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Stimulus Respond - for the Urban Anthropologist - Releases it's Eleventh Issue
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Stimulus Respond, the e-zine for urban anthropologists, has released its tenth issue today, 27 March 2006.
The theme of the issue is "Family".
What is the meaning of 'Family'? How have ideas of 'Family' changed over time? Are notions of family culturally contructed? Do traditional family value(Added: Mon Mar 27 2006)
The Internet's first Perpetual Writing Contest
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Victoria, BC (PRESSPOST) March 26, 2006 -- Life for Change aims to reduce hunger throughout the world. The plan to accomplish this task has two stages.
The first stage awards $100 to authors whose stories receive the most votes. Anyone may submit a story; true stories are preferred and funny stor(Added: Mon Mar 27 2006)
Business
RNCOS Research: Consumer Electronics Revenue Skipping by 8% in 2006
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RNCOS Research (http://www.rncos.com/Report/CP13.htm) The Consumer Electronic Association (CEA) plans to address issues relating to the ever-evolving digital world as also the rising trend of teenage consumers. The association has about 120 members including senior executives from top consumer elect(Added: Mon Mar 27 2006)
RNCOS Research: Securing Identity With Biometrics A Promising Future
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RNCOS Research: (http://www.rncos.com/Report/Biotech15.htm) As identity theft is becoming a common place with consumers everywhere, biometric technologies are being innovated to make transactions more secure. Such biometric technologies include iris scans, fingerprint scan, matching shape and size o(Added: Mon Mar 27 2006)
Swiftpro � recruitment software solutions for the transforming HR sector
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The HR industry experiences transition. Time scarcity, need for innovation and precision are the major hinders transforming the sector. Companies in the HR sphere look for more sophisticated ways to improve their performance along with minimizing operating costs and increasing profits.
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Swiftpro � recruitment software solutions for the transforming HR sector
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The HR industry experiences transition. Time scarcity, need for innovation and precision are the major hinders transforming the sector. Companies in the HR sphere look for more sophisticated ways to improve their performance along with minimizing operating costs and increasing profits.
CV/data e(Added: Mon Mar 27 2006)
The Little Book That Shattered This Author�s Illusions
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Back in 2000 this author wrote a book �Starting an Internet Business at Home� which was published in hard copy format by Kogan Page (ISBN 0749434848).
It is out of print now but in its day it was considered hot stuff and sold over 20,000 copies in bookstores world wide.
At the time he thou(Added: Mon Mar 27 2006)
Consumer
The San Diego Highwayman -- 40 Years of "Playing on the Freeway"
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From being rescued in a snowstorm in 1964 -- to having rescued thousands by 2006 -- the San Diego Highwayman is STILL "out there" almost every day "playing on the freeway"
He could use YOUR help - if you have it to give - in that - his greatest wish, is to be able to do what he does full time -- (Added: Mon Mar 27 2006)
Entertainment
Silence for Those Who Can't Speak Out
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Press Release
London - 27th March 2006
For immediate release
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Ever tried not speaking for an hour?
Tayeba Abdur-Rahman, 25, has never been one to be lost for words, but from 12 pm on 1st April until 12 pm on 8th April 2006 she will be giving up the chatter and carrying out a week-(Added: Mon Mar 27 2006)
Financial
Roadside rubbish resolution
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Duck2water car insurance services urge motorists to turn over a new leaf in 2006 by refraining from throwing litter out of the window of their vehicles.
There are an estimated 1.3 million pieces of litter being chucked out of car windows onto UK roadsides every weekend, and with more people takin(Added: Mon Mar 27 2006)
Roadside rubbish resolution
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Duck2water car insurance services urge motorists to turn over a new leaf in 2006 by refraining from throwing litter out of the window of their vehicles.
There are an estimated 1.3 million pieces of litter being chucked out of car windows onto UK roadsides every weekend, and with more people takin(Added: Mon Mar 27 2006)
Self employed loans: a new way to exercise financial freedom
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An increasing number of people are choosing self employment. Self employed loans have been formulated to target this particular group. Though self employed loans have been in the loan market for quite some time now, only recently they have been given flexibility and ease. Loansforselfemployed have b(Added: Mon Mar 27 2006)
Health
Stop Headaches Before They Start Says Dr Matt Ehrhard
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Stop Headaches Before They Start Says Dr Matt Ehrhard
According to the American Chiropractic Association, nine out of ten Americans suffer from headaches. Dr. Matt Ehrhard, a local Louisville, KY chiropractor, is using chiropractic to successfully stop migraine headaches in hundreds of patients w(Added: Mon Mar 27 2006)
International
Switzerland Claims the Habsburg Heritage
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As everybody knows, the Imperial house of the Habsburgs is originating from Switzerland, from the small city of Habsburg, 30 km N.W. from Zurich. It is easy to visit there the original ancestral castle of the Habsburg family.
Throughout the five past centuries, the Habsburg family managed to rule(Added: Mon Mar 27 2006)
Internet
The Joker Launches First Ever Gambling Jokes Website
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Announcing the launch of the first website devoted exclusively to Gambling Humor!
According to "The Joker", Gamblingjokes.com's webmaster, "There are many
sites that offer humor sections, but this is the first and only site that I know of that is solely dedicated to gambling humor."
Along wi(Added: Mon Mar 27 2006)
Media
SAARC states ratify SAFTA
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The seven member states of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) have ratified the South Asian Free Trade Area (SAFTA) agreement, according to a notification of SAARC Secretariat.
The SAARC Secretariat in Kathmandu, Nepal in the notification said it had received copies of al(Added: Mon Mar 27 2006)
Seismic surveys in Bay to start next winter
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The Energy and Mineral Resources Division (EMRD) is set to start seismic surveys in the Bay of Bengal by some reputed international firms in the coming winter.
The surveys will be done to move ahead with the process of third round bidding for deep sea hydrocarbon exploration.
Sources said the EMRD(Added: Mon Mar 27 2006)
Society
Silence for Those Who Can't Speak Out
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Press Release
London - 27th March 2006
For immediate release
-Begin-
Ever tried not speaking for an hour?
Tayeba Abdur-Rahman, 25, has never been one to be lost for words, but from 12 pm on 1st April until 12 pm on 8th April 2006 she will be giving up the chatter and carrying out a week-(Added: Mon Mar 27 2006)