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Annie Leonard’s “The Story of Stuff” review and analysis

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My friend Mark sent me this video link - if you have 20 minutes, check it out….and Andy, I’m especially curious to know what you think about it….

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Strange neighbors make for interesting emails

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We have been experiencing continuous noises in our home for over a year now.  The noises range from beeps, opening and closing of doors and drawers, babies crying, laughter (such as evil laughter), and even talking in my children’s rooms.
 
We are extremely tired in the daytime because we don’t get sleep from the noises.  We have called the police, and all they say is they’ve driven around and seen no activity.  Our question to you is, is there a way to find out who it is and stop it?

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Essential oils and ignorant trash - are they related?

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Your article on essential oils was the most ignorant piece of trash Ive ever read, there are litarlly hundred of legitamate even government sponsored tests showing that various essential oils posses antimicrobial, antiviral, antitumor and many more characteristics, for example: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=15567314&dopt=Citation

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IBM server boot problem with USB hard drive

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The setup:

- I’ve got an IBM xSeries 206 server running Windows 2003.

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Waiting for Media Error and first time setup in Retrospect Backup 6.5

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Waiting for Media error during backups. In addition, initial setup is sometimes confusing.

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