Your guide for choosing gifts
January 13, 2010
Associated Press Has your office had multiple pregnancies? When a baby boom hits an office, employers differ a lot in how they respond – from embracing the good news and allowing new parents to bring infants to work, to quietly relegating pregnant women to the short list for layoffs. Today’s “Work & Family” column features a few employers that have welcomed and adapted smoothly to a fertility boom.
Original post:
When There’s a Baby Boom at the Office
January 12, 2010
Associated Press Sometimes having “help” with a baby can be more of a hindrance. With the birth of our second child coming up, my husband and I have been discussing how much help we may want and need after the baby is born—and what kind of help would be, well, most helpful. Both my family and my husband’s live far away, and while our relatives plan to come out to visit the infant, we don’t want to impose on them for 24-7 help with the newborn.
Read the original:
What Kind of Help Is Most Helpful with a Newborn?
January 11, 2010
“E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial” How much is too much to phone home? Amid all the hassles of business travel, from airport woes to interminable meetings, a call home to the kids can be a welcome bright spot—or just another hassle. (Or, as with so many things in our juggles, a bit of both.) There’s no one-size-fits-all formula for determining when and how much to stay in touch with the family back home.
View original post here:
When You’re on the Road, How Often Should You Phone Home?
January 11, 2010
Associated Press No matter how much we try to shape their routines, kids run on their own clocks. The absurdities of trying to balance work and family come alive for me during the morning routine . Here’s how it’s supposed to go: My son wakes at 7 a.m., we have breakfast together and play
January 5, 2010
Loraine you are such a sweetheart to do this for her.
See the original post here:
Jocey’s birthday gifts from Raine528i. (Thank you so much Loraine.).MOV
January 5, 2010
Hostilities have started. The frenzied announcements and counter-announcements from the Conservative and Labour parties over the past few days point towards a long, grinding election campaign.
January 5, 2010
The anti-Nazi resistance within Germany took different forms: some fought against Hitler, and some thought against Hitler; some defied the horror physically, and others intellectually.
Read more here:
Heroes of the moral resistance against Adolf Hitler
January 5, 2010
So, the milk bottle full of small change. Last Tuesday, you recall, if you were in a fit state to be reading the paper, I set the challenge of guessing how much a collection of 12 months’ shrapnel would be worth. That is, every 1p, 2p, 5p, 10p and, yes, 20p, that came my way in 2009 had been carefully deposited in a two-pint milk bottle and I had just handed the contents to charity for counting
Read the rest here:
Small act of charity won’t change the world
January 5, 2010
Diligent readers of yesterday’s Times will have come across the report about the imprisonment in Malawi of two men who had just become engaged. Tiwonge Chimbalanga — a transvestite — and Steven Monjeza, both in their early twenties, pledged themselves to each other in front of 500 witnesses, and then were carted off to jail, and may now face a sentence of 14 years
See more here:
The anti-sex brigade are the worst of hypocrites
January 5, 2010
It is no coincidence that Robert Harris’s latest novel Lustrum is dedicated “to Peter”. The historic battle between Cicero and Caesar, portrayed in the book, is remarkably similar to the present struggle between Lord Mandelson and Ed Balls
Read the original:
For Caesar and Cicero, read Ed Balls and Peter Mandelson
January 4, 2010
If I were to asked to write the lexicon of the Brown years, I know with which word I would start. Reform: a process by which a system is changed in such a way as to intensify its inherent faults and weaknesses, and greatly to increase the cost. See housing benefit reforms, 2008.
Read the original post:
We’re picking up the bill for right-to-buy
January 4, 2010
A new sight puzzles winter ramblers in East Suffolk: above the snowy fields that sweep down to the River Blyth, there stands a bold hand-lettered sign declaring “Say no to sea eagles here”.
See original here:
Why the sea eagle has no right to land here
January 3, 2010
Freegies.com: Free Ecards, Greeting Cards, Birthday Gifts , Gold Crown Stores, Keepsake Ornaments – Hallmark Cards ***. Send free e-cards, personalized cards, photo cards, cards with sound, invitations and announcements for birthdays and …
Read more here:
Freegies.com: Free Ecards, Greeting Cards, Birthday Gifts, Gold …
January 3, 2010
When gifting grandparents, remember they are more emotional due to their age and certain popular birthday gifts like personalized lovely quilt with a family photo on it, shall do the best. Popular birthday gifts like personalized oil …
Read more from the original source:
Popular Birthday Gifts: Tips And Advice
January 3, 2010
Taylor Lautner Splashed $50k On Birthday Gifts To Taylor Swift. Taylor Lautner reportedly splashed out more than $50k on gifts for the singer’s 20th birthday on December 13. The “Twilight” star had a special surprise the country crooner …
The rest is here:
Taylor Lautner Splashed $50k On Birthday Gifts To Taylor Swift
January 3, 2010
In its review of the decade broadcast on New Year’s Eve, the BBC cut from footage of those planes smashing into the Twin Towers to a man called Will Young winning the original incarnation of The X Factor — as if these two crimes against humanity were equal in their devastation.
See the rest here:
How Simon Cowell helped take us from meritocracy to mediocrity in a decade
January 3, 2010
Our diplomatic war of words with Iran is brewing nicely. Last week the foreign secretary, David Miliband, condemned as “disturbing” the Ahmadinejad regime’s “lack of restraint” in its treatment of pro-democracy demonstrators. Tehran’s response was not long in coming: it retorted that “Britain will get slapped in the mouth if it does not stop its nonsense”.
See the original post:
Ooh, that David Miliband, he’ll scratch your eyes out
January 3, 2010
There was something both sad and ironic about the prime minister’s attempt to sell Labour as the party of optimism in his new year message last week. Not just because he is the embodiment of dourness, and not just because there isn’t a lot to be optimistic about
Read more here:
Labour’s fixation with control is strangling everyone
January 3, 2010
There are, it seems, limits to the ability of the average Briton not to spend. After a year of tightening our belts and holding back on consumption, it feels as if the country is simply going to the shops — a rush that would have defied belief a year ago when it was the gloomiest Christmas for retailers since, well, the previous recession.
View post:
We’re on a binge diet of sales – so it’s joy now, pain later
January 3, 2010
In among all the gloomy predictions for the next decade is one that is astonishingly cheering. In the near future neurologists will be able to halt the process of Alzheimer’s disease
Go here to read the rest:
It’s a no-brainer – bring on the pills that will make us smarter