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Mission Pharmacal has announced the introduction of CitraNatal® Harmony™, the newest addition to the CitraNatal® family of prescription prenatal vitamins. CitraNatal Harmony is the first and only single dose, prescription prenatal vitamin with calcium citrate.
Calcium citrate provides critical calcium to help with the baby’s bone growth without producing gas or bloating for mom that can be found in other calcium supplements.
“Many women suffer from discomfort during their pregnancies,” said Terrell Herring, president of the Pharmaceutical Division of Mission Pharmacal. “We are pleased to provide these women added comfort and convenience with the launch of CitraNatal Harmony.”
CitraNatal Harmony also offers mom and baby essential vitamins and minerals, including 250 mg of Martek’s life’sDHA™, in one easy-to-take, vanilla-scented gel cap. DHA is the essential fatty acid recommended for optimal brain and eye development and has optimized benefits for babies. It has been shown to support increased birth weight and size and enhance visual and cognitive abilities. The vitamin also contains a safe, gentle carbonyl iron and a stool softener to help ease the constipation that often accompanies pregnancy.
In addition, Mission Pharmacal is currently reformulating its prescription prenatal and prescription iron products to include a recently acquired and patented dual-iron technology.
Women who are pregnant or planning to conceive should consult their healthcare providers prior to beginning any prenatal vitamin regimen.
Apidexin, a fat burner that yields positive results, is offereing a 100% unconditional Lifteime Money Back Guarantee in every bottle. The top rated weight-loss supplement, that promises 400% body weight loss in weeks, is allowing its customers to return the product should it somehow fail to live up to its promise. Each bottle of Apidexin is priced at $99.55, with discounts on multi-bottle purchases (limited to 6 bottles per order).
To know more about the product, visit http://www.apidexin.com/.
The World's First Full HD Underwater Camera
Tokyo, May 28, 2010 – SANYO Electric Co., Ltd. (SANYO) is pleased to announce the release of the world’s first waterproof Full HD Dual Camera that can be used underwater. The DMX-CA100 will be launched at the end of June 2010.
The Dual Camera Xacti aims to provide customers with more enjoyable video experiences, by offering cameras that allow users to easily capture both photos and videos in daily life, rather than devices that are merely used to record important events. By utilizing a convenient video format that can be easily handled on PC and Internet environments, and even on home TVs, these cameras are more than just hardware for capturing, viewing, and saving images. They are convenient products for sharing videos online, on blogs or on other multi-media sites, and they are able to easily import images to portable media devices. Sanyo is offering new ways to enjoy images after they are captured, and the Dual Camera Xacti has been well received by consumers all over the world.
In order to further enhance the concept of “a Dual Camera that can be used anywhere and anytime,” Sanyo is now introducing this new Dual Camera Xacti model. It enables people with active lifestyles to capture high resolution photos just like a regular digital camera and Full HD videos in all kinds of outdoor situations, not just in the city, but also at the beach or at the mountains. With its waterproof design, the DMX-CA100 offers a Dual Camera model that is both handy and reliable for active outdoor living, daily activities, and leisure pursuits.
For complete product specifications, visit www.sanyo.com
Rolls-Royce has celebrated the successful running of the latest core engine build in its E3E (efficiency, environment, economy) two-shaft research programme.
E3E is developing leading-edge technologies which increase engine temperature, pressure ratio and component efficiencies, together with a 25 per cent-plus increase in thrust to weight ratios.
These technologies are designed to reduce fuel burn and CO2 emissions by 15 per cent, compared to similar engines currently in service. E3E lean-burn will also reduce NOx emissions as part of the company’s drive to meet ACARE (Advisory Council for Aeronautics Research in Europe) targets of a 60 per cent reduction by 2020.
The programme is designed to address future customer needs in the corporate and narrowbody sectors
The latest Core, 3/2b, has produced excellent results during 40 hours of running at Stuttgart University altitude test facility, far exceeding flight envelope requirements.
Mark King, Rolls-Royce President – Civil Aerospace, said: “Our E3E technology, which is at the heart of our future two-shaft engine product strategy, continues to make great progress. We are delighted with the latest results which have taken us another step forward in demonstrating our excellence in integrating new technologies into a highly effective engine system.”
Rolls-Royce started design of the engine in 2003 and continues to run intensive HPC, combustor and high pressure turbine rig programmes to support the Core 3/2b demonstrator. Further builds of Core 3/2 will be tested in 2011 and 2012 and will include 1,200 cycles of endurance testing representative of maximum take-off conditions.
E3E is part of the German Aeronautics Research Programme, funded by the Ministry of Economics and the Federal State of Brandenburg.
