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Lincoln Leadership Institute to Light Candles on Virtual Birthday Cake for Lincoln

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Gettysburg, Pa. (PRWEB) February 10, 2012

Steven B. Wiley and The Lincoln Leadership Institute at Gettysburg invite the public to commemorate Abraham Lincoln?s 203rd birthday by leaving a birthday message for Lincoln on the organization?s website http://www.gettysburgleadership.com/birthday-card-2012. Once 203 birthday greetings are received, The Lincoln Leadership Institute will light candles on a celebratory virtual birthday cake. Lincoln?s birthday is Sunday, Feb. 12.

Lincoln was born on February 12, 1809 and served as the nation?s 16th president from 1861 until his assassination in 1865. Milestones of Lincoln?s presidential service include his 1863 signing of the Emancipation Proclamation, a document that declared slaves free forever, and his Gettysburg Address. Given in November 1863 at the dedication of a military cemetery, Soldiers? National Cemetery in Gettysburg, the Gettysburg Address is one of the most memorable speeches in American history.

Visit http://www.gettysburgleadership.com/birthday-card-2012 to leave a birthday greeting. Share your thoughts on Lincoln?s inspiration for you, the significance of his Gettysburg Address or the impact of his leadership decisions on the American Civil War.

The Lincoln Leadership Institute at Gettysburg?s headquarters are located in the historic David Wills House located in downtown Gettysburg, Pa. President Lincoln spent the night at the Wills House where he put the finishing touches on the Gettysburg Address before delivering it on Nov. 19, 1863.

For more information about Steven B. Wiley and The Lincoln Leadership Institute at Gettysburg?s leadership development programs, call 717-338-9971 or visit http://www.gettysburgleadership.com. ?Like? The Lincoln Leadership Institute at Gettysburg at http://www.facebook.com/GettysburgLeadership and follow ?LincolnLeader? on Twitter.

About Steven B. Wiley and The Lincoln Leadership Institute at Gettysburg

What do the majority of Fortune 100 companies, such as Apple, Bank of America, Pfizer, Federal Express, ExxonMobil and Time Warner, scores of federal government agencies, including Homeland Security, Departments of Defense, Justice and Interior and over 75 Presidential Appointees and their teams all have in common?

When it comes to motivating, educating and developing their greatest asset, their people, they turn to Steven B. Wiley and The Lincoln Leadership Institute at Gettysburg.

Steven B. Wiley is a proven entrepreneur, author and highly acclaimed speaker who has trained and entertained tens of thousands of top executives from around the world. He receives?without exception?the highest ratings possible from his audiences, which include the top executives from the world headquarters of Apple, Merck, State Farm, Pfizer Pharmaceuticals, Bristol Myers Squibb, Novartis, the Centers for Disease Control, the National Institutes of Health, the Department of Homeland Security, Black & Decker, Shell, IBM, Caterpillar, the L.A. Times, Orlando Sentinel, USA Today/Gannett, Pharmetica, Frigidaire, Century 21, Johnson & Johnson, PhRMA, ExxonMobil and the Ford Motor Company.

His business experience includes the founding of three companies: two international franchise organizations and a national chain of fleet management centers. He has successfully negotiated multi-million dollar funding agreements for his own companies with some of the top venture capital organizations in the world.

Steve brings a wealth of knowledge in the areas of successful marketing, negotiation, sales and business development. His lucrative and varied high-ticket consultative selling and negotiating, experience began more than twenty years ago and includes tens of millions of dollars in the sales of companies, divisions, hard goods and services. His strong leadership ability has earned him recognition in top publications, including Venture Magazine, USA Today and Entrepreneur Magazine.

Steve?s speaking experience includes three years as National Spokesperson for the Quaker Oats/Pritikin Longevity Centers for whom he has been featured in television commercials and advertisements in the Wall Street Journal, Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times and New York Times. Over the past ten years, he has conducted thousands of seminars on negotiation, sales leadership and wellness for numerous public and private sector organizations.

He is the president of The Lincoln Leadership Institute at Gettysburg and the founder of the Institute?s Communicating with Executive Presence program as well as its Transformational Journey from Gettysburg leadership development experience.

Through The Lincoln Leadership Institute at Gettysburg, Civil War history becomes a metaphor, and the battlefield a classroom, as Steven B. Wiley leads your organization toward unprecedented success by developing leaders at all levels. Through the unique and creative use of historical metaphor and an examination of the lives of historic characters we develop ?bookmarks? in the minds of participants.

