Archive for August, 2008
Posted in August 31st, 2008
The Toll - 8/24/08 - Chaotic Conditions In a Nuclear NationAugust 24, 2008 04:36 PM EDT (Updated: August 24, 2008 04:40 PM EDT) views: 94 | comments: 26 The world was reminded, this week, of the need to end nuclear proliferation and to initiate disarmament agreements - but will it listen?
The departure of […]
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Posted in August 31st, 2008
press to closeWinnipeg Free PressLocal NewsPublic griefROADSIDE MEMORIALS HONOUR LOVED ONES, SEEK JUSTICEby Bruce Owen
Updated: August 24, 2008 at 08:17 AM CDT
The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them’
– Lois McMaster Bujold, U.S. science-fiction author, in Diplomatic Immunity, 2002
Every few days, […]
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Posted in August 31st, 2008
Michael Dirda on ‘Nothing to Be Frightened Of’Memento mori.
Sunday, August 31, 2008; Page BW10
NOTHING TO BE FRIGHTENED OF
By Julian Barnes
Knopf. 244 pp. $24.95
If you’re clever enough, or hire the right accountants and financial wizards, you can actually dodge paying taxes. The big boys do it all the time. But death […]
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Posted in August 31st, 2008
The hectic experience he had to endure to give his father a befitting burial some 14 years ago was one of the reasons that pushed Mr Joseph Lloyd Vivid Kwadjo, Managing Director of Ebenezer Funeral Parlour to start a business that deals with the dead.
This in addition to an encouragement from a friend who […]
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Posted in August 31st, 2008
Body of wife found at arson house
About 100 police officers and staff are involved in the investigation Police investigating a fire at the home of a millionaire businessman have confirmed one of two bodies found there is that of his wife.
A post-mortem examination has found Jillian Foster, 49, from Osbaston House in […]
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Posted in August 31st, 2008
Darling Debo … love, PaddyIn 1956 Deborah, Duchess of Devonshire - youngest of the Mitford sisters - invited the writer Patrick Leigh Fermor to visit her in Ireland. It was the beginning of a lively exchange of letters. Here they discuss the Blairs, the Prince of Wales, Princess Margaret and the Queen Mother10 June 1992, […]
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Posted in August 31st, 2008
Straw says UK can ‘weather storm’
Justice secretary defends Labour’s “experienced pilot and co-pilot”Justice Secretary Jack Straw has said Labour is best placed to see Britain through the current economic downturn.
He told BBC One’s Andrew Marr Show that economic management under Labour would help the UK to “weather these storms”.
He said Chancellor […]
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Posted in August 31st, 2008
House prices crash by 10.5% in just one year - faster than the crash in the 1990’sThursday, August 28 2008 @ 06:32 AM UTC
Latest Nationwide data shows month-on-month fall on 2% bringing the yearly fall to a staggering double digit value of 10.5%, a value that was predicted for the next 3 years and also […]
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Posted in August 31st, 2008
Book Summary and Media Reviews Never Let Me Go: Summary and book reviews of Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro, plus an excerpt from Never Let Me Go and a biography of Kazuo Ishiguro.
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro Hardcover: Apr 2005Paperback: Mar 2006Publication information Book Jacket & ReviewsExcerptReader ReviewsAuthor BiographyAuthor […]
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Posted in August 27th, 2008
Hi Everyone in the Book Club & potential new members
The Book club will meet at the usual venue at the hotel.
Under discussion for the next few months will be:
AugustLast King of ScotlandGiles Foden
SeptemberNever Let Me goKazuo Ishiguro
OctoberGrasshopperBarbara Vine
NovemberA Piano in the PyreneesTony Hawkes
Reviews of the Book and information about the author are available on the […]
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Posted in August 23rd, 2008
A remarkable woman steps forward on 911
Senator Karen Johnson has served in the Arizona State Legislature for almost two decades. She is retiring at the end of this session. It has been my honor and privilege to know Senator Johnson. Back in April 2008, Karen was pummeled by the press in Arizona because she dared […]
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Posted in August 23rd, 2008
INDICT MICHAEL REAGAN, APPLAUD SENATOR KAREN JOHNSON
By: DevvyJune 16, 2008
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“The most brilliant propagandist technique will yield no success unless one fundamental principle is borne in mind constantly - it must confine itself to a few points and repeat them over and over.” Joseph Goebbels, Hitler’s Minister of Propaganda
It takes a […]
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Posted in August 19th, 2008
Foods for Living Longer and Better
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Eat Your Way To Longevity
By Mark Stibich, Ph.D., About.com
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These food and drink options will help your body fight off the damage caused by aging. Just work […]
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Posted in August 18th, 2008
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Recession within year, say experts
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August 18 2008
Recession within year, say experts
Britain’s economy will enter a recession within the coming year, the British Chambers of Commerce (BCC) has predicted.
In its latest quarterly economic forecast, the BCC said Britain was heading into a “technical” recession of two or more quarters of declining output over the […]
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Posted in August 17th, 2008
Elaborate Torajan funerals to die forThe last king of Toraja was 93 when he took his final breath in July 2003. Five years later, he’s still part of the family, quietly reposing in a small room in his former palace.
By Paul Watson
Los Angeles Times
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Eddy Sambolinggi, youngest son […]
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Posted in August 17th, 2008
Posted in August 17th, 2008
Freak weather is becoming the norm
Ireland as a whole is likely to warm by 3-4 degrees by the end of this century, writes John Gibbons
FIRST, SOME good news: despite the atrocious weather of the last week or so, overall Ireland is in fact rated as one of the countries in the world least vulnerable in […]
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Posted in August 17th, 2008
Posted in August 17th, 2008
Posted in August 17th, 2008
What’s happening to house prices in UK ~ CRASHING!
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