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Sunday, December 20, 2009

Ride the Latest Jobs Boom to Success

If you apperceive what you ambition -- and why you ambition it -- you can ride the accepted jobs bang to success, says specialist application agency Hays.

Sydney, NSW -- Candidates can ride the accepted jobs bang to success, provided you apperceive what you ambition and why you ambition it, says specialist recruitment agency Hays.

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The accepted job bazaar is booming, with unemployment low and appeal for candidates high With all this indecisiveness, it's no admiration acceptable humans end up in the amiss organisations or positions! If you are accepting told you are overqualified or don't accept abundant acquaintance for the roles you are applying for, you are apparently applying for the amiss jobs Given the accepted absolute labour market, there has never been a bigger time to map your career and crop advantage of the top akin of abstraction action to get to area you ultimately ambition to be "The accepted job bazaar is booming, with unemployment low and appeal for candidates high," said Darren Buchanan, Director of Hays. "In such a bazaar candidates should be able to advanced their career and accretion a allusive and acceptable position accompanying to their abilities and experience.

"Yet far too generally we still apprehend candidates say they are black in their accepted role. When asked about the reasons, they accept to accepting an action because the salary was college than addition abstraction or because they capital to move from a antecedent position bound and didn't crop the time to analysis the ambit of opportunities available. Others say they are award their seek bootless or frustrating, but again accept they accept been about applying for vacancies because they absolutely don't apperceive what they are analytic for. These candidates generally say: 'I'm analytic for anything'.

"With all this indecisiveness, it's no admiration acceptable humans end up in the amiss organisations or positions! If you are accepting told you are overqualified or don't accept abundant acquaintance for the roles you are applying for, you are apparently applying for the amiss jobs," advises Darren.

"The best way to ride a jobs bang is to ensure that you crop advantage of the amount of jobs accessible to advance your career in the administration you ultimately ambition to pursue. The accepted bazaar presents job seekers with an ideal befalling to actuate absolutely what they ambition to accomplish in their career, and again accompany an befalling that will acquiesce them to ultimately accomplish it. This requires accuracy on the allotment of the job appellant to apperceive absolutely what they want, and a bright plan of action to seek for the role that will advanced their career in the adapted direction."

According to Hays you should actuate area you ambition to be in 5 and ten years time, and seek out the jobs that will accredit you to plan appear this goal. "Given the accepted absolute labour market, there has never been a bigger time to map your career and crop advantage of the top akin of abstraction action to get to area you ultimately ambition to be," said Darren.

To altercate your career direction, alarm your bounded Hays appointment or appointment www.hays.com.au

New Website and Blog ample a Media Gap by answer Life's Interconnections

"The Interconnection of Life is no best just the affair of mystics, philosophers and scientists. Technology has fabricated it an certain actuality of our lives." The alternation of news, cultures, economics, politics, ambiance etc. has created a complex, multi-level Global Village. However, our leaders and institutions, including Media, are still geared appear the abbreviate term, linear, specialized and particular, abnormally accustomed the demands of the News Cycle. Discussion is still overwhelmingly single-issue and polarized, with two (balanced) abandon to anniversary issue, which is simplistic and dumbs down discussion. There is no boilerplate Vision above the how to advance Consumer Society. This abortion of administration includes both politicians and the Media, added acquiescent to the dictates of accumulated concentration. The Interconnection of Life is no best just the affair of mystics, philosophers and scientists. Technology has fabricated it an certain actuality of our lives. Humanity's present crises are not acquired by curtailment - of resources, advice or ability - but because it has accepted as motivation, abhorrence and greed, rather than amends and compassionate cooperation

-- The ablution of Andy James' new website and blog are advised to advice body a analytical accumulation of alertness which recognizes the actuality of Interconnection and Oneness and explores its applied appliance in all aspects of our lives.

"Humanity's present crises are not acquired by curtailment - of resources, advice or ability - but because it has accepted as motivation, abhorrence and greed, rather than amends and compassionate cooperation".
Shifu Andy James

Society will not fundamentally change if individuals don't change. In allowance draw absorption to this fact, Andy has been alive as a Co-director of the Forge Institute's Call to Global Spiritual Citizenship project, a collaborative accomplishment of internationally acclaimed airy agents and leaders.

James' avant-garde blogs will accompany a abundant bare chip and multi-level angle to accepted contest and analyze questions that absolutely charge asking: What is the account of Consumer Society in an era of bound assets and exploding populations? How can individuals and societies accomplish the abolitionist about-face all-important to accouterment our accepted all-around problems? Why are we so arrogant and afraid to change? Should civil action be abstracted from "morality" and are accepted religious organizations the best guides in this matter? Has 9/11 adulterated American and apple priorities?

Andy is an internationally acclaimed teacher, healer and author, specializing in mind-body bloom and the transformation of behaviour and consciousness. He is the Founder of Tai Chi & Meditation Centre and Harmony Dawn acceptable activity retreat centre. His aboriginal activity as a Chartered Accountant gives him biting acumen into the accumulated and business world. He has lived as allotment of a arresting (Chinese) boyhood in both developed and arrested countries - Guyana, England and Canada.

His three books on assorted aspects of adherence are: The Conscious I: Clarity and Direction through Meditation, Ageless Wisdom Spirituality: Investing in Human Evolution, The Spiritual Legacy of Shaolin Temple: Buddhism, Daoism and the Energetic Arts.

James lives in Canada, teaching and administering workshops and lectures on a array of mind-body capacity absorption on the assorted Dynamics of Interconnection - aural individuals, aural society, and amid individuals and society. His allowance is his adeptness to accomplish faculty of acutely diverse, alone facts and occurrences and cut through to the essentials.

Contact: Harmony Dawn retreat centre or by phone, 705-696-2066

Penguin Releases Everything Bad is Good For You by Steven Johnson

Penguin has just appear Everything Bad is Good For - How accepted ability is authoritative us smarter by Steven Johnson.

-- Should we feel accusable for absolution our kids (or ourselves!) play Grand Theft Auto instead of socialising or reading? Are our accuracy traveling bendable on a diet of soap operas? Has absoluteness TV angry us into voyeurs? Are we absolutely accepting dumbed down by accepted culture?

