Schoolchildren Take In a Historic Moment
Schoolchildren Take In a Historic Moment By Javier C. Hernandez AND Jennifer Medina Crispus Attucks Elementary School Linda Sanders-Peay, a parent coordinator, made some final adjustments [more...]
Date: 2009-01-20 19:01:27
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The Historic Momment
The Historic Momment Posted by Lord Bitememan on January 20th, 2009 filed in General introduction 1 Comment » It was early 2008. Few had heard of him. But the more they heard [more...]
Date: 2009-01-21 04:48:08
Last Days
Several businesses on Broadway are vacating their spaces tonight to make way for construction of the light-rail station ... buildings—the ones that wouldn’t qualify as historic landmarks but have the sort of character ... . As psyched as I am for real mass transit in Seattle, I’m really sad these gorgeous old buildings [more...]
Date: 2008-07-14 05:04:27
Chinatown's 'grandchildren' celebrate
Ron Louie has successfully designed high-end homes from Santa Monica to San Marino for four decades ... sacrifice, we wouldn’t be where we are today.” Organizers will show historic photographs, a swing band ... outlining the roof lines of his three buildings — an ornament that long distinguished Central Plaza [more...]
Date: 2008-06-27 23:22:10
Morning Shows Give a Combined Three and a Half Minutes to Historic Gun Ruling
Kate Snow, ABC Good Morning America, 6/27/08 Despite the "historic" ... important subject of how to Feng Shui your house for pets. On Friday, however, the CBS program could [more...]
Date: 2008-06-27 15:02:34
Fighting a Rearguard Action Against the Truth
Followup to: That Tiny Note of Discord, The Importance of Saying "Oops" When we last left Eliezer2000, he was just beginning to investigate the question of how to inscribe a morality into an AI. His reasons for doing this don't matter at all, except insofar as they happen to historically demonstrate the importance of perfectionism [more...]
Date: 2008-09-24 01:23:41
Back to Cow Town
We are returning home after an exhausting day. We are driving back and reflecting on the moments we shared with our fellow Americans on this historic occasion. Millions of people walked up and down the streets of D.C. trying to find an entrance to the national mall this morning. It took us three hours to walk fifteen blocks to finally [more...]
Date: 2009-01-20 22:46:01
Hillary Clinton campaigns in her hometown -- and Obama's
speech/photo op by Berlin's historic Brandenburg Gate –- became controversial in recent days when German Chancellor Angela Merkel's spokesman expressed her displeasure over plans to use the monument as a backdrop for a foreign political ... in the house and often times not even knowing their father,” Obama said, “that is a problem. And I’ [more...]
Date: 2008-07-13 03:34:52
Adaptive Re-use
by Erik Hare My daughter asked an innocent question as we rode past on the bus ... worth saving finds a purpose in a changing economy. The condo boom was a great gift to historic preservation at times, allowing Saint Paul to keep old buildings that are well built landmarks even after [more...]
Date: 2008-09-21 03:56:37
Playing Taps For The Lost Cause
Terry Heaton shares his neighbor’s less “enlightened” response to today’s inauguration: So I just walked out the door to check the mail, and the guy two houses down is displaying his opinion of today’s historic events. He’s been known to make his opinion known before with this flagpole. My son-in-law muttered “ignorant” as he went [more...]
Date: 2009-01-20 19:15:52
Supreme Court Backs Gun Owners
The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that Washington, D.C., overreached with its handgun ban and must allow residents to keep guns in their homes ... . New York Times: The Supreme Court’s historic decision on the right to bear arms on Thursday ... or government buildings. Justice Antonin Scalia said that list was not exhaustive. “Dangerous” [more...]
Date: 2008-06-26 23:33:16
Payback time
HERE'S my gut reaction to the weekend’s historic decisions by the US financial authorities ... call “Pay Back Time”. Executives hounded by lawsuits for years and ultimately stripped ... higher than normal. If John McCain (a man very much in the Bush mold on this score) is elected [more...]
Date: 2008-09-21 22:40:51
Barack Obama Inauguration: A Sad Day For America
Today marks a historical event. Today Barack Hussein Obama, a liar, a fraud, a hypocrite, and one of the most crooked politicians of the modern era, ... of Obama’s idiocy at a time like this and wonder how he ever got elected. Remember his “plan” to put ... as he sought to find a way to buy a house shortly after being elected to the United States Senate [more...]
