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He was the man contracted to design the sculptural figures for the massive heroic arch that dominated Albert Speer's plans for a cod-Grecian Berlin reinvented as 'Germania.' The interview, conducted by Andre Müller, provides a compendium of intellectual refuge for the politically compromised artist; Breker defends his acceptance of the work on Speer's arch by admitting that 'The monumental is my sickness, ' and insists that his famous 'Army' and 'Party' figures for the court of honour at the Reich Chancellery were only so named after the fact by Hitler
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the cluetrain manifesto
A strongly reasoned plea for corporate communicators to speak with a human voice.
(related discussions) 'The clue train stopped there four times a day for ten years and they never took delivery." — Veteran of a firm now free-falling out of the Fortune 500 "...companies so lobotomized that they can't speak in a recognizably human voice build sites that smell like death." —'Fear and Loathing on the Web' and including..
Their members communicate in language that is natural, open, honest, direct, funny and often shocking
While many such people already work for companies today, most companies ignore their ability to deliver genuine knowledge, opting instead to crank out sterile happytalk that insults the intelligence of markets literally too smart to buy it
Networked markets are beginning to self-organize faster than the companies that have traditionally served them
The Internet is enabling conversations among human beings that were simply not possible in the era of mass media
People in networked markets have figured out that they get far better information and support from one another than from vendors
Already, companies that speak in the language of the pitch, the dog-and-pony show, are no longer speaking to anyone
Ballooning into the Sky
Describes solo flight in a harness attached to a cluster of helium-filled balloons.
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And if that internal politics is considered you get a bigger picture of what the criticism of Rummy and Bush are getting from Retired US Army Officers
Many retired US Army Flag Grade Officers have truly been upset about a number of reforms that the Bush Administration have pursued, prior to and after 9-11
Then on top of that Shinseki retires when they were hoping heâd get another two years at being Chief of Staff of the US Army (Shinseki was the point man with Congress to try and block some of these initiatives)
That was just the first shoe to drop
Schoomaker is a Special Forces type that was/and is ready to think in different ways to develop the US Army
That was a real knock down to those communities
"Whoa, a Marine as SACEUR, thatâs our baby!" Another smack down to the conventional commands in the US Army
In what should have been the US Armyâs turn to hold that job
Now I hope that this gives you a little more insight into what has been going on
But the overwhelming weight of the military criticism of Rumsfeld - and the private criticism is far more voluminous and vituperative than the public stuff - is simply that this war has been run incompetently, with contempt for military expertise and without any rational relationship between paltry means and grandiose ends
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Josh is still in the Shock Trauma Unit at University of Maryland (at first he was only meant to be there 2-3 days, but that has obviously been extended as this was more serious then originally known)
He had a frightening episode of vomiting up old blood, but that is now resolved with some more surgery and the insertion of yet another tube
The doctors have now said though that he will have a full recovery, though they are not able to estimate how long it will take
I know that BSF fans have had a couple horrible weeks, so I wanted to give you a little bit of good news
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You can send it to me at Josh Latshaw Donation Fund c/o Artichoke Artisans 406 Suburban Dr #177 Newark Delaware 19711 Posted by jason at | August 21, 2006 Donations for Josh OK, the truth is that josh and his family could use some money
This payment will be made to my email address, jasonlatshaw@yahoo.com, and I'll give him all the money you donate (minus the fees that paypal charges, like around 2% I think)
If you'd rather send a check (cash, euros, diamonds) or something like that
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O ver 4 0 million people in the world are blind, and o ver 1 2 0 million people have significant L o w V ision conditions that cannot be corrected, cured or treated by conventional refraction, medicine or surgery
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There are over 1.4 million visually impaired children age 0-14 years The vast majority of visually impaired children with low vision conditions in developing countries like India are sent to blind schools despite having usable vision because they don't have access to or cannot afford or services that could help them to integrate them into regular schools
Our Vision Our vision is to facilitate the creation of a network of vision rehabilitation centers in under-served areas of developing countries, that will operate on a non-profitable and charitable basis
"We are, now, in a position to state with considerable pride and confidence that in VisionAid we have found a credible and efficient partner, a real well wisher of persons with visual impairment whom we are all committed to serve" Mr.A.K.Mittal, Regional Director, ( Note : This message was sent by Mr
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Search News for nerds, stuff that matters Log in Nickname Password Public Terminal [ ] Sections Help Stories About Services Log in Nickname Password Public Terminal [ ] Slashdot Poll Poll Favorite Mario Powerup? Mushroom (Super Mario Bros.) Fire Flower (Super Mario Bros.) Tanooki/Racoon Suit (Super Mario 3) Kuribo's Shoe (Super Mario 3) Cape (Super Mario World) Metal Cap (Mario 64) Rocket Nozzle (Mario Sunshine) Mega-Mushroom (New Super Mario Bros.) [ | ] Comments: 361 | Votes: 49257 Recent reviews from Slashdot readers: looks at the last 150 years of math development, with a focus on group theory and its impact
writes 'Researchers at the University of Washington have discovered a possible and are investigating its use for 'spintronics, ' an emerging technology that is concerned with manipulating and controlling the charge, flow and magnetism of electrons
timrichardson writes to tell us that Slate is asking what happened to the ? The lack of any news at Apple's WWDC prompted the author to look at the promises made at the Consumer Electronics Show a la Viiv and other 'uber-consoles' in addition to the launch of Apple's downloadable videos and 'couch-surfing remote.' While some pundits blame the state of the technology this article claims that the PC and the TV provide two very different roles that aren't going to converge anytime soon
Online NewsHour: A Discussion with Matt Ridley, Author of 'Genome ...
