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Small Businesses Benefit from International Marketing Funds (Popularity:  )
More and more small businesses are looking to foreign markets to increase their product sales, as demand for American food products grows worldwide. In 2007, the value of U.S. agricultural exports increased to $82 billion, the highest amount ever. Over $161 million of those export sales were reported by companies marketing branded U.S. products overseas with the help of the Southern U.S. Trade Association (SUSTA).
To capitalize on the opportunities ...
Category: Business
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Salt Lake City to Host Women of the ELCA Gathering and Convention, July 8-13 (Popularity: )
The Seventh Triennial Gathering of Women of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) will bring together about 1,900 women July 10-13 at the Salt Palace Convention Center, Salt Lake City. The event theme, "Come to the Waters," focuses on the celebration of Baptism through Bible study, speakers, community, service and worship.
The gathering will include the following keynote speakers:
-- Joan Chittister, O.S.B., co-chair, Global Peace Initiative of Women ...
Category: Religion & Faith
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Lutherans Responding to People Affected by Iowa Immigration Raid (Popularity: )
Members of St. Paul Lutheran Church, Postville, Iowa, are responding to the needs of people who have been affected by a May 12 federal immigration raid at a Postville meat processing plant. Hundreds of family members of those arrested have taken refuge inside St. Bridget's Catholic Church, Postville, said the Rev. Stephen P. Brackett, St. Paul Lutheran Church.
On May 12 U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents arrested 390 ...
Category: Religion & Faith
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Lutherans Work to Meet the Needs of People in Myanmar (Popularity: )
International Disaster Response of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) provided $100,000 as an initial response to help meet the basic needs of survivors in Myanmar after Cyclone Nargis battered the Southeast Asian country May 3.
"The Myanmar government reported that nearly 22,500 people died and close to 41,000 are missing," said Dr. Belletech Deressa, director for international development and disaster response, ELCA Global Mission. These figures are only ...
Category: Religion & Faith
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Billy Ray and Miley Cyrus Bring Their Star Power to Cowboys & Indians Magazine (Popularity: )
It's a family affair at Cowboys & Indians, The Premier Magazine of The West, as the phenomenal Miley Cyrus -- a.k.a. "Hannah Montana" -- joins her father, singer-actor Billy Ray Cyrus, for a cover-story profile in the April issue on sale March 4. As writer Warner Roberts reports, the father-daughter team is sitting on top of the world -- with boots and tennis shoes planted firmly on the ground. They're ...
Category: Arts
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Billy Ray and Miley Cyrus Bring Their Star Power to Cowboys & Indians Magazine (Popularity: )
It's a family affair at Cowboys & Indians, The Premier Magazine of The West, as the phenomenal Miley Cyrus -- a.k.a. "Hannah Montana" -- joins her father, singer-actor Billy Ray Cyrus, for a cover-story profile in the April issue on sale March 4. As writer Warner Roberts reports, the father-daughter team is sitting on top of the world -- with boots and tennis shoes planted firmly on the ground. They're ...
Category: Music
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AALS Plenary Sessions Challenge Legal Faculty to Reassessing Their Roles as Scholars and Educators (Popularity: )
The Association of American Law Schools (AALS) will hold its Annual Meeting in New York, New York from January 2-6, 2008. With over 3,500 law faculty expected to gather, AALS President, Nancy Rogers, The Ohio State University, chose as the meeting theme: Reassessing Our Roles as Scholars and Educators in Light of Change. Three plenary sessions, to be held Friday, January 4 from 2:15 to 4:00 p.m., will use this ...
Category: Education
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Every 7 Minutes an American is Telling the FCC to Approve M2Z (Popularity: )
M2Z Networks (M2Z) today announced that in just the past 15 working days over 1,000 individuals from forty-nine states have written to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) supporting M2Z's pending application to deliver free and family-friendly wireless broadband to all American consumers. In total, over 8,000 letters have been sent to the Commissioners of the FCC and Members of Congress, including 84 percent of the House Representatives and 98 percent ...
Category: Telecommunications
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Spring Break - A Perfect Time to Apply for Scholarships; Online Scholarships Easier Than Ever for Tech-Savvy Students (Popularity: )
What are your plans for Spring Break -- playful, i.e. fun in the sun, or practical, i.e. looking for ways to afford ever-rising higher education costs? Why not both?! Spring break is a great time for students to let loose and still have time to apply for scholarship monies to help finance their higher education.
We are taught that money is earned, not freely given and although mostly true, scholarships ...
Category: Non-profit
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Vacations By Rail Achieves GrandLuxe Rail Journeys', Formerly American Orient Express, Club Elite Status (Popularity: )
Vacations By Rail, a Chicago-based specialty travel company selling independent traveler and group train tours and vacations in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Europe and beyond, announced that it achieved Club Elite status with GrandLuxe Rail Journeys, formerly the American Orient Express. GrandLuxe Rail Journeys' Club Elite is an exclusive designation reserved for travel companies demonstrating outstanding support and sales production of GrandLuxe Rail Journeys. Vacations by Rail customers benefit ...
Category: Society
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