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Monday, December 21, 2009

H. Woodward Middleton Joins SfL+a Architects As Principal Architect

SfL+a Architects (www.sfla.biz), has appear that H. Woodward Middleton, AIA, has abutting the close as a arch architect. In this position, he will be amenable for cardinal activity administration and will focus his actual absorption on implementing the firm’s Dragonfly™ architecture design. Launched in November 2007, the Dragonfly™ archetypal is a allotment of an aristocratic accumulation of architecture designs common that maximizes technology and activity ability to actualize accessories that in actuality accomplish added activity than they consume. Dragonfly™ represents a sustainable, advanced and cost-effective access to architecture design.

Middleton’s able career spans added than 45 years of accustomed architectural work. He has captivated administration positions at the firms of A G Odell Jr. & Associates, Middleton McMillan Architects of Charlotte and The Preston Partnership, based in Atlanta. His portfolio is focused on the architecture of “complex architecture types” and appearance architectural projects in abundant markets, including medical, government, education, retail, commercial, multi-family residential and the cultural and assuming arts.

Charlotte/Mecklenburg projects of agenda for Middleton cover Spirit Square, the Charlotte/Mecklenburg Main Library, the Blumenthal Performing Arts Center, the Charlotte/Mecklenburg Law Enforcement Center and the Mecklenburg County Courthouse. Middleton was actively complex in bringing the four statues to the bend of Trade and Tryon Streets which represent transportation, future, business and industry. Significant bounded projects cover Elliot White Springs Memorial Hospital, Wake Forest/Bowman Gray School of Medicine, Duke Medical Center’s Comprehensive Clinical Cancer Research Center, Durham County Regional Hospital, Carolinas Medical Center Orthopedic Rehabilitation Hospital and the University of North Carolina at Charlotte Cameron Applied Research Center.

In the 1970’s, Middleton was called by the U.S. Department of Justice to architecture a new abstraction in the incarceration and behavioral analysis of inmates of the Federal Bureau of Prisons amid in Butner, N.C; after renamed the Behavioral Research Center/Federal Correctional Institution. The activity after added a 1000 bed average aegis bastille and an adroit medical/surgical and adroit psychiatric Medical Center to serve the eastern allotment of the country. The “Direct Supervision” administration appearance acquired from Middleton’s Butner abstraction and is now advised the barometer for bedfellow administration throughout the country for federal and accompaniment prisons, as able-bodied as bounded jails.

Middleton’s able and association affiliations cover currently the American Institute of Architects (AIA) – National, State, and Local; National Council of Architectural Registration Boards, North Carolina and South Carolina registered architect, AIA Committee on Design, AIA Committee for Justice, and Charlotte Museum of History Board of Advisors. His accomplished affiliations accept included registered artisan for Alabama, Florida, Virginia, and West Virginia, affiliate of American Correctional Association, American Jail Association, American Hospital Association, American Arbitration Association as Arbitrator and Mediator for 32 years, Board of Advisors for Charlotte Chamber of Commerce, Representative for United Way Professional Division (3 years), Mint Museum of Art Board of Directors, Wing Haven Sanctuary Board of Directors, Spirit Square Center for the Arts Board of Directors, and the North Carolina Dance Theater Board of Directors.

Middleton, currently residing in Charlotte, is a built-in of Charleston, and Sumter, SC.

Related Links:
www.sfla.biz
www.firstfloor.biz
www.ncsba.org http://theprestonpartnership.com
www.odell.com

Quotes:
“Woody represents a key accession to our firm,” said Robbie Ferris, admiral and CEO of SfL+a Architects. “He brings an aberrant aggregate of acquaintance to our firm. His acumen and ability in the Charlotte association is unmatched.”

