Holiday apartment La Finca
Holiday apartment La Finca Author Moutushi Banerjee explains: Spain is most famous as a holiday destination, ... for Family Vacation Author Nathalie Fiset explains: Family vacation can be fun if one plans right. How ... Spanish country house with a private pool which is situated at the most beautiful part of the Costa [more...]
Date: 2008-12-08 03:52:07
Blog posts
(96) |
Videos
(36)
Irvine Co. announces first layoffs in 16 years
Irvine Co. headquarters in Newport Beach (Updated to add links, photos, more details and background.) The Irvine Co ... property taxpayer in the county. The original 93,000-acre Irvine Ranch, formed from several Spanish ... has been transforming the ranch into master-planned housing developments, apartment and office buildings [more...]
Date: 2008-09-19 23:12:46
Noodles Chill Out
Noodles Chill Out Lots of Asian restaurants in the Bay Area offer cold noodle dishes, and most can also be made at home. Learn how! ... American/Latin (13) Southwestern (3) Spanish (19) Steak House (24) Sushi (57) Tapas (11) Teahouse ... ; Phan's plans Food takes backseat to MarketBar's locale California's blue-ribbon cheeses [more...]
Date: 2008-07-23 15:29:14
Your Mama Hears...
...That there's trouble brewing in The Hills.First there was all that freaking out in the quiet Hollywood neighborhood where The Hills' resident "fashion designer" Lauren Conrad purchased a $2,360,000 Spanish style house in early 2008 ... are all upset and atwitter over MTV's plans to film episodes of The Hills at the Bryn Mawr Drive house [more...]
Date: 2008-10-23 19:22:00
Property values to fall further, Sterling through the floor ...
... We're doooooomed...!The head of Barclays Bank is predicting that we are perhaps only half-way through the process of house price decline, ... Reserve may cut interest rates further, whereas there are suggestions from European Central Bank ... , who can tell if the Spanish government's plans will prove genuinely helpful or simply prolong [more...]
Date: 2008-12-15 11:42:00
Digg Raises Money, Plans International Expansion
Digg has raised $28.7 million in Series C funding, which means bigger offices, a bunch of new job openings, and a more aggressive expansion ... , Spanish, and French versions are prioritized, for obvious reasons. Om Malik reports a rumor ... Related PostsDigg Dialogg Goes Live, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi the First VictimiFundVC blog launches [more...]
Date: 2008-09-26 08:37:18
Elvis Presley's Palm Springs Home On The Market
Filed under: Estates Some names add cachet to a house years after they have moved on. Elvis Presley definitely falls into that category ... . Architect Albert Frey designed the Spanish-style stucco home which includes Presley's bedroom suite ... . Just last year Reno Fontana and his wife, Laura bought the home and announced plans to restore it and offer [more...]
Date: 2008-08-13 11:02:00
Jan 17 2009
This article is a little old..But as Most of my friends all know.I am a Heinzist Shaman, and I do have my own religion called Heinzism ... " The White Buffalo was born, as I went to my Grandpas house asking him his thoughts about what to name ... , Innovation, Empowerment and Respect. It appears the baked bean maker also has plans to dominate [more...]
Date: 2009-01-16 11:02:00
Opposition to demolition of building near New Acropolis Museum
I am not entirely clear why this is a news item again - as nothing seems to have changejd significantly in the case since the decision by Greece’s ... Marcus Binney, Architecture Correspondent Plans to demolish a handsome Art Deco house that will block ... member of the Athens Academy who worked in Paris, Istanbul and Dublin. The house was initially [more...]
Date: 2009-01-16 13:52:41
Torturing His Supporters
Hat tip to Armando this morning, for: AP: Obama Team Debating Violating UN Convention On TortureThe other day, the AP reported: ... , according to two U.S. officials familiar with drafts of the plans. Still under debate is whether to allow ... and for all?... What is it about waterboarding that makes the White House so reluctant to renounce it? It's an [more...]
Date: 2009-01-18 15:00:00
Sundance Saturday & a wedding!
I was dreading yesterday before it even started....BUSY!I had to take my car in for its 30,000 mile checkup ... now! I can do whatever I want! (so there!)Walked in the door at 1:15 to a text from Soren as a change of plans ... "The Anarchist's Wife" (Spanish drama about a family in Spain during WWII). So I had to shower and attempt [more...]
Date: 2009-01-18 21:06:00
Economic Potpourri December 13, 2008
Once again news is flying out of every corner at record speeds. Here are a few headline news reports of interest from the past couple days.Mazama Capital assets fall 75%, but optimism holds steadyIn a year of devastating investment losses, it may comfort amateur stock pickers to know that even the pros are suffering [more...]