No. Steven Johnson, columnist of the US atypical Mind Wide Open, takes a able admixture of economics, anecdotal theories, technology, neuroscience – and a continued harder attending at accepted ability – to about-face all these worries about it on their heads. Over the endure thirty years the accretion composure of accepted ability has paid assets in our brainy agility, connectivity and even IQs.

Take absoluteness TV and video games. Players accept to break problems and accomplish both breeze judgements and abiding strategies. They have to ascertain the rules and banned of their artificial worlds by testing them with accurate hypotheses. Video-games are a bookish test, while absoluteness TV develops ‘emotional intelligence’. Tellingly, analysis array that clue the affectionate of aqueous intelligence appropriate by amateur accept been ascent steadily in a lot of automated societies for the accomplished thirty years.

Compared to the simple plotlines of Starsky and Hutch, say, Sopranos admirers accept to plan out the artifice not alone from on-screen contest from about eight anecdotal threads, but aswell from what hasn’t been shown, and from references to contest from added episodes. We can watch it afresh if we charge to. The Internet allows us to altercate the key to a video-game, or plot-twist in a TV series, with a huge on-line community.

Everything Bad Is Good For You (http://www.penguin.co.uk/nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,0_0141018682,00.html)has adapted the agitation on accepted culture. For Johnson, compassionate the accent of accepted ability agency recognising that our real-life adeptness to analyse and problem-solve has improved. It agency parents charge not be abashed that their children’s accuracy are atrophying. And it agency that our accuracy are alive rather hard. Pass the remote.

Steven Johnson is the columnist of the US bestseller, Mind Wide Open and Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities and Software. He has accounting for the New Yorker, The Guardian and The Nation and teaches on New York University’s Interactive Telecommunications Program.

Press Contact:
Penelope Vogler, 020 7010 3253

See Steven Johnson’s blog on http://www.stevenberlinjohnson.com

For added advice on Penguin Books go to http://www.penguin.co.uk

About penguin:
2001 saw Penguin books (http://www.penguin.co.uk ) affective to its accepted home at 80 Strand in Central London. Today the aggregation has offices in fifteen countries - from Penguin US (formed in 1939) to Penguin Ireland (opened in 2003) - and keeps added than 5,000 altered titles in book at any time. In the twenty-first aeon the Penguin Group can baby for every date of a reader's lifetime, with books from Dorling Kindersley, Frederick Warne, Ladybird, Penguin, Puffin and Rough Guides, authoritative Penguin the home of reading.

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Kingston, Ontario Historic Bed & Breakfast Becomes Sought After Tourist Destination

It has been a added contempo abnormality that Kingston is captivation its own as a accepted area for adventurous couples to participate in off-season break vacations.

-- Niagara-on-the-Lake has continued been accepted as the bed and breakfast break basic of Ontario. Not too continued ago, Kingston was best accepted for its federal penitentiary and for one of the country’s top column accessory institutions, Queens University (www.queensu.ca). However, the City of Kingston afresh became accepted for their bed and breakfast adventurous break destinations.

Kingston offers a abundant accord of cultural and actual diversity; authoritative it a absolute hot-spot for tourists. The History of Kingston (www.kingston-ontario.com) goes aback to the 1600’s if aboriginal French settlers came to the across as allotment of the fur trade. The acme of able-bodied preserved history has fabricated Kingston a accepted day-tripper destination.

While Kingston (www.cityofkingston.ca) was consistently a accepted abyssal hub during the summer division if such contest as the acclaimed Cork sailing regatta and Old Fort Henry accompany in flocks of touring families and couples, it has been a added contempo abnormality that Kingston is captivation its own as a accepted area for adventurous couples to participate in off-season break vacations.

Due to the well-preserved history of Kingston Ontario, tourists about favor celebrated bed and breakfast inns. The Hochelega Inn (www.hochelagainn.com) offers just what tourists are analytic for--luxurious accommodation and ambrosial breakfasts in a admirable ambience of actuality and above of canicule gone by. Because this Ontario B & B is amid in the affection of celebrated Kingston, city restaurants, museums, art galleries, shopping, accomplished dining, and Kingston’s admirable beach are adjacent to agitate the interests of any visitor.

“People adulation the attitude of the Inn and they’re fatigued to Kingston because few Canadian cities accept preserved their celebrated roots to the amount Kingston has” says Anne Boyd, buyer of the Hochelaga Inn. Kingston has a actual top day-tripper acknowledgment amount because guests adore all that Kingston Ontario inns accept to offer. “A actual top allotment of our bed and breakfast audience acknowledgment several times per year, and abounding accompany accompany alternating on consecutive visits”, adds Boyd. It’s not any one affair that makes Kingston such a accepted day-tripper area. It is a aggregate of architecture, history, bizarre retail businesses, aces dining, august old accommodation based Kingston Ontario B & B’s, and a active waterfront.

A few years ago, Kingston was a apple-pie secret, a abode with the atmosphere and ability of Niagara-on-the-Lake, but was not able-bodied accepted as a day-tripper destination. However, association and businesses of Kingston accept opened their hearts to tourism and accept accepted itself as the primary bread-and-butter disciplinarian in the community.

“We accept noticed a big change in the endure few years, and we’re even seeing added guests from Europe who accept apparent Kingston and the surrounding Thousand Islands day-tripper region,” says one of Kingston’s continued time bounded residents.

To apprentice added about the Hochelega Inn, one of Kingston, Ontario’s best and a lot of apparent celebrated bed and breakfast, amuse appointment www.hochelagainn.com or alarm (613) 549-5534. The affable personnel, adjacency to city attractions, and acquaintance and affluence associated with this Kingston Ontario inn are abiding to accomplish your next vacation memorable.

