Bruce Clarke, president and CEO of CAI (http://www.capital.org), a human resource management firm that helps organizations maximize employee engagement while minimizing employer liability, has announced that Janice Clemons has joined the organization as an account manager. Supporting CAI's largest Triad accounts, Clemons will assist companies across 12 counties within the region in developing more productive and engaged employees, lowering their compliance risk and creating a positive work environment by enhancing their HR and people management practices. She previously ...

"I Care" (www.icarenow.com) today announced the results of a two-year research study showing that students with high levels of parental involvement through use of the "I Care" Positive Parenting Character Curriculum showed substantially greater gains in English and Mathematics than students whose parents were less involved. The research was conducted by SEG Measurement, a third party educational research firm in New Hope, Pennsylvania. "We have known for quite a while, from teacher and parent feedback that the "I Care" Positive Parenting ...

On the heels of the company's recent mobile application launch, Money Mailer, a proven leader in the U.S. direct marketing industry, has introduced a new user-friendly Facebook page to provide consumers with another way to save money. The company's new Facebook page has launched in the midst of a growing couponing craze and caters to consumers who are looking for quick deals they can use at local establishments. Fans of the page can search and print local deals and share their favorites with family and friends. They can also suggest local businesses they would like ...

The final numbers are in for the 10th Annual Big Bad Ball, a black tie gala that is held at the Capital City Club in Downtown Raleigh and benefits Hospice of Wake County. Hundreds of guests gathered at the 10th Annual Big Bad Ball, on October 1, 2011, and over $100,000 was raised for Hospice of Wake County's Benevolent Care Program and Horizons Grief Center. The funds raised translate to around 667 days of care and will allow Hospice to maintain a benevolent care fund, from which the cost of extending care to patients without means can be covered. Hospice of Wake ...

Ralph J. DiLeone, managing partner at The DiLeone Law Group, P.C. (http://www.dileone.com), has announced the release of a podcast on how employers should handle employee terminations. In the podcast, DiLeone discusses the steps employers should take for legal protection in the case of employee terminations, the difference between a termination and layoff, and the necessary documentation companies should have on hand for both cases if challenged by a dismissed employee. The podcast is available for download at http://bit.ly/qTStym. QUOTES: "When an employer makes ...

Salwan Media a company focused on education, consumer and business information, announced that Mr. M. Damodaran and Mr. Avinder (Avi) S. Bindra joined the company's Advisory Board today. Both bring strong leadership, strategic and operational experience spanning government and financial services that will help guide Salwan Media's growth in the coming years. Mr. M. Damodaran, an independent consultant and board member of several leading companies, is a former Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer and former Chairman of the Securities and Exchange Board of India ...

Just in time for the holiday season, Pets and Ponds have launched a new line of products for all marine and freshwater aquarists. As requested by customer demand Pets and Ponds has brought a new line of products including New Era fish food, Bubble Magus Calcium reactors and skimmers, Hanna water testers and Skimz brand protein skimmers. Pets and ponds is also glad to announce the new ground breaking LED light systems that can be seen on the website. http://www.petsandponds.com/en/new-items/index.html In addition to the new line of products, Pets and Ponds is working ...

Bill Horne, CEO of Laser Spine Institute (http://www.laserspineinstitute.com), the leader in endoscopic spine surgery, has announced that Laser Spine Institute has developed ergonomic tips for the holiday season in an effort to prevent potential injury. Pain in the lower back is the most commonly reported pain in the United States, and much of it can be avoided by taking the correct precautions when partaking in the day-to-day activities of the season. Oftentimes individuals are busier than ever and become engrossed with holiday festivities and forget to exercise care in ...

L1 Enterprises, a service- disabled veteran-owned small business announced today that is was awarded a federal government contract in the amount of $14.6 million to provide the "L1berty UDB901 Urine Collection" bags to the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs (VA) facilities nationwide. This VA Standardization Program Contract will run for the 2012 calendar year with four additional one-year options. The VA's national standardization program is a partnership between the Veteran's Health Administration (VHA) and the Office of Acquisitions and Logistics (OA&L). ...

Bensalem, Pa.-based Bencardino Excavating, led by Louis A. Bencardino, was recently contracted by A.T. Chadwick Company, Inc. to perform work on the Eagle Point Refinery in South Jersey, which is owned by Sunoco, Inc. The Bucks County, Pa. excavation company will handle all site work, excavating and utility installation on the refinery's fuel off-loading station. Bencardino Excavating's project manager will be Dave Fink, and Lou Biskup will serve as the site foreman. Eagle Point Refinery is located in Westville, N.J. In early 2004, Sunoco, Inc. purchased the refinery ...

BiOWiSH Technologies has formed a new subsidiary, BiOWiSH ASEAN, to provide strategic focus on the ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) region which is slated to become a free-trade zone by 2015. An irrevocable license for commercialization and an option to manufacture BiOWiSH environmental management and agri-business products in ASEAN has been granted by BiOWiSH Technologies to its new subsidiary. "BiOWiSH Technologies recognizes that local execution is essential to taking our technology to its potential in the region and has established BiOWiSH ASEAN ...

The Dune Dogs (http://www.thedunedogs.com), which consists of area executives playing "country-fried swamp 'n' roll music," will perform Thursday, Dec. 22 at Southland Ballroom (http://southlandballroom.com), located at 614 N. West St. in the Glenwood South neighborhood of downtown Raleigh. The Dune Dogs will share the stage with Woodward South, a local classic rock band. Doors open at 7 p.m. and performances begin at 8 p.m. Tickets are $8 in advance, $10 at the door and an additional $3 for guests under 21. QUOTES: "It's hard to believe that we have ...

