John Zelenski, author of 'Walker's Vale' has been chosen as a finalist for '50 Great Writers You Should Be Reading'. Winners will appear in this year's edition of the book. Zelenski was chosen as the result of his appearance on The Christian Authors Show radio. "I am so honored," Zelenski stated, "to be selected as a finalist in the '50 Great Writers You Should Be Reading' contest. As an author, there is nothing more satisfying than seeing your heart and soul poured onto paper for the world to read. To be mentioned among the great writers of today is truly ...

Taylor Morrison is pleased to announce its latest community in Sarasota - Esplanade by Siesta Key. The West Florida Division of Taylor Morrison brings resort-style living to South Sarasota with a gated community encompassing 77 acres and approximately 247 home sites. Located in the Gulf Gate area just two miles from world famous Siesta Key Beach, Esplanade by Siesta Key is a perfect example of the Taylor Morrison trademark of creating lifestyle communities in idyllic locations. Although the best of Sarasota's shopping, fine dining and cultural arts is just minutes away, ...

GastroIntestinal Healthcare is proud to announce their recent support of the newly-opened Rolesville Middle School located off of Burlington Mill Road. The Raleigh medical practice is a Platinum Sponsor of the 6th-8th grade school, which is currently seeking corporate sponsorships and community donations to help with their proposed growth and development. The school, under the leadership of Principal Dhedra Lassiter, currently serves 6th graders and has a track of 7th graders. The school plans to be fully operational by offering 6th through 8th grades by next year. Kathleen ...

Carlisle Academy Integrative Equine Therapy & Sports, a premier organization offering comprehensive equestrian educational services, is proud to provide therapeutic horsemanship services to all veterans in the area. So far more than 21 local veterans in 2012 are involved with this growing program. Participants are reaping the positive benefits to mind, body and spirit through their therapeutic involvement with horses. Post-9/11 veterans are offered free services through funding via the Wounded Warrior Project in partnership with the Professional Association of Therapeutic ...

The Appalachian Trail Conservancy (ATC) is pleased to announce that applications for the 2013 Appalachian Trail (A.T.) License Plate Grant Program are being accepted until Monday, January 21, 2013. The ATC will be awarding a total of $10,000 for a broad range of A.T. related projects in Tennessee. These funds are generated from the sales and renewals of Tennessee A.T. specialty license plates. The ATC is seeking individuals and partner organizations, including Trail clubs; schools; botanists and ecologists; environmental and conservation groups; and civic organizations, ...

Still Point Art Gallery invites submissions for its upcoming online exhibition and publication opportunity. The title of the exhibition is Ordinary Everyday Objects. Artists are asked to examine commonplace everyday objects and showcase them as visually appealing elements of everyday life. Christine Cote, the gallery owner and director, wrote the description for the exhibition: "Take a look at the ordinary everyday objects you see every ordinary day. Objects small or large. Objects red, blue, or yellow; black or white. Objects hard or soft, old or new, shiny or ...

Christie today officially launched its high-value premium digital cinema offering, the Christie Solaria One, aimed at emerging markets and community theaters whose screen sizes are less than 10.6 meters (35 feet) wide. The solution is DCI-compliant, having recently been fully certified for Digital Cinema Initiatives, LLC (DCI) compliance testing by AEGISOLVE, INC. Christie Solaria One is the first solution to begin shipping in quantity, based on Texas Instruments' (TI) (NASDAQ: TXN) recently developed S2K DLP Cinema chipset. The Solaria One will deliver fully DCI-compliant ...

Rob Wagner, managing partner of BKD, LLP's International and State and Local Tax (SALT) services practice, is pleased to announce that Steve Allen has joined BKD's International Tax Services team as a senior managing consultant in the Denver office. "We are excited to have someone with Steve's skill and experience join our growing transfer pricing team. He adds important additional industry experience to our team," Wagner stated. Steve has been providing transfer pricing and international tax services since 2001 and economic consulting services for over ...

