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United States has many Allied Health Schools to its credit. Students from different parts of the world are often attracted to these Schools. Both West and East Coasts in US are rich in many high graded Allied Health Schools. There are many Allied Health Schools in Alabama, Delaware, Georgia, Kentucky, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Mississippi, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Virginia and West Virginia.

In Alabama, there are many top colleges such as Fortis College, Strayer University, South University, Remington College and Virginia College. Most of these colleges offer various Diploma Programs in Medical Office Management and Administration, Pharmacy Technician and Technology and Surgical Technician and Technology.

The Top Allied Health Care Schools in Delaware are Dawn Training Center, Harris School of Business and Strayer University’s Campus. They offer many diploma programs in Medical Billing, Coding and Transcription and Multi Skill Health Technology.

In Georgia, the top schools include Sanford Brown Institute in Atlanta, Advanced Career Training Institute in Morrow, Medix College in Atlanta, Brown Mackie College in Atlanta and Everest Institute in Decatur, Bauder College in Atlanta, Laurus Technical Institute, Keller Graduate School of Management under Devry University has campuses in Atlanta, Gwinnett, Stockbridge and Decatur. Argosy University also has a campus in Atlanta. These schools offer MBA Degree and Diploma Programs in Dentistry, Cardiovascular Technology etc.

Top Kentucky Health Schools include Draughons Junior College in Bowling Green, Spencerian College in Lexington Daymar College, Thomas College in Crestview Hills, Beckfield College, National College of Business and Technology in Louisville, South Western College and Indiana Wesleyan University’s College at Louisville. Maryland has many such Top Colleges like Medix College, Kaplan College in Hagerstown, TESST College of Technology and Sanz School etc. The reputed colleges in Massachusetts include Health Training Center in Milford, Worcester and Lynn, Mildred Elley in Pittsfield, Porter and Chester Institute in Westborough, Braintree and Chicopee, Bay state College in Boston, Lincoln and Technical Institute, Salter College, The Salter School and Branford Hall Career Institute.

The State of Michigan too has many Top Allied Health Care Schools like ‘New Horizons’ which has campuses at Troy, Grand Rapids, Kalamazoo, Flint, East Lansing Livonia, Dorsey School in Southgate, Roseville and Madison Heights. Mississippi has many top colleges like Antonelli College in Jackson, Hattiesburg, Belhaven College, Blue Cliff College and Virginia College. The State of New York has College like Berkeley College in midtown Manhattan, Hunter Business School, TCI College of Technology, Anthem Institute in New York City, Bramson ORT College, Branford Hall Career Institute in Bohemia and Albany, Bryant and Stratton College, Plaza College in Jackson Heights, Ridley-Lowell Business and Technical Institute in Binghampton and Poughkeepsie, Suburban Technical School in Hempstead and Anthem Institute. New York University SCPS is another top Allied Health School in New York. North Carolina’s top Schools include Miller-Motte Technical College in Raleigh, Wilmington and Greenville, South College in Ashville, Medical Careers Institute in Concord, Greensboro and Brookstone College which has so many campuses through out North Carolina.

The Top Health Schools in Ohio are many such as Bohecker College, Miami-Jacobs Career College,  Ohio Business College, RETS College, National College of business and Technology, Beckfield College, Harrison College, Ohio Valley College of Technology and Tech Skills which has campuses in Cincinnati, Cleveland and Columbus and Cleveland Institute of Dental – Medical Assistants, Inc.

Keystone Technical Institute, McCann School of Business and Technology and Allied Medical and Technical Institute in Pennsylvania, National College of Business and Technology in Virginia are other Top Allied Health Care Schools in East Coast.

I am pursuing my BA in Psychology and Behavioral Analysis in Kaplan University. It is left for me 0,5 year to get my BA. However, I have found out that Kaplan University is regionally accredited by the Higher Learning Commission and a member of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools. The North Central Association of Colleges and Schools (NCA), also known as North Central, is one of six regional accreditation organizations recognized by the United States Department of Education and the Council for Higher Education Accreditation. Founded in 1895, the NCA accredits over 10,000 public and private educational institutions serving 19 Midwestern, South-Central and a few Western states, including: Arkansas, Arizona, Colorado, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, North Dakota, Nebraska, New Mexico, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Dakota, West Virginia, Wisconsin, and Wyoming.However, I live in New York and it means that I am attending educational establishment which is not accredited in my state. I spoke with my academic adviser and he concluded that I have no reasons to worry because it is accredited..however when I told him that I live in NYC and need to know the other local colleges will accept credits from Kaplan adviser answered that some do some do not. This answer was not satisfactory. I can change college, however is any sense for this..? I am about to get my BA and in local college in New York, I have to pass application acceptance process about 1 year, and start my BA almost all over again. Btw, Kaplan University is not cheap, and I have calculated that I will have to pay almost the same money for local college in NY and Kaplan which is located in Iowa. Also to support my negative opinion about Kaplan I have made research on the internet and found out that people are writing about fraudulent and scam actions. I have enrolled in Kaplan because I had no other option at that time, only take classes online. Even now, if I transfer my credits (which will be approved only 20%) to local college I will have to start all over again and what is the sense to do so?

Once an industrial section of cold cement warehouses and rusting rail yards with a flurry of yellow taxicabs passing through, Chel­sea now sparkles with art galleries, trendy new restaurants and its first expensive residential explosion. The conversion has been gradual with an unusual symbiotic relationship be­tween the industrial and the art mart.

The photography gallery of Yossi Milo exists upstairs from a taxi garage. The PaceWildenstein’s Minimalist mausoleum on West 25th is down the street from old artist’s coops. Elite art collectors rub shoulders with auto mechanics as they walk through the streets. But despite this unusual relation­ship, after more than ten years of growth, the Chelsea neighborhood possesses more than 250 galleries that extend from West 13th to West 29th Streets and from 10th Avenue to the West Side Highway in Manhattan, about twice the amount of galleries SoHo had in the early 1990′s.

The migration to Chelsea is a large scale New York City event that has never hap­pened before. All species of art galleries exist in Chelsea in different stages of development. Its crop of galleries consists of parallel reali­ties catering to different audiences and mar­kets from the avant-garde to the academic. With art from places as far as India and as close as Williamsburg, Chelsea reflects con­temporary art’s global marketplace.

“Chelsea is now the dominant mar­ketplace for art culture in New York,” said Renee Vara, an Adjunct Professor at New York University and Lecturer at Guggenheim Museum, where she teaches art history, art theory, and museum studies, and is a private independent curator and art historian. “It offers efficiency and a separate enclave with a collective and attractive element.”

The breakthrough into Chelsea be­gan in 1988 with the opening of the Dia Foun­dation, now Dia Center for the Arts. This cul­tural pioneer set up camp in a vicinity where spaces were large and rents were cheap. By late 1994, Matthew Marks, then a young Up­per East Side dealer, expanded to West 22nd Street and started the “art party scene” in the new neighborhood. At the time, it was impos­sible to predict how Chelsea would be trans­formed or how fast changes would happen.

Paula Cooper arrived in 1996. Cooper had opened SoHo’s first art gallery in 1968 and then joined about 15 other art dealers and moved to far west Chelsea. The space in Chelsea opened in an old garage on West 21st Street, between 10th and 11th av­enues. Because of Cooper’s prominence in the art world and her role in developing SoHo, many art and real estate entrepreneurs took her move as a sign that the neighborhood west of 10th Avenue and bound by 20th and 26th streets was about to be transformed.

The transformation of Chelsea was the answer for rents that had spiralled out of control in SoHo. With most galleries renting and not owning their spaces in SoHo, galler­ies sought out new ventures in other territo­ries where rents were cheaper or the option of owning a building was presented. The idea of Chelsea was ripe for its time when the art world was ready to break old traditions with SoHo. They found them in Chelsea.

As Chelsea dominated the art scene, Mary Boone signaled another stage in her personal evolution as a dealer by estab­lishing a Chelsea branch of her high profile gallery. Gluckman Mayner Architects created a dramatic Chelsea gallery for Boone. Rich­ard Gluckman’s association with Boone dates back to her days on West Broadway. He also designed her gallery at 745 Fifth Avenue.

Boone opened her first space in SoHo on Broadway in 1979 moving into the same building that housed Leo Castelli and Ileana Sonnabend’s legendary galler­ies. Boone later looked for space on 57th Street in the traditional neighborhood of the New York art world.

The layout and details of the Chel­sea gallery originated from the design of her uptown space. The architect created a pow­erful juxtaposition between the details associ­ated with his work and the rugged quality of original wood trusses and wood plank ceiling, which are exposed arcing over the space. The floors are steel-troweled concrete slab, which mimics the floor treatment uptown. And the fa-cade’s storefront of translucent glass reminds one of Gluckman’s design at Boone’s West Broadway gallery. In Chelsea, all three rooms receive natural light by way of the translucent storefront windows in the reception area and through a small central skylight in the rear. The 12-ft.-wide main exhibition area contains a translucent skylight that traverses the entire length of the 24-ft.-high display wall. Spot­lights provide additional lighting.

As the Chelsea area continued to transform, people moved into the area’s first pricey loft conversion on West 22nd Street. Savanna Partners, a young real estate development firm, bought that property at a July 1994 auction for $3 million. Because of zoning requirements, it took Savanna Part­ners one and a half years to get approvals, even though there was very little manufac­turing activity and little hope for any more industrial growth.

