WilliametteLive.com: Salem’s Downtown Partnership, an organization of downtown businesses, has established a pool of money to support ideas by members that promote downtown events, projects and community atmosphere. Called the Good Idea Fund, the sole goal is to help energize Salem’s downtown district. It’s seed money for any concept that might have a positive impact […]
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In the the 18th and 19th centuries, nearly everyone used a standing desk, like the one that Ernest Hemingway is using the in the inset photo, and today they’re coming back in style as their health benefits are becoming more apparent to a sedentary population. The WSJ has more: A growing number of workers at
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On this day in 1962 Telstar, the world’s first communications satellite, was launched into orbit. Telstar 1 relayed its first, and non-public, television pictures—a flag outside Andover Earth Station—to Pleumeur-Bodou on July 11, 1962. Almost two weeks later, on July 23, at 3:00 p.m. EDT, it relayed the first publicly available live transatlantic television signal.
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Having trouble finding a way to thank employees for their hard work when your business is having trouble getting by? USA Today has some advice from SBA head, Karen Mills, that may help. Many employees understand the financial constraints that come with running a business during bumpy economic times and appreciate creative efforts to recognize
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ajc.com: Mary Jo Brooks’ daughter figured her mom could be a successful Mary Kay cosmetics representative. For starters, Mrs. Brooks wore makeup. She was good with money because she’d served as treasurer for the Butts County town of Jackson. Decades ago, Jo Carole Brooks White, a Mary Kay sales director, had returned home from an
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Have you ever tried to find the perfect greeting card, the one that would convey to the recipient exactly how you felt? No matter how many cards you may look through sometimes the right one just doesn’t seem to exist. Sheila Sylvestre of Whisper Greetings had a childhood dream. She was enamored with greeting cards
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dBusinessNews Dallas: After three days of powerful and unifying events, the Gold’s Gym global family heads home from a historic convention in Las Vegas. By all accounts, the company’s executive leadership, franchisees, ownership group, employees and partners are as energized as ever to carry on the company’s rich tradition as the world’s leading authority on
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A mompreneur in Littleton, Colorado has signed on with Cybertary to launch one of their franchises in her town, according to a release from PR Web. Dana Hall spent much of her career in the corporate world of financial services with companies like Wachovia. She primarily worked in the mortgage industry where she worked in
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photo credit: A new study out from Germany indicates that bacteria-killing jets of plasma could soon replace the dental drills currently used to remove the cavities in our teeth making visits to the dentist’s office less painful. Plasma is the fourth state of matter, after solids, liquids and gases. It is formed when gases are
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Rhonda Abrams at Gannett says to think like an entrepreneur. Entrepreneurship can be applied to virtually any field or profession. No matter what products and services are currently on the market in your area of expertise, there are always opportunities to improve them and to better serve the customers who buy them. That said, if
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