by aimee | Jun 20, 2013 | Features
Today RepriseHosting.com announced the launch of a new dedicated server hosting special. For a limited time, Reprise Hosting is offering “lease-to-own” dedicated servers whereby the customer takes ownership of the server hardware and all components after a 12 month rental period. For hosting patrons accustomed to indefinite monthly payments while accruing zero equipment assets, this new special by Reprise Hosting is a unique value added approach not often seen in the hosting industry.
“We’ve offered cPanel dedicated server specials in the past, but this time we wanted to offer something truly unique. Our lease-to-own promotion offers tremendous value for our clients”, commented Jeff Michaels of Reprise Hosting. “We’ve seen a lot of interest from our clients in acquiring server equipment and building out their own infrastructure—an infrastructure that they have the freedom to migrate to another datacenter if they so desire. We obviously believe that our customers will remain satisfied with their service and will opt to remain hosted by us after the initial 12 month period”.
While lease-to-own servers have become more common in recent years, such offers still remain few and far between. When asked why that might be, Jeff answered “It’s not the easiest thing in the world to effectively give away your hardware after 12 months. It requires more planning and forethought if you are to do it properly. Depreciation and failed hardware replacements are just a couple of the costs we must forecast more accurately than if the servers were not lease-to-own.”
The lease-to-own dedicated servers are now available at http://www.reprisehosting.com/ and start at $69 per month. Entry level servers come with Dual Intel Xeon L5420 processors, 8GB memory, 500GB or 1TB SATA drives and variable bandwidth options.
About Reprise Hosting:
Reprise Hosting is a hosting provider based out of Las Vegas, Nevada and specializes in best value VPS hosting and dedicated server hosting solutions.
Media Contact:
Jeff Michaels
pr@reprisehosting.com
by aimee | Feb 9, 2013 | Business, Features
Vancouver, Canada – February 8, 2013 – KOOSHOO Lifestyle Inc. is a yoga clothing and accessories brand committed to making the world a better place. Their core values – to be charitable, sustainable, ethical, natural and local – have been established as the core of the brand and today inform all business and marketing decisions.
The company makes organic shawls, hairties and headbands for yoga and life. The products are made in Los Angeles by family-operated businesses and 11% of proceeds from each yoga headband, hairtie or shawl sold are donated to the not-for-profit organization Karma Teachers, whose mandate is to empower those that need it most through yoga and community involvement.
Though plenty of yoga clothing and accessories businesses exist, it is the company’s commitment to matching fashion with responsibility that has turned heads. Most recently, acclaimed author Gabby Bernstein of New York Time’s bestselling book, May Cause Miracles, was heard espousing her beautiful KOOSHOO yoga headbands in an interview. Elsewhere, the prominent packaging and design website TheDieline.com devoted a post to the upstart yoga clothing brand and its ethics.
The acclaim has come in recognition of the company’s commitment to values in the design and production of their products and packaging. “Our principle design objective when creating packaging and our yoga headbands, hairties and shawls,” notes KOOSHOO Creative Director Rachel Evens “is to deliver a fun and fashionable experience while being fair and conscious in all our relationships.”
For example, one of the principle challenges for online yoga clothing stores is that yoga apparel must be protected from the elements when shipped. This typically results in thousands upon thousands of one-time-use plastic bags that inevitably fill landfills. To get around this, the yoga clothing brand spent months looking for a biodegradable solution for their yoga headbands, hairties and shawls, eventually finding a made in the USA biodegradeable bag that can be reused multiple times before biodegrading 3-6 months later.
KOOSHOO yoga headbands, hairties and shawls are one-size-fits-all, unisex and act as the perfect gift for the eco-fashion lover or yogi in your life. They are currently eliciting smiles online at www.kooshoo.com and through select retail locations in North America.
Press Contact:
Jesse Schiller, Managing Director, KOOSHOO Lifestyle Inc.
Tel 604.340.8246 |Email Jesse@kooshoo.com
High resolution photos available upon request
About KOOSHOO Lifestyle Inc.
KOOSHOO was founded by Rachel Evans and Jesse Schiller, Vancouver-based yoga teachers who believe they can make a positive difference in the world. To do so, they create products to accessorize their lifestyle, making them in the most conscious way they can. KOOSHOO products are fashionable, functional, made of organic and natural materials, packaged using recycled and biodegradable materials and for every product purchased, a yoga class is donated to someone in need. The name KOOSHOO means “feeling good” in Norfolk, a language indigenous to Norfolk Island in the South Pacific.
by aimee | Feb 7, 2013 | Business, Features
Vancouver, Canada – February 7, 2013 – Inspired by a host of fellow Vancouver yoga and lifestyle brands such as Lululemon and Karma Wear, KOOSHOO Lifestyle Inc. has recently launched with a new take on the yoga and lifestyle accessories market: to make beautiful yoga clothing and accessories with sustainability and ethics as the company’s number one mandate.
Founded in late 2012 by yoga teachers Rachel Evans and Jesse Schiller, KOOSHOO gained immediate acclaim for the fun and playfulness of their organic yoga clothes and accessories. Originally designed for the yoga studio, their headbands, hair ties and shawls have been a hit both on and off the mat.
