Array AGAINST THE WARSunday, September 9th - At Dusk~ (8pm)Le Petit Versailles -346 East Houston St at Avenue CSubways: F/V >> Second Avenue - J/M >> Delancey StreetFREE VOluntary Contribution “Vers Reves: Am-er-ique”Celeste HastingsSoundscape/Costume/Butoh Dance Transfiguration of Sisyphus’s bondage - social, personal & transpersonal power over life and death. Again” by Ed Halter Village Voice, May 8th, 2007Film-Makers’ Coop Executive Director: MM SerraDVD Curator: Lynne SachsDVD Project Manager: Lili WhiteDVD Tech Programmer: Bosko BlagojevicPoster & Cover Design: Ben Oldenburg LPV programs are made possible by Allied Productions, Inc.,Citizens for NYC, Green Thumb/NYC Dept.
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-ne Madeleine L’Engle, the woman responsible for me reading almost every book in the junior adult section of the Vandenberg Library when I was twelve, has died at the age of 88.
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Looks like government is getting into more business driven pseudoscience (cf. personality tests like the Myers-Briggs) by backing Voice Risk Analysis to detect benefit cheats.So, are lie detectors, and particularly voice stress recognition systems any good? Standard polygraphs (as administered by trained and experienced personnel) detect physiological signs associated with lying, although these can be absent in the truly psychopathic, you can learn to fool them, and anxiety can also produce them. Most studies of standard polygraphs are carried out on offenders, and they tend to find fairly high detection rates. Reported figures are typically of the order of a sensitivity (proportion of liars detected) of 76% and specificity (number of confirmed truth-tellers) of 63% (’average’ values), with 87% and 88% representing the upper range of estimates (’maximal’ values), which doesn’t sound too bad. But the utility of the polygraph (or any test in fact) very much depends on how likely it is that the suspect is guilty (the prevalence of true positives in the population) because if few people are guilty then even though only a small proportion of truth-tellers are falsely declared liars the large number of truth-tellers tested compared to the small number of liars means that most people reported as liars will actually be truth-tellers. Conversely, if most people you are testing are guilty (and thus liars) then even though a lot of guilty people will be detected, a lot of those declared innocent will actually be lying.To make that rather convoluted explanation a bit more concrete, I refer you to a rather famous paper by Brett et al (1986, Lancet) which used the figures above (the ‘average’ and ‘maximal’ values). They showed that when the prevalence of offenders in the population is assumed to be 5% (i.e. not many, such as with benefit cheats) there was a 10% positive predictive value, that is only 1 in 10 positive tests are actually lying, with the rest falsely accused (that is with the ‘average’ values, using the ‘maximal’ values they find 25% true positives).For a pre-test probability of 50% (e.g. criminal investigations, hopefully, maybe) the positive predictive value is 67% (88% with the ‘maximal’ values), a gain in certainty after the test of only 17%, with 33% of positive results still false positives. If most people are liars (90%) then the negative predictive value is only 23% with 77% of negative test results generated by lying subjects. It is often said that if you are innocent you probably don’t want to take the risk of being falsely labelled a liar, and thus a suspect, while it may be worth taking the chance if you’re guilty anyway, as it could throw them off the scent!So we know that polygraphs aren’t going to be that great at detecting liars in the population, even though they do work to some extent. There was a study done last year (Gamer et al 2006, Int J Psychophysiol) of polygraph measures (heart rate etc)* and voice stress recognition. It used the Guilty Knowledge Test (GKT):If, for example, a robbery of a fuel station is examined, a typical GKT-question could be:
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-ne I just learned that Madeline L’Engle passed away yesterday, September 6th, 2007 of natural causes.
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The rules of my mission are that I should identify all lifeforms however, so recently I left an outside light on after dusk and was delighted to come back an hour later to find the moth seen in photo one (click to enlarge).From the characteristic lemon-yellow colouring and patches of brown on the costa (the leading edges of the wing), and using my copy of ‘Butterflies and Moths of Britain and Europe’ (Collins), I’m confident in my identifying my moth as the Brimstone Moth.My moth’s Latin name is Opisothograptis luteolata, which, by piecing together snippets of information from various sources, I believe translates as Opistho =backwards , graptis=graphics/writing , luteolata= yellowish : the yellow-with-backward-facing-graphical-symbols moth though I’m happy to be corrected.In an effort to learn more about moths I have been reading the excellent and scholarly ‘Moths’ (Michael Majerus, The New Naturalist series).
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Array AGAINST THE WARSunday, September 9th - At Dusk~ (8pm)Le Petit Versailles -346 East Houston St at Avenue CSubways: F/V >> Second Avenue - J/M >> Delancey StreetFREE VOluntary Contribution “Vers Reves: Am-er-ique”Celeste HastingsSoundscape/Costume/Butoh Dance Transfiguration of Sisyphus’s bondage - social, personal & transpersonal power over life and death. Again” by Ed Halter Village Voice, May 8th, 2007Film-Makers’ Coop Executive Director: MM SerraDVD Curator: Lynne SachsDVD Project Manager: Lili WhiteDVD Tech Programmer: Bosko BlagojevicPoster & Cover Design: Ben Oldenburg LPV programs are made possible by Allied Productions, Inc.,Citizens for NYC, Green Thumb/NYC Dept.
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-ne Madeleine L’Engle, the woman responsible for me reading almost every book in the junior adult section of the Vandenberg Library when I was twelve, has died at the age of 88.
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-ne
Looks like government is getting into more business driven pseudoscience (cf. personality tests like the Myers-Briggs) by backing Voice Risk Analysis to detect benefit cheats.So, are lie detectors, and particularly voice stress recognition systems any good? Standard polygraphs (as administered by trained and experienced personnel) detect physiological signs associated with lying, although these can be absent in the truly psychopathic, you can learn to fool them, and anxiety can also produce them. Most studies of standard polygraphs are carried out on offenders, and they tend to find fairly high detection rates. Reported figures are typically of the order of a sensitivity (proportion of liars detected) of 76% and specificity (number of confirmed truth-tellers) of 63% (’average’ values), with 87% and 88% representing the upper range of estimates (’maximal’ values), which doesn’t sound too bad. But the utility of the polygraph (or any test in fact) very much depends on how likely it is that the suspect is guilty (the prevalence of true positives in the population) because if few people are guilty then even though only a small proportion of truth-tellers are falsely declared liars the large number of truth-tellers tested compared to the small number of liars means that most people reported as liars will actually be truth-tellers. Conversely, if most people you are testing are guilty (and thus liars) then even though a lot of guilty people will be detected, a lot of those declared innocent will actually be lying.To make that rather convoluted explanation a bit more concrete, I refer you to a rather famous paper by Brett et al (1986, Lancet) which used the figures above (the ‘average’ and ‘maximal’ values). They showed that when the prevalence of offenders in the population is assumed to be 5% (i.e. not many, such as with benefit cheats) there was a 10% positive predictive value, that is only 1 in 10 positive tests are actually lying, with the rest falsely accused (that is with the ‘average’ values, using the ‘maximal’ values they find 25% true positives).For a pre-test probability of 50% (e.g. criminal investigations, hopefully, maybe) the positive predictive value is 67% (88% with the ‘maximal’ values), a gain in certainty after the test of only 17%, with 33% of positive results still false positives. If most people are liars (90%) then the negative predictive value is only 23% with 77% of negative test results generated by lying subjects. It is often said that if you are innocent you probably don’t want to take the risk of being falsely labelled a liar, and thus a suspect, while it may be worth taking the chance if you’re guilty anyway, as it could throw them off the scent!So we know that polygraphs aren’t going to be that great at detecting liars in the population, even though they do work to some extent. There was a study done last year (Gamer et al 2006, Int J Psychophysiol) of polygraph measures (heart rate etc)* and voice stress recognition. It used the Guilty Knowledge Test (GKT):If, for example, a robbery of a fuel station is examined, a typical GKT-question could be:
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-ne I just learned that Madeline L’Engle passed away yesterday, September 6th, 2007 of natural causes.
