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Sunday, December 20, 2009

Millions To Pray On Thursday, May 4th -- Thanks Giving Square Named Location for Dallas Community

Dallas accompany the nation in adoration on Thursday, May 4th. The Dallas association is arrive to accumulate at apex at Thanks Giving Square, city Dallas for the National Day of Prayer Dallas Celebration.

Dallas, TX May 4, 2006 –- In the bosom of war abroad, arguable issues at home, and abhorrence of epidemics and accustomed disasters, abounding of Americans about-face to God for answers, guidance, and protection. Thursday, May 4th is the day that millions will accumulate calm in adoration for the 55th anniversary National Day of Prayer. The Dallas association is arrive to accompany calm at Thanks Giving Square from 12 p.m. (Noon) to 1:30 p.m.

The National Day of Prayer attitude predates the founding of the United States of America if the Continental Congress issued a announcement ambience abreast a day of adoration in 1775. In 1952, Congress accustomed an anniversary day of adoration and, in 1988, that law was amended, anecdotic the National Day of Prayer as the aboriginal Thursday in May.

“There is no greater announcement of acceptance than if we accede with God and anniversary added through prayer. Prayer is a all-powerful alteration whereby we barter our petitions and acclaim to accept his accord and power.” said Rev. Bryan Carter, Senior Pastor, Concord Church. Rev. Carter will be giving a appropriate bulletin at the Dallas gathering.

This year’s theme, “America, Honor God,” based on the biblical scripture 1 Samuel 2:30- “Those who account me, I will honor” is a alarm to the nation to seek God’s face and ask for his aegis and blessings over our nation.

“The National Day of Prayer Celebration offers believers the befalling to appear calm appliance their abandon to adjure in a accessible place, and their albatross and advantage to adjure for our Country, President, and Leaders.” said Amy Powell, Dallas National Day of Prayer Coordinator.

The National Day of Prayer Dallas Celebration will be captivated Thursday, May 4, 2006 at Thanks Giving Square, amid city Dallas at 1627 Pacific Ave., Dallas, TX 75201 from 10:30 AM to 1:30 PM with the official affairs alpha at 12:05 PM. The accident is chargeless and accessible to the public. For added advice appointment http://www.ndptexas.com or acquaintance Amy Powell, 214-320-8273.

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Partner Engineering and Science Expands Their Environmental Consulting Practice in Dallas and Chicago

Partner Engineering and Science opened offices in Dallas and Chicago accretion their Phase I Environmental Consulting and their Commercial Building Inspection practices to Texas and the Midwest.

-- Partner Engineering and Science opened offices in Dallas and Chicago accretion their Phase I Environmental Consulting and their Commercial Building Inspection practices to Texas and the Midwest. Partner's civic ecology and engineering due activity convenance is anchored in these two cities by accomplished professionals.

According to Mr. Joe Derhake, President of Partner, "Our business is about relationships with acreage owners and lenders and Dallas and Chicago are above cyberbanking and bartering absolute acreage investment hubs."

Primary casework accepting provided from these bounded offices are Phase I Environmental Site Assessments and Property Condition Assessments. Partner opened these offices in acknowledgment to appeal for casework in these areas from civic audience and in acknowledgment to accessible talent.

Jeff Kiec, Partner's Dallas Manager, brings 5 years acquaintance with Phase Is and Property Condition Assessments additional Jeff is a LEED Accredited Professional. Mr. Kiec accession has accustomed Partner to aggrandize their casework in Texas. Jeff as a LEED AP is a admired accession to Partner's Green Building Team.

Fashion Group International of Dallas presents Four Legged Fashion: Canine Meets Couture

Four Legged Fashion has put calm a one-of-a-kind accumulating from today's arch names in appearance and architecture - all fabricated for dogs. These items will be apparent and auctioned off at our cocktail affair accident May 15, with a allocation of the gain benefiting bounded abominable accomplishment groups.

Dallas, Texas -- Fashion Group International (FGI) of Dallas (http://dallas.fgi.org) presents its aboriginal anniversary Four Legged Fashion (FLF): Canine meets Couture accident (http://www.fourleggedfashion.org) on May 15, 2009 at 6:30 p.m. at the Grand Pavilion in the Dallas Trade Mart area guests will adore a one-of-a-kind basset couture appearance show, auction, reception, Pooch Palace advertise and couture raffle fabricated accessible by our aces sponsors including: Spa Paws Hotel of Ft. Worth, The Dallas Market Center, and The Petropolitan.

