Daily Archives: July 26, 2015

Business

Best Home Care Announces New Benefits For Its Home Care Employees

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Best Home Care, a Twin Cities home health care agency, provides resources for personal care assistants and family caregivers to stay healthy while providing home care services.

Minneapolis, MN, USA (July 26, 2015) — Best Home Care, a Minnesota home care agency, is excited to offer new benefits for its home care workers including paid time off and a higher starting wage for all employees, plus free preventative health care for full-time employees and their dependents. These added benefits come upon the ratification of a new union contract that specifies PTO and pay rates for all home care workers serving consumer directed recipients. Best Home Care will make these benefits available to all its employees, regardless if they are union members or not.

As of July 1st, all employees of Best Home Care will now receive paid time off hours, which they can use to take time for themselves or to be with their families. This marks the first time the home care company will offer PTO to both its full and part-time employees. In line with the specifications outlined in the newly ratified union contract, Best Home Care has adjusted the starting wage for all its home care workers to $10.75. This rate is the new industry standard across all home care agencies in Minnesota.

Best Home Care is also offering a free preventive health care plan for all of its full-time employees and their dependents. The health care plan will cover preventative health services, such as shots and screening tests, at no cost to the home care worker. This marks the first time in the home care agency’s history that it will offer health benefits to its home care professionals at no charge.

“These new employee benefits are just one more way we’re working to make Best Home Care a quality place to work,” said Andre Best, owner of Best Home Care. “We want each of our home care workers to know that Best Home Care has their welfare in mind and these benefits are our response.”

In an effort to make working for and receiving home care services from Best Home Care easy and convenient, the company has updated its HomeCare Timesheets App. This app allows Best Home Care’s personal care assistants and home care professionals to conveniently submit the amount of hours worked directly from a smartphone. The app’s update includes enhanced features such as saved profiles and a new user-friendly time entry screen that makes entering work hours easier than ever.

About Best Home Care
Best Home Care is a top in-home health care agency providing support for personal care assistants (PCA) and family caregivers in Minnesota. Founded in 2005 by Andre Best, an attorney and former union president, the company offers administrative assistance and educational resources for those providing home care for seniors and individuals with various disabilities and diseases. Best Home Care is a PCPO, PCA Choice, and Waivered Service Provider.

Media Contact:
Andre Best
Best Home Care
2562 7th Ave E #201
North St Paul, MN 55109
651-330-2550
info@besthomecaremn.com
http://www.besthomecaremn.com

Marketing

UglyDeck.com Revitalizes Homeowner’s Property Damage After Severe Weather

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UglyDeck.com, a Minnesota deck builder, restores damaged decks, patios and front porches after severe weather.

Burnsville, MN, USA (July 26, 2015) — UglyDeck.com, a Minnesota deck builder, restores decks damaged by severe weather, helping with anything from simple repairs to full deck replacement.

Minnesota weather is often diverse and extreme. Moving from freezing temperatures throughout the winter to heat above 100 degrees in the summer. With blizzards, flash floods, tornados, thunderstorms, and hailstorms, Minnesota homeowners need to be prepared for a variety of weather.

According to the National Weather Service, hazardous weather in Minnesota can cause an average of $112 million in property damage per year. A large percentage of this property damage occurs in residential areas, damaging homes’ outdoor spaces such as patios, decks, and front porches.

UglyDeck.com prides itself with a “facelift” mentality and works to transform old, ugly and damaged decks into a homeowner’s ideal outdoor deck. In the case of property damage, UglyDeck.com can repair decks harmed by anything from severe weather to age or lack of maintenance.

Striving to stay at the forefront of deck designs, UglyDeck.com excels in decorative railing, outdoor spiral staircases, front porch designs, and pergola kits. Additionally, they use composite decking material which requires minimal maintenance on the part of the homeowner, meaning that the deck will look better and last longer.

If homeowners don’t want to hire a deck builder to repair their damaged patios or decks, UglyDeck.com can still assist them with Do-It-Yourself suggestions. All Do-It-Yourself customers have access to UglyDeck.com’s supply of decking materials from brands such as Trex, Azek, Timbertech, and Westerbury Aluminum, along with advice and tips about popular designs from UglyDeck team members.

