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- Court boost for Pakistan women. The Supreme Court issues a far-reaching ruling that adult Muslim women can marry anyone they want, of their own free will. [BBC News | South Asia | World Edition] |
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- San Francisco police are looking for a man who accosted a woman in the Cow Hollow neighborhood early this morning and then fatally shot her husband in the head when he tried to come to her aid. |
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- Police arrested a man Friday morning less than 12 hours after police say he set fire to a car along I-80 in Pinole, killing two children inside and injuring a woman. |
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- A mother from Petaluma who knew she had cancer but didn't tell anyone died after the delivery of her eighth child. |
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- After a months long investigation, the Monterey County Coroner's Office has officially classified the deaths of two Long Beach women earlier this year a murder-suicide. |
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- Fremont police this morning are seeking the public's help in finding those responsible for the Thursday afternoon stabbing of a teenager. |
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- NBA star Kobe Bryant was in court Friday for a key hearing on whether his lawyers will be able to use his rape accuser's medical history against her. |
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- Oakland Raiders safety Rod Woodson had surgery Thursday on his injured left knee. |
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- Raiders quarterback Rich Gannon plans to resume throwing in about six weeks, ahead of schedule for the 2002 NFL MVP after having shoulder surgery last month. |
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- Coach Joel Quenneville likes the consistency the St. Louis Blues are playing with. It's easy to see why. |
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- Janet Jackson will be the featured performer during the halftime show at the Super Bowl on Feb. 1 in Houston. |
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- EU votes to continue arms embargo against China. Citing China's record in human rights, threats aginst Taiwan and the mistreatment of AIDS victims, the EU Parliament dismissed the urgings of France and Germany to lift the EU's 14-year -old arms embargo against China. voting to keep the embargo... [The Peking Duck] |
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- Online gamer Li Hongchen has been victorious in the Beijing's Chaoyang District People's Court for the theft of his virtual... |
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- Since the building of data warehouses began, the perceived wisdom has been to maintain a separation between the data warehouse and the company's operational systems. Today, while this 'separatist' thinking still dominates among many data warehousing professionals, the approach is being questioned. Evolving wisdom is to consider alternatives to the implementation of a traditional warehouse solution, where operational systems are capable of living in harmony with the data warehouse. |
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JFTP v2.1 (Dec 19 2003 19:58 GMT) - FTP allows the uploading of files via FTP over the Internet from within your very own web enabled applications. Many new features and bug fixes in the newest version. |
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- It's that time of year again, folks. The time when you pass strangers on the street hocking up lung biscuits. The time when the hospital's emergency rooms are full of people who don't quite grasp the concept that a viral... |
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- Usability Views- Requiem for a Machine: The season's hot gadget proves that PDAs are obsolete. [Newsability] treo 600 |
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- Proverbs 20:22. Do not say, "I will repay evil"; wait for the LORD, and he will deliver you. [English Standard Version Bible Daily Verse] |
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- I'm amazed that the more I listen to Elliot Smith's albums such as Amazon.com: Music: Either/Or" href="http://www. |
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- But outside the halls of the U.S. Senate, which is a world of personal wealth so rarified some call it "the Millionaires' Club," Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) had struggled financially. Then, in 1997, he got serious about making money. |
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- Kitty Hawk, NC - Air enthusiasts from around the world gathered in this coastal North Carolina town to celebrate the first bumping of an airline passenger that occurred one hundred years ago today. Brothers Wilbur and Orville Wright both had tickets to travel 120 feet on a regularly scheduled airline flight on December 17, 1903, but Wilbur was bumped when because the airline had overbooked the one-passenger plane. "It's an important day in aviation history," said Melanie Farnsworth, chairwoman of the Airline Travelers' Alliance. "One hundred years of bad service, late planes, crappy food, rude employees and escalating costs. And it[base ']s all subsidized by the government. |
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- FeedReaders.com needs help from Mac owners to test the Lockergnome News Feeder software. Contact Head Gnome at chris@lockergnome.com, if you're interested.... |
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- The next two weeks I'll be paying a visit to the mother ship in Redmond. People who want to meet can drop me a mail to this weblog, or to my alias at Microsoft (ZivC). UPDATE: (Radio, for unknown reason, has decided I wrote this in August.) Just to make it clear, this will be the weeks of x-mas and sylvester. |
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- Dec. 18 - The dramatic discovery of Saddam is easing U.S. relationships with erstwhile allies in Europe, says BW's Bob Dowling. |
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- Dec. 18 - As the market stays strong, BW's Gene Marcial gives you the scoop on some of the stocks the pros are watching. |
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- Dec. 18 - Chris Johnson of Schaeffer’s Investment Research says that now that the Dow has hit 10,000, the average could swing sideways or lower in the near term. |
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- Lars Lagerbäck och Roland Andersson kommer med största sannolikhet att leda Sveriges fotbollslandslag efter EM-slutspelet 2004. Svenska fotbollsförbundet bekräftar att man inlett slutförhandlingar med båda parter. |
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- Dec. 19 - At the 'Paycheck' premiere, stars Uma Thurman and Ben Affleck talked about their first jobs and how much they got paid. |
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- Dec. 19 - Look for around a 10% gain in the Dow and S&P -- and new strength in large-caps and in dividend payers, says BW's Marcia Vickers. |
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- Cursing at someone is a crime if the obscenities can be considered "fighting words," and it doesn't matter that the remarks are directed at a police officer who's been trained to keep his cool, the Montana Supreme Court said. |
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TWikiUsers (Dec 19 2003 19:56 GMT) - List of TWiki users Please take the time and add yourself to the list. To do that fill out the form in TWiki.TWikiRegistration. This will create an account for you ... |
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GregLudwig (Dec 19 2003 19:56 GMT) - Name: Greg Ludwig Email: greg@groupscopeSTOPSPAM.com Company Name: Groupscope Company URL: |
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- Christian Monitor - latest newsletter. (Friday, December 19 ) CM monitors Christian persecution around the world. |
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- A bizarre pulled quote on the Register's home page had me wondering whether a chicken coop had collapsed, given the picture next to it. (Link good today only.) Unfortunately the reality is worse than a few dead chickens. |
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eCulture (Dec 19 2003 19:55 GMT) - Usability Views- Making Policy in a Moore's Law World [Newsability] "REJESKI: Adaptation, co-evolution, agility and improvisation — all things that come hard to government. My argument is that we have entered the next major industrial revolution. We are witnessing a major change in how we manufacture, where we manufacture, and even if we chose to manufacture (substituting information for things and extracting economic value from bits, not atoms). |
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- The American Public Human Services Association (APHSA) announced the election of Carmen D. Weisner of Louisiana's Department of Social Services to the APHSA Board of Directors. She will begin her three-year term in January 2004. |
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- Following the surprise endorsement of Howard Dean by Al Gore, George Bush has received surprise endorsements by Al Greenspan and Saddam Hussein. These endorsements all but wrapped up the re-election of George Bush, demonstrating his success in the two major issues in the coming election, the economy and the Iraq war. [More] |
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Prayers (Dec 19 2003 19:54 GMT) - Winterhart, who is one of this blog's readers and occassional commenters, has a husband who who shipped out for Iraq... |
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