Catching Fire: Noyo Spanish Language Learning App for the Kindle Fire Released


Boston, MA (PRWEB) January 24, 2012

The Amazon Kindle Fire version of Noyo Spanish, the critically acclaimed Spanish language learning tablet app, is now available. Noyos graphics-centric, interactive platform features nearly 200 custom-illustrated scenes, high-quality audio, and built-in assessment questions to help students learn over 1,800 Spanish vocabulary words and phrases. Noyo Spanish for the Kindle is now available in the Amazon Appstore, and works for the Kindle Fire as well as other Android tablets.

The Noyo Spanish app really works great on the Kindle Fire. Weve had great reviews for our iPad Spanish app so far and are excited to offer the app on the Fire and other Android tablets through the Amazon Appstore. Tablets are transforming education, and we are excited to offer this great Spanish vocabulary builder to students, teachers, and parents. We view the Kindle Fire and the Amazon App Store as critical components of the tablet learning ecosystem, said Ted Chan, CEO of Noyo.

Noyo Spanish is a welcome departure from the usual flashcards and dry vocabulary-building systems. The app takes users on a virtual journey through an entertaining landscape of lively scenes. The curriculum helps beginning learners strengthen their Spanish vocabulary by linking relevant words and phrases with associated terms, colorful graphics, and vibrant sound.

The Kindle Fire combined with Noyos innovative interactive platform is an exciting way for any novice student to get a jumpstart on learning Spanish, said co-creator Mike Sullivan, who serves as Chief Learning Officer. Users of Noyo Spanish quickly gain confidence working in a new language.

Noyo introduces Spanish vocabulary words and phrases in context by using entertaining images and professional audio. This approach provides a strong educational foundation for language learning. A talented team of graphic design artists enlivens each lesson with comical characters and amusing scenarios, and every word or phrase is voiced by a native Spanish speaker. Noyo Spanish provides eight targeted vocabulary units, each with its own set of assessment questions to keep learning on track.

Features of Noyos Kindle Spanish app include:

-Over 1800 vocabulary words, each reinforced by supporting audio, visual representation, and written translation

-194 custom-illustrated scenes, packed with friendly characters and amusing scenarios

-Audio by a professional voice artist who is a native Spanish speaker

-8 targeted units, featuring vocabulary covering Food, Travel, City, House and Home, Seasons, Animals, School and Sports

-Built-in assessment questions at the end of each unit

-Intuitive, user-friendly navigation system

-Available in Spanish, with other languages including English-as-a-Second Language, French, Spanish, Mandarin and Portuguese coming soon for the Kindle Fire

The Noyo Spanish app is available at an introductory price of $ 7.99 for the Kindle Fire and other Android tablets in the Amazon Appstore. Noyo Spanish for the iPad is available at the same price. More information can be found at http://www.noyo.com.

Noyo is a startup headquartered in Boston, MA. It is dedicated to providing engaging, cost-effective, high-value learning apps to language learners of all ages. Noyo specifically focuses on language learning for tablets.

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Boot Camp Marketing Tips To Dominate The Competition In 2012


Chino Hills, CA (PRWEB) January 20, 2012

Boot camp marketing may not be rocket science, but there are so many avenues for getting ones business out there, that it can be a complex matrix of spending and strategizing. Early in my career, I spread my resources too thin and wasted enormous sums of money on programs that didnt work, explains Dr. Sam Bakhtiar, a certified personal trainer and owner of the Fit Concepts Chino Hills boot camp franchise. He adds, The best decision I ever made was pursuing further education to learn how to systematize my business and increase my profitability. Today his business brings in $ 2.4 Million a year.

Sam would like to offer trainers a few boot camp marketing tips to dominate the competition in 2012:

1.????Specialize in multiple niche markets.

One of the top New Years resolutions this year is to get in better shape. For some, this means lowering cholesterol. For others, this means improving range of motion to recover from injury. Some people need to lose 100 pounds or more, while others need to get rid of the last 10 to see their ab muscles. Its possible your boot camp can serve all these people, but clients want to feel catered to, so creating a niche program is a more effective way to stand apart from the competition, Sam says.

