Research and Markets: Personal Care Retailers in Europe and Main Countries Worldwide – 2012
Posted: October 1, 2012 at 10:22 pm
DUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/89fmwc/personal_care) has announced the addition of the "Personal Care retailers in Europe and main countries worldwide" directory to their offering.
The database contains ranking, profiles and all key information about Personal care retail chains in Europe, America, Asia and Africa. The data includes data on turnover, number of outlets, number of employees, address information and information about the management.
The database covers all major retailers in Europe and some major countries outside Europe. The total number of personal care retailers (drugstores, perfumeries, pharmacies) in the database is growing because every day new retailer profiles are added. The current number of retailers in the database can easily be seen via the search menu at Home & Search. For each retailer a full profile is available. Via the home page other retail sectors are accessible.
Retail-Index contains all key information about international and national personal care chains, including data on turnover and numbers of stores and their banners. The focus is on the retailers in the European countries such as Germany, France, UK, Italy, Spain etc., but most other countries are included. Countries like USA, China, Japan etc. are given but do not offer full coverage yet. The author is presently working on completion and update of the personal care retailers.
You can also go to the Home & Search and select countries yourself. For each country the number of full retailer profiles in the database is shown. Rankings and profiles are given in the same style for all retail companies, sectors and countries. Clicking on the profile provides the name, headquarter address, phone, fax, management, company website, turnover development, banners, number of stores and much other relevant information. For multinational retailers the address of the headoffices in each country is reported as well as local manager(s). When new retail sectors are added we always start with the European countries followed by major countries outside Europe.
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Address information and website
Banners/brands
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Marshfield girls cross country: Rams set 10 individual records at Invitational
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It was only a matter of time before the Rams reached double digits in personal records ... in one meet. Despite Saturdays poor weather conditions at the Massachusetts State Track Coaches Association Invitational at the Wrentham Development Center, the Rams set 10 personal bests on the 5K course, an accomplishment that Marshfield Head Coach Ed Ryan called, fantastic.
In the varsity race, Kate Spitler, Sarah Nicoll, Bri Doherty, Elizabeth Vincent, and Stephani Lacasse set personal records, while Alex Rodriguez, Tori Barrows, Nicole Olson, Jessica Merritt, and Meg Birkmeyer did so in the junior varsity race.
In the jayvee race, Rodriguez had the highest finish for Marshfield, coming in 46th place, running a time of 23 minutes, 49 seconds in the 5K race.
In the freshman race, Cecilia White finished 15th, medaled, and ran 12:58 on the 1.9-mile freshmen course.
Spitler ran a 20:59, finishing 57th, in the varsity race. Nicoll clocked a 21.02, placing 58th, while Doherty registered a time of 21.45 and finished 90th.
The Rams were scheduled to race Atlantic Coast League foe Plymouth South Tuesday afternoon. Their race against Plymouth North last week was postponed. No makeup date had been set as of press time.
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MCCI Introduces First Platform for USB 3.0 Development
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ITHACA, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Stacks are no longer enough for reliable, extensible development and deployment of USB 3.0 according to MCCI Corporation, a leading developer of USB drivers and firmware for the high-volume personal computer and portable device markets. USB 3.0, now in Microsoft Windows 8 and Apple OS X Mountain Lion, is being used for a growing set of connectivity applications that require a new approach for USB host and device manufacturers to implement support to ensure the optimum consumer experience and predictable time to market. To address this issue, MCCI is now delivering a complete platform for USB 3.0, TrueTask USB, which will deliver ROI savings as well as high reliability.
There is a revolution in connectivity coalescing around USB 3.0 today, with over ten billion USB devices shipped, and hundreds of thousands of different kinds of devices. USB 3.0 is being used by product manufacturers for a variety of connectivity applications, from chargers to storage, said Terry Moore, CEO, MCCI. Creating USB host software is not easy and is risky because of testing and requirements to be compatible with the huge variety of devices. The TrueTask USB platform is pre-tested and pre-verified. With the MCCI platform, we let manufacturers focus on enhancing their products so that they dont have to worry about USB connectivity.
TrueTask USB is a complete solution that includes USB 3.0 / USB 2.0 host and device support. It is highly portable, fast, efficient, and designed to support a variety of hardware. MCCIs USB 3.0 host software has been tested with tens of thousands of different devices and shipped with over 20 million PCs. In addition to licensing the software, MCCI offers design consultation, integration and customization services. MCCI, one of only nine certified USB-IF test houses worldwide, also offers extensive testing and verification services for USB developers.