Today, Savanna builds huge lofts and rents the street-level spaces to galler­ies and restaurants. Not far to the south, on 17th Street, World Wide Holdings Corp. does something similar, and the Meatpacking District of the far west Village has practically disappeared as old warehouses are being-turned into apartments.

Among Chelsea gallery spaces are other SoHo exiles like John Weber, Barbara Gladstone, Metro Pictures, 303 Gallery, Bose Pacia Gallery, and Agora Gallery.

“Chelsea affords you access to critics and curators that make the rounds regularly to look at galleries,” said Dr. Steve Pacia, co-founder and co-partner with Dr Arani Bose of the Bose Pacia Gallery on West 26th Street.

Bose Pacia Gallery, established in 1994 in SoHo, was the first gallery in the West specializing in contemporary art from South Asia. During the last ten years, Bose Pacia has held over 30 exhibitions and is internationally regarded for promoting the South Asian avant-garde. Visual artists from South Asia work within a unique space that is informed by many cultures, languages and re­ligions. Bose Pacia fosters an active discourse between these artists and the international art community by featuring exhibitions that contextualize contemporary art from this geo­graphic region within its rich artistic traditions and current social tensions.

Established in 1984 in SoHo by a fine artist, Agora Gallery more than doubled its space when it moved to Chel­sea in 2003. A gallery without borders, Agora was one of the pioneer galleries pro­viding representation to both national and international artists.

Recent interviews by its director, Angela Di Bello, in Business News Weekend (NBC) Hellenic Public Radio, and the Wall Street Journal have brought additional atten­tion and visitors to Chelsea.

The New Museum also left SoHo for an interim spot in Chelsea but has closed its doors, with the exception of its bookstore space at the Chelsea Art Museum, for a year and a half until the construction of its much anticipated new building on the Bowery is opened. Designed by the acclaimed Tokyo based company of Sejima and Nishizawa/SA-NAA, the new 60,000 square foot, seven-sto­ry New Museum will be the first art museum building constructed in downtown Manhattan in over a century.

An H-1B temporary worker is a foreign national who is coming temporarily to the U.S. to perform a specialty occupation.  A specialty occupation is defined as “an occupation that requires (A) theoretical and practical application of a body of highly specialized knowledge, and (B) attainment of a bachelor’s or higher degree in the specific specialty as a minimum for entry into the occupation in the United States.” [INA214(i); 8USC 1184(i)]

For example accountants, architects, teachers (primary and secondary, excluding nursery school teachers), university professors, certain types of nurses, attorneys, physicians, designers, and engineers will all qualify as H-1B workers. The only way to make a determination whether a particular worker will qualify is through advice from an experienced immigration attorney.

The H-1B visa remains one of most versatile nonimmigrant employment visas utilized by U.S. businesses to hire foreign workers.  Here is a list of issues to keep in mind when filing an H-1B petition.

Limitation on Duration of Stay and Full-Time/Part-Time Employment

An employer may request initial employment a maximum of 3 years.  The H-1B can be extended.  Generally, the maximum amount of time that an individual can hold H-1B visa status is 6 years. However, exceptions do exist that allow an H-1B extension beyond the initial 6 years. An employer may petition for a foreign worker for either full-time or part-time employment.

Prevailing Wage

The prevailing wage element requires employers to demonstrate that the wage offered will not discriminate against US workers by offering wages that are lower than the actual wage paid similar workers. Generally prevailing wage requirement is met by offering wages as determined submitting a Prevailing Wage Request to the State Workforce or demonstrating that a union contract is in force. The H-1B laws require employers to pay the higher of the actual wage or the prevailing wage.

The Labor Condition Application (LCA)

The LCA is an application by the employer to the Department of Labor attesting to certain conditions of the position offered.  These conditions are:

·         That the higher of actual or prevailing wage will be paid;

·         That the employee is eligible for the same benefits as other similarly employed US workers;

·         That the employee is not being employed because US workers are out on strike or lockout;

·         That the employment of the foreign worker will not adversely affect the working conditions of other workers; and

·         That proper notification was given to U.S. employees or the union representative if the position is union position university’s intent to hire an H-1B non-immigrant.

The LCA must be made available for Department of Labor (DOL) and for public inspection.  The LCA may be obtained online at www.lca.doleta.gov.

Spouse or Children of an H-1B

Spouses and children of an H-1B are eligible for H-4 visas. An H-4 is either a spouse or unmarried children under 21 years old.  H-4 holders cannot work in the U.S. but are eligible to attend school either part time or full-time.  To prove the relationship to the H-1B an H-4 candidate will need to present a marriage certificate if a spouse and a birth certificate if a child. 

Ok, when do I file?

The United States Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS) will accept H-1B petitions for fiscal year 2010 on April 1, 2009 for jobs starting on October 1, 2009.  It is important to file April 1, 2009 since H-1B visas are capped at 65,000 per year and the last two years the cap was met within one week.  As such, early document preparation is essential to making timely filed H-1B petitions.

I’m Ready to File … Where?

A petition is filed with either California Service Center or Vermont Service Center depending on where the temporary employment will be The California Service Center is appropriate for employment in the following states: Arkansas, Arizona, California, Colorado, Guam, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, North Dakota, Ohio, Oregon, South Dakota, Utah, Washington, Wisconsin, or Wyoming.

A petition is filed with the Vermont Service Center if the temporary work will be performed in: Alabama, Arkansas, Connecticut, Delaware, the District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Mississippi, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Puerto Rico, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont, Virginia, U.S. Virgin Islands, or West Virginia.

When the temporary employment will be in different states, the state where your company is located will determine the Service Center for submission of the petition.  For example, if the beneficiary will work in Arizona and Texas, and your company is located in California, file your H-1B petition with the California Service Center.

Sounds Great … How Much is this Going to Set me Back?

As of the time this article is published, an employer must pay for the H-1B Form I-129 filing fee ($320), H-1B Training Fee of either $750 or $1500 depending on the size of your company, and a Fraud Prevention and Detection Fee ($500). All employers must pay these fees unless an employer qualifies for exemption from the H-1B Training Fee.

If a company currently employs 1-25 full-time equivalent employees, the H-1B Training Fee is $750.  Companies who employ more than 25 full-time equivalent employees will need to pay $1500.  The employer must pay the H-1B Training Fee upon the initial hire and the first H-1B extension of the same employee.  The H-1B Training Fee is not required for second or subsequent petitions for H-1B extension.  The Fraud Prevention and Detection fee needs to be paid when the employer initially hires the employee even if he or she is currently working as an H-1B with another employer. 

A simple way to remember this is that every employer needs to pay for the H-1B Training Fee twice for each H-1B employee and the H-1B Fraud Prevention and Detection Fee needs to be paid once for each H-1B employee. Fees are subject to change so it is important to make sure of the proper fees before filing.

Filing Procedure

Documents are filed with the USCIS service center having jurisdiction over the petitioner (see filing locations above).  The petitioner must send Form I-129, I-129 supplement forms, an approved Labor Condition Application, support document about the petitioner’s business, and documents showing the qualifications of the candidate.  If there are dependent/s then the form I-539 need to be filed along with proof of relationship to the H-1B, i.e. marriage certificate or birth certificate or both.  Only one I-539 is required to be filed as children are listed on the application.  The Form I-539 filing fee is $300. 

CUNY Journalism professor SANDEEP JUNNARKAR elected new SAJA President;

writer V.V. “Sugi” Ganeshananthan elected Vice President & Convention chair;

Group serving 1,000+ South Asian Journalists Prepares for its International Convention June 20-21

[NOTE TO JOURNALISTS: SAJA's president, Sandeep Junnarkar available at 646-469-4334; sandeep@journalism.cuny.edu; VP V.V. "Sugi" Ganeshananthan available at: 617-256-3361; writer@vasugi.com]

Sandeep Junnarkar photo Sugi Ganeshananthan

Sandeep Junnarkar

SAJA president

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PHOTO: Preston Merchant

V.V. “Sugi” Ganeshananthan

VP and convention chair

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PHOTO: Preston Merchant

NEW YORK CITY, Jan. 29, 2008 — SAJA, the South Asian Journalists Association, announced its slate of officers for 2008 today. The group serves more than 1,000 journalists and others interested in South Asia and South Asians across the U.S. and Canada.

Sandeep Junnarkar, a new media professor at the City University of New York Graduate School of Journalism and one of the country’s leading experts on online journalism, was elected president. V.V. Ganeshananthan, known as Sugi, a writer and author, was elected vice president. Anusha Shrivastava, a reporter for Dow Jones Newswires, who is new to the Board, was named secretary (she covers corporate bonds for the news service, and has been a business journalist for wire, print and broadcast media in the U.S., Canada and India). John Laxmi, a New Jersey-based freelance writer, continues as treasurer and Sree Sreenivasan, a Columbia University journalism professor and WNBC-TV technology reporter, continues as the executive committee’s at-large officer. A full slate of Board members for the year has also been named, including Aseem Chhabra, NYC-based freelance writer; Kiran Khalid, freelance TV journalist and documentary filmmaker; Monika Mathur, researcher, the Associated Press; Gopal Ratnam, an automotive correspondent for Bloomberg News. Deepti Hajela, who served as SAJA’s president for three years, remains on the board, coordinating the group’s chapters across the U.S. and Canada.

