Daily Archives: March 21, 2013

Art

3rd Annual SeaScapes Juried Art Competition Announced

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Light Space & Time Online Art Gallery announces its 3rd Annual SeaScapes juried art competition for the month of April 2013.

Jupiter, Florida, USA – March 21, 2013 — Light Space & Time Online Art Gallery announces its 3rd Annual SeaScapes juried art competition for the month of April 2013. The gallery urges all 2D artists (Including Photography) to submit their best SeaScape art for inclusion into the gallery’s May 2013 online group exhibition.

Light Space & Time Online Art Gallery encourages entries from all 2D artists regardless of where they reside and regardless of their experience or education in the art field to send the gallery your best interpretation of the theme SeaScapes. Seascape subjects would include scenes of coastal living, any ocean activities, seaside vistas and any related seashore subjects for this art competition.

A group exhibition of the top ten finalists will be held online at the Light Space & Time Online Art Gallery during the month of May 2013. Awards will be for 1st through 5th places and in addition, 5 artists will also be recognized with Honorable Mention awards. Depending on the amount and the quality of the entries received, these winning categories may be expanded with Special Merit and Special Recognition awards as well. The submission process and the deadline will end on April 26, 2013.

Winners of the SeaScapes Art Exhibition will receive extensive worldwide publicity in the form of email marketing, 70+ press release announcements, 75+ event announcements posts, extensive social media marketing, in order to make the art world aware of the art exhibition and in particular, the artist’s accomplishments. There will also be links back to the artist’s website included as part of this award package.

Interested artists should provide to us with your best SeaScape art now or before the deadline of April 26. 2013. Interested artists may apply online here: http://www.lightspacetime.com.

About Light Space & Time – Online Gallery

Light Space & Time – Online Gallery offers monthly art competitions and monthly art exhibitions for new and emerging artists. It is Light Space & Time’s intention to showcase this incredible talent in a series of monthly themed art competitions and art exhibitions by marketing and displaying the exceptional abilities of these worldwide artists.

The art gallery website can be viewed here: http://www.lightspacetime.com

Media Contact:
John R. Math
Light Space & Time Online Gallery
118 Poinciana Drive
Jupiter, FL 33458
888-490-3530
info@lightspacetime.com
http://www.lightspacetime.com

Business

The AppliancesConnection Electrolux Premium Kitchen Package Giveaway

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AppliancesConnection.com, since 1995 your best connection for all your home appliance and furniture needs, today announced the Appliances Connection Electrolux Premium Kitchen Package Giveaway. It may be a mouthful of a name, but it’s a mouthful of a prize, too!. One lucky winner will win a complete 4-piece Electrolux Stainless Kitchen Suite, their choice of gas or electric.

Brooklyn, NY, USA (March 21, 2013) — Click here to enter the contest.

AppliancesConnection.com, since 1995 your best connection for all your home appliance and furniture needs, today announced the Appliances Connection Electrolux Premium Kitchen Package Giveaway. It may be a mouthful of a name, but it’s a mouthful of a prize, too. One lucky winner will win a complete 4-piece Electrolux Stainless Kitchen Suite, their choice of gas or electric. This four-piece set includes a state-of-the-art side-by-side refrigerator, dishwasher with Aqua-Lux technology, freestanding gas or electric range, and multi-stage over-the-range microwave, all designed and manufactured to perfection in high-quality stainless steel by Electrolux, one of the world’s top home appliance manufacturers with over eighty years of engineering excellence. They’ll fit and work so well that you’ll think they’d been designed just for you and your home. At a $3999* value, this complete Electrolux home kitchen suite is surely a steal at any price, and it’s even better when it’s free to the winner of the Appliances Connection Electrolux Premium Kitchen Package Giveaway.

“We’re thrilled to be able offer existing and potential customers this new and exciting way to connect with us,” said AppliancesConnection.com social media manager Brian Visaggio. “We’re really looking forward to showing the world the great products and the great service AppliancesConnection can provide.”

Entry couldn’t be any simpler. Just go to the AppliancesConnection.com page on Facebook, click the “Sweepstakes” tab, and enter your name, address, phone number, and email. Once you’ve done that, you’re in the running to become the one lucky winner who takes home the whole 4-piece Electrolux Stainless Kitchen Suite. The winner will be chosen randomly from the pool of entries. Entry is limited to once per person. Entries in excess of one per person may be disqualified. Prizes will be delivered via LTL trucking company as a curbside delivery. Winner must contact AppliancesConnection to arrange for installation or in-home delivery at an additional charge. Contest runs through 3/25/13.

