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Wall Packs Company recently announced the launch of their new comprehensive wall pack, flood and security light product Website. The new Website emphasizes both their comprehensive line of outdoor lighting and their skilled specialists who help businesses and homeowners make the best outdoor lighting choices for safety and security.

As anyone with both a pet and a laptop knows all too well, animals are definitely drawn to the portable computers. In many ways, this does make sense; laptops tend to be nice and warm—just perfect for a mid afternoon nap—and pets always like to find ways to get attention from their owners who, in their opinion, are spending way too much time staring at a mysterious rectangular screen. What better way to get that point across than to walk across the keyboard while their beloved human is typing up an important document for work?

Saving Teens in Crisis helps assist troubled teens and their families struggling with substance abuse and other emotional issues that need financial resources for interventions. They need your help in the upcoming year to continue with their mission of providing these scholarships to families in need.

Bayer CropScience, one of the world’s top innovative crop science companies in the areas of crop protection, non-agricultural pest control, seeds and traits, has announced that the company recently participated in a service and educational event for The Shepherd’s Table Soup Kitchen. The event, which involved providing a meal and winter clothing to Triangle men and women in need, was part of Bayer CropScience’s holiday outreach efforts. The Shepherd’s Table Soup Kitchen, located at the Church of the Good Shepherd in downtown Raleigh, serves meals to hundreds of Triangle residents each day.

Ranked as the nation’s leading manufacturing journalist and a contributing editor for hundreds of publications annually, Thomas R. Cutler, has been writing extensively about manufacturing and industry for more than twenty years. According to Cutler, “The dynamic stories of manufacturers create a bounty of interesting and important business strategies…from re-shoring to ERP, from Six Sigma to material handling, from lean manufacturing to food quality the best-practices of manufacturers create a never-ending stream of feature articles and important, newsworthy content.”

Trucking freight broker Total Quality Logistics (TQL) announced today that it has reached $1 billion in sales for 2011, marking the first time the 14-year-old company has hit the billon-dollar milestone in a single calendar year.

TD Service Financial Corporation, through its TD Service Company subsidiary, provides specialized services in the areas of default, lien release, assignments, and document retrieval through the use of custom software. Another subsidiary, Trustee’s Assistance Corporation, provides posting and publishing services.

Increasing funds and technological innovations will continue to drive the US biotech industry, which is expected to grow at around 9% CAGR during 2011-2014, says RNCOS in its latest report.

GlacialLight, a division of experienced technology manufacturer GlacialTech Inc., is pleased to announce that its environmentally-friendly LED lighting products are being used in many applications around the world and providing users with energy-saving light of the highest quality.

Rising life expectancy coupled with other key factors is expected to take the global regenerative medicine market to an elevated level, says RNCOS in its latest research report.

Sandy Abalos, managing partner of Abalos & Associates, PLLC, has announced that tax supervisor Dorothy C. (Connie) Behrens has been selected to lead a spring 2012 accounting course at Scottsdale Community College. The course will focus on payroll, sales and use tax. At Abalos & Associates, Behrens handles tax compliance and research for business and individuals. A federal, state and local tax accountant, she is licensed in Arizona as a Certified Public Accountant and is also licensed as an Enrolled Agent with the U.S. Department of the Treasury.

Investors have been encouraged to read Impact Investing: Transforming How We Make Money While Making A Difference by Alternative Asset Analysis (AAA) in order to gain a wider understanding of impact investing.

Zevrix Solutions announces LinkOptimizer 4.6.8, a feature update to its popular workflow automation solution for Adobe InDesign. Awarded 4 out of 5 starts by Computer Arts magazine, LinkOptimizer allows to reduce InDesign job size and speed up processing by eliminating excess image data, performing essential image adjustments, converting image formats and more. The new version lets users control profile inclusion policy of color-managed images and addresses some stability and reliability issues.

Rachel Kendall, broker and team leader of The Rachel Kendall Team of Keller Williams Realty, a full-service real estate firm, has announced that Gene Pitzer has joined the organization as a broker/buyer agent. In his position, Pitzer works with buyers in the office and out in the field to refine their search process, develop financing resources on properties under consideration for purchase and provide other necessary support that ensures maximum efficient service for his clients. Pitzer has 21 years of sales and management experience, including two years as a broker and 19 years with American Express, where he progressed from a full-time sales position to becoming a national account manager responsible for a $1.3 billion portfolio of business and C-Suite relationships. Having received the State Volunteer of the Year award from the North Carolina Hotel-Motel Association, Pitzer served on its board of directors from 2000-2003. From 1998-2000 he served on the board of directors for the Second Harvest Food Bank of Metrolina, where he was awarded the Long Term Service Award.

LA Furniture Store is proud to present to you their holiday catalog as part of the Google Catalog for iPad and Online. Google chooses very few top brands to be part of their iPad catalogs for the holidays. LA Furniture Store was chosen as one of the top modern furniture branded furniture stores by Google and as a result is being featured as one of the catalogs this holiday season. LAFurnitureStore.com announces its Holiday Catalog as part of Google Catalogs for iPAD and Online

Christmas is coming up fast and along with the gifts, the candy canes, and the holiday feast will come bills—lots of lots of bills.

SfL+a Architects has announced that Libby Lee has joined the firm as design assistant, a position in which she will work alongside the firm’s architects to coordinate the design of interior spaces, including overseeing computer drafting programs to assist in the production of construction documents, and determining which materials will fit together best functionally and aesthetically for the end user in a space. Lee earned a Bachelor of Science degree from Appalachian State University in May 2010, where she majored in interior design and minored in business. She completed an internship with Big Sky Design, a commercial interior design firm based in Wilmington, N.C., in the summer of 2009.

Melanie Black Dubis, a partner at Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP, has announced the release of a podcast on the legal concepts of social media in the workplace. In this podcast, Dubis outlines the issues surrounding employee social media usage, legal issues arising from the misuse of social networking sites and the best practices employers can implement to ensure appropriate usage among all organizational employees.

Worksite training is a must for companies wanting to improve administrative efficiency and ensure compliance. Not only can the right worksite training reduce costly HR-related litigation, it can help revitalize a company’s workplace culture and organization as a whole.

CEO and president of TexasLending.com, Kevin Miller, and his co-hosts focused on bread and butter refinances and home equity loans on his weekend radio show on KLIF AM radio in Dallas.

The increasing trend of young adults, known as Boomerang Kids are failing to establish themselves as mature functioning adults by their 20s, having little motivation, and living with their parents.

Chinese authorities have recently announced that the import tax exemption on purchases of certain R&D equipment and devices by foreign invested R&D centres would continue.

Light Space & Time Online Art Gallery announced today that Canadian abstract artist, Laura Warburton was chosen for the Gallery's most recent Artist Showcase.

Founded in West Hollywood in 1986 by opticians and brothers Dennis and Larry Leight, Oliver Peoples was built upon a vision "to design an original and authentic collection of eyewear, utilize innovative marketing strategies, and create a unique retail experience in [their] own gallery" states Larry Leight, founder and creative director.

Soft4Boost recently introduced a new software program that helps to keep your Windows operating system safe and running efficiently.