“SAJA is in excellent hands with Sandeep and Sugi,” Hajela said. “I have the highest respect for their abilities and leadership, and I can’t wait to see where they take SAJA next!”

“I am excited to serve as SAJA’s president,” said Junnarkar. “SAJA has been gathering momentum over the past few years, and I look forward to working with the SAJA board members and with SAJA members to take the organization to new levels. I want to thank Deepti Hajela, our most recent president, and Vikas Bajaj, our most recent VP, for all their hard work on behalf of SAJA. I am delighted that Deepti will continue to be on our board.” [He also answered five questions from SAJAforum about his new post:

http://www.sajaforum.org/2008/01/five-questions.html]

Junnarkar (pronounced “SUN-deep joo-NAR-kar”), who is an associate professor at the City University of New York’s Graduate School of Journalism, was born in Gwalior, India. He spent his childhood in New Delhi, Mumbai, London, Paris, and his teenage years in parts of California and New York. He received a master’s degree from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism and a bachelor’s degree from the University of California at Berkeley. He worked for the New York Times on the Web in the 1990s and later became the New York bureau chief at CNET News.com. More on him at him at http://www.saja.org/members/profiles/junnarkar.html and http://digitalnewsjournalist.com.

“I’m thrilled to be able to work with SAJA during what will be a crucial time for both journalism and South Asia,” said Ganeshananthan. “Last year, SAJA ran a great convention, featuring speakers at the forefront of the profession. This year, we’re looking to repeat and add to those successes with new initiatives, including a rebuilt website and an active discussion forum incorporating a diverse array of topics and journalists.” Ganeshananthan takes over the vice presidency from Vikas Bajaj, a New York Times business reporter who will continue to work closely on SAJA programs. [She also answered five questions from SAJAforum about her new post: http://www.sajaforum.org/2008/01/five-questions.html]

Ganeshananthan (pronounced “SOO-ghee [not SOO-jee] gun-ay-SHAN-an-than”), the first Sri Lankan-American member of the SAJA Board, is a journalist and fiction writer. She grew up in Bethesda, Maryland. She is a 2002 graduate of Harvard College, where she was the managing editor of The Crimson. She received an MFA in fiction from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop in 2005. During 2005-2006, she was the Phillips Exeter Academy Writer-in-Residence. In 2007, she graduated from the new MA program at the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism, where she specialized in arts and culture coverage. She has written and reported for The Atlantic Monthly, The Wall Street Journal, The American Prospect, and other publications. Random House will publish her first novel, “Love Marriage,” in April. The book is set partially in Sri Lanka. More on her at http://www.vasugi.com.

Led by Ganeshananthan, SAJA (along with its partner, SAJA Group, Inc.) is preparing for the annual convention, which will take place June 20-21 2008, at Columbia University and the CUNY Journalism School in New York. More than 1,000 journalists and guests from around the U.S., Canada, South Asia and Europe are expected to gather for a series of workshops, panels and networking events — highlighted by a gala dinner and the SAJA Journalism Awards (including the Daniel Pearl Award for Outstanding Reporting on South Asia). Details of the convention can be found on the SAJA Web site: http://www.saja.org.

The dramatic increase in the South Asian population in the United States and growing importance of U.S.-South Asian relations have led to a huge growth in the coverage of the community and the region. As a result, SAJA serves as a resource for journalists, community organizations and members of the public trying to understand various complex issues related to the subcontinent.

Junnarkar, Ganeshananthan and other members of the board will focus on improving the quality and reach of SAJA programs, including the SAJA Reporting Fellowships, which provide funding for journalists who wish to cover stories about South Asia or the diaspora. SAJA’s e-mail lists – http://www.saja.org/lists – and its newsy, resource-filled blog, SAJAforum.org – http://www.sajaforum.org – and its in-depth web site, SAJA.org – http://www.saja.org – offer the public a chance to learn about South Asia and South Asian America and Canada.

“Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose.” was written by Gertrude Stein as part of the 1913 poem Sacred Emily, which appeared in the 1922 book, Geography and Plays. In Stein’s view, the sentence expresses the fact that simply using the name of a thing already invokes the imagery and emotions associated with it.

That certainty seems to summarize a problem we have today, “A college is a college is a college is a college” or a “University is a university is a university is a university.” There are people that believe that just because someone calls something a “college or university” it is just that.

Because of this belief and with the advent of the Internet, diploma mills have blossomed. There are diploma mills that try to look like a “rose:” excuse me, a “college” even an “accredited university,” but nothing could be further from the truth.

So, if your future plans include college or a university, finding out if the school where you plan to obtain an degree is a fully accredited institution is the first and the most vital step in the online degree process.

What is the difference as long as it is a degree?

I had a good friend who spent four years of his life earning a college degree. Turns out that even though the institution was well known, it was not accredited. Unfortunately because of having a degree that was not accredited, he was never able to get a job in his chosen field, which was teaching.

You are running a risk by not having a degree from an accredited school. An unaccredited degree is a time bomb in your resume. Today, employers are carefully scrutinizing information on job applications and they do not look favorably on diploma mills.

Keep in mind the responsibility for spotting a diploma mill lays in your lap. Here are just a few warning signs: the school’s website has no phone number, their promotional materials focus heavily on credit for life experience, the school’s name is very similar to the name of a traditional, well-known school, a degree is awarded in a few weeks or months, the school claims to be accredited by an organization that is not listed as an accreditor approved by the Department of Education, the school boasts of accreditation, i.e., (fully, nationally or worldwide accredited,) but has no legitimate accreditation agency to back up the claim. If what you have to do to earn your degree seems “too good to be true,” it is a warning sign of a diploma mill.

Why is it so important for a school to be accredited? Accreditation is an independent examination of college and university programs to confirm that the education that is provided is consistent and of the highest quality. When a college or university is awarded accreditation, it guarantees that they have been examined and that they have met the standards of excellence that have been determined by the accrediting organization. Accreditation for a college or university is maintained by continuous adherence to set criteria. The purpose of accreditation is to make sure that colleges and universities achieve certain levels of education.

When looking at a school, check out their accreditation. Some colleges state that they are accredited, but they are accredited by fake accrediting agencies. It is critical that you make sure that any college you look at seriously is accredited by one of the six regional agencies that are listed below. Be sure you look at their websites, which lists all the colleges and universities that they have accredited.

Regional accreditation is the most recognized and accepted type of accreditation in the United States. There are six geographic regions with an agency in each region that accredits college and university programs:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools – http://www.msche.org/

Accreditation of colleges in Delaware, District of Columbia, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania and Puerto Rico.

New England Association of Schools & Colleges – http://www.neasc.org/

Accreditation of colleges in Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont.

North Central Association of Colleges and Schools – http://www.ncacasi.org/ Accreditation of colleges in Arkansas, Arizona, Colorado, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, North Dakota, Nebraska, Ohio, Oklahoma, New Mexico, South Dakota, Wisconsin, West Virginia, and Wyoming.

Northwest Association Of Schools And Colleges – http://www.nwccu.org/ Accreditation of colleges in Alaska, Idaho, Utah, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, and Washington.

Southern Association of Colleges and Schools – http://www.sacs.org/ Accreditation of colleges in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia.

Western Association of Schools and Colleges – http://www.wascweb.org/

Accreditation of colleges in California, Hawaii, the territories of Guam, American Samoa, Federated States of Micronesia, Republic of Palau, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana’s Islands, the Pacific Basin, East Asia, the Pacific and East Asia where American/International schools are.

You can easily find out if a college or university that you are interested in is accredited by simply visiting the specific regional accrediting board’s website depending on where the college or university is located.

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Aromatic Fire-cured

Aromatic Fire-cured smoking tobacco is a robust variety of tobacco used as a condimental for pipe blends. It is cured by smoking over gentle fires. In the United States, it is grown in northern middle Tennessee, central Kentucky and in Virginia. Fire-cured tobacco grown in Kentucky and Tennessee is used in some chewing tobaccos, moist snuff, some cigarettes and as a condiment leaf in pipe tobacco blends. It has a rich, slightly floral taste, and adds body and aroma to the blend.

Another fire-cured tobacco is Latakia and is produced from oriental varieties of N. tabacum. The leaves are cured and smoked over smoldering fires of local hardwoods and aromatic shrubs in Cyprus and Syria. Latakia has a pronounced flavor and a very distinctive smoky aroma, and is used in Balkan and English-style pipe tobacco blends.

Brightleaf tobacco

Brightleaf tobacco leaf ready for harvest. When it turns yellow-green the sugar content is at its peak, and it will cure to a deep golden color with mild taste. The leaves are harvested progressively up the stem from the base, as they ripen.

Brightleaf tobacco is commonly known as “Virginia tobacco”, often regardless of the state from where it is harvested. Prior to the American Civil War, most tobacco grown in the US was fire-cured dark-leaf. This type of tobacco was planted in fertile lowlands, used a robust variety of leaf, and was either fire cured or air cured.

Sometime after the War of 1812, demand for a milder, lighter, more aromatic tobacco arose. Ohio, Pennsylvania and Maryland all innovated quite a bit with milder varieties of the tobacco plant. Farmers around the country experimented with different curing processes. But the breakthrough didn’t come until around 1839.

