Princess Caddy Finds a Home, a new book by Anne Higgins M.S. CCC, has been released by Dorrance Publishing Co., Inc.

Princess Caddy Finds a Home tells the adventure of a small cat named Caddy, who searches for a home and people to love her.

As a speech pathologist for many years, it has been the author’s experience that using animals to teach articulation and language skills is highly successful. This story promotes vocabulary development (over 100 words from simple to complex), basic concepts, and answering who, what, where, when, and why questions.

Not only is Princess Caddy Finds a Home educational, it’s entertaining and funny as well!

About the Author
Author Anne Higgins M.S. CCC has a master’s degree in speech pathology, a B.S. from the University of Texas (Austin) and a M.S. from the University of Texas Dallas branch. Higgins worked for many years as a speech pathologist in Plano, Texas. She became the coordinator of this school district where she was responsible for thirty-five speech pathologists. During this time Higgins published an articulation kit for severe speech disorders. The kit was very successful and was in publication for twenty years.

Later, Higgins moved to Scottsdale, Arizona, where she worked with three- and four-year-old hearing impaired children. At the same time, Higgins worked on speech and language skills with autistic students and severely delayed mentally handicapped students.

Princess Caddy Finds a Home is a 52-page hardcover with a retail price of $27.00. The ISBN is 978-1-4809-4853-2. It was published by Dorrance Publishing Co., Inc of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. For more information, or to request a review copy, please go to our virtual pressroom at www.dorrancepressroom.com or our online bookstore www.bookstore.dorrancepublishing.com.

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Jessica Stillwell
Dorrance Publishing

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Release ID: 261838

Seattle, WA – On March 26, Adobe announced the discontinuation of its Muse website builder. Once hailed as a simple way to build and develop websites without needing to code.

For a corporation to be dominant in the website builder and CMS platform segments, their constant innovation and growth percentages year-over-year need to be significant. To compete with the largest platforms like WordPress, those year-over-year growth figures need to be in the high single to low double-digit range. As a benchmark, W3Techs reports WordPress holds a 30 percent market share and has consistently grown 2-4 percent over the last seven years. In comparison, Adobe Muse registered a mere .2 percent growth figure in the last year, which was in line with many of the second-tier content management systems. In comparison, the DIY website builder Squarespace’s market share grew from .5 percent to .9 percent over the last year.

“The website builder space is a constantly evolving segment requiring constant modernization, attention to shifts in technology, best web practices and ultimately consumers who land on the website or landing page,” says Mark Michael, CEO of DevHub. In order to maintain customers, platforms need to focus on its user experience (UX) and widgets, integration partnerships and stay current and responsive to fixing bugs and updating the platform. Most website platforms are built to manage websites at scale which means they need to attract a large enough audience of businesses, agencies and developers to generate a respectable level of profitability. In the case of Adobe Muse, it seems they were able to create a small loyal base of users and developers, however not at the scale needed to return profits at a level acceptable to shareholders.

Like many website builders and CMS systems, there are lines of proprietary code making migration from Muse to another platform a more complex issue. When combined with the shutdown of Adobe Business Catalyst, their hosting and analytics platform, many agencies, businesses and developers have been left out in the cold. With a forced migration necessary for potentially hundreds of thousands of websites, marketers are scrambling to find efficient and effective alternatives.

“We’ve migrated from most legacy website builders and CMS platforms, re-platforming content from one CMS to another can be easy and safe,” says Mark Michael. With DevHub’s migration platform, we are able to recreate most everything from an existing website, often with more flexibility and added analytical tools and web standards – baked in on day one.”

“The good news is that we have 10+ years of experience in doing cms platform migrations – we’ve built proprietary tools to greatly simplify the process, reducing potential downtime, lost revenue and traffic. Rather than taking months, our approach reduces a migration process to mere weeks even with a hundred thousand or more sites. With DevHub, 99 percent of migrations are aligned with current look and feel, speeding the process and maintaining site functionality, Daniel Rust CTO DevHub shares.

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DevHub

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Release ID: 261934

Smartee Plants, a new book by Carolyn J. C. Goodin CLP-I Emeritus, has been released by Dorrance Publishing Co., Inc.

