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Let your voice be heard.

no@spam.com (Southcoast Health System) — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 17:11:04 CDT

During this election season, the significance of a candidate’s voice is both literal and figurative. The race for the White House reminds us that one single voice can influence a nation and change the course of history. It is with this spirit that Northeast Ear Nose and Throat and ENT physicians throughout the South Coast region and the country celebrated World Voice Day on April 16. The theme this year was “Let Your Voice Be Heard.”

Working together for a safer New Bedford

no@spam.com (Nelson Hockert-Lotz) — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 15:02:07 CDT

The last week in March saw two ground-breaking meetings in New Bedford underscore a common message: Working together, we can make our cities safer places to live and work...

The Freshness of the Study

no@spam.com (Michael Rogovsky) — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 14:11:06 CDT

I saw an exhibition at the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C. of John Constable’s six-foot paintings and studies. For the first time, his studies and the finished paintings were shown side by side. It was a revelation: The studies were the same size as the finished paintings, and they showed the immediacy of the artist’s hand with their brush strokes and the drama of light and darks and swirls of colors.

'Look to the Irish' for model of reconciliation - Nelson Hockert-Lotz

no@spam.com (Nelson Hockert-Lotz) — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 15:40:47 CDT

Nelson Hockert-Lotz provides perspective on a Saint Patrick's week trip to New Bedford by a delegation of Irish politicians. Understanding the Peace and Reconciliation that has occurred between Northern Ireland's Catholics and Protestants can offer insight and a model for reconciliation in our home town of New Bedford...

On the Monday of a week that would see the fifth anniversary of the start of the Iraq war, and a major speech about race in America by Barack Obama, two mayors from Northern Ireland laid wreaths at the Irish monument on East Rodney French Boulevard in an extraordinary gesture of reconciliation. It was St. Patrick's Day, and the remembrance of Irish struggles for dignity and independence were ever present, but so, too, was a new message, one of working together and moving on.

When flushing the toilet is just too expensive...

no@spam.com (Paul Allen) — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 08:13:57 CST

So a friend calls me to tell me that he has just dropped his Blackberry in the toilet. He routinely keeps his blackberry in a holster attached to his belt and yesterday while paying a visit to the throne room, his blackberry unhooked from his belt and dropped right into the toilet.

The Timelessness of the Landscape Painting

no@spam.com (Michael Rogovsky) — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 09:48:15 CST

In this, his first article, Michael Rogovsky discusses the timelessness of the landscape. Look at a landscape painting and look at a painting with figures; as one looks through the history of art, the paintings of figures represent the style of the attire of the day. Whether depiction the nobles of the Renaissance or from the court of Louis the fourteenth, the painting can be placed in an historical setting due to the attire of the painted figures. In landscape painting, though, there is the enigma of time.

Some Fundamental Facts About the Real Estate Markets in Bristol and Norfolk Counties, Massachusetts

no@spam.com (Samuel P. Thomas) — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 22:35:29 CST

I have been an active broker in the commercial and industrial real estate market for almost 30 years. How time has flown! I have witnessed bull markets and bear markets and I have watched as money has been made and lost. What doesn’t surprise me today is that once again we have broken away from fundamentals and strayed in areas that history has told us will result in pain.

An Open Letter to Elsa The Lioness

no@spam.com (Bob Grant) — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 09:31:29 CST

Perhaps Benazir Bhutto's violent death will mean the dawn of a new era in the discussion about how we view Islam... Maybe this woman's death will be the catalyst for meaningful debate on the vast cultural differences between the West & Islam... More specifically I'm wondering if the lioness' of the 1960's, those militant feminists who were all so willing to wage a guerilla war against "the man", will at long last wish to be heard on this subject...

The Roid Stuff

no@spam.com (Bob Grant) — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 16:08:26 CST

Now that the scope of the performance enhancement problem in baseball has been brought to light, the worthiness of several players careers have to be questioned…

What the flock is going on here?

no@spam.com (Bob Grant) — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 19:41:11 CST

There seems to be a very troubling trend in the world today… That of media outlets steering the course of public debate to serve their own political ends…