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Paula to Get Own Museum
It looks like a museum dedicated to the Queen of Butter is in the works. A Paula Deen museum focusing on the accomplishments of the Food Network star has been in the planning stages for two years now and is expected to be housed in Albany, Georgia, the cook's childhood home. The Albany Herald, who spoke with Deen, reported that B.J. Fletcher, an Albany businesswoman is behind the effort ...
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More Idaho wheat sold for feed exports to Mexico drop
SEAN ELLIS Capital PressBOISE -- After increasing significantly in 2012, Idaho wheat exports to Mexico dropped considerably during the first quarter of 2013. The drop was caused by very high corn prices last year that resulted in a lot of Idaho wheat being sent through feed channels, according to industry experts. "Because of the price of corn, we had millions of bushels of wheat go to ...
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US tornado death toll revised as Obama declares major disaster
Rescue workers help free one of 15 people trapped in a medical building at the Moore hospital complex after a tornado tore through the area of Moore, Oklahoma. ...
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Oklahoma tornado latest Obama pledges support for as long as it takes to rebuild the suburb of Moore
President Barack Obama has said that authorities will work "as long as it takes" to deal with the devastation delivered by the massive hurricane that hit a heavily populated suburb of Oklahoma ...
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Canadian singer who botched Star-Spangled Banner stunned by the speed at which she became famous
After botching ';The Star-Spangled Banner'; in epic fashion at the Memorial Cup, Alexis Normand – like thousands of other people – sat down to watch the replay. Once was ...
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Carneys parting advice play to Canadas strengths
Bank of Canada governor Mark Carney is leaving Canada with some parting advice -- seize the country's natural advantages. The central banker said Tuesday in his last scheduled public appearance before departing for the Bank of England next month that Canada can coast and wait out the decade-long damage-repair process in the rest of the G7 economies, or build on its strengths for the ...
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2 climbers rescued off Yukon mountain after 5 days
Two climbers were rescued off Mount Eaton this weekend in Kluane National Park in Yukon. The climbers called in for help on Wednesday after being trapped on their descent due to poor weather and dangerous conditions. The weather also hampered the rescue attempts. Anne Morin, a superintendent with Parks Canada, said the climbers were in a remote part of the St. Elias mountain range. "They ...
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Tornados destruction like a lawnmower blade
>Are you experiencing severe weather in your area? Send photos and videos to CNN iReport. But please remember to stay safe. For local coverage of Monday's devastating storms in Oklahoma, go to these CNN affiliates: KFOR, KOCO and KOKH. Moore, Oklahoma (CNN) -- Amid downed power lines, hissing gas pipes and immense devastation, rescuers searched "board by board" Tuesday for survivors and ...
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Family not giving up finding Toronto-area man a Canadian Forces reservist in snowy mountains of Australia
OTTAWA -- Family members have joined a frantic search for a Canadian man with survival training who has been missing for more than a week in Australia's Gold Coast region. Prabhdeep Srawn of Brampton, Ont., hasn't been heard from since parking his rental car on May 13 in the village of Charlotte Pass in Kosciuszko National Park. The 25-year-old has been a law student at Bond ...
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Former Musical Ride Mountie sues RCMP alleging she was sexually assaulted dragged through feces
OTTAWA -- A Mountie who was once part of the famed Musical Ride is suing the national police force, alleging she was sexually assaulted, harassed, repeatedly doused in cold water and dragged through horse feces by colleagues. In a statement of claim filed in Ontario Superior Court, Staff Sgt. Caroline O'Farrell says the cruel behaviour she suffered in the 1980s left her with post-traumatic ...
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Council formally kills possibility of a Toronto casino
City council has formally killed the possibility of a new casino in Toronto. The vote comes just days after Mayor Rob Ford declared the casino proposal ';essentially dead,'; an announcement that presaged Paul Godfrey’s ouster as chairman of the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation, which has been pushing for a new gaming facility in the city. While council has been divided on ...
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U.S. Tracked Foreigners Leaving for Canada
WASHINGTON -- Hundreds of thousands of foreigners passing into Canada from the United States have unwittingly been a part of a grand experiment by the Department of Homeland Security to crack down on visitors who violate laws governing the length of their ...
