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FortStreetPulse.com is a student run 100% blog at Hawaii Pacific University. Submit a written piece & speak your mind.

Found this website, interesting that all of it’s content is written by students. The future of school news?

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Here’s how it works. Users register their cards on the company Web site and upload the information into the iCache. When they want to use it, they activate the device with a fingerprint on its biometric strip, scroll through a list of cards on its screen and choose one. Out pops a plastic card with a magnetic stripe, temporarily loaded with the chosen card’s data. Just swipe the card and pop it back into the iCache. After one use, the information on the card disappears. The device even works with loyalty cards, such as those handed out by supermarkets.

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There are attractive garden plants that repel mosquitoes. Mosquitoes are horrible creatures that swarm around you and suck your blood. They cause itchy rashes and can carry disease.

The most common way of repelling or getting rid of mosquitoes involves spraying a large quantity of poisonous chemicals in your yard and on yourself. If you are interested in a more natural approach, consider these plants that repel mosquitoes.

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At least one good thing has come since the beginning of this whole ‘Subprime Meltdown’ fiasco. I don’t like Countrywide, let me dig around in the archives here, I’ve had a rough history with them. As a formal employee I can say that this brings a smile to me.

“If enough financial pressure is placed on Countrywide or if the market loses confidence in its ability to function properly then the model can break, leading to an effective insolvency,” Bruce wrote. “If liquidations occur in a weak market, then it is possible for Countrywide to go bankrupt.”

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The Consumerist has gotten there hands on some pretty useful information if you are an AT&T or Cingular customer.

Here’s a direct port from the AT&T/Cingular internal database on how to handle complaining customers. These are the document every customer service rep in their call centers uses to deal with you when you kvetch.

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Who is Joe Philipson?

Really scary news report…