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• civilized ku # 288 ~ small is beautiful pt. 2

  
  Journal — Authority: 132
  Xmas wreath / 1st snow storm ~ Au SAble Forks, NY • click to embiggen Yesterdays civilized ku # 287 engendered a few questions, 2 of which are related: 1. Dennis Allshouse (no link provided) asked: how do you carry your equipment? 2. Mary Dennis asked : Why cant you just keep the cameras in a bag on ...
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• civilized ku # 287 ~ small is beautiful

  
  Journal — Authority: 132
  Simple Teasures Thrift Shop window ~ Au Sable Forks, NY • click to embiggen Im curious - does the camera that you currently use determine when and/or how you make pictures? In the case of DSLR s, does size / bulk with your usual lens of choice, discourage picture making under some circumstances. Is it too ...
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• ku # 665 ~ its back (finally)

  
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  Snow • click to embiggen After a rather unusually warm - or more accurately, not really cold - November / early December, this AM brought snow, a blizzard, snowplows, school closings / delayed openings, canceled events, the wife taking the AWD vehicle to work, and so on. In other words, the whole 9 yards ...
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• There is one scenario where interest rates will not rise significantly.

  
  InvestmentWatch — Authority: 156
  Remember this is a world economy not just the United States.That scenario is currently unfolding now.While the USA and England have employed QE(quantitative easing ) to insure liquidity . What is the net effect of QE?The increase of exports,the increase of liquidity,The increase of jobs.The repayment of debt with ...
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• Six get life for massacring Dalits

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  New Delhi, Dec 5 (IANS) The Supreme Court has sentenced six upper caste men from Uttar Pradesh to life terms for killing seven Dalits 30 years ago.Sentencing the six men after reversing their acquittal by the Allahabad High Court, a bench of Justice Dalveer Bhandari and Justice A.K. Patnaik said: “Unfortunately, the ...
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• I Am Not in the Entertainment Business

  
  'Imagine' A World Of Peace,Understanding,Tolerance — Authority: 135
  and Other Rules of MacNeil/Lehrer JournalismAs the PBS Newshour once again changes its name and enhances its News gathering and presentation of using the tools of expanding technology in the 21st century Jim Lehrer closed the friday show off with the following: JIM LEHRER: People often ask me if there are ...
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• The Biology of Human Kindness

  
  Through Your Body: — Authority: 127
  The Biology of Human Kindness The Biology Behind the Milk of Human Kindness By NATALIE ANGIER As the festival of mandatory gratitude looms into view, allow me to offer a few suggestions on what, exactly, you should be thankful for. Be thankful that, on at least one occasion, your mother did not fend off your ...
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• From the Wilderness to Mount Tabor

  
  The Website of Unknowing — Authority: 527
  I’m still pondering the categories of “wild” and “tame” in relation to God, to the mystical life, and to my own work as a writer. If you’re just joining the conversation, read yesterday’s post and comments to get a sense of where I am. My fellow blogger Benjamin David Steele (whose original thoughts ...
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• civilized ku # 285-86 ~ street photography, pt. 2

  
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  Dog and Man ~ Thanksgiving Day • click to embiggen A little while back, in an entry titled civilized ku # 208-11 ~ see people walk, eat, ride .... or, crazy niggers doing crazy shit , I referenced a piece, White People Are Looking At You (link in ku # 208-11 ) by Sebastien Boncy. That piece was a ...
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• What Kind of People Could Give a Nobel Peace Prize to Obama?

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  A few days from now, the president of the United States will fly to this cold, dark, and usually sleepy northern capital to accept a prize that much of the world still holds in deep respect, even though it should have long since been entirely discredited in the minds of civilized men. As has been widely observed, of ...
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• civilized ku # 281-84 ~ NYCs finest

  
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  Hugo ~ Central Park Zoo, NYC • click to embiggen East > west ~ Central Park, NYC • click to embiggen I am definitely not one who enjoys big crowds - 3,500,000 people is a big crowd - so my notion of taking Hugo to the Macys Thanksgiving Day Parade was potentially fraught with peril or, at ...
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• civilized ku # 277-80 ~ fun

  
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  Miss Liberty ~ Macys 83rd Thanksgiving Day Parade • click to embiggen Ronald McDonald, Kermit the Frog, & Horton ~ Macys 83rd Thanksgiving Day Parade • click to embiggen Hugo and I ventured into NYC early on Thanksgiving morning to see the Macys Thanksgiving Day Parade - or, to be more ...
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• McKinnon Trial Upcoming – Is There a Problem?

  
  Revelations From An Unwashed Brain — Authority: 589
  On the BBC News site, I came across an article that discusses the many facets of the ongoing story of Gary McKinnon, the computer hacker that shook the Bush administration up quite a bit with his hacking into U.S. military computers during the time of the attacks on New York and Washington, D.C. I see several ...
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• Oprah introduces America to civilized (socialist) Denmark

  
  The Confluence — Authority: 578
  I stole this video from Lenore Skenazy at Freerangekids .  HER focus was on the fact that two month old twins were allowed to nap in the sunshine. Outside.  Unattended.  And no one called the cops on the parents for child endangerment or neglect.  It turns out the entire country is *full* of parents who leave ...
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• Shanghai Style: The Chinese Bicycle

  
  Bakfiets en Meer — Authority: 116
  No, the original NYT article was NOT cited. We’re just back from Japan here and there’s still so much to show and tell. First I’ll get past the jetlag and clear the pile on my desk. In the meanwhile you can check out the 550 or so photos of Japan I posted on Flickr . I’m patting myself on the back here for ...
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• tuscany # 88-91 - please, take their kodachrome (velvia) away

  
  Journal — Authority: 132
  Near Ponte Vecchio ~ Firenze, Tuscana • click to embiggen Approaching Ponte Vecchio ~ Firenze, Tuscana • click to embiggen There are few, myself excluded, who would deny that Saint/Sir Ansel, with an assist from Fred Archer, made a mighty contribution to the craft of BW picturing. His Zone System ...
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• civilized ku # 274-76 ~ ever ready

  
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  Mall parking lot ~ Plattsburgh, NY • click to embiggen Borders at the Mall ~ Plattsburgh, NY • click to embiggen Sears at the Mall ~ Plattsburgh, NY • click to embiggen Since I am not a light stalker / chaser , I usually only picture "the light" on those occasions when "the light" ...
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• Pakistan must make a break with the past, abjure terrorism: PM

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  Washington, Nov. 24 (ANI): To have a peaceful South Asia, the Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh, said on Tuesday that Pakistan must make a break with the past, abjure terrorism and come to the table with good faith and sincerity.Addressing the Council On Foreign Relations here, Dr. Singh said: “My government has ...
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• Manmohan Singh asks Pakistan to shun terrorism to talk peace

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  Washington, Nov 24 (IANS) Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has offered to resume the peace dialogue with Pakistan, including on the issue of Jammu and Kashmir, provided it abjures terrorism and comes to the table with good faith and sincerity.“My government has invested heavily over the past few years in normalising ...
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• civilized ku # 273 ~ words + pictures

  
  Journal — Authority: 132
  3 vases at the Jay Craft Gallery ~ Jay, NY • click to embiggen How much would it change your perceptions / feelings about this picture if I changed the title / description to a more complete and accurate description?: 3 vases and an intellectually disabled child on porch swing at the Jay Craft Gallery ...
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