Based on an advertiser's list of preferences, those checked boxes are used determine whether they "opt out" of having their ad on any given episode.

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The vast majority of those signatures are contained in dozens of boxes donated by the Ulster Unionist Council to the Northern Ireland Public Record Office in 1959.

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Ms. WOODS: We expect that those people who are marching today will go to the ballot box in November, and they will drop their ballots in those boxes based on decisions that elected leaders are making today around issues of immigration.

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The boxes are rearranged so that those going to similar destinations, indicated by a system of coloured lettering, end up on the same trolley.

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Those two black boxes left and right of the Tosh laptop are the functional, engineering prototypes serving up the peripherals.

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There are those which basically allow you to browse through profiles as you would boxes of cereal on a shelf in the store.

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So it isn't a shocker in the least bit that the FCC has granted a waiver on the mandate and now while operators are still required to make boxes with functional 1394 ports available to those who request it, the rest of the boxes can just support an IP interface instead.

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Several other companies are producing Web-connected boxes that can hook up to TVs, but those could be less desirable as new TVs come with Wi-Fi functions and Web features built in.

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