It had been noticed for centuries that sandy, highland soil produced thinner, weaker plants. Captain Abisha Slade, of Caswell County, North Carolina had a good deal of infertile, sandy soil, and planted the new “gold-leaf” varieties on it. Slade owned a slave, Stephen, who around 1839 accidentally produced the first real bright tobacco. He used charcoal to restart a fire used to cure the crop. The surge of heat turned the leaves yellow. Using that discovery, Slade developed a system for producing bright tobacco, cultivating on poorer soils and using charcoal for heat-curing.

Slade made many public appearances to share the bright-leaf process with other farmers. Prosperous and outgoing, he built a brick house in Yanceyville, North Carolina, and at one time had many servants.

News spread through the area pretty quickly. The infertile sandy soil of the Appalachian piedmont was suddenly profitable, and people rapidly developed flu-curing techniques, a more efficient way of smoke-free curing. Farmers discovered that Bright leaf tobacco needs thin, starved soil, and those who could not grow other crops found that they could grow tobacco. Formerly unproductive farms reached 2035 times their previous worth. By 1855, six Piedmont counties adjoining Virginia ruled the tobacco market.

By the outbreak of the Civil War, the town of Danville, Virginia actually had developed a bright-leaf market for the surrounding area in Caswell County, North Carolina and Pittsylvania County, Virginia.

Danville was also the main railway head for Confederate soldiers going to the front. These brought bright tobacco with them from Danville to the lines, traded it with each other and Union soldiers, and developed quite a taste for it. At the end of the war, the soldiers went home and suddenly there was a national market for the local crop. Caswell and Pittsylvania counties were the only two counties in the South that experienced an increase in total wealth after the war.

Burley

Main article: Burley (tobacco)

Burley tobacco is a light air-cured tobacco used primarily for cigarette production. In the United States it is produced in an eight state belt with approximately 70% produced in Kentucky. Tennessee produces approximately 20% with smaller amounts produced in Indiana, North Carolina, Missouri, Ohio, Virginia and West Virginia. Burley tobacco is produced in many other countries with major production in Brazil, Malawi and Argentina. In the U.S., burley tobacco plants are started from palletized seeds placed in polystyrene trays floated on a bed of fertilized water in March or April.

Cavendish

Main article: Cavendish tobacco

Cavendish is more a process of curing and a method of cutting tobacco than a type of it. The processing and the cut are used to bring out the natural sweet taste in the tobacco. Cavendish can be produced out of any tobacco type but is usually one of, or a blend of Kentucky, Virginia, and Burley and is most commonly used for pipe tobacco and cigars.

The process begins by pressing the tobacco leaves into a cake about an inch thick. Heat from fire or steam is applied, and the tobacco is allowed to ferment. This is said to result in a sweet and mild tobacco. Finally the cake is sliced. These slices must be broken apart, as by rubbing in a circular motion between one’s palms, before the tobacco can be evenly packed into a pipe. Flavoring is often added before the leaves are pressed. English Cavendish uses a dark flue or fire cured Virginia, which is steamed and then stored under pressure to permit it to cure and ferment for several days or weeks.

Corojo

Main article: Corojo

Corojo is a type of tobacco primarily used in the making of cigars, originally grown in the Vuelta Abajo region of Cuba.

Corojo was originally developed and grown by Diego Rodriguez at his farm or vega, Santa Ines del Corojo and takes its name from the farm. It was used as a wrapper extensively for many years on Cuban cigars, but its susceptibility to various diseases, Blue mold in particular, caused the Cuban genetic engineers to develop various hybrid forms that would not only be disease-resistant, but would also display excellent wrapper qualities.

Criollo

Main article: Criollo tobacco

Criollo is primarily used in the making of cigars. It was, by most accounts, one of the original Cuban tobaccos that emerged around the time of Columbus. The term means native seed, and thus a tobacco variety using the term, such as Dominican Criollo, may or may not have anything to do with the original Cuban seed nor the recent hybrid, Criollo ’98.

Oriental Tobacco

Main article: Turkish tobacco

Oriental tobacco is a sun-cured, highly aromatic, small-leafed variety (Nicotiana tabacum) that is grown in Turkey, Greece, Bulgaria, and the Republic of Macedonia. Oriental tobacco is frequently referred to as “Turkish tobacco”, as these regions were all historically part of the Ottoman Empire. Many of the early brands of cigarettes were made mostly or entirely of Oriental tobacco; today, its main use is in blends of pipe and especially cigarette tobacco (a typical American cigarette is a blend of bright Virginia, burley and Oriental).

Perique

Main article: Perique

Perhaps the most strongly flavored of all tobaccos is the Perique, from Saint James Parish, Louisiana. When the Acadians made their way into this region in 1755, the Choctaw and Chickasaw tribes were cultivating a variety of tobacco with a distinctive flavor. A farmer called Pierre Chenet is credited with first turning this local tobacco into the Perique in 1824 through the technique of pressure-fermentation.

Considered the truffle of pipe tobaccos, the Perique is used as a component of many blended pipe tobaccos, but is too strong to be smoked pure. At one time, the freshly moist Perique was also chewed, but none is now sold for this purpose. It is traditionally a pipe tobacco, and is still very popular with pipe-smokers, typically blended with pure Virginia to lend spice, strength, and coolness to the blend.

Shade tobacco

Shade grown tobacco field in East Windsor, Connecticut

It is not well known that the northern US states of Connecticut and Massachusetts are also two of the most important tobacco-growing regions in the country. Long before Europeans arrived in the area, Native Americans harvested wild tobacco plants that grew along the banks of the Connecticut River. Today, the Connecticut River valley north of Hartford, Connecticut is known as “Tobacco Valley”, and the fields and drying sheds are visible to travelers on the road to and from Bradley International Airport, the major Connecticut airport. The tobacco grown here is known as shade tobacco because it is grown under tents which protect the tobacco plants from direct exposure to the sunlight. This imitates the conditions of tobacco plants growing in the shade of trees in tropical areas. The result are leafs of lighter color and of a more delicate structure. They are used as outer wrappers for some of the world’s finest cigars. It is not entirely clear who introduced this method of growing tobacco, but it is likely that the New York firm of Schroeder & Bon or its founder Frederick A. Schroeder were instrumental in developing this agricultural innovation.

Early Connecticut colonists acquired from the Native Americans the habit of smoking tobacco in pipes and began cultivating the plant commercially, even though the Puritans referred to it as the “evil weed”. The plant was outlawed in Connecticut in 1650, but in the 1800s as cigar smoking began to be popular, tobacco farming became a major industry, employing farmers, laborers, local youths, southern African Americans, and migrant workers.

Working conditions varied from backbreaking work for young local children, ages 13 and up, to backbreaking exploitation of migrants. Each tobacco plant yields only 18 leaves useful as cigar wrappers, and each leaf requires a great deal of individual manual attention during harvesting. Although the temperature in the curing sheds sometimes exceeds 38 C (100 F), no work is done inside the sheds while the tobacco is being fired.

In 1921, Connecticut tobacco production peaked, at 31,000 acres (125 km) under cultivation. The rise of cigarette smoking and the decline of cigar smoking have caused a corresponding decline in the demand for shade tobacco, reaching a minimum in 1992 of 2,000 acres (8 km) under cultivation. Since then, however, cigar smoking has become more popular again, and in 1997 tobacco farming had risen to 4,000 acres (16 km). However, only 1,050 acres (4.2 km) of shade tobacco were harvested in the Connecticut Valley in 2006. Connecticut seed is being grown in Ecuador, where labor is very cheap. The industry has weathered some major catastrophes, including a devastating hailstorm in 1929, and an epidemic of brown spot fungus in 2000, but is now in danger of disappearing altogether, given the value of the land to real estate speculators. The older and much less labor intensive Broadleaf plant, which produces an excellent maduro wrapper as well as binder and filler for cigars, is increasing in area in the Connecticut Valley.

Thuoc lao

Main article: Thuoc lao

Thuoc lao is a nicotine-rich (although not as strong as mapacho) type of tobacco grown exclusively in Vietnam and is often smoked by Vietnamese rice farmers.

It is most commonly smoked after a meal on a full stomach to “aid in digestion”, or along with green tea or local beer (most commonly the cheap “bia hoi”). A “hit” of thuoc lao is followed by a flood of nicotine to the bloodstream inducing strong dizziness that last several seconds. It should be said however that even heavy smokers have had trouble with the intense volume of smoke and that side effects include nausea and vomiting.

Type 22

Main article: Type 22 tobacco

Type 22 tobacco is a classification of United States tobacco product as defined by the U. S. Department of Agriculture, effective date November 7, 1986. The definition states that type 22 tobacco is a type of fire-cured tobacco, known as Eastern District fire-cured, produced principally in a section east of the Tennessee River in southern Kentucky and northern Tennessee. Most type 22 tobacco in northern Tennessee is grown in Robertson and Montgomery County.

White Burley

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Harvested white burley in Cincinnati, Ohio.

White Burley similar to Burley tobacco is the main component in chewing tobacco, American blend pipe tobacco, and American-style cigarettes.

In 1865, George Webb of Brown County, Ohio planted Red Burley seeds he had purchased, and found that a few of the seedlings had a whitish, sickly look. He transplanted them to the fields anyway, where they grew into mature plants but retained their light color. The cured leaves had an exceedingly fine texture and were exhibited as a curiosity at the market in Cincinnati. The following year he planted ten acres (40,000 m) from seeds from those plants, which brought a premium at auction. The air-cured leaf was found to be mild tasting and more absorbent than any other variety. White Burley, as it was later called, became the main component in chewing tobacco, American blend pipe tobacco, and American-style cigarettes. The white part of the name is seldom used today, since red burley, a dark air-cured variety of the mid-1800s, no longer exists.