The black will affection able basset models provided by Agent Beast Animal Talent Agency arrogant down the aerodrome in couture created by notable designers including: Abi Ferrin, Angelo Cerilli, Anyaa, April Miller, BabyLou Pooch Couture, Caroline Carlisle, Claudia Lobao Craig Muller, Dorey Designs, Duxiana , Finley, Frontgate, Greene's Jewelers, HKS Inc , John Bourgeois, Kayne9 of Jonathon Kayne , Krickett Goss, Leifers, Lou Saksen Architect, Mara Farr at JC Penneys, Maristella Citelli, Michael Simon, Nicolas Villalba, Prashe, Sarah Briggs Jewelry, Seed Sucker Inc., Shani, Todd Oldham, Under Dawg Apparel and Watters and Watters .

Four Legged Fashion is the absolute car for Beast. I get to advertise my basset aptitude in these amazing one-of-a-kind pieces and at the aforementioned time accession money for abominable rescue, which I am actual amorous about. This is a casting new abstraction for North Texas and something we achievement to body on anniversary year. How agitative to advance the abundant aptitude in FGI to account our association in this way Paige Anderson, of Agent Beast Animal Talent Agency (http://www.agentbeast.com) states, "Four Legged Fashion is the absolute car for Beast. I get to advertise my basset aptitude in these amazing one-of-a-kind pieces and at the aforementioned time accession money for abominable rescue, which I am actual amorous about. "

The absolute accumulating will be auctioned off during the black with a allocation of the gain traveling to actualize a admission armamentarium for accomplishment groups alleged the FLF Fund. "This is a casting new abstraction for North Texas and something we achievement to body on anniversary year. How agitative to advance the abundant aptitude in FGI to account our association in this way," says FLF architect and FGI affiliate Terri Tomlinson who will aswell be on ABC's Good Morning Texas on May 13th with FLF Spokes-Dog Frank to advance the event.

Each couture accumulating area will be partnered with added different dog accompanying items as able-bodied as a "Golden Ticket" account $100 of spa casework at The Petropolitan and a one night break at Tailwaggers Country Inn. Guests will aswell adore aimless through the Pooch Palace advertise with amazing homes and beds that they can bid on during the evening. Of agenda is the Dallas based architectonics close HKS, who has complete a custom complete dog house- a replica of their architecture for Dallas' W auberge whose ambit are 6' H x 4' W x 7'L. Leifers has aswell donated a NeoClassical dog abode that amalgamate architectural elements, high-end design, and functionality to actualize a fashionable home accessory.

For those guests that adore raffles, there will be a 3 area accumulating of basset couture from Roberto Cavalli's new pet band admired at $650 and a accumulating from Neiman Marcus which includes an Etro dog carrier admired at $1,100. In addition, anniversary bedfellow will accept doggie and accompaniment swag bag and all vip's will accept a appropriate allowance box and 2009 FLF Collection Book.

Ticket Costs: $75 General Admission, $125 VIP, $1000 VIP Table for 8. (VIP seats are limited.)
Event Website: http://www.fourleggedfashion.org
Purchase Tickets Online at FLF Tickets
For added information, acquaintance Terri Tomlinson 972 989 5869 or territ@fourleggedfashion.org

We would like to acknowledge our honorary chairs Karen Akin and Kameron Westcott and our sponsors, which include: Spa Paws Hotel of Ft. Worth,, Dallas Market Center, The Petropolitan, Leifers, RSC Shows, Brad Hughes & Associates, Agent BEAST, Barefoot Wines, BabyLou Pooch Couture, Campbell Wagner Runway , Kristina Bowman Photography, Yelp and SmartWater. View complete account of sponsors - FLF Sponsors.

Fashion Group International of Dallas (http://dallas.fgi.org) is a global, non-profit, able alignment with over 6,000 associates in added than thirty chapters, apery all areas of the appearance industry including apparel, accessories, adorableness and home.

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Enter to Win a Trip to Dallas Pride!

This September, the Dallas lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) association will bless 26 years of pride. To commemorate, the Dallas Convention & Visitors Bureau (Dallas CVB) is agreeable LGBT travelers from above the U.S. to appointment www.glbtdallas.com to access for a adventitious to win a cruise for two to Dallas during Pride weekend, September 18-21, 2009. Dallas is an affordable destination break that offers abundant to see and do for LGBT travelers, and what bigger time to appointment our city-limits than during Dallas Pride From absurd dining, aberrant arts, incomparable ball and the best arcade in the Southwest, Dallas is absolutely a destination that delivers.

Dallas, TX -- This September, the Dallas lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) association will bless 26 years of pride. To commemorate, the Dallas Convention & Visitors Bureau (Dallas CVB) is agreeable LGBT travelers from above the U.S. to appointment www.glbtdallas.com to access for a adventitious to win a cruise for two to Dallas during Pride weekend, September 18-21, 2009.

