Coca-Cola’s Qoo to go to Germany.(fruit drink to be launched in Germany)(Brief Article)
July 29th, 2010Advertising Age, December, 2002
Byline: Dagmar Mussey and Lucien O. Chauvin
[essen, germany] Coca-Cola Co. will launch a popular Asian children’s fruit drink called Qoo in its first European market, Germany, in January, with a major ad campaign by Hakuhodo, Qoo’s agency in Asia. Qoo (pronounced “coo”) is a tiny blue creature that befriends children and looks like a cross between Hello Kitty and the Teletubbies
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As the child develops,
July 29th, 2010As the child develops, potential health risks may be prevented through early awareness and lifestyle management. How this may impact cardiovascular disease and Type II Diabetes rates will likely require many years to measure.
Of course, all of these recommendations should be factored in with education and support for improved lifestyle and diet. Given the pressures of youth, it is important to not stigmatize a child and foster eating problems and poor self-image where the body mass problems may have been associated more simply with poor, and uneducated, dietary choices and insufficient physical activity.
Dave Saunders is a certified nutritional educator, wellness coach,
member of the American International Association of Nutritional Education (AIANE) and author. He is also the host of a weekly, nation-wide telephone lecture on health and nutrition. For additional information, please visit http://www.glycoboy.com or http://www.glycowellness.com or email Dave at dave@glycoboy.com.
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GraphOn Releases GO-Global 4 Product Suite
July 29th, 2010GraphOn Releases GO-Global 4 Product Suite
0 Comments | Wireless News, Jul 29, 2010
GraphOn, a developer of application publishing and Web-enabling software solutions, announced the release of GO-Global 4, a new product suite that expands the functionality of the company’s GO- Global for Windows application virtualization solution.
“We are very eager to introduce our new GO-Global 4 family and its new capabilities, including support for 64-bit operating systems,” said Asaf Doron, vice president of product marketing for GraphOn. “GO-Global 4 is much more than a product upgrade. It’s a new, remote access platform built from the ground up to meet application publishing and virtualization requirements.”
GO-Global 4 provides instant and secure access to centrally- running Windows applications from virtually any location, platform, and operating system. The solution “publishes” Windows-based applications over LANs, WANs, VPNs, and/or the Internet for remote access from cross-platform clients and mobile users.
The GO-Global 4 product suite includes the following software components:
-GO-Global Windows Host 4.0: Runs on a central 32- or 64-bit Windows computer along with the applications being published, thereby providing multi-user, remote access to the applications. GraphOn offers two editions of the GO-Global Windows Host: Professional Edition and Platinum Edition.
-GO-Global Clients: Each remote device runs a GO-Global Client that enables access to the central applications
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Forget the Format — New Aimersoft Video Converter Family is Available Now
July 29th, 2010PR Newswire, July 24, 2010
SHENZHEN, China, July 24 /PRNewswire-Asia/ — Aimersoft Studio, a leading multimedia software developer, today announced the availability of its new upgraded video converter family products – Video Converter, Video Converter Pro and Video Converter Ultimate, which offer a more quick and simple way for users to edit and convert videos, rip DVDs and even download online videos for all mobile devices like Smartphones, Apple devices and other portable players.
The most noticeable changes for this upgrade include:
1. Remove DRM copy protection from WMV WMA, iTunes M4P M4A M4V AAC M4B ASF;
2. Download online videos from YouTube, Metacafe, Google, etc. directly;
3. Directly transfer songs & videos to portable players like iPod, iPhone, iPad and PSP, etc;
4. Rip DVD movies to common video/audio files;
5. Burn files to DVD disc, DVD folder or ISO files;
6. Edit videos by splitting, clipping, cropping and merging, etc.
Besides these changes, the new Video Converter also simplified its interface and improved maximum user-friendliness
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Barefoot Technologies Announces New Partnership With PackLate.com
July 29th, 2010PR Newswire, July 23, 2010
Property Managers Using Barefoot Can Now Generate Revenue from Excess Nights with PackLate’s Great Last-Minute Vacation Rental Deals Marketplace
PHILADELPHIA, July 23 /PRNewswire/ — PackLate.com, the largest last-minute real-time vacation rental marketplace with deals in over 24 destinations including Lake Tahoe, Orlando, Hilton Head, Myrtle Beach, Aspen, and Park City, and Barefoot Technologies, a leading provider of browser-based reservation and asset management systems in the vacation rental industry, today announced a new partnership. Now, clients using the Barefoot software have the opportunity to directly integrate their property details, availability, and rates with PackLate to increase bookings of last-minute inventory.
