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Caldera Construction Polo Team Jerseys Designed by Crooked Brook and Geneve Kashnig

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Basalt, CO (PRWEB) June 20, 2012

Crooked Brook was contacted by national polo player and tournament organizer chosen by Geneve Kashnig to help design and produce the custom polo jerseys for the Caldera Construction Polo Team.

In the sport of polo, polo shirts are called polo jerseys. Polo shirts are also called “polos” or tennis shirts and they became so popular on golf courses, people started calling them golf shirts. Although the words “polo shirt” and “golf shirt” are used interchangeably, the term “polo shirt” is more popular.

The jerseys are a Hanes, Style 054, 5.5 oz., Men’s 50% cotton/50% polyester Jersey Knit Polo in Cardinal with a welt-knit collar and rib knit cuffs, two-button placket with pearlized buttons and double-needle stitching on bottom hem.

The embroidery and tackle twill placement is as follows:

Left chest & right shoulder sleeve, White, 4″ tackle twill numbers

Across Center Front: Caldera Construction (logo)

Across Back:

CALDERA CONSTRUCTION (Rockport Blue – Algerian font)

8″ White tackle twill number

Polo Team

About Caldera Construction:

Caldera Construction Custom Homes, for two decades has specialized in handcrafting luxury, single-family homes in Aspen, the Roaring Fork Valley and Denver, Colorado. Their main focus is on new residential construction and remodels, as well as landscape management, historic renovations and light commercial. Caldera’s experience in building quality homes runs the gamut of architectural style and size from contemporary to mountain rustic, and from small, custom homes to 12,000 square-foot private estates.

Caldera Construction offers a range of services including pre-construction planning and budget preparation, landscape management, construction management, consulting and owners representative services.

About Geneve Kashnig

Geneve Kashnig is a native Colorado polo player who travels the country playing in and organizing polo tournaments. She has three polo ponies; Sterling, Dakota and Ruckus and a Great Dane named Terra.

About Crooked Brook

Crooked Brook is a unit of the atelier division of an art studio that offers full service apparel design, pattern making, sample making, private-label small lot production and embroidery. Since 1989, theyve built a strong reputation of providing top-notch apparel designs, patterns, fit and production samples for many brand name catalogs and retailers, as well as wardrobe and costumes for movies, television and theater.

All Crooked Brook branded garments and accessories are proudly made to order in the U.S.A.

Because of their unparalleled attention to detail in tailoring, they were awarded a Supima

52.3% of Pennsylvanias Largest K-8 Charter School Grads Going On to Private, Charter and Out-Of-District Public High Schools

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Chester, PA (PRWEB) June 20, 2012

When the new school year begins in September 2012, 52.3% of this years graduating eighth graders from Chester Community Charter School (CCCS), the largest K-8 charter school in Pennsylvania, will be attending a private or charter high school, or a public high school outside of the Chester Upland School District.

When the school held its graduation ceremony for 176 students, recently, more than 800 parents, guardians and friends of the school were in attendance. This years graduating class was CCCS largest to date, as the school has seen a dramatic increase in enrollment, as compared to its first middle school graduation, in 2006, which included just 48 students.

Continuing the schools tradition of preparing its students for the most academically challenging high school programs in Southeast Pennsylvania and Northern Delaware, more than half of this years graduates will go on to continue their education at 21 private, charter and out-of-district high schools, including, Episcopal Academy, Newtown Square, PA; Neumann Goretti, Philadelphia, PA; Ursuline Academy, Wilmington, DE; St. Josephs Preparatory School, Philadelphia, PA; Cardinal OHara, Springfield, PA; World Communication Charter, Philadelphia, PA; Girls High School of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA; Allied Health High School, Chester, PA; Wilmington Friends, Wilmington, DE; St. Marks High School, Wilmington, DE; Milton Hershey School, Hershey, PA; New Beginnings Academy, Chester, PA; Concord Christian Academy, Wilmington, DE; Hallahan Catholic Girls High School, Philadelphia, PA; Charter High School for Architecture and Design (CHAD), Philadelphia, PA; Delaware Valley High School, Philadelphia, PA; The School of Science and Discovery, Chester, PA; and Salesianum High School, Wilmington, DE.

