| Kingvale Terrain Project: Big risk, big reward (slideshow)
Every Friday night, the most innovative terrain park in the United States gets a makeover. The propane tank Tahoe pro snowboarder Pat Lee sailed over that afternoon is taken down. So are the rails, boxes and the other junk - and it is junk - but junk with a purpose, junk with style. All of it is dug up and put away.
Once that process is over, the snowcats come out and create five perfectly manicured tubing lanes. When that happens, the makeover is complete.
Then, on Saturday and Sunday mornings, children and parents from Sacramento, Chico and the Bay Area arrive in their SUVs. They park in the same parking lot where some of Lake Tahoe's best freestyle snowboarders parked Monday through Friday. They urinate in the same portable restrooms Lake Tahoe's best freestyle snowboarders urinated in, three teal-colored bathrooms situated on an ice-covered parking lot.
At Státenický mlýn, tradition goes modern
In the park will be an ornamental lake with a restaurant in the style of an old Czech mill. Lída Barbier, residential manager of the project, says Státenický mlýn is an unusual creation not only because of the quality but also because of the social network being built there. "It is not outside but exactly in the middle of the village," she says. The project includes a main square built around a complex of luxury apartments and villas. Nearby there is a Paris-style patisserie, coffee shop, florist, day-care center and health and beauty spa. There's also a waterside restaurant along picturesque Únětický Creek, which wends its way through the lush green valley in which Státnenice is situated. .
Flint area honors Martin Luther King Jr.
Droge, who built Indian Village Condominiums at 28th Street and Breton Avenue SE in 1972 -- the city's first condo complex -- and watched as fire consumed much of the building on Sunday. "There's 101 people who don't have a pillow to sleep on tonight," he said. "There were 101 families or couples or singles that had a wonderful place to live. Now it's gone." Fire investigators were trying to determine whether a faulty bathroom exhaust fan started the fire that drove 200 people from their homes. Several hours before the fire, a condo owner noticed smoke and "some melting" in a bathroom ceiling exhaust fan, Fire Investigator Pablo Martinez said. She shut down her electrical breakers and called an electrician, who disconnected the wires, taped them off and turned the power back on, Martinez said.
Pork shoulder in guajillo chile-peanut sauce
Preheat oven to 300-degrees. Spread peanuts on a baking sheet and roast until fragrant, about 4 minutes. Meanwhile, seed chiles. Toast chiles in pan over medium heat by pressing them with a spatula for 15 seconds on each side. Chop chiles once they are cool enough to handle. Combine pork fat, peanuts, chiles, onions, garlic and chicken stock in a large slow cooker. Place the pork in the pot, and spoon some of the mixture on top. Cook on low for 7 to 8 hours or until pork is tender. Remove meat. Strain liquid into a medium saucepan, and place solids in a blender. Add enough cooking liquid (about cup) to smoothly puree the mixture. Pass blended mixture through a strainer, adding it to the reserved liquid. Season sauce with salt and pepper; allow mixture to simmer for 15 to 20 minutes or until reduced by half.
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The truth about the ‘credit crunch’
Outside the high-profile instance of IT spending and innovation, driven primarily out of California, industrial investment has also been of a modest scale across the Western economies. This lethargy in capital investment does not necessarily cause immediate economic problems, but over the longer term it saps the underlying basis for innovation and industrial renewal necessary for sustained economic vibrancy and dynamism. The third linked aspect of recent economic history is the durability of this steady, modest growth even when confronted by disruptive challenges. The reasons for this resilience and flexibility are partly due to the stable domestic industrial and political relations of the past two decades, and partly result from the favourable international environment, usually described as a new age of globalisation.
Whiz can spy on the eyes in the skies from condo balcony
It started to seep into my consciousness just because that was a lot of what people were talking about," Mr. Molczan says, recalling how his father handed him a photo of Yuri Gagarin clipped from the newspaper after the Soviet cosmonaut became the first person to visit space in 1961. Not yet 9, young Ted would awaken and watch TV before school, tuning in to Captain Kangaroo or Popeye. "But some mornings, instead of all my favourite cartoon shows and stuff, every channel had a picture of a rocket sitting there on its launch pad, vapour coming out the side of it ... and all of these adults talking in very serious tones about this big thing that's going to happen." A few years later, he spied what looked like a star, moving across the night sky. "I remember pretty distinctly pointing it out to one of the kids on the street, and he said, 'Oh yeah, that's a satellite; my dad told me about that.' " With this in mind, Mr.
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