This relationship provides Barefoot customers a tool to fill vacant rental homes at the last minute, which in turn leads to more profit for vacation rental managers. All PackLate inventory shows 100% up-to-date availability information and can be booked online with a major credit card, alleviating the frustration consumers have with making inquiries on rent-by-owner listing sites and endlessly waiting for owner responses.
This new partnership provides Barefoot users with real-time integration and no extra work for their back-office staff. When property managers make a booking in Barefoot, the inventory disappears from PackLate. When PackLate generates an online confirmed booking, the booking instantly appears in the property manager’s system. The customer wins as they get a secure, fast, credit card-based hotel-style booking experience and the property manager wins as they drive revenue from excess nights with no additional effort.
“Last-minute inventory is an issue for all lodging businesses,” says Ed Ulmer, director of business development, Barefoot. “PackLate now allows vacation rental companies a tool to compete with other lodging segments and take advantage of our uniqueness; I am thrilled to offer this solution to our clients.” Steve Barsh, CEO of PackLate, went on to say, “With nearly 50 property managers already taking advantage of PackLate, we’re excited to extend our seamless functionality to Barefoot users so they can increase revenue and bookings from perishable inventory. Everyone wins.”
About Barefoot
Barefoot is a leading provider of browser-based reservation and asset management systems in the vacation rental industry. It has the distinction of being the first browser system in the industry, the first to provide online booking, tenant, owner access and to offer social media tools and is designed to be tailored to meet clients’ exacting needs. Barefoot is also the only system with a full Customer Relations program wrapped into the program, which in effect makes it the only full service system in the industry. Founded in 1998, by leading technology and industry players, the “.NET platform” has become a standard for those who are trendsetters in the industry and those who desire to dominate their market with unique functionally. For more information, please contact Edward Ulmer at 603-428-6255, ed.ulmer@barefoot.com
About PackLate
PackLate is a last-minute vacation rental marketplace where consumers can instantly book great last-minute deals
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For example, a chat
July 29th, 2010For example, a chat about the latest movie or play can actually end up in the two of you standing in queue to buy tickets for it.
As you begin to form opinions of your girlfriend during the course of conversation, she in turn does the same. Therefore, you should think carefully before speaking and taking up subjects that might be repugnant to her. Religion and politics, for example, are subjects which often don’t gel well with breakfast, lunch or dinner. Unless and until you are open and ready for an active debate, those topics shouldn’t be touched with a barge pole. Talking about it, however, gives you an indication of your girlfriend’s political and religions leanings.
A chat is one of the best ways to express your love to your girlfriend. But you should never utter the words “I love you” unless you mean it. This is because false love is very easily found out by women.
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For example a free
July 29th, 2010For example a free garage inspection; emphasise the safety benefits for the family etc. If you’re selling books on ‘Computer Accounting Systems’ focus on the reduced accounting time the purchaser will achieve and not the features of the product.
Frame the major benefit in a storyline with the customer involved. Make it really clear what is involved, i.e what’s in it for them. Be specific, spell it out. It should be immediately understood. Include the product.
Attract good customers through high level benefits for them. Your main message must make the customer say. ‘This is important to me, I must found out more’.
2. Make The Customer Believe Your Claims
What you state could be true, but a lot of potential customers don’t tend to believe advertisers. Over bragging can kill the ad. Keep the claims honest and reasonable.
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MicroPhage wins ‘R&D Magazine 100 Award’ for world’s first test designed to rapidly identify bacterial infections and antibiotic susceptibility
July 29th, 2010Business Wire, July 27, 2010
Company setting new standard for fighting hospital acquired
infections and reducing bacterial resistance
LONGMONT, Colo. — MicroPhage
announced today that it has received the R&D Magazine 100 Award in
Bioscience for its Microphage MRSA/MSSA Blood Culture Test.
The first of MicroPhages instrument-free, rapid tests is based on the
Companys patented Bacteriophage Amplification platform
technology.
The R&D Magazine 100 Awards are widely recognized as the Oscars of
Innovation, identifying and celebrating the top bioscience and other
products of the year. The R&D Magazine 100 Awards span industry,
academia, and government-sponsored research.
