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KGBTexas .communications Changes Its Brand
0 Comments | Wireless News, Jul 22, 2010
KGBTexas .communications recently unveiled its new website and logo, reflecting the evolution of the agency from a traditional public relations and advertising firm to a full-service interactive communications company, the Company reported.
In a release, the Company said that it has bolstered its interactive and website development capabilities to meet and exceed the continually evolving needs of its clients and keep pace with the ever-changing digital landscape.
“We cannot do business the same way we did when we started in 1994,” founder and CEO Katie Gardner Harvey said. “While companies still need traditional public relations and advertising services, the move to digital cannot be ignored. We have spent the last 24 months developing out our social media and digital capabilities in order to offer our clients a full suite of services. Our new logo and website are representations of our full range of capabilities.”
-Interactive: KGBTexas beefed up its Internet capabilities to go beyond mere website development and design. The cache of Web weaponry includes Web applications, search engine optimization (SEO), smart phone applications, mobile websites, Google Analytics and customized content management systems (CMS). In addition, KGBTexas is an approved and licensed iPhone application developer.
-Public relations: KGBTexas understands the challenges and complexities of the shifting communications landscape and is adept at leveraging the latest social media instruments – blogs, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube – to augment messaging and build thought leadership for clients.
-Government relations/public affairs: KGBTexas is a proven leader in providing clients with specialized government affairs and public policy expertise integrated into public relations, marketing and advertising strategies. Whether managing a crisis, advocating for a policy issue or conducting grassroots community outreach for a high- profile public project, the well-connected public affairs team helps clients successfully navigate sensitive political environments and strategically communicate with a wide variety of stakeholders including elected officials, business leaders, community activists and the media.
-Marketing: KGBTexas’ experience in a wide range of industries arms clients with the necessary tools – branding, advertising, research, collateral and promotions. The agency determines how to reach a target audience when and where they are most receptive by incorporating virtually any media channel including traditional and digital.
-Creative: KGBTexas blends strategy with creativity
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Then what does work? Human physiology.
Metabolism
Metabolism is defined as the rate at which your body processes food. In other words, how fast your body burns calories. The faster your metabolism, the more food you can eat without gaining weight. How do you control your metabolism? By eating a nutrient-dense meal every 3 to 3 ? hours. This practice “stokes your internal furnace”, for lack of a better analogy. Think of your body as an old-style locomotive that had coal shoveled into the combustion chamber one shovel at a time. If you didn’t shovel in coal fast enough, the locomotive would slow down, and your body is no different. If you don’t eat often enough, your metabolism slows down and you don’t burn through calories very quickly. In addition, not only does your rate of calorie consumption go down, but your body starts storing almost everything that you do eat as bodyfat! So, in essence, every time you starve yourself in your honest effort to “stick to your diet”, you are actually slowing down your metabolism as well as making your body more efficient at building padding for you to sit on at baseball games.
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Having a race-sponsor for your first Ironman triathlon can seem like a pretty good idea. Taking part in an Ironman has become a pretty expensive affair these days and its always nice to have help along the way. Especially with things like expensive bike equipment, lodging, and travel expenses etc.
After all, you may only be required to wear their name on your race clothing. It seems like a small price to pay to have yourself a race-sponsor.
Few people realize the responsibility that seemingly comes along with wearing a sponsors name.
It can often become a trying proposition for many athletes.
I know because I’ve been in that situation. Its amazing the amount of extra pressure you can put on yourself by having a race-sponsor. It was always on the back of my mind that I had to do really well to justify any financial aid I had received.
Along with everything else there is to worry about during an Ironman, there was always this nagging feeling that I didn’t want to let my sponsor down. Not to mention that I didn’t want to fail and embarass myself by having to face my sponsor and tell him that I didn’t finish the race for some reason
Its quite amazing the things that go through your mind.
I really feel that a first time Ironman hopeful has enough to worry about.
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Market Wire, May, 2010
Bridge Capital Holdings (NASDAQ: BBNK), whose subsidiary is Bridge Bank, National Association, a full-service business bank headquartered in the Silicon Valley region of California, announced today it has provided construction financing to Noel Chamberlain, President of NexGen Builders, Inc., to acquire land and construct a four-unit project in Menlo Park.
“NexGen has hit the ground running and plans on breaking ground within 90 days,” said Noel Chamberlain, President and Founder of NexGen Builders, Inc. “I was pleased with the responsiveness of Bridge Bank and their willingness to structure a loan that made sense in what is still a tough marketplace.”
