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After my automatic AVG update came through this AM, I could no longer log on. All my cookies had been deleted, and the computer would not accept new ones. I opened system restore, and the date had been reset to 2099. I got a message advising that the update had problems. I reset, ran restore, and the date changed again. I ended up unloading AVG, the computer works. I have reloaded AVG, but not going to update until later, in case this is a problem with their update file. It is the only explanation I can imagine.

Two people die in horrendous car accident Posted: 11/23/2005 10:27 pm It is not yet known if weather was the cause of the accident Niles, MI - A deadly crash occurred Wednesday night near the Indiana/Michigan state line, on south 11th Street in Niles, just north of State Road 933. Two people died in a violent crash that left the cars completely mangled. At least three other people were hurt. One car ended up in a building, another smashed up like an accordion. One witness we spoke to was amazed that anyone was able to walk away. Linda Miller says,...

X-rated wanna-be politician Mary Carey vows she'll be on her best behavior tonight when she attends a GOP fund-raiser that President Bush is headlining. "I'm going to show Washington that a porn star is more than someone who just flashes her boobs," the bubbly buxom blond told the Daily News. "In real life, I'm proper, quiet and demure, but nobody sees that," added Carey, who ran for California governor in 2003. "We can show Washington that we're normal people, too." For more than a week, the White House has dodged the question of whether Carey should be allowed into the...

Cross-dressing teen snatches man's wallet on 'date' ISESAKI, Gunma -- A teen who dressed up in a miniskirt, posing as a woman so he could get close to a company worker and steal his wallet was arrested Wednesday, police said. Gunma Prefectural Police arrested the 16-year-old youth on suspicion of theft, along with an accomplice who helped him carry out the crime. Investigators said the teen conspired with a 24-year-old man, and on an evening in February, he dressed up in a miniskirt and put on makeup to go on a "date" with a 46-year-old company worker. When the youth...

WENATCHEE, Wash. - The legal challenge to the governor's election will go to trial May 23, a judge decided Tuesday. Chelan County Superior Court Judge John Bridges said the trial shouldn't take more than two weeks. Whatever he decides, the case will ultimately be appealed to the state Supreme Court. Republicans are challenging the election of Democratic Gov. Christine Gregoire, who won by just 129 votes in a hand recount of 2.9 million ballots. Republican Dino Rossi won the first two counts. It could take months to settle the election challenge. Republicans are optimistic the Supreme Court will render a...

New Chemical Testing Points to Ancient Origin for Burial Shroud of Jesus; Los Alamos Scientist Proves 1988 Carbon-14 Dating of the Shroud of Turin Used Invalid Rewoven Sample Wednesday January 19, 8:32 am ET DALLAS, Jan. 19 /PRNewswire/ -- The American Shroud of Turin Association for Research (AMSTAR), a scientific organization dedicated to research on the enigmatic Shroud of Turin, thought by many to be the burial cloth of the crucified Jesus of Nazareth, announced today that the 1988 Carbon-14 test was not done on the original burial cloth, but rather on a rewoven shroud patch creating an erroneous date...

A 15-year-old girl is suing actor Nick Nolte, claiming he allowed her to be raped in his Malibu home. The suit, filed yesterday, says that Nicholas Woodring, who's also named in the suit, gave the girl the "date rape" drug GHB and had sex with her in January 2003. [snip] The suit claims Nolte "regularly threw parties in which minor children were supplied with drugs and alcohol."

For those bad-news-from-Iraq-only information consumers, stop reading here. There have been several recent developments out of Iraq that should give some comfort to those who believe that Arabs and Muslims are capable of embracing democracy. There have been military victories in Iraq, a debt relief agreement for the country has been hammered out, and Iraq’s independent electoral commission has set a firm date for elections. First Najaf was cleaned up, then Sadr City, then Fallujah, then Mosul… Yes, Iraq’s “insurgency” won’t go away overnight, but it is certainly getting harder and harder for the “militants” – they’re either dead or...

