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A Quick Spin
Washington Post - Oct 10 12:28 AM COLORBLIND Robert Randolph and the Family Band Only a cynic would fault a multiracial act for calling its album "Colorblind." Like their obvious influence, Sly and the Family Stone, pedal-steel shredder Robert Randolph and his cousin-laden Family Band will have none of it: "Red, yellow, black or...
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Burlington Coat Factory Warehouse Corporation Earnings Conference Call
[Press Release] Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance - Sep 29 2:02 PM BURLINGTON, N.J.----Burlington Coat Factory Warehouse Corporation announced today a conference call with management has been scheduled for Tuesday, October 3, 2006 at 10:00 A.M. Eastern Time to discuss the Company's results of operations for the fiscal year ended June 3, 2006.
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Color domestic violence as purple
The Reporter - 2 hours, 39 minutes ago On Nov. 15, Soroptimist International of Vacaville members will "paper the town purple" - the color associated with domestic violence - as they join Soroptimists all over the world in distributing purple cards filled with domestic abuse prevention information. The Soroptimist Workplace Campaign to End Domestic Violence coincides with the United
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Fayette Co. Begins Bus Service Into Pittsburgh
KDKA Pittsburgh - Oct 09 5:59 AM Fayette County's transit agency has begun bus service into Pittsburgh, making six trips in and out of the city each day along Route 51.
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Bus Driver Dies After Apparent Heart Attack
KDKA Pittsburgh - Oct 09 3:14 PM A school bus crashes on the way to school and the driver, a 70-year-old woman, is killed after suffering an apparent heart attack. So, just what safety rules are in place regarding older school bus drivers?
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Brush Fire Under Control After Eight Hours
RedNova - 26 minutes ago By The Dominion Post, Morgantown, W.Va. Oct. 10--A brush fire on Pickhandle Hill, near Opekiska Lock and Dam, kept the Monongalia County forest-fire team and county volunteer firefighters busy for more than eight hours Monday.
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Use those feet to get away from cheating boyfriend
Pioneer Press - Oct 09 1:15 AM Dear Advice Goddess: After two years of living and loving together, my boyfriend admitted while I'll always be number one, he's eager to hug other women because he likes feeling sexually aroused when he squeezes them. When I probed further, he confessed to creating situations where he can help female neighbors, friends or co-workers in hopes of getting thanked with a hug or maybe a passionate
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Feature and TV Films
Calendarlive.com - Sep 26 10:24 AM * An alphabetical listing of movies on TV the week of Sept. 24-Sept. 30. Absolution (2006) Samantha Mathis. A New York journalist returns to her small hometown to investigate claims of a comatose man who can miraculously heal people. (NR) 1 hr. 36 mins.
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Today, tattoos not a stigma
Kansas City Star - Oct 09 12:06 AM Gabe Barton has a college degree, a Kansas City, North, home he shares with his wife, and a job as benefits manager of a large downtown advertising agency.
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Guitar Hero II Final Tracklist Revealed
IGN PS2 - Oct 09 1:55 PM It's official: From Aerosmith to the Rolling Stones to RATM, all 40 licensed tracks unveiled.
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Hot tracks by Sexy Music Women
Moldova.org - Oct 10 4:08 AM Cashak Magazine releases the latest Hot Tracks by Sexy Women music chart for October 9th, 2006. The tracks on this week s chart include: "Hips Don t Lie featuring Wyclef Jean" by Shakira, "Ni Una Sola Palabra" by Paulina Rubio, "Stars Are Blind" by Paris Hilton, "Satellites" by September, "Here I Come" by Fergie, "Buttons featuring Snoop Dogg" by Pussycat Dolls, "Promiscuous featuring Timbaland"
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Pirates Vs. Publishers
Slashdot - 2 hours, 51 minutes ago 1up is running a piece looking at the fight between pirates and publishers in the games industry. They use StarForce, and their frustrating copy protection scheme, as a basis for their discussion of both sides of the issue. From the article: "The goal isn't to encourage people to be honest, or to drive innovation in the hacker community, or to be an irritant because you've lost your CD and want
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FdL pair nets Cabelas World Walleye championship
Fond du Lac Reporter - Oct 10 2:30 AM The team of Keith Daniels and Greg Jaroch of Fond du Lac won the Cabelas 2006 MWC World Walleye Championship over the weekend on the Mississippi River at Prairie du Chien.