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The rules of my mission are that I should identify all lifeforms however, so recently I left an outside light on after dusk and was delighted to come back an hour later to find the moth seen in photo one (click to enlarge).From the characteristic lemon-yellow colouring and patches of brown on the costa (the leading edges of the wing), and using my copy of ‘Butterflies and Moths of Britain and Europe’ (Collins), I’m confident in my identifying my moth as the Brimstone Moth.My moth’s Latin name is Opisothograptis luteolata, which, by piecing together snippets of information from various sources, I believe translates as Opistho =backwards , graptis=graphics/writing , luteolata= yellowish : the yellow-with-backward-facing-graphical-symbols moth though I’m happy to be corrected.In an effort to learn more about moths I have been reading the excellent and scholarly ‘Moths’ (Michael Majerus, The New Naturalist series).
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(no annotations: too many moves).Borisek,J (2506) - Caruana,F (2549) [B41], Trieste 7.9.20071.e4 c5 2.Nf3 e6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 a6 5.c4 Nf6 6.Nc3 Bb4 7.Bd3 Nc6 8.Nde2 Qc7 9.a3 Be7 10.Bf4 Ne5 11.Rc1 b6 12.0–0 Bb7 13.b4 d6 14.Bxe5 dxe5 15.Ng3 0–0 16.Qe2 a5 17.Rb1 Ba6 18.Rfc1 Rfd8 19.Qe3 h6 20.Bf1 Ne8 21.Qe1 Bg5 22.Rc2 axb4 23.axb4 Nd6 24.Na4 Bb7 25.Nc3 Ba6 26.Na4 b5 27.Nc5 Nxc4 28.Bxc4 bxc4 29.Nxa6 Rxa6 30.b5 Rad6 31.Nf1 Rd4 32.b6 Qb7 33.f3 Be7 34.Ne3 Bc5 35.Kh1 Bxb6 36.Nxc4 Qc7 37.Rbc1 Ba7 38.h3 f6 39.Kh2 Qd7 40.Na5 Rd1 41.Rxd1 Qxd1 42.Qxd1 Rxd1 43.g4 Be3 44.Nc6 Kf7 45.h4 Rd2 46.Rxd2 Bxd2 47.Kg2 Ke8 48.Nb8 Ke7 49.Kf1 Kd6 50.Ke2 Ba5 51.Kd3 Kc7 52.Na6 Kb6 53.Nb8 Bb4 54.g5 Be7 55.gxh6 gxh6 56.Kc4 h5 57.Nd7 Kc6 58.Nb8 Kd6 59.Na6 f5 60.Kd3 Bxh4 61.Ke2 Bg3 62.Kf1 h4 63.Kg2 Be1 64.Kh3 Kc6 65.Nb8 Kc7 66.Na6 Kd6 67.Kg2 Ba5 68.Kh3 Bd8 69.Kg2 Kc6 70.Nb8 Kc7 71.Na6 Kb6 72.Nb8 Kc5 73.Nd7 Kd4 74.Nf8 fxe4 75.fxe4 Kxe4 76.Nxe6 Be7 77.Ng7 Kf4 78.Ne6 Kg4 79.Nc7 h3 80.Kh1 e4 81.Nd5 Bg5 82.Kg1 Kg3 83.Kh1 Bf4 84.Kg1 Kf3 85.Kh1 Be5 86.Kg1 h2 87.Kh1 Bd6 88.Nc3 e3 89.Nb5 Be5 0–1
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Array FG 3-PT FT PTSProvidence 3-12 2-7 2-2 10DePaul 4-11 0-1 8-9 16 Rutgers 2-8 0-2 9-11 13 Syracuse 1-8 1-4 7-8 10Georgia Tech 4-14 1-6 4-4 13————————————————Seton Hall 7-22 4-8 4-4 22Syracuse 8-21 6-13 5-8 27Rutgers 4-10 0-0 9-11 17Last eight gamesTotals FG - 33-106 (31.1 percent) 3-PT - 14-41 (34.1 percent) FT - 48-57 (84.2 percent) AVG - 118/14.8 ppgLast three games TotalsFG - 19-53 (35.8 percent) 3-PT - 10-21 (47.6 percent) FT - 18-23 (78.3 percent) AVG - 66/22 ppg
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-ne Via NPR and The Daily GrailFor reasons that remain mostly mysterious, the note we call B flat does the oddest things. It turned out the culprit was B flat, one octave below middle C.The experiment was described back in the 1940s.I repeated the experiment on an ABC News broadcast in the 1990s, playing a B flat to a collection of gators at a roadside attraction in Florida and recording their bellows.Why B flat? So if a black hole hums, it hums at a frequency a million billion times lower than you can hear.A Song in B FlatWhile you may not be able to hear a black hole humming, this story is, to a considerable extent, sung.The vocalist (who is also the lyricist, and a journalist) is Josh Kurz of Los Angeles.
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-ne Instructions: in bold=have read the book. in italics=want to read the book =own the book (if it in italics, too, Narda owns the book, and I want to read it…) *=unfamiliar with the book []=notes from me (I feel like I do actually read a lot, but I tend to be a fan of current Social Science, and not so much fiction, unless it’s Sci-Fi, hence I appear rather dense in the book department, but if a meme were created showing mostly NON-fiction, I hope I would mostly have a list in bold…) 1. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Rowling)12. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Rowling)14. Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (Rowling)17. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Rowling)58. The Thorn Birds (Colleen McCullough) [read other books by same author]59.
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-ne Dear Mr Tan,I read your recent post in your blog regarding suitable jobs for seniors. We are both hoping to look for some part time jobs to help supplement the family income, as currently, we still have one son studying medical school in NUS, which is quite a drain on the family resources.Could you please help us and let us know which are these suitable jobs you are talking about?
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-ne The Surrender Monkeys have only minority support.*By a 53 percent - 46 percent margin, respondents surveyed said that Democrats are going too far, too fast in pressing the President to withdraw troops from Iraq.
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Array FG 3-PT FT PTSProvidence 3-12 2-7 2-2 10DePaul 4-11 0-1 8-9 16 Rutgers 2-8 0-2 9-11 13 Syracuse 1-8 1-4 7-8 10Georgia Tech 4-14 1-6 4-4 13————————————————Seton Hall 7-22 4-8 4-4 22Syracuse 8-21 6-13 5-8 27Rutgers 4-10 0-0 9-11 17Last eight gamesTotals FG - 33-106 (31.1 percent) 3-PT - 14-41 (34.1 percent) FT - 48-57 (84.2 percent) AVG - 118/14.8 ppgLast three games TotalsFG - 19-53 (35.8 percent) 3-PT - 10-21 (47.6 percent) FT - 18-23 (78.3 percent) AVG - 66/22 ppg
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-ne Via NPR and The Daily GrailFor reasons that remain mostly mysterious, the note we call B flat does the oddest things. It turned out the culprit was B flat, one octave below middle C.The experiment was described back in the 1940s.I repeated the experiment on an ABC News broadcast in the 1990s, playing a B flat to a collection of gators at a roadside attraction in Florida and recording their bellows.Why B flat? So if a black hole hums, it hums at a frequency a million billion times lower than you can hear.A Song in B FlatWhile you may not be able to hear a black hole humming, this story is, to a considerable extent, sung.The vocalist (who is also the lyricist, and a journalist) is Josh Kurz of Los Angeles.