Iraqis attack US date for hand-over By Anton La Guardia, Diplomatic Editor (Filed: 27/11/2003) Powerful Shi'ite leaders yesterday criticised America's plan to hand power to an interim Iraqi government next summer. They warned of "real problems" unless it was revised. Abdel-Aziz al-Hakim, brother of a prominent Shi'ite leader assassinated in August, complained that the plan does not envisage elections until next March, relegates the United Nations to a secondary role and does not protect Iraq's Islamic identity. Abdel-Aziz al-Hakim He said the misgivings were shared by Grand Ayatollah Ali Husseini al-Sistani, Iraq's most influential Shi'ite religious leader. Mr Hakim added:...

Cairo [AFP]................................. Egyptian traders have named the best and most expensive dates for this year’s Ramadan after French President Jacques Chirac just days before the Muslim holy month of fasting and prayer, gets underway. "The Chirac date is this Ramadan’s surprise," Saad Zaki, a wholesaler in the Rod Al-Faraj souk in central Cairo and principal date stocker for the capital’s shops. It sells at 20 pounds (3.2 dollars) a kilo (2.2 pounds), he toldAFP. "Arabs believe that President Chirac’s policies on Iraq and the Palestinian cause are the most moderate," Zaki said, adding that "France opposed the United States, the...

<p>There will be an election on the question of whether to recall Gov. Gray Davis.</p> <p>It will take place on Oct. 7.</p> <p>The ballot will include the election of a successor in the event voters remove Davis from office.</p> <p>That's a lot to get settled, given the sea of uncertainty that is California politics at the moment. Give Lt. Gov. Cruz Bustamante credit for making the situation better instead of worse.</p>

Date limit set on first Americans By Paul Rincon BBC Science A new genetic study deals a blow to claims that humans reached America at least 30,000 years ago - around the same time that people were colonising Europe. Kennewick Man, a 9,300-year-old American The subject of when humans first arrived in America is hotly contested by academics. On one side of the argument are researchers who claim America was first populated around 13,000 years ago, toward the end of the last Ice Age. On the other are those who propose a much earlier date for colonisation of the continent...

Sir Isaac Newton, Britain's greatest scientist, predicted the date of the end of the world - and it is only 57 years away. His theories about Armageddon have been unearthed by academics from little-known handwritten manuscripts in a library in Jerusalem. The thousands of pages show Newton's attempts to decode the Bible, which he believed contained God's secret laws for the universe. Newton, who was also a theologian and alchemist, predicted that the Second Coming of Christ would follow plagues and war and would precede a 1,000-year reign by the saints on earth - of which he would be one....

Tuesday, 18 February, 2003, 16:57 GMT Date for first Australians The Mungo burials have cast doubt on "Out of Africa" A new analysis of Australia's oldest human remains suggests humans arrived on the continent about 50,000 years ago. The evidence is based on a re-examination of the so-called Mungo Man skeleton, unearthed in New South Wales (NSW) in 1974. Scientists say the individual was probably buried about 40,000 years ago, when humans had been living in the area for some 10,000 years. We find no evidence to support claims for human occupation or burials near 60 kyr ago James Bowler...

Authorities break up four Internet drug rings, trying to rein in the use of the `date rape' drug GHB Thu Sep 19, 6:15 PM ET By PETE YOST, Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON - Authorities broke up four Internet drug-trafficking rings operating in the United States and Canada, making more than 100 arrests and seizing enough chemicals for 25 million doses of the "date rape" drug GHB and similar substances. The two-day sweep in 84 cities is "a dose of harsh reality for drug traffickers who seek to exploit the vast markets and anonymity of cyberspace," Attorney General John Ashcroft said...

<p>FULLERTON -- A mom and dad decided Sunday to stop their 21-year-old daughter from seeing her married boyfriend by tying her to a bed with 30-pound chains, police said.</p> <p>Guadalupe and David Mata admitted to locking their daughter with two "giant gate locks" to prevent her from going out, said Fullerton Police Lt. Danny Becerra.</p>