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Twenty years ago this week, the people of one of the least happy countries on the planet were forced to build a new existence from the powder of a shattered barrier and the foam of a half-formed dream.
They were farmers and factory hands, scholars and schoolteachers, the drones of the Deutsche Demokratische Republic. Few of them had had anything to do with the construction — or the rupture — of the Berlin Wall that, since 1961, had mummified them against the liberty and licentiousness of the West. If they were old enough, by 1989 they had endured (or endorsed) Hitler and had lost their brothers and fathers in the war. If they were young enough, walled in since childhood, they could see no further than the grey cement certainties of Stalinism.
“You already knew when you were five years old how life would be when you were 50,” a daughter of East Germany told me this week. “You would have kids, two or three of them, and no career to speak of, unless you wanted to be involved with the regime. Your life would just go by, and you knew already that when you were a child.”
Imagine, then, these automatic lives suddenly fractured in mid-sentence, and millions compelled to emigrate to a strange new country without leaving their homes. See page 25 http://digital.nationalpost.com/epaper/viewer.aspxAnation FREE
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Their royal highnesses are concluding their visit to Newfoundland and will be proceeding on to other destinations in Canada ... http://royalvisit.gc.ca/Their royal highnesses are concluding their visit to Newfoundland and will be... more
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The Royal Tour Office will not release Charles and Camilla's complete itinerary until next week (we will advise you as relevant), but it has advised of some appearances where the public will be able to meet and/or greet Their Royal Highnesses.
FRIDAY NOVEMBER 6
OFFICIAL WELCOME TO BRITISH COLUMBIA
4:00 om, provincial Parliament Buildings in Victoria
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The Monarchist League of Canada/La ligue monarchiste du Canada
PO Box 1057
Oakville, ON L6J 5E9
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domsec@sympatico.caThe Royal Tour Office will not release Charles and Camilla's complete itinerary... more
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PC World opened the doors to its flagship London store at midnight for customers wishing to be first in the country to get their hands on Microsoft’s new operating system, Windows 7. Nobody came dressed as a wizard, but there was truly something of the Harry Potter about this release of a piece of software. Excellent reviews, not least by this newspaper, have generated a steady buzz around the launch.PC World opened the doors to its flagship London store at midnight for customers... more
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One is working together with the Okanagan Falls Museum and Heritage Society as Corresponding Secretary. .. in this video you see the "Ok Coral" it's solitary shopping mall with as many as four vacant shops.. you also see "Bassett House" from the pioneering days and the foreground of the Museum situated next to the Information Center which houses an exhibit of a famous local Rodeo Champion, the Economic Development Officer and staff, and the information Clerk. Operational spring to fall. .. The Community of Okanagan Falls can be found between Oliver and Penticton. ..in the Okanagan Valley.of British Columbia, Canada..
12 October 2009 GGS
http://www3.telus.net/okmuseum/One is working together with the Okanagan Falls Museum and Heritage Society as... more
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Sonos announced Monday the Sonos Controller 200, a complete overhaul of the company's wireless controller for its Multi-Room Music System. Whereas the original Controller 100 (CR100) provided an LCD display with an iPod-Click-Wheel-like interface, the Controller 200 (CR200) uses a 3.5-inch, full-color, VGA touchscreen display similar to the one on the iPhone and iPod touch.
In fact, the Controller 200's interface is closely related to that of the Sonos Controller for iPhone application. The company told Macworld it used the iPhone app as a testing ground for perfecting the Controller's software interface. (The controller also provides hardware buttons for Volume, Mute, and Zones.)Sonos announced Monday the Sonos Controller 200, a complete overhaul of the... more
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Some researchers argue against criminalizing the psychedelic, saying that it could help treat various ailments, including cancer, HIV, and addiction.
Many parents and legislators view the popular psychedelic Salvia divinorum as a public health menace. But the drug has an unlikely set of supporters: scientists. Many medical researchers view the plant as a potential medical marvel. They believe that rigorous scientific study of salvia could lead to medical breakthroughs yielding new treatments for addiction, depression, cancer, and even HIV.
If lawmakers criminalize salvia at the state or federal level, the ban could cripple salvia research in this country before it has a chance to make any headway, says Dr. John Mendelson, a pharmacologist. With federal financing, Mendelson is studying the impact of salvia on humans at the California Pacific Medical Center Research Institute.
