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Where I work has lots of different people sharing floor space, with many different tasks being successfully accomplished with only measured amounts of casual conversation between and among people. I get confused when I read articles about some employer...
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on Nov 19 2008, 04:37 AM
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Have you had an opportunity to check out international press reaction to our 'little, old' Presidential election? It's touching in a way, it really is. There are, as you might imagine, as many sources and channels of responses as there are...
Posted by rags
on Nov 18 2008, 04:45 AM
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Necessary but sad business on tonight 's Norwich City Council agenda , starting at 7 in Room 335 of City Hall, as Ms. Dee Ann Brennan, the even-tempered, seemingly unflappable Town and City Clerk, is retiring and the Council will be recruiting within...
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on Nov 17 2008, 04:38 AM
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Just in time for Sunday, a news brief from earlier in the week, linking Canton, CT, with Jensen Beach, Florida (I've never (to my knowledge) been in either place, but their luck may eventually run out and I hope they'll be gracious should that...
Posted by rags
on Nov 16 2008, 11:51 AM
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I had a coffee yesterday morning where I often buy it, in the joint inside the local grocery store because I can pick up a copy of a newspaper and pay for everything at the same time (I hate carrying around change while looking for a vending box). I like...
Posted by rags
on Nov 15 2008, 09:28 AM
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It's been exactly ten days since the election of Senator Barack Obama to the office of President of the United States and Silly Season has already started. Actually, I'm oversimplifying it by calling it 'silly season', but that's because...
Posted by rags
on Nov 14 2008, 04:43 AM
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Across the country, this week and next, at all grade levels, children, youngsters, high schoolers, Friends, Romans, Countrymen are trudging home with report cards. I've always admired the savage sense of timing that our education factories display...
Posted by rags
on Nov 13 2008, 04:44 AM
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I suppose Loudon III , with Rufus , could relate to Billy Ray 's situation. His daughter, Miley , did "boffo box office" in the early fall, as Variety might write (spice of life or not, there's no business like show business ), and the...
Posted by rags
on Nov 12 2008, 04:39 AM
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In Flanders Fields the poppies blow Between the crosses row on row, That mark our place; and in the sky The larks, still bravely singing, fly. Scarce heard amid the guns below. We are the Dead. Short days ago We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow. Loved...
Posted by rags
on Nov 11 2008, 07:22 AM
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This is a week of quiet work for lots of volunteers across the Rose City underscoring the idea of many hands make light work , which is much better than my original understanding of the expression, 'Mandy Hanz is a big jerk' . Be advised, perhaps...
Posted by rags
on Nov 10 2008, 04:43 AM
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Huge news week for many of us across the nation and around the world and bit more turbulent, perhaps, than desired or necessary for one of us from Stonington , Connecticut. Admittedly a small item that may have escaped your notice, glad that I'm here...
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on Nov 09 2008, 08:42 AM
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All the spin-meisters have packed up and taken their three card monte tricks to wherever it is pundits go when they're not punditing (call the Guinness World Records book folks, I'm not sure anyone has ever made that word into gerund before today...
Posted by rags
on Nov 08 2008, 06:30 AM
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We've got some time between now and the Inauguration-another relic of our agrarian past. For voters in Western Europe, elections were and, for the most part, still are, held on Sundays. We've been using the first Tuesday in November since practically...
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on Nov 07 2008, 04:41 AM
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I was shopping with my wife in a Wal -Mart Super Center. It really is America, no matter how many people hate the idea of having one in their town ( Brooklyn, CT , are your ears burning?), they still shop in them. I shop as I suspect most men do, in one...
Posted by rags
on Nov 06 2008, 06:54 AM
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All politics is local, so forgive me if, just for a moment, I'm local and vocal in congratulating soon-to-be former Norwich Alderman Christopher Coutu on his successful campaign to be elected state representative from the CT 47 th District. Congratulations...
Posted by rags
on Nov 05 2008, 04:46 AM
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