Just Say Know to Prescription Drugs Campaign Finds International Interest and Support

New York, NY (PRWEB) October 2, 2006

Today the Just Say Know to Prescription Drugs campaign, aimed at getting one million people to stop and reevaluate the medications they are taking, reported that interest in the initiative is coming from a wide array of countries around the globe. Though 79 percent of the inquires about the initiative are coming from the United States; the campaign is getting interest from people in the industrial nations of the United Kingdom, Germany, Australia and France. Beyond the major developed countries, the long tail of interest in the initiative extends to 71 countries around the world including Japan, India, Romania, Jordan, Brazil, Turkey, Qatar, Spain Sweden, Mexico, Korea, China and South Africa.

The fact that 21 percent of the 15,000 inquiries weve received during the pre-launch have come from outside the U.S. underscores the global nature of the problem, said Dr Gregg Tefft, co-founder of the Just Say Know to Prescription Drugs campaign. As we take the campaign online this week, we welcome supporters in all of these countries.

During the month of October, the initiative aims to get one million people and one million parents to take a second look at the prescription medications they are taking and giving their children. Participants will be encouraged to download a form that allows them to thoughtfully evaluate the drugs they are taking or giving to their children. The form collects specific information from their prescribing physician, pharmacist or healthcare provider and requests the providers signature attesting that they have fully informed the patient or parent of the risks and benefits of the prescribed medication, as well as non-drug alternatives.

Coalition members have declared October “Just Say Know to Prescription Drugs Month” and have scheduled a conference in Washington, D.C. on October 7th to officially launch the campaign. Information about the conference is available at http://www.icspp.org

The core coalition is already comprised of international supporters, said Dr. Dominick Riccio, psychologist and chairman of the Just Say Know to Prescription Drugs campaign. The Internet has made it possible to more easily identify and reach global supporters, and to track with high levels of precision where the campaign is resonating most, said Riccio.

Organizations and individuals who want to participate in the campaign may go to any of the following Web sites, look for the Just Say Know to Prescription Drugs logo, and download the sheet titled “Take This Form and Sign It.” Instructions are provided on each form.

Psych Truth.Org

Laurence Simon Ph.D.

http://www.psychtruth.org/justsayknow.htm

Dr. Gregg Tefft

KPNC Radio

http://www.kpncradio.com

Kelly Bradley

Whats Wrong With This Picture

http://racingthoughts.blog.ca

Money Talks: Profits Before Patient Safety

Kathleen Slattery-Moshkau

http://www.mo-info.com/wordpress/index.php

Dr. Michael Siebert

http://drmichaelsiebert.com/news.html

Donald B. Ardell, Ph.D.

Seek Wellness

http://www.seekwellness.com/wellness/

MESICS Fitness

Jim Manganiello, Ed.D.

http://www.mesicsfitness.com/jsn-news.htm

For more information email, call 212-861-7400 or visit http://www.psychtruth.org/justsayknow.htm


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MindBites Launches Optimized Support for Screencast Tutorials

Austin, TX (PRWEB) April 21, 2009

MindBites, the web marketplace and publishing platform for video instructional content, today announced that it has added functionality to offer optimized support for the uploading, selling, and playback of screencast-based tutorials. With this additional capability, the company expands its publishing and commerce platform to enable the first web marketplace for the buying and selling of screencasts, further empowering the market for technology tutorial.

“We’ve always viewed screencasts as an ideal content medium for MindBites, since they can offer a unique instructional experience, they are easy to create, and the dynamic technology content they cover benefits from a highly fluid publishing environment,” explains MindBites Founder and CEO Jason Reneau. “With the recent availability of low-cost, cross-platform screencasting tools and the increased focus on commerce and marketplaces in this tougher economic environment, the timing seemed ideal to expand into screencasts.”

In conjunction with the launch, MindBites is introducing the Screencast4Cash contest, in partnership with TechSmith, the makers of Jing Pro and Camtasia Studio screencasting software, and Download Squad, the popular blog focused on software and technology. In addition to TechSmith product prizes, the contest will award a $ 1000 Grand Prize and a $ 500 People’s Choice Award. Additionally, for every vote cast, $ 0.10 will be donated to the Youth for Technology Foundation, an organization that aims to provide marginalized people in under-developed communities with technology tools, training and resources.

“Enabling screencasts adds to the list of recent features we’ve rolled out to expand the flexibility of our platform for our authors, including the ability to price lessons from $ 0.99 to $ 99, bundle lessons into series, and host private stores on their own sites,” explained Huntley Tarrant, MindBites VP of Business Development. “Especially in these tough economic times, we are seeing a lot of interest from individuals and content companies looking for additional revenue channels and ways to monetize their content.”

http://www.mindbites.com/cast4cash

About MindBites:

MindBites is your place on the web to find, publish and sell how-to lessons and video tutorials. A full publishing and commerce platform, MindBites enables everyone from individuals to content sites and publishing companies to publish, sell and distribute video tutorials and how-to lessons in the MindBites marketplace, on their own site, and across the web. The resulting on-demand knowledge library, which covers everything from Calculus to Photoshop to Baby Sign Language, simply can’t be found anywhere else, and it offers individuals and organizations a unique monetization platform for their instructional video content. MindBites promises to revolutionize the way the world publishes and shares knowledge. MindBites launched publicly at SXSW last year and received an A round of financing from True Ventures of Palo Alto, CA, joining such other new media portfolio companies as Automattic (WordPress), GigaOm, Sphere, and GoodReads. For more information, visit MindBites at http://www.mindbites.com/.