Date: 2008-12-13 22:34:00
Obama Taps Richardson for Commerce Secretary
President-elect Barack Obama Wednesday tapped New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson to be his Secretary of Commerce, bringing yet another former rival into his cabinet and the first Hispanic thus far. At a Chicago press conference this morning, Obama touted Richardson's ability to help lead the country out of its economic recession and expressed [more...]
Date: 2008-12-03 19:18:26
WINNER! Design Challenge: Space Plan for your Living Room
Congratulations to Christine - she is the lucky winner of our first Design Challenge which was announced last month ... Hacienda located near Los Angeles. Christine wrote that they had been on a ten month house hunt and after seeing about sixty to seventy homes, they finally found their dream house! It's a three bedroom [more...]
Date: 2009-01-15 03:20:00
Tryptophane and Sand
I had a vegetable-busy salad after work but, as is generally the pattern with salad, found myself snacky at 9, so I had some graham crackers and milk ... , the one on the west side of the house, into which the afternoon sun from the backyard poured) and I would haul ... -- I remember it being a massive house -- and she may have done some sewing before bed. [more...]
Date: 2009-01-19 05:08:00
Cables, dispatches and memoranda
A brief world news roundup for 16 January 2009. United States & the Americas Reuters - The Pentagon official overseeing the Guantanamo war crimes tribunals has dismissed and then refiled all of the pending charges, a move military defense lawyers said on Wednesday could make it politically tougher for U.S [more...]
Date: 2009-01-16 06:58:18
American Energy: A Cure for the Recession?
Forty years ago this month, a well blowout in the Santa Barbara Channel forever changed the way America looks at oil--and launched the anti-oil ... That Could Pay For Stimulus Plans And RenewablesPlummeting stock and housing prices have triggered ... and the White House want a $1-trillion “stimulus” for the banking, auto and steel industries, roads [more...]
Date: 2009-01-19 16:39:00
If I Were Jewish, I Would Insert the “Oy Vey” Here
Let me share two recent conversations I’ve had with loved ones. Conversation #1 – On the phone, with my mom: (This was all in Spanish, but I’ve translated it. Trust me; it’s even more ridiculous in Spanish ... me again.)Mom: So what are your plans now? Me: Well, we don’t have anything definite, but I think [more...]
Date: 2009-01-15 20:51:00
Israel’s drive for power
Embedded video from CNN Video At this juncture a revisitation of Umberto Ecco’s 14 Defining Characteristics of a Black Shirt is advisable if we are to understand the nature of the Israeli nation and its current atrocities. We’ll leave them below in this post as a reminder to discuss them in depth later, [more...]
Date: 2009-01-15 15:36:41
Obama taps Virginia's Gov. Tim Kaine as part-time DNC chair
... the fact, to be honest, the chairman of the party holding the White House has less to do because ... from the big house, from close presidential associates and political strategists such as Karl Rove and, soon [more...]
Date: 2009-01-05 05:01:57
Immigration Bill Up
Is bill hb0093 to address the illegal immigration issue "radioactive"? At least one influential legislator thinks so ... . It takes a bit to load as it is a large PDF file. The bill is up for debate in the house ... old daughter is off limits can cause, KATV reports that they are short of Spanish-speaking [more...]
Date: 2009-01-14 18:23:00
National Day of Listening
Friday was National Day of Listening, but I've decided unilaterally that the whole weekend is fair listening game ... from her house to a nursing home (or a "compilation home," as the Aunda calls it) because my grandmother ... before her sixty-ninth birthday. She slipped on the narrow cement stairs going down to her basement [more...]
Date: 2008-11-29 16:48:00
Live coverage: Heathrow's third runway decision
9.50am: The transport minister Geoff Hoon is not due to announce until lunchtime whether the government will approve a third runway at Heathrow, but the media is taking it as a done deal. A new electrified high speed rail line linking Heathrow, London and Birmingham will be included in the package allowing Hoon to announce a "green Heathrow", [more...]
Date: 2009-01-15 09:45:28
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
Abbey reports boom in payments into savings accounts
Depositors looking for a safe haven for their money have poured cash into accounts at Spanish-owned Abbey, the bank said today. The bank, owned by Spanish giant Banco Santander, said new deposits had jumped 70% so far ... has not taken part in the government's plans to pump billions of pounds into ailing banks, as it has capital [more...]
Date: 2008-10-28 10:11:19
The Sun is Rising in the East Again!
