Preservation

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• Green tip: organic farm tour, brunch and food preservation

  
  Green OC — Authority: 515
  The Road Less Traveled Store   and Morning Song Farm are jointly hosting a brunch and tour at the organic farm in Temecula on Nov. 21. Morning Star Farm, a certified organic farm in Temecula. The $90 event will feature a look at growing processes and farming activities, and provide visitors with ”farm to ...
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• Cover Shmover: Judge an Old Book by Its Odor

  
  Wired Science — Authority: 770
  Take an antique leather-bound book, open it up, and inhale deeply. There’s just something about that old book smell. And thanks to a new analytical chemistry technique, the volatile organic compounds that compose the aroma could help preservationists keep their collections safe from old age damage. Just sniffing an ...
  4 hours ago

• A New Way to Smell Old Books

  
  The Blogs at HowStuffWorks ScienceStuff — Authority: 120
  I love the smell of old books. Its just one of the reasons theyll have to drag me kicking and screaming into the world of Kindles , Nooks and BeBooks. So its rather amusing that while the forces of technology and science seem intent on carrying out a kind of print holocaust, some scientists are hard at work ...
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• Langley Covered Bridge opens to traffic

  
  River Country Journal — Authority: 148
  The St. Joseph County Road Commission has announced that – after more than a year of restoration efforts – the historic Langley Covered Bridge near Centreville is now open to traffic. Major funding for the bridge project came from Transportation Enhancement Activity monies through the Michigan Department of ...
  7 hours ago

• As Long as Youre in the Neighborhood

  
  ClarenceGrad72 — Authority: 127
  If you happen to decide to go watch a portion of Extreme Makeover, Buffalo edition, you may notice that it has been requested that vehicles be parked in LaSalle Park by the historic Colonel Ward Pump Station and shuttle to the site. This has everything to do with narrow streets already clogged with cars. I went ...
  9 hours ago

• Nidal Malik Hasan Tried to Contact al Qaeda, U.S. intelligence knew, refused Congressional Request for Info

  
  Survival News Network — Authority: 143
  U.S. intelligence agencies were aware months ago that Army Major Nidal Malik Hasan was attempting to make contact with people associated with al Qaeda, two American officials briefed on classified material in the case told ABC News.According to the officials, the Army was informed of Hasan’s contact, but it is ...
  10 hours ago

• Kindle Versus Paper Books: A MOGO Choice

  
  Zoe Weil — Authority: 119
  Last month I bought a Kindle. I decided to get a Kindle for several reasons, and below you’ll find the pertinent information that led to my decision: 1) I read about 100 books every year – most are from the library, but often the books I want to read aren’t at my library, and I have to order them through ...
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• Is City Inspections trying to Silence me on City Demo policy,CDBG Funds and 106 Review? You decide.

  
  Victorian Antiquities and Design — Authority: 123
  M any of my regular readers may recall that last month I began a series of articles on the City of Cincinnati Demolition Policy, almost immediately after this series began, our local neighborhood inspector Mike Fhen “had a revelation” and bumped us up to a pre prosecution hearing, set for November 24th regarding ...
  11 hours ago

• Meeting to preserve the millstones

  
  Queens Crap — Authority: 597
  The Greater Astoria Historical Society and the community of Long Island City/Astoria, are concerned about the safety of the historic millstones located at Queens Plaza. Hidden in plain site, the two millstones, some say, date from the 1600s and are the oldest European artifacts in Queens. The city’s recent ...
  16 hours ago

• Wedding Dresses, part 2

  
  Australian War Memorial — Authority: 118
  As previously explained four wedding dresses were initially selected for “Of Love and War“. One of the wedding dresses, originally owned by Mrs N S Bissaker, required hundreds of hours of painstaking work before it would be strong enough for display, so unfortunately it will not be ready for display in “Of Love ...
  18 hours ago

