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Dan Vetras is a veteran when it comes to managing company customer interaction. He brings 25 years of experience to Visible Technologies, Inc as the chief executive officer and president of the company.

Visible Technologies provides online brand management solutions as well as social media analysis to consumers and companies. The company is capable of reworking the online reputations of its customers through its TruView solutions. On the other hand, its TruCast software enables companies to gather consumer trends in real time. Since February of 2009, the Seattle-based company has been under the leadership of Dan Vetras.

Vetras’ career started with Lotus Development Corporation, where he worked in various positions from 1985 to 1992. Marking a highlight in his career, Dan Vetras then joined the team at Edmark Corp, a developer of children’s software, where he held the position of vice president for channel marketing and consumer sales. In that position, Vetras was able to expand the company to 9,000 branches all over the US, prior to its purchase by IBM in 1997. After which, Vetras continued to offer his services as the new company’s consumer sales vice president.

For a year since the acquisition, Dan Vetras worked as a sales executive for IntraNets.com, which is also known as WebExOne. In 1998, he became chief operating officer at Captura Software and in 1999; he became the firm’s president and CEO.

It’s the final week in June and that can mean solely one thing. Wimbledon is present! It’s the 14 days in the calendar year where people begin to find their tennis rackets, find their whitest of whites and game the inevitable showers to exercise their back hand and volley. Man and Van Wimbledon is dedicated to supplying the most able and competitive service ready even when SW19 satiated with tourists. Man and Vans, London’s premier light removal service, is located in South West London and actually is happy to help its neighbours with any light removals they might have. Man and Van Wimbledon might be too busy to hit the courts this summer but here at Man and Vans head office we’re extremely mad about Wimbledon’s new Centre Court Ceiling. Although Man and Van Wimbledon will work in the showers, Rafael, Roger and Andy have never been too thrilled at the idea of braving nature’s elements. Fortunately this summer there’ll be no need for Cliff Richards’ services as, from the 17th May, Wimbledon Lawn Tennis Association has been using its new retractable roof. Health and Safety tests on the court were taken by the great Andre Agassi, Steffi Graf, Tim Henman and Kim Clijsters, who delighted in an exhibition game of mixed doubles as the inevitable rain dabbed the roof as it retracted.

Cancer of the mesothelium is a scarce cancer of the tissues that line the person’s inside organs. Almost 2,000 brand new cases are recognized each year in the whole United States. Of this group, almost75 percent of instances affect the sac around the lungs, referred to as the pleura. This is known as pleural mesothelioma. In almost ten to 20 percent of instances, malignant mesothelioma could affect the tissue that encloses abdominal organs, referred to as the peritoneal membrane, resulting in what is then referred to as peritoneal mesothelioma.

Exposure to asbestos is absolutely the main influencing factor for this uncommon cancer. After exposure to asbestos, the delay to development of the mesothelioma disease could be two to four decades. As a result of occupation exposure, malignant mesothelioma is around three times more likely in males, than in women. Because the amount of cases goes up with your age, there are nearly 10 times more instances in the men more than age 64 than in the men in their thirties.

Developing Cancer of the mesothelium is a severe sickness, that, at the current time, has a decidedly poor degree of lasting continuance. Although, if it is diagnosed soon, regimens are then at hand that will considerably stretch the patient’s life. Cutting edge therapies continue to be and are being promoted through clinical trials.

It is undeniable that Cambodia is changing. When I arrived in
Cambodia in 1995, one in three Cambodians I met carried a
weapon. Arms were for many the only way to ensure security. Yet,
in the decennium I live in Cambodia, I have never seen one used
against me or anybody, except for one: a policeman shot some
game in the forest but didn’t catch it.

I’ve collected weapons. 5 years ago, I travelled to Dey Krohom
village in Kratie province along roads which the year after were
de-mined because the road was part of what once was the National
road from Phnom Penh to Kratie and Stoeung Treng and is was
going to be rebuilt into what Cambodians cal a “speedway”. I’ve
seen the mines when a year later, I travelled the same road
again to inspect my development projects.

Each one might have killed me. Do you know that mines tend to
float under the soil and move where no-one expects any mines.

>From 2000 to 2004, I worked for the EU ASAC, an EU weapons
management programme for establishing weapons security to the
country. My job was to help collect weapons from the civilian
population which was only a small part of a much more
encompassing programme. My job also included implementing police
support regarding to security as a complement to the weapons
collection.

The programme was implemented on the request and with the full
support of the Cambodian government. Next week, the government
will destroy some 8,000 weapons and thus bring the total of
destroyed weapons since the start of the EU peace plan to more
than 175,000 weapons.

These weapons include not only weapons from the civilian
population, but also military surpluses. Some argue that it is
the oldest weapons that were destroyed, but all of the weapons
in the destruction were usable. Being usable - if only for spare
parts -, they could be sold on the black market and used in
other conflicts in the region.

By destroying those weapons, the Cambodian people acts as true
Buddhists, choosing for Peace in the Region. “Put down your
weapon, take up the Dharma” edified the Buddhist Teachers. And
that is what Cambodians are doing.

The EU has been the initiator of the multi-facetted peace
programme. Two Japanese organisations are fulfilling the
promises of European initiators: if you make peace development
will come. Cambodian people have turned their weapons. JSAC and
JCCP, two Japanese organisation now offer development projects
to the villages, communes and districts that have surrendered
all their weapons and are proven weapons-free. Clean water wells
are in some places the highest priorities, elsewhere schools or
school toilets were built.

The principle of the weapons collection project was not to pay
for the weapons, but to offer community-owned projects instead.
Every weapon that was collected from the civilian population had
to be destroyed and was.

The military surplus weapons are those that are left over from
the EU ASAC Weapons Registration and Safe Storage project. Here
safe storage buildings for weapons and computerised registration
system have been provided to the Cambodian Army and Gendarmerie.

The weapons are destroyed in public ceremonies in the presence
of the population. These ceremonies are called “Flames of
Peace.” EU, Cambodian or Japanese experts count the weapons as
part of the process and check that no more ammunition remains in
the weapon that could turn the celebration into a tragedy.

The EU assistance programme has also supported the National
Committee for weapons management, the draft of a new arms law
and oversees the implementation of that law.

Next week, two of those bonfires take place in Cambodia. On
Monday 26 September, 3,430 weapons will be burned ceremoniously
in Siem Reap province with Japanese support and on Tuesday about
4,500 in Sihanoukville with European support.

The Japanese destruction ceremony will take place in Angkor Chum
district, there where the people have turned them in. The
ceremony in Sihanoukville will take place on Ochheuteal Beach
and is open to any visitor. If you happen to be in
Sihanoukville, this is a unique occasion to witness the
Cambodian contribution to peace building.