Delray Beach, Florida: Mike Sherman Productions, Inc that produces “On the Mike with Mike Sherman”, one of the nation’s premier music lifestyle television shows, will be taking its show to the rest of the world from Jan 1, 2009.

Mike Sherman Productions has signed a three-year contract with The Global Broadcasting Company, Inc. to begin broadcasting “On the Mike with Mike Sherman”, beginning in January 2009 on Total Hip Hop Television across western and eastern Europe including Germany, Austria, Luxembourg, Lichtenstein, Northern Italy, Switzerland and the Baltic states, with more countries being added throughout the year. The ultimate reach of its audience will be approximately 10 million subscribers across 16 countries with a total available subscriber population of 80 million.

This is a breakthrough achievement for Mike Sherman Productions as penetrating the international market has been a big goal for the company since the inception of the show 3 years ago. “One of my major ambitions has been to get international distribution for the show via both TV and the Internet,” said Mike Sherman, creator and presenter of the show. “I’m very excited that, in the new year, we will finally be broadcasting across the world.”

Now the rest of the world can enjoy, up-close-and-personal interviews, behind-the-scenes footage and live concert performances from a long list of today’s superstars such as Rihanna, Robin Thick, Snoop Dogg and Akon, to name a few.

Viewers can check the Listings link on http://www.mikeshermanshow.com to find out when the show is broadcast in their area. It can also be viewed on the website in its entirety shortly after each live television broadcast.

About The Global Broadcasting Company, Inc.
The Global Broadcasting Company, Inc. is a global media company based in Los Angeles, California – the entertainment capital of the world. The senior management team of Carol Angela Davis, Mark Geragos, Lisa Jones Johnson and Walter Jones has a wide range of experience in the television and film industries as well as in law and finance. The company launches global 24-hour television channels featuring underground and independently produced entertainment, sports, kids, lifestyle, financial and news programming that is additionally suited for audiences who want to learn English. http://www.globalbroadcastingcompany.tv

About On the Mike with Mike Sherman
In 2006 “On the Mike with Mike Sherman” debuted on Saturday night on My 33 (My Network TV, a CBS affiliate) in Miami. Today, the show, now called “On the Mike with Mike Sherman”, is syndicated both domestically and on 5 international networks. Mike Sherman, a successful stockbroker and founder of Delray Beach-based MSP, Inc., has always had a love and passion for pop, hip-hop and R&B music. He created a show that has brought millions of viewers to TV screens across the US and now across the world, successfully bringing urban communities closer to exclusive interviews, VIP events and A-list celebrities.
http://www.mikeshermanshow.com

For more information, please contact:

Andrea Arandia
Mike Sherman Productions, Inc.
1401 Estuary Trail
Delray Beach
FL 33483
USA

Tel: +1 561 243 0429
andreaarandia@aol.com
http://www.mikeshermanshow.com

Lifestyle TV, Television Show, Music, Hip Hop, Rap, Dance, Celebrities, Urban, Latino, R&B, Interviews, Music Videos, Concerts, Red Carpet, Award Shows, Superbowl, Sporting

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Southwest is working with ATA Airlines with respect to the terms and conditions of the bid. The bid does not contemplate operating ATA, but it is intended to allow Southwest to acquire the LGA slots.

The $7.5 million bid seeks to obtain the rights to 14 slots at LaGuardia that are currently held by ATA Airlines, which filed for bankruptcy protection on April 2, 2008. Those 14 slots would permit an operation of up to seven daily roundtrip flights at LaGuardia. Southwest would not acquire, as a part of its bid, any aircraft, facilities, or employees of ATA.

“It is our intent, with the successful conclusion of the transaction, to make plans to initiate service from LaGuardia,” said Southwest’s Chairman, President, and CEO Gary Kelly. “Even in this volatile environment, we have said we must monitor the competitive landscape and take advantage of prudent market opportunities.”

The bankruptcy court must approve the bid and a reorganization plan for ATA Airlines before Southwest could gain the rights to ATA’s LaGuardia slots.

Once the acquisition is finalized, Southwest will work with the Federal Aviation Administration and the Port Authority of New York to commence service at LaGuardia, including acquisition of the necessary airport gate(s) and facilities. Details on the commencement of service or the cities that would be served by Southwest from LaGuardia have not yet been determined.

http://www.southwest.com

Businesses across the UK are off-setting the costs of going green by selling the surplus power generated by their wind-turbines to Opus Energy. Opus Energy then uses this power to supply their customers, meaning that the proportion of cleaner energy Opus supplies to the UK is increasing.