At VDC, weve seen a direct relationship for success in markets when companies offer end-to-end solutions that include software, as well as services and expertise, said Jared Weiner, Analyst, Embedded Software & Tools Practice, VDC Research. MCCIs integrated platform approach and test services will help improve manufacturers ability to meet the markets increasing demand for USB connectivity.
Platforms go beyond simple stacks to provide APIs that are stable across releases and variations in hardware and operating system. Only a true platform allows the investment in USB development to be reused across changes in CPUs, operating systems, and host or device controller silicon. Because MCCIs TrueTask USB is portable to any embedded system without source code changes, it saves considerable time and thus costs for manufacturers. Unlike simple stacks where you have to re-code for each product and each update, TrueTask USB enables manufacturers to leverage their investments for quicker time to market and profit across all future products, and across multiple current products.
ROI/cost of development data derived from detailed and extensive surveys of embedded developers has shown year-over-year that the use of commercial software, as compared with free or open-source software, results in a lower total cost of development, shorter time to market and better design outcomes, said Dr. Jerry Krasner, Vice President and Chief Analyst, Embedded Market Forecasters. In a market where device manufacturers have a short window to launch new tablets, smartphones, and other portable devices, buying commercial software from a company that knows how to implement USB connectivity makes good business sense.
MCCIs TrueTask USB is available now to select, tier-one customers in automotive, consumer electronics, and printer industries, and will be generally available by the end of Q4 2012. Prices start at $50,000 for a single-project development platform.
Variants are available for a variety of embedded platforms, including Linux, MQX, Nucleus, micro-ITRON, Windows Embedded, Windows Compact Embedded, and non-OS/pre-boot environments.
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A Day at E-School – Video
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McGraw-Hill Education Remote Proctoring Solution Offers Secure Assessment Experience for Online and Blended Courses …
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SANTA CLARA, Calif., Oct. 1, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --Exam halls at colleges and universities across the country have been going virtual thanks to the remote proctoring capabilities contained within McGraw-Hill Tegrity Campus. Today, McGraw-Hill Education launched McGraw-Hill Tegrity Remote Proctoring, a new service providing the growing number of schools offering online and blended courses with a quick path to securely and efficiently administer exams and other assessments over the Internet. Students enrolled in online or blended courses can now take exams from home or any Internet-enabled location, giving colleges and universities true "test anywhere" capabilities.
To meet the needs of today's students, many institutions are offering online programs and degrees as well as blended courses that combine traditional face-to-face classes with online-based discussions and assignments. Despite the compelling and virtual nature of their offerings, when exam time comes around, institutions have been forced to return to physical on-campus halls or off-campus proctoring sites to comply with industry standards. For many online and blended learning students, the distance between these testing sites and their homes means they are required to travel hours and pay hundreds of dollars to complete an exam. These unexpected costs can be a real challenge for many students.
McGraw-Hill Tegrity Remote Proctoring alleviates this burden by enabling schools to securely administer exams in any location. Now, within an end-to-end secure environment, students can log in, authenticate themselves and take and submit their exams from the comfort of their homes, coffee shops or any Internet-connected location. The security and integrity of the testing environment is ensured through Remote Proctoring's proprietary technology and its seamless integration with leading "lock down" browsers such as Respondus LockDown. Thanks to McGraw-Hill Tegrity Remote Proctoring, students are finally liberated from the geographic and economic limitations of traditional proctor sites.
"Remote proctoring offers instructors a new world of possibilities for exams and assessments and we're seeing a number of universities create unique curricula based around web tools like remote proctoring and video-based lecture capture," said Tom Malek, vice president of Learning Solutions and Services for McGraw-Hill Higher Education. "We've heard from deans and faculty alike that remote proctoring also provides students greater flexibility to complete exams on their own schedule without having to travel long distances or worry about fees associated with proctored sites. This is especially important as today's student body includes more and more non-traditional students, balancing work, family and other responsibilities."
Laramie County Community College in Wyoming has used the McGraw-Hill Tegrity Remote Proctoring solution in more than 15 programs including nursing, public speaking, business management and exercise science courses. According to LCCC Nursing Instructor Valerie Millsap, MSN, RN, "Remote Proctoring has provided our students much more flexibility to complete exams on their schedule, without having to travel far distances to proctored class environments, while still maintaining the integrity of course assessments and curriculum."
