Get organization tips from organizing recipes to your medications from professional organizing expert and author Vicki Norris.
More great organizing information can be found at http://www.restoringorder.com/

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Professional Organizers around the nation gathered in Los Angeles, California to celebrate the industry at the 2009 Los Angeles Organizing Awards, January 30, 2009.

Top organizing experts and celebrity presenters Sam Saboura, Extreme Makeover; Gia Russo and Jodie Watson, Real Simple. Real Life.; Dorothy Breininger, Dr. Phil; Linda Koopersmith, Clean House; Monica Ricci, MISSION: Organization and actor/green advocate Christopher Knight The Brady Bunch, VH1s My Fair Brady scheduled time to celebrate at this years Fourth Annual Los Angeles Organizing Awards at the Luxe Hotel Sunset Boulevard, Bel Air, California.

Celebrity organizers, industry professionals and members of the public assembled at the January 30th gala, which was hosted by comedian and actor Hal Sparks, Talk Soup, Queer As Folk. Throughout the evening, Sparks humorously shared his personal experiences of working with professional organizers.

The Organizing Awards, produced by the Los Angeles chapter of the National Association of Professional Organizers (NAPO-LA) along with Presenting Sponsor Office Depot, honors the best in the organizing industry, including professional organizers who set the standard for home and business productivity, and the products and services that help consumers and businesses organize everything from information to time management and control habits that lead to clutter and chaos.

The red carpet gala event was a celebration and culmination of national Get Organized Month, which is every January.

A total of twenty awards were given – seven awards for organizing products and retailers, five awards for organizing services, five awards to organizing professionals and two awards to media outlets. Finalists were selected during a two-month nationwide online popular vote at www.organizingawards.com that ended December 31st.

Other Attendees:

Other industry leaders in attendance included NAPO Founder s Ann Gambrell and Beverly Clower; Standolyn Robertson, President of NAPO National; Kit Anderson, President of the National Study Group on Chronic Disorganization (NSGCD); and David Bertnick, President of the International Association for Private Service Professionals (IAPSP). The Awards attracted guests from thirteen states including: Florida, Georgia, Maryland, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, New York, New Mexico, Washington, California, Virginia, North Carolina, Kansas and Illinois and included current NAPO Chapter Presidents from Miami, Sacramento, San Diego, and San Francisco and Los Angeles.

Members of the 2009 Los Organizing Awards Committee included: Heidi Chianta, Claire Flannery, Karen Fulks, Heather Furlong, Christie Gelsomino, Abbey Keusch, Dolores Kaytes, Katherine Macey, Kristine Oller, John Trosko, Linda Levine-Quackenbush, Jodie Watson and Fay Wolf.

About Office Depot, Presenting Sponsor:

Every day, Office Depot is Taking Care of Business for millions of customers around the globe. For the local corner store as well as Fortune 500 companies, Office Depot provides products and services to its customers through 1,705 worldwide retail stores, a dedicated sales force, top-rated catalogs and a $4.9 billion e-commerce operation. Office Depot has annual sales of approximately $15.1 billion, and employs about 49,000 associates around the world. The Company provides more office products and services to more customers in more countries than any other company, and currently sells to customers directly or through affiliates in 48 countries.

Office Depot’s common stock is listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol ODP and is included in the S&P 500 Index. Additional press information can be found at: http://mediarelations.officedepot.com.

About NAPO-Los Angeles:

NAPO Los Angeles is a non-profit professional organization dedicated to developing, leading and promoting professional organizers and the benefits of better home and business organization. The founding chapter of the National Association of Professional Organizers, “The Organizing Authority®,” NAPO-LA provides members with a forum for networking, professional development and raising public awareness since 1985. The chapter produces the Los Angeles Organizing Expo as well as the Los Angeles Organizing Awards and is the recipient of the 2008 NAPO National President’s Award for innovative contributions to the organizing industry. For details visit http://www.napola.org or http://www.organizingawards.com

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SHARK investigators expose the cruelty and outright lies of the Clem McSpadden 2009 Steer Busting Finals, sanctioned by the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association (PRCA).

Steer busting is the most dangerous event in rodeo. The PRCA is the only major rodeo association to sanction this obvious animal abuse. When an organization has no problem sanctioning such abuse, you may expect it will have no problem lying about it either.

Rodeo announcer Charlie Throckmorton falsely claims that the rodeo works “in complete harmony” with the American Humane Association (AHA), a flat out lie. The AHA released a subsequent statement completely and absolutely refuting Throckmorton’s nonsensical claim.

Requests to PRCA Commissioner Karl Stressman for a public retraction and apology have gone unanswered, demonstrating once again the condition of ethics and bravery of the rodeo industry — nonexistent.

