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Guidebook can help communities support food, farm businesses
TRAVERSE CITY -- The Northwest Michigan Council of Governments recently announced the release of a guidebook that communities statewide can use to recognize and support farm and food business collaboration and innovation. "Food Innovation Districts: An...
Tags: Lifestyle and Leisure, Business, Food Industry, Marketing, Gardening
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Groupon co-founder Keywell taping radio pilots
Serial entrepreneur and Groupon co-founder Brad Keywell has begun taping pilots for a new 30-minute radio program he would host on WBEZ-FM 91.5, a public radio station. "It would be a Saturday morning show," said Jessica Malkin, executive director of...Tags: Values, Authors, The Wall Street Journal, Chicago Tribune Columnists, Business
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Are the Ravens ready for the Patriots' no-huddle offense?
Having grown up in Annapolis, Bill Belichick remembers watching quarterback Johnny Unitas, one of the NFL's pioneers of the pass, drive the Baltimore Colts up and down the field with their version of the two-minute drill. At the time, no one did it...
Tags: Football, The Boston Globe, Rob Gronkowski, Bernard Pollard, Baltimore Colts
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Samsung reveals details of Silicon Valley innovation center
MENLO PARK, Calif. -- Samsung disclosed more details Monday of the company's planned Silicon Valley innovation center, including plans for increased venture capital investment in the U.S. The South Korean tech giant is making a big push to expand its...
Tags: Investments
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Andre Cassagnes dies; Etch A Sketch inventor was 86
Los Angeles Times Invented in Paris in the late 1950s, the mechanical drawing toy that would eventually be marketed as "the world's first laptop" became wildly popular soon after an Ohio company introduced it under a new name: Etch A Sketch. French...
Tags: Barbie (fictional character), Allergies, Paris (France), Toy Industry, Arts and Culture
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Help for firms vying for a piece of the federal budget
Catonsville-based Alpha Omega Technologies performs work for one federal agency, and it wants more contracts — a daunting goal for a small company in a time of tight budgets. But the head of the 25-person software firm thinks he has a leg up after...
Tags: Catonsville, Sales, Politics, Business Enterprises, Business
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Center for simulated medicine opens in Anne Arundel County
A surgeon enters the operating room, offers his hands to a nurse and watches as she helps him into his rubber gloves with a snap. He glances at the patient on the table. A cloth covers the man's torso but for one area. Three trocars — tubes into...
Tags: Medical Procedures and Tests, Anne Arundel Medical Center, University of Maryland Medical Center, Hernia, Colleges and Universities
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Daschle: Farming, food security and the future
Thomas A. Daschle was the distinguished speaker at the Ag Outlook Forum in Washington, D.C. Here is the speech taken from the United States Department of Agriculture website. In South Dakota we have a special term to describe agricultural issues. We...Tags: Kenny Chesney, Global Change, Mark Twain, Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks, Environmental Issues
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State to get $1.6M for health care innovation plan
LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Michigan will get about $1.6 million to develop its State Health Care Innovation Plan. The state says the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation grant is part of the State Innovation Models Initiative. Funding is to...
Tags: Medicare, Medical Procedures and Tests, Health Insurance, Government Health Care, Children's Health
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A degree in funny in the town that takes comedy seriously
You can imagine the scene in thousands of family rooms: "Mom and Dad, I want to major in comedy." Silence. "Comedy? Not on our dime, you don't." To some parents, the notion of heading to Columbia College Chicago for a full-on degree program in matters...Tags: Stephen Colbert, Ethics, Values, University of Chicago, Entertainment
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Douglas A. Michels, President and CEO of OraSure Technologies
As a leader in point-of-care medical diagnostics, OraSure Technologies has had a worldwide impact on health through the launch of its innovative products. We are a global leader in oral fluid diagnostic technology, bringing to market first-of-its-kind...
Tags: Bethlehem (Northampton, Pennsylvania), Time (magazine), Medical Procedures and Tests, OraSure Technologies, Inc., Colleges and Universities
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Petro Vlahos dies at 96; advanced blue-screen technology for film
In the 1950s, special-effects pioneer Petro Vlahos laid the groundwork that made a modern movie genre possible — the blockbuster. He did it by vastly improving a composite-image process commonly known as the "blue-screen effect" for the 1959 epic...
Tags: Star Wars (movie), Science, Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks, Movies, Ceremonies
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