Kenilworth, NJ January 21 2004-- Matthew D. Kirby, Vice President of Real Estate Strategies Corporation today announced the establishment of independent agreements with two high profile organizations that will contribute on-going business content to the Company’s growing monthly business publication, Business, Profits and Strategy.
Mark Kuehn, Esq., President of ACG New Jersey (the NJ Chapter of the Association for Corporate Growth), and Paul Kimmins, a partner in the New York-based firm, Tatum Partners, will contribute articles on business, M&A, finance, and corporate economic perspectives throughout 2004.
“ACG New Jersey and Tatum Partners are very prominent organizations in their respective fields. We are incredibly excited that they have elected to write for Business, Profits and Strategy” said Mr. Kirby.
According to Andrew B. Zezas, Publisher of Business, Profits and Strategy and President of Real Estate Strategies Corporation, the Company that produces the monthly online business publication, “I can’t say enough about the excitement we all feel about welcoming fine organizations like ACG New Jersey and Tatum Partners into the publication’s family of ‘Front-Line Contributors’. We are grateful and elated that both have elected to contribute to our business publication.” Real Estate Strategies Corporation expects that readers of Business, Profits and Strategy with corporate ownership interests will benefit greatly from ACG New Jersey’s series of articles, entitled “Selling Your Business” – a virtual roadmap through the world of the Mergers & Acquisitions. Readers already enjoyed Tatum Partners’ ‘Survey of Business Conditions’ published in last November’s issue of Business, Profits and Strategy. The Company expects its readers will look forward to receiving economic and business insight from Tatum Partners’ monthly survey of 400 of its CFO partners from across the nation.
Business, Profits and Strategy is the monthly online business publication from Real Estate Strategies Corporation. The Publication is written for business and financial executives and provides dynamic content on business, risk, finance, the economy, jobs, US and overseas industry, ROI, enhancing corporate profits, corporate real estate, and more. Its current circulation is growing rapidly and presently exceeds 30,000. Readers can subscribe to Business, Profits and Strategy by logging on to www.realstratpublications.com.
Real Estate Strategies Corporation is a Kenilworth, New Jersey based advisory firm that provides business driven real estate solutions. The Company’s intelligent business decision-making solutions and superior streamlined execution services, and profit enhancing property services support the real estate needs of small and mid-sized public, private, domestic, and foreign companies, and not-for-profit organizations, regionally and around the country, and are geared toward executives who lead them. Forward-thinking executives engage Real Estate Strategies Corporation to work closely with their senior management teams to create and execute real estate acquisition, disposition, or enhancement plans that support their operational, technological, cultural, and financial growth objectives. Real Estate Strategies Corporation can be reached at 908 245 5999, or online at: www.realstrat.com.
ACG New Jersey is the NJ Chapter of the Association for Corporate Growth, founded in 1954 and the premier international association for professionals involved in corporate growth, corporate development and M&A. ACG, with almost 7,000 members in 47 chapters throughout North America and Europe, provides significant value including high-level information, networking, conferences, deal flow sources, and must-know trends and structures. ACG New Jersey seeks new members and guests engaged in building companies through mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, strategic alliances and internal growth. The Chapter hosts ten meetings each year, featuring prominent guest speakers addressing timely issues. Breakfast meetings are held on the third Tuesday of each month from 7:30 – 9:15 a.m.; with a goal to afford members and guests the opportunity to expand their personal networks with dealmakers, lenders and corporate growth executives. To attend a meeting, request information and / or join ACG New Jersey, please contact Chapter Administrator Karen Stone, at 908 889 9191, or via email at: NJChapterACG@aol.com, or online at: www.acg.org/nj.
TATUM PARTNERS is the largest professional services provider of financial and information technology leadership in the country. Operating through Tatum CFO Partners, LLP and Tatum CIO Partners, LLP, the firm currently has over 400 partners in 30 offices nationwide. Its partners are engaged as supplemental, interim, project, or employed executives for clients that range from emerging growth to large multinational public companies. The New York office of TATUM PARTNERS is located at 230 Park Avenue, New York, New York, 10169, and can be reached at 212 697-9010, or online at: www.tatumcfo.com.
