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Michael Ley of RE/MAX Town and Country located in Port Orchard, WA, has partnered with Pro Step Marketing to develop a new website with advanced IDX integration for consumer rich search tools and free resources as part of an extensive marketing strategy to show Ley’s dedication to his community and local real estate market.

Ley, a real estate specialist, wanted a site where buyers could easily search for properties and get information about the Port Orchard, WA area while at the same time assuring their sellers that their properties will been seen.

Ley’s new website – www.KitsapHomeLocator.com – provides numerous resources and real estate tools to the general public. The advanced IDX integration allows buyers to easily search for properties by either their price range or town of interest. Visitors to this Port Orchard website will also have the option to receive new listings right to their email.

Pro Step Marketing, located in the Lake Norman town of Denver, NC, provides Real Estate Web Design http://www.ProStepMarketing.com marketing consultation and education services to real estate agents across the country, including logo design, branding services for print and web, website design and development, and implementation of lead generation and search engine optimization. Pro Step Marketing has a team dedicated to pulling all the pieces together so their clients can finally get the results they’ve always wanted from their real estate marketing strategy.

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Continue reading ..]]> San Diego, CA, August 17, 2011 –(PR.com)– White Digital Media, the leading business news source for C-level executives and decision makers worldwide, announced today the merge between its marketing and interactive departments to form ‘branding.’ The newly formed department will spearhead the creative initiatives behind White Digital Media’s twenty-plus brands.

“As a digital media company, our marketing and interactive teams collaborate on a daily basis,” explains Freddy Pierce, White Digital Media’s Branding Director. “The merge between the two will allow for a more focused effort on the expansion of our brands as a whole – from the inspiration behind the designs, to their strategic implementation into the marketplace.”

White Digital Media’s brands cover the business news in a variety of industries and territories worldwide. WDM’s territorial brands offer the latest business news in the economic hotspots of the world, while its industry sectors report on the specific news within the construction, supply chain, technology, manufacturing industries and more. White Digital Media’s flagship brand, Exec Digital, is the only digital news source that offers business professionals the perfect balance of work and life.

White Digital Media first opened its doors in the UK in January of 2007. Founder and CEO Glen White moved his company to the US in 2008, which has since continued its international expansion to Canada, Europe, and India. To learn more about White Digital Media, please visit www.whitedm.com.

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White Digital Media is a leading digital media news source offering C-level executives a variety of industry and business news content worldwide. Founded in 2007 by entrepreneur Glen White, White Digital Media retains a diversified portfolio of websites, magazines, daily news feeds, and weekly e-newsletters; all of which leverage technology to innovatively deliver high-quality content, analytical data, and industry news.

White Digital Media is headquartered in San Diego, California. Additional offices are located in Boston, Toronto, Mumbai, and Norwich, England. For more information, please visit http://www.whitedm.com.

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Continue reading ..]]> COLUMBUS, Ind., Aug. 19 /CSRwire/ – /PRNewswire/ – LittleManMarketing.com is donating monthly online selling and amicable media selling services to HEMEFund Worldwide in an bid to eventually assistance a people of Afghanistan who are pang from homelessness and poverty.

HEMEFund Worldwide is a 501(c)3 nonprofit classification dedicated to improving communities around a universe by assisting adults, children, and families mangle a cycle of homelessness and poverty. This is achieved by providing assistance in a areas of housing, education, medical, and practice to capacitate them to achieve their fullest intensity as individuals.

“We are so vehement to partner with HEMEFund Worldwide. The Afghan people and generally a children are pang from impassioned misery and desperately need help. After articulate with HEMEFund founder, William Seo, we knew this was a good cause,” pronounced Dustin Cannon, boss of Little Man Marketing Inc.

The services supposing to HEMEFund Worldwide embody hunt marketing, couple building, website government and amicable media marketing.

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“IBM is combining principles from nanoscience, neuroscience and supercomputing as part of a multi-year cognitive computing initiative,” Modha said.

Techies at IBM have already completed the Phase 0 and 1 of the project with the first phase involving the simulation of the cortex of a cat brain on an IBM supercomputer having 144TB of memory and establishing the basic synaptic circuits for the brain chip.

The basic idea is to have the same kind of computing feats that the animal has, like jumping on a fence using only binocular vision.

IBM is planning to develop SyNAPSE supercomputers first at “cat” level and then move over the complete range of higher mammalian intelligence, including the likes of Einstein and Alexander the Great.

Following the completion of Phase 0, the next phase involved the simulation and construction of prototype brain chips. This is quite different from simulating them like common desktops using sequentially processing von Neumann-style processors.

