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• ADAGE: Craigslist will no longer run erotic service ads for free

  ORIGINAL URL:URL: http://adage.com/digital/article?article_id=132320Craigslist Will No Longer Run Erotic Service Ads for FreeUnder Attorneys General Agreement, Will Charge $10 Per Listing By Michael Learmonth Advertising Age Published: November 06, 2008 NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- Under pressure from state attorneys general, Craigslist is going to start charging for "erotic services" ads. [...]
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  Posted: November 08, 2008, 2:12am EST
  

• Carnegie / Knight Initiaitve Seeks To Transform Journalism Education in U.S.

  RECEIVED BY EMAIL TODAY:EXPANSION OF CARNEGIE-KNIGHT INITIATIVE SEEKS TO TRANSFORM JOURNALISM EDUCATION IN U.S.Program Preparing Journalism Students to Lead Industry Change Gains MomentumMiami, Florida and New York, New York, July 7, 2008 - Seeking to change the way journalism is taught in the United States, Carnegie Corporation of New York [...]
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  Posted: July 07, 2008, 11:49am EDT
  

• CHARGING: In St. Paul, Singleton says "industry solution" needed

  EXCERT FROM BELOW:"Long term, we've got to get paid for news (online) or we can't keep producing it," he said. But he said that has to be an industry-wide solution and not just one paper acting alone.ORIGINAL URL (no longer active):http://www.twincities.com/mld/twincities/business/14446579.htmPosted on Fri, Apr. 28, 2006No major changes, new owner [...]
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  Posted: January 01, 2008, 7:45pm EST
  

• CONFERENCE: Online News Association / Oct. 17-18 / Toronto

  FORWARDING NEWS RELEASE from Tiffany Shackelford, on behalf of the Online News Association . . .Leading digital journalists, bloggers and educators from around the world will gather to discuss the practical and the possible in online journalism during the eighth annual conference of the Online News Association (ONA), to be [...]
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  Posted: August 22, 2007, 3:18pm EDT
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• Daily Kos blogger Jerome Armstrong fined by SEC for not disclosing interest

  BELOW FROM:http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/08/08/blogger-agrees-to-pay-30000-in-sec-case/August 8, 2007, 2:15 pmBlogger to Pay $30,000 in S.E.C. CaseBy Chris SuellentropTags: Jerome Armstrong, s.e.c.Prominent liberal blogger Jerome Armstrong has agreed to pay nearly $30,000 in fines in a settlement with the Securities and Exchange Commission over allegations that Armstrong touted the [...]
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  Posted: August 09, 2007, 7:40pm EDT
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• MINI-PROFILE: Markos "Kos" Moulitsas Zuniga spent teen years in Chicago area

  ORIGINAL URL:http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/495906,CST-NWS-markos03.articleNative Chicagoan began blog as 'personal therapy'August 3, 2007By Abdon M. PallaschChicago Sun-Times Markos "Kos" Moulitsas Zuniga, 35, started blogging five years ago as "personal therapy" to get his frustrations with the Bush administration off his chest. "It was the tail end of the Afghanistan war and the lead-up [...]
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  Posted: August 04, 2007, 8:42am EDT
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• STUDY: Investing in the Newsroom is Good for Business

  http://journalism.missouri.edu/news/2007/02-15-newsroom-profitability.htmlNewspaper Study: Investing in the Newsroom is Good for BusinessJournalism and Marketing Researchers Determine News Quality Directly Impacts Profitability By Bryan Daniels MU News Bureau Columbia, Mo. (Feb. 15, 2007) -- In recent years, the newspaper industry has experienced a variety of changes. None have been more [...]
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  Posted: July 31, 2007, 11:19am EDT
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• Dallas hyperlocal pioneer Pegasus News acquired by Seattle TV-station operator

  Pegasus News (http://www.pegasusnews.com) a Dallas-based hyperlocal news operation started by Mike Orem, has been acquired by a Seattle-based TV-station operator, Fisher Communications Inc. In a news release sent by email, Fisher said the move was "part of its initiative to develop new online-only content for its key local markets" and [...]
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  Posted: July 17, 2007, 10:34am EDT
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• LATIMES: OhMyNews suffers page-view decline even as it hires

  ORIGINAL URL:http://www.latimes.com/business/printedition/la-fi-ohmynews18jun18,1,5652649,full.storyPOSTED: June 18, 2007Citizens are the media in S. KoreaOhmyNews' populist approach, though risky, is widely emulated.By Don LeeLos Angeles Times Staff WriterSEOUL . Kim Hye-won's journalism career began when she decided to write about her teenage son fighting with his father. The elder Kim was [...]
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  Posted: June 19, 2007, 1:47am EDT
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• BUSINESS WEEK: It's tough to make local work on the web: Wally Bowen

