Goodfather’s friend Thistle came up with a great idea to create an award that encourages people to contribute. She’s calling it the ‘Helping Hands Project’, and you can see it on her site. I’ve copied the award badges and rules so you can see them here, but please go to her site and check it out. Thistle is an amazing blogger - she writes incredible posts about Canadian politics and sports, and often puts up hilarious pictures of animals. The Helping Hands Project The Rules 1. Choose some w

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Confident, self assured, well travelled . . no longer a kid . . .and not too big for a hug . . .the kid turns 24 Yessssss!We’ve been pretty busy for the past 3 days, catching up, running through photos, anecdotes, travelogues, birthday and Christmas shopping and entertaining friends. So apologies for not having the ‘Wonder Wall’ up and running, might be closer to next week due to my having had three days off this week and a flurry of activity around Clare’s return.Today is her birthday. She is

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This piece,titled Indias moment of truth is by Jack Welch, who surely gave India a shot in the arm with the GE centers while he was at the helm. This is how he ends the piece, but the entire piece is worth reading - because our inaction to contain terror or better equip our police or armed forces will now cause businesses to think a lot more about the risk of doing business in India. Thanks doc…With such a mixed picture, all foreign companies can do right now is boost security for their people

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I’m probably one of the few people on this side of this one but what the hell, I’m used to that. Yes, Michael Phelps won eight Gold Medals this Olympics, and I am sure he and his family are very proud

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A KEY organiser of the London 2012 Olympics has rebutted suggestions the global financial crisis has made this the worst time to stage the Games.

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