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- SB 60, by state Sen. Gilbert Cedillo, D-Los Angeles, passed with no Republican votes and the support of virtually every Democrat. It was signed by outgoing Democratic Gov. Gray Davis in September in a bid, many believe, to please Latino... |
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- A Nation of Islam minister in the US - Louis Farrakhan - has reportedly spoken to Ja Rule and 50... |
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- "An unnecessarily long rant about last Wednesday’s episode of Angel (5-4 “Hellbound”)" |
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- For those of you who really want to know about every bit of male nudity on Buffy and Angel. |
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- "I was very flattered that Joss went on record to say that he’d underestimated my part in the show and I was missed." |
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- 2004 will mark the 50th Anniversary of the Fender Stratocaster, an event sure to be celebrated by Fender and Strat enthusiasts around the world. Previously celebrated Fender milestones include: 1979, 25th Silver Anniversary (the Stratocaster); 1989, 35th Anniversary (the Stratocaster);... |
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- More studies suggest that green tea processes cancer-fighting properties. It's also thought to lower cholesterol, preventing heart disease, boost oral hygiene and possibly aid in weight loss. |
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- That's the crux of the debate over exactly where the bulk of the Iraqi resistance comes from, with implications for how U.S. forces should respond. Foreign means you ramp up interdiction, domestic and you work the local population. My wild-ass guess: |
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- (Posted 29 Oct 2003 by Ray) |
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- (Posted 29 Oct 2003 by Ray) |
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- (Posted 29 Oct 2003 by Ray) |
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- If he were alive today, instead of writing about the "Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County," Mark Twain might be tapping away about the celebrated typing frog of Harris County, Texas, where Houston-based FrogPad hopes to single-handedly revolutionize the two-handed keyboard. |
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- Cray has outlined the first step in its plan to sell supercomputers in a market dominated by clustered machines. The company will based the new system on its Red Storm supercomputer developed for Sandia National Laboratories. Cray is keeping the wraps on the pricing for the new computers but said the entry point will be under $1 million. |
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- This release includes several bugfixes to PyDS, especially in the area of enclosures, the FTP driver, the blogger API, the MeshTool, the dynamic variable context and several other places. There was an immprovement for remote acces. This can now be defined as to be on a path of a server, so you can run PyDS integrated with the rest of your website. An upgrade is advisable, as some of the fixed bugs might pose problems in daily use. |
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- Bush: Attacks Reflect U.S. Gains From the Washington Post: The president, speaking after attacks on police stations and a Red Cross facility in Iraq killed at least 35 people, said such attacks should be seen as a sign of progress because they show the desperation of those who oppose the U. |
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- The British Conservative Party has called on the SDLP's John Dallat to withdraw remarks he made about Tory leader Iain Duncan Smith. |
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- Gardai are concentrating their search for a missing newborn baby on a complex of abandoned flats in the Ballymun area. |
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- Gardai in Dublin are continuing to search for a newborn baby apparently abandoned in a flat in Ballymun earlier this week. |
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- The Democratic Unionist Party has claimed that re-negotiation of the Good Friday Agreement will be inevitable after the Assembly elections in the North next month. |
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- The Dublin coroner has apparently agreed to release the body of Jean McConville, a suspected British army informer shot dead by the IRA in 1972. |
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- Dans un billet récent j'évoquais le site de surveillance collaboratif Government Information Awareness, initiative d'un chercheur du MIT répondant au projet de Total Information Awareness de l'administration Bush. Dans la même veine, quoiqu'orienté vers le privé, voici Hierarchies.org, qui s'assigne pour objectif de "traquer les relations entre les compagnies, leurs marques et les effets que ces structures ont sur le monde" (traduction maison). N'importe qui peut être informateur et la consultation des fiches entreprises est gratuite. Deux autres sites plus anciens proposaient déjà une démarche similaire: |
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- Autant vous le dire tout de suite, j'ai eu un véritable problème pour écrire ce qui suit. Je ne sais pas du tout quel doit être le niveau de mes explications... On va donc reprendre depuis le début. |
