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  • Two Days in Vermont

    [Mystery Novels] (Myth & Mystery)

    Just arrived in Massachusetts after two days in the mountains of Vermont. I'd never been to the state before. What a beautiful place. Yesterday I had an event with Northshire Bookstore, which is an amazing shop. My favorite part was the inscription "Nothing is Written in Stone," which is written in stone on the walkway to the front door. Over five hundred people showed up at the local school auditorium. I had a great time talking with the kids and signing their books. I stayed at the Equinox Hot ...

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  • Lady Gaga Was 'Spontaneous' On 'Judas' Set, Norman Reedus Says

    [Music, Hip Hop, Pop Culture] (MTV News Latest Headlines)

    Judas himself opens up to MTV News about the just-released video. By Jocelyn Vena Norman Reedus Photo: MTV News When Norman Reedus, who played the title character in Lady Gaga's "Judas" video, stopped by the MTV News offices Friday (May 6), he told us Gaga had everyone on their toes on set — in the best way possible. "I like the lipstick part, because that was sort of last minute," the "Walking Dead" star said. "She just jumped up [and was like], 'I have this great idea. I'm go ...

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  • Good God(frey)! Cats pitch their way to 17th win on Cinco de Mayo

    [Citizen Journalism, Sacramento, CA] (Newest articles on The Sacramento Press)

    This time around, a slightly re-tooled Graham Godfrey was ready. Ready to show that the changes he made in the offseason were paying off. Ready to pop the glove with the hard stuff. And after striking out the side in the first inning, he knew that he couldn’t let this great start go to waste. “It sets the tone for the rest of the game,” said Godfrey. “I think the guys playing behind me picked up on that and they feed off that. It’s a good way to start things off.” On a sunny ...

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  • Matt Jarvis' hopes for happy ending hinge on Switzerland and safety

    [Guardian] (Sport news, comment and results | guardian.co.uk)

    • Wolves winger aiming to stay up at end of 'massive season' • But getting second England cap could spoil wedding plansMatt Jarvis can picture the scene. He is stretching out on his sun-lounger in Mauritius in the second week of June and toasting the perfect end to a memorable few weeks. "Hopefully it will all finish on a high. On the beach, pina colada, happily married, in the Premier League again, another England cap – what a hat-trick that would be," the Wolverhampton Wanderers winger s ...

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  • Meet the Women of The Witcher 2

    [Gaming] (Destructoid)

    Perhaps you may have gotten the idea that the ladies in The Witcher 2 are merely objectified eye candy for the teenage male-adolescent player. Nothing could be farther from the truth, besides the fact that the game is not for teenagers in the first place. From the first 8 hours or so I've played, the female characters were actually among the strongest and most capable characters Geralt encounters. Then again, all the male characters are either rapists, suffer from a case of excessive bravado, ...

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  • Tired of Stupid Criticism

    [Politics] (Booman Tribune)

    Sometimes, and it is usually a fleeting feeling, I can understand why conservatives consider most Europeans to be effeminate. I got that feeling when I read Tom Wright's column in the Guardian which criticizes the United States for violating Pakistan's sovereignty to kill Usama Bin-Laden. The meat of his piece is a thought experiment. Consider the following scenario. A group of Irish republican terrorists carries out a bombing raid in London. People are killed and wounded. The group escape ...

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  • BBC America Summer Preview: 'Come Fly With Me,' 'Outcasts,' 'The Hour,' 'Top Gear' and More

    [TV] (TVbytheNumbers)

    via press release: BBC AMERICA SUMMER PREVIEW Comedy: The Graham Norton Show, The Inbetweeners, Come Fly With Me, Friday Night Dinner Sci-Fi: Outcasts, Battlestar Galactica Drama: The Hour Non-scripted: Top ...

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  • Dugan O'Neal talks about directing TVOTR's "Will Do" video

    [San Francisco, San Francisco, CA] (San Francisco Bay Guardian)

    A few years back Dugan O’Neal was featured in the Guardian’s SCENE magazine to highlight Two Renegade Cops, the retro 70s pulp TV series he’d created with fellow Bay Area artist Leighton Kelly. O’Neal has since moved to LA to immerse himself in directing music videos and short films. It caught my eye that he’d recently directed the TV on the Radio video “Will Do.” The song is off their latest recording Nine Types of Light, an album that has a video attached to each song. The amalg ...

