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David Cornock's other blog (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
Best to eat before going to one of Peter Hain's Christmas parties if this parliamentary answer is any guide: MR ROGER WILLIAMS (BRECON AND RADNORSHIRE): To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, how many Christmas parties his Department plans to host in 2009; what has been budgeted for each such reception; what estimate he has made of the proportion of (a) lamb, (b) beef, (c) chicken, (d) pork, (e)...
Legal Theory Blog (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
Tanya J. Monestier (Roger Williams University) has posted Personal Jurisdiction Over Class Plaintiffs: Have We Gone Down the Wrong Road? on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Canadian courts have recently been struggling with the question of personal jurisdiction over non-resident...
PharmaGossip (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
Two Pfizer Inc. units’ hormone- replacement therapy drugs caused an Illinois woman’s breast cancer, making them liable for at least $6.3 million in damages, a Philadelphia jury ruled today. Jurors deliberated about five hours before finding that the combination of Wyeth’s Prempro and Pharmacia & Upjohn’s Provera menopause drugs was a substantial contributing factor in Donna...
A United Methodist Emerging... (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
This is my least favorite of several signs Ih ave ground my teeth at over the years in front of Broadway (formerly Baptist) Church which is at about 40th and Broadway in Kansas City. I think you can tell by the sign's message why the church is no longer Baptist. It's like they put up these signs just to annoy me or something. And so my diatribe follows: First of all, who are we to say we were never...
Latest Oasis News With stopcryingyo (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
Oasis will get back together because the warring Gallagher brothers love each other but won’t admit it, according to the man who launched them to rock stardom. Creation Records founder Alan McGee, whose label has sold 60 million records and signed Oasis in 1993, has moved from London to enjoy an “early retirement” in a retreat near Hay-on-Wye, Powys. As their mentor, Glaswegian McGee...
Poetry & Poets in Rags (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
in colleges and businesses for 19 years. She currently works as a writing coach at the Roger Williams University School of Law. Her poems have been widely published online and in print. Her poem "The Secret Life of Hair" received an Honorable Mention award in The Poetry Society of New Hampshire's national contest. Nonsense! I believe in nonsense, from Tom Chandler: The Providence Journal:...
TruthSeeker24's anti-N.W.O. corner (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
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Peter Black AM (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
The announcement by Energy Secretary Ed Miliband that the government has approved ten sites in England and Wales for new nuclear power stations will lead to some heated debate in the months ahead. That is especially so in Wales where the official view of the Welsh Government is that there should be a public consultation on the replacement nuclear power station at Wylfa B and that if possible an alternative...
Samsung LCD Display (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009
Roger Williams has been a Rise client for many years originating with our 3 color LED wallboards through an upgrade 3 years ago to a LCD Video Wall. Video Walls come in all shapes and sizes and for their finance lab we utilized NEC monitors to create a 3x1 wall that acts as the focal point to the room showing all of the latest market information from around the world. This picture was taken last week...
World Wide Words newsletter (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
Witching hour Alison Hill wonders if the phrase, and the time of day to which it refers, could have been influenced by the ending of another of Shakespeare’s plays, A Midsummer Night’s Dream . In act 5, Scene 1, Theseus says: * The iron tongue of midnight hath told twelve. Lovers, to bed; ’tis almost fairy time. The humans all leave and Puck enters: * Now it is the time of night...
Boardgame News (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
John Poniske first came to my attention because of Lincoln’s War, an as-yet-to-published game on the American Civil War. But Multi-man Publishing has put another of Mr. Poniske’s games on its preorder list, and John recently agreed to talk to me about King Philip’s War. Kris : I have an interest in King Philip’s War because I grew up in Rhode Island, and I am one of the many...
Brains and Eggs (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
The day before, anyway. The Texas Progressive Alliance reminds you to -- wherever in Texas (or elsewhere) you happen to be -- get out and vote tomorrow. Here are this week's highlights. Aruba Petroleum is drilling a Barnett Shale gas well in the backyard of Tim and Christine. Their property was taken, its value diminished, they were threatened and now Aruba Petroleum spilled toxic drilling waste a...
Comics Should Be Good! (Free subscription) | 01/11/2009
It's time to delve into the latest issue of Previews, #254! Let's rock! Dark Horse: There's a new Solomon Kane mini-series on page 28 (13 January), if you're interested. According to the quote on the page, Kane is the "only Puritan" Ed Brubaker has been a fan of. What about Roger Williams, Ed? [...]
Texas Politics (Free subscription) | 29/10/2009
Hall of Fame baseball picture for the Houston Astros and Texas Rangers is endorsing Republican Roger Williams in his efforts to attain the U.S. Senate seat now held by Kay Bailey Hutchison. "Roger Williams will make a great U.S. Senator,"...
Boston Globe (Free subscription) | 28/10/2009
Rhode Island Attorney General Patrick Lynch has approved a new affiliation between Roger Williams Medical Center and St. Joseph's Health Services.
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