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Conduit Supports securely attach conduit and cable to studs.
ThomasNet - Oct 09 5:56 AM Screw-On Conduit Supports attach ½-1 in. EMT conduit or MC/AC cable to wood and metal studs. They comply with NEC® 358.30(A) and CEC© rule 12-1404, which requires conduit support within 36 in. of electrical box. Units are gangable and work with both 1½ and 2 1/8 in. deep boxes. Alignment tab positively locates fastener on stud, and serves to keep conduit in line with box knockout and support
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Arlington-built Escalade sales up
Fort Worth Star-Telegram - Oct 06 8:37 PM Arlington-built Cadillac Escalade only large SUV to see sales rise this year.
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Sweet success: baked apples, banana cake
Pioneer Press - Oct 09 10:04 AM CRANBERRY BAKED APPLES CLASSIC BANANA BUNDT CAKE Q. I had a recipe for baked apples with canned cranberry sauce, but I've lost it. Can you help?
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Designer bag sparks catfight
Independent Online - Oct 09 6:06 AM Desperate Housewives stars Eva Longoria and Nicolette Sheridan have reportedly had a furious bust-up over a handbag.
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Coke trade secrets theft case set for trial
MSNBC - 2 hours, 34 minutes ago A federal court Tuesday set trial in November for three people charged with conspiring to steal trade secrets from The Coca-Cola Co. and trying to sell the material to rival PepsiCo Inc.
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New E. coli fears as California grower recalls lettuce
AFP via Yahoo! News - Oct 09 10:46 AM Fears of a new E. coli outbreak prompted a California lettuce grower to recall its products, the company confirmed, as the region struggled to recover from a crisis over contaminated spinach.
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Kingery triumphs at Callaway
Roanoke Times - Oct 08 10:37 PM CALLAWAY -- Kelly Kingery won the 25-lap Late Model Stock race during the TCI Tire Centers 300 at Callaway USA Speedway on Saturday night. The race was run on a slick track because of a light drizzle.
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Coldwell Banker Real Estate Corporation Utilizes Mapping Technology to Enhance Search Results on Coldwellbanker.com
[Press Release] PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance - 48 minutes ago Coldwell Banker Real Estate Corporation has taken the next step in providing the upfront control consumers demand when looking for homes on the Web with its launch today of an enhanced mapping feature on http://www.coldwellbanker.com.
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West-metro calendar: Events, entertainment
Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune - 41 minutes ago calendar ARTS "Mid-Life! (The Crisis Musical)," 11 a.m. & 6 p.m. today; 6 p.m. Thu.-Sat., Tue.-Oct. 21, Oct. 24-28, Oct. 31-Nov. 4, Nov. 7-9; 5 p.m. Sun., Oct. 22, Oct. 29, Nov. 5, Chanhassen Dinner Theatres, 501 W. 78th St., Chanhassen. Three men and three women make up the cast of this wacky musical that takes a comic look at the "age-old" conditions and situations faced in mid-life.
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West-metro calendar: Events, entertainment
Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune - Oct 10 9:03 AM calendar ARTS "Mid-Life! (The Crisis Musical)," 11 a.m. & 6 p.m. today; 6 p.m. Thu.-Sat., Tue.-Oct. 21, Oct. 24-28, Oct. 31-Nov. 4, Nov. 7-9; 5 p.m. Sun., Oct. 22, Oct. 29, Nov. 5, Chanhassen Dinner Theatres, 501 W. 78th St., Chanhassen. Three men and three women make up the cast of this wacky musical that takes a comic look at the "age-old" conditions and situations faced in mid-life.
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Silence should be golden in camp of struggling Stamps
Canada.com - Oct 09 12:22 AM Mess with the bull. Get the horn. You'd think a football team based in the Stampede city might have figured that out by now. Friday night, the B.C. Lions gored the Calgary Stampeders right where it hurts. In the lip.
