U.S. taxpayers looking for ways to help the environment can now go directly to RefundsForGood.org. This new celebrity endorsed web site shows both the average taxpayer and corporations how to easily redirect their one time phone tax refund to a charity focused on saving the environment.

"Global warming, air pollution, over-population - these are daunting challenges that we all face - but there is a solution. Here's your chance to make a difference," says Ed Begley, Jr. on the new Refunds for Good website: refundsforgood.org. A well respected actor, as well as environmental activist, Ed has joined with Martin Sheen, Larry Hagman ("JR") and Nate Corddry from the Daily Show to support this new website to providing ways to help the environment. 13 Nobel Peace Prize Laureates, such as the Dali Lamai and Bishop Tutu also support this campaign.

Denver hosts Colorado premiere showings of One, the Movie: A Contemporary Journey Toward a Timeless Destiny.

ONE the Movie, an independent film, has now been seen on five continents by over 100,000 people. The film was made by Ward Powers, a trial attorney and father of three who lives in a suburb of Detroit. After waking one morning with an idea to make a film exploring some of life's big questions, he ordered a video camera and ventured out with two friends and a list of questions designed to discover the meaning of life. No one had any filmmaking experience.

RockNRoll punk stars "Any Given Day" will be taking to the road in July with "AntiProduct" and "Trash Light Vision" which features Murderdolls guitarist Acey Slade. The tour will see the band playing larger venues than before and they are more than looking forward to the challenge.

The tour will see the band at the following venues:

1st July. Stourbridge, Rock Caf.

2nd July. Newcastle, Arena.

3rd July. Blackburn, King Georges Hall.

6th July. London, The Underworld.

8th July. Newport, TJs

10th July. Cleethorpes, Winter Gardens.

11th July. Leeds, Met University.

Nowadays in the UK there is a huge number of accounting software packages. Almost without exception they all have their own niche marketplaces. However there is about to be a change in Accounting Standards within the UK, which will mean changes will be required to many packages currently on the market.

Until now accounting software in the UK has met GAAP Standards, (Generally Accepted Accounting Practice) but soon businesses will have to get used to a new standard is being introduced, IAS (International Accounting Standards).

After the success of email negotiations, ProAudio America (www.djmart.com) invested in new technology to provide their customers with a live negotiation tool. Click on the "Negotiate Live" image and a store representative will come up with the best offer in the market for that specific item.

DjMart Representatives base their price offering on variables such as quantity, time frame required, delivery to location, and availability.

This enables shoppers to negotiate without a physical contact such as phone or person to person. Which makes more confortable to those individuals that are shy or embaraced to ask for a better price. As well as it enables the selling party to evaluate all the nuances and offer a competitive price without being known to competitors.

nFusion, one of the country's fastest-growing integrated marketing agencies, today announced its search marketing team achieved Google AdWords certification, making nFusion a Google AdWords Qualified company. The Google qualification certifies a core element of nFusion's services arsenal and significantly raises the bar for integrated marketing campaign management.

nFusion logo

"As a client, I appreciate the fact that our agency team took the initiative and time to dive deeper and strengthen an area that was mission-critical to our business," said Anita Erickson, vice president of marketing at NextScreen. "By honing its SEM/SEO skills, nFusion has strengthened its value to me as a full-service integrated marketing agency."

Parature, the global leader in on-demand customer service software, announced today that it will sponsor a free webinar offering customer service and support professionals appropriate techniques for dealing with difficult customer transactions. The webinar entitled "What to Say to a Porcupine: Strategies for Dealing with Difficult Customers" will be held on Wednesday, October 29, 2008 at 2:00pm EDT. To register for the webinar, please visit www.parature.com/res_webinars.aspx.

High customer retention rates - one of the most sought-after metrics in any industry. A coveted metric that is often hard to attain with today's fickle and technology-savvy customers ready to change their vendor loyalty at a moment's notice, while simultaneously broadcasting their displeasure of their support experience across the Internet. Customer service and support teams field some of the angriest, and craziest, customer requests. Handling these challenging requests is often a daunting task for these service and support professionals; many become frazzled or angry and thus, do not properly handle the situation. Organizations cannot afford to have their complex customer transactions handled improperly. It is imperative that they arm their support teams with the most appropriate techniques for these difficult customer encounters to achieve their desired customer retention rates.

