Blackman Kallick, LLP, the Chicago-based audit, tax, and consulting firm, will host its Insurance Conference at the Standard Club in Chicago on Thursday, October 27, 2011. The purpose of the 2011 Insurance Conference is to facilitate the exchange of educational information and trends among insurance professionals.
The conference will include several panel sessions on:
Emperors College of Traditional Oriental Medicine, one of the oldest and most distinguished acupuncture colleges in the nation, is pleased to welcome five new and returning faculty members in the Master of Traditional Oriental Medicine program.
"Emperors College is committed to ensuring that our students receive the best possible acupuncture and Oriental medicine education in the nation, one that will enable their success in the health care field," said Dean Jacques MoraMarco, OMD, LAc. By recruiting faculty who represent the finest practitioners and scholars in Oriental medicine, we continue to provide students the opportunity to learn and utilize an array of medical thought while deepening our commitment to cultivating brilliant healers, teachers and leaders in the field.
Atsuki Maeda, MTOM, LAc
Atsuki Maeda is returning to Emperor's College as a clinical supervisor and will also be joining Emperors academic faculty for the first time teaching Japanese acupuncture courses. A licensed acupuncturist in Japan and California, Maeda specializes in Japanese acupuncture, moxibustion, and tuinna. Maeda successfully spearheaded the Japanese acupuncture program at AIMC Berkeley as an instructor and a clinical supervisor from 2008 to 2010 and has appeared as a guest speaker at California State University of Long Beach lecturing on alternative medicine topics. From 1987 to 1992, Maeda worked extensively with stroke patients at Kuroda Hospital in Tokyo.
Maeda is a 1988 graduate from Goto College of Medical Arts & Science in Tokyo, Japan, and received his masters degree in traditional Oriental medicine from Emperors College, Santa Monica, California in 1993.
Lorraine Wilcox, PhD, LAc
Lorraine Wilcox is a returning faculty member at Emperors College who will be teaching Advanced Moxibustion. An experienced TCM practitioner, Wilcox served as staff acupuncturist at the Jeffrey Goodman Special Care Clinic in Los Angeles from 1995 to 2005. At the Goodman Clinic, a Western medicine treatment facility for HIV patients, she implemented Chinese medicine and acupuncture treatments into the patients care. Wilcox is an experienced translator of medical texts from Chinese into English and an accomplished author on various Chinese medicine topics; her research articles have been published in the Journal of Chinese Medicine, Chinese Medicine Times and others. She is the author of Moxibustion: The Power of Mugwort Fire, and Moxibustion: A Modern Clinical Handbook.
A 1988 graduate of Samra University of Oriental Medicine, Wilcox then received a PhD in classical Chinese medicine from the American College of Complementary Medicine under the guidance of Jeffrey Yuen. Her dissertation was on the use of moxibustion during the Ming Dynasty.
Sergei Shaginyan, PhD, MD (Russia), LAc
Dr. Sergei Shaginyan is a new faculty member at Emperors College and will be teaching Basic Nutrition. He is specialized in pediatrics, neurology, and pathophysiology. Shaginyan has practiced a variety of treatment forms, including acupuncture, herbs, medical qi gong, and meditation.
Among his publications is the 1991 book entitled Nutritional in Indian Traditional Medicine as well as several articles for magazines such as Whole Life Times. Shaginyan recently served as a research assistant at UCLAs department of neuro-muscular pathology, is a former faculty member at Yo San University and teaches at American College of Complementary Medicine. He is a 1981 graduate of Moscow Medical School, Russia, and received his masters degree of Oriental medicine from Samra University in Los Angeles, California.
Robert Chu, PhD, LAc, QME
Dr. Robert Chu joins the Emperors College masters program faculty and will serve as clinical supervisor in Emperors clinical externship rotation at The Roy & Patricia Disney Family Cancer Center in Burbank, California. Chu is a California-licensed acupuncturist and herbalist specializing in Master Tungs painless acupuncture methods. Formerly affiliated with the St. Vincent Medical Center in Los Angeles as the first full-time staff acupuncturist, Chu treated cancer patients using acupuncture, herbal therapy, qi gong, and tai chi. He has been a featured speaker for the American Cancer Society. Chu has taught acupuncture at various TCM schools including Samra University and Southern California University School of Oriental Medicine and Acupuncture.