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-ne Instructions: in bold=have read the book. in italics=want to read the book =own the book (if it in italics, too, Narda owns the book, and I want to read it…) *=unfamiliar with the book []=notes from me (I feel like I do actually read a lot, but I tend to be a fan of current Social Science, and not so much fiction, unless it’s Sci-Fi, hence I appear rather dense in the book department, but if a meme were created showing mostly NON-fiction, I hope I would mostly have a list in bold…) 1. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Rowling)12. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Rowling)14. Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (Rowling)17. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Rowling)58. The Thorn Birds (Colleen McCullough) [read other books by same author]59.
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-ne Dear Mr Tan,I read your recent post in your blog regarding suitable jobs for seniors. We are both hoping to look for some part time jobs to help supplement the family income, as currently, we still have one son studying medical school in NUS, which is quite a drain on the family resources.Could you please help us and let us know which are these suitable jobs you are talking about?
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-ne The Surrender Monkeys have only minority support.*By a 53 percent - 46 percent margin, respondents surveyed said that Democrats are going too far, too fast in pressing the President to withdraw troops from Iraq.
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The answer is true to the following statements:1. When Rex picked me up for our first official date, I wore a pleated skirt, a coat from 1960, vintage cat eye glasses and sported bright red hair (that I maintained to the tune of 100.00/month - ahhhhh, the days of wine and vanity).2. Rex had his hair parted to the side, a unibrow, tight 501 jeans, a long sleeve shirt buttoned to his wrists and proceeded to wear bright green pants with a red turtleneck to a Xmas eve dinner later on that year. That would be his last time doing that.3. I went from show to show, always paying rent, but somehow not having a lot left over at the end of the month. I lived in a magical apartment overlooking a nursery school. I used to drink coffee on the porch and throw Hawaiian parties in the driveway where lots of people got layed.4. Rex lived at his parent’s house until he was 24 so that he could afford the down payment to his first condo. (One that I bitched about for two years due to the location. I still feel bad about that as it provided us the down payment for a home I love even more than my second floor apartment.)5. My idea of a day off is sleeping in, eating too much, over scheduling and under accomplishing.6. Rex’s idea of a day off is getting up early, drinking a healthy glass of milk with some fruit, mulching a tree and prepping a 72 page document for some hoity toity CFO doo hicky type person.If someone asked us if we knew of all these differences before we got married, we could only answer I do.This leads me to today’s stranger post. It involves a woman we saw at Old Town San Diego last night. We were all seated at a table with family and old friends in an authentic Mexican restaurant. Mariachi music was in perfect harmony with the summer evening and fish bowl margaritas. While Stink was too busy with his new coloring book, Pipsqueak clapped her hands while a white haired lady danced and danced to the horns. I thought she was part of the act, but turns out she was a patron just drunk off her rocker. (One could say drunk off her rocking chair.)While Rex chatted up my friend’s husband, I stopped the old lady in front of a water fountain and complimented her skills. She looked at me and said, Im too old to care what anyone else thinks.”I wonder what she was like at 29 - the year I met Rex. Was she always this free spirited, or was it something that she learned? In any case, it reminded me to find some of my old photos (like the one above, taken in 1999) and get inspired to funk-di-fy myself a bit more. I might not have the cat glasses anymore, but theres a lot of meow left in this ol tiger. Hell, I need something to embarrass my kids with.What about you? Got any tricks from yester year that its time to display again?
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Airwaves and news pages were quickly filled with talk of outrage from the left, criticism from the left, and how the commutation will further drive the left crazy.It’s positively Pavlovian. So unless the left has recently had an incredible growth spurt, a lot of people on the so-called right are feeling outraged too.Is it really that hard for the media to address this issue without the left/right crutch?
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-ne This entire hullabaloo about the failed bombings at Glasgow and Indian muslims being implicated in the United Kingdom for the first time in connection with terror activities got me thinking yet again. All this while most of the public was under the misconception that only poor muslim youth take a recourse to such anti social activities ranging from suicide attacks to bombings as it is their way of attaining martyrdom[incidentally I read somewhere that Islam says such martyrs have 72 virgins waiting for them at the gates of heaven which reminded me of this post by Evil Spock :)] and after their death their families are given a lump some amount of money by the terrorist outfit they had been a part of. George Bush the self proclaimed Big Daddy of the world and his faithful battery of followers take personal pleasure in inculcating the fear of Islam in the western world. We shouldn’t blame Islam for all these mishaps, it is our own making, the fact that we did not raise our voices against all the injustices at the right time , the fact that America chose to bring Bush back to power even after the disaster in Iraq, the fact that we continue to be oblivious of what the true message in the Quran and very conveniently blame the religion for fostering terrorism.
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-ne I read here on Friday that South Africa just passed India as the country with the greatest number of people living with HIV–about 5.7 million.Do you think that has anything to do with this?Fortunately, Mbeki has since changed his tune, but who knows how long the harm he caused will be felt.I’m going to see an unauthorized biographic documentary about Mbeki on Friday. The numbers are kind of overwhelming: 2/3 of people living with HIV live in sub-Saharan Africa;
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The answer is true to the following statements:1. When Rex picked me up for our first official date, I wore a pleated skirt, a coat from 1960, vintage cat eye glasses and sported bright red hair (that I maintained to the tune of 100.00/month - ahhhhh, the days of wine and vanity).2. Rex had his hair parted to the side, a unibrow, tight 501 jeans, a long sleeve shirt buttoned to his wrists and proceeded to wear bright green pants with a red turtleneck to a Xmas eve dinner later on that year. That would be his last time doing that.3. I went from show to show, always paying rent, but somehow not having a lot left over at the end of the month. I lived in a magical apartment overlooking a nursery school. I used to drink coffee on the porch and throw Hawaiian parties in the driveway where lots of people got layed.4. Rex lived at his parent’s house until he was 24 so that he could afford the down payment to his first condo. (One that I bitched about for two years due to the location. I still feel bad about that as it provided us the down payment for a home I love even more than my second floor apartment.)5. My idea of a day off is sleeping in, eating too much, over scheduling and under accomplishing.6. Rex’s idea of a day off is getting up early, drinking a healthy glass of milk with some fruit, mulching a tree and prepping a 72 page document for some hoity toity CFO doo hicky type person.If someone asked us if we knew of all these differences before we got married, we could only answer I do.This leads me to today’s stranger post. It involves a woman we saw at Old Town San Diego last night. We were all seated at a table with family and old friends in an authentic Mexican restaurant. Mariachi music was in perfect harmony with the summer evening and fish bowl margaritas. While Stink was too busy with his new coloring book, Pipsqueak clapped her hands while a white haired lady danced and danced to the horns. I thought she was part of the act, but turns out she was a patron just drunk off her rocker. (One could say drunk off her rocking chair.)While Rex chatted up my friend’s husband, I stopped the old lady in front of a water fountain and complimented her skills. She looked at me and said, Im too old to care what anyone else thinks.”I wonder what she was like at 29 - the year I met Rex. Was she always this free spirited, or was it something that she learned? In any case, it reminded me to find some of my old photos (like the one above, taken in 1999) and get inspired to funk-di-fy myself a bit more. I might not have the cat glasses anymore, but theres a lot of meow left in this ol tiger. Hell, I need something to embarrass my kids with.What about you? Got any tricks from yester year that its time to display again?
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Airwaves and news pages were quickly filled with talk of outrage from the left, criticism from the left, and how the commutation will further drive the left crazy.It’s positively Pavlovian. So unless the left has recently had an incredible growth spurt, a lot of people on the so-called right are feeling outraged too.Is it really that hard for the media to address this issue without the left/right crutch?