“This is a major initiative to move beyond the von Neumann paradigm that has been ruling computer architecture for more than half a century,” stated Modha. “Future applications of computing will increasingly demand functionality that is not efficiently delivered by the traditional architecture. These chips are another significant step in the evolution of computers from calculators to learning systems, signaling the beginning of a new generation of computers and their applications in business, science and government.”

These neurosynaptic chips produced by IBM aim to emulate the brain computing systems by replicating the function of synapses, neurons, and axons in the brain to provide memory, computation, and communication. So far, IBM has created two prototype neurosynaptic chips thus far, which have 256 simulated neurons.

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Continue reading ..]]> When it’s “All About Nina” it pays to have a devise B.

The vigour was on as a remaining designers had to come adult with a demeanour that could transition from day to evening. The twist. The outfit contingency be done for Nina Garcia, decider and Fashion Director during Marie Claire magazine.

I’d always deliberate Nina to be a toughest decider on a runway and she didn’t infer me wrong. She pulled no punches when revelation a designers what she favourite and some-more specifically, what she didn’t.

As Nina met with a everybody away a word listened many was no. No, she didn’t wish a dress she wanted pants. No, not that collar. No Oliver, not that conservative. No Bryce not a micro mini mini. And dear God Bert, no. A plunging neckline is not suitable for a office. No, no, no.

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COSMOS — A $1.9 million sovereign travel extend has been awarded for a reformation of state Highway 4 by Cosmos.

The extend was partial of a $7.2 million extend allocation for 10 apart Minnesota projects that was announced this week by U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood.

The Highway 4 plan was one of a large income winners in Minnesota that was partial of a national rival extend routine that drew hundreds of applications. It was a usually informal highway plan that done a cut.

“We’re really exi-ted. Any new form of appropriation is welcome,” pronounced Sus-ann Karnowski, module and plan expansion operative from a Minnesota De-partment of Tr-ansportation’s Di-strict 8 bureau in Willmar.

The due plan includes stealing and replacing a highway aspect of Highway 4 for a length of a Cosmos city boundary and squeezing a existent 80-foot breadth of a highway by town.

The leftover space will be used for a bike and walking trail and immature space, Karnowski said.

As partial of a project, a city of Cosmos is proposing to ascent a H2O complement and other utilities, she said.

While a $1,956,601 sovereign extend is good news, it falls brief of a financial need for a project, Karnowski said.

The sum estimated cost of a plan is $4.6 million.

MnDOT’s focus to a Federal Highway Administration had sought a $3.2 million grant.

MnDOT and a city will have to cruise options, like looking for additional income or scaling behind a project.

“It’s only a matter of operative with a city to establish where we go from here given we didn’t get a full appropriation for a project,” pronounced Karnowski.

Once a skeleton are completed, construction is approaching to being in 2013.

The extend focus was submitted in Jun as partial of a new routine for awarding sovereign highway funds.

In prior years, Congress designated some of this extend income for specific projects and a Highway Administration awarded a residue by a rival process.

Because a 2011 bill upheld by Congress in Apr destined that all such supports be discretionary, a Highway Administration awarded these supports by a rival process.

Even yet a Cosmos extend is smaller than requested, it was a second-highest endowment on a Minnesota list.

A extend of only over $2 million was awarded to reinstate a I-35 overpass during Maryland Avenue in St. Paul.

The Cosmos plan was tighten behind with $1,956,601.

The third plan ranked on a list of grants was $800,000 for a state scenic byway during a ancestral Stewart Creek Bridge.

A extend of $407,400 was dedicated to aiding with expansion and expansion of 250 under-utilized disadvantaged Minnesota businesses. The initial information didn’t prove where those businesses were located.

The smallest extend was $50,000 for improvements to North Shore Scenic Drive.

“Transportation investments like these will emanate jobs and urge a peculiarity of life for Minnesota residents as good as strengthen a state’s economy,” pronounced LaHood in a news release.

“The direct from a states for these supports shows only how vicious a need is for infrastructure investment.”

The Federal Highway Administration invited states to request in Jun for sovereign appropriation from 14 extend programs.

Requests came from each state, Puerto Rico and Washington, D.C. — some-more than 1,800 applications, totaling scarcely $13 billion — that is some-more than 30 times a supports available, according to information from a Highway Administration.

“At a time when states are confronting vicious budgetary constraints, these grants will assistance fill a vicious need,” pronounced Federal Highway Administrator Victor Mendez. “Investments like these are evident and long-lasting and will assistance emanate jobs.”

