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/begin my translationU.S. Reluctant to Fully Share N. Korean Missile Launch Intelligence With Japan(Tokyo=Yonhap News) Shin Jihong correspondent = U.S. authorities are reluctant to share intelligence regarding N. Korea missile launch with Japan, which made it difficult for Japan's Defense Agency to write up reports (on the matter,) according to Nihon Geizai Shimbun on Aug. 6. The Defense Agency was due to publish its report on Aug. 5, but U.S. demanded it to withhold the detailed intelligence, which delayed writing and publication of the report. This prompted Nukaga Fukushiro, Minister of Defense Agency, to suspend it. It was U.S. early warning satellites which first detected N. Korean missile...

LOWER BURRELL, Pa. -- A Lower Burrell school student is facing a three-day suspension for sharing gum with a classmate. Jolt chewing gum has caffeine and ginseng. The Lower Burrell school superintendent said consuming and passing out the gum violates the school's drug awareness policy. That's because caffeine is considered a stimulant. Parents told Channel 11 they did not understand the suspension. Resident Elizabeth Grombacher said, "I think it's stupid. Everything's getting too politically correct it's so wrong." "It's probably just like Mountain Dew or something like that. If it's got a lot of caffeine in it and they probably...

Another Dubai Deal Under Scrutiny By Chad Groening March 20, 2006 (AgapePress) - One of the nation's prominent military analysts says he is concerned that the United Arab Emirates is trying to purchase a British manufacturing company that makes engine components for U.S. military aircraft and main battle tanks. Lt. Col. (Ret., U.S. Army) Bob Maginnis says due to security concerns, there is a U.S. law that limits the amount of military equipment that can be produced overseas. Now he says the Bush administration has informed Congress about a deal involving the U.A.E. company Dubai International Capital, which describes itself...

Quote of the day: “All in the wild March-morning I heard the angels call; It was when the moon was setting, and the dark was over all; The trees began to whisper, and the wind began to roll, And in the wild March-morning I heard them call my soul.” — Lord Alfred Tennyson, English poet (1809-1892) As income tax time approaches, did you ever notice: When you put the two words “The” and “IRS” together it spells “THEIRS”? The 10 Marriage Commandments — Commandment 1: Marriages are made in heaven. But so again, are thunder and lightning. — Commandment 2:...

FORT WAYNE, Ind. -- Fort Wayne police say a 10-year-old boy passed out Ecstasy pills on a school bus, thinking they were candy. Police are trying to figure out where the boy got the 133 pills, worth an estimated $3,000. Some of the students put the pills in their mouths, but spit them out because they tasted bad. Some students reported stomachaches and one felt tingling down the arms. The Forest Park Elementary student who passed out the Ecstasy told police that he got the pills from the house where he goes to wait for the bus. The hallucinogenic pills...

WHITE PLAINS, New York - It was Easter Sunday, and Patricia Santangelo was in church with her kids when she says the music recording industry peeked into her computer and decided to take her to court. Santangelo says she has never downloaded a single song on her computer, but the industry didn't see it that way. The woman from Wappingers Falls, about 80 miles north of New York City, is among the more than 16,000 people who have been sued for allegedly pirating music through file-sharing computer networks. "I assumed that when I explained to them who I was and...

Seoul angry after Japan says Washington distrusts South Korea Wed May 25, 4:44 AM ET South Korea has lodged a protest with Japan after a Japanese official said Tokyo was cautious about sharing North Korea-related intelligence with its neighbour because Washington did not trust Seoul. Japanese Vice Foreign Minister Shotaro Yachi made the remarks to visiting South Korean lawmakers in Tokyo earlier this month, according to media reports here. Yachi was also quoted as telling the group that Seoul had been neglecting its alliance with Washington although unity between South Korea, the United States and Japan was the key to...

Please help. Have a machine with Windows XP Professional and one with Windows 2000. Sharing a printer (HP Laserjet 4L). Can't get the Windows 2000 machine (secondary) to print on the printer connected to the main machine (Windows XP) and both are networked and do share other files including internet. Have clicked boxes allowing for "sharing" and need help determining WHY machine 2 won't print on printer on machine 1 (which has printer connected. If you can help...thanks in advance.

Found an online video/picture sharing website. It's free. Maximum upload is 10mb for video. This is from Celestia. I put the music in. It was originaly 64mb. Had to cut it. Used Celestia movie capture and Windows Movie Maker. PLANETS.

