A Monday evening fire at Cargill's beef packing plant in Dodge City caused a temporary shutdown of operations. The plant is expected to resume operations in full on Monday. USDA says there were 445 million pounds of beef in cold storage ...
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When the people from the drug company came out to visit Tyler Karney at Ordway Feedyard here on Colorado’s eastern plains, he was a little skeptical. They said their product, Zilmax, could put another 30 pounds on an animal in the ...
Federal court records show that the Oct. 8 bankruptcy filing by the nation's largest organic peanut butter processor was sparked by Issaquah, WA-based Costco, a membership-based warehouse club, when it unilaterally terminated a deal it had ...
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Placing five acupuncture needles in the outer ear may help people lose that spare tire, researchers report. Ear acupuncture therapy is based on the theory that the outer ear represents all parts of the body. One type uses one needle ...
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Consumers whose individual health insurance policies have been cancelled for failing to meet the minimum requirements of the Affordable Care Act may now apply for a "hardship exemption," Obama administration officials announced late ...
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The Commercial Court of Lyon in southeast France has accepted a joint takeover offer for the struggling petrochemicals firm Kem One, by Alain de Krassny and Opengate Capital, the company said in a statement late Friday. Kem One, a vinyl ...
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Preliminary research shows that gene therapy might one day be a powerful weapon against leukemia and other blood cancers. The experimental treatment coaxed certain blood cells into targeting and destroying cancer cells, according to ...
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The health insurance industry announced Wednesday that the payment deadline for those who buy health insurance through state and federal exchanges under the final provision of the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, has been ...
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Many older Americans take the blood thinner warfarin to help guard against heart trouble. However, a new study suggests use of the drug is tied to a temporary spike in the risk of stroke for people with a common heart rhythm disorder. ...
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The Danish Energy Agency (DEA) has approved a temporary production solution at the Siri platform. According to DONG Energy which is the operator of the Siri Fairway fields, this means that production at the Nini, Nini East and Cecilie ...
North Carolina is famous for its high-tech Research Triangle, but lately it seems that state government IT projects are bound for IT's equivalent of the Bermuda Triangle. As you may remember from an earlier Risk Factor story on state ...
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After six months of steadily increasing demand for design services, the Architecture Billings Index (ABI) paused in November. As a leading economic indicator of construction activity, the ABI reflects the approximate nine to twelve month ...
Bergen Industries, Inc., 40 year manufacturer of Temp Lighting, Tube Guards & most recently Cord Sets has announced the appointment of Porter Sales, Little Rock, AR as its representative for Arkansas, Western Tennessee and Northern ...
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US retailer Macy's is to invest US$170m in a new direct-to-consumer distribution centre in Tulsa County, Oklahoma, to support omni-channel growth. The company, which operates around 840 department stores across 45 states, said the ...
Welcome to Sakthi Roofing Completing a building that's made to last for decades at a stretch entails investing in constructing stable and secured roofs. Our industry has bloomed massively, and roofing has emerged as a specialized offshoot ...
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