Emblematic of the academic achievements of this years graduates was class valedictorian Sujeylee Alverez, who was recruited by more than 30 high schools.

In commenting about the students success in being recruited by prestigious high school programs, Dr. David Clark, CEO, Chester Community Charter School, said, I am proud of the academic growth, maturity and educational achievements of every graduating class, but this one in particular, was exceptional. Its been an especially challenging year to be a student in Chester, Pennsylvania, but when questions about our schools operation or about our childrens ability to learn are raised, I point nay-sayers to our results, because they speak for themselves. He continued, Our graduates are overwhelmingly going on to academically competitive secondary and post-secondary institutions and succeeding on their own terms; and for that I couldnt be prouder. A huge congratulations to the graduating class of 2012!

About Chester Community Charter School

Chester Community Charter School opened its doors on September 9, 1998, serving 97 students from its modest four meeting rooms, in the lobby of the Howard Johnson Hotel. Since that time, the school has steadily grown to include more than 3,000 students. http://www.chestercommunitycharter.org.







Inspirare Fashion Design Competition Winner & Judge Favorites

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Burlingame, CA (PRWEB) June 20, 2012

Social networking site, Inspirare.com, launched in June with the goal to help emerging designers get exposure and launch their design careers.

How it works: Fashion designers create an Online Portfolio on INSPIRARE where they upload fashion sketches and images of the finished designs. Inspirare users browse through portfolios and Vote on their favorite designs. The most popular designs that are approved by the Inspirare team will be produced and sold exclusively on Inspirare.com. Inspirare provides 100% funding and share generous royalty with designers.

Fashion designers are encouraged to continuously Submit Designs to Inspirare.com to their portfolios as Inspirare will produce the best items from portfolios regularly and sell them at the Inspirare Shop (scheduled to launch in September).

The site launched with a Fashion Design Competition, which closed in May. There were over 150 submissions from 23 countries for the competition.

After intense deliberation, the Inspirare team and their Inspirare Judge Panel agreed on the winning design. Fashion designer Alejandra de Coss of Puebla, Mexico won the competition for her design, Miss Marble. Inspirare.com will produce the dress and sell it exclusively on their eCommerce store. Designer Alejandra de Coss will receive 20% royalty on the sales.

Inspirares fashion director, Kate Blank, has this to say about the Miss Marble dress, You can see this dress is a nod to several trends such as peplums, cutouts and sheer paneling; but it’s exploring them in a unique way. The dress offers both an interesting print and a two tone colorway allowing us to see it’s versatility and well placed design lines. I also really love the presentation of her fashion illustration. All the images in this design submission are visually interesting and serve a purpose. I think the Miss Marble dress will be a piece that many different women will lust after as it’s a perfect party or event dress.

Inspirare Judge, Lorraine Sanders, of SF Indie Fashion, Digital Style Digest, and San Francisco Chronicle column Style Bytes favored Anca Mirons design RDVB.

Lorraine says, The multi-wear possibilities of this design immediately got my attention. While its an urbane look that would most likely appeal to a customer who already loves to take risks with fashion, theres a great deal of versatility in the cut and shape of the garments. They could fit in as easily on the streets of Stockholm as they could in New York or Tokyo. The creativity in the construction, versatility and global appeal made this look stand out.

RDVB by Anca Miron scored high enough by the judges that it may be considered for production by Inspirare.com.

Style Bust founder and Inspirare Judge, Nikki Lindgren fell in love with Texas based Crowned Birds Pipit Pencil Shirt.

Nikki says, The Pipit Pencil Skirt print is so original, yet so commercial. The cut will be flattering for many body types and the length is just right. I think Crowned Bird did a great job with this skirt. As soon as this skirt is worn on the streets it’s going to be a quick hit!