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Hostway Adds Support for Microsoft

Chicago, IL (Vocus/PRWEB) January 20, 2011

Hostway Corporation, a global leader in infrastructure and cloud services, today announced a new feature for its FlexCloud Serversa scalable, on-demand cloud computing solution that combines the flexibility of the public cloud with the reliability and performance of an enterprise-grade virtual environment. FlexCloud Servers now provide support for Microsoft WebMatrixa new Web development suite that includes everything required for rapid website development using popular open source applications.

WebMatrix installs in minutes and incorporates a Web server, database, and programming framework in an all-in-one integrated experience. WebMatrix will streamline the coding, testing, and deployment of any ASP.net or PHP website, and also pre-configures and installs the most popular open source applications, including WordPress, DotNetNuke, Umbraco and Joomla!

FlexCloud Servers make it easy to quickly publish websites with WebMatrix. The WebMatrix server image is pre-configured and available in the FlexCloud Server image library. Users simply configure a new server instance using this image and enter the connection information into WebMatrix to upload.

The new WebMatrix image illustrates the power and flexibility of the FlexCloud platform, said Todd Benjamin, vice president of enterprise hosting for Hostway. Users can create server instances from their own or our pre-published library of images, significantly reducing the time, effort, and cost to launch fully-functional applications in the cloud.

For more information on FlexCloud Servers and Microsoft WebMatrix visit http://www.hostway.com/webmatrix/.

About Hostway Corporation

Hostway Corporation provides managed, cloud, and shared hosting solutions, colocation, domain name registration, ecommerce solutions and other Web-based services to over 1.4 million Web sites and 600,000 customers worldwide. The company operates more than 250,000 square feet of state-of-the-art data center space that reduces the complexity and cost of Web-based technologies for small businesses and large enterprises. Founded in 1998, Hostway is one of the world’s largest Web hosting companies with a direct presence in 14 countries, 17 worldwide operation centers and more than 700 employees. http://www.hostway.com

Hostway Media Relations

866-467-8929

publicity(at)hostway(dot)com

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BitNami Adds Support for AWS CloudFormation, Simplifies Deployment of Open Source Apps on the Amazon Cloud

Alameda, CA (PRWEB) March 3, 2011

BitNami, which simplifies the process of deploying web applications natively, virtually and in the cloud, released today free templates for popular open source applications for Amazons new CloudFormation service.

AWS CloudFormation simplifies the process of deploying applications on top of Amazon Web Services by allowing developers to describe a stack of cloud resources and bring them up and down as a single unit. A CloudFormation stack can include load balancers, databases, EBS volumes and EC2 instances, among other resources.

By providing all of the PHP and Ruby-on-Rails-based BitNami applications as CloudFormation templates, BitNami makes it easier to deploy and provision open source applications on the cloud. Applications available as CloudFormation templates include:

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BitNami Announces Support for the Red Hat OpenShift PaaS

San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) May 05, 2011

BitNami, which simplifies the process of deploying web applications natively, virtually and in the cloud, announced that it will provide the BitNami library of popular open source applications as cartridges for Red Hat OpenShift, a Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) offering for developers who build on open source that was announced today at the Red Hat Summit in Boston.

OpenShift provides ready-to-run resources at each level of the stack, from the operating system to the application layer, to enable developers to quickly assemble leading components upon which they can develop and deploy their applications. With OpenShift, developers have a choice of frameworks, languages, APIs and infrastructure clouds upon which they want their application to run. It also provides built-in monitoring and auto-scaling to simplify the management of applications once they are deployed. A free version of the platform is available, with paid options coming soon.

“We are delighted to make the BitNami application library available as cartridges for Red Hat’s new OpenShift platform,” said Erica Brescia, CEO of BitRock, the developer of BitNami. “By providing developers with their favorite open source applications and frameworks as OpenShift cartridges, BitNami speeds the process of assembling their environment so they can be productive.

The Red Hat OpenShift platform provides a new level of choice to the PaaS market that builds on Red Hats open source leadership, said Sarangan Rangachari, senior director, Cloud Ecosystem at Red Hat. Were excited to welcome BitRock to our expanding cloud ecosystem.

To learn more, visit: http://openshift.redhat.com/app/

About BitNami

BitNami simplifies the process of deploying web applications natively, virtually and in the cloud. BitNami Cloud Hosting provides a growing library of the most popular open source applications, ready to be launched with the click of a button. With BitNami Cloud Hosting, solution providers and businesses of all sizes can deploy and manage business applications such as JasperServer, SugarCRM, Alfresco, Drupal and many more. To learn more, visit: http://bitnami.org/cloud

Red Hat, OpenShift, SugarCRM, Alfresco, BitRock, JasperServer, Drupal, BitNami, and other trademarks are property of their respective owners.

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New Foundation Launched to Support Children with Special Educational Needs

England (PRWEB UK) 21 September 2011

A new foundation which will enable practitioners to join together to provide multi-disciplinary specialist services for children with special educational needs is being launched next month – and could transform the present fragmented and bureaucratic system.

The Clarity Foundation hopes to attract health and social care providers, as well as education specialists, to join as members who can be referred to families and local authorities as approved providers meeting statutory guidelines.

