Kim posted an article on A World Of Progress TeamZine - Nov 28, 2009, 3:38 pm
If you're looking for a way to kick back and relax, how about a local getaway with your dog? Fall and Winter are good times to enjoy the beauty and serenity of the Carolina mountains. The days are...
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Kim posted an article on A World Of Progress TeamZine - Nov 27, 2009, 11:01 pm
GLBTQ Out of the Darkness Uncle Doreen’s Sex Driver’s Manual Why I Fight For Our Right To Marry International Obama’s plan for Afghanistan full of military bravado, empty of subst...
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Kim posted an article on A World Of Progress TeamZine - Nov 27, 2009, 6:38 pm
Welcome to new contributor Elena Kelly! My cell phone rang just as I was sitting down to lunch at work today. It was a detective from the Sacramento Police and she asked if I had a few minutes to ta...
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Kim posted an article on A World Of Progress TeamZine - Nov 27, 2009, 8:48 am
Cross-posted from Ukulele Rockstar: Well, looks like the annual avalanche of x-mas “cheer” is upon us once again. Art by Jake Hollifield For those of you struggling not to be swept away by it,...
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Kim posted an article on A World Of Progress TeamZine - Nov 27, 2009, 8:31 am
Funny Business, the new comedy club downtown is offering local bloggers HALF OFF late show tix Friday and Saturday with the promo code below. That’s only $7 for Fri-Sat shows after 8 p.m. Enjoy...
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Kim posted an article on A World Of Progress TeamZine - Nov 27, 2009, 7:00 am
Send YOUR hip, hot and happening Asheville-area events to blogasheville hotmail daht cahm! *** (Edwin has a new look and is really starting to look like Marc from West Asheville Orbit DVD) Edwin Mc...
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Kim posted an article on A World Of Progress TeamZine - Nov 27, 2009, 7:00 am
Send YOUR hip, hot and happening Asheville-area events to blogasheville hotmail daht cahm! *** (Edwin has a new look and is really starting to look like Marc from West Asheville Orbit DVD) Edwin Mc...
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Kim posted an article on A World Of Progress TeamZine - Nov 26, 2009, 11:01 pm
I wonder how that appeasement tastes to Obama right about now. First he boldly proclaims the US demands a freeze of Israeli settlements. Netanyahu and the Israeli right-wing tell the U.S. president t...
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Kim posted an article on A World Of Progress TeamZine - Nov 26, 2009, 10:08 am
Our welcome to new contributor Uncle Doreen!  Doreen has joined us to help us look at the lighter side of life from her own unique viewpoint.   Happy Thanksgiving to you all and after you eat and ha...
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Kim posted an article on A World Of Progress TeamZine - Nov 26, 2009, 9:35 am
A huge pile of e-mails were stolen from a British climate laboratory and posted on the Internet last week. The correspondence shows that some climate scientists are resorting to bare-knuckle tactics t...
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Kim posted an article on A World Of Progress TeamZine - Nov 25, 2009, 11:01 pm
We are at war. No, I’m not talking about Iraq or Afghanistan. I’m talking about a world war against women and children. Those human beings who walk this earth constantly reminded that the...
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Kim posted an article on A World Of Progress TeamZine - Nov 25, 2009, 8:49 am
General Motors has been inundated in recent years with nothing but bad news. After filing for bankruptcy and receiving a controversial government bailout, the ailing car maker is trying to revolutioni...
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Kim posted an article on A World Of Progress TeamZine - Nov 25, 2009, 7:36 am
If you're looking for a unique gift item for yourself or a fellow dog lover, you might
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Kim posted an article on A World Of Progress TeamZine - Nov 25, 2009, 7:36 am
If you're looking for a unique gift item for yourself or a fellow dog lover, you might
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Kim posted an article on A World Of Progress TeamZine - Nov 25, 2009, 5:42 am
U.S. researchers have demonstrated a technology that uses the sun’s heat to convert carbon dioxide and water into the building blocks of traditional fuels, a reverse combustion process that may emer...
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Kim posted an article on A World Of Progress TeamZine - Nov 24, 2009, 11:01 pm
I’d like to welcome new writer Leslie Basden to AWOP’s GLBTQ page.  Leslie is a writer and a substance abuse counselor who works primarily with male inmates and parolees coming through th...
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Kim posted an article on A World Of Progress TeamZine - Nov 24, 2009, 11:00 pm
News from around the region lands in the Xpress inbox via various routes each week, from old-fashioned e-mail to TweetDeck (a handy tool for tracking all those 142-character tweets) to a message from ...
