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QA Graphics Hires Account Executive

Ankeny, Iowa (PRWEB) February 08, 2012

QA Graphics, a Des Moines-based interactive design firm, is proud to announce the hiring of Blake Pinneke. Blake has been hired as the new senior account executive for the company’s interactive and multimedia design services.

Blake will be responsible for maintaining and acquiring new business in the Des Moines metro and Midwest region. He will focus on selling QA Graphics’ creative services including Flash development, 3D design and animation, touchscreen application design, kiosk development, mobile app development for Apple iOS (iPhone/iPad/iTouch), Android and BlackBerry devices, and other custom multimedia solutions.

Blake has over 12 years of merchandise buying experience emphasizing product and contract negotiation, inventory investment and retail placement, strategic financial planning, private program development, and coordination of merchant and vendor communication. Prior to joining QA Graphics, Blake worked as a multi-million dollar category buyer for a 150-store Hallmark chain, and as a department store buyer for a 60-store Saks Inc. chain. Blake also holds over four years of sales management experience. During that role he served as the general sales manager for Golf Galaxy, responsible for successfully expanding the branch’s annual sales volume. QA Graphics is excited to welcome Blake to the team and anticipates continued growth with this new addition.

About QA Graphics

QA Graphics is an Iowa-based interactive design company specializing in Flash development, touchscreen applications, 3D design/animation, mobile apps and other multimedia. The company is also a leader in the building automation and green building industries, providing graphic outsourcing and energy dashboards to help educate occupants about building performance and sustainability. Visit http://www.qagraphics.com to learn more.

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Three Fairfield County Residents Among “Best Lawyers in America,” with Shipman & Goodwin LLP

Hartford, CT (PRWEB) October 28, 2011

Three Fairfield County residents, all lawyers with Shipman & Goodwin LLP, have been named to The Best Lawyers in America® 2012 (Copyright 2011 by Woodward/White, Inc., of Aiken, S.C.), which has been universally regarded as the definitive guide to legal excellence for almost 30 years. The selection of these Best Lawyers is part of an exhaustive national peer-review survey and is based upon almost 3.9 million evaluations of the legal abilities of other lawyers in their practice areas.

Robin Frederick, a Stamford resident, was recognized for her practice in Labor and Employment Litigation. Barry Hawkins, a resident of Black Rock, was recognized for his practice in the area of Real Estate Law and Litigation. Julie Manning, a Fairfield resident, was recognized for her practice in the area of Bankruptcy and Creditor-Debtor Rights Law.

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New Jersey Divorce Advisors LLC Announces Sponsorship of CentraState Celebration Ball

Red Bank, NJ (PRWEB) October 31, 2011

New Jersey Divorce Advisors, LLC, (NJDA) is proud to announce its sponsorship of the CentraState Healthcare Foundation’s Annual Celebration Ball. This marks the 50th Anniversary of the Celebration Ball and comes in a year when the CentraState Healthcare System is preparing to open the 10th Proton Therapy Cancer Center in the United States.

The proceeds from this year’s event will benefit CentraState’s Radiation Therapy Center and will help fund the addition of a second linear accelerator. The technology being deployed in this center will be the most advanced in the region and is moving the hospital one step closer to its vision of being a regional, destination cancer center.

“In our service area alone, 5,500 new cancer cases are diagnosed each year. We are thrilled at the progress we’re making with cancer treatment but there is still much work to be done,” said Roman Lucky, Vice President of CentraState’s Healthcare Foundation. “Our ability to meet our goals is driven by the support of local businesses such as New Jersey Divorce Advisors.”

“It’s an honor to be affiliated with an organization that is responsible for so much good in our community,” said Bryan Koslow, President of NJDA. “In addition to providing outstanding medical services to Monmouth and Ocean Counties, CentraState provides unparalleled educational opportunities for our next generation of doctors.”

About CentraState

CentraState Medical Center opened its doors in 1971 as a 120-bed, rural community hospital with eleven physicians and 200 employees. In just forty years, it has grown to a 283-bed comprehensive medical center providing services in 42 specialties with 512 physicians, 2,400 employees and is now a University-affiliated teaching hospital.

