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Web of Compassion, Inc, a Princeton-based non-profit organization, with its slogan, “DANCE 4 GOOD”, spearheads a fund raiser, bringing together salsa dance professionals, teachers, and musicians to support victims of the recent devastating four near-simultaneous calamities in Asia Pacific- typhoon Ketsana with its torrential rains flooding Philippines and Vietnam in South East Asia, and a strong earthquake followed by a tsunami in American Samoan islands. The calamities have taken lives from across the region and have deeply sowed destructions of properties, economic hardships, devastations and chaos. The struggles continue as the floods remain until now. The disaster preparedness of government and non-government humanitarian groups is being tested as the challenges seem to be insurmountable. Mobilization for help across the globe is being sought.

Go the Distance for Autism announced that the ELIJA School and STRIVE COMMUNITY will each receive $7,500 to develop behavioral education programs for individuals with autism. New York and New Jersey organizations serving the autism community were eligible to apply for this competitive grant.

New Jersey’s First Lady Mary Pat Christie has voiced her support of Go the Distance for Autism by becoming Honorary Co-Chair of the May 5 bike event. The First Lady has taken a leading role in embracing autism awareness since 2011, focusing many of her efforts on highlighting the innovative work being done by organizations throughout the state to help learners with autism and their families. Governor Christie and his Administration are committed to finding new and innovative ways to help New Jersey families impacted by autism.

PharmaHelps™ Network, the consortium for pharmaceutical brands that actively support and assist the patient, provider and healthcare community, announced the debut of its new patient support tool, RxCuris.com. Designed as a one-stop shop for all patient types and disease types, RxCruis is a free anonymous information tool with the most comprehensive support and assistance information available for patients. The free RxCuris search engine delivers a highly customized output for the user without requiring disclosure of any personal information. RxCuris.com is uniquely designed not only to assist physicians and patients by delivering patient centric information in one location. A health care provider or any other patient advocate may access the site themselves or refer patients directly to the site for the patients' use.

Hotel and restaurant supplies were delivered to two needy community agencies after Super Storm Sandy hit the East Coast in late October, thanks to a New Jersey-based restaurant supply company.

CareTemp Heating and Air Conditioning L.L.C. will now service, install, and maintain all makes and models of air conditioning products in NJ. Giving its customers more convenience than other HVAC companies, CareTemp provides 24 hours, 7 days a week emergency service and replacements. CareTemp is represented by customers in Manalapan, Manasquan, Point Pleasant, Toms River, Monmouth and Ocean County, NJ.

Five Star Painting has just announced that they are now offering New Hope commercial painters for offices in an around New Hope, PA. It may sound a bit bizarre, but the color of a person’s office usually affects the way that the person runs his or her business. It is imperative that a business owner surround his or herself and employees with colors that promote energy, creativity, hard work, and hint of relaxation. But what colors promote productivity without being too distracting? Rest assured that these commercial painters in Lambertville know.

Five Star Painting Inc., a house painting contractor provides nearly any type of painting and dry wall repair service that a customer may require including; interior painting, historical painting, faux painting, exterior painting, fire-proofing drywall procedures, drywall moisture, damage repair, popcorn ceiling removal, and stucco work repair. Five Star Painting handles the job from start to finish and they also have the option to work with a designer or architect to achieve the perfect interior vision for the client.

Judy Lindenberger "gets" leadership. She is a rare coach and trainer capable of coupling personal growth with professional development, which is why top companies and individuals invite her to work with them.

The Lindenberger Group provides the best-in-class human resource consulting and leadership training programs that give individuals and organizations lasting, breakthrough results.

The manufacturing community in the Garden State no longer has to settle as the 'little brother' of New York as far as AMSN is concerned. Today, the company released its plans to bring work to manufacturers in New Jersey specializing in sheet metal fabrication, precision machining, and custom machined parts at mfgpartners.net/custom-machined-parts During the introduction of its latest members, AMSN announced its marketing campaign to help businesses all over New Jersey find, compare and hire local machining, fabricating and molding specialists.

phati'tude Literary Magazine publishes long-awaited Latino issue, ¿WHAT’S IN A NOMBRE? underscoring the important contribution of Latino writers in American literature

CashAdvance.com announces the addition of a new Loan Process page to its consumer-lending site. The new page serves as an online resource for New Jersey consumers who may be considering a cash advance as a means of stopgap funding between paychecks. Despite signs of economic recovery, many families in New Jersey are still struggling to make ends meet. The new Loan Process page is meant to help prospective borrowers understand the pros and cons of a short-term loan.

