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University of Memphis softball freshman Carly Hummel was named the C-USA Pitcher of the Week after going 3-0 in the USF Under Armour Invitational in Clearwater, Fla.
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The Farmington Elementary School cafeteria in Germantown was bursting recently with excited children and adults engaged in fun and educational games.
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“The Pacific,” an HBO mini-series, beginning Sunday, by the team behind 2001’s “Band of Brothers,” follows three real-life Marines from Pearl Harbor to homecoming after V-J Day.





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NBC’s Thursday night sitcoms will all be back for the 2010-11 television season that starts next fall.





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The companies’ feud, most recently exemplified by a Disney move that temporarily prevented Cablevision customers from viewing the Academy Awards, promises to spread across the country to other cable providers and stations.





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OKCULAR, Turkey (AP) — A strong, pre-dawn earthquake knocked down stone and mud-brick houses, barns and minarets in eastern Turkey on Monday, killing 51 people in five villages, the government said….
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KABUL (AP) — Afghan President Hamid Karzai said Monday that an action plan to reintegrate low- to mid-level insurgent fighters into society and negotiate with the Taliban’s top echelon will be crafted next month at a peace conference aimed at ending the war….
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GLENSIDE, Pa. (AP) — President Barack Obama accused insurance companies of placing profits over people and said Republicans ignored long-festering problems when they held power as he sought to build support Monday for swift passage of legislation stalled in Congress….
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jf-garbez has added a photo to the pool:

Le Fuji-Yama dans les nuages, vue depuis l’hôtel. Kawagushiko, Japon, juillet 2009.

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