Populism rules in a crisis
Henry Ergas is scared by Kevin Rudd’s reaction to this crisis: LIKE Baldrick in the television series Blackadder, Kevin Rudd has a plan, ... miring it in waste and inefficiency… Modern infrastructure programs require careful planning ... marginal home purchasers"… Rudd’s speech means one of two things: either he does not understand [more...]
Date: 2008-10-07 23:47:52
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EPA calls for greener consoles starting 2010
Filed under: Sony PlayStation 3, Nintendo Wii, Microsoft Xbox 360, Politics As you play your beloved Super Mario game tapes, ... has a plan to combat our wasteful ways. The EPA hopes to include modern home gaming consoles in their Energy Star plan which has been regulating the energy usage of certain home appliances since 1992 [more...]
Date: 2008-10-18 21:11:39
Shipping Containers: Dream Homes in Juarez, MexicoCNN 9.24.2008
When it comes to hot trends in the green building world, nothing is much hotter right now than shipping containers ... stands for "Por Fin, Nuestra Casa," -- "Finally, our own home") and plan to build a community ... . Shipping container homes are sleek, modern, and often a little bloated when it comes to square [more...]
Date: 2008-09-24 18:30:00
Ross Bleckner Selling Truman Capote's House
SELLER: Ross BlecknerLOCATION: Daniel's Lane, Sagaponack, NYPRICE: $14,800,00SIZE: 4 acres, 2,000 square feet, plus outbuildingsDESCRIPTION: ... modern home tastefully appointed and has plan and permits to expand. Guest house is ideally situated ... the home of Truman Capote, this property has an ocean view main house, legal 2 bedroom guest house [more...]
Date: 2008-10-17 17:53:00
Modern Green “i-House”
I keep hearing that our current economic recession is going to spawn a new decade of affordable design ... the modern home affordableWee House UpdatedWee House Updated ... floor plan. With a smorgasbord of eco options available it looks like a pretty good deal. Let’ [more...]
Date: 2009-01-08 05:03:22
Upstate Amish seek to buck smoke detectors, building codes
Here’s an interesting development way up north in Morristown, N.Y. (no, not Morristown, N.J., but Morristown, N.Y ... prosecutions against Amish families for building (or moving) homes without certified architectural plans, battery-powered smoke detectors and other “modern” requirements. According to an AP story [more...]
Date: 2009-01-12 15:59:08
I Finally Found The Perfect Home! Anyone Got $12,500,000.00 To Lend Me?
Just put on the market for $12,500,000.00, this 8,000 square foot home has that combination of organic materials (wood, stone) with modern design and open floor plans, lots of light and a fabulous yard. Exactly what I've ... ESTATES (BEVERLY HILLS, CALIFORNIA) This 8,000+ square foot "Lautner-esque" 4-bedroom Modern estate sits [more...]
Date: 2008-09-18 23:50:00
Posts about Home business as of January 20, 2009
Seller Communications Binder - realsolutionsblog.com 01/20/2009 Sellers of real estate generally have one complaint when it comes to their agent - ... products, … of Solar Night Industries. Accelerate Your Business With The Modern Energy Plan by SNI ... poor communication. You’ve heard the stories from sellers about how an agent listed their home [more...]
Date: 2009-01-20 19:12:37
Weekend Open House Report
The weekend open house slog is nigh, and we're here to help, as always. Agents, have a listing of your very own? Hustle! ... floor plan, working gas FP, large, modern updated kit w/ granite counters, solid cherry cabinets ... : $799,000 Pitch: "Quintessentially Bernal. Comfortable three bedroom home with formal dining room, [more...]
Date: 2008-11-08 20:10:06
Backstreet Boy Howie Dorough & Wife Expecting Their First Child
Backstreet Boy Howie Dorough and his wife Leigh, a real estate broker, are expecting their first child in June, ... -neutral nursery. “We have a home in L.A. that’s modern, a lot of wood,” said Howie. “We want ... , whose cravings include blueberry muffins, devised a plan to break the news to Howie after discovering [more...]
Date: 2009-01-14 21:07:43
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
An Investment in the Future of Noe Valley
Click the image above to view the full photogallery. As it currently stands, 469 Clipper St. is probably the house that all the neighbors hate ... plans for a new home, designed by ZAK Architecture. Actually, if the 3,500 sq ft renovation is built as designed, the neighbors will probably start fuming about the "ugly modern thing" that's ruined [more...]
