The end is nigh! At least for Corvettes and their owners.

The Wally Parks NHRA Museum is hosting the 50th Anniversary of the Ford Motor Company / Carroll Shelby partnership that marked absolute dominance in racing and gave generations of Americans a whole new meaning to the term ‘Cobra’.

Carroll Shelby found a British A/C that he thought looked alright, put the ultra-powerful, ultra-reliable small-block Ford motor in it and the rest of the competition on the track simply became history. The birth of the Ford / Shelby Cobra marked a swift and painful death for anything else on wheels in the 60′s. The power-to-weight ratio was simply unstoppable.

2012 is upon us, and the celebration of that racing Armageddon will be accompanied by a massive and dangerous Cobra infestation at the Pomona Fairplex. Spirited “demonstrations” of Cobras and Shelbys around the historic Pomona circuit will accompany a massive gathering of the finest examples on the West Coast and in the World.

It’s a wonderful thing to see history preserved in museums – it’s a whole other to see these Snakes in motion (in their natural habitat), to hear it pound your ears and to feel the vibration of small block Ford motors in chorus beat at your feet.

If you’re an owner of a Shelby, you may apply to include your car in the festivities by going to Museum.NHRA.com and if you’re a wannabe owner of a Shelby, you can come and feast your eyes and ears and heart as the Museum brings some of the most exciting examples of its history to life.

Desi Bryant has one mantra when it comes to making things happen: To think only of the best and expect only the best.

Mr. Bryant is an experienced mover and shaker – a bona fide hustler in the world of Sports and Entertainment. Out of Los Angeles, Bryant has his hands in movies, sports, and talent, and with a background in law he is making things happen behind the scenes.

If you’re interested to see what’s coming in the Entertainment or Sports industries in the coming years, have a look at what Bryant Sports & Entertainment is doing now at www.BryantSpEnt.com. Everything he works on is “the next big thing”.

Medawar Fine Jewelers, in Palos Verdes, CA, is well known to the Peninsula Community through the famous Talking Clock it donated, its excellent in-house jewelry, clock and watch repair services, and of course, for it’s fantastic offering of fine jewelry.

Every year, they open their doors to the community to host a Holiday Open House. It’s a very fun event where the whole family joins in to have fun and catch up on old times with the customers. It’s also an excellent opportunity to come in to the relaxed atmosphere, and look at Pandora bracelets, Rolex Watches, and literally hundreds of other gift ideas, from jewelry and watches, to knives and jewelry cleaners.

Medawar has taken this opportunity to significantly upgrade their web site from a half-dozen pages to nearly a hundred pages with links to all of the manufacturers offerings they sell. This makes it easy for guests to the site and their regular customers to peruse what they have on offer before they come in.

Also in the upgraded site are details about the history of the Store, the Medawar Knowledge Center where you can learn all about jewelry, and details about their custom service center, where they create from scratch and repair jewelry, repair clocks and watches, all in-house.

If you’re puzzled as to what to get that special someone, Medawar has a very good answer – in fact, the best answer money can buy!

Greater Hope Preparatory School for infants to five-year-olds is open in Barstow, California with the first day of school set to be January 16th, 2012.

The new school, “Where Children Reign Supreme”, focuses on creative energy and giving children a place to grow and thrive, already has a waiting list. Founded by Greater Hope Foundation’s Helena Smith, the school for kindergarten and pre-school aged children only has 74 spots available, and they have all been filled.

The Greater Hope Foundation for Children (www.GreaterHopeFoundation.com) assists with the placement of children into foster care in the high-need area of Barstow, Calfiornia. AllClearLivescan.com is a fingerprinting and checking service in Barstow, also.

One of the pieces that Greater Hope Prep boasts for parents is the use of KidCam, which allows parents to check in on their children at any time during the day using their telephone or computer. Greater Hope Prep also has a brand new 3000 square foot purpose-built facility and some of the best teachers on the planet. They all retain a Master’s Degree in Child Development (or higher degree) and are trained in CPR and first aid. It’s a top-notch school to promote top-notch learning and growth.

Congratulations to Helena Smith and the whole Greater Hope gang! Opening Day is just around the corner!

The granddaughter of a traditional Chinese doctor, whose specialty was herbal medicine, Suli first caught the inspiration to become a chemist from observing her grandfather’s work. She, too, decided to explore the essence found in herbs and plants not normally associated with western medicine.

Suli studied chemistry and graduated with honors. For years she researched the Chinese herbal cures her grandfather had taught her and put them to rigid scientific tests. The result was that many of these plant and herbal extracts widely used in Asia proved to be highly effective. When Suli began noticing problems in her own skin, such as drying, premature wrinkling and breaking out, due to stress and change in environment, she surveyed the range of skin care products available to her. With the eye of a scientist, she found that the cosmetics available worked on a poor scientific principle: “fixing the symptom” instead of curing the root cause.

Suli, as a chemist, sought for the first time to recreate the optimum environment for the skin, based on the knowledge that the skin, just like the body’s immune system, seeks to heal and protect itself. She knew that if the right environment could be recreated, the complexion should automatically revert to that of younger skin, or as close to it as possible. This was an impressive order to fill, but she achieved this result by combining just the right mixture of natural skin emollients, DNA, RNA, herbal extracts, amino acids, proteins, and balancing them all to a proper pH level, to recreate, as accurately as possible, that optimum environment for the skin. It was a goal to which Suli dedicated herself, and achieved, using strict modern scientific techniques, as well as proven aspects of Chinese herbal knowledge.

