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- (US) It's no different than using taxpayer funds to buy illegal drugs to trap drug lords. [$drug_related(100%), $drugwar_propaganda(100%), $propaganda_theme1(100%), $propaganda_theme3(50%), $illegal_drugs(100%), $drugs(95%), $various_drugs(95%), $various_illegal_drugs(100%)] |
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- (US) Former coach Dave Bliss and athletic director Tom Stanton abruptly resigned last week after school officials revealed that Bliss was involved in two players receiving improper financial aid and that staff members did not properly report failed drug tests by players. [$drug_related(50%), $drugwar_propaganda(60%), $propaganda_theme2(50%), $use_is_abuse(60%), $propaganda_theme4(60%), $illegal_drugs(50%), $drugs(90%), $various_drugs(90%), $various_illegal_drugs(50%)] |
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- (US) Bataitis was arrested in October 2001 by task force agents as he tried to buy two handguns from an undercover ATF agent in exchange for 47 packets of heroin.[$drug_related(100%), $drugwar_propaganda(100%), $propaganda_theme1(100%), $propaganda_theme2(50%), $use_is_abuse(60%), $propaganda_theme4(60%), $illegal_drugs(100%), $drugs(95%), $stimulant(100%), $cocaine(100%), $narcotic(100%), $opiate(100%), $alcohol(50%), $various_drugs(95%), $various_illegal_drugs(100%)] |
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- (US) Demetrius Lamont Polk was charged with cocaine trafficking, maintaining a dwelling for drugs and possession of a stolen firearm. [$drug_related(100%), $drugwar_propaganda(60%), $propaganda_theme5(60%), $illegal_drugs(100%), $drugs(95%), $stimulant(100%), $cocaine(100%), $various_drugs(95%)] |
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- (US) Anthony Brinson, a defendant sentenced a week earlier for delivering cocaine, shows up one afternoon at the time he has been told to surrender to start serving his time. [$drug_related(100%), $drugwar_propaganda(60%), $propaganda_theme1(60%), $propaganda_theme2(50%), $propaganda_theme3(55%), $propaganda_theme5(60%), $illegal_drugs(100%), $drugs(90%), $drug_law(80%), $stimulant(100%), $cocaine(100%), $alcohol(50%), $various_drugs(90%)] |
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- (US) After extensive debate Monday, trustees voted 7-1 to revise the current policy banning tobacco, alcohol and illegal drugs. Administrators had proposed getting tougher on alcohol by treating it the same as marijuana. Contracts would require students to obey all school rules, meet with a co...[$drug_related(100%), $drugwar_propaganda(85%), $propaganda_theme1(85%), $propaganda_theme3(50%), $propaganda_theme5(70%), $illegal_drugs(100%), $drugs(95%), $prohibition(100%), $cannabis(100%), $alcohol(100%), $various_drugs(95%), $various_illegal_drugs(100%)] |
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Element (Aug 13 2003 05:50 GMT) - remove redirect; electronics - circutry meaning; morse code meaning |
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Heart (Aug 13 2003 05:50 GMT) |
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- A former square dancer now keeps a blog. |
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A few pix (Aug 13 2003 05:49 GMT) - Pictures from a traditional square dance in San Francisco. |
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- Check out Allan Hurst's new site. |
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- Life just gets more complicated... |
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- How to find a caller in Albuquerque |
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- I can't think of any square dance relevance; just thought it was funny. I couldn't find any zucchini-related songs. There are, of course, plenty of "neighbor" calls. There's also a call, "sneak around" (Burleson 997): |
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- Check it out here.Do you need excuses to do Elvis songs? If so, Elvis Week is a natural. You can find the Elvis singing calls in print here. |
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- Really! There's a Secret Society of Happy People that has declared August 8 to be National Admit You're Happy Day. And if that's not enough, August is National Admit You're Happy Month. Here's some commentary.Here are some songs with "happy" in the title: |
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- Phil's a member of the Statler Brothers.The Statler Brothers have had so many hits, there are probably a ton of singers. Some that I know about: Flowers on the Wall, Do You Remember These, Do You Know You Are My Sunshine, Elizabeth, and Oh Baby Mine. |
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- Or maybe it was the 17th or the 18th...depending on where...The only Wizard of Oz song that has become a singing call is "Over the Rainbow". Good day to use it. |
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compet*tive (Aug 13 2003 05:49 GMT) - this morning i laughed out loud at finding a misspelling in a banner ad. "competetive motor bike insurance". this afternoon i reloaded a page and found two versions of the advert side by side. the second version was offering "competative motor bike insurance". how i laughed. |
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heated (Aug 13 2003 05:49 GMT) - mostly it's too hot to think. i keep having to check the radiators in the house are really really off despite knowing the heating has been off entirely since april. i'm not convinced that they aren't coming on when i'm not looking. either that or our constant barbecue is heating up the air more than you'd think it would. this morning it looks grey and cool but it's actually misty, humid and just as warm as ever. |
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- On Monday, I upgraded my mailserver to a spanking new box. I mentioned that what's different about this installation is that I'm running dual MTAs, both qmail and sendmail. Many people since have written asking how I managed to do this, and this entry is a... |
