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Date: 2009-01-14 12:50:46

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UN DAILY NEWS DIGEST - 19 January

UN DAILY NEWS from the UNITED NATIONS NEWS SERVICE19 January, 2009 =========================================================================SECRETARY-GENERAL RELIEVED AT CEASEFIRES CALLED BY ISRAEL, HAMASVoicing relief at Israel’s unilateral decision to halt its 22-day military offensive in Gaza and Hamas’ announcement of a temporary ceasefire, [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 23:14:00

Congressman Warns Global Warming 'Could' Harm Christmas Trees

With an impeccable sense of poor timing due to a snowstorm in Las Vegas and unusually cold weather throughout the nation, ... change could alter the state's Christmas trees. Shuler and others plan to hold a press conference ... in the White House. But the trees rely on the cool temperatures in the southern Appalachians [more...]

Date: 2008-12-18 12:50:07

Cold Steel

Frost on Entry Grate Down below the entry grate is an air tube that penetrates the concrete slab of our tiny cottage ... to put an insulated box there and use it for a refrigerator. Eventually I plan to build a refrigerator ... the coolth of our spring and possibly and ice house up hill of us from whence the cold can flow down [more...]

Date: 2009-01-21 02:46:50

DrumBeat: December 10, 2008

U.S. gasoline use to decline most since 1979-80 WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S ... opposition to auto bailout Republicans revolt as House begins procedural votes on the loan package ... such as Tupi, and will have no problem meeting its investment plans, Gabrielli told reporters in Rio [more...]

Date: 2008-12-10 13:52:25

DrumBeat: January 13, 2009

Analysis: Global power demand to languish in 2009 The outlook for energy commodities this year remains grim, says a new report from Merril Lynch. Neither cold winter temperatures in the Northern Hemisphere nor a steep fall in the price of energy have provided much support to the demand for oil, natural gas or coal [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 01:35:34

FOX Business Pundit's Prescription For Housing Ills: Turn Construction Companies Into Destruction Companies

Guest blogged by Dan In the 1930's, in an effort to increase prices, ... , so there is another possibility. Instead of continuing these absurdities, The Wall Street Journal’s Holman Jenkins and Forbes Magazine guest columnist Susan Lee, an economist, have both advocated [more...]

Date: 2008-12-28 05:22:41

a new year

When I’m really thinking, really pondering things I’m either talking it out with someone, or I’m completely silent ... ranch a couple years ago and the calf is now grown up and almost ready for eating. I plan to take A3 to the slaughter house and follow it through the process and then create a feast to celebrate [more...]

Date: 2009-01-20 03:51:04

Obama Victory Means Big Profits In Wind Power

The election of Barack Obama as president is essentially a vote for green energy over fossil fuels, says Andy Obermueller ... House, just wait until President Barack Obama takes office. During the presidential election, Obama ... t alone in its call to clean up the environment this way. China’s new energy plans, released [more...]

Date: 2008-11-27 14:59:38

NAIS: BAD FOR AMERICA, OPT OUT

By: Devvy January 19, 2009 The NAIS or National Animal Identification System is evil. Another putrid government program that must be halted ... , 2005, the USDA released “Draft Program Standards” (”Standards”) and a “Draft Strategic Plan” (”Plan”) for the NAIS. The Standards and Plan have no authority in law. The USDA has stated [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 13:24:00

President Bush Doesn’t Care About Black People

Dec. 8, 2008: President George W. Bush kisses one of the children attending the Children’s Holiday Reception and Performance with first lady Laura Bush in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC. The reception ... House, and which itself votes heavily Democratic. Meanwhile, African-Americans give little support [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 08:47:09

Minnick assigned seats on Ag and Finance committees

Idaho U.S. Rep. Walt Minnick snared House Financial Services and Agriculture committee assignments, where he’ll help guide America’s markets, farm policy and the U.S. Forest Service. The Financial Services panel is helping oversee the $700 billion bailout plan and last week outlined a proposal to attach strings to spending the rest [more...]

Date: 2009-01-17 01:37:47

Media & Politics (one section only today)

Media & Politics (one section only today) 15-Jan-09 Permanent link to MTA daily media news Barack Obama 2.0 (Political Wire) President-elect Obama’s political team “is quietly planning for a nationwide hiring binge that would marshal an army of full-time organizers to press the new president’s agenda and lay the foundation for his reelection, [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 19:07:46

Orlando Bloom and Miranda Kerr set to marry?