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-ne This entire hullabaloo about the failed bombings at Glasgow and Indian muslims being implicated in the United Kingdom for the first time in connection with terror activities got me thinking yet again. All this while most of the public was under the misconception that only poor muslim youth take a recourse to such anti social activities ranging from suicide attacks to bombings as it is their way of attaining martyrdom[incidentally I read somewhere that Islam says such martyrs have 72 virgins waiting for them at the gates of heaven which reminded me of this post by Evil Spock :)] and after their death their families are given a lump some amount of money by the terrorist outfit they had been a part of. George Bush the self proclaimed Big Daddy of the world and his faithful battery of followers take personal pleasure in inculcating the fear of Islam in the western world. We shouldn’t blame Islam for all these mishaps, it is our own making, the fact that we did not raise our voices against all the injustices at the right time , the fact that America chose to bring Bush back to power even after the disaster in Iraq, the fact that we continue to be oblivious of what the true message in the Quran and very conveniently blame the religion for fostering terrorism.
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-ne I read here on Friday that South Africa just passed India as the country with the greatest number of people living with HIV–about 5.7 million.Do you think that has anything to do with this?Fortunately, Mbeki has since changed his tune, but who knows how long the harm he caused will be felt.I’m going to see an unauthorized biographic documentary about Mbeki on Friday. The numbers are kind of overwhelming: 2/3 of people living with HIV live in sub-Saharan Africa;
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Array-ne November 273.5 miles74 minutes388 calories121 fat calories
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-ne blimp blimp blimp blimp blimp…. fra la la la larf… so from 1130 in the morning to 1000 in the evening, i was eating nonstop: french fries, honey barbecue chicken, cheese streusels, cheese stuffed whatver bread, hot chocolate, chicken torpedo, burger steak, pork steak, donuts, more fries, bananas, etc. yeeeaaahHH!!~~chang chang changidy chang chibopchang chang changidy chang chipoplalala kadingy kadingy dong…~~yan, tapus na…nickelback’s songs are rockin. au revoir!Pouvoir la vision d’un bon avenir libère mon âme, et me libérer des chaînes de tristesse..-blimpo me-
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-ne LONDON: India is swimming against the tide and its citizens will miss out on investment opportunities if it does not allow overseas insurers to invest more in the country, Britain’s biggest insurer Aviva said on Friday. “Obviously we entered the Indian market in the expectation the government would be increasing those (FDI) shares in line with opening up that market and it is a matter of frustration to us.” Aviva said its life business in India, which has nearly 6,000 sales agents and around 1,700 staff, was growing strongly but it was keen to invest more. Life distribution: Amid sluggish growth in the UK market, Aviva has focused on sealing distribution deals with banks in continental Europe to boost its life and pensions business.
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-ne Thanksgiving Day after all……complete turkey dinner for lunch, along with pumpkin pie for dessert.
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-ne blimp blimp blimp blimp blimp…. fra la la la larf… so from 1130 in the morning to 1000 in the evening, i was eating nonstop: french fries, honey barbecue chicken, cheese streusels, cheese stuffed whatver bread, hot chocolate, chicken torpedo, burger steak, pork steak, donuts, more fries, bananas, etc. yeeeaaahHH!!~~chang chang changidy chang chibopchang chang changidy chang chipoplalala kadingy kadingy dong…~~yan, tapus na…nickelback’s songs are rockin. au revoir!Pouvoir la vision d’un bon avenir libère mon âme, et me libérer des chaînes de tristesse..-blimpo me-
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-ne LONDON: India is swimming against the tide and its citizens will miss out on investment opportunities if it does not allow overseas insurers to invest more in the country, Britain’s biggest insurer Aviva said on Friday. “Obviously we entered the Indian market in the expectation the government would be increasing those (FDI) shares in line with opening up that market and it is a matter of frustration to us.” Aviva said its life business in India, which has nearly 6,000 sales agents and around 1,700 staff, was growing strongly but it was keen to invest more. Life distribution: Amid sluggish growth in the UK market, Aviva has focused on sealing distribution deals with banks in continental Europe to boost its life and pensions business.
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-ne Thanksgiving Day after all……complete turkey dinner for lunch, along with pumpkin pie for dessert.
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The Germantown Gazette blurb did not mention the date — everything else in the Gazette was correct!My neighbor Amy S.
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It appears that the attack took place in two firings, two hours apart. 8 years after Columbine, after the snipers in DC, after the clocktower, today…well, what more can be said?There’s a lot to be said. As I’ve been busy looking at the news, mostly of a trivial nature to satisfy my mean streak, it has become abundantly clear that media outlets, big and small, are clouded over. What perspectives can I form that haven’t been manipulated and taken into account in advance? It’s not a rant or a manifesto or a sermon, but a personal reiteration that I’ve decided to let open because I know it’s not an uncommon thought. If enough people at this same moment share similar fleeting thoughts, then I’m secure in the notion that things aren’t as askew as I thought when I first started.
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I try to cover my harrowing adventures to the show and the past 3 days of training seminars I’ve attended.
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I’ll give you the highlights.Of course there’s classes on After Effects, 3D software, Adobe suite, Final Cut Pro suite, Avid, HD DVD production.
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I got a lift to visit Geoff –a very old college mate who I have seen 3 times in 35 years, but we pick up as if there were no time between. He has a lovely spacious house in Balwyn but misses the Dandenongs where they lived for twenty odd years.
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The Germantown Gazette blurb did not mention the date — everything else in the Gazette was correct!My neighbor Amy S.
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It appears that the attack took place in two firings, two hours apart. 8 years after Columbine, after the snipers in DC, after the clocktower, today…well, what more can be said?There’s a lot to be said. As I’ve been busy looking at the news, mostly of a trivial nature to satisfy my mean streak, it has become abundantly clear that media outlets, big and small, are clouded over. What perspectives can I form that haven’t been manipulated and taken into account in advance? It’s not a rant or a manifesto or a sermon, but a personal reiteration that I’ve decided to let open because I know it’s not an uncommon thought. If enough people at this same moment share similar fleeting thoughts, then I’m secure in the notion that things aren’t as askew as I thought when I first started.
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I try to cover my harrowing adventures to the show and the past 3 days of training seminars I’ve attended.
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I’ll give you the highlights.Of course there’s classes on After Effects, 3D software, Adobe suite, Final Cut Pro suite, Avid, HD DVD production.
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I got a lift to visit Geoff –a very old college mate who I have seen 3 times in 35 years, but we pick up as if there were no time between. He has a lovely spacious house in Balwyn but misses the Dandenongs where they lived for twenty odd years.
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Array 21 After the men had gone a long time without food, Paul stood up before them and said: Men, you should have taken my advice not to sail from Crete; 23 Last night an angel of the God whose I am and whom I serve stood beside me 24 and said: Do not be afraid, Paul. Apostle Paul alone among them remained perfectly calm, and by his word from Jehovah God the rest were reassured. Apostle Paul of the Bible was the only man who had courage enough to say: So keep up your courage, men, for I have faith in God that it will happen just as He told me.  Apostle Paul had a friend named Jesus who kept Paul’s courage up.  What that presence brings in heart cheer those remember who, like Paul, have had the angel of Jehovah God standing by them in a night of storm, when anchors would no longer hold, and rocks were dangerously close, Jesus was even closer. 
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So yesterday I was in a complete and total funk the entire day. She noticed…and asked what was bothering me. It was hard to tell her though because in reality, even though I said I would fall back, I really don’t want to. I want to be a part of her life…and I want her in mine.I talked to a friend about the situation - someone not a part of the board to keep down the potential drama - and she gave me some very good advice. She said, Look, what did you tell me you were gonna do when you broke up with your last girl? You said you were gonna chill by yourself for a little while. Whats wrong with doing that?” And I realize that shes right. That doesnt necessarily mean that Im backing up…Im not really. But I will step back for a while and allow her the healing time she needs…and deserves. Theres no reason for us to jump into a relationship. Right now, Ill be the friend she needs and be there for her when shes hurting…and when shes smiling. I believe her when she says that she wants to be with me. But I realize that certain people do tend to have holds on us even when theyre no longer part of our lives. I understand that…and respect it. Ill be here waiting and doing my own healing in the meantime. I guess this is the “taking it slow” that weve been talking about. When shes ready, we can together make this a love to be envied…until then, well just…Be.
