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I posted a photo set from the Georgetown Public Library fire on my Flickr page.
There were a lot of people from the community standing watch over the scene. There was optimism that things could be salvaged (especially archival documents and articles that resided in the Peabody Room), but the neighborhood felt an obvious pain.
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I woke up this morning to hear that DC’s historic Eastern Market suffered a devastating fire early this morning. The three-alarm blaze caused over $40 million in damage, displaced almost a dozen family-owned-and-operated food merchants, and upended one of the more unique neighborhoods in the District of Columbia. The mayor insists that the [...]

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Activity: road cycling
Location: Front Royal, VA > Luray, VA > Front Royal, VA
Distance: 84.0 miles (very hilly)
Duration: 4:55
Weather: partly sunny, 57-74 degrees
Avg HR: 161 (max 185)
Type: aerobic
An impromptu ride of “SkyMass” (Skyline Drive plus the climb to Massanutten) with some PPTC friends. It has almost 9,000 vertical feet of climbing over the 84 mile [...]

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This is decidedly not a workout log.
Perhaps it was a bad sign when a cardinal did a suicide dive into my car on the way to Poolesville.
Or perhaps the cardinal was getting back at me for being an accomplice in ending its life.
My ride today lasted all of 94 feet. At that [...]

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Yup - my favorite holiday is here!
Whee!
So go admire a tree!
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Want proof of a naïve voting populace? Look no further than the zany antics of Utah Attorney General Mark Shurtleff, who resorts to non-creative name calling about western politicians who speak truth to power.
Yup - Shurtleff still buys into the beat-to-death and entirely untrue argument connecting Iraq, 9/11 and Al-Qaida. He beats on [...]

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