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Hurdle Signs On as National Celebrity Spokesperson for Prader-Willi Syndrome Awareness Week 2006

Clint Hurdle, Manager of the Colorado Rockies Baseball team, has clearly active on as the civic celebrity agent for PWS Awareness Week which is from April 30 – May 6, 2006. PWS Awareness Week is a accessible apprenticeship action to access acquaintance of Prader-Willi affection (PWS) and save lives. PWS is the a lot of accepted accepted abiogenetic could cause of life-threatening blubber and accepted estimations amount that up to 80% of babies who accept PWS in the United States go undiagnosed because abounding doctors do not apperceive the affection and how to analysis for it. Hurdle’s own three-year-old babe has PWS.

Sarasota, FL April 26, 2006 -— Clint Hurdle, Manager of the Colorado Rockies Baseball team, has clearly active on as the civic celebrity agent for PWS Awareness Week which is from April 30 – May 6, 2006. PWS Awareness Week is a accessible apprenticeship action to access acquaintance of Prader-Willi affection (PWS) and save lives. PWS is the a lot of accepted accepted abiogenetic could cause of life-threatening blubber and accepted estimations amount that up to 80% of babies who accept PWS in the United States go undiagnosed because abounding doctors do not apperceive the affection and how to analysis for it. Hurdle’s own three-year-old babe has PWS.

Prader-Willi Syndrome Association (USA) (PWSA (USA)) launched PWS Awareness Week, consistently the aboriginal anniversary in May, in an accomplishment to ability individuals who are disturbing aback with PWS and medical cadre who are in a position to accomplish a PWS diagnosis. Along with PWSA (USA), chapters, families, and professionals from about the nation will appoint in grassroots efforts, planning events, contacting media and political representatives, and administering PWS apprenticeship trainings, to added advance acquaintance of PWS.

“Awareness and aboriginal apprenticeship can anticipate obesity-related deaths and years of abreast and affecting agony to the ancestors and child,” said Janalee Heinemann, controlling administrator of PWSA (USA). “We are aflame that Clint Hurdle has agreed to crop a beat to accession the accessible alertness of this little accepted and austere syndrome. Awareness is key to extenuative lives and even bags of dollars a year in medical costs for anniversary child,” she added.

PWS is a circuitous affection affecting appetite, growth, metabolism, cerebral action and behavior. The authentication characteristics of PWS that about activate about age three to 5 cover an clamorous appetence that cannot apprentice to be controlled because of a dysfunction of the hypothalamus in the academician and accelerated weight accretion on few calories because of a adulterated metabolic system. Ironically, babies about appearance no absorption in bistro and accept adversity sucking in what is accepted as "failure to thrive" stage. Those with PWS charge austere alien controls, including padlocking acceptance to food, to advance accustomed weight and life-saving intervention. Children as adolescent as three accept died of weight accompanying problems.

It is estimated that PWS affects one in 12,000 to 15,000 births, not including those who become PWS-like afterwards bearing as a aftereffect of academician abrasion or trauma. The affection affects both males and females and all aboriginal groups. Currently there is no cure and to date, no medications or procedures are acknowledged in staving off the adamant hunger. However, advance hormone has been able in accretion height, convalescent anatomy accumulation and metabolism, and advocacy backbone and energy.

In accession to his role as PWS Awareness Week National Celebrity Spokesperson, Hurdle and his wife, Karla, appear that they will accord $100 for every Rockies win this division to the “Win for Kids” program, a collective alms accomplishment of the Colorado Rockies and Fox Sports Net Rocky Mountain, whereby their donation will be breach analogously amid The Children's Hospital in Denver and the Prader-Willi Syndrome Association. The Rockies and FSN Rocky Mountain are auspicious admirers to abutment the accomplishment and agreement at atomic $1 per Rockies win this season. All gain will go anon to the non-profits, and the Rockies Foundation will bout all pledges.

The Prader-Willi Syndrome Association (USA) is the alone civic associates alignment that helps accouchement and adults with PWS and their families through every date of activity in the United States and is a 501(c)(3) charity. It was formed in 1975 to accommodate a car of advice for parents, professionals, and added absorbed citizens. Headquartered in Sarasota, FL, the alignment supports, educates, advocates and funds analysis for PWS. Hospitals, physicians, and parents from all over the apple argue with PWSA (USA) with medical emergencies and questions daily.

For added advice about PWS or to accomplish a donation, amuse acquaintance PWSA (USA) toll-free at (800) 926-4797 or (941) 312-0400 or appointment their Web website at www.pwsausa.org.

Contact Information:
Janalee Heinemann
Executive Director
PWSA (USA)
941-312-0400; 800-926-4797
www.pwsausa.org

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Pet Sitters International Launches Accreditation Recertification Program

Professional pet sitters appearance advancing adherence to an ever-changing profession Being accepted gives barter an added amount of aplomb that they are allotment the appropriate babysitter to affliction for their pets In an industry that has so abounding 'fly by nights' I anticipate it's important to set yourself aloft the antagonism by assuming you are accommodating to go the added mile to prove yourself as a professional. Right away, humans crop apprehension of my accepted status Many of my audience accept told me that it shows that I am absolutely committed to my profession and to always furthering my education.

King, NC -- Pet Sitters International (PSI), the world's better educational affiliation for able pet sitters, has launched its Accreditation Recertification Program.

The recertification affairs requires all accepted associates to recertify every three years by accumulating 30 Approved Credit Units (ACUs). ACUs can be becoming through PSI-designated continuing education, pet aboriginal aid courses, publishing, events, seminars and association service.

Julia Love, buyer of Doggies & Moggies Pet Services in the United Kingdom, is an accepted PSI affiliate who affairs on recertifying because it enables her to accommodate the best affliction for her client's pets.

"Being accepted gives barter an added amount of aplomb that they are allotment the appropriate babysitter to affliction for their pets," said Love. "In an industry that has so abounding 'fly by nights' I anticipate it's important to set yourself aloft the antagonism by assuming you are accommodating to go the added mile to prove yourself as a professional."

PSI created the country's aboriginal accreditation affairs for pet sitters in 1995, which was revised in 2005. There is no added advance of abstraction accessible that compares to the agreeable of PSI's accreditation curriculum. The coursework covers caring for assorted breed of pets, business and appointment procedures, bloom and diet for the a lot of accepted accompaniment animals and added casework that abounding pet-sitting casework action to their clients.

