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Doug Swenson, Author of Power Yoga for Dummies, Brings the Ultimate Yoga Workshop to REZA Fitness Resort®

Doug Swenson is bringing his world-class yoga workshop to REZA Fitness Resort® from April 28-30, 2006. REZA Fitness Resort is the World's first and only Boutique Fitness Resort®. Doug is a master yoga practitioner, philosopher, poet and dedicated health advocate. He has incorporated influences from several different yoga systems along with his passion for nutrition and the environment to develop his unique approach.

Scottsdale, AZ (PRWEB) March 10, 2006

REZA Fitness Resort® - An Exclusively Different Approach to Fitness & Wellness - INDOOR CYCLING (SPIN), YOGA, PILATES, DANCE, SPA, Hosts Doug Swenson for a weekend Ultimate Yoga Workshop.

REZA Fitness Resort® promotes a thoroughly healthy lifestyle, focused on heavy cardio derived from Spin (Indoor Cycling) complemented by Yoga and Pilates. REZA also offers the latest in dance workshops such as pole dancing, hip hop, salsa and belly dancing. These programs are designed to provide a fun fitness experience while helping members lose weight and reduce fat. The resort’s style is reminiscent of an all-inclusive 5 star hotel with original oil paintings in every area — water, tea, sports drinks, shampoos, soaps, and even toothbrushes and toothpaste are complimentary, and the resort itself is a modern, welcoming, intimate place with state-of-the-art equipment and world-class instructors.

Doug Swenson is bringing his world-class yoga workshop to REZA Fitness Resort® from April 28-30, 2006.

Doug Swenson began his study of yoga in 1969. He has had the good fortune of studying with many great teachers including Dr. Ernest Wood, K. Pattabhi Jois, Ramanand Patel and others. Doug is a master yoga practitioner, philosopher, poet and dedicated health advocate. He has incorporated influences from several different yoga systems along with his passion for nutrition and the environment to develop his unique approach. Over the years he has authored several books; “Yoga Helps”, “The Diet That Loves You Most”, “Power Yoga for Dummies” and “Mastering The Secrets of Yoga Flow”.

Doug travels extensively offering workshops, retreats and teacher training courses around the world.

Don't miss this great opportunity to study with one of the world’s top instructors. Doug's classes are always invigorating and inspirational and his supportive style of teaching and keen sense of humor send his students home with a smile on their face and a softness within their heart.

REZA Fitness Resort®, http://www. rezaresort. com (http://www. rezaresort. com) is the World’s First and Only Boutique Fitness Resort® offering members a uniquely personalized, integrative approach to health and well being. REZA offers Spinning, Yoga, Pilates, Belly Dancing, Salsa Dancing, Thai Massage and Relaxation experiences, an Organic Skin Care line and custom-designed fitness apparel for women. In addition, REZA is a LEMOND Academy Regional Training Center providing World-Class Indoor Cycling Training in the Southwest.

If you would like more information about this topic, or to schedule an interview please contact Reza Karamooz at 480-205-5805. REZA Fitness Resort®, http://www. rezaresort. com (http://www. rezaresort. com).

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Alterian Integrates Web Content Management with Email Marketing

Alterian Integrates Web Content Management with Email Marketing

Award Winning International Digital Agency, Reading Room, is First to Adopt New Solution

Bristol, UK and Chicago, IL (PRWEB) August 26, 2008

Alterian (http://www. alterian. com/press_releases_1.aspx? id=0:33286&id=0:33281&id=0:33277) (LSE: ALN), today announced it has completed the first stage of integration between the Web Content Management products - Immediacy and Morello - that it acquired as part of Mediasurface less than two months ago, and the Alterian Integrated Marketing Platform. The company also announced the first contract for the integrated solution from Reading Room, an award winning International digital agency and experienced Immediacy user.