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-ne Tomorrow (Wednesday March 15, 2006), Heather and I will depart on the plane to go to Austria.
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Please answer with three or more sentences.Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.Barbara Kingsolver
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Klicken Sie doch mal rein – meine Lieblingsbeiträge sind die Dokumentation über die bisherigen bitteren Erfahrungen der JF mit gewalttätigen Attacken von radikalen Linken und obrigkeitshörig kuschenden Mitläufern unseres gesellschaftlichen Mainstreams, das Interview mit dem Satiriker und TITANIC-Gründer Eckhard Henscheid (ein linksliberaler Tabubrecher und damit mein Verwandter im Geiste) und nicht zuletzt das Interview mit meinem Verleger Götz Kubitschek. Es gibt nichts Heimtückischeres als hoffähige rechte Zeitungen mit einem unverdächtigen Image!“Wer heute abend lieber etwas Geistvolles im Fernsehen schauen möchte: Auf Kabel 1 beginnt die auf Tatsachen beruhende Mystey-Serie „Medium“, die ich als Medien-Wissenschaftler nicht nur wegen Patricia Arquette in der Hauptrolle gerne sehen werde.
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Array 21 After the men had gone a long time without food, Paul stood up before them and said: Men, you should have taken my advice not to sail from Crete; 23 Last night an angel of the God whose I am and whom I serve stood beside me 24 and said: Do not be afraid, Paul. Apostle Paul alone among them remained perfectly calm, and by his word from Jehovah God the rest were reassured. Apostle Paul of the Bible was the only man who had courage enough to say: So keep up your courage, men, for I have faith in God that it will happen just as He told me.  Apostle Paul had a friend named Jesus who kept Paul’s courage up.  What that presence brings in heart cheer those remember who, like Paul, have had the angel of Jehovah God standing by them in a night of storm, when anchors would no longer hold, and rocks were dangerously close, Jesus was even closer. 
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So yesterday I was in a complete and total funk the entire day. She noticed…and asked what was bothering me. It was hard to tell her though because in reality, even though I said I would fall back, I really don’t want to. I want to be a part of her life…and I want her in mine.I talked to a friend about the situation - someone not a part of the board to keep down the potential drama - and she gave me some very good advice. She said, Look, what did you tell me you were gonna do when you broke up with your last girl? You said you were gonna chill by yourself for a little while. Whats wrong with doing that?” And I realize that shes right. That doesnt necessarily mean that Im backing up…Im not really. But I will step back for a while and allow her the healing time she needs…and deserves. Theres no reason for us to jump into a relationship. Right now, Ill be the friend she needs and be there for her when shes hurting…and when shes smiling. I believe her when she says that she wants to be with me. But I realize that certain people do tend to have holds on us even when theyre no longer part of our lives. I understand that…and respect it. Ill be here waiting and doing my own healing in the meantime. I guess this is the “taking it slow” that weve been talking about. When shes ready, we can together make this a love to be envied…until then, well just…Be.
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-ne Tomorrow (Wednesday March 15, 2006), Heather and I will depart on the plane to go to Austria.
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Please answer with three or more sentences.Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.Barbara Kingsolver
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Klicken Sie doch mal rein – meine Lieblingsbeiträge sind die Dokumentation über die bisherigen bitteren Erfahrungen der JF mit gewalttätigen Attacken von radikalen Linken und obrigkeitshörig kuschenden Mitläufern unseres gesellschaftlichen Mainstreams, das Interview mit dem Satiriker und TITANIC-Gründer Eckhard Henscheid (ein linksliberaler Tabubrecher und damit mein Verwandter im Geiste) und nicht zuletzt das Interview mit meinem Verleger Götz Kubitschek. Es gibt nichts Heimtückischeres als hoffähige rechte Zeitungen mit einem unverdächtigen Image!“Wer heute abend lieber etwas Geistvolles im Fernsehen schauen möchte: Auf Kabel 1 beginnt die auf Tatsachen beruhende Mystey-Serie „Medium“, die ich als Medien-Wissenschaftler nicht nur wegen Patricia Arquette in der Hauptrolle gerne sehen werde.
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Array Develop Don’t Destroy Brooklyn, the umbrella organization for individuals and groups opposed to the project, called on opponents to boycott yesterday’s meeting, urging them instead to “participate in the electoral process.”Norman Oder, in Atlantic Yards Report described it like this:If a Martian had attended the community forum yesterday on the Atlantic Yards plan, the visitor would’ve concluded that citizens—except for a group of construction workers, a few community activists, two happy property sellers, and some other locals—weren’t much exercised about what would be the largest development in the history of Brooklyn.There were perhaps 125 people in New York City Tech’s Klitgord Auditorium in Downtown Brooklyn, a room that can hold more than 800, and the mostly low-key hearing, scheduled from 4:30 to 8 pm, was over before 7 pm.
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Among all users, 42.6% are students and teachers, 15.0% are from government offices, 25.9% are enterprise users, 16.5% are from others.Among school users, 77.1% use Baidu, 13.4% use GoogleAmong office users, 54.3% use Baidu, 29% use GoogleAmong enterprise users, 64.7% use Baidu, 31.0% use GoogleFor all users, 64.7% uses Baidu, 20.7% use Google(Due to fact that all the other search engines have share in single digit, their numbers are not being translated here)Fig 2. Among all enterprise users, 29.8% from government owned firms, 42.9% from private firms, 21.0% from foreign capital invested firms, and 6.3% from others.Among users from government owned firms, Baidu’s share was 54.7%, Google 25.0%Among users from private owned firms, Baidu’s share was 54.0%, Google 32.8%Among foreign capital invested firms, Baidu’s share was 44.8%, Google 44%For all enterprise users, Baidu’s shae was 52.7%, Google 32.0%.Fig 3. Maturing into an overall service of searchIn 2005 CNNIC survey, 49.1% Baidu users searched for the web, 55.8% searched for MP361.7% Google users searched for the web, 17.3% search for MP3In this year’s CIC survey, 72.6% Baidu users searched for the web, 55.5% search for MP376.9% Google users searched for the web, 11.9% searched for MP3(Google does not provide specialized MP3 search service like the one Baidu provides)Fig 10.
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Horne, age 29, of Springfield.The crash occurred as a 2002 Mitsubishi Montero, operated by Nathan A. Law, age 17, of Springfield, was northbound on Glenstone in the right hand (outside) lane and Mr. Horne was walking in the area.
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Solution to Saturday’s puzzle:Define ƒ:ƒ(n) is the element that has atomic number corresponding to the n-th prime number, expressed in Chinese.For simplicity of analysis, ƒ can be thought of as a composite functionƒ(n) = g(h(n))ƒ(n) = gh(n)g(n) = the (Chinese) name the element with atomic number n, andh(n) = the n-th prime numberExample:Let n = 25,ƒ(n) = g(h(25))h(25) = 97 (the 25th prime number is 97)g(97) = 锫 (Berkelium has atomic number of 97)ƒ(25) =锫Estimate the domain of ƒ:Elements in with atomic numbers greater than 111 have not been named yet, placeholders are used to refer to these elements.