Pipit Pencil Skirt by Crowned Bird scored high enough by the judges that it may be considered for production by Inspirare.com.

Academy of Art University Style Coordinator and Inspirare Judge, Flore Morton, is a fan of Denis Predescus Pink Architecture dress.

Flore says, The dress is urban but sophisticated. The construction is very architectural, and is perfectly executed. The choice of fabrics and colors is modern, and gives a new spin on color blocking. The garment proposes a true personal vision from the designer. The photo shoot communicates a good taste level and a simplicity that balances well the dressy garment. I regret that the 2D drawing is not as strong as the dress itself.

Pink Architecture by Denis Predescu scored high enough by the judges that it may be considered for production by Inspirare.com.

Finally, Kate Blank, of Inspirare picks her favorite design, A Dream of Black & White, by Kacii.

Kate has this to say about the design, I really love the jacket within this design submission. The designer has used draping and the folds of the fabric in a really beautiful and interesting way. To me it looks like some sort of carefully folded piece of origami. It’s not only innovative and technically beautiful, but really wearable and chic.

All designs submitted to Inspirare.com can be viewed within the Discover section of the site.

Complete list of 30 winners for Inspirare Launch Design Competition:

1ST PLACE WINNER:

Alejandra De Coss, Miss Marble

2ND PLACE WINNERS:

Ioana Ciolacu, Can’t Touch This Sweater

Melissa Christianson, Grace Dress

Mau Alfaro, Beauty Monster Skirt

Denis Predescu, Pink Architectural

Ioana Ciolacu, Oblio Dress

3RD PLACE WINNERS:

Studio NTK, Jumpsuit

Veritee Hill, La’Aprel

Anca Miron, RDVB = DRESS, VEST, BLOUSE, RECTANGLE

Melissa Christianson, Grace Cape

APJ, Monster Hospital

Crowned Bird, King Fisher Suit

Anca Miron,TSO = Trousers,

Apress Debuts their Latest .NET Titles at Microsofts TechEd Conferences!

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New York, NY (PRWEB) June 01, 2012

Apress is pleased to announce their participation as an exhibitor at Microsofts TechEd America from June 11th-June 14th and TechEd Europe, which takes place in Amsterdam June 25th-June 29th. Apress will introduce tech professionals to their newest Microsoft titles, currently available via the Alpha program.

“Pro C# and the .NET 4.5 Framework, “Introducing .NET 4.5 and Illustrated C# 2012are just a few of the Apress books that developers will have a first look at. As Microsoft unveils its latest .NET technologies, the Apress Alpha Program gives readers access to a book before its official release providing the rare opportunity of reviewing cutting-edge content as its being written. Chapters are added and updated on a regular basis through the full completion of the book. Those that purchase the book in Alpha, will also receive the final eBook version when its available. This process gives tech professionals a head start in learning about the newest versions of Microsoft technologies.

During TechEd America, Apress will also be hosting two book signings at their booth #1941. Apress author Henry Lee will be signing copies of his book, Beginning Windows Phone App Development on Monday, June 11th from 11am-12pm for TechEd attendees. Danny Garber, author of Pro Windows Server AppFabric, who is also speaking at TechEd, will be signing copies of his book on Wednesday, June 13th from 11am-12pm. This will give TechEd attendees a chance to meet face-to-face with an expert in their field. Garber is presenting at TechEd America for PRC10, Real-World Cloud Computing on Windows Azure on Sunday, June 10th from 10am-6:00pm in S330C.

News of Apresss presence at TechEd and TechEd Europe follows their successful Metro Revealed free e-copy offering, where Apress was able to share the content of Metro Revealed: Building Windows 8 apps with HTML5 and JavaScript with thousands of Apress fans in just 24-hours.

For more information on Apresss involvement in TechEd America or TechEd Europe, please email stephaniecarino(at)apress(dot)com. For more information on Apresss Alpha titles, please visit http://www.apress.com/events/Microsoft_alpha.

