For most people, this is a daunting task. For Shannon Francis, whose boss, Kerri Wilson, is known as the office workaholic, it's like climbing Mount Everest. Yet her ability to capably take the place of her boss earned her The Law Offices of John C. Manoog III's "Legal Eagle" award for the second quarter of 2013. "It's kind of a running joke that Kerri does the work of three people, but it's not that far from the truth. So when she went out on maternity, we knew whomever was going to step in had to fill some large shoes. Shannon has really risen to the ...

The event will premiere a screening of the Super Natural Me music video, which spot lights and features naturals of all different textures and walks of life. Attendees will be able to network, shop from vendors, enjoy hors d'oeuvres & Cocktails, mix and mingle with like-minded individuals plus the first 50 guests will receive exclusive glam bags! 10% of all proceeds will be donated to the Bright Lights Initiative founded in 1994 by Anne Guise & Kwame Ture; with the purpose of providing inner city youth with a unique, motivating, hands-on learning opportunity ...

BLACOH Fluid Control, Inc., a leading manufacturer of fluid control products, recently announced two key additions to the management team as part of the company's continued expansion in domestic and international markets. Alfredo D'Souza has been named Business Development Manager for BLACOH's new sales regions serving Canada, the Middle East and India. Alfredo ("Alfie") was most recently with RathGibson, a global manufacturer of highly engineered industrial products, where he served as Director of Business Development for Eastern Europe, Africa, Middle East, ...

HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONALS AND STUDENTS DINE TOGETHER FOR A CAUSE AT THE STUDENT CENTER OF WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY IN MICHIGAN WHAT: Mentoring in Medicine and the College of Nursing at Wayne State University through its C2 Pipeline Program are hosting on June 13th the "Dinner with Healthcare Professionals" at the Student Center of Wayne University in Detroit, Michigan. This event seeks the support of healthcare professionals in order to help ignite, cultivate, and prepare students to pursue a health science career. Wayne State University with funding from ...

Heart of Los Angeles (HOLA) and the City of Los Angeles Department of Recreation and Parks will hold a Community Graduation to celebrate the accomplishments of elementary, middle, high school, college AND graduate school graduates in the West Lake Area of Los Angeles. Many of the graduates are the first in their families to graduate from high school and go off to college and special acknowledgement will be given to those students who are graduating from college and graduate school. This year, thanks to the generous support of several funders, HOLA will distribute nearly ...

Prominent Little Rock, AR DWI attorney John Collins of the Collins Law Firm will present "DWI Trouble? Here is the Solution" on Saturday, June 15 at the Arkansas Bar Association's Annual Meeting in Hot Springs, AR. The presentation is scheduled to take place from 10:00-11:00 a.m. in room 207 of the Hot Springs Convention Center. During the presentation, Collins will address current problems with DWI, DUI, and DWI-drug cases. More specifically, he will discuss how standardized field sobriety tests, blood tests, breath tests, and urine tests are performed, what ...

For the second year in a row, national attorney rating service Martindale-Hubbell has named Arnold LaRochelle Mathews VanConas & Zirbel LLP (A to Z Law) as one of California's "Top Ranked Law Firms." The Oxnard-based firm is one of only four firms in Ventura County to be so recognized. The 2013 ranking appeared in the Wall Street Journal California edition (May 31) and will be published in Fortune magazine later this year. "Our firm is proud and honored to be acknowledged as one of California's best," said John Mathews, A to Z Law's managing ...

International bestselling author, James Duigan, is one the world's top celebrity personal trainers whose client list includes: Elle MacPherson, Rose Huntington-Whitely, David Gandy, Holly Vance and Hugh Grant. His new book release "Clean & Lean Diet" made OK! Magazine's HOT THIS WEEK list in its June 10th issue. "A true testament to James' workouts is that twenty years on, we still train together because he keeps it relevant and fun - it works!" said Elle MacPherson. She adds," There is literally nobody better in the world than James for ...

