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Supermicro Activates Channel With AMD64 Technology-Based Server, Motherboard Solutions — ASI Corp., Ingram Micro and Tech Data on board to sell Supermicro solutions based on AMD64 processor technology— SUNNYVALE, CALIF. -- October 10, 2005 --AMD (NYSE: AMD) today announced general availability of a broad range of AMD64 technology-based server and motherboard solutions from Supermicro Computer, Inc., through three leading distributors, offering Supermicro solution providers and technology buyers greater choice in the x86 server market. ASI Corp., a leading distributor of wholesale computer components and peripheral products in North America; Ingram Micro Inc., the world’s largest technology distributor; and Tech Data...

Hi folks: I want to share with you the Nicene-Constatinopolitan Creed in Greek and Latin, so that you get a "feel" for what is said in these two ancient languages of the Church. There's something when you recite them, in their cadence, that really captures the primitive wonder felt by those who said it for the first time. Sure, the Creed may look sligthly misterious read this way, but I assure you, there's no Mystery beyond that of God. If you know Latin or Greek, it would be as intelligible to you as if you were reading it in English,...

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SANTA CLARA, Calif., Oct. 7, 2005 – Intel Corporation today announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire key digital broadcast technologies to deliver complete platform solutions for consumer electronics (CE) devices in the digital home.The acquisition would include the UK-based, Radio Frequency (RF) Front-End Consumer Business of Zarlink Semiconductor Limited, a leading provider of demodulation and tuner technologies to the satellite, terrestrial and cable market segments, and wholly owned subsidiary of Zarlink Semiconductor Inc. The transaction is subject to closing conditions and regulatory filings.As part of its digital home initiative, Intel is focused on delivering silicon and...

Here is a pic from yesterday's rally. Pictured, left to right, Kenzie, my niece, Aleesha, Kenzie's friend, Me and Mom (Edytha). Below are pics of the banner I painted on 10-8-05 while it was still taped to the wall in the hallway. More pictures can be found on www.USMCFamilies.com!

With Wal-Marts come tough choices BY PAUL HAMMEL WORLD-HERALD STAFF WRITER NEBRASKA CITY - From the wooden aisles of his 51-year-old hardware store downtown, Walt Wenzl calls Wal-Mart a greedy corporation that mainly sells foreign-made products. Hardware store owner Walt Wenzl isn't afraid of a new Wal-Mart planned for Nebraska City, Neb. "As long as the good Lord is willing, I'll be here," said Wenzl, 77. "To hell with Wal-Mart." Yet others in this river town of 7,228 say they welcome the building of a Wal-Mart Supercenter here. They say it may provide better paying jobs and keep shoppers from...

Ex-president Bill Clinton predicts the U.S. will lose the war on terror, saying "the odds are not great of our prevailing." In an interview with the Ladies Home Journal due out next month, Clinton calls the war "a quagmire" and warns "we're only making them angrier by opposing them. If we submit we'll have peace. That's what the Quran promises. I say we take them up on it. Besides, that 72-virgin idea has merit." Clinton spokesman Jay Carson immediately sought to tone down the ex-president's defeatist remarks, telling the New York Daily News: "President Clinton has always been a fun-loving...

According to two sources close to former Saudi ambassador Prince Bandar bin Sultan, ex-president Bill Clinton was on the verge of tears over legal woes brought on by the Monica Lewinsky scandal during a Sept. 1998 meeting with Crown Prince Adbullah - and spent almost no time discussing the Khobar Towers bombing case. The Saudi account backs claims by former FBI Director Louis Freeh, who told CBS's "60 Minutes" last night that Clinton failed to press Abdullah during the meeting for cooperation in the Khobar case. Interviewed by the New Yorker in May 2001, two Saudi officials noted that Prince...

The new directive updates a 1961 document that bars from the priesthood "those who are afflicted with evil tendencies to homosexuality or pederasty." According to the leading Italian daily, Corriere della Sera, and other newspapers, the new instruction provides much more specific guidance on whom to exclude. First, it is said to eliminate from consideration anyone who has engaged in gay sexual relations in the previous three years. Second, it would bar those who openly declare their homosexuality or take part in gay life by, say, visiting gay-oriented websites and bookstores and gay-pride events. According to the National Catholic Reporter,...

Listen While You Freep! All programs are replayed for 23 hours and again on weekends so tune in when it’s convenient for YOU! Call In Number - 866-884-TALK (8255) Heating the EDGE of a New Media! 1pm EST – “The Buzz Cut” with Lt. Col. Buzz Patterson! 2pm EST - The Inquisition ( 2pm EST) Description: Today's guest on The Inquisition is Bill Laurie, an expert on the Vietnam War who is co-author of the acclaimed booklet "Whitewash/Blackwash: Myths of the Vietnam War," and who is working on a new book on that conflict. We'll be talking with Mr. Laurie...

