Dow Chemical Company [NYSE: DOW] assists in achievement of solar certification for solar firm

February 7th, 2012 by Bank Loan | No Comments | Filed in News

Dow Chemical Company [NYSE: DOW] assists in achievement of solar certification for solar firm

Article by Sunshine Chen

Dow Chemical Company has recently aided SBM Solar achieve product certification for its crystalline silicon solar panels.

The certification for compliance solutions and product safety was awarded to SBM Solar’s silicon solar panels by Underwriters Laboratories Inc..

SBM Solar develops, researches, and manufactures patent-pending, non-glass solar energy technology. Their product facilitates energy dependency for commercial and residential buildings.

Dow Chemical Company is primarily responsible for the non-ethylene vinyl acetate-based thermoplastic coating of SBM Solar’s non-glass photovoltaic modules.

Dow’s special coating enables SBM Solar to manufacture solar panels three times quicker than ordinary glass modules. Dow’s coating features distinct block architecture that allows unprecedented control of the polymer chain which not only improves existing olefin elastomers, but also allows other new application opportunities as compared to traditional flexible materials. The product can also provide competitive performance at lower costs than many specialty elastomers which means bigger possibilities for the solar panels.

In 2009, Dow Chemical Company reaped numerous awards including being the most admired chemical company in Brazil as hailed by Carta Capital Magazine, thus earning Brazil’s first ever distinction for diversity programming. Other distinctions include being 2008 ENERGY STAR Partner of the Year, Most Influential Enterprises in Building Energy Efficiency in China for 2008, Best in Class in Carbon Disclosure Leadership Index for 2008, the ESS Excellence Award for its Environmental Reporting Project, and the European Responsible Care Award 2007 for Dow Benelux.

The special features of the SBM Solar non-glare solar panels include being 40 percent lighter than glass, which translates to easier and cheaper shipping and handling costs, the capacity to be used in boating and military applications, suitability for applications with weight limits, roof design that allows reduced installation costs, a 20 year warranty, the distinction of having the “world’s highest power to weight ratio”, and its resistance to adverse weather conditions like rain, high winds and lightning.

The panels may also be personalized into shapes, sizes, and colors for maximization and flexibility in design.

SBM Solar is the only company in the world to earn UL certification for their non-glass, rigid, C-Si solar panels. The company is also one among 18 small North Carolina firms to receive $ 100,000 from the state’s Green Business Fund for production line expansion. SBM Solar owner Dr. Osbert Cheung founded the solar business endeavour by supplying a specialized panel design that replaces roofing products, allowing contractors to perform just one installation, therefore cutting down on labor costs and time.

Sunshine Chen is a seasoned writer, having travelled around the world, largely putting all her experiences and the sights and sounds she has come across to paper. She now writes extensively about topics related to green news, mostly on renewable energy, but also on a variety of related topics as well. When not travelling around the world, she is based in Central Hong Kong, taking in the myriad colours, flavours, and scents of the melting pot that Hong Kong is known for.










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Beacon Enterprise Solutions Group Doubles Number of Locations Served

February 4th, 2012 by Bank Loan | No Comments | Filed in News

Scottsdale, AZ (PRWEB) December 09, 2011

QualityStocks would like to highlight Beacon Enterprise Solutions, Inc. (OTCBB: BEAC). Beacon Enterprise Solutions Group is an emerging global leader in the design, implementation and management of high performance Information Technology Systems (“ITS”) infrastructure solutions. Beacon offers fully integrated, turnkey IT infrastructure solutions capable of fully servicing the largest companies in the world as they increasingly outsource to reduce costs while optimizing critical IT design and infrastructure management.

In the companys news yesterday,

Beacon Enterprise Solutions Group, Inc. discussed the companys transition to NetSuite OneWorld and positive results to the business.

The cloud-based, comprehensive professional services automation (PSA) and financial accounting system supports Beacons rapidly growing global business activities. The company now utilizes the NetSuite OneWorld product set to address the complex multi-national and multi-company requirements of a world-class global operation. With the addition of the financial package, Beacons NetSuite deployment now integrates all key business processes, including Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Customer Support, and Human Resources. The NetSuite OneWorlds product offers multi-lingual and multi-currency capabilities, which advances Beacons ability to quickly scale its business with customers, partners, and suppliers anywhere in the world.

