Convene Announces the Launch of its Newest Christian CEO/Business Owner Forum in Houston, TX.


Placentia, CA (PRWEB) July 25, 2012

Convene, the premier Christian CEO and Business Owner forum organization, announces the launch of its newest forum team in Houston, Texas. The new team is led by Convene Chair Jonathan Goodale, a skilled facilitator with a solid business background and mature faith.

Convene CEO peer advisory groups meet monthly to work on their businesses by discussing relevant business issues, seeking wise counsel and providing the shared insights of their combined years of business and spiritual experience.

For the majority of his career, Jonathan Goodale has worked in the upstream natural resources industry for both small independent companies and large multinational public corporations. As the President of UMIC Cote dIvoire, he was successful in leading the exploration and development efforts that reestablished oil production in that country.

His leadership enabled UMIC to collaborate successfully with this underdeveloped West African nation, growing its natural resource base and allowing them to become energy independent. Goodale was knighted (Chevalier) by the nation for his efforts.

Jonathans roles included technical evaluation, contract negotiations, financial forecasting, strategic planning, and management of all resources (capital, human and intellectual). Most recently Jonathan was the leading force in the team that built CMNSL from a few million dollars of risk capital to an entity that had an enterprise value to the parent company of $ 350 million.

For more information on Jonathans new Convene team, please visit http://www.convenenow.com/houston-b/ on the web.

Founded in 1996, Convene is a dynamic community of Christian CEOs and business owners meeting together to help each other build exceptional businesses, increase leadership success, and have greater Kingdom impact through the principle of iron sharpening iron.







Chef Waldy Malouf Designs Chef Coats with Crooked Brook for his Newest New York City Restaurant High Heat


New York, NY (PRWEB) June 12, 2012

Crooked Brook, makers of “The World’s Highest Quality Chef Jackets” was contacted by Chef Waldy Malouf to design and produce custom chef jackets for his newest New York City restaurant called High Heat.

Malouf and his managers will be wearing Crooked Brook chef coat style M100, in khaki, certified 100% organic cotton twill fabric with a left shoulder sleeve tailored welt pocket and natural Abalone shell buttons.

The High Heat logo will be embroidered on the left chest of the chef jackets.

About Waldy Malouf

Waldy Malouf is the Co-Owner/Chef of Beacon and is opening a restaurant called High Heat on Bleecker St. in New York City. High Heat is the first restaurant opened of a three restaurant concept offering pizza, burgers and wine and beer on tap. The wine will be on tap in efforts to ‘go green’ and eliminate some use of plastics.

Waldy Malouf has over 30 years experience in developing and managing successful food and beverage operations. He is culinarily driven, operationally focused and a natural leader. His service philosophy stems from the belief that employees and customers are a proprietors greatest asset. Together with a core team of industry professionals, his firm offers over 100 years combined experience in hotel and restaurant management.

About Crooked Brook

Crooked Brook is a unit of the atelier division of an art studio that offers full service apparel design, pattern making, sample making, private-label small lot production and embroidery. Since 1989, theyve built a strong reputation of providing top-notch apparel designs, patterns, fit and production samples for many brand name catalogs and retailers, as well as wardrobe and costumes for movies, television and theater.

All Crooked Brook branded garments and accessories are proudly made to order in the U.S.A.

Because of their unparalleled attention to detail in tailoring, they were awarded a Supima

ALltopics.com Offers Newest Information and News On Animation


(PRWEB) June 19, 2012

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What are the most popular animation techniques? What are the most recent approaches to animation? Animation.alltopics.com is a professional guide to the fundamental principles of animation as it covers all technical issues, explores most popular approaches and allows readers to discover the history of animated graphics.

Animation, in some ways, has become synonymous with Disney and it is thanks to animation.alltopics.com that users can enjoy the marvelous world of Disney animation. Alltopics.com is readers ultimate source for breaking news, compelling articles and marvelous videos on Pocahontas, Mulan, Winnie the Pooh, Toy Story, Finding Nemo and many more.

As the most recent animation technique – computer animation – encompasses a variety of techniques, alltopics.com collects and ranks the most popular animation stories for readers to find at one glance. Animation.alltopics.com is a starting place to explore everything about all animation techniques and all aspects concerning the topic.

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