Filmmaker Karen Lavender works behind a camera. Glass sculptor Marlene Rose labors in front of a furnace. The tools of their craft are different, but both women share a common bond as artists working in male dominated fields.

Their work was featured in two Sarasota venues on February 2. Lavender's short film about Rose's glassmaking, From Fire: An Odyssey of Glass, was screened at the Through Women's Eyes film festival while Rose's sculptures were on display at the Hodgell Gallery on Palm Avenue.

MenuVantage, the market's premier web-based menu selling system, today announced that Protective has joined its nationwide network of active F&I providers. The company joins over 50 other providers currently on the MenuVantage platform including A.U.L Corporation, LOTS, Cal-Tex Protective Coatings, SouthwestRe, CNA National, EasyCare, GE, American Financial Automotive Services, and Safeguard. Protective is a leading supplier of extended service contracts, GAP coverage and credit insurance for automobile, marine, RV, and power sports dealers. MenuVantage will electronically rate their products, electronically remit and enroll their customers, as well as enable the dynamic printing of their contracts on plain printer paper.

ColumbiaSoft, a leading provider of Microsoft® Windows-based document management systems, announced today that it has achieved the Gold Certified Partnership as an Independent Software Vendor (ISV) / Software Solutions partner with Microsoft for the fifth consecutive year.

"We've built our reputation delivering document management solutions that are intuitive and easy to use, and our close alignment with Microsoft has helped us keep that promise to our customers," said Richard Day, ColumbiaSoft CEO. "Our continuing partnership with Microsoft is a strategic benefit to the company, and it distinguishes ColumbiaSoft as a trusted solution for the most common computing environment in use worldwide."

The European Privacy Partnership warns that consumers may lose more that their credit rating if they default on loans.

This month's UK bankruptcy figures show that UK business and individuals are still choosing bankruptcy as a seemingly easy way out of debt problems. However many people fail to realise that defaulting on debts not only damages your credit rating but may also prevent you from renting (not just buying) a home and may even stop you getting certain types of employment.

All bad debt typically remains on an individual's record for six years from the date of the default. During this time those with a history of debt can expect to be refused not just credit but also rented accommodation and even some types of employment.

Donna Allie, founder of Philadelphia's largest minority-owned business, Team Clean, has been selected as one of the Philadelphia region's 2008 Women of Distinction by the Philadelphia Business Journal and the National Association of Women Business Owners.

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Allie and her 24 fellow honorees received the award at a gala ceremony and dinner last week at the Sheraton Philadelphia City Center. She was also featured in a profile in the November 21, 2008 editions of the Philadelphia Business Journal.

As the ec 832 onomy continues to struggle, PT Marketing's Executive Compensation Appointment Setting Program is the perfect marketing tool for financial services and insurance professionals who want to meet business owners. With traditional investment platforms taking a significant downturn over the last 12-18 months, business owners have expressed a need for alternative financial products to protect their business.

"PT Marketing's Executive Compensation Program has successfully put me in front of business owners to discuss the benefits of programs such as life insurance planning to protect and grow their business," stated Ed Radosh, PT client since 2007. "I have found the appointments this year to be of even better quality due to the economy forcing business owners to look for other avenues to protect themselves."

San Diego, California (PRWEB) May 19, 2006 - KLINEDINST PC is pleased to announce that Negin A. Demehry has joined the law firm as an associate.

Prior to joining Klinedinst, Ms. Demehry worked for a law firm in Virginia, assisting in civil litigation cases including construction, employment, medical malpractice, personal injury and real estate.

Ms. Demehry received her J.D. from George Mason University School of Law. While in law school, she interned with the U.S. Department of State. She also had an internship with the Asst. State Attorney's Office for the Circuit Court of Baltimore City, as well as the Trial Office of the United States Navy Judge Advocate General's Corps (JAG).

"Suboptimal thinking sales organizations with high personnel turnover and unpredictable sales revenues are rapidly failing in the global marketplace" according to Rosalene Glickman, Ph.D., international best-selling author of Optimal Thinking (Wiley, 7th printing and in 15 languages) and creator of OptimalThinking.com's new Sales Organization Optimization Program for Senior Executives. "These sales organizations still rely on the erroneous 'Just be positive, it will all work out fine' motto. Too often, their sales personnel are wishful thinkers who suppress negativity, focus on what is out of their control, and make suboptimal choices. They squander sales opportunities because they don't make the most of the options available to them. Their suboptimal thinking compromises their communications and produces suboptimal sales performance."

