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- Religious leaders who support public display of the Ten Commandments pleaded their case at a news conference Thursday. |
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- Playing with a dog, putting on makeup and reading the paper while driving will soon become illegal in the Nation's Capital, under a law adopted this week that also mandates hands-free cell phone use. |
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- Laurie Strongin tried preimplantation genetic diagnosis nine times to save Henry. And she would have tried nine more if her first-born son had lived a little longer. |
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- Patterns of corruption, abuse and coziness underlie many presidential campaign contributions, the executive director of the Center for Public Integrity said Thursday. |
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- The Rev. Alfred C. Sharpton made a stop in Washington Thursday to promote his candidacy in next week's controversial primary election. |
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- GreenMan Technologies, Inc. (AMEX: GRN) stood behind its growth strategy after releasing its year end results that reflected a loss per share of $0.18 verses a profit of $0.07 in 2002. |
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- The Bush Administration announced that it is proposing a new immigration policy to protect the longest border on the planet between a wealthy First World nation and a very poor Third World one. |
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- It was just about this time last year when my house was invaded by mice. Well the invasion has started again. No, it's not mice, this time its moose. |
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- Still on a fast-track expansion trail, environmental contractor Environmental Management Solutions of Ottawa Canada (TSX: EMS) moved on two more acquisitions Wednesday. |
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- State school systems earned an average of a C+ in a report issued Wednesday that evaluated their policies for testing students with physical or cognitive disabilities. |
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- My nice new Palm Tungsten T3 has (at least) three modes of text input. You can set up the Graffiti writing area in too different modes for Graffiti, and one where it turns into an on-screen keyboard, and then you can enable Graffiti on the main part of the screen (which works great in some applications and not at all in others). My complaint of the day is two-fold. First of all, I'd like to have the option of writing in the old form of Graffiti. Sure, Graffiti 2 seems so much simpler and close to how people write on paper, but it's much more error-prone and I've still got all the old strokes ready for use even though it's been 4 months since I last used my old Palm (the scraped model |
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- PITTSBURGH - A university-affiliated hospital network and one of its hospitals have asked a judge to throw out a lawsuit filed last month by two women who allege that they and thousands of other women were endangered by a practice of certifying thousands of Pap smears with doctors' signatures when they were never reviewed by physicians. |
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- InterNey. NetBotafaladuraBotafaladura |
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- InterNey. NetDarKsTeeLDarKsTeeL |
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- Has anyone used JINI to provide copies of the same application running on different machines to provide higher fault tolerance?If so, how do you manage centralised tracking of status of each of these "node" applications i.e. how do you make sure that if an application goes down then another can step in with the processing?I am currently in the process of designing an application that will has to be up and running 24 x 7 and am wondering whether JINI would be the answer. |
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- Survey: Interest in grid computing grows: "One in five companies may deploy grid technology during the next two years, according to a survey of some 550 database administrators and developers by Evans Data Corp." [InfoWorld: Top News] |
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- Astronomical Surface Decorations on Ceramics, Mesoamerica part XI Continuing from yesterday, with an event such as an eclipse, one would think would have been important to note. Vase number 2026 may describe just this sort of phenomenon: Dave Kelly suggests the rabbits are phases of the moon leading to an eclipse. D. Stuart reads the text as 'There are rabbits, there are no rabbits. |
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- I couldn't have possibly found this site too soon: http://www. gatewaynmra. org/download. |
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- I gave some out-of-character advice this week when someone came calling looking for help troubleshooting an inkjet printer. Essentially, I told him that unless the problem turned out to be a problem with his cabling (it was--his USB hub had gone bad), he'd be best off just buying a new printer. In my experience doing desktop support (mostly HP and Canon inkjets), a very limited number of things can go wrong with inkjet printers. 1. Cabling. |
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- In Germany they first came for the Communists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist. Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn't speak up because I was a Protestant. Then they came for me - and by that time no one was left to speak up. |
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- Here is the proof that Iraq had WMD. You can read the article here. Too bad that Colin Powell keeps putting his foot in his mouth. |
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- Jade's basketball team is in the middle of a double elimination tournament right now. On Monday, they beat the Demons which is an extremely rough and aggressive team. That made the second time the Hot Shots beat them. It also advanced them in the championship bracket. Tonight, they met up with the #2 seeded team, The Walters Thunder. |
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- "Bild": 2004 bis zu 235.000 Stellen weg |
