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Showing posts with label Carolina. Show all posts

Monday, December 21, 2009

North Carolina Make Mine A Million $ Business™ Event Invites South Carolina Women Entrepreneurs

Mary Cantando, coordinator for the North Carolina Make Mine a Million $ Business™ (www.makemineamillion.org) event, has appear that the alignment is now accepting applications from South Carolina women business owners for its aboriginal North Carolina event, which will be captivated on Tuesday, Oct. 7 at the Blake Hotel, amid at 555 S. McDowell St. The affairs provides a aggregate of money, mentoring, business and technology accoutrement that advice women entrepreneurs abound their businesses from micros to millions. North Carolina is one of alone 10 states to host the affairs in 2008.

Women business owners from both North and South Carolina may complete an online accolade appliance through Thursday, Sept. 11. Make Mine a Million $ Business™ provides a aggregate of money, mentoring, business and technology accoutrement that advice women entrepreneurs abound their businesses from micros to millions. Finalists will be called from applicants statewide and asked to bear a business angle to women entrepreneurs, board and guests at the event. Winners will be called by board and admirers members. Women entrepreneurs absorbed in applying for the accident are encouraged to appointment www.makemineamillion.org for added information.

Related Links:
www.makemineamillion.org
www.mmimarketing.com

News Facts:
•Mary Cantando, coordinator for the North Carolina Make Mine a Million $ Business™ (www.makemineamillion.org) event, has appear that the alignment is now accepting applications from South Carolina women business owners for its aboriginal North Carolina event, which will be captivated on Tuesday, Oct. 7 at the Blake Hotel, amid at 555 S. McDowell St.
•The affairs provides a aggregate of money, mentoring, business and technology accoutrement that advice women entrepreneurs abound their businesses from micros to millions.
•North Carolina is one of alone 10 states to host the affairs in 2008.
•Women business owners from both North and South Carolina may complete an online accolade appliance through Thursday, Sept. 11.
•Make Mine a Million $ Business™ provides a aggregate of money, mentoring, business and technology accoutrement that advice women entrepreneurs abound their businesses from micros to millions.
•Finalists will be called from applicants statewide and asked to bear a business angle to women entrepreneurs, board and guests at the event.
•Winners will be called by board and admirers members.
•Women entrepreneurs absorbed in applying for the accident are encouraged to appointment www.makemineamillion.org for added information.

Quotes:
“We are aflame to accessible our North Carolina accident to women entrepreneurs from South Carolina,” said Cantando. “This accident offers women business owners an absurd befalling to apprentice how they can abound their businesses accomplished the $1 actor mark, and I acerb animate them to apply.”

“We are aflame to accessible our North Carolina accident to women entrepreneurs from South Carolina,” said Nell Merlino, architect and admiral of Count Me In. “Our movement is growing exponentially, blame American women into the next borderland of bread-and-butter achievement. The baby business area is a advancing allotment of our country’s economy, and women-owned firms are the fastest growing segment. There is a abundant befalling actuality to advice actualize jobs and accomplish acquirement from which we will all benefit.”

About Make Mine A Million $ Business™:
Make Mine a Million $ Business™, a affairs of Count Me In and founding partner, American Express OPENSM, provides women entrepreneurs with the befalling to aggrandize their businesses by breeding added than a actor dollars in anniversary revenue. A different civic affairs that provides money, mentoring and business opportunities to advice businesses abound from micro to millions, the ambition of Make Mine a Million $ Business™ is to advance one actor women entrepreneurs in the accomplishment to ability anniversary revenues of one actor dollars by 2010. North Carolina will host the state’s aboriginal Make Mine a Million $ Business™ accident on Tuesday, Oct. 7 at the Blake Hotel in Charlotte. For added advice amuse appointment www.makemineamillion.org or alarm (212) 245-1245.

Jennifer Fair
MMI Associates, Inc.
(919) 233-6600
patty@mmimarketing.com
PR Firms Raleigh, NC

Communities In Schools Of North Carolina Partners With Miss North Carolina 2008

Linda Harrill, admiral and CEO of Communities In Schools of North Carolina (CISNC) (www.cisnc.org) has appear that Amanda Watson, Miss North Carolina 2008, has been called a agent for the nonprofit organization. Through her affiliation with CISNC, Watson will appointment abundant average schools above North Carolina and abode acceptance on the abrogating accoutrement of smoking, as able-bodied as how to accomplish astute choices in and out of school. CISNC connects association assets with schools and added sites to advice adolescent humans auspiciously learn, break in academy and adapt for life. Basic to this action is acclamation behaviors such as smoking, boyhood abundance and gang-related issues, which ability position acceptance to be at accident of academy failure.

Watson is an breath advocate and agent for the ALS Association, confined humans with Lou Gehrig’s disease, and has been called a civic agent for her work. In addition, she serves as an agent for the Children’s Miracle Network, a nonprofit alignment committed to extenuative and convalescent the lives of accouchement by adopting funds for children’s hospitals above North America. Watson is a chief at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and is advancing a bachelor’s of music amount with a absorption in education.

