In Effort to End Michigan?s Brain Drain, Credit Union Offers $100,000 in Scholarships

14 Jan, 2013 18:28 CET

Since its 2008 inception, Community Choice Credit Union?s foundation has made more than $500,000 available to students throughout Michigan

January 14, 2013 | Farmington Hills, MI- ?Community Choice Credit Union, with seven branches located throughout Michigan, announced today that its nonprofit foundation has made $100,000 available in scholarships to students in Michigan. The scholarships, which are available to high school seniors, are part of the Credit Union?s charitable commitment to its communities.

In a letter to the Credit Union?s foundation, 2010 scholarship winner Alexis Brady said, ?Your scholarship has given me a great start in achieving my dreams of becoming a teacher. Please accept my continued thanks and appreciation for the Community Choice scholarship. Someday I hope to give back to the community as you have generously done for me.?

Brady, 19, is a native of Warren, Michigan and attends Grand Valley State University. Like many past Community Choice Scholarship winners, Brady recognizes the value in an organization that is committed to helping the future of Michigan.

?Five years ago, Community Choice Credit Union launched the Community Choice Foundation. At the time, we were looking for a solution to help stop the brain drain in Michigan,? said Robert Bava, President and CEO of Community Choice Credit Union. ?Since 2008, we have helped encourage the best and brightest to stay in Michigan and to utilize their education to give big to our communities.?

Past recipients of the scholarship represent multiple Michigan counties including Wayne, Oakland, Macomb, Livingston, and Lenawee. Eligibility to receive a scholarship is based on numerous factors including: a commitment to attend an accredited college in Michigan, a pledge to utilize each individual?s education to give back to Michigan communities, sufficient academic performance, and county of residence. Membership at the credit union is not required to apply for the scholarship. The deadline to apply for a scholarship is March 5, 2013. For additional information, or to apply, visit bit.ly/cccuscholarships.

Scholarships are just one part of a larger charitable effort by the Credit Union. The Credit Union concluded 2012 by providing over $135,000 dollars to community programs, while team members contributed over 2,443?volunteer hours to local communities. In 2005, the Credit Union introduced a volunteer reimbursement program effectively providing each team member the opportunity to volunteer 24 paid hours throughout local communities.

?Team members are excited when they learn they have the backing of the Credit Union to make a difference in local communities,? said Jennifer Dickey, Vice President of Human Resources at Community Choice Credit Union. ?When you tell them (team members) that we are also going to pay them for their community service, a giant smile usually cracks across their face. It?s a wonderful program and team members? love the idea of getting rewarded for doing good.?

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About Community Choice Credit Union:?Established in 1935, Community Choice Credit Union offers a wide variety of financial products and services for both consumers and businesses. Any individual who lives, works, or worships in the following counties is eligible to become a member of Community Choice Credit Union: Genesee, Lapeer, Livingston, Macomb, Oakland, St. Clair, Washtenaw or Wayne County, Michigan. Since 2008, the Credit Union has invested more than $500,000 dollars and 8,000 volunteer hours into its charitable Give Big efforts throughout Michigan. For more information, visit CommunityChoiceCU.com.

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OkCupid Launches Standalone ?Crazy Blind Date? Service For Blind Mini-Dates

OkCupid has risen to be one of the most popular dating sites on the web, complete with a mobile offering on iOS and Android. But today marks the launch of the first brand new stand-alone product from the company, aimed at setting you up with awesome, one-off blind dates. Everyone in the space is going through a big push to get people together in real life, whether it be little guys likeCoffee Meets Bagel and Cheek'd, or Match.com with its mixers. OkCupid is taking the information it has from its user base of 15 million dating singles, and use the same algorithms in the realm of blind dates.

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PINK? brand for women enters new market in Asia as Empowered Products fills its first order in Japan

14 Jan, 2013 18:19 CET

LAS VEGAS - Empowered Products, Inc. (OTCQB: EMPO), an emerging leader in the high-growth sexual wellness sector through its trademark PINK? and GunOil? brands, proudly announces its first order filled in Japan. Through its subsidiary based in Hong Kong, the company has fulfilled the initial order from Love Piece Club of Tokyo that included PINK Silicone, PINK Water and Hot PINK personal lubricants and PINK Frolic for toys.