The CentraState Healthcare System is comprised of: the medical center; the 170,000 square foot Star and Barry Tobias Ambulatory Campus; Applewood Estates, a life-care retirement community with 386 apartments and cottages; Monmouth Crossing, a 76-unit assisted living facility; The Manor, a 123-bed skilled nursing facility; and outreach facilities in Jackson and Monroe.

CentraState recently announced an affiliation with the Cancer Institute of New Jersey and is attracting top physicians with training from world-class institutions such as Johns Hopkins, Yale and M.D. Anderson Cancer Center.

CentraState serves a population of more than 1 million in 36 municipalities ranging from East Brunswick in the northwest to Toms River in the southeast.

About New Jersey Divorce Advisors

New Jersey Divorce Advisors, LLC, helps divorcing individuals and their attorneys make informed decisions and negotiate equitable divorce settlements. The company specializes in Divorce Financial Planning, Collaborative Divorce, and Mediation. NJDA’s founder, Bryan Koslow, is active on several committees with the CentraState Healthcare Foundation.

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EC-Council to Host Advanced Technical Security Summits in Alexandria and San Jose

EC-Council Summit

Albuquerque, NM (PRWEB) January 13, 2012

The Center of Advanced Security Training (CAST) – the advanced training division of EC-Council – announces the next installment of its successful advanced training series ‘EC-Council Summit’ (formerly known as CAST Summit) March 19-22 in Alexandria, Virginia and March 26-29 in San Jose, California. This series of summits feature five highly technical workshops in ethical hacking, penetration testing, mobile hacking/forensics, application security and network defense.

The highly technical training series first debuted in August 2011 in Washington, D.C. and is now being expanded to new cities this year following the strong reception it received among IT security professionals.

EC-Council Summit is a unique training opportunity that gives attendees the chance to undergo an intense three-day ‘deep dive’ in five critical IT security fields with top industry experts. Unlike other training events where students are rushed through short presentations, the EC-Council Summit provides a unique opportunity to be immersed in key subject areas, with comprehensive training modules and a heavy focus on hands-on technical training and hacking labs, taught by the very best in their fields.

“EC-Council Summit is expanding its offerings this year following the resounding success we had at the inaugural event last summer,” said Leonard Chin, Director of CAST and EC-Council Conferences & Events. “With an exponential increase of cyber threats facing businesses and government agencies, from the lone hacker armed with easily accessible hacking tools, hacktivists with malicious intents, to Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs), offensive security training has never been more important than it is today. 2011 was called the ‘year of the hack’, but 2012 could worsen due to the proliferation of attacks and increasing popularity of the hacktivism movement. IT security professionals must adapt themselves to this changing threat environment in order to safeguard the information assets of their companies and organizations.”

The goal of EC-Council Summit is to prepare security professionals, such as penetration testers and network security administrators, to use advanced hacking techniques in order to better identify and prevent threats before they impact a company or organization. Participants will walk way with a firm grasp of offensive security strategies and techniques, industry best practices, how to develop a secure baseline, how to harden enterprise architectures from the most advanced attacks, and how to reduce the capabilities of APTs.

Five three-day workshops, followed by a highly technical one-day seminar on key security topics, will be hosted in each city as follows:

    Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH) v7: For the first time, students can achieve CEH v7 certification in a record three days by completing this advanced training course. This course runs for 10 hours per day and the exam is conducted on-site at the end. CEH, a DoD accepted program, is the industry standard in ethical hacker training and forms the basis of all advanced offensive security teachings.
    Advanced Penetration Testing: Presented by Joe McCray, this training course deals with penetrating high security environments like government agencies and financial institutions. Students will gain the know-how to attack patched and hardened servers running on the latest Windows and Linux operating systems, avoiding detection from Intrusion Detection and Prevention Systems (IDS/IPS), and best practices for circumventing common security implementations like GPOs, Locked Down desktops, IDS/IPS/WAF, etc.
    Advanced Mobile Hacking & Forensics: Presented by Wayne Burke, this course focuses on the in-depth aspects of performing forensic analysis on mobile operating systems such as Apple iOS, Google Android, Microsoft Windows Phone 7, and RIM Blackberry. Students will learn how to recover and preserve digital evidence in real-world scenarios where civil or criminal litigation is at stake, and conduct effective audits on mobile devices to prevent misuse.
    Advanced Application Security: Presented by Tim Pierson, this training course deals with the latest risks in the programming environment, current prevention tools and new attack methodologies. Students will learn programming techniques to thwart Man-in-the-Middle attacks and also how to write defensive code to prevent other attacks, how to harden applications on various runtimes like .Net, Java, and Adobe Air, advanced fuzzing technology and SQL-database rootkits.
    Advanced Network Defense: Presented by Kevin Cardwell, this course focuses on offensive security techniques to protect the enterprise against today’s most advanced threats, system deployments in highly secure states, identifying hard-to-detect malware and staging advanced attacks.

