Robert Cauthorn
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submitted by Robert Cauthorn for team Iraq news 244 weeks 6 days 21 hours 1 minute ago
Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama and Republican candidate Mitt Romney outline their respective foreign policy visions in lengthy articles in the next issue of Foreign Affairs magazine, offering sharp contrasts on issues including the war in Iraq and climate change.
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submitted by Robert Cauthorn for team Bicyclism 73 weeks 8 hours 41 minutes ago
San Mateo County Sheriff's deputies cited 25 bicyclists on charges of failing to come to a stop at a busy intersection in Woodside on Saturday, Aug. 28.
Lt. Larry Schumaker with the Sheriff's Office said two motorcycle deputies were in the parking lot at the intersection of...(more)
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submitted by Robert Cauthorn for team Urban farming 73 weeks 8 hours 44 minutes ago
So, to anyone who has been paying attention, we are currently living in a time of crises, some of which include the economy, energy and water. Though many of us in America do not choose to recognize this fact because we manage to overindulge daily with...(more)
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submitted by Robert Cauthorn for team Urban farming 86 weeks 5 days 2 hours 3 minutes ago
The Kansas City, Missouri city council passed the urban farming ordinance on Thursday, June 10. It allows urban farmers to grow, harvest and sell the crops they grow in their yards.
Organic farmers pushed for the ordinance as a way to help revitalize certain parts of the...(more)
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submitted by Robert Cauthorn 75 weeks 4 days 58 minutes ago
Anna Rainer manages a shop on Hayes Street and has noticed a change in her customers during the past few weeks. "There's just not the stress there was before," she said. "People are a little bit calmer."
The serenity, she speculates, comes from an unlikely source: the...(more)
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submitted by Robert Cauthorn for team Urban farming 81 weeks 3 days 11 hours 6 minutes ago
As enthusiasm for urban farming continues to spread beyond its established stronghold in the West, hundreds of New Orleans residents are now growing their own produce, keeping backyard chickens, and even experimenting with other livestock in a city whose laissez-faire regulatory environment and long hours of...(more)
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written by Robert Cauthorn for team CityTools info 239 weeks 4 days 9 hours 53 minutes ago
At CityTools, we're on a mission to allow communities to do things in exciting new ways. And that extends to publishers -- whether they publish newspapers, magazines, whatever.
You'll find various manifestos about our vision surrounding publishing elsewhere on the site, but here is a short list...(more)
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submitted by Robert Cauthorn for team Urban farming 91 weeks 1 day 12 hours 30 minutes ago
From the road you wouldn’t know you were near Highgrove. No signs, no evidence of security, you can’t even see the policeman in a Dixon of Dock Green helmet. Only a few hundred yards beyond him do you know that you’re on the Prince of Wales’...(more)
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submitted by Robert Cauthorn 46 weeks 6 days 7 hours 11 minutes ago
The United Nations Security Council approved a measure on Thursday authorizing “all necessary measures” to protect Libyan civilians from harm at the hands of forces loyal to Colonel Muammar el-Qaddafi.
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submitted by Robert Cauthorn 238 weeks 6 days 1 hour 40 minutes ago
The FBI is using data mining programs to track everyone from potential terrorists to individuals who file fraudulent automobile insurance claims, according to a U.S. Department of Justice report filed with Congress this week.
The DOJ report, which is required under the Patriot Improvement and Reauthorization Act...(more)
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submitted by Robert Cauthorn 238 weeks 6 days 1 hour 44 minutes ago
FRESNO, Calif. (AP) -- Crews gained the upper hand on forest fires raging throughout Northern California on Thursday, but lost ground to a blaze threatening a rural community in a protected wilderness area north of Santa Barbara....
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submitted by Robert Cauthorn for team renewable energy 89 weeks 3 days 8 hours 33 minutes ago
this guy is using a treadmill motor for a home made wind turbine -- a car alternator would be better -- but nonetheless, it's a good overview of homemade wind power
