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The Cleveland Browns finished an unforgettable regular season, then braced for overtime , about seven hours worth.

Benazir Bhutto's 19-year-old son Bilawal has said "democracy is the best revenge" for his mother's death, as he vowed to take her party forward as its new chairman.

Clinton Portis ran for two touchdowns and the Washington Redskins advanced to the National Football League playoffs by defeating the arch-rival Dallas Cowboys 27-6 here Sunday.

This is part of the Fireproof Babies and Jaspertine collaboration project.
This collab started near the end of November, when I loaded Jaspertine’s entire “Delay volume 2” onto my player; put on the headphones; and sat down at the drums. It’s only been a month, but it seems like ancient history, now.
We worked on it off and on; more off than on; but at long last here it is. We hope you will find it interesting.
PS- all guitars are J-tine
percussion and bass FB.
production by both.

EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. | Nine games after the Chiefs' losing streak started, Kansas City's misery is over, albeit in disappointing fashion.

Cleveland Browns' Josh Cribbs breaks away from San Francisco 49ers defender Bryan Gilmore on a 76-yard punt-return for a touchdown in the first quarter of an NFL football game Sunday, Dec.

The looming new year recently reminded me of something I read in June. It was a fact of human history with such a profound influence on the upcoming year that it may be the source of most of the changes of late and to come. For the first time ever, there will be more people in the world who live in cities than who don’t.
According to the United Nations Population Fund in June 2007, there are 3.3 billion people living in cities, and that number is expected to grow to 5 billion within 25 years.

Around the same time, Facebook saw unbelievable growth. Facebook had 12 million members in December 2006, and boasts around 60 million only a year later, ever climbing with an additional 250,000 new members daily and 65 billion monthly pageviews.

Proudly, my own city of Toronto is the second largest network with over one million members out of the roughly 2.5 million people living here.

There’s no doubt that Facebook has seen considerable growth in the past year, and that it will continue to. The question that hit me this morning, though, has the potential to flip my entire outlook on the world.

Did 2007 bring about the tipping point of Facebook, or urban human history as we know it? and.. what else will it mean for 2008?

- Jonathan Kleiman

Guests discuss some of science's most unusual research and what it's like to be a human "lab rat." We'll hear from one woman who was blindfolded for five days in the name of science, and another participant who spent 84 days lying in bed.

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Should anyone question this SOB button’s validity, send him or her to me. Thie award carries a “Liz said so” guarantee, is endorsed by Kings of the Hemispheres, Martin and Michael, and is backed by my brothers, Angelo and Pasquale.

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Decimal Day

Decimal Day a neve 1971. február 15-ének, ezen a napon vezették be Nagy-Britanniában (és vele párhuzamosan Írországban is) a decimális pénzrendszert. Ködös Albion lakói addig ugyanis egy mai szemmel nézve képtelenül bonyolult pénzrendszerrel szopatták magukat, illetve a hozzájuk látogató turistákat. Vessünk csak egy pillantást egy korabeli Twinings-plakát áraira: Sold in packets at 3/8, 2/6, 2/0, 1/10, 1/6 per lb.Mi a túró ez a sok tizedestört? A marhahús osztályozásának sikerén felbátorodva újabb hiánypótló post következik.

A pre-decimális rendszer a fontot nem 100, hanem 240 pennyre osztja. De nem is ez kavarja meg az embert igazán, hanem a címletek. Tizenkét penny egyenlő egy shillinggel, húsz shilling pedig egy fonttal. Így gyakorlatilag három szint létezik: font, schilling és penny, amelyek között nem decimális az átváltás, ezért az összegeket kötőjellel vagy perjellel elválasztva írták: 3/2/10 azaz három font két shilling és tíz penny. Kisebb összegeknél nem írták ki az első nullát, tehát a különféle méretű teáscsomagokat Twinings úr 3 shilling 8 penny, 2 shilling 6 penny, 2 shilling, 1 shilling 10 penny és 1 shilling 6 pennyért árulta.

A számlákon három külön oszlopot vezettek, külön-külön összeadták az oszlopokban lévő számokat, figyelembe véve az átvitelt (1 shilling = 12 penny, 1 font = 20 shilling). Nézzétek meg például a Walmsley & Smith Millers & Corn Merchants által kiadott számlát, anno 1932. (A teljes méretű változat megtekinthető itt.)

Hosszas fejtörés után a következőket ókumláltam ki:

• Négy egység o/280, darabja 26 shilling és 6 penny, az 104 shilling és 24 penny, vagyis 5 font és 6 shilling.
  
• Tíz egység 0/112-es sharps., darabja 6 shilling 9 penny, az 60 shilling és 90 penny, vagyis 3 font 7 shilling és 6 penny.
  
