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Ellen Sander — Sat, 24 Dec 2011 19:46:00 +0000

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In gratitude. In memoriam.

Ellen Sander — Sun, 11 Sep 2011 14:13:00 +0000

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In gratitude. In memoriam.

Tough love tech

Ellen Sander — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 03:20:00 +0000

I was at the Hutchinson Center branch of the University of Maine last week and I urgently wanted to keep up with the news in the Mideast. I had on my person my cell phone and my iPod touch which is normally full of breaking news items from a wealth of sources, including pictures and live video. But the wifi went down for a while at the facility (and it’s normally unavailable in some parts of the

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Tough love tech

Horse Sense Economics 2.0

Ellen Sander — Sat, 19 Feb 2011 01:44:00 +0000

ChocolateThe best day of the year to buy chocolate is the day after Valentine’s Day. Every establishment that sold fine holiday boxed chocolates will have fresh stock at half price or less. Chocolate does go on sale on other occasions, however, it is usually not fresh at that point. The peak freshness of chocolate doesn’t last long. Day after Valentine chocolate is almost always fresh.

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The smartest show(s) on TV – news & newstalk

Ellen Sander — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 12:50:00 +0000

Morning Joe on MSNBC is the smartest weekday show on TV. Worthy of the crack of dawn time slot. The View used to be the smartest weekday show on TV, but not any more. With each of the hosts having obviously more compelling professional interests, they’ve gone totally daytime. The Situation Room on CNN is a contender, but whenever Wolf Blitzer takes a day off they put a cupcake (intended as a

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Egypt’s peaceful people’s coup

Ellen Sander — Sat, 12 Feb 2011 00:35:00 +0000

I wrote the previous post on Egypt’s populist uprising before violence broke out, but that violence, by pro-Mubarak thugs trying to provoke a fiasco, failed. The protests remained peaceful through even Mubarak announcing yesterday that he wouldn’t resign. But by today, he finally got it; he was done, stick a fork in it. Sweet: Swiss banks are freezing any assets they can ascribe to him. While

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Egypt

Ellen Sander — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 20:26:00 +0000

It’s phenomenal what the Egyptian people have done peacefully and without the electronic connectivity that their tottering government has deprived them of. Even though the repercussions of the Egyptian uprising are unsettling, particularly in the case of Israel’s security, it’s a phenomenon that is hard not to admire and support. You go, Egypt! Claim your destiny! I am reminded of being a

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Horse Sense Economics 101.15

Ellen Sander — Sat, 29 Jan 2011 19:35:00 +0000

Wash and save the lightweight plastic bags with holes in them that grapes (and other small fruits like cherries) come in. They are ideal for keeping mushrooms in the refrigerator. Mushrooms should immediately removed from the plastic sealed containers they come in. They’ll get slimy in there pretty quick. Re-use the perforated grape bags and they’ll stay fresh at least twice as long.

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Olberman – na na na na, good bye!

Ellen Sander — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 23:48:00 +0000

Keith Olberman, one of the yappy dogs of MSNBC, has left the network for unspecified reasons. It was the talk of the industry today. He was the highest rated newspinionator on MSNBC, and one that may have set the windbaggy, highly partisan tone there. MSNBC, with Olberman, became a left wing counterpart to the predominantly mega-right wing Fox “news” organization that has been eating the

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Horse Sense Economics 101.14

Ellen Sander — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 21:43:00 +0000

Predictions are that grocery prices are going up, which seams credible. Costs have gone up for farmers, distributors and packagers and commodity prices on the spot markets have risen.Your grocery bills could go down if you eat out of your cupboard for one week out of the 4.3 (avg) weeks in a month. Buy only proteins and produce and then, for the rest of the week, supplement that with the

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