tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37043110049175924632012-02-13T11:28:02.993-05:00Beatles, Birds, Books, Dance, Data, Dentist, Disasters, Dish, Essays, Eulogies, Faves, Guy de Maupassant, Haiku, Heart of Glass, novel, Inputs, Interviews, John Lennon, Jokes, Letterman, Links, Marcel Proust, Movies, Music, News, Philip Glass, Photos, Retail Daze, Reviews, Suzanne stories, Tap dancing, Translations, TV, Twyla Tharp, Celebrity Dish, Brave new worldRkCnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2621100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3704311004917592463.post-91755586613541165882012-02-13T11:25:00.002-05:002012-02-13T11:28:02.997-05:00

Vincent Van Gogh's Starry Night Interactive by Petros Vrellis. It's getting hard to tell these days, at least for me. I'm leaning to the latter, but appreciate the programming.

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WATCHINGOne for the Money Whatever Works+ Adele -- Live from the Artist's Den Miami City Ballet+ The Artist+ Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (Gary Oldman version)+ PBS Inspector Lewis+ NCIS +

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Feb 8, 9:22 PM (ET) LOS ANGELES (AP) - Fox's medical drama "House" is ending its eight-year run this season. The show's producers, including Emmy-nominated star Hugh Laurie, said it was a "painful" decision but that the time had come to bring "House" to a close. The drama stars Laurie as Dr. Gregory House, a brilliant but troubled physician with a gift for unraveling medical mysteries. In

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Yes, it's Facebook!": So much of netsurfing and gaming is addictive, why not this, too?  ..."Desires for media may be comparatively harder to resist because of their high availability and also because it feels like it does not 'cost much' to engage in these activities, even though one wants to resist," he said. "With cigarettes and alcohol there are more costs – long-term as well as monetary –

RkCnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3704311004917592463.post-82821193667085852262012-02-07T15:28:00.002-05:002012-02-09T14:00:33.475-05:00

Cancer didn't ask my cousin's views on abortion before it killed her. So I sent this letter to the founder, president, and public relations person today, along with my unopened solicitation in red, called LOVE, for Valentines Day:: To Nancy Brinker, Karen Handel, Elizabeth Thompson Subject:      PLEASE REMOVE MY NAME I’ve had quite enough of your organization after the recent unpleasantness.  I

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READING Marcel Proust - Place Names: The Place + (n) Peter Carey - Theft (n) David Shields - Reality Hunger: A Manifesto+ (n) Samuel Beckett - Stories and Texts for Nothing Nicole Krauss - The Great House  William Gibson - Distrust That Particular Flavor+ Jonathan Lethem - The Ecstasy of Influence+ Nicholson Baker - Checkpoint: A Novel (n) Julian Barnes - The Sense of an Ending  Steve Martin -

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Leon Wieseltier: Going To Melody | The New Republic Not just bookstores, Bunky.

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SOPA and PIPA would put the burden on website owners to police user-contributed material and call for the unnecessary blocking of entire sites. Small sites won't have sufficient resources to defend themselves. Big media companies may seek to cut off funding sources for their foreign competitors, even if copyright isn't being infringed. Foreign sites will be blacklisted, which means they won't

RkCnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3704311004917592463.post-52252726276214552862012-01-08T19:46:00.000-05:002012-01-08T19:46:49.748-05:00

A Cheat Sheet for All You New Ereader Owners

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More from The Millions : Good stories, stuff I need to read

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Anthony Lane, in The New Yorker examines all three. Long live the written word! PS le Carré is somewhere in the Christmas party scene. Didn't know until the credits. Movie was great!

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From The Millions : Great Book Preview

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This is third party. We'll see what we'll see.  They say speakers, stand, charger. It's unattractive, but needed.

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Gary's new band is Off the Record. Click here for their Facehook page.  I guess there are three other guys too, but here's the one I know. Music is here. Fairly funky.

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HEARING Puppini Sisters - Hollywood The Ting-Tings - We Started Nothing

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READING Marcel Proust - Place Names: The Place + Haruki Murakami - After Dark (n) Jonathan Lethem - Chronic City+ (n) Henry Alford - Would It Kill You to Stop Doing That? Janet Evanovich - Explosive Eighteen John le Carré - Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy+ Brian Selznick - The Invention of Hugo Cabret+(2x) Julian Barnes - The Sense of an Ending Evelyne Bloch-Dano - Madame Proust Jaimy Gordon - Lord

RkCnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3704311004917592463.post-45180542822690141802011-12-26T00:42:00.001-05:002012-01-06T00:15:19.741-05:00

Reposted from Library Thing, alphabetical by author: Suzanne Collins: The Hunger Games Jennifer Egan: A Visit from the Goon Squad William Gibson: The Bridge Trilogy (Virtual Light, All Tomorrow's Parties, Idoru) Yann Martel: Beatrice & Virgil W. Somerset Maugham: Cakes & Ale Yoko Ogawa: The Housekeeper and the Professor     always and forever, Marcel Proust: In Search of Lost Time.

