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- A car bomb exploded Tuesday near a police station on a major street in the tense city of Fallujah, killing at least four people, police said. The attack came a day after a series of suicide bombings in Baghdad left about three dozen dead. |
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- Utah Gov. Mike Leavitt easily won Senate confirmation Tuesday to become head of the Environmental Protection Agency after Senate Democrats sharply critical of the Bush administration backed down in the face of an overwhelming Republican show of force. |
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- Jury selection started Tuesday in the Olympic bribery trial, which will determine whether two Salt Lake City bid leaders broke the law to bring the 2002 Winter Games to Utah. |
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- Carlos Cruz last saw his wife of 10 years at 6:30 a.m. on Oct. 3, 2002, as she was getting ready to go to her job cleaning houses, he testified Tuesday in the trial of sniper shootings suspect John Allen Muhammad. |
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- This morning I completed a homework assignment, "Issues Related to Returning to School". I was able to complete the assignment in MS Word, but it was one of 20 formated pages in a document therefore I printed the one page that I needed, then I scanned it into Adobe and attached it to an email and sent it to the professor. Now that is really something. Just think how efficient and easy it is to turn in assignments on time. |
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- Taking the day off today to catch up on some homework. I am watching the Bush press conference on CNN this morning. Bush sounds and looks physically and mentally tired after his trip to Southeast Asia. I'm sure that the mental stress was beyond his ability to cope with. After all the leaders he met with are far and above him in mental acuity. |
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- God's peace to you, The next Bible Advice-let email, "good news" gram is about to be published. The subject: Peace, the peace of God to man. Go here to subscribe, confirm, and to receive the next issue in your emailbox. God's flowing peace to you today. |
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Vet visit (Oct 28 2003 17:08 GMT) - Visit to the vet is over. Piper is 8.9 pounds. Yapped her kitty head off both ways. She's sitting on the porch, tucked up and twitching. |
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- With Amazon's launch of a searchable databases of the full-text of over 120,000 books, it comes as no surprise that... |
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- 1. Start small. Build momentum and ease yourself into the feeling of accomplishment by starting with a very small project. Clean the medicine cabinet, sort your socks, organize one pile of paperwork. 2. |
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- 1. Start small. Build momentum and ease yourself into the feeling of accomplishment by starting with a very small project. Clean the medicine cabinet, sort your socks, organize one pile of paperwork. 2. |
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- A new study by the EEOC reveals that since 1975, the representation of women, African Americans, Hispanics and Asian Americans as professionals in larger Legal Service firms has increased substantially. Women increased from 14.4 percent in 1975 to 40.3 percent in 2002, African Americans from 2.3 percent to 4. |
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- Der Einsatz in Nordafghanistan führt die Bundeswehr in eines der wichtigsten Drogenanbaugebiete "Kundus ist der hellste Stern am afghanischen Drogenhimmel. Und ausgerechnet dort sollen unsere Soldaten die Kastanien aus den Feuern der Machthaber holen, sich dabei die Hände schmutzig machen und zwischen alle Fronten geraten?" (Willy Wimmer, Bundestagsabgeordneter der CDU, in einem Brief an Verteidigungsminister Peter Struck) . |
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- Hey all, My boss wants to know if there's a "standard" way to secure a syndicat |
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- if it's on IIS, if you have .net, you can either make the document or the direc |
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- All validate, all have recent headlines. |
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- my feed 34844 was rejected due to 'Not Well Formed: No Descriptions'. i've adde |
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- wouldn't the best way be to use parameters in the query string, and to check t |
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- User authentication should be handled at the HTTP transport level. As in: http |
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- Tim, if you don't mind using Javascript, I have instructions to embed RSS feeds |
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- It seems that all my time in the last few weeks has been taken up by a new discipline: puppy management. I'm still managing to get some reading done on the commute, though: new book review. |
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SenseWear (Oct 28 2003 17:07 GMT) - Does anyone out there remember Rocky IV? You know, the one where Sylvester Stallone has to fight this Soviet boxer (played by Dolph Lundgren) who uses all this fancy technology to train while all Rocky has is this desolate cabin in the middle of nowhere? Not ringing a bell? Well, it doesn't really matter, it's just that for some reason BodyMedia's SenseWear armband, reminds us of that scene in the movie where Drago (the Soviet boxer) is attached to all these computers. It's a wearable sensor that gathers all sorts of physiological data which can then be uploaded to the web as part of some weight-loss program. |
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SenseWear (Oct 28 2003 17:07 GMT) - Does anyone out there remember Rocky IV? You know, the one where Sylvester Stallone has to fight this Soviet boxer (played by Dolph Lundgren) who uses all this fancy technology to train while all Rocky has is this desolate cabin in the middle of nowhere? Not ringing a bell? Well, it doesn't really matter, it's just that for some reason BodyMedia's SenseWear armband, reminds us of that scene in the movie where Drago (the Soviet boxer) is attached to all these computers. It's a wearable sensor that gathers all sorts of physiological data which can then be uploaded to the web as part of some weight-loss program. |
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- Forkin' DST changes. It's only 10 past noon, and feels like it should be almost 5. Bleah.... |
