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European Wax Center Westminster CO Will Participate in Broomfield Days Community Fair

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Westminster, CO (PRWEB) September 13, 2011

Recently opened European Wax Center Westminster CO will be participating in Broomfield Days on September 17. There will be demonstrations of body hair removal in Westminster, Denver, CO which will serve as introductions to their Comfort Wax System and the benefits of waxing.

Husband and wife team Taylor Bartels and Cameron deGavre opened the wax center just a few months ago after their future in real estate development began looking bleak. Hearing about the European Wax Center franchise opportunity from a fellow parent, Taylor and Cameron decided that owning a EWC franchise was the right move. New guests of EWC will find hair removal in Westminster, Denver, CO more readily available.

Cameron and I do not live by our location so it has been really great to interact within the community of Westminster, says Bartels.

Bartels observes that the community has really embraced the European Wax Center location, European Wax Center Westminster. Servicing repeat customers ranging from teenage girls to women over age 50, the center has been liked by all, performing everything from bikini waxing to facial hair removal. With European Wax Center Westminster opening recently in June the couple hopes to use the center as an opportunity to grow within the Westminster community.

Since opening European Wax Center Westminster, Bartels and deGavre have benefited in slowly getting to know the community. The couple notes that its been very nice to meet many of the local business owners and community members and show the Westminster community that the best waxing in Westminster, CO, is at European Wax Center Westminster.

About European Wax Center:

European Wax Center is the Ultimate Wax Experience offering comfortable, healthy waxing and the European Wax Center exclusive four-step Comfort Wax hair-removal system. Every service restores and rejuvenates skin while leaving it smooth and hair-free for weeks on end. Developed in Paris, the proprietary Comfort Wax is a hard wax that clings to the hair, not skin. Guests can enhance their experience and preserve their results with the European Wax Center line of high-end products.

European Wax Center was founded by David Coba, Joshua Coba and Jessica Coba who spent more than 10 years developing the Ultimate Wax Experience that features a high-quality wax, high-end products, a clean, professional environment, full-privacy Wax Suites, and efficient service. Today, European Wax Center is recognized as the leader in comfortable, healthy waxing and a national brand franchise. European Wax Center was ranked No. 82 in the 2011 Inc. 500 list of the fastest-growing private companies. The Company was also named No. 1 Franchise, and ranked No. 7 in its industry by Inc. magazine.

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Vatterott College In Fairview Heights Invites Community To Participate In V-Fit 90-Day Fitness Challenge

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Fairview Heights, Ill (PRWEB) April 05, 2012

Students in the Personal Fitness Trainer program at Vatterott College in Fairview Heights are hosting a 90-day community fitness challenge from April 16 to July 15. The V-Fit Challenge is open to the public and focuses on establishing and maintaining a healthy lifestyle while also giving back to the community. As part of the Challenge, participants are encouraged to join the groups team for the 2012 Komen St. Louis Race for the Cure 5K run and fitness walk.

Under the guidance of Personal Fitness Trainer students, each individual participant sets his or her own goals and routines based on age, ability and health needs. Throughout the Challenge, benchmark check-in dates are established so participants can monitor progress.

This is our first time hosting the V-Fit Challenge and we hope to make it an annual event, said Jill Olmsted, the V-Fit Challenge Program Coordinator at Vatterott College in Fairview Heights. It only takes 21 days to make or break a habit but it takes 90 days to establish a lifestyle. We hope to support and engage the members of our community to become involved with nutrition and fitness.

Week one kicks off with registration and a fitness orientation at the Fairview Heights Campus located at 110 Commercial Lane. Everyone who registers receives a free water bottle as a gift. A Personal Fitness Trainer student meets with each participant to go over his or her health history; complete a weigh-in and body fat analysis; and establish 30, 60 and 90 day goals.

Weekly emails sent to participants feature tips promoting overall wellness and include topics on exercise, diet and relationships. A Facebook page serves as a virtual support group where participants can leave comments, ask questions, post helpful links and motivate each other.

During the fifth week the participants complete a 30-day fitness assessment and receive a free personal training session with a Personal Trainer certification student at the Fairview Heights campus. There is also an opportunity to register for a free prize and sign up for the V-Fit Challenge Race for the Cure team.

A 60-day fitness assessment and wellness workshop takes place during the tenth week. At that time the winner of the registration prize is announced and t-shirts are handed out to wear at the Race for the Cure.