McGraw-Hill Tegrity Remote Proctoring has also allowed Laramie County Community College to expand its assessment capabilities. Instructors now create more interactive exams allowing students to leverage audio and visual assets in place of generic multiple choice questions. Students are now being assessed beyond standard knowledge regurgitation, focusing on performance, applied learning and comprehension.
McGraw-Hill Tegrity Remote Proctoring continues McGraw-Hill Education's tradition of delivering cutting-edge technology products and services that strengthen learning results. To learn more about McGraw-Hill Tegrity Remote Proctoring, please visit: http://www.tegrity.com/products/remote-proctoring.
About McGraw-Hill EducationMcGraw-Hill Education is a content, software and services-based education company that draws on its more than 100 years of educational expertise to offer solutions, which improve learning outcomes around the world. McGraw-Hill is the adaptive education technology leader with the vision for creating a highly personalized learning experience that prepares students of all ages for the world that awaits. The company has offices acrossNorth America,India,China,Europe, theMiddle EastandSouth America, and makes its learning solutions available in more than 65 languages. For additional information, visit http://www.mheducation.com.
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Nixon University-Incorporating MOODLE – A Course Management System to Enhance The Operations of E-learning
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To bring fineness into the overall delivery of online education, Nixon University is adopting the use of MOODLE which is a learning management system that will support online education and help instructors to develop and assess courses in a customized way.
Corpus Christi, TX (PRWEB) October 01, 2012
Moodle has turned out to be exceedingly popular in the world of online education especially for the educators as it allows them to create online dynamic websites and classrooms to provide education in real-time. The educators at Nixon University will be using Moodle to manage and promote learning and it will assist them in removing all the interaction and customization problems that students faced before. Moodle will be used by Nixon University instructors in three different ways. The first goal would be to design the overall degree program in a customized way, which will help students to opt for the courses they find interesting. The second target would be increasing the interaction, and building a richly collaborative online learning community around the subject of discussion through different activity modules such as forums, databases and wikis. Nixon Universitys third and most important goal of using Moodle is the effectual way of delivering content to students and assess the overall learning of the students and matching the delivery of course with the students pace.
At this occasion of progression, the Academic Head at Nixon University commented: The use of free- and easy to use learning management system by Nixon University is like taking a step closer towards providing a comprehensible and clear direction to online education. Managing thousands of students was not an easy job for the instructors, but by using the new Moodle system, instructors can not only manage the students and their individual records but also their quizzes and assignments in an organized manner He further stated: This system will help us create an intellectual environment to facilitate effective online learning, we will also take part in the advancement and research undertaken by researchers, experts and practitioners on this system and share the achievements and experiences we have had using Moodle
Nixon University is a well known name in the field of online education because of the number of career services it offers. It not only provides quality education but also promotes accessibility and affordability to all the working professionals across the globe. It has been established with the mission of assisting students and working professionals to attain fast track and unremitting career growth.
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Nixon University is an accredited online university that stands to make quality education accessible to all the students across the globe. Nixon University is completely accredited by a globally renowned accreditation body Q.O.E.C.B (Quality Online Education Certification Bureau) that provides the status of accreditation after evaluating the applicant on tough educational standards. Being a member USDLA (United States distance learning Association), Nixon follows strategically designed curricula and maintains the highest standard of education to provide its students an edge over their colleagues by offering a wide range of majors through its 16 distinct and renowned schools of study. For more information visit http://www.nixonuniversity.com
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Patrice Dickey, 56: Taught ‘Get the Life You Love’ at Emory
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By Michelle E. Shaw
In her popular Emory University continuing education class, Get the Life You Love, Patrice Dickey taught what she knew.
Her honesty and transparency is likely what endeared students to her and kept them flocking to her class.
Many people can teach a concept but Patrice actually lived what she taught and you come from a very different perspective when you do that, said Peggy Crowe, program manager for Emory Continuing Education. We ran her class three or four times a year and looking back, her message was timeless. We never had a problem filling her class.
Patrice Jane Dickey, of Avondale Estates, died Sept. 7 at Hospice Atlanta, from complications of metastatic breast cancer. She was 56. A memorial service is planned for 1 p.m. on Oct. 13 at Oakhurst Presbyterian Church, Decatur. A.S. Turner & Sons was in charge of arrangements.
