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- The headteacher of a leading Scottish prep school has banned his teachers from setting homework because he thinks meddling parents are harming children's education |
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- An intelligent, thought provoking, and suspenseful novel about youth and the nature of memory. |
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- Friends of a champion Irish clay pigeon shooter have fulfilled his dying wish by packing his ashes into shotgun cartridges and blasting his remains over firing ranges around the world |
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- Friends of a champion Irish clay pigeon shooter have fulfilled his dying wish by packing his ashes into shotgun cartridges and blasting his remains over firing ranges around the world |
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- I have several "must have" books or Bibles as some people call them (usually worth their weight in gold), here is a list of my currently used books: Client Web Development - Dynamic HTML: The Definitive Reference Regular Expressions - Mastering Regular Expressions, Second Edition XSLT - XSLT: Programmers Reference .Net General - Applied Microsoft . |
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- An anonymous reader writes "Here's an interview with Stacey Quandt, a Linux and open source industry analyst. She explains why she feels Linux will overtake ... |
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- One of our moderators James was building something like this. From what I've seen it's excellent. You may want to get in touch. |
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- Silicon.com - USA A US baseball team is laying claim to having created one of the world's largest Wi-Fi hotspots by providing wireless internet from any seat in its vast stadium ...... |
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- QUOTE (Mutilated1 @ Apr 29 2004, 07:25 PM) I really like the Suffocation at first, but now I'm kind of bored with it. All except "Imortally Condemned", that song rules, but the rest of the album doesn't really stand out. |
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- Stern, Thu 29-Apr-2004 16:48:08 (5) |
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Churches (Apr 30 2004 00:37 GMT) - krulltime, Thu 29-Apr-2004 14:52:48 (1) |
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- The Santa Maria courthouse had the look Thursday of a fortress ready for a siege, with chain link fences and metal barricades to hold back an expected invasion of Michael Jackson fans. |
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- Berlin (dpa) - Bayerns Innenminister Gьnther Beckstein (CSU) gibt den Grьnen die Hauptverantwortung fьr die schwierigen Verhandlungen um ein neues Zuwanderungsgesetz. «Sie wollen die Sicherheitskomponenten nicht verstдrken, sie wollen eine multikulturelle Gesellschaft und sie wollen mehr Zuwanderung trotz hoher Arbeitslosigkeit», kritisierte Beckstein am Freitag im Bayerischen Rundfunk. Bundesinnenminister Otto Schily ... |
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- Today I got something free from Microsoft! Because I attended an Enterprise Project Management webcast, I was the lucky winner of Connecting the Dots: Objectives in Unpredictable Times by Cathleen Benko and F. Warren McFarlan. About the book, the web site says: |
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- Injured defenseman Kim Johnsson, who is expected to play Friday after missing three games because of a broken bone his right hand. Sami Kapanen will go back to being a forward after replacing Johnsson on defense. |
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- Dear Future, I'm sorry we abandoned you. If it helps, it wasn't an easy decision for us; we wanted to be a part of you, we really did. But sometimes, you know, things happen. Life gets in the way. |
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- В пятницу в Баку пройдет очередное заседание Совета министров иностранных дел Организации Черноморского экономического сотрудничества (ОЧЭС), сообщает РИА “Новости”. Главы МИД стран-участниц организации обсудят вопрос о возможных путях повышения эффективности работы организации, обсудят программный документ - "Экономическую повестку дня ЧЭС на будущее", а также наметят пути дальнейшего развития сотрудничества в различных сферах. Российскую делегацию на встрече возглавит заместитель министра иностранных дел РФ Виктор Калюжный. Членами ОЧЭС являются Армения, Азербайджан, Албания, Болгария, Греция, Грузия, Молдавия, Россия, Румыния, Украина, Турция, а также Сербия и Черногория. Председателем в рамках ротации на данный момент является Азербайджан. |
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- And now there's a site that proves it. Granted, the site's got a one-sided political bent to it, but it's still pretty handy. The Center for American Progress has launched... (0 comments, 0 trackbacks) |
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- How George W. Bush became a born-again Christian -- and the impact that decision has had on his political... |
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- While the open source community works on developing affordable substitutes for Cisco routers, Cisco itself is using Linux to power its Application and Content Networking System (ACNS), a caching and content delivery product for enterprise companies. |
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- That was mean what Mr Burgess said to you. I am glad that res materials is over for you (apart from the exam). |
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- The Yahoo Messenger is great, I would expect everyone to get it. Andrew also drew on me as he ran down the stairs near B15. I will kill him! Thats too bad about the video messenging, that means I wont get a video phone this year, I will probably get a normal camera phone. (Preferably Nokia 7600) |
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- Nice little rant about Beckham there! This is the best entry for a while, it was well worth reading. YAY Liverpool beat Man Utd! It was a great day for most of us, playing on the dance mat etc. James Ross is officially terrible at Smackdown. |
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- Raju is a dickhead, I hope you and Ash and Rob and ppl wise up soon and see what a prick he is. As for nick , i expected better of him. |
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- Officials Thursday were questioning a decision to hire a convicted thief on work release to help run Nebraska's anti-smoking program, which paid him more than the warden at the prison where the inmate lived. |
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- JFYI: Gestern abend gab es einen geplanten Netzausfall in der ETHZ, der allerdings dann ungeplanterweise etwas lдnger dauerte... Deswegen war Symlink gestern ebenfalls von ca. 20:45 bis heute ca. |
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- How's this for a tactic? Justice at Work wants to mobilize all the 401Ks and other personal investments you own... |
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- U.S. Marines negotiated a plan Thursday to pull back forces from Fallujah, a move that could lift a nearly monthlong siege and allow an Iraqi force led by a former Saddam Hussein-era general to handle security. Fresh clashes broke out despite news of the proposal, and U.S. |
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- WASHINGTON (AP) - Hoping to shape history's judgment, President Bush told the Sept. 11 commission Thursday his administration tried to protect America from terrorists as warnings grew before the devastating attack of 2001. Members pressed him on his response to a controversial memo that raised the threat of plane hijackings and attacks with... |
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- Jeff pointed this out to me: defaults write com.apple.iTunes invertStoreLinks -bool YES Those little arrows in iTunes now take you to your own browser. You can hold down the option key to go to the iTMS. |
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- Well, despite that early agonised howl from the very bottom of my wallet, Friday night turned out to be a bit of a blinder. oh go on then>><< |
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- Ecology of Fear : Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster- Mike Davis Mike Davis, my new hero and, incredibly, a San Diego local, chronicals the environmental fucking upping of Los Angeles and how wealthy home owners were able to stop visionary public planners of the New Deal Era. I will have a lot to say about this one. |
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On War (Apr 30 2004 00:32 GMT) |
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- The Long Island Catholic has an article on police work and Catholicism that features John Moreno. He wrote Spirituality for Police Officers and runs retreats and nights of recollections that are quite good. "Police officers experience all that is bad in society and we do so over and over; we can wind up seeing only the bad in people, expecting the worst from them, said Mr. Moreno, 74, who worked at Bishop Molloy Retreat House in Jamaica for 13 years and is now the director of adult programs at ... |
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