The Hindu : Front Page News : Thursday, November 20, 2008: "Indira Gandhi prize for ElBaradeiNEW DELHI: Nobel laureate and Director-General of the International Atomic Energy Agency Mohamed ElBaradei has been chosen to receive the Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development for 2008. An international jury, chaired ..."

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Daily Kos: State of the Nation: "According to data just released by the Minnesota Secretary of State, Al Franken has gained a net of 43 votes on the first day of that state's recount process. Norm Coleman had a lead of 215 voters over Franken in Minnesota's certified, pre-recount tally; that margin is now 172 votes.Minnesota reports that it has thus far re-counted 15.49 percent of its ballots. If the first day's results are indicative ...

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Daily Kos: State of the Nation: "More than three decades after he first appeared before the panel as a 27-year-old Vietnam veteran-turned-antiwar protester, Senator John F. Kerry is widely expected to be named the new chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, a position that will give him enormous influence over international relations.The pending announcement by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, which congressional aides said could come as early as today, would elevate Kerry to ...

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I just had a short overnight out-of-town trip. Hubby-Eric went to a teacher thing, and we stayed at a swanky hotel. Unfortunately, it was one of those swanky hotels where nothing was free, not even internet access, so we had to forgo the 'net last night. If we'd had a choice, I'd have rather stayed in a Motel 6. You usually get free 'net and a complimentary continental breakfast there, two ...

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NBC News is reporting that former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle (D-ND) will be appointed by President-elect Obama as Secretary of Health & Human Services.Former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle has accepted President-elect Barack Obama's offer to be secretary of the Department Health and Human Services, NBC News confirmed Wednesday.Democratic officials confirmed the acceptance.The appointment has not been announced, but officials said the job is Daschle's barring an unforeseen problem as Obama's team reviews the ...

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Earlier today, Alaska's most famous convicted felon, Senator Ted Stevens, conceded his bid for re-election. Here is Stevens' statement:"Given the number of ballots that remain to be counted, it is apparent the election has been decided and Mayor Begich has been elected. "My family and I wish to thank the thousands of Alaskans who stood by us and who supported my re-election. It was a tough fight that would not ...

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The Fremont Bridge, gateway to the Center of the Universe, could be your future art studio. Some lucky Seattle-area creative type is going to get a workshop in one of the bridge towers, in which to create a diverse, in-depth exploration of what it means to be the city’s busiest bridge 'n' stuff. All that and a $20,000 grant from SDOT. Apply by Jan. 5. Or don’t--we don’t need the competition! ...

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Is this something new? A chef who cooks, a spouse who writes. ("He tastes, she types." Or should that be "He cooks, she composes"?) Earlier this fall, Karen Pager and Andrew Dornenburg came through town with their new jointly written tome, The Flavor Bible. In Seattle today (for KING TV's morning show, lunch at Sorrentino, book-signing and dinner at Tavolata) are Andrew Carmellini and his wife, Gwen Hyman. Carmellini (another chef whose opinions grace ...

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There are a hundred ways to talk about NBA attendance, a hundred ways to distort the truth, a hundred ways to rationalize, pervert, and obfuscate the facts.In the weeks and months to come, the NBA will attempt to use all of those methods. They will load us down with facts and figures that explain how wonderful the league is, how healthy its balance sheets are, and how strong its ratings are.Just remember, when you hear ...

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Last night we were trying to watch House, M.D., and one of those terrible Microsoft "Mojave" commercials came on, which implied that the reason Vista hasn't sold well isn't because it sucks but because consumers don't know you can make panoramic photos with it. That's a feature on everyone's must-have list for a new OS, isn't it? So then we were like, Great, this is what intracranial bleeding feels like. Anyway that reminded us of ...

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The transcript from the inevitable David Stern press conference to discuss putrid NBA attendance:DAVID STERN: While we’re certainly concerned with flagging attendance levels, I’d like to remind you that the season is still very early. I know the press likes to make a big story out of this, but if you review our attendance figures from years past, you’ll notice that our attendance levels tend to increase as the year progresses and fan interest improves.REPORTER: ...

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The feds shut down three more brothels masquerading as tanning salons, this time in Greenwood, Tukwila and Renton. They're still using that cover story? Come on, people. Now that three more "salons" have bit the dust, we're sure Seattle will move further along the journey towards restoring the shining image of tanning salons as our community's beacons of health and moral rectitude. Also, our condolences go out to the undercover investigators who risked infectious skin ...

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Are you worried about keeping your laptop safe during travel? Cathy Moore creates laptop envelopes. She originally made one for her daughter and now she finds all sorts of fantastic fabric and makes them. They’ve got quilting in them to pad them. Cathy is e verywhere. You can find her on Youtube, Flickr, her blog, and you can buy her things in her Etsy shop! Here’s an iphone compatible file that automatically get’s picked up ...

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And now, some news that'll hopefully brighten your day:A grand jury in South Texas indicted U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney and former attorney General Alberto Gonzales on Tuesday for "organized criminal activity" related to alleged abuse of inmates in private prisons.The indictment has not been seen by a judge, who could dismiss it.The grand jury in Willacy County, in the Rio Grande Valley near the U.S.-Mexico border, said Cheney is "profiteering from depriving human beings ...