Whether homeowners need Do-It-Yourself help, simple repairs, or a completely new deck, UglyDeck.com can restore outdoor spaces after severe storms no matter how big or small the property damage.

For more information about UglyDeck.com, contact them at (952)736-3308 or info@uglydeck.com. Or visit their showroom in Burnsville, MN and speak with the deck builders directly. The showroom is open Monday through Friday from 9am to 4:30pm.

Media Contact:
Bill Barton
UglyDeck.com
12277 Nicollet Ave S.
Burnsville, MN 55337
952-736-3308
info@uglydeck.com
http://www.uglydeck.com

Biotech

Biotage® ACT Plate Adapter Prevents Evaporative Cross-Talk

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Biotage® (STO: BIOT), announces the launch of Biotage® ACT (Anti Cross Talk) Plate Adapter, an innovative solution for prevention of well to well cross contamination during extract evaporation.

Uppsala, Sweden — Biotage® (STO: BIOT), a leading global supplier of solutions and technology for analytical and medicinal chemistry, announces the launch of Biotage® ACT (Anti Cross Talk) Plate Adapter, an innovative solution for prevention of well to well cross contamination during extract evaporation.

Biotage® ACT Plate Adapter is an essential accessory for evaporation devices. Constructed from robust, high grade anodized aluminum, it fits on top of the 96-well collection plate containing the sample during evaporation. The plate adapter is compatible with straight needle evaporation devices such as the Biotage® SPE Dry 96 and Biotage® SPE Dry Dual systems, and does not require any changes to the existing analytical method.

The Biotage® ACT Plate Adapter is designed to fit on top of the 96-well collection plate, is reusable and easy to use. Evaporated gases are directed away from the sample wells, eddies are reduced, and the plate adapter reduces the open surface area of the top of the wells, lessening the likelihood that material can re-enter and contaminate adjacent wells.

“During evaporation a proportional amount of analytes present in an extracted sample can contaminate surrounding wells by being carried with the volatilized solvent. If the analyte concentration in one well is considerably higher than the analyte concentration in the surrounding wells it has the potential to cause a clinically significant and erroneous change to the adjacent samples. Biotage® ACT Plate Adapter is the first commercially available device to address the issue of cross talk on evaporation” says Dr. Claire Desbrow, Product Manager, Analytical Chemistry, Biotage.

The plate adapter can be incorporated into existing assays without the need for changing any other aspects of the method, and there is minimal impact of solvent drying times.

For further information, visit http://www.biotage.com or call:
In Europe: +46 18 56 57 10
In North America: (Toll Free) 1 800 446 4752
In Japan: +81 422 28 1233
Other areas, please call: +46 18 56 57 10

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For further press information at Biotage, please contact:
James Churchill
Marketing Communications
Biotage GB Limited
Distribution Way
Dyffryn Business Park
Ystrad Mynach
Hengoed, Wales CF82 7TS
United Kingdom
Tel: +44 (0)1443 811 849
Mobile: +44(0)7875484778
Email: james.churchill@biotage.com

About Biotage
Biotage offers solutions, knowledge and experience in the areas of analytical and medicinal chemistry. Customers include the world’s top pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, as well as leading academic institutes. The company is headquartered in Uppsala, Sweden, with offices in China, Japan, the United Kingdom, the United States and a worldwide network of distributors. Biotage has 293 employees with sales of 490 MSEK in 2014. Biotage is listed on the NASDAQ OMX Nordic Stock Exchange. Website: http://www.biotage.com.

Marketing

GiftWorksPlus Debuts New Line of Color Vacation Picture Frames

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GiftWorksPlus, a leader in custom framing, now offers a new line of colored photo frames for vacation pictures.

Waukesha, WI, USA (July 26, 2015) — GiftWorksPlus, the leader in custom picture framing, now offers colored vacation frames as part of its complete line of engraved wooden frames.

Throughout the U.S., summer is the season when Americans travel the most. According to the United States Department of Transportation, Americans go on a combined total of 657 million trips during the sixteen weeks between Memorial Day and Labor Day. On average, Americans travel 284 miles away from home by car, plane, bus, and trains on these summer trips.

