Lions Bay, B.C ( FastPressReleaser ) July 24, 2009 -With music more commonly downloaded off the internet than purchased at retail stores these days, users have been waiting for an innovative approach to buy and benefit from their music. Martin Richmond, the artist behind MRDC is perhaps one of the most innovative musicians in the industry. Not only has he recently launched a new album titled “Infomusication”, his new website mrdc-music.com is breaking new ground in the way music is purchased and promoted.

For just $25 per year subscribers to mrdc-music.com can purchase a subscription to the site and download all of MRDC’s music, which currently consists of three albums and bonus material. What’s more is that the website allows users to share the music with their friends and get paid for referrals.

“I wanted to create a website that would reward my fans for telling their friends about me. So many artists lose their personal connection with their fans when they put their music on some of the popular download sites. They also charge per song or per album and don’t reward fans for telling others about their music. I wanted my website to reward my fans who become members and then tell their friends about me by paying them back for the referral. They get a sharing license and a $10 refund if they want to tell friends about me. They then get up to an additional $5 for every person they tell about me that signs up for a subscription to my site. I figured that so many people share their favorite new music finds with their friends on social networking sites and blogs that they may as well get some money for it,” stated owner and artist Martin Richmond.

When you sign up to be a member of mrdc-music.com you can also sign up to be a member of the “Street Team” which then allows you to download links, banners and other promotional material. For example, users who have signed up for the Street Team can post their link in a post on their Facebook or Twitter pages and MRDC will pay them for every referral that signs up for a subscription.

Martin Richmond, the artist behind the music and the idea for the website went on to say, “Artists have lost their personal connection with their fans and I feel that this site allows me to connect with them as well as reward them for telling their friends about my music. I figured it was only fair that they be rewarded for taking the time to tell someone they like what they hear at my site mrdc-music.com.”

Contact:
Martin Richmond
Box 17
Lions Bay
B.C
V0N 2E0
Canada

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Calgary, Canada, June 7, 2009 – A Calgary group inspired by the social commerce organization Humanity Unites Brilliance (HUB) set out to inspire local residents for the second time this year. The event, Igniting Your Brilliance was well attended and generous attendees even helped out a local mom and her 3 kids who have had some very difficult times.

The theme was one of transformation and as MC Dwayne Klassen pointed out the world is breaking down and the time for excuses are over.

Karen Klassen founder of Imagine Seminars & Consulting Inc and an International Life & Relationship Coach, Certified Corporate Trainer and Inspirational Speaker lead of the day with an amazing piece called 7 Steps on How to Attain Emotional Freedom. Other amazing speakers included Katharina Knodel, a personal trainer and speaker who teaches wellness through her company, Personal Evolution and Chad Lefevre whose new social organization, Against The Grain, garnered tremendous interest.

Representing Humanity Unites Brilliance, Allan Marston spoke about the transformation that humanity is going through and likened it to the metamorphosis of a caterpillar to a butterfly. Quoting the human potential guru Barbara Marx Hubbard, Mr Marston said, “Now in the 21^st century, millions of people are awakening in every field, culture, and ethnic group. The Imaginal disks are linking up, are becoming Imaginal cells, and are beginning to proliferate throughout the social body.

Each person who says “I know I can be more,” “I can do more,” The world does not have to be this way” is an Imaginal cell in the emerging culture of humanity. The social immune system is beginning to surrender as the new consciousness arises everywhere.”

Mr Marston who coined the title he uses for himself, Philanthro-Capitalist, also spoke about what that term means. “A Philanthro-Capitalist is a business person who is engaged in giving while creating a profit which in turn allows for more giving or philanthropy while creating even more profit. With this model there is ascending growth so that more and more people are impacted.”

HUB is making a difference from Alberta already. Local citizens are impacting thousands in Africa and in their own cities every single month. Yet there is much work to be done as Allan Marston is quick to point out. “35,000 children under the age of 5 years old die every single day from starvation and water-borne diseases. These are two things that we can do something about. We don’t need to spend years on R & D to find a cure like for Cancer or AIDS. This generation must act now!”

Humanity Unites Brilliance will hold another Igniting Your Brilliance in Lethbridge, Alberta on Saturday 13^th June 2009 from 10 AM to 4.30 PM at the Loyal Order of Moose Hall 1405 – 5^th Ave North, Lethbridge. Law of attraction expert Elisabeth Fayt will be the keynote speaker.

“The kind of people that are attracted to these seminars that we put on are people who have been asking ‘Why is the world in the chaos that it is and what can I do about it,” said Allan Marston who will also speak at the event in Lethbridge.

About Humanity Unites Brilliance

Humanity Unites Brilliance is a California based company and is a for profit humanitarian

business. It sells personal, business and humanitarian growth education from a faculty of such prominent teachers as Mark Victor Hansen and Jack Canfield, co-authors of Chicken Soup for the Soul. Rev Michael Bernard Beckwith from The Secret heads up the faculty.

What makes HUB unique is that they put 40% of what members pay monthly into the field to

feed and educate children in Africa, provide fresh drinking water and micro-credit loans.

HUB’s vision is to lead people to prosperity and create a self-sustaining organization capable of

more abundant giving each year.

For more information contact Allan Marston ajmarston@shaw.ca or visit www.GiveWhileYouReceive.com/AllanGPN

CALGARY, Dec. 26, 2008 – It seems like everybody is talking about social business these days – these are businesses which aim to be financially sustainable, and profitable, in its pursuit of a social, ethical or environmental goal.