Christie Joy, buyer of Treasured Pets in Texas, feels the PSI Accreditation Program is actual absolute and covers the spectrum of pet sitting and baby business topics, as able-bodied as complementing the pet-sitting industry.

Being an accepted pet babysitter has been acutely amiable to Joy's pet-sitting business. She is not the alone pet babysitter in her area, but she is the alone accepted one. Joy says this not alone gives her a aggressive advantage, but it aswell gives her audience aplomb in her.

"Right away, humans crop apprehension of my accepted status," said Joy. "Many of my audience accept told me that it shows that I am absolutely committed to my profession and to always furthering my education."

PSI is committed to educating able pet sitters and promoting, acknowledging and acquainted arete in pet sitting. More advice on PSI and its accreditation affairs can be begin at petsit.com.

About Pet Sitters International
Established in 1994, Pet Sitters International (PSI) is the world's better educational affiliation for able pet sitters, apery added than 8,000 absolute able pet-sitting businesses in the United States, Canada and abroad. PSI provides associates with acceptance to affordable bonding and accountability allowance and educational assets such as PSI's Accreditation Program, The Pet Sitter's WORLD annual and PSI's anniversary Quest convention. PSI provides pet owners with The Pet Owner's WORLD annual and thepetsitblog.com. For added information, appointment www.petsit.com, home of the Official Pet Sitter Locator™ or appointment the PSIStoreOnline to baddest from added than 2,000 pet babysitter and pet buyer products.

Contact: Courtney Klein
Phone: (336) 983-9222 ext. 318

Contact: Terry Chance
Phone (336) 983-9222 ext. 314

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Growing Interest in Sustainable Agriculture Standard- Deadline for Standards Committee Applications Extended to May 23, 2008

Since September 2007, Leonardo Academy has been announcement acquaintance of the development action of the Draft American National Standard for Trail Use for Sustainable Agriculture Practice, advised for consecutive approval as an American National Standard. National affairs accept been captivated in Berkeley, California and Arlington, Virginia, in accession to three civic teleconferences, to acquaint absorbed parties and stakeholders about this accepted development process. Due to accretion absorption in the development of this accepted afterward the February 29, 2008 affair in Arlington, Leonardo Academy has absitively to extend the borderline for applications for the accepted development board to May 23, 2008. This addendum has been implemented based on abundant requests to acquiesce time for added stakeholders to abide applications to participate on the accepted development board and/or acknowledging subcommittees.

Madison, WI -- Since September 2007, Leonardo Academy has been announcement acquaintance of the development action of the Draft American National Standard for Trail Use for Sustainable Agriculture Practice, advised for consecutive approval as an American National Standard. National affairs accept been captivated in Berkeley, California and Arlington, Virginia, in accession to three civic teleconferences, to acquaint absorbed parties and stakeholders about this accepted development process. Due to accretion absorption in the development of this accepted afterward the February 29, 2008 affair in Arlington, Leonardo Academy has absitively to extend the borderline for applications for the accepted development board to May 23, 2008. This addendum has been implemented based on abundant requests to acquiesce time for added stakeholders to abide applications to participate on the accepted development board and/or acknowledging subcommittees.

Purpose of Developing a Standard for Sustainable Agriculture Practice
The Sustainable Agriculture Practice Standard is accepting developed in acknowledgment to ascent absorption in practicing, defining, standardizing, and certifying acceptable agriculture. Establishing a civic accepted for acceptable agronomics practices has the befalling to serve abounding purposes, including:

The Draft American Standard for Trial Use: Sustainable Agriculture Practice for Food Fiber and Biofuel Crop Producers and Agricultural Product Handlers and Processors (SCS-001):
This abstract accepted for balloon use was appear in the bounce of 2007. Within the ANSI process, a abstract accepted for balloon use represents a beginning, not an end. It serves as a starting point from which stakeholder discussions can appear and is advised to activate chat on key issues, such as the assorted interpretations of sustainability as it applies to agriculture, which have to be addressed in adjustment to authorize a accomplished American National Standard for Sustainable Agriculture Practice.

The Standards Committee can change any basic of the abstract accepted in the action to authorize a final abstract standard, which will be accountable to accessible analysis and animadversion by added materially afflicted parties. The Standards Committee will adjudge how to ascertain acceptable agronomics practices aural the ambit of this standard, as able-bodied as

how to abode both the accepted and sector-specific needs of assorted agronomical crop sectors. Ultimately, the Standards Committee will adjudge what is in the final accepted that will be submitted for approval as an American National Standard. For this reason, all absorbed parties and stakeholders are arrive to participate in the development action of this accepted by confined on the Standards Committee or a non-voting advising subcommittee.

Call for Standards Committee Applications
All parties and stakeholders absorbed in the accepted development action are arrive to administer to participate on the Standards Committee or one of the advising subcommittees. Applications will be advised in abounding in adjustment to accomplish a counterbalanced burning of abilities and ability on the Standards Committee. The board appliance anatomy can be begin on the Leonardo Academy website at http://www.leonardoacademy.org/Projects/SustainAgStdDevelopment.htm.

Applications for accord should be submitted by or afore Friday, May 23, 2008. All applicants will be abreast of their board cachet on Monday, June 16, 2008.

More about the Draft Standard
Interest in standardizing acceptable agronomics has developed badly about the apple in the accomplished decade. This accretion absorption has been fueled by a ambit of analytical ecology and amusing concerns, such as all-around warming, baptize shortages, breed extinction, alarming alive conditions, arbitrary activity practices, and apathy for bounded communities. In response, dozens of sustainability initiatives and programs accept emerged. This civic acclimation action has been launched to accommodate a appointment for discussing and vetting differences over what sustainability agency aural the agronomical area and to abduction the aggregate acumen of individuals and organizations that accept been arch the way in defining and establishing acceptable practices. More advice about the acclimation initiative, including abstracts and presentations from the stakeholder affair captivated October 29-30, 2007 and February 29, 2008, as able-bodied as a archetype of the abstract accepted for balloon use, can be downloaded from the Leonardo website at http://www.leonardoacademy.org/Projects/SustainAgStdDevelopment.htm.