With the war for talent in high gear, organizations are feeling the pinch in the shortage of good, qualified managerial professionals. Nicholas Goh, Managing Director of Verztec Consulting Pte Ltd, an ISO 9001:2000 Certified Multilingual Communication Services Provider, ruminates in a tip sheet on how companies can attract and retain talent.

Attracting and retaining the best people is a major priority in the long-term strategic expansion outlook of many companies. With the impending retirement of a graying population and rapidly evolving business climates, faulty leadership development processes and executive inattention now carry a tangible cost. Companies have been forced to pass up on new businesses because they did not have the talent to see their growth strategies to fruition.

In final briefs submitted to the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals last Friday, The General Electric Company (NYSE:GE) is defending its relationship with Novation, Inc. in a cartel to exclude Medical Supply Chain, Inc. from entering the $1.3 Trillion dollar hospital supply industry which is in a desperate need to lower costs. On August 21st, the day following the final brief, the New York Times revealed that the US Department of Justice (DOJ) had issued criminal subpoenas in a broad inquiry into hospital supply purchases. The companies named in the NY Times article to receive a criminal subpoena with GE are Merck (NYSE:MRK), Bristol-Myers Squibb (NYSE:BMY), Becton Dickinson (NYSE:BDX), Cardinal Health (NYSE:CAH) and Genentech (NYSE:DNA); the G.E. Healthcare medical equipment unit of General Electric, all of which are members of the cartel Global Healthcare Exchange (GHX) founded by GEs CEO Jeffery Immelt and alleged by Medical Supply Chain, Inc. to have been formed for the purpose of artificially inflating hospital supply costs.

Widget UK, a leading distributor of mobile accessories, is pleased to announce the availability of two GPS solutions for use with Symbian and Microsoft smartphones. Both come with the software ready installed on a memory card, and with a Bluetooth GPS receiver. Both are powerful wireless door to door navigation systems, which allow you to enter your destination on your phone handset, and recalculate routes if you go wrong.

Both display brilliant 3D maps on the screen of the mobile phone to show your route and the in-built speaker to give you voice directions.

The newest domain name website was released this week. The site is for all of those that want to better promote their business web site. The site is complete with product knowledge and support whether it be for an expert or novice in the internet world.

The purpose of the site is to give all of its users complete internet domain capabilities. All have the ability to maintain their own hosting, create their own website, promote website, and many other features that all visitors will get to see.

The buzz for the site supports the growth of specific domain names. Registered domain names are $8.95 per year or less. Businesses are able to buy in bulk and save even more.

Puakea Group has announced the first of it's website property acquisitions by acquiring the assets of PartyPail.com. PartyPail.com is an e-commerce site that specializes in baby shower decorations and party supplies for baby showers, bridal showers, and birthdays. PartyPail was founded in 2004, and originally operated by it's founders in Redding, California. Puakea Group has set-up a holding company, PartyPail, Inc., a Washington corporations, to operate the entity out of offices in Enumclaw, Washington.

Homegrown Hydroponics (http://www.homegrown-hydroponics.com) of Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, is the leader in self contained hydroponic systems, called grow boxes. They have recently unveiled a new product line called Modular Grow Boxes, which will revolutionize the industry. A grow box is a complete system for growing plants in an ideal, computer controlled environment; engineered specifically for rapid plant growth.

Modular Hydroponic Grow Boxes

These units will typically include a powerful lighting system to simulate the sun, a maintenance free hydroponic system to provide the plant's roots with water, oxygen and nutrients, as well as intake and exhaust fans, to keep fresh air moving around the plants leaves -- and keep them cool. Deluxe systems also include co2 injection to increase the plants growth rate by 40%, as well as air conditioning for keeping the plants cool, and water chillers to keep the roots cool, fresh and healthy.

Career Step, a leading online healthcare education company, has partnered with NewLife Technical Institute in East Liverpool, Ohio area to offer training to individuals interested in pursing careers in medical transcription.

