Business Leaders of America

Jay Lillie
Entrepreneurial leaders do not have a mindset that adapts to

failure. Things go wrong, of course, but entrepreneurs don´t

call them "failures" they call them "glitches, mistakes,

bungles, setbacks", but not failing.

When one such entrepreneur was asked about the hardest decision

he ever had to make, he answered that he didn´t know what a hard

decision was. An entrepreneur will approach decision-making with

the idea that there´s a strong likelihood that he/she will be

wrong. This doesn´t dissuade them to the contrary they just

do the best they can and worry about handling obstacles as they

arise.

Here are a few top entrepreneurs in the U.S.

Konica Minolta Business Solutions U.S.A.

Konica Minolta Business Solutions U.S.A., Inc. (Konica Minolta), a leading provider of advanced imaging and networking technologies for the desktop to the print shop, today announced that its bizhub® PRESS C8000 was honored with a "Must See 'ems"® Award at this year´s GRAPH EXPO 2010® conference in Chicago. The MUST SEE 'EMS recognition program, part of the EXECUTIVE OUTLOOK® Conference, highlights GRAPH EXPO's most unique, innovative and compelling products and services. The Must See 'ems award announcement was made at the end of the Executive Outlook Conference on Saturday, October 2nd.

Church of Scientology International

In a video featured on the new Scientology Video Channel at www.Scientology.org, publicist Cheryl Duncan talks about how Scientology helped her feel comfortable in her own skin. She is a veteran communications strategist who has promoted events featuring some of the biggest names in the business. And now entertainment publicist Cheryl Duncan is opening up on the personal front about a very different aspect of her life: her religion, Scientology.

Disney On Ice (via McNeely Pigott & Fox)

Disney On Ice Salutes Fort Campbell Families With Special Toy Story 3 Performance

"Operation Celebrate Children" Featured National Anthem by Award-winning Artist Trace Adkins and Personalized Greeting by Mickey Mouse. Families of Fort Campbell soldiers on active duty were treated today to a private, free performance of Disney On Ice presents Disney/Pixar´s Toy Story 3 at Nashville´s Bridgestone Arena.

Applied Innovations

Applied Innovations, a Microsoft Gold Certified Windows hosting provider, announced today it is extending its partnership with SmarterTools Inc. into 2011, allowing it to continue providing customers with the latest online business productivity software. Through the eight-year-old partnership, Applied Innovations is able to offer a bundle of SmarterTools software—SmarterMail, SmarterTrack, and SmarterStats—to all of its hosting customers at no charge to them. Customers receive access to full, lifetime licenses to the software that they can use as long as they need it.

Soundtraining.net

New Cisco ASA Step-by-Step Guide Simplifies Configuration. The Accidental Administrator: Cisco ASA Security Appliance by Don R. Crawley makes it easy for I.T. professionals and accidental administrators to configure a Cisco ASA Security Appliance. The new simplified, step-by-step guide to Cisco ASA Security Appliances reached the marketplace this week. The Accidental Administrator: Cisco ASA Security Appliance is a step-by-step configuration guide. Author Don R. Crawley is a veteran technical trainer and I.T. guy whose book simplifies and speeds configuration and deployment of Cisco ASA Security Appliances.

Arts Council for Long Beach and GLOBAL

GLOBAL is the Largest Celebration of National Arts & Humanities Month in America. GLOBAL invites your to explore 1,000 arts experiences this October. Every October, the Arts Council for Long Beach produces GLOBAL -- the largest and most diverse celebration of National Arts and Humanities Month, a coast-to-coast collective celebration of culture in America.

American Home Safety Company

New Fire Alarm Device Released, More Effective at Waking Children. October is Fire Safety Month. There is a new innovative fire alarm device, Awake A Kid™ Wireless Alarm System, which is said to quickly and effectively wake up children using parents own pre-recorded voice. What alarming evidence caused a Miami Plastic Surgeon to create this unique device? 40,000 children are injured and 600 children die annually from home fires. When there is a fire, are you sure your smoke alarm will wake up your children? Research has shown that 85% of children below the age of 15 do not wake up to the sound of a standard smoke alarm. The new Awake A Kid fire warning alarm system, with custom voice recording, will. By using a pre-recorded message of a familiar voice, it has been shown that 79% children will wake within 30 seconds and 89% within a minute. With simple installation, the Awake A Kid works alongside existing smoke detectors, giving you piece of mind that you have given your children the very best chance of escape if the unexpected happens.

