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Vendors in California & Georgia to be Featured on the PartyPOP.com Online Network

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(PRWEB) June 18, 2012

PartyPOP.com recently announced free wedding invitations and an RSVP website for any engaged couple in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom. The company has re-purposed their 2012 marketing budget in hopes of building brand awareness and loyalty. According to reports from within the Southern California based company, its working.

PartyPOP.com features over 2 million highly accomplished and professional companies in the event planning industry including: Central Valley Party, Divine Characters and More, and Yard Party Events.

Located in Sacramento, CA, Central Valley Party is a family owned and operated company. Offering a full line of party rental equipment and services, Central Valley Party is dedicated meeting all party needs and exceeding service expectations. Their focus is to make any event a success with a smooth planning process right through to the delivery and pick up.

Central Valley Party carries a full line of event rentals and concession supplies including: chairs, tables, linens, food service, concession equipment, stage equipment, carnival games, canopies, and lighting. From home parties to school carnivals, church functions to office meetings, or just simple holiday and family gatherings, Central Valley Party assists in all aspects of events. For a detailed list of products and services visit http://www.partypop.com/v/4260345

Serving the Riverside, CA area, Divine Characters and More offers a range of costume characters for any occasion. Whether hired for corporate, holiday, birthday, or a special events, Divine Characters will work with local companies to accommodate customer’s needs and requests. The company provides Animals For Parties, Jump houses, Children’s Party Themes, Child Birthday Party, Childrens Party Games, Children’s Parties, Birthday Parties, Birthday Party Ideas, Costumed Characters, Costumed Performers, Bouncers, Balloon Twisters, Balloons, Balloon Animals, Clowns & Entertainers, Clowns, Princess & Tea Parties, Face Painting, Temporary Tattoos, Characters For Kids, Characters For Kids Parties, Kids Birthday, Birthday Party Characters, Characters For Kids, Character Grams, Party Characters, Characters & more! For a complete list of details and contact information, visit Divine Characters and More’s Partypop.com profile at http://www.partypop.com/v/4382358

Yard Party events is a family owned and operated business located in Henry County, Georgia. The company began their inflatables and jumpers business in 1998 to help supplement income when they gave birth to their second child. After an unexpected job loss in 1999, they were faced with getting another job or taking the business full time. Today, Yard Party Events is one of the largest party and special event rental companies in the area. Yard Party Events providers jumpers, giant slides, water slides, inflatable games, toddler activities, fun foods, rock walls & carnival rides, ponies, and even a petting zoo. The company specializes in all types of parties and gatherings with special discount offers for church, school and business events. More information can be found online at http://www.partypop.com/v/3662793

About PartyPOP.com:

PartyPOP is the largest party, wedding and event planning online network.

Before the Internet era, the professionals at PartyPOP.com were successful hands-on party planners and special event producers. For more than a decade PartyPOP has translated 30 years of party planning experience onto the Internet. Millions of vendors are listed on the network consisting of 60+ websites and tens of millions of customers have used the network to plan their parties, weddings and events. PartyPOP.com also provides party and event related tips, themes and ideas, as well as a free full wedding planning software called Seating Arrangement.

About Free Printed Invitations by PartyPOP.com:

PartyPOP provides every bride and groom across the USA, Canada and the U.K. with free beautifully designed wedding invitations, printed on 80lbs card stock paper with matching envelopes and wedding website. Even door to door shipping is included at no cost. There are no hidden fees, no obligations to buy and no strings attached!







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Vaultize Announces Private Cloud Deployment Option Powered by OpenStack

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Mountain View, CA (PRWEB) June 18, 2012

Vaultize (http://www.vaultize.com) announced the availability of OpenStack-powered private cloud deployment option to enterprise customers. With this launch, customers now get another deployment option in addition to Vaultizes public cloud (hosted in Rackspace), virtual private cloud (hosted with any cloud provider of customers choice) or Cloud-in-a-box purpose-built appliance.

Last month, Vaultize became the first data protection & sync vendor in the world to launch an enterprise-grade appliance for backup, sync and sharing. Cloud-in-a-box is an integrated platform with a combination of enterprise-grade hardware and Vaultize cloud software.

“With the private deployment option, we take our Vaultize cloud technology, marry it with our customers infrastructure and essentially build a scalable and flexible Vaultize private cloud based on OpenStack,” said Ankur Panchbudhe, CTO and Co-founder of Vaultize. This would allow our customers to easily scale up with their growth by provisioning the resources dynamically and only when required.