Wild Tobacco

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Wild tobacco is native to the southwestern United States, Mexico, and parts of South America. Its botanical name is Nicotiana rustica. In Australia “Nicotiana benthamiana” and “Nicotiana gossei” are two of several indigenous tobaccos still used by Aboriginal people in some areas. “Nicotiana rustica” is the most potent strain of tobacco known. It is commonly used for tobacco dust or pesticides.

Y1

Main article: Y1 (tobacco)

Y1 is a strain of tobacco that was cross-bred by Brown & Williamson to obtain an unusually high nicotine content. It became controversial in the 1990s when the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) used it as evidence that tobacco companies were intentionally manipulating the nicotine content of cigarettes.

Y1 was developed by tobacco plant researcher James Chaplin, working under Dr. Jeffrey Wigand for Brown & Williamson (then a subsidiary of British American Tobacco) in the late 1970s. Chaplin, a director of the USDA Research Laboratory at Oxford, North Carolina, had described the need for a higher nicotine tobacco plant in the trade publication World Tobacco in 1977, and had bred a number of high-nicotine strains based on a hybrid of Nicotiana tabacum and Nicotiana rustica, but they were weak and would blow over in a strong wind. Only two grew to maturity; Y2, which “turned black in the drying barn and smelled like old socks,” and Y1, which was a success.

B&W brought the plants to California company DNA Plant Technology for additional modification, including making the plants male-sterile, a procedure that prevents competitors from reproducing the strain from seeds. DNA Plant Technology then smuggled the seeds to a B&W subsidiary in Brazil.

Y1 has a higher nicotine content than conventional flue-cured tobacco (6.5% versus 3.23.5%), but a comparable amount of tar, and does not affect taste or aroma. British American Tobacco (BAT) began to discuss the trialling of Y1 tobacco in 1991, despite it not being approved for use in the United States. B&W promised in 1994 to stop using Y1, but at that time they had 7 million pounds of inventory, and continued to blend Y1 into their products until 1999.

References

^ A typical mix of ingredients would be around 54 percent tobacco, 22 percent water, 8 percent alcohol (Glycerol/Sorbitol) and the rest sugars and specific flavoring (e.g., cherry).

^ See Robert T. Pando (2003). Shrouded in Cheesecloth: the Demise of Shade Tobacco in Florida and Georgia. Master of Arts thesis. Florida State University. PP. 22 sq., available online at http://etd.lib.fsu.edu/theses/available/etd-11142003-204324/ and Carl Wilhelm Schlegel (19161918). Schlegel’s American Families of German Ancestry. Vol. 3. P. 370.

^ http://sres-associated.anu.edu.au/fpt/nwfp/pituri/pituri.html

^ “Inside the Tobacco Deal – interview with David Kessler”. PBS. 2008. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/settlement/interviews/kessler.html. Retrieved 2008-06-11. 

^ a b c d Pringle, Peter (1998-02-22). “Tobacco giant bred high-nicotine crop in attempt to keep smokers hooked”. The Observer. 

^ “Smoke Gets In Your Ire”. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. 2003-05-04. http://www.post-gazette.com/columnists/20030504edroddy04p1.asp. Retrieved 2008-06-11. 

^ a b “The Future of Y1″. University of California, San Francisco. 1990. http://www.library.ucsf.edu/tobacco/batco/html/12700/12752/. Retrieved 2008-06-11. 

^ a b “Chronology of Significant Y1 Events”. Brown & Williamson. 1995-06-26. http://tobaccodocuments.org/bliley_bw/566628820-8821.html. Retrieved 2008-06-12. 

^ Seper, Jerry (1998-01-08). “Justice uproots ‘crazy tobacco’; Prosecutors target high-nicotine leaf”. The Washington Times. p. A4. 

^ “The Low Tar Lie”. British Medical Journal. 1999. http://tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/8/4/433. Retrieved 2008-06-11. 

^ “Evaluation of Y1 Tobacco”. British American Tobacco. 1991-11-21. http://www.library.ucsf.edu/tobacco/batco/html/10700/10744/. Retrieved 2008-06-11. 

^ “Note for Tobacco Strategy Review Team”. British American Tobacco. November 1991. http://www.library.ucsf.edu/tobacco/batco/html/11600/11658/otherpages/allpages.html. Retrieved 2008-06-11. 

^ Mishra, Raja (1998-03-07). “Despite pledge, cigarette still include high-nicotine tobacco/Brown & Williamson’s CEO said four years ago the practice would stop. Newly released papers also indicate he misled Congress.”. The Philadelphia Inquirer. p. A3. 

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I come from South Africa, and I am now an overseas student studying in China’s Peking University in Beijing. I have been living and studying here for almost one years and of course, during the past one year I have seen in part how China changes, how the Chinese change. But what impressed me most is the popularity of Internet here, on line shopping in particular. Nowadays more and more people are now having access to Internet, which leads to the widespread of on-line shopping. It is I think more convenient and efficient than traditional shopping, as we at least don’t have to visit from one shop to another to eye our favorite products, or bargain with the shopkeepers over prices, after-sale service and quality guarantee.

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Counties

Chatham

Durham

Franklin

Harnett

Johnston

Orange

Person

Wake

Cities

The Triangle region, as defined for statistical purposes as the Raleigh-Durham-Cary CSA, comprises 8 counties, although the U.S. Census Bureau divided the region into two metropolitan statistical areas and one micropolitan area in 2003. Some local television networks define the region as Raleigh-Durham-Fayetteville. Although Fayetteville, North Carolina, is nearly 50 miles (80 km) from Raleigh’s city limits, it is in the designated market area.

Primary cities

Raleigh, 380,173

Durham, 217,847

Chapel Hill, (Town), 54,492

Suburbs with more than 10,000 inhabitants

Apex

Carrboro

Cary

Clayton

Fuquay-Varina

Garner

Holly Springs

Morrisville

Sanford

Smithfield

Wake Forest

Suburbs with fewer than 10,000 inhabitants

Angier

Bahama

Bear Creek

Bennett

Benson

Bonlee

Bonsal

Buies Creek

Bunn

Bynum

Carbonton

Centerville

Cleveland

Coats

Corinth

Dunn

Efland

Erwin

Fearrington

Feltonville

Four Oaks

Franklinton

Friendship

Goldston

Gorman

Gulf

Haywood

Hillsborough

Hurdle Mills

Kenly

Knightdale

Lillington

Lizard Lick

Louisburg

Mebane

Micro

Moncure

New Hill

Oxford

Pine Level

Pittsboro

Princeton

Rolesville

Rougemont

Roxboro

Saxapahaw

Selma

Siler City

Silk Hope

Timberlake

Wendell

West Smithfield

Wilson’s Mills

Youngsville

Zebulon

Education

Public secondary education in the Triangle is similar to that of the majority of the state of North Carolina, in which there are county-wide school systems (the exception is Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools within Orange County but apart from Orange County Schools). The Wake County Public School System, which includes the cities of Raleigh and Cary, is the largest school system in the state of North Carolina and the 18th largest in the United States, officially recording an enrollment of 139,599 students on the 20th day of the 2009-10 school year. Other larger systems in the region include Durham Public Schools (about 33,000 students) and rapidly growing Johnston County Schools (about 31,000 students).

Institutions of higher education

Duke Chapel at Duke University.

Campbell University

Central Carolina Community College

Duke University

Durham Technical Community College

Meredith College

North Carolina Central University

North Carolina State University

Peace College

Pfeiffer University

Piedmont Community College

Shaw University

St. Augustine’s College

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Vance-Granville Community College

Wake Technical Community College

Sports

College sports

Rameses, mascot of the North Carolina Tar Heels.

With the significant number of universities and colleges in the area and the relative absence of major league professional sports, NCAA sports are very popular, particularly those sports in which the Atlantic Coast Conference excels, most notably basketball, football, and soccer.

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Tar Heels in Chapel Hill, North Carolina State University Wolfpack in Raleigh, and the Duke University Blue Devils in Durham are all members of the ACC. Rivalries among these schools are very strong, fueled by proximity to each other, with annual competitions in every sport. Adding to the rivalries is the large number of graduates that high schools in the region send to each of the local universities. It is very common for students at one university to know many students attending the other local universities, which increases the opportunities for “bragging” among the schools. The four ACC schools in the state, Duke, North Carolina, North Carolina State, and Wake Forest University are referred to as Tobacco Road by sportscasters, particularly in basketball. All four teams consistently produce high-caliber teams. Each of the Triangle-based universities listed have won at least two NCAA Basketball National Championships.

The East Carolina University Pirates are 75 miles (121 km) away in Greenville, North Carolina. Competitions against East Carolina are popular non-conference contests for many of the schools in the Research Triangle, and the university is considered a rivalry by some fans.

Three historically black colleges, including new Division I member North Carolina Central University and Division II members St. Augustine College and Shaw University also boost the popularity of college sports in the region.

