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Weddington, North Carolina

Weddington, with its population of over 8,500 is growing with leaps and bounds. This community located in Union County is just 15 miles southeast of the booming city of Charlotte. Although the village is in one of the fasted growing counties in North Carolina, the residents and city officials are [CONTINUE READING]

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Cash For Clunkers – Stimulus Or Boondoggle?

The media can’t get enough of the Cash for Clunkers program. Either can car buyers, judging from the overwhelming response in its first 10 days. The program offers critical thinkers, and good business managers must be critical thinkers, a great opportunity to test their skills. The key to this type [CONTINUE READING]

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Article Marketing – What’s Article Marketing Got to Do With Relationship Marketing?

Article marketing is a simple marketing strategy that anyone can get involved in. There is no huge investment required. It involves writing and submitting articles to the article directories like this one to drive targeted traffic to your website. That said, there are some people who are simply turned off [CONTINUE READING]

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Learn to Organize – Learn to Live

It’s 6:30 a.m. Coffee cup in hand, still half asleep, you’ve just entered your office. You are hoping to get a jump on the day by reading your accumulated email. The phone rings. No, it can’t be! Darn! It’s your boss calling you to his office. “What’s the matter with [CONTINUE READING]

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How to Install a Water Efficient Shower Head

Reduce your water consumption and save money and nature’s most important resource by installing a water efficient shower head or a shower flow regulator in your home. The average non efficient shower head uses around 15 to 25 litres of water a minute which means if you shower for five [CONTINUE READING]

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Daytona Beach Bike Week is a Hot End to Winter

For the first full week of every March, motorcycle riders nationwide escape the end of winter cold for 10 days of steaming hot Florida sun at the Daytona Beach Bike Week. Nearly 500,000 people attend the event annually, rivaling the world-famous Sturgis Motorcycle Rally in South Dakota. The Daytona rally [CONTINUE READING]

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Choosing Organic Food For a Smaller Carbon Footprint

“Just one 320-acre farm going organic equals 117 cars taken off of the road or 1,462,500 miles not driven!” That’s the conclusion of Chris Hill and Greg Bowman, contributors to the Rodale Institute’s NewFarm.org website which has been heavily involved in researching the impacts of conventional and organic farming. Seems [CONTINUE READING]

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Copenhagen’s Spring – Scientists Ask For Higher CO2 Cuts

The International Scientific Congress on Climate Change was held in Copenhagen between 10th to 12th March and organised by the International Alliance of Research Universities (IARU): the conclusions will be published into a full synthesis report next June. Almost 1,600 scientific contributions of researchers from over 70 countries have been [CONTINUE READING]