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  • Ask FreelanceSwitch: Dealing with Problematic Clients and Low Pay

    [Personal Finance, Web Design, Freelance] (FreelanceSwitch)

    Advertise here with BSA Credit: by Yuri Arcurs on Photodune In this issue of Ask FreelanceSwitch, we look at several questions from the same freelancer who is working with a tough employer. Ask FreelanceSwitch is a regular column here that allows us to help beginners get a grip on freelancing. If you have a question about freelancing that you want answered, send an email to askfreelanceswitch@gmail.com. I am a web developer (who sometimes gets lumped in as a web designer, as I can kind of fly fr ...

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  • Dugan O'Neal talks about directing TVOTR's "Will Do" video

    [San Francisco, San Francisco, CA] (San Francisco Bay Guardian)

    A few years back Dugan O’Neal was featured in the Guardian’s SCENE magazine to highlight Two Renegade Cops, the retro 70s pulp TV series he’d created with fellow Bay Area artist Leighton Kelly. O’Neal has since moved to LA to immerse himself in directing music videos and short films. It caught my eye that he’d recently directed the TV on the Radio video “Will Do.” The song is off their latest recording “Nine Types of Light,” an album that has a video attached to each song. The ...

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  • No Pay for Play? LA Dodgers payroll at risk.

    [Leadership] (Pink Slip)

    Although they’re faring a bit better of late, the Red Sox’ performance has been fairly dismal this season, Given their ultra-high (although not quite Yankee-level) payroll, there were great expectations at the season’s start that they would, if not win every game, then most of them. Out of the batter’s box, that didn’t quite happen. Big swing and a miss, you might say. (As I write this, they’re playing under .500 ball.) Given the tribulations of the Olde Towne Team, and the early se ...

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  • Cool Technology of the Week

    [CIO] (Life as a Healthcare CIO)

    As a glasses wearer for over 40 years, I've been an active user of many lens "technologies" Now that I'm nearly 50, I wear progressive lenses which ease my eye strain during screen time and close up work. However, there is an issue - when I look down, I lose my distance vision. My prescription is -7 diopters so I cannot easily switch between two pairs of glasses, one for distance and one for closeup. An ideal bifocal would enable me to change the my glasses prescription in real time. Th ...

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  • Indy Transponder 06-MAY-2011 0930z

    [Aviation] (Indy Transponder)

    Air Force grounds F-22 Raptors - Stars and Stripes | SEOUL — The US Air Force has grounded its fleet of F-22 Raptors, citing concerns over the aircraft's oxygen system. The 137 fighter jets were grounded Tuesday on the orders of Gen. William Fraser, commander of Air Combat Command at 2011 Jersey Skylands Aerobatic Air Show is May 12-15 at Greenwood Lake Airport - NorthJersey.com | The 2011 Jersey Skylands Aerobatic Championships competition will be held at Greenwood Lake Airport (GLA) May 12 ...

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  • The Fundamental insight

    [New Age] (kriptodanny)

    Lead me from dreaming to waking. Lead me from opacity to clarity. Lead me from the complicated to the simple. Lead me from the obscure to the obvious. Lead me from intention to attention. Lead me from what I'm told I am to what I see I am. Lead me from confrontation to wide openness. Lead me to the place I never left, Where there is peace, and peace - The Upanishads *note* I will try to comment a bit on Daniel Ingram's essay about integration..please be aware that none of enlig ...

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  • Dugan O'Neal talks about directing TVOTR's "Will Do" video

    [San Francisco, San Francisco, CA] (San Francisco Bay Guardian)

    A few years back Dugan O’Neal was featured in the Guardian’s SCENE magazine to highlight Two Renegade Cops, the retro 70s pulp TV series he’d created with fellow Bay Area artist Leighton Kelly. O’Neal has since moved to LA to immerse himself in directing music videos and short films. It caught my eye that he’d recently directed the TV on the Radio video “Will Do.” The song is off their latest recording “Nine Types of Light,” an album that has a video attached to each song. The ...

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  • Late Thursday Mini-Bullets

    [NBA Basketball, Sports] (ESPN.com - TrueHoop)

    Jeff Clark of CelticsBlog: "All of a sudden we are faced with questions that I simply don't want to and am not prepared to ask. Are the Heat just a better team than us now? Is the season over for us? Who do we pull for after we are out of it? Did Danny make a huge mistake at the deadline (or even in the offseason)? Will Doc stick around? Will there be a lockout? Will Danny blow up the team or "rebuild on the fly" or run it back one more time with another plug-in piece or two? Is The Wind ...