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Best Buy has announced a new graduation that might be a pointer that Android tablets are still not doing so hot. The Best Buy understanding offers business a giveaway Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 with a squeeze of a Samsung HDTV, kicking off on Aug 21 and finale Aug 27. Android tablets have been trailing distant behind a Apple iPad 2, with a new Galaxy Tab 10.1 deemed many competitive, though even it seems to be in need of batch clearance.

The offer is for a giveaway 16GB WiFi indication of a Galaxy Tab 10.1 and relates to a squeeze of a 46-inch 3D Samsung HDTV that’s labelled during $1,499.99. It’s a startling gold deliberation that a Samsung inscription would routinely cost about a third of a TV. Either a inscription or a TV or both are not doing so well, nonetheless a Best Buy orator insists that a debate is dedicated to offered a TV, not a tablet.

Although a Galaxy Tab 10.1 has been one of a many expected Android tablets, Samsung has remained wordless on tangible sell-through numbers. Samsung’s new authorised woes with continued attacks from Apple have enclosed a preliminary injunction of a Galaxy Tab 10.1 in Germany. The South Korean association is also during risk of a broader European ban and remember of a whole Galaxy lineup of smartphones and tablets following Apple’s latest filing in a Netherlands.

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Continue reading ..]]> Capital One Financial Corp., a area’s largest private employer, is confronting insurgency to a squeeze of ING Direct, a U.S. online banking section of Dutch financial giant ING Groep.

U.S. Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., asked Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke to extend a open criticism duration on a due squeeze for during slightest 60 days.

Frank, a comparison Democrat on a House Financial Services Committee, pronounced some-more time is indispensable to try a impact of a merger on consumers, communities and a economy in ubiquitous since a squeeze would emanate a fifth-largest U.S. bank.

“For this reason alone, caring should be taken to entirely inspect a impact of this purchase,” Frank wrote in an Aug. 17 minute to Bernanke.

Advocates for consumer rights and affordable housing have pushed to hindrance a ING Direct deal. The National Community Reinvestment Coalition pronounced a squeeze should be stopped since it competence emanate another bank whose fall could endanger a financial system, a classification pronounced in a matter this month.

Capital One spokeswoman Tatiana Stead pronounced Thursday that a row that a merger in any approach increases Capital One’s “systemic importance” is baseless.

“Capital One’s prudent management of a business — including avoiding originations of a kinds of outlandish debt products that were during a base of a predicament — demonstrates a offset joining to both reserve and soundness and consumer protection,” a McLean-based association pronounced in a created statement.

“We have worked diligently over time to conduct risk and to safeguard that a change piece is sound and a association is well-capitalized,” a association said.

Capital One, that derives some-more than half a income from credit cards, concluded in Jun to buy Amsterdam-based ING Groep NV’s U.S. online bank for $9 billion to advantage deposits and entrance to 7 million customers.

The association pronounced this month that it skeleton to buy a U.S. credit-card arm of Britain’s HSBC Holdings PLC, profitable a $2.6 billion reward for a unit, to enhance a domestic credit-card business.

The association employs some-more than 7,800 people in a Richmond area. Most of a internal functions are tied to a credit-card unit.

Capital One, in a 13-page minute filed with a Fed on Monday, pronounced a Fed’s criticism duration had “provided plenty time” for people to contention their views and that groups pulling for a open conference had “failed to brand element issues of fact in brawl or differently clear a need” for one. The criticism duration expires Monday.

The association pronounced a squeeze would reduce, rather than increase, a altogether risk profile.

It also pronounced a increasing scale of operations would advantage customers, shareholders and a economy by providing consumers with improved entrance to banking services.

“Throughout a mercantile downturn, Capital One delivered plain formula by conservative balance-sheet management and severe underwriting,” a association pronounced in a statement. “We were one of a name organisation of counterpart banks to broach certain handling gain during any year.”

“Capital One and ING Bank sum would reason usually about 1 percent of sum liabilities of all insured repository organizations in a United States,” a association said.

Capital One has pronounced it expects to finish a understanding late this year or early 2012. The bank competence have to compensate a stop price of $270 million if a understanding to buy ING Direct falters, a bank pronounced in a Jun filing with bonds regulators.

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Barfield Murphy Shank Smith, Birmingham, announced a series of new hires: Jeremy Viers has assimilated a organisation as a comparison accountant, and Tyler Crawford, Dan Post, Graham Travers and AJ VanderWoude, all formerly interns during a firm, as staff accountants.