Communities In Schools of North Carolina (CISNC), an apart congenital nonprofit, was accustomed in 1989 as a allotment of the civic Communities In Schools network. The alignment is the nation’s better community-based dropout blockage affairs with about 200 communities confined 1.2 actor adolescence in the United States. For added advice about CISNC, alarm (800) 849-8881 or appointment their Web website at www.cisnc.org.

Related Links:
www.cisnc.org
www.missnc.org
www.alsa.org
www.childrensmiraclenetwork.org
www.mmimarketing.com

News Facts:
•Amanda Watson, Miss North Carolina 2008, has been called a agent for Communities In Schools of North Carolina (CISNC).
•Through her affiliation with CISNC, Watson will appointment abundant average schools above North Carolina and abode acceptance on the abrogating accoutrement of smoking, as able-bodied as how to accomplish astute choices in and out of school.
•CISNC connects association assets with schools and added sites to advice adolescent humans auspiciously learn, break in academy and adapt for life.
•Watson is an breath advocate and agent for the ALS Association, confined humans with Lou Gehrig’s disease, and has been called a civic agent for her work.
•CISNC, an apart congenital nonprofit, was accustomed in 1989 as a allotment of the civic Communities In Schools network.
•The alignment is the nation’s better community-based dropout blockage affairs with about 200 communities confined 1.2 actor adolescence in the United States.

Quotes:
“We are admiring to accept Amanda Watson allege on account of CISNC,” said Mike Stephens, arch operating officer. “Her celebrity, her active abandon and her charge to allowance adolescent humans codify astute decisions makes her the absolute best for alive with CIS kids.”

About Communities In Schools Of North Carolina:
Communities In Schools of North Carolina (CISNC), an apart congenital nonprofit, was accustomed in 1989 as a allotment of the civic Communities In Schools network. The alignment is the nation’s better community-based dropout blockage affairs with about 200 communities confined 1.2 actor adolescence in the United States. CISNC is overseen by a axle of admiral that represents both accessible and clandestine interests for the state. The 39 bounded CIS affiliates above North Carolina affix absolute county-wide assets with acceptance and their families at schools to ensure that adolescence abide to break in school, apprentice all-important skills, and are adorable to activate alive or appear a column accessory academy afterwards graduation. CISNC provides both bounded and on-site training and abstruse assistance, serves as an advice centermost for bounded communities anxious about adolescent humans at accident of academy failure, and builds partnerships with accompaniment agencies and organizations to account adolescence above the state. For added information, alarm (800) 849-8881 or appointment their Web website at www.cisnc.org.

Patty Briguglio
MMI Associates, Inc.
(919) 233-6600
patty@mmimarketing.com
PR Firms Raleigh, NC

Gov. Michael F. Easley Welcomes Make Mine A Million $ Business Event To North Carolina

Mary Cantando, coordinator for the North Carolina Make Mine a Million $ Business™ (www.makemineamillion.org) event, has appear that North Carolina Governor Michael F. Easley and the accompaniment of North Carolina accept issued a letter of acceptable to the organization’s countdown North Carolina accident on Oct. 7 at the Blake Hotel, amid at 555 S. McDowell St. North Carolina is one of alone 10 states to host the affairs in 2008. In the letter addressed to the Make Mine a Million $ Business™ event, Easley accustomed the appointment for accepting the adeptness to accomplish backbone and activity a allotment of women entrepreneurs that will acquiesce them to acknowledgment to their corresponding places of application with a renewed alacrity for their work.

Make Mine a Million $ Business™ provides a aggregate of money, mentoring, business and technology accoutrement that advice women entrepreneurs abound their businesses from micros to millions. Finalists will be called from applicants statewide and asked to bear a business angle to women entrepreneurs, board and guests at the event. Winners will be called by board and admirers members. Women entrepreneurs absorbed in applying for the North Carolina accident are encouraged to appointment www.makemineamillion.org for added information.

Related Links:
www.makemineamillion.org
www.mmimarketing.com

News Facts:
•Mary Cantando, coordinator for the North Carolina Make Mine a Million $ Business™ (www.makemineamillion.org) event, has appear that North Carolina Governor Michael F. Easley and the accompaniment of North Carolina accept issued a letter of acceptable to the organization’s countdown North Carolina accident on Oct. 7 at the Blake Hotel, amid at 555 S. McDowell St.
•North Carolina is one of alone 10 states to host the affairs in 2008.
•In the letter addressed to the Make Mine a Million $ Business™ event, Easley accustomed the appointment for accepting the adeptness to accomplish backbone and activity a allotment of women entrepreneurs that will acquiesce them to acknowledgment to their corresponding places of application with a renewed alacrity for their work.
•Make Mine a Million $ Business™ provides a aggregate of money, mentoring, business and technology accoutrement that advice women entrepreneurs abound their businesses from micros to millions.
•Finalists will be called from applicants statewide and asked to bear a business angle to women entrepreneurs, board and guests at the event.
•Winners will be called by board and admirers members.
•Women entrepreneurs absorbed in applying for the North Carolina accident are encouraged to appointment www.makemineamillion.org for added information.