Orlando Bloom has popped the big question to Miranda Kerr and she has accepted according to The ... would be to live on a farm in a solar-powered house with a hammock and a vegetable patch ... only weeks after the Australian super-model denied another rumor of wedding plans. The couple share [more...]

Date: 2008-11-30 12:48:56

My plans for the Auction House

I've spent the last few days levelling some alts, and professions, and generally trying to assemble necessary infrastructure, towards my goal of learning how to (hopefully) generate truly obscene amounts of gold via the Auction House...or at least enough to pay for some crafted purplez and an epic flying mount [more...]

Date: 2009-01-20 10:58:00

Television Of The Weak: You're Goddamn Right We're Doing This

This week: American Idol, 24, Top Chef and The Bad Girls Club. American Idol – Phoenix, ArizonaOne of the best, and most unspoken, innovations of reality TV is its ability to capture those moments of human interaction so weird that, if you were to script it, no one would buy it [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 05:34:27

Erie PA Today News, Events and Info for today, Tuesday, January 20, 2009

The Irish Times reported that Mercyhurst College is establishing a campus in Dungarvan, Irleand. In the short term, space will be leased. Lamson and Sessions has sold their 3 plastic (polyethylene) pipe manufacturing plants including the Erie operations, at 1422 Irwin Dr in Erie PA, to Bore Flex Industries [more...]

Date: 2009-01-20 13:47:19

Bruce Sterling's Annual Report on 'Things in General'

Bruce Sterling’s Annual Report on ‘Things in General’ By Eric Etheridge Every January for last ten years, Bruce Sterling takes up virtual residence on the Well, one of the earliest online communities, to offer his view of “Things in General, the State of the World, Where We Have Been and Where We are Tending, [more...]

Date: 2009-01-09 17:28:22

Arts Agenda

Image of work by Shepard Fairey, from ManifestHope:DC Did you hear that? ... agendas for the past few years, it wasn't really happening in the District, home of the White House ... ) that they plan on saying a lot more than that. It is art, after all, and we prefer art that's brave [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 18:46:29

Even in Absentia, Obama Attracts Attention at Global Climate Talks in Poland

Even in Absentia, Obama Attracts Attention at Global Climate Talks in Poland The meeting is the fourth of its kind this year. And even though the U ... and a lot more energy efficient. Read this post » Pollan’s Advice to Obama: Turn White House Lawn Into an Organic Farm Obama needs to address the industrial, transcontinental food system [more...]

Date: 2008-12-01 16:40:16

2009 Predictions: Its Hour Come Round At Last

2009 Predictions: Its Hour Come Round At Last Sharon December 15th, 2008 I’m writing this a little early this year - _Independence Days_ is due in a couple of weeks, and I anticipate a great deal of distraction as the end-of-the-year predictions really start pouring out, so I thought I’d jump the gun and make mine now [more...]

Date: 2008-12-15 08:33:04

Amy Adams Maiden Speech

Amy is the MP for Selwyn - a seat that has produced many good MPs, including Sir John Hall: ... the women’s suffrage bill through the House in the 1890’s. Living in a world where women in NZ ... , but on the basis it would produce better outcomes! I come to this House as a commercial lawyer [more...]

Date: 2008-12-11 01:05:31

In Fight For Energy Independence, Pickens Has New Weapon

WASHINGTON — Texas oilman T. Boone Pickens is adding a new wrinkle to his push for U.S ... programs at home remain severely underfunded," said Pickens, who plans to highlight the monthly figures on his Web site. Pickens met with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and several House and Senate [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 13:12:02

My First Growing

Hey guys I am trying to grow my first plant, I've read up on growing and I think I will be able to produce the kind of plant I want, but the plant I'm trying to grow is different from a regular full size plant or grow farm ... worried that it will stink my house of pot, which I don't want. My Dad has smoked pot and knows [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 03:48:44

Ready for same-sex marriage milestone

The dreaded M word: Marriage. It arises again as the Legislature starts up ... "Animal Farm." And some humans get to use the M word; some don't. This year's legislative session ... Upthegrove, D-Des Moines, said the plan to expand domestic partnership rights sought "everything [more...]