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Dwayne DeRosario for a win even after going down to 10 men on Brian Mullan’s second yellow card.~ ~ ~ ~MLS Standings (and who would be in and out of the playoffs is they started today):East-51 DC - already qualified for playoffs38 Chicago34 New England33 Kansas City- - - - - -29 New York26 ColumbusWest-46 Dallas - only 2 points gained or lost by Salt Lake from qualifying for playoffs39 Houston35 Chivas35 Colorado- - - - - -33 Salt Lake32 Los Angeles~ ~ ~ ~Yes Pat Noonan returned to give New England the win on Saturday, but he hurt his hip in the game and is doubtful for the Wednesday night match v DC. It’s Match Day 1 of the group stage:Tuesday-Chelsea v Bremen - Live at 1:30pm central on SetantaBarcelona v Levski - Live at 1:30pm central on ESPN DeportesSporting v Inter - Same Day Delayed at 3:45pm central on ESPN DeportesBayern v Spartak MoskvaGalatasaray v Bordeaux - Same Day Delayed at 8pm central on SetantaPSV v Liverpool - Live at 1:30pm central on ESPN2Olympiacos v Valencia - Live at 1:30pm central on Setanta Closed CircuitRoma v ShakhtarWednesday-Dynamo Kyiv v Steaua BucharestiLyon v Real Madrid - Live at 1:30pm central on ESPN DeportesManchester United v Celtic - Live at 1:30pm central on ESPN2Kobenhavn v Benfica - Live at 1:30pm central on Setanta Closed CircuitPorto v CSKA Moskva - Same Day Delayed at 6pm central on SetantaHamburg v Arsenal - Live at 1:30pm central on SetantaAnderlecht v LilleMilan v AEK - Same Day Delayed at 3:45pm central on ESPN Deportes-And don’t miss the (ALL-NEW in America) Champions League Highlight Show on ESPN2 - Friday at 1pm central-Matchday 2 is Sept 26 &
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Array Develop Don’t Destroy Brooklyn, the umbrella organization for individuals and groups opposed to the project, called on opponents to boycott yesterday’s meeting, urging them instead to “participate in the electoral process.”Norman Oder, in Atlantic Yards Report described it like this:If a Martian had attended the community forum yesterday on the Atlantic Yards plan, the visitor would’ve concluded that citizens—except for a group of construction workers, a few community activists, two happy property sellers, and some other locals—weren’t much exercised about what would be the largest development in the history of Brooklyn.There were perhaps 125 people in New York City Tech’s Klitgord Auditorium in Downtown Brooklyn, a room that can hold more than 800, and the mostly low-key hearing, scheduled from 4:30 to 8 pm, was over before 7 pm.
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Among all users, 42.6% are students and teachers, 15.0% are from government offices, 25.9% are enterprise users, 16.5% are from others.Among school users, 77.1% use Baidu, 13.4% use GoogleAmong office users, 54.3% use Baidu, 29% use GoogleAmong enterprise users, 64.7% use Baidu, 31.0% use GoogleFor all users, 64.7% uses Baidu, 20.7% use Google(Due to fact that all the other search engines have share in single digit, their numbers are not being translated here)Fig 2. Among all enterprise users, 29.8% from government owned firms, 42.9% from private firms, 21.0% from foreign capital invested firms, and 6.3% from others.Among users from government owned firms, Baidu’s share was 54.7%, Google 25.0%Among users from private owned firms, Baidu’s share was 54.0%, Google 32.8%Among foreign capital invested firms, Baidu’s share was 44.8%, Google 44%For all enterprise users, Baidu’s shae was 52.7%, Google 32.0%.Fig 3. Maturing into an overall service of searchIn 2005 CNNIC survey, 49.1% Baidu users searched for the web, 55.8% searched for MP361.7% Google users searched for the web, 17.3% search for MP3In this year’s CIC survey, 72.6% Baidu users searched for the web, 55.5% search for MP376.9% Google users searched for the web, 11.9% searched for MP3(Google does not provide specialized MP3 search service like the one Baidu provides)Fig 10.
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Horne, age 29, of Springfield.The crash occurred as a 2002 Mitsubishi Montero, operated by Nathan A. Law, age 17, of Springfield, was northbound on Glenstone in the right hand (outside) lane and Mr. Horne was walking in the area.
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Solution to Saturday’s puzzle:Define ƒ:ƒ(n) is the element that has atomic number corresponding to the n-th prime number, expressed in Chinese.For simplicity of analysis, ƒ can be thought of as a composite functionƒ(n) = g(h(n))ƒ(n) = gh(n)g(n) = the (Chinese) name the element with atomic number n, andh(n) = the n-th prime numberExample:Let n = 25,ƒ(n) = g(h(25))h(25) = 97 (the 25th prime number is 97)g(97) = 锫 (Berkelium has atomic number of 97)ƒ(25) =锫Estimate the domain of ƒ:Elements in with atomic numbers greater than 111 have not been named yet, placeholders are used to refer to these elements.
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Dwayne DeRosario for a win even after going down to 10 men on Brian Mullan’s second yellow card.~ ~ ~ ~MLS Standings (and who would be in and out of the playoffs is they started today):East-51 DC - already qualified for playoffs38 Chicago34 New England33 Kansas City- - - - - -29 New York26 ColumbusWest-46 Dallas - only 2 points gained or lost by Salt Lake from qualifying for playoffs39 Houston35 Chivas35 Colorado- - - - - -33 Salt Lake32 Los Angeles~ ~ ~ ~Yes Pat Noonan returned to give New England the win on Saturday, but he hurt his hip in the game and is doubtful for the Wednesday night match v DC. It’s Match Day 1 of the group stage:Tuesday-Chelsea v Bremen - Live at 1:30pm central on SetantaBarcelona v Levski - Live at 1:30pm central on ESPN DeportesSporting v Inter - Same Day Delayed at 3:45pm central on ESPN DeportesBayern v Spartak MoskvaGalatasaray v Bordeaux - Same Day Delayed at 8pm central on SetantaPSV v Liverpool - Live at 1:30pm central on ESPN2Olympiacos v Valencia - Live at 1:30pm central on Setanta Closed CircuitRoma v ShakhtarWednesday-Dynamo Kyiv v Steaua BucharestiLyon v Real Madrid - Live at 1:30pm central on ESPN DeportesManchester United v Celtic - Live at 1:30pm central on ESPN2Kobenhavn v Benfica - Live at 1:30pm central on Setanta Closed CircuitPorto v CSKA Moskva - Same Day Delayed at 6pm central on SetantaHamburg v Arsenal - Live at 1:30pm central on SetantaAnderlecht v LilleMilan v AEK - Same Day Delayed at 3:45pm central on ESPN Deportes-And don’t miss the (ALL-NEW in America) Champions League Highlight Show on ESPN2 - Friday at 1pm central-Matchday 2 is Sept 26 &
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Array According to this article from China Daily:China is expected to overtake the United States to have the world’s largest Internet population within two years . And about 17 million mobile phones users are now using their handsets to access the Web.Of course they still have a long way to go to match the percentage in the U.S., and there’s that minor issue of censorship (one of the recent examples), but it’s still worth noting.
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Try to think things over and how much you’re spending lately to avoid unnecessary expenditure or untimely investment.August 2007You are finally independent and have all the will power you need to move to a new apartment.Or it could be that you and your mother need to move to another neighborhood due to complications.September 2007Despite all the disappointment that you have encountered and didn’t give up, you will be extremely lucky this month because of your wise decisions.October 2007You will be disappointed a lot because of a person who means well but unreliable.
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-ne In this week’s exciting episode, Conrad and Kate get to know each other better, Conrad gets a bit too well aquainted with Freddie’s giant wheel, and Freddie does his first commercial.Click here to read Are You In Or Out?
