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Dog in Yard sign
2008-05-05 23:36:00
 Having dogs can be a blessing from protecting your home to letting your dog listen to your problems. No matter what you tell them they will agree with a tail wag. When you have several dogs, they have a buddy/dog to play with when you are not there. We keep our dogs in the fence. Then sometimes we have the dogs out front of the house. The fence has signs that tell you we have dogs, but I need a sign for the front yard. Just encase a neighbor just happened by.  I have been looking for new dog sign, for the front yard to remind the neighbors we have dogs. The folks of The Original Pet Postings are the place for dog signs. On their site DoginYard .com, they have two types of signs "dog in yard signs" and "dogs in Yard signs".  They come in three colors, chocolate brown, grass green, cobalt blue. The chocolate brown was the choice for me. My sign stays in the front yard(see the pictre). DoginYard will ship you the sign first and they expect pay Later. They do not accept c...
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Mothers Day around the world
2008-05-05 23:24:00
Mother's Day is a new concept that has been copied from western civilization. In African countries, the idea of one Mother's Day has its origins in copying the British concept.  There have been many festivals and events celebrating mothers within the many diverse African cultures on the African continent that have been there many centuries before the British colonials arrived. In the East Asia area, Mother's Day is a heavily marketed and commercialized holiday concept that was copied straight from Mother's Day in the USA. So they will give away flowers and plants.Be sure to contact your mother on Mother's Day.CheersCovering the latest cutting edge of Technology, Business, Internet trends,  Marketing, and Entertainment along with the latest News of the day and I will try to entertain with wit and wisdom along the way. Ok, Ok, maybe more wisdom that wit.  :)Throw in some SEO and Search Engine Marketing tips(Note: Thank you for reading.  Keep in Touch.  Co...
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Your path to controlling weight
2008-05-05 23:14:00
Everywhere we look we are being exposed to exercise equipment on TV, many late night exercise products from stomach exercise equipment, to striding or walking exercise equipment.  Those infomercials are sometimes fun to watch.  The one thing the infomercials are missing is what about our diet.Several weight reduction specialists are promoting building muscle and controlling your diet. We all have heard about carbs.  Searching for a weight loss diet program to lose weight can be pain staking long. Be sure to get a good one.   I have used the protein drinks and diet pills to loose weight.  If it works for you, then you should go with what will work with your system. One your path to control weight is through intake reduction and rest will come. Everybody is different. Your path to control weight is what works with your chemistry.Cheers
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Reducing glare with Wood Blinds
2008-05-05 23:14:00
Everyday now, if it is not raining, the sunshine is bright beyond belief in Montevallo. With the bright sunlight my wife is telling me that some of the windows need some new window treatments to reduce the over abundance of glare.My favorite kind of window treatment are wood blinds. There are several kinds of blinds, I like my Wood Blinds in a dark mahogany. These dark blinds, especially the signature brand  wood blinds, these blinds should reduce some of the light.  The folks at SelectBlinds can fix you up with the signature wood blinds and the same window blinds that Ty Pennington uses on his home. They carry Wood Blinds, Faux Wood Blinds, Mini Blinds, Vertical Blinds, shutters and window shades. The Window shades come in flavors of Honeycomb / Cellular, Roman Shades, Woven / Bamboo Blinds, Roller Shades, and not to be forgotten Sheer Shades.I like my windows dark. Now to convince the wife.Cheers
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What is Hot: DIY Screen room
2008-05-05 17:45:00
Weather heating up, Screen Room Kits are Hot. The Do it yourself kind.Today I giving a shout out to Ronnie over at Home Living Spaces, HomeLivingSpaces.com has added free direct access to the install techs to answer screen room questions before the purchase of a screen room kit or a local sun room. The leads seem to pouring in. It seem that this is the time of year that everyone wants a Screen room. "We want to offer the consumer a place to get answers on Screen room kit and Screen room Design before they install and/or purchase screen room kit for their home, the service is FREE", said Jeff Seabolt, Operations manager. "There will be several questions on screen room design, screen room roofing, screen room slab work, screen room deck install, patio screen room install and a hundreds other questions the Homeowner might have before purchasing a Screen room or a DIY Screen room kit".  HLS  will also take questions on carport design and...