While most other backup solutions perform encryption at the server, Vaultize encrypts data at source before it leaves the device. Vaultize is the first backup solution in the world to do both enterprise-grade encryption and de-duplication together at source. Now with private cloud deployment, businesses can even backup roaming laptops and remote offices without having to use VPN.

In addition to backup and sync between user devices, Vaultizes Group Sync and Sharing over Web features – that provide Dropbox-like file sharing and synchronization across users with enterprise-grade security, control and centralized administration are also available with the private cloud option with no extra cost.

About Vaultize:

Vaultize (http://www.vaultize.com) is an award-winning flagship product from Anoosmar Technologies a privately held company with registered office in Pune (India). It is the first backup, sharing and sync solution in the world that is designed from the ground-up specifically for cloud using multi-tenant architecture and enterprise-class security, control and SLAs.

The co-founders Anand Kekre (CEO) and Ankur Panchbudhe (CTO) come with technology leadership and executive management experience working previously at IBM, VERITAS, Symantec, Reconnex and McAfee before starting this venture. They together hold 72 US patents.







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Curry Subaru-Hyundai Celebrates Opening of Areas First Green Automobile Dealership

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Westchester County, N.Y. (PRWEB) June 18, 2012

More than 150 guests including family, friends and dignitaries were in attendance at the Curry Subaru-Hyundai in Cortlandt Manor for the recent grand opening of its state-of-the-art, 30,000 sq. ft. LEED

Todd Hart Named New CEO of Narragansett Bay Insurance Company

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Pawtucket, RI (PRWEB) June 18, 2012

Narragansett Bay Insurance Company (NBIC) announced today that Todd Hart has been named the companys Chief Executive Officer after a national search. Narragansett Bay founder Nick Steffey will continue as Executive Chairman.

As CEO, Mr. Hart will be responsible for executing NBICs multi-year strategic plan as the company continues to grow as the No. 1 choice for responsible homeowners. Mr. Hart will lead the NBIC team in assuring underwriting effectiveness, risk management, production efficiency, quality service, and cost management.

Todd has a rare combination of gifts, which is why I am excited that he will lead our team and bring Narragansett Bay to its next phase of development, said Nick Steffey. He brings an energetic, entrepreneurial mindset and experience base that combines intellectual rigor with analytical skills, operational savvy, and a track record of building high performance teams.

Mr. Hart has over twenty years of experience in a variety of financial services leadership, investment management and analytical posts. Most recently, he served as CEO of the Swiss-based Glacier Group, where he led the companys strategy reorganization and provided operational management in underwriting, claims and risk. Prior to that role, he managed insurance and catastrophic risk investments and trading at the Dallas-based hedge fund, HBK Capital Management (since 2003), and its related entities (since 2000). During that time, he chaired or served on the underwriting, compensation, investment and finance, risk management, accounts and audit committees of the boards of directors of a variety of HBK investments. Previously, he worked for nine years in New York City for JP Morgan & Co., where he identified and executed mergers and financing of Fortune 1000 clients.

He received his MBA from Harvard Business School, and an AB in Economics from the University of North Carolina, where he was a Morehead Scholar. He was also a Henry Luce Foundation Scholar, accepting a grant to study and work in the emerging markets in Asia at the Securities Exchange of Thailand. A resident of Dallas, Texas, Mr. Hart plans to relocate to the Rhode Island area.

It is an honor to be named Narragansett Bays second Chief Executive Officer, especially following in Nicks footsteps. Nick Steffey and his leadership team have been able to transform this company into a leading monoline homeowners carrier in the Northeast, said Mr. Hart. We are fortunate that Nick will continue to help build the Narragansett Bay Insurance brand while we ensure that the company is operationally responsive to the opportunities we see in the market.

In his role as Executive Chairman and Founder, Mr. Steffey will work with agency partners to continue to build Narragansett Bays brand and serve as spokesperson and ambassador, representing the company before industry and government organizations. Under Mr. Steffeys leadership, NBIC, one of the oldest insurers in New England, was rehabilitated, turned into a stock company, and provided with $ 200 million in private equity capital. By focusing on homeowners insurance in a region where many other homeowners writers are retreating, Narragansett Bay Insurance now insures over 110,000 customers in four states.

I am proud to have been part of building Narragansett Bay into a leading specialty insurer in the Northeast, and I look forward to working with Todd Hart and our leadership team to enable the company to achieve its potential, said Mr. Steffey.