"We are pleased to be partnering with NewLif 5a8 e Technical Institute and excited to be expanding the training options for NewLife's students," said Career Step's Vice President of Business Services, Cameron Loflin. "This partnership will allow NewLife students to train for promising careers in medical transcription with the convenience and flexibility of an online education option."

David Cocetti of Cocetti Wines is pleased to announce the public release of two Special Edition Anniversary wines. Both wines are available direct to consumer through their website at www.cocettiwines.com. Cocetti Wines offers free shipping on wine purchases over $38.00

The first Anniversary wine is a 2005 Vintners Select Napa Cabernet Sauvignon.

It has the intense color of ripe red fruit and an aroma of cassis and candid cherry. This Vintners Select Cabernet Sauvignon is full to the palate with ripe cherry flavors, vanilla and a lingering finish of bitter chocolate with a balance of oak and tannins. Only 56 cases of this Anniversary wine were produced!

A poll conducted by online dating site Partner4Real.com has confirmed recent research out of the U.S. that three minute sex is "adequate", and 7-13 minute sex is ideal.

Logo

Over 2,000 members were polled, with an overwhelming 65 percent saying that anything over 13 minutes is too long, and that 3-7 minutes is the ideal amount of time.

Brett Smith, the Partner4real Dating and Health Expert, said that these findings reflected what most Australians would already know but would rarely admit too. "Interestingly, 25 percent of females said that while 7-13 minutes was ideal, they still expected extended foreplay. This figure dropped to 12 percent for males who preferred to reduce the amount of pre-sex activity," said Smith.

CME Outfitters, LLC, an independent accredited provider of multidisciplinary medical education programming and related healthcare communications services, received national certification as a Women's Business Enterprise by the Women Presidents' Educational Organization of Washington, D.C. (WPEO-DC), a regional certifying partner of the Women's Business Enterprise National Council (WBENC).

Managing Partners Jan Perez and Sharon Tordoff look forward to new opportunities that may be presented to CME Outfitters by virtue of this certification. "We hope to leverage our position as a WBENC-Certified Women's Business Enterprise to work with other organizations committed to diversity programs," says Ms. Tordoff.

Top talent and experts from the video game industry have formed OneNine Studios, a development company devoted to the creation of video games. The company consists of veteran game designers, programmers and artists, with heavy experience creating games for handheld consoles, mobile phones, and web browsers.

OneNine's co-founder and President, Brent Boylen has brought together some of the industry's top developers. "Our people come from companies such as Activision, Gameloft, Digital Eclipse, Vicarious Visions, and Kush Games. They're all seasoned professionals and have all worked on several significant titles in their prior roles. Having them all in one company helps ensure that our development methodology is sound, efficient, and allows us to create great games," says Boylen.

Acumatica, a provider of web-based accounting, ERP, and CRM software, today announced the launch of its Distribution Management Suite. The web-based technology allows mid-sized businesses to manage a complex supply and distribution chain from a centralized server to reduce the cost of deploying and maintaining software while significantly increasing productivity.

Inventory and Purchase Order Screens

The Distribution Management Suite is integrated with the Acumatica Financial and Customer Management Suites to automate inventory management, sales orders, and purchase orders. Detailed security requirements and process flows allow businesses to involve their entire organization as well as external partners without changing existing business processes or installing client software. The Acumatica server software can be deployed on-premise, hosted at a datacenter, or implemented on a cloud computing environment.

It's hard to tell by looking at their war-inspired business, but Dan Levesque and Stephanie Page are two of the friendliest owner-operators you'll ever encounter. The two started a paintball gun business called ChoicePaintballGuns.com, an entrepreneurial endeavor that allows them to find like-minded individuals and arm them to the teeth with the latest and most authentic paintball arsenals in the modern world.

Thus far, the two have been receiving rave reviews in their website's testimonials section. Veteran paintballers from all over the country are flocking to the site because of its ease of navigability and its unparalleled attention to customer support. Understandably so--the weapons offered on the site look so true-to-life they make any other gun look like a cheap Super Soaker. They are so realistic in appearance that law enforcement and military personnel actually train with them.

