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- Ask Bishop T Allen Greenfield You have reached a site where we do not believe that there are "easy answers" to the Great Questions. As our English long-time associate Ian Blake recently put it so well, upon the death of his father, "Against the d |
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- This just in: Saladworks no longer carries Green Goddess salad dressing. What a bummer. And I, apparently, am the only person in the tri-state region who ever wanted it anyway. What kind of freak am I? |
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- Players started filing for free agency today. Here's the list of potential and current free agents by team. And here's a list by position. Also, Mike Berardino of the South Florida Sun-Sentinel writes about how ML ownership of the Expos... |
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- Takže dnes jsem dostal odpověď na mou poslední spamovou stížnost. Živnostenský odbor sice konstatoval, že se o spam jedná, ale protože dotyčný slíbil, že to už neudělá, věc byla opět odložena. Takže mi řekněte, na co vlastně ten zákon máme? Pokud ... |
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- Today is the fifth annual International School Library Day. This year's theme is "Breaking Down Barriers." Find out more on the ISLD 2003 page at the International Association of School Librarianship - School Libraries Online site. Any school librarians out there participating in this? Please post a comment to report on your activities. |
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- Douglas K dropped us a juicy one from The Globe and Mail of Toronto. First, let's address the issue of promoting literature through "one book" and "votes for the best book" type events. Libraries, as oases of non-commercial activity in an age where all things, including books, have become mere cogs in the machine of capitalism, should step out of what is essentially book-industry marketing. At the library, if nowhere else, all books should be considered equal regardless of how much press an author is getting, or what awards are dispensed. If the public library can't stay out of the fame game, it becomes an adjunct to the book industry, and not a last bastion upholding our collective right to free access to information. |
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- OCLC has announced plans to open a subset of WorldCat records to Google access on an experimental basis. The 2 million record subset will represent the most popular and widely available books. The project is expected to go live in the latter half of November. Get the whole story from InfoToday. |
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- The Volokh Conspiracy seems to be a blog run by Eugene and Sasha Volokh and various other legal minds, devoted to discussion of legal issues of many kinds. On Saturday, Eugene posted "Trouble for Amazon's Book Search?" in which he reprinted an e-mail from The Author's Guild about Amazon's new full-text search, adding his own comments on the legal ramifications. In his words, "I don't know whether their claims about the authors' contracts are accurate, but if they are, this could pose problems for Amazon. (Amazon would still have a decent fair use claim even if they can't claim a contractual right, but it won't be open and shut, for some of the reasons the e-mail below describes. |
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- An occationally-serious look forward. |
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- While I ought to detail, in detail, why I don't really hate Unicode, just some of the uses people make of it... instead I've been hacking at the forth implementation in Parrot. Still integer-only, and it has a single mixed stack (so when ints and strings are put in they'll all coexist on the stack), but Parrot Forth now has working if/then, begin/again, and begin/until control structures. Oh, and when you compile words you really compile words--it generates bytecode on the fly for compiled words. Woo! |
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- From the anchor desk.... President George W. Bush said Monday that White House counsel Alberta Gonzales was co-operating with the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, the task force designated to investigate the events of 9-11 |
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- An elementary-school teacher in the Fife School District has been reprimanded for allegedly sharing his religious views with students. | Steve Brown, ... - Wiccan Web |
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- From USA Today: "The FBI alerted law enforcement agencies last month that an al-Qaeda terrorist now in detention had talked... |
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- Oct. 27 - Danville police are searching for a nanny who allegedly lost control of her car and killed a brother and sister who were playing on the sidewalk. |
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- Does this belong at a peace march? Belligerent Bunny Blog has been to the so-called peace march in Washington DC, and brought his camera. Have a look! |
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- Does this belong at a peace march? Belligerent Bunny Blog has been to the so-called peace march in Washington DC, and brought his camera. Have a look! |
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- Buna Mireille, incearca www.vancouversun.com (te va redirectiona la alta adresa |
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- Exista patru biserici ortodoxe romanesti, web-site-urile lor pot fi gasite pe i |
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Fw: cine? (Oct 27 2003 18:57 GMT) - ----- Original Message ----- ... cine poate sa-mi dea niste informatii despre |
