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Rants & Raves
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Dogs::You Should Teach Your Puppy Proper Chewing Behavior (Dec 26 2005 03:50 GMT) - As much as you may love your cute, new puppy, if she chews on everything in sight--including you--she will not be cute to you for very long. Puppies that are left to their own devices can destroy a home quickly. Just as training is required to housebre... more...Go Fish? |
Taegan Goddard's Political Wire
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Romney's Easy Choice (Dec 26 2005 03:50 GMT) - When Massachusetts voters elected Mitt Romney (R) "as governor in 2002, few people in the state harboured the illusion that the relationship would last. Presidential ambitions have clung to the smooth-talking CEO like hairspray ever since he rescued the Salt Lake Olympics. Yet now that Mr Romney has dumped them -- by announcing he will not seek a second term -- many New Englanders feel used," The Economist remarks. "In his courtship of Republican voters outside Massachusetts, Mr Romney has made rather too many jibes about the liberal nature of his current electorate, comparing his job to being a 'cattle rancher at a vegetarian convention.' The home of Michael Dukakis and John Kerry is always good for an easy laugh in the red states, but Mr Romney's constituents have also been irked by his ostentatious shift rightward on social issues, notably gay marriage. |
Wealth Building Secrets
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Orindans prepare for a long wait in solving (Dec 26 2005 03:50 GMT) - Orindans prepare for a long wait in solving dilemmaContra Costa Times - While shopping at Theatre Square today — my daughter and I visited Entourage, a great place that deserves our community’s support — I was disappointed to see Busch’s Bakery had moved out. |
BotHack on SuprGlu
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Get your MAKE on... (Dec 26 2005 03:49 GMT) - Ok Makers, get your aggregators ready! We're finishing out 2005 with a ton of posts, articles, contests and more - if you haven't yet, add MAKE to: Kinja, My AOL, MyYahoo, Google, Bloglines, Rojo, Newsgator or Pluck (or any other feed reader with our RSS feed). Look for lots and lots of fun! If you're new to RSS, take a look at these articles for just about everything you might need or want to know. |
Ecademy
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What My 50 words mean for today only! [Zara Lockwood] (Dec 26 2005 03:48 GMT) - webhosting - I have it for sale creative - I have a creative sparkle (not a freudian missing winkle thankyou!) nice - "I, I like to be nice...I" (borrowed that from TalkSport again hovpod - If I had invented a machine, it would have been A hovercraft! surprised - always surprised, always. pleased - I'm like a tyrant when pleased, a nice one... |
Ecademy: user blogs
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What My 50 words mean for today only! [Zara Lockwood] (Dec 26 2005 03:48 GMT) - webhosting - I have it for sale creative - I have a creative sparkle (not a freudian missing winkle thankyou!) nice - "I, I like to be nice...I" (borrowed that from TalkSport again hovpod - If I had invented a machine, it would have been A hovercraft! surprised - always surprised, always. pleased - I'm like a tyrant when pleased, a nice one... |
Ecademy: user blogs
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What My 50 words mean for today only! [Zara Lockwood] (Dec 26 2005 03:48 GMT) - webhosting - I have it for sale creative - I have a creative sparkle (not a freudian missing winkle thankyou!) nice - "I, I like to be nice...I" (borrowed that from TalkSport again hovpod - If I had invented a machine, it would have been A hovercraft! surprised - always surprised, always. pleased - I'm like a tyrant when pleased, a nice one... |
Betsy Devine: Funny Ha-Ha or Funny Peculiar?