October 07, 2005, 8:02 a.m. The Miseducation of Harry Belafonte Day light come and I want to set the record straight. By Reverend Joseph N. Evans Only a short time before the Katrina devastation and subsequent racial hysteria hit landfall, during a "Keep the Vote Alive" march in Atlanta, renowned singer Harry Belafonte made some pretty strong comments about African Americans who identify themselves with a conservative political philosophy and agenda. According to media reports, he called them "tyrants," and went on to make an amazing comparison involving Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice. "Hitler had a lot of Jews high...

Misunderestimating The Furor Over Hurricane Harriet By Chuck Muth October 10, 2005 The White House's spinmeisters are either ignorantly misreading or intentionally mischaracterizing the general conservative opposition to Harriet Miers' nomination to the Supreme Court. They continue "misunderestimating" the furor at their own peril. It's not that conservatives think she's "unqualified." We accept the fact that one need not have been a judge to sit on the Supreme Court. We accept the fact that many a fine justice had no judicial experience before joining SCOTUS. On the other hand, a lot of really lousy former justices had no judicial experience...

Watching the conservative coalition slowly unravel over the Miers nomination these past two weeks has been an extraordinarily painful experience. Despite all of the hard slogging work done by activists of various stripes over the past quarter century, the winning coalition that encompasses movement conservatives, main street Republicans, foreign policy hawks, and religious fundamentalists under one overarching banner is showing some wear and tear. Five long years of bitter partisan warfare, shocking tragedy, economic bust and boom, and a shooting war in Iraq, where the terrorists test our resolve to prevail every single day, produce a certain amount of stress....

Residents of this small Black Sea resort town like to call their city "the Jerusalem of the Crimea." They have good reason: Evpatoria, population 120,000, is home to about 800 Karaites, members of a sect that broke off from mainstream Judaism in eighth-century Iraq. Karaites accept the Torah and celebrate most Jewish holidays, but they reject the Talmud and rabbinical Judaism, and have clashed with mainstream Jewish leaders over the centuries. "Our religion doesn't recognize the Talmud or the New Testament, nor does it consider Jesus or Mohammed to be prophets," said Viktor Tiriyaki at a recent Shabbat morning service...

Since 1999, RINO Rep. Jim Kolbe of Arizona's 8th District has added to "must pass" national security appropriations bills language which shuts down all permanent Border Patrol checkpoints in his district only. He's done this despite the fact that the Border Patrol insists that these checkpoints are key tools in their border security arsenal. He's done this despite that fact that the GAO has released a report that says that shutting down the checkpoints has reduced Border Patrol effectiveness in the Tucson sector by 77%. He's done this, ignoring the outrage of his constituents who live along the border who...

It could take 300 years to index all the world's information and make it searchable, Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt predicted on Saturday at the Association of National Advertisers annual conference in Phoenix. "We did a math exercise and the answer was 300 years," Schmidt said in response to an audience question asking for a projection of how long the company's mission will take. "The answer is it's going to be a very long time." Of the approximately 5 million terabytes of information out in the world, only about 170 terabytes have been indexed, he said earlier during his speech....

The conservative punditocracy is spittin' mad at the President for nominating Harriet Miers for the Supreme Court. I've never seen anything like it --- rioting pundits! Ranting constitutionalists! All the big names, it seems, are agin' Ms. Miers in a unified towering rage. We've learned to expect this sort of outburst from Ted Kennedy and Moveon.org, but not the level-headed thinkers of the Right. In fact, what's really going on may resemble the rantings of the Left. It has the same quality of narcissistic entitlement. We know that Ted Kennedy always felt entitled to be President, and is still enraged...

The fear in the pit of the stomach was palatable; sweat oozed from the brow of every conservative with an internet connection. On the afternoon of November 2, 2004, online reports of early exit polls posted indicated that John Kerry would likely be the next president of the United States. In the second consecutive election-year frenzy -- recall the panic in 2000 when TV reporters initially botched the Supreme Court's ruling on Bush v Gore -- reports of George W. Bush's demise have been greatly exaggerated. Similar feelings of dread and despair seized the president's supporters on Monday when news...

KEENE, New Hampshire (AP) -- Prolonged, heavy rain caused flooding from North Carolina to New Hampshire during the weekend, forcing hundreds of people to evacuate, knocking out electricity, weakening dams and making roads impassable. At least four people died, including two people killed in New Hampshire when a car apparently drove off a washed-out bridge into floodwaters, officials said Sunday. A fifth person was missing and feared dead. Gov. John Lynch returned from Europe to take charge of relief efforts in New Hampshire. He declared a state of emergency and called in 500 National Guard members for assistance. "This is...

ALSTEAD, N.H. - Prolonged, heavy rain caused flooding from North Carolina to New Hampshire over the weekend, forcing hundreds of people to evacuate, knocking out electricity, weakening dams and making roads impassable. At least four people died, including two people killed in New Hampshire when a car apparently drove off a washed-out bridge into flood waters, officials said Sunday. A fifth person was missing and feared dead. Gov. John Lynch returned from Europe to take charge of relief efforts in New Hampshire. He declared a state of emergency and called in 500 National Guard members for assistance. "This is the...