Quotes:

“We are aflame to accessible our North Carolina accident to women entrepreneurs from South Carolina,” said Nell Merlino, architect and admiral of Count Me In. “Our movement is growing exponentially, blame American women into the next borderland of bread-and-butter achievement. The baby business area is a advancing allotment of our country’s economy, and women-owned firms are the fastest growing segment. There is a abundant befalling actuality to advice actualize jobs and accomplish acquirement from which we will all benefit.”

“We are accustomed that Michael Easley has issued a issued a letter of acceptable in acceptance of North Carolina’s aboriginal Make Mine a Million $ Business™ event,” said Cantando. “This accident will accessible doors of befalling for North Carolina women business owners.”

About Make Mine A Million $ Business™:
Make Mine a Million $ Business™, a affairs of Count Me In and founding partner, American Express OPENSM, provides women entrepreneurs with the befalling to aggrandize their businesses by breeding added than a actor dollars in anniversary revenue. A different civic affairs that provides money, mentoring and business opportunities to advice businesses abound from micro to millions, the ambition of Make Mine a Million $ Business™ is to advance one actor women entrepreneurs in the accomplishment to ability anniversary revenues of one actor dollars by 2010. North Carolina will host the state’s aboriginal Make Mine a Million $ Business™ accident on Tuesday, Oct. 7 at the Blake Hotel in Charlotte. For added advice amuse appointment www.makemineamillion.org or alarm (212) 245-1245.

Jennifer Fair
MMI Associates, Inc.
(919) 233-6600
patty@mmimarketing.com
PR Firms Raleigh, NC

Stanly County Commissioners Endorse New White Paper

The Stanly County Board of Commissioners has appear the academic endorsement of a white cardboard acclamation the charge to anamnesis the Yadkin River from Alcoa, whose 50-year authorization to administer and sustain buying of the baptize abounding from the Yadkin River is up for face-lifting this year. The paper, authored by Roger Dick, president/CEO and architect of Stanly County’s Uwharrie Capital Corporation as able-bodied as a affiliate of the N.C. Water Rights Committee, is advised to serve as an advice adviser for North Carolina citizens, all whom are afflicted by the accepted baptize policy. Dick discusses the activity crisis apropos hydropower and how the federal licensing of accessible assets is affecting Stanly County and North Carolina. The proposed band-aid is the a lot of environmentally affable option, acceptance the anamnesis of the Yadkin River from Alcoa and the use of this ability to the account of the citizens of the Yadkin Valley and the State of North Carolina.

Alcoa has filed an appliance with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to access addition 50-year authorization for the Narrows Dam on the Yadkin River in Stanly County. It accustomed a antecedent one in 1958. If Alcoa is successful, one of North Carolina’s a lot of admired baptize assets will be acclimated to aerate its profits instead of accepting acclimated to account the humans of North Carolina. Before the FERC decides on the application, the N.C. Division of Water Quality (DWQ) have to aphorism on Alcoa’s appliance for a appropriate 401 baptize above affidavit for the dam. Following a two-week accessible animadversion aeon area anxious citizens submitted claims of ecology hazards in affiliation with Alcoa’s operations, and adverse a accessible bounce from the DWQ in ablaze of this development, the aggregation withdrew its aboriginal appliance May 9 and offered a revised one in its abode the aforementioned day. The DWQ accommodation is accepted to crop several months. In the meantime, the FERC has accepted Alcoa a one-year addendum of its present license.

The white cardboard is accessible for download at www.ncwaterrights.org/Info/Info003.aspx.

White Paper excerpt:
If Alcoa gets this authorization renewed, we North Carolinians will accept to ask Alcoa for permission to use our own state’s accessible rivers. Not alone will we accept to ask permission, but we will accept to pay for the privilege. Alcoa operates in added than 300 locations in 44 countries. Such a bunch association does not authority the best interests of drought-ridden North Carolina as a priority.

Related Links:
www.co.stanly.nc.us
www.ncwaterrights.org http://h2o.enr.state.nc.us/
www.ncwaterrights.org/Info/Info003.aspx
www.uwharriecapitalcorp.com

News Facts:

•The Stanly County Board of Commissioners has appear the academic endorsement of a white cardboard acclamation the charge to anamnesis the Yadkin River from Alcoa, whose 50-year authorization to administer and sustain buying of the baptize abounding from the Yadkin River is up for face-lifting this year.
•The paper, authored by Roger Dick, president/CEO and architect of Stanly County’s Uwharrie Capital Corporation as able-bodied as a affiliate of the N.C. Water Rights Committee, is advised to serve as an advice adviser for North Carolina citizens, all whom are afflicted by the accepted baptize policy.
•Dick discusses the activity crisis apropos hydropower and how the federal licensing of accessible assets is affecting Stanly County and North Carolina.
•The proposed band-aid is the a lot of environmentally affable option, acceptance the anamnesis of the Yadkin River from Alcoa and the use of this ability to the account of the citizens of the Yadkin Valley and the State of North Carolina.

Quotes:
“We awful acclaim that anybody absorbed in acquirements the abounding data involving Alcoa’s operations on the Yadkin River apprehend this accomplished white paper,” said Stanly County Commissioner Lindsey Dunevant. “The after-effects of acceptance a clandestine bunch close to accumulation from the absolute use of a accessible ability such as the Yadkin for addition 50 years are dire, not just for Stanly County but all of North Carolina. The white cardboard provides a abundant accretion about the issues at pale in this action and their appulse on us and our children.”

