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- PRESIDENT Obasanjo has invited the leadership of the Nigeria LabourCongress (NLC) for a meeting to discuss his economic reforms, includingderegulation, the pensions bill, the trade union amendment bill, and theplanned down-sizing of the federal public service, among others. The meetingis scheduled for Wednesday, December 17 at State House Abuja. The invitationcame barely three days after the NLC began its sensitisation of workerswhich may result in a nation wide strike. |
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- Recently, the National Union of Food, Beverage and Tobacco Employees metin Kaduna for the national delegates conference of the union.Though tensionsoaked with campaign and counter-campaign for election by candidates, thesecretariat did not fail to highlight the economic challenges confrontingthe industries in that sector of the economy and ultimately members of theunion. |
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- AS the Interpol demanded for the arrest of the Liberia warlordMr. Charles Taylor now in exile in Nigeria, the Federal Government yesterdayvowed not to bow to international conspiracy to release him fortrial. Rather, the government asked any country interested in tryingMr. Taylor for war offences to go to the International Court of Justice(ICJ) in Hague. |
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- INDEPENDENT National Electoral Commission (INEC) said yesterdayit has no power to deregister any of the existing 30 political parties, italso promised to make the 2007 election free and fair. |
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- VIEQUES: ParaÃso de especuladores |
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- An error has occurred:The Search Inventory system is undergoing maintenance. Please try back later I found a car to see if I was a Well Qualified Buyer with. Then the stupid system goes down. |
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- I posted the following on a Disney message board. . .and it is all that is on my mind today.... |
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- Several of us would like to author a joint blog, each making entries. Can I set this up easily? I don't see anything in Help or Prefs to permit this. |
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- "(Of course this was back when I had a trucker hat)"... |
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- Medscape Medical News story - "To control the costs of employee drug benefit programs, many large employers have adopted three-tier formularies in recent years. Under this approach, enrollees typically select from a range of copayments for drugs, with the lowest fee for a generic drug (tier 1), the next highest for a brand-name drug preferred by the employer (tier 2), and the highest copayment for a brand-name drug not on the preferred list (tier 3). While these "incentive-based" formularies slow the rate of drug spending for employers, they also, depending on their design, lead some employees to discontinue purchasing drugs to manage chronic illnesses, according to a study in the Dec. 4 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine." "med" See also the NEJM abstract of the article. |
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- Medscape Medical News story - "To control the costs of employee drug benefit programs, many large employers have adopted three-tier formularies in recent years. Under this approach, enrollees typically select from a range of copayments for drugs, with the lowest fee for a generic drug (tier 1), the next highest for a brand-name drug preferred by the employer (tier 2), and the highest copayment for a brand-name drug not on the preferred list (tier 3). While these "incentive-based" formularies slow the rate of drug spending for employers, they also, depending on their design, lead some employees to discontinue purchasing drugs to manage chronic illnesses, according to a study in the Dec. 4 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine." "med" See also the NEJM abstract of the article. |
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- Medscape Medical News story - "To control the costs of employee drug benefit programs, many large employers have adopted three-tier formularies in recent years. Under this approach, enrollees typically select from a range of copayments for drugs, with the lowest fee for a generic drug (tier 1), the next highest for a brand-name drug preferred by the employer (tier 2), and the highest copayment for a brand-name drug not on the preferred list (tier 3). While these "incentive-based" formularies slow the rate of drug spending for employers, they also, depending on their design, lead some employees to discontinue purchasing drugs to manage chronic illnesses, according to a study in the Dec. 4 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine." "med" See also the NEJM abstract of the article. |
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- Your required reading for today is this FindLaw column on the Supreme Court case of Banks v. Dretke. This case stems from a capital murder... |
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- I've been going to the opera all season, as usual, but not writing about it. Not being a particularly gifted... |
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Typical (Dec 11 2003 18:38 GMT) - Are any of you familiar with the story of how teddy bears got their name? President Theodore Roosevelt refused to shoot a bear captured for his benefit, disdainfully calling it "unsportsmanlike." A newspaper did a cartoon of "Teddy's Bear," and... |