From STGo.com – About.

Check out STGo.com to see Suli’s latest special offer on excellent skin care products, skin creams, skin treatments and cosmetics.

RockwellMDsupply.com is live and taking orders from their regular customers!

Rockwell Medical Supply, Family owned and operated for over 30 years!

Rockwell Medical Supply has nearly 7500 medical supply products for sale through its newly redesigned web site, and most have custom pricing for their nearly 100 most-regular clients.  If you’re interested in purchasing through them, give Rockwell a call with your list of regular items and they’ll set you up with their best pricing and a monthly invoice.

A small family company doing business in Southern California for over thirty years, Rockwell does a great job of handling business for Doctor’s Offices all over the country.  With their new Web Site, built on Magento, they’re hoping to expand those services.

If you’re ever in need of Medical equipment or supplies, give Rockwell a try – take a look at RockwellMDsupply.com and call them in the morning.

From the SummerProLeague.com Web Site:

SummerProLeague.com is live!

“We are back! The original Southern California Summer Pro Basketball League was first established in 1970 by Dick Marquis. John Younesi acquired the SPL in 1992 and developed it into the place to see good quality summer professional basketball. The SPL showcase NBA sponsored teams who featured their 1st and 2nd year players and a combination of free agent teams with a mix of rookies and various unsigned players. Over 800 current and former NBA stars have participated in the SPL, including Magic Johnson, Andrew Bynum, Jordan Farmar, Danny Manning, Carmello Anthony and Kobe Bryant. The SPL helped professional basketball players and the amateur player who was on the cusp of professional careers to launch or hone their skills and gain exposure to professional scouts and agents, while providing basketball fans, as well as sports media outlets, a closer look at players playing in professional competition.”

After some time off, the Summer Pro League is back with the re-launch of their Web Site, www.SummerProLeague.com. Summer 2011 and all of the politics that went with sports this year are behind us, and it’s time to work on making a name for yourself, or find the best player at the best price possible for 2013, and by far the best way to scout in California will be the 2012 Summer Pro League.

Congratulations and welcome back, www.SummerProLeague.com. You may enjoy reading the full article from the site.

Greater Hope Foundation for Children has just launched www.AllClearLivescan.com to make foster parenting easier and less expensive for prospective foster parents in California’s High Desert.

AllClearLivescan.com serves California's High Desert Communities

After witnessing frustrations over cost and availability in their prospective foster parents, Greater Hope Foundation has launched their own off-shoot livescan fingerprinting service.  Prospective foster parents (and anybody requiring a livescan fingerprint uploaded to the FBI’s database) can go to the AllClearLivescan offices in Barstow or arrange for mobile service (for an additional charge) where the AllClearLivescan staff will travel to them.  Prospective customers can sign up and arrange the appointments, both in-office and mobile, through the new Web Site at www.AllClearLivescan.com

Congratulations Helena, Reako, and everyone at Greater Hope Foundation on another beautiful Web Site!

Redondo Beach-based MAT announces it 2011 Catalog including the fun and fresh contemporary Orange line of hand-made designer rugs at www.matOrange.com.  M. A. Trading, award-winning and critically acclaimed for its beautiful designs, always works hard to excel by producing quality, amazing hand-made rugs with a huge line to accent every imaginable motif and interior design.  The Orange line constitutes over 100 fresh and unique designs with many designs available in a plethora of colorways.
M. A. Trading’s new site for its Orange line, www.matOrange.com, includes a full search function, built to be designer-friendly. Designer can view the entire catalog or narrow their search by just the colors and sizes they’re looking for to perfectly fir that demanding and rewarding client’s tastes.  www.matOrange.com joins matTheBasics.com as their on-line catalog becomes more complete.

Congratulations, MA Trading, on a beautiful new site to showcase your phenomenal work!

MA Trading, a wonderful family company from India with headquarters here in Redondo Beach, CA has launched a new line of high-quality designer hand-made rugs it is calling “The Basics”.   To help designers and buyers understand the depth of the collection, they’ve launched an e-catalog at www.matTheBasics.com.

Shakeel Ansari, CEO of MA Trading, explains the importance of the new site to his company: “Our customers want to be

www.matTheBasics.com

able to choose online, to see our products and find out who we are and how we work.”  Additionally, designers can choose from the entire existing line-up and create a whole new custom design using MAT’s vast color pom and the huge array of beautiful designs in the line-up using the Custom Quote Form on the site.  Designers and design houses can also use the site to learn how to become a dealer.

MAT is an up-and-comer in the industry, and recently won the prestigious Best Contemporary Rug Design award from Architectural Digest.

Another feature of the site is the buyers’ ability to see how the rugs are made by hand by MA Trading, from dying the wool all the way through finishing.  MA Trading is very proud of its workers and its quality process.

Web Site Maintenance & Design congratulates MA Trading on its continued success and wonderful, functional new Web Site in www.matTheBasics.com!