In order to differentiate the good from the bad among the payday loan industry, CashAdvance.com has launched a consumer protection page that will teach New Jersey residents how to determine legitimate payday loan entities versus shady lenders. Through the new consumer protection page, individuals will be able to learn more about the cash advance industry and how to protect themselves from con artists.

With all the different models, options and features offered by countless energy management systems, an energy efficiency project installing 65,000 wireless nodes at the Wynn Hotel & Casino warrants a closer look. Almost every lighting and climate control device in the 2,716 rooms were replaced by Evolve Guest Control.

Entourage Yearbooks is proud to announce their partnership with the preeminent school photography company Cameleo Photography. Why create the yearbook yourself when you can trust Entourage and Cameleo for all yearbook needs. Entourage is very happy with their partnership with Cameleo because it combines two great companies and will make the yearbook and school photography experience easier and better than before.

For most Internet marketing gurus, the use of Internet marketing and social networking sites has been a secret weapon. As a hotel operator or owner, you will agree that it is always necessary to develop your and increase business. With the internet and all the new technologies connecting green hotels directly to customers, creating an internet marketing strategy and utilizing social network platforms is essential to reaching your target market. Social networking is a great tool to improve the performance of your hotel’s green marketing strategy.

Indyz Inc, a US-based mobile solutions firm specializing in Mobile and M2M Commerce, has announced the launch of their newly-developed iPhone application for international mobile top-up, Utilizing the established airtime processing platform of Prepay Nation, one of the leading providers of instant account refills for international mobile operators, the new application, Minutes TopUp, will enable members of expatriate diasporas around the world to purchase and instantly send prepaid mobile minutes to their friends and families back home, using the simple and intuitive Minutes TopUp interface. Currently available on the iPhone, the application will be available on other platforms such as Android, Blackberry, and Facebook, as well as via SMS (Text messaging) and various instant messenger services.

Over the past several years I have walked through a hundred hotels as part of our E2A Program (Energy Efficiency Analysis) always looking for opportunities that the EGH Team can present solutions for. In nearly90% of hotels we have evaluated, we have seen managements efforts to rid the property of incandescent and halogen lighting to reduce energy usage. One challenge faced during this process is finding the right dimmable down lights.

The difficult part of any energy conservation project is to balance the investment costs and potential cost savings with out exceeding a limited budget. EcoGreenHotel’s recommendations for this project all provided reasonable payback periods while delivering above average cost savings. Two of the most effective solutions implemented were the Guest Room Energy Management System and an Ozone Laundry system.

EcoGreenHotel, a sustainability and energy services company, has been selected as an accredited sustainability partner to the National Purchasing Network (NPN), a hotel purchasing consortium, to provide guidance on green products, energy solutions and sustainability services and advice to NPN’s customer base across the hospitality spectrum that includes hotels, resorts, golf courses, restaurants and nightclubs.

What would you do if you could reduce your monthly fuel cost by 70% for the hotel shuttle van? In our August newsletter EcoGreenHotel detailed the progress toward creating a nationwide infrastructure for electric vehicles to be driven on a large scale. The September newsletter detailed how hotels can increase their revenue by being part of a regional approach to electric vehicle introduction. This month we are going to detail how an electric vehicle can dramatically reduce a green hotel’s shuttle fleet operation costs.

As the saying goes, one person’s trash is another person’s treasure. But it can be dfficult to figure out “how” for a hotel business. With standard hotel operations being wasteful, there are numerous opportunities for hotels to not only reduce their own waste and associated hauling costs, but also help contribute to their communities whether it be local or international.

Energy-efficiency and sustainability services firm, EcoGreenHotel LLC, recently named Chris Lewis the Director of Energy Solutions. In this role, Lewiswill be responsible for managing all strategic hotel energy projects and advancing innovative green solutions to help clients reduce their environmental impact and operational costs.

The race continues as hotels strive to one-up their competition. In January we had published an investigative article on green hotel certifications exploring various anglesof “why certify” and details of major certification programs. As the number of green certification programs continues to grow, we want to revisit some of the prominent certifications that continue to lead the hospitality lodging industry on the green trend.

Ten years ago a business traveler looking for green lodging options would have to search long and hard for accommodations that offered in-room recycling, linen re-use programs, energy efficient light blubs, and water saving fixtures. Five years ago “certified green” hotels were tiny blips on the traveling public‘s radar.