Thursday, March 27, 2008
Real Estate Strategies Corporation Annouces Authorship agreements with ACG New Jersey and Tatum Partners
MENC: The National Association for Music Education Names Toyota Camry Music Education Fund Grant Recipients
Reston, VA. April 18, 2003 /PR Web/ -– MENC: The National Association for Music Education is pleased to announce the Toyota Camry Music Education Fund grant recipients. Launched in November 2001, the Camry Music Education Fund, sponsored by Toyota Motor Sales, U.S.A., Inc., raised more than $170,000 to benefit America’s at-risk, in-school music programs. Toyota partnered with MENC, the world’s largest arts education association, to donate and distribute these funds through MENC’s Fund for the Advancement of Music Education (FAME).
“We are very excited about the award. We commend MENC and the Toyota Camry Music Education Fund for recognizing the importance of supporting music education programs,” says Jill Warzer, Music Curriculum Specialist for Baltimore City, Maryland public schools, one of the recipient school systems. According to Warzer, “The grant will be extremely helpful in providing excellent music programs to Baltimore City students.”
“In a continued effort to help save at-risk school programs, we are happy to announce the Camry Music Education Fund grant recipients,” says Tracy Underwood, National Manager, Corporate Contributions, Toyota Motor Sales, U.S.A., Inc. “Along with our partner MENC, we hope this will create more opportunities to enhance much needed, in-school music programs.”
The recipients of $50,000 grants include Baltimore City, Maryland Public Schools, and Wilbur Cross School, in Bridgeport, Connecticut. The grant will serve 51,000 students in Baltimore, funding the purchase of ORFF Instruments for elementary schools. In Connecticut, the grant will serve 600 students with items ranging from ORFF instruments and choral risers to part-time instruction. In addition, two $35,000 grants were awarded; one to The Street Academy Charter School in New Orleans, Louisiana, and the other to Gilbert Stuart Middle School, in Providence, Rhode Island. The Street Academy Charter School grant will serve 200 students, but with more students benefitting in future years from reusable equipment. The Gilbert Middle School grant will serve several hundred students over many years with materials, supplies, instruments, and performances.
The Camry Music Education Fund raised money through an interactive and musical CD, titled Making Tracks. The CD featured music and interviews by Earth, Wind, and Fire; Jennifer Lopez; Lyle Lovett; the Go-Go’s; and Kina. “I hope this substantive effort to improve music education programs, generously being led by Toyota Camry, will become a model for other corporations to emulate,” says Ardene Shafer, MENC’s assistant executive director of Member Programs and Publications. “This program will make a difference for tens of thousands of students across the country.”
Research indicates a positive relationship between studying music and developing spatial skills necessary for math and science learning and links between learning music and demonstrating creativity, discipline, and teamwork skills. MENC’s mission is to ensure that all children have access to music education. “We are grateful to Toyota for establishing this much-needed grant initiative, and for working with us to advance music education in our nation’s schools,” says John J. Mahlmann, MENC’s executive director. “Toyota’s efforts helped raise a significant amount of money to sustain a number of music programs currently in jeopardy.”
For more information, please contact Elizabeth Lasko at MENC, 703-860-4000, or by e-mail at elizabethl@menc.org.
MENC: The National Association for Music Education, the world’s largest arts education organization, is the only association that addresses all aspects of music education. Nearly 100,000 members represent all levels of teaching from preschool to graduate school. Since 1907, MENC has worked to ensure that every student has access to a well-balanced, comprehensive, and high-quality program of music instruction taught by qualified teachers. MENC’s activities and resources have been largely responsible for the establishment of music education as a profession, for the promotion and guidance of music study as an integral part of the school curriculum, and for the development of the National Standards for Arts Education.
