A turret gun
A tank with a turret
A normal house with a turret
Tuesday, July 1, 2008
Pictures: Wire
Wiiiiire
Curtain wire
Coiled wire
Barbed wire
A pair of pliers in the middle of a roll of coiled wire
Pictures - Pins and, erm, pin-ups
A nine-pin game board
Two pin brushes
Vegas pin-ups
A pinup at an ironing board
Salute and good bye! You can only see two pin-ups maximum everyday.
News stories: New tool would help internet providers thwart file-sharing; etc.
New tool would help internet providers thwart file-sharing
Last Updated: Monday, June 30, 2008 | 11:59 AM ET Comments17Recommend11
CBC News
Internet providers who selectively slow certain kinds of traffic on their networks, such as file-sharing, could soon have a new tool at their disposal to prevent savvy users from evading the speed controls.
Research by Italian engineers shows how providers like Bell and Rogers can use statistical methods to curb internet traffic even when the content is encrypted.
Bell, Rogers and some other Canadian internet service providers, or ISPs, currently limit the speeds of certain peer-to-peer file-sharing programs like Limewire and BitTorrent during peak internet hours. The companies say the practice, called "throttling," is necessary to keep their networks from congesting.
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http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2008/06/30/isp-file-sharing.html?ref=rss
Microsoft to stop selling Windows XP
Last Updated: Monday, June 30, 2008 | 11:42 AM ET Comments60Recommend44
The Associated Press
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http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2008/06/30/tech-windowsxp.html
ENERGY
Crime
The energy underworld
Last Updated: Thursday, June 26, 2008 | 8:02 AM ET Comments1Recommend11
By Nathan Vardi Forbes
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http://www.cbc.ca/money/story/2008/06/19/f-forbes-energyunderworld.html
Bell's BlackBerry service disrupted
Last Updated: Monday, June 30, 2008 | 6:10 PM ET Comments1Recommend5
CBC News
Bell Canada said it was investigating the cause of Monday's two-hour BlackBerry service interruptions. -->
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2008/06/30/blackberry-outages.html?ref=rss
Rogers draws fire for iPhone rates
Rogers Communications Inc. is taking fire from potential customers, who are outraged by the rate plans it announced on Friday for Apple Inc.'s iPhone.
AT&T to sell new iPhone without contract in U.S.
Canada losing ground, Conference Board says
Last Updated: Monday, June 30, 2008 | 9:08 AM ET Comments152Recommend141
CBC News
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http://www.cbc.ca/money/story/2008/06/27/canada-report.html
Fine, demerit points for Quebec drivers talking on cellphones
Potential Iran-Israel conflict sends oil prices up
BCE Inc. retaining $294M in Q2 dividends
Canada, US to team up on Arctic seabed mapping project
The United States and Canada, which have been known to disagree on certain Arctic sovereignty claims, will collaborate for the first time on a United Nations scientific mapping project aimed at extending their sovereignty in the Arctic.
IN DEPTH: Arctic sovereignty
BC carbon tax kicks in on Canada Day
British Columbians will pay more at the gas pump as the provincial government's carbon tax on all fossil fuels takes effect Tuesday.
