Cranfill Sumner & Hartzog LLP (www.cshlaw.com), one of the largest civil defense firms in North Carolina, announced today that 17 attorneys were recognized by Super Lawyers magazine. Ten of the firm's attorneys received the designation as Super Lawyer and another seven were named Rising Stars. Super Lawyers is a rating service that recognizes the achievements of lawyers in more than 70 practice areas through independent research, peer nominations and peer evaluations. The selection process included statewide peer nomination for professional achievement. These attorneys ...

Tired of the headlines about corporate greed and misconduct, one executive has published a collection of stories about successful business leaders worth emulating. Standing in the aftermath of numerous business and investment scandals, financial advisor Gordon J. Bernhardt, CPA, PFS, CFP , AIF , author of the just-released book Profiles in Success: Inspiration from Executive Leaders in the Washington D.C. Area, says he was motivated to interview local executives and shine the spotlight on the many good business leaders who live and work in the Washington D.C. area. "The ...

Firm founder Howard Mishkind of The Mishkind Law Firm Co., L.P.A., located in Beachwood, Ohio, is scheduled to present at the Cleveland-Marshall College of Law's upcoming seminar, "Running an Efficient, Effective Law Practice." At the half-day Continuing Legal Education (CLE) seminar, participants will learn skills involved in opening and building a successful law practice in this economy. The seminar will provide guidance for both new graduates thinking about hanging out their own shingle and seasoned practitioners looking to revamp their practice, including how to ...

Being accused of the theft of more than $300,000 of Medicaid funds in North Carolina is no trivial matter. The consequences of a fraud charge of that magnitude include a maximum potential sentence of 16 years. After facing several North Carolina Medicaid fraud charges, one man turned to Roberts Law Group PLLC, a criminal defense law firm, for help. After being confronted by law enforcement, the accused sought the legal advice of criminal lawyer Patrick Roberts at the Roberts Law Group PLLC. Attorney Roberts handled the Medicaid fraud case with skill and perseverance ...

The organic skin care industry has exploded in recent years due to the changing societal attitudes towards "artificial" manufactured skin enhancers. Following this change of skin care philosophy a new company called OrganicaPure has taken the core principals of the new organic revolution and created a line of natural skin care products based on the ancient remedies of Mesoamerican cultures. Through careful research and study OrganicaPure combines the natural healing powers of cocoa, aloe vera, and honey in a line of products that captures the knowledge of cultures that ...

Winter and blizzard conditions may render streets closed and others near unable to be traveled upon. Still, the duties of a motorist remain. In fact, no matter the weather (rain, sunny days, blizzards and any type of weather), motorists are always required to follow the "rules of the road" and the law so that a lawsuit for negligence will not be brought against him/her for some or all of the following (but not necessarily limited to): -Carelessly and negligently operating, managing, maintaining, and/or controlling a vehicle; -Carelessly and negligently operating a ...

Time to Sign Sports, the nation's premier advisory firm that caters its services to high school baseball and high school softball players, believes that the launching of the new website is just another step in better communication. "Communicating with our athletes and coaches requires that we offer a clean and intuitive website," said Gary Cohn, Principal and Co-Founder of Time to Sign Sports. According to the company's website, Time to Sign Sports has redefined STUDENT-ATHLETE advisory services. The company believes it must: * Determine the most appropriate schools ...

Filing income taxes can be a daunting, confusing, and costly endeavor for anyone. Oftentimes, it is one of these three reasons that people fail to file their taxes on time or, sometimes, even at all. After not filing for one year, often the same people are intimated the following year from addressing the previous year's oversight and pretty soon a few years go by before they decide to rectify the situation. As was the case for Mr. Oizondo (Orlando, FL) who came to the Blue Tax offices distraught that he had not filed a single tax return in six years. The Blue Tax team ...

