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I’m Just Walkin’
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/25/nyregion/matt-greens-goal-is-to-walk-every-street-in-new-york-city.html
I doubt there is a Gaussian path even with the subway.
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Lary Waldman
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Getting to Crazy
“Getting to Crazy - http://nyti.ms/oHGo0H #p2 #p21 #tcot #teaparty”It is an easy descent.
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j. von hettlingen
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j. von hettlingen
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Libya Stokes Its Machine Generating Propaganda
I suppose it's normal that in war every party wants to present its enemies in as bad a light as possible. What do we know about that girl in the hospital, whether she was an alleged victim of the NATO airstrike or hurt in a car accident? We don't know. I would take all these contradictions with a pinch of salt. It is irrelevant whether there were civilian victims or not. Yet one can't deny the fact that these airstrikes night after night have - pschologically - a negative impact on the population. The traumatic effects they have on some people, especially the young can't be dismissed. The NATO forces are playing a dirty game. By terrorising the civilians, they hope to spark an implosion that would ultimately lead to mass revolt and the downfall of Gaddafi's regime.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libya"In 2009 Libya had the highest HDI in Africa and the fourth highest GDP (PPP) per capita in Africa, behind Seychelles, Equatorial Guinea and Gabon. Libya has the 10th-largest proven oil reserves of any country in the world and the 17th-highest petroleum production.[6]
As a result of the Libyan civil war, the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, which had at that time been in existence for 34 years, collapsed and Libya entered a period of governance by a transitional administration called the National Transitional Council.[7] The NTC has stated its intention to oversee the first phase of a transition to constitutional democracy, after which it claims it will dissolve in favor of a representative legislature."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libya#Civil_war_and_transition_2011.E2.80.93present"In several public appearances, Muammar Gaddafi threatened to destroy the protest movement, and Al Jazeera and other agencies reported his government was arming pro-Gaddafi militiamen to kill protesters and defectors against the regime in Tripoli.[81] Organs of the United Nations, including United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon[82] and the United Nations Human Rights Council, condemned the crackdown as violating international law, with the latter body expelling Libya outright in an unprecedented action urged by Libya's own delegation to the UN.[83][84] The United States imposed economic sanctions against Libya,[85] followed shortly by Australia,[86] Canada[87] and the United Nations Security Council, which also voted to refer Gaddafi and other government officials to the International Criminal Court for investigation.[88][89]
On 17 March 2011 the United Nations Security Council passed Resolution 1973 with a 10–0 vote and five abstentions. The resolution sanctioned the establishment of a no-fly zone and the use of "all means necessary" to protect civilians within Libya.[90]
Shortly afterwards, Libyan Foreign Minister Moussa Koussa stated that "Libya has decided an immediate ceasefire and an immediate halt to all military operations".[91]
On 19 March, the first Allied act to secure the no-fly zone began when French military jets entered Libyan airspace on a reconnaissance mission heralding attacks on enemy targets.[92] Allied military action to enforce the ceasefire commenced the same day when a French aircraft opened fire and destroyed a vehicle on the ground. French jets also destroyed five tanks belonging to the Gaddafi regime.[93] The United States and United Kingdom launched attacks on over 20 "integrated air defense systems" using more than 110 Tomahawk cruise missiles during operations Odyssey Dawn and Ellamy.[94]
On 27 June 2011, the International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for Gaddafi, alleging that Gaddafi had been personally involved in planning and implementing "a policy of widespread and systematic attacks against civilians and demonstrators and dissidents".[95]
By 22 August 2011, rebel fighters had entered Tripoli and occupied Green Square,[96] which they renamed Martyrs' Square in honour of those who died. Meanwhile, Gaddafi asserted that he was still in Libya and would not concede power to the rebels.[96]
An effigy of Muammar Gaddafi hangs from a scaffold in Tripoli's Martyrs' Square, 29 August 2011
On 16 September 2011, the U.N. General Assembly approved a request from the National Transitional Council to accredit envoys of the country’s interim controlling body as Tripoli’s sole representatives at the UN, effectively recognising the National Transitional Council as the legitimate holder of that country’s UN seat.[97][98]
The National Transitional Council has been plagued by internal divisions during its tenure as Libya's interim governing authority. It postponed the formation of a caretaker, or interim government on several occasions during the period prior to the death of Muammar Gaddafi in his hometown of Sirte on 20 October 2011.[99][100] Mustafa Abdul Jalil heads the National Transitional Council and is generally considered to be the principal leadership figure. Mahmoud Jibril served as the NTC's de facto head of government from 5 March 2011 through the end of the war, but he announced he would resign after Libya was declared to have been "liberated" from Gaddafi's rule.[101]
The "liberation" of Libya was celebrated on 23 October 2011, and Jibril announced that consultations were under way to form an interim government within one month, followed by elections for a constitutional assembly within eight months and parliamentary and presidential elections to be held within a year after that.[102] He stepped down as expected the same day and was succeeded by Ali Tarhouni.[103] At least 30,000 Libyans died in the civil war.[104]"
http://query.nytimes.com/search/sitesearch?query=libyaTimes Topics: Libya
World news about Libya, including breaking news and archival articles published in The New York Times."There remains optimism in Tripoli, not least because the country sits atop so much oil. But the government has found itself virtually paralyzed by rivalries that have forced it to divvy up power along lines of regions and personalities, by unfulfillable expectations that Colonel Qaddafi’s fall would bring prosperity, and by a powerlessness so marked that the national army is treated as if it were another militia.
