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EDITORIAL COMMENT | Turning The Tide
2008 may not have been the best of times but it wasn't the worst either. And there are plenty of things to look forward to in 2009. Global oil and commodity prices reached skywards last year fuelling inflation and a hike in interest rates in India.
Tue, 06 Jan 2009 06:56:07 GMT - (The Times of India)

January 6, 2009
A few months ago I paid tribute in this space to Richard M. Sudhalter , the distinguished jazz musician, historian, biographer, and critic, who died last September after a long and grievous illness.
Tue, 06 Jan 2009 02:11:14 GMT - (Arts Journal)

January 6, 2009
Time: noon. Place: A rental car driving down Ocean Boulevard in Palm Beach. HE They call this Billionaires Row. I looked it up this morning. SHE I can't imagine having enough money to buy that kind of house.
Tue, 06 Jan 2009 02:11:24 GMT - (Arts Journal)

January 6, 2009
About... Terry's latest book, Pops: The Life of Louis Armstrong , will be published by Harcourt in the fall of 2009. One of his essays is included in Robert Gottlieb's Reading Dance , just out from Pantheon.
Tue, 06 Jan 2009 02:11:34 GMT - (Arts Journal)

DELHI DIARY
THE lively and epochal elections in Jammu and Kashmir have been conspicuous this time because of the spectacular and unprecedented voter turnout that defied and silenced the separatists who had, as usual, called for a boycott.
Mon, 05 Jan 2009 22:26:27 GMT - (Gulf Times)

Eagles prevail over Vikings in tight wild-card battle
MINNEAPOLIS - This one counts.In the coming days, the Eagles' doubters, the can't-win-a-close-game-in-a-tough-spot chorus, will try to find ways to say that it really shouldn't. You'll hear that the Minnesota Vikings weren't very good, and it was only a wild-card playoff game, after all, and, hey, the final score of 26-14 wasn't even all that close.
Mon, 05 Jan 2009 10:30:23 GMT - (Philadelphia Daily News)

Warning: More Doom Ahead
?Because the United States is such a huge part of the global economy, there?s real reason to worry that an American financial virus could mark the beginning of a global economic contagion.?
Mon, 05 Jan 2009 09:57:52 GMT - (Foreign Policy Magazine)

Peterborough's Darren Ferguson proving to be top notch
West Bromwich Albion 1 Peterborough United 1 As Peterborough's director of football observed the only job Darren Ferguson hasn't been linked with was Real Madrid.
Mon, 05 Jan 2009 07:52:32 GMT - (Daily Telegraph)

January 5, 2009
DECEMBER 31 Mrs. T and I loaded our car late in the afternoon and drove through a slippery snowstorm from rural Connecticut to LaGuardia Airport, where we holed up in a just-adequate hotel. We were still quivering with retrospective anxiety as we fell into our rock-hard beds.
Mon, 05 Jan 2009 03:11:15 GMT - (Arts Journal)

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What an odd start to 2009.
Sun, 04 Jan 2009 01:23:20 GMT - (Stuff)

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Security flaws bite Twitter
First phishers, now hackers '” the Twitter security concern got a little scarier yesterday, with the news that 33 high profile accounts, including those of Britney Spears and Barack Obama, were hacked. Twitter is acting with an alacrity befitting a social media company in responding to the situation, keeping users updated via
Posted on 2009-01-06 11:06:35 GMT

blog: socialmediainfluence.comTo See With God's Eyes: The Story of Abraham: Marc Gafni
To See With God's Eyes: Marc Gafni Someone once said that reading the Bible in translation is like kissing a woman through a veil ... quest. He has already been called upon by God once and answered the call with clarity and alacrity
Posted on 2009-01-06 07:10:50 GMT

blog: The Official Marc Gafni Website »HomeFlashes Of You Were Everywhere
It's not something I freely advertise, but I once actually considered living in Hoboken, New Jersey.It was only for an afternoon, granted, and I was under some duress at the time, as my Brooklyn sublet was coming to an end and I needed to find some place, any place
Posted on 2009-01-06 06:20:00 GMT

blog: larrylivermore.comHow Bad Was It
Numbers tell the story as to how rough the school year started out for students and teachers this year in Philadelphia. In the first two months of schools there were: 460 cases of assaults on staff 468 incidences of students ganging up on other students A total of 1048 serious incidences all together http://www.philly
Posted on 2009-01-06 04:13:09 GMT

blog: TeachersCount BlogBendy Bus Contract Costs In Full
Department of How Did I Miss That calling.  There's a TfL document (presumably rather well hidden since I haven't seen it before) detailing the tender costs for the 38, 507 and 521 routes.  This means we can finally put a true cost on the Boris Bendy Premium and nail Gilligan to the floor again
Posted on 2009-01-05 22:26:19 GMT

blog: Boris Watch — An attempt to enhance the accountability of the new London mayoraltyBookmarks for January 4th through January 5th
Stuff I have bookmarked for January 4th through January 5th: Back in the office, back on PM « Policy and Performance - " ... " Life With Alacrity: Community by the Numbers, Part One: Group Thresholds - "We often think
Posted on 2009-01-05 17:00:57 GMT

blog: Dave Briggs - Digital EnablerCowtow: So what do you think of my snake?
DEFINITION: v. intr. To pretend that you adore someone's pet even though it is annoyingly stupid, bizarrely threatening, or just plain stinky. n ... to slither up the corporate ladder to success; but when he, with open arms of alacrity, agreed
Posted on 2009-01-05 16:00:02 GMT

blog: Verbotomy: The create-a-word gameBlue Dog Jewellery - what should you do with unwanted Christmas gifts?
This article in the Guardian writes about the vast number of unwanted Christmas gifts that are sold off each year.  Why not give you unwanted Christmas gift to your local Oxfam shop so someone else can benefit from it? Given with love; sold with alacrity Jo Adetunji The Guardian, Saturday 27 December
Posted on 2009-01-05 15:30:12 GMT

blog: SHONA LOCKHARTNordic Track Book Club Review: Tribes
Seth Godin's Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us is 5-star material. I loved it. I'm giving Tribes the highest Nordic Track rating in spite of the fact that it's only 140 pages. I've purchased and read almost every book Godin has ever written, but I don't like the fact that his books seem to be getting shorter and shorter. The Dip (
Posted on 2009-01-05 04:40:58 GMT

blog: Dave Burke : Freelance .NET Developer specializing in Online Communities Summoning Her Psychic Brothers, the "Dust-Devil Force"
The young woman summons her psychic brothers. What do these represent in a woman's psyche? ... by to consciousness as they should be. Many women's alacrity and fighting natures are not as close to consciousness
Posted on 2009-01-05 03:30:00 GMT

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