About Henry Lee

Founder of ToeTapz.com and NewAgeSolution.net, Lee is passionate about technology. He works with various Fortune 500 companies, delivering mobile applications and rich Internet applications. He is focusing his energy on delivering mobile applications on Windows Phone 7, Android, and iPhone. In his spare time, he dedicates his efforts to helping his communities by delivering sessions at technology events. He enjoys speaking with other technologists about current trends in technology and sharing business insights with fellow colleagues.

About Danny Garber

Danny Garber is a Windows Azure Solution Architect within the Worldwide Windows Azure Center of Excellence (CoE) team at Microsoft Corporation and the US Windows Azure Technical Community lead. In his role, Danny is responsible for planning and execution of the Services Field Sales strategy for Windows Azure platform worldwide through Windows Azure discovery workshops, application assessments, architecture design sessions and technical POCs. He joined Microsoft in July 2006 as an SOA and BizTalk Server Integration subject matter expert. Danny has over 21 years of IT experience, 14 of them in the role of software architect. Danny is a Microsoft Certified Architect, an IBM Certified Architect, Microsoft Certified Solution Developer (MCSD) and Certified Technical Specialist (MCTS) in BizTalk Server. He can be reached at dannyg(at)microsoft(dot)com or via his blog at: http://blogs.msdn.com/dannyg/

About Apress Media

Apress Media is a technical and business publisher devoted to meeting the needs of IT professionals, software developers, programmers, and business leaders with more than 1,000 books in print and electronic formats. Apress provides high-quality, no-fluff content that helps serious technology professionals build a comprehensive pathway to career success. For more information about the innovative approach Apress takes to publishing, please visit http://www.apress.com.







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Ultra-Clean, Benzene-Free Gasoline May Become More Affordable in North America Soon

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La Vista, Nebraska (PRWEB) June 20, 2012

Chase invited BioSyn to participate in a grant program offering which it co-sponsors with LivingSocial called Mission: Small Business. BioSyn responded by applying for one of its projects, which is the production and marketing of ultra-clean, benzene-free universal gasoline.

Unbeknownst to many, conventional gasoline contains, and depends on, benzene, toluene and mixed xylenes to meet octane requirements. However, benzene is a potent carcinogenic chemical, while toluene and mixed xylenes are highly toxic.

When used as fuel for passenger cars running on spark ignition engines, conventional gasoline does not pose immediate health hazard. This is because modern cars are equipped with catalytic converters that convert unburned gasoline exhausts into relatively harmless carbon dioxide and water vapor.

However, it is common practice to use conventional gasoline in yard works equipments like lawn mowers, weed cutters, snow blowers, etc. These equipments are not equipped with catalytic converters. Worse, most yard works equipments are powered by 2-cycle engines that require 2-cycle oil. Two-cycle oils do not burn and are emitted as visible smoke. In addition, 2-cycle oils contain organometallics that contribute to high toxicity of emissions.

It is for the above reasons that BioSyn developed an ultra-clean gasoline devoid of benzene, toluene, mixed xylenes, other aromatics and olefins. This industry-exclusive gasoline can also be used in 2-cycle engines without the application of 2-cycle oil, thus eliminating smoke emissions.

Currently marketed under the trade name DM-X 95G, it will be priced the same as conventional gasoline when BioSyns planned biorefinery is finally up. In meantime, DM-X 95G is marketed to nich

Peak Hosting Announces Their Sponsorship in the Silicon Beach Fest 2012 and the Silicon Beach Fest Hackathon

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Milpitas, CA (PRWEB) June 20, 2012

Peak Hosting, the industrys most trusted leader in Operations-as-a-Service, managed hosting services and hybrid cloud computing, today announced their sponsorship in the Silicon Beach Fest 2012 and Hackathon scheduled June 21-23 in Santa Monica, CA.