For more information about the EC-Council Summit series, please visit http://www.eccouncil.org/summit.

ABOUT CAST:

The Center of Advanced Security Training (CAST) was developed by EC-Council (http://www.eccouncil.org), in conjunction with cybersecurity experts, to address the need for highly technical and advanced security training for information security professionals. Instructed by EC-Council’s select group of master trainers, CAST offers hands-on, lab intensive courses that cover the security industry’s top domains, including advanced penetration testing training, digital mobile forensics training, advanced application security training, advanced network defense training, crimeware attribution, web application security training, and more. CAST is hosted at various international events, including EC-Council’s flagship Hacker Halted and TakeDownCon conference series.

ABOUT EC-COUNCIL:

The International Council of E-Commerce Consultants (EC-Council) is a member-based organization that certifies individuals in cyber security and e-commerce. It is the owner and developer of 20 security certifications, including Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH), Computer Hacking Forensics Investigator (CHFI) and Certified Security Analyst /Licensed Penetration Tester (ECSA/LPT). EC-Council has trained over 90,000 security professionals and certified more than 40,000 members.

EC-Council’s certification programs are offered by over 450 training centers across 87 countries. These certifications are recognized worldwide and have received endorsements from vaårious government agencies including the U.S. Department of Defense via DoD 8570.01-M, the Montgomery GI Bill, National Security Agency (NSA) and the Committee on National Security Systems (CNSS). EC-Council also operates EC-Council University and the global series of Hacker Halted information security conferences. The global organization is headquartered in Albuquerque, New Mexico. More information about EC-Council is available at http://www.eccouncil.org

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The Bible Scholar App for iPad, iPhone, Android, BlackBerry and Windows Phone (Mango) Helps Christians Simplify Learning the Roots of Their Faith

The Bible Scholar Interactive

Broken Arrow (PRWEB) November 03, 2011

In addition to the iPad, the Bible Scholar app is also supported by the following devices: iPhone,Android (smartphones and tablets), BlackBerry, Windows Phone (Mango), and Symbian (Nokia).

A deep knowledge of the Scriptures and an understanding of the history of the Christian Church are essential to the foundation of every Christian. For so long it has been a big challenge to gain access to a historical account of Christianity with ease without attending a Bible College. Hence, individuals on the go with busy schedules could not fully participate in this quest without radically changing their schedules. To gain this knowledge required attaining a massive library costing hundreds, even thousands of dollars.

The Bible Scholar Interactive App for iPad is the first and only app for the iPad and all major smartphones that successfully provides an in depth account of the Church’s origin by shedding light on the age of the Apostles, Medieval Christianity, Christianity in the Middle Ages, and explores the German and Swiss reformations.

Now any serious student of the Bible can access this information with a simple tap on his or her iPad or smartphone. Considering the wealth of information in this app, it is amazing to know that this iPad app is available on the iTunes App Store for just $ 3.99.

The Bible Scholar app was named one of “25 Incredible iPad Apps Every Theology Student Should Have” by Theology Degrees Online—a site dedicated to the promotion of “ensuring the quality of future religious leaders and scholars learning.”

Additionally, ‘The Bible Scholar Interactive App’ for iPad has a Bible, a quiz with hundreds of questions, two Bible dictionaries, one topical Bible by Nave’s, seven separate Bible commentaries, The Institutes of the Christian Religion by John Calvin, eight volumes of Church history, and much more. This app contains more than 14,000 pages of Bible study gems.