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Training for longevity with Martial Arts Gear
2008-05-05 17:07:00
Training gear enables you to stand the test of time in the martial arts. The first thing you learn is to have a solid foundation of the martial arts basics.  Martial Arts has hundreds, if not thousands of years of foundation to build upon. It all started with the basic movements.  Martial arts are systems of practices and traditions of training for combat. Broadly speaking, the foundation of martial arts share a single objective: to defeat a person physically or to defend oneself from physical threat.During times when I teach womens self-defense and karate classes there is always a need for equipment. I have used many vendors for my Martial Arts Gear over the last 20+ years. One of my largest suppliers of martial art equipment is AWMA.  AWMA.com carries a wide variety of heavy bags to sparring gear. Their Martial Arts Gear includes karate uniforms, karate sparring gear, karate training devices to heavy workout bags at prices that are very  affordable.  From ...
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Happy Cinco de Mayo: Origin of Cinco de Mayo
2008-05-05 12:58:00
Cinco de Mayo (Spanish for "5th of May") This holiday commemorates an initial war victory of Mexican forces led by General Ignacio Zaragoza Seguín over the French forces in the Battle of Puebla on May 5, 1862. This date is observed in the United States and other locations around the world as a celebration of Mexican heritage and pride. I beleive it has been on going since May 1st. Observances         * Regional celebration in Mexico of battle victory    * Celebration in U.S. of Mexican American culture and experiences    * Food, music, folkloric dancingOrigin of the observance of Cinco de Mayo in the United States.  The modern American focus on that day first started in California in the 1860s in response to the resistance to French rule in Mexico.  "The holiday, which has been celebrated in California continuously since 1863, is virtually ignored in Mexico."  Happy Cinco de MayoCovering the latest cutting ed...
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Nouveau Riche
2008-05-04 20:49:00
Over the last twenty years a large amount of people have become the Nouveau Riche or "New Money". These individuals have generated a considerable amount of wealth in their generation. Most were of a lower socioeconomic background, meaning they had very little or no money a children to now creating wealth that enable them to acquire luxuries that was no thought attainable. Wikipedia covers stories on rags-to-riches people of note, Wikipedia is the web-based encyclopedia project that millions use as a major search engine.  The one classic example of rages-to-riches is Oprah Winfrey. Oprah the American television host and media mogul. Her internationally-syndicated talk show, The Oprah Winfrey Show, has earned her hundreds of millions of dollars a year, $620 million during last years total. Oprah was born to a poor unwed teenaged mother. Now Oprah is a billionaire, she is also becoming one he most philanthropic women of all time.Wikipedia's has many more articles on Nouveau Riche...
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Mum's day in the UK
2008-05-04 12:57:00
This is another in the mothers day seriesMothering Sunday, also called "Mothers' Day" in the United Kingdom and Ireland falls on the fourth Sunday of Lent, three weeks before Easter Sunday. Mothering Day is believed to have originated from the 16th century practice of visiting one's mother church annually. Most historians believe that young apprentices and young women in servitude were released by their masters that weekend in order to visit their families.  As a result of secularization, it is now principally used to celebrate and give thanks for mothers. It is still recognized in the historical sense by some churches, with attention paid to Mary the mother of Jesus as well as the traditional concept 'Mother Church'.Visit you mother on mothers day.Cheers
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Death of the Gopher
2008-05-04 00:19:00
Gopher are your friendGopher is a distributed document search and retrieval network protocol designed for the Internet. Its goal is to function as an improved form of Anonymous FTP, enhanced with hyper linking features similar to that of the World Wide Web. I have use this many times. The Gopher protocol offers some features not natively supported by the Web and imposes a much stronger hierarchy on information stored on it. Its text menu interface is well-suited to computing environments that rely heavily on remote computer terminals, common in universities.With the vast popularity of the World Wide Web, Gopher is all but disused at present, with remaining sites being run by individual enthusiasts.It is a shame at the death of the Gopher.Has anyone else used the Gopher.Types of Internet serversThis is going to be series of post on the types of internet servers. Some very cool stuffCheers
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Aviation law website from Helicopter Accident Lawyers
2008-05-04 00:17:00
Sometimes we can be in need of an aviation law informative resource that is geared toward anyone looking for in-depth information on aviation laws. This can come in handy if you or one of your relatives that might be some how involve with helicopter accidents. I know of several past neighbors that had their own helicopter and they flew them to city during the work day. If you need with a helicopter incident then you might want to see the folks at Helicopter Accident Attorney.com, the work as a user-friendly for clients site with in-depth content and information on Helicopter Accidents nationwide. When you need a helicopter accident lawyer these are attorneys with the plan.Note to self; Drive to work do not fly in Helicopter to workCheers
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Mystery Shopping Solutions and My Wife
2008-05-04 00:17:00
Is it true that being a female they have a gene in them that make them want to shop? I can tell you that my wife has that gene. She likes to shop for hours at a time, looking a the smallest of things until an entire afternoon has passed. She is so good at shopping wonder If I could find her a job at shopping. It could work for her.To make it happen for her I might convince her to check  the folks of BestMark a mystery shopping solutions company. She could help BestMark gather incident-specific performance at the moment of truth when she visits an organization, track and trend attributes and behaviors that can impact long-term guest customer value, including customer satisfaction and customer advocacy.BestMark could let her provide companies on how to improve customer relations, and identify strengths and weaknesses in  employees.It could happen.Cheers
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Botnet servers
2008-05-04 00:10:00
Botnet servers will often liaise with other botnet servers, such that a group may contain 20 or more individual cracked high-speed connected machines as servers, linked together for purposes of greater redundancy. Actual botnet communities usually consist of one or several controllers who consider themselves as having legitimate access to a group of bots. Such controllers rarely have highly-developed command hierarchies between themselves; they rely on individual friend-to-friend relationships. Often conflicts will occur between the controllers as to who gets the individual rights to which machines, and what sorts of actions they may or may not permitBotnet is a jargon term for a collection of software robots, or bots, which run autonomously and automatically. They run on groups of zombie computers controlled remotely. This can also refer to the network of computers using distributed computing software.While the term "botnet" can be used to refer to any group of bots, such as IRC bo...
