The state's eight sanctioned medical marijuana dispensaries are expected to begin operating by the end of this year, providing the drug to potentially thousands of Mainers who have notes for it from their doctors. The dispensaries will provide one-stop shopping for people to fill their marijuana prescriptions, purchase paraphernalia to smoke it or even get acupuncture. But at least one new nonprofit is banking on the desire for a more one-on-one approach. Compassionate Caregivers of Maine was formed earlier this year with the goal of acting as a matchmaker between ...

After the halls have been un-decked and the tinsel tucked away, many closets, chests, makeshift boxes, basements and attics serve as haphazard storage space for decorations until the next holiday season rolls around. Now, Cary Magazine is partnering with The Container Store , the original storage and organization store, to offer one lucky Western Wake County household the opportunity to win a holiday decoration makeover valued at up to $500. Cary Magazine readers and fans can seek relief through the Holiday Decoration Makeover Contest. To register to win, contestants ...

P1 Groupe, the premiere motorsports management company, is ending the GRAND-AM Series season with a bang on September 10-11, 2010 at the Miller Motorsports Park as the company has clients in all levels of both the Continental Tire Challenge and Rolex Series competing this weekend. Fan favorite, Owen Trinkler, who has won two races in a row is looking for a trifecta this weekend and will be racing with team owner Randy Smalley in the Continental Tire Challenge Series ST Class in his RSR Mini Cooper S. Lee Carpentier and Mike Sweeney join Matt Connolly Motorsports and will ...

ProcessPro, a national provider of ERP software solutions for process manufacturers, has announced that Amanda Humphrey has joined the organization as a Product Consultant. Amanda graduated from Saint Cloud State University in 2003 and has since worked for companies including Target Corporation, Merrill, and Rasmussen College. She has seven years experience in account management, marketing, and training and sales presentations. "I am excited about the opportunity to work for an innovative company that remains the leading ERP software provider for the process manufacturing ...

viaLanguage, a leading provider of global translation and localization services, announced today its membership in the Globalization and Localization Association (GALA), an international non-profit association that encourages local communication as an indispensable component to a global strategy. GALA member companies are experts in language services and technologies. They deploy sophisticated and proven tools and processes to help global enterprises understand in-country issues, languages and needs. "We are pleased to welcome viaLanguage into our association of ...

Virginia's Prince William County Public Schools (PWCS) has awarded a contract for written language translation services to K12Translate, the leading provider of education translation and localization services. The company will translate materials to help PCWS communicate with its limited English proficiency (LEP) populations in numerous languages including Arabic, Chinese, Farsi, Korean, Spanish, Twi, Urdu and Vietnamese. The second largest school district in Virginia, PWCS serves nearly 80,000 students with almost nine percent registered as LEP. To build a bridge to ...

The Rotary Club of Navarre announced that it will sponsor the 2010 Family Golf Tournament on Sunday October 24, 2010. The event is to be hosted at The Club at Hidden Creek. All proceeds from the tournament will benefit the Rotary Education Scholarship Fund for Navarre High School. Established in 1988 and designed by the renowned golf course architect Ron Garl, The Club at Hidden Creek is well known for its excellent conditions, fast greens, lush landscaping, rolling terrain, and scenic layout. The 18-hole championship golf course plays 7,012 yards from the back tees ...

Direct Agents, an award winning interactive advertising agency, is looking forward to exhibiting at leading online marketing conferences in Europe this September. They will be exhibiting at dmexco in Cologne Germany from September 15-16 and then will be heading to London to exhibit at ad:tech from September 21-22. Both dmexco and ad:tech London are leading international shows that highlight the digital media industry. "While Direct Agents is currently based in New York, we have clients and affiliates all over the world including the UK, Germany, France, Italy and Spain. ...

Perspective Magazine is the global leader in providing independent information to the timeshare and fractional ownership industry and Paul Mattimoe, President and CEO, will address industry leaders at the Australian Timeshare and Holiday Ownership Council's annual conference later this month. Mr. Mattimoe will be launching Perspective Magazine Asia Pacific during the conference's first full day of activities as part of the company's continued regional expansion plan. Perspective Magazine Asia Pacific will be the only independent timeshare and fractional industry trade ...

September 9, 2010—PilmerPR today announced founder John Pilmer will speak today at the UVEF Crunch Lunch event on the subject of "Corporate Responsibility - From the Ground Up," starting at noon at the Provo Novell campus. The event is open to the public. "80% of the world's large companies now produce Corporate Responsibility (CR) reports*," said John Pilmer of PilmerPR. "There is an effect happening now as partners and vendors to these companies are called to account for their track record of citizenship." 65% of European companies have a full-time CR officer (also ...

Top researchers, government officials and representatives of organizations from around the world traveled to University Park in July to present their latest findings on honey bees and other pollinators at the inaugural International Conference on Pollinator Biology, Heath and Policy hosted by the Penn State Center for Pollinator Research. Many of their presentations and other information about pollinators is now available on line at http://ento.psu.edu/pollinators/public-outreach/2010-conference. Pollinators have been in decline for years; four species of bumble bees ...

Conemaugh Medical Center in Johnstown, Penn., recently upgraded their OB-Windows Structured Reporting System. The site utilizes the OB-Windows system to perform growth analysis and create highly configurable structured reports for maternal-fetal medicine (MFM) studies. The site also implemented the OBLink module to auto-populate patient biometry from their GE Voluson E8 ultrasound system to the Digisonics software. Rogue Valley Medical Center in Medford, Ore., implemented OB-Windows Net to expand their existing image management and structured reporting system. The OB-Windows ...