The foundation is the brainchild of speech and language therapist Janet OKeefe and Robert Ashton, best selling business author, social entrepreneur and campaigner, who are passionate about providing a new joined-up efficient system which supports children and their families with educational support, while at the same time eliminating unnecessary duplication and bureaucracy.

It will be launched at a conference entitled, Towards a Positive Future, aimed at parents and professionals, to inspire, share experiences and discover how they can achieve more for children with special needs. The conference is being held on October 14-15 at Arlington Arts Centre, Newbury, which is based at the Mary Hare School for deaf children.

There are currently 1.7 million children with special educational needs in England who require support for wide ranging conditions, from dyslexia, dyspraxia and Downs syndrome, to autism and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.

Janet says: We believe that having a one-stop shop is the best way to enable parents and local authorities find all the support services desperately needed by children with special needs, and that our foundation is the most practical and efficient way of ensuring that those services are integrated and coordinated. We need to bring practitioners from health, education and social care together and plan for the future while the present guidelines for new contract arrangements is under review. Our foundation will be a valuable database of all heath and social care providers, as well as education specialists.

Additionally, we can streamline time consuming and expensive administrative processes. For example, we can help with criminal bureau checks and professional indemnity insurance. At the moment, if a practitioner is not directly employed by a school or local authority, every school they visit should conduct its own CRB check. Many practitioners regularly visit 20 schools a week sometimes in several different counties and are therefore checked 20 times.

Robert says it makes good sense to become more efficient during the present shake up of these services:

He says: However you feel about the Governments Big Society agenda, the fact is that the worlds of education, health and social care are undergoing massive change. The Clarity Foundation is being formed to help parents make sense of those changes, and in parallel to help practitioners create their own enterprises. That way both groups can connect, create opportunities and meet the needs of young people striving to overcome disadvantage.

Specialist speakers include educational psychologist and former head teacher Charlie Mead, who has worked with children with severe emotional and behavioural problems and special needs for 20 years. He has grave concerns about the present system and highlights failures he has observed, leading to neglect in some cases for vulnerable young people.

He says: Charities are afraid to stand up for their clients in case their funding is withdrawn. Academies are afraid of further failure by taking on exactly those students who would benefit most from their resources. Children and Family Services have neglected the vulnerable due to bureaucratic inertia and a lack of consistency. All these situations can be changed if the interests of the child are put first.

When working with highly vulnerable children in care, many of whom have been sectioned, it is clear that the recession is having a considerable impact on the young people and their families especially those who cannot cope emotionally, are addicts, are sexualized early and have been abused. They need expert consistent provision not piecemeal services from organisations who are threatened by lack of funding.

Other key speakers are Kevin Geeson, CEO of Dyslexia Action, who will highlight the impact of the SEN Green Paper; speech and language specialist Prof Heather van der Lely, who will highlight her simple test for an early diagnosis of specific language impairment; and both Sandy Burbach and Alex Kelly, who will describe the importance of developing social skills and self esteem in children.

Janet is also launching a book she has edited at the conference also called Towards a Positive Future which includes stories, ideas and inspiration from children with special educational needs, their families and professionals.

Full details about the conference can be found at their website, Towards a Positive Future: http://towardsapositivefuture.wordpress.com/

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Softaculous AMPPS 1.2 Launched with Support for PERL Scripts

(PRWEB) October 03, 2011

Softaculous Ltd., the developer of AMPPS Installer that simplifies Web Application deployment on various Desktops and Servers, today announced the launch of AMPPS 1.2 with the updated version of Softaculous, Apache, PHP, MySQL and phpMyAdmin as well as some usual minor updates. This version also enables the installation of PERL scripts by the click of a button.

“We are extremely excited about adding PERL script support in AMPPS” said Jigar Dhulla, Senior Developer of AMPPS “and we are also soon going to release the MAC version of AMPPS with some of the coolest new features.”

To address the needs of different Enterprises, SMB’s, Web Developers and users, Softaculous AMPPS is available as a Free product which can be installed on Microsoft Windows Desktop and Servers. AMPPS has 225 Apps to serve the needs of different users. “AMPPS is specially beneficial to the Web Developers as they will not have spend time installing Apache, MySQL, PHP, PERL, Python seperately and also they can install various blogs, cms, wikis, forums, etc. on their desktops by the click of a button” said Pulkit Gupta, COO of Softaculous Ltd.

The Softaculous AMPPS library already contains popular applications, including: WordPress, b2evolution, StatusNet, Drupal, Joomla, Concrete5, phpBB, MyBB, SMF, bbPress, Coppermine, Gallery, Mediawiki, DokuWiki, TikiWiki, Elgg, Dolphin, OpenX, SquirrelMail, LimeSurvey, Piwik, Mantis, SugarCRM, WHMCS, PrestaShop, Magento, CraftySyntax, osTicket, Moodle, Claroline, etc.

Softaculous apps are also available in the form of Virtual Appliances. The Virtual Appliances (called Webuzo) contain all the necessary server software required to power the various Apps. Webuzo is a LAMP stack with Softaculous installed on a CentOS Machine. Webuzo can help any user deploy Web Apps on their Desktops or in the Office. “You can deploy so many office related apps with the help of Webuzo e.g. a user may want to deploy MediaWiki or DokuWiki for internal documentation and Webuzo can help you do that without you having to install any server software.” said Chirag Nagda, a developer at Softaculous. Webuzo can also be deployed in the Cloud which helps users to access their apps from anywhere.

