Principal David Gordon of Houston custom builder Whitestone Builders makes it his business to work with new homeowners. After all, each Whitestone Builders home is a brand new custom built home in areas such as the Houston Heights. The first thing a new homeowner should do is develop a maintenance check list. Be familiar with when systems need to be cleaned, filters replaced and batteries checked. Just like a new car, a new home needs to be well maintained in order to keep it functioning well, stay cost effective and retain its value. The second thing Whitestone Builders ...

For the sixth consecutive year, The Preiss Company ("TPCO") has been recognized as one of the Triangle's top Women-Owned Businesses by Triangle Business Journal, which ranked businesses by the number of employees in the Triangle. TPCO, one of the largest off-campus student housing providers in the nation, has made "The List" every year since 2005. "Everything that The Preiss Company has achieved is a direct result of the hard work, dedication, and professionalism made by every single one of our team members," says TPCO Founder and CEO, Donna Preiss. "It truly is a collective ...

The National Association of Dog Walkers (NADW) today announced their upcoming free teleclass specifically designed for individuals interested in starting their own dog walking business. The teleclass will be held on September 28, 2010 at 10am EDT/ 7am PDT. Dog owners are becoming increasingly busy and need help in exercising and keeping their dogs healthy and happy. If you love dogs, are a stay at home Mom or college student, or are just frustrated with your present position and looking for ways to supplement your income, the NADW 'Starting a Dog Walking Business' free ...

Marcus Hardie was born and raised by his grandmother in a poor neighborhood on the outskirts of Los Angeles, a black youth stuck in the urban ghetto. He survived the ghetto and graduated from college and law school, Mark Hardie seemed destined for a future far from the violent surroundings of his childhood, an upbringing filled with urban gang warfare. He showed promise in California's political scene, rising to an important position in the governor's office. No one would have imagined, though, that he would soon become an elite anti-terror operative in one of the most ...

PostcardMania once again finds themselves in select company on the Inc. 5000 list, which was recently released for 2010. The list represents the most comprehensive look at the most important segment of the economy—America's independent-minded entrepreneurs. Other national businesses gracing the list include AMC Entertainment, 7-eleven, Toys 'R' Us, and popular music website Pandora. The list compiles America's fastest growing, privately held companies and is a sought-after distinction amongst entrepreneurs. "The leaders of the companies on this year's Inc. 5000 have ...

Choice Building & Roofing: we are a company that pride ourselves on offering our clients a bespoke service. The company works with both residential and commercial clients offering a "All Trades Services", and finds that many of our clients return to us time and again. The services we offer include: Planning Permission & Building Warrant Applications and Approval Design & Build/Construction Extensions & Conversions New Builds Alterations & Refurbishments Insurance & Restoration Work Building & Contracting Services All Trades Services Project Management Services We ...

Howard Lee Edwards is a professional songwriter and recording artist who blends elements of pop and blues to create a sound that is truly unique. His brand new single "Got Me Wasted" showcases this blend of genres and his current direction as an artist. "As we grow as musicians we get closer to finding our own sound. I think I'm getting close to finding mine. It's an exciting process." All the instruments on "Got Me Wasted", including the vocals, were performed by Howard Lee himself. "With each song I write I have a clear vision of what role each instrument will play ...

SRS1 Software, LLC announces the availability of Fix Any Color version 1.40 for Windows. Fix Any Color is a digital photo editor that uses "Fuzzy Logic" technology to allow users to separately set the color of any item in a photo. Professional photographers individually adjust the colors of each important item a photo. For example, they make sure that skin tones look just right, the sky is the right shade of blue, etc. These key colors have a critical effect on how good a photo looks. Unfortunately, the software for making these kinds of selective adjustments is usually ...

Released today - the first of the ZAPRAG line of educational products to help educate photographs and the public to the rights of photographs taking photos in public. The first in a series of products is the ZAPRAG lens cleaning cloth, a function high quality microfiber lens cleaning cloth imprinted with the photographers' rights. ZAPRAG currently has Canadian and U.S. versions available, with the UK version almost complete. Versions for other countries are in production. Lawyers, in each respected country were consulted, to insure the information is correct and up-to-date. ...