About Narragansett Bay Insurance Company (NBIC)

Narragansett Bay Insurance Company, headquartered in Rhode Island, offers specialty insurance services and products to homeowners through an extensive network of independent agents along the eastern seaboard. Backed by highly rated reinsurers, NBIC has undergone a rigorous examination of its financial security and has received an A, Exceptional Financial Stability Rating (FSR) from Demotech, Inc., an independent financial analysis and actuarial services firm for property and casualty insurers. To find more information on NBIC, visit http://www.NBIC.com.







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The Trep Life Series Releases Video Episode Featuring Mike Samson and Ross Kimbarovsky, Co-founders of crowdSPRING.

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Chicago, IL (PRWEB) June 18, 2012

Today the Trep Life Original Video Series on Inc.com releases the sixth episode in its Season 1 featuring the co-founders of crowdSPRING, a company helping people around the world access creative talent and those creatives find new customers.

What I loved about working with and filming Mike and Ross is their ability to truly compliment each other as co-founders, each bringing their own value to the venture that makes it what it is, states Malachi Leopold co-creator of Trep Life. Their ability to be fully engaged and committed to their company’s growth and success, while also having boundaries that allow them to be committed to their families. It’s inspiring to see what they did with overcoming the challenges they faced when their growth almost killed the company. That kind of grit and determination – and success – gives viewers the ability to confront and overcome the challenges they face growing their ventures.

By helping Buyers reach countless creatives across the globe, crowdSPRING is changing the game for the little guy. Now small businesses, one-man shops and individuals anywhere can tap into a global pool of creatives for logo design, web design, company name, product name, packaging design, and many other graphic design, industrial design and writing projects. crowdSPRING opens new markets for creativity all the world over.

Here are the themes Mike and Ross describe in the episode:


A Vision Goes a Long Way: Articulate a clear idea and set clear goals for where you are going and what you want to accomplish.

Power to the Team: Empower your team, and dont micromanage. Entrepreneurs dont have all of the answers so listen to your team and learn from them just as you hope they will learn from you.

Need Courage: Be a risk-taker and say what needs to be said. Just do it nicely and dont forget to say please and thank you.

“We love to promote entrepreneurship, which is one of the reasons we are so pleased to share our start-up story, some thoughts about success, and some of the challenges we have experienced, with other entrepreneurs, said Mike Samson and Ross Kimbarovsky, co-founders of crowdSPRING. We try hard to focus on building a culture of innovation but it is really the talent of our creative community and commitment of our team that has transformed his business into an industry leader in just a few years.

About Trep Life

Trep Life is an original series video designed to give audiences a unique, transparent, and 360-degree view of what it takes to succeed as an entrepreneur (trep). Each episode is approximately 6 to 10 minutes featuring behind-the-scenes interviews and footage focused on three key aspects of any trep: The Grind, The Hustle and Payoff. Join Trep Life to impact 1 billion lives worldwide by creating positive change through entrepreneurship.

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Inc.com is the website for entrepreneurs and small business owners to find useful information, advice, insights, resources and inspiration for starting and growing businesses.







Ringling College Graduate Eric Prah Wins Bronze 2012 Student Academy Award in Computer Animation from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences

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Los Angeles, CA and Sarasota, FL (PRWEB) June 18, 2012

Ringling College of Art and Design Graduate Eric Prah was honored on Saturday, June 9th at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences 39th Annual Student Academy Awards with a Bronze Award for Computer Animation. The awards were presented by actors Laura Dern, Cuba Gooding, Jr., Greg Kinnear and Mena Suvari alongside Academy President Tom Sherak at the Academys Samuel Goldwyn Theater. Eric won the Bronze for his senior thesis animation, My Little Friend. Ringling College students have won 9 Student Academy Awards in the past 11 years, as well as the most consecutive Student Academy Awards since the awards began in 1973, with four awards in a row from 2005-2008.

Eric was one of 13 students from around the world who were selected as winners in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences 39th Annual Student Academy Awards competition. Erics film, My Little Friend, may be viewed at http://www.oscars.org/awards/saa/winners/Prah.html. The Gold in animation was won by David Wolter for Eyrie and the Silver by Mark Nelson for Jockstrap Raiders. To view photos from the event please go to http://photos.presslist.oscars.org/ and to see the journey of the 2012 Student Academy Award

ALltopics.com Offers Newest Information and News On Animation

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(PRWEB) June 19, 2012

Animation contains many aspects of visual culture and it is arguably one of the most important creative form of the twenty-first century. Animation.alltopics.com is designed to serve all of animation enthusiasts and is intended to fill the need for a practical guide to understanding the world of animated graphics.