PBS audio recording and transcript of interview with Matt Ridley about his
book "Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters".
The genome as a book It helps the non-scientists really understand these articles that have been bubbling up on the news pages lately
There's a nice passage close to the beginning of the book that starts, "Imagine the genome is a book." Take it from there
I mean, that's one of the great discoveries, is that there is an instruction manual-- a recipe, if you like-- written inside ourselves
And so that's what I did with my book, was split it into 23 chapters and try to tell one story from each chromosome
RAY SUAREZ: Well, a lot of scientists have said over the years that when faced with the option of complexity or simplicity, that nature has a bias toward making things more simple
So why do we have this thing that's billions of letters long, replicated hundreds of millions of times in every one of us? MATT RIDLEY: Well, it's simple in concept
That's what's so nice about it
It uses an alphabet that's simpler than the one you and I use
And that's why it has to be so complex
RAY SUAREZ: In these latest decodings of parts of the genome, they're finding a lot of repeats-- long, long, long repeats-- of thousands of these sequences that don't apparently have any purpose
How To Ask Questions The Smart Way
Guide to teach how to ask technical questions in a way more likely to get a
satisfactory answer.
That's fine, it's the use we intended â but if you are a webmaster creating such a link for your project page, please display prominently near the link notice that we are not a help desk for your project! We have learned the hard way that without such a notice, we will repeatedly be pestered by idiots who think having published this document makes it our job to solve all the world's technical problems
We are here to show you how to get help from people who actually know about the software or hardware you're dealing with, but 99% of the time that will not be us
Unless you know for certain that one of the authors is an expert on what you're dealing with, leave us alone and everybody will be happier
Now that use of open source has become widespread, you can often get as good answers from other, more experienced users as from hackers
The first thing to understand is that hackers actually like hard problems and good, thought-provoking questions about them
People like that are time sinks â they take without giving back, and they waste time we could have spent on another question more interesting and another person more worthy of an answer
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The number of dial-up customers is pretty small at 107, 300, a decrease of over 100, 000 customers since Q1 2005, which accounts for some of the broadband customer growth, but also highlights that ntl:Telewest is attracting customers from other parts of the market, e.g
Posted: Tuesday, 08 August 2006, 14:30 People spend more time online, than on holiday Author: website and newspaper carries details of a survey carried out by, that shows Internet users in the UK are spending an average of 23 hours a week online
One big difference between Internet usage and watching TV, is that TV is very often passive, whereas the Internet is a mixture of simply viewing content, creating your own content and interacting with others
What is interesting is that if you estimate the usage of this average user, you come up with a figure around 0.6GB per week, or roughly two to three GigaBytes per month
Posted: Tuesday, 08 August 2006, 11:02 Be Unlimited heading towards 720 unbundled exchanges Author: has a new list of exchanges that Be Unlimited are planning to unbundle
This should mean by the end of 2007 that Be will have a network of some 720 exchanges
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Life or Something Like It
Brief review of film.
Aside from the already known fact that Lanie Karrigan and Pete (no last name), two co-workers who detest each other, will fall in love and get together
While doing a story on local homeless man Prophet Jack (Tony Shalhoub, ), he predicts the score of a game, it will hail the next day, and that Lanie will die within a week
She even appears drunk on television leading striking workers in an a capella version of Satisfaction , which has the opposite effect that it would in any world except that of a movie
Jolie is surprisingly believable, it's just the script she needs to follow that needs work
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I really haven't been that concerned about preseason
This team can't get a handle on fundamentals, so to sit here and say, "they should have done this, or that." Is a waste of time
He's like the grinch that stole Christmas
I'm glad Madden pointed out the fact last night that our team is working out in a tent in San Antonio when we have a perfectly good practice facility here in New Orleans
It's really unfortunate however, that they showed video of untouched parts of the French Quarter during their broadcast - when most of our city is uninhabitable the destruction is so bad
They should have mentioned the fact that the REAL reason that no one wants to come back to New Orleans is the fact that we can't get our government to commit to a category 5 levee system
You'd think those problems would be addressed since we've been struggling in that area all season
I'm glad that the ESPN announcers brought attention to the unusual dilemmas our team now faces since the storm
At one point in time I had that sinking feeling every Saints fan is familiar with
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The Popkorn Junkie :: Life or Something Like It
Review of the film by Matt.