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Auctioneer & Appraisers Academy Announces 2012 Course Schedule for Certified Auctioneer Program

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Phoenix, AZ (PRWEB) January 24, 2012

Auction Systems Auctioneers & Appraisers, Inc., the parent company of Auctioneers and Appraisers Academy, has published its 2012 class dates for the Certified Auctioneer Classes. The training program will be conducted during the following time frames:

Make 2012 Your Breakthrough Year: 12 Reasons to Switch to DNA2.0 in 2012

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Menlo Park, Calif. (PRWEB) January 20, 2012

Achieve your most import resolution for 2012?to work smarter, not harder? by letting DNA2.0 bioengineering solutions save you time and money and achieve better results. Whether you are looking to make the upgrade from cloning to synthesis, want the peace of mind that comes with guaranteed expression or need a variant library to engineer protein function, it?s time to make the leap to DNA2.0.

While you consider all the reasons to make the switch, check out the ever-growing list of leading scientists that have already had their breakthroughs with a little help from DNA2.0: https://www.dna20.com/successstories.php

1. Save Time?Don?t let the competition get ahead of you

Every day saved in the process of accessing your genetic constructs is a day gained on the competition. First to publish is also first to get the next grant. First to patent is also first to get the next VC round. DNA2.0 Rush Service offers custom synthesized genes up to 1kb in size guaranteed to ship in 5 business days?the fastest available. Our regular service is an industry-leading 8-10 day turnaround.

2. Focus on Innovation?Our approach is light years ahead of any other provider

You?re not in the lab to clone genes, you?re there to do science. Don’t spend months fiddling with expression vectors, tags, culture conditions and temperatures. With maximal protein expression powered by our patented GeneGPS? algorithms, you can focus on the critical experiments that advance your research.

3. Reliable, High-Protein Expression Yields with GeneGPS

No point in getting a synthetic gene if it does not express your protein. Breakthrough research by DNA2.0 has identified the design principles by which codons are used to maximize protein expression. The peer-reviewed, published research, funded by the National Science Foundation, has produced a set of design algorithms that reliably offers maximized expression yields for heterologous protein expression.

4. Instantly Scale Up or Down

You need 1,000 genes today and then nothing for 12 months? You need a simple gene or multisite combinatorial library? How about synthesizing an entire genome? No problem. DNA2.0 handles large and small orders with equal efficiency. No need to scale your in-house molecular biology resources to fit the ups and down of your research. And DNA2.0 is the industry leader at synthesizing long and/or difficult sequences, from 200 kb and up!

5. Answers to Protein Questions

When your research needs to go beyond the everyday, DNA2.0 has the expertise to take you to the next level. Utilize Protein Variant Libraries for structure-function relationship analysis, or modifying the activities of proteins or DNA regulatory regions. Harness the power of synthetic biology to create Antibody Libraries with diversity in one or more CDRs. DNA2.0 makes libraries in several formats to meet different research needs. Libraries are delivered ready for screening to identify variants with altered function.

6. Improve on Nature

Any sequence you can imagine is available with synthetic genes. DNA2.0′s rapid and efficient custom gene synthesis allows you to redesign entire gene sequences to maximize the likelihood of high protein expression, easy genetic manipulation, minimal promoter leakiness and convenient protein purification.

7. Avoid Mistakes

Why risk losing time on mistakes that could happen in-house? Why go with bargain synthesis providers that can?t guarantee strong protein expression? When you ask DNA2.0 to handle your gene synthesis, we make sure you get the genes you need, every time, on time. Never again curse the Gods of PCR.

8. Get to the Point?Engineer the Right Protein

Find the protein activity you need with ProteinGPS??the protein engineering system that quickly and efficiently designs proteins with improved characteristics. ProteinGPS relies on identifying key amino acid substitutions through bioinformatics-based mining of available sequence space and combining such substitutions in an information maximized variant dataset (usually less than 100 unique gene variants).

Carson Dunlop Includes Home Reference Book for Home Inspection Clients

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(PRWEB) January 06, 2012

Carson Dunlop announced today that their home buying inspection clients will receive a copy of their Home Reference Book at no additional cost commencing January 6, 2012. This richly illustrated Home Reference Book was written by Carson Dunlop to explain the systems of the home to consumers and home inspection professionals. The Home Reference Book is clear and simple enough for new homeowners, yet comprehensive enough to be a valuable tool for training home inspectors.

?We felt it was important to help our clients better understand their home and the Home Reference Book in combination with our home inspection report provide amazing clarity.? stated Graham Clarke Vice President of Engineering at Carson Dunlop. ?A great home inspection is only the beginning. The Home Reference Book together with our free technical advice for as long as our clients own their home ensure we support our clients over the long term.? added Mr. Clarke.