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Space GeezerGee-Zar of Zandaria, pensioner from the stars Fighting: Incredible (40)Agility: Good (10)Strength: Typical (6)Endurance: Poor (4)Reason: Remarkable (30)Intuition: Excellent (20)Psyche: Remarkable (30)Health: 60Karma: 80Resources: ExcellentPopularity: 0Contacts: Space Geezer is on good terms with many of the old guard of the Zandarian Space Corps. Locally he has limited but friendly contact with the Zandarian Embassy to the UN.POWERSInhuman Grumpiness: Once per day Space Geezer may attempt a Psyche FEAT to enter a fit of righteous fury, boosting his physical abilities for 1-10 rounds. A green result boosts a physical stat of Space Geezer’s choice by one rank, but with no subsequent rank reduction. If the Psyche FEAT yields a white result nothing happens but Space Geezer cannot attempt further Grumpiness for 1-5 hours.TALENTSMarksman, Martial Arts A & C, Pilot (including spacecraft), Military, LeadershipEQUIPMENTUltrium Swagger Stick: Space Geezer occasionally carries a metal cane of alien design.
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-ne Rumor has it that Mrs. Patricia Coates Jessamy fired two genuises on her protection team who high-fived each other in the courtroom after Jemini Jones’ acquittal.Says the SA’s office, We have NO COMMENT.Why this isn’t front page news is beyond me: an off-duty cop’s daughter was held at gunpoint during a robbery outside the girl’s day care center on Monday morning.A fight at the McCulloh Homes in West Baltimore left one unidentified man [22] dead.A Bowling Brook Prep student died after becoming enraged for no apparent reason and threatening school staff.Typical Baltimore stuff (shootings, robbery, etc.) in the Blotter, including an armed robbery on The Avenue.Two Annapolis men were wounded in a shooting late last night.Harford County Detention Center inmate Terrance Kassis Washington escaped while being taken to the emergency room.A robbery victim in South Baltimore was locked in the trunk of a Jaguar.Breaking News!!!
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Array According to this article from China Daily:China is expected to overtake the United States to have the world’s largest Internet population within two years . And about 17 million mobile phones users are now using their handsets to access the Web.Of course they still have a long way to go to match the percentage in the U.S., and there’s that minor issue of censorship (one of the recent examples), but it’s still worth noting.
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Try to think things over and how much you’re spending lately to avoid unnecessary expenditure or untimely investment.August 2007You are finally independent and have all the will power you need to move to a new apartment.Or it could be that you and your mother need to move to another neighborhood due to complications.September 2007Despite all the disappointment that you have encountered and didn’t give up, you will be extremely lucky this month because of your wise decisions.October 2007You will be disappointed a lot because of a person who means well but unreliable.
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-ne In this week’s exciting episode, Conrad and Kate get to know each other better, Conrad gets a bit too well aquainted with Freddie’s giant wheel, and Freddie does his first commercial.Click here to read Are You In Or Out?
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Space GeezerGee-Zar of Zandaria, pensioner from the stars Fighting: Incredible (40)Agility: Good (10)Strength: Typical (6)Endurance: Poor (4)Reason: Remarkable (30)Intuition: Excellent (20)Psyche: Remarkable (30)Health: 60Karma: 80Resources: ExcellentPopularity: 0Contacts: Space Geezer is on good terms with many of the old guard of the Zandarian Space Corps. Locally he has limited but friendly contact with the Zandarian Embassy to the UN.POWERSInhuman Grumpiness: Once per day Space Geezer may attempt a Psyche FEAT to enter a fit of righteous fury, boosting his physical abilities for 1-10 rounds. A green result boosts a physical stat of Space Geezer’s choice by one rank, but with no subsequent rank reduction. If the Psyche FEAT yields a white result nothing happens but Space Geezer cannot attempt further Grumpiness for 1-5 hours.TALENTSMarksman, Martial Arts A & C, Pilot (including spacecraft), Military, LeadershipEQUIPMENTUltrium Swagger Stick: Space Geezer occasionally carries a metal cane of alien design.
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-ne Rumor has it that Mrs. Patricia Coates Jessamy fired two genuises on her protection team who high-fived each other in the courtroom after Jemini Jones’ acquittal.Says the SA’s office, We have NO COMMENT.Why this isn’t front page news is beyond me: an off-duty cop’s daughter was held at gunpoint during a robbery outside the girl’s day care center on Monday morning.A fight at the McCulloh Homes in West Baltimore left one unidentified man [22] dead.A Bowling Brook Prep student died after becoming enraged for no apparent reason and threatening school staff.Typical Baltimore stuff (shootings, robbery, etc.) in the Blotter, including an armed robbery on The Avenue.Two Annapolis men were wounded in a shooting late last night.Harford County Detention Center inmate Terrance Kassis Washington escaped while being taken to the emergency room.A robbery victim in South Baltimore was locked in the trunk of a Jaguar.Breaking News!!!
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La otra razón a tener en cuenta es que Andersen entrena hasta tres veces por semana, esto se observaba mucho en el manejo generoso de la pelota que sus jugadores hacían.Hay que destacar que nuestros jugadores contaron tambien, le indicaron a Sergio que había un jugador más, este les dijo que no importaba y ellos calladitos jugaron los dos encuentros sin chistar.Luego fue el turno de Sitas, que recién llegados y precalentados jugaron con uno de los equiposde Muni. Esto se debió primero y principal a la humildad de todos el equipo, segundo al espíritu de mostrarle a sus entrenadores y a ellos mismos que algo había cambiado renovando su juego con los conocimientos adquiridos y por últimos a algo que nunca pierden: esas ganas locas que tienen de divertirse y jugar al rugby que los hace siempre ir para adelante, respetando al adversario y no el juego que despliege.Lo más destacable del día fue, sin duda, la actitud de Sergio al ayudar a dirigir los partidos ya que el reglamentario entrenador de Andersen no tenía quien lo asista en esa tarea. Una muestra más de orgullo de las infantiles del Club Ciudad de Buenos Aires, que cuenta con un entrenador que cumple a rajatabla con los preceptos del rugby infantil ayudando a que todos aprendan dirigiéndolos de forma honesta y pedagógica.Luego el ramillete de bestias se dirigió hacia el modesto tercer tiempo que nos brindaron, mostrándonos que cumplían con esa obligación y nada más.Yo se lo que piensan al promediar esta lectura: este tipo no cambia más.
