertained for days with his outgoing personality.

“Lee Fields has been such a well-kept secret to most in the U.S., funk/soul genre. Reviewer Dan MacIntosh says, “Let’s hope Lee Fields doesn’t remain a hidden treasure for too much longer. He’s the sort of guy that would really go over well at concerts where hipsters might likely pick up right away on what a true talent Fields is.”

Treacherous is available at http://www.leefieldstreacherous.com and by digital download at iTunes, CD Baby, and is a real treat for listeners that enjoy Lee’s unique blend of urban soul music. Visit his http://www.leefieldsmusic.com to learn more about the album and Lee Fields.

About Lee Fields: For 40-years Lee Fields has captivated audiences worldwide with his powerful, distinctive, raw, gritty and soulful voice. He has crossed-over to 4 genres of music including Dance, Retro Soul, R&B and Blues, and continues to reach the young, mature and all in between. Fields’ new CD “Treacherous” was released on May 2011 from BDA Records. His new dance single hit, “I Want to Get with You” received great reviews, and is available on iTunes and CD Baby.

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http://youtu.be/1Jh4aGQBUZM – “Jealousy” Lee Fields and Martin Solveig

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Bohrman, known for his unique combination of news programming and technical acumen, will work closely with the network’s co-founders, Current Chairman and former U.S. Vice President Al Gore and CEO Joel Hyatt.

“Current’s mission has always been to shine a light on important issues, to spark debate and to speak truth to power. Earlier this year, we advanced this mission when we brought Keith Olbermann to Current and clearly stated our intent to be a truly independent, conflict-free, progressive voice in the news and political commentary arena,” said Mr. Gore. “David Bohrman passionately shares our vision. He has innovation in his DNA, and he has the unique qualifications and relationships to take Current to a whole new level in programming and production. I very much admire David’s excellent work, his integrity, his drive and his consistent track record of innovation. He will be a tremendous leader for Current, and Joel and I are proud to have David join us in this exciting venture.”

For the past decade, Bohrman was CNN’s senior vice president of programming and Washington, DC bureau chief, and in May of this year, he became CNN’s SVP and Chief Innovation Officer Worldwide. As Current’s President, he will be based in New York and San Francisco, and will oversee programming, production, broadcast operations, digital and technology. He will also work closely with Current’s Chief News Officer Keith Olbermann, who is host of Current’s centerpiece program, “Countdown with Keith Olbermann,” as the network expands its primetime line-up and election coverage.

“Re-defining media in a world of consolidation requires some game-changing measures,” said Joel Hyatt. “Having Keith Olbermann join Current was a game- changer. When we sought world-class leadership in the programming, production and digital areas, David Bohrman’s name came up time and again. Al and I believe that society needs, and audiences want, programming that delivers more than sound bites. People want an explanation, they want context, they want understanding. And they want tools that will get them engaged in making a difference about issues they care about. David is highly skilled in bringing information and clear-eyed analysis on important matters to multiple screens. And no one can touch David when it comes to developing innovative ways to tap the zeitgeist and get audiences immersed and involved.”

“There has been a profound change in the media landscape in terms of what’s being covered, how it’s being covered and how audiences want to consume it,” said Mr. Bohrman. “Those of us inside the media business have a responsibility to anticipate what viewers want and need, and we must constantly reinvent the medium. Today more than ever, I think audiences demand intelligent discourse instead of shouting. They want a way to be part of the discourse instead of being passive outsiders. I have been watching what Al and Joel and Keith have been doing at Current, and I believe that Current has a real opportunity to be a truly vital medium for a new breed of savvy, intelligent viewers. I’m extremely energized and inspired by this opportunity to work with them to establish Current as a significant and influential voice in the news and political commentary arena.”

During the three-decade span of his career, Bohrman has brought some of the world’s most memorable events to television. He spent more than a dozen years at CNN, where he oversaw newsgathering, political coverage and Washington programing, including the network’s 2008 “Election Night in America,” which generated CNN’s highest primetime ratings in its history and topped every other broadcast and cable networks’ audience numbers. He served as executive producer of CNN’s Peabody Award-winning coverage of the Presidential primary campaigns and debates throughout the 2008 election season. He also oversaw several other CNN Washington-based programs including “The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer,” “John King, USA,” and “State of the Union with Candy Crowley.” He oversaw CNN’s major political event coverage and is known for his innovative use of technology to help the network explain and expand on the issues of the day, ranging from CNN’s New York based coverage of September 11 to political conventions and Presidential inaugural events. He came to CNN as executive in charge of the “Moneyline News Hour,” and under his leadership, the show’s ratings increased by 20 percent in six months. David is widely known for having created the “magic wall” for John King and the “situation room” for Wolf Blitzer.

Prior to CNN, Bohrman held a range of leadership roles, including as CEO of Pseudo, Inc, the world’s first interactive Internet television network. He executive produced almost all of NBC News’ special news events from 1993-1997 and was part of MSNBC’s launch team, where he created two of that network’s original programs, “The Site” and “Imus in the Morning.” For 13 years before that, Bohrman was at ABC News, where in addition to being the principal creator and executive producer of its “World News Now” program and of ABC News Interactive, he was also a senior producer and part of the launch team for “Nightline.”