Established in 1957, Toyota Motor Sales (TMS), USA, Inc. is the sales, marketing, distribution and customer services arm of Toyota in the United States. Based in Torrance, CA, TMS employs approximately 6,000 employees nationwide. Last year, it sold more than 1.7 million vehicles through approximately 1,400 Toyota and Lexus dealers in the 49 continental states.
Air and Space Show Update
Titusville, FL May 22, 2004 -- Two days of free Aurora Galleries appraisals began today. Space Coast Cover Service will continue free weekend memorabilia appraisals with Ken Havekotte. The Inaugural Air and Space Show Saturday Reception and Dinner have been sold out. The air and space celebrities are enroute. None of the aviators have actually seen the Space Walk of Fame Museum. Former NASA Astronaut Jack Lousma told Florida Today reporter Debbie Roberts that “I’ve heard a lot about the museum…and I’m excited about seeing it.”
The two day Autograph Show featuring 3 NASA Moonwalkers, 4 Apollo Veterans, a Russian Cosmonaut and other early air and space pioneers begins Saturday morning at 11 AM. Bill Harwood and Mike Cabbage, authors of “CommCheck”, will sign their new book about the final moments of STS-107 (Columbia).
The Moonwalkers attending are Ed Mitchell (Ap 14), Dave Scott (Ap 15), Charlie Duke (Ap 16). Joining them will be veteran Astronauts Tom Stafford (who flew aboard Gemini VI, Gemini IX, Apollo 10 and Apollo-Soyuz), Al Worden (Ap 15), Jack Lousma (Skylab 3 and STS 3), Paul Weitz (Skylab 2 and STS 4), and Cosmonaut Yuri Usachev (MIR 21, STS 101 and Expedition 2). Duane “Doc” Graveline, NASA Group 4 scientist astronaut and Guenter Wendt, author and Apollo Pad Leader will also attend.
Other air and space notables will be 4 (of 13) Mercury era Women Astronaut candidates and Pioneer Test Pilots from the X-1 flight days. Comedian (and “8th Mercury Astronaut”) Bill Dana will host a benefit dinner on Saturday evening.
Also this weekend, the museum will debut Astronaut Alan Shepard’s 1968 Corvette (a courtesy loan by Pat Stockton) and SWOF’s Artifact Agent Jeff Soulier will present an orange launch/entry suit (flown on 6 shuttle missions), a shuttle orbiter inner window frame, an early shuttle orbiter vacuum cleaner and an astronaut entry seat chair (flown on STS-71). Soulier credits his successful acquisitions to his PDO contacts at the Kennedy Space Center (Paulette McGinnis, Mary Remley and Michelle Phillips) and JSC in Houston (Margaret Coward).
Also included in new exhibits is a Boeing Company donation of 5’ X 3’ flags representing the partners in the International Space Station effort.
Although entry to the SWOF Museum is free, there is a $10.00 daily admission fee for the Air and Space Autograph Show. Additional fees (ranging from $5.00 to $150.00) will be charged for each astronaut or celebrity autograph requested.
For further information visit www.spacewalkoffame.com or www.airandspaceshow.com or call 321.264.0434.
Background Information
The U.S. Space Walk of Fame is a non-profit 501C3 organization dedicated to preserving the history of the men and women who worked to make U.S. Space Exploration a reality and the Astronauts who flew the missions. The organization was founded by and is run by a volunteer staff.
Monuments to workers and astronauts of the Mercury 7 and Gemini flight programs stand in Titusville’s Space View Park on the Indian River directly across from NASA’s VAB and manned mission launch Pads 39A and 39B. Fund Raising and bronze panel sculpting and casting are in progress for a proposed Apollo Monument to be added in Space View Park.