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SMALL BUSINESS SKILLS: SeattleSCORE, the people who help small business people learn stuff, have put together a 4-hour seminar, Marketing 101. On the syllabus! Identifying your customers, packaging your product or service, creating effective marketing tools, and getting repeat customers. Now, in this market none of this will help, but it will get you out of the office for a bit, and you might meet some new people. noon-4 p.m. // SCORE Office, 2401 4th ...

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You know, if I ever decide to start a brothel, I am not going to use something like a massage parlor as my front, because everyone does that and they keep getting caught. I’ll have to use an accountant’s office or something. No one would suspect that. Yesterday the authorities raided three “tanning salons”–one on Aurora (obviously), one in Tukwila, and one in Renton–and arrested a bunch of people on prostitution and money laundering charges [PI]. ...

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Unless you’ve been living on another planet, you’ve probably heard something about UFOs, aliens and Roswell at least once in your lifetime. The year was 1947, some 21 years before I entered this earth and would not hear about Roswell for a good 10 more years or so. The facts  In years since I knew something happened, there was some kind of crash, on a farm Northeast of Roswell. A rancher by the name of "Mac" Brazel ...

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_uacct = "UA-1907164-1"; urchinTracker(); Priorities Tennessee Adopts $9.5 Million University Piracy Measure Despite School Layoffs By David Kravets November 18, 2008 | 6:19:14 PMCategories: Intellectual Property Combating music piracy at Tennessee's public university system is more important than hiring teachers and keeping down tuition costs. Just-signed legislation requires the 222,000-student system ...

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Hot Chip's Al Doyle: 'LCD Soundsystem haven't disbanded'Hot Chip's Al Doyle, who has played as part of James Murphy's band LCD Soundsystem, has made a clarification about an interview he recently gave, suggesting that the collective may have disbanded.In the clarification Doyle confirmed that the band were not winding down, referring to a recent article in which James Murphy confirmed a new LCD Soundsystem album was on the way.Writing on Hot Chip's website, Hotchip.co.uk, Doyle ...

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Lou Reed- Berlin: Live At St. Ann’s Warehouse (Album Review)The release of an audio version of Lou Reed’s 2006 reappraisal of Berlin, which was staged at St. Ann’s in collaboration with Julian Schnabel as a film documentary, might seem like an odd move unless you’ve seen the painfully dull results – Schnabel desperately trying to inject some excitement into the performance with quick cuts and arty camera angles. I’d say Reed’s Berlin rerun is better ...

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Space Needle by E Rose. Sure there are hundreds of photos of the Needle in our Flickr Pool, but this one really captures the surrealism of the structure. West Seattle Blog has the "final, FINAL" numbers on usage of the Elliott Bay Water Taxi. Our West Seattle compatriots promise these aren't fake final numbers and that they are larger than the previous final/unofficial numbers. We've always wondered how they built the Space Needle and Vintage Seattle ...

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Washington State hit a milestone when it came to voting and voter turnout on November 4th. According to the official ballot count, over 3 million voters cast their vote in the general election and there are still over 50,000 ballots to be counted. A spokesman for Secretary of State Sam Reed said this is the first time in Washington history that voter participation has reached 3 million and that so far 83% of registered voters ...

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Al Qaeda No. 2 Insults ObamaWith Racial EpithetAlso Insults Powell, RiceSJ comments:sad that American Black revolutionaries, in an effort to return t their roots and divest themselves of the overlay of the slave master's religion, have urned to Islam. While it is true that Islamic and Jewish dogmas both accept the converted as a part of the people, the evangelims of Islam like that of of the Christians has committed a kind of cultural ...

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31. Proud to be SeattleJew Today spews: The key idea, missing in this discussion, is that the government MUST switch from the now failed model of free market capitalism to a model more like that lf Europe and Japan where the government itself is a major investor. The essence of 19th century capitalism was the concept that entrepreneurs would do the tight thing by ...

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Hitler HAD only got one ball | The Sun |News: "By ALEX PEAKEAN extraordinary account from a German army medic has finally confirmed what the world long suspected: Hitler only had one ball.War veteran Johan Jambor made the revelation to a priest in the 1960s, who wrote it down.The priest’s document has now come to light – 23 years after Johan’s death.The war tyrant’s medical condition has been mocked for years in a British song.The ...

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Whatever the relative merits or drawbacks there are to forking over giant sums of taxpayer money to failing corporations, it’s hard to see how that is going to reverse the larger trend of deflation. Consumer prices plunged 1 percent last month, more than forecast and the most since records began in 1947, after being unchanged the prior month, the Labor Department said in Washington. Excluding food and energy, so-called core prices unexpectedly fell for the first ...

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Apparently, I Am Robot and Proud makes the loveliest, snazziest electropop in the whole entire universe. I looked into this, and turns out - it's true! From the 2008 release Uphill City. I Am Robot and Proud - Something To Write Home About I Am Robot and Proud - Uphill City Recently on Comfort Radio: Yuka Honda - Night Diving Citay - Last Days Last Eighty Mile Beach - What We Did Last Summer

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