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-ne 一.WORD的內碼使用：需使用UNICODE編碼1.格式→字型→英文字型→Arial Unicode MS -2.檔案→另存新檔→工具→WEB選項 →編碼→Unicode(UTF-8)*推薦網站：1.UNICOD首頁 http://www.unicode.org/2.UNIBOOK編碼轉換表 http://www.unicode.org/unibook/二.EXCEL常見函數MOD(儲存格,數值) - 計算儲存格的餘數INT(儲存格/數值) - 計算儲存格的商數DEC2HEX() - 將儲存格數值10進制轉16進制﹃
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-ne 資料來源：行政院國家科學委員會行政院96年傑出科技貢獻獎選拔自即日起接受推薦，並至96å¹´8月10日截止收件。內容：說明：一、傑出科技貢獻獎之推薦選拔，除請參照旨述之實施要點及選拔作業要點辦理外，並須檢送著作及其他送審資料一式四份、推薦書一式五份（分四袋裝）及已填妥資料的推薦書之Word或PDF電子檔乙份，於期限內彙寄本會，以郵戳為憑，逾期恕不受理。二、「行政院傑出科技貢獻獎實施要點」、「行政院國家科學委員會辦理行政院傑出科技貢獻獎選拔作業要點」及推薦書等申請所需之相關規定及表格資料已公布於本會網站首頁（http：//web.nsc.gov.tw）之「補助獎勵辦法/表格」，請自行參閱或下載使用。三、受理單位：本會綜合業務處三科（地址：台北市（106）和平東路2段106號18樓）；承辦人：許專員；聯絡電話：（02）27377571。附件：行政院96年傑出科技貢獻獎推薦書〈doc檔〉行政院傑出科技貢獻獎實施要點〈doc檔〉行政院傑出科技貢獻獎選拔作業要點〈doc檔〉發佈時間：96/07/11承辦人：許家興連絡方式：02-27377571
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-ne 資料來源：行政院國家科學委員會本會96年第2期數位內容產學合作研究計畫（以下簡稱數位產學計畫）自96å¹´7月9日（星期一）起受理申請，至96å¹´9月10日（星期一）截止收件，請 查照轉知。內容：一、本會96年第2期數位產學計畫自96å¹´7月9日起至96å¹´9月10日止受理申請，逾期恕不受理。請貴機構申請人（申請人資格及合作企業須符合規定）至本會網站 (http://web.nsc.gov.tw) 首頁之「研究人才個人網」，點選常用功能下之「數位內容產學合作研究計畫」進行線上申請作業(操作細節請參考網站相關之操作說明)，各計畫申請人請務必依任職機構規定之截止收件日期前完成線上申請作業。二、96年第2期計畫執行期限為自96å¹´12月1日起至97å¹´11月30日止，依規定計畫主持人或合作企業同1年度只能執行1件計畫，故目前正執行96年第1期計畫者(執行期限為96å¹´5月1日至97å¹´4月30日止)，本期請勿提出申請。三、整合型計畫之總計畫及全部子計畫應彙整以1個計畫提出申請，請取1個申請號碼。四、申請人應由「研究人才個人網」進行線上申請並確認各項填寫內容無誤後，由申請機構彙整並造具申請名冊一式二份一併函送本會申請，文件不全或不符合規定者，不予受理，計畫申請所需之相關規定及最新書表資料（補助數位內容產學合作研究計畫作業要點、申請書、計畫合約書稿、先期技術移轉授權金繳款清單及作業流程）已公布於本會網站首頁之「補助獎勵辦法/表格」，請自行參閱下載（請隨時注意網頁最新消息或更多消息，以獲知最新相關規定事項）。五、計畫執行單位應於計畫執行期滿三個月內於線上向本會繳交精簡報告，並逕向合作企業繳交書面完整報告及光碟片乙份。六、本補助數位內容產學合作研究計畫線上系統電腦操作諮詢電話：（02）27377592資訊小組，綜合處 行政業務承辦人員許華偉先生，連絡電話：（02）27377572。發佈時間：96/07/04承辦人：許華偉連絡方式：02-27377572
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La otra razón a tener en cuenta es que Andersen entrena hasta tres veces por semana, esto se observaba mucho en el manejo generoso de la pelota que sus jugadores hacían.Hay que destacar que nuestros jugadores contaron tambien, le indicaron a Sergio que había un jugador más, este les dijo que no importaba y ellos calladitos jugaron los dos encuentros sin chistar.Luego fue el turno de Sitas, que recién llegados y precalentados jugaron con uno de los equiposde Muni. Esto se debió primero y principal a la humildad de todos el equipo, segundo al espíritu de mostrarle a sus entrenadores y a ellos mismos que algo había cambiado renovando su juego con los conocimientos adquiridos y por últimos a algo que nunca pierden: esas ganas locas que tienen de divertirse y jugar al rugby que los hace siempre ir para adelante, respetando al adversario y no el juego que despliege.Lo más destacable del día fue, sin duda, la actitud de Sergio al ayudar a dirigir los partidos ya que el reglamentario entrenador de Andersen no tenía quien lo asista en esa tarea. Una muestra más de orgullo de las infantiles del Club Ciudad de Buenos Aires, que cuenta con un entrenador que cumple a rajatabla con los preceptos del rugby infantil ayudando a que todos aprendan dirigiéndolos de forma honesta y pedagógica.Luego el ramillete de bestias se dirigió hacia el modesto tercer tiempo que nos brindaron, mostrándonos que cumplían con esa obligación y nada más.Yo se lo que piensan al promediar esta lectura: este tipo no cambia más.
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-ne 一.WORD的內碼使用：需使用UNICODE編碼1.格式→字型→英文字型→Arial Unicode MS -2.檔案→另存新檔→工具→WEB選項 →編碼→Unicode(UTF-8)*推薦網站：1.UNICOD首頁 http://www.unicode.org/2.UNIBOOK編碼轉換表 http://www.unicode.org/unibook/二.EXCEL常見函數MOD(儲存格,數值) - 計算儲存格的餘數INT(儲存格/數值) - 計算儲存格的商數DEC2HEX() - 將儲存格數值10進制轉16進制﹃
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-ne 資料來源：行政院國家科學委員會行政院96年傑出科技貢獻獎選拔自即日起接受推薦，並至96å¹´8月10日截止收件。內容：說明：一、傑出科技貢獻獎之推薦選拔，除請參照旨述之實施要點及選拔作業要點辦理外，並須檢送著作及其他送審資料一式四份、推薦書一式五份（分四袋裝）及已填妥資料的推薦書之Word或PDF電子檔乙份，於期限內彙寄本會，以郵戳為憑，逾期恕不受理。二、「行政院傑出科技貢獻獎實施要點」、「行政院國家科學委員會辦理行政院傑出科技貢獻獎選拔作業要點」及推薦書等申請所需之相關規定及表格資料已公布於本會網站首頁（http：//web.nsc.gov.tw）之「補助獎勵辦法/表格」，請自行參閱或下載使用。三、受理單位：本會綜合業務處三科（地址：台北市（106）和平東路2段106號18樓）；承辦人：許專員；聯絡電話：（02）27377571。附件：行政院96年傑出科技貢獻獎推薦書〈doc檔〉行政院傑出科技貢獻獎實施要點〈doc檔〉行政院傑出科技貢獻獎選拔作業要點〈doc檔〉發佈時間：96/07/11承辦人：許家興連絡方式：02-27377571
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-ne 資料來源：行政院國家科學委員會本會96年第2期數位內容產學合作研究計畫（以下簡稱數位產學計畫）自96å¹´7月9日（星期一）起受理申請，至96å¹´9月10日（星期一）截止收件，請 查照轉知。內容：一、本會96年第2期數位產學計畫自96å¹´7月9日起至96å¹´9月10日止受理申請，逾期恕不受理。請貴機構申請人（申請人資格及合作企業須符合規定）至本會網站 (http://web.nsc.gov.tw) 首頁之「研究人才個人網」，點選常用功能下之「數位內容產學合作研究計畫」進行線上申請作業(操作細節請參考網站相關之操作說明)，各計畫申請人請務必依任職機構規定之截止收件日期前完成線上申請作業。二、96年第2期計畫執行期限為自96å¹´12月1日起至97å¹´11月30日止，依規定計畫主持人或合作企業同1年度只能執行1件計畫，故目前正執行96年第1期計畫者(執行期限為96å¹´5月1日至97å¹´4月30日止)，本期請勿提出申請。三、整合型計畫之總計畫及全部子計畫應彙整以1個計畫提出申請，請取1個申請號碼。四、申請人應由「研究人才個人網」進行線上申請並確認各項填寫內容無誤後，由申請機構彙整並造具申請名冊一式二份一併函送本會申請，文件不全或不符合規定者，不予受理，計畫申請所需之相關規定及最新書表資料（補助數位內容產學合作研究計畫作業要點、申請書、計畫合約書稿、先期技術移轉授權金繳款清單及作業流程）已公布於本會網站首頁之「補助獎勵辦法/表格」，請自行參閱下載（請隨時注意網頁最新消息或更多消息，以獲知最新相關規定事項）。五、計畫執行單位應於計畫執行期滿三個月內於線上向本會繳交精簡報告，並逕向合作企業繳交書面完整報告及光碟片乙份。六、本補助數位內容產學合作研究計畫線上系統電腦操作諮詢電話：（02）27377592資訊小組，綜合處 行政業務承辦人員許華偉先生，連絡電話：（02）27377572。發佈時間：96/07/04承辦人：許華偉連絡方式：02-27377572
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