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	<description>A weblog by Lisa Brandt</description>
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		<title>Tax Credit Wrinkle and Other Matters</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Until the speech from the throne last week I wasn&#8217;t aware that getting cosmetic enhancements like Botox and liposuction could become tax write-offs.  
It wasn&#8217;t until a newscaster explained that the tax credit was cancelled that I had any idea that it had even existed.   Beauty-focused fellow Canadians have been writing off teeth whitening, hair [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lisabrandt.ca/wordpress/2010/03/11/tax-credit-wrinkle-and-other-matters/</link>
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		<title>Lip Sticky</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The London Free Press recently ran an article about a woman who&#8217;s making and selling all natural lipsticks. 
The young woman behind the company got the idea after discovering how much lead and petroleum was put into every tube and applied to the tender lips of women everywhere.  She founded Cherry Crush Cosmetics.  Her lipsticks [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lisabrandt.ca/wordpress/2010/03/10/lip-sticky/</link>
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		<title>The Time Traveler&#8217;s Wife</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I love the concept of traveling through time and some of the films and TV shows about it are among my favourites: Quantum Leap, Timeline, etc. 
I&#8217;m glad that I didn&#8217;t read the best-selling novel that this movie is based on before seeing the film because all evidence claims I would have been disappointed with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lisabrandt.ca/wordpress/2010/03/09/the-time-travelers-wife/</link>
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		<title>A Kanye West Moment</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t know what the critics are saying but I enjoyed the Steve Martin-Alec Baldwin pairing at the Academy Awards.  And some of the wins were heart-warming, not the least of which was actual movie-making (The Hurt Locker) over high-tech trickery (Avatar).  As much as we&#8217;ve all loved Sandra Bullock over the years, who would [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lisabrandt.ca/wordpress/2010/03/08/a-kanye-west-moment/</link>
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		<title>My New Toy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My Blackberry era is over.  I now have an Iphone. A 16 gig 3GS to be exact.
When Derek bought his Iphone last weekend I didn&#8217;t see what all the fuss was about.  It doesn&#8217;t have a real keyboard, it has no flashing indicator light to tell you a message has come in even when the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lisabrandt.ca/wordpress/2010/03/07/my-new-toy/</link>
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		<title>Let&#8217;s Go Racing Boys and Girls!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The racing season at Delaware Speedway doesn&#8217;t start for several weeks but I&#8217;ve been working on it for some time now. 
As the point person for publicity and media relations for Delaware, and not a lifelong race fan, I have a lot to learn. The racing world is fascinating. Fortunately I&#8217;ve been watching the last [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lisabrandt.ca/wordpress/2010/03/06/lets-go-racing-boys-and-girls-2/</link>
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		<title>Singing a New Song</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A debate is underway about the lyrics of our national anthem.  Specifically, there&#8217;s going to be some official, government research into whether the line, &#8220;in all thy sons command&#8221; in O Canada, should be rewritten to be more inclusive.  A new poll out this morning shows 80% of respondents want the anthem to be left [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lisabrandt.ca/wordpress/2010/03/05/singing-a-new-song/</link>
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		<title>No Depp-rivations</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Johnny Depp lives an idyllic life in southern France with his family and instead of envying him for it, I am happy for him.  Unlike some movie stars who seem to be nothing more than gluttons with a cute smile, Depp appears to be a true artist.  
He morphs into the roles he plays and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lisabrandt.ca/wordpress/2010/03/04/no-depp-rivations/</link>
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		<title>My Friend Joe</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve written about Joe before.  We go back about a dozen years, or so.  Joe had leukemia and wanted his birth family to get tested to see if they might be matches and could potentially provide him with life-saving marrow.  They refused.  That&#8217;s how we got to know each other.   His story appeared in the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lisabrandt.ca/wordpress/2010/03/03/my-friend-joe/</link>
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		<title>Apples, Oranges and Lectures</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Facebook has a wonderful feature that I&#8217;ve used a few times.  You can hide the input of a &#8220;friend&#8221; without actually dropping them, and they will never know it. 
I did it last night to someone who is a friend only in the cyberworld.  He had written a passionate little rant about how selfish we [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lisabrandt.ca/wordpress/2010/03/02/apples-oranges-and-lectures/</link>
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		<title>Homecoming, Hopefully</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If everything has gone according to the latest plan, my baby brother should be thousands of feet in the air as I write this. 
Several flights from Buenos Aires to Toronto, with a stop in Santiago, Chili, have been cancelled.  The first issue was a snowstorm along the US eastern seaboard and then came the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lisabrandt.ca/wordpress/2010/03/01/homecoming-hopefully/</link>
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		<title>Do You Need a Spork?  House Proud &#8211; The Toronto Sun</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I equate shopping for technology with trying on string bikinis under fluorescent lights, in public, on live television. I’m sure it’s not as embarrassing but I dread it just as much. Food shopping is a necessity and not my idea of fun. Given a choice, I’d prefer to spend a stolen hour devoted to browsing [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lisabrandt.ca/wordpress/2010/02/28/do-you-need-a-spork-house-proud-the-toronto-sun/</link>
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