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Financial risks can mean financial gains
2008-05-04 00:00:00
We all work hard, make money, and create a life for ourselves. Just about everything we do, we have to have help, like get a mortgage, buy a boat, finance a car among other things we help with the finance of objects we buy. This could be true for a business loan. There are partner that can help you with your goals. The folks at Northern Trust can be one of those, they are set up to help you achieve your financial objectives. Northern Trust is a global leader in asset management, asset servicing and banking. We as Investors should carefully consider our investment objectives, the risks, charges for investing and expenses of the Funds before investing in them. One of Northern Trust funds NETS FTSE 100 is a 100 Index fund. Their motto is to provide you exceptional service, professional expertise and unquestioned integrity. Note to self: Always check risks, chargers and expenses before purchase.Cheers
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MX internet server
2008-05-03 23:59:00
When you view a MX record or Mail exchanger record is a resource record in a Domain Name System (DNS) that specifies how an Internet e-mail should be routed using the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP).  Each of the MX records contains a priority and a host name, the collection of MX records for a given domain name point to the servers that should receive e-mail for the domain, and their priority relative to each other.  The host name that is contained in the MX record must have an address, a DNS record. CNAME aliases are prohibited in an MX record data, while CNAME is allowed for the MX record label, that is for the domain name leading to the MX record itself.The MX mechanism will provide you the ability to run multiple mail servers for a single domain, that will specify the order they should be tried, this increases the likelihood that mail may be delivered and providing the ability to distribute the processing of incoming mail across multiple physical servers. Having ...
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Formal dresses are in the future plans
2008-05-03 23:57:00
It has been along time sense I have been in need of formal wear for myself or my wife. The last time I believe was for her sisters wedding. At that wedding she was a bridesmaid. That included buying the dress and shoes. The dress was peach color along with the peach colored dress shoes. After the wedding there are not very many places you can wear the peach dress. At that time you had to go to the dress shop, get measured and fitted for the dress. Now like everything else is sold on the internet, dresses are not any different.  The folks of Elegant Mart are set up to offer you coveted designer dresses at discounted prices. I like discounts. They carry dresses for all occasions, prom, formal, wedding bridesmaid, cocktail dresses and evening dresses.Elegant Mart is a online boutique featuring  gowns at significantly reduced prices. You are able to shop at anytime you desire. All of dresses and shoes are shipped for free and feature a 120% guaranty that you are paying the low...
