IDville is known for its proprietary ID Maker ID card systems and software.

Grand Rapids, MI (PRWEB) January 31, 2012

IDville, the leading identification and security expert for business, education, healthcare, and government, is going on the road in 2012 with an increased number of tradeshow appearances. IDville representatives will exhibit at more than thirty industry events performing live ID card system and time and attendance system demonstrations.

IDville is known for its proprietary ID Maker ID card systems and software. The entire ID Maker suite will be available for a demonstration to attendees at all scheduled events. The demonstration walks attendees through the card creation process, including photo taking, card design, and printing.

“We see a lot of benefit from performing live demos of our ID Maker ID card systems for attendees,” said IDville General Manager Dan Rogers. “The demo is the best way to show attendees the simplicity and intuitiveness our best in class systems and software offer.”

In addition to its successful ID card systems, IDville will also highlight Quantix, its new time and attendance system. Quantix is a fully capable, completely automated Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solution positioned to help small to mid-size business transition away from manually entering payroll timecards. An automated time and attendance system can reduce clerical work, prevent errors, and save companies thousands of dollars.

“The new Quantix time and attendance system gives small businesses the tools to manage employee time cards and payroll without breaking the bank,” said Rogers. “This system makes process efficiencies and cost savings accessible to organizations of all sizes.”

IDville’s tradeshow schedule focuses on education and government sector events across the United States. Attendees who visit the IDville booth will receive a free gift, ID card system and time and attendance system demonstrations, and product information packets.

About IDville

IDville, the leading identification and security expert for business, education, healthcare and government, focuses on the identification of employees, students, and staff. The brand has become known for its user-friendly ID MakerTM suite of products, QuantixTM time and attendance system, superior customer service, and expert knowledge. The brand offers complete identification solutions including software, printer systems, custom lanyards, retractable badge reels, and more, simplifying the buying and identification processes.

For more information and a complete list of IDville’s 2012 tradeshows, visit http://www.idville.com/category/miscellaneous/events.do

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Canton, MA (PRWEB) February 15, 2012

The Association of Strategic Alliance Professionals (ASAP) today announced that AstraZeneca has become a Global Member of the world’s leading professional association dedicated to the practice of alliance management. AstraZeneca will utilize ASAP’s certification and training tools and leverage the association’s network of the world’s leading alliance management executives and organizations to ensure its alliance personnel are implementing the discipline’s latest techniques.

As a Global Member, AstraZeneca will have the opportunity to serve in leadership positions within ASAP and receive discounts to workshops and events, including Chief Alliance Officer Forums and the Global Alliance Summit. The company will also have the right to allocate a percentage of its roster for employees of its partners, ensuring that both parties are implementing best practices.

“Alliances have been woven into the fabric of the pharmaceutical industry for many years, which is why many leading companies have joined the ASAP community to help each other make sure their alliance management practices stay sharp,” said Art Canter, president and CEO of ASAP. “We look forward to providing our knowledge base to bolster AstraZeneca’s alliance management program, while mutually benefiting from AstraZeneca’s experience and long track record of alliance management success.”

AstraZeneca’s in-house Alliance Management Center of Excellence plays a key role in supporting the company in delivering optimum value from its partnerships. Its responsibilities include monitoring alliance management processes and capabilities to ensure the company is adopting the best practice while nurturing a culture of effective alliance management behaviors across the organization. AstraZeneca will utilize its ASAP Global Membership as one resource to further support these goals.

Nick Dunscombe, global leader of alliance management at AstraZeneca, said, “Our aspiration is to be perceived as the partner of choice and we believe one of the key differentiators which could support this is having an industry-leading Alliance Management function. By leveraging the vast domain of alliance management expertise that comes with ASAP Global Membership, we can better achieve the company goals.”

AstraZeneca joins several leading biopharmaceutical companies as ASAP Global Members, including Eli Lilly, Quintiles, Abbott, Novartis and Sanofi.