Date: 2008-11-14 21:32:10
What’s Israel’s Plan in Gaza?
Jump to CommentsThe Israeli military operation in the Gaza Strip continues ... . The IDF has thousands of the most modern tanks and armoured vehicles, hundreds of ultra-modern jets ... supplies of home-made World War One era mortars, mines, and rockets. And Israel is threatened [more...]
Date: 2009-01-07 18:33:24
Can Health Plans Explain Why They Aren't Re-Empowering Primary Care?
By Brian Klepper & David Kibbe Sometimes a whisper is more powerful than a shout. Here's a cartoon from Modern Medicine that shows a Medical Home counseling session between a primary care physician (PCP), a specialist and the health plan.... [more...]
Date: 2008-10-30 13:50:34
EB1 Home / Replinger Hossner Architects
This contemporary modern house by Replinger Hossner Architects is up for sale in Seattle, WA. Amazing views and good interior spaces. I just got this on my mail and I thought any of our readers could be interested. More pictures and plans after the break. [more...]
Date: 2008-11-13 15:51:57
The Obama Transition and the Importance of Getting It Right
Today's Washington Post has a fascinating chart that details how differently various modern Presidents have gone about putting together their administrations. What Obama advisers have told me is that his plan, which he has been working ... crisis at home--and continued threat of terrorism from abroad--chaos is something the country [more...]
Date: 2008-11-09 15:52:09
"Europan Competition Starts Now"
Europan Competition Starts Now Thomas, Tue 20 Jan 2009 write a comment … architecture, competition + tender and urbanism ... of modern planning had been advanced. On the other hand I welcome that the recent Europan ses ... tion, communal life, people – and on the other side wanting intimacy, privacy, home and the imme [more...]
Date: 2009-01-20 17:03:13
On the Market: de/Vito Designs in Noe Valley
Click the image above to view the full photogallery ... Architecture into a modern, open-plan, split-level retreat complete with all your favorite ... , benefit most from the renovation. The three bedroom home is listed at $1,249,000. · 79 Valley [more...]
Date: 2008-10-16 18:18:43
Go Home Already: Buildings and Grounds
2008_0916_gha.jpg Seems like we all ought to be asking tougher questions about the plans of new Smithsonian head G. Wayne Clough. ... Modern Art Notes Redskin Chris Cooley has apologized for posting a photo of his penis on his blog ... up the block a woman was attacked, and the guy who rushed out of the house to help the woman, also beat [more...]
Date: 2008-09-16 23:13:33
Confessions of a former beer drinker - part 3
Another exciting installment on wine! Storage: While I’ve read that statistically most wine is consumed on the day of purchase, ... are in order. One common feature in modern kitchens is a wine rack built into the cabinetry. Our home ... , but if you have that one special bottle you are saving for some occasion, you’ll want to plan an appropriate [more...]
Date: 2009-01-16 11:00:13
Shed complete a new home for Freud
Thanks to David from Shed Design for sending us these photos and info. From Shed Design: Interior Architecture & Design studio Shed was appointed to master plan ... . The new £2M HQ on nearby Newman St. provides modern, practical and creative workspaces. Visitors [more...]
Date: 2008-07-29 08:22:03
Puppy Sharing Update: This Just Got a Whole Lot More Interesting
FlexPetz, the dog-sharing company I wrote about yesterday, does still plan to come to D.C. following its expansion to Boston, despite the modern-day “witch hunt” set off in Massachusetts ... cats for as much as $6,000 each. The company was evicted from its headquarters (also Brodie’s home [more...]
Date: 2008-08-07 17:04:27
What are Car Haulers?
Car Haulers is a gift of technology and advanced way of communication in the modern world ... make over. Because of the business and entrepreneurship the whole world is very much a small home ... competitions to grab the customers straightway but some of them are efficient to plan the whole procedures [more...]
Date: 2009-01-11 22:07:49
250 enemy against 30 Marines with a bad ass marksman
FARAH PROVINCE, Afghanistan -A Marine sniper attached to Task Force 2d Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment, ... to plan and stage attacks against Coalition Forces in the Bala Baluk district. The city is home ... insurgents ambush 30 Marines...and the Marines have a designated marksman who is surely the modern day [more...]
Date: 2008-11-25 18:41:28
For the Love of Lazarus
Foss Village is where people go to die. But the non-profit nursing home, in operation since the 1920s, is ready to start a new life. Foss has plans to demolish its aging one- and two-story buildings and sprawling parking lot in Bitter Lake, and replace them with a modern nine-building campus and underground parking that fills [more...]