Bohrman earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in French and a Bachelor of Science degree in Physical Science from Stanford University. He also earned a Masters of Science degree in Journalism from Columbia University.

A full biography of David Bohrman is below.

About Current Media:

Current Media, the Peabody-and Emmy Award-winning television and online network founded in 2005 by Al Gore and Joel Hyatt, features the very best in commentary and information programming. Home to the newly launched “Countdown with Keith Olbermann,” as well as the celebrated documentary series “Vanguard,” Current is dedicated to providing insightful analysis of important issues – and digging deep into real stories to uncover how they affect real people. Current shines a light where other networks won’t dare and boldly explores provocative subjects – opening minds, sparking conversations and forming deep connections with its viewers. Current creates the commentary and delivers the independent, unexpected point-of-view our viewers want and need to hear. Current is media that matters.

Current is now available via cable and satellite TV in 60 million households in the US through distribution partners Comcast (Channel 107); Time Warner; DirecTV (Channel 358 nationwide); Dish Network (Channel 196 nationwide); Verizon and AT&T. In the UK and Ireland, Current is available on BSkyB (Channel 183) and Virgin Media (Channel 155). Viewers can also find Current online at www.current.com.

Contact:

Jeanne Meyer
EVP Communications
Current TV
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David Bohrman Biography

David Bohrman was appointed President of Current TV on August 8, 2011. Bohrman is known for combining news programming expertise, keen technical acumen and a penchant for innovation to capture some of the world’s mostprofound and important events on television. His career has spanned three decades and has included stints at CNN, NBC, and ABC and at an interactive television start up. Bohrman’s award-winning television programming includes coverage of Presidential elections, political conventions, and Presidential debates, and he is widely known for creating CNN’s “magic wall” for John King and “situation room” for Wolf Blitzer.

For almost a decade, Bohrman was CNN’s senior vice president of programming and Washington bureau chief. In May 2011, Bohrman became senior vice president and chief innovation officer with CNN Worldwide.

As CNN’s senior vice president of programming and Washington bureau chief, Bohrman oversaw newsgathering, political coverage and Washington programming, including “The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer,” “John King, USA” and “State of the Union with Candy Crowley.” He also orchestrated coverage of major political events and breaking news for CNN, often creating innovative ways to use technology to clarify and illustrate complex issues.

Bohrman spearheaded the network’s 2008’s “Election Night in America,” which had more viewers than every other broadcast and cable network and the highest primetime ratings in CNN’s 28-year history. He also served as executive producer of the primary campaigns and debates throughout the 2008 presidential campaign season, which earned the network a Peabody Award. Bohrman’s innovations include the “CNN Election Matrix,” a live and interactive environment to better explain election results unveiled in 2010, the CNN hologram and virtual U.S. Capitol technology, which aired on 2008’s “Election Night in America.” He also conceptualized the format for the unprecedented CNN/YouTube debates in 2007, which posed submitted online video questions directly to the candidates. Bohrman helped to reinvent how television covers politics by incorporating new sets and new technology, such as: the unique “floor anchor locations” for which CNN has become known, John King’s “Magic Wall,” the use of SkyCam at the Democratic Convention night at Invesco Field, and the large video walls for election and primary night coverage at CNN’s New York Headquarters in 2006 and 2008, and at the NASDAQ Marketsite in 2004.

Bohrman produced CNN’s extensive political programming leading up to CNN’s Emmy award-winning coverage of the midterm elections in 2006, including “Election Night” on a newly designed set in the Time Warner Center and at the “Election Night” Blogger Party in a Washington, D.C. coffee shop.

The resulting coverage was a ratings winner and critically praised. In 2005, Bohrman created “The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer,” CNN’s daily political and hard news program, which pioneered using multiple video screens to provide story perspective and up- to-the-minute updates.

During 2004, Bohrman produced CNN’s extensive coverage of “America Votes 2004,” which included special coverage of the Republican and Democratic national conventions, the presidential and vice presidential debates, Election Night and the inauguration of President George W. Bush. Bohrman was instrumental in securing CNN’s unprecedented floor access and anchor location at the Democratic National Convention, and he was the executive producer for the network’s Election Night coverage headquartered at the NASDAQ Marketsite in Times Square. In addition, he produced the 2002 election for CNN and the network’s live coverage of the funerals of Ronald Reagan and Pope John Paul II.

Bohrman created and served as senior executive producer of “NewsNight with Aaron Brown,” a position he assumed when he returned to CNN in summer 2001. There, he produced all of the New York portion of CNN’s award-winning live coverage of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. He also oversaw hundreds of hours of live war coverage during the lead-up to and early part of the War in Iraq.

Bohrman previously served as executive vice president of CNNfn, overseeing production of the network’s 18 hours of weekday business programming until November 2000 when he left to be the CEO of Pseudo Inc., the world’s first interactive Internet television network.