| Junkie Rating: Cast and Credits Stephen Herek (Director) Angelina Jolie (Lanie Kerigan) Edward Burns (Pete) Tony Shalhoub (Prophet Jack) Christian Kane (Cal Cooper) James Gammon (Lanie's Father) Melissa Errico (Andrea) Stockard Channing (Deborah Connors) OK, so here's the synopsis: An overachieving TV news reporter (Angelina Jolie) finds out from a bum/street prophet (Tony Shalhoub) that she's gonna die in a week
She assumes that he bribed the prophet to deliver that lie
Then as the days go by, she sees that the prophet's other predictions (a football team winning 19-13, a hailstorm, etc.) are correct
That's when she thinks to herself, "Maybe this all isn't a lie." So she spends her last week on earth living life to the fullest, doing things like breaking up with her shallow ballplayer boyfriend and coming to work drunk one day and singing "Satisfaction" by the Rolling Stones with a group of protesting construction workers
Can you create a much more obvious setup? If anyone has seen the trailer, I'd like to give this one disclaimer: this is NOT a comedy! Though Herek obviously intended it to be a comedy, the story gets too wrapped up in sentimental schmaltz that there's very little room for comedy
'You've got to find what you love,' Jobs says
Standford Commencement Address.
That's it
She felt very strongly that I should be adopted by college graduates, so everything was all set for me to be adopted at birth by a lawyer and his wife
Except that when I popped out they decided at the last minute that they really wanted a girl
So my parents, who were on a waiting list, got a call in the middle of the night asking: "We have an unexpected baby boy; do you want him?" They said: "Of course." My biological mother later found out that my mother had never graduated from college and that my father had never graduated from high school
She only relented a few months later when my parents promised that I would someday go to college
But I naively chose a college that was almost as expensive as Stanford, and all of my working-class parents' savings were being spent on my college tuition
So I decided to drop out and trust that it would all work out OK
The minute I dropped out I could stop taking the required classes that didn't interest me, and begin dropping in on the ones that looked interesting
Let me give you one example: Reed College at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the country
Confessions of a formalist, Platonist intuitionist
Autobiographical article by Fred Richman, describing his encounter with intuitionism.
'After that (the interesting part) it's just algebra (which we won't do because it's boring dog-work that only a nerd would enjoy).' Am I confusing high school algebra with modern algebra? The unifying theme is the formal manipulation of symbols with an attenuated sense of what they stand for
It is no surprise that I, a born algebraist---brought into the mathematical world by no less than Irving Kaplansky---should be a formalist at heart
What is surprising is that I should be aware of this state of affairs
I've always been interested in foundations, despite the fact that I share the average mathematician's contempt for the subject (it's all very well if you like that sort of thing)
Paul Halmos told me that my problem was that I had been exposed to a very good logician at an early age: I took a year's course from Alonzo Church as an undergraduate
I went to the University of Chicago in the hopes of studying algebraic logic under Halmos, but it turned out that his real interests were measure theory, ergodic theory, and operators on Hilbert spaces
Yuck! Nonetheless, Halmos remained my mentor and I chose information theory and Boolean algebra as my two topics for the examination that served as prelims at that time (the masters exam played the role of comprehensives)
What is Landmark Education Corporation
One persons analogy of the programs to personal grooming.
What is Landmark Education Corporation What is Landmark Education Corporation Landmark Education Corporation, by their own charter, is a 'global enterprise whose purpose is to bring the power and magic to transformation to all people.' And it does just that
Now, it's pretty apparent that if we are living inside a pretense or a lie we won't live life very powerfully
We have all known people like that
The problem is that, while it is easy to see in others, we can't see it so easily in ourselves because we are not living inside other people's heads
We are pretending and we are pretending that we are not pretending
My current participation around Landmark Education consists of being a course supervisor along with doing various courses and seminars that they offer
They are either people who have just completed their first course with Landmark Education, fresh with transformation and with new eyes to see their lives, or people that have been participating for a while, in which case I know their faces and names and enjoy their company
Being a course supervisor for Landmark Education involves the privilege of being in courses with people who have registered themselves into our programs and supporting them through the transformational weekends that take place
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