Dynamic Messenger, Alterian's highly rated Email Marketing application, is now integrated with and able to utilize digital content stored within both Immediacy and Morello to execute email marketing campaigns. The resulting offering, branded as Alterian Engage, reduces duplication of content across multiple systems in the marketing department, simplifies the workflow process required to deliver email campaigns and significantly reduces the time taken from initial marketing idea to campaign execution.

"As a long-term user of Mediasurface's Web Content Management products, we were keen to understand the opportunities provided through its acquisition by Alterian," said Margaret Manning, CEO, Reading Room.

Reading Room has clients as diverse as Skoda, Cancer Research and The Prince of Wales, and with a staff of more than 150 working from offices in London and Manchester in the UK and Sydney and Canberra in Australia, they are at the forefront of delivering digital communications capabilities to clients.

Manning continued, "The more we have learned about the Alterian Integrated Marketing Platform, the more excited we have become about what we will be able to deliver to clients with this technology. We are always looking for ways to deliver innovative capabilities to our clients to improve their digital communications. Combining our creative, strategy and technology capabilities with a platform that truly integrates content, analytics and execution will enable real advances in this area. We intend to work closely with Alterian and adopt new solutions at each stage of the integration with Immediacy and Morello, so that we can become one of the first digital agencies that offers the benefits of these exciting capabilities to its clients."

On the 9th July 2008, Alterian announced that it had completed the purchase of Web Content Management software company Mediasurface, allowing it to offer multi-channel analytics with execution and content that helps marketers improve customer experience and profitability. The newly formed organization has a large international development team based across the UK, Los Angeles and Bangalore who have worked hard over the past six weeks to make stage one of the platform integration a reality.

David Eldridge, Alterian's CEO said "In less than two months, we have delivered on the first step of our technology integration and I am delighted that Alterian Engage - the combination of our world class email platform with our Web Content Management products - is being so well received by our existing partners and users. Reading Room is a leader in its field and their adoption of this offering as well as their interest in our whole technology platform is a real endorsement of our vision. "

"We will be making Alterian Engage generally available to our installed base of users shortly, and expect to see significant opportunities in even this first stage of technology integration. We continue to make good progress on further integration of our newly acquired Web Content Management products with other elements of the Alterian Integrated Marketing Platform, and our early success and very positive feedback from customers and partners bodes well for future growth."

About Alterian
Alterian (LSE: ALN) empowers marketers with an integrated marketing software platform combining database, online and operational marketing applications on a shared data infrastructure. The Alterian Marketing Services Platform makes it practical and cost effective for marketers to use actionable insight to execute an integrated marketing strategy across online and offline channels.

It is the unique integration of analytics, content and execution through Alterian's industry leading tools, such as the Dynamic Messenger email platform, and the award winning Morello and Immediacy Web Content Management solutions, which enables marketers to drive a seamless, multi-channel customer experience.

Alterian's analytically-led software is delivered to approximately 1,000 marketing departments, across 26 countries, and an international network of more than 100 business partners, including marketing services providers, agencies and systems integrators. Its partners, such as Accenture, Acxiom, Allant Group, Cap Gemini, Carlson Marketing, Experian, Epsilon, InfoUSA, LogicaCMG, Merkle, Ogilvy One and Euro RSCG Worldwide, deliver Alterian software alongside their own domain and services expertise to help market leaders such as Princess Cruises, General Motors, Zurich, Astra Zeneca, HSBC, Limited Too, AEGON, Avis, Worldwide Wrestling Entertainment, Dell, Amnesty International and Vodafone integrate marketing processes and drive competitive advantage. For more information about Alterian, products within the Alterian Marketing Services Platform or our Partner Network, please visit www. alterian. com

About Reading Room
Reading Room is an award winning, full service, digital communications agency.

We are Digital Marketing Agency of the Year (Impact Awards); the highest ranking digital agency in the 2007 Sunday Times Fast Track Tech Track league tables; and the UK's fastest growing wholly independent digital communications agency (Design Week 2008). Our Manchester office was voted top digital agency outside London in a 2008 Recommended Agencies Register (RAR) survey.
Reading Room's services span the full lifecycle of digital communications, including:

 Strategic planning, creative and technical consultancy;
 Design and development;
 Digital marketing and measurement;
 Usability and accessibility testing;
 Hosting and managed services.