Three facts about micro-generation:

• The cost of installing a 6kW wind turbine at a premise is around £18,500 after available grants
• At a national average wind speed (6m/s) at current electricity prices, this turbine could start to ‘pay for itself’ in its seventh year
• The smallest wind turbine installed by Eagle Power is 3.5 meters in diameter, with 2.5 kW output

Eagle Power, the wind-turbine installation company, has seen numbers of wind turbines installed double in the last year. Owner and manager John Gumbley said, “All of our customers are keen to know that they can earn ‘payback’ from their turbine. Being able to earn money from the power you generate, beyond what you use to run your property, makes green energy an attractive option.”

Forty percent of Eagle Power’s customers are businesses looking to improve their green credentials and simultaneously cut the cost of their energy bills. Having installed a wind-turbine, Eagle Power advises it’s customers to team up with Opus Energy to top up their balance sheets with the income from selling their extra power.

John said, “We recommend our customers to Opus Energy because they make it really easy for businesses to start selling their excess energy. You can talk to their dedicated customer services team directly in the UK who will work with you to ease the accreditation process. As well as being friendly and well informed about micro-generation.”

Valpy Fitzgerald, Risk Manager at Opus Energy said, “We are delighted to be working with Eagle Power to encourage micro-generation in the UK. With diminishing natural resources and the increasing price of energy, wind-turbines can provide an excellent solution to minimising both environment and business costs. Those businesses that do take the initiative to install turbines can look to buffer the effect of rising economic costs by selling back their surplus power to the Grid.”

For the months when wind speeds are lower, many businesses also choose to have Opus Energy as their electricity supplier. This way, Opus customers can off-set the cost of energy they use from the grid, with profits from the energy they sell back through micro-generation, reducing their overall annual bills.

Notes to Editors

The Government’s Low Carbon Buildings Programme (LCBP) has been actively encouraging micro-generation for households and businesses providing grants for installation since 2006. In addition, the ‘Merton Rule’ has been adopted by many local councils throughout the UK which now demand that plans submitted by developers for new non-residential buildings must include renewable energy micro-generators capable of producing at least 10% of the building’s total energy consumption directly on site.
www.lowcarbonbuildings.org.uk/how/stream2/

www.opusenergy.co.uk

About Opus Energy

Opus Energy is a leading independent supplier of electricity offering tailor-made solutions for the UK SME and corporate markets. Its market-leading innovations are driven by customer needs and the company is committed to helping businesses become more environmentally responsible through procurement of energy from cleaner sources.

Opus Energy has over 40,000 customers across all sectors. Large customers include: Yell Group, Thorntons, Farmfoods, Cumbria County Council and Deloitte & Touche.

Opus Energy’s management team has a 50 percent stake in the business, while International Power Plc (LSE:IPR.L) holds 30 percent and Telecom Plus Plc (LSE: TEP.L ) has 20 percent. With offices in Northampton and Oxford, it employs 200 people.

For further information, please see www.opusenergy.co.uk

About Eagle Power

Eagle Power have more than 15 years’ experience in the supply and installation of wind turbines. Their customers include homes, farms, businesses, Local Authorities and schools. Eagle Power operate out of their Yorkshire office, which is off grid and run almost entirely from a Proven 6kW wind turbine.

For further information, please see www.eaglepower.co.uk

According to a recent UNICEF Regional Network for Children (RNC) report, there are approximately 1.5 million children in institutions in Central and Eastern Europe, 150,000 more than in 1999. Whilst Frodo believe reintegration into the community is the highest priority for these children, the Institutional Transformation programme will focus on helping to improve the care, conditions and prospects for the 26,000 children still in institutions in Romania.

Heidi Hennessy, fundraising manager at Frodo said “We are hugely excited to be working with Quotes 4 Charity and believe the partnership will present an excellent opportunity not only to promote F.R.O.D.O.’s work but help to raise awareness for the programmes that we are developing and running in developing countries to medically treat disabled orphans and abandoned children.”

Quotes4Charity CIC, whose key aim is to develop the company for the benefit of children both here in the UK and overseas, offer charity supporters fee free mortgage and protection advice. Every time a supporter uses their service, they receive a commission from which they cover their costs and generate a donation to charity.

