ColeJenest & Stone (http://www.colejeneststone.com), a comprehensive land planning, landscape architecture, civil engineering and urban design firm, has announced that the firm's Managing Principal Michael Cole will serve as a moderator at the Raleigh Chamber of Commerce's 2011 Inter-City Visit and Leadership Conference, taking place Thursday, April 7 and Friday, April 8 at the Westin Tabor Center, located at 1672 Lawrence St. in Denver, CO. Cole will moderate a session on the Denver Land Use Unified Development Ordinance (UDO) plan on Friday, April 8 at 10:45 a.m., which ...

Fred. Olsen Cruise Lines has launched its 2012 Preview Brochure, the first publication of its cruise programme for summer and autumn 2012. The preview offers an opportunity for early booking, and the chance to take advantage of competitive prices. It also allows early bookers to secure a preferred itinerary and accommodation, ahead of the publication of the main 2012/13 brochure, planned for late May. All four Fred. Olsen ships are included, and destination areas are the Mediterranean, Northern Europe and Baltic, Norway and the Fjords, Canada, the Canary Islands ...

Exceptional IT Services, an IT services firm serving the greater Triangle area, has completed a large-scale IT implementation for SKEMA Business School. The firm provided ground up technology infrastructure and project management for their North American location at North Carolina State University's Centennial Campus. Working in close collaboration with the design architect, building management, construction team and European SKEMA staff, Exceptional IT crafted a solution that integrates the NCSU campus with other SKEMA facilities in Europe and China. The Exceptional ...

The booking system is unique amongst the Cumbria and Lake District self catering businesses and website. This new booking system allows the visitor to book short breaks online as well as full weeks. When booking with other self catering companies, a short break booking or availability enquiry requires the customer to phone. Booking hotel rooms, holidays and self catering properties is so widely used that having to telephone can sometimes put potential guests off. Full online booking facilities also allow guests to book out of office hours, great for those who work shifts. Short ...

Talented youngsters from across the state who are blind will participate in the 2011 Illinois Regional Braille Challenge at The Chicago Lighthouse on Saturday, March 5th. Designed to promote Braille literacy and awareness, the 2011 Challenge enables students to compete in a series of five contests demonstrating skills such as Braille reading and comprehension, accuracy and speed, spelling, and proofreading. In addition to cash prizes, winners will earn a chance to compete in the national finals to be held this summer in Los Angeles. This very special event will ...

Avoid Excessive Fees, Costly Mistakes and Penalties Connecticut Better Business Bureau urges consumers who hire someone to prepare their tax returns to use caution when selecting tax preparation help. While most tax preparers are honest and professional, every year BBB receives thousands of consumer complaints against tax preparers, which typically state the tax preparer made errors in their return, resulting in fines and excessive fees. There were 2,068 complaints nationwide against tax preparers in 2010, and 8,434 over the past three years, the standard BBB reporting ...

Lingospot, Inc. (www.lingospot.com), a leading provider of on-demand Algorithmic Publishing software, announced today that Tony Kypreos, Susan Douglas and Alex Bangash have joined the company's advisory board. These three new appointments give the leading media software publisher unrivalled business and financial clout together with real hands-on digital publishing experience. Tony Kypreos brings a broad range of business expertise to Lingospot. Tony is a board advisor and investor in a portfolio of ventures in mobile marketing, online publishing and nanotechnology. ...

Likno Software, a software house targeting the international web design/web development market has released the latest version of its Drop Down Menu / CSS Menu / JavaScript Menu builder AllWebMenus PRO, v5.3 build #856. AllWebMenus creates popup menus for website navigation, without any programming experience required. The created SEO-friendly web menus, CSS menus, Mega drop-down menus, AJAX menus etc. work alike in all DHTML browsers (IE, Firefox, Mozilla, Safari, Chrome, Opera etc.) & all popular platforms (Win, Mac, Unix). Many Themes & properties can be applied ...