U.S. taxpayers looking for ways to help the environment can now go directly to RefundsForGood.org. This new celebrity endorsed web site shows both the average taxpayer and corporations how to easily redirect their one time phone tax refund to a charity focused on saving the environment.

"Global warming, air pollution, over-population - these are daunting challenges that we all face - but there is a solution. Here's your chance to make a difference," says Ed Begley, Jr. on the new Refunds for Good website: refundsforgood.org. A well respected actor, as well as environmental activist, Ed has joined with Martin Sheen, Larry Hagman ("JR") and Nate Corddry from the Daily Show to support this new website to providing ways to help the environment. 13 Nobel Peace Prize Laureates, such as the Dali Lamai and Bishop Tutu also support this campaign.

Denver hosts Colorado premiere showings of One, the Movie: A Contemporary Journey Toward a Timeless Destiny.

ONE the Movie, an independent film, has now been seen on five continents by over 100,000 people. The film was made by Ward Powers, a trial attorney and father of three who lives in a suburb of Detroit. After waking one morning with an idea to make a film exploring some of life's big questions, he ordered a video camera and ventured out with two friends and a list of questions designed to discover the meaning of life. No one had any filmmaking experience.

RockNRoll punk stars "Any Given Day" will be taking to the road in July with "AntiProduct" and "Trash Light Vision" which features Murderdolls guitarist Acey Slade. The tour will see the band playing larger venues than before and they are more than looking forward to the challenge.

The tour will see the band at the following venues:

1st July. Stourbridge, Rock Caf.

2nd July. Newcastle, Arena.

3rd July. Blackburn, King Georges Hall.

6th July. London, The Underworld.

8th July. Newport, TJs

10th July. Cleethorpes, Winter Gardens.

11th July. Leeds, Met University.

Nowadays in the UK there is a huge number of accounting software packages. Almost without exception they all have their own niche marketplaces. However there is about to be a change in Accounting Standards within the UK, which will mean changes will be required to many packages currently on the market.

Until now accounting software in the UK has met GAAP Standards, (Generally Accepted Accounting Practice) but soon businesses will have to get used to a new standard is being introduced, IAS (International Accounting Standards).

After the success of email negotiations, ProAudio America (www.djmart.com) invested in new technology to provide their customers with a live negotiation tool. Click on the "Negotiate Live" image and a store representative will come up with the best offer in the market for that specific item.

DjMart Representatives base their price offering on variables such as quantity, time frame required, delivery to location, and availability.

This enables shoppers to negotiate without a physical contact such as phone or person to person. Which makes more confortable to those individuals that are shy or embaraced to ask for a better price. As well as it enables the selling party to evaluate all the nuances and offer a competitive price without being known to competitors.

nFusion, one of the country's fastest-growing integrated marketing agencies, today announced its search marketing team achieved Google AdWords certification, making nFusion a Google AdWords Qualified company. The Google qualification certifies a core element of nFusion's services arsenal and significantly raises the bar for integrated marketing campaign management.

nFusion logo

"As a client, I appreciate the fact that our agency team took the initiative and time to dive deeper and strengthen an area that was mission-critical to our business," said Anita Erickson, vice president of marketing at NextScreen. "By honing its SEM/SEO skills, nFusion has strengthened its value to me as a full-service integrated marketing agency."

Parature, the global leader in on-demand customer service software, announced today that it will sponsor a free webinar offering customer service and support professionals appropriate techniques for dealing with difficult customer transactions. The webinar entitled "What to Say to a Porcupine: Strategies for Dealing with Difficult Customers" will be held on Wednesday, October 29, 2008 at 2:00pm EDT. To register for the webinar, please visit www.parature.com/res_webinars.aspx.

High customer retention rates - one of the most sought-after metrics in any industry. A coveted metric that is often hard to attain with today's fickle and technology-savvy customers ready to change their vendor loyalty at a moment's notice, while simultaneously broadcasting their displeasure of their support experience across the Internet. Customer service and support teams field some of the angriest, and craziest, customer requests. Handling these challenging requests is often a daunting task for these service and support professionals; many become frazzled or angry and thus, do not properly handle the situation. Organizations cannot afford to have their complex customer transactions handled improperly. It is imperative that they arm their support teams with the most appropriate techniques for these difficult customer encounters to achieve their desired customer retention rates.