Robert Chu received his masters degree in 2000 from Samra University of Oriental Medicine, Los Angeles, California. He was awarded a PhD in 2004.
John Hah, PhD, SE
Dr. John Hah joins the academic faculty at Emperors College teaching physics. Hah comes from a family of traditional Oriental medicine practitioners and is a former instructor at Dongguk University, Los Angeles. From 2007 to 2008, Hah was a faculty member at California State University in Los Angeles. He received his PhD in Civil Engineering from the University of California in Los Angeles in 1997.
About Emperors College
Emperors College of Traditional Oriental Medicine is one of the oldest and most distinguished acupuncture colleges in the nation specializing in an open minded approach to the art and science of Oriental Medicine. Founded in 1983, Emperors College has been leading the way for the integration of Oriental medicine in the modern health care system. Offering a masters and doctoral degree program, Emperors College alumni are the pioneering leaders in academia, clinical practice, advocacy, and research.
For more information, visit http://www.emperors.edu.
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On February 3, 2011, 30+ of the leading Venture Capital and Angel Investor Groups in the New York area will present at FundingPosts (http://www.FundingPost.com) NYC Venture Capital Showcase sponsored by Credit Suisse. While most venture events allow start-ups only to listen to a panel discussion or to pitch to investors, this event is a "Reverse Venture Fair." This format allows Entrepreneurs to meet the Venture Capitalists and Angels in an informal cocktail party setting where the investors are the ones providing information about their companies. As an additional benefit, the investors will receive summaries of every company in attendance. Registration information is online at: http://www.fundingpost.com/breakfast/reg1.asp?event=179&refer=PR
During the evening cocktail party, VC Funds and Angel Groups will be exhibiting their firms. Each Fund will have their own table set up for the sole purpose of meeting great new companies seeking capital. Exhibiting firms include:
ARC Angel Fund, i-Hatch Ventures, Security Growth Partners, Trident Capital, Jumpstart NJ Angel Network, Launch Capital, ff Asset Management, NYC Seed, Tri-State Private, Investors Network, Genacast Ventures, Osage Partners, Golden Seeds, Greenhill SAVP, Originate Ventures, Vital Financial, Connecticut Innovations, Long Island Angel Network, Angel Investor Forum, Clove Hitch Partners, Kestrel Asset Management, NYC Investment Fund, StarVest Partners, Innovation Ventures, Metamorphic Ventures, Liquidity Works, Vencon Management, Zelkova Ventures, Radius Ventures, Edison Venture Fund
"We are thrilled to see such an amazing response from the Venture Community," said Joe Rubin, Director, FundingPost. "Due to the Huge demand from last year, we've made some great updates and are looking forward to the best Venture Showcase yet."
Register here for more details: http://www.fundingpost.com/breakfast/reg1.asp?event=179&refer=PR
ABOUT FUNDINGPOST:
With over 9,500 CEOs and 650 Venture Capital Funds attending events in 20 cities nationwide; a Printed Dealflow Magazine; and a deal-exchange website with over 7,700 VC & Angel Investor members & over 133,000 companies, that has, on average, made an introduction of an Investor to an Entrepreneur every business day since its inception; FundingPost believes that it is important to reach investors in every medium possible - both online and offline. FundingPost has been responsible for Millions and Millions of dollars in Venture Capital Raised!
FundingPost has had the opportunity to work with thousands of Angel and Venture Capital Investors over the past 10 years representing over $ 106.8 Billion.
Contact:
Heather Coull
FundingPost.com
800-461-5509
press(at)fundingpost(dot)com
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More than 100 Authors to Highlight 2011 Library of Congress National Book Festival.
Reading Celebration, in its 11th Year, Becomes Two-Day Event
An unprecedented 112 authors, poets and illustrators will speak and meet with their readers at the 2011 National Book Festival, sponsored by the Library of Congress. The event, to be held Saturday, Sept. 24 and Sunday, Sept. 25 on the National Mall rain or shine also will offer more authors and activities for young readers than ever before.
The event is free and open to the public. Saturday hours will be from 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. and Sunday hours will be from 1 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. Authors speaking and book-signing schedules are available on the festival website, http://www.loc.gov/bookfest.
President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama, the first lady, are the honorary chairs of the event. The distinguished benefactor of the event is David M. Rubenstein, who co-chairs the National Book Festival Board with Dr. James H. Billington, the Librarian of Congress.