• Teaching Preservation: Architecture Project Changes Student’s Outlook

  
  PreservationNation — Authority: 426
  Written by Nate V. Nate V. at the Franklin School. Hi, this is Nate V. again. Today I am writing to you on a much more personal topic, about how the Boise Architecture Project has impacted the way I look at the world around me and about how it has affected my own life in general. The BAP is one of the ...
  1 day ago

• Terra Cotta Will Be Replaced at 111 Hicks Street

  
  Brooklyn Heights Blog — Authority: 552
  The 41 terra cotta pillars on the roof of 111 Hicks Street will be replaced with identical terra cotta replicas, according to an employee in the management office. The current roof work is being done under Landmarks Preservation specifications, said the employee. The employee would not say when work would be ...
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• Landmarks Commission Backs Down on 57th Street Fight

  
  Curbed NY — Authority: 671
  What was shaping up to be a nasty little preservation scrap ended with a whimper. This morning the Landmarks Preservation Commission voted 6-3 to designate 1780 Broadway , one of two old BF Goodrich buildings on "Automobile Row," a protected landmark. Its sister building, 225 West 57th Street , which ...
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• 12 Tips for a Fun, Inexpensive Thanksgiving Day

  
  Business Pundit — Authority: 657
  Thanksgiving can be a pricey affair. From seventy-dollar turkeys to the perfect Napa wine, ingredients for the November feast can put a hole in your careful budget. Luckily, there are ways to avoid Thanksgiving Day megaspend. If you strategize your meal, involve others, and entertain for free, you can host a ...
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• Las Vegas Boulevard Scenic Byway Program - The Lights Are On

  
  Uncle Jack's Very Vintage Vegas - Mid Century Modern Homes, Historic Las Vegas Neighborhoods, Las Vegas History and Urban Living by Jack LeVine — Authority: 122
  Last night was the dedication and inaugaral lighting of the first 3 newly restored neon signs in the “Cultural Corridor” of Las Vegas Boulevard. Congress created the National Scenic Byway Program in 1997. The Nevada State Legislature designated Las Vegas Boulevard from Washington Avenue to Sahara Avenue as the ...
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• To invest for the long- term. So what is the long- term?”

  
  InvestmentWatch — Authority: 449
  It’s all relative. The average investing lifetime is roughly 40 years because most people want to retire at 65 and don’t start investing until they are at least 25 years old. Thus 40 years could be considered the “long term”. But it’s really a matter of your perspective. We now have the “lost ...
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• CR’s new push for more foster care in Tennessee

  
  NCCPR Child Welfare Blog — Authority: 461
  The group that so arrogantly calls itself "Childrens Rights" is back in federal court in Tennessee. Once again, CR is trying to ensure that nothing gives the judge in Anderson County, whose fanaticism about child removal may be unexceeded anywhere in America, even a moments pause about tearing apart family after ...
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• Nidal Malik Hasan Tried to Contact al Qaeda, U.S. intelligence knew, refused Congressional Request for Info

  
  The Gates of Hell — Authority: 134
  U.S. intelligence agencies were aware months ago that Army Major Nidal Malik Hasan was attempting to make contact with people associated with al Qaeda, two American officials briefed on classified material in the case told ABC News. According to the officials, the Army was informed of Hasan’s contact, but it is ...
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• Knox Hill Project : Weekly Update Part 2

  
  Victorian Antiquities and Design — Authority: 123
  I n addition to all the things mentioned yesterday we had the usual yard work leaves,leaves,leaves! It looks like maybe next weekend we will be done with the leaf raking! The mums we planted are still blooming and I planted yet another round of Bulbs. Now up to several hundred bulbs in the ground,I can hardly wait ...
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• Crambe repetita (15)

  
  an eudmonist — Authority: 98
  Cabbages drying outside an apartment building.The Vice-director of education at my school saw me taking this picture from her fifth floor apartment. She asked me about it at school the next day: ‘what, don’t people get ready for winter in America?’
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