Funding
Leonardo Academy is gluttonous banking abetment from foundations, companies and organizations with an absorption in sustainability issues to aid in the development of this standard, to accommodate baby farmers with banking and abstruse abetment in testing the Sustainable Agriculture Draft Standard for Trial Use and to accommodate banking abetment to non-profits to awning the costs of their participation. If you are absorbed in altruistic banking assets to abutment this project, amuse acquaintance the Leonardo Academy.

About The Leonardo Academy
Leonardo Academy is a 501(c)(3) non-profit alignment founded in 1997 with a eyes of advancing sustainability and putting the aggressive bazaar to plan on convalescent the environment.

For Additional Information
Please appointment the Sustainable Agriculture Practice Draft Standard for Trial Use web page: http://www.leonardoacademy.org/Projects/SustainAgStdDevelopment.htm.

Contact Leonardo Academy:
Tel: (608) 280-0255
Email: Development-SCS-1 @ leonardoacademy.org

Los Angeles Professional Organizer Wins Green Plug "What's Under Your Desk" Contest

John Trosko of Los Angeles receives a Beverly Hills cafeteria allurement with "green advocates" Christopher Knight and Adrianne Curry for his aboriginal abode best photo access and artistic acquiescence in the Green Plug "What's Under Your Desk" Contest.

Los Angeles, CA -- Earth Day 2008 may accept appear and gone, but the charge to be globally acquainted continues. This year alone, a amazing 379 actor alone and anachronistic alien ability food are destined to end up in U.S. landfills.

The "What's Under Your Desk" challenge sponsored by Green Plug, a San Ramon, California agenda technology developer, brings ablaze to the charge for a single, accepted ability architectonics for cyberbanking accessories which would abate the blend ambuscade beneath America's desks. It is aswell believed that such a accepted could anticipate hundreds of millions of ability supplies, cables and connectors every year from accepting tossed into America's landfills - maximizing resources, aspersing solid waste, and attention energy.

John Trosko, a Los Angeles able organizer won aboriginal abode in the all-around challenge by administration his under-desk dilemmas in an candid and agreeable address with a photo, balladry and claimed story. "As a business owner, the accumulation (and mess) of mis-matched cables and cords beneath workspaces is a accepted cephalalgia for both my acclimation audience and myself. The challenge drew me in alone because of the attempt I see every day how to appropriately actuate of the devices," said John Trosko.

"It's an account to be accustomed as the aboriginal abode prize-winner of the 'What's Under Your Desk' photo sweepstakes, sponsored by Green Plug. I humbly access this account with acknowledgment and gaffer's tape," he added.

Trosko's aboriginal abode cost in the Green Plug sweepstakes is cafeteria in Beverly Hills with 'green advocates' Christopher Knight and Adrianne Curry, co-hosts of the VH-1 absoluteness show, MY FAIR BRADY. The additional abode champ receives a $500 allowance affidavit to Wal-Mart, while Green Plug will accomplish a $250 donation to the third abode winner's admired 'green' non-profit organization. Winners, including Trosko, were contacted April 30, 2008.

"We're captivated to account (the challenge winners) and admiring that they and so abounding others took time to allotment their ability bond abhorrence belief digitally," said Green Plug CEO Frank Paniagua, Jr. "We accept the ability archetypal is broken, but aswell that it's fixable, and it's acceptable to see that so abounding humans accept that at a gut level. The botheration may be at our feet, but the band-aid - a accepted sense, accepted accepted that serves consumers and protects the ambiance - is acutely in our hands."

As the aboriginal abode prize-winner of cafeteria in Beverly Hills, Trosko agilely says: "As a huge fan of Christopher McKnight and Adrianne Curry's careers, I admire their plan for the ambiance and the means they use their celebrity cachet to acquaint humans to a added socially-conscious lifestyle. Both Christopher and Adrianne are accepted eco-advocates and I'm a able organizer. We all accept a accepted mission to bigger the environment, whether it's the planet or central your actual own home or office. It's agitative to coact and allocution about the little things we can all do every day that will accept a big appulse on accessible the planet, and our neighborhood!"

About Green Plug:
Green Plug is the aboriginal developer of agenda technology enabling real-time accord amid cyberbanking accessories and their ability sources. The company's avant-garde blooming ability apparatus acquiesce manufacturers to assimilate on one accepted ability connector, beat all accepted US and European authoritative ability regulations, and annihilate ecology waste. Consumer electronics, residential and bartering builders, ability accoutrement and ability accumulation manufacturers authorization Green Plug's embeddable ability accumulation technology to accommodate accepted and safe connections, advance environmentally affable reuse, accomplish their articles added affordable, and accomplish chump loyalty.

About John Trosko:
John Trosko is a Los Angeles-based able organizer and buyer of OrganizingLA. Founded in 2004, John and his aggregation professionally plan and administer acclimation systems in homes and businesses. By applying artistic and abstruse solutions, his aggregation teaches others how to absorb beneath time analytic for the things they need, which after-effects in added time for the activities they love. John serves as Editor of "OrganizingLA" an online blog carrying circadian abundance tips and trends. His columnist advantage includes the Los Angeles Times, BusinessWeek, DailyCandy, LegalZoom.com, CreditCards.com, Better Homes & Gardens, Estates West Magazine as able-bodied as civic television segments for Scripps Howard Broadcasting Company. President of the Los Angeles Chapter of the National Association of Professional Organizers (NAPO-LA), John is a almsman of the 2008 NAPO National "Shining Star Award." In October 2008, John will become a accidental columnist to Samantha Ettus' "The Experts' Guide to Doing Things Faster," appear by Clarkson Potter/Publishers, a analysis of Random House, Inc.

Contact:
John Trosko
OrganizingLA
Post Office Box 5322
Beverly Hills, CA 90209
Telephone: (323) 512-7039
Website/Blog: http://www.organizingla.com

National Sustainable Agriculture Standard - Two Weeks Remaining to Submit Applications for Standards Committee - Deadline: May 23, 2008

Two weeks abide to abide applications to participate on the Standards Committee that will plan against development of an American National Standard for acceptable agriculture. Stakeholders absorbed in alive on specific advising subcommittees are aswell encouraged to administer during this period.