Following on the great success of the 2010 National Book Festival, our 10th anniversary, the National Book Festival Board decided last January to make this a two-day event, Billington said. We expect book-lovers to be delighted with the number of poets, authors and illustrators weve assembled this year, including several winners of major literary awards.
The authors talks will be a bit longer, and we believe festival-goers access to authors in the book-signing area will be made a bit easier.
Festival fans will find the usual array of author pavilions this year History & Biography, Fiction & Mystery, Poetry & Prose and Contemporary Life, along with a pavilion aimed at Teens and another for Children.
Target the distinguished corporate benefactor of the National Book Festival will sponsor the Family Storytelling Stage, a pavilion offering briefer presentations by more than 20 authors and musicians whose books and performances are devoted to very young readers. The sponsorship is part of Targets commitment to helping more children read proficiently by the end of grade 3.
We are delighted that Target has helped us take our already very family-friendly event to a whole new, very young audience of book-lovers, said Deanna Marcum, associate librarian for Library Services at the Library of Congress and executive director of the National Book Festival. The Family Storytelling Stage will carry the banner for this years National Book Festival theme, Celebrate the Joy of Reading Aloud.
On Sunday, the National Book Festival will convert its spacious Pavilion of the States into three new genre pavilions: State Poets Laureate, The Cutting Edge, and Graphic Novels.
Author lineups in all pavilions include:
Delphix, the market-leading provider of database virtualization software, today announced that it has been named to Red Herrings North America 100 list, a prestigious list honoring the years most promising private technology ventures in North America.
Since launching our product last year, weve seen adoption of database virtualization across all industries, said Jedidiah Yueh, Delphix CEO. With our software, businesses like TiVo, Corporate Express, Intuitive Surgical, SuccessFactors, Informatica, and Comcast roll out application projects faster, with far less operational complexity and hardware infrastructure. The Red Herring 100 award recognizes the impact our solution is making for customers across the globe.
Delphix applies the simplifying concept of virtualization to database infrastructure, turning structured data and its supporting infrastructure into software that operates in a fraction of the space, while preserving full functionality and performance. Customers of Delphix Server include members of the Fortune 1000 across major industries, including finance, pharmaceuticals, telecommunications, retail, manufacturing, consumer goods, technology, and SaaS.
The Red Herring editorial team selected the most innovative companies from a pool of thousands from across North America. Winners of the 2011 edition of the Red Herring 100 North America award were selected based upon their technological innovation, management strength, market size, investor record, customer acquisition, and financial health. Red Herring's annual lists of top private companies are an important part of the company's tradition of identifying new and innovative technology companies and entrepreneurs. Past winners such as Google, eBay, and Skype were spotted in their early days by Red Herring editors and touted as leaders that would change the way we live and work.
Over a decade ago, Red Herring selected Yuehs first software company, Avamar, as a Red Herring 100 winner. In 1999 Yueh founded Avamar, the software company that pioneered data de-duplication for disk backup, a multi-billion dollar category. After being acquired by EMC in 2006, Avamar has rocketed in global market share and was recently ranked as the highest rated backup software solution in product quality in the industry by Storage magazine. We believe database virtualizaiton will drive far more value and have a significantly larger impact on businesses than data de-duplication, added Yueh.
Choosing the companies with the strongest potential was by no means a small feat, said Alex Vieux, publisher and CEO, Red Herring. After rigorous contemplation and discussion, we narrowed our list down from hundreds of candidates from across North America to the Top 100 Winners. We believe Delphix embodies the vision, drive, and innovation that define a successful entrepreneurial venture. Delphix should be proud of its accomplishment, as the competition was very strong.
USEFUL LINKS
Delphix website: http://www.delphix.com
Delphix Server: http://www.delphix.com/products.php
Twitter feed: http://twitter.com/delphixcorp
Delphix blog: http://www.delphix.com/blog/
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CPAexcel, a global provider of exceptional CPA Exam study materials, is very pleased to announce the release of this informative high definition video by Dr. Allen Bizzell.
Dr. Bizzell, CPA, is the Associate Dean Emeritus of the esteemed University of Texas at Austin, College of Business. Dr. Bizzell, who taught accounting at UT for many years, shares his in-depth knowledge of how the largest section of the CPA Exam will expand in 2011.
