There are a couple of unconfirmed stories swirling around the Blogosphere implicating our good buddies in the RIAA of intimidating hardware manufacturers, most notably Dell, Gateway, and in Europe Packard Bell. The systems are laptops that use the SigmaTel audio chip. Both Gizmodo and Electronista are claiming that the chip has been hobbled on purpose […]

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Recently, I learned about an innovative approach to help veterans returning home to try to adjust to normal life and stay out of trouble. The Veterans Treatment Court, the first of its kind, is part of a program in Buffalo, New York to help all of its defendants, all military veterans, who have served their […]

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Victor joins JT and Paul at the club and they discuss what they know about David. Paul tells him that Nikki told them to drop it so they are being careful about what they do. Victor tells them to continue the investigation, and to ignore what Nikki told them. JT and Paul tell Victor about […]

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Neal goes to pick up Carly and while she finishes getting ready he goes to the kitchen for some water. While he is in there Jack comes inside and yells out if anyone is home. Neal comes out and asks if it is customary in the U.S. to just walk into someone’s home without knocking. […]

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Max and Stephanie talk about the ordeal they just went through with the lights off in Salem at the pub. He tells her the people there should be going home soon. Stephanie says Chelsea called and said the lights were back on at the University so they are open again. Steve and Kayla walk up […]

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Regina Cutter had it all and then it was gone. Her wealthy husband dumped her in favor of a trophy wife and suddenly her years of effort, sacrifice and support for his career and their marriage didn’t matter. Gone were the club memberships, the private plane, and all the other perks and trappings of wealth […]

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A UK watchdog has ordered the temporary closure of a council building after potentially deadly asbestos was found there. The council building is located in Walthamstow in the UK , and was the workstation for a team of council workers as well as a storage facility for council related paperwork. Recent refurbishment at the […]

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I am a big fan of horror movies so when this one came in I wanted to watch it and see what I thought of it. This movie was directed by Luis Camara and the DVD is 93 minutes long.
The scene starts out at a New Year’s Party just at the stroke of midnight and […]

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Yes, it’s been twenty years, so Ibrahim Fatayer Abdelatif, now 43, has been released from an Italian jail.
A cruise ship, the Achille Lauro, was hijacked by four armed thugs, and to prove they were mean and meant their threats, they killed a defenseless elderly man in a wheelchair, Leon Klinghoffer, dumping his body over the […]

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A recent article from the AP Hi-Tech stated that, “A Lehman Brothers analyst downgraded the entertainment industry Monday and slashed forecasts for its five major companies, saying digital downloads of movies and TV shows posed a huge threat to profits from DVD sales that the companies rely on.
The stocks of The Walt Disney Co., News […]

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Peter Steinfels of the NYTimes has read and analyzed Senator Obama’s speech proposing to increase funding of church charities as is done by President Bush’s “faith based initiatives”.
The original report was hopeful (NYTIMES LINK). The first part sounded hopeful:
In embracing the same general approach as Mr. Bush, Mr. Obama ran the political risk of alienating […]

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One set happens to be the sufferers, the other set happens to be the drivers of this global monster.
1st of all, market needs to take all the official reports of inflation with a pinch of salt.  High reported inflation doesn’t necessarily mean real higher inflation in comparison to officially reported lower inflation figure coming from […]

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