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	<title>Connect Business Magazine &#187; mankato</title>
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	<description>Since 1994: The Magazine for Growing Businesses in Southern Minnesota</description>
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		<title>So. Minn. Skydiving, So. Minn. Surgical, The Picker-Uppers</title>
		<link>http://connectbiz.com/2010/09/so-minn-skydiving-so-minn-surgical-the-picker-uppers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 14:00:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Vance</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Southern Minnesota Skydiving opened for business at Le Sueur Municipal Airport on May 15, 2010.
Dr. William Lee of Blue Earth began seeing potential in developing a niche market in southern Minnesota: Lap-Band surgery for weight loss.
The Picker-Uppers owner, Justin Keech, learned a lot from his mother, Sue Rothmeier, a New Ulm RE/MAX real estate broker.]]></description>
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		<title>Curt Fisher</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 14:00:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Vance</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Forget nine, Curt Fisher has nine hundred lives.

He has badly wrecked a BSA motorcycle, lost altitude and crashed a power parachute onto a Blue Earth County park pavilion, navigated the dangerously rocky Blue Earth River perhaps hundreds of times on a jet ski, sailed across the rough Atlantic Ocean in a sailboat, and barely survived his antique steam engine flipping over before a North Mankato parade. And we’re just getting started.]]></description>
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		<title>Norsoft</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 14:00:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Vance</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This could be Greater Mankato’s most breathtaking and peaceful panorama of the Minnesota River Valley. Soothing classical music from Bach and Beethoven to Berlioz on KGAC-FM glides around workstations and faintly filters through hallways. Twelve employees—and the only sounds they create are whispers and feather-light keystrokes.

Shhh.]]></description>
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		<title>Jennifer Pfeffer</title>
		<link>http://connectbiz.com/2010/07/jennifer-pfeffer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jul 2010 14:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Vance</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our present-day world seems to have more change than a Vegas casino. President Obama and Rep. Pelosi press for paradigm-shifting change, Eyjafjallakökull coughs up clouds of it, Detroit’s mayor agonizes over change, nuclear Ahmadinejad desires more, Osama bin Laden fights for it, globalization causes it, Wall Street experiences chaos in it, and Apple enables it.]]></description>
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		<title>Renew Skin &amp; Laser Center, Jessica Barnett Chiropractic, The Friendly Confines Cheese Shoppe</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 May 2010 14:00:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Vance</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fairmont: Renew Skin &#038; Laser Center - “I’m from Michigan, and we moved here in 1990, when (my husband) Cory and I moved here for his orthopedic practice,” said 49-year-old Rene Welchlin in a telephone interview.

Mankato: Jessica Barnett Chiropractic &#038; Acupuncture Clinic - “I was born and raised in Mankato, and went to Loyola High School,” said 29-year-old Jessica Barnett in a Connect Business Magazine telephone interview.

Le Sueur: The Friendly Confines Cheese Shoppe - Kirk Litynski grew up in St. Peter as a classmate of Jon Davis, part of the Davis family owning Davisco Foods International. This last August, Davis hired his long-time friend to launch and manage The Friendly Confines Cheese Shoppe at 719 North Main]]></description>
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		<title>Brad Buscher</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 May 2010 14:00:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Vance</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[54-year-old Buscher nurtures and cherishes businesses. In fact, a person could call him a “business connoisseur.” He searches the world over for just the right companies to pluck from the vine—a weighty 28 at last count, including several that have pressed out new industries and been positioned for exponential growth.]]></description>
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