About SfL+a Architects:
SfL+a Architects is a close advised to accommodate advanced architectural solutions to educational institutions. Founded in 1982, the aggregation has emerged as one of the a lot of awful admired architectural firms in the Southeast, alms able casework in architectural planning, design, construction, acreage planning and autogenous design. The close has offices amid in Raleigh, Fayetteville and Charlotte, N.C. The sister aggregation of SfL+a Architects is Firstfloor K-12 Solutions, LLC, a North Carolina development aggregation beat public-private partnerships to advance educational facilities. The aggregation is comprised of accomplished professionals, anniversary possessing 15-20 years of acquaintance in banking, finance, architecture and acreage management. For added information, appointment www.sfla.biz.

Patty Briguglio
MMI Associates, Inc.
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PR Firms Raleigh, NC

Art for Health Gala Benefit Charlotte-based Nonprofit at Historic Manor

Millions of Americans amid the ages of 18 - 64 do not accept acceptance to basal bloom care. Close to ¼ actor of Charlotte association are allotment of this under-served population. The Charlotte Volunteers in Medicine Clinic alcove out and provides chargeless medical casework to those who cannot acquiesce basal medical affliction and who do not authorize for government programs.

Right Track, Inc., a bounded aggregation that works with women in transition, will host the 18>64 Art for Health account for Charlotte Volunteers in Medicine Clinic (CVIM) to accession funds for the berth on Sunday, December 7, 2008 at 1pm at the Wadsworth House in Charlotte.

What: 18>64 Art for Health is accepting sponsored by Right Track, Inc. as a account for The Charlotte Volunteers in Medicine Clinic.

When: The account will crop abode on Sunday, December 7, 2008

Where: Wadsworth House, 400 South Summit Avenue · Charlotte, North Carolina 28208

Time: 1pm - 5pm

Cost: Tickets are $25

Sponsorship opportunities are accessible for this event. Please acquaintance Amy Doughten via email at adoughten@yourrighttrack.com or via buzz at 336-499-2508. For tickets, amuse alarm 704-350-1300.

About Project HealthShare, Inc./CVIM
The Charlotte Volunteers in Medicine Clinic is a affairs of Project HealthShare, Inc. Project HealthShare, Inc., a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, is committed to announcement the objectives of Healthy People 2010. Project HealthShare, Inc. supports the federal government's action to Eliminate Racial and Ethnic Disparities in health, which focuses on "closing the gap" with attention to ancestral and aboriginal differences in diabetes, AIDS, cardiovascular disease, and blight screening.

For added information, amuse alarm (704)350-1300 or (704) 336-3367 or appointment www.projecthealthshare.com.

About Right Track
Right Track, Inc. is a clandestine aggregation congenital in Charlotte, North Carolina. Right Track provides annulment apprenticeship and abutment for women in alteration throughout the United States through teleseminars and planning retreats. For advice appointment www.yourrighttrack.com.

Contact:
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Project HealthShare, Inc
Charlotte, NC
678-402-8184
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Charlotte Russe Holding Board of Directors Faces Shareholder Investigation

An analysis on account of accepted investors Charlotte Russe Holding (Public, NASDAQ:CHIC), who purchased the shares afore August 24, 2009, over abeyant breaches of fiduciary assignment and added violations of accompaniment law in affiliation with an declared arbitrary takeover amount was announced.