C&A Industries, Inc., parent company to Aureus Medical Group, a national leader in healthcare staffing, with a specialization in nursing, allied health, advanced practice, pharmacy, and physician search, has been named among the "Best Places to Work" in Omaha for the third consecutive year. The annual initiative, sponsored by the Greater Omaha Chamber of Commerce and Baird Holm, recognizes a select number of companies based on the results of surveys which measure employee satisfaction and engagement. C&A has been named in the category of organizations with more than ...

Christopher Borgman, President/CEO of Pro Trading Analytics comments, "Our trade systems are proven successful and the live trade logs advertised are verifiable. Most trading systems available elsewhere do not work or bring results as they advertise. They are usually mechanical in nature and are developed by back testing historical data, but we all know that history does not always repeat itself exactly. We have done years of tremendous research and aligned ourselves with a proprietary trade group that have designed our trade systems that provide layers of risk management ...

The University of the Pacific, Arthur A. Dugoni School of Dentistry recently deployed a digital signage project throughout its San Francisco campus. Working with ConnectedSign, a prominent integrator of Digital Signage systems, the school has improved its campus communication methods by establishing a connection with students, staff, faculty, patients and visitors through digital technology. The idea to begin using digital signage originated from conversations with students, faculty, staff and the Department of Information Technology, with the initiative receiving support ...

Corbis Images (www.corbisimages.com), a leading visual media provider for the creative community, today announced that it is now representing images from ZUMA Press (http://www.zumapress.com), the world's largest independent press agency and wire services capturing news and documentary images. The agreement currently makes over 280,000 ZUMA Press images available through Corbis Images and will include current and archival news, sports and entertainment photography. Founded in 1992 by photojournalist Scott Mc Kiernan, ZUMA is headquartered in San Clemente, California, ...

Rigid Global Buildings is pleased to announce that Bowen Lo MBA, has been appointed to the position of Chief Operating Officer, Steve Olson has been promoted to Executive Vice President of Sales and Marketing, and Ron Fletcher has been appointed to the position of Vice President of Sales. All three promotions are based on outstanding achievement in the steel buildings industry. Mr. Lo was the driving force behind the new partnership between Rigid Building Systems and JinHuan Steel. With his knowledge of the steel buildings industry, international business, sales, marketing, ...

BlueLock, an experienced provider of Virtual Datacenters hosted in the public cloud, today announces that the company has been named to the fourth-annual MSPmentor 100, a distinguished list and research report identifying the world's top 100 managed service providers (MSPs). This is the second time in as many years BlueLock has been named to the report, which this year includes MSPs from North America, Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Australia. The MSPmentor 100 report is based on data from MSPmentor's global online survey, conducted October-December 2010. The MSPmentor ...

AuraPortal (www.auraportal.com), a global provider of Business Process Management (BPM), has announced today the imminent launch of their Content Management Module, as part of the AuraPortal Business Management Platform, which is integrated with the rest of applications, being: Business Process Management and Business Rules System, Document Management, Customer Relationship Management and Online Commerce, extending the platform's scope. With this new module, their business employees will be able to easily and rapidly design a totally customized system, with all transaction ...

The new study from Ceresana Research forecasts a dynamic development of the global demand for propylene, namely an increase of more than 20 million tons by 2017. "Sales of propylene reached their peak value of over 90 billion US dollars in 2008", reports Oliver Kutsch, the president of the market research institute. "This level will be surpassed as soon as in 2012." China Overtakes the United States An important factor, which will impact the global propylene market, is the massive capacity expansions for propylene and downstream products in the Middle East and China. ...

Ragatz Associates announces that Keith Marlow, Director of Sales, Timbers Resorts, will be a speaker at the 11th Annual Ragatz Associates Fractional Interest Conference, to be held at the Fairmont San Francisco Hotel during March 14-16, 2011. Working with Timbers Resorts since its inception in 1999, Mr. Marlow manages all aspects of real estate sales within a well-known portfolio of private luxury resorts. Most include high-end residence clubs and several include the development of a boutique hotel with whole ownership residential offerings. Timbers Resorts has properties ...