There are no restrictions or guidelines to register, but all participants are required to sign a medical waiver. Those under the age of 18 need the permission of a parent or legal guardian. Participants with existing medical conditions are encouraged to consult with a medical doctor before starting the program.

Participants can register in person at the Vatterott College Fairview Heights campus or online. For more information about the V-Fit Challenge or the courses offered at Vatterott College in Fairview Heights visit http://www.vatterott.edu/fairview_heights.asp or call 618- 489-2400.

About Vatterott College

Vatterott College has been dedicated to providing quality career training to students seeking the necessary skills to advance in their field since 1969. Vatterott, with its headquarters in St. Louis, Missouri, has campuses across the Midwest, offering education in high-demand fields. Diploma, associate and bachelor degrees are offered in multiple trade industries and computer technology, with 25 locations, as well as an online division, across ten states. To learn more, please visit http://www.vatterott.edu





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Eight New Documentary Teams to participate in the Bay Area Video Coalition’s 2009 Producers Institute for New Media Technologies

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San Francisco, CA. (PRWEB) March 18, 2009

Eight documentary teams have been selected to develop interactive Web, mobile, multimedia, and game projects at the Producers Institute for New Media Technologies at the Bay Area Video Coalition (BAVC) in San Francisco from May 29 – June 7.

Projects selected for 2009 include stories from local, national, and international producers on a wide range of social justice topics including racism and apartheid, public health and the environment, human rights, and the global food crisis:

AMERICAN MEAT

Alejandro de Onis

In the documentary “American Meat,” producer Alejandro de Onis and director Graham Meriwether explore how the agricultural industry has brutalized the food production process, severed the source of food from consumers, and become America’s #1 polluter. De Onis and his team plan to bring farmers and communities to a “digital dinner table” by integrating the film within an e-commerce/social networking context. Through an innovative, intelligent web-based market place for local food called Harvest Cloud, consumers will be able to easily source and purchase local food, connect with food producers, and help local food movements proliferate and profit in the hands-and through the stomachs-of the public.

THE ELDERS PROJECT

Marc Boothe

“The Elders Project” is a major cross-media project that will engage intergenerational participants using a combination of photography, oral history, video, spoken word, text and interactive digital platforms to document and preserve the untold stories of the first generation of African-Caribbean settlers who came to Britain in the early 50′s. The Elders Project will provide a voice to under-represented young people and elders both in the UK and the US, engaging new, transitional audiences with innovative ways to tell their stories. The project will create both live physical and virtual spaces where participants can experience and create content through a remix in the tradition of ‘call and response’ in a unique cultural mashup. Through a partnership with the Tate Modern, this ambitious project will incorporate a major photographic exhibition, a social networking platform and content management tools. Marc Boothe is the Executive Director of B3 Media, one of the UK’s leading creative hubs for emerging black and minority ethnic artists and producers.

G.COM

Corey Tong

Transcending social, cultural, linguistic, generational and national borders, G.com is a multi-media, multi-platform, global channel and web portal – an intimate digital storytelling forum by, for and about international LGBT culture. G.COM will include professionally produced original content, including a documentary series featuring international news, social justice and public interest stories from global LGBT communities, along with user-contributed stories uploaded from queer artists and activists around the world. Additionally, the website will include aggregated resources and networks within an interactive map interface that will link LGBT NGOs and human rights organizations to each other, as well as to media and tools relevant to their work. Producer Corey Tong is developing this project with Emmy & Academy Award nominated director Johnny Symons.

HAVE YOU HEARD FROM JOHANNESBURG

Connie Field

Have You Heard From Johannesburg (HYHJ) is a new a six-part documentary series that tells the story of the global movement that took on South Africa’s apartheid regime and reveals how everyday people helped bring one of the most brutally repressive political systems in the world to its knees. Pulling together the many threads of this global story for the first time in any medium, “Have You Heard From Johannesburg” is an inspiring example for citizens and movements across the world. At the Institute, Academy-Award winning director Connie Field and her team will build an interactive, educational platform where drag-and-drop media “modules” created from “Have You Heard” footage will connect to blogs, online videos, maps, social networks (Facebook, Twitter, etc), RSS news and digital photo feeds to create a dynamic, participatory lesson planner and civic engagement tool.