Rachel Kendall, broker and team leader of The Rachel Kendall Team of Keller Williams Realty (http://www.rachelkendall.com), a full-service real estate firm, has announced that it has donated $5,500 to the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF). The firm raised the proceeds by taking a percentage from each of this year's home closings by its agents. The JDRF is the leading global organization focused on type 1 diabetes research to cure children, adolescents, and adults with this disease. More than 80 percent of JDRF's expenditures directly support research and research-related ...

New Jersey's Megan's Law: Do Sex-Offender Registries Work as Intended? The term "Megan's Law" is usually understood to refer to legislation that establishes a publicly available sex-offender registry. The reference has its origin in the tragic 1994 sexual assault and murder of seven-year-old New Jersey resident Megan Kanka. Kanka was killed by a neighbor -- a twice-convicted sex offender who had already served his prison sentence. Reportedly Megan's family did not even know its neighbor was a sex offender, so may not have understood the heightened danger ...

Celebrating Hanukkah and Christmas has been a tradition for the IndustrialPR editorial team ever since the company debuted 8 years ago. This year is an extra special celebration according to IndustrialPR spokesperson Perry Coughlin because the company enjoyed an all time high in revenues in 2011 as the public relations associate and online promoter of the rapidly growing Machine Parts Marketplace AMSN at http://www.MFGpartners.net Coughlin said the company now features a new job shop virtually every day specializing in a wide variety of mold making, plastic fabricating, ...

Speakman Company is pleased to introduce new bathroom accessories. The accessories sets are part of Speakman's new coordinated bathroom collections, which are set to launch early 2012. The accessories sets include an 18 inch towel bar, towel ring, two robe hooks and toilet paper holder. A separate option of just the towel bar and towel ring is also available. Each set was designed to match five new full bathroom collections; NEO , Caspian , Alexandria , Icon and Rainier . Each accessory set matches their collections showerhead, faucet and shower system perfectly, ...

As 2011 comes to a close, Wikitude (http://www.wikitude.com) was announced the "Best Augmented Reality Browser" in 2011 by the readers of Augmented Planet today. This is a great triumph for Wikitude as the AR platform holds this title for the third year in a row. Each year, the leading international Augmented Reality (AR) blog Augmented Planet (www.augmentedplanet.com) asks the AR community to vote for their favorite AR experiences. Entered into the categories of Best Augmented Reality Browser and Best Augmented Reality Developer Platform or Tool, Wikitude ...

Many small business owners know payroll software can save their time and money. However, they are still calculating payroll taxes and writing check manually because many payroll applications on market are too complex and too expensive for them. Halfpricesoft.com (http://www.halfpricesoft.com) released the new version of ezPaycheck payroll software, which comes with so intuitive and user-friendly interface that first time users without an accounting background can start doing payroll immediately after installation. The newly upgraded version of the already popular product ...

RationalPlan version 3.25 was just released. The most important thing to be mentioned in the new version is the availability in Spanish language. Other features include the addition of a new resource type - cost resource, the possibility to sort clients and resources, better notification mechanisms, improved printing and much more. RationalPlan is a project management software designed around the principle "easy to use" and can serve many types of users starting from novices, those that need an alternative to Microsoft Project, users that need an environment ...

Auslogics Disk Defrag receives the Top 11 Download of 2011 award from CNET Download.com, the most popular software download website. In 2011, Disk Defrag has been downloaded more than two million times from CNET Download.com alone. As a result it has been selected as one of the most popular programs in the Windows Utilities category. CNET's Top 11 Downloads of 2011 award is granted to the most popular software of the year. The winners are selected based on the number of downloads from CNET's Download.com's directory of more than 800,000 software products. "Our ...

The Knoxville-based basement waterproofing experts at Master Dry are pleased to announce that they have been awarded the prestigious 2011 Angie's List Super Service Award. This honor is bestowed annually on approximately 5 percent of all the businesses rated on the nation's leading provider of consumer reviews on local service and health providers. "The entire team at Master Dry is humbled and honored to receive this award. We have built our business on the principal of providing first class customer service and it's nice to have this honored by an independent third ...

The iGB Affiliate award votes have been counted and the organisers are happy to say that over 4,000 industry affiliates and executives made their choice. A fantastic response, ensuring a truly representative vote, the shortlist includes those who received the most or equal votes in any of the following categories: Best Affiliate (all verticals), Best Affiliate Program (all verticals), Best New Comer (Affiliate & Program), Best Affiliate manager (all verticals), Best iGaming Affiliate Network, The Louis Fabiano Award for the Best iGaming Community and Best Payment System ...

If you have ever wondered what it would be like to run a franchise in a busy airport, you are not alone. New franchises open every year in airports around the world. But what does it take to break into the business? Opening a franchised concession stand in an airport is unlike opening a franchise anywhere else, and so this month Food & Drink Digital contacted San Diego International Airport to find out what it takes and what you can learn to start a concession of your own. "People see all of the people at the airport and start thinking: 'this is a great place ...

Ten years since General Motor's destroyed its first fleet of electric cars, the company announces its reemergence back into the market with the introduction of the fully electric Chevy Spark. Available to American consumers next year, the Spark's launch comes in reaction to an intensifying race to build the world's greenest car as Nissan, Tesla, Toyota and others compete to lead the way. Behind the scenes of this exciting new climate, Chris Paine's latest film depicts the revival of the niche market in Revenge of the Electric Car as a follow up to his previous film ...

This month, Energy Digital discusses the latest developments in global wind turbine technology with the researchers from Kyushu University, Japan. Following one of the world's worst nuclear crises in Fukushima earlier this year, researchers at Kyushu University have been investing heavily in renewable energy solutions for Japan's future. One of those major developments is a revolutionary new wind turbine design that can triple the output of traditional models and compete with the cost of coal and nuclear energy. Called the "wind lens," the team's new breakthrough ...