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"Dallas is an affordable destination break that offers abundant to see and do for LGBT travelers, and what bigger time to appointment our city-limits than during Dallas Pride," said Phillip Jones, admiral and CEO of the Dallas CVB. "From absurd dining, aberrant arts, incomparable ball and the best arcade in the Southwest, Dallas is absolutely a destination that delivers."

Roundtrip airfare is provided by American Airlines, accumulated sponsor of the Dallas CVB. Accommodations will be provided by The Joule, Dallas and cover breakfast at the comfortable Charlie Palmer restaurant. The champ aswell receives passes to Gay Day at Six Flags Over Texas, adulation of the Dallas Voice.

Dallas Pride weekend offers several contest that advertise the city's assorted and all-embracing LGBT community. The highlight of the weekend is the anniversary Alan Ross Texas Freedom Parade. Now in its 26th year, the array appearance added than 2,200 boot participants and bags of spectators.

In accession to the abundant Pride weekend activities, Dallas visitors ascertain a city-limits with absolute arcade destinations, a arch arts district, a advancing comestible arena and active nightlife.

Entries for the sweepstakes will be acclimatized through July 31, 2009, and a champ will be appear anon thereafter. The sweepstakes is accessible to acknowledged association of the U.S. at atomic 21 years of age or earlier at the time of entry. For official rules and to enter, amuse appointment www.glbtdallas.com.

About Dallas
Dallas is a destination that inspires big ideas. As the No. 1 company destination in Texas, the Dallas across offers the best arcade in the Southwest, a cutting-edge comestible arena led by nationally acclaimed celebrity chefs, 70,000 auberge rooms, alignment from affluence to boutique, and added than 200 golf courses. The city-limits boasts the better abutting burghal arts commune in the U.S. with 5 cultural venues advised by Pritzker Prize-winning architects. In addition, the Dallas city across is the alone one in the Southwest to host teams apery 5 above able sports leagues, including the allegorical Dallas Cowboys. The Dallas across is aswell the better blur and television assembly centermost in Texas and the area of the Dallas Film Commission. Dallas embraces diversity, boasting one of the better gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender communities in the U.S. Live Large. Think Big.TM

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Pioneer of Green Building in Dallas Receives Recognition

Alan Hoffmann has afresh been listed a allotment of the leaders of blooming architecture in Dallas afterwards 13 years of announcement environmentally affable practices.

Dallas, TX -- Alan Hoffmann has been architecture with an ecology censor for 13 years, and he's now advised a baton in the industry.

In today's activity acquainted marketplace, it ability assume extraordinary that in 1994, Alan Hoffmann, buyer of Alan Hoffmann, LLC, was criticized for utilizing energy-efficient abstracts in his projects.

Although he faced accessible criticism, Alan Hoffmann never wavered in his adherence to blooming building. Today, the blooming movement has embodied in about every aspect of avant-garde life, and boilerplate is blooming credo added all-important than in construction.

Today, Hoffmann isn't accepting criticized; he's accepting honored. In January, he was listed a allotment of Dallas' a lot of affecting blooming builders. After 13 years, Hoffmann's aeon are alpha to bolt on. Additionally, in March of 2008 he was voted one of Dallas' Best Home Builders by D Home Magazine.

In November 2007, Hoffmann abounding the US Green Building Councils Greenbuild appointment in Chicago, and he says appearance was up appreciably from the 2006 Denver conference. "What that tells me is that added humans are analytic at [green building]," he says.

Hoffmann uses cloistral accurate forms or ICFs, which are energy-efficient and angle up adjoin blow force winds. Last year, Hoffmann complete the aboriginal LEED-certified platinum abode in Dallas. This is the accomplished appraisement accepted by the US Green Building Councils LEED for Homes program.

Many humans accessory the "green" characterization with college costs; however, Hoffmann's basal band is affordability. "Green is absolutely affordable," he says. "The Cost of buying is less." The accurate amount of a architecture is absolutely affiliated to heating and cooling costs, and as a aftereffect of the continuously ascent activity prices, blooming barrio will abide to become beneath expensive.

Hoffmann's ambition is to actualize beneath big-ticket products, and he's on a assignment force that advises the City Council of Dallas on affairs such as instituting college activity standards for new and absolute buildings. He says with attention to the activity and ecology apropos that we face today, "I just don't ambition to be allotment of the problem, I ambition to advice accompany about solutions."

For added advice on the account that is the accountable of this release, acquaintance the Alan Hoffmann Company or appointment http://concretehomestore.com/.

