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Ludus Tours, a travel and hospitality company that focuses on premiere global sporting and cultural events and the official tour operator for USRowing, announced today that hospitality packages are still available for the Henley Royal Regatta.

The Kroger Co. (NYSE: KR), the nation’s largest traditional grocery retailer with 16 locations throughout the Triangle, has announced that the Raleigh store located at 350 East Six Forks Road sold a winning lottery ticket worth $250,000 in the Mega Millions drawing on Friday, March 30. Only four tickets in North Carolina matched all five white balls to earn the quarter-million dollar prize. In addition to Raleigh, winning tickets were sold in Broadway, Jacksonville and Wendell. Smaller awards in the state will also be given to the owners of 369,594 tickets totaling $3 million in prizes.

Trickett Honda is a proud sponsor of Safe Place for Animals’ annual Dog Daze of Hendersonville event happening Saturday, April 14th at the Streets of Indian Lakes. Join us for a special day of food and fun and help support our local animals.

Ranked as the nation’s leading manufacturing journalist and a contributing editor for hundreds of publications annually, Thomas R. Cutler, has been writing extensively about manufacturing and industry for more than twenty years. Cutler is a member of the Society of Professional Journalists, Online News Association, American Society of Business Publication Editors, and Committee of Concerned Journalists, as well as author of more than five hundred feature articles annually regarding the manufacturing, industrial, and distribution sectors.

Brown Daub Chrysler Jeep Dodge Pre-Owned is pleased to announce the addition of several social networking features to enhance customer interaction with their Lehigh Valley dealership. New tools include a Google+ Business Page as well as the Brown Daub Pre-Owned Blog, with all the latest automotive and Chrysler, Jeep, Dodge news.

Metrolist announced that Kirby Slunaker has been appointed as President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) effective March 13, 2012.

There will be special awards for engineer-to-order firms launched in late April. Unlike repetitive manufacturers, who sent manufacturing offshore, engineer-to-order (ETO) firms have a unique process and the work requires constant change, insight, and adaptability. Thomas R. Cutler has been the champion of the ETO process, having educated many by authoring more than 500 feature articles on this topic alone since 2000.

Riding on the back of robust demand from the emerging market, the healthcare sector in Saudi Arabia has been witnessing a healthy growth in comparison to the global health industry. According to a new research report by RNCOS, the country is emerging as one of the largest healthcare market in the GCC region that possesses a huge potential for further expansion due to rising healthcare needs. The government and health regulatory authorities in the country has been taking keen interest in the developing and enhancing healthcare infrastructure for increased accessibility. As per our latest research report, the healthcare sector in the Kingdom is anticipated to expand at a CAGR of around 7% during 2012-2015 on the back of factors, such as rising population, prevalence of lifestyle and infectious diseases, and longer life expectancy.

With improving financial stability and emergence of new industrial sectors, the healthcare market in UAE is projected to reach US$ 14.6 Billion by the end of 2014, growing at a CAGR of around 16%, acknowledged RNCOS.

TheeDesign is a web design agency in Raleigh and today are celebrating the launch of a recent web design project for the local party planner, Jennifer V.

People who know ephedrine love it or hate it: since the FDA ban, ephedrine has been presented as a natural blessing or as a curse by the mainstream media. Recent bills which further restrict the sale of ephedrine drew the attention of doctors who created a dedicated website, EphedrineWhereToBuy.com.

Scott Tucker's Level 5 Motorsports Team have launched a Development Team which is lending promising young motorsports champions of tomorrow a helping hand on their way to the top. The Development Team is lending promising young racers the opportunity to develop their skills by lending both racing advice and much needed sponsorship funds. An integral part of the Development Team's focus is maintaining a healthy balance between racing, education and maintaining a positive attitude.

HARP 2.0 mortgage applications have spiked this week. If you're planning to take advantage of the government's new program for underwater homeowners, act fast. As applications increase, mortgage rates are expected to follow suit.

Champion, a global leader in performance lubricants, announced this week a one-year free subscription of Street Rodder Magazine to end-users with the purchase of a 12-pack/quart case of their Classic & Muscle Oil.

April is Oral Cancer Awareness Month, and about 40,000 people in the United States are diagnosed with this form of cancer every year. One person dies from this affliction every hour of every day. The outlook doesn’t have to be bleak, though.

Then Magento Go is the best option for you to start your e-commerce business in a most economical way. Magento is the most popular e-commerce platform trusted by the leading brands all over the world. Now, Magento has surprised the e-commerce community with a new hosted version of their platform this year and it is called “Magento GO”.

According to manufacturing journalist TR Cutler, in the current issue of AutomationMedia.com, “Large upfront fees have stopped many manufacturers from implementing an enterprise-wide OEE or utilization machine tracking solution. With no large upfront fees, and a pay as you go low monthly payments more manufacturing firms would TRY this technology.”

Travelpro, Atlantic Luggage, and Austin House are pleased to announce their 2012 Gift Guide for Moms who Love to Travel.

In today's competitive world of business over the internet, every online business website needs latest web technology solutions with best web application development. But there are intense competitors when it comes to developing an eye-catching website and making it function effectively or perform fast and easy multi-tasking. Irrespective of the size of a business, content management has become one of the most important aspects of business operations today. Finding the right information is difficult. Information is not well leveraged among business partners leading to undesired results, lesser efficiency and time delays. Big corporations with flexible budget can leverage upon this challenge. The SMEs on the other hand recognize the value of an efficient CMS but often times are constrained by a limited budget to develop one for their business.

Eco Electric, owned by Chris Dodson, a Las Vegas electrical contractor, is currently installing electrical upgrades in many homes and businesses in the Las Vegas area. Mr. Dodson says that this is partly due to the fact that many homeowners are opting to remodel their existing homes, rather than purchase new ones. Also, this Las Vegas electrical contractor says that as buildings and homes do enter the real estate market, they often must be upgraded to pass code. For this reason, electricians in Las Vegas are often called upon to provide crucial services to property owners.

Log exports from Russia have plummeted the past five years mainly because of the country’s implementation of a log export tariff of 25% in 2008, as reported in the Wood Resource Quarterly (www.woodprices.com). Despite having suffered a sharp decline in global market share, Russia is still the largest exporter of softwood logs in the world.

Users have now possibility not only to search for information and get in touch with event organizers and other business bodies but they can also use a platform to finalize their transactions.

The usage of Smartphones and tablets is now not restricted to the basic functionalities which is only useful to the end consumers. Many organizations have started deploying their software solutions on the leading Smartphone and tablets with user friendly applications. For every business there are two crucial aspects which affect revenue the most, one being the effective and efficient employee force and other being the long lasting customer relationship. With the help of enterprise mobile app development, one can manage both the crucial aspects with a great ease due to its mobility feature.

Seegrid’s director of sales and marketing David Noble said the market is demanding robotic trucks and autonomous vehicles, and the unmanned or unmanned GT10 vehicle responds to that demand with flexibility and an affordable price. The unmanned GT10 Tow Tractor automates the movement of flatbed cars, trains or carts with vision-guided robotic technology by Seegrid. Material Handling and Logistics recently profiled the new Seegrid GT10, a vision-guided robotic automated Tow Tractor.

A team of researchers recently discovered what some are calling the largest emerald in the world. Aptly named the “Cleopatra Emerald,” its weight is 40175 carts (cts) and shares a similar if not the same species as the famous Mogul emerald (217.80 cts), which Christie’s sold for $2.2 million.