Madison, WI -- Two weeks abide to abide applications to participate on the Standards Committee that will plan against development of an American National Standard for acceptable agriculture. Stakeholders absorbed in alive on specific advising subcommittees are aswell encouraged to administer during this period.

Interest in this accepted continues to abound a allotment of the accessible and materially afflicted parties. Since the February 29, 2008 stakeholder affair in Arlington, Leonardo Academy has accustomed a billow of applications to participate on the Standards Committee and advising subcommittees. All absorbed and afflicted stakeholders---such as growers, processors, aliment processors, aliment account companies, retailers, government representatives, chump groups, ecology NGOs, activity groups and representatives, and added absorbed parties---have a role to play in abstraction the final accepted and are encouraged to apply.

Developing a Standard for Sustainable Agriculture Practice
The Sustainable Agriculture Practice Standard is accepting developed in acknowledgment to ascent absorption in practicing, defining, standardizing, and certifying acceptable agriculture. Working aural an accessible accord process, this civic acclimation action is advised to accommodate a appointment for discussing and vetting differences over what sustainability agency aural the agronomical area and to abduction the aggregate acumen of beat individuals and organizations in the branch of acceptable agriculture.

Establishing a civic accepted for acceptable agronomics practices has the befalling to serve abounding purposes, including:

Role of the Standards Committee
The Standards Committee will analysis and advised anniversary basic of the abstract standard. This includes defining acceptable agronomics practices aural the ambit of this accepted and acclamation both the accepted and sector-specific needs of the specific agronomical crop sectors that this accepted will include. The final abstract accepted will be accountable to accessible analysis and animadversion by materially afflicted parties above-mentioned to acquiescence to ANSI. Ultimately, the Standards Committee will adjudge what is in the final accepted that will be submitted for approval as an American National Standard. For this reason, all absorbed parties and stakeholders are arrive to participate in the development action of this accepted by confined on the Standards Committee or a non-voting advising subcommittee.

How to Apply
All parties and materially afflicted stakeholders absorbed in the development action of the Sustainable Agriculture Practice Standard are arrive to administer to participate on the Standards Committee or one of the advising subcommittees. PLEASE NOTE: In the accident that a Standards Committee affiliate is not able to appear a meeting, an alternating from their alignment can be appointed to serve as a proxy for that meeting. The board appliance form, advice on the time charge for board associates and frequency/location of board meetings, as able-bodied as added advice about this initiative, can be begin at: http://www.leonardoacademy.org/Projects/SustainAgStdDevelopment.htm.

Applications for accord should be submitted no after than Friday, May 23, 2008. Applications will be advised in abounding in adjustment to accomplish a counterbalanced burning of abilities and ability on the Standards Committee. All applicants will be abreast of their board cachet no after than Monday, June 16, 2008.

For Additional Information
Please appointment the Sustainable Agriculture Practice Draft Standard for Trial Use web page: http://www.leonardoacademy.org/Projects/SustainAgStdDevelopment.htm.

Contact Leonardo Academy:
Tel: (608) 280-0255
Email: Development-SCS-1@leonardoacademy.org.

Outreach Efforts to Date
The Sustainable Agriculture Practice Draft Standard for Trial Use was appear by Scientific Certification Systems (SCS) in the bounce of 2007. In September 2007, accepted development responsibilities were transferred from the NSF International to Leonardo Academy. Since that time, Leonardo Academy and SCS accept been announcement acquaintance of the Draft Standard for Trial Use, the ANSI process, and the befalling for stakeholder participation. Numerous columnist releases and announcements accept been broadcast nationally to acquaint absorbed parties and stakeholders about this accepted development process. In addition, two stakeholder affairs and three teleconferences accept been captivated to analyze acceptable agronomics issues and to added animate captivation in the development of this standard. Additional beat efforts accept included advice administration at above conferences and barter shows throughout the year, as able-bodied as workshops.

National Sustainable Agriculture Standard Will Revolutionize American Agricultural Production and Markets

What could be the aboriginal civic accepted for acceptable agronomics in the United States--- the Sustainable Agriculture Practice Standard for Food, Fiber, and Biofuel Crop Producers and Agricultural Product Handlers and Processors (SCS-001) Draft Standard for Trial Use---was re-announced in the May 16, 2008 copy of ANSI Standards Action (http://www.ansi.org/news_publications/periodicals/standards_action/standards_action.aspx?menuid=7). This absolute accepted for acceptable agronomics addresses the sustainability impacts of agronomical assembly and encompasses the absolute agronomical artefact accumulation chain, including suppliers, berry providers, growers, processors, distributors, retailers, and end-users. As such, key objectives of the accepted development action will be to authorize best practices in acceptable crop assembly and administration and to advance a set of metrics that encourages connected advance of the environmental, social, and bread-and-butter sustainability impacts of agronomical products, at all levels of the accumulation chain.

Madison, WI -- What could be the aboriginal civic accepted for acceptable agronomics in the United States-- the Sustainable Agriculture Practice Standard for Food, Fiber, and Biofuel Crop Producers and Agricultural Product Handlers and Processors (SCS-001) Draft Standard for Trial Use--was re-announced in the May 16, 2008 copy of ANSI Standards Action (http://www.ansi.org/news_publications/periodicals/standards_action/standards_action.aspx?menuid=7). This absolute accepted for acceptable agronomics addresses the sustainability impacts of agronomical assembly and encompasses the absolute agronomical artefact accumulation chain, including suppliers, berry providers, growers, processors, distributors, retailers, and end-users. As such, key objectives of the accepted development action will be to authorize best practices in acceptable crop assembly and administration and to advance a set of metrics that encourages connected advance of the environmental, social, and bread-and-butter sustainability impacts of agronomical products, at all levels of the accumulation chain.

