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| So, after all that, they pretzled the vaulted American legal system in order to be able to give a five-month sentence to someone they had painted as an arch fiend and war criminal. With the legal deck totally stacked and bottom-dealt,... |
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| Bysiewicz, Blumenthal prevail. Leonard J. Honeyman reports.... |
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| Sorry for the late update on this as both Steve and I have been out all day taking care of some personal matters. According to a report in the San Diego Union-Tribune, the Boston Red Sox have placed a waiver claim... |
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| I m puzzled. has the money to run campaign ads. She s got the money to open campaign offices in at 457 East Main Street in Bridgeport. But she hasn t actually RAISED much money. Nor has she filed her pre-primary... |
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| Boehner's communist leader , the ever incompetent Beijing Bush, and his heir wannabe Beijing McCain are cut from the same cloth as John McCain sets out to copy China and their internet astroturfing People who sign up for McCain's program receive... |
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| Just got a call from a source who wishes to remain anonymous. She thanked me from the bottom of my heart for the story I did in today s print edition on the reduction in programs for senior citizens at The... |
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| That's what a Republican friend of mine (but an avid supporter of Barack Obama) just said to me. What has her so upset is this report Two months after grudgingly admitting defeat, Democrat Hillary Clinton and her ex-president husband are causing... |
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| The NIPA server has been downbeing maintained, preventing me right now from data about what kind of market economy we have and its efficiency. Drug costs relates to a previous theme of rising health insurance and medical care rates. The graph... |
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| The family of David Harris '08 , who recently died while hiking in the Pacific Northwest, has arranged a memorial service next week. Date Thursday, Aug. 14 Time 630 PM Location NY Culture Center, 7 East 15th Street, NYC Dean Mike... |
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| Welcome to my summer. This is what it has been like ninety eight percent of the summer thus far. Bleh.... |
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| And if you watch a minute in, she outlines a pretty logical energy policy. A good example of how any marketing message, such as calling your political opponent a celebrity, can backfire in the age of user-generated content.... |
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| The Hartford Courant1has an article about the growth in the number of Latinos in the state Connecticut. The article mentions the low levels of population growth in the state but these numbers (an estimated 6,556 last year according to the article)... |
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| The energy will come from active and passive solar plus geothermal. So, not only will electricity and heating be generated completely from renewable sources, it ll be done on site. Sounds like it could become a resilient community, a concept John... |
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| I know this is 'good for me' but it's a pain-in-the-ass.... |
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| I spoke to a structured settlement recipient this morning who tells me that she was inundated with solicitations from factoring companies despite her settlement, including the structured settlement, being subject to a confidentiality agreement. Her settlement emanated from a Texas...... |
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| In my last Kitten Confessional, I disclosed that I had subscribed to Guthy Renker's Carol Burnett DVD series, after seeing an informercial. Well, last Saturday afternoon, it arrived in my mailbox, one week ahead of the schedule that the Guthy-Renker representative... |
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| In the past I have written about my love for the new television network, Planet Green. Not only is the channel great viewing for people like me who get easily jazzed by watching others save a little chunk of the... |
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| Today I crewed on Wild Eyes , the Quest 33 owned by Pete Teri Binkley. After a quick cloudburst, we sailed out and were treated to a nice 15 knot breeze. Teri Pete share the helm and tactical duties.... |
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| Boaz ItsHaky for Congress - www.boforcongress.com An American Agenda for the 21st Century Energy As a whole our health is inseparable from the planets well-being Bo ItsHaky will promote a long term energy policy that will not only carry the United... |
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| If you re headed to the Connecticut Deparment of Motor Vehicles in Wethersfield, you ll most likely find yourself driving through a picturesque part of town known as historic Old Wethersfield. Dating back to pre-Revolutionary War times, this historic district has... |
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| The terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001 may be still so shocking to the American psyche that we may never get used to some of its searing images of planes crashing into buildings, or people falling from them. Therefore, a new...... |
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| CHSA is seeking talented CHSA members who would like a chance to sing "The Star-Spangled Banner" in the main hunter ring at the 2008 CHSA Finals. If you are interested please contact chsachsaonline.com.... |
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| I am still working on my K9 project. Doing some research. Making some posters. Contacting some local businesses. I am really hoping to raise a lot of money for this truly important aspect of my local police department. As soon as... |
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| In yet another statistic illustrating the failed liberal taxation experiment called Connecticut, the state of Connecticut lost 3,886 students from its public school system in the past year. The long term trend is worse. By 2020, a mere 11+ years from... |
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| This is a ridiculous story. I was once playing Donkey Kong on the Intellivision with my father around the time that such a game console was popular. It was my father's turn, and he made it all the way up to... |
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| If you look on Congressman John Larson's web page you'll see that he crows about being the #5 Democratic power broker in the US House of Representatives. He is in fact a big noise in Congress, and he often is seen... |
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| Skywatch Friday www.sandycarlson.net... |
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| Just a little tip from a fellow mom...now's the time to go treat yourself to some goodies at Aetheria in New Canaan. For the month of August, all retail products are 25% off. I was in there with some friends the... |
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| Just got back last night from Harvard where I participated in a three day NCI charrette planner certification training course. I will be writing more about my experience at a later date, but for now I will just tell you that... |
