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		<title>not very fast</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jun 2010 03:25:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>eve</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Four hours and forty-one minutes outside Pittsburgh, anger slapped me in the face.  How ridiculous is this, I thought.  Only two hundred and thirty-three point eight miles in four hours and forty-one minutes?  If I were flying, I’d almost be in Paris.
 
While we fuss about better transportation inside our city, we are missing the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>intoxicating</title>
		<link>http://www.utterly-opinionated.com/?p=1329</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 May 2010 16:02:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>eve</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Outside, along the edge of the river trail, the smell of honeysuckle is intoxicating.
Go.
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		<title>ownership</title>
		<link>http://www.utterly-opinionated.com/?p=1320</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 May 2010 01:54:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>eve</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was disappointed.   And then I wasn’t.
 
Every month Kim, Sara &#38; I host a cityLIVE! event.  We are interested, as we believe our audience is, in understanding issues that impact our city and region.  We are interested in holding a forum that allows everyone to attend.  And we are most interested in nurturing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>time to young up</title>
		<link>http://www.utterly-opinionated.com/?p=1315</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Apr 2010 19:49:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>eve</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The next time someone tells you that Pittsburgh is losing population, yell at them.
 
For the first time in 19 years the Census reports that the number of people migrating into the Pittsburgh region in 2009 exceeded the number migrating out.  The remaining tiny population loss of 434 people last year is accounted for by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>bike hero</title>
		<link>http://www.utterly-opinionated.com/?p=1306</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Apr 2010 13:49:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>eve</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, a weekend bicyclist, &#8220;might consider keeping his head down and his helmet on&#8221; suggests the Huffington Post this morning.  &#8221;A backlash is brewing over his new bicycling policy.&#8221;
LaHood blogged that he is ending the era of favoring motorized transportation at the expense of non-motorized.   &#8220;The new policy has vaulted LaHood to superstar [...]]]></description>
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		<title>things to learn from Paris #4</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 12:52:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>eve</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Black is de rigeur in Paris
Black coats, black boots, big black scarves, and even black hair.  Black is as certain as the methodical parade of grey stone buildings on every Parisian street.  Paris wears black well.  Tres chic.
At home the exuberance of individuality is as messy as the backdrop of our chaotic buildings and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>things to learn from Paris #3</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 21:12:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>eve</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Remember this story?   Mon dieu!  You don’t have to spend $1010 on a trash can. 
 
I love the pragmatic simplicity of Parisian trash cans.  A short steel post, with a ring at the top, bolted to the sidewalk with a plate.   The bag is held in place by an enormous, sturdy, bungee [...]]]></description>
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		<title>things to learn from Paris #2</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 16:39:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>eve</dc:creator>
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Its my third coffee shop of the day and I’ve overdosed on coffee so this time I ordered tea.  Tea and a palmier.   I sat down around 4:30 and by 4;45 the coffee shop was packed.  Teatime, coffee time, snack time.  There is no other time as busy as this.  This is when the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>things to learn from Paris #1</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 15:51:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>eve</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Paris is a dense city.  There is not much space here.   Streets are narrow and crammed with cars. 
 
A typical parking space in Pittsburgh measures twenty feet long by eight and a half feet wide.   This smart car fits into a space just nine feet long.  I measured it.   Fill a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>paris (not illinois)</title>
		<link>http://www.utterly-opinionated.com/?p=1244</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 10:32:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>eve</dc:creator>
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I’ve been sleeping through the winter.  Paris has woken me up.
24 hours ago I arrived at Charles de Gaulle airport, caught the RER metro into central Paris and settled into my tres petite chambre a coucher.   Tres petite.   Very un-American.  Lured here by a free room and a cheap ticket I thought what [...]]]></description>
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