About Roger Dick:
Roger Dick is president/CEO and architect of Uwharrie Capital Corp, which is a case captivation aggregation that owns three banks: Bank of Stanly, Cabarrus Bank & Trust Company, and Anson Bank & Trust Company alternating with Strategic Investment Advisors, Inc. Bank of Stanly owns a NASD-member balance brokerage, The Strategic Alliance Corp, and an allowance agency, BOS Agency, Inc. Roger holds an M.A. in accounts from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. He is a certified investment administration analysis, a acceptance awarded by The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, one of the world’s arch business schools. Roger is a above affiliate of the North Carolina Banking Commission and is an breath Board affiliate of the Central Park of North Carolina. He has a abysmal compassionate of the bread-and-butter issues that affect North Carolina and, for added than 25 years, has been discussing the virtues of bounded ascendancy of basic and accustomed resources.

About N.C. Water Rights Committee:
The N.C. Water Rights Committee is a affiliation of North Carolina businesses and anxious citizens who accept abutting this state-wide accomplishment to acquaint citizens of the analytical issues apropos baptize rights that affects all North Carolinians. For added information, appointment www.ncwaterrights.org.

Patty Briguglio
MMI Associates, Inc.
(919) 233-6600
patty@mmimarketing.com
PR Firms Raleigh, NC

North Carolina Triad Manufacturers Attend Free AmCon Expo This November

Greensboro, Winston-Salem, and High Point, accomplish up North Carolina’s Piedmont Triad. That across of North Carolina is home to a assorted accumulation of manufacturers, including automated accouterment and equipment, automotive, aerospace, medical, and electronics.

Major manufacturers in the arena cover RFMD, Hayward Pool Products, Freightliner, Gilbarco Veeder-Root, Siemens Power Generation, Penn Engineering, BE Aerospace, Wilson-Cook Medical, Eveready Battery, Arrow International, Technimark, Cooper Tire & Rubber, Honda Aircraft, Engineered Controls, Mickey Truck Bodies, Deere-Hitachi, Johnson Controls Battery, Duracell, Diebold, Proctor & Gamble, General Dynamics Adv. Info. Sys., GNK Driveline, A O Smith, General Electric, McRae Industries, Metzeler Automation, Pentair Water Pool & Spa, Santronics, Magneti Marelli Powertrain, Static Control Components, Meon, Honda Power Equipment, Atrium Companies, Konica Minolta, Pass & Seymour, Tyco Electronics, Volvo Group, Environmental Air Systems, EMC Corp., and Analog Devices.

The allowances of accessory a bounded AmCon appearance are significant. The AmCon North Carolina Contract Manufacturing Expo will be captivated in Greensboro, North Carolina on November 18-19, 2008 at the Greensboro Coliseum. According to Kati Olson, President, “AmCon is the alone appearance in the Piedmont Triad area job shops and arrangement manufacturers can accommodated contiguous with austere OEM buyers of custom accomplishment casework from the region.”

Engineers and buyers accessory an AmCon Contract Manufacturing Expo can acquisition one or assorted sources to crop a activity from abstraction or ancestor to accomplished artefact bound and at aggressive prices. OEMs can acquisition sources for engineering, design, prototypes, forming, fabricating, machining, finishing, accumulation and cyberbanking accomplishment casework all beneath one roof. Whether analytic for one allotment or assembly runs, attendees acquisition assorted sources from which to choose. AmCon offers attendees a different befalling to investigate a array of accomplishment options, both new and traditional, and acquisition the best processes and abstracts for specific applications. Attendees appearance absolute samples of articles that accept been produced for added OEMs in their industry and can get quotes on accepted projects and analyze quality, pricing, and advance times from assorted vendors all in a few hours. Only AmCon shows accommodate a “hands on” one-on-one education. Since the exhibits are staffed with top administration and abstruse personnel, attendees accept an all-embracing altercation apropos activity design, abstracts and assembly issues. AmCon shows are free, including seminars on a array of accomplishment processes and above issues. To annals for the North Carolina accident go to: www.AmConshows.com.

AmCon
www.amconshows.com
Kati Olson, President
news@amconshows.com
978-744-7680

Historic Photos of North Carolina by Wade G. Dudley

North Carolina, the accompaniment with the adage Esse Quam Videri, or “to be rather than to seem” has been an basic allotment of the bolt of United States history. The adventure of North Carolina, area the choir of the citizens bell calm to affirm their accompaniment acknowledgment “here’s to the acreage of the longleaf pine” from their youth, reflects both a affiliated and accelerating spirit and a different ability that are the foundation of the state’s abreast abundance and cutting popularity.

With fact-filled photo captions and affiliate introductions by Wade G. Dudley, Historic Photos of North Carolina rediscovers the state’s alluring accomplished through about 200 attenuate photographs called from the Library of Congress and the North Carolina State Archives, showcased with aberrant accuracy and beauty. This makes a admirable book for any history, travel, or photography enthusiast!

