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Troodos Mountains on 1st of April :) pt1

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ET call home... telefono caaaaaaaaaaaasa

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GOOD EVENING THIS IS CYPRUS CALLING..THESE ARE THE RESULTS OF THE CYPRIOT JURY...:) IN CYPRUS FOR ALMOST 2 MONTHS BUT I'LL BE BACK SOON :) I try to keep you updated about this pretty country as much as possible

The cost of living...decently...

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Take a good look at the family size & diet of each country , and the availability & cost of what is eaten in one week . Italy : The Manzo family of Sicily Food expenditure for one week: 214.36 Euros or $260.11 Germany : The Melander family of Bargteheide Food expenditure for one week: 375.39 Euros or $500.07 United States : The Revis family of North Carolina (Sure hope most American families eat more fresh fruits and vegetables and less junk food than this family.) Food expenditure for one week $341.98 Mexico : The Casales family of Cuernavaca Food expenditure for one week: 1, 862.78 Mexican Pesos or $189.09 Poland : The Sobczynscy family of Konstancin-Jeziorna Food expenditure for one week: 582.48 Zlotys or $151.27 Egypt: The Ahmed family of Cairo Food expenditure for one week: 387.85 Egyptian Pounds or $68.53 Ecuador: The Ayme family of Tingo Food expenditure for one week: $31.55 Bhutan : The Namgay family of Shingkhey Village Food expenditure for one week: 224.93 ngultr

TENT CITIES...the fall of an American Empire?

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Tent cities have sprung up outside Los Angeles as people lose their homes in the mortgage crisis BBC reports in the first video and the other ones are amateur ones found on Youtube. within the next 5 years about 5 to 8 million americans will expeience at least one night of homelessness

The Narration of a NON Virtual Tragedy ...Devastation at Naxxar

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The scene of devastation at Naxxar after a garage containing fireworks exploded demolishing three adjoining residences and taking two lives. Photo Victor Mercieca. When are we gonna learn? How many more lives need be sacrificed before someone takes action on people playing carelessly with the production of fireworks? How many more tragedies before the situation is grabbed by its horns. Adding to the long line of catastrophes caused by fireworks, we just had another tragedy which has taken the life of innocent victims. I can still see the face of the people who lived close to the place of the tragedy. A husband and father of two little children have lost everything they possessed simply because someone thought that keeping fireworks mixtures in a garage next door was a good thing to do. His body was trembling and he was trying to conquer his shock as he tried to tell his story, but he looked lost even if he was a few metres away from what was his family dwelling in Triq id-Dgħejf, Nax

A Briton has bought a date with Hollywood star Scarlett Johansson

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- and it certainly wasn't cheap at £20,000. The fan, known only by his online identity "bossnour", won a charity auction on eBay in support of Oxfam. The mystery bidder will join the 23-year-old actress at the world premiere of her new film, He's Just Not That Into You, in July. He or she will have their hair and make-up done and be chauffeured to the event with a guest. They will then meet the star of Lost In Translation and The Other Boleyn Girl. "This was a brilliant idea and has proved incredibly popular," said a spokesman for Oxfam. Would you pay £20,000? "To get £20,000 for a 20-minute date and a pair of tickets to help us fight poverty is fantastic. "All of this money will be used to help us fight poverty in countries all over the world." The winner's full identity has not been revealed but according to their eBay profile, "bossnour" is based in Cheshire.

A date with Scarlett Johansson...

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No it's not a joke. You still have a little more then 8 hours to bid for a date with Scarlett Johansson by bidding on Ebay. All proceeds go to OxFam . The winner get 2 tickets for the premier He’s Just Not That Into You in June 2009. The winner and guest will walk with her on the red carpet. click here to participate in this good deed .

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The Deli Shop

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I like the way some young kids love to play shop; and it is funny how they hardly ever say 'Let's play supermarkets! Some kids have never been inside a small old-fashioned grocer, and yet their imaginations tell them to set up a counter, sell goods on one side, and buy them on the other side. It's so deep within us that science might discover a gene for it.Supermarket owners insist that they only give us what we want - though nobody I have ever met actually enjoys shopping in a supermarket. I suppose that we want, or think we want, is cheap food. As someone who tries to avoid going and shop from a supermarket, I think differently. I look for the little grocery shops and vegetable vendors and it is a different story to when it comes to meat because I am lucky enough that I know some butcher and most of them breed and raise their own cows, chickens and pigs. I realized I look for places where I would like to do my own shopping. Places that are little island in the sea of co
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Tuesday, 11th March 2008 - 18:10CET Gonzi makes triumphant return to Castille Lawrence Gonzi made a triumphant return to the Auberge de Castille this afternoon after having been sworn in for his second term as Prime Minister a few minutes earlier. He arrived outside the Office of the Prime Minister amid cheers by a large crowd which had been waiting in a cold wind as he walked slowly from the Palace, greeting hundreds of supporters who lined the street. Dr and Mrs Gonzi arrived at the top of the stairs outside Castille at 6 p.m. and stopped to take a picture with their family before entering the building. Waiting inside were the newly-elected Nationalist MPs and the staff of the Office of the Prime Minister. Dr Gonzi and Mrs Gonzi appeared in the building's central window within a few minutes, throwing the crowd into fresh cheers as they waved from a rostrum which enabled them to stand on the window in full view of the people who blared horns, waved
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Tuesday, 11th March 2008 - 16:45CET Gonzi sworn in as celebrations continue Lawrence Gonzi has been sworn in as Prime Minister by President Eddie Fenech Adami in the Palace, bringing to a close a five week process which started in the same building where Dr Gonzi advised the President to dissolve Parliament and call the general election. The short ceremony took place as a crowd of Nationalist Party supporters waited quietly outside, waving Maltese, EU and PN flags. The fact that the ceremony was delayed to today meant that the crowd was smaller than is usually the case, with many having returned to work after the "election weekend". The oath of office read: “I, Lawrence Gonzi, solemnly swear that I will faithfully and conscientiously perform my duties as Prime Minister in accordance with the Constitution and the laws of Malta, without fear or favour, So help me God.” Dr Gonzi then read the oath of allegiance: "I Lawrence Gonzi, solemnly swe
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Monday, 10th March 2008 - 16:48CET Harry Vassallo to submit his resignation Harry Vassallo, leader of Alternattiva Demokratika, has announced he will submit his resignation from the chairmanship of the party at its next meeting next month. AD polled just 3,810 votes nation-wide last Saturday, equivalent to 1.31 percent of the total vote. The party got 0.68 percent of the vote in the 2003 election (when it actually campaigned for number 2 votes) and 1.21 percent in the 1998 elections. Dr Vassallo admitted that the party had expected much better this time around. He said he would submit his resignation but would stay on if the party so requested him, although he would prefer to work as a foot soldier. Dr Vassallo said the electoral law needed to be reformed because although AD had won the equivalent of a quota, it would not be represented in Parliament. There was also a need for election debate to focus on issues of substance rather than personalities, he s