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  • Nisbet is wrong: the forces of climate progress are not as strong as their foes

    [Green, Social Entrepreneurship] (Grist - the latest from Grist)

    by David Roberts. In his Climate Shift report, Matt Nisbet purports to compare the lobbying efforts of climate-bill supporters and opponents. He finds that, in 2009, the former spent $394 million and the latter $259 million. In other words, greens and their allies outspent their opponents. “The narrative [that] this is David versus Goliath does not match the numbers on the ground,” says Nisbet. As a bunchload of people have pointed out, the way Nisbet gets these numbers is kind of d ...

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  • 05-05-2011

    [Poetry] (Uncle David)

    My boot is a little mountain they tells me so my memories cut like a knife cut cares and unforeseen changes that we are guided by the tumult and torment if my albinism ways cause some men to tremble the cutlass that gnaws on the bone St. Elmo’s whispers in the night the carcass of the day the worker of dark have their unrestrained say. - i will give you a king's anus for a drop of piss. - Here the tom toms that expose my heart here the talking dreams majesty by signe like diamonds over pric ...

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  • Yeah, that about sums it up.

    Coming To Grips With Being Down 0-2

    [NBA Basketball] (CelticsBlog)

    You know how when you feel really frustrated, lost, confused, betrayed, and downright depressed you just want to go for a walk in do particular direction and wander around aimlessly till you find some place to sit down and hopefully come to grips with what's happened? Ok, maybe you don't do that, but I do and this is probably going to end up being the literary form of that. So I apologize in advance if this has no clear direction or purpose. I don't know if I was mentally prepared to be down 2 ...

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  • Photoshop Workspace options

    Tips on how to optimize your web design workflow

    [User Interface] (Veerle's blog 3.0)

    I'm not sure about you, but I'm still in favor of using Photoshop to create of my design for the web. However, I agree that this application, even with all its never-ending feature set, is not the ideal environment to design web sites in. The ideal application doesn't exist yet, until it does it is maybe not such a bad idea to investigate ways on how we can optimize our workflow. The title of this article might sound familiar to some of you, as I have written this article for 24 Ways in December ...

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  • St. Louis Cardinals

    Albert Pujols, Chris Carpenter, and Kinds of Underperformance

    [St. Louis, MO] (Viva El Birdos)

    Albert Pujols is hitting .233/.309/.417 today, which is nearly a hundred points off his season-high OPS—.821, during the Cincinnati series—and sits right up against the league average. If you like arbitrary endpoints it might be time to cut a second slump out of this awkward contract year, which gives us The Slump Before He Started Taking Everything To The Opposite Field and The Slump Where He Started Walking Finally. In TSWHSWF he's gone without an extra-base hit but walked nearly a ...

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  • Who is David Cameron?

    [Politics, Guardian] (Politics news, UK and world political comment and analysis | guardian.co.uk)

    To his supporters, he is bold and charming. To his detractors, he is lazy and reckless. But after his first year in office, do we have any idea who the prime minister is?In a neat symmetry, the first year in the premiership of David Cameron is ending as it began: in the judgment of the British people, delivered on the first Thursday in May. This time his name is not on the ballot anywhere, as people vote for devolved assemblies, local councils or on the AV referendum. But the results, especially ...

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  • Jhoulys Chacin

    Gibson unhappy with performance in D-backs loss

    [Washington, D.C.] (Examiner RSS)

    BOB BAUM AP Sports Writer PHOENIX Arizona manager Kirk Gibson was making a list as he watched ...

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    StemCells, Inc. To Reduce Workforce By 30%–What’s Wrong With Investors Today-Opinion

    [Healthcare IT] (The Medical Quack)

    Well I guess it’s time to ask this question. When I see a company that is working on clinical trials for spinal cord injuries and macular degeneration for curing and treating diseases as such, why do we see millions and millions just thrown at algorithmic social software? Here’s a company who is working on some very important research and beginning clinical trials on crippling diseases and treatments for helping people not go blind. It is a publicly owned company and being used as an examp ...

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  • Brianna Glenn heading to Jamaica Mon

    [Sports] (Women Talk Sports | Latest News and Blog Posts)

    This weekend I get to really start competing. Everyone knows that real competitions start once you get on a plane and have to fly ridiculously uncomfortable distances to have a little stiffness and jet lag thrown into the mix to really count. My first competition will be in Jamaica, a country I visited and competed in once before. Why don't I take a second and get all nostalgic and tell you about it…The first (and last) time I went to a competition in Kingston was back in 2008. It w ...