Webuzo was announced in mid June

About Softaculous :

Softaculous was founded in 2009 with the goal of helping users to deploy apps by the click of a button. Softaculous is already being offered by leading Data Centers and Web hosting companies around the world.

It is very easy to find, deploy, manage, backup applications using Softaculous.

AMPPS was launched in August 2011 and Webuzo in June 2011.

For more information please visit : http://www.softaculous.com

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Blogbinders Announces Support for More Major Blog Types

San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) March 21, 2005

A service that turns blogs into printed books, Blogbinders, announced support for many major blog types this week including MovableType, Blogger, TypePad, WordPress, Blogware and any blog based on LiveJournal technology.

For developers, Blogbinders has also created an xml based import format to allow blog content from any system to be used with the publishing service.

Blogbinders takes content from a customer’s blog, puts it into book format, and prints and mails the book to the customer. Using a wizard-like approach, customers tell Blogbinders where their blog is located and what date range they wish to print. While the service downloads content the customer can personalize their book by adding a title, choosing a type style, and designing covers.

Creating a printed book from an online journal gives the Blogbinders customer a great way to archive their online writing, share it with friends and family who are not online, or sell it to their fans.

Support for additional blog types Manila, Radio Userland and Diaryland is planned for Q2.

For additional information contact: Jen Huebert 815-301-3149 jen@blogbinders.com

The Blogbinders name, corresponding logos, taglines and other service marks identifying Blogbinders and its services are the proprietary marks of Blogbinders and must be represented accordingly. Other products and company names mentioned herein may be the trademarks of their respective owners.

About Blogbinders

Blogbinders was founded by a team of print and web professionals in 2003 to give book publishing power to bloggers. Blogbinders is an independent company, not sponsored by a blog service provider, printer or publishing house.

Contact Information:

Jen Huebert

Blogbinders

(815) 301-3149

http://www.Blogbinders.com

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GrapevineStar Entertainment Announces Toy Fair Program for Manufacturers & Retailers, Character Brands and Social Media Programs Support Manuacturer and Retailer Sales

New York, NY (PRWEB) February 15, 2012

The GrapevineStar Toy Fair program announced today targets brand owners, toy manufacturers in U.S. and China, retailers, entertainment executives, inventors, game developers in the toy, youth products and children’s entertainment industries.

The program includes select GrapevineStar character brands integrated with its social media programs customized to meet the needs of the participating toy manufacturer or retailer.

Qualifying participants license one of GrapevineStars character brands for no upfront fee. Licenses are category limited. Reduced royalty rates are also offered for select brands.

Qualifying participants must be established businesses who are willing to commit to 2 year licensing agreements and a minimum guarantee of 50,000 pcs produced per product annually, featuring a GrapevineStar character brand. Participants will also receive customized social media support from GrapevineStar Medias Social Media Analysts division. This support includes the development and integration of Facebook

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Corus360 Cares and The GA Compassion Project support a Local Elementary School with Help Ted Run! Campaign

Atlanta, GA (PRWEB) February 27, 2012

With the success of their Warm Hands, Warm Hearts holiday project, Corus360 Cares and The Georgia Compassion Project have teamed up again to help the students at Stripling Elementary school in Norcross, GA.

Corus360 Cares and The GA Compassion Project have dedicated their Spring 2012 fundraiser, Help Ted Run!, to improving the playground at Stripling Elementary. For this fundraiser, Corus360s VP of Professional Services, Ted Pappas, has committed to run to and from Corus360s corporate office every morning and evening instead of driving his car to work. This is approximately 12 miles per day.

Help Ted Run! launched at the beginning of February and will continue into March. Help Ted Run! will culminate with Teds participation in a 100 mile one day run at the end of March.

All money raised from this campaign will be used to buy new playground and P.E. equipment for Stripling Elementary. This includes new jump ropes, basketballs, basketball hoops, swing set, structures for shade, and black top games.

Corus360 Cares and The GA Compassion Project are dedicated to keeping Stripling students active by ensuring they have the necessary resources for fun, healthy play, said Ted Pappas.

Mr. Ted my family donated money and I am excited to see what new equipment we will get even if its a jump rope. I want to say thank you for doing this, said 4th grade student, Stripling Elementary.

Corus360 Cares and The GA Compassion Project are asking for flat donations or a pledge per mile that Ted runs. Donors can follow Teds journey and keep track of his miles on his blog at http://www.helptedrun.wordpress.com.

About Corus360

Corus360 is a technology consulting and solutions company with more than 10 years of success delivering infrastructure solutions, recovery and consulting services that help organizations reduce costs, increase efficiencies and maximize productivity. We specialize in best of breed infrastructure solutions, IT management consulting, application development, Data Center technologies, disaster recovery, managed services and enterprise applications. For more information, visit http://www.corus360.com.

About The GA Compassion Project

The Georgia Compassion project is designed to fulfill two objectives in the growth and personal development of children and adults in distressed situations. The two objectives are Compassion and Movement. When people find themselves in these situations, it is common for them to experience hopelessness. It is the Georgia Compassion Projects goal to attack hopelessness directly. Our not-for-profit will accomplish this by providing children and adults with the opportunity to experience the small incremental wins in life that they may not experience normally.

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Precision-Paragon [P2] Provides Support for School Construction Project in Sudan

Yorba Linda, CA (PRWEB) February 3, 2011

Precision-Paragon P2 announced today that the company will donate energy-efficient light fixtures for classrooms and additional materials to assist the construction of a solar-powered primary school in southern Sudan.

