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- Lors d'une discussion avec deux amis, une marocaine et un tunisien, j'ai appris avec forte consternation, qu'il existe dans les sociétés arabes des femmes qui se marient pour justifier la perte de leur virginité. Ce sont des femmes qui, ayant ... |
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- This package is meant to export spreadsheet information in the Excel XLS format. It consists in a base class that is capable of generating the contents of an XLS file given the values of the spreadsheet cells. There is also a sub-class that can query a MySQL database and use the base class to generate the contents of XLS file with the information of the query result set. The class code and comments are in Portuguese. |
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- With Sakura-con now over, we have the first of our Sakura-con panel reports posted. ADV Films and Geneon Entertainment. |
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- If you're still lumbering along with the good, but antique, Linux Loader, it's time to consider a move to GRUB, the Grand Unified Bootloader--the bootloader of today's generation. |
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- Most of us are healthier and wealthier than ever before, yet an increasing number claim to be unhappy. Is it the stress of modern life? Or are we simply losing our capacity for joy? [Excellent Article] http://observer. |
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- This experiment demonstrates and mimics certain intricacies of an ant colony (collective sorting/grouping specifically). Individually ants are relatively stupid however, in groups ants work together to perform large tasks, such as grouping things (i.e. food) together. Ants are able to sort objects by picking them up and placing them with other similar objects. |
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- Duisburg (dpa) - Deutschlands größter Stahlkonzern ThyssenKrupp wird zum 1. Juli seine Stahlpreise kräftig anheben. Die Produkte würden um 90 bis 100 Euro je Tonne verteuert, sagte ein Sprecher von ThyssenKrupp Steel am Dienstag in Duisburg. Er bestätigte damit einen Bericht der «Westfälischen Rundschau». Grund seien die stark gestiegenen Rohstoff- ... |
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- Duisburg (dpa) - Deutschlands größter Stahlkonzern ThyssenKrupp wird zum 1. Juli seine Stahlpreise kräftig anheben. Die Produkte würden um 90 bis 100 Euro je Tonne verteuert, sagte ein Sprecher von ThyssenKrupp Steel am Dienstag in Duisburg. Er bestätigte damit einen Bericht der «Westfälischen Rundschau». Grund seien die stark gestiegenen Rohstoff- ... |
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KCounter (Apr 27 2004 06:58 GMT) - This is meant to keep track of the statistics of the visits made by the users of a site. The visit statistics are stored in a MySQL database. This can be used with scripts that use a session variable to make visits more accurate and only count one visit when you open a new browser and open the URL. The class can keep track of visits since ever, today, yesterday and of the most visited day. |
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Hero (Apr 27 2004 06:58 GMT) - The head of Britain’s Commission for Racial Equality has lashed out at PC do-gooders, saying that in their efforts to... |
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- Two things struck us as we began to read the 1st Pre-Election finance report from the Randy Leonard campaign. First, and less importantly, unlike the others we've read so far, it's handwritten rather than typed. Second, and more importantly, the clear majority of contributors to his campaign gave $1,000 or more -- more than several of which gave between $2,500 and $10,000. We feel this is worth an item in... |
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- Greenwood Commonwealth, 21 Apr 2004 |
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- The Korea Herald, 27 Apr 2004 |
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- St. Petersburg Times, 26 Apr 2004 |
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- Daily Trojan, 26 Apr 2004 |
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- The Press of Atlantic City, 26 Apr 2004 |
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- Los Angeles Times, 26 Apr 2004 |
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- From 1998 until late 1999, I was a nomad. I slept in parks, or on friendly(and sometimes not so friendly) people's couches. I travelled around a great part of the United States with no money at all. And loved just about every minute of it. Even the parts I didn't ... |
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Zero (Apr 27 2004 06:56 GMT) - The Associated Press says a California psychology professor who faked a hate crime attack against herself has finally been charged... |
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- The presurfer... http://presurfer. meepzorp. com/ boynton http: |
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- "An expedition is being planned for this summer to the upper reaches of Turkey’s Mount Ararat where organizers hope to prove an object nestled amid the snow and ice is Noah’s Ark. A joint U.S.-Turkish team of 10 explorers plans to make the arduous trek up Turkey’s tallest mountain, at 17,820 feet, from July 15 to August 15, subject to the approval of the Turkish government." |
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- From this Reuters article comes news that is probably not news to the Christdot community: "In a survey of more than 2000 adults, most respondents said they pray to stay healthy and prevent illness. Some also pray to alleviate specific medical conditions. People with certain conditions, such as depression, headaches and back pain, were more likely to pray for good health than others. |
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- "On Sunday mornings, the mostly black congregation of Forest Missionary Baptist gathers at its Newburg church, while the mostly white congregation of Highland Baptist worships at its Cherokee Triangle sanctuary. The racial pattern repeats itself in many churches throughout Louisville and the nation. At first glance, churches seem to have changed little since the 1950s, when the Rev. Martin Luther King lamented that "the most segregated hour of Christian America is 11 o'clock on Sunday morning." |
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- A new survey suggests 63% of advertisers say they plan to cut their TV ad budgets by 20% in the next five years, thanks to DVRs like TiVo. Ouch. NY Times: TiVo "increasingly being left behind" by DVR success... |
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- [Meerkat: An Open Wire Service] - BVOM.com Apr 27 2004 5:38AM GMT... |
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- [Meerkat: An Open Wire Service] - ExpressIndia.com Apr 27 2004 6:03AM GMT... |
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- [Meerkat: An Open Wire Service] - "To get an update on IBM clustering technology, the industry and what customers are doing with clusters we talked to Dave Turek, Vice President, Deep Computing..."... |
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- [Meerkat: An Open Wire Service] - News.Com.Au has RSS feeds, but you have to tell them who you are and agree to their agreement before they will tell you where the feeds are. |
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- [Meerkat: An Open Wire Service] - Meanwhile they've apparently chosen the underwriters for their IPO. |
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- [Meerkat: An Open Wire Service] - Formatting text into columns. |
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PyBison (Apr 27 2004 06:55 GMT) - [Meerkat: An Open Wire Service] - Python-based Parsing at the Speed of C. |
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- [Meerkat: An Open Wire Service] - Business Report Apr 27 2004 6:16AM GMT... |
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- [Meerkat: An Open Wire Service] - USA Today Apr 27 2004 6:11AM GMT... |
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- [Meerkat: An Open Wire Service] - Slashdot Apr 27 2004 6:24AM GMT... |
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Sweet BBQ (Apr 27 2004 06:55 GMT) - [Meerkat: An Open Wire Service] - The sun is out and the birds are singing and all my neighbors are roasting flesh on the communal patio, so I've been thinking about buying a BBQ. I think I just found it: the futuristic, portable Q:... ... |
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- [Meerkat: An Open Wire Service] - The Royal Mail, which currently prices shipping on weight, is petitioning to change its pricing to be based on size -- apparently, size is the most important determinant of the actual cost of shipping goods. ... ... Royal Mail's pricing structure has been in place for decades, and was inherited from a time when mail was sorted by hand... |
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- [Meerkat: An Open Wire Service] - ... This Morse phone is the teaser for a Worth1000 photoshopping contest called "Vintage Products."... |
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- [Meerkat: An Open Wire Service] - The Legoland theme park has depoloyed tracker bracelets for kiddees based on WiFi tracking tag from Bluesoft. ... ... Available for rent in the Information Office, a Kidspotter ensures that parents can always find their children whenever necessary. |
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