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  • Belfast generating buzz with small shops Saturday, July 9, 2011 @ 11:39PMBELFAST -- Park by the waterfront in Belfast and stroll up Main Street, toward the post office.
  • Traveling Back through the Door County Advocate archives - June 4 Saturday, June 4, 2011 @ 11:01AMWith two new boats built and delivered this spring, another under construction and a fourth to be started immediately, not to mention 11 boats to fit out, the Sturgeon Bay Boat Works is experiencing a busy season that is giving employment to a large crew of men.
  • Park Activist Vows To Barf On Dolores Park Food Vendors Wednesday, April 20, 2011 @ 4:57PMAs much as we wanted the matter of food vendors in Dolores Park to be settled, like, years ago, the latest threats of anti-vendor protests from prickly parks activist Chicken John Rinaldi ought to make you sick for San Francisco. Rinaldi, who previously threatened to spit on baristas at the planned Blue Bottle coffee cart in Dolores Park, has taken his gross-out antics one step further and is ...
  • Davenport store's Swap Meet has animal attraction Monday, April 4, 2011 @ 5:47AMDAVENPORT -- Fred Darnell started with a few quail eggs a few years ago. He watched them hatch. Now, he breeds them. One reason why he prefers them to chickens is because they don't smell.
  • Summerlin's New Tech Center Brings Optimism Thursday, March 3, 2011 @ 10:57PMIt started like so many business deals, over chicken wings and beer following a round of golf. It culminated Thursday in the grand opening of a Microsoft-led technology partnership and business incubator in Summerlin, with Gov. Brian Sandoval and Las Vegas
  • Mayor Bloomberg Delivers 2011 State Of The City Address - Progress At Work Wednesday, January 19, 2011 @ 3:58PMThe following is the text of Mayor Bloomberg’s State of the City address as delivered at the St. George Theatre on Staten Island “Actually, you’ll be happy to know, the first movie to ever play here back in 1929 was called So This Is College. Wasn’t college the way I remember it, but nevertheless.
  • Complete text from Mayor Bloomberg's State of City address at St. George Theatre Wednesday, January 19, 2011 @ 1:27PMAssociated PressMayor Michael Bloomberg delivered his State of the City address this afternoon.STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- The following is the text of Mayor Bloomberg’s State of the City address as prepared for delivery at the St. George Theatre in...
  • Mayor Bloomberg's State of the City: 'Progress at Work' [Full Text] Wednesday, January 19, 2011 @ 12:38PMThe following is Mayor Bloomberg's text as prepared for delivery for today's State of the City address. As you can see, in it the mayor lays out a vision for the physical transformation of the city (one that is already largely underway,) touts his administration's efforts to grow the economy and calls for a streamlined city government that will be less onerous on small business, an initiative ...
  • Gov't puts up 5 sub-stations in Panay for gourmet Darag poultry expansion Wednesday, January 5, 2011 @ 8:04PMMANILA, Philippines - The government has put up five sub-stations in Panay Island for the production of Darag chicken which may be ''organically-grown'' in a thrust to expand the market for gourmet native food and raise cost-efficiency in Western Visayan farmers' production.The construction of the sub-stations form part of the aim to meet a production quota of 10,000 week-old chicks of Darag in ...
  • Councillor found guilty of chicken farm offences Wednesday, November 3, 2010 @ 11:52AMA SURREY Heath Conservative borough councillor has been left more than £35,000 out of pocket after he was found guilty on a slew of charges relating to his luxury chicken farm.
  • What do voters want? Jobs Thursday, October 21, 2010 @ 4:56PM***This is the last in a weekly series of Hot Topics election stories generated by reader request, leading up to Monday's vote.*** Tom Rankin has a unique suggestion to create jobs for St. Catharines residents: build a windmill plant in Port Colborne.[...]
  • PepsiCo plans to invest $250m in Vietnam Tuesday, August 17, 2010 @ 3:56AMThe Coca Cola Company has reported net operating revenues of $8.6m for the second quarter of fiscal ... PepsiCo has reported net revenue of $14.8m for the second quarter of fiscal 2010, an increase of 40% ...
  • Cott To Buy Private Label Juice Producer In New York Friday, July 9, 2010 @ 4:11AMCoca-Cola Bottling Co Consolidated has opened a new $4m facility, which will be used for both wareho ... Wingstop, a chicken wing restaurant concept, has plans to feature Freestyle, a new interactive fount ...
