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- Ezra Klein has appropriately harsh words for Armstrong Williams, a conservative talk show host who will cheerfully promote George Bush's education policies so long as he gets some serious payola: Seeking to build support among black families for its... |
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- thanks to the advice and assistance of lalitree and eebmore, i have managed -- in the course of one morning, no less -- to upgrade to the latest version of movable type, install mt blacklist AND install closecomments. all... |
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- Extry! Holocaust-denying "moderate" Palestinian front-runner issues non-apology apology to Israeli media! Read all about it! Abbas admits getting carried away over 'Zionist enemy' remarks. JERUSALEM (AFP) - Palestinian presidential vote frontrunner Mahmud Abbas admitted in an interview that his reference to Israel as the "Zionist enemy" in a recent ... |
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- EU eröffnet Kartellverfahren gegen Infineon - Platow FRANKFURT (Dow Jones-VWD)--Die EU-Kommission hat angeblich ein Wettbewerbsverfahren gegen die Infineon Technologies AG, München, wegen Preisabsprachen ... |
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- cocaine Now Playing: Converge-Death King |
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- EU eröffnet Kartellverfahren gegen Infineon - Platow FRANKFURT (Dow Jones-VWD)--Die EU-Kommission hat angeblich ein Wettbewerbsverfahren gegen die Infineon Technologies AG, München, wegen Preisabsprachen ... |
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- EU eröffnet Kartellverfahren gegen Infineon - Platow FRANKFURT (Dow Jones-VWD)--Die EU-Kommission hat angeblich ein Wettbewerbsverfahren gegen die Infineon Technologies AG, München, wegen Preisabsprachen ... |
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- By Bruce BoccardyIt appears that the SEIU declension from democratic unionism is present in many locals. I am a member of SEIU 888 in the city of Boston. Here in Massachusetts, we have seen top notch organizers forced to resign or resign due to the direction of SEIU 888. We have been burdened with appointed officers and staff representatives whose loyalty is clearly with the NUP agenda at the expense of on the ground basis issues that affect employees.... |
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- by LaboryesPresident Jack Loveall, who feels no pain and refuses to meet and discuss contract details with members until the dirty deed is done, has proposed the worst contract in Northern California history to members of 588.These contracts are being voted on by members with the votes to be counted on JANAURY 7, 2005.There's no reason to believe members of 588 would not accept less at the master's insistence that this is the best contract ever the... |
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- This combination emergency flashlight and AM/FM radio plugs right into your wall at home and provides essential light and information during blackout times. If you leave it plugged in, the FR100’s built-in LED light automatically turns on when the electricity goes out. Its rechargeable battery provides enough power for 4-8 hours of emergency AM/FM radio, and its light can operate for 12-16 hours on a single charge. The FR100 also serves as a fine everyday plug-in radio and light for any room in your home or office. A pair of headphones are included with the radio, and the headphone jack also serves as an FM antenna input to connect an external antenna for improved radio reception. |
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- The room: Nice, quiet room to share with a friendly Czech couple 5 m... |
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- Anonymous Patron writes "The Wired Article The Zen of Jeff Bezos quotes him as saying "We not only help readers find books, we also help books find readers, with personalized recommendations based on the patterns we see. Now if only there was somewhere ELSE people could go for that kind of service! Why can't libraries get this kind of PR?" |
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- Anonymous Patron writes "A Release from U.S. Newswire tells us Archivist of the United States John W. Carlin announced today the selection of Dr. Elaine K. |
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- Anonymous Patron writes "The Monterey County Herald Reports from California. Nearly 25,000 pages of former President Reagan's personal papers, including speeches, radio scripts and articles he wrote in the 1960s and 1970s, are now available for public review at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library." |
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- Anonymous Patron writes "Judge to felon: Repay library Just two days after a Will County judge sentenced her to jail, another judge has ordered former Homer Township Library District director Regetta Meyers to repay $337,000 to the district." |
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- Cortez writes "Hot damn, Lenny Adams has himself one cool job. What? How's that? How could a librarian's job sound like so much ... fun? |
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- The world's seven leading industrial nations called on Friday for freezing debt payments owed by countries devastated by the Indian Ocean tsunami. |
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- According to IDC, the market for branded single tape drives is expected to increase to $222 mln by 2008 which represents a 2003-2008 compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 1.3%. This low growth reflects the decrease in the entry-level segment of the tape drive storage market and considerable price pressures in the midrange and enterprise segments, as well as the increased use of disk-based systems for backup and recovery. The single tape drive storage systems market in Asia/Pacific... |
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- The strong rise in internet advertising will continue in 2005, according to Carat, which is predicting growth of 20% for the year. Carat has revised its estimate of 2005 UK adspend growth up from 4.3% to 4.6%. |