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Christmas landscape with berries, birds, and blogfriends (Dec 26 2005 03:48 GMT) - Swedish space physicist Ingrid Sandahl sent us her Christmas photo of two waxwings enjoying a shared meal of berries despite the cold, somewhere way up north of the Ice Hotel. Frank and I are enjoying a peaceful post-Christmas, our daughters having departed together to party, our house still full of warm smells of cookies and pie. The racing around to buy, to ship, to gather, to cook, to wrap or en-stocking, is over for one more year. All is calm. I won't clean up till tomorrow. |
Epistolary
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December 25, 2005 (Dec 26 2005 03:48 GMT) - Merry Christmas. User-submitted suggestions on my gallery pages have been disabled until further notice. ... |
Distance Learning
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Education ministry lauded for contribution to distance learning (Dec 26 2005 03:48 GMT) - JIS - The Ministry of Education Youth and Culture has been honoured by the Jamaican Association for Distance and Open Learning (JADOL) for its contribution to advancing distance education in Jamaica. At JADOL's 2005 workshop and awards luncheon held earlier this month at the Terra Nova Hotel in Kingston the Ministry was cited for promoting distance education through its Education Broadcasting Service (1972-1981; the In-Service Teacher Education Thrust (1973-1982) as well as the Reform of ... |
Distance Learning
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New building a good first step (Selma Times-Journal) (Dec 26 2005 03:48 GMT) - Last week the Selma City School System held a groundbreaking for its new home. Benjamin Given, president of the school board, and Dr. James Carter, superintendent of the school system, expressed their excitement at finally getting the project off the ground, so to speak. |
Distance Learning
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From cotton to Capitol Hill (The News-Courier) (Dec 26 2005 03:48 GMT) - Anyone who knew Reece Langley as a child might have guessed he was headed for a career in agriculture, but not even Reece himself foresaw that career taking him out of the cotton fields of Limestone County and to Capitol Hill. |
Distance Learning
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Senators push for preparedness training (FCW.com) (Dec 26 2005 03:48 GMT) - Sens. Susan Collins (R-Maine) and Joseph Lieberman (D-Conn.) introduced a bill yesterday to create a National Homeland Security Academy that would help train homeland security professionals at the federal, state and local government levels. |
Miette's Bedtime Story Podcast
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Arthur Quiller-Couch: Which? (Dec 26 2005 03:48 GMT) - Not necessarily a festive mistletoe-and-chestnut sort of story, thus, but for those in need, want, or glimmering hope of a holiday story, this unpodcasted tale from the vaults should suffice. Happy days, holly and otherwise! Miette's Bedtime Story TaDaCAST: Arthur Quiller-Couch: Which? |
ADHD News
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Unvaccinated Rabies Survivor Thrives (Dec 26 2005 03:48 GMT) - A Year After Leaving Hospital By GRETCHEN EHLKE Associated Press Writer Last December Jeanna Giese spent Christmas with in the hospital unable to speak or walk as she suffered from the effects of rabies. This year the 16-year-old is celebrating her improbable survival at home with her family. |
ADHD News
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Company: FDA May Approve Deficit Patch (Dec 26 2005 03:48 GMT) - The FDA told the manufacturer of the first skin patch to treat attention deficit hyperactivity disorder in children that the agency would approve the product if certain conditions are met the company said Friday. In a letter to Noven Pharmaceuticals Inc. the Food and Drug Administration included proposed changes to how the patch is labeled the Miami-based company said. |
ADHD News
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FDA letter OK's ADHD drug patch (Miami Herald) (Dec 26 2005 03:48 GMT) - (AP) -- The Food and Drug Administration has issued an approvable letter for a patch Kendall firm Noven Pharmaceuticals is developing to treat attention deficit hyperactivity disorder in children ages 6 to 12. |
ADHD News
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FDA wants changes to ADHD patch (Chicago Sun-Times) (Dec 26 2005 03:48 GMT) - WASHINGTON -- The FDA told the manufacturer of the first skin patch to treat attention deficit hyperactivity disorder in children that the agency would approve the product if certain conditions are met, the company said Friday. |
ADHD News
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David Glew keeps kids the focus of youth sports (Dec 26 2005 03:48 GMT) - When Susan McManus took her son Bobby to signups for basketball last year she was relieved to see David Glew was one of the coaches. "We first met David when he was umpiring coach-pitch baseball " she says. |
ADHD News
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Company says FDA to approve ADHD skin patch (Victoria Advocate) (Dec 26 2005 03:48 GMT) - In a letter to Noven Pharmaceuticals Inc., the Food and Drug Administration included proposed changes to how the patch is labeled, the Miami-based company said. The FDA also asked that the company clarify some data and conduct surveillance and study of the product once it is on the market. |
ADHD News
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NYT: NSA eavesdropping wider than W.House admitted (Dec 26 2005 03:48 GMT) - Bush and his aides have said his executive order allowing eavesdropping without warrants was limited to monitoring international phone and e-mail communications linked to people with connections to al-Qaeda. What has not been acknowledged according to the Times is that NSA technicians combed large amounts of phone and Internet traffic seeking patterns pointing to terrorism suspects. |
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