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The following report was sent to Virginia-Highland residents by John Wolfinger, Virginia-Highland Civic Association public safety chair, on Wednesday, July 27. Citizen’s Police Academy If you have ever really wanted to know what all goes on in APD every day – this is your chance to find out first-hand. The next Citizen’s Police Academy session starts 8/17/2011, and is a fantastic experience for we    .. more …

Modern Berlin may be a prosperous place but its troubled past has left its mark on the city’s character, including a tendency to the alternative. Among the counter-culture railing against society are arsonists, saboteurs, artists and even gardeners. Petrus Akkordeon, as he calls himself, emerges from the S-Bahn station on to Potsdamer Platz and plants a small flower. What could be simpler? Up he    .. more …

But multimillion-dollar deficits and the academic inequities in Chicago Public Schools had her agonizing over the choice she and her husband had made to raise their own children in the city.When her son turned 5, she toured private schools but cringed at the expense. She tried to enroll him in one of Chicago’s top public magnet schools, but “he wasn’t reading ‘War and Peace’ so he didn’t get in,”    .. more …

Modern Berlin may be a prosperous place but its troubled past has left its mark on the city’s character, including a tendency to the alternative. Among the counter-culture railing against society are arsonists, saboteurs, artists and even gardeners. Petrus Akkordeon, as he calls himself, emerges from the S-Bahn station on to Potsdamer Platz and plants a small flower. What could be simpler? Up he    .. more …

What sort of a person are you: good or bad? That’s the question James Sherwood will be attempting to answer in his new Edinburgh show, entitled ‘I Fed My Best Friend Her Favourite Cow’. I talk to him about the show, the origin of the title, whether bad people have more fun, and which famous figures he believes will be facing eternal damnation. So, your new Edinburgh show is about good    .. more …

Hundreds of passports, phones, bags and even baby buggies have been recovered by the army tidying up the mess left by revellers.Over 85,000 music fans packed up their tents yesterday after the four-day music experience but hundreds forgot their personal items, or simply decided to ditch them.Among the items sitting in the lost and found boxes in Naas Garda Station, right, are hundreds of mobile    .. more …

THE interval between trains on Metro Line 1 was extended due to safety concerns during evening rush hour yesterday, after escalators were taken out of service for inspections.City Metro operator says longer intervals will mean fewer passengers arriving on platforms at once, easing congestion.Usually, it takes about eight minutes for a train to empty of passengers and for them to leave, but the    .. more …

The following are excerpts of blogs from Postmedia’s news services. For other postings on these blogs and for other blogs, go to the links at the end of each item.Canada’s oil conundrum, posted July 11 by Peter TertzakianCanada is a very peculiar country when it comes to oil. We are the only major supplier in the world that produces twice as much oil as we consume, yet we are not energy secure. In    .. more …

Wink Everything about Wink, at the west end of 24th Street near Castro Street, is cheerful: the name, the soft lemon yellow sign out front, and all the goodies inside. The store is little but it packs in a variety of home dcor, kitchen and bath accessories, tea pots, jewelry, shirts, bags, travel kits, and hand-printed cards. There’s a variety of offerings from mostly local and Japanese    .. more …

Re: “I was bugged by baby buggies until Oscar rolled into my life,” by Elizabeth Withey, June 30.I always read and enjoy Elizabeth Withey’s column. The column about the parents wanting to bring their child and stroller into a caf was of interest because I had just enjoyed lunch at that particular caf earlier in the week.The notice on the door with regard to strollers has been posted for some time    .. more …