North Carolina`s Triangle region is making headlines. One of its native companies, Blue Shoe Technologies, Inc., a dynamic IT professional services company specializing in Communications Triage solutions, has recently received an award for being one of the fastest growing private companies in the area.

Boasting a 8-9 record the New Jersey Nets so far have not lived up to expectations. The team has desperately tried to acquire a power forward ever since they decided not to bring in Shareef Abdur-Rahim in the offseason. In an attempt to shore up their front line, the Nets have turned their attention to a couple of players currently with the Charlotte Bobcats, namely Sean May and Melvin Ely.

There is a new novel on the book shelves, which happens to be full of suspense and the paranormal. So for all of you suspense thriller seekers, this is the book for you.

?The greatest American director in the tradition of John Ford?. This is how Elliot Gould, M.A.S.H. star described the show?s director, Michael Altman who died in a Los Angeles hospital.

After noting some of the best performers so far this season, let?s review some of the ones who have been somewhat disappointing. You can?t spell the word disappointment without mentioning the name of Ron Artest. Larry Bird must be having second thoughts about appearing on the cover of SI with this guy.

If you or someone you know have been dreaming about becoming a famous filmmaker, VersusMedia film contest could be a good place to begin. However, the deadline is quickly creeping up so it`s time to begin wrapping up the takes.

In the world of gambling entertainment there is one game that is king, casino poker. No other game beats poker, it`s fun, it`s easy to learn and most of all, with so many different variations, the game will never ever get boring.

Six gardens will be featured in the Maricopa County Master Gardener showcase, which include five Master Gardener gardens full of inspiration and beauty, as well as one school garden.

Mark Green, who is a candidate for the Attorney General position for the state of Florida, plans to return a $10,000 contribution from a billionaire money manager, Jeffrey Epstein. Epstein is under indictment for allegedly soliciting prostitutes.

Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes have a lot to be proud of. Their little daughter, Suri, is a year old and recently celebrated her first birthday in style, surrounded by her family. The child is still blissfully unaware of the amount of media attention she attracted from the time that her parents announced Holmes? pregnancy and for months after her birth.

While visiting projects she funds for AIDS orphans in the southern African nation of Malawi this week, Madonna has supposedly adopted a Malawian boy, who goes by the name of David Banda, or Davie, now that he has an Anglo Mother.

The Luttrells ? she 37, he 47 ? are part of a growing, high-end RV culture. Although RVs` were once perceived as a blue-collar objects ? today they are the next millionaires` mansions.

Previously, Sophisticated Cat catered specifically and only to cats - considered by many to be the elite of the pet world, in keeping with their former position as deities in ancient Egypt.

Seeking to deny rhetorical ammunition to the authoritarian Castro brothers in Cuba and their allies in Venezuela`s Hugo Chavez, Washington reiterated over the weekend that America has no plans to destabilize or invade Cuba.

Last year the U.S. Supreme Court decided to give a green light to lawsuits against the file sharing businesses, thus letting us seem that the file-swapping software is in danger. According to the Supreme Court, developers of these programs can be thought as legally responsible for the unauthorized sharing by their users ? since the technology companies were in a way encouraging customers to steal music and movie files.