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- I had no idea, but for some time now I've been very reliant on P2P Swarming in my social influence blog network to identify and solve blogging problems. The results todate are FM Radio and soon to be released SmartManila. All developed in groove with classic swarming techniques even down to involvement of early FM Radio customers to help build SmartManila. P2P Swarming. Swarming, a technique pioneered by the US army, is emerging as a peer-to-peer (P2P) networking technique in the civilian world, helping organisations reduce the time needed to react to new business opportunities. |
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- Three hundred of 700 American-trained troops have quit the new Iraqi army, reports CNN. The reasons include "unhappiness with terms, conditions and pay and with instructions of commanding officers." |
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- Marginal field operators, oil majors to sign pact |
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- The Federal Government has been advised to strengthen its efforts in thebattle against HIV/AIDS by providing the populace with adequate informationto stem the spread of the dreadful virus. |
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- In line with Federal Government's pledge to hand over to Cameroon townsand villages affected by the judgment of the International Court of Justice(ICJ), on the Nigeria - Cameroon border dispute, government has constitutedthe Resettlement Committee to drive that process. |
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- Indications yesterday emerged that Senators Sanusi Daggash and Isa Mainawho respectively lost the legal battle to retain their senatorial seats inthe Appeal Courts in Jos and Abuja have vacated their seats. |
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- Physicists say they have brought light to a complete halt for a fraction of a second and then sent... |
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- After decades of blight, large swathes of Detroit are being reclaimed by nature. Roughly a third of this 139-square-mile city... |
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- Hello is a new program that lets you connect directly with your friends to share your digital pictures. If you’ve... |
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- losing at love is an experience everyone has gone through to some degree. the loves that we lose are the... |
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- The Collaborative User Experience (CUE) team in IBM Research has spent nearly a decade studying email. [...] In many ways,... |
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- The general awareness of online accessibility issues has come along way in the past decade- from the isolated protests of a small group of zealots to an almost essential aspect of good web design. Why the change? It wasn't the legal requirements of ADA or Section 508, nor the wealth of resources on the topic spewed forth by a variety of organizations. No doubt these voices have been influential, but accessibility is where it is today primarily because of: Evolving standards and technologies that require a return to the separation of content from presentation and An explosion of consumer devices with the same requirements for information access as many assistive technologies While a few developers were able to see the advantages to making their content accessible to everyone early on, the majority will only to do so under financial, technology and peer pressure. |
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Onions (Dec 11 2003 18:37 GMT) - I hate cutting up onions. I always cry - the chemicals causes my eyes to tear up BIG time. Some... |
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- The general awareness of online accessibility issues has come along way in the past decade- from the isolated protests of a small group of zealots to an almost essential aspect of good web design. Why the change? It wasn't the legal requirements of ADA or Section 508, nor the wealth of resources on the topic spewed forth by a variety of organizations. No doubt these voices have been influential, but accessibility is where it is today primarily because of: Evolving standards and technologies that require a return to the separation of content from presentation and An explosion of consumer devices with the same requirements for information access as many assistive technologies While a few developers were able to see the advantages to making their content accessible to everyone early on, the majority will only to do so under financial, technology and peer pressure. |
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- Last night a gave a talk on PostgreSQL at a SacLUG meeting. I think it went ok. There were some problems with the projector I was using, everything was fuzy. So I didn't show use of things like phpPgAdmin and the PostgreSQL docs during the talk because it was completely unreadable using the projector. You can grab the PDF version of the slides I used if your interested. |
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- QUOTE (say10 @ Dec 9 2003, 04:19 AM) I want to be raped to death by Nuns! Now Playing: Accept - Metal Heart YEAH! |
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- One of Santa Fe's best kept secrets is revealed--its gardens. See how lush and vibrant gardens grow in a climate which should technically reject them. The quarter-acre garden of landscape architect Catherine Clemens is featured, along with input from ... |
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