Smartee Plants is more than just a “how to” manual – it also answers the question “why.” In this in-depth guide, Indoor Landscaping specialist Carolyn J. C. Goodin CLP-I Emeritus explores the details of the maintenance of indoor plants from a professional interiorscaper’s perspective. The information in Smartee Plants is based on plant physiology, concentrating on water consumption and the environmental variables which dictate proper plant care. Presenting both the science and the practical application, Goodin goes beyond the average plant guide to detail irrigation needs in terms of frequency and volume, nutrition, pest control, sanitation and disease prevention.

Whether a professional plant technician or an enthusiastic hobbyist, Smartee Plants will help you shed the proverbial “Brown Thumb Syndrome” and care for your indoor plants better than ever before!

About the Author
A native of Brooklyn, New York, Carolyn J. C. Goodin CLP-I Emeritus earned her Master of Science in Horticulture from the University of Hawaii School of Tropical Agriculture in 1979 and subsequently opened a successful plant-rental business in Honolulu, Hawaii, called VSPS, LLC, A Very Specialized Plant Service. During her thirty year career, she gave numerous classes and talks on plant care, participated in panel discussions and educational seminars, and wrote columns on interiorscaping for the local industry magazine and newspapers. She also taught a course called “Plants in Interior Design” at Artisan School of Interior Design and, later, Chaminade University School of Interior Design.

In 1989 Goodin became the first nationally certified horticulturalist by the National Council for Certification of Interior Horticulturalists in the state of Hawaii, one of 38 nationally. She was instrumental in creating a distinction for interiorscapers within the certifying body of The Associated Landscape Contractors of America, establishing the designation of CLP-I – Certified Landscape Professional-Interior. Now retired, she enjoys her grandchildren, gardening, cooking, and catching up on the books she always wanted to read.

Smartee Plants is a 270-page hardcover with a retail price of $71.00. The ISBN is 978-1-4809-4287-5. It was published by Dorrance Publishing Co., Inc of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. For more information, or to request a review copy, please go to our virtual pressroom at www.dorrancepressroom.com or our online bookstore www.bookstore.dorrancepublishing.com.

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Jessica Stillwell
Dorrance Publishing

http://www.dorrancepublishing.com

Release ID: 261921

More Than One Way Home, a new book by Jeffrey L. Baxter, has been released by Dorrance Publishing Co., Inc.

This memoir is about overcoming setbacks and finding hope. It’s about Jeffrey L. Baxter’s journey overcoming chronic depression and the resultant obesity that developed because of his inability to deal with two significant deaths. He hopes that readers will see that life is, indeed, a journey, and that hope can be found even when it seems least likely.

About the Author
Jeffrey L. Baxter is the oldest of five children, born when his mother had tuberculosis. His Dad had to quit architectural school to pay the bills and his mother couldn’t have contact with him because of the TB. So, Baxter was raised for the first four years of his life by his Grandmother Younkin, a retired school teacher. As he grew up, she would suggest poetry and other literature for him to read to discover the answers to the questions he was asking her. Then they would sit in her rocking chairs and figure out the answers together.

Baxter has taught for well over thirty years. He’s a fellow of the National Writing Project and very active with his local affiliate, the Greater Kansas City Writing Project. He’s presented hundreds of workshops in the Midwest and nationally.

After overcoming chronic depression in the nineties and losing more than two hundred pounds, he rediscovered his teaching career and his life. He is the 2014 Kansas Teacher of the Year. He’s also the 2015 Kansas Global Education Fellow, working with teachers globally. In 2015 he traveled to Peru to work with Peruvian children and educators.

Baxter believes that character matters more than test scores, and that teaching literature should be a meaningful conversation between teacher and students like Baxter’s conversations with his grandmother.

More Than One Way Home is an 86-page paperback with a retail price of $22.00. It is also available in hardcover and eBook format. The ISBN is 978-1-4809-5000-9. It was published by Dorrance Publishing Co., Inc of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. For more information, or to request a review copy, please go to our virtual pressroom at www.dorrancepressroom.com or our online bookstore www.bookstore.dorrancepublishing.com.