About AstraZeneca

AstraZeneca is a global, innovation-driven biopharmaceutical business with a primary focus on the discovery, development and commercialization of prescription medicines for gastrointestinal, cardiovascular, neuroscience, respiratory and inflammation, oncology and infectious disease. AstraZeneca operates in over 100 countries and its innovative medicines are used by millions of patients worldwide. For more information please visit: http://www.astrazeneca.com

About ASAP

The Association of Strategic Alliance Professionals (ASAP) is the only professional association dedicated to elevating and promoting the profession of alliance management. Founded in 1998, the organization provides professional development, networking and resources for cultivating the skills and toolsets needed to manage successful business partnerships. Active global members include Abbott Laboratories, CA, Capgemini, Cisco, Dell, Eli Lilly and Company, IBM, Juniper Networks, Microsoft, Novartis, Quintiles, USAA, Sanofi, SAS, Schneider Electric, Symantec and Xerox. A complete list of global members is available at http://www.strategic-alliances.org.

ASAP Media, the media and publishing arm of the Association of Strategic Alliance Professionals, is an alliance of ASAP and JW DeWitt Business Communications. For more information, visit http://www.asapmedia.org and http://www.jwdewitt.com.

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Here are the Brian Stolar Health and Fitness top 3 ab exercises which coupled with a healthy diet along with regular full body workouts, can assist give you the abs muscles you want. The plank is by a long way the most imperative work out for building up core strength and attaining a firm abdominal build. Focus on doing planks for longer stages of time each time you exercise.

Decline crunches add extra fight to a typical crunch. It is important to bring into play good form at what time doing decline abdominal crunches thus you do not injure your lower back, except done correctly, the decline bench crunches can make solid strength in your abs. Leg lifts will aid to work your abs in a special way than crunches and aid train your abs for muscle in the opposite motion.

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Hoboken, NJ (PRWEB) February 13, 2012

John Wiley & Sons, Inc. announced today the publication of Jeffrey Tumlin’s book Sustainable Transportation Planning: Tools for Creating Vibrant, Healthy, and Resilient Communities.

The book is a how-to guide for anyone interested in the economic, social and ecological health of cities. Written in accessible language, the book starts with research on brain chemistry, noting how excessive driving makes us anti-social and dumb, while more walking and biking contributes to making us happier and smarter. It explores the unique needs of all modes of transportation – walking, bicycling, driving, transit – and provides smart transportation concepts in communities large and small.

Tumlin is single handedly changing the way America thinks about transportation. Instead of measuring success by how many freeways a city has, Tumlin is showing that transportation (including walking and bike) choices can help cities save money and create social vitality and economic success.

The book features:

•Research on correlation between transportation and mental and physical health of citizens

•Consideration of bike, pedestrian, automobile, and mass transit modes, as well as how these modes interrelate

•Parking systems and solutions for automobiles and bicycles

•Complete streets

•Applicability at varying scales, from a downtown street to a neighborhood to a regional network

•Case studies that look at exemplary projects across North America

•Detailed measures of success for both individual transportation modes and entire systems

•Carsharing, transportation demand management and transit oriented design

•Additional discussion of parking, station design, and congestion management

Sustainable Transportation Planning is also available as an e-book.

Publish date: February 13, 2012

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

ISBN-10: 0470540931

ISBN-13: 978-0470540930

Price: $ 95.00

Pages: 320 pages

About the author:

Jeffrey Tumlin is single handedly changing the way America thinks about transportation. Instead of measuring success by how many freeways a city has, Tumlin is showing that transportation (including walking and biking) is one of the secrets to a happy, healthy life – and for cities to create social vitality and economic success.