Scott Fraser, president and CEO of Empowered Products, commented, "Our new entry into the vast Japanese consumer markets represents another important milestone in our expanding global sales network of over the 30 countries and a significant new source of revenues."

To review our progress across our Asian markets, please go to the following link:

http://www.empoweredproducts.com/investors.php

About Empowered Products, Inc.

Empowered Products, in just its first 10 years of operation, has quickly forged a leading presence in the global wellness industry with the development, manufacture, and distribution of currently 17 high quality, elegantly packaged wellness products. Headquartered in Nevada, USA, the Company's empowering products are currently available at over 3,000 retail locations in more than 30 countries spanning four continents.

Forward-Looking Statements

This press release contains "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the "safe-harbor" provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 that are not historical facts. These statements can be identified by the use of forward-looking terminology such as "believe," "expect," "may," "will," "should," "project," "plan," "seek," "intend," or "anticipate" or the negative thereof or comparable terminology, and include discussions of strategy, and statements about industry trends and the Company's future performance, operations, and products. Such statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that could cause the Company's actual results to differ materially from the results expressed or implied by such statements. Such risks and uncertainties include, without limitation, market acceptance of the Company's new line of wellness supplements; the Company's compliance with applicable Food and Drug Administration regulations; the Company's reliance on third-party contractors to mix and produce its products; the Company's ability to increase its production and bottling capacity; the Company's ability to develop an effective marketing strategy; the Company's ability to control and reduce advertising and marketing costs; the Company's ability to develop and increase awareness of its brand; the Company's ability to protect its trademarks; the success of the Company's new marketing focus to retail buyers; the Company's ability to obtain a favorable Nielsen rating; the Company's ability to obtain certification in individual countries in the European Union; the Company's ability to sell its products in South America; the Company's exposure to product liability claims and intellectual property claims from third parties; and the Company's reliance on the expected growth in demand for its products. For a discussion of these and other risks and uncertainties see "Risk Factors" and "Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations" in the Company's public filings with the SEC. Although the Company believes that the expectations reflected in such forward-looking statements are reasonable, there can be no assurance that such expectations will prove to be correct. The Company has no obligation to update the forward-looking information contained in this press release.

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Notre Dame football notebook: Te'o's draft stock holds steady

His pride and body ached in the days that followed Notre Dame?s 42-14 meltdown in the BCS National Championship Game. But Notre Dame All-America middle linebacker Manti Te?o?s NFL draft stock didn?t take a similar hit.

Most draft analysts only dropped him subtly in their post-Alabama game projections, if at all. ESPN?s Mel Kiper Jr. has Te?o as the No. 6 overall prospect on his big board after peaking at No. 2.

?He has a really high floor, and evaluators know it,? Kiper wrote.

Scouts Inc. has him as the No. 7 prospect in the draft. Wright of draftcountdown.com has him No. 2, though projects him lower in his mock draft because of positional value. Middle linebackers are not as valued as, say, outside linebackers at the NFL level.

?You see people on Twitter and other places overreacting,? Wright said, ?but the NFL people aren?t going to overreact to one game. Now, it wasn?t a great performance for him. It raises maybe some concerns, but the whole defense did not play well. And Manti was coming off the banquet circuit, traveling all over to all these award shows. So I don?t think it?s going to affect him that much.

?I?ve heard some people say he?s going to drop out of the first round. It?s absurd. He?s still going to be the first player chosen at his position. I think he?ll go in that 10-15 range when all is said and done.?

Te?o has signed with agent Tom Condon and will work out in Bradenton, Fla., at the IMG Academy for the NFL Scouting Combine in late February. ND?s Tyler Eifert, another Condon client, is also working out in Bradenton at IMG, as are a number of projected high-round draft picks.

Two ND players that the Alabama game did hurt from an NFL Draft standpoint are safety Zeke Motta, because of his play, and defensive end Kapron Lewis-Moore, because of the ACL tear in his right knee.

Lewis-Moore was projected as a late-round pick but will likely become a priority free agent, because he?ll miss all of the pre-draft workouts and may not be 100 percent before the middle of summer.

?It?s a shame to see a guy get hurt like that in the last game of his career,? Wright said. ?But it could work out for him. I?d rather be a priority free agent than a seventh-round pick, because I can pick my situation. I can look at the depth charts and say, ?Well, there?s more of an opportunity here,? than be a team?s last pick and you go in there and you?re training camp fodder and you?re basically facing uphill battles.?

