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Hey Google! Lets Reinvent Detroit Together Using Our Creative Greenius Before The Opportunivors Scavenge It

Creative Greenius

I went to Detroit last month and found myself in neighborhoods that looked like they had been attacked by enemy forces, had lost their battle and had now surrendered and in most part been abandoned. The house above looks good to what I’m talking about. Greenius on the job at Gompers Elementary School in Detroit.

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Former CEO of American Electric Power Dies at 94

Cars That Think

He was part of a team there developing missile and rocket systems, including the Atlas missile, which was used in Friendship 7. He also wrote Mechanical Filters in Electronics , the first book in a series about the design, fabrication, and uses of filters. The OCCHC builds apartments and homes in low-income neighborhoods.

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5 New Hotels Where the Past Meets the Present

Baua Electric

Nowadays you can check into a 17th-century former soap factory on the French Riviera, or part of the Old War Office in London, or a Renaissance-palazzo-style building that was once a bank in New York. Strategic planning taking place nowadays involves when to book an appointment at the hotel’s spa, which spans four floors.

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This Community-Run Internet is Bridging the Digital Divide

Cars That Think

For many of us, the Internet is part of daily life. When a Nimble is deployed, users can conduct video and voice chats, stream videos, share files, build and run e-learning courses and websites, create shared spreadsheets and documents, read e-books, play games, and more, completely offline. “If But that’s not the case for more than 3.5

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How Charles Darwin Found Inspiration on the Cape Verde Islands

Baua Electric

“Cape Verdeans don’t really know Darwin,” said Mr. Rodrigues, who carried a book by António Correia e Silva, an island historian who laid out a “Darwin trail,” of sorts, around Praia. The deserted neighborhood ended at a cliff with a bike lane beneath a string of lampposts, which could have been grafted from Amsterdam.

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Dude! What Part of Fires, Flood, Drought & Record Temps Didn’t You Understand?

Creative Greenius

That’s the same reason the frozen parts of our planet are now melting, the dry hot places are burning and why the air, land and sea temperatures are all going up to levels that scare the holy shit out of climate scientists. That extreme weather is the result of the CO2 and other gasses emitted from burning fossil fuels.

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Cupcake A.T.M.s and Fire Pits: What You Love at the Airport

Baua Electric

Read a book, catch a movie Some airports offer a dose of art, music and literature. Sometimes I look at their books, sometimes not, but it’s a part of the airport that never feels rushed.” The new features are part of a trend in airport design to provide more of a sense of place. “We Linda Norris, of Treadwell, N.Y.,