Obama Poised to Become 44th U.S. PresidentReutersWASHINGTON (Reuters) - Barack Obama was poised to make history on Tuesday as the first black U.S. president, buoyed by surging public confidence for dealing with the biggest economic headaches in 70 years, two wars and a web of other international problems [more...]
Date: 2009-01-20 12:53:00
"Wall of Violence" on Mexico's Southern Border
By Kristin Bricker, NarcoNewsCalderon's "two-faced" policy combines police, the military, gangs, ... . "The chemicals they put in food these days ruin the taste," he says. Humberto has a patch of land, a house ... on the Mexico-US border. He'd figure out how to cross into the US when he got there.But Humberto's plans [more...]
Date: 2009-01-15 10:26:00
MIND MELD: Is Science Fiction Responsible for the Lack of Public Interest in Space Exploration?
It's not often that our real life science heroes utter disparaging remarks against science fiction. In fact, the opposite is usually true; science fiction is often cited as a source of inspiration and interest. Enter Buzz Aldrin, who caused a stir recently with some comments he made [more...]
Date: 2008-10-29 07:28:56
He knows which way the wind blows
By Kate Sheppard President-elect Barack Obama took his "American Recovery and Reinvestment Plan" on the road Friday, talking up his clean energy plans at an Ohio factory that manufactures nuts and bolts used ... had announced plans to expand and become the "largest wind tower manufacturer in North America." The Danish wind [more...]
Date: 2009-01-18 01:13:21
I said all this a million times but now that it is too late, a believable source: Martial Law, the financial bailout, and war by Prof. Peter D. Scott!
Global Research, January 8, 2009Paulson’s Financial BailoutIt is becoming clear that the bailout measures of late 2008 may have consequences at least as grave for an open society as the response to 9/11 in 2001. Many members of Congress felt coerced into voting against their inclinations, [more...]
Date: 2009-01-12 13:00:00
Mumbai Update 1:30 PM EST
Mumbai Update 1:30 PM EST November 29th, 2008 By HOLLY IN CINCINNATI, Copy Editor Burning funeral pyres of Mumbai victims, Saturday[ ... victim Yohevet Orpaz, age 60 Ironically, Or-Paz means Light of Peace in Hebrew & Spanish Israeli ... combing the floors of Nariman House for other casualties. Hoshen said six members of Israel’s Burial [more...]
Date: 2008-11-29 15:52:50
Carnivals, Festivals and Linklove
I had a guest post on raising children bilingually, on one of my favorite fellow Thesis user’s blogs: Gidget Loves Languages. ‘Gidget’ aka Nicole is a former Spanish teacher raising her daughter bilingually, and sharing her experiences (and some Spanish vocabulary) along the way. She also has another blog, Gidget Goes [more...]
Date: 2008-11-16 11:00:50
The Simple Woman's Daybook-Week of January 19th
FOR TODAY (January 19, 2009)...Outside my window...it's dark, with a cold breeze.I am thinking...of work tomorrow morning.I am thankful for.. ... , a Spanish interiors magazine, and Gynaika (Woman) an old women's magazine I grew up with and worked ... to do her justice. All the best for the US, too.I am hearing...my son blubbing.Around the house...the trea [more...]
Date: 2009-01-19 18:16:00
Martial Law, the Financial Bailout, and War By Prof. Peter Dale Scott
Global Research, January 8, 2009 Paulson’s Financial Bailout It is becoming clear that the bailout measures of late 2008 may have consequences at least as grave for an open society as the response to 9/11 in 2001. Many members of Congress felt coerced into voting against their inclinations, [more...]
Date: 2009-01-13 14:05:21
Swanky Dog Hotel?
Proposed Bill: Humans, Pets Buried in Single GraveBy Chantal Anderson - Seattle Times staff reporterSen. Ken Jacobsen and his cat Sam that died several years ago. The Seattle Democrat has filed a bill that would allow the commingling of human and pet remains. Forget the notion that dogs are man's best friend. To Sen [more...]
Date: 2009-01-16 15:00:00
Zionist Bloodshed - Intimidation By The Word 'Anti-Semitism' Won't Save You From It
By Dick Eastman1-17-9 Are you willing that your family be next?Your inaction tells me that you are. I am hoping that the following history lesson from Eustace Mullins will change that. You and I and everyone you care about have been set up for mass murder and you need to put aside your natural terror at the prospect and act rationally [more...]
Date: 2009-01-17 22:46:00
Is there hope for the stupid girls?
Sorry for the title, but if you are offended by it...then you must fit into the category. This is my moment to vent! I have to get it out a) because I am bored, and b) because I'm tired of hearing about it over and over again.I'll mention the Myspace whores towards the end....and please dont be one of them [more...]
