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Floods, landslides, chaos across state Saturday, September 4, 2010 @ 12:14PMVictoria, soaked to the brim by its best winter rains in years, was overflowing yesterday.
Life as a HOUSE Saturday, September 4, 2010 @ 9:38AMAfter a summer spent surrounded by nature, eating meals on the dock and getting exercise by canoeing across the lake, people often ask themselves, "Why can't this be my life?" Cathy and Bruce Forster bought their cottage in a village on Lake Huron when they were in their 30s.[...]
Helping hands clean the land of the âLoaf Saturday, September 4, 2010 @ 8:38AMHundreds of volunteers gathered in the early morning hours at Chautauqua High School Aug. 28 prepared to get dirty.
For New Orleans Saints Coach Sean Payton, Chinese drywall crisis kicks off custom home redesign Saturday, September 4, 2010 @ 5:04AMBeth Payton and her design team create an elegant and comfortable family home in Mandeville.
Alert system on for floods Saturday, September 4, 2010 @ 4:44AMUPDATE 6.29pm: AN emergency alert system created after the Black Saturday bushfires was used for the first time today to warn Victorians of floods.
Army called in to help evacuate Saturday, September 4, 2010 @ 4:44AMUPDATE 2.39pm: THE army has been called in to evacuate homes in central Victoria as torrential rain brings severe floods.
The Arts Saturday, September 4, 2010 @ 3:48AMThe music department of Western Connecticut State University will present faculty guitarist Andrew Lafreniere and tenor Dr. James Maroney in a concert titled "An Afternoon of Song with Classical Guitar" next Sunday at 3 p.m. at the Roxbury Congregational Church, Church Road, Roxbury.
Palm Desert home collects memories from all over the world Saturday, September 4, 2010 @ 3:23AMMichael Mercil and Stephen Thewlis met 27 years ago in Sri Lanka. Thewlis was working for the Sri Lanka Ministry of Education in Columbo, while Mercil was the Peace Corps director on the island nation.
Philadelphia's Antiques Row in transition Saturday, September 4, 2010 @ 2:35AMTed Kirk draws deeply on his cigarette, rests his elbows on his splayed knees, and takes a long, sad look around. He is sitting in the once cluttered, now scavenged, showroom of his brother Jack's antiques shop in Center City. Hardly anything is left, other than a few cardboard moving boxes, a couple of dusty rugs rolled up like stogies, and some orphaned leaded glass windows.
Sears and Kmart Team up with Spanish-Language TV Icon Cristina Saralegui to Launch New Bed and Bath Line Wednesday, September 1, 2010 @ 8:00AMThis fall, Sears and Kmart are excited to announce the launch of an exclusive new soft home collection, Casa Cristinaâ¢. Created by well-known Hispanic journalist and talk show host Cristina Saralegui, the Casa Cristina collection is inspired by Saralegui's Miami home, along with the artistry and memories of her childhood.
Sleek designs finds pop up within easy grasp Wednesday, September 1, 2010 @ 7:50AMSleek design finds pop up in easy grasp Just like the delectable French food showing up in taco trucks, great design is cropping up in pop-up stores around San Francisco. The latest iteration is Zinc Details' pop-up store at the Yerba Buena Center for the... San Francisco - Yerba Buena Center for the Arts - San Francisco Bay Area - Zinc Details - United States
New Oval Office rug made in Michigan Wednesday, September 1, 2010 @ 6:24AMMichigan craftsmanship shared center stage with President Barack Obama on Tuesday night. Beneath the president's feet in the newly renovated Oval Office was a 23-foot-by-30-foot rug handcrafted by the Scott Group, a Grand Rapids-based custom luxury carpet company.
Metropolitan Health Networks and SeniorBridge Partner to Launch In-Home Care Management Pilot to Improve Care and ... Wednesday, September 1, 2010 @ 6:15AMWEST PALM BEACH, Fla. & NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Metropolitan Health Networks, Inc. (NYSE AMEX:MDF), (“Metcare”), a leading provider of healthcare services in Florida, and SeniorBridge, a national health management company, today announced the launch of a unique year-long care management pilot program that is expected to improve clinical outcomes and quality of life while reducing the overall ...
