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• Commuting… Escalator Style

  
  Life at HOK — Authority: 131
  Central / Mid-Levels Escalator Ah, the joy of an escalator commute!  No stop lights, no traffic, I don’t even have to wait in line to swipe my transit card. My commute to work in Hong Kong begins with walking a little less than a ¼ mile before hopping on the Central – Mid Levels Escalator. The escalator is ...
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• Watch Cufflinks

  
  Plunder Guide — Authority: 150
  Who can disagree with the beauty of a precision-assembled watch movement? The sleeves of your shirt may hide your watch and its ornate animation so you should consider having these cufflinks instead. As the name suggests, these Watch Cufflinks are made of real watch movements, ranging from the simple to the absolutely ...
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• Secure the Best Interest Rate for Your Home with an Ontario Refinance Expert

  
  GetStudentLoanNow.com — Authority: 440
  Making mortgage payments is understandably never an enjoyable task. Many of the difficulties in paying the interest rates on a mortgage loan are due to the number of job losses and increased costs of health care. There might simply not be enough funding to go toward paying off every category of credit debt. ...
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• Collections present and absent at the New Acropolis Museum

  
  Elginism — Authority: 129
  The annual lecture of the Irish Museums Association is this year being presented by Dimitrios Pantermalis, director of the New Acropolis Museum, on the topic: Collections present and absent at the New Acropolis Museum . The lecture will take place on Wednesday 18th November – further details below. From: Irish ...
  2 days ago

• The Incredible, Edible Eggheads at Coyote Creek Farm

  
  The Squawker - a Best of Texas blog — Authority: 134
  Elgin’s Coyote Creek Farms can be found in bakeries, like Lauren Hubele’s Bona Dea Bread in Austin, but not in the way you might suspect. Dedicated to sustainable, organic farming, and ranching practices, coupled with the humane treatment of all farm animals, Coyote Creek Farm provides eggs, meats and more to ...
  3 days ago

• Embracing paleostructuralism

  
  Leitourgeia kai Qurbana: Contra den Zeitgeist — Authority: 411
  It is late afternoon on Wednesday, and I have somehow managed to accomplish everything I needed to accomplish by this time. On Friday, this seemed like a goal that was unattainable, so I am reasonably pleased. Somebody mentioned to me this last Saturday, “I occasionally read your rants against ...
  4 days ago

• Woman charged with running down, killing Elgin teen

  
  Chicago Breaking News — Authority: 165
  The Daily Herald reports: Timera D. Branch, 33, of Streamwood was charged this afternoon with two counts of first-degree murder for allegedly using her car to deliberately ram and kill 17-year-old John W. Keyes in Elgin over the weekend. Get the full story: dailyherald.com .
  5 days ago

• Pro Basketballs Almost Scoring Champions

  
  20 Second Timeout — Authority: 521
  A slightly different version of this article was originally published in the January 2003 issue of Basketball Digest under the title "These Seconds Arent Leftovers." Karl Malone is to scoring titles what the Buffalo Bills are to Super Bowl victories. In fact, Malone has done the Bills one better. While Jim Kellys ...
  6 days ago

• Car strikes, kills 17-year-old boy in Elgin

  
  Chicago Breaking News — Authority: 165
  Investigators were interviewing the driver and witnesses to an automobile crash that took the life of a 17-year-old boy in Elgin this afternoon, police said. The boy was struck by a sedan in the 200 block of Center Street in Elgin just after 4 p.m., said Elgin Police Deputy Chief Jeff Swoboda. The car stopped ...
  1 week ago

• Breakfast of Champions

  
  Capital City: Living in Ottawa — Authority: 120
  Yesterday’s Blogger’s Breakfast meet-up was loads of fun.  The meet-up was at the Fox and Feather Pub on Elgin Street and bloggers from all over Ottawa came out to enjoy the morning. It was great to finally meet the people behind the words.  I can certainly say that the next time one of these happens, I’ll ...
  1 week ago

• Elginism on Press TV – Who really owns stolen and looted artefacts?

  
  Elginism — Authority: 129
  Next week’s episode of The Agenda, a programme presented by Yvonne Ridley on Press TV is on the subject of Treasure: Who really owns stolen and looted artefacts? . I am appearing on the show, along with three other guests, to discuss various aspects of this issue. The programme isn’t specifically about the ...
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• Rebels roll, Lobos lose playoff bid

  
  Newstreamz San Marcos — Authority: 519
  The Hays Rebels handled the Lehman Lobos, 27-7 Friday night in the regular season finale for both high school football teams. The Rebels go to the playoffs next Saturday against Huntsville, while Lehman missed its bid for the playoffs.
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• Why you don’t have to like the New Acropolis Museum to support the return of the Elgin Marbles

  
  Elginism — Authority: 129
  Anthony Snodgrass – Chair of the British Committee for the Reunification of the Parthenon Marbles responds to Simon Jenkins’s earlier article about the New Acropolis Museum. From: The Guardian Letters New home for the Parthenon marbles The Guardian, Tuesday 27 October 2009 I know that Simon Jenkins is ...
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• PASOK reiterates their intentions to reunify the Elgin Marbles

  
  Elginism — Authority: 129
  Following the change in Greece’s government a few weeks ago, the new Culture & Tourism Minister has announced that the intentions to vigorously pursue the campaign to reunify all the surviving Parthenon sculptures in the New Acropolis Museum. From: Athens News Agency 10/27/2009 Culture ministry priorities ...
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• Hays-Lehman game seeks new level

  
  Newstreamz San Marcos — Authority: 519
  Though the Hays Rebels have dominated the Lehman Lobos in their first three meetings, Friday nights game between those two teams has a different texture as Lehman guns for its first playoff berth.
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• Tracing the artefacts looted from the Summer Palace

  
  Elginism — Authority: 129
  China is sending teams of experts to catalogue the Chinese artefacts in museums abroad . This raises the question though of why the Museums do not already have such records of their own – or if they do have them, why they are unwilling to share them. From: Modern Ghana CHINESE RESEARCH ARTEFACTS LOOTED IN ...
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• Is the look of the New Acropolis Museum a problem?

  
  Elginism — Authority: 129
  There have been many positive reviews of the New Acropolis Museum since its opening last June. As with any piece of art (or architecture) it is not to everyone’s taste. Simon Jenkins who has in the past spoken out in support of the return of the Parthenon Sculptures clearly falls into the latter camp. ...
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• Illinois State Police and Department of Natural Resources Offer Open Range Program

  
  Stabley Outdoors — Authority: 135
  HUNTING NEWS Hunters given an opportunity to sight-in shotguns before deer hunting season The Illinois State Police (ISP) announced today it will open its ranges to hunters for the purpose of sighting in and test-firing their shotguns in a safe environment for the upcoming deer hunting season. On Saturday, ...
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• China’s worldwide hunt for artefacts looted from Beijing’s Summer Palace

  
  Elginism — Authority: 129
  Further coverage of the decision by China to try & catalogue the artefacts in museum around the world that were looted from the Summer Palace. The British Museum says that they don’t see this as a threat – but then they said in the past that the New Acropolis Museum adds nothing to the argument for the ...
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• No-refusal weekend nets 14 DUI arrests in Kane County

  
  Chicago Breaking News — Authority: 165
  A woman dressed as a geisha for Halloween was one of 14 suspected drunken drivers arrested last weekend in the biggest "no-refusal" enforcement ever conducted in Kane County. Thirteen police agencies -- including 11 municipal departments, the Kane County sheriffs office and Illinois State police -- participated in ...
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