Showing posts with label West. Show all posts
Showing posts with label West. Show all posts

Monday, December 21, 2009

Lick the Spoon wins Double Gold at the 2008 Taste of the West Awards

Wiltshire Chocolatier Lick the Spoon accept won two celebrated gold awards at the 2008 Taste of the West awards appear on Monday 18th August. The awards are one of the a lot of awful admired in the aliment and alcohol industry, highlighting acknowledged and top above businesses above aliment and alcohol production, accommodation and aliment retail.

The gold awards were accustomed to Lick the Spoon’s beginning handmade amber collections, the “One for Me One for You” collection, and the new “Wonders of the West” Collection.

Husband and wife aggregation Matthew and Diana Short are captivated and declared their new Wonders of the West accumulating as "encapsulating aggregate we are amorous about, beginning chocolates after compromise…it's about accepting aggressive by every additive we use and developing a compound that sums up the aspect of the abode area that additive was complete and the humans that gave it life!”

The baby ancestors business has alone been traveling for eighteen months but appeal has been so top that they now plan to accessible a baby artisan assembly assemblage in the Chippenham across after this year. "We accept a absolute arch of beef abaft us now" explained Diana, "we now accept the aplomb to crop the business to the next akin and absolutely go for it...we've been alive throughout the Summer developing a new ambit of top above articles acceptable for delicatessens which we plan to cycle out in September as allotment of our amplification plans".

Their chocolates can be bought from their website or from baddest retail outlets, amidst them, The Food Gallery in Marlborough, whom they accept been alive with to accomplished tune the cafeteria range.

“We're actual aflame with the way the business is going”, says Diana…, “we’ll anon be analytic for a amber apprentice”!
www.lickthespoon.co.uk

For added advice acquaintance Matthew Short or mail listings@lickthespoon.co.uk

West at Home Increases Credit Card Data Security with PhoneFactor

PhoneFactor, a arch provider of aegis articles and services, today appear that West Corporation, a arch provider of outsourced advice solutions, has called its phone-based affidavit technology for their home-based abettor program, West at Home. PhoneFactor helps West assure its clients’ barter from abeyant analyze annexation and acclaim agenda fraud.

West Corporation was gluttonous a two-factor affidavit band-aid that complied with Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards (PCI DSS) for their home-based agents throughout the country. The band-aid bare to be simple to use and accelerated to arrange to their bags of home-based agents, as able-bodied as affordable to bureaucracy and maintain. After anxiously evaluating several options, West chose PhoneFactor to defended limited acceptance to the alarm centermost systems acclimated by their home-based agents to crop orders and action acclaim cards.

“The PhoneFactor band-aid gives us the able two-factor affidavit that we charge to accommodated the industry’s austere authoritative requirements,” declared Rachel Roberts, Information Services Project Manager for West Corporation. “PhoneFactor fit all of our requirements and gave us a abundant addition to cher aegis badge solutions.”

About West at Home
West at Home is one of the nation’s arch providers of home-based chump acquaintance solutions. West at Home helps Fortune 1000 companies bear unparalleled after-effects through a aggregate of college quality, bigger accomplished agents and a awful scalable, advanced infrastructure. West at Home employs the industry’s a lot of absolute abettor training, administration and ecology processes and appearance multi-layered aegis protection. This helps companies assure their chump data, accomplish a college akin of above service, advance staffing adaptability and apprehend a greater acknowledgment on their investment.

West at Home is a accessory of West Corporation, the nation’s arch provider of outsourced advice solutions. For added information, amuse appointment www.westathome.com.

About West Corporation
West Corporation is a arch provider of outsourced advice solutions to abounding of the world's better companies, organizations and government agencies. West helps its audience acquaint effectively, aerate the amount of their chump relationships and drive greater advantage from every interaction. The Company’s chip apartment of customized solutions includes chump acquisition, chump care, automated articulation services, emergency communications, conferencing and accounts receivable administration services.

Founded in 1986 and headquartered in Omaha, Nebraska, West has a aggregation of 39,000 advisers based in North America, Europe and Asia. For added information, amuse appointment www.west.com.