HOPE AND HIGH WATER

Peter Nicks

More than one third of all Americans have no health insurance. And as more Americans lose their jobs, public hospitals are experiencing an increase in people seeking care. Hope and High Water is a documentary about a young band of public health executives at Highland Hospital in Oakland, California, persevering despite daunting systemic and financial obstacles. At the Institute, Emmy Award winner Peter Nicks and his team will develop Public Medicine/Public Lives, a hybrid, multiplatform public media experience that will bring the film into the conversations at center of the public health crisis, including “face-wall”-style video exhibitions in Emergency Rooms, public Twitter stations that will include reports from people living without health insurance, and a unique online portal that will distribute these stories nationally and become an archive for the testimonials that will highlight the urgency of the national dialogue around health care. The Executive Producer for this project is Academy Award winner Rob Epstein.

MINE

Jennifer Gilomen & Sally Rubin

To keep up with our increasing demand for energy, humankind is mining the earth for natural resources and putting communities worldwide at risk. Through an intimate, human story, the documentary “MINE” tells the story of a town deep in the Appalachian mountains of eastern Kentucky, where coal is king. Through an integrated media campaign that includes a podcast series disseminated through Appalachian Voices’ “Most Endangered Mountains” Google Earth collection, educational curriculum and community action kits, “MINE” will have a deep impact with a diverse audience. At the Institute, Co-directors Jennifer Gilomen and Sally Rubin will build a 3D Virtual Mine in order to bring the experience of mountaintop removal mining to a new level, empowering communities that now live in the shadows of extractive industries.

SANDS OF SILENCE

Chelo Alvarez-Stehle

In the documentary “Sands of Silence,” we learn some gruesome facts: there are 27 million slaves in the world today; and human trafficking is a global business that yields $ 9 billion annually. Every year in the United States, 18,000 women and children are trafficked and turned into sex slaves. Sexual slavery is a daily reality in our own neighborhoods: immigrants are lured into fake jobs that turn are merely a trap leading to enslavement; children are sold by their relatives to sexual predators during weekend visits; and teenage girls are forced by their boyfriends to turn tricks in locked motel rooms. At the Institute, Award-winning producer Chelo Alvarez-Stehle and her team will develop “SOS Slaves”, a unique, avatar-based video game to raise awareness about global human trafficking. In a geo-located, media-rich environment, players will learn how to avoid being sold and exploited, and how to identify a captive person, call a hotline, alert authorities, and get involved in the issues on the ground in their own communities.

THE WAY WE GET BY

Gita Pullapilly

“The Way We Get By” is an intimate story of three senior citizens in America as they struggle with growing old and rediscovering their reasons for living. Dedicating their lives to greeting almost 800,000 troops at a tiny airport in Maine, Bill Knight, Joan Gaudet, and Jerry Mundy find the strength to overcome their personal battles and demonstrate the meaning of community during a time of need. At the Institute, Gita and her team will develop a mobile interface and social networking tool using MMS and Flash Lite to enable troops and the military families, veterans, and other visitors to participate in a robust, global support network – featuring customized e-greetings and an interactive, searchable archive. Producer Gita Pullapilly is an award-winning television journalist and Fulbright Scholar whose stories have aired on CBS, CNN, and ABC.

Major funding for the Producers Institute is provided by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. Additional foundation support for the Producers Institute is provided by The Nathan Cummings Foundation, The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, and The James Irvine Foundation.

The Producers Institute for New Media Technologies connects independent producers and their socially relevant content to emerging models of storytelling and distribution. Through the Institute, documentary production teams from across the US, Europe, and South America spend ten days at BAVC working with technologists, designers, storytellers, and programmers to develop new models of participatory media. Mentors from leading technology companies, including Apple, Adobe, Google, Mobile Active, Phantom Compass, Pentura, Map Office and others, work in teams to design and develop working prototypes, which are presented to international funding and review panels at the end of the Institute.

Projects from past Institutes include: a virtual, 3D Guantanamo Bay prison in Second Life; a national hate crime social network and Google Earth mash-up based on the national PBS broadcast series “Not In Our Town”; an interactive web portal for the international justice movement incorporating live twitter feeds and SMS based on the award-winning film “The Reckoning.”

Patrice O’Neill, producer of” Not In Our Town” has said of the Institute, “As filmmakers and people trying to create the right media tools for them, we have been under funded and have had such a lack of institutional support . . . (the Producers Institute) is the most support we’ve received in twelve years. And it has been incredible.”