Beacon uses NetSuite OneWorld to operate multiple subsidiaries, manage multiple currencies and foreign exchange, and maintain local, regional and national tax schedules in hundreds of jurisdictions around the world. By making the transition, the company increased its customer location base in fiscal year 2011 by 96% to 212 locations in 51 countries up from 108 locations in 26 countries in fiscal year 2010. In addition, Customer Service Ticket volume, which is a measure of customer activity, increased by 31% to 1,588 in fiscal year 2011 up from 1,214 in fiscal year 2010.

NetSuites 100% cloud-based architecture makes it available 24?7 to Beacons global workforce. It enables Beacons centralized accounting team with real-time financial consolidation and drill-down capability for any organizational hierarchy and subsidiary. Other benefits of the system that have significantly improved the companys ability to compete globally are support for 17 languages, 190+ currencies, tax integration, and always-on audit and compliance features. The successful OneWorld implementation will also allow Beacon to leverage infrastructure already in place to achieve growth while limiting increases to fixed costs.

Our NetSuite implementation has enabled Beacon to rapidly scale-up our global operations with considerably less time and financial investment typical of competing large on-site ERP installations, stated Jerry Bowman, President and COO of Beacon. Our executive and management teams have the ability to view and manage workflow with real-time dashboards. It is mission critical for our management teams to have access to real time project and client data to make business decisions regarding resource allocation, financial performance and any other key metrics they might need. The implementation of this tool permits us to effectively access real time data from projects occurring simultaneously across the world in multiple languages, and address issues as they develop in real-time.

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Alliance Storage Technologies Expands Distribution With New Sales Partner In The Netherlands

February 4th, 2012 by Bank Loan | No Comments | Filed in News

Colorado Springs, CO and Zeewolde, Netherland (PRWEB) February 02, 2012

Alliance Storage Technologies, Inc. (ASTI) is aggressively adding new partners to its reseller program to strengthen its position as the leader in professional data archiving solutions. With the addition of Sertho, ASTI continues to support all of EMEA. With this expansion, ASTI remains in pursuit of new opportunities in the data storage market while bringing more value to their customers and suppliers.

Sertho is a value added distributor with headquarters in Zeewolde, Netherlands. Managing partner, Jan Serry, brings significant experience to the ASTI Sertho teaming having previously worked for Plasmon. ASTI had purchased the assets of Plasmon in early 2009 and continues to manufacture professional data archiving systems from entry to enterprise level. With Mr. Serrys knowledge of the optical industry, it was a natural fit to join ASTIs partner program and begin to offer his clients a powerful option for cost effective data archiving.

According to Jan Serry, Managing Partner at Sertho Storage Solutions, “The long term archiving products from ASTI are a good fit with the email, file and Sharepoint archiving solutions from Metalogix that Sertho distributes in the Benelux. Based on the proven UDO technology we see this as a good proposition for deep archiving needs.”

About Alliance Storage Technologies, Inc.

Alliance Storage Technologies, Inc. (ASTI) is the primary source for professional data archiving solutions worldwide that meet and exceed todays challenging regulatory demands for secure archival data. Professional solutions provide value to any industry including: Healthcare, Finance, Government, Insurance, Legal, and more. These regulatory-compliant systems preserve unaltered data for extended periods (greater than 50 years) at an exceptionally low total cost of ownership.

Scalable product offerings include: Direct and Networked-Attached (DAS/NAS) Plasmon? storage libraries, with Ultra Density Optical (UDO) as the core technology, related Write-Once-Read-Many (WORM) media, and archive software. Best-in-class global support services are available to sustain customer installations. Additionally, a complete line of certified Plasmon? parts are available. ASTI is committed to providing every customer with exemplary customer service and support from first contact through the life of the relationship. Thousands of businesses worldwide trust ASTI quality to secure their valuable investments in corporate data.