Dr. Alicia Holland-Johnson is known around her community as a mother, teacher and tutor. Now, she adds twice published author to her growing list of achievements. And her success has not gone unnoticed. Soon after releasing her second book, Becoming a Better Tutor, Dr. Holland-Johnson was interviewed on popular home based business site, How to Build a Successful Home Based Business. The book is positioned as a starting guide for tutors who wish to set up their own tutorial services. It teaches them how to develop curriculums, manage expenses, set self-goals and goals ...

"Bouncing Back From Loss: How To Learn From Your Past, Heal the Present and Transform Your Future" is the personal story of Donna Marie Thompson's personal triumph, with an important twist. Warren Whitlock and his network of best-selling authors has chosen this book to go to best seller status this month because of this twist. "When I first heard about Donna Marie's story, I expected a typical story about dealing with bad situations or how she got to a happy ending" said Warren Whitlock. "That would have been a interesting read, but not best seller book material. Instead, ...

redpepper, the integrated marketing agency and champion for challenger brands, today announced the addition of several ADDY awards to their growing trophy case. The ADDY awards are the world's most readily recognized advertising accolade. This year redpepper submitted entries in both Nashville and Atlanta alongside 500 competitors and received the following awards: Nashville ADDYs: Magnolia Pediatrics Growth Chart (Silver) redpepper Holiday E-card (Silver) Kirkland's Merry Making Webisodes (Silver) Kirkland's Glee Spree Web Online Campaign (Silver) Atlanta ...

No longer do small business owners have to choose between long, tedious hours of calculating payroll by hand or over-priced payroll software designed for bigger companies. Small business software developer Halfpricesoft.com has released the 2011 edition of its popular ezPaycheck payroll software, which includes the latest tax rate changes on Tax Relief Act signed by President Obama on Dec 17, 2010. Priced at just $89 per installation, ezPaycheck 2011 is an affordable software solution for running payroll and printing paychecks designed specifically for small businesses. ...

The process of getting a legally binding signature on sales or service agreements and contracts has long been a weak link for companies using CRM solutions, including Oracle CRM on Demand. Costly delays and time consuming errors happen too often in traditional processes, which all involve conversion to paper in several stages. For example to generate a letter from CRM - send out via email - print - sign - fax - scan - integrate into CRM. CRM Gadget 2 Go solves the issue and enables to capture signatures directly and on-site. Your customer can sign when closing the ...

Maine small business owners looking to rein in their business costs can save on payroll by switching to Patriot PAY online payroll software. Offered by Patriot Software, Inc., the payroll service accurately calculates all payroll in Maine as well as 21 other states, including Connecticut and New Hampshire. Maine employers can run payroll with Patriot PAY anywhere they have a computer and online access. Because Patriot PAY is designed for American companies with 50 employees or fewer, the software is well-suited to the many small businesses that dominate the Maine economy, ...

Following a tumultuous year in the real estate market, Realtor Marti Reeder of Kent, Washington continues to excel in helping clients to buy and sell homes in the South Puget Sound. Most recently, Reeder received the 2010 President's Award from John L. Scott for her real estate work last year. She and several other agents received awards last week in a ceremony hosted by J. Lennox Scott, Chairman and CEO of John L. Scott, in the company's Kent office. This is the fourth year in a row the Kent Realtor has won a President's Award from John L. Scott. In addition, in the ...

Personal training certification is perhaps the most critical step in securing one of the most sought after job roles in current times: the personal trainer. Because the benefits of fitness have become so well-known across the country, there are now thousands of exercise enthusiasts interested in becoming personal trainers, as well as many others eager to hire them. This demand has led to expectations that personal training certifications and job openings will steadily increase for the next several years. One story featured on the CNNMoney website found that personal ...