Knowledge Well Flier

Join us December 7, 2011 for the
Knowledge Well Sustainable Infrastructure Solutions Series:
LIDAR: The Beginning of BIM
Learn from Experts How Optical Remote Sensing Technology LIDAR is Integrated into Today’s Building Information Modeling [BIM] 

Thursday, December 7^th, 2011
8am – 5pm (with lunch & PDHs)
Raleigh, NC

Knowledge Well Sustainable Infrastructure Solution Series

LIDAR: The Beginning of BIM
Practical Uses and Implementation
Development owners and those affiliated with government or utilities won’t want to miss this event, a chance to realize how Light Detection and Ranging [LIDAR] technology “fits into today’s BIM environments.”  Transportation and bridge development will be a central highlight.

Learn from transportation infrastructure expert and keynote speaker David Lee Fagerman, world leader in LIDAR imagery and visualization Riadh Munjy, NC State Value Engineer Jeffery Garland, NC A&T University professor Jerry Nave, and Geomatics Engineer Tim Fish the various ways in which LIDAR can be used to improve planning, visualization and communicating design concepts.

The following areas will be discussed:
1) Types of data that can be obtained (surfaces, attributed assets, CAD data- Bentley & Autodesk integration)
2) Field methods used to obtain the data (static, mobile, aerial)
3) Process of reducing raw data to obtain an unclassified Point Cloud
4) Methods for classifying Point Clouds
5) Solutions available to utilize finished products from LIDAR data (assets, surfaces, classified point clouds, and CAD data)

LIDAR is an effective tool for land surveyors, planning and GIS professionals, civil engineers and designers, heavy construction contractors, and others seeking to improve their process of data collection and analysis.  There is a steep learning curve on research and comprehension involving certain aspects of remote sensing technology, and this is your opportunity to learn.

Sign up at:

http://lidarbim2011carolinas.eventbrite.com

-Posted with permission from Aaron Smith

WealthForge Pitch Sheet

Investment Opportunities for Small Start-up Businesses

WealthForge Expands the Local Investment Game

By: Josh Eure

23-year-old business school graduate Fred Bryant conceived of a new way to invest with WealthForge, an online platform designed to connect limited entrepreneurs with potential investors.  WealthForgeOnline.com is a social networking site that works similarly to Match.com or Facebook, only it connects entrepreneurial ideas with possible investors.  WealthForge turns “an inefficient private placement market into an easy and seamless place to conduct business for all investors, large or small.”

WealthForge founder 2^nd Lt. Fred Bryant currently serves in the U.S. Army Reserves, and is being deployed to Afghanistan for a one year tour, despite the fact that his company is set to launch in Q3 of 2011.  Bryant recently ran a marathon in full military gear to honor the service of his great-great uncle who died in the Bataan Death March of WWII.  “Although I have stepped aside from day-to-day activities to focus on my number one priority, serving the nation,” Bryant said, “the culture of WealthForge is built on integrity, determination and respect.”

Possible Show/Story Ideas                                                               

1. Young entrepreneur exhibits patriotism
2. American innovation at its finest
3. Integrity, determination, respect—Bryant’s story
4. Open the investment gates for small start-ups
5. Finding capital for any business, no matter the size
6. A more transparent way to invest for friends and family
7. Increasing local job opportunities

-Posted with permission from Rebecca Antonelli

Knowledge Well Press Release

Knowledge Well Announces 2011 Infrastructure Solutions Series

Expert presentations and interactive training by world-class professionals

By: Josh Eure

Knowledge Well—a non-profit consulting organization aimed at sharing and delivering expertise to emerging and under-resourced areas in the world—will be holding a seminar series in Raleigh on December 7, 2011.  The seminar is designed to highlight both the global benefits of optical remote sensing technology LIDAR as a crucial first step in today’s building information modeling [BIM] environments, as well as LIDAR’s utility in the NC Department of Transportation’s local bridge improvement program.

LIDAR is an effective tool for land surveyors, planning and GIS professionals, civil engineers and designers, heavy construction contractors, and others seeking to improve their process of data collection and analysis.  There is a steep learning curve on research and comprehension involving certain aspects of remote sensing technology, and this is a great opportunity to learn.

The series will feature eight professional development hours of presentation, research and visualization, which can be registered for immediately.  Knowledge Well will start their seminar with David Lee Fagerman, RPLS/PLS, transportation infrastructure expert and keynote speaker.  Fagerman has worked in the surveying and civil engineering industry for more than 30 years.  He began his career in roadway and boundary surveying with the US Forest Service, then later moved into commercial consulting, providing services in surveying, civil engineering, construction layout, and photogrammetric control.  Fagerman will be presenting on the practical uses of LIDAR for planning and environmental mandates.