Tumlin is an internationally recognized speaker and transportation planner. He is an owner and principal of Nelson/Nygaard Associates, a San Francisco–based transportation planning and engineering firm. For 20 years, he has led station-area, downtown, citywide, and campus plans across the country and internationally. His major development projects have succeeded in reducing traffic and CO2 emissions by as much as 40 percent and have accommodated many millions of square feet of growth with no net increase in motor vehicle traffic. These projects have won awards from the General Services Administration, American Planning Association, American Society of Landscape Architects, Congress for the New Urbanism, and Urban Land Institute.

Tumlin is a sought-after expert to comment on topics that include economic development, real estate, public health, environment, carbon emissions, land use, social equity, ecological diversity, quality of life, human happiness. One of his most popular presentations is “Happier, Healthier, Sexier, and Smarter: Transportation and the Secret of Life.”

Advance Praise for Sustainable Transportation Planning:

“Sustainable Transportation Planning is an excellent introduction to multi-modal transport planning, that is enjoyable to read and easy to understand. This book provides practical guidance on ways to improve walking, cycling and public transit, implement efficient parking management, support smart growth, and apply innovative transportation demand management strategies, and so can greatly expand the range of solutions that communities can apply to transport problems. It should be an important resource for anybody involved in transport planning, including engineers, planners, public officials and community advocates.”

Todd Litman, Victoria Transport Policy Institute (http://www.vtpi.org)

“Seaside and The New Urbanism attempt to take back the American Dream from the Highwaymen – the car, road, subdivision, shopping center and office park builders who have determined the character of our landscape and our lives. Futurama, General Motors’ exhibit for the 1939 World’s Fair, showed Americans a captivating vision of personal mobility and private comfort. The unintended consequences include a degraded public realm, children who do not walk to school (and are fat) and adults who spend more time in traffic than at the dinner table with their families. Most transportation planners are Highwaymen. Jeffrey Tumlin shows us how much better our towns and cities could be if we put priority on human beings, rather than cars and made it possible for people to walk and to experience their communities as citizens, not just as motorists and consumers.”

Robert Davis, Founder of Seaside, Florida

“The Great American Dream of cruising down the parkway, zipping from here to there at any time has given way to a true nightmare that is destroying the environment, costing billions and deeply impacting our personal well-being. Getting from A to B has never been more difficult, expensive or miserable. It doesn’t have to be this way. Jeffrey Tumlin’s book Sustainable Transportation Planning offers easy-to-understand, clearly explained tips and techniques that will allow us to quite literally take back our roads. Essential reading for anyone who wants to drive our transportation system out of the gridlock.”

Marianne Cusato, home designer and author of Get Your House Right: Architectural Elements to Use and Avoid Book Review “Recipes for Sustainable Transportation”

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Akron, Ohio (PRWEB) February 10, 2012

A new community-wide collaboration to reduce the impact of chronic disease and empower patients is generating impressive early results, leaders of the Accountable Care Community (ACC) initiative said today. The Akron-based Austen BioInnovation Institute in Akron (ABIA) is leading the initiative with its founding institutional members and more than 60 public and private community partners.

The groundbreaking effort supported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention unites medical, public health and social science professions, nonprofits and faith-based and community organizations for an “all-hands-on-deck” approach to public health. Eventually, communities across the country will be able to apply this new model toward public health, reducing the tremendous negative impact chronic disease has on their economies, said Dr. Janine Janosky, head of ABIA’s Center for Community Health Improvement, who is leading the effort described in a white paper released today.

The news comes just weeks after an Institute of Medicine report called for a new public health approach based on “enhanced collaboration among the public health, health care and community non-healthcare sectors” to address the challenges of chronic disease. The World Health Organization refers to the growing impact of chronic disease as “a global epidemic” reaching crisis levels. The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation estimates that by 2030, half the U.S. population will have at least one chronic condition.

