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So far we've covered the housing & food scenes. Peekskill's riverfront is a key attraction worth learning about. I give you "Peekskill's Riverfront:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVBBHyTSFNY

A broken and corrupt hiring process is keeping millions of people out of work. It's designed to weed people out, not put people to work. It's all focused on elimination instead of recruitment.

Well, what a difference one playoff game can make. And that can be looked at three ways here. In District 9-5A (Texas), the high school playoff picture was thought to be rosy for two teams (Centennial and Wakeland). What we have here now is an unpleasant surprise if you're a fan of the aforementioned Titans and Wolverines. Frisco had three schools make it to the playoffs, two that were expected to make it (Guess who? The previously-mentioned two) and one that surprised a lot...

#2 for 2014

Just back from the theater. J.K. Simmons, Paul Reiser (Mad About You), and Miles Teller (The Spectacular Now 2013). A directorial debut for Damien Chazelle. IMDB says this was 107 minutes - 1 hour 47 minutes - if asked, I would have sworn it was at least 2 hours, and not because of any pacing issues - the film is tight, with a linear storyline that seems to alternate between full bore on the track of the Daytona 500 and everyday life - throwing in a few streets of San Francisco...