The Dallas-based appellate law firm Hankinson LLP is being recognized by U.S. News & World Report and The Best Lawyers in America as one of the country's "Best Law Firms." The firm earned a Metropolitan Tier 1 ranking among Dallas appellate firms in the 2011 guide to the nation's leading law firms. To compile the "Best Law Firms" listing, researchers with U.S. News and Best Lawyers surveyed thousands of attorneys and law firm clients across the U.S. The results of the survey appear in the November 2011 Best Law Firms publication. The full listing ...

People with loved ones affected by Alzheimer's disease in the Tri-State area will soon have an alternative to traditional residential care. Evergreen Health & Rehab announces the opening of Journey, a new Alzheimer's care unit, in December 2011. Journey at Evergreen Health & Rehab gives family members an alternative to traditional long-term Alzheimer's care. Every aspect of the unit's design from the decor to the meals to the quiet atmosphere creates a soothing, home-like setting that promotes dignity and allows memory-impaired residents to live life to the fullest. Journey ...

Are you a member of a nonprofit organization, who thinks that this year's Christmas gift is a great way to tackle the restrictions of your limited funds, and still give your partners the gratitude they deserve? Are you a donor who just received a gift from the charity of your choice, that made you feel particularly great about your contribution to the nonprofit this year? Either way, please don't hesitate to share the details with us, and nominate the organization in the quest for the Best Nonprofit Christmas gift of 2011 run by the Fundraisr.Org charity and nonprofit ...

The newest Grimaldi's Pizzeria, located at 1 N. Clematis St. will stay open later than any of its other locations to accommodate the busy West Palm Beach nightlife. Just opened this week, the 4,130-square-foot pizzeria, famously known for the award-winning hand-tossed, coal-fired brick oven pizzas and calzones, fresh salads and delicious desserts is open for business late night. The Clematis St. location has already received a warm reception in the community with residents and tourists enjoying 100-years of pizza making tradition, and the tantalizing aroma of pizza ...

The CIO Cloud Summit team announced today a few of the latest CIOs and IT executives who will attend the upcoming technology event, December 8-9, 2011 at the Montelucia Resort in Scottsdale, Arizona. The CIO Cloud Summit brings together CIOS and top IT executives across several industry verticals to make new business contacts, and discuss new strategies for IT problems and solutions. The CIO Cloud Summit is a chance to meet face to face with potential technology solution providers. The event's agenda includes formal and informal networking opportunities as well as interactive ...

Sanderson Ford has partnered with Sanderson Lincoln, Sanderson Volvo, and ABC15 to bring Phoenix customers the 10th annual Operation Santa Claus. The first nine years of Operation Santa Claus have resulted in a record number of donations and this year Sanderson Ford hopes to do even better. Those who wish to make a donation can bring a new, unwrapped toy, children's clothing item, packaged food, or monetary donation to any of the three Sanderson stores, ABC15, a local UPS Store, or any Operation Santa Claus event. The charity benefits several valley children's charities, ...

Denver area Mazda dealer, McDonald Mazda, has decided to hold a turkey drive to help rise funds and food for the Denver Rescue Mission's annual Thanksgiving Banquet. The local car dealership learned that the Denver Rescue Mission, a Denver Non-Profit Organization, was about 8,400 turkeys shorter than their typical 10,000 and they decided to lend a hand. The non-profit hold an annual banquet in which they give away frozen turkeys to families in need and hand out Thanksgiving dinners. The McDonald Automotive Group has worked in support of the Denver Rescue Mission for ...

Russell Garcia, the composer, conductor and arranger renowned for his stellar collaborations with Duke Ellington, Stan Kenton, Anita O'Day, Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong, Judy Garland, Frances Faye, Mel Torme, Frank Sinatra and numerous others as well as film scores for George Pal's "The Time Machine" and "Atlantis: The Lost Continent" and his orchestrations for Charlie Chaplin's "Limelight, " died Sunday, November 20, 2011. He passed away peacefully at his home in Kerikeri, New Zealand, with Gina Mauriello Garcia, his lyricist and wife ...