All Cave Tools customers are given lifetime access to a special member's area on the company website where they will be able to see tons of different grilling tips and tricks videos. This week, Cave Tools succeeded in bringing in an Argentinean trained grill master to help shoot the videos and provide tips that most Americans would not normally be exposed to. Many people would consider themselves proficient at grilling. However, very few people would categorize themselves as Grill Masters. Cave Tools is on a mission to transform all of their stainless steel wire grill ...

Azur Systems, a leading provider of event registration systems today announced that it is opening a new office in AirPort Free Zone, Dubai, UAE, to better meet the needs of Event Organisers in the Gulf Region. Plans to develop operations in the region were initiated by the recent growth of the event industry market. Azur Systems will offer its clients online software and services adapted to the local market. The opening of Azur Systems' new Dubai Office is an important step towards realizing the company international expansion said "Hicham EL KADIRI" Founder ...

Passionately communicating the growing issue of plastics pollution in the oceans, the two-minute animated PSA "The Great Plastic Purge," created by motion design studio leftchannel for the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) was showcased at the prestigious Brooklyn Film Festival. In addition, the company's 2012 "Magical Forest" projected character animation project for Nationwide Children's Hospital, Columbus, OH, has been honored by the Columbus Chapter of American Advertising Federation with a Silver Addy award in the category of Out-Of-Home, ...

Product Of My Environment the short film has been accepted into the New York City International Film Festival. The 3rd largest film festival in New York. This notification took the cast and crew by surprise. Little did they know that Manager Craig Xcel had his eyes on this film festival. Than this little film and the film festival surprised everyone again by receiving 2 nominations, one for Best Narrative Short Film and one for Best Drama In A Short Film. What will this short film do next? Product Of My Environment is a 44.51 minute short film adapted from the book ...

Variety is the standard at wine shops nationwide, but with the use of the WineStation by Napa Technology, the wine crate has added a new way of shopping for wine. Located in the Upper Valley, the wine crate opened a year and a half ago with the goal of providing an inviting and relaxed atmosphere in which to learn, talk about, and buy wine. At the wine crate, the recent installation of the cutting edge WineStation preservation and pouring system will allow customers to sample a variety of wines from around the world. The 60 day wine preservation system and its thermo-electric ...

Bike to Work Day is an annual event held in cities across the United States and Canada. The event encourages people to utilize bikes for transportation to work. Most cities hold Bike to Work Day in May, which is National Bike Month. Colorado celebrates the event on the fourth Wednesday of June. A variety of cycling-related events are organized in each participating city. Bike to Work Day is endorsed by many bicycle advocacy groups and by the American Medical Association. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, less than 1% of American workers use a bike as their main ...

Glacial Lakes Energy recently installed Arisdyne's patented controlled flow cavitation (CFC ) system at their Aberdeen Energy facility in Mina, South Dakota. Glacial Lakes Energy ("GLE") and Arisdyne collaboratively demonstrated that the CFC System increased daily average ethanol production and performed above the test agreement of 1.5%. "After evaluating several yield increasing technologies, including new enzymes, it made a lot of sense to test Arisdyne's technology due to the simplicity, small footprint, and lower operating expenses" remarked ...

While great strides have been made in some parts of the country in recognizing the relationships of same sex couples, the fact is that not all regions throughout the country offer the same levels of protection. Depending on where you are, local laws may not always respect your California rights as married couples or domestic partners. Because of this, legal documents that help protect your rights as a partner or spouse should be easily accessible when traveling out of state or you could end up in a situation such as not being allowed to have a hospital visitation. Steve ...

Y Combinator funded Curebit announces the launch of Retail Referrals, promising to unify the gap between the offline and online world. Retail Referrals, in partnership with Bonobos, is the world's first point of sales referral program. The product integrates physical stores and the website experience of Bonobos, the luxury men's apparel startup. With Retail Referrals, upon a customer's check-out at a Bonobos store in NYC, a buyer is shown a page where they are asked if they'd like to share an offer with friends via email. If the person referred later makes a purchase ...

Solamon Energy Corp's Jay Yeo proudly announced today the company will continue its growth into South Asia this year, and increase budgets supporting the company's initial efforts targeting specific states within India that are proving fruitful, and also that the company is developing new opportunities in South America. "As well," the President adds, "we are taking a serious look at the burgeoning opportunities across the Middle East right now." At the Solar 2013 conference held in Melbourne last month, Suntech's Stuart Wenham (sourced from Applied ...

Nexans, the worldwide leader in cables and cabling systems, today announced that it has won the 'Best Cabling Vendor of the Year' award at the Network Middle East Innovation Awards 2013 held at the Jumeirah Emirates Towers Hotel recently. This award comes close on the heels of the 'Structured Cabling Vendor of the Year' accolade that the company received at the Network World Middle East Awards 2013 held end of March this year. Nexans was selected by a panel of judges over other cabling vendors for its innovative LAN cabling solutions, expertise, customer service and ...

Picture photographing on the rugged, breathtaking coast of remote Newfoundland, Canada in moonlight, or in a strangely quiet Beijing Park at dawn—without looking through the camera at all. The results are surprising, stunning, beautiful and unlike any other photographs seen before. Fine art photographer Steve Giovinco will discuss this unusual photographic technique as well as his new landscape photographs during an artist talk at the MoMA/PS1 Rockaway VW Dome. Sponsored by the Rockaway Artists Alliance, the artist talk takes place on Monday, June 10, at 7:30pm at ...

Ernst & Young LLP today announced the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year 2013 Award winners in Orange County. The award recognizes outstanding high-growth entrepreneurs who demonstrate excellence and extraordinary success in such areas as innovation, financial performance and personal commitment to their businesses and communities. The finalists and winners were selected by an independent panel of judges and honored at a gala event at the St. Regis Resort in Dana Point, Calif. on June 6, 2013. Anand Nallathambi, CEO - CoreLogic, Inc., Irvine Heidi Golledge, ...

In these times of unprecedented fierce partisan politics, an extraordinary Republican, the first black Vice-Presidential candidate, a forceful advocate for minority and women's rights, a newspaper entrepreneur and author is revered enough to now be commemorated with a statue in the United States Capitol. In one of the rare occasions that both houses of Congress agreed with the President of the United States, a bronze statue of Frederick Douglass, commissioned by the DC Commission on the Arts & Humanities and will be installed in the United States Capitol on June ...

Good Feet Worldwide, LLC., an international retailer of custom-fitted arch support, announced its foot pain relief process focusing on reducing plantar fasciitis foot pain and heel pain for Nashville. An estimated 87 percent of the general population suffers from foot-related problems, most of which can be linked to improper support for flat feet or high arches, wearing improper footwear, walking or standing on hard surfaces for long periods of time, being overweight or suffering from sports injuries. While many people looking for relief turn to the various arch supports ...

In honor of National Running Day, registration for the 36th annual Dana Point Turkey Trot will open on June 5 to let runners everywhere celebrate by committing to participate in what Fitness Magazine has called "one of America's best Thanksgiving Day runs." Known for its scenic coastal routes, beautiful weather, and family-friendly activities, the Dana Point Turkey Trot has become an Orange County tradition, attracting more than 16,000 participants, to its 5K, 10K, Kids' Gobble Wobble, and two-day health and wellness expo. "For 36 years, the Dana Point ...

A midwestern 16-year-old designs and manufactures her own evening wear line...14-year-old bloggers cover the White House and politics and their impact on fashion... and a teen gets a modeling gig for a major brand website. These are just a few of the "fashion industry finds" that have emerged from FashionCampNYC, a summer program for aspiring retail fashion rock stars. On Wednesday, July 17th from 5 to 7 p.m. at LIM College (12 East 53rd Street between 5th and Madison Avenue), FashionCampNYC is hosting an open house event called "The Fresh Flavors of Fashion." ...