We have clients from numerous sectors ranging widely in size - including HRH The Prince of Wales, Royal Mail, Department of Health, Skoda, YHA, Glasgow 2014, Manchester City Galleries, and Whizz-Kidz.

Founded from a Camden flat in 1996 we have grown to 150 staff, with offices in London, Manchester, Sydney and Canberra. Today we remain independent and committed to the core values and strategy that were developed in our early years and which have allowed us to achieve our successes to date.

Www. readingroom. com

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Malpractice Litigation is Driving Mammography Toward Extinction

Malpractice Litigation is Driving Mammography Toward Extinction

How our best defense against breast cancer is being driven to extinction.

Port Charlotte, FL (PRWEB) February 2, 2006

Mammography is still the only reliable tool available to diagnose breast cancer in its earliest and most treatable stages, though it can have up to a 30% miss rate. In The Death of Mammography (Caveat Press 2006), co-authors Rene' Jackson, RN BSN MS and Alberto Righi, MD, present a sharp critique of the failures of the medical liability system in the United States, as it pertains to "failure to diagnose breast cancer on mammography" litigation.

Leonard Berlin, M. D., F. A.C. R., Chairman Department of Radiology Rush North Shore Medical Center in Illinois says, "It is a combination of two books: one, an encyclopedia of knowledge regarding breast cancer and mammography; the other, a treatise on malpractice litigation and its impact on the practice of medicine in general, along with a first-hand account of a malpractice lawsuit focusing on a radiologist’s alleged missing of a tiny cancer on a mammogram. It calls into question, if not casts doubt on the 'I’ll get a mammogram - - my breast cancer will be diagnosed early and I’ll be cured - - and if not, I’ll sue the radiologist' mentality."

"The Death of Mammography, more than any other book on the U. S. litigation crisis and failures, captures the essence of the problem in a highly charged emotional situation," comments John Thomas, President and Chief Development Officer of Cirrus Health in Texas.

Pamela Seay JD, Associate Professor, Division of Justice Studies at Florida Gulf Coast University says, "It is an important work addressing a crucial issue in women's health."

Rene' Jackson, R. N., B. S.N., M. S. is a Special Procedures Nurse in Medical Imaging at Charlotte Regional Medical Center, Punta Gorda, Florida. Author of more than forty healthcare and nursing articles, she is also a reviewer and contributor for many professional manuals.

Alberto Righi, M. D. is the medical director of a radiology group in Florida. He obtained his M. D. at the University of South Florida; his radiology specialty at Tulane; and his neuroradiology specialty at the U. of Miami.

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Exhaustion Creating Boom in Energy Products: Stress, Longer Work Hours, Menopause Contributing Factors

Exhaustion Creating Boom in Energy Products: Stress, Longer Work Hours, Menopause Contributing Factors

The recent boom in energy-related products has high school districts across the country concerned about the potential dangers of concentrated caffeine-based products; enough so that they have begun to send warning flyers home to parents. What officials may be failing to recognize is that adults, suffering from longer work hours, job stress, irregular or poor eating habits, even menopause-related insomnia, are among the largest users of energy boosting products.

Fairfield, NJ (PRWEB) December 1, 2007 –

The recent boom in energy-related products has high school districts across the country concerned about the potential dangers of concentrated caffeine-based products; enough so that they have begun to send warning flyers home to parents. What officials may be failing to recognize is that adults, suffering from longer work hours, job stress, irregular or poor eating habits, even menopause-related insomnia, are among the largest users of energy boosting products. For a nation seeming to run on exhaustion, the good news is that today’s adults are transitioning from using concentrated caffeine products like Red Bull and Monster to the more natural, and powerful, vitamin B-12 boost found in products like NutraMist’s Energy Shots.

