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Sarah’s Stands launches website to promote its line of cake stands aimed at the wedding market. The website allows customers to order cake stands while offering them the opportunity to see what other couple’s have done for their wedding cakes.

The Greater Raleigh Chamber of Commerce has announced the launch of Member Marketplace, a social savings platform for local businesses to communicate and offer discounts specifically to chamber members. Developed by the Fabrik Agency (http://fabrikagency.com/), a full-service design agency that focuses on creating innovative solutions for company branding, Member Marketplace will provide Chamber businesses with a location to distribute company news and announcements, offer specific discounts, and maintain communication with Chamber members. Member Marketplace will provide record of an annual savings and transaction history for members to reference, and businesses can limit and monitor the number of discounts offered as well.

Dean Ogan, owner of Rocky Top Hospitality (rockytophospitality.com), has announced that The Red Room Tapas Lounge, the only Spanish-influenced tapas lounge in downtown Raleigh, has been named the best place to salsa dance in Independent Weekly’s 2011 Best of the Triangle awards, an annual readers’ poll. Every Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights, The Red Room transforms into the area’s trendiest salsa party, with free dance lessons offered early in the evening, reasonably priced appetizer-sized portions made for sharing, and other specialties including sangria, wine and signature red cocktails.

The North Carolina Comfort Zone Camp has announced that it will host its second annual Comfort Zone Camp for Kids Charity Golf Classic on Monday, Sept. 19 at Brier Creek Country Club, located at 10404 Lumley Road, with registration starting at 10:30 a.m. All proceeds from the event will benefit North Carolina’s Comfort Zone Camp, a bereavement camp that transforms the lives of children who have experienced the death of a parent, sibling or primary caregiver.

Brad Halferty, president and CEO of Twongo, LLC (twongo.com), a social savings platform launched in 2010 that combines discounts, social media and marketing in a unique team-buying service, has announced the company’s recent expansion into the Orlando, Fla. market. The company will use this opportunity to partner with area businesses in offering residents and tourists a variety of daily and weekly retail discount opportunities through the company website, subscriber e-mails and the social media channels Twitter and Facebook. Twongo’s “deals” vouchers are valid for discounts of 50-70 percent off retail goods. A voucher’s discount value increases as more people invest in it during its allotted time.

Baby Brands Direct is dedicated to supplying a wide range of nursery and baby products for retailers to buy quickly and conveniently for their store. They hold in stock for immediate delivery a range of Nappy Disposal products and Nappy disposal brands including Angel Care and Sangenic from Tommee Tippee.

Baby Brands Direct is a dedicated nursery stockists supplying a wide range of nursery and baby products direct to baby and nursery independent retailers. As a nursery distributor Baby Brands Direct provides retailers with an on-line system which allows them to buy their goods quickly and simply.

The saying goes that the best things in life are free. But now, the best things in life are free and they can help keep the sunburn away this summer.

Award winning Baby Sherpa® presented champion funny car race driver and expectant mother Ashley Force Hood with the hands-free, 4-in-1 diaper backpack and a race-car Safe2Go child safety harness backpack at the recent World of Wheels car show in Winnipeg, Manitoba.

phati’tude Literary Magazine’s SUMMER 1960s SPECIAL Deadline is June 27, 2011. We’re looking for poetry, short stories and essays that take a look at the 1960s through the lens of today’s art, culture and politics.

For those looking to branch out and meet friends in Asia, useful resources are few and far between. Social networking sites offer some opportunities to meet friends overseas, but for people who have been looking for a more thorough platform specific to Asia, it wasn’t until the release or oreintfriendfinder.com that there was a website that could adequately meet their needs.

NY Mom’s World is hosting the first in a series of Mompreneur Networking Events at the Hilton Garden Inn in Westbury, NY, June 9th, from 6 – 9 PM. The event offers participants the opportunity to learn from high-profile mom entrepreneurs the secrets of building a thriving business — from launching a personal brand, to inspiring nationwide franchises, to integrating social media as part of a business strategy. It will also give participants an opportunity to mix and mingle with other mompreneurs, and gather businesses and services from NY Mom’s “Go To Gang”.

Support phati’tude Literary Magazine and our efforts to promote multicultural literature and to show our thanks, we’ll give you a free phati’tude bag or mug.

For single parents, raising children alone can be a daunting task. From financial concerns, to support groups, to even finding love again, “going at it alone” can be enough to challenge even the strongest single parents.

Custom Favor World announces the launch of the new website CustomFavorWorld.com, as of March 2011, to build on the success and quality of their existing product Chocolate Favors.

Stand Up To Cancer Public Service Announcement to educate cancer patients about the importance of lowering one's risk of infection during treatment

When the dating series “Instant Attraction Videos” was first released the only ones who noticed were those already in the pick-up community. It’s not every day that a series that teaches men how to attract women gets a second glance from academia, especially considering the bad rap dating series’ have been getting in the media. But as the series picked up momentum in its own community it eventually caught the attention of several notable psychologists, several of which used the theories of the pick-up artists’ as the basis for their own studies on attraction.

Caring for an aging parent is a daunting responsibility that no one is ever fully prepared to handle. It’s hard enough conceptualizing the people that were responsible for raising you are now the ones who are needing the care themselves. However, the painful reality of caregiving for parents is often unavoidable. The numbers are increasing every year, and as 2011 officially begins the “aging tsunami” those numbers have no place to go but up.

Global Partnerships (GP), a Seattle-based nonprofit that invests in microfinance and other sustainable poverty solutions, and the Netherlands Development Finance Company (FMO), a leading European development bank, announced today that FMO has invested $4.4 million in GP’s Social Investment Fund (SIF 2010). SIF 2010 is a $25 million fund (including FMO’s investment) that makes loans to exceptional microfinance institutions in Latin America.

For the third year running a team of 14 from Avanta Managed Offices are planning to take part in a 5.6 km race to help raise funds for one of the UK’s leading children’s’ medical research charity, Sparks.

PreemieParents.com is a new website that is intended to provide resources for parents of premature babies. The website will include features that will help the parents of premature babies deal with the emotional roller coaster of having a premature baby. The website supports the ideas and messages that are offered in Preemie Parents, 26 Ways to Grow With Your Premature Baby, an inspiring parenting resource published by Sellers Publishing.

Featuring Top Long Island Summer Camp Directors, Event Adds Mini Workshop on Camp Safety and Special Appearance by Renown Children’s Book Author

Lisa Copen, founder of Rest Ministries, an organization that serves people who live with chronic illness or pain, recently participated in a photography portion of the Understanding Invisible Illnesses event, increasing awareness about invisible illness, also called hidden illness.

Infibeam announces 50% discount on over 5000 bestselling, new releases, recommended books with free delivery anywhere in India. The wide and comprehensive catalog at Infibeam.com includes 10 million books from all major publishers and authors at very attractive discounts and guaranteed delivery performance.

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