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Eat Your... Introductions

About "Eat Your..." Hi, I'm Ben, and "Eat Your..." is a column focused on meatless culinary treasures ... just a Coke? With that in mind, I plan to make this column part "down home Southern" and part ... ritual of a home-cooked family dinner at the table dissolved into fast food in front of the TV which [more...]

Date: 2008-07-02 10:16:08

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On Dream Homes

Looking for inspiration for your dream home? Are you ready to get started building? ... you a totally modernist style house on a realistic budget. Other plans that you can choose from are narrows, prairie styles, southern houses, colonial homes, new england plans, beach house and many [more...]

Date: 2008-08-06 17:06:00

Speaking of Home Tours

I think of fellow blogger Jora as a bit of a "minimalistic Martha." Her excellent blog Domestic Reflections is the motherlode of recipes, weekly meal plans, home ... ! Jora and her hubby painstakingly restored their mid-century, Southern California home and now consider [more...]

Date: 2008-09-22 19:39:37

Other worlds

When, in The Sensual World, Kate Bush makes passing reference to “Going deep south, go down, mmh, yes,” she is of course describing her plans to take a nice holiday to the sultry southern hemisphere ... is home to the four winds and also houses an interesting bell. Brian Eno’s 1975 survey [more...]

Date: 2008-12-03 06:20:46

CC & A.J. press conference roundup

CC & A.J. press conference roundup December 19, 2008 A few thoughts from Thursday's initial-crazy press conference .. ... that dream house he was building in Southern California? It's history. He and his family plan to buy a home in northern New Jersey and make it their residence year-round - for at least the next seven years [more...]

Date: 2008-12-19 05:49:55

Financial Foundation Group Denver - Helping Others with More than just Finance

DENVER, Colo., Dec. 30 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) -- 2008 has been an exciting and rewarding year for the employees of the Financial Foundation Group, ... their goals," Mr. Perrin explains. "We have concrete plans to open another office in Southern California ... permission to work on 3 different Habitat home sites, located at 2910 - 2930 South Bryant [more...]

Date: 2008-12-30 07:30:06

Where the heck are our hydrogen-powered cars?

In the new issue of mental_floss magazine, Ethan Trex answers The Biggest Questions of 2009 ... the Clarity in 2008, only Southern California residents were eligible to drive one home, and even ... . As climate-saving plans go, few sound quite as appealing as cars powered by hydrogen fuel cells [more...]

Date: 2009-01-20 00:30:12

Did Israel Just Blink, Or Win?

By Joel C. RosenbergSenior Israeli officials have been signaling all day that they are close to achieving their objectives and thus may soon ... a synagogue and sending a pregnant Israeli mother to the hospital after her home received a direct hit ... safety for the Israelis along the southern border of Gaza.Related LinksReuters: Israel plans [more...]

Date: 2009-01-17 19:29:00

Sacramento Real Estate Market: First or Last to Rebound?

From InvestmentNews.com:As economists and housing experts desperately look for signs of a bottom in the crumbling housing market, ... Thornberg said Southern California home prices likely will continue falling until mid-to-late 2009 ... some investors are starting to make plans based on which major markets are predicted to rebound [more...]

Date: 2008-06-24 22:15:05

SERVICE EMPLOYEES INTERNATIONAL UNION CHIEFTAN ANDY STERN IS A THREAT TO LABOR’S SOUL

from the NEW YORK DAILY NEWS: SEIU President Andy Stern is a threat to labor soul Wednesday, December 31st 2008, 2: ... 6434 - a huge home care workers unit in Southern California. Freeman resigned after the L.A. Times ... Employees International Union, plans to kick off the new year with a stunning assault on democracy [more...]

Date: 2009-01-05 05:12:29

AP Financial Inc. - Helping Others with More than just Finance

DENVER, Colo., June 18 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) -- AP Financial is excited to have been a big contributor to the Metro Denver Habitat for Humanity on ... ," Mr. Perrin explains. "We have concrete plans to open another office in Southern California ... and Fort Collins offices were given permission to work on 3 different Habitat home sites, located [more...]

Date: 2008-06-18 16:31:23

Russians Seeking Overseas Homes

As Russians continue to search for the best ways to invest their new-found wealth, ... which are geographically close to home. Lately, southern European markets like Cyprus, Bulgaria, Turkey ... developer, Vyentseslav Leibman, is making an investment of US0 million. His plans include a 27-floor [more...]

Date: 2008-12-23 08:05:19

Home Sweet Home

Well, here I am, safely ensconced in my childhood home, surrounded by warmth and love. After a day of visiting old haunts, followed by a dinner of real southern barbecue, I'm settled ... to the change in travel plans I've managed to break my digital camera and my laptop cord is on its very [more...]

