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New Frontier Farmers and Processor Group: Reviving Farmland and Improving Livelihoods

By Bernard Pollack on June 21, 2010 in Africa, Ghana, Photos, West Africa

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Crossposted from the Worldwatch Institute's Nourishing the Planet. This is the seventh piece in an eight part series about the Ecumenical Association for Sustainable Agriculture and Rural Development's (ECASARD) work in Ghana. In Anamaase, Ghana, the New...

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Chards, Cabs, Garlic, Lamb & Chihuly

By Renee Blodgett on June 20, 2010 in California, Featured, North America, Photos, San Francisco/Bay Area, USA

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I attended a special event for wine club members at Pine Ridge Winery in Napa Valley this past weekend. They started everyone out with a sheriff's badge and an "incident investigation report" which listed all...

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V.E. Long on Mixed Media, Monotypes & Assemblage

By Renee Blodgett on June 20, 2010 in California, North America, Photos, San Francisco/Bay Area, USA

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At Chandon recently, I not only sampled some fabulous (albeit small) oysters with a medium bodied Pinot Noir (wasn't in for the bubbly), but I also discovered a new artist named V.E. Long. I was drawn...

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Update on Mayor Bloomberg’s Plan for NYC Artists

By Renee Blodgett on June 18, 2010 in New England, New York, North America, Photos, USA

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The New York Times reports on the latest of what the Bloomberg administration plans to do about their desire to slash the number of art vendors in New York City parks. I wrote an extensive...

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PR2 Robots Now Play Pool

By Renee Blodgett on June 17, 2010 in California, North America, Photos, San Francisco/Bay Area, USA, Videos

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The Willow Garage team programmed one of their PR2 robots to play pool and PR2 not only has a blast doing so, but its accuracy seems to be remarkably better than the Willow Garage's engineering...

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SF Spaniards Gather on Belden Place for World Cup

By Ray Lewis on June 16, 2010 in California, Europe, North America, Photos, San Francisco/Bay Area, Spain, Switzerland, USA

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Head east down Bush Street from San Francisco's Union Square and you will come across an alley called Belden Place, with maybe 10 restaurants on one block, most of them Mediterranean or seafood. Two of...

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Thai-Lao Trip Food: Day 2

By MJ Klein on June 16, 2010 in Asia, Photos, Thailand

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As you recall from our recent series, we visited an ancient Khmr sanctuary on our second day in Thailand.  But we also took time for some fantastic food experiences. Let’s start off with our lunch: Ready for...

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Iceland Hasn’t The Bandwidth To Site Large Media Servers

By Tom Foremski on June 16, 2010 in Europe, Iceland, Photos

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Iceland's parliament has unanimously agreed to pass the strongest media freedom laws called the Icelandic Modern Media Initiative.Nieman Journalism Lab reports:But although the legislative package sounds very encouraging from a freedom of expression point of...

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