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Kim posted an article on A World Of Progress TeamZine - Nov 24, 2009, 10:19 pm
I wonder how that appeasement tastes to Obama right about now. First he boldly proclaims the US demands a freeze of Israeli settlements. Netanyahu and the Israeli right-wing tell the U.S. president t...
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Kim posted an article on A World Of Progress TeamZine - Nov 24, 2009, 7:00 pm
From Phillip Gibson of the Swannanoa Journal, a special holiday cross-post about his family’s all-local Thanksgiving meal for 18. All food was produced within a 200 mile radius of Gibson’s...
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Kim posted an article on A World Of Progress TeamZine - Nov 24, 2009, 6:49 pm
BlogAsheville admin Jen Saylor invited me to post a recipe from my foodie blog, the occasion to post being that I’m using some key local ingredients. The sweet potatoes and the collards are from...
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Kim posted an article on A World Of Progress TeamZine - Nov 24, 2009, 7:29 am
Taking a step further in the planet’s hunt for clean power, Norway is to unveil today the world’s first prototype of an osmotic power plant on the banks of the Oslo fjord. The project is s...
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Kim posted an article on A World Of Progress TeamZine - Nov 24, 2009, 5:22 am
The Canadian province of Quebec said on Monday it aims to cut its greenhouse gas emissions by 20 percent below 1990 levels by 2020, the same target as that set by the European Union. ...
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Kim posted an article on A World Of Progress TeamZine - Nov 23, 2009, 11:01 pm
We’ve talked about it for a while now, being quite sure that the Republican Party has collectively lost its mind. But until today, we had no statistical proof. Now we do. A new poll by Public P...
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Kim posted an article on A World Of Progress TeamZine - Nov 21, 2009, 10:41 am
Cross-posted from AskAsheville: Rockscope photo by Dese’Rae Stage A little after 10 this morning, AFP herself Tweeted about a visit to Asheville (she’s currently touring in our area: ...
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Kim posted an article on A World Of Progress TeamZine - Nov 20, 2009, 11:01 pm
I’d like to welcome new writer Leslie Basden to AWOP’s GLBTQ page.  Leslie is a writer and a substance abuse counselor who works primarily with male inmates and parolees coming through th...
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Kim posted an article on A World Of Progress TeamZine - Nov 20, 2009, 11:01 pm
Environment “Extinct” Crocodile Claws Its Way Back to Survival Smart Grid Riding On the Information Superhighway ISLAM’S GREEN INITIATIVE Tiny Bubbles Used to Clean Oil-Contaminated ...
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Kim posted an article on A World Of Progress TeamZine - Nov 20, 2009, 9:58 am
It’s sometimes hard to identify your own culture – particularly for Americans, who are comprised of so many different people. People overseas often ask me what my favorite American food is. When I...
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Kim posted an article on A World Of Progress TeamZine - Nov 20, 2009, 9:11 am
Okay, your family is on their way into town. What will you do for 5 days? How about a fun Turkey Ride on the big purple LaZoom bus? More details on Pollinate Asheville. Need Something to do with y...
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Kim posted an article on A World Of Progress TeamZine - Nov 20, 2009, 9:04 am
A US judge has ruled that negligence by the US Army Corps of Engineers led to massive floods in parts of New Orleans as Hurricane Katrina struck in 2005. It was the first time a US court has found the...
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Kim posted an article on A World Of Progress TeamZine - Nov 20, 2009, 8:11 am
Conservationists searching for one of the world’s most endangered crocodile species say they have found dozens of the reptiles lounging in plain sight at Phnom Tamao Wildlife Rescue Center in Ca...
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Kim posted an article on A World Of Progress TeamZine - Nov 20, 2009, 7:55 am
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Kim posted an article on A World Of Progress TeamZine - Nov 20, 2009, 6:15 am
J. Tillman w/ Pearly Gate Music at the Grey Eagle Friday, 9pm $8 advance / $10 day of show. Standing room only. If you like Band of Horses, Bon Iver or Fleet Foxes, you will probably love this guy. Fr...
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Kim posted an article on A World Of Progress TeamZine - Nov 20, 2009, 5:33 am
Melting of the Arctic sea ice due to global warming is diluting surface waters and this is endangering some species of shellfish which need minerals in the water to form their shells and skeletons, sc...