About Sertho Storage Solutions

Sertho Storage Solutions is a Value added Distributor specializing in solutions for data management and archiving. Based in Zeewolde, Netherlands, they provide EMEA users with the right solution with the best return of investment. Actual efficiency improvements and cost savings demonstrated by applying the right solutions and techniques have placed Sertho in a prominent position in the field of data migration, backup, storage, archiving and consolidation, briefly, data management at its best.

For additional information, please visit: http://www.sertho.com or call +31 (0)36-5318738

For further information, please visit http://www.alliancestoragetechnologies.com , or call 719-593-7900.

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Foremost Insurance Group Pegram Racing Team Rides Again into the 2012 Season

February 4th, 2012 by Bank Loan | No Comments | Filed in News

Grand Rapids, MI (PRWEB) February 02, 2012

Professional, hard working, and passionate are just a few words to define the Foremost Insurance Pegram Racing race team.

For the third year in a row, Foremost? will maintain the title sponsorship for the Pegram racing team in the 2012 AMA American Superbike Series. Larry Pegram is a professional road racer who not only champions wins on his bike, but also is owner and manager of his own team.

We are honored to be involved with such a motivated and passionate team, says Randy Slotten, director of marketing. Being involved in professional racing is an important aspect to Foremost and weve had a successful relationship with the Pegram racing team and Larry. We value our sponsorship and look forward to the 2012 season.

Slotten says that the team is very professional, competitive and they get results. The Foremost Insurance Pegram Racing team experienced challenges on a new bike last year, but has made many improvements to the bike and learned how to successfully maneuever the bike for the 2012 season.

After our 2011 season with a brand new BMW bike under our belts, we are feeling excited about the 2012 season, Pegram says. Last year was a building year for the team and through preseason testing, the bike has shown big improvements and we are looking forward to getting back to winning.

The Foremost Insurance Pegram Racing team will take to the track for the AMA American Superbike season opener at Daytona International Speedway March 15-17.

Foremost is proud to sponsor the Pegram Road Racing team for the 2012 season. To learn more about Foremost Pegram racing team and to see the AMA American Superbike Series schedule go to, http://www.foremostracing.com or http://www.pegramracing.com.

Foremost wants you to be safe in whatever adventure you choose. To learn more about Foremost products or to share feedback, visit http://www.Foremost.com, our blog at blog.foremost.com, our Facebook page at http://www.Facebook.com/ForemostInsurance or our Twitter account at http://www.Twitter.com/Foremost.

A part of the Farmers Insurance Group of Companies?, Foremost Insurance Group (“Foremost”) has been a leader in personal lines insurance since 1952. Foremost is headquartered in Caledonia, Michigan. Farmers is a trade name and may refer to Farmers Group, Inc. or the Farmers Exchanges, as the case may be. Farmers Group, Inc., a management and holding company, along with its subsidiaries, is wholly owned by the Zurich Financial Services Group. The Farmers Exchanges are three reciprocal insurers (Farmers Insurance Exchange, Fire Insurance Exchange and Truck Insurance Exchange), including their subsidiaries and affiliates, owned by their policyholders, and managed by Farmers Group, Inc. and its subsidiaries. For more information about Farmers, visit http://www.Farmers.com, or http://www.Facebook.com/FarmersInsurance.

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Phone Equipment Supplier TelcoDepot.com Adds Leading Surge Protection Tools for Business Phones to Online Store

February 2nd, 2012 by Bank Loan | No Comments | Filed in News

Bay Shore, NY (PRWEB) January 23, 2012

TelcoDepot.com, a provider of Phone Systems, VoIP Equipment, Business VoIP Service, Hosted PBX solutions, assorted phone accessories and phone system support services for small businesses, has added leading surge protection equipment for businesses to its online store. Surge protection ensures that critical business equipment remain safe during periods of unpredictable power surges.

TelcoDepot.com now stocks market-leading SurgeGate surge protection tools including the SurgeGate AC Protector 4-outlet (4-outlet AC protection base unit for the SurgeGate complete protection system for telephone systems), SurgeGate AC Protector 8-outlet 1 line (8-outlet AC, 1-line protection base unit for the SurgeGate complete protection system for telephone systems. Outlets spaced to accommodate power transformers), and the SurgeGate AC Protector 8-outlet, SurgeGate Line Protector 4-line 4xRJ11 (SurgeGate module 4-POTS telephone lines with 1 line per modular jack).