The new version of ESRI's StreetMap Premium, an enhanced street dataset that works with ESRI's ArcGIS software to provide geocoding, routing, and high-quality map display, includes expanded coverage and more licensing options. The enhanced dataset now gives users of ArcGIS Server and ArcGIS Desktop access to street data for the United States, Canada, and Europe that is tailored to their specific needs and geographic regions. ArcGIS is an integrated collection of geographic information system (GIS) software products, providing a platform to conduct spatial analysis, manage data, and serve cartographic information.

Xap Corporation and Bridges Transitions Inc. announced this week the completion of the business combination through which Bridges, a leading provider of software-based online education planning, career exploration, and high school/college test preparation resources, becomes allied with Xap. Over 14,000 schools and other agencies in U.S. and Canada use Bridges’ products and services. Bridges will operate as a wholly-owned subsidiary of Xap.

“We welcome Bridges and its many customers into our corporate family,” said Liz Dietz, CEO of Xap Corporation. “Career planning, in which Bridges is the market leader, is intimately related to successful college planning, a field in which Xap has been a leader for the past decade. Bridges’ career planning experience complements perfectly Xap’s online college planning and admission application expertise. This business combination presents the possibility of a comprehensive one-stop online center at which students, and their parents and counselors, can aspire, explore and start to realize career and academic goals.”

Red Cedar Publicity and Marketing, a full service PR and marketing firm specializing in restaurants and retail, announces its unique twist on concierge service. Starting this fall, Red Cedar will be marketing a select group of restaurants directly to visiting sales and marketing reps that are in Philadelphia for conventions. Corporate dining is a lucrative business and therefore highly desired by restaurant owners. Red Cedar is providing an affordable service that brings this business directly to restaurants that are not normally on the convention radar.

Lali Productions, based in Birmingham, UK are to showcase two short films ‘Deeva’ and ‘Re-Born’, produced in 2005, which will be broadcasted on ‘RAJ TV’, Sky channel 187.

The time and date they will be aired are 8 pm and 8.30 pm on Saturday 13th May 2006

Lali Productions are an innovative production company dedicated to making meaningful and creative films. The company was formed by film-makers Harvinder Sandhu and Lalit Dadrah, who had realised that mainstream media at times, does not give coverage to issues of concern, which is why, after combining their skills, they have sought to create and produce engaging, thought-provoking films surrounding important subject matters as drugs and other social issues.

Just in time for Mother's Day, Vicki Smith, a lifelong Horticultural professional, www.LGYP.com has news about extremely low maintenance rose bushes that make adding these lovely multi-season plants a breeze.

Honestly, what comes to mind when thinking about a traditional rose bush? Fussy? Time-consuming? Hard work? All that and still have black spot and aphids?

"Not anymore," according to Smith. "The good news is that this latest group of landscape roses really should be thought of a low or no maintenance flowering shrubs or ground covers that just happen to flower with rose-shaped flowers. Yes, they are that good."

Chemist Paul Connett, Ph.D., who has 23 years experience with waste management technology, will speak at a public meeting about the health risks and effects of toxic incinerator plants on communities. The free public meeting on Tuesday, January 6 at 7 p.m. at the First Church of the Nazarene in Anderson has been planned by community residents against the proposed PEAT International waste treatment facility. PEAT representatives have also been invited to speak at the meeting.

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Connett has agreed to come to Anderson at no charge stating, "I am glad to help Anderson in any way I can." Dr. Connett is a graduate of Cambridge University and holds a Ph.D. in chemistry from Dartmouth College. In May 2006, he retired from his full professorship in chemistry at St. Lawrence University, Canton, NY, where he taught for 23 years. His specialty was environmental chemistry and toxicology. Over the past 23 years his research on waste management has taken him to 49 US states and 50 other countries, where he has given approximately 2000 public presentations. He has co-authored 6 peer reviewed articles on dioxin and numerous other articles on waste management.

