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July 2, 2009

a birthday, a cat, and a ring.

Alright on with the engagement story shall we?  Well it started with a Valentine’s Day card last year in which Lance had written, “Don’t you think its time to start ring shopping?”….which led to a trip to a jewelry store to try on different rings …and me finally deciding on what I liked.  Then the wait began.  This really didn’t bother me actually, I guess in my mind we already were engaged in a way, the sparkly ring was just an added bonus to come. So fast forward to October…the morning of my

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July 2, 2009

CHANGE FOR YOUR BUDGET: Regionalized service?: Town, schools get more creative to cut costs

As pressure on town and school operating budgets increases, Andover is looking at consolidating and regionalizing services to stay out of the red. The School Department also explored privatizing its custodial services this spring as a means of cutting costs, with the school custodians union agreeingd to contract concessions to help save jobs and ensure the schools would not hire a private cleaning company next year.

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July 1, 2009

Brown is in denial. The public expect cuts

Two of the most familiar aphorisms in progressive politics are Nye Bevan’s famous comment that “socialism is the language of priorities” and the age-old cliché that “to govern is to choose”. Now Gordon Brown has brought these hoary old slogans up to date for the age of post-Blairite new Labour. For Mr Brown today, socialism is the language of pretences and to govern is to cheat.

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July 1, 2009

Why Vogue still wields such power

Vogue editor slams designers for tiny sizes! Vogue editor promotes paedophilia! Vogue editor wears same skirt almost twice! Honestly, sometimes you can’t open a paper or check your tweets without discovering what Anna Wintour really thinks of Michelle Obama, or whether French Vogue approves of, say, breathing. For God’s sake, a colleague inquired, genuinely flummoxed by the recent kerfuffle over sample sizes, does it still matter what the editors of Vogue say? Why does anyone care if they write a letter/hold a weekly weigh-in for their staff/ban the colour pistachio/publish an all-black model issue

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July 1, 2009

Who’s in da DAMN House Wednesday? – Mango Girl

Introduction by our own Lindaloohoo: Today we bring you another special treat.  It’s sweet.  It’s juicy.  It’s Mango Girl .   There are lots of reasons to love mah Mango, as I like to call her.  Aside from the fact that she is mom to a great son named Pitcher and she’s an amazing artist, with a potters wheel and a paintbrush, she also has an icon on her blog called ‘Today’s Reason To Drink.’  (As if I need a reason.  Still, an excuse is sometimes called for.)  And the coolness does

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July 1, 2009

Did Cheryl have a happy birthday?

Posted by Jane Murphy   Been wondering how Queen of Everything Cheryl Cole spent her 26th birthday yesterday? Well, I’ll tell you… She indulged in “a major piece of backcombing” to create a “bouffant semi up-do” (phrasing courtesy of our friends at the Daily Mail ) – then set off for the X Factor auditions at the ICC Arena in Birmingham, where she was presented with a bouquet before starting work. Still, at least our Chezza was among friends on her special day.

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June 30, 2009

Scottish or British? What a dumb question

There was a stunning moment, late on Monday night, inside the illuminated spaceship that was Wimbledon with its new roof closed, when it seemed that Andy Murray had lost the game. A barrelling cross-court shot had gone long, and the cameras turned to the crowd for their reaction. If they had been auditioning for a tragic death scene on EastEnders they could not have done better. Jaws sagged open, hands clutched gaping mouths, eyes widened in horror.

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June 30, 2009

Home ownership for all is a low-rent idea

In 1986, as the general election neared, the Conservatives organised a photo call to celebrate their biggest domestic achievement. Margaret Thatcher handed a delighted family in Aberdeen the keys of the millionth council house purchased under right-to-buy. The image symbolised a truism of modern British politics — expanding home ownership is good for society and good for politicians.

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June 30, 2009

Two pop thinkers and their fight about zero

There was a life before the internet. It’s hard to imagine now, but when people wanted to find stuff out or read things, they had to stand up, walk to a bookshelf and brush away the dust. And, get this, people would, once upon a time, expect to pay for the movies they watched, the books they read or music they listened to.

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June 30, 2009

The Best Christmas Gift You Can Give Yourself or Anyone Else: Simplicity

I had to laugh when I read that quote recently. I particularly remember a time in my merry life when I had two sons, 3 dogs, my clothes filled two closets in my home, I owned Madeleine pans, exotic juicers, a regular and a gourmet coffeemaker, 3 sets of flatware, 10 tableclothes, 10 sets of placemats for 6 or 8, and formal china tablesettings for 12 and most cluttering of all, a social calendar that was unmanageable. Life is a series of stages, and there is the acquiring stage.