With donations averaging in excess of £100*, the partnership offers real potential to raise funds whilst providing a valuable service to supporters. Geraldine Mulkerrin, charity consultant at Quotes4Charity CIC said ‘It’s a fantastic programme and we look forward to helping Frodo achieve their aims.’

To find out more visit www.frodokids.org or www.quotes4charity.co.uk

*Average UK mortgage £140,408 - Council of Mortgage Lenders Gross Lending Figures January 2008. This would generate a minimum donation of £115

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The two-year expedition will be primarily undertaken by kayak, including a challenging 350 mile open-ocean crossing from Argentina to the Falkland Islands. A second phase of the project will cover a route starting in the Bonin Islands and continuing to Japan, the Kuril Islands and finally the Aleutian Islands. A third phase will cover more southern hemisphere destinations including: South Georgia, Tristan Da Cunha, Prince Edward, Crozet, Kerguelen, Heard, Macquarie, and Auckland.

An expert outdoorsman with fifteen years of extreme weather camping and survival experience, Belanger, age 34, has spent considerable time physically preparing to meet the challenges of this unprecedented convergence of art, adventure and activism.

“The goal of the Wild Image Project is to educate the public on the existence of exotic and endangered species that play an essential role in complex ecosystems that are outside the general populations’ consciousness,” said Belanger.

“I’ve traveled around the world and seen some of the most amazing sights. My objective is to motivate others and alter their perspective on global issues by aesthetically presenting information and ideas that stimulate engagement, involvement and transformation.”

Belanger is not a newcomer to the world of social engagement. He is the founder of the New York-based House of Jimmu, an organization that promotes awareness on the crucial importance that good nutrition and nature play in the lives of children and their future as adults. He is also the founder of Ibrido, an online magazine and blog that serves as an electronic platform for positive social change.

Images from the Wild Image Project will be showcased in several multi-media photo essays and books that are designed to inspire viewers to raise their consciousness about the future. Images will predominately be of wildlife, with special focus on endangered species and difficult-to-photograph subjects in their natural habitat.

The Wild Image Project has been made possible by generous contributions from socially conscious individuals and corporations whose monetary, in-kind and product donations have funded the first phase of the project. Early sponsors of the Wild Image Project include Tiderace Kayak, Kokatat, Brunton, Lendal, Suunto, SOG, North Water, Snap Dragon Design, Underwater Kinetics, FoxFury, Aquapac, and LaCie.

Note to Editors:

Images by Daniel Belanger are available at http://www.kitsunekeimou.com or http://www.flickr.com/photos/danielkeimou/ and can be published with photo credit.

A video introduction by Daniel Belanger can be found at http://ibrido.tv/welcome.html under the About link.

About Kitsune Keimou

Kitsune Keimou is a photography and adventure company that has for mission to raise awareness on the beauty, necessity and fragility of Earth’s remote ecosystem. Contact: Daniel Belanger, 646.519.1704, daniel@kitsunekeimou.com

Previously, visitors booking tickets on-line to the famed MoMA were, like with so many outsourced ticketing operations, paying oppressive Service Charge fees, up to $10 per ticket. Since part of the Museum’s charter is to make Art more accessible, the IT Team looked to eliminate these fees that neither served their customers nor the Museum. The challenge of developing the internal ticketing system was magnified by an impending deadline before a long-term contract renewal with the outsourced vendor was due.

“We were able to complete this project in a quarter of the time because we were using Accelerator . . . I would definitely recommend it to others,” offers Ramakrishna “Sudhi” Sudheendra, Project Manager for Application Development at MoMA, explaining how they accomplished the aggressive goal on their IBM System i running LANSA.

“The major ticket vendors are adding a major cost burden to any organization using them,” Lee Paul, CEO of Surround Technologies, adds, “We showed MoMA that a back-end application replacement with full functionality was not as big an undertaking as they expected, all because of the speed and simplicity of our tools. And because of it, the museum is delivering superior value to their visitors.”

About Surround Technologies
Surround Technologies develops highly usable software tools that accelerate custom application development for IBM System i, Windows, .NET, Unix and Linux Platforms. With offices in New Jersey and Florida, Surround provides software products and professional services that help enterprises produce advanced agile software. Surround Technologies’ Envision products appeal to companies large and small, and are in use modernizing applications at companies like Gannett, Verizon, & GE. More information at www.SurroundTech.com.

