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- Dec. 8 - Thousands of flyers have been mailed out to help in the search for a serial rapist who has been linked to eight sexual assaults. |
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- Dec. 8 - One Senate candidate and some local unions are calling for an investigation into the actions of police against protestors during the recent FTAA conference. |
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- Dec. 8 - The Sunday deadline has passed and it looks like Ivan "Pudge" Rodriguez will not be playing for the Marlins next season. |
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- Dec. 8 - Residents in the Northeast are still digging themselves out of the snow Monday morning. The storm is now being blamed for at least 11 deaths. |
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- Dec. 8 - Two priests from the Archdiocese of Miami are suspended after allegations of sexual misconduct. |
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- Staff in sections of Wexford County Council are to be balloted for all-out strike action in support of a colleague who was made redundant last month. ... |
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- Democrats Block Quick Senate Passage of Spending Bill WASHINGTON (AP) - Democrats blocked the Senate on Tuesday from quickly approving a $373 billion year-end spending bill, leading Republican leader Bill Frist to postpone debate on the sweeping legislation until late January. |
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- When DoubleClick launched its Motif rich media solution earlier this year, established rich media providers said they would win the competition by continuing to provide superior service and customized support that advertisers crave. Today, Eyeblaster went a step farther, announcing plans to expand its offerings to incorporate Dynamic Logic's attitudinal surveys from into version 5.4 of its rich media platform. The Eyeblaster Brand Test is due for release next month, and will let marketers create branding effectiveness tests within the Eyeblaster platform. This is the first time Dynamic Logic has licensed its branding effectiveness survey system to a third party. |
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- Oh the great and marvelous places my co-workers find. |
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- (via presurfer) What a wonderful cartoon! From pthbbbt.com, here's a little cartoon entitled "If the library were like Amazon.com." It's cute, SFW, and worth the 2 minutes to read. |
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- Fang-Face writes "April fools seems to have come twice this year. A Newsday article reprinted at Truthout.org reports that the George Bush Jr. was google bombed. This is a process by which a number of people conspire to use a keyword or phrase heavily on their pages and linking back to the target's home page. |
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- Charles Davis writes "A miniature painting that has been on full view to the public at the Victoria and Albert Museum, but whose significance has passed thousands of visitors by, may hold the key to one of the great mysteries of English literature - the identity of the Dark Lady of Shakespeare's sonnets. Full Story" |
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- This Slashdot Thread pointed the way to This Japan Today article on a robot that could help browse for books in a library by receiving instructions via the Internet, a team member said Friday. The robot, a wheeled vehicle measuring 50 by 45 centimeters with a digital camera, mechanical hand and arm, follows orders received through the Internet. Still in the experimental stage, it was developed as a way to help people who cannot go to a library, said Akihisa Oya, an assistant professor at the University of Tsukuba. Using a laser to navigate between shelves and other barriers, it can select a book, open it and flip through pages with its own hand, while taking and sending pictures of contents. More info Here. |
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- Former Sen. Bob Kerrey Named as New Member of Sept. 11 Commission WASHINGTON (AP) - Former Sen. Bob Kerrey, D-Neb., who served as vice chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, was named Tuesday to fill a vacancy on the independent commission studying the Sept. |
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- Today only, MegaMacs.com offers Secrets of the Pyramids for $2.99 plus around $5 shipping. We couldn't find it elsewhere for less. |
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- Japan will steer its Nozomi probe away from the Red Planet after failing to fix an onboard electrical glitch. |
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- I slept like frickin' doody last night. I have a multitude of things to get done today. So what do I do? I create this... Is there anyway we could possibly make the days about 30 hours long, instead of 24? |
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- I slept like frickin' doody last night. I have a multitude of things to get done today. So what do I do? I create this... Is there anyway we could possibly make the days about 30 hours long, instead of 24? |
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- Brief description: Squigs 3 is a columns style game with a simple yet highly adictive gameplay suitable for all the family. You control the colourful Squigs as they fall from the sky earning points and clearing space for more when you match three or more Squigs. Download size: 6895 Kb. |
