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• Conversation With Alexander Skarsgard

  
  True Blood Net - HBO True Blood News Cast Interviews — Authority: 444
  One of the people over at AlexanderSkarsgardFans.com had a great opportunity to serve as an extra on Alex’s film, Straw Dogs, and to do an exclusive interview with him for their website.At the time of the interview, Alex was in the final days of shooting the Rod Lurie’s film Straw Dogs in Shreveport, LA. He [...]
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• The Start of a Scandinavian Holiday

  
  A Lifestyle Thing — Authority: 116
  With the Holidays fast approaching, Im sorry to say, that I already feel behind on posting the Holiday Windows that are still in transition at the moment. I wish I had Buddy the elf right about now. Im super ecstactic about the theme we have decided to go with: Modern Scandinavian. Here is a snippet of ...
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• Use of cautions and fixedpenalty notices to be reviewed Jack Straw says

  
  Family: News and advice on family matters children and parents — Authority: 974
  Police use of cautions and fixedpenalty notices is to be reviewed after concerns that they were allowing violent offenders to avoid appearing in court Jack Straw the Justice Secretary announced yesterday.
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• Gordon Brown And ‘That’ Letter

  
  Cynical Chatter From The Underworld — Authority: 108
  I’m sure that everyone has read, or heard, about the letter of condolence that Gordon brown sent to the mother of Jamie Janes. The Times covers two aspects of the story here and here . I’m torn, I think that writing a letter by hand is a good thing for Brown to do, but, at the same time it should be well ...
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• Use of cautions for violence offences to be reviewed, says Jack Straw

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 982
  Justice secretary concerned at use of fines and cautions for serious offences The way "instant justice" cautions are used to deal with some offences involving violence, including 40,000 assaults each year, is to be reviewed after concerns raised by magistrates, the director of public prosecutions and senior police ...
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• EcoNests

  
  Tiny House Blog — Authority: 531
  I first saw an EcoNest about 9 years ago and had forgotten about them until now. Even after studying many different types of natural building, Econests will continue to be one of my favorites because of their beautiful resemblance to the curves and colors of nature. They might even be the closest way to be outdoors ...
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• 11/12 – mothertongue 11th Anniversary Fundraiser @ The Black Cat

  
  The New Gay — Authority: 548
  mothertongue will celebrate its eleventh birthday with an anniversary fundraiser featuring local spoken word leaders Silvana Straw and Michelle Parkerson, along with rising talent Maureen Andary this Thursday.  The event will include an open mic where all women are encouraged to sign up and share their creative ...
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• Secret Inquests, Jack Straw, the IRA, Forced Marriages, Killer Heels: From the Independent

  
  The Wardman Wire — Authority: 532
  Four stories from todays Independent. Jack Straws hidden Inquests (Not on the website) A Labour backbench rebellion against Jack Straws latest attempt to reintroduce secret inquests ( Ed: for the third time ) is in prospect, lead by Andrew Dismore. More strength to their elbow. Down with the despots. Let ...
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• Making Money is Fun & Easy … When You Know How!

  
  Rich BoyRich Boy — Authority: 132
  JF (Jim) Straw straw.2fortune.com The eldest son of a farmer/aircraft worker, born in Oklahoma and reared on farms in Oklahoma, Missouri, and Kansas, Straw began his long, successful career in business at the age of nine; when he sold his first cans of Cloverleaf Salve and copies of “GRIT” newspaper. Even at that ...
  19 hours ago

• And from Argentina, a Bill Hicks quote…

  
  The Sample Gates — Authority: 128
  News that I missed…The Buenos Aires Herald reported that the Argentinian Supreme court ruled that marijuana will no longer be treated as a criminal offense for users, stating that“…it is unconstitutional to punish marijuana consumers, if that action does not harm third parties. The decision would put an end to a ...
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• Video: Soldier To Dr. Phil “Quit The “Psychobabble” & Deal With The Islamic Factor at Ft. Hood”

  
  Survival News Network — Authority: 142
  Someone needs to tell this woman that she is no longer a POW.The Straw Man fallacy is committed when a person simply ignores a person’s actual position and substitutes a distorted, exaggerated or misrepresented version of that position. This sort of “reasoning” has the following pattern: Person A has position ...
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• Is Fox News Biased?

  
  The Sample Gates — Authority: 128
  Overwhelmingly no! At least, that is, according to a new poll by NPR.  In fact, with nearly 1.8 million votes saying no currently, compared to only 200k voting yes, clearly they are not biased, if even NPR listeners say no. Well, except that it turns out that conservatives sent out mass emails to “win” the [...]
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• 70 ~ Mallorcan Straw Baskets

  
  Tenerife Journal — Authority: 108
  Im so pleased that I found this little market stall last Sunday where Beatriz, who is from Andraitx in Mallorca, was selling Mallorcan straw baskets. I used to live in Mallorca and I carried one of these baskets everywhere. Called cesto de esparto in Spanish it was one of the first items I bought when I arrived ...
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• Video(s) of the week

  
  The Sample Gates — Authority: 128
  In case you happened to miss them,  these have to be two of the best things I’ve seen this week.One: Cartman singing a much less terrible version, somehow guitar hero made, of poker face to a montage of Stan fighting whalers.Two: The Box parody – Funny or Die.
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• Nuclear War, New York.

  
  The Sample Gates — Authority: 128
  I just saw this video for the first time, really well done, and interesting.  Unless I just see the picture wrong, it also looks like there are banners of Lee Harvey Oswald during a soviet parade as well, not sure when or why (well I could guess maybe why).
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• Interesting Info on some Organic Food

  
  The Sample Gates — Authority: 128
  I’ve never been the biggest purveyor of organic food, mainly because I pay all my own expenses dollar to dollar, so I can’t always justify the higher prices for myself,  particularly the Odwalla 4 dollar little drinks (which this shows as being owned by coke anyway) that never tasted that good in the first place, ...
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• Gundersen builds a house from trees, unlike a house on tree

  
  Green Diary — Authority: 440
  If architecture is something that interests you, then this unusual whole trees building is sure to grab your attention. The owner Roald Gundersen, an architect by profession has ingeniously constructed his beautiful house and a solar greenhouse from whole trees. Whole Trees can keep construction costs as low as $100 ...
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• New Program Launched in London to Cut Youth Crime

  
  Net News Publisher — Authority: 155
  A pioneering project dedicated to making London safer by helping young offenders turn their backs on crime was launched this week by Justice Secretary Jack Straw and the Mayor of London Boris Johnson. The Heron Unit is the UK’s first dedicated resettlement unit for 15 – 17 year olds who have demonstrated a ...
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• A time to gloat

  
  The NonSequitur — Authority: 120
  Todays Washington Post features two articles about how bad Health Care reform is for us all from guest columnists, an article about awesome natural gas, and two of the regulars (Krauthammer and Gerson) gloating about the recent victories in the historically momentous off-off year governor elections in Virginia and New ...
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• Laughter, the Best Medicine

  
  The Sample Gates — Authority: 128
  It seems right after our local fight here in Bloomington for the atheists to have the right to say that they too can be good, even without god, that now the city of New York finds itself in the same situation. And who better to remind the citizens of New York of the horrible atrocity [...]
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