Date: 2008-06-09 23:40:05
Fort Dix Trial
The trial continues today for five men accused of planning a terrorist attack on the Army's Fort Dix ... .' All of this proved to be untrue. When we do have home-grown terrorists we hear the same things, some poo-pooing any ... of a Modern Homegrown Terror Cell: Aabid Khan et al." (Operation Praline), which I think everybody [more...]
Date: 2008-10-27 14:58:53
Permits, Plans, and Partial Demolition in Pac Heights
The listing for 1629-1635 Green St ... , contemporary addition ("Cape Cod/ultra modern") to the existing be-shingled 3,000 sq ft structure ... . actually includes two homes on a double lot: a charming 1917 front house that's ready for move [more...]
Date: 2008-12-08 21:40:02
Abandon the Primal Eating Plan?
Tough Times Call for… Pasta?! Though we faithfully subscribe to an evolutionary model of living, eating, and exercising – the Primal Blueprint – we still live in a decidedly modern world fraught ... . Unfortunately, we don’t think their wallet-sparing tips are anything to write home [more...]
Date: 2008-10-10 15:41:16
O3b Networks: A far-out plan to deliver the Web
Greg Wyler worked in Rwanda from 2004 to 2006, trying to stitch together a modern Internet infrastructure for the African country, ... . In the United States, the challenge was often to connect “the last mile” to a home or business [more...]
Date: 2008-09-24 15:05:01
Friendly Fires Festival Plans
Group plan a busy summer Saint Albans shoegazing sensations <strong>Friendly Fires</strong> ... groups such as Ride and The Pale Saints with a modern indie aesthetic, crafting songs that have music ... with the kids." The band used the opportunity to play some of their home listening on the program [more...]
Date: 2009-01-20 10:58:06
5 Ways To Profit From China’s $585 Billion Stimulus Plan
The jury is still out on whether China’s massive infrastructure-based stimulus package is the best way to rescue the economy ... in its home market by pursuing business in faster-growing markets abroad. GE also announced that it would be providing China with 300 of its most modern locomotives between now and 2010). Even [more...]
Date: 2008-11-11 13:10:55
Down under, the drift toward domesticity...
(Tim, w/thanks to Kamilla) Since moving to Bloomington, I've often read aloud to one of my younger brothers or sisters in Christ, seeking to innoculate them against this or that part of our cultural decadence. Scripture always and foremost. But also Bonhoeffer (Life Together). Calvin. Kierkegaard (Attack Upon Christendom). A. A. Milne [more...]
Date: 2009-01-14 07:16:26
Ding Ding
Better late than neverIt's freezing cold, you've waited ages for a Cameron tax cut, and then suddenly two come along at once.But never mind ... will be one in six years time).We also say Yes to his no-nonsense funding plan - a straight £5bn off ... not and want not. It's an economy where everyone has the chance to own their own home with space to live [more...]
Date: 2009-01-05 18:39:00
What Would Andrew Jackson Do?
Standing in the glow of electoral victory, before tens of thousands of cheering fans in Grant Park in Chicago on the night of November 4, 2008, ... These socialist recommendations are seen as building blocks for Obama plans because the lead author is Paul ... , who will be a special Obama White House adviser. Volcker's role is to help mastermind what [more...]
Date: 2009-01-17 02:14:17
Signal failure
For San Francisco readers keeping up-to-date on celebrity news, we are pleased to provide this story from The BBC. By Mark Ward Technology Correspondent, BBC News website US mobile phone operators are to boost network capacity and have issued special advice to [more...]
Date: 2009-01-19 23:00:48
Will Electric Cars Fuel Urban Sprawl?
Shai Agassi has an idea so revolutionary it’s convinced venture capitalists to commit hundreds of millions of dollars, ... will become a paradigm shift for the auto. In his plan, owners of electric vehicles subscribe ... stations, or charge up at special plug-in spots located at work or even their home. The car’s computer [more...]
Date: 2009-01-14 03:02:00
Howie Dorough and Wife Expecting a Baby
Damon Tucci Backstreet Boy Howie Dorough and his wife Leigh, a real estate broker, are expecting their first child in June, ... blueberry muffins, devised a plan to break the news to Howie after discovering she was pregnant after ... was like something from America’s Funniest Home Videos. I thought, ‘Oh my god! Here we go! This is it!’” Says [more...]
