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• Council waits on campaign finance limits

  
  Newstreamz San Marcos — Authority: 149
  The San Marcos City Council declined once again to take up campaign finance limitations last week. However, the council made numerous appointments to most boards and commissions they didnt sunset at the same meeting.
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• Mankind was My Business

  
  anniegirl1138 — Authority: 119
  As I mentioned to UB yesterday, I should have been a history teacher, or a pure literature teacher, because I loved to insert history into my English classes.December was Dickens just so I could watch A Christmas Carol. My 7th graders never failed to be horrified by 1830’s London. Even coming from some of the [...]
  13 hours ago

• 13 Days of Xmas Audio, Day 10: A Christmas Carol, Part 4

  
  Needcoffee.com — Authority: 432
  13 Days of Xmas Audio continues, with the fourth "stave" of Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol . Where our protagonist learns a final set of lessons from The Ghost of Christmas Future. You can download it directly here , or a 13 Days of Xmas Audio RSS feed is available here . And you iTunes folks can snag our ...
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• Opinion: Why the RBNZ’s forecast for weak consumer spending growth is wishful thinking

  
  The Rates Blog — Authority: 569
  By Rodney Dickens The arrival of the financial crisis introduced greater uncertainty on a number of fronts, making forecasting a nightmare.  Comments by the RBNZ in the 10 December 2009 Monetary Policy Statement (MPS) reflect the greater uncertainty: “But perhaps even more uncertain than the outlook for the ...
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• 2009 Chicago Christmas Theater

  
  Chicago Theater Blog — Authority: 136
  Christmas Show Round-Up   By Barry Eitel With all those holiday shows out in Chicago right now, it’s hard to decide what to see on top of all the shopping and avoiding extended family. And there is something for everyone out there, from Dickensian classics to ones celebrating the seedier side of ...
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• The Christmas Card Tale – The Origin of the Ubiquitous Holiday Missive

  
  WorthPoint — Authority: 134
  A vintage Christmas card by Wanamaker & Brown of Philidelphia. How do tell somebody you care? Go to the store, buy a card and let somebody else do the telling for you. The oldest Christmas card created for general distribution probably was created by William Egley Jr.; a 16 year-old British youth. His 3 ...
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• Reconsidering E.M. Forster

  
  Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines — Authority: 731
  Novelist E.M. Forster was a writer who might be said to have been simultaneously ahead of his time —or at least better suited to take on certain topics like homosexuality that couldn’t be treated frankly during his heyday—and resistant to some of the modernist impulses he saw arising among authors from the ...
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• Does MTV Show Hurt or Help NJ’s Image?

  
  Watch your favorite videos on the internet. — Authority: 177
  Find out what people who live in Seaside Heights, New Jersey think of mtvs Jersey Shore. The unscripted show, which features eight twentysomethings, has been hit with a wave of controversy. (Dec. 22)
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• ‘A Christmas Carol’ Lives on Through Dickens Relative

  
  Watch your favorite videos on the internet. — Authority: 177
  Gerald Charles Dickens, the great-great grandson of Charles Dickens, performs a one-man interpretation of A Christmas Carol at a New York church every holiday season. (Dec. 22)
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• Why A Christmas Carol was a flop for Dickens

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  An instant hit that is still drawing crowds a century-and-a-half on, the book brought its author scant rewards Earlier last month, Disneys A Christmas Carol grossed £1.9m on opening weekend in the UK, and $31m (£19m) in the US. The Observers Philip French called this latest version of Dickenss Christmas classic ...
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• Teaser Tuesdays: What the Dickens?!

  
  Bryan's Book Blog — Authority: 123
  Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading . Anyone can play along! Just do the following: Grab your current read Open to a random page Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (Make sure ...
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• “Christ The Savior Is Born!”

  
  Gently Hew Stone — Authority: 122
  My favorite film of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol is the 1998 TV version with Patrick Stewart as Scrooge.  Besides being–in my view–the most faithful to the original, there are several little touches about it that I really like. Perhaps foremost among these is a brief but stirring inclusion of the song, ...
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• 13 Days of Xmas Audio, Day 9: A Christmas Carol, Part 3

  
  Needcoffee.com — Authority: 432
  13 Days of Xmas Audio continues, with the third "stave" of Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol . Where our protagonist gets a tour of Christmas by the Ghost of Christmas Present. You can download it directly here , or a 13 Days of Xmas Audio RSS feed is available here . And you iTunes folks can snag our feed with ...
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• For My Family -- And Anyone Who Wants A Laugh

  
  Ms Dow Antiques Blog - Tique Talk — Authority: 109
  My bro put some family pix in this jib-jab video -- thought Id embed it here so I can email out the link -- hope everyone else who stumbles across it gets a chuckle. Merry Christmas, All! Try JibJab Sendables® eCards today! Ms. Dow Antiques Blog Tique Talk is published by msdowantiques.com Thanks for ...
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• Peter Foster: Mr. Scrooge’s capitalist myth

  
  FP Comment — Authority: 680
    One minute Jim Carrey is a star in Dumb and Dumber, the next hes an expert in economic history  By Peter Foster D  isney’s 3-D adaptation of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol is terrific. What continues to amaze is how this classic is treated not primarily as a tale of redemption but, ...
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• A 21st Century Christmas Carol

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 176
  Just about everybody is in some way or another acquainted with the classic Charles Dickens story “A Christmas Carol”. A Christmas Carol was released in 1843 and it was essentially a story about the coldness of the human heart and the greed affiliated with it. The story’s character, Ebenezer Scrooge is so greedy and ...
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• Marley’s Ghost

  
  mirabile dictu — Authority: 127
  Original illustration of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol by John Leech Dickens began writing his “little carol” in October, 1843 finishing it by the end of November in time to be published for Christmas with illustrations by John Leech . Feuding with his publishers, Dickens financed the publishing of ...
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• 13 Days of Xmas Audio, Day 8: A Christmas Carol, Part 2

  
  Needcoffee.com — Authority: 432
  13 Days of Xmas Audio continues, with the second "stave" of Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol . Where our protagonist gets the first of three spirits darkening his door. Or enlightening it, as the case may be. You can download it directly here , or a 13 Days of Xmas Audio RSS feed is available here . And you ...
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• Foodbuzz 24, 24, 24: A Dickens of a Christmas Dinner

  
  Cooking... by the seat of my Pants! — Authority: 415
  If there is one Christmas dinner that springs to mind before any other in the collective consciousness of the people of several continents, it has to be the dinner shared on Christmas Day by the Cratchit Family in the classic novel “A Christmas Carol” by none other than the great Charles Dickens. This meal ...
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• WHEN FICTIONAL CHARACTERS COME TO LIFE

  
  Sarah's writing journal — Authority: 130
  Is this the only blue plaque in London dedicated to a fictional character? I walk past it every day on my way to work at the London School of Economics and Political Science . Its placed just outside The Bloomsbury Deli by Bedford Square. This is a description from Dickens of the wonderfully named Charles ...
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