New England town struggles to preserve fishing (AP)

GLOUCESTER, Mass. – When Arthur would probably be of little Sawyer was a teenager, fishing interest to tourists ... fishing last year with restoration money of Sawyer's youth will probably set aside by natural gas companies never return to this historic, building terminals in nearby centuries-old New England port [more...]

Date: 2009-01-20 15:02:42

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GW's Last Hours: Open the California Coast to Drilling

Permalink Celebrating Inauguration 2009 Friday January 16, ... on what this historical occasion means on a personal level. Although the President-elect has made it clear ... of hope and restoration live. Restoration of the values inherent in our Constitution, in the precepts [more...]

Date: 2009-01-17 05:26:00

Group Dynamics, Team Building, and Making it Personal

The 16th Street Baptist Church which has recently completed a $3 million restoration project ... . The Masonic Temple is the 2009 PLT project site, located in the Fourth Avenue North Historic District [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 21:12:48

100 years of Phillies images

Author Mark Stang will be signing copies of his new book, “Phillies Photos: 100 Years of Philadelphia Phillies Images” from 7 to 9 p.m ... and at the Philadelphia A’s Historical Society breakfast on Oct. 26. The 208-page hardcover book (Orange Frazer ... was revealed through careful restoration. [more...]

Date: 2008-10-10 11:02:22

"Legendary artist confirmed to reopen Beacon Theatre"

"Thursday MSGE will be announcing the legendary artist that has been confirmed to reopen the Beacon Theatre in the coming weeks. The beloved New York landmark recently underwent a 7-month restoration to return the venue ... of the magnificently refurbished theatre for an unforgettable night of music to celebrate this historic event [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 22:58:18

Turbo-capitalism killed a million, Lancet reports

Printable page Email a friend Turbo-capitalism killed a million, Lancet reports (Thursday 15 January 2009) ... and price liberalisation, income change and historical levels of health. Between 1991 and 1994, male ... , but these services were scrapped or cut back following the restoration of capitalism [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 12:30:32

Scale Model Die Cast Toy Car Trade Shows and What To Buy - Becoming Popular

It is not difficult to find someone who enjoys scale model car shows, as they are a world wide phenomenon which take place more than once a year ... will be able to see these glamorous and historical vehicles. Car show origins can be traced to people ... in contests. It is often the very nature of the restoration abilities that is at the heart [more...]

Date: 2009-01-20 16:22:43

Church Planting & Missio Dei

Stuart Murray’s “Church Planting: Laying Foundations” is one of the finest books written on the topic of church planting ... welcome emphasis on both the theological and historical framework for church planting. When discussing ... into the world, and whose missionary purposes are cosmic in scope, concerned with the restoration [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 22:29:22

Restoration experts to address mold concerns

GALVESTON — Restoration experts will speak Wednesday on mold and other matters in a question and answer session hosted by the Galveston Historical Foundation. [more...]

Date: 2008-10-14 05:21:04

How to spend $825 billion

By Kate Sheppard Enviros are heartened by much of what they see in the newly released summary of the House's American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, ... buildings to make them more energy efficient." Another section of the bill aims to "modernize roads ... for activities supported by other economic recovery funds, such as retrofitting of buildings, green [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 07:05:15

Restore some forests to their precolonial condition

Note: yours truly in the Main Stream Media. Special thanks to Jack Wilson, Editorial Page Editor, The Register-Guard. Restore some ... scientists agree by overwhelming consensus that fuels cause fires. Further, without forest restoration ... that they contain — to fire and insects. … Inaction is a much more risky option for a variety of [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 18:34:06

Your Inaugural Guide

With his "whistle stop" train journey from Philadelphia complete, today is the start of three days of celebration in Washington D.C ... you will be there in person, or watching from home or at work, here's a guide on what's happening, and how ... Americans to help contribute to the restoration of this national treasure." "President-elect [more...]

Date: 2009-01-18 16:00:04

Those Who Enable the Triumph of Evil, and the Choice Before Us

I have been making one critical argument for several years. In "The Barren, Deadly Wasteland that Is Now Our Life," I formulated a foundational question this way (I include both of the following paragraphs to remind readers of key evidence for my conclusion):Meanwhile, the Democrats say that they now oppose the invasion and occupation of Iraq [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 20:33:00

Hurricane Gustav made landfall yesterday southwest of New Orleans in the historically Cajun community of Cocodrie in coastal Terrebonne Parish. Gov. Bobby Jindal says he's received reports of widespread damage in Terrebonne as well as coastal ... comes close to the minimum estimate of $14 billion needed for truly sustainable restoration [more...]

