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Barbara Cassin, the Founding President of the Network, reminded participants that, since the network had been set up for all women philosophers around the world, it would be up to them in the future to make their Network into a universal gathering to which each participant could personally contribute.

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If memory serves, the event was some sort of press gathering organized by CBS to discuss the network's upcoming schedule.

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But the promise of that glorified gathering place on her glittering new cable network, OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network, has fallen short of expectations.

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"It's a wonderful thing for TV viewers, but it's a very challenging thing for people who do what I do for a living, " said FX Network President John Landgraf to a gathering of television reporters at the Television Critics Association's summer press tour in Los Angeles.

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Representatives from Altibox, the Norwegian network that's partnering with The Gathering to break the record, say that Norway simply doesn't have the capacity to support these kinds of speeds on a day to day basis.

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Land Action Scotland - a new network of land rights activists - has been gathering support to its efforts to give people living in Applecross and Bute a greater say on the charitable trusts that own the land.

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He refrained from doing so even when he was presented with strong evidence that an attack on a tribal gathering he convened in Kabul in June was carried out by the Haqqani network, one of the three leading insurgent groups, which has close links to Pakistan's intelligence service.

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Using gathering infrastructure that is shared across several smaller-scale biogas producers linked via a pipeline network to an upgrading facility, upgrading costs can be defrayed among all producers.

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