The 10,000 square foot U.S. Space Walk of Fame Museum is in Titusville’s Searstown Mall on U.S. Highway 1. The museum houses the only set of bronzed Apollo Astronaut handprints in the world; a unique multi-media map depicting the History of the Canaveral Air Force Station and Kennedy Space Center (KSC); flown-in-space items; to scale models of rockets and KSC facilities and a souvenir/gift shop.
The museum is open 7 days a week from 11 Am – 7 PM (Wed., 11 Am – 5 PM., Sun., Noon – 5 PM) Multi-media map shows are 3 times weekly on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday at 12:30 PM. For this week only, the museum will close at 5pm on Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
Note to Editors/Reporters: Astronauts and other aviators will be available on Saturday and Sunday during the day for interviews. Please try and call to schedule a time.
8 Steps to Solving All Financial, Relationship, Security or Health Problems
Supporting the creation of every financial, health, security or relationship problem or phenomenal success is a set of timeless universal laws that never fail or err. Not even once. Every moment unfolds under perfect laws. Knowing what these laws are and how to apply them will miraculously wipe out any problem and produce success, always.
Over the last 4,000 years or so, we have repeatedly received the exact same how-the-world-works guidance from industry barons, spiritual masters, philosophers, quantum physicists, great leaders and sages.
Here are some tips on how you can solve any financial, relationship, security or health problem:
1. Understand your world. Many Nobel Prize winning physicists have recently proven beyond doubt that the physical world is one large sea of energy that flashes into and out of being in a fraction of a second, over and over again. Nothing is solid. This is the world of Quantum Physics. They have proven that thoughts are what put together and hold together this ever-changing energy field into the ‘objects’ that we see.
2. Know the tools of creation. Your thoughts, words and actions create your experiences. You become what you think about. Albert Einstein once said that imagination is the most powerful creative force. The Bible says ‘As a man thinketh, so is he.’ Become very aware of your thoughts, and be deliberate in your thinking. There are no idle thoughts. Have vision, and stick with it.
3. Believe. Henry Ford said “Whether you think you can or can’t – either way you are right”. That is pretty much the same thing that Jesus and many others have said.
4. Understand cause and effect. The law of cause and effect is the prime law that runs the universe. It is the number one law. Every spiritual and scientific teacher has sought to teach it. They may have said you reap what you sow, or you get what you give, or what goes around comes around, or karma, or consequences, or every action has an equal and opposite reaction, or many other similar statements. Quantum physics is now teaching us how this works, exactly, on a sub-atomic level. Things get better when you get better. They get worse when you get worse. The world is all within you. You are at cause over everything that happens in your life, whether you were conscious of it or not.
5. Eliminate level confusion. Align your thoughts, words and actions with your goals. Become aware. And realize that the physical world is an effect, not a cause. It is a result of our thoughts, words and actions. You cannot achieve anything by trying to manipulate the effect. Instead look to change the cause.
6. Understand infinite loops. You see what you believe and you believe what you see. But the start of this loop is that what you believe is what causes the conditions that you see.
7. Know that there is no order of difficulty, as all limits are placed upon yourself by what you believe to be so.
8 Find your purpose. Find out what makes you happiest, and work within your purpose. When you do so, your confidence, inspiration, creativity, energy and passion will be unstoppable.
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The #1 Problem in Family Businesses Today
September 21, 2004 -- The most significant problem which will prevent family businesses from successful transition into the next generation is not estate taxes, not competition from the Wal-Marts of the world, not the lack of reasonably sound financial planning, and not the lack of industriousness or work ethic of successor generations. It’s the epidemic behavior exhibited by senior generation or founding generation business family members who refuse to let go of the companies they helped build! This not a new or isolated phenomenon; the first significant writers on the subject of family businesses identified the issue in the 1970’s.
