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AboutAmherst: Snow day

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 21:12:00 -0500

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First snow day of the season today.

The snow turned to rain and by the time I went to the last journalism class of the semester, there was thunder and lightning.

Students seemed to be [...]

IMAGEYENATION.COM: You‘re Now Rockin’ With The Def

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 21:07:34 -0500

I'm loving this video by Nabil Eldekin. The skeleton flash is great! Anyway. 'The Ecstatic' was one of my favorite albums of 2009. Stay tuned for Imageyenation's run down on the best albums of 2009 and other ridiculousness.' [...]

AboutAmherst: Some class photos

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 20:52:00 -0500

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Kirby on the Loose: Bait and Switch at the Village?

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 20:16:00 -0500

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A lot of people put in applications at the Hilltop Apartments on Village Hill when it opened three years ago, drawn by assurances from its developer, Community Builders, that its apartments would remain affordable. Hilltop has many nice apartments, the upper floors have terrific views, [...]

Readuponit: Travel and voracious reading: Potemkin Village: A Useful Term for Our Time

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 19:32:00 -0500

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Reading a story in the WSJ tonight I came across an excellent word that prompted me to delve into its meaning. That is, Potemkin Village. As in, 'they planted a potemkin forest to block the highway.' It goes back to Catherine the Great's tour of Crimea in 1787, when a [...]

Only in The Republic of Amherst: A fitting tribute to Lt. David Pollack, Ph.D.

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 18:22:00 -0500

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It has been hung on the wall at North Station since the day Dave graduated. His father accepted his Ph.D. on his behalf on May 22nd.

Dave and his family received a standing ovation from every single person in the Mullins Center... [...]

Musings from the Otherworld: LizzieBelle's Photo Blog: great white north

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 17:59:00 -0500

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great white north, originally uploaded by Lizzie~Belle.

We had our first big snowstorm today here in western Massachusetts. Several inches of [...]

Readuponit: Travel and voracious reading: Captured by the Snowfall

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 14:18:00 -0500

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I am looking out at a serene backyard, dappled with sun. Yet in my part of the woods, the winds rage, the rain pours down on top of the big snowfall. Happily plugged in, I manage to 'kill time' a bit here in NJ while rides home are sorted out [...]

Tommy Devine's Online Journal: The Witch Wins

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 13:50:00 -0500

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Now Scott Brown Must Defeat Her

Wicked Witch Coakley and Scott Brown
I'm sorry to report that political hack Martha Coakley has won the senatorial primaries to select two candidates to compete for the seat once held by Ted Kennedy. One might have thought that' [...]

Ice Cream Diaries: Happy First Snow Day of the Season.

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 13:29:00 -0500

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Well, we did get to wake up to a nice little winter wonderland this morning anyway. It's quickly turned to a slushy mess out there, as you can see from the Chrome Bear-eye's view out the window below. Hope you got out early this morning [...]

The Living Rockumentary of School for the Dead: Snow Shmow, The Show Must Go On.

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 13:03:00 -0500

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This is pretty much the scene as it'll be tonight at The Calvin Coolidge Museum in Forbes Library, Northampton. We'll probably be dressed a little nicer and looking a bit happier. Our cheeks will be rosy from the snowy outdoors. You'll be cozy and warm in' [...]

elizasmom.com: Somehow, this entry keeps taking a left turn into the blasphemous

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 11:37:31 -0500

I was going to write an entry explaining St. Nicholas, aka Sinterklaas, to you all that traced the evolution of that custom into the Santa Claus myth observed in America but then somehow I got trapped in a morass of explanations and analysis of cultural mores and weird racial [...]