The Birth of the "FReepCast"? (BitTorrent Broadcasting) Attention FReepers: If you aren't aware of BitTorrent, it is a software program that allows MASSIVE files to be distributed over the internet at tens to hundreds of times faster than what would be normally seen. Currently it is being used to steal software and media, but the real promise is MEDIA DISTRIBUTION. A graduate student at Stanford used it to distribute the liberal flick "Outfoxed" to thousands of people over the internet with ease. The Graduate student distributed the equivelant of 750 GB of bandwidth for 5 GB. That's an astounding 15,000%...

The Supreme Court agreed Friday to consider whether two Internet file-sharing services may be held responsible for their customers' online swapping of copyrighted songs and movies. Justices will review a lower ruling in favor of Grokster Ltd. and StreamCast Networks Inc., which came as a blow to recording companies and movie studios seeking to stop the illegal distribution of their works. The file-sharing is "inflicting catastrophic, multibillion dollar harm on petitioners that cannot be redressed through lawsuits against the millions of direct infringers using those services," the appeal by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios and other entertainment companies says. Grokster and StreamCast, in...

ALL---I was planning to go to the Freeper Ball, but "life happens" and I can't go... There are also many other Freepers that are looking for rooms and room mates to share the cost...so JimRob has agreed to let me post this thread for just this activity. I HAVE A ROOM AVAILABLE...see below. If you are interested, please Freepmail me and we'll work out the transfer to you. As you can see this room is actually a TWO BEDROOM Suite, two baths etc...locacted directly across from the RedLine Metro stop...about 6.2 miles from DC and easy to transfer etc to...

Best Buy CEO Brad Anderson started doing something last year that we don't hear much about in corporate America. He donated his allotment of 200,000 stock options to line employees. The options were given to him by the board of the directors as part of his 2003 compensation package. The option grant has a potential value of $7.5 million, the way these things are computed.

The chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary said Thursday that a ban on file-trading networks is urgently required but agreed to work with tech companies concerned that devices like Apple Computer's iPod would be imperiled. Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, said he intended to move ahead with the highly controversial Induce Act despite objections from dozens of Internet providers and Silicon Valley manufacturers. The Induce Act says "whoever intentionally induces any violation" of copyright law would be legally liable for those violations.

Why I Am Not a Calvinist I debated several different titles in regards to this particular subject and too many of them failed to convey the true gist of what I wanted to communicate. However, I recognize that this title creates an air of controversy that the careless reader might stumble over - but I have decided that any injury they might receive is more a product of their unrelenting agenda than it is a result of reading the following few paragraphs. I am not a Calvinist first and foremost for one reason – I find no value in saying...

Sharing Jesus with one another ....

World War II Holocaust survivors Fred Bremer, left, and Irving Senor talk with American GI Holland Williams during a meeting Tuesday involving survivors and former soldiers on Fort Huachuca. (Mark Levy-Herald/Review)FORT HUACHUCA - In 1945, Dallas Peyton Jr. saw two men run toward each other, embracing as they fell to the ground. That scene nearly six decades ago is still vivid in the 81-year-old Peyton's mind. A flood of tears suddenly wet the man's cheeks. "They were living skeletons. They may have been family members or friends," Peyton said of the two men who were inmates at the Dachau Concentration...

A study of file-sharing's effects on music sales says online music trading appears to have had little part in the recent slide in CD sales. For the study, released Monday, researchers at Harvard University and the University of North Carolina tracked music downloads over 17 weeks in 2002, matching data on file transfers with actual market performance of the songs and albums being downloaded. Even high levels of file-swapping seemed to translate into an effect on album sales that was "statistically indistinguishable from zero," they wrote.

When my sister and I were growing up, we were almost always about the same size. We still are, actually. So we shared clothes. It was a way to double our wardrobe. But, from my point of view, I shared mine freely and she never wanted to share back. If I'd say, "I'd like to wear your blue sweater today," her answer would often be, "No, I'm wearing it." This happened so often, I eventually began to suspect that it was deliberate, her (perhaps unconscious) strategy to keep me away from her things. I'd complain to my mother and long...

<p>It's become a familiar rite of spring and summer around the country: city residents converging on a grassy park hillside, spreading out a blanket and enjoying a free concert.</p> <p>But even "free" concerts come with a price tag — and the organization charged with protecting copyrighted songs is determined to make sure that bill gets paid.</p>