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Ten Things I Learned About The Macy's Parade

1. The marching bands have dress rehearsal at 3 in the morning. I wanted to catch my son as they marched past the Macy’s, but I overslept and didn’t get down until Herald Square until quarter til four. I did catch the last few bands doing their final walk-throughs. Even then the streets were blocked off so much that the best view was at the corner of 33rd and Broadway as the bands turned the corner from their performance. 2. They take down all the lamp posts and traffic lights in Times Squa

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Owning Your Bike: All You Haters Hold the Mayo

(Manhattan storefront)People don't like me. I'm not sure why this is, but I know it's true. I can see it in their eyes. Take this very morning, for instance. I was riding through downtown Manhattan, on a relatively quiet street, in a relatively empty bike lane, and to the best of my knowledge I was in compliance with every single local traffic law. (As far as I know there's no law against cycling in stockings and heels, even in December.) As I rode, I noticed that there was a pedestrian walking

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Christmas Comes Early in Iraq for US Army 'Cottonbalers'

In this file photo, 1st Lt. Zachary Boes, Co. C, 3-7th Inf. Regt., 4th BCT, 3rd Inf. Div., speaks with a young resident of Musayyib during a patrol March 7. (Photo by Sgt. Ben Brody.) In this file photo, Staff Sgt. Brian Massey, with 2nd Platoon, Co. C, 3-7th Inf. Regt., 4th BCT, 3rd Inf. Div., climbs to the roof of a house near Musayyib during a patrol Oct. 5. (Photo by Sgt. David Turner.) In this file photo, Sgt. Christopher Humes, Co. C, 3-7th Inf. Regt., 4th BCT, 3rd Inf. Div., pulls rooft

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Bullets, bombs and prayer shawls

I have been struggling to catch up with the coverage of the Mumbai coverage, since I was tucked away in a remote corner of the North Carolina mountains with my family when the story broke. Ever since, I have been torn up — to be blunt about it — about a journalistic dilemma that is at the heart of this shocking story. As various GetReligion writers have noted, everyone is struggling to fill the “who” and the “why” slots in the classic who, what, when, where, why and how formula for hard news c

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Atlanta Half-Marathon Recap

Well, with the support of numerous folks, I finished the half on Thanksgiving. All in all, it was a great experience. Who woulda thought running thirteen miles could be so fun? Not me. The worst part about these things, honestly, has to be waking up in time to get there. The half started at 7 am (full at 7:30), and even though I live fairly close to the start, I had to wake up at five a.m. My loyal husband got up with me to drop me off, too, which seems really thoughtful, but probably just mea

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Daily Blogging: DCA

I’m at DCA, waiting for the first of my flights home. My bag is laden with even more electronics than I arrived in DC with, as I picked up a new microphone while I was here. I love airports. The constant hum of traffic, the never-ending people watching, and all the crazy organizational schemes. Plus, moving sidewalks! When I fly, I try to book my connecting flights through airports I’ve never been to, if I can. My week off was totally awesome. I ignored my work email account, barely nosed arou

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Good Essay On The British Character

via Hot Air News. Written by Theodore Dalrymple in City Journal, the entire essay can be found here. Some excerpts: Theodore Dalrymple The Quivering Upper Lip The British character: from self-restraint to self-indulgence When my mother arrived in England as a refugee from Nazi Germany, shortly before the outbreak of World War II, she found the people admirable, though not without the defects that corresponded to their virtues. By the time she died, two-thirds of a century later, she found th

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Wet Taxis - From The Archives

A request from Brutusound who runs a wonderful blog you can find Here Louis Tillett's first band - Vinyl LP, Test Pressing Louis Tillett's first band, the Wet Taxis, commenced life as an experimental outfit in the manner of fellow Sydneysiders Severed Heads and Scattered Order before taking on a tougher 1960s-influenced direction. Their classic debut single on the Hot label, ‘C’mon’ (1984), boasted an authentic garage/R&B sound heavily influenced by such American garage/punk bands as the M

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Iron Redemption

I went in to Ironman Arizona seeking two things, redemption and an Iron distance PR. I was determined to give it my best shot or blow up trying. Well, as it happens I did not get the IM PR and I did blow up trying but in the end I found redemption.The morning started off well and I was feeling pretty good. The water temperature was about 64 degrees and the air temperature was about 55. IMAZ begins with a deep water start and is a single, long rectangle. I positioned myself inside and to the

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Another job that “Americans won’t do”

While this article is about Mexican Americans moving back to Mexico…or not…what struck me is this: Rafael Fernandez, 30, an undocumented immigrant in Sacramento, said he used to earn $18 an hour working for a private company that paved sidewalks, under contract, for the city of Sacramento. $18 an hour for paving sidewalks? And they “can’t find” Americans to do that job? I Call BS! My citizen sons would LOVE a job like that AND they wouldn’t send the money they earn out of the country. Oh, an