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| When we moved to Canaan six years ago (on Emily's second birthday), I started to put stars in her sky. Instead of random patterns of glowing stickers, I tried to map out the constellations of late August over her bed...... |
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| "You should hold your head down in shame... There is no other way to explain it...City Clerk Jean Natale is losing her mind. That's the only way to described what she allegedly did Monday night before the Democratic Caucus. You see,... |
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| Patrick added a photo Batter Fried Zucchini Broccoli ... |
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| And the sign said long haired freaky people need not apply So I tucked my hair up under my hat and I went in to ask him why He said you look like a fine upstanding young man, I think...... |
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| from: | Spinning |
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| Texas 34th DNA exoneration based on faulty ID. ShareThis... |
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| Predicting QB success in fantasy football via YPA (Yards Per Attempt) and FAS (Functional Arm Strength). (MLive.com) Bleacher Report's top 30 running backs. Included here because it's one of the rare rankings that doesn't have LT on top. Love for Westbrook... |
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| Someone posted this from Collegehumor.com via Facebook. If the video isn t displaying, click here to watch it on Collegehumor. HTML1... |
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| Here is Maureen Dowds b**ch slap on McCain First, Dowd cites, without mentioning a name, one of McCains old pals in the senate, who cringes at what they (sic) see as his soulless transformation into what he once scorned. The... |
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| I'm heading over to 1st Cathedral soon for day 1 of the Leadership Summit simulcast. I have never been to this event before, but I get the CDs every year. Always amazing! The 2 main roles of a pastor are...... |
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| Having more choices is a good thing. www.BobBarr2008.com... |
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| Here's the first of what I hope to be a few posts sharing things that we've learned while on tour this summer. Think cool environments are just for ad agencies and dot coms? Think that your company is too big to... |
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| Where do you store content metadata Laurence Hart and Sumath Molakala discuss where it should be stored but miss out on an opportunity to talk about how to manage it. Metadata is scattered throughout the enterprise. For example, how can a... |
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| Here are pages I've recently bookmarked with ma.gnolia Daily Cup of Tech OR, AND and XOR Logic Gates...with Dominoes An interesting use of dominoes to illustrate how computers work.... Tags videos-computers , viamento.info hummingbirdminds Dem delegate profile Sara the breadmaker... |
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| By Kira Hamman From the Silver Lining department The Associated Press reports that, in the wake of the recent salmonella scare, consumers are turning to local farmers for their produce. Consumers have become concerned about the safety of tomatoes and other... |
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| The Queen Anne-style house of Dr. Michael Gill, who was a prominent Hartford physician, is on the the West Hartford side of Prospect Avenue. It also features aspects of the shingle and Colonial revival styles. The house was the childhood home... |
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| Have you seen the Fall Vogue Knitting 2008 edition on the newsstands yet? Guess what - if you're not sure which sweater to knit, click HERE to check out Vogue Knitting's new video stream of the entire magazine. It's amazing....... |
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| ADJUSTMENTS I havent been able to blog as much, play guitar, or pleasure read. Slowly but surely, my better half I strive to interweave strands of our former selves into our newly adjusted routines that revolve around raising three beautiful... |
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| Now is the time to make your reservations for the Bed Boxing event - our next Pinecone Adventure - that takes place the weekend of November 14 to 16. We've set up a special webpage that details the 3 participating... |
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| John McCain's much talked about ad comparing Barack Obama to Britney Spears and Paris Hilton was meant to depict Obama as a clueless, out of touch, uppity Europhile. On first blush, this ad belongs to the same genre of the ad... |
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| Are you a good witch or a bad witch? Brunonia Barry s impressive debut novel is not set in Kansas, but in Salem, MA, forever infamous as the home of witches and other crazies. The site of the tragic trials... |
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| as the Defs waste a solid pitching effort by Ben Snyder (1-4). Snyder goes 6 IP allowing 3 hits, 5 Ks and the run was unearned. A leadoff walk in the top of the fifth led to the only run off... |
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| I don't often bake savory items, but when I saw the recipe for Bacon-Cheddar-Scallion Scones on the King Arthur Flour blog , I was intrigued. I could be completely vegetarian if it weren't for bacon. Put some bacon in a biscuit... |
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| Gail Giles is a member of one of my listservs, and I've been interested in reading her work for some time. And now I have. Kip McFarland was nine years old when he set a nine-year-old boy on fire and killed... |
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| Below are links to some of the things that caught my eye last week. Dan dugg the link Leaked Comic...... |
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| I found nine skeins of Classic Elite's Montera in the stash in a gorgeous teal color. 127 yds per skein, it knits at 4 stitches to the inch on US 9's. It retails currently for around $10skein, but I will...... |
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| As the third anniversary of Katrina approaches, Susan Larson, books editor at the Times-Picayune, rounds up a long list of new titles that deal with the hurricane in some way. She includes children's books and a number of poetry books,...... |
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| An Energy Diet for Power-Hungry Household PCs From the New York Times For more than a decade, the federal Energy Star program has developed voluntary power-management standards for PCs, and suppliers like Intel and Microsoft have steadily improved the energy efficiency... |
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| Lee Whitnum ran her first campaign ad in Greenwich. Before I say anything, I'll just let you watch it. Got that? Ok, now let's take off our tin foil hats and take our Daily Dose of Reality. Once again, Whitnum is... |
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| A very good friend, and new media expert, Dr. Sybril Bennett is out in Cali attending the 2008 Digital Media Summitt. She s been blogging about what s been going on out there the past few days. As they say, I... |
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| The following is a press release for CT Senator Bob Duff. He refers to Stamford Darien residents, though the rebates are available to all CT residents who meet the criteria. It may even apply retroactively to installations completed last year.... |
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