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    Drinking with family

    [Boston, Boston, MA] (Boston Phoenix - thePhoenix.com)

    Conversation and community in the bars of Southie and Dorchester When I moved from Cambridge to Southie five years ago, the quality of my barroom conversations immediately skyrocketed. When I moved from Cambridge to Southie five years ago, the quality of my barroom conversations immediately skyrocketed. I've talked with a highly sought-after detective who wouldn't tell me what he discovered when he cracked into the laptop of the notorious "Craigslist Killer." I've spoken to an Irish-C ...

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  • Suicide Kits Stir Euthanasia Debate

    [Feminism] ()

    One of the best things about living in Oregon was knowing that if I needed to die - if I had some terrible, life-crushing, terminal disease - I could do it legally. Oregon is beautiful, green and luscious and all, but really, physician-assisted suicide was one of the best things about the state. It was a comfort to know that I could die with dignity, if need be. And I know of at least one 91-year old lady who agrees. Sharlotte Hydorn, a San Diego grandmother, has been getting some serious heat f ...

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  • Psychological Reactions to Osama bin Laden's Killing

    [Women, Health] (EmpowHer.com - Site Activity Feed)

    Americans listening to news reports and President Barack Obama’s speech last Sunday night, May 1, felt all sorts of feelings: shock, disbelief, happiness, security and even fear and disgust. Although media focused at first on crowds of Americans celebrating Osama bin Laden’s death, the psychological reactions are complex and involve more than feelings of joy. << A whole spectrum of reactions >> “I think that there are a variety of potential reactions,” said Dr. Philip Muskin, ...

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  • Britain from the Sky - the aerial photographer and the N8

    [Gadgets] (Pocket-lint)

    INTERVIEW: Jason Hawkes ups the megapixels All of the pictures you see on this page were taken with a mobile phone; not bad considering it’s something that aerial photographer Jason Hawkes is used to doing with an SLR since he started over 20 years ago. Throughout March 2011 though, the 41-year old traded his Nikon D3X for something a tenth of the size for this latest round of bird’s eye shooting - the Nokia N8 and its 12-megapixel camera. Jason and ...

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  • KBIS 2011 - Top Trends

    [Interior Design] (GOLD NOTES)

    I just came back from the latest Kitchen & Bath Industry Show, held in Las Vegas last week. It was the smallest I've seen it since I started attending, both in terms of attendees and exhibitors. More significantly, fewer brands brought game changers to the show. Nonetheless, there were some interesting trends to share, and that's what this first of multiple KBIS posts will cover. My dear friend, colleague and Gold Notes architectural contributor Dean Larkin, AIA, accompanied me to the sh ...

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  • BBC America Launches Comedy Block

    [TV] (Deadline.com)

    BBC America's top U.K. comedy imports will air in a block. Branded Ministry of Laughs, the two-hour block will launch June 18 at 10 PM. Included in it are  The Inbetweeners, an all-new season of the BAFTA-winning teen comedy, which is being remade by MTV; Come Fly With Me, the new project from Matt Lucas and David Walliams, creators and writers of Little Britain and Friday Night Dinner created and written by Robert Popper (South Park). Returning for all-new seasons are award-winning series Tha ...

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  • Dreams_V_Fantasies_Tammy_Camp

    Fantasies vs. Dreams

    [Travel] (Tammy Camp)

    Fantasies are selfish. Dreams have purpose. ~ Tammy Camp Last week I shared my thoughts in Amsterdam at The Next Web 2011 conference. Below is the video for you to watch if you missed the livestream or you can read along after. Pictures can be found on Facebook. Video is 18 minutes long. Enjoy! Hello ...

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  • Butterfly Themed Spring Weddings

    [Weddings] (Brenda's Wedding Blog)

    guest blogging with The Wedding Department Today, The Wedding Department is joining us with tips, ideas and advice on incorporating butterflies into your spring wedding. --- Butterfly theme weddings for spring weddings are nothing new but there are some new ideas. From favors to decorations, there are lots of fun and affordable solutions. First a few words about theme weddings in general, and that is, a little bit goes a long way. Just because you want to feature butterflies at your weddin ...

