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DO NOT PERFORM IN ISRAEL, PALESTINIANS TO MCCARTNEY

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 08:52:24 GMT

clipped by: Smoke TNT

A Palestinian non-government organisation in the United Kingdom has asked Paul McCartney of the Beatles to cancel his forthcoming concert in Israel because "the expropriations from the Palestinians (by Israel) and the Israeli apartheid cannot be a reason for festivities".

(PACBI) has affirmed in a statement directed to McCartney that "performing in Israel in this moment is morally the same as performing in South Africa at the peak of the apartheid".

StandWithUs, has rebelled in defence of Israel, affirming in a letter to McCartney and his manager Stuart Bell that the statement of PACBI "contains just incredible lies".

"Performing in Tel Aviv you can expect to meet an audience of Jews, Muslims and Christians, a thing which is just impossible in any Arab state," StandWithUs affirmed.

In the meantime the tickets for the concert of McCartney

are selling like hot cakes in Israel

Tags: palestine, muslims, islam, hypocrisy

Cheney backs membership in NATO for Georgia

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 08:51:47 GMT

clipped by: dienof

Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

Cheney Backs Membership in NATO for Georgia

Vice President Dick Cheney and Georgia's president, Mikheil Saakashvili, met U.S. soldiers delivering humanitarian aid in Tbilisi Thursday.

Free Library of Philadelphia

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 08:50:42 GMT

clipped by: akipta

Clip Source: freelibrary.lib.overdrive.com

Clip Source: www.library.phila.gov

Guide to the Free Library of Philadelphia Website: Created with input from users like you, the Free Library's website is designed to be functional and easy to navigate. You'll notice that the homepage is divided into three main color-coded sections: Find (blue), Explore (green) and Ask (orange). A horizontal gray bar provides additional information about the Library. You can find each of these colored sections on every page of the website.

Tags: library free online

Developing Learning Networks - Significance and Practice

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 08:50:09 GMT

clipped by: akipta

Clip Source: techticker.net

Consider this a mental brain dump. I want to come back to this and compose a more coherent blog post when time permits, but in lieu of this I’d like to present the following thoughts for discussion.

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Tags: learning networks

shsw0908

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 08:49:45 GMT

clipped by: thesparkthatbled

Clip Source: www1.royalbank.com

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Fri, 05 Sep 2008 08:49:45 GMT

clipped by: fahimqadir

Clip Source: www.youtube.com

Somalia: Islamist Fighters Shut Down Restaurants

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 08:49:08 GMT

clipped by: Smoke TNT

Clip Source: allafrica.com

Islamist fighters have forced several restaurants to close for Ramadan in middle Shabelle because it would "violate the sanctity" of the month.

Authorities said serving daily meals are contrary to the order of Ramadan and it has been blocked the opening of restaurants during daylight hours during the month of fasting.

Several daily restaurants in the Ramadan have also been detained by the Islamic fighters.

The commander of Islamist fighters in Maxaas area where the incident happened Ali Bile has made it known that no-one will be permitted to violate the sanctity of the month.

The start of the ninth and holiest month in the Muslim calendar is determined by the sighting of the new moon, which means Muslims in various countries begin Ramadan at dawn one different days.

Tags: islam, muslims, islamofascism, restaurants

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Fri, 05 Sep 2008 08:48:23 GMT

clipped by: thesparkthatbled

Clip Source: www1.royalbank.com

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UMBC's Imaging Center Recreates Early Washington

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 08:46:41 GMT

clipped by: akipta

Clip Source: chronicle.com

Nearly everyone has a good idea of what Washington looks like now — broad avenues, columned porticos, the tree-lined Mall, the Capitol, the Washington Monument. But what was here before all that? Turns out that’s been a tough question for scholars to answer, according to an article in The Washington Post Magazine. Early maps are scarce, early drawings are unreliable, and the original landscape has been significantly altered as the city has grown up.

Tags: images digital history maps

Jihadist post $50,000 bounty online for Pastor after CAIR campaign

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 08:45:31 GMT

clipped by: Smoke TNT

Clip Source: ohioagainstterror.blogspot.com

As reported yesterday by “Archangel” and the Northeast Intelligence Network, an internet message offering a $50,000 bounty on the head of Columbus-area Pastor Rod Parsley for defaming Islam appeared earlier this week on the notorious “Ekhlass” online forum. Parsley is the pastor of World Harvest Church.