The North Face (TNF) conquers the heat on the nation’s Summer Capital, Baguio City. Runners from all over the Philippines took up the challenge
head on for the most rigorous ultra-marathon in the country held last April 24 – 25, 2010 all over Baguio-Benguet. The event was well attended by over 800 strong participants who suited up in their North Face gears for the occasion. TNF Fleece jackets, bionic vests, hats & beanies, daypacks, belt bags, shoes, and hydration packs were put to the test as racers exhibited their endurance to match their gears.
Various teams from Laguna, CDO, Cebu, Davao, Benguet, and Metro Manila rallied to Burnham Park Base Camp to support their members at gun-start for the 100K and 50K categories which started as early as 3:00am of April 24. More participants came to follow the trail the next day for the 22K and 11K categories which culminated to a momentous awarding ceremony joined by the Hon. Peter “Ray” Bautista, Mayor for Baguio City, Primer Group of Companies’ COO Mr. Jacky Quintos, DOTC-CAR representatives, sponsors, media guests, participants and guests.
Tons of freebies were also given away courtesy of The North Face and sponsors: Nalgene, Sea to Summit, Res Toe Run, Nature Valley and Marathon Max, through various games and raffle draws conducted. For 100K category finishers, exclusive wooden plaques were awarded showcasing the skill and craftsmanship of the Cordillera’s artists. All Top 10 finishers per category, for both men’s and women’s divisions, were acknowledged and awarded with special gift packs, medals, and cash prizes.
In the Philippines, The North Face is exclusive distributed by the Primer Group of Companies. For more information, visit http://www.primergrp.com/
To celebrate the release of the brand new movie Sex and the City 2, Debenhams is giving you and your closest friends the chance to win an amazing city break to New York!
Visit the city where it all began, shop in the most fashionable stores, or sip cocktails in the most glamorous of bars. This fantastic prize includes return flights from London to New York, four nights in a 4-star hotel, a $1000 VIP shopping trip at Bergdorf Goodman and the Sex and the City 2 location tour – so you can see all the places made famous by the girls.
For more information about this exciting promo, log on to http://debenhamscompetitions.com/satc2/
Hinkley Lighting, makers of quality lighting products since 1922, provides its share in environment conservation with a line of Energy Star® (EST) qualified fixtures and home décors.
Energy Star
® products use about 75 percent less energy than standard lighting, produce 75 percent less heat, and last up to 10 times longer than incandescent bulbs. With these, customers get to reduce costs on energy bills and bulb replacements.
Hinkley’s EST fixtures combine a GU24 socket together with a self-ballasted CFL bulb and a photocell that prevents it from staying illuminated during daylight hours. Moreover, the product has met strict energy efficiency guidelines set by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the US Department of Energy (DOE), providing an assurance of superior energy efficiency for your indoor or outdoor lighting needs.
LOUISVILLE, KY – America has spoken and the Colonel listened. The wildly popular KFC Double Down™ is going to remain on the KFC menu past May 23, when the “Limited Time Only” promotion for KFC’s first-ever bunless chicken sandwich was scheduled to end.
While the launch of the unique Double Down created unprecedented buzz for the brand, it also received a warm reception from KFC customers. Later this month, KFC will sell its 10 millionth Double Down. As a result of this continuing demand, Double Down fans will be able to keep enjoying the sandwich for an extended time period at participating KFC locations.
“This truly is an example of ‘popular demand,’” said Javier Benito, executive vice president of marketing and food innovation for KFC. “Our plans were to feature the product only through May 23, but millions of Double Down fans have spoken and we won’t disappoint them. You’ll continue to be able to get the Double Down at KFC this summer.”
The one-of-a-kind Double Down features two thick and juicy boneless white meat chicken filets (Original Recipe® or Grilled), two pieces of bacon, two melted slices of Monterey Jack and pepper jack cheese and Colonel’s Sauce. And no bun, of course.
Even before the product was officially introduced on April 12, public and media interest in the Double Down reached a fever pitch. Once the Double Down hit the market, it quickly became an online sensation, with Double Down fans blogging and posting videos and photos of themselves enjoying the product.
“We’ve really never seen anything like it,” added Benito. “From real-time Twitter reviews and YouTube videos of people eating the sandwich to Facebook fan pages and Flickr photo albums, the Double Down has become a social media sensation.”
The Double Down contains 540 calories, similar numbers to many of the burgers available at fast food restaurants today. The Double Down is also available in a grilled version, which checks in at 460 calories. For fat, cholesterol, sodium and other nutritional content for the Double Down or other KFC products, visit www.kfc.com/nutrition.
