National Defense Briefs – May 26, 2014
May 26, 2014
By W. Thomas Smith Jr. Sixteenth in the series, National Defense Briefs. Each week we bring to readers of MidlandsBiz.com updates aimed at informing with timely military and homeland-security…
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National Defense Briefs – May 26, 2014
May 26, 2014
By W. Thomas Smith Jr. Sixteenth in the series, National Defense Briefs. Each week we bring to readers of MidlandsBiz.com updates aimed at informing with timely military and homeland-security…
Read MorePosted in: midlandsbiz Category: headlines, military
Top Grocery Brands Comparison: Disturbing Truth About How Big Food Companies Exploit Your Shopping Habits
May 22, 2014by Alex Hillsberg Standing in the supermarket’s food section aisle you’re confronted with hundreds of different products compounded by the happy proliferation of subcategories. You have a wide choice…
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Top Grocery Brands Comparison: Disturbing Truth About How Big Food Companies Exploit Your Shopping Habits
May 22, 2014by Alex Hillsberg Standing in the supermarket’s food section aisle you’re confronted with hundreds of different products compounded by the happy proliferation of subcategories. You have a wide choice…
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National Defense Briefs – May 19, 2014
May 19, 2014
By W. Thomas Smith Jr. Fifteenth in the series, National Defense Briefs. Each week we bring to readers of MidlandsBiz.com updates aimed at informing with timely military and homeland-security…
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National Defense Briefs – May 19, 2014
May 19, 2014
By W. Thomas Smith Jr. Fifteenth in the series, National Defense Briefs. Each week we bring to readers of MidlandsBiz.com updates aimed at informing with timely military and homeland-security…
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Retail Market Continues to Move Forward
May 19, 2014KEY TAKEAWAYS The Upstate, South Carolina retail market ended the first quarter of 2014 with a high occupancy rate of 88.7%. Cabela’s opens at Magnolia Park. New retailers choose…
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Remembering Barbara Huberman
May 19, 2014
Dear friends: It is with great sadness and a heavy heart that I share with you the news that our organization, and the entire field of adolescent health, lost a…
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Today’s grads give reason for optimism
May 18, 2014
By Richard Eckstrom S.C. Comptroller For millions of young adults here in S.C. and across the country, it’s an exciting – and uncertain – time: graduation time. Many S.C.…
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Today’s grads give reason for optimism
May 18, 2014
By Richard Eckstrom S.C. Comptroller For millions of young adults here in S.C. and across the country, it’s an exciting – and uncertain – time: graduation time. Many S.C.…
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Mullikin briefs Columbia Chamber’s Military Affairs Committee on Climate and Energy Issues
May 17, 2014COLUMBIA, SC – Environmental attorney Thomas S. Mullikin briefed the Greater Columbia Chamber of Commerce’s Military Affairs Committee, Apr. 29. Introduced by Maj. Gen. George Goldsmith, U.S. Army Reserve (Ret.), Mullikin addressed both the military…
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Is China No. 1?