Bohrman joined CNN in February 1998 as executive in charge of the “Moneyline News Hour.” As executive producer, Bohrman was responsible for expanding the program to an hour-long format, which resulted in a ratings increase of 20 percent in its first six months.

During the course of his career, Bohrman has covered some of the most memorable events on television. Before joining CNN, Bohrman was executive producer of NBC News’ specials and special events from 1993 to 1997. In this capacity, he oversaw all coverage of breaking news and events. In addition, Bohrman produced such specials as “Decision 94” election coverage and the funerals for Richard Nixon and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. Also, for the NBC News cable venture MSNBC, Bohrman was responsible for creating two of that network’s original programs, “The Site” and “Imus in the Morning.”

Prior to working at NBC, Bohrman spent 13 years at ABC News. From 1991 to 1993, he was the executive producer of “World News Now,” the network’s first foray into overnight news coverage. Bohrman continued his role as executive producer when “World News Now” merged with “World News This Morning” and “Good Morning America News” in 1992. He was also the principal creator and executive producer of ABC News InterActive from 1988 to 1991. For several years, he served as a senior producer of ABC News Special Events, playing key roles in coverage of the Persian Gulf War, several political conventions and coverage of most major breaking stories. From 1982 to 1984, Bohrman was broadcast producer and senior producer of “World News Tonight.” As a senior producer for “Nightline” – and part of the venerable program’s original team – Bohrman managed the New York staff and coordinated most of the show’s live and often ground-breaking remotes.

During his three decades in broadcasting, Bohrman has been recognized for his excellence in journalism through numerous honors, including several Emmy awards, the Christopher award, a Los Angeles Press Club award, Golden Mike awards, the Arthur Ashe award and two honors recognizing achievement in new media, the MacUser and the SuperStacks awards. He served as senior producer of “Nightline” when the program received duPont, Polk and Peabody Awards. In 1982, Bohrman was recognized by People Magazine as the youngest senior producer in network news. And in June 2011, Fast Company Magazine recognized Bohrman as one of the 100 most creative people in business. Bohrman simultaneously earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in French and a Bachelor of Science in Physical Science from Stanford University and later earned a Master’s of Science in Journalism from Columbia University.

“It has been quite frustrating to see the same vaccine that saved my life, and the lives of others, unavailable to those battling this devastating disease,” said Robert (Bob) Gibbs, co-founder  of Miles For Hope and a seven-year brain cancer survivor. “Through our Moving Towards a Cure® events, we can ensure that more people have access to the same treatment.”  According to Gibbs, conventional treatments over the last two decades have only been able to extend the median survival rate by approximately two weeks. “Most organizations in the country typically focus on chemotherapy and radiation which, in my opinion, do not yield the same effectiveness as I am seeing with the addition of the vaccine.”

Miles For Hope has recently partnered with Accelerated Brain Cancer Cure (ABC2) and the Stephen M. Coffman Charitable Trust to fund a $100,000 research grant at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) to begin the clinical trial, Optimizing Dendritic Cell Vaccination for Low-Grade Glioma Patients. This is the first trial of its kind for patients that have been diagnosed with low-grade gliomas, a common form of brain cancer.

Brain tumors affect over 200,000 people each year; one person every three minutes in the United States. They are also the leading cause of solid tumor cancer deaths in children under the age of 20.  It is estimated that over 600,000 people are battling a brain tumor in the United States. In addition, brain tumors are the second leading cause of cancer death in males under the age of 29 and ranked fifth as the cause of cancer death in female adults age 20-39.

The 5K event is open to all ages. Online registration is encouraged at www.BrainTumorEvents.org/Raleigh.  Same-day registration opens at 8 a.m., event begins at 9 a.m. Registration for adults is $20. Fee increases $5 after October 7. Registration is free for children under 6 years. Participants can walk/run individually or form a team. Volunteers are welcome and needed. Post-event celebration to follow the race and includes an award presentation to remember those battling brain cancer as well as those who lost their battle.

Fred G. Bond Metro Park is located at 801 High House Road, Cary, NC 27513. Parking is available on site for all supporters.  For more information, please visit the website, www.BrainTumorEvents.org/Raleighor call 727-781-HOPE (4673).

About Miles for Hope, Inc.: Miles for Hope, Inc. is a non-profit organization dedicated to funding cutting-edge brain tumor research, raising awareness of brain tumors and providing travel assistance to brain cancer patients enrolled in clinical trials.

MEDIA CONTACT
Barb Gibbs
1684 North Belcher Road
Clearwater, FL 33765
(727) 781-4673

When looking at her life as well as the lives of her peers, Weinmann saw many similarities amongst middle-aged women, including the challenges and frustrations faced along the way. She analyzed the hurdles many of her peers had faced and saw that some were successful; others had emerged stronger and more fearless from facing their challenges head on.