Tech heavyweights team up to fend off patent lawsuits
Last Updated: Monday, June 30, 2008 | 2:53 PM ET Comments4Recommend8
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2008/06/30/patent-pool.html?ref=rss
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RIM reaches final BlackBerry settlement with NTP
Last Updated: Friday, March 3, 2006 | 6:48 PM ET
CBC News
Video
- Ron Charles reports for CBC-TV (Runs: 2:24)
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Soldiers march in Toronto Gay Pride parade
Article: In Depth: Cell phones: The real cost of high prices
Consumers and businesses are exasperated by high cellphone prices and low adoption, which critics say are putting Canada at a competitive disadvantage with other countries. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez)
In Depth
Cellphones
The real cost of high prices
A lack of competition between cellphone carriers is having a very real negative effect on businesses and the economy as a whole, experts say
Last Updated November 20, 2007
By Peter Nowak, CBC.ca
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http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/tech/cellphones/economy.html
叹 - Online posting - 一篇小学生作文：吓死老师，惊动教育部
Is the following piece of information true or fake? Seriously. :
http://sinoquebec.com/bbs/showthread.php?t=549229
http://sinoquebec.com/bbs/showthread.php?t=549229
Audio: A (free) popular radio episode: TAL: Testosterone
220: Testosterone
02.22.2008
Originally aired 08.30.2002
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http://www.thislife.org/Radio
(An awesome show. --double_take)
Audio: A (free) popular radio episode: TAL: Return to Childhood 2008
351: Return to Childhood 2008
03.07.2008
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http://www.thislife.org/Radio
(These guys really can come up with superior shows. Many year in a row. You may want to taste it. --double_take)
03.07.2008
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http://www.thislife.org/Radio
(These guys really can come up with superior shows. Many year in a row. You may want to taste it. --double_take)
Audio: A (free) popular radio episode: TAL: Nobody's Family Is Going to Change
166: Nobody's Family Is Going to Change
04.04.2008
Originally aired 08.11.2000
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http://www.thislife.org/Radio_Episode.aspx?episode=166
(Well chosen, nicely presented, and elegantly mixed and stratified. That's my take on this episode of TAL. And it made my dish-washing time much more enjoyable with a transitory feel. --double_take)
04.04.2008
Originally aired 08.11.2000
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http://www.thislife.org/Radio_Episode.aspx?episode=166
(Well chosen, nicely presented, and elegantly mixed and stratified. That's my take on this episode of TAL. And it made my dish-washing time much more enjoyable with a transitory feel. --double_take)
Short video: Kindle: Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device
Short video: Kindle: Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device
http://www.amazon.com/Amazon
(This Kindle reading device is haranguing the inefficient traditional way of delivering books. Amazon, with its own pluck, has always hauled e-commerce forward since its inception. You like it, don't you? But, on the other hand, can't we just get a respite from the onslaught of information flood? --double_take)
http://www.amazon.com/Amazon
(This Kindle reading device is haranguing the inefficient traditional way of delivering books. Amazon, with its own pluck, has always hauled e-commerce forward since its inception. You like it, don't you? But, on the other hand, can't we just get a respite from the onslaught of information flood? --double_take)
News story: The Incredible Shrinking Superpower
The Incredible Shrinking Superpower
Saudi King Abdullah greets President Bush at King Khaled International Airport in Riyadh, on May 16.
AFP / Getty
Worried about the high cost of filling up? President Bush is on the case. Last Friday he arrived in Riyadh to urge King Abdullah, the leader of the world's largest petroleum producer, Saudi Arabia, to put more oil on the market.
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http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1807697,00.html
(A deluge of wealth are flowing into the pockets of OPEQ countries. Can they benefit the world while they benefit themselves? --double_take)
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http://maps.google.com/maps?q
Worried about the high cost of filling up? President Bush is on the case. Last Friday he arrived in Riyadh to urge King Abdullah, the leader of the world's largest petroleum producer, Saudi Arabia, to put more oil on the market.
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http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1807697,00.html
(A deluge of wealth are flowing into the pockets of OPEQ countries. Can they benefit the world while they benefit themselves? --double_take)
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http://maps.google.com/maps?q
Article: Is China becoming a superpower in Africa?
MICHEL CORMIER:
Into Africa
Is China becoming a superpower in Africa?
Feb. 14, 2007
Sudanese leader Omar Al-Bashir, left, and Chinese President Hu Jintao inspect an honour guard in Khartoum, Sudan, Feb. 2, 2007. (Abd Raouf/Associated Press)
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http://www.cbc.ca/news/reportsfromabroad/cormier/20070214.html
Article: 家庭观念算老几?
家庭观念算老几？
英国《金融时报》中文网专栏作家谁谁谁
2008年3月19日 星期三
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http://www.ftchinese.com/sc/story.jsp?id=001018027&pos=RELATED_STORIES&pa1=5&loc=STORY
英国《金融时报》中文网专栏作家谁谁谁
2008年3月19日 星期三
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http://www.ftchinese.com/sc
Article: 第一次当CEO
第一次当CEO
作者：英国《金融时报》中文网专栏作家谁谁谁
2008年4月23日 星期三
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http://www.ftchinese.com/sc/story.jsp?id=001018842&pos=RSS_DAILY_NEWS&pa1=0&pa2=2&loc=RSS_EMAIL
作者：英国《金融时报》中文网专栏作家谁谁谁
2008年4月23日 星期三
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http://www.ftchinese.com/sc
Short audio: Asking Big Questions
Audio: 5.22.2008 Asking Big Questions
(running time 4:52)
In this excerpt from a 2002 commencement address at Oberlin College, the late cancer researcher Judah Folkman describes how he learned to think outside the box when he was in high school. Listen in.-->
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova
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Judah Folkman
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Dr. Moses Judah Folkman (February 24, 1933 – 14 January 2008) was an American medical scientist best known for his research on angiogenesis and vasculogenesis, that is to say, he discovered that tumours generate tiny blood vessels to nourish themselves. His work founded a branch of cancer research called 'anti-angiogenesis therapy'.