The American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) authors and scores the CPA Exam. In 2004, the AICPA completed the last major overhaul of the exam, changing it from being given via paper and pencil to delivery on a computer. In January 2011, the changes planned are even more massive:
The 10th annual Bodybuilding.com Fitness Expo (BFE) has become a celebrity studded event with top A-List stars flying in to join the health and fitness celebration. Terry Crews (Hollywood actor featured in over 40 different movies and television shows including The Expendables and "Everybody Hates Chris") and Mario Lopez(best-selling author of Extra Lean and top television personality as a host on Extra!) are just two of the many reasons to attend this free, fan-favorite event.
Bodybuilding.com, the Internets most-visited bodybuilding and fitness site and largest online retailer of nutritional supplements, and Optimum Nutrition, one of the world's most trusted performance nutrition brands for 25 years, will be holding the action packed BFE on Saturday, June 11th from 10:00am to 5:00pm at Qwest Arena in Boise, Idaho. The 2011 FIT BODY Competition Powered by MusclePharm will take place after the BFE at 7:30pm (doors open at 6:30pm) at the Knitting Factory. The crowd will watch as the nations top 20 men and women battle it out for the title of the Fittest Body. If you havent been before, be assured: this is more than your average show.
In addition to Terry Crews and Mario Lopez, the BFE will be featuring: MMA athletes Clay The Carpenter Guida (UFC Lightweight Star) and All American Brian Stann (UFC Middleweight Star and Marine Silver Star recipient); Jamie Eason (featured on over 50 magazine covers worldwide and syndicated columnist with Oxygen Magazine); Mike O Hearn (Titan from NBCs American Gladiators); Jimmy Pe
The town of Santa Claus will welcome the Capitol Christmas Tree on Monday, November 21, at 3:30 pm CST in the Kringle Place Shopping Center.
A welcoming ceremony will kick off the holiday season in Santa Claus, Indiana. This ceremony will include childrens activities such as Christmas tree decorating and coloring pages. The Santa Claus Christmas Store will serve hot chocolate to guests. The public is invited to attend.
"Santa Claus, Indiana, was the first stop we selected to be on this year's tour," says Maria Benech, 2011 U.S. Capitol Christmas Tree coordinator. "We couldn't pass up the opportunity to stop in a town named Santa Claus and moved our entire route north specifically to fit in Santa Claus."
The tree will be traveling in a plywood box on a double-flatbed truck. The box will have eight feet of see-through acrylic so guests can see and smell the 65-foot tree.
The 2011 Capitol Christmas Tree will stop in Santa Claus, Indiana, during its cross-country journey from California to Washington, D.C. The trees tour began on November 8 and will travel through California and the rest of the national tour in 20 days. The tree will reach its final destination, Washington, D.C., on Monday, November 28.
Americas Christmas Hometown: Santa Claus, Indiana, will host a celebration of family fun on the first three weekends of December. Events include a traditional Christmas Dinner with Santa; Santa Claus Land of Lights, a 1.2-mile driving journey through Lake Rudolph Campground & RV Resort; Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire and much more.
For more information about the Santa Claus Christmas Celebration or a schedule of events, call (888) 444-9252 or visit http://www.SantaClausInd.org/special-events. Also, find Santa Claus, Indiana, on the Visitor Bureaus free app for iPhones and Androids by searching Holiday World & More! and on any mobile device at http://m.SantaClausInd.org.
More information about the 2011 Capitol Christmas Tree available at http://www.capitolchristmastree2011.org/.
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At the beginning of February, UPICKEM released its freshly designed College Basketball Bracket Contest for over 800 local media companies, including The Washington Post, CBS Television Stations, and Clear Channel. In some cases, local media partners have generated $ 100,000 or more in online sponsorship from a single UPICKEM sports contest in their market.
Below are a few features that make UPICKEMs contest successful year after year for local media companies:
In January, Second Street hosted a How to Sell College Basketball webinar to illustrate the value of their College Basketball Contest and to inspire clients to organize their internal sales teams to begin securing sponsorships. In the webinar, five proven models for generating revenue with UPICKEMs College Basketball Bracket were presented. Examples included KFMB-TVs success with an exclusive sponsor, The Atlanta Journal-Constitutions first time running the bracket contest online, and WSAZ-TVs success with a variety of promotion avenues.
To watch UPICKEMs recorded webinar, visit their College Basketball Resource Center.