  ORIGINAL URL:http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/07_13/b4027019.htm?chan=searchWally Bowen of Mountain Area Information Network writes:This Business Week article underscores the difficulty of creating an advertising-supported, local journalism web portal. And it also underscores the potential of our business model, based on ISP revenue and public radio-style underwriting revenue from [...]
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  Posted: May 13, 2007, 10:48am EDT
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• Minnesota alt-weekly editor departs with insightful Q&A about MSM future

  Paul Schmelzer of the website "Minnesota Monitor," posted a Q&A interview on April 6, 2007, with the former editor of the Twin Cities City Pages, the dominant alternative weekly in Minneapolis-St. Paul. The editor, Steve Perry, had quit after a chain took over the weekend. Perry, according to Smelzer's intro, [...]
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  Posted: May 13, 2007, 9:58am EDT
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• BACKGROUND: Craig Newmark in the lion's den -- speaking to publishers

  ORIGINAL URL:http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003581648Craigslist Founder: People Who Run Printing Presses 'Screwed'By Jennifer SabaEditor & Publisher OnlinePublished: May 07, 2007 12:20 PM ETNEW YORK -- You have to hand it to Craig Newmark, founder of the wildly successful classified site Craigslist, for telling it like it is to an audience of [...]
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  Posted: May 10, 2007, 2:20am EDT
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• CASE STUDY: Josh Wilson of NewsDesk.net reviews coverage of cycle-car crash aftermath

  MGP2006 alum Josh Wilson provides this analysis of the coverage of a cycle-car crash in San Francisco that raises multiple questions about the post-now, think-later nature of web journalism.-- bill densmoreBy Josh WilsonCheck out SFGate right now for a fascinating look at how both initialnewspaper coverage and Web 2.0 technologies [...]
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  Posted: April 05, 2007, 3:13pm EDT
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• Who's selling into local markets and how are they doing it?

  A key to the sustainability of journalism has always been local advertising. But now new competitors to the local newspaper -- and to web local startups -- are developing technologies for reaching into the local market and selling local advertising online.In Santa Clara, Calif., this week, the Kelsey Group, a [...]
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  Posted: March 20, 2007, 7:16pm EDT
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• FOLLOWUP: John Moyle talks about the move from anonymity to identity

  GIRAFFE PROFILE PAGE:http://www.mediagiraffe.org/profiles/index.php?action=profile&id=378John Moyle of The Overland Examiner, a local online news blog in a St. Louis, Mo., suburb, in a Sept. 15, 2006, email exchange with Bill Densmore of The Media Giraffe Project:Recently I decided to really "stick my neck out" over at _the Overland Examiner_ (http://www.theoverlandexaminer.org) . I [...]
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  Posted: March 10, 2007, 1:41pm EST
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• BACKGROUND: John Moyle on why he started The Overland Examiner

  LINK TO MEDIA GIRAFFE PROJECT PROFILE:http://www.mediagiraffe.org/profiles/index.php?action=profile&id=378ORIGINAL URL:http://overlandsailor.blogspot.com/2006/09/who-is-this-guy.htmlOverlandSailor steering for a brighter future At the helm of the Overland Examiner is OverlandSailor, just a regular guywho has decided not to let government corruption continue without a fight.As an independent [...]
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  Posted: March 10, 2007, 1:21pm EST
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• Baristanet co-founder claims Newark daily fails to take notice at its peril

  The co-founder of an Upper Montclair, N.J., local online news blog quotes a survey colleague as saying the Newark, N.J., daily fails to take notice of the blog site's news at its peril. Here's the text of an email LizGeorge sent to the Media Giraffe Project on Feb. 1, 2006: [...]
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  Posted: March 08, 2007, 6:29pm EST
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• Apple's CEO lambasts teachers' unions as inhibiting technology, excellence

  ORIGINAL URL:http://www.dfw.com/mld/startelegram/news/state/16717129.htmORIGINALLY POSTED: Friday, Feb. 16, 2007Apple CEO lambasts teacher unionsBy APRIL CASTROAssociated Press WriterAUSTIN, Texas - Apple Inc. CEO Steve Jobs lambasted teacher unions Friday, claiming no amount of technology in the classroom would improve public schools until principals could fire bad teachers. Jobs compared [...]
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  Posted: February 18, 2007, 3:08pm EST
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• Unhappy Time Warner customers urged to call Olver