Dibbs International announced today that they have created The Dibbs Business Widget for Smartphones. The widget serves the business community of the entire Dibbs service area. The Business widget is an "app within the app" that provides the public with the ability to be aware of all of the business events going on around them, with a single tap. Seminars, trade shows, professional organization meetings, and everything in between. The widget is the latest addition to the ever-expanding Dibbs Platform . Dibbs has created the world's first Awareness Engine , a revolutionary ...

You've heard about their mouthwatering burgers, the housemade charcuterie and chic lodge atmosphere. Now Branch Water Tavern introduces yet another reason to pay a visit to one of Houston's hottest restaurants and belly up to the bar—their new monthly cocktail classes, "Drinking with Evan Turner." Turner, recently nominated as "Best MIxologist" in the upcomlng Houston Culinary Awards, will serve as the wildly entertaining chemistry teacher who holds court on the secret formulas behind his killer cocktails during his sip-and-learn sessions. The first class, fittingly focusing ...

The Dhamma Brothers Project --------------------------------------------------------- DATE: Saturday October 2, 2010 TIME: 11:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. ET GO TO: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/joykeys and listen to the show from your computer. CALL: 646-929-0368 to listen and ask questions from your phone. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- An overcrowded, violent maximum-security prison, the end of the line in Alabama's prison system, is dramatically changed by the influence of an ancient ...

Don McCauley of the Free Publicity Focus Group and Danielle Hampson of eBroadcastMedia.com, founders of Book Marketing, announced today The Authors Show radio and TV weekly broadcast schedule. Book Marketing, branded as 'The Authors Marketing Powerhouse', allows authors and publishers the opportunity to upload photos, bios, book covers, video and book trailers. The site also offers discussion forums, segmented special interest groups and allows for event listings. Each author can develop a personalized page. In addition the site allows for integration with Facebook and ...

Turning one's organisation into a cause with a compelling vision can differentiate an organisation and energise its people according to transformation specialist, Colin Coulson-Thomas. Speaking in Lisbon to the 5th Global Conference on Social Responsibility he showed how new lifestyle options can further green, healthcare and commercial agendas and help achieve both organisational and personal objectives. According to Adaptation research, "Many enterprises find it difficult to motivate their people, stand out and justify premium prices. They lack a compelling rationale ...

The Fellow Consulting AG, CRM solutions provider with headquarters in Munich and The Athene Group, leading CRM services company especially in the United States, form a strategic partnership in Customer Relationship Management. The partnership is focused in delivering global extensive CRM services to customers all over the world. Fellow Consulting AG provides it's customers with cutting-edge tools for Oracle CRM and Oracle CRM On Demand, like the CRM On Demand Offline Client CRM Gadget ² Go, the Social CRM Suite CRM Gadget or Ideas On Demand, the ideas management for ...

QTS Group Ltd is pleased to announce that, due to an expansion of its rail specialised plant and contracting activities, it has agreed a deal with Blackwood Plant Hire Ltd whereby Blackwood will take over the assets and current contracts of QTS Group's civil engineering external plant hire division. QTS Group Ltd will retain a number of civil engineering machines for internal use on its own ongoing contracts across the group, and will continue to supply external hires of specialised and RRV (Road Rail Vehicle) plant. The Group wishes Tom Blackwood every success with ...

Samsung Amman International Marathon announced its partnership with Fitness First, the latter becoming the official fitness partner in the upcoming Marathon. A remarkable partnership indeed, ideally in harmony with the Marathon objectives, Fitness First is the world leading fitness company with over 550 clubs and 1.4 million members across the United Kingdom, Continental Europe, Asia, Australia and the Middle East. Meanwhile in Jordan, the renowned Fitness First operates a Platinum club in Abdoun, a Plus club in Mecca Mall and this year, the third club will be in Shmeisani. Both ...