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- I've always been a sucker for spoon-based games (especially the classic card game, Spoons). So when I read this I had to pass it on. From Yea, but is it art:Visit their home and then, when leaving, tell them that you've hidden a spoon somewhere in the flat and they have to find it. You could mention that there is a five pound note wrapped around it too... |
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- Yes, I finally got round to really updating the tech side of this site for the first time in ages. To aid accessibility, comment permalinks now have title attributes attached (not much, but it helps). For those occassions when standard acronyms are to be over-ridden, I've added the ability to switch off auto acronyms. Finally, I added a comment previewing feature (that should keep Jacques happy, at least). Go on, have a play with them. |
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- Eric Spratling, contributor to Monitor Duty, was quoted by Andrew Sullivan and City Journal. Eric reveals all this on Fort Awesome... |
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- Scientists again warned that communications on Earth could be disrupted this week by another spectacular eruption on the surface of the Sun and that it might even hamper firefighting efforts in California. |
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- Capt. David Spencer is an officer with the 173rd Airborne, stationed in Northern Iraq. His father wrote the Niagara Falls Reporter and asked them to help his son out by sending him books for the troops. "Lots of guys here read novels," he wrote his father. "A lot of them spend time sitting in safe houses where they have time to read. |
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Domesticity (Oct 28 2003 17:06 GMT) - Yesterday, when I left work, I didn't go out and get the supplies I needed to work on the apartment.... |
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- (UK) (The Institute of Physical and Chemical Research) have demonstrated a system that detects the presence of illicit drugs that are concealed within an envelope. ( Tests to date have shown that the imaging system can successfully detect and identify a range of substances including ecstasy (MDMA...[$drug_related(100%), $illegal_drugs(100%), $drugs(95%), $hallucinogen(100%), $MDMA(100%), $stimulant(100%), $amphetamines(100%), $various_drugs(95%), $various_illegal_drugs(100%)] |
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- (US) A Bradford couple charged with unlawful possession of methamphetamine manufacturing in their home was appointed a new public defender. [$drug_related(100%), $drugwar_propaganda(70%), $propaganda_theme2(70%), $propaganda_theme5(60%), $illegal_drugs(100%), $drugs(90%), $drug_law(80%), $prohibition_agency(100%), $stimulant(100%), $amphetamines(100%), $various_drugs(90%), $various_illegal_drugs(100%)] |
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- (US) WASHINGTON (AP) _ The newly unmasked steroid causing a furor in athletics is an illegal drug, not a dietary supplement, and poses some serious health risks to people who use it, the Food and Drug Administration warned Tuesday. [$drug_related(100%), $drugwar_propaganda(100%), $propaganda_theme2(100%), $illegal_drugs(100%), $drugs(90%), $various_drugs(90%), $various_illegal_drugs(100%)] |
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- (US) The newly unmasked steroid causing a furor in athletics is an illegal drug, not a dietary supplement, and poses some serious health risks to people who use it, the Food and Drug Administration warned Tuesday. [$drug_related(100%), $drugwar_propaganda(100%), $propaganda_theme2(100%), $propaganda_theme5(70%), $illegal_drugs(100%), $drugs(90%), $various_drugs(90%), $various_illegal_drugs(100%)] |
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- (US) Rendell today announced that Pennsylvania will receive almost $21 million in federal grants during the next five years from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) to support substance abuse intervention and treatment programs in the Commonwealth. [$drug_related(100%), $drugwar_propaganda(95%), $propaganda_theme2(60%), $propaganda_theme3(50%), $use_is_abuse(95%), $propaganda_theme4(95%), $drugs(90%), $prohibition_agency(100%), $alcohol(50%), $various_drugs(90%)] |
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- Barcelona.Spain : 28 October 2003 |
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- Reason #684354 why I need to get cable: When Bush is doing a news conference, I have Sesame Street to watch. And it's the Elmo segment. Ew. |
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- Der umstrittene Kölner CDU-Parteichef Richard Blömer ist von seinem Amt zurückgetreten. Er zog damit die Konsequenzen aus der Spendenaffäre der Kölner CDU, während der Barspenden in Höhe von 12.000 Euro illegal gestückelt und falsch zugeordnet wurden. |
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weaponry (Oct 28 2003 17:05 GMT) - I don't know how to handle this. One possibility is to treat North Korea the way we've treated China and Taiwan since 1979 : intentional ambiguity. With the Taiwan Relations act of that year we left open the possibility that the President could attack China if they move against Taiwan. In practice, we've supplied... |
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okrent (Oct 28 2003 17:05 GMT) - Daniel |
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- Barcelona.Spain : 28 October 2003 |
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- Paul Krugman attempts to defend his ugly column excusing Mahathir Mohamad's antisemitic speech to the OIC, in a confused piece that plumbs new depths of moral equivalence: |
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- Reports have surfaced that the White House Web site has been edited to exclude pages on Iraq from being returned in Interne |
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- Last Friday Apple released Mac OS X v10.3, "Panther," and since then, there's been a veritable onslaught of product releases and updates designed to take advantage of Panther's features. MacCentral continues to bring readers those updates, both through discrete news coverage and also through roundups like this. |
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- [InfoWorld: Top News] - LOS ANGELES -- AmberPoint on Tuesday will unveil an abbreviated version of its Web services management software, AmberPoint Express, that will be distributed with the planned "Whidbey" version of the Microsoft Visual Studio developer tool in 2004. ADVERTISEMENT: |
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