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  • Wednesdosama Bin-Liners

    [New York City, NY, New York City] (Overheard in New York)

    Indian kid: I feel like some Muslim guy is going to come up to me and say "you know the plan." --49th & 8th Overheard by: Alex Woman: You know, when you fly, you're putting a big risk on your life, what with the terrorists. --23rd St & 9th Ave Overheard by: Remix Design Drunk guy, after Times Square evacuation: She said "look, they're shooting a movie!" and I said "no, stupid, they're shooting terrorists!" --Broadway Overheard by: Angela BC Hobo wea ...

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  • DoveyFBquote(bl).jpg

    exceptions prove rules

    [Generation X] (xtcian)

    5/3/11 While we're on the subject of Bin Laden and an innocent and accidental mash-up of a MLK quote, I don't think the attribution "controversy" (such as it is) isn't the interesting thing here, it's the sentiment. The genesis of the quote is from an English teacher in Japan, who posted her Facebook status thusly: Which raises the question: If you don't believe in the death penalty, and you don't believe in killing other human beings, is it still okay to kill Osama bin Laden? In the morally ...

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    A Tale of Two Receivers - Hines Ward and Chad Ochocinco on Dancing With the Stars, Week 7

    [Pittsburgh Steelers] (Behind the Steel Curtain)

    No, Hines isn't doing dance exercises in this photo - just bringing a box of shoes to training camp. You know, that thing they used to have This is a continuation of the DWTS series, which began with this article, comparing Hines and Chad through the vehicle of their appearances on Dancing With the Stars through Week 5. You can find the update for Week 6 here. Week 7 was the first week in which the contestants had to perform two different dances - a team dance and an individual dance. There are ...

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    Gossip Girl Round Table: "The Princesses and the Frog"

    [American Idol] (TV Fanatic)

    Welcome back to the weekly TVF Gossip Girl Round Table, where our panel breaks down the previous night's episode (see our review from earlier this morning). Below, TV Fanatic Editor Mister Meester is joined by THE shot-caller himself, our company President Gossip Guy, for a discussion of "The Princesses and the Frog." Our colleague DANdy is still off partying in Asia, but hopefully, like Jack Bass, he will be back on the East Coast next week. It's a two-man show again for now: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ...

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  • Selena Gomez On Relationship With Justin Bieber: 'I Don't Like Hiding'

    [Music, Hip Hop, Pop Culture] (MTV News Latest Headlines)

    'I'm 18, and I'm going to fall in love,' actress tells Seventeen magazine. By Jocelyn Vena Selena Gomez and Justin Bieber Photo: Getty Images Selena Gomez and Justin Bieber certainly aren't shy about their relationship. And the normally relationship-coy actress admits that she's feeling comfortable being open about her feelings for the teen superstar. "I don't like hiding. I do like to keep certain things to myself, but at the end of the day, I'm 18, and I'm going to fall in love," s ...

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  • Travel Tips for Teachers and Students

    [Education] (Free Technology for Teachers)

    This post is way out of the norm for this blog so unless the title really grabbed you, I won't blame you for skipping it. This post was inspired by a recent call to action by Chris Brogan. This summer teachers all over the world will be take advantage of one of the perks of our profession and travel for pleasure or professional development. While I don't fly as much as George Clooney's character in Up In The Air, I do fly enough to have "Elite" status on a couple of airlines and feel I have ...

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  • Which tech tools do experts use when they travel?

    [Washington, D.C.] (Examiner RSS)

    SCOTT MAYEROWITZ AP Airlines Reporter NEW YORK With the busy summer vacation season quickly approaching, The Associated Press asked several travel experts about their favorite tools for travel. Needless to say, applications for Apple's iPhone and iPad were high on most lists, but there are still plenty of great tools out there ...

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  • Kwan Kwok

    My Brother Broke My Heart by Jean Kwok

    [Feminism, Women] ()

    Let me tell you about the worst thing that has ever happened to me. As the youngest of seven children, I used to lie in bed and worry about the rest of my family all dying before me. My only consolation was my older brother Kwan, who was the closest to me in age. We would go through it together, until the bitter end, and in my over-imaginative mind, I thought that saying good-bye to him would be the worst of all. Then, in November 2009, Kwan disappeared a few days before Thanksgiving weekend. N ...

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  • Finding the Silence of the Romans

    [Christianity] (First Things | On the Square)

    All cities are noisy, but Rome is one of the noisiest. In Rome one learns quickly to block the sound of late night public debate, and the buzzing of the appropriately named Vespas that fly down the streets well into the wee small hours. Otherwise, one does not sleep until 2 a.m. or later, when-for about four hours-Rome observes a grudging silence. On the night preceding the beatification of Pope John Paul II, even that sense of restless quiet never came. Anticipating the crowds, city work ...

