Not your grandparents' matchmaker: Jewish dating expert to speak in West Hartford (Jewish Ledger)
(CJL) WEST HARTFORD - Shoshanna Rikon used to run an employment agency in New York, with a little matchmaking on the side for friends and family. "But whenever someone came in for an interview, I was more interested in his or her personal and love life," she says. "I was a natural."
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Screening the caregivers (Chicago Sun-Times)
Lisa Morrell, a management consultant, went online to find two babysitters for her 4-year-old daughter, Krista, and now considers the sitters part of her family. "When I posted the job, I wrote in detail what I expected, and I learned to search by criteria, such as whether the sitter knew CPR, liked animals and had good references," said Morrell, a single mom. "It shortcut the interview process ...
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Parsa emerges from the shadow of Persepolis (Payvand Iran News)
The ancient town of Parsa has begun to emerge from the shadows of Persepolis. An Iranian-Italian joint archaeological team has brought to light the first remains of the town of Parsa, which was the residential area of commoners just outside the palaces of Persepolis. -Hamid Golpira, MNA
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Briefly in Tompkins (The Ithaca Journal)
The Share the Warmth campaign is about to start distribution to those in need and are facing a shortfall of coats, especially children's coats. The community is being asked to donate gently used or new winter coats, hats, gloves, mittens, boots, and blankets.
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Phelps galpal gets exposure on Web (Las Vegas Review-Journal)
M ichael Phelps , the golden boy of swimming, may be up to his neck in a dating scandal.
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Ian Burrell: Why marketers must learn to ride new waves with silver surfers (Independent)
Just look at him in his aviators and tux, a girl hanging off each shoulder, and spraying around the fizz like Lewis Hamilton on the podium at Silverstone. Except, of course, if you're a media planner, a brand manager or a marketing director you probably won't see this fellow at all because he's just too damn old.
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State couldn't keep repeat offender off roadway before fatal region wreck (The Times of Northwest Indiana)
Ronald and Bonnie Hough carried their son's college diploma to the Christian Reformed Church cemetery in Munster where they buried him.
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Across America in a yellow veggie oil schoolie Family crosses country on converted school bus fueled on waste ... (Times News)

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Why Time Stands Still for Watchmakers (New York Times)
In ad campaigns, most wristwatches are frozen with their hands at 10 and 2, to ?frame the brand and logo.?
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IN BRIEF: Defunct GOP group puts funds into votes (The Tribune-Democrat)
EBENSBURG — The long-inactive East End Republican Association of Johnstown has one last role in politics before it formally bows out of existence. Most of its remaining funds will be used to help elect GOP candidates in the 2009 municipal election in Johnstown.
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