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How America became a third world country | Mattea Kramer and Jo Comerford for TomDispatch
The streets are so much darker now since money for streetlights is rarely available to municipal governments. The national parks began closing down years ago. Some are already being subdivided and sold to the highest bidder. Reports on bridges crumbling or even collapsing are commonplace. The air in city after city hangs brown and heavy (and rates of childhood asthma and other lung diseases have ...
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America 10 Years After Sequestration
website. The streets are so much darker now, since money for streetlights is rarely available to municipal governments. The national parks began closing down years ago. Some are already being subdivided and sold to the highest bidder. Reports on bridges crumbling or even collapsing are commonplace. The air in city after city hangs brown and heavy (and rates of childhood asthma and other lung ...
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Obama could give these striking low-wage workers the raise they need
The latest round of low-wage workers to stage a one-day strike don't work for Walmart or McDonald's. They work for the federal government, kind of--for federal contractors in landmark Washington, DC, buildings like Union Station and the Smithsonian museums. A recent report from the think tank Demos found that there ...
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Obama Offers Support to Okla. Victims
President Obama gives a press conference from Washington, D.C. on May 21, 2013 about the deadly tornado in Moore, Oklahoma that struck on May 20, ...
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US lawmakers seek Asia missile defense safeguard
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Lawmakers are seeking to prohibit the U.S. from removing missile defense equipment from East Asia, even if the threat posed by a nuclear-armed North Korea is ...
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Obama to Tornado Victims You Will Not Travel That Path Alone
U.S. President Barack Obama speaks next to Vice President Joe Biden (L) about the devastating tornadoes and severe weather impacting Oklahoma, at the White House in Washington, May 21, ...
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Staff kept tax scandal from Obama
Controversy continued to swirl around the White House yesterday with developments on two fronts. It was revealed that the White House chief of staff and other senior advisers knew in late April that a report was likely to find that employees of the United States tax agency had inappropriately targeted conservative political groups. But the White House said the advisers did not tell Barack Obama, ...
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IRS AP and Benghazi Show the Failure of Obamas Big Government
The leadership failures and bureaucratic dysfunction exposed by the Internal Revenue Service scandal should be a wake up call to anybody who believes bigger government can solve this nation's ...
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Bank of Canadas Carney says Europe needs big reforms
Reuters © Bank of Canada Governor Mark Carney (L) speaks to the President of the European Central Bank Mario Draghi as they pose for a group photograph at the G7 Finance Ministers meeting in Aylesbury, southern England May 10, 2013. REUTERS/Alastair ...
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How America Became a Third World Country
latest updates from TomDispatch.com . The streets are so much darker now, since money for streetlights is rarely available to municipal governments. The national parks began closing down years ago. Some are already being subdivided and sold to the highest bidder. Reports on bridges crumbling or even collapsing are commonplace. The air in city after city hangs brown and heavy (and rates of ...
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Canada’s financial community facing changing of the guard
Streetwise gives you the full scoop on business deals and Canada's finance and capital market sectors. Through daily updates, our dedicated team of award-winning Globe and Mail journalists set the agenda and ensure you get exclusive and must-have business intelligence and analysis every day. The most informed Globe and Mail readers access Streetwise every day. Why don't ...
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Ronald McDonald House Charities named RBC Canadian Open charitable partner
RBC and Golf Canada have announced that Ronald McDonald House Charities Canada has been selected as the charity partner for this year's RBC Canadian Open.RMHC Canada staff and volunteers provide more than 10,000 families of seriously ill or injured children each year with the essentials of running a home - everything from education to home-cooked meals - while their child is being treated ...
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E-book sales plateauing BookNet Canada report
Kobo and Kindle have grown to become familiar brands in Canada but e-book sales now appear to plateauing, suggests a report by the industry organization BookNet Canada.Based on surveys with 4,000 book-buying consumers, BookNet Canada pegged paperback sales in 2012 at about 58 per cent of the market, while hardcovers accounted for 24 per cent and e-book sales made up 15 per ...
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North America's unknown potential disaster
North America is facing a potential ecological disaster that most people are not even aware of, according to scientists who have been studying the little brown bat (or myotis bat), the most common species of bat in the United States and the wider North American continent.
This is because the bat is under attack by a killer fungus that grows on the bats’ wings during hibernation and causes them to lose body fat and wake early from their sleep, which causes them to eventually die. The fungal infection is said by researchers to be capable of killing off the bat within the next 16 years when their current population, which numbers up to several million, may fall to just 0.01% of present levels. Read more
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