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- Nomads were tribes of people who never stayed long in one place. They were journeymen, who moved often and stopped for a while at places where resources were available. Once they had their fill of its resources, or if the resources dried out, they'd pack u... |
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- Over the last 10 years, I've had two incarnations of my primary mailserver, ns2.alphaque.com. The first was a Pentium 166Mhz machine which lasted me a good 8 years until the demise of it's disk in 2001. The second, a MIMOS machine which we got free when we... |
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- Our Julie made the New York Times. Go have a look. |
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mantis (Aug 13 2003 05:48 GMT) - Yesterday I started the drive to work before dawn, and was well on my way before I realized there was a praying mantis on my windshield. If I'd noticed it before I got in the car I would have poked nervously at it with a stick before I got too close, hoping it would jump off, anywhere but at me. Forget her mate, this bug could have ripped my head off. She was nearly as long as my hand from wrist to fingertip and had a highly intelligent look -- and highly perplexed, to find herself scrabbling for purchase on a windshield at 30 mph. She kept cocking her head as if she were trying to catch my eyes, and if those ragged jaws could talk I'm sure she would be yelling, "You suck! |
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- Believe it or not, I actually do the CodeKata exercises myself. To make it more interesting, I’ve decided to use some of the problems I’ve posed as an excuse to learn C#. I’ |
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- Today's Portland Tribune examines the split between the City and Ron Tonkin Dealerships over the "area around 122nd Avenue and East Burnside Street, where the Tonkins have done business since 1964" -- a split which... |
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- Ralph Nader Gets Pie In Face At SF Event: Ralph Nader got a pie in the face at an event today with one of the people running for California governor. The former Green Party presidential candidate was in San Francisco to endorse Peter Camejo, who's one o |
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Bike. (Aug 13 2003 05:47 GMT) - I am planning on riding my bike to college and work. I have decided that with the extended amount of riding I will be doing, a new bike is in order. Not because the current one has a defect which... |
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- From the WW forums: Ross, You asked if the "leftovers" from the ToJ books will be available anywhere. Honestly, there really won't be any. We've planned and designed these books long in advance, hiring authors to write about very specific subject matter and to specific word counts. The draft stage that we go through for any book always results in some material that isn't pursued, is re-written or is cut, but it's usually in the minority. |
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- Unfortunately, it looks like the release schedule updates we've been getting have simply been a taste of things to come. Formerly, the schedule was showing up until November, but has now been shortened to only show up until the end of September. The Orpheus ad, however, now points to the Orpheus homepage. |
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- Lots of handy updates for Arcana Unearthed on fansite diamondthrone.com this week. - A three-part article about integrating AU into an existing D&D campaign, with a related article on favored 3E classes for AU races. - Eric Noah has two new spreadsheets for keeping track of witch and runethane abilities. - The ever-popular spell search engine / magic item pricing util is available offline in spreadsheet format. |
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- If you're riding the 7 train and it suddenly smells worse than some public rest stop off the highway, you're not imagining things: Raw sewage has been seeping onto the trackbed near the Flushing stop. Some transit officials think the leak is from a sink, but workers feel it has... |
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蔥 (Aug 13 2003 05:46 GMT) - 蔥 - Cong1 - Scallion 洋蔥 - Yang2 Cong1 - Onion Jenny tells me that to her 洋 means "western", although my dictionary just says it means Foreign or Imported. |
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In passing (Aug 13 2003 05:46 GMT) - I just got back from spending a very long day with a friend and her family. Her father passed away this last weekend and today was the funeral. He was a great man and was always interested in what you were doing, how you were doing it and give you any advice he could to help you along your way. When one of his sons (he and his wife had 7 kids!) read the eulogy I lost it!! |
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- Little Red Riding Hood Uncloaked : Maria Tatar, professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures at Harvard University, and author of "The Annotated Classic Fairy Tales" & Catherine Orenstein, author of "Little Red Riding Hood Uncloaked" (the connection : npr ) :: note :: . |
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- In all the legal accusations flying back and forth over the RIAA's plans to sue everyone they possibly can, none of the individuals who have been subpoenaed have filed counter lawsuits against the RIAA. That's about to change. A lawyer in California is getting ready to file a lawsuit on behalf of one such user with a slightly different argument that has been seen before. He says that just because a user has a particular file available for sharing, that doesn't mean the file was actually shared. In other words, since the RIAA doesn't have actual proof that the individual distributed the file, then they have no case. |
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