About Second Street: Second Street, Inc. is local medias premier provider of online contesting, daily deals, email and text message marketing, photo e-commerce, and photo and video user-generated content tools. Based in St. Louis, Missouri, Second Streets products are built to help their partners leverage online promotions to increase ROI, and grow their base of engaged audience. Second Streets suite of online promotions products include Deadline Deals, UPICKEM National Contests, UPICKEM Custom Contest Engine, eBlast Engine, myCapture Publisher and myCapture Community. For more information, call 314-880-4900.
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LinkUs Enterprises, a technology integration provider, is pleased to have recently earned the 2011 Crestron Integration Award for Most Distinctive DigitalMediaTM Home. Crestron is a leading provider of control and automation systems for homes, offices, schools, hospitals, and more. Their business focuses on providing the ultimate in technology lifestyle.
The complete installation and set-up of a Crestron DigitalMedia system with 16 video displays receiving feeds from 10 satellite receivers combined with five Blu-ray
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Grandeur Peak Global Advisors, the firm founded by former Wasatch portfolio managers Robert Gardiner and Blake Walker, announced today the launch of two new mutual funds: the Grandeur Peak Global Opportunities Fund and the Grandeur Peak International Opportunities Fund.
The Grandeur Peak Global Opportunities Fund (GPGOX/GPGIX) will be a portfolio of 100-150 global equities, with a strong bias towards small and micro cap companies. Investments will include companies based in the U.S., developed foreign countries, and emerging/frontier markets. The portfolio has flexibility to adjust its investment mix by market cap, country, and sector in order to invest where the portfolio managers believe the best global opportunities currently exist. See the Prospectus for additional fund detail.
The Grandeur Peak International Opportunities Fund (GPIOX/GPIIX) will be a portfolio comprised of 100-150 small and micro cap growth companies outside of the United States. Said co-portfolio manager, Blake Walker Given the vast number of high quality, growing, and underfollowed small/micro cap companies abroad, we believe this is the single most interesting segment of the global equities landscape for the coming decade. See the Prospectus for additional fund detail.
Robert Gardiner, Grandeur Peak CEO and Portfolio Manager, said In a world where business is increasingly global and country boundaries continue to blur, we believe the best long-term investment opportunities can be uncovered by investors who are fully canvassing the world to find and consider each company within its global context. Mr. Gardiner continued Our vision for global investing includes disciplined screening to find interesting companies in every part of the world, thorough hands-on research to sort the wheat from the chaff, and careful monitoring of valuations in an effort to maximize investment results. We are long-term investors, looking for smaller companies that we believe have great growth potential over the next five years and beyond.
Co-Portfolio Manager and Chief Investment Officer Blake Walker added, Our bias is towards small and micro cap companies because we believe we can find faster growth among these firms, and often at better valuations due to the lack of analyst coverage. The universe of impressive yet underfollowed small and micro cap companies around the world is extensive and growing every day. There are a tremendous number of high quality companies with strong growth potential which are simply too small to catch the eye of Wall Street analysts and larger mutual funds.
The Grandeur Peak Global Opportunities and the International Opportunities funds will each have a management fee of 1.25%. This is the lowest management fee of any fund that Mr. Gardiner or Mr. Walker has managed. The Funds also have an expense cap in place to help control the impact to shareholders of the significant start-up and global expenses. Please read the Prospectus carefully before investing. Note, the Investor Share Class has a minimum investment of just $ 2000, while the Institutional Share Class has a minimum investment of $ 100,000.
Eric Huefner, president and co-founder, described how investors can purchase the new funds: Investors can go to http://www.grandeurpeakglobal.com to open a Grandeur Peak Funds account on-line, or to download an application. Applications can also be requested by calling 1.855.377.PEAK (7325). We are working with Schwab, Fidelity, TD Ameritrade, Pershing, Vanguard, and other third party intermediaries to get selling agreements in place as quickly as possible. We hope our funds will be available on these and other platforms shortly.
About Grandeur Peak Global Advisors
Grandeur Peak Global Advisors is comprised of a highly seasoned and collaborative research team taking a bottom-up approach to investing using disciplined global screening, rigorous company due diligence, and close attention to valuation to find what we believe to be the best investment opportunities around the world. Our bias is towards small and micro cap companies because we believe we can find faster growth among these firms, and often at better valuations due to the lack of analyst coverage. Grandeur Peak Global Advisors, LLC is an employee-owned investment adviser headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah and registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission under the Investment Advisers Act of 1940.