As she analyzed these women, Weinmann was able to identify four characteristics that set them apart from the rest. These women had the drive to fulfill their dreams despite what stood in their way as well as the energy to advance.  The women relied on their passion to help them meet their fate and rule their world as well as their confidence to express their own expertise and experience. Weinmann saw how the features of drive, advance, rule and express combined to help these women to dare to improve their lives.

Weinmann uses research and examples from these famous women to show readers that some of their greatest achievements may come in their 40s and beyond. With a career in educational consulting and professional development, she provides readers with a how-to—and why-to—guide that also explains how to achieve success at any age. Urging women over 40 not to succumb to the negative media portrayal of aging women, the author uses words of encouragement to inspire them to dare to achieve the unachievable.

“If you look around and listen to most media, you’ll hear everything from ‘cougars’ to ‘hags,’” Weinmann says. “I want to be a positive voice for this powerful group of women.”

“Get DARE from Here!” is available for sale online at Amazon.com and other channels.

About the Author:
Liz DiMarco Weinmann founded and currently serves as the CEO of The DARE-Force Corporation, which serves women over 40-years-old who want to pursue, develop and lead fulfilling ventures in their personal lives, careers and communities. She has previously worked as a marketing consulting executive in New York and Washington, D.C., focusing on female markets. Weinmann earned her master’s in business administration with a concentration in finance and leadership from New York University’s Stern School of Business, where she now teaches marketing. She began her journey to DARE after an unfortunate series of career moves in the early 2000s, and has included her humbling yet encouraging range of experiences into “Get DARE from Here!”

MEDIA CONTACT:
Liz DiMarco Weinmann
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Phone:  (732) 614-1482
Website: www.thedareforce.com

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“First it was the not guilty verdict of Casey Anthony and now it’s an issue involving Casey Anthony probation that’s getting national and international attention,” says Glenn Selig, founder of the crisis management PR firm, The Publicity Agency (www.thepublicityagency.com). “The public is watching this and is concerned that if this type of mess up can happen in high-profile cases, what might be happening when a case receives no attention. In a sentence: It doesn’t make the judicial system look good.”

At a hearing today, Judge Belvin Perry deferred his decision in the Casey Anthony probation issue and said he needed to do more examination before deciding whether Casey Anthony will need to serve probation.

Because law and order is a foundation of our democracy, the Casey Anthony probation issue will once again force people to question whether Florida justice has its act together and whether they should still have faith in the system, says Selig.

“The Warren Jeffs conviction in Texas will provide some comfort to the American public that there is justice,” says Selig. “But the Casey Anthony case continues to make the public question the justice system.”

In New Mexico earlier this year authorities accidentally freed an accused killer. Family members of the murder victim were the ones who notified authorities that Toby Gonzales, 22, was free after friends spotted the suspect walking around Espanola, New Mexico.

And last summer in Delaware, suspected killer Taaqi Brown, 21, who initially was believed to have escaped from Delaware County Prison in Thornton, actually was released in a paperwork mistake and became the focus of an intense manhunt.

Regarding the Casey Anthony probation saga, back in January, 2010, Judge Stan Strickland sentenced Anthony to probation after she pleaded guilty to using checks stolen from a friend. In sentencing her, Strickland made it clear that he wanted the probation served after she is released. But the Dept. of Corrections interpreted the sentence to mean that Casey Anthony would serve probation while in jail. So did the Dept. of Corrections make a mistake?

“The public already feels like there was a mistake in the verdict. Is this yet another mistake and if so you have to wonder how much the public can tolerate,” says Selig.

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A-Rod has developed a great reputation on the field. But athletes’ antics off the field often overshadow accomplishments, says Selig.

Think Brett Favre and Tiger Woods, Selig says.

Major League Baseball confirmed in a statement that is investigating Alex Rodriguez following reports that the New York Yankees star participated in underground, high-stakes poker games.

Alex Rodriguez faced questions in 2005 about gambling, after a newspaper reported he participated in an underground poker games in New York.

“We take this very seriously and have been investigating this matter since the initial allegation,” MLB said Wednesday in a statement. “As part of the investigation, the commissioner’s office will interview Mr. Rodriguez.”

The Yankees slugger allegedly played in two illegal poker games, one of which included a game at the Beverly Hills home of a record executive. Other players in the game reportedly involved big-name actors, according to ‘Star’ magazine.

The Yankees All-Star third baseman is recovering from knee surgery and was expected to play again within a couple weeks.

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Executive director of the National Registry of Rehabilitation Technology Suppliers (NRRTS), Simon Margolis, is standing up to Levinson’s claims and the government’s attack on the Complex Rehabilitation Technology industry which includes the rehabilitative power wheelchair that Levinson addressed. Margolis believes that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) are erroneously pointing their fingers at companies, like the ones NRRTS Registrants represent, as the responsible parties for healthcare fraud.

“The data OIG reported on is four years old,” Margolis states. “It used numbers from the first few months after a major overhaul of Medicare and Medicaid policies and required documentation for power wheelchair claims. Suppliers and physicians were confused as to what was required by CMS as CMS continued to issue multiple clarifications.”

