The directors of the once-renowned swivel chair company, Daneway, are introducing The Easy Chair Co. at the forthcoming Interiors show in Hall 2 Stand A9 with a complete range of leather swivel chairs. With production in Europe, there is a ...
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This spring, about 16,500 wheat and barley growers in 17 states will receive a questionnaire on Fusarium head blight (scab) from the National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS). The survey is for improving the understanding of how ...
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By Bruce Cochrane The chair of Manitoba Pork Council says the organization's trade advocacy missions to the U.S. have been highly successful in building awareness of issues of mutual concern to producers on both sides of the border. ...
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The chair of the National Farm Animal Care Council's Pig Code Development Committee reports an updated Code of Practice for the care and handling of pigs in Canada has been agreed to and is now ready for final editing and translation. The ...
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Health Highlights: Jan. 13, 2014 Here are some of the latest health and medical news developments, compiled by the editors of HealthDay: Nine Womb Transplant Patients Doing Well: Swedish Researchers Nine women who received ...
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David Benjatschek, author, leadership trainer and founder of Wowtrucks, will be speaking at the Jan. 21 Driving for Profit seminar. Benjatschek has been added tao a line-up that already includes: Tom Kretsinger Jr., TCA chair and ...
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BlackBerry hired Eric Johnson as president of global sales, reporting to John Chen, executive chair and CEO. The addition will “round out BlackBerry's new executive leadership team,” said Chen. "The experience that the ...
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Craft beer fans will have even more styles to enjoy from Deschutes Brewery in the coming year, including the return of old favorites and the release of brand new experiments. In addition, new market launches scheduled throughout the year ...
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Throwing your arms up in the air, raising your head, flashing a smile: your body language when you win at sports is an instinctive reaction meant to indicate dominance over your opponent, a new study finds. These triumphal displays are ...
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To advance understanding of psoriasis—the most common autoimmune disease in the country, affecting up to 7.5 million Americans—and help scientists and clinicians improve treatments and patient outcomes, the National Psoriasis ...
This is the CES of the wearable gadget. And, while there are all sorts of technologies you can wear-after all, earbuds are wearable-the big explosion is in fitness trackers. The first wave of these small gadgets, worn on a wrist, clipped on ...
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Cilia—short, hair-like fibers—are widely present in nature. Single-celled paramecia use one set of cilia for locomotion and another set to sweep nutrients into their oral grooves. Researchers at Brown have discovered that those ...
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Flu season continues to tighten its grip on the United States, with 35 states now experiencing widespread influenza activity, federal officials reported Friday. The flu seems to be hitting young and middle-aged adults the hardest this ...
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No matter how harsh winter is, there are no snow days for Arkansas' cattle producers. A week that saw record low temperatures and freezing rain that gave even the grass a glassy, slick coating didn't give ranchers any time off. "We had ...
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The sale of seed treatments has tripled in the last decade. Why? It makes economic sense for the farmers who use them, says Jay Vroom, CropLife Foundation president and CEO. Vroom and CropLife Foundation had a press conference at the ...