(Prudent Press Agency) --- The movement toward "going green" has significantly influenced businesses ranging from construction to printing and now, pest management. As green pest control services become a preferred choice among customers, Invader Pest Management is proud to announce its new designation from the National Pest Management Association as "GreenPro." This designation not only reflects Invader Pest Management's exceptional pest management services but more, its commitment to cultivating an environmentally-responsible business.

"Now, more than ever, consumers are seeking pest management methods that not only address their household pest problems but also, address their concerns regarding the protection of the environment," says Owner/President Fred Willey. "In proactively seeking - and receiving - our GreenPro designation, we are not only responding to the need to be environmentally sensitive but also to the fact that 61% of consumers seek out pest control services they perceive as "green.*"

(Prudent Press Agency)---Once you've built your tiki bar, it's time to stock it with the perfect accessories. Whether your bar is indoors or out, tiki-themed bar accessories provide the perfect finishing touch. Your beautiful tiki bar shouldn't be stocked with plain glasses; likewise, how can you throw a tiki party without the perfect accessories?

Many proud owners of tiki bars take their cue from tiki restaurants of decades past. At chains like Trader Vic's and Don The Beachcomber's, tropically-themed drinks were famously served in imaginative drinkware, ranging from flaming drinks in "cauldrons" to fruity concoctions in tiki mask-inspired ceramic mugs. Other popular tiki motifs replicated in the form of drinkware include cups molded to look like coconut shells and volcanoes. In popular tiki restaurants, such drinkware was often reserved for customers who ordered a special "secret" concoction or a flaming drink.

(Prudent Press Agency)--- Over the years there has been many books, speeches, and research studies that offer solutions to the problems confronting African Americans and the communities they live in. Many of these solutions do have potential and may be of great value; however, they are missing the most crucial element to success; that element is unity.

Unity represents oneness of mind, heart and soul. Unity is cultivated amongst human beings through some sort of common denominator. Without one or more common denominators, unity is practically impossible. Religion, culture, moral values, and traditions are all perfect examples of a common trait or element that will cultivate unity.

(Prudent Press Agency)--- There's a new rabbi in town. Rabbi Celso Cukierkorn, who moved to Miami-Dade County in May and has started Adat Achim Synagogue in Sunny Isles, knows a great deal about those who convert to Judaism. Since his rabbinic career started more than a decade ago, Cukierkorn, 37, has converted many of those people himself - in Europe, South America and China. Welcoming new people as Jews is important to him.

"Today, we have as many Jews in the world as there were the day the Americans liberated the concentration camps," he said. "Next generation, we will have negative growth, and we're going to have less Jews in the world. Somebody has got to do something about it. I believe that as a leader of Jewish people, we should put them on the red carpet; we should welcome those people who are legitimately interested in becoming Jewish. It must be offered
to them."

(Prudent Press Agency)--- JUDAISM is more than 5,000 years old. The Internet has been around for a tiny fraction of that time. But a rabbi with a specialized Web site has brought ancient tradition and modern technology together, providing conversions to Judaism in a process that is largely accomplished online.

The rabbi, Celso Cukierkorn, offers an online conversion course to anyone who wants to become Jewish. A PC and a Web connection bring the rabbi and converts from as far away as Australia and New Zealand together for online study and even the final exam.

Rabbi Cukierkorn (he pronounces it COOK-your-corn) is a convert himself, of sorts, to computer technology. He grew up in São Paulo, Brazil, and recalled that students learned to use computers at his high school. But the equipment was boxy mainframe technology, probably from the 1960's, he guessed, and he did not pursue computer training beyond high school.

Acclaimed Hindu and Indo-American statesman Rajan Zed, in a release in Nevada (USA) today, asked how Finland, which prides itself for its human rights record, was tolerating such widespread prejudice against a segment of its own society. Maltreatment of Roma, who mostly migrated from India many centuries back, was a dark stain on the face of Finland.

Zed, who is president of Universal Society of Hinduism, said that Roma had been living in Finland since 1500s, took part alongside other Finns in all of the wars the country participated in, and their mother tongue was Finnish. What more Roma needed to do and how many more centuries they had to reside in Finland to prove that they were "real and equal" Finns like any other, Zed asked.

(Prudent Press Agency)--- Philadelphia, PA -- July 16, 2008, 11:30-4:00pm, Kimmel Center, 300 South Broad Street.