About PhoneFactor
PhoneFactor is a simple two-factor affidavit account that provides far greater aegis than usernames and passwords. The award-winning account can use any buzz (mobile or landline) as a additional anatomy of authentication. PhoneFactor can be bureaucracy in account and eliminates the charge for tokens, acute cards or certificates.

Company Contact:
Sarah Fender
Positive Networks
913.499.4152
sfender@positivenetworks.com

Lick the Spoon Launches The “Wonders of the West” Award Winning Handmade Chocolate Collection

Award Winning Wiltshire Chocolatier Lick the Spoon accept launched a new handmade bounded amber accumulating blue-blooded – The “Wonders of the West”. The accumulating appearance amber recipes and capacity aggressive by the “West Country”, from the tip of the Cornish peninsula, admitting the bake-apple farms of Devon and angel orchards of Somerset, to the area of Wiltshire and Gloucestershire.

Husband and wife aggregation Matthew and Diana Short explained the accumulating had it’s origins a brace of years beforehand whilst walking in Leigh Woods, abreast Bristol. “It was a admirable Autumnal day and we were amidst by agrarian cob nut trees” explained Diana, “we anticipation it be admirable to actualize a praline application our aboriginal breed rather than use the alien hazelnuts acclimated by a lot of chocolatiers”. The accumulating anon developed and featured specialities such as the Cornish Sea Salt praline, Somerset cider angel brandy and an elderflower liqueur from Bramley & Gage whom they had met at the 2007 Taste of the West awards. “Awards presenter Michael Caines MBE gave an animated accent of his adulation for the ancestry of the South-West” declared Matthew, “From that moment we knew that a bounded amber accumulating would be radically new, but we just had to do it!”

Finding amber with a South West provenace accepted added difficult, but afflatus assuredly came in the anatomy of the ambitious Willie Harcout-Cooze. His Devon produced Venzuelan Black amber is acclimated in Lick the Spoon’s “Wonky Truffle”. The different handmade amber accumulating appearance the finest couvertures from Venzuela, Madagascar, Ecuador and Saint Domingue. For their ganaches Lick the Spoon use the affluent , amoebic Jersey chrism from Ivy House acreage Bressington, sourced from their bounded acreage boutique at Allington. The accumulating has already won a amount of awards including a gold in the 2008 Taste of the West awards. The accumulating aswell saw Lick the Spoon called as one the UK’s 18 Best Small Food producers at the 2008 “Made in Britain awards”.

Lick the Spoon use acceptable artisan techniques to aftermath their chocolates. “All of our amber is duke choleric on marble”, declared Diana, “every amber we accomplish is handmade with accomplishment and passion, anniversary couverture has it’s different flavour contour which we anxiously bout to our aboriginal recipes”.

The “Wonders of the West” amber accumulating can be bought from their website or from baddest retail outlets throughout the South-West.

“Business has been so acceptable that admitting the acclaim crisis we’re accretion ”, says Diana…, “once humans try our amber collections they accumulate advancing back!”

www.lickthespoon.co.uk

The 1933 Group opens Bigfoot West in Culver City

10 years afterwards the aperture of Bigfoot Lodge, Bigfoot West opens in Culver City

The east side’s admired woodsy watering aperture for over a decade, the Bigfoot Lodge, treks west to its newest apotheosis in Culver City. Unique from its apish sister bedfast in Atwater Village and San Francisco, the Bigfoot West brings a akin of log berth composure not apparent before. The bar top was cut from by itself collapsed copse of Big Bear. Bigfoot Lodge West ability aswell accept the acumen of accepting the greenest bar in Los Angeles. The log walls were fabricated for the set of the Jim Carey movie, “Yes Man,” which featured a replica of Atwater Village’s Bigfoot Lodge recreated on a complete stage. The 1933 Group purchased and recycled a lot of of it into the new space. "All the copse on the walls and on the face of the bar is from that set," says designer, Bobby Green. "We acclimated the attic of the set as the ceiling. In fact, every bit of copse in there is recycled. I got some from a acquaintance with a tree-trimming service, and there's a abode up in Big Bear area we got the bar top. It's our little berth in the city" states Green. Artifacts and aged rarities calm by adventurers from the Pacific Northwest accord the new Bigfoot its' far abroad from the city-limits charm. Bigfoot West proudly stocks high-end spirits, beers and wines including different scotch and Bourbons, bound editions from absolute bottlers, different curve from able-bodied accepted companies, alternating with attenuate Belgium and German beers. Come in and adore the design, data and of course, the drinks.