Professional Sports

The region has only one professional team of the four major sports, the Carolina Hurricanes of the NHL, based in Raleigh. Since moving to the Research Triangle region from Hartford, CT, they have enjoyed great success, including winning a Stanley Cup and advancing to the Eastern Conference Finals. With only one top level professional sports option, minor league baseball and other sports are quite popular in the region. The Durham Bulls in Downtown Durham are a AAA Minor League Baseball affiliate of the Tampa Bay Rays, and the Carolina Mudcats, based in Zebulon, 10 miles east of Raleigh, are a AA affiliate of the Cincinnati Reds. In Cary, the Carolina RailHawks are a United Soccer Leagues First Division soccer team.

Commerce

Anchored by leading technology firms, government and world-class universities and medical centers, the area’s economy has performed exceptionally well. Significant increases in employment, earnings, personal income and retail sales are projected over the next 15 years.

The region’s growing high-technology community includes such companies as IBM, SAS Institute, Cisco Systems, Nortel Networks, NetApp and Credit Suisse First Boston. In addition to high-tech, the region is consistently ranked in the top three in the U.S. with concentration in life science companies. Some of these companies include GlaxoSmithKline, Biogen Idec, BASF, Merck & Co., Novo Nordisk, Novozymes, and Wyeth. Research Triangle Park and North Carolina State University’s Centennial Campus in Raleigh support innovation through R&D and technology transfer among the region’s companies and research universities (including Duke University and The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill).

The area has fared relatively well in during the Late-2000s recession ranked as the strongest region in North Carolina by the Brookings Institution and among the top 40 in the country. The change in employment during from 2008 to 2009 was 4.6% and home prices was 2%. The Greensboro metropolitan area was listed among the second weakest and the Charlotte area among the middle in the country.

Major employers

American Airlines

BASF

Bayer

The Body Shop

Burt’s Bees

Cisco Systems

Credit Suisse Group

Duke University

Durham Public Schools

DuPont

Eaton

Fidelity Investments

Environmental Protection Agency

General Electric

GlaxoSmithKline

IBM

LabCorp

Lenovo

Netapp

Nortel Networks

North Carolina State Government (including the University of North Carolina system)

Progress Energy

Qualcomm

Red Hat

Research Triangle Institute

SAS Institute

Sony Ericsson

Syngenta

Teleflex Medical

Toyota

United States Forest Service

Verizon

Wake County Public School System

Major hospitals and medical centers

Duke University Medical Center Patient Rapid Transit monorail train in Durham.

North Carolina Memorial and Children’s hospitals in Chapel Hill.

Durham VA Medical Center in Durham.

The Research Triangle region is served by the following hospitals and medical centers:

Hospitals of the Duke University Health System

Duke Ambulatory Surgery Center (Durham)

Duke Children’s Hospital and Health Center (Durham)

Duke Raleigh Hospital (formerly Raleigh Community Hospital)

Duke University Medical Center (Durham)

Durham Regional Hospital (Durham)

Person Memorial Hospital (Roxboro)

Hospitals of the UNC Health Care system

Chatham Hospital (Siler City)

North Carolina Cancer Hospital (Chapel Hill)

North Carolina Children’s Hospital (Chapel Hill)

North Carolina Memorial Hospital (Chapel Hill)

North Carolina Neurosciences Hospital (Chapel Hill)

North Carolina Women’s Hospital (Chapel Hill)

Rex Hospital (Raleigh)

Hospitals of the WakeMed system

WakeMed Raleigh Campus (formerly Wake Memorial Hospital and Wake Medical Center)

WakeMed Cary Hospital (formerly Western Wake Medical Center)

Other hospitals and medical centers

Dorothea Dix Hospital (Raleigh)

Durham VA Medical Center (Durham)

Franklin Regional Medical Center (Louisburg)

Johnston Memorial Hospital (Smithfield)

Transportation

Freeways and primary designated routes

I-40 passing through RTP.

The Durham Freeway passing through downtown Durham.

The Triangle is served by three major interstate highways: I-40, I-85, and I-95, their spurs: I-440 and I-540, and seven U.S. Routes: 1, 64, 70, 264, 401, and 15 and 501 which are multiplexed through much of the region as US 15-501.

Two of the three interstates diverge from one another in Orange County with I-85 heading northeast through northern Durham County toward Virginia, while I-40 travels southeast through southern Durham, through the center of the region, and serves as the primary freeway through Raleigh. The related loop freeways I-440 and I-540 are primarily located in Wake County around Raleigh. I-440 begins at the interchange of US 1 and I-40 southwest of downtown Raleigh and arcs northward around downtown with the formal designation as the Cliff Benson/Raleigh Beltline (co-signed with US 1 on three-fourths of its northern route) and ends at its junction with I-40 in southeast Raleigh. I-540 has about a third of its route open, but is already sometimes known as the Raleigh Outer Loop. The latest segment of 540 to open has been designated as a state route (NC 540) and not an interstate route, in anticipation of that segment eventually becoming a toll road. The 540 freeway currently serves the southernmost part of Research Triangle Park, Raleigh-Durham International Airport, North Raleigh and city’s nearby northern suburbs before ending in east Raleigh at the US 64-264 Bypass. I-95 serves the extreme eastern edge of the region, crossing south-to-north through suburban Johnston County.

U.S. Routes 1, 15, and 64 primarily serve the region as limited-access freeways or multi-lane highways with access roads. US 1 enters the region from the southwest as the Claude E. Pope Memorial Highway and travels through suburban Apex where it merges with US 64 and continues northeast toward Raleigh. The two highways are co-designated for about 2 miles (3.2 km) until US 1 joins I-440 and US 64 with I-40 along the Raleigh-Cary border. Capital Boulevard, which is designated US 1 for half of its route and US 401 the other is not a limited-access freeway, although it is a major thoroughfare through northeast Raleigh and into the northern downtown area.

North Carolina Highway 147, also known as the Durham Freeway, is a limited-access freeway that connects I-85 with I-40 in southeastern Durham County. The four-lane route traverses downtown Durham and extends through Research Triangle Park. The freeway is often used as a detour alternate route for I-40 in the Chapel Hill area, in cases of traffic accident, congestion or road construction delays.

Public transit

Triangle Transit bus

Chapel Hill Transit bus

A partnering system of multiple public transportation agencies currently serves the Triangle region. Raleigh is served by the Capital Area Transit (CAT) municipal transit system, while Durham has the Durham Area Transit Authority (DATA) system. Chapel Hill is served by Chapel Hill Transit, and Cary is also served by its own public transit systems. However, Triangle Transit, formerly called the Triangle Transit Authority (TTA), works in cooperation with all area transit systems by offering transfers between its own routes and those of the other systems. Triangle Transit also coordinates an extensive vanpool and rideshare program that serves the region’s larger employers and commute destinations.

There are plans to merge all of the area’s municipal systems into Triangle Transit, and Triangle Transit also has proposed a regional rail system to connect downtown Durham and downtown Raleigh with multiple suburban stops as well as stops in the Research Triangle Park area. The agency’s initial proposal was effectively cancelled in 2006, however, when the agency could not procure adequate federal funding. A committee of local business, transportation and government leaders currently are working with Triangle Transit to develop a new transit blueprint for the region, with various modes of rail transit, as well as bus rapid transit, open as options for consideration.
Air

Raleigh-Durham International Airport (RDU)

Main article: Raleigh-Durham International Airport

(IATA: RDU, ICAO: KRDU, FAA LID: RDU)

RDU welcome sign.

American Airlines Boeing 777 touches down at RDU.

Southwest Airlines jet landing at RDU.

The General Assembly of North Carolina chartered the Raleigh-Durham Aeronautical Authority in 1939, which would be changed in 1945 to the Raleigh-Durham Airport Authority. The first new terminal opened in 1955. Terminal A (now Terminal 1) opened in 1981. American Airlines began service to RDU in 1985.

RDU opened the 10,000-foot (3,000 m) runway, 5L-23R, in 1986. American Airlines opened its North-South Hub operation at RDU in the new Terminal C in June 1987, greatly increasing the size of RDU’s operations with a new terminal including a new apron and runway. American brought RDU its first international flights to Bermuda, Cancun, Paris and London.

In 1996, American Airlines ceased its hub operations at RDU due to Pan Am and Eastern Airlines. Pan Am and Eastern were Miami’s main tenants until 1991, when both carriers went bankrupt. Their hubs at MIA were taken over by United Airlines and American Airlines. This created a difficulty in competing with US Airways’ hub in Charlotte and Delta Air Lines’ hub in Atlanta for passengers traveling between smaller cities in the North and South. Midway Airlines entered the market, starting service in 1995 with the then somewhat novel concept of 50 seat CRJs providing service from its RDU hub primarily along the east coast. Midway, originally incorporated in Chicago, had some success after moving its operations to the midpoint of the eastern United States at RDU and its headquarters to Morrisville, NC. The carrier ultimately couldn’t overcome three weighty challenges: the arrival of Southwest Airlines, the refusal of American Airlines to renew the frequent flyer affiliation it had with Midway (thus dispatching numerous higher fare paying businesspeople to airlines with better reward destinations), and the significant blow of September 11, 2001. Midway Airlines filed Chapter 11 bankruptcy on August 13, 2001 and ceased operations entirely on October 30, 2003.

In February 2000, RDU was ranked as the nation’s second fastest growing major airport in the United States, by Airports Council International, based on 1999 statistics. Passenger growth hit 24% over the previous year, ranking RDU second only to Washington Dulles International Airport. RDU opened Terminal A south concourse for use by Northwest and Continental Airlines in 2001. The addition added 46,000 square feet (4,300 m2) and five aircraft gates to the terminal. Terminal A became designated as Terminal 1 on October 26, 2008. In 2003, RDU also dedicated a new general aviation (GA) terminal. RDU continues to keep pace with its growth by redeveloping Terminal C into a new state-of the-art terminal, now known as Terminal 2, which opened in October 2008.
Other carriers at RDU International Airport:

Air Canada, the airport’s first international carrier, introduced service to Toronto in 1996.

