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— The Coastal Bend Branch of the U.S. Green Building Council-Texas Gulf Coast Chapter has moved into Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi’s Coastal Bend Business Innovation Center.

The council has 80 chapters nationwide that promote the design, construction and operation of sustainable homes, schools, buildings and neighborhoods.

Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi is donating the space to the council. The space features audio-visual technology, meeting areas and a small office for volunteers and chapter staff.

The council’s office is on the second floor of the innovation center, 10201 S. Padre Island Drive in Flour Bluff.

FALL RIVER – Developers ceremonially broke ground Wednesday on a $55 million shopping center on the site of the former Quaker Manufacturing plant on Brayton Avenue in Fall River.

Developers First Bristol Corp. and Marshall Properties Inc. said the region’s first Walmart supercenter would anchor the complex also expected to include shops, a restaurant and a gas station.

The developers have coined the 330,000-square-foot complex Crossroads at 24 because it is located near the intersection of Route 24 and Interstate 195.

“We clearly recognized the importance of this location as one of the most dynamic retail locations in the South Coast, at the intersection of two major regional highways,” First Bristol Corp. President James Karam said. “We’re eager to get to work and deliver a destination center that creates jobs, adds value and becomes a true focal point for the city of Fall River.”

First Bristol and Marshall said they expect the project to create 200 construction jobs and, once open, 600 full and part-time jobs.

Construction is set to begin Aug. 1 and the fir

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Making money on the internet is hard. Not hard in the same way that moving a ton of clay bricks by hand is hard, but definitely more difficult than spending money online. Luckily though the skills necessary to generate revenue from page views and clicks are something that can be taught. Marc Ostrofoskys book does just that.

If you read Get Rich Click! from cover to cover you will understand the tricks and techniques that todays internet entrepreneurs use to make money. Unfortunately, knowledge alone is not enough, and it will only get you so far before your need for a a great idea and even better execution will become readily apparent. I assume that most people wont read the 240-something page book cover to cover and will instead flip and back and forth between sections that interest them.

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Passive aggressive behavior is defined as a personality trait or behavior wherein a person fails to address negative feelings of anger and frustration in a direct manner, and therefore creates a negative and passive attitude so that the anger and aggression is displayed in an indirect manner! A survey done by Booz, Allen & Hamilton reveals that more than 30% of the working population including managers, executives and other employees admitted that they work in an unhealthy passive aggressive environments at work. An organization needs to have active and energetic employees that participate and co-ordinate in effective teamwork to achieve the organizational objectives and goals. Read more…

PROVIDENCE – Rhode Island has drawn only $1.2 million of its $75 million Race to the Top money one year after the grant was announced, but the state Department of Education says it is on track to spend the entire four-year grant.

A Government Accountability Office report revealed that of the 10 states awarded Race to the Top money – a federal program designed to spur reforms in state and local district K-12 education – in the grant’s second round, only four have drawn more than 10 percent of their grant money.

As of June 3, when the report was released, Rhode Island had drawn $1,009,411, only 4 percent of the $24,812,514 estimated in its Year 1 budget.

Four states — New York, Maryland, Hawaii and Georgia — had drawn a smaller percentage of their Year 1 budgets by June 3, according to the report.

While the second round of Race to the Top announced awards for Rhode Island and nine other states Aug. 24, 2

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