2.???? Focus on word-of-mouth and referral-based efforts.

Its tempting to want to funnel all your boot camp marketing dollars into pay-per-click, website creation, or flyers aimed at new prospects. I do all of these things, but to a much lesser extent because cold conversions are expensive and time-consuming! My primary focus is my current clients. I want the vast majority of content, promotional dollars and effort to go into wowing them. I write them cards, send them newsletters, buy them dinners, and go grocery shopping with them. The little things contribute to relationship building and they bring in their friends. For every friend they bring in, I give them a free month of boot camp. Thats how you grow your business, Sam says.

3.????Convenient bundles draw more clients with perceived value.

Nothing sounds more impressive than a package deal. For instance, you can offer a Diabetes Management boot camp that includes three workouts per week, a specially tailored diabetes nutrition seminar, a grocery store tour, a day-by-day meal plan, weekly shopping lists, a care package of diabetic-friendly foods, a diabetes cookbook, an online webinar about beating sugar cravings, and a free gym bag. Create something that your competition doesnt have and drive home your value, Sam says.????

I see boot camps as an enduring trend for several reasons, Sam explains. First, clients realize that they can still get individual one-on-one attention, but pay less with these programs. Second, trainers realize that one-on-one sessions lead to overworking and undercharging. The American College of Sports Medicine recently named group training as one of the top trends for 2012, which is good news for trainers, but also shows how important boot camp marketing will become in an increasingly more competitive niche.

For more information on Sam Bakhtiars boot camp marketing learning opportunities, visit http://www.super-trainer.com.

About Sam Bakhtiar

Sam Bakhtiar is a Persian-born American with over twenty years of experience in fitness training and body building. After completing B.S in Premed and Nutrition, Sam also received a degree of doctorate of Chiropractics. Along with being one of the best fitness trainers, Sam is also a business and marketing expert. After establishing a successful fitness training business with substantial income, Sam is helping other professionals in the industry to achieve their business goals. For more information, please contact using the following information.

Contact Information:

Sam Bakhtiar

Fitness Concepts

909-393-9075

http://www.super-trainer.com

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Tucker Kicks Off 2012 in Winning Fashion, Claims 70th Career Win

Madison, Wisconsin (PRWEB) January 17, 2012

While the 2012 season hasnt begun for most drivers and teams, Scott Tucker has already kicked off the New Year in dominant fashion, claiming five victories in eight races during a remarkable two-week stretch of SCCA National Championship events in Florida.

Tucker, who is coming off one of his most successful seasons to date, earning his second consecutive American Le Mans Series title and third straight SCCA National Championship crown in 2011, took his Level 5 Motorsports team to Sebring International Raceway and Homestead-Miami Speedway for two packed weekends of racing. The focus of the ambitious effort was to qualify the five-time national driving champion for this years Runoffs in both the Grand Sport 2 (GT-2) and D Sports Racing (DSR) categories. Each competitor needs four race finishes to be eligible for the National Championship, held annually at Road America in September.

In the pair of DSR races at the BFGoodrich SCCA Super Tour at Sebring on Jan. 7-8, Tucker went undefeated in his No. 55 West WX10 sports racer, winning both hard-fought battles, including one from the pole position. In Race 2, Tucker held off a charging Charles Dempsey by 0.325 seconds to take his 67th career victory.

For the two 13-lap GT-2 races, Tucker showed impressive pace in his Porsche 997 Cup car, qualifying on pole for Race 1 with a 2:25.2 lap time. However, a left-front tire puncture on the first lap forced an early pit stop and swap to the backup car, which ultimately dropped him two laps back. His fortunes improved in Race 2 with a third-place finish, although a full-course caution, which led to an early checkered flag, dashed any hopes of a victory.