Motta, projected as high as a third-round pick a few weeks ago, had a career-high 16 tackles in the loss to the Crimson Tide, but the numbers are deceiving in this case.

?He had lot of missed tackles, bad angles,? Wright said. ?And I think he was exposed in coverage a little bit, so I think Zeke Motta hurt himself a little bit.?

A third chance for Crist?

Those close to Dayne Crist say the circumstances that dropped the former Notre Dame quarterback from No. 1 to 2 on the depth chart at Kansas this past season are more mental than physical, which is why there?s still a realistic chance he could end up in an NFL training camp this summer.

?He has some tools to work with,? Wright said. ?He?s a great kid. He?s got the size. He?s got the arm. He?s a pretty good athlete. I could very well see him as a guy that teams want to bring in as maybe a No. 3 quarterback, but more than likely a practice-squad type. Then you work with him for a year and see what you have, so I think Dayne Crist will be in camp, but won?t get drafted.?

Crist played in one college all-star game Friday night in Tucson, Ariz., and will play in a second one Saturday in Los Angeles.

He threw for 62 yards and a TD on 6-of-12 passing for the winning West team in the Casino Del Sol All-Star game. On Saturday, he?ll suit up for the West team in the NFLPA Collegiate Bowl.

After suffering a season-ending knee injury in 2009 as a Notre Dame reserve, Crist started the first nine games of the 2010 season before suffering another season-ending knee injury.

He won the starting job in fall camp of 2011, but promptly lost the job to Tommy Rees at halftime of the season opener with South Florida. Crist transferred to Kansas at the end of the 2011 season. He was 103-of-216 for 1,313 yards and four TDs with nine interceptions in 10 games for the Jayhawks (1-11), seven of them as a starter.

Source: http://www.southbendtribune.com/sports/notredame/football/sbt-notre-dame-football-notebook-teos-draft-stock-holds-steady-20130114,0,4911136.story?track=rss

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Twitter.org Being Used For Scams, Twitter Seeks To Gain Control Of Rogue Domain

Too bad Twitter didn?t originally register ?Twitter.org? as well. It would have saved the company from the headache of trying to gain control of the domain, which is now being used to conduct scam surveys of people who unwittingly arrive thinking they?re at Twitter.com.

The Twitter.org site is set up to intentionally create confusion and make it appear that the actual Twitter is conducting a survey and giving away prizes. The look and feel of the landing page replicates Twitter?s earlier design and branding. Fusible.com first reported this story.

Twitter has filed a complaint with the World Intellectual Property Organization to wrest control of Twitter.org. As a condition of registering any domain owners must submit to the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (URDP), which allows for binding arbitration.

Here?s what people see if they type Twitter.org into the browser URL bar:

The domain redirects to a number of different URLs, such as http://quizzerist.net and http://chosurvey.net, which are privately registered. Users who realize they?ve made a mistake and try to leave are redirected to zbiddy, a penny auction site which is also alleged to be a scam or fraudulent site.

Clicking on any of the prize or incentive links in the survey solicitation leads to pages like this:

Trademark owners can file a complaint with WIPO under the URDP and ?defendants? must submit to the proceedings and respond or risk default. Here?s how the procedure works:

In the event that a trademark holder considers that a domain name registration infringes on its trademark, it may initiate a proceeding under the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP). Under the standard dispute clause of the Terms and Conditions for the registration of a gTLD domain name, the registrant must submit to such proceedings.

The UDRP permits complainants to file a case with a resolution service provider, specifying, mainly, the domain name in question, the respondent or holder of the domain name, the registrar with whom the domain name was registered and the grounds for the complaint. Such grounds include, as their central criteria, the way in which the domain name is identical or similar to a trademark to which the complainant has rights; why the respondent should be considered as having no rights or legitimate interests in respect of the domain name that is the subject of the complaint; and why the domain name should be considered as having been registered and used in bad faith.

The respondent is offered the opportunity to defend itself against the allegations. The provider (eg: the WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center) appoints a panelist who decides whether or not the domain(s) should be transferred.

