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In newspaper headlines across America today, October 6th 2008, the Associated Press (AP) ran stories that say thousands made strides over the weekend to support a breast cancer fight. Nice articles and admirable but I find it totally futile and unproductive. Raising $36 million this year and other amounts since 1993 for the ‘fight against cancer’ is like bailing out Wall Street with $700 billi

Mi piace definirmi up-to-date. Mi piace la tecnologia, mi piace saperne, provarla e utilizzarla quando mi è utile.Ma il videofonino... no.Lo ritengo un progresso inutile, un accessorio che snatura e non migliora la telefonia mobile.Guardando in giro non mi sembra che abbia spopolato, meglio così visto che la visione dei video-telefonisti era alquanto grottesca. Il fissare quel mini-terminale l'h

IT’S O.K. to liken Shigeru Miyamoto to Walt Disney.When Disney died in 1966, Mr. Miyamoto was a 14-year-old schoolteacher’s son living near Kyoto, Japan’s ancient capital. An aspiring cartoonist, he adored the classic Disney characters. When he wasn’t drawing, he made his own toys, carving wooden puppets with his grandfathers’ tools or devising a car race from a spare motor, string and t

For the past few years, I've lived in the same neighborhood in Brooklyn. The face of East Williamsburg is changing. But all through the building of luxury condos and importation of gourmet cookies and fancy beers, a little old man has been weeding his garden. It's not a substantial piece of land. In fact, it's a small side-yard to one of the brownstones in the neighborhood. Even so, I've

Are you playing to the strengths of your sales team, or trying to correct weaknesses? If you’re like most sales managers you’re training weaknesses and, as a result, you have almost no chance of improving performance. More: continued here

Magnets have been used for the relief of inflammation and pain. But before you go to the nearest store to get hold of magnetic trinkets, you need to understand that not all magnets are designed for healing. More: continued here

This week, President Bush went hat in hand to beg OPEC to pump more oil in order to help the US economy. For more details, please read this NY Times article. It also has a revealing photo of the Saudi King and President Bush examining one of the rewards of high energy prices, the King's latest prize thoroughbred. You can imagine the scene... The Saudis respond to Bush's plea by stating "Sure,

[Descarga directa] [Torrent] [Subtítulos]Escribo esto nada más acabar la visión del último episodio emitido de la mejor serie que se emite actualmente, afirmación que yo creo que no tiene discusión pero, estas cosas, son mucho cuestión de gustos.Ya lo he comentado muchas veces pero, ya que hoy tengo el espacio para un único episodio debido a mis ansias por comentarlo y porque algunos dicen que esta semana no hay capítulo de How I met your mother, cosa que no se comenta en otros espacios, voy a comentar un poco la visión general de la nueva temporada y de este episodio en concreto.Primero hay que decir una cosa: la primera temporada de la serie fue soberbia, genial. ¿Qué posibilidades había de que la segunda fuera mejor? ¿Qué posibilidades había de que se buscara un nuevo enfoque que consiguiera hacer más interesante al personaje y su entorno? Pocas. Pero no era imposible y así se ha demostrado. Quizás es que la primera temporada se ceñía más a la novela y, ahora,

[If you haven´t seen episode 9 there might be some spoilers below] Another nice episode again! Doakes chase for Dexter continues in Haiti, and he tries to do everything out of the reach of Miami PD, but now Lundy has him as the suspect. Nice twist indeed. Now Dexter is off the radar and Doakes is the suspect. The ending of the episode where Doakes finally caught Dexter and where Dexter locks Doakes up was a nice twist. With Doakes as the Miami PD suspect, but locked up by wounded Dexter - how will Lundy find out the truth? How will Dexter get away with it? Can Dexter kill a good man like Doakes, or can he just kill bad guys? The last upcoming episodes will tell us. During the previous episode (S02E08) Dexter finally realized how disturbed Lila really is, and in this episode Dexter is trying to get back to Rita, but as usual with Dexter, things don’t go as he wants to. Lila is probably as disturbed (even more?) as Dexter, and it’s good to see how uncomfortable Dexter gets w

Michael Yon reports from Iraq: >....I was at home in the United States just one day before the magnitude hit me like vertigo: America seems to be under a glass dome which allows few hard facts from the field to filter in unless they are attached to a string of false assumptions......>>

1- Women blink nearly twice as much as men.2- When you sneeze, all your body functions stop, even your heart.3- Jack is the most common name in a fairy tale.4- Peanuts are one of the ingredients in dynamite.5- More people are alive today, than have ever died. 6- Laughter is a proven way to loose weight. 7- Humans share one third of their DNA with lettuce.8- Coca-Cola was originally green.9- A cockroach can live 9 days without its head. 10- Pi has been calculated to over 2,260,321,363 digits.11- Kermit the Frog is left handed.12- It is impossible to lick your elbow.13- Upon reading #12, 70% will attempt to lick their elbow unsuccessfully. Subscribe to the What Works For Us feed.