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1989 Isuzu Trooper xs from North America
Carsurvey.org - Oct 08 11:50 PM What things have gone wrong with the car? A rear break caliper and rotor needed replacing when I bought it for 1200$, cost 280 bucks to fix it up. its incredibly reliable and runs like a clock. I've only had it for 10 months, but its seen a lot of driving, and a lot of abusive off-road use.
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California Welcome Center puts San Bernardino on map
Daily Bulletin - 2 hours, 14 minutes ago One might expect the head of the San Bernardino Convention & Visitors Bureau to be a booster for the city. Steve Henthorn is, but he knows his subject better than most.
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Big Spin Appearances Deliver $115,000 in Cash Prizes to Two Southern California Mothers
[Press Release] Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance - Oct 07 4:30 PM SACRAMENTO, Calif.----Mother's Day has long since passed, but don't tell that to two southern California women, both devoted mothers, who went home $115,000 richer from this week's Big Spin® Show.
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Catholic Church bemoans call centre Bacchanalia
The Register - Oct 09 5:00 AM Indian 'dens of iniquity' The Catholic Church in India has decided the time has come to address the problem of call centre promiscuity which, as we previously reported , has pretty well reduced the local outsourcing industry to something resembling a scene from Bob Guccione's Caligula .
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State Attorney Does His Civic Duty
The Tampa Tribune - 7 minutes ago TAMPA - The young prosecutor stood and asked prospective juror No. 2 if he knew of any conflicts that might prevent him from impartiality.
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Fitness In a flash: Hot legs, no zip
The State - Oct 09 9:03 PM Don t be fooled Hotlegs Workout (Firefly, $14.95) isn t a workout for your legs.
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Clam flats may reopen soon
Bar Harbor Times - Oct 07 10:32 PM SOUTHWEST HARBOR Jim Colquhoun, chairman of the Shellfish Conservation Committee, got selectmen's last week to apply to the state Department of Marine Resources to reopen town clam flats at Fernald Point Nov. 1.
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MySpace.com-Sponsored Concert Coming To San Diego
KGTV TheSanDiegoChannel.com via Yahoo! News - Oct 09 3:12 PM Concerts sponsored by MySpace.com will be held in 20 cities across North America on Oct. 21, including in San Diego, to raise awareness and funds for humanitarian relief in Sudan.
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In Tomorrow's Paper
EdmontonSun.com - 56 minutes ago Few aboriginal women remain untouched by violence, even those without the 'high-risk' lifestyle. Read more in Andrew Hanon's column.
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Green Light for the Camaro Completes a Pony Car Trio
New York Times - Oct 09 3:19 AM Some would say that the spirit of the 1969 Camaro was resurrected last week when General Motors announced that Chevrolet?s sporty coupe will make its comeback in 2009.
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Arrest Made in Mauldin School Lock Down
Fox21 - Oct 08 7:24 PM We now know, who police say, is responsible for three Mauldin schools being locked down Thursday afternoon. Officers say the person who was seen wearing camoflauge in the woods behind Mauldin Middle School on Thursday was a thirteen-year-old.
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Cain calls on state officials to provide more information on sources of outside payments
Herald & Review - Oct 07 7:31 PM DECATUR - The state legislature should strengthen ethics laws by requiring state officials to report not only sources of income, but also the amount of payments from outside agencies, said Dick Cain, Republican candidate for the 101st House District seat.
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RAW Results For October 9 2006
The Wrestling News Page - 14 minutes ago John Cena s music hit and he came down to the ring with his WWE Championship in tow. John Cena welcomed us all to the season premiere of Raw. He said we were part of the 698th episode of Raw and that we were still as strong as ever. He feigned leaving, before coming back.
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Portrait of the artist as a risk-taker
Sydney Morning Herald - Oct 10 7:05 AM HE IS regarded as one of Britain's greatest living painters and now, at 83, he has given a candid insight into his sex life. Lucian Freud has said that as a younger man he would take women home without even knowing their name. -
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CBS 2 Investigates: New Sex Offender Database
CBS 2 New York - Oct 09 2:10 PM Candice Lombardi is the mother of a two-and-a-half-year-old daughter. She's looking at a brand new Web site -- www.familywatchdog.us. Here's how it works: just plug in your address and the site provides a map of your area. Color coded boxes show the address where registered sex offenders live or work and even details of their offenses.