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  • Ferguson, Ramsey, Szczesny, Graham and New Kit

    [Soccer] (OleOle - Football News and Opinion)

    Good morning, it's an altogether more pleasant atmosphere in the world of Arsenal this week. The win over Manchester United may have come too late to salvage any chance of the title but it certainly done a lot to pick up some spirits amongst the fans and hopefully the team too. There's still a task to accomplish in these last three games, to finish strongly and get prepared for a new challenge next season. There's a possibility too of stealing away the runners up spot which would rep ...

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  • Indy Transponder 03-MAY-2011 0130z

    [Aviation] (Indy Transponder)

    Texas Flying Legends Museum - Saint Barths Airshow 2011 - Cockpit Cameras | Come fly with the Texas Flying Legends Museum as they do low passes over the St Barths airport and SY Marie at the 2011 St Barths Bucket Regetta. Pilots are: Warren Pietsch - P-40K, Robert Odegaard - FG-1D and Casey Odegaard - P-51D. Whitsunday Airport 50th Birthday from the Whitsunday Islands and Coast: Whitsundays Airshow | Whitsunday Airport celebrated its 50th Birthday in style on Sunday May 1, 2011. Ride in a ...

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  • Hate Mail: The Pace Is Picking Up, Y’all

    [Austria] (Gates of Vienna)

    Our regular readers may recall a recent (and passing strange) email I posted, asking for an appraisal of the querent’s concerns and predictions. Since neither the Baron nor I could decipher what that poor soul was attempting to convey we deemed it wise to appeal to the disturbed distributed wisdom of those who frequent the halls of Schloss Bodissey. I asked if perhaps y’all could drill down far enough to extract the meaning and then climb back out to let us know? And you did, coming up with ...

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  • Our Tourists, Ourselves

    [San Francisco, San Francisco, CA] (7x7 - Insider's Guide to the Best of San Francisco)

    The offices of 7x7 are located smack-dab in Union Square and so close to the gates of Chinatown that I can almost feel our building on Grant Street pulsing with the chirps of the toy crickets for sale. Double-deckers rumble by, clouding the air with puffs of exhaust, cable car tracks clatter, and doormen whistle for cabs. Every day, GoCars buzz past the old sash window by my desk. I don’t have to look out from the fourth floor to know that the tiny canary-yellow car is filled with a couple of ...

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  • Monday Morning Decathlete: Special Penn Relays Edition

    [Sports] (Women Talk Sports | Latest News and Blog Posts)

    What I learned in my first-ever trip to the Penn Relays, and lessons from its astounding success for the broader world of track and fieldIt's a party. They call it a carnival. Circus might do too.Both the spectators and the participants take the Penn Relays seriously as a competitive event. They also see it as more than that. It's three days of tremendous fun. Not only is there stuff going in inside the stadium, but outside the stadium in the "festival" area.The festival area had all kinds of sp ...

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    Martian Summer: Robot Arms, Cowboy Spacemen, and My 90 Days with the Phoenix Mars Mission

    [Gadgets, Starter Kit] (Boing Boing)

    In the Summer of 2008, Brooklyn writer Andrew Kessler lived a space dream. He spent 90 days embedded in mission control on a NASA mission to Mars. His offbeat and often humous book, Martian Summer, captures the real-life drama of the mission and its passionate crew as they attempt to dig up permafrost on the North Pole of Mars. This excerpt is the first chapter of a three-month epic that changed our understanding of Mars and sheds a new light on the importance of curiosity-based research and NAS ...

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  • Change in an Instant!

    [History] (History Is Elementary)

    Without a question…..without a doubt history and time are inexplicably intertwined. You can’t have one without the other. During my 49 years riding around on this planet there have been events that serve as turning points in my life – meetings, births, marriages, deaths, reunions, actions that show strength and truthfulness and those that scream weakness and betrayal. Yes, we all have those moments in life….during our time here……embedded in each of our personal histories. Collectiv ...

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  • After You Close a Deal

    [Startups, Small Business, AOL] (Inc.com)

    Earlier this month we closed our transaction with Coca-Cola. I can't say that I expected any of this to happen and so occasionally I felt as if I were watching things transpire, then I would realize that they were actually happening to me. It's been an exciting, intense and occasionally surreal time—and that's not even including my son's participation in the Maryland State Wrestling Tournament, which was a source of additional stimulating moments. Here are some of the interesting experie ...

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