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• Worst of All Possible Worlds: Which Country’s Debts are Truly the Worst?

  
  Wall St. Cheat Sheet — Authority: 607
  Last year, the US Dollar was the butt of monetary jokes. In fact, some suggested it was worth as much as toilet paper. With Trillion dollar deficits and 0% interest rates, those with common sense looked to other currencies for capital preservation. In a moment of cosmic irony, some global investors are now fleeing ...
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• Award-Winning Preservation: Housing Complex Makeover Yields Affordable Housing

  
  PreservationNation — Authority: 474
  Each year, the National Trust for Historic Preservation celebrates the best of preservation by presenting National Preservation Awards to individuals and organizations whose contributions demonstrate excellence in historic preservation. This is the latest in a series of videos highlighting 2009’s winners. ...
  22 hours ago

• NJ Pinelands Commission Preserves 1,600 Acres

  
  Into the Outside — Authority: 120
  Lets hear a collective yeah for The New Jersey Pinelands Commission’s Permanent Land Protection Committee, which has dedicated more than $1.9 million to preserve 1,612 acres in Atlantic, Burlington, Cape May and Ocean counties in the Pinelands. You know Into the OUTside is cheering! The Committee approved the ...
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• Digital Preservation: SPIE to Preserve E-Books in Portico

  
  ResourceShelf — Authority: 630
  From the Announcement: Portico (www.portico.org) is pleased to announce that it has entered into an agreement with SPIE to preserve its current collection of 93 e-books as well as those to be published in the future. Through this agreement with Portico, SPIE furthers its preservation strategy, which already ...
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• For the Love of Film

  
  Film Studies For Free — Authority: 492
  Some of Film Studies For Free s favourite bloggers, the Self-Styled Siren of the eponymous blog and Marilyn Ferdinand of the wonderful Ferdy on Film (along with Greg Ferrara of the ever so stylish Cinema Styles) have been involved in launching and whipping up deserved support for a Film Preservation Blogathon ...
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• FSC: Media Darlings

  
  PrairieMod — Authority: 141
  The Frank Lloyd Wright-designed Florida Southern College campus in Lakeland, Florida is enjoying much media attention lately. This is a good thing, since the aging structures that make up this unique university need a lot of TLC to ensure generations to come can enjoy them. Read more about it here . Image ...
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• Gone But Not Forgotten

  
  PrairieMod — Authority: 141
  The website Goodnight, Raleigh! provides an in-depth look at the late architect Eduardo Catalanos groundbreaking (and now lost) house with the unique hyperbolic paraboloid roof. See more here .
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• Carr House Saved

  
  PrairieMod — Authority: 141
  Triangle Modernist Houses announced that preservation-minded owners have purchased the 1958 John Carr House in Durham, NC. Read about this great news here . Image via Triangle Modernist Houses
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• Restored Espy Post in Carnegie a treasure trove of history

  
  Civil War Interactive Newswire — Authority: 150
  Union Army Capt. Thomas Espy has long lain in an unmarked grave. But a photograph of his determined face still casts a forceful presence in the Carnegie veterans post that bears his name.If the souls of his men from the 62nd Regiment stir happily, perhaps it’s because this elegant room, where they and other local ...
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• Changes to the St. Louis Board of Aldermen in my lifetime, future change proposed

  
  UrbanReviewSTL — Authority: 130
  ABOVE: 1967 St. Louis ward map. Source: We Elect! book from the Buckowitz archives Every ten years, following each national census, the boundaries of St. Louis’ 28 wards are redrawn. The map above is based on the 1960 census. The map below (rotated 90 degrees counter-clockwise) is the current map based on the ...
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• Ocean Film Fest 2010: Roz Savage On What It Takes to Row Across Oceans (Video)

  
  A Green Zone — Authority: 158
  Photo via Flickr/Roz Savage Roz Savage is one of our favorite ocean activists . No ocean-oriented festival is complete without her, and luckily, the Ocean Film Fest 2010 was complete. The film Rowing The Atlantic by JB Benna of Journeyfilm is comprised of much of the footage shot by Roz during the row, with some ...
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• Mutually Insured

  
  designslinger — Authority: 125
    [ Mutual Insurance Building (1921/26) Fugard & Knapp/ B. Leo Steif, Chicago /Images & Artwork: designslinger] When you look at these pictures of the former Mutual Insurance Building, imagine the top four stories removed and youd know what the structure actually looked like when it was built in 1921. ...
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• HPD forcibly demolishes Bronx eyesore

  
  Queens Crap — Authority: 575
  From the Bronx Times Reporter : The city demolished a pesky vacant house in Zerega after a wall collapsed in October. The house at 1629 Parker Street racked up $65,000 in buildings and housing violations for abandonment and structural issues before the wall crumbled and brought the Department of Buildings and ...
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• The Impact of Wind Power Projects on Residential Property Values in the United States: A Multi-Site Hedonic Analysis

  
  Environmental Valuation & Cost-Benefit News — Authority: 437
  http://eetd.lbl.gov/ea/ems/reports/lbnl-2829e.pdf Abstract: With wind energy expanding rapidly in the U.S. and abroad, and with an increasing number of communities considering wind power development nearby, there is an urgent need to empirically investigate common community concerns about wind project development. ...
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• Cocktail Ice Shell

  
  Swanky's Blather — Authority: 92
  The Ice Shell is one of those lost arts, or perhaps, lost little extras, that went away when cheap labor did. I know of only one place I can get a cocktail in an ice shell and that is the venerable Mai-Kai in Fort Lauderdale, FL. If you are lucky, you’ll get your Shark Bite served in one. I was sure to ask ...
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• Tearing down an historic building to build a history museum

  
  Fall River-tastic — Authority: 110
  And so Fall River continues to allow the destruction of our history. The utter foolishness of tearing down a beautiful church on the historic register to replace it with a, no doubt vinyl and cement, history museum, is ridiculous beyond words. Does Espirito even have any kind of realistic plan for building a new ...
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• Pollution Russian Baltic: “Complete madness”, according to a Russian admiral

  
  WERI CHANNEL — Authority: 119
    MOSCOW – 05 February 2010 A Russian admiral said Friday that Russia had not spilled toxic waste into the Baltic Sea in the early 1990s, denying information to that effect circulated by the Swedish television channel SVT. “It is a complete delusion, a provocative spread internationally,” said ...
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• Plastic

  
  Throwback at Trapper Creek — Authority: 123
  Can’t live without it, shouldn’t live with it. Green Arrow, Golden Della I’m posting about my struggle with taking plastics out of my food preserving over at Simple Green Frugal Co-op today.
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• giving: enemies and self-preservation

  
  aliens and strangers — Authority: 123
  [Where I live, lots of people ask me for money.  This post is one of several in search of a biblical view of giving to the poor.  The introduction is   here .  I believe the process of finding a biblical stance is at least as important as the conclusions to which I come.  For this reason, I intend to post ...
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• or are the taxpayers the ones who deserve credit?

  
  RARE EARTH NEWS http://connectingcalifornia.org — Authority: 128
  - Taking Credit: Arnold Schwarzenegger is the great savior of Californias environment (??) --so says his press office: (Curiously, his office gives no thanks to the land trusts, the taxpayers whove paid for the land either directly or with giving tax write-offs to landowners, to the groups filing lawsuits to halt ...
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