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• World’s best in-flight magazine publishes world’s best article on the mommyblogging mess

  
  ZRecommends — Authority: 467
  United Airlines Hemispheres in-flight magazine was recently taken over by Ink Publishing , a team of people with a track record of turning filler magazines into magazines that print stories that you might actually want to read. For the past several months theyve been publishing, in addition to the travel and food ...
  7 hours ago

• Santa Cruz Bullit with Team Autographs Up For Charity Bid

  
  Bike Rumor — Authority: 491
  FROM THE AUCTION LISTING: Santa Cruz have kindly donated a brand new 09 Bullit frame, which has been signed by all the team (plus other top riders) to Steve Peat’s charity event the ‘Wharncliffe Weekender’. The frame which is in hard anodized aluminium (black) has a value of over £1,200, plus is signed by [...]
  7 hours ago

• Green lifestyle statement: Bangalore kids cycle to school

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 710
  By Maitreyee BoruahBangalore, Nov 21 (IANS) A group of girls near the busy Old Airport Road in India’s tech hub Bangalore bicycle to school every day as a lifestyle statement — green transport is cool.“Eight of my friends and I ride our bicycles to school every day. We don’t use public transport. We ride ...
  8 hours ago

• Today, I Fell in Love

  
  The D Spot — Authority: 416
  by  BA Racoma Your beautiful eyes never fail to captivate me. Every time you flap those sweet eyelashes of yours, I can’t help but just look back in awe. And your warm and oh so tender touch, brings warmth to my heart. Yes, you did it again, every time I see you, I fall in love, again, and again, and again, ...
  8 hours ago

• Former Asheville Firefighter Gets Four Months For Shooting At Cyclist

  
  Bike Rumor — Authority: 491
  Back in July, Asheville firefighter Charles Alexander Diez yelled from his moving vehicle at Alan Simons as Simons rode his bicycle along Tunnel Road pulling his son in a bike trailer and his wife following.Diez apparently yelled that Simons was risking the child’s life by riding their bikes on that road, and when ...
  10 hours ago

• Second Annual Boston Bikes Report Event

  
  Boston Biker — Authority: 425
  Want to know what the city has been up to? Come check out their annual presentation. Went last year, it was informative. —— Second Annual Boston Bikes Report Event by Nicole Freedman, Director of Mayor Menino’s Boston Bikes Hosted by LivableStreets Alliance Thursday, December 10, 6:30-8:00 PM (doors open ...
  14 hours ago

• Philly cops cracking down on bike-riding scofflaws after two pedestrians were killed by bikes

  
  Cycling Central — Authority: 469
  PHILADELPHIA (AP)  Police in Philadelphia are cracking down on pedal-powered scofflaws. Following the deaths of two pedestrians who were hit by bicycles last month, Philadelphia police are putting new emphasis on traffic laws for bike riders in downtown Philadelphia. Police Capt. Dennis Wilson says increasing ...
  16 hours ago

• Bicycle Licensing and Increased Fines Proposed in Philly

  
  EcoVelo — Authority: 532
  Councilmen Kenney & DiCicco of Philadelphia introduced bills yesterday that would increase penalties for sidewalk riding, riding with headphones, and riding bikes without brakes. One of the bills would also require bicycle registration and license plates. Local bicycle advocacy groups oppose the bills, pointing ...
  17 hours ago

• Water, Water (Not) Everywhere: Christine Destrempes

  
  Fractured Atlas Blog — Authority: 422
  Featured Member Profile This Thanksgiving, will clean drinking water be one of the things you give thanks for? Perhaps you wouldn’t think of it, but visual artist Christine Destrempes would. She’s created a delicate, even shimmering, installation piece that drives home a devastating truth. Part of her ...
  17 hours ago

• Seinfeld Confronted By Autistic

  
  AspieWeb.net — Authority: 419
  Jerry Seinfeld, a supporter of Autism Speaks was recently confronted by an Autistic Person outside a Autism Speaks fund raising event.  It was caught on video.  Jerry Seinfeld seems to be blowing off the person with Aspergers Syndrome who is asking him not to support Autism Speaks.  The person recording the video ...
  18 hours ago

