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  • Time to cowboy up with the Chamber of Commerce Tuesday, July 19, 2011 @ 3:19PMLocal business owners can dust off their Heritage Days cowboy swag a little earlier this year when they head to the Strathmore and District Chamber of Commerce Cowboy-Up event.
  • Building a Manufacturing Workforce with a Whistle Tuesday, July 19, 2011 @ 3:15PMCHICAGO, Ill, DEARBORN, Mich., July 18, 2011 ? The SME Education Foundation has placed an order for 500 whistles manufactured by students at Austin Polytechnical Academy (APA). The whistle order is the first step in a new partnership between the organizations, both committed to workforce...
  • Japan, The New Cinderella Tuesday, July 19, 2011 @ 3:10PMWow, yesterday was a riveting day here in Honolulu. We awoke to the Women’s World Cup Soccer madness. Breakfast and brunch establishments were packed and overflowing… and, buffets were spilling over in people’s homes. Hawaii is a state with many different ethnicities blended together and...
  • A visit from Moses Tuesday, July 19, 2011 @ 3:10PMHe’s a larger-than-life Maasai warrior and safari operator in Kenya, so I thought he wouldn’t be surprised by much on a visit to Canada. I was wrong. He marvelled at everything
  • Chipotle Mexican Grill, Inc. Announces Second Quarter 2011 Results Tuesday, July 19, 2011 @ 3:06PMDENVER--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Chipotle Mexican Grill, Inc. (NYSE: CMG) today reported financial results for its second quarter ended June 30, 2011. Highlights for the second quarter of 2011 as compared to the second quarter of 2010 include: Revenue increased 22.4% to $571.6 million Comparable restaurant sales increased 10.0% Restaurant level operating margin was 25.8%, a decrease of 110 basis points ...
  • Hamilton City Council okays zoning change Tuesday, July 19, 2011 @ 3:03PMCindy Iutzi / Gate City Harold Muegge of Hamilton, Ill., looks at his plans for a used car lot and a building for detailing and washing cars along Illinois Route 96 in Hamilton. Muegge attended Monday night's Hamilton City Council meeting.
  • AX FALLS ON PACQUIAO ADVISOR Monday, July 18, 2011 @ 2:06AMHe came out of nowhere and, to quote boxing man Leonard Ellerbe, "knew nothing about boxing but crap" but Canadian Michael Koncz was able to squeeze ...
  • PayasUgym.com Adds a Range of Best New Luxury Gyms London Can Offer for Its Customers to Visit on a Pay-as-you-go Basis Monday, July 18, 2011 @ 2:05AMPayasUgym.com, the revolutionary new way of visiting gyms in London (soon expanding throughout the rest of the UK) has now added a range of the best new luxury gyms London can offer to its website and iPhone application. If you are looking for a luxury gym London based then look no further.London, UK (PRWEB) July 18, 2011 Customers can pay for a workout that suits their needs at the time. This ...
  • Formation of Job Creation Institute Announced Monday, July 18, 2011 @ 2:05AMA Pro-Active, Grassroots Effort to Enhance Job Creation by Celebrating and Equipping the Job CreatorFort Worth, TX (PRWEB) July 18, 2011 Responding to perhaps the most significant economic challenge of our time, Clark Scarborough announced today the formation of the not-for-profit “Job Creation Institute” (JCI) (http://www.jobcreationinstitute.com). This grassroots ...
  • Upstart Business Consulting Group Launches New Website Featuring E-Book Business Plan Downloads Monday, July 18, 2011 @ 2:05AMAs the unemployment rate remains uncomfortably high, more Americans are choosing to start their own business. In addition to providing comprehensive business plans that can be purchased through retail outlets, Upstart Business Consulting Group has unveiled a new e-book option allowing customers to purchase and download e-books directly from their website.Irvine, CA (PRWEB) July 18, 2011 Upstart ...
  • Phoenix-Lazerus, inc. Now Produces the Only, High Quality, USA Made, Save-A-Tooth® Incorporated, First Aid Kits That ... Monday, July 18, 2011 @ 2:05AMPhoenix-Lazerus (http://www.saveatooth.com/), a leading first aid kit distributor, is now producing high quality first aid kits, “The Complete First Aid Kits” (http://www.amazon.com/Complete-First--Tooth-Exceeds-Standards) in the USA with components (including a Save-A-Tooth) made strictly in the USA at a price that is competitive with first ...
  • Charity data show how Snohomish County gives Monday, July 18, 2011 @ 2:04AMI write a weekly feature for The Herald highlighting volunteers and charities around Snohomish County. Most of the time, I know what I will write about the following week. Occasionally, I find myself struggling to find a story.
  • 8.8 percent increase in tuition proposed Monday, July 18, 2011 @ 2:03AMNDSU's current financial situation has prompted President Bresciani to ask the State Board of Higher Education for permission to increase tuition by 8.8 percent so that university programs don't have to be cut.