Care2Learn, Inc.

Care2Learn, Inc., the leader in online continuing education and training for post-acute healthcare providers, is presenting a free webinar, "A Team Approach with Residents and Family," from 1 to 3pm on October 14th. This free accredited live healthcare training opportunity is for all healthcare professionals who work in a long-term care environment. The webinar will help participants develop an understanding of the legal, professional and personal challenges and obligations facing long term care facilities when residents must deal with important issues concerning their ongoing care or end-of-life issues.

JP Labs

JP Labs Introduces Nano-Indis(TM), Novel and Revolutionary Self-Reading Indicators that Monitor Shelf Life, Sterilization and Toxic Agents. Nano-Indis(TM) read "FRESH" when perishables are fresh and "NOT FRESH" only when their shelf-life expires. They display "STERILIZED" only when medical supplies are sterilized and "NOT VALID" only when the predetermined visiting period of a guest expires. Destructible RFIDs simultaneously monitor quality and inventory of perishables and medical supplies. Affordable and accurate Nano-Indis are produced by applying a layer of an etchant onto a metallized/opaque plastic film printed with one message (FRESH) on the top and the other (NOT) at the bottom, which cannot be seen. A typical metallized plastic film has one 10 nm aluminum layer and one 2 nm oxide layer. When these nanomaterials are destroyed, a combined message, "NOT FRESH", appears abruptly after a predetermined time.

Mercedes Cecilia, Author and Illustrator, "KUSIKIY A CHILD FROM TAQUILE, PERU"

Author and illustrator Mercedes Cecilia draws us into the kaleidoscopic and mysterious world of a Peruvian child. KUSIKIY lives in The Andes Mountains of Peru in a small island in Lake Titikaka. KUSIKIY A CHILD FROM TAQUILE, PERU, Is a book that gives parents and educators a visual and appealing way to engage children in a dialogue about traditional cultures, community life and caring for our environment. It´s a story of a loving and adventurous child that offers children of all ages a multitude of opportunities to gain knowledge and to be entertained. This story allows children to identify with a child from a foreign land, enhancing their understanding and empathy, which will extend to the significant groups in their community and the wider world. Children learn while enjoying reading this story that we live in a multicultural world.

Shimmering Resumes

The San Francisco Bay Area´s leading executive resume writer and career counselor has offered to write an executive resume for Rick Sanchez, the fired CNN news anchor, who has been delightfully and repeatedly ridiculed by comedian Jon Stewart.Shimmering Resumes, a resume-writing service for executives and professionals, is concerned that Sanchez may invoke anti-Semitism to challenge CNN´s decision, made hours after Sanchez implied that Jews are in control of the media, especially CNN, during an interview on a Sirius XM radio program that the Washington Post called "gasp-inducing."

TV NZ News

TelstraClear has launched the T-Box, its High Definition capable personal video recorder and TV ONE and TV2 HD channels will be free for all TelstraClear customers who choose TelstraClear's dual or triple play service with the T-Box option. TVNZ News and TelstraClear have come to an agreement for TV ONE & TV2 HD Channels to be delivered to TelstraClear customers on its cable network in Wellington, Kapiti and Christchurch.

Linwood Real Estate and Property Management

Linwood Real Estate and Property Management Announces Multimedia Marketing Services for Clients

Linwood Real Estate and Property Management, a professional real estate firm serving the San Francisco Peninsula for over 40 years, announced the launch of a new multimedia marketing strategy. Linwood will now feature agents and listings on www.sfgate.com/homes. Selling homes in a tough market requires ingenuity. Linwood has responded by working with Hearst Media Services / Bay Area to build a robust web presence to increase exposure and attract buyers, sellers, and homeowners looking for property management services. Linwood now features listings on SFGate.com Homes, which receives on average 3 million local page views each month.

