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El Centro & OMEGA
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Benoit Mandelbrot (Oct 22 2003 20:59 GMT) - Benoit Mandelbrot In 1963 Benoit Mandelbrot introduced the fractal concept. Fractals are shapes or behaviors that have similar properties at all levels of magnification. Just as the sphere is a concept that unites raindrops, basketballs and Mar |
LISNews.com
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Mainland Chinese Visiting Hong Kong Buying More Banned Books (Oct 22 2003 20:59 GMT) - The Voice Of America News has This One that says Tourists from mainland China are coming to Hong Kong in increasing numbers. Many come to sightsee and shop and, on average, spend more than the typical European or American tourist in the city. But the money not only goes toward jewelry and designer labels. An increasing number of Chinese tourists are snapping up books banned on the mainland. |
Hit & Run
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This Barber Is Modern Man! (Oct 22 2003 20:58 GMT) - If you want to know the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, read John Allen Muhammad's opening statement. The cookie jar incident alone throws the state's entire case into question. |
DN Fotboll
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MFF finalklart i cupen (Oct 22 2003 20:58 GMT) - Malm FF slog Landvetter med 3-1 i damernas upplaga av Svenska cupen. Damfotbollsfebern har inte smittat Gteborg. De sex VM-silverhjltarna p plan drog bara drygt 400 skdare till Rambergsvallen. |
DN Fotboll
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Magnus Haglund tar ver i Elfsborg (Oct 22 2003 20:58 GMT) - Magnus Haglund, 30, blir ny trnare i allsvenska Elfsborg. Han kommer nrmast frn en tjnst som idrottslrare p gymnasiet i Falkenberg och som trnare fr Laholm, topplag i division 2 sdra Gtaland. |
onlineblog.com
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New G4 laptops from Apple (Oct 22 2003 20:57 GMT) - Apple has announce new G4 iBooks today, in addition to the recently speed-bumped PowerBooks. The new machines start at £849 (incl VAT) for a 12-inch, 800 MHz model, rising to £1199 for the 1GHz 14-inch version. This, naturally, only adds to the dilemma of deciding which machine - iBook or PowerBook - should replace my much-travelled, endearingly-coffee-stained-but first edition iBook. Decisions, decisions... |
Metal Underground . com
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New Ancient Songs Nearly Ready for the Studio (Oct 22 2003 20:57 GMT) - Ancient have nearly completed the songs for their new album. Recordings will take place in January, and mixing/mastering in early February. The album will contain 10 new tracks, three written by Jesus Christ, and the remaining seven by Aphazel/Dhilor... |
Hit & Run
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The 'All-in-One, Super-Duper, Deluxe Everything Citizens' Reporting Machines' (Oct 22 2003 20:57 GMT) - In the process of naming what he hopes will be a one-size-fits-all tool for producing media, Jeff Jarvis uses his Treo 600 for a worthy cause -- documenting a traffic cop ticketing a U.S. Postal Service truck. "One arm of our government tickets another arm of our government to get our money and pay for a lot of bureaucrats in the process," he notes. |
PoliBlog
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FARC-o-nomics (Oct 22 2003 20:57 GMT) - More on the FARC and drug money in specific:Until the 1980s the growth of the FARC was slow, restricted mainly to the outer reaches of the country where hardy peasants had carved land from the jungle and where the state... |
The Agonist
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Congress concerned over religious freedoms in Iraq (Oct 22 2003 20:57 GMT) - Congress concerned over religious freedoms in Iraq Conservative Republican lawmakers in Congress worry that Iraq will shed its secular history and officially turn into an Islamic state, complete with a constitution that says Islam is its national religion. To try to steer Baghdad's constitutional process away from establishing an official Islamic state, two lawmakers, Sen. Sam Brownback, R-Kan., and Rep. Frank Wolf, R-Va. |
The Aula Point of View
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Many Aulas ago, we featured ... (Oct 22 2003 20:57 GMT) - Many Aulas ago, we featured Robert Evans, “head of production at Paramount Pictures from 1966 to 1975, when the studio turned out Love Story, Rosemary’s Baby, Chinatown and the first two editions of The Godfather.” Now Bob features in a rakish, riske cartoon. |
NewsGator Forums
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Outlook 2003 and images (Oct 22 2003 20:57 GMT) - I'm currently using Outlook 2003 Beta with Newsgator and I'm loving it. It has enabled me to get more information in a shorter period of time. I do have one issue, though.Images in the viewer are not being shown. I know this is a setting in 2003 and I don't want to disable it so that the HTML documents don't phone home to Spammers, but I also don't want to add all of my feeds to my trusted sites. |
Blog for America
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New Hampshire Victory Day Update (Oct 22 2003 20:56 GMT) - Today is New Hampshire Victory Day, and all over the country supporters are meeting up to write letters to voters in Iowa or New Hampshire. Many events are scheduled for after work tonight, so there's still time to find an... |
Radio UserLand Messages
