Daily Herald | Hoffman Estates starts stocking up on salt tonight Breaking news: Chicago-area residents should expect a “very cold period” after Thanksgiving. That’s according to the winter weather projections in the 2009 edition of the “The Old Farmer’s Almanac,” in stores in next month. Yep, my village is debating the cost of road salt, in August, because the Old Farmer’s Almanac predicts a cold winter. Well, they did run out of salt last winter…
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Yes they can: Chicagoans get entry to speech at last minute — chicagotribune.com DENVER – The group of Chicago people who took a bus to the Democratic National Convention without credentials will get to see Sen. Barack Obama accept the nomination for president after all. They will be the ones in the white T-shirts showing people to their seats. Yay! They made it in! I’m so glad for them. It was one of the small stories reported in the Chi-Trib about the convention that caught my attention.
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So was Best Western’s system hacked – and if so how? | Technology | guardian.co.uk We’re currently staying in a BW chain hotel in Dublin, and we certainly hope we’re okay – that is, David is able to keep an eye on accounts from here (never you mind how). But this news of a German Best Western having ALL their client records from the last year hacked is not good.
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Daily Herald | Duckworth blasts McCain over military policy The former congressional candidate painted McCain as weak on veteran issues, despite his service as a Vietnam War veteran and POW. Duckworth touted Obama’s efforts at boosting GI health care and benefits. Duckworth now is head of the state’s veteran’s affairs department. She recently has been mentioned as a possible successor to Obama in the U.S. Senate should he win. Here we are in Dublin, Ireland, logging in to check the political news, and find this news item in my “local news” section of Google News. We voted for Tammy when…
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Actors paid to line up for iPhone launch | Oddly Enough | Reuters That it has come to this: iPhone isn’t sexy enough for the Poles, who probably don’t like their one and only provider’s plan any better than the Brits like theirs.
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Ginny I can has iPhone? Via: Flickr Title: Railway sproggen By: GinnyRED57 Originally uploaded: 26 Aug ’08, 12.51pm CDT PST Ginny I can has iPhone?
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Only Connect: Holding together but going nowhere From our viewpoint the bishops talked in secret little groups in their ‘big top’ surrounded by a ring of police and only emerged once to go to London to tell society how wicked it was not to do more about the debt. Many of us had worked in or visited Africa and experienced the poverty. We do all we can to press for justice and support the aid agencies but we also know about violence against women in Africa and the persecution of gay people. They are the real victims and scapegoats in…
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A nicely appointed loo in a posh York teashop Ginny I can has iPhone? Via: Flickr Title: In Loo By: GinnyRED57 Originally uploaded: 25 Aug ’08, 6.34am CDT PST A nicely appointed loo in a posh York teashop Ginny I can has iPhone?
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Ginny I can has iPhone? Via: Flickr Title: Room with a view of York Castle By: GinnyRED57 Originally uploaded: 24 Aug ’08, 10.31am CDT PST Ginny I can has iPhone?
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Ginny I can has iPhone? Via: Flickr Title: Breakfast By: GinnyRED57 Originally uploaded: 20 Aug ’08, 6.51am CDT PST Ginny I can has iPhone?