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Last year's data, yet seems contemporary. Verso is a major book advertising company.

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Basically, because their entire thrust has been to be cheaper than anyone else and be shop-from-home-in-your-pyjamas convenient.  They started by selling books, now they sell everything. I buy my breakfast bars from them, 3 dozen at a time. Why? Because I can, because my supermarket doesn't stock them, because they're cheaper and they come to my house on a set schedule and I don't have to do a

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Russell Hoban, author of ‘Riddley Walker’, died (86). Times obit here.  An amazing book, he invented a language, the book was not easy. Like my skirmish with geometry, I understood nothing for a while, then the A-HA kicked in and brilliance ensued. I still have the book -- I think it's way out of print now -- but not sure I'll ever be able to read it again. If memory serves, the post-apocalyptic

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Finally. Hopefully. RIP. Mission accomplished?

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I was going to, I really was.  I'd decided on a name, and I'd found a self-portrait, which I'd been assured was plenty cool: I'd even found one less extreme, but still me:"BFD," you say, "Get on with it." Are you kidding me?  Grappling with identity memes before joining a legendary freaking social network.... are you kidding me?  All I have to say is...    Yes, that's right -- Erving Goffman's

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Etsy artist has it.... and more! And speaking of Oscar Wilde...  apparently people like kissing his tomb at Père Lachaise Cemetery, so they've put it under glass. Speechless. 

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A great listing of impossible mysteries. Some authors I never heard of.    Of course, John Dickson Carr was the king.

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is interesting, if not surprising. At least it's different from WaPo & NYTimes. And this is what the real writers liked. I'd like the time to read some of these bloody books! 

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WATCHING The Artist + You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger- The Descendants Smiley's People (more Alec Guinness)+ Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (Alec Guinness version)+ Hugo PBS: Woody Allen: A Documentary+ PBS: The Song of Lunch + PBS Bill T. Jones: A Good Man+ Spy Games+ Miami City Ballet: Program 1 (2x) + The Razor's Edge+ Moneyball+ Our Idiot Brother+ PBS Inspector Lewis+ Woody Allen's

RkCnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3704311004917592463.post-41476766002000441592011-11-27T01:29:00.004-05:002011-12-12T16:03:26.098-05:00

Amid all the hospital & city wonks, Schick finds Garland Jeffreys. Typical. Wonderful photo copyright Terrence Jennings 2010.

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But Amy does! © photo: J. Collodi Now, make way for the Wing Maiden!

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Better make my life better. Update:  Maybe. For Proust study, yes, it kills. For stealing the time of your life, ditto.  Like any addiction, it needs to be controlled.

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I'm alive at 11:11 on 11/11/11 So cool! 

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Manage Your Financial Accounts and Bills Better

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Create an Encryption Scheme to Hide Your Data in Plain Sight

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Wonder what else he's got to say.

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Also see PBS Arts : Portraits of Young Edward Villella:

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HEARING Bill Frisell - All We Are Saying... Puppini Sisters - Hollywood Hugh Laurie - Let Them Talk Talking Heads - Popular Favorites: Sand in the Vaseline Huey Lewis & the News - Sports The Pretenders - Live! David Bowie - Black Tie, White Noise Paul Simon - So Beautiful or So What Adele - 21 + Nicole Atkins - Mondo Amore Norah Jones - ... Featuring Puppini Sisters - Christmas Album Eurythmics

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Savannah --vote here  (reg req) Nina  vote here (reg req)

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Really, I don't know why, I just needed to have some of this stuff. It nearly did not even matter what. I've always loved Missoni designs, but the prices are way haute. Even though I suspected the quality would be Target-like, I didn't care. Went to two stores and 1 website. I'm going to return the gloves & leggings, as they are girl's sizes. The rest will be a combination of birthday and holiday

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Online ID Verification Plan Carries Risks - NYTimes.com:

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Now this would be a real change in publishing, books vs magazines. This could be interesting, but also part of that filtering divisiveness. Very political possibilities. I thought about buying The New Yorker's book about September 11th, then realized as a subscriber, I could always get to those articles, which I've already paid for, many times over. No need to do it again, just to get them

RkCnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3704311004917592463.post-14821563191920531862011-09-11T16:13:00.005-04:002011-09-11T16:37:22.681-04:00

 Miami City Ballet in Paris, Summer 2011 (1 here), many more here Miami City Ballet excerpts:   scroll down to video section... selections change

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by Art Spiegelman

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today is  09 - 10 - 11

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Beach Creatures : Sticks that walk from The New Yorker

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Murray Fredericks is an Australian photographer and I wish I'd shot every single one of his pictures. They are how I see the world... but can't always capture --- I was going to say "on film", but that won't do anymore. Still, let these images take you over like the perfect taste of a ripe mango.  The September issue of National Geographic has this Photo Journal from Fredericks of Salt Flats.

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Stop Coddling the Super-Rich - NYTimes.com ** By the way, the rich can save this country. All they have to do is do it. It's been good to them -- why not be good back?

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Finally someone doing something about some stupid ripoffs. Can't believe this has been going on so long.

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So where's your old Estabrook? Let's make sure hand writing doesn't become extinct. Write a letter today!

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It's the End for Borders, but How Are Independent Bookstores Faring? | Art Beat | PBS NewsHour | PBS

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SpamKing? Spamford? Get a life, dude!

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Hey! I know you! Nice art!

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Stealing is Stealing. Maybe. But hoarding is hoarding and hiding is hiding and I hate those JSTOR people for not allowing me to do independent research using articles they control simply because I am not a current student. Neither my undergraduate nor graduate universities could/would confer some sort of on-going student status so that I might have access to the archives. Neither would a local

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Hope there's no viruses here!

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Deborah Menikoff at Personal Parlance

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Great stories and pictures  at the IBM site

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Books-A-Million Pulls Offer for 30 Borders Stores. So says eBookNewser.

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MobileRead Wiki - Main Page

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Books made into movies.... free e-books

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Beginning formatting -- Support FAQ

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Cambridge Journals Online - Cambridge Journals Content from 2009 and 2010 is FREE TO ACCESS for Six Weeks

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I love Laura Miller. She's always just being smart and letting us hear about it. In this essay, she comments on Philip Roth's recent comment that he's given up reading fiction. ..."Fiction, however, doesn't offer instruction or information; it offers an experience. And for that experience to occur, the reader has to deliver him- or herself up to the book. This takes faith --

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Just click here. (Nothing bad will happen).

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Ah, the pause that refreshes!

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Ace Atkins will continue the Spenser series and Michael Brandman will write the Jesse Stone books. Maybe that portends less cutsey-poo Susan sex & Pearlisms. Really liked the Z Cree character in Sixkill, a viable Hawk replacement. Hope he stays.

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LOS ANGELES REVIEW OF BOOKS | Forthcoming Articles There's also a link to donate, or click through to indie bookstores. Reviewing will be critical in future. The Times has already lost ground.

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Mindrelic - Manhattan in motion from Mindrelic on Vimeo.

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Got Twitter? What's Your Influence Score - NYTimes.com

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MobileRead Wiki - Free eBooks I haven't tested any links, but this looks to be quite a list.

RkCnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3704311004917592463.post-7294237070251277852011-06-23T21:57:00.001-04:002011-06-25T02:55:37.336-04:00

D.M.V.: An Incomplete List of Writers Who Met Death by Motor Vehicle A bizarrely interesting creepy article from The Millions.

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Project Gutenberg: Partners, Affiliates, Resources Ebooks: find, compare, free Story of the Week: sorted by author (free) eBooks@Adelaide: Free Web Books, Online Feedbooks | Free eBooks Scribd: a bunch of stuff Fictionwise eBooks: some free, many formats AddALL Ebooks: find & compare many sites, some free From Australia, since 2000: Ebooks.com Google ebooks & reader; some free Broward County

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Ideas only a nerd could love.

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No way I ever would have known this about Jeff Jones. According to Wikipedia, it was National Lampoon that ran his IDYL series of comics, which I loved. I loved the linestrokes, the non-sequitur elements in the boxes, the bizarre affect of the woman, and the beautiful figure drawings. I still have at least one of his books...  They looked like this and this.

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Let's hear it for the geographers!

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Internet Archive Needs Your Help

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Here is a link to the very incredible PowerPoint presentation chapter from the very incredible A Visit from the Goon Squad by the very incredible Jennifer Egan, who very incredibly, won the Pulitzer Prize for it!