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The inaugural convention of the association for the fast-growing, one-man media blogger-journalists, ‘World Professional Blogger-Journalist Association (WPBA, http://wpba.aving.net)’, will be held at the Youido Hanwha 63city Convention Centre in Seoul, Korea, on November 17, 2008.

Representing the WEB 2.0 era, bloggers have reached a total of 80 million in numbers worldwide, and their roles and influence in the society continue to expand, calling for an establishment of an association that will protect and promote the rights and interests of professional bloggers.

The objectives of WPBA are to establish blogger-journalists as a professional media, promote and protect their rights and interests, present new income-generating models, and to lay the groundwork for building a network of worldwide blogger-journalists. The convention’s slogan is “Open, Share, & Contribute,” symbolizing WPBA’s goal to satisfy worldwide consumers’ rights to be aware, to know, and to share information on business, product, and market, and to protect the environment by keeping a close watch over behaviors that destroy the environment and its natural order. Furthermore, WPBA intends to contribute to the development of a global culture and society through sharing of issues and cultural contents from around the world.

Fifty world-famous blogger-journalists from 30 nations representing the Americas, Europe, Southeast Asia and emerging nations, will attend the convention to discuss the establishment of the association and various issues. Majority of the international blogger-journalists who are attending are former journalists or present columnists, all leading opinion leaders representing their nation.

There will be a declaration of the establishment WPBA and explanation of the association’s objectives on the morning of the 17th, followed by a congratulatory speech from Paul Chaney, the president of International Blogging and New Media Association (IBNMA) and a congratulatory performance, finishing with a forum discussing WPBA agendas. Scheduled for the afternoon are the presentations from world’s foremost bloggers as well as AVING’s annual VIP ASIA 2008 AWARD.

For bloggers’ presentations, Jochen Alexander Siegle, a Journalist and Co-founder of MomentiMedia, will present on Blogging and Journalism Seen From an International Perspective, and Wei Lin Liu, author of ‘Sweet Spot’ and the most influential critic on internet-related fields in Taiwan, will explain How Blogging Revives Stagnant Economy and the Three Global Blogging Trend of 2009. The Director of China’s largest IT portal site, ZOL.COM, and the Vice President of CNET China, will introduce the Blogging Trend and Various Cases in China, and Dhiram Shah of Newlaunches and Matt Von Horn of DIGG.COM will give a lecture on Blogging in India, an Emerging Market, and the Relationship Between Blogging And User-Vote Based News-Site DIGG.COM, respectively.

The international participants are: blogger-journalists from America’s best site for public opinions, Digg (DIGG.COM); global blog site, Gizmodo (GIZMODO.DE); Japan’s representative blog site, Akihabaranews (AKIHARBARANEWS.COM); India’s Newlaunches (NEWLAUNCHES.COM); Russia’s PC news (PCNEWS.RU); Italy’s Geekissimo (GEEKISSIMO.COM); Switzerland’s Blogeek (BLOGEEK.CH); 3 active bloggers from Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore on CNET Asia; Director of China’s foremost portal site ZOL.COM, plus blogger-journalists from Rumania, Sweden, Indonesia, Thailand, Taiwan, and New Zealand.

From Korea, approximately 100 bloggers active on portal sites such as Naver, Daum, Egloos, Allblog, Tistory, Blogkorea and Openblog will attend the convention. Taking part in this global publicity event will be product displays from Dideonet, Ubiq, Digifi, Sidiz, Pen and Free, NA4, Semantics, Skono, TILON, Odicorp, and C-motech.

Publisher Ki-Dae Kim of Global News Network AVING, founder and sponsor of the WPBA, commented that “This is the first time in the history of internet that influential bloggers from all around the world will gather here in Seoul,” and “WPBA will materialize the blogger-journalist’s identity and role, and explore new income-generating models for future bloggers, building a hub of global bloggers in Korea.”

WPBA’s sponsor, Global News Network AVING is a leading news agency on product and business news with current ties to 285 new media and main bloggers from 47 nations, and it is constructing 1000 news networks. The headquarters are in Las Vegas, USA. The coming WPBA convention is supported by Seoul City, Seoul Tourism Organization Co., Ltd., and professional congress organizer Seong & Min M.I.C.E. Consulting (www.seongandmin.com).

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Traditional enterprise applications focus on inventory and transactions, not the people and projects at the heart of a services organization. In this session, a top-tier services organization will show how managing services resource planning with Appirio’s PS Enterprise product helped grow its business by getting the right people on the right projects for successful delivery to customers.

