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http://weloism.livejournal.com/323160.html
Thursday, July 10, 2008
Alex recommends: All about BBC @ douban.com
All about BBC
交流关于英国广播公司BBC各种信息的小组，可以是BBC网站、电影、电视剧、广播、记录片、演员、八卦。欢迎推荐你喜欢的BBC节目-->
http://www.douban.com/group/aboutbbc/
(This group really knows good stuff. BBC, PBS, and NPR. I have a penchant for BBC, but, unfortunately, I live in North America, and the BBC contents aren't that relevant to me. So I have to lean to CBC, PBS, and NPR. --Alex Wang)
Wednesday, July 9, 2008
News stories: Moscow 'deeply distressed' over missile shield deal: Medvedev; etc.
Moscow 'deeply distressed' over missile shield deal: Medvedev
Last Updated: Wednesday, July 9, 2008 | 1:39 PM ET Comments12Recommend13
CBC News
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev slammed the United States over its plans for a nuclear missile shield in Europe, saying the deal to install part of the system in the Czech Republic "deeply distresses" Moscow.
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http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2008/07/09/shield-medvedev.html
Rice lauds Czech deal on U.S. missile shield in Europe
Harper adds it up: developing countries must shoulder more carbon cuts
Last Updated: Wednesday, July 9, 2008 | 6:02 AM ET Comments242Recommend66
CBC News
As the Group of Eight summit wrapped up in northern Japan on Wednesday, Prime Minister Stephen Harper said it's a "mathematical certainty" that developing countries will bear the brunt of the work in lowering global greenhouse gas emissions.
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http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2008/07/09/g8-summit.html?ref=rss
Video
- Keith Boag reports for CBC-TV (Runs: 2:48)
- Play: Real Media »
- Play: QuickTime »
1 year sentence for HIV-positive woman guilty of assault
Sentence to be served in community because of woman's health, court says
Last Updated: Wednesday, July 9, 2008 | 1:11 PM ET Comments21Recommend18
CBC News
A Quebec woman living with AIDS has been given a one-year sentence, to be served in the community, for hiding her HIV status from her former boyfriend.
Quebec Judge Marc Bison handed down the sentence on Tuesday, after the woman was found guilty of aggravated assault against her ex-boyfriend for failing to tell him she was HIV-positive when the two started courting.
The woman acted irresponsibly and committed a serious crime by depriving her ex-lover of the right to decide whether he wanted to have sex with her despite her status, Bison said at the Longueuil courthouse.
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http://www.cbc.ca/canada/montreal/story/2008/07/09/qc-hivaidssentencing0709.html?ref=rss
Industry Minister Jim Prentice is calling on the chief executive officers of Bell and Telus to meet with him and explain their decision to charge consumers for incoming text messages.
US war resister granted stay of deportation order
A federal court on Wednesday granted U.S. war resister Corey Glass a stay of removal, allowing him to remain in Canada while his legal case unfolds.
Former NB lieutenant-governor to return Order of Canada in protest
A former New Brunswick lieutenant-governor says he'll return his Order of Canada in protest of Dr. Henry Morgentaler being named to the order.
7 peacekeepers killed in Darfur ambush: UN
Global warming causing California glacier to grow, scientists say
The glaciers on Mount Shasta in California are growing because of global warming, experts say.
Slain Canadian medic returns home from Afghanistan
The body of a Canadian army medic who died after an explosion in southern Afghanistan last weekend has been returned home in an emotional ceremony at a CFB Trenton.
Rogers caves on iPhone pricing, sort of
Rogers has bowed to public pressure and temporarily lowered the price of internet usage on Apple's hotly awaited iPhone, which is being released in Canada on Friday.
Iran tests missiles in Persian Gulf, Hormuz
Hôtel Dieu ER won't take overnight ambulances because of staff crisis
Montreal's Hôtel Dieu Hospital is limiting overnight emergency admissions because of chronic staffing shortages, administrators say.
4 people charged after agent attacked at Quebec-Vermont border
Four people have been charged after a Monday morning altercation with a U.S. Border Patrol agent near the Quebec-Vermont border.
In Depth: G8
G8 membership
- Canada
- France
- Germany
- Italy
- Japan
- Russia
- United Kingdom
- United States
- The European Union is also represented as an observer, but cannot chair or host a summit.
The G8 describes itself as "a club of leading industrialized countries, regularly meeting and consulting to enhance their friendship and synchronize their points of view as regards the major international economic and political issues."
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http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/g8/
Article: Become a Knowledge Management Ninja with Google Reader
Become a Knowledge Management Ninja with Google Reader
In this era of data smog, the knowledge worker who can act like an agile ninja by consuming vast quantities of information, synthesizing it and getting it in the hands of the right people at the right time is invaluable. For knowledge worker ninjas, RSS is your shuriken.
I have been using various RSS readers for nearly five years now - I've tried them all. However, none matches the power of Google Reader. I have found that if you tap into all of its features, it's the Holy Grail of Personal Knowledge Management.