Date: 2009-01-20 16:06:38
What’s Happening With The Religion Of Peace Today?
Hey, don’t worry about Iran, cause Obama will take care of it through his one-on-one chats with Ahmadenijad Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, ... of Australia Plans for building a Muslim cemetery in the ground of a historic Anglican graveyard ... into Western European culture: As they become wealthier and more assimilated, Muslims will shed [more...]
Date: 2008-09-26 20:12:26
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
Some Thoughts
Opening went pretty well over the weekend.A few little glitches popped up, an actor tripped going offstage and landed on a carpet covering some cable ... and Sunday were pretty good houses, I think they were the best we've had for an opening weekend ... or the internet.Now, I know the inauguration of Obama is a historic event--a hopeful harbinger of a [more...]
Date: 2009-01-20 19:27:00
The True Miracle of the Day: The Peaceful Transfer of Power
By Peter Roff Conservative Commentator/Former Senior Political Writer for United Press International Inauguration Day 2009 is as important as ... observed, an historic day, full of meaning for people all across the world. That a mere half-century ... conception. The preservation of this democracy has come at great cost. The sons and daughters [more...]
Date: 2009-01-20 11:27:43
Personal reflections on a historic moment
Personal reflections on a historic moment January 20th, 2009 From USA Today: I’m thrilled about having Barack Obama as president. It feels like a personal triumph, as I was fortunate enough [more...]
Date: 2009-01-20 16:20:06
SPIN YOUR GLOBE TO LONG ISLAND (Apr, 1939)
view additional pages SPIN YOUR GLOBE TO LONG ISLAND Only Six States Have More People than the Insular Empire that Ranges from a World’s Fair Through Potato Patches, Princely Estates, and Historic Shrines By Frederick Simpich With Illustrations from Photographs by Willard R. Culver WHAT if a super-tugboat could cast a line about Long [more...]
Date: 2008-09-12 06:20:31
Instant dosa and Onion chutney
Welcome our New President! The world will be buzzing for many days/years of this historic day , event, his name and all his moves…But I will be blogging as usual about food without change…Talking about change, we are seeing some unusual weather pattern in California.Bay Area has seen a near record high temperature from past 10 days [more...]
Date: 2009-01-21 03:49:00
Go Home Already: Berry Good
Photo by staceyviera >> A civil rights group called the Partnership for Civil Justice filed a federal lawsuit today to halt ... proposing an exemption for churches from the DC Historic Preservation Act has been resurrected by Ward ... its school reuse plans for seven of the D.C. public schools that will be closed this summer. [more...]
Date: 2008-06-19 16:24:25
While McCain Plays Games, Washington Mutual Falls
From Yahoo: WaMu is largest U.S. bank failure By Elinor Comlay and Jonathan Stempel 1 hour, 37 minutes ago NEW YORK/WASHINGTON (Reuters) ... . The rescue marks a historic step to clean up a U.S. financial system littered with toxic mortgage ... of the combined company’s branches. He also said JPMorgan plans to issue $8 billion of stock [more...]
Date: 2008-09-26 04:02:19
Bulletin from Wasilla
Here in Wasilla, the small Alaskan town where until two years ago Sarah Palin was mayor, ... as governor of Alaska, I told my teenage sons, ‘go to the ceremony, this is going to be historic.’” He admitted, however, that he was gobsmacked at the speed of her ascent to the race for the White House [more...]
Date: 2008-09-04 13:40:27
Artist Jennifer Davis
I'm sure many of you know Jennifer Davis but if not, you'll want to as her work is pretty amazing ... carriage house with the horses names still on a beam across the ceiling in the bedroom! My last home ... myself loving either historical ones or extremely contemporary houses perched atop a mountain or ocean [more...]
Date: 2008-06-26 19:15:00
World Awaits Historic Inauguration
World Awaits Historic Inauguration Barack Obama will soon be the first black president in America's 233-year history. Read Mostly Cloudy with Snow Now -11°C High -7°C Low [more...]