  • Food Fight Thursday, June 17, 2010 @ 6:59PMAn interview with author Jonathan Safran Foer about factory farms, vegetarianism, and Eating Animals . design mind on GOOD is a series exploring the power of design by the editors of design mind magazine. This is the third installment in a miniseries within that blog that will explore the theme of work-life. The work-life series will run each Thursday for the next four weeks. Shortly before ...
  • Brandl Triplets put Comfrey on map Thursday, May 27, 2010 @ 11:20PMNEW ULM - The Brandl triplets - Jean, Jane and Janice - have made headlines their whole lives. They're turning 50 years old now, and they are once again, in the spotlight. The three women own several scrapbooks that are filled with newspaper clippings and photographs from all the times they have made the news at various milestones in their lives.
  • Spray supplement tastes like a winner Sunday, May 9, 2010 @ 5:40AMJoseph Wayman's older German Shepherd, Cody, knew all the tricks to avoid taking the joint supplement pills prescribed by the family veterinarian.
  • Chukars: Bismarck's newest residents? Wednesday, March 31, 2010 @ 9:08PMIn May 2007, we saw a loose covey of five chukars outside our home in Bismarck. They visited our bird feeder at the bottom of the hill, then strolled leisurely in a loose file along the side of the hill.
  • Weare sisters go into the chicken business Wednesday, February 10, 2010 @ 3:54PMBY DAN O’BRIEN Sisters Sarah and Jane Koski have grown up raising farm animals, and now they’re taking their knowledge to the next level. Sarah, 17 and Jane, 12, have received start-up money from a program based out of the University of New Hampshire Cooperative Extension to run a poultry business out of their Weare home. They hope to sell eggs at local farmers markets by spring and have been ...
  • WEB UPDATE: On a mission Wednesday, January 20, 2010 @ 8:51AMMission trip provides Johnsons with new experiences. For a more in-depth story about this event, check out the Jan. 21st edition of the Herald-Dispatch.  
  • Chicken Soup for the Startup: Dysfunctional Leadership Quotes Sunday, January 17, 2010 @ 7:14PMIt's an unfortunate fact that great historical speeches and literature are often bastardized to justify poor management practices, leadership decisions and policies. There are at least 84 Chicken Soup for the Soul-related books on the market today and not one directed towards tech startups. As told through a series of abused "inspirational quotes", here's our effort to explain why. Sponsor "It ...
  • Rice, commodity prices seen still rising in 2010 Tuesday, December 15, 2009 @ 1:27AMFALLING production in commodities from rice to milk is bad news for just about everyone except investors. Rice may surge 63 percent to $1,038 a metric ton from $638 on Philippine imports and a shortage in India, a Bloomberg survey of importers, exporters and analysts showed.
  • 10/6 Planning Commission splits on Ranch Supply building Wednesday, October 7, 2009 @ 10:22AMCall it the showdown at J.R.'s Ranch. A battle between David and Goliath. A longtime businessman taking on City Hall.
  • Young entrepreneur gets an early look at the business world Saturday, September 5, 2009 @ 11:02PMJustin Bray sells eggs and breeds chickens from his Reidsville home
  • Hatching chicks enthrall fair crowds Saturday, September 5, 2009 @ 4:13PMHour after hour, kids and adults line up with their faces pressed against the glass. What could possibly hold their attention that long? It's the miracle of new life. It never gets old, and it will continue through Monday at the Walworth County Fair.
  • The Savvy Consumer: With wind turbines, saving money can be a breeze Friday, July 10, 2009 @ 6:37AMWhether they're running a ranch or powering a lakeside vacation home, more North Texans are looking at wind turbines to offset their electric bills.
  • A New Take on Incubators Tuesday, May 5, 2009 @ 1:00PMToday's incubators provide cutting-edge support for your startup.
  • Intensive farming breeds more than cheap food Saturday, May 2, 2009 @ 3:01PMof the swine flu virus now spreading around the globe is an otherwise unremarkable village in the eastern state of Veracruz, Mexico.
  • And after much effort, Man created swine flu Thursday, April 30, 2009 @ 10:07AMI once worked on a chicken farm. Actually “farm” is far too gentle a word for the way these chickens were raised, and “factory” sounds too clinical.