The Bible Scholar was also named one of “40 Awesome Android Apps for Scripture Study” by Masters in Divinity—an online site that focuses on promoting advanced degrees for pastors and professional ministry.

The Android version for smartphones and tablets (which is split into two sets) is available on the Android Market and Amazon Appstore for Android (Kindle Fire).

Talking about the Android version, one Dr. Nathan wrote: “Fantastic volume of information. It’s equal to 20 volumes of history and contemporary learning that’s sure to provide hours of interesting research sufficient to form an apologetic learning foundation. A Great find. Price these apart and $ 200 would be a bargain.”

Users of this app can copy and paste the content into emails and transfer to a desktop or laptop and incorporate it into study notes, sermons, articles, research papers or just to share with a friend. Users can also use the share feature to post to Facebook or Twitter.

The Bible Scholar Interactive App for iPad is a scholar’s gold mine.

The new Windows Mango version of The Bible Scholar app has all the amazing new features that this new platform offers.

In this premier value rich Bible-based iPad App, the developers have included more than 20 volumes (with more than 14,000 Pages) of wonderful Bible study tools that answer all the questions a person could have about the Holy Scriptures.

Some of the content in the Bible Scholar Interactive for iPad are:

Matthew Henry’s Bible Commentary

Institutes of the Christian Religion, four volumes by John Calvin

People’s New Testament Commentary

Smith’s Bible Dictionary

The Treasury of David, Six Volumes by Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Introduction to the New Testament
Lewis Berkhof’s famous introduction will help the student to understand the history, culture, and authorship of the New Testament books of the Bible. It has more than two hundred pages.

History of the Christian Church Volumes 1 to eight by Philip Schaff

Updated King James Version of the Holy Bible. This contains more than 1800 pages.

Charisma News (founded by Steve Strang), recently reported a study conducted by LifeWay that surveyed 2,000 Bible readers. The article concludes that respondents overwhelmingly prefer a Bible translation that is simpler to understand.

The Updated KJV Bible is the King James Bible without the antiquated words as a way to appeal to a modern generation. Yet, this version retains the poetic flow of the King James Version that has endeared many to this most beloved Bible version.

This is arguably the most comprehensive Bible related app on the iTunes App Store. Every Christian or student of history will find this app to be worth the investment.

About The Bible Scholar

The Bible Scholar was designed to empower the believer to understand the

Scriptures through innovative tools, Bible commentaries, Bible dictionaries, and Church history; thus providing a firm foundation that will stand the test of time.

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Pick A Real Irish Tea for St Patrick’s Day

Dallas, TX (PRWEB) March 2, 2009

For St Patrick’s Day, look beyond your regular cup of Irish Breakfast to find an authentic tea from Ireland. More tea is consumed per capita in Ireland than any other country.

Irish teas are increasingly popular. Usually black teas, they have a full-bodied taste, malty flavor and best served with sugar and milk. Today, they come in two forms. The first is labeled Irish Breakfast tea and produced in almost every country. Authentic Irish teas are made by tea companies in Ireland and include such brands as Barry’s, Bewley’s, Lyons and Punjana.

Authentic Irish teas achieve unique flavor and taste by blending leaves from Africa and India. Most of the leaves used are African, since it works particularly well with the Irish water. Blending different types and amounts of tea produces varying tastes.

Lyons Tea is Ireland’s best-selling brand. The company offers 2 different teas: Lyons Gold and Lyons Original. Lyons Gold is a premium tea for a more discerning drinker.

Blended and produced in Cork, Barry’s Tea occupies the high end of the Irish tea market. According to Barry’s, the company is the second most popular tea in Ireland. Barry’s Gold Tea, their most popular, brews an amber color and has a smooth, clean taste. Barry’s Classic has a stronger flavor.

Best known for its historic Dublin cafe, Bewley’s is one of Ireland’s leading brands. Bewley’s Tea dates to 1835 when Charles Bewley imported the first tea into Ireland from China. Bewley’s leading teas are Irish Breakfast, Irish Afternoon and Dublin Morning.