Dan Fields, AIA and principal of BJAC Raleigh, pa (www.bjac.com), an architectural firm offering design services to healthcare, education and research clients, has announced that Alexander Kristiansen, Architect AIBC, has joined the firm as the director of healthcare. In this role, Kristiansen will lead design and the management of projects for the Healthcare group. Kristiansen has spent much of his career focused in the healthcare industry working on numerous facility types. Fluent in English and German, Kristiansen brings a national and international perspective to BJAC's ...

FormuleoUI.com, with their skincare line and their mission to empower women, has partnered with AffiliateManager.com, a premier affiliate management company, to launch the Formule oUI Skin Care affiliate management program. Formule oUI Skin Care was created from an idea of Lisa Reynolds' that she could find a solution for curing her skin problem Rosacea. What Lisa came up with, with her skincare development team, is now known as SERUM 21, the compound which gave birth to the line of Formule oUI Skin Care products. Formule oUI uses "only the finest botanically-derived ...

Infinity Publishing has announced the December 1st release date for Beloved Horses From Around the World by children's author, Sharon Miner, of Tampa. This fifth book in the series features equines from Aruba, England, Canada, Switzerland as well as the United States. Besides a variety of horse breeds, there are stories about mules, donkeys and zebras. The collection of true short stories describes equines who demonstrate their wisdom, their talent, their will to live and their unconditional love. They fulfill dreams, outshine the competition, build confidence and overcome ...

Cherry, Bekaert & Holland, L.L.P. (CB&H) (http://www.cbh.com), one of the largest national public accounting and consulting firms headquartered in the Southeast, has announced that Collin G. Hill, former senior manager, has been promoted to audit partner of the firm's MidCarolina practice. As leader of MidCarolina's technology and life sciences group, Hill assists clients in all phases of financial auditing and consulting services and guides them through complex accounting issues including revenue recognition, share-based compensation, and intricate debt and equity ...

ABC11 Eyewitness News (http://www.abc11.com) has announced that this year's Heart of Carolina Food Drive will kick off on Friday, November 16th. Anchor John Clark will serve as the emcee for this 26th annual event. The Heart of Carolina Food Drive, which is sponsored by ABC11, is a community-wide food and funds drive to help stock the shelves of the Food Bank of Central and Eastern North Carolina, as well as the Second Harvest Food Bank of Southeastern North Carolina, in preparation for the coming winter months. This year's kickoff event will take place at the food bank's ...

Lewey Landscaping & LawnCare, Inc. (http://www.leweylandscaping.com), a Triangle-based, full-service landscaping and lawn care company, has announced the release of a podcast describing the relationship between operating family-owned businesses and reaching personal and financial success. In the podcast, Kim Lewey, co-owner of Lewey Landscaping & LawnCare, Inc. discusses how family-owned businesses can achieve success during tough economic times, the history of how her own business prospered, and how family-owned businesses can build a reputation of outstanding ...

With its latest release, Version 4.7, Mikogo has combined two powerful forms of online collaboration into one - VOIP for voice conferencing now provided directly within the user interface of the Mikogo desktop sharing solution. The combination of desktop sharing with a built-in VOIP feature cements Mikogo's place as an all-encompassing solution for online meetings and web conferencing. Currently a beta release, the new software enables Mikogo users to start an online meeting and chat with the participants for free through the software's built-in VOIP feature by utilizing ...

Coldwell Banker Commercial TradeMark Properties (http://www.cbctmp.com) has announced that advisors at the firm negotiated significant deals in the month of September. Fred Dickens, Senior Vice President, represented the landlord in a lease renewal and expansion of 15,896 square feet for General Services Administration at One Copley Parkway in Morrisville, N.C. Drew Eller, Vice President, represented the buyer in the $3,600,000 purchase of Generation Plaza, a 40,000 square foot office building at 1822 E. N.C. Highway 54 in Durham, N.C. To view a complete listing of ...