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- Opel will Betriebsrenten wieder einführen |
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- Intime psychologische Dramen, poetische Installationen zum Fliegen, eine klassische Künstlerbiografie und stille Meereslandschaften: Mit diesen Themen haben sich Kuratoren befasst und passende Ausstellungen organisiert. |
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- "The Muslim situation in India has always been affected by the level of the long running hostility between India and Pakistan ... A convention of Muslim leaders from across the country, meeting in Delhi last September, declared that they regard Kashmir as an indivisible part of India. About 150 Muslims drawn from universities, mosques, government and industry signed a consensus statement affirming their support for Kashmir remaining with India." |
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- Ok do-gooders, here' a place where you can sell your heartwarming stories. Doing Good for Goodness Sake I'm a little... |
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- Marokko soll demnächst Teil der europäischen Freihandelszone werden. Das Verhältnis zum Nachbarland Spanien aber ist gespannt. Grund ist der florierende Menschenschmuggel. |
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- Is there a way to remove oxidation from automobile paint? |
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- Define "suffering" "Dozens of women are suffering from a condition that makes them have hundreds of orgasms every day. Researchers have identified the condition as persistent sexual arousal syndrome." (Ananova) |
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- Maut-Ausfälle noch gravierender als erwartet |
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- F: "We're building a home for information that's useful to the Web community, like specifications, namespaces and schemas. Links to pages on this server should never break and the data should never go away."Current Collection: [ RSS 1. |
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- Neige, vent et thermomètre bordurant les 0° n’ont pas refroidi la trentaine de courageux qui se sont baignés jeudi à Mers. Pour la 8e fois, de façon informelle, ceux qui n’ont pas froid aux yeux se sont retrouvés sur la plage, qui en maillot de bain, qui en combinaison néoprène, pour célébrer la nouvelle année. Parmi les baigneurs on note la présence de quelques habitués qui, pour rien au monde, ne manqueraient ce rendez-vous. Certains sont même là depuis la première édition. Ils ont été rejoint |
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- Selon leurs mots d’accueil, les dirigeants du 26ème Paris-Dakar ont voulu l’épreuve “dure, exigeante, sélective et éprouvante… donc exceptionnelle” . Le 1er janvier le rallye-raid débutait par une épaisse et difficile neige à Clermont-Ferrand pour se continuer le 2, dans une boue dévastatrice pour la spéciale de Narbonne, au point de devoir arrêter la course… Dès le départ le 26ème Dakar marquait son style : privilège était fait à la qualité du pilotage et à la dextérité des pilotes. Avant même |
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- Il y a dix ans, Raymond Défossé, responsable des cinémas le Rex à Abbeville, du Gérard Philipe à Mers et de la salle de Doullens, lançait le premier festival du cinéma britannique. Chacun s’accorde à dire qu’en la matière la production venue d’outre-Manche est souvent d’une qualité exceptionnelle, qu’elle impose un style qui n’appartient qu’à elle, mais il n’était pas forcément évident de conquérir le public en lui présentant ces films en version originale. Même si les salles n’affichaient pas c |
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- La prochaine fête de la mer aura lieu le 25 juillet. Les organisateurs espèrent que les jeunes marins-pêcheurs seront de la partie. |
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- Comme le veut la tradition en ce début d’année, mardi le président de la Chambre de Commerce et d’Industrie d’Abbeville, Bernard Martel a présenté ses vœux aux représentants des institutions consulaires et au personnel de la CCI. |
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- Thanks to Game Science for their second article, following yesterday's first part, discussing Japanese game developer expectations for 2004, as relayed via a ... |
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- The United Nations needs to hear from the U.S.-led coalition and Iraqi leaders before deciding whether to return to Iraq, but Secretary-General Kofi Annan has concrete ideas about what role the world body should play, officials said. |
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Mars plus (Jan 09 2004 06:55 GMT) - Bush to Announce Ventures to Mars and the Moon, Officials Say: NYT. Well, here's hopin.' I'm not holdin' my breath - my skepticism of the family is quite boundless.... |
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- Dirkon - The Paper Camera [pinhole.cz] [via BoingBoing]: Let's see. I take pics. I do paper engineering and modeling. |
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- B2's Dear God Damn Diary offers a helpful guide to the Democratic contenders, much needed and of unquestionable worth. It's things like this that help to demonstrate the meaningful contribution that blogging can offer to the mediasphere.... |
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- In November, I recieved a peculiar postcard, which I noted and shared here, thinking it somehow foreshadowed an event involving Ken, an ex-coworker of both of ours, and a story involving fecal matter. At that time I did not share the message on the back of the card, as I found it obtuse, possibly a feeble 'jest.' Now it's all... |
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- Whoops... little error there. The 1110HD can support only 640K RAM. The 1500HD can support 1.5 (1. |
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- 53 posts is enough. I won't be back online until Sunday evening or later. Have a great weekend! |
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- Das Rekord-Haushaltsloch der USA ist eine Gefahr für die Weltwirtschaft. Mit dieser These greift der Internationale Währungsfonds (IWF) die US-Finanzpolitik an. Für Experten eine sehr umstrittene Prognose. |
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