Ms. Dickey began teaching at Emory in 1999 and continued to teach through the six-week July session this year, even after learning of her advanced medical condition, Mrs. Crowe said.
She was so invested in her students, she said. There were people already registered and she said she wanted to provide them the instruction and experience they were expecting.
In 2006, Ms. Dickey self-published her first book, Back to the Garden: Getting from Shadow to Joy, and her sister, Susan B. Dickey, hopes to posthumously release her second book, which chronicles her cancer journey.
Susan Dickey said her sister didnt necessarily set out to be a writer, but her life experiences gave her great material for the task. Patrice Dickey earned a journalism degree from the University of North Carolina in 1977. Not long after graduation, she made her way to Atlanta, her city of choice, her sister said.
It was the vibe of the city, Susan Dickey said of her sisters decision to move to Atlanta. It is a very cool city.
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Holistic Learning Centers Releases A Comprehensive All Inclusive Special Offer Package Set For Independent Life Coaches
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Holistic Learning Centers has packaged three decades of research and clinical field testing in the profession of independent life coaching into a seven set suite of products and is giving a great discount for the month of October.
Forked Rivers, NJ (PRWEB) September 30, 2012
The professional life coaching training manual included in the package contains all of the exercises contained in HLCs life coaching success system, the HuMethod. It is a professional resource manual designed for experienced practitioners who have several years of field experience in disciples such as life coaching, counseling, social work and psychology.
The life coaching manual contains training systems, forms and subjective measuring techniques that will allow independent life coaches to measure and quantify how to successfully facilitate clinically proven life coaching exercises.
To go along with the manual is a set of twenty eight two-hour life coaching classes on MP3 allowing you to receive the education of the live interactive life coaching students while adhering to your time and/or budgetary restraints.
As all solopreneurs know, in addition to skill in facilitation, skill in marketing is equally essential to have a thriving independent life coaching private practice.
HLC has included in this package a five hundred page digital life coaching marketing mastery manual based on the research of some of the most successful entrepreneurs of our time. Consult this manual regularly as a how to guide for building your holistic practice. When questions arise, your first action should be to look it up and follow the guidelines that you find on the particular challenge you are attempting to solve.
Also included in the Independent Life Coaching package are HLCs two foundational life coaching and self-help textbooks, Self-Mastery A Journey Home to Yourself and the Human Handbook.
These materials come in book form and on cd (the Self Mastery book) and audio book (the HuMan Handbook). You also will receive a Cd containing HLCs core meditational exercise, the Spiritual Distinction Meditation along with 100 benefits of doing the Self Mastery work.
As an added bonus, HLC is extending a 90 day tuition upgrade guarantee towards Interactive or Independent Life Coaching Certification Courses.
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Creating Positive Change series at the Boroughs JCC
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The Boroughs JCC, in partnership with Firebird Life Coaching, announces the launch of the Creating Positive Change Series.
The series provides adults with the support, tools, and resources to respond to to lifes challenges and achieve positive outcomes and results.
The first program, Confronting Job Loss, begins on Wednesday, Oct. 3.
For many individuals and families, transitions and events happen that create new challenges. While we may not always control lifes events, we can control how we respond if we know how. Through a series of interactive, supportive and educational coaching groups and workshops, led by a certified life coach with over 20 years of experience in the helping professions, participants will acquire new skills and strategies for effectively managing life transitions and creating positive changes in their own lives.
We are excited to bring this series to our community, said Lisa Borchetta, founder of Firebird Life Coaching and lead facilitator of the series. Our generation faces new and unique set of challenges -- at work and within the family. The Creating Positive Change Series intends to help families cope and succeed.
Additional programs in the series scheduled for this fall include Living the Good Life: Exploring the New Science of Happiness and Well Being, starting Oct. 29, and Mid-Life Crisis to Mid-Life Opportunity - Making the Most of the "Sandwich Generation", starting Oct. 30. Program fees are nominal. JCC members receive a discount and limited financial aid is available based on need.
The Creating Positive Change Series is a great opportunity, said Allen Edinberg, President of the Boroughs JCC. Helping families is part of our mission to build our communities and our future.
More information about the programs and registration information is available at http://www.boroughsjcc.org, by calling the Boroughs JCC at 508-366-6121 x24, or by sending an email to programss@boroughsjcc.org.
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June-Marie Raw Food and Fitness Health speedy stretching exercises have a sweet day – Video
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