SWARTHMORE, Pa. – The Swarthmore College Athletics Department recently announced the winners of its annual special awards at the 2010 Awards Banquet, which took place on Monday from Upper Tarble.

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Swarthmore Athletics Department Announces Special Award Winners at 2010 Banquet

A comprehensive survey (1,753 respondents) released today by Edison Research (a division of Arbitron), paints a fascinating picture of Twitter and its role in America’s social media ecosystem, reports Jason Baer on SocialMediaToday.com . The full 49-page study is full of interesting graphs and data morsels, but these are the 7 findings that Jason didn’t anticipate: 1. Twitter is Ubiquitous Like Terrell Owens, Carrie Underwood, and Coke Zero, Twitter is almost universally on the radar of Americans.

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Surprising Statistics About Twitter in America from Social Media Today

Fabric Printing with Dishwasher Gel Did you know that with a few supplies from your kitchen you can create your own printed fabric? All you will need is some cookies cutters and bleach based dish-washing gel. This technique produces a soft vintage look

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Fashion Friday: Fabric Printing with Dishwasher Gel

We haven’t been formerly introduced yet, this lovely Chamaecyparis and I, but I think once we are, we will get along quite well. I never thought I cared much for Chamaecyparis, as a general rule, but I do like this one, and think it is a great addition to the garden. I probably wouldn’t have planted something like this on my own, so I’m glad the garden designer pushed me a little to think again

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Garden Design Update: Greeting New Plants

Here are some of the recent mentions about Zoho in the media. In an eWeek slideshow of ‘ Top 10 Enterprise Apps from the Google Apps Marketplace ‘, Clint Boulton starts with Zoho CRM. In another eWeek slideshow by Don Reisinger on ‘ 10 Products Microsoft Should Fear ‘ about, Zoho (Docs) and Firefox are the only products mentioned other than Google’s (Search, Chrome OS, Android OS, Google Docs, Google Adwords) and Apple’s (iPhone, iPad, Mac OS X).

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Zoho: Recent Media Mentions

Top performing digital services agency leads the pack after picking up five nominations at prestigious online marketing industry event

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Azam Marketing Excels Again at 2010 Affiliate Marketing Awards

Our New Mexico partner, the New Mexico Aging and Long-Term Services Department (ALTSD), is hosting a series of community forums throughout their state next week. Elders and caregivers will share their personal challenges to making ends meet in the state, and give ideas on how to help New Mexico elders meet their basic needs. Forums will take place in Albuquerque , Farmington , and Gallup

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State Partner Spotlight: New Mexico

Frozen berries are the “king” of antioxidants and provide a thick & creamy texture to this nutrient-rich smoothie. By blending fruit in their whole form, you get more fiber. Makes 2 cups 1 cup Skim Plus milk 1 cup Dole frozen mixed berries ¼ cup low-fat Edy’s vanilla-chocolate swirl frozen yogurt 1 small ripe banana, sliced Using an immersion blender: Place ingredients in 16-ounce mixing beaker

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Recipe Corner: Very Berry Antioxidant Smoothie

Enjoy smoothies as a nutritious breakfast or as an indulgent dessert. Protein and monounsaturated fat from the peanut butter, potassium from the banana, and protein and calcium from the yogurt will give you a BIG energy boost! Makes 2 cups ½ cup Skim Plus milk 2 tablespoons Hershey’s Lite chocolate syrup 2 tablespoons creamy Smart Balance peanut butter 1 small frozen sliced ripe banana (peel & slice bananas;freeze in zip-top bags) 1 (6-ounce) carton Dannon Light ‘n Fit vanilla nonfat yogurt Using an immersion blender: Place ingredients in 16-ounce mixing beaker.

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Recipe Corner: Chocolate Peanut Butter Heaven Smoothie

It’s widely known that one of my life’s biggest irritants, right after polka music, is bad MLS photos. The ones that make me craziest, because they are so avoidable, are the “agent in the mirror” photos

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More on do-it-yourself listing photography. It reflects poorly.

Over the past decade, the number of system security threats have soared. As IT professionals scramble to stay abreast of the latest challenges in securing their environments, they must navigate an increasingly complicated playing field

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Top 10 Security Threats Every IT Pro Should Know

As a small business owner, the last thing you want is for your place of business to be called “scary” or “freaky,” as the wrong location can drive customers away. You’d want your target and existing customers to feel comfortable in your place of business and even come back repeatedly.

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Importance of Choosing the Right Location for Your Small Business

Small businesses are not fully leveraging available online tools for marketing and growing their businesses, according to a survey conducted by Citibank. Citibank surveyed 552 small businesses across the U.S. in March, and they found that: 37% haven’t used a website for marketing their businesses 84% haven’t used ecommerce to sell or market their products 62% are not

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Study Finds that Small Businesses Not Leveraging Online Presence

News wires recently reported that famous romance novelist Danielle Steele was a victim of embezzlement by her own staff . Here are some things you need to do to protect your business and ensure that your accountant is not dipping his/her fingers into your bank account

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Hiring An Accountant: How to Protect Your Business From Embezzlement

To reach your target audience on the Web, you need is to ensure that your website is optimized for the search engines. Search engines are a free source of targeted quality traffic, and understanding how they work should be a top priority for any marketer with a Web presence. You can spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on advertising, but the search engines can give your site massive amounts of traffic for free.

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The Importance of Optimizing Your Website for the Search Engines

The estate tax, also called inheritance tax or death tax, is a costly burden for small family-owned businesses. It is a tax that will not only affect children of the moneyed elite, but those who run successful businesses. Learn how estate taxes can potentially affect you.

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How the Estate Tax Will Affect Your Small Business

The Kansas City Council is expected today to make official some significant cuts in city funding for a variety of health care providers.

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KC Council expected to make cuts in funding to health care providers

As part of National Nurses Week, the family says they share a passion for the health care profession.

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Health care profession all in the family for an area couple and their daughter

A health care finance bill that trims Minnesota’s current budget deficit by as much as $114 million, preserves MinnesotaCare, and covers more of the state’s uninsured gained Senate approval Wednesday night despite the threat of a governor’s veto.

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Senate approves health care finance bill despite governor’s veto threat

Wow I am nowhere near as regular a blogger as I used to be! Friday after work Christin and I hopped in my poor (now fixed) little car and drove down to Kingston where we stayed with her parents for the weekend (thanks for the bed Mom & Dad!).  Saturday I was up early (for me!) and even shocked Christin’s Dad by being up, showered and dressed before he was!  I had to head into town to help Ann

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Helping Friends, Borders and Dragons Oh My!