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Jessica Stillwell
Dorrance Publishing

http://www.dorrancepublishing.com

Release ID: 261831

e360tv, the mecca for creative content providers, announced that it will air Season 2 of Cindy Ashton’s popular and provocative show, “Cindy Uncorked”, on Thursdays, beginning April 5, 2018.

In each episode, Ashton engages in lively discussion with her expert career and wellness correspondents, Janet Wise and Dr. Nathalie Beauchamp, respectively. All three share their knowledge, wisdom, and practical tips for improving one’s career, wellness, interpersonal relationships, and the challenges we all face as part of the human condition.

Ashton’s show is inspired by her own personal journey to thrive in the face of chronic pain and illness. Diagnosed with heart failure and a 20% chance of living at birth, she went on to survive four heart surgeries and achieve a notably successful speaking, training, and performing career. Cindy’s show, Uncorked, was created out of her belief that we all have brilliance inside us. Once we uncover who we REALLY are, we can discover our own gifts.

Among the topics Ashton and her guests will discuss are: managing politics in the workplace; creating a loving relationship between you and your money; the real reason why you make bad decisions; the dangers of female power and your love relationship, the good, bad and ugly of open relationships, swinging and polyamory; and more.

A raconteur and storyteller at heart, Ashton captures the attention and delight of her viewers.

360tv is an on-demand, interactive streaming tv available 24/7. Through its latest proprietary technology, built on an OTT platform, e360tv is visible on 186 million screens via Apple TV, Amazon Fire, Roku, Smart TV’s, smart devices, and computers.

e360tv provides viewers with a “lean-back” technology that allows them to tailor their viewing experiences to their personal preferences, locations, demographics, and online profiles. e360tv is part of the Canna Media Network (CMN).

More information about e360tv can be found at www.e360tv.com.

Follow Cindy at Facebook and Instagram at CindyUncorked, YouTube at CindyAshton and Twitter @cindyashton

For media inquiries, interviews and appearance requests, please contact Kelly Bennett of Bennett Unlimited PR (949) 463-6383 or kelly@bpunlimited.com.

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Cindy Uncorked
9494636383
http://www.cindyuncorked.com

Release ID: 261905

PITTSBURGH, Penn. – April 5, 2018 – Spruce Group LLC, a consumer product company specializing in dog products, announced today the launch of its first product, the Spruce Dog Bed. The Spruce Bed is specifically designed to fold up and hold all your dog’s essentials when you are traveling. When it’s open, it is a full-size bed complete with memory foam padding, waterproof faux-suede sheets, and unique curl-up bolsters. The Spruce Dog Bed is available today on Indiegogo at www.igg.me/at/sprucebed

When open, the Spruce Bed is the ultimate in comfort for your pup. Cushy bolsters, dense support, foam, and plush sheets. When closed, it turns into your carry-all tote for all of your pups needs, with pockets and handles, along with all the space you could need to carry your pups necessities. Pups come in all sized, and the bed does too available in small, medium, and large sizes ranging from $169-$219.

“We love traveling with our dogs but it wasn’t always easy to find the right gear for our adventures,” said Elijah Wiegmann, Founder of Spruce. “We developed the bed so we could bring our dogs and their stuff with us wherever we go and still provide the most comfortable dog bed for them.”

The Spruce Dog Bed is made from durable materials from the outdoor industry. In addition to its unique fold and go design the bed has machine washable, waterproof, fitted sheets that are easily removable. Padded handles for a comfortable carry, stash pockets for easy access to keys or doggie bags, and D-ring clips for leashes. A non-slip rubber bottom ensures the bed stays put open and closed.

The Spruce Dog Bed is available today at www.igg.me/at/sprucebed

About Spruce Pup
Spruce (www.sprucepup.com) is a consumer product company founded by husband and wife team and award-winning product designers and dog lovers Elijah & Leah Wiegmann. Combined they have launched over 30 consumer proudcts in various industries and have over 18 patents and won 2 Red Dot Awards. For more information on Spruce Pup visit www.sprucepup.com

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Elijah Wiegmann
Spruce

http://www.sprucepup.com

Release ID: 261898

Lummus Corporation, the parent company of System Solution of Kentucky (SSK) and Lummus, announced today that Mr. Guy Phillips has joined the company’s board of directors. Mr. Phillips brings extensive knowledge of mergers and acquisitions to the Lummus board having worked for twenty years as an M&A banker.