The Bay Area Video Coalition (BAVC) was founded in 1976 to support freedom of expression by making advanced media technology accessible to independent media makers and nonprofits. We teach. We empower creative expression. We preserve the past. And we develop future media makers and innovators. BAVC’s mission is to be the nation’s most advanced noncommercial media access and training center. Visit BAVC on-line at http://www.bavc.org.

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Street Toyota Employees Participate in Childrens Benefit

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Amarillo, Texas (PRWEB) April 23, 2012

Street Toyota employees attended and participated in a benefit for abused children being sponsored by The Bridge of Amarillo, Texas.

Dave Walker, Scion Manager at Street Toyota and also a member of The Bridge was part of the cast Friday night when the Bridge held its annual Murder Mystery Dinner. The theme this year was Until Death Do We Part, which was a wedding mystery where one of the cast members mysteriously died during the ceremony. Walker was the wedding singer prior the wedding ceremony and held an important role during the play.

I was really excited to be performing before the play began as guests arrived, Walker said. The most important thing for me was that I was able to donate my time for such a good cause.

The evenings play also included other Street Toyota members randomly chosen from the audience to participate. Natalie Slatton, Marketing Coordinator and David Meraz, Director of Social Media also joined the cast Friday evening.

I was really shocked and nervous to be picked to join the cast on stage at first, Slatton. But seeing everyone else on stage with me was really exciting and my nerves quickly calmed down.

Natalie and David were part of the band during the wedding where they played imaginary instruments. As the evening progressed David was a suspect in murder of one of the cast members.

It was such a great evening seeing my co-workers on stage, Slatton said. I think the reason we do things like this is to help out the community, and it just so happens that this time it included a little humor and murder.

Street Toyota in Amarillo, Texas was established in 1982. A new 58,000 square foot facility on 9 acres is now open at 45th and Soncy. This is a state of the art facility and the customer’s comfort has been emphasized from the ample parking right down to the gourmet coffee. Street Toyota is the first dealer in west Texas to become Signature Certified.

Street Toyota has been a valuable corporate citizen in the Panhandle area. They provide support to area nonprofit organizations such as United Way, Better Business Bureau, Amarillo Adult Literacy, Harrington Cancer Center, Meals on Wheels, Make-a-Wish Foundation, Amarillo Symphony, Amarillo Museum of Art, Amarillo Little Theater, Lone Star Ballet, Discovery Center, Globe News Center for the Performing Arts, CACHA (Hispanic Chamber of Commerce) and many other organizations.







Assess Systems Invited to Participate in Annual Home Instead Event

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Dallas, TX (PRWEB) April 12, 2011

Assess Systems has been invited to participate in Home Instead Senior Care’s 2011 Annual International Convention and Vendor Showcase to be held in Omaha, Nebraska from April 13-16.

Home Instead Senior Care is the industry leader for in-home, non-medical care. The company has more than 900 franchises in the United States, Puerto Rico and fourteen countries worldwide.

The franchise network employs nearly 65,000 trained CAREGiversSM who provide millions of hours of elder care services annually. The world will soon have over one hundred million people over the age of 65, fueling growth in senior care services such as Home Instead provides.

To increase quality of hire in this growing field, Home Instead partnered with Assess Systems, a provider of assessment solutions for service-related occupations to create a custom assessment, the CAREGiver Pre-employment Assessment, to identify top-quality candidates.

Assess Systems interviewed franchise owners and clients to determine what differentiates Home Instead’s best CAREGivers from those who did not succeed in the caregiving environment. Assess then undertook an extensive statistical research study to develop a new assessment tool that measured the characteristics of successful CAREGivers, such as empathy, rapport and accommodation to others.

Franchise owners now have a pre-hire assessment created specifically for the CAREGiver role that helps take the guesswork out of hiring and enables owners to focus on candidates with the highest chance of success. In addition, the assessment results include a behavior-based interview with candidate-specific “probe” questions for any areas where the candidate is a less-than-perfect fit.

“Good employees are one of Home Instead’s strongest competitive advantages,” said Keith McCook, manager of consulting services for Assess Systems. “Great CAREGivers genuinely care about their clientsbut not everyone is a great CAREGiver. The assessment we created for Home Instead helps identify the candidates most likely to give their clients a quality, caring experience.”

About Assess Systems

Assess Systems is an innovative software and consulting firm providing talent selection and people development solutions including: competency modeling, selection process design, entry-level assessments, competency-based professional and managerial assessments, sales assessments, leadership development, 360 feedback, succession planning, and executive assessment and coaching. For more than 25 years, Assess Systems’ organizational psychologists have assessed millions of people in a broad spectrum of industries and positions spanning 42 countries and supporting 16 languages. For additional information, please call 972-233-6055 or visit http://www.assess-systems.com.

