The familiar “clack-clack-clack” of the old schedule board at Union Train Station in New Haven will soon be replaced by an LED light display. Transportation officials say the flapper board doesn’t meet federal standards for visibility and is too hard to maintain. The mechanical board is the last of its kind on the Metro-North line, and some folks want it saved.

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Train Station Board’s Demise Is Sign Of The Times

While I wear pretty much nothing but black clothing, I would not consider myself goth, nor did I ever think of myself as somebody who would wear a lot of black clothing with skulls on it. Not this Xmas, but the one prior, I got two skull T-shirts from my in-laws. Which made me wonder if they were trying to tell me something–or if there was some kind of commentary happening on my personality

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Threadless $10 Sale About to End

I’m pleased to report that Pseudopod , the horror fiction podcast, chose one of my short stories–”Benefits”–to start off their new year with their 175th episode . You can find that here. And for an alternate reading of the story, you can find my own interp of it here

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"Benefits" Helps Kick Off Pseudopod’s 2010

Each and every person, especially woman, does follow the celebrities and imbibe their activities, preferences and other habits. Lots of female celebrities, these days, are found to have elegant and expensive Coach handbags and all these have raised the popularity of this company’s products to a new height. It is by now a reality that having a Coach women’s handbag accessory or Coach spectator handbag is something that most people would like to do at some point in their lives.

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vip news : Coach spectator handbag allures lots

What does Organic SEO India stand for? Well, Organic SEO India is known for proffering reasonable website design, SEO and website development services for Faridabad based industry that need an online presence. Now the same celebrated company has brought to the fore website design, SEO and web development services for those Faridabad based industry that remain in need of an online presence.

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vip news : Take a look at Organic SEO India – it’s different

We’re back. And with this, we close the door on Weekend Justice 2009

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Your Weekend Justice Outtakes Show for 2009

Grade: A | Genre: Drama Summary: This film was one of the year’s best and deserves to be showered with accolades for Clooney and Reitman come awards season. The Great Recession has claimed the heads of countless jobs as the days painfully snowball into months. The unemployment figure currently sits at 10% while the number of underemployed is a staggering 17.2%

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Up in the Air

Written by: Michael Robert Johnson, Anthony Peckham & Simon Kinberg, based on a story by Johnson & Lionel Wigram, based on characters created by Arthur Conan Doyle Directed by: Guy Ritchie Starring: Robert Downey Jr., Jude Law, Mark Strong, Rachel McAdams, Eddie Marsan Review: After the putrid retch that was Revolver , it’s good to see that Guy Ritchie is back making them awesome. I’d waited for this movie for a long time, and I’m happy to report that it did not disappoint. The kicksplode was a special type of Victorian brand…and extensive to boot.

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Sherlock Holmes (2009) – 27 Second Review

Today we stray a little from our normal methodology here in the “Bewegtbilder” arena. Usually I take the opportunity to introduce the English speaking world to lesser known movies of German origin and language, but today I will introduce you to a German New Year’s Eve tradition: a classic TV skit — in English. Furthermore, I will babble a lot about the media.

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Bewegtbilder New Year’s Special: Dinner For One

It’s Friday and on DiS throughout 2009 that meant we did a Spotify playlist to compliment our editorial (archived here). Yeah, it is not unlike a covermount cassette wot you used to get on Melody Maker (RIP). Simply CLICK THIS LINK and you’ll be whisked to the founder and current editor of this..

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Spotifriday: DiS Editor’s Top 40 Songs of 2009

Juliette Fairley’s play is affable, but it’s also painfully simplistic and not quite ready for the professional stage.

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Theater Review | ‘The Making of a Mulatto’: Growing Up Biracial Before Obama: Years of Pain and Eventual Progress

I have chosen 100 singles I really do implore you to get your sticky mits on. If I had had to put them in order I would have had a breadvan, so I am sure you will excuse the absence of cheap – and vaguely pointless – countdowning.

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DrownedinSound’s Singles of the Year: 2009

Looking for a calendar for 2010? You can find it here! I’m pleased to be able to offer a 2010 About Photography calendar. The calendar is a series of pages (one per month) for your desktop background so you’ll always have the calendar in front of you

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2010 About Photography Calendar

Grade: C+ | Genre: Romantic Comedy Summary: “It’s Complicated” is largely a dumbed down version of “Something’s Gotta Give” Have you ever walked out of a movie thinking, “this movie so wasn’t made for me?” That’s how I felt leaving the theater after seeing “It’s Complicated.” I thought to myself my mom would love this.

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It’s Complicated

The North Platte Telegraph Area artists are being invited to enter their work in a special contest being sponsored next month by the Art and Gift Gallery in North Platte. But this show isn’t for just any artwork. Show Chairman Sandy Meyer is looking for mini art.

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Gallery to feature mini art (North Platte Telegraph)

Nigel Blake posted a photo: This is an image that I did three conversions from RAW at -1, 0 and +1 stop with, tonemapped & combined in Photomatix then converted to mono and added the tint, duplicated the layer twice and applied neon glow to one layer and posterised and slightly embossed the other layer, then played with the opacities of the layers to get something I liked, flattened the layers then “beefed-up” the saturation! _26K0182neonmonotint

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Typhoon gold

A 34-page complaint sent to Monterey County’s district attorney by the principal figure in a disputed Pebble Beach art heist has been disavowed by the attorney whose name appears on the document.

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Rambling complaint is latest twist in Pebble Beach art heist (San Jose Mercury News)

Reuters – Japan’s government said it aimed for economic growth of more than 2 percent over the next decade, but its long-term plan unveiled on Wednesday lacked detail needed to convince investors the goal is realistic.

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ASPEN – Don Argott has been accused repeatedly of making his documentary film, “Art of the Steal,” a propaganda piece. Argott can defend himself on various grounds: For one, the film is about a subject – post-Impressionist and early Modernist art – on which Argott didn’t have much of a point of view

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Idiosyncratic instruction, extraordinary collection are the heart of ‘Art of the Steal’ (The Aspen Times)

Pam Yearout Bezusko raised two daughters of her own but nurtured many others during her more than 30 years as an art teacher at Garland High School.

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PAM YEAROUT BEZUSKO: Garland art teacher devoted life to students (Dallas Morning News)

“The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond,” starring Bryce Dallas Howard as an emotionally unstable heiress in 1920s Memphis, exhumes an obscure Tennessee Williams screenplay.

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Movie Review | ‘The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond’: Gasping for Breath in a Prison of Gentility

To most of the world, David Levine was a brilliant artist best-known for his caricatures of public figures, published for more than years in the New York Review of Books. He definitely was that. But in Brooklyn Heights, Levine, 83, …

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If there’s any sort of philosophy we subscribe to on this site, it would have to be “Nothing exceeds like excess.” That’s why on a website I used to run we featured as our man of the year a guy who owned a trebuchet. In fact, you know what? To hell with it, watch this: Direct link for the feedreaders

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Cherpumple: The Franken-Kaiju Pie-Cake From Hell