Turns out it's not so easy to look up someone's home address based on his license plate number in California.

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Founded in 1918, Ashland makes nickel and cobalt-based alloys in sheet, coil and plate forms.

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In baseball, umpires are supposed to call balls and strikes based on where a ball crosses home plate.

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He was recently thrown through the plate glass window of a restaurant by a group of Austrian businessmen based in the town.

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Stepping up to that plate, the folks at PC Perspective loaded up Vista on a pair of ATI and NVIDIA-based gaming rigs to see if one played more nicely with the OS than the other.

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