Packaging label for commercially available Salvia divinorum.At this writing, salvia is legal to buy, sell, and use in most parts of the United States. However, 13 states have adopted legislation banning or otherwise regulating its use; and legislators in a number of other states, as well as federal officials, are considering regulating the drug.
"Salvia is a totally unique compound, unlike opioids and other hallucinogens," Mendelson says. "We've never seen anything like it before."
Even ten years ago, scientists had paid little attention to salvia. That changed when researchers isolated the active compound in salvia and discovered that it was an extremely powerful short-acting hallucinogen with no known side effects or addictive properties, Mendelson says.
In addition, salvia differs from other psychoactive substances in interacting with specific receptors in the brain that the other drugs don't affect. This unique physiological reaction makes salvia attractive to researchers.
Mendelson says that salvia research could lead to drugs that activate the specific brain receptors engaged by the substance, and block pain without risk of addiction. (Little is currently known about these particular receptors.) Salvia might even help unlock mysteries related to Alzheimer's disease and schizophrenia.
"We have been watching with interest and concern the moving drumbeat toward regulations," says Dr. Roland Griffiths, professor of behavioral biology in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.Some researchers argue against criminalizing the psychedelic, saying that it could... more
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An article by PCWorld recently documented the recent surge in the laptop sector of the PC market; However, many are saying that very soon we could see sales drop dramatically, due to the large advancements made in computer technology with faster processors, larger hard drives, and cheaper parts…is there hope for a waning computer market?
As technology becomes smaller and less expensive, the advent of WiFi, Blu-tooth and other wireless networking solutions have completely redirected the focus from home-based computing to mobile solutions. It doesn’t come as any surprise that the desktop is becoming obsolete.
However, that doesn’t mean people will abandon their home machines in exchange for a mobile machine; remote desktop clients will undoubtedly thrive as users couple in-home storage capacity with light-weight, multi-faceted portables to get the best of both worlds.
The problem for retailers is actually part of their success; as competition has driven the advancement of modern computing technology to new heights and lower prices, users are finding they no longer need to purchase a new machine each year to really stay with the times.
If users own dual-cored machines with a few hundred gigabytes of storage, a moderate on-board graphics processor and a gig or two of ram, they have more than enough to do nearly everything in the computing realm (excluding high-end graphics editing and game playing.)
To top it off, top notch technology is weighing in at drastically low prices right now. Once users take advantage of the good prices and advanced technology, there will be no necessity for an upgrade in the near future; this puts a serious stint in the computing market’s design of planned obsolescence.
What goes up, most come down; if prices are low and technology is advanced, but retailers aren’t profiting, it seems logical that prices will rise and development will stagnate to resuscitate a dying market.
What’s the moral of the story? Get it while the gettin’s good, because if it is too good to be true, it won’t last for very long.
See TECH>BLORGE's full article here> http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:%20/2007/06/13/forecasters-predict-pc-retailers-doom/
See PC worlds technical opinion here>http://www.pcworld.com/article/132861/pc_shipments_rise_on_notebook_sales.htmlAn article by PCWorld recently documented the recent surge in the laptop sector of the... more
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Remember how much everyone loved to hate AOL at the turn of the century? AOL offered bloated software, piles of unwanted installation discs, a walled garden of content, an overloaded newbie network, and a pricey dial-up service.
AOL has changed a lot since then, even though it's still here to kick around. But who needs to pick on AOL when we have Apple's iTunes?
Will Apple improve the items mention? Will iTunes end up like an unpopular service like AOL? How will the world know?!!! What music do you think the AIM man is listening to on his iPod? Is it a black and white iPod?Remember how much everyone loved to hate AOL at the turn of the century? AOL offered... more
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Environmentalist groups say tech firms get great publicity from their green PR efforts, but they wonder how deep the commitment really is.
Environmentalist groups say tech firms get great publicity from their green PR... more
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More than 140,000 people are expected in Las Vegas for the start of the Consumer Electronics Show on Monday.
The latest in gadgets and home electronics will be on display, as technology firms hope to ride out a global economic slowdown.
"The industry has to brace itself," admitted Gary Shapiro, president of the US Consumer Electronics Association.
Microsoft boss Bill Gates opens the show with a speech on Sunday, which will focus on social technologies.
"My feeling is that the US is in for tough times," said Mr Shapiro.More than 140,000 people are expected in Las Vegas for the start of the Consumer... more
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A Computer Associates security researcher says that Facebook's controversial Beacon online ad system goes much further than expected in tracking people's Web activities.A Computer Associates security researcher says that Facebook's controversial... more
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