Best Plumbing Inc. San Rafael


With only three months remaining to take advantage of Energy Star 30% tax credits up to $1,500 on certain tankless water heater installations, many homeowners are going tankless. Tankless water heaters use less resources and lower monthly energy bills. Tankless water heaters also offer an endless supply of hot water for large families and take up less space than tank-style heaters.Best Plumbing is a full service plumber specializing in Rinnai, Noritz, & Takagi tankless water heater installations and affordable, high quality new and remodel construction plumbing, fixture and pipe replacement, and plumbing repair services in the San Francisco Bay Area. Owner John Gallagher, who has installed tankless water heaters for more than a decade, ensures every customer receives professional, timely service. All work is guaranteed.

TASTE Restaurant

Facebook Fans Enjoy 'All You Can Eat' Offer at TASTE Restaurant in October

With the recent successful campaign result of "Win a Dinner for You and 10 Friends" organized by Hotel ibis Singapore on Bencoolen on Facebook, an improved menu at TASTE restaurant has been modified based on the highest votes from Facebook Fans.The Top 10 Voted Items for TASTE Menu are Chilli Crab, Chicken Rice, Laksa, Assorted Satay, Popiah, Fried Hokkien Mee, Pepper Crab, Fish Curry with Roti Prata, Nasi Lemak and Char Kway Teow.This Top 10 List significantly reflects the multi-cultures and flavors in Singaporean dining. For example, Chilli Crab is a Singapore signature seafood dish which was created in 1950. Laksa, a popular spicy noodle soup is a mixture between Chinese and Malay culture. Char Kway Teow (stir-fried rice cake strips) is a noodle dish from Indonesia, Malaysia and Brunei.

Dr. Aura Imbarus, Author, "Out of the Transylvania Night" (via Levine Communications Office)

DNA Results of the Former Dictator's Body Expected to Crack Open a Long-Held Secret, Says Dr. Aura Imbarus, Author of the Just Released "Out of the Transylvania Night". "I'd grown up in the land of Transylvania, homeland to Dracula, Vlad the Impaler, and, worse, the Communist dictator, Nicolae Ceaus'escu--who turned Romania into a land of gray-clad zombies who never dared to show their individuality," says the Aura Imbarus, "and where neighbors became informants, and the Securitate made people disappear. Daylight empowered the regime to encircle us like starved wolves, and so night had always been the time to steal a bit of freedom. As if bred into our Transylvanian blood, we were like vampires who came to life after sundown. I buried the family jewels, tucked the flag into my sweater and left my outpost to join the action…tonight Ceausescu would die….!"

The Elliott Law Firm

Canton, Texas Social Security Disability Attorneys Collect $50,000 in Benefits for Clients

Today, The Elliott Law Firm announced that it collected well over $50,000.00 in past due benefits for their clients during the past three months, which brings the total to $200,000.00 in past due benefits collected so far in 2010. Today, The Elliott Law Firm announced that it collected well over $50,000.00 in past due benefits for their clients during the past three months, which brings the total to $200,000.00 in past due benefits collected so far in 2010.

Summit Racing Equipment

Team Summit Drivers to Visit U.S. Troops in Germany. Summit Racing Equipment Pro Stock drivers Jason Line, Warren Johnson, and Rickie Jones, along with Summit Racing/BIGFOOT Monster Truck driver Dan Runte, will visit American troops at Kaiserslautern Military Community in Germany, November 20-25. Team Summit drivers Jason Line, Warren Johnson, Rickie Jones, and Dan Runte will spend Thanksgiving week giving thanks to American troops stationed at Kaiserslautern Military Community in Germany. The team will travel to KMC November 20-25 for a USO-sponsored support mission that will also include a visit to Landstuhl Regional Medical Center to meet with wounded American troops.

