Located in the beautiful foothills of North Carolina at the Hickory Metro Convention Center, the Extravaganza is the only woodworking shows of its kind in North Carolina. The admission is free, the parking is free, the demos and classes are all free, free locally grown apples, which were enjoyed by people from over fifteen states last year, free registration for door prizes and much, much more. We will be giving away several door prizes with the grand prize being a $1,200 gift certificate. Read on to find out more about some of the classes and demos that will be on hand. ...

This year, the National Association of Development Organizations (NADO) is hosting their 2012 training conference in Las Vegas. The conference is entitled "Working Regionally in a World of Change". It starts on October 13 and will go through the 16th. There will be a wide variety of attendees including executive directors, policy board members, program staff and others. These three days will be full of hearing from leading experts about a variety of relevant and timely topics, sharing ideas and exchanging information with peers, learning about successful and replicable ...

In support of her successful EP release, Momentum, and following their recent blow-out shows at the historic Webster Hall in NYC and the legendary Stone Pony in Asbury Park, NJ, multi-talented singer/ songwriter/electric guitarist Lisa Bianco & The Fury will be appearing live as part of the CMJ 2012 Music Marathon (http://www.cmj.com/marathon/) at The Delancey in NYC on Wednesday, October 17, 2012, at 8:00 PM. A performer known for "rockin' the house" wherever she appears, Lisa and her band will be playing songs at The Delancey from Momentum, a collection ...

The Raleigh Public Relations Society (RPRS), a professional development organization for Triangle communications professionals, today announced its new board members. The board's term will run until November 2013 and includes: • Stephanie Llorente (Butterball, LLC), president • Kelly Hubbard (Largemouth Communications), vice president • Crystal Roberts* (Mountaintop Productions), secretary • Eva Hornak (S.T. Wooten Corporation), treasurer • Christa Leupen (S&A Cherokee), membership chair • Lauren Brown (S&A Cherokee), publicity chair • Anthony Baldinelli* ...

William Peace University (http://www.peace.edu), a private four-year university located in downtown Raleigh, has announced that it will host a special viewing of Certain Proof: A Question of Worth, an award-winning documentary produced by Footpath Pictures in cooperation with the local New Voices Foundation, at the Browne-McPherson Performing Arts Center in Kenan Hall Monday, Oct. 15 from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. The documentary was written, directed and produced in its entirety in Wake County by filmmakers Ray and Susan Ellis. It portrays how difficult but necessary it is for ...

3-GIS extends the access of GIS in exciting new directions for utility and telecommunication companies with technology driven software incorporating Esri's ArcGIS platform. 3-GIS will be demonstrating the 3-GIS Express Solution including Network Express, the 3-GIS web based solution; Field Express, the 3-GIS mobile solution and will feature a new mobile application for Android and iPad. 3-GIS continues to push the limits of technology by continually innovating and pushing GIS forward for utility and telecommunication companies worldwide. Tom Counts, President of 3-GIS ...

Numerous awards have recently been presented to faculty, postdoctoral scholars and graduate students in the Entomology department in Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences. Students and faculty in the department are future leaders in many aspects of entomology, both domestically and internationally. These awards recognize their accomplishments and potential. • Maggie Douglas, graduate student, was recently recognized by the International Organization for Biological Control (Neatric Region Section) with the Outstanding MSc Student in Biological Control Award. She ...

- Hill, Chesson & Woody (HCW) (http://www.hcwbenefits.com), a health and welfare benefits brokerage and consulting firm that designs, manages and implements employee benefit programs, has announced that the firm will host an event titled "Benefits & Beyond: The Business Impact of Compliance & Reform Issues," on Tuesday, Oct. 23 from 8 a.m. to noon at the Cape Fear Country Club. The event features presentations from Jonathan Kraftchick, Cherry, Bekaert & Holland CPA and senior manager of training and development, William Oden, J.D., Ward and Smith ...

Best pain management doctors in Scottsdale, Arizona are using new techniques to revolutionize the way that chronic pain conditions are treated. The methods for chronic pain treatment are outdated and still include many remedies that are completed at home. These remedies don't cure this chronic pain, they implement relaxation as a way to avoid using the affected area until it has time to recuperate, but in most cases this pain continues for months and even years. Dr. Vengurlekar, known as Dr. V to patients and associates, is a leader in techniques to cure chronic pain. Dr. ...

Palomar Modular Buildings, Desoto, Tx. has configured new modular designs that will work in either a stand alone situation or as an addition to a current building. In addition to the sleeping rooms Palomar has unveiled configurations for lobbies, management suites, dining, recreation, laundry, vending and other specialty areas. According to John Martin, "We are prototyping what we think will be a big step forward for the industry and will be inviting several operator associations to view the building. We have learned that these operators understand that faster construction ...

Debbie Dial has joined RE/MAX Alliance Group as a Sales Associate in the Anna Maria Island Office. She has 32 years of real estate experience, and previously worked with Keller Williams on the Water in Bradenton and A Paradise Realty on Anna Maria Island. Dial is knowledgeable about the residential market, short sales and bank-owned (REO) properties, and has a background as a legal secretary and title company researcher. She said she joined RE/MAX Alliance Group because of "the people, the support and the feeling of family." Originally from Detroit, Michigan, ...

SI has come a long way since it was established by MD Rob Stephens in 1992. As Group Ops Manager for a large meat processing plant, he had identified the need for a productivity solution that could work with the complexities of the fresh, perishable food sector. Two decades later, Systems Integration work with leading meat, fish, cheese, vegetable and dried food processors. "Being established for two decades is always an achievement, but given the turbulent economy of the last few years, we are especially proud to be celebrating this important milestone. In fact, ...

Spectralmind (http://www.spectralmind.com) and Gracenote (http://www.gracenote.com) will give an insight into the future of selecting and listening to digital music at the 13th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR) in Porto, Portugal. Both companies will present a demo-app for the Spotify player, which personalizes music for every user, based on their musical tastes. Navigation is done intuitively using a multi-level graphic display, making lists obsolete. The app's additional "Discovery Mode" takes the consumer on a musical ...

The Game Kitchen is pleased to announce that Dungeon Defiler for iOS is now available worldwide through the App Store for iPad, iPhone and iPod touch. Dungeon Defiler is an addictive dungeon crawler in which you'll explore labyrinthine dungeons and fight terrifying creatures to complete mysterious adventures that will test you in every corner. In a reinvention of dungeon crawler games, Dungeon Defiler combines elements of old role-playing and exploration games which have been adapted to mobile devices. A fast and simple gameplay which makes it hard to stop playing. The ...

Cute Little Boxes is best known for creating delightful gift boxes in a variety of sizes and styles that are uniquely customizable, creating an almost unlimited array of choices for the customer. This fall, the firm released "The 2012 Halloween Collection," the firm's newest and largest collection of themed paper goods to date. The 2012 Halloween Collection includes designs for every design aesthetic - from vintage-inspired black cats, to a comic book Frankenstein, to the world's friendliest ghosts (guaranteed not to scare even the youngest trick-or-treaters). ...

Food manufacturer, Simplot Australia, has rolled out Oliver Wight's Integrated Business Planning (IBP) across its organisation with phenomenal results. Service levels are up at 98% and inventory has been dramatically cut. The company has been recertified Class A for Capable Planning & Control and now received Class A accreditation for Capable Integrated Business Planning. Manufacturer of some of Australia's most iconic food brands, including Chiko, Birds Eye and John West, Simplot has re-embarked on its journey with business improvement specialists, Oliver Wight, ...

A NEW horse racing website that began as a hobby has seen its website visitors soar. Horse Racing Chat was launched in the summer with the aim of providing exclusive UK horse racing articles and content. It attracted between 4,000 to 6,000 page views in its few months but that figure more than doubled to 13,000 in September. Horse Racing Chat was launched by journalist Jason Heavey, who is Racing Editor of the Daily Star Sunday. He said: "I'm thrilled with the early feedback and the number of visitors to the site. I started the site as a bit of a hobby ...

Tresor Paris are still hot on the trail of counterfeit goods and never cease to pursue these criminals! Tresor Paris working very closely with TM Eye UK- an experienced organization of trading standards officers and retired police detectives who monitor, report, seize and destroy counterfeit goods on behalf of manufacturers. Using x-ray Machines, TM Eye operatives search through incoming parcels that are identified as suspect. TM Eye spent the 12th September at the Coventry Parcel Hub looking for counterfeit Tresor Paris items. Shockingly, in their short time there, ...

Software Magazine has ranked global provider of unified IP business communications solutions, Interactive Intelligence Group Inc. (Nasdaq: ININ), among the world's 500 largest software and service providers. Interactive Intelligence was ranked 208th this year based on 2011 corporate revenues of $209.5 million, which was an increase of 26 percent over 2010. "This year's Software 500 marks our 12th consecutive year on the list with an improvement over last year of 11 spots from 219th," said Interactive Intelligence founder and CEO, Dr. Donald E. Brown. "We ...

HireContractor.com is an online exchange for contractors and home or property owners (buyers) that offers exchange of information for home improvement or contractor services. Skilled professionals are available on this website to do all that is needed for homes, shop and other establishments. HireContractor.com provides home or property owners the opportunity to post a project on the website and get the best quote from different contractors. Registered contractors can bid on these posted projects based on the information available or contact buyers for more information. ...

Mettler-Toledo Safeline has launched the Touch LS interface upgrade for Signature metal detection systems used by existing food manufacturing customers. The new Touch LS interface has a number of new, innovative features such as 32 different account and multi-language capabilities to enhance usability, product quality and help further the due diligence process on production lines. With the upgraded Signature metal detector, food manufacturers can boost productivity, competitiveness and also reduce production costs while meeting local and global food safety standards, including ...

Following shortly on from their recent Good Pig Award, pork and poultry farmers, Packington Free Range, were also finalists in the Local Food Producer of the Year category at the Taste of Staffordshire Good Food Awards 2012. Held annually to celebrate quality and distinctiveness in Staffordshire produced food and drink, Packington and fellow guests dined out on their success as the farm also supplied their award-winning free-range chicken as the main course at the gala dinner, served as Roast Breast of Packington Chicken with bubble and squeak potato roulade and apple jus. Packington ...

Microsoft SharePoint technology is increasingly used as a business collaboration platform on-premise or in the cloud, to connect and empower people. SharePoint additionally cuts costs with a unified infrastructure. Organizations can rapidly response to their business needs using SharePoint. The seamless integration of external line-of-business data, e.g. from SQL databases, Office files, LOB applications, and the cloud is a common requirement in the use of Microsoft SharePoint technology. The Business Data List Connector for SharePoint (BDLC) solves many known issues and ...

John Richard Morphy, Senior Research Advisor of Medicinal Chemistry at Eli Lilly will give a presentation on "Designing Selectively Non-selective Drugs" at the Protein Kinases and Drug Design conference taking place on Nov 8-9, 2012 in Boston, MA. Given the inherent complexity of biological systems, it has become increasingly well recognized that modulating multiple biological targets in parallel can be beneficial for treating complex, multigenic diseases, such as cancer, inflammation, psychiatric disorders and neurodegeneration. Dr. Morphy will use examples ...

Ron Quartararo, the Managing Principal at a Fortune 100 communication company is proud to announce his personal vision for a new youth baseball camp that will benefit underprivileged children.   The new baseball camp is still in developmental stages, and has yet to be named.  Details about funding, structure, and organization are also forthcoming.  However, Quartararo's excitement about the new non-profit is clear. When asked about the baseball camp's goals, Ron Quartararo comments, "The youth baseball camp league will have two primary focuses.  One, we want ...