The project is being spearheaded by Engineering A Brighter Sudan, a group formed by four engineering students at the University of San Diego.

The group originally contacted P2 looking for a source of lighting fixtures. When P2s administrative team learned about the project, they decided to become more deeply involved. P2 will be donating all the necessary energy-efficient lighting fixtures for the project as well the companys engineering expertise, lighting ballasts, spare parts, an inverter and the cost of shipping the materials to Sudan.

We are excited about the opportunity to assist and support the Engineering A Brighter Sudan student team in their effort to help a community by building a much needed school, said Joe Martin, P2 vice president and general manager. We think this is a commendable project, and we are glad to be able to contribute to it.

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Safeways Support for People with Disabilities Campaign Goes Behind the Scenes with Avril Lavigne

PLESANTON, Calif. (PRWEB) April 04, 2012

Safeway Inc. today launched its annual Support for People with Disabilities fundraising campaign to benefit Easter Seals, Special Olympics and an array of organizations that help people with disabilities live fuller, more independent lives.

This year, as a way to thank the thousands of customers and employees who generously support the campaign, Safeway is partnering with award-winning singer/songwriter and philanthropist Avril Lavigne and The Avril Lavigne Foundation to bring a new, exclusive video element and enhanced fundraising to the April effort.

We are honored to be working with The Avril Lavigne Foundation to build even more excitement for our disabilities campaign and give our customers something unique as a thank you for their support exclusive access to go behind the scenes with Avril, said Larree Renda, Safeway Executive Vice President and Chair of the Safeway Foundation.

When customers enter any Safeway, Vons, Pavilions, Tom Thumb, Randalls, Dominicks or Carrs store through April 30, they should look for the Behind the Scenes with Avril Lavigne signs near each stores entrance, grab a tear-card from the sign and bring it to the register to make a $ 5 donation at checkout to support services for children and adults living with disabilities. Those customers will be given a coupon and code to view exclusive videos of Avril Lavigne on tour, behind the scenes, performing from her dressing room and visiting Easter Seals programs for kids with disabilities. Theres also an exclusive acoustic version of one of the singers most popular songs.

Each year Safeway dedicates April to raising funds and bringing awareness to helping people with disabilities. While the hallmark of the campaign is a $ 1 donation at checkout, the company also uses in-store broadcasts and video messages to customers and employees to share information about breakthroughs in research and new programs that help millions of people with disabilities in North America and around the world. To date, Safeway has raised and donated more than $ 130 million to support organizations such as Easter Seals, Special Olympics and a range of other organizations that assist people with special needs.

Safeways annual fundraiser is helping to open a whole new world of possibilities and participation for countless people with disabilities, said Special Olympics President and Chief Operating Officer Brady Lum. As a company that proudly employs thousands of people with disabilities, Safeway knows the importance of allowing people to live, work, and compete on their own terms.

“The need for services and outreach to people with disabilities is greater than ever, said James E. Williams, Jr., president and chief executive officer, Easter Seals. We are appreciative and honored that Safeway and its thousands of employees are committed to helping Easter Seals make a significant difference. Avril Lavignes passion for supporting youth with disabilities is a natural fit and exciting extension to Safeway and Easter Seals longstanding partnership. We know shell add so much to the April fundraiser and give donors to the campaign something special in return.

In addition to in-store campaign activities, the company will also partner with Rebuilding Together, the nations leading nonprofit working to preserve affordable homeownership, to plan and execute home or community center rehabilitation projects that serve people with disabilities. In the coming weeks, teams of Safeway volunteers will be deployed in to each of the companys key markets to assist Rebuilding Together “project managers” with various repairs, landscape, paint and remodel work. This is the third year in a row that Safeway has joined with Rebuilding Together to make homes and community centers more accessible.

About Safeway

Safeway Inc. is a Fortune 100 company and one of the largest food and drug retailers in North America based on sales. The company operates 1,678 stores in the United States and western Canada and had annual sales of $ 43.6 billion in 2011.

About Easter Seals

Easter Seals is the leading non-profit provider of services for individuals with autism, developmental disabilities, physical disabilities and other special needs. For more than 90 years, we have been offering help and hope to children and adults living with disabilities, and to the families who love them. Through therapy, training, education and support services, Easter Seals creates life-changing solutions so that people with disabilities can live, learn, work and play. Visit http://www.easterseals.com or http://www.makethefirstfivecount.org.

About Special Olympics

Special Olympics is an international organization that changes lives through the power of sport by encouraging and empowering people with intellectual disabilities, promoting acceptance for all, and fostering communities of understanding and respect worldwide. Founded in 1968 by Eunice Kennedy Shriver, the Special Olympics movement has grown from a few hundred athletes to more than 3.7 million athletes in over 170 countries in all regions of the world, providing year-round sports training, athletic competition and other related programs. Special Olympics now take place every day, changing the lives of people with intellectual disabilities all over the world, from community playgrounds and ball fields in every small neighborhoods backyard to World Games. Special Olympics provides people with intellectual disabilities continuing opportunities to realize their potential, develop physical fitness, demonstrate courage, and experience joy and friendship. Visit Special Olympics at http://www.specialolympics.org. Engage with us on: Twitter @specialolympics; fb.com/specialolympics; youtube.com/specialolympicshq, and specialolympicsblog.wordpress.com.

