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04.07.2008 05:01
Sales at Milwaukee-area coffee houses continue to percolate as java jackets slip onto more cups, and household coffee pots are filled with more locally sold brew. Sales at some locally owned shops have risen from 0.2% to 10% for the first half of 2008 compared with the first half of 2007.
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03.07.2008 04:00
There's something less than ideal about the way new Canadian homes are insulated, and drywallers see it more clearly than most.
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16.04.2008
Good marriages change people, and some of my own post-nuptial recalibration involved vacuum cleaners. My wife was raised in a central-vacuum household. I came from a strictly hand-pushed, upright-vac tradition. "Central vacs are overkill", I used to preach. "Nobody needs to get that fancy.
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09.04.2008
Q: Do I need to do something about the metal rod holes in my poured concrete basement walls? The house was built 20 years ago, and a contractor who specializes in removing the metal and patching the cavities has fixed the rod holes below the existing insulation along the top of the wall.
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09.04.2008
Mequon - Mark Metcalf, a Bayside resident who won fame in the movie "Animal House" and has continued to act locally, has sold his interest in the Libby Montana restaurant to his former wife, Linda Wick.
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09.04.2008
The beer that made Milwaukee famous hopes to stage a comeback by returning to a brewing formula discarded over 30 years ago. Schlitz had been available only in cans for several years until the brand's owner, Pabst Brewing Co., began selling it in bottles last year in Minneapolis and Tampa, Fla.
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04.04.2008
Three new craft beer spinoffs from Miller Lite will be launched nationwide as Miller Brewing Co. continues to exploit a growing consumer preference for craft beers.
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04.04.2008
Q: Does it make sense for me to replace my furnace? The one I have now is 21 years old and rated to operate at 85% efficiency. I'm receiving subtle pressure from the furnace maintenance folks to replace the old furnace with a higher efficiency model that's supposed to achieve 92% to 96% efficiency.
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27.03.2008
In my bedroom there lives a haunted dresser. It's a tall old 'highboy' built in the 1940s and it belonged to my Dad for over 50 years. In the night it speaks in volleys of ten pops and creaks per 3-second phrase.
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27.03.2008
John Gale can drive a tractor, teach martial arts, quote the price of petunia seeds, and once spent two days photographing a hamburger, piled high with tomatoes. Gale is the CEO of Stokes Seeds, the largest seller of garden and flower seeds in Canada.
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27.03.2008
Fifteen years ago I made a homebuilding decision that has saved my wife and I the equivalent of more than 200 round trips up and down the CN Tower staircase on foot.
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26.03.2008
Q:Should I install sheets of drywall vertically or horizontally in my basement? The ceiling height is just a little bit lower than 8 feet. A:Every professional drywaller I've seen typically installs sheets of drywall horizontally, not vertically.
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