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Slashgear, 03.09.10 10:33 UTC

SageTV HD Theater 300 Lands for Purchase

Those out there who want to be able to stream their media content over to the TV and need a new device to do that with may be glad to hear that the SageTV HD Theater 300 is now available to purchase. ...

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Seattle Times, 03.09.10 10:33 UTC

AAA: Washington gas prices up 14 cents over year

The AAA auto club says drivers hitting the road this Labor Day weekend in Washington will find gasoline prices 14 cents a gallon higher than they were this time last year.

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Seattle Times, 03.09.10 10:32 UTC

Pink Panthers jewel heist suspect charged in Japan

Japanese prosecutors charged a man believed to belong to the "Pink Panthers" ring of jewelry thieves Friday with stealing a diamond tiara and other jewelry worth millions from a Tokyo store.

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Seattle Times, 03.09.10 10:32 UTC

Oil falls below $75 ahead of US jobs report

Oil prices fell below $75 a barrel Friday in Asia as investors awaited a report on U.S. employment that will influence guesses about the strength of future energy demand from the No. 1 economy.

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New York Post, 03.09.10 10:31 UTC

Cancel order for Cipriani auction

Chew on that, Capital One. The Cipriani restaurant empire -- currently in a nasty legal battle with its creditor, Capital One Bank -- was granted an injunction yesterday that halted a public auction ...

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The Independent, 03.09.10 10:09 UTC

As Sarah Palin's star rises, critics expose her dark side

She tells lies. She's a lousy tipper. She billed the Republican Party more than $3,000 for the underwear she bought during the last Presidential election, including dozens of Spanx girdles. Oh, and ...

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Techcrunch, 03.09.10 10:08 UTC

YC-Funded Cloudant Launches Its NoSQL Cloud Database Platform

YCombinator-funded Cloudant, a database platform built around Apacheâs open source CouchDB framework, officially launches after three years of hard work. Cloud-based like Cloudera and Amazon Web ...

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New York Post, 03.09.10 10:08 UTC

'Hamas' mosque funder

An Egyptian-born businessman who lives on Long Island and who once gave thousands of dollars to a Hamas front group is a major investor in the proposed mosque near Ground Zero, it was reported last ...

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Seattle Times, 03.09.10 10:07 UTC

Critics: Ill. lottery contract cloaked in secrecy

With less than two weeks before Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn awards a lucrative, first-of-its-kind contract for the private management of the state's $2 billion-a-year lottery, some are criticizing the selection process as too secretive and questioning whether it favors one powerful bidder.

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Seattle Times, 03.09.10 10:07 UTC

Democrats spend early to knock out GOP challengers

Republican Jesse Kelly was still basking in the glow of his victory in an Arizona congressional primary when the Democratic congresswoman he's trying to unseat released a scathing TV ad branding him "a risk" who would gamble away people's retirement savings.

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The United States dollar is the unit of currency of the United States. The U.S. dollar is normally abbreviated as the dollar sign, $, or as USD or US$ to distinguish it from other dollar-denominated currencies and from others that use the $ symbol. It is divided into 100 cents (200 half-cents prior to 1857). The U.S. dollar is the currency most used in international transactions. Several countr...

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