Started in 1886 in Belfast, Punjana Tea is Northern Ireland’s most popular. Punjana offers an Irish Breakfast, Fair Trade and Decaffeinated.

Make St Patrick’s Day more authentic with a good cup of Irish tea.

About teadog.com

teadog.com is an Internet retailer offering tea brands from around the world. teadog.com offers teas from such companies as Barry’s, Bewley’s Tea, Lyons, Punjana, Kusmi, Scottish Blend, Taylors of Harrogate, Williamson Tea and more.

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BlackBerry App for Getting Things Done Viira Releases Software Update

Viira: Stay Organized From Anywhere

(PRWEB) October 10, 2011

Karta Mobile has announced the release of version 3.1 of Viira, the popular software application for Getting Things Done with BlackBerry smartphones. The latest software update takes advantage of recent advances in BlackBerry hardware technology to provide users with an intuitive touch-enabled user interface. Users of Viira can now perform key productivity functions quickly and easily with just a tap on the screen of their BlackBerry smartphones.

Enhancements to Viira’s In-Basket are perfectly suited for the collection phase of Getting Things Done® (GTD®) and enable users to view and quickly add tasks, reminders as well as email and SMS communications for further processing and classification into their BlackBerry GTD system. Additional enhancements in Viira 3.1 include the introduction of a Quick Add field to enable the fast input of new tasks and ideas, introduction of project and context priorities as well as a new compact mode to let users fit more of their Viira data on the screen of their BlackBerry smartphone.

Research In Motion Inc., the maker of BlackBerry smartphones, recently made available a number of new device models under the BlackBerry 7 brand. Recent models such as the Bold 9900 and 9930 as well as all models in the BlackBerry Torch series have a touch screen for enhanced interaction while preserving the signature BlackBerry QWERTY keyboard. Viira is compatible and fully supported on all modern BlackBerry models.

Karta Mobile has also announced that updates and enhancements available in Viira 3.1 will soon be available in the Viira companion product, the Viira Outlook Suite. The Viira Outlook Suite is the first software solution for Getting Things Done with Outlook to provide seamless wireless synchronization between a BlackBerry client application and an Outlook add-in in order to provide one accessible-from-anywhere GTD-style personal organization system.

“Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity” is a best-selling time management book by David Allen that shows readers how to effectively organize their day-to-day tasks and commitments in a stress-free and intuitive way. The principles of the book continue to receive wide-spread media attention to-date and have been embraced by millions of professionals, entrepreneurs and executives worldwide. BlackBerry smartphones and the principles of Getting Things Done are both widely accepted as must-have productivity tools by busy knowledge professionals around the world.

About Karta Mobile Inc.

Karta Mobile Inc. is a Vancouver, BC company that specializes in the creation of business-centric mobile applications. Karta Mobile’s flagship BlackBerry software app Viira is the leading GTD-based productivity application and has received numerous media reviews and positive testimonials. Karta Mobile recently released a version of Viira for Android smartphones.

Contact: contact (at) kartamobile (dot) com

Company website: http://www.kartamobile.com

Flickr stream: http://www.flickr.com/photos/gtdviira

GTD® and Getting Things Done® are registered trademarks of David Allen Company. Karta Mobile and Viira are not affiliated with or endorsed by the David Allen Company. BlackBerry, RIM, Research In Motion and related trademarks, names and logos are the property of Research In Motion Limited. Viira™ is a trademark of Karta Mobile Inc.

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GPXS Mobile Service Manager Provides Efficient Large-Scale Deployment of BlackBerry Patch for Daylight Savings Time Change

Mountain View, CA (PRWEB) February 27, 2007

GPXS, a leading global software and services company delivering BlackBerry® enterprise solutions and expertise, effectively and efficiently manages the large scale deployment of Research In Motion’s (RIM) BlackBerry DST patch via its Condor Mobile Services Manager (MSM) product. RIM is distributing the BlackBerry DST patch to prepare users for the moved-up 2007 Daylight Savings Time (DST) change in the United States. Condor MSM provides a set of tools that will substantially reduce the amount of effort and time to manage the “push” process and that will assure the completion of the deployment of the BlackBerry DST patch in enterprises with large numbers of BlackBerry handhelds.

