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Podcasts. Not sure if we're doing the podcast thing right, but for now, we're just recording everything into an ipod with the Griffin technology microphone. We don't have any extension mic, all we do is talk into the ipod. That seems like a genuine way to podcast. I edit it all in Garage Band, and then output it. As you can tell the issue 40 podcast is too long. So now we're breaking down the...
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A bus carrying cruise ship tourists on a side trip through the mountains of northern Chile plunged off a cliff, killing 12 people, all of them U.S. citizens, authorities said. The bus was returning to the ship from a national park near the Bolivian border when it swerved off the highway and into a 260-foot canyon, said Maj. Carlos Valcarce, an Arica police spokesman.
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A bus carrying cruise ship tourists on a side trip through the mountains of northern Chile plunged off a cliff, killing 12 people, all of them U.S. citizens, authorities said. The bus was returning to the ship from a national park near the Bolivian border when it swerved off the highway and into a 260-foot canyon, said Maj. Carlos Valcarce, an Arica police spokesman.
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UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) — Russia, backed by China, blocked agreement on Monday on a U.N. Security Council statement aimed at quashing Iran’s nuclear ambitions despite a ministerial meeting on Tehran’s atomic programs, diplomats said. Senior foreign affairs officials from Germany and the five veto-holding Security Council members — the United States, Britain, France, Russia and China — met for more than four hours to exchange information on how to handle Iran. Their U.N. ambassadors joined them for discussions on a draft statement the Security Council has been unable to issue for nearly two weeks telling Iran to stop uranium-enrichment efforts the West believes are a cover for bomb making.
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UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) -- Russia, backed by China, blocked agreement on Monday on a U.N. Security Council statement aimed at quashing Iran's nuclear ambitions despite a ministerial meeting on Tehran's atomic programs, diplomats said.

Senior foreign affairs officials from Germany and the five veto-holding Security Council members -- the United States, Britain, France, Russia and China -- met for...
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