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Countdown to the Los Angeles County Holiday Celebration
Los Angeles brims with traditions this time of year, and every Christmas Eve for more than half a century, the city's many faiths have shared one stage. The annual Los Angeles County Holiday Celebration, which started as a 12-hour neighborhood talent...
Tags: Holidays, The Salvation Army, Customs and Tradition, Entertainment, Radio
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Lakers' video wishes fans a happy holidays
The Lakers have sent out a message of cheer to their fans via a video-holiday card on their website. Dwight Howard, Pau Gasol, Steve Nash, Jordan Hill, Metta World Peace and Darius Morris attempt to sing "Deck the Halls." Naturally, Howard hams it...
Tags: Kobe Bryant, Holidays, Pau Gasol, Jordan Hill, Darius Morris (basketball)
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'Twas the night before Christmas and all through the house
The whole Christmas thing has changed a lot since the 50s. As a little yum-yum, there was not much happening around Christmas except for church and Santa. To say that my family was poor would be a bit of an exaggeration. We lived in a nice house, my...Tags: Santa Claus (fictional character), Holidays, Social Security, Lincoln Logs Limited, Religious Festivals
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Greg Schwem: Lessons from a reformed cybershopper
Humor HotelAs the holiday gift-buying clock winds down and all you cybershoppers sit smugly at your computers, bragging to anybody who will listen how easy it was to shop online, allow me to taint your eggnog. You have no idea how much time you wasted -- time you...Tags: Computer Networking and Internet, Xbox 360, Google Inc., Amazon.com Inc., Apple iPad
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In The Pipeline: Processing the unimaginable
Tragedies like this catch us off guard, when we are vulnerable, leaving no time to prepare or to absorb the sickening blow. Then the most brutal events imaginable begin to unfold. In the blur of modern technology and communication, shards of information...
Tags: Holidays, Sandy Hook Elementary School, Authors, Human Interest, Book
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UPS holiday rush is fueled by technology with local roots
When Keith Short began delivering packages for UPS in Glen Burnie 23 years ago, he used bulky pads of paper to track parcels and pens that froze in the cold. Today, Short scans packages on and off his truck with a handheld computer that tells him what...
Tags: Holidays, Glen Burnie, Home and Garden Products, Business Enterprises, Shipping Service
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It's beginning to sound a lot like Christmas
It's word association time. Say the first word that springs to mind: "holiday ----." Did you think "season"? "Sale"? "Hangover"? How about "music?" This year, there are plenty of new holiday albums to pick from. Cee Lo Green, English pop-rocker Tracey...
Tags: Cee Lo Green, Edie Adams, Gaming, Jazz (genre), Brad Paisley
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Christmas, New Year's travel forecast: Busiest in 6 years
NEW YORK (AP) — This Christmas travel season could be the busiest in six years, with AAA predicting that 93.3 million Americans will hit the road. That's 1.6 percent more than last year and just 400,000 people shy of the 2006 record. More cars...
Tags: Holiday Vacations, Holidays, Transportation Industry, Manufacturing and Engineering, Highway Transportation
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Connecticut victims: Lively youngsters, devoted adults
NEWTOWN, Conn. (AP) — At the very start of their lives, the schoolchildren are remembered for their love of horses, or for the games they couldn't get enough of, or for always saying grace at dinner. The adult victims found their life's work in...
Tags: Parenting, Newspaper and Magazine, Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting, The Wall Street Journal, Autism
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Holiday shopping 2012: Shipping deadlines and Free Shipping Day
By now, holiday shopping stress is in full force – and so is procrastination. Here’s how to make sure your online purchases reach their intended recipients in time. If sending gifts via the U.S. Postal Service, today is the last day to use...Tags: Holidays, Services and Shopping, Home and Garden Products, Toys "R" Us, Inc., Throw Pillows
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Carrying the mail to Santa
A chain of family-run hardware stores that started in Corona del Mar is offering to mail letters to Santa Claus' workshop in the North Pole — and the Big Guy will write back. Families can drop off their letters at Crown Ace Hardware until...Tags: Santa Claus (fictional character), Holidays
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Somerset County church news for Nov. 24
Zion Evangelical Lutheran Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church, Meyersdale, the Rev. Frank E. Harpster III, lists the schedule. Sunday: "Christ the King Sunday," 9:15 a.m. Sunday school, 10:30 a.m. worship, all cookie and poinsettia orders due...Tags: Physical Fitness and Exercise, Anglicanism, Weaponry, Religious Festivals, Schools
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