With such an chip ambit as this, SCS-001 has the abeyant to accommodate agronomics in the United States. Michael Arny, admiral of Leonardo Academy said: "Sustainability standards accept a absolute appulse on markets because they actualize an easy-to-use accepted accent for sustainability commerce. When the harder plan of developing an ANSI-approved acceptable agronomics accepted is completed by the Standards Committee, the final accepted will accomplish it simple for sellers to acquaint the sustainability of the articles they aftermath and bear and simple for buyers to specify and analyze the sustainability of the articles they ambition to purchase. The US Green Building Council's LEED® accepted for acceptable barrio has revolutionized the 'green' architecture industry and serves as a archetypal of how this sustainability accepted for agronomical products--when finalized--will accommodate the bazaar for acceptable agronomical products."

Due to its abeyant to transform American agriculture, Leonardo Academy has re-announced the DSTU for this accepted to ensure that all materially afflicted and absorbed parties are acquainted of this abstract accepted for acceptable agronomics practices and the befalling to participate in the accepted development process. Awareness of the DSTU aswell gives materially afflicted interests the opportunity, if they so choose, to claiming the accommodation to annals this DSTU with the American National Standards Institute (ANSI). In affiliation with the DSTU re-announcement, the borderline for applications to participate on the Standards Committee and advising subcommittees has been re-extended to July 7, 2008 to acquiesce anybody absorbed in accommodating in the action added time to apply. Standards Committee associates will be appear July 28, and the aboriginal affair of the Standards Committee will be captivated on September 10.

To facilitate the action of developing this standard, Leonardo Academy has aswell adapted its ANSI accepted development constitution, which is currently beneath analysis for ANSI approval.

Since September 2007, Leonardo Academy has conducted all-encompassing beat to access acquaintance of this DSTU and has developed a acquaintance account of 1400 absorbed and potentially afflicted parties. To date, 70 applications accept been submitted to participate on the Standards Committee or advising subcommittees. All absorbed and materially afflicted stakeholders--such as growers, acreage organizations, aliment processors, aliment account companies, retailers, government representatives, chump groups, ecology organizations, NGOs, activity groups and representatives, and added absorbed parties--have a role to play in abstraction the final accepted that will be submitted to ANSI for approval and are encouraged to apply.

The Draft Standard for Trial Use, board appliance form, advice on the time charge for board associates and frequency/location of board meetings, as able-bodied as added advice about this initiative, can be begin at: http://www.leonardoacademy.org/Projects/SustainAgStdDevelopment.htm. Applications for accord should be submitted no after than Monday, July 7, 2008. Applications will be advised in abounding in adjustment to accomplish a counterbalanced burning of abilities and ability on the Standards Committee. All applicants will be abreast of their board cachet no after than Monday, July 28, 2008.

For Additional Information
Please appointment the Sustainable Agriculture Practice Draft Standard for Trial Use web page: http://www.leonardoacademy.org/Projects/SustainAgStdDevelopment.htm.

Contact Leonardo Academy:
Tel: (608) 280-0255
Email: Development-SCS-1(at)leonardoacademy.org.

General Hydroponics Techniques Used For Homegrown Fruits, Vegetables & Flowers

Do you ambition to plan fun summer activities for your ancestors after alarming up your case account? Do you ambition to save money on ascent aliment costs? Do you ambition to abound fresh, admirable flowers to activate up your home with blush and fragrance? Then why not abound your actual own fruits, vegetables and flowers in your own accepted agriculture garden? General agriculture agronomical is an action your accomplished ancestors can enjoy!

-- As Americans attending for means to lower their aliment bills, get convalescent and acquisition home-based hobbies, they're axis to accepted agriculture for acquaintance fun, fruits, vegetables and flowers.

Advanced Nutrients founders Michael Straumietis, Robert C. Higgins and Gino Yordanov explain that accepted agriculture growing and techniques are catching on as a contemporary addition to acceptable backyard gardens. Advanced Nutrients is a Seattle-based bulb fertilizer and nutrients company.

We're not talking about specialty hydroponics, which uses big-ticket lights, soil-free techniques and an automated approach General agriculture growing is a amalgam agronomical appearance that combines the allowances of alfresco clay agronomical with the appearance of agriculture technology and methods. General agriculture methods acquiesce you to ascendancy temperature, humidity, bulb nutrition, advance phases and autumn timing You absolutely can't do that with acceptable agronomical methods. Themain acumen is you ambition to garden all year long. You ambition to ascendancy what goes into your vegetables, flowers and fruits. They ambition a abiding accumulation of benign food. And you like accepted agriculture agronomics because it gives you cheaper, bigger aftermath and an absorbing home action that involves your accomplished family general agriculture home agronomical rooms. We adumbrate that aural ten years accepted agriculture growing will be a accepted allotment of the American burghal agronomical landscape "We're not talking about specialty hydroponics, which uses big-ticket lights, soil-free techniques and an automated approach," explains Michael Straumietis. "General agriculture growing is a amalgam agronomical appearance that combines the allowances of alfresco clay agronomical with the appearance of agriculture technology and methods."

According to Advanced Nutrients co-founder Robert C. Higgins, accepted agriculture area aftermath added fresher, active and tastier fruits and vegetables and added ambrosial flowers because gardeners accept added ascendancy over their agronomical environment.

"General agriculture methods acquiesce you to ascendancy temperature, humidity, bulb nutrition, advance phases and autumn timing," Robert C. Higgins says. "You absolutely can't do that with acceptable agronomical methods."

Company admiral Gino Yordanov says agriculture retailers are advertisement an advance in sales of accepted agriculture nutrients, accessories and supplies.

"Themain acumen is you ambition to garden all year long. You ambition to ascendancy what goes into your vegetables, flowers and fruits. They ambition a abiding accumulation of benign food. And you like accepted agriculture agronomics because it gives you cheaper, bigger aftermath and an absorbing home action that involves your accomplished family," says Gino.

Michael, Robert and Gino anniversary accept growing houseplants, flowers, fruits and vegetables with accepted agriculture techniques is acceptable a accepted past-time, with some humans even installing appropriate accouterments and electrical accessories in "general agriculture home agronomical rooms."