Vitamin B-12: A Natural Energy Boost
Hailed as the “energy” or anti-fatigue vitamin, B12 is required for metabolizing carbohydrates, fats, and protein and is essential to maintaining healthy nerve and red blood cells. For today’s over worked and over stressed adults, fatigue may be the result of a diet low in B12 rich foods, such as organ meats, fish, crab, oysters, egg yolk, and milk products, or simply because the absorption of this vital food-based nutrient decreases with age.

NutraMist executive Ellen Leikind said, “Vitamin B12 is a much healthier approach to energy supplementation than caffeine. With B12 products like Energy Shots, you don’t experience the jitters or edginess that concentrated caffeine products are predisposed to cause. In fact, the B12 experience tends to be a more euphoric level of energy.”

B12 Versus Concentrated Caffeine
The jitters and edginess concentrated caffeine-based products yield are, according to Leikind, symptoms that typically result from raised blood pressure and heart rate. Additionally, she noted, “Caffeine tends to dehydrate the body and, like all stimulants, prevents sleep. B12 gives you the energy you need quickly, but without the nasty side effects of concentrated caffeine. Perhaps that’s why it’s also known as the longevity vitamin.”

NutraMist’s Energy Shots, delivered in an oral spray, affords 1500 mcg of B12 per spray – roughly 3 times the lower, intramuscular therapeutic dose used in treating adult fatigue. Said Leikind, “Because B12 has no upper limit and is considered a safe vitamin, for most adults it’s the best alternative to concentrated caffeine products.” 

NutraMist formulas include Energy Shots, Immune Boost, Crave Control, and Sleep Now are available at CVS, Walgreens, Vitamin Shoppe, GNC, Rite Aid, Longs, Duane Reade and more. Distributed by IdeaVillage Products Corp., headquartered in Fairfield, New Jersey, information on the NutraMist product line can be found at www. nutramistproducts. com.

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Medicinal Secrets of Hot Peppers Featured on New Website

Medicinal Secrets of Hot Peppers Featured on New Website

Recent medical discoveries show hot peppers can treat everything from sinusitis and headaches to herpes and indigestion. It’s all thanks to the natural chemical (capsaicin), that puts the “Hot” in hot peppers, and now there’s a website dedicated to the healing magic of capsaicin. Pepperhealth. com features unique pepper products, pepper links, and all kinds of information on those mystical natural heat generators including that miracle cayenne pepper weight loss drink,“The Master Cleanser”used by Paris Hilton and Robin Quivers.

Albany, NY (PRWEB) February 2, 2004

Hot peppers are hotter than ever, and we’re not talking “Scoville Heat Units” either. Hot pepper products are all the rage at health food stores across America, and there's even a new nasal spray made with (capsaicin) hot pepper extract that many people describe as a “miracle sinus & headache treatment”. Furthermore, the best over the counter arthritis pain relief creams all contain natural capsaicin.

This heat producing miracle extract can do a lot more than relieve sinus problems, headaches, and arthritis. Capsaicin is also being used to treat mouth sores, and several pharmaceutical companies plan to release capsaicin herpes creams that have been proven to be very effective. As if that weren't enough, capsaicin has also been clinically proven to control bleeding, and itÂ’s used to treat digestion problems.

Perhaps the most unique use of capsaicin is as a diet / weight loss aid. Capsaicin in one form or another is used in nearly every effective fat burner, and it’s the main ingredient in that miracle diet drink, “The Master Cleanser”. Many Hollywood stars swear by “The Master Cleanser” to clean out their systems, and balance their bodily functions. Used as a daily drink, this strange concoction of cayenne pepper powder, maple syrup, and lemon juice is proving to be a real boost for quick weight loss, and overall health.

Word is "Simple Life" star, Paris Hilton uses cycles of the Master Cleanser to stay toothpick thin. And Robin Quivers, famed sidekick on the Howard Stern Show, has lost more than 75 pounds since she started drinking the Master Cleanser.