The complicity of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), particularly the Ohio chapter, in this violent threat must be noted. Since May, CAIR has waged a media campaign against evangelical pastors, particularly Pastor Parsley, and made a number of statements stoking the flames of Christophobic bigotry (statements, by the way, given plenty of attention by the Columbus Dispatch). The campaign by CAIR has attempted to marginalize evangelicals Christians by seeking to silence any criticism of the wave of violence caused by Islamic radicalism all over the world.

Tags: islam, muslims, islamofascism

Роботы RepRap воспроизводят сами себя

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 08:44:01 GMT

clipped by: Emiya

Clip Source: www.membrana.ru

Роботы RepRap воспроизводят сами себя

29 мая 2008 года можно записать в историю.

Трюк с самовоспроизводством проделал робот RepRap (Replicating Rapid-prototyper), представляющий собой фактически самореплицирующийся 3D-принтер. Только следует сразу сделать оговорку — воспроизводит этот принтер далеко не все собственные детали, да и финальную сборку своего "ребёнка" он пока ещё поручает человеку. Но ведь это только начало.

Собственно начало было раньше. Известие о работе над самовоспроизводящейся машиной RepRap и первых результатах опытов с её прообразами обошло мир ещё в 2005 году. Виновником переполоха тогда стал Эдриан Боуер (Adrian Bowyer) из университета Бата (Bath University), который решил, что ключом к созданию маленьких автономных фабрик по производству "всего" должны стать самовоспроизводящиеся роботы.

indian divorce rate

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 08:43:52 GMT

clipped by: wiley2008
clipper's remarks: interest how in india culture, arranged marriages are more common, yet the divorce rate is only 1.1%.

Clip Source: www.divorcerate.org

Divorce rates
US - 50%
India - 1.1%

Manstein

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 08:40:36 GMT

clipped by: psjakobsen
clipper's remarks: Militær strateg, Stalingrad

Clip Source: www.dr.dk

Feltmarskal Erich von Manstein var Hitlers bedste militære strateg, og de allieredes farligste modstander. Hans karriere var typisk for de konservative preussiske generaler, der ikke brød sig om nationalsocialismen, men blev villige redskaber for Hitlers krig. Manstein udviklede planerne for erobringen af Frankrig, der i 1940 befæstede hans ry som militært geni. Senere fik han stor succes på østfronten, men da det mislykkedes for ham at bryde den sovjetiske belejring af den sjette arme ved Stalingrad, fratog Hitler ham i marts 1944 overkommandoen over den sydlige arme. Hitlers modstandere i hæren forsøgte at gøre ham til topfigur for modstanden, men blev hånligt afvist med et 'preussiske feltmarskaler gør ikke mytteri'. I 1949 idømte en britisk militærdomstol Manstein til 18 års fængsel. Han blev løsladt af helbredsgrunde i maj 1953 og fungerede derefter som militær rådgiver for den vesttyske regering og var bl.a. med til at skabe den nye Bundeswehr.

paok

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 08:38:36 GMT

clipped by: ioannis69

Clip Source: www.in.gr

Canonical’s Ubuntu Linux Tops 8 Million Users

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 08:38:07 GMT

clipped by: cyberwiz

Clip Source: www.thevarguy.com

Sure, Windows is expected to run on 1 billion devices by 2010. But a loud minority is making its voice heard by moving to Ubuntu Linux. In fact, Canonical’s marketing materials state that Ubuntu now has more than 8 million users.

Alas, measuring Ubuntu’s active installed base can be tricky since a single copy o the operating system can be freely installed over and over again on multiple systems. And in mid-2007 during the Ubuntu Live conference, Ubuntu/Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth estimated the operating system’s installed base at 6 million to 12 million users.

But apparently, Canonical has narrowed down that figure. A marketing handout from the company, focused on training, states that:

“Ubuntu is used by over 8 million people worldwide.”

Still, a growing list of small, midsize and large organizations are running Ubuntu. (Take a look at the Works With U 1000, a fast-growing list of organizations running Ubuntu.)

Things are certainly getting interesting in the Linux market.