The Corn-free Cookbook and Survival Guide: For the Corn-intolerant and Corn-allergic
Bibliobibuli (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
One of the perks of having a book blog is that publishers and authors actually give you copies of books - often with quite overwhelming generosity. I am sorry to be slow about blogging recent additions to my bookshelves and plan to do better. Meanwhile, here are some new reads from Marshall Cavendish, well deserving of your attention : Chaizani's book - intriguingly called From Out-Er Space - is a...
Gothamist (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
A gunman in a white Cadillac Escalade opened fire on a Clinton Hill bodega last night, striking a pregnant woman and two men who were standing inside. The perp began shooting at the DeKalb Gourmet Deli near the corner of DeKalb Avenue and Kent Avenue at around 7 pm, hitting a 15-year-old boy in the arm and torso, a 20-year-old man in the leg, and a pregnant 24-year-old in the upper thigh. The bodega's...
Transpontine (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
From the Times, 2 Feb 1909: 'Seizure of Land at Deptford Five of the unemployed men whose attempt to seize a piece of Crown Land at Eltham, Kent, on Saturday night, was frustrated by the police, yesterday took possession of a building site belonging to the London County Council at Deptford, opposite the Wesleyan Central Hall in Creek-road. The ground is enclosed by railings about 6 ft high, which...
Asia Times (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
A relatively undeveloped corner of the Pearl River Delta immediately west of Macau is being lined up for an extensive makeover. Hengqin island, part of the mainland city of Zhuhai, is to be transformed into a resort paradise featuring golf courses and theme parks. In the process, Macau and Hong Kong will be more intimately integrated into the mainland delta, tricky legal relationships permitting. -...
KentNewsNet.com (Free subscription) | 30/10/2009
It could be the sharpest apartments above the most delicious restaurant in Kent. But right now it's the rotting building on the corner of Depeyster and Main.
Woolly Days (Free subscription) | 27/10/2009
Queensland’s Coordinator-General Colin Jensen has approved the building of a $35 million controversial shaft in Wooloowin to ensure the $5.6 billion Airport Link tunnel is completed on time. Jensen’s decision was in response to a change request to address potential adverse impacts of the Wooloowin tunnel worksite. The decision means that tunnel builder Brisconnections can begin construction...
georgiasam (Free subscription) | 14/10/2009
Hand-delivered to my door, issue one of the Cambridge Literary Review . Yes, hand-delivered, which I’d wager is more than anyone reading this in Cambridge can boast, but it seems one of that new journal’s editor’s parents live around the corner from me here in Hull. (How unsatisfactory the collective possessive is in English, is it not, may I add parenthetically. I’d like to...
Strictly Writing (Free subscription) | 13/10/2009
Trilby Kent has written for the Canadian national press and publications in Europe and America; her short stories have appeared in Mslexia and The African American Review, among others. She currently lives in London, where she is about to embark on an English PhD with a focus on Creative Writing. Her first novel for children, Medina Hill, is published by Tundra Books (McClelland & Stewart) on October...
Transpontine (Free subscription) | 12/10/2009
From Dickens's Dictionary of London , by Charles Dickens, Jr. (1879): ' Fixed Points (Police). The under-mentioned places are appointed as fixed points where police constable is to be permanently stationed from 9 to 1 am. In the event of any person springing a rattle, or persistently ringing a bell in the street or in an area, the police will at once proceed to the spot and render assistance... P...
Basford Girls Rugby (Free subscription) | 07/10/2009
Well here it is the start of another long season. Both U15’s and U18’s started the defence of the league titles they won last year. The U15’s travelled to play Thanet and the U18’s travelled to Folkestone to play a triangular with Folkestone and H3 Both sides have changed considerably from those of last year, with many new girls joining both teams and with instructions to play...
Miami Student (Free subscription) | 02/10/2009
I'm guessing that with hockey season just around the corner most Miami University fans have already lost their appetite for RedHawk football. Before you leave the table, however, I'd like to offer you some Dysert. Zac Dysert made his first career collegiate start Saturday against Kent State, putting up a stat line that can only be described as tantalizing.
Weiwen's religion blog (Free subscription) | 30/09/2009
Randy Cohen, writing on the Ethicist blog at the New York Times , debunks the argument that taxing sugary soft drinks is unethical (he makes no arguments about whether it's good tax or health policy). The Issue Proposals to tax sugary drinks as a way to fight obesity and finance health care reform have found support from medical experts and some interest from President Obama while meeting resistance...
Slog (Free subscription) | 22/09/2009
The editor of the fat and beautiful publication Sienese Shredder —Mark Shortliffe—happens to be in town for a couple of days and he's going to be the guest at Art Klatch tomorrow morning. Art Klatch sounds pretentious but it's not. It's open to anybody and the coffee is free. About the Shredder : It comes out once a year, is something like 300 pages, and is three years old. Shortliffe,...
shine on me (Free subscription) | 19/09/2009
LAST DAY OF RAMADHAN Wow cant believe it,its nearly end of Ramadhan and Syawal is just around the corner.Wow again!Its kinda sad tho,Ramadhan such a great great month ever where it teached me how to be stronger and stand up for my life.Syawal,nothing much to say about it.Im going to celebrate it with my family in Kent,this year will be a big different raya for us where we have to celebrate it by ourselves...
whoar.co.nz (Free subscription) | 18/09/2009
“..To read the news, it would look like soda taxes are just around the corner. First, President Obama mildly suggested in an interview in Men’s Health that soda taxes were worth some consideration. Then Obamafoodorama broke the news of Coca-Cola CEO Muhtar Kent’s reaction to said soda tax: “I have never seen it work where a [...]
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