The Companys initial commercial productMicrophage MRSA/MSSA Blood
Culture Testwhich has received regulatory clearance (CE Mark) to
be sold in Europe, is designed to rapidly identify Staphylococcus
aureus (staph) bacteria as well as determine methicillin
resistance (MRSA) or susceptibility (MSSA) in suspected
cases of bacteremiabacteria in the bloodin as little as five hours.
Todays standard of care for determining these types of infections takes
up to three days for test-results, which can result in ineffective
treatment, bacterial resistance, and death.
This major award objectively recognizes that our technology represents
a new era for the effective and cost-effective diagnosis of
bacterial infections, said MicroPhages Vice President of Research and
Development, Drew Smith. These infections are a difficult
challenge, afflicting millions of patients every year, and costing
billions of dollars in health care expenses. This award bears strong
testimony that our initial test is an innovative benchmark in bacterial
identification and antibiotic susceptibility testing, and we are
delighted to receive it.
The MicroPhage MRSA/MSSA Blood Culture Test requires no
instrumentation and begins with two small reaction tubes for incubating
blood culture specimens. After only five hours, the incubated samples
are added to a dual dipstick-like detector, which looks much like a home
pregnancy test. One part of the test determines if the blood sample is
infected with S. aureus bacteria and the other shows whether it
is susceptible or resistant to methicillin-type antibiotics. Delivering
this diagnostic information quickly enables physicians to determine more
effective antibiotic therapy. Better therapy will shorten hospital
stays, lower health care costs and, ultimately, save lives. S. aureus
bacteria typically has a mortality rate of >20 percent.
About MicroPhages Bacteriophage Amplification Platform
Building on original research licensed from the Colorado School of
Mines, MicroPhage has adapted Bacteriophage Amplification, a natural
biologic process, for identifying bacterial infections. Bacteriophage are
harmless bacteria-specific viruses that multiply aggressively when
exposed to target bacteria. In the detection process, reaction of the
bacteriophage proteins on the MicroPhage detector indicates that the
sample is positive for the bacteria. For susceptibility analysis, the
organism in the sample is simultaneously challenged with an antibiotic.
Because bacteriophage depend on host bacteria for amplification, any
compound that kills or inhibits the microbes growth will stop phage
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Apartment offers piece of history
July 28th, 2010Apartment offers piece of history
0 Comments | South Wales Evening Post, Jul 27, 2010
The stats 5 The Ice House, SA1, Swansea Rent Pounds 625 pcm Number of bedrooms 1 THIS unique apartment offers the chance to live in a historic building that forms part of Swansea’s rich industrial heritage.
The Ice House, a landmark in Swansea’s SA1 development with its distinctive chimney stack, was once a busy part of Swansea docks.
Built around 1880 to produce ice and provide cold storage for shipping, it has now been converted into five luxury apartments above an art gallery and a Thai restaurant.
The grade two listed building is on the east bank of the River Tawe between Technium and the new Sail Bridge. Number 5, which is to be let unfurnished, is on the second floor of the building.
It offers unusually roomy accommodation for a onebedroom flat. The lounge has an entire wall of windows which fold back completely to reveal an internal balcony with a large porthole which gives views of the Marina.
At the other end of the lounge is the kitchen dining area which is fitted with high quality Smeg integrated appliances, white units and butcher’s block worktops. There is a dark cherry solid wooden floor throughout.
The bedroom is a good size and the bathroom has high quality fittings and tiles with a mirrored wall and over-bath shower.
The apartment comes with a parking permit which is valid in any of the Excel car parks in SA1.
Contact Agent: Marina & SA1 Properties, 2-3 Abernethy Square, Maritime Quarter, Swansea, SA1 1UH
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Sure occasionally the team will
July 28th, 2010Sure occasionally the team will surprise a few viewers such as two seasons ago, but when looking particularly at what this season holds for Buffalo, I do not see much promise. While Kelly Holcomb is a decent quarterback, I like him more as a backup then starter, and with the loss of Eric Moulds, I don’t think he is going to have a better season with only Lee Evans as a valuable threat. The Bills do have Willis McGahee as a nice running back, but like a lot of Buffalo’s defensive players, he is suspect to injury, and my guess is that he will be on the Injury Reserved by the end of the season. As I really want to give the fans of Buffalo some optimism, I would suggest looking at the Sabres next season, as this team will be the only winning one in western New York this winter.
The last team to provide some competition for this division would be the New York Jets. I bet you probably are laughing now reading that I wrote competition in relation to the Jets, but to be honest I think that this team has the potential to be even better than the Dolphins.
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