With the war for talent in high gear, organizations are feeling the pinch in the shortage of good, qualified managerial professionals. Nicholas Goh, Managing Director of Verztec Consulting Pte Ltd, an ISO 9001:2000 Certified Multilingual Communication Services Provider, ruminates in a tip sheet on how companies can attract and retain talent.

Attracting and retaining the best people is a major priority in the long-term strategic expansion outlook of many companies. With the impending retirement of a graying population and rapidly evolving business climates, faulty leadership development processes and executive inattention now carry a tangible cost. Companies have been forced to pass up on new businesses because they did not have the talent to see their growth strategies to fruition.

In final briefs submitted to the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals last Friday, The General Electric Company (NYSE:GE) is defending its relationship with Novation, Inc. in a cartel to exclude Medical Supply Chain, Inc. from entering the $1.3 Trillion dollar hospital supply industry which is in a desperate need to lower costs. On August 21st, the day following the final brief, the New York Times revealed that the US Department of Justice (DOJ) had issued criminal subpoenas in a broad inquiry into hospital supply purchases. The companies named in the NY Times article to receive a criminal subpoena with GE are Merck (NYSE:MRK), Bristol-Myers Squibb (NYSE:BMY), Becton Dickinson (NYSE:BDX), Cardinal Health (NYSE:CAH) and Genentech (NYSE:DNA); the G.E. Healthcare medical equipment unit of General Electric, all of which are members of the cartel Global Healthcare Exchange (GHX) founded by GEs CEO Jeffery Immelt and alleged by Medical Supply Chain, Inc. to have been formed for the purpose of artificially inflating hospital supply costs.

Widget UK, a leading distributor of mobile accessories, is pleased to announce the availability of two GPS solutions for use with Symbian and Microsoft smartphones. Both come with the software ready installed on a memory card, and with a Bluetooth GPS receiver. Both are powerful wireless door to door navigation systems, which allow you to enter your destination on your phone handset, and recalculate routes if you go wrong.

Both display brilliant 3D maps on the screen of the mobile phone to show your route and the in-built speaker to give you voice directions.

The newest domain name website was released this week. The site is for all of those that want to better promote their business web site. The site is complete with product knowledge and support whether it be for an expert or novice in the internet world.

The purpose of the site is to give all of its users complete internet domain capabilities. All have the ability to maintain their own hosting, create their own website, promote website, and many other features that all visitors will get to see.

The buzz for the site supports the growth of specific domain names. Registered domain names are $8.95 per year or less. Businesses are able to buy in bulk and save even more.

Puakea Group has announced the first of it's website property acquisitions by acquiring the assets of PartyPail.com. PartyPail.com is an e-commerce site that specializes in baby shower decorations and party supplies for baby showers, bridal showers, and birthdays. PartyPail was founded in 2004, and originally operated by it's founders in Redding, California. Puakea Group has set-up a holding company, PartyPail, Inc., a Washington corporations, to operate the entity out of offices in Enumclaw, Washington.

Homegrown Hydroponics (http://www.homegrown-hydroponics.com) of Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, is the leader in self contained hydroponic systems, called grow boxes. They have recently unveiled a new product line called Modular Grow Boxes, which will revolutionize the industry. A grow box is a complete system for growing plants in an ideal, computer controlled environment; engineered specifically for rapid plant growth.

Modular Hydroponic Grow Boxes

These units will typically include a powerful lighting system to simulate the sun, a maintenance free hydroponic system to provide the plant's roots with water, oxygen and nutrients, as well as intake and exhaust fans, to keep fresh air moving around the plants leaves -- and keep them cool. Deluxe systems also include co2 injection to increase the plants growth rate by 40%, as well as air conditioning for keeping the plants cool, and water chillers to keep the roots cool, fresh and healthy.

Career Step, a leading online healthcare education company, has partnered with NewLife Technical Institute in East Liverpool, Ohio area to offer training to individuals interested in pursing careers in medical transcription.