• Tíz egység 0/112-es layers mash., darabja 9 shilling, az összesen kilencven shilling, vagyis 4 font és 10 shilling.
  
• Mindez összeadva és az átviteleket figyelembe véve 13-3-6, amihez jön még 11 shilling quota payment, a végösszeg tehát kereken 13 font, 14 shilling és 6 penny.
  

Huh.

A könyvelők valószínűleg hozzászoktak ehhez a rendszerhez és nem találták szükségtelenül bonyolultnak, de vajon nem zavarta-e össze ez az egyszerű embereket? Nem, valószínűleg azért, mert ritkán kellett egy fontnál nagyobb összegekkel számolniuk. Az nap-óra-perc közötti átváltás sem decimális, mégsem zavar meg senkit, mert nagyon ritkán kell nap-óra-perc értékekkel számolnunk.

Tovább bonyolítja dolgot, hogy rengeteg különféle címletű érme volt forgalomban. Shillingből létezett 1, 2, 2.5 (!) és 5 shillinges, ezeknek mind saját nevük van: shilling, florin, halfcrown és crown. A florint eredetileg azzal a szándékkal vezették be, hogy az lesz majd a decimális rendszer alapja. (Vegyük észre, hogy 1 font = 10 florin.) Mindezt valamikor még a tizenkilencedik század közepén. A legbizarrabb érme minden bizonnyal a guinea, amelynek értéke 21 shilling, azaz egy font és egy shilling. Bár magát az érmét 1816-ban kivonták a forgalomból, a lóversenyek pénzdíjait hagyománytiszteletből még ma is guineában tűzik ki.

stsmork cikke a Kispadon, 2007. december 29. szombat

The newly elected leader of South Africa's ruling party has been ordered to stand trial on corruption and other charges next year, possibly derailing his attempts to become the country's president.

Kurt Warner passed for 300 yards with three touchdowns, two to Larry Fitzgerald, as the Arizona Cardinals hammered the St.

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The Shore Temple at Mamallapuram, Tamilnadu, India.

AOL: Netscape web browser is history

Netscape web browser has been part of a glorious history. It was the most popular browsers in the 1990s enabling people to surf the web.

Then Microsoft entered the scene with their Internet Explorer which was later bundled with their Windows operating system.

Times have changed and now Mozilla Firefox is working hard to make sure that the web browser market is no longer dominated by Internet Explorer.

And Netscape web browser is now going to be confined to the history itself.

AOL is the owners of Netscape and they have confirmed that Netscape browser would no longer be developed.

The development work on Netscape’s latest edition would stop in February next year. Tom Drapeau, lead developer for Netscape.com wrote in a blog post on this development: “AOL’s focus on transitioning to an ad-supported Web business leaves little room for the size of investment needed to get the Netscape browser to a point many of its fans expect it to be. Given AOL’s current business focus… we feel it’s the right time to end development of Netscape branded browsers, hand the reins fully to Mozilla and encourage Netscape users to adopt Firefox.”

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UTA, Stephen F. Austin and Sam Houston State - all in the West - are a combined 29-4 this season and all are ranked in the latest Mid-Major Top 25.

It was exactly 25 years ago that Keith Deller shocked the world of darts by arriving as an unknown qualifier to overthrow the great Eric Bristow.

Brandon Roy scored 22 points, grabbed six rebounds, and doled out six assists as the Portland Trail Blazers came storming back to pound the Philadelphia 76ers, 97-72, running their winning streak to 13 games.

The new Jack Nicholson-Morgan Freeman movie, 'The Bucket List,' about two cancer patients who flee a hospital to fulfill a fun-filled 'life list,' could not possibly be more imitative of a current obsession ...

NAIROBI, Kenya - Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki won a second term Sunday amid allegations that the government stole the vote, sparking deadly riots that lit up the night sky as enraged youths torched homes and ...

New England Patriots wide receiver Randy Moss leaps into Russ Hochstein's arms after scoring on a pass from quarterback Tom Brady in the second quarter of an NFL football game against the New York Giants at ...

Benazir Bhutto, a former prime minister of Pakistan, was assassinated in the city of Rawalpindi last Thursday.

12/28/2007:

Since the Hoboken Historical Museum will be closed through January 19th, those of you suffering from “Museum Withdrawal” can be rest assured that two nice new exhibits will open up for your historical pleasure on Sunday January 20th, from 2-5pm.

The big event is the “Greetings from Hoboken: A Postcard History,” which covers the city’s boom years from the late 1800’s to the early 1900’s, as well as “Waterfront as Muse: 1960’s Photographs by Guy Ciarcia,” which is an award-winning photographer’s re-interpretation of photos he took in his younger years of the NYC skyline and Hudson County Waterfront.

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The New England Patriots are perfect. But it didn't come without a dogfight. The Patriots rallied from a 12-point second-half deficit and scored 22 straight points to beat the dogged New York Giants 38-35 to ...