  Time-Warner cable's Albany regional management is under fire from Berkshire County officials in Western Massachusetts after they laid plans to remove a Boston television station from the region's cablelineup and replace it with another network affiliate from Connecticut. The issue is important because Western Mass. is largely served by the [...]
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  Posted: February 03, 2007, 10:25am EST
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• Re: ASNE First Amendment Summit -- Sarah Olson exchange

  Today there is a one-day "emergency summit" of the American Society of Newspaper Editors to talk about the growing challenge to the First Amendment posed by the jailing of reporters. We asked Sarah Olson, a free-lance writer subpoenaed to testify in the court-martial of an anti-Iraq war soldier, to comment [...]
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  Posted: January 18, 2007, 2:50pm EST
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• CONFERENCES: Beyond Broadcast Conference, Feb 27 2007 at MIT

  -----original message-----From: Steve Schultze Date: Jan 17, 2007 12:26 PMSubject: Beyond Broadcast, Feb 27 2007To: info@beyondbroadcast.netGreetings. We're delighted to announce Beyond Broadcast 2007 (detailsbelow). Feel free to forward this announcement to other people/listswho may be interested, and register early to reserve your spot beforeseats fill up.====For 50 years' [...]
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  Posted: January 17, 2007, 4:17pm EST
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• San Jose Mercury compares Digg and Newstrust

  ORIGINAL URL: http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/business/16334481.htm Posted on Thu, Dec. 28, 2006Web news oppositesNEWSTRUST.COM, DIGG.COM: TWO VISIONS OF WHAT ONLINE READERS WANTBy Elise AckermanMercury NewsTwo years ago, the inspiration for creating a Web site for news junkies hit two men with vastly different ambitions. One hoped to make boat-loads of money. The other [...]
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  Posted: December 31, 2006, 8:10pm EST
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• UMich historian, ex-AP reporter scrutinizes blog landscape's effect on news

  ORIGINAL URL:http://www.mlive.com/news/aanews/index.ssf?/base/news-8/1167407151269730.xmlhttp://www.mlive.com/printer/printer.ssf?/base/news-8/1167407151269730.xml Brighton historian scrutinizes new landscape New book delves into the blogosphereTHE ANN ARBOR NEWSFriday, December 29, 2006(byline just says: "News Special Writer")The news media are in a state of change. Over the past decade, [...]
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  Posted: December 30, 2006, 4:32pm EST
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• BACKGROUND: Teaching science with "An Inconvenient Truth" -- Exxon-Mobile and the NTSA

  Should high school's in America get a free DVD of Al Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth"? The National Science Teachers Association has apparent declined to help. Read various viewpoints on the controversy.The conservative Media Research Center's post on the subject by Noel Sheppardat NewsBusters:http://newsbusters.org/node/9262 The liberal-progress Center for American Progress post' [...]
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  Posted: December 18, 2006, 11:44pm EST
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• Idaho publisher finds smaller papers bely image of failing industry

  ORIGINAL HEADLINE:'Little' Papers Keep Coming Up BigPublished: December 07, 2006 5:00 PM ETin Editor & Publisher OnlineORIGINAL URL:http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/search/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003494331By Roger Plothow-------------------------------------------------------------------The author is editor and publisher of the Post Register, a locally owned 26,000-circulation [...]
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  Posted: December 16, 2006, 10:34am EST
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• ADVERTISING: Mark Cuban explains how local media can own their customer relationship

  Mark Cuban, the owner of the Dallas Mavericks and an early dot-com millionaire, explains how he thinks local TV, radio and newspaper sales forces should retool so that they are selling advertising across all platforms -- even those they don't own.It all sounds a bit like a local advertising agency.Here's [...]
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  Posted: December 03, 2006, 9:58am EST
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• OWNERSHIP: Newsday staffers ready protest letter to Tribune Co. management

  ORIGINAL URL: http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003467099 Published: December 02, 2006 11:55 AM ET'Newsday' Staffers Writing Protest Letter To Trib Chairman Dennis FitzSimonsBy Joe Strupp Editor & Publisher MagazineNEW YORK -- Several dozen Newsday employees are planning to send a protest letter to Tribune Company Chairman Dennis FitzSimons that [...]
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  Posted: December 03, 2006, 9:37am EST
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• Newstrust "next-generation" news aggregator may work with New England News Forum

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  Posted: December 02, 2006, 1:50pm EST
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• NEWS RELEASE: Fabrice Florin on the launch of Newstrust

