You can, for example, still mark songs or artists as favorites in Rhapsody or skip back 30 seconds in Audible.

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There is a reason that neither his former manager nor his former skip wanted him back.

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They pulled back on finding Gerald "Skip" Murphy, who said he was armed with a gun and explosives and had three unidentified people with him - a 16-year-old girl, a four-year-old boy and a woman aged 18.

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"My plan is to not skip a beat when I come back, " Teixeira said.

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Chief Executive Ken Potashner says the company would be required to turn over data on what programs ReplayTV owners watch, how many commercials they skip and so on, data that would traceable back to individual devices.

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And before splashing out on a health kick, it might be worth looking at the other major league skip-fillers - exercise bikes, rowing machines and back massagers.

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