Metropolitan Health Networks and SeniorBridge Partner to Launch In-Home Care Management Pilot to Improve Care and ... Wednesday, September 1, 2010 @ 6:00AMWEST PALM BEACH, Fla. & NEW YORK----Metropolitan Health Networks, Inc. , , a leading provider of healthcare services in Florida, and SeniorBridge, a national health management company, today announced the launch of a unique year-long care management pilot program that is expected to improve clinical outcomes and quality of life while reducing the overall cost of caring for Medicare beneficiaries.
NY: Teens held for harassing Muslims Wednesday, September 1, 2010 @ 5:53AMA group of teenagers in western New York has been arrested for allegedly harassing worshipers and firing a shotgun outside a mosque.
Star-quality camera makes cameo appearance for high school filmmakers Wednesday, September 1, 2010 @ 5:14AMA film crew of high school students was hard at work Monday filming a five-minute silent film about a boy who has to battle monsters to pick a rose for his sick mother.
EMC worker says building repairs neglected Tuesday, August 31, 2010 @ 8:32PMSouderton Area School District officials are looking into conditions at the E. Merton Crouthamel Elementary School after an employee at the building brought her concerns to the school board last week.
Brave new art world Tuesday, August 31, 2010 @ 6:42PMThe unofficial era of Minimalism seemed to end in May with the departure of art critic and former UNLV English professor Dave Hickey and art historian and his wife, director of the now-closed Las Vegas Art Museum Libby Lumpkin. Now that the doors of the art community have opened a bit wider, it's any genre's game in Las Vegas. From tea cocktails to the ancient art of metal point, satirical puns ...
Bathroom tile best in matte, textured Tuesday, August 31, 2010 @ 6:07PMQ: In a recent column, one of your reader's peel-and-stick bathroom flooring was coming up and you recommended putting down tile in the bathroom. My experience with tile has been that it gets very slick when wet, which would certainly be problematic in a... Floors - Tile - Shopping - Bathroom - Home and Garden
Grant will aid lab at Logan Museum Tuesday, August 31, 2010 @ 6:00PMMore baskets, textiles and ancient copper artifacts will be brought out for research at Beloit College thanks to a grant of $349,688 from the National Science Foundation (NSF).
Caltrans engineer pleas guilty to bribery in bid rigging case Tuesday, August 31, 2010 @ 5:47PMTwo Walnut Creek residents plead not guilty to bribery charges
Caltrans engineer pleas guilty to bribery in bid rigging case Tuesday, August 31, 2010 @ 5:25PMWALNUT CREEK -- A Caltrans engineer based in Stockton pleaded guilty today to bribery, fraud and bidding rigging in connection with agency contracts, and two Walnut Creek business operators accused of paying the bribes have pleaded not guilty.
Hurricane Preparation Tips for Homeowners in the Path of an Approaching Storm Tuesday, August 31, 2010 @ 5:13PMWith the possibility that Hurricane Earl may strike the Eastern Seaboard of the United States, the Private Client Group division of Chartis is reminding homeowners that advance planning can make the difference between minor damage and catastrophic property loss.
Saluting Our Veterans: Neil McCrossen Tuesday, August 31, 2010 @ 5:07PMFrom kings and emperors, to President Franklin Roosevelt and Gen. Dwight Eisenhower, Neil McCrossen’s time aboard the USS Quincy found him in the midst of many major events during World War II.
Heroin seized at Montreal's airport Tuesday, August 31, 2010 @ 4:57PMCanada Border Service agents announced Tuesday that its agents seized 11 kilograms of heroin at Montreal's Trudeau International Airport on July 30.