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Tis the Season for Travel Deals
2008-05-03 02:26:00
Spring is the season of warming weather with green growing on every where. This is also time to start thinking of getting a head start on vacation during the summer. The more you prepare for the vacation the better it can be.Want to find the best travel deals? Then you might want to see the folks at Shermans Travel . They will screen hundreds of travel deals and cheap hotels each week and publish the best ones in there popular travel-deals e-newsletter.  This is what you can ask for from a vendor to send you the best deals for your next vacation.Cheers
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Grow Time Teenage Acne
2008-05-03 02:14:00
During your teenage years we go through a lot of changes, height growth, hair growth, voice changing and some of us have skin issues like acne.  Acne can work wonders on your mental thoughts of how do I hide it or remove it. Especially when Acne grows on your face and back. You know the time you are going to a function and your acne looks like you been hit with a pizza in the face and wondering if anyone notices. This can make you mentally tuff over the years.  The word from the dermatologists is acne treatments could help your Acne hide or make it stop. The doctor said acne will go away when you get over 25 years of age. News to earth doctor, acne does not go away at age 25, it hangs out in one form or the other.When you hit 35 years of age, acne will subside for years then at the worst time it will rear its ugly head.Cheers
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We can always use more RAM
2008-05-02 23:41:00
If you have been working with computers for more than a few years you know that RAM is one of the components of how fast your computer will run. Your RAM works like a big chalk board, you put all your system and other programs on the chalk board for use as you use the computer, then you turn it off the computer, your memory clears until the next time you start the computer. It is best to use as much RAM as possible, 1GB or more for XP. I think 2GB of ram would be good, 4GB of ram is better. Use 4GB of ram especially if your computer is running Vista. The more the ram the faster your computer will process transactions.Cheers

The History of Mothers Day
2008-05-02 23:32:00
Next weekend is Mothers Day .Mother's Day is a day to honor your mothers. Mother's Day is celebrated on various days in many places around the world.Different countries will celebrate a Day for Mother during various dates during the year. Mother's Day has many different origins.One theory claims this day emerged from a custom of mother worship in ancient Greece, which kept a festival to Cybele, a great mother of Greek gods. This festival was held around the Vernal Equinox around Asia Minor and eventually in Rome itself from the Ides of March -- March 15 to 18.The ancient Romans also had another holiday, Matronalia, that was dedicated to Juno, mothers were given gifts on this day.Next Mum's Day around the WorldCheers
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Mother's Day Joy from 1800FLOWERS
2008-05-02 14:02:00
Mother's Day is just around the corner.It is that time of year that we recognize the one person that sacrificed for us to come into this world. Only the best will do for your Mom. Me Mum has been a fancier of plants from when I was young and is still a plant fan today.  On Moms special day, we go to her house and I will usually bring her a plant for her to grow and take care of. Everyone likes plants. If for some reason I cannot make the delivery of a plant, fresh flowers or other  mothers day gifts, the folks at 1800flowers are just a few clicks away or phone call and they will handle the gift and deliverly for me.  With a visit to 1800flowers.com you can send some of your favorite and best selling fresh flowers, spectacular gifts along with gorgeous plants for mom on Mothers day or for any other occasion.  I understand anytime is a good time to send flowers.Cheers
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Google and IBM collaboration
2008-05-02 14:00:00
Two other Computer Giants forming partnershipThe unlikely of partners Google and IBM, have collaborated on a computer  cloud-type system, that is designed to be a  platform for delivering scalable IT capabilities as a service. This is cool when can we get our hands on it.  The service has been turned over for universities to use. Lucky dogs. Is it to late to go back to college? Never to late.  This was a pilot project for IBM and Google, it is left unclear if the two companies will be doing more.  Can you say Google operating system?  Google is wanting many enterprise type customers for software applications. These services can be delivered as services via computer clouds. IBM is the one partner that could help them the most.Cheers
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How can we say Thank You : The Thank You Card
2008-05-01 23:50:00
In the world of business you meet and interview with people that want something from you or you want something from them. This may sound a little direct, but I am a person that like to tell the truth, no games no fluff.In the process of meeting other humans, we have a tendency to like our ego stroked. One way is to show appreciation to others in a form of a Thank you Card s or letter. A thank you note or a note of thanks is a formal card that is used when one party wishes to express appreciation to another party. There are two types of thank you cards: personal and business thank you cards.Business thank you card are used in numerous situations in day-to-day business that will warrant you to send a thank you card. Typical situations can include: your appreciation for special consideration extended by another organization, thanking a speaker for a presentation at a board meeting, organization for a customer referral, customer appreciation letters thanking customers for their patronage...
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Bloggers Unite for Human Rights....May 15
2008-05-01 03:32:00
There is a movement afoot on Human Rights coming on May 15.  Bloggers Unite for Human Rights .unite.blogcatalog.comhuman rights represent one of the universally agreed upon ideas.all people should be born with basic rights and freedoms that include life, liberty, and justice. Lets not forget the pursuit of Happiness.  This year marks the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights adopted by the United Nations.Bloggers Unite For Human Rights challenges bloggers everywhere to help elevate human rights by drawing attention to the challenges and successes of human rights issues on May 15. What those topics may include ? the wrongful imprisonment of journalists covering assemblies, governments that ignore the plight of citizens, and censorship of the Internet.   What is important is that on one day, thousands of bloggers will unite and share their unified support of human rights everywhere.Now LOL but I have one question.....When did we start conside...