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[edit] Early life
Born in Cleveland, Ohio, Dr. Folkman graduated Ohio State University in 1953, and then Harvard Medical School[1] in 1957. While still a student at Harvard Medical School, he developed one of the first pacemakers[2]. After his graduation, he did his surgical residency at Massachusetts General Hospital, where he rose to the rank of chief resident in surgery. During this time, Folkman worked on liver cancer and atrio-pacemakers.
Between 1960 and 1962, Folkman served in the United States Navy, as a Lieutenant, where he studied blood vessel growth. He worked at the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland. During his service in the U.S. Navy, Folkman created an implantable device for timed drug-release, and donated it patent-free to the World Population Council. It is now known as Norplant. [3]
[edit] Work on angiogenesis
In 1971, he published an article in the New England Journal of Medicine, stating that all cancer tumors were angiogenesis-dependent. He postulated that if a tumour could be stopped from growing its own blood supply, it would wither and die. Though his hypothesis was disregarded by most experts in the field at first, Folkman continued his research.
After more than a decade, his theory became widely accepted. He was considered the leading expert and founder of the angiogenesis field, which now offers many potentials in medicine. He trained numerous leaders in medicine and biomedical engineering, including Donald Ingber and Robert Langer.
Dr. Folkman pioneered the use of interferon in cancer therapy, healing hemangiomas, growths that often threaten the life of infants. His research has led to the development of progressively more potent compounds, such as angiostatin, endostatin and vasculostatin, which have successfully halted the growth of tumors in laboratory mice[4].
In 2000, a pharmaceutical company has sued Dr. Folkman, contending that he and Children's Hospital in Boston stole the credit for developing a promising drug that cuts off the blood supply to tumors[5][6], and he countersued to defend his reputation[7].
Dr. Folkman died in Denver[8]. At the time of his death, Dr. Folkman was Professor of Cell Biology at Harvard Medical School and was also director of the Vascular Biology Program at Children's Hospital Boston[9].
[edit] Awards
His work at Massachusetts General Hospital, earned him the Boylston Medical Prize, Soma Weiss Award and the Borden Undergraduate Award in Medicine.
2006 Jacobson Innovation Award from the American College of Surgeons in honor of living surgeons who have been innovators of a new development or technique in any field of surgery.[1] In 2005, Dr. Folkman was invited to be the main speaker at the "Presidential Science Symposium" at the "ASCO Annual Meeting 2005". The "ASCO Annual Meetings" are the most influential clinical oncology meetings worldwide. In 2003, "The Angiogenesis Foundation" awarded Dr. Folkman a "Distinguished Achievement Award".
Oberlin College
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Coordinates: 
41.292929° N 82.218576° W
| Oberlin College | |
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| Motto: | Learning and Labor |
| Established: | September 2, 1833 |
| Type: | Liberal Arts college |
| Endowment: | 816,135,000 USD (2007)[1] |
| President: | Marvin Krislov |
| Staff: | 1,058 |
| Students: | 2,850 |
| Location: | Oberlin, Ohio, United States |
| Campus: | Rural |
| Mascot: | Yeomen (men's teams) & Yeowomen (women's teams) |
| Website: | http://www.oberlin.edu/ |
Oberlin College is a private, highly selective liberal arts college in Oberlin, Ohio. It was founded in 1833 by abolitionist Congregational Christians, and is home to the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, making it the only top-ranked liberal arts college (#20 according to US News & World Report[citation needed]) with a top-ranked conservatory. A study found that more 1999-2003 Oberlin College alumni receive doctorates than do alumni from any other liberal arts college in the country.[2]
Oberlin College is a member of the Great Lakes Colleges Association and The Five Colleges of Ohio consortium, including Ohio Wesleyan University, Denison University, Kenyon College, and The College of Wooster.
Oberlin College's motto is "Learning and Labor." Its school colors are crimson and gold.
Pictures: Cyclists
A laboring cyclist
Well, the man works hard and sweats, while the woman stands still and emits a charming smile. Is it what life is about? And, last but not least, which cyclist do you like more? :-) --double_take
Pictures: Motorcyclists
What has a motorcyclist got that makes him special? Well, unlike a cyclist, his bike got a motor.
:-)
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