"We are pleased to be partnering with NewLif 5a8 e Technical Institute and excited to be expanding the training options for NewLife's students," said Career Step's Vice President of Business Services, Cameron Loflin. "This partnership will allow NewLife students to train for promising careers in medical transcription with the convenience and flexibility of an online education option."

David Cocetti of Cocetti Wines is pleased to announce the public release of two Special Edition Anniversary wines. Both wines are available direct to consumer through their website at www.cocettiwines.com. Cocetti Wines offers free shipping on wine purchases over $38.00

The first Anniversary wine is a 2005 Vintners Select Napa Cabernet Sauvignon.

It has the intense color of ripe red fruit and an aroma of cassis and candid cherry. This Vintners Select Cabernet Sauvignon is full to the palate with ripe cherry flavors, vanilla and a lingering finish of bitter chocolate with a balance of oak and tannins. Only 56 cases of this Anniversary wine were produced!

A poll conducted by online dating site Partner4Real.com has confirmed recent research out of the U.S. that three minute sex is "adequate", and 7-13 minute sex is ideal.

Logo

Over 2,000 members were polled, with an overwhelming 65 percent saying that anything over 13 minutes is too long, and that 3-7 minutes is the ideal amount of time.

Brett Smith, the Partner4real Dating and Health Expert, said that these findings reflected what most Australians would already know but would rarely admit too. "Interestingly, 25 percent of females said that while 7-13 minutes was ideal, they still expected extended foreplay. This figure dropped to 12 percent for males who preferred to reduce the amount of pre-sex activity," said Smith.

CME Outfitters, LLC, an independent accredited provider of multidisciplinary medical education programming and related healthcare communications services, received national certification as a Women's Business Enterprise by the Women Presidents' Educational Organization of Washington, D.C. (WPEO-DC), a regional certifying partner of the Women's Business Enterprise National Council (WBENC).

Managing Partners Jan Perez and Sharon Tordoff look forward to new opportunities that may be presented to CME Outfitters by virtue of this certification. "We hope to leverage our position as a WBENC-Certified Women's Business Enterprise to work with other organizations committed to diversity programs," says Ms. Tordoff.

Top talent and experts from the video game industry have formed OneNine Studios, a development company devoted to the creation of video games. The company consists of veteran game designers, programmers and artists, with heavy experience creating games for handheld consoles, mobile phones, and web browsers.

OneNine's co-founder and President, Brent Boylen has brought together some of the industry's top developers. "Our people come from companies such as Activision, Gameloft, Digital Eclipse, Vicarious Visions, and Kush Games. They're all seasoned professionals and have all worked on several significant titles in their prior roles. Having them all in one company helps ensure that our development methodology is sound, efficient, and allows us to create great games," says Boylen.

Acumatica, a provider of web-based accounting, ERP, and CRM software, today announced the launch of its Distribution Management Suite. The web-based technology allows mid-sized businesses to manage a complex supply and distribution chain from a centralized server to reduce the cost of deploying and maintaining software while significantly increasing productivity.

Inventory and Purchase Order Screens

The Distribution Management Suite is integrated with the Acumatica Financial and Customer Management Suites to automate inventory management, sales orders, and purchase orders. Detailed security requirements and process flows allow businesses to involve their entire organization as well as external partners without changing existing business processes or installing client software. The Acumatica server software can be deployed on-premise, hosted at a datacenter, or implemented on a cloud computing environment.

It's hard to tell by looking at their war-inspired business, but Dan Levesque and Stephanie Page are two of the friendliest owner-operators you'll ever encounter. The two started a paintball gun business called ChoicePaintballGuns.com, an entrepreneurial endeavor that allows them to find like-minded individuals and arm them to the teeth with the latest and most authentic paintball arsenals in the modern world.

Thus far, the two have been receiving rave reviews in their website's testimonials section. Veteran paintballers from all over the country are flocking to the site because of its ease of navigability and its unparalleled attention to customer support. Understandably so--the weapons offered on the site look so true-to-life they make any other gun look like a cheap Super Soaker. They are so realistic in appearance that law enforcement and military personnel actually train with them.