The failure to let go and plan for management and ownership transition plagues nearly all family businesses at one time or another. As an example, an 87-year-old founder of a metal business commented he had been trying to exit his company for over 20 years. The founder owned 100% of the metal company’s stock. The succession problem, he stated, was that he was in a dispute with his brother’s widow over who actually owned the company property in an entity outside the corporation. When asked what the property dispute had to do with the gentleman’s exit and transition of management to his three children (ages 62, 57, and 54), he had no answer. When asked when might be a good time to get started on the transfer of management and stock ownership, the gentleman blamed the recession. He simply couldn’t pass the business along to his children in good conscience with the company balance sheet in its current condition. If he himself were unable to return the company to profitability, how could his children? This 87-year-old founder clearly does not view himself objectively. Had he been more self-effacing, he would have seen the clear need to turn over management responsibility and control of the company stock to his children who had worked alongside him for decades to help build it. The children are in a state of despair over the bleak future of the company, and the father is in denial.
The subject of intergenerational transfer planning for family companies is especially important today given the fact that the leadership of about 4 in 10 family owned businesses will have changed hands in the next five years according to The Family Firm Institute. In order to help combat the problem of poor transition planning, The Family Business Institute has produced a new research paper, “Blunt Advice for Multi-Generation Family Companies: What To Do When the Senior Generation Has Trouble Letting Go.” The purpose of the paper is to help senior and successor generations understand the factors associated with intergenerational transition, describe the behaviors that indicate whether a transition is likely to be problematic or not, and to propose strategies for resolving intergenerational issues so that neither the business nor the family is torn apart.
The paper describes in great detail:
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The behaviors of senior generation family members who are struggling with letting go
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The behaviors of junior generation family members who are struggling with letting go and transition issues of their own
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The consequences of poor intergenerational transition for the family, the business, and the individuals in the family system
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What to do to assure a smooth, successful family business transition
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How to help the senior generation feel comfortable at an appropriate time for letting go
The paper is authored by Wayne Rivers, President of The Family Business Institute, Inc., and author of "You Don’t Have to Die to Win – Success and Succession for Family Businesses" and "Prescriptions for a Healthy Family Business" which is scheduled for publication this fall.
For more information about family businesses or family business succession, visit The Family Business Institute website at www.familybusinessinstitute.com or contact The Family Business Institute at info@familybusinessinstitute.com
NEW SITE HELPS BRING DIVERSITY AND GLOBAL AWARENESS TO MAINSTREAM U.S. SOCIETY AFTER INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION WEEK
Nov 25, 2003 – Following International Education Week, which ended last week, the launch of Culturosity.com (www.culturosity.com) brings a continued appreciation and understanding of intercultural issues to mainstream U.S. society. The site, which hopes to attract a large, varied audience, offers a variety of free resources and shows people how to create an enriching lifestyle out of learning.
Culturosity's goal is to bring intercultural awareness and learning into a more mainstream light, outside of the confines of academic discussion and corporate strategy.
“Intercultural awareness needs to take a central place in American society, through mainstream channels that are accessible to everyone,” said Kate Berardo, Culturosity.com’s creator. “Culturosity’s mission is to help people to seek out opportunities to learn about other cultures and grow from these experiences.”
The site approaches learning by stressing the need to enjoy the process and develop a mindset that promotes continued growth. One section, Pop Culturosity, ties normal daily activities, from watching movies, listening to music, reading books, and cooking into intercultural learning opportunities. “The point is to expand your mind while doing things you enjoy, so that the learning is enriching and not a task or obligation,” Berardo said. The first Pop Culturosity learning guide, The Movie Guide will be released early next year.
The site currently features a number of articles that focus on the need to be aware and the benefits of leading a culturally aware lifestyle. One article highlights some of the lesser-known benefits of cultural awareness, from better social skills to increased job security. Additional resources include links to Web sites that teach about other world cultures and a monthly Pop Watch.
Expansions for next year include a Culturosity Challenge Awareness Program, an interactive discussion area to discuss intercultural issues as well as a series of assessments and quizzes that build awareness.