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$200 iPhones for Sale and XP Service pack 3 Delayed
2008-05-01 00:16:00
Some Tech news TodayIt this post get read enough view I might start adding this daily.AT&T will cut the iPhone price by $200 dollars. Holy Molly their be a few comments from the $600 iPhone purchasers. AT&T says they will subsidize a purchase price of iPhone by $200. This will get more users on the 3G data network. Of course you will sign a 2 year contract. This is not Apple cutting the phone price, but AT&T trying to sell more cell calling service contracts.Google delays Windows XP Service Pack 3Google has found a compatibility bug between the operating system and retail management software that it sells. This is why I could not find the SP3 download on the Microsoft website. Microsoft also suggest that if you are an RMS users to not install XP SP3 or Vista SP1.
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W.H. Stark House : A Place to Visit
2008-05-01 00:01:00
When you travel it can fun and different to stay at bed and breakfasts instead of commercial hotels. You get to see different architecture of homes in different part of countries. The old the homes the better. One outstanding bed and breakfast is the W.H. Stark House . The Stark was home to William Henry and Miriam Lutcher Stark. This couple spent most of their lifetime collecting rare and unique decorative objects. In the 1890's Lutcher Stark couple who made their fortune in oil, banking, rice, insurance, and the timber industries occupied the home from 1894 until 1936. The couple were massive collectors and instilled in their son, HJ Lutcher Stark continuing a lifetime dedication to philanthropy pursuits and the arts. The house was vacant from 1936 to 1970. After 11 years of restoration the house was opened to the public for tours.The 14,000 square-foot home was built in 1894 in Orange, Texas. The home was designed in the style of Queen Anne architectural motif, the house features...
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Internet server Google
2008-04-30 23:23:00
Google maintains over 450,000 servers, arranged in racks located in clusters in cities around the worldWhen an attempt to connect to Google is made, DNS servers resolve www.google.com to multiple IP addresses, which acts as a first level of load balancing by directing clients to different Google clusters. When you send Google a domain name the server resolves to multiple IP addresses, typical implementation of clients is to use the first IP address for communication. The order of IP addresses provided by DNS servers for a domain name is typically done using Round Robin policy on Google's internet servers. Each Google server cluster has thousands of servers, and upon connection to a cluster further load balancing is performed by hardware in the internet server cluster, in order to send the queries to the least loaded web server. This makes Google one of the biggest and most complex known content delivery networks.Types of Internet serversThis is going to be series of post on the typ...
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Boys and their Forklift RC toys
2008-04-30 22:57:00
The only difference between at 35 year old boy and 5 year old boy is the price and size of the toys.  We all like playing with stuff. One of my hobbies as a child was collect coins and baseball cards. As I got older I started collecting porsche models and miniature cars. Now my son does it.Today the wireless RC cars and RC models have came along way. The folks of VAT19 have developed a realistic RC forklift toy with jumbo remote that features a working lift device. This in itself would be fun to play. The RC Forklift comes with a small crate for practicing my warehouse driving and staking skills. RC Forklift model
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Find the Top 10 Web Hosting companies
2008-04-30 17:37:00
As a webmaster you live by your website or blog hosting service. It needs to be cheap and up 100 percent of the time. A web hosting service is a type of Internet hosting service that will allow individuals and organizations like you and me needing to have their own website accessible via the World Wide Web. Web hosts are companies that provide space on a large server with large broadband width services available from their internet server for use by their clients as well as providing Internet connectivity, typically in a data center. The Data center will be very secure and protect from the elements. Web hosts can also provide data center space and connectivity to the Internet for servers they do not own to be located in their data center, called colocation. Need more or a new web host provider? See the Top10webhosting site. They provide a list of the best web hosting plan services for all purpose websites, including PHP, MySQL, FrontPage, FTP, and Emails are supported. These service...
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Forum Master List part 1
2008-04-30 17:01:00
One of my other posts was going to be about social media sites.The blog post is going to cover the top Forum s related to Search Engine Marketing and creating a master list.An Internet forum is a web application for holding discussions and posting user-generated content.  Internet forums are also commonly referred to as Web forums, Message boards, Discussion boards, Discussion groups, Discussion forums, Bulletin boards, or simply forums. The terms "forum" and "board" may refer to the entire community or to a specific sub-forum dealing with a distinct topic. Messages within these sub-forums are then displayed either in chronological order or as threaded discussions.Such forums perform a function similar to that of Usenet newsgroups and the dial-up bulletin board systems that were common from the 80's to the 90's. Those were interesting days. A guy I know was one of three people that owned the name rights to America Online or AOL.  AOL had to come to an agreement with these...
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