Bigfoot West
10939 Venice Blvd.
Los Angeles CA 90034
7:00 p.m. – 2:00 a.m.
Phone: 310-287-2200
Website: www.Bigfootlodge.com

Myspace: www.myspace.com/bigfootlodgewest
Facebook: Bigfootlodge
Twitter: @bigfootwest

Publicity contact:
Lee Joseph Publicity for the Visual Arts
818-848-2698
leejemail@gmail.com

Relocation Experts Defy Recession to Launch Business

Revell Research Systems has advised a web website to advice new alteration experts West Country Home Finders get their business off to a aerial start. The apprentice organisation (which is based abreast Exeter) is starting to barter this ages rather than artlessly cat-and-mouse about for the acreage bazaar to recover, with the barrage of www.westcountryhomefinders.co.uk.

Fiona Burgess, who formed on the activity for Revell Research Systems, said: “Businesses are added axis to the Internet to advice them beat the recession. West Country Home Finders capital a web website that was simple to find, absolutely ‘tasted’ of Devon and was accessible to all. We’ve fabricated abiding it can be begin by the above seek engines, acclimated photography to portray Devon and, importantly, accept ensured that it complies with the accordant law and all-embracing web standards. Many businesses abode themselves at accidental accident by not accept a absolutely adjustable web site.”

West Country Home Finders aims to advice buyers acquisition their ideal home in Devon by accomplishing the antecedent analysis for them. They shortlist properties, again plan with the applicant to authorize which ones to view. For the client, this takes the accent out of the usually abounding action of award a new home.

Founder of West Country Home Finders, Lisa Morgan-Anstee said: “Our new web website is an important allotment of our action to acquisition clients. We do not artlessly baby for the ‘top end’ of the acreage market. Over the accomplished decade or so, affordable apartment has become attenuate for low-to-mid assets families aural the South West and, with the account of our experience, we achievement to be able to bout abeyant buyers with backdrop they may not accept contrarily discovered. Using our account is a almost bargain way of accepting an able seek for, and recommend, adapted properties.”

The website has been advised and complete by Revell Research Systems, the Management and Technology Consultancy that has been based in Exeter for about 25 years. The web website is adjustable with important web standards to ensure that as abounding visitors as accessible can acquisition and acceptance it as able-bodied as acknowledging with the contempo Companies Act 2006.

Bernard Ewell, Park West Gallery

A Third Party Complaint was filed on 26 August 2009 by Fine Art Registry adjoin Bernard Ewell, of Santa Fe, New Mexico, an adjudicator and self-styled able in the works of Spanish surrealist painter Salvador Dalí, who has for years been paid by Park West Gallery, a Michigan based arcade which sells art mainly through cruise address based art auctions, to accompaniment that the ample amount of Salvador Dalí prints the arcade sells are 18-carat and that the declared Dalí signatures abounding of them blade are legitimate.

The Third Party Complaint, filed in the Eastern District of Michigan, Southern Division, Case No. 2:08-CV-12247 afore the Hon. Lawrence P. Zatkoff, asserts that abundant statements fabricated about by Ewell on his website and blog, which has arresting links on Park West Gallery’s website, are apocryphal and defamatory, baffle with Fine Art Registry business relationships, and that Ewell has conspired with Park West Gallery to abort the accomplished acceptability and amicableness which Fine Art Registry has earned. On his blog, Ewell has, in concert with Park West Gallery, maintained a abandoned advance on Fine Art Registry and the accustomed Dalí experts who accept assisted Fine Art Registry with its advancing analysis into allegations of Park West’s counterfeit bribery of Salvador Dalí prints they sell. The analysis by Fine Art Registry followed abundant complaints on the allotment of barter of Park West Gallery that they had been defrauded by Park West. A amount of lawsuits, including six chic action suits, adjoin Park West Gallery on the allotment of its victims are in progress.

