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Get off the treadmill–and get on to the treadmill desk

You can walk and chew gum at the same time, but can you walk and work at the same time? I don’t think I could except maybe for mostly mindless tasks like going through email.
But Steelcase, the long-time US office furniture manufacturer, is betting that […]

The Seventh Night of Hanukkah: Maneschewitz Granita
From Recipes

Ghost in the shell 2.0

That I love Maneschewitz is a vast understatement. It is cheap, and it tastes like spiked Concord grape candy.
I am invited by my best friend’s parents every year for the Jewish New Year, and every year, to the hostess’s chagrin, I bring […]

Cabinet Takes Significant Decisions In Recent Meeting
Blood freak
the union government gave nod to an integrated energy policy to ensure the energy security and enough economic improvement in a recent meeting of the union lowboy. the meeting was held under the chairmanship of pm dr. manmohan singh.briefing the reporters after the meeting, federation home minister, mr […]

Buccaneers-Raiders: Oakland Looks for Revenge in Tampa
After years of suffering, including an 0-26 start as a franchise in the mid-70s, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers won Super Bowl XXXVII with a dominating defensive performance against the Oakland Raiders at Qualcomm Stadium in San Diego.
The Buccaneers’ defense held the Raiders to just 19 yards on the ground, […]

(CNN) — President-elect Barack Obama visited military personnel and their families enjoying Christmas dinner at a Marine Corps base in Hawaii Thursday during his holiday vacation.

President-elect Obama shakes hands with troops having Christmas dinner at a military base in Hawaii.

Obama went to Marine Corps Base Hawaii Kaneohe Bay on Oahu where he mingled […]

Takipsilim: The Philippine Remake of Twilight

omigod. the philippines is coming out with its own construction of twilight. yes, that stephenie meyer work which was made into a large screen directed by catherine hardwicke and starring the meh kristen stewart and the rougishly handsome robert pattinson.

the tagalog twilight is called takipsilim (i didn’t know that was […]

WASHINGTON (CNN) — President-elect Barack Obama last week talked to federal prosecutors investigating Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, according to an internal report the Obama transition team released Tuesday.

The report says Barack Obama had no contact with Rod Blagojevich or his staff about a Senate seat deal.

The report, compiled by Greg Craig, Obama’s incoming […]

European Nations May Accept Guantanamo Detainees
Come home lyrics
European nations have begun intensive discussions both within and among their governments on whether to resettle detainees from the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, as a significant overture to the incoming Obama administration, according to senior European officials and U.S. diplomats.
The willingness to consider accepting prisoners […]

(CNN) — Forty years ago this week, three men in a tiny spacecraft slipped their earthly bonds and traveled where no one else had before, circling the moon 10 times and bringing back an iconic image of a blue-and-white Earth in the distance, solitary but bound as one against the black vastness beyond.

Host Nick […]

A series of anonymous notes have been posted outside schools in the Mexican city of Ciudad Juarez threatening to kidnap pupils if money is not paid.
The notes state that teachers should hand over their end-of-year bonuses to avoid the threat to their students.
No arrests have been made over the threats, but drug cartels […]