The organization said that most of the “non sufficient documentation” the report refers to is just clerical errors, like where the date is placed.  “CMS masks their mismanagement with policies that physicians don’t understand,” an unidentified NRRTS board member said. “Meanwhile, they are denying people with disabilities access to the mobility they need to be active, contributing members of society.”

This left patients like the 60-year-old Arkansan Denny Neff stuck trying to comply with the changing regulations. His doctors certified a power wheelchair was medically necessary, but payment was refused by Medicare. Despite their ruling  that he didn’t need it, he was allowed to keep the wheelchair, but is now forced to pay for the repairs and upkeep.

“I have to pay for a technician to make the six-hour round trip drive to my home in Lavaca from Little Rock. Plus, I pay labor costs and the price of the repair part. I recently had a $206 part break, it ended up costing me over $1,000 to replace it”

“If the power wheelchair ordered by Neff’s physician had been provided by Medicare,” said Margolis, “the cost of repairs and service would have been included.”

Margolis worries that without these wheelchairs and the funding and services NRRTS advocates for, many individuals with disabilities like Neff will be restricted to their homes and therefore, lose their jobs and routine interaction with their community.

NRRTS supports measures that reduce Medicare fraud and recognize there are people who abuse the system. Margolis says, “Reform should be done in an effective manner and include clear guidelines for physicians, other clinicians and suppliers along with reasonable documentation requirements. “

About NRRTS: The National Registry of Rehabilitation Technology Suppliers (NRRTS) is a professional association supporting individuals who provide Complex Rehab Technology wheelchairs and seated positioning systems for people of all ages and diagnoses who have postural or mobility deficits. These professionals offer quality care and service using specialized knowledge, training, experience and skills to match the consumers’ needs to appropriate equipment. NRRTS is a professional association of committed, skilled, experienced individuals who provide Complex Rehab Technology and services to people with significant postural or mobility deficits. This technology includes wheelchairs and seating systems along with other enabling technology.

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Future brides and wedding planners searching online: at work, on weekends, at night, for a ceremony and reception site no longer have to wait for a reply at the www.GrandBohemianOrlando.wqqsite.com. The WeddingQuick Quote’s functionality instantly answers the user’s key questions regarding: availability, services and amenities, delivering an estimated cost within seconds.

The catering staff at the Grand Bohemian now has a more efficient and effective way to communicate online with potential clients. Their office is open 24/7 creating both a great first impression and a personal relationship. There is no waiting for follow-up calls or e-mail. The WQQ is a silent sales manager, providing immediate answers at the client’s convenience.

The WeddingQuick Quote, developed by Madeline Daryadel, a former Director of Catering at the Bonaventure Resort, in Fort Lauderdale explained “the internet is an environment of instant answers. In creating the WeddingQuick Quote, we wanted a service that would give the user what they wanted, an immediate response. Benefits to the sales team include, reduced follow-up time, focus on qualified customer leads and shortening of the sales cycle.”

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Established in the late 1990s, MAD-Marketing, aka MADSearch, has been a dedicated partner to the hospitality community. In 2005 they joined with Cendyn, a leading provider of innovative software programs and awarding winning web designs.

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ATR has offered the Pledge to all candidates for federal office since 1987. To date, 41 U.S. Senators and 236 members of the U.S. House of Representatives have signed the Pledge. Additionally, thirteen governors and over 1,200 state legislators have signed the Pledge.

“I want to congratulate Sen. LeMieux for taking the Taxpayer Protection Pledge. The American people clearly showed their displeasure in November with the tax-and-spend policies coming from Washington. They want real solutions that create jobs and cut government spending,” said Grover Norquist, president of ATR.

“By signing the Pledge, George LeMieux demonstrates that he understands the problems of hard-working taxpayers nationwide, but especially the taxpayers of Florida.

“I challenge all candidates for federal office to make the same commitment to taxpayers by signing the Taxpayer Protection Pledge today,” Norquist continued.

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“We are simply delighted to celebrate completion and occupancy of this tremendous multi-family project within Tampa’s Riverview/Brandon community with our development partners and notable locals,” remarked Rey Ortega, president of Garrison Developer Group of Florida (GDGFL), the organization that led the new project.

Waterfront resort amenities are central to the lifestyle of The Preserve at Alafia. These unique features, coupledwith residents’ unimpeded access to both downtown Tampa and Riverview/Brandon, have driven rapid leasing of apartments at the Preserve according to Scott Baad, partner at Patriot Residential Management Services, the professional firm in charge of managing The Preserve at Alafia.

“There is not a single traffic light between The Preserve and both Downtown Tampa and the Brandon Town Center. Both are just minutes away on I-75,” said Baad. “The lure of living in a luxurious, secluded resort environment with immediate city access is simply unprecedented in Tampa Bay.”