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Fortune 500 companies all have one thing in common: an organizational culture built on Human Excellence. Advanced technology, cutting edge products and services, a skilled workforce, competitive salaries … none of these things – together or alone – can sustain or grow profits if Human Excellence is not in the equation.

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This interview with Terry Plank, Dean of SEMPO (Search Engine Marketing Professional Organization) discusses professional methods standardization, courses offered, and screening of applicants and the use of a code of ethics regarding black hat practices.

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Get kitchen organization tips from professional organizing expert and author Vicki Norris. Learn how to control clutter on your kitchen surfaces and in your cabinets and other hot spots. More great organizing information can be found at her website: http://www.restoringorder.com/

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FOURTH Annual HALO Convention
Nurturing Our Youth for the Future
January 23-25,2009 But for College student is Friday 24 and Saturday 25. It is encouraged that student attend both days. This is an event with opportunity for student to interact with Haitian Lawyers, doctors and many other professionals in the Haitian Community. This is a very good event to create connection with professionals. Please encourage your school to attend.
Saturday January 24, 2009
Womens Health
Treatment of Urinary Incontinence and Pelvic Organ Prolapse
Speaker(s): Angelo Gousse MD

New Contraceptive Options for Women
Marie‐Denise Gervais, MD
Depression in Women
Marlene Cesar, ARNP, PMHNP

Health Careers
How to Get into Nursing School?
Yvonne Parchment BSN, MSN, Ed.D
How to Get into Dental School?
Emmanuelle Zennie
How to Get into Medical School?
Ronine Zamor/Agnes Murphy
B. Moise, MD/Angelo Gousse,MD

Keynote Presentation
“Keeping Your Cultural Identity While Living The American Dream
Jean Rudy Perrault
Director of Orchestras U. Of Minnesota
Legal and Social Empowerment
Moderator: Magalie Clarke, MSW
Correlation of Sexual Assault and Domestic Violence on Adolescents*
Doles Jadotte,MSW
Ediane Bocaille, MSW
How to Seek Protection From an Abuser
Sabrina Salomon,Esq.
Tips to Gain Financial Independence
Dymie Dautruche‐Sorzano
Legal and Business Careers
How to Get into Law School
Jovianna T. Bryant
Principles of Business Management
Onelia Fajardo, MPH, Dr, B.A.
Perspective on Effective Networking
Brandon Colley
Education Empowerment
Alternative to a University Education
Deputy Jean-Bernard Ameedee
Sergeant Diordane Pierre-Louis
Getting into a Foreign School/Program
Burnett Moise, MD
Engineering/Technology
Moderator: Charles Blot
Financial Empowerment
How to Make The Right Investments
Maxime Jean-Louis
3:30 pm – 4:00 pm
Managing Ones Finances Smartly in Time of Economic Strife
Guy R. Bury
4:00 pm 4:15 pm Break
Religion Forum
The Responsibility of the Church Towards Its Community
Rimsky Denis/Dr. Casseus
Father Bazin/Dr. Jonas
Dr. Guerrand
Haiti and Community Projects
Moderator: Lucie Tondreau and Leonie Hermantin
How to Lobby Effectively
Karen Andre, Esq.
Defining a Political Action Committee (PAC) and Its Impact on a Community
Rep. Yolly Roberson, Esq.
Commissioner Dale Holness Rep. Ronald Brise
Strategic Response to Disaster Relief in Haiti
Carolyn Rose-Avila
Richard Stuart Olson, PH.D.
Haitian History and Culture
Moderator: Reverend Burnett Moise and Yvrose Gilles
Update on The Savannah Project: Beyond the Inauguration
Claude Charles
Voodoo: Culture and Religion?
Jerry Gilles, MD
Youth Explosion
Moderator: Daniel Nicholas, Lawrence Gonzalez, & Max-Edouard Viala
11:00 am – 11:30 am
How to Maintain Your GPA in College: Tricks of the Trade
Angelo Gousse, MD
Traits Necessary to Make it in the Music Industry
Mike Swittel
How to Fuel the Fire for Your Passion
Luner Eugene
The Importance of a Haitian Youth Club
Sarah Bertrand, HSO
Sagine Delly, Ibo Club
Kreyol Rap: Can it Become Mainstream?
Joseph Pistache Ulysse
Jauborry Coogi Chamblin
Haitian History and Culture
Update on The Savannah Project: Beyond the Inauguration
Claude Charles
Voodoo: Culture and Religion
Jerry Gilles, MD
Mens Health
Moderator: Gracelle Toussaint, ARNP-BC, MSN
Managing Sexual Dysfunction : Solutions to a Treatable Condition
Angelo Gousse, MD
Prostate Cancer: What You Need to Know
Paul Blanc, MD

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