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A Canadian Candy Bar's Long Journey to America
Fox News - Oct 09 2:19 PM Nestle U.S.A., the American arm of food giant Nestle S.A., started selling Canada's No. 3 candy bar, Coffee Crisp, to select convenience stores across America in July, prompted in large measure by John Flaig's Internet campaign.
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Birkenstock is a German brand of sandals and other shoes, famous for their contoured "footbeds," which are supposed to match the shape of their wearers' feet.
The brand has a long history tracing its roots back to 1774 and a German cobbler named Johann Birkenstock. But it was over a hundred years later that this "founder's" grandson really started the current company. In 1897, Konrad Birkenstock designed the first shoe with a contoured insole.
Since 1966, when U.S. citizen Margot Fraser founded her trading company Birkenstock Footprint Sandals, Inc. in Novato, California, these shoes have been sold in the USA.
Since the 1980s, a high percentage of medical professionals (e.g. dentists, nurses) in Germany are wearing Birkenstock shoes or sandals during their service. Furthermore, these sandals are often used as domestic slippers. The brand has become associated with lesbians, hippies and especially neo-hippies on the one side, but (especially in Germany and Austria) also with housewives on the other side.
In the recent years Birkenstocks have become a part of everyday fashion from professionals, to blue collar workers, even to the entertainment industry. Heidi Klum designs footwear for Birkenstock and wears them as well.
Birkenstock produces shoes under other brand names: Betula, Tatami, Birki, and Footprints.
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A Quick Spin
Washington Post - Oct 10 12:28 AM COLORBLIND Robert Randolph and the Family Band Only a cynic would fault a multiracial act for calling its album "Colorblind." Like their obvious influence, Sly and the Family Stone, pedal-steel shredder Robert Randolph and his cousin-laden Family Band will have none of it: "Red, yellow, black or...
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Sporting Goods Business - Oct 10 12:00 PM Recreational Equipment, Inc. (REI) announced a record member refund of more than $50 million on 2005 annual sales topping $1 billion, a first in the co-op's 67-year history.
You Couldn?t Give ?Em Away
New York Times - Oct 08 9:09 PM Private-press albums, once made only for friends, family and vanity, are becoming collector?s items.
Brief Journey for an Icon of the Attack on New York
New York Times - Oct 05 7:37 PM The cross-shaped beams discovered on Sept. 13, 2001, amid the ruins of 6 World Trade Center are being moved to make way for construction on the east side of the trade center site.
Saturn's Awesome Aura
BusinessWeek Online via Yahoo! UK & Ireland Finance - Oct 06 5:28 AM Saturn's new Aura midsize sedan is a surprisingly strong offering that could help redefine the brand
Vermont: The new Vermont?
The Burlington Free Press - Oct 05 1:29 AM Vermont is a lot like that unassuming neighbor you read about practically every day in some far-flung dispatch: "Quiet guy, kept to himself."
Matisyahu melds urban sounds, divine message
Connecticut Jewish Ledger - Oct 05 7:35 AM He s yeshiva-educated, keeps kosher and wears the beard and payot of a traditional Hasidic Jew. He also makes a living as a touring reggae singer and beat boxer, using his voice as percussion instrument.
Not In My Zip Code
The Harvard Crimson - Oct 05 12:41 AM Last month marked the premier of 02138 Magazine. The publication is about as subtle as a falling brick. It prattles like a man suffering from a mid-life crisis who wishes he were still in college.
On Campus, Finding Face Time in a Virtual Age
New York Times - Oct 03 9:15 PM College students rediscover a model of living popular in the 1960's.
In a system designed to neglect women, this actress calls her own shots. Her lessons learned: Trust your instincts...
Entertainment Weekly - Sep 29 3:34 AM Sitting on the stool of a Manhattan diner during the lunch rush, swinging her legs, her upper body collapsing into a heap on the counter when she has a laugh at herself, Kate Winslet fits right in with the regulars.
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