Date: 2009-01-20 07:51:01
A Barometer For Change In Photography And Video
The images surrounding the first African American US President, Barack Obama, will indisputably be an important part of the historical record of our country, and, likely, the world. I believe it’s this new era of photography--both in the creation of images and how they are spread--that has brought us a more interesting, diverse, [more...]
Date: 2009-01-21 06:30:36
EDITORIAL: AN OBAMA ADMINISTRATION
The irony of Barack Obama’s historic inauguration, one full day after celebrating the life of Martin Luther King, is not lost on anyone. In fact, this has added to the deep symbolism of an African-American receiving the keys to the White House -which was built partly, with the labor of black slaves. “Tomorrow, we will come [more...]
Date: 2009-01-20 19:01:19
Time Management - The Elusive Continuum
It’s about 11:05 am on the night of the Presidential Inauguration. I took off from work today to take in the events and festivities from home. It was a very good day, historic to say the least. I’m determined to be in bed not to long from now, but wanted to finally get around to completing this post. The topic is one I thought of doing [more...]
Date: 2009-01-21 04:37:51
The secret Sega games room
It seems some community fellows over at Sega of America headquarters have discovered a wondrous place, filled with historic delight, that no-one bothered to tell them about. After Sega moved office buildings, their community team went on a walk-about and came upon a strange and most holy room, containing basically every Sega game [more...]
Date: 2008-08-15 12:08:00
Obama’s Thanksgiving Day Message
He talks about the origins of Thanksgiving and tries to give everybody a little hope on this decidedly American holiday ... who endure their absence with such dignity and resolve. At home, we face an economic crisis of historic ... of our economy won’t come from policies and plans alone [more...]
Date: 2008-11-27 16:18:17
Don’t Be a Grinch - Throw a Party
The economic climate this year is causing many companies to say Bah Humbug to the annual holiday party ( ... to impact companies and their employees – so much so that the number of parties has reached a historical ... with its A Night of Giving holiday party event. Three charities, City Harvest, New York Restoration [more...]
Date: 2008-12-05 10:30:23
Morning Roundup: Wheels Keep on Turning Edition
Good morning, Washington. Redskins fans are still grappling with what yesterday's win on the road against the Eagles might mean - ... the contracts and finances of historic Eastern Market. The problems date back at least into Mayor Anthony ... damages four buildings in Dupont Circle ... Two men shot in Northeast ... Two teens shot [more...]
Date: 2008-10-06 13:58:06
Obama's Plan to End the HIV Crisis
Like so many millions of Americans, on November 4th I sat with friends and watched in awe as America elected Barack Obama to be our 44th president ... to look back on where we've been in order to get an idea of just how historic this election ... , and demanded AIDS plans from each of the Democratic candidates for president. Shortly after, all eight [more...]
Date: 2008-11-18 05:42:26
Inauguration Day
Sixteen years ago today, I was sitting at a lab bench, half-listening to a chemistry lecture as I watched the clock ... . They have written some of the worst poetry in human history to honor the historic inauguration ... about the survival of the republic, making plans to move out West in a pre-emptive attempt to protect [more...]
Date: 2009-01-20 16:30:39
Students seeing through Obama hype
H/T NRO Obama may have flopped away the unwavering support he had among college kids ... he represented a few short months ago. ---As such, it’s understandable, given his historic fundraising ... capitulation to the White House. As disconcerting and disappointing as Obama’s rhetorical gymnastics [more...]
Date: 2008-07-08 16:34:53
Breaking: Sarah Palin cleared in Troopergate by independent state panel
JEFFERSON CITY, MO. -- She's growing hoarse, no doubt tired, but less than 10 weeks after bursting onto the national political and cultural scene, ... , including an overnight flight back home to Alaska to vote. And then another long flight back down ... on the last day of the historic 2008 presidential race. Aides said Palin was in high spirits [more...]
Date: 2008-11-04 01:29:06
Leapfrogging in Reverse
We've often written about the concept of leapfrogging to describe what happens when a non-industrialized country surpasses old, ... in the last twenty years have learned passive-solar design tricks from pre-industrial buildings, both historic ones in their own countries and contemporary buildings in non-industrial societies. (For [more...]
Date: 2008-09-03 21:08:52
Inaugural Address Failed to Inspire
The new president gave a nice campaign speech but fell short of historical relevance. January 21, 2009 - by Rick MoranNo new president has had a grander stage on Inauguration Day upon which to imprint his vision for America than Barack Obama. The crowds were astonishingly large — certainly more than a million and some estimates were closer to two [more...]