Prizes

The winner of the Appliances Connection Electrolux Premium Kitchen Package Giveaway will receive:

– EI30SM55JS Stainless Steel IQ-Touch Series 2.0 cu. ft. Over-the-Range Microwave Oven
– EI30EF35JS Stainless Steel IQ-Touch Series 30″ Freestanding Electric Range, or EI30GF35JS Stainless Steel IQ-Touch 30″ Freestanding Gas Range
– EIDW5905JS Stainless Steel IQ-Touch Series 24″ Fully Integrated Built In Dishwasher
– EI26SS30JS Stainless Steel IQ-Touch 36″ 25.95 Cu. Ft. Freestanding Side-by-Side Refrigerator

Located in Brooklyn, NY, AppliancesConnection.com is your one-stop shop for all your appliance and home furnishing needs. Since 1995, it has been an industry leader in home goods retail serving the United States.

*After $475 mail-in rebate. Rebate is an AmericanExpress* electroluxappliances.com RewardCard. Actual selling price is $4,474. See sales associate for qualifying model numbers, details and rebate form. Refer to rebate form for terms and conditions. Visit americanexpress.com/Reward for complete terms. Card issued by AmericanExpress Prepaid Card Management Corporation. AmericanExpress is not a sponsor of this promotion. Limit one AmericanExpress Reward Card per household. At participating retailers. For a complete list of rules and regulations, click here.

Media Contact:
Harold Lane
AppliancesConnection
10101 Foster Ave.
Section A
Brooklyn, NY 11236
800-299-9470
harold.lane@appliancesconnection.com
http://www.appliancesconnection.com

Healthcare

Ashtanga Yoga Teacher Training with Caroline Klebl in Chicago, Illinois

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Announcing the 200 and 500 hour Yoga Alliance accredited Yoga Teacher Training from July 7th to August 2nd with Ashtanga Vinyasa Instructor, Caroline Klebl.

Beverly Hills, CA, USA (March 20th, 2013) — 200 & 500 hour Yoga Teacher Certification

Immerse deeply in the Ashtanga Yoga practice during this intensive teacher training developed by Caroline Klebl. This certification course is registered with the Yoga Alliance and surpasses their 200 and 500 hour Yoga Teacher Training standards. For additional information visit http://www.sourceofyoga.com.

Source of Yoga offers a comprehensive Yoga Teacher Training programs to current and aspiring teachers and yoga practitioners all over the US and internationally. The combination of a high standard of practice with the Ashtanga Vinyasa System and the development of teaching skills is a fundamental component of this teacher training. It introduces students to a yoga practice safely and effectively. By learning the Ashtanga Yoga method, it is possible for participants to teach Vinyasa, Power and Ashtanga Yoga classes. For more detailed information about the curriculum click here.

Furthermore, each student will be supplied with an Ashtanga Yoga Teacher Training Manual specifically designed to give detailed information about Yoga Asanas and the Ashtanga Vinyasa System. To those who attend all scheduled classes, a 200 hour Yoga Teacher Training Certificate will be issued at the end of the course. Returning students and those who have already completed a 200 hour Yoga Teacher Training, will receive a 200 hour Advanced Training Certificate towards their 500 hour Certification. Beginners are welcome to attend the 200 hour program.

Training Schedule:
Sundays to Fridays, 8:00 am to 1:30 pm

Reservation & additional Ashtanga Yoga Teacher Trainings:
To reserve your spot and for additional Ashtanga Yoga Teacher Trainings with Caroline Klebl, please visit http://www.sourceofyoga.com.

Caroline Klebl facilitates Yoga Teacher Training programs within the US and Internationally. She trained in Mysore, India with Ashtanga Yoga Guru Sri K Pattabhi Jois over the course of nine years and received a PhD in Yoga from the Indian University of Alternative Medicine. She has a background in Tibetan Buddhism, Iyengar and Viniyoga and studied Sanskrit, Yoga Philosophy and traditional Ayurveda in South India. She wrote a book on Ashtanga Yoga and produced an instructional Yoga DVD. To purchase either of these please visit http://www.sourceofyoga.com.