The Home Reference Book, now in its 25th edition, is sold throughout North America at a retail price of $ 69. For more information about Carson Dunlop home inspections or the Home Reference Book, please visit http://www.carsondunlop.com

About Carson Dunlop

Carson, Dunlop & Associates Ltd. has been a leading Consulting Engineering Firm devoted to building inspection since 1978. They are one of the largest independent home inspection companies in North America that leverages their extensive technical knowledge across six integrated business lines – Home Inspection, Commercial Inspection, Report Writing, Energy Audits, Home Inspector Training and Continuing Education.

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New PhotoGIS Software Simplifies the Collection, Analysis and Dissemination of Geospatial Photographs

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Carlsbad, CA (PRWEB) December 31, 2011

Geo Tactical Solutions (GTS) is in the final stages of development for its new photo mapping and management software?PhotoGIS. PhotoGIS, planned to be released in early first quarter 2012, will allow users to easily map, organize, export and manage images taken with GPS-enabled digital cameras while also providing unique capabilities designed to enhance and streamline the photo-capture workflow for various military, federal and commercial organizations.

?By offering a simple to use, yet powerful software solution along with our GPS-enabled cameras and modules, we are able to deliver a complete end-to-end photo-capture, mapping and reporting solution to our customers that greatly improves workflow efficiencies,? explained Todd Lushinsky, Sales and Support Manager at Geo Tactical Solutions.

One interesting feature of PhotoGIS is its QR code generator for pre-field data collection. The user enters project or mission related information saved as ?memos? and the software generates a QR code for the camera to scan. This ?memo? information, once in the camera?s memory, will then be attached to each recorded photograph. The ?memos? attached to each digital image file are later used by the program to organize, display and populate standardized reports according to operation ID, photographer?s name, operation type, and so on.

When photos are taken with a GPS-enabled camera, PhotoGIS will automatically plot the images in a map viewer based on their GPS coordinates. For images that do not contain spatial information, the user can manually drag an image to an approximate location on a map using satellite imagery as a reference. If images contain spatial information about objects within the photograph, the PhotoGIS map viewer will automatically plot the object and photographer (i.e. the camera) locations on the map. An arrow connects photographer location with object location showing the distance and direction from the photographer to the object. Object location can be obtained using one of GTS? G700SE-M or G700SE-f GPS-enabled rugged digital cameras coupled with a laser range finder. For further geographic analysis, users can export image files into a variety of formats suitable for commonly used mapping applications such as Google Earth, ArcGIS and FalconView.

PhotoGIS also offers image markup and automated reporting capabilities. The user can drag and drop attribute information onto each image in addition to adding notes and simple vector graphics. After images have been imported and edited, the program can automatically populate report templates with the images, GPS location, Zulu date and time, ?memos?, and any additional notes about the photographs. Reports may be exported to Word, Power Point, PDF and other common document formats. All images and reports are stored in a relational database for maintaining data integrity and allowing for centralized sharing and collaboration.

?PhotoGIS was developed as a workflow solution focused on simplifying the preparation, collection, analysis and dissemination of photographic intelligence for organizations to easily manage and share that information for internal and external use,? stated Mr. Lushinsky. ?Some real world applications that can surely benefit from using PhotoGIS, along with our GPS cameras and modules, include disaster and emergency response, utility asset management, natural resource management, land use planning, law enforcement, border surveillance and security, disaster insurance claims, and a wide range of military ISR applications.? Mr. Lushinsky concluded.

About Geo Tactical Solutions

Geo Tactical Solutions is a Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business (SDVOSB) that provides advanced end-to-end photo intelligence solutions to military, federal, and commercial customers. Learn more at http://www.geotacticalsolutions.com/

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The Launch of Brand Conscious. The Online Visibility & Branding Exchange.

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(PRWEB UK) 24 November 2011

Brand Conscious is an innovative new online display business designed to make CPM buying visible and efficient. The company has partnered with ‘Alenty’, a visibility technology provider, integrating them into their unique buying platform.

Research shows that around 1/3 of impressions bought are never even seen, and from this only 1/3 are seen for 15 seconds or longer. Whether below the fold, behind a tab or away from the desired content, Brand Conscious believes that you shouldn’t have to pay for impressions that don’t get seen. After all, you wouldn’t be happy buying your morning coffee to find 1/3 missing.

Brand Conscious plug multiple inventory sources such as ad exchanges, networks and direct publishers into their platform. The system then measures each impression against several visibility metrics including the duration the impression is visible for, the percentage of the creative viewable and whether the impression is even visible in the users browser.