  • Teacher runs his pickup on culled-apple ethanol Sunday, July 17, 2011 @ 11:10AMWENATCHEE -- Instead of fueling his truck at the gas station, Tim Bombaci is getting his fuel from his neighbors. His neighbors who own orchards, that is.
  • Scrap bylaw could return Sunday, July 17, 2011 @ 11:08AMLangley Township's mayor wants to toughen local rules for scrap dealers to cut down on theft.
  • Rick Perry's credentials: As conservative as they come Sunday, July 17, 2011 @ 11:06AMAUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Should Rick Perry conclude that voter discontent has left him an opening to enter the presidential race, the longtime Texas governor would be among the GOP field's most conservative candidates.
  • Vision for redevelopment of Delft Square includes hotel, movie theater Sunday, July 17, 2011 @ 11:04AMLYNDEN - Three years after a fire gutted Delft Square - leaving behind the burned remains of the 42,
  • [News] Klee's Corner: On Leonard, freshmen and Italy Sunday, July 17, 2011 @ 11:01AMWith players in July, words are just that. As Illinois found out last season, they don't affect results from November through March. Even so, it should be refreshing to hear Meyers Leonard acknowledge the level of his importance to the Illinois basketball program this coming season.
  • Simmons: Bautista eying 50-50 Sunday, July 17, 2011 @ 11:00AMTORONTO - Before he twisted his ankle, Jose Bautista appeared on his way to yet another unexplainable but magnificent career standard. Should Bautista hit 50 home runs in back-to-back seasons, it will rank the rarest of baseball statistics outside the steroid era of inflated numbers.[...]
  • Hospital opens cardiology clinic Sunday, July 17, 2011 @ 10:57AMThe North Platte Telegraph The Great Plains Heart Center's cardiology clinic is open for business. It began offering services Monday as part of a push to make Great Plains Regional Medical Center the regional health care destination for west central Nebraska.
  • 'Paint the Town Purple' to support cancer fight Sunday, July 17, 2011 @ 10:56AMThe North Platte Telegraph People in North Platte are being asked to "Paint the Town Purple" in support of the 27th annual Relay for Life of Lincoln County. The campaign will run Aug. 1-6.
  • Smaller nets equal big potential for the NHL Sunday, July 17, 2011 @ 10:49AMThe next Brendan Shanahan Carnival of Wacky Notions (a.k.a. the NHL Research and Development Camp) is scheduled for next month in Toronto, and we're hoping for the same balance between reasonable and outrageous improvements for the Game as we had last summer. (Although we could probably all do without seeing that referee-as-lifeguard idea given another test run …) There are possible changes for ...
  • Speaker: Gap between rich, poor widening Sunday, July 17, 2011 @ 10:45AMThe North Platte Telegraph Trying to solve lower class problems with middle class sensibilities doesn't work.
  • Is it locally grown ... or not? Sunday, July 17, 2011 @ 6:15AMVisitors to the Otis Poultry Farm are greeted by cut-outs of giant cartoon chickens that dot the side of Route 8, imploring motorists to buy fresh-laid, local eggs.
  • Obama wants debt deal comprimise Sunday, July 17, 2011 @ 6:11AMBarack Obama has urged Congress to quickly forge a deal to keep the US from plunging into debt default.
  • Save aggressively, start early, adviser says Sunday, July 17, 2011 @ 6:10AMBill Spitz wants to offer some of us smaller guys the type of investment advice usually reserved solely for luxury clients and big institutions.
  • Some critical of outgoing sheriffs spending, management Sunday, July 17, 2011 @ 6:07AMTerrebonne Parish Sheriff Vernon Bourgeois works at his desk July 1 in Houma.
  • Processing plants one step closer Sunday, July 17, 2011 @ 6:06AMThe North Platte Telegraph Horse processing plants aren't going to immediately start popping up in Nebraska, but they're closer to becoming a reality following a decision by lawmakers on Thursday.
  • YORK TOWNSHIP: Saline students help plant flowers in Mary McCann Park Sunday, July 17, 2011 @ 6:05AMAs young people have been known to do, some 165 second grade students from Saline's Woodland Meadows Elementary School recently left things behind at the site of a series of class field trips. Their visits were to nearby Mary McCann Park in York Township, and virtually every boy and girl left something there.
  • A rainbow coalition of soccer players get their kicks in Fayetteville Sunday, July 17, 2011 @ 5:59AMNot so long ago, a group of Hispanic workers from the El Rancho restaurant plowed a dusty lot off Legion Road. They knocked together wooden goalposts and played soccer at 1 a.m. by the light of a Home Depot lamp.
  • Burkina Faso: Big Boost for Small Agricultural Producers Sunday, July 17, 2011 @ 5:59AMThe government of Burkina Faso has responded to long-standing demands of farmers for greater support for small family producers with the launch of "Operation 100,000 Ploughs".
  • CHELSEA: Back to the Roots features fair trade items, sushi and more Sunday, July 17, 2011 @ 5:59AMWhen Jason Bendinelli and Jason Povlich met at Cornerstone Music Festival in Illinois 13 years ago it was business-hippie love at first sight.