The work to adjust digital devices to the moved-up date is a looming crisis in the entire digital world. Normally, BlackBerry handhelds, other wireless devices and computers adjust for Daylight Savings Time automatically. This year, due to a special energy-saving move in the US Congress’ Energy Policy Act of 2005, clocks will be set ahead three weeks earlier, on March 11. The implications of this can be significant for both corporate and government networks, which consist of thousands of individual desktops, laptops, servers and mobile devices.

According to RIM, on the BlackBerry.com website (http://www.blackberry.com/select/dst2007/index.shtml): “When the DST dates change in March 2007, BlackBerry® devices will not update their clocks for the affected time zones if no patches for impacted BlackBerry software and third party software are applied. As a result, your BlackBerry device might not display correct time zone information for certain time periods during the year.” The patch needs to be completed by March 10.

Condor Mobile Service Manager is an enterprise-grade secure management platform for managing BlackBerry Enterprise servers, BlackBerry handhelds, services and applications. This proven platform enables large enterprises to manage devices, policies and applications in a secure, controlled way, based on Active Directory information and organizational policies. The MSM allows delegation of role based authorities within organizations with decentralized management structures and greatly reduces the IT staff time necessary to implement and upgrade wireless email and applications usage in enterprises. For more information see: http://www.gpxs.net/condor_msm.aspx.

Since the distribution of the DST patch is in essence an application distribution, the MSM helps IT staffs to easily and successfully manage deployment of the BlackBerry DST patch, just as it does for normal enterprise-wide application deployment.

    Allows the system administrator to configure the number of BlackBerrys to which the patch or application will be pushed at each interval; across as many BlackBerry Enterprise Servers as desired;

    Runs, hands-off, in the background until all BlackBerrys, including enterprise installations with thousands of users, have the patch; while insuring the system never pushes the application or patch to more than the configured number of users for each BES;

    Tracks and logs the status of the deployment for three statuses: 1) Pushed and BlackBerry is waiting to receive 2) Successful 3) Pending;

    Automatically generates a one-click report after each push cycle, showing the current status of all BlackBerry handhelds on all BlackBerry Enterprise Servers across entire enterprise.

“The ease and efficiency of enterprise-wide BlackBerry management are already realized by GPXS Condor MSM enterprise customers,” said Jerome H. Mol, CEO of GPXS. “We are happy to make this solution available to help solve the looming problem caused by the Daylight Savings Time move up.”

To learn more go to http://www.gpxs.net/BlackBerry-DST-Patch.aspx.

About GPXS

GPXS™ is a global software and services company delivering BlackBerry enterprise solutions and expertise to maximize BlackBerry investments. Condor Mobile Enterprise Solutions include BlackBerry management tools that help IT personnel manage, deploy and control BlackBerry environments as well as productivity applications that increase end-users’ BlackBerry productivity. GPXS Professional Services include BlackBerry training, support, and implementation and installation services. GPXS was established in 2002 and has European offices in Amsterdam, London, Frankfurt, Ghent, Limerick and Madrid and in the United States in Norwalk, CT and Mountain View, CA. For more information see: http://www.gpxs.net.

® BlackBerry is the exclusive property and trademark of Research In Motion Limited.

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Marion Barry, Jr To Give Keynote Address For DuBois Business Summit In Greenbelt, Maryland

Lanham, MD (PRWEB) October 30, 2004

The presenters of the Dubois Business Summit, scheduled for November 18, 2004 at Martin’s Crosswinds are excited to announce their Luncheon Keynote Speaker, Marion Barry, Jr. Mr. Barry, the charismatic former mayor of the nation’s capital, will speak on the topic, “African-American Entrepreneurial Empowerment: Creating The Plan.”

Mr. Barry is a native of Mississippi. After coming to Washington, DC in 1965 to establish a local chapter for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), he went on to become “the most dominant politician in the nation’s capital.” Marion Barry, Jr. has served on the District of Columbia Board of Education, City Council and as Mayor, which he held for 16 years.

Marion Barry, Jr. is credited by many with reshaping the District’s ailing economy and finances by first introducing an accounting system to determine the city’s exact financial standing. In 1984 he watched as Wall Street greeted the District as it moved into the bond market with the highest credit rating possible. Mr. Barry also created an Office of Business Development to attract businesses to the District.

