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HotelChatter - (Free subscription) | yesterday
Do you love Mexico? Do you love Yoga? Then maybe you should consider signing up for the Yoga Retreat series at the Tides Zihuatanejo which is taking place from October 3-7, 2008. (Or if you can't stand yoga and its yoginis, then you may want to hit up the resort another week.) The retreat is being led by celebrity instructor Tom Morley , one of LA's hottest yoga instructors who has taught such celebs...
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FWBO & TBMSG News (Free subscription) | yesterday
In 2007 the FWBO's Padmaloka Retreat Centre began a new project to fill their main shrine room with large paintings of buddhas and bodhisattvas painted by the Buddhist artist Aloka. The main shrine room at Padmaloka is the heart of the retreat centre and is a source of inspiration to all who spend time there. And this project will make it even more inspiring!! It will become a place that progressively...
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The Telegraph India (Free subscription) | yesterday
Two warring groups of youths threw bombs and fired at policemen who tried to restrain them at Watgunge on Monday night. Outnumbered and on the retreat, the cops too fired three rounds.
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The Independent (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
Virgin Mobile likes to navigate the boundaries between saucy and plain naughty in advertising its services in the US but yesterday the company was on the retreat from a campaign that urged customers to strip in front of their cameras and post the results on YouTube.
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Thinking Anglicans (Free subscription) | 07/19/2008
The retreat finished at lunchtime today after a fifth and final address from Rowan. Among the gems was a quotation from Alan Ecclestone (I did my curacy in the parish next door to where Alan spent many years; I always...
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Xorte latest economic news (Free subscription) | 07/19/2008
Mortgage rates continued the retreat, with the average conforming 30-year fixed mortgage rate falling to 6.42 percent. According to Bankrate.com's weekly national survey of large lenders, the average 30-year fixed mortgage has an average of 0.45 discount and origination points.
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Scotsman.com (Free subscription) | 07/19/2008
THE retreat from defined benefits (final-salary) pensions is rapidly gathering pace, according to new research.
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Times Online (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008
“I’ve still in my ears and even in my brain the crunching of snow under my boots,” wrote Mario Rigoni Stern. His experiences during one of the most harrowing episodes of the Second World War, the retreat of the Italian 8th Army from Russia, formed the basis of his memoir Il sergente nella neve (The Sergeant in the Snow, 1953), a minor masterpiece of observational writing.
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The Command T.O.C. (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008
US looks to send more troops to Afghanistan soon. The need for soldiers in Afghanistan is getting very real. Watch for troops to be shuffled off from Iraq after the retreat operation in Iraq is complete. Of course, this is where we should have been all along. Think of how the Afghanistan war would have ended a long time ago if we had not become sidetracked by this idiotic Iraq war.
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International Herald Tribune (Free subscription) | 07/16/2008
The retreat is an indication of the growing strength of the insurgency led by the Taliban and the struggle facing foreign and Afghan security forces.
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International Herald Tribune (Free subscription) | 07/16/2008
The retreat is an indication of the growing strength of the insurgency led by the Taliban and the struggle facing foreign and Afghan security forces.
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Market Watch (Free subscription) | 07/09/2008
MARKETWATCH (Washington) - Shares of Alcatel-Lucent climbed 3% in Wednesday trades, but most telecommunications stocks veered lower during early action. Nortel Networks Corp. fell 2.5% and Sprint Nextel Corp. lost 2.2% in value to spearhead the retreat. AT&T Inc. was also slightly lower, though Verizon Communications Inc. edged up 0.1%. Market Pulse Stories are Rapid-fire, short news bursts on stocks...
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St. Aidan to Abbey Manor (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008
Did a Touching Base piece on Saturday at the Wardman Wire on the need for time out , but forgot to link it. In a way it's a non-religious version of what I blogged here . Here's a snippet: Our local leisure complex has a section called ‘The Retreat’, which offers a typical consumerist solution. By parting with large amounts of cash, you can get a facial, a massage, or something unspeakable with candle...
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The Wardman Wire (Free subscription) | 07/05/2008
Our local leisure complex has a section called 'The Retreat', which offers a typical consumerist solution. By parting with large amounts of cash, you can get a facial, a massage, or something unspeakable with candle wax and whalesong. An hour in another world. It's not long enough, but it's all we've got time for.