Since it's inception in 1988, CrewBoss has been working directly with fire professionals. With firefighters testing product on the ground, offering insight into product designs or creating custom specs, the involvement from the fire community has been integral to the development of CrewBoss. "We've gotten to be a part of a great community of firefighters," said Ryan Davidson, National Sales Manager for CrewBoss. "Those relationships are very important to us and so creating a website that would be a source of information and community was a natural way ...

In June of 1876, a young carpenter arrived in Galveston with nothing more than a chest of tools and a desire to find work in the burgeoning seaport city. His name was William Menzies. He was 21 years old, fiercely independent and determined to make his way in the world. Galveston was clearly not where his future would lie, however, and a combination of storms, floods, a fire and a lack of work soon drove him inland. A decade later, having broken countless horses as a horse trader to earn his keep in the interim, the young man finally found himself on the banks of the San ...

Wear to Win, LLC has announced that they will offer buyers a 10% discount for product orders placed at the PGA Merchandise Show 2012. The PGA Show will take place January 25-28, 2012 at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, Florida. The PGA Merchandise Show is a comprehensive multi-purpose business platform with over 1,000 vendors representing every business sector of golf, from market leaders to start-up companies. "We are most pleased to offer this show discount to reward our loyal and new customers. Our product discount allows our clients flexibility ...

Sanderson Volvo is proud to announce its participation in the 10th Annual Operation Santa Claus with Sanderson Lincoln, Sanderson Ford, and ABC15. Operation Santa Claus collects toys, clothing, food, and monetary donations for children charities in Phoenix, AZ. From now until December 20, 2011, the 10th Annual Operation Santa Claus Charity Drive will begin collecting new unwrapped toys, clothing items, packaged food, and monetary donations for children in the valley. Donated presents can be delivered to ABC15, any Sanderson dealership, any UPS Store location, or any ...

ATGStores.com is rounding out 2011 in a large way. Aligning with record growth in sales in the 12th year of operation, nearly doubling its gross sales in 2011, ATG Stores added nearly 900 new brands and reached a record 3.5 million products available on its specialty online stores. "It is with great enthusiasm to add such great brands like Regent by Cooper, Napoleon Grills, Design Element USA, Blomus and Hillsdale Furniture to our product offering. We welcome them and all new brands to the ATG Stores family. Brand expansion was led primarily by our continued investment ...

Convirture announces that its ConVirt virtualization and cloud management software, which is used by companies worldwide to manage large variety of virtual and cloud environments based on the KVM and Xen hypervisors, is now certified to run on the following operating systems: - CentOS 6.0 - RedHat Enterprise Linux 6.0 - Ubuntu 10.04 LTS - SUSE SLES 11 SP1 In addition, ConVirt now supports management of cloud services including: - Amazon EC2 - OpenStack 1.0 - Eucalyptus 2.0.2 A complete list of all the virtualization and cloud platforms that can be managed using ...

Blanket America - a charitable manufacturer of bedding, blankets and throws available at http://www.BlanketAmerica.com - is currently promoting its discount shower curtains, which the online store offers in a number of patterns to coordinate with its other textiles. Each on sale for under $20, Blanket America's shower curtains are new additions to the blankets manufacturer's lineup of BUY 1, GIVE 1 items; for every shower curtain purchased, the company will donate an American blanket to an organization or individual in need of charitable support. "A couple of months ...

McDonald Audi is excited to have had the opportunity to join Warren Miller and Spyder for the 'Like There's No Tomorrow' premier at the Paramount Theatre in Denver, Colorado. The film, which follows athletes like Jess McMillan, Daron Rahlves, and Steve Nyman around the world to places like India, Chile, and New Zealand, debuted in Salt Lake City and is now making its way to various cities across the country. The Denver event took place over five days with numerous showtimes to accommodate a variety of schedules. The show was expected to receive about 20,000 attendees ...

