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[$47.99] Ursa Vineyards Petite Sirah Three Pack by Woot

Tough gig, being a wine scout, lemme tell you. Everybody thinks itd be a nonstop adventure. They think every day is like stumbling across Mickey Mantle playing on an alkali field, or Lana Turner working the soda fountain at a drugstore. Truth is, its a grind. You strike out way more often than you receive on base. And you almost never hit a home run. You hear about some sensational Merlot up in the mountains, you spend days or weeks tracking it down, and the stuff tastes like Windex. You spit it ou

20 Nov 2008, 2:56 pm | click here to view more

Hot Historicals!

When the weather turns blustery, I know no better escape than with a book that takes me out of my element entirely. Lately I’ve been devouring historical fiction that transports me, if not to warmer climates, at least to another place and time. I picked up Serena by Ron Rash because he’s one my favorite authors—his writing is eloquent and his language is steeped in history. He just blows me away. Needless to say, I was not disappointed in his latest offering. It takes place in the Appalachi

20 Nov 2008, 2:31 pm | click here to view more

Subterranean glaciers on Mars!

Subterranean glaciers on Mars! In the next weird thing found on — or below — the Red Planet, a ground-penetrating radar on board the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has found vast glaciers below the rocky surface. These glaciers are at the bases of mountains and cliffs, and are covered with rubble that may be protecting them from sublimating away. The even cooler thing is that these are at lower latitudes (nearer the Equator) than ever seen before. “Altogether, these glaciers almost c

20 Nov 2008, 2:29 pm | click here to view more

Your Black Politics: Will Obama Hold Henry Paulson Accountable?

Lawless Capital, Rushing to Armageddon A Black Agenda Radio commentary By: Glen Ford The fundamental law of capital - the system’s need to extract by any means possible ever increasing returns on investment, or die - brought the world to the current catastrophe. Inevitably, despite every the noise about the need for transparency and tightening of regulations on the behavior of capital, the system’s response to its crisis is to descend into even greater depths of lawlessness. The frenzy of

20 Nov 2008, 2:20 pm | click here to view more

Art Right Outside Your Door

When Canadian artist Roberta Murray of Uncommon Depth steps outside her door, she is likely to look the sites over. About her wilderness home, she writes: Most days I simply have to step outside my door to make the kinds of pictures most photographers have to plan months in advance to receive. Our property borders crown land and we’ve purposely kept it close to it’s natural state, which means we attract a wide variety of birds and wildlife. From bears and cougars, to deer, moose and elk - it’

20 Nov 2008, 2:15 pm | click here to view more

Things to Do in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico

If you are looking out for a destination that offers you mountains, beaches and sea simultaneously along with a vibrant culture, then Puerto Vallarta in the Pacific coast of Mexico should be your choice. Cobblestone streets, lush marine life, great golf courses, five-star resorts and gourmet restaurants add up to the charm and class of this highly popular vacation spot. Puerto Vallarta stands at the mouth of the Banderas Bay, on either banks of river Cuale. This bay is one of the largest and d

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Pacific Waters and Cortez Sea at Los Cabos

Pacific Waters and Cortez Sea at Los Cabos Thursday 20 November 2008 @ 8:11 pm Los Cabos is Mexico’s top resort destination. Golfers prefer this place because of the competitive tourneys. It also provides great marine life for tourists to discover. Los Cabos is a place in Mexico which shows the extraordinary beauty of Baja California Peninsula. This is where the wild Pacific and Sea of Cortez collided. Los Cabos is surrounded by huge cactus desert and ochre mountains. But despite of this

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A straight man’s opinion on Gay rights

I have read comments and reports about how everyone is sick and sleepy of the same-sex marriage issue. Some call it boring or useless, they just want to move on. Things are fine enough as they are, just let it be. Fifty years ago there was a similar movement by another group of people. It had been going on for years but really reached a head around the mid to tardy 50’s. People were sleepy of it before then. They just wanted it to go away. Things were fine the way they were so why not just leave

20 Nov 2008, 1:19 pm | click here to view more

Huge Buried Water Glaciers Discovered on Mars

Giant glaciers buried below the surface of Mars at much lower latitudes than any previously known ice are a potential source of drinking water for future astronauts. The discovery, made using ground-penetrating radar on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, offers new possibilities in the search for life on the red planet. "If there is life on Mars, this nice of ice would likely preserve ancient organisms and DNA," researcher Jim Head, a planetary geoscientist at Brown University, told

20 Nov 2008, 1:04 pm | click here to view more

iCEPhone for the Paramedic Inside of You

The Medical Phone Ltd out of Edinburgh, UK is working on a mobile device that will provide step-by-step instructions during emergency medical situations, and can quickly call 911, your doctor, as well as a nearby hospital. iCEphone™ (iCE for in Case of Emergency), though a simple and smart idea, might as well be a software package that can be installed onto any smart phone capable of handling such functions. From the device info page: iCE Aid is designed to assist anyone, anywhere in the w