Nikki Sutton's romance of design Tuesday, August 31, 2010 @ 4:43PMWhen I first see Nikki Sutton at the Indianapolis Museum of Art, she's standing on the landing overlooking the front lobby, red hair and green dress poised against an upswept pale wall, like a character in an Antonioni film. by David Hoppe When I first see Nikki Sutton at the Indianapolis Museum of Art, she' s standing on the landing overlooking the front lobby, red hair and green dress poised ...
Wife of ex-Monroe County schools superintendent likely to plead guilty in theft Sunday, August 29, 2010 @ 9:14PMOn Tuesday in a Key West courtroom, Monique Acevedo -- the wife of ousted Monroe County Schools Superintendent Randy Acevedo -- is expected to plead guilty or no contest to six felony charges that she stole $413,000 from programs she oversaw as the School District's Adult Education Coordinator.
Real estate transactions Sunday, August 29, 2010 @ 8:52PMLAND: Gringo's Mexican Kitchen #10 has purchased 1.6 acres at U.S. 290 and Mueschke Road from US 290 Retail. James Doyle and Hugh Ruggles of Texas/Southwest Group represented the buyer. Crosswell Torian and Heather Chappell represented the seller.
Don't forget your Cheerios if you want to go to work Sunday, August 29, 2010 @ 6:57PMThe mental barrier between the sorts of things we do at home and at work has collapsed, writes LUCY KELLAWAY
Four-legged friends, five-star treatment Sunday, August 29, 2010 @ 6:12PMLike many a young American with parents who like to spoil him, Declan Kelly spent a roasting hot afternoon last week splashing around his local water park. It had fountains, a simulated beach, and thatched cabanas where he could kick back and watch the world go by. There were areas for learning to swim, in big red buoyancy vests, or surf, on foam boogie boards. The centrepiece was a saltwater ...
Week Around the Ists Sunday, August 29, 2010 @ 5:24PMPhotograph by Jeanne Wilson Gothamist is stuck in a vortex of stories involving alleged Islamophobia: A week that started with a heated rally and confrontation outside the not-at-Ground Zero mosque, there were incidents of a man peeing on prayer rugs at a Queens mosque and a taxi driver who was stabbed after being asked if he was Muslim . Chicagoist watched a Lego version of the city come under ...
Elsewhere in the ist-a-verse: Lego Chicago Attacked Sunday, August 29, 2010 @ 3:41PMPhotograph by Kim Bellware/Chicagoist Chicagoist watched a Lego version of the city come under attack by Lego Star Wars villains and then talked to the Lego Master Builder behind the chaos. SFist prepared for Burning Man and questioned whether or not the event had any wind left in its counterculture sails. LAist discovered a messy "intersection" between the City of Santa Monica and a cancer ...
New On-Line Exhibition Includes Best-of-the Best 19th Century Carpets in Museum-style Display Sunday, August 29, 2010 @ 1:02PMOAKLAND, CA.- The difficulty for connoisseurs to hone their eye for art-level 19th century Oriental rugs goes beyond their limited availability at individual galleries. The periodic international auctions invariably mix a few collectible carpets with dozens of pedestrian pieces.
Diehards show Leichhardt's tops as a finals venue Sunday, August 29, 2010 @ 12:09PMThe NRL rations ''special occasion'' games at some suburban venues and the SCG, believing you can have too much of a good thing. But when the Leichhardt Oval crowd's mood reached fever pitch as Robbie Farah burst clear and set up Benji Marshall's game-clinching third try, a far worse problem came to mind. Not having enough of a good thing.
Silk's dark side: Uzbek kids made to grow cocoons Saturday, August 28, 2010 @ 11:13AM(AP:KOKAND, Uzbekistan) For one month a year, from morning to night, Dilorom Nishanova grows silkworms, a painstaking and exhausting job. She has been doing it since she was 8.
Silk's dark side: Uzbek kids made to grow cocoons Saturday, August 28, 2010 @ 11:11AMKOKAND, Uzbekistan (AP) -- For one month a year, from morning to night, Dilorom Nishanova grows silkworms, a painstaking and exhausting job.
