in erster linie gelten unsere gedanken und unsere anteilnahme den angehrigem der ber 100 toten des fluges jk5022. die ber 20 jahre alte maschine der fluggesellschaft spanair strzte gestern in madrid ab. neben verzweifelten angehrigen hinterlsst die katastrophe einige offene fragen. vor allem aber eine menge zorn. eine 20 jahre alte maschine die schlecht gewartet wurde eine airline kurz vor dem kon...
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for those who have been directed here from this story in the national post here is the post about health canadas recent report on climate change. for more climaterelated content see my climate index page and my environment category. a milan ilnyckyj for a sibilant intake of breath 2008. permalink 4 comments want more on these topics browse the archive of posts filed under dail...
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every time a new womenonly travel option makes the newsrecently weve noted the revival of womenonly hotel floors and even an allfemale hotel in saudi arabiathe question is the same is this new development a rare oasis for women or an obstacle to full equality that question is raised again by this agence francepresse report about the growing number of womenonly beaches popping up in egypt. man...
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the economist is holding a debate in the style of the oxford union debating society which i never joined while there due to the excessive cost. the topic is we can solve our energy problems with existing technologies today without the need for breakthrough innovations. this certainly seems to be the emerging wisdom among those who have looked seriously and comprehensively at the problems of energy...
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first seen at divorce 360twentythree year old michael phelps isnt just a living legend in swimming. hes also a product of single mother whophoto by mrcopakoraised him and his sisters alone after her husband left her when they were youngsters.the maryland native could have let the myths of a broken home get the better of him but americas top gold medal winner at the olympics appears to have...
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aoa is looking for someone with a sharp eye for style to help us spot great deals fierce fashion and other forms of all around retail awesomeness. no formal writing experience necessary but we are looking for someone with voice and the ability to put subjects verbs and objects in something approximating the correct order. the pay is more along the lines of hm than lv. interested give us a shou...
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el gobierno de chile tiene para el libre uso con licencia creative commons al igual que como lo hizo la vez anterior con la versian 1.0 el 2004 la guaa para el desarrollo de sitios web versian 2.0 cabe seaalar que esta guaa no tiene relacian directa con la mencionada web 2.0 sino que esta mas enfocada a como los desarrolladores y administradores deben mantener para su buen funcionamiento un sitio...
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photo credit bravofourthree holy cowthey have trees here. that was my first thought when driving through the upper corner of oklahoma. i knowits silly. the mental picture ive had of oklahoma has always been one of dry grass dust and weatherbeaten farmhouses standing watch over herds of cattle. i got the cattle part right. the rest i attribute to watching too many westerns. ive been holed up in th...
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a few years ago i downloaded the original the indie band survival guide out of curiosity and because the pdf was under a cc license. that version is still available for download. a recent cc write up here. the book has been greatly expanded and updated and is now been officially published amazon link. i got a free copy because they mention ccmixter thanks and because they wanted me to plug the ...
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twelve months twelve films twelve issues. here at mediarights.org and the media that matters film festival we decided to crew up and give you a fresh focused allinone package of brand new short films background information resources tips and activities on each of the topics covered in the eighth annual media that matters film festival. the mission of the festival is to take the concept of audie...
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photo credit maury.mccown after two years of living in our house our bare offwhite walls are starting to wear on us. with liquid funds in short supply buying the many gallons of paint it would take to cover our walls would completely tap us out and then some. but as we discovered at lowes a few weeks ago a little luck and a lot of patience can net you some great paint deals. while shopping for ...
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this is what you might call a targeted post if you a own a psp and b own a mac and c want to read text files formatted as images on the psp well have i got the program for you d a friend kelson told me about how he had a program for windows that would take a text file as input and spit out images formatted for the pc. i thought you beauty now i can read classics on my psp instead of having to go ...
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ok ratet mal auf welches event ich mich in auckland am meisten gefreut habe nachdem ich davon schon vor 2 jahren in deutschland gehrt habe boobs on bikes und ratet mal welches event heute statt fand an dem andere ca. 100.000 wohl berwiegend mnner beigewohnt haben whrend ich unweit gemtlich in meinem bett verschlief genau boobs on bikes photo credit eugenny44 naja so kann ich wenigstens meine un...
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a creative commonslicensed photo by dv flick.......
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a creative commonslicensed photo by t.m.o.f.......
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die zukunft kaliforniens photo great valley center image bank daran drfte arnold schwarzenegger der grne gouvernator von kalifornien seine wahre freude haben. seinem bundesstaat ist es zu verdanken das sich die produktion von solarenergie in den gesamten vereinigten staaten bald verdoppeln wird. das versorgungsunternehmen pacific gas and electric pge hat angekndigt in drei jahren annhernd 240.000...
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thesis canada is free to enact more stringent climate policies than the united states but not free to enact less stringent ones. argument as long as little is being done in the united states american corporations are not concerned about being made uncompetitive with foreign firms because of climate change policies. if the united states did adopt a serious climate policy a national capandtrade pla...
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the following code is to illustrate the matrix multiplication method mentioned previously. for simplicity sake im limiting the size of the matrices to 3. const int cnsize 3 int a new intcnsize cnsize int b new intcnsize cnsize int c new intcnsize cnsize int x new intcnsize int y new intcnsize random rand new random int i j k fill matrix and vector with random values for i 0 i cnsize i...
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selbstverstaendlich gibt es bei uns nicht nur bier sondern ab und an auch mal cocktails mit schirmchen und feuerwerk......
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weve got a good mix of stories from the web this week from the old name of thailand thailand cambodia ceramics and temples and malaysia dying traditions. photo credit joejiang.sg ever thought of siam as the old name of thailand andy shows us that the name thailand goes back much further than we already thought. the international herald tribune has an article about a recentlypublished set of gu...
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while the british government puts huge amounts of pressure on isps to clamp down on filesharers it is doing some pirating of its very own. it seems that prime minister gordon browns own website is in serious breach of copyright as it is based on a rippedoff wordpress theme. the issue of copyright is a hot one in the uk right now and the government isnt scared of getting involved. it has been putti...
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i always get a little wary when i receive word that a photo i posted to flickr was used on someones blog or whatever. a couple of times theyve been used for publications id want nothing to do with. yesterday afternoon i received such a message. such is the nature of sharing stuff like that on the internet and licensing it under creative commons. the photo in question is this one taken nearly a yea...
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every now and then this thing about new york city being rough on poor old tourists pops up. but this time the new york times goes one better and publishes comments from real live tourists enjoying or not their new york vacations. most as you might have guessed crap on nyc. photo by sodapopavia flickr creative commons. excerpts below but i have to say that the one thing i dont get is that people ke...
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john h writes in a comment on the previous post absolutely but it is naive to pretend that the process can work only one way. denying that contemporary culture impacts the churchs mission amounts in practice to allowing one culture the culture so familiar to us that it goes unnoticed to remain unchallenged while other cultures are perceived only as a threat to a christian faith that has become i...
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regarding the british prime minister blog that uses a modification of his theme the theme was released under the creative commons 3.0 license which requires attribution to me whether the theme is modified or not. this.......
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