May 16, 2014By Robert J. Samuelson May 14, 2014 It’s probable that the U.S. economy is no longer the world’s largest. New World Bank figures, notes economist Arvind Subramanian of the…
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Innovative Marketing – Attracting Our Ideal Prospects
May 16, 2014
By Jerry Bellune May 12, 2014 Attracting Our Ideal Prospects Are you attracting your Ideal Prospects? Or are you pursuing anybody who’ll fog a mirror? Do they want to buy…
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Bill Maher speaks his mind, unfortunately
May 16, 2014By Kathleen Parker May 13, 2014 When my neighbor gleefully reported that Bill Maher had dedicated a searing monologue to me for a column I wrote about the Donald Sterling/Cliven Bundy rants, my…
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South Carolina’s Employment Situation April 2014
May 16, 2014
Unemployment Rate Decreases; Lowest Rate Since June 2001 COLUMBIA, SC The state’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate decreased to 5.3 percent in April down from March’s rate of 5.5 percent. The…
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South Carolina’s Employment Situation April 2014
May 16, 2014
Unemployment Rate Decreases; Lowest Rate Since June 2001 COLUMBIA, SC The state’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate decreased to 5.3 percent in April down from March’s rate of 5.5 percent. The…
Read MorePosted in: lowcountrybizsc, midlandsbiz, upstatebizsc Category: government, headlines, on-the-move
Leadership Secrets: 50 Strategies of the World’s Best Leaders
May 15, 2014By Blake DuBose and Mike DuBose Republished May 15, 2014 Along with outstanding staff, effective leaders are the driving force behind thriving businesses, private non-profits, government agencies, and houses…
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Leadership Secrets: 50 Strategies of the World’s Best Leaders
May 15, 2014By Blake DuBose and Mike DuBose Republished May 15, 2014 Along with outstanding staff, effective leaders are the driving force behind thriving businesses, private non-profits, government agencies, and houses…
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National Defense Briefs
May 14, 2014
By W. Thomas Smith Jr. May 14, 2014 Fourteenth in the series, National Defense Briefs. Each week we bring to readers of MidlandsBiz.com updates aimed at informing with timely…
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National Defense Briefs
May 14, 2014
By W. Thomas Smith Jr. May 14, 2014 Fourteenth in the series, National Defense Briefs. Each week we bring to readers of LowcountryBizSC.com updates aimed at informing with timely…
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Speculative Development Imperative for Future Office Market Growth
May 14, 2014KEY TAKEAWAYS Average asking rental rates for Class A space continued to increase to $27.52/SF full service, a record high. Vacancy rates continued to decrease to 11.12% at the…
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Having a Graduation Party? There’s Etiquette!
May 13, 2014
By Deborah O’Connor May 9, 2014 As graduation approaches, there will be many parties to celebrate the big event. I received an interesting letter from Corey, addressing the issue of…
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Innovative Marketing – Attracting Our Ideal Prospects
May 13, 2014
By Jerry Bellune May 12, 2014 Attracting Our Ideal Prospects Are you attracting your Ideal Prospects? Or are you pursuing anybody who’ll fog a mirror? Do they want to buy…
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Climate change: We have no solution yet
May 13, 2014By Robert Samuelson May 12, 2014 It would be healthy — in the sense of promoting honesty — if every report warning of global warming and climate change (the two…
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Climate change: We have no solution yet
May 13, 2014By Robert Samuelson May 12, 2014 It would be healthy — in the sense of promoting honesty — if every report warning of global warming and climate change (the two…
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The death penalty condemns us all
May 13, 2014By Kathleen Parker May 12, 2014 When Lady Justice takes a count of bleeding hearts outside the execution chamber, she won’t find mine among them. I am no passionate opponent of the…
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Voterheads Weekly Update – May 12
May 13, 2014This week, the City of Greenville wants non-partisan elections and Greer is looking at allowing people to raise chickens inside the city limits. Vote and comment now by signing up…
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Innovative Marketing – Attracting Our Ideal Prospects
May 12, 2014
By Jerry Bellune May 12, 2014 Attracting Our Ideal Prospects Are you attracting your Ideal Prospects? Or are you pursuing anybody who’ll fog a mirror? Do they want to buy…
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Tough sales issues, and not so tough (but not so easy) answers.