Contact:
Source of Yoga
Beverly Hills – CA 90210
Ph: 415-200-6794
info@sourceofyoga.com
http://www.sourceofyoga.com

Entertainment

Spring Training for Singles – Silicon Valley

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Single Professionals of all ages are invited to hone their dating skills on Friday, April 19, 2013, at the exclusive Silicon Valley Capital Club, 50 W San Fernando St., San Jose.

San Rafael, CA, March 21, 2013 — Contact: Tom Andrews, 415/507-9962

Single Professionals of all ages are invited to hone their dating skills on Friday, April 19, 2013, at the exclusive Silicon Valley Capital Club, 50 W San Fernando St., San Jose.

Chris Mott and Craig Lazarchik will present Spring Training for Singles. “Many singles have been striking out when it comes to hitting that dating home run,” say Mott and Lazarchik. “Some step up to the plate but never make it on base. They feel like they’re constantly swinging and failing to make contact. Others make contact, but it’s one foul after the other, or a pop fly that’s sure to send them back to the dugout.”

Mott and Lazarchik will reveal how to hit a home run and meet that special someone during a Dinner Show, 6:30-8:30pm. They will also do a book signing. A Dance Party with The Johnny Neri Band follows, 8:30pm-Midnight.

Mott and Lazarchik are co-hosts of the popular radio show Find Your Sprinkles. Mr. Mott is also a relationships host and the author of the book of the same title. Mott and Lazarchik are available to the news media for interviews by calling 408-390-0835. More information is also available on http://www.mottivation.com.

This event is co-sponsored by The Society of Single Professionals, the world’s largest non-profit singles organization; Singles Supper Club, the Silicon Valley’s premiere club for single professionals; and Its Just Lunch, America’s most popular matchmaker. Adults of all ages are welcome. Anyone wishing more information about this and many more events for singles may visit http://www.thepartyhotline.com or http://www.singlessupperclub.com, or call 415-507-9962.

Media Contact:
Rich Gosse
Society of Single Professionals
205 Mark Twain Avenue, San Rafael CA 94903
415-507-9962
richgosse@richgosse.com

San Francisco Bay Area Singles Events

Technology

Survey Finds Application Deployments Fail up to 30%

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XebiaLabs reports Continuous Delivery, Deployment Automation top IT executives 2013 agenda.

Boston, MA (USA), March 20, 2013 — XebiaLabs, the leading provider of Application Release Automation for the continuous delivery of enterprise software ( http://www.xebialabs.com ), today released the results of a survey conducted over a four-month period to assessApplication Release Automation trends among a key global group of DevOps professionals and C-level executives representing financial services, insurance, healthcare and technology companies with more than 1,000 employees.

The overarching results reveal organizations regard their current application release processes as deficient and are actively seeking to automate “the last mile” of their release process as they look to automate their enterprise application release management to a greater degree.

The survey also indicates organizations are actively looking to implement solutions that help them move away from expensive, error-prone “big bang”releases and towards a continuous delivery approach.

Key Application Release Automation Trends:
* 75% of respondents give their deployment process a failing grade.
* Deployments fail 10-30% of the time.
* 57% of respondents feel there is room for improvement in their release process.
* 48% say inconsistency across their environment and applications is their biggest challenge in the deployment process—followed by dependency on expert resources (40%)and processes that move too slowly (38%).
* 29% list increased efficiency as the top benefit of deployment automation followed by release acceleration (23%) and error elimination (19%).

Continuous vs. Manual Application Deployment and Delivery

Organizations are actively researching solutions that will eliminatemanual deployments, which require a greater effort in terms of scripting and troubleshootingthat also increases in direct proportion to deployment volume. In contrast, with continuous delivery the focus shifts to building a deployment pipeline first, allowing for any number of deployments in a given time period without significantly impacting cost. Ongoing investments are capitalized due to the regular release of new features.

“Our survey indicates a clear need for automation in the application release process,” said CoertBaart, XebiaLabs CEO. “We are also seeing a trend towards choosing “off-the-shelf” solutions rather than developing in-house. Given these market trends, many organizations are feeling some urgency and realizing there are real business benefits to automating their application deployment strategies.”