Date: 2009-01-17 20:34:38

DrumBeat: January 7, 2009

Shell seeks Colo. water for oil shale production Shell Oil has filed for the first major water right on the Yampa River in northwest Colorado for its oil shale development plans. Shell applied Dec. 30 in state Water Court to use about 8 percent of the Yampa's peak spring flow. Shell spokesman Tracy Boyd says the water would be shipped [more...]

Date: 2009-01-07 13:57:26

Trouble Enough

Apologies for not getting back to you. My life's pretty crazy right now, from the magical realm of the 100 Bands You Need To Know in 2009 to the planning of all sorts of stuff down the road. AP turns 24 this year and we've got some big ol' plans afoot that are capital [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 22:58:20

Videos I rented in the past month

Cold Comfort Farm (1995)When Flora Poste (Kate Beckinsale) ... up residence with a group of her unsophisticated, oddball relatives at their farm. Despite protests from the bedridden, iron-willed matriarch of the farm, the aspiring lass tries to achieve some semblance [more...]

Date: 2009-01-18 16:58:00

The Swift and Violent Rise of Oil

Today's Daily Reckoning comes with a warning. If you have a short attention span, dislike history and metaphors, have atrocious spelling and grammar, ... bank attempts to resuscitate bank lending, or Ben Bernanke's secret plan to turn trillions [more...]

Date: 2009-01-20 03:50:32

Today's Climate: January 17-18, 2009

11th-Hour Ruling Blocks Utah Oil and Gas Leases (New York Times) ... . Government Issues Draft Offshore Drilling Plan (Reuters) The US Minerals Management Service has released an offshore drilling plan that calls for 31 energy exploration lease sales between 2010 [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 04:54:12

Chicago: A Declaration of Independence

"One might fear the degree to which the city had declared its independence from nature, ... my year of looking back at the Burnham Plan of Chicago on the occasion of its 100th anniversary ... the urban core. The world's design leaders have planted their flag in the city, with almost any high [more...]

Date: 2009-01-18 01:20:00

Paul Theroux Interview: “If you’re really suffering, then you’re travelling”

Paul Theroux talks to Greg Lowe about travelling in Thailand, Burma and China the hard way, and gives a tip on his favourite $10 guesthouse in Siem Reap. Backpacker Travel Insurance from World Nomads: Buy Now There is a misconception about how travel has changed, like the misconception about the Internet [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 03:34:18

Inaugurating the Green!

Inaugurating the Green! January 19, 2009 With the new administration coming into the White House, ... for the platform where the new President will take his oath of office and a plan to scoop up all of the manure from the horses in the parade and sell it to a nearby farm. “We’re committed [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 14:26:00

Obama To Hold Fiscal Responsibility Summit

Obama To Hold Fiscal Responsibility SummitPresident-elect Barack Obama visits the Post newsroom after a meeting with the editorial board and ... Obama.His plans to create or save 3 million American jobs will "stabilize the patient", Obama insisted ...  | Category:  White House [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 20:58:11

Japan Trip Report Part 19: Ghibli Museum and Seirinkan R2

Today’s trip has long been in planning. After all, Ghibli Museum tickets are limited to a preorder basis only, and we actually used the Lawson convenience store system while we were at Osaka to get the tickets (impossible to navigate and use without a printout of the official ticket how-to, [more...]

Date: 2009-01-17 01:57:29

Dreams Among the Corn

What are dreams made of?  Some see them as lofty or far reaching goals that we risk time, energy and much of our lives to achieve ... site near Dyersville, Iowa , and is where the movie by the same name was filmed. It’s a home, a farm [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 14:48:07

From Cubicle Nerd to Cucumber Vendor: Learning Small Scale Farming in Mid-life

This is a guest post from Jim Dunlap (Wyoming) about his experience as a new farmer in Virginia and is part of our Wed pm/Sat pm TOD: ... food on an 11 acre farm during 2008. Earlier TOD discussions, involving such posters as Jason [more...]

Date: 2008-12-20 16:42:38

DrumBeat: December 14, 2008

Global oil supply will peak in 2020, says energy agency Global oil production will peak much earlier than expected amid a collapse in petroleum investment due to the credit crunch, one of the world's foremost experts has revealed. Fatih Birol, chief economist to the International Energy Agency, [more...]