Date: 2008-12-22 23:39:00

Long week

It's only Tuesday but it feels like a long week already. I was spoiled from having so many days at home ... these days. And that feels good.Anyway, I do make plans when it comes to work ... about submitting a proposal to be a Waterkeeper for some rivers in the southern part of the state. It's a non [more...]

Date: 2009-01-06 14:29:00

Sun Direct Expands DTH Operations

/India PRwire/ - Sun Direct TV Pvt Ltd, a leading direct-to-home (DTH) ... by what we have achieved in the four Southern states we are confident of replicating the same model across other ... in the country” Sun DTH with their unique bundling of channels and effective price packaging plans to make [more...]

Date: 2008-09-12 11:03:56

Beijing Olympic - Tianjin pours $26b into modern service industry

North China’s port city of Tianjin plans to set up 20 modern service industry clusters at the cost of 199 billion yuan (US$26 billion) ... China next to southern Shenzhen and eastern Shanghai’s Pudong. It is also home to eight functional [more...]

Date: 2009-01-20 16:54:37

Joe Biden in St. Louis

At a rally held at Mehlville High School in southern St ... the Republican's economic policies, policies Biden asserted McCain plans to continue. Biden highlighted key ... -effective for companies to ship jobs overseas than to employ Americans here at home. Re-focus tax [more...]

Date: 2008-09-11 17:58:51

The Southern Avenger seems to forget one important fact

In his latest post in the Charleston City paper, the Southern Avenger tries but fails miserably to make a case for the I Believe license plates ... that South Carolina’s plans to issue a license plate featuring a cross and the words “I Believe” amounted ... not at home with her family, but challenging the legality of a federal holiday that gives government [more...]

Date: 2008-12-30 19:00:00

Seeing Red Over ‘Red Envelopes’

The poorest residents of Dongguan city, in southern China’s Guangdong province, are about to to get a gift from the municipal government. Local authorities have announced plans to distribute more than 120 million yuan in “red envelope” ... Flickr) Dongguan, located in the Pearl River Delta manufacturing belt, is home to 15,000 international [more...]

Date: 2008-06-30 09:07:06

Returning to India: Why NRIs Are Heading Home

This article was was written by Dina Mehta in January 2005. We're republishing it here as part of our month-long editorial retrospective ... . There are bold plans to revamp direct and indirect taxes, e-governance in several states with the lead coming from Southern states, e-medicine, a new [more...]

Date: 2008-09-05 18:40:34

FAVELA´S WALLS

Plans to surround a Rio de Janeiro favela (slum) with a 650-metre-long concrete barrier have come under fire from environmentalists, ... of the famous Doña Marta favela in the southern part of the city, is intended to protect the nearby Atlantic ... limits on uncontrolled growth".Doña Marta is home to an estimated 7,500 people. The favela [more...]

Date: 2009-01-09 18:14:00

The Day After Tomorrow

I wrote about our Christmas plans last week over at Work It! Mom, but here is the run-down. Our (not so) ... twice about driving down. We arrived home and had another message from a friend at the Coast cautioning ... . We were off! The roads were far better than we had anticipated. My friends from the Southern States [more...]

Date: 2008-12-27 08:05:54

Daily Dose: 9/5/08

» D.C. statue of King Kamehameha moved » Wounded Iraq vet Duckworth rips Bush, McCain » Some garment factories scheme to evade monitors » PA exec pleads guilty to minority contracting fraud » Hawaiian convention delayed » Report: Myanmar refugees waiting months for aid » Nevada student wins Hong Kong male beauty contest » Asian Americans [more...]

Date: 2008-09-05 21:29:55

Will Gustav Be Another Katrina?

NEW ORLEANS — Hurricane Gustav charged toward the largely deserted coast of Louisiana early Monday morning and seemed destined to make landfall west ... , who hit the road for Florida just a few months after he was able to return to his home in New ... a back seat to the storm, as the Republican Party scaled back its convention plans in deference [more...]

Date: 2008-09-01 09:47:11

Old homes get smart

Smart metering is coming. Within a decade, you’ll know exactly how much every flip of a switch or turn of a knob costs in monthly utility charges ... of a typical Victorian house. The Marchants were always energy-thrifty, but instant feedback ... , these systems can help reduce peak power demand. (In March 2008, Worldchanging covered Boulder, Colo.'s pla [more...]

Date: 2008-07-29 22:43:46

Prince Harry video nasty that will spark outrage

ROYAL rebel Prince Harry today stands accused of racism in a bombshell home video as he swaggers in front of his army comrades ... waiting for their flight. As he films one cadet lying on the departure lounge floor, he says: “This is luxury. And here is our first example of possibly how to admin yourself (slang for looking after [more...]