Other available solutions include the SurgeGate Line Protector 4-line 2xRJ14 (SurgeGate module 4-POTS telephone lines with 2 lines per modular jack), SurgeGate Line Protector 4-line 110 type (SurgeGate module 4-POTS telephone lines with 110 Type punch down connection. Requires a 110 punch down tool, available from TelcoDepot.com), and the SurgeGate Line Protector 8-line 110 type (SurgeGate module 8-POTS telephone lines with 110 Type punch down connection. Requires a 110 punch down tool, available from TelcoDepot.com), among others.

TelcoDepot.com provides discounts on all available models of surge protection products. Please inquire from customer service.

“The award-winning SurgeGate Surge Protection Tools add value for small business while protecting their critical phone systems and equipment,” says Yaron Ram, Principal at TelcoDepot.com.

To learn more about the TelcoDepot.com Surge Protection Tools, including available systems, support options, discounts and pricing, visit telcodepot.com/phone-system-equipment/surge-protection. For additional inquiries, call TelcoDepot.com support lines on 1-800-390-1200 or send an email to info(at)telcodepot(dot)com.

About Telco Depot

Telco Depot is a leading supplier of quality business telephone systems, business VoIP service, VoIP phones, phone headset equipment, video surveillance systems, voice & data cabling solutions, conference phone solutions and Microsoft Response Point Systems. The companys top priority is to help its clients make informed decisions based on their specific small business phone system needs by providing experience and expertise and guiding them in selecting the best phone systems for their businesses. Telco Depot ensures that their phone systems are fully scalable, affordable priced, and provide the highest value for their clients.

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Stock Market Indices

February 2nd, 2012 by Bank Loan | No Comments | Filed in News

Stock Market Indices
A stock market index is a compound indicator used to estimate the behavior of a group of shares and then, on the basis of these estimations, to evaluate those global processes that take place on the equity market. As a rule, the absolute value of the stock market index is of little value for analytics. Showing the change in prices for a group of securities, commodities or derivatives, a stock market index is particularly interesting to analysts when they watch its dynamics: the direction of the market movement is particularly estimated on the basis of the index dynamics within the period of time. Moreover, the share prices in a selected group may change in different ways. Stock market indices allow you to get the expression of the changes in a separate chosen section or on the total market depending on the chosen indicators.

The first-priority purpose of the futures market is the hedging of risks (loss of income insurance), related to any assets or investment. The popularity of trade based on stock market indices is first of all caused by the binding to the stock exchange market.

The value of a stock market index is based on the prices of all the shares that comprise the index and that are traded on this particular stock exchange. Thats why creating a diverse portfolio of investment into shares, a stock market index is considered a good decision. An index, that cannot be purchases as a property, does not become the object of insurance and speculative operations itself, but the alterations of the index value do (a price is set for every point in index alteration).

As a rule, the quantity of shares that make part of a particular index is equal to the number given at the end of the index name. Russell 2000, S&P 500, Nikkei 225, FTSE 100, NASDAQ 100, DJ Euro STOXX 50, CAC 40, DAX 30.
As you can see, index value alterations reflect the dynamics in the prices of dozens or hundreds of shares. Today there are more than two thousand different stock market indices in circulation, we can specify the most popular ones among them: Dow Jones, DAX, Nikkei, NASDAQ, RTS, Standard & Poors 500, FTSE.

Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA)

The stock market index DJIA (Dow Jones Industrial Average) is one of the most popular indices in the world. For the first time it was used more than a hundred years ago. Of course, a lot has changed during that period: the quantity of shares that comprise it and the list of enterprises which shares were initially used. Moreover, only a couple of companies are left from those that were considered powerful in the nineteenth century.