Adding to Chicago's rich and extensive music scene and its overall need, a new record label including a team of dynamic indies, Audio Tree, has planted seeds to create a unique label with an innovative and fresh alternative to how labels work with artists. The multi-genre label is building its label model as an artist's services music company that provides an a la carte menu for artists to select what they need in order for them to cater to their needs and get their music heard. The company's mission is to work with artists from various backgrounds to push good music to ...

Corporate University Xchange (CorpU) today announced the finalists for the prestigious 12th Annual Corporate University Xchange Awards for Excellence and Innovation. The awards will be presented at a gala dinner on Monday, May 9, 2011 as part of the Global Leadership Conference 2011, a three-day executive education event sponsored by the University of Pennsylvania and CorpU. The award finalists are: Accenture Alstom Aon Hewitt AT&T CA Technologies Cancer Treatment Centers of America Cisco CSC Discover Financial Services Infosys Jiffy Lube International Landi ...

"Once Upon a Star" is a true autobiography about a young Hollywood ingenue, who finds her looking for love in all the wrong places of La La land. Peggy bears her heart and soul in her quest for love amongst Hollywood's most elite players. Her naivety will break your heart as she skips from one relationship to another, always believing that love would find her. This is a story that encompasses the sorrow and triumph of living in the celebrity fantasy world. "Once Upon a Star" is a story very seldom presented with such candor and truth. Journey along with Peggy's ...

"Through a tube inserted into the newly-opened bottle of wine, the Spreathe aerates the wine; cascading the wine on the inside of the bottle," says Steven Lay, President, Image of Wine. "Our goal was to find an alternative to aerating wine on a per glass basis or using a large glass decanter." The Spreathe (TM) does just that, it aerates a whole bottle of wine with a simple push of a button. If, after sampling the newly-aerated wine, a host/hostess feels more aeration is needed simply reinsert the Spreathe (TM) and press the button. You can always interrupt the process ...

BizziBid.com, a nationwide home improvement and remodeling website (http://www.bizzibid.com), is reporting a significant uptick in activity for January and early February 2011. The number of homeowners requesting licensed remodeling contractors and free home improvement estimates this month far exceeds the number seeking home improvements and remodeling information through the site a year ago. Home Improvement Tops the List While BizziBid connects consumers to contractors for a number of purposes - siding installation, air conditioning maintenance, landscaping, and ...

OrangeHRM Inc., the leading global provider of open source HR Solutions, today announced its new reseller in Singapore. OrangeHRM will collaborate with SC Soft on large scale projects and services. SC Soft has profound relationships with the local market, with experience in implementing extensive solutions such as Open Bravo. SC Soft is a valuable addition to OrangeHRM's fast growing global partnerships. In May 2010,Infocom Investments said the APEC regions' Business Intelligence Market is expected to grow by 20.5% and Singapore by 8.34% by the end of 2011.For both SC ...

The DIY wedding trend that started as a way to save money during the recession is predicted to remain strong in 2011 as couples continue to look to affordable do-it-yourself projects such as DIY invitations, favors, ceremony accessories and reception decor to create personalized, unique weddings. To offer brides even more stylish options, Michaels, North America's largest arts and crafts specialty retailer, has updated its wedding section with hundreds of trend-forward products featuring the hottest colors for 2011, such as turquoise, fuchsia and eggplant, along with ...

Whataburger is heating up February's chilly weather with its Jalapeno Week promotion. Beginning Monday, February 14th through Sunday, February 20th, customers can add jalapenos to any burger, sandwich, taquito or other entree for free. "Our customers are no stranger to the heat of our jalapenos, we get about 200,000 requests a week to add jalapenos," said Rich Scheffler, Group Director of Marketing for Whataburger Restaurants LP. "Jalapeno Week is a way for us to celebrate our jalapeno-loving customers and also encourage others to customize their Whataburger and turn ...