Date: 2009-01-11 03:28:00

Daily Dose: 09/10/08

» AsianWeek Market Report » Brooklyn Chef Burns Diners » U.S. Vision Researchers Share Portugal Award » Asian American Voter Education Night » Missing 83-year-old Woman Found Dead at Bayfair Mall » Twentieth Century Fox Opens Asian Studio » Chinese Action Star Li Wants to Nurture Spirit of Philanthropy » Film Documents Misaka’s Journey as [more...]

Date: 2008-09-10 19:36:27

Past as Prologue?

Many modern historians of Russia, Stephen Blank comes immediately to mind, draw strong parallels between the current trajectory of the Russian state (and sometimes society) and its tsarist and Muscovite predecessors. I came across this article (based on a chapter in a book) by Thoedore Dalrymple that certainly evokes such comparisons [more...]

Date: 2008-12-22 03:48:13

Pardon Our Absence

It’s been a long time since we’ve posted anything. Needless to say, when things get busy for JD and me, this blog often gets put on the back burner ... you all up in my life and fitness endeavors. Holiday travel Pam and I wanted to get down to Southern California ... of the year. But we also wanted to be home for Christmas because well, there’s nothing [more...]

Date: 2008-12-29 16:05:30

Daily Dose: 12/22/08

» AsianWeek Market Report » Owners of Asian Massage Parlors Plead Guilty » Korean American Unemployment at a 34-Year High » S.F. Police Chief Heather Fong Announces Retirement » Court-Interpreting Careers Available Statewide Despite Economic Downturn » NAACP Reports Says TV Networks Lag in Diversity » Taiwanese Director Ang Lee Honored in U [more...]

Date: 2008-12-22 22:52:52

A COTTON FIELD CHRISTMAS

One of the most memorable Christmas’s of my life to-date, was observed in the middle of a cotton field a long time ago. Following is that story, written and posted while with my eldest son and his family at their home in North Carolina, for this Christmas.Carissa and Mandy, you might want to keep a tissue or two nearby…The day Miss Annie Ruth ( [more...]

Date: 2008-12-22 07:17:57

In Depth: Green campuses 3.0 (By Jina Moore)

Forget your grandmother or your mother. This isn’t even your older sister’s environmentalism. Five years ago, green residence halls or organic dining would have seemed like cutting edge improvements of a campus’ environmental impact, but no longer. “Things that would’ve been really impressive three or four years ago are now kind of commonplace, [more...]

Date: 2008-09-09 15:00:47

Web Reconnaissance for 01/06/2009

A short recon of what’s out there that might draw your attention, updated throughout the day...so check back often.In the News: (Registration may be required to read some stories)Obama Pitches Stimulus Plan - President-elect Barack Obama arrived on Capitol Hill yesterday and immediately set to work reassuring skeptical Republicans about his [more...]

Date: 2009-01-06 16:06:00

Zionist Control of US Policy

Source I was recently asked to answer the following question: In the original post there is mention of Israel controlling US policy. How exactly does that work? The short answer is this: A highly influential and extremely well bankrolled collection of groups directs energy simultaneously in a number of directions: Political, media, academic, [more...]

Date: 2009-01-17 20:51:14

Beautiful Americans by Lucy Silag

From Publisher's Website:What happens in Paris…Secrets—PJ’s deep blue eyes and angelic long blond hair conceal a truth that’s anything but ... of light?Passion—Always the good girl, Olivia plans to twirl her way to the top of the Parisian ballet ... of the wrong boy.Lies—With his emo-trendy bedhead, hilarious comebacks and Southern drawl, Zack could [more...]

Date: 2009-01-05 12:00:00

Using Storytelling to Connect

This weekend I’ve been working on writing lesson plans for a course I’ll be teaching this fall at Bellevue College on Land Titles ... are a chapter from “By the Shores of Silver Lake by Laura Ingalls Wilder and the Tom Cruise/Nicole Kidman ... Swedish immigrant, several business owners, salespeople, business men and women, stay-at-home moms [more...]

Date: 2008-09-02 02:13:46

ISRAEL READY TO DEPLOY IN ALL OF GAZA

BY YAAKOV KATZ As Operation Cast Lead concluded its harshest 24 hours on Tuesday after the IDF lost five ... to withdraw its troops, a senior official confirmed that plans had been drawn up to move troops ... fighting on Monday night. Three soldiers were killed when a tank mistakenly opened fire on a home [more...]

Date: 2009-01-07 02:12:41

How did Brent Staples get that job?