The quantity of the index components in the course of 100 years was as follows: in 1896 the index was calculated on the basis of the share prices of a dozen of enterprises, in 1916 on the basis of twenty enterprises, and since 1928 the index has been calculated on the basis of the share prices of thirty enterprises. The average of the share prices of these largest USA companies is also called blue chips, and it represents a famous index Dow Jones Industrial Average.

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Gary Hamel Identifies How Organizations Can Win in a World of Relentless Change and Unstoppable Innovation in What Matters Now

February 2nd, 2012 by Bank Loan | No Comments | Filed in News

Hoboken, NJ (PRWEB) February 01, 2012

Leaders today confront a world where the unpredictable and unprecedented are the norm. Whether it is next generation employees shunning blue chips for social start-ups or hundred year-old business models being rendered irrelevant overnight one sees the exceptional and the extraordinary wherever one looks.

About the only thing a leader can be sure of is that what worked yesterday is unlikely to work today, let alone tomorrow. If ever there was a need for fundamentally new thinking about capitalism, management, leadership, and innovation, and how these things are directly tied to competitive success, it is now. In “What Matters Now: How to Win in a World of Relentless Change, Ferocious Competition, and Unstoppable Innovation” (Jossey-Bass; February 2012; $ 26.95; 978-1-118-12082-8) leading management expert, and acclaimed author of The Future of Management, Gary Hamel lays out the essential agenda for building organizations that can thrive no matter what.

In a world of fractured certainties and battered trust, some things matter more than others. While the challenges facing organizations are limitless; leadership bandwidth isn’t. That’s why leaders have to be clear about what really matters now. What are the fundamental, make-or-break issues that will determine whether an organization thrives or dives in the years ahead?

Hamel has the answer: What matters now, more than ever, is that managers expand their sense of stewardship and embrace timeless values such as truth, prudence and fairness. Unfortunately, these virtues have been notably scarce in recent years–particularly in the citadels of capitalism. Whats needed is a values revolution in business and everyone who has a stake in the future of capitalism will have to do their part.

This book contains 25 hard-hitting, wisdom-filled chapters in five sections. With brutal honesty, cutting-edge examples and iconoclastic thinking, Hamel identifies five issues that are central to success in an age of head-snapping change – values, innovation, adaptability, passion and ideology. Among the critical topics covered


????How to turn ordinary employees into inspired, extraordinary innovators
????How to build organizations that are as nimble as change itself
????How to reverse the ratchet of control and set the human spirit free at work
????How to rebuild the moral foundations of capitalism
????How to weave Web 2.0 values into your companys management model
????How to defeat bureaucracy and manage without managers
????How to invert the pyramid and really put employees first

“What Matters Now” is not a book about doing better. Its not a manual for people who want to tinker at the margins of their organization. Instead, its an impassioned plea to reinvent management as we know itto rethink the fundamental assumptions we have about capitalism, institutions, and life at work. This is not a book that fetes todays winners. Its not a celebration of companies that have been doing great so far. Instead, its a blueprint for creating organizations that are fit for the future and fit for human beings.

For more information, please visit http://www.managementexchange.com/ or follow him on Twitter at @profhamel

About the Author:

Gary Hamel (Silicon Valley, CA) has been called the world’s “most influential business thinker” (Wall Street Journal) and “the leading expert on business strategy” (Fortune). His landmark books have appeared on every management bestseller list. He is also author of 17 articles for the Harvard Business Review and articles for the WSJ, Fortune and Financial Times. He is on the faculty of the London Business School and consults with many of the worlds most influential companies. He is director of the Management Lab and is leading a pioneering effort to crowdsource the future of management.

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The Ins And Outs Of Growing Season Stocks Are The Focus Of The Recently Released Absolute Wealth Investment Newsletter

February 1st, 2012 by Bank Loan | No Comments | Filed in News

Austin, TX. (PRWEB) January 22, 2012

The investment Absolute Wealth newsletter, published by AW Research Publishing, is being subscribed to by people all over the globe. The Absolute Wealth newsletter just reported on the ins and outs of growing season stocks. The in depth Absolute Wealth newsletter, not only gives a summary, but it explains the reasons behind why the stocks are moving in the directions they are. With this kind of up to date information, that the Absolute Wealth newsletter publishes, it is much easier for people that are new to investing to understand why the investment advice will be effective.

