According to The Star Tribune, school lockers are becoming the latest venue for bombarding kids with advertising. Just what that will look like is on display at the north suburban Centennial school administration building: four lockers wrapped in a bubblegum pink ad for the Mall of America’s “Underwater Adventures” aquarium. On Nov. 1, the school […]
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Dick Seibert has lost money every year since he opened Knob Hall Winery in rural Maryland in 2006. Now he’s looking for the financing needed to double his vines to 60 acres by yearend. “We’re not making money yet, although we’re not that far away,” says Seibert, 58. Businessweek reports that Seibert’s optimism is buoyed
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Maggie Teed was a rebel when she was young so her parents sent her off to boarding school. After that she got married and had seven children. However, the marriage ended in divorce and left Maggie to be a single mother. Struggling to get by, she had a moment of inspiration. Deciding to try out
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Rosalind Resnick over at The Wall Street Journal has these year-end survival strategies to get you through January 2011. 1. Retool your business plan. The economy has changed, and your company has to change with it. Take whatever isn’t working and scrap it. If you haven’t looked at your business plan since you first wrote
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Some graduate students from Stanford University have used Autodesk Inventor software to create a prototype for a recyclable laptop reports Electronics News The students from Stanford and Finland’s Aalto University used Autodesk Inventor and Autodesk Inventor Publisher software to help develop and refine the innovative laptop during the school year. The software was used create
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We mentioned back in October that Dean Kamen was hosting a science TV show on Green Planet. If you don’t have Green Planet on your cable system you can still watch the first show on the internet here.I don’t know if Green Planet plans to stream every show. Photo by Green Planet.
NorthJersey.com: An expanding burger chain is hoping its new Clifton location, which opened its doors this week, will be as much of a ‘smash’ amongst City patrons as it seemingly has around the country. In 2007, Smashburger opened its first restaurant in Denver, Colo. Three years later, the company currently boasts 85 locations nationwide with
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The Daily Republic: Jacque Schumacher likes to help women feel beautiful inside and out. As a Mary Kay consultant for 27 years, Schumacher takes pride her in her work supplying women with skin-care products and, most often, a friend. She’s the best in the business, according to her clients, and she has plenty of awards
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West Virginia Record: A Parkersburg police officer is suing a McDonald’s restaurant for effectively turning his drive-thru order into a crime scene. Matthew W. Board filed suit against TMT Enterprises Inc., a McDonald’s franchisee, in Wood Circuit Court on Oct. 14. In his complaint, Board alleges a TMT employee served him food with an open
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On November 13, 2001, I started this humble website with a simple purpose, to find and highlight business opportunities that weren’t junk. Today marks the 18,000 post and begins to countdown to our 9th anniversary on November 13th. To say that I couldn’t have done this without the support of my readers is a cliche,
