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Stateside With Rosalea: It's All About Timing
Monday, 10 October 2005, 1:35 pm | Rosalea Barker
According to a Today in History listing, on October 9, 1776, Spanish missionaries settled in what would become known as San Francisco. Two hundred and twenty-nine years later about a million people are out there enjoying the sunshine and watching ... More >>
Stateside With Rosalea: Heeding The Call
Monday, 3 October 2005, 1:29 pm | Rosalea Barker
Sheesh! Only three weeks into my new job and already Bill Clinton is on the phone to me. Well, not just me. The non-profit organisation I work for is partnering with the Clinton Foundation to battle childhood obesity, so work hooked up a nationwide ... More >>
Stateside With Rosalea: Filling Out The Paperwork
Monday, 19 September 2005, 2:45 pm | Rosalea Barker
Voices of America - No. 1 – Click To Listen Or download… http://img.scoop.co.nz/media/audio/0509/VOA1.mp3 Recorded on BART, September 17, 2005, on the way to a college football game, Cal v Illinois. More >>
Transcript: Scoop Interviews PM Helen Clark
Wednesday, 14 September 2005, 11:01 pm | Rosalea Barker
Scoop Election Briefing, September 13, 2005 Prime Minister Helen Clark AUDIO: Election Briefing: Prime Minister Helen Clark Interview by Alastair Thompson Transcript by Rosalea Barker Images by Kevin List More >>
Stateside With Rosalea: Me And Tony Burg
Monday, 12 September 2005, 1:07 pm | Rosalea Barker
I started a new job this week in what I thought was just an industrial wasteland at the southern end of San Francisco International Airport but which is, I am assured, a "tony burg." Burlingame is a one-hour BART ride away from home, and then a twenty-minute ... More >>
TRANSCRIPT: 95bFM Noelle McCarthy IV with Dr Brash
Thursday, 8 September 2005, 4:44 pm | Rosalea Barker
Oh, yes. They indicated they were going to campaign against the Government. They were going to issue some pamphlets, but I did not read those pamphlets and have had absolutely no part in reading them, writing them, funding them or distributing them, ... More >>
Stateside With Rosalea: Glimpses
Monday, 5 September 2005, 1:09 pm | Rosalea Barker
From Thursday morning's SF Chronicle: Louis Delasorsse, 38, had been at the Superdome since it opened. "It's no picnic staying here. My real heartache is I don't know about my mother, grandfather or grandmother. They wanted to stay at home. I begged ... More >>
Transcript: IV With Roger Kerr Of BRT 1/9/05
Thursday, 1 September 2005, 4:50 pm | Rosalea Barker
Alastair Thompson (Scoop): In the Sunday Star-Times, there was an email sent by you on November 7, I think, where you wanted to have input into the race relations policy of National. Why were you interested in it? More >>
Transcript: Brash Roundtable Emails & Race Policy
Thursday, 1 September 2005, 3:10 pm | Rosalea Barker
Donald Brash (National Party leader): As long as you're clear that the primary purpose of the press conference, of course, is to talk education. Alastair Thompson (Scoop Media): I'm aware of that. This is an opportunity for the press gallery to talk to ... More >>
Stateside with Rosalea: When The Levee Breaks
Wednesday, 31 August 2005, 11:07 am | Rosalea Barker
When I moved to this poor part of Oakland last year, one of the things I noticed first about it was the amount of subsidence and number of potholes in the streets. More >>
Stateside With Rosalea: Mr Big Thumb-on-Nose
Tuesday, 23 August 2005, 11:47 am | Rosalea Barker
I've been pondering what it was that really changed under David Lange's government in the 1980s. From what I'm reading or gleaning from Internet video/audio originating in New Zealand, the two big things that the media is referring to are the nuclear-free ... More >>
Stateside with Rosalea: wishy, wiki, waka
Wednesday, 10 August 2005, 6:40 pm | Rosalea Barker
:: wish you were here :: I've died and gone to heaven. Fresh lychees are in stock at the local supermarket, and on a 25+ degree day in the Bay Area there's nothing nicer than sitting on a shaded balcony sipping on chilled pineapple juice with a ... More >>
Stateside with Rosalea: Sending Out An SOS
Monday, 1 August 2005, 2:03 pm | Rosalea Barker
To all those readers who take the Boy Scouts of America and their Commander in Chief seriously: What follows is a parody, so you might want to leave before you get offended. But as a special gift, just for reading this far, here is a photo from the U.S. Army ... More >>
Stateside with Rosalea : Whazza Buzz?
Sunday, 31 July 2005, 4:18 pm | Rosalea Barker
I'm sure the story was so quirky it made it to the TV news Down Under--on Tuesday, a couple in Hazleton, Indiana, found out they had a quarter of a million house guests living in a beehive five foot tall and seven foot wide in their attic. More >>
Stateside With Rosalea: Coming Over All Political
Monday, 25 July 2005, 1:56 pm | Rosalea Barker
It's been a while since I had a visit from the cartoon fairy, but this week I found on my pillow a little 'toon about U.S. politics. There's this big fat bully-type kid on a bicycle named Democracy, see, and he's riding along hitting himself on the ... More >>
Stateside With Rosalea: Chocolate Chip Cookies
Monday, 18 July 2005, 4:14 pm | Rosalea Barker
Seems like a time for comfort food. I came across this recipe for Chocolate Chip cookies on a website that was last modified on December 9, 1994 by Bronwen Heuer. More >>
Stateside: Where Rosalea Gets Bloggy W'It
Friday, 15 July 2005, 12:55 am | Rosalea Barker
How about that! My mug's on a blog [ Third from right rear – Ed. ] . The next thing you know, I'll have my own vlog. It won't be a slog--dead horses I'll flog, and creatures that scuttle about under logs. But erstwhile I'll just be a cheeky old dog, indulging ... More >>
Stateside With Rosalea: Reality VG?
Monday, 11 July 2005, 9:15 am | Rosalea Barker
It is 1998. I'm standing at the window of the staff cafeteria in an office building that overlooks the Wellington railway yards, where the Cake Tin is taking shape. The engineer I'm talking to is telling me with a faraway look in his eye that the ... More >>
Stateside: What To The Slave Is The Fourth Of July
Wednesday, 6 July 2005, 1:30 pm | Rosalea Barker
The feeling of the nation must be quickened; the conscience of the nation must be roused; the propriety of the nation must be startled; the hypocrisy of the nation must be exposed; and its crimes against God and man must be proclaimed and denounced. More >>
Stateside With Rosalea: Anything Good On TV?
Monday, 4 July 2005, 12:49 am | Rosalea Barker
It's a lazy, lazy holiday weekend here in the US. Well, no chance of being lazy if you're the checkout operator at the smaller, faster warehouse store, of course--bags of briquettes and ice were going out the door faster than their contents will burn ... More >>