  • Facebook status: In a scam relationship Saturday, July 16, 2011 @ 12:19PMCon artists woo victims on dating and social networking sites, only to break the bank -- and hearts
  • The minivan I swore we'd never buy Saturday, July 16, 2011 @ 12:15PMAfter years of saying I wouldn't, I caved. Could this be my ticket to belonging with the other moms?
  • John Searl Roach Book Launch Saturday, July 16, 2011 @ 12:09PMA year’s hard work came together when John Searl’s new roach book was launched, writes Mark Wintle. ‘Chalk Stream Roach – The Ultimate Challenge’ was launched at the Land’s End pub near Twyford, Reading, on Saturday 21st November.
  • Dear Bill - A letter to an angling agony aunt Saturday, July 16, 2011 @ 12:05PMWhoever would have thought an angling magazine might one day see a need for a feature like ‘Get it off your Chest’? My problem isn’t one of a peculiarly ‘fishy’ nature and I don’t really see how you can help - other than to let me, well, get it off my chest.
  • Beginner's Essentials 7 - Tackle, Casting, Playing Saturday, July 16, 2011 @ 12:04PMMark Wintle and Graham Marsden with more from the beginner's series. This week they discuss tackling up, casting and playing fish.
  • PFT: Steelers' Ward lets attorney handle DUI Saturday, July 16, 2011 @ 12:01PMSteelers receiver Hines Ward has released another statement about his DUI arrest last weekend, without saying much.
  • Feds get a dose of kitchen-table economics Saturday, July 16, 2011 @ 11:57AMThe debt crisis has brought the government to the "kitchen table" to do something that hard-pressed families do routinely, which is tear their hair out over how to pay the bills.
  • iPad for Business Round-Up: VA Ready to Allow iPads, Khan Academy Open-Sources Its App and More Saturday, July 16, 2011 @ 11:35AMThe iPad isn't just a hot new consumer device, it's also an increasingly popular tool for business. Each week we take a look at the new or updated business apps for the iPad, and highlight trends in how tablets are being used in the enterprise. This week we take a look at how the Veterans Administration is planning to roll out iPads, the Khan Academy's open source iPad app and more. Sponsor ...
  • New Road Runner & Coyote Shorts from Warner: The Matt O’Callaghan Interview Saturday, July 16, 2011 @ 11:30AM(Matt is the Director of the three new CGI/3D Road Runner/Coyote shorts; this interview focuses on Fur of Flying which is currently in theaters accompanying Legend of the Guardians.
  • Filipino students shine in Asian competition Saturday, July 16, 2011 @ 11:20AMBy Euden Valdez, Staff Writer A GROUP of Filipino students once again brought honor to the country after nabbing the top prize at the recently concluded 2011 HSBC Young Entrepreneur Awards (YEA) regional finals held in Hong Kong. The YEA is a business plan writing competition participated in by thousands of students from the Asian [...]
  • Woman's doggy-daycare dreams dashed by council Saturday, July 16, 2011 @ 2:44AMLYNN - Katherine Reyes saw her dreams dashed in minutes this week after the City Council denied her request to open a doggy-daycare business on Parrott Street.
  • Brunswick resists idea of community college becoming CFCC satellite Saturday, July 16, 2011 @ 2:41AMA legislative panel has endorsed a proposal to save money by merging administrations of some small community colleges into large ones nearby, a move that could see Brunswick Community College in Bolivia come under the wing of Cape Fear Community College in Wilmington. But it faces plenty of opposition.
  • Classical students organizing second annual Hodgepodge music festival Saturday, July 16, 2011 @ 2:40AMLYNN - Two Classical High School students and musicians who wanted something to do in what can be a long and boring summer are poised to hold the second annual Hodgepodge Festival.
  • 10 technologies that will change the world in the next 10 years Saturday, July 16, 2011 @ 2:38AM3D printers, sensor networks, virtual humans and other technologies under development now will drastically change our world in the decade to come, according to Cisco chief futurist Dave Evans.
  • Monroe man who secretly taped sexual encounters with women gets five years in prison Saturday, July 16, 2011 @ 2:36AMThe man, who secretly taped his sexual encounters, is chastised by the judge.
  • Cuban to be series regular on 'Shark Tank' Saturday, July 16, 2011 @ 2:27AMLOS ANGELES, July 16 (UPI) -- Billionaire entrepreneur and owner of the NBA's Dallas Mavericks, Mark Cuban, is to be a series regular on "Shark Tank" next season, ABC said.
  • Collecting energy from the sun Saturday, July 16, 2011 @ 2:26AMThree-way plan to bring solar power to Wantage and Sussex, By Donna Puizina
  • Ubaldo miffed at trade rumors Saturday, July 16, 2011 @ 2:25AMUbaldo Jimenez doesn't anger easily, but the idea that the Rockies would be motivated to trade him because of his attitude struck a raw nerve Friday.