The ABIA, along with national experts and more than 60 Akron organizations, have been collaborating for more than a year on a new, integrated, and measurable strategy to community health that could be replicated in other U.S. communities. The ACC approach detailed in the report “Healthier by Design: Accountable Care Community” utilizes a unique “impact equation” that measures the benefits of a seamless approach to community health, including metrics for a patient empowerment and market value of health, said Dr. Frank L. Douglas, ABIA president and chief executive officer.

“The amount spent on healthcare and health initiatives in the United States should translate into good health for the community and its residents. Unfortunately, America’s public health continues to lag behind other nations. Further, we are now in an era of debate about how to reverse the unsustainable cost trends and improve the health outcomes and quality of life for our fellow man,” Dr. Douglas said. “The development of this inventive Accountable Care Community model, which not only speaks of the need for collaboration but actually enables all parties to be on the same page with an integrated, measurable strategy, promises to improve the health of millions of patients.”

In Akron, the ACC approach uniquely aligns public, private and philanthropic resources in a coordinated fight to improve community health by identifying and closing gaps in health education, access and delivery. The group’s initial pilot project focused on diabetes self-management. Ultimately, participants changed their behaviors and took increased control over their disease. Significant results included decreases in blood sugar and bad cholesterol levels, weight loss, decreased body mass, and a decline in emergency room visits. An additional program demonstrated nearly a total of $ 225,000 of cost savings or cost avoidance for local healthcare institutions through the use of volunteers and community services to monitor and serve low-income, medically underserved patients with diabetes.

The ACC measured the improvements using a unique health and public health-based formula that calculates impact based on changes in patient health, the number of patients affected and the burden of the disease as determined by the cost of care. The Impact Equation outlined in the white paper is a new and crucial way to evaluate community health initiatives, Dr. Janosky said. “The equation is crucial to a sustainable effort that other communities can implement,” she said.

The vast majority of cases of chronic diseases are caused by a small number of known and preventable risk factors, including unhealthy diet, physical inactivity and tobacco use, Janosky said. “We are convinced a collaborative approach to enhance patient empowerment and improve personal lifestyles will address the community challenges of chronic disease,” Janosky said.

“The Austen BioInnovation Institute in Akron’s Accountable Care Community is taking an important step to improve public health in Summit County by studying the best means of treating and preventing chronic diseases while reducing overall costs. Dr. Frank Douglas, Dr. Janine Janosky, and the sixty partners involved with the ACC are to be commended for their collaborative approach to improve the health and well-being of local residents and communities by uniting public health professionals and the clinical community,” said Senator Sherrod Brown of Ohio.

“We believe that our model of an all-inclusive approach to empowering patients and coordinating and improving access can be replicated by any community by first starting the conversation about what priorities matters most to your communities,” said Dr. Cynthia Capers, Emeritus Professor and former dean of The University of Akron College of Nursing. “Once you identify your priorities and targets, then performance measurement is an important cornerstone.”

In the next phase of the ACC development, organizers will foster community health leadership development, investigate regional health programs, analyze the impact of new health policy such as tobacco-free living, active lifestyles and healthy eating and identify areas of greatest need in Summit County.

“Building a responsible partnership between the clinical care professionals and public health colleagues is a key to success,” said Dr. Hugh Tilson, adjunct professor of Public Health Leadership, Epidemiology and Health Policy, University of North Carolina and adjunct professor of medicine, Duke University, who contributed to the white paper. “Particularly exciting for me as a career public health professional is to witness the strong functional collaboration between the local public health agency and the accountable care organization – a true model for the accountable caring community. I know this is the winning formula for our reformed health care system, with the emphasis on health.”

According to Dr. William Keck, past president of the American Public Health Association and retired City of Akron Director of Health, “Although chronic diseases are among the most common and costly health problems, we know that they are also among the most preventable. It is vital that the increasing importance of chronic disease is anticipated, understood and acted upon urgently. This requires a new approach by both medical and community health professionals, and community leaders, who are in a position to strengthen chronic disease prevention and control efforts.”