Date: 2008-09-02 20:10:06

Salmon Protection in Sonoma County

THE WATER Institute web video, Your Salmon Creek, is available with some amazing underwater footage of habitat restoration and rehabilitation ... of the water in our waterways. Those watersheds that are forested offer a wide array of benefits. Healthy ... water, and improve the quality of our lives. Through the use of forests and forestry practices [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 15:19:50

For a Truly New and Better World, We Must Change Destructive Systems

So much rides on tomorrow’s inauguration of Barack Obama as President of the United States. There are so many hopes wrapped up in the promise of his administration, but as we have already seen during the past two months since the election, many systems in government and society are flawed, and those flaws exacerbate individual frailty, [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 18:48:47

Back alleys and parking lots...

I have no idea why I am so often drawn —if you'll pardon the pun— to back alleys and details that aren't really part of ... turned mineral water bottling plant owned by my friends the Bowens, the American Orthodox church ... , so it was heartening to see the elegant and sensitive restoration of the grand old building with its [more...]

Date: 2008-12-07 21:18:00

Historic British Pub Offends Muslims...

...And is forced to change it's name. That's right, if you have a 300 year old piece of Brit history that offends Muslims, you just change it ... The 18th-century former inn was originally built as a rich wool merchant’s house in the 1400s ... in the BBC programme Restoration. Cannon Rob Morris said the church consulted with its congregation [more...]

Date: 2008-11-22 14:19:46

Framing Obama: Inauguration Day

This image was one of the more ridiculous examples of corporate media’s role in placing Obama’s presidency within right-wing and neoliberal narrative frames. The illustration accompanied Jon Meacham’s much contested Newsweek cover article which asserted the difficulty of governing as a liberal in a (supposedly) [more...]

Date: 2009-01-20 11:06:23

Visual Histories Framing the Obama Presidency

The presidential inauguration is a time of new beginnings, but it cannot avoid comparisons with the past. Indeed, a time of transition places a special premium on the past. Speech writers, pundits, retailers, and ordinary citizens have been trying out various comparisons and narratives to place the historic event in its proper perspective [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 09:00:23

The Liturgical Gangstas 3: The Authority/Dissent Issue

Welcome to IM’s popular new feature, “The Liturgical Gangstas,” a panel discussion among different liturgical traditions represented in the Internet Monk audience. Who are the Gangstas? Father Ernesto Obregon is an Eastern Orthodox priest. Rev. Peter Vance Matthews is an Anglican priest and founding pastor of an AMIA congregation. Dr [more...]

Date: 2008-12-18 02:40:55

An Inaugural Address for Our Time

For many reasons, including the encouragement of the man himself, the ghost of Lincoln hovers above the Mall today. There is a certain visceral satisfaction to seeing today as the fulfillment of that arc of History. But more frequently coming to my mind as I anticipate today's spectacle, is another Historic election [more...]

Date: 2009-01-20 07:03:00

Positivity: History of Veterans Day

All veterans today deserve a salute for serving their country. Heartfelt thanks to all for their service. From the US Department of Veterans Affairs: World War I – known at the time as “The Great War” - officially ended when the Treaty of Versailles was signed on June 28, 1919, in the Palace of Versailles outside the town of Versailles, France [more...]

Date: 2008-11-11 15:05:06

Editorial: US elections - a new leader for a new era

Every United States presidential conservative wing of his party and election is important. Most of in the last few weeks has run a them provide dramatic political partisan campaign in an attempt to theatre. All of them are re-energise the Republican compulsively watched by the rest faithful. His response to the of the world [more...]

Date: 2009-01-20 16:54:19

Hey Barak, Don't Look Down!

Since he ws elected, and even before then, Barak Obama has come to represent a lot of things to a lot of people. He has become a living icon of the restoration of the United States we once admired. An icon ... the significance of having, at last, a black/mixed race/different looking president. It is a historic time [more...]

Date: 2009-01-17 20:38:18

USGS Science at AGU Climate Change, Floods, Northern Forests, Coral Reefs, Earthquakes, Volcanoes, Mercury and More

Wading through thousands of abstracts at the American Geophysical Union Conference can be a daunting task. In this USGS media tip sheet ( ... Flood Flows and Climate Variability in the US, an Exploration of the Literature, Theory, and Long-term Flood Records Bob Hirsch H11I-01/Oral Presentation Recent literature and global climate models [more...]