Those who are currently investors in shares of Charlotte Russe Holding (Public, NASDAQ:CHIC), and purchased the shares afore August 24, 2009, and / or accept added advice apropos to the investigation, should acquaintance the Shareholders Foundation, Inc. at Email: mail(at)shareholdersfoundation.com or alarm us at: +1 (858) 779 - 1554. The investigations by law firms focus on abeyant breaches of fiduciary assignment and added violations of accompaniment law by the Board of Directors of Charlotte Russe Holding (Public, NASDAQ:CHIC) arising out of their attack to advertise Charlotte Russe to Advent International Corp. Charlotte Russe Holding, Inc. (NASDAQ: CHIC) appear on August 24, 2009, that it has entered into a absolute acceding to be acquired and taken clandestine by investment funds managed by Advent International Corporation. According to Charlotte Russe beneath the agreement of the alliance agreement, an accessory of Advent International Corp will arise a breakable action to acquirement for banknote all of the outstanding shares of Charlotte Russe accepted banal (NASDAQ: CHIC), and the associated adopted banal acquirement rights, at a amount of $17.50 per share, for a absolute amount of about $380 million. But according to an analysis by a law close “the transaction appears to be unfair” to accepted investors of Charlotte Russe Holding (Public, NASDAQ:CHIC). According to addition analysis the analysis “concerns whether the Charlotte Russe Board of Directors breached their fiduciary duties to Charlotte Russe shareholders accustomed that the Company has acquaint better-than-expected balance in the accomplished brace of abode and that the acquirement amount is alone 4.5 times EBITDA, which one analyst alleged "a appealing acceptable discount" for an accretion of a specialty retailer”. Charlotte Russe Holdings, Inc., amid in San Diego, California, congenital in July 1996, is a mall-based specialty banker of fashionable, value-priced accoutrement and accessories. Charlotte Russe Holdings distributes and sells accoutrement and accessories to adolescent women in their adolescence and twenties. Charlotte Russe Holdings appear in 2007 (ending on September 2007) Total Revenue of $740.94million with a Net Income of $36.30million and in 2008 (ending on September 2008) Total Revenue of $823/25million with a Net Income of $18.17million. Charlotte Russe Holdings shares (NASDAQ: CHIC) traded at $1736 per allotment afterwards the advertisement and the day afore the advertisement at $ 13.80 per share, down from about $20 per allotment in 2008 and over $30 per allotment in 2007.

FreemanWhite Honored As One Of Charlotte’s Best Places To Work

FreemanWhite (www.freemanwhite.com), an architectural, engineering, autogenous architecture and consulting casework close for healthcare organizations worldwide, has been called as one of Charlotte’s Best Places to Work by the Charlotte Business Journal. The accolade acknowledges companies in the Charlotte across for their absolute plan environment, agent benefits, and aggregation culture.

QUOTES:
“We are accustomed to be called one of the Best Places to Work by the Charlotte Business Journal,” said Frank Brooks, AIA, ACHA, administrator and managing partner. “We are committed to accouterment our advisers with outstanding plan conditions, including the allowances to antithesis plan with claimed life.”

DETAILS:
- To be advised for the award, FreemanWhite advisers adjourned the close via a arcane online survey.
- The accolade recognizes FreemanWhite’s absolute plan environment, which attracts and retains advisers through the firm’s aberrant culture, alive altitude and benefits.

About FreemanWhite:
FreemanWhite provides architectural, engineering, autogenous architecture and consulting casework for healthcare and chief active organizations worldwide. Founded in 1892, the close has offices in Charlotte, N.C., Raleigh, N.C. and San Diego, Calif. and employs added than 130 professionals. FreemanWhite has accustomed abundant awards and recognitions, including accepting ranked as the better North Carolina architectural close in 2008 by the Charlotte Business Journal, and the best architectonics close to plan for nationally in 2009 by Modern Healthcare. The close aswell accustomed the Gold Standard of Design Award from the University of Stirling for The Lodge at Buckshaw Retirement Community. For added information, amuse appointment www.freemanwhite.com or alarm (704) 523-2230.

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Renaissance Charlotte SouthPark Hotel Becomes Eco-Friendly Offering Green Lodging in North Carolina

Guests at the eco-friendly Renaissance Charlotte SouthPark Hotel in North Carolina are all about the acquaintance and advertent new things – including means to be added environmentally friendly. The Renaissance Charlotte SouthPark Hotel does not disappoint. In fact, this eco-friendly auberge in Charlotte is always in development to acquisition new and bigger blooming means to leave a abate carbon brand on the ambiance after impacting the bedfellow experience.

The hotel’s anew adapted exercise centermost is a animated archetype of accepting eco-friendly. The floors throughout the gym are fabricated from recycled elastic tires while the ribbon-patterned artwork, which hangs from attic to ceiling, was fabricated from recycled baptize bottles. While alive out in the exercise centermost guests can alcohol adulatory baptize — which they can cascade from pitchers rather than disposable artificial bottles — and bite on amoebic apples. The auberge pond basin uses alkali rather than chlorinated water.

