Revel in the crowd funding era
There has never been a better period in all history than present day to be an idea guy. No matter if you have zero coding, engineering or sales skills, the [...]
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Posted April 02, 2014in Tech Talk
Posted April 02, 2014in Food Dude
Pho All Seasons returns
Pho All Seasons built a loyal customer base on East Ninth Street during the previous decade. Four years ago, the family was told they needed to add a prohibitively expensive [...]
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Posted April 02, 2014in Your Money
Paid for by taxpayers in… Des Moines.
Amount: $3,787.91 To: MidAmerican Energy For: Monthly payment for gas and electric services for the Fire Department. Amount: $1,885 To: AASHTO Materials Reference Laboratory For: Payment for services for [...]
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Posted April 02, 2014in Sound Circuit
An anecdote with New Member Charles
New Member Charles occupies a unique space in local music. Local bands are usually either the work of serious, talented musicians trying to make some money doing what they love, [...]
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Posted April 02, 2014in Locker Room
Sea of sharks
Is it better to be lucky? Or, is it better to be skilled? Many might argue it’s better to be skilled at something, because that’s a better reflection of a [...]
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Posted April 02, 2014in Belly Up To...
See what they’re whispering about at Secrets
Clive has a new secret — a bar. Of course, it’s no secret that Clive has a bar. Clive has many bars. But, at Secrets, there’s Rufus. As if you’re [...]
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Posted April 02, 2014in Film Review
Farm workers unite!
“Cesar Chavez” 3 stars Rated PG-13 101 minutes Biography Starring: Michael Peña, America Ferrera, Rosario Dawson Diego Luna’s second directorial outing is a prudently succinct brief-biopic about the Mexican farm-worker-turned-union-activist [...]
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Posted April 02, 2014in On The Tube
King of the nerds
With “Beavis and Butt-head,” Mike Judge established himself as the bard of mumbling, antisocial, all-American nerds. But Judge tops himself with “Silicon Valley” (Sunday, 9 p.m., HBO), which locates the [...]
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Posted April 02, 2014in Book Review
A-bomb secrets revealed in ‘The Girls of Atomic City’
Courtesy of Beaverdale Books Review by Cathryn Lang “The Girls of Atomic City” Touchstone Books 3/11/14 $16 373 pp. The scientists behind the Manhattan Project (especially J. Robert Oppenheimer) are [...]
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Posted April 02, 2014in Joe's Neighborhood
Dear soon-to-be graduate
Let’s talk about your future. Please. We must. Before things get too far. Sure, it was just a moment ago that you were trudging to class through ice and snow [...]
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