Q1 productions has partnered with Second City Communications (SCC), the business solutions division of the world famous comedy theatre company, The Second City, for the 2010 Medical Device and Diagnostic Corporate Compliance & Ethics Conference. SCC recently launched RealBiz Shorts, a catalog of short, funny videos for use in ethics and compliance training and communications. RealBiz Shorts features an extensive range of videos across more than 20 topics in ethics and compliance — using humor to connect with people and set a context for open, honest dialog. RealBiz ...

The joint seminar from Plante & Moran, PLLC and Warner Norcross & Judd LLP on Oct. 6 will feature eight sessions focused on innovation and practical solutions designed to help businesses grow. The seminar, "Innovation: Solutions 2 Drive Profitability," will feature presentations from nearly 30 accountants, attorneys and business consultants from both firms and P&M Corporate Finance, LLC designed to help West Michigan companies take the next step in their growth plans. The seminar is targeted to C-suite executives of companies with $10 million - $200 million in revenue, ...

Metabo Corporation, a leading international manufacturer of professional grade portable electric power tools and abrasives for industrial, construction and welding applications, has introduced the new WP8-125 Quick 5" angle grinder with a non-locking paddle switch for safer tool operation. Ideal for the toughest operating conditions, including cutting and grinding metal or concrete, the WP8-125 Quick features a long lasting 8.0 A motor with 800 watts of power, 19.5 inch-lbs of torque and a no-load speed of 10,000 rpm. The WP8-125 Quick offers Metabo's optimum cooling ...

Homes.com, a division of Dominion Enterprises, announced today the release of its app for Android-based mobile devices. Adding to Homes.com's already extensive suite of mobile sites and apps for iPhone and Blackberry users, the launch of the Android app makes Homes.com the first real estate portal to allow consumers to search for homes for sale and rent on all major mobile platforms. Homes.com's Android app serves the fastest-growing segment of mobile homebuyers. According to market research from Canalys, Android is currently the best-selling and fastest growing smartphone ...

Sports Media Services Provider Leverages Spinnaker to Expand Live Streaming Offerings to Premier Sports Business Companies RALEIGH, NC - SEPTEMBER 11, 2010 - Inlet Technologies, the leader in innovative solutions for digital media preparation, announced today that deltatre, a world-leading sports media services company headquartered in Torino, Italy, is using its SpinnakerTM family of encoding solutions to generate broadcast-quality streaming outputs of some of the most prominent and high-profile events in the sports world. deltatre works with global television broadcasters ...

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As part of their commitment to continuing personal development, Pets At Home have enrolled a number of their staff in poultry keeping classes run by Henschool. The selected staff will learn the basics of handling, feeding and raising chickens in order to better inform and educate Pets At Home customers. Said Lesley Austin, owner of Henschool, "It is fantastic to see that poultry keeping is not only increasing in popularity, but that high street retailers are also taking pet care seriously. We at Henschool are thrilled to be working with Pets At Home to ensure their staff ...

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CoreCentive, a leader in the Human Capital Management industry, has launched a comprehensive "Going Green" initiative in an effort to do its part in minimizing adverse impacts on the Earth and its climate. "As our business grows, we're making sure we take every step to implement innovative and responsible practices across our company, as well as setting an example for both our clients and our employees to make daily environmental stewardship a priority," said Steve Walter, President & Chief Executive Officer, CoreCentive. Among the highlights of the CoreCentive ...

SAP Security Administration is the technical function that supports security administration of an SAP installation. Common tasks include management of roles, authorizations, user accounts, user groups, activity groups, generation of profiles, and security auditing. More details visit our website http://www.sapenvision.com SAP Security Contents: SAP R/3, Netweaver Technologies SAP Security Elements of SAP Authorization Concepts User Master Record Working with Profile Generator (Roles, Composite Roles, Derived Roles, Customizing Roles) Access Control and ...

Infinit Outsourcing, Inc.'s co-founder, Richard Eldridge, shared insights about social media as plenary session speaker for the 4th Annual Ayala Group ICT Summit 2010, "Creating Possibilities" during the second day of the summit on the 2nd of September. In a presentation entitled "New Media - Opportunities and Threats", Richard discussed the immense potential, and also the great threat, that social media presents to a company. "By harnessing the power of social media, we are tapping into the potential of the 1.3 billion people who are active internet users worldwide ...

4D Systems announced today the launch of its new Arduino Display Shield Modules - 4Display-Shield. The 4Display-Shields are designed to provide an easy and quick way to interface the popular Goldelox-embedded range of small OLED and LCD display modules with the Arduino-Duemilanove, Arduino-Mega and many other Arduino compatible boards. The 4Display-Shields come complete with the integrated 4D Systems OLED or LCD display module, a 5-way multi-switch joystick, and male headers that help connect the 4Display-Shield to the Arduino Boards. The 5-way joystick is connected ...

DAVID Systems, a leading provider of global broadcast solutions, offers the Broadcast Exchange Platform as a solution to decrease the complexity of broadcast workflows with heterogeneous infrastructures and proprietary systems throughout the production chain. Journalists in the field are enabled to transfer their contribution to the main broadcast station from all over the world using standard network connections. A story can then be sent immediately to a local playout server, re-distributed to affiliate stations or shared in-house for post-production. DAVID Systems' solution ...