What are the most popular animation techniques? What are the most recent approaches to animation? Animation.alltopics.com is a professional guide to the fundamental principles of animation as it covers all technical issues, explores most popular approaches and allows readers to discover the history of animated graphics.

Animation, in some ways, has become synonymous with Disney and it is thanks to animation.alltopics.com that users can enjoy the marvelous world of Disney animation. Alltopics.com is readers ultimate source for breaking news, compelling articles and marvelous videos on Pocahontas, Mulan, Winnie the Pooh, Toy Story, Finding Nemo and many more.

As the most recent animation technique – computer animation – encompasses a variety of techniques, alltopics.com collects and ranks the most popular animation stories for readers to find at one glance. Animation.alltopics.com is a starting place to explore everything about all animation techniques and all aspects concerning the topic.

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Fortressing Against the Upcoming Hurricane Season: Building a Modular Home on Cape Cod

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Westport, MA (PRWEB) June 18, 2012

During hurricane season, vacation homes along the shore can take a terrible beating from wind and waves. In recent years, the government agency FEMA has determined how we must engineer our homes in each area of the country to ensure quality standards. FEMA has also divided the U.S. shore regions into zones that include especially stringent requirements for home construction. FEMA regulations always supersede local zoning.

But one particular new home, whose construction was initiated this spring, is in whats called the North Zone, the worst wind zone in the Northeast. This area blankets the entire lower arm of Cape Cod because storms here can be very severe with wind loads of 120mph, or more. The Perfect Storm is a perfect example, but not the only example of the battering these stretches of beach have endured. The law requires that structural framing of shore house in this zone must be engineered to resist winds of this magnitude. The owner of this particular property, a doctor with a family including several young children, chose to go with a Modular Architect just to be sure his home was as strong as possible. Modular designs are thought to be stronger than traditionally built homes because modular construction has redundancy in the framing where the sections fit together. One of these fits is called the marriage wall, which is a sheer wall that inherently resists sideways forces of wind.

The chosen architect, Douglas Cutler A.I.A., founder of Modular Architecture in Wilton, CT, also engineered and designed this vacation home with impact resistant windows to keep the residents safe from shattering glass in the event that they were unable to evacuate before a storm. If the home is, hopefully, unoccupied, these windows will also protect the furnishings from wind and water damage.

Waves and Flooding

The government, in an effort to gain support for the new construction rules, has studied paths of hurricanes and determined minimum floor levels above high tide lines. They also determined how strong foundations must be in order resist wave action. When the doctor of the Cape Cod Modular decided to replace the existing bungalow on his property, the replacement floor had to be built 10 feet higher than the previous floor. The higher the floor, the less waves can chew away at it.

The foundation, too, is literally a pillar of strength. Douglas Cutler designed a series of 18 concrete piers, each one 12 feet high that come vertically out of the ground. The pillars are about 18 inches square, poured with 500 lb. reinforced concrete and adhered to the grade beam horizontal which lies 3.6 feet below the finished grade. The home is then placed above these pillars. This is code for the pillar depth and height in this area and even though there may be local regulations limiting the height of home. Once again, FEMA regulations always supersede local zoning for safety purposes.

Calm Weather Advantages of Modular

The doctors family wanted a vacation home with spectacular views. Douglas Cutler designed them a modular home that turns tradition on its head sleeping rooms on the bottom, living area on the top so that the family can take advantage of the breathtaking views from about 30 feet off the ground. On a clear day they will be able to see Marthas Vineyard and Cuttyhunk.

This Cape Cod home, set earlier this Spring, should be completed by midsummer 2012 right in time for hurricane season. The furniture will be moved in and the lobsters will be served, dripping with butter on one of the beautiful decks. There are carports beneath the piers, 4 bedrooms with 3 baths, decks and an open floor plan on the top. The lot is small, 1/4 acre or less which makes it ideal for building a modular home.

The differences between building a modular home and traditional stick-built construction can be confusing, but just remember that custom modular is simply a hybrid form of construction, says Douglas Cutler. The foundation is built conventionally but the rest is built in a factory except for the detailing In order to meet code and get the safest home available, designed to resist the main natural forces that exist, the architect must always lead in the planning. When is comes to strength, beauty and the latest amenities, home buyers and builders will have a super advantage if they call their modular architect first.

Learn more about Douglas Cutler Architects and their award winning modular designs at http://www.modulararchitecture.com







Top Trainer Wendy Stevens, Targets New Heights of Success, As She Partners With Elena Fraga and Team Energy in a Breaking Announcement

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Top Trainer Wendy Stevens, Targets New Heights of Success, As She Partners With Elena Fraga and Team Energy in a Breaking Announcement with a Patented Exclusive Product that radically changes the market in Energy Deregulation and Global Expansion.