Whether the aboriginal acknowledged air flight by the Wright brothers abreast Kitty Hawk in 1903 or the women’s capitalism campaign, North Carolina shines through the decades in august black-and-white photography, displayed in a ample format.

“I durably accept that to accept the present and accept any achievement for a bigger future, we have to accept the past. Old photographs are a way of compassionate change and the agents of change. They tend to affect us on a akin that words do not; and while words may acrylic a thousand pictures, just one account holds a amount of accuracy that a thousand words may never approach,” says columnist Dudley.

Historic Photos of North Carolina is allotment of Turner Publishing’s Historic Photos series. These books, highlighting the history of the abundant cities, cardinal events, and allegorical abstracts above America, accept been acclaimed as a basic in the accumulating of anyone who loves history.

Historic Photos of North Carolina
By: Wade G. Dudley
Turner Publishing, $39.95
ISBN 13: 978-1-59652-451-4
www.turnerpublishing.com

Contact Information:
Rachel Joiner
Liz Chenery
Marketing
Turner Publishing Company
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Email: rpatton@turnerpublishing.com
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North Carolina Manufacturing Expo in Greensboro in Just One Month

Engineers and buyers accessory an AmCon Contract Manufacturing Expo can acquisition one or assorted sources to crop a activity from abstraction or ancestor to accomplished artefact bound and at aggressive prices. OEMs can acquisition sources for engineering, design, prototypes, forming, fabricating, machining, finishing, accumulation and cyberbanking accomplishment casework all beneath one roof. Whether analytic for one allotment or assembly runs, attendees acquisition assorted sources from which to choose.

The allowances of accessory a bounded AmCon appearance are significant. The AmCon North Carolina Contract Manufacturing Expo will be captivated in Greensboro, North Carolina on November 18-19, 2008 at the Greensboro Coliseum. Greensboro, Winston-Salem, and High Point, accomplish up North Carolina’s Piedmont Triad. That across of North Carolina is home to a assorted accumulation of manufacturers, including automated accouterment and equipment, automotive, aerospace, medical, and electronics. According to Kati Olson, President, “AmCon is the alone appearance in the Piedmont Triad area job shops and arrangement manufacturers can accommodated contiguous with austere OEM buyers of custom accomplishment casework from the region.”

Major manufacturers in the arena cover RFMD, Hayward Pool Products, Freightliner, Gilbarco Veeder-Root, Siemens Power Generation, Penn Engineering, BE Aerospace, Wilson-Cook Medical, Eveready Battery, Arrow International, Technimark, Cooper Tire & Rubber, Honda Aircraft, Engineered Controls, Mickey Truck Bodies, Deere-Hitachi, Johnson Controls Battery, Duracell, Diebold, Proctor & Gamble, General Dynamics Adv. Info. Sys., GNK Driveline, A O Smith, General Electric, McRae Industries, Metzeler Automation, Pentair Water Pool & Spa, Santronics, Magneti Marelli Powertrain, Static Control Components, Meon, Honda Power Equipment, Atrium Companies, Konica Minolta, Pass & Seymour, Tyco Electronics, Volvo Group, Environmental Air Systems, EMC Corp., and Analog Devices.

AmCon offers attendees a different befalling to investigate a array of accomplishment options, both new and traditional, and acquisition the best processes and abstracts for specific applications. Attendees appearance absolute samples of articles that accept been produced for added OEMs in their industry and can get quotes on accepted projects and analyze quality, pricing, and advance times from assorted vendors all in a few hours. Only AmCon shows accommodate a “hands on” one-on-one education. Since the exhibits are staffed with top administration and abstruse personnel, attendees accept an all-embracing altercation apropos activity design, abstracts and assembly issues. AmCon shows are free, including seminars on a array of accomplishment processes and above issues. To annals for the North Carolina accident go to: www.AmConshows.com.

AmCon
www.amconshows.com
Kati Olson, President
news@amconshows.com
978-744-7680

Cherry, Bekaert & Holland, L.L.P. Recognized By NC Magazine

Cherry, Bekaert & Holland, L.L.P. (CB&H) (www.cbh.com) has been featured on NC Magazine’s 2009 NC Power 180, an anniversary account to highlight anniversary of the North Carolina Chamber’s Cornerstone members. As the official annual of the North Carolina Chamber, NC Magazine focuses on the ability of North Carolina business with appearance on education, biotechnology, law, bread-and-butter development, manufacturing, transportation, healthcare and more.

Cherry, Bekaert & Holland, L.L.P. has been accouterment high-quality banking and administration casework to a assorted and acknowledged applicant abject for added than 60 years. CB&H, a certified accessible accounting and consulting firm, is ranked a allotment of the top 30 accounting firms in the country and is one of the better bounded CPA firms headquartered in the Southeast. For added advice on CB&H, amuse appointment www.cbh.com.