Originally introduced in the ASP.NET Futures package, the history control in the ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions preview comes with a few nice additions. One of the updates is the ability to change the page title when adding a history point. This is important because without updating the title, the history list isn't very much help after a few updates. To illustrate the problem, here is what the history list in IE could look like after adding a few history points:

Because all the entries are the same, the user is unable to distinguish between them, leaving the list to be pretty unhelpful.

Adding history from the server

To take advantage of this from the server, you simply include the page title for the new history entry in the AddHistoryPoint method. This will update the page title when you add a history point but it will NOT update it for you when the user clicks the browser Back or Forward buttons. To accommodate for this, you have to set the page title as well in the Navigate event. Here is both the HTML and code-behind for this example:

<asp:ScriptManagerID="TheScriptManager"runat="server"EnableHistory="true"EnableStateHash="false"OnNavigate="TheScriptManager_Navigated"/><div><asp:UpdatePanelID="UpdatePanel1"runat="server"><ContentTemplate><asp:ButtonID="Button1"runat="server"Text="Button1"OnCommand="Button_OnCommand"CommandArgument="1"/>&nbsp;<asp:ButtonID="Button2"runat="server"Text="Button2"OnCommand="Button_OnCommand"CommandArgument="2"/>&nbsp;<asp:ButtonID="Button3"runat="server"Text="Button3"OnCommand="Button_OnCommand"CommandArgument="3"/><hr/><asp:LabelID="Label1"runat="server"/></ContentTemplate></asp:UpdatePanel></div>

protectedvoid Button_OnCommand(object sender, CommandEventArgs e) { string buttonState = e.CommandArgument.ToString(); Label1.Text = buttonState; string title = "Browser History " + buttonState; TheScriptManager.AddHistoryPoint("buttonState", buttonState, title); } protectedvoid TheScriptManager_Navigated(object sender, HistoryEventArgs e) { string buttonState = e.State["buttonState"]; Label1.Text = buttonState; Title = "Browser History " + buttonState; }

Now, the history list can be used more effectively and will look something like this:

Adding history from the client

The same steps apply to managing history on the client:

• Pass in the page title when adding a history point to update the list and title accordingly.
• Update the page title in the handler for the navigate event.

Here is the code for the client example:

<asp:ScriptManagerID="TheScriptManager"runat="server"EnableHistory="true"EnableStateHash="false"/><div><inputtype="button"value="button1"onclick="button_click(1);"/>&nbsp;<inputtype="button"value="button2"onclick="button_click(2);"/>&nbsp;<inputtype="button"value="button3"onclick="button_click(3);"/><hr/><spanid="results"/></div>

<script type="text/javascript"> Sys.Application.add_navigate(onNavigate); function onNavigate(sender, args){ var buttonNumber = args.get_state().pageState || ""; $get("results").innerHTML = buttonNumber; document.title = "Browser History " + buttonNumber; } function button_click(buttonNumber){ $get("results").innerHTML = buttonNumber; var historyPoint = { pageState : buttonNumber }; var title = "Browser History " + buttonNumber; Sys.Application.addHistoryPoint(historyPoint, title); } </script>

Hope someone finds this interesting. :)

The Washington Redskins are riding a late-season victory wave into the playoffs.

Andre Davis returned two consecutive kickoffs for touchdowns in a span of 28 seconds as Houston downed a short-handed Jacksonville team, 42-28, at Reliant Stadium.

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The Shore Temple, at Mamallapuram, Tamilnadu, India.

The colours - I don't know: I hit Ctrl+Shift+L in photoshop. I swear that's all I did.

Marv Levy is reportedly stepping down as Buffalo Bills general manager, according to numerous reports Sunday.

Brandon Roy scored 22 points and the Portland Trail Blazers rallied to beat the Philadelphia 76ers 97-72 on Sunday for their league-leading 13th straight win.

The final piece of the playoff puzzle in the NFC has a picture of the Washington Redskins' defence on it.

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Thiru Alli, no keni. That's in Chennai. This is just outside Mallapuram.

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At the beach that gives Shore Temple its name. Sun was sharp. Colours are a result of "Shift+Ctrl+L" in Photoshop CS2.

The New York Times’ “Only In New York” podcast has a fun episode this week, looking at the newspaper’s coverage of the 1907 New Year’s Eve festivities, and predictions for 1908.

The famed mirrored ball that drops from the newspaper’s tower every New Year’s Eve at midnight debuted 100 years ago. Predictions that air travel would happen in the coming year came true with the Wright brothers’ flight. It was interesting to learn that the word “adolescence” was coined a century ago, and to hear about what stories made the front page in the New Year’s issue.

From disarray to dominance, the Washington Redskins will enter the playoffs as the hottest team in the NFC.