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A Thanksgiving tradition?
Have a safe and happy Thanksgiving!
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Diamonds may be a girl’s best friend, but dung is running a close second, reports Pantagraph.com .
The enterprising “gem”ologists at Miller Park Zoo now are offering necklace pendants from dried reindeer droppings, joining the explosively popular ornaments that debuted last year.
“We ...
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According to a story by Mental Floss , the USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service estimates that 250 million turkeys will be raised in the US in 2009.
If recent trends continue, some 45 million turkeys will be eaten this Thanksgiving. Some of those birds will be outfitted with a ...
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Being trapped at the dinner table for Thanksgiving dinner with the relatives can be enough to drive anyone to the liquor cabinet, but there’s no need for the “Two Buck Chuck” or even a flask this year, so says Brand X.
That’s because the nation’s first 100-proof vodka-infused ...
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Science has never given much credence to claims that you can learn Chinese or French by having the instruction CDs play while you sleep, reports The New York Times .
If any learning happens that way, most scientists say, the language lesson is probably waking the sleeper up, not causing ...
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Most of us have done it at one point or another …You see something in a store that you just HAVE to have and no matter what. And no matter if you can afford it or not, and you buy it.
The consequences, and the charge to your credit card, will be dealt with later. Much later, reports ...
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Beloit Daily News :
The Elderberry Tea Room is in familiar hands. The owner of the property, Pat Mannino, is running the business with her daughter Jennifer Davenport.
“It still looks wonderful after all these years. The house is just as beautiful as it ever was. We are excited about ...
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Harmony Kaiser has a salon, but has been spending her days off driving to a lab in Beaver County and making deliveries to retailers, reports The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
Kaiser is ignoring the economic downturn and pouring her extra funds and time into launching new businesses on the ...
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Wish you had a little more money in your wallet these days?
Who doesn’t?
CNNMoney reports while the Great Recession is over by most accounts, the Great Income Squeeze lingers on.
You’re more likely to have had a pay freeze than a pay raise over the past year; and the ...
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Everything about the Hotdog Ez Bun Steamer seems easy, from the idea — a warm, steamed bun makes for a better dog — to the steamer itself, which looks like nothing more than a round, wire grate with a hole in the middle and some crude handles at the side, according to a story in ...
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TIME ’s picks for the best new gadgets and breakthrough ideas of the year, we’ll feature some of the ones we find interesting.
At 8:47 a.m. on March 12, fish history happened in Port Lincoln, Australia. A tankful of southern bluefin tuna — regal, predatory fish prized for ...
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Prior to the economic downturn, Eric Diaz was managing a department that handled futures systems for Merrill Lynch in New York, reports Reuters .
Today he’s a full-time pet groomer, riding around Hudson County, New Jersey in a tricked out Mercedes van replete with two 65-gallon ...
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I just had to share this bit of wisdom I found on the 800ceoread blog .
“If someone asks you for money in exchange for the secret to getting rich, it means the secret is to ask people like you for money.” Dan Kennedy
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The Miami Herald :
Moms, some recently downsized, are finding niches in all kinds of unique areas. I met Joan Alini, a laid-off school teacher who sells aprons packaged in pie boxes. Crazy? You may think so, but she’s found her target audience in schoolteacher friends — and ...
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Like many great mom entrepreneurs before her, Michelle Brandriss’ business began out of frustration. She was looking for a customizable kids label that would fit her specific needs and found herself unsatisfied with the options available. Instead of settling for something that ...
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Unnerved by forecasts of grim holiday sales, malls are pulling out all the stops to try and get shoppers in the door. The Los Angeles Times reports at the Beverly Center in Los Angeles, aerialists twirl 80 feet off the ground as escalator riders gawk.
The mall has bumped it’s ...
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MySpace was doomed when the social network became overrun with obnoxious ads.
On the heels of newspaper articles alerting users that their friends tweets could actually be an ad, Valleywag predicts Twitter is following in MySpace’s footsteps.
The problem, argues Valleywag, ...
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At his Doctors Express center in Towson, Md., Dr. Scott Burger has spent the last three years tending to the community’s night-time fevers and weekend hurts.
USA Today reports the former emergency room physician wants to take the center’s model nationwide, doing for urgent ...
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TIME ’s picks for the best new gadgets and breakthrough ideas of the year, we’ll feature some of the ones we find interesting.
It’s like getting your first Big Wheel all over again — and you don’t even have to pedal.
An innovative bicycle-design concept derived ...
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RidgeBlade is a wind-power system that can be fitted to buildings with minimum visual impact and maximum energy conversion potential, reports trendspotter Springwise .
This micro-generation system employs discreetly housed cylindrical turbines positioned horizontally along the apex of a ...