Lummus Corporation’s chairman, Phil DiIorio, announced that Phillips would be joining the board, saying, “We are excited to welcome Guy to the board. We believe that his experience in M&A and in strengthening businesses across several industries, will be extremely valuable as we execute our growth strategy.”

In addition to being a member of the Lummus board of directors, Mr. Phillips is a founding member of NuOrion Partners, a private investment office focused on direct investing in market leading businesses.

Prior to his current roles, Mr. Phillips enjoyed a successful career with UBS Investment Bank and UBS Wealth Management for nearly two decades. During this time he served as Global Head of the UBS Consumer Products and Retail Group and a member of the Investment Banking Division Executive Committee. He also spent ten years as a banker to private equity firms and was based in New York and London.

Phillips’ training and experience, which includes an MBA from Harvard University and a BA from Franklin & Marshall College, combined with extensive work in capital markets and mergers and acquisitions, makes him an excellent fit for his position with Lummus.

Several Lummus board members, including Mr. Phillips, will be attending the MODEX trade show April 9 – 12, in Atlanta, Georgia, at the World Congress Center. MODEX is an annual trade show that features over 900 leading providers of business supply chain solutions. Lummus representatives will be attending the trade show in hopes of establishing potential partnerships. Phillips will be attending, as part of the Lummus board, to help identify merger and acquisition targets among trade show participants.

ABOUT LUMMUS
Headquartered in Savanna, Georgia, with a history dating back to 1863, Lummus Corporation is a leading full-line supplier of machinery and replacement parts for the cotton ginning industry worldwide, operating under the Lummus, Consolidated, and Belt-Wide brands. The company also provides design, installation, field and technical service support for customers in the USA and throughout the world, serving the cotton, oilseed, and synthetic fiber industries. The company emphasizes a commitment to the highest level of quality, innovation and service, marketing products in over 100 countries. For more information about the Lummus Corporation, call 912-447-9000.

ABOUT SYSTEM SOLUTIONS OF KENTUCKY (SSK)
Founded in 2003, System Solutions of Kentucky (SSK) is an entrepreneurial single-source material handling systems integrator in North America, driving high performance and productivity for logistics and e-commerce customers.

With a management team based in Louisville, Kentucky, the company provides design, installation, retrofitting, and technical services to customers worldwide, with a focus on quality, efficiency, and performance. For more information about SSK, call 502-526-0082.

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Ross Rutherford
Lummus Corporation
806-776-4054
http://www.lummus.com/

Release ID: 261892

Austin, TX (April 5, 2018)-AEV Technologies, Inc. (www.aevtechnologies.com), designer and manufacturer of compact, light-duty emissions-free vehicles for urban commercial and consumer markets, has joined forces with Texas-based Kyrish Truck Centers to offer the AEV 411 and 511 trucks to their fleet of customers across the massive Texas market. In addition to sales, Kyrish Truck Centers will also offer leasing and rental program with AEV trucks, based on availability and options.

“We are proud to partner with Kyrish Truck Centers to bring their customers a well-built, sustainable fleet vehicle in the AEV 411 and 511s,” said Rod Keller, AEV Technologies, Inc. CEO. “Kyrish’s long and successful history in heavy-duty and medium-duty truck sales and leasing is impressive. The AEV 411 with its multiple bed configurations offers the Kyrish Truck Centers team a new product to offer their customers.”

“We at Kyrish Truck Centers are excited about our partnership with AEV Technologies and their lineup of cost-effective electric trucks,” said Jeff Kyrish, General Director of Kyrish Truck Centers. “Our experience in the professional fleet markets is an excellent match for the AEV vehicles. We anticipate excellent response from our customers as we introduce the electric AEV trucks and vehicles. The quality, connectivity, and sustainability of the AEV vehicles are a tremendous opportunity for our clients seeking new cost-effective, clean energy alternatives.”

Following the company’s product line launch at the 2018 C.E.S. in Las Vegas, AEV Technologies is seeing tremendous global interest in their entire line of all-electric vehicles, including the 411 urban cargo truck, the new 311 commuter and delivery three-wheeler, along with the soon-to-be released 511 4WD. Every AEV vehicle comes standard with the AEV Productivity Suite which includes GPS Location, Geo Fencing, Delivery Cycle Time, and Vehicle Management/Alerts.

