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2004 NFL Playoff Preview and Picks: Divisional Round (Jan 14 2005 10:59 GMT) - Welcome to a game of Katcher's Believe it or Not. In picking against the spread this week seven days after being a hardcore 4-0 for the second straight year in the divisional round I will base my decisions on whether or not I believe certain points to be true. I might also call this week Rooting Against Myself, as my heart will be with three of the four teams I pick against, but my brain says You Know What's Gonna Happen More Often Than Not So Don't Shit Yourself. |
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Jakarta calls for Aceh truce (Jan 14 2005 10:59 GMT) - [BBC News | World | UK Edition] - Indonesian deputy Jusuf Kalla says Jakarta wants a permanent truce with Aceh's rebels following the tsunami. |
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Brown throws down debt gauntlet (Jan 14 2005 10:59 GMT) - [BBC News | World | UK Edition] - UK Chancellor Gordon Brown urges rich nations to act on poverty, as he offers foreign debt relief to Tanzania. |
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Snow Days amp; Unprepared Parents (Jan 14 2005 10:59 GMT) - kctipton writes "I've read the complaints about unsupervised kids. I imagine that you get more of them when school's out all day and even more if schools closed unexpectedly due to weather. The Wall Street Journal has a story by Sue Shellenbarger in her "Work and Family" column called "Hiding in the Bathroom: How Parents Cope When School Gets Snowed Out" It's online (only works if you have a WSJ online subscription) and in print (January 13, 2005; Page D1). |
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Harvard Hires Fun Czar :-) :lol: (Jan 14 2005 10:59 GMT) - search-engines-web sent along word on an odd new job at Harvard. "Harvard University students: overachieving, bookish bores or repressed party animals? A little of both, it seems. Following complaints that it does little to promote campus social life, the Ivy League school has hired its first "fun czar" -- Zac Corker, a recent Harvard graduate whose job is to build community spirit and help stressed-out students unwind. |
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Bookseller fired from job for blog entries (Jan 14 2005 10:59 GMT) - JET writes "From The GuardianA bookseller has become the first blogger in Britain to be sacked from his job because he kept an online diary in which he occasionally mentioned bad days at work and satirised his "sandal-wearing" boss.Joe Gordon, 37, worked for Waterstone's in Edinburgh for 11 years but says he was dismissed without warning for "gross misconduct" and "bringing the company into disrepute" through the comments he posted on his weblog." |
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L.A. law targets homeless at libraries (Jan 14 2005 10:59 GMT) - twistedlibrarian writes "Hoping to keep homeless encampments from forming outside the city's public libraries, the Los Angeles City Council voted Tuesday to restrict the hours that the public may sit or sleep on library property. On a 10-0 vote, the council called for an ordinance prohibiting the public from loitering outside libraries between 9 p.m. and 9 a.m. |
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Is a visual search engine in our future? (Jan 14 2005 10:59 GMT) - Via Slashdot comes word of a computer vision researcher working to develop a sort of visual Google. From the story: Let's say you're standing in front of the Mona Lisa in the Louvre. You take a snapshot with your cameraphone and instantly receive an audio-visual narrative about the painting. Then you step out of the Louvre and see a cafe. |
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Shadows og reflection - grafikkort (Jan 14 2005 10:59 GMT) - Jeg er i gang med at spille det nye settlers og kan se at der i min skærm setting er nogle funktioner jeg ikke har afgang til som sikker vil gøre spillet flottere. Der er noget der hedder shadows, on off ( kan kun vælge off ) Ice reflection off, medium, high ( kan kun vælge off ) Mit grafikkort er et ASUS V8440 (Gforce4 Ti 4400 med 128 Mb ram. Hvad kræves der af kort for at kunne få det sidste med ? |
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THE EXIT OPTION (Jan 14 2005 10:58 GMT) - SFGate: "Sixteen House Democrats led by Rep. Lynn Woolsey of Petaluma called on President Bush on Wednesday to begin the immediate withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq, just as some administration supporters are starting to question the wisdom of staying the course in the war. |
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Dierdorf on Jets (Jan 14 2005 10:58 GMT) - CBS' Dan Dierdorf wonders how much last weekend's overtime victory at San Diego took out of the Jets. "They emptied their emotional bucket in that game," he said. "That game took a big toll. And being at home isn't just... |
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The Food Timeline (Jan 14 2005 10:58 GMT) - Ever wonder what the Vikings ate when they set off to explore the new world? How Thomas Jefferson made his ice cream? What the pioneers cooked along the Oregon Trail? Who invented the potato chip... |
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Are you ready to inform and consult with your workforce? [Sandra Beale] (Jan 14 2005 10:57 GMT) - To promote mutual trust between employer and employee, increase flexibility of business, improve competitiveness, align training and development to business needs and increase ability of business to anticipate risk – these are just some of the aims of the Information & Consultations Regulations 2005 coming into force from 6 April 2005. |
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