Southwest Airlines, the nation’s largest low-cost carrier, began service to RDU in 1999.

America West (merged with US Airways in 2005) began service at RDU in 2002 with flights to Phoenix and Las Vegas.

JetBlue began nonstop service between RDU and New York and Boston in 2006, with additional service to Fort Lauderdale, which began in January 2008.

Public general-aviation airports

In addition to RDU, several smaller publicly-owned general-aviation airports also operate in the metropolitan region:

Horace Williams Airport in Chapel Hill

Franklin County Airport (IATA: LHZ, ICAO: KLHZ, FAA LID: LHZ), Louisburg

Johnston County Airport (IATA: JNX, ICAO: KJNX, FAA LID: JNX), Smithfield

Horace Williams Airport (IATA: IGX, ICAO: KIGX, FAA LID: IGX), Chapel Hill

Harnett Regional Jetport (IATA: HRJ, ICAO: KHRJ, FAA LID: HRJ), Erwin

Person County Airport (ICAO: KTDF, FAA LID: TDF), Roxboro

Siler City Municipal Airport (ICAO: K5W8, FAA LID: 5W8), Siler City

Private airfields

There are numerous licensed private general-aviation and agricultural airfields in the region’s suburban areas and nearby rural communities:

Lake Ridge Airport (8NC8) in Durham

Bagwell Airport (FAA LID: NC99), Garner

Ball Airport (FAA LID: 79NC), Louisburg

Barclaysville Field Airport (FAA LID: NC44), Angier

Brooks Field Airport (FAA LID: 8NC6), Siler City

CAG Farms Airport (FAA LID: 87NC), Angier

Charles Field Airport (FAA LID: NC22), Dunn

Cox Airport (FAA LID: NC81), Apex

Crooked Creek Airport (FAA LID: 7NC5), Bunn

Dead Dog Airport (FAA LID: 8NC4), Pittsboro

Deck Airpark Airport (FAA LID: NC11), Apex

Dutchy Airport (FAA LID: 5NC5), Chapel Hill

Eagle’s Landing Airport (FAA LID: 9NC8), Pittsboro

Field of Dreams Airport (FAA LID: 51NC), Zebulon

Fuquay/Angier Field Airport (FAA LID: 78NC), Fuquay-Varina

Hinton Field Airport (FAA LID: NC72), Princeton

Kenly Airport (FAA LID: 7NC3), Kenly

Lake Ridge Aero Park Airport (FAA LID: 8NC8), Durham

Miles Airport (FAA LID: NC34), Chapel Hill

North Raleigh Airport (FAA LID: 00NC), Louisburg

Peacock Stolport Airport (FAA LID: 4NC7), Garner

Raleigh East Airport (FAA LID: 9NC0), Knightdale

Riley Field Airport (FAA LID: 1NC5), Bunn

Ron’s Field Ultralight Airport (FAA LID: 1NC1), Pittsboro

Triple W Airport (ICAO: K5W5, FAA LID: 5W5), Raleigh

Womble Field Airport (FAA LID: 3NC9), Chapel Hill

Heliports

The following licensed heliports serve the Research Triangle region:

NC92 helipad at Duke University Medical Center

Betsy Johnson Memorial Hospital Heliport (FAA LID: NC96), Dunnublicly owned; medical service

Duke University North Heliport (ICAO: NC92, FAA LID: NC92), Durhamrivately owned; public medical service

Garner Road Heliport (FAA LID: 3NC2), Raleighublicly owned; state government service

Holly Green Heliport (FAA LID: 83NC), Durhamrivate

Sky-5 Heliport (FAA LID: 3NC2), Raleighrivate, owned by WRAL-TV

Sprint MidAtlantic Telecom Heliport (FAA LID: 11NC), Youngsvillerivate; corporate service

Wake Medical Center Heliport (FAA LID: 0NC4), Raleighublicly owned; medical service

Western Wake Medical Center Heliport (FAA LID: 04NC), Caryublicly owned; medical service

A number of helipads (i.e. marked landing sites not classified under the FAA LID system) also serve a variety of additional medical facilities (such as UNC Hospitals in Chapel Hill), as well as private, corporate and governmental interests, throughout the region.

Shopping

Notable shopping centers and malls:

Northgate Mall in Durham

Brier Creek (Raleigh)

Brightleaf Square (Durham)

Cameron Village (Raleigh)

Carolina Premium Outlets (Smithfield)

Cary Towne Center (Cary)

Crabtree Valley Mall (Raleigh)

Crossroads Plaza (Cary)

Northgate Mall (Durham)

North Hills (Raleigh)

South Square Mall – defunct (Durham)

The Streets at Southpoint (Durham)

Triangle Towne Center (Raleigh)

University Mall (Chapel Hill)

Notable locally based or independent retailer:

A Southern Season – the nation’s largest gourmet retailer (Chapel Hill)

Entertainment

Film Festivals and Events:

Flicker Film Festival – Carrboro

Full Frame Documentary Film Festival – Durham

Escapism Film Festival – Durham

Retrofantasma Film Festival – Durham

Nevermore Film Festival – Durham

North Carolina Gay and Lesbian Film Festival – Durham

Notable Performing Arts and Music Venues:

The Time Warner Cable Music Pavilion at Walnut Creek – Raleigh

Koka Booth Amphitheatre at Regency Park – Cary

Progress Energy Center for the Performing Arts – Downtown Raleigh

RBC Center – Raleigh

Durham Performing Arts Center – Durham

Theatre and Dance Events:

American Dance Festival – Durham

Media

Print

Numerous newspapers and periodicals serve the Triangle market.

Paid and subscription

Offices of The Herald-Sun in Durham.

The News & Observer, the major daily Raleigh newspaper and the region’s largest, with a significant regional and statewide readership (especially to the east of the Triangle).

The Herald-Sun, the major daily Durham newspaper.

The Durham News, a weekly community newspaper serving Durham County.

The Cary News, a weekly community newspaper serving suburban Cary and western Wake County.

Garner News, the weekly community newspaper for suburban Garner in southern Wake County.

The Apex Herald, the weekly community newspaper for suburban Apex in western Wake County.

Holly Springs Sun, the weekly community newspaper for suburban Holly Springs in southwestern Wake County.

Cleveland Post, the weekly community newspaper for suburban Cleveland and nearby northwestern Johnston and southern Wake counties.

Fuquay-Varina Independent, the weekly community newspaper for suburban Fuquay-Varina in southwestern Wake County.

The Wake Weekly, a weekly community newspaper serving suburban Wake Forest, northern Wake County and southern Franklin County.

The Chapel Hill News, a biweekly community newspaper serving Chapel Hill, suburban Orange County and northeastern Chatham County

The Chatham Journal, the weekly community newspaper for suburban Pittsboro and surrounding Chatham County.

The Clayton News-Star, a weekly community newspaper for suburban Clayton and western Johnston County.

The Daily Record, the daily community newspaper for suburban Dunn and surrounding Harnett County.

The Courier-Times, the semiweekly community newspaper for suburban Roxboro and Person County.

The Triangle Business Journal, a weekly regional economic journal.

Chapel Hill Magazine, a local bi-monthly magazine that serves 12,500 households and 1,600 businesses of Chapel Hill, Carrboro, Hillsborough and northern Chatham County.

Free

The Independent Weekly, a free weekly regional independent journal published in Durham.

The Carolina Journal, a monthly free regional newspaper published in Raleigh.

The Raleigh Downtowner, a free monthly magazine for downtown Raleigh and environs.

The Raleigh Hatchet, a free monthly magazine.

The Daily Tar Heel, the free weekday (during the regular academic year) student newspaper at UNC-Chapel Hill.

The Technician, the free weekday (during the regular academic year) student newspaper at NC State University in Raleigh.

The Chronicle, a free daily newspaper for (but independent of) Duke University and its surrounding community in Durham.

The Blotter, a free monthly regional literary journal.

Fifteen-501, a free magazine for the Durham-Chapel Hill area (named for nearby U.S. Route 15-501).

Acento Latino, a free Spanish-language weekly regional newspaper published in Raleigh.

Online only

The Raleigh Telegram, a free daily news source for the greater Raleigh area.

The Wake Forest Gazette, a free weekly news site for items of local Wake Forest Interest

Television

Broadcast

The Triangle is part of the Raleigh-Durham-Fayetteville Designated Market Area for broadcast television, which currently is home to the following television stations:

WUNC-TV (4), the PBS affiliate and viewer-supported flagship station of the University of North Carolina television network.

WRAL-TV (5), the CBS affiliate, licensed to Capitol Broadcasting Company.

WTVD-TV (11), the ABC affiliate, owned by ABC/Walt Disney Company.

WNCN-TV (17), the NBC affiliate, owned by Media General.

WLFL-TV (22), the CW affiliate, owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group.

WTNC-LP (26), the Telefutura affiliate, owned by Univision Communications, Inc.

WRDC-TV (28), the My Network TV affiliate, owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group.

WRAY-TV (30), an independent station, owned by Multicultural Broadcasting.