Vacation hot spots include seasonal locations like Mackinac Island in Michigan or the Maine Lobster Festival; National Parks like Yellowstone, Yosemite, and Glacier; and year-round vacation destinations like Disney World, Hawaii, or New Orleans.

The new line of color vacation picture frames by GiftWorksPlus aims to provide a memorable platform to celebrate these trips. By creating a unique picture frame for every photo you take on your vacation, frames from GiftWorksPlus bring as much life into your photos as these trips brought to your summer.

GiftWorksPlus remains the leader in custom framing, providing frames for vacation pictures featuring destinations such as amusement parks, campgrounds, beaches, specific cities, states or wineries. Additionally, GiftWorksPlus provides frames for sporting events, pets, graduation, and for pictures of service members in the military.

Each wood frame emphasizes personalization so that your pictures are mounted in frames made just for you. Although GiftWorksPlus provides a variety of predesigned frames, such as their newest line of color vacation frames, they also allow customers to create a fully customized frame with personal images laser-etched into the wood. These 100% customized frames are perfect for important moments in your or your loved ones life such as weddings or births, and for memorials to those who have passed.

Whether you want to frame your photos with these new colored vacation frames or create your own personalized picture frame, GiftWorksPlus prides itself in providing its customers with frames that are designed and built entirely in the U.S. In addition to hundreds of different picture frames and mattes to choose from, customers may add names, dates, quotes or special messages to the frame for free.

For more information, visit our website at GiftWorksPlus.com. If you have specific questions, contact GiftWorksPlus at 888-456-9878.

Media Contact:
Karla Jordan
GiftWorksPlus
N15 W22218 Watertown Rd. #5
Waukesha, WI 53186
888-456-9878
karla@giftworksplus.com
http://www.giftworksplus.com

Entertainment

Dan Langston Releases His New Book Memoirs of a Billionaire Cab Driver

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Dan Langston, the author chosen by Akamai Kane (the billionaire cab driver from the small island of Kiki Loa) to write the life story, just released his new book titled Memoirs of a Billionaire Cab Driver.

Reno, NV, July 25, 2015 – Dan Langston, the author chosen by Akamai Kane (the billionaire cab driver from the small island of Kiki Loa) to write the life story, just released his new book titled Memoirs of a Billionaire Cab Driver. The initial version was released in eBook format to speed it release to market and is currently available on Amazon.com, BarnesandNoble.com, and other major book resellers’ sites. It is also available at www.billionairecabdriver.com.

Memoirs of a Billionaire cab Driver consists of the secrets Mr. Kane revealed to Mr. Langston about how he became one of the richest men in the world. The story might surprise you as it explains some very simple truths about how easy it is to achieve all of your financial dreams. The secrets are revealed through illustrations of the same forces occurring in nature as Mr Kane shows Mr. Langston around his beautiful island of Kiki Loa in an all-day cab drive.

“I never expected to learn as much as I did from Mr. Kane in such a short period of time”, say Dan Langston. “His knowledge is immense and he presented it to me is a linear, easy to understand format with each concept building on the previous. By the end of just one day, I had an excellent grasp of all he wanted me to learn and that will substantially change how I deal with money for the reminder of my life. I am very excited to share this with my readers.”

Mr. Kane secrets revealed in the book shows us that most of what we are taught and believe about how money works is in fact just the opposite. He also shows us why there is so much financial failure as people try to build a secure financial future and how to overcome the odds and succeed. Then he reveals an easy, step by step process to achieve anything in life you want, with the sky literally being the limit.

If you missed the story several months, on the tiny island of Kiki Loa, a local cab driver named Akamai Kane, wrote a personal check for $15,000,000 to build a water desalinization plant for his fellow islanders. Following that event, investigations revealed that Mr. Kane to be currently worth over $20 billion, making him among the wealthiest men in the world.

For more information contact:
Dan Langston
Dan@billionairecabdriver.com
http://BillionaireCabDriver.com

“Memoirs of a Billionaire Cab Driver is a short book of only 114 pages,” say Langston, “as I only wanted to tell the story exactly as told to me by Mr. Kane. I truly believe it will shift the financial paradigm of anyone who reads it.”