About Alan Hoffmann
Alan Hoffmann is the buyer of the Alan Hoffmann, LLC. Hoffmann specializes in new custom homes that absorb activity able products. All of Hoffmann's homes are complete application Insulated Concrete Forms.

Sleep Experts Donates 120 Mattress Sets for New Ronald McDonald House of Dallas

Sleep Experts is altruistic the 120 mattress sets bare to ample the new 60,000 square-foot Ronald McDonald House of Dallas set to accessible in backward 2009. The mattress banker is aswell accession donations of allowance items for RMHD families during its Christmas in July association drive.

Dallas, TX -- Sleep Experts is altruistic the 120 mattress sets bare to ample the new 60,000 square-foot Ronald McDonald House of Dallas set to accessible in backward 2009. The cogent donation from the family-owned mattress banker is admired at $115,000 and is accurate by Simmons and Sleep Designs.

Sleep Experts donates mattresses

We are absolutely beholden of Sleep Experts' acceptable donation of these mattress sets, which will acquiesce our families even added abundance if they are blockage with us at the new house. The donations they will be accession at the food this ages will aswell acquiesce us to advice even added families in need. At the affection of our business is a charge to accouterment abundance to D/FW families in crisis, and we achievement that with this donation we can accord the allowance of a restful night's beddy-bye for Ronald McDonald House of Dallas families We ask the D/FW association to accompany us in the 'Spirit of Giving' and acceptable these families to their new home-away-from-home with an aboriginal allowance during our Christmas in July event. Sleep Experts has aswell called RMHD the almsman of its Christmas in July drive and is allurement the D/FW association to bead off donations of ambition account items--including toiletries, appointment and kitchen supplies--toys and allowance cards at any of its 34 mattress food through the end of July. The RMHD ambition account is accessible at rmhdallas.com

Barbara McDermott, controlling administrator of Ronald McDonald House of Dallas said, "We are absolutely beholden of Sleep Experts' acceptable donation of these mattress sets, which will acquiesce our families even added abundance if they are blockage with us at the new house. The donations they will be accession at the food this ages will aswell acquiesce us to advice even added families in need."

"At the affection of our business is a charge to accouterment abundance to D/FW families in crisis, and we achievement that with this donation we can accord the allowance of a restful night's beddy-bye for Ronald McDonald House of Dallas families," said Christine Cook, wife, mom and admiral of Sleep Experts. "We ask the D/FW association to accompany us in the 'Spirit of Giving' and acceptable these families to their new home-away-from-home with an aboriginal allowance during our Christmas in July event."

The new 60-room abode beneath architecture in the Southwestern Medical District will bifold the accepted accommodation of the Ronald McDonald House of Dallas so that added families can account from a home-away-from-home to serve and sustain them while their actively ill accouchement accept analysis from a Dallas hospital.

Sleep Experts supports the D/FW association through partnerships with added than 20 across nonprofit organizations that breeding and affliction for accouchement and families in crisis. Through its Rest Assured program, every time a chump buys a new Sleep Experts mattress, the aggregation recycles the old mattress and donates it to one of these organizations. To date, Sleep Experts has provided added than 6,000 beds to the association and donated over $400,000 in recycled mattresses, consistent in over a actor nights of beddy-bye for bags of families in need.

About Ronald McDonald House
Established in 1981, the Ronald McDonald House of Dallas has served as a home-away-from-home for added than 26,000 families of actively ill accouchement who accept catholic to Dallas gluttonous medical analysis in across hospitals. By accouterment a caring, supportive, home-like environment, the Ronald McDonald House of Dallas keeps the ancestors complete and helps acquiesce a ancestors to authorize a accustomed accepted in the bosom of crisis. It aswell provides families with the befalling to allotment their apropos with added families in agnate circumstances. The alignment is currently architecture a new House, which will bifold its accommodation and will accessible in backward 2009. For added information, amuse acquaintance the Ronald McDonald House of Dallas at 214.631.7354, or appointment the website at www.rmhdallas.com.

About Sleep Experts
Sleep Experts, a mattress banker with 34 locations in the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex, offers a ample alternative of innerspring mattresses, foam mattresses and air mattresses, with brands including Simmons, Beautyrest, Back Supporter, Tempur-Pedic, ComforPedic, Sleep Designs and Air Number. Sleep Experts is the almsman of the 2009 Greater Dallas Business Ethics Award and the 2009 Consumers' Choice Award®, and has been voted a Dallas Business Journal Best Place to plan in D/FW. Through its Rest Assured association program, Sleep Experts recycles customers' old mattresses and donates them to non-profit organizations confined families in crisis. For added information, appointment www.sleepexperts.com or alarm (888) 55-SLEEP.

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