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www.olga.net

The On-Line Guitar Archive OLGA is a library of files that shows you how to play your favourite songs on guitar. The files come from other Internet guitar enthusiasts who took the time to write down chords or tablature and send them to the archive or to the newsgroups. Resources include archived lessons, dictionaries, software and guitar construction, as well as access to an online chord dictionary, a chord generator and a guide to reading tablature. Tabs are divided into pop, rock and classical songs.

www.guitarsite.com

GuitarSite.com is a comprehensive guide to guitars, history, playing techniques, musician's resources, …

Pope meets with clergy abuse victims in Australia

Pope Benedict XVI met privately on Monday with Australians who were sexually abused as children by priests, ending a pilgrimage to the country with a gesture of contrition and concern over a scandal that has rocked the Roman Catholic church.

The pontiff held prayers and spoke with four representatives of abuse victims _ two men and two women _ in the last hours of his 9-day visit to Australia for the church's global youth festival.

The victims did not speak publicly after the meeting. Support groups for other victims dismissed the gesture as a public relations stunt.

The abuse scandal was a sour undertone to the trip for World Youth Day, which is …

Series offers 'Mysterious Way' to avoid football: ; Richard Simmons gets his life in shape on 'Biography'

"MYSTERIOUS Ways" (8 p.m., NBC, TV-PG) returns to the NBC line-up. Launched last summer, it later became a regular part of the fallschedule for NBC's sister network, PAX. Now it comes back to replacethe canceled "Titans." Think of a baseball team calling up atalented player from the minors in mid-summer. Adrian Pasdar starsas Declan Dunn, a cultural anthropologist who becomes a believer inspooky phenomena after being buried in an avalanche, only to berescued by a snowmobile driver whose vehicle "miraculously" stalledin his vicinity. After his rescue, he teams up with the skeptical,no-nonsense psychiatrist Peggy Fowler (Rae Dawn Chong).

Dunn and Fowler seek out the …

Pope Will Meet Cleric in Turkey Visit

VATICAN CITY - Pope Benedict XVI will meet with an Islamic cleric who was among the first Muslim officials to denounce him for his remarks on Islam and violence, the Vatican said Saturday in announcing details of the pontiff's upcoming trip to Turkey.

The Nov. 28-Dec. 1 pilgrimage was born out of Benedict's desire to meet with the spiritual leader of the world's Orthodox Christians, Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I, who has his headquarters in Istanbul, once ancient Constantinople. The pope, who is trying to foster better relations between the Orthodox and Catholics, will meet privately with him on Nov. 29.

Immediately after arriving in Ankara, Turkey's capital, …

2nd UK tourist attack suspect in Kenya court

MOMBASA, Kenya (AP) — A second suspect has been charged in connection with the deadly attack on a British couple on vacation on a remote Kenyan island near Somalia.

Issa Sheikh Said on Wednesday denied to a court that he was involved in the attack that left tourist David Tebbutt dead and his wife Judith kidnapped earlier this month on the Kenyan coast. Police have charged Said with …

MSHA: Teams reach working face of W.Va. mine

Exploratory teams have reached the heart of the West Virginia mine where 29 men died in the nation's worst coal industry disaster in 40 years.

The federal Mine Safety and Health Administration said, the teams were exploring along the longwall mining machine at Massey Energy's Upper Big Branch mine shortly after noon Thursday. The machine slides a cutter back and …

Electrical problems affect WSAZ-TV 5 a.m. broadcast

A fire in downtown Huntington Sunday afternoon caused electricalproblems that prevented WSAZ-TV from broadcasting its 5 a.m. localnews show today.

The fire in a condemned, vacant building formerly occupied by ThePolo Club at 733 Rear 7th Ave. also resulted in the closure ofseveral streets and the 8th Street viaduct, and knocked out power to299 customers, including WSAZ-TV, the Cabell County Courthouse …