“Not everyone has the opportunity to travel, study abroad, or get an education that will provide them with even a basic understanding of the importance of understanding other cultures,” Berardo said. “Many recent graduates from prestigious schools finish their college careers without a solid grounding in the subject. The last few years in America have highlighted the crucial need for a better understanding of other cultures. The average U.S. citizen needs the skills necessary to face the dynamics of today’s world, and they need a place where they can build this learning. Culturosity.com seeks to fill this need.”
About the Creator of Culturosity.com: Kate Berardo is an intercultural specialist currently living in Sapporo, Japan. She is co-author of the recently released, Putting Diversity to Work and the U.S. business culture guide for Executive Planet. Berardo has traveled to more than 20 countries, has lived in three continents and is a summa cum laude graduate of Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill.. She plans to return to the United States in 2004, where she will continue to expand culturosity.com and the resources it offers.
To sign up for updates on this new endeavor, become a sponsor or get involved in the Culturosity project, visit http://www.culturosity.com.
Reality TV and Entertainment Blog Skyrockets To Internets Top 1%
TUCSON, AZ July 11, 2004 -- The reality tv blogs launched in June 2004 are precursors to the sites success which gained top keyword rankings in http://www.Google.com, http://www.Yahoo.com and other search engines. Those rankings driven by its American Idol results, took the site to a readership of hundreds of thousands almost overnight with the progression of the famed Fox Production.
The sites engine which spiders the latest entertainment information from popular sites like Billboard.com, VH1, MTV, and Movies.com, to local entertainment sites in LA, Chicago, Houston, and Boston, provides an updated entertainment industry blog for its readership to interact with. "Were picky about what sites we spider, were looking for quality content for our readers," were comments from the sites publisher J. R. McGowan.
The international readership, 35% of its reader base, provides international visitors a look at American Entertainment and has generated a worldwide newsletter base of over 11,000 subscribers, who keep up on daily buzz via email.
"It's getting so we need more bloggers with all the reality shows that are coming out. It will be interesting to see how America and our international visitors respond to future blogs about Hollywood's upcoming releases" said James Good, fellow editor of http://www.TheWebNewsroom.com.
Weblogs are pages of specific content compiled into one searchable media and typically accompanied by visitor comments. The sites blogs, edited daily, sometimes feature minute to minute updates during the telecasts, and even casting call announcements throughout the week.
When asked about the promotional possibilities of American Entertainment in the blogs, McGowan commented, "Reality TV weblogs do encourage the internet promotion of the reality television shows and movies, but then again, we've seen some down right nasty comments about a few of them. When the public dislikes a reality television show they will let the world know about it."
"During the final 2 episodes of the spring 2004 American Idol season, we were seeing 20,000 page views an hour with visitors looking for the latest chit chat about the reality television contestants. Internet traffic worldwide took a bump with searches about the judges causing so much outrage among Americans, that many began watching the show just to see what stupid things they would do in future episodes. The outrage from watchers from all over the world poured into weblogs on dozens of internet sites with feelings of hate and outrage not only toward contestants but toward the judges and producers as well. They were tremendously passionate about their idols. Yes, there were some great comments and encouraging conversations however, filtering content for family readership is what we do." were further comments from McGowan.
J. R. McGowan a web software publisher and CEO of TheWebNewsroom.com has been editing weblogs for more than 23 internet properties since 1995 and recently got together with James Good of AzReporter.com to provide a national platform for reality tv fans to voice their opinions and to blog entertainment.
James Good who began live telecast blogging on the internet with the Oscar Telecast's in 1998 - the Grammy's, Emmy Awards, MTV Music Awards - Nashville Star, Survivor, and American Idol, others soon followed. It was not until he and full time web programmer J. R. McGowan put their heads together which gave them a much larger worldwide readership from more than 38 countries. "Maybe two heads are better than one." Were remarks from J. R., who will continue to keep the site spinning along side of James for the foreseeable future.
Internet Entertainment sites who are interested in having http://www.TheWebNewsroom.com blog their entertainment news site can contact J. R. McGowan at 1-866-4-THE-NET.