Konica Minolta Business Solutions U.S.A., Inc. (Konica Minolta), a leading provider of advanced imaging and networking technologies from the desktop to the print shop, today announced that Better Buys for Business (Better Buys) has recognized Konica Minolta's bizhub PRO™ C6500P and bizhub PRO 1050eP as 2007 "Editor's Choice Award” winners. The 65 color ppm bizhub PRO C6500P and the 105 monochrome ppm bizhub PRO 1050eP are featured in the 2007 edition of Better Buys' “The High-Volume Printer Guide“.

While divers were conducting a unique submarine project in MacDonald Lake at the Haliburton Forest and Wild Life Reserve, they encountered an ancient stone structure revealing proof of life from Central Ontario ancestors.

The history of Eastern Canada is generally viewed in two stages: 1st - recent history, measured in decades and centuries, involving the early, white settlers and 2nd - the early history, measured in many centuries and millennia, represented by petroglyphs, stone mounds and arrow heads that takes us several hundred, sometimes a thousand or two years back into North America's native past.

Sam Gold, host of the public access television show “Injured on the Job" (which focuses on the California Workers Compensation system) will feature an exclusive twelve minute interview with disabled injured nurse Barbara Clark, who gained notoriety last week for filing a $40 Million lawsuit against John Rea, head of California’s Department of Industrial Relations. (Case No. USDC for EDC (Sacramento) 2:05 - CV - 02410)

“Her story is compelling and needs to be told,” commented Gold, who operates the non-profit injured workers advocacy group, Californians Injured At Work, Inc. (www.ciaw.org).

A Biology teacher from Australia, named Stephen Jones, has done extensive research into the bird flu and compiled a list of natural foods that are effective against the Bird Flu virus and listed others that are detrimental.

The list may come as a surprise to many people since foods such as spirulina and echinacea are listed as detrimental. This strange occurrence is largely due to the fact that the virus is immune to 2 cytokines that the body produces (TNF-a and IL-6). Cytokines are compounds produced by the body’s immune system that attack and remove foreign bodies. The problem is that when a foreign body is immune to certain cytokines, the body sees that its immune response is not working and tries even harder, which can lead to what is called a cytokine storm, where the body becomes flooded with these compounds and they eventually destroy the body itself. Foods such as Echinacea actually stimulate the production of these specific cytokines; hence consuming it is not a good idea if one suspects they may have the virus.

www.Domo-Online.com is well-known among outboard motor and snowmobile enthusiasts due to their selection and their commitment to swift, friendly service. Business owner Warren Worthley has taken the next step in growing his business by starting a blog at www.OutboardMotorOilBlog.com . In creating this blog, Warren has managed to turn a business that began with a customer's frustration into an answer to the frustrations of others worldwide.

"I own an 200 horsepower Evinrude E-Tech and I wanted to buy oil for it," Warren explains as he details the origins of Domo-Online. "I tried to find well-priced outboard motor oil on the Internet, but I couldn't find anything. I decided to start Domo-Online and sell discount outboard motor oil for Evinrude, Yamaha, and Mercury Engines." Answering the need for the public, Warren quickly found the market for his products, and over the course of a year he has built up a loyal customer base for his deals on Yamalube, Mercury, and Evinrude XD motor oils. But just offering the products wasn't where Warren wanted to stop.

Women looking for the best in health and fitness information now have a one-stop website - the Women's Health and Fitness Podcast Directory (http://www.womenshealthandfitnesspodcastdirectory.com). More than just podcasts, the Directory offers videocasts, blogs, articles, as well as podcasts by experts in the health, fitness, wellness and life coaching fields. The Women's Health and Fitness Podcast Directory can be depended on to bring the latest information on the hottest topics including exercise motivation, intuitive eating, menopause, weight loss, pregnancy and nutrition, to name just a few. Busy women can even download the podcasts into their cell phones, PDA's or MP3 players for information on the run!

Directory owner, Gillian Hood-Gabrielson, an exercise physiologist and intuitive eating coach, personally knows the struggle that women face when looking for credible information on health and fitness on the Internet. With major search engines featuring thousands of downloadable Internet radio shows (more popularly known as Podcasts), she had to spend hours and hours filtering through shows before she could find one that covered the exact topic of her interest. In addition, when she did find shows that fit her interests, about two-thirds of them were outdated and no longer accessible.