May 12, 2014By Jeffrey Gitomer May 12, 2014 The 3.5 biggest issues facing salespeople today are: 1. Price integrity. 2. Customer loyalty. 3. Fighting hungry competition. 3.5 Quality, attitude, and belief…
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Voterheads Weekly Update – May 12
May 12, 2014This week, the City of Greenville wants non-partisan elections and Greer is looking at allowing people to raise chickens inside the city limits. Vote and comment now by signing up for your free…
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Get more done in less time – How Eisenhower accomplished so much
May 6, 2014By Jerry Bellune May 5, 2014 President Dwight Eisenhower was a model leader. He grew up in an impoverished family in Kansas. With hard work, “Ike” graduated from West…
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Get more done in less time – How Eisenhower accomplished so much
May 6, 2014By Jerry Bellune May 5, 2014 President Dwight Eisenhower was a model leader. He grew up in an impoverished family in Kansas. With hard work, “Ike” graduated from West…
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Comparison of the Top Tech Company Acquisitions: Microsoft, Google, Facebook, Apple and Other Business Giants
May 6, 2014By David Adelman and Alex Hillsberg In 2005, Rupert Murdoch, a veteran business mogul with a solid reputation in creating empires out of companies was so sure of social media’s…
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ARIAIL Cartoon
May 5, 2014About Robert Ariail Robert Ariail has won numerous awards for his work, mostrecently the Ranan Lurie United Nations Political Cartoon Award inDecember 2009. Ariail became the first…
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Washington’s twisted love affair with the WHCA dinner
May 5, 2014By Kathleen Parker May 2, 2014 This is the time when Americans renew their hatred of Washington and Washington wallows in a bittersweet cocktail of self-love and self-loathing. Which is…
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Voterheads Weekly Update – May 5
May 5, 2014Columbia is moving forward with funding the new baseball park and a parking garage, while Greenville County is concerned about unattended donation receptacles, and Richland County is busy with orchestras, gold mines, and greenways. All this and…
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Support Nonprofits during Midlands Gives Day on May 6
May 4, 2014By JoAnn Turnquist What would happen if we all combined our resources on one day in support of nonprofit organizations in our local community? What if we could do this…
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Notes from city council meeting, Tuesday night, April 29
May 3, 2014By Temple Ligon April 30, 2014 Sanitary sewer lines William H. Davis, wastewater engineer for the Department of Utilities and Engineering, reported on the city’s recent sanitary sewer overflows…
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Washington’s twisted love affair with the WHCA dinner
May 2, 2014By Kathleen Parker May 2, 2014 This is the time when Americans renew their hatred of Washington and Washington wallows in a bittersweet cocktail of self-love and self-loathing. Which is…
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Mullikin returns to Fiji
May 1, 2014S.C. Attorney leads legislative reform team, dives with sharks, and starts library in Fiji Attorney Tom Mullikin, pres. of the Mullikin Law Firm and Global Eco Adventures – in coordination…
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DEW Makes Early Unemployment Trust Fund Loan Repayment
April 30, 2014Agency on track to repay entire loan in 2015 COLUMBIA, SC – April 30, 2014 – The SC Department of Employment and Workforce (DEW) today announced it made a voluntary…
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Comparison of Americans’ Weird Habits: Smartphones Are More Important Than Sex
April 23, 2014By David Adelman and Alex Hillsberg April 22, 2014 America is facing its biggest threat to its existence. Not terrorism or the threat of weapons of mass destruction, but…
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Achieving Trade Show Excellence – Part 1
April 21, 2014By William RussellApril 21, 2014 Trade shows and similar events can play a worthwhile role within the marketing mix of a business. Just about every spring and fall, companies gear…
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Reflecting on the Boston Marathon bombings
April 21, 2014By Richard EckstromS.C. ComptrollerApril 21, 2014 South Carolina is nearly a thousand miles from Boston, Massachusetts. But we, too, were shaken by last year’s events that occurred on April 15, 2013.…
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Get more done in less time – What to do and what to forget
April 21, 2014By Jerry BelluneApril 21, 2014 What to do and what to forgetStephen Covey looked at life and work objectively.The best-selling author advised using a matrix.His four fields of the matrix…
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Reflecting on the Boston Marathon bombings
April 20, 2014By Richard Eckstrom S.C. Comptroller April 21, 2014 South Carolina is nearly a thousand miles from Boston, Massachusetts. But we, too, were shaken by last year’s events that…
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South Carolina’s Employment Situation March 2014
April 18, 2014Unemployment Rate Trend Continues Downward Employment Hits Highest Level Ever COLUMBIA, SC – April 18, 2014 – In March, South Carolina’s seasonally adjustedunemployment rate decreased to 5.5 percent from February’s rate…
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5 Reasons Storytelling Makes Good Marketing & Business Sense
April 16, 2014By Holly Rollins April 16, 2014 Storytelling is as ancient as the hand gestures and grunts of homo erectus man and woman of eons ago. Storytelling around campfires still exists…
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On Being a University
April 15, 2014April 14, 2014 Tom Moore, Ph.D., Chancellor, USC Upstate Recently, harsh attention has been focused on the University of South Carolina Upstate because of books and activities that deal with…
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Get more done in less time – How the effective 20% assure their success
April 14, 2014By Jerry BelluneApril 14, 2014 Don’t want to admit you’re in the 80% loser class?Who would? But want to become a high performer?Research shows how the star 20%ers do it.…
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