The Hackathon is part of a first-of-its-kind three-day conference created by, organized by, and featuring local companies and startups to celebrate the ecosystem of tech, startups and entertainment that are unique to LA. Panel topics focus on incubators, VCs, startups, entrepreneurship, and small business, as well as art, content, fashion, retail, action sports, and social good. Similar panel topics are co-located at Hubs including: Hollywood, Startup, Social Media, Branding / Advertising, Community, and more.

“Silicon Beach” has been popularly used to refer to the growing tech startup community in LA, where activity is predominantly located in the beach neighborhoods of Santa Monica and Venice, and extends to Hollywood, Downtown and Pasadena.

Beginning Thursday night Hackathon teams will present their pitch with the direct help of CTO coaches from some of Los Angeless top companies. Hackers will have roughly 48 hours to develop an MVP, produce slides, and pitch their creations to a panel of judges comprised of the top CEOs in Los Angeles.

Steve Auerbach, VP Account Development: Investor Community & Start Up Programs of Peak Hosting, announced that Peak will be a major sponsor in this year’s Silicon Beach Hackathon. Peak will be sponsoring food for the event and awarding a $ 12,000 gift certificate for Hosting services, $ 1,000 per month for a year, to the winners of the Hackathon. The event begins Thursday, June 21st when up to fifteen teams, with five per team, will be selected from the applicants.

We are always happy to support startups and the investor community stated Jeffrey Papen, Founder and CEO of Peak Hosting and speaker at the Hackathon.

For more information on the Hackathon, click here.

About Peak Hosting:

Founded in 2001, Peak Hosting builds the worlds largest Internet properties across every technology vertical. With the ethos of, Whats the most we can do? Peak engineers, who average over 15 years of industry experience, have designed, built and scaled the largest and most well-known Internet giants.

Peak Hostings AlwaysUP ArchitectureTM ensures component failure doesnt lead to service failure, enabling us to deliver an industry exclusive 100% uptime SLA without exceptions or excuses for maintenance windows. As part of our Operations-as-a-Service solution,Peak Total Operations (PTO) delivers the expertise in everything but your code to manage every aspect of the datacenter operations so companies can focus on what they do best.







Computer Generated Solutions Announces Further Expansion Throughout Europe

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New York, NY (PRWEB) June 20, 2012

Computer Generated Solutions (CGS), a leading global provider of technology solutions, announced today the opening of a new sales and delivery office in the United Kingdom to further support their rapidly growing BlueCherry customer base in the European market. The new center will complement CGSs existing facilities in Romania and help to increase sales and expand their market share in the region.

CGSs award-winning BlueCherry Suite software empowers fashion, softgoods, and other consumer products companies to more effectively manage their entire business and supply chain, from concept to consumer.

This opening reflects the significant customer growth that CGS is experiencing, in particular the high demand for BlueCherry across Europe, said Paul Magel, President of the Applications Solutions Group at CGS. We are excited to have the opportunity to expand into the United Kingdom. With the addition of this new sales and delivery team, we look forward to providing innovative, customized solutions to all of Europe and demonstrating our endless commitment to our customers.

An award-winning enterprise apparel software solution, BlueCherry is a comprehensive suite of integrated solutions, including Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), Supply Chain Management and Collaboration (SCM), Warehouse Management (WMS), Business Intelligence (BI) and EDI.

BlueCherry is designed to meet the needs of the apparel, footwear, and accessories industries. Customers have consistently experienced a rapid return on investment, improved customer service, accelerated time to market, superior management control and reporting, and streamlined EDI processes. BlueCherry also features a robust architecture, a familiar interface (Microsoft Office-like design), and superior management control and reporting. Additionally, the solution is easily scalable, offers a low cost of ownership, and provides an active community for all users.

CGS maintains over 400 BlueCherry customers worldwide.