KOOSHOO is based in the yoga-hub of Vancouver, though all fabrics are woven in the USA and dyed, cut and sewn in Los Angeles. Every element of the products – from materials to packaging – is organic, natural, recycled or biodegradable. The company uses only materials and processes that will leave no lasting impact on the world. This is evidenced by their choice to create their yoga clothing and accessories exclusively from natural materials such as organic cotton and eucalyptus-derived Tencel.
“There is a grace and elegance in a fabric like organic cotton that grows with you. We like to think of organic cotton as the George Clooney of fabrics as it ages with style and a story” explains Jesse Schiller, co-founder of KOOSHOO. “This is as opposed to synthetics that will look the same in a thousand years,” Jesse continues, “and for us here at KOOSHOO, we’re about making the most beautiful organic yoga clothes with the smallest long term impact on our earth”.
High profile blogs and celebrities seem to agree with KOOSHOO’s responsible business plan. Most recently Gabrielle Bernstein, New York Times bestselling author of May Cause Miracles, remarked in an interview “I am so grateful to KOOSHOO for my beautiful turbans – I love you guys!”
All KOOSHOO yoga headbands, hairiest and shawls are one-size-fits-all, unisex and act as the perfect gift for the eco-fashion lover or yogi in your life. KOOSHOO is currently brightening moods and eliciting smiles online at www.kooshoo.com and through select retail locations in North America.
Press Contact:
Jesse Schiller, Managing Director, KOOSHOO Lifestyle Inc.
Tel 604.340.8246 |Email Jesse@kooshoo.com
High resolution photos available upon request
About KOOSHOO Lifestyle Inc.
KOOSHOO was founded by Rachel Evans and Jesse Schiller, Vancouver-based yoga teachers who believe they can make a positive difference in the world. To do so, they create products to accessorize their lifestyle, making them in the most conscious way they can. KOOSHOO products are fashionable, functional, made of organic and natural materials, packaged using recycled and biodegradable materials and for every product purchased, a yoga class is donated to someone in need. The name KOOSHOO means “feeling good” in Norfolk, a language indigenous to Norfolk Island in the South Pacific.
by mikocanares | Dec 26, 2012 | Features, Opinion
Travelling within Tagbilaran City is such a trouble and a great discomfort that I would rather stay at home than go somewhere else. If I have a choice, I wouldn’t go to the city centre where the banks are located or report to my office at Step Up Consulting Services. It would seem that as I drive, I can hear the shriek and the cry of the poor car coupled sometimes with my son’s loud “ouch” when I hit a pothole large enough to have his head banged against the windows.
Every person who lives in Tagbilaran City will understand when I say that Tagbilaran nowadays seems like a city left to rot. I highlight three reasons below why I say so.
POINT 1.
Tagbilaran roads are outrageously bad, the streets within the city center are dirty caused by mud on rainy days or by dust when the sun is out. If you live somewhere in Janssen Heights and would like to go to the St. Joseph Cathedral, you can never have a smooth ride except when you travel through the Dampas-Mansasa Road down to VP Inting St. and back to CPG East Avenue’s occasional potholes.
In the city government website in February 2010, an article appeared that was entitled “Mission Accomplished” . I quote the news item below:
“When Mayor Dan Neri Lim assumed office last 2004, only 15% of the roads in Tagbilaran City were in good working condition. Majority of the city roads were rocky and dilapidated.
According to City Engineer Pianicita Castolo, the city roads have been untouched for almost thirty years.
Thus the improvement and rehabilitation of these city roads started as soon as Mayor Dan Lim took office. Almost 68 million pesos were spent for the improvement, rehabilitation and maintenance of these city roads which started last 2004.”
Reading this article from history sounds like a joke, especially when you read it alongside a
Bohol Chronicle article in April 2012 calling for the implementation of road projects. According to the article, the city government appropriated Php282 million for road projects in the 2012 budget. But you get to wonder where this money is spent. The only improvement I can see in the last week is the filling-up of potholes along B. Inting and G. Visarra Street with low-grade anapog that will get the streets muddy during heavy rains.
POINT 2. Water is still a big problem. At our place in Dampas, water pressure is low at different parts of the day and there is intermittent service interruption. In other parts of the city, water service is not available as both Bohol Water Utilities Inc. and the City Rural Waterworks System are unable to increase service coverage.
In December 2011, Bohol Chronicle reports that:
“The Tagbilaran City Waterworks System is faced with limitations causing the deteriorating water service to its water subscribers in the city
Newly installed waterworks chief Engr. Servando Acedo admitted the increasing complaints on the water service is due to the limited pumping units amid financial constraints in putting up new water sources.
Acedo, who previously was assigned at the City Engineering’s Office, now heads the waterworks vice Engr. Wellington Pilongo who is reportedly on a “forced leave.”
Acedo said that as of now, the city waterworks has 19 pumping units with two out of service. However, he said that even if the 19 units will function, it is still no enough to satisfy the water consumers in the city.”