He's not in the Times enough for my taste. “Without Sanctuary” was shown in Atlanta in 2002 at the Martin Luther King Jr ... and the accompanying documents would find a permanent home in Georgia or any other lynching belt state ... for its building and plans to open in 2011. The center aspires to emulate the Holocaust Memorial Museum [more...]

Date: 2008-12-23 03:14:13

Israeli Reservists Enter Gaza, Signaling New Phase

JERUSALEM – Israel's chief military spokesman says the army has begun sending reserve units into the Gaza Strip ... on Saturday that it plans to escalate a devastating air and ground assault that already has killed ... official to Egypt later in the week. U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon plans to travel to the region [more...]

Date: 2009-01-11 18:21:42

Pakistani response to “India’s Cold start strategy”: Limited strikes against targets vs Hot War leading to Nuclear Armageddon

Date: 2008-12-01 02:28:50

Housing recovery at least 1 year off, Insider Q&A told

Shopoff William Shopoff, CEO of the land-investment firm bearing his name, is a real estate man first and foremost ... . Projects range from several home developments in Lake Elsinore to a Riverside County industrial site ... . So when a neighbor made an unsolicited offer to buy his Emerald Bay home for $12 million [more...]

Date: 2008-10-04 07:33:36

Afghanistan War News Updates -- January 11, 2009

In this handout photo provided by the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), Vice President-elect Joe Biden, right, meets with U.S. Gen ... visit is a sign that Obama plans to make the region an immediate priority.In a meeting ... timetable set for Afghan withdrawal -- AFPSuicide bomber targets police official in southern Afghan produce [more...]

Date: 2009-01-11 12:00:00

News - Views - Commentary

Uncle Jay Explains the Year 2008Gaza: Leaders Lie, Civilians Die and the Lessons of History Are IgnoredBy Robert Fisk, Independent UK - AlternetQuite a lot of the dead this weekend appear to have been Hamas members, but what is it supposed to solve? We've got so used to the carnage of the Middle East that we don't care any more -- providing we [more...]

Date: 2008-12-31 11:37:00

FL in FL: Thursday

Thursday The thing about holidaying with my wife is that because of her insatiable need to experience new things and see, well, everything I rarely get a lie in. “Let’s get up really early and go photograph the dawn. It’ll be fun…” Uh Uh? Alrighty then. So when the opportunity does arise I try and grab has many Z’s* as my tired fingers can grasp [more...]

Date: 2009-01-09 13:06:48

We Can’t Give Away Homes At $100,000

The Denver Post reports from Colorado. “Real-estate agents note that resort communities have certain advantages over the Front Range and much of the ... or the wholesale abandoning of value,’ said Doug Landin, managing broker at Eagle Ranch. ‘I think ... Ranch is still selling for at least 90 percent of asking price, Landin said.” “But a 10 percent [more...]

Date: 2008-07-23 17:38:26

Riddled In Buyer’s Remorse

It’s Friday desk clearing time for this blogger. “Housing clearance rates remained soft across the country over the weekend, ... of recovering from their torpor. The Australian reported many homes continue to sell for well under ... , bought her retirement home in the town of Tolleson, Arizona, in 1996. ‘It was supposed to be my dream [more...]

Date: 2008-10-24 22:58:03

Saturday Evening Open Thread

Good Evening. For whatever you did today, I want to thank you. I know time is precious, but this is time well spent ... are Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon and Washington. The other two Southern states with early ... Republic Rashid Who? by Ethan Porter Why the Jews finally came home to Obama Post Date Friday [more...]

Date: 2008-11-02 01:56:41

according to my oxford english dictionary cease-fire means:cease-fire: noun a temporary suspension of fighting, typically one during which peace talks take place; a truce. • an order or signal to stop fightingyesterday, of course, the united nations security council voted for a “cease-fire.” 14 voted in favor of this. 0 voted against it [more...]

Date: 2009-01-09 23:38:04

Ten Best Vehicles For The Coming Financiapocalypse [Have A Great Depression]

The stock market is tanking, credit is dwindling, banks are collapsing and more people find themselves without a job or even a home ... by Mark Wilson/Getty Images 9.) Mini-Winnie They can't take your home if you run off ... comfortable way to enjoy your life on the road. The Winnebago Warrior, built off a Toyota truck frame [more...]

Date: 2008-09-30 20:00:00

A two part post: Year in Recap/Mid Century Modern, Cliff May and Me

Whew...what a year! And what a day is today!I hope to later insert links to some of the events that are mentioned in this recap.. ... , and immediately begin to look for work closer to our families. Our house gets prepped for selling; life ... have worked a little harder on that though!)July: We both find jobs in...Salt Lake City! PTL! We put the house [more...]

Date: 2008-12-30 02:50:00

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