The objective of both the Grandeur Peak Global Opportunities Fund and the Grandeur Peak International Opportunities Fund is long-term growth of capital. These funds are new and have limited operating history.
Mutual fund investing involves risks and loss of principal is possible. Investing in small and micro cap funds will be more volatile and loss of principal could be greater than investing in large cap or more diversified funds. Investing in foreign securities entails special risks, such as currency fluctuations and political uncertainties, which are described in more detail in the prospectus. Investments in emerging markets are subject to the same risks as other foreign securities and may be subject to greater risks than investments in foreign countries with more established economies and securities markets.
This material must be accompanied or preceded by a prospectus. Please read it carefully before investing.
Grandeur Peak Funds will deduct a 2.00% redemption proceeds fee on Fund shares held 60 days or less. For more complete information including charges, risks and expenses, read the prospectus carefully.
Valuation is the process of determining the current worth of an asset or company.
Wasatch Advisors is not affiliated with Grandeur Peak Global Advisors or with ALPS Distributors, Inc.
Grandeur Peak Funds are distributed by ALPS Distributors, Inc (ADI). Eric Huefner is a registered representative of ADI.
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The 2011 Frankfurt Book Fair will be all about making magic with maps, as MapsofWorld.com prepares to showcase an array of new and exciting services geared specially toward map publishers. The company's exhibits will include mobile apps, custom mapping services, and the online map store, along with the map portal, which shows businesses, students, and everyday users how maps can provide a variety of solutions for real-world problems.
For publishers of high-quality maps and atlases, the Frankfurt Book Fair is a chance to learn how they can convert their existing mapping data into digital products and services, even if the data is not in GIS format. After digitizing, MapsofWorld.com helps publishers create interactive apps using their content, which can be sold in the thriving mobile app market. These apps solve the problems associated with print maps, and come at a fraction of the cost. The maps are stored locally on the device, saving users from roaming charges on data download.
Atlas publishers can now look to develop scaled-down or specialized versions of their atlases on tablet devices. Atlas applications have unlimited potential, including selling individual maps from within the app, and offering a free version in addition to the premium version to promote the atlas. Students can explore the map portal in major international languages, including English, Spanish, Arabic, German, Finnish, and Chinese. MapsofWorld.com has thousands of thematic maps available as study tools with engaging content on educational topics. The website offers GIS-generated maps and interactive applications. Learning geography becomes fun with bestselling apps World Atlas and World Quiz.
For businesses selling mapping or educational solutions, the online map store is a great place to increase brand visibility. As MapsofWorld.com draws more than 4 million visitors every month, publishers will easily reach a diverse and huge audience. The store currently sells wall maps in the United States, in collaboration with National Geographic.Businesses working with location-based data can partner with the MapsofWorld.com Custom Mapping division, which can provide POI datasets and mapping expertise.
About the website:
MapsofWorld.com is a multilingual portal offering high-quality maps and information across platforms. With a special focus on educational content, the portal has thematic as well as interactive maps on all major platforms: Web, iPhone, iPad, iPod, and Android. World Atlas and World Quiz are two successful educational apps, with more than 50,000 downloads to date. Other services offered are custom mapping, content digitization, and the online map store.
For more information, please contact:
MapXL Inc.
10 S, Third Street, Suite 310,
San Jose, CA 95113
mani(at)infobase(dot)in
http://www.mapsofworld.com
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The Gilfus Education Group announced its annual education industry predictions today. The Gilfus Education Group is led by Stephen Gilfus a founder of Blackboard Inc. (Nasdaq: BBBB) and President and CEO of the group.
Gilfus annual education predictions foreshadow major concepts on the horizon for academic and administrative education applications in Higher Education.
"Over the past several years we have had the privilege to work closely with scores of colleges, universities, school districts, private schools, vendors to academic institutions and education investors. Institutions are challenged more than ever to deliver higher quality instruction in a more efficient and accountable manner. More and more educators are depending on technology to help them address their challenges" said Stephen Gilfus, President and CEO of the Gilfus Education Group. "As a founder of Blackboard Inc. I have also watched student expectations rise tremendously over the years with regard to the quality of teaching as well as to the quality of the technology and content that support learning."
As an independent consulting organization based in Washington, DC the Gilfus Education Group predicts the following top five trends in education innovation:
