For the eighth consecutive year, Friends of Yemin Orde, the U.S. fundraising arm of Yemin Orde Youth Village and Yemin Orde Educational Initiatives, has received an exemplary Four Star Rating from Charity Navigator, the top independent charity evaluator in the U.S. This distinction, earned by only two percent of the charities rated by Charity Navigator, indicates that Friends of Yemin Orde outperforms most other charities in the U.S. for sound fiscal management and commitment to accountability and transparency. The Four Star Rating is the highest rating possible on Charity ...

Join Zoe Park Ranger in her first interactive and educational adventure! This app includes matching cards to challenge young kids. It also helps children become proficient with word, sound and character recognition as well as teaches them (and you) fun facts about the animals. SPECIAL FEATURES: • Matching card game of 4, 6 or 8 animals complete with custom illustration, sound effects and Zoe's voice over. Kids will feel like they accomplished something special as they complete each level and hear other kids clapping and see confetti falling down. • Gallery of animals ...

NFocus Magazine announces a sweet competition in search of the best dessert in Charlotte. Sugar Rush, a candy-coated competition pits local confectioners, creameries, cake cuppers, chocolatiers, and other curers of cravings against one another for the title of Queen City Sweetheart - Best Dessert in Charlotte! Tickets include open bar, all the sweets you care to eat, a ballot to vote for your favorites and raffle entry for a tasty giveaway. Limited tickets available. Proceeds benefit the North Carolina Dance Theatre. Event Details: Date: March 7, 2013 Time: 6:00-8:30 ...

Don Chunshen Li, president of Quote20 in Christiansburg, Virginia, has announced the development and availability of a Pricing and Quote tool (Quote20) for mid-sized manufacturers. This pricing and quote tool helps a manufacturer to reduce cost in preparing quotes. It has three core functions: Create Quote, Quote Reports and Parts. "Manufacturers are struggling with their current Mission Critical sales system. Using spreadsheets for an entire sales team is inconvenient," said Mr. Chunshen Li. "With an Access database, sales people cannot access it anytime, ...

Tandem Architecture & Construction of Chicago, Illinois has been awarded "Best Of Houzz" 2013 by Houzz, the leading online platform for residential remodeling and design. The 15-year old award-winning, full-service architecture and construction firm was chosen by the more than 11 million monthly users that comprise the Houzz community. The Houzz "Best Of Houzz" award for 2013 is given in two categories: Customer Satisfaction and Design. Customer Satisfaction award winners are based on homeowner members who rated their experience working with remodeling ...

Cydney Bare, interim administrator of Fairhaven Community, has been named a Fellow of the American College of Health Care Administrators (ACHCA). ACHCA is the professional society for long-term care administrators. Advancement to fellow is the highest level of membership in the organization. Becoming a fellow requires participation in professional continuing education, suitable formal education, community service and at least two years of voting membership. "Membership in ACHCA has helped me improve the quality of care I provide to our residents. I am grateful ...

PandaLabs, the antimalware laboratory of Panda Security, has released its 2012 Annual Security Report, which details an extremely interesting year of data theft, social networking attacks and cyber-warfare. According to the report, 31.98 percent of all computers scanned around the world had malware. With the addition of 2012's numbers, the grand total of all malware samples in PandaLabs' database has reached approximately 125 million, whereas PandaLabs researchers estimated that at least 27 million new strains of malware had been created in 2012 alone. Trojans continued ...

Local Vision TV.com in Janesville, WI and WSJY Lite 107.3 in Ft. Atkinson, WI have come together to share media resources. Local Vision TV.com news director, Stan Stricker, delivers the morning news on light rock radio station WSJY every half hour from 6:00am until 8:30am. This mix of local and national news is a combined effort from WSJY and LVTV news departments. Veteran newsman, Stan Stricker, has been reporting news in the southern Wisconsin area for twelve years. Currently, Stricker anchors a five minute Rock County newscast weekdays for the on-line video production ...