The Western Shugden Society (WSS) along with hundreds of Tibetan and Western monks, nuns and others will be protesting the Dalai Lama outside the Kimmel Center this Wednesday. The protestors who have traveled from over 18 different countries hope to shed light on a wealth of evidence and first hand testimony available showing the Dalai Lama's current and aggressive acts of religious persecution through ban on a 400-year old mainstream prayer to the Buddhist Deity Dorje Shugden, including a campaign of forced segregation and denial of basic human rights such as food and medical treatment. The protesters will be greeting the Dalai Lama and the 2000 others attending his public talk with colorful banners and loud persistent chants.

(Prudent Press Agency)--- It was only a few days ago that I watched Chief Phil Fontaine of the Assembly of First Nations deliver a rousing speech about the tragic history of the Indian residential schools. In the presence of more than 200 young professionals from across the country, he laid bare horrific stories of abuse and dispossession that saw thousands of Aboriginal children, including him, torn away from their families, and stripped of their cultures and languages.

Shock and horror were visible on everyone's face, as they absorbed, many for the first time, the enormity of these injustices. Profoundly troubled, the audience gave Chief Fontaine a standing ovation and made an emotional plea for forgiveness.

(Prudent Press Agency)-- “The number of Muslims has overtaken that of Roman Catholics for the first time, the Vatican said yesterday.

Muslims account for 19.2% of the world’s population, while Catholics make up 17.4%, according to the Vatican’s new statistics yearbook, which is based on figures for 2006.”

(Prudent Press Agency)-- LOS ANGELES, CA-- A major industry building event, the Carbon Finance and Investment Summit, produced by Infocast, will be held in New York City May 28 to 30, 2008. This is the second year of the event.

The 2007 Summit established itself as a major gathering place for investment banks, private equity funds, hedge funds, carbon funds, project developers and lenders, clean tech companies, energy companies, and major corporations.

I sat comfortably in the ICE, reading Louis Lomax’s ‘To kill a black man’, as the luxury train made its way through the European continent. My mind strayed once in a while from the book to my seemingly endless list of ‘to dos’, the myriads of political brigandage and abracadabra going on in Nigeria (indeed most of the known black world) and then full circle, back to the beautiful, ordered European countryside flying past outside the window. “German Police, your passport please” I looked up from the book to see two men towering over me, one with an outstretched hand.

Just then I realized that we’ve crossed the border from the Netherlands into Germany. I reached into my case and handed out my passport. He perused it and lingered longer than I thought necessary.

“Can I have my passport back?” I intoned. He looked at me and then returned my passport. The twosome moved on to a white couple beside me. The husband, with a thick Southern twang, handed out his American passport which one of the policemen checked for barely a second. When it came to the turn of the wife, the men just waved and said she should not bother. I took an interest in the (mis)conduct of the policemen. I soon discovered why they were not keen on spending time with the white couple; right on the next row was a black woman.

She was not subjected to the wave of the hand treatment accorded the white woman but rather to something similar to my experience, with extra time added. A quick look around confirmed that we were the only two black people in that part of the train and predictably the policemen wasted little time as they sauntered out of my cabin into the next. In my mind’s eye, I pictured them as they moved about rendering color-based service for their fatherland.

In the past, women were not allowed equal rights of property ownership (patents are a form of intellectual property) and many women patented their inventions under their husband's or father's names. In the past, women were also prevented from receiving the higher education necessary for inventing.

Today, however, hundreds of thousands of women apply for and receive a patent every year. About 20% of all inventors are currently female and that number should quickly rise to 50% over the next generation.

In the past, women were not allowed equal rights of property ownership (patents are a form of intellectual property) and many women patented their inventions under their husband's or father's names. In the past, women were also prevented from receiving the higher education necessary for inventing.

Today, however, hundreds of thousands of women apply for and receive a patent every year. About 20% of all inventors are currently female and that number should quickly rise to 50% over the next generation.

I sat comfortably in the ICE, reading Louis Lomax’s ‘To kill a black man’, as the luxury train made its way through the European continent. My mind strayed once in a while from the book to my seemingly endless list of ‘to dos’, the myriads of political brigandage and abracadabra going on in Nigeria (indeed most of the known black world) and then full circle, back to the beautiful, ordered European countryside flying past outside the window. “German Police, your passport please” I looked up from the book to see two men towering over me, one with an outstretched hand.

In the past, women were not allowed equal rights of property ownership (patents are a form of intellectual property) and many women patented their inventions under their husband's or father's names. In the past, women were also prevented from receiving the higher education necessary for inventing.

Today, however, hundreds of thousands of women apply for and receive a patent every year. About 20% of all inventors are currently female and that number should quickly rise to 50% over the next generation.