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- that story though made me ...... :jokelaugh :rofl: |
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- A new phrase has been coined: Killographic. It pertains to video games that portray "graphic depiction[s] of brutal violence." Get it? See, pornographic is for sex and killographic is for.... |
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- hello.i have a homework project that i need help with.the program has a sequential search and bubble sort; however, i would like the sequential search to be replace with a binary search.th (more... |
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- The Vice President of Credit Risk Managers Association (CRIMA),Mr. Ahmed Yusuf has said that most Nigerian banks have expressed support forthe introduction of credit bureau in the financial service sector as a wayof stemming bad debts in the system. |
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- Kenya is seeking to increase it's intake of Nigeria's crude from 30,000to 50,000 barrels per cargo. |
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- Chairman of the House of Representatives Committee on Finance, Hon LawanFarouk, said the Federal Government plans to open up the productive andmanufacturing sectors of the economy as well as curtail import dependencyand increase exports as part of measures to shore up the sliding value ofthe naira. |
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- Few days after the sack of Minister of Labour and Productivity,Mr. Husaini Akwanga, the Presidency may have turned the anti-corruptionsearchlight on the N500 million computerisation project of the NigeriaSocial Insurance Trust Fund (NSITF), a parastatal under the Ministry. |
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- The on-going mass disconnection exercise by the National Electric PowerAuthority (NEPA), which involved both police stations and militaryformations has been described as capable of crippling the security networkof the state. Governor Bola Ahmed Tinubu of Lagos State, disclosed this atthe weekend, during a courtesy call by NEPA's new General Manager(Distribution) for Lagos Zone, Engr Kola Oni. |
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- IN quick refutal of the reported official policy to further devalue theNaira, President Olusegun Obasanjo, last Tuesday summoned his economic teamto find checks to the rapidly and steadily depreciating Naira, which hasslid to N145 per dollar. Ahead of the meeting's prescriptions, the presidenthad traced the root of the depreciation to the increasing demand for scarceforeign exchange by both Christian and Muslim pilgrims; repatriation offunds by foreign contractors; payment to states on excess crude; andspeculations. |
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- Steyr Nigeria Limited has said that it has overcome some of itsfinancial difficulties, which put it out of business for several years, andis now back to business, managing director of the company, Ade Ojeloye hassaid. |
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- The Liberia Human Rights Observer has called on the Central Bank ofLiberia to prevail on the Tradevco Management to reopen its doors to thepublic. |
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- The Federal Government has been advised to ensure that retirees gettheir pension and gratuity as at when due, as a way to avoid the deprivationand hardship the they go through in pension offices across the country. |
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- Econet Wireless Nigeria, (EWN) has asked the Federal High Court, Lagosto dismiss a suit filed against it and 21 others, noting that the decisionof Econet Wireless International to institute an action in Hague against it,when there are two other cases pending before two different judges of theFederal High Court, on the same subject matter constitutes an abuse of courtprocess. |
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- In a bid to empower the people of the Niger Delta with tools foreffective communication and social change, Ford Foundation in collaborationwith four other partners have began the training of Non GovernmentalOrganisations (NGOs) on Information Technology in the region. |
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- Ogun State Governor, Otunba Gbenga Daniel has released funds for theimmediate payment of October and November salaries of Secondary Schoolteachers in the state. |
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- Drilling of the first of several gold exploration targets on the Wassaproperty of the Golden Star Resources Limited of Denver has resulted in thediscovery of a new high-grade zone intersected with 15 drill holes todate. |
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- Assault personnel manager |
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- For the second time in as many weeks, the courts have rejected an appealby Econet Wireless Nigeria (EWN) in respect of its shareholders dispute withEconet Wireless International (EWI) rejected by the courts. |
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- HOUSE of Representatives Committee on the Niger Delta DevelopmentCommission (NDDC) has said work on the NDDC amendment bill was suspended dueto several unconstitutional provisions in the additional document. |
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- Deputy Governor of Enugu State, Chief Ezenwata Okechukwu Itanyi, hasurged Enugu indigenes to come home and invest. |
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