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WARRICK COUNTY, Ind. — The North Warrick Industrial Park will get its first official tenant this morning, when North American Lighting breaks ground on a new $16 million facility at 10 a.m. The new plant will create around 40 jobs and could begin production in January.

North American Lighting is the largest nonaffiliated supplier of automobile lighting in North America, and is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Koito Manufacturing Co., Ltd., of Japan. Spokesman Kirk Welter confirmed the company was building a tool shop, but wanted to keep some of the other details private until the groundbreaking.

“Our president really wants to keep it until the announcement (today),” said Welter. “

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Is compound interest preventing you from paying down your credit card debt?

Would a card with a super long 0% intro APR period on both purchases and balance transfers get your attention?

I’m sure it would because zero APR credit cards is a great way to pay down the balance by simply transferring it from your high interest card to a new 0 percent interest card.

But you want to make sure that you pay off the balance before the introductory rate ends. Many of the offers you’ll see range from 3 to 6 months which may not be enough time.

So let’s review some of the top credit cards offering a 0% introductory rate:

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This card offers the best of both worlds because you have a zero percent APR on both transfers and purchases for 15 months. Even

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North Bridge Venture Partners announced Wednesday the results of its Future of Cloud Computing Survey at GigaOM Structure Conference in San Francisco. The survey was conducted in partnership with GigaOM Pro and The 451 Group and supported by more than 30 industry collaborators. It captures current perceptions and future expectations of cloud computing from industry experts, users and vendors of cloud software, support and services.

A total of 413 respondents participated in the survey, including representatives from both vendor and end user communities.

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Is compound interest preventing you from paying down your credit card debt? 

Would a card with a super-long 0% intro APR period on both purchases and balance transfers get your attention?

I’m sure it would because zero APR credit cards is a great way to pay down the balance by simply transferring it from your high interest card to a new 0 percent interest card.

But you want to make sure that you pay off the balance before the introductory rate ends. Many of the offers you’ll see range from 3 to 6 months which may not be enough time.

So let’s review some of the top credit cards in the market right now offering a 0% introductory rate:

Discover More Card

This card offers the best of both worlds because you have a zero percent APR on both transfers and purchases for 15 months. Even i

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EVANSVILLE — Richard Deer, an engineer, entrepreneur and University of Evansville alumnus, has been named director of UE’s new Center for Innovation Engineering.

The program is part of UE’s College of Engineering and Computer Science, and university of officials say it aims to instill an entrepreneurial mindset in engineering students.

Deer has founded and operated a number of small businesses over the past 25 years. He most recently led a group of technology infrastructure companies in the Southwest, according to UE.

He has collaborated in product design and development with partners in Qatar, Czech Republic, India, and South Korea as well as the United States.

“I look forward to adding value gained from my experience in a number of private ventures to an already robust and feature-rich educational experience here at UE,” Deer said.

Deer graduated from UE in 2001 with a bachelor’s degree in Engineering Management. I

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Search giants Google, Bing and Yahoo announced Wednesday a new joint initiative schema.org to create and support a common vocabulary for structured data on web pages. The new site will be a valuable resource for site owners and developers looking to learn more about structured data and improve how their sites appear in major search engines. Schema.org will assist webmasters who are looking to add markup to their pages.

For years search engines have been working separately to support structured markup. Google introduced rich snippets to its search in 2009 to help people find better summaries of reviews and people, and since that time expanded to new kinds of rich snippets.

Schema.org will include all existing types of rich snippets together with schemas for 100 new categories including movies, music, organizations, TV shows, products, places that webmaster can use to markup their pages and improve the way they appear in search results.

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As a parent or a child, all of us have been the “lead architect” on a massive LEGO project. When tearing open a box of LEGO’s, children throw pieces everywhere, ignore the directions and immediately try to match the structure on the box. Soon after, they get frustrated; yell for mom or dad who organize the pieces and go through the instructions piece by piece.

If you’ve built LEGO’s, you know they package the pieces separately to be combined for a final product. This is very similar to how some real estate professionals are conducting their real estate transactions. They use various services and tools on different platforms to complete the transaction.

Electronic signatures allow businesses to complete transactions online in a secure and efficient manner. They redu

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Consumer behavior & attitudes towards “Social Commerce” is examined in this report on popularity of “Group-Buying” Sites & “Location-Based” Apps-

Shoppers are willing to interact with retailers through a variety of social networks and retailers have limitless opportunities to capitalize on the momentum, according to the 2011 Social Commerce Study. The report, which evaluates shopping directly influenced by social media, polled 1787 adult online shoppers in April 2011.

“As these sites gain momentum and spread to more cities around the country, retailers have an opportunity to experiment not only with established sites but also group-buy promotions on their own Facebook pages and websites.”

According to the survey, 42 percent of online consumers have “followed” a retailer proactively through Facebook, Twitter or a retailer’s blog, and the average person follows about six retailers. While shoppers’ reaso

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The American dream is the goal of many immigrants from all over the world, and one way to achieve this is by using the diversity lottery operated by the US State Department. There are other ways to get a lawful permanent residency card, but the costs and waiting times with these other methods can be prohibitive. The diversity lottery allows for fifty thousand greencards to be given out each year, and these are intended for immigrants coming to the United States from countries that have been determined to be eligible. Since there is no charge to enter the lottery or be chosen this can be a great opportunity for immigrants who come from eligible countries. Read more…