Meetings at the Renaissance Charlotte SouthPark are aswell green. This blooming auberge in Charlotte does not use linens on the tables to cut down on baptize use in the laundry; pitchers of baptize are placed on the tables unless bottled baptize is accurately requested; all of the apartment action accustomed ablaze to cut down on lighting; the affair apartment affection energy-efficient lighting; and all affair apartment are climate- and lighting-controlled by computer so as to not decay activity on abandoned spaces. The auberge aswell offers blooming card items for affair planners who ambition to serve amoebic foods that are still analytic priced.

The ambiance is aswell reflected in the hotel’s décor — which appearance blades of grass in a award arrangement on the carpeting, doors, elevators, and throughout the hotel. This architecture element, as congenital in the advance by Charlotte architecture accumulation LS3P, is in admiration to Queen Charlotte of Germany for whom the city-limits of Charlotte (nicknamed the Queen City) is called after. The Queen had a adulation of botany, appropriately the grass elements.

ABOUT THE RENAISSANCE CHARLOTTE SOUTHPARK HOTEL
A actual experience-focused hotel, guests are accustomed at check-in with a mini martini and a fresh-baked believability or amber cavity cookie! Newly renovated, this eco-friendly acreage is amid in the even Southpark neighborhood, just a few account south of flush Charlotte, North Carolina. The auberge has 264 bedfellow rooms, an calm pool, exercise center, Fountain Grille Restaurant, and Lobby Bar.

For added information, appointment www.RenaissanceCharlotteSouthPark.com or alarm (704) 501-2510.

Charlotte Marriott SouthPark Hotel in North Carolina Offers Value Laden Holiday Shopping Package

In just about three weeks the anniversary arcade division of 2009 will be in abounding beat and the Charlotte Marriott SouthPark is alms a abundant anniversary arcade amalgamation in Charlotte, NC for a city-limits that has over 250 absurd stores! And back the Charlotte anniversary arcade package is able now through January 31, 2010, it's like Black Friday every weekend for the blow of the year — and into January if the sales are even better!

As the better and a lot of accessible city-limits amid Washington, DC and Atlanta, consumers in Charlotte, North Carolina accept acceptance to an absurd array of food including the SouthPark Mall which appearance an amazing array of choices from big name administration food like Macy*s, Nordstrom, and Neiman Marcus to flush clothiers like Lacoste, Brooks Brothers, and Ralph Lauren to specialty shops like L'Occitane, Sur La Table, and Mont Blanc. Other top arcade areas cover the Specialty Shops which are abutting to the Charlotte Marriott SouthPark, Phillips Place, and countless band malls. A abundant array of restaurants and dining options are aswell abutting by to the hotels in SouthPark and Charlotte.

The SouthPark Mall Holiday Shopping Package includes:
•Accommodations in a choice auberge bedfellow allowance
•Welcome bag absolute SouthPark Mall discounts featuring a alternative of coupons
•$50 Gift Card to any abundance in SouthPark Mall
•Breakfast for two anniversary morning of your break
•1:00 PM backward checkout

Rates for this arcade vacation amalgamation in Charlotte ambit from $119 to $139 at the Charlotte Marriott SouthPark hotel. This amalgamation is able through January 31, 2010. To assets your package, appointment www.DealsAtMarriott.com/SouthParkShopping or alarm 1-800-834-6418. Be abiding to acknowledgment promotional cipher SHO.

ABOUT THE CHARLOTTE MARRIOTT SOUTHPARK HOTEL
Formerly the Park Hotel, this anew redesigned acreage offers an affected aggregate of European composure and Southern style. Considered a boutique-style hotel, the acreage appearance 195 bedfellow apartment in a classic, acceptable style; an alfresco basin and Jacuzzi; sauna; advanced exercise center, and Day Spa next door. For added information, visit: www.CharlotteMarriottSouthPark.com.