There?s almost zero chance that Twitter won?t succeed in taking control of Twitter.org. It?s quite possible the domain registrant of Twitter.org won?t even respond given that there may be consumer fraud involved and to come forward might mean to risk investigation and potential criminal prosecution.

Accordingly it?s only a matter of time before Twitter gains control of the rogue domain.

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10 Things to Know for Monday

An Egyptian supporter of ousted former President Hosni Mubarak celebrates an appeal granted by a court, in Cairo, Egypt, Sunday, Jan. 13, 2013. A court granted Hosni Mubarak's appeal of his life sentence in a Sunday, Jan. 13, 2013 hearing, ordering a retrial of the ousted Egyptian president on charges that he failed to prevent the killing of hundreds of protesters during the uprising that toppled his regime nearly two years ago. The ruling came one day after a prosecutor placed a new detention order on Mubarak over gifts worth millions of Egyptian pounds (hundreds of thousands of US dollars) he and other regime officials allegedly received from Egypt's top newspaper as a show of loyalty while he was in power. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)

An Egyptian supporter of ousted former President Hosni Mubarak celebrates an appeal granted by a court, in Cairo, Egypt, Sunday, Jan. 13, 2013. A court granted Hosni Mubarak's appeal of his life sentence in a Sunday, Jan. 13, 2013 hearing, ordering a retrial of the ousted Egyptian president on charges that he failed to prevent the killing of hundreds of protesters during the uprising that toppled his regime nearly two years ago. The ruling came one day after a prosecutor placed a new detention order on Mubarak over gifts worth millions of Egyptian pounds (hundreds of thousands of US dollars) he and other regime officials allegedly received from Egypt's top newspaper as a show of loyalty while he was in power. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)

Kathy Holick, of Newtown, who spoke at a community meeting to determine the future of the Sandy Hook Elementary School Sunday, Jan. 13, 2012, speaks to the media outside Newtown High School in Newtown, Conn. Talk about Sandy Hook Elementary School is turning from last month's massacre to the future, with differing opinions on whether students and staff should ever return to the building where a gunman killed 20 students and six educators. (AP Photo/The News-Times, Michael Duffy)

Christoph Waltz poses with the award for best performance by an actor in a supporting role in a motion picture for ?Django Unchained? backstage at the 70th Annual Golden Globe Awards at the Beverly Hilton Hotel on Sunday Jan. 13, 2013, in Beverly Hills, Calif. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)

Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about Monday:

1. THE LATEST TURN THAT COULD STIR UPHEAVAL IN EGYPT

An appeals court overturns Mubarak's life sentence, orders retrial of the ousted leader in killings of hundreds of protesters.

2. WHAT MIGHT BECOME OF SANDY HOOK ELEMENTARY

Some Newtown, Conn., residents call for demolition of school where a gunman killed 26; others want it renovated.

3. JULIANNE MOORE, CHRISTOPHER WALTZ TAKE GLOBES

Moore is best actress for her turn as Plain in "Game Change," and Waltz takes supporting actor for "Django Unchained."

4. NETWORKS DISMISS LINK BETWEEN TV AND REAL-WORLD BLOODSHED

Execs say they don't see direct evidence connecting onscreen horror to tragedies.

5. FRANCE PRESSES ON WITH MALI INVASION

Airstrikes continue the effort to take back Mali's north from extremists.

6. WHEN THE U.S. COULD RUN OUT OF CASH

Without a debt-crisis deal, Social Security recipients, veterans and others could see cuts by Feb. 15.

7. ARMSTRONG PREPARED FOR 'NO-HOLDS BARRED'

"I'm calm, I'm at ease and ready to speak candidly," the disgraced cyclist says, referring to Monday's Oprah interview.

8. ALL ABOUT THE LITTLE 2014 CORVETTE

GM unveils its revamped storied sports car, with a 6.2-liter, 450-horsepower engine and styling with nods to '63 Sting Ray and others in the lineage.

9. GOOGLE'S ULTRA-FAST SERVICE SPAWNS 'SILICON PRAIRIE'

High-tech startups in Kansas City, Kan., are tapping the search-engine giant's superfast fiber-optic link.

10. WHERE SUPER BOWL DREAMS ARE STILL ALIVE

Next weekend, in the playoffs: San Francisco will face Atlanta and New England hosts Baltimore.

Associated Press

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