  Fabrice Florin, developer of the non-profit news-rating service, Newstrust, and an alumnus of MGP2006, opened up the site to the public today, after almost a year of beta testing. His email to supporters is appended below. To watch a QuickTime video demonstration of the site from MGP2006, click here: http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Quality:_How_Do_You_Measure_It Date: Tue, 28 Nov [...]
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  Posted: November 29, 2006, 1:25am EST
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• STATEMENT: Founder and MGP2006 alum takes wraps off "Newstrust" service for finding, rating quality of news

  Fabrice Florin, developer of the non-profit news-rating service, Newstrust, and an alumnus of MGP2006, opened up the site to the public today, after almost a year of beta testing. His email to supporters is appended below. To watch a QuickTime video demonstration of the site from MGP2006, click here: http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Quality:_How_Do_You_Measure_It Date: Tue, [...]
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  Posted: November 28, 2006, 10:46pm EST
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• LIBEL: California high court gives some immunity to web publishers

  FULL OPINION TEXT: http://www.courtinfo.ca.gov/opinions/documents/S122953.PDF BELOW FROM: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/21/technology/21internet.html By BLOOMBERG NEWS Published: November 21, 2006The California Supreme Court said yesterday that Internet publishers could not be held liable if they posted defamatory comments written by others, a victory for online companies like Google and [...]
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  Posted: November 23, 2006, 11:45am EST
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• Business Week writer says OhmyNews unable to make sustained profits

  Business Week Online posted a story Nov. 1 by the magazine's Seoul bureau chief reporting that citizen-journalism pioneer OhmyNews is struggling to make sustained profits. To blame: The competitive online advertising market. Still, the outfot supports over 65 professional journalists on $6 million in annual revenues.ORIGINAL URL: http://www.businessweek.com/globalbiz/content/nov2006/gb20061101_ [...]
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  Posted: November 04, 2006, 5:10pm EST
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• In New Orleans, editors consider when to stick their neck out over cutbacks

  ORIGINAL URL: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/26/business/media/26cnd-paper.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&oref=slogin Published: October 26, 2006HEADLINE: Los Angeles Times Editor Urges Others to Fight CutsBy KATHARINE Q. SEELYE The New York TimesNEW ORLEANS, Oct. 26 -- The editor of The Los Angeles Times, Dean Baquet, who publicly opposed staff cuts at his newspaper last month, encouraged other editors [...]
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  Posted: October 28, 2006, 10:36am EDT
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• Lifetime Awards for Molly Ivins, Anthony Lewis

  ORIGINAL URL: http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/departments/syndicates/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1002237138Published: March 27, 2006 4:28 PM ET By E&P Staff NEW YORK -- Creators Syndicate columnist Molly Ivins and former New York Times columnist Anthony Lewis will receive lifetime achievement honors at an April 11 ceremony for winners of Hunter College's James Aronson Awards [...]
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  Posted: March 27, 2006, 9:58pm EST
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• AP: Internet technology increasingly empowers citizens to direct action

  ORIGINAL LINKS: http://business.bostonherald.com/technologyNews/view.bg?articleid=118965 http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/nation/3546633.htmlWednesday, December 28, 2005 - Updated: 07:16 AM ESTInternet fosters local political movementsBy Ron Fournier The Associated PressFORT MYERS, Fla. -- Frustrated by government and empowered by technology, Americans are filling needs and fighting [...]
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  Posted: December 31, 2005, 5:09pm EST
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• FIRST AMENDMENT: Comcast aiming to control the content it delivers?

  URL: http://www.freepress.net/news/9074 URL: http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/business/12095299.htm PUBLISHED: July 10, 2005Comcast aiming to control the content it deliversBy Tony Gnoffo The Philadelphia InquirerLOS ANGELES -- When former Disney executive Charles Hirschhorn had an idea for a new TV network, he called one of his old Disney associates.Stephen B. Burke, Comcast Corp.'s chief [...]
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  Posted: November 27, 2005, 7:41am EST
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• NETWORK NEUTRALITY: After Brand X, advocacy groups making it a top priority

  FROM: Technology Daily http://www.njtelecomupdate.com/lenya/telco/live/tb-GSSV1119906704461.html POSTED: June 27, 2005After Court Ruling, Advocacy GroupsFocusing On 'Network Neutrality'By David Hatch Technology DaiilyPublic advocacy groups are making "network neutrality" a top legislative priority after the Supreme Court handed them a defeat Monday -- and they could be boosted by support from [...]
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  Posted: November 27, 2005, 7:35am EST
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