The Preserve is less than 12 minutes from downtown Tampa via the adjacent Crosstown expressway.  Covered parking and storage is enjoyed by all tenants, with the added bonus of elevator service at the Preserve’s Mid-Rise buildings. The Preserve at Alafia offers amenities not found in other apartment communities in the Tampa Bay area, notably a day dock and storage for canoes and kayaks, a riverfront clubhouse with a fitness center, an outdoor fireplace lounge, yoga pavilion and pet agility park. Residents can access the 80 acres of adjacent preserve for hiking, refine their golf games on the putting green, enjoy the challenge of billiards and access the property’s theater/conference room.

“We are excited to bring this upscale resort-style apartment community to Tampa Bay,” said Ortega. “This project has created a new gateway for the Riverview community, and our residents will contribute significantly to the economy of this area.”

The 351 luxury apartments of The Preserve are comprised of one, two and three-bedroom garden and mid-rise apartment homes. The residences of The Preserve at Alafia are the first phase of a total $100 million three-phase multi-use project featuring the Shoppes at Alafia Crossing, which consist of retail and office space and a full-service Holiday Inn with a conference center and restaurant. Alafia Crossing is set to open in the Fall 2012.

According to project developers, life at The Preserve at Alafiais about catering to the needs of its residents. In addition to numerous onsite amenities, the project has established relationships with many area businesses that will provide discounts on a variety of local goods and services.

Founded by Rey Ortega, Armando Yanez and Alex Giannini, GDGFL is a development company owned and managed by an experienced team of focused professionals committed to creative development solutions and quality construction projects in Florida.

The Preserve is managed by Patriot Residential Management Services who manages properties throughout the Southeastern United States with offices in Tampa and Jacksonville, Florida.

For more information about The Preserve at Alafia, please contact Wendy Milenkevich, Community Manager, at  813-443-0600 or via e-mail at .

About Garrison Developer Group of Florida: Garrison Developer Group of Florida (GDGFL) is a commercial development company owned and managed by an experienced team of professionals who are focused and committed to bringing creative development solutions and quality construction projects to Florida and the Southeast. With more than 75 years of collective experience in various aspects of real estate development, the Garrison Developer Group is a well-rounded team of professionals. One of their – projects, The Garrison at 600 Garrison Cove Lane, in Tampa, Florida; is a 12-story, luxury condominium building on Harbour Island, facing Downtown Tampa. They have also completed 4 hotels in the last 2 years, in conjunction with American Hotel Development Partners (AHDP). This experience includes site evaluation, raising capital, construction, and property management. Founded by Rey Ortega, Armando Yanez and Alex Giannini GDGFL and AHDP specializes in land acquisition, real estate development and management, architectural design and engineering, hotel, office, retail and luxury residential development and operation along with construction and management..

About Patriot Residential Management Services: Patriot Residential Management Services is an accredited management organization by the Institute of Real Estate Management and specializes in enhancing multifamily values by utilizing its core marketing, management, and repositioning capabilities.  The company is staffed by seasoned real estate executives who each have more than 20 years of experience in their designated fields of expertise.  Since its founding, the company has managed more than 120,000 apartment and condominium units throughout the southeastern United States. With a leadership presence in all major Florida markets, Patriot drives excellence in resort-style living.

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Fans have the chance to see the action up-close-and-personal from the Yacht StarShip, America’s first 3-diamond rated Dining Yacht by AAA, as the teams cross the finish line.  Admission on to the Yacht StarShip is $5, and there will be a cash bar and food available.  Additionally, the Yacht StarShip will be serving a lunch buffet for an additional cost on Saturday, Aug. 6 and Sunday, Aug. 7 from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.

The Yacht StarShip will be docked in front of Jackson’s Bistro on Harbour Island starting Wednesday, Aug. 3 and attendees can pay at the door.

The 10th IDBF World Dragon Boat Racing Championship will take place on the Seddon Channel in downtown Tampa, marking the first time the Tampa Bay area has hosted the event.  The racing begins on Wednesday, Aug. 3 and concludes on Sunday, Aug. 7.

It has been nearly a decade since the United States hosted the World Championship, and competitors as young as 12 years old in the Junior Division and exceeding 65 years old in the Grand Dragon Division will be racing over the course of five days, four distances and 18 competition classes.

For more information, including race schedules and public events, visit www.tampa2011.idbfworldchamps.com.   For more information about the Tampa Bay area, including hotel, attraction, and other destination information, log on to www.VisitTampaBay.com.

About Tampa Bay & Company: Tampa Bay & Company is an independent, non-profit membership organization created to attract and serve visitors to Tampa Bay in an effort to create “Economic Development Through Tourism.”  Tampa Bay & Company is funded, in part, by the Hillsborough County Board of County Commissioners/Tourist Development Council.

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·         The zip line, more than 45 feet above ground, takes adventurers zooming over rides, treetops and pedestrians, all within view of Highway 192/Irlo Bronson Memorial Highway. The round-trip zip line experience offers 600 feet of flight.

·         Pepsi AMPVenture Experience participants can test their strength, endurance and balance maneuvering the rope and obstacle course. Participants individualize their own experience as they choose the path to maneuver 20 challenging elements, reaching heights more than 40 feet above the ground.

·         Those wanting a real sense of adventure and accomplishment can also tackle the new rock climbing wall which towers over the front midway section at Old Town.