To learn more about the ACC initiative and download the whitepaper, visit http://www.abiakron.org/acc.

About the Austen BioInnovation Institute in Akron

The Austen BioInnovation Institute in Akron (ABIA) – an exceptional collaboration of Akron Children’s Hospital, Akron General Health System, Northeast Ohio Medical University (formerly Northeastern Ohio Universities Colleges of Medicine and Pharmacy), Summa Health System, The University of Akron and The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation – is focused on patient-centered innovation and commercialization at the intersection of biomaterials and medicine. The strategic alignment of public and private support, accompanied with Akron’s rich legacy in materials science, is working to pioneer the next generation of life-enhancing and life-saving innovation that will transform Akron into a model for biomedical discovery and enterprise and move the region toward a secure economic future by accelerating the creation of more than 2,000 jobs during the next decade. For more information about ABIA, please visit http://www.abiakron.org.

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So what if you have drug and alcohol abuse. A wide range of alternatives offered to you, but have you choose appropriately. Dual diagnosis rehab is the best solution, which uses an approach that aims to fulfill all aspects of the clinical needs of people suffering from drug and alcohol abuse. It’s important for those with psychological disorders and addictions to recognize that both drug and alcohol abuse should be treated simultaneously. If a problem is treated at a separate time from the others, can easily lead to failure recovery. But before starting treatment should be treated based on the diagnosis and evaluation that occurs in person.

So what are you waiting for,  dual diagnosis rehab center providing treatment that is done varies from individual or group therapy, mental health services, detoxification, counseling and even a yoga expected to help the healing process of drug and alcohol abuse. Of all the most important thing is to go through a comprehensive approach to individual treatment and rehabilitation will take place relatively quickly.

Are you ready to become a new individual who free from drug and alcohol abuse, just start from now and make yourself the most useful man to others and yourself.

In fact when a dependence on alcohol and drugs has been declared cured, but you like being drawn back into that world. What about your family, your children, your husband, or the people you care about. Again this make you aware that at some point all that you are using right now you have to leave in order to function as a family to remain intact without interruption of alcohol and drugs.

The best solution is Phoenix drug rehabilitation, who provides a place for women who are willing to recover from alcohol and drug dependence. By adopting the philosophies and practices of conventional medicine, psychology and complementary medicine we give some definite program will help you recover from alcohol and drug dependence. Where we also put forward a compassionate approach to the rehabilitation process is not only for the addict but also their family.

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New York, NY (PRWEB) February 06, 2012

The New York Palace, in support of the American Heart Association’s Go Red For Women™ campaign, is happy to raffle off two tickets on their Facebook page to the 2012 Go Red For Women™ Luncheon taking place on Tuesday, February 28. To win, users are encouraged to show off how they help to raise awareness for heart disease, the number one killer of women in America, by posting a picture on The New York Palace’s Facebook page of themselves wearing red or telling about a time in which they raised awareness or money for the American Heart Association. Entries will be accepted on The New York Palace Facebook page until Friday, February 17, and a winner will be chosen at random on Monday, February 20.

This raffle giveaway marks a month of healthy-heart initiatives by The New York Palace in support of the American Heart Association’s Go Red for Women™ Campaign. As a part of their “Have a Heart Program”, The New York Palace will be showcasing the “red dress” symbol throughout the hotel, including projecting the symbol on the exterior in The New York Palace’s famous courtyard. Employees also show their support by sporting the Go Red For Women™ red dress pin on National Wear Red Day, taking place on February 3. The New York Palace is also offering a “Have a Heart” package during the month of February, providing luxury accommodations guests who wish to donate for this exceptional cause.

“The New York Palace is honored to be involved with an organization such as the American Heart Association,” said David Chase, General Manager of The New York Palace. “In raffling tickets for the Go Red for Women™ Luncheon and showing our support, we are helping to raise awareness for a disease that affects millions of lives per year.”

For more information about The New York Palace, please visit their website.