Margie Kay, Author

New Book Takes Ghost Hunting to the Next Level

While most ghost hunters focus only on the scientific investigation of ghosts, Margie Kay uses her extreme psychic abilites in addition to science. In "The Ghost Hunter's Field Guide" she guides the ameteur and professlional ghost hunter in ways that have not been approached before. While most ghost hunters focus only on the scientific investigation of ghosts, Margie Kay uses her psychic abilites in addition to science. In "The Ghost Hunter's Field Guide" she advises the ameteur and professional ghost hunter in ways that have not been approached before. Kay guides the reader through procedures to increase their own psychic abilities in order to find and communicate with ghosts more readily. She provides information on the latest ghost hunting equipment and how to use it, where to find ghosts, and protection methods against negative energies while searching for spirits. The book includes accounts of real ghost hunting adventures and a listing of public haunted places. The Ghost Hunter's Field Guide" is available at www.margiekay.com, amazon.com, and other channels.

The Healthy Back Institute

The Healthy Back Institute is known for their "Lose the Back Pain" System and inversion tables, now the Healthy Back Institute moves forward by providing their customers with even more alternative cures. Healthy Back's new products will instruct pain sufferers on how to treat neck pain, knee pain, foot pain and shoulder pain. Their new line of products is scheduled for public release within the next 6 months. "One thing that sets us apart is our unique line of highly effective products which are not found anywhere else. We offer cutting edge information on our site. Patients can't find this info on traditional websites, so you never get the same regurgitation of facts, or junk science," says Jesse Cannone, Owner of The Healthy Back Institute.

Algorithmics

Algorithmics, the world's leading provider of risk solutions, today publishes the first comprehensive assessment of all the elements of Basel III, and finds them lacking in their conceptual approach to capital and liquidity. The raft of proposals from the Basel Committee includes the headline-grabbing tier 1 capital ratio, buffer building, and leverage and liquidity ratios, which are all significant in their own right. However, having assessed all the regulatory documents from a holistic rather than risk silo perspective, Algorithmics´ research paper, titled ´Basel III: What´s New? – Business and Technological Challenges´, identifies the fundamental flaw of failing to reflect the true relationship between liquidity and capital.

The International Code Council (ICC)

The International Code Council (ICC)The International Code Council (ICC) and National Board of Boiler and Pressure Vessel Inspectors (NBBI) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the ultimate objective of advancing and promoting the mutual interests of the installation and inspection of boilers and pressure equipment. Each organization´s individual depth of experience and strengths in the boiler and pressure vessel arena complement one another. Since NBBI focuses on the inspection side of boiler and pressure vessels whereas the Code Council´s core competency is related to the installations and other code-specific applications, the strengths of these two organizations result in an optimal collaboration.

Sony Ericsson

Sony Ericsson has revealed a range of how-to videos through the official Sony Ericsson YouTube channel. A number of these videos have recently been uploaded to the official channel. The videos are designed to help users to maximise the use of their Sony Ericsson Xperia™ X10 handsets. The videos offer step-by-step guides that are easy to understand so that all users can act upon the information presented in each video.

Leggiadro

Luxury fashion house Leggiadro has seen continued expansion in the past year with the opening of three new boutiques, a new website and a new partnership with the Breast Cancer Research Foundation. The ultra-luxe fashion brand has opened stores in Montecito, CA, Sarasota, FL and most recently Dallas, TX in a continuing expansion into luxury havens around the country. "Our customers travel regularly throughout the year," notes Leggiadro President Brooks Ross. "It´s our mission to be personally available season by season with the right selection of clothing." Likewise, Leggiadro has focused the opening of new boutiques in locations that will better serve their loyal customers. Having partnered with Evelyn Lauder´s Breast Cancer Research Foundation, Leggiadro is releasing a limited edition tee shirt to raise funds in support of their ongoing research. BCRF is dedicated to preventing breast cancer and finding a cure in our lifetime by funding clinical and translational research worldwide. The 3/4 sleeve tee is fashioned from a stretch viscose knit with a unique pink leopard print that shows an allegiance to the fight against breast cancer. Leggiadro is donating 25% of each purchase to BCRF.

Nobo Kapture®

Kapture Your Ideas with Nobo´s New Digital Flipchart. Nobo, a leading provider of meeting and conference equipment, has recently launched its 'state of the art' digital flipchart, Nobo Kapture®. Using specially printed digital paper, a digital marker pen and a USB receiver with integrated Bluetooth technology, Nobo Kapture® enables you to capture, edit and share your meeting notes instantly.
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