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June 30, 2009

The Blacks Who Cried Post-Racial Racism by Afrocity

The following post was originally posted at Afrocity’s Blog Autographed Letter Signed A shepherd-boy, who watched a flock of sheep near a village, brought out the villagers three or four times by crying out, “Wolf! Wolf!” and when his neighbors came to help him, laughed at them for their pains. The Wolf, however, did truly come at last. The Shepherd-boy, now really alarmed, shouted in an agony of terror: “Pray, do come and help me; the Wolf is killing the sheep”; but no one paid any heed to his

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June 30, 2009

Govt vows to maintain peace in RMG sector: 3000 law-enforcers deployed in DEPZ, Ashulia

Staff Reporter At least 3,000 members of the law enforcing agencies have been deployed at the Dhaka Export Processing Zone (DEPZ) and Ashulia to maintain peace following three days of violence by agitating garment workers. Two garment workers were killed by the police and the Ansar firing at Ashulia on Saturday and Sunday when the garment workers of some factories turned unruly over pay hike. More than 200 workers were also injured during the clashes with the law enforcing agencies and among themselves.

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June 30, 2009

Govt wants to make one-party parliament: BNP

UNB, Dhaka Main opposition BNP on Tuesday condemned what they called government’s mentality to turn the parliament into a one-party parliament as reflected through a senior ruling-party leader’s recent statement asking the absentee opposition lawmakers to resign. Addressing a press briefing of the BNP Parliamentary Party at the Media Centre of Parliament at noon opposition chief whip Zainul Abdin Farroque said the ruling party should not forget that government’s lifespan and existence become uncertain if parliament runs sans opposition.

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June 30, 2009

Nobel medal theft: Jibon Singh held?

Staff Reporter Members of an intelligence team in Bangladesh have reportedly picked up Indian national Jibon Singh, the main suspect of the theft case of Nobel Prize Medal of Poet Rabindranath Tagore. “A person, probably Jibon Singh, was arrested from a nearby district of Dhaka on Monday,” an intelligence official said on condition of anonymity yesterday. It is yet to be confirmed that the arrested person is fugitive Jibon Singh, who is also a leader of Kamptapur Liberation Force (KLF) of West Bengal province of India, he said.

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June 30, 2009

Sarah’s Touched Twice Birthday Party

My husband and I learned about an upcoming touched Twice Clinic (more coming in a future post) taking place in Harlan, KY- about 4 hours from us via car.  For quick basics- it is a mission oriented trip where the guests who come to be served come to have their physical needs met by a team of doctors, nurses, photographers, hair dressers, food preparers, etc who are all Christian who come to serve in the name of Jesus.  This is a very short description, and I will share more later.  But this post

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June 30, 2009

Save Your Money By Amazon Coupon CodesBusiness and EconomyAdd comments

Amazon is an e-commerce which is the largest online retailer in America. It has won the world fame as an online bookseller and later diversified its products to include VHS, DVD, CD music, music downloads, hardware and computer software, video games, electronics, apparel, furniture, food, toys, etc. Indeed, Amazon has a lot to offer with a range of products that are functional and fun

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June 30, 2009

Gift Giving Need Not Be Frustrating; Personalized Ornaments Are Always The Perfect Choice

by Bryna Bell Each Christmas season involves a lot of preparation in advance of the holiday. One of the most important (and best loved) of these activities involves gathering together to decorate the Christmas tree. Everyone wants their tree to be beautiful and special and will usually buy ornaments that they feel contribute to making their tree unique

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June 29, 2009

Berlusconi should not be leading the G8

Silvio Berlusconi was born in 1936, the same year that Hitler hosted the Summer Olympics. It would be fair to say that the bevy of women now talking of their steamy nights with the Italian leader probably don’t even remember Italia 90, let alone anything pre-Anschluss. And so the Commedia dell’Arte rumbles on, with Mr Berlusconi’s lawyer playing the unlicensed court fool.

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June 29, 2009

The Cold War is over. We must move on, fast

These are challenging times. As government tries to deal with the fallout from the global financial crisis, the tightest fiscal conditions for decades and the collapse of trust in politicians and politics, the last thing it wants to hear is warnings of growing threats to our national security. But hear them it must, and act on them.

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June 29, 2009

Gemstone Bead Mix 4 x 13mm Tube Beads /15 Inch Strand | Create …

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