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Kim posted an article on A World Of Progress TeamZine - Nov 19, 2009, 10:39 pm
We’ve talked about it for a while now, being quite sure that the Republican Party has collectively lost its mind. But until today, we had no statistical proof. Now we do. A new poll by Public P...
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Kim posted an article on A World Of Progress TeamZine - Nov 19, 2009, 4:58 pm
The YWCA is now accepting nominations for the 19th Annual YWCA Tribute to Women of Influence (TWIN) Awards Banquet which will be held on Thursday, March 25, 2010 at the Renassiance Asheville Hotel. ...
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Kim posted an article on A World Of Progress TeamZine - Nov 13, 2009, 11:01 pm
Fearless History In the name of God, the merciful, the compassionate GLBTQ A Conversation with the Lost Veteran’s Day International Appeasement is a universal trait when it comes to leaders ...
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Kim posted an article on A World Of Progress TeamZine - Nov 13, 2009, 11:01 pm
Dear Straight America, You have spoken to us in plain terms and we must acknowledge defeat.  Gay people are not your equals.  From California to Maine, you have made yourselves quite clear.  Th...
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Kim posted an article on A World Of Progress TeamZine - Nov 13, 2009, 12:49 am
I am tired. I have spent my week fighting the good fight with My Colleagues, who are obsessed with finding reason to believe that Maj. Nidal Hasan had terrorist connections that led him to open fire o...
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Kim posted an article on A World Of Progress TeamZine - Nov 12, 2009, 11:01 pm
What is the difference between an act of violence and an act of terrorism? For many Westerners (not just Americans) the difference lies in the opening benediction of prayer: بسم الله الرح�...
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Kim posted an article on A World Of Progress TeamZine - Nov 12, 2009, 10:19 am
I had an encounter with two lost men at Atlanta’s Pride weekend.  I spotted them when I was marching with my P-FLAG group in the Gay Pride Parade.    They were the ones not cheering, but instead...
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Kim posted an article on A World Of Progress TeamZine - Nov 11, 2009, 11:01 pm
It’s noticeable as soon as you cross the border from Uganda. A palpable anxiety, hanging in the air over the country: a sense of apprehension. Rwanda feels like it’s trying to enjoy a brief respi...
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Kim posted an article on A World Of Progress TeamZine - Nov 11, 2009, 1:51 pm
I remember being terrified as I climbed warily into my recruiter’s car early that frigidly cold January morning in 1979.  I was just a week post-early high school graduation. My motivation for...
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Kim posted an article on A World Of Progress TeamZine - Nov 11, 2009, 11:17 am
What is the difference between an act of violence and an act of terrorism? For many Westerners (not just Americans) the difference lies in the opening benediction of prayer: بسم الله الرح�...
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Kim posted an article on A World Of Progress TeamZine - Nov 10, 2009, 11:01 pm
I wasn’t sure I’d be posting about last week’s Fort Hood incident, but here I am. After helping guide my network’s coverage last week as it happened, I took a break over the we...
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Kim posted an article on A World Of Progress TeamZine - Nov 10, 2009, 10:01 pm
I believe the word is “appeasement.” Obama, after first making an allegedly “bold” stand on the Israeli settlement issue a few months ago (even though his “bold stand” was the same as eve...
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Kim posted an article on A World Of Progress TeamZine - Nov 9, 2009, 11:01 pm
Sixty-four “Democrats” — some of them admitting to needing their bishops’ approval to decide how to vote — tossed women, particularly poor women, under the bus Saturday n...
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Kim posted an article on A World Of Progress TeamZine - Nov 9, 2009, 11:01 pm
Like you, I was awfully perplexed when Al Gore picked Joe Lieberman as his running mate back in 2000. WTF? I mean, Al had enough problems generating excitement all by himself, but Joe Lieberman? Ouch....
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Kim posted an article on A World Of Progress TeamZine - Nov 9, 2009, 10:03 am
If I answer the phone and it’s a telemarketer, or someone taking surveys or raising money for the Fraternal Order of Police, I always allow them to complete their first statement without interru...
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Kim posted an article on A World Of Progress TeamZine - Nov 8, 2009, 11:01 pm
The teabaggers think they won Tuesday’s votes. They got Bob “women have no business working” McDonnell into the Virginia state house, although that vote would certainly have been clo...
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Kim posted an article on A World Of Progress TeamZine - Nov 8, 2009, 1:10 am
Sixty-four “Democrats” — some of them admitting to needing their bishops’ approval to decide how to vote — tossed women, particularly poor women, under the bus Saturday n...
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