Everyone can benefit from a week in Slab City – Technorati


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Everyone can benefit from a week in Slab City
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A recent article in Time US features a couple who ran off to Slab City as the recession caught up with them and found it impossible to maintain their cost of living. Slab city, an abandoned military base in the California desert, is inhabited by people
Slab City, Here We Come: Living Life Off the Grid in California's BadlandsTIME
Slab City: Are we still having an American Dream?WattGlobe Network

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Slab City Stories – Mission Local


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Slab City Stories
Mission Local
Slab City is home for hundreds of people during the winter season — and a few dozen during the blistering summer season. They come for many reasons, some by choice and some from circumstances that keep them there. They often seek something different

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Down And Out Escape To ‘Slab’ In California Desert – NPR

Down And Out Escape To 'Slab' In California Desert
NPR
by Gloria Hillard Slab City is an informal community in the California desert on the site of a former WWII artillery range. The recent recession has sent the town a new wave of people who have fallen on hard times and are looking to escape the burdens

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Board Moving Forward With Permanent Stage at Washington Fairgrounds – The Missourian

Board Moving Forward With Permanent Stage at Washington Fairgrounds
The Missourian
The proposed project would put a flat, concrete slab with a metal backdrop to be used as a permanent stage near where the current temporary stage is set up each year for the Washington Town and Country Fair. Unnerstall said having a permanent stage

City to revamp pool house – Neosho Daily News

City to revamp pool house
Neosho Daily News
The slab will be converted into a shaded sitting area. By Wes Franklin Neosho's pool house is getting a new look. After a July fire severely damaged the enclosed concessions area, bidding was opened to reconstruct that part of the building and put a

Engineers probe building as slab drops 10 storeys – The Age

Engineers probe building as slab drops 10 storeys
The Age
Melbourne city workers are amazed no one was killed when a large concrete slab fell from a Collins Street skyscraper. ENGINEERS are investigating whether more large concrete slabs may fall from the Suncorp building after one fell 10 storeys yesterday,

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Concrete slab falls from Suncorp building on Collins St – Herald Sun

Concrete slab falls from Suncorp building on Collins St
Herald Sun
EMERGENCY work will be done to a city building after a granite block fell several storeys. Melbourne City Council will slap an emergency order for safety work to be done to the Collins St offices of Suncorp to prevent a repeat incident. Slab falls from

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Tyga: "Rack City" (Taz Buckfaster Remix) – Prefixmag


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Tyga: "Rack City" (Taz Buckfaster Remix)
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This time around it's Glasglow producer Taz Buckfaster taking on Tyga's popular “Rack City” with a un-official remix. Taz throws a heavy slab of bass across the track, speeds things up a notch and sends the pitch in opposite directions to turn Tyga's

Why Would I Back-Track 85 Miles??? – Seattle Post Intelligencer (blog)

Why Would I Back-Track 85 Miles???
Seattle Post Intelligencer (blog)
Yesterday I back-tracked 85 miles from Winterhaven (across the Colorado River from Yuma, Arizona) to Slab City at Niland California. My solar power system is not getting the job done and I've returned to Solar Mike to fix my problems…because I trust

Does the former Stelco have a future in Hamilton? – Hamilton Spectator

Does the former Stelco have a future in Hamilton?
Hamilton Spectator
The long-term plan, Surma added, was to integrate Stelco's slab operations with the rest of US Steel by shipping raw steel from Hamilton plants in Detroit, Mich. and Granite City, Ill. for finishing before being sold to bash into auto parts.