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- Well, I got back from the fantastic TCASU last night, it was great to meet and t... |
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- Darwin Magazine has an article on how email is being used by the prosecution in some high-profile court cases. The trail of email gave the prosecutors plenty of room in which to argue their cases. Connect - Fear - Move... |
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- Tucson's sprawling Southeast Side, with its large swatches of open land, is the economic engine that will drive Tucson's future, says City Council member Shirley Scott. Most likely she is right; her huge Southeast Side Ward 4 contains half the city's 200 square miles, much of it state land that is expected to be developed over the years. Scott has represented the area since first being elected to the Council eight years ago. In November's election, she is the best choice to continue representing that burgeoning collection of homes within which are mixed Davis Monthan Air Force Base and the UA Science and Technology Park. |
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- When the Legislature created a statewide test for students back in 1990, the intent was to ensure that schools provide a quality education. In Arizona, however, testing has been transformed from an academic effort to a political exercise, as is made clear by one simple fact: Each time voters elect a new state schools superintendent, one of the first things he or she does is propose dramatic changes to the state's testing program. The cumulative effect is to raise doubts about the credibility of all of Arizona's testing. |
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Letters (Oct 27 2003 18:56 GMT) - I have been attempting in vain to get the Tucson office of the Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the agency entrusted with enforcing our employer- sanction laws, to do just that, enforce them. These laws make it illegal to hire anyone who is in this country illegally. |
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- The Oct. 20 article "Vietnam atrocities revealed," about alleged U.S. brutality in Vietnam is interesting, if for no other reason than its timing. |
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Morning. (Oct 27 2003 18:56 GMT) - Sleep was ... for the weak, last night. I was semi-weak. Attempted to sleep curled up on the futon/mattress thing in the lounge at eastdorm. Failed. |
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- Here's a high mountain meadow flower. |
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- Posted by The Happy Tutor Final Analysis has said the nicest things yet about me and friends: For your weekend edification...via Weatlh & Bondage (which you should check out if you’ |
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- Bed tijd voor mij, maar niet voordat ik het beloofde plaatje van de super-model onder de neiuwslezers heb geplaatst. Aanschouw Arend Langenberg op zijn brommer. |
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- Oh man, this is something I've been wanting to get for a long time. It's the gadget that fire trucks and the like use to flip traffic lights from red to green, and I've searched for a consumer model before... |
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- Multilingual tech discussion on CommunityWiki |
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- Multilingual tech discussion on CommunityWiki |
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Old Friends (Oct 27 2003 18:54 GMT) - Holly and I are taking the afternoon off to drive up to St. Paul to catch the Simon & Garfunkel concert tonight. I'm hoping it will be a good show, even though I only paid for the cheap seats. At least we're in row 1 of the cheap seats, so we shouldn't have to stand up to see over any drunken yahoos in front of us. I grew up listening to Simon & Garfunkel, as my parents listened to them a great deal. |
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- Mercoledě 29.10 ore 21.30 Riunione preparatoria per arrivare ad una m... |
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- Since I'm not at the Microsoft Professional Developer's conference, I decided to answer questions by attendees about stuff that I am directly or indirectly responsible for right here. So let's roll the questions out Alan Dean writes You can leverage the XML support in .NET against a data source of your choice (for example, the Registry) by implementing a new XmlReader. We were pointed to work by Mark Fussell on MSDN to do this (Writing XML Providers for Microsoft .NET). |
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- Brooklyn Ice Cream Factory, Brooklyn Heights, Brooklyn Jacques Torres Chocolates, DUMBO, Brooklyn After the Forgotten NY tour, Jess, Tien, Jeannette, Yvan & I went first to the Brooklyn Ice Cream Factory, and second to Jacques Torres' chocolate shop. It... |
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- Lawyers for terrorism defendant Zacarias Moussaoui asked a judge Monday to place all pretrial proceedings on hold until an appeals court decides whether to restore Sept. 11 evidence and the death penalty to the case. |
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- (US) Just this past week, I read in the newspapers of a study done in the state of Maryland that showed something like 90 percent of the people in Maryland jails for drug-related charges are African-American. [$drug_related(100%), $drugwar_propaganda(80%), $propaganda_theme1(80%), $propaganda_theme2(60%), $propaganda_theme3(75%), $propaganda_theme5(60%), $illegal_drugs(100%), $drugs(95%), $various_drugs(95%), $various_illegal_drugs(100%)] |
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