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Quebec restaurants criticized for using foreign words like 'pasta' on menus
From NPR's The Two-Way blog: A government agency in Quebec, Canada, has been criticized after informing a restaurant in Montreal that it should replace "foreign" words on its menu -- like pasta, antipasto and calamari -- with the appropriate French...
Tags: Lifestyle and Leisure, Montreal (Canada), Dining and Drinking, Restaurants
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TED 2013: A look at TED by the numbers
Since Chris Anderson took over TED in 2001, the conference has expanded well beyond its original focus on technology, entertainment and design. This week, it begins its fifth and final TED conference in Long Beach before moving to Vancouver next year. ...
Tags: Entertainment, Google Inc., LinkedIn Corp., Radio
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Sen. Mark Kirk announces support for same-sex marriage
WASHINGTON — Sen. Mark Kirk (R-Ill.) on Tuesday announced that he supports gay marriage, joining a growing list of U.S. senators who offer such support. "When I climbed the Capitol steps in January, I promised myself that I would return to the...
Tags: Elections, Human Rights Campaign, Human Rights, Minority Groups, Republican Party
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'How do we completely redesign and recreate something while keeping it exactly the same?'
Change of SubjectAn excellent April Fools prank video from Google In tone and conception this is reminiscent of the "Saturday Night Live" parody ads for the First CityWide Change Bank: We can give you fifty singles. We can give you forty-nine singles...... -
Jeff Semler: And now, 'the rest of the story'
jsemler@umd.eduAs you might imagine, I received many compliments on my last article about the Dodge/Paul Harvey commercial “So God Made a Farmer.” Probably because we live in a conservative agrarian area of the world, what I often refer to as “God&...Tags: Media Industry, YouTube, Paul Harvey, Marketing
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Kirk announces support for same-sex marriage
Tribune reporterWASHINGTON — Republican U.S. Sen. Mark Kirk reversed course Tuesday and announced his support for gay marriage, entering a contentious national debate and providing potential political cover for Illinois House GOP members who may soon vote on the...Tags: Minority Groups, Parties and Movements, Republican Party, Marriage, Politics
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Faith and social media in Highland Park and Deerfield
Challenged to stay relevant and connected to their communities and congregations, local houses of worship are keeping the faith with new technology and establishing a social media presences on such platforms as Facebook, Twitter, and video sharing sites....Tags: Customs and Tradition, Social Media, Judaism, Holidays, Passover
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How come we don't hear about 'conservative media bias'?
Liberal media bias. So incessant is this complaint from conservatives that the three words string together as one, like Holy Roman Empire. But like the old saw about that infamous regime being neither holy nor Roman nor an empire, liberal media bias...
Tags: Elections, Freedom of the Press, Fox News Channel (tv network), Politics, BBC
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University of Saint Joseph Hosts the HartFolk Festival This Weekend
Pulling together such diverse folksters as The Sea, The Sea (Mira Stanley and state troubadour Chuck E. Costa, pictured), singer-songwriters Kate Callahan and André Balazs, and instrumental firebrands String Theorie, USJ's HartFork Festival promises...
Tags: West Hartford, Entertainment, Colin McEnroe, Radio
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Was the First Airplane Actually Invented in Connecticut?
There are probably people at the Smithsonian Institution who wish they hadn't bothered to hire John Brown to help them research a television documentary. Brown is a U.S.-educated Australian living in Germany, a project manager for an aircraft...
Tags: Kitty Hawk, Witnesses, Staten Island (New York City), Prosecution, Science and Technology
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Goldberg: Is disability the new welfare?
The government in Britain recently did something interesting. It asked everyone receiving an "incapacity benefit" — a disability program slowly being phased out under new reforms — to submit to a medical test to confirm they were too...
Tags: Medical Procedures and Tests, American Enterprise Institute, Pension and Welfare, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, United Kingdom
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Review: 'Moments Captured' by Robert J. Seidman
Pictures in motion — who invented this process? There's an obscure Frenchman — he has a name, Étienne-Jules Marey, but scarcely anyone knows it — who, in the late 19th century initiated the technique that made the modern movie...
Tags: Entertainment, Chicago Tribune, Henry Ford, Radio, Authors
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