In response to a deteriorating real estate market, the Bank reported that in 2009 it reduced exposure to construction and land loans by 72 percent. Exposure to residential and commercial real estate is limited; however, it will continue to lend to creditworthy borrowers to enable them participation in the emerging economic recovery.
“This construction loan provides an experienced developer and builder with the funds needed to complete an up-scale project in Menlo Park,” said John Carroll, Bridge Bank Vice President. “We are impressed with Noel’s personal track record as a developer as well as the quality of the projects NexGen Builders has completed.”
Bridge Bank specializes in providing superior service and customized banking solutions to small and middle-market, and emerging technology businesses in Silicon Valley, California and the Nation. The Bank’s product offerings include 24/7 internet-based business cash and treasury management, online account statement and item imaging, remote deposit capture, commercial lines of credit, growth capital financing, commercial real estate financing, international Export-Import financing and foreign exchange payment services, Small Business Administration 7(a) and 504 loans as an SBA Preferred Lender Participant-accredited direct lender, and factoring and asset-based loans through its Bridge Capital Finance Group.
About NexGen Builders, Inc.
NexGen Builders, Inc. has been providing construction, project management, and engineering services to clients throughout the Bay Area for the past 15 years. NexGen Builders, Inc. is an experienced general contractor in residential and commercial development and public works projects with a management team focused on high quality and timely completion of projects.
About Bridge Capital Holdings
Bridge Capital Holdings is the holding company for Bridge Bank, National Association. Bridge Capital Holdings was formed on October 1, 2004 and holds a Global Select listing on The NASDAQ Stock Market under the trading symbol BBNK. For additional information, visit the Bridge Capital Holdings website at www.bridgecapitalholdings.com .
About Bridge Bank, N.A .
Bridge Bank, N.A. is Silicon Valley’s full-service professional business bank. The Bank is dedicated to meeting the financial needs of small and middle-market companies, and emerging technology businesses, in Silicon Valley, Northern California, and the Nation. Bridge Bank provides its clients with a comprehensive package of business banking solutions delivered through experienced, professional bankers. For additional information, visit the Bridge Bank website at http://www.bridgebank.com .
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Just the two of you having fun together. What’s good too is that after you have played a match, it’s quite natural to cool off and talk to each other and perhaps go and have a drink or get a bite to eat.
How do you approach single women at the tennis courts? There’s a lot of different approaches. You can say, “Do you need a partner? Or you could reserve a court in advance and say to a woman, “Would you like to play on Court #9? My tennis partner didn’t show up.”
You might want to arrive early to shoot the bull before you play tennis. Just talk to any and every woman you see. This way you can meet women before you even make it on to the courts.
If you don’t play tennis, by all means take lessons. This opens up another avenue for meeting those sexy single tennis honies. Tennis lesson groups are comprised mostly of women and you’ll be in the limelight.
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PR Newswire, July 23, 2010
–Texas TV Station Group Leader Looks to Rentrak for Stability, Comprehensiveness of Measurement Service–
PORTLAND, Ore., July 23 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Rentrak Corporation (Nasdaq: RENT), the leader in multi-screen media measurement serving the advertising and entertainment industries, today announced London Broadcasting Company, which operates 10 television stations serving more than 2.6 million viewers and 980,000 households in the state of Texas, partnered with Rentrak for local market measurement for its ABC-affiliate and NBC-affiliate stations in the Beaumont-Port Arthur market.
With the London contract, Rentrak expands its footprint in Texas with the recent signings of Belo Corp. (NYSE: BLC) and Post-Newsweek Media, Inc. (NYSE: WPO) in the Dallas and Houston markets, and Sinclair Broadcast Group (Nasdaq: SBGI) in San Antonio. The addition of London increases Rentrak’s client roster to 37 stations in 19 local TV markets.
“Rentrak provides a unique approach to television measurement that stations need in order to remain competitive in today’s fragmented media space,” said Phil Hurley, executive vice president and chief operating office for London Broadcasting Company. “Rentrak’s data stability and extensive database of TVs and households in our markets gives us the ability to increase our revenue through ad sales, as well as make better programming, marketing and promotions decisions.”
“The rapid market adoption of Rentrak’s television database currency illustrates the industry’s need for a more effective way to plan, buy and sell the TV medium,” said Steven Walsh, Rentrak’s Senior Vice President, Local Market Sales. “StationView Essentials is the only TV measurement system with access to the products that viewers purchase merged with unique second-by-second viewing data in order to precisely target audiences who will move more products off of shelves.”
Available in all 210 local TV markets, Rentrak’s StationView Essentials service features the only fully-integrated database of detailed satellite, telco TV and cable viewing information from millions of televisions nationwide that combines segmentation and customer databases with TV viewing information in order to generate relevant “purchaser ratings” for its clients.