Date: 2009-01-21 08:14:15
Inaugural crowds test wireless networks
(CNN) — Wireless service was spotty in downtown Washington on Tuesday morning as hundreds of thousands of people tried to share Barack Obama's historic inauguration through cell-phone calls and text messages to family and friends. "I got some photos through earlier. But now they're just not going through," said Barbara Talisman of Chicago [more...]
Date: 2009-01-20 19:16:02
Sistani: SOFA Must ‘Win Support Of All Iraqis’
As I noted yesterday, the assent of Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani was essential for the passage of the status of forces agreement, ... in a statement issued by his office in Najaf that the pact would only be viable if it secured the “restoration ... be accepted,” said al-Sistani, who called on lawmakers to “rise to their historic responsibi [more...]
Date: 2008-11-18 18:15:37
Flashback: The Sixth Floor Museum
It's hard to believe that it's been 45 years since the assassination of JFK. A few years ago I spent Thanksgiving in Arlington, TX ... knoll," the surrounding structures and buildings, and Houston and Elm streets, which have largely remained unchanged because of the historic nature of Dealey Plaza. It seems a smaller space than [more...]
Date: 2008-11-23 05:21:53
Stop building to help housing prices recover?
So many plans and ideas are being floated to repair the country's economic situation. David Reilly of the Wall St ... Test." There is currently more than 10 months of home inventory. Homeowner vacancy rates are at historic highs of about 2.8%, compared with pre-bubble levels of about 1.7%, according to the U.S. Census [more...]
Date: 2008-11-17 19:37:46
Can Yogis Make a Difference in DC?
What do you get when Shiva Rea, six kirtan chanters, and their bands get together on the eve of an historic presidential inauguration in the nation's capital? Chant4Change. Think praise band meets dance club/mosh pit in a church. Last night I braved the crowds and the cold to raise my voice in support of change with some of the [more...]
Date: 2009-01-21 02:17:35
President Obama's inaugural speech
The United States of America will never be the same again ... His historic journey See intimate photos from Barack Obama's historic run to the White House. [more...]
Date: 2009-01-20 17:51:00
Scott Waterman
Scott Waterman is an artist, a talented decorative painter and I'd like to add an incredible interior designer once I saw photos of his home. His decorative painting began with trompe l'oeil murals and the restoration of historic buildings. Amazing talent (click for larger images)... His former home in San Francisco was featured [more...]
Date: 2008-07-16 12:59:00
Casper Appreciates a Historic Moment
Casper Appreciates a Historic Moment Proof that EVERYONE was glued to the TV to hear President Barack Obama’s inauguration speech: I should point out… [more...]
Date: 2009-01-21 07:38:44
Inauguration Edition
What’s Poppin: By Kevin Jordan Good Morning for all of you who have made it to work, and instead of staying at home, or going to D.C ... description, this is truly a historic day!!! If you are stuck at work today, I hope you brought your party clothes, and made plans for the babysitter to keep watch for the night, and you’ve saved [more...]
Date: 2009-01-20 17:27:31
REDFORD ATTACKS BUSH THE LAME DUCK
With just days left until George W. Bush gets the boot from the White House, Robert Redford is getting in a few final goodbye jabs. At a news conference yesterday at the National Press Club in Washington, the legendary actor/director/Democrat advocated on behalf of the National Trust for Historic Preservation. But that wasn’ [more...]
Date: 2008-12-18 19:16:45
On eve of Barack Obama's inauguration, King holiday brings back memories of historic speech for Willa Hawkins of Flint
FLINT, Michigan — As buses carrying hundreds of local people embark on a journey to witness Barack Obama's historic inaugural address, Flint resident Willa Hawkins reflects on a similar bus ride — [more...]
Date: 2009-01-19 12:22:19
Adding the arts to Obama’s economic plan
Not just a place at the table, but an office in the halls of power. Robert Lynch envisions this for the arts ... agencies on providing more artist commissions for creative design, public artworks and historic preservation-projects in transportation infrastructure. The point of increasing government funding [more...]
Date: 2009-01-21 05:05:53
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