Loyalty programs currently participating on GPX include Aeroplan(R), Alaska Airlines Mileage Plan, American Airlines AAdvantage(R), Frontier Airlines EarlyReturns(R), Icelandair Award Points, Delta Air Lines SkyMiles(R) and InterContinental Group’s Priority Club(R) Rewards. Through the end of 2008 and into 2009 Points.com will continue to add new partners to GPX, including TACA International Airlines, AirTran Airways, Mexicana Airlines and Harrah’s Entertainment.

“Airline expansion in the Middle East makes the region one of the fast growing in the world,” said Rob McLean, CEO of Points.com. “Our new partnership with Hitit will not only generate additional visibility for GPX among key future partners, but it will also lead to additional options for users looking to trade miles and to travel in that region.”

“Connecting like-minded companies that provide tangible benefits to consumers is the main reason we’re excited about working with Points.com,” said Mustafa Ozalcin, marketing and sales manager for Hitit Computer Services. “There’s nothing else like GPX and we’re confident that airlines across the region will recognize the many benefits the service provides.”

About Points International Ltd.

Points International Ltd. is owner and operator of Points.com, the world’s leading reward-program management portal. At Points.com consumers can Swap, Earn, Buy, Gift, Share and Redeem miles and points from more than 25 of the world’s leading reward programs. Participating programs include American Airlines AAdvantage(R) program, Aeroplan(R), AsiaMiles(TM), British Airways Executive Club, Wyndham Rewards(R), Delta SkyMiles(R) and InterContinental Hotels Group’s Priority Club(R) Rewards. Redemption partners include Amazon.com(R) and Starbucks. Website: http://www.points.com.

About Hitit Computer Services

Hitit Computer Services is an airline software solutions provider with flagship product, Crane FF (frequent flyer) firmly established as one of the most powerful loyalty solutions in the industry. Malaysia Airlines, Virgin Blue, Qatar Airways, Etihad Airways, Icelandair and Turkish Airlines are only a few of the airlines that have migrated their systems to Crane. The Crane Family of Airline Solutions includes software for all key areas of airline operations including web-based reservations & ticketing, schedule planning and crew management. Hitit recently pioneered the first analytics tool for airlines, Crane IMP (Intelligent Member Profiling), launched at the recent FFP 2008 Conference in Dallas.

This resource seeks to emphasise the importance of factoring human rights into responsible business practice by reminding readers of the myriad of issues related to human rights and providing best practice examples of businesses improving performance through human rights initiatives.

The UDHR, developed after the Second World War, was the first global statement of the inherent dignity and quality of all human beings. It provides a common global standard and is effectively a contract between all governments and their peoples. Whilst not all governments have become parties to human rights treaties they have all adopted the UDHR. It also forms the basis of human rights law and is itself based on the core values of non-discrimination, equality, fairness and universality.

A full breakdown of the rights incorporated in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights can be viewed on Article 13’s human rights CSR expert view. What becomes evident through reading these rights is that many of them are flouted in various parts of the world, often closer to home than we think. Moreover, despite the efforts of individual organisations, these are too often the exception. Ruggie’s latest report proposes a framework for business and human rights comprising three core principles: the State duty to protect against human rights abuses by third parties, including business; the corporate responsibility to respect human rights; and the need for more effective access to remedies.

As a signatory of the UNGC, Article 13 upholds the principles related to human rights and works to inform others in its networks of the need for proactive action. The organisations profiled in the best practice CSR case studies of this human rights feature are, therefore, other UNGC signatories who are successfully tackling human rights and achieving business benefits as a result of their efforts. Issues covered in these case studies include human trafficking, institutionalised discrimination, employment opportunities for women in the developing world and nutrition.

To read the full human rights feature, visit www.article13.com/csr/theissues.asp

For the past eight years, the number of mobile phone subscribers has grown globally at an average rate of 24 percent year over year(a). “For enterprises competing for market share and looking to improve customer satisfaction ratings, having the ability to use multimodal applications to enable self-service for mobile device users will be a differentiator,” said Daniel Hong, Lead Analyst, Datamonitor. “When looking at the evolution of phone-based self-service technologies, it began with touch-tone, progressed to include speech, and now the next phrase: multimodal enablement. This next stage in the evolution of phone-based self-service includes personalization and takes into account the proliferation of mobile devices.”