More than 130 DevOps executives from mid to large-sized companies responded to the survey between October 2012 and January 2013. XebiaLabs asked participants to share their current release management process and pain points as well as their key initiatives for 2013. The survey’s margin of error was plus or minus five percent.

To view the complete Application Release Automation Trends survey results, visit: Http://go.xebialabs.com/Survey2013.html

Press & Media Contact:
Heather Moses
VP of Marketing
XebiaLabs
98 North Washington Street
Boston, MA 02114 – USA
(866) 656-4408
hmoses@xebialabs.com
http://www.xebialabs.com

Technology

Guardtime and Estonian Center of Registers Adopt Keyless Signature Infrastructure for Authenticating Digital Records

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Guardtime, today announced it is working with the Estonian Center of Registers and Information Systems(RIK) to authenticate their digital records.

Tallinn (Estonia) | Palo Alto, CA (USA), March 20, 2013 — Guardtime ( http://www.guardtime.com ), the leading provider of keyless signature technology for validating the authenticity of digital data, today announced it is working with the Estonian Center of Registers and Information Systems(RIK) to authenticate their digital records.

Financed by European Union Structural Funds, physical documents in the RIK archives of Succession Register and Chamber of Notaries are being digitized and stored in a digital archive.

The authenticity of the records in the digital archive is secured by Guardtime Keyless Signatures, ensuring the data integrity of both the digitized document and database record and matching the two.

Using Keyless Signature Infrastructure, the authenticity of all the records is periodically verified, the re-verification happens automatically, meaning that the information about the integrity of the stored records is always up to date and any breaches create an alert immediately.

“Our company’s roots are in Estonia, and we’re obviously happy to further contribute to securing the electronic data that Estonian State keeps on behalf of its citizens,” said Mike Gault, CEO of Guardtime. “Long-term electronic archives like Succession Registry have retention periods of multiple lifetimes and having Keyless Signatures to independently assure that the records have been safe and not tampered with by anybody over their entire lifetime is certainly an important feature to have.”

EneliTikerpuu, the RIK project manager added: “It’s fortunate to have a technology partner so close to home, who is also unique in the world at what it does – thanks to Guardtime we have an independently verifiable authenticity proof for our Succession Register records that lasts the entire lifetime of the records, and using Keyless Signatures was the fastest and the most affordable route to achieve this.”

Most recently, Guardtime ( http://www.guardtime.com ) announced a partnership with the Philippine government to validate physical document integrity, with CAT Telecom, the state-owned telecommunications incumbent in Thailand and with China Telecom, the largest fixed line telecommunications service provider in the People’s Republic of China, establishing China Telecom as a Keyless Signature service provider via its Tianyi 3G platform.

About Estonian Center of Registers and Information Systems(RIK):
The RIK is an agency in the jurisdiction of the Estonian Ministry of Justice, with the purpose of establishing an innovative environment providing good integrated e-services for a more efficient implementation of state administration, legal and criminal policy. The RIK develops and administrates registries and information systems for the State and its citizens, for example the e-Business Register, the e-Notary system, the e-Land Register, the information system of courts, the Probation Supervision Register, the Prisoners Register, the Punishment Register, the e-File, the electronic State Gazette, etc. Visit http://www.rik.ee/en/ for more information about e-services by Estonian State.

About Guardtime:
Guardtime was founded with the goal of solving one of the biggest problems in computing: how to authenticate electronic data. Guardtime’s Keyless Signatures provide proof of signing time, signing entity and data integrity while the verification of the signature can be done offline without reliance on keys, secrets, or the existence of a trusted third party. Guardtime’s mission is to change the world to one in which Keyless Signatures are ubiquitous and a natural part of the everyday data lifecycle, whether on disk, in transit, or in the Cloud. Visit http://www.guardtime.com for more information about keyless data authentication.

Additional information:
Raul Vahisalu
CEO of Guardtime Estonia
+372 509 0385
raul.vahisalu@guardtime.com

EneliTikerpuu
Project Manager of Court Register Department
Centre of Registers and Information Systems
Tel: +372 680 3152; +372 566 73468
Eneli.Tikerpuu@just.ee

Press & Media Contact:
Victor Cruz, Principal
MediaPR.net Inc
Boston, MA – USA
+1 978-594-4134
vcruz@mediapr.net
http://www.guardtime.com