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Food, Culture, Baseball and Dub: March 2014
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Food, Culture, Baseball and Dub. Friday, March 21, 2014. Sleep And What Is In Your Head. Goodnight. Sleep Clean. JAN 11, 2014. SLEEP seems like a perfectly fine waste of time. Why would our bodies evolve to spend close to one-third of our lives completely out of it, when we could instead be doing something useful or exciting? Something that would, as an added bonus, be less likely to get us killed back when we were sleeping on the savanna? Memories and that it plays a central role. This fall in the journ...
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DC / Family & the Environment: Low Turnout For Primaries Needs Fixing
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DC / Family and the Environment. Wednesday, April 2, 2014. Low Turnout For Primaries Needs Fixing. In the April 1, 2014, DC primary barely 25% of registered voters participated. Thus while the "winner" of the election is credited to have received 44.24% of the vote, that represents less than 10% of the total number of registered voters. The chart below list turnout in all the primary elections in DC since 1982 -. September 14, 1982 Primary. September 9, 1986 Primary. September 11, 1990 Primary. Low Turno...
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DC / Family & the Environment: November 2013
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DC / Family and the Environment. Sunday, November 3, 2013. Garret County - Gone To The Hills. We moved to DC from Vermont - the first time we had a chance for a vacation we headed to the highest point in Maryland figuring it would be somewhat Vermontish. Garrett County, Md., beyond Deep Creek Lake. By Ann Cameron Siegal, Published: July 18. If you go: Garrett County, Md. It was certainly no accident that recently brought my family to FireFly Farms Creamery in that same small town. The creamery’...In the ...
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DC / Family & the Environment: Energy Harvesting - Footstep Power With Pavegen In DC
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DC / Family and the Environment. Wednesday, August 27, 2014. Energy Harvesting - Footstep Power With Pavegen In DC. From The Washington Business Journal -. Aug 21, 2014, 10:44am EDT Updated: Aug 21, 2014, 5:56pm EDT. Step on it: D.C. plans 850-square-foot, $200K kinetic pocket park at Dupont Circle. Staff Reporter- Washington Business Journal. Sometimes, the littlest improvements can make the biggest differences. And the Dupont underground may become a micro-unit hotel. Per a description of the project p...
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DC / Family & the Environment: October 2014
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DC / Family and the Environment. Wednesday, October 22, 2014. Too Many Curbside Dumpsters! In my area of Columbia Heights, I see contractors use dumpsters as transfer stations for other projects and leave the dumpsters out for months. There needs to be a time limit and a restriction about using the dumpster no parking area for contractor vehicles. Georgetown seeks ban on curbside dumpsters. October 1, 2014. Moreover, most dumpsters may be unnecessary because contractors working on home renovation project...
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DC / Family & the Environment: February 2014
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DC / Family and the Environment. Saturday, February 1, 2014. Where There Is Smoke, Is There Fire? E-mails show D.C. schools officials were alerted to cheating at Noyes in 2010. Teachers’ union officials in 2010 directly e-mailed D.C. Schools Chancellor Kaya Henderson telling her that the principal of a D.C. elementary school had reported seeing employees cheating on a city-issued test, according to e-mails obtained by the Associated Press. Through a Freedom of Information Act request. Cothorne said that ...
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DC / Family & the Environment: May 2013
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DC / Family and the Environment. Saturday, May 25, 2013. Common Sense On Weed In D.C. If only people would take action from Mr. Zuckerberg's words instead of nodding in agreement and turning the page. Let’s stop wrecking lives over a bag of weed. By Paul Zukerberg, Published: May 24. What crime is increasingly tripping up those looking for work? In 1995, police in the District arrested about 1,850 people. And though marijuana usage rates. Most of them are young men. By the time their cases are over, ...
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DC / Family & the Environment: December 2014
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DC / Family and the Environment. Saturday, December 13, 2014. DC TAG - Keeping It Funded. The on going struggle. from Washington Post -. Parents, students praise D.C. TAG in effort to shore up congressional support. March 19, 2014. DC parents, students and college graduates gathered on Capitol Hill this week to share their praise for a federally funded program that helps city students pay for higher education. Program, known as D.C. TAG. 8220;I thought it appropriate to have it right here where the appro...
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DC / Family & the Environment: September 2013
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DC / Family and the Environment. Tuesday, September 24, 2013. DC Bus Privatization - Does Not Benefit Public. I picked this up at the Washington, DC, Greenfest - about privatization of buses in DC. Private companies by definition serve the share holders via the bottom line. I think they call that fiduciary responsibility. Responsibility to the public is low priority. Tuesday, September 24, 2013. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). DC Bus Privatization - Does Not Benefit Public. Other blogs of mine.
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DC / Family & the Environment: Too Many Curbside Dumpsters!!!
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DC / Family and the Environment. Wednesday, October 22, 2014. Too Many Curbside Dumpsters! In my area of Columbia Heights, I see contractors use dumpsters as transfer stations for other projects and leave the dumpsters out for months. There needs to be a time limit and a restriction about using the dumpster no parking area for contractor vehicles. Georgetown seeks ban on curbside dumpsters. October 1, 2014. Moreover, most dumpsters may be unnecessary because contractors working on home renovation project...