Aging Outreach Services, a Moore County, North Carolina human services company, has launched their new web site! Aging Outreach Services provides non-medical help for seniors in Moore County.
According to their web site,
The complexities of in home care, facility placement, hospitalization, government programs, legal and financial professionals, health concerns and related costs can be overwhelming. We have extensive knowledge and experience coordinating the needs and services that provide quality ongoing care to you and your family. Our caring services begin with an intake of your needs to determine the first step needed in tailoring our services to meet your personalized needs.
The complexities of in home care, facility placement, hospitalization, government programs, legal and financial professionals, health concerns and related costs can be overwhelming. We have extensive knowledge and experience coordinating the needs and services that provide quality ongoing care to you and your family.
Our caring services begin with an intake of your needs to determine the first step needed in tailoring our services to meet your personalized needs.
The new site is more colorful and uses a flash element in the header. Most important, the customer is now able to make web site updates via the browser!
Aging Outreach Services - the Old Web Site
Aging Outreach Services - the New Web Site
North Carolina web design and North Carolina web hosting services were provided by ConnectNC, Inc.
This is a common situation these days. Malicious code has been developed to allow spammers to distribute their junk mail a variety of ways.
In the old days, we’d tell people just to be careful about posting their email addresses on web sites or newsgroups. Today, all it takes is an infected machine on which your email address is saved in an address book!
In order to combat spam, it’s now important for all computer users to keep their machines secured using the latest security software and by making sure operating system updates are done. Sometimes even this is not enough, since modern coders can defeat most commercially available Internet Security applications. Why can’t they use their powers for good instead of evil?
Be careful about designating email addresses or domains as trusted. Many spam filters, including our own, allow users to whitelist specific email addresses or entire domains. Imagine what could happen if you whitelisted the entire hotmail.com domain? That means anyone sending you a message with a return address from hotmail.com is going to get past the spam filter. Unfortunately, you can no longer whitelist your OWN email address! Spammers are sending junk mail to you with your own return address!
What’s a person to do? Make sure your security software is up to date. If you haven’t installed anything, please call ConnectNC to have a tech perform a security scan on your system and install your software. If everyone maintained good system security, we’d go a long way towards eliminating spam that comes from infected machines.
Last, but not least, never, ever buy from a spammer. They’re not sending you junk mail for fun. They’re doing it to make money. About ten years ago, one spammer told me that his employer made $30,000 in one day after they sent out unsolicited commercial email to a very large number of addresses. Their hosting and email accounts were cancelled, but it was well worth it to them. So, let’s try to make spamming an unprofitable venture. We should all agree that we’ll never buy anything that was promoted in an unsolicited message we received.
Get your bottle of Luchador Shiraz at the Wine Cellar and Tasting Room in Southern Pines
SandhillsKids booth at Autumn Fest 2008 in Southern Pines, North Carolina.
This video demonstrates the peace and beauty that is Southern Pines, North Carolina. Southern Pines, located in Moore County, North Carolina is a great place to live. Be sure to order your DSL from ConnectNC before you move in! Call 910-695-7068.
Driving through a Southern Pines neighborhood - watch it on YouTube
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Crescent State Bank has a campaign running until June 13th, 2008 to support the Food Bank of Central & Eastern North Carolina. If you can help, please drop of any of the requested items at your local Crescent State Bank branch. See their web site for locations.
Requested Items:
Please make donations before June 13th
For locations and contact information: www.crescentstatebank.com
Ask the Expert is a free online web-forum where Myeloma and Bone Cancer specialist, Dr. James R. Berenson offers medical answers to questions surrounding quality of life and longevity issues for patients living with this rare form of cancer. Hosted here at ConnectNC!
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Listed by Golf Digest as number 19 of the 100 greatest golf courses in the United States and named by that same publication as the number one golf destination on the East Coast, Pinehurst No. 2 and the other fifty-some golf courses in the Sandhills have made the area a major center for golfers and golfing fans.
I recently received a Hallmark greeting card from a “friend” in my email in box. The message was NOT, however, a greeting card from a friend. It was an attempted attack on my machine. Since I use a Mac, I didn’t have to worry about this particular trojan. The evildoers who propagated this trojan want you to install zapchast on your Windows computer by clicking on their link and use it to do bad deeds. More information can be found here >> http://www.microsoft.com/security/portal/SearchResults.aspx?query=zapchast
What can you do to protect yourself? First of all, install a reputable security application on your PC, from a company such as Symantec or McAfee and KEEP IT UPDATED! We can do this for you as part of our Virtual IT service. I don’t open anything with attachments from people I don’t know, or anything that I haven’t asked for or know about in advance, really. In fact, I don’t open greeting cards and those types of things ever, since I have an aversion to animated stuff with what I consider to be unpleasant music. I still send greeting cards via snail mail.
If you have Internet or network security needs, please give our office a call and schedule an appointment. Call (910) 695-7068, ext. 10. Be careful out there!
For Immediate Release January 24, 2008
Contact: Linda M. Parsons, Vice President Phone: 910.692.2936 Email: lparsons@moorecountychamber.com
Moore County Chamber Announces Finalists: Small Business and Entrepreneur Business of the Year
SOUTHERN PINES, NC – The Moore County Chamber of Commerce announced at a press conference on January 24, 2008 the six finalists for the Chamber’s Small Business and Entrepreneur Business of the Year Awards. The winner of each of these awards will be presented at the Chamber’s Annual Banquet on January 31, 2008 and is made possible in partnership with Progress Energy.
“The Chamber is proud to showcase the six finalists and their contributions to the enrichment of Moore County’s business Community,” stated Sherwood Blackwood, 2008 Chairman of the Board. According to Sherwood, “The Chamber was looking for a business that despite facing tremendous adversity would do it all over again, and whose fervor for running a business is rivaled only by their willingness to serve the community.”
The criteria for both awards included innovation, response to adversity and community involvement. For innovation the businesses needed to cite examples as to marketing ideas, overcoming significant challenges, employee relations, customer development, technology, distribution and competitive advantages. The category of adversity, the business needed to show how they addressed significant challenges, overcoming one or more of the following: Employee relations, growth, training, retention, management and technology. In the last category the business needed to indicate their involvement in the community, not including industry related organizations or affiliations. The steering committee that reviewed the applications received were Chamber executives and economic development executives from outside of Moore County.
The three finalists for the Entrepreneur Business of the Year Award have been in business less than five years and with less than 50 full time employees. These finalists include HomeChoice Network Inc., Bliss, A Salon Experience and Weichert Realtors, Larose & Company. The finalists for the Small Business of the Year Award have been in business more than five years and also have less than 50 full time employees. These finalists include Pinestar Farms Inc., ConnectNC Inc., and Moore Uniforms. The final award winner of each category will be presented at the Annual Banquet on January 31, 2008 at the Carolina Hotel.
For more information or to purchase tickets to the Moore county Chamber of Commerce Annual Banquet visit www.moorecountychamber.com or call (910) 692-3926.
The mission of the Moore County Chamber of Commerce is to provide quality, value-added services and programs to members to unite Moore County area businesses in a committed effort to strengthen the economic environment and thus, improve the quality of life for all of Moore County. With nearly 800 members the Chamber is instrumental in Advancing Commerce and Community and exists to help strengthen the local economy and promote comprehensive community development.
Linda Parsons Vice President Moore County Chamber of Commerce 10677 Hwy 15-501 Southern Pines, NC 28387 910.692-3926 Fax 910.692-0619
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