Top Trainer Wendy Stevens is highly recognized as a social media marketing expert. She is also a renowned motivational speaker, a dynamic coach, a popular trainer, and a championship coach and mentor. Her fast-paced, authentic style inspires and empowers audiences from all walks of life, coaching them to overcome their own personal obstacles and succeed in their goals. Her dynamic and inspiring flare is reflected in all of her endeavors as she teaches, trains, and coaches new business partners and entrepreneurs in success in this new endeavor.

Recognized as one of the top income earners in the Direct Sales Industry, Wendy has been showcased as a speaker and trainer as a multiple seven-figure Internet entrepreneur. She has helped thousands of clients in increase their productivity and profits, using highly strategic and aggressive social media marketing positioning. She will now transition her social media marketing expertise toward her joint venture with Elena Fraga in building the Team Energy empire by expanding the leadership team in energy deregulation around the globe.

Wendy has leveraged her experience as a former All American, MVP and NCAA National Champion as well as a Division I Lacrosse Coach at Vanderbilt University. She continues to exemplify that the basic principles of success carry over in ones life – whether playing on the field or coaching business partners and entrepreneurs to reaching their financial goals in this dynamic and financially rewarding arena.

Due to Wendy Stevens recent health challenges, she had made a proactive decision to reduce stress, and retire as the CEO of Local Guerrilla Marketing to focus on the success of her own health and well-being while assisting, coaching and training Team Energy.

Team Energy is a leadership team that is a part of the innovative marketing arm of a successful billion-dollar, publicly held company. Headquarters offices reside in Toronto, Ontario and Dallas, Texas to support its Independent Representatives. Team Energy is creating a national and international sales force assisting individuals to become successful entrepreneurs as we expand our unique patented exclusive solutions as the first energy company to rapidly expand in all 50 states with aggressive global expansion plans within the next five years.

Wendy Stevens embraces her partnership with Elena Fraga and Team Energy as she braces herself in anticipation of greater successes in this winning venture.

Top Trainer Wendy Stevens, Targets New Heights of Success, As She Partners With Elena Fraga and Team Energy in a Breaking Announcement with a Patented Exclusive Product that radically changes the market in Energy Deregulation and Global Expansion.







SEO India Reaches its 20th Month Working Relationship with a House Plan Retailer

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Bangalore, India (PRWEB) June 18, 2012

Over the past 20 months, SEO India (http://www.seoindia.net/), a search engine optimization company based in Bangalore, India, has been overseeing all the SEO activities for an online house plans seller. This month, SEO India hits the 20th month milestone and continues to offer great traffic and visibility for an house plans seller. SEO Indias terrific efforts have provided us good online visibility and traffic. We have now joined the ranks of competing sites that are 10 to 15 years older than we are. I couldn’t be happier with the progress and look forward to a continuing business relationship with SEO India, said Matt, owner of house plans retailer in California.

Matt manages California-based house plans company that offers residential building design solutions including architectural designs, house plans and modeling advice for home owners. The company sells a wide range of house plans with instant cost-to-build report and estimates for home remodeling needs.

The website sees a large number of daily traffic and sign ups. According to Matt, the success of the website can be attributed to their user-friendly website design, their offerings and equally importantly, the targeted marketing activities and online branding by SEO India.

SEO India has played a significant role in building online visibility and traffic for the house plan retailers website. By developing ongoing collaboration with a number of satisfied clients, the company is committed to provide high quality SEO and Online Marketing services worldwide. With our unwavering commitment to providing unparalleled services to our clients, we will continue helping our clients achieve online visibility, says Vivek Srivastava, the CEO and Founder of SEO India.

The year of 2012 has shaken many online businesses with Google introducing multiple algorithm updates like Panda and Penguin. However, the house plans retailers website has not seen any negative impact on their rankings and continues to hold its positions on the first page of Google search results.

Today, when online businesses are vying to get to the top of Google search engine results, SEO India has proven to be a great asset for their clients. What makes them different from other SEO companies is that they do not spam search engines, instead, they use quality content for earning natural inbound links for their clients.

For more information, please visit: http://www.seoindia.net/

About SEO India: SEO India offers search engine optimization (SEO) services to businesses of all sizes. They employ organic search engine marketing techniques for generating traffic and increasing brand visibility online. With over 162 projects completed in over 44 business sectors, SEO India has experience in working with a wide range of clients worldwide.