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Morning MoneyBeat: Here Comes the Pullback?
Nymex up 46 cents at $ 106.99. Gold 0.2% lower at $ 1262. In Europe, FTSE 100 down 0.9%, DAX down 0.7% and CAC 40 down 0.6%. In Asia, Nikkei 225 up 0.8% and Hang Seng up 0.6%. WATCH FOR: May Producer Price Index (8:30 a.m. Eastern Time): seen +0.2 …
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President of JCB Labs helps start concrete furniture business in Wichita
Williamson and his wife, Tron Williamson, along with Jerrod Byrne have teamed up to form Mix Concrete Studio, a business that creates custom concrete designs and furniture for home and office uses. The business is leasing space in an airplane hangar at …
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Finally – Vulcan, city of Bothell head to the altar
Sign Up for the Puget Sound Business Journal Afternoon Edition Newsletter … Vulcan Real Estate will start building Bothell's new City Hall in late July, city officials have decided. … The scope of the city hall project, which will cost just over …
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Sign up now: joining the Herald Sun is very rewarding
Start your day with our live blog The Loop so you know what's happening in Melbourne every morning, from transport updates to the latest breaking news and overnight sport results. * Connect with your favourite commentator, including Andrew Bolt, sports …
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Mobile entrepreneur hopes to parlay hot start into big investments
It now appears he's raising up to $ 2 million for the venture. According to filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, the company has secured $ 405,067. It could raise up to $ 2 million, according to the filings. Patel declined to comment about …
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Craven's Corner: Playoffs start now

Craven's Corner: Playoffs start now
"Judging off the fact of how many people showed up just to talk to me about going and testing for a couple of hours, I can imagine what the group is going to be like after I run my first race." Stewart said he is amused by the breadth of attention his …
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Buffalo podiatrist seeks company on bike ride to fight diabetes
At age 72, the foot doctor who grew up in North Buffalo is still going strong in his practice and on his bike. Next Saturday, he aims to ride 62.5 miles as part of the Buffalo Tour de Cure, which benefits the American Diabetes Association. Register to …
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Next up for disruption: The grocery business

Next up for disruption: The grocery business
Now, though, investors are starting to pony up. Big companies like Amazon (AMZN), Trader Joe's, and Wal-Mart (WMT) are, to one degree or another, at least experimenting with grocery delivery if not going at it full-bore. Meanwhile, venture capitalists …
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Stop dressing so tacky for church
Jennifer Fulwiler, who wrote an article for the National Catholic Register titled, “Why Don't We Dress up Anymore,” says her great-grandfather would put on a coat and tie just to go grocery shopping. The reasons why people stopped dressing up could …
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Making a Case for Inbound Marketing
Among his seven reasons for investing in SEO, Olenski mentions its cost-effectiveness and the fact that up to 90 percent of customers are checking online reviews before a purchase, with this number expected to continue going up. "Your business …
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Today in Small Business: Bacon-Filled Chocolate Bunnies