"We adumbrate that aural ten years accepted agriculture growing will be a accepted allotment of the American burghal agronomical landscape," states Straumietis.

National Sustainable Agriculture Standard--Last Call for Standards Committee Applications, Deadline: July 7, 2008

This anniversary marks the final befalling to abide applications to serve on the Standards Committee that will agree a civic accepted for acceptable agronomics beneath the advocacy of the American National Standards Institute (ANSI). Applications are due on Monday, July 7, afterward an aberrant 15-month accessible beat aeon to acquaint stakeholders of the befalling to participate in the development action of this battleground standard.

Madison, WI -- This anniversary marks the final befalling to abide applications to serve on the Standards Committee that will agree a civic accepted for acceptable agronomics beneath the advocacy of the American National Standards Institute (ANSI). Applications are due on Monday, July 7th, afterward an aberrant 15-month accessible beat aeon to acquaint stakeholders of the befalling to participate in the development action of this battleground standard.

The goals of establishing a civic accepted for acceptable agronomics convenance include: 1) defining sustainability practices and indicators throughout the agronomical accumulation alternation on a life-cycle basis, 2) appropriate best practices in crop assembly and handling, 3) allegorical producers and handlers through stages of incremental improvement, 4) accouterment a accepted set of metrics to barometer sustainability advance and 5) ambience a advertence archetype for clandestine sustainability efforts. Working aural ANSI's accessible accord process, this civic acclimation action will accommodate a appointment for discussing and vetting differences over what sustainability agency aural the agronomical sector.

Role of the Standards Committee
Although there are a bound amount of seats accessible on the Standards Committee---the voting anatomy for the standard---all applicants will be able to participate on subcommittees acclamation the key issues categorical in the accepted draft, as able-bodied as added issues articular by stakeholders. The final abstract accepted will be accountable to accessible analysis and animadversion above-mentioned to acquiescence to ANSI. Ultimately, the Standards Committee will adjudge what is in the final accepted that will be submitted for approval as an American National Standard. For this reason, all absorbed parties and stakeholders---such as growers, processors, aliment account organizations, retailers, government representatives, chump groups, NGOs, activity groups and representatives, and added absorbed parties---are encouraged to apply. Stakeholders absorbed in alive on specific advising subcommittees are aswell encouraged to abide applications.

How to Apply
Applications for accord should be submitted to the Leonardo Academy---a aloof third-party ANSI-accredited alignment committed to advancing sustainability through the aggressive market---no after than 5 message on Monday, July 7th. Applications will be advised in abounding in adjustment to accomplish a antithesis burning of abilities and ability on the Standards Committee. Committee associates will be appear on Monday, July 28th, and the aboriginal Standards Committee affair will be captivated on September 10th (time and area to be announced). Applications and accomplishments advice apropos the abstract accepted are accessible at http://www.leonardoacademy.org/Projects/SustainAgStdDevelopment.htm.

For Additional Information
Contact Leonardo Academy:
Tel: (608) 280-0255
Email: Development-SCS-1@leonardoacademy.org.

Standards Committee Selected to Drive National Sustainable Agriculture Standard Forward

Following a 15-month accessible beat aeon to acquaint stakeholders and absorbed parties about the befalling to participate in the development action of the Sustainable Agriculture Practice Standard for Food, Fiber and Biofuel Crop Producers and Agricultural Product Handlers and Processors (SCS-001), the Standards Committee that will drive the accepted advanced for ANSI approval has been selected.

Madison, WI -- Following a 15-month accessible beat aeon to acquaint stakeholders and absorbed parties about the befalling to participate in the development action of the Sustainable Agriculture Practice Standard for Food, Fiber and Biofuel Crop Producers and Agricultural Product Handlers and Processors (SCS-001), the Standards Committee that will drive the accepted advanced for ANSI approval has been selected.

Leonardo Academy--the neutral, third-party ANSI-accredited alignment facilitating the development action of SCS-001--received 175 applications from individuals and organizations absorbed in confined on the voting anatomy for the standard. Applications were submitted from all stakeholder categories (i.e., producers, users, environmentalists, and accepted interest) and above all sectors of agriculture, demonstrating the advanced ambit of interests and levels of assurance a allotment of stakeholders in the accepted development action affective forward. Due to this cutting response, the admeasurement of the Standards Committee was added from 40 associates to 58 associates to ensure that the voting anatomy is broadly adumbrative of the many, assorted sectors of agronomics represented beneath the accepted abstract standard. The account of applicants called to serve on the Standards Committee is acquaint at http://www.leonardoacademy.org/Projects/SustainAgStdDevelopment.htm.

"Leonardo Academy was actual admiring to see the above and assortment of applications submitted," said Michael Arny, admiral of Leonardo Academy. "We had to accomplish boxy decisions, back there were abounding added able applicants than seats to ample on the voting committee. Fortunately, the Standards Committee represents alone one access for participation. Everyone who activated will be able to break complex in the development action through breath accord on the subcommittees that will be alive on the agreeable of the final standard."

Criteria that were advised for alternative included the applicant's 1) absorption and acquaintance in the abstract accepted accountable area, 2) abstruse ability as activated to the goals, issues, and all-embracing ambit of the standard, 3) standards autograph experience, 4) acquaintance alive on multi-stakeholder committees and in consensus-building initiatives, 5) area representation and 6) sustainability affiliations.

The next footfall in the accepted development action for SCS-001 will be the aboriginal Standards Committee meeting, to be captivated September 10, 2008 (location to be announced). One of the aboriginal orders of business for the Committee will be to anatomy the issue-specific and sector-specific subcommittees based on stakeholder ascribe to date. Individuals absorbed in accommodating at the subcommittee akin are encouraged to abide appointment applications, advertence their absorption areas and thereby accouterment advice to the Standards Committee in its antecedent deliberations on subcommittee identification.

For Additional Information
Contact Leonardo Academy:
Tel: (608) 280-0255
Email: Development-SCS-1 @ leonardoacademy.org
http://www.leonardoacademy.org/Projects/SustainAgStdDevelopment.htm

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