Contact:
Dan Langston
Billionaire cab Driver
9120 Double Diamond Parkway, Suite 1V
Reno, NV 89521
972-726-9595
Dan@billionairecabdriver.com
http://BillionaireCabDriver.com

Automotive

Hardware Update: SmartTOP Convertible Top Controller for Nissan 370Z by Mods4cars

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The aftermarket SmartTOP Convertible Top Controller made by Mods4cars for the Nissan 370Z Roadster now ships with a new product enclosure. SmartTOP allows, among other things, the convenient one-touch operation of the convertible top while driving at slow speeds as well as remote control of the top from the original key fob.

Las Vegas, NV (USA), July 24th, 2015 — Automotive electronics specialist Mods4cars has upgraded the product enclosure for the SmartTOP add-on convertible top controller modules. Just in time for the convertible top season 2015 the module for the Nissan 370Z Roadster has received the new, custom designed enclosure. The new shape and size of the module is not only slimmer and more esthetic looks wise, it also makes installation a lot easier.

Due to the smaller size it can be mounted in tighter spaces in the car and two integrated LEDs indicate when the module was installed correctly. The new enclosure also uses a lot less plastic and no more screws. This makes the product more environmentally friendly overall.

The SmartTOP kits make using the convertible top easier and more fun. They allow drivers to open and close the top with one-touch convenience and while driving at slow speeds of up to 40 km/h (~28 mph). It is no longer necessary to hold down the switch for the duration of the operation. A quick tap is enough to start a full automatic open or close cycle.

Additionally it is possible to control the top from a distance, using just the original factory key fob remote. A quick key combination on the remote triggers automatic opening or closing of the top. Users can select if they want windows up or down after opening the top. No changes are needed to be made to the original fobs or receiver system.

Apart from these two main features SmartTOP comes with a few bonus features, all of which can be individually configured to taste. The windows can be controlled separately from the top by remote for example and all windows can be closed at once with the console switch.

A chirp feature is built in that can, if desired, give a short audible confirmation when locking or unlocking the car. Doors can be auto-locked while driving and hazard flashers can be activated during remote operation. An extended mode allows turning the engine on or off while the top continues to run and the entire module can be disabled temporarily, if needed, while retaining all user settings for when it is re-enabled later.

The kit comes with a plug-in-between wiring adapter for easy installation. The module itself is equipped with a USB port for configuration and firmware updates. Support software as well as firmware updates are available free of charge online.

Mods4cars has been offering SmartTOP kits since 2001. The following popular brands are supported: Alfa, Audi, Bentley, BMW, Ferrari, Ford, Infiniti, Jaguar, Lamborghini, Mazda, Mercedes-Benz, Mini, Nissan, Opel, Peugeot, Porsche, Renault, Volvo and VW.

The SmartTOP kit for Nissan 370Z Roadster is available for 249 Euros + tax.

A product demonstration can be seen here:

Further details:
http://www.mods4cars.com

About Mods4cars:
Mods4cars was founded in 2002 with the idea to add a highly demanded feature to the otherwise almost perfect Porsche Boxster: Comfort One-Touch roof operation while driving at slow speeds. The resulting product offered not only that, but also allowed quick and easy installation by just swapping out a relay box, thus leaving no traces and no permanent changes on the vehicle. The first SmartTOP roof controller was born.

The success of their first products in Germany and Europe prompted them in late 2004 to move operations to the USA, to be able to serve the American market as well as all other English speaking countries such as Australia, UK and South Africa from one central location. Their business has grown to a full-fledged international corporation with an office in Las Vegas and a full line of innovative products as well as distributors and installation partners all over the globe.

Being highly specialized in the development and distribution of aftermarket roof- and comfort controllers since 2002 allows them to offer an unsurpassed level of competence and product quality. Their main goal is optimization of each individual product to a maximum in compatibility, usability and intuitive operation. They put greatest effort into development and quality checks of all their products to achieve this goal and meet all expectations of their customers.

The extraordinary success of their products is also based on the great communication with their customers, which usually already starts for each new product during the development and prototyping phase.

Press & Media Contact:
Anja Lehmann
Mods4cars LLC
1350 E. Flamingo Rd #3100
Las Vegas, NV 89119 – USA
+1-310-9109055
lehmann@mods4cars.com
http://www.mods4cars.com