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Five years ago, a partnership project between the World Wildlife Fund and Australia’s largest newspaper, the Sydney Morning Herald, culminated in “Earth Hour,” in which over two million Australians turned off their lights and electricity for one hour. Today, “Earth Hour” is a worldwide campaign, as businesses and residents turn off their non-essential electricity for…

Here’s the scenario.  Someone’s coming to visit you from out of town.  They’re not from Albany, they’ve never been to the Capital District, they are visiting you and it’s the first time you’ve seen them in ages.  After the celebratory hugging at Albany International Airport, your guest says to you… “I’m glad to see you. …

Even though my family has a long history of working with and living near the railroad industry – my grandfather worked for both the New York Central and PennCentral railroads – I think one of the reasons I never really got into model railroading – except for the one day a year when I visit…

Yesterday, Vicki and Cassaundra and Kelsie went to Boston, so that Cassaundra could take Kelsie to see the New England Aquarium.  Me, I’ve seen the Aquarium plenty of times, and I still have to drive with the family today to New Hampshire – round trip, up to Lake Winnipesaukee and back – so I was…

Suzanne Cleary and Peter Harding are devotees of Irish dancing – you know, the kind you see in shows like Riverdance. Well, these two have taken Irish dancing into a whole new world. And right now they’ve got one of the hottest YouTube clips out there. How hot is it? It showed up on three…

Here’s a puzzler to twist your brain a smidge. Apparently this word puzzle used to hang in a New Hampshire lodge near a fireplace. And the words form a very important series of instructions. Here’s the puzzle. If the BMT put more : If the B . putting : Never put more : over a…