About CGS

For more than twenty-eight years, CGS has enabled global enterprises, regional companies and government agencies to drive breakthrough performance through technology. Headquartered in New York City, CGS employs over 4,500 professionals in 20 offices in North America, Latin America, Europe and Asia. With global delivery capabilities, expertise across leading platforms and deep experience in multiple industries, CGS has become the IT partner of choice for thousands of organizations worldwide. CGS delivers a wide array of proprietary and third-party business applications, technology, business services and business process outsourcing solutions, including customer care, technical support and corporate learning & training. For more information please visit http://www.cgsinc.com or follow us on Twitter http://www.twitter.com/cgsinc

About BlueCherry

A fully integrated enterprise solution with the power to manage the entire concept-to-consumer product lifecycle, BlueCherry enables softgoods companies to streamline processes, gain visibility, reduce costs, increase productivity, and enhance competitiveness. Comprehensive BlueCherry capabilities include Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), Supply Chain Management (SCM), Shop Floor Control (SFC), Warehouse Management (WMS), E-Commerce, Salesforce Automation (SFA), Business Intelligence (BI), Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) and more.

Long considered the most functionally-complete ERP in the soft goods industry, the BlueCherry enterprise solution leverages the latest Microsoft

Stevens to Guide Development of Engineering Education in Brunei

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Hoboken, NJ (PRWEB) June 19, 2012

Through a new educational relationship with Universiti Brunei Darussalam (UBD), the national university of Brunei, Stevens is enhancing efforts to diversify the economy of the small, oil-producing Southeast Asian nation.

The government of Brunei is looking to advance new sectors of the economy in order to drive growth. Technological education is instrumental to this effort, said Stevens Provost George Korfiatis.

In the past few months, officials from UBD have turned to Stevens to guide them in the development of the broad-based engineering curriculum for which Stevens is renowned. UBD hopes to introduce a bachelors-level curriculum based on Stevens model in Fall 2013 in a new school called the Faculty of Integrated Technologies.

Stevens engineering education can lead UBD students to expertise and specialization in major technology sectors important to enhancing Bruneis economy over the long-term, such as energy, health, information technologies, and many others, said Korfiatis.

This month, Korfiatis delivered a seminar at UBD that described to officials how to build the foundation for the Faculty of Integrated Technologies, what major issues might be encountered, and other key considerations. The relationship between the two universities will evolve this summer and fall, as Stevens hosts a number of UBD faculty members for workshops that introduce the Stevens Design Spine architecture and aid in the development of engineering course content.

Stevens and UBD are also considering further future partnerships, such as student exchange programs and collaboration on energy research.

For many years, Stevens has been advocating for the importance and uniqueness of a broad-based undergraduate engineering education, said Korfiatis. We are excited to be able to spread our principles globally.

About Stevens Institute of Technology

Founded in 1870, Stevens Institute of Technology, The Innovation University, lives at the intersection of industry, academics and research. The University’s students, faculty and partners leverage their collective real-world experience and culture of innovation, research and entrepreneurship to confront global challenges in engineering, science, systems and technology management.

Based in Hoboken, N.J. and with a location in Washington, D.C., Stevens offers baccalaureate, masters, certificates and doctoral degrees in engineering, the sciences and management, in addition to baccalaureate degrees in business and liberal arts. Stevens has been recognized by both the US Department of Defense and the Department of Homeland Security as a National Center of Excellence in the areas of systems engineering and port security research. The University has a total enrollment of more than 2,350 undergraduate and 3,600 graduate students with almost 450 faculty. Stevens graduate programs have attracted international participation from China, India, Southeast Asia, Europe and Latin America as well as strategic partnerships with industry leaders, governments and other universities around the world. Additional information may be obtained at http://www.stevens.edu and http://www.stevens.edu/news.







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The Net Impact, National Wood Flooring Association (NWFA) Now Offer SEO Packages for Members

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St. Louis, MO (PRWEB) June 19, 2012

The National Wood Flooring Association (NWFA) hopes to better support and further expand their member base with a new program created in conjunction with the web marketing team at The Net Impact, a web strategy company that focuses on SEO, PPC, social media, email marketing and more. As part of the partnership The Net Impact will offer location-specific, group discounted Local Search and Content Distribution packages that decrease in cost after the first year.