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Civic Judo: Gypsy integration in reality

This program of TV NOVA, "Civic Judo" about the gypsy questions, was aired in May 2008. English transcript, my fast translation:0:00 Narrator: Our reporter, Ms Bohunka Frankova, recorded a program for you that we titled in a simple way: Roma minority.0:05 Narrator: It's being discussed a lot. Many people are criticized for their racist statements. But no one really knows what to imagine under the term "the Roma question". Emotions are sometimes appropriate and sometimes they are not. Across our

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Goddesses running

Yesterday morning the sidewalks around Valley Forge were busy with people out for a walk or a run.  The walkers were of all sorts and conditions.   Young and old, men and women, boys and girls, families, couples, solitaires, gangs of middle-aged brothers and sisters, posses of little kids, teenagers in love walking hand in hand, teenagers out of love walking with arms folded and solid walls of silence between them.  Some were fit and trim walking with the purpose of getting fitter and trimmer. 

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Smithville Rd in Eastern Hills: City to Suburban Retail

Investigating the evolution of retail on Smithville Road, which, as we saw in the posts below, was a particularly busy street in the early postwar era. Smithville & Huffman: Streetcar Suburbia's Business Corner The story starts well before WWII, though. The key intersection is Smithville and Huffman. Between 1895 and 1901 the 5th Stret car line was extended up Huffman to the top of Huffman Hill, looping at Smithville & Huffman. Shortly thereafter, in 1906, the East Park plat was subdivided eas

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the city we give our children

Sonia has a very moving post about last night: And in Bombay, a city which is dying, I said to Rahul: where will my child study? which libraries will he or she go to? I said to him, I wanted to buy your wife a pram. But what roads will you push that pram on, which garden? There are no sidewalks in Bombay anymore. There is no clean air. People stone the dogs I feed outside my house. My neighbours say 'No Muslims.' When I landed in the city last week I thought to myself: This looks like Kabul bef

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Worcester City Council liveblog 11/25/08

Jump to Comments 7:15: And off we go. 7:22: A sidewalk on Flagg Street, in the area of Flagg Street school. This has been a grassroots effort by a number of neighbors in the area for a while now; several councilors have asked for a sidewalk to now be constructed. Two neighbors are speaking: Mr. Levine is thanking the city for the efforts to study the problem so far, but is calling for a more in-depth, comprehensive study of traffic, school children, those who drive the street, and neighbors.

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So I Can Keep the Masthead for a While, I See

So I Can Keep the Masthead for a While, I See November 24, 2008 at 7:25 am · Filed under Economics, Inside North Korea Blackouts frequently interrupted a four-day stay in Pyongyang for South Koreans attending a rare joint seminar between the Cold War rivals, with the North’s showcase city often plunged into pitch darkness by power outages. ‘What is going on here?’ a North Korean border control officer said when computer terminals lost power and the lights went out at the Soviet-era Sunan Airp

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Top 5 Family Friendly Things to Do in Colorado Springs This Winter

Part of the beauty of living in Colorado Springs is the ability to wear shorts AND wool coats in the Wintertime. As Colorado Springs real estate agents, we really appreciate the weather. Why? Well, because if it is too snowy to show homes on Monday, chances are Tuesday will be warm and sunny and great weather to buy a home for sale in Colorado Springs. However, there are days when everyone in the house is going stir crazy and it is just too cold to go out hiking. For days like that, here are s

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Blah Blah Blah

San Diego is a great city, and I say this as someone who judiciously seeks out the non-tourist areas. The food is good, the weather is fair, and if the plethora of just unbelievably attractive asian-american and mexican-american women is what a multi-cultural society means, then SIGN. ME. UP. I have been a lot of places. Almost every country in Europe. Every state east of the Miss. and most of the ones on the west, and many major cities, and this is the best. San Diego is the best place I have

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Life Immitates Satire

Quico says: Yesterday's scenes of traffic madness in Caracas reminded me of a classic Otrova Gomas piece called "El Día D." It originally showed up in El Cofre de los Reconcomios - a collection of wonderfully bizarre and extremely funny essays he first published (if you can believe this) all the way back in 1979.It takes some local knowledge to fully appreciate the genius of this piece, for sure. But even if you've only been to Caracas once or twice you can intuit how the city's location along a

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Holiday Train Show a Crowd Pleaser

One thing became clear pretty quickly during last night's opening reception for the 15th annual Holiday Train Show exhibit at the Connecticut River Museum...there is no age limit on miniature train enthusiasts! Here's Stephen Cryan, the exhibit designer, and 10-year-old John Capezzone of Ivoryton, as he focussed in on something he liked about the display. The reception was for the museum's members and exhibit sponsors, who arrived in full force to nosh on beverages and finger foods

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