Date: 2008-12-12 23:49:13

Market Vertigo - By Cliff Draughn

"We give you a Republic; now see if you can keep it." -- Ben FranklinAs I have remarked in prior calendar-turning newsletters, it is this time of the year when most people pause to reflect on the past, ponder the present, and plan the future. The New Year always rings in with the soothsayers and fortunetellers of the market invading our [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 23:46:00

My Three Best and Brightest Hopes For the Obama Administration…

Posted By: Michael Sweeney Jan. 17, 2009 To mark Tuesday’s historic Inauguration Day, Stonecipher asked me to think about the three hopes I would most like to see realized by the incoming Obama Administration. (He will weigh in with his three hopes tomorrow…and we will talk about them – and hear from some of the other site contributors – on [more...]

Date: 2009-01-17 17:15:56

Scottsdale Highlights, and a trip to Desert Valley

Jeff Koch, Terry McGean and I have been off in all directions here in Scottsdale the last few days ... restoration and was ready for the road. The final sale price? $800,000. Wise investment, if you ask us. Look ... as prestigious as a classic Ferrari, buyers are looking for restoration work conducted by a firm recognized [more...]

Date: 2009-01-17 20:21:34

Update on 980 Madison Avenue Proposal

Update on 980 Madison Avenue Proposal Jan 20th, 2009 Many of our readers have been following Sir Norman Foster’s proposal for an addition above ... or not the project team will return with a revised plan or if any restoration of the existing building ... was too overwhelming to the existing building and inappropriate to the character of the Upper [more...]

Date: 2009-01-20 19:28:35

Before and after

The White River Hills region of southwest Missouri possesses the largest complex of dolomite glades in the state. However, following years of fire suppression and overgrazing, high quality examples ... restoration. 142 state-listed rare, threatened or endangered species have been recorded from the White [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 15:51:00

Finding the Strength to Stand (Mark 14:54, 66-75)

On this day in 1895 (January 18), the New York Times carried an article which had previously been printed in the San Francisco Bulletin about a ... has found its way onto the top of many steeples. During the Protestant Reformation, reformed churches ... roused people from their slumber announcing the dawn of a new day, roosters on the steeples of reformed [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 17:49:00

Shocking, Behind-the-Scenes Inauguration Report

p {margin-bottom: 1em;} Shocking, Behind-the-Scenes Inauguration ReportBy Jim NelsonJanuary 20, 2009Dear Penny Sleuth Reader,The first-movers have already lined up to get legacy-rich... And for a few more hours, you can still join them… Hanging in the balance — potentially millions of dollars for your family's next three generations.. [more...]

Date: 2009-01-20 09:00:00

Center for Inquiry Leaders Applaud Obama’s Progressive and Inclusive Vision for America

President Barack Obama in his history-making Inaugural Address today sounded the clarion call for a more inclusive and progressive America ... It is also noteworthy that he called for the restoration of science to its rightful place ... think tank based in Amherst, New York It is home to the Council for Secular Humanism, founded in 1980 [more...]

Date: 2009-01-20 23:17:41

Big Sugar deal approved

By Curtis Morgan Miami Herald Water managers on Tuesday narrowly approved a $1 ... to dramatically reshape Everglades restoration and surrounding farming communities. A deeply divided South Florida Water Management District’s governing board voted 4-3 to accept the controversial deal [more...]

Date: 2008-12-17 00:12:49

Highlights of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act

Here are some highlights of  Obama’s so called “economic stimulus” package, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act: By the way, ... and apply the “stimulus” label to their spending plans, clever bastards. $3.836 billion for rural ... and historic importance, rehabilitation of abandoned mines and oil fields, and environmental cleanup projects [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 23:18:14

Hollywood Walk of Fame

This article may require cleanup to meet Wikipedia’s quality standards. Please improve this article if you can. (August 2008) ... industry. The Walk of Fame is maintained by the self-financing Hollywood Historic Trust. The first star ... Origins 2.2 Restoration 2.3 Firsts 2.4 Stolen stars 3 Star nomination process 4 List of stars [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 19:01:04

Transcript: Rahm Emanuel on Meet the Press, January 18, 2009

(Source: NBC’s Meet the Press) MR. DAVID GREGORY:  Our issues this Sunday:  the transition ceremonies are under way, and in just two days the historic inauguration of Barack Obama as our nation’s 44th president.  He’ll inherit a country in economic turmoil, an ongoing multifront war on terror and renewed violence in the Middle East [more...]

