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Turnaround (Dec 10 2003 07:59 GMT) - weather permitting we WILL be going to see my parents. And. Get this. J's friend Jaimie just had puppies. Well HE didnt. |
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- [UK Criminal Justice Weblog] - Sex offenders' jail move opposed Sex offenders held in a south Wales jail could be transferred to an open prison under a new scheme. Officials at Usk Prison want to move some inmates to nearby HMP Prescoed to help with their rehabilitation. But local people fear that their children will be at risk if inmates who have committed sex offences are moved to the open prison, three miles away. BBC |
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- Interesting Tidbit out of Iran, where President Mohammad Khatami said on Monday that book is the key for advancement of the international community and the goal is attainable with education in schools. The president said in a message to Minister of Education Mortezahaji to mark opening of 25,000 book exhibits in the schools across the country that the book is the illuminating feature of thought which has been effective in promoting social and historical task of the human being. Notwithstanding, presence of other communication means for exchange of cultural concepts, the book plays the most effective role in education and promoting the social development, the president said. The education ministry opened 25,000 book exhibits nationwide with a ceremony at Alborz High School, Tehran. |
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- Bob Cox spotted a Sacbee.com Article on the Galt, CA, Joint Union Elementary School District board who decided to ban a young adult novel from classrooms but keep it in middle school libraries. The district looked at the issue of whether to remove "Don't You Dare Read This, Mrs. Dunphrey," a novel that chronicles the problems of a troubled teenager, as supplemental classroom reading after a parent complained. The book had been assigned in a seventh-grade English class. |
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- Lori Bell writes "Greetings! December's online eBookworm show will be on Thursday, December 18 from 3:00-4:00 P.M. |
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- Notizia di Roberto Chiesa Come consuetudine il GS CYCNUS di Toirano (SV) vi invita al NATALE DELLO SPELEOLOGO che verra'... |
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- Amnesty Internationalin Suomen osasto kutsuu Oulussa ihmisiä sytyttämään kynttilä |
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- One out of three women over the age of 45 pee when they sneeze. Just in case you needed to know. |
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- SD Forum is presenting a half-day conference Thursday, Dec. 11, in Silicon Valley that will offer both business and technical tracks on "Open Source Solutions to Real-life Problems." Collabnet, GAP, Hummer Winblad, IBM, Oracle and others will explain how they are using open source strategically to grow their business. |
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- "Because I run so many OSes I always have 'embedded' in me this 'thing' to only buy supported hardware by the major OSes. I am sure Optura's DV part will work fine with some Linux tools, but then what...?" |
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- "Linus delves into US Copyright Law, a Novell officer speaks on move to Linux, Microsoft Hot Air, a clueless pundit or two..." |
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- "In addition, Jeffrey T. Hawkins, VP, Office of the CTO at Novell, has been elected to OSDL's board of directors..." |
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- Could a well-timed entry into the e-book machine market help save the besieged Eastman Kodak Company? No news stories spotted about this. But it just might make sense, given Kodak's prominence in imaging and its need to move on to new, digitally related markets. Keep in mind, too, the value of the brand name--on par with Disney (in fact, better to the well-informed--given that "Disney" now means copyright-related sleazy in DC). What prompted this speculation? |
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- [ rabattre le caquet ]Sarkozy n'est pas le premier à rabattre médiatiquement le caquet de Jean-Marie Le Pen. Pour le télé |
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- Simon Phipps (who works at Sun Microsystems) is showing off Sun's new 3D desktop. Why am I pointing to this? After all, Simon and Sun is trying to put me out of business. Because I want to be an authority on the operating system industry and to become an authority you must point to ALL stuff, not just that that's friendly. Heck, Sun's doing some cool work here and it should be paid attention to -- particularly by Longhorn evangelists. |
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- Simon Phipps (who works at Sun Microsystems) is showing off Sun's new 3D desktop. Why am I pointing to this? After all, Simon and Sun is trying to put me out of business. Because I want to be an authority on the operating system industry and to become an authority you must point to ALL stuff, not just that that's friendly. Heck, Sun's doing some cool work here and it should be paid attention to -- particularly by Longhorn evangelists. |
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- Well I guess(?) day two was a whole lot better. I have learned a trick or two, made some new friends and been about to hang outwith other geeks. But, over all because I am a contractor and have a lost 3 days wages andthe parking in the city (Melbourne, Australia) is $30. |
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- Proposed: Parameterized Includes Summary: Allow topic INCLUDEs to pass parameters to the included topics in a similar manner like parameters get passed to functions ... |
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- Notizia di Daniele Figini VIAGGIO NEL CUORE DELLE GRIGNE - Proiezione Multimediale Venerdм 12 Dicembre a Erba (CO) presso il... |
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- Throw a fit, go to power company, strip naked, wash, rinse, repeat. |
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- So, what do you call the large number of people who hold it as an article of faith that mushrooms taste good when they're inflicting their culinary practices on those few who don't care for mushrooms? The morel majority. |
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- With a new CD and her 40-city “Kiss My Brass” tour, the divine Ms. Midler is back in action. A... |
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- QUOTE (Mutilated1 @ Dec 9 2003, 06:50 PM) QUOTE (self mutilated @ Dec 9 2003, 07:48 PM) cool where did you see this? http://www. |
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- [Meerkat: An Open Wire Service] - "My goal was to build a small form factor Linux system that was quiet, fast, inexpensive, reasonably flexible, and easy to work on..."... |
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Book Club (Dec 10 2003 07:54 GMT) - Ok, I'm taking nominations for the first book of The Agonist Book Club. Here's mine: Iris Chang, The Rape of Nanjing. I'll email all the participants in the next few days and get their nominations and then we'll get this thing started. |
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Nosica (Dec 10 2003 07:54 GMT) |
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- Tre kodnamn i ett! Idag pratar vi kцrningsmiljцer i Mac OS X. |
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- The house parties were quite a success. We estimate somewhere from 75,000 to 100,000 people saw the movie Sunday afternoon. LA Times: Missing from the evening were opposing voices. "There's an element of preaching to the choir here," Ann Smith, who owns the New School of Cooking in Culver City, said. |
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