Date: 2009-01-19 08:25:00
Obama’s Inauguration Show Online: Where to Watch?
Obama Inauguration Show Online: When Barack Obama becomes the 44th U.S. President next week, millions of people will be watching ... of choice’s web site. See the video above for what to expect; here are coverage plans and links: C-SPAN ... of the President-elect and Vice President-elect to Bush departing the White House to the many inaugural [more...]
Date: 2009-01-20 23:19:38
Inauguration--Or Not?
Attending Ronald Reagan's Inauguration was one of the most memorable days of my life ( ... House). The peaceful transference of government is one of the most remarkable occurrences in the world ... House, Supreme Court, and U.S. Capitol. We saw the streets being prepared for the biggest event [more...]
Date: 2009-01-16 00:36:00
DrumBeat: November 21, 2008
Five-year U.S. crude oil futures at record $30 premium LONDON (Reuters) - U.S. crude oil futures for delivery in January 2014 are trading at a record $30 premium to current contracts, as investors bet that the long-term trend toward higher prices will remain intact despite oil's slump to $50 a barrel. U.S [more...]
Date: 2008-11-21 13:37:10
The Cooler
Another busy day in the local news department. Here you go......A- Herald: Grimm, Hialeah isn't boring. I know boring. I've been to Plantation ... for a Marlins baseball stadium -- plans for a post-Castro Orange Bowl event also have vanished.There [more...]
Date: 2009-01-15 12:20:00
138 Obama Lies, Mistruths or Inconsistencies
Out of the 1,500 posts on this website since Election Day 2007, 138 related to the Obama Campaign and some lie, slight of hands or some truth that contradicted his campaign position. Just think if it has been so easy for him to make these 138 Lies, Mistruths or Inconsistencies just think how easy it will be for him to lie about his policies if [more...]
Date: 2008-11-04 03:27:23
DrumBeat: November 25, 2008
ANALYSIS - Oil drop won't ease Latin American resource nationalism soon CARACAS (Reuters) - Latin American energy producers are unlikely to ease taxes on foreign oil companies in the near term, despite tumbling crude prices, in an attempt to keep government coffers full [more...]
Date: 2008-11-25 13:50:01
Indiana Jones And What Came Before (Part Two)...
Sorry for taking so long, I know I promised more of these but as always, the real world tends to pull one away...As last time, a warning.. ... years later, 1456. A Spanish Galleon is anchored off the shore. Some Spaniards are in the cave [more...]
Date: 2009-01-15 08:04:00
Olmert agrees to cease fire if Hamas does
Lost in the prose of this article: Prime Minister Ehud Olmert told Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Moratinos on Wednesday that he wanted to bring ... Ehud Olmert told Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Moratinos on Wednesday that he wanted to bring ... House, Defense Department and U.S. intelligence agencies, in an effort to reach a written guarantee [more...]
Date: 2009-01-15 17:48:54
One for the history books
Although I may not be into politics that much, in fact hardly at all. I did enjoy following this years presidential election ... dog meat, snake meat, and roasted grasshopper while living in Indonesia• He can speak Spanish• While [more...]
Date: 2009-01-19 22:49:00
Palm Islands: the island paradise of Dubai worry environmentalists
Palm Islands: the island paradise of Dubai worry environmentalists The construction of four artificial islands off Dubai - Palm Islands project, each of which can house thousands of villas and luxury hotels, is the admiration ... discovered by Spanish explorers who have encountered several Native American tribes around [more...]
Date: 2009-01-19 16:03:35
TRICENTENNIAL Series - Story - A Spanish Visitor - 1783
Francisco de MirandaSelf PortraitOn 13 July 1783 Beaufort was host to a most unusual visitor from Spain. Francisco de Miranda, then thirty-three years old and a fugitive from Spanish justice, had set ... and the assembly house are of brick and are suitable to the town. The finest building of all and one which [more...]
Date: 2009-01-17 01:19:00
The Long Tail - Wired Blogs
The Long Tail A public diary on themes around my books ABOUT | RSS FEED rss January 05, 2009 The best selling MP3 album of the year was free image Cool news: The best-selling MP3 album at Amazon in 2008 was Nine Inch Nails’ Ghosts I-IV, which was released free under a Creative Commons license software [more...]
Date: 2009-01-19 10:24:08
Nobody Expects the Spanish Inquisition...
A young artist I adore recently told me that a gallery in another city she had scheduled a solo show with told her they were closing instead ... for the economic crisis hitting us all and made contingency plans. "He should have expected and planned [more...]
Date: 2008-11-17 13:59:00
