Nov 11, 2009 -
This question comes from the group The Children's Table from member chab.
Does anyone out there know of a sugar free "O" cereal? I used to get Cascadian Farms "O" cereal because it was organic and sugar free, but it seems like they changed their product as it now has sugar.
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Sep 08, 2009 -
From Citizens to "Stakeholders": The New American Constitution
By Angelo M. Codevilla
"I'm going to get everybody concerned around a big table where all can express their views and their needs. And I'll express mine, and that will make sense of them all because I'll be president."
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Jun 24, 2009 -
FARM ANIMAL CRUMB VAC
Tabletop Vacuum
Are you dinner guests just a little on the sloppy side? Not a problem anymore. Just use these cute guys to suck up the crumbs on the table where your dinner guests sitting.
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Apr 04, 2009 -
Making Ends Meet in the Great Depression
By JOYCE WADLER (New York Times)
Published: April 1, 2009
AT a time when life in America is beginning to resemble a roller-coaster ride on the way down and everyone is trying to find ways to save money, it may be instructive — both in terms of offering helpful hints and putting things in perspective — to look at how people ran their households during the Great Depression.
Memories from the Great Depression seem more relevant today than ever. The New York Times is starting a series of video conversations about that painful past and the uncertain future.
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Apr 27, 2009 -
PUBLIC POST *
Al Gore profiteering from global warming legislation
By Steve Milloy Sunday, April 26, 2009
When Tennessee Rep. Marsha Blackburn confronted Al Gore with his profiteering from global warming legislation at today’s House Energy and Environment Subcommittee hearing on the Waxman-Markey climate bill, Al Gore said that every penny he ever made from his business activities went into non-profit efforts. [See transcript below.]
That is a flat-out lie, according to this March 6, 2008 Bloomberg report that indicates that Al Gore invested $35 million of his own money in various for-profit endeavors.
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Feb 07, 2008 -
The Morning Glory Cafe at the Farm
In southern Phoenix there is a place called The Farm at South Mountain. It is an actual farm that grows vegetables and it is surrounded by pecan trees. You will feel a million miles away from the city!!
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Jul 22, 2008 -
A Locally Grown Diet With Fuss but No Muss
By KIM SEVERSON, NY Times
Published: July 22, 2008
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/22/dining/22local.html?th&emc=th
Eating locally raised food is a growing trend. But who has time to get to the farmer’s market, let alone plant a garden?
That is where Trevor Paque comes in.
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Apr 14, 2008 -
From the NY Times:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/30/nyregion/nyregionspecial2/30agnj.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=New+Jersey+farmers&st=nyt&oref=slogin
Farmers Fear Agriculture Dept.’s Abolition
By IVER PETERSON
Published: March 30, 2008
ALLENTOWN
NEW JERSEY’S nickname notwithstanding, the Garden State’s farmers amount to just one half of one percent of the total workforce, and rank far below the next largest group, which is furniture makers, according to federal employment figures. So there is a certain political logic to Gov. Jon S.
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Jun 06, 2008 -
Great article in the NY Times:
Salad Days for the Internet
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/05/fashion/05cyber.html?ref=fashion
By MICHELLE SLATALLA
Published: June 5, 2008
THE other afternoon, my husband and I were drinking beer on the front porch and already feeling a little dirty about what we planned to do later — grill a big fat steak brushed with butter. Then a terrible thing happened.
We saw a registered dietitian power-walking down the block.
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Sep 26, 2008 -
Thursday 25 September 2008
by: Dan Bacher, t r u t h o u t | Perspective
As George Bush pushes Congress to bail out Wall Street corporations, he refuses to immediately release $70 million out of the $170 million appropriated by Congress for disaster relief to salmon fishermen and businesses impacted by this year's salmon closures.
While George W. Bush wants taxpayers to give Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson a $700 billion blank check to bail out Wall Street for its reckless speculation and greed, the administration announced last week that it would release only $100 million of the $170 million appropriated to salmon fishermen and businesses impacted by this year's salmon fishing closure off the California and Oregon coasts and in Central Valley rivers.
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