About Kyrish Truck Centers:
Founded in 1976, Kyrish Truck Centers has become an industry leader in commercial trucks, specializing in heavy-duty and medium-duty trucks for sale and lease. Kyrish Truck Centers has nine locations throughout Texas. For more info, please call (512) 389-1111 or visit www.kyrishtruckcenters.com.

About AEV Technologies, Inc.:
AEV Technologies, Inc., (www.AEVTechnologies.com), designs and delivers compact, emissions-free vehicles for use within urban and short-haul markets. Capable of accommodating a broad range of commercial and consumer requirements, AEV Technologies’ vehicles are the emerging leaders of safe, affordable, efficient and sustainable logistical transportation. AEV Technologies, Inc. was founded in 2017 by entrepreneurs, investors, and executives with a passion to create sustainable urban electric solutions for Campus Management, Last Mile Delivery, Urban Commuting, and Closed Campus Transport. Discover more about AEV Technologies at: www.AEVTechnologies.com or by calling (512) 994-4917.

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AEV Technologies, Inc.
949-233- 4739
http://www.AEVTechnologies.com

Release ID: 261895

PHILADELPHIA – First Transit, a leader in airport shuttle transportation solutions, announces that the Philadelphia International Airport has renewed its contract to operate and provide maintenance for the entire airport passenger shuttle operation.

First Transit will continue to provide maintenance, operations, and staffing for 46 buses, offering more than 3.5 million trips annually for the employee and economy parking lots.

This year, First Transit will change its entire bus fleet at the Philadelphia International Airport to run on compressed natural gas (CNG).

“We are proud to be a transportation partner for more than 20 years with the Philadelphia International Airport,” said Paul O’Brien, regional vice president of First Transit. “New technology and an entirely green fleet will provide an enhanced passenger experience.”

First Transit continues to bring the latest technology with real-time passenger shuttle tracking. The technology enables push notifications to passenger mobile devices and links to the Philadelphia International Airport’s website.

First Transit provides transportation shuttle solutions for 13 airports across North America.

About First Transit:
First Transit, Inc. has 60 years of experience and is one of the largest private-sector providers of mobility solutions in North America moving more than 350 million passengers annually. First Transit, Inc. provides operation, management and consulting for more than 300 locations in 39 states, Canada, Puerto Rico, Panama and India for transit authorities, state departments of transportation, municipalities, hospitals, universities and private companies. First Transit employs more than 19,500 dedicated transit professionals. For additional information, please visit FirstTransit.com.

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Jay Brock
First Transit
513-362-4600
http://www.firsttransit.com

Release ID: 261896

Specialist and advanced materials innovator, Surwon Technology is conducting extensive testing on a wet weather tire that is reportedly capable of delivering significant performance improvements over the current “wets” used by racers during rainy periods on Grand Prix weekends.

The prototype tire uses an adaptation of the same graphene configuration the company developed for use in desalination filters, an application which enables far greater volumes of water to flow through its atom-thick layers than can be achieved using just traditional materials.

During races and qualifying sessions, wet weather tires are deployed when the rain makes the standard slick tires used on dry tarmac impractical. Teams change their cars’ tires from slicks to so-called “wets” which are able to clear far more water from the track, thereby reducing aquaplaning and keeping the cars on the tarmac. However, when the rain stops and the track begins to dry out, they tend to heat up very quickly; this has an adverse impact on grip and dramatically reduces lap times forcing teams to change back to slicks as quickly as possible.

“Our wet weather prototype not only displaces more water while the track is drenched, it also dissipates more of the heat that builds up in traditional wets as the tarmac dries out. This enables the team to keep cars and drivers out that little bit longer so they can open up a greater gap over rivals during the crucial pit stops,” explained Surwon Technology’s Chief Technical Officer.

Surwon’s tire is being tested in collaboration with an unnamed automotive rubber products supplier rumored to have plans to enter Formula 1 in the future as a rival to the sport’s current sole supplier, Pirelli.

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Henry So
Syndicate Tree

Release ID: 261869