Just one week later, Tucker was back in action at Homestead-Miami Speedway, taking part in the Florida Region Palm Tree Double National on Jan. 13-15 with his West WX10 sports racer and Porsche 997 Cup car once again. While another win and runner-up finish in DSR gave him a convincing lead in the National Championship standings, Tucker rebounded from the unlucky breaks at Sebring to dominate the GT-2 races at Homestead-Miami. Having started from pole in both events, Tucker led all but one lap in the two races combined, earning is 69th and 70th career victories.

It was a real satisfying couple of weekends for us and a great way to start the season, Tucker said. The team worked real hard to put these cars together and I enjoyed some good battles on the track. We had some challenges to overcome but it all worked out in the end and Im glad to be going for my fourth National Championship in a row later this year.

With the goal of achieving entries to the SCCA National Championships in DSR and GT-2 now complete, Tucker will head to the Runoffs at Road America on Sept. 20-23 with the opportunity of earning two additional titles to his already impressive resume, as he nears an unprecedented 75th career victory after just six years of racing.

Tucker and Level 5 Motorsports will now turn their attention to the start of the American Le Mans Series, with the annual Sebring Winter Test on Feb. 8-9 to kick off their quest for back-to-back LMP2 championships. Level 5 is expected to debut its new Honda Performance Development ARX-03b early next month at the two-day test. Both of Level 5′s cost-capped LMP2 cars will be ready for the 60th annual Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring on March 17, which will open the ALMS season and also serve as the start of the 2012 FIA World Endurance Championship.

About Level 5 Motorsports

Level 5 Motorsports has fielded successful entries in GT and Prototype classes in the American Le Mans Series, GRAND-AM Rolex Sports Car Series, Ferrari Challenge Series, IMSA GT3 Cup Challenge, Cooper Tires Prototype Lites Series and the Sports Car Club of America since 2006. The team has competed throughout North America and Europe, extensively in France and Spain. Team owner and driver Scott Tucker has earned five national championships and has more than 100 podium finishes and 70 victories in his driving career. Level 5 is based in Madison, Wisconsin.

http://www.level5motorsports.com

http://www.tucker-racing.com

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Future Technology Leaders Compete In International Code Wars


Boulder, CO (PRWEB) January 13, 2012

Students at a dozen prestigious computer science universities are set to compete in the inaugural Windward International Intercollegiate Programming Championship on January 28, 2012. Boston University, Carnegie Mellon University, Cornell University, Harvey Mudd College, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Purdue University, Stanford University, University of Illinois, University of Maryland, University of Massachusetts, University of Toronto and University of Wisconsin are among the schools that have accepted the code-war challenge.

Sponsored by Windward, the champion in easy-to-use reporting, document generation and business intelligence software, the code war is a competition among teams to see who can write the best code. Students race against the clock and each other to analyze a problem, write a solution, test and debug it. After the 8-hour programming deadline, teams go head to head.

“The future of technology is primarily software, and these students are some of the most brilliant programmers in the world,” Dave Thielen, founder and CTO says. “Spending a Saturday writing code for no reason other than the challenge demonstrates they have the curiosity and initiative required to create brilliant new products no one has thought of yet.”

In the contest, Thielen creates a game for which each team writes an A.I. (Artificial Intelligence) player. Each school will have its own playoff, with the A.I.s written by that schools teams doing their best to kill one another off. The top two teams from each school then will run against one another in the final games for the national programming championship.

“We figured this would be a fun contest between the top schools where the competition could be over programming instead of sports,” Thielen said. “Events like this add significantly to the college experience by reinforcing a joy of learning purely for the sake of increased knowledge and providing a more diverse educational experience.”

The competition follows on the heels of the successful first ever collegiate code war, which took place at The University of Colorado in Boulder on August 27, 2011. Check out the upcoming event, can be found at http://windward.net/community_codewars.php.

About Windward

Windward offers business intelligence, enterprise reporting, document generation and Web-based business intelligence solutions. Launched in 2002, Windward is the only full-featured, robust Java and .NET engine to use Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint as a layout tool, putting template design and report and document generation power in the hands of the end user. Any Office user can easily and securely create reports and documents with almost no learning curve. Additionally, OEMs and VARs use Windwards reporting component.

