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Hansen: Katrina Veteran Sandbags, Seals Leak At Home

  • June
  • 16

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Statistics for most-sandbags-handled-by-a-volunteer are hard to come by, but Sickel has to be on the leader board. Helping people recover from devastating acts of God is pretty much his life. He did it far away in New Orleans and Florida. He’s doing it here at home. Again.
Sickel, almost 50, has a real job. As “Toolman [...]

Local Theater Voices And Kids Make Pbas Garden Bloom

  • May
  • 11

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As a prelude, I’d better admit that I’ve always been partial to “The Secret Garden.” Of all the great English melodramatic stories of the triumph of youthful optimism and guilelessness over all that is negative and naughty, it’s one of my favorites.
So it’s bloomin’ nice to have mostly good things to say about the production [...]

A 26YearOld Secret Could Free Inmate

  • April
  • 12

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Coventry assured him it was in a safe place. He found it in the fireproof metal box, but didn’t read it. He didn’t need to. He was reminded of the case every time he heard that a wronged prisoner had been freed.In January, Kunz called again. This time, he had news: A man both lawyers [...]

Increase your potential with a Social CV

  • April
  • 6

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I took friends and friends of friends CVs and improved on them, usually by just adding punctuation and correcting the spelling.
Sometimes I would ask them a few questions and use the answers to give their document a bit of punch.
It struck me then, as it does now, that we spend a lot of time embellishing [...]

Soldiers Kept out of Procurement Loop

  • February
  • 22

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Who Is the Customer?
It will come as no surprise to military contractors that in the business of defense, the definition of “customer” can be indeed convoluted. The numerous layers of bureaucracies that oversee the design, development and procurement of new weapons have created a system where it is virtually impossible for a company to really [...]

EDITOR’S POSTCooper Lawrence and the Mass Effect of Gamers Scorned

  • February
  • 1

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Terrorism, Elections and Video Games
The show sometimes discusses big topics of major national importance, like the presidential race and terrorism. Lawrence was there to talk video games, specifically BioWare’s new single-player role-playing game “Mass Effect.” To hear the game described on this program, it sounded like the raunchiest thing to come along since the “Leisure [...]

People: Led Zeppelin ready for world tour

  • January
  • 29

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Tokyo - Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page said today he was ready to take the iconic band on a world tour after burning up the stage at last month’s reunion concert in London. But it probably won’t be before September.
“The amount of work we put into O2 was what you would normally put into a [...]

Retailers beef up rules for returns

  • January
  • 27

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‘Tis the season for happy returns that may turn unhappy should you return too often.
The antithesis of Black Friday the day after Thanksgiving may well be today, when the blitz of post-Christmas merchandise returns begins.
Though retailers have a plethora of rules and nuances to their return policies, some restrictive and others [...]

Darker than it looks

  • January
  • 20

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Ihave never been to Norilsk, and never want to, but to gain some better
understanding of what Andrey Bartenev is seeking to communicate with his
noisy and lurid disco art %26ndash; and to recognise some profundity in it when, on
the face of it, there does not appear to be any %26ndash; you need, perhaps, to know
something about [...]

Retailers beef up rules for returns

  • January
  • 5

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‘Tis the season for happy returns that may turn unhappy should you return too often.
The antithesis of Black Friday the day after Thanksgiving may well be today, when the blitz of post-Christmas merchandise returns begins.
Though retailers have a plethora of rules and nuances to their return policies, some restrictive and others [...]

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