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From October 18th-20th the Hilton Charlotte University Place Hotel in Charlotte, North Carolina will hold the 2011 conference on Aging. The North Carolina Conference will also focus on eight specific conference tracks which include family, care giving grand parenting, economics of aging, health and the continuum of care, healthy aging and active engagement, planning livable senior friendly communities, diversity and aging and safe communities with the overall arching theme in creating a ...
There’s a new twist in Los Angeles’ quest to land a NFL team. Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa is courting the Carolina Panthers for relocation because the team is one of four in the NFL that owns its own stadium and wouldn’t have to break a lease to move. Panthers owner Jerry Richardson reportedly would only be interested in moving the team to Los Angeles if Charlotte doesn’t help him pay for renovations to Bank of America Stadium.
**The NFL extended TV rights agreements with CBS, Fox and NBC for a total of $27 billion over the next nine years. 5. NBA players are upset with Commissioner David Stern over a crammed training camp schedule, which gives teams only two weeks to practice together before playing a 66-game regular season. 4. The Charlotte Bobcats have outsourced their season ticket sales process because the team laid-off half its sales staff during the lockout.
**The Charlotte Bobcats are offering a season-ticket plan where fans that buy seats for next season will get the 2013-14 season for free. **ESPN generated a 7.9 overnight TV rating for last Sunday’s Miami Heat-Boston Celtics Game 4, marking the highest preliminary TV rating for a NBA playoff game on cable since records started being kept in 2003. **The WNBA will commemorate the 40th anniversary of Title IX throughout the 2012 season, including special Title IX-themed uniforms.
**Twenty-one of the 22 U.S.-based NHL teams with available data have posted local TV ratings increases this season. **Charlotte Bobcats owner Michael Jordan is pushing his team to become more involved in the local community. 3. Twenty-one of the 22 U.S.-based NHL teams with available data have posted local TV ratings increases this season, according to John Ourand and David Broughton of SportsBusiness Journal.
Gerald Vaughn has been USA Track & Field age-group champion, indoor and outdoor, eight consecutive years. At the 2001 National Masters Track & Field Championships in Baton Rouge, Vaughn told me of his conversion from couch potato to one of the top over-60 shot putters in the country. When Vaughn started back again, he began throwing with Floyd "Chunk" Simmons, a fellow resident of Charlotte, North Carolina.
The Stanford Chronic Disease Self-Management Program (CDSMP) is an effective behavior change program that has been successfully implemented in a variety of settings. As one of the original CDSMP grantees in North Carolina, the Centralina Area Agency on Aging has been responsible for implementing the Living Healthy program in the nine counties surrounding Charlotte. The Stanford Chronic Disease Self-Management Program is a prime example of an evidence-based behavior change program that has ...
The Environmental Protection Agency awarded four communities for their achievements in implementing principles of smart growth that encourage active aging. The award is given to a public sector, neighborhood, or nongovernment organization that shows superior achievement in building healthy communities supporting active aging. The Fairfax County (Virginia) Department of Neighborhood & Community Services and the Philadelphia (Pennsylvania) Corporation for Aging received the commitment award, ...
**MLB could add a second wild card team in each league as soon as next season. **A canceled NBA season could cost TV networks more than $1 billion in advertising revenue. **The ACC is likely to reopen its 12-year, $1.86 billion deal TV rights deal with ESPN after adding Pittsburgh and Syracuse to the conference.