Related Links:
www.cbh.com
www.ncmagazine.com

News Facts:
•Cherry, Bekaert & Holland, L.L.P. has been featured on NC Magazine’s 2009 NC Power 180, an anniversary account to highlight anniversary of the North Carolina Chamber’s Cornerstone members.
•As the official annual of the North Carolina Chamber, NC Magazine focuses on the ability of North Carolina business with appearance on education, biotechnology, law, bread-and-butter development, manufacturing, transportation, healthcare and more.
•Cherry, Bekaert & Holland, L.L.P. has been accouterment high-quality banking and administration casework to a assorted and acknowledged applicant abject for added than 60 years.
•CB&H, a certified accessible accounting and consulting firm, is ranked a allotment of the top 30 accounting firms in the country and is one of the better bounded CPA firms headquartered in the Southeast.

Quotes:
“It is agitative for Cherry, Bekaert & Holland to be accustomed by a advertisement that represents North Carolina’s business community,” said Paul Fedorkowicz, partner-in-charge. “We are admiring to be accustomed as a aggregation for our contributions to the accompaniment of North Carolina and the Chamber, and we plan to abide to accommodate accomplished account for our clients.”

About Cherry, Bekaert & Holland, L.L.P.:
For added than 60 years, Cherry, Bekaert & Holland, L.L.P. (CB&H) has provided high-quality banking and administration casework to a assorted and acknowledged applicant base. As an avant-garde and awful able certified accessible accounting (CPA) and consulting firm, CB&H serves as a admired adviser to added than 25,000 audience by accouterment advice on important operational and alone matters. Ranked a allotment of the top 30 accounting firms in the nation, CB&H is abnormally positioned to admit quality, cost-effective and applied admonition to audience that cover bunch corporations, clandestine businesses, nonprofit organizations, authoritative entities, arising or startup firms and acknowledged individuals. As one of the better bounded CPA firms headquartered in the Southeast, CB&H's ability arrangement stretches above six states: Alabama, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia, and nationally and internationally through an accord with Baker Tilly International Limited, an affiliation of absolute accounting and consulting firms. For added information, appointment www.cbh.com.

Patty Briguglio
MMI Associates, Inc.
(919) 233-6600
patty@mmimarketing.com

Dr. John Pittman of the Carolina Center Contributes to “The Voice of Integrative Medicine”

John Pittman, MD, architect of the Carolina Center for Integrative Medicine (CCIM), will now be a approved contributor to the American College for Advancement in Medicine’s website. ACAM is a not-for-profit affiliation committed to educating physicians and added bloom affliction professionals on the latest allegation and arising procedures in complementary, addition and commutual (CAIM) medicine. The alignment is committed to developing an educational affairs that is based aloft the a lot of current, comprehensive, and scientifically complete affirmation available.

Dr. Pittman founded the Carolina Center in 1994. He accustomed his MD amount from Mercer University in Macon, Georgia and abounding the Pediatric Residency Program at NC Baptist Hospital in Winston-Salem with an absorption in Preventive Medicine. He is the alone bounded physician absolutely certified in chelation analysis for the analysis of abundant metal toxicity and alone one of six medical practitioners in the accompaniment of North Carolina who is certified through the American Board of Clinical Metal Toxicology.

Dr. Pittman is the accepted President of the North Carolina Integrative Medical Society (NCIMS), an alignment he helped co-found in 2002 that provides educational opportunities to practitioners, as able-bodied protects the rights of practitioners to amusement patients with the best bloom affliction modalities available. He aswell was afresh accustomed by Business Leader annual as one of their 2008 Triangle Impact Health Care Leaders. He says that his role in NCIMS has helped him ability out to non-conventional physicians and that acquaintance will advice him accept capacity that affect both accepted and non-conventional physicians.

"Being able to affix with physicians through ACAM is an absurd opportunity,” explains Dr. Pittman. “Being a agent for Integrative Medicine in North Carolina is a abundant claiming and responsibility. However, the adeptness to arch the bisect that has breach accepted and non-conventional doctors and advice brainwash added boilerplate physicians about the accurate analysis that exists and supports the use of abounding non-pharmaceutical modalities is gratifying. I’m accustomed to be a allotment of ACAM and attending advanced to application my able ability and acquaintance on NCIMS to appearance my contributions.”

ACAM is committed to ensuring that physicians, researchers, and added CAIM healthcare professionals play an breath role in abstraction the approaching of the CAIM movement. To that end, the alignment utilizes a civic arrangement of ACAM leaders as spokespeople to acutely and bigger acquaint the allowances that CAIM therapies accept in convalescent analysis outcomes of accommodating affliction and the accomplished healthcare system. Drew McGray, ACAM VP of Marketing and Operations, says that his organization’s Blog is just one of assets that ACAM is application to affix physicians and that Dr. Pittman’s posts accept been able-bodied received.

"ACAM is aflame to add Dr. Pittman as a alternating bedfellow blogger,” says McGray. “His contributions accept generated a abundant accord of buzz in the community, and we attending advanced to his approaching posts."

About the Carolina Center for Integrative Medicine
The Carolina Center utilizes a aggregate of the a lot of accelerating addition therapies, alternating with comestible and affairs modifications, to amusement a advanced array of abiding illnesses and allowed arrangement dysfunctions. Conditions advised cover Atherosclerosis & Disorders of Circulation, Chronic Digestive Disturbances, Chronic Infections & Immune Dysfunction, Degenerative Neurological Disorders, Fibromyalgia, Lyme Disease, Natural Hormone Replacement Therapy, Multiple Chemical Sensitivity/Environmental Allergies, and Pediatric Program for Autism. The Carolina Center aswell provides Chemical Detoxification and abutment for patients afflicted through acknowledgment to mold, pesticides, mercury, and ailing architecture syndrome. For added information, alarm (919) 571-4391 or appointment www.carolinacenter.com.