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Transaction Wireless to Participate in Mobile Commerce Panel at Social Mobile Payments Conference & Exhibition

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Orlando, FL (PRWEB) April 09, 2012

Transaction Wireless, the leading provider of digital gift card solutions, today announces that Tom Niedbalski, Senior Vice President of Business Development for Transaction Wireless, will be participating in the panel entitled The Future Of Plastic Cards Forum: Role of Plastic in Mobile Commerce at the Social Mobile Payments Conference & Exhibition in Orlando, Florida on April 11-12, 2012.

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1,000 English Teachers Worldwide Will Participate At The 25 Year Celebration Of Education Franchise Helen Doron Early English

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London (PRWEB) May 6, 2010

During last Thursdays press conference, Marek Halfar, National Franchisor for the Czech Republic explained: Every day Helen Doron Early English teachers have the extraordinary opportunity of unlocking the wonders and secrets hidden in childrens hearts and souls. We gain great rewards every time we see the happiness and keen interest in childrens eyes during the lessons. For the past 25 years of its existence, this educational franchise has passed on the joy of learning to thousands of children, and we are proud to be a part of this big happy family. Said Halfar and continued We are very proud and happy that the Golden City of Prague has been chosen to host the festivities for this unique event. Next weeks 25th Anniversary celebrations are going to be an outstanding opportunity to share this unique experience, and gain advice and ideas that have been gathered throughout the years working with children studying at Helen Doron Early English.

Anne Gordon, Vice President, Customer Business Development added This impressive gathering of thousands of teachers and hundreds of franchisees from all corner of the Helen Doron world to celebrate a quarter of a century of educational excellence, results in an outstanding global reputation that our franchisees capitalize on.

Conference to be held at Hilton Prague, on Saturday May 8th and Sunday May 9th. Press invited. Press packages at http://www.helendorongroup.com/25years/press.php

About the Helen Doron Educational Group

The Helen Doron Educational Group stands at the forefront of innovative educational systems since 1985, providing exclusive learning programs and quality educational materials for babies, children and adolescents the world over. Our quality educational programs include Helen Doron Early English and MathRiders for inspired learning in small groups; Polly the Collie, Super-Nature and Ready-Steady-Move designed for larger groups (kindergartens and schools). The Helen Doron educational franchise model invites entrepreneurs to join a successful business operation that benefits children around the world.

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

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New Jersey Massage Envy Locations to Participate in Healing Hands for Arthritis

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Trenton, NJ (PRWEB) September 14, 2011

Massage Envy franchises in the state of New Jersey are happy to announce their participation in Healing Hands for Arthritis on October 12th. In honor of World Arthritis Day, Massage Envy will be donating ten dollars from every one-hour massage session and facial in any New Jersey franchise towards the Arthritis Foundation, a national organization that works to spread awareness about arthritis and bring support to the many millions that suffer from the chronic disease.

The Arthritis Foundation is the leading nation-wide non-profit organization dedicated to prevent and help cure arthritis. Massage Envy specializes in pain management and stress relief through [massage therapy in New Jersey, and New Jersey franchise owners are more than happy to participate in the national Massage Envy event, which is expected to raise many thousands of dollars for arthritis patients.

New Jersey Massage Envy client Kathy Lowery knew she wanted to try massage therapy to relive her arthritic pain and turned to Massage Envy due to her son. My son had gotten me a massage before, so when I started feeling pain I decided to try it out, Lowery explains, I had tried [other solutions] before, but nothing ever worked, until I started my therapy at Massage Envy.

When Lowery started getting treated regularly with [massages in New Jersey, her arthritis started feeling better immediately. Lowery says, I go for pain, the massages really helps me manage my pain, sometimes after I go I will not have pain for up to three weeks. Plus of course relaxation, it helps you relax a lot. Massage Envy New Jersey locations hope that as many residents as possible in the local community come out and participate in this exciting charity event.

About Massage Envy

Massage Envy, based in Scottsdale, Arizona, is the leading provider of therapeutic massage in the United States. The national franchise of massage centers is dedicated to providing professional and affordable therapeutic massage services to consumers with busy lifestyles at convenient times and locations. Massage Envy Spa is its newest concept, offering Murad