Three Days To A New Life

An Oxford woman who was out of work while caring for her sick mother has found a new job - caring for others.

Charlene Mullee, 26, had been searching for a job for 18 months and felt directionless when she went to A4e for help under the Government's new Work Programme.

She was caring for her mother, and also an elderly couple living opposite her - but never realised her caring nature would lead her to job success.

At her first meeting her advisor quickly spotted her potential and organised a Carer training package - which enthusiastic Charlene aced.

However, with an interview at Care UK lined up Charlene began to panic - about not having a suitable outfit to wear to the interview for the job she so desperately wanted.

Advisor Lee Woodley said: "Charlene came to me and explained that she didn't have any interview clothes to wear, and was panicking. I calmed her down and explained that we could help. Charlene was over the moon - she went out that afternoon and bought herself some trousers and a blouse, brought us back the receipt and was grinning from ear to ear."

In her smart new outfit and inspired by the A4e team, Charlene was offered a job on the spot and will begin her new job on the 23rd September.

She said: "I felt down before coming to A4e, my confidence was low where I hadn't been working.

"I am really happy. I had an interview and a job offer within 3 three days of starting at A4e. I now have a job that means I can gain new qualifications - everyone at A4e was friendly and really helpful."

Employment Minister Chris Grayling said:

"This is a great example of how the Work Programme is starting to have a positive impact on the employment prospects of thousands across the region. The new Work Programme is revolutionary in the way it tailors support to jobseekers' needs. People on out-of-work benefits who have previously been shunted from dole queue to training room to dole queue again will now finally be able to access tailored support."

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Producer Edward Bass to Chronicle Life of Serial Killer Belle Gunness

Producer Edward Bass’ Belle Gunness documentary begins principal photography.

"I have begun shooting a documentary on the life of Belle Gunness, as I had just finished penning the screenplay for the feature film," says Bass.

“It has been a while since I did a documentary, I produced Something Less Serious, which was on Its a Mad Mad Mad Mad World in the 90's. It was especially great working with the movie legends Jerry Lewis, Carl Reiner,and Mickey Rooney and late greats like Sid Cesar, Edie Adams, Milton Berle, Arnold Stang, Buddy Hackett, and Norman Fell.

Bass, who was a partner in a Stanley Kramer production, has continued to work on a Mad Mad world sequel with Mrs. Stanley Kramer, since Stanley always maintained sequel and remake rights to his films.

“Interestingly enough, while working with those comedians, who were often depressed, prepared me for the real world of interviewing serial killers and doing the a film about the life of Belle Gunness.”

Belle Gunness, is nothing like the Charlize Theron character in Monster, but like Sharon Stone in Basic Instinct, with a poison pen, rather than an ice pick. Before Craigslist and Facebook, she killed her victims the old fashioned way: using good old fashioned greed and sexual desire. It is believed that she netted almost $1 million dollars from murdering her unsuspecting lovers and disposing their bodies by feeding them to her hungry pigs.

Gunness was the “woman next door”, whose exterior hid a dark secret, a woman with keen entrepreneurial skills highly regarded among the business people in her town. She was a philanthropist who donated money to orphanages and civic projects. At night however she lived a lurid lifestyle of sex, drugs, and alcohol addiction that led to her eventual demise, and she was rumored to have take the lives of hundreds. As people lined up to watch Anthony Hopkins' Hannibal Lecter, Belle has the same appeal and more since she is real..

Alfred Hitchcock’s Shadow of A Doubt classic was a depiction of a small town Santa Rosa, complicit in a serial killer’s crimes. In Belle however, in contrast to the the events in Hitchcock's film, which were fiction, the events in La Porte were real. Here Belle Gunness became the most wealthy woman in Indiana because of her business acumen-- however, as we will see in the film, some of the towns folk’s most prominent citizens were complicit in her crimes. By cleverly absorbing each of her victim’s cash assets, she shrewdly invested their funds into her profitable hog farm, along with bribing or pulling the wool over the town's leading figures.

The town of La Porte has in their county historical society museum, pieces of the Belle Gunness casket that was recently exhumed in an effort to finally determine whether it was Belle who died in a suspicious fire, or someone else. The results were inconclusive and we have joined investigators who are searching for living relatives in Norway. The mystery continues...

Bass is currently set to direct two upcoming films he has penned, including the Belle Gunness story and is executive producer with producing partner Christopher Beatty of Chlorine and Chronicle and James C. Herrmann, with Director Jay Alaimo who Bass launched with Slingshot. His other producing partners have included Sir Anthony Hopkins (Bobby), Kevin Spacey, and Guillermo Del Toro.

Bass has also launched a syndicated column nicknamed, "The Column", is quickly becoming infamous for his satirical “IF I WERE PRESIDENT...” tagline beginning each column. Featured in "Slash Magazine", The Column appears in over 300 publications regularly. His humor is tagged as "a bit over the top", with a Will Rogers sense of irony and controversy.

Bass notes,” As a director I enjoy writing a column and having my own slant, humor and “unedited” views on issues, the auteur in all of us needs a good release!”

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Facebook And Apps For Good Team Up To Offer Young Londoners A Course To Build Social Applications

Facebook and Apps for Good have teamed up to offer young, unemployed 16-25 year olds from across London the chance to learn how to design, code and build social applications via a unique new training course.

The course, which will be delivered by Apps for Good, has been developed and designed by Techlightenment, an Experian company that develops social media social technology. This latest course is designed to offer young people the chance to learn how to build Facebook applications which have a positive social impact on their life and others around them.

Applications are now being sought for the first scheme, which will run for six weeks from October 17th 2011 at the A4e Brixton Vox, a dedicated vocational training centre for young people who are unemployed or out of education.

The course will be taught by some of the UK’s leading Technology names and attendees can expect to learn the basics of web development like HTML 5 as well as more advanced coding such as PHP for more complex apps and SQL for databases. Participants will be guided through how to design, create, test, release, evaluate and maintain their own Facebook application before presenting their social applications to industry experts during a graduation ceremony in November.

Previous experience in coding is not necessary but applicants will need to demonstrate that they are passionate about using social media to solve social problems and ideally have some basic html knowledge. If you would like to know more about how to take part in scheme please visit: www.facebook.com/brixtonvox

Richard Allan, Director of Policy of Facebook in Europe said: “Facebook is proud to work with Apps for Good to create a course which has the potential to help young people improve their entrepreneurial skills, employability and technological understanding while building tools, apps and services that could transform the society we live in’

Iris Lapinski, CEO of Apps for Good said ‘We are very excited about the Apps for Good partnership with Facebook which goes right to the heart of how young people use technology today. The course will allow them to create Facebook applications that address social and community problems they are passionate about in a truly bottom-up way.’

Gi Fernando, CEO and co-founder of Techlightenment said:

“The framework that Apps for Good creates will provide young people with the skills to build social media applications and develop their overall business acumen, giving them a head start in whatever their career aspirations may be."

Tom Godfrey, Partnerships Director at A4e said: “The A4e Brixton VOX is an ideal setting for the Facebook-Apps For Good course, as we are dedicated to supporting young people into employability through vocational skills training. We look forward to seeing the positive impact creating social applications will have on both the students themselves and their wider communities.

Over the coming months the details of the ‘Facebook/Apps for Good’ course will be made available to developers and educators across the globe, via the Apps for Good online platform to enable the scheme to be replicated across the world.

Facebook and Techlightenment will also join the Apps for Goods expert community along side a range of technology companies such as Dell and Thomson Reuters, helping young people on the Apps for Good courses across the UK with their app ideas.

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Control Panel Designers Quantum Design launches its new Control Panels Direct website

As a first mover in the automation controls and integration market, Quantum Design has launched a new ecommerce website at www.ControlPanelsDirect.com that will offer control panels for sale. These high quality turn-key solutions can be shipped directly to the customer and additional support can be provided based on the needs of the purchase.

“In the spirit of continually revolutionizing our business model, Quantum Design is riding the wave of ecommerce acceptance in the B2B world by launching the Control Panels Direct website, which will offer various control panel configurations as well as spare parts. Although ecommerce has been around for years, in our industry it’s just starting to become a reality," said Michael Garza, Interactive Communications Manager for Quantum Design.

The new ecommerce website provides an easy to use secure payment system, navigation bar and quick links for easy access to shopping cart content. Buyers will be able to register their information and use credit cards or a bank transfer to make purchases. As part of a comprehensive solution, all transactions are verified by a sales professional whose goal is to answer any questions and to provide a direct point of contact for the buyer. The new website will continue to evolve integrating new turn-key control panel solutions and other useful information for site visitors to aid in their control panel purchase.

Typically a complex type of sale, the control panels that will be available through the website are standard panel builds that can be configured for any environment. And, with a staff of engineers available Quantum can provide a level of support above and beyond the purchase of the control panel alone. The control panels will be available in various enclosure material types, colors, sizes and components to offer the widest variety of selections.

As a solutions provider, Quantum Design offers only the highest quality control panels that utilize only the best part OEM’s and quality assembly process standards. Offering control panel assembly and design solutions for over 25 years has been a cornerstone to the overall business model of Quantum Design and the new ecommerce website will act as an extension of the control panel solutions they provide.

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Advanced Cardio Services Provides a More Convenient and Effective Way to Monitor Patients PT/INR

Thanks to a new sister company of Advanced Diabetes Supply, patients no longer have to worry about driving to the lab every month or wonder if they are within their therapeutic range. That is because Advanced Cardio Services enables patients to check their PT/INR levels weekly at home with a simple finger stick. Using a meter, identical to ones found in the doctor’s office or Coumadin clinic, the patient performs a self-test and is given results within seconds. Next, the results are phoned into an automated phone system where they are instantaneously saved and faxed to the doctor’s office for interpretation. The whole process takes only a matter of minutes saving the patient time and money, while giving them security in knowing they are within range.

Medicare expanded coverage of weekly home INR testing in 2008 from patients with Mechanical heart valves to include patients with Atrial Fibrillation, DVT, and Pulmonary Embolism. Most private insurance companies cover the service leaving the patient with little or no costs. “Through our program a patient can take control of their health by monitoring their Coumadin therapy more closely and safely than traditional monthly testing. Studies have found that weekly self-testing can decrease the risk of Stroke by 55%, Major Hemorrhaging by 35%, and Death by 39%. Those numbers are way too big to think weekly testing doesn’t make a difference and we aim to help as many people as we can,” says the spokesperson for Advanced Cardio Services.

Advanced Cardio Services also provides the patient with in depth training, so they are completely comfortable using the meter. Training is done by a certified trainer in the patient’s home or at Advanced Cardio Services’ state of the art facility located in Carlsbad California, across from Palomar Airport. Following training, the patient leaves with a professional quality CoaguChek XS meter kit, test strips, and lancets. Once a month, Advanced Cardio Services ships more test strips and lancets directly to the patient’s home at no cost.

The Advanced Cardio Services’ website helps patients gain a better understanding of home INR testing and the associated benefits. There they can fill out the online request form or contact Advanced Cardio Services over the phone to start the process and Advanced Cardio Services will take care of the rest.

About Advanced Cardio Services: Owned by Tim Cady and Mark Howard.

For more information, visit: http://www.advancedcardioservices.com

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#1 WordPress Optimization Company is Selling Website on Flippa!

Top ranked WordPress SEO company is selling their website, after putting years of SEO & link building into it. WordPress optimization (or SEO for WordPress) is a growing service that many companies are finding themselves needing more and more. Nowadays, a basic SEO company doesn’t know how to fully utilize the benefits and features or the WordPress platform. Many webmasters and corporations are looking for WordPress experts to help them manage their websites built on WordPress, blog or not.

Optimizationable.com is the leader in WordPress optimization and is Google’s #1 WordPress optimization expert. The domain has well over 50 WordPress and blog related terms on the 1st page of Google and 100’s if not thousands on the next few pages. Everyday someone asks Optimizationable.com for SEO help, tips or advice on how to make the most of their WordPress site.

Several years ago Optmizationable.com offered extremely effective WordPress SEO packages that sold very well. They even still have the client testimonials to prove going with Optimizationable.com is the best route to go if your website is on the WordPress Platform.

If you are an SEO company, a WordPress developer/programmer, or online marketing package provider, Optimizationable.com is just right for you. Start getting additional leads from established bloggers and companies with websites built on WordPress. Since Optimizationable.com possesses prime #1 Google, Yahoo & Bing positions for great terms, the conversion rates and CTR are great for leads, sales and branding.

If you are interested in buying Optimizationable.com or learning more about the domain auction, visit FLippa.com https://flippa.com/2640191-1-ranked-wordpress-optimization-expert-selling-site-with-many-google-rankings

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Eyeflow LLC - Tech 50 Finalist!

The highly respected committee, The Pittsburgh Technology Council recognized and announced Eyeflow LLC as a finalist for the prestigious and highly vied for Information Technology Company of the Year. The competing companies engaged in the competition specialize in computer programming, software development, software testing and coding, Internet, Information Technology and telecommunications products or services.

Eyeflow Internet Marketing LLC is owned by the well respected Internet marketer Phil Laboon, who has always been known as the “entrepreneur with an eye for ability and perfection”. Phil Laboon has helped businesses of all sizes “grow and flourish” with his never failing strategies customized to suit the needs of every company that has an online presence and hence requires the Search Engine –based strategies to “increase their internet sales and to grow their popularity bases for sustainability and growth for a long time to come” . The reason the success of Eyeflow LLC is its customer oriented service – it offers strategies for growth and expansion of online based companies, and the companies which have been its clients have witnessed success.

Eyeflow had started with a vision – to make online businesses successful with Search Engine Optimized products and other marketing techniques. Its journey from being a small unit, home- based SEO consulting company to a full-scale Internet Marketing powerhouse which provides comprehensive marketing solution packages for its clients.

The Search Engine Optimization packages proposed by Eyeflow LLC can fit any size business's budget bracket to provide Internet Marketing to help customers find them online.

One can contact Eyeflow LLC on their official website, http://www.eyeflow.com/. Eyeflow LLC is based in Southside, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

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