The Skin Renewal Center at Southern Dermatology announced it will host A Very Cool Event, a special workshop about CoolSculpting , a revolutionary new non-surgical treatment designed to remove stubborn fat from the body. The event will be held on Wednesday, March 20 at 4201 Lake Boone Trail, Suite 207 in Raleigh at 5:30 pm. A Very Cool Event is offered to women and working professionals to learn cool tips on how to look and feel your best. A representative of CoolSculpting will be holding a short presentation to further detail the features of CoolSculpting , complimentary ...

- Jelastic, Inc., the company behind the ultra-scalable and interoperable Java and PHP hosting platform for cloud applications, today announced the launch of its free public beta in Sweden through Elastx, a Stockholm-based hosting provider. Jelastic platform does not require any code changes or lock-in, and is able to run any Java or PHP application. The Jelastic platform is famous for making Java and PHP cloud hosting as easy as possible. The user can get an application up and running in the cloud in a few minutes rather than hours, since the platform is standards-based ...

DivorceLounge.com (www.DivorceLounge.com (http://www.divorcelounge.com/)) is an events-based calendar, online support community and informational website for people who are contemplating divorce, have gone through divorce and have or don't have kids. Many members of the community are people who are seeking to get back into dating and re-marriage. DivorceLounge.com not only works as an online social media platform for the divorced community, but also organizes events and gatherings to introduce fellow members. Raphi Salem, founder and organizer of DivorceLounge.com, states ...

Nearly 70 authors and members of the Atlanta Writers Club will display and sign their books at Georgia Perimeter College-Dunwoody. Featuring award-winning and Pulitzer Prize-nominated authors, the public event is a way for writers in Georgia to connect with other writers as well as their readers. Young adult, memoir, mystery and literary novels, among other genres, will be available for sale. Immediately following the book fair is the Atlanta Writers Club's monthly meeting featuring guest authors Ann Hood and Andi Buchanan. Ann Hood is a novelist and short story writer. ...

William Peace University (http://www.peace.edu), a private four-year university located in downtown Raleigh, has announced that it will present as part of its speaker series a screening and discussion of Father Spirit with filmmaker Jonathan Dickinson on Tuesday, Feb. 12 from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. at the Kenan Auditorium, located at 15 E. Peace St. Father Spirit presents the story of Dickinson and his hopeful effort to connect with his terminally ill father as the latter contends the late stages of the brutal, degenerative effects of Huntington's disease. The screening is made ...

The Chef's Academy (http://www.thechefsacademy.com), the Culinary Division of Harrison College, a 110-year-old, nationally accredited institution that offers 40 degree programs in five schools of study, has announced that it will host a Wine and Food Pairing Class on Friday, Feb. 22 from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. Participants will have the opportunity to taste a variety of wines paired with small bites specifically crafted to show which elements of a meal are most important to consider when choosing a corresponding wine. Mary Margaret McCamic, DWS, wine instructor and director ...

"Birth of a Colony," a film by three North Carolina organizations about the state's early history, won the Best Documentary/Historical Film award at the Midsouth Emmy Awards on Saturday, Jan. 26. "Birth of a Colony" presents the story of North Carolina from the 1524 arrival of European explorers to the close of the Tuscarora War in 1713. Horizon Productions, UNC-TV, and the N.C. Department of Cultural Resources collaborated to produce this first in a planned series. At the ceremony held in Nashville, TN, Horizon Productions' President Donna Mitchell ...

Fairfield Harbour (http://www.fhpoa.com), a residential boating and golf community located 15 minutes from historic New Bern, has announced that the American Red Cross will host a blood drive on Friday, Feb. 8 from 10 a.m. until 2:30 p.m. at the Community Center and Firehouse. The American Red Cross works with more than 50,000 blood drive sponsors each year to hold approximately 200,000 blood drives nationwide. Donations make it possible for the Red Cross to provide blood for patients in nearly 3,000 hospitals across the United States. QUOTES: "We are looking ...

KFA Search (http://www.KFASearch.com), a retained executive search firm dedicated solely to senior level assignments in the life sciences industry, has announced that Jake Fehling will join the company as vice president and will oversee the firm's new Raleigh office, located in the CAPTRUST Tower at 2408 Six Forks Road. This is KFA Search's third U.S. office - other offices are located in Jacksonville, Fla. and San Francisco. Heavily active in the Triangle community, Fehling serves as marketing chair on both the Hospice of Wake County Board of Trustees and the Me Fine ...