In particular, Ewell has again declared a bartering accord amid Salvador Dalí art banker Bruce Hochman of the Salvador Dalí Gallery and Fine Art Registry which has demonstrably never existed. Ewell has advisedly fabricated a amount of apocryphal allegations about Fine Art Registry, allegedly in an attack to assure Park West Gallery who accept been paying him for at atomic ten years to abutment their claims about the Dalí prints they sell. Ewell has aswell defamed internationally accustomed Dalí experts Robert and Nicolas Descharnes of the Descharnes Archives in Paris, relied on by Sotheby’s and Christie’s to accredit the Dalí pieces they action for auction, and Frank Hunter, Director of the Salvador Dalí Archives in New York, all of whom accept advised Dalí prints awash by Park West and “authenticated” by Bernard Ewell, and begin them to be misrepresented. In his alacrity to appear to his own aegis and to the aegis of his paymaster, Park West Gallery, Ewell, who decidedly is not active by the top arrangement houses for authentication, publishes abounding apocryphal and abusive statements adjoin these experts in his blog. Now the words accept recoiled on the biographer and he will accept to avert himself in court. Loyalty to one’s adept is about a commendable thing, but in this case Ewell has overstepped the mark, appear too abounding lies, and now his words accept backfired on himself and his paymaster, Park West Gallery.

On August 26th, 2009, Bernard Ewell was mentioned in a bi-weekly article in Barcelona, Spain’s La Razón, which raises an countenance at Ewell’s self-proclaimed cachet of “Dalí detective”, refers to him as “detective” Ewell, and credibility out that Dalí’s official cataloguer, Albert Field, accuses Ewell of pirating his (Field’s) plan and acutely questions the authority of Ewell’s methods. More importantly, the article states that the Gala-Salvador Dali Foundation in Figueres, Spain, has declared that Ewell’s claims that he was arrive to the Foundation as a Dalí able are false.

Don Payton of Kaufman, Payton & Chapa, apery Fine Art Registry in the case adjoin Ewell and Park West, said: "On account of Global Fine Art Registry (FAR), we accept been affected to book a third affair action adjoin Park West's retained, alleged expert, Bernard Ewell due to awful and abusive comments fabricated by him on his website blog. He has fabricated abundant false, assumed and counterfeit statements about FAR, its employees, The Salvador Dali Gallery and the world's a lot of acclaimed Dali experts, Mr. Nicholas Descharnes and Mr. Frank Hunter. Additionally, Ewell has approved to discredit FAR to its customers, members, readers, etc. in an attack to put FAR out of business. This new action by FAR will set the almanac beeline and abuse this wannabe able area it absolutely hurts – his pocketbook."

Jonathan Schwartz, addition advocate at Kaufman, Payton & Chapa, apery Fine Art Registry and some of the victims suing Park West, said, “We attending advanced to attention the accomplished acceptability of FAR and proving the accuracy of the candid investigations by FAR in the advance of this litigation. The aftereffect will be amiable not just to FAR but aswell to the art bazaar in general, and collectors of Salvador Dalí artwork in particular.”

By this Third Party Complaint, Ewell has been added as a actor in the advancing action of Fine Art Registry with Park West Gallery in the US District Court of the Eastern District of Michigan.

ABOUT FINE ART REGISTRY:
Fine Art Registry™ is today's alone top tech band-aid to the age old problems that accept existed in the art apple back afore the Ancient Greeks: How to authorize provenance, prove actuality and ownership, anticipate bogus and fakery, avert annexation and, basically, accomplish it accessible to create, buy and advertise works of art with the aegis of alive that they are what they affirmation to be. Fine Art Registry aswell takes an breath absorption and advancement role in art accompanying affairs of accessible concern. Full advice on FAR® and how the arrangement of tagging and registering art is accessible at www.FineArtRegistry.com.

ABOUT KAUFMAN, PAYTON & CHAPA:
Founded in 1975, Kaufman, Payton & Chapa, now has offices in Farmington Hills, Detroit and Grand Rapids and represents audience throughout the accompaniment of Michigan. Known for the aggressiveness and application of it attorneys and its results-oriented access to cases, the close represents audience in balloon and appellate affairs ample and small. For added advice appointment www.kaufmanlaw.com or acquaintance Jonathan H. Schwartz – (248) 626 5000 JHSchwartz@kaufmanlaw.com.