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- So my mother has made a unilateral decision - next year, we're bypassing Christmas presents, and the entire family, including spouses, are taking a week off at Thanksgiving at one of the Sandals resorts in Jamaica. There hasn't been a trade like this since Ryan for Koosman.... |
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- one Games announces SKIRMISH TILES, dungeon rooms set 1, a tileable system for miniature skirmish games. This new, exciting product is based on the acclaimed battlemaps produced by one Games. The ... |
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- It's getting so you can't tell the players without using a scorecard. Securities regulators are plowing ahead with investigations of fraudulent and sometimes illegal trading abuses throughout the $7 trillion mutual fund industry. |
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- i have an old foxpro 2.5 commission check program that calculates revenues (minus several different taxes on gross receipts which vary by locale, what type of sales, etc), expenses (phone bills, loss (more...) Keywords:Windows, Database, Language Specific, Platforms, Other, Other DB |
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- votania amazingly got the 17th off. Wheee! This means, she'll be able to spend time with Little Fayoumis, and I'll be able to go see Return of the King with Darkside, assuming he's available to. |
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- The Guardian Has all The Bad Sex award shortlisted passages. "It was Heaven. I was the earth, the mountains, the tigers, the rivers that flowed into the lakes, the lake that became the sea. He was thrusting faster and faster now, and the pain was mingled with pleasure, and I could have said: 'I can't take any more', but that would have been unfair, because, by then, he and I were one person. |
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- Station Agent, an independent film that has won awards at Sundance and the New Orleans Film Festival, tells the story of a dwarf/railroad aficionado who moves to an abandoned train station in a small town in New Jersey. Entering his life is "the town's sexually provocative librarian." No word on whether her hand flies to her mouth when you press her tummy. |
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- A controversial plan to grant governments broad controls over the Internet has stolen the spotlight of a United Nations conference on IT next week, where China and Cuba will be among its strongest supporters. A contentious political move to grant an international governing body such as the U.N.'s International Telecommunication Union (ITU) control over Internet governance issues -- from distributing Web site domains to the public to fighting spam -- has all but obscured the more virtuous aspects of the event. reuters, washingtonpost. |
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- zamiel writes "Here's some news in regards to the Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada closing of of an art gallery and several library branches. They appear to have been saved, for the moment, due to the public outcry: "Mayor calls for reversal of library closures Mayor Pat Fiacco has weighed in on the closing of three Regina libraries and the Dunlop Art Gallery by asking the library board to reverse its decision. "I've always prided myself in ensuring the public is consulted prior to decision-making," said Fiacco, also a board member. "I believe we made a mistake. |
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- The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Reports Checking out a new book often means a long wait at Rose Creek and the six other branches that make up the Sequoyah Regional Library serving Cherokee, Gilmer and Pickens counties. The library system has just 1.1 books for every person in the three counties it serves, far below the state standard of two to four books per capita. |
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- Charles Davis writes "from ananova.com A 178-year-old signed manuscript by Beethoven has sold for more than £1 million at auction The composer's Scherzo from the String Quartet Opus 127 fetched £1,181,600 - including buyer's premium - at a packed Sotheby's sale in central London. A telephone bidder bought the 31-page autographed manuscript, which had a reserve price of £1 million. The Scherzo is part of a quartet Beethoven composed at the request of Prince Gallitzin of Russia in 1824-5. It includes alterations and additions made by the musician" |
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Interesting (Dec 05 2003 18:58 GMT) - Shameless ABC self-promotion from the Note, but it sounds worth watching:On Monday night, our esteemed ABC News colleague Peter Jennings (who rumor has it reads The Note on occasion) takes a hard primetime look at the reasons that Americans keep... |
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- Apple today released Security Update 2003-12-05, which updates Safari to prevent unauthorized access to a user's cookies... |
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- Janos' email may be on track, except for the fact that the email address he gives for Mr. McClintock is not in use according to a quick DND search. C'mon people, its not hard to check things like that! |
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- (Via Cromulent) The soul-less and guilty often overcompensate when attempting to cover up their crimes against their fellow man. Case-in-point: HOUSTON CHRONICLE: Rap, R&B dominate Grammy nominations Fuck Rap. That's a crime against music in and of itself, and will... |