Date: 2009-01-13 23:45:56
Build a Bridge, Be a Bridge
Dads are just not what they used to be. Today it is not unusual for the title to have several prefixes such as single, step, at home, ... . In the midst of all this generational and relational wobbling, how does a modern father hope to cope ... . My family is a bit different even by modern standards. I have been married for some eighteen [more...]
Date: 2009-01-20 05:31:37
Barack Obama decries others “lying” about his record … (UPDATED)
But apparently when it comes to talking about his own record, he doesn’t mind really lying - at all: In Golden, Colo., today, Sen ... In January, I outlined a plan to help revive our faltering economy,” Obama said, “which formed the basis ... a fiscal stimulus plan centered on tax rebate checks for the broad majority of Americans. The bipartisan [more...]
Date: 2008-09-17 02:01:25
Presidential Fun Facts! I'm Geeky For President Number 8!
Good Chilly Morning, Blogland Friends!~~~As you can imagine living here in the Washington, DC area, we are deluged with Inauguration info ... that day too. We plan to watch the historical proceedings like we always have, from the warm cozy comfort of our home. I love history. I love to visit historical places. This summer we are planning [more...]
Date: 2009-01-16 14:13:23
What Would It Take to End Public Swearing?
Gamepolitics.com reports on a new South Carolina bill that proposes to outlaw public profanity. The measure, S ... the 3 questions I increasingly put front and center in everything I write about modern censorship efforts: (1) How do they plan to enforce it? (2) Is there really any chance of such a law being even remotely [more...]
Date: 2009-01-16 16:11:24
iPhone shows money can buy happiness
Jeez, here I am, sixty years old, and only now realizing that I've had it wrong for most of my philosophically-inclined life: ... of the modern Apple offerings was the iPod Touch. It was cool. So easy to use. Such an elegant interface ... (just as Apple's nefarious marketing plan intended) the contrast between my eager-to-please iPod [more...]
Date: 2009-01-12 05:13:49
Barack Obama: Egghead?
Barack Obama begins most of his speeches with the claim that voters will have a crucial choice to make on November 4: "We meet at a moment when this country is facing a set of challenges unlike any we've ever known." During debates Obama - the former University of Chicago professor of constitutional law -- keeps his head tilted thoughtfully, [more...]
Date: 2008-08-20 05:40:13
Quelling dissent: The unfolding globalist agenda
From A new international agenda by Mikhail Gorbachev Civil strife in Congo, Sudan and elsewhere in Africa has cost thousands of lives. The terrorist attacks on Mumbai were more than just a tragic reminder of the threat posed by terrorism: They also raised the issue of the responsibility of the state on whose territory this large-scale attack had [more...]
Date: 2009-01-15 13:23:00
The Two Okinawan Diet Rules (or How I’m Getting Leaner During the Holidays)
Article by Leo Babauta. (Follow me on Twitter.) Like many people, I tend to overeat during the holidays, from Thanksgiving through New Year’s ... . This will be the healthiest holiday season ever for me. I’m also starting a meal plan and exercise routine that will have me drop some fat while gaining muscle by New Years, I promise. I’ll publish more [more...]
Date: 2008-12-01 00:25:49
Why SaaS could make your IT skills irrelevant
Tom Clement has reinvented his career before. In 1984, he realized working in technology would suit him better than his job as a litigator in Texas. "I came home one day from work, and I was used to being really tense," he says. "But that day, my secretary's recorder had broke. I'd taken it apart, put it back together, and somehow, it worked [more...]
Date: 2008-08-20 23:33:15
Have a Little One? You Don’t Have To Give Up Weekends Away
Photo by Tom Eppenberger, Jr The following is a guest post from Emma of Baby Log. We used to travel a lot. Hardly one weekend per month was spent at home; we were always hiking, camping, rock climbing ... at home is not a solution. I was convinced that with some preparation and planning, we could make the most [more...]
Date: 2009-01-09 08:01:00
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
Weekend Open House Report
Time now for another edition of the Curbed Open House Report, wherein we run down the best of the primo weekend pickins'. Something we missed? ... with modern sensibility. Handsome facade, gorgeous remodel, meticulous attention to detail, quality ... and is graced with preserved period elegance throughout. Three bedroom, 1 bathroom, formal dining room, [more...]
Date: 2008-09-26 23:47:57
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
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