Buffalo crossing at Theodore Roosevelt National Park in western North Dakota.

By BOB SAN
AAP staff writer

I love long road trips. I did the Minnesota to Key West and Minnesota to New York City trips in my younger days. A trip I had wanted to do was the drive from the Twin Cities to Seattle. I was finally able to fulfill that dream this summer.

My friend and Asian American Press managing editor Tom LaVenture embarked on a 1,600 trip from St. Paul to Seattle. He needed to get his Ford Ranger to Seattle to put it on a ship to Kaua‘i, where he was going to use it with his new job in Hawai‘i. That is a long stretch of road and Tom said he was grateful to have me along as a seasoned road warrior and as the trip’s navigator.

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Marc Atiyolil

Marc Atiyolil’s Home Trends

(June 27 2011) – Design is about much more than pretty things coming together. It’s about having inspirational and motivational colours, objects and elements coming together to bring forth an emotion. Whether that emotion is happiness, contentment, or a comfortable familiarity, a design’s overall goal is to embrace that emotion. Design and owning a home is not about money or how much square footage you have but how your home truly reflects your personality.

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By BOB SAN
AAP columnist & contributing writer

Many Minnesota baseball fans will be traveling to Cooperstown, New York, the weekend of July 22 to 25, 2011, to attend the Induction ceremony of the great Bert Blyleven into the National Baseball Hall of Fame. Now a commentator for Minnesota Twins baseball games, Blyleven was a professional baseball pitcher who played many seasons of his long career with the Minnesota Twins.

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By Andrew Lam
New America Media

(Mar 30, 2011) – In Japan’s most popular cultural genres known as manga (comic books) and anime (animation films and series), there’s a recurrent theme in which the country is routinely devastated.

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Bob San

By BOB SAN
AAP staff writer

A once die-hard American Idol fan, I quit following the show religiously last year because of the very bland contestants and the egotistical panel of judges – headed by the rude Englishman with the man-boobs – Simon Cowell.

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By WUA XIONG
AAP staff writer

ST. PAUL (December 1, 2010) – The New Year is a time to celebrate and renew good blessings, and purge our selves of negative thoughts and events. It is a time to renew the spirit and bring in good luck for the next year. As the old people would say, be good, be honest, and don’t pout – so that for the rest of the year you will only have good virtues.

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By WUA XIONG
AAP staff writer

ST. PAUL (December 1, 2010) – The New Year is a time to celebrate and renew good blessings, and purge our selves of negative thoughts and events. It is a time to renew the spirit and bring in good luck for the next year. As the old people would say, be good, be honest, and don’t pout – so that for the rest of the year you will only have good virtues.

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By Lissa Reidel

Tweet. Work out. Check in. Change. Publish. Define. Inform. Locate. Entertain. Widgets and Apps – they are the little magic wands of our everyday lives. We keep hoping they can do more for us and they keep exceeding our hopes. Meet that incredible person across the room (meetMoi). Chose the right direction. (DecisionMaker). Be happy (iGBM Be Happy Now).

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