Phentermine, a contraction of “phenyl-tertiary-butylamine”, is an appetite suppressant of the amphetamine and phenethylamine class. Common trade names include Adipex P, Adiphene, Anoxine-AM, Duromine, among others.
Much debate have been raised with regard its effectiveness, having been classified as controlled substance in some countries due to its similarity with amphetamines. However, it has been proven that clinical dosages of Phentermine works on the hypothalamus portion of the brain to release norepinephrine, a neurotransmitter or chemical messenger that signals a fight-or-flight response, reducing hunger. As such, Phentermine may be used in weight-loss regimens, partnered with healthy diet and proper exercise.
SM Hypermarket has launched the latest and greatest edition of its Super Chef series by turning it into a reality show – think Iron Chef meets American Idol meets Survivor.
Super Chefs is open to anyone who can cook, be they housewives, carinderia owners, culinary school students or professional chefs. The competition is divided into three stages: 1) audition; 2) elimination; and the 3) grand finals.
The Super Chefs grand finals will be aired on the Asian Food Channel and hosted by Chef Tristan Encarnacion.
To get qualified for the audition round, interested participants just need to present a P1,000 single or accumulated purchase from any SM Hypermarket inclusive of the sponsors’ product together with your cooked dish on the submission day. Throughout the competition, their creations will be judged by celebrities like Winnie Cordero and the country’s top chefs like Reggie Aspiras, to ensure that only the best survive.
The grand winner of the SM Hypermarket Super Chefs will get to take home a kitchen showcase worth P100,000 and go on a 4-day all-expense-paid trip to Singapore for a culinary training. Runner-ups will also win a P50,000, P25,000, P15,000 or P10,000 SM gift certificates.
The contest runs from May to July 2010. For details, visit any SM Hypermarket branch, log on to http://www.smhypermarket.com, or like Super Chefs on Facebook.
SM Hypermarket Super Chefs 2010 is sponsored by Unilever Foodsolutions, Nestle, San Remo, Purefoods, Selecta, Kraft Miracle Whip, Cheez Whiz, Eden Cheese, Mccormick, Lee Kum Kee, Kikkoman soy sauce, Clara Ole and San Miguel Beer.
MANILA, Philippines – Samsung Electronics Phils. Corp. (SEPCO) will unveil its latest lineup of cameras and camcorders during Pahiyas festival. “The way consumers take photos, when they take them, and the way they share them is changing,” said Candy Quinto delos Santos, product manager, SEPCO. “As their needs evolve from solely image capture to include photo management, Samsung has focused on enhancing usability with technology advancements that help them take and manage their photos better while improving sharing and connectivity features. We are launching our lineup during one of the Philippines’ most colorful festivals, Pahiyas.”
To achieve this goal, Samsung is focusing on offering smart cameras that meet different consumer needs and creating intuitive user experiences through a combination of improved optical technology and strengthened connectivity with other consumer devices.
In line with this strategy, Samsung has created a mirrorless, interchangeable lens camera with the NX10, a new-concept camera with high definition, portability and usability. It is also consolidating its leading position in the premium market by releasing premium compact camera models with cool design and high specifications, and has launched optical-based high end compact camera models to leverage its strength in optical technologies. Dual LCD cameras are another focus area as it seeks to establish an unassailable market position in the dual LCD camera category with the introduction of models which are accessible for the masses.
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The Armani Group announces the opening of 6 new Emporio Armani stores within the first semester of 2010 to demonstrate its ongoing ‘fast-track’ expansion in the Duty Free and Travel Retail marketplace.
Starting in March with the opening of the first Emporio Armani store in the Sydney airport, covering over 80 square metres, as well as of the first Emporio Armani store in the Shanghai Hongqiao airport, the expansion continued in April with the opening of the second Emporio Armani store in Milan’s Malpensa airport, located at Terminal 1B. Upcoming openings planned by July 2010 are new Emporio Armani stores in Macao – City of Dreams, Miami and Nice airports.
The strategic retail expansion program now involves the Armani Jeans brand, in addition to the Giorgio Armani and Emporio Armani brands already present in travel retail. The new openings represent the new Armani Jeans concept and are planned to open by July 2010 to include 2 spaces at the Rome’s Fiumicino airport – Terminal 1 and 2, 2 spaces at the Amsterdam Schipol airport – Shenghen Lounge and Central Lounge, and 1 space at the Prague airport – Terminal 1. The collection is housed in a dynamic structure and with sober yet refined shades of warm grey and night blue colours. Everything perfectly embodies the denim and casual chic spirit of the brand.
With 29 Emporio Armani points of sale, 1 Giorgio Armani boutique and 7 Armani Jeans spaces in the world, the Armani Group’s programme of travel retail openings is not only well established, but also sets a significant presence in the world’s most important airports, with the support of strong partnerships with leading retailers.