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http://www.micropersuasion.com/2007/12/become-a-knowle.html
(That's right. Let's drop the Google bomb. --double_take)
I have been using various RSS readers for nearly five years now - I've tried them all. However, none matches the power of Google Reader. I have found that if you tap into all of its features, it's the Holy Grail of Personal Knowledge Management.
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http://www.micropersuasion.com/2007/12/become-a-knowle.html
(That's right. Let's drop the Google bomb. --double_take)
Articles: Search Google Like An Expert; etc.
Search Google Like An Expert
Here are 13 tips to help you search google like an expert.
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http://www.i-hack.org/computer/internet/search-google-like-an-expert.html
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Advanced Search Made Easy
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http://www.google.com/support/bin/static.py?page=searchguides.html&ctx=advanced&hl=en
Here are 13 tips to help you search google like an expert.
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http://www.i-hack.org/computer/internet/search-google-like-an-expert.html
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Advanced Search Made Easy
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http://www.google.com/support/bin/static.py?page=searchguides.html&ctx=advanced&hl=en
News stories: Concerns over 2010 World Cup; etc.
09 July, 2008 - Published 11:07 GMT
Concerns over 2010 World Cup
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Organisers of the 2010 football World Cup in South Africa have dismissed concerns that preparations are behind schedule despite the removal of one stadium for next year's test event. More details from our Sports News Reporter Alex Capstick:
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/newsenglish/witn/2008/07/080709_world_cup.shtml
07 July, 2008 - Published 08:40 GMT
Jabs not to blame for Gulf War Syndrome
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Researchers from King's College London say soldiers sent to Iraq were not made ill by multiple injections. Being given too many jabs at once has been suggested as a possible cause of what is known as Gulf War Syndrome. This report from Nick Miles:
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/newsenglish/witn/2008/07/080707_gulfwar_syndrome.shtml
Tuesday, July 8, 2008
News stories: Apple to Rogers on iPhone: you're on your own; etc.
Apple to Rogers on iPhone: you're on your own
Last Updated: Tuesday, July 8, 2008 | 1:58 PM ET Comments24Recommend85
By Peter Nowak CBC News
Canadians who want the iPhone will be locked into the longest contracts in the world. (Jason DeCrow/Associated Press)Apple Inc. will not be selling the hotly awaited iPhone in its six Canadian stores when it is released this Friday, leaving Rogers Communications Inc. and its Fido subsidiary to sell the device on their own.
"The iPhone 3G will be available in Canada from Rogers and Fido," said Simon Atkins, spokesperson for Apple. He declined to elaborate.
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http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2008/07/08/tech-iphone.html?ref=rss
AT&T to sell new iPhone without contract in U.S.
Frenzied demand for Apple's new 3G iPhone
Microsoft meets Carl Icahn to discuss Yahoo takeover deal
Bell, Telus customers to pay for incoming text messages
Last Updated: Tuesday, July 8, 2008 | 3:00 PM ET Comments233Recommend218
CBC News
Cellphone users with Bell and Telus are going to have to fork over a little more to receive incoming text messages, under new pricing plans slated to roll out in August.
'Oh baby, when my contract's over I'll be long gone, for sure.'—Debra Messinger, consumer
Under the new plans, customers will be charged 15 cents to receive incoming text messages, including uninvited spam messages. Previously, customers without text plans were only charged for outgoing messages.
Customers with a text messaging rate plan or bundle will not be affected by the new charges.
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http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2008/07/08/text-messages.html?ref=rss
In Depth
Wireless
Confusion the name of the game
Customers are fed up with cellphone companies benefiting from complex rate plans, bewildering service contracts and uninformed customer service agents, and they aren't going to take it any more
Last Updated November 19, 2007
By Peter Nowak
-->Airship designed to fly through remote skies
Last Updated: Tuesday, July 8, 2008 | 3:00 PM ET Comments10Recommend14
CBC News
A Calgary company is spearheading development of a new aircraft, filled with helium and powered by four rotors, which will be used to move materials in remote areas including the Canadian North.
SkyHook International announced Tuesday that it will build the Jess Heavy Lifter (JHL-40) in conjunction with aircraft manufacturer Boeing Co.
SkyHook and Boeing hope to be flying the first prototypes of the JHL-40 by 2012. (SkyHook International)...
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http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2008/07/08/skyhook-boeing.html?ref=rss
Agriculture, watersheds focus of nitrates report
The P.E.I. government released a long-awaited report Tuesday on nitrates in rivers, streams and groundwater in the province, noting that they are the most common chemical contaminant in Island water.
Canada trumpets G8 vow to halve emissions by 2050
SECURITY
Keeping an eye on things: Spy gear goes mainstream
Latest surveillance gadgets for amateurs would make James Bond jealous
Last Updated: Monday, July 7, 2008 | 8:04 AM ET Comments18Recommend25
By Georgie Binks CBC News
Remote surveillance technology for the home has gone mainstream, with spy shops springing up across the country and online faster than you can answer a shoe-phone. -->
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2008/05/20/f-amateurspygear.html
SCIENCE
FAQ
Yellowcake explained
Last Updated: Monday, July 7, 2008 | 4:33 PM ET Comments2Recommend8
CBC News
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http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2008/07/07/f-yellowcake.html
Pictures - Motors vs. Rotors
Electric motor
Danger! High-voltage motor!