Windward works by merging any XML, SQL or custom data sourceor any combination thereofwith a Microsoft Office report template. It feeds data into the template to create a what-you-see-is-what-you-get report or document that can be generated in DOCX, XLSX, PPTX, PDF, HTML, direct to printer, RTF, XLS, WordML, TXT, and CSV. Windward runs as a standalone application or in an enterprise computing environment. Also unique, Windward implements in hours, offers affordable server-based pricing, and offers prompt, fantastic technical support via a 24/7 support forum and support contracts. A free trial of Windward’s products is available at http://www.windward.net.

The Windward user group spans 70 countries. User applications include financial statements, inventory reports, product-usage reports, purchase orders, invoices, training certificates, timesheets, and licenses. Other applications include reporting to meet requirements of Sarbanes-Oxley, Patriot Act, ARRA, HIPAA, Health Level Seven, Gramm-Leach-Blailey, Basel II, and other U.S. and international acts and accords affecting financial services, real estate, government, and insurance industries and the consultants and integrators serving them.

Press Contact: Annette Grotz

Marketing

303-499-2544 x1191

annetteg(at)windward(dot)net

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Jeff Fernandez Named President of InHealth Media

Delray Beach, FL (PRWEB) January 11, 2012

InHealth Media, a leading sports nutrition and nutraceutical marketing firm, has announced Jeff Fernandez as its new company President.

Fernandez has decades of experience in many different areas of the industry, and has been leading sales teams for most of his career. He replaces outgoing President Mark Doyle.

“We are very pleased to name Jeff Fernandez as President, as his experience in the industry will be a major asset to both our company, our partners and our clients,” said Mitch Gould, CEO of InHealth Media. “He has a wide range of experience in sales and marketing, which will help us as we expand and move forward.”

In addition to his role as President, Fernandez will continue his work as the Director of Global Sales for NPI, InHealth Media’s sister company. Over his 20-plus years in retail purchasing, management and operations, Fernandez has worked with the health and personal care categories of some of the largest retailers in the world, including Wal-Mart and Amazon.com.

Fernandez also has expertise in the nutraceutical, cosmeceutical and sports nutrition industries, and has worked closely with some of the world’s most prominent manufacturers. InHealth Media’s team also includes experienced writers and editors led by Director of PR Communications Steve Bailey.

“I am very happy to expand my role with InHealth Media and help lead the great team this company has in place,” Fernandez said. “I look forward to leveraging my knowledge and experience to the benefit of our clients and partners.”

InHealth Media (http://www.inhealthmedia.com) provides comprehensive and strategic media services for sporting goods companies, sports media firms and organizations that manufacture sports nutrition, nutraceutical, functional foods, functional beverage and personal care brands, among many others.

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Rugged By Name, Rugged By Nature The Tiffen Company Shows Its New Line Of Domke Photography Gear At CES 2012


Las Vegas, NV (PRWEB) January 06, 2012

The Tiffen Company, a leading manufacturer and distributor of award-winning accessories for the still imaging, video, motion picture and broadcast markets, is showcasing its new line of Domke? RuggedWear and Domke clothing products at the 2012 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) at booth 31133. The Domke quality, comfort and functional versatility are legend among photographers, said Steven Tiffen, President and CEO, The Tiffen Company. No line of camera bags in the world is held in higher esteem by a wider variety of photographers and video shooters than Domke. These practical, supremely durable bags offer more than just a great way to protect and organize your shooting equipment. Their extraordinary accessibility transforms them from being mere cases into active photo accessories that actually help you take better pictures more conveniently. Thats why Domke bags are the top choice of so many who use them for everything from nature, sports, reportage, street and outdoor adventure photography to creating memories of the family vacation or covering their kids soccer games.