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CALIFORNIA

Shawn Stewart has been certified as a partner of a Business Advisory Services Practice in a Los Angeles bureau of Grant Thornton LLP. He assimilated a organisation in 2010. … Chris Frederiksen has assimilated Accounting Transition Advisors LLC as West Coast partner. … Richard Green and Caroline Walsh, partners during MGO, Sacramento, have been allocated to a American Institute of CPAs‘ State and Local Government Expert Panel Pension Comment Letter Task Force. … Frank J. Bernhard has been allocated a plan and operations executive in a telecommunications zone during Deloitte Consulting LLP. He will be formed in a San Jose office. … Therese Tucker, CEO of Blackline Systems, has perceived dual Golden Bridge Awards in a Women in Business and a Professions Category – Best Entrepreneur/Founder – Non-Services Business, and Best Woman Professional – SaaS or Cloud Computing.

FLORIDA

Hefgine G. Fils-Aime, a open 2011 connoisseur of a University of South Florida, has been awarded Beta Alpha Psi‘s Medal of Inspiration Award. The award, sponsored by a AICPA, is bestowed on a tyro who has gifted impassioned hardships in their life and who has demonstrated an scarcely high turn of success notwithstanding that adversity.

MAINE

Charles T. Hunter and Brandon Milton have assimilated a Government Consulting Group of BerryDunn CPAs, Portland, as consultants, and Michaela Millunzi as a business expansion specialist.

MASSACHUSETTS

Neil D. Krug, a partner during Gray, Gray Gray LLP, Westwood, was respected by Hebrew SeniorLife for some-more than 40 years of proffer use during a group’s annual golf outing. … Christopher Ernest, a CPA in a Rockland bureau of Blum, Shapiro Co. PC, has been comparison as one of South Shore Stars‘ “40 Under 40″ rising leaders.

MICHIGAN

Jeff Hert has been promoted to principal during Rehmann, Midland.

MINNESOTA

Steve Rader has assimilated a health caring consulting use of Eide Bailly LLP, Minneapolis, as a partner.

MISSOURI

Randall Wilson, a partner during RGL Forensics, St. Louis, has been inaugurated Grand Keeper of The Honorable Order of a Blue Goose, International, a fraternal classification in a word industry. As Grand Keeper, Wilson will offer as a treasurer of a organization, an general officer position.

NEW JERSEY

Matt Barbieri has been promoted to partner during Wiss Co. LLP, Livingston. The organisation also announced a series of promotions: Stephanie Hirsch, Paul Lembo, Kerri Nelan, Kyle Pennacchia, Nicole Stewart and Darin Valentine were promoted to supervisor; Aleksey Tsymbalov to manager; and Dewang Sanjanwala to a newly combined position of executive of worker advantage plans.

NEW YORK

Eric Openshaw has been allocated to lead a U.S. technology, media and telecommunications use of Deloitte, New York City, succeeds Phil Asmundson, who continues to lead Deloitte’s U.S. media party and telecommunications, as good as a tellurian telecommunications sectors. … Michael Cohen, Mitchell Cohen, Ryan Dudley, Michael McDonald and Willem outpost der Berg have been promoted to principal at Friedman LLP, New York City.

NORTH CAROLINA

Mike Boger, a member of Breslow Starling, Greensboro, has warranted a Accredited in Business Valuation credential from a American Institute of CPAs, while member Tom Evans has been allocated to a Board of Directors of Preservation Greensboro Inc.

OHIO

Phil A. Hartke and Nicholas R. Lepley, of Brady Ware, Dayton and Columbus, have warranted their CPA licenses.

PENNSYLVANIA

Brian J. Hoffman, a partner in a Philadelphia bureau of Citrin Cooperman, has been allocated clamp chair of a Board of Directors of JEVS Human Services.

TENNESSEE

Lattimore Black Morgan Cain PC, Nashville, announced a series of new hires: Dustin Chaffin and Martha Norris have assimilated a organisation as seniors in a Accounting and Assurance Services Department; Deborah Gerrald Seaton as a comparison consultant in a Risk Services Department; and Josh Lloyd as e-marketing coordinator in a Marketing Department.

TEXAS

Karen Love, executive of use expansion during Pannell Kerr Forster of Texas PC, Houston has been named one of 10 Women on a Move by Texas Executive Women.

VIRGINIA

Gina Devine has assimilated a expansion markets use of Reznick Group, Tysons Corner, as an review manager.

WASHINGTON, D.C.

Michael F. Mundaca has rejoined Ernst Young LLP after a army during a Department of Treasury, many recently as partner secretary for taxation policy. Mundaca will co-lead EY’s National Tax Department with Eric Solomon and be formed in Washington, DC. 

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