20 Nov 2008, 12:47 pm | click here to view more

TEOFILO AND THE TIKBALANG

Translated from Filipino by Dempster P. Samarista Copyright 2004 In Barrio Tomana Este, there lived a boy named Teofilo. Teofilo was a diligent, dutiful, bright and brave boy. His parents were too needy to send him to school even though he truly wanted to study. Instead, they had him do chores in the land they farmed. Teofilo would envy the other kids every time he would look them go to and return from school. Teofilo’s grandfather was a master storyteller. One night, he told a story a

20 Nov 2008, 12:30 pm | click here to view more

REDISCOVERED SPECIES: Pygmy tarsier rediscovered in Indonesia

A tiny nocturnal primate known as the pygmy tarsier (Tarsius pumilus) was rediscovered alive in the mountains of Sulawesi Island in Indonesia by Texas A&M University professor Sharon Gursky-Doyen in August. Pygmy tarsiers “haven’t been observed [since] they were collected for a museum in 1921 and were thought to be extinct until Indonesian scientists accidentally trapped and killed a Pygmy Tarsier in 2000“. These tiny primates are threatened by deforestation. Pygmy tarsiers on video: I

20 Nov 2008, 12:23 pm | click here to view more

My Wife Can Move Mountains

The more talented half of the Davis couple hasn’t been around much over the last few weeks, because she’s been working frantically behind the scenes of the University of Oregon’s stadium project, trying to receive the permits approved so the Ducks can have a new arena. Yesterday, the appeals period closed and the City of Eugene finally granted approval. So it’s official. Not only can she secure green cards, and put up with a husband who frequently causes more trouble than he’s worth, she can also

20 Nov 2008, 12:23 pm | click here to view more

Koen Holtkamp’s Field Rituals

Listening Booth: A Semi-Regular Series Field Rituals Koen Holtkamp Type Records This is the debut album from Holtkamp, who has gotten well-known as one-half of the ambient duo Mountains. Holtkamp utilizes twinkly field recordings (kids playing), warped-phased-finger-picked guitar playin’, and the (usual) panned waves and squiggles. It is the sort of cultivated rustic fuzziness for non-dancing ambient fans. The album will endure comparisons to Boards of Canada and being described as “

20 Nov 2008, 12:11 pm | click here to view more

REPORT FROM THE 2nd ANNUAL SNOW GOD FIRE

I was nine beers into a PBR 12-pack watching the flame in that Mexican outdoor fireplace thingie sway side to side. I was trying to receive a good bed of coals going and I might have been the slightest bit over zealous when I loaded the wood. To my right arranged in ascending order, on a neatly folded towel, were a white gas-loaded 5 ml, 10 ml and 20 ml syringes every tipped with big bore hypodermic needles. look… it takes this type of orderly preparation when you’re trying to summon up a God. As

20 Nov 2008, 12:10 pm | click here to view more

An Artist’s Inspiration: Roots and geography

I learned about roots in an intercultural communications class during college. Roots are where we arrive from, the culture and society we knew during our formative years. We may change over time, as we age, marry and move around, but our roots remain planted in our youth. You can’t receive rid of them, even if you don’t like them. I grew up in Western Nebraska, on the edge of the Sand Hills. Most people I knew as a kid couldn’t wait to receive away from the tiny town (24,000 people) we lived in. The p

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Caprock Analytics Stock Ratings

Stock-Net presents custom stock ratings, powered by Caprock Analytics. These stocks, which represent a tiny portion of every rated stocks, highlight a sample of the strongest rated stocks from over 4,000 stocks that are actively tracked and analyzed by Caprock Analytics. To view every of the top rated stocks updated on a daily basis, please register for FREE at Caprock Analytics, login, and view the updated Stock rating lists on the website. The Caprock Analytics Strength Metric is a proprietary

20 Nov 2008, 12:04 pm | click here to view more

Casting Off the Lines

CHRISTCHURCH, NEW ZEALAND– It is a silent spring night in Christchurch, New Zealand. The air is filled with the heavy scent of the spring flowers. In twelve hours if the weather and aircraft cooperate we will take off for Antarctica. We have completed the familiar routine of sorting through two big orange bags of clothes. I am glad I packed alternatives to the four pairs of wool tube socks I received. I am both groggy from the jet lag and concerned about delayed traverses missing aircraft ce

20 Nov 2008, 12:01 pm | click here to view more

EU shifts farm subsidies from production to rural development, climate change and bioenergy

The EU's Council has arrive to an agreement that will help reform the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP). It shifts subsidies away from agricultural production and towards conservation, the battle against climate change and bioenergy. A key aim is to make agriculture more responsive to market forces and to avoid overproduction of food. Liberalisation of the milk sector and a phase out of quota was agreed on too. Importantly, the set-aside rule is abolished, as is an energy crop premium. Negotiations

20 Nov 2008, 11:56 am | click here to view more

Woo-Hoo!!

Daughter received her first college acceptance! It is a very tiny school tucked away in the mountains and has some very exciting programs and chilly academic opportunities for a school of its size. It is her safety school, but if she ends up going there, I wouldn't mind a bit.

20 Nov 2008, 11:53 am | click here to view more

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