Other speakers in the series will include:

• Riadh Munjy, PhD, World Leader in LIDAR Imagery and Visualization
• Jeffery Garland, PE, PMP, NC State Value Engineer
• Jerry Nave, NC A&T University Professor
• Tim Fish, PE, PLS, Geomatics Engineer

"Knowledge Well relies on a strong team of companies and individuals who are motivated to transform the barriers faced by under-resourced nations into opportunities for successful business enterprise."

For more information visit: http://lidarbim2011carolinas.eventbrite.com/ and register today.

-Posted with permission from Aaron Smith

Jean Haner Press Release

Entrepreneur Brings Face Reading Expert to Share the Wealth

Jean Haner Presents at the Center for Creative Marketing.

By: Josh Eure

Chinese Face Reader Jean Haner is bringing her talents to Raleigh this Tuesday, offering a comprehensive workshop to entrepreneurs on the ancient Chinese tradition of face reading.  This event will be held in the Center for Creative Marketing (CCM) seminar room on September 20^th, 2011.

“Face reading is an ancient branch of Chinese medicine, which teaches that you are born with a personal blueprint that is yours and yours alone, and that this inner architecture can be read in your outer design—the features of your face.”

Haner claims to have been born a natural and intuitive empath, gifted with a physical awareness of her surrounding energies, both positive and negative.  This ability has made her adept at face-reading as well—a decidedly useful tool for any entrepreneur—and she will offer instruction in her methodology at the workshop.

Haner was at first burdened by her empathic abilities, weighed down by the tremendous amount of negativity and illness in people.  But she eventually learned to push through, to clear out those spaces and energies, and promote spiritual harmony in people’s lives.  This ultimately led Haner to study in the art of face reading—initially taught to her by her Chinese mother-in-law—and she is now determined to teach others the various pathways to success, both physical and spiritual.

“Face reading,” Haner says, “can help you discover your unique personal strengths for success, and gain a true understanding of clients' and colleagues' personalities, communication styles, and decision-making behavior.” 

Haner will help attendees learn to establish instant connections, and to “transform clients into loyal allies.”

For more information visit: www.clearhomeclearheart.com and www.wisdomofyourface.com.

-Posted with permission from Jean Haner

ViaMark Press Release

Winner Elizabeth Howell of ViaMark Receives
2011 American Graphic Design Award

Howell Receives Award for Home Telecom Site.

By: Josh Eure

Elizabeth Howell—lead graphic designer for ViaMark Advertising and Circumference Design—entered the Home Telecom website in the American Graphic Design Awards, and was selected as one of this year’s winners.  The American Graphic Design Awards (AGDA) is a competition held by Graphic Design USA intended to “honor outstanding new work of all kinds in 23 categories from print and packaging to internet and interactive design.”  

The competition has been running for forty years, and is open to all media in the graphic arts community—from advertising agencies like Howell’s own ViaMark to print publishers and design firms.  With more than 8,000 entries across all 23 categories, only 15 percent are ever recognized with an Awards Certificate of Excellence, an honor justly given for the quality of Home Telecom’s website, designed by Howell. 

Howell and ViaMark join a diverse community of “Fortune 500 companies and entrepreneurial start-ups, consumer and business-to-business ventures, political and religious organizations, governments and trade associations, universities and cultural institutions,” that can boast an AGDA win.  Gayle Brown—Vice President of ViaMark’s offices in Wilmington, North Carolina—says she is “so glad that [Howell] is being recognized for such an awesome design.”

Visit the award-winning website here.

-Posted with permission from Gayle Brown

WealthForge Press Release

WealthForgeOnline.com Forges Ahead With Launch Despite Young Founder’s Deployment to Middle-East

By: Josh Eure

A successful business requires capital, legs to stand on.  Certainly options abound—from angel investors to venture capital funds—when the required amount exceeds $1-2 million, but for anything below, outside support can prove difficult to find.  And it is with this in mind that University of Richmond Business School graduate Fred Bryant conceived of WealthForge, a social online platform designed to connect limited entrepreneurs with potential investors.  Through www.wealthforgeonline.com, CEO Onnie Carr and the rest of the WealthForge team are poised to change the start-up investment game forever.  But there is more to this story.

            WealthForge founder 2^nd Lt. Fred Bryant currently serves in the U.S. Army Reserves, and is being deployed to Afghanistan for a one year tour, despite the fact that his company is set to launch in Q3 of 2011.  Bryant served with the Reserved Officer Training Corps (ROTC) while attending the University of Richmond, and says that “although I have stepped aside from day-to-day activities to focus on my number one priority, serving the nation, the culture of WealthForge is built on integrity, determination and respect.”

            Perhaps it is Bryant’s overwhelming sense of duty and patriotism that initially inspired Carr—a business owner and securities expert thirty years Bryant’s senior—to join WealthForge.  Due to Bryant’s absence, Carr will guide the new company as its CEO into the public this fall. 

            “Fred is so patriotic,” Carr said.  “He ran a marathon in full army gear this past spring.” 