Helicopter rotor
Rotor in front of motor
Rotor
请高人为我解析一下海明威作品中的一个句子
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The young man, whose name was Robert Jordan, was extremely hungry and he was worried. He was often hungry but he was not usually worried because he did not give any importance to what happened to himself and he knew from experience how simple it was to move behind the enemy lines in all this country. It was as simple to move behind them as it was to cross through them, if you had a good guide. It was only giving importance to what happened to you if you were caught that made it difficult; that and deciding whom to trust. You had to trust the people you worked with completely or not at all, and you had to make decisions about the trusting. He was not worried about any of that. But there were other things.
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--Excerpted from p.12 of the novel For Whom the Bell Tolls
('It was only giving importance to what happened to you if you were caught that made it difficult' -- The first 'it' means 'that made it difficult'. The other 'it', as in 'that made it difficult', means 'to move behind the enemy lines in all this country'. So, the whole sentence is equal to 'What made it difficult was only giving importance to what happened to you if you were caught'.)
Is my analysis above correct or not? Thanks very much for your kind help. I really appreciate it.
The young man, whose name was Robert Jordan, was extremely hungry and he was worried. He was often hungry but he was not usually worried because he did not give any importance to what happened to himself and he knew from experience how simple it was to move behind the enemy lines in all this country. It was as simple to move behind them as it was to cross through them, if you had a good guide. It was only giving importance to what happened to you if you were caught that made it difficult; that and deciding whom to trust. You had to trust the people you worked with completely or not at all, and you had to make decisions about the trusting. He was not worried about any of that. But there were other things.
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--Excerpted from p.12 of the novel For Whom the Bell Tolls
('It was only giving importance to what happened to you if you were caught that made it difficult' -- The first 'it' means 'that made it difficult'. The other 'it', as in 'that made it difficult', means 'to move behind the enemy lines in all this country'. So, the whole sentence is equal to 'What made it difficult was only giving importance to what happened to you if you were caught'.)
Is my analysis above correct or not? Thanks very much for your kind help. I really appreciate it.
Sunday, July 6, 2008
Article: Book Learning
Book Learning
SCHOOL WORK: Barbara Lefebvre, right, and Eve Bonnivar, authors of Eleves sous Influence
VAL�RIE DAYAN / L'EXPRESS-EDITING
Listening to these kids talk, an American might be tempted to think they attended some Middle Eastern madrasah or had been reading Noam Chomsky. "Sometimes you get the impression the Americans want to be masters of the planet, and that they're only in Iraq for the oil," says Constance Pluviaud, 17, before class last week. "Her friend Julien Cothenet, 18, chimes in: "They don't have the right to decide for the whole world on the basis of sheer power."
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http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1118296,00.html?iid=sphere-inline-sidebar
Article: How the Petite Eat
How the Petite Eat
MIREILLE Guiliano, a French exchange student, eagerly rushed toward her father, who was waiting on the dock. Guiliano was returning home after an eventful year in the U.S. Her father coolly assessed his beloved daughter as she approached. "Tu ressembles ?? un sac de patates[You look like a sack of potatoes]," he told her flatly. Crushed, Guiliano, then 19, knew exactly what he was talking about. Living la vie am??ricaine, full of brownies and chocolate-chip cookies, had won her an American figure, padded with an extra 20 lbs. A return to the Continent and French habits quickly cured the problem.
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http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1018094,00.html?iid=sphere-inline-bottom
News story: Most Obnoxious Tourists? The French
Most Obnoxious Tourists? The French
A poll reveals that the French are now considered the most obnoxious tourists among Europeans.
Henrik Sorensen / getty
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http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1820358,00.html
(French and Italians aren't going to fare well if they keep holding to that mindset of language insularity, against the backdrop of the globalization of languages and individual mobility. --double_take)
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http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1820358,00.html
(French and Italians aren't going to fare well if they keep holding to that mindset of language insularity, against the backdrop of the globalization of languages and individual mobility. --double_take)
News story: Disabled Models: A UK Reality TV Hit
Disabled Models: A UK Reality TV Hit
Contestants with disabilities in the new BBC program, Britain's Missing Top Model.
Todd Antony / BBC
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http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1820359,00.html
Saturday, July 5, 2008
Short videos: Small Beers, Big Business
Coupling Beer And Food
Beer is the new wine in complimenting your dining experience. Join us for a virtual tour.
2008-07-03
http://www.forbes.com/video/?video=fvn/culture/km_beerfood070208Small Beers, Big Business
http://www.forbes.com/video/?video=fvn/drinks08/km_beer070108
Click:
"Week Ahead: Beer, Girls & Gambling"
"Doctors On Demand"
"G8 Summit Goals"
at:
http://www.forbes.com/video/?video=fvn/drinks08/km_beer070108
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