About Rentrak Corporation
Rentrak Corporation is a global digital media measurement and research company, serving the most recognizable companies in the entertainment industry. With a reach across numerous platforms including box office, home entertainment, video on demand and linear television, broadband and mobile, Rentrak has developed more efficient metrics to be used as alternative currencies for the evaluation and selling of media. Rentrak is headquartered in Portland, Oregon, with additional offices worldwide
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Joke sparks gem of an idea
0 Comments | Winnipeg Free Press, Mar 12, 2010
Designing glass jewels is her calling
If Bahia Laham had been born into a family of underachievers she’d still be selling radio ads or writing grant proposals. Instead, she’s an entrepreneur with Donald Trump-like confidence, a woman who has parlayed a Christmas challenge into a potentially lucrative business venture.
Laham, 40, creates glass jewelry. She uses her small West Kildonan house as an office, work space and display area. Her cutting table is tucked in under the basement stairs. Sheets of glass lean against a wall. The finished pieces are arranged near a wet bar.
This is strictly a fledgling company, a success waiting to be born, nurtured by Laham’s buoyant belief in her own abilities.
“I had a career. This is something that happened by chance,” says the former advertising account executive. “What happened was my family decided in 2005 to make the next year’s Christmas gifts. We’d each draw a name and we had to make something by hand.”
It was a joke suggestion, she says.
“We’re all in professional careers. We’re not creative. The only exception is my sister-in-law. When we met her she was making her own clothes.”
Laham drew her sister-in-law’s name.
“We had this whole list of rules. It couldn’t be food. It couldn’t be something perishable. It had to be something you actually made, not something you paid someone to make. You couldn’t spend more than $30.”
In the way of these sorts of grandiose plans, by August no one had started their gift projects. Laham decided she wanted to make a piece of jewelry. The problem was she didn’t know which material to use, how to design or where she could work.
“I was flipping through the phone book, looking at different types of materials and trying to figure out what to do.”
She came to the glass listings and called a company at random.
“I said, ‘I don’t even know if this is possible. Is it possible to make jewelry out of glass?’ They told me it was. I asked where I’d learn to do it and they said they were thinking of starting a course. I asked them how much it would cost and they told me to come down and try. I’d learn and they’d figure out how to teach. I had a design in mind.”
Ken and Jacqueline Walkden, who used to own Klass Works, worked with the novice. She began using scrap material. Her only expense would be $20 to fire the kiln.
Laham worked two or three hours a week from September until Christmas, making mistakes, starting over and trying to convince the Walkdens that her design (glass pieces on an elasticized bracelet) was possible to complete.
“I had to learn everything: how to cut the glass, fire it, design, everything. This was all new.”
Fortunately, Laham is the sort of woman who would decide to be an astronaut and promptly build her own spaceship.
“The people at my office knew I was doing this because I had the pieces on my desk. I’d sit there trying to figure out how to make it work.”
She ultimately made 25 pieces, some for herself and the rest to give as presents. She was a hit the day of the gift exchange.
“They couldn’t believe I had handmade it,” she grins. “My sister-in-law was amazed. My sisters were jealous. Everyone wanted it.”
She wasn’t the only success story. Her brother-in-law, a fireman, spray-painted a big boot and hot-glued rhinestones to it
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You may also feel fatigued.
The next thing that you have to do and maybe its the most important is to read the labels of the foods that you buy. You must become a detective! Most food items use the same preservatives. If after reading the labels you identify a preservative that stands out, by that I mean a preservative that is only in one of the foods that you eat, that preservative may be the culprit. Simply eliminate that food. You will know after 4 days if that is the food and preservative that is causing your problem. Now to discern if you are sensitive to the food or the preservative, eat the food fresh and see if it causes you to have the same sensitivity reactions. If the answer is yes, then your sensitivity is to the food. If the answer is no, then the sensitivity is to the preservative.
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But everyone knows cats do not listen, they basically own the place and think they are entitled to follow suit like the New Orleans Looters after the Hurricane Katrina? If you had a cat TV, well they would probably walk off with that too. To prevent neighborhood looting cats from your house, you need RoboCat with the AttackCat Sun Gun option, not enough to kill the neighbors cat, as it is born of DARPA non-lethal technology for Department of Homeland Security violent protestor crowd control and police use. But this technology will let the thieving neighborhood cat know whose yard they are in and believe you me, they will not be wondering back in anytime soon.
This is just one way that robotics can help your budget and allow you more freedom, a higher standard of living and a greater quality of life.
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