• Florida town reacts to bicycle tragedy by building bike trails

  
  Biking Bis - Bicycle Touring and More — Authority: 428
  When two girls, aged 11 and 10, on bicycles were struck and killed by a van driver in October 1987, the people of Davie resolved to make the small south Florida city safer for bicyclists. By the end of the year the town council budgeted $150,000 for its first bike trail. Within six months work began on a 3-mile bike ...
  18 hours ago

• Do What Should Have Been Done Long Ago

  
  Bread Blog — Authority: 115
  Tuesdays are typically days where I have to spend a lot more energy than normal, because I bike to and from my class at Corcoran College of Art and Design, from Brookland to downtown DC and back.  I spend my whole day biking or standing and working, and so logically I need more calories than normal. Being on the ...
  18 hours ago

• New Global Voices Initiative Tracks Suppression of Bloggers

  
  Committee to Protect Bloggers — Authority: 488
  Threatened Voices home page Global Voices Advocacy has launched a new tool to track and map oppression of voices online. Threatened Voices , as the initiative is called, launched on November 3 and provides detailed information on bloggers and social media users who have been arrested or otherwise threatened for ...
  19 hours ago

• Take action for children’s rights today

  
  Voices from the Field — Authority: 112
  Today is the 20th anniversary of the UN’s Convention on the Rights of the Child. Only two countries have yet to join the global community in ratifying this important agreement that protects children: Somalia — and the United States. The International Rescue Committee is urging President Obama and Congress to ...
  20 hours ago

• Man tells cyclists it’s not safe to ride his bike on a busy road with his four year old, then shoots at cyclists in NC

  
  Cycling Central — Authority: 469
  ASHEVILLE, N.C. (AP) A former North Carolina firefighter pleaded guilty to assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill after shooting at a man riding a bicycle with his wife and 4-year-old son because he was concerned for the child’s safety. The Asheville Citizen-Times reports that 42-year-old Charles ...
  20 hours ago

• Whos got my back?

  
  The Mouth on Wheels — Authority: 100
  Caroline raised an interesting point on Twitter today. If you consider yourself a supporter of a minority group, how exactly would you define yourself? Ally? Sympathiser? Supporter? It’s a minefield for anyone sympathetic to the experiences of any minority group but not actually belonging to it. See, I am not ...
  20 hours ago

• Melanne Verveer: An Advocate for the Worlds Women

  
  Everyday Citizen — Authority: 514
  According to The Washington Post , " Melanne Verveer and Hillary Rodham Clinton go back 40 years, political soul mates connected by like-minded activism and causes -- from George McGoverns 1972 presidential campaign to womens rights. "Verveer has been working for then first-lady Clinton since she gave the ...
  20 hours ago

• WHAT THEY SAY…

  
  Have Coffee Will Write — Authority: 147
  Kelley Bell-Wenzlaff writes:After a long and difficult debate on health care, The Stupak/Pitts Amendment passed The House 240 to 194 with 64 Democrats breaking from the party platform to add an amendment to the bill further restricting legal abortion. The move was underhanded, disgusting and unforgivable to the women ...
  21 hours ago

• Kimberlee’s Bike Art Spectacular Brings in over $14,000

  
  Bike Rumor — Authority: 491
  PRESS RELEASE: San Diego, Calif. Hundreds of underprivileged children will be pedaling brand new bicycles thanks to the generosity of art collectors who attended the 2009 Bike Art Spectacular reception on Saturday, November 7th. The Bike Art Spectacular raised over $14,000 during the event’s reception.“It was a ...
  21 hours ago

• Taking A Stand Against the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force’s “New Breast Cancer Guidelines”

  
  Disruptive Women in Health Care — Authority: 128
  As a member of the Susan G. Komen for the Cure Advocacy Alliance Board and a breast cancer survivor, I welcome readers of Disruptive Women in Health Care to read the statement below that was released by Komen as a result of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force “new breast cancer guidelines.” In addition, ...
  21 hours ago

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