About Avril Lavigne

Avril Lavigne is a multi-platinum, Grammy-nominated singer/ songwriter. Though most of her philanthropic efforts have been private and anonymous, Avril has publicly supported a number of charitable organizations over the years, including Easter Seals, Amnesty International, the Make-A-Wish Foundation, War Child, and YouthAIDS. Avril currently serves on the Board of Directors for the Nancy Davis Foundation for Multiple Sclerosis. Avrils work with children who are seriously ill or who have disabilities inspired her to form The Avril Lavigne Foundation in 2010.

About The Avril Lavigne Foundation

Created by Avril Lavigne, The Avril Lavigne Foundation R.O.C.K.S.: Respect, Opportunity, Choices, Knowledge, and Strength in support of children and youth living with a serious illness or disabilities. The Avril Lavigne Foundation partners with leading charitable organizations including Easter Seals to design and deliver programs, raise awareness and mobilize support for children and youth who are sick or have disabilities. In 2011, she launched The Avril Lavigne Rockstar Club at Easter Seals, providing recreational programs for youth with disabilities through Easter Seals, helping kids find their inner rockstar, build their talents, make friends and have fun. More information can be found at http://www.theavrillavignefoundation.org.

MEDIA CONTACTS:

Kristen Barnfield, Easter Seals

kbarnfield(at)easterseals(dot)com

312.551.7147

Teena Massingill, Safeway Inc.

Teena.Massingill(at)Safeway(dot)com

925-467-3810

Rachel Katz, The Avril Lavigne Foundation

rachel(at)globalphilanthropy(dot)com

310.573.8978

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BitNami Adds Support for Latest Version of Ubuntu

San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) May 01, 2012

BitNami, developer of the popular BitNami Application Library, announced today that its library of ready-to-run web application packages has been released for last weeks major Ubuntu release, version 12.04.

The BitNami Application Library is a collection of over 45 different packages of popular open source applications and development environments, such as SugarCRM, Alfresco, Drupal, WordPress, Redmine, Ruby on Rails and LAMP. All of the BitNami packages are available free of charge as native installers, virtual machine images and Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) for the Amazon Cloud. The packages are fully configured and contain all of the software required to run the target application, so they can be deployed in minutes to desktops, servers or cloud instances.

The virtual machine images and cloud templates are packaged with the Ubuntu operating system, a free and user friendly Linux distribution used by millions of users globally. The 12.04 version of Ubuntu, released last week, includes several new features, including the JuJu cloud orchestration tool and Metal-as-a-Service. It is now packaged with all BitNami virtual machine images and cloud templates to give users all of the benefits of Ubuntu 12.04.

In addition to making the BitNami packages freely available to end users, BitNami provides subscriptions of custom-built application images for public and private cloud platforms based on vCloud, CloudStack, Eucalyptus, OpenStack and other cloud platforms.

About BitNami

BitNami simplifies the process of deploying web applications natively, virtually and in the cloud. BitNami Cloud Hosting provides a growing library of the most popular open source applications, ready to be launched with the click of a button. With BitNami Cloud Hosting, solution providers and businesses of all sizes can deploy and manage business applications such as Jasperserver, SugarCRM, Alfresco, Drupal and many more. BitNami is developed by BitRock, a leader in cross-platform application deployment. Learn more at http://bitnami.org.

BitNami, Ubuntu, Amazon, Amazon Machine Image, vCloud, CloudStack, Eucalyptus, JuJu, OpenStack, SugarCRM, WordPress, Liferay, Drupal and Alfresco are property of their respective owners.

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Automattic Launches VIP Support for Web Hosts

San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) November 15, 2011

Automattic, Inc. today announced the launch of VIP Support for Web Hosts, a new program for companies that want to excel at hosting WordPress sites and blogs. The program is an expansion of the VIP hosting and support services currently available to large-scale sites using WordPress; current VIP clients include top media companies, sports leagues and Fortune 500 companies. WP Engine, the WordPress hosting and security service for bloggers and small businesses, is the first participant in the new VIP program.

WordPress is now the #1 application on most web hosts in the world. Our newest VIP support offering is designed to help web hosts offer the highest performance and most secure WordPress experience possible to their customers, said Raanan Bar-Cohen, VP of Media Services for Automattic.

VIP Support for Web Hosts includes:

Automattic Launches VIP Support for Web Hosts

Web Host CFDynamics Offers Enhanced Support, Newest ColdFusion Technology

The Colony, Texas (PRWEB) June 29, 2012

Veteran web host CFDynamics recently made some big improvements to the member support area of their website and added ColdFusion 10 to their web hosting solutions.

These improvements will allow our systems to better accommodate a wide variety of client needs, said Jason Egan, CFDynamics Chief Operations Officer.

A major reorganization and integration of the sites member support and ticketing system tools will give customers more access and control over their accounts and services. Clients will now access their accounts through a centralized login, and can easily maneuver through support functions via dropdown menus. Existing services and new invoices will be manually migrated in the coming months to give CFDynamics clients even more control over their accounts.

CFDynamics is also proud to offer the latest version of Adobe ColdFusion for http ColdFusion 10 is rich in dynamic features and focuses on ease of use, productivity, and security. The new platform includes features that boost developer productivity- like enhanced Java integration, virtual file system enhancements, language enhancements, and ORM (Object Relational Mapping) enhancements. With these features, Adobe asserts that ColdFusion 10 reduces complex business logic into a few lines of code, dramatically accelerating the development cycle.