Today in Small Business: Bacon-Filled Chocolate Bunnies
Los Angeles area port traffic is up year-over-year in March and exports are at a new high. • The American Association of Individual Investors says optimism has fallen to its lowest level in a … In Staten Island, a former store owner is working to …
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Clone wars: How start-ups take on the copycats
Marsh and his co-founders set up a blog in which they detailed everything from financial information to business plans. It was as a result of this that Makeshift became a victim of copying. "Someone came to an event and totally ripped off one of our …
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Lending for home repairs on the rise
"Although many people will use money from savings or from tax refunds, we're seeing a strong market for home improvement loans," said Gary Miller, business chief of LightStream, an online lending division of SunTrust. Home equity … Home equity …
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Market Noise and Fed Messaging
This has been a clear "risk-off" start to the year. While volatility has increased, we don't agree with the intense level of hand-wringing. In fact, we think that the year has opened rather well. After years of solidly up markets, investors seem …
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Dear Mr. President: Pay for your library yourself
He admittedly was a little slow to come around on some issues I care about, such as gay marriage, but, hey, what counts is not where you start but where you end up. But I have this to say to the president from Chicago as his representatives play off …
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Eight business-class alternatives to Dropbox
Individual accounts start with 2 GB of free storage. Upgrades, in 100 GB increments, cost $ 10 a month or $ 100 a year. The SpiderOak Blue business service starts at $ 600 a month, with a terabyte of storage for up to 100 users. The company will even …
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Square targets US's 50m Latinos (and their small businesses)
Square, the payments processing start-up, is looking for new users for its credit card device among the US's growing Latino community. The company, co-founded by Twitter's Jack Dorsey, is today unveiling Spanish language support and software in hopes …
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Controversy surrounds Seattle Mariners' release of pitcher Randy Wolf
Walker, James Paxton and Erasmo Ramirez — who figure to make up the rest of Seattle's starting five — have a combined 170.1 innings of big-league experience among the three of them. But the Wolf situation could be seen as yet another example of the …
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Why the city's fashion week isn't competing with Paris, Milan or New York
But why would Nashville Fashion Week award its highest honor — a cash prize from the Nashville Fashion Foward Fund — to a local blogger, as opposed to a local designer or manufacturer? Nashville … In the same spirit, regional fashion weeks like …
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Joe G's Running Game Blog

Joe G's Running Game Blog
After a fast start (15-2) Cavs clamp down on Clips, second unit brings energy, toughness, personified by Delly, who's picking up Willie Green 3/4 court and not letting him breathe. Crowd quiet by end of 1Q. Deng leads CLE w/7 pts; Hawes, 2-3 FG, 4 pts …
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Calipari, Barnhart hot over UK's NCAA draw
So … wow. Kentucky, which had a great weekend at the SEC Tournament and had the ball with a chance to win at the end against No. 1 Florida in the title game … is an eight seed. In the Midwest Region of Doom. UK faces Kansas State first on Friday in St.
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Blogger Outreach – The Strategy and The Reality
One of the many first steps, is to start to establish a community of blogs that you can contribute to. The first thing to … As with all truly valuable business relationships, trust is crucial, and must be built up over time, as must a personal …
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New Allentown shop offers holistic health for pets
“I've learned how to take real food, grow it in the garden, cook it up and bring the pet back into balance.” Seeds said she is an animal lover and has long worked with … Now, husband and wife team Tim and Hala Rihan-Bonner of Bethlehem are pursuing …
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Team Canada blog: Kajan Johnson on 'TUF Nations,' episode No. 7
I appreciate the fact that he will stand up for his people, but I wish he would have taken into consideration who it was that was giving him the info on exactly what I had said. So we get back to the house after … Sorry man, it's just business. The …
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Today in Small Business: Online Reviews Matter More Than Most Owners Think
Here are five tasks every entrepreneur should outsource even on a start-up budget. Online. • Small businesses, according to a survey, are underestimating the importance of online reviews. • This is a list of 18 social media search engine optimization …
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Start your homework for university
… ask informal questions about workload and social life, and pick up tips from students who have followed a similar path,” says Karina Kizhner, head of studies at London School of Business and Finance (LSBF). “Also look for blogs by academics and …
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“Looking” Episode 3: You Betta Work!
For its third episode, “Looking” shifted its focus from sex and relationships to the careers of its three core characters. But it did not shift its tone, as Patrick, Dom, and Augustin are about as successful in their work lives as they are in their …
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Surviving {and Thriving} in My First Year of Self Employment + Action Steps
Not only was there a ton of valuable information in all of those piles—it turns out I'm a decent blog curator—but there was a ton of leftovers that needed to be discarded so that I could make room for the now. It's been a cleansing process …. You …
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Morning Agenda: SAC Fashioning a New Identity
Montagu to Buy Bulk of Rexam's Health Care Business | Montagu Private Equity has made an $ 805 million offer to buy the health care devices and prescription retail divisions of the British consumer packaging company Rexam. …. Boss Insists That Staff …
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