Domke RuggedWear Camera Bags

Domkes new RuggedWear lineup includes a wide range of courier bags, slings and satchels, ergonomically designed for comfort and performance. Like other Domke bags, the RuggedWear collection is durable, roomy, lightweight and versatile. Bags are designed to provide photographers with a solution that is easy to work with while providing the utmost protection. Features include the following:


????High-quality, weather-tough cotton canvas treated with special non-solvent, environmentally friendly waxes that give the fabric a lifelong resistance to inclement weather as well as a unique, distressed look
????A soft, well-padded interior that protects camera lenses from scratches
????A flap and oversized YKK zipper for quick and easy access, while steel hardware keeps the shoulder strap safely secured
????Twin tracks of high-friction rubber woven into the thickest, toughest cotton webbing, allowing it to cling to the shoulder
????Interior and exterior pockets for additional storage for accessories

A complete list of RuggedWear bags with specifications can be found at http://tiffen.com/results.html?search_type_no=458&tablename=domke&family=Domke+Camera+Bags&

Domke Jackets and Vests

Made of durable cotton with multiple pockets that provide plenty of room for camera accessories, Domke jackets and vests offer photographers the perfect combination of function and fashion. As versatile as the camera bags, the jackets and vests offer plenty of pocket storage, ventilation, waist adjustments tabs and more. The jackets are equipped with zip-off sleeves and a stowaway nylon hood that make them usable in almost any type of weather, perfect for photographers who travel and work year-round.

For Domke clothing, visit http://tiffen.com/results.html?search_type_no=439&tablename=domke (jackets) and http://tiffen.com/results.html?search_type_no=438&tablename=domke (vests)

All Domke bags, products, jackets and vests and the RuggedWear collection are made in the USA.

Book A Private Press Briefing at CES 2012

To set up a press briefing with a member of the Tiffen management team or a private product viewing during CES 2012, please contact Anya Oskolkova at anya(at)zazilmediagroup(dot)com.

About Domke

Domke bags have been the premier choice for photographers and videographers since 1975, when Jim Domke created the original Domke bag, designed specifically for the needs of a photojournalist on the go. Now, more than 30 years later, the Domke line of products includes Domke Classic Bags, backpacks, camera satchels, J-Series Camera Bags, accessory bags, padded inserts, add-on pouches, accessories, vests, jackets and the RuggedWear line of products. Domke produces the official bag of the White House News Photographers Association. All Domke bags and products are made in America of the highest-quality materials.

For more information on Domke, please visit http://www.tiffen.com/products.html?tablename=domke

About Tiffen

Tiffen has been a leading manufacturer of photographic filters, lens accessories, software, and camera accessories for the consumer/professional imaging and the motion picture and broadcast television industries for over 70 years. The company has a rich history of innovative product design, superior optical consistency, and unparalleled quality. Tiffen has been recognized for its product and engineering excellence, earning two Technical Achievement Awards and a Scientific and Engineering Award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences, as well as an Emmy? Award from the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. Today, the company offers a wide range of products, which include: Tiffen? filters, Steadicam? camera stabilizing systems, Lowel? light, Listec teleprompters, Tiffen Dfx? digital imaging software, Domke? bags, Davis & Sanford? tripods, Zing? camera covers, Stroboframe? flash brackets, Saunders? professional trimmers, and Kodak Wratten? filters. Tiffen continues to enhance its reputation as a leading imaging accessory manufacturer through aggressive growth in the image-making accessory industry.

For more information on Tiffen, please visit: http://www.tiffen.com

Tiffen is a registered trademark of The Tiffen Company. All other trademarks and products mentioned herein belong to their respective owners.

Press Contacts

Tiffen North America

Anya Oskolkova

Zazil Media Group

anya(at)zazilmediagroup(dot)com

(p) 617.817.6559

(skype) anya.oskolkova

Janice Dolan

Zazil Media Group

janice(at)zazilmediagroup(dot)com

(p) 617.817.6595

(skype) janicedolan

Tiffen International

Peter Samwell

psamwell(at)tiffen(dot)com

(p) +44 (0) 1404 42497

(o) +44 (0) 870 100 1220

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