Old Town visitors get huge savings by purchasing the Ultimate AMPVenture Experience wristband for $39.95 which includes one entry to the zip line, adventure course and rock climbing wall, plus unlimited rides all day on 14 of Old Town’s exciting rides, including the new Flying Dutchman. 

Other pricing plans are available to meet every visitor’s individual need for excitement and fun on Old Town’s wide variety of attractions. A la carte access to the zip line or adventure course is available for just $12 each.

Old Town is revving up the scene for car lovers with the July debut of the All American Muscle Car Cruise on Friday nights, featuring show-quality American made muscle cars from 1964 to current. Live classic rock music bands perform each Friday evening. The world-renown Saturday Night Classic Cruise also is getting a new look with more classic cars and, of course, live music from the 50’s & 60’s.

After enjoying a meal at any of Old Town’s seven fine dining restaurants, visitors can browse the more than 80 specialty shops located throughout the adventure park.

"The enhancements are designed to lure families to Old Town,” said Gary Conroy, president of Old Town. “The adventure course is an awesome experience the entire family can enjoy together. There’s so much to do and see at Old Town whether spending the day or stopping by after visiting Central Florida’s premier theme parks.”

Old Town is located at 5770 West Irlo Bronson Memorial Highway (Hwy. 192) in Kissimmee.  Operating hours are Sunday through Thursday, from Noon to 11 p.m. and Friday and Saturday, from Noon to Midnight. Visit http://www.MyOldTownUSA.com/ for additional information on the new attractions, shops, dining and pricing, or call 407-396-4888.

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With a proven business plan in hand, Wieniewitz packed up his house, family and office and moved nearly 600 miles away to Knoxville, Tennessee. He didn’t know a single soul there, but had decided it would be his family’s and businesses’ new home.

Over the years, Wieniewitz and his organizations have become staple members of the Knoxville community. They are sponsoring a charity car show for local charity, Special Spaces on Saturday, August 20, 2011 from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. at the West Town Mall in Knoxville. The entry fee is $20, but donations will be accepted at the event. Individuals interested in registering their car or learning more about the event should visit www.CrusinForACause.com.

“When I saw Special Spaces features on ABC’s ‘Secret Millionaire’ and realized they were here in Knoxville, I thought it would be a great cause that the community could get behind,” Wieniewitz said. 

Since their move in 2005, Wieniewitz Financial and Affordable Tax Solutions have helped thousands of people in and around the Knoxville area. They provide financial advice and planning to help clients grow and protect their wealth through what some have called the worst recession since the Great Depression.  Through focusing on principal protection, reasonable returns in an unreasonable market and simplistic planning strategies, the rapidly growing client base has grown their wealth without losing any money during any of the recent stock market swings.

“We are very blessed to call Knoxville our home. Knoxville has been so good to us over the past six years while our family and businesses started over from scratch,” Wieniewitz said. “I wanted to find a way to give back to the community that has been instrumental in our business’s success and our family’s life. I think our relationship with Special Spaces is just the right way to do that.”

About Wieniewitz Financial: Wieniewitz Financial, a financial services company, focuses on strategies to grow your retirement dollars while taking less risk. Their home office is located in Knoxville, Tennessee. Trae Wieniewitz is licensed and also has clients in over 5 other states.

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Each person attending the concert is asked to bring a toy donation for our Advocacy Centers in Arizona and California that help investigate abuse. Each child coming into the facility receives a toy to keep and help comfort them during the process.

  WHEN:           Friday, August 12 – Tustin                                          Saturday, August 13- Tempe

                          9:00 a.m.  Merchandise sales open                              6:00 p.m.  Merchandise sales open

                          10:00 a.m. VIP Experience                                         7:00 p.m.  VIP Experience

                          11:00 a.m. Concert starts                                            8:00 p.m.  Concert starts

WHERE:          The District at Tustin Legacy – The District Stage         District Stage at Tempe Marketplace

                           Jamboree Rd & Barranca Pky                                     McClintock Dr and Rio Salado Pky

                           Irvine, CA                                                                   Tempe, AZ

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VIP TICKETS: VIP tickets can be purchased online at www.childhelp.org/BoobooandFivel  for $40. Only 50 tickets will be sold. VIP ticket holders will have their picture taken with the duo, get their autograph and sit stage-side in a special VIPs only section during the concert.  For more information, call Lisa at 480-922-8212.

Booboo Stewart is best recognized for his portrayal of Seth Clearwater in The Twilight Saga: Eclipse, third installment of The Twilight Saga film series. Fivel has worked in the entertainment industry consistently since she began her career at the age of seven. As a brother and sister duo, Booboo and Fivel consistently stand out amongst their generation both as musicians and actors. Between his good looks, charms and many talents, Booboo is consistently listed as one of the “Faces to Watch” amongst the hottest in Hollywood. Fivel has performed with the musical group My Allowance and sang lead on a few of their single releases such as the track “Finders Keepers.”