WUVC-TV (40), the Univision affiliate, owned by Univision Communications, Inc.

WRPX-TV (47), the Pax/ION affiliate (Raleigh-Durham), owned by ION Media Networks.

WRAZ-TV (50), the Fox affiliate, which is operated by Capitol Broadcasting Company.

Cable

Raleigh is home to the Research Triangle Region bureau of the regional cable news channel News 14 Carolina.

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The Triangle region hosted North Carolina’s first online television station, RTP-TV (Research Triangle Park Television), which broadcast news and programs of regional interest over the Internet from its Research Triangle Park location until ceasing operations in 2006.

Radio

The Triangle is home to North Carolina Public Radio, a public radio station/NPR provider that brings in listeners around the country. Raleigh and a large part of the Triangle area is Arbitron radio market #43. Stations include:

FM stations:

88.1 FM WKNC (NCSU) College Radio from N.C. State University

88.5 FM WRTP (RTN) Christian (“His Radio WRTP”)

88.7 FM WXDU (DU) College Radio from Duke University

88.9 FM WSHA (SU) NPR/Jazz from Shaw University

89.3 FM WXYC (UNC) College Radio from UNC-Chapel Hill

89.7 FM WCPE Classical & Opera Music

90.7 FM WNCU (NCCU) NPR/Jazz from N.C. Central University

91.1 FM W216BN (RTN) Christian (“His Radio WRTP”)

91.5 FM WUNC (UNC) NPR affiliate from UNC-Chapel Hill

92.5 FM WYFL (BBN) Christian Programs from Bible Broadcasting Network

93.9 FM WKSL (CC) Rhythmic Adult Contemporary (“93.9, Kiss FM”)

94.7 FM WQDR (CMG) Country (“94.7 QDR”)

96.1 FM WBBB (CMG) Rock (“96 Rock”)

96.7 FM WKRX Country (“Kickin’ Country”)

96.9 FM WYMY (CMG) Spanish (“La Ley 96.9″)

97.5 FM WQOK (R1) Hip Hop (“K-97.5″)

98.9 FM W255AM (RTN) Christian (“His Radio WRTP”)

99.9 FM WCMC (CBC) Sports (“99.9 The Fan ESPN Radio”)

100.7 FM WRVA (CC) Classic Rock (“100.7, The River”)

101.1 FM WZTK (CMG) Talk(“FM Talk 101.1″)

101.5 FM WRAL (CBC) Adult Contemporary (“Mix 101.5″)

102.5 FM WKXU (NCM) Country (“Kicks 102.5″)

102.9 FM WWMY (CMG) Oldies (“Y-102.9″)

103.3 FM WAKG (PB) Country (“103.3 WAKG”)

103.9 FM WNNL (R1) Urban Gospel (“103.9, The Light”)

104.3 FM WFXK (R1) Urban Adult Contemporary (“Foxy 104″)

105.1 FM WDCG (CC) Pop and Contemporary Hits (“G-105″)

106.1 FM WRDU (CC) Country (“Rooster Country”)

106.7 FM WKVK (EMF) Contemporary Christian

107.1 FM WFXC (R1) Urban Adult Contemporary (“Foxy 107″)

107.7 FM W299AQ (RTN) Christian (“His Radio WRTP”)

107.9 FM WVDJ-LP Community Radio

107.9 FM W300AR (RTN) Christian (“His Radio WRTP”)

AM stations:

540 AM WETC Spanish

570 AM WDOX Talk, Sports & Music (“570 WDOX”)

620 AM WDNC Sports(“620, The Bull”)

680 AM WPTF News, Talk & Sports (“News/Talk 680, WPTF”)

750 AM WAUG Urban Programming from St. Augustine’s College

850 AM WRBZ Sports (“850, The Buzz”)

1030 AM WDRU Christian (“The Truth, 1030″)

1240 AM WPJL Christian

1310 AM WTIK Spanish

1360 AM WCHL News, Talk & Sports

1410 AM WRJD Urban Gospel

1430 AM WRXO Country (“Oldies 1430″)

1490 AM WDUR Spanish

1530 AM WLLQ Spanish

1550 AM WCLY Urban Gospel

1590 AM WHPY Christian

Map of the Triangle

Primary cities and towns

A – Raleigh

B – Durham

C – Chapel Hill

D – Cary

E – Morrisville

F – Apex

G – Holly Springs

H – Fuquay-Varina

I – Garner

J – Knightdale

K – Wendell

L – Zebulon

M – Rolesville

N – Wake Forest

O – Hillsborough

P – Carrboro

Q – Pittsboro

R – Clayton

S – Youngsville

T – Franklinton

U – Creedmoor

V – Stem

W – Butner

Counties

1 – Wake

2 – Durham

3 – Orange

4 – Chatham

5 – Harnett

6 – Johnston

7 – Franklin

8 – Granville

Parks and bodies of water

a – Research Triangle Park

b – Umstead State Park

c – Jordan Lake

d – Haw River

e – Harris Lake

f – Lake Wheeler

g – Lake Benson

h – Falls Lake

Interstate highways

1 – I-40/I-85

2 – I-85

3 – I-40

4 – I-440

5 – I-540

Other major highways

1 – US 15

2 – US 1

3 – US 401

4 – US 64

5 – US 70

6 – US 401

7 – US 1

8 – US 15-501

9 – US 64

10 – US 70

11 – US 501

12 – NC 147

13 – US 64-264

14 – US 64 Business

Rankings

1 High Tech Region (Raleigh-Durham) — “Daring To Compete: A Region-to-Region Reality Check,” Silicon Valley Leadership Group, September 16, 2005

Top 10 Utility Company (Duke Power) – Site Selection, September 2005

12 Top Real Estate Market (Raleigh-Durham) — Expansion Management, August 2005

10 Top Venture Capital State (North Carolina) — Moran Stahl & Boyer LLC, Site Selection, July 2005

2 of the Top Business Opportunity Metros (Durham MSA, Raleigh-Cary MSA) — 2005 Mayor’s Challenge “Top Business Opportunity Metros”, Expansion Management, July 11, 2005

1 City (Greater Raleigh-Durham) for Biotechnology — “The Greater Philadelphia Life Sciences Cluster”, Milken Institute, June 2005

2 City (Greater Raleigh-Durham) for Life Sciences Human Capital — “The Greater Philadelphia Life Sciences Cluster”, Milken Institute, June 2005

4 City (Greater Raleigh-Durham) for Life Sciences Workforce — “The Greater Philadelphia Life Sciences Cluster”, Milken Institute, June 2005

17 Best Running City in America (Raleigh) — Runner’s World, MSN, June, 2005

5 U.S. Life Sciences Clusters (Greater Raleigh-Durham) — Milken Institute, June 2005

1 South’s State of the Year (North Carolina) — Southern Business & Development, June 20, 2005

One of Top 10 University Markets that Has Its Act Together (Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill) — Southern Business & Development, Summer 2005

2 Best Place (Raleigh-Durham) for Business & Careers — Forbes, May 5, 2005

5 Best Knowledge Worker Metro (Raleigh-Cary MSA) — “Knowledge Worker Quotient”, Expansion Management, May 2005

8 Most Unwired City (Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill) — Intel’s 3rd Annual “Most Unwired Cities” survey, May 2005

9 Top State (North Carolina) in Nanotechnology — Small Times, March 2005

9 Top Business State (North Carolina) — 2004 Governor’s Cup, Site Selection, March 2005

Top Small Business Towns in the U.S. (Dunn, #82) — Site Selection, March 2005

8 Hottest Labor Market (Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill) — American City Business Journal, TBJ, March 11, 2005

1 Best Place to Work (U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, RTP), # 4 (NIEHS) and # 1 Academic Institution (UNC-Chapel Hill) for Postdocs — “Best Places to Work for Postdocs: 2005″, The Scientist, February 14, 2005

4 Top Pro-Business State (North Carolina) — “Pollina Corporate Top 10 Pro-Business States for 2005: Keeping Jobs in America”, Pollina Corporate Real Estate, Inc., 2005

4 Best State (North Carolina) in Health Care and Availability — “Health Care Cost Quotient”, Expansion Management, February, 2005

34 Top Metro (Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill) for Job Growth & High Tech Output — Outlook, February, 2005

17 America’s Hottest Cities (Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill) — Expansion Management, November 2004

1 of America’s Most Entrepreneurial Campuses (UNC-Chapel Hill) — Forbes, October 22, 2004

3 Best Places to Live in America — Forbes, 2003
See also

I-85 Corridor

I-40

Piemdont Atlantic

Piedmont Crescent

Piedmont Triad

References

^ “American FactFinder”. United States Census Bureau. http://factfinder.census.gov. Retrieved 2008-01-31. 

^ Snipes, Cameron (June 17, 2009). “Brookings report ranks Raleigh-Cary strongest metro in N.C.”. Triangle Business Journal. http://www.bizjournals.com/triangle/stories/2009/06/15/daily31.html. Retrieved 2009-06-23. 

^ “North Carolina Hospitals and Medical Centers”. The Agape Center. http://theagapecenter.com/Hospitals/North-Carolina.htm. Retrieved 2008-05-30. 

^ “Regional Transit Needs: Next Steps”. TTA Web Site. http://www.ridetta.org/Regional_Rail/Overview/3-07LatestTransitNeeds.htm. Retrieved 2007-07-04. 

^ Raleigh-Durham International Airport

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