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Best Oscars 2015 Predictions – Academy Awards Winners

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Here are the best Oscars predictions I can find, in a nice easy format for you 🙂 BEST PICTURE Boyhood DIRECTOR Richard Linklater ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE Eddie Redmayne ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE Julianne Moore ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE J.K. Simmons ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE Patricia Arquette ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY The Grand Budapest Hotel ADAPTED SCREENPLAY Whiplash ANIMATED FEATURE How to Train Your Dragon 2 FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM Ida DOCUMENTARY FEATURE Citizenfour CINEMATOGRAPHY Birdman COSTUME DESIGN The

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Access is denied [SOLVED] Command Prompt Windows 7/8/10

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Q. Help! I am trying to access a file from an old hard drive on my new machine but when I navigate to the directory on my Windows command prompt I get an ‘Access is denied.’ error message 🙁 Can you help me??? -Megan A. Yes, I believe I can help you Megan 🙂 #1 First you need to start the command prompt as an administrator. You can do this by navigating to the command prompt in the start menu

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How to FORMAT my Dish network screen to NOT zoom for HD?

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Q. I have a Dish receiver that makes all my HD channels look ugly. It says HD Zoom when I switch to one of those channels. Suggestion? A. If you have an older Dish receiver and want to turn off (or turn on) zoom for HD channels, try pressing the asterisk * [format] button! This should allow you to cycle through the various options for HD channel presentation 🙂

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Missing locals on Dish Network (Oscars, Superbowl) [FIXED]

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We had an unpleasant surprise when we turned on our Dish receiver to watch the Super Bowl, no local channels 🙁 We ended up watching it online (without commercials :-(). Now it is a few weeks later and the Oscars are approaching. Locals were still not coming in so I logged into my Dish online account and used the chat feature. Here is the transcript. They were able to reinitialize my channels and they showed up during the chat, they

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Move media files into individual folders with the same name

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If you ever decide to backup your DVDs or other media to ISO format, it can be handy to have them each in their own folder. However, if you decide to do this after you have already ripped all the ISOs to a single folder then it can be a time consuming task. I have written batch (.bat) files to automate this process in the past, but recently I discovered a very nice Windows program that can do it for

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Turn off Kindle singles recommendations etc. [SOLVED[

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Some Kindle questions from readers: Q1. How do I turn off the annoying Kindle singles crap that takes up half of my Kindle’s screen?! Menu -> Settings -> Device options -> Personalize your Kindle -> Advanced Options -> Cover View Recommendations -> Off Q2. Can I get rid of recomendations, they are way off?! While you are at it, you can also turn off Special Offers Recommendations: Menu -> Settings -> Device options -> Personalize your Kindle -> Advanced Options

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Oil and gas lease clauses

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Here are some sample oil and gas lease clauses that I found to be helpful as a mineral owner: NO WARRANTY This lease is made by Lessor without warranty of title, either express or implied, except as to conveyance or encumbrances by, through, or under Lessor, but not otherwise. NO DEDUCTIONS It is agreed between the Lessor and Lessee that, notwithstanding any language herein to the contrary, all oil, gas or other proceeds accruing to the Lessor under this lease

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