For families in need, the holidays can be an especially difficult time. That is why AID for America is proud to be the organizer of the annual Thanksgiving Boxes of Hope effort. "Our goal for 2011 is to distribute 10,000 complete Thanksgiving meals to families that are going through a challenging time in their lives. The festive meals will be distributed to five cities that have some of the highest unemployment in the country," says Rev. Carl Keyes, founder of AID for America. Each year, for the past 22 years, families experiencing economic hardship are ...

The Technology Association of Georgia (TAG), the state's leading association dedicated to the promotion and economic advancement of Georgia's technology industry, today announced the 2012 Georgia Technology Summit (GTS) will be held March 28 at the Cobb Galleria. The 9th annual event, featuring some of the top technology influencers in Georgia and across the nation, as well as the release of the annual State of the Industry: Technology in Georgia Report, is expected to top last year's record-breaking attendance of more than 1,000 people. Farhad Manjoo, a technology columnist ...

GREENspot DROPoff, Inc. expands its popular, free and convenient e-waste collection program in the Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas area with six new locations at Access Self Storage. This is in addition to the nine locations that recently joined the GREENspot program in September. Beginning November 21, 2011, residents living within close proximity to Access Self Storage locations will now have a convenient and viable option for recycling their electronic waste. "We hope we can provide Americans the best e-waste recycling options, both for their pocket books and busy schedules."- ...

Philadelphia workers compensation lawyer Marianne Henry Saylor of the Pennsylvania labor union and employment law firm Willig, Williams & Davidson has been elected to the Lansdowne Borough Council. The Council directs the activities of the Borough of Lansdowne, located in Delaware County, Pa. Saylor's four-year term will begin on Jan. 3, 2012. In addition to directing the day-to-day activities of Lansdowne, the seven-member Council appoints a solicitor and engineer, as well as members of the town's administrative boards and commissions, including the Board of Health ...

There is a bold dichotomy present in Russian artist Tamara Grizjuk's abstractions, a powerful balance delicately poised between colorful, sharply angular shapes and the sensitive, atmospheric softness of the brushstrokes. Moving away from archaic, ethnic motives and the theme of Siberian identity, Grizjuk creates art of freedom and form, focused solely within her bold and enigmatic aesthetic senses. These paintings in oil on canvas draw viewers inward, inviting contemplation into their mysterious vision and meaning. "Painting has always brought me great joy. I find ...

Barbara lost 25 pounds, Janice lost 80 pounds and Bonnie lost over 100 pounds, these ladies are certified Christian Weight Loss Coaches with Victory Steps, a new online faith-based weight loss program specifically for women. This new health and wellness program offers weekly coaching sessions over-the-phone worldwide, and it caters to women who struggle with compulsive eating, food addiction, emotional eating, low self-esteem, lack of motivation to exercise, self-sabotage and too much stress in their lives. Today's modern day woman is expected to take care of children, ...

IKA Collective, the creative production/post studio led by director/brand strategist Ian Karr, has forged an alliance with Mixology Post, the original music/sound design/audio post studio founded by composer/engineer Rob Kahn. Additionally, IKA Collective named Stu Sternbach its Director of New Business Development. "This year has been an exciting one in the evolution of IKA Collective," Karr says. "We've been a one-stop creative shop since the beginning, but now brands and agencies are embracing that concept like never before. We're the classic story ...

Automated Systems Design (ASD ) now offers a 24/7/365 customer support call center to provide around-the-clock technology infrastructure support for businesses nationwide. The call center provides support for all maintenance and service work related to phone systems, point-of-sale (POS) systems, security and access control systems, structured cabling infrastructures and wireless systems. "ASD has expanded its customer service capabilities to offer a fully customized team dedicated to supporting the technology infrastructures that run your business," said Kevin ...

Cumberland Toyota is proud to announce their newest promotion this holiday season. The Cookeville Toyota dealership is going to be collecting toy for the local Toys for Tots campaign. When drivers bring a toy donation, valued at over $10, Cumberland Toyota will give that driver a complimentary oil change. This is a limited time promotion, so drivers who wish to donate and receive their complimentary oil change must act quickly. Cumberland Toyota is proud to support Toys for Tots and everything they do for the under privileged children of the Cookeville area. They ...