            Bryant’s great-great uncle Edward Pfeiffer was one of thousands killed in the Bataan Death March, the forcible transfer of American and Filipino prisoners of war by the Japanese during WWII.  So Bryant ran in the 22^nd annual Bataan Memorial Death March Marathon at the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico on March 27^th in honor of his family’s service. 

            “It was a great experience to participate in [the] race,” Bryant said, “but especially thrilling for me as there were 15 Bataan survivors who attended.  They greeted the runners, and it was a great honor to meet them.”

            A 23-year-old U.S. serviceman with a sharp sense of civic honor and determined entrepreneurial spirit seems almost too good to be true.  But Fred Bryant is unwavering in both his military pride and his resolve to open the gates for increased investment for small start-up businesses. 

            “Think of WealthForge as a social medium, like Match.com or Facebook,” Carr said.  “Only we’re connecting ideas with potential capital.  Before, if a person’s family wanted to invest in their business concept, there were countless hoops to jump through.  WealthForge solves that problem.” 

            With federal taxes being levied on gifts exceeding $13,000, this transparent and public engine will offer comfort and a well-detailed paper trail, a decided benefit to any risk-oriented endeavor.  The usability of www.wealthforgeonline.com is another bonus, with readily available information, and a seamless interface to get the entrepreneur or investor started.

            Today’s economic climate is uncertain and ever changing, to be sure, so it is companies like WealthForge that are desperately needed.  An online social network designed to nurture small business ventures and investors reads like some distant beacon of economic hope.  WealthForge, however, can and will foster small business growth, creating countless job opportunities along the way.

-Posted with permission from Rebecca Antonelli

Comedian Feature

-Posted with permission from Amber Keister, Editor of The Cary News & South Wake News

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Cary News/September 5, 2005

Lord Carrett Interview

By: Josh Eure



With a rockabilly persona and unique comedic style, former Cary resident Lord Carrett has somehow managed to gain international acclaim without the aid of television or blatant vulgarity.  As show business becomes increasingly more obscene, Lord has maintained a relatively clean, albeit a suggestive act, while utilizing the medium of radio to successfully launch his career. 

"Writing jokes for radio to me was simple," Lord explains.  "I grew up hearing dirty jokes in my Dad's bar.  Taking 'em home and cleaning 'em up for Catholic school.  Polishing my jokes for radio was much the same."  Though he may not be as cavalier with unsavory material as many other comics, he can be shocking. 

"Shocking people is the backbone of comedy,” he said.  “I'm not opposed to vulgar jokes.  I've been known to use a four-letter-word or two.  But I use them sparingly—for emphasis.  They're like salt to a chef.  You can't overuse it or you'll ruin the meal.  I save the salt." 

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He is frequently heard on the nationally syndicated "Bob and Tom Radio Network," and can fill seats both across the country and abroad.  With a new CD, aptly titled “Unsweetened,” Lord again goes against the status-quo.  Most comedy CDs are fluffed with laughter and applause (sweetener).  But Lord went for the raw approach—one take, no sweetener.  He even boasts that a woman is “thrown out” on the disc.  Perhaps it is his signature “recovery-artist” style that allows for such a bold album release.  Wielding a collection of one-liners, Lord has the power to save himself from any comedic bomb.  “This way I don’t have to lose my favorite jokes,” he said.

His first TV credit was with Showtime, and his resume has since become extensive.  He has appeared on the “Bob and Tom Radio Network” 13 times, his CD “Unsweetened” is in constant rotation on satellite radio, he has toured with Weird Al Yankovic, he co-wrote the “Austin Powers: Operation Trivia” CD-ROM game, and has headlined practically every major club in the nation twice over.  With such credits, it would seem that Lord has focused on comedy his entire life, and indeed he has.

“Most of my friends—when they saw the Beatles on The Ed Sullivan Show—they went out and bought guitars the next day,” Lord explained.  “Well, for me it was Hollywood Squares.  They asked Jan Murray what the penalty for bigamy was.  His reply was ‘Two wives.’  I mean—that’s a perfect joke.  If you translate that into Japanese, it’ll still be funny.  I started writing my own jokes the next day.” 

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But Lord didn’t become a comedian overnight.  It was the coaxing of a friend that led him to launch his career at Raleigh’s own Charlie Goodnight’s.  

“I was actually nagged into trying stand-up by an ex-girlfriend,” he said.  “I used to take her to comedy clubs all the time.  She told me I needed to enter the Showtime’s ‘Funniest Person in America Contest’ because I was funnier than most of the guys I had dragged her out see so many times.  I said fine, since I figured after a while she’d just forget about it.  But she didn’t.  And I made it to the semi-finals.” 

Lord Carrett will be at Charlie Goodnight’s on Morgan Street in Raleigh from Thursday Sept. 8 to Sunday Sept. 11. 

“I have a certain affection for Goodnight’s,” Lord said. 

For more information on Lord Carret, check out his website at www.lordoflaughs.com.

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-Posted with permission from Amber Keister, Editor of The Cary News & South Wake News