The world’s smartest politician that happens to be a member of the world’s nicest and greatest ruling government, Dato’ Seri Mohamed Nazri Abdul Aziz today has denied claims that there is a crisis or any scandals brewing in our Malaysian judiciary.Instead, the smart man told Malaysians not to fall for what he perceived as a ploy ingeniously created by our political opposition parties to tarnish the image of our Malaysian judiciary. MalaysiaKini (who else?) has more on this story.Pardon me, Dato’ Seri. Your much publicized and super credible Independent Panel recently established to investigate the Lingam Tape saga has yet to conduct their investigation. As matter of fact, they would only receive their unholy appointment letters today.How do you know that the Lingam Tape saga would not suggest that we have a crisis or scandal in our Malaysian judiciary today?I don’t know the answer but let me speculate: Barisan Nasional has some kind of time traveling machine that would en

Es hat mich erwischt ... Eine Unterhaltung gepaart mit einer gesunden Portion Neugier, die Lobeshymne meiner Freunde und ein günstiges Angebot. Nun besitze ich auch eine Nintendo Wii Konsole. Nach so vielen Jahren mal wieder ein Nintendo. :-) Schnell installiert und angeschlossen. Die Menüführung ist leicht verständlich und richtig putzig. Die Grafik bescheiden, dafür sehr flüssig und richtig dosiert. Aber darum geht es gar nicht ... der eigentliche Clou ist natürlich die Bedienung. Bei der Konsole dabei ist ein Bundle an Sport-Spielen (Tennis, Baseball, Box, Golf etc.). Jede Bewegung wird am Anfang und während des Spiels erklärt, man braucht wirklich keine Anleitung zu lesen um sofort spielen zu können. Und... Es macht Spaß! Und wie! Nach ein paar Stunden boxen, einem Tennis-Tournis (derzeit ist Roland Garros) und einem Golf-Parcours ... bin ich fix und fertig. Müde. Aber zufrieden und entspannt. Und das betrifft nicht nur mich. Beim Bowling vergisst m

Before the 2004 elections, I would advise Republicans who loved their party and who truly respected republican values not to vote for Bush. I'm not sure the GOP will recover from the 2006 fiasco on time for 2008...I'm telling the same thing to French socialists right now : if you believe in a modern form of socialism and compassionate politics, do not vote for Segolene Royal this Sunday. France cannot afford to be ruled by the Socialist Party as it is right now, and certainly not by a candidate who proved unable to federate its own family, unable to give a clear vision, unable to rise above a swamp of demagogy. Royal never ventured beyond areas where debate could rage. Europe ? 35-hour week ? the national debt ? Well below the radar of touchy issues and just above the minefield of personal attacks on her rivals, Sego decided to focus on the consensual issue of the budget devoted to the French President for her last week of campaigning. Pathetic.Socialists reformers want the French PS

Can you friggin' believe these socks? I have put off learning to knit socks because I know it could easily become an obsession, but I think I may have just been wooed to the dark side by the utter gorgeousness of this woman's work. Her name is Eunny Jang, and her designs are amazing, and I despair of ever being skilled enough to knit any of them. Every time I cruise through her site, I see more and more beautiful knitting. Maybe I'll start with some simpler socks, though!

In WW1 large armies used to dig up trenches confronting each others, and spend countless days waiting and hiding in their holes, firing a few shots now and then. Meanwhile the tension rose and rose, until it became unbearable. Then the "great" generals would order a charge and thousands upon thousands will surge as one from their trenches… and get mowed down by countless machine guns. I always wondered why these general ordered such useless and futile charges, and why didn't they even try to find an alternate tactic, to achieve their objective. Yesterday, Nassrallah and his allies, decided to launch a new series of demonstrations that will target several Ministries and could reach public facilities. And I think that today's "generals" -referring to all the heads of the opposition, not only Aoun- should be asked the same questions: why continue this futile escalation, why order a new "charge", knowing that it will not achieve anything, except maybe an economic melt

Finding the real New England lobster roll: a futile but tasty ...Boston Globe, United States - 19 hours ago... But food historian Sandy Oliver, who lives in Islesboro, Maine, dismisses that story as ... A 1902 cookbook lists a recipe for what may be an early lobster roll ... Source: www.boston.comFood and recipes unite the generationsNaples Sun Times, FL - Aug 17, 2006... With each passing centur

Several weeks ago, I rounded up some of my favorite titles for my store. Where's The Thirteenth Tale? someone wrote. Where's Why Do I Love These People? asked another. And Leave Me Alone, I'm Reading? And...? Well, I can only display nine titles in the store. The Thirteenth Tale would have been tenth or (eleventh... or thirteenth... heh, heh, heh). And when you read more than one hundred twenty-five books in a year, at least, oh, one hundred will fail to achieve "Best of" status, you know?Seriously, the titles in the store (plus the three named above) were among the best of my 2006 reading experiences. I hesitate to assign superlatives, but those twelve books reminded me why I love the reading life.Yes, I (re)read Shakespeare. And some excellent birding books. (Funny, though, how I often think about those not as reading so much as learning experiences; something utterly and profoundly different -- or apart -- from the reading life... I don't know how to explain it better.)Yes, I di