In fact, Quivers credits the capsaicin beverage with saving her life. She had spent 20 years doing the “yo-yo diet” thing, and by her mid-forties, Robin was suffering from many health problems. Since she started using the cayenne pepper drink, Quivers claims all her health problems have completely disappeared. Now she has more energy than ever, and exercises everyday.

Aside from the obvious health benefits, many people crave the spice of hot peppers in food. In fact, capsaicin makes your body release natural endorphins that give pepper eaters a burst of energy. Hot chicken wing lovers almost get high on their buffalo wings eating as many as 20 at one sitting.

Hot sauces are also “hot sellers” throughout America with lots of celebrities getting into the hot sauce business. Even Joe Perry from the famed rock group, Aerosmith, has his own brand of hot sauce. In fact, Perry was recently featured on the cover of Fiery Foods Magazine. That’s right, there’s even a magazine dedicated to the magic and mystique of nature’s burning hot delights, and now there’s a new website with all the poop on everything pepper at (www. pepperhealth. com).

“It’s a work in progress, but we aim to become the main clearinghouse for the latest information on medical breakthroughs using capsaicin. Hot peppers have been used for thousands of years to cure a variety of conditions. Even the Mayans used pepper extracts to treat respiratory problems. It’s funny how they knew this thousands of years ago because I know of several clinical trials going on today using capsaicin to treat asthma and other respiratory conditions just like the Mayans did. There’s also a new nasal spray made with capsaicin, and I’m hearing great things about it from doctors and patients. They say it stops a sinus headache in seconds. There was such a demand for it, we offered the manufacturer a chance to sell it on our site. We’re always looking for the latest pepper products, and we’re also interested in reviewing freelance articles for possible publication on our site….so anybody out there who wants to write about peppers can email us with a query,” says Joyce Claire, the brains behind pepperhealth. com.

Whether you suffer from sinusitis, migraine headaches, allergies, skin conditions, arthritis, or you just want a good recipe for the weight loss master cleanser, (www. pepperhealth. com) is your “one stop pepper shop” on the web. Even if you’re just a hot pepper connoisseur, or a hot sauce junkie, this is one "HOT" website you’ve got to check out.

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Onsite Paging Saves Lives in Hospitals, PageRouter: Faster, better and more reliable healthcare

Onsite Paging Saves Lives in Hospitals, PageRouter: Faster, better and more reliable healthcare

To continue to deliver quality healthcare, St. Clair Hospital in Mount Lebanon, Pennsylvania, sought to streamline its onsite-offsite paging integration.

MARKHAM, Ontario (PRWEB) April 17, 2008

 "Whether for medical emergencies or routine care, responding with the right treatment at the right time can save and sustain lives," says Gary Steiner, St. Clair Hospital's Telcom Administrator. "We wanted to minimize the time patients or staff spent waiting for help or input from others."

St. Clair Hospital turned to the PageRouter Text Messaging Management System, by Canamex Communications, a leading manufacturer of healthcare messaging solutions. Steiner appreciates the way their advanced messaging management technology is able to integrate communication among a full-range of sources and destinations from nurse call stations and patient monitoring equipment, to local onsite pagers, commercial pagers, PDAs, wireless phones, cell phones, email addresses, and two-way radios.

"With the PageRouter system it just takes two seconds from the time the patient pulls the nurse call until the attending nurse's pager is ringing and explanatory text is supplied," says Steiner. "The nurse knows not only which patient pulled the cord, but also in which area of the patient's room it was pulled whether lavatory, bedside, or emergency call."

According to Steiner, the system supplies a patient response safety net, which has freed up departmental secretaries to do their work and allowed nurses to respond much faster to patients' needs.

It is in emergency situations, however, that Steiner feels the advanced PageRouter system may be most useful. "From any phone, staff can dial a three-digit pager number, a callback number, and select a prepared message to send individuals or an emergency response team," says Steiner. "The right individuals or teams are automatically paged in seconds whether they're onsite or offsite."