The 2010-2013 Executive Legislative Agenda admits this growing problem in the city and targets a 24/7 adequate supply of potable water in city households. Its almost the end of term of our city government leaders and this target seems to be nothing but a wild dream.
Point 3. Tagbilaran’s solid waste are still thrown in Dampas’ open dumpsite. Everytime the garbage truck passes through our house for the regular waste collection, I become intensely worried, as I know where the waste will go. Back in 2008,
UN Habitat reports that “The city generates about 92.6 tons (92,668 kgs.) of solid waste daily. Households are the biggest waste generators with 38.5 tons (41.46% of the total volume of waste). They are followed by general merchandise stores with 15.5 tons and the public markets with 14.6 tons per day.” The figures are probably double now, as the projection for population is over 3% every year from 2008, besides the fact that tourism figures and business establishments have increased significantly since the 2008 study.
Back in October 2011, Bohol Chronicle reports that “The 2.6 has. garbage facility has been recommended closed due to large areas of exposed waste that could leak leachate into ground water and drainage systems aggravating the present health situation of surrounding communities.” This, amidst complaints from nearby towns like that of Barangay La Libertad, Baclayon whose residents complained after the nearest accessible road leading to the city was blocked by mountains of garbage reportedly strewn across the roads.”
What then is the future of Tagbilaran City?
It is alarming that these three problems, bad roads, water supply, and solid waste can very well kill the economic advantage that Tagbilaran holds as an entry point to Bohol’s tourism destinations. But then, no one seems to be hearing. Despite how much has been written in Bohol newspapers, how loud the discussion gets in the radio, not one among our leaders has taken action.
This post is written by Michael P. Cañares. This is also available at http://www.boholanalysis.com.
(photos taken from http://i.ytimg.com/vi/e_M_QEPkdrM/0.jpg and http://sin.stb.s-msn.com/i/26/68887DF64629626E59864479208.jpg)
by magnolia_eic | Jun 8, 2011 | Announcements, Features, Headlines, National News, Tourism
PRESIDENT Benigno S. Aquino III urged all Filipinos here and abroad to vote and support the country’s pride, the Puerto Princesa Underground River (PPUR), as one of the finalists inthe global search for the New 7 Wonders of Nature. The President made the pitch right after he signed the proclamation order urging all nationalgovernment agencies, local government units, students and even overseas Filipino workersto join hands in the aggressive voting campaign thru internet and SMS (short messaging system).
In his speech, the President said if the 80 million Filipino cellular phone users participate in the campaign the PPUR has a big chance to win in the competition that would help spur the country’s tourism and create thousands of job opportunities to the people.
“As of now, the country has no less than 80 million Filipino cellular phone users. All we need is 1 billion votes,” President said as he cited the almost 2 million texts recorded by the leading telecommunication companies in their daily operations.
As more Filipinos are now actively using internet as another tool in communication, thePresident urged them to vote the Philippine environment at www.new7wondersofnature orsimply text PPUR15 to 2861.
During the program, Bernard Webber, president and founder of the New 7 Wonder of Nature,officially designated Puerto Princesa as one of the 28 finalists for the new 7 wonder of naturecategory. Renowned as the world’s longest underground river, Puerto Princesa Underground River features a stunning limestone karst mountain landscape, impressive cave systems,impressive stalactites and stalagmites formations, lush old growth tropical rain forest and interesting wildlife. The subterranean river spans 8.2 kilometers long and flows beneathstalactites and stalagmites formation.
The Underground River beat 440 other contenders to be one of the 28 finalists for the New 7Wonders of Nature Campaign. The voting period will end on November 10 and winners will be announced on the following day (November 11). (PCOO)
by magnolia_eic | Feb 3, 2011 | Features, Headlines, National News
The Philippines was recently cited as the “country to explore” in 2011 by Ireland’s leading newspaper, The Irish Times.
The daily broadsheet based in Dublin, Ireland said the Philippines’ pristine beaches and first-class diving sites were the main reasons the country was chosen over other well-known tourist attractions in the region.
In an article published in T.I.T’s January 8, 2011 weekend supplement entitled “What’s Hot for 2011,” writer Alanna Gallagher was all praises for two “stand-out yet accessible” tourist attractions to visit in the Philippines: the islands of Cebu; and Boracay island in Malay, Aklan.
“It (Cebu and Boracay) offers first-class diving and beaches like Thailand had 20 or 30 years ago before it was over-developed,” Gallagher’s article read.
With these distinctions, aside from many other more tourist attractions to see and experience, Gallaghar says, “the new country to explore in Asia is the Philippines.”
The Irish Times, which was established in 1859, is Ireland’s quality daily newspaper with news reports coming from throughout Ireland and from a comprehensive network of foreign correspondents, as well as sports and business coverage, features and arts sections, lifestyle, jobs and property.
Each issue contains well-informed background analysis and assessment of the events of the day, and diversity of debate in the daily opinion columns.
Alanna Gallagher is a freelance journalist who contributes to publications such as the Irish Times and Sunday Times. She has also recently started her own weekly e-zine (electronic-magazine), The Weekly Edit, which gives Alanna’s top picks in fashion, beauty, interiors, and things to do that week. (PIA/PCOO)