Additional features of ColdFusion 10 include:

Built in support for HTML5

Security Enhancements

Hotfix installer and notification

Improved scheduler

Improved web services support (WSDL 2.0, SOAP 1.2)

Support for HTML web sockets

Tomcat integration

Our online world is becoming increasingly more interactive and content rich and ColdFusion makes it easy for our customers to deliver these robust experiences to their users, even more so than other popular languages,” said Egan. “Were thrilled to offer our hosting clients the latest in powerful, dynamic hosting solutions with ColdFusion 10.

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CFDynamics has been hosting websites for over two decades as a friendly, customer-oriented web host. The company specializes in ColdFusion, PHP, ASP.NET, and WordPress hosting. CFDynamics combines years of development and expertise with excellent customer service to provide individuals, small businesses and large corporations with budget-friendly dedicated and shared web hosting solutions. For more information about CFDynamics, and to learn more about the best web hosting services in the industry, please visit http://www.cfdynamics.com

Web Host CFDynamics Offers Enhanced Support, Newest ColdFusion Technology

Report: Chatwing Launches Facebook Shoutbox Integration with Direct App Support from Lujure

Cambridge, MA (PRWEB) July 13, 2012

The Chatwing development team is now branching out to Facebook chat with the help of a simple yet advanced application known as Lujure. Users can now use the Chatwing shoutbox by integrating Lujure to their Facebook pages. With a handy chat tool offered by Chatwing, a Facebook page can become visible amidst competition. In blogging communities, Chatwing has been known for its visibility and adaptability. The Chatwing chat tool is also easier to use compared to other known applications.

Facebook marketers and online entrepreneurs can benefit a lot from the Chatwing shout box. The application is very easy to use, and it can also be installed to different blogs and websites. Chatwing has been introduced in blogging communities such as WordPress, Posterous, and Livejournal. The Chatwing app improves the visibility of a blog or website by turning it into an active chat lounge where people can discuss lots of things.

The Chatwing team has been looking forward to expand in Facebook, many months ago. When the developers saw the potential of Lujure, they stepped up. To use the Chatwing chat box in a Facebook page, a user just needs to determine which Facebook page is he going to use. After that, the user can put Chatwing as one of his widgets in the Lujure dashboard. Now, he can drag and drop the Chatwing chat tool in any Facebook page. In a simpler sense, Lujure serves as a navigator, while Chatwing is the desired outcome. Because of this start-up Facebook expansion, the Chatwing web chat tool is now gathering many positive reviews across the Internet.

The Chatwing team has foreseen that many people can benefit from the new Facebook live chat experience that they can discover. Moreover, people can also use the leverage offered by Lujure in order to try out other widgets as well. Chatwings developers have set up a Facebook page in order to keep their users well-informed regarding new updates, expansions, and developments.

About Chatwing.com

Chatwing.com has developed live chat software for websites and blogs. It caters to different online communities due to its high rate of connectivity. Everyone can create a customizable live chat box feature in 1 minute or less. Users have the ability to customize the size, color, and fonts of the chat product. The ability to chat via social media accounts such as Facebook and Twitter enable Chatwing to offer a personal and unique real-time experience to all sites. Chatwing is 100% free and very easy to use.

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Report: Chatwing Launches Facebook Shoutbox Integration with Direct App Support from Lujure

WebHostingHub Review from Speed, Reliability, Support & Price

San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) April 30, 2012

TCWH releases the in-depth review for WebHostingHub from their community reputation, web hosting features, speed, reliability, support, price and the real customer voice, on their new launched web hosting blog BestWebHosting360.com.

WebHostingHub is an award-winning shared web hosting company operated in Virginia Beach, VA, US, founded in 2006, designed for the quality web hosting service to the personal and small businesses for the budget rate.

Unlike other hosts, WebHostingHub only provides a single unlimited web hosting product with almost all the features needed by users, including a free domain name, unlimited web space, monthly data transfer, e-mail storage, MySQL databases, and hosting websites. WebHostingHub offers a premium website builder that allows users to build up their websites in minutes, and they also offer the application auto-installer Fantastico that allows users to 1-Click set up 50+ software including WordPress, Joomla, Drupal, etc.

Additionally, WebHostingHub provides $ 75 free Google AdWords credit and $ 75 free Bing/Yahoo Search advertising credit for US & Canada residents with their web hosting product.

As introduced by TCWH, WebHostingHub is highly recommended by their editors. WebHostingHub is ranked for 5 stars on their community reputation, web hosting speed, reliability, support and price, and is ranked for 4.5 stars on the features.

Meanwhile, by the end of April 29, 2012, TCWH has received 284 real customer reviews for WebHostingHub that 99.6% of the customers are satisfied with the overall service received and there is no customer complaint.

WebHostingHub hosting product is starting at $ 6.95/mo regularly, but now they’re making a special 44% discount for $ 3.95/mo only. With a 36-month term, the customers can save $ 108.

To claim the WebHostingHub 44% discount and to learn more about WebHostingHub review, visit http://www.bestwebhosting360.com/2012/04/webhostinghub-review.html

About Top-Cheap-Web-Hosting.com

Top-Cheap-Web-Hosting.com (TCWH) is an independent web hosting review website, rating web hosts based on the true experience and the real customer reviews. TCWH is designed to help people find the best web hosting deal at the most affordable rate.