Mr. Barry took office as mayor in January 1979, assembling a team of top aides from the ranks of the civil rights movement and declaring he would reform the government he inherited, reduce a staggering deficit, empower citizens and rebuild a sense of “community.” Jefferson Rogers, who has known Marion Barry, Jr. since 1962, characterizes him as “the most effective cultural politician” in recent modern history, a Mississippi sharecropper’s son who learned to be tough.

Mr. Barry has built a legacy of championing for those individuals and causes that have been sorely disenfranchised. When he first became mayor, Mr. Barry says the city had “mostly all-white people doing all the work, making all the money.” Throughout his years, Mr. Barry pushed hard to increase the number of D.C. contracts going to minority contractors. When he arrived, he says the number was about 3 percent; it was 47 percent when he left.

At the age of 68, Marion Barry, Jr. has re-entered the world of politics with his recent overwhelming election as a District of Columbia City Councilperson representing Ward 8. Mr. Barry has been called a “quick study in terms of seeing the importance of a particular project’s economic value.” He wasted no time in building bridges to the business community, holding weekly brown bag lunches that had, by the end of his first year in office, included 400 to 500 business people.

“When you want to understand the complexities of working through both the federal and a local bureaucracy, to create a plan for economic empowerment for minority residents & businesses, and overall social reform, there is no one better to hear from than the ‘DC Mayor for life’ Marion Barry, Jr.,” says Joshua Smith, Chairman of the Summit and President/CEO of the Coaching Group, LLC. “I believe that we will gain positive insight on the visions of Mr. Barry and how he views the economic climate for today’s African American Businesses.”

The Dubois Business Summit is designed for the business owners in the Baltimore/Washington Metropolitan area to come together and learn how to improve and grow their business and to network with other successful business owners. The Summit is being brought to you through the collaborative efforts of: The Harlem Remembrance Foundation, Prince George’s Black Chamber of Commerce, The Maryland/DC Minority Suppliers Council, Maryland Small Business Development Center, and the Prince George’s County Minority Business Opportunities Commission.

For more information on the summit or for sponsorship opportunity please contact Tomeka Johnson of The CAMMAY Group, LLC at 301-918-8418 or check the website at http://www.pghrf.org/dubois.

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PinStack.com Adds Blackberry Pearl 8100 Discussion Forum to Its Blackberry Forums

St. Johns, Antigua (PRWEB) September 12, 2006

PinStack.com — where BlackBerry Professionals Connect — in response to the growing interest in the RIM’s NEW Blackberry 8100 Pearl adds the BlackBerry Pearl 8100 forum to their Blackberry Forums.

The new BlackBerry 8100 Pearl forum has already seen 50,000 visits in it’s first week with topics such as, “The Blackberry 8100 (Pearl) in detail (Specs)”, “Comprehensive Blackberry Pearl 8100 Guide”, “Our Top 5 Blackberry 8100 Pearl Accessories”, “Blackberry Pearl — what would you change about it?”, “New Blackberry 8100c specs & Details” and much more.

You can access the PinStack.com BlackBerry Forums at:

http://blackberryforums.pinstack.com

About PinStack.com

PINStack features Community based Blackberry forum discussions, User Guides, Articles & FAQ database, software downloads, RIM software support groups, accessories and aftermarket software reviews, PIN messaging groups, Blackberry themes and ring tones, members only discounts and contests. Pinstack.com is the most content rich Blackberry website online and membership is free.

The PINStack.com name explained in brief

PIN [. pin] noun

1. Each Blackberry device has a unique PIN, like every phone line has a unique phone number. PINs are up to 8 characters long e.g. 20202020. If you know the PIN of another Blackberry handheld, you can send messages directly to that PIN without the charge of an SMS and faster than email.

Stack [. stack] verb

1. A pile of things in large number more or less neatly arranged one on top of another. In this case stacks of Blackberry PIN users.

The names RIM, BlackBerry and BlackBerry Pearl, are registered Trademarks of Research In Motion Ltd. of which PinStack.com has no affiliation.

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