North Carolina's OBX Outfitters (www.obxoutfitters.com) is partnering with the Outer Banks Chamber of Commerce and the Outer Banks Visitors Bureau to promote shopping local during this year's holiday season. In supporting the "shop local" push by these two organizations, the casual apparel and activewear company is offering free shipping from now until December 31st on all merchandise purchased from its Amazon.com storefront , including its new lineup of Wearable Art featuring designs by local artists. "A big part of our mission as a company is to produce ...

RationalPlan version 4.1 is out. In this release were added some new features requested by users while others were improved: a customizable subject can now be used when sending emails with assignments to resources, more fields were added when exporting to spreadsheets, improved reporting and a faster way to establish the project workflow and to create dependencies. RationalPlan is a project management software created to serve many types of users starting from novice project managers, users that need an environment to handle multiple projects and up to companies that ...

Estate Planning in North Carolina The new web design was influenced by modern web trends and a goal of making it easier for users to understand and find resources about elder law, special needs planning, wealth management services, and estate planning in North Carolina, Tennessee, Florida and New York. The former left-hand toolbar navigation was replaced by a shorter top navigation to make it easier for users to locate the estate planning information they need. The new single-column view and smaller toolbar make it simple to access information about estate planning, ...

From one of the country's most awarded and applauded goat cheese creameries comes a trio of exciting new do-it-yourself cheesemaking kits. Belle Chevre is on a mission to demystify the science and art behind cheesemaking and wants to share the fun with home cooks. Belle Chevre is uniquely positioned as an authority in the market to teach everyone the easy and fun skill of crafting homemade, artisan goat cheese. This simple and affordable box is a one-stop guide to making cheese at home, over and over again. The kits include a "classic" Make Your Own Goat Cheese ...

Now in its third year, SportBusiness Group and iGaming Business are coming together to deliver the Sport and iGaming Conference 2012 at Pinsent Masons LLP on 29th November 2012. This one day conference is the only event in the calendar addressing the links between these two sectors, making it the most relevant event of the year for professionals working in the space. The event brings together rights holders, brands, gaming operators and industry suppliers from both sectors to provide both unique networking opportunities and the chance to learn more about the gains to ...

Carl Blackburn Fine Jewelry Buyers has launched a worldwide website for clients who wish to sell diamonds and fine jewelry discreetly and conveniently, while getting an honest price. The new website demonstrates why Carl Blackburn's company is among the world's most widely-recognized estate buyers of large diamonds and extraordinary fine jewelry. In recent years, many people seeking extra cash have sold their old gold jewelry to online gold buyers and gold buying kiosks in shopping malls. However, these gold buying establishments usually focus on buying simple gold jewelry. ...

Craftsman Direct Handyman Home Improvement announced today that it will donate a portion of profits from home improvement and remodeling projects during November and December. "All of us have been struck by the agony being experienced in New York and New Jersey caused by Hurricane Sandy," said Lee Mendel Smoak, President of Craftsman Direct. "We want to help some of these families that have lost their homes and we think offering some of our profits from helping homeowners here is a good start." Craftsman Direct will partner with a local church ...

Over the years, The Sagemont boys Varsity basketball team has enjoyed playing games in Washington, D.C., Georgia, Arizona, California, Missouri and North Carolina. Now they can add Israel to the list. Recently, the team set out on a journey and an experience that cannot be taught in the classroom. The team spent nine days travelling throughout Israel and participating in basketball games as part of the Maccabi Haifa Educational Exchange Program. The goal of the trip was to expose the students to the cultural and historical relevance of Israel. The trip was the brainchild ...

Dr. Mo Zakhireh of Cosmetic Surgery Institute says plastic surgery patients in the Palm Springs area use social media to connect with other patients and learn about treatments they may be considering. "Preparing for a cosmetic surgery can be stressful, so many people turn to resources such as Facebook and Twitter to learn about procedures, talk with other patients and share experiences they've had with surgeons," Dr. Zakhireh says. "With more than 1 billion users on Facebook, patients can easily find information about surgeons in their area or advice ...