WebHostingHub Review from Speed, Reliability, Support & Price

To The Rescue, Ninthlink Donates Web Design, Web Development to Support Reggae To The Rescue, A Charity Event for Andy Roder Powell

Solana Beach, CA (PRWEB) June 14, 2012

Reggae to the Rescue, a benefit concert and silent auction is being held on July 2, 2012 at the Belly Up Tavern in Solana Beach to raise money for Andy Roder Powell, a 14-year old who recently received a kidney transplant.

Ninthlink, Inc, a San Diego Interactive Agency created and developed the website and donated their time, effort, and work to the charity. Patty Roder, mother of Andy, commented “The website is fantastic! Thank you so much for all your hard work … we love it. I’ll definitely put it on Facebook … friends already have.”

The website can be seen at: http://www.reggaetotherescue.com and features information about the event and about Andy. Auction items are listed, as well as contact information and a donation link. The site was designed in WordPress using ProGo Business Themes by the Ninthlink team.

The event will feature dozens of unique items from the artists that play the Belly Up Tavern, both signed and unsigned, along with many more goods, services, and artworks that will be available for purchase at silent and live auctions. Super raffle prizes will be given away all night, as well. And, of course, there will be reggae music. To learn more, please go to the website.

About Reggae To The Rescue

“Reggae to the Rescue” is a Benefit to raise money for Andy Roder Powell. The event is being held on July 2nd, 2012 at the Belly Up Tavern in Solana Beach, CA. Hosted by Chris Cote of Transworld Surf and Fuel TV, there will be silent and live auctions, plus raffles all night long featuring many signed items from the great artists that play at the Belly Up. Many more goods, services and artwork will be available for purchase..all for a great cause.

About Ninthlink

About Ninthlink

Established in 2000. Ninthlink builds high performance websites and strategies designed to get client results. Ninthlink offers web design, web development, and web marketing services. Ninthlink is a full service Interactive Agency located in San Diego, CA.

To The Rescue, Ninthlink Donates Web Design, Web Development to Support Reggae To The Rescue, A Charity Event for Andy Roder Powell

MochaHost Multiple PHP Versions Support, WebMatrix and More

San Jose, California, 95134 (PRWEB) June 28, 2012

Mochahost.com is pleased to announce support for the latest PHP 5.4 version for all Linux plans.

All new and existing clients of the Silicon Valley company can now take advantage of multiple PHP versions simultaneously – 5.2, 5.3, and 5.4 – all supported with no extra charge.

More good news for the Linux users are the recent OS version updates which now include CentOS 6.0, Fedora 14, and Ubuntu 11.10. The latest versions of the popular Linux distributions offer more features and improved performance, and security.

For the company’s Windows hosting plans the new addition of WebMatrix to all plans offers great convenience and flexibility for all clients. One-click application installations, reduced steps required for setting up, configuring and publishing applications, unified interface allowing management of multiple websites are just few of the advantages the WebMatrix. WordPress, Joomla, DontNetNuke or PHPBB are examples of applications available for installation through the WebMatrix on the new MochaHosts Windows plans.

The company now also provides support for Microsoft Visual Studio LightSwitch, a template driven application development environment, facilitating most aspects of the creation and management of business applications.

For more information on the company’s new hosting plans, please visit http://www.MochaHost.com

About MochaHost

MochaHost is located in the heart of Silicon Valley (San Jose, California); specializing in providing professional hosting, web design, E-commerce, and Internet promotion services. MochaHosts plans are designed to tailor to specific needs – from personal use/small businesses to sophisticated E-commerce sites with higher requirements for bandwidth and disk space.

For more information about the company, please visit http://www.mochahost.com

Contact:

Alek Chase

PR & Marketing Assistant

alek (at) mochahost (dot) com

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MochaHost Multiple PHP Versions Support, WebMatrix and More

ITXDesign.com Announces Free Control Panel Software And 24/7 Technical Support With Every Dedicated Server

Virginia, USA (PRWEB) August 10, 2012

ITX Design.com has offered free control panel software (Cpanel) along with their dedicated software to the clients. They are a leading service provider for web hosting and domain registration in the US. Their rates are most competitive in the market while their quality is superior in comparison to other leading service providers. Itxdesign’s efficient and technically sound support staff are always ready to provide their brilliant service to clients.

Spokesperson of ITXDesign.com, Paul schoolfield stated, We feel great to announce free control panel software along with our dedicated software for our esteemed clients. This is available with a 99.999% up time guarantee average over ten years and a sound technical team around the corner seven days a week. Our support team is just a call away to assist in solving any questions. We can meet any dedicated server requirement to include dedicated email servers, web servers or database servers with our highly talented and professional team. With our ITXDesign review, we manage and support dedicated servers.

ITXDesign is the most reliable and efficient web hosting and domain registration provider in the US. They provide dedicated servers, shared web hosting and domain registration for small businesses including Server Hosting, WordPress Hosting, Reseller Hosting and much more. Their expert staff reviews servers at ITXDesign and supports them 24/7 efficiently. ITXDesign also reviews and monitors system health. By monitoring the servers health they are able to identify increases in load or problematic areas before they create downtime.

ITXDesign has established a strategic position within the Web hosting market in order to provide their clients with the ultimate hosting solution. Their primary focus was on web design and ecommerce development. This led to an expansion into application hosting and SAAS (software as a service). They are specialists in expandable hosting that is capable of meeting the hosting requirements of small websites or even large scale corporate networks with server clusters.

To know more visit http://www.itxdesign.com.

ITXDesign.com Announces Free Control Panel Software And 24/7 Technical Support With Every Dedicated Server