"By getting both critical and routine information to the right people as soon as it's available, the paging management system allows us to focus on effective patient care," says Steiner. "It's a simple, cost-effective way to help medical professionals take care of patients better and faster by removing communicative and administrative bottlenecks."

Canamex Communications Corporation is the developer of the PageRouter Paging Management System and QUIKPAGER Wireless product line. QUIKPAGER can be found in nearly 40% of hospitals in the United States. Contact Canamex at 888-387-4205 for a demonstration, visit them at www. canamexcom. com or write to 200 Riviera Drive, Markham, Ontario, L34 5M1, Canada.

KEYWORDS: emergency, healthcare, hospital, message, messaging, notification, nurse call, pager, pagers, paging, unified messaging, wireless

Book Reveals How Husband's Decline and Death Leads Author to Spiritual Enlightenment

Book Reveals How Husband's Decline and Death Leads Author to Spiritual Enlightenment

The Heart Knows the Way -- How to Follow Your Heart and Make a Conscious Connection with the Spirit Within is a remarkably intimate and revealing account by the author of how she was guided to cope with her own fears and share her husband's final journey during his decline and death. Invaluable lessons for all who care.

Scottsdale, AZ (PRWEB) July 25, 2006

The decline and death of a loved one is often traumatic, and may negatively affect the emotional and physical health of the survivor as well as seriously limit their future enjoyment of life because of sadness and sometimes guilt.

Veteran Scottsdale, Arizona writer-author Fern Stewart Welch says this doesn’t have to be so.

Welch says that coping with this universal and natural life event can be spiritually enlightening and a reaffirmation of life.

In her just-released book, “The Heart Knows the Way -- How to Follow Your Heart to a Conscious Connection with the Divine Spirit Within,” she chronicles her experiences in dealing concurrently with the decline and death of her mother and that of her husband, Kenneth A. Welch, the nationally known founder and publisher of PHOENIX Magazine, who was instrumental in establishing the City & Regional Magazine Association of America.

In the book the author shares the intimate details of the surprising transformation that dramatically changed her interaction with her husband, their experiences, and her life.

"At first I was concerned about revealing such intimate details of my husband's illness and death and my own personal reaction to coping with the process," she said, "but the professional editors and reviewers who read the manuscript before it was published convinced me that my concerns were unfounded, saying that it was one of the most inspirational books they had read and it could help many people."

Welch sets the background of her experience by recounting how she and her husband met and the loving partnership that enhanced their life and careers.

The unflinching story of her conscious participation in her husband’s long decline and his final days and moments provide remarkable insights into a way in which this profound natural life event is meant to be experienced.

Welch sought a more enlightened, loving and healthful approach to her husband’s decline and death -- one that she knew was possible but hadn’t been able to discover on her own.

“I surrendered myself to this seeking and eventually was able to connect with the sublime energy, love and liberating wisdom that is within each of us,” she said.

This discovery dramatically changed her situation from one of helplessness and vulnerability to a spiritual adventure in consciousness that not only radically improved their time together, but allowed her to complete the mourning with a joyous reaffirmation of life.

"I am now more aware, more alive, than ever before," she said. "And I think the book will help others cope with the death of loved ones and allow them to grow through the experience and the mourning, be free of the sadness and guilt that surrounds many deaths and go on to live joyful and fruitful lives."

Welch’s book has received the enthusiastic endorsement of a number of bestselling authors and spiritual teachers, including the late Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, M. D., who changed the way in which the world thinks about death and dying; Larry Dossey, M. D., Stephen Levine, C. Norman Shealy, Ph. D., M. D., Gladys Taylor McGarey, M. D.(H) and Cathleen Fanslow-Brunjes, R. N., M. A., C. N.S.

“The Heart Knows the Way” is available to readers from Amazon. com, other online booksellers, and from bookstore chains. It is available to the book trade from Ingram Book Company, Baker & Taylor, and other book wholesalers.

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