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CEO and Co-Founder Sara O’Meara and President and Co-Founder Yvonne Fedderson started Childhelp in 1959, establishing it as a leading national non-profit organization dedicated to helping victims of child abuse and neglect and at-risk children. Childhelp’s approach focuses on advocacy, prevention, treatment and community outreach.

The Childhelp National Child Abuse Hotline, 1-800-4-A-CHILD^®, operates 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and receives calls from throughout the United States, Canada, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico and Guam. Childhelp’s programs and services also include residential treatment services; children’s advocacy centers; therapeutic foster care; group homes and child abuse prevention, education and training. Childhelp also created the National Day of Hope^®, held each April during National Child Abuse Prevention Month that mobilizes people across America to join the fight against child abuse.

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The complaint names as defendants BofA and its branch manager in Palm Beach, Bernard Madoff’s former neck of the woods and second home to Donald Trump. Celebrities, blue bloods, royals, tycoons, banking and Wall Street elite, the noble and ignoble alike, populate the tiny cloistered community. Over the years, South Florida has long been home to a colorful cast of characters, and like the tides, scandals roll in regularly.

Fisher’s lawsuit details sloppy multi-million dollar business dealings allegedly improperly conducted at the banking behemoth’s storied island location, two blocks from her home. The web of transactions began with an LLC connected to New Orleans’ Plaza Tower skyscraper, Hurricane Katrina and ex-NFL Ravens’ football player Michael McCrary. Fisher claims BofA’s conduct and oversights entangled her into a toxic tornado of litigation battles with McCrary, complex court proceedings where eight-figure recital figures were tossed about like Kleenex.

Florida litigator Timothy W. Schulz, Esq. spearheads Fisher’s BofA action. Schulz, a former Roy Black protégé and Greenberg Traurig litigation associate, began to shape the case last month when he assumed reins of the looming David and Goliath courtroom battle. With a unique background as a police officer turned criminal defense attorney and forensics expert, turned high-stakes litigator, Schulz’s amended complaint sets the stage for a unique legal showdown against BofA, filled with unusual twists.

"Bank of America intentionally and/or negligently allowed improper bank accounts opened in violation of standard banking protocol and banking laws in anticipation of large deposits of funds," Schulz says. “My client has been enmeshed into a bizarre legal disaster chain of events, devastated, cannibalized and vilified for years on end."

“This story is a movie-of-the-week in the making,” pink-Cadillac-driving Fisher adds, speaking of her litigation odyssey. “I’m through with martyrdom. The ending is unwritten. It’s true, what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger, and I like surprise endings. As William Faulkner once wrote, ‘Facts and truth really don’t have much to do with each other.’ I am thankful for this current opportunity to be heard in a court that upholds notions of fair play, substantial justice and due process.”

Court records reflect that Fisher’s case against BofA was assigned to Circuit Court judge the Honorable Thomas H. Barkdull, III. Judge Barkdull has presided over a number of high-profile Palm Beach cases and judicial rulings, including Rush Limbaugh’s painkiller case. Judge Barkdull is the son of the longest-sitting appellate judge in Florida history, the late Judge Thomas H. Barkdull, Jr. — namesake of (Third District) Thomas H. Barkdull, Jr. District Courthouse on Barkdull Way, Miami.

Schulz intends to document how BofA irregularities and improprieties ignited McCrary’s $60-million lawsuit against Fisher in 2007. A Baltimore state court rendered a $33.3-million civil default judgment against Fisher and others in the McCrary litigation. Schulz and legal experts say the judgment was draconian because she and legal counsel were precluded from speaking or participating in the judicial process.

Fisher asserts the BofA suit defines missing puzzle pieces that ignited McCrary’s firestorm of litigation against her. McCrary’s case spawned four years of legal proceedings in 13 separate state, federal and appellate courts in Maryland, Louisiana, Florida and Washington, DC, including filings before the United States Supreme Court. At one point Fisher's Bourbon Street house and personal possessions were seized in 2009; a court order returned Fisher's property and McCrary's default judgment was later overturned. The core case is ongoing.

Fisher’s current literary and film projects include development of her The Plaza Tower Matrix legal-drama storyline for screen adaptation.

“This suit will alter the way people view the perceived status quo of banking industry protocol, at a time when the public expects financial institutions assume their fair share of accountability for corporate decisions, actions and errors,” Schulz says.

Noted international legal counsel for the entertainment industry, Russell Smith, Esq. and Frank Dehn, Esq. (New York, London, Los Angeles, India) of SmithDehn LLP and their legal assistance firm SDD Global Solutions, will assist Schulz in case preparation, as will Fisher’s longtime attorneys in the McCrary litigation, Richard Winelander, Esq. of Baltimore and Al M. Thompson, Jr., Esq. of New Orleans.

Fisher is a member of the Writers Guild of America (WGA), Directors Guild of America (DGA), Producers Guild of America (PGA), Dramatists Guild of America (DG), Authors Guild (AG), National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (ATAS), Screen Actors Guild (SAG), Actors' Equity Association (AEA), and other professional guilds and organizations.

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