About The New York Palace Hotel

The very finest in old-world elegance and new-world opulence can be found just beyond the courtyard gates of The New York Palace on the corner of 50th & Madison. With 805 rooms and 88 suites, The Palace is known for unparalleled splendor, spectacular views, sumptuous rooms and exquisite service. Located in the heart of Manhattan—across the street from St. Patrick’s Cathedral and only steps from Rockefeller Center— the Hotel’s world-renowned courtyard incorporates motifs from several 15th-century Italian cathedrals and has served as the entranceway to the historic Villard Mansion since 1882. Today, The New York Palace Hotel gracefully blends The Villard Mansion with a contemporary 55-story high-rise that was completed in 1980. The Towers is a “hotel within a hotel,” featuring 176 luxurious guestrooms and suites and a private club offered exclusively for guests of the Towers. The hotel’s dining options include the celebrated GILT restaurant, a Michelin Two-Star fine-dining establishment. Guests can book accommodations online at http://www.newyorkpalace.com or contact reservations at 1-800-NY-PALACE (1-800-697-2522).

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In Thailand and some countries in Southeast Asia, kratom leaves have been used since long time. Primarily a native Thailand, kratom leaves have been used as a kind of natural relaxant, a sedative and a stimulant, kratom pain killer, a recreational drug, kratom treatment for Opiate addiction and medicine for diarrhea. They chewed the kratom leaves every day to help them get through the long and strenuous day of working in the hot Sun. Now scientists from Canada and Japan doing large-scale study on the usefulness of kratom leaves. After the attempt is successful then all over the world are known kratom leaves to be Kratom Extract. Where kratom is marketed in a variety of processed products like Kratom Leaves, Powder, a super strain of Maeng Da kratom, Extracts, Resins, Capsules and ven kratom plant.

We no need to feel worried about the side effects from the use of kratom. If we use it in accordance with a predetermined dose, we will avoid these side effects.

Now, are we going to let our bodies become easily tired and sick, of course not. Begin to provide supplements for health and fitness of our body. Kratom is the right choice to help us run the day. Believe in a healthy body will produce many benefits for ourselves.

John Reh, president of Dogs Love Running! Franchising, Inc.

Lisle, Illinois (PRWEB) January 31, 2012

Dogs Love Running!, a unique pet franchise focusing on helping pets live longer and behave better through exercise, has changed the location of their corporate franchise headquarters and moved into a new and larger space in Lisle, Illinois.

“We’ve got a lot of growth ahead of us,” says John Reh, the company’s president. “Our old office was fine for a while, but it won’t accommodate all the plans we have for 2012 and beyond.”

Their new office has room for more franchisees to be trained at the same time. “We feel that our franchisees can learn not just from us, but also from each other during the classroom training sessions. With this new space, we can comfortably fit more people into a class so that everyone has a bigger ‘community’ to learn from,” Mr. Reh said.

The new Dogs Love Running! headquarters also features a space to produce their audio podcast series. In addition, it houses a studio full of lighting and camera equipment where they produce professional videos showcasing their franchisees.

The dog walking franchise founder says that “because our company is so unique, we get a ton of people inquiring about joining our team as franchisees. This new office space will help ensure that we have the capability to not only grow, but also provide an even better training and support program for our franchisee team members.”

Dogs Love Running! is typically categorized as a “dog walking and pet sitting” company. Although they do provide those services, what makes them different is that they also provide a “dog running” service. Just like it sounds, they’ll literally go out and run with clients’ dogs.

Their new Lisle, Illinois headquarters is where franchisees get in-person training and learn how to operate this unique and fun home-based business.

About Dogs Love Running!: Dogs Love Running! is a low-cost home-based pet franchise that enables people to do what they love and work with animals for a living. It’s a full-time, yet flexible, business. Their efforts to help pets live longer and behave better through exercise make them unique in the pet industry.

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