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Re: Radio storage system down? (Oct 22 2003 20:56 GMT) - If there isn't notification in the Radio DG and/or mail list about a problem, then we probably aren't aware of it yet. We have automated email alerts when the server isn't responding, but depending on the time of day someone might not be monitoring their email. I'll pass along the note and see if there's some other options to help escalate outages during these times so it's fixed faster. Thanks for the note. Lawrence |
AroundMyRoom
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Countdown (Oct 22 2003 20:56 GMT) - Simpele 'onderwater' camera gaat mee. voor wat leuke snapshots Ikzelf kan zo'n dikke 6000 images maken omdat ik mijn... |
AroundMyRoom
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Countdown (Oct 22 2003 20:56 GMT) - Simpele 'onderwater' camera gaat mee. voor wat leuke snapshots Ikzelf kan zo'n dikke 6000 images maken omdat ik mijn... |
Ensight - Jeremy C. Wright
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PureTracks.com, My Music Saviour (Oct 22 2003 20:56 GMT) - Well, I tried iTunes again, since the PC version was recently launched. Still only for people in the US. So, I decided to try out the Canadian equivalent which launched just last week. Same number of songs, which is a... |
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How to access and iterate through Outlook Contact (Automating Outlook with VB.NET) (Oct 22 2003 20:56 GMT) - How to access and iterate through Outlook Contact (Automating Outlook) Hi, I have shown a example to use outlook automation to iterate through the outlook contact and sorting contacts by company name. For your convinience i have printed out all the company names on the console but you can add them to listbox or listview just by changing a line of code. I have commented the example well for your understanding. Thanks Shirish Nigam 'Creating Outlook Application Object Dim OLApp As New Outlook.Application 'Creating Outlook Namespace object to Access MAPI name space Dim OLNameSpace As Outlook. |
Metal Underground . com
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Centinex Announces New Drummer (Oct 22 2003 20:56 GMT) - Centinex have announced that Ronnie Bergersthl (Julie Laughs Nomore, Amaran) has joined the band as their new full time drummer. Bassist Martin Schulman comments, "We are very proud to have him on board. He is an excellent skinsman and devoted to... |
CNET News.com
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SuSE Linux upgrades Exchange competitor (Oct 22 2003 20:56 GMT) - The company releases an update to its Openexchange Server software, with features intended to make it a more effective alternative to Microsoft's Exchange Server for e-mail and calendar functions. |
Cato the Youngest
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This Is a Test of the Emergency Warblogging System (Oct 22 2003 20:55 GMT) - The recent DOS attacks on Hosting Matters by Islamonazis didn't directly affect my site (although I do get a lot of referrals from sites that were hit). But it got me thinking about what I could do in the event of an attack directed against my hosting company. |
Site Concept Scan
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Ferry Captain Again Refuses Investigators (Oct 22 2003 20:55 GMT) - (US) Alcohol and drug tests of the crew came back negative, and some investigators have speculated that Smith's blood pressure medication may have caused him to lose consciousness. [$drug_related(50%), $drugwar_propaganda(70%), $propaganda_theme2(70%), $illegal_drugs(50%), $drugs(90%), $alcohol(50%), $various_drugs(90%), $various_illegal_drugs(50%)] |
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SI Ferry Captain Won't Meet Investigators (Oct 22 2003 20:55 GMT) - (US) Alcohol and drug tests of the crew came back negative, and some investigators have speculated that Smith's blood pressure medication may have caused him to lose consciousness. [$drug_related(50%), $drugwar_propaganda(70%), $propaganda_theme2(70%), $illegal_drugs(50%), $drugs(90%), $alcohol(50%), $various_drugs(90%), $various_illegal_drugs(50%)] |
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USATF Proposes New Anti-Doping Plan (Oct 22 2003 20:55 GMT) - (US) The new plan also proposes fines of up to $10,000 for stimulant use and up to $100,000 for drugs such as steroids or amphetamines. [$drug_related(100%), $drugwar_propaganda(50%), $propaganda_theme3(50%), $illegal_drugs(100%), $drugs(95%), $stimulant(100%), $amphetamines(100%), $various_drugs(95%), $various_illegal_drugs(50%)] |
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Flier proves to be bogus report about Jackson mayor (Oct 22 2003 20:55 GMT) - (US) The information showed that the person named in the document had been arrested in North Carolina and charged with possession of marijuana and drug paraphernalia in 1993. Possession of marijuana under 50 grams is consid-ered to be a disorderly persons offense. [$drug_related(100%), $drugwar_propaganda(50%), $propaganda_theme2(50%), $propaganda_theme3(50%), $illegal_drugs(100%), $drugs(90%), $cannabis(100%), $paraphernalia(100%), $various_drugs(90%), $police_related_news(70%)] |
go fish
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Nickel and dime (Oct 22 2003 20:55 GMT) - A few weeks ago Mr. Fish came home with a couple change of address forms from the post office. I excitedly told him that I heard you could now do it online. So I'm on the US postal service website this morning and I access the part where you can change your address and forward your mail, etc. Do you know they charge $1. |
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