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The Atlantic announces that the last typewriter factory in the world has closed in India.  Guess there'll still be hunting and pecking. Though it's hard to find carbon paper these days, forget the Corrasable Bond! UPDATE 5/4/11:  Here, at this posh NYC Paris Review literary party, actual typewriters were used as centerpieces on the tables (scroll down for pix by Jill Krementz).

RkCnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3704311004917592463.post-40264458316305702682011-04-22T12:01:00.002-04:002011-04-25T22:33:32.671-04:00

Continue resisting a smarter phone Turn computers all the way off; no standby Set a specific surf time; for PC tasks, make a to-do list. Use a timer. Don't even think about a tablet. Not feeling so alone on this subject anymore...  Here's Colson Whitehead's dead cat tweet rant and Kevin Hartnett's 2011 Resolution (Stop Blaming the Internet). Radical!

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Bitter Borders Compilation (pix, videos, links, news, the occasional giggle) {sigh}

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Apr 18, 6:56 PM (ET)   By MARK KENNEDY and JAKE COYLE (AP) Author Jennifer Egan is shown at her home in the Brooklyn borough of New York on Monday, April 18,... Full Image NEW YORK (AP) - Jennifer Egan's inventive novel about the passage of time, "A Visit from the Goon Squad," won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction Monday, honored for its "big-hearted curiosity about cultural change

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Ahem! Are You Talking to Me? (Or Texting?)  IT seems this is an issue by age. Seemingly, the Teens & Twenties aren't so bothered. But I once was having dinner with someone who was having an affair with a married man who could only phone and/or text around 8 PM, so at a certain point I lost her attention as she focused on her lap. She thought she was respecting me by not talking on the phone, but

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Shouldn't we be changing this?

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 4/14/48-4/15/11 There are not that many people I have known all my life. Now that number is diminished by one.  So I was already there when she was born, and her big brother was my best friend.  We weren't always friends; sometimes we were competitors, sometimes she was the baby, sometimes she lived on the other side of the country. But stories get back, pictures get sent or acquired, rumors,

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I'm thinking this is a major deal-breaker.  More from the Times: "...The device, known as “Kindle with Special Offers,” will have the same hardware as the most recent Kindle with Wi-Fi... But instead of the typical Kindle screen savers, like images of authors, Amazon will show ads from brands like Buick, Procter & Gamble and Visa."  How unpleasant.

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Really enjoying reading the commentary on The Morning News Tournament of Books.  Like listening to an interesting discussion by people who read the same books as you. (Read. Read. Read. We must continue to read.) Update: 4/12:  Looks like Goon Squad won! Yay, Jennifer!

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in the Bronx. The buying, not the selling. She said they used to sell them in a tin, in candy stores. A penny each. On Manhattan Streets, Loosie Men Sell Illegal Smokes

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Well...

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Jean Bartik, right, and Kay McNulty Mauchly Antonelli, widow of John Mauchly, with part of the computer he helped design. Jean Jennings Bartik, a Computer Pioneer, Dies at 86.

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Major Search Engines Cashing in on Piracy? | Publishing In the 21st Century

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Mark Evans's answer to Why is Barnes & Noble performing well as a business while Borders has filed for bankruptcy?

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NOOK Color™ 7" Reader's Wi-Fi Tablet with Apps. Android update's in mid-April. On tv, they were selling this as a tablet, more than an e-book reader.  There's a great review here.

RkCnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3704311004917592463.post-1089368326285897412011-03-21T22:35:00.001-04:002011-03-27T19:53:10.381-04:00

The War on Women: WHAT'S AT STAKE.

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Riggio Tells Publishers 'Transformational Growth' Ahead Great news!

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Pretty much impossible staying off the grid these days. Wonder if Salinger was. Data Mining: How Companies Know Your Personal Information

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Patrick Murphy | Democrat for Congress | Florida's 22nd District

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Only need one who can win... and some $$ behind them.

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Program III Miami City Ballet Broward Center March 12, 2011 The first piece of the evening was Scottish Symphony. The dark kilts and jackets of the men contrasted with the light dresses of the women and the set was a scottish loch with a castle. The best things about this piece were the beginning and the end. The lightness and joy of the dancers was apparent to the audience, especially in the

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I met my good friend Judy when we were do-gooders together at Insight for the Blind all those years ago. I still do good there, but she's moved on and does good in a many other ways, including The Culture Company. And we're still doing good as good friends, too.

RkCnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3704311004917592463.post-46505015585765234562011-03-11T02:38:00.003-05:002011-08-20T02:17:06.592-04:00

Thanks to Dark Roasted Blend, my new best friend. Barcodes Inc

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A do-it-yourself project. Nice idea.

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