The issue of legitimacy remains the most pressing matter in revolutionary Libya. Officials hope that elections in May or June can do what they did in Egypt and Tunisia: convey authority to an elected body that can claim the mantle of popular will. But Iraq remains a counterpoint. There, elections after the American invasion widened divisions so dangerously that they helped unleash a civil war.
A sense of entropy lingers. Some state employees have gone without salaries for a year, and an adviser to the prime minister acknowledged that the government had no idea how to channel enough money into the economy so that it would be felt in the streets. Tripoli residents complain about a lack of transparency in government decisions. Ministries still seem paralyzed by the tendency, instilled during the dictatorship, to defer every decision to the top.
In the streets, the militias are proving to be the scourge of the revolution’s aftermath. A Human Rights Watch researcher estimated there are 250 separate militias in the coastal city of Misurata, the scene of perhaps the fiercest battle of the revolution. From being heroes, those militias have become the most loathed in the country."
There is much more. None of it is cheerful reading.The oil is flowing so Europe is much less concerned.
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Beyond Trend: Creative Growth Art Center
Art therapy may work for those who need it.
Most artists are trying for something else. Money is a big part of that.
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j. von hettlingen
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Libya Stokes Its Machine Generating Propaganda
I suppose it's normal that in war every party wants to present its enemies in as bad a light as possible. What do we know about that girl in the hospital, whether she was an alleged victim of the NATO airstrike or hurt in a car accident? We don't know. I would take all these contradictions with a pinch of salt. It is irrelevant whether there were civilian victims or not. Yet one can't deny the fact that these airstrikes night after night have - pschologically - a negative impact on the population. The traumatic effects they have on some people, especially the young can't be dismissed. The NATO forces are playing a dirty game. By terrorising the civilians, they hope to spark an implosion that would ultimately lead to mass revolt and the downfall of Gaddafi's regime.Paranoid fantasy.
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Zoku
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Getting to Crazy
“Getting to Crazy - http://nyti.ms/oHGo0H #p2 #p21 #tcot #teaparty”Not just a little.
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Singapore Gets Wired for Speed
Singapore could soon be the first country blanketed with a fiber optic infrastructure so fast that it would enable the contents of a DVD to be downloaded in only a few seconds.The US communication companies are fighting over their sunk costs.They have built one system and do not want to build another while this one is yielding free money. -
App Makers Worry as Data Plans Are Capped
As AT&T adopts tiered pricing, developers wonder whether consumers will lose their appetite for innovative features and bandwidth-heavy video.
IPhone sales tell me consumers have not lost that appetite.
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I’m Just Walkin’
What a great project for an unemployed civil engineer.
He should be thinking about why the things he sees are as he sees them.
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Business Day Live | Coding Catches On
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/28/technology/for-an-edge-on-the-internet-computer-code-gains-a-following.html
I do better with text.
I absolutely agree. Knowing how the code works is essential.The problems the students are learning to deal with are mostly operating system wars.One of the things an operating system sells is convenience. The less a user knows about the environment they are using the easier it is to manipulate them.Operating systems sell ignorance to consumers and data to advertisers.
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Zoku
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Getting to Crazy
“Getting to Crazy - http://nyti.ms/oHGo0H #p2 #p21 #tcot #teaparty”"A number of commentators seem shocked at how unreasonable Republicans are being. “Has the G.O.P. gone insane?” they ask.
Why, yes, it has. But this isn’t something that just happened, it’s the culmination of a process that has been going on for decades. Anyone surprised by the extremism and irresponsibility now on display either hasn’t been paying attention, or has been deliberately turning a blind eye."
The trend is not promising. Crazy must be fashionable.
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Beyond Trend: Creative Growth Art Center
All I can make of it is the inmates are in charge of the asylum.
It is just as true for Washington.
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