Date: 2008-12-14 14:06:53

The testing of a god, the sacrifice for a Union: Gaza’s tale

January 16, 2009 — Stefan Fobes by Stefan Fobes What amazes me first is I never thought I would see it so soon, the world seeing the Israeli military government for the mass murdering psychopaths that they are. And I don’t mean that as just a standard cry of frustration either [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 10:36:33

The Media Agrees! Obama Responsible for Last Week’s DOW Gains and Positive Black Friday Growth

Who says the media is in the tank for Obama? Amazingly, ... into the White House yet. But Wall Street is already showering him with praise for injecting confidence into the battered psyche of investors and working quickly to hatch a plan meant to jolt the economy [more...]

Date: 2008-12-01 23:42:31

How Afghanistan shaped my feminism

By Phyllis CheslerOn December 21, 1961, when I returned from Afghanistan, I kissed the ground at New York City’s Idlewild Airport ... in Europe and America.My plan was to meet Ali’s family in Kabul, stay there a month or two, study “ [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 23:10:00

Exclusive: Heather Mills Opens Up About Veganism, Charity And Staying Positive

When it comes to the vegetarian celebrity club, Heather Mills is perhaps one of the most controversial members. In the past few years, Mills has found herself in a media thunderstorm surrounding both her personal and professional life [more...]

Date: 2009-01-09 15:23:28

Food Bullets

In reply to Growing Boys: 1917: The Boy Scout Farm was located at the site of today's East Potomac Park. Start Boy Scout Farm More Than 500 District Lads Open National Food Campaign. Spurred ... yesterday started the cultivation of a 300-acre farm along the Potomac. Uniformed in khaki [more...]

Date: 2009-01-18 17:10:51

Jon Henley speaks to the people doing the jobs no one else wants

Ship's officer The Pride of Kent is 180 metres long, 28 metres wide, and weighs 30,635 tonnes. Fully loaded, she carries 120 trucks, 2,000 passengers, and up to 130 crew. It is, in fact, a small floating town that crosses the Channel between Dover and Calais 10 times every 24 hours [more...]

Date: 2008-12-02 00:05:26

Book Review: Cliff May and the Modern Ranch House by Daniel P. Gregory

Cliff May and the Modern Ranch House by Daniel P. Gregory Throughout his busy career in architecture, ... rancheria. The country’s acceptance of the modern ranch house began in the mid-1940s when this new ... , and a talented self-promoter. He seemed to live the idyllic life projected in his designs. You might say [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 17:30:46

Today’s Science Policy News for December, 16th 2008

A look at today’s science and health policy news: Obama picks Salazar as Interior secretary L.A. Times– President-elect Barack Obama plans to name Sen. Ken Salazar (D-Colo.) to lead the Interior ... White House energy and climate office and the appointment of a Nobel Prize winner to run the Energy [more...]

Date: 2008-12-16 15:38:32

Vote Change One More Time — For Our Food System

I think many of us agree that our food system is a mess.  Our industrial ways are destroying our environment and health.  We had hope that Obama would pick a Secretary of Agriculture who would be good for our future but his choice in Tom Vilsack is problematic [more...]

Date: 2009-01-12 15:46:05

Another Arizonian Running Interior?

Rep. Raul Grijalva (Wikimedia Commons) Phoenix — The possibility that President-elect Barack Obama will select Arizona Rep. Raul Grijalva as his secretary of interior has environmentalists, Interior Dept. employees, Native Americans and Latino groups giddy [more...]

Date: 2008-12-10 11:00:02

Your Life is a Circus: Join our Final 2008 Blog Blast!

Boogie and Littlest Pet Shop Blog Blast - “It’s a Family Tradition”, big congratulations goes out One in 36 Million for her post, ... . With presents to buy, family visits to plan, and a zillion other things we all want to accomplish [more...]

Date: 2008-12-12 04:01:21

Digest - News: Subway and Michigan join the ranks of the enlightened, Japan counts (domestic) calories

12/12 update: Victory at Tar Heel: After a 14-year dispute with company leadership, workers at Smithfield’s Tar Heel, NC plant voted last night to join the United Food and Commercial Workers union. Smithfield workers had voted against joining the union on two previous occasions, [more...]

Date: 2008-12-12 07:32:28

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