They offer a new hope for a caring, sharing society where the focus is equally balanced on business and philanthropy. One such group is Humanity Unites Brilliance that got its start in Los Angeles in early 2008. Today, a part of the group based in Calgary, Canada came together to serve and feed almost 1,000 Homeless people for Christmas.

The Canadian based group inspired Calgary Business and their employees to contribute financially and in kind. The group delivered various necessities like socks, cold weather clothing, Cough lozenges as well as food like Turkeys. On the 24^th alone the group delivered 240 lbs of potatoes.

What is most noticeable about this group is the joy with which they serve. The group also served at this same centre, The Calgary Drop In and Rehab Centre, for Canadian Thanksgiving feeding over 1,200 people then. This time almost half the volunteers were non-HUB members who were inspired by a mass fax and email campaign.

“We knew that that there were people in Calgary who cared but didn’t know how to participate,” said Allan Marston one of the leaders of Team Destiny in Calgary, “so we figured if we reached them they would respond and that is what happened.”

Instead of the usual 25 volunteers that are needed for such an event the group had more than 50 volunteers.

Calgary businesses also chipped in to help even though they face some uncertain times. Technology companies like Longview Systems donated enough money to buy turkeys to feed over 500 people and PC Corp donated 200 lbs of potatoes. A popular local spa, R&R Wellness also donated gifts and food to feed almost 250 homeless people.

“We set out to inspire Calgarians and we did. And we hope that by getting the word out to others that it will inspire leaders in small communities and big cities everywhere to inspire and lead their communities into action,” said Elisabeth Fayt owner of R&R Wellness Spas and a member of the Canadian faculty of Humanity Unites Brilliance.

HUB Team Destiny meets every week in Calgary, Edmonton and Winnipeg and has plans for weekly events in Vancouver and Toronto.

About Humanity Unites Brilliance

Humanity Unites Brilliance is a California based company and is a for profit humanitarian business. It sells personal, business and humanitarian growth education from such prominent teachers as Mark Victor Hansen and Jack Canfield, co-authors of Chicken Soup for the Soul. What makes HUB unique is that they put 40% of what members pay monthly into the field to feed and educate children in Africa, provide fresh drinking water and micro-credit loans.

HUB’s vision is to lead people to prosperity and create a self-sustaining organization capable of more abundant giving each year.

For more information contact Allan Marston ajmarston@shaw.ca or visit www.EarnaLivingGivingToday.com/allan

About The Calgary Drop-In & Rehab Centre

The Calgary Drop-In & Rehab Centre has been a familiar face in the homeless sector since 1961. The Centre is an incorporated, non-denominational, non-profit, charitable organization. It is administered by a full time staff and volunteers.

On September 11, 2001 the new Drop-In was opened at 423 – 4th Ave. S.E. This 107,000 sq ft., 6 storey building was designed to handle what the City and management believed to be the needs of homeless individuals for the next 10 years. It reached capacity one year after opening. Today, the Drop-In has the capacity to shelter 1,100 individuals a night.

News Release

May 14th, 2008 1:30pm

AsiaNetwork Asian of the Year Award

The Hon. Sheila Copps, Chair of the Asian of the Year Award Selection Committee, will announce the winners out of eight finalists in recognition of the outstanding contribution to Canada by Canadians of Asian descent. This is the first time in Canadian history with awards designated towards Canadians of specific ethnic groups. The Award Ceremony will be held in the West Block of Parliament, Room 200, on May 21, 2008 starting at 6:00pm.

Eight finalists were selected by the Committee, who will each receive a plague in recognition of their outstanding achievements. They include:

Patrick Chan, aged 17, won the title of 2008 Canadian senior men’s figure
skating champion, the youngest in Canadian men’s figure skating history. In
addition, he won the Grand Prix de France at the age of 16.

Cindy Lee, CEO, T & T Supermarket Inc, Canada’s largest Asian supermarket
Chain employing over 3,000 employees.

Tae E. Lee, Grandmaster, Tae E. Lee Ottawa Taekwondo School of over three
decades, assisting three Canadian prime ministers in developing and
strengthening diplomatic relations between Canada and the Republic of Korea.

John Chew Mah, Chancellor of St. John Ambulance, one of the world’s oldest
humanitarian organizations offering first aid training, volunteering
opportunities, medical supplies and safety information to communities
across Canada, with 25,000 volunteers.

Anne-Marie Pham, Chair of the Youth Action Committee of the Vietnamese
Canadian Federation and co-founder of Calgary Vietnamese Youth Group. She
stands out as one of the outstanding youth leaders in promoting inter-
generational transmission of cultural heritage, traditional values and work
ethics in the Vietnamese community in Canada.

Sonia Del Rosario, President/Partner, Del Rosario Financial Services Inc.
/ Chair of the Philippine Centre Canada.

Tina Takahashi, the first Canadian woman to achieve a 6th degree black
belt, and be inducted into the Judo Canada Hall of Fame. Won first women’s
national judo championship and several championship titles in
Canada, Japan, China, and Hawaii.

Yuen Pau Woo, President and Co-CEO of Asia Pacific Foundation, Canada’s
think-tank on Asia, providing information, research and analysis on Asia as
well as Canada’s transpacific relations.

Attendance by invitation.

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For further information:

Invitation contact: Tessie M. Morin
Tel. 819.561.2894 or info@asianetwork.ca

Media Contact: Elizabeth Yeh
Tel. 613.864.1996 or Elizabeth@asianetwork.ca

www.AsiaNetwork.ca