Amnesty was created as a way to allow members to occasionally buy split shares of stocks they don't have, for whatever reason. Normally, of course, you could never buy more than 10,000 shares of a stock. During a sport's amnesty, however, you are allowed to buy up to that stock's maximum SPLIT shares as long as you have the cash and port size to do so. These amnesties occur during a sport's all star break. NHL and NBA breaks are generally in mid-February, MLB in July.

GVT is shorthand for government, and refers to the system the Prodigy Dragons used to keep track of members and such. On Prodigy, it was not uncommon for clubs like the Dragons to have a form of government, with ranks and stuff like that. The system worked fairly well for a while, but was rife with scandal and crises and insult and vendetta and grudge, and affected many of the members in a very negative manner.

A financial settlement offered by the manufacturers to persons and/or their families who were infected by HIV through their blood products due to negligence. It paid $100,000 per infected patient or surviving family.

The simple answer is yes. The brain is constantly hearing and decoding Reverse Speech and we recognise it as instinct or gut feeling.

Both of the country's two major political parties ? the Democrats and Republicans ? are represented in each chamber of Congress. Each chamber of Congress identifies the political party with the most members in that chamber as the majority party and the one with the least members in that chamber as the minority party. Currently, there are 44 Democratic senators, 55 Republican senators, and 1 Independent senator.

Artillery is spelled cannon; the academic canon is a set of books, writers, and theories which we presume we should all understand. Decades ago, there was greater consensus about what should be in the canon - Shakespeare, Freud, European history, botany. Most (but not all) professors have come to realize that the old canon was Eurocentric, did not show much curiosity about the rest of the world, and failed to recognize the contributions of non-whites and women.

A:As mentioned earlier, selection is a random process. As such, there is always the chance that a person may never be called while another may be called several times. It is truly the "luck of the draw". However, if your name appears one way on the voter list and another way on your driver's license, your chances of being called increase. The court is not permitted to make changes to these lists.

Eligibility for federal jury service is dependent both upon an individual meeting the legal qualifications for service and upon the random chance of having one's name drawn from the source lists. More on Jury Service... Each judicial district must have a formal written plan for the selection of jurors, which provides for random selection from a fair cross-section of the community in the district, and which prohibits discrimination in the selection process.

Well, since one of the other main missions of the Dragons (and therefore, the newsgroup) is the promotion of socialization and the "getting-to-know-each-other" bit, it's perfectly acceptable. Most people try to strike a fair balance between Ultima-related and non-Ultima-related posts, though, but discussions about topics as diverse (and odd) as spheres, Cinnabons, and Enya. And there [is] (supposed) to be more to this club than Ultima.

Radio/TV stations | Gas stations/restaurants/stores | License plates | Geographical names | Government units | Area codes | ZIP codes | Time Zones Radio/TV stations: This started because of people talking about it in roadtrip reports; it usually starts as an on-topic thread and drifts off-topic. Go to http://www.fcc.gov/fcc-bin/audio/tvq.html for a list of American TV stations (this also accesses radio station information). See also http://dmoz.org/Arts/Radio/Resources/Guides/ , http://dmoz.

Many traditional forms of dog training have involved punishment, and have been successful. Many people who use clicker training (which uses positive reinforcement) see that as one of the four Operant Conditioning tools, and make judicious use of the other tools (negative reinforcement, negative punishment, and positive punishment). Also, some listmembers work with people who would be willing to get rid of their dogs if certain behaviors are not stopped.

WIP stands for "work in progress", and refers to any changes that are more recent than the last official release. WIP versions of the library can be obtained as patches from the Allegro website (http://alleg.sourceforge.net/), and are usually quite stable, although obviously not so well tested as a final release version. Do you have a copy of patch.exe? If not, go and get it from the same place that you downloaded the rest of djgpp: this tool is a standard part of the compiler distribution.