Interaction Composer

This latest version of IVP provides immediate and universal access to the exploding audience of mobile device users. Interaction Composer is an Eclipse-based Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for building, deploying, and managing robust applications with a drag & drop components and extensibility framework that enable both call center programmers and IT developers to quickly develop complex voice or multimodal applications. Interaction Composer enables the development of applications that allow callers to perform tasks simultaneously or interrupt tasks with new requests, and then resume tasks where they left off. Interaction Composer application runtime leverages the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) specification for State Chart eXtensible Markup Language (SCXML). Intervoice uses SCXML as an extended application notation that enables combining call control functionality with voice interactions and mobile phone screen pops, as well as other types of message-oriented interactions such as SMS, to provide an information-rich, multichannel and multimodal contact center experience for the caller.

For enterprises with legacy IVR applications, Interaction Composer also enables the migration of legacy IVR applications to open-standards applications that can include a speech option for more efficient self-service calls. Interaction Composer allows developers to move easily to the IVP platform by greatly reducing the risk and costs that can normally be associated when upgrading technology.

Enhanced Personalization

With IVP 6, clients can also create highly personalized applications by leveraging Convergys Dynamic Decisioning Solution, a software product that includes both a set of tools and a policy engine. When building a speech application with IVP, developers can create a set of policies or rules that can trigger personalized interactions for end users based on existing customer data. The use of Dynamic Decisioning Solution with IVP brings an enhanced level of customer service by enabling applications to automatically respond to changes in a customer’s profile in real time improving each customer’s self-service experience. The combination of these products enables enterprises to reduce time to market and costs associated with deploying personalized self-service applications.

Intervoice Voice Portal 6.0 is offered in three solution packages to meet diverse business-needs: Voice Portal Express, Voice Portal Enterprise, and Voice Portal Enterprise Pro. Convergys Dynamic Decisioning Solution is available as an add-on component to either Enterprise or Enterprise Pro for enhanced personalization and policy management.

Intervoice Voice Portal Enterprise Pro includes Interaction Composer and the outbound notification capabilities of Advanced Notification Gateway. First introduced with IVP 5.0, Advanced Notification Gateway (ANG) is typically leveraged as a solution to reduce calls to the contact center. The primary mechanism for sending SMS, email, fax, and initiating outbound voice calls within the IVP framework, ANG enables end-users to receive real-time, outbound communications. Originating from a self-service application, this solution proactively alerts end-users to important updates, issues, and other information.

The award-winning Intervoice Voice Portal platform has a standard-based web-inspired architecture including server-side (SCXML engine) and client-side (voice and call control browsers) components, that can be deployed on a single server or in a distributed configuration. This type of architecture provides the ability to quickly and consistently roll out new classes of software applications. The highly scalable and highly available IVP platform includes support for Nuance 9 and Nuance Verifier 4 as well as support for IBM Websphere Voice Server (WVS) with Speaker Verification (SV). Enterprises will have more choices to meet the growing demand for adding speech to existing applications, for developing new speech-enabled applications, and for adding voice or multi-factor authentication solutions. Callers will have more efficient interactions due to higher accuracy and the enablement of more natural conversations.

Clients can order IVP 6 starting December 1, 2008.

Intervoice, now part of Convergys, partners with companies to strengthen their relationships with customers and employees. The portfolio of software and professional services enables innovative voice portal, IP contact center, hosted and mobile messaging, and self-service applications that empower millions of people every day.

(a) = United Nations Telecommunication Summit, September 2008.

About Convergys

Convergys Corporation (NYSE: CVG) is a global leader in relationship management. We provide solutions that drive more value from the relationships our clients have with their customers and employees. Convergys turns these everyday interactions into a source of profit and strategic advantage for our clients.

For more than 30 years, our unique combination of domain expertise, operational excellence, and innovative technologies has delivered process improvement and actionable business insight to clients that now span more than 70 countries and 35 languages.

Convergys is a member of the S&P 500 and has been voted a Fortune Most Admired Company for eight consecutive years. We have approximately 75,000 employees in 81 customer contact centers and other facilities in the United States, Canada, Latin America, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia, and our global headquarters in Cincinnati, Ohio. For more information, visit www.convergys.com

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