Giorgio Armani Group is one of the leading fashion and luxury goods groups in the world today with over 5,000 direct employees and 13 factories. It designs, manufactures, distributes and retails fashion and lifestyle products including apparel, tuxedo shirts, accessories, eyewear, watches, jewellery, home furnishings, fragrances and cosmetics under a range of brand names: Giorgio Armani Privé, Giorgio Armani, Armani Collezioni, Emporio Armani, AJ | Armani Jeans, A/X Armani Exchange, Armani Junior, Armani Teen, Armani Baby and Armani Casa. The exclusive distribution network of the Group comprises 75 Giorgio Armani boutiques, 19 Armani Collezioni shops, 166 Emporio Armani shops, 165 A/X Armani Exchange shops, 17 AJ | Armani Jeans shops, 8 Armani Junior shops, 10 Giorgio Armani Accessori shops, 2 Emporio Armani Accessori shops, 29 Armani Casa shops and 14 Emporio Armani Caffés in 46 countries around the world.
For more information, visit www.armani.com
Attorneys working on the litigation dealing with the Deepwater Horizon rig explosion and oil plume can expect to deal with novel questions of punitive damages, economic injuries, and the interaction of the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 on the existing body of state, federal and maritime law, participants in the Gulf Coast Oil Symposium said Tuesday.
The symposium, organized by the New Orleans Bar Association at the Sheraton New Orleans hotel, is a measure of just how engrossing the legal issues facing plaintiff and defense attorneys alike are expected to be. “We’ve never done a seminar in response to a specific event,” said Loretta Larsen, executive director of the bar association.
Attorneys who represented plaintiffs in the litigation over the Exxon Valdez tanker grounding in 1989 offered their words of wisdom.
Minneapolis attorney Karen Hanson Riebel said that time is the enemy. By the time the litigation settled, 20 percent of her 32,000 class members had died. After nearly two decades of litigation, class members received an average of $15,000 each for their losses.
Dallas, Texas–Businesses across the U.S. are responding more to the need for business continuity planning according to a recent study by AT&T, in which 83% of respondents stated that they have a business continuity plan in place, up 14% in the past five years. Gulf Coast executives are most likely to indicate that their plans have been fully tested in the past year (61% compared to 54%, nationally). Given the susceptibility to and recent experiences in this area with hurricanes and flooding, it is not surprising that business continuity plans are tested annually.
These findings are part of AT&T’s annual study on business continuity and disaster recovery preparedness for U.S. businesses in the private sector, now in its ninth consecutive year.
AT&T Business Continuity Study Key Findings:
The importance of business continuity plans is evident by the additional requirements that companies have regarding the plans, especially as it relates to wireless and emerging technologies. The study found that:
* Six out of ten (63%) include wireless network capabilities as part of their plan.
* Three-fourths (77%) indicate that employee use of mobile devices plays a major/minor role in the business continuity plan.
* Half (50%) have virtualized their computing infrastructure, with almost four out of ten (38%) having implemented a business continuity plan for the virtualized infrastructure.
* Four out of ten (40%) require suppliers and other vendors to have a business continuity plan in place in order to do business with the company.
Most IT executives are concerned about the increased usage of social networking capabilities and mobile networks/devices and their potential impact on security threats.
* Three out of four executives surveyed are very/somewhat concerned about the increased use of social networking capabilities (77%) and mobile networks/devices (76%).
IT budgets are expected to be about the same or higher than in the previous two years (70%), compared to only half (56%) in 2009 who predicted this level of funding. This is good news compared to last year when a plurality (40%) of executives indicated their budgets were being cut.
* One-third (32%) indicate their budgets will be higher, compared to only 24% who indicated this was the trend in 2009.
* Seven out of ten (72%) executives indicate that their companies will be investing in new technologies for 2010. Investment tends to focus on virtualization (24%), cloud computing (21%) and mobile applications (20%).
“Reflecting back on previous years’ studies, it’s evident that businesses and organizations throughout the United States are focusing more and more on business continuity planning,” said Chris Costello, assistant vice president, AT&T Hosting and Cloud Services, AT&T Business Solutions. “At the same time, companies are more attuned to how emerging and evolving technologies such as mobile applications and cloud computing fall into the planning equation. AT&T provides a holistic approach to business continuity services, taking into account all aspects of an organizations technology and communications structure.”
For the annual study, AT&T surveyed IT executives throughout the United States that have at least $10 million in annual revenue to get their views on disaster planning and business continuity trends; 87% of respondents have revenue in excess of $25 million. Sixty-one percent of the companies surveyed this year have locations outside of the U.S.
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