Silk's dark side: Uzbek kids made to grow cocoons Saturday, August 28, 2010 @ 8:28AMKOKAND, Uzbekistan (AP)– For one month a year, from morning to night, Dilorom Nishanova grows silkworms, a painstaking and exhausting job. She has been doing it since she was 8. Uzbekistan's aut...
Silk's dark side: Uzbek kids made to grow cocoons Saturday, August 28, 2010 @ 6:36AMGreat Silk Road's dark side: Govt quotas force Uzbek children to skip school to grow silkworms
An unlivable state of affairs: Former veteran homeless after home of 41 years condemned. Saturday, August 28, 2010 @ 6:09AMSOUTH BEND -- A home is a home, whether it's an apartment or a house.
Silk's dark side: Uzbek kids made to grow cocoons Saturday, August 28, 2010 @ 6:05AMFor one month a year, from morning to night, Dilorom Nishanova grows silkworms, a painstaking and exhausting job. She has been doing it since she was 8. Uzbekistan's authoritarian government insists that it has banned child labor but Nishanova, now 15, hasn't heard about it. She and her siblings, aged 9 to 17, think it's perfectly natural to be helping their father grow silkworms, as well as ...
School begins for Gwynedd-Mercy College freshmen (video) Saturday, August 28, 2010 @ 4:44AMLOWER GWYNEDD — Some believe the autumnal equinox on Sept. 22 is the last day of summer; to others it's when the boardwalk closes or the temperature hits the 60s during the day.
Sanofi-Aventis Sues FDA to Stop Generic Blood-Thinner Drug Monday, August 23, 2010 @ 1:22PMIn a case that could have major implications for the future of drug competition, Sanofi-Aventis has sued the Food and Drug Administration in a bid to halt a generic version of one of its biggest drugs, a blood thinner made from pig intestines. Fights between brand-name and generic drugmakers and the FDA are nothing new. But this battle stands to set an important precedent for how the agency ...
Gilbert Ortega family divided over control of empire Monday, August 23, 2010 @ 10:54AMThe turquoise and silver empire of Gilbert Ortega is getting tarnished by a two-year legal battle involving the four Ortega siblings.
Macculloch Hallâs rugs show 17th, 18th century style Monday, August 23, 2010 @ 8:24AMMORRISTOWN - During the month of August, Macculloch Hall Historical Museum, 45 Macculloch Ave., will offer an opportunity to view some of the museum’s unusual and rare antique rugs.
SALT to hosts 1st hog roast Monday, August 23, 2010 @ 7:04AMCHILLICOTHE --Local seniors are hoping community support for a hog roast on Thursday will raise money to help area seniors.
Around South Hagerstown Monday, August 23, 2010 @ 7:00AMThe Kiwanis Club of Hagerstown will begin its 36th season of the Travelogue Adventure Series this fall at the South Hagerstown High School auditorium beginning at 7:30 p.m.
Illuminating the mosque issue Monday, August 23, 2010 @ 5:57AMThere remains the heated fight in New York City over plans to build a mosque near ground zero. It might help to ponder what is happening on the other side of the globe.
Salem woman had an eye for perfection Monday, August 23, 2010 @ 5:12AMEveryone's life has a story. In "Lives," we tell some of those stories about North Shore people who have died recently. "Lives" runs Mondays in The Salem News. SALEM — When Jeannette Darisse needed clothes for her children, she didn't run down to the store and buy the latest fashions.
Harford Fair wraps 153rd year Monday, August 23, 2010 @ 5:09AMHarford Fair wraps 153rd yearThe 153rd Harford Fair wrapped up Saturday after a six-day run filled with food, fun and largely favorable weather. It also brought a special honor for longtime fair director Ken Adams.Mr. Adams was surprised Friday morning
City hall houses seven empty floors Monday, August 23, 2010 @ 4:59AMFor nearly 75 years, the imposing grey art deco city hall building at the corner of 12th and Cambie has been a symbol of civic government in Vancouver.