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- The top 20 solution service providers represent around 60% of the total solution services market in Western Europe and consist of a mixture of large multinational firms and more local or regional firms with a strong domestic customer base. |
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- 90% of children between age 5 and 17 use computers, and even higher numbers of online teenagers use the Internet for school-related work, according to the report from Education Department. The largest group of new users of the Internet from 2000 to 2002 were kids age 2 to 5. |
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- IDC expects positive growth in the consumer photofinishing market. Even though film usage will decline, the bright future of digital camera shipments will increase the number of images captured, shared and received. Digital camera images captured, shared and received worldwide will grow an average of 35% for 2003-2008. Digital cameras will continue to be the largest generator of digital images despite the greater forecasted proliferation of camera phones. Prints from digital images will... |
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- A report by Input projects an annual compound growth rate of 6.9% during the next five fiscal years, from slightly more than $4 bln in fiscal 2004 to nearly $6 bln by fiscal 2009. |
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- About 15% of the companies surveyed by Customer Respect Group did not reply to email inquiries, and another 14% did so only partially. Overall, 40% of all inquiries sent to retailers resulted in a timely response, with 70% of those responses arriving within a day. Online customers, in general, expect to receive an answer within 24 hours. Based on its findings, the CRG assigns a Customer Respect Index to each surveyed company, with 10 being the highest score. Amazon. |
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- Forrester Research estimates that a self-service terminal check-in costs an airline about $0.16 per passenger, compared with $3.68 for one involving an agent. A Forrester survey of consumers indicates that 54% of airline passengers have used an airport kiosk to check in for a flight at least once in 2004. Meanwhile, 55% have used the Internet to check in. |
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- During June-November 2004, 32% of consumers surveyed by NPD Group purchased a technology product that offered a rebate. A closer look at those consumers' responses shows more than 25% of computer hardware product purchases during the six-month period included a rebate and 8.5% of respondents used a rebate to buy a consumer electronics product. Rebates also spurred consumers to buy products sooner than they expected (21%), to buy more expensive products than they would have without a... |
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- According to regional tabulations from AOL Online Shopping Cities survey, Seattle boasts the most generous men who plan to spend an average of nearly $771 on gifts this holiday season (which is 38% higher than the overall average for all shoppers in the survey). Hartford, Conn., meanwhile, is home to the most generous women, who say they plan to spend an average of $646 this season. Portland, OR meanwhile, has been crowned 'Scrooge Capital' among both men and women men there said they... |
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- Instat-MDR conducted a detailed analysis of data from the US Census bureau. The "Sweet Spot" for WiMAX (which Instat-MDR defined as places with housing densities between 4 and 1500 homes per square mile) accounts for about 74% of the US and would cost about $1.55 bln in infrastructure investment to access a potential customer base of 85.5 mln homes. On a per home basis, that works out to be about $18 a home, not accounting for any sales or marketing costs. |
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- According to America Online Online Shopping Cities survey of more than 6,200 shoppers who research and make purchases online, men are shopping online more than women. And not just by a hair: the AOL survey says men plan to spend up to 15% more online this holiday season than women, $326 for men vs. $284 for women. These findings may come as something of a surprise to women. |
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- According to Forrester Research, owners of TiVo and other DVRs spend 62% of their time in front of the television set watching recorded television. During that time, they skip 92% of commercials. |
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- IT solutions market in Asia-Pacific is expected to expand at a compound annual growth rate of 13.1% over 2003-08 to reach 33.9 bln dollars, according to IDC. |
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- IDC says DVD player semiconductor revenue is expected to experience a compound annual growth rate of -21% between 2004 and 2008, with revenue declining to $637.8 mln in 2008, while DVD recorder semiconductor revenue is expected to achieve a CAGR of 39.1% and reach $3 bln in 2008. The study also found that overall DVD semiconductor revenue will grow from $2.4 bln to $3. |
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- A new rev of TestMaker improves the editor and adds a JUnit component for load and functional testin. . . |
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- If you have a blog at some point you have received comment spam. If you are using MovableType chances are you have experimented with the MT-Blacklist plugin. MT-Blacklist allows blog authors to mark comments as spam, and share their findings... |
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- THIS IS PART OF A SONG THAT CREED USE TO PLAY... CALLED WEATHERED SCOTT STAPP AND MARK TREMONTI WROTE THE SONGThe day reminds me of youThe night hides your truthThe earth is a voiceSpeaking to youTake all this prideAnd leave it behindBecause one day it endsOne day we dieBelieve what you willThat is your rightBut I choose to winI choose to fight |
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- Most recent daily statistics ( 5 Jan 2005): Ranking: 1614, Activity percentile: 89.37%, |
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- Most recent daily statistics ( 5 Jan 2005): Download count: 27 |
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