Date: 2009-01-18 18:19:08

When all seems lost in human terms, God's intervention is ever closer: The Miraculous Spanish Reconquista

One fascinating aspect of the Old Testament is God’s interventions favoring those who do all they possibly can while facing overwhelming odds and counting on Him to do the impossible. Don Pelayo, leader of the Reconquista.As we read about David and Goliath, Gideon and the Battle of Jericho, the Maccabees and others, [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 16:54:00

Landmark shield urged for St. Boniface

Architect Scott Rappe, chair of EVA's Planning, Preservation & Development Committee, Chair, sent this statement on Jan. 15 to 27th Ward Ald ... the preservation, restoration and reuse of St. Boniface Church and rectory and the reconstruction if the dismantled school facade and requests that the City of Chicago recognize their historical [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 03:03:29

About That Torture Thing

There’s a lot of fretting over whether Obama will do the right thing about Guantanamo, and whether the CIA will barred from using harsh interrogation methods in the GWOT.* Greenwald’s having a snit. Now a Guantanamo judge comes forward, says she barred a trial for one terror suspect because his unkind treatment was torture [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 14:11:50

An open letter to the smart growth community

There is no way we should be settling for, or applauding, this . . . When we should be advocating this: [ green transit on the Atlanta Beltline ( [more...]

Date: 2008-10-22 15:32:19

A Call to Christian Leaders to Speak Up to Our New President

by Steve Strang Next Tuesday, January 20, America will inaugurate Barack Obama, the first African-American president. That will be a historic day—one I’ll be glad I lived long enough to witness. But many who believe in biblical values are concerned that an Obama presidency will turn the nation sharply left [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 19:03:04

Some Ruminiations on Eastern Orthodoxy

DISCLAIMER: Neither in this post, nor in any post which might follow, is any personal slight intended against any particular person or congregation within the umbrella of Eastern Orthodox Christianity. Nor is it an attempt to call into question issues regarding validity of Sacraments, etc [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 22:18:43

Israel's Gaza Atrocities Recall America's Atrocities in Vietnam

By Dave Lindorff As we hear the horrifying and sickening reports of the atrocities in Gaza by the Israeli Defense Force (IDF), and as ardent Israel backers predictably justify each one or contest the facts it’s worth reading a new book, <em>The War Behind Me: Vietnam Veterans Confront the Truth about US War Crimes</em>, [more...]

Date: 2009-01-11 23:26:29

Communities should be interested in their geologic past

While serving as the late Governor Dixy Lee Ray’s chief policy adviser back in the late 1970s, one of the many duties she assigned to me, and the one I enjoyed most, was as Washington State’s historic-preservation officer — a duty that embraced the state’s history and its archeological and geological treasures [more...]

Date: 2009-01-20 17:21:15

Franklin Lamb - Completing the task of evicting Israel from Lebanon

A job for the UN or Hezbollah? Franklin Lamb Northwest of Ghajar Village, South Lebanon     “We, as Lebanese, are here to confirm that we cling to freeing every grain of our soil. We will not abandon the great national cause, which is the continuation of the liberation of our land [more...]

Date: 2008-11-25 17:51:42

Michelle Obama Redecorates The White House

Obama Chic: Balancing the White House Checkbook. The Obamas will need to consider a tight budget when they transform the White House residence into ... to their new home, but the decorating won't stop there. The Obamas have chosen celebrity designer Michael ... for the repair and restoration of the White House.That amount, intended to ensure the [more...]

Date: 2009-01-20 09:53:00

NRDC Urges Senate to Restore Water, Salmon Populations to San Joaquin River

As the Senate prepares for a final vote within in the next 24 hours on an omnibus public lands package, ... Joaquin River Restoration Settlement Act" would approve and authorize the funding needed to implement ... of conservation and fishing groups in pursuing the long court battle and the historic Settlement, which [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 16:14:53

The Early Bird: October 17, 2008

Obama Posts Lead In Key Swing State Counties Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama has taken the lead in four counties key to clinching ... /Insider Advantage survey. Great Lakes Advocates Talk Restoration, Presidential Politics A warning ... address the problem. Obama pledged a $5 billion "down payment" on a $20 billion restoration plan [more...]

Date: 2008-10-17 13:54:28

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