Seattle Town Car Service, located in Seattle, WA recently announced the addition of newest Limo Party Bus to the company's ever expanding fleet of vehicles. Now Seattle locals will be able to enjoy the perfect limo party bus ride to their homecoming school dance, birthday or other events driven by one of their highly experience and trained drivers. Party Bus sports a black on black appearance with impeccable leather seating, chrome wheels, and three 42 inch flat screen TVs. The Limo Bus is also adorned with a premium sound system, separate DVD and CD players, an IPod ...

In a unique attempt toward the fight against childhood obesity, children in the United States are going to exercise for ten continuous hours on Thursday, October 7, 2010 in the second annual Exercise US, or Exercise United States day. As stated in US News & World Report referring to the Exercise US program - - "In a unique attempt to fight childhood obesity and cuts being made to school physical education programs, elementary, middle, and high schools from New York to Hawaii and Alaska have signed on to a newfangled "fitness relay" event." The concept in very simple ...

This year October 4th marks both World Habitat Day and the first day of Act! Speak! Build! Week - making it an exciting day for Habitat for Humanity of Greater Los Angeles (HFH GLA) supporters of all ages. As a leading builder of affordable and sustainable housing, HFH GLA will call attention to the worldwide affordable housing crisis, as well as Los Angeles' need to stabilize and revitalize neighborhoods in three exciting ways. Now through October 5th supporters may promote HFH GLA's work by submitting photos of themselves holding signs that read "What Will You Build" ...

Families looking for some Halloween fun and frights during their time in Norfolk towards the end of next month should check out the Spooky Express. The special event, which is being run by the Bure Valley Railway, is sure to be entertaining and scary in equal measures for youngsters and their parents. It runs from October 23rd to 31st 2010 from Aylsham Station on Norwich Road, with guests staying in Norfolk hotels who ride the train having the chance to meet the organiser's mascot Railway Bear. A free kids' competition will be held throughout the train ride, with ...

Tourists staying at Paris hotels have been advised that the Gabriel Orozco exhibition currently showing at the Centre Pompidou offers people a rare chance to see the artist's work. The venue has confirmed the collection will be available to view until January 3rd 2011 at the prestigious arts space. Fans of his work will know that Orozco has something of a mysterious persona, moving from studio to studio in the 1990s so as not to be identified by the region he stayed in. The Centre Pompidou described him as one of the most important artists of his generation during ...

Naples will be hosting Dance Village this autumn, which the artistic director has lauded for creating an atmosphere of cultural exchange. Running from October 29th to 31st, the event will see all sorts of dance styles being performed and perfected, as there are workshops and classes, as well as shows to attend. This clash of disciplines could make the occasion fascinating for guests at Naples hotels with an interest in this medium of expression. Artistic director of Dance Village Guiseppe Carbone listed ballet, tango, hip-hop and jazz as some of the forms of dancing ...

Guests at Lake District accommodation have a night of laughter and fun in store for them if they manage to get tickets for the upcoming Armstrong and Miller Show. The two comedians - Alexander Armstrong and Ben Miller - will be coming to the region on October 31st 2010 to play to an excited audience at the Sands Centre. No doubt their performance will leave everyone in attendance in stitches, since they are very popular and their sketch show is critically acclaimed - the second series recently won a Bafta. So prepare to spend the evening grinning and chortling ...

New Heart Foundation (NHF) has patents pending in the US for treatment of autism, brain trauma, cerebral palsy, hypoxic injury to the brain, muti-infarct dementia, and stroke using adult stem cells. NHF also has patents pending in Europe for the treatment of acute and chronic diseases of the brain and pancreas (diabetes). New Heart Foundation latest interest is stem cells derived from tooth buds. The optimal time to remove tooth buds is ages 8-12. It is NHF's hope that these stem cells will have a role in the treatment of neurological disorders. Most stem cell companies ...