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New Orleans: Big Easy, Ethnic Diversity, Food, Jazz, Energy

New Orleans, Louisiana, is known for many characteristics, and things. Why is it referred to, as the Big Easy? Is it because, the nature of the city is somewhat, relaxed, its people enjoy life, it’s small – enough, to feel intimate, yet large enough to offer a lot of variety, from a cultural, entertainment, and…

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Windows on How Cities Change Can Be All Too Captivating

Windows on How Cities Change Can Be All Too Captivating Technology is crowding curbs with ride hailers and keeping homeowners fixated on housing values. Here are the tools that Emily Badger, a writer for The Upshot, uses to analyze the ripple effects. Read More…

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White House cooking up something with Justin Bieber’s manager?

http://twitter.com/#!/scooterbraun/status/316338804183162881 What’s this about, then? Talent manager Scooter Braun, who represents Justin Bieber, PSY and Carly Rae Jepsen, says he’s “not even kidding” that the White House called. We believe him: anti-American rapper PSY was part of the Obamas’ 2013 Christmas in Washington celebration (Bieber was there in 2011), and Bieber kicked off the 2010 Easter…

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Pics: Gun shows continue to draw huge crowds nationwide

http://twitter.com/#!/NHTeaParties/status/290536915244027906 Talk of stricter gun control prompted thousands of people to turn out for gun shows all over the country this weekend. Lines were long, in some cases stretching hundreds of yards. https://twitter.com/cam_metzger72/status/290486368939933696 http://twitter.com/katyabram/statuses/290125145538961409 https://twitter.com/drhoagie/status/290479848990863360 https://twitter.com/mikeinnfla/status/290534338355920896 https://twitter.com/keblack02/status/290535212109164544 https://twitter.com/BagpipesActual/status/290175741189038080 https://twitter.com/SteveMcKinney76/status/290116222270455808 Many Twitter users posted photos: https://twitter.com/HuntOnPurpose/status/290255620827922432 https://twitter.com/EdBurkeToga/status/290116673460129792 https://twitter.com/heymikemayo/status/290185530061246465 https://twitter.com/Kari_Nautique/status/290181743883980801 https://twitter.com/qfrasier/status/290178533492412416 https://twitter.com/LauraVanOversc/status/290216857653362688 https://twitter.com/jim7226/status/290140253879160834 https://twitter.com/NickSpinetto/status/290129020169879552 https://twitter.com/LenaSiberian/status/290101989214400513 https://twitter.com/NimaKCTV5/status/290133229657264129 https://twitter.com/fshtank/status/290178536952696832…

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Thirty seven mobile plants set up in past year

Electronics and IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said in the past year 37 new mobile factories have been set up in the country, generating direct employment for 40,000 people and indirect employment f Read more: http://www.thehindu.com/business/Industry/thirty-seven-mobile-plants-set-up-in-past-year/article9040771.ece?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication

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Donna Brazile didn’t like the Kia space babies ad

http://twitter.com/#!/donnabrazile/status/298266975682048001 Democratic strategis Donna Brazile didn’t like Kia’s Super Bowl space babies ad. Neither did a few of her left-wing followers: @donnabrazile That was Kia going for the Far Right buyer. — Paul Arriola (@PArriola) February 4, 2013 That @superbowl @kia ad was cute… baby animals melt anyone’s heart…babies not so much. — Aniece Meinhold…

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Why We Need More CIVIL Discourse?

Most historians, and/ or students of history and social studies, have observed, we are currently living through a period of time, where there appears to be far more vitriol, than courtesy, and, perhaps, the least CIVIL discourse, we’ve witnessed, in recent memory. There appears to be a level of anger and angst, from both sides…

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