People in coma sometimes show signs that they are able to hear and understand. Often these signs are just simple reflexes -- like squeezing a hand, or sucking, in response to a touch. Occasionally people in coma seem to become calm when they hear a familiar voice. Since they almost never remember these events, it is impossible to decide if they actually recognized a void or understand what was said.

He comes off sounding like a bad sports reporter who showed up at a game late. He doesn't really know who is playing or what they are doing but he is paid to talk so he talks. I think that Tony Snow must be one of the bright parts of President Bush's day. I can see him as he pushes Snow out on stage to give 'em all one more Snow job.

Jon Lord's. alt.music.deep-purple-contributor James Strange asked Roger Glover via e-mail, and got the following answer: "It is Jon. His lines are brilliant. They are total nonsense." And on amdp, Roger added "he's playing a drunken priest performing a wedding ceremony".

No, this is not synesthesia at all. If you hear voices in your head (apart from your own singular conscience), then this could be a positive symptom of a disorder such as schizophrenia that may need medical attention, and I would encourage you to talk to a medical practitioner about your voices.

Pink algae is not an algae at all, but a bacteria. Normal algaecides will not reliably work on them. We have products that are designed to assist chlorine with removal of this bacteria. To eliminate pink algae, you must superchlorinate your pool, turn off the filter, and clean it with a good filter cleaner. Let the filter soak overnight then backwash to waste. Let the chlorine level subside before using again.

As most people might know Hentai Palm used to have 3 sections instead of 2. 1 Free Public, 1 Free Sign Up and 1 GT sign up, due to modifications in the Hentai Key structure, Hentai Key Free has been removed from their system. However a new system will be put in place named Hentai ID. Because it's not online YET we cannot apply it out our site. It's that simple.

The 95-96 LSC option included HID headlamps, the first car produced by the Big Three domestic automakers with this technology. It can be distinguished by the clear front lenses. An example of what they look like can be found here: HID Housing Pictures

In the Cleft, people are generally pretty friendly, and will probably say 'Hi!' as soon as you log on, over the OOC (out of character) channel. To chat back, use ooc followed by what you want to say, such as ooc I enjoy wassail! To turn the channel off completely, type ooc, with nothing after it, and the same thing to turn it back on.

No. The system can only show you which line is talking, so anyone talking in that room will show up as the room talking. There is no reliable way for the system to automatically identify individual speakers sharing a single phone line.

This one seems to have started with a comment by Gratters which said "I have a plan and it involves mainly spoons." In a joint effort, typoman and the entendre monkeys lept upon this presumably innocent phrase and turned it into "manly spoons". I'll leave the rest to your imagination...

The kid is Jack and that is his mom talking to him. There is a brother in there prompting him to sing the little ditty. Jack: "That's me when I was six or seven, my older brother and mother were taping that. It was some sort of religious song. I didn't sing it right. It should have been, 'I wish I I had a little red box to put the devil in, I'd take him out and punch-punch-punch and put him back again.

There are. I had to turn the volume down on the 'background people' because it became irritating hearing the same person say the same thing each time I played the sound.

V. Interesting you should ask that because sometimes I get psychic insights – and sometimes not. V. The ones I came across over the years - Professor Richard Dawkins, Professor Carl Sagan and those other negative psychologists I have on my net I rebutted – those giants of science thinking because they are scientists they have ‘authority’ about anything on earth.

A master piercer is someone who has mastered the field and the art of body piercing. This term is not given from some big organization as there is none in the piercing industry. This title is earned through hard work and dedication and is given to a piercer by his/her peers, no person can just call themselves a master piercer. This has become a problem, over the past few years as many people have claimed to be a master piercer and then it turned out that they only began piercing a year ago.

You may have activated the MUTE option by mistake. Pressing the "FCN" key and holding it down for more than one second activates the MUTE function. If the MUTE feature is active, you will see the word "MUTE" on the top left side of the display. To deactivate this feature simply press any key and mute will be cancelled.