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- Bonjour, ce mail est a l'attention de mr Le directeur gestion clients """""Merci de ne pas répondre à ce courrier électronique, pour toute autre demande, ou pour obtenir un complément d'information, vous pouvez vous rendre sur le site """"" Moi je crois au contraire qu'il est necessaire d'y répondre car, " le necessaire va etre fait " me dit-on tout le temps chez vous, mais le necessaire n'est jamais fait. "N'ayant pas réussi à vous joindre directement, nous vous avons communiqué ce jour toutes les informations utiles sur le répondeur de votre portable." Si les informations utiles dont vous faites référence ci dessus sont: "appellez le 614" je le savais déja (voir mail envoyé le 27 Octobre 2003) en outre sur le message laissé sur mon repondeur vous n'avez répondu a aucune des questions posées sur le mail ! vous me demandez d'appeller le 614 c'est tout .. |
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- Heure de départ prévue: 14h00 Heure réelle du départ: 18h15 Quatre de retard: on est dans les temps. Ce week end, enfin, cette fin de week end, je suis partie avec Marianne et Max aux Deux Alpes, pour le Mondial du Snowboard et je vais vous raconter notre voyage dans les grandes lignes. |
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- C'est toujours dans ces moments la ou j ai un peu du mal a tenir ma tete hors de l eau qu il reapparait pour mieux me couler. L'AmiBoris a l art d'envoyer des messages dans ces moments la. Apparemment il est de retour sous peu, "so, should we go and have a drink?" |
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- Si tu veux qu'un article apparaisse là, tu le met dans la section mini joueb! |
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- Une pilule qui limite les règles vient d'être autorisé aux Etats-Unis. Prise en continu pendant trois mois cette contraception permet de réduire le nombre des menstruations à 4 par an. Selon Elisabeth Aubény, présidente de l'association française pour la contraception, "Cette pillule devrait très bientôt arriver sur le marché français [...] Ici aussi, les femmes sont très demandeuses d'une pilule qui permette de s'affranchir des contraintes lièes aux règles". |
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- (Canada) "They are less evolved in North America but there are indications that they have the potential to exert real influence in areas like drug trafficking and migrant smuggling. ". [$drug_related(100%), $drugwar_propaganda(100%), $propaganda_theme1(100%), $propaganda_theme2(50%), $propaganda_theme3(50%), $propaganda_theme5(70%), $illegal_drugs(100%), $drugs(95%), $narcotic(100%), $opiate(100%), $various_drugs(95%), $various_illegal_drugs(100%)] |
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- (US) IOC lawyers are studying the legality of retroactive testing of up to 300 frozen urine samples transported to Los Angeles after the Games from the temporary Olympic drug-testing laboratory at the University of Utah's Research Park.[$drug_related(100%), $drugwar_propaganda(100%), $propaganda_theme2(100%), $illegal_drugs(100%), $drugs(90%), $various_drugs(90%), $various_illegal_drugs(100%)] |
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- (US) It notes the mayor has not hired any minorities in his Cabinet, and that he eliminated the anti-drug program DARE. And while it is true he cut the DARE program, Anderson said it is up to the city school board to find a new anti-drug program. [$drug_related(100%), $drugwar_propaganda(60%), $propaganda_theme3(50%), $propaganda_theme5(60%), $drugs(90%), $prohibition(100%), $various_drugs(90%)] |
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- Smartphone Thoughts reports about a number of key platform improvements announced at the Professional Developer Conference. The improvements will enable developers to design and develop really interesting and new types of applications. In the post "Location, Location, Location (For Developers, That Is)" David McNamee writes: "There will be built in support for retrieving physical location information from the device. Microsoft's Ori Amiga did a couple of demos that showed, in less than a dozen lines of code, how to retrieve address information from a Smartphone and use it in your application. |
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- Ain't love grand????... |
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Out of Town (Oct 29 2003 12:05 GMT) - Well I have to go to Philadelphia on business. I won't be posting any more today and probably none tomorrow until late. Don't forget that... |
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- Why are the British so bad at prescribing and taking new medicines? If you are British, you can reasonably expect the worst food in Europe, the least attractive climate and the oldest medicines. These may be stereotypes but the essence of stereotypes is that they are often based on something true. Full report here>> Mind-boggling claim! While other parts of the world want any drug to cure their ailments, in Britain they have both (old, new, trails etc) and the medical profession sticks to the old and outdated drugs, why? |
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- That's a question I'm asked on occasion, and now I have a few links that should help answer any buring... |
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- [The Register] - Bigger screens too |
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- Maybe it's because the Flyers only offered him a one-year contract, or maybe it's because Justin Williams turned all of 22 this month and is starting to play like a four-year veteran. |
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