The Rottenstein Law Group, which represents clients with claims stemming from the recall of defective hip replacement devices manufactured and sold by DePuy Orthopaedics, is encouraged by the admission of lawyers for Johnson & Johnson that explanted devices belong to the patients. At a conference on February 8 before United States District Judge David Katz, before whom all lawsuits stemming from the recall of DePuy's ASR hip implants have been consolidated, lawyers for the defendants-DePuy and its parent company, Johnson and Johnson-and lawyers for the numerous plaintiffs ...

The Container Store, the nation's originator and leading retailer of storage and organization products, today shows its love and appreciation for its 4000 employees across the country by celebrating its "National We Love Our Employees Day". The Container Store's employees will be treated to special celebrations, gifts and recognition at the retailer's stores across the country, its home office and distribution center in Dallas, and across the pond with its employee partners at elfa International. Celebrations and gifts include boxes full of product donated by company ...

February 9, 2011 -- When the EPA phased out the widespread residential use of chlorpyrifos and other organophosphorus (OP) insecticides in 2000-2001 because of risks to child neurodevelopment, these compounds were largely replaced with pyrethroid insecticides. But the safety of these replacement insecticides remained unclear, as they had never been evaluated for long-term neurotoxic effects after low-level exposure. In the first study to examine the effects of these compounds on humans and the first evaluation of their potential toxicity to the developing fetal brain, ...

AUGUSTA, Ga. – Regular exercise improves the ability of overweight, previously inactive children to think, plan and even do math, Georgia Health Sciences University researchers report. They hope the findings in 171 overweight 7- to 11-year-olds – all sedentary when the study started - gives educators the evidence they need to ensure that regular, vigorous physical activity is a part of every school day, said Dr. Catherine Davis, clinical health psychologist at GHSU's Georgia Prevention Institute and corresponding author on the study in Health Psychology "I hope these ...

INDIANAPOLIS – An innovative model of dementia care developed by researchers at the Indiana University School of Medicine and the Regenstrief Institute significantly reduces emergency department visits and hospitalizations, and encourages use of medications that are not harmful to older brains. The result is improved health for older adults and their family caregivers and lower healthcare costs, according to a paper evaluating the model in real world use. The paper appears in Volume 15, Issue 1, 2011 of the peer-reviewed journal Aging & Mental Health. "We successfully ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio -- People tend to overestimate the steepness of slopes – and psychologists studying the phenomenon have made a discovery that refutes common ideas about how we perceive inclines in general. For more than a decade, researchers thought that our judgment was biased by our fatigue or fear of falling, explained Dennis Shaffer, associate professor of psychology at Ohio State University's Mansfield campus. We perceive climbing or descending hills as difficult or dangerous, so when we look at an incline, our view is clouded by the expected physical exertion or ...

This release is available in French. Evolution is not a steady march towards ever more sophisticated beings and therefore the search for the living "missing links" is pointless, according to findings published by a team of researchers led by Dr. Hervé Philippe of the Université de Montréal's Department of Biochemistry. "Aristotle was the first to classify organisms – from the least to the most sophisticated. Darwin's theory of evolution continued this idea, with the concept of a hierarchy of evolution. This way of thinking has led researchers and skeptics alike to look ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio – A new alloy promises to lessen welders' risk of breathing toxic fumes on the job. The alloy is a welding "consumable" – the material that melts under the welder's torch to fill the gap between parts that are being joined. The new nickel alloy consumable is more expensive compared to those already on the market, but worth the cost in situations where adequate ventilation is a problem. That's why two Ohio State University engineers invented the alloy – specifically to aid military and commercial welding personnel who work in tight spaces. In tests, ...

Marine conservationists from the Wildlife Conservation Society working in Kenya have found that better fisheries management that includes restricting fishing gear is producing more predatory and longer-lived species and is improving fishing even in adjacent areas where no management is taking place. During a 10-year study, conservationists recording fish catches found that the implementation of fishing regulations—and particularly the banning of small-mesh seine nets that indiscriminately capture all fish—allowed practically all fish species to recover, especially ...