About the American College for Advancement in Medicine (ACAM)
ACAM is the articulation of commutual medicine; our goals are to advance physician skills, ability and analytic procedures as they chronicle to commutual and addition medicine; to abutment commutual anesthetic research; and to advance acquaintance of addition methods of medical treatment. ACAM enables associates of the accessible to affix with physicians who crop an commutual access to accommodating affliction and empowers humans with advice about commutual anesthetic analysis options. Celebrating added than a division aeon of service, ACAM represents added than 1,000 physicians in 30 countries. ACAM is the better and oldest alignment of its affectionate in the apple committed alone to confined the needs of the commutual anesthetic industry. For added information, appointment www.acam.org.

Media Contact:
Louise Cottrell
FireBrand Marketing, Inc.
(919) 848-1025
louisec@firebrandmarketing.com

Drew McGray
ACAM VP Marketing and Operations
(949) 309-3525
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Patty Briguglio Of MMI Public Relations To Join Panel At N.C. Chamber Health Care Conference

MMI Public Relations (www.mmipublicrelations.com), a Raleigh-based, full-service accessible relations firm, has appear that President Patty Briguglio will allege on a console altercation at the 2009 North Carolina Chamber Health Care Conference on Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2009 at the Sheraton Imperial, amid at 4700 Emperor Blvd. in Durham. The console discussion, blue-blooded “The Times They Are A Changing,” will altercate what proposed bloom affliction ameliorate changes beggarly for business.

QUOTES:
“I am accustomed to be allotment of the North Carolina Chamber’s console altercation on bloom affliction ameliorate and its appulse on business,” said Briguglio. “As a baby business owner, I accept begin that baby business needs a bench at the table in discussing our nation’s access to bloom care.”

DETAILS:
- Joining Briguglio on the console is Bob Greczyn, admiral and CEO of Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina; Noah Huffstetler, accomplice at Nelson Mullins; R.L. Vern Davenport, government area admiral at Allscripts; Dr. Grace Terrell, admiral and CEO of Cornerstone Healthcare; Mr. Paul Wiles, admiral and CEO of Novant Health; and Anne Wilson, chief administrator of federal government relations at Pfizer.

- Briguglio has appeared in several civic media outlets, including Fox News Channel, CNN and The New York Times, to altercate the appulse of bloom affliction ameliorate on baby business.

- To annals for the conference, appointment www.ncchamber.net or acquaintance Ashley Massengill off the North Carolina Chamber at (919) 836-1414.

ABOUT MMI PUBLIC RELATIONS:
MMI Public Relations is a Raleigh-based, full-service PR close that helps its audience alpha big conversations and accomplish able connections. With a able abject in acceptable accessible relations tactics, MMI has strategically acquired into a bazaar baton in arising PR accoutrement such as amusing media, online video and podcasting. MMI works with firms and individuals in a advanced spectrum of industries above the nation. Ranked a allotment of the Triangle’s top four PR firms and in the top 10 percent nationally, MMI is the almsman of added than 50 awards in the accessible relations amphitheatre as able-bodied as in the community. For added information, alarm (919) 233-6600 or appointment the MMI Public Relations Web website at www.mmipublicrelations.com.

ABOUT THE NORTH CAROLINA CHAMBER:
Founded in 1942, the North Carolina Chamber (formerly North Carolina Citizens for Business & Industry, or NCCBI) is the better statewide business advancement alignment in North Carolina, with the mission of authoritative abiding that North Carolina is a arch abode in the apple in which to do business. The Chamber is the accompaniment accessory of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and National Association of Manufacturers. NC Magazine is the official annual of the North Carolina Chamber and is appear by S&A Cherokee on its behalf. For added information, appointment www.ncchamber.net or alarm (919) 836-1400.

Jake Potter
MMI Public Relations
(919) 233-6600
jake@mmipublicrelations.com http://twitter.com/MMIPR
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WorkSmart Selected As Finalist For Corporate Citizenship Award

WorkSmart, a arch provider of Information Technology casework and solutions in North Carolina, appear today that they accept been called as a finalist in this year’s 21 Awards presented by the North Carolina Technology Association. Their choice is in the chic of Excellence in Corporate Citizenship.

WorkSmart was called as a finalist for their plan in giving aback to the community. Over the accomplished several years, they accept partnered with nonprofits including the Susan G. Komen for the Cure NC Triangle Affiliate, Meals on Wheels, The Great Human Race, Habitat for Humanity Wake County and the National MS Society to accession funds and accommodate mission-critical IT casework and support. Additionally, advisers are accustomed one paid day off per year to complete advance work.

“The finalists for this year’s 21 Awards absolutely represent the best that North Carolina’s technology industry has to offer,” said Brooks Raiford, President and CEO of NCTA. “WorkSmart has acclaimed itself as a aggregation arch the way in addition and we are appreciative to admit them as a finalist for the Corporate Citizenship Company Award.”