From this, the platform hand picks placements that have guaranteed visibility and aggregates them into their own inventory pool. Brand Conscious regard these as ‘Pristine Impressions’. The system constantly updates and refreshes this pool as more inventory sources are added, and as the visibility behaviour of the existing placements change. The outcome remains the same, 100% guaranteed visibility on all impressions bought through the Brand Conscious platform.

This changes the way Agencies and Advertisers can approach online branding. With guaranteed visibility, Brand Conscious deliver larger impact for branding campaigns compared to traditional CPM buys from alternative online media sources. The platform is able to optimise towards innovative metrics such as ‘Exposure’; the duration an impression is visible in a viewer?s browser for. With regards to DR, if 100% of the impressions bought are Pristine Impressions, this has a profound effect upon CTR and ultimately, CPA.

By trading over multiple inventory sources, the Brand Conscious platform provides unparalleled cost efficiency, scalability and most of all, visibility. The system allows for a ‘walled garden’ approach by selecting individual sites and placements to avoid duplication; a lending feature for any media plan.

It?s about time visibility became as important for online advertising as it is for offline advertising, and the Brand Conscious platform delivers just that.

Brand Conscious is a fully managed service based in Covent Garden, London and is now open for business.

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Sound Telecom Gives Tips for Growing Businesses

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Chicago, IL (PRWEB) November 22, 2011

Sound Telecom specializes in answering services for businesses with courteous, knowledgeable agents. As the U.S. economy climbs its way out of the recent downturn, Sound Telecom provides sound advice for growing businesses.

Stay Original

Every business starts small. Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak started in a garage; McDonalds was once just another corner BBQ joint in San Bernardino; and Starbucks was once just a coffee shop in Seattle?s Pike Place Market. While companies grow, it is important to not loose sight of unique identity. For example, while Amazon.com now has tens of thousands of employees around the world, they still use ?door desks? to harken back to their humble beginnings. Businesses should hang onto unique traditions to help build a sense of company loyalty and pride.

Become ?Glocal?

As your company grows beyond the country?s borders, it is important to keep the local needs in focus as well. With growth comes the ability to purchase and move products and services with greater value and profitability, but a global business needs to also keep local needs in mind.

Always Be Scalable

As they grow, many companies find themselves limited by some ?bottleneck?. It could be staff limitations or resources, but unfortunately (and easily fixable) it is often a technology limitation. Your business shouldn?t waste countless hours or frustrate your customers because your phone system limits the number of offices you can have, or it makes it difficult for customers to reach the appropriate person. Technology upgrades can be daunting. It is highly recommended to seek professional answering service advice when creating a plan for your business needs. Getting on the right track with a solid phone answering service, computer backup, and IT system will enable your business to grow at its own pace and not be restricted by unnecessary slow-downs.

About Sound Telecom

Sound Telecom provides Chicago, IL Answering Services using toll-free or local numbers answered by courteous, knowledgeable and professional call center agents. When you need Telephone Answering Services in Chicago, IL Sound Telecom has a cost-effective solution to meet your specific answering service needs.

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Big Vanilla Named Best Fitness/Health Club

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Arnold, MD (PRWEB) November 02, 2011

Big Vanilla Athletic Club, with locations in Pasadena and Arnold, MD, was recently named the best fitness/health club in The Capital 2011 Readers Choice Awards. The Capital 2011 Readers Choice Awards are a yearly contest created to recognize the best businesses in the Annapolis, MD area. They are based on thousands of votes from readers in over 100 varied categories. Awards are given to the top three companies with the most votes in each category. Big Vanilla has claimed the top spot in the fitness/health club category since the awards started four years ago.

Big Vanilla has been one of Anne Arundel County?s premier fitness and health clubs since 1977. With two locations, Big Vanilla has amenities for people of all ages and every fitness level. Both facilities boast swimming pools, spas, community centers and martial arts studios. Big Vanilla also offers group exercise classes in yoga, Zumba, cycling and more. For those looking for a more traditional fitness experience, Big Vanilla owns an extensive supply of brand-name exercise equipment including Cybex and Nautilus. For a non-traditional workout, the Arnold facility hosts a rock wall with five different faces of varying degrees of difficulty. In addition, Big Vanilla has an exclusive 12-week weight loss program and offers coaching for their members.

No matter what your wellness goals are, Big Vanilla strives to provide their members with amenities, expertise and inspiration needed to pursue a healthier lifestyle. For more information about Big Vanilla or to become a member, visit their health club website. They offer a 7-day VIP pass to new members, which provides full access to both the Pasadena and Arnold clubs ? so contact Big Vanilla to get your VIP pass today!

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