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- Das hauptsächlich als Suchmaschine bekannte Tool looksmart steht in relaunchter Version als Artikelsuche im Netz; derzeit können ca. 3,5 Mio.... |
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- I used to love chocolate dipped potato chips! YUMMY! Unfortunately, they're |
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- Suomen Taitelijaseuran puheenjohtajaksi kaudelle 2004-2005 on valittu kuvataiteilija Elena Näsänen. Hän on Taitelijaseuran historian ensimmä |
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- This is a table about N.Y. Fresh Vegetable Market Update |
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- This is a table about Atlanta Terminal Nut Market Report |
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- This is a table about Los Angeles Onion and Potato Market Update |
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- This is a table about Philadelphia Edible Nut Terminal Market Update |
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- This is a table about Chicago Edible Nut Terminal Market Update |
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- Since I'll be working all weekend, I'll leave you with some diversions. After all, you know you won't be doing... |
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- Since I'll be working all weekend, I'll leave you with some diversions. After all, you know you won't be doing... |
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- HickoryFarms.com - Free Shipping For A Limited Time. Hickory Farms is offering free Shipping for a limited time. |
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Geintje (Dec 05 2003 18:57 GMT) - Stap 1: Ga naar http://www.google.com/ Stap 2: |
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- Can you right click the Radio system tray icon, choose Open Radio and then choose Radio->Web Server. Does it say Stop Server? Lawrence |
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- Moe Freedman is right: Krauthammer is worth a read today (as usual, of course).... |
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- In a move that received considerably less publicity than President George Bush's Thanksgiving Day visit to Baghdad, Osama Bin Laden made a surprise visit to a terrorist training camp in Pakistan last week to celebrate the Muslim holiday of Eid-ul-Fitr. Bin Laden, in hiding from US forces, took a top-secret donkey ride from his cave near the Pakistani/Afghan border to "Camp Death-to-America" in southern Pakistan last Wednesday to help boost morale among the homicidal looneys there. [More] |
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- ...but the woman I mentioned late last month, the one trampled under the stampeding feet of rabid, DVD-player-crazed dealhounds at a Florida Wal-Mart? Turns out, if she decides to file suit, it'll make the eleventh claim filed by her and/or her sister against the country's largest retailer.America, whom do you love? |
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- BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (AP) -- Otis Elevator plans to end its manufacturing operations in Bloomington by the end of next year, eliminating about 165 jobs and leaving about 200 at a plant that once employed more than 1,000 people. |
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- The size of the digital divide may have been overestimated, according tothe International Telecommunication Union's (ITU) development report for2003. |
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- TRADE Unions in Commonwealth countries have attributed increasedviolation of trade union rights in member countries to the adoption andimplementation of the policies of the World Bank and International MonetaryFund by governments in commonwealth countries. |
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- The National Assembly (Angolan Parliament), gathered today, postponedthe approval of the Bill which authorizes the National Reserve Bank (BNA) tocontinue with the process of issueing new bank-notes. |
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- THE Group Managing Director (GMD) of the Nigeria National PetroleumCorporation (NNPC), Engr. Funso Kupolokun, yesterday disclosed that theNigerian Gas Company (NGC) would be divided into two autonomous companiesnext year. |
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- Greenville Installs Surveillance System To Cover Downtown "The next time you get the feeling someone's looking at you in downtown... (85 words) |
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- Apple has posted a security update (2003-12-05) in your software update: Security Update 2003-12-05 updates Safari to prevent unauthorized access t... |
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- Appleinsider claims to have more details about the 90nm PowerPC 970. The new chip is being referred to as the PowerPC 970FX - which is said to prov... |
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- ThinkSecret revives rumors that Apple will open up software update to certain developers to allow 3rd party software updates to be delivered through A... |
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- More than two years after anthrax-laced letters killed two workers at Washington's main mail processing center, employees began moving back into the building Friday. |
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- The union representing workers at Dairygold in Cork is denying it has agreed to a redundancy scheme. |
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