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Your Top 5 Posts for Saturday, April 14th

Kate Winslet’s boobs in China. Concern trolling masking as legitimate discussion on Rochester’s biggest print media outlet. Red light cameras. Fleas and ticks (shiver). Yes, it was a full week this week on the blog. Best of all (for me, anyway), some of the most popular content all week came from my latest cadre of RIT journalism students. I am so proud to be a part of the future of news, though I suspect many in the media are probably in full anus-clench over it.

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Louise Slaughter: Time to Retire? (Link to “Down the Memory Hole”, Roc25.com)

Photo: Politico

I would have preferred to have pointed you to the actual much-read article. However, the D&C, after not bothering to do any editorial work on the original post, opted to just pull the whole thing once the heat got too much. Blogger for the D&C opines that Louise Slaughter’s recent injury is grounds to consider her too old to serve in Congress. “Concern Trolling” is what they call that, and the blogger in question is actually a Republican who has run for office in the past…

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Bad news Rochester: red light cameras actually do work » DragonFlyEye.Net

Photo: cityofrochester.org

I’d hoped to find evidence that red light cameras were shit. I was disappointed. Instead as it turns out, most of us analyzing the situation have focused on the wrong metric: its not about tickets, its about accidents, and accidents in cities that use red light cameras do reliably decrease. Sorry, man.

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Matt Groening reveals that the real Springfield is in Oregon » WHEC.com

Photo: pptbackgrounds.com

The longest-running gag on The Simpsons is the fact that “Springfield” is in fact the most commonly-used name of a city in the United States. But the Simpson’s creator has decided now is the time to reveal the truth behind the joke. Kinda makes it not funny, anymore…

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The dog days of.. spring? Rochester’s pets bombarded with fleas and ticks » DragonFlyEye.Net

Photo: left-hand @ Flickr.com

RIT journalism student Leah Shae reports on the influx of fleas and ticks that come with an early spring. Lime disease and other ailments also on the rise.

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It’s Friday the 13th! Kiss that $900m goodbye! » DragonFlyEye.Net

Photo: quinn.anya @ Flickr.com

Just in case you thought there were no consequences to phobias, Jillian Seaton gives you the what-for on just how much it costs American business three times a year when Friday the 13th scares people into not even leaving the house.

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By Tommy Belknap

Owner, developer, editor of DragonFlyEye.Net, Tom Belknap is also a freelance journalist for The 585 lifestyle magazine. He lives in the Rochester area with his wife and son.