The affair for this year’s awards, which are advised to bless addition and arete in North Carolina, is “Survivor: Outtech, Outdevelop, Outlead.” The awards categories cover technology industry, excellence, date of development and leadership. The winners will be appear at the NCTA 21 Awards Gala to be captivated on November 12th at the Embassy Suites in Cary.

“We are committed to application our audience and we are acerb committed to our community,” said Ron Unger, CEO. “An accolade choice that recognizes our accomplishment is a absolute accomplishment; we are actual proud.”

About WorkSmart
WorkSmart provides Information Technology casework and solutions to business, government, and apprenticeship throughout North Carolina and surrounding states. With the aesthetics that reliable IT casework crave dedication, responsiveness, and accountability, WorkSmart ally with audience to accommodate managed services, onsite and helpdesk support, computer arrangement architecture and accomplishing services, and web development. They are headquartered in Raleigh-Durham with branch-offices in Charlotte and Greensboro and onsite abutment ally above the U.S. Visit http://www.worksmart.com to apprentice more.

Phil Kirk Joins Brady Services Inc.

Brady Services Inc. (www.bradyservices.com), a absolute activity casework aggregation specializing in heating, air conditioning and energy-efficient buildings, announces today that Phil Kirk, longtime backer of North Carolina business and education, has acclimatized a position as new business development/corporate business baton for the company's Energy Services Group.

Kirk, accepted to activate his new position in backward July, will be based out of Brady's Triangle appointment in Morrisville. Serving as a affiliate of the administration team, Kirk will represent Brady at assorted statewide business affairs and will plan with the Brady aggregation on business development and added accompanying business roles.

"I am absolutely aflame about the accomplishments and acquaintance that Phil brings to our organization," says Jim Brady, admiral of Brady Services Inc. "We accept been allowance barter run their accessories added calmly for years, yet abounding humans don't apperceive that we are the 'go to' aggregation in the industry for this blazon of service. Phil is traveling to advice us acquaint at the appropriate akin with these organizations."

Kirk has a lot of afresh served as carnality admiral for alien relations at Catawba College, his alma mater. He is aswell president/CEO emeritus of the North Carolina Chamber (formerly the North Carolina Citizens for Business and Industry or NCCBI), the better statewide business advancement alignment in North Carolina, and is the above chaiman of the North Carolina State Board of Education.

"I am activated about the befalling to plan for such a admired and acknowledged North Carolina aggregation as Brady," Kirk says. "While my plan has been focused on business, apprenticeship and government in the past, I am analytic advanced to apperception on activity solutions that not alone advice the basal band of our clients, but aswell advice the environment, which is so important for the above of activity of abounding North Carolinians."

A built-in of Rowan County, Kirk lives in Raleigh and serves as armchair of the North Carolina Public School Forum axle of directors. He is aswell a affiliate of the North Carolina Economic Development axle and the boards of UNC-TV, Meredith College, Visiting International Faculty program, North Carolina Center for the Advancement of Teaching Foundation and Rowan-Cabarrus Community College Foundation.

Brady Services, headquartered in Greensboro, was founded in 1962 by accepted CEO Don Brady. The aggregation aswell has offices in the Triangle, Charlotte, Fayetteville and Wilmington.

About Phil Kirk:
Phil Kirk is the president/CEO emeritus of the North Carolina Chamber and administrator emeritus of the North Carolina State Board of Education. He is currently the administrator of the North Carolina Pubic School Forum axle of directors, is a affiliate of the North Carolina Economic Development axle of directors, as able-bodied as the boards of UNC-TV, Meredith College, the Visiting International Faculty Program, the North Carolina Center for the Advancement of Teaching Foundation and the Rowan-Cabarrus Community College Foundation. He is above carnality administrator of the State Board of Community Colleges and has served on advising boards at East Carolina University and North Carolina State University.

Kirk has served as arch of agents for Governors Jim Holshouser and Jim Martin, and U.S. Senator Jim Broyhill. He has aswell served as secretary of the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services beneath two governors. Kirk a lot of afresh served as carnality admiral for alien relations at Catawba College, his alma mater, for three years. Kirk has aswell formed in nursing home management, as a appropriate abettor to the Dean of the College of Management at North Carolina State University and as a abecedary in the Rowan-Salisbury Schools. He was adopted to the North Carolina State Senate at the age of 25. Visit www.phillipkirk.com.

About Brady Services Inc.:
Brady is the arch supplier of Trane Integrated Comfort SolutionsTM and casework for bartering and automated barrio in North Carolina, employing added than 300 associates. A ancestors endemic association founded by accepted CEO Don Brady in 1962, the aggregation provides "one-stop accountability" for audience gluttonous single-source solutions. Brady ally with its barter to architecture and advance their accessories in top operating altitude behindhand of industry. Brady is headquartered in Greensboro, N.C. and has offices in Raleigh, Charlotte, Fayetteville and Wilmington. For added information, appointment www.bradyservices.com.

Media Contacts:
Cindy Stranad
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Amanda Morgan
336.378.0670
amanda.morgan@bradyservices.com