In addition to this important information that the Absolute Wealth newsletter supplies, there is the Macro Minute, that provides the latest financial information. There is also the Gorrie Details report, that is the reason why many people subscribe to the Absolute Wealth newsletter. The Absolute Wealth newsletter is a research publishing firm that publishes statistical and financial data, to provide the public with the required information they need to make informed financial decisions.

Information about AW Research Publishing

The AW Research Publishing team publishes information, for The Absolute Wealth newsletter, along with The Empire Report, which features George Ross the costar from The Apprentice plus an adviser to Donald Trump. AW Research Publishing also provides products which include, the Independent Wealth Alliance, that is currently the only independent monthly anti-risk, anti-hype, anti-bias investment alliance that reveals experienced, expert investment advice. The Wealth Alliance is dedicated to publishing information that explains how to earn exceptional returns by implementing the timeless secret of the Economy of One principle, that has a proven history.

AW Research Publishing provides information and research from experts that are experienced in the stock markets and financial field. Currently The Absolute Wealth newsletter is the only independent investment alliance that is passionate about aiding Americans by providing them with proven strategies to help them increase their wealth. The AW Research Publishing strategies and techniques have been implemented by most of the financial visionaries from the past, that used them to create vast amounts of wealth. The information and research that is published by The Absolute Wealth newsletter, organizes and categorizes the [financial advice into strategies and techniques, which help to preserve and grow wealth for interested people that implement them.

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The Bull Report beats the DOW JONES

February 1st, 2012 by Bank Loan | No Comments | Filed in News

The Bull Report beats the DOW JONES

Article by Jay

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IBM [NYSE: IBM] breaks world record for solar efficiency

January 31st, 2012 by Bank Loan | No Comments | Filed in News

IBM [NYSE: IBM] breaks world record for solar efficiency

Article by Sunshine Chen

Solar cells that do not have the expensive elements mentioned usually have an efficiency that doesn’t surpass 6.7 percent.

Other than bein g more efficient, the new IBM solar cell is also cheaper in terms of printing costs, slit casting, and dip and spray coating because it uses a mix of solution and nanoparticle-based method in place of the old vacuum method.

IBM lead researcher Dr. David Mitzi said that IBM is close to developing solar technology that is cost-effective while at the same time has the capacity to deploy at terawatt level.

IBM scientists use a large lens for concentrating the sun’s power – a technology known as concentrator photovoltaics or CPV- to convert sunlight into 70 watts of electricity. IBM’s output is said to be five times the electrical power density produced by other solar farms using CPV technology.

In 2008, IBM developed the concentrating photovoltaic technology with the aim to reduce the cost of producing solar energy by using less photovoltaic cells in a solar farm and concentrating more light onto each cell using larger lenses. IBM’s strategy comes from its capacity to cool the tiny solar cell and to concentrate the equivalent of 2000 suns on a small area for melting stainless steel. IBM also uses its technology for cooling computer chips which had enabled solar cells to cool from greater than 1600 degrees Celsius to just 85 degrees Celsius.

IBM has also developed a system that achieved breakthrough results by combining a commercial solar cell with an advanced IBM liquid metal thermal cooling system using microprocessor industry methods.

The melted liquid metal -called thermal interface layer- is applied between the chip and the cooling block so that heat may be transferred and chip temperature may be kept low. The technology, which was developed by IBM originally to cool high power computer chips, gives an excellent thermal performance at a low cost.

CPV technology has the capacity to provide the lowest-cost solar electricity for large-scale power generation, as long as the temperature of the cells are kept low and cost-effective optics can be developed for concentrating the light to high levels.

Aside from photovoltaic research, IBM is also involved in energy efficient technology and services, advanced water management, carbon management, intelligent transportation systems and intelligent utility systems.

IBM Research lead photovoltaics scientist Dr. Supratik Guha said that he believes IBM can supply knowledge from their extensive experience in semiconductors and nanotechnology to the field of alternative energy research.

IBM’s new thin-film solar cell has broken a world record for having an efficiency of 9.6 percent.










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