Acclaimed author and speaker Elizabeth Welles will be appearing at Paradise Valley Community College in Phoenix, Arizona on February 7, 2013. The topic of her presentation will be journaling and how journaling can help heal grief, sharpen intuition, deepen one's peace and enhance creativity. The event will be held in the PVCC Buxton Library, Building E at 18401 N. 32nd St. in Phoenix, AZ., from 12 noon to 1pm. The no charge event is open to the public and is a part of the Lifelong Learning Seminar series, presented by the PVCC Counseling Division. "Journaling," ...

TLC Tender Lawn Care encourages homeowners to prepare for the coming warmer weather with lawn treatments, weed and crabgrass prevention, fertilizer services and tree and shrub care in the greater Triad area. "We are excited about the coming warm weather and providing homeowners with various lawn treatments to establish a lush green lawn," said Jeff Goldstein, President of TLC Tender Lawn Care. "We will bring our 30 years of lawn experience to help your lawn stand out in the neighborhood. We are committed to giving our customers the highest quality work ...

Enterprising Women, a women-owned publication focused on women entrepreneurs announced that it had selected Poonam Gupta-Krishnan, President of Iyka Enterprises, to receive the Enterprising Women of the Year award for 2013. Winners will be recognized at the 11th Annual Enterprising Women of the Year Awards Celebration on April 3 and 4 at the Ritz-Carlton in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. "The Enterprising Women of the Year Class of 2013 is a remarkable group of women leaders," said Monica S. Smiley, Executive Editor of Enterprising Women. "This annual celebration ...

Awareness of labiaplasty procedures continues to grow, as do the number of women opting for these intimate surgeries. Dr. Benjamin Schlechter of Proserpi-Schlechter Center for Plastic Surgery has earned a reputation for this type of plastic surgery, and Allentown and Lancaster, PA women travel to his practice in Wyomissing for surgery with him. Labiaplasty, or surgery for reducing enlarged or protruding labia, has grown in popularity, yet there are still relatively few plastic surgeons in the Allentown, PA area who offer it. In fact, there are only a handful of plastic ...

San Diego remodeling firm Jackson Design & Remodeling (JDR) announced today it has won a regional Contractor of the Year (CotY) Award for a Colonial Coastal kitchen remodel, located in Del Mar, Calif. The awards were judged by the National Association of the Remodeling Industry (NARI). JDR won the Southwest regional award, which includes California, Hawaii and Utah. As regional winners, the projects will now automatically advance to the national CotY awards that will be announced at NARI's annual Evening of Excellence reception Friday, April 12 at the Intercontinental ...

MPS Healthcare's successful collaboration with sister company HCL Doctors has driven the organisation to open a branch of HCL Doctors in Llantrisant, Wales. MPS Healthcare Managing Director Alyx Peters is thrilled with the partnership, which combines MPS Healthcare's long running relationship with all the NHS Health Boards and leading private health care providers in Wales, and HCL Doctors' expertise. "We see an opportunity to offer doctors based in Wales a personal service, previously unavailable until now. Our experience in the Welsh healthcare recruitment ...

INTERSOG LLC., a global software solutions and applications developer, is excited today to announce the launch of Interview Recorder onto the App Store. Compatible with the iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch, this mobile interview companion gives everyone from recruiters to small business owners the tools to conduct interviews when fielding new hires efficiently and effectively. With interview question creation options, intuitive real-time recording and note-taking tools, flexible review features, scheduling alerts, and more, this business utility allows users to focus on what's ...

Smart-ER is pleased to announce the release of its system for patient contact at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Emergency Medicine in Las Vegas, Nevada. Smart-ER has